The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. The works througnout the whole of this arduous part of the undid-tukir,g are proceeding very satisfactorily, and in many places have a very firosned appearance. At in tervals, upwards of three stifles of permanent rails have been laid, and other two miles in a state of forwardness to admit of the plates and sleepers being immediately put down. Along the slopes of some of the first cuttings and embankmen:s the batters have been trimmed and sown with grass seeds, the fencing and side walls nearly Completed, and altoget,tier in su:n a state as to adunt the transit of locomotive., w , !re it not that they are iso lated by intervening portions of the works in progress. At Beattock, the walls of the station and eng.ne-house are rising rapidly Over their foundations; and onwards, as far as Harthope, on the Evan, all the viaducts, ae, eotninodation arches, conduits, and cattle creeps, are completed, and no obstacle to stay the progress of cutting and embanking, saving the inherent obstinacy of iht suptirstratum and rock, which is being subdued by the Potency of the money power in a vast expenditure of gunpowder, human labour, and even life. Aimut two thirds of the heavy cutting at Greskin has been accom plished, and the retaining wall of the force or embank ment is now considered sufficient to shield the superin cumbent material against the predatory encroachments of the Evan when in wrath. Everywhere on toe banks of the river the works are in a state of advancement to admit of speedy completion. The piers and abutments of the various viaducts and bridges over Evan water and the Glasgow road at Harthope and Hell's Cauldron, are nearly at the level, and will soon admit of the covers. whether of stone, metal, or wood, with which they are to he joined, being thrown over. The summit, too—and here the herculean labours of Messrs. Stephenson and Co. centre—is beginning to own the might that slumber. in a " navey's" arm ; and ere six months elapse will pr e s e n t a less formidable front to the invasion, by the giants of steam, of these mountain solitudes, where erst the genius of retirement held undisputed domain.—Dum fries Courier. WHITSUN AMUSEMENTS. (MONDAY.) CoLosszum.—This establishment was open yesterday for the reception of visitors. A considerable number attended. They belonged in general to the upper and Middle orders; but, so far as we could perceive, few, it any, of the working classes were amongst the spectators. The price, although reduced, still keeps the interesting views of this estaulishment beyond the reach of the artisan and humble tradesman. DIORAMA.—The Diorama, Regent's Park, was visited yesterday by several persons. The exhibition consisted a representation of the interior of St. Mark's, at Venice, and a view of Tivoli, near Rome. Both repre lentat.ons are extremely interesting, and well deserving of a "bit. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—In consequence of the fine• flea s of the weather yesterday attracting the holiday makers to the out-of door amusements, the number who v isited this establishment was not so great as a t Easter. The i great source of attraction at this place was the tie.; and staircase, which (not yet opened at Easter) ex eted the admiration of ail. The people were well con ductedi and orderly, and rendered the attendance of extra eenstable s to preserve regularity unnecessary. THE NATIONAL GALLERY- - At this place the h e at, from the number of visitors who pay their annual visit to illis receptacle for the fine arts, was almost insulter re. All the pictures had their admirers , but the b'eatest admiration was bestowed upon the recently ac quired picture by Raffaelle of the Knight's Vision." TRR 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 twelve months, were well attended. ,LWESTMINSTER ABBEY AND Sr. PAUL'S—The first of these establishments was open yesterday, and in conse quence of the reduction in the prices to view the variou s C hapels a large nu mber of persons, who bad been to see the Hou se o f Lords, also availed themselves of the op trunity of viewing this noble pile with the ancient 0 i. 113131 , coronation &c. St. Paul's, in consequence Childrentthereparation for the amiiversary of the charity on the 3d of June, was not open for Divine ser . 'dee p HE TOWER e 7 LONDON.—This national exhibition, nth its j ewe l - room an d armoury, was well patronised by lle holiday folks yesterday, the reduction in the price of entnission being the cause of so many people visiting it. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT ' S PARR.—During yesterday the public were admitted to these gardens without obtaining fellows' orders, merely by paying the that price of admission. The consequence was, been !L greater number of parties paid than would have ma n the case had they to seek first for members' orders afterwards. pas We underst did that the same pet- L. D "ge will be extended to the public during the holidays. tuber POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. — An immense st— .r of adults and juveniles paid a visit to this in incuctive and amusing exhibition. Not the least interest -1111, Portion o f th e performance was the lecture on atunrs.l Philosophy, by Dr. Bachhoffner, and the ex am' ons to th e working models and machinery, which Cal culated to incite the rising generation to become minted ( with this very useful department of science. this betted TUssAUD.—Several hundre d persons visite d the t iZeted lady's exhition during the day , indeed f ro m noon t h s tpe doors were opened until late in the after uitious h tr ge room was densely crowded. Several ad atnongst t a is v e recently been made to the collection, Re :lry mr ",..e 'figures are Pope Pius 1X.,. in full costume, period ' be• "-a James I. in toe splendid costume of the The ne w magnificent ventilating dome, which b. e , en erected at a cost of 7001., was greatly admired company. U RTINETTes j MoDEL OF JERUSALEM.—During yes te'ti,ny 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 theltoly city: THE WHITSON FAlRS,—Yesterday the fair annualli held in Greenwich at this season commenced. Rich ardson's theatre and Ale . ar's 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 ormer bringing its living freight every twelve, and the litter every ten minutes. A large fair was also held on B.„tePney-green, the principal features at wh ich were onabwell'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 4 00 feet long. Upwards of two hundred thousand persons visited this fair during the day. Fairs were r 0 held at Wandsworth, Chalk-farm, and the Chalk -41! Islington, all of which received a fair share of the Patronage. The whole were under the control p.31. `1e Police, who caused all amusement to cease at 11 WR ESTLING AT THE BRECKNOCK ARMS. — Y e s terda y the grounds at the Brecknock Arms, Camden town, 'ere throw n open for the display of wrestling in the rievonsbire style, and the wrestling at this season, al :1•%378 g o ", has this year as well as last been attended th:th novel and extraordinary interest. This is owing . e a nY noblemen and gentlemen, ardent admirers .. ot 1 , 4183 : 11 Y art, having subscribed liberally to raise Y ,t saw as will insure handsome prizes to the yal - ,.`"". This induced many Cornish celebrities last vi etn - come up to London and di-play their protrss, 14,47 attending their efforts ; and the committee b e tg t his year announced their intention of giving the thre e men a fair chance of success by arranging the day 7, 1 1_t s' play in the Devonshire, and the last three days' style, a large number of their crack f ro have Come up from Devon, who, with the " stars " f wall and the " luminaries" of the London ring, e o rX" ed a combination of wrestling talent never before ,ected in any ring. It was decided , the better to test he Merits of the men, that they should be matched ex " Ming t o weight and performances, and that in order to wrestle the second time the candidate should throw Lib opponent two back falls. Those so successful we r e Water (C) who .threw Eyers (D) twice and quickly; Flynn (Ireland), a stunted Ajax, who twice grasp e d sp in e ,e dß. o. Dyer (C)vantt -Oliver-,(e)mthe Roper, a t merlon, who first tripped and then heaved Kemp p (D) Gundry. the Cornish champion ( w inner of these pri z es last year), now faced the celebrated Chapple, champion Of Devon, and t he rmovements w ere watched with breathless interest, atter strength and science had both been almost when, i i.Theyexhausted, will meet again to-morrow threw his powerful opponent a single fai as will Lemon (I)) sod Tresise (C). who each won a fall. Snell, Ellicombt', Hodge, Goodman, &c., have yet to wrestle. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is an improvement in our share market to-day, and prices range higher than last quoted, with a better business doing. The Rates are—Birken head, Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction, 2 dis.—Bir rningham and Oxford, 6% p.—Buckinghamshire, 1 7 4 i die Ea!it L u a r neashire, New, 2 1 /i 4 dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), l ;‘ dia.— ton _ b gh and Glasgow, Halves, 6 3 / 4 p.—Fleetwood, Pres -13/1!nel West Riding Junction, 11 2 die.—Great North,rn, 1 /IM— Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 die. ex int.—Ditto, —Ditto Extension, ss. 9d. ex int.—Leeds and ewsb ut.Y , Halves dia.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, par—Lo n d on and ,Nrirth-Western, 169 V 2 —Ditto, Quarters i)G. 1 ). 151 / 4 p—M hester and Leeds, Fifths, 3LA p.— itto 32/. Shares (late Extension). dis.—Ditto, Halves (ate ' L. and B.), 1 4 die —Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), dia—Mialand Stock, New, Il4—Ditto, New, leg t.—North British, New Quarters (scrip) , p .—Nurth tfrordshire, 134 p.—York and Newcastle ( late N. and I.), Preference, 2% P.—Belfast and Ballymena, I I die. EDINBURGH, MAY 21 87 ° 01 E EXCITANGE.—The sales are--Dundee and Northern Junction 29s.—Dundee and Perth , Q uarters, 52s.—Edin burgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 103. 6d.—Edinburgh 1 5! 1 .(1 Northern, New, 555. 6d. —Edinburgh and Perth, 28s.— Ditto, Halves, 6s. 61. G Northern, 38e. 6d.—North Brit' British, Quarters (scrip), 13s. 3d.--Ditto, Thirds, 433. 6d. GLASGOW, MAY 22. STocK RxenANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and va. 6d. Glasgow, o„ Quarters, 16Y —Edinburgh and Perth ( New Co.), Halves, No. 1, 81.—k . —Glasgow Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 1151.—Ditto. ehester and marnoc I k and Ayr Direct, 12s. —Man lius, 5/. Southampton, 9s. 31 —Stirling and Dunferm- BOROUGH or LAMBETH,—A meeting of the Com mittee of electors took place at the Ship Tavern. Wal cot-place, on Mond a y, f or the pur p o se of arrangi ng for the publi c meeting of Thursday next, John Fuller, Esq , In the chair. L etters were read from M r . H awes and Mr. D'Eyneourt, th e s i tt i ng M em b ers , d e clining to be Present at the proposed meeting, cilia% on the ground lilt! the time fi xed upon being the Queen's birth day ; but J,Lw.?•setnnoupeed that Mr. Suellson had issued circulars `-, Le le behalf reques:ing the attendance of their friends to 1111 n ,g • efforil any vote of *disapprobation ; and, as vreat tie s wi ll be made by the Dissenting and Radical par " Pee crow ded meeting and strong discussion may hi tred. 1 1 WA 41* 4€ l 4:1 14 . ~ 1 ~~ _._. THE NAVY. To resuming our notice of the conditions at present ,egulatine the arinsureete and equipments of our ieeere fleet, we have to ucetiowlecige the value of sonic suggcs +ions contained in a letter addressed 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 circutation, we did not con ceive that we should gratify the author by giving a more extensive publication to his name than he seemed to save designed fer himself, though we willingly aided in he diro,eminatien of doctrines so entirely in concurrence with our own sentiments previously expressed. To those, however, who are incliued to pursue still further the clue which we traced out the other day, we can well commend the perusal ot this able and inteeligent pampelet. Our remarks on that occasion tended to show how it came to pass that for many obvious duties we had no efficient or appropriate steamers, and, by consequence, now several of our past eisasters might b.• explained, and but too many, perhaps, prophesied. We now pass Irvin our mishaps to our misearriages,—frem our accidents to our blunders ; and shall endeavour to threw some light on the circumstances which preclude even the single :lass of steam ships we have adopted from answering their own pre jector e designs, and which lead to such un remitting expenses and exposures. All our steam navy should not be frigates; but all our frigates should at least be good ones—should swim when they are launched, and 1.. ke the guns they are pierced for. We observed some time ago that the compadson between the steamers turned out from merchants' yards anti those launched rom 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 duces the greatest difficulty—namely, the necessity of carrying heavy guns. For, although certain companies ere bound by contract to build vessels capable of mount eig powerful metal on emergencies, they have never yet been tried, and we have reason to tear they would prove quite incompetent to this contingent part of their duties. Against this plea, however, we must set off the fact that, Government vessels are almost equally prone to consider_ their armament as nominal; tor we believe we are cdrrect in stating, that three or four only of the steam-frigates have ever be n 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 'maulers, 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 tiro discovery of the right principles of ad justment on this point would probably bring with it the tneane of imprevensent in all our other deficiencies. In our paper of the 30th of November last we called atten ion to some of the circumstances whittle were said to •Iffect the arrangements injuriously in this particular, and we observe our conclu , ions confirnr-d by some of the illustrations which Captain Robinson has adduced. Fifteen years ago the Surveyor strirted, as eir. Hume re• marked in the debate of the 29th ult., with nine etearners 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 trauslation 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 ia 1 attention; and this, as Captain Robinson has stated, is our permacity in testing too many points at ,nee. We never start etrieris purl cis; we are, conse quently, never able Lir 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 nete , r cut out for her before her drawings are made. She is r,o be a steam-ship," to carry s , many guns ; and there the instructions end. iu the xt place, whereas the hull, the moving power, and the armament have all a direct relation to each other, the proportions ot which remain to be discovered, we are never content to ascertain one point at a time, and the result is, that we ascertain none. Captain Robinson agrees with ourselves in approving 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 ace rdingly fitted with Seaward's engines ; but, untortunately, a simultaneous experiment was tried upon her hull, so that it is now quite impossible to draw any certain conclusion from her recentriterfturious 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 hopele-ss to conjecture. Again, the Devastation was tried with another new engine— Maudslay's double cylinder t but at the same time her horse•power was increased by 120 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 andhnt e l tr e s e senrcigs equipped pF e p u : dawd Fawcett, 10 0 additional horse power, werefiw.oe, from then e msand d o new one kfrinocleis Bolton l e to n n gin e e n s i , Watt. After this, it will not create surprise that architecture ou axioms.st e of navalx No eus than hendifferentnsortss fe engines very ne few s ym ten now in use in the steam navy, and these of as ma different powers, in vessels of as many different d . n) sions. Well may Captain Robinsovi consider comparisoni men and deduction as difficult I We will conclude with one more remark. It is obvious that all our late observations were applicable to paddle wheel steamers only, and would be mainly negatived by the general introduction of the screw, which would both diminish the chance or 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 fir 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 tt this moment, the exact relation of the power of the screw to that of the paddle remains unascertained ! Times. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Cu ATTIAIsi, May 24.