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

in an THE THEATRES. - - - PRINC.k;SS'S". LOt 84 • ch •.:re. x ,~~ Yesterday. evening was presented at this theatre, Ham/et, in consequence of the engagement of Mr. Macready for a limited number of nights ; the cha racters in the piece being cast in such a manner as best to carry out the powerful character of the great tragedian. Of the excellence of Mr. Macready's Hamlet it is unnecessary to speak, and we, therefore, turn our attention from one whose brilliant talents are already acknowledged and appreciated, to those who sustained the other characters. Mrs. Warner, ofthe Que en , was exce ll en t, a n d the performance Miss "E. Stanley in Ophelia was effective. • J• Webster as Laertes sustained the character w ell, and, though last not least, Polonius was exceedingly well represented by Mr. Granby. A more effective cast in Hamlet could not be, each part being well conceived and sustained, and the jarring Tea of tame and ineffective minor characters Playing to the performance of a master genius was entirely obviated. The strongest symptoms o f approbation were manifested by the audience, an d at the fall of the curtain, Mr. Macready and Mrs. W arner were l ou dly called for. A very a musing farce, entitled A Wife for an Hour, followed. The many jokes and points told admirably with the Veotators, and at its conclusion it was much applauded. he farce of the Sleeping Draught (for the fourth time at this theatre) concluded the entertainments, and formed an admirable wind up to them. It was Well received, and the audience departed after a really good evening's amusement. • SADLER'S WELLS, An overflowing house was most agreeably enter tained by the performance (for the first time) at this theatre last night of the tragedy of Bertram, and a e cullie drama, called Charles the Second. Maturin's tragedy of Bertram has been so frequently before the . public, and so fully known and appreciated, that it needs no remarks from us to recommend it to the ewourable reception of a discerning public. As pro duced at this theatre, it has certainly lost none of its a ttractions, and the mode in which it was put upon the stage was such as to reflect the fullest credit upon the enterprising management of Mr. Phelps. The characters were all well sustained; and, en passaut, We mention that Bertram was pourtrayed in a most masterly style by Mr. Phelps, while the the characters of Sir Aldebrand and the Prior of St. selre, the former borne by Mr. H. Marston and the latter by Mr. G. Bennett, were shown with the • ratest truthfulness. And we shall not be consi )rd as erring on flattery's side when we accord to bias Laura Addison the fullest meed of praise to the :literal and impressive manner in which she repre . ; r ed Imo g i ne . U pon eac h succee di ng occas ion that I" ye called upon to express our opinions upon this 1 9 talented artiste, we notice a marked and rapid . ;:g2esa in her onward march to the summit of well th_"ted histrionic fame. The inferior characters of Piece were sus t a i ne d i n a respec t a bl e an d credit -7 manner. The entertainments of the evening con cluded by an amusing comic drama, called C ries the Second, in which Mr. H. Marston, Mr. th l 2 ll is, and Miss Huddart and Wallack, sustained Z . Principal characters. The tragedy of Bertram ' Announced for repetition this evening. SURREY. The Oper a com p any commenc ed their engagement her e for th e season l ast even i ng . Th e opera was La so n nombu/a, with the following cast : Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler. Elvino, Mr. W. Harrison. Amine, Miss Rainforth. Lisa, Miss R. Isaacs. nf T,,,be orchestra, which was under the able direction i n % 4 4 r. Tully, was full and ,complete, and did full - 1 7,„" c e to the exquisite music of Bellini. The El- Cra ° °f Mr- Harrison, and the Rodolpho of Mr. 11;"„ers are w e ll k now n to all play-goers. " gentlemen were in admirable voice and n e"ea y . themselves to the utmost. The Amine a ct , rise Rajnforth was very tasteful. She beautifully, and gave the music with aid i a t feeling and pathos. The finale . was .splenh erj rendered. We never have given Miss Rainforth hi zt . ut for the possession of the power which sh . e ex ' k te tin this far-famed scene. It is but justice to sta g - wiacs to say that her Lisa is the best on the ti e _ e • She made quite a part of it; and her , exer prre we re not th rown awa y ; th e y were duly ap aerveldl by the audience, and were much and de _aPPlauded. This young lady is rapidly lunch' l e e r professional career. She now makes w h en ef little p ar t s —th e ti me i s no t far distant 84 " haa ahe Will be equally great in great parts. watch 1,4 swill caree r before her, and we shall meats coer lica r ide rogress w ith interest. The entertain- „I t i le practised Pen a new nautical melodrama from nentl of Mr. Fitzball, which was emi- Ur e a and deservedly successful. It is fall of in tzated 11 ,g' situations and startling effects, and is illus andvAbeautiful scenery. It is entitled The Wreck lo f o r V: The house was crowded to suffocation long uee the commencement of the opera. ASTLEY'S. e novelty provided at this theatre for the holiday folk, was a grand equestrian magical sketch, entitled The Golden Footed Steed; or, the Charmed gorse of the Black Valley—magic and horseman -44. What theatre in Europe could do justice to %Itch a combination, save Astley's ? If asked as to the Plot, we reply in the words of Canning— " Story, Lord I bless you, I have none to tell, Sir." !Lilt the incidents are many, and interesting. The feats of the four-footed artistes are sur lerdeingly wonderful—the scenery is magnificent, o lhe attention is kept up well to the end. The brigo Steed will, for many a night to come, d to the treasur The scenes in the circle wed, and thep erformances concluded with the Pules melodrama of the Bride of Abydos. The ou se was crowded. i holday The VICTORIA. folk last night assembled in immense i nte numbers at this popular theatre_, notwithstanding the of muse heat of the weather or the superior attractions of i r e seasonable sports, and long before the rising on e 1 r 7 eu rtain the house from top to bottom presented or, i, e ug mass of human beings. The Lonely Man; Night before the Bridal, was the title of the %r e : a :ea put forward by the spirited proprietor for:the the a meta of his numerous yatrons, and judging from itive l t„ Pll , llB e bestowed upon it, the drama must have litirri:byrersal satisfaction. It abounds in the usual Victo"rtini!idents for which the nautical pieces of the 11 2 4 % 112 :ft ye so long been famed, and the ; t ied 7,!_uty of the marine and rural scenery ) 44 - 4 ; Pes - 0f ."` 3 ., excitement produced by the hair-breadth 3 -48 $ 'V• the hero and heroines (Mr. N. T. Hicks and .r 1 4. 1 -41 w Ill i,! el lt) insured its unequivocal success. The up on th .ich , t , - is in three acts, was admirably placed ltb sn e i,7 ll ge• The various characters were sustained aav e 7 .4 and ability, and on the whole it bids fair to tasteful le t and run. Some exceedingly pretty and by a faa.uissolving views followed , . which were succeeded `ce, and the entertainments were wound up with ot ner . 1.1 rigioal three act drama called Admiral Sam " eed e of Old London. a -11 E Cit Ors IN DENT.—Upon the whole, there is Promise of an abundant, if not an early harvest. On :°ll4O lands, which are undrained, and in the wheat relds which were last year clover, the plant c.ertauil 400 k ' rather thin - hut the very warm and genial hwea therstYhich we have experiensced,for the last week as and the tillering out, tiVen it a luxuriant appearance, taking place most satis ,,er _extension, of the plant is ticto •13, The oats and barley are well up, and per beeParlin- no. previous year has the promise of abundance "II greater or more encouraging. It is an old saying that a late spring, preceEed by a severe winter, gene tikilY ushers in a fruitful year ; and this year the two Premises having been tulfilled, we must hope that the oaatue conclusion may occur. If the weather should harvest warm, it is not yet too late for us to have a I.sarvest not protected beyond the average season,- -uover Chronicle. in-.AMURbER AT SHEPTON MALLET.—On the 12th t. a coroner's inquest was held at Stoke-lane, other; ilvii" Stoke St Michael, near this town, before M • maid Ashford, one of the coroners for this county, on thljetietY% p-roonl of °fi James Boyce, of the parish of Stoke-lane, ill the to -t appeared the deceased had had some word other man (a thatchethre ), whom the landlord, Richard Hall. White Hart beer-house with an tit out of the to into the bar, to avoid furthere e„lspute; deceased being violent, he got possession of th illatCher's hook, and followed him to the door of the bar, nere Hall, the landlord, ordered him away, and refused oull admittance; he, however, persisted, and with many etas swore he ;odd cume in,' and commenced chopping the door with the hook for the purpose of getting in, Hall, tu. "rulg he wouldchop.their necks off. -yin- • 6. ,_IS alarmed at his proceedings, told him to go away, panel of as Would shoot him; he accordingly took a gun lett was in the room and shot at him through the the door whwhichßtyce had cut out. The carge ,:, ie less ntering his forehead,- he fell a life it„, corpse, and did not afterwards move. . The wee rues adjourned till the f.llowing day, • -eri the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" rust Hail, for the offence, and he was fully coin .. attiring my mod under the coroner's warrant to await his trial at tae,,vl ensuing assizes. Additional Particulars.