The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-01 00:00:00

~....._____I4IIVENING EDITION. Y;1• .t '% 1 1021c. was felt throughout the kingdom for years and !yea rs a f ter . Mr. Ainsworth's descripti on of the ~ AT oath of th e consp i rators to the capital stirs with 1 4-,0 • He i s very successful in this sort of bye-play. vac illu s t rat i on, too, of the landing of the powder 11, much more spirited than usual. George Cruik 'shank is here himself again. " A Day's Fishing in the Thames "____which, to our thinking, is synoni ous with a day of tribulation—is evidently ro mere ', T aney sk e t c h, b ut drawn from personal experience. writer makes much more of his subject than. we should have supposed it was susceptible of, and nclines far nearer to the truth than that quaint vld twaddler, Izaac Walton. A " Tale of a Calf" iS a humorous story in verse. The ingenuity of the rhymes occasionnlly recalls Butler to our recollec tTn• " Love's Good Night" is b.; Charles Mackay, hose peetry._sim ,lc, unnffected as it is, and never after e ff ect—:,v e always read with pleasure. %le subjoin this elegant little chanson, which wutdd go well to music " Hush Nature ! let no jarring sound The drowsy air encumber, While she, the fairest of thy works, Is sinking into slumber. I 3 silent, earth ! ye winds, be still ! Let nought from sleep alarm her, Nor midnight storm, nor sudden fire, Nor prowling robber harm her ! 4 ' Good night! and be thy pleasant rest Unbroken till the morrow ! M 0 all thy visions, like thyself, Be sweet, and void of sorrow : Good night ! and o'er thy silent couch, While darkness spreads her cover, May guardian angels watch and pray, And bless thee as they hover !" Ti • " Mockings of the Soldiers " is in Dr. • din's j n's s er i ous , poet i c ve i n . I t i s a sor t o f hy mn , th g a do it Ito more than justice when we say at it iS one of the best hymns we know of. Tom 4gelti abY's " Black Mousquetaire " is capital. It f s o v ery long, but we wish it were twice its length ; s t r l e v erY couplet tells, and every idea teems with Tn e' Ing ;tumour. There is no man who makes so • n „ 9 CP-, of his subject—always provided it be of the , -- ",' A tt niul kind—a s flgoldslry. We never catch him 'he over his tk. In the breadth of his humour, h e °ten reminds us of the late Dr. Waleot ; but he • d w entY times hi s f anc y. " Moral Economy of av ge Town s ," i s a use f u l, i nte lli gent di sser t a ti on , crated i n t h e ki n dli est poss ibl e sp i r i t . Th e 4 -Puk e of Kent' s L o d g e "is not in Sam Slick's ha pp i est manner.., P o inted sarcasm, of a worldly • a artie tcr, .and gown into an aphoristic form , , , his forte. "rraumalton, the Chelsea Veteran, toy the Rev. mt. Gleig. We have seen cleverer ti lT l es from his piolific pen; but talent, like the ie u e , must have ireebbs and flows. This Magazine ttched us at so late an boor, that we have been e. f i qelled to content ourselves with this brief, hasty Cuvturnery of its contents. We can say of it, how lerr, with perf ect wit h, t h at i t i s t h e a bl est Num u that hes appetta t hhis year. provision e Every one knows its origin. It sprint's from the sharp prornptinc,ts of a hungry belly—is the legitimate offspring of starvation ; aed has no more to do with the Church, than Dr. Philpotts has with the rich living of Stanhope, which he citing to with such tenacity, and resigned some years since, with such manifest reluctance. " A Shabby Gen teel Story" contains some graphic sketches of Mar gate—that paradise of the Cocknies, and evinces humorous capabilities of no mean order. " A Newspaper Editor's Reminiscences" is the work of one who knows how to gossip with propriety. He seems to be well acquainted with the majority of modern French statesmen, and assures us that " the laziest minister I have known as a man of business, is Thiess." We arc surprised at this remark, for we had always thought that little Thiers was one of the most busy, bustling, and active politicians of the day. Of Louis Philippe, he says : " When he was Duke of Orleans, the sums which he annually gave away in acts of charity, and in assisting embarrassed tradesmen, were said to amount to more than four thousand pounds sterling ; and yet at that time there vi'‘ls great apparent mcaoness in the mode of conducting his establishment. He frequently made his own bargains in sale and purchase ; and would not think he lost his time if, in selling a quantity of corn or hay, he could by dint of bargaining get an extra one per cent. The rations for his horses were ell carefully weighed cut ; most of his servants were on board wages ; and he contracted with a restaurateur for the supply of his own table, and that of the house hold who were not on board wages, at so much per head. Yet it was at this period that he showed such generous encouragement of a young man, who is now one of the greatest poets and dramatic writers of France. This young man was a clerk in the office of one of his stewards. Like most of his class, he de voted more time to poetic efforts than to the dry cal culations of francs and centimes ; and was frequently censured by his employer for his negligence of the duties of his office. The account of his poetic talent and of his neglect of duty reached the ears of the Duke of Orleans, who, entering the office suddenly one day, found him with the manuscript of a play before him. This is not. well, young man,' said Louis-Philippe : you are pad for your time, which belongs to me ; and your conduct is not consistent with the ideas of probity and honour which you are said to entertain. If I were to treat you severely, but justly, I should dismiss you at once ; but I hear that you have relations dependent upon you, to whom you are kind, and I fear your poetry would not enable you to procure bread. You cannot, however, remain here, to set an example of idleness to the other clerks. If you really possess lite rary talent, I will put you in the way to cultivate it with effect. Take a year's leave of absence, during which, with your mind abstracted from all other pur- suits, you may be able to write your play. Your salary shall be paid to you as if you were still here. At the end of the year come to me. I will read your produc tion, and consult others as to its merits, and, if it be really good, will use my interest to get it brought out. But give me your word that, it my opinion be unfavour able, you will then return to the duties of your office, and for ever renounce all idea of a literary life; As the story goes, and I believe it is authentic, the young man did as the Duke desired ; the play was thought well of ; Louis Philippe made a point of seeing it put into re hearsal ; it was acted with great success ; the fortune of the poet was assured ; and Louis-Philippe has from that day been his tried and steady friend." Talking incidentally of Casimir Perier, the News paper Editor institutes a parallel between him and Canning. We apprehend this will not hold good. The former was a practical man of business—the latter of wit and fancy. The one excelled in de tails—the latter seldom condescended to grapple with them, but dealt in eloquent generalities. Both were ambitious, but Canning could trim and truckle upon occasions, whereas Casimir Perier was as stubborn and unyielding as an oak. " Edith Ludlow" is not destitute of a certain interest, but it is too sentimental to suit our taste. We have long lost our relish for languishing die away tales, and would far rather be made to laugh than cry. " The Condemned Cells" is a series of Newgate sketches, written in an earnest and in structive spirit. The " Approaching Coalition" anticipates a junction between the moderate Whigs and liberal Tories. There is nothing improbable in this, for it is but a thin partition that divides Lord John Russell from Sir Robert Peel ; and the latter, we date say—being by this time heartily sick of opposition—would gladly knock down the par tition altogether. Indeed, we have no doubt, that if the Right Hon. Baronet were once freed from his present shackles, he would astonish us one fine morning by such a display of liberality as would atone for all his past sins of omission and commis sion, and put Whiggcry to the blush. There is no man so ready to go the whole hog in Reform,. as your emancipated Tory. Do our readers doubt this ? Let them remember the Duke's and Mr. Baring's offers to carry Lord Grey's famous mea -1 sure, who only returned to their shackles and their muzzle, when they found that they could not con vince Parliament of their zeal and honesty as Re- ormers. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The " Autobiography of an English Opium Eater," which is one of the most curious series of papers that have appeared in this Magazine, if only tor the manner in which, unconsciously, as it were, it developes the writer's peculiar idiosyncracy, is continued in the present number. Mr. De Quincey is a gentleman of extensive erudition, and possessed of no slight powers of humour and fancy ; but there appears to be something strangely morbid and way ward in his temperament—we draw this in ference from his own account of himself—which, in matters of feeling, seems to be constantly leach!' g him astray. Thus, his autobiography is filed with allusions to the cold, and even unkind, conduct put - - sued towards him by Wordsworth ; yet when we come to examine the grounds of his complaint, we find, even on his own unconscious showing, that they have no existence save in his own imagination. What, though the Lake poet did " turn away with an air of perfect indifference," when he spoke to him about " the natural appearances of sky or earth ?'' W hat though he did think slightingly of Miss Lee's Canterbury Tales ; and " read and remembered with extreme delight the novels of Smollett, Field ing, and Le Sage ?"—was this a reason why the Opium Eater should take umbrage at him ; accuse him of unfriendliness; and gravely state in print that he " was equal in pride to Lucifer ?" The whole story of Mr. De Quincey's quarrel with Wordsworth—so far, at least, as we can make it out from his own imperfect statements—reminds us very much of Rousseau's indigation against the world, because it would persist in holding opinions at variance with those which he himself enter tained. One of the surest tests of a healthy mind is the disposition to take men as you find them ; to expect neither too much nor too little from their friendship ; and in all cases of emergency, to rely on yourself, and }ourself only. This the Opium Eater does not appear to have thought of during his intercourse with Wordsworth. He b , gal by reverencing him as a sort of idol ; by deferring to his opinion in ali matters relating to the imagination ; and exacting from the man all that he admired in the poet ; and now, because he finds that his idol has feet of clay, instead of being composed wholly of gold, as he had supposed, he becomes a down right Iconoclast, and breaks him into a thousand pieces ! The sketch of the late Mr. Irving, with whom De Quincey was well acquainted, is amusing, but the praise is too extravagant. The apostle cf the Unknown Tongues was by no means the great est orator of his age. His manner was impressive, but his matter was very indifferent—in fact, little better than stilted common-place. We heard him preach once at Hatton Garden, but though his discourse was above an hour long, we found nothing in it for thought to feed on. It was not deficient in striking imagery, but there was no substance in it ; consequently it left no definite impression on the mind. Here is the Opium Eater's account of him : " He was, unquestionably, by many, many degrees, the greatest orator of our times. Of him, indeed, more than of any man whom I have seen throughout my whole experience, it might be said, with truth and with emphasis, that he was a Boanerges, a son of thunder ; and, in a sense, even awful and unhappy for himself, it might be affirmed that he had a demon within him self. Doubt there can now be none that he was insane, or partially so, from the very first. Not many weeks after his first burst upon the metropolis, I had the plea sure of meeting him at a dinner party. He was in exuberant spirits ; and he strode about the drawing room, before dinner, with the air of one who looked upon himself as clothed with the functions of Jonah sent to Nineveh, or of Paul upan a celestial mission to the Gentiles. lie talked a good deal of phrenology, and in the tone of one who had entirely adopted its great leading doctrines. My head, with a very slight ap o l og y for doing so, he examined : his report, being somewhat flattering, I shall not repeat, further than that con scientiousness' was found in great strength, and y e . neratioo.' which were the chief moral inclinations that .; walked .10 ; Ins it happened that our roads coincided for three miles or more, we had a good deal of conversation. IA one NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. As this periodical has reached us only at the elev enth hour—indeed : .it has a genius for non- Punct uality —we must perforce be brief in our ac °°llt of it. Douglaglerrold, we perceive, contri es an excellent tale, under the title of ~ Christo -Iheri Snub, the Man who was b orn to b e Hanged," 'which enforces a valuable moral, and incidentally bt ees seve ra l use f u l h ome trut h s. T he i ntro d uctory t he of y oung S nu b, as t h e i nveterate scamp o f Be n eighbourhood, is in the author's most piquant % Vie, who seems to have the same sort of sneaking Legard for scamps that we ourselves confess to. fr a s oUr inv e t erate young scamp, at whom all his ,ends and ki ns f o lk ma k e a po i nt o f turn i ng up "leir noses, frequently cods in being a far better tan and citizen than those who look shy on him. "to Jonec was a scamp—a confirmed one, accord ing to the world's notion ; yet who would not a hi s times rather be Tom, notwithstanding L is accident with Black George's daughter, than tnat silr dec orous hypocrite, Master Blifil Fathe ' rs and Sons," by the Editor, is tamer than us ual, but will, doubtless, soon fetch up its lee-way. Popular People" is by that arch and sprightly B• velist, Mrs. Gore. It is not deficient in spirit, h ave is carelessly worked out. Much more might 'Bole been made of the subject. We quote the best Passage :—. tb ` l This , at least, must be a superior man. This au t, • • t Y. to which sages and statesmen bow, must be a o racle.--An oracle ?—Meggot is a man who, in op e • n r h °, 4 course of his existence, never uttered an tfy l e -cm ' - -•Meggot is an echo,—an embodied affirms tbo-Ltho best listener in the world. He is one of w ho can sub m it t o b e t o ld th e thi n g s he knows, re . , People %q uo know nothing about the matter. He is s e am s t o swallo w th e mos t mo nstrous assertions. He g'is convinced by the most preposterous arguments. ireclstair of candour is worth a million. WLen . we oroet wo u P° ll the craving appetite of human vanity, it is couderful that such a man should command the a of PopullL" of society , and stand prc-eminent in the ranks ',Pular People. a r ‘..q:31)°"18 erlioys a less gratuitous species of p o p ularit y ; u ...-1/41P0rUs i s a P Pular author. His works flash upon tle l: ke Lucifer matches, and go off l.ke detonating gaps, No sooner in print, than out of print. The re mews revere him —the daily papers delight in him m agazine s ma k e muc h o f him._Nothing . like 41):tus ! - -Such style—such delicacy—such freed h orn gad aff ectation !—The petite maitresse buyshim him up i n m or oc c o ; the schoolmistress book ll mro and bi n d s hi m up in calf; the to er " buys him and binds him up in a penalty gun s a new book at a month's warning. Great the are discharged from the battery of the press on th e L ir° doction of every new work, as on the birth of th 4t -vn E s of the Sultan. He is written up, till one fears hi s t ne sky must be raised a story to make way for to t r rea ?na• The most crabbed of critics grows mild si e „ -est ing of him ; and the reading world, like Mon- An; Laffarge, is poisoned in doses of sugar and wate r. . HZ who or what is this successor of Byron ?—this tne re ain ,' this Rogers, this Moore ?—Alas! Sporus is a ` A s h ad ow of his namesake of the days of Pope, tn ou i i il d e re white -curd of asses' Milk Por rather the mere cit es Y SPOnge of a leaden inkstand ! But Sporus ex- Sp ot n °.igalou s i es . S porus ec li pses no h um il iate d r i va l. anionUs i 8 "e of wh om lit erar y me n say with a smile w p i te g each other, • Poor Sporus, he is a painstaking d* 'tad r ea ll y an excel l ent fe ll ow. L et us d o hi m eosod turn.' Puffed, therefore, and praised on all 1 4 0 4 1 'Writings fi rs t a tt rac t no ti c e, and finally com a attention." Seale ° reign Sp ort i ng ," i s a con ti nua ti on of a l o d s °f pape rs f or w hi c h we are i n d e b te d to Nim . t ett WhO a ssures us that the French arc very indif %tin anglers —we should conclude as much from Itte mercurial vivacity of their nature—though the of th e net i s well understood among them. 6; 3 4 Trollopc's 4 , Life and Adventures of Charles niu e e s h t to etfi eld, is a clever tale in parts, but it is not it s a - our taste. There is a coarseness about finish eseriptions and a want of distinctness and ; . t ree to its portraits of characters, that greatly de 1u t ; 'foto the interest of the narrative. The iti s ,„ -ati , v e plate by Phiz is excellent. " Secrecy," e legant Essay; which reminds us somewhat T ith te manner of Mackenzie. " Rhymes for the -e ' l / 2 " is one of Hood's smartest jeux d esprits. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. „ laginn cont i nues hi s " H omer i c B a ll a d s ,' x na -s Lle quaintly calls his translation of the well pxo-ii:Ntlll?ialogue-between Glaucus and Diotned—this As h e f a i r l y an d b o ldl y puts t h e G ree k fo t s , id own English, we are enabled at once to L is . '" an estimate of the correctness or otherwise of /r t °er Portions of it are rendered with re atr-aule sPirit ; but the opening stanzas are less vorainslation than a diffuse paraphrase. Thus the " iI,EY 7' rh , ,Bp,oc merely mean " The wind strews some c "Plet es On the around," he gives verbosely in this " The wind outblows, and straightway strews The scattered leaves upon the ground." ,, t Iler e , and scat " outblows," •4 straightway, er ed," are clearly superfluous ; N'veaken and encumber, rather than add strength and serve to_ .!1(1 spirit to the version. -Doctor render s by ~ bold," which is not Homer s " Me- r iccOut, , ,').; - ," too, the , !Teaning ; " magnanimous" is the word—an epi 't peculiarly applicabl e to Diomed, as he is de lineated in the Ili a d. T hese defects are t h e re sult of carelessness, for when he pleases, Ma gt_lun can be literal and emphatic enough, as he B nows in other portions of his " Bailad." We should be delighted to see a translation of i,he en tire Iliad hoar his pen—alwas pided th be tasks hi s great powers to the ut y most, rov and does not slumb er over his version. Poor Sotheby's was lint a tame affair, an d Pope's, which is but an elegant mistake, still takes the lead for want of a better. " d Livin g Ph enomena, " i s far too bitter an unjust in its p o li t i ca l tone , an d where it is I: absurd. lvVii,!, :or irtita),,, c ttiore ridiculous than the remark that Chartism °PlSinateS in " a want of Church Extension and THE sUN, LONDON, TI-IURSDA Y, OCTOBER 1. 1840. thing he thoroughly agreed with me, viz. in disliking common literary society, by comparison with that of people less pretending, left more to the impulses of . their natural unchecked feelings, and entertaining op -- mons less modelled upon what they read. One ebu!- lition of his own native disposition was, however, not very amiable. Near Charing-cross, a poor bouseless female vagrant came up to us and asked charity. Now, it was in no respect surprising to me that Mr. Irving should refuse to give her anything, knowing that so many ex cellent peopl e s y s t ema tically set their faces against street alms; and a man, the most kind-hearted in the world, whose resources are limited, may very reasonably prefer throwing whatever he has at his disposal into the channels of we-organized charitable institutions. Not, therefore, the refusal, but the manner of the refusal, it was which surprised me. Mr. Irving shook off the poor shivering suppliant, whose manner was timid and dejected, with a roughness that weuld have better be come a parish beadle towards a stout masterful beggar, ccunterfelting the popular character of a 'shipwrecked mariner. Yet lam far from thinking, or wishing to in sinuate, that Edward Irving was deficient in benignity: , " Tytler's History of Scotland" is a clever notice of one of the cleverest works of the day. " Violet Hamilton" continues to be carried on with spirit. It is an excellent tale of its class, but that is not of the highest. " Scenes Abroad and Thoughts at Home," are by Mr. Symons ; and we find in them an interesting account of the social condition of the Swiss peasantry, of whom the writer speaks in the warmest terms of admiration. Altogether, the Number is a very fair average one. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. discussed in this Number, and with a temperance that is not often brought to their discussion. The writer justly observes that " neither Chartist agita tors nor Social missionaries can be put down by education, or by law ; they can only be artested in their progress by striking at the roots of that po pular discontent to which they owe all their success and all their influence." Chartism, and that still greater nuisance, Socialism, do indeed originate in popular discontent—and who can wonder at such discontent, when he takes into consideration the enormous tax laid upon that staff of life, bread ? Repeal the Corn-laws, and you strike from the hands of the working-classes their most efficient weapon of annoyance; continue the monopoly, and day by day you increase their power, and strengthen their disposition, to work mischief. The " Legend of Count Egmont's Bridal " is a poem, founded on a German tradition, from the pen of the Hon. Mrs. Osborne. It is smoothly versifiM. " Persian Reminiscences" are rambling and anecdotical. " Psychological Medicine" contains some odd reasoning respecting the materiality of the mind. " Shadows" is a more thoughtful poem than we generally meet with in Magazines. We extract a few of the stanzas : There are shadows around us every where, They crowd on the view unbidden ; Some to the outward eve appear, Some in the mind are hidden ; But the shadows of sight and the shadows of thought The living man regardcth not. A shade we cast in the bright sunbeam, A shade in the lake's clear mirror, And shadowy forms in the moon's pale gleam Have stricken the.soul with terror ; But they are not the shades which shall happy be In the land which no mortal eye can see. • The shadows seen by the outward eye With the outward eye shall perish, But the forms which the deathless mind Joth spy, That mind shall for ever cherish ; Uniadieg shall be the shadow's lot Which is cast on that which fadeth not. For not while the substance before us stands Alone the shadow lasted!, Each form we have seen in other lands On the mind - its semblance casteth ; We may roam afar to a foreign shore, But the shade abideth evermore. And cft as of distant ones we tell, To whom fate may ne'er restore us, Their imaged limns by sudden spell Are c4njurcd up before as ; But we test by the touch of bodily things, And we call them shadowy visionings. The hand that grasps shall be cold in clay, • And fled that bodily token, But the mind that beholds shall live for aye With its magic powers unbroken ; And these spirit forms shall be present there As living men to the body were. THE FREEMASONS' Q UARTERL Y REVIEW. DESIRUCTIVE4, FIRE IN PLYMOUTH DOCKYAItD. Notwithstanding that Italy is so hacknied a theme, we have read with pleasure an account of some of its principal cities, in an article entitled " Letters from the Continent," which stands the first in this Number, and describes in a fervid, almost ate enthusiastic, manner the impressions made on the writer's mind by its magnificent public buildings, its majestic ruins, its sunny skies, green hills and pic turesque shores. His sketches of Genoa, in par ticular, and of Naples, are among the most vivid we have ever met with. But how comes it that he "iever thought of associating the idea of Rome with snowy mountains ?" Surely, as a Cambridge man, he must have remembered that social ode of Horace, wherein the poet makes special mention of the snow-crowned Soracte I We should have ima gined that no Latin scholar could ever have seen the eternal city, without instantly calling to mind this classical mountain. •‘ Lord Powerscourt on the State of Ireland" may be a useful dissertation, but it is a very dull one, and merely goes over the ground which has been already trodden by at least a hundred statists. " A Scene from Calderon" is a lively, smooth specimen of versification, but we cannot speak of its merits or demerits as a transla tion, for we do not happen to be acquainted with the original. '' A Chat with Anacreon" is a light a! d sparkling essay, penned, as its title imports, quite in a conversational style. The writer is an ardent admirer of the old Tcian bard, and speaks of Moore's version of his odes just in the terms that such an elaborate failure deserves. It has been the fashion for many years to compare the Irish poet with the old Greek one, whereas no comparison can possibly be instituted between them. With the exception that they both sing of love and wine, they differ as much from each other as light and shade. Moore is full of meretri cious glitter ; Anacreon is all simplicity. The former abounds in epithets, the latter is remarkably sparing of them. Moore is florid and diffuse in his style ; Anacreon is terse, and even epigram matic. The one seems never to know when he has said enough on a favourite theme ; the other bestows on it just as much as it