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LITERATURE. VOICES PROM TIIE MOUNTAIA S. B Chles acky. . Prei. snitz tie y d• to ar say, M 4lcrn a LL.D Gcbirge huben, "Man must have mountains !" So thinks Dr. Charle s, Ma ckay, and l ov i ng th e mounta i ns o f hi s native lano above all others, he gives voices to them and carols from the hillt ops t h e truths of th i s progress i ve age in little rhythm of singular beauty. The purpose of his volume is explained with much elegance in the prologu e ," w h ere Alistor, a young Templar, Karl, Young Rhymer, and Patrick, a young Sculptor, debate as to the course to be pursued in their pro jected excursion to the mountains. After an argu ment, through which beams the light of descriptive verse 2 Ben Nevis is selected as their destination. The Poet in the fervour of his admiration calls upon the thyme, the h eat h er, the birch, the pine, the larch, the flowers " earth-jewels fair," and the torrents that --- "sing, amid the wilderness, a song Ofjubilint gladness, when their floods are strong"— to "Attest the wild luxuriance of the scene That lengthened spreads (with many a strath between, And moorland purple, haunt of birds and bees) Around th e fern-clad feet and shaggy knees Of mighty The paramount of mountains, gemmed with as, Scantily robed ; his Titan-shoulders nude, Liftin g his heart in royal solitude Above his peers, and looking grimly down Over all Britain from his misty crown." From such altitudes as these, therefore, are the " Voices" presumed to reverberate, and they are gentle voices, such as would penetrate beyond wider abysses than separate the mountain from the crowd. Dr. Mackay always speaks earnestly, and he is earnest too with the heart's earnestness. The happi ness of man seems to him to be in a measure attain able with the acceptance of certain universal prin ciples such as the principles of general amity and brotherly co - operation. Th a t happiness he con sequently endeavours to bring more within the reach of his felloW-beings by promulgating those principles. Such is -visible in the verses entitled "We are Wiser than we Know" " Let us alone" " The little 181°1 " , " &C. &c. " The Matt in the Dead Sea" is the wildest of wild phantasies, but it has the golden ring ° f Poesy. It is penned in a strain of the most intense passion ; th e words burn with meaning ; the agonies of impotent rage are denicted with a marvellous Power. But the incident is Wild—preternaturally wild. c toi o s l oua a rnito : o i f inen of n g of the versification we transcribe these the vivid and picturesue flo w from St. Sepulchre ;" theline t cell of N the mouth of a wretch in condemned s he are supposed sticklers i. e wyate. Listen to these rhymes you lor indiscriminate capital punishment ! 13,,, A7 ' you may think that I am crazed, Thes e What I s aw , that did I see. Walls are thick, my brain was sick, And yet mi ne eyes saw l uc idly. , Through the 'oists and through the stones . I could look a j s through a glass; And from this dungeon, damp and cold, I watched the motley people pass. All day long, rapid and strong, Rolled to and fro the living stream; But in the night, I saw a sight— I cannot think it was a dream. "Old St. Sepulchre's bell will toll At eight to-morrow, for my soul; And thousands, not much better than I, Will thron g around to see me die; And many will bless th e ir h a ppy f a t e, That they neer fell from th e i r hi g h es t a t e , Or did such de e d as I h ave done; Though, fro • m the rise to the set of san, They cheat their neighbours all their days, And gather gold in slimy ways. Bt nay soul feels strong,andmy As my dead feels apprches near, And in its presence I will tell sight grows clear, The very truth, as it befel. " The snow lies now on the house-tops cold, Shrill, at:d keen the March winds blow; The rank grass of the churchyard mould Is covered o'er with drifted snow; The grave s in old St. Sepulchre's yard Were white last night, when I looked forth, And the s h arp clear stars seemed to dance in the s, uy, Rocked b y the fierce winds o f th e nort h. " The houses dull seemed numb with frost, The streets seemed wider than of yore. And the straggling passengers trod, like ghosts, Silently en the pathway fror e , And th When I look braed thr oug h that churchyard rail, And saw _ ouf the b e ll t h at should ring my d women, sad an d p a l e , g together on a t om b . doom, Sittin " A fearful sight it was to see, As up they rose and looked at me: Sunken w ere their cheeks and eyes, Blue - cold were th e i r feet, and bare; Lean and yellow Were their hands, Long and scanty was their hair; And round their necks I saw the ropes Deftly knotted, tightly drawn; And knew they were not things of earth, Or creatures that could face the dawn. .TS Seen dimly i n th' uncerta i n light, multiplied upon my sight; And' things like m en an d women spring'•-•. Shape s of those who had been hung— From the rank and clammy ground. I, e ounted them—l k new t h em a ll, ,aell with its rope around its neck, Marshalled by the churchyard wall. " The stiff policeman, passing along, Sa w them not, nor made delay; A reeling bacchanal, shouting a song, Looked at the clock, and went his way; A troop Lau g hi ng of girls, with painted cheeks, and yelling in drunken glee, -P assed liked a - gust, end never looked At the sight so palpable to me. Must them—h ear d t h em —f e lt th e ir breath sty and raw and damp as death. `` These women three, these fearful shapes, Looked at m e th roug h Newgate stone, -And raised Wtheir fine•ers skinny and lank, hispering low in under tone:— ,114 hour draws near,—h e ' s one of us,— 11 4 gibbet is built,—his noose is tied; TheY have put his name on his coffin lid: The Live of blood shall be sstisfied. He shall rest with us and his name shall be A byword and a mockery.' • w hispered to on e , What hadst thou done?' '''" e a nswered, whispering, and I heard— Alth ough a chime rang at the time — Every sentence, every word, Clear, above the pealing bells: — • Was mad, and slew my child; Better than life "God knows, I loved it; But pain arid hunger drove me wild. Scorn an d hunger, and grief and care, And I slew it in my despair. And for this deed they raised the gibbet; For this deed the noose they tied ; And I hung arid swung in the sight of men, And the law of blood was satisfied.' "I said to the second, ' What didst thou?' Her keen eyes flashed unearthly shine. 'I married a youth when I was young, And thought all happiness was mine; But they stole him from me, to fight the French ; And I was left in the world alone, To beg or steal —to live or die, Robbed of my stay, my all, my own. England stole my Lord from me,— I stole a ribbon, was caught and tried; And I hung and ewung in the sight of men, And the law of blood was satisfied.' "I said to the third, What crime was thine ?' 4 Crime !' she answered, in accents meek, The babe that sucks at its mother's breast, And smiles with its little dimcled cheek, Is not more innocent than I. But truth was feeble,—error was strong; And guiltless of a deed of shame, Men's justice did Inc cruel wrong. They would not hear my truthful words: They thought me filled with stubborn pride. And I hung and swung in the sight of men, And the law of blood was satisfied.' "Then one and all, by that churchyard wall, Raised their skinny hands at me; Their voices mingling like the sound Of rustling leaves in a withering tree: His hour has come, he's one of us; His gibbet is built, his noose is tied; His knell shall ring, and his corpse shall swing, And the law of blood shall be satisfied.' " They vanished ! I saw them, one by one, With their bare blue feet on the drifted snow, Sink like a thaw, when the sun is up, To their wormy solitudes below. Though you may deem this was a dream, My facts are tangible facts to me : For the sight grows clear as death draws near, And looks into futurity." Not, however, in horrors does the muse of Charles l‘lackay delight. The dells and solitudes of nature are his welcomer retreats. Notice, for example, the crescendo ardour of the description of the scene when the yellow moon was shining, and— " Beautifully still Lay Lochlin in his beams—Lochlin whose breast Wafted so oft the chieftains of the west To bloody warfare; Lochlin, that of yore The galleys of the Gael to battle born Against the men of haughty Innisfail; Lochlin of storms, where Fingal spread his sail To meet Cuehullin; Lochlin of the spears; a. l3l ue Lochli n o f th e songs o f other years." nletimes we regr e t t o see the natural gush of poetic imped e d, as it were , by the ver y i n t ens it y °I4 the motions el the writer. In the " Drop of A mbros e ia," for instance, he degenerates into the baldness of saying -4,, " Let me a l one , nor vex my soul," &c.; -(" Immedi ate l y afterwards he s i n k s i n t o th e vulgar 18'4 of writing— " Sad, till I grasp it, the time appear, .