The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-26 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. L'Alisir d'Amure was re!,e,ted he^e ":..: Lablwthe as Dt•cwr Llizflzsit -:.• • • as glorious as ever ; Castellan, who was nt voice, sang and ac t e d b ew it c hi ng ly, an d Gardoni us Nemorino, sang the music most sweetly, and looked and 'acted the lover to the life. His Una fertiva Layrima is one of the most exquisite gems of the lyrical drama. in the ballet department we had the magnificent _ Divertissement from Lally, Rookh, with Ceritu and St. Leou ; and the ballet of Corgis, with Carolina R , , , ati and Marie Taglioni. The house was crowded. Amongst the eompany who honoured the theatre with their pre sence we observed their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, attended by the Baroness Hammerstein, Major Stephens, and Mr. E. H. St. John Mildmay, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, and the Hon. Miss Barrin g t on , an d t h e H on . Mi ss Mitchell, occupied her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box. There were also present Mr. George Ed .card and the Hon. Mrs Anson, and Mr. and Lady Anne Charteris (in her Majesty's box), the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de Lechner, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Granby, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Belfast, - Viscount Somerton, Lord Berwick, Viscountess Dillon and the Hon. Misses Dillon, Lord Gardner, Lord Mac donald, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord and Lady Wil loughby D'Eresby, and the Hon. W. D'Eresby, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord Brougham, the Baron Rehau tent the Count de Courcy, Lady Graham, Lady Meux, Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Sir R. Willoughby, Hon. Julian Fane, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert de Burgh, the Count de Koudriaffs k y , Mr. W. W. Wil 'anis, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Morton, captain Reynolds, Captain Smith, Mr. Cony o g ham, Mr. Stuart, M.P , Mr. and Miss Brereton Trel awne y , Mr. and Mrs, Hodgson,i Mrs. Packe Reding, Mr. Hayter, / EP., &c. &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, CO V ENT- GARDEN. Rossini's L' lieliana in Algieri waS.prgdueed here on , Saturday, with an ent i re l y new c ast, comprising Mdlle. A lboni a s i fel b e li a Marini as the 11 , y, Rovere as '.Caddeo, and S a l v i as Lindoro. has added to her f ame b y h er personation o f I sa b e l la . Her ren dering of the mu s i c was excee di ng ly brilliant, and, better than a ll, excee di ng l y correct . H er rendering of the cel e b rated aria " Penne alla Patria," was perfect, wend merited the applause with which it was t i e rved• The Li n d oro o f S a l v i i s n ot equal to i n d L Ed F a rdo• Either he was labouring under pow g e p r osition on Saturday, or his voice is deficient in carry o ecas i o „ I , i ,e gave snatches of the music beautifully, but , x __. there was manifested a want of power of At 71mnesil to afii.er • out his conception. He seemed to be e xhausted. Marini is a good, steady bass ox with a poeerful voice, and a perfect knowledge music, and although in the Papatari he approached (,who who near to the rich and unctions h um our of Lablache 'can appr oac h t h e unapproac h a bl e ), yet, in his ren dering of th e b ye part of this celebrate d quar t e tte, there Was a grav e stolidity thattold well. Rovere was the Ta ddeo, and Rovere is in all points the perfect conventional Italian 800 We can imagine the roars of laughter and aPelause, the furore of delight which Rovere would excite a mong an lialian audience, but every l ow come fan, and t h e b uffo is the low comed i an o f I ta ly, while he en.i'ls a grea t e r p o p u l ar ity among his countrymen than otAer artistes, seldom succeeds in making himself Un derstood by a f ore i gn au di ence . The French, - for in stance, were delighted with Charles Kemble, with Kean, with Macready, bat they could not understand Liston, and were lost in astonishment et the roars of laughter which he excited among the English portion of the audience. So with Rovere last evening. Those who had been in Italy, and understood the er°nventienalities of the Italian drama, were do r„.ghted, but the a c ting o f Rovere was caviare to a b.-eat proportion of the a udienco, they could not un derstand the fun. Now this is easily accounted for. The f "_, of the b u ff o actor i s ge nerally lecal tun — unde rstood -11 ' 1 aPpreci ate d, an d en joyed with a zest incomprehen ibl te strangers, b • tho:;e who are habituated to the co nve rsationalities of the place. But remove him to ahot her audience unaccustome d to his p eculiar I : 4111 "v, and he would have to educate them to his man - er • grid himself to their ideas of fun, helot: he Oft hop for success This is the case with l lovore• tie is certainly a most accomplished Italian buffo ; but that is not enough with a foreign audience, because they do not understand Italian con ventionalities, and in order to attain that position to rich hi s ta b nts ent i tle hi m , he must endeavour to become more cosmopolitan in his humour, and his audience must, at the same time, become more Italian in theirs. If Rovere performs his part of this arrange tuent, be will thereby teach his audience theirs, and th:n he will b e d eserve d ly as grea t a favourite here as is in his own country. The principal artistes were all called fo r at t h e conclusion. The new b a ll e t, La Reine •1:8 Fees, .concluded the evening's entertainments. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were present. • QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS, HANOVER-SQUARE. Mademoiselle Isa Prudence, the celebrated somnam bulistappearance cor, as she is termed, " Ecstatic"), made her third 13 _ , _ranee in these rooms on Friday afternoon, assisted Herminie Laurent, exhibiting her extraordi nary Powers in Oneiromancie Artistique, or the repre sentation of historical, mythological, and imaginary . attitudes connected with painting, sculpture, and the •- . dramatic art, by transmission of ideas effected through the mere agency of the will. Whatever degree of credit • may be attached to the mesmeric art, the performance was in every respect an extraordinary and interesting one. If, as was asserted, the only means of communi - eating the knowledge of what the young lady was re . 4:pared to express, was by the mere act of volition on the part of the magnetiser, it was, indeed, most wonderful, and would go far to confirm the truth of all that has been claimed on behalf of the art. If, on the other hand, there was any decep tion, and we confess that we could not with the closest scrutiny detect anything that could be supposed to border on it, Madlle. Prudence must be an actress of • ' great and varied power, who would achieve a triumph in the higher branches of the drama. The most incre \ ditlous, however, were completely baffled. The greatest facility was given to every one to inspect closely the • . performance. Any person desiring it was permitted to ascend the temporary stage, and to stand at the side of 'the parties, and although many trials were made there was not a single failure, neither was there the sligh,est appearance of any agency by which she could have ob . twined the knowledge of what was required at her hands. Many distinguished scientific gentlemen and several ladies were in. attendance at the appointed hour. Shortly after Mademoiselle Prudetate entered, attired in the Druidical costume, a chaplet of oak leaves round her bead, and a loose white dress, with the arms quite bare, and each surrounded with two wide armlets of gold, one at the wrists, and the other at the upper part of the arm. Site is a rk mark,ihly fine young woman, with a mist ex pressive countenance and fair complexion. She seated nerself immediately in an arm-chair, and the mag netising at once commenced—within a few minutes she was thrown into a deep sleep. Dr. Laurent then stepped forward and invited any person present to write en a s lip of paper the subject he desired to have illustrated. Very many availed themselves of the permission thus afforded, and in every instance it was most elf ctively ex pressed. Madlle. Laurent held in her hand the paper con taining the subject, and stood quite behind the chair on which theycung !a.dy was seated; in a few seconds she rose and advanced a few paces, and assumed the required at titude and expression. Many of the illustrations were -loudly applauded ; " the Caressing a little Child," the first that was demanded, was beautifully given. Perhaps, the best,. however, was " ;he Gladiator fighting to the death." Her countenance as sumed an almost demoniacal expression, when plunging the sword into the bosom of the conquered enemy. "The Roman Mother receiving her Son, returning vic torious, was also exquisitely rendered, and also " a Woman caressing a Butterfly, which had settled on her wrist." The wonderful command which the mesmeriser .exerciafd over the sleeper was shown by her falling, as if deprived of all her powers while leaning on one of the au - dience, at a movement made from behind, her eyes being bandaged at the time. An