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NOTICE BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE FOR 1847. The NEW and REVISED E DITION, containing all the NEW CREATIONS, to the present time, and corrected throughout from the personal communications of the Nobility,&c., in ONE VOLUME , comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes, and illus trated with 1,500 Engravings of Arms. Scc., Will be READY for DELIVERY with the MAGAZINES. On the 27th of February. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Preparing for OVIIR publication, in 2 vols. Bvo. , AN LAN D JOURNEY ROUND the WORLD, 111 1841-2.' By Sir GEORGE SIMPSON. Governor-In -Chief of t he Hudson's Bay Company's Territories. Henry Co'burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Svo., price 1 /. I I. 6d., EXPERIENCES OF A GAOL CHAPLAIN. COMPRISING RECOLLECTIONS OF MINISTERIAL INTERCOURSE WITH CRI MINALS OF VARIOUS CLASSES, WITH THEIR CON FESSIONS. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends tnd the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Hallway Shares, &c., take place every TrESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, fa - vours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectnilly requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day ererlous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed, that this Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON TO-MORROW EVENING, Feb. 16th, when will be per formed Donizetti's celebrated Opera of LA FAVORITA. Fernando, Signer Gardoni (his first appearance in this country); Alfonso XI. (King of Castile), Signor Superchi (his first appearance) ; Baldassan, Signor Bouche (his first appearance) ; Leonora, Mdlle. Sanctiloll ; Ines, Mdlle. Nascio (her first appearance in this country). The " National Anthem" will be sung by 3ldiles. Nasio, Solari, Faggiani, and Sanchioli, Signors Gardoni, Bouche, F. Lablache, Superchi, and other Artistes of the establishment and Chorus. After which a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaux, by Mr. Paul Taglioni, entitled COR ALIA ; or, TtIE INCONSTANT KNIGHT. Coralia, Mdlle. C. Rosati (her first appearance) ; the Knight Dui debrand, M. Paul Taglioni ; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, 31,111 e. Petit ; Page, Mille. Honore ; Duke, M. Gosselln ; Fratsondin, M. Venefra ; Fisherman, M. di Wattle. DANCES.--Second Tableau—Scene Dangante des Caprices, by Wile. Rosati. Third Tableau—Pas tle la Nymphe des Eaux et de Ses Compagnes, by Mdlles. Rosati, Montfort, Cassan, and the Corps de Ballet. Fourth Tableau—Pas de la Rosiere, by Mdlle. M. Taglioni (her first appearance) ; Pas de Deux, by 31. P. Taglioni and Malls. Rosati ; Deutche Rhein, Valse des Pages et des Demoiselles dlionneur, by the Corps de Ballet. Fifth Tableau—Pas de Treis, by Mdlle. Wauthier, M. d'Or, and Mdlle. C. Baucourt ; Ballabile des Halbardiers, by Mdme. Stephan, Mdlles. Vonore, Cassan, Thevenot, liertin, Julienne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Pas de l'lnconstatice, by 3ldlle. Mdme. Stephan, and M. Taglioni. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. TrIEATRE ROYAL, DUCK If-LAE. FIRST NIGHT OF THE NUN' OPERA. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera, entitled:MA.TILDA OF HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harri son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Romer ; Lillis, Miss R. Isaacs. After which the new Ballet, called THE PRETTY SICILIAN. Count Amede, M. Croce ; Rosetta, Mdlle. Baderna. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENDIG Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Ilumby, Mrs. Yarnold, Mies Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &C. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " Melee Polkas, &e. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Trawl! Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynold f, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called .£5OO REWARD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, 11. Butler, Miss 'Pillars, and Miss Forster. Alter which a new Farce, called THE WIGWAM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To be followed by the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Captain ropham, Mr. Wigan; Dabster, Mr. Keeley; Miss Fanny Curry, Miss Dickinson. To conclude with the Farce of MRS. WHITE. TfIF.ATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE. DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will ha performed the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Madame St. Auhert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldlae, Mrs. Tates ; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet *LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wilts Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. CullenfOrd, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS ' S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Beilini's Opera Seria, entitled NORMA. romo, Mr. Allen ; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Flavius, Mr. Wynn ; Adelgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, 31 ss Rossano. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta -1 inted CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," Introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Drama, entitled MARIE JEANNE ou, La Femme du Peuple. Bertrand, M. Langeval ; Marie Jeannc, Mdlle. Clarissa. To conelude with the Play of L'AL'BERGE DES ADRETS. Robert Macaire, M. Lemaitre ; Clementhie, Mille. Fouquet. During the piece, M. Lemaitre will dance " La False de Faust." Boxes, 65., Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged et Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN EIIENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pen, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing! their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Halt-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Their next DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on Monday Morning, Feb. 22. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2e. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTrs Fox-Hounds meet every Evening at Half-past Six, during the week. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the double Company of Foreign Artistes. To conclude with the successfulComicEquestrlanFairy Pantomime entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and C mnmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. roadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mil , . Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled RABY RATTLER; or, 'The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole strength of the Company. After which, the favourite Ballet of LA STATUE BLANCHE. To conclude with RAYMOND AND AGNES. Box.oflice open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Roam Li., Half-price, 6t1.; Pit, 6(I.; Gallery, 3J. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CASTLE OF ST. ALMO. Principal •haracters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Forman, Searle, Bird, Miss Vincent, Mist Pearce, &c. After which, BURIED ALIVE; or, The Illustrious Stranger. Eanjamin Bowbell, Mr. Forman. To conclude with THE RUINED HOUSE AT MILBANK ; or, The Murder at the Lonely Creek. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 13. TEERMOMETEIt, Lowest, 23; Highest, 32 ; Noon, 28 BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND W. by S., slight fog. FEBRUARY 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 27; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 42 , BAROMETER, 29.70. Wind W.—A brisk thaw, with rainy thick weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 31 minutes after 1. 1 Evening .. 54 minutes after 1. •,„„ , ; „A ; VlCri =- .4.111141 0 ‘v - 4 - ) .mOl4 bikr • • Matti 11 LONDON,.t.NONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1847. Postponements form the very sustenance of an im potent minority. Delay and agitation—delay and agitation—delay and agitation—that is literally the soul of every feeble and factious opposition. It is , a'p'ply upon these grounds that the debate upon the preposterou s Railway Bill of Lord G. BENTINCK has been .adjourned and that the House of Commons has been debarred from at once and emphatically scouting the proposition as an im p udent extravagance. A more felicitousa and l ucid speech was never ut`ered by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer than elivere dt t h iv e e of nn e the d by him on Frday evening, elucidative imprac ticability of such a measure as the one e judgmentconceived by f the Arabic imagination and distempered the Noble Lord the representative of r l ed the " One Thousand and One" stories4yrnenl Amon Sti I tau n by the daughter of theVlztEß, petite te s i t i h t° humorous, and unquestionably the most perpetually applicable, is the dream of the penniless pedlar while sleeping upon a doorstep in Bagdad. Lord G EORGE BENTINCK has proved himself to be the very counter part, of that pedlar, with t he additional misfortune of sr having talked his reverie out loud. Instead, how ever, of marrying the first-born of the Commander of the Faithful, like his ambitious prototype, Lord Guam is calculating upon his assumption of office : `. _` ~ ~``~~ E instead of kicking his august spouse in the very ecstacy , of his authority, Lord GEORGE is counting upon the transmission of 16,000,0001. to Ireland in the very extremity of his Ministerial munificence : and in so doing the Noble Lord inadvertently destroys more than the Persian somnambulist—he renders himself bankrupt in whatever political reputation he may have possessed heretofore, just as the dreaming pedlar rendered himself bankrupt in a monetary sense by smashing his basket of crockery. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has tasked the credulity of his supporters too far, and has insulted their common sense overmuch. Just as his prospective Cabinet seems to be emulating the palace of Pande monium— " Rising like exhalations," its brittle materials tumble to pieces. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has been carried away by his sanguine temperament. Such boundless generosity to wards the beef-eating and beer-swilling na vigators of England ! such amenity towards the bubble companies of the United King doms ! such an affecting tenderness towards the necessitous condition of those respectable gentlemen the stags ! such commisseration for the unna tural loneliness of Capel-court!—as if feeding the already well-fed railway labourers of England would appease the hunger of the emaciated peasantry of Ireland, AS if promoting the formation of bubble companies would tend to counteract the perillous det►rth of provisions and the ruinous vacillations of the money-market, as if the patronage of the stag ging system were the nourishment of a starving nation, as if scrip was bread and mutton, and the prosperity of Capel-court implied the happiness of the Lister island!! Admirably did Sir CHARLES WOOD charac terise the scheme of the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, as " A Bill for the Relief of Destitute Share holders," instead of a Bill for the Relief of Destitute Labourers ! We cannot be surprised that ridicule should be thrown upon such a scheme for the assistance of Ireland in her present state of awful and appalling wretched ness, when the scheme which is ridiculed is so emi nently ridiculous in itself. Apparently the proposi tion emanating from Lord GEORGE BENTINCK is benevolent and philanthropical, but at bottom it amounts to nothing less than positive cruelty. Un witting cruelty it may be, but positive cruelty in its effect it most undeniably is. It is cruelty (and who shall gainsay it ?) to interrupt the salutary labours of the Government with a plan that would be im practicable if it were attempted, and that cannot be attempted, because the intelligence of Parliament would revolt from its acceptation. It is cruelty to fritter away in this idle manner the moments de voted to our legislative deliberations when Time is slaying almost hour by hour the doomed peasantry beyond St. George's Channel. And it is indisputable and peculiar cruelty to indulge in mere exhibitions of rhetoric when men and women are dying from sheer want. We were especially re joiced, therefore, to observe Mr. F. T. BARING repro bating the "general declamations" with which Mr. STUART favoured the attention of the louse of Com mons. This is neither the time for the practising of a legislative debuted, nor . for the introduction of a Par liamentary chimera. Under the impression—proved to be perfectly er roneous by Lord PALMERSTON'S reply—that his Lordship's dispatch of Thursday last, addressed to Lord NORMAN BY, had been communicated to a public journal before it had been officially laid on the table of either House of Parliament, Mr. ROEBUCK, whilst putting a question on Friday to elicit this informa tion, added the expression of his belief, " that the faith, honour, and candour of this country had been thoroughly carried out by the Noble Lord and our diplomatic agents, and had been completely vindicated hitherto by the publication of the papers produced." What was the effect of this declaration within the walls of the British House of Commons ? Did it produce any mark of dissent ? No, not even a whisper. Mr. ROEBUCK'S opinion was loudly cheered by the assembled representatives of the English nation. This is the second time the question of the Spanish marriages has been broached in Parliament since the opening of the session, and it is the first time that a reference has been made to them since the en tire correspondence (not garbled nor mutilated, after the fashion of M. GuizoT, but in the most unreserved and fullest shape) between the two Courts, from its commencement to its close, has been published to the world at large. What followed further ? Was there one Member to rise and find fault with the manner in which our Secretary for Foreign Affairs had con ducted the proceedings, on the part of England, throughout this grave and delicate question ? Was there one to get up and attempt to palliate the con duct of either LOUIS PHILIPPE or his Ministerial dupe ? Not one. If there was one ready and willing to extenuate the one or the other, we can only say, vox faucibus hcesit. This silence is conclusive as to the universal con viction of British Peers and Commoners that the French Monarch has acted most faithlessly, be neath the mask of international amity. This silence, too, is fraught with true dignity and real grace, be cause it evinces that neither House of the British Par liament will utter a word to give offence to the great and distinguished body of the French nation, w ith the knowledge we possess, in common with the rest . of Europe, that both the Government and the Cham bers of France are completely enthralled by the des potic will of their Sovereign. When Lord PALMERS TON adverted, last evening, to the prompt assurance which had been tendered by her MAJESTY'S Govern ment to Lord NORMANDY, of unshaken confidence in his Lordship's honour and integrity, which M. GUIZOT had indirectly and most unhandsomely at tempted to impeach, the House of Commons reite rated their cheers. So that, throughout increased discomfiture and indelible disgrace have stamped the proceedings of M. GUIZOT, on the one side, whilst "good faith, candour, and honour" have governed those of Lord PALMERSTON, on the other. It is quite clear why the avowal of the Marquis DB KIRAFLORES, that he could not understand the ne cessity for solemnizing simultaneously the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN and that of her sister, was disregarded by M. BRESSON and his royal master. The union proposed for the latter personage was so dis tasteful to the Spanish nation, that, had it not come off precipitately as it did, and had it not been effected contemporaneously with the nuptials of the SOVE REIGN, in all probability it never would have taken place at all. The marriage has been accomplished in direct opposition to the national feelings of the Iberian Peninsula, one evident proof of which is, that the Due DE MONTPENSIER resides, and will continue to reside in Paris ; whereas, looking to how far the constitutional status of the Duchess in Spain, as heiress presumptive to the throne, preponderates over that of her husband in France, and to the stress which LOUIS PHILIPPE has laid upon the advantages of uniting France and Spain by the royal alliance in question, the natural residence of the Due DE MONTPBNSIER should be riot in the French, but in the Spanish territory. The plain fact is, that the abode of the French Prince has been dictated by a sense of personal security, and is entirely in keeping with the caution observed during his ap proach to Madrid, where he found himself supported, not by the affections of the people, but by files of soldiers and heavy pieces of ordnance. Another plain fact, deducible from a review of all the circumstances, is, that, from the first, we determined upon consult ing the independence of Spain as the paramount con sideration ; whereas Lours Purm.rrrE was deliberately bent upon sacrificing it in every way to his own sel fish purposes. Independently of his bad faith, the policy of Lours PHILIPPE has been short-sighted. He is advanced in years, and, in the presence of his Parliament, has constantly vaunted of the personal devotion of himself and family to the interests of France. Were the royal purple shortly to descend, as in the course of nature it may, upon his successor, it would be with the unfavourable prestige that the last leading act of the Citizen King was purely dynastic and anti-national ; and that a cordial understanding, essential to the maintenance of civil liberty and th e p rogress o f c i v ili zat i on, w hi c h h a d happily prevailed for years, with but slight interrup tion, between England and France, had been wan tonly shaken t o th e foundation, notwithstanding ' that, after the r evo l ut i on in 1830, we were the first to step forward and gu arantee her national stability. , Thr to importance of securing a sure and expeditious communication for our colonial dependencies with the mother-country cannot be exaggerated. We are, therefore, delighted to find that Lieutenant WAGRORN, to whose genius, courage, and enterprise, the nation is already so much indebted, has addressed a letter to Earl GREY, calling his Lordship's attention to the plan for establishing a regular steam communication with our Australian colonies, which has now been for some time before the public. To that letter, which we republish, in extenso, we would direct the especial attention of our readers. It is a document, not only to be read, but to be studied, by all who have the interest of