The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

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I;ot ter )oristerf c bos °I bilA defr )0 - • jilt ligAT I, 9}..1%. t° toC 01' Til 1 4 : SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1847. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During last week the arrivals of English Wheat for our market, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample, were on a very limited scale; those of all other articles of home produce, including Flour, unusually small. The re ceipts from Ireland and Scotland were extremely limited. From abroad, however, the imports of Wheat, Barley, Oats, and Flour were liberal; those of other grain very unim- Pedant. Fresh up to-day the supply of Wheat from Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, &c., was extremely small, hence the show of samples of both red and white was smaller than on many previous market days. This falling off in the arrivals, together with the large attendance of both town and country buyers, caused "the holders of all kinds of Wheat to be very firm, anti the trade must be considered very brisk, at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last, of from FIVE to SIX SHILLINGS PER QUARTER, at which amount of improvement the whole of the supply was cleared off. The bast samples of English Wbite sold freely at from one hundred and nine to one hundred and sixteen shillings per quarter! This is the highest point of value realised for a long series of years, and there is every prospect of a further rise in the quotations. Although the imports of Foreign Wheat last week were upwards 0f12,000 quarters, the quantity of that description of grain on offer was small, owing to several cargoes having been taken afloat for the French and Belgian Markets. The trade was again very brisk, at an improve ment on last Monday's rates of from FIVE to SIX SHILLINGS ?ZR QUARTER, and very few parcels were unsold at the close of business. We had a large quantity of foreign Barley on show, but that of home growth was trifling. All kinds com manded a very steady inquiry, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last week's currencies. The show of Malt Was limited, while the demand for that article was very dead,- at, in some instances, is per quarter more money, Upwards of 34,000 quarters of Foreign Oats came in last week; and the supply on offer to-day was good; yet the trade was very steady, at fully the late advances in the quotations. Very few Beans were on show. Most kinds . 14314 readily, at late rates. Peas moved off firmly, at ex treme prices. Indian Corn was held at 2s per quarter more money. The Flour trade was firm, but we can notice no further improvement in value. CURRENCY PER. IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat — Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier . • • • 805 to 84s Red, New ....95s to 106 s Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 104 s 1161 Lincolnsh., lead. 321 38t Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red..... 90s 98s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White.. —• • 95s 1018 Black .• • • ... 30s 32s Irish, Red.. .... — $ —s Cork, White .•• .. 30 s 341 Ditto, White. .•. .. —s —3 Scotch, Feed. •• .. 37s 39s 4 711-01 d ... ..... .... --s s Beans—Tick .... ••• • . 47s 52s Is N ew• •••••• . • • • • . 60s 63s Pigeons .... 50$ 54s a rleY---Grinding • .. 45s 48s Peas—Grey .......... 53s 56s Malting .•••• ' • 5" 60 3 Maple ..• • • • ... • • 55s 57s Chevalier —• • •• • 60$ 61$ Wh i te .••• • • • - ... 583 60s a llat—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• . • • . 60$ 62s f01k............ 73s 751 Flour—Town-made... 75s 80s 8r0wn,.... Xinitaton wad Ware 75s 80s Stockta & Norfolk 64s 70s smnrmErszim. The imports of live stock into London last week were as follows ~ ,Yr ° l ll whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. !lo b. tterdam .... 110 ... 319 ... 570 ... ... 121 "L- I ,amburgh .. 16 ••• 8 ••• ••• ••• Jaarlin gen ••...• 47 ... 100 ... 133 ... 4 ... 74 405 ... -- •.. dashing An t ..... ••• ••• —4- werP .....«.. 17 .•• 4 .•• -- ••• ••• .-- Total . l9O 431 1,108 4 195 .At Hull and the various other outports about 1,100 head t„di, Beas ts, Sheep, and Calves have been landed in excellent c, --- `"erl• There were in the market about 700 Oxen and 300 Sheep, a nd 30 Calves, mostly from Holland, and x fr ''. : " st i n iutp m hs e tth t ain a sdmi y n e g r3 n ; h activ . e demand at improved currencies. al of beasts from our own districts, or inegamwveresseasonably extensive, and of ex " Nat quality, an unusual degree of excitement prevailed in a s for all kin of fat stok. This must be attri- Dated in agreat mea s u re to the lar g eg number of buyers in fiattendsmceg from Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Wake eld, Bristol, and elsewhere, the whole of whom purchased i t trgely or those localities.::The Beef trade was very brisk, and orequotations advanced over those obtained on Monday last i rma SiXPenCe to eightpence per Bibs, and at which amount " 'lnprovernent a total clearance was speedily made. On a 1 132Pari een of prices, we perceive, that Beef is now selling at p l o r 4 C I t 1 k• A ., 3 d, Mutton I moony 2s, Lamb Bd, Veal Bd, Fid D e pc„,, - *u. per Blbs more than at the corresponding I, - a rt. , 11 1 1846 ! and this immense amount of improvement ikr,., a ,'en place in the face of full average supplies. From a b u Zir-, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received Wee! 1000 Scots, homebreds, and short horns ; from the 8,,, — ` 111 and midland districts, 800 Herefords, runts, Devons, L. ; from other parts of England, 500 of various kinds ; and Scotland 250 horned and: polled Scots—the remainder the neighbourhood Bullock supply being mostly derived from abroad and y nei ghbourhood of th e metropolis. With Sheep we were e t moderately su p p li e d . A s most of the butchers were ~7,short of supply, the Mutton trade was exceedingly p t ' r o at an advance on last week's currelicies of fully 4d at ems, the primest old Downs in the wool selling freely av n 4cl per 8113 s, those out of the wool producing 5s 8d per o it e At the close of the market a total clearance had been 1 1 47 ; ' ,1 - From the Isle of Wight 230 Lambs came fresh to rably and the receipts from other quarters were tole extre,.. g°, od• Still, however, the Lamb trade was tins. "ielY brisk, at a further rise in value of fully 4d per cult' the prim est Down qualities realising, without diffi efeal/z6gt.hB4uppeprlyBlbs. There was a large business doing in of which was moderate, at a rise in value tat Per 81bs. The Pork trade was very firm, and the quo advanced from 2d to 4d per 81bs., with a fair average vet of Pigs on sale. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. fat e *. a. d. to v. d. 1. d. to R. d. liegsts..... 4 0 4 6 Second quality ditto 5 0 5 4 PriZ,q U alitY ••• • 4 8 410 Coarse-woolled ditto 5 6 10 pri ws ?tire Oxea.. 5 0 5 2 Southdown wetter 6 0 6 4 ocots •••• • • 5 2 5 4 Ditto out of the wool coarse Calves 4 8 5 2 Large flogs ••••••• 4 0 4 small ditto .. 5 4 5 Small rorkers .. ••4 10 8 4 Tackling Calves ..21 0 32 0 Quarter old Pi gs •• 1 9 0 22 0 nferior Sheep .... 4 2 4 6 Lambs .......... 5 8R 8 SUPPLY AT MARKET. easts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs, 3,253 20,370 131 I 310 ziniIUrGAMEI A ron tal l The arrivals of Meat from Scotland and all part of Eng land have been unusually limited during the past week ; but with that slaughtered in the metropolis we have been fairly supplied. Still, however, the general demand has ruled very firm, at an advance in the prices of Beef of from 2d to 4d ; of Veal 2d, and of Pork from 2d to 4d per 81bs.; those of Mutton and Lamb being steadily supported. About 900 carcases of foreign meat have been disposed of. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. 11. d. to s. Beef, inferior • • ... •3 6 3 8 Mutton, inferior 4 0 4 4 "--- middling .. ••3 10 4 o _ middling 4 6 4 8 ---- Prime large .. 4 0 4 2 - prime • • 4lO 5 0 ......-• V.lll prime small .• 4 2 4 4 Pork, large 4 4 4 10 *•'••••• •• • • • • 4 8 5 4 - small 5 0 6 4 Lamb, 58 4d to Gs 4d _ _ . _ -- -- BO IVIARICE. The Plantation accounts being favourable, we T have still to Sreport a very inactive demand for all kinds of Hops ; yet week' s pr i ces are steadily supported in every instance:— 84esex Pockets, 3/ 18s to 418 s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 4158 to ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 4/ 15s to 6/ 10s. he im 29T nO port s ROGH AND SPITALPILBS. U Ul potatoes in the past week have been about be° 3, chiefly from Holland. The arrivals coastwise have t °n en small. The best qualities are in fair request, at full prices ; but all other kinds are a dull inquiry, at barely late t's`?•--York Reds, 240 s to 260 s per ton ; Ditto, Regents, 240 s a l ?, : 480 s; Ditto, Shaws, 200 s to 2205 ; Lincoln and Cambridge- Regents, 200 s to 280 s ; Ditto, Kidneys, 200 a to 220 s ; utch, 140 s to 180 s. Sin n tie oe this day se' nn i g h t the i mports of Wool have con cept `e4 of 9 36 bale s f rom P ort Philip, 10,000 ditto from Laun- A 34 . othe o r n ditto from Odessa, and 300 ditto from various Daek quarte rs. The public sales, at which about 13,000 h e I lles have b een offered, have been brought to a close. the r lualities were most l y di sposed of at full prices, but un7laiddling and inferior kinds declined from Id to 1 1 ,0 per Vtlai„,eas • In do the private contract market excee di ng l y l i ttle la ing. Th e TALLOW. ito, k, co. nsumers of Tallow are still unwilling to get into aide, ttithough the Money Market is easier, as they con tiler ar,Surrent rates too high as the stock is low, and the for an g e l es used as substitutes are high. IN edo not look g re en reduction. Rough Fat is 2s 8.1-d per Blbs. u p. 4- 1 -AL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Baron ALDESO) 1 1 .; 11:1 , ° CR N ourt was occupied all the morning with of "Y larceny, w hi c h were d es tit u t e o f an y inter est ARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) The lion. George Percy Sydney Smythe, 68.Henley -Btreet, accompanied by Lord Manners, A. D. R. Cochrane, Esq., M.P. for Bridport, and H. J. Baillie, Esq., M.P. for In- Verness-abire, appeared before Mr. Bingham, in answer to a summons charging him with inciting Lord. Viscount Pol. lington to commit a breach of the peace by fighting a duel. In consequence of his Parliamentary duties Viscount Pol lington was not able to be in attendance, but Mr. BINGHAM thought that the justice of the case would be met if he called upon the hon. defendant to find bail, himself in 5001., and two sureties in the like sum, to keep the peace for twelve months towards all her Majesty's subjects. Bail was immediately offered and accepted ,when the par ties thanked the Magistrate and retired. Thomas Kerne and Charles Berne, two respectably-clue,s3ed youn ga men, were placed before Mr. Bingham, charged, with creati ng disturbance and assaulting Edward Towers, at the Bath C of f ee-house, Bath-street, s ew - road. I t appeared from the evidence, that on the previous morning between the hours of one and two, the defendants, accompanied by two th „erg, not in custody, entered the complainant's house an d called for an abundant supply of coffee, bread, butter, and ?PI which, after being supplied with, they refused to pay o ,r unless they were served with a further quantity. Corn- P`Rinant doubting the honesty of their intentions I;_ fu sed to serve them, and said if they l e ft e house in a quiet manner, he would let them without paving. The prisoners' companions :nit the hint and made off as fast as they could; but the ilit!oners refused to go, and said they would see the corn iiin4tlt defused first, and they would stop as long as they u n T, As an earnest of their intentions, they began to tear r ; 1 Ile tables an d b rea k th e cu ps and saucers. Complainant leavunstrated with them, and did all he could to get them to 11l . ,Place, e ,the but instead of taking his advice they knocked e — , 4 own and kicked him several times. The y were of to further acts of violence, when the arrival of a th,, to c onstable put an end to their pranks, by conveying The durance vile. Or prisoners who denied the charge, were fined 10s. each at hr iti _eo days to' e House of Correction, for the assault, in prop4toyo 14s. 9J. for the damage done to complainant's Gilbert THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) mwonutd, a ship joiner, was brought up for final earnin ation, charg e d w i t h the w i lful mur d er o f hi s w if e, Riles 11I'Donald. The facts in the of the case have been so recently before the Public, b oth police reports and the proceedings at the coroner's inquest, that it will suffice to state that the exa h In4 tion of several witnesses proved that the deceased and , ear (husband were addicted to drinking, and that 111.