will bear, and no more. But we shall speak more in detail on this subject, when we come to notice Moore's Translation of Anacreon, which, as we perceive by the advertise ments, is on the eve of being republished, together with his other poems. Meantime we may state, en passant, that the best versions of the old bard of Teos arc those by Cowley ; and that the writer who most nearly resembles him in genius is Her rick. " Introduction to the Study of the Old Eng lish Dramatists" is a learned, but assuredly a very heavy and inanimate paper. From the " Sketches of Spanish Generals" we quote a portion of a me moir of the Count de Espana, the willing and re morseless tool of the late King Ford'nand : " The attempt made by the Apostolicals, in 1827, to place Don Cellos on the throne is well known to those acquainted with the modern history of Spain. Ferdi nand, monster as he was, did not come up to the idea entertained by the Catalan monks of what a Catholic monarch should be. An army of 80,000 men was raised in the mountains, and the command given to the notorious Jep-del Estanys, who had practised the call ing of a fisherman until 1822, when he joined the stan dard of the Faith as a simple volunteer. The hist:l-- section assumed so threatening an aspect that Ferdinand determined to proceed to Barcelona, and exercise his personal influence to'Ptit'it - doWn• . Ho was attacked - on his way by the insurgents, who were, how ever, entirely defeated by the Royalist troops, and their leader taken and shot. On leaving Barcelona, Ferdinand appointed the Count do Espana Captain-General of Catalonia, with instructions to root out every remnant of the re bellion ; and the faithful Viceroy well understood the import of his mission. We shall not sicken our rea ders with the disgusting details of the enormities of the Captain-General during the seven years of his govern ment, The pen cannot describe, the tongue can scarcely utter, nor the heart of man conceive, the barbarities in flicted on all indiscriminately by this savage satrap. Carlist and Constitutionalist, Liberal and Legitimist, all alike furnished the same materials for his refined cruelty. The Hyniii of Riego, the Troge/a, Lied other patriotic airs, were, by his order, performed at the foot of the gallows, in order to mock the last agony of the expiring Constitutionalists. The gibbet, the poniard, ante even the deadly drug, were alike the instruments of punishment employed by him ; and torture of the most ingenious construction was added for the purpose of augmenting the excruciating pangs of death. His vengeance was not alone lavished on the living,—the cold and decomposed remains of his victims were again torn from their graves, and exposed to indignity along the public highways ; and the inhabit ants of Barcelona and Tarragona beheld daily the decaying remains of their friends and their relatives suspended along the walls of their cities, and blackening in the noonday sun! He was cruel by nature, and a monster by constitution —the Count de Espana! In early childhood he is said to have manifested a similar disposition for inflicting torture on the helpless ; and it is related of bun that he was in the habit of frequently amusing himself by apply ing to the limbs of his aged and blind father a red•hot iron, and of expressing the most unbounded delight at the anguish of the old man. His acts a more mature period of life render such a tale highly probable." UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, This Number commences with a long narrative of the embarkation and conveyance of Bonaparte from Frejus to Elba, in 1814, with personal anec dotes and opinions of the ex-Emperor, on the voy age, and after his occupation of that island. The account is drawn up by Capt. Sir Thomas Usshcr, who commanded the Undaunted frigate, in which Bonaparte was transported from France to the place of his brief exile, and though twenty-six years have elapsed since that eventful period, and some of the anecdotes have been already given, the gallant nar rator has contrived to give a freshness to the de scription which, on the eve of the restoration of the body of this great man to France, will be read with more than ordinary interest. Beside this, there is an article on the present " Military and Naval Strength of Egypt," drawn up by a military o fficer, who passed the summer of 1840 in the country. The total number of troops, both regular and ir regular, he calculates at 191,000, of which 94 000 are with Ibrahim Pacha in Syria, independent of 37,700 sailors in the Turkish and Egyptian Lets, armed and drilled as soldiers, and 20,800 national guards, amounting altogether to 249,500 men, kei , ,t up at an annual expense of 1,250,0001. A third article, of considerable interest also at the pre sent moment, describes the forts of the Dardanelles, eleven in all, with the number of guns and the comparative strength and security of the different batteries. From the following description it may be inferred that the writer does not consider the forcing of the passage so hazardous as has been generally supposed : Nearly all these fortification 3 are commanded by ad joining heights, besides being extremely weak in their land defences ; and although the fleet under Sir Robert Stopford, favoured by a southerly breeze (a thing, by the by, of very rare occurrence there), c ou ld, no doubt, force the Straits, as well as either Elphinstone or Duckworth, yet from the state of the current, vai.:ll under the most favourable circumstances runs at the rate of three miles an hoar, an attempt to pass the Dar dandles must be attended, in the preterit state of the forts, with an exposure of at least two hours to the fire of nearly 300 pieces of heavy ordnance. ShJuld there, however, at any time be a necessity for such an under taking, the landing of a few hundred Marines (with field-pieces) on either coast might greatly facilitate the operation, save a good many lives, and the expenditure of some powder and shot. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The questions of Chartism and Socialism are This Number commences with a very just tri bute to the memory of that lamented nobleman and truly beloved Mason the late Earl of Durham —whose dignity of Pro-Grand Master has de volved upon the Earl of Zeeland, to whom has succeeded the Marquis of Salisbury as Deputy Grand Master. This latter appointment is, per haps, the most politic that the Grand Mister, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, could have adopted, and will no doubt effectually silence the clamour of that portion of the public press that has for so long and so justly cried out against the preference shown by the Grand Master for so many years in favour of the Whigs. The appointment of the Marquis appearq to have given very general satisfaction. There are very, learned papers by Dr. Oliver and Proteus which will repay perusal ; and the fraternity must be much gratified by the copious reports of masonry from India, and the other dependencies of the empire. We hope we may congratulate the " gentle craft" on the silence that is observed id the present Number regarding certain proceedings,. and trust that 4' charity," the attribute of the order, may prevail. .The present Number is calculated to maintain its character as an excellent-medium of information to the brethren. LORD CARDIGAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As at this time every fact illustrative of the characters of Earl Cardigan and Captain R. A. Rey nolds is interesting to the public, I take occasion to mention a circumstance showing the character of " The Lord," as he was jocosely called, at C .nterbury. The mansion engaged by the Earl of Cardigan for the residence of his establishment, near Canterbury, was immediately facing the Cavalry Barracks, but at such a distance as to prevent him seeing all that he wished.; in order to rernovo this incorivenience;:he . prO-. cured a .p o werfultelespop...aati placetLivin4oo4o.lfatlic windows of his h ouse, so as to pry, int&_..evet-ystir„tirat: took place :as soon as the officers discovered Inc of operation on the part of " The Lord," thiy'let down at his real value ; and, as a stray ; shows the direction of the wind, this one trait in his conduct is sufficient to show what " The Lord" can stoop to to suit his purposes. As to Captain A. R. Reynolds, when ho first beard of what took place at Lord Cardigan's party, he did not believe it possible, considering the terms on which he then stood with his Lordship, that his name could have been made use of, as it was admitted by Lord Cardigan, and that it only needed on his part a request that his Lordship would be so good as to enable him to contra dict it. Lord Cardigan's assumption as to the meaning of this letter, so totally at variance with its tcnour, and upon which he founded his subsequent Foceeaings, is full proof that he is of the family of the " Wrongheads,' and for the sake of justice it is earnestly to be hoped this may be the last act of h;;,s public life. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, NE CEDE MALLS. TILE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Last evening another lengthened investigation took place at the London Hospital, concerning the death of and no: to thhaet i t o l po John Perry, which was occasioned by injuries he re ceived in the late accident on the Eastern Counties Railway. Previous to the Jury assembling - at the hos. pital several of them met at the railway terminus at Shoreditch, when experiments were tried as to the dis tance at which an engine could be stopped in a case of e a m v e e r r g y en r 7 p , i( a i n( r l a i t t e, w i a t s w f , o is u found that, p th p a c t d , even w between n en si x going at seventy yards. It should be stated, however, that the day, being dry, was much more favourable to the quick stoppage than if the rails were met. On meeting at the hospital the first witness called was Mr. Alfred Helsham, the Superintendent Engineer on the Eastern Counties Railway, who was examined at considerable length ; but his evidence %vase corrobo ration of what had been stated on thci,,einodsgnf2uoiltoe,rreoamreyr day. The witness did not recollecttelling Moore particularly on the morning of the accident about the chang e in the trains and their stopping at Bow, hut told him he c t i v i at tendance to act under the Directors of the Northern and Eastern Counties line,andadded,in the direectaiornr which loccipcli‘l , aants hoeefn accident cni iie:i i eonnn. i tt that tii i iiaaa p t tpwt o eleninotietrie a erdar t , N i . l e iiasnt t ni d : jau a opr } sus . i n g "Be carcful,for God's sake, let us have no more accide g nts." wo uld not k for . a moment or two cause i s a h , c e impossible a i :t e o: question by Moore, the engine yards, Re take upon himself to swear less distance than 130 or, perhaps, the momentum. dire;tion ; book ith the printed regulations to r. tl e ie rs e in n g g t in h e e engine vvileeis a they d T r The a r a : i wouldt said n e him. Moore hirnself said he had not got a book, as he had been absent from his duty with a sore hand when the books were distributed. In reply that he had given to Air. Hall, the witness said that the di•:tribution of the books of regu lations had caused a good d deal of conversation among sl s i l en i d lri e e, opatillyiodntgno oat the engine-drivers, an some dissatisfaction to some of them. One of the regulations in the book was, that one i en`'`,oc was not to a pproach the other within 500 yards on any account. Braithwaite Mr. Freder ick e, of the New-road, St. Pancras, and brother to Mr . John Braith wa it e , en gineer-in-chief to the Eastern Counties Railway, said he was a passenger in the special t ra i n that followed the two o'clock train on the day of the accident. Mr. B. then crave the particulars of the accident. What is your opinion as to the cause of CortoNlia -9 'Mr. Braitliwate—l think the man Moore the accident • had not kept a good look out out. : CORONEIt---Do you thinkthat his conduct amounted to a criminal negligence? Witness•---1 h o p e not . 1 • C r oNER '..'ne 0, , asked Moore if he had any witnesses to examine ? if R °, he was ready to examine them. Moore replied that he expected the stoker to be in attendance, but he could only say what he could state, which was, t hat he was not aware th e tra i n would stop at Bow, or he should have been prepared for it, and the accident would not h ve happe„ed. Finding the train had stopped, h e used his utmost exerti o n t o preven t the collision. The Jury, a fter a consultation for an ho ur , d e li v ered a verdict of ' Accidental death," the Foreman at the same time expressing a hope that the Coroner would caution the engineer Moire as to his future conduct, as the Jury considered him not entirely free from blame. 'lle Coroner accordingly cautioned him (Moore) in a very impressive manner. As may naturally be supposed, multifarious reports are afloat. It is said that men were seen coming from the ship on Saturday evening by the sentinel, and a local paper of mean repute publishes a rumour that a person who was early on board the Talavera " saw marks on the deck as if discoloured by the explosion of a train of gunpowder." We discredit these reports entirely. The sentinel on guard positively denies the truth of the statement ; the second carries its own refutation; for no mortal man entered the Talavera after the fire was discovered. And while supposition is without effect, it it is unfair to jump at the conclusion that, mystery existing, it is an evidence of wickedness. We repeat the calamity may have been accidentally or wilfully ori ginated ; but the unravelling of the tangled-skein must be left to time and that Providence — Which shape our ends, Rough hew them as we may." . The damage done, though very large, is not so great as was first imagined. The Talavera being an old ship, is valued only at 20,0001., and the Imogene at 10,000/. The roofs of the two docks and Adelaide Gallery, from the same circumstance are considered of comparatively small value. The timber :constitutes much of the loss ; a large amount, consisting of 800 deck deals belonging to the contractors, which bad not been surveyed for purchase by the Government, a small portico of Italian timber, a considerable quan tity of the most valuable compass timber, and nearly all the timber of the Malta, 74, a ship lately broken up—were destroyed. In Adelaide Gallery there were deposited nearly three hundred of the workmens' tool chests, worth, on an average, 71. each ; not a tithe of them was saved. The loss is roughly estimated at IGO,OOO/. The damage done to the Minden is not so extensive as was apprehended. The flames entered the bows of the ship, crept along the main deck, run under the forecastle, which is burnt through, destroyed the round house, sick bay, bulkheads, water way, quick work clamps, and shelf pieces, then went through the foremast mast hole, and penetrated the mast-room below, the bulkheads of which arc slightly burnt. The ship sus tained the greatest injury on the main-deck and forecastle ; on the former the sampson posts are burnt through, and the capstan is considerably damaged. The fire extended aft, to the second port on the larborid side, and the third port on the starboard side ; bath catheads are de stroyed. 'We have already noticed. the almost superhuman exertions by which the vessel was saved. Singularly enough the pumps which stayed the fire so efficiently, by flooding the main deck, were to have been removed on Saturday, the sheers being actually fixed for the purpose. The Minden was built at Bombay, from whence she was brought by Sir Samuel Hood, in 1808. She is a fine ship and us dto weather like a frigate, before she was " improved " on the modern plan, which we are told has destroyed some of her best points. This ship was repaired in the acre dock where she was lying at the time of the fire in 182:3, and then, too, she narrowly escaped burning, foi a lighted candle was discovered in her hold. The Mm den was in the battle of Algiers. In the Adelaide gallery were deposited the figure heads of many of the ships which bore the flsg of Erg land triumphantly through the world, and a vast num ber of trophies and interesting relics. To the most re nowned of them, Rear Admiral Ross, while superin tendent at this port., of tablets descriptive of the actions in which they had been engaged. Many of the heads were rudely done, but about all there was a de gree of fidelity and c haracter which plainly told that the tools which fashioned thean:were guided by men alto loved their country ardently, who honoured her great ness, and gloried in her matchless achievements- But the gallery contained other relics to which transcen dently greater interest was attached. A t the western end were placed de fl tg beneath the folds of which ' the immortal Nelson fought and fell in the ever memorable hatt"e of Trafalgar ; and, also, that borne by Lord Exmouth's ship at the bombardment of Algiers. It is said that they are saved, but we have no reason to suppose it is true. We know that, among a party of that gallant corps, the Royal Marines, there was a universal resolve to preserve the flags even at the risk of life. One of the, officers of the Yard patheti cally observed, " the flags seemed to droop sadly as the fire extended to the m, and the flag which flapped in my face at