—Since ol:t_lie. melancholy letter, there 13,.iii so many different accounts affair, I have been to g Stoke to ascer iiu further particulars; and I find Hall loaded his piece ,:th'• presence of the unfortunate man Boyce, whilst he v_acted the 74 chopping the bar door, in order, as they say, to in tlulidat • i_ . e him. Hall stated to the jury that he only piece with powder; but that statement cannot Z tr_,ue, or else the piece was before charged, and he put Inwauer on the before-contaim- d contents; for it appeared, were t the ad 1-mortent examination which took place during Journ-n - • ,knen remft theot tteheanin,squheesat,d.thaithaebreovweeslOsOws(hotds In theiun- Hs_ ,L 1 bore Of brain ix be blow out, lodging the deceaseu's forehead, a little larger 77"1vie of the piece, from which a quantity of his whle e _ on the wall and the dour *t the time was chopping.—Sherborne Journal. WHITSUN AMUSEMENTS. CeLeSFETTYI.---Tbi9 was open yesterday r,f coT; , (lcrable , attended. Timy belonged in general to the upper and middle orders; but, 5o far as we could perceive, few, if any, of the working classes were amongst the spectators. The price, although reduced, still keeps the interesting Niews of this establishment beyond the reach of the artizan and humble tradesman. DIORAMA.—The Diorama, Regent's Park, was visited yesterday by several persons. The exhibition consisted of a representation of the interior of St. Mark's, at Venice, and a view of Tivoli, near Rome. Both repre sentat ons are extremely interesting, and well deserving of s *sit. _ _ _ THE BRITISH MUSEIIM.—In consequence of the fine ness or the weather yesterday attracting the holiday makers to the out-of-door amusements, the number who visited this establishment was not so great as at Easter. The great source of attraction at this was the new hall and staircase, which (not yet opened at Easter) ex cited the admiration of all. The people were well con ducted and orderly, and rendered the attendance of extra constables to preserve regularity unnecessary. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—At this place the heat, from the number of visitors who pay their annual visit to this receptacle for the fine arts, was almost insuffer able. All the pictures had their admirers, but the greatest admiration was bestowed upon the recently ac quired picture by Raffaelle of the " Knight's Vision." THE ROYAL ACADEMY, &c.—The Royal Academy and the other exhibitions devoted to the annual show of what has been done by our native artists during the past twelve months, were well attended. WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ST. PAUL'S—The first of these establishments was open yesterday, and in conse quence of the reduction in the prices to view the various chapels a large number of persons, who had been to see the House of Lords, also availed themselves of the op portunity of viewing this noble pile with the ancient tombs, coronation chair, &c. St. Paul's, in consequence of the preparation for the anniversary of the charity children on the 3d of June, was not open for Divine ser vice. _ _ _ THE TOWER or LONDON.—This national exhibition, with its jewel-room and armoury, was well patronised by the holiday folks yesterday, the reduction in the price of admission being the cause of so many people visiting it. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT ' S PARL—During yesterday the public were admitted to these gardens without obtaining fellows' orders, merely by paying the customary price of admission. The consequence was, that a greater number of parties paid than would have been the case had they to seek first for members' orders and pay afterwards. We understand that the same pri vilege will be extended to the public during the holidays. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.--AR immense number of adults and juveniles paid a visit to this in structive and amusing exhibition. Not the least interest ing portiou of the performance was the lecture on Natural Philosophy, by Dr. Bachhoffner, and the ex planations to the working models and machinery, which are calculated to incite the rising generation to become acquainted with this very useful department of science. MADAME TUSSAUD.—SeveraI hundred persons visited this talented lady's exhition during the day, indeed from the time the doors were opened until late in the after noon the large room was densely crowded. Several ad ditions have recently been made to the collection, amongst the figures are Pope Pius IX., in full costume, Henry VII., James I. in the splendid costume of the period. The new magnificent ventilating dome, which has been erected at a cost of 7001., was greatly admired by the company. BRUNETTI'S MODEL OF JERUSALEM. 7 -During yes terday a gentleman attended every hour to explain this exquisite work of art, and from the time the doors were opened a great many persons availed themselves of the opportunity presented by inspecting this great model of the holy city. THE WHITSON FAlRS,—Yesterday the fair annually held in Greenwieh at this season commenced. Rich ardson's theatre and Algar'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• polis, who arrived by railway and steam boat, the former bringing its living freight every twelve, and the lath-r every ten minutes. A large fair was also held on Stepney-green, the principal features at which were Wombwell's menagerie, Clark's equestrian circus, and three theatres (Johnson's, Paterson's, and Frazer's). This fair also had its Crown and Anchor booth. upwards of 400 feet long. Upwards of two hundred thousand persons visited this fair during the day. Fairs were also held at Wandsworth, Chalk-farm, and the Chalk road, Islington, all of which received a fair share of public patronage. The whole were under the control of the police, who caused all amusement to cease at 11 P.M. _ _ WRESTLING AT THE BRECKNOCK. ARMS.—Yesterday the grounds at the Brecknock Arms, Camden town, were thrown open for the display of wrestling in the Devonshire style, and the wrestling at this season, al ways good, has this year as well as last been attended with novel and extraordinary interest. This is owing . to many noblemen and gentlemen, ardent admirers of the manly art, having subscribed liberally to r aise such a sum as will insure handsome prizes to the best men. This induced many Cornish celebrities last year to come up to London and display their prowess, victory attending their efforts ; and the committee having this year announced their intention of giving the Devon men a fair chance of success by arranging the three first days' play in the Devonshire, and the last three days in the Cornish style, a large number of their crack men have come up from Devon, who, with the " stars " from Cornwall and the " luminaries" of the London ring, formed a combination of wrestling talent never before collected in any ring. It was decided, the better to test the merits of the men, that they should be matched ac cording to weight and performances, and that in order to wrestle the second time the candidate should throw his opponent two back falls. Those so succes s f u l were Water (C) who threw Eyers (D) twice and quickly; Flynn (Ireland), a stunted Ajax, who t w i ce grasped R. Dyer (C); and Oliver (C) the Roper, a little pheno menon, who first tripped and then heaved Kemp (D) Gundry. the Cornish champion (winner of these prizes last year), now faced the celebrated Chapple, champion of Devon, and their movements were watched with breathless interest, when, after strength and science had both been almost exhausted, Gundry threw his powerful opponent a single fall. They will meet again to-morrow as will Lemon (D) and Tresise (C), who each won a fall. Snell, Eilicombe, Hodge, Goodman, &c., have yet to wrestle. COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday was the Queen's birthday. The Court being at Claremont, a serenade was performed ,it seven o'clock in the morning at Claremont by the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, under the direction of Mr. C. Boose. The performance commenced with a choral, " Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott," Adelaide—Beethoven. The band afterwards played a selection from the " Zaberflote"—Mozart, and concluded the serenade with the Jubal overture—C. M. Von Weber. The royal circle at breakfast consisted of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended dur ing breakfast and played a selection from the Sonnam bula—Bellini; and afterwards performed quadrilles from VValbee's opera of Matilda of Hungary—C. Coote. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice walked and rode out in the Park. _ _ . The Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, the Maids of Honour in Waiting, arrived at Claremont from town. At luncheon the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards again attended at Claremont, and played a selection from Mose in Egitto (Rossini), and also waltzes "Les Ger maines >i Paris" (Tolbecque). Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir George Couper, Lord James Murray , Lieu tenant-Colonel F . Hugh Seymour, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir Frederick Stovin, arrived in the afternoon, and had the honour of joining the august circle. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, the Misses Gardiner , and Captain Lynedoch rarriiner, had shoo tho hoonor of joining tho royal circle at dinner. A number of the Nobility and Gentry called and left their names yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Among them were the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Duke of Rutland, and Lady Adeliza Manners, Lord George Manners, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Granby, the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, Hon. Major and Lady Mary Hood, the Marquis of Worcester, the Earl and Countess of Morton, Lady Ellen Douglas , t he Countess Dowager Somers, the Earl and Countes s of Rosebery, Ladies Anne and Louisa Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, Earl and Countess of Kinnoull,Lady Sarah Hay, Viscount Dupplin, Lady Eliza beth Dawson, Lord and Lady Ebrington, Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Darner, Miss M. Seymour, Earl and Countess Warwick, Lord Brooke, Colonel and Lady Sarah Lindsay, the Ladies Gore, Captain Hon. Robert Gore. Dowager Lady and the Misses Napier, Lord John Man ners, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheat ley, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Major-General Sir Harry and Lady Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Hope Johnstone, Colonel Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss Couper, Sir Edward and Lady Bowater, Lady and Miss Ouseley, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, Viscount and Viscountess Beres ford, Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Lord and Lady Camoys, Sir Edmund and Lady Antrobus, the Misses Antrobus, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, Sir George Anson, Lord Waterpark, Hon. Captain and Mrs. George Camp bell, Sir Edward Codrington, Misses Maria and Emma Codrington. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar landed at Wool wich yesterday afternoon from Rotterdam, en route from the Hague. The Master of the Horse to the Queen Dowager received the 11reclit..ry Grand Duke and Grand Duchess on their landing, ard conducted them into one of her Majesty's carriages-and-four. Their Royal Highnesses, attended by their suite, proceeded to town, and arrived at Marlborough House at half-past three o'clock. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess took a carriage driv e e ar l y i n t h e even i n g. e li st i y ghn th e e ss Queenth the Dowager Duchess of e m s t b e r r i d d a g 3 e , vi- a t sited her Royal ymal Marlborough House. Her Royal High ness honoure d i g hne s s honoure the performance of the French Plays with her presence last evening. The state apartments in Windsor Castle were closed ) esterday, and will not ho re-opened until after Mon day the 7th of June next. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the De puty Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation, including Mr. Braithwaite, engineer to the Eastern Counties and Harwich Junction Railway ; Mr, Bruff, engineer to the Eastern Union and Harwich Junction ; and Mr. Saunders, secretary to the Eastern Union and Harwich Junction, had an interview with the ;,, t, sterclay. The Marquis of Normanby transacted busin,.s yes terday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches for the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon were sent off yesterday evening from the Colo nial-office. THE SUN, LONDON, TUES_DAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1847. THE NAVY. In resuming our notice of the conditions at present regulating the armaments and equipments of our steam fleet, we have to acknowledge the value of some sugges tions 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 circulation, we did not con ceive that we should gratify the author by g i v ing a more extensive publication to his name than he seemed to have designed for himself, th oug h we w illi ng l y a id e d i n the dissemination of doctrines so entirely in concurrence with our own sentiments previously expressed. To those, however, who are inclined to pursue still further the clue which we traced out the other day, we can well commend the perusal of this able and intelligent pamphlet. Our remarks on that occasion tended to show how it came to pass that for many obvious duties we had l or n fa our p p ro p p a r s i t a t n e i s s a t e s a t e m r e s r rn s g a n h d t , h b e y e x c p o I n a s i e n q e ur a c n e d , Il h o ow effi se c v le e n ra t but too many, perhaps, prophesied. We now pass from our mishaps to our miscarriages, —from our accidents to our blunders ; and shall endeavour to throw some light on the circumstances which preclude even the single class . of steam ship s we h ave adopte d f rom answer i n g their own projector' s d es i gns , an d w hi c h l ea d t o s uch 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 take the guns they are pierced for. We observed some time ago that the comparison between the steamers turned out from merchants' yards and those launched from the Royal docks, so frequently drawn to the disad vantage of the latter, was thus far unfair,—that the former were exempted from that condition whiCh in duces the greatest difficulty—namely, the necessity of carrying heavy guns. Fur, although certain companies are bound by contract to build vessels capable of mount ing powerful metal on emergencies, they have never yet been tried, and we have reason to fear they would prove quite incompetent to this contingent part of their duties. Against this plea, however, we must set off the fact that, Government vessels are almost equally prone to consider their armament as nominal; for we believe we are correct in stating, that three or four only of the steam-frigates have ever been found able to receive the main-deck guns at which they are rated. So that both classes are thus far even, except that the Royal Mail packets do undoubtedly sail, though they may not be able to fight ; whereas many of the war steamers, with almost as much uncertainty as to their abilities in the latter line, are .utterly devoid of any compensatory excellence in the former. It is in the engines, however, and in the mutual adaptation of these machines and the hull, that we suspect the serious fault to lie ; for the discovery of the right principles of ad justment on this point would probably bring with it the means of improvement in all our other deficiencies. In our paper of the 30th of November last we called atten tion to some of the circumstances which were said to affect the arrangements injuriously in this particular, and we observe our conclusions confirmed by some of the illustrations which Captain Robinson has adduced. Fifteen years ago the Surveyor started, as Mr. Hume re marked in the debate of the 29th ult., with nine steamers which were done to his hand by way of mo dels, and which he was at liberty to use for his deduc tions. Two of these w e r e th e C omet an d t h e Lightning—good vessels even to this day, but not good enough to content the Surveyor. He took his departure from the Comet, and produced a terrible caricature in the Gulnare, which, after a second failure under the anagrammatical apellation of the Gleaner, was finally condemned, but the Comet lines were not reverted to. His translation of the Medea was not quite so bad, since it seems to have suggested the Devastation class, which, if not an improvement on its original, is yet respectably spoken of. But it is to the all-pervading and radical error of these experiments that we wish to direct especial attention; and this, as Captain Robinson has stated, is our pertinacity in testing too many points at once. We never start cceieris paribus; we are, conse quently, never able to establish an improvement or de tect a fault, and remain just where we were at first. In the first place, we never know beforehand for what hern g t h d e r a v w e s n e g l s . are ller m w a o d r e k . i s s never a c p u u t rp u o u s t e f s o w r e he a r re be b f u o i r l e di to be a steam-ship," to carry so many guns ; and there the instructions end. In the next place, whereas the hull, the moving power, and the armament have all a direct relation to each other, the proportions of which remain to be discovered, we are never content to ascertain one point at a time, 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 accordingly fitted with Seaward's engines ; but, unfortunately, a simultaneous experiment was tried upon her hull, so that it is now quite impossible to draw any certain conclusion from