The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

i 4tinction , ;f it, and 3 d it wa s iatient shoo i boo ion, thereto, •ase would had, i n tl norano of n' whether The Itecor, is opinion,sl ie jury, • i Y of a • 1 „._ in ,c 164 •ce Stil ls corn 0 01 e, 1 0 arter-P I V seven de o p ol , L h e saif cs iol ce. t e e .; be p of blac„,bi:: la the T.,";00, nortein g ilt lung,' I ,v. Ile l'au inplet e g co STA T ' gs. from C h ye' 26th ins 7 ' 7OO bush' 1, and 2451 e gave a F EmbassY: A , the Turin :ellency the Ex celleTs eyer, 1 15 - 1 . Es croft, hi s l , :hevalier litto ,rd John 0 le Jarnac' ? cl that, in 0, Past vreekt; nova th e P a t t i nu mber :II ; the deerif,,, ire Chrosi, r TAE „ j o, r forn , f ee ce preseu 0 bOaP iti ! tle ti was a w bo y , but se 1 1, notherLing nber, u n,ls (l '., l e in the o p last tbr;eo'; • h w ine t00a.„,:, hen co n oir t , 0 lid not 3 3:,, any s° ll- Dec ) o l speedil o ofo f t, of all d bf per` ° ce;c; n was d ec lared e / place. distingdi . aris to the (114 , sday . las he field ° affraf:' fit, fl •,,for" rday 1 , a had 5 , 1) ,.1':: 1. and Mighao' CHARLES COCHRANE, ESQ., AND TilE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. At a meeting held at the Craven Head, Drury lane, on Monday last, Mr. Cochrane alluded to the correspondence Which had appeared in The Sun newspaper, and is reported in the Morning Advertiser to heve said, as follows :—" One of the letters appeared to be written by a Mr. Bars, of B righton, a gentleman whom he knew very well, and who had treated him with kindness. In fact, dressed as he was at the time, he was supposed to be a Spanish Quaker, and treated accordingly, and he had certainly enjoyed the joke v ery much. He had however written to Mr. Bass on the subject of the letter, and that gentleman denied that he was the writer of it, or that he knew anything at all about it." The following letters appear in the Morning Advertiser of this day " TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER. " Brighton, 2d Month, 26, 1847 . "Sir ,—As I observe in th y paper of the 23d instant that TuY name is ma d e common property between the electors of Westminst er an d one o f t h e i r can didates. I will thank thee to give publicity to the correspondence which has takeu place between Charles Cochrane and myself, in order to snow the electors the extent of my acquaintance with their candidate. "It may be as well to state that I never in the least sup reed lie was a Spanish Quaker. but was induced to treat lira with kindness merely from a belief that he was a re fugee. I am, respectfally, Bcc., "ISAAC BASS." " 26, Devonshire-place, 3larylebone, London, '`Saturday, Feb. 2Q, 18 4 7. "Sir —I feel it my duty to forward you The Sun evening Paper of the 16th instant, as it contains a scandalous letter Purporting to come from you, and to which my attention 4,_a: drawn yesterday evening. Permit me to prem ise, I do not suspect for a moment that you have vri of the lett er , as lam quite sure you are incapable a nything so gross or unjust, as your kindness to me , whilst under the character of a Spanish minstrel, and the !narked acknowledment by me in my work of such kind naaa, could leave no other, I presume, than agreeable re niscenees between us. It is necessary, however , for the sakes ha o ll f of my l character, and the future proceedings whi ch I Purpose adepting, that should communicate with you, and greatly obliged by an answer at your earliest co nvenience.—.l am, sir, your obedient servant, " CHARLES COCHRANE. "Mr. Bass, Grove-street, Brighton." " Brighton, 2d Month, 22, 1847. _ "Until th e receipt of The Sun newspaper, which - thou sent T,e, I k new nothing of the paragraph concerning Juan De ega. I well remember the circumstance of being imposed °I ; and afterwards seeing it ridiculously detailed in thy book, and in a way which thou must be quite aware would carry With it anything but agreeable reminiscences. " To Charles Cochrane." " J. BASS. ~„ "26, Devonshire-place, Thursday, Feb. 25 , 1847 . ti is with great regret that I have read that por °ll of your l e tt er w hi c h appears to indicate impressions on Your mind other than what I could have desired, relative to acquaint ance w i t h y o u, under the character of a Spanish mi nstrel. I can sincerely assure you of this, that I never had the most distant intention of doing or saying aught that r h 1 5 14 prove unpleasant, and I trust you will bear in mind, however much the indiscretion of my conduct might be ap p ar ent to you, the motives were innocent, and I was a here stripling at the time. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " CHARLES COCHRANE." Mx. Cochrane and Juan de Vega are now established to be one and the same person. We will, therefore, in a few days, enlighten the electors of Westminster as to the sayings and doings of the Senor Juan de Vega, and enable them to judge for themselves as to his fitness to represent them. We will also give them a " Biographical Sketch of Mr. C. Cochrane , c andidat e Westminster," to compare with the one printed thee tr nfor Advertiser of 17th December last , and sin ce , re p r inted a b y aut h or i ty at th e s t ea m-press of W. 11. Cox, 5, Queen -street, and circulated as a handbill among the e lectors, Mr. Cochrane seeks publicity—we will assist him to his heart's content. Spl —N'LS FRIDAY, MARCH 5. MONDAY, MARCH 8. Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway and Pier fzom Harwich to the Eastern Union Railway at Ardleigh. COLONIAL EXPENDITURE. (No. 680, Session 1846.) It appears, by papers printed by order of Parliament, that the yearly cost of the British Colonies is 3,171,6461., of which the military and naval expenses are actually 2,630,8011.35. i d. Some of the items of this sum are as under:-- 1843 4—Military and Naval Expenses of Gibraltar ... ... ... ••• £221,537 8 7 Malta ... ••• ••• ••• 140,702 11 5 lonian Islands ... ••• ••• 131,227 5 1 St. Helena ... 28,000 9 5 ... ••• Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Cape Coast 38,332 17 4 Cape of Good Hope ... ••• 297,061 10 5 Mauritius ... ••• ••• ... 87,031 8 6 Bermuda ... ••• ... ... 96,161 5 10 The Windward and Leeward Command, viz : Barbadoes, Trinidad, &c. ... ••• 319,560 11 2 Jamaica, &c. ... ... •• 209,811 2 6 Lower and Upper Canada .. . . 526,034 16 6 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Ed ward's Island, and Newfoundland ... 176,660 12 9 Ceylon ... ••• ... ... 111,728 3 3 Australia, New Zealand, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land ... ••• 195,954 3 0 General Military Charges ... ... 48,941 2 2 • MIT of the PUBLIC JOUR .A_ bas lately, person of the name of Cochrane , who la telY, as some of our readers may have chanced to nee,o ob been laving himself out for notoriety, as a political B Y - body, by way of introduction to the suffrages of a me ropolitan constituency, has at length fairly succeeded in es ,t . ablishing a so r t o f a cl a im to public notice. So long as I 'e individual in que stion was known only as one of the il lustrious obscure, who please themselves with fancying that a certain obtrusive loquacity is a valid title to the confidence of English electors, there was of course nothing to do but let the absurdity run its course, and go quietly out in the n a tural way. Even the stimulant and attractive heading, . City of Westminster Election," was insufficient to give interest or dignity to what it was impossible to look at 1 , 11 any other light than as an awful heavy joke. 4 - 1 Westminster happened, moreover, to be well enough Suited with a candidate already, no practical inconvenience could arise from treating nonsense as nonsense, and letting Mr. Cochrane, or Mr. Anybody, recreate himself in his own fashion. Nobody cared to inquire who or what Mr. Coch rane might be—first, because it did not in the smallest de gree signify, as regarded any apparent practical purpose, who or what Mr. Cochrane was, and next, because the seem ing anxiety of this gentleman to advertise himselfin every pos sible way operated as a damperon one's speculative curiosity. The secret was sofe,_ since nobody dr eame d t h at t h ere cou ld be any secret worth knowing about a person at once so un important and so garrulous. The prying industry of an evening Contemporary—or rather of our Contemporary's correspondents—has, however. had the effect of lending a momentary interest to an otherwise ridiculous and insipid affair. Certain letters have appeared iR the columns of The Sun, reviving disagreeable reminiscences of a va- Dobond imposter who once rejoiced in the name of nor Senor Juan de Vega, and to whom, as our contem- Porary's, correspondents suggest, in terms pointed rather than complimentary, Mr. Cochrane stands related in the closest c onceivable degree of consanguinity—namely, that of down reight personal identity. Mr. Cochrane is accordingly re quested to enlighten the Westminster public on this point of h ," 5 history—the only point on which the Westminster public have ever betrayed the faintest curiosity. Mr. Cochrane's answe r to what, under the circumstances, must be allowed to be a very natural and legitimate question, consists, first, in a threat of an action against The Sun for defamation of character, and next, in a public coufession of the youthful " indiscretions," or frolics" heretofore fathered on Don or Senor Juan de Vega. From this moment, of course, our illestrious obscure may safely assure himself of that public notice which he has so long been vainly craving, though we cannot exactly promise him that noto riety will come in the shape desiderated. There is now a dash of romance about the thing, which may at least serve idle people for a nine days' wonder. Plain, vulgar Mr. Cochrane could not so much as get himself laughed at ; but Juan de Vega is a fair circulating - library nam e, and smacks of mystery. Everybody will be wanting to know_ about Juan de Vega, especially as the fellow is s aid t o have been a decided scamp, and to have played the guitar. It is super- tuella to observe that the oddity of a Parli amentar y candi date, on the flaming patriot interest, answering a plain question through his lawyer, is of itself a sufficient stimulus to Popular curiosity. We cannot undertake to present our readers with anything like a complete account of the real or imaginary life and adventures of Don or Sen or Juan de Vega. A very brief summary will, however, suffice for those practical purposes with which alone we are now concerned. This Juan de Vega was, then, be it known to the electors of Westminster, an exiled Spanish Nobleman in disguise, who tramped about the country some years back, 'M a tour of minstrelsy and mendicancy—picked up all he Co uld get in the way of cash, kindness, and broken victuals— wormed himself into the good graces of many worthy and respectable families of the most gullible class of British .