the country at heart. We will not here repeat the (to our minds) incon trovertible arguments which have been so well put by Lieutenant WAGnoRN ; but we will add that the importance of establishing a regular steam communication with Australia is vastly increased by the discovery, since the plan was ,first proposed, of the great mineral riches of those colonies—riches so vast that the time cannot be far distant when the price of metallic ores in the Australian market will produce a great effect on the metal markets of the world, and when it will be as important to our com mercial interests to obtain speedy intelligence of the state of the Australian metal market as of the state of the metal market in Cornwall. In a political point of view, also, it is more important than ever to open a speedy communication with our Australian colonies. A new constitution has just been given to New Zealand, and the success or failure of the great political experiment which is about to be tried in that colony must depend in a great measure on the close ness with which the home authorities can watch its workings. By the proposal of Lieutenant Wats- HOliti, New Zealand will be brought as near to Eng land as Jamaica was thirty years ago. Is it going too far to affirm, that if steam communication had been established between England and her Aus tralian colonies six years ago, we should have been saved the loss, the pain, and the humiliation which the blunders of successive Governors of New Zea land have caused us, and that the colony, in stead of being in its present miserable con dition, would have been one of the most flourish ing dependencies of the British crown ? A sum of 100,0001. per annum is all that is required by Lieut. WAG UORN from the Government to carry out his plan; so that even in an economical point of view its immediate adoption is desirable. It will cost the nation more than 600,0001. to remedy the disasters which have occurred during the last six years in New Zealand—disasters the occurrence of which would have been prevented, had the home Govern ment possessed the means of speedy communication with the colonial authorities. Intelligence has been received that the Russian Go vernment has prohibited the export of grain of all kinds from the Russian dominions. This will seriously affect the markets both in France and England, more rape• cially those of the former country, where large imports of corn from Odessa were confidently calculated on. A Berlin journal announces that the greatest part of the merchants of Cracow have given notice to their cor respondents that they are unable to fufil their engage ments, and they can only offer 5 per cent. ! Should this intelligence be true, Berlin, Dresden, and llamburgh will suffer severely. A letter from Warsaw of the Ist states, that all the Polish money now in circulation is to be called in and replaced by Russian coinage. The Government of Po land had intended to order the state offices not to re ceive from the present time any coins but those of Russia and Prussia, but on the representations made by the merchants and dealers, it deferred the execution of this project until the Polish money had been called in. [he same letter states that any person in Russia or Poland having in his possession the works of MICKE vnEz is punishable with banishment to Siberia and con fiscation of property. A letter from Stockholm, of Jan. 25, says— " Our legislation fur manufactures had remained until now that of the middle ages, with its guilds, superintending uries, and other obsolete institutions. For a length of time, and again under the last reign, public opinion vainly soli cited some improvement. The burgess classes, notwith standing their privileges, at last joined the other three classes in leaving the royal power all the latitude it might choose to assume in the matter, and, this day, royal ordinances have been issued, announcing, Ist, the abolition of guilds and su perintending juries, for 'which are substituted councils of prud'hommes; 2d, abolition of the obligatery duration of apprenticeship (seven years for some lines of business and eleven for others); 3d, liberty to establish a workshop without other formality than a certiacate of capacity from the council of prud'hommes ; 4th, the entire emancipation of domestic labour, any person being at liberty to do what work he pleases at his own house; sth, the faculty for every man, having a trade license, to sell what he pleases wholesale or retail. These provisions are to be in force from the Ist of July of the present year." Madrid papers of the sth have been received. The Sotomayor Cabinet, which had not been installed in office a week, was already falling to pieces. Senor SEIJAS LOZANO, the Minister of the Interior, has re signed in consequence of a difference with his colleagues, and the whole affair bears such a ricketty appearance, that it was presumed that General PAVIA, who had not yet arrived at Madrid, would scarcely consider it pru dent to accept office with such colleagues. It was re ported in Madrid that Senor lartram was to be sent as Ambassador to England. MADRID BoLse., FEB. s.—The Three per Cents, closed at 32i; the FiTO per Cents. at 201; Coupons, 191. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MgRYING, FEBRUARY 15, IM7. Bac. Her loss will be deeply mourned by her friends and by the poor, for her charity was unbounded. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 77f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 95c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares , 1 , 227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 848 f. 75c. ; Havre, 6601. ; Great Northern, 608 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 817 f. 50c. ; Yierzon, 567 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 533 f. 75c. ; Bou logne, 4121. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 330 f. ; Basle, 202 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 340 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4651. ; Tours and Nantes, 465 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 482 f. 50c. ; Cette, 455 t. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 34 3 / 4 f. MAasxtra.xs, FEB. 5.-Marseilles and Avignon, 8151. ; Northern, 607 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Fxßauear 12, Northern of France, 12% -Orleans and Bordeaux, 7. HAMBURG!! PAPERS. HAMBURGU, FEB. 9.—A portion of ice at Newmuhler began to drift yesterday, but the frost being sharp in the night the motion of the ice was again stopped, and fast ice produced, so that no improvement in the state of the ice in the Elbe is to be expected for some days. The London mail is not arrived. GLUCHSTADT, FEB. 9.—The state of the ice is not altered. The entrance to the harbour is free. THE ORIENTAL MAILS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt is the Herald newspaper that continually writes about her Majesty's tub steamers, as they call them, between Marseilles and Malta, and no matter what happens else where by delays, mismanagement, or private purposes of taking in cargo or passengers, still the Peninsular and Oriental Company make her Majesty's tub steamers, as they call them, responsible for everything that takes place. Now, then, the mail, before this, was delayed at Alexan dria, because the P. and 0. Company's steamer Tagus, leaving Southampton 3d January, could not get to Gibraltar till the 14th. Again, their brick steamer Ripon (why called brick steamer that company best knows) leaves Southampton 20th Ja nuary, and can't get to Gibraltar till the 30th. All this is from Lloyd's List. The one is 11 days getting from Southampton to Gibraltar, the other is 10 days—the ordinary time being six days; and it has often been done in four and a half days. Yet the Herald will make her Majes ty's steamers between Malta and Marseilles responsible for this. This, Sir, is the way the mails are constantly delayed as Alexandria, and not from the insufficiency of her Majesty's steamers, although I do not say they are first-rate; but at the Admiralty are intent on bettering that service, surely the Admiralty should not be the butt of the Peninsular and Oriental Company in the columns of the Herald. I send a copy of this letter to each newspaper, solely for the information of my Lords of the Admiralty, merchants of England, and other persons in London and at the out ports.—l am, Sir, your faithful servant, 31, Cornbill, Feb. 13,1847. THOMAS WAGIIORN. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—A corresp on d ent i n your exce ll ent ly con d uc t e d journal, asks, "Who is Mr. Cochrane, the present can didate for the representation of Westminster?" "Is he the same Mr. Cochrane who, some years since, travelled through the country as a Spanish minstrel?" "Is he the party who published a descriptive account of his wanderings through Kent and Sussex?" These ques tions require a straightforward answer; since it must not be borne, it must not be tolerated, that the large and influential city of Westminster shall be represented by a person who, in the disguise of a travelling musician, succeciei, in many instances, alas! too many instances, in insinuating himself into private families, and after wards exposed the flirtation of sundry misses, some in their teens, and others approaching that questionable age when ladies begin to think they are forgotten by the sterner portion of the sex. Ido not state that Mr. Cochrane is the man who thus acted; I do not aver that he is the individual who pub lished sundry amours in his book, which he pretended took place at Canterbury, Dover, Hastings, and Brighton ; I can scarcely believe that a man, who could betray the confidence of any female, after having been fed and pampered to satiety by her friends, and sup• plied with money, believing the said individual to be in the condition of an unfortunate political exile, would dare to affront a highly respectable and honourable con stituency with his presence. But, Sir, you say—" Per. haps Mr. Cochrane will inform the eh ctors whether he is the person I have thus hastily alluded to ?" My reply is, do not take Mr. Cuchrane's word for his innocence. I knew the wandering minstrel—the poor amiable young man who had been driven from friends and home, owing to political disturbances in his own country—l have seen him often, but not since he gathered silver and gold from those who pitied his pretended misfortune—from those who fostered the viper, who felt for and sympathised with him in his assumed distressed condition, and I might be able to identify him ; yet, there is a probability of clearing up the point beyond the possibility of doubt. The minstrel's work was printed by Mr. Brettel, of Rupert-street, Haymarket ; and I have reason to know that that gentleman is perfectly acquainted with the person of Mr. Cochrane, and can, therefore, without difficulty, set the matter at rest, and thus ease the minds of many parties who have promised Mr. Cochrane their support, but who would at once withdraw it if Mr. Cochrane can be identified as the wandering minstrel. Allow me to add, that, for years, Mr. Brettel has taken a very prominent part in the Westminster election; he is a Liberal too ; and would no doubt, not only for the credit of the House of Commons, but for the honour and reputation of Westminster, set the matter at rest. I am, Sir, faithfully yours, J. W. Fleet-street. MR. COCHRANE and the ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. TO THE ED1T01? OF THE SUN. _ - - - • - Stn,—As an elector of Westminster allow me to ask, whether the Mr. Charles Cochrane, who now so ostenta tiously parades his pretensions to represent Westminster, is the same person as one Senor Juan de Ve,ga, who some few years back published a journal of a tour through Great Britain and Ireland, and wh o th en paraded a ser i es of adven tures in various towns and places at which modesty and de cency felt ashamed, and whose public avowal signallyproved the want of good taste and common propriety in the writer. If they be one and the same person, the electors of West minster ought to know it. If not, M r. C oc h rane cannot too soon disown the identity.—l am, Si r , your o b ed i ent servant, S t . J ame s's, Feb. 12. ALPHA. We cannot answer this query. Doubtless Mr. Cochrane Sun i DESTITUTION IN IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--A few days ago I saw in your valuable paper a letter from a brother traveller, suggesting that we should raise a fund for the poor of this fine, but unhappy country; and he suggested that we should subscribe at least five shillings each. Now, Sir, the object of thi s letter is to suggest that every traveller shall do what he can; but I trust that most of us will give at least a pound. I have already given at a public meeting; but, Sir, I am willing to forego some of my usual comforts to aid in feeding the starving multitudes in this country. It would be useless for me to attempt to describe the misery that I witness from day to day. The public papers are full of the horrors that the poor suffer. I call on my brother travel d le e rs m t u o e d h o twhehmatsetthveesy, andcan tthoesytimmauy late others in various towns as they go through their j in o d u u rn c e e y iot ; arn, Sir, your most obedient servant, JOHN WEBB. btehrseYtorndaoy more. Hotel, Waterford, Feb. 10, 1847. General the Hon. Arthur Upton succeeds his deceased brother the Viscount Templetown, as a member of the committee of the Musical Union. The Gallant General is a well-known practical amateur on the violin, and a liberal patron of the metropolitan musical institutions. NUMEROUS SUDDEN DEATHS.-011 Friday Mr. W. Carter, the Surrey Coroner, held four inquests on the bodies of persons who had died suddenly. The first was taken at the Swan Inn, near Peckham. the other three were held in the parish of St. Magdalen, Bermondsey. ASTLEYS.—DESTITUTE IRISH AND SCOTCH BExEm.— We regret to state that the entire evening's t receipts of the benefit given by Mr. Batty last T hursday for the destitute Irish and S cotch did no 57/. ls. 6d., w hich sum he has entirely appropriated to their relief, witout any deduction whatever for the expenses of his extensive establishment, and which has been forwarded to:the Committee of the British Association for the:distressed districts, South Sea House. We are sorry the sum was so small, as every effort was made on the part of Mr. Batty to ensure success. The Government are about to allocate a grant in aid of the orphan charities of Ireland. Similar grants have been made in former years.—Linierick Chronicle. We read in a letter from Alexandria, Jan. 24 : " Since my last letter, announcing the appearance of the cholera in the Helms and its ravages, we have received other news. On the departure from Aden o f the English steamer that town enjoyed perfect health, although its suburbs were infected. From Cairo, un d er date of the 20th ult., we learn that the Viceroy, in opposition to the advice of the physician Clot-Bey, had ordered the cordon to be closed at Suez and Cosseir, in order to prevent the return of the great caravan of pilgrims into Egypt, and had sent provisions acd tents to Akaba, where the caravan was directed to stop. Similar precautions had been taken at Cosseir and Suez for the pil grims arriving by sea. By these measures the Pacha hoped to prevent the cholera from entering Egypt. It appears, however, that after having made a great number of victims, the fell disease had completely ceased. The pilgrims that have already arrived at Alexandria say that when about to perform the usual ceremonies at the tomb of the Prophet, a dreadful wind arose, which continued several days, and caused many persons to die of the disease. The Pacha of Damascu s and the Mollah of Mecca were amongst the dead. The authorities had ordered the public criers to recommend the pilgrims to depart from Mecca, and they all immediately abandoned the place. It is stated that Geda had not been g u g n u - n b s o — at h s: mounting each from 3 to 5 guns. visited by the pestilence." THE Duicu NAvY.—Accord in g to the Hague Journal, the Dutch fleet consists of 7 ship s of the l ine , 2 of 84 guns and 5 of 74; 3 frigates of the I st class, of from 54 schooners, 100 ships i fsro amed32,t30148 to 60 guns ; 14 ditto of the 2d class, from 32 t o 44 guns; 3 frigates, cut down, of 28 guns; 13 corvett es, with tw o decks, mounting from 26 to 28 guns; 3 ditto , from 20 to 22 guns; 12 brigs of the I s t class, from 12 to 18 guns; 6 ditto of the pgu 2d, from 8 t o 14• 21 s c hooners, f. om 3 to 14 guns; is guns;n guns. transports,h3ereared with besiei7 5 6 There has been an increase of 20,0001. in the ex cise of Limerick upon spirits alone in the past year. ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY. —A special meeting of the shareholduts of this association was convened on Fri thy, at the offices of the company Au sti n - friars, for the purpose of hearing the statement of one of the directors, S, P. Pratt, Esq., EELS., on his return foul the Asturias. The chair was ti'led by Gideon Colquhoun. Esq. The report t t Mr. Pratt, in ref e r ence t o th e c oudition of the w or k s an d mines in Spain, was highly satisfactdry. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday.) The Cotton-market at Liverpool was flat again yesterday. Sales of the week, 19,860 bales. Stock now 449,840 bales against 857,370 bales at this time last year. The consump tion this year has fallen off nearly one-half—say by 95,000 bales, while the imports are 56,000 bales less. The Share market at Liverpool yesterday was very dull. There are no arrivals to-day with news of any importance and the progress of the debate on Lord George Bentinck'a Bill seems to occupy chief attention, and not even the argu ments of such practical men as Mr. Hudson and Mr. Chaplin convince many here. The employment which railway works would furnish in Ireland would, it is contended, be too par tial to relieve the districts most distressed. The changes in the Bank of England balance-sheet during the week to the 6th inst. were chiefly these : , Notes issued, 25,504,325/. ; decrease, 668,543. Public deposits, increase, 205,3661. Ot her deposits, decrease, 477,175/. Seven day and other bills, increase, 11,208/. Other securities, decrease, 86,136/. .Notes, increase, 187,3001. Bullion, 12,287,7371.; decrease, 613,921/. It will be observed, therefore, that the directors have strengthened themselves in the banking department by an appropriation from the notes issued, and that they are diminishing their liabilities in the issue depart ment to more than the extent of the reduction in their bullion, which we hope ere long to see partially checked, although the exchanges continue adverse at present, and a good deal of silver has left England again this week. Ire land will prove as great a drain in this respect as the Con tinent, though it is to the Continent we now specially allude. The Stock Market presents a trifling improvement. Consols are 90% to 90% for transfer next week, and 90 1 / 2 to 903 for account. Exchequer-bills continue at ss. to Bs. premium. Bank Stock is worth 203 1 /. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 92% to 92%. In the foreign house the transactions have been of very minor interest. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 2474, and the Three per Cents. 35. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 34 1 / 2 . Mexican Bonds are worth 22. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 5818. Shares have been without much alteration. Northern of France are better. On the London New Stock and Share Exchange, Old Broad-street, the business during the week has been fluc tuating, and in the scrip of the various conveyance schemes almost nil from the resolution of the committee not to en courage any except of a bona fide character. The scrip of the Parcel Post Company, however, just now seems to be a favourite in this locality. 131{1T1S11 FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. • • • • 203 203 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9034 91 91 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 90%%% 90% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Inns. 921 2 %% 92% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 9 9-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 14 p 14 p Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. 14 p Consols for Account • • •• .• • • •• DON, Exchequer Bills. INd. 1,0001... .... 5 8 prn. 5001. .... 6 9 pm. 9 Ditto, Small 6 9 pm. 9 ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. riacEs. FOREIGN FUNDS. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . .. Ditto, Deferred 531 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. 22 Portuguese Four per Cent 3414 Russian Bonds .. .. 112 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 24% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 35 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 38 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-liall per Cent .. 5814 5 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% 92% PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSIN(3 DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. • • •. • • Birmingham and Gloucester ..100 .... 122 X:d. Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% .14 . 13 5 4 Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 4 ...... 10 1 A, Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 225. .... Buckinghamshire 84s. p. ex int 1i p x.int. Direct Northern Scrip .. • • • Eastern Cotutties .. .. 20 .... 21 ex div. 21 x.if Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. •..• • • ... Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 6!. 133. 4d. .. •. Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 4% .......... Eastern Union .. .. 10 .... 13!i.......... Ditto, Quarter Shares East Lancashire .. • • .. Ditto Nbw Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 134 .. • • East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6134 Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. Great North of England Great Western Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... • .... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 1 % .. •• .......... Ditto, New ...... Ipswich mid Bury St.Edmunds .. 11 • .. Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... •• • ....... 3% Leeds and Bradford .. 35 .... 75% %ex div.. 78 1 % x. d. Leeds and Thirsk 22% .... 19%.......... 19 1 ,4 Liverp., 31aneh., & Newc. Junct. 2% 1% 2........ 2 London and 14Iackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. • • ..... . BSi Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • . •• .. 1 p.. • ... 1 p London and Greenwich .. 12/. 155. 4(1. .......... 9% London atm North-Western . —lOO ....IS t x div. ... • 183% Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... Ditto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .... •• • • ..... • 13% London and South-Western.. 41/. 6s. 108. • • 65 64 ........ 64 Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 46 .. 46 Ditto, New .. 224.... 25% 25 ...... 25 Ditto, Scrip • • .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 5 3 •• .. Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 •• .. — Ditto Extension .. 425. .. • • p.. • • • Ditto % (late Hudiers. & Sheff.) 23 . ..... ...• 27% Manchester and Southampton .. 2 • Midland ..100 Ditto, New .. 30 .• .. 35M x div... Ditto, New .. .. 2 .... Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. • • 31% ... • North British .. .. • . 25 .. • . 34N 34% Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 124 •• • • 1654 Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 2M• • .. 4% 34 ...... • Ditto, Extension .. • • .. % .... 1 tA, ....... .• • Its Ditto, Thirds • . .. • • • • I .... 3% %% North Staffordshire .. • • • - 5 ••.. . . Oxford,Woreest.,& Wolverhmptn. 17% .... 11% ........ • • 11% Preston and Wyre .. • • • 25 . Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 6%.. • . 10% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... ........ Ditte, Class B .. • . • • • • 1M —1% Shropshire Union .. 425... dis. %dis x.i. South Devon .. .. 40 .... 33% .. • • •• • • 33% South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's • • 2 .... 334.......... Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 . West Riding Union .. • . 425..... p...... York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .. . Ditto, New.. .. .... 11% 3 ,4 • Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... % York axd North Midland .. 50 . Ditto, Extension .. 20 .... 36 M %xd . • 36xd Ditto, Preference ••.• .. 2 .... 11% •• • • • 11% Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 10 •. • - 21% •.•• . • • • 21% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 18 .. ••••• • • • 14 M Dutch Rhenish .. 7 41( 41 4 Namur and Liege .. • • .. 8 .. 2% .• • • 2% Northern of France • • .. . • 8 .... 1214 • • 12% Paris and Lyons .. • • .. 8 .... 7 M ....... •.. 714 Rouen and Havre . .20 .... • • Sambre and Meuse .. .. 12 .......... 6% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland .. 25 .... 44% .. 214 .. - ...... • ... 123 We hare received the Paris papers of Thursday. In speaking of the articles which have appeared in the London journals on the subject of the speeches of M THIERB and M. G UIZOT the Journal des Debuts says— " The Spanish marriages have caused in England a dis satisfaction which we regard as natural, although unjust ; it is quite a matter of course that the justification which M. Guizot was compelled to make of his policy should excite feelings of the same nature. The language of the English journals may appear to us regretable, but is neither extra ordinary nor unexpected." The escapade of M. GUIZOT, in his speech in the Chamber of Deputies on the Spanish marriage questions will probably cause his secession from office. Ile, in fact, all but directly accused the Marquis of NORMANBY of having given to his Government a false account of the interview of the 25th of September. M. GUIZOT has thus placed the English Ambassador in such a position that he cannot remain passive. It is said that AL GUIZOT offers to make an explanation in the columns of the Journal des Debats. As this explanation so made will be anonymous and unofficial, of course it will be no reparation of the injury done to the Marquis of NORMANBY, and he cannot accept it as such. Where the insult was offered there should the reparation bo made, and M. GUIZOT, as a gentleman and a man of honour, is bound to declare openly in the Chambers that there is no foundation whatever for insinuating that the English Ambassador has given to his Government an unfair or an untrue ac count of the interview in question, or, if he still persists in his accusation, ho is bound to state what really did pass at the interview in question. But it is evident that M. G UISOT is wrong, or he would not have made an offer to retract through the columns of the Journal des Debats. A Cabinet Council is to be held on the subject. It is generally thought, however, that he will leave office shortly on some question of secondary importance, as many of the Conservatives have declared that on account of his mauvais procides in the conduct of the negotia tions relating to the marriages, they can no longer sup port a Government of which he shall continue a mem ber. To add still fuether to his embarrassments, the Prussian Minister officially presented to him on Wed nesday a protest, on the part of the Prussian Govern ment, in which the King of PRUSSIA declares his entire accordance in the views of the English Government on the subject of the Montpensier marriage, and contends that the issue of such marriage cannot inkerit the throne of Spain, as they are excluded by the renunciations and provisions of the Treaty of Utretcht. The I'resse most unwillingly admits the ac cession of Prussia to the views of England. It says_ "M. Guizot in his last speech announced that Lord Palmerston had renewed his overtures to the three Northern Courts, to obtain from them a declaration in opposition to the rights of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Montpen_ sier, in case Queen Isabella should happen to die