The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-25 00:00:00

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The Court was also made Special for the following reason, namely, " to call the atten tion of the proprietors to the fact of the existence of a recent c orrespondence between the Home authorities and the Go lernor-General of India relating to the case of the deposed Rata of Sattara, and to the circumstance of the exclusion of this correspondence from the return dated India House, Ist of July, 1847, made pursuant to an order of the House of e°flunons, dated August 28th, 1846, in order that the pro prietors may take the proper 'steps to have the corre spondence in question laid before them without further At twelve o'clock precisely, the Governor, Sir James Weir lo gg, the Deputy-Governor, and a full attendance of direc tors, entered the Court, and the minutes of last meeting ' l aving been read, and some ordinary business transacted. - , RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. JAMES ARTHUR LEWIS proceeded to call attention to the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara, and said, that on one subject, that Court (whatever opinion they might have en tertained upon the justice of his claims) had always agreed, !l amely, that all the papers connected with the circumstance ! ) f his deposition and present retirement should be p laced Define the proprietors. and they held that the supp ression of such pap ers would leave the directors open to charges which W ere better avoided. It would be remembered that at a Court held on the 18th March , 1843, Mr. Geor g e Thompson had read a communication showing that the Government of a former day had offered t onne to the present ex-Raja. term s involvin g a r etirement, and an annual revenue suited to his "ion, if he would peaceably vacate his throne. The Go- Yernor of that Company seemed taken by surprise that this C onversation existed, and he expressed his entire ignorance that such terms had been offered. What was the duty of the Governor and of the Court under these ci rcumstances ? what, but to make inquiry into the t ruth or falsehood of the d ocument and to report to the Court of Propriet ors u p on the subject. Why withhold these papers ? Did the fact that these papers passed through:the secret Committee, make them confidential ?—( Hear, hear.) But why should such a docu !lent at all have passed through the secret Committee ? *aut it was said that these papers were surreptitiously ob tained. But supposing that to be true ,— assuming it to be true— how how did it affect the right of t he p ro p rietors to the b Anowledge of those papers. flow did it aff,.ct the case of the Reis? But he denied that they were so obtained. The pa- hers were ordered by the command of the House of Commons. lilt did this objection come with a good grace from the Court of Directors? Was it not the Bombay Government that employed Balajee Punt Nator, when a Prime Minister of the Raja, to watch over and act the spy upon the conduct '4114 master? Was it not that Government that hired their own servants to make out a case against the Raja? He Would not refer (although he might well do so) to more of these atrocious actions, but he thought it ill became the Governor of Bombay, in this matter, to throw the first stone. H e truste d, therefore, that no further objection of thi s ki n d wo uld be offered to the production of these Hume, The Hon. Proprietor then read a let ter from Mr. Ltume, M.P., one of the requisitionists for callin g this meeting, exc us i ng his absence, and also a copy of the letter written by that gentleman to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, with respect to the case of the ex-Raja. The Hon. Proprietor concluded by moving the following resolutions " That, inasmuch as all papers relating to the ex-Raja of Sattara, and hitherto recorded in the secret department, have been produced and laid before the Court of Proprietors, Ibis Court resolves that the Court of Directors b e respect '4,4 requested to obtain the sanction of t he Board of ‘iontrel for the secret Committee of the Court, to lay before the Committee of the Court of Proprietors all corres- Pendence which has passed between the home authorities and the Government of India, in relation to or concerning the ex-Raja of Sattara, which arose in consequence of a com munication, publicly made to the Court of Proprietors at the Quarterly General Court, held on the 18th of March, 1846, and which has not yet been communicated to this Court." General BRIGGS seconded the resolution. (The meeting had not concluded when our report left.) GREECE AND THE PORTE. LETTER OF KING OTHO OF GREECE TO THE SULTAN. May it please your Majesty,—A vexatious incident t hreatens to compromise the good understanding be tween the two Crowns which Pr o v idence has confided to la- This good understanding m a y be reinforced fur the l present, and assured for the fu ture, b y a frank and °nest explanation. Why should I hesitate to give it s pontaneously ? Your Majesty will, I am firmly convinced, under ;tand the sentiments of perfect c onfidence and pro found esteem which counsel me to take a step the object °I which is too high to be made the object of false I nterpretations. In claiming for a royal guarantee the respect which Ytta due to it, I conscientiously feel that I fulfilled a dut y which, for the interest of the sovereign dignity, I should s!e confid e d to the hands of your Majesty with en iwe security. Moved by this sentiment, I addressed a reproach to the representative of a prince for whom I profess a sincere affection. I was not induced to do so 31 3; y t w he or f words, which seems to have been the on l y motive of For some time the attitude and conduct of M. Mus str.:uss the subject of different representations on the m a t t my Government to that of your Majesty, gave th e rat uneasiness with respect to the maintenance of zietiortonleinuldply and neighbourly relations so precious to me, ortant to the two countries whose interests In testifying on so many points, and by so many rights. not so teach tho dissatisfaction which made me feel, ac companied a refusal as the proceedings which ac - it, I especially expressed a feeling of solici tude,labours oftenwit h Sbared I doubt not by your Majesty, who ,a. noble ardour for the pacific progress of the people confided to your Government. words This is the true and complete explanation of my ; they were only addressed to him who forgo t the high object of his commission. This explanati on I bave thought it honest to give complete. Your Ma jesty will consider the resolutions that will be counselled by your wisdom. As for myself, I feel that this explanation, freely given, is as conformable to my duties as it is to the feelings of my heart. Thus, I entertain a firm hope— I think I may say, a certainty—that your Majesty will find therein a proof that, like your Majesty, I place my real honour on the ground commanded by the Almighty, end that ray most ardent desire is to maintain harmony between two crowns, between two nations, whose glory 4114 prosperity, far from being rival, have everything to obtain from a mutual assistance. , Upon which I pray God that he m a y kee p y ou, most high, most excellent, and most potent Emperor, our well beloved neighbour and ally, under his holy and condign protection.—Your very dear and perfect friend, Athens, the Ist (13th) February, 1847. OTHO. The Sultan's reply is as follows: — I have received the letter which your Majesty ad dressed to me under date of the Ist of February. lam ranch obliged for the sentiments of friendship which Your Majesty therein manifests towards me, and for the desire which you express for the constant maintenance of the happy relations established between the two Go vernments; and I hasten to assure you that my heart also partakes of those sentiments and that desire. As to the deplorable incident to which reference is thade in that letter, it has seemed to me more suitable to the dignity of the two crowns, and more conformable to the matters which must c onsolidate our mutual friend ship, to confide the solution of this question to my sublime Porte and to the Ministers of your Majesty. In Consequence the necessary orders have been given to that effect. Your Majesty will, doubtless, see in the Choice of this form of procedure a rroof of my considera tion an d my sincere friendship, as well as of the desire Which I have to banish everything that may tend to endanger the existence of that friendship. I pray God to keep your Majesty always under his holy protection. The 13th Rebi-ul-evril, 1263 (Ist March, 1847.) FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE CAMDEN STATION Or THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—A fatal accident took place on Tuesday afternoon, at the Cam den -station of the London and North-Western Railway, on the premises in the occupation of Messrs. Pickford, the rail- Way carriers. It appears that for some months past, a num ber of workmen in the employ of Messrs. Piper and Co., builders, of Bishopsgate, have been engaged in erecting additional warehouses for Messrs. Pickford, the basement of Which is supported by arches, forming a capacious stabling, On Tuesday afternoon the men, chiefly carpenters, were em ployed in finishing the stables, when suddenly four of the arches gave way with a frightful crash, burying the poor fellows who were at work in the ruins. As soon as the con sternation had subsided, a number of men set to work to re move the rubbish. Four of the unfortunate men were so deeply buried, that a considerable time elapsed before they could be extricated, and they were got out frightfully muti lated and apparently lifeless; but they were at once con vexed to University College Hospital. Every one of the poor fellows was in a state of insensibility on their arrival, and one of them died in an hour after admission. The