exhibition was announced to take place on Saturday evening, at the private residence co' the parties, amidst considerable applause. We have cer tainly never witnessed a more surprising exhibition, or one so perfectly inexplicable, save on the assumption of the reality of the claims put forward. EXETER-HALL. The second performance of Elijah, under the direction o : Dr. Mendelssohn, took place on Friday night, in the presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The hall was crowded to suffocation. The royal party occupied the gallery . at the left wing, near the orchestra (For her Majesty's suite, see the Court Circular.) Her Majesty and Prince Albert, on taking their places, were received with tumultuous greetings, which they cour teously acknowledged by repeated salutations to the crowd. The band and chorus then performed the national anthem. It would seem that good counsel is not altogether thrown away upon the Sacred Harmonic Society, to judge by the difference between Friday night's performance and that which preceded it. Although much more than was done might have been done in strengthening and purifying the band and chorus by adding and subtracting where it was necessary, yet the evidence of painstaking in the general performance was manifested most agreeably. The choruses, for the most part, if they did not go perfectly, went far better than there was reason to anticipate from the unfinished and clumsy exhibition of Friday week, and the orchestral accompaniments demonstrated an amount of extra training that could only have resulted from a complete and satis factory rehearsal. This, we believe, took plate} in the morn ing; under the camp Pr's direction. Most of !the faults we noted in our report of the first performance were rectified on Friday night. The overtire was played with sniritand accuracy. The refrain of the duet e and chorus," Lord, bow down thins ear to our , prayer," W'l4 highly satisfactory, although there was still some unsteadiness in the starting of the solo voices. The passages for the stringed instruments in the magnificent oberusesUt the Baalite priests, were now given with the proper_, force, and the effect was doubt , d in conse q uence. The e male (quartette), "Cast thy burtben 6, ni the Lord," went smoothly, and the grand chorus at the en I or the first part, " Thanks be to God,' was much more coil . , cdy and ener getically delivered, though still not up to the; mark, owing Lo the want of sufficient power in the stringed instruments. The mistake we mentioned last time in the chorus " Be not afraid," where the time and measure change , was entirely set tight: the point was taken up admirably. The unaccom panied trio, for female voices, " Lift thine eyes to the nioun tagmo produced the same effect as last time, and was sung Much better, the soprano voices being, on this occasion, per fectly in tune. As Miss Kirkham is a very young artist, We j a a re glad to have the opportunity of enc oura g in g y a word of approval. The most perfect of all the oral performances were " He watching over Israel," a strain er soothing and enchanting melody, and " Behold, God the Lord passeth by!" one of the grandest pieces of _descriptive music ever composed. The manner in which the gradations 6 t . En. Cam. f rom loud to soft and the converse, were Accorn- ~ :: ti x~ ~ i •• • e'o in Vtt ,iu.,l:iratiOh. 'ln - bub , toles was one likely to advance the reputation of the Sacred Harmonic Society, which has not been always the case of late. The principal vocalists were Misses Birch, Dolby, Kirkham, and Duval, Messrs. Lockey,.Phillips, Noveilo, Peck, and Stnythson. As in the presence of Majesty rncores are not the etiquette, there were not many; but on three occa sions the performance was so excellent, and the music so ab sorbing, that the audience forgot their etiquette in their enthusiasm, and loudly called for the repel i tion of the pieces. These were the chorus "Baal, we. cry to . thee ;" the trio of angels, " Lift thine eyes to the mountains," sung by Misses Kirkham, Dolby, and Duval ; and the beautiful air, " 0 rest in the Lord," sung by Miss Dolby. Mi's Birch gave the air, " Hear ye, Israel," very finely ; and Mr. Lockey's style was chas te and p ure in "Then shall the righteous." Mr. Phillips's first sung was spoiled by the indecision of the orchestra ; but in his second, " It is enough," he made amends by his pathos and expres sion. The violoncello points in the song were beautifully played. At the end of the performance her Majesty ancr . Prince Albert, rising to depart, were loudly and repeatedly cheered ; and, subsequently, a tremendous cheer was given for Dr. Mendelssohn, whose great work had just been performed. The nuisance of persons rising to leave before the oratorio is concluded, and the.eby seriously annoying those who are anxious to hear the whole, was obviated last on Friday by keep ing the doors closed until the royal party had taken their de parture. Thus the masterpiece of Mendelssohn was listened to, undisturbed, till the very last note was played. The third performance will take place next Wednesday. LITERATURE. THE 1V ESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. Nos. XCII. and LXXVI.I. In a cursory criticism upon Sir Bulwer Lytton's " Word to the Public," the Westminster pronounces many opinions which we cannot characterise as other wise than untenable arid fallacious. Crime it acknow ._. ledges to be the legitimate theme of tragic composition, whether that composition be either dramatic or narra tive: and yet it cavils at the employment of crime as a means of inculcating morality either by the novel-writer or the dramatist! It illustrates this position by enveigh ing against the custom of " copying the dark back ground of Rembrandt's portraits." What we should like to know are the masterpieces of ancient and modern dramatists, and of ancient and modern novelists (for we look upon Tacitus and Herodotus as among the antique romance writers—the predecessors of the feuilleloniste.s Dumas and Sue), what we ask are the masterpieces of these dramatists and novelists ancient and modern but dark backgrounds such as may be compared to the Blooms of Rembrandt? If we look to the giant tragedies of 2Eschylus and Sophocles,we shall find there parricedes, and adulterers, and murderers, and inces tuous monsters, the habitual dramatis persona? ; we shall find there rapine and midnight deeds of bloodshed and violation. In more recent works of what must be termed classic excellence, we see the regicide in Mac beth, the adulterous assassin in Banda, the cruelties of untilial friends in Lear, the infamy of bawds and liber tines in Measure for Measure, the sins that man has no words to express, and that would have shamed the habi tants of Gomorrah in the Cenci. From first to last, from t he tales related by the romancing historians of Greece and Rome, in relation to the concubines of Alexander and Darius. to those recounted in the torturing suspence of Caleb Williams," and thsediabolical anguish of " Frank enstein," the arch-actors are criminals, the arch-act is crime—the hue of the compositions is darker than the darkest background of Rembrandt. And yet a prurient morality—a morality bred in mawkishness and effemi nacy would depreciate these majestic originals, because in holding up crime and criminals to abhorrence —be cause in delineating the woes and tribulations conse quent upon sin—because pourtraying the deformities of iniquity and the agonies of remorse, they are suffused with colours of an appy opriate darkness—they should be expunged or repudiated! Nay, the Westminster goes so far as to say " how much would have been softened by Shakspere, even in the best of his tragedies, had they been addressed to an educated audience of the nine teenth century!" We can only ejacualte with Dominic Samp-on, " Pro-digious!—Pro-digiousl—Pro-ligious!" Of a verity this is, indeed, the self-sufficiency of the nineteenth century ! How much would Shakspere have softened, say you? flad he softened one sentiment, abated one iota of passion, refrained from the utterance of one syllable, rejected the portraiture of one character —be that character Percales or Pompey Bum—it were in truth an ineffable bleesing that he lived in the barba rous days of Elizabeth, instead of the enlightened times of Victotia. We like not this are gance of generations. But the Westminsterean appreciate" Dombey and Son" to the uttermost, if it fails in admiration of " Lucretia." The Reviewer arrives at the same conclusion which we have repeatedly expressed during the last tiara e or four months, that " if we may judge of the work as a whole, from the early numbers, Dombey and Son' is the best of the productions of Dickens." In testimony of the felicitous expression of sentiment by which this inimi table genius is characterised, the writer transcribes the entire scence of the death of Little Paul Dombey. Cu • _ _ we question whether it might not have been advisable to have transcribed more largely from the producti..ns of living svrit than ~• ranged upon the books',Ql.es.L tbe:e hater poe i,t; authors there is assuredly no dearth. Watts, the Brown7ngs, husband and wife, Thinysor,, Mother well, and Ebenezer Elliot. It is ungratAous, however, to