(3eie t3•, who made the unfortunate and interesting refug ee free both to their sympathies and their dinners—amid finally Wound fe up the " frolic," by publishing a disgusting book, v e a t b e t ty s • of slandering the wives, daughters, sisters, and ser his kind-hearted dupes. In two words, Don o e r Senor Juan de Vega was -tail e subject ler the discipline of the cart's tail and the horse- P o nd. It is a matter, of course, of the smallest possible concern to us whether Mr. Cochrane be capable or not of knowing good advice when he sees it. But as we wish the sim pleton no harm, we make him kindly welcome to the be nefit of our ver y d ec id e d op inion that he had better let the 41en l, ory of his "youthful indiscretions" go quietly to sleep le m, as soon as may be. We do not suppose there can be , u,ch use in advising such a person, and we certainly do not `tneslidisposed to take any pa , ticular trouble about so unpro 04' :ng an experiment. If, however, he should think proper Catalo gue of his " indiscretions, and to row him "f_ :el ft Christian satisfaction in the idea of having been in fBrreoraose.ntal in sending home a fool to be taken care of by hie We have authority to state that the Mrs. Butler announced to give readings at the Hanover-square Rooms, h it WEERLY DISPATCH.—MR. COCHRANE AND 'en E on Tuesday, the 2d March, is not the Mrs. Butler, late Miss al ;n p d n e I. E . S e :NTAT I 0 N Or WESTMINSTEII,-1 hat remarkably vain Fanny Kemble. -414 equally silly personage, Mr. Cochrane, w h o has lately TIIE SPEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Right lion. the himself conspicuous as a working member of the Speaker of the House of Commons held his second and last l'°l. "'lan's Guardian Society, and by poking his nose into levee, on Saturday night, at his mansion in Eaton-square, c'hi,ekettles, and all for the sake of gaining a little pope- previous to which he had a Parliamentary entertainment. o a i r itY ere the struggle for Westminster's representation take The following noblemen and gentlemen dined with the Right Hon. Gentleman :—Lord J. Stuart, the Hon. T. Yeasty, the e.ace, liar ue il the worthy proprietor of The Sun with an action, because he has admitted into the columns of his n ein Via S. Laecelles, the Hon. O. Stanley, Sir T. D. Acland, tnd? e , Jeurn lnumber of letters relating to one Juan Bart., Sir R. Vyvyan, Bart., Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Sir %V. c i f e rs e ' l e n f kr t ga t l e' ea than electors, *rtohr:s fir., .1 hinted bv the writers, is no less a Heat hcote, Bart Sir R. A. Ferguson, Bart., Sir J. Duck -lf. Two or three meet- worth, Bart.. Captain Jones, Mr. E. Buller. Sir J. Packing iCa`lolwc Lochner :vanes, consequent g l o ti e m o s t e upon the appearance of ton, Bart., Mr. Brarnston, Mr. W. Villiers Stuart, Mr. R. M. he letter s in he•, what trans ' Sue, have since taken place; and from Wines Mr. Wrightson, Mr. W. Ord, Mr. Spencer H. Wal pired I! he have . at those meetings, we advise Mr. Cochrane, pole, Mr. Brotherton, r. Tbornley, Mr. 11. R. Yorke, Mr. all further any regard for his character or pocket to stay H. K. Sevmer, Mr. Compton, Mr. Pusey, Mr. Beckett, and to those law o f Commons who assembled to pay their respects Pad To render the case intelligible Mr. T. G. B. Estcourt. Among the members of the who had not - an opportunity of perusing an house article the subject of the election of Westminster, inserted in to the Right Hon. Gentleman were, the Marquis of rase4ooispatca last week, we may repeat, that some years Douro, Lord . J. Russell, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Viscount of ae4a Su n u e _ one Juan de Vedra travelled counties of Kent and Villiers, Viscount Castlereagh, Lord E. Russell, Lord Lord C. Hamilton, Vscount Spanish minstrel. He was a smart foppish sort Marcus Hill, Lord Rendlesham, Lord J. Manners, Lord Lord A . Hervey, with h fellow, who thought every girl who carne in contact Hotham, et bl ack tin deeply smitten with his personal appearance. His Morpeth, Lord 11. Vane, Viscount Northland, Sir J. Walsh, 41,41 glossy hair. rendered still more glossy b y ' r rn' e u m ' Sir C. Napier, Sir Fitzroy K e lle etb S e ir ß F cg T bt he l s i i o g n e , r, n .s . i v r D. Le Port ' aPPliatice—his fanciful dress, and his ge ntlemanly de- 'Marchetti, Sir Howard Douglas, flight Hen. Sir G. rev, the p s4 nl ei ht--all these, added to a good ratural voice and the Smith, the Right Hon. H. Gouiburn, Hun. J. Stuart Wort oo;Z:•encY he had attained as a guitarist, rendered him an ley, lion. G. Rice Trevor, the es of peculiar interest among the gentry, by whom he Solicitor-General,Cecil Lats- Hon. Charles P. petted. not_ced, and taken from the streets into their houses and well, the Right Hon. T. D'EyncoT eerted. R„ reel`, Hon. Captain yrre , Price, lessu,rtl,lon. Captain 'Max r„au,„ oenury young ladies thought him " a nice oung Villiers, Sir J. W. Hogg, Sir J. Ti. and married ladies confessed their admiration of lino. Lindsay, Captain Duncombe, Sir J. M J tt• Lowther, y o ung g people flirted with him, and the old folk became Sir P. Grey Egerton, Sir G. Staunton, Si . P Ihill, Mr. T' I gay in the mofthe exiles' Spaniard—the Colonel 'l'. Wood, Colonel Mure, Captain 0 _ _ pany ar Yew. creatureMackinnon, Mr. "f agg . a r re o ,. S_ir . R. and . g who had been obliged to quit his country Taylor, Mr. A. B. Hope, Mr. Mildmay, Mr. bson,Mr. ins 1 ' la mein consequence of having tormed political notions in c e, Hon. H. Berkeley, Mr. Parker, Mr. Matt , y: s ", c 1 to the exit ting Government. Presently Juan de A. S. O'Brien, Mr. G. `lepton, Mr. Hutt, as u a after having visited Canterbury, Margate, Rams- M r . G. Ward, Mr. Tuffnell, Mr. Watson, Mr. Marshall, E' ~ Lanni s Brighton,published book, in whichd M B. II tf Id M Barkley, Mr. R R Clayton, Colonel e w les, and a r. e ie , i r. R. R. ssiver and gold. as not sparing in his remarks upon the gay and vela- Austen, Rear •Admiral Bowles, Colonel Reid, the tile e ind the r e o n:. 1 Hon. e si . e flo ß wa ig r h d t , uct of these w h o had fed him, and turnished him lion. F Shaw, Mr. Hindiey, Mr. Acland, Captain Glad flit young were ashamed that they had stone, Mr. Finch, Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Shirley, Mr. E nirted Witt a strang er , mi d the more matronly blushed for Shirley, Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. Pulman, ea r . Q. Dick, Mr. Loch, egioeat e • and the dirty conduct of Juan de Vedra. Time, the Mr. Motlatt, Mr. Rashleigh. Mr. Fellowes, Mr. J. Neel', agent in developing all hidden things, at length die- Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Hussey, Mr. Hum yered the author of the work to be, not Juan de Vedra, but plirev, the O'Connor Don, Mr. M. Gore, Mr. Birch. lir. ~.Mr. Cochrane, and many w e r e t h e curee s uttere d against Widliani, Hon. W. Cowper, Mr. Stansfield, Captain Rush -liltan in consequence. We had lost sight of Me. Cochrane for out, Mr. Dennistoun. Mr. Baillie, Mr. A. Letroy, Mr. IV. i . Y ea-s; but at length his name came upon the carpet, Ellis, Mr. Deedes, Mr. G. Duncan, the Right Hon. Fox ..' Sonjenction with that of Mr. Walter, Mr. Bond Cabbell, Maule, Mr. Tancred, Mr. J. Wood, Mr. Packe, Hon. G. C. and Mr. Hansard, and since then he has been a sort of soup- W. Forester, Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Stanton, &c. manufacturer-generala to the Poor Man's Guardian Society Po LA ND. GRAND MEETING TO -MORROW ON Yon Y. by-the-by, whose greatest claim to notice has re vRACOW, AT FREEMAS ON .' B ALL , TILE MAZQIm OP Y . _ tr , tacilOy with which it has hitherto wormed subserip- Norteetaetrrox IN THE CISAIL.—We perceive, with nn teutnes,Ouli of the pockets of the rich, for the alleged object of fei g ned pleasure, that the friends of Poland are going to take Wom l . Ltt , g the poor—though how many poor men and a step which cannot but be approved by every upright man, arti ome n have been assisted by the society, except in the and exercise a great influence both in England and on the ae r. t ! of soup. we have it not in our power to state. Well, Continent. It is to mark with public indignation the recent that oohrane, backed up by the s o up-n e ttl e s, and thinking violation of the treaty of Vienna, and to petition the Crown e 2: e ,his connexion with a few great men besides, fled ou the annexation of the Republic of Cracow to Austria. The es connexion tally the Poor Man's Guardian Society, must tyranny of the three despotic powers of Russia, Austria, and hi o 2e se hine a igreat deal of notice and popularity, offered . ...eel? to represent Westminster, and then came the letters Prussia, will be powerfully exposed by many public charac eln The • tens, - including ' several Members of Parliament, who have Sun, wondering whether Mr. Cochrane was the Juan "ttieel\le,dra like . . c ane bore such unenviable notoriety Mr Co •lir• determined to take a part in the manifestation of feelings pelung like a martyr for some days ; but at length the excited throughout the civilised world, on account of the destruction of the last relic of Polish nationality. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASP. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY Arrizatioox.—The following horses have arrived up to five o'clock : Brunette, Ballybar, The False Heir, Frederick, Latitat, Marengo, Proceed, Cavendish, St. Ruth, Red Lancer, Bar maid, Clinker, Roarer, Mathew, and Cumberland Lassie. The ground is in excellent order. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Baron Rothschild' Thurs.gs., Thurs., Wing-11. Mr. Brand's lids., , Ribley Heath •; Sat., Wrest Park Cleveland hds., Thurs., Capt. Cook's Monument- 11 . Devon hds., hurs., Godstone Gate. Mr. Drake's hds., Tues., Middleton Toll-bar; Thurs., Ry cote Kennel; Sat., Warkworth Village-10i. Bedale hds., Wed., Wood Eud ; Fri., Kirby Fleetham-11. Durham County hds, Tues., Thorpe; Fri., Elmore-10i. F. B. hds., Fri., Trewithen Cross. Haydon hds., Wed., East Woodburn; Sat., Dianetley. Hurworth hds., Tues., Hornby Village; Thurs., Over Dins dale; Sat., Kennels-10%. Mr. S. Lowndes' hds., Wed., Whaddon Common ; Sat., Beachampton Grove-11. Oakley Lids., Thurs., Kempston Wood ; Sat., Thurleigh Windmill-4 to 11. Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Holton Park; Fri., Chequers. Court. Raby hds., Tues., Mansfield ; Thurs., Winston Bridge; Sat., Wakertield-11. Sinnington hds., Tues., Dial Stone Inn ; Fri., Tylass Bridge. Tindale hds., Thurs., Shortflat Tower; Sat., Warden-10i. Mr. Watson's hds., Wed., Saltwick Village; Fri., Nun n) kirk.