The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

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The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers "resent W ere, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Camp bell. THORNEYCROFT V. CROCKITT AND OTHERS. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before their Lordships Upon an appeal against a decree of the Vice-Chancellor of f;ngland, in - which the question involved related entirely to the accounts taken between mortgagees and mortgagees. The details were wholly uninteresting except to the parties. Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the arguments Postponed their judgment. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENEILAND.) JOY V. BIRCH. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and concluded to-day, and His 110NOIAL reserved his judgment. kARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) William Saunders and William Ogle, two rough-looking Yo ung fellows, were charged with committing a robbery at the Queen's Head public-house, Little Putteney - street. olice-constable 31 C, said he was on duty near the had Head, on Sunday morning about three o'clock , and 4 (1 his attention excited by a creaking noise in the direc tion of the public-house door. He saw the two pri- Znere come out and place themselves under the i k adow of the nearest lamp. His suspicions being excited, . Il ue constable said he went up to examine the state of the ,„"se, and found it in darkness, no one up, and the door ttn; he therefore made for the prisoners , wh o, on seein g . Y were observed, immediately ran off. An alarm was gtven , and the two prisoners were taken into cust od y b y two other constables of the C division, and upon them were found quantity of broken cigars, screws of tobacco, money to the al nount of 6s. 6d., including 24 farthings and a qu antit y of other coppers, and a bottle of whiskey. The landlord of the Queen's-head. Mr. UAL said he left the doors securely fastened up when he went to bed, but one !f . the prisoners had, doubtless, concealed himself within, and 4 kt admitted his accomplice at the dead hour of the night, tittien all seemed to be quiet. The prisoners, who asserted their entire ignoran ce as to the `ll:cumsta nces of the charge, were committed to take their trial at the Old Bailey sessions. WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) lienry:Seale, a journeyman mechanic, was charged / itli riding in a second-class carriage of the Eastern rb ounties Railway, having paid for the third class only, and refusing to pay the difference, whereby he bad ren• 'Lered himself liable to a penalty of 403. Thomas Ashton, collector of tickets at Shoreditch, !posed that on the arrival of the train, at about eight ',clock last night, the prisoner was found in a second tps train, but produced a ticket for the third class only. , a had come from Chelmsford, the fare of which was ‘s• 6d„ a demand of an additional 2s. was therefore made 2f him, and on his refusing to comply he was given "'to the custody of the acting inspector of the company's Police. Robert M.Quin, acting inspector, deposed to his bay. Mtaken the prisoner into custody. The latter said he 4 ( 1 been put into the second-class train , although he , 7, 4 paid 2s. only. He was not aware of the difference. 1 e had paid once, and should pay no more. He then "maze very abusive. Robert Combre, a guard in the company's service, t il d he accompanied the train last evening from Bury. a arriving at Chelmsford, every precaution was used I T prevent passengers from getting into the wrong car „Nos. There was plenty of room in the third - cla ss ca rriages. Mr. BROUGHTON, on being handed a copy of the bye -11;,!'s on railways, said he was bound to enforce the la w . uo prisoner had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 4„ Re should, however, convict him in the penalty of c : 4l . to the Queen, or be imprisoned in the House of ` l4l rection one week. THE ARM Y, Th e 88th Regiment arrived at Barbadoes on t he 20th F ebruary, per the Herefordshire. There were a few saes of measles on board, which caused the ship to be quarantine. General Berkeley arrived at Bar a"es on the 23d of February, and assumed the com mand, There 16th Regiment left Gibraltar on the 9th instant. was not a man in the slightest degree disguised in liquor, and the entire corps maintained its credit for imaditless and soldier-like conduct to the last. The Euryalu s , convict ship, arrived at Gibraltar on t he 9th of March. A line-of-battle ship passed Gibraltar from the west „, without sho w ing colours, on the evening of the nut of March, and a line-of-battle ship was signalled to the eastwa r d on t h e morn i ng o f th e 10th of March, l t , l PPeged to b e t h e V engeance , with 42d Regiment, from "'WI, but she had not shown colours. WEST INDIES. 173"3ut. 61 ° of papers from British Guiana extends to the GoY e bruary. Lord Grey, in his dispatch to the andr uri t t „ PaYs high compliment to the Court of Policy th ey have n i t_Y-General for the zeal and ability with which Legislature to and carried several Bills assimilate the laws of the colonies to the laws of the mother country, among which is an Act for the establishment of trial by jury, tho operation of which, although a novelty, is carried out better than was anticipated. Among the parties tried was a male coolie for the murder of a female coolie. He was convicted and sentenced to be executed on the 20th inst. An in- Quential meeting had been held in Georgetown for the Irish and Scotch distress. The Lady Macnaughten arrived at Demerara in 73 uSys from Madras, with 200 males, 82 females, 31 boys, girls, and 7 children under one year, in good health. Three deaths and two births occurred on the voyage. The exports of produce were considerably on the i lerease, there having been, during t he first fortni g ht of 4bruary, as compared with the same period last year, 147 Hogsheads 27i Tierces of Sugar, 125 Barrels 253 Puncheons } of Rum, 26 Hogsheads 753 Puncheons 37 Hogsheads of Molasses, 6 Barrels and 307 Logs of Timber, 'ported more between the Ist and 16th of February , ' 47 , than in the same period in 1846 ; and in the same tried the imperts of luxuries indicate an improving 14Edition of the social feelings in the colony ; viz., there It 8 3 augmentation of 21,197 Gallons of Wine, • 905 Gallons of Brandy, 1,186 Dozens of Malt Liquors, and 437 Hogsheads of ditto, m ore imported than in the corresponding period of last . i tr• The demand for colonial produce was brisk , at a i l' durin g rates. Tonnage very scarce. The weather t ting the month had been exceedingly favourable, and tappearance of the crops encouraging. The immediate prospect of the railway being com menced, has given life to the inhabitan ts of the west " l ist, and is looked forward to b y all the colon y as a b," i l l k St important and valuable thing for the colony. L .ue Papers have begun to discuss the important question Colonization for European families in the interior of th is most extensive and valuable colony, which appe ars ." be well suited for the purpose. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne gave a grand entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Lansdowne House, on Satur -5Y last. A distinguished circle, comprising his Excellency mount de St. Aulaire, his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, the r-iarl and C ountess o f Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess alkland, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Lord Foley , Mr. Harcourt &c., were present to meet their Royal Highnesses , who were attended by Mr. E. St. John Mildmay and Lady A ugusta Cadogan. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a distin guished circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at their man rn in Grafton-street. The guests included the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscountess Cantalupe, Lord - Lyndhurst, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Lady Millet. The Right won. the Speaker of the House of Commons had a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at the family mansion in Eaten-square. The Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse re ceived a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday last, in Berkeley-square. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.—A letter of the 13th, from Berlin, states that the health of the Queen of Prussia had become so much improved that her Majesty had been able to leave her bed for several days. BINDING or SATAN.—During the past two or three weeks a number of persons have been going round the streets on the Surrey side_ of the water—wearing belts like t hose worn by the tire brigade, on which passages from the Scriptures are painted, carrying with them an ink-horn and long sheets of paper—soliciting signatures to what they pre ,`,end to be a petition to Heaven, for the binding of Satan , Lite Prince of Darkness. So eager are those parties to get th e Papers signed, that men, women, and childre n are stopped indiscriminately and requested to sign. Those who arei too young to sign, or unable to write their n ames, ha ve a same done for them by the men, who do not attempt to disguise the fact of belonging to the followers of Joanna So utheott. Upon several occasions a deal of c onfusion has b een created by the parties, for they generally manage to RO about with knots of forty or fifty persons, and occa "gonally discussions ensue which ar e ca lculated to brin g the c riPfures into perfect ridicule. One person, more intelli gent than the men who are hawking the petitions about, Inquired who it is that will present the petition, when the bla replied with the greatest coolness that as soon as a 7ll.tncient number of names are a tt a ched to the petition it h be presented to the throne of mercy by Joanna herself: urelv it is high time that such exhibitions are put down °Y the police. P HAT t i OF S IR ALEXANDER WOOD, K.C., M.G.— This gentleman, who for so many years was connected with our colonial Government, died late in the past week at his re sidence at Holles-street, Cavendish-square, at an advanced 1 1 :,', Ile proceeded to Ceylon on the civil establishment in a ` , and after filling the offices of Member of the Council C 8", Solo Commissioner of Revenue returned to England in in LI. He was subsequently Chief Secretary to the Govern _,.ent of Malta and the lonian Islands, and up to the period `4!, his demise was Resident Agent in England for the latter. Vi st e deceased was the son of the late Alexander Wood, J. , and an eminent member of the medical professio n in IL dlii' n hurgh, and mirried, in 1807, the eldest daughter of Sir nam Forbes, Bart. I`, 11 E SMITHFIELD NUISANCE.