make even these exceptions to the delightful volume presented to the public by Mr. Meade'', affording us, as it does, such a delectab'e banquet of daintic.s. As ari - past of literary sweetmeats and poetical confections, the book is both palateable and nutritious. riously enough, however, he objects to the two last pas, sages in that memorable chapter; in which two passages, to our thinking, are contained the very quintessence of its pathos. A dissertation upon metaphysicians follows this introductory article, with especial reference to the works et Hobbes, Locke, Law, Tucker, Butler, Hartley, Paley, Priestley, Bentham, Mill, Hutcheson, Adam -:rnith, Reid, Beattie, Ferguson, Stewart, Brown, Leib nitz, Wolf, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Jacobi. Many acute and sensible remarks are uttered in the paper. After a sort of preliminary lamentation upon the mourn ful multiplicity of guide-book, the Westminster rambles pleasantly through " North Wales and the Lakes." Al luding to the poets generally u.,, , •ciu d with the latter regions of Cumberland, the Reviewer makes the following truthful observations:— bound to offer them facilities,-Much teg - ot luncheon, the first day they went ashore. True, they had plenty of gold ; but to the nitives it wal anathema—taboo- -- :1n 1 (I, for several hours i~.n~is;..rir~ . . „ the smell of sulphur hardly yet shaken out of their canonical , : —what islander would venture to jeopardise his soul, and call down a blight upon his bread-fruit, by holding any in tercourse with them? That morning the priests actually picknicked in a grove of cocoa-nut trees; but, before night, Christian hospitality—in exchange for a commercial equi valent of hard dollars—WAS given them in an adjoining housr. " Wanting in civility, as the conduct of the English mi:4- sionaries may be thought, iu withholding a decent reception to these persons, the latter were certainly to blame in needlessly placing themselves in so unpleasant a predicament. Under far better auspices, they might have settled upon some one of the thousand unconverted isles of the Pacific, rather than have forced themselves thus upon a people already pro fessedly Christians." Ali h0u , 411 this sequel to the "Adventures in the Mar quesas" is comparatively defficient in romance and inci dent, it is agreablv penned, and evidently written with the utmost truthfulness. Altogether it is a great im provement upon the recent contributions to the " Home and Colonial Library," and sustains, if it does not en hance, the literary reputation of Herman Melville. MURRAY'S HOME AN I) COLONIAL L I BRA h . Y. Nos. XLIIL and X.LIV. ()MOO Parts I. and 11, By Herman Melville. So much were we charmed by the previous work of this admirable American author, that we fear the liveli ness of our expectations of the present chapters has mi litated considerably against the impression which might otherwise have been conveyed to our minds by " Otnoo ; or, Adventures in the South Seas." " Typee" certainly took us by surprise ; it was a brilliant and fascinating book from a previously unknown hand. It came upon us with the freshness of a treasure discovered when nue was least expected. It has rendered the name of the American sailor—" a sailor before the mast," be it ob • served—Herman Melville, henceforth and for ever plea sant to . our ears—a name associated with recollec tions such as the genius of Defoe and the enter prise of Anson could have evoked. But " Omoo," like many another sequel that could be mentioned, is nothing in comparison with " Typee." " Typee" is as pure gold to the lacquer of " Omoo." Yet " Omoo" is lively, sparkling, hurnourous, conversational, diversified with little episodes of ocean life and vivid descriptions of southern scenery. As an example of the latter charac teristic, we tender the following pen-and-ink delineation of the aspect of Otaheite : " Otaheite is by far the most famous island in the South Seas; indeed, a variety of causes has made it almost classic. Its natural features alone distinguish it from the surrounding . groups. Two round and lofty promontories, whose moun tains rise nine thousand feet above the level of the ocean, are connected by a low, narrow isthmus; the whole being some one hundred miles in circuit.. From the great central peaks of the larger peninsula—Orohena, Aural, and Pirohitee—the land radiates on all sides to the sea in sloping green ridges. Between these are broad and shadowy valleys—in aspect, each a Tempe—watered with fine streams, and thickly wooded. Unlike many of the other islands, there extends nearly all round Otaheite a belt of low, alluvial soil. teem ing with the richest vegetation. Here, chiefly, the natives dwell. " Seen from the sea, the prospect is magnificent. It is one mass of shaded tints of green, from beach to mountain top ; endlessly diversified with valleys, ridges, glens, aad cascades. Over the ridges, here and there, the loftier peaks fling their shadows, and far down the valleys. At the head of these, the water-falls flash out into the sunlight as if pouring through vertical bowers of verdure. Such enchantment, too, breathes over the whole, that it seems a fairy world, all fresh and blooming from the hand of the Creator. " Upon a near approach, the picture loses not its attrac tion. is no exaggeration to say, that to a European of ,•• any sensibility, who for the first time wanders back into these valleys —away from the haunts of the natives—the ineffable repose and beauty of the landscape is such, that every object strikes him like something seen in a dream ; and for a time he almost refuses to believe that scenes like these-should have a commonplace existence. No wonder that the French be stowed upon the island the appellation of the New Cytherea. ' Often,' says De Bourgainville, thought I was walking in the Garden of Eden.' " Nor, when first discovered, did the inhabitants of this ch inning country at all diminish the wonder and admiration of the voyager. Their physical beauty and amiable disposi tions harmonized completely with the softness of their clime. In truth, every thing about them was calculated to awaken the liveliest interest. Glance at their civil and religious in stitutions. To their king, divine rites were paid; while, for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. " Of Otaheite, earlier and more full accounts were given, than of any other island in Polynesia ; and this is the reason why it still retains so strong a hold on the sympathies of all readers of South Sea voyages. The j 'urinals of its first visi tors, containing, as they did, such romantic descriptions of a country and people nefore unheard of, produced a marked sensation throughout Europe ; and when the first Otaheitans were carried thither, Omai in London, and Aotooroo in Paris, were carressed by nohles, scholars, and ladies." From the peculiar interest which has been latterly ex cited in regard to this magnificent island, it may be pleasant to many ot our readers to peruse the account given by an eye-witness, of the French interference in that quarter. MT. Melville speaks out plainly, but, to oar thinking, very much to the purpose. Trio circum stances, here alluded to, have twee so egregiously garbled by different narrators, that we encroach to no incon siderable extent upon the narrative of our American voyager : " It seems, that for some time back the French had been making repeated ineffectual at , empts to plant a Roman Ca tholic mission here. But, invariably treated with contumely, they sometimes met with open violence; and, in every case, those directly concerned in the enterprise were ultimately forced to depart. In one instance, two priests, Laval and Caset, after enduring a series of persecutions, were set upon by the natives, maltreated, and finally carried aboard a small trading schooner, which eventually put them ashore at Wal, lis Island—a-savage place—some two thousand miles to the westward. "Now, that the resident English missionaries authorised the banishment of these priests, is a fact undenied by them selvcs. I was also repeatedly informed, that by their inflam matory harangues they instigated the riots which preceded the sailing of the schooner. At all events, it is certain that their unbounded influence with the natives would easily have enabled them to prevent everything that took place on this occasion, had they felt so inclined. " Melancholy as such an example of intolerance on the part of Protestant missionaries must appear, it is not the only one, and by no means the most flagrant, which might be pre sented. But I forbear to mention any others; since they have beerl more than hinted at by recent voyagers, and their repetition here would, perhaps, be attended with no good effect. Besides, the conduct of the Sandwich Island mis sionaries, in particular, has latterly much amended in this respect. " The treatment of the two priests formed the principal Thouarsfagntirboahe sleo r t o aewocti nutdeerneet;ar resident nnatap(dnrevedadai instance,e n tetot nhfid d hel eednant finding ai.dhl e tsny weahugodsanapapitl against insulted,y hpal na aresuspended vgepfis satisfaction; justifiable and one) whichup o n subsequently w h i c h led to his seizure of the island. In