following statement of the house surgeon, as to the injuries sustained by the men, will show the fright ful nature of the accident. hdward Whitman (since dead), a carpenter, aged 35, residing at 41, Middlesex-street, Somers -town, was found, on admission , to have sustained a scalp wound and fracture of the skull, crushing in the whole of the right side of the forehead from the temple to the nose, several ribs crushed in upon the lungs, a compound fracture of both bones of the right leg, a dislocation of the left ancle, and other injuries. William Edwards, carpenter, aged 30, residin g at 32, Warren-street. Camden-town, comminuted fracture of the left thigh, and compound dislocation of the left ancle joint, fracture of the tibia, severe bruises about the forehead and face, a wound on the head, with consider able extravasation of blood under the scalp. George Mullin, aged 20, carpenter, residing at 3, Prospect-place, Islington, dislocation of the ancle joint, severe wound in the back of the head, very severe contusions of the left arm, and other in juries. Jeremiah Mayhoe, aged 21, labourer, of 6, Hill street, Finsbury, severe injury to the lower part of the spine. .Another man, named William Sanders, was also severely in lured. On instituting inquiries into the cause of the accident, it is accounted for by the breaking of a tension rod, conse quent, it is supposed, on the insecurity of the brickwork, oc casioned by its being built during the late frost. On inquiry at the hospital yes t e rday it was ascertained that t he other sufferers are still in a dangerous condition. M ODEL LODGING-HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLAsses.—The new model lodging-house, in George-street, St. Giles's, of the Society for the Im p rovement of the La bouring Classes, is nearly completed, and will shortly be opened. It will accommodate 100 labouring men, each of nom will have a separate sleeping place, with the use o f a large li v i ng -r o om, a kitchen, store-room, washing-room, and every necessary convenie nee. The sum to be charged will be fourpence per night. The cost of the building will, inde pendent of the site of ground, which was purchased for 1,2701. amount to about 5,500/. Among the principal subscribers are, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, 100/. The Corpora tion of London, 3001., &c. &c. AN UNTOWARD DREAM.—A respectable auctioneer of Chesterfield was so troubled a short time back with a dream, as led him to inflict upon himself a serious injury ',while under its influence. He dreamt that he was much troubled with a nutshell that bad become jammed bet ween violently teeth, and so strong was that impression , t h at h e t u gg eu violently at the supposed shell to relieve himself from it ; awakening with his efforts, he found to his great consterna tion that he had pulled out a sound double tooth, which had !At.% the night before a firm-set and serviceable grinder, but 11!:i h he then held between his anger and thumb. — Derby rcury, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENtNe;-, MARCH 251_1847. LITERATURE. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND during Thirty Years Peace. By Charles Knight. No. IV. After an interval of nearly twelve months, Mr. Knight resumes his valuable historieal labours. The work, he tells us, will be completed in one volume of 1 000 pages. The present volume contains the history of the year 1817—of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, of the atrocious spy system of Sidmouth, and of the numerous State trials of that year, which will be ever memorable for the death of the Princess Charlotte and the acquittal of Hone. The trials of Hone are thus graphically described by Mr. Knight : " On the morning of the 18th of December there is a considerable crowd round the avenues of Guildhall. An obicure bookseller, a man of no substance a respecta bility in worldly eyes, is to be tried for libel. He vends his wares in a little shop is the Old Bailey, where there are, strangely mingled, twopenny political pamphlets, and old harmless folios that the poor publisher keeps for his especial reading as he sits in his dingy back parlour. The door-keepers and officers of the court scarcely know what is going to happen ; for the table within the bar has not the usual covering of crimson bags, but ever and anon a dingy boys arrives with an armful of books of all ages and sizes, and the whole table is strewed with dusty and tattered volumes that the ushers are quite sure have no law within their mouldy covers. A middle-aged man,—a bland and smiling man,—with a half sad half merry twinkle in his eye,— a seedy man, to use an expressive word, whose black coat is wondrous brown and threadbare,—takes his place at the table, and begins to turn over the books which were his heralds. Sir Samuel Shepherd, the Attorney General, takes his seat; and looks compassionately, as was his nature to do, at the pale man in threadbare black. Mr. Justice Abbott arrives in due time; a special jury is sworn; the pleadings are opened; the Attorney General states the case against William Hone, for printing and publishing an impious and profane libel upon the Catechism, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Command ments, thereby bringing into contempt the Christian re ligion. "It may be said," argued the Attorney-General, " that the Defendant's object was not to produce this effect. I believe that he meant it, in one sense, as a political squib ; but his respo ns ibility i s no t the less." As the Attorney-General proceeded to read passages from the parody upon the Catechism, the crowd in court laughed ; the bench was indignant; and the At torney-General said, the laugh was the fullest proof of the baneful effect of the defendant's publication. And so the trial went on in the smoothest way, and the case for the prosecution was closed. Then the pale man in black rose, and with a faltering voice set forth the diffi culty he had in addressing the Court, and how his poverty prevented him obtaining counsel. And now he began to warm in the recital of what he thought his wrongs ; his commitments ; his hurried calls to plead ; the expense of copies of the informations against him ; —and as Mr. Justice Abbott, with perfect gentleness, but with his cold formality, interrupted him, the timid man, whom all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence, grew bolder and bolder, and in a short time had possession of his audience as if he were ' some well-graced actor' who was there to receive the tribute of popular admiration. ' They were not to inquire whether he were a member of the Established Church or a Dissenter; it was enough that he professed himself to be a Christian ; and he would be bold to say, that he made that profession with a reverence for the doctrines of Christianity which could not be exceeded by any person in that court. He had his books about him, and it was from them that he must draw his defence. They had been the solace of his life. He was too much at tached to his books to part with them. As to parodies, they were as old at least as the invention of printing ; and he never heard of a prosecution for a parody, either religious or any other. There were two kinds of paro dies ; one in which a man might convey ludicrous or ridiculous ideas relative to some other subject ; the other where it was meant to ridicule the thing parodied. The latter was not the case here, and therefore he had not brought religion into contempt.' This was the gist of William Hone's defence. To show fully how this argu ment was worked,—with what readiness, what coolness, what courage,—would be to transcribe the trials of three days ; on the first of which th 3 defendant spoke six hours, on the second seven hours, and on the last eight hours. It was in vain that the Attorney General urged that to bring forward any previous parody was the same thing as if a person charged with obscenity should pro duce obscene volumes in his defence. It was in vain that Mr. Justice Abbott repeated his wish that the defendant would not read such things. On he went, till inter ruption was held to be in vain. It was worse than vain; it was unjust. Truly did. Hone reply to Mr. Justice Abbott, My Lord, your Lordship's observation is in the very spirit of what Pope Leo the Tenth said to Martin Luther,—' For God's sake don't say a word about the indulgences and the monasteries, and I'll give you a living ;'—thus precluding him from men tioning the very thing in dispute. I must go on with these parodies, or 1 cannot go on with my defence.' Undauntedly he went on, from the current literature of the time, such as grave lawyers read in their few hours of recreation, to the forgotten volumes of old theology and polemical controversy, that the said grave lawyers of modern days are accustomed to regard as useless lumber. The editor of Blackwood's Magazine was a parodist,—he parodied a chapter of Ezekiel; Martin Luther was a parodist—he parodied the first Psalm; Bishop Latimer was a parodist, and so was Dr. Boys, Dean of Canterbury; the author of Rolliad' was a parodist; and so was Mr. Canning. Passage after passage did Hone read from author atter author. He thought it was pretty clear that Martin Luther did not mean to ridicule the Psalms; that Dr. Boys did not mean to ridicule the Lord's Prayer; that Mr. Canning did not mean to ridicule the Scriptures. Why, then, should it be presumed, that he had such an intention? As soon as he found that his parodies had been deemed offensive, he had suppressed them, and that he had done long before his prosecution. It was in vain that the Attorney General replied that Martin Luther was a libeller, and Dr. Boys was a libeller. The judge charged the jury in vain. William Hone was acquitted, ,fter a quarter of an hour's deliberation." " But Guildhall saw another sight.' With the next morning's fog, the fiery Lord Chief Justice rose from his bed, and with lowering brow