her recent meritorious ser vices. Had either the hull or the engines, only been changed, we might gain some architectural or mechani cal deduction from her creditable circumnavigation of the globe ; but, as it is, one, experiment vitiates the other ; and whether the engines or the hull exhibit the improvement it is hopeless to conjecture. Again, the Devastation was tried with another new engine— Maudslay's double cylinder 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 hull, were strengthenad by 100 additional horse power, and were then equipped by two new kinds of engines, one from Messrs. Fawcett, and one from Bolton and Watt. After this, it will not create surprise that our system of naval architecture contains so very few axioms. No less than ten different sorts of engines are now in use in the steam navy, and these of as many different powers, in vessels of as many different dimen sions. Well may Captain Robinson consider comparison and deduction as difficult ! We will conclude with one snore 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 of damage and leave the broadside entire. We have seen too by the trial of the Amphion last week, and by the orders which we reported in our naval intelligence for the construction of an 80-gun screw ship, that the Ad miralty are attentive to this point ; and yet of such a character are our experimental combinations that, up to this moment, the exact relation of the power of the screw to that of the paddle remains unascertained 1— Times. --- FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S rHEATRE.—His Im perial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey, the Baron Brun now, Admiral Lutke, Monsieur de Berg, Monsieur Koudiraffsky, and the Baron Friedriks, honoured the French plays with his presence last evening. His Im perial Highness occupied her Majesty's box. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by the Baroness Hamerstein and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay, also honoured the theatre with her presence. We observed also the Duke de Palmella, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, Lord Clitden, Lord Somerton ' Lady and Miss Macdonald, Lady Jodrell, Si r W. an d Lady Martens, Lady Meux Monsieur and Mad ame U z i e lli, M rs . Mountjoy Martyr; Sir Henry Mildmay, the Count Kiehl] 14/280 e the Baron' Nicolai, and Mr s . Miln er Gib son . gg TEIB Jastyrr AT CAMBRIDGE.--A new work of an eharanter 4rnn, thm iron of Sir Glom e Stephen, has just appeared under she title of " T he Jesuit at Cambridge.' It is a narrative of events sup post.d to have occurred at the university, thrown into the form of a novel ; the principle personages both Catholic and Protestant, having been drawn, it is said, from existing originals, and the whole movement to wards Popery displayed and illustrated in a manner as entertaining as it is truth-like. We are, indeed, very much inclined to discredit the author's statement that the work is but partially founded on fact ; for extra ordinary as some of the incidents would be in real life, there is so much probability in the narrative, that they seem introduced to preclude any recognition of personal identity. This clever work will doubtless be perused with deep interest even by the ordinary novel reader, and at our universities it will not only be read but studied. ----- THE NEW NOVELS.—Among the many works of distinguished novelists for which this season has been remarkable, the following may be regarded as among the most popular :—Mrs. Trollop's " Three Cousins," and "Father Eustace," Mrs. Gascoigne's " Evelyn Har court," Mrs. Gore's " Temptation and Atonement," Mrs. Crowe's "Story of Lilly Dawson," and the author of " Whitefriars' " historical romance of " Caesar Borgia." ARRIVAL OF THE GRAND DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SAXE W E IMAR.—WOOLWICH, MAY 24.—Intelligence was received at an early hour this morning, that the Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar would ar rive in the Cyclops, a war steamer of the King of the Netherlands, and at nine o'clock A.M. a guard of honour, under the command of Captain Elliott, proceeded to the dockyard in honour of the royal visitors. Lord Den bigh, Master of the Horse in the Queen Dowager's household, and Sir Andrew Barnard, with three royal carriages, arrived in the course of the forenoon, and at twenty minutes before two o'clock P.M. the signal was I given that the Cyclops was in sight, with the standard of the Grand Duke at the mizen. At ten minutes past two o'clock the Cyclops arrived opposite the dockyard, and Commodore Sir J. Gordon Bremer having hoisted his broad pendant on the barge of the William and Mary yacht, proceeded with Lord Denbigh, Sir Andrew Bar nard, and several members of the Queen Dowager's household to the Cyclops, and escorted the Grand Duchess on shore, and conducted her Royal Highne ss t o one of the royal carriage s ; Captain Hall attended on the gentlemen and members of their Royal Highnesses' ' suite. Their Royal Highnesses left Woolwich dockyard at half-past two o'clock for Marlborough House, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. A letter from Dresden says that forty students of the University have been severely punished for having been present at the meetings dangerous to the State and public order. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS' wearing out his powers. There had been to solemn ~I . . , FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY , jud gment o public opi n i on u p on hi m . H e h a d not b een v., a,e the remains , f bee oeen no event, nu resolution, no turn of the tide tha. CIIRONECt 1 , ,.---1 , ..!.1R: .:.., ~. I! i, , 1 ,i, n ca' _ es t ,ff by th c rz y t c. o ' hi s a lh ercnts — h ,. Lad n A ,t nitous y ear , W orn down t.ty . famine awl p, stilenec. !he affections of his people or hi s c h urc h. Th ere h a d slid this now t o f o ll ow to the i CI it'd account for this remarkable vicissitude. The only I a( co.ant of it is this—that Mr. O'Connell had outlived his , credit and his power. There is a strangeness about the greatest man. The stroke will not be less severe be cause it was anticipated. The death of a man like indicate a mystery of which time only will tell all the i i c O'Connell red tobe is p o o n ss e ib o l f e u thze t e h v e en st ts er w n h r i e ch ali a t r y e i s s c scarcely h u e s - . 1 accidents and coincidences of his departure that seems to import. That he has died at the acme of and unp N th u e r g w re il a l t E lr n i g s l h iA le m ad en er v . iew Th w e i ; h w in il d l aral iffdeirffeenrceinthtbeeilrosesstoi! mates of the good and evil of his career; but they will , leled disaster is no accident ; his death attests far more recognise it as the career of a giant. If his sphere of ac i than any act of his life the warmth, if not the unalloyed tivity were remote from their knowledge and sympathies. simplicity, of his patriotism. It is the famine, seen and they would still hear with sorrow that that mighty soul i felt though it be through an earthly and selfish medium. had passed away; but the event is one to call forth in that has smitten down his soul. But there are other cir in this country a deeper feeling than that of passive sym- I lo a thecumstnces of his death not so naturally associated. Why. Mr. O'Connell, intensely national as he was, hi great Irish agitator was dying on the shores of the Mediterranean, death also was visiting the abode belonged to the empire. In spite of his repeal doctrines, against which and its occupants he had maint a i ne d a the union between the two countries was embodied in lifelong antagonism. A thousa n d m il es an d a st i ll his mind and character. English law, the elaborate wider gulf of antipathies separated the representatives creation of English ideas and habits, bad as large of Irish nationality an d s so p royalty, both sharing a share in him as Irish leadership. He was no alien. His life was identified with an epoch the calamity of the people to whom th e y were in English history. England as well as Ireland has so differently related. But twenty-four hour s di lost a great man. But the work which will make the vided the demagogue and the Viceroy, equ a lly name of O'Connell memorable was done in Ireland. sinking under their intolerable bur ens. It What a work it was will perhaps be better understood seems, too, an instructive chance that has brought hereafter. He dies in the midst of social and political to the foreign obsequies of the Irish leader the sue. disorder, and impatience may cry out that he lived in 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 how little scious of their own degradation. He awakened in them nations can do towards rectifying the errors of the past, and how a good cense may achieve a present victory, a sense of their own wants. He created a public opi-nion, and evoked the sentiment of a national life, which, and yet see the actual fruition of its objects indefinitely wild and wayward as their first workings 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 It was a stupendous task to break down the ancient bar- are beyond