addition to other things, he n deerta a si n g agt ahtdwunee o atded f hnrt erte M bari typpeffiyever r oc,: e ovfph e nei eeenchdrttoGthiureo,dt happened efanernmpteathmpt certain pnesreiceetnr, premises Government. ogns s fth u Fvol l , er. nibeve e h ntet Aoahcri Victor, a low ? knavish adventurer from Marseilles, the Otaheitians pronounced it forfeit. "For these, and similar alleged outrages, a large pecuniary restitution was demanded (10,000 dolls.), which there being no exchequer to supply, the island was forthwith seized, under cover of a mock treaty, dictated to the chiefs on the gun-deck of Du.Petit Thouar's frigate. Butnot withstanding this formality, there now seems little doubt that the downfall of the poinarees was decided upon at the Tuilleries. " After establishing the Protectorate, so called, the rear admiral sailed; leaving M - . Bruat, governor, assisted by Reine and Carpegne, civilians, named Members of the Council - of Government, and Merenhont, the cordial, now Commissioner Royal. No soldiers, however, were landed until several months afterwards. As men, Reine and Carpegne ware not disliked by the natives; but Brunt and Merenhout they bitterly detested. In several interviews with the poor Queen, the unfeeling governor sought to terrify her into compliance with his demands; clapping his hand upon his sword, shaking his fist in her face, and swearing violently. Oh, King of a great nation,' said Pomare, in her letter to Louis Philippe, fetch away this man ; I and my people cannot endure his evil doings. He is a shameleis man ' " Although the excitement among the natives did not wholly subside upon the rear-admiral's departure, no overt act of violence immediately followed. The Queen had fled to Imeeo ; and the dissensions among the chiefs, together with the ill-advised conduct of the missionaries, prevented a union upon some common plan of resistance, lint the great body of the people, as well as their Queen, confidently relied upon the speedy interposition of England--a nation bound to them by many ties, and whish, more than once, had solemnly guaranteed their independence. "As for the missionaries, they openl y defied the French governor, childi-hly predicting fleets and armies from Britain. But what is the welfare of a spot like Otaheite, to the mighty interests of France and England? There was a remonstrence on one side, and a rept% on the other ; and there the matter rested. For' once in their brawling lives; St. George and St. Denis were hand and glove; and they were not going to cross sabres about Otaheite. y comparative Irs iartasii:tnsnal sometimes emi vmnoty: denotests Such h t upon lhaawt t sa h sn e y tei island,far heyanigi s ae o dh wa de taken a administered ld placesee , n t h thetehr ee ever;e eet a t en h sg e hueiial irt,yt the mi s s ionaries:enr3a7wi everywhere i about inveighing e prevailed. n g unmoles ted,againstNev r t andhtiNeverthe less, e French (no favourites, by-the-by, throughout t Polynesia), and a bitterly regretting that the Qu e e n h a d not, th e outset, made a stand. • • In the house of the chief Adea, frequent discussions took place, concerning the ability of the island to cope with the French : the number of fighting men and muskets amonq the natives were talked of, as well as the propriety of fortifying several heights overlooking Papeetee. Imputing these symptoms to the mere resentment of a recent outrage, and not to any determined spirit of resistance, I little anticipated the gallant, though useless warfare, so soon to follow my de parture. "At a period subsequent to my first visit, the island, which before was divided into nineteen districts, with a native chief over each, in capacity of governor and judge, was, by Bruat, divided into four. Over these he set as many recreant chiefs, Kitoti, Tati, Utamai, and Paraita ; to whom he paid 1,000 &Al& each, to secure their assistance in carrying out his evil designs. "The first blood shed, in any regular conflict, was at Mahanar, upon the peninsula of Taraiboo. The fight originated in the seizure of a number of women from the shore, by men belonging to one of the French vessels of war. In this affair, the islanders fought desperately, killing about fifty of the enemy, and losing ninety of their own number. The French sailors and marines, who, at the time, were reported to•be infuriated with liquor, gave no quarter; and the survivors only saved themselves by fleeing to the moun tains. Subsequently, the battles of Hararparpi and Fararar were fought, in which the invaders met with indifferent success. • " Shortly after the engagement at Hararparl i, three Frenchmen were waylaid in a pass of the valleys, and mur dered by the incenses natives. One was Lefevre, a notorious scoundrel, and a spy, whom Bruat had scot to conduct a certain Major Fergus (said to he a Pole) to the hiding-place of four chiefs, whom t he governor wished to seize and execute. This circumstance violently inflamed the hostility of both parties. "About this time, Kitoti, a depraved chief, and the pliant tool of Bruat, was induced by him to give a great feast in the Vale of Farce, to which all his countrymen were invited. The governor's object was to gain over all he could to his interests; he supplied an abundance of wine and brandy, and a scene of bestial intoxication was the natural conse quence. Before it came to this, however, several speeches were made by the i,landers. One of these, delivered by an aged warrior, who had formerly been at the head of the celebrated Aeorai Society, was characteristic. This is a very good feast,' said the reeling old man, and the wine is also very good; but y ou evil-minded Wee-Wees (French) and you false-hearted men of Otaheite, are all very bad.' " By the latest accounts, most of the islanders still refuse "to suhtnit to the French ; and what tarn events may here after take it is hard to predict. At any rate, these disorders must aceel.rate the final extinction of their race. "Along with the few officers left by Du Petit Thouars, were several Fr eh pr iests, for whose unobstructed exertions in the dissemination of their faith, the strongest guarantees were provided by an article ot the treaty. But no one was We firmly believe that no set of men were ever .‘ written up" like the late poets. A very popular magazine —Black wood's—for a series of years, seemed to devote all its ener gies to this cause; its politics, decided as they were in sup porting that faction whose every tenet has proved an error, were held comparatively in abeyance before th e engross i ng object of laker-laudation; in those, the palmy days o f Black wood—the days of the Noctes Ambrosiance "—every one read, and every writer imitated and echoed, the Black woodian dicta, on matters of taste, so that laker-lnudation became a fashion. Wilson, himself a laker, and one of the great prose-poets of the age, set the example, which crowds were too glad to follow ; so that, prolific were the pens of the lakers, especially poor Southey's, their laudatory were fifty fold more voluminous; and, if praise will ensure fame, Southey may smile serene from the throne of state in the temple of that goddess, surrounded by Wordsworth, Wilson, and Coleridge, while Miltons, Shakperes, Byrons, and Cow• pets are lingering about the portals, or losing their way in some over-crowded corridor. But after all that has been or shall be hereafter written in their praise or dispraise, there is a test from which none can escape, and that is, fitness for quotation. "As saith the poet," or words to that effect, , are perpetually recurring; and this, " saith the poet " is accom panied by a clear description from Cowper, a burning line from Byron, a majestic thought from Milton, a nervous couplet from Pope, a sweet allegory from Spenser, or a soul . searchit g thought from Shakspere ; it does not mean a passage from Wilson or from Southey. We never can comprehend how any true lover of poetry can utter the name of William Cowper in the same breath with the names of Milton, Shakspere, and Byron —the lilliputian with the Titans—the homely with the sublime. For we more than susp ct Byron to have been correct in saying that Cowper never wrote two lines f poetry in his life—alway s saving and excepting his cx quisite verses on his mother's portrait. The next con• tribution is an elaborate inquiry into the authorship of the Two Noble Kinsmen "—an inquiry as to how much of that beautiful drama was Sbakspere's, or how much Fletcher's, or whether Shak-pere in fact had (to ti,e a vulgar phrase) any finger in the pie. We have always considered this question as tolerably well settled by that significant sentence of Augustus William Sch'egel (see his " Lectures on Dramatic Literature," lee. xiii.)