Algiers,• again flapped mournfully in my face, as if instinct with life and shrinking from de struction." This is certainly wholly imaginary; but while it shows with what veneration the relics of the days " when Blake and mighty Nelson fell," are re garded by all grades of her Majesty's service ; it de monstrates also the intense love which is cherished fol the country whose flag has ever floated supreme. LATEST PARTICULARS. IV est of England Conservative Office, Tuesday Evenig 10 o'clock. We have this day conversed with Quick, the Dock yard policeman, who first discovered the fire, He was at North Corner jetty aimut 4 o'clock, from whence lit I saw smoke issuing apparently from the head of the Min den. He immediately ran to the sentry on duty on the jetty, astern of the Minden, and told him to fire. The .sentry had not perceived the smoke, neither had the policeman at the joiner's range, which is the nearest point to the TalaVera. ,i 4 The investigation has proceeded _during the clay. It pertwuLare have transpired , not only affirmins that the fire was wilful, but also affording a clue to • the detection of- the perpetrators. We understand that To boyinamed,Gilbert .Green , haa been eixamined, and it is reported that his evidence goes to this effect—that he overheard some men at Torpoint planning the destruc- . . tion of the Dockyard and other buildings. \Ve understand also that a gentleman of Torpoint is to be examined to morrow, who, it is believed will depose to the Court, that a letter was sent to a highly respectable gentleman residing near Torpoint, a short time since, by the wife of a labouring man, warning him that her hus band and others who were Chartists, enraud at the annihilation of their political hopes, had resolved on firing the dock-yard, the gun-wharf, the house of the gentleman addressed, and to perpetrate other misehiel. We do not vouch for the truth of these repo: ts, though they have r , :ached us from a quarter on which we should implicitly rely in a less momentous matter. But we are fully aware that something of a very serious nature has transpired in the course of the investigation. Mr. Partridge, the Admiralty messenger, arrived here from London this evening by the mail ; he returned at eleven o'clock tonight. One of the oakum boys of the Dock-yard, named Fouraeve, was detected en Monday evening coming out of the St. George with some tools in his possession. He was confined during the night, and the case was brought before the Queen's solicitor on Tuesday, when he eves sentenced to the treadmill for three months. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazelle.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 29.—Rear-Admiral Sir Ed ward King, K.C.8., the newly-appointed Commander in-Chief in the Brazils, will quit Plymouth for Rio de Janeiro, on the Ist of October. The Southampton, 52, flag-ship, is now nearly complete in her crew. The steam frigate Medea, Commander Warden, arrived on Sunday from the river, on her way to the Mediterranean ; she will call at Lisboa and Gibraltar, taking to the latter place a detachment of the 33d Regiment. Captain Sir Watkin Pell is to have the command of the Howe, 120, which is equipping at Sheerness for the Mediterranean with all despatch. The Royal Ade laide, 120, will also be commissioned at Plymouth in a few days for the same destination. The Queen, 104, Indus, 84,and Warspitc, 50, razee, are in the basin, nearly ready for the pendant. The former will be commissioned on Thursday by Captain J. W. Montagu, for Sir Edward Codrington's flag at Portsmouth. The Indus will be ready for the pendant by the 20th October, and report sends the Warspite to relieve the Stag, 46, at Rio de Janeiro. Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8., ap pointed second in command in the Mediterranean, will hoist his flag, red at the mizen, on Thursday, pro tern pore on board the Britannia, 120, Captain Drake, which ship g 3 out to Spithead in about ten days. The Vengeance, 84, is hourly expected from Plymouth, to be prepared at this port for immediate commission. The Calcutta, 84, Captain Sir Samuel Roberts, and Belleisle, 78, Captain Toup Nicolas, are preparing at Plymouth, and the former is more than half finished. The latter ship has been newly masted, and both are rapidly completing for the Mediterranean. The Camperdown, 104, is to be prepared forthwith for Admiral Sir Henry Digby's flag at Sheerness, and Captain Sir Henry Loraine Baker is to have the com mand of her. The Vesuvius steamer, Commander Henderson, is progressing with the utmost despatch at Chatham, and will shortly call at this port, bound to the Mediter ranean. The Pique, 36, Captain Boxer arrived at Malta from England on the 19th August, and sailed the next day for the coast of Syria. The steamer Alban, Mr. King, master, proceeded on Saturday to Plymouth, taking supernumeraries for the Calcutta, 84, and Southampton, 50 ; she is thence go to Cork and Belfast. At Spithead.—No ship of war. In Harbour.—Britennia, Victory, Donegal, Excel lent, Royal George yacht, North Star, Fair Rosamond, and Echo and Medea steamers. MARRIAGES IN HIGI LIFT.—The marriage of Lady Mary Grimstc.n, daughter of the Earl and Coun tess of Verulam, and Viscount Folkeston, e ldest son of the Earl of Radnor, is fixed to take place on Saturday next, at Gorhambury, Herts. To-day he mar atu riage cd Lady Hardy, widow of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, and Lord Seaford, is to he solemnized. Her Ladyship is verging on her 50th year, and his Lordship is in his 69th year. The Hon. Miss Jervis, only daughter of Viscount Sc. Vincent, was mauled on Saturday last, to Col. Dyce. TRIAL OF PRINCE LOUIS NAPO LEON AND ACCOMPLICES. SITTING OF TILE Q.STIi CONCLUDED. After Prince Luuis had concluded his speech, the Pre sident said, I do not think that what you have said is very favourable to your cause; you ought to have sought for other means of justification ; you ought to have known how to appreciate in a better manner the sentiments of the country whose will you invoke. The President then repeated his question as to the landing at Boulogne. Prince Louis—l have replied to this question in my preceding interregatcries. The President—lt is the custom for all tribunals to repeat them. You might reply here differently frem the first time. (The Prince remained silent.) Did you on landing find Aladanize and Bat aille ? Prince Louis—l refer to;what I have already said. I will alter nothing in my first answers. The President—Did the custom-house officers. at tempt to prevent your landing ?—Yes. The President—Did you say anything to them ? —No. The President—Did you not endeavour to induce them to follow you ?—No answer. The President then put several questions to the Prince as to known facts. The Prince replied, that he had nothing to add to what be had already said on his previous examinations, and nothing to change. Did you not, finding that you could not win Captain Col-Puygellier to your cause; fire a pistol at that officer?—There are moments when we do that of which we are unconscious. The pistol went off against my will. When did you conceive the project of landing in France to overturn the Government?—l did not come to this resolution until I had seen that after a lapse of ten years the Government had established nothing. Are you not the author of the work entitled Les Ickes gapoleonicnnes?—Certainly. Did you not desire Mcsonan to see a General, and tell him that for ten years past you had had the intention of making him a Marshal of France P—l will:not reply to this question. I will not change my character of an ac cused person into that of an accuser.—(Senaation.) The President then put several questions relative to the events of Boulogne, to which the Prince repeatedly said. " I have already replied." The President then put several more questions to the Prince as to his not having confided his projects to General Montholon, Colonel Voisin, and others, and desiring him to explain how this could have been the case ?—The Prince refused to reply. General INlontholon was next interrogated. President—Did you not attempt to excite a rising in Boulogne, in order to chauge the form of Government in France, and proclaim Louis Napoleon Emperor of the French ?—I refuse to reply to the question. You landed in Prance in the night with Prince Louis Napoleon and others of his suite?--Yee, but I did not know where I was going. I left London in the Duchess of Kent to go to Ostend, and arrived at Mar gate, to which place only the packet was going. In the sight of Tuesday Prince Louis sent me word that he wished to speak to me on board a vessel in which he was. I went there immediately. I there found the uniform which I wore at the moment of my arrest. We set out immediately. I asked where we were going, and the Prince replied, " You will see." It was there fore without knowing the projects of the Prince that I found myself involved in the events of Boaionic. You have stated that you were living in London?