‘Donal n d gattubre.eati frequently seen to kick and beat his wife. 0 _ an , and the man beat and the ru " , thei Bth inst., a kic q k u e a d rre h l is t i o v o i k fe i p n lac so e s b al et a w g e e en o ,f erneer that she had to be removed to the London Hospital, elne had chre su.bsequently died from the effects of the injuries received .-- - 10T,ho.ad_ditional evidence thi s .d ay was that of the prisoner ' s u A lAtt Abollt eight yearz of Age, who 011 6ho WM" Cr* mination was not admitted to give evidence, but by direction of the magistrate had in the interim been placed in the workhotsaft under the instruction of the chaplain. The poor little fensw seemed quite unconscious of the affecting position in which he was placed. The substance of his tes timony was, that on the evening in question his father hit his mother on the nose; that she afterwards fell down, when he jumped upon her, and kicked her several times. Mr. Nash, the house-surgeon at the London Hospital, also deposed that on the morning the deceased died she said it was her husband that did it. He described the appearances presented on the post mortem examination. The body was covered with blood and bruises, the cartilage of the nose separated, the legs much bruised, the vessels of the brain were much congested, her bowels were ruptured, and two of her ribs were broken. _ _ _ The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed on the capital charge. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, Hayward, a warrant officer of the court, addressing Mr. Broughton, the sitting Magistrate, said that he had obeyed his instructions in making the necessary in quiries respecting the melancholy case which was brought before his notice a few days since by Mr. Coast, a relieving officer of the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and had found that it had not been in the slightest degree exagge rated. The particulars thereof are as follow : Mr. Coast, in appealing to Mr. Broughton, said he did so on behalf of an:unfortunate individual named Marshall, who .iad lately become a bankrupt, and his wife. Upon visiting them he found that they were both lying upon a sick bed, Marshall being laid up with the rheumatic gout and other wise seriously ill ; and his wife, who was lying by his side, I quite blind and labouring under a spasmodic affection. There was no other furniture in the room but the bed and bed stead, which had been sent to them by some kind neigh bours, their own, notwithstanding their, dreadfully afflicted state, having been taken from under them , under the fiat of bankruptcy, and they were thus left with nothing but the bare walls and the flooring. Mr. BnouGHTox, in alluding to the circumstances con nected with this almost unparalleled case of crhelty, said that he felt confident that no body of creditors - would have sanctioned such a proceeding, and it was a case, he hoped, that would come before the public. He should order a sovereign from the poor-box to be immediately sent to the unhappy individuals. It was stated that Mrs. Marshall had given birth to no fewer than twenty-four children, several of whom are, how ever, dead, and the others have families of their own. DR. REID'S LECTURE IN REPLY TO DR. FARADAY'S ON VENTILATION. Dr. Reid delivered a lecture in Willis's Rooms, St. James's.. square, on Saturday night, in reply to one delivered some time ago by Dr. araday, in the Royal Institution, on the subject of ventilation, especially in connexion with the ventilation of the new House of Lords. There was a nume rous and highly respectable attendance. Among the gentle men present we observed several individuals of distinction iu, the scientific world. The lecturer, after a few introduc tory observations, said that the present step had been forced upon him in consequence of Dr. Faraday having brought before the public, in his lecture at the Royal Institution, a variety of circumstances connected with the subject, and par ticularly with the new House of Peers, which he was de sirous of keeping in their original privacy, until some matters between himself and the Government had been adjusted. Dr. Reid complained that he had not been invited to attend Dr. Faraday's lectures, although the subject was one which so deeply affected himself personally. He then proceeded to contend that.the plan on which the new House of Peers was ventilated was, in all essential respects, a plan which he had previously proposed to the Commissioners. It was a plan which might be wished, but it was far from being the best plan that could have been adopted. The lecturer next proceeded to develop his views respecting the true principles of ventilation, and in doing so performed a variety of experiments. He afterwards replied at considerable length to the attacks made upon him in the Times, the Atheneum, and the Quarterly Review. Nothing, he said, could be more unfair or unfounded than the representations of these journals, in proof of which he made quotations from them, and showed how inconsistent they were with the facts of the case. Dr. Reid, towards the conclusion of this lecture, complained in emphatic terms of the injustice which had been done him by the Government, in taking the ventilation of the new House of Lords out of his hands. The lecturer wound up an address, which occupied an hour and a half in the delivery, by intimating indirectly, as we understood him, that he means to bring an action against her Majesty's Ministers for the injury done to him in con nexion with the House of Lords, and gave as the principal reason for the lecture of that evening, that it was necessary previous to bringing the matter before the proper tribunal, that he should be able to refer to the fact of his having re plied to Dr. Faraday. The lecturer expressed himself with great moderation, though evidently under a strong sense of the injustice which he believes to have been done to him, and was most attentively listed to throughout his address.