without heirs. It appears that Lord Palmerston has succeeded with the Court of Prussia, for the Cabinet of Berlin is said to have made a declaration in accordance with England in this re spect." The Duke of PALMELI.A has landed at Toulon from the Labrador steam-frigate from Algiers. The discussion onthe'address was continued on Thurs day, and had not concluded at the hour of post. A letter from Algiers of the 3d says—" The steam packet which came in yesterday evening with the mail from the West has brought important news. General MAREY, having marched from Medeah to act against the Ouled Nayls, at the head of the column placed under his command, has had to sustain a conflict, but in which the enemy suffered most severely. We have also expo. rienced some losses. We are as yet without the details of this affair, which seems to indicate that Bou MALs has made some progress in the country. We have just learned that General Yussour has received orders to ' join General MAREY with the whole of the cavalry at his diposal, and that this column will march on the Bth." , The lady of the Viscount DE CUATEAUBRIAND ex pired on Wednesday, it her residence in the Rue du COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Earl Spencer, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Lin coln, Lord Portman, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., and the Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, were introduced by Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to her Majesty, and took the oaths as members of the Council of the Duchy of Lan caster. Mr. Danvers, the Clerk of the Council to the Duchy, attended. Senor Toro had an audience of the Queen, and pre sented to her Majesty his credentials as Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Venesula. His Excellency was introduced by Vis count Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by the lion. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., the Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; the Vice Cham berlain, and Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Miss Paget and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, visited her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, on Saturday, at her re sidence at Kensington. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, went on Saturday morning to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in Somerset House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompa nied by the Princess Mary, visited her Majesty on Saturday. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, Count Alexander Mensdorff, his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of Wellington, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Au. gusta Cadogan, Baroness de Speth, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord George Lennox, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household at tended Divine service in the private chapel at Bucking ham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtensy officiated. His Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Hesse was present at the Queen's Levee on Friday. Colonel J. G. Griffith, Bombay Artillery, was presented to her Ma jesty at the Levee, on his return from India, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Clare, K.P. Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Paget have succeeded the Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Qneen. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dnchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Mor peth, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The Council sat two hours and a half. The Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Auckland, and a deputation, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John flornby, M.P., and Mr. F. S. Head, had an interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt, on Saturday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways. Mr. Cross had an interview with Sir George Grey on • i nterview with The Rev. W. Thursby h ad also an nterview with the Right Hon. Baronet on Saturday, at the Horne office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a committee meeting on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officitved, and preached the sermon. At the daily service, the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, arid the lessons by the Rev. Dr. H. Dakins. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The enthem was God is our hope" (Greene). Sir George Smart p re sided at the organ. The Mai vises of Salis bury ;aid Graitb:, I cs-d , , Fcrteseee, Listovs e l, G ranv ill e, De Mauley, Vivian, and Ebrington, were among the nobility present. " LAC LITERATURE. The CAMP and the BARRACK-ROOM ; or, the BRITISH ARMY AS IT IS, by a late Staff- Sergeant of the 13th Light Infantry. The author of this work is by birth and education a gentleman. It appears that he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Dublin, but that in conse quence of severe losses sustained by a mercantile friend, it became necessary for him to seek other means of support besides those arising from his position as a junior partner. Under these circum stances being compelled to "seek service," and be lieving the service of her Majesty to be less degrading than that of any private individual, he enlisted in the 13th Light Infantry, was sent out to India to join his regiment, proceeded to Calcutta, from thence to Bombay, and from there to Sinde, where he remained some time in garrison at Kurrachee and Sukkur, and on arriving home with his regiment, after an absence of two years, purchased his discharge. Considered merely as a book of travels, this is one of the most amnFing ever published. The author possesses the art of nar ration in the highest perfection. His descriptions of scenery are dashed off with the touch of an artist, and his reflections on the manners and customs of the natives of India are sound and philosophical. The chief value, however, of this book consists in the fact that it shows us the British army as it is—that it rends in twain the veil which has hitherto screened the doings at the Horse Guards and in the army for the public. The great cause of all the evils in the army may be traced to ignorance—the gross and crass ignorance of the officers who, without being subjected to any examination, are per mitted to purchase their commissions, utterly ignorant of military duties, without even the rudiments of an ordinary education, unable in many instances even to spell, they are obliged to delegate their powers to non-commissioned officers, at whose tyranny, bru tality, and dishonesty, they connive, because they are entirely dependent upon them. From the moment a recruit enlists, he is subject to the peculations of non commissioned officers at the depot where he may be stationed, who practice all sorts of tricks to deprive him of his pay. " One mode of depriving the recruit of his pay, is to give him an old shattered musket, easily injured ; thus there are ten chances to one, that some part of it gets broken, while it is in his possession ; and he has in consequence a round sum to pay on delivering it into the store, when leaving the garrison. I have known this to be the case with many persons, some of whom had to pay ten shillings for stocking an old musket in use for the past forty years, and the intrinsic value of which might be ascertained by weighing the barrel, and calculating its worth at twopence per pound. Whether such were ever stocked, is a question the ar mourer alone can decide ; but in any case, he and the pay sergeants quietly arranged it all their own way." The commissioned officer is generally severe, in pro portion to his ignorance. One of these martinets is thus described by our author : " He used frequently to visit the barracks ; and woe then to the unlucky wight who had a fold wrong in his bedding, a knapsack-strap out of its place, or his chin strap fastened above the number on his forage-cap ; three days taps being his ordinary punishment for offences of this character. Yet I have seen this offi- 14 p 344 112 13% s! ‘ sg P cer, who was so strict a disciplinarian as regarded tri vial matters, at a subsequent period, when he had be come first major of his corps, unable to put the regi ment through the manual and platoon exercise ; while on another occasion, when an inspecting-general was on the ground, he could not find where the points were when directed to dress them by his colonel. "There are many such in the service; men who strait. at a gnat and swallow a camel; and consequently, our armies will never be destitute of a Braddock or an Elphinstone; in spite of our having a Marlborough in one age, and a Wellington in another, to remodel and mould them anew. England wants a polytechnique ' school. She requires teat merit, not money, should elevate men in her military service; and were this desi deratum achieved, her troops would be indeed invincible. In the existing state of things, many creep in time of peace to the command of corps, by purchase or seniority, who are about as fit to lead a regiment as a peasant from the plough-tail is to turn courtier; their inability being never ascertained until some capital faux pas is committed in front of an enemy, which sullies our na tional honour." These last observations are worthy of most serious consideration. It is