—A very distressing 4 C i ut nstance, arising from the driving of cattle to and from t htield market, through the crowded streets of the me tropvll,, adds another fatal case to the numbers which have rie c_!lrred fro m thi s l ong ex isting nuisance. A young mar- Q Woman, named Lott, residing in Tudor-street. Black friars, and who was about seven months advanced in preg to,7, on Monday last went out in good health and spirits b t ,'..'eet-street on an errand. She there became so alarmed ox from a drove, approaching the pavement, that it With difficulty she retraced her steps home, when she as prematurely delivered, and, notwithstanding the utmost but tion of medical skill, she could not rally from the shock, elPired yesterday. The Want likely to do well. Mff.NDA Y THE SUN, L THE FAST-DAY. (From the Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—ln the " good old times when George 111. was king," and the country was always at war for the sake of "the throne and the altar," Fast-days came round annually, and seemed to belong to our honoured institution and constitution. They were occasionally varied by Thanksgiving-days. When our soldiers had slaughtered many of the French, we gave thanks ; and when the French had slaughtered many of our soldiers, we fasted. The religion and the slaughtering always went together ; so that blood did but flow, there was sure to be devotion, and I suppose this was what inspired Wordsworth with the thought that "Carnage is God's daughter." The nation of that strange relationship is not abandoned, if we may judge from the recent Proclamation for a Fast. As in those days, our rulers ascribed to Deity the destruction of the French, so do they now ascribe to him the star vation of the Irish. The difference is, that then we wished Him to continue to destroy the French, and now we wish Him to leave off destroyine the Irish. Both slaughteringa are referred to Providence ; working in one case by leaien bullets, and in the other by rotten potatoes. It was gene rally supposed that this sort of barbarism was at an end. The number of those who know better has been multiplied in the interval. A new generatie II has sprung up; and if little has been done for its educe • tion, there is a widely-acting Spirit of self-instruction amongst the masses. Honest Fanaticism has been made more modest; and mere cant has become less effective. The proclamation for a Fast. day took the public by sur prise. People had thought of a hundred different things for the relief or mitigation of Irish distress; they had thought of opening the ports last November; of prohibiting the exportation of food; of making large purchases abroad with Government funds ; of a temporary subscription; of a permanent poor-law ; but they never thought of fasting as a cure for famine. Only a superannuated devotee, here and there, is to be found with any faith in its efficacy. Providence is net generally believed to be particular about our eating flesh or fish. It gives no outward and visible sign of a curse upon mutton, or of merit in mackerel. There is no obvious reason why roast meat and repentance should not go together, and be not less available than contrition upon cod-fish. Calamity does not spare those who feed only upon sprats. That a meagre diet constitutes devotion, has come to be regarded as a superstition. The surprise at the doctrine of the Proclamation has sunk into a quiet disgust. People raise their eye-brows, and shrug their shoulders, and wonder what it means. Some imagine it a counterpoise to the recent developments of liberality at Rome. Since Popes have become enlightened Pro testant authorities do the superstitious to sustain the world's balance between the absolute and the progressive. The calm dignity that should characterize a Procla mation is not evinced in this document. Its tone seems to anticipate a sceptical and scornful reception. "We do strictly charge and command," that reverent state of mind which no human being, with whatever brief shadow of authority invested, can effectually command in the conscience of another. The proclamation threatens disregard with the " wrath and indigna tion" of " Almighty God," Who dares thus talk of throwing thunderbolts? Who made the conclave at Osborne House, the Privy Councillors of Providence? And what further and earthly punishment is to be su peradded to the divine? With a strange assumption, after the command upon people to be fasting, reverent and devout "as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation," it is added, " and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted ou all such as contemn and neglect, the performance of so religious and necessary a duty." So then, the culprit is first to be delivered over to the devil, and afterwards to the Attorney-General. He is in danger, first of the penal ties of divine indignation, and then of the statute (where is it) in that case made and provided. This is taking great liberties with heaven, and with human conscience. Neither our numerous and independent sects, nor the members of the favoured Church, are accustomed to be thus commanded. More will be disposed to anger than to humility; while the millions will eat their dinners, and go their ways, as if nothing had happened of all this sonorous fulmination. The Irish famine, and the comparative scarcity which is beginning to be felt in England, are ascribed by the Proclamation to " the iniquities of this land," and to our " manifold sins and provocations." Now, Sir, if this be the fact, and if the Deity be really visiting the Irish with a wise and righteous punishment for their wickedness, I humbly suggest that no more public money should be voted for relieving them, and thus counteracting the Divine dealings. On that theory, it makes us ex post facto accomplices in their guilt. God punishes, and we help. He shuts them up in the dungeon of despair, and we set open the prison doors. He starves, and we feed. The piety of the Privy Council is a strange jumble. It blunders somewhere. It is at fault egregiously, either in the pecuniary grants, or in the providential judgments. The sins should have been particularized. What Edmund Burke professed himself unable to do, is at tempted in this document ! it "draws a bill of indictment against a nation." But the counts are not clear. The specification is omitted. The Irish peasantry may de mand of the Privy Council " What sins ?" They may appeal to that portion of Scripture introduced into the service which completely nullifies the spirit of the Proclamation. The bishops, as if in sly rebuke—(can the Right Reverend Fathers be so humorous?)—have put in the text which tells us that those on whom the Tower of Siloam fell were not sinners above all men in all Jerusalem. The Irish may infer that starvation is no test of sin. Job's comforters must have assisted at Osborne House. The peasants have lost their potatoes, and, there fore, are plundered of their character. They must be in fault, for they are famishing. The foulness of their deeds is inferred from the ravages of fever. If this be Christian consolation, it is very cold. It would be horribly heartless, if the concocters of the document had any meaning in their words. Pro bably they thought of nothing more than the common conventionalisms of a religious dialect, and so went blundering on—now vilifying Providence, and anon the people. It' there be " iniquity," " sin," and " provocation" in the case, and they have caused the potato blight, the offenders should be ferreted out. The Irish people have not been particularly wicked of late. They have re formed their ways as to whisky, marvellously. In the matter of repeal they may have been wrong-headed, but they have very meritoriously kept the Queen's peace. l do not see that any peculiar and enormous sin can be brought home to their door. Nor does it appear that "the iniquities of this land, so far as they are charge able upon the population at large, have been unusually heinous. At present the all-covering mantle of charity is over them. Patience, energy, unfailing generosity, have been evinced, to an extent that might have saved the potato, if it rotted simply from the want of righteous ness. Who then are the sinners? Mr. Plumptre points to Sir Robert Peel and the Maynooth grant; Lord G. Bentinck intimidated the free traders; Dr. Chalmers glances towards the railway directors that run Sunday trains; the juries of Irish coroners bring in a verdict of Guilty against Lord John Russell and the Whig Ministry. If any of these charges can be es tablished, let the culprits be prosecuted. But it gives a very odd idea of Providential govern ment to represent such parties as punished by the badness of potatoes. Bad they been the Offen ders, and nature employed (according to the proclama tion doctrine) for punishment, the blight would rather have fallen upon the vineyards of the Rhine and tht silk-worms of Syria. There would have been typhus among the turtle, and a scarcity of champagne. White bait would be bad and venison villainous. No, they have their faults, and grievous ones; but they have not brought on us the necessity for fasting by any of tin offences just enumerated. In another way, their case is not so clear. It now ap pears that a much larger stock of food might have been accumulated in our warehouses, from Eastern Europe, had the corn duty and the navigation-laws been suspended last autumn. For that neglect, that deep sin of go vernmental omission, we are beginning to pay dearly. The pressure will become much heavier, before any sup plies can be obtained. The industrial classes, who are (by taxation) the true feeders of the Irish, are already pinched themselves ; and have the prospect of severer privations. Proclaim a fast for them, indeed ! It is proclaimed by the prices in Mark-lane, and ob served. not in churches or chapels, but at bakers' shops. A clergyman in Spitalfields advertises for broken victuals to distribute amongst the desti tute on the evening of the fast-day. Charity is in voked, that thousands may have a chance of breaking the day, and a bit of bread, together. This doctrine of fasting is an ill-timed mockery to suffering millions. They have, per force, fasted enough already. And how many operatives can ill afford to lose the day's work, by which they forfeit the day's wages. The piety of the rich is the penalty of the poor. Royal and ducal revenues know no intermission. Rents nt n h d e rich man, not a sixp enc and dividends are not diminished by fast-days. The . poor man is fined a sixth e of h T is h w us e , tlekliy i m e fastingcoe ; a prayers of the Peer a re p aid for by the peasant. A that there may be an im hardship is wantonly creat ed, endure a 1 ths, for fear of the noisy vituperations o f the few who pretend to mon sense of the country sho uld en i posing display of devotion. It is too badlthat the com fjustice interpret the will of Heaven. A little more o and charity would be worth a deal of fasting and pray ing; and not the less acceptable to Piety for being bene ficial to mankind. PUBLICOLA. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As a labourer at the Ducks at 2s. 7d. per day, with a wife and large family (six children under four teen), pray do point out to those in authority the great injustice myself and hundreds other poor men like myself are subject to, iR not being allowed to work, and our families almost starving as it is, upon this little pittance ; and, although I am grateful to those who employ me at all, yet on Good Friday we shall have to make another sacrifice of a day's labour ; for it is with us as in the India warehouses—no work no pay. Your interest on our behalf will be received grate fully by hundreds, and by yours very obediently, HENRY GORING. 14, Holywell-lane, March 20. A BOY SHOT AT PENRITII.—Thomas Bell, a youth aged sixteen years, son of Robert Bell, of Eamont bridge, stonemason , was accidentally shot in Sandgate, Pen rith, on the morning of Monday last. It appears that a boy of the name of John Little (son of a labourer of that name who lives in Friar-street, Penrith), had been entrusted with a gun to frighten the ;cows from a field of wheat, the pro perty of Mr. Foster, of the Crown Hotel, Penrith. This boy in charging the gun so fixed the ramrod in the barrel that he could not get it out again, and meeting Bell in the street, asked him to pull it out. When attempting to do this the gun went off, and the ramrod passed through Bell's body. The boy still lives, but is in a most daugerous state.—New caek Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. th - - The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Ke.. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic hou._ hold, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the pri vate chapel at Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Norwich. The Hon. and R,:v. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated at the service. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel Bouverie, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday, at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Moncorvo, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lady Emily de Burgh, Lady Fanny ;Howard, Baroness de Speth, Earl of Desart, Viscount Clifden, Lord Campbell, Lady Campbell and Stratheden, Hon. Miss Campbell, Lord James Murray, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps. A military band attended during dinner. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The com pany consisted of his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, their Excellencies Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer. the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Count Potocki, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. Mrs. Charles Grey, Major-General and Miss Cavendish, Captain Hamilton, R.N., and Captain Francis Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, at Cambridge House. Her Majesty and 'Prince Albert took their usual early walk yesterday. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings yester day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended Divine service yesterday morn ing, in St. Michael's Church, Chester-square. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Lans downe with their bompany at dinner on Saturday, at Lans downe House. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Saturday - afternoon, at the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne, in Berkeley-square. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council eat two hours. A meeting of the new Bishopricks Commissioners was held in Whitehall-place on Saturday. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell, the Earls of Chichester and Powis, the Bishops of London, . Durham, Winchester, Cheater, and Lincoln, the Home Secretary of State, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation from the Committee for establishing Houses of Occupation for Discharged Prisoners waited on Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. The deputation con sisted of the Earl of Denbigh, the Lord Bishop of Norwich, Lord John Manners, M.P., Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., Mr. John Laurie, Mr. Alderman Sydney, Mr. James Window, Mr. Joseph Heywood, Hr. William Jerdau, the Rev. S. R. Catt ley, and Mr. W. J. Donthorn. A deputation from the Commissioners of Sewers for Surrey and Kent, consisting of Mr. H. Kemble, M.P., Messrs. Not ledge, Shadbolt, Johnson, and Drew, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth, on Saturday, at the office of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests in Great George-street. The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen at tended the early Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Ilelmore. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Hon. D. H. Gordon was ordained by the Bishop of London. At the daily Service the Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, the Lessons by the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Stearn. The Sermon was preached by the &shop of Chester. The Anthem was, " 0 Lord give ear" (Greene). Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The Marquises of Anglesey and Northampton, Ladies Wilton, Palmerston, Campden, and Compton, Lords Wilton, Granby, Cawdor, Listowel, St. Germans, Eliot, Castlereagh, and W. Graham, were among the nobility present.: The Bishop of London will preach the Sermon on Wed nesday next, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. ITALIAN OPERA AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. (From the Observer.) A fortnight only has elapsed since our columns pre sented a description of most of the arrangements of this undertaking. On Saturday the last of the hoarding in the front of the theatre was removed. Nearly the whole of the face -of the building and portico has been washed; and the carriage-drive, a species of stone tramway, under the latter, is nearly completed. The arrangements for the access to the theatre, so far as Bow-street is concerned, may thus be described. Going up from the Strand, the first entrance will be for the gallery, the second for the pit; the next, by means of the grand portico, for the boxes; the next, the stage-door; and the last is the box office. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the other members of tha royal family, will have a separate entrance at the back of the theatre, leading round by the old box-office in Hart-street. Here the illustrious visitors will also alight beneath a portico, which is almost completed. Saturday morning commenced the operatien of pull ing down the scaffolding which was erected to enable the painting and completion of the proscenium, and the ceil mg was perfected on Friday evening. By this after noon the scaffolding will have been altogether removed, save such trifling portion as may be necessary fcr the accommodation of the decorators. The painted ceiling has occupied Signor Verardi and his assistants for a considerable part of the period which has elapsed since our former notice of the works. The ceiling has been painted by Signor Verardi and Signor Fern; the figures are the work of M. Zarra. The paint ing is divided into two compartments, which may be de scribed as the outer and inner circles. The ceiling, or the kind or cupola, is of a circular form, extending seventy feet from the gallery to the proscenium, and sixty-two feet across from side to side. The old chan delier, which was put up by poor Laporte, at an expense of 1,0001. has been removed, and will be replaced, it is said, by a successor of larger demensiona. All parties concerned in the undertaking entertain the utmost confidence as to everything being in a state of readiness for Tuesday the 6th of April. In the course of the next, or at the commencement of the following week, Rovere (the buffo from Milan), Ley, Lavia, Tulli, Polonini• and Hano will have reached the metropolis. In reference to the ballet, which will be a new one, it may be stated that the requisite rehearsals have been carried on in Paris. HAYMARKET THEATRE. A new farce, in one act, entitled the Light Troop of St. James, was successfully produced here last evening. It is an adaptation, by Mr. T. M. Morton, from a French original. The plot, which is somewhat of the flimsiest, is as follows :—Jane Roberts (Miss Reynolds), the daughter of an apothecary at Kensington, comes to the Court of St. James's, in the reign of Queen Anne, to solicit the place of attendant as one of the Maids of Honour. She arrives just at the period that the Masham intrigue, which eventuated in the down fall of the Duchess of Marlborough, is at its height, Lady Alamodo (Mrs. W. Clifford), the superintendent of the Maids of Honour, to whom she applies, is a strong partisan of the Marlborough factions, and drill the Maids of Honour to coquette with various in fluential courtiers, so as to bring them over to her party. Jane Roberts has a great anxiety to procure this situation, as on her success in so doing depends her union with Master Thomas Smallbones (Buckstone) the Inspector of the Queen's Kitchen, and the son of a rich old money-scrivener. Smallbones, who had imagined that the office was merely honorary, finds to his horror that he has actually to attend in the kitchen, and to taste every dish before it is presented to the Queen, and being a man of taste, he has no taste for such a tasting occupation, and is about to resign his office in disgust, but the Maids of Honour, to prevent bis quitting the palace, pretend to fall in love with him, and each makes an assignation to meet him at twelve at night near a statue in the apartments of the Queen. Jane Roberts gets possession of the billets, and transfers each billet to the courtier who ad mires the writer of it. They keep the assignations, and are thus won over to the Malborough interest. Lady Alamode meets Smallbones in the dark, and is exceedingly affectionate to him. However, at the entry of Jane Roberts every thing is cleared up, and the lovers are united. The piece owes its success entirely to the admirable acting of Buckstone and Miss Rey nolds. The latter was deservedly encored in a very beautiful ballad, the music of which is the composition of Mr. T. S. Reed. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were presen at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening—The Conde de Monteinolino ' the Princes Louis and Jerome Bonaparte , the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley, who occupied her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box ; his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and; Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner ; the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailekury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Munster, the Earl Grenville, Countess de Jarnac, the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Coun tess of Blessington and the Misses Power, the Earl of March, the Count de C(.urey, the Count d'Orsay, the Count Koudri affsky, the Earl of Falmouth, the Count de St. Aulaire , the Viscount Duncannon, the Viscount Maidstone, Viscount Cantilupe, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord 11. Lennox, Lord C. Wellesley, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lady Glentworth, Lady Macdonald, Lady Woodford, Lord Foley, Hon. G. Byng, lion. Mr. Upton, Hon. Mr. Butler, Mr. Dodd, Sir Jasper Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs Brenton Trelawny, Sir 11. Webb, Sir John and Lady Jervis, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Wil loughby, Sir P. Shelley, Sir R. Vivian, Sir W. Ball, Captain Greville, Major Baring, Mr. P. Wheeler, Captain and the lion. Mr 3. Itvder Burton, Captain Reynolds, Mr. Barry Baldwin, A theatrical benefit on behalf of the Printers' of Edinburgh, will take place at the Theatre Royal, English Opera House Strand, this evening. SERIOUS 'ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN R. VYSE, M.P.— On Thursday last the Baron Rothschild's hounds met at Rowsham. The deer took a line towards Bierton, and when near Mr. Eustace's house, Mr. Vyse, in taking a fence near the road, fell from his horse, in consequence of the saddle His foot unfortunately, hung in the stirrup, slipping round. full speed and beating the unfortunate the horse galloping at ouud. At len •th his foot gentleman's head against the g . r by which he was dragged upwards of one hundred yards, itwas deemed advisable to remove him to London by period, becametehouse se o f disengagedAir.j () tit from e t aee stirrup,from whence, hewaa6fst after carried shortto his house in town in a O a T pp lc oi E n .r ed very railway. ala r tli V n e g understand s tate. pstate.—.pucks Il i e s m a l t d. o ' I n t s E eq O u e V n E e R e L of AN w D ed A n l es ii d L ay . In g rr tre E da N y for the general fast, the authorities at the Post-office have issued the following notice :—" General Post-office, Muck — n I e ' x o t s T b - e 20, 1847.—The Overland Mail for India, &c., cis Marseilles, appointed to be dispatched on the 24th inst., has been de tained. Letters will be in time on the evening of Thursday, the 25th instant.—By comnand of the Yost-waster-General, W. Alaborly." LITERATURE. SELECT WRITINGS OF ROBERT CH,4211- BERS. Vll 111 Pleasant . as Mr. Chain - "e for an author to b b e e r h s° it a n t 13 ( o b u e s is p his o ‘ alm . o th l i t e ru a nl vo is is eii Prela- nf his pen collected together after many years ductions . publication, it is less pleasanthis of no to of periodtca, admirers. The .Nriter of these goodly volumes has lorg :imself no small share of popularity, since acquired for through the enterprise which he and that not merely hr?ther in the dissemination of has evinced in aiding his knowledge by cheep publishir,'• but likewise through his own earnest and industrious l a bours as a contributor to modern literature. The bulk of the humorous and familiar essays contained in the work just issued is already known and appreciated by the million. Some of the articles have been printed and reprinted in a hundred different forms, and distributed to the reading com munity through as many different channels, so that they will attract attention less from their novelty than from their bearing about them the associations of the old familiar faces. What is particularly observable through out the collection is, the admirable simplicity of the author's style, and the sedulous exclusion of anything pernicious, whether in manner or matter, from his com positions, The humour is always genial and natural; the themes are often homely, but never vulgar; the sarcasm is invariably good•natured; and the thoughts are, with one exception, namely, in the eccentric chap ter upon " Christian Names," never pursued to an ex travagance. To those who regard Robert Chambers as a source to them of many literary boons both agree able and beneficial—and of these there are thousands — the appearance of his select writings will be a matter of congratulation, as it will enable them to enshrine him on their bookshelves as one of the most welcome and valued of their household companions. The volu nes are compact and elegant, all their appointments being excellent—printing, paper, arrangement, and binding. The collection was wanted. HUGH TALBOT. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By William J. O'Neill Daunt. By several previous publications—more particularly " Ireland and her Agitators"—Mr. Daunt is already familiarly known to many of his countrymen. His present work, though coming under the unpretending title of a tale, we cannot but regard as the very best of his productions that have come to our knowledge. There is a liberality, moreover, about the object of " Hugh Talbot" that, to us, is peculiarly palatable. It makes its appearance, too, at an appropriate crisis, when the bile of the polemical disputants throughout the kingdom is being excited into rancour by the revival of ono or two very old and very obsolete bugbear cries. As is announced on the title page, the book is founded upon the Irish confiscations of the seventeenth century— namely, during the reign of James I. and the supremacy of Steenie. At all times the contemplation of intole rance is distressing; at all times it forces upon us the spectacle of the degradation of our species. But when we find that intolerance, coupled with the dis semination of the Biblical truths, and, in fact, sprouting like a villanous disease out of the very stem and branches of Christianity, we cannot but mourn doubly for the blindness and degeneracy of our forefathers. The history of the penal laws is amon g th e mos t l amen t. able portions of our national records, and the skeletons of those penal laws—those laws which Mr. Watson is just now endeavouring to have obliterated from the statute book—is a damning proof of the authenticity of the narratives relating to their operation. Those laws—the laws, we mean, which are at present under the consideration of Parliament—are virtually abolished already. They are no longer enforced; and we would stake our word for it that the Honourable Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford would be very loath to clamour in the House of Commons for their enforcement. But, dead•letter as they are now, they were once enforced with the utmost rigour of the executive and many others, yet more strigent, which have been some time since, to the credit of Parliament expunged. A barbarian code is not the code for a civilised and enlightened race, and, therefore, the laws we speak of, have been abolished It is upon the miseries entailed upon the victims of those enactments that this novelette has been pen ned . . It is a melancholy and distressing but salutary and Listructive picture. Hugh Talbot is calculated to do good service in purging from the popular mind that i old leaven of bigotry and of religious animosity which s i still—though to an insig nificant extent —fermenting n the community. It is likely to render all classes more charitable the one towards the other, and to render the most obstinate and zealous religionists indisposed to tyrannise over their neighbours. Dogmatism, of course, can never be got rid of until human nature he thoroughly transformed, but cruelty and petty despotism may be, and, indeed, are now tolerably well overruled. That not only in this country, but throughout the world generally, a spirit of sympathy and brotherhood is spreading is manifest. Through that expanding spirit Ibrahim Pacha was induced to pay amicable visits to the courts and people of Western Europe. Through that spirit his children are being educated in French seminaries. Through that spirit Dwarkanauth Tegore was prompted to labour in London for the moral and mental regenera tion of his oriental fellow-countrymen. Through that spirit almost as much as through force of arms, new relations of amity have been established between the Emperor of China and our beloved Sovereign. And very recently, through that same benign and enlarg ing spirit, a cordial understanding has for the first time been arrived at between the head of the Papacy and the Mahometan Sultaun. For these reasons we are disposed to welcome this little tale by Mr. Daunt with pleasure. The times are those of progress and liberality, and the book is in accordance with the principles of the times. Hugh Talbot is the chief victim of the laws of confisca• tion—being a priest. Eveline is the heroine, and, for the advantage of her father and the benefit of the priest Hugh Talbot, and also for the gratification of her own lust of power, she sacrifices herself by marrying an old nobleman, Lord Carthwaite. The incidents of the story are numerous and interesting, particularly those descrip tive of the various escapes and perilous adventures of Hugh Talbot himself. Altogether the tale is a genu ine original. JOURNAL OF iHE ROYAL AGRICULTU RAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. VII. Part 11. Another of those important and elaborate volumes which have in their character something absolutely national, is lying before us. As a specimen of the industry of the persons engaged in its composition, and as a sign of the comprehensive efforts made by th e society from which it proceeds it is peculiarly remarkable. Agri culture, at this particular period, i s attracting. more notice in Great Britain, than it has ever done previously; and it is attracting more notice, for two reasons,. first, because there is a manifest necessity for . an increase of our enterprise as cultivators of the soil, pow that w . e have to compete upon the same footing with the agri culturists of the whole world ; and secondly, because the vegetable disease, now a ffl icting Ireland and Scot land, is a fresh inducement to us to study yet . more pro , voluminous library of the Royal ' foundly the mysteries of the growth and nourishment of plants. On these accounts , the present part of the England is invested with more interest and importance than any of its predecessors. Agricultural Society of Sin,—ln the the report which your MR. GYPSON'S BALLOON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.. gave of the accident which attended the private . trial of Mr. Gypson's new and