-10 1 ;4. York and Ainaty lids., Tues., Skip Bridge; Thurs., Moor • Sat., Copgrove. Aikton hrrs., Thurs., Higham Leddie Inn, Aikton ; Fri., Blue Bell Inn, Woodhouse. Carlisle hrrs., Thurs., Victoria Inn, Hornmill Station; Sat., Stockdale Walk. Eamont tires., Wed., Kirkbythore ; Sat., r Longwathby -10%. M. Fane's hrrs., Wed., Great Milton ; Sat., Postcomb. Her Majesty's staghounds meet three days next week in the Vale of Aylesbury. Holderness hds., Mon., Lowthorpe Lodge • Thurs., Cavil Hall ; Fri., Neswick ; Sat., Brandesburton-4 to 11. Brighton hrrs., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Racecourse; Fri; Dyke—i to 11. Brookside hrrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Tels combe•tye--10%. Findon hds., Tues., Michelgrove ; Thurs., Kennel ; Sat., Thunders Barrow-11. Eastbourne hers., Mon., East Dean Lighthouse ; Thurs., Snap H;11; Sat., Willingdon Old Mill-4 to 11. Glyndbourne hrrs., Mon., Newhaven Barn; Fri., Broyle. Worcestershire hds., Mon., Witley ; Wed., Old Hills; Fri., Bredon Hills-104. Ledhury lids., Mon., Kennels; Fri., Highwain. Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Heythorp ; Wed., North As ton ; Fri., Moreton in the Marsh ; Sat., Blenheim. Ludlow hds., Wed., Oaker ; Fri., Sowdle--10. Herefordshire hds., Tues., Stoke Lacy Turnpike ; Fri., Harewood End. Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., Monk's Gate ; Wed., Braid Ridge; Fri., Kingsfold. Essex Union hds., Wed., South Wood; Sat., Rettenden Windmill. Mr. Horndon's hds., Mon., Trebartha Villa; Thurs., Ta merton Bridge. Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Babland Gate ; Sat., Ratisbon Cross. Tiverton lids., Morebath ; Thurs., Dulverton ; Sat.., Bick leigh Bridge-10%. Wheatland hds., Mon., Monkhepton ; Wed., Willey Park ; Fri., Harpsford. Mr. Drax's hds., Mon., Murton St. Mary; Thurs., King's Arms, Charlton Horethorne. Burton Vale hds., Tues., Wall-bridge ; Sat., Bishop's Caundle THE SUN, LONDON, leaven of uneasiness was so strong within him, that it turned up his bile, and he forthwith caused an advertisement to be inserted in the daily journals, stating that he had employed a solicitor to bring an action against the proprietor of `'fine Sass for the levelling observations of his correspondents. There was more in the proceeding than was meant. Mr. Cochrane never intended to bring an action against Mr. Young, and Mr. Young is not the man to be frightened at a shadow. So a parcel of Mr. Cochrane's friends called a !meeting, and they summoned him to their presence. Then and there Mr. Cochrane admitted that he had travelled through Kent and Sussex as a minstrel ; that he per sonated Juan de Vedra ; that he wrote a book ; that he re ceived money from the public—only hosaid that the book was not of such an Infamous character as had been described ; still he would not have written what he had printed upon more mature deliberation, and he must attribute the publication to youthful folly. With regard to the money which be had collected (some 501. or 601.), he said he had presented it to the Spanish refugees. Now, we ask whether such a man as this is a fit person to represent the important city of Westminster P We look upon Mr. Cochrane as a mere adventurer; a sort of place-hunter, to whom any situation would he a god send. We must look to men of character, talent, and station, to represent our metropolitan boroughs, possessing as they do immense and enlightened constituen cies. "%N. edo not require your Quixotic adventurers; we want a man acquainted with commerce, statistics, and figures, and, above all, well read in the history of Europe; and if we may draw a conclusion, after reading Mr. Coehrane's speeches, he is a mere surface man—a person of small-talk — with no mercantile knowlege, and with just tongue enough to humbug an old woman and blarney a young one. Mr. Cochrane's doom is sealed. He will not be the future repre sentative for Westminster. We give him this timely hint, that he may save his money. PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the Haase of commons.) SATURDAY, FEB. 27. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a second time WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction De viations. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley (Stourbridge and West Bromwich). THURSDAY, MARCH 4. York and North Midland (Hull Station and Branches). Newcastle and Berwick (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton Sluice, and other Brandies). Newcastle and Berwick (Cramlington and Percy Main, and Killingworth, and other Branches). York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch Extension _ and Terminus). York and Newcastle (Hartlepool Dock and Railway, and Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junc tion Railway, Lease and Purchase). York and Newcastle (Wearmouth Dock Enlargement). , York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick, and North British Amalgamation. Eastern Counties (Enlargement of London and Stratford Stations, and Amendment of Acts). Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester, London,_ Brighton, and South Coast, and London and South-Western. Great North of India. Swansea Valley. South Wales. Vale of Neath. MAGAZINE-DAY. BLACK II 00D. Under the guise,al a magazine article, the whole somest principles of benevolence are inculcated in the paper " (hi Pauperism and its Treatment." Although we cannot detect any coincidence between the writer's views on political economy and the great system re cently introduced into the British Constitution by the Imperial Parliament, we are eager to express our own coincidence in those philanthrophic sentiments which have evidently dictated the contribution. At such a crisis, when almost a moiety of the population of the United Kingdom is suffering from the agonies of starva tion, when Government is advancing to Ireland alone a sum of not less than 10,000,0001., when throughout the diversities of society, from our Sovereign Lady down to the simplest handicraftsman among her subjects, the good work of national charity is prospering, it is grati fying to see the abilities of a publication like Blackwood directed to so useful and important a purpose. How ever erroneous may be the opinions of the contributor as to the instruments most advisable to be employed for the distribution of imperial bounties, we are not loth on that account to acknowledge the excellence of the aim of the proposition. Little permanent benefit, however, can be anticipated from the unanimous efforts making in behalf of the Irish, unless a better disposition be evinced by them for the reception and application of that assistance. We are far from alluding to the peasantry themselves, for we know by their patience and long suffering, during the storms of external; agitation and the anguish of do mestic dearth, that they are an enduring, unrepiaing, gentle, and eminently religious race. The speech de-. livered from the throne, by the lips of her most gracious Majesty Victoria, contained an eulogistic allusion to this noble spirit of endurance of the Irish peasantry under afflictions which would have rendered other men morally distraught and in no manner prepared to bend without a struggle or a murmur to the pitiless casual ties of ♦egetation and the terrible decrees of an omniscient and all-merciful God. It is to the absent landowners, to the smaller resident land lords, and the larger tenant-farmers, that our observa tion is peculiarly applicable. Unless these men exhibit a better inclination to co-operate with the Legislature, the evils of penury and scarcity cannot be permanently eradicated from that hapless island. While the robust and thriving sons of the latter class are actually dis patched as labourers to the public works, for the purpose of filling their own maws arid pockets at the expense of the humble destitute, it were madness to anticipate any effectual advantages to accrue to the country indiscrimi nately. Out-door relief, enlargement of poor-houses, distribution of seed to the amount of 50,000/.., wholesale manutacture of soup under the supervision of M. Soyer, complicated commissariat, and ten millions of money, will be wholly unable to restore happiness and prospe rity to the desolate hills and valleys of Hibernia, if these things are continued, if these men are permitted to thrive on their damning trade with impunity, if this heinous crime—the defrauding of the poor—one of the four great crimes crying out to heaven tor vengeance —be connived at, and allowed to pass unpunished. Men like these are traitors not only to this country, but to their race and kind. In little truth, they are nothing less than assassins and homicides. Call things by their right names, and those are the names we should give them. Speak from the heart the language of the heart, and we should exclaim with Emilia, in Othello : " 0 that there were in every honest hand a whip, To lash such rascals naked through the world." The opening article is followed by a narrative translated from the Danish, anti called " The Poacher ; or Jut land a hundred and thirty years since.' " A Ride to Magnesia" is a pleasant description of a scene but seldom described, and consequently one that is doubly agreeable from its novelty. Since the period of Sir Stamford Raffles the Spice Islands, in the Indian Ocean, have continued to attract more and more attention, both from the central character of their position, and the rich ness of their productions. Any additional account of any individual island in that magnificent archipelago is hence of a remarkable interest, and from these reasons, as well as from the admirable manner in which it is compiled, the contribution in relation to Java is not the least attractive in tlia' 'Slumber. Building upon an ec centric fabric of the romantic and the real, from a theme which Cooper and Waiter Scott, in his " Peveril of the Peak," and Robert Southey, in his " Oliver Newman,* had already exhausted, a certain writer in BlackaroJd has thought proper to favour the public with his remi niscences of travel, and has cbrieteued his lucubration " The Cave of the Regicides." An euphoneous title enough, and one calculated to raise gobli❑ phantasms in th• imagination of the populace, but stale, marvellously stale, to speak truly. Whatever may be the ideas of this individual as to the " usual buffooneries," as he elo quently styles them, of Thomas Carlyle, we defer to him whether it might not be advisable to copy somewhat of the purpose with which that great writer always in vests anything that proceeds from his pen. Let him look well to the beam before he becomes parlous about the mote—let him look to his own literary sins before ho presumes to turn critic. In the commencement of the paper headed " Latest from the Peninsula," there is a crushing review of the recent " Overland Journey to Lisbon," by Mr. T. M. Hughes. The sarcasm is caustic and excoriating: Eberly evinces a matchless acerbity: old Christopher lays his crutch about him lustily. The criticism is not altogether unmerited, and as a piece of satire is delightful. Among the verses inserted in this number, the following epigram is not bad:— " Bait, hook, and hair, are used by angler fine ; Emma's bright hair alone were bait, hook, line ;" though we doubt whether the verb and the nominative case in the second verse agree in number. The next is better. "Faraday" says the writer " was the first to elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that it is visible at the instants of breaking and of renewing the contact of the conducting wires; and only then. " Around the magnet Faraday Is sure that Volta's lightnings play; But how to draw them from the wire? He took a lesson from the heart : 'Tis when we meet, 'tis when we part, Breaks forth the electric fire." The short poem, "To the Stethoscope," is beautifully conceived, and from the exquisite melody and fanciful ness of the opening passages we anticipated a metrical gem but seldom found in a maguaine. The close, how ever, is so wretched—it is such a miserable anti-climax in style, that we were singularly disappointed. To wards the comme cement we find this graceful conceit:— " Ye stars which bloom lido flowers on high, Ye flowers which are the stars of earth." Towards the conclusion► comes— " Life shall sometimes sound a blast, But it shall be but Tantivy l" 0, for a corner to enshrine that " Tantivy" in the bathos of Martinus Scriblerus. The au voleur, au voleur, au voleur, au voleur of Sganarelle, in the "Pre cieases Ridicules" of Moliere, is not more droll. A letter on the " Divining Rod" (little less disagreeable than a letter from a creditor), and a humorous re minder of the Noetes, called " !form Catulliante," ,erminate the March number. MONDAY EVENING, consideration. But the moment you put her in a fair way of getting rid of these evils, you have a perfect right to deal with her, in other respects, as you deal with the rest of the Queen's dominions. Probably the inter niediate result will be, a prodigious changing of hands in the landed property of the kingdom. If we be rightly informed, there are few estates in Ireland which are not mortgaged to half their money value ; there are many which, if sold to-morrow, would leave no residue, or next to none, to the nominal proprietors. Most of the former, all the latter, will, of course, pass into new hands, and many a family of historical note disappear. But though we may lament this as a shock to private feeling, on public grounds we are cow.trained to add, that it is " a consummation devoutly to be wished." Of all the incubi on the improvement of a people, a poor but ancient gentry is the heaviest. The pfasant looks up to the descendent of a long line of proprietors, under whom he and his 'fathers have worked for agt s, with a degree of reverence which he cannot feel for a Lew man; and the poverty of the chief, as it keeps the serf poor likewise, so it effectually hinders both the one and the other from rising in the scale of humanity. Indeed, we will go further. Though we are no advocates for the French system, and the minute subdivision of landed property which it occasions, we confess that very large estates do not appear to us to be desirable in a country circumstanced as is Ireland. Very large estates, embrac ing whole counties, or half counties, cannot be rightly attended to by their owners, even if they be resident ; and as in Ireland almost all such belong to absentees, they operate as a hotbed for the growth of agents,—a race not very popular or useful anywhere, and least of all in the Emerald Isle. We believe, therefore, that the facilities afforded to Irish proprietors for disposing of their lands will accomplish good is this respect among others, that it will largely increase the numbers of the resident gentry; and that the manners of the rich being copied in the farm-house and in the cottage, Ireland, under a better system of social management, may yet become the -most flourishing section of the United Kingdom." And that it will so become if these measures are ho nestly carried out, there can be no doubt. Then, and not till then, will be the time to consider the pro priety of giving Government assistance to railroads. The remaining articles of this numbea are all good ; the best., perhaps, being a paper by Sam Slick, enti tled " How many Fins has a Cod ?" DOLMAN'S. In accordance with a custom which has become somewhat prevalent with monthly publications, Dolman is reduced in price by half of its ori ginal charge. Otherwise there is scarcely any perceptible alteration in the periodical. Saving that its amount of pages is slightly diminished, the magazine is characterized by all its previous excel lence. Under the conduct of its new editor, the articles are, as heretofore, selected with care and discrimination. Without lapsing into a merely ecclesiastical organ, Dol mas' still con tinues the indisputable mouthpiece of the Ro man Catholics of England ' • it combines agreeable com positions for the general reader, and contributions essentially of a nature peculiar to the religion. From a paper entitled "Future prospects of Ireland," we would, had our space permitted, have made copious extracts, seeing that the suggestions contained therein are sensible and new. The editor continueshis serial upon the Penal Laws, a subject which has latterly acquired a peculiar interest, from the gradual passage of Mr. Watson's Bill, for their abolition, through the Lower House of Par liament. His eloquent predecessor, Mr. Miles Gerald Keon, pursues his interesting paper upon " Holy Week at Oscott," it is written with a loving tenderness of pur pose, and a calmness of contemplation that occasionally merges in philosophic profundity. The contribution throughout is large from its thoughtfulness ; and the miscellaneous contents are arranged with an attention compatible with the excellence of the preceding portions. DOMBEY AND SON. No. VI. By Charles Dickens. As might have been anticipated, there is a mournful description of the sorrowing of Florence for her " dear dead brother" in the present number. It is exquisitely delineative of the woes and memories of a young and lonely heart. The account of her mid night visit of conciliation to her inexorable father, with his repulse of her proferred affection is beautiful but harsh. " Let him remember it in that room, years to come!" Diogenes the " ridiculous dog," not the cynic philosopher, Mr. Toots, even Towlinson and the wooden midshipman who is declared to be quite a " callous, obdurate, and conceited midshipman" in his way, are severally introduced. But Captain Cuttle, the superb diplomatist of Brig place, the gentleman who wears a silver watch of such plethoric dimensions, that it comes out of his fob like a bung, the simple-hearted sailor, who sticks a small sunflower in his button-hole "to give him a relish of the country," the sympathetic listener, who sits with a grin on his face and " a tear on his shirt collar," stupid, excellent, delightful, ab surd Captain Cuttle is the principal feature in No. 6, from his interview with Mr. Carker and Mr. Perch to his farewell with Walter on the latter setting sail for Barbadoes. The same lavish drollery, the same pensive and pathetic se ntiments, the same natural and unaffected eloquence which have c haracterised the preceding portions of this inimitable work stream through these three addi tional chapters. Is an advertisement prefixed to the number we observe the announcement of a projected republica tion of the various writings of Mr. Dickens in a form as convenient as it is novel, and at a price which may with perfect truth be termed unprecedented. A rich and noble casket of wisdom, wit, and the gentlest, humanity, will thereby be opened indiscriminately to the people. MARCH 1, 1847. opportunity so permitted, into the smaller thoroughfares reading into Piccadilly, Trafalgar-square, the Strand, Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, Sr. Paul's Churchyard, Cheepside, the Poultry, Kin?: William-stree; cox . : so on by " the silent highway ., to the Tcwer of London. Only once dues he diverge con siderably from the main artery of the capital, namely in his chapter on Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hell, and the Houses of Parliament. As may be readily con jectured, the main portion of the two volumes is com posed of recollections more or less modern, the more antiquated parts of the city having been either consumed by the great fire of 1666, or obliterated by the encroach ments of time, or the innovations and improvements effected by the ingenuity of man. Some conception may be formed of the difficulties which present them selves to the antiquarian in his researches through the metropolis, when we remember that the birthplace of Chaucer ii a spot altogether undiscoverable, and that the famous " boar's head" in Eastcheap, immortalised by Shakspere, as the resort of Prince Hal and Sir John Falstaff, stood on the very spot now occupied by the statue of William the Fourth in King William-street. From the restriction, therefore, of the present work, simply to the line running from Piccadilly parallel with bile Thames, it is manifest that Mr. Smith's work can only be regarded as one of a series in a delineation of London. Those who bear in recollection the glorious papers published some yeas s since in Blackwood's Ma goalie, by John Fisher Murray, and entitled the " World of London," will know how much may be written upon the capital of Great Britain without ex hausting the subject. And that impression will only be confirmed by the perusal of those two volumes. The deficiencies of the work as an antiqua rian ramble in the streets of London are too apparent to require enumeration, but they are such deficiencies as it would be impossible to cast in depreciation either at the writer, Mr. J. T. Smith, or the editor, Dr. Charles Mackay. Both those gentlemen have performed their labour of love with industry and talent. As far as the work is concerned individually it is complete ; it is only us an antiquarian account of London in the abstract that it is so marvellously incom plete and unsatisfactory. One word alone upon the title-page redeems the production from a charge of in sincerity, namely, the word which designates it as a " Ramble." A desultory ramble enough it certainly is, but a pleasant one withal, and from the beginning to the end the author chatters away with a voluble and delight ful fund of information. It would be almost as super fluous, if not as preposterous, as the presentation of a brick as the sample of a house by scholasticos in the " Witticisms of Hierocles," to quote a mere fragment from the chapters herein contained about the streets of London. We shall leave the literary