„, Into h ours t h e wee k s I'd pac k," &C. W 4")) " The Follower," be turns a solemn, and T 11 S UN, even thrilhng, duc:iption into the veriest balderdash, hy exclaimin lie bnets my daily path, tun the victim of his wrath : He Slncars Ls fingers o'er toy meat." Au I ccea,i,nally the rhymning is indifferent, as " Let u: alone," recurs— " Your petty jars, Your wicked wath," &c. Howbeit we only mention these minor blemishes, for he purpose of showing that as we cre not blind to the faults of the volume, so neither are we the less enthusiastic in our estimation of its excellencies. We should be most churlishly fastidious were we to qpiabble over a good, melodious, and heart-spoken book of poetry, such as these " Voices from the Mountains." Hyper-criticism is our abhorrence, and we have merely enumerated the foregoing flaws as a token that our opinion of the work is in no respect biassed. We cannot he indifferent, while we hearken to such strains as this : Wouldst thou know what the blithe bird pipeth, High in the morning air? WoultlA thou know what the bright stream singeth, Rippling o'er pebbles bare? IVouldst thou know what the moon discourseth, To the &elle sea? Wouldst th , :u hear the echoes of the raus!c (if the far infinity? Sorrow shall ope the founts of knowledge, And heaven shall sing to thee." Cordially we commend this book to the public ; it is the effusion of a sincere poet, and of an unaffected !over of the prople. A 77/ rLS TAN, A TRAGEDY ; LIFE AND DEATH, AN ALLEGORY ; AND OTHEIt I'OE2llB. .14 E(!mund H. While. Among the numerous marks of the progress made, •pf late years in civilisation and the general diffusion of knowledge, is conspicuous the appearance of authors in all departments of literature, in all classes of society. Formerly, whenever literary talent was exhibited by persons of a subordinate position in the community, it was regarded as a phenomenon rather than a matter of ordinary occurrence. Such a phe nomenon, in the days of antiquity, was the incom parable iEsop, the Phrygian slave, and the witty Terence, the freedman of Lucanus. Such, again, in modern times, was Chatterton, the attorney's clerk. Now, however, the fact is not the exception so much as the rule itself. In all the various depart ments of belle lettres we could point to very distin guished authors, who have sprung from very lowly occupations, from Gifford, the leviathan of critics, to the three great national poets of Ireland, France, and Scotland ; Moore, the son of a hatter— Beranger, the waiter at a tavern—and Burns, the ploughman, and the son of a ploughman. Instead of depreciating the high and almost divine dignity of the art, as might be thought by the Lord Foppington school of readers, it only graces and adorns that art the more, by accumulating round it, as it were, the spoil of so many more individual minds. Especially has this been visible in lyric and dramatic poetry. Now-a-days we can enumerate a brilliant band of minor poets, sprung directly from the people—Ebeseaer Elliot, Thom the weaver, Thomas Miller, the late William Motherwell, and the late Robert Nicholl. Those men are, or were, honourable instances of the class we would indicate ; they severally and collectively elevate the trade to which they belong to a higher consideration than they might otherwise have obtained ; for, although it were an extravagance to expect to find a James Hogg under the plaid of every Ettrick shepherd, a Thom at every weaver's bench, an Elliot in every humble house in Staffordshire, or a Miller behind every counterin the metropolis, it were equally an extravagance to treat those shepherds, those weavers, or those shopkeepers, with discourtesy when we find amongst them men endowed with as delicate and refined susceptibilities as those of gentle blood. Another class has now given forth its bard, his first effusions being nothing less pretending than a tragedy, an allegory, and fugitive verses. Edmund H. White is a guard on the Great Western Railway, and he certainly shows himself to be a guard of considerable imagination, of no little sensibility, and of a not wholly neglected education. One advantage must, we would believe, inevitably result from the publication of " Athelstan." The tragedy must produce, at the least, one beneficial consequence; it must conduce to the elevation of the particular class to which its author belongs ; it must render a railway guard less liable to the incivilities , vith which, like all other public servants, he has been hitherto treated. People will reflect, after hearing of this production of Edmund White, that it is not altogether impossible that the rail way guard or the railway porter may be a creature of as refined sentiments, and as delicate sus ceptibilities as themselves. Misfortune may have dragged men of classical education—and we have known instances—down to that position ; and insolence to such is as abhorred as it is to yourselves. Remem ber that ; remember the book written by Edmund 11. IVhite, and restrain your impetuosity of manner and language ; take a lesson from the French, gentle public, to whom every artizan in his blouse and his peaked cap is worthy of a " Monsieur" and a saluta tion. Although we can say but very little in com mendation of Athelstan itself, we can certainly say much less in praise of the Allegory. Among the tugitive verse , , again, many are irredeemably bad, as when in rhyme the writer says— " 'Tis a glorious sight, on a summer's night, To gaze on old ocean's breast; While the moon's pale r ay o'er its bosom plays, As it silently takes its rest." The author, too, had better have thumbed his grammar before he fingered the poetic tablet, and there by have prevented the publication of such stuff as the following : "Its bosom then seems, like our childhood's dreams, Innocent, calm, and serene ; And the stars which glow, in the waters below, Enchantment adds to the scene." When we come, moreover, to such euphonious twad dle as the subjoined, we are compelled to desist from further examination of the volume : "For three long weeks he vainly sought Employment, far and near ; His children nightly round him ran With hungry bellies, pale, and wan, And eyes dimmed with a tear." The book should have gone through a careful and competent supervision before being printed. SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HANDBOOK TO THE ENGLISH LAKES. Having already noticed in terms of deserved eulo gium the elegant, though somewhat costly volume upon the " Scenery and Poetry of the English Lakes," written by Dr. Charles Mackay, we can, with double reason, express our approbation of this Hand-book to the same picturesque localities of Cumberland. Every advantage possessed by the former publication is (with the exception of the elegant lettor•press, by the accomplished author of the " Sala rnandrine") compacted together into a size much more convenient, and at a price much more within the reach of the multitude. IVe have no hesitation in declaring " Sylvan's Hand book to the Lakes" to be the most popular guide to the most bewitching landscapes in England ; clear and distinguishable in arrangement, elegant in general appearance, and plentifully besprinkled with engrav ings from original sketches by Thomas and Edward Gilks. Of the illustrations, especially, we can speak in the highest praise. Minute, at t imes almost mi croscopic in dimensions, they are yet pencilled with a skill and faithfulness that betoken not merely an admiration for the natural beauties around Derwent water and Windermere, but a full and delicate appre ciation of the p oe ti c genius associated with those realms of woodland and water. In one page we have here delineated th e en t rance to a v i llage wi th i n a circle of the circumference of a shilling piece; in another, a champaigne country ; in another, a mountainous dis trict, or a cataract, such as that at Lodore, described so quaintly, but vividly, in Southey's rhymes : Then saigfinai gvne p egt ari nnn n agds plunges " The cataract strong Striking and l C nt r ' s : swag iamong.ng, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Conflictingly ien s f a s d a ap t r l ir o o :oa g g ,k : Flying and flinging, Writhing and wringing, Eddying and whi s ki ng , Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting, Around and around, With endless rebound, Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in, Confounding, Astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound." Sylvan, as the name bespeaketh, is an earnest lover of quotations sylvan, of solitudes sylvan, of pano ramas sylvan. Were the volume only opened as a wile to the valetudinarian in his arm-chair, it would convey an impression almost tantamount to a bodily visit to the scenes it depicts. As a companion however, into Cumberland, it will prove most valu able, we should say rather, perhaps, invaluable. The arrangement is singularly excellent, and the classifi cation of the names at the conclusion is elaborated to the most minute particularity. Several inimitable maps are scattered through the " Hand•book," from the first map-engraver in the United Kingdom—Mr. James Wylde ; forming not the least important or least interesting feature in the entire publication. SIR PATRICK STUART, GOVERNOR OF MALTA. — We have much pleasure in announcing that private let ters from Malta by the overland mail just arrived, bring ing dates thence to the night of the 13th of July, an nounce that his Excellency the Governor had greatly improved in health during the preceding fortnight ; but very hot weather had set in, which it is desirable he should avoid. The new chief secretary, Mr. Lushington, Mid apt arrived. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. THE CATTLE SHOW. NORTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, JULY 22.