—The Birkenhead steam-frigate. Commander A K. Ingram, arrived on Friday evening, the 21st inst., for the purpose of coaling. She lett at half past three o'clock the following afternoon, hevint: taken 200 tons of coal on boar 1, and proceeded to Sheer ness. In passing Gillingham-reach she capsized a boat in which were five engineer officers. Fortunately, the officers were expert swimmers, and they were picked up by two watermen who saw the accident. The Semarang, 26 gur s, sailed from Sheerness on the afternoon of the 2211 inst., for Gibraltar. The Terrible steam frigate, Captain Ramsey, arrived at Sheerness on Sunday evening, the 23.1 inst., at sevei, o'clock, from Greenhithe, which place she left at halt past four P.M , with only half her steam up. The Ilttwe, 120 guns, Captain Sir James Stirling, proceeds to the Nure this evening, the 24th inst., atitt will be inspected by the Port Admiral to morrow; she will then proceed to Portsmouth, towed by the Terrible, Birkenhead, and African steam-vessels. The Howe has only 300 blue jackets on board, made up from Ports mouth, the ordinary at Chatham, and the Ocean. She has also several seamen riggers from Chatham and Sheer ness Dockyards; and for the purpose of getting this ship ready in time, the men have been working on her from five o'clock in the morning until ten at night eves since she has been in commission. It is reported Lb. , the Howe will remain at Portsmouth for three Month, to refit, us her present , rigging is but temporary. As soon as she is completes', she will proceed to the Straits, to relieve the Hibernia. 104, Vice-Admiral Sir W. Par ker, G.C.8., Captain Richards. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 25.—Wind .S.W., moderate breeze, and fioe N rather. DEAL, MAY 2 4 . — Win d S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Anj: r Gerrats, J.,va, for Amsterdam; Corinth, IVes: Indies, for di to; Dvcima, Smit, Batavia, for ditto. Ski Calypso, Ell-Ingham, Jamaica; City of Derry, Quebec; Arrd. from the river, Susan, Crisp, Cape of Go a t H„p e; Concord, Batavia; Emerald, Antigua; Marlborough, Jamaica; John Brown, P.,rto Rico; Sunbe t am, Cubs. LIvERPo ,, L, MAY 24 —Wind S.W., moderae.—Arrd Eu, Widiams, Callao; Isabella, Tilley, Pernambuco; Victoria, Lindy, Honduras; John Marshall, Murphy, Philadelphia; J.ls, ph Meiss, Wood, New York. Sid. Algona, Boston; Albert Edward, Shangha, ; Aur,ira, Madras; Enterprise. 11.4ifax; Sophia, St. John's, New Brunswick; New Yo'k packet, Quebec. Off port, Brilliant, Mauritius; Star brig, and Columbia. WHITER AVEN, MAY 23.—Wind S. -- Ski. Brazil packet. Antigua. ‘V AT ERFORD, MAY 23 —Wind S.S.E. to W.S.W.— Skl. ll , rnet, St. John's, Newfoundland. LIMERICK, MAY 23. Wind W. Arrd. Robert, Demean, New' York. BRIST. ,L, MAY 24.—Wind S.W. Arrd. Caledonia, Ilavannah. Sou THAMPTON, MAY 24. Arrd. Iberia steamer, Gibraltar. BIDEF,,ET!, MAY 22.—Sid. John, Quebec. PLymouTß, MA Y 24.—Wind S W.—Arrd. Montezuma, Thompson, New Orleans ; her Majesty's steamer He cate, Sierra Leone. We learn that Miss Burdett Coutts has presented the munificent donation of 1004 and Dr. Connop Thlrl wall, Lord Bishop of St. David's, 201,, to the Queen's College at Birmingham, in furtherance of the plan now in active operation—viz., to relieve the student intended for the medical profession from the danger of those vex ation-, if not degrading services, to which the apprentice has been too frequently found subjected, and to train him, under a collegiate system, to combine with profes sional knowledge the feelings, habits, and manners of the Chri , tian, the scholar, and the gentleman. BIRAINGIIA.III METAL MARSET.—ThiS market suf fere considerably from the continued depression of the money market, and business in ail metals has been very limited. Copper is dull, and tin squally so; the general impression, is, that thin article will be much lower ere Speiter barely maintains its price. Tin plates are firm, but t h u demand is exceedingly fiats-Birming ham THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNISSDAY MORNING MAY 26, 1847. SPIRIT ofthe PUBLIC JOURNALS. wearing out his powers. There had been no solemn ilt:1: CAI 1101;NING P.A.P1.1i03 te - ik:sTERD,or. iudgni , et of public opinion upon him. He had not been CH tit i: : .; • ;: ,:;L.1 , .,.-1. eland iDaY wtil (121 1 1 tbis a ca, cast off by the mass of his aaherefts— he lied not 12st mitous year. Were do" b) i:‘ , Liiiit , aad pest:le,e, Ole ;;'..ctions :d his p. oplo or llzi church. Ther e h'i ii she has now to follow to the g rave the remains of her , 1 - , cen no evriit, no revolution, no turn of the tide t h at could account for this remarkable vicissitude. The only greatest men. The stroke will not be less severe be ! i account of it is this—that Mr. O'Connell had outlived his cause it was anticipated. The death of a man like O'Connell is one of those events which are scarcely be- credit and his power. There is a strangeness about the ! lieved to be possible until t he stern realit y is before us. accidents and coincidences of his departure that seems to • Nor will Englishmen vie w with indifference the loss of indicate a mystery of which time only will t ell all the the great Irish leader. They will differ in their esti_ import. That he has died at the acme of an unparal wi li : leled disaster is no accident ; his death att ests far more mates of the good and evil o f his c are er; but they recognise it as the career of a giant. It his sphere of ac- ' than any act of his life the warmth, if not the unalloyed tivity were remote from their knowledge and sympathies, I simplicity. of his patriotism. It is the famine, seen and they would still hear with sorrow that that rnigtay soul felt though it be through an earthly and selfish medium had passed away; but the event is one to call forth in that has *mitten down his soul. But there are other cir in this country a deeper feeling than that of passive sym- cumstances of his death not so naturally associated. pithy. Mr. O'Connell, intensely national as he was, Whi:e the great Irish auitator was dying on the shores belonged to the empire. In spite of his rs peal doctrines, of the Mediterranean, death also was visiting the abode the union between the two countries was embodied in his mind and character. English law, the elaborate life which and its occupants he had maintained a life long antagonism. A thousand miles and a still creation of English ideas and habits, had as large wider gulf of antipathies separated the representatives a share in him as Irish leadership. He was of Irish nationality and British royalty, both sharing no alien. His life was identified with an epoch the calamity of the people to whom they were in English history. England as well as Ireland has so differently related. But twenty four hours di lost a great man. But the work which will make the vided the demagogue and the Viceroy, equally name of O'Connell memorable was done in Ireland. sinkin g under their intolerable burdens. It What a work it was will perhaps be better undersh.od seems, too, an instructive chance that has brought hereafter. He dies in the midst of social and political sue disorder, and impatience may cry out that he lived in to the foreign obsequies of the Irish leader the cessful chief of that great English league, founded vain. Such men never live in vain. He found a people for better objects than the disunion of these realms. He, of serfs, so debased by oppression as to be scarcely con - too, may see in our present misfortunes bow little scious of their own degradation. He awakened in them nations can do towards rectifying the errors of the past, a sense of their own wants. He created a public ()pi nion, and evoked the sentiment of a national life, which, and how a good tense may achieve a present victory, and yet see the actual fruition of its objects indefinitely wild and wayward as their first workiuga may be, are postponed. A powerful aristocracy has been beaten, and the only means by which nations attain the happine•s a monopoly carried by assault ; but there ends the and the dignity of good government and self-respect. triumph hitherto barren of result. Cheapness and plenty are beyond the reach of political agitation. The whole It was a stupendous task to break down the ancient bar - civilised world is so thoroughly and so unanimously per riers of legal inequality which divided the Irish people. suaded of a fundamental justice iu Mr. O'Connell's But it seemed harder still to shake the superstructure cause, and an essential heroism in his character, diet which custom had reared upon the basis of law. When modesty as well as generosity compel us to deal tenderly the legal disabilities of Roman Catholics were gone, the ehl this belief. Whatever we may think of Mr. O'Con social inequality of caste still remained firm and intact, like an arch of solid masonry from which the scaffolding nell, our respect for human nature will hardly allow us is removed. But that solid arch already lies in crumbling to believe all the world in the wrong. At the same fragments. The great task of social totpialisation is all time, fidelity to our own honest impressions, and to that hut accomplished. We see old distinctions and exclu- national instinct which has so often p.oved right, re quires us to state bow every true hearted Englishman sions almost obliterated. Signs of union multiply. The reesards the career of this extraordinary mate It is descendants of those who won at the Boyne will pro possible that foreigners may be dazzled by the btilliuncy bably be seen following the hearse of him who raised up the vanquished people. Mr O'Conne l l' s la bour was not and power of an eloquence of which they can only read confined to the destruction of laws and usages which the language and learn the impression on the multitude were pernicious. In destroying he also created and Ro th wh f em it is addressed. We are able to compare words organized. Irregular and perilous as his meth od might i"ctlit HERALD.