magnificent balloon it is . stated . that the cause of the disaster was owing to the netting being fan " inferior description," and that it WAS widely-eirculated journal " discovered b 3,, com petent judges to be defective in its meshes. NOW . , although the termination of the experiment would seem to justify this and incorrect, and will, as briefly as conclusion, I have no hesitation in pronouncing it . premature circumstances under which the first fracture haypene . d, and the final separation, which led to our being left in , the possible, point out the the inflation was commenced the weather was remarkably . lurch "with feelings of disappointment and regret. W hen fine. No sooner, however, had the upper hemisphere of the gigantic machine become distended with about 15,000 cubic feet of gas than the breeze freshened considerably, and agitated the balloon with greater violence than is usually ex p e rienced at public gardens, owing to the p rotection reixffocredededinbgyiythgeasnud on rround th h i l a g n tr e e e e a s s o in f n s , uc a h n p d t la z . the netting being left ten feet longer than is commonly re quired, in i order to allow room to test some ingeniou s lower re g a finess being n o g f mac hinery invented by Mr. Gypson, and in readiness for use; the balloon in consequence was subjected to the full force of a strong wind, which had greater power on it from the ad ditional length of the hoop-lines. A tremendous strain from a fitful gust that swept over the gas-works broke one line first, arid had it been practicable to repair that, a " stitch in ti m e would most indisputably have saved nine ;" but the wind being stronger than the united efforts of about fifty iieurfeact satisfaction assistants and friends the balloon could not be hauled down, and the pressure becoming from wind and restraint unequal on the netting, the injured part yielded gradually, and that which will bear more than . a ton and a half waig , lit when continued to every respective line has its proper bearing, give way, until an aperture was worked sufficiently large to admit of the escape of the balloon.. Notwithstanding the of of the t . he accident, I boldly give my opinion that the netting ng good, ,gen faith,ra l anduse ; m a nyd positive proof is strong, earnea t naenada of f t for general construction of the whole apparatus, I intend to the intrepid proprietor of the . balloon the honours share with dangers of a second private trial, which will take and place pro bably in the course of a week or ten days. I remain, Sir, your obliged servant, 1 HENRY CO WELL. Editor of the "Erostatic Magazine. DEATII OF SIR lIARFORD JONES BRIDGES.—This venerable Baronet expired on the '2oth inst., at his seat, Boultibrook, Herefordshire, aged 83. He was son of Harford Jones, Esq., of Preateign, Radnorshire, by the daughter of Richard Hooper, Esq., of Whittern, Herefordshire. lie was born in 1764, and in 1796 married the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Gott, Lint. In 1822 the deceased gentleman was created a Privy Councillor, and in 1826 assumed the addi tional name of Brydes. He was a Deputy -Lieutenant for Herefordshire. The great grandfather of the deceased having highly distinguished himself in the army, especially at the battle of Blenheim. was presented by Queen Anne with a valuable sword. The title, which was created in 1807, with the estates, are succeeded to by Hartland Jones, eldest son of the late Baronet, who was born in 180 g. DEATH OF COMMODORE Ileßnisox.—The public in general, and snore particularly the patrons of aquatic was a true o f ngl s po r ts, will regret to hear announced th e unexpected demise of William Horatio Harrison, Esq.. lat e C ommodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club; he expired on t h e 17th inst., at i his residence at Brompton, n the 49th y ear of his age, after a gentleman, re maernkgatbbie ned alikedisposition, goodness of heart, gentlemanly demeanour , and integrity of conduct. Ile was an ardent admirer of aquatic sports, and was Commodore lengthened illness. r He benevolence of the Royal Thames Yacht C l ub up to a few months since, when he resigned, owing to ill health. The result of extensive inquiries as to the amount of orders from the United States by the last packet is upon the whole satisfactory. The purchases considerably exceed those of the corresponding period of last year, and a promise is held out in the general advises of a further increase, as it is - ected a large number of bu y ers will le ave New York an d expected for this country by the packet which will sail at the beginning of next niontl4 TANCRED, or the NEW CRUSADE. The following art extracts from Mr. Disraeli's new work : JERUSALEM. " The broad moon lingers on the summit of Mount Olivet, but its beam has long left the garden of Gethsemane and the tomb of Absalom, the waters of Kedron, and the dark abyss of Jeltoshaphat. Full falls its splendour, however, on the Opposite city, vivid and defined in its silver blaze. A lofty wall, with turrets, anti towers, and frequent gates, undulates with the unequal ground which it covers, as it encircles the lost capital of Jehovah. It is a city of hills, far more famous that those of Rome: for all Europe has heard of Sion and of Calvary, while the Arab and the Assyrian, and the tribes and nations beyond, are as ignorant of the Capitolian and Aventine Mounts as they are of the Malvern or the Chiltern " The brozd steep of Zion, crowned with the tower of David ; nearer still, Mount Moriah, with the gorgeous tem ple of the God of Abraham, but built, alas! by the child of Hagar, and not by Sarah's chosen one; close to its cedars and its cypresses, its lofty spires and airy arches, the moon light falls upon Bethesda's pool ; further on, entered by the gate of St. Stephen's, the eye, though 'tis the noon of night, traces with ease the Street of Grief; a long winding ascent to a vast cupolaed pile that now covers Calvary, called the Street of Grief, because there the most illustrious of the human, as well as of the ;Hebrew race, the descendants of King David, and the divine Son of the most favoured of women, twice sank under that burden of suffering and shame which is now throughout all Christendom the emblem of triumph and of honour ; passing over groups and masses of houses built of stone, with terraced roofs or surmounted with small domes, we reach the hill of Salem, where Melchizedek built his mystic citadel ; and still remains the hill of Scopus, where Titus gazed upon ,lerusalem on the eve of his final assault. Titus destroyed the temple. The religion of Judaea has in turn subverted the Panes which were raised to his father and to himself in their imperial capital ; and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is now worshipped before evert• altar in Rome. "Jerusalem by moonlight! 'Tis a fine spectacle, apart from ail its indissoluble associations of awe and beauty. The mitigating hours soften the austerity of a mountain land scape magnificent in outline, however harsh and severe in detail ; and, while it retains all its sublimity, removes much of the savage sternness of the strange and unrivalled scene. A fortified city, almost surrounded by ravines, and rising in the centre of chains of far-spreading hills, occasionally offer ing, through their rocky glens, the gleams of a distant and richer land !" . . EVEN' . NCT, MARC H. 22; 1847 ASSOCIATIONS. " Tancred came forth from the garden of Gethsemane, his face was flushed with the rapt stillness of pious ecstacy ; hours had vanished during his passionate reverie, and he stared upon the declining sun. " "fhe path to the right leads to Bethany.' The force of association brought back the last words that he had heard from a human voice. And can he sleep without seeing Bethany? He mounts the path. What a landscape sur rounds him as he moves! IN hat need for nature to be fair in a scene like this, where not a spot is visible that is not heroic or sacred, consecrated or memorable ; not a rock that is not the cave of prophets; not a valley that is not the valley of heaven-anointed kings; not a mountain that is not the mountain of God! " Before him is a living, a yet breathing and existing city, which Assyrian monarchs came down to besiege, which the chariots of Pharoahs encompassed, which Roman Emperors have personally assailed, for which Saladin and Coeur de Lion, the Desert and Christendom, Asia and Europe, struggled in rival chivalry—a city which Diahomet sighed to rule, and over which the Creator alike of Assyrian kings and Egyptian Pharoahs and Roman Cxsars, the framer alike of the Desert and of Christendom, poured forth the full effusion of his di vinely human sorrow. " What need of cascade and of cataracts, the deep green turf, the foliage of the fairest trees, the impenetrable forest, the abounding river, mountains of glaciered crest, the voice of birds, the bounding forms of beauteous animals,—all sights and scunds of material loveli ness that might become the delicate ruins of sonic archaic theatre, or the lingering lanes of some forgotten faith ! They would not be observed as the eye seized on Sion and Calvary; the gates of Bethlehem and Damascus; the hill of Titus ; the mosque of Mahomet and the tomb of Christ. The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world ; it is more, it is the history of earth and heaven." OPPO RT UN ITT, " It was destined that Napoleon should never enter Rome, and Mahomet never enter Damascus. What was the reason of this ? They were not uninterested in those cities that in terest all. The Emperor selected from the capital of the Camars the title of his son ; the Prophet, when he beheld the crown of Syria, exclaimed that it was too delightful, and that he must reserve his paradise for another world. Buonaparte was an Italian, and must have often yearned after the days of Rome triumpkant. The son of Abdallah was descended from the patriarchs, whose progenitor had been moulded out of the red clay of the most ancient city of the world. Absorbed by the passionate pursuit of the hour, the two heroes postponed a gratification which they knew how to appreciate, but which, with all their success, all their power, and all their fame, they were never permitted to in dulge. What moral is to be drawn from this circumstance? That we should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets." MUSD PALMERS7ON. " Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the policy pursued by the Foreign Minister of England, with respect to the settlement of the Turkish empire in 1840-41, none can be permitted, by those at least competent to decide upon such questions, as to the ability with which that policy was ac complished. When we consider the position of the Minister at home, not only deserted by