—" Amidst so many grounds for doubting, if I might be allowed to hazard ay opinion, 1 should say. that I chink I can perceive the mind of Shakspere a certain ideal purity, which distinguishes this piece above all the other pieces of Fletcher." Coupling this peculiarity with a variety of collateral circumstances, the great German critic declares that he sees no reason for calling this copartnership in the production of the " Two Noble Kinsmen "in question. About the " Sir es of Public Monuments " the review has a few pet va garies of its own. There has latterly been so much parade about the erection of the colossal statue of " the Duke," and there are so many of effigies of the same personage erected in the most incongruous and preposterous localities, that his admirers really seem to dead the realisation (in his regard) of the old adage, " Out of sight out of mind." Shakspere has no na tional statue—but he wants none; Byron has not even a bust in Westminster Abbey— but he wants none. They may be so far "out of site," but happily they can never be "out of mind." An essay on " Population," a summary of the "Report on Lighthouses," and a very dangerous and almost blasphemous review of the theological writ ings of "Straus and Parker," conclude the Westminster. In the department of the Foreign Quarterly we must ob serve that there is a comprehensive survey of foreign literature during the last three months. The reviewers congratulate the public of France on the evident decline in the "quotidian fever of the Roman feuilleton." A swarm of minor and miscellaneous criticisms are ap pended. SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY. Edited by John Bleaden. Those who have ever, like ourselves, delighted in the exquisite fragments from popular literature collected by Mr. M'Diarmid, will welcome every successive pro- . duetion of a similar character. The volume just pub lished by Mr. Bleaden is precisely of the description which rendered the work of his predecessor so agreeable —though we conceive the former might more correctly have entitled his book" Selections in Poetry and Prose," seeing that the metrical quotations immeasurably exceed the prose both in number and excellence. The editor disclaims in his introductory preface any intention to render the volume merely a vehicle for his own com positions ; yet those compositions are numerous, and occasionally meritorious. Sometimes we observe that the pieces are unaccompanied, by the names of the authors, possibly from a forgetfulness as to their pater nity : for example, at. page 50, there is a charming . little :.ketch called " The Bride's-maid," which Mr. Bleaden might as well have subscribed with the initials if not with the full: signature of Thomas Haines Bailey—the verses having come from the pen of that clever lyrist. Inst. ad, again, of giving stanzas so hackneyed as the famous " Burial of Sir John Moore," by. Woolfe, or Shakspere's apostrophe to " Mercy," or Moore's " She is tar from the land,"..or Scott's " Lines on a Tear," or We., Hetna-s's " Voice ,of. Spring" —gems that are , already: enshrined in the memory of almost everybody, and thta,: consequently are superfluously repeated—We think, it would:have been preferable and judicious to have intro duced others less familiar to th e generality; taken for xample from partially.furgotten poets, such as Qowley, or Qhristopher Marlow, or George Herbert. Indeed, - - KNIGHT'S MON THLY VOLUME. Nos. IX. ard X. The Philosophy of Health, Vol. 11. First and Second Half. By Southwood Smith, M.D. For the continuation of this masterly treatise upon the physiological wonders of man, and for its publication in so cheap and popular a form, we are indebted to the originator of this admirable serial. The wood-engrav ings are sufficiently clear to illustrate the written descrip tions, and sufficiently neat not to mar the appearance of the letterpress. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, APRIL 22.—The Avond Post of Utrecht announces that the King, on the proposal of his Ex•ml lency the Minister of the Interior, and with the advice of the Counsellors of State, has decided that the budget of the municipal revenues and expenditure, after hav ing been fixed by the Provincial Estates, shall be hence forth declared public, and deposited for a certain time in the office of the Secretary of the Town Hall of every commune, for the inspection of the public. Every municipality may give the greatest publicity to the bud get of its revenue and expenditure, either through the journals or any other manner that it shall think proper. APRIL 24.—We have received to-day the Universal Russian Gazette of the 20th of this month. It brings us the account of the debate of the Diet, on the draught of the address, but it does not yet contain the conclusion of the sitting of the 16th, when the vote upon the address took place. The first debates in the Diet were of great importance, both from the declaration of the Minister, M. Bodel schwingh, who defended the letters patent of the 3d Feb., and by the language of the Members of the Opposition. We see, from the Cologne Gazette, that it was expected at Berlin that the address, would be voted by a great majority. The same journal affirms that M. Bodelsch wingh will shortly be appointed Chancellor of the king dom. This dignity has not been conferred on any Prus sian Minister since the death of M. Von Hadenburg. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 24.—The reports respecting a visit from the Emperor of Russia to Stuttgard and Paris are still in circulation, but are directly at variance with each other, while private letters from Frankfort, received at Paris, positively contradict the plan of this journey. The German Gazette of Brussels, positively affirms that the Russian Ambassador, at Berlin, has re c,ived notice that his Majesty would be at Wasan, on the 22d of April, and set out on the 26th for Stuttgard. Among the donations to the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund, on Friday evening, was one of 50/. from the Duke of Bedford, and one of 10/. 10s. from B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P. AYLESBURY, APRIL 20.—Mr. Whitworth Russell, the Inspector of Prisons, has lately been down to Aylesbury tsr the purpose of ascertaining when the new gaol will be r(Ady for the reception of prisoners, and he has certified that everything is now completed, and the Court, at the last quarter sessions, made an order that all the prisoners should be removed from the old prison on the 3d of May. It is cal culated that the expense of the new prison will amount to 50,000/. It is built after the manner of Pentonville, and will hold 3prisoners. Dr. Lie hai given notice of a motion f o r the :()o Midsummer quarter sessions—'That a petition be pre sented to rarlian.ent to abolish the game-laws." There is no truth in the statements that have appeared of an intention to arrest the progress of any Rail. way Bills before Parliament this session, on account of the (we trust temporary) scarcity of money. The heaviest ex penses have been already incurred in many instances; and should Parliament interfere at all with any general provi sion, it will be more likely to be one to enlarge the time and increase the facilities for the construction of the railways in pro Are-s.— Observer. Some of the opponents of the. Maynooth Grant, it is said, intend to put Mr. Spencer de horsey in nomina tion for Newport, Isle of Wight, at the next election. There is every reason tp believe that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will honour Oxford with his presence at the meeting of the British Association, to be holden in that University in June next. C AI THNESS-SHIRE.--VERY ILL OFF !—The John 0' Groat Journal says, " While we now write, our county has r.either sheriff, sheriff-substitute, procurator:fiscal, sheriff clerk-depute, nor superintendent of police. The town is in an equally deplorable state. We are minus provost, senior bailie, town- clerk, and town-officer ! All these officials are off in a lump to the Justiciary Court at Inverness. Now is the time for a row ! Mr. Greg, and a deputation, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday. The Earl of Devon had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. IMPORTATIONS OF POTATORS.—The vessel Moun taineer, arrived in the River from Hamburgh, has brought the very large quantity of 180 tons weight of potatoes, the production of the Hanseatic district named. The quantity of potatoes brought by this ship far exceeds anything of the kind which has before taken place from that port, and, there fore, the arrival assumes a considerable degree of interest and importance. The vessel also brought from Hamburgh 40 head of horned cattle, 13 of which had, according to the official report of the vessel's cargo, from some cause, been thrown overboard during the voyage. ROYAL FAVOUR, FOR Tllß FREE is re ported that her Majesty had recently subscribed 2001. in aid of the Gaelic schools, under the superintendence of the Free Church. This gift was presented through the Duchess of Gordon, and was accompanied by an expression of favour towards the church to which her Grace belongs. —Montrose Review. THE SPIRIT TRADE.