the reach of political agitation. The whole riers of legal inequality which divided the Irish people. civilised world is so thoroughly and so unanimously per- But it seemed harder still to shake the superstructure suaded of a fundamental justice in Mr. O'Connell's which custom had reared upon the basis of law. When cause, and an essential heroism in his character, that modesty as well as generosity compel us to deal tenderly the legal disabilities of Roman Catholics were gone, the with this belie£ Whatever we may think of Mr. social inequality of caste still remained firm and intact, nell, our respect for human nature will hardly allow us O'Con like an arch of solid masonry from which the scaffolding • to believe all the world in the wrong. At the same is removed. But that solid arch already lies in crumbling fragments. The great task of social equalisation is all time, fidelity to our own honest impressions, and to that but accomplished. We see old distinctions and exclu- national instinct which has so often proved right, re • sions almost obliterated. Signs of union multiply. The quires us to state how every true hearted Englishman regards the career of this extraordinary man. It is descendants of those who won at the Boyne will pro possible that foreigners may be dazzled by tbe brilliancy bably be seen following the hearse of him who raised up and power of an eloquence of which they can nul ls read the vanquished people. Mr. O'Connell's labour was not 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 to whom it is addressed. We are able to co m p are wor d s organized. Irregular and perilous as his method might with facts. be, he taught a people, who were almost destitute of HERALD.—Though we are not in a condition to legal institutions habits of united action and of obedience P r e sent our r eaders with legal evidence of the death of to authorities in w hich they could confide. When his Mr. O'Connell, still there seems to be little doubt enter agitation was most formidable, it was still a proof that rained in the best informed quarters that the great A the Irish are eminently a governable people when the Agitator is no more, and that a ll th a t was morta l of governors are skilful in their business. Clare election him perished at Genoa on the 15th inst a nt. Wh en we c assemblages and monster meetings were not mobs, but consider the mode and manner of his reported d ea th, arrayed masses, almost as restrained and as manageable and reflect, that notwithstanding tall his efforts— no t as armies. Such manifestations imply not only the withstanding all the struggles of a mind at one period want of new social arrangements, but an a ptit u d e for vigorous and vivacious, and of a body which, long after falling in with them when they are suit e d to the he bad passed the grand climacteric, still presented a genius of the people. Mr. O'Connell supplied th e robust and hale conformation—that he failed in achiev place of a government in Ireland. The confi- ing his darling purpose of reaching the seat of the Pa • deuce which the law and institutions of the country pacy, and witnessing the splendours of that maarirna never called forth was given to him and his various rerum Roma, far dearer to him as a Roman Catholic, societies. He was, in fact, the first in modern than as a classic city—we are tempted to muse on the times who ruled the people with their own consent. vanity of human hopes and wishes, and to To accomplish so much required that extraordi- draw from the event which we painfully record nary combination of powers which the world has recog- a mournful and a moral lesson. The tomb nised in Mr. O'Connell. His intellect, shrewd and pe- has now closed over the greatest and the most netrating rather than comprehensive, and his tact in successful agitator of modern times; he has died, not in the Rome of the Popes, but in Genoa the Superb, well dealing with men, would of themselves have made him eminent in his profession, but not the leader of a nation. called the Rome of the ocean, and he s leeps his last It was the passionate irrepressible energy impelling sleep far from the land in which h e was b orn , and from that intelligence which gave it a power so commanding. that ocean beside which his childhood was cra dl e d. By foreign hands his eyes were closed and his dying limbs Most of his writings and speeches, if viewed sepa adjusted, and if we are to believe the account of the last rately, may excite wonder that an apparent meagreness sad scene of his life, published in the Galignani, he of intellectual resources should be connected with a re was neither conscious of the place in which he lay in his putation so great; but the greatest single effort of Mr. O'Connell was but an atom in the mass of his prodigious death-struggle, nor of the persons by whom he was sur activity. He was not an utterer of' novel or brilliant rounded. The image of death should at any time dis apothegms, but he said a few things, all of which had arm resentment ; but how much more eloquently and Powerfully probably been said before, with such tremendous force owerfully does death appeal to us when invested with of iteration as to drive them home to the convictions attributes so sad and so mournful—so taming in every and to weld them into the political creed of seven m il- way to human pride, and so contrasted to a renown not lions of people. Yet that Titanic energy m i g ht h ave merely European, but stretching from pole to pole— worn out the powerful frame in which it was emb o di e d world-wide, in truth, in its immense extent. with but little result, if it had been coupled with an aus tere and unsocial disposition. But Mr. O'Connell's nature was genial, and full of deep affections. His attachments to family and friends were warm to intensity. He loved his children, not like a father, but like a mother. There can scarcely be a better proof of the fervour of his per sonal feelings than the passionate devotedness which he inspired in others. He did not, indeed, brook rivals near the throne; but long before his political consequence had either provoked rivalry or invited adulation, he was famed for the number and the tenacity of his friendships. All such connexions became elements of strength in the position of the popular leader; but perhaps the single characteristic which contributed most to make him the darling of his countrymen, was the rich and gushing hu mour which burst up constantly, as from an inexhaustible fountain, and blended itself with the whole stream of life and business, at one time adding poignancy to scorn, at another heightening, by contrast, the tenderness of pity. Few, we think, *ho have seen a popular meeting in this country under the spell of Mr. O'Connell's humour, will doubt that in that faculty lay one main source of his power with a people so susceptible as the Irish to the ludicrous emotions. It seemed the natural mood into which he relapsed after every suspension of effort. His indignation was often histrionic, his pathos sometimes arti ficial; but his humour appeared to be the unforced and joyous play of the mind in relaxation. He laughed throughout his whole frame, and the contagion of his mirth was too potent to be resisted. Mr. O'Connell had his faults, and they were like his character—great. But this is not the time to speak of them. In his failings, as in his powers and nobler qualities, there are some curious resemblances to another and a greater leader — a leader of agitation—who, with similar weapons, broke the fetters, not of one people, but of the human mind. A rugged force of character, the keenest sensibility to humour and pathos, a hard legal intellect, passions often uncontrollable, fervent attachments and fervent hatreds, the most arrogant and fe • o ensive assumption, and the most foul-mouthed abusiveness, were all united in the great reformer of the sixteenth But century. time, and ' the veneration which sees that the good done b suc h le men long outlasts the • evil, has softened all the harsher lineaments in the portrait of Martin Luther. Whatever nobleness . nobleness and truth and earnest pur pose were in him, whatever whatever can enlighten , inspire, animate, does not decay, to but brightens fr om age age, and becomes an im perishable possession of the race. Time will in like manner separate the dross from the gold in the character ofDaniel O'Connell. Hiwor k • - s will remain open, and vindi cate its author. Other leaders, less open to accusation, will enter into his l a b ours, and probably demonstrate that freedom from his faults is not the chief requisite for accomplishing similar results. We may possibly see more enlarged views, more strict consistency, more scrupulous propriety, but the mighty heart which moved the people will scarcely be felt again. In the government of Ireland Mr. O'Connell's death opens a new era. It creates difficulties and presents opportuni ties, which, if not skilfully dealt with, may lead to very disastrous issues. The labours of half a century had united in Mr. O'Connell's person an unparalleled combi nation of influences. To move him was to move Ireland. For Irish Governments that resource is now at an end. The tie which held together so many jarring elements is broken, and his political despotism seems likely to be succeeded in the first instance by anarchy. While men are still looking undecided into a doubtful future, a vigorous policy and some regard to popular prejudices might win the confidence of the nation. The object, in fact, for an Irish Executive to aim at should be nothing less than to step into Mr. O'Connell's vacant place. But time is precious, and there are political passions now at work in Ireland which, if not counteracted, will soon 1 transfer the public mind of that country to new and more 1 1 dangerous leaders. The materials for agitation were never more abundant, and the flame, if kindled at the present time, will catch in quarters which it never reached before. Government should look well to its position and resources. Patronage is not an instrument to be effec tual at such a time. If it be relied upon for the euppres iiii.". nc 1:41iitie. , ......fis I* )Wa5........5t.L.... ammo, -6.