Parliament, but abandoned by his party and even forsaken by his colleagues; the military occupation of Syria by the Egyptians; the rabid demonstra tion of France; that an accident of time or space, the delay of a mouth or the gathering of a storm, might alone have baffled all his combinations ; it is diffi cult to fix upon a page in the history of this country which records a superior instance of moral intrepidity. The bold conception and the brilliant perform ance were worthy of Chatham; but the domestic difficulties with which Lord Palmerston had to struggle place the ex ' ploit beyond the happiest achievement of the elder Pitt. Throughout the memorable conjunction, Lord Palmerston, however, had one great advatage, which was invisible to the millions; he was served by a most vigilant and able diplo macy. The superiority of his information concerning the state of Syria to that furnished to the French Minister was the real means by which he baffled the menaced legions of our neighbours. A timid Secretary of State in the position of Lord Palmerston, even with such advantages, might have faltered ; but the weapon was placed in the hands of one who did not shrink from its exercise, and the expulsion of the Egyptians from Turkey remains a great historic monu ment alike of diplomatic skill and administrative energy." LOVE AND POVERTY. " Generally speaking, it will be found, notwithstanding the proverb, that, with persons of a motile nature, the straitened fortunes which they share together, and manage, and mitigate by mutual forbearance, are more conducive to the sustainment of a high-toned and romantic pa►sion than a luxurious and splendid prosperity. The wife of a man of limited means, who, by contrivance, by the concealed sacri fice of some necessity of her own, supplies him with some slight enjoyment which he has never asked, but which she fancies he may have sighed for, experiences, without doubt, a degree of pleasure far more ravishing than the patrician dame who stops her barouche at Storr and Mortimer's, and out of her pin-money buys a trinket for the husband whom she loves, and which he finds, perhaps, on his dressing table, on the anniversary of their wedding-day. That's pretty too and touching, and should be encouraged; but the other thrills, and ends in a❑ embrace that is still poetry." ♦ LADY OF SENTIMENT. " His tumultuous reverie was broken by the sobs of Lady Bertie. "' By heaven, I cannot endure this!' said Tancred, ad vancing. ' Death seems to me preferable to her unhappiness. Dearest of women 1' "' Do not call me that,' she murmured. I can bear any thing from your lips but words of fondness. And pardon all this; I am not myself to-day. I had thought that I had steeled myself to all, to our inevitable separation ; but I have mistaken myself, at least miscalculated my strength. It is weak; it is very weak and very foolish, but you must pardon it. lam too much interested in your career to wish you to delay your departure a moment for my sake. I can bear our separation, at least I think I can. I shall quit the world--for ever. I should have done so had we not met. I was on the point of doing so when we did meet—when— when my dream was at length realised. Go, go ; do not stay. Bless you, and write to me, if Ibe alive to receive your letters.' "' I cannot leave her,' thought the harrowed Tancred. It never shall be said of me that I could blight a woman's life or break her heart.' But, just as he was advancing, the door opened, and a servant brought in a note, and, with out looking at Tancred, who had turned to the window, dis appeared. The desolation and despair which had been im pressed on the countenance of Lady Bertie and Bellair vanished in an instant, as she recognised the handwriting of her cor respondent. They were succeeded by an expression of sin gular excitement. She tore open the note ; a stupor seemed to spread over her features, and, giving a faint shriek, she fell into a swoon. " Tancred rushed to her side ; she was quite insensible, and pale as alabaster. The note, which was enly two lines, was open and extended in her hands. It was from no idle curiosity, but it was impossible for Tancred not to read it. lie had one of those eagle visions that nothing could escape, and, himself extremely alarmed, it was the first object at which he unconsciously glanced in his agitation to dis cover the cause and the remedy for the crisis. The note ran thus— ' 3 o' Clock. The Narrow Gauge has won. We are utterly done ; and Snicks tells ►ne you bought five hundred more yesterday, at ten. Is it possible. "'ls it possible!' echoed Tancred, as, entrusting Lady Bertie to her maid, he rapidly descend©d the staircase of her mansion." NORMAN NOBILITY. " ' Gentiles,' murmured Fakredeen ; ' Gentiles!—you are a Gentile, Tanered ?' " Alas I am,' he answered, ' sprung from a horde of Baltic pirates, who never were heard of during the greater annals of the world—a descent which I have bean educated to believe was the greatest of honours. What we should have become had not the Syro-Arabian creeds formed our minds, I dare not contemplate. Probably we should have perished in mutual destruction. However, though rude and modern Gentiles, unknown to the Apostles, we also were in time touched with the sacred symbol, and originally endowed with an organisation of a high class, for our ancestors wan dered from Caucasus, we have become kings and princes.' " ENGLISH CIVILIZATION. " ' We ought never to be surprised at anything that is done by the English,' observed Fakredeen, who are, after all, in a certain sense, savages. Their country produces nothing; it is an island, a mere rock, larger than Malta, but not so well fortified. Everything they require is imported from other countries; they get their corn from Odessa, and their wine from the ports of Spain. I have been assured at Beiroot data they do not grow even their own cotton, but that I can hardly believe. Even their religion is an exotic; and, as they are indebted for that to Syria, it is not sur prising that they should import their education from Greece.' " Poor people l' exclaimed the Queen, ' and yet they travel—they wish to improve themselves.'" THE AIURDER IN SHOREDITCIL—It appears that for some time back there have been frequent quarrels be tween the deceased and the accused with respect to some trifling articles claimed by each as his property, and it is said that the deceased had more than once endeavoured to terrify the prisoner by taking a number of his shopmates to demand restoration of the property. This irritating course was unfortunately pursued on the night of the mur der. Notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence of Brookes's guilt, irrespective of his own admission, it is by no means clear that after his threat to put a bullet in de ceased's head lie loaded the carbine on his return to the attic of the house in which he lived. During the day lie bad been employed in shooting rats in the cellar, light being afforded him by a lantern. The carbine is said to have been left loaded, and the sudden consciousness of that fact acting upon his excited mind seems to have Impelled him to its deadly use against the deceased. Pending the co roner's inquest the utmost excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood, MERITORIOUS ACT of H UMA - I, , UTY. VALENCIA (IRELAND), MARCH 15.—Mr. Jas. Peters, master of the brig Mercury, of Arbroath, on her way home, perceived a vessel on fire at a considerable dis tance, off the coast of Portugal, and at great inconve nience and some delay made for her, and remained al near her throughout the night as the state of the ni would allow. At five o'clock the next morning the crew of the burning vessel lowered their boat, and with con siderable difficulty were got on board the Mercury. Alt!..ough Captain Peters was short of provisions at the time, ho generously shared everything on board with the sufferers, eleven in number, ull French, for whom he provided accommodation on the floor of his cabin, giving the French captain a b. rth. The Frenchmen speak with the utmost gratitude cf :the humanity of, Capt. Peters, but for whose active and timely exertions they would have all perished, either by the flames, or the waves, or by starvation, as the fire cut them off from their stores. Baffled in his endeavours to reach Cork, by the preva lence of severe easterly gales, Captain Peters made the harbour of Valencia, on the 6th inst., where he remains unavoidably windbound. The• Mercury is laden with oil cake for Lynn, in Norfolk. The people on board the Mercury, for some days before reaching Valencia, h d been reduced to half a glass of water each, and nearly out cf provisions. On reaching Valentia, Capt. Peters ' completed his kindness by conveying the whole party of sufferers to the protection of the French consul at Cork. Such traits of national liberality and generosity are highly gratifying; and we are sure the public, as well as the owners of the Mercury, will applaud Captai❑ Peters for an act which reflects additional credit on the character of our countrymen for deeds of humanity. THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. A special general Court of the governors of this hos pital was held on Saturday at the hospital, Charles street, Berners-street, to receive a report of the com mittee appointed to inquire into the government and management of the hospital. Sir Robert H. Inglis took the chair. A dispute arose as to whether the apothe cary and house-surgeon were entitled to be present at the Court. The CHAIRMAN read one of the rules of the hospital, (sec. 12, chap. 1), which prohibits their attendance. and which he (the chairman) said was absolute. Tho apothecary accordingly withdrew, and Mr. Rogers, who temporarily filled the office of house surgeon, as a volunteer, tendered his resignation of that office, and remained in the room. Mr. lls.wes read the report, which stated that the committee, having collected ample evidence, had come to the decision, that the order, discipline, and cleanliness of the hospital by no means equalled those of other metropolitan hospitals ; that the nurses were not engaged with sufficieFit care ' • that these facts proved the constitution of the weekly board to be defective ; that the respective offices of matron, se cretary, and louse steward (the last two offic es b e i ng held by one person), had not been properly filled; and that there was a want of cordial co-operation among the officers. The committee begged, with reference to these objections in the management, to suggest the following alterations:-1. As regards the weekly board, that in lieu thereof there be a new general board elected, to consist of a president, vice president, and eighteen governors; that a book be kept, whereiu to enter remarks and sug gestions of improvement; that a sub-committee be ap pointed for visiting; that six lay governors go out of office annually, by rotation, but that they be eligible for re-election. 