—Though we ar be, he taught a people, who were a l m ost destitute of are nut of the death of not in a condition to legel institutions, habits of united action and of obedience present. our readers with legal ev Mr. O'Connell, still there seems to be little doubt enter to authorities in which they could confide. When his ,1. t ‘ m vd mortal of death, agitation was most formidable, it was still a proof that enter tained in the best informed quarters that the great ci A loi g u i s t ip a de t:: r r isth i l s e.d r i i nn o ttxi m u : e )r iai e n, , ati a o r n i un d atn t h i s i ej a p t rl s s ot l fh l was hi t ni h s, a t t ,r,:pt; the Irish are eminently a governable people when the governors are skilful in their business. Clare election assemblages and monster meetings were not mobs, but and reflect, that notwithstanding all his efforts—not arrayed masses, almost as restrained and as manageable withst:diding all the struggles of a mind at one period as armiee. Such manifestations imply not only the vigerous and vivacious, and of a body which long after want of new social arrangements, but an aptitude for he had passed the grand climacteric, still presented a tailing in with them when they ar e suited to the genius of the people. Mr. O'Conn ell su pp lied the ing his darling purpose of reaching the seat of the Pa robust and hale conformetion—that he tailed in achiev place of a government in Irel and. The confi- rerun Roma, far dearer to him as a Roman Catholic, (fence whioh the law and instit utiosie of' the country pecy, and witnessing the splendours of that mazima never called forth was given to him and his various than as a classic city—we are tempted to muse on the vanity of human hopes and wishes, and to times who ruled the p eo p le with their own consent. societies. He was , in fact, the first in modern draw from the event which we painfully record To accomplish so much required that extraordi a mournful and a moral lesson. The tomb nary combination of powers which the world has recog- has now closed over the greatest and the most nised in Mr. O'Connell. His intellect, shrewd and pe- successful agitator of modern times; h© has died, not in nitrating rather than comp r e hensive, and his tact in d the Rome of the Popes, but in Genoa the Superb, well dealing with men, would of themse lves have made him called the Rome of the ocean, and he sleeps his lust eminent in his profession, but not the leader of a nation. sleep far from the land in which he was born, and from It was the passionate irrepressible energy impelling that ocean beside which his childhood was cradled. By that intelligence which gave it a power so commundine. foreign hands his eyes were closed and his dying limbs Most of his writings and lieeches, if viewed sepa adjusted, and it we are to believe the account of the l i st rawly. may excite wonder that an apparent metigreness of in-elieetual r> sources should be cosinected with a re- sad scene of his life, published in the Galignani , he putation so great; but the greatest single eff o rt of Mr. was neither conscious of the place in which he lay in his O'Connell was but an atom in the mass of his prodigious death-s!ruggle, 11. rof the persons by whom he was sur round( d. The image of death should at any time dis activity. He was not an utterer •of novel or brilliant ar o m we r r e ih s l e i n y tm do e e n s t d ; ,a b i u h t, a h p o p w ea m l u to ch u m s owrheeehlotrveesnttyd withand apothegms, but he said a few things, all of which had probably been said before, with such tremendous force p w attributes u in %) n s a p d r i ti d n e d , a s h o d m so ou c r o ci i t t u r l a — st s e o d t of iteration as to drive them home to the convictions t a o m a i '3 4 n i t. n ay e h re n r o y t and to weld them into the political creed of seven mil lions of people. Yet that Titanic energy might have merely European, but stretching from pole to pule— 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 (lisp. sition. 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 fi'med for the numb. r and the tenacity of his 1 riendships. 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 than in that faculty lay one main source of his Dower with a potpie 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 u.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 bard legal intellect. passions often uncontrollable, fervent attachments and fervent hatreds, the most arrogant and offensive assumption, and the moat foul-mouthed abusiveness, were all united in the '1 great reformer of the sixteenth century. But time, and the veneration which sees that the good done by such men long outlasts the evil, has softened all the harsher lineaments in the portrait of Martin Luther. Whatever nobleness and truth and earnest purpose were in him, whatever can el:flight en, inspire, animate, does not decay, out brightens from age to age, and becomes an im perishable possession of the race. Time will in like manner separate the dross from the gold in the character of D mid O'Connell. His work will remain open, and vindi (tete 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 e-complishing similar results. We may I::ssibly see more enlarged views, mire strict consistency, more i 'crapulous propriety, but the mighty heart which moved the people will scarcely be telt again. In the government of Ireland Mr. 0 Connelre death opens a sew era. It creates difficulties and presents opportuni ties, which, if not skiitully dealt with, may lead to very tisastrous issues. The labours of half a centary had Jotted in Mr. O'Connell's person an unparalleled combi nation of influences. To move him was to move Ireland. Fer Irish Governments that resource is now at an end. l'he tie which held together so many jarring elements is broken, and his politic 1 despotiem seems likely to be succeeded in the first instance by anart.hy. While men are stel looking undecided into a doubtful future, a vigorous policy and some regard to popular prejudices inight 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 shored look welt to its position and resources. Patronage is not an initruan nt to be "If, • tusk at such a time. If it be relied upon for the au pr c aion of Agitation,- the Executive may find its es followers , edUci'al to a bind of placemen and exp word upon a point to which we allude wi e tt e t t 7:lLtariee n • e- ,-. though it is not impo.sible it may have already suggested tselt to the generous feeling of her Mjesty's Govern in-nt. 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 becoinin:.; and just. and which certainly would be fully appreciated by the Irish people, to permit those who are charged with this sad office to avail them selves of the services of one of her Majeety'e ships. TlMES.—There was a time when the thought of Mr. O'Comieles dis,:ppearance from the scene suggested stagy interesting and anxious speculations. Would he 'ratis,mit his sceptre and crown, or would they be buried in his grave ? Would his honours remain in his fatuity, er, lik, the Macedoniati conqueror, would tie leave them c') be fought for or divided by his chiefs ? Would it indeed be found that so turbulent a career oily disguised a mission of peace, anti that the prince of demegogues mediated between the conqueror and the conquered, between the unbending Norman and the reseugeful Celt? When the imposing phalanx of a national confe- Ilerecy was removed, woul i a thousand sanguinary quar rels occupy its place? Ireland had so lotg been identi &A with D Lniel 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. '1 he 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 tor n very recent day, were familiar to the mind of . vey 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 from every sign of the times ? All is silence. 