— b You were then no longer in the service of France ?- 1 was travelling only in virtue of a permission from the Minister of War, and with a police passport. I am still on the list of French Generals of the first section, but I receive no pay. Pay is not granted when leave of absence al)road is granted. Do you persist in saying that you did not attempt to excite a rising at Boulogne, for the purpose of changing the form of Government in France, and pro claiming Louis Napoleon Emperor of the French ?-1 could have no intention of proclaiming the Prince Em peror of the French, fcr he did not wish it himself. As to my views and sentiments, they are clearly explained in the answer which I made to the Prince when he an nounced to me his intended landing. I said " You are ruining yourself and us ; but I will not abandon the nephew of the Emperor in the hour of danger, and I follow you in the hope of saving you, and preventing French blood from being uselessly shed." The President here reminded•the General that pro clamations and other papers had been seized bearing his name. Tile General replied, that the proclamation bearing bis ncme was not known to him ; and, in reply to an observation that it was not probable that the Prince would have put his name to it without his authority, be repeated that such, however, was the fact, and that he would never have been fool enough to play the ridicu lous part of a Major-General with an army of forty men. The President then called upon Colonel 'Voisin, who, in answer to the questions put to him, admitted that I he landed with the Prince at Vimereux, and followed him throughout the morning, feeling it to be his duty to support and defend him, but had no other arms than his sabre. M. Le Duff do Mesonan was next interrogated. lie admitted his participation in the Prince's attempt, but though with him at the barracks, did not see him fire any Otol, and thought that some one had let it off by accident. Col. Parquin was the next prisoner questioned by the President. He denied that he had any previous know ledge of the Prince's object. He was his Aide-dc-Camp, and felt it his duty to follow him without inquiry, and landed with him at Vimereux. M. Boufet Montauban admitted that he landed with the Prince at Vimereux, but he did not know he was coining to France to overthrow the Government, and followed the Prince bee ruse he was attached to him. He wore a sabre, but never drew it out of its sheath. M. Lombard was next called forward. He also ad mitted his landing, and being at the barracks when the Prince fired the pistol, adding—" I went to the barrack, where two companies of the 4 - 2.1 were lodged ; I bore the flag. The soldiers received me with acclamations a Vive l'Empereur ! Vive Napoleon II." The drums saluted the flag. Captain Col-Puygellier arrived with out arms. We were all armed. We might have killed him, but we gave him quarter ; we might have crushed the two companies, but we did not. Prince Louis fired a pistol to prevent the effusion of blood." The President reproved Lombard for talking of giv ing quarter to an officer without arms, and Lombard apologised for any expressions that were offensive. M. Persigny, having been ❑ext interrogated, admitted that he landed at Vimereux, being informed of the Prince's object, but not in detail. He was, he said, at the hayracks, near the Prince, and when Captain Col- Puygcllier came; would hare killed him had he not been prevented by M. Aladanize, President—Killed him ! It would have been a murder. M. Persigny—l should have killed him, but it would have been face to face. The President—You went up with a musket and fixed bayonet. You would have murdered him ? M. Persigny—l have made my declaration, I have nothing to add. I have brought my head here, let them take it. The prisoner afterwards admitted that he was engaged in the affair at Strasburg, and had since published a book in London, eulogising the authors of it. Oa being reminded that according to one of the documents he had accepted the rank of Commandant des Guides a Cheval, he replied, " I had nothing to ac cept ; I bad only my services to offer. lam a soldier of the Prince's ; I belong to him soul and body. He admitted that his real name was not Persigny, but . Fialin, and that he had assumed the former as that of his grandfather, who was a Count. M. Forestier, who was on the shore with Bataille and Aladanzio when the Prince landed, was next ex amined. He acknowledged having taken part in the enterprise. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till next day. COURT OF PEERS—TUESDAY, SEPT. 29. [Baron PASQUIER President.] At a quarter past twelve this morning the proceed ings were resumed. Prince Louis Napoleon, Count Montholon, and the other eighteen prisoners were brought up from the gaol of the Luxembourg and placed on benches with the same formalities as at the former sitting. The examination of the prisoners by the President was resumed. President (to Lieutenant Aladanize)—You are ac cused of having joined with Prince Louis Napoleon in an attack upon the Government established by the charter of 1830. Prisoner—l admit having participated in the enterprise ; I joined the Prince at Boulogne, at an early hour in the morning in question. The prisoner then described the manner in which the Prince pro ceeded to execute his design. How long is it since your connection with Prince Louis commenced ?—I have known the Prince for the last six years. Where did you become acquainted with him not think proper to answer that question. Have you been into Italy or Switzerland ?—I have been have you known the P r i nce , if you have n Hw to , neither. then, that question, nor not u t travelledtravelled to Italy 1 sha l laly or n ot Switzerland answ er an y others that tend to inculpate third the persons; as pe ri odfar as regards myself I have already told you my motives, an d T i h t e is pr u is s n e n le e s r s D fo e r s j m a e rd t i o n r s e t p at e e a d t , th in ern re . ply Presi dent, that he had taken p ar t i n t h e attack° utpheenPßou logne, but declared that he was actuated by patriotic feelings.ne prisoner L a b or d e stated that he was an officer The at the Island of t Elba, affection for the l a m ide e dc r and had alway s en t er t a ined a great Imperial family. Princeo n neau innu Louis admitted of havin pi g ul in surrection at having aided and etepdrihsaovnienr: Dr, la t printed th e proc l amat i ons i n Lon d on , before th e i r d eparture f rom L on d on . It was he wh o reply beenn ty po the tote n attempted Pres i dent , these c re p p ur chased by Prince Louis Napoleon. He distr ibuted copies of them to p ersons on board the City of Edinburgh packet. He was dressed as a sergeant of Masseurs on landing EVENING EDITION. at Vimereux. He was present with the Prince duria ' the entire affair, up to the moment of his arrest. The prisoner Persigny, aged 30, in reply to tlr.e Pre- • sident, said that be was the Aide-dc-Camp of Louis Ni polcon, and wis implicated in the attempt of ..;tra s bourg, for which he was brought to trial and acqctitte, by the jury. After the failure of the Boulogne att empi he threw himself into the sea, and was arrested whiles swimming towards the packet. On being quentconed by the King's Attorney, he declared that he had volun— tarily entered the conspiracy, and that its obje.et was: to subvert the Government of the Bourbons, and sub— stitute in its stead the imperial dyaarAy, " I was a w are," said he, " of the Prince's plans, and I knew whore her o m f e t a h n e t 4 t o 2 l d a t n o d .fo follow w d h i d i in al I , an could don to leavingi duc c s bar th a ck Irdaieekr: we attempted to surprise the upper town, but ftlautasi . both gates closed. We were unab l e to burst them ;in, and Augustwereo b the folloNing gpeedrstio,nryenowuansceour examined, project." and On the 1 I th of is an abstract of ' his deposition :—When the Prince et paired to the barracks I placed six sentinels at t khe gate. and I bade them let nobody in or out. This order was executed during some time, but just as the troop were proclaiming the Prince and saluting the eolonrs, an offi cer of the 42d, who appeared to be animated with hostile intentions, entered the gate by force. I. was theft dressed as a sub-officer of infantry, and held a musket in my hand. I ran towards hilt, and just as I y eas go n 4 -, to fire, Lieutenant Aladanize rushed