2. That the offices of house steward and secretary be no longer vested in one person, but that an active and competent house steward be immediately ap pointed. 3. That the secretary no longer reside in the house. 4. The committee suggested that the duties of the matron require revision. 5. That the number of nurses are at present too few, the night nurses being allowed only six hours out of the twenty four for rest. G. That in future there be a weekly report as to the management of the hospital. And lastly, 7. After mature consideration, the committee think it essential to the welfare of the hospital in general that Mr. Tuson, one of the surgeons, should resign his appointment. On the CHAIRMAN putting the question of the adop tion of and printing the report to the meeting, great objection was offered, on the plea of it being very unde sirable to adopt so important a report without the most careful consideration. An amendment was also proposed, to the effect, that if the report were printed, it should be with the omission of the seventh suggestion respecting Mr. Tuson ; it being contended that it would be highly unjust to that gentle man to cast any imputation upon him, to attach any stigma to his character, when they did not even know of what he was accused. Sir WALTER STIRLING did not see that in requesting Mr. Tuson to resign in consequence of there being a disagreement between him and the other medical officers, they cast any stigma on his character, either personal or official. With reference to printing the report without that part relating to Mr. Tuson, Mr. AIALTON did not think it competent in any meeting to adopt a report, and then to print it only in part. After much discussion, an amendment was carried, resolving that four copies of the report and two copies of the evidence should lie on the table for the inspection of Governors until that day five weeks, until which time the meeting was adjourned. DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL BY FIRE, AT BAcur.—On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, a mill at Bacup was destroyed by fire, under very peculiar circum stances. It was known as Lee Mill, and stood a short dis tance from the town; it was occupied with looms by Mr. Samuel Lee, manufacturer, with the exception of a room which was let off to a small spinner. The machinery was driven by water, and neither gas nor fire of any kind had been used within the walls on Wednesday; yet, notwith standing this, it was discovered to be on lire at the early hour on Thursday morning mentioned above; and, though two fire-engines were on the spot promptly, their assistance was unavailing, and the fire was not extinguished until the building was completely gutted and in ruins. The origin of the conflagration is involved in mystery, but will be nar rowly investigated. The owner of the building is fully in wed, and so is the spinner, but Mr. Smith is not insured; WI as his portion of the building contained fifty looms, and other machinery, it is calculated his loss will not be less than I,ooo(.—Manchester Courier. AURORA BOREALIS. We had last night a most splendid exhibition of this beautiful phenomenon in the western heavens. It was observed about half-past seven, and at times was unusually radient, describing an arch across the sky from west to north. The light was of a singular and milky whiteness, and rivalled in intensity that of the young moon, which had risen on the opposite side. From this arch conical streaks of brilliance shot upwards at considerable dis tances from each other, enlightening the whole of the space occupied by them. This arch gradually appeared to becou exhausted, and faded out slowly; and then a mass of light rose a little more to the south, which gradually spread over a considerable space, and presented the appearance of a full moon rising behind a cloud of medium density. After the lapse of a minute this light gradually commenced a dis tinctly perceptible movement from west to south, the west end appearing to wrap up as if on a roller, or like a scroll, until arrived at the other end it increased in brilliancy, ex panded, and died out. It is scarcely possible to describe the beauty, clearness, and power or this portion of the pheno menon. The sky was clear, scarce a cloud intervening be tween us and the illimitable abyss beyond, but after the last named spectacle had passed away, dark clouds obscured the moon, and gradually spread over the whole heavens, moving and taking possession of the ground of a few stray streaks of light which still continued to shoot from the horizon.— , Manchester Courier. . REPRESENTATION OFBEDFORDSUIRE.—UntiI within the last few days it was not decided who should be put in nomination as the successor of the late Mr. Astell in the re presentation of this county. Common rumour nominated several noblemen and gentlemen as candidates, but in most of the nominations the " wish was father to the thought," and no one knew more that{ his neighbour. At length several gentlemen of the Conservative party had a formal meeting, and they agreed to invite Mr. Pym. The high character and ability of that gentlemen, together with his popularity among the agriculturists, would seem to guarantee his suc cess; but Mr. Pyrn had objections, and therefore declined to respond to the requisition. About the same time some lead ing gentlemen of the Whig party decided upon requesting our former representative, Lord Charles James Fox Russell, to allow himself to be put in nomination. It was well known that his Lordship had expressed a strong disinclination to take this prominent part in the politics of the country again ; but, nevertheless, hopes were entertainedlby his friends that he would be induced to waive his objections. The applica tion has been successful ; he has consented to be nominated, and there is no doubt will be elected without opposition, as we have received an authentic intimation to the effect that several gentlemen of the county, after having held meetings upon the subject, had determined to take no steps to propose a Conservative candidate. It had been arranged by the Whig party, that in the event of their request to Lord Charles Russell being unsuccessful, they would invite Mr. Hastings Russell, whose character, talents, and business habits render him eminently qualified to take a high position in the coun cils of the country. The day of election is fixed for Tues day', the 30th instant. --Bedford Times. The will of the late Mr. George Robins was exe cuted by him in March, 1844, and to which, at various pe riods in the years 1845 and 1846, he has added sight codicils, the whole contained in fifty sheets of paper. He has left se veral bequests in small amounts to various members of his family, in sums of 5001., also annuities, amounting alto gether to 3501. per annum. To his executors, John Squire, Esq., banker Pall-mall, James Park, Esq. , Lincoln's Inn fields, and his cousin Mr. Edmund Robins he leaves 100 guineas each, and to the latter a further bequest of 1,0001. ; and to his chief clerk, who has conducted the business for many , yeare, 1001., as a token of esteem, and of whom he Speaks in fl at t e r i ng terms. Directs his executors to invest 60,000 1 . and pay the interest to his wife, as well as an im mediate bequest to her of 2,000/., and 2,000/. to each of his daughters. His estates, f r eehold, copyhold, and leasehold, are to be applied for the general purposes of the will, the trustees only to dispose thereof at such time as in their judgment shall appear for the benefit of his children, to whom he leaves the residuary trust moneys, but under the directions and appointment of his widow, to be vested in sons at twenty-one, and for daughters at that age or marriage. His library and pictures, and all the marble, statuary, and bronze, and the mirrors, with certain plate, he leaves to his wife and as she may appoint. The family portraits and paintings, and the silver cup presented to him by Sir Gilbert Ileathcote, Bart., to trustees for the life of his widow, and afterwards to the eldest son then living. To his eldest son, George, now in his minority, he had left by his will his books of sale and bound catalogues, in anticipation that he would have continued the business, and surpassed him in energy and tact; but having abandoned the intention of following his father's profession, he leaves such books and catalogues to his widow, to be preserved by her for such one of his sons who may be so engaged in the calling of an auctioneer. He is desirous that two of his sons shall be educated for the Established Church, and has empowered the trustees to purchase out of their share of his estates two advowsons for them, awr o an f s not vt less lautedt hf for e a r E in a u r a ll prolateincomeof duty sn a Sandwich h wl ac coah, 5 08 0 0 : 13‘a c e . s. or more than 8001. The deceased's personal estate to Paris, on accounthi of the alarm ing been es called s e l e r a e t i regret suddenlyr e t noticed, o 1e away Ills Lordship had in tnheessLoofntilicehDiefoßwaargoenr C an o d un iu te r s . s. Justice Coleridge, with a vi p ni a gt r e t di y l : of the county magistrates, to ate. entertainment at from Paris being of a character to , the Noble Lo Hin chinbrook, on Wednesday evening but the later accounts lead to apprehension for andl et l Y eft at an early thehs departure, Countess's rd was obliged to hasten hour on Wednesday morn ing.—Canibridve Ott onicle. SIR HENRY HALFORD'S REGULATE HOSrLRY MANUFA‘ (From the otlinyhain Review, - •".' 4-, `,,?. - 1:', .:tEI'A 4 , ~ ..,„ r itroB - ,..'-._ - -r--- _,, /: • . The following is an abstract of the pro\ens-'.vis k v;tYq Bill brought into the H ouse o f Commons, oriigii42th "'— Instant, by Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Puke, and Colonel Rulleston, intituled— " A Bill to repeal an Act for making further regula tions respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery in certain cases, and to make other provisions instead thereof, and to make further provisions to secure the wages of persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery." 1. The preamble states it to be expedient to abolish the Ticket Act, and to give further and more efficient protection to the workmen engaged in every department of the hosiery trade. 2. The old Act to expire on the Ist of next Septem ber, on w hi c h d ay t h e present Act is to come into force. 