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 of the old world at bay, and whose name had long le en in either hemisphere the watchword of revolt, falls on this changeful and melan choly hour with no more force than a taint recollection of the past. No one asks what will Ireland do? The event has no bearings on the future. O'Connell is gone, and his mission expires. Yet how is this? Most cer tai, ly it is no human hard that has wrought so mar vellous a change. Mr. O'Connell had not been den eted at lest in the subtleties 01 litigation or overwhelmed t,y' the majesty of the law. He had not been crushed by the triumph of his political tidy , aeries. He was net under the ban of a victerious party, the frowns of indignant royalty, or the killing vigilance of energetic statesmen. No coercion was taming his spirit, no prosecution was SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have nzain. •-or the thina time, been successf;tl 'in my Derby prognostications. Iu my letter of Mon day last I stated that the van at the stand would be composed of Van Tromp, Conyngham, 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 bim, and that Conyngham, though he might run forward, could not 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 Conyngham 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 ma3e 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 foret , )ll the winner of the Derby. Tbis year it was prophesied in the meat 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. MANCHESTER. Stake. Probable winner. Manchester Cup Annandale. Salford Cup - go- bragh, Spithead, Executor,orLadyWildair. NEWTON. Lord of the Manor Gold Cup Eryx, Wolfdog, Newcourt, or the Maid of Lyme.. Drawing-rolm Stakes ucy Ashton. tit. Leger Stakes Golborne Stakes Shylock. Garswood Hunt Stakes Borough Cup Prior of St. Margaret's. Twenty Soya. Stakes Garswood Cup Sir J. Gerard. Fifteen &vs. Stakes Mermaid. I am, Sir. &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 24. CRICKET. TWO PICKED TWELVES OF THE MARITE BONE CLUB AND GROUND. This distinguished club opened their season on Mon day, by a one day's match between two selected sides 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 cba! ge 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 lyears 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 f ex ceptions, were difficult to be got away. As •oon as each side had had an innings the umps were drawn, and at that moment the score stood 4us:— EARL STRATHMORE'S SIDE. Lord Muungarret, b Bayley Lord Burleigh, run out C. 11. Hoare, DAL, c Dean, b Bayley b Dean Clarke, b Lillywhite •••• Royston ' run out Hon. C. Lyon, b Lillywhite M. Ainslie, Esq., b Bayley Lord Guernsey. b Dean W. Mot,crieff, Esq , b Bayley ••• Good, b Dean T. Burgoyne, Esq., not out Byes THE LAST MOMENTS OF MR. O'CONNELL. We have received the following letter from a gentle man, to whom it wag addressed from Genoa, with per mission to publish it : 9 1117 EARL WINTERTON'B SIDE. S. Taylor, Esq., c Lord Burleigh, b Hillyer , 1 Tuck, Eng., run out A. Haygarth, Esq., b Hillyer 8 3 Dean, c Hoare, b Clarke Dakin, c Fellows, b Hillyer Lilly white, b Royston 3 Hon. R. GrimMton, b Hillyer Bayley. c Raleigh. b Hillyer ' 4 Earl Winterton, b Hillyer " Genoa, May 18, 1847. " Intent on visiting the tombs of the apostles, and paying his homage, as a Catholic, to Pius IX., O'Connell 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 frienes and the physicians who attended him ; they sanction it as e. G•rect. H. Follows, Esq., not out Titchmarsh, Esq., run out 4 Captain Blackwood, c Burleigh, b Hi llyer 0 Byes 8, no ball 1 " For two days after his arrival here from Mar seilles by the Lombardo :t-'timer, the friends of the illustrious pilgrim onserved with joy that the im provement in his health, which they begin 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 Mtisve him, and always with com plete :success. Diarrhesa, however, set in some time after the remedies applied on Saturcay night had pro duced the desired result:, and as it still continued on Monday morning. (tutee' a partial cessation on Sunday) it was deemed expedient to call in additional medical aid. The English phy s i c ian- resident here, Dr. Duff, and Dr. Berretta, of thi s c i t y, m e t in consultation with Dr. LAcour, the physician who had accompanied O'Con nell from Lyons. The diarrhavi was regarded as rather fortunate than otherwise, as helping to relieve the head, where they were of op i n i on the ch i e f d anger was to b e apprehended. With this Co view (which coincided exactly with that taken of 0 fitie.l's case from first to last by the most eminent physicians of France), their remedies were mainly dire-cted to check the congestion, which they judged to have been gaining ground in the brain from a even a fourth period consider a bl y di stant. The success with which their e efforts w ere rth at p te h n y t e d ia was ur Dnro.tvloaysitainugi: was H o w o e a v l l e o r d , u after in was o a F d r g i d ay, r t u h d e e r i e t t t s c t i i l b i e w p r l' e r p e a h r e I s ; r the Nevertheless,w,,rstlauidt on Friday night th e l ast r i tes of t h e c h urc h were re ceived by the illustrious sufferer with a serenity and a fervour of piety which produced upon the members of the clergy and his friends who surrounded his beta the most proround and edifying impressions. ' "Towards three P. M. on Saturday he called his own man, and, taking him warmly by both hands to acknow ledge the rare fidelity wi:h which he had served him, he said, As yet I um not dying ;' but. two li.,urs later he cawed for the Rev. Dr. Miley (his chaplain), to whom he said, when he had bent down over hive, tee better to h e ar his fast sinking voice--'I am dying, my dear friend!' " The physicians were still in attendance ; but from that moment the prayers and other offices of religion, which had not been interrupted from the preceding night, were pursued with red,ubled 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 'vs and less distinct, his hands clasped in fervour—his eyes, his countenance revealed how 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 AQUATICS. HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA. This event came off on Monday evening, aud, 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 employed 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) 1 ,Tatues 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 the bu placeoyofft o h f e s au r e ti e n n g 's . (Brandenburg) House, and back all got away at the same moment, and after a rfeoTvnhsd a t et r oy okes. 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 lost it in winding the upper buoy. momentary wandering of the mind, from which, how ever, the slightest word recalled I?im. 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 aspirationth, were almost perpetually upon,bis lips.- Up,to a few tac)- 'memo before he expired be continued to recognise his confessor, and to respond to his suggestions. " Far from am prising him, he had been long, long fa miliarised with th. contemplation of his last end, pre p,red for it perectly. and almost eager for its advent. When that spirit, ro mighty, which seemed glory in and to sway the tempests which agitate our being, .auk its flight, there wits DO more traces or sign of pain or struggle than when. the baba in smiling sinks to slumber upon the mother's breast. I t w ill be a lasting, though st ill a sorrow f u l consola- o ' for his frn - qvis ""d anailY, that n o resource ut s kill o irt i climate calculated to prolong- tb,• exe.tenee of thi s ex traordinary min has been left unt r i ed. The professional udvice obtain‘d ter JIM was alway s t h e b est that could be procured. His body is to be embalmed and conveye d to Ire land. Ills heart he bequeathed I•torne. The autopsy demon ztrati. d singularly the correctness Of the view t:lken of his case, and how wonderfully successful had been the reartiaies 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 delle Vigne. They are to close to-worrow with a grand requiem mass, at which his Excellency the Governor G. neral, the Io- I reign Consuls, and Mr. R. Cobden, are invited to be present." THE L I NNEAN SOCIETY. — Monday, th e 24th of May, being t he anniversar y of th e birth of J. Li nn aeus. was held a t t h e i r apart ments, Sono - squa r e. Th e Bishop of Norwi c h, th e Pre sident, in the chair. The report of the au di tors , rea d by R. H. s„ily, Esq.. stated the rec e i pts to have amounted to 1,097 1 ., and the ex p enditur e to a sum less by 1671. the th e cel ebr membersate d of naturalist, r a society, list, the annual general mee ting of The debt on the society amounted to 905/. Since the last meeting the society had lost, by death, sixteen Fel low, two foreign member s , and one foreign a s sociate. he to ,, st distinguished membe rs t h o soc i e ty had lost :,'ter the recept ion of the re port , the secretary read me nof Norwich was re-elect e d p re .id ent ; J. S. B o werbank, E s q ., W. J. Burc hell , Esq., F. H. Janson , E,q Deniel SFarpe, Esq., and N. Wallich, Esq., were ari C,7i i v y e d members o f the ai.c:et . .. The ine->eting then di , solved, and in the evewn g the members dined t,..