— Observer. OPENING OF THE CALEDONIAN CANAL We are glad to be able to state that the navigation of the Caledonian Canal is now open from sea to sea—that the works have been completed—and that vessels are availing themselves of the admirable facilities thus pre sented to the public. These are greatly increased by the recent improvements, and particularly by the establish ment of steam tug-boats, for towing vessels through the lakes. By means of this important addition the passage is rendered certain, and will generally be effected in two days. When the great advantages thus held out are once practically felt, it cannot be sapposed that many vessels will hereafter encounter the tedious and danger. ous passage round the west coast. The canal dues, we believe, are fixed at a moderate rate, in order to hold out every inducement to traders ; and the wharfage and other conveniences have been rendered so complete as to add most materially both to the quality and extent of the accommodation previously existing. Indeed, Inverness may now, in this respect, be fairly considered as on a par with the first-class ports of the kingdom. The new works have been very substantially executed, and were last week surveyed by Mr. Walker, the principal en gineer of the Commissioners, who proceeded along the whole line of the canal, accompanied by the contractors, Messrs. Jackson and Bean. Mr. Walker expressed him self highly satisfied with the manner in which those gentle ! n en had brought their laborious and important operations to a close; and from Mr. Walker's high pro fessTnal character and well-known experience, his opinion cannot fail to be equally gratifying to the con tractors and the public. We arc sorry, however, to hear that the undertaking has been by no means a profitable one to Messrs. Jackson and Bean. This has arisen chiefly from the g reat i ncrease i n t h e pr i ce o f l a bour an d materials daring the last four years, over which the con tract extended. As an illustration of what may be done with the facilities for communication now existing in the north, we may here mention, that Mr. Walker, being on express Government business to Ireland, after completing his survey, proceeded in one of the canal steam-tugs, the Speaker, from Corpach direct to Belfast. The passage was made in seventeen hours, and if we estimate the passage through the canal at ten hours, it will be obvious with what ease future communication may be carried on from Inverness to any part of Ireland, as well as to the Clyde or to Liverpool. Our trade may thus shoot out into new ramifications, conferring upon the whole north the most important advantages. We understand that Mr. Walter Strachan, so long known in the shipping trade between London and Inver ness, and formerly commander of the Duchess of Suther land steamer, has been appointed by the Commissioners to the office of dock-master, and superintendent of traffic and steam-towage, on the line of the canal.—lnverness Courier. THE COURT.—Her Majesty will give a grand vocal and instrumental concert at Buckingham Palace, on the 28th inst., at which Mademoiselle Jenny Lind and the prin cipal artistes of both Italian Operas will assist. The invi tations were issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office on Saturday last. RESIGNATION OF A POLICE MAGISTRATE,—John Beswicke Greenwood, Esq., who for many years has been a police magistrate, and for some years has sat at Clerkenwell Police -court, has voluntarily resigned his appointment, and H. I'. Tyrwhitt, Esq., of Brick-court, Temple, special pleader, has been appointed in his stead.—Observer. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH PRICE OF WHEAT.—At the Windsor -market, on Saturday last, some singularly fine samples of wheat realised the enormous sum of 314 per load. A similar price was also obtained for wheat at Uxbridge market en the preceding Thursday. At Chertsey May fair, which was held on Friday last, the price of wheat ranged from 271. 10s. to 301. 10s. per load. Several buyers from London attended Uxbridge• market and Chertsey, who re fused to make any purchases in consequence of the advanced prices. _ _ _ SALE OF Mn. ANDERDON'S COLLECTION OF PIC TURES.-The sale of this collection, consisting of 38 pic tures of various masters of the continental schools, took place on Saturday last, in the great room of the establishment of Messrs. Christie and Manson, King-street, St. James's. A vast number of persons were present, and the biddings were carried on with spirit. As the public had largely availed themselves of the opportunity of seeing the collec arolueyr-h columns, un and ns, as some ti v‘ a • c h c i o c u h n o t n o c f e i l t orm h ornament a e s d a t l h re e ady f i Farley-hill, ' will only be necessary to notice the prices fetched Angels" (Murillo), 111, principal lots. Lot 9. "A Group of four, View .n , I appearedA fa of Dordt" l i e in s (Murillo), fetched 53/. Ils. Lot 13. (Cuyp), 2251. Lot 15. " The Virgin a red dress, seated, I holding a book with the Infant ,Cili.risss Lot 16. " Ant, and S. John and St. Joseph " (Fra Bartolomeo), Boy aN derid . - i O n l g d IV h oe her," n a wit p h ic a tur D e isl n his life of Murillo (Murillo), 202/. 13s. Lot 1 ock A 18. "A R y of mentionedl°r Porridge, ge l; by Peasant Colone . • isVil lage Feast " (Teniers) . , 2101. Lot En trance to a Harbour, with a Ship careening, &c." (W. I r an de Velde) of Orange" (Van der Cappellen) , 3411. 10s. Lot 19. "The E mbarkation of th e P r i n c e 1391. 9s. L o t 20. "A W a t erm ill," f ormer ly in the collec tion of Lady Ilolderness (littysdael), 509/. si. Lot 21. " Two Bulls and two Cows, cattle in the background" (P. Potter), 75/ 12s. Lot 22. " Coral Fishers on the coast of Africa ;" this picture was purchased in 1826 from the collection of the Duc d'Ascoli (S. Rosa), 2101. Lot 23. "Christ and the Disciples on the way to Emmaus" (Teniers), 137/. 