took his place in that judgment-seat which he deemed had been too mercifully filled on the previous day. The mild firmness of the poor publisher, and his gentlemanly sense of the absence of harshness in the conduct of his first trial, had won for him something like respect: and when on one occasion Mr. Justice Abbott asked him to forbear reading a particular parody, and the defendant said, Your Lordship and I understand each other, and we have gone on so good-humouredly hitherto, that I will not break in upon our harmony,' it became clear that the puisne judge was not the man to enforce a ver dict of guilty on the second trial. Again Mr. Hone entered the court with his load of books, on Friday, the 19th of December. He was this day indicted for pub lishing an impious and profane libel, called The Litany, or General Supplication.' Again the Attorney-General affirmed that whatever might be the object of the de fendant, the publication had the effect of scoffing at the public service of the Church. Again the defendant essayed to read from his books, which course he con tended was essentially necessary for his defence. Then began a contest which is perhaps unparalleled in an English court of justice. Upon Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, upon er officio informations, upon his right to copies of the indictment without extravagant charges, the de fendant battled his judge,—imperfect in his law, no doubt, but with a firmness and moderation that rode over every attempt to put him down. Parody after parody was again produced, and especially those parodies of the Litany which the Cavaliers employed so frequently as vehicles of satire upon the Roundheads and Puritans. The Lord Chief Justice at length gathered up his exhausted strength for his charge ; and concluded in a strain that left but little hope for the defendant : He would deliver the jury his solemn opinion, as he was required by Act of Parliament to do ; and under the authority of that Act, and still mere in obedience to his conscience and his God, he pronounced this to be a most impious and profane libel. Believing and hoping that they, the jury, were Christians, he had not any doubt but that they would be of the same opinion.' The jury, in an hour and a half, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. " It might have been expected that these prosecutions would have here ended. But the chance of a convic tion from a third jury, upon a third indictment, was to be risked. On the 20th of December, Lord Ellen borough again took his seat on the bench, and the ex hausted defendant came late into court, pale and agi tated. The Attorney-General remarked upon his ap pearance, and offered to postpone the proceedings. The courageous man made his election to go on. This third indictment was for pulilishing a parody on the Creed of St. Athanasius, called The Sinecurist's Creed.' After the Attorney-General had finished his address, Mr. Hdne asked for five minutes' delay, to arrange th e few thoughts he had beon commiting to paper. The Judge refused the small concession ; but said he would postpone the proceedings to another day, if the defendant would request the Court so to do. The scene which ensued was thoroughly dramatic. `No ! I make no such re quest. My Lord, lam very glad to see your Lordship here to-day, because I feel I sustained an injury from your Lordship yesterday—an injury which I did not expect to sustain. . . . If his Lordship should think proper, on this trial to-day, to deliver his opinion, I hope that opinion will be coolly and dispassionately expressed by his Lordship. . . My Lord, I think it necessary to make a stand here. I cannot say what your Lordship may consider to be necessary interrup tion, but your Lordship interrupted me a great many times yesterday, and then said you would interrupt me no more, and yet your Lordship did interrupt me after wards ten times as much. • . Gentlemen, it is you who are trying me to-day. His Lordship is no judge of l ee. You are my judges, and you only are my judges. His Lordship sits there to receive your verdict. . . i will not say what his Lordship did yesterday ; but I crust his Lordship to-day will give his opinion coolly i and dispassionately, without using either expression or gesture which could be construed as conveying an en treaty to the jury to think as he did. I hope the jury will not be beseeched into a verdict of guilty.' The ' The frame of adorns Chief Justice, Lard Sidmouth terms the trumph of the weak n o t ve a r nd the sou p l ow o e f rf ti u r l e 7 was e t o h m e plete. bio grapher of Lor was rowed into energies fits that have swayed the world. long to the master-spirits . quailed before the indomitable courage w c o ou ul r d ag s e ee o m f a on rc l ;tn to w b h e o . w ni ll o su ls' c ' h as r o e n ad e i n t g as was never enterprise and persevering exer life, was incapable of e who, in the ordinary business of nooks and corners of his anti hat even his old . political hunterq p u p a o r n i a e n na i t2 f R t m e r e ; a " ' gentle to regard as aand innocuous Yet tion ; th w is ho l / 2 ca l s ive a d m in ali the read ;" who himself to his old poetry and his old in C few years gave up his politics altogether , and, de votingdivinity,l passed a quarter of a century after this conflict in peace 1 Iva all mankind, and died the AllikeditOr of a religious AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. By the packet-ships Garrick and Montezuma we have accounts from New York to the 4th and 6th inst. inclu sive, respectively. These accounts ere important. The session of Congress had closed. The Three Million Bill had received previously the sanction of both branches of the Legislature. The Wilmot proviso against slavery was rejected. The votes on this proviso were, in the senate, 31 to 21; in the house, 112 to 97. The final votes on the passage of the Bill were, in the senate, 25 to 24; and in the house(lls to 82. The following is the substance of the Bill: " This resolution enables the President to conclude a treaty of peace, limits, and boundaries, with the republic of Mexico, to be used by him in the event that said treaty, when signed by the authorized agents of the two Governments, anti duly ratified by Mexico, shall call for the expenditure." The House of Representatives had refused to sanction the levy of a duty on tea and coffee. The Irish Relief Bill passed the senate, but was thrown out in the house by a vote of 102 to 53. The War and Mail Steamers Bill, one clause of which provides for the establishment of a line of four steamers to run between New York and Liverpool, had received the approval of Congress. The Hon. David Tod had been appointed Minister to Brazil, vice Mr. Wise, recalled at his own request. Mr. Rush, of Pennsylvania, had been appointed Minister to the Court of France. Late accounts had been received from the seat of war: " WASHINGTON, MARCH 5. The schooner Cora arrived at New Orleans on the 26th ult. from Brazos, the 19th. The intelligence of the prospect of an action at Saltillo is confirmed. All General Taylor's outposts aro said to be driven in, and an attack, if made at all, was expected during the first few days of February. " General Taylor's command at Saltillo would exceed 6,000 men. Many believed, that when the Mexicans found him in such force, the idea of an attack would be abandoned. _ . _ " Very many officers were still of opinion that Santa Anna meditated no serious blow in that quarter, and that the movement was but a feint, and that he will lead the main body of his forces to Vera Cruz. " Rumours have reached New Orleans by this arrival that a general engagement had taken place. The Picayune attaches no credit to them. " Much apprehension was felt at Matamoras of an attack by General Urrea, who is understood to be on this side of the mountains with 4,000 men, 2,000 of them not to be surpassed by any in the Mexican service; the remainder are Rancheros. " Colonel Drake, commanding at Matamoras, has pro vided muskets and ammunition for citizens in case ot an attack, and had sent to Point Isabel for several pieces ot ordnance. " The Picayune does not deem the danger threatening the Matamoras very imminent. " Troops were embarking at the mouth of the Rio Grande as rapidly as possible. General Scott sailed on the 13th. " General Worth had not left on the 19th, and would not until the whole command was on shipboard. It was not supposed that the army could move from the island of Lobos before the 18th of March." We extract from the Washington Union the following:— " We understand that letters have been received from Major-General Scott as late as the 14th of February at the Brazos. He was making exery arrangement to re move the troops to the island of Lobos; but, contrary to his expectation, the ten transports which had been engaged at New Orleans, and the others which had been 6spatched from the northern ports, had not yet arrived. It is certain that they must have arrived there from both ports before this time. The ordnance, too, had not got to its place of destination. " Accounts had been received that the Mexican troops were pouring into Vera Cruz, principally in consequence of the dispatches which had been intercepted on the per son of Lieutenant Richey, of the infantry. "It is also said, on highly respectable authority, that a French merchantman had just found its way into Vera Cruz with 10,000 stand of arms and 20 tons of gun powder on board. It remains to be seen in what man ner this vessel eluded our blockading squadron. "It is said that Commodore Perry, who left Wash ington a few days ago to embark in the steamer Mis sissippi (lately repaired at Norfolk), within a week goes to the Gulf to take the command of our squadron. " General Scott had not received any very recent dispatches from General Taylor, but accounts had reached him from Monterey of the report that Major Bor land, with about 50 soldiers of the Arkansas mounted