fabric of Mr. Smith unflawed by the abstraction of a solitary brick, dismissing it from our consideration with senti ments of gratitude for the pleasure which its perusal has afforded us. The author of " Nollekens and his Times,'' has here presented his countrymen with a legacy appropriate to both donor and donee. THE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA OF DO MESTIC LIFE, familiarly explained by C. F. Gower. Second Edition. This is a most interesting and instructive little work ; its object is admirable and it is admirably carried out. In his introductory observations, the author remarks that, in the present intellectual age, while it is customary to teach children " every art, every science, and every ac complishment that the mind of man can suggest, we too often forget to teach them that which would turn all these to good effect : we forg et to teach them to think, to reason, to observe. It is for this purpose that this little book has been written ; it is to illustrate the great book of nature." In all books of instruction, the man ner of teaching is almost of as much importance as is the matter that is taught. The ars cetare orient is h-re most necessary ; it is desirable to give information without seeming to teach. Children, and indeed persons of all ages are generally willing, and often delighted to learn but they cannot bear being taught. Hence there are doubtless many who will experience much pleasure, and derive much profit, from the perusal of Mr. Gower's little volume, who would turn coldly and carelessly away from the very same information, if conveyed in a more pretending manner. But perhaps the most valuable quality of this work is, its so ably fulfilling its author's intention of inducing people to think. In ordinary edu cation, far more is thought of learning by rote than by reason ; it seems generally to be forgotten, that the great object of education should be to cultivate the mind rather than store the memory. It is not the absolute knowledge of certain facts that is desirable, but the improvement that the acquisition of such knowledge should occasion in the intellectual powers. To under- stand one thing, however simple it may be, is infinitely more advantageous than to possess superficial informa tion regarding a hundred. The best system of educe- ' tints is undoubtedly that which secures both objects, af fording information in such a manner as to make it tend to develop the reasoning faculties. Such is the system pursued by Mr. Gower. Taking as the subjects of his investigation the common occurrences of daily life he enables us to understand what is going on around us, and by showing what wonders are contained in things apparently the most simple, he induces a habit of thought and inquiry. Thus beginning with the bed room, he tells us bow the frost is formed on the window ; why the marble feels so much colder than the carpet, &c. ; and so on through the succeeding chapters of the “ Break • fast Parlour," where the tea-kettle gives rise to an inte resting account of the discovery of steam ; the " Morn ing Walk ;" the "Study ;" the "Summer's Evening ;" " Navigation—Latitude—Longitude ;" and the " Sea shore,' In each of these chapters the explanation of any little incident or object imperceptibly leads the way to some more important information ; thus we learn what effect the moon produces upon the tides ; about atmospheric pressure ; the barometer and the atmos pheric railway, &c., &e. In visiting the kitchen we are instructed in the mysteries of bread-making ; in the walk in the fields some useful information is given about evaporation—practically useful indeed. We are told, that evaporation produces cold, and " for this reason re maining in wet clothes is dangerous ; the evaporation that takes place, during the time they are drying, carries away so large a portion of heat from the body, as almost certainly to induce cold, and all tho thousand diseases which follow in its train. When a person is obliged to remain in wet clothes, the best method to adopt is, to prevent evaporation, by covering them with a makintosh or any other garment that will keep the moisture in." The perusal of this little volume, besides affording useful knowledge on subjects of which many, even educated persons, are ignorant, must necessarily have a beneficial effect upon the mind and hearts of its readers•, upon their minds by habituating them to look around with a spirit of in quiry, and by enabling them not only to learn, but to understand, how certain effects produce certain causes ; and it can hardly fail to have a beneficial influence upon the heart, for it is hardly possible to contemplate the wonders, and admire the beauties of creation, without increased sentiments of veneration and love to the great First Cause whose power and whose goodness has pro duced them. Such sentiments have evidently influenced the writer, and, let us hope, will influence the readers of these " Scientific Phenomena." As a brief epitome of the wonders which surround us, we transcribe the author's concluding observations, and dismiss the little volume with a most cordial recommendation. " To the observing mind an hour never passes with out food for reflection. The rich, though often unculti vated soil of human intellect, will be constantly furnish ing us with subjects :or contemplation. The air in which we breathe, the earth on which we tread, the broad expanse of ocean, and the starry vault of heaven above us, are all replete with wonders. The vegetable kingdom alone would afford subjects for a lifetime. The flowers that draw their nourishment from the soil, the air, and the dew, are all furnished with functions suited to their different natures ; some turn their delicate heads to the cheering rays of the sun, and seem to drink deep from that fountain of light and heat, and close their petals the moment he parts from their view ; whilst others hide themselves in the shade, and shun the ai;- proach of day: to each Nature has appointed its propr place, and proper powers for keeping in the station allotted to it. In the brute creation we may observe the same order. To the domestic animal she has given strength and docility; to the beat of prey, the eye espable of piercing the darkness, and agility to seize on its destined victim ; to the bird of passage she has give n strength of wing, and a wonderful instinct to direct its Hight. Again, if we descend into the depths of ocean, fresh wonders meet our view—from the mighty whal-, the monarch of the deep, dow n to the diminutive min now, each as perfect as the other, though on so different a scale. Then, turning to the insect world, we s ee th e laborious ant heaping up her store for winter coostirnp thin; the bee, building her hexagonal cells with a regu larity equal to that of the nicest architect ; the spider, weaving her delicate thread to catch her prey ; the glow-worm, ' with its modicum of light.' sparkling in the dewy grass ; each with its separate sphere of usefulness, each separate insect affording a fresh theme for inquire; and, were it possible to exhaust all these, one glance at the microscope would again overwhelm us in endless ob jects of research. The secrets hidden in a single drop of water, which the microscope has revea'ed, arc alme , -.t beyond our conception, discovering to us myriads of beings filling every atom of creation, and forming a word of which we scarcely know the existence. But even all these sink into nothing when compared with the wonders of the starry firmament, where thousands and thousands of suns, each the centre of a system of worlds, peopled perhaps with beings destined for immortality, are nightly presented to our view. The extent, the magnitude, the harmony of Nature, fill us with awe and admiration, and we are lost in the contemplation of the attributes of that Being whose Almighty arm supports, controls, directs, and governs all." N O RFOLK ESTUARY COM P A N Y . This co mpany held their first half - y earl y meetin g on Saturday, at the Bri tish Hotel, Cocksptu-street, Lord George 13:ntinck, 11.P* , in the chair. In the course of his address his Lordship an nounced that in consequence of the present depressed state of the money market, and from other causes, the directors had come to the determination of recommending to the shareholders that no further step should be taken towards out this project until the next half-yearly carrying meeting, to be held in August next. The statement of accounts ' showed that the items of expenditure to February, 1847, were /.; the engineers, 8,489/. ; to Parliamentary agents, 1 , 329/. ; to solicitors, 4,4291. ss. 6d. ; for maps, printing, he., 5141. 18s. Bd. ; agent at Cambridge, 2511. On the other side of the account the gross sum, including deposits, Exchequer sw. appvv eared to be 25,150/. Resolutions in conformity bills, nth the'determination of the directors having been passed, the meeting separated. RELEASE OF D. CaomN.—Application was made on Friday last to the sitting judge at chambers (Mr. Baron Parke), to allow bail to be put in for the appearance before the sessions of Dr. Cronin, who had been committed, upon the coroner's warrant, on the charge of manslaughter. Dr. Cronin was brought up from Newgate by writ of habeas corpus, and the judge having carefully examined the depo sitions at the inquest, consented to take bail, the doctor in the sum of 801. for himself, and two sureties in 401. each. The prisoner was then discharged out of custody. Hown . rs JOURNAL. Weekly and monthly in its form of publication, Mr. Howitt's periodical offers attractions to a large body of readers. Its very title is a sufficient indication of the spirit in which it is conducted, and forms a guarantee that in its pages the cause of the people will not merely be respected, but sedulously and energetically advocated. We have already observed upon t he distinguished cha racter of its contributors, and we may here repeat some of the names which will be discovered in the March part, viz.:—R. H. Horne, Silverpen, Thomas Cooper, Hans Christian Andersen, Dr. Bowrincr, and Dr. Smiles. The editor himself evinces remarkable industry. Although the engravings are rather indifferent, the literary con tents are sufficient* meritorious to co mpensate for that single deficiency THE TRAVELLER'S MISCELLANY. There has long been a necessity for a periodic al answer ing exactly to the size, exactly to the charact er, exactly to the talent, and exactly to the arrangement of the Travel lees Miscellany. In all these particulars the first number,a now lying before us, is admirable. Are amusing narr tives wanted, drollery, gossip, pleasant and sparkling compositions ? Here are abundance. And for informa tion—the pages are crammed with it We know not a publication more fitted to beguile the stages of a journey, the transit of a steam-packet , or the inter stations of a rail wa y trip t h an this excel lent little magazine. It is as effectual as the most facetious com panion in scaring away the lividi diaboli, vulgo, " blue devils." It is better than any gu id e book, in re s p ect to the miscellaneous i n f ormat i on most useful to travellers. We would especially note the " Theatric al Guide," the " Callender for the Current Month," the " Catalogue of Exhibitions and Amusements in the Metropolis; the " Excursion Guide," the " Time Table," t he Post-office, Passport, and steam-boat Guides," cum cateris paribus. They are as copious and compact as the magazine itself is worthy of commendation. FRASER. The opening article of Fraser will be read with great interest. It is a carefully digested resumi of all the various systems of National Education at pre sent in operation in the different countries of Europe, and it contains more really useful informa tion on the subject than is to be found in all the pon derous octavos and lengthy letters with which the public has of late been bored on the subject. This article is followed by a romantic Mexican tale, " Mate siete, the Hunter ;" and then we have a paper on the " Condition of Authors in England, Germany, and France," from which it appears that pencraft in Eng land is more amply remunerated than in other LITERATURE' I N countries, always excepting those brethren of the AN ANTIQUARIAN RAMBLE' TEE quill who devote themselves to the concoction of STREETS OF LONDON. 