10s. Lot 24. "The Triumph of David," from the Co• lonna Palace (Guercino), 4001. Lot 25. "Alight bay and gray horse, standing near a group of trees" (P. Potter), 70 4 Lot 26. " A road under a bank, with a sportsman shooting at a bird on a decayed oak, an attendant holding his gray horse, &c.," f ormer l y i n the co ll ect i on o f L o rd Monson, (Wynants and Wouvermans), 2571. 58. Lot 27 . " The Re pose of the Holy Family" (N. Poussin), 551. 13s. Lot 28. " A Cavalier and a Lady haltine from hawking at a Cabaret" (Wouvermans), 182/. 14s. Lot 29. "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" (Luino Bernardino), 931 ' 9s ' Lot 30. " A grand Landscape, . with a Warrior on a gray horse and two attendants, a stag breaking through the underwood, &c. (Domenichino) 1731. ss. Lot 31. "A Stag hunt, a C ava li er and Lady on Horseback, 11unters, &c." (W ouverrnans), 231/. Lot 32. St. John baptizing Christ," menti one d by Captain Davis (11111611 o), 96/. Us. Lot 33. " Sil enus w i th Bacchanals and Nymphs" (Rubens), " 94. 6s. Lot 34. "La Carita," a female in a red dress with three children (A. Del Sarto), 451/. 108. This picture is stated to have been brough t f rom the Ruspigliosi Gallery, and purchased by the late Mr. Anderdon in 1826 of the Coutessa Compagnoni 111 arefoschi. Lot 35. " The Virgin seated, holding the Infant Jesus, St. John presenting the Cross" (Raffaelle), 325/. 10s. Lot 3G. "The Virgin kneel ing and extending her hands over the Infant Christ and St. John" (Leonardo da Vinci), 295/. Lot 37. "Il Viaggio di Itachele," formerly in the collection of the Coutessa Maria Teresa Spinelli (S. Rosa), 640/ . 10s. Lot 38. " The Saluta tion" S. del Piombo), 913/. 10s. The aggregate sum pro (laced by the sale amounted to niarly 7,0004 RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. The Committee met at the usual hour ; Mr. Deedes, chairman. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH AMENDMENT (No. EE.) Mr. Samuel Struchberrey, Fellow of the Zoological So ciety and Curator of the Bristol Philosophical Society, exa mined by Mr. ALEXANDER—He had paid particular attention to the formation of the coal measures at Radstock. There were four or five series in this coal-field. The first was at present worked to about the extent of 50 per cent. ; there was still, however, upwards of 39,000,000 of tons re maining to be worked out. He had calculated that in the second series the quantity of coal was about 424,000,000 of tons, and that quantity would take, according to the present mode of working, 1,661 years before the yield would be ex hausted. He had also made numerous experiments as to the quality of the Radstock coal, and it was his opinion that they were in no degree inferior to the Welsh coal, and that they exceeded the Newcastle in point of duration. GROUP XVII. This Committee re -assembled at the usual hour in Room 11; Sir J. Bulger East in the chair. GREAT NORTHERN (DEVIATIONS BE TWEEN LONDON and GRANTHAM). Mr. Mather, surgeon, of Grantham, was examined on behalf of the opposition. lib was of opinion that Grantham did not require the proposed deviation, and that it would materially injure Mr. Ostler's residence. Mr. Rastrick, C.E., on behalf of the Ambergate Company, stated that the proposed deviation would greatly injure that line, and would be of no advantage to the public as compared with it. GROUP XVIII. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Excellencies the Austrian Ambassador and the Sicilian Minister were prevented from attending the Queen's Eall, in consequence of the death of his Imperial llighness the Arch Duke Charles of Austria, father of the Queen of Naples and Sicily. Mer Royal Highess the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday, attended by the lion. Captain Gordon, The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open carriage and four on Saturday. Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their usual walks and rides on Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen,_ honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark, Sir Edward Codrington, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps ' and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. Her Royal Higness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, also honoured the performance with her presence. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine service yesterday in the private Chapel Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courte- nay oftcciated. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Mar chioness of Ormonde and Earl Howe were in waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yester day morning in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. Sir William Davison and Major Stephens were in waiting on his Royal Highness. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Marchioness of Or monde and Earl Howe, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, also honoured the performance with their presence. _ _ - The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince George had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home Office. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macauley, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The Council sat an hour and a half. The following Members of the New Bishopricks Commission, attended a meeting in Whitehall-place on Saturday : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Powis, the Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Lincoln, and Chester, Sir George Grey, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki, attended by Osman Bey and M. Zohrab, had the honour of being present at her Majesty's ball on Friday evening. Captain Moreno, Military Attache to the Argentine Lega tion, had the honour to attend the Queen's state ball at Bucki❑gham Palace on Friday evening. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official residence in Downing street. Dr. Paris had an interview with Sir George Grey on Satur day at the Home-office, and presented the annual report from the National Vaccine Board. Lord Kinnaird had an interview with Mr. Strutt on Sa turday. Viscount Duncan, M.P., had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman at the office of the Commis sioners of Railways in Great George-street. Lord John Russell had a dinner party, on Saturday, at his residence in Cheshatn-place. Dispatches were received, on Saturday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the North America n P rov i nces, and also from the Governors of New South Wales and New Zealand. LITERATURE. THE PARLOUR LIBRARY. No. 111. WOOD LEIGHTOIV. By Mary Howitt. Caring not only for the intrinsic value of their periodical but for the general variety of the publica tion, the proprietors of the " Parlour Library" have here followed up the romances of Carleton and Dumas with the simple, homely, and thoroughly English fiction by Mary Howitt. " Wood Leighton" has long since become familiar to the lovers of this species of literature, and with many " Wood Leighton" has become a favourite. As a portraiture of the inland scenery of still beautiful and still merry England it is singularly agreeable. We remember an American author has somewhere said that we who are now living are the true ancients—not the people of cen turies bygone. Hence may this country be called, with more reason now-a-days, than it was in the days of Elizabeth—" Merry Old England," for it is many a score ofyears older now than it was then, and, we trust, a very great deal wiser by experience. Merry Old England then let it continue to be called, and Merry Old England it is shown to be, by Mary Howitt, in her story of " Wood Leighton ; or, a "Year in the Country." In the very commencement of " Pickwick," Charles Dickens described the a - pect of the good old city of Rochester, and he judi ciously selected that spot for description at the outset of his career in authorship, because, we believe, the good old city of Rochester was his birthplace, or, at the least, was a locality intimately blended with the associations of his boyhood. Mary Howitt, doubt less, selected " Wood Leighton " from a somewhat similar motive, for around the place which is depicted under the soubriquet of " Wood Leighton," are en twined most of her childish recollections. With the exception of a little over-colouring and exaggeration, as for example in the delineation of the house, or rather palace of the Nabob General Dubois, the tale is clever and natural: COWPER'S WORKS. _Vol. I. Edited by the .Rev , 7'. S. Grimshawe. .The superiority of these collected writings of William Cowper, both in prose and poetry, over the collection formerly published, has been admirably and significantly expressed by the avidity with which the previous edition was purchased. We are especi ally gratified, therefore, that the intelligent editor has again undertaken the revision of the work in a cheap and popular edition of this character. We are no idolators of the genius of William Cowper; we con fess our incapacity, indeed, to recognise any genius whatever in his poetical compositions ; but we reve rence the name of William Cowper notwithstanding ; we see in him a pure and lofty, and richly cultivated intellect—an exquisite and almost feminine sensibility —a good and enthusiastic Christian. His verses, moreover, though tame and wearisome to us, are the limpid outpourings of an unblemished heart ; they are occasionally adorned with the graces of a felicitous diction, and are invariably inculcations of a sound morality. Besides this, Cowper has the in d isputable credit of having ushered in a new and healthy school in metrical literature. As he himself exclaims— " Give me the line that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan, conquering the stream by force; That, like some cottage beauty, strikes the heart, Quite unindebted to the tricks of art. When Labour and when Dulness, club in hand, Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand, Beating alternately, in measured time, The clockwork tintinnabulum of rhyme, Exact and regular the sounds will be ; But such mere quarter strokes are not for me!" It is solely as an epistolary writer that Cowper is to us delightful reading. His letters are scarcely surpassed by the most elegant and accomplished correspondents in the language ; and in this department Cowper may be classed with his brother bard Gray, with Lord Chesterfield, and even with Horace Walpole. Speak ing of the letters of Cowper, it was observed by Robert Hall that "to an air of inimitable grace and carelessness, they unite a high degree of correctness, such as could result only from the clearest intellect, combined with the most finished taste." More than two hundred of these admirable letters are comprised in this edition than were originally contained in the celebrated life by Hayley. On this account, therefore, as well as on account of its extraordinary cheapness and extreme elegance, the present issue must command a large circulation. HISTORY OF EUROPE. Vol. V. By Archibald Alison. Clearness and animation are acknowledged to be the prevailing characteristics of Mr. Alison's history. At this particular point in the narrative, those quali ties are more than ever requisite, and happily, too, they are more than ever perceptible. Perhaps the sublimest spectacle witnessed in the last seven centuries was that of the youthful and beleagured republic of France rising proudly and predominantly through the dark ness of its internal anarchy, and its external strifes— led on from victory to victory, over the greatest gene rals of Christendom, under the banners of a youth, who scarcely a dozen months before had been sub sisting on the charities of his comrade Junot in one of the most miserable bye streets of Paris. The fifth volume contains the account of the immortal campaign of Italy in 179 G, when General Bonaparte at once rose from obscurity into a renown that floated over Europe, over the ocean, to the most remote regions of America and Polynesia. MURRAY'S HOME and COLONIAL LIBRARY. No. XLY. Sketches of German Life. Part 11. The conclusion of these scrambling and confused sketches, is as miserably imbued with prejudice as the commencement. Sir Alexander Duff Gordon has transferred the original by Varnhagen Von Ense into agreeable English ; but in doing so, he has pre sented to England a partizan writer—a being with whom few can have sympathy. A history written by a partizan is nothing better than the die of a medal lion ; it furnishes materials from which future nar rators may compile more valuable and enduring works. Among such materials