—Northampton has salon), if ever, presented a more animated appear ance than it has shown to day. Visitors began to arrive as early as six o'clock i' the morning, the hour at which the show-yard opened. From that time until three o'clock in the afternoon thousands continued to pour into the town, on foot and in vehicles of various kinds; whilst every train which arrived at the station deposited hundreds at once. The inn-yards being incapable of holding a tithe of the vehicles brought into the town, carriages, gigs, waggons, and carts were placed in rows in the streets and market-place. The streets were crowded, and the principal routes from the town to the show were filled up with a continuous stream of people, the anDearance of the majority of whom bespoke them agriculturists. Notwithstanding the rule laid down by the society for discouraging the exhibition of over-fed animals, there were several in the show which came under that de nomination. This may be attributed to the circumstance this being the first show which has taken place since the common-sense view of the subject has been adopted by the society. Now that its fiat has gone f4 , rth, the expensive process of manufacturing fat for the grease -I,ot, lately so much in vogue, will gradually be aban doned, and one may not despair of seeing, in a year or two, even at the Smithfield show, animals that are really well fed and healthy. THE DINNER. The dinner took place in a tent erected in a part of the town called Waterloo. This pavilion, which was erected by Mr. Manning, of High Holborn, is an ad mirable piece of workmanship, and well merits a minute description, did space permit it. Upwards of 1,100 gentlemen sat down to dinner, the Earl of Egmont in the chair ; the Earl of Yarborough vice-president. Amongst the company were the Duke of Buccleuch, Marquises of Exeter, Northampton, Downshire ; Earls Delawarr, Spencer, and Chichester ; Viscounts Sydney, Hill, and Newry and Morne ; Lords Rivers, Walsingham, Portman, St. John, Southampton, and Pomfret, Fielding ; Hon. Captain Dudley Pelham, Hon. Philip Pierrepont, Hon. H. W. Wilson, Hon. W. Gage ; Sirs J. Johnstone, Bart., ALP., C. Lemon, Bart., M.P., G. Rebinsin, Bart., W. 0. Pell, Bart., Harry Smith, J. Anson, E. Baker, and C. Knightley ; Mr. P. Posey, M.P., Colonel Austen, M.P., Mr. W. Miles, M.P., Mr. IV. G. Hayter, M.P., Mr. H. Stuart, M.P., Mr. G. Hudson, M.P., Mr. T. W. Bramston, M.P„ Mr. T. P. Mansell, M.P. ; Colonels Challoner, Fitzroy, Gilpin ; Sir E. Bowater ; Major Wollaston ; Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. T. R. Barker, Mr. J. V. Shelley, Mr. G. J. Bosanquet, Mr. W. B. Stoplord, Mr. Shaw, Mr. W. F. Hobbs, Mr. Carter, Mr. G. Turner, Dr. Buckland, Dr. Daubeney, Professor Way, Mr. S. Bennett, Mr. C. Hillyard, Mr. W. H. Browne, and the present and late mayor. __ The dinner was provided by Messrs. Higgins, of the George Hotel, and was a very good one. The Rev. Dr. STODART said grace before and after meat. Dinner being over, The CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose the " Health of her Majesty," observed, that in all he might say that evening he would avoid touching upon any topic likely to engender ill-feeling. The sole object which should in fluence all present was a desire to benefit to the great society whose anniversary they were assembled to com memorate. He concluded by proposing " The Queen," which was drunk with three times three cheers. The CHAIRMAN then gave " the Health of the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family."—(Drunk with three times three.) _ _ _ The Earl of CHICHESTER proposed " the Health of the Foreign Ministers." Upon this occasion the society was honoured by the presence of Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister.—(Hear.) It must be pleasing to a society of Englishmen that the only Minister who hap pened to be present was the representative not only of a great and intelligent nation, but one who derived its origin from Great Britain.—(Cheers.) It was desirable to cultivate the friendship cf foreign nations, because nothing was more calculated to enhance the interests of agriculture than a free communication with scientific men abroad. It was unnecessary for him to remind the meet ing of the good offices which this country had recently in her necessity received at the bands of America.— (Hear, hear.) It had frequently fallen to the lot of the society to welcome the Ministers of America at their meetings, but never with more hearty good will than upon the present occasion. —(Hear, hear.) He concluded by proposing " The Foreign Ministers," which was drunk with three times three. Mr. BANCROFT, the American Minister, rose amidst much applause. He said that he could hardly find words to express his gratitude for the kind manner in which his country had been alluded to. Although the Minister of a foreign country, he was not altogether a stranger in that meeting, for nature had established bonds of union between the farmers of every nation on the face of the earth. The same sun shone upon them all ; the same seasons as they returned furnished the seed-time, and ripened the harvest. The celestial influences to which he must look for a blessing on his exertions might well blend in . the breast of the hus bandman with that spirit of brotherhood which had made the tillers of the soil—especially those of Anglo- Saxon origin—the guardians of freedom and conser vators of peace. Wherever the councils of the cul tivators of the soil prevailed, there it was certain that nations would dwell in peace. Nor was that the only point on which foreign nations found them selves interested in societies of this kind. Wherever he turned his eyes he beheld evidence of the spirit of enterprise and improvement which distinguished the people of this country. They rifled every clime of fruit and flowers to enhance the value of their own. Everywhere you had evidence of the com binations of interest which connected together the na tions of the earth. Since ho had been in England he had seen American plants to which English skill and culture had been applied, and they had attained a degree of beauty and perfection which they never possessed in their native soil.—(Cheers.) It had afforded him the highest gratification to witness the beauty of the horses and stock exhibited that day. Agriculture in his country differed very much from that in England. In England the farmers went through a course of work which had been continued from century to century, and had only to perfect what their forefathers had handed down to them; the Americans, on the other hand, had to grapple with the difficulties of nature—to tame, subdue, and render useful the natural exuberance of their exhaust less soil. Nothing had struck him more since he had been in in England than the manner in which the fields were cultivated and weeded by the hoe and the band. In America the trees were older than the roads—older than the towns—and, where spared, were the oldest monu ments existing in the country. In England not an animal was suffered to live unless it could produce a passport and prove its right to be fattened and fed.- -(Cheers and laughter.) The farmers of England cultivated the soil beneath those beloved churches — (Cheers)—which stood amidst the graves of their fathers, that seemed to shed a sacred influence on their toil. With the Americans, beneath whose blows the forests fell—with that moving and active population those who now lived upon the soil were more numerous than all who slept beneath it.—(Cheers.) There the agriculturists, with the instruments of husbandry in their hands, were obliged to erect school-houses and churches, and prepare for competition with the mother country in all that was calculated to promote the pros perity of mankind by the advancement of religion, and the cultivation of science and art.—(Hear, hear.) In the name of every American he responded to the wish that peace might for ever prevail between the two coun tries.—(Cheers.) Let it be hoped that the relations of commerce, and the interchange of intelligence between the cultivators of the soil in the two countries, would knit them together in such bonds of amity that no ap prehension of a rupture need be entertained. With these sentiments, uttered from his heart and soul, he responded to the sympathy shown for his country, and would con clude by praying for the prosperity of the farmers of England.—(Loud cheering.) The CHAIRMAN rose to propose a toast, which could not be given if the rules of the society were strictly ad hered to; but he had no doubt he would be excused for deviating from them, on account of the distinguished merits of the individual to whom he referred,—he meant " The Hero of Aliwal."—(The toast was drunk amidst great cheering.) Sir H. SMITH thanked the company for the kind man ner in which they had received the mention of his name, and in the course of his remarks advised that some atten tion should be bestowed upon keeping up the breed of hunters, as a matter of great importance in a military point of view. A body of English soldiers mounted en hunters was a terror which an enemy could not easily resist. That valuable breed of horses was so much de. teriorated that, if 500 were wanted for the service of the country at the present moment, he believed they could not be obtained.—(Hear, hear.) The Duke of BUCCLEOGN proposed the next toast, which was, " Success to the Royal Agricultural So ciety of England." His Grace expressed himself in terms of warm commendation of the exhibition, and said that persons had come to visit it from all parts of the kingdom. The toast was drunk with all the honours. Mr. S. O'BRIEN made an ingenious address in intro ducing the toast of " Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce," which, owing to the late hour at which this report reached town, it is impossible to give, and the same reason renders an abridgment of the subsequent portion of the proceedings indispensable. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by saying he would give the toast as it was usually written on their election flags, " The Plough, the Loom, and the Sail,"—might the plough never break in a furrow, and be still guided by the strong oo fi r offnrTTdt manyht h e i ee m eo mtupo:l toast sn: merchandise, : qay m uwvo e ii rasen was much employment nh f Tud o e c r rhni l c a rah b upa opnAul enjoyment up ; — dT eo a d Nn. bringd arm and honest h ear t ; — m i g h t t h e l oom st ill - p l y an d Health bomightback eka l t oe t h t e o, ad ss a i hb l al b ev e se a s n r . ings.—(Cheers.) °Corporation prop os ed of (Drunk with three times th ree .) N ortham pton."— the'' The Mayor of NORTHAMPTOM returned thanks, and expressed a hope that the society would soon pay another visit to Northampton. Lord PORTMAN said, that it was his duty to propose as a toast, "The Labouring Classes." Lie referred to the difficulty which attended every effort to ameliorate the condition of the lab - outing classes, ant said, that whilst it was the duty of society to eductsto: the young and cherish the old, it no less became it to corvect the ill doers of the middle-aged. That was the course which he had endeavoured to pursue through life. "There were 7,000,000 labourers in Great Britain employed in various occupations, but none of them enjoyed the sa me advan tages as the labourers engaged in agriculture, for they beheld the works of God in all their glo: T. They, too, saw the great principle of universal charity in daily practice ; they saw the sun shine and, the rain fall, LONDON FRIDAY The Earl of YARBOROUGH returned thanks. The meeting then broke up. COURT CIRCULAR. without distinction of sect or party, which taught them that universal benevolence was the duty of poverty. It was in that spirit he called upon them to toast the labouring classes.—(Cheers.) All present knew their worth—(Cheers)—and he trusted they all knew and would perform their duty towards them. Ho would apply to them two old lines, taking the liberty to alter one word: • " Be to their faults a little blind? +Pa Be to their virtures very kind." His Lordship concluded by proposing, " The Labouring Classes."—(Orunk with three times three.) Mr. VERNON SMITH complained that the variety of topics which had been offered to the notice of the meet ing placed him at disadvantage, for little was left for him to say. Politics were purposely excluded from that meeting; but it was not a tittle curious to observe that every speaker who had referred to that rule ran as close to the wind as he could.—(A laugh.) The itch which speakers seemed to have for transgressing the rule in question reminded him of an anecdote, which perhaps the company would excuse him for repeating. A gen tleman who took home to dine with him a triend who had a remarkably large nose, cautioned his wife not to make any allusion to noses during his friend's visit; the lady remembered the caution until they were just about rising fr on the table, when she said to the gentleman, Pray make a long nose and hand me the biscuits."— (Laughter.) At the present moment the rule operated with peculiar hardship upon him and his lion. Friend, the Member for Northamptonshire. For his own part, he hardly knew whether he had a political position.—(A laugh.) The Right lion. Gentleman next adverted to the presence of many ladies on the show ground and the pleasure which it gave him to see the fairest of women among the fattest of oxen, and passing to and fro, with a lightness of step which would scarcely bend a blade of grass, in the midst of Craskell's clod crushers and other terrible looking implements, formed to tear but not in jure the bosom of mother earth."—(liear and laughter.) The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded a humorous and agreeable speech by proposing " The Health of the President." The toast was drunk with three times three. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. Mr. SHELLEY proposed, " The Judges of the Show." He said that some idea might be formed of the arduous duties which those gentlemen had to perform, when he stated the fact, that at the first show of the society the number of implements exhibited was only 23, whereas at the present exhibition the number amountad to 1,250, and if placed in a row they would occupy a space a mile and a quarter in length, by 20 feet broad. Great im provement was observable in the animals exhibited, and the short-horns were as fine a lot as ever was submitted to judges.—(Hear, hear.) The health of the judges was drunk with three times three. Mr. WItICIIT returned thanks for himself and his col leagues, and expressed a hope that in future exhibitors would aim less at fattening their animals than developing their points of breeding.—(Applause.) The following toasts were drunk in succession:— " The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland." The Earl of SILFORD returned tnanks, in the absence of the Duke of Richmond, who was unable to attend from illness. " The Milway Companies, who have so liberally carried cattle and implements free of charge to and from the show." Mr. HUDSON returned thanks. " The President elect," proposed by.the lion. Octavius Duncombe. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this (Friday) _ _ ... afternoon at Buckingham Palace, at h a lf- past t h ree o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and attended by the Countess of Mount ricigecumbe, Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, left Osborne, Isle of Wight, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock yes• torday morning, crossed in the Fairy to Gosport, tra• veiled to town in a special train on the South-Western Railway, and proceeded from the Nine Elms terminus lo Buckingham Palace, where the royal party arrived at twenty-five minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon, in three open carriages and four, escorted by a party of the 12th Lancers. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were received at the Palace by the Hon. Miss Murray, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, Vis count Clifden, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore. At three o'clock the Queen held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chan cellor, the Lord. Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the• Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, the President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Pay aiaster of the Forces, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. Her Majesty in Council wits pleased to declare the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. President of the Com mittee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. The Hon. William Lascelles was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Wvst Honourable Privy Council. Sir William Meredyth Somerville , Ihrt., was, by Her Majesty having been pleased to command of the Queen, sworn of Ifer Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. appoint the Right Hon. George William Frederick Ho yard, commonly called Viscount Morpeth, to be Lord Deutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, his Lordship hook the cus tomary oaths. The Queen's speech on closing the sessi tris of Parlia ment this day was arranged and agree d up, - m. The Hon. Willia m B at h urst was the C.:Jerk of the Council in waiting. At the Court, the Bishop of Adelaide, the _Bishop of Melbourne, the Bishop of Cape Town, and the Bishop of Newcastle, were severa ll y presente d to the - Queen at audiences in the roy a l c l oset, b y E a rl Grey, her Ma jesty's principal Secreta of State for the C olon ies. The Earl of Westmor eland, her Extraordinary and Mi n i ster Pl en ipotentiary to the Court of Berlin, was p resente d to t h e Queen at :an audi ence, on his arrival i n E ng l and, by Viscount -Palmer ston, G.C.8., her M a j esty ' s pr i nc i pa l Secretary -of State for Foreign Affairs. Majesty's Envoy Lord Howard de Walden, her Majesty's minister Plenipotentiary to the Co ur t o f B ru ssels, was p resented to the Queen by Viscou n t P a l merston . Sir Thomas Cartwri g ht, h er M a j e sty's Minis ter Ple nipotentiary to the C ourt o f S we d en , was presen WI I by Viscount Palmerston t o th e Q ueen . The Right Hon. Ri c h ar d Pakenhara, her Ma.l('ls t Y' s Envoy Extraordinary an d Mi n i ster Plenipotentiary to the United States, was presented to the Queen at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, on his return un leave of absence fri,m his mission. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lan 0- downs, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, an d Viscount Morpeth. The Court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Morley, Lord in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice- Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform ance at her Majesty's Theatre last evening with their presence. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Mac donald, Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.- Colonel Seymour. House, Bushy Park, yesterday aftern, andeprocaeeded to Marlborough House, Pall mall, wh ere four, ratMt std Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite left Bushy Theatre ijg in the and suite arrived in two carriages andenou_, Dowager e w r et i lt o y performance at her Majesty 's u m o i u n r u e t d es th p e astseven o'clock. The a Miss Eden, Hon. W. W by the Countess of She ffi eld, Hon. Ashley, and Captain A Taylor. heriff Challi s had The City Remembrancer and Mr. S evening with her presence. Her Majesty was attended an interview with Sir G. Grey Yesterday. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We are enabled to announce that the Marquis of Drogheda is about to lead to the hymeneal altar the Hon. Miss (laughter of the Stuart Wortley, the beautiful and accomplished daugh the Earl of Clare. daugh ter of Lord and Lady Wharncliffe. The Noble Marquis has only just attained his majority, and took the custo mary oaths and his seat in the House of Lords on Wed- Thursday, an Wed nesday last. A marriage is also on the lapis between n Crosby, and his be true, hlr. Evans lliroi Lord sel. A s W i En impostor, o p i 01 Coloneloertshht 0 0eG u rf s : t c o : andsolswlFitzgibbon,i:isg statement tp i ha s o s iat msendsT eei niecelhimself ts Fitzgibbon, j.t—oo hoonf to get some respectable parson to vouch wife, appl i e d a t the parish-office. for a pass to Dublin, whore they stated their children had gone before them. gialcillicuracy of his statement, and they left the (i ß t e ,rs l i i r e t evhdi the office apparently much dissatisfied with Mr. Evans's In about ten minutes afterwards the wife re turnedrequest.thatil:was in a state of . her husband had been seized with a fit, and was dying in the street. I,lr. Evans remarked, that when the man was at the office he seemed quite well; but a surgeon was sent for, and upon 3', and ultimately seeing g mantthoethe great danger. Several gentlemen who had seen the fellow also thought he was about to make his exit from Pa r i l l: - de ffi c lea: stating a a police o f f i ce r 'was sent with a coach, to take him to the hos-pita]. Upon the officer going to the man, he attempted to get him upon his legs, b this world, and relieved him with mangy, but the fellow seemed quite incapable of mot . ion. At length he articulated, " Where ale you going to take me to?" "To the fever hospital," r eplied the officer. The words seemed to have the effect of magic upon the man, who suddenl wa s cured of al l his ailments, an d walked of sharply en ough, saying to the officer, "I'll se e you first." In the course of a quarter of an hour after a man was (. ta k en bad," near the Town ball, and, information having been sent to the parish officer, and suspicion being enterta i ne d that it was the same fell ow , an officer was directed to go to him and whisper in his ear that he would be taken to the fever hospital. These words had the same remark able effect as before, and the fellow wal k e d o ft Why he was not favoured with an intro duction to Mr. Rushton, we are at a loss to conceive.— Liverpool Collrier. Tun OVERLAND INDIA MA lL. — Letters and news papers for the Mediterranean( Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, llongl in iong, and China, will bo i_ time tomor row evening to be forwarded by the fortnightly overlan d closed mail to India, via Marseilles. EVENING, JULY 23, 1817. THE FAIR IMPOSTER. Early last summer a lady, calling herself Madame B—, attended by t wo servants, arr i ved in a very ele gant carriage in a vill age not one hundred miles from this oity. She drove up to the best hotel, secured lodg ings, and shot tly after handed the landlord a card, an nouncing a number of lots in New Orleans for sale, which she desired him to place in his bar-room. She professed to be a widow in bad health. From this hotel she removed to a furnished house, which she engaged for six months. She soon selected from the merchants and market people a chosen few, whom she honoured with her patronage. She had a number of rich dresses made up, bought jewel lery, gave a soirée once a week, lived generously, purchased all the old wine in town, and quite monopolised the young chickens, cream, and other deli cacies in the neighbourhood. Several young ladies were invited to spend the winter with her in the city; and the smof a respectable planter was engaged to superintend her sugar plantation for the ensuing year, at a salary of 1,400 dollars. She got up a subscription to build a new church in the village, and headed it with 100 dollars, pay able on the completion of the building. It was soon whispered, far and near, that her wealth was immense, and no one thought of prestmtinr, her with a bill. Things went on merrily. The two merchants she honoured with her patronage were desperately smitten, and each had reason to believe himself the favoured swain. Thus passed the summer. One fine Sunday morning, however, in the month of November, at about eleven o'clock, one of the lovers, dressed in li!s best, and glowing with hope, called to escort madame to a camp-meeting in the neighbourhood. At the same time his rival arrived with the same understanding. She had offered to each of them a seat in her carriage. Looking by no means very amiable at one another, they rapped at the door. No answer was returned. They knocked again. Still no answer. They became alarmed, but soon concluded that the lady, piqued at their delay (they had dallied a little too long over the toilette), had driven off soles to the camp-ground. What were they to do? They had loaned their horses on the promise of a seat in the car riage, and not another was to be had. Indeed, scarcely a human being remained in town. Half-angry and half-ashamed, they skulked back to their respective lodgings, and spent the day as old crusty bachelors do in country towns, mumbling crackers and cheese and swigging brandy. At breakfast, however, next morning, it was whispered among the boarders that Madame B. had not been at the meeting. The lovers turned red. A feeling of alarm, perhaps a dim idea that they had been bamboozled, came over them, and accompanied by the crowd, they had rushed to her house. The doors and venetians were carefully closed, and for a moment the group paused until the question of forcible entry could be determined. The two attorneys of the place were summoned, differed in opinions, cited on each side a dozen of cases directly in point, and finally flew at one another with great fury. The magistrate and constable inter fered, and during the melee the door was burst open, and in the mob went. _ Every thing was in perfect order ; flowers bloomed on the mantel-piece ; a little slipper lay in one corner ; a delicate glove in another ; and on the table was found the following note, written on musk-scented paper, couleur d'rose, in the prettiest Italian hand : " Adieu my dear friends. The first frost summons me away. I will be with you next summer, When you visit the city, call on me at No. 27, Rue —. Make my house your home. For your bills, draw on my mer chants, Messrs. —, Canal•street. Adieu ! Adieu !" It is impossible to say precisely what was the feeling of the company. Most of them were her creditors for rent, some for supplies, and for considerable amounts of cash loaned. A few swore roundly; others slunk off si lently, while the two lovers grew angry with each other. He who loaned the money declared her an impostor ; but the other insisted on her innocence, and treasured up the abandoned slipper and glove, as memorials to be cherished for ever. He that night drew upon her bank, and enclosed a letter full of vows to the lady herself. In ten days his draft came back protested, with a polite note from Messrs. —, that they had not the honour of knowing any such lady. Since then not a word has been heard of the fair widow, and the whole village has voted her an impostor, save the one faithful lover, who confesses there is a in) stery about it, but insists that she will return next summer! Such is the spell of beauty on man's imagination.— Galt Reporter. THE RIVER PLATE. MONTE VIDEO, MAY 11.—The new Plenipotentiaries have arrived at their posts. The French war steamer Cassini, with Count Walewski on board, reached Monte Video on the 6th inst., and proceeded to Buenos Ayres at daylight on the following morning. Our superb screw-steamer Rattler, conveying Lord Howden, made her appearance here on Sunday, the 9th, and was boarded at some distance off by Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert. Shortly afterwards, upon an exchange of signals, her Majesty's steamer Firebrand was observed to take the Rattler in tow, and proceed towards Buenos Ayres. The French Minister landed at Monte Video for some hours, during which he visited (accompanied by Baron Deffaudis) the Vice-President of the Republic, Don Joaquin Soarez, at the Fort, and is understood to have inspired confidence in the mind of the Government re garding the maintenance of this country's independence. His Excellency likewise visited the British Legation, and had a conference with Mr. Ouseley. Lord Howden, on the contrary, did not land here, nor wait to have any communication with the shore. His Lordship is represented to be unwell. Commodore Herbert shifted his broad pennant from the Raleigh to the Firebrand, and is now, of course, in Buenos Ayres. The Plenipotentiaries had met in Bahia on the 25th 26th ult., on which latter day the Cassini left that port, direct for the Plate. Tho Rattler entered Rio de Janeiro on the Ist inst., and in a few hours took her departure for the same destination. Baron Deffaudis delivered up his portfolio to the Count Walewski, as did Admiral Laine his command of the squadron to Commodore Le Pr6lour. The Admiral on presenting his successor to the Oriental Minister of War, observed emphatically, that "France had changed her men, not her measures ;" and the sentiment was as emphatically reiterated by M. Le Prodour. Addresses of warm gratitude on the part of the Bri tish merchants and residents of Monte Video are about being presented to Baron Deffaudis and Admiral Leine, who proceed to France immediately, via Rio Janeiro. A Brazilian vessel of war sails to-day for Rio, bearing a confidential agent from this Government. Brazil is be lieved to be on the eve of war against Roses. The steamer Antelope had arrived at Rio in twenty seven days from Liverpool. Owing to the accidental and most lucky assistance of steam power,' afforded by the Rattler's calling in there, our merchants were yesterday in possession of answers to letters home written pre cisely one hundred days back. This event has caused a sensation, and strongly suggests an improvement In the present packet service, which would not the less grate fully be received from the Admiralty because the River Plate trade owes but few favours in that quarter. The following is the reply of Lord Howden to a depu tation of British merchants which waited upon him on his arrival at Buenos Ayres, on the 12th May, 1847: " Gentlemen—l am extremely happy to see you, both collectively, as it is my duty to do, to listen to whatever you may have to say to me, as well as individually, in order to have the pleasure of making your acquaintance separately. As to the mission with which her Majesty has en trusted me, I can assure you, with regard to its execu •tion, that no zeal or effort on my part shall be wanting. 