regiment, had been taken by the Mexicans ; but it waa also said that Major Gaines and the mounted Ken tuckians were not there when the Arkansas Dragoons were captured." Later intelligence had been received from Vera Cruz —namely, to the 4th ult. Our letters from the squadron are to the 4th, and eur Vera Cruz papers to the 2d. General Valencia has been relieved of his command, and his place supplied by General Vazquez. The Mexicans, having become convinced that Vera Cruz is to be the object of attack, have set about fortifying the passes on the road to Mexico. The merchants of Jalapa have been called upon for a loan of 4,000 dolls. to fortify the Puente Nacionel. Atejon and Iriarte have entered upon the discharge of their duties as Secretaries of Foreign Affairs and Fi. nances. Guevara has resigned the post of Minister of Justice. We do not find anything from San Luis, and cannot say whether Santa Anna has marched thence. The Mexican papers are crowded with the move ments of our troops. At San Luis, Tula, and Julapa, they are on the alert for the advance of General Scott. Commodore Connor had been superseded by Com modore Perry in command of the Gulf squadron. By way of Havannah, news from Merida had been re• ceived at New Orleans to the 6th ult. The forces of Campeachy had entered Merida, the city having capi tulated. Senor D. Domingo Barret has been nominated Governor of Yucatan. The Government and Council of State are transferred to Campeachy. The blockade of Laguna and Campeachy had been suspended so long as the most absolute neutrality should be observed, and vessels could come and go freely which should not attempt to carry by stealth munitions, of war. The Irish Relief Fund in New York amounted to $55,000. One vessel with the supplies of American charity had already been dispatched Irom New York for Ireland. A second was to follow. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK, MAncif s.—The markets were mostly quiet, and presented little change since yesterday's report. The uncertainty about freights tended to check operations. The large number of vessels which arrived a few day since, which, it was believed at first, would have reduced the rates of freights, it seems, from the fact of many of them being engaged previous to arri ral, the ex p ected decline was not realised. Within a day or two, easterly winds have again prevailed, and a number of vessels being due, it was supposed many were off the coast, ready to enter the harbour on a change of wind to the south. In this state of uncertainty, the rates to Liverpool, though nomi nally the same, were rather heavy. Small sales of Genesee flour were made at 7 dellars ; Southern was quiet at 6 dol lars 50c. to 6 dollars 75c. A sale of red wheat was made at 1 dollar 50c. Corn was less firm, and sales were freely made at 90c. to 95c. for Southern white, and at 95c. for Southern yellow- Prime Northern yellow sold from 95c. 98c. to 99c Provisions were quiet at yesterday's rates, with some sales of lard, and clear middles of pork. Groceries were steady, with a fair amount of sales, if we except coffee, which conti nued dull. The celebrated picture of the Death of Nelson, which not only gained for Drummond the premium, but so much deserved renown, is to be sold at Robins's auction rooms to-morrow. We also noticed a pair of beautiful Fete Champetres, by Watteau, several fine pictures from the col lection of Sir Joshua Reynolds, many capital Italian and Dutch pictures, a genuine Morland, and some choice sea pieces, by the well known Powell, all, it is said, collected by a well known connoisseur. A collection of very beautiful Italian sculpture has been publicly exhibited at Robins's Auction Rooms during the week. There is an endless variety of exquisite groups and figures, which surpass all former efforts of the modern sculptor, whilst vast taste is shown in the selection of the subjects. The rare marbles of Elba and Tuscany, sculptured into noble tazzas and vases, presenwt,espnleentideieddoabects colos salofde- coration for the gallery and hail. truly in elaborateness of sculp ugntry. The sale takes place n a g pe , i, b ß et e w ge e n e t n this day. tnre pa a i n r y of be t f a o i re za s s een far in sutrhpisassnoin liarrism OF A JEW. 2,000 and 3,000 persons attended street, to witness the interesting ceremony of a converted .ay st e a r t d C aY raN ill 'e: ) ?C n h i Israelite being publicly baptised. A devotional service h • —Ye Joseph hog been held, the convert, a young man, named . by the Rev. Dr. Liefchild as to his views of the Christian Bremner, was led into the pulpit, where he was interrogated religion, to which he gave the most satisfactory answers. lie stated that his father and mother were both of the Jewish persuasion, and that he had been brought up in the strictest forms of that religion. When he was sixteen years of age his father died, and two years after his mother also died. He and his two brothers were then left in the care of some relatives until they became of age, when they came into possession of their property left them by their parents. After some time the three separated, each taking a different route. The elder brother came to England, and, under a clergyman, conviction was brought home to him that the religion he had been following was not right, and he embraced Christianity. The convert was then baptised by the Doctor in the name of the Trinity. POST-orricE NOTICE.—The following Post office notice has been issued :—" The Postmaster-General having peen informed by the Director-General of the French Post office that correspondence forwarded by the French Mediter ranean packets to the Papal States is liable to a further charge on delivery, letters henceforward addressed to these states, when directed to be forwarded by French Packets, ca nnot be paid in advance to their destination, although they may still be forwarded unpaid, as at present . B y ,rder of the Postmaster General. General Post-office, March 23. Nim CATHOLIC CHAPEL.— The long- pending negociation for the purchase of a piece of ground in King Edward's-road, Mare-street, Hackney, fur the erection of a building for Catholic worship, has been effected, and the foundation -stone laid a few days ago. A supper to the work / men engaged was given at the Dolphin Tavern, on Monday . night. journal. It was towards the close of this remarkable trial, that the Judge, who came eager to condemn, sued for pity to his intended victim. The defendant quoted Warburton and Tillotson, as doubters of the authenticity of the Athanasian Creed. • Even his Lordship's father, the Bishop of Carlisle, he believed, took a similar view of the Creed.' And then the Judge solemnly said Whatever that opinion was, he has gone, many year ago, where he has had to account for his belief and h i opinions For common delicacy forbear:- 0, my Lord, I shall certainly . forbear.' Grave and tem perate was the charge to the jury this day ; and in 20 minutes they bad returned a verdict of Not Guilty." THE ORIGINAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT AMERICA, anterior to the time of Columbus, proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites, and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St 1 homas. By George Jones, Esq., F.S.Y. Vol. 1., The 7yrian .Era. While there is no portion of a reviewer's duty more painful than to expose ignorance and presumption, there is no part of his vocation which confers greater pleasure than in rendering a just homage to intellec tual energy, and high morality. When to these na tural qualities are superadded those of classical attain ments and general accomplishments, with an unusual power of argumentative reasoning, sustained through the medium of a poetical style and language, we feel that much pleasure has been reserved for us in noticing the above original work, from the pen of Mr. Jones. The very title seems, at the first glance, a strange anomaly. It has hitherto seemed that there were no portions of the history of mankind that had escaped the pen of historians ; yet the present author unfurls his b anner b o ldly, and justly claims a new ground on which to hurl his classic spear. But where is the locality of a people not heretofore defined as to their origin ? The reply is Ancient America. This seems as strange as the claim to have written and defined in this age, and, for the first time, an ori ginal historical theory. Yet we are compelled to award the high merit of the success obtained, in the most triumphant and enthusiastic manner, and in lan guage classic and poetical. We are compelled, we say, to award to Mr. Jones the singular merit of ac complishing, by the labour and research of years, and by sound argument, founded on inductive reasoning, a perfect triumph as to the truth of his extraordinary proposition. The volume now before us goes far to establish the fact, that the Tyrians were the abori gines of ancient America; and five prophecies of Isaiah are quoted, which the author, with great inge nuity, argues to be fulfilled by the proofs of the Tyrian mra. The period of the first peopling of the Western Continent contended for in this remark able volume is no less than 332 years B.C. Yet remote as is this antiquity, the author, by sound argument, profound learning, and scientific know ledge, compels an assent to the truth of his proposi tion, and by his bold attempt, and by the energy of an original mind, has achieved a haven for his reputation—he is as truly " the Discoverer of the Ancient History, as Columbus is of the land of the Western hemisphere." We had at first our misgiv ings that the author could not claim the qualities ne cessary for a successful historian. His poetic style and flights of fancy made us fearful of a lasting result, but we were agreeably surprised. The commence ment of the volume is a complete snare to entrap the reader to the analysis of the ruined cities ; and that analysis is founded upon scientific knowledge