~7l,itipAr c ailcos-cras rediteWl. so • band of plaoemen sancf.enepentants. One word upon a point to which we allude with reluctance, though it is not impossible it may have already suggested itself to the generous feeling of her Majesty's Govern ment. The remains of Mr. O'Connell will naturally be brought home to be laid in his native soil. Under existing circumstances, it would, we think, be a mark of respect at once becoming and just, and which certainly would be fully appreciated by the Irish people, to permit those who are charged with this sad office to avail them selves of the services of one of her Maje s ty' s s hi ps. TlMES.—There was a time when the thought of Mr. O'Connell's disappearance from the scene suggested many interesting and anxious speculations. Would he transmit his sceptre and crown, or would they be buried in his grave ? Would his honours remain in his family, or, like the Macedonia n con q ueror, would he leave th e n; t 3 be fought for or divided by his chiefs ? Would it indeed be found that so turbulent a career only disg uised , a mission of peace, and that the prince of dema g o gues i mediated between the conqueror and the conquered, between the unbending Norman and the revengefu l Celt? When the impo sin g p hal a n x of a national confe deracy was removed , would a tho usand sanguinary guar refs occupy its place? Ireland had so long been identi fied with Daniel O'Connell that it was scarcely possi ble to conceive the one without the other. The people were com mitted to a mig ht y enter prise, of which on l y one man had the key. The Argonauts without Jason, the followers of Ulysses deprived of their leader, could not be more helpless than the Irish repealers, should they suddenly find thei r Liberator no more . Such wero the reflections that for more than thirty years, and up to a recent day, were familiar to the mind of very( very nsan- Mr. O' Connell ' thoughtful English . is dead. Where are now the questions with which Peace - loving people wer e wont to torment the future, and endeavo ur t o 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 pa s ses in the crowd o f 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 been in either h em i sphere the watchword of revolt, falls on t h i s c hangeful and melan choly hour with no more n a faint recollection of the past. No o ne asks what will Ir e l an d do? The event has no bearings on the future. O'Connell is gone, and his mission expires. Yet how is this? Most cer tainly it is no human band that has wrought so mar vellous a change. Mr. O'Connell had not b een detected at last in the subtleties of litigation, or overwhelmed by the majesty of the law. He had not been crushed by the triumph of his political adversaries. He was not under the ban of a victorious party, the frowns of indignant royalty, or the killing vigilance of energetic statesmen. No coercion was taming his spirit, no prosecution was THE LAST MOMENTS OF MR. O'CONNELL. We have received the following letter from a gentle man, to whom it was addressed from Genoa, with per mission to publish it : " 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 friends and the physicians who attended him ; they sanction it as correct. " For two clays after his arrival here from Mar seilles by the Lombardo steamer, the friends of the illustrious pilgrim observed with joy that the im provement in his health, which they began to date from Avignon, went on increasing ; but cm Satur day, the Bth, it became necessary to have recourse to the same aperient remedies which had been for some time past adopted to relieve him, and always with com plete success. Diarrhoea, however, set in some time after the remedies applied on Saturday night bad pro duced the desired result, and as it still continued on Monday morning: (after a partial cessation on Sunday) it was deemed expedient to call in additional medical aid. The English physician resident here, Dr. Duff, and Dr. Berretta, of this city, met in consultation with Dr. Lacour, the physician who had accompanied O'Con nell from Lyons. The diarrhosa was regarded as rather fortunate than otherwise, as helping to relieve the head, where they were of opinion the chief danger was to be apprehended. " With this view (which coincided exactly with that taken of O'Connell's case from first to last by the most eminent physicians of France), their remedies were mainly directed to check the congestion, which they judged to have been gaining ground in the brain from a period considerably distant. The success with which their efforts were attended was not lasting. However, even after a fourth physician, Dr. Voviani, was called in on Friday, there still were hopes. Nevertheless, it was judged prudent to be prepared for the worst ; and on Friday night the last rites of the church were re ceived by the illustrious sufferer with a serenity and a fervour of piety which produced upon the members of the clergy and his friends who surrounded his bed the most profound 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 with which he had served him, he said, As yet lam not dying •' but two hours later he called for the Rev. Dr. Miley (his chaplain), to whom he said, when he had bent down over him, the better to hear his fast sinking voice—' I am dying, my dear friend!' " The physicians were still in attendance ; but from that moment the prayers and other offices of religion, which had not been interrupted from the preceding night, were pursued with redoubled earnestness by his friends and the chief members of the tlergy. At first his voice was united in the prayers and responses ; but as it became less and less distinct, his hands clasped in fervour—his eyes, his countenance revealed how his soul responded to the litanies for the dying, which they were mingling with their tears around his bed. "bcasionally, during this, his last illness, as the brain became more and more invaded, there was a momentary wandering of the mind, from which, how ever, the slightest word recalled him. He never mur mured, though his internal sufferings, at times at least, must have been great. Every one was struck with his serenity, his recollection, and fervour in receiv ing the last rites of religion. The adorable name of Jesus, and the prayer of St. Bernard to our Blessed Lady, mingled from time to time wilh va froms e Pnalms, . no We most earnest and contrite aspirati o ns, mo ments a b l m e i ts re t p ehrop ex * p s i r l y ed ur e n c h o i n s t n i p u s. e d t U o p rec to o n gn f swe hs confessor, and to respond to his suggestions. " Far from surprising him, he had been long, long fa miliarised with the contemplation of kis last end, pre pared for it perfectly, and almost eager for its advent. When that spirit, so mighty, which seemed to glory in and to sway the tempests which agitate our being, took its flight, there was no more trace or sign of pain or struggle thaw when the babe in smiling sinks to slumber upon the mother's breast. " It will be a lasting, though still a sorrowful consola tion, for his friends and family, that no resource of skill or climate calculated to prolong the existence of this ex traordinary man has been left untried. The professional advice obtained for him was always the best that could be procured. His body is to be embalmed and conveyed to Ire land. His heart he bequeathed to Rome. The autopsy demonstrated singularly the correctness of the view taken of his case, and how wonderfully . successful had been the remedies recommended in postponing the fatal event. _ _ " His obsequies commenced from the moment of his decease, and are still continued with princely pomp in the church of our Blushed Lady delle Vigne. They are to close to-morrow with a grand requiem mass, at which his Excellency the Governor- General, the fo reign Consuls, and Mr. 11. Cobden, are invited to be present." THE LINNEAN SOClETY.