2 rofs dramas, for whom France is a very El Dorado, and Thomas Smith. written than those which fact fully accounts for the monopoly of Pleasanter books cannot well be wr f a ncient cities, dramatic manufacture which France at present descriptive of the ancient localities By John enjoys. Lord John Manners is the literary legis- , with all their historical as sociatio h n e s. ol d piles of brick and later who sits for his portrait this month. The recollections are connected with the illustrious personages Soo ma ny personal ' bouterements, so many inei article is elaborately written ; the author treats his mortar, so many anecdotes a subject evidently con amore, but he rates far too are combined . with the clecT e n t g er have transpired in the highly the talents and the influence of this interest- t r i n e o n r t e s d o f i i a an i d attractive ni e ing, but, cartes, not altogether disinterested enthu the imagination is carried back threw, ec l "tu rn ri c ( n s ld b a y rit t ig siast—if enthusiast he be. The political article for more sight of the crumbled "16" land drawings the month treats of Lord George Bentinck's desti- lintels. The late keeper of the priors was fully con tutu shareholders' relief Bill, under the title of in the British Museum, Mr. Smith, and he has d a rt e ers a of an anti " The Great and Comprehensive Measure." The scions of the fullness of this f h as i c s i , n , : . _ ,,,,k for a Rainy que rnstrop.olis, thatt.le writer evidently began his article with the shown by his former writings, _. 1 1 " he pos f selecting . his materials from intention of going " the whole hog " in Day," and " Nollek . ins and has Times. that praise of the proposition of " the stable mind," ceased all the capabilities o d. . but as he went on, his common sense revolted at the thoisreneecenemenisio rl q ualified by his p r ofsssional pur stupendous fully (and if not folly the something n suits, ' a e s r 'we P ll as by . his domestic manners, ,to glean worse) of the proposition of his hero, and he ends by so the most interesting, if not ntheLnainods t mi reco A. f i t i t d e, f what t s' confessing that he "cannot much lament the issue." associated with the history t h . .ispeculiar . abilities tore with isarimination. He was, He, however, throughout argues as if that proposition ofplaY don, ,the most venerable city were to advance money to the Government to con- L the n hich from age to a.e m ost gigantic and extraordi.: struct national railroads, instead of being what it in the British islands, the contemporary an d ex and nth o e b r l e er th ar a e n u L a „, fo n r do th n e d? dis really was—a proposition to advance money to share- nary of civilised . holders to rig the market with public money, over Boadicea, of our national fortunes has revolved the expenditure of which the Government was to the id . tre fluctuated.gtc wh e ther we cunt emplate Landon, in regard have no control. The question as to the propriety oras the spot in which our Edwards and at our s overeigns, impropriety of the Government undertaking the con- t i o lenrys , and Richards, have dwelt, as the scene of struction of railroads in Ireland as great national Charles's decapitation, of Lady , Jane Grey's imprison works for the national benefit, was not brought be- anti and execution, of Cromvreli's summary vengeance the c anted point round w fore the House by Lord G. Bentinck. It was ' u pon the L on g Parliament, of James's flight, o f brought before the House some years since, William's entran ce, or of the fourth George's de by Lord Morp e th, at a t i me when it would baucheries; w hether we consider it in relation to have been advantageously carried into effect, because the poets it has harb i oured, from o!sl Chaucer to blind then private enterprise had not entered the field. At Milton, and so on . to am e Byro h n, or in reference to the that time the proposition was rejected by Lord G. statesmen and philosophers Sir vi Thomaso have been numbered Bentinck and his party, out of the mere spirit of fac- a mongst its denisens, fromta tion, and it ill becomes them now to complain, unless B a cen, and from ye c r e u n l c a es i d n o t w h n e wards ; or, in allusion to they first cry peceari. In the following observations its military reminiscences its artistic reminiscences Marlborough seal on the measures to be adopted for the social regene- Prince Eugene, and Flaxman; or its rem i niscenceslitesreaences in the ages ration of Ireland, we entirely concur, and we trust in o the n g a r e t s of Farquhar and Joheson,r w y e mast always that landlords of Ireland, when they read the senti look upon g it as invested with a charm in praise of which ments of this, the organ of the Tory party (they al- the most e xtravarsant panegyric cou ld scarcely b e ready know the opinions of every other party in the coun t e d a s hyperb o lical. Under all aspects London i s empire) will, instead of indulging in vain complaints fraught with interest, even in its rookeries as connected or vexations, because fruitless, opposition to the Go- with Turpin and Howard, and its prisons as associated verninent measures, set their shoulders to the wheel, with Sheppard and Mrs. Fry. A n d even i n those dege an d aid and assist t hose who are doin g their best to nerate regions investigation would p rove b y no means regenerate their country . The writer sa y s— uninstructive. From the le western boundaries of Houns low, to the eastern limits of Bow, from Highgate and .‘ The te,nures by which land is held, in property and Hampstead in the north, to Dulwich and Peckham in in occupancy, in Ireland, exhibit such a mass of confu the south, taking in the whole circumference from those sion anti complexity as car .not he p n, paralleled any where suburbs, there is scarcely a single point which does not else throughout the wo rld. Ih . is , must be remedied t beconceded The right of sale, in whole or in part, m . a s nine prove attractive as the home or the haunt of some re markable individual. Mr. Smith, indeed, was so con leases for hundred to every Irish proprietor ; and soil of the fruitfulness of his subject that be has converted into pro- and ninety-nine years, and such like, cor doubtless restrained his inclinations Ireland should inclinations, and has restricted party. Nor is there any just cause whyt En land. If his antiquarian rambles to a continuous line beginning not in every other respect be assimilated o upon g her, it with Hyde Park-corner, and ending with the Tower. English rights and immunities be conferred' m t . In his pilgrimage, therefore, he comes successively is but fair that she should pay English tax es. e o r f e he o r upon Charing-cross, Waterloo -bridge, Temple .bar, fore her extreme poverty, and the backward state in le. Blackfriars, Cheapside, and London -bridge, branching population, have afforded excuses for a tardiness . , off occasionally as circumstances required, or as the gislation which could not stand a moments' baapartiat HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Coletti, the grt atest of European baritones, made his abut for the eeason at h, r Mejesty's Theatre on Satur day evening, in tho character of Nino. 'The public owed him an umiak honorable for the manner in which it had tamely suffered him to be victimised by an un principled clique some four years since. (The disgraceful Teunbarini row will he fresh in the recollection of our readers.) That amende was made on Saturday evening. It is seldom that so much enthusiasm is exhibited within the precincts of this Theatre as that with which the appearance of Coletti was hailed, and the applause was richly deserved—a great actor, a great singer, and a handsome man, he was the very Nino of the author. llis voice, of immense power, great flexibility, and of fine quality, is completely under command. His taste is exquisite, and he is an accomplished musi cian. Sanchiell, who was the Abigail, is greatly im proved since last session—as powerful, as energetic as over—her rower and her energy are more completely under command, and that defect of intonation which last season marred some of her most meritorious efforts, has disappeared. Mademoiselle Faggiani, who appeared in the part of Fenana, is a great improvement upon Ma demoiselle Corbari. The choruses were magnificently given. Full justice is now done to the choral music of Verdi. Those who have only heard the old chorus under the inspirations of the Maestro can form but a faint idea of the beauties of his choral music. The or chestral effects, too, were splendidly brought out ; there was none of that " jangling and jarring' which, from u on, stom allet imewsenptainfhuallry. har moniously. When it is considered that the a w p h p a a t r e e v n e t r ca in use, th w e 'as, or l c a h s t est s r e a a , s present is almost entirely a new band, it must be admitted that Balfe has performed wonders. His orchestra need not shrink from a comparison with any in the world. The new ballet of Coralia concluded the evening's entertainments. The house was crowded in eves) , part. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by the Baroness Hammerstein, the Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay, honoured the performances at this theatre on Saturday evening with her presence. There were also present his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Ailesbury , the Marquis of Donegal, the Marchioness of Douro, his Excellency the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunow, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Earl of Lonadale, the Earl of Granville, the Viscount Can talupe, the Earl of Munster, the Viscount Morpeth, the Hon. William Ashley (who occupied her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box), Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Mac donald, Lord Gardner, Lord Sandys, Sir William and Lady Fremantle, Lady Curtis, Lady Grant, Sir George and Lady Carroll, Lady Smyth, Lord Suffield, Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, Count Koudriaffsky, M. de Berg, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., the Hon. G. Byng, the Hon. R. Curson, the Hen. Sir T. Harvey, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir M. Meux, Mr. Hubert De Burgh, Mrs. De Burgh, and Miss De Burgh, Mr. Townley, Mr. H. Broadwood, M.P., Mr. Forde, Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. and Miss Trelawney, Broadley, Captain Greville, Col. Bowers, Captain Murray, Captain Lynn, Mr. Sand ford, &c. MISS CLARA SEXTON'S ENTER- TAINMENTS AT MISS PALMER'S SOIREE. Miss Clara Seyton gave her entertainment on •' Eng lish Comic Opera at Miss Palmer's scientific and musical soiree last week. These soirees ate most delightful re unions, combining the attractions of a pri k Kate social party with those of public entertainment. They com mence at eight o'clock, and some twb hundred ladies and gentlemen are assembled in a drawing room. There is music, singing, and then a lecture. on some scientific or artistical subject. The lecture on Wednesday last was delivered by Miss Clara Seyton, the subject English comic opera. Never did Miss Clara Seyton appear to greater advantage ; she was full of spirit and humour, was in excellent voice, and was much and deservedly applauded, and as the soiree partakes of the nature of a private reunion, the audience were af terwards afforded the gratification of paying their indi vidual compliments to the great talents which had been so successt ully exerted for their gratification. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI NEERS, Fen. 16. Sir JOHN RENNIE, President, in the Chair. The papt,r read was a continuation of that which was brought forward at the last meeting by Mr. G. B. W. Jackson, Assoc. Inst. C.E. It gave an " Account of the mode of gaining land from the sea, by Polders ; and the art of budding with fasciae work, as practised in Hol. land and Germany." The paper commenced by reference to the works of Mela, Weibeking, Spanzin, Calaud, Hyde Clarke, and others, as having given the best known accounts of Dutch water constructions, and the situations of these labours. It then described the "Polders" as being tracts of land recovered from the sea, by a construction of a belt of dykes, gradually raised to above the water level, and then pumped dry, by which means they were still rendered habitable, the level of the many more an cient being beneath that of the sea. When thus re claimed they form the finest land, and produce, for many years, immense crops, almost without the appli cation of manure. The usual construction of these dykes was described to be, by sinking successive layers or beds of fascines or faggots of about 30 inches thick, by from 8 to 16 yards in width, and of proportionate length, weighted with gravel and stones, mingled with clay, sea-weed, and salt. These layers were continued various cw until aaps r they constructed o b withformse r e takena a c af t it noedod of forr more ai heights, egh o evg of brickwork, above ts t rl delicateiiewdc ke srmwee operation pfrt ukeel materials, sl described;so, when nhaenoafp s the lboolmsi ci enprt g i aom t art o thde i p so: were formed u p on t h em. The difficulties of the usual construction of th e l arger an d o f the smaller dykes, of cularly entering i n t o t h e d eta i ls of the dimensions and quantities of th e mater i als employed, and the precau tionslast portion of each dyke, which, unless skilfully con ducted, in proper weather, frequently hazards the safety of the whole work. The different kinds of lock-gates and sluices used for facilitating the outflow of the land waters and prevent ing the ingress of the sea were fully described, and drew from several members accounts of balance and other gates of peculiar construction used in Holland and else where. The original kind appears to have been the self acting balance-gates of unequal surface, so placed upon the pivots that on the rising of the tide they closed, and remained so until on the receding of the tide the weight of the accumulated land waters forced them open. Recently machinery has been employed for opening and shutting these gates, and the ordinary lock-gates have generally been adopted, as it was found that they were frequently prevented from shutting by some floating matter getting between the mitre posts, and great leakage ensued. The general details were then given of the methods adopted for the subsequent drainage of the Polder lands, the separation of the springs, the upland and lowland waters, and the method of conducting them out to sea. The slopes of the faces of the dykes vary considerably; some of the low dyes are, in section, of the form of an arc of a circle of six to ten feet chord, and ten inches to one foot versed sine, covered with fascine matting, staked down upon a clay bed. Others have a base of 19 feet wide and 5 feet high, of a trian gular section, also made of fascines and stakes, secured by hurdles and wattling ; with clay, peat, sea-shells, and sand well rammed in, and th e n c overe d w ith tur f. Others are formed of rows of piles 16 feet long, with their heads 6 or 7 feet above the shore, joined longitudi nally and laterally by waling timber, filled in and around with fascine beds, and weighted with stones. Baskets filled with sand are also used in certain situa tions, as well as various modifications of all these kinds of protections. It was stated that these constructions were found to succeed better, and last as long, as stone, being, at the same time, about half the cost ; and in the discussion which ensued, this statement was confirmed even for some parts of England where stone was not expensive. Our limits will not permit a more extended notice of this excellent paper, of which it was justly said by one of the speakers that "it is the first detailed account in the English language of some of the most interesting hydraulic works of Holland." THE INDIAN GABELLE. (From the Examiner.) Humble trade is, after all, the great civiliser and humaniser of mankind, and has, unquestionably, contributed far more to the prosperity of our Indian empire, than statesmen and warriors. It, alone, overthrew the great commercial mono polies; abolishes all-pervading transit duties and Octrom ; bound the Custom-house to moderation; gave personal free dom to British subjects in exchange for proscription; created an Indian public opinion, and established the freedom of the press—the security for all other freedom. We observe that this busy agent is again engaged in its quiet, bnt effectual labour of benevolence. Its present ob ject is the overthrow of the notorious gabelle of Bengal, by tar the ugliest, and the most comprehensively mischievous of all the monopolies which still continue to disgrace the legislation of this empire. Cheshire, Worcester, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingh am , Leeds, Hullßristol, are all alive to the subject; and, as the question will soon come before Parliament, we shall give a brief account of the pre sent state of the great public nuisance. There exist, all over British India, either monopolies in salt, or heavy duties, which are bad only in the second de gree. This, of course, includes all the native states within !Jur frontier, called " under our protection," and, consequently, this necessary of life is vended to an indigent people, amounting to 150,000,000, at prices the most exorbitant, while the subjects of the native princes, beyond the walls of the fiscal prison -house, with its peine forte et dure, get their salt as cheap as the citizens of New York—that of Cheshire. But the salt monopoly exists in its most exquisitely per. nicious form in the finest provinces of our Indian empire; those of Lower Bengal, over about forty-eight millions of people. This country is low and moist ; its coast, in propor tion to its area, small; and here alone, for there exist neither salt lakes, nor brine springs, nor fossil salt, can salt be manufactured. On this limited coast, covered for the most part with un wholesome jungle, the brine is weak, because the sea receives at it the drainage of the Himalaya and Vindya ranges, as well as that of the Gangetic plain, 1,500 miles in length, and often 500 in breadth. The natural cost of manufacture is, consequently, great, and it is enhanced by the unskilfulness of the sole manufac turers, the Hon. the East India Company, the leasehold delegates, on behalf of the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland. The process is rude, in fact, beyond what would be credited at Nantwich or Droitwich—such as it was under the Moguls and the Patans, and most probably in the time of that great legislator Menu, or when the Shastres and Puranas were written. The first cost is about 60s. a ton, or about thrice the price of better salt at Liverpool. The delegates of the Imperial Crown is not only the sole manufacturer, but, in violation of the spirit and letter of its engagements in 1833 to forbear from every kind of trade, the sole wholesale merchant. It conveys all the salt for the consumption of forty-eight millions of souls to one spot, not a centrical one, the town of Calcutta, and here it sells whole sale, or even retail, the salt of the best quality at near 121. a ton, being about twelve-fold the price of good Cheshire salt in Liverpool. Then, the salt falls into the hands of a small combination of native dealers who exercise a second monopoly in it, and having, according to the analysis of Professor Farraday, laid before a Committee of the Commons, mixed it with from fifteen to twenty per cent. of earth, proceed to dispense the " black drose", which has lost every feature of a muriate of soda, over the provinces. The transit is generally against the current of the Ganges and its tributaries, so that by the time it has got to a moderate distance, the price ranges from 301. to 401. a ton ; that. is, from about fifteen to twenty times the retail price which the people of England pay for their salt ! Let us now turn to the capacity, as tax-payers, of the people who are to consume salt at