of the fine arts. The volume concludes in the same spirit of romance—the romance of truth, to which fiction is but a torch-bearer. The interest becomes a continual excitement. Facts are scattered throughout like jewels upon a mantle—valuable and brilliant; and the more so, for that they are taken from the casket of religion, and the archives of holy truth; and we closed the volume with the conclusion, that the author pos sesses the essentials of a successful historian. What a field of contemplation does not this volume unfold I Hitherto unknown cities buried in the Western hemisphere—the mouldering and time .for gotten temples and palaces of past centuries, have been brought to light and forced to disclose their mysterious origin. Two thousand years had, past, oblivion seemed to have placed her unmottoed seal upon those splendid relics of the art of man. That charmed seal is broken by the wand of know ledge, and beneath its fragments are read the historic records in the sculptured language of the arts, in all their beauty of detail, and in the very majesty of their grandeur. The review by Mr. Jones, in the volume before us, of the assertion, that the original architects of the now ruined temples had no foreign origin, but sprung up indigenous to the Western Continent; is a masterpiece of criticism, and proves that Mr. Jones had the correct knowledge necessary to criticise the temples and ruins themselves. Literally, not a stone of the foundation of the proposition is left unturned, the sandy base is completely unfolded, and all this is done with good nature and respect for the personal feelings of the author whose theory he is examining. We now propose to give a few quotations from tht work itself, in order to unfold the theory, style, and language of the author. The following is from portion of the prefatory remarks, expressive of hi: intent to write in a warm and fluent style, rather than with the pen of " the ice-brook temper." The extract briefly illustrates, also, what an accumglated amount of knowledge the reader is to receive, de rived from a vivid mind, engaged for many years upon the subject-matter of the entire history. " Knowing from experience that works upon anti quities, described in language cold as the marbles the) illustrate, are not of deep interest to the general reader, the author has avoided tbo usual frigid style, and has placed around them such fervent and glowing words as their novel characters have authorised and demanded. In delineating also the history of Tyrus, the chief events only are given ; and being rendered with the artistical pages con amore, the poetry of his- tory, and not its dry prosaic qualities, will be received by the reader. This will be seen in the descrip tions of the classic remains, battles, and voyages, and especially, for instance, in resuscitating the ruins 01 Rome, and in the celebrated Tyrian siege by Alexander of Macedon ; but in this style of writing (it is sub- mitted) the author has not lost sight of that high solemity demanded by the philosophy of history. with out which, memorials of past ages, or of our fathers, would be useless. To give a list of works consulted during fifteen years in America, and more immediately for the last two years in England, while writing thr Tyrian sera, would be pedantic; but no author, sacred or profane, from the first lawgiver to the present time, having even a remote reference to the western hemi sphere, has been knowingly omitted ; yet being profes sedly an original work, the volume of the brain has been more largely extracted from than any writer whose works are already before that public to whose final judgment (upon its merits or demerits) the present author submits the " History of Ancient America " with all humility, but he will yield to none in the conscien tious belief of the truth of the sta rtling propositions, and the consequent historic conclusions.' The following unfolds the three branches of the complete History (one volume of which is already given to the public, viz., the Tyrian sera), and the original proposition of separating the aborigines into two distinct races, upon which fact is based the foun dations of the historic edifice de : upon the chieftain Tecumseh , the following o a f n g e xatrct gae work.s used, and we avail ourselves of t he p rivilege ing from from our store- house materia ls for the e c s "In the prefatory remarks t o the forthcoming rthco l mi ment of this new historical campaign :—The co . urte d ou ir s reader in tracing the fate of Tecu mseh, as picte the pages of his life, will not fail to observe the strong analogy between the religious se ntiments of the chief Theot the forest, and those of the a ncient Hebrews. language as uttered by Tecumseh is not written to up hold a theory of the brain, but gathered from the archives of a people's history, to support a theory of apparent truth. The present writ er will not yield to any man in the firm belief that the aborigines of North Ame rica (but - North America only) and the ancient Israelites are identical, unless controverted by the stern authority have formed the North and those of South and Central America, We o theret h e fore v f o o f r m s superior rainor originalh i historical e t a h l eh d ry ed i u n ctions. reference W together with the newly-discovered ruined cities in and around Guatemala, and by that theory have separated into two distinct races or people, the aborigines of the western hemisphere. Tire lately recovered xuins, cities, and temples, in Central America, and of which 310 ancient record is to be found, have shattered the chain of acknowledged history to atoms ; and until that chain is again united by a firmly established theory, education herself must pause ere she can, with the wand of truth; point to her rising children the history of the world or its inhabitants. Suspicion has asserted that all the natives of the continent of Columbus might probably have been originally of Hebrew extra ction. The assertion hasbe beenconfounded doubthy essentialand contrast s in the religious customs of North and Sout h America ; there were no analogies between the m, whi ch circumstance should eamade ia have compelled historians to pursue another path of in quiry, and to obtain a conclusive truth ; but they found a Gordian knot which they could not unravel, and. assuming the impatient weapon of Alexander, they de stroyed it. The architecture, howev er , of tho ruins cf Copan, Palenque, Uxmal, and their time-honoured as sociates, has furnished a rosetta-ston e ' to aid the new translation of the hieroglyphical history of (now) An cient America ; and if our theory is true, not only have the Islaelites walked the land where the sun bestows his last smile, but another nation (in which was retained the primitive language of the diluvian world) previously , trod that soil as aborigines ; and beyond all this, it our thread of Ariadne lead us faithfully, if not the Al mighty father, who gave the thought, will pardon its application : yes, beyond all the beunding feelings leap ing at events, at once classic and ven erate d, d o we con template another branch of our theory ; for if we not write in error—and our perfect faith assures us that we do not—then the trembling hand which sought doubt the Saviour's wounds has been outstretched in sacred oratory even in those southern wilds ; the bold yet conquered voice, which uttered in hallowed and confirmed faith, My Lord and my God,' bas given forth its missioned eloquence even in the western hemi sphere, and there_ the ashes of that Apostle may yet repose.' The author then proceeds to discourse in the fol lowing eloquent manner upon the two races of people—as newly divided by him, and sustained throughout by his argttments. The most superficial reader will, we think, admit the direct contrast between the aborigines of the western continent. The reader will bear in mind that the historical work now under consideration, embraces all periods of time previous to that of the landing of Columbus in 1492. " The fundamental error, with all writers upon the aborigines of America is, that they have viewed them as one people, Authors have therefore been confounded by the different customs and ceremonies of religion as practised in the two great divisions of the continent; they have seen that the natives were, to a certain ex tent, in one part of the vast domain, idolators, and not in the other; that the North was essentially repub lican in every aspect of its political existence, while that of Mexican America was as essentially composed of kingdoms and empires, and governed by despotic monarchs, and that Republics were interwoven with them ; that each man in the North was a warrior, and an equal, acknowledging no superior, but their leader in time of battle, and, should he fall in action, there was not a member of the tribe in which they politically lived, but could have taken his place, and filled it with similar courage and ability. In Mexican America they were not equal, but, from the Emperor they descended by degrees to the serf and slave ; in that country, stone and stuccoed temples and palaces were, and still con tinue to be found, erected with costly magnificence, and in which were jewelled idols to which they bent the knee ; their rich dwellings were splendid mansions, adorned with sculptured and beaten gold, and graced with the works of art, and as a people, enjoying all the refined elegancies of life ; but in the North their temple was the azure canopy of Jehovah, adorned with its myriads of golden stars, and when beneath that sublime dome they bent the knee, it was to the Almighty God alone I Their palaces were the gorgeous vistas of the forest ; the columns were the gigantic trees, each year increasing in their stateliness ; their shadowy and pointed roofs were the far-spreading branches, and nature's tinted foliage ; their mansions were those of independent wanderers, eren the simple tents of