—On Friday a deputation o wholesale and retail spirit-dealers bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the purpose of pre senting a memorial, very numer ous ly signed, praying for an assimilation of the bonded system applicable to spirits dis tilled in En g l an d , Scotland, and Ireland, to that of colonial ant.foreign spirits. Mr. Ireland (Governor o f the Incorpo rated Society of Li censed Victua ll ers ), Mr. ICasley, a past Governor, and M essrs . H omer , Bingley, Gurney , and Ste Yens, who att en d ed, represented to t h e Chancellor of the Exchequer, th at concurrence with t h e p r ayer of the me_ inorialists wo u ld produce a co mpetitive market for British ' spirits, a great desideratum both for the trade and the pub lic ; that British spirits, like foreign, would improve in bond ; that the mono of of a few distillers , havin g a limited class interested, would be destroyed, and prices be thereby cheapened, to the benefit of the consumer and the advan tage of the revenue, and that there would also be produced a greater unif orm i ty of rates, by the natura l inducement to distil when corn and sugar were cheap , an d . a consequent re duction of dem an d f or those articles w h e n scarce and dear. 'Without denying the`" preceding deductions. Sir Chsrles Wood at once ad m i tte d the zogencY o f the last. and, after asking several quest i ons arising o ut of the subject, and having received t h e i nformation so ught, assured the deputa tion that he would take into his ser i o us consideration their request. It was also named to him, t h a t whilst the deputa tion felt highly gratifi e d at fi n di n g that Mr. Moffatt had a Bill before the H ouse for the o bj ect th e y had in view, the memo ial of the trade had been determined on without con ferring with that gentleman. • We regret to learn that the health of the Earl of Besborough, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, gives cau , e for serious uneasiness to the family and numerous friends of that most estimable nobleman, whose illness at the present moment cannot be regarded as otherwise than a national calamity.—Observer. Doctor Geldart has resigned the Regius Professor ship of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge. Mr. Maine, of : frinity Hall, Cambridge, will, be believe, be appointed his successor. —Observer. CURRENCY MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND.—The Glas gow Herad received on Saturday, mentions that a great and infinential meeting in favour of granting a temporary per . mission to the various banks throughout the country io Con vert the specie at present held by them into Government or other's,curities has been begun in that place. It is under stood that upwards of 2,000,0001. of gold are held by the Scotch banks alone. which are wholly useless in Scotland, no one ever wishing to see a sovereign in that country. In the Edinburgh Stock Exchange a similar resolution has been come to, and petitions have been prepared for presentation to Parliament on the subject. It is added, that all Scotland will be moving in this question in the course of a few days. Blusn's BONDMAN.—On Friday, the purchase money for this opera, for performance exclusively in the Austrian dominions 4000 f., and 801. besides for the right for the An der Wien Theatre in Vienna, was paid over to Mr. Balfe, being the first instance on record of an English com poser having secured a musical copyright on the continent. The house of Mechetti , in Vienna, is the poss essor o f th e opera, as well as of B alfe's B ohemian Girl. HEN,VIO NANO.—The disp os iti on of th;s person's "Thi s e xtraordinary cripple (says our i n f ormant) exhibits the very rare combinations of.perfect sy mmetry, strength and rgeimvea nn remains has na t o b b eau tv, with a great amount of deformity. Th e head is remarkably fine in form , and the expressi on i n t e lli gent and benign ; the . ch est, shoulders, an d arms, form a p er f ect model of streng th and bea uty; the arms are ex ceedingly muscular, and the hands v ery we ll and strongly f orme d ; when standing, the arms could re ac h t h e ground ea sily, so as to be employed in progression or leaping • in the place of legs there are two limbs, the left about from the hip to the • 'eighteen inches point of the toes, the right about twenty-four from the same points. The feet are mode of n atural. The easiest explaining the nature of these limbs is to sa y, that it seems as though the thigh bones anti musc l e s had disappeared, and the knee joints been raised up to the hips; the bone on the one side is tolerably liko a leg-bone, on the other it is cons pressed into an immensely strong bone of tria ngu l ar f orm , ' with the base upw ards, and knit to th e hi p w i th very strong furnished li ga ments ; these limb s are with the muscles which should have belonged to the thigh, and those of the leg are much increased in size; the muscles of the calf being co mparatively s mall, on account probably o f mo d e of walk ing, contributing t o g ive the limb th e look of a lion's fore arm. Nearly double power must have been obtained over the feet by this arrangement; and this would account for his extraordinary teats of leaping, such as following a horse at full speed on the hands and feet, and suddenly Spring ing o n its back like a monkey, or jumping ten feet in the air; his mode of fighting too was most original ; he used to spring in the air, and at the same instant deal the most terrific blow upon his antagonist's was a held, - so that he . very formidable combatant. It is said that in his palmy days, while driving his cab, a clumsy carter drove against him, and as usual accused Hervio of being in the fault, at which our hero sprung from his seat on to the back of tile man, and gave him a most terrible thrash ing: his feats of strength in his monkey characters are well khown. A very good cast of the entire figure has been made, which will doubtless be shown to those who may be curious in such matters. -,Literary Gazette. • THE SUN, fIONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1847 BANK -RETURNS.- - (Front the London Gazette.) jp:ir,u:mt t ,, the Acs seventh and eighth _tap. of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, 0/ the several Banks of Issue in England and \Vales, in Circulation diming the Week ending Satur day, the 10th day of April, 1847: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Back, Abingdon—Knapp and , Co..— Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Ca- 17,075 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 12.640 Aylsha:.n Bank, Avbham—R. and E. Copeman 5,659 Aylesbury Old Bank, kylesbury—Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade . ilaldock—Wells. Hogg, and Lindsell... 36,837 Barnitai.ie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co. 15,506 Basingstoke and Odihan. Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Cu, lledtoid Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard 13edford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. llewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane ... 15,e63 llicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co. 8,458 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham—Lewis, Moilliett, and Co .. 18,277 Bland ford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak. 8,423 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 70,037 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 14,885 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 10,106 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 38,312 L3roscley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 24,233 Bucking ham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bnry and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co.. 83,450 I:ant-ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 44,109 Vatfoury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 52,209 Bati. City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son 4,539 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 36,255 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 66,184 Bridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 25,144 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer 31,303 Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— • Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — .T. Worlledge and Co. 5,128 Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove--Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 16,955 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. 22,355 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood -10,717 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co 22,915 Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co I,Thepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmt uth Bank, Brecon Rank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. I )erby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co I)iss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. I )uncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- MLR Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. 2,560 7,118 8,707 14,010 40,239 26,815 18,610 10,412 12,672 64,032 88,905 11,268 45,440 112,092 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. • •• Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. l?arringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 9,413 Farnham Bank, Firnham—Messrs. Knight 15,175 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. 