3. The i n t erpretat i on clause conta i ns the limitation of . the ter m `° manufacturer," to mean any person fur yshing material to be wrought into hosiery goods to be sold or disposed of on his account ; " agent" or " ser vant," any person acting for and in the name of the manufacturer ; " workman." any person by whom the materials furnished are to be actually wrought and con verted into hosiery. 4. I).clares the . practic e o f rece i v i ng materials by in termediate parties, and employing , workmen under them to convert the same into hosiery goods to be objection able, and ought to bo abolished and discontinued, and enacts that no person, save the manufacturer, being the real and absolute owner of the materials, and interested in the sale of the material when wrought up, shall give out work, employ workmen, or enter into any contract whatever for that purpose. 5. A partner may act for a firm, and make a contract and deliver out materials. 6. Permits an owner to act by an agent or servant ; the acts of such to be binding on the principal. 7. Enacts that every manufacturer of hosiery shall, on delivering out any materials to be wrought up, whether on his own premises or elsewhere, enter in a book or books to be kept by him for that purpose, a statement of the particulars of agreement between such manufacturer and the workmen by whom such mate rials are to be wrought and converted into hosiery goods, such entry to specify names and places of abode of work men, and be in form in every respect and particular of schedule annexed, and be signed by the manufacturer or his agent. The schedule for stockings requires twenty-three columns of particulars, besides signature. That for socks sixteen columns. For gloves seventeen columns. For shirts sixteen columns. For caps ten columns, and eight columns for any other description of hosiery. 8. Inflicts a penalty of not exceeding 504, and not less than 51., for contravening, in any respect, the provisions of this Act, on proof before two justices; whether it re gards contracting between manufacturers and smaller masters, or non-inserting, altering, or obliterating the particulars of contracts with workmen as ordered. 9. Requires the book containing particulars of agree ments entered into to be kept at the ordinary place of the manufacturer's business, and makes it lawful for any workman, being at the time, or having been within fourteen days in his employ, to apply for and obtain in spection of, and to take copies of any entry or entries therein, at all suitable times. Any person hindering or refusing to allow inspection of copies, to be liable to a fine of not more than 201., nor less than 51. 10. In case of dispute arising, this book to be pro duced, and the entry shall be evidence respecting the particulars contained in it. 11. Except where the dispute arises from alleged im perfection of work, when the piece of work in question shall be produced, or if not, it shall be taken to have been well made. 12. Makes the wages contracted for a debt, to be paid without any deduction whatever. 13. Declares that frame-rents are unjust to workmen, and have given rise to many evils, and therefore ought to be altogether abolished, and goes on to enact that no person shall let on hire any frame to any workman, or take from him any money, rent, gain, or profit, or de duct from his wages on account of his renting, hiring, or using any such loom, frame, or apparatus for making hosiery. 14. Enacts penalties for breach of the preceding clause ; but the sum is left blank, to be filled up in Committee. 15 to 18. Prescribe forms of legal proceedings, and give penalties to the Crown. 19. Declares no removal by certiorari allowable, nor any conviction to be invalid for want of form, nor any but special damage recoverable in case of any irregularity in proceedings. This Bill, though short, is of an extraordinary and sweeping character. It abolishes frame-rent, but makes no provision for securing the owner's right of property in frames, hitherto exercised, not so much by removal, for in many cases they have been continued in the uninterrupted custody of the same workpeople for twenty, thirty, or forty years, as by the weekly charge of frame rent, and by payment of the expense incurred by the larger repairs. Who is to pay for these repairs in future is not stated ; neither does it deal with the question of who is to compensate the owners of inde pendent frames for this legal destruction of their property. It makes every workman or workwoman independent of any control but that of the hosier. All journeymen and apprentices are under this Bill to become their own mas ters. A hosier could not under it give out work to a husband for his wile, or to a parent for a child. No exceptions are contemplated ; the sole object seems to be to get rid of unjust charges, by destroying every species of intermediate agency at any cost. No one Is to make a bargain for a working stockingmaker but him self or herself. The hosier may employ a paid agent. but the workman must appear in porson, and be dealt with separately. Each one must have his separate agree ment with the hosier, both as to money and material —a thing impossible. Will the hosiers be willing to increase the number of their accounts four-fold? Or to intrust a frame and materials to every stockingmaker on his own account? It is very unlikely. The chief places where materials are given out, and stockings are taken in, from the workpeople, are Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Belper, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, and Hinck ley ; by the Bill, all the 40,000 men, women, and youths must waste their time, and strength, and money in going to these places, instead of three-fourths of them staying at home to work at the frame, clean the house, garden, or otherwise both profitably and safely employ themselves. How will this help them? In the county of Nottingham, for instance, there are 16,280 frames, gathered into about 5,200 shops. At present each shopmaster only attends the hosier's warehouse. In this county alone, therefore, this Bill, if it could be carried into effect, would oblige eleven thousand people, instead of five thousand, to travel every year four hun dred miles each, chiefly on foot, and this for the purpose of crowding still further warehouses already too much resorted to, and exposing them to temptations and ex penses.—The book containing particulars of agreement; is to be open for inspection and copying. Any on e working for the house may see and copy all the ent ries he pleases, and do with these copies what he pleases-- publish them if he chooses. Is this fair dealing with the employer's business ? An apprentice may be pu nished for revealing his master's secrets —a workman may do it with impnnity,—No workman can incur any penalty under this Bill. We desire, as well as the gentlemen whose names are to this Bill, to see the stocking-maker disenthralled from his difficulties, and raised in his station and means. But this mode of dealing with the subject will no snore answer any good purpose than did the " ticket" Bill, which we predicted would soon be repealed or fall into disuse, as it has done. In this effort at trade legisla tion we have another proof that Parliament can only be looked to for power to adjust trade matters , the exercise of that power must be placed in hands accustomed to the details and necessities of the various businesses sub jected to their action, and theirs alone. ORIGIN OF THE MARSEILLAISE. M. de Lamartine, in his Histoire des Girondins, just published in Paris, gives the following account of the origin of the French national air, " The Marseillaise.' In the garrison of Strasburg was quartered a young ar tillery officer, named Rouget de Lisle, a native of Lows le Saulnier, in the Jura. He had a great taste for music and poetry, and often entertained his comrades during their long and tedious hours in garrison. Sought after for his musical and poetical talent, he was a frequent and familiar guest at the house of one Dietrich, an Alsatian patriot, mayor of Strasburg. The winter of 1792 was & period of great scarcity at Strasburg. The house of Dietrich was poor, his table was frugal, but a seat was always open to Rouget de Lisle. One day, when there was nothing but bread and some slices of smoked ham on the table, Dietrich, regarding the young officer, said to him with a sad serenity, "Abundance fails at our boards, but what matters that if enthusiasm fails not at our civic fetes, nor courage in the hearts of our soldier. I have still a last bottle of wine in my cellar. Bring it," said he to one of his daughters, " and let us drink France and liberty. Strasburg should soon have its patri,tic so lemnity. De Lisle must draw from these last drops one of those hymns which raise the soul of the people." The wine was brought and drank, after which the officer departed. The night was cold. De Lisle was thought ful. His heart was moved ; his head heated. He re turned staggering to his solitary room, and d nothingslowlyr resting, s tin g, sought inspiration, sometimes in the fervour of hi s citizen soul, and anon on the keys of his instr ument, composing now the air before the words, and th en the and words at beforelast, exhausted, the air . le ep all witha nd his wroteh a on his instrument, and awoke not till daybreak The music of tho night returned t o hi s mind like the impres sion of a dream, he wrote it, an d ran to Dietrich, whom he found in the garden digging winter lettuces. The wife and daughters of the old man were not yet up. Dietrich awoke them, and called in some friends, all as passionate as himself for music, t and til able firs to ex z e a cu c t e t ts the composition of D e Lisle. A grew pale, at th e secon d tears flowe e d, and t at the last the delirium of enthusiasm burst forth. The wife of Die trich, his d aug h ters, himself, and the young officer threw themselves crying into each other's arms. The hymn of the country was found. Executed some days afterwards in Strasburg the new song flew from city to city, to city, and was played by all the popular orches tras. Marseilles adopted it to be sung at the commence ment of the sittings of its clubs, and the Marseillaises spread it through France, singing it along the public roads. From this came the name of " Marseillaise." COMMUNICATION PER TRAIN WITU SALISBURY MARKET.—After some urgent remonstrances on the part of the Southampton butchers, the South-Western have put on an extra train on market mornings, leaving Southampton at five o'clock a.m. At the inns, last market, at which a crowd of carts and horses filled the yards and stables, scarcely one was to be seen, the trade coining from Portsmouth, Basing stoke, Andover, and other places, being able now to dispense with " traps" or " flies," transact their business and get . borne to dinner by the middle of the day.—Hants Advertiser.. s u !_-`• ~_~..~~ 1 ,~ - • „ 'Y _~~