—Yesterday, the 24th of May, being the anniversary of the birth of J. Linnmus, the celebrated naturalist, the annual general meeting of the members of this society, was held at their apart ments, Soho-square. The Bishop of Norwich, the Pre sident, in the chair. The report of the auditors, read by R. H. Solly, Esq., stated the receipts to have amounted to 1,097/.. and the expenditure to a sum less by 1671. The debt on the society amounted to 9051. Since the last meeting the society had lost, by death, sixteen fel lows, two foreign members, and one foreign associate. After the reception of the report, the secretary read me moirs of the most distinguished members the society had lost. The officers were then balloted for and elected. The Bishop of Norwich was re-elected president • J, s, F. H. janson, Bowerbank, Esq., W. J. Burchell, Esq., Esq., Daniel Sharpe, Esq., and N. Wallich, Esq., were appointed members of the society. The meeting then dissolved, and in the evening the members dined to gether at the Freemasons Tavern. Ma, COBDEN IN ITALY.—A letter from Livorno, dated the stb inst., announces that a splendid banquet is being prepared in that city in honour of Mr. Cobd en , M.P.—La Bilancia (Italian paper). SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSA.LL'S.—MONDAY. Business was almost entirely confined to payi ng snra l! ,„ the larger balances tor the settling in diner, vrnich isk.s place this aft,rnoon. kinfi which, from all that we can learn, is likely to be an easy one. Nothing has yet been done with regard to the two plates on Friday, but as one gentleman has declared his intention not to pay on Glory's race, the matter, as we stated on. Saturday, must come before the stewards. That it was a very gross case seems to be beyond a ques tion ; we trust, therefore, that the guilty parties will be exposed, and that it will lead to the abolition of heats at Epsom, and all other respectable meetings. There were not half a dozen bets laid yesterday, but for the guidance of those who are disposed to speculate we sub join the market prices of the events that have been touched upon since Friday last:— THE EMPEROR'S VASE. 5 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant 4 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Hero 6 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Sir Tatton Sykes 7 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Poyhton 10 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Grimston—taken We understand that Eryx is not likely to start. ASCOT STAKES. • Even on the field agst six. ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack 9 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin DERBY. 800 to 100 agst Beverlac, Flatcatcher, and Assault—t. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, I have again, for the third time, been successful in my Derby prognostications. In my letter of Mon day last I stated that the vau 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 him, and that Conyngham, though he might run forward, could not win. This very materially altered the state of affairs, and on Tuesday morning, in giving the names of the starters, I took Cossack as well as 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 made on this great race from time to time, by reference will be found was borne out in the running of Wednesday last. It is a curious circum stance, but not the less a fact, that for the last three or four years, The Sun is the only newspaper that has every successive year foretold the winner of the Derby. This year it was prophesied in the most positive manner by that clever poetic seer " Esau," who asserted that— " If any one wishes his fancy to back, He must lay out his tin on the chestnut Cossack. Folks have many fancies, but I have but one, The winner! he comes from the banks of the Don." This week there are two meetings deserving of atten tion, Newton and Manchester. I shall not enter into particulars, but jump at once to the conclusion. MANCHESTER. Stake. Probable winner. Manchester Cup Annandale. Salford Cup - go- bragh, Spithead, Executor,orLadyWildair. NEWTON. x, Wo N Lord of the Manor Gold Cup or 1 or y the Mai lfd d of og, Lymeewcourt,. Drawing-room Stakes Lucy Ashton. St. Leger Stakes Golborne Stakes Shylock. Garswood Hunt Stakes Borough Cup Prior of St. Margaret's. Twenty Sovs. Stakes Garswood Cup Sir J. Gerard. Fifteen Sovs. Stakes Mermaid. I am, Sir, &c., May 24. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. CRICKET. TWO PICKED TWELVES OF THE MARYLE BONE CLUB AND GROUND. This distinguished club opened their season yester day, by a one day's match between two selected 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 change of weather. The Earl of Strathmore was unable to be present, but his Lordship's place was supplied by Lord Burleigh, a nobleman who has during the last two or three years manifested much interest in the game, and who is no mean player. His Lordship made two astonisbingly fine catches at short slip. Hillyer, it will be seen, came out, as he originally did, as an admirable batter, and Royston was well .up to the mark. Dakin played beautifully. The Hon. C. Lyon also hit exceedingly well ; whilst Mr. Haygarth has not forgotten his steadiness. The bowlers were all likewise to the mark, and, with few ex ceptions, were difficult to be got away. As soon as each side had had an innings the stumps were drawn, and at that moment the score stood thus:— EARL STRATHMORE'S SIDE. Lord Moungarret, b Bayley Lord Burleigh, run out C. H. Hoare, Esq., c Dean, b Bayley Hißyer, b Dean Clarke, b Lillywhite Royston, run out .. 2O Hon. C. Lyon, b Lillywhite M. Ainslie, Esq., b Bayley 7 . - Lord Guernsey, b Dean 5 W. Moncrieff, Esq., b Bayley Good, b Dean T. Burgoyne, Esq., not out 0 Byes EARL WINTERTON'S SIDE. S. Taylor, Esq., c Lord Burleigh, b Hillyer 1 Tuck, Esq., run out A. Haygarth, Esq., b Hillyer l3 Dean, c Hoare, b Clarke 8 Dakin, c Fellows, b Hillyer Lillywhite, b Royston 3 Hon. R. Grimston, b Hillyer Bayley, c Burleigh, b Hillyer 4 Earl Wintertoa, b Hillyer H. Fellows, Esq., not out Titchmareh, Esq., run out 4 Captain Blackwood, c Burleigh, b Hillyer 0 Byes 8, no ball 1 AQUATICS. HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA. This event came off yesterday evening, and, consider ing the many attractions which had been provided for the amusement of the million at this holiday season, was most numerously attended. Nine scullers, the greater part of whom were fine powerful fellows, daily 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 James George (Red) 2 George Otterway (Blue) 0 The distance was from buoys off the Red Lion, up round a boat moored off Hammersmith -terrace, down round a buoy off the Queen's (Brandenburg) House, and back to the place of starting. They all got away at the same moment, and after a few strokes. Yellow took the lead, and maintained it throughout, winning by two or three lengths. Blue was second in the start, and held it round thelower boat, but lost it in winding the upper buoy. SECOND HEAT. _ _ George Green Thomas Gqbba (Red) 2 .ierT2es 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 opponent-, 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 be and Red fouled, and Blue rowed on to them. Red disengaged himself, went away, and won. GRAND HEAT. Hoare (Red) 1 Green .. (Blue) 2 Widdick (Yellow) 3 Blue took the lead, but was imediately passed by Red, and these two fouling, Yellow in advance. Red soon recovered his place, and won by six lengths. PEDESTRIANISM. BARLOW AND BYROM'S FOUR-MILE RACE FOR 30/. A SIDE. The race between John lßarlow - Ralias Tollick) and James Byrom, the Lancashire runner, attracted several hundreds of the patrons of pedestrianism yesterday to the Rosemary Branch, Peckham, in the spacious enclo sure of which house, once forming part of the East Sur rey Race-course, the match was brought to issue. The men are well known to the public from previous per formances. Barlow, *who was born on the 28th of Nov., 1819, at Cockey-moor, near Bolton, Lancashire, is in his 28th year, and stands 5 feet 6f inches. He is ~ likely-looking lathy fellow, with a greyhound like outline, and came to the post in a style that did credit to his trainer. His principal performances' and th us( which gave reasonable confidence to his friends, we re his victories over Maxfield, the N ort h Star, whom , he de feated in a four-mile race over Doncaster course2l minutes 10 a side, on the 26th of F e b ruary, 1845 (time 10 seconds); William Robinson, of New ton Moor, t h e like distance for the s ame amount, on the 13th of May. in the same year, at Newton-in-the Willows ; and his well run race with G reenhaigh course, which end e d i n a draw, Jo'nen-251C:a n l u so ts t i nt eßsaacmee year. He, however, succumbed in a tee- mile race to Manks, on the last day of 1845. In 1846, however. he defeated Manks in turn, in a ten-mile handi cap, having 300 yards start a nd 200__ ya rds . , ; an— L ovett, of .Doncaster, The performances of Byrom we have given o t _n a former occasion ; we shall not, therefore, repeat _hem 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.men4towed on the ground about four o'clock, but upwards 'of an Lour w •L= "cut to w a- , e" it, re-m. asur , ng the grotA d r.