Israel ; and as for jewelled idols and figures of beaten gold,—they pre sented the diamonds of the human eye, radiant with in tellectual beams, and glancing from the living emblem of the first and priceless image, placed in Eden's garden by the Architect of the Universe ! Notwithstanding these essential opposites in character and policy, to which may be added that of physiognomy, writers have glanced at them as one race, sprung from the same branch of the human family, and without defining which ; and when they could not reconcile such apparently unac countable distinctions and diversities, they have thrown upon the shoulders of the Mexican the mantle of manly virtue belonging to the north ; and upon this race they have thrust the idolatrous vices and the festering robes of luxury justly claimed by the former people ; and by this easy manner of disposing of a question, have seem ingly satisfied themselves that, by blending the crimes of both, to the exclusion of the virtues of either, they were all savages ' and no matter from whence they came. Thus have they formed their conclusions con cerning fifty millions of human beings, although directly in opposition to evidences of fact, to deductions by re lative reasoning, and to all Christian feeling, which alone should have rejected so cruel a decision, founded, as it is, not only on alight but careless investigation." _ The foregoing extracts will go far to induce the reader not to rest satisfied with the opinions we have pronounced on this delightful and instructive work, but to cull for himself from the many brilliant and poetical flights in which it abounds. The vindication of the fair fame of the Tyrian Princess Elizabeth, familiar to every school-boy as Dido, the foundress of Carthage, from the aspersions cast upon her character by the Mantuan Bard, and the true account of her suicide or immolation, will not prove the least inter esting portion of the volume to the classical scholar ; but there is no part that will not both please and im prove the general reader . GOETHE'S FAUST, Transla-ed into English Prose. By A. Hayward. - -Translated into English Verse. By Captain Charles H. Knox. Upon the wild and extraordinary tragedy of " Faust," the principal portion of Goethe's celebrity rests, and his celebrity is immense and permanent. Among his many illustrious countrymen Goethe has no rival in general literature—embracing in that one comprehensive word " literature " all the varieties of poetry, history, biography, scientific dissertation, ethical composition, geographical and etymological writing, prose fiction, essay, and the other multiform phases of authorship. In each of these phases, of course, there may be found in Germany men who have rendered themselves pre-eminently great. With Kant as a metaphysician, with Swedenborgia as an ethical romancist, with Humboldt as a geographer, with Richter as a novellist, with Muller, with Liebig, and with many other equally renowned writers, Goethe no doubt could not be mentioned as a rival in their several departments. But as a versatile genius, as a genius comprehending all the forms and diver sities of human knowledge, Goethe stands out alone and supreme: In his way he is a sort of literary Crichton. His intellect has about it an essentially Protean character ; and it is by reason of this mar vellous capacity for excelling in so many branches of literature that his fame is so universal and his name to conspicuous. Considering him only as a poet, Goethe towers above the bards of his father land. As a poet, indeed, he has only two competitors in the language the immortal Schiller, and the gifted Klopstock. The netrical works of Goethe abound with excellences Aeculiar to himself, excellences such as are not to be discovered among any of his contemporaries, or among any of his predecessors. Of all th e se wor k s — Ind they are wonderfully numerous—Faust is ac knowledged to be his masterpiece—his Hamlet—his Paradise Lost—his Cenci—his Austerlitz—his Eve at the Fountain. Faust is more universally known, perhaps, than any other poem that has ever been penned in the German language. And it has be come familiarised to the multitude not merely by the perusal of the original but by innumerable transla tions, and by the exquisite and matchless outlines of the poet-artist Retzsch. With the forms of Doctor Faust, of the beautiful Margaret, of Valentine the Soldier, and of Mephistophiles with his scarlet dress, his long-pointed sword, and the very cock's feather in his hat, we are all of us as familiar as with those )f Prospero, of Adam, of Achilles, or of Manfred. With the different scenes and incidents again in this strange and enthralling drama we are equally well Acquainted. We have all of us marvelled before now opening ,np h ge y nt ihneg Wagnersc praisesene i nF ocouldfapttahphueeedsaitrGs, appearance, gon e sod r ctb n eu:de nothing ylmw, ihwog efhhnet poison he invokes in the black poodle that slunk through the corn-field at the heels of himself and his master the Doctor. Then, moreover, there is the memory of the Almighty. hhe su sublime l s i m Therebe y isintro duction deterred ttheh the eto the tragedy, where the archangels are si ng - Spirit of Nature, when he recoils from th e aw f u l b er e o a m u t y draining of t s chorus of angels on Easter morning, when his heart melts within him at the sound of their voices in the sky, and he spurns the goblet from him and weeps passionately. There is the joyous ca rousal in the fields, the song of the rustics dancing under the lime tree, the transformation of the poodle into Mephistophiles, and ,the quaint dialogue in which the latter writes in a student's album— " Eritis sicut Deus, scientes bonum et inalum." Then again Auerbach's cellar, where the demon draws Claret, and Champagne, and Rhenish, and Toqua, from little gimlet-holes in the table. Who can ever lose a recollection of the orgies that follow in the Witch's kitchen, where the male and female monkeys set the chimney a-light by neglecting the cauldron ; or who can forget the first glimpse of Margaret in the street? Impressing the mind so vividly as every portion of this splendid drama does, it is impossible to have it thrust upon our attention too frequently, and it is equally impossible for us to feel amazed at the number of translations that have succeeded each other. Among all these translations, we must at once confess that we award the preference to the magnificent fragments. written by the poet Shelley. They surpass everything of the kind within our recollection ; and we cannot in duce ourselves to believe that even Coleridge was more competent than Shelley to become the interpreter of Goethe. Still they are essentially but fragments. We must look elsewhere for the whole tragedy, and looking elsewhere, we are at tracted first of all to the very best of the entire translations, namely, the prose version of Mr. Hayward. The fourth edition of this work is lying before us, just published. We rejoice to see the copies of a book of so much excellence multiplied in number, and to see it produced, moreover, in so cheap and portable a form, because a boon is thereby afforded to the million. It would be an affectation to enter upon any criticism of a translation which has already been criticised a thousand times—which has been picked line from line, and word from word, and scrutinised piecemeal. Mr. Hayward has his laurel already. He has found very little bitterness in that laurel, and he has deserved to find very little, for his version of " Faust" is almost as accurate as the re flection of any given object in a mirror. Captain Knox has not conceived himself to be justified in eschewing either rhythm or rhyme, and, consequently, he has adventured upon about the ninety-ninth me trical translation of "Faust." We can award him praise for what he has accomplished, but the praise is somewhat small, and it is this : that he has adhered more closely to the meaning of the original than any of his poetical predecessors excepting Shelley, but that his verse is as tame as it is smooth and polished. Without wishing in any way to be invidious, we ask any one to decide as to the merits of two fragments ra a n n d d o m t . h Well, o here al are translationtw o ; the fa prosesingle i heel : st at translatione out of the middle of Margaret's song at the spinning-w " For him alone My glances roam, For him alone )ek e d ve o r u I stray from home." That is Captain Knox's version, now here is the version of Mr. Hayward : " For him alone look I Out at the window ! For him alone go I Out of the house 1" Can there be Any comparison ? Although it is brief, abrupt, and almost incoherent, there is a posi tive grandeur in the simplicity of Mr. Hayward's sketch of the cathedral scene. The organ is playing and the chorus is chaunting the solemn dirge, " Dies irm, dies i!la Solvit sceclurn in favilla" ! " Evil Spirit—Horror seizes thee ! The trump sounds! The graves tremble ! And thy heart From the repose of its ashes For fiery torment Brought to life again Trembles up." "Margaret—Would that I were hence ! I feel as if the organ Stifled my breath, As if the anthem Dissolved my heart's core !" " Chorus—Judex ergo cum sidebit, Quidquid latet apparebit, Nil inulturn remanebit. "Evil Spirit—Hide thyself ! sin and shame Remain, unhidden. Air? Light? Woe to thee 1 " Chorus--Quid sum miser tune dictums ? Quem patronem rogaturus? Cum viz justus sit securus. "Evil Spirit—The glorified from thee Avert their faces. The pure shudder To reach thee their hands. Woe ! " Chorus—Quid sum miser tune dictums?" To the termination of this astonishing tragedy, in deed, to the disappearance of Faust and Mephisto philes, and the shrill shrieking of the voice of Marga ret " from within, dying away"— " Henry ! Henry ! Mr. Hayward evidences the same vigorous compre hension of the meaning of Gathe, and the same facile power of transposing that meaning into our mother tongue. The notes appended to the volume are rich in illustrative quotations, and most of them are singu larly happy—at one moment indicating a similarity between the lines " There is no dagger here," &c., and a passage in "Tam o' Shanter ;" at another point ing out a resemblance between the words " Let what is past be past," and that lovely verse in " Leonora . '— " Oh ! Mutter 1 Mutter ! Hin ist hin Verloren ist verloran ! Der Tod, der Tod ist mein Gowinn, 0 wiir ich nie geboren I" Altogether the translation of Mr. Hayward is not unworthy , of the thrilling and somewhat blasphemous poetry of Faust, or of its great and immortal author. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Do mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon. The lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated at the service. Lady Augusta Bruce was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk yesterday. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings yesterday in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, the lessons by the Rev. Mr. lepton, and the Communion Service by the Bishop of London and the Sub-Dean. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness of Ormonde, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Miss Mitchell, Maid of Honour in Waiting, and the Vice• Chamberlain. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, attended Divine service yester day morning i❑ St. Michael's Church, Chester square. Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were in waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duchess of Cam bridge also attended the evening service. ROYAL HIBERNIAN BALL IN AID OF THE FUNDS FOR THE DESTITUTE IRISII. We are rejoiced to find that a ball in aid of the funds for the destitute Irish is to take place at Willis's Rooms, on Wednesday, the 7th of April. The ball is under the patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Mite of the aristocracy. The Rooms will, no doubt, be crowded, and the funds proportionably benefited. On such an occasion every Irish gentleman and lady in London must feel it their bounden duty to be present, for it appeals irresistibly to the warmest and best feelings of the heart—nationality and charity; and what Irishman will not respond to such an appeal? PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Cornmons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 23. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. RAILWAYS. The following is the List from which Members will be selected to serve on the Select Committees on Railway Groups appointed severally to commence their sittings in the week commencing Monday, 12th April next, and in the week commencing Monday, 19th April next. The Select Committees on the Groups Nos. 5,6, 16, IS, 21, • 47, will meet in the week commencing Monday, 12th April, and the Members for those Committees will be selected from Panel No. 1. Thursday, 15th April, will be the earliest day in the week for which the first meeting of any of the above mentioned Committees will be fixed. The Select Committees on the Groups Nos. 11, 28, 34, 50, 51, will meet in the week commencing Monday, 19th April, and the Members for those Committees will be selected from Panel No. 2. PANEL No. I. Viscount Acheson Mr. Langston Viscount Adare Earl of Arundel Viscount Castlereagh Mr. Deedes Mr. F. Dundas Viscount Eastnor Colonel Ferguson Sir Edmund Filnier Mr. J. 6:Legh Earl of Lincoln Gen. lion. 11. B. Lygon Mr. M•Carthy Mr. John Neeld Viscount Newry ➢ir. M. J. O'Connell M r. Packe Mr. Gill Sir Stephen Glynne Hon. R. Gore Sir James Graham Mr. Gregory Lord Claud Hamilton Mr. G. NV. Heneage Lord Alfred Hervey, ➢Tr. Hutt 'Viscount Jocelyn Captain Jones Mr. Kuala Colonel Peel Mr. Plumptre Mr. Pulsford Mr. Rica Mr. C. G. Round Hon. G. S. Smythe Hon. 11. M. Sutton Mr. Trail! Mr. Trelawny Lord Harry Vane Mr. Baring Wall Hon. Eliut Yorke PANEL No. 11. Mr. Aglionby Mr. Bankes Eight lion. F. Baring Sir John Yarde Buller Mr. Pole Carew lion. G. H. Cavendish Mr. Compton Sir De Lacy Evans Hon. W. Fitzmaurice Mr. Fitzstephen French Sir John Guest Mr. Hale Sir B. Hall Capt. Hon. A. E. Harris Captain Hatton Mr. Henley Lord Edwin Hill Mr. Hindley Viscount Ingestre Hon. IL Liddell Mr. Eliott Lockhart Sir R. Lopes Lord John Manners Earl of March Mr. Wykeham Martin Mr. Matheson Mr. Newdegate Lord Norrevsy Mr. Robert Palmer Mr. G. R. Philips Captain Plumridge Lord W. Powlett Mr. Rashleigh Mr. Stanton Mr. John Tollemache PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. TUESDAY, 51t1“:711 23. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 10 (And be it enacted, That whenever the expenses chargeable to an electoral division of an Union in Ireland, in any one half-year, shall exceed a sum amounting to one shilling and threepence in the pound on the net value of such division, a portion of the said expenses, amounting to one shilling and threepence in the pound, shall be charged to the said electoral division, and the remainder thereof shall be charged to the Union at large):—Amendment proposed, p. 4, 1. 25, to leave out from the word " That" to the words " shall be charged," in line 31, in order to add the words, " all expenses to be henceforth incurred for the relief of des titute poor persons in Ireland, whether under the provisions of this Act or of the said hereinbefore recited Act, of the Ist and 2d Vic. c. 56 :"—Question put, " That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Com mittee divided:— MAJORITY-AXES, 120. Acheson, Viscount Ellis, Wynn Milnes, R. Monckton Acton, Colonel Escott, Bickham Monahan, J. H. Adderley, C. B. ETans, William Mostyn, E. M. Aldain, William Flelden, John Newdegatc, C. N. Anson, Colonel Ferguson, Sir R. Northland, Viscount Antrobus, Edmund Finch, G. O'Brien, A. Stafford Archbold, Robert Fitzgerald, R. A. O'Brien, C. Baring, F. T. Forster, Mathew O'Conor, Don Barnard, E. G. Fox, C. R.: Owen, Sir John Bateson, T. Fuller, A. E. Parker, John Bellew, It. M. Gisborne, Thomas Patten, J. W. Bentinek, Lord 0. Glynne, Sir S. Perfect, Robert Bentinek, Lord 11. Gore, W. R. 0. Philipps, Sir R. Beikeley, Captain Gore, Robert Pluntridge, Captain Blakemore, R. Goulburn, Henry Protheroe, E. Bodkin, J. J. Graham, Sir James Repton, G. W. Banal, Berlah Grey, Sir G. Itich, Henry Bowring, Dr. Grimsditch, Thomas Romiily, John Brooke, Sir A. D. Grogan, E. Rose, D. It. Buller, Charles Guest, Sir J. Russell, Lord J. ?Sunbury, T. Hamilton, G. A. Sandon, Viscount Busfeild, William Hamner, Sir John Shaw, F. tlyng, G. S. Ilawes, Benj. Shell, It. L. Carew, W. 11. Pole Ileneage, Edward Smith, Vernon Cavendish, C. C. Henley, J. W. Stuart, V. Chapman, B. Ilobhouse, Sir J. Strati, Edward Chichester, Lord J. Hoskins, K. Thompson, Alderman Cholineley, Sir J. Inglis, Sir R. Thomely, T. Clay, Sir W. James, William Trollops, Sir J. Clerk Sir G. ' Jervis, Sir John 'Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Cole, Hon. H. A. Jones, Captain Vane, Lord 11, Colebrooke, Sir T. Kirk, Peter Verner, Sir W. Coote, Sir C. LI. Labouchere, lienry Walsh, Sir J. Copeland, Ald. Lascelles, W. S. Ward, H. G. Courtenay, Lord Lofroy, Anthony Wilsitere, T. W. Craig, W. G. Lindsay, Colonel Wood, fir Charles Crawford, W. S. Mackinnon, Vs. Wyse, Thomas Dawson, T. V. Macnamara, Major Young, John Denison, J. E. Manners, Lord J. TELLERS. Disraeli, B. Maitle, Fox Hill, Lord H. Dtuidas, Sir David Maxwell, lion. J. P. 'lanell, 11. MINORITY—NOES, 25. Fltzwilliam, G. W. O'Brien, %y. S. Hall, Sir Benjamin O'Ceiniell,:Jolut Hatton, Captain T. Wawn, J. T. Jolliffe, Sir V. G. H. Williams, W. Fier. D. S. Yorke, Henry R. Lawless, Ceell Layard, Major TELLERS. M'Carthy, Alex. O'Connell, 31. J. M`Donnell, J. 31. Rawdon, Colonel Napier, Sir Ckarles Blake, M. J. Bright, John Drotherton, Joseph Browne, W. Callaghan, D. Collett, John Darner, Colonel Dennistoun, J. Duncan, George Ewart, Wini.in The once celebrated and well-known singer, Mari /01e Seal, died recently at Vienna, in }per 76th year. EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l perceive in your article of Monday evening last, on the proposed Government measure of public education, that you, unintentionally no doubt, confound the Wesleyan Methodist body with the Wesleyan Association. These bodies are perfectly distinct, the latter originating, some years since, in a secession from the former; and for the representations or actions of the Association the Wes leyans are not at all responsible. The only resolutions adopted by the Wesleyan Committees accompany this note; from which it will be seen that the principles which have contributed to the " high character" which you admit they have " obtained," are those by which their present and future conduct on this question will be determined.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES PREST, Secretary to the Wesleyan Committee of Privileges. Wesleyan Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate-street Within, March 25th, 1847. The following are the resolutions above alluded to:— At a meeting of the United Wesleyan Committees of Pri vileges and Education, convened to consider the "Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education in August and December, 1846," and held at the Centenary Hall, Bishops gate-street Within, March 18, 1847 ; the Rev. W. Atherton, President of the Conference, in the chair: It was moved by the Rev. Samuel Jackson, seconded by the Rev. John Scutt, and resolved unanimously,- 1. That, in reference to the deeply- important question of national education, this committee cannot depart from the great scriptural and Protestant principles already avowed in the resolutions passed on two former occasions,—namelv, in 1839 and 1843; but feels it a duty to re -assert and maintain them : and that, on these and other grounds, this committee decidedly objects to the present measure. But as the present aspect of the question is, as to its circumstances, somewhat varied from that under which it was formerly considered, the final and definitive declaration of the reasons to be assigned for this decision shall be subject to exact and mature delibera tion at an adjourned meeting of this united committee, to bo held in this place on Thursday, April Bth, at ten o'clock a.m. And that, in the meantime, an extract from ou r f ormer resolutions, embodying a statement of the great principles above mentioned, shall be reprinted, in order to explain to our friends at large the only grounds on which we are pre pared to approve of any scheme of education which is to be supported by national taxation. 