absurd to expect that a better class of men will be induced to enter the army, so long as they are liable to be tyrannised over by officers who are in every respect their inferiors. The true way to elevate the character of the men is to elevate the character of the officers, by doing away altogether with the system of purchase, and by sub jecting every candidate for a commission to a rigid examination, so as to ascertain that he possesses a certain amount of professional and of general knowledge, to insist upon a certain period of actual service in an inferior grade before pro motion to a superior one, and to precede each step by another examination. As to the necessity of some such reform taking place, if it is considered desirable, to attempt to elevate the character of the soldier, let the reader judge, after the perusal of the following advice given by the author to any young man who is thinking about entering the army : " And now, reader, if you are a young man dissatis fied with your condition in life because you consider yourself superior to it, and have been induced to sup pose you will get into your proper sphere by entering the army, I would offer you, in conclusion, a word of advice. "If dissatisfied with your condition, reflect well before you take a step which will have the most impor tant influence on all your after life; a man who binds himself for an unlimited period, must be guilty of the greatest folly, should he do so rashly or inconside rately. You' are already aware, that to succeed in improv ing your condition in the army, you must be patient, in dustrious, methodical, humble, and, as the truth had better be told, servile. Do not suppose for a single moment you can do much good there, without at the least a major part of these qualifications; I thought I could be a soldier without being servile; I was simple enough to imagine that unblemished reputation, zeal for the ser vice, and an earnest desire to be useful, would be my stepping-stones to preferment:—l need scercely say that I was deceived. " In the army, you will have to be your own servant: to perform all the menial offices so disagreeable to those who have had persons hitherto to wait on them. You must not resent insult, if the person offering it be only a lance-corporal; and you will have to listen patiently and in silence to the contemptuous remarks of a man who, very probably, is your superior only because his father was fortunate in trade, and therefore able to pay 4501. for a commission for his son; who has in his turn learned (to him, perchance, an unmeaning phrase) to say, "Pon his honour,' and to look down on you with all the quaint consequence of little-mindedness, as a being of an inferior species. " If you are a person of intelligence, therefore, and capable of earning a subsistence in any respectable way, I would advise you to eschew the army while the exist ing state of things there continues; until, at the verb least, the officer is taught to act agreeably to the laws .1 the service, in his dealings with those under him; and when he cannot, at any rate, compel them to be servile or mean, if not themselves so disposed. As matte's stand at present, the man who may have learned at hedge-school to half spell, half read a page or two, and to scrawl his copy dated,' will be almost certain to get the whip hand of you in the race for promotion; for h, is a useful person, and will assist the lieutenant's servant occasionally, or help to clean the captain's boots. Rest assured, the army, as now administered, is the last place you should go to for the purpose of improving your condition. Resolve rather to be a citizen of the world, and to take the energy and intelligence you may possess to where they will have a reasonable chance of being fairly appreciated." DIARY AND LET.Th.II OP MADAME D'ARBLAY. Vols. VI. and VII. Many pleasant and sparkling books of gossip have been written and published by contemporaries of the age in which Oliver Goldsmith and Dr. Johnson made their last appearance, and in which Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott made their first appearance. Actors and dramatists, authors and artists, courtiers and petit maiires soldiers and statesmen, sailors and civilians of every grade and distinction, have contributed volume upon volume to the enormous library illustrative of the occur rences and personage.s of that extraordinary epoch. of och. Perhaps the c e ntury comprised between the mid the eighteenth and towards the middle of the nineteenth must be regarded par exellence as the mo st tr that epoch America in the worl achieved's history. h e rindependence,l t was during a e thatnx.d that, a t interval u ar p y_ re had übep wards s discoveredo f two centuries Columbus, after t hae re ew public b l h i c w l a e m sp s h fe founded beyond the Atlantic by the ,polrd of a inho a m e e o l u y n s t e r n y s g e e o nt a le jour neymanman printer and the sw l . It Julius s during nd the youngthat i n t King erva that a Macedon i t a h e e e ddeeds wereof the exceededgreat in civilised Europe by a Corsican adventurer. Th en i t was that lived our English Cicero—Pitt; and our Irish Demosthenes—Grattan: one of the greatest poets of England—Byron: the greatest poet of France—Beranger. It were hopeless, however, to enumerate even the mere names of the remarkable characters of this generation, without encroaching upon our columns to an extent from which we are precluded by the sitting of Parlia ment. Besides, it would be altogether superfluous to the vast majority, seeing that there is no other period with the outlines of which the majority is so intimately and naturally familiarised. Nevertheless the multitude is not so far familiarised with the domestic lives of the men and women in question that they can regard with little curiosity the contents of such autobiographies as this straggling diary of Madame D'Arblay. There is an in terest about volumes of this character altogether irre spective of the genius or idiosyncracy of the narrator. To the million, for example, it matters not the value of twopence what were the compliments paid to Madame D'Arblay, nee Burney, or what were the peregrinations of Madame D'Arblay, nee Burney, considered in her in dividuality. Not that we by any means deprecate the abilities of that deceased lady, but that, clever as we perforce regard " Evelina," and humorous as we ac knowledge" Cecilia" to be, we are thoroughly convinced that they have not sufficientgenius to render them classics, and thereby to obtain for their writer a place in the thoughts and affections of posterity. It would be an absurdity to maintain otherwise. For the day—for the hour —pour passer le temps, when afflicted with dyspepsia or the he:id?cht• tietioni solaet• to Luudreds. But they lavr not the golden stamp of perpetual attraction—they cannot rank even with the =allot of the indestruotable treasures of our ba,.......411 ...wag* lions literature: and to mi. hence it is indisputable that , care not the value of twopence fur the individu tli ' l inions A) rbla Y , or the individual circumstances, of Madame D nee Burney. It is only as an intelligent by 3ctator of wonderful occurrences, an observant companion of much greater people than herself, that the " author lina," as her editor delights to call her, is web (Lme to the generality of readers now Yet the 'moat -a-days. • verti delightful characteristic of this " Diary " is the im tient modesty with which Madame D'Arblay bctra) *4s e'er own belief that she must cont;nue the heroine tbs.,' ugh out, that her figure is most prominent; in the diffi !rent scenes, that her name, and her observatiood, and ter frivolities, and her meditations, must prove the I airs ' mount attraction to every reader to the remotes , ' b`'t ds o; time, and the furthermost limits of Mace. 04:atial na p D'Arblay is assuredly ore of the greatest* egoti StS tti a " ever breathed. Jean Jacques was nothing to Li t r. " Self " is the circumference in which all her id e as C tr culate—it is like the " incorruptible Concave " c f 15. 16 _: - totle, embracing the whole universe to her naiad, end"' lowing 3 very other sphere of intellect to revolve in i t *lone. Egotism, however, while being one of the mo Pr °- yoking of the smaller vices, is at the same time e" O f the most forgiveable. We madly forgive the ego firm o the illustrious, such as that of Horatius Flaccus, I ecaase we are almost rejoiced to find them conscious e (th eir own immortality. We can forgive the egotism of OW. again, who are the least entitled to indulge in , thitt fashionable failing; and, among such, MadatneD'A cblaYe nee Burney, is pre eminent;" because:we are amuse ti .With their extravagant and pitiable effrontery. The nous diary of which these sixth and seventh v skim°' form the conclusion, is rendered most amusing I t y this very extravagance of effrontery. Such complim3 tots ad Madame D'Arblay records about herself ! Such panegyrics upon her writings ! Such egi 4gl . ous goose - flattery from the mouths of sit cetruig imbeciles clad in ermine and crowned with din demi And Madame D'Arblay swallows all these sickly condi" ments with an avidity actually ridiculous, and es ;Its 11 1 the repast, as if these sugared words were food erutri tious to the mind, and astringent to the charact. sr 1 paradox of woman ! 0 large-witted " author r)t • Eve . lina !" 