•f e. 1t lepg h, a 1 being in ur od" mud the men stai Led fairly, Byrota with a shape of a lead. e ought here to state that the ground is enclosed by a stout hoarding, and the course marked 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 :7 yards, to corn, plete the distance of four miles, consequently the win ning flag was at length short of the starting scratch For the first 300 yards Byrom led, but in the next the men occasionally passed each other, and the first turn was completed in close company, Byrom lead ing one yard. The pace for this sod the following round did not seem first-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. Tollick fetched this up b) puling foot, shortly after passing Byrom, and completing the fourth ci rcu i t fi ve 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 yards behind. 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 going round, Barlow still held his own running light, springy, and with a long stride, while Byrom seemed to labour and go short; in fact, he appeared rather fleshy, and completely fagged. He was thirty. five yards behind on the tenth time of passing, yet he struggled gamely, and in going down the far side of the course, for a few seconds, lessened the space between himself and Tollick —it was the last flicker, he fell quickly astern, and Bar• low ran in an undeniable winner by fifty to sixty yards. Time, 21 minutes 10 se c ond s; w hi c h we t a k e to be a proof that both men are good ones, when we 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 Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, that gentleman issued his warrant fur 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 (ot 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 exaiiiined. 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 Wednesday 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 dead. The ease appearing to be fraught with suspicion, witness gave information to the police immediately, aLd in the course of the same evening called in Mr. Charles Guthrie, surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, who, on seeing the body, at once gave it as his opinion that the child had bee❑ 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 which left no doubt o❑ 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 Aft.. 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 signid " Harry Hart nell," the writer of which described himself to be an old friend of witness, and— Mr. Wulff, vkho 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 requestud witness to call on the mother of the deceased child, and went on to say that if witness could take a hint and work it out well, it would be 51. in his pocket. Wiiness not recollecting the name of " Hart nell," nor liking the style of the letter, did not call in Wellington-sti eet, and destroyed the later. A few days subsequently, witness received a second letter, which explained more minutely who the writer was and was dated from Portland chambers, Great Titchfield street. The writer requested that witness would attend Mrs. Cleveland in her confinement, and promised that if he did so and would call afterwards at Portland cham bers, the writer would pay all charges. Witness re ceived this letter last Saturday fortnight, and on the following Sunday called on Mrs. Cleveland, and conversed with her. She asked witness whether he thought her child was dead. From symptoms which she described, witness assured her that it was not. Witness called on Mr. Hartnell, at Portland chambers, on the Monday fol lowing, and found that be 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 ?" Witness said, " No." The nest question was, "Could it not be managed that it should be still born ?" Witness felt greatly insulted by the remark ; but not wishing to knock the man down, affected not to understand the question, on which Hartnell said, " Oh, you are v er y squeamish ; they manage these things much better in France. 1 have seen two or three cases of the kind in that country." Witness declined to have anything to do with the case, and warned Mr. Hartnell of the danger of attempting to bring on premature labour. Witness heard nothing more of the case until he saw it mentioned in the papers of that morning, when he felt it his duty to come forward. In reply to the Coroner, Mr. Moseley stated it had been satistactorily ascertained that the party in custody was not Mr. Hartnell. Mr. Charles Gardiner Guthrie, surgeon, of 19, Saville row, was next examined. He deposed to having made a post modem 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 there was extravasation on the left side. In all other respects the body presented a perfectly healthy appearance. The CORONER—Did you form any opinion as to the cause of the child's death? Mr. Guthrie—yes; its death arose from suffocation. Mrs- Cleveland said she shheer kn ew kr an mistress, r e h b s s e y 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 with such a body in the dts-ecting-room, I should certainly have inquired how the infant had come by its death. Had the child died tr m convulsions, the lungs would have been mon- • vascular, and not gorged ' with blood. A very slight pressure is su ffi cient to suffo cate a child of such tender age ac the deceased, and unless hard substances were used, the body would not have presented a different appearance from that of the deceased when I first saw it on the Friday night. Harriet Swan, servant to Anne Cleveland, was next examined at great length. Her evidence was strongly corroborative of the suspicion entertained as to unfair She means said having k ben . P Ll r r a . c it practised i t : o e 1 procure a t h e fe c w hi i d d a ' a y d s e p a re sh : that io be eo wouldher confinement t a t e e n in d e n h t e r s . b e Witnessh ardh e k r i, ew t mistress ha M s sir . Harwell cohabited with her mistress, and expressed her t ; at o h n er w o b f ic h h er chili, but if she did not suffer bite d her in . her confinement, he would never her house again. The further witness whwoimth stated that et s won u at e r sa p rt r ti h i e s en e wore Dolly," ~1l y,,, lies d const antly mustachios , an e t ta h h o ep u enri g as h own t e h w e oli f o‘ a ‘ ct was wholly unknown to Mr. Hartnell: who was only an o ccas i ona l v i s i tor. Atter the death of the child, when the police were in the house, Mrs. Cleve land told witness that she would give her a sov% reign to go and meet " Dolly" at some place, and tell him there was a bother about the child's death, and that he bad better not come to the house, as if Mr. Hann, 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 betore she saw him. Witness could not positively say that Mr. llartnell had called iu Wellington-street batore the death of the child ou Ft iday, but she bad seen t h o i m witness there o a r s , t . h , e lii 11 , 1 : . e n d n a e i s r d ) ai , aijd p r evious. alws that name by her mistress's order. "Dully" . wa s at home on Friday once asked ya ll s e dd w ress k e n d o r; d tn m es; r b e e th re a. v n ed, an d sin f oe u t i n cti r, n as g ss hw th al at she was prepare d this of the proceedings, there being several thhies whether worst. apprehension b e was taken,ar her te r m n At stage more witnesses to examine, the itiquirt was adjourned. The person alluded to as .• Harry Hartneli" w as pre . sent during the latter part of the investigation. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Constantine of Russia honoured Mr. Beard, on Monday last, by sit ting for a photographic portrait at his establishment, in the Royal Pulytecliiic Institution, Regent -street. THE JEWS' HOSPITAL. —The anniversary festival of this charity took place at the London Tavern yester day, and was :very numerously attended. His Royal Highness the Duke of Canibfidge presided, and among the company present were—Sir Moses Montefiore, Mr. Emanuel Lousada, M. H. de Castro, Mr. S. H. Ellis, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Rev. Ifr. Adler (Chief Rabbi), Rev. Dr. Bowles, Sir Anthony De Rothschild, Mr. Luke J. Hansard, Mr. W. Rothery, Mr. B. S. Phillips (Com mon Councillor), Colonel E. Caelogan, Baron linesebeck, and Mr. David Salomons. The report for the year states, that whereas at the commencement re of a t l h o e ne insti tution 10 aged and 18 young persons w: in e .ewe , to 86 inmates, 12 of whom f are h a e charit • '‘s to educate ad mitted to its benefits, these advantages are a p r e e moris, s x 7 e b n o d y e e d encourage.and 17 girls. The princ!ple c o e r pract and life to er - ev ' held out in after r s ere in the habits tthheemyoutipngtecaoemfaiettmedpltoomitsentaror trade,i 11 by bringing menu; are of industry and honesty w hich tie:, have acqu i re d while in thehosptal. The results of theystetti a re state d to be very satisfactory. During the eve:sing subscriptions were a nnounced to the amount of 800/. The inmates of the institution paraded round the nm), many of them bearing specimens of their kandicraft, and exciting by their appearance the warm approbation of the company. We are at a loss what to say of the dallier, as it was given in the Jewish fashion. The wines, however, were excellent, and there was some good music from Mr. Genge end the other professional gentlemen present. Mr. Higgs was toastmaster. t;