must be classed these - sketches of what is called the war of Liberation in Germany. TIM CHRISTIAN IN PALESTINE. Part XII. _ It were impossible to exaggerate the interest with which this periodical inspires in us on each successive appear ance. Mr. W. IL Bartlett has selected the different scenes in the Holy Land, with the discrimination of an artist and the precautions of a poet influenced by the genius of Christianity. He has here pourtrayed the " Pool of Hezekiah," a pool as mystic in its solitary limpidity as in its biblical associations ; a " Well at Nazareth," that most reverent village ; the interior of the magnificent "Greek Church at Bethlehem," a spot sanctified as the region of the Nativity ; and a view of " Ramleh," look ing towards the indistinct hills of Judea. Every care is evidently taken to render this publication as little un worthy of its theme as possible. GLOUCESTER AND STONEHOUSE JUNG TION. ----- - The Committee on this :group assembled this morning at twelve ; the Earl of Lincoln in the chair, when they took the line from Stonehouse to Gloucester, upon which Mr. HILDTAiLD was retained. He said that this was an undertaking of the very greatest importance, as it was the only means of connecting the port of Bristol with the system of narrow gauge lines of from 800 to 1,000 miles in length. There was now a power in the possession of the company to lay down a narrow gauge line between Stonehouse and Gloucester, and then to lay down a narrow gauge line concurrently with the broad guage line between Stonehouse and Bristol. For this purpose a line had been laid out in 1843, but the Act contained a clause that the company should not interfere with the broad gauge line between the two points for which this Bill was sought. The Earl of LuccoLN thought that this Act had better be produced, in order that the Committee might clearly under stand its provisions. GROU XIX. This Committee m e t to-day P at twelve o'clock; Mr. Den nistoun in the chair, all the other Members present. OXFORD, BANBURY, AND COVENTRY (COVENTRY AND SOUTHABIC BRANCH.) On the assembling of the parties the opposition against this Bill was resumed. Mr. R.'Adams gave general evidence against the proposed branch. Mr. Robert Stephenson, C.E., was examined at some length against the proposed scheme as unnecessary, and that the district in question would be better supplied by the London and North- Western Company. GROUP XX. This Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. Goulburn 'n the chair. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER. HAMPTON (CHELTENHAM and EVESHAM LINE). The general evidence in favour of this line having been closed, Mr. Brunel described the engineering features of the line. The gradients, he said were easy, and the works could be easily constructed. The junctions were well effected and the line would prove of great public utility. G ROUP XXII. The Committee met this day at one o'clock; Mr. Drum mond in the chair. NEWPORT, HEREFORD, AND anzzaa- VENNY (EXTENSION TO TAFF VALE). Mr. MERRZWEATITER applied to be heard on the bringing up of the Railway Commissioners' report. Mr. BOLTON objected to his so doing. It was understood that the case had already closed. The Committee decided that counsel could not be heard, and came to a resolution to pass the preamble of the Bill. The clauses of the Bill were then agreed to. GLOUCESTER AND HEREFORD. The Committee adjourned the hearing of this case until Monday week. GROUP XXVI. The Committee on this group met this morning at the usual hour in Room 12; Mr. Blackstone in the chair. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION. Mr. WORDSWOATII opened the case for the promoters of this line, which was eighteen miles long, and was projected to connect the North Staffordshire and South Staffordshire Railways. The Bill was an unopposed one, with the ex ception of a petition from Walsall, but he apprehended the Committee would be of opinion that the petitioners had no locus standi, inasmuch as the line did not go within two miles of them. Mr. Itastrick, civil engineer, was then examined, and de• posed to the gradients, tunnels, and other engineering works which would be required, none of which possessed any pecu liar difficulties. Mr. Turner, agent of Lord Bagot, was examined as to the nature of the traffic, for the conveyance of which the line would give great facilities. GROUP XXXIV. ROCHDALE CANAL PURCHASE, di.c. The Committee on this group met to-day, at twelve o'clock, in No. 6 Committee-room Mr. Baring in the chair. The Committee, however, immediOtely adjourned until half past one o'clock to-morrow, in order that some pro ceedings with respect to the above-mentioned. Bill might be completed, and the favourable decision of the Committee on the Bill reported to the House. GROUP XXXV. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning; the Marquis of Granby in the chair. NAST MAXOCASHIRE (CIATNEROE, MIT TON, AND PADIHAM). The whole of the day was occupied with general and engi neering evidence in favour of this scheme, which is opposed by the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Com pany. GROUP XXXIX. This Committee met as usual this morning, in Room 23; Lord Charles Wellesley , in the chair. YOR.H. AND NEWCASTLE (HARTLEPOOL DOM/. AND RAILWAY PURCHASE). The Committee were engaged the whole of the day in hearing evidence in favour of this Bill. GROUP XLVIII. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Lord Courte nay in the chair. GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND MONIELANDS (COWLAIRS AND CENTRAL TUNCTION BRANCHES). The case on behalf of this Bill was resumed. Mr. Paterson, mineral lessee, near Glasgow, gave general evidence as to the advantages of the central junction in bringing the minerals of the Monkland and Coatbridge dis tricts down to the harbour of Glasgow. Mr. Christie corroborated the previous witness. GROUP XLIX. The Committee on this group, Mr. Cripps (chairman), met this morning, at twelve o'clock. and proceeded to take the EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW (LEASES). Mr. BIGGS ANDREWS, Q. C., explained the object of the promoters. The promoters sought to obtain powers to lease b t he urg G h l a a s n g d o ß w a , t A h i g r a d t r e i e l , i a n n e, d vi D , c n h k 1 1,, a ,i n t d h s t R h e a i A I w i ' r a d y r • a a n n d d t ß h a e t E h g d a i n te (the central of the three lines, and the only one at present in their own hands) formed a continuous and almost direct line from Glasgow to Edinburgh, a little south of the present Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. They sought the powers as a matter of safety to themselves, as a benefit to the general public, and also because it met with the appro bation of the parties interested in these local lines, and the proprietors and influential residents upon them. GROP LI. The Chairm an (Si r J . Y. Bu U ller), and the other members of the Committee met at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of considering and arranging the clauses of TIM C.A.I.MIOIMELAT (CA.PCONXIXE, 0.0.. BEILIVC/I). Mr. COCKBURN, for the Caledonian Railway Company, brought forward a clause making it binding on the pro moters to allow the Glasgow and Dumfries Railway to run their traffic free over that part of their opponents line, from Springfield to Carlisle, and in the event of any unnecessary obstruction being offered, it should be in the power of the Railway Commissioners to make such regulations as should remove such unnecessary obstruction. Mr. AUSTIN objected that the carriages should not go free, and also that this clause, as at present framed, would give the promoters power to throw every sort of impediment in the way of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway traffic. The room was ordered to be cleared, and on parties being re-admitted, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had agreed to accept Mr. Cockburn's clause, with certain amendments. The clause, as p asse d , furnished the Railway Commissioners with power to interfere between the Caledonian and Glasgow and Dumfries Companies in a representation from one or botifof them, provided always that no limit, or alteration, or restriction, should be placed on the rates or tolls of the Caledonian Company, as granted by their Act of 1845; and further, that the engines of the Dumfries Company should not be permitted to pass over or along the Caledonian line. The other clauses were passed, and the Chairman was ordered to report the Bill (as we understood) on Tuesday. COMMITTEE on PRIVATE BILLS (THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL WATERWORKS. The Committee assembled this morning at twelve o'clock Sir J. Johnstone in the c h a i r , w h en t h e Committee declared the preamble of the Bill to be proved; and they then went through the clauses, which were agreed to with a few amendments. AYR ROADS BILL. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room 38 ; Sir John Hamner it the chair. Immediately on the assembling of the Committee, the pre amble of the Bill was declared proved, there being no ap pearances on the petitions, and the clauses were agreed to. METROPOLITAN SEWAGE BILL. The clauses of this Bill were this morning arranged, and the Chairman instructed to report the Bill to the Ilouse. GREENOCK. Yesterday (Thursday) there was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Robert Steele ship-buildersl._.s town, one of the and Co., the eminent of this four new steamers that were to be built in the Clyde for the British and North American Steam Packet Company (Cu nard's line). This noble vessel is 1,826 tons, new measure ment, and is about two or three hundred tons larger than any other in the splendid fleet belonging to the same com pany. The length of keel and fore rake is 251 feet, and breadth of Dowal 38 (M.—North Britidli • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Again were there crowds assembled in the early part of the evening, anxiously awaiting the opening of the doors of her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday; again was there a terrific crush as soon as the doors were open; again was every part of the theatre crowded to suffocation within ten minutes after the doors were opened; again were large numbers, who were anxious to obtain admittance, disappointed, from the absolute impossibility of crowding any more persons into any part of the theatre, for which it was possible to hear a note of the voice of Jenny Lind. She repeated the character of Amina on Saturday, and excited, if possible, even greater enthusiasm, than she did on Monday. Voltaire says, that to write a critique on Racine, it is only necessary to write at the bottom of each page—beautiful, exquisite, perfect ! So with regard to the Amine of Jenny Lind, we can only say it is beautiful, exquisite, perfect ! to say less would be injustice, to say more would be impossible. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom ranied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the per formance with their presence. The royal suite comprised the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Augusta Bruce, Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark, Sir Edward Codrington, Lieut.- Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and the Hon. Capt. Gordon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince George and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and at tended by the Earl and Countess Howe, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ormonde, Hon. Miss Hudson, and Captain Somerset, occupied her own box. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. E. St. John Mildmay were also present. Amongst the general company were—The Prinee Louis Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde. the Marquis of Huntley, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Donegal, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl and Countess Bruce, the Earl Ducie, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelborne, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Pembroke, the Earl of Euston, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Granville, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount Lascelles, Viscount Somerton, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady E. Bruce, Lord B. F. Howard, Lord Forester,Lord Saltoun, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord Macdonald, Lord Sandys, Lord C