7,005 Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen 6,221 Grantham Bank, Grantham--Kewney and King 22,595 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 14,361 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 29,634 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings — Smith , Hi l d er, - and Co. 35,469 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford — M a tthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— s. Adams and Co. [lull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey I Iftrwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 6,290 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall lioniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. I lertfo rd shire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfiela Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kin ton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co 8,524 K'naresnorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna.-esborough—Terry and Co ICendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons 10,215 Lane Ead Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. llarv..y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co 54,779 Leeds I inion Bank, Lieds—W.Williams, Brown, and C 53,930 57,457 36,335 20,622 39,418 35,220 Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek,—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 302 I,,ailester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 30,395 fa-wes. Oil Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 42,520 I,;,ihFeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 21,224 Linco;n Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 99,248 1 . ...n,10very Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando e Z:y' —David Jones and Co. :.ou7hborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t.,ns and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St , Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynnßegis —Gurneys and Co. 43,965 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Niacelesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co 12,649 tianningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 7 , 9E3 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough an d Wilts - Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and C 0... Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead. Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons. Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Haudley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Ea: 1, Ham mond, and Son . Norfolk and Suffolk Bank. Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Iludsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and 7,361 17,506 C 0...................................................... Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and 12,771 8,195 17,500 26,900 15,84 g 8,345 28,526 49,293 36,9G2 24,509 2,942 45,08 74,930 10,731 5,915 Co New Serum Bank, Sarum— fietley, Everett, and 29,8'25 Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westrv—Croxon and Co Oxti,rd Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford '3ld Bank, Oxford—Robinsou, Parsons, 14,672 30,873 16,673 13,55 and Thompson... 34,386 Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Welta-Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge—. Deeching and Sons ....... ....4 10,370 Average `lm not (ixfordshirelVitney BaLk Withey—lVilliams, Clinch, and Go Pease's ()Id Bank, Tlull, the Hull Old Bank and 11,448 Beverley Bank, Hull-Peaseand Co 47,453 Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co 11,845 .7 ezerborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough-Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough-Simpson, White, and Simpson 12,83S Pctobrokeshire Bank, ilaverfordwest-J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance-Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading-aqmonas and Co 37,570 Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens,Blandy, and Co 41.326 Richmond Bank, Richmond-Stapleton and C 0... 6,368 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-Ledgard and Sons Rochdale &ink, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter-Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey-Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons 16,262 Rugby Bank, Rugby-Butlin and Son 16,931 Rye Bank, Rye-Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 26,619 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate-Nash and Co Ross (,ld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard and Allaway 4,610 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-B ur t on , Ll oy d, an d Co 19,036 Scarborough Old Bank, !3carborough-Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market, Drayton Bank, Shrews bury-Adams, Adan.s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne -Valiance anti Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton-Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Suuthwell-Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story 2,759 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury-Messrs. Brodie 22,287 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton-Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 6,996 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford, Wragg, and Co 16,972 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co 14,554 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury -Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,703 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib son and Stuart 2,220 Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs, Badcock 28,538 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and , Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshir e B an k , Tiverton-Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 11,780 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and 11,206 4,256 8,947 9,970 13,490 Co. 16,788 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, IVallingford—Wells and Co 10,664 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 29,627 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leathara, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 14,443 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester 3,556 6,339 —Wickham and CO Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wi'veliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Liolyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley,Lavender, and Co. 12,821 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, . Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 86,329 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner 1 Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil- kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,644 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,744 Yeovil. Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clough, and Co 46,297 20,173 9,288 :846 Average An on n t. Wilts :ma- Dorset Banking Company ; Salisbury 69,076 West Riding Union Banking Company, flitd.. dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking CQualzny,. Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company; Worcester - • 6,776 York Union Banking Company, York 71,873 York City and County Bankii ° , Company, York 94,510 Yorkshir e B an ki ng C ompany , Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, April 17. 1847. 7,350 1E EARL OF DUNDONALD. LETTER, FRONI SIR G. SINCLAIR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Thurso Castle, 13th April, 1847. Sin,—ln a recent number of your respectable and justly popular journal, I perused with deep interest and lively satisfaction, a very powerful and pathetic appeal, on behalf of my much respected and much injured friend Lord Dundonald, in whose esteem and regard I have for tunny years deemed it an honour to occupy a place. You will perhaps allow me to encroach upon your columns, by troubling you with a few details, connected with the transactions to which you have been inviting public I attention. On the morning after the trial in which his Lordship and others had been involved, I saw Lord Cochrane in Oxford street; and for a few moments hesitated whether I should venture to meet him under such peculiar circumstances for fear of exciting painful feelings in his mind. Being, however, still more apprehensive, that, if I turned down one of the bye streets, he might think I was desirous to avoid him, I went up to his lordship, took him by the hand, and expressed to him with much emotion, my sorrow and surprise at what had occurred, adding, that, having long and intimate knowledge of, and respect for, his personal character, I was convinced that the evidence must have been distorted by legal ingenuity, so as to mislead and impose upon the jury, "Well, Sinclair," replied Lord C., " I feel much gratified at this trying moment, by the assurance of your sympathy, ---•- . - but I - shOUld be sorry - to rest my claims upon your esteem (which I highly value), upon your kind appre ciation of my general character. It has been my mis fortune, from possessing an unsuspicious temper, to have mixed myself up in this business with others, whom I supposed to be as guiltless as myself, and the same feeling of conscious innocence made me less careful than perhaps I ought to have been, in making proper preparations for the trial ; but there is no help for these things now, and all that remains for me to do, is to move, as I shall of course imme