- tt t i . rs B of l ish he ufficers were then balloted f or an d e l ecte d. The op gether at the Freemasons' er,se r r,. DIR. COBDEN IN ITALY.--A leter from Livorno, d.oed the stik insf., announce,that a sphiplid banquet is being prepa r v d in that cit y i n honour of Mr. Cobden , M.P.--La Bilancia (Italian paper). the tenth time of passing, yet ho struggled gamely, and in going down the far side of the sours', - for a fpv., lesstnud the : , .pace b, tv..11 ItEn , ‘(-Ifa7nd was :he fed-quiciii, a [ern, and Bar low ran in an undtntableN.inner by 6114 to s.xiy Time, 21 minutes 10 seconds; which we take to be a proof that both men are good ones, when Ike consider the shape of the course and the heat of the day. CORONER'S INQUEST. A case of supposed child murder, under circumstances of a very extraordinary nature, underwent investigation at Bow-street Police court on Saturday last. Informa tion of the circumstances having been forwarded to Mt. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, that gentleman issued his warrant for holding an inquest on the body of the deceased child, and at twelve o'clock yesterday a jury of fifteen respectable inhabitants of St. Paul's, Covent-garden (of whom Mr. Salter, one of the over seers, was foreman), assembled at the York Hotel, Upper Wellington -street, for the purpose of pursuing the investigation. Mr. Benjamin Brooking, surgeon, of 7, Bow-street, was the first witness examined. He deposed to having been called in to attend a woman named Ann Cleveland, of No. 9, Upper Wellington-street, in her confinement, which took place on LWednesday morning last. The child was perfectly healthy, and immediately after its birth was placed in charge of a woman named Barber to dry nurse. Witness saw the child last alive on Friday morning. It was quite well at that time ; but about six o'clock on the same afternoon witness was sent for, and on arriving found the child deed. The case appearing to be fraught with suspicion, witness gave inf o rmation to the police immediately, and in the course of the same evening called in Mr. Charles Guthrie, surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospit.l, who, on seeing the body, at once gave it as his opinion that the child had been suffocated. By request of witness, Mr. Guthrie made a post mortem examination of the body at an early hour on the following morning, the result of vvideh 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 and gave his name as Mr. William Lawson, surgeon, of 13, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy square. He said, about three weeks since he received a letter signed " Harry 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 follows: — The letter requested witness to call on the mother of the deceased child, and went on to say that if witoeb could take a hint and work it out well, it would be 51. in his pocket. Witness not recollecting the name of " Hart nell," nor liking the style of the letter, did not call in Wellington-street, and destroyed the letter. A few days subsequently, witness received a second I,tter, .which explained more minutely who the writer was and was dated from Portland chambers, Great Titchfield street. The writer requested that witness wculd attend Mrs. Cleveland in her confinement, and promised that if he did so and would call afterwards at Portland cham hers, the writer would pay all charges. Witness re ceived this letter last Saturday fortnight, and on the following Sunday called on Mrs. Cleveland, and conversed with her. She asked witness whether he thought her child was dead. From symptoms which she desci ibed, witness assured her that it was not. Witness called on Mr. Hartnell, at Portland chambers, on the Monday fol lowing, and round that he had known him 17 or 18 years previously, but had not seen him since that time. The first question he put to witness was, "Don't you think the child will be still-born ?" Witnes, sa id, " No." The next question was, "Could it not be managed that it should be still born ?" Witneiss fir ' greatly insulted by the remark ; but not 'wishing tr , knock the man down, affected not to understand the question, on which Hartnell said, " Oh, you are ver) ~queamish ; they manage these things much better it - . France. 1 have seen two or three cases of the kind ire that country." Witness declined to have anything to do with the case, and warned Mr. Hartnell of the danger oi attempting to bring on premature labour. Witnesp 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 ascertained that the party in custody was not Mr. Flannel!. Mr. Charles Gardiner Guthrie, surgeon, of 19. Saville ' row, was next examined. He deposed to having made a post mortent examination of the deceased child in the presence of Mr. Brooking, Mr. Canton, Mr. Echling, and three other medical gentlemen. On opening the chest the liver and lungs were found gorged with blood, and on the left lung there were several spots of ex travasation. The brain was very vascular, and thi.re was extravasation on the left side. In all other respells the body presented a perfectly healthy appearance. The CORONER—Did you form any opinion a q 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 such a body in the dis ecung room, I should certainly have inquired how the infant had come by its death. Had the child died fr,.in couvulsiini, the lungs would have been more vascular, and not gorged with blood. A very slight pressure is sufficient u' Buffo caw a child of such tender. age as the deceased, and unless hard substances were used, the body would not have presented a different . ' appaiirtiticse from thas of the deceased when I first•sAvz it offthe , Priday nigh Harriet Swan, servant to Anne Cleveland, was .. 'next' examined at great length. Her evidence was qtrongly corroborative of the suspicion entertained' as to unfair means having been practised to procure the child's death. She said she knew Mr. Hartnell, and A few days pre vious to her confinement she heard her mistress say that be would attend her. Witness knew that Mr. Hartnell cohabited with her mistress, and expressed her surprise ; on which Mrs. Cleveland. said she lyiew he was the father of her child, but if she did not surer him to attend her in her confinement, he would sever enter her house again. The witness further stated that a person who wore mustachios, and whom she knew by the name of " Dolly," lived constantly with ber mistress, though the fact ,was wholly unknown to Mr. Hartnell, who was only an occasional visitor. 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 deat h, and that I he had better not come to the house, as if Mr. Harts. 11 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 him. Witness could not positively say that Mr. Hartnell had called in Wellington-street before the death of the child on Friday, bet she bad seen him there ou the Wednesday previous. He was known to witness as " Mr. Harry," and always addressed by teat name by her mistress's order. " Dolly" was at home on Friday afternoon, as witness believed, and since his apprehension her mistress had more than once asked whether he was taken, adding that she was prepared for the worst. At this stage of the proceedings, tilt re being several more witnesses to examine, the inquire was adj,,urned. The person alluded to as " Harry Hartnett" vf as pre sent during the latter part of the inveAigation. ALARMING FIRE in MANCHESTER MANCHESTER, MONDAY.—Great alarm was excited about ten o'clock on Sunday evening in the neighbour hood of Oxford-street, Chorlton- upon-Mvdlock, and Oxford-road, linline (townships immediately: adjoin ing Manchester), by the cries of •' Fire, fire ;" nor was that alarm decreased when it was as aitained that they ,proceeded from . the rata t ts e i n ve lir p e r c e o m4s o e: sp o in f e lkt r a es w sr h t B th ir o i n e ghn n o d w - C wf ) ;l{ r, g s hort t i me , employ bet Ween 1, 400 and 1 , 500 hands; It ap pears that, like , many firms in an extensive way of bu siness, Messrs. Birley and Co. not only manufacture their own gas, but they have also a small fouildry for making their own castings. Immediately adjoining the foundry was a long shed, over e hich v, as another s tor 3•, used partly as a workshop, and contaiei e g a l arge quan tity of Honduras mahogany, or ba) wood, as it is called. The leathern pipes or hose, too, kept in case of fire, were unfortunately in this room. The shed underneath, which was arched, was used for various purposes, but the space under the arch at the extreme end was appro. priated to the reception of the waste cote , n from the trill, which was the cause of the fire for, it appears, that owing to its inflammable nature, assisted by the oil used in the spinning, and the extreme heat of the day, the waste ignited, and the flames, penetrating the flor ing, caught