0 small-witted writer of the Diary ! , It id amusing to observe the tremors and agitation wit] v. • which Madame D'Arblay always enters the presence oft xr. OUP whether it be the Duchess d'Angoulime, Geot .g 4 3 the Third, or Louis le Desirt Her heart is alwa ; inr nervous state of palpitation when a Royal Bight let du" dresses her ; when a sovereign speaks to her of I the terrace at Windsor, she is ready to fall down tt hie feet" from emotion (vide Vol. VI., p. 221). ft _is all very picturesque for her to affect a love for sy lva n re treats, but her heart is only elated when beatii ig i n the precincts of a court. She may, for a moment, a; ?pet date that beautiful verse of Metastasio— " In quel rozzo angusto tetto, Che ricetto a not Con la gioja e col diletto • L'innocenza alberghera." She may even appreciate it so far as to trans] Ito .it into words as beautiful as tilip following:— Our simple narrow mansion Will suit our station well ; There's room for heart expansion, And peace and joy to dwell. But it is evident, from the Miele colouring of b Mina' that she only enjoyed life in the salons of the ce-onto la crime, or, better still, in the drawing-roe. rt Is of g/ , palace. While wo feel compelled to as y much in depreciation of the strength if Di r dame D'Arblay's character, we must a c know ledge that her writings are throughout keen, spa s. and satirical. Wherever there is fun, there, be tll re' to sufficient cause for laughter, either on the lip, or it Itr sleeve of isladame D'Arblay. Her portraitures ot . dame Duval, of the " vulgar cousins," of Evelins, 4) / Mister Briggs, and of Captain Mervyn are good p; of this. Sly humour was her delight, and we wt. l i' ; wager that her features relaxed considerably at 'A". queer assurance with which the Chevalier D'Arblay. eluded his letter to her on the 16th of November, 13 ', ; lie has been commenting upon the suppression of °- vicious practice of duelling by the First Consul, Be olr, parte. and asks how could dishonour attach itself' to breve soldiers, from refusing to fight with their co. 11/ :, rades. Then, says he, •‘ Depuis ma conversation sujet, je n'en vois pas passer un sand etre ten d'aller, shake hand, nv,c lot." In this portion of a ';e correspondence Madame D'Arblay describes her at / i impressions on beholding the youthful conqueror Italy and Egypt in his Consular Palace of the Tuillerli For the satisfaction of the readers we transcribe this i 11 ; teresting portion of the narrative. The English ladsv standng at one of the windows of the chateau, in ex' tation of a review by the First Consul:— 34 0 " The scene now, wi t h regar d to a ll th a t was press s was splendidly gay an d h ig hly an i mat i ng . The rot' was full, but not crowded, with officers of rank in su tuous rather than rich uniforms and exhibing a ataW i , air that became their attire, which, however, gener I speaking, was too g o r geous to be noble. t' " Our window was that next to the consular apt OA naent, in which B ona p ar t e was h o ldi ng a levee, ' 11 4 3 it was close to the steps ascending to it ; by wh /-0(1 means we saw all the fo r m s o f th e var ious exits es entrances, and had opportunity to examine every dr,t o , and every count e n ance t h at p asse d an d rep '1 as sed. °1 was highly amusing, I m i g ht sa y h is t o ric, where the pa , histcry and the present office were known. "Sundry footmen of the First Consul, liveries, were attending to bring or arrange' inn hairs required them ; various peace-officers , .h ae seler, begilt, paraded occasionally up and down the 4 , to keep the ladies to their windows, and the g•mtlemen to their ranks, so as to preserve the passa L ,•,e or lane through which the First Consul was to walk -.upon hill entrance, clear and open ; and several. gent le manlike looking persons, whom in former times I sit :h e a r t ) ; s an t . ; supposed pages of the back stairs, dressed in black* sld with gold chains hanging round their necks, a at I medal ) I b a 1 T. : lions pending from them, seemed to have the ei large Of the door itself, leading immediately to the Audience chamber of the First Consul. "But what was most prominent in co:m manding notice, was the array of the aides-de-camp a Bonr, parte, which was so almost furiously striking;, that s!: other vestments, even the most gaudy, denly under a gloomy cloud when contrasteet with f brightness." • " The Prince of Orange then passed us to enter ...- audience chamber, with a look so serious, an air SO d e, to ,h pressed, that I have not been at all surprised tear he was that very night taken very ill. aPpeatared su . d o " The last object for whom the way was cleared oil the Second Consul, Cambae‘ris, who advanced with stately and solemn pace, slow, regular, and conseque e ' tial, dressed richly in scarl e t and go ld, and never tooli ing to the right or left, but w ear ing a mien of fill.' gravity and importance. He had several persons 1„ ; his suite who, I think, but am not sure, were Minist er of State." "At length the two human hedges were fins ll / formed, the door of the audience chainner was thrown wide open with a c omm a ndin g cras h, ,and a viveeil , officer—sentinel—or I kno w n o t wh a t, n i m bly descend a the three steps into our apartment, l ied placing infuse' at the side of the door. with one hand spread a s high ll ° possible above his head, and the other Extended horizon' tally, called out in a loud and authoritative voice, ' t'reinier Consul 1' " You will easily believe nothing more was necessarf to obtain attention ; not a soul either. spoke or stirred ae he and his suite passed along, wh icb, was so quickl),. that, had I not be e n pl ace d so nea r th e d oor , an d had not all about me facilitated my standing foremost, and being least crowd-obstructed, I could ;hardly have sees trim. As it was I had a view so near, though s o brio' of his face, as to be very muc , ! struck by it. It is of 1) , deeply impressive cast, pal _. uven to saikwness, while n o t only in the eye, but in every feature, care, though t ' melancholy, and me di tat i on are strongly- marked, pith so much of character, nay, genius; and'. so penetrating seriousness, or rather sadness, as powerfully to sick lot° an observer's mind. " Yet, though the busts and medall ions I have sea l are, in general, such good resemblances that I thick I should have known him untold, he has by no WO ° the look to be expected from Bonap: irte, but rather that of a profoundly studious and coulteniplative insoo who o'er books consumes' not only the 'midnigh t oil,' but hi s own d a il y strength, ' and wastes till' puny body to decay' by abstruse speculation sod theoretic plans or rather visions, ingenio us but not prat' ticable. But the look of the commander who heads his own army, who fights his own battles, who con quers every difficulty by personal exert ion, who eXe' cotes all he plans, who performs even. all he suggests, whose ambition is of the most enterprising, and whose bravery is of the most daring cast ;—this, which is the look to be expected from his situation, a n d these:pions which have led to it, the spectator watt:l:l,es for in vain. The plainness also of his dress, so cot. Lai dcuously Con trasted by the finery of all around him,. ‘conspires for cibly with his countenance, so ' sicklied o'er with the pale hue of thought,' to give him far mote the air of * student than a warrior." " The review I shall attempt no der eruption of. have no knowledge of the subject, and no fondness for its object. It was far more superb than anything IMO ever beheld ; but while all the pomp aad circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me ; and a of past reflection, all of future dread, maide the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequentlywit. ll tears, but not rQgale my poor znascles with one singl e smile. "Bonaparte, mounting a beautiful and :spirited white horse, closely encircled by his glittering Aides-de campy and accompanied by his generals, rode rottnd the ranks, holding his bridle indifferently in either ham d, and soul' ing utterly careless of the prancing, reari ng, and other freaks of his horse, insomuch as to mike si Nine who were near me with a notion of his being a bad horseman. I am the last to be a judge upon this subj€ et ; but, as a remarker, he only appeared to me a man who knew 50 well he could manage the animal when he. ,pleased, that he did not deem it worth his while to keep constantly in order what he knew, if urged or provoked, h:e could sub due in a moment. " Precisely opposite to the window at lw.hich I Was placed, the Chief Consul stationed himself after making his round ; and thence he prefiented scale swords of honour, spreading out one arm \with an air and mien which changed his look from that of scho lastic severity to one that was highly mi litary gal commanding. "Just as the consular band, with their brazen drunis as well as trumpets, marched facing the Fir st Consuir the sun broke suddenly out from the clouds %which had obscured it all the morning; and the effect was BO abrupt and so dazzling that I could not help observing it to n3f friend." Besides these passages there are a multitud.a of sketches of the pr;nPipal a , .!tors in the military scenes of the time. In :=.;.gt:, of I. 7 ,nelit] walking with wile in lac? CLawf'` rnufded up in gain brown roeolo,"in sinotlierot a Very different person, M. de Chateaubriand, who is de scribed as "by no means tall, and is rather Wallet ; 4s!'"