2. That the Parliamentary sub-committee of each of these united committees be instructed to prepare the extracts above referred to, and also a draft statement of the objections against the present measure, to be submitted to the commit tee at its adjourned meeting. 3. That the same sub-committee be instructed to print and circulate these resolutions. (Signed) W. ATHERTON', Chairman. The Chairman having left the chair, it was taken by the Rev. S. Jackson; when it was moved by James Heald, Esq., of Stockport; seconded by P. Rothwell, Esq., of Bolton ; and resolved unanimously—That the best thanks of the meeting be presented to the Rev. the President of the Conference, ter his kind attention to the business of the committee. (Signed) JOHN S. STAMP, CHARLES PREST, Secretaries to the Wesleyan Committee of Privileges. JOHN C. PENGELLY, TilimAs VASEY, Secretaries to the Wesleyan Education Committee. POTATO SEED. TO THE EDITOR OF 7HE SUN. SlR,—Should you consider the following statement to be of any service to the public at the present time, and as it may be the means of saving a quantity of valuable seed, I beg ) ou will insert it in your valuable journal. About three weeks since I planted two gallons of walnut kidneys, one of which was of a large size, and apparently healthy seed (I made two seeds of each potato) ; the other being of & smaller size, was put in whole. !A few days since I was led to examine them, when I found those that had been cut were all considerably affected with the disease, as well as having been attacked by the ravages of the wiro worm and slug. Those that were put in whole were not touched ; therefore sho‘sing the necessity of not cutting the seed.—l am, Sir, &c., W. M. Bentley, Hants, March 24, 1817. JAS. SHERIDAN KNOWLES, ESQ. 7'O THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN. _ _ Sin,—l read with great pleasure in your paper of the 9th March, the remarks which you made in reference to the manner in which Sheridan Knowles has hitherto been overlooked, in the distribution of that fund allotted to the reward of literary genius. That Sheridan Knowles ranks in many of his dramatic works next to our im mortal bard, " who lived not for an age, but for all time," cannot be denied. Whilst some authors in their dramatic works have pandered to low tastes and vulgar sentiments, Sheridan Knowles has invariably in his writings maintained the dignity of virtue and the sanctity of truth. As one who has in his entire writings aimed at purifying the stage, and enlightening mankind through its influence, She ridan Knowles is entitled to be regarded as a public benefactor; yet, whilst his "Julia" can draw thousands of spectators to see and hear the incomparable perform• nate° of Mrs. Butler—and remunerate her talent with an overflowing exchequer— the author who brought the character into being has never yet had a single dawn of favour shown to him by the State. The eloquent and patriotic energy of William Tell, the impassioned beauty of Virginias, the pathetic grace and favour of the Hunchback, the sprightly elegance of the Lore Chase, and the deep devoted expression of The Wife, will carry down the name of Sheridan Knowles to posterity as one 'of the greatest of our dramatists and poets. We are then irresistibly led to the question—" flow the genius of Sheridan Knowles has been acknowledged by his coup• &pan, and how the literary labours of that genius have been answered and rewarded ?" It would be invidious to single out the names of those who receive literary pensions; but beyond the shores of our own native land, with the exception of America, by how many foreigners are the works of Tennyson or Hood known? Yet they received pensions from the State. For what? The one for aritiug a couple of volumes of poetry, the other for having ridiculed society in au annual publication of wood-cuts, puns, and non sensical stories. That Hood could write well there can not be a doubt—take, for instance, his "Song of the Shirt;" but Hood roso into a name by pandering to the light reading of the day. That Sheridan Knowles is entitled to a pension from the State there cannot be two opinions amongst literary men. It is left for Lord John Russell to do him justice, and I have no doubt he will do it. I have much pleasure in stating, through the medium of your paper, that a memorial has been got up in Le( ds to the Premier, requesting him to allow Sheridan, Knowles to have a portion of that fund which is dedi cated to the reward of genius. That memorial Ina been signed by the mayor, magistrates, aldermen, councillors, merchants, &c., &e., of Leeds, and will be sent in a few days through the medium of Lord Morpeth. Such an appeal, and made from such an influential portion of the community, will, I hope, (and who will not join fervently in that hope ?) be successful. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Leeds, March 23, 1847. MARTIN CAWOOD. FALL OF A VIADUCT. LIVERPOOL, DIARcu 2.l.—Yesterday an accident oc curred on the Liverpool and Bury Railway of a serious nature to the builder, but without loss of life. Twenty one arches of the Liverpool viaduct fell, one after the other, with a tremendous crash, the noise of which re sembled the discharge of as many pieces of artillery, and was heard for more than a mile off. The site of this disastrous destruction of property is about two miles from the Liverpool Exchange ; and the arches, the six northernmost of which were so far completed as to allow of the centerings being withdrawn a few days ago—the others having been completed three months ago—were built entirely of brick. It is not yet known how it was that the first arch which fell gave way, but it is certain that each buttress afterwards, incapable of bearing the weight of the arch reared upon it, when that on the other side had fallen, was forced outwards immediately, the entire destruction of the whole being completed in about the space of a minute and a half from the fall of the first. Symptoms of its defectiveness were, we understand, first manifested on Saturday last ; but whether proceeding from any sinking in the foundation of either buttress, or from defective workmanship or materials in the arch itself, was not known. It had been condemned, and means were about to be taken to s h ore it u p an d secure t h e b uttress , in order that it might be rebuilt. It is possible that this work would have been so far performed yesterday as to have prevented the accident, had it not been for heavy fall of rain driving all the men away from their work. This was so far fortunate, that no person what ever has sustained the least personal injury, though wo regret to say that the loss of property cannot be less than 5,0001. or 6,0001. The span of the arch which first gave way was, we are informed, about 35 feet, that of the others was thirty feet. They were constructed for Messrs. M'Cormick, the contractors for this portion of the line, by Messrs. Bullock and Evans, and all that was wanting to their completion was the erection of a portion of the parapets. Another viaduct, near that which has fallen, is being erected by Messrs. Helm°, after the same plan, and as these gentlemen are so eminent in their business, it is a Froof that the plan for the viaducts cannot be insufficient. It is not improbable that the fall of these arches might have resulted from the sinking of the foundation of one of the buttresses, in consequence of the severe winter, or that the mortar in the detective arch had been prevented from setting sufficiently by th o late heavy rains. MADEMOISELLE JENNY LlND. — During the per forrnance at her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, a foreign courier arrived, bringing letters announcing the depar ture of Mdlle. Jenny Lind from Vienna, on her way to fulfil her engagement at her Majesty's Theatre. The letters also announce the arrival, immediately after Easter, of Staudigl. Thus we shall have the great Italian basso, Lablache, and the greatest German basso at the same time. Novelty will succeed novelty—Ernani on Saturday, I Due Foscari after Easter week, whilst Jenny Lind will make her debut in Alicia, in Meyerbeer's grand opera of Roberto it Diarolo.—Post. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT WOOLIVICII.—On TueF day morning, as a gunner of the Royal Artillery was leading one of the artillery horses, in a fatigue cart, from the Royal Arsenal to the Barracks, the horse suddenly started at seine object, and, turning round, commenced running at a furious Arsenal. pace down the hill in Wellington-street towards the In ( green's - end the cart ran against another belongingcar t t, eet, dashed to Mr. Dane, baker, which was standing ifi f the cart in pieces, and destroyed about n A few yards further on it came in contactlett3t-whleiotashvraesmofilkbrceaarctt: ely off the axle, and, lifting the body of the cart horse then continued his caree r after breaking down two Teosts, flinging w rs h m ero w t u he in j ar ur til e l d er . y down the Rookery, 1 " , ! p n l o ac p e e horses are usually fed. o ENT TO stopped very quietly in a front n r t t CAPTAIN VYSE, M.P.-- u o n f at t el he y that Captain Vyse, who We have much pleasure while riding with Baron Rothe m t with a serious accident . THE LATE ACCIDENT in statieg —e Thursday last, is steadilyrecovering, and child's hounds on , that all danger is past.