the wood lying upon it before they were dis covered by one of the private watchmen (of whom there are four) employed on the premises. Th., first attempt of the watchmen was to rescue the pipes from the room above the shed; but the fire had already obtained too great mastery to render this practicable. They then procured two or three main pipes from the factory, and, by means of these communicating with the force pumps, were en abled to play upon the flames. Three of the town en gines were also speedily on the spot. In the meantime the flames, rushing as from a flue through a doorway opening from the shed into the foundry, and ascending c theitsroof, s first fi pe ee e r di o lyi th ir L h e tthe t r h af t t h e e rs ;m a a n h d og b e y w y t , h is h s t v i i m og e been consumed, the roof of that also was in flames, which rose up continuously the whole length of the building, about 25 yards. By the exertions of the fire men, however, the fire was prevented from extending itself further; for, though no fears were entertained after the first alarm for the factory itself; which was separated from the burning building by the ri ver Med lock, it was with some difficulty that a ;looitnoin, we re p re f small tene 'wretched district, been Visited by g s m e e rv n e ts d in fr L om ittl d e e l s r tr e u la c n ti t, n i . mm T e h d u ia s tel ad s inhabited chiefly by Irish, havi ng l ate l y an inundation, caused by the overflowing of the Medlock a (andext extreme m t h e e inhabitants destitution and o f whichitsattendant , are d n by fi suffering .re t Therom nar rowly escaped being partly consumed b y but flames were eventually subdued by twelve o'clot:k, and it is hoped that th e d amage dues not exceed 5001. or 60(11. The property, we understand, was not insured. Being W w e h e i k t s forun w r e p e a khe i r, even e o mill if t wouldhe fire h h a a d v have been eee.ene occurred. We this n,e learn, however, that she works will not be further re tarded by the accident. ig His Imperial Highness the Archduke Constantine of Russia honoured Mr. Beard, on Monday last, by sit ting for a photographic portrait at his e stablishment, i the Royal Polytechnic Institu,tion, Regent-street. SECOND REIT. George Green (Yellow) 1 Thomas Gibbs (Red) 2 James Waite (Blue) 0 Blue dashed off with the lead with Red, being the second boat, but in rounding the lower buoy, Yellow cat them off, and with difficulty maintained it, his opponents both working hard to win. THIRD HEAT. Samuel Widdick (Red) 1 Thomas Mitchell (Blue) 2 Joseph Martin (Yellow) 0 Yellow took the lead and kept it down and up to the upper buoy, when he and Red fouled, and Blue rowed on to them. Red disengaged himself, went away, and won. GRAND HEAT. Hoare (Red) 1 Gret•n ( - Blue 2 %Viddick (Yellow) 3 Blue took the lead, but was imediately passed by Red, and these two fouling, Yeliow in advance. Red soon recovered his place. and won by six lengths. PEDEsTRIANISM. BARLOW AM) BYROM'S FOUR-MILE RACE FOR 301. A SIDE. The race between John Barlow (alias Tollick) and James Byrom, the Lancashire runner, attracted several hundreds of the patrons of pedestrian . = on Monday to the Rosemary Branch, Peckham, in the spaoious 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, Lancashire. is in his 28th year, and stands 5 feet 5 j inches. Lie sa a likely looking lathy fellow,- with: , a • greyhound like h outline, and oame to the post in a style that did credit to his trainer. His principal performances, and those which gave reasonable confidence to his friends, were his victories over 111.xfiel 1, the North Star, whom he de feated in a four-mile race over Doncaster course for 501. a side, on the 26th of F. bruar), 1845 (time 21 minutes 10 second-); William Robinson, of Newton Moor, the like distance for the same amount, on the 13th of May. in the same year, at Newton-in-the-Willoas • 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 Mucks, ou the last day of 1845. In 1846, however, he defeated blanks in turn, in a ten-mile handi cap, having 300 yards start ; and Lovett, of Doncaster, 200 yards. The performances of Byrom we have given on a former occasion ; we shall not, therefore, repeat them here. Byrom, though known as the " Lancashire Runner," is a native of Brigworth, near Huddersfield,' in Yorkshire; his height 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, having numbered thirty-one summers. The men showed on the ground about four o'clock, but upwards of an hour was "cut to waste" in re-measuring the ground and selecting umpires and a referee. At length, aul being in readiness, the word "off" was given, and the men started fairly, Byrom with a shade of a lead. We ought here to state that the ground is enclosed by a stout hoarding, and the course marks d out by a stout inner ring of posts and chains, within which the multitude principally arranged themselves. The circuit is 647 yards, and this had to be made eleven times, minus 77 yards, to corn, plete the distance of four miles, consequently the win ping flag was at length short of the starting scratch For the first 300 yards Byrom led, but in the next the men occas i on ally passed each other, and the first turn was completed in close company, Byrom lead ing one yard. The pa ce for this and the following round did not seem fir st rate. At the second turn Tollick led three yards; as they came down what the Yankees would call the back stretch, Byrom overhauled his anta gonist, and led at the third roundly by a couple of yards. 'rollick fetched this up by pulling foot, shortly after Byrom, and completing the fourth circuit five passing yards in front. In the fifth, Barlow increased the inter val between himself and his adversary by twenty yards; in the sixth (having run somewhat over half the dis tance) time, 11 minutes 3 seconds, Byrom was twenty eight yard, bel ind. He, however, tried a " spurt," but in vain, he could not much alter the state of affairs. In the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth time of goinf round. Barlow still held his own running light, springy, a nd with a long stride, while Byrom seemed to labour and go short; in fact, he appeared rather fleshy, and He was thirty-fi ve yar d s b e hi nd on co mpletely fagged. FRIGHTFUL ACg:IDENT. (FrirtM A Cr , TerIE.7..NDEVI• ) CHESTVII, •AY 24. +l.t Pil,T S. P to e just tittle to y , ,,. r. t ai has c curred on the Chtster and linuab Riuiw.y, by the giving way (it is supposed) of the girder in the centre of the last arch of the vist , ?uct over the Dee, and close to the race-course here. The train left the station at about a quarter past six, and in less than another quarter, every carriage was smashed to atoms, and are at the time I write being taken away in piece -meal. A great number of persons have been led, sever I taken to the infirmary, but what number of carriages there were, I have not now time to ascertain. A Mr. J. Mathews, a highly respectable coachman, who drives from Barmouth to Rhuabon daily, and from thence per steam to Chester, was on his retutn home, and is one amongs the unfortunate individuals. The cit) is in the greatest state of excit4 ment, an d t h ousands are at the spot. The accident was seen by numbers who were playing at cricket on the Roodu at the time. I will give you full particulars to-morrow. P.S. I ought to add that the engineer, bting in the engine, cleared the fatal spot, and sated himself, but saw the stoker killed, he, with the rest of the carriages be hind, all falling, in one common r ulph, into the Dee. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. An accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred on Monday evening on the Chester and Holyhead Rail way, about 1 miles from the Chester station, by the failure of one of the gird, rs of the bridge across the River Dee, and which is supposed to have arisen from a detective casting. The engine anti tender got clear over the bride, but one of the carriages in the train was precipitated into the river, and four per sons are killed, and about five or six others more or less injur, d. The stoker also i- killed, baying been thrown off the engine by the jerk. No official statement hasyet been received at the Lohdo n office from the engineers further than reporting the eireurnstance. THE CURRENCY. The following is a copy 01 a pe,it ion to the House of Commons, from the Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow, oa the abject of the currency : The petition, &c., humbly shc,weth, " Ti at this Cham ber consider convertibility to be an e>sential element in a souird paper currency; an d while thy protest against the irnpolicy of legislati se interference with the internal management of banks of mane, tr.. ) , hold it to be indis pensable that the notes of such batiks should be, by law, payable in gold on di-mewl. Thai the exist.ng Acts provide no security !'or the convertibility of bank notes, and that convt rtibi;ity can not be secured by any statutory rest-11;e tit gold, which is insuffieiero to ccv,r the N hoic obligations of the bank to pay on demand. " That deposits in baths of issue, and the notes of these banks in the bands of the 141 - 410, are equally payable on demand; and that gold may be drintaid,-d for the one as well as the other. • " That a demand f o r Kidd f,r exportation must always operate through deposits it, th, bank, because the notes in active circulation, LS current:), being old) used for daily rxpencliture iu transtcui.ns between dealer and COnSUITIVr, and being held ni s:, all sums, in many hands, ar, not employed as translerA of evital, and are never presented for payment in gold, exetpt when suspicions arise of the soiv ney of the bank. "That a run for gold, caused by sulricions of insol vency, must opera a through deposits, as w t 11 as by notes in the hunt's of the public ; and dep o sit s being in fewer hands and tix large amounts, must exhaust any resarve of gold, before a titl.e of the roo-s circulating in the country, and at a dist.orcefrt•in the Bunk, can be pi esented fur payment. " That the large capital and unlimited liability of part ners in the Scorch .bririke are not only ad sufficient, but the only security for the convertibility of their notes, that this i- Fern ctl) we II tnitierstr off, turd relied on by the people of Scotlblid. win; cannot believe that one firth , n three hund,,d thous.tnti pound s o f gold, held by the banks under the existing Act, i,any security for the payment of thrr e :Aid a halt o+ notes in circu lation, and atm thirty millions of deposits payable ou demand. That the existing :\ cts for regulating the currency are inconvenient and expt Delve in their op. ration ; and, while they do not secure the convertibility of notes, neither can they cl.i ck over-trading, the tacilities fur which are itnpr-vident adiauces of capital, and nut ex traordiwary expans;ons of currency. " That in the I.r.,ent crisis, when the country is placed In unusual difficulties, froar the diminution of floating capital, availatne tor purpt.,es (Aeon:melee ; and tr..m a scarcity ut tot.d, ar d consequent demand fur gold t.. pay for .xtraordit,ary ItafiTta.th ! ns rt c..ru ; when our waoufacturesare s.ll,eittit d neohsequenc-ut a beareity of disposable capital, and a 'deficient sopply rind high price of the raw material, ehen thousands are daily adds d to the tens i , f thousands of our na.hu'acturing popula tion already hrohn out of emptoyntent, no measure ought to he lett u. tried by which Oa, present distress way be alit mato, and the still greater calamities wi.h which the couoto- appears: to be threatened averted. hat the very large amount of gold circulating in England, anti u=elessty held in reserve by the Scotch and Irish batiks, nay most opportunely mad safely be made available to pay for our importations of foreign con), and to give -necessary tacititi, a for commerce; and that tor thtve purposes a very considerable portion of our gnlid.ourrency may be witharawb, and leplaced by Bank of England nacce-ot one pound, avid the existing enact ments for regulating the issues of the Bank of England and joint=stock banks be repealed. " May it therefore please y ur Honourable House, in Consickration of these pr.-nnst-s, to sanction the issue of ore pound notes by the Bank 'of England, and to repeal the existing !arra for regulating_ the. issue of notes by the Bank Tot England and join, •a - ock hanks. "JAMES 'CAMPBELL; Chairman. " JOiiN KINNEAR, Secretary. " Signed by order of the uirectors,: and sealed with the S. at of the chtrnter, Glitsvt.w. 15L11 1.1 , 5 y. 1847." —Glasgow A; gruc. THE LATE RIOTS IN DEVON- s The folk. vii circular tat. been issued by the Load. Lieutenant or I)ewon: " TO TBN MAGISTRATES OF THE ----- DIVISION. - `• Exit• r, May 21, 1847. ►► Gentlemen,—The exaggerated rumours w ► ich have been circulated respecting food riots in Devonshire prompt me to address you at this time, not WI the view of instructing you in yOur duty (tor on that head I am sure you necd no inNiruetion from any one), but to remove from your minds any unfounded impression of what has occurr. d to parts of the county at a dis tance from - , The repoiV which I have received satisfactorily show that though attempts lave been made in some of the towns to disturb the pubi.c peace and int. rrupt the free tvatfic of the Markets, they hsve I s en speedily put dowu by ;he civil pow. r, wiut the aid of special con stables, sworn in tor the occasioo, and without the in tervention il uny it:ditto.). f-tve. I. is sib° most gratify ing to know that the it.iempts .n quest'. it have hardly in any case oih!ittated with those who suffer cost from the press of scarcity. 6. On the- con,rary, the exemplary patience of the poorer classes und, r their s 7, give. ereiirt t hem - theitiuns reflects strongest the highest credit upon them, and claim on the liberal sjmpathyot their richer neighbours. m e c l ' jend thnitshce,i,?;,:..,;(,m:ortututibeuinitu:;•uosr, pvvr:Leedonintigi:9arcroivma-1 and through his exertions promptly supprcroce-denbyttikthene consiauutary with the , upport of a * wa ll bt,,ty of pm suijoenieLsrmAornaderw.iiiiiltsi 1 , e . te r ...ua t i r r ig as u u l ; t e i s ty l:i tt v ht vitizent of e. c E o x u e tt e ) r , by ha vthesrelltUrallfinee"lbielee o e t x t a h m elr 'l "cot: trib b u e ti r o t n s s t tt:flr the coult), by the rnunificeiic ot thei r 000tribut10n5 br the know has been dune i n various other aid ., , o r t h t e ti e li d k t : I t re t I e s k se n places, and the niagi-trans heave been among the tore most in protnotnig the work sit charity. " The people witl not be ungrateful fur the kindness shown Vic m. but the handle strorden by the- pressute of the times to the ti• signs of ill di .poseci perstrus demands our must vigtlaut atirlitto‘.. 1 therefore confidently rely tin your judon.lit and discretion for• trustroing such :designs, where..-r there is c ,uSI-• 1 o apprefit•lld them, by the early forititt:ion of un effice.-nt 6.4 Y of special constables. In tins I trust you will tibuiiii the s cu-operation trict,wia, of w i n a ll t ne ta re a sp w eezh r l e e e t w titi n a h ln y A v an u tt of t your .ltti y. , ur most is ;tin's :yt, most satis itiu:factorily and that military t .a , : e r c ' e t' :o t s rl i t t . . h h e t upheld u i ev p e r r eb r :T y :: ti l . l i e vt d hle in ex cep!. iu cr i ,.. es of uri;ent "FOR TESCUE." obe"d.lienhtayseervathvet, honour to br, Gentiktne h. BOSPITAL.—The anui ve rsary festival of this vide.- at the L o ,don 1 : ) ; verti on Mon. dsyT,uit:i.idj: aEr,7al) tooks s: ve very ounier.uily 4ttend v ii. ill s R oia l Hi g hness the Duke of Cambricig,e presiat id, and among the company present w ere —sir NAI loses Ontetiore, Mr. Emanuel Lous a d a , M. H.& Castro - Mr. S. H. ELi,,, Right Lion. the Lord Mayt.r, li.frv. lir. Adler ('Chief Rabbi), Rev. 1)r. Bowles., Sir Antbon) 1).. Itoth , e bild, Mr. Luke J. Hansard, Mr. W. Hotter), Mr. B. S. Phillips (Com mon Councillor), Colonti E. Cadogim. Ba ron Knesebeek, and Mr. David Salomon,, The, report for the )ear states, that whereas at the conitnenceme In of the insti tution 10 aged and 18 young persons Were alone ad mitted to its benefits, these advantuges are now extended to 86 inmates, 12 of whom are ag.li persons, 57 boys, and 17 girls. The principle of the charily is to educate the young committed to its rare practical ly. by bringing them up to some empl,r, ment or trade, a nd i encourage ments are held out in alter life to persevere n the habits of industry and honesty which tf.e). have t aequirrd while During the eve-unlit subscriptions in the hospital. The reults or the sy.' . (In are stated to ~uet. of 8001. '.l'be inmatea Of the institution paraded round the . room, itnany of them be we r v e e very announced satet o t r t y , specimens of their handicraft, aild exciting by bearing their appearanre the warm approbation en' the company. .t . he am IV. are at a loss a hat to say of the di (((Cr, as it was g i ven in the Jewish fashion. The wines, ltiowever, were exee l eb t, and there was some good mu ,:ie from Mr. Genae and the other professional gentlemen present. Mr. Higgs was tosstmaster. BurrsLo HAMS.—A tessel, arrived in one of the docks, from enletette, has orota,zto. ;ti additions to s general cargo of great v,.r ety and extent, including rice (now free of duty as an article of general 'fo o d), th e among other articles, 3,000 packets of seed. mid 4.339 of k extraordinarily large number of 50,000 buttisto hams, me )13, si rs; on abe t h a ve thl! 0 305° S CLlr'