diately do, for a new trial, when I shall fight my battle alone. If I do not rebut every charge to your entire satisfaction, and that of all other honest men, I am con tented to be branded with infamy, and shall never ex pect you or them to speak to me again " I mention this occurrence, Sir, in order to prove how convinced his Lordship was that when the case was re .. . heard his character would be completely cleared. He never would have staked it so emphatically on the issue . of a new trial, if he had not been entirely confident as to its triumphant result. I may here add, that after the conviction Lord Dundonald's uncle, the late Hon. Basil Cochrane, with whom I was very intimate, bestowed a great deal of trouble and expense in collecting informa tion with respect to his nephew's case, and, as the result of much perseverance and diligent scrutiny, assured me that be had obtained possession of facts so strong and so conclusive as would completely establish Lord C.'s in nocence. You are probably aware, Sir, that I lived for many years in habits of the most affectionate regard and un bounded confidence with the late Sir F. Burdett, who was long the attached friend and colleague of Lord Cochrane. I never kniw any man who so thoroughly identified himself IA ith the felines and interests of those whom he loved; but at the same time he had so nice :Ind so scrupulous a sense of 14 , !nour, and was so tens,- cious of strict principle both in public and private life, that if any one, however beloved by him, had been guilty , of a base or sordid action, it would not have been possible for him, in consistency with the impulses of his noble and chivalrous heart, to have continued to live with any such individual in habits of familiar intercourse and _ _ friendship. Sir Francis, however, retained from first to lust the same entire and unwavering confidence in Lord C.'s integrity, the same unqualified admiration of his character, the same ardent desire to witness his complete vindication from what he consieered to be the most cruel and groundless aspersions. A few years subsequent to the trial, on one of the first occasions on which his late Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, honoured the late Countess of Dysart with his company to dinner at Ham House, permission was given that Sir Francis Burdett should be one of the party; and I remember his Royal Highness said to me on that occasion, " Si- Francis has entertained some extreme opinions, but I do him no more than justice when I observe, that he has never for a moment lost sight of that respect which every good•subject owes to the royal family." When the com pany retired to the drawing-room after dinner, Sir F. and I had a long conversation with the Duke, in which both of us, particularly Sir F., dwelt at great length upon the services and sufferings of Lord Coch rane; in fact, I never heard Sir Francis express him self with greater energy, eloquence, and animation. His Royal Highness intimated his hearty concurrence in every eulogium that was pronounced on Lord Cochrane's pre eminence in point both of personal bravery and profes sional knowledge ; but being at that time Lord High Admiral, he abstained from stating any decided opinion on the subject of the trial, though he listened with great patience and attention to all that was urged on behalf of Lord Cochrane, and so far from being offended at the earnestness with which we pleaded the cause of an absent and, as we thought, deeply injured friend, that when I communicated to him, soon atter the termination of this discussion, a respectful wish on the part of Sir Francis Burdett that his Royal Highness would do him the honour to fix a day for dining with him at a villa which he then occupied at Twickenham, the Duke at once re plied, " I will dine with him with the greatest pleasure," and immediately fixed a day for that purpose. The en tertainment took place not long thereafter, and Sir Francis again renewed_ the subject with. his royal guest as earnestly as before. I saw them sitting tee-a-tete for a long time on the sofa, whilst this matter was discussed (as Sir Francis told me afterwards), but did not myself hear what actually passed. I trouble you, Sir, with these details, in order to illus trate the anxiety with which Sir Francis availed himself of every opportunity to stand forward as the champion and advocate of one so dear to him. But I must be al lowed to add a still stronger and more striking proof of the conviction which he entertained of Lord Cochrane's entire innocence. He has not once, but often, assured me that if the most painful part of the sentence had been : carried into effect, he intended to have gone down in his carriage to the spot, and to have insisted on taking his stand by the side of his friend, in order to enjoy the high honour of sharing his unmerited dis grace. I have frequently since that period met Lord Cochrane at Sir Francis Burdett's, both at dinner and in the morning ; and although Sir Francis was of all men the most courteous and fascinating in his manner of doing the honours of his house, even to the hum blest individual who entered it, I always observed on his part a marked anxiety to distinguish Lord Cochrane by the most soothing and gratif)ing manifestations of cordiality and regard. °hen, when Lord C. has left the room, I have heard Sir F. exclaim—" Ah, I cannot look at that man without feeling ashamed of England's ingratitude and neglect. Cochrane is the Irian best fitted to save the country in any season of perilous emergency—he has done much to promote her honour and advantage—it is her own fault it he has not done more. I sin as convinced of his innocence as to the charge brought against him, as I am of yours or of my own ; and I feel indignant when I see the traces of sorrow and brokenness of heart in the furrowed counte nance of that man, who has beeu deprived, through pre judice and malignity, of the honours he has so signally merited, and condemned to a punishment, which to him is worse than death, and nut less undeserved than over whelming." been j e us the t) When I mentioned at the commencement of this pars l;reph that ' shore r was, in the case of Lord Cochrane, one of such extreme punishment w Si h r le F h . had (even made up harshness and cruelty, I cannot say "idenz trecenti Jura vimus," nor, indeed, do I believe that any man but Sir F. himself has, in my time, been characterised by such a spirit of chivalrou s fri e nd s hip, as wou ld have suggested the adoption of a step so unexampled and so uttignatii mous. But if, as was the case in an earlier and less refined period of our history, a large number of respect able compurgators might have been allowed to attest their firm belief in the pround!essn-ss of this charge, I have no doubt that an overeheltuisg majority of those to whom Lord C. was best, known, and who had witnessed either professionally or in private, his heroism, his inte s rity, his eagerness to promote his country's fame, his neglect of his personal interests, would have stepi;ed forward and exclaimed with one voice, "not guilty, upon my honour!" I remember when the late gallant and excellent Lord Napier came i to pass a few days with my father , at his residence in I ns Com mno , I introduced the su b j ect of Lord ch rane smerits and misfortunes; Lord Napier emphatically replied, " I wou ld stake my life upon Coehrane's innocence—and I don'thow any man who knows him can believe th a t see he is guilty." I fear, Sir, that I have trespassed at far too great a statement) neglect fo r declaring to o‘, of m length upon your own time and the p at i ence of your readers—hut I could not (though scarcely able to commit to rn f tg o u r a ity n not bringing before the public a 1:w . :iuocn p ha a i p ad, r n e o s b so p long o o n feelings of respect an d admiration for Lord : Du considerations, which may i n some degree tend to pro mote that tardy j ust i ce (for I will not call it favour) which you h ave so ably and so .kindly advocated. For my own part, Sir, when I consider, dispassionately, the personal character of Lord I)undonald, and the whole tenor of his conduct both public and private, as well as the high estimation in which he has been uniformly held by all who have seen him oftenest, knew him well, and lived with him longest, I feel impelled, in reference to such a charge, when made against such a man, to adopt (with the mere insertion of a negative) a celebrated ex pression of Tertullian, and to exclaim, "Non c edo, qui itnpossible."—l remain, Sir, your faithful and obedient servant, GEORGE SINCLAIR. A deputation of snip owners of Liverpool, headed by Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and Mr. William Brown, M.P., sad consisting of Mr. John Miller, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Coulburn, and Mr. Lockett (chairman), had an interview on Saturday with Viscount Palmerston, on the subject of an Act lately passed by the Congress of the United States of America, with reference to the conveoance of passengers; to the United States. Mr. Highatn, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ou Saturday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal ... 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