such prices. The vast majority are rural labourers, earning at the utmost from 31. to 4/. sterling a year, and the majority not near so much. The bard earnings,.then, according to distance from the sup ply, of from a month and a half to three months of a labour ing man are required to furnish his family with a supply of salt, the consumption, which with a less stimulating diet, and hardly any other condiments, ought to be greater, being less than one-half the average consumption of each individual in this country. Let the English reader fancy to himself an English day labour earning 301. a year, obliged to pay for this single con diment of salt from N. to 101. a year, being, at the same time, reduced to half a ration, and then he will have some tolerable notion of this pet tax, so long and so obstinately defended by the British Government cf India. We do not mean to assert that the prices we have given are always paid by the Indian peasantry. We know that they are not, for the smuggler steps in and relieves the people of some share of the burden imposed on them—in deed of a considerable share, for it has been computed that not less than one-fourth part of all the salt consumed is con traband 1 There are, however, situations which his benevo lence cannot reach, and here the people eke out the pittance of culinary salt they can afford to purchase, by the use of the ashes of vegetables, muriate of lime, and Epsom salts, vul garly called the " bitter purging," an article which we ven ture to guess that our East India director wouldinot find a pleasant, however much it might be a sanative ingredient in his own curry! The monopoly is, in fact, a frightful capitation tax, in some respects worse than the old French Gabel's, which con tributed so handsome a share towards bringing on the Revo lution, for the old French Government distributed its . salt over the provinces, while the British Government vends it all at one corner. The proof that it is worse is, indeed, afforded by the fact that, deducting the supply derived from smug gling, the average consumption in Bengal per head is not greater than under the Gabelle, where salt was dearest, and greatly below what it was where cheapest. The duty charged on British salt in the United States . of a American is about Bs. a ton. and in British India 81.. 3 s. 6d . at ton, or above twenty times as much. British 8414t.s.jas so ld C;ay at New York to the labourers of that city . earning 44. a-day, at . a earning, when very well paid, the rate of 455. a ton, and to the British labourers cal cutta,ofl2lderation. derived by the Indian Govern ton ; a contrast that ought to shame some people into mo deration. solf°°p The whole revenue a-year, or t, although the salt d went from i The its much h an British Government, cher ishedthe amamount monopoly of duty y i e lded to it, four-and-twenty years ago, above 1,500,0001. i a year , and , although it wasinfi nitely less onerous that the Bengal salt monopoly , voted it a nuisance and abolished it. The year after the total abolition, 1826, the whole public revenue was larger without, than it had been with the salt duty, and this without any increased taxation. All good example, however, is lost on the East India Company in financial matters. In administrative and judi cial reforms, it is often bcld and judicious; but the moment finance is touched, it bekngs to the fifteenth century. In Committee searching o i f nci t u h ir e y Il in o t us o e th o is f v C e . t a y m sa m l o t n m s o m no a p d o e ly a , ca lB r 3 e 6 ful a and and the virtual drift of its report waa that it was a pub lic nuisance which ought to be abated: Ten years have passed away, and the Indian Government has done nothing but nibble at it. The salt is as high p r i ce d as ever—as di rty as ever; the rulers of the monopoly are as stringent as ever, and smuggling is more rife than ever. In finance the Com pany does nothing, except at the point of the boyonet. It re quired two heavy charges of that bayonet in 1813 and 1833 to drive them from their great commercial monopolies, as in jurious to England as to India, and ruinous to themselves in purse and character. A few years back the whole inland trade of India was harrassed by an infinity of transit duties and octrois, which were abolished only by a bold act of 'virtual disobedience on the part of one of their own servants, whom good fortune had placed in temporary authority. They had long been filling their coffers by taxes on the religious rites and superstitions of the Hindus, from the car of Jagernat, down to the bathing or the shaving of a pil grim ; and these imposts, of worse odour than the faro ,ous dirty tax of Vespasian, have, even now, been only parti ally abandoned, and this not voluntarily, but through h B-4.11 to of the public opinion of England. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was at tended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Lord President ; Lord Cottenhatn, Lord Chancellor ; the Earl of Tinto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Ad miralty ; Sir John Ho')house President of the Board of Control ; Lord Campbell, dhancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; the Earl of Clarendon, President oF the Board of Trade ; the Marquis of Clanricarde, Post master. General ; Earl Fortescue, Lord Steward ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Ilorse. . Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Henry Earl Grey to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Northumberland, his Lordship took the cus tomary oaths. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Queen gave audiences to Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Earl Grey. Hui. Majesty was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting ; the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Lord Edward Howard, Vice Cham berlain ; Lord Marcus Hill, Comptroller of the House hold, and Edmund Sir Edward Codrington, Groom in Waiting. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, Prince Lowenstein, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Earl Delawarr, Viscount and Viscountess Folke stone, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Overture—Crusaders—Benedict. Fest March—Camp of Silesia—Meycrbeer. Introduction—" Maria Stuart "—Danizetti. March—" Midsummer's Night Dream"—Mendelssobn. Waltz—Tolbecque. In the evening the following had the honour of joining the Royal circle :—The Earl and Countess of Roseberv, and the Ladies Primrose, Lord Alfred Paget, the Misses Codrington, Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, and Captain Francis Seymour. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con sort took their usual early walk. - The Queen and Prince - Albert, the Duchess of Kent, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended divine service yesterday in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay assisted' in the service. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Aliee, took their accustomed airings yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge at tended divine service yesterday in St. Michael's Church. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday in St. Paul's Church. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, ho noured the Italian Opera with their presence on Satur day evening. Mr. Bright, the Chairman of the Royal South Lon don Floricultural Society, had an interview with his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at Cambridge House, ou Saturday, to present the report of the Hail stone Committee, which his Royal Highness was gra ciously pleased to accept and to approve. His Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge honored the Marquis of Northampton with his company on Saturday evening, and afterwards honoured Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston with his company, at their residence in Carlton House terrace. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the Fore►gn-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right lion. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. 11. Lahouchere. Viscount Morpeth afterwards joined his colleagues. The council sat an hour and a half The Solicitor-General for Ireland had an interview with the Right Honourable T. Milner Gibson on Satur day at the Office of the Board of Trade. Tne Bishop of London ordained five gentleman as priests, and three gentlemen as deacons, at the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and - the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Helmore. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service. The Bishop of Worcester preached the sermon at the daily service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yester day. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Hall, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The anthem was, " Sing praises" (Croft). Sir G. Smart presided at the organ. EXPERT ROBBERY.—On Saturday information was given to the police of the following expert robbery of a cash-box, containing LW. in notes and gold, which took place on Friday, at the Fountain Tavern, Clapton. Itsp pears for a few days previously to the robbery a gentlemanly looking man, who represented himself to be a commercial traveller, had frequented the house to dine, and on most oc casions had done so with the landlord or landlady, in the bar-parlour. On Friday he came as usual, bringing with him a carpet-bag. Whilst dining, some one came Into the bar, and kept the landlady in conversation for some time. Dinner being over, the supposed commercial gentleman paid his reckoning and departed. Shortly after this, it was dis covered that the cash-box and its contents had been carried off, and another box, exactly similar in appearance, substi tuted for it, and which, on being examined, was found to contain nothing but sand. D AR ING ROBBERY.—On Saturday information was received by the police that the shop window of Mr. Phillips, No. 11, Tottenham-court-road, pldsmith and jewelle r , was smashed in by a youth dressed in a brown frock coat, about fifteen years of age, who took out a tray of diamond, eme rald, and amethyst gold rings and brooches, and notwith standing the number of people who were passing, and an in • stant pursuit, effected his escape with the property. Fasa EXPORTED.—During the last season, curedl7 ves sels left Yarmouth for the Mediterranean with her rings, having on board 2,409 tons; th e re steam and railway to Liverp oo l and London,have been sent by not leas than 3,500 tons, making a total of 5,900 r tens of cured fish, the readers to produce of our own fi sheries. 0u the justice of the importa nce attached thism b a r y an h ch en o c f e infercom merce by the merchants of our port.—Norfolk Chronicle ~~ • ,•• r JHI 1 1