'With regard to its substance and tenor, I can equally as sure you that it has been well considered, both in its ~ ve hole and its details; that I see no difficulty whatever in its accomplishment, provided that I meet from all par ties the same good faith and pacific feeling that I bring into the negotiation; and that I have a firm confidence that; any definite arrangement will be found just and sa fish ctory to all parties. 6 ' The English government can have ne possible object but' that of protecting English interests, and of inspiring in friendly governments a conviction of its anxious desire for i'beir prosperity. " T need hardly assure you that the endeavour to carry out this policy shall be my constant object. " A a to the kind offer you make me of your services,l ask yo 'a for your co-operation in assisting me to allay all subjects: of irritation, and I shall always call upon you with confidence to aid me in so agreeable a duty." THE lIOTATO DISEASE ALARM.-A week or two ago, a gentleman in the northern part , of the country, whilst searching amongst his potatoes, found one at each root which he considered diseased. lle hurried off to a neighbouring gentleman, to whom he mentioned the circumstance, who immediately called his gardener, and a similar appearance was found. The gardener, however, soon explained that the cause of their fears was only the set, a circumstance which in their theo retical knowledge of gardening the two gentlemen had overlooked, and their alarm quickly subsided.-Ipswich Express TUE WAR MEDALS.-The following is a list of the regiments which served in the Peninsula during the war:-Ist and 2d Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, Ist, 3d, 4th, and sth Dragoon Guards; Ist, 3d, 4th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, and 20th Regiments of Dragoons; Royal Staff Corps of Cavalry, Grenadier Guards (Ist and 3d Battalions), Coldstream Guards (Ist Battalion), Scots Fusilier Guards (Ist Battalion), Ist Foot (3d Battalion), 2d, 3d (Ist Battalion), 4th (Ist and 2d Battalions), sth (Ist and 2d Battalions), 6th (Ist Battalion), 7th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 9th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 11th (Ist Battalion), 14th (a Detachment), 20th, 23d (Ist Battalion), 24th (2d Battalion), 26th (a Detachment), 27th (3d Battalion), 28th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 29th, 30th (2d Battalion), 31st (2d Battalion), 33d (Ist Bat talion), 36th (Ist Battalion), 37th (Ist Battalion), 38th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 39th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 40th (Ist Battalion), 42d, 43d (Ist Battalion). 44th (2d Battalion), 45th (Ist Battalion), 47th (2d Battalion), 48th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 50th (Ist Battalion), 51st, 52d (Ist and 2d Battalions), 53d (2d Battalion), 57th (Ist Battalion), 58th (2d Battalion), 59th (2d Battalion), 60th (sth Battalion), 61st (Ist Battalion), 62d (2d Battalion), 66th (2d Battalion), 68th, 71st, 74th (Ist Battalion), 76th, 77th, 79th (Ist Battalion), 81st (a Detachment), 82d B (Ist attalion), 83d (2d Battalion), 84th ( 2 d Battalion), 85th, 87th (2d Batta lion), 88th (Ist and 2d Battalions), 91st (Ist Battalion), 92d (Ist Battalion), 94th, 95th, Rifle Brigade (Ist, 2d, and 3d Battalions), 97th, Royal Staff Corps, Royal Waggon Train. King's German Legion -Ist and 2d Light Dragoons •, Ist, 2d, and 3d Ilussars ; Ist and 2d Battalions of Light Infantry; Ist, 2d, sth, and 7th Bat talions of the Line. Brunswick Oels Regiment, and the Chasseure Britanniques.- United Service Gaz ite. We regret to learn that Chief Justice Wilde was so ill on Tuesday last that he was unable to take his seat on the bench at the Dorchester Assizes. Mr. Rogers sat for him. ELECTION MOVEMENTS. CITY OF LONDON. ed a meeting o L a r pe n Yesterdayt and Baronevenin ra a c t a tc r n d d idates, Sir . George f electors at the Eastern Institution, C.immercial-read. gthe Rothschild, Lib Mr. LAWRENCE having taken the chair, hßaron ROTHSCHILD presented himself amid loud cheers, and proceeded to say that he was favourable to civil and religious liberty, on which grounds he came forward to claim their sympathies and assistare.— (Cheers.) He wished to say something about sotne ob servations that had bean made by the Conservative can didate, Mr. Bevan. There was no more caudal and ho nourable gentleman than he was—(Hear, hear)—but yesterday he had alluded to him (Baron IZothsehild) as the foreign baron. Now, he believed his (Baron Roths child's) o pi n i ons were f oreign to him in every respect, but he saw nothing else to provoke or justify the olLerva tion.—(Cheers.) With regard: to his opinions, he was favourable to extending in every way the blessings of education. He- came forward to claim their support in .the cause of civil and religious liberty.—(Cheers.) Sir GEORGE LARPENT then gave an account of his principles at great length to the meeting, and expressed that adherence to free trade, and opposition to endow ments, which we have frequently had occasion to com municate to our readers in reporting his sentiments. Mr. PATTISON, jun., having addressed the meeting on the part of his father, A resolution was passed, on the motion of Mr. W. llAwrs, pledging the meeting to support the four Liberal candidates. HEREFORD.—Captain Ilibbert, a Liberal of great local influence, will no doubt he returned fur this borough. Sir IL Price retires. Mr. Clifford, a local gentiern2u, has withdrawn. Captain 14ibbert and a Conservative will be retw ned without opposition. BaTir.—On Tuesday evening a meeting of the elec tors of the Walcot district was held, Mr. George Ed wards in the chair ; at which a resolution, pledging the meeting to support the present members, Mr. Roebuck and Lord Duncan, was carried unanimously. At this period the room in which the meeting was being held, became so densely crowded, that the electors were obliged to adjourn to the outside of the house, where they were addressed by both the present members at great length. Lord Duncan and Mr. Roebuck afterwards addressed a numerous meeting from the windows of the Liberal Association Rooms, Bath-street. CAMDRIDGE.—The state of parties in this borough is extraordinary and confused. There are now in reality four candidates in the field. Until Friday last there were only two, Messrs. Adair and Campbell, on the Whig interest. It will be remembered that a month since Mr. Sutton voluntarily retired, after addressing a public meeting convened by himself. A few days after the excitement of the installation was over a search for a successor to Mr. Sutton was renewed, and Mr. 'Turnkey, Q.C., was introduced as the Con servative candidate. He issued his address on Friday, the 16th, and on Saturday received a cordial welcome at a p u bli c mee ti ng o f t h e Conserva tive electors ; when the following resolution was carried by an overwhelming m a j or ity :—" Th at t hi s mee ti ng having heard with the greatest satisfaction the sentiments expressed by L. C. Humfrey, Esq., is of opinion that he is a fit and proper person to represent this borough in Parliament." On Monday, the 19th, to the astonish ment of all parties, Mr. Sutton re-appeared in the field, in consequence of having received a requisition so to do. This requisition has not been published, and the natural inference is that it is not numerously signed. It will thus be seen that Mr. Humfrey has every right and title to be considered as the first Conservative candidate. He is cordially received by th e e l ec t ors , an d th e mos t san guine hopes of his success are entertained. CRELTENHAM.—Sir W. Jones, the Conservative candidate, has hitherto met with an enthusiastic recep tion, and, if we may judge from present appearances, Mr. C. Berkeley's seat is very insecure. The latter gen tleman's speech on the Health of Towns Bill appears to have given mortal offence to a large number of his con stituents, and his subsequent explanations are deemed anything but satisfactory by even many of his most ar dent supporters. The existence of the " Berkeley feud" has also damaged the Liberal cause. Captain Carrington Smith, who is, according to his own account, " his own chairman, his own electioneering agent, his own com mittee, and almost his own bill-sticker, also comes for ward on the Conservative interest, without, however, the remotest chance of success, although the Captain de clares he is determined to go to the poll. CRICKLADE.