towards lum awl prevented me. He used so much force that my i layono. was bent in two. An instant after, the captain oft Gre nadiers of the 42d came up, and a new coact :ans.! I should have killed him but for the interference .01 the same lieutenant, who declared that if I touched the captain ho would that moment turn against u , , Tee conduct of M. Adalanize was so noble and gene.rous that it filled me with the most lively esteem for him, and I have accordingly deemed it my duty to give this evidence in his favour." The prisoner D'Alembert was the the next) vie() un derwent the interrogatory. He said he had o2xi em ployed as private secretary to the Prince, k n ew his in tentions, and admitted hating placed himself on livnding at the head of a number of servants, attired as soldiers, and marching' into Boulogne. Fir.d that the Prince had been arrested, he voluntarily constitutod himself a Prisoner. lhe prisoner Orsi, on being interrogated by the Pre sident, replied, that he was thirty-two years of a . ,7e, had carried on business as a merchant in London, an.l was in Florence the banker of the Bonaparte family. The prisoner Galvani said that he was a retired sub intendant ; he arrived in London on the 15th of July and being desirous of seeing the Prince, he wrote him a letter for an audience, which was granted him. Louis Napoleon received him kindly, and invited him to em bark in the City of Edinburgh on what he at fist thought was a party of pleasure. The prisoner Orsano stated that he was a sub-lieu-- tenant in the 3d regiment of Dragoons ; is a relaticn of the Bonaparte family. In October last he repaired to London, where he became acquainted with the Prince. The interrogatories having been concluded, the Pre sident commenced examining witnesses in support of the prosecution. JaL.ques Guilbcrt, a Custora-house guard, was thee first witness called. Ile stated that he was on , duty on the morning of the 6th of August, at Vimereux, about four o'clock. He saw a military dee tachmint land on the coast. When they came up they forced him to march with them, statin g thit they be longed to the 40th regiment of Foot. In consequence of threats he was obliged to act as their guide to Bou logne. Some of the party offered him money, but be refused to accept it. It was General Monthelon who offered money to him and to the Lieutenant of the Custom-house Guards. Goneral Montholon denied having' ever made any offer of money to the witness or his companions. Pierre Bailey, Lieutenant of the Coast Guard at Vimereux, confirmed the evidence of the former wit ness, adding, that on the road to Boulogne, when they arrived at the column, they eried out, " Vive la Co lonne !" A little farther on, Col. Montauban told him that they were under the orders of Prince Louis, and wished him to join the escort. He refused. General Montholon offered him some money, which he refused. Jean Baptiste Coissy, a private in the 49-d foot, in garrison at Boulogne, deposed that about five o'clock on the morning in question, when on guard at the Place d'Alton, he saw Lieutenant Aladanize COlllO running up ;he was dressed in full uniform. At the same mo ment the Prince and his adherents made their appear ance at the opposite side of the square. They cried out, "To arms !" The sergeant and three men in the guard-house \ came out and presented arms. Lieu- tenant Aladanize said, " Follow me, here is the Prince." He repeated this request several times, but witness re marked that he could not quit his post without an order from head-quarters. Morange, a sergeant in the 42d Foot, confirmed the above evidence, adding that the three men at the guard house were undecided for some moments, in conse quence of the rank of Lieutenant Aladanize, and his saying that he had the orders of the Colonel for what he was doing. Gendre, a private in the same regiment, was on guard at the barracks on the morning in question. About five o'clock, Lieutenant Aladanize came up suddenly, ar.d cried out " To arms—the Prince is ar rived !" Witness went to the guard-house. He and his comrades turned out, and drew up under the gate way. The corporal, acing under the orders of the Lieutenant, made the troops present arms as soon as the Prince arrived. Ile saw Lieutenant Aladanize em brace Lieutenant Maussinon : whom he informed that --- there could be no difficulty in joining the Prince, a:i - - - - - the Government ts..s changed. Lieutenant Idaussino!i replied "never." At that moment one of the insur gents made a thrust of his bayonet at Lieutenacr Alaussinon, who parried it off with his sword. Afte a few minutes' interval, witness heard the cry " Vivo le Roi," which convinced them that they ha , been deceived into a treasonable affair ; he accDrdipgl withdrew his men, and made them return to th guard-Louse, (LEFT SITTING.) THE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE. Our correspondent at Newcastle states that sir,. the committal. of FOINIes some Enks of evidence ha, been found, which strongly tend to connect him wit the murder. For obvious causes we refrain from more explicit statement on this head. We mentions last. week, that when Fowles was in Mr. Cottriil's cu tody, on his way to prison, he volunteered a staternel to the effect that he had not murdered the poor worm We learn that he hid previously made a like commur cation to another person. Benjamin Tittensor, a special constable, had charf of him at Newcastle, and remained with him in the roo after the inquest, on the night of Saturday weel The prisoner commenced talking, and stated the' on the Tuesday before the murder, he contract( with the deceased to board him for 9s. per week. C the next day he went to seek work, but could not o taro any ; that at night be went into the house at. had supper ; there was another man (a stranger) . then ; they supped and slept together, until alms two o'clock, when they got up. The other me got on her bed and throttled her. She made no noise that the other man broke open a box, took some mon( out, and gave him part of it ; that they left the how together, the other man accompanying him to Jacl son's house for the coat he there purchased ; and Or they afterwurds parted, the other man (a fiddler) goir towards Macclesfield, while prisoner proceeded to B. ming,ham. The statement cf the prisoner having an accompli , we think will turn out to be a mere fabrication. fiddler from the neighbourhood of Golden Hill, who hi been in Newcastle that day, on hearing the report, v luntarily came to the Newcastle Police-office, and clear accounted ler himself during the whole night of the mu der. The family of the prisoner is respectable—the f. aild prisoner ims b h u a t s i f u o t r e s l3 om b tune e e eu tele te e n d g f i r y; , ther at the present time being Overseer of the parish r N o vicious th wc h. courses, e Cold Bath Fields Prison, London. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) It would appear, after all, that there is some grout for Fowles' assertion that a man from Manchcst helped him ; for a fiddler has been picked up by t police at Manchester, who has come from Newcast last, and has plenty of money, of which he can give account. Cottril, head of Newcastle Police, has go over about this to Manchester.—Salopian Jour:, Wednesday. INVERNESS JUSTICIARY COURg SLANDERING AND DEFAMING, AND SENDING I INSULTING LETTER TO A JUDGE.—Duncan .3Plnty,, Fort Willi am , was th en pl ace d a t the bar, charged Iv; slandering an d d e f am i ng Andrew Fraser, Eq., Sher Substitute, F o rt Wiili a m, and with having wr itten al subscribed a letter with that view. Duncan, who looked a very simp'c foolish old ma acknowledged having written and delivered the lett, but denied any intention to c oncuss or intimidate t Judge. The ADVOcATE-DEPUTE then shortly addressed t• jury on the importance of judges and magistrates bei protected in the discharge of their public duties, at deprecating the introduction of religious feuds, as vk evidenced in the letter of the prisoner. i The juiy returned a verdict of Guilty, but recto mended the priso ner to mercy. Lord MEDWYN then addressed the prisoner " Duncan, you have to thank the leniency of the J 1 for having rec ommended sou to mercy. [Hero Dun: made a very low bow to the Jurymen.] I trust y ou take care in future about addressing great folk, r" neve r do it again, my Lord."] You will get no th at for it. I sentence you to four months' i t h e gaol of Inverness. [Here D uncan made a v low bow.] His Lordship said ne ver see your face again." To which Duncan replied, " n ever stop in Fort William mprisonment Non. , ~ , Duncar. . let No, my Lord, again ;" and, after shale hands with his Couns e l, h the spectators, he retired amidst the 'taught(