—Mr. John Neeld solicits a renewal of the confidence of the electors of this borough. Mr. Neeld's re-election, without opposition, is considered certain. DEVONPORT.—Mr. J. Sanders, jun., a private gentle man from Liverpool, has just addressed the electors on Conservative principles, and commenced an active can vass. Tne other candidates are Mr. Tufnel, of the Treasury, one of the present representatives, and Mr. Romilly, the Member for Bridport. EVESII.A3/.—This borough is now become the arena of high political strife. Mr. Rudge. the new candidate, who offered his services to the electors a month ago, has retired, and Sir Ralph Howard appears in the field as his successor. HEREFORD CITY.—On Monday night a meeting of the Liberal electors was held in the noble room of the Great Dragon Hotel. The chair was filled by Mr. Benbow. About 300 attended, and the greatest harmony pre vailed. Mr. George Clive, Judge of the Southwark County Court, explained the position he was in owing to the legal point raised by Sir James Graham in the House of Commons as to the eligibility of County Court judges sitting in Parliament. Ile mentioned that he had taken the opinion of the Attorney General and other gentlemen, who were favourable to his own impression that he was not disqualified. Mr. Clive touched upon the difficulty Sir James Graham had in getting seated in Parliament, and joking said—Perhaps Sir James had a notion of trying Hereford himself. Should Sir James fail in his motion, which would be set at rest within a few hours, he (Mr. Clive) should bo at their service, anxious to secure the highest object of his ambition, that of representing Hereford, which had shown so much attachment to his lamented father and gallant brother, both now no more. Mr. Clifford (chairman of the county sessions) was introduced as a candidate, only in the event of Mr. Clive being ineligible. He briefly stated his opinions ; and, in answer to an elector, avowed himself opposed to the endowment of the Ro man Catholic clergy, and also favourable to the ballot. The cries were 'loud and general for Mr. Symons to be heard on Mr. Clifford resuming his seat, and after a little parley, Mr. Jelenger C. Symons, of the Oxford circuit, addressed the meeting in a forcible speech. He was ready to make himself a useful working Member of Parliament, but he would not involve himself in heavy expenses to support a contest. He came not to divide the Liberal interest, but to offer his services, as he found a doubt was rife as to the possibility of Mr. Clive coming forward. He declared his objection to any further state endowments, and should oppose any such measure if he was in Parliament. He with drew from the field, as he was perfectly satisfied with the principles of Mr. Cliff or d, t o w h om h e pa id a well timed compliment for his ability and impartiality as chairman of the county sessions. Resolutions were carried unanimously expressive of approval of Sir Robert Price's conduct, and their determination to sup port, as his colleague, Mr. George Clive. If he was incompetent by any subsequent decision of the House of Commons, then to rally round Mr. Clifford, and support his return in tho place of their Member, Mr. . Pulsford, retiring on the plea of health. IloasuAst.—Mr. Jervis's canvass is most successful, and the whole weight of the Shelley interest is cast into the scale in his favour. Such bein g the case, the issue cannot be doubtful. Prudence would counsel the retire ment of Mr. Fitzgerald from the contest. HubtrnicDozi.—This borough may now be included in heretu c r o n lo o n f e t l h i e ,e s e i l tt a i n ng d m the em ca b t e e r g s o w ry ill o m f Mr. Baring are to be opposed by Mr. Prendergast, the e p e la t ee w s ith wi re the opposition. m barrister, who advocates generally the principles of the pres ent Government. A committee is already formed in his behalf, and are most strenuously exerting themselves to secure his return. LEWES.—The lion. Mr. Fitzroy and Mr. Perfect, the sitting members, have been engaged during the week in canvassing the electors of the borough. The threat of the Conservative Protectionists to bring a candidate against Mr. Fitzroy was not redeemed till yesterday, when an address was issued from a Mr. Godfrey Hudson, dated from the Temple. Mr. Hudson is for giving free trade a fair trial, and returning to a " sounder" system, should the trial be unfavourable to free trade; but in the interim he would repeal the malt and hop taxes. The existing poor-law, he says, has many clauses which are unnecessarily cruel and severe, and not calculated to make the labourer an industrious and useful member of society, but a discontented man and 11 disaffected sub ject. He wished to see the law so framed as to secure a comfortable s h e lt er f or th e i n fi rm , the aged, and obtain , thet - sick, and a r e f uge f or t h e d es tit u t e who a employment, insubordinate while disp otsoititohnosehewho wouldmanifestedn regulations. scc Mr. r 1 aLi fund, b idle and t would apply to them most stringent t f h lu e d , s , o r n ail i w s a r y ep k o i r n t g e . d ” to be aAbadrerpiusttearti,oanndfroamn:hpehecwomo-f LAN C A S HIRE (NORTH oflll i the i e e appointed f by s the u ca e t e l e r h e a t a o t s r tsbb been f e themn settn u o g r t o t b h dr n a d ct i h v pa i s rr i el o es n s. re m quest him to allow hims e lf candidate for the represen nWsi.sPteanttternA.beArlarl.,la'ortnomeley T ton, w o n n e en Monday n f T 0 afternoon, wn etiieoyn, ast to be put in nomination Doman tation, 'f t a r m aad i n l e y dr, anda man of large land e d possessions, great local influ ence . W e have in con junc a tio fi a n rm wi andtwith M c r o . good a uthority atahforlearcuthority for stating that when Mr. Towneley was consulted on the subject a few days ago he expressed his readiness to come forward if the state of the electoral register warranted the proposal of a Liberal candidate, and a proper requisition were forwarded to him, ex pressing the desire of the electors that he should stand. There is, therefore, little doubt that he will be the op ponent of Mr. Talbot Clifton at the forthcoming election, and the most sanguine expectations are entertained of his triumphant return. NORTH NOT TINGHAMSHIRE.— The present friends of monopoly, Mr. Houldsworth and Lord Henry Bentinck, are to walk over the course. SOUTH NOT TINGIIAMSHIRE.—CoIoneI Rolleston and Mr. Hildyard, two other friends of monopoly, ditto. PLYMOUTII.—There are now four candidates fairly in the field--viz., Lord Ebrington, one of the presenti repre sentatives;irivau Mr. Calmady, of Langdon-hall, the chairman e lL a c order of the Free-trade Association; Mr. Crowder, assimilate(t),ifbrßinrigsttoonl,;wahnolsemorpiinti.oin,salmer ti b lthe eminent to i those uc t ut ot. barristerL orcl the contest in favour of ofl% Lr. incoln's Inn, another miio is barrister, supported who y theem presentedCotis Conservatives. T s e e s l to the electors, has retired fromfotir candidates above-named Mr. Calrnady. Should th p the for any person to predict go to the poll, caused e t d h suree by tb ireturntisimoloasnyone of of the two ' g r r h e e a great schism part}' d personal circumstances in this founded by local and leaders, Peel and Russell, has been so widened and con altere courses borough as to throw into onitz...rlon all clectictnary cal culati,irs. PRESTON.—Mr. Robert. Te:vnley Parker, who sat for Preston from 1837 till 1841, has been broug,ht Sor ward by the Cons,rvatives as a candid :0 for this ho:ough. Mr. Paiker's commiNce have .publish :d a totter from him to Mr. Charles Swaiden in imating .we expestti o n of h. s readiness to stand, but viving Ti, political principles. When in Parliament before he was a Protectionist, and a steady supporter of the then policy of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Parker was a candidate at the election in 1841, but was then defeated by a large ma jority._ The addresses of Sir-George Strickland and Mr. Charles Pascoe Grenfell, containing the custema..y pro testations of adherence to free trade doctrines, to the prieciples of civil and reiia 6 ious liberty, and to the pone) , of progressive reform anda reduction of the burdens of taxation, were published on Tuesday morning, and have given general satisfte2tion. SUNDERLAND. —The contest in this place is assuming a warlike asnect between the Liberal candidates, or rather their friends, who are now convinced that Mr. Hudson supporting Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Birclay are Patch large msjurity, and the parties will be elected by a very sting their efforts to secure the second seat for the eandithlte whose cause they respectively espouse. The Wilkin,on party are very hostile to Mr. Barclay, and express their detertninatien to defeat h is election, if possible. Mr. Barclay has to-day ruLlished an address, in which he states that he is gratified to fled, from the promises:- of votes that have been made to him , t hat h e will again be returned, and he at the sense thee pkdges himself to maintain the existine: navigation-laws itt all t l h c i l s d itso.ll,liy,i,ic!tn whichni 71a this t;ir.l iftr election declaration, (.f the a s i e t he integrity. A meeting of 'fiis supporters has been on c trelidate c li n e e d r t n a , col lg i t i, tli a a n t a rk4. r. li ß u a d r s e ln a, 7 s il e l c b ol e id ve i r l y ' m a id s will turn, there can be no doubt rationally fa,lrileedmha;:nosrti,itty. as over r e I d N a r t i c l , l2 - in A so:: : SURREY WEST).—M r . W. Denison has again c g o h n a s i t d t oe h rf Trotter retires, and me ; Drummond, of Album , Park, comes forward in the Con.lervative interest.—Surrey Gazette. SIT - furnv (EAST).—The prospt et of an uncontested election remains undiminished. No Tory candidate has yet appeared against Messrs. King and Alcock. WORCESTERSHIRE ( EAST).-1)ROITIVICII, TUESDAY. -Mr. 1 °teas Foley, who it will be remembered retired from the contest last Christmas, on the death of Mr. Barneby, is the first in the field fir East Worcestershire. His address has appeared here (the returning place for the division) this afternoon (Tuesday). Captain Rush out, the present Afternber, will solicit re-election; and it is not expected (in consequence of the extraordinary cimpact entered into at the last t lection) that any oppo • sition will be raised to , Mr. Foley's election. YARMOUTIL—There are now five candidates canvass ing for the representation of this borough, three of whom must necessarily either withdraw or be defeated. They are Mr. Rumbold (who has represented the borough 30 years), Mr. F. H. Goldsmid, Mr. R. J. Bsgshaw, Lord Arthur Lennox and Mr. 0. E. Coope. The first three candidates mentioned above avow Whig and Radical principles; the two latter are liberal Conservatives. In consequence of recent divi sions the Whig Radical party is split into at least half a dozen distinct sections, and all three can didates are canvassing quite dissociated from any col league. The Conservative candidates are united. Each party has issued its address; and in many points—in deed on most subjects—tile very same principles are avowed. Mr. Bagshaw differs most; be desires triennial Parliaments, a great extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and, though a member of the Established Church, will vote, though not immediately, for its separation from the State. This has satisfied the political Noncon formists, who have agreed to vote for him because of this and his promised opposition to all educational or reli gious endowments. The other four candidates are free traders, friendly to civil and religious liberty, opposed to the separaticn of.,Church and State, and to the en dowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood, or to voting public money in support of religious seminaries. There is not, however, an exact unifbrmity, inasmuch as Mr. Rumbold is still inclined to continue the Maynooth grant. and Mr. Goldsmid, being a Jew, contemplates the eventual disunion of the Church from the State with no apprel easion or alarm. ABERDEEN (CITY 04—Al though rumours have again revived of contemplated opposition to the return of Capt. Fordyce as Member for this City, yet no other candidate, as far as we can learn, has yet given his name or stated his pretensions. In the meantime, from the movements of parties, it seems not unlikely that a contest may be attempted. The Conservatives desire to keep their friends unpledged. Another party would embrace electors of all political opinions, in favour of a candidate of "ability and business experience." A third would have the dissenting interest efficiently represented; and a fourth would "go " for the "five points of the Charter." Such are the discordant sections into which it is sought to divide the constituency—no unfavourable omen for the success of the Gallant Captain. DUMBARToNSIIIRE.—A liberal and independent can- didate has started for Dumbartonshire, with excellent prospects of success. The candidate is Mr. Thomas Campbell Robertson, who, in tit? civil service in India, has proved his abilities and integrity, and attained high eminence. ELGIN DISTRICT.—Mr. Bannerman arrived in Banff on Saturday evening, and was to I), , gin his canvass of the electors there and in Maeduff on Monday. His opponents are very active. FALKIRK BURGHS.—We are authorised to state that Mr. Wilson has not withdr:,wn from his intention of offering himself for these burghs.—Glasgow FIFE (COUNT"; OF) —A nquisition is now in course of receiving signatures respectfully requesting Mr. Tin dall Bruce, of Falkla,i:d, to off, , r hitn,elf as a candidate for the representation of the county.—Fifishire Journal. INVE /MESS. —Mr. Alathesnn, of Ardross. has been pro,ecuting his canvass in this town, and will speedily procced to the other burghs. He has been well received by the electors. IN; n 3NESS I3trrictis.—While at press intelligence has arrived, by the London mail, of the intention of Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq., to contest the representation of the burghs, on thcroughly independent principles. Mr. Kennedy is deputy chairman of the Oriental Bank, and chairman of th e I n di a an d L on d on Assurance Company . ER) is, moreover, a gentleman of high education, good talents as a speaker, independent fortune, and perfect freedom from the shackles of party.—lnverness Journal. KIRKALDY DISTRICT.—An address of Colonel Fergu son, the present representative of these burghs, to the constituency, has been issued. No opposition is thought of here. LElTH—There is no likelihood of any opposition, the Lord Advocate's votes on public questions and his effective promotion of the local interests of the burghs having retained all his old friends, and gained him many new. SELnlnKsninE.—Mr. A. E. Lockhart, of Borthwick brae, the present representative of the county, has issued an address to the electors, in which he announces his intention of again coming forward as a candidate, on Conservative principles. Ross AND CROMA ItTir.—Mr. James Matheson, of Achany and the Lewis, M.P., is now busily engaged in canvassing the electors, by whom he has been cordially received, and will be returned for Ross and Cromarty by a largo majority. WIGTOWN 1.3121RG115. --- Sir John Afactaggart has inti mated his intention of again being a candidate for these burghs.—A berdccn Journal. POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL. HOUSE LORDS.-JuLy 22. MR. BORFIIIVICK'S CLAUSE. DUKES. Norfolk Cleveland St. Albans EARLS, Auckland! Minto Grey Leitrim Charlemont Meath Fitzharklinge Scarborough BISHOP. St. Asaph LORDS. Foley Campbell Camoys CottEnham Stafford Strafford Colborne Clifden M AltQl7 I SES ,ansdowne Westminster Clam!etude EARLS Granville Besburough V! COUNT. elr,ington Falkland Wnarnellffo REPORT. The same inactivity as formerly ers prevails only to a limited ex trade. Of flax there arc b DUNDEE TRA-DE in our general 'caoffuosrudm to r s p a a y r e c presenta l c u - adv a ance in the values of yarns, of prices without an l . Hemp, hemp codilla, riot just now much pros iwtaehtniitneghfo, there is and jute are without change, pea. article there arc buyers at prices vary urupon a d e cline, want s , s nn nd linens there is - something per ton, according to colour In yarns and qualitY• but only at very low rates. The arrivals from doing, foreign ports during the last week consist of three and for the last re 2.: caa:n3nthoet in vesselsg from f ri(nl2lfno2mrlitluldli unfortunatel y , t. , cea t rw ' n' o from liamburg, one from Dantzic, and one from Rotterdam, loaded with flax, towns, &c. The advices from St. Petersburg are to the 21st ultimo, 0.5., which mention that a large sale of flax from second hands had taken place, at R°. 115 for 9 head, and there were were buyers thereat, which was looked upon as a high price, and more than its value in this market when the charges of importing are taken into account. At Riga, on 19th ult., 0.5., there were buyers 'of flax and flax codilla at our last quotations, of SR% 311 to 32 for DC., and other sorts in proportion. Flax codilla was still held a t SRQ . 19 per berk, equal to 231. Its..9d. f. o. b. At M emel, on 9d instant, there was nothing doing in th e fl ax business for want of supplies.—Dandle 1 Courier. any former bustle of already arrived, them. A good many sportsmen and C A therel T uN i E s S n S 0 I t t o h 0 0 R least S.— Ta appearance a b r i a r n d he s ea a ve r e e r a y i e s r e y ase nu a r o r n o gi us t glad to lea learn, that the eventful m this season. is expected to be posing to visit Caithness season. The success on the e e n , t m r s til bserrtheonfott'itusgetglsetn; gentlemen e :•e p are ur. MOOTS o f l ast years, has given Caithness a good e ti v i nam . JULY 15.—The the herring greater e _ th an ?tol Warne.-- R oss sf ti. t z : 0 : WICK, 0 fi s hing has now fairly comme nced, the g reater number of the south firth, Banff, and Highland fishermen having arrived. There have not been many herrings got yet. Tuesday, the averpr,e would scarcely be half a cran. Yesterday it was not much higher; and to-day the average will he under a eran. Some boats have had twelve and fifteen crans. This morning the fresh li,riings are selling here for the London market higher than we ever remember them, viz., 26'. Gd. The fisherrnens' engagements with the curers commence next week, alter which the former are bound to give all the herrings they catch to the curers. Crops arc loolc:ng exceedingly well—never were seen better, and no appearance of the potato blight. Oatmeal is retailing at 255. per boll, and some of the small holders of meal in the country are pushing sales considerably under that price. —Ross-shire Advertiser. The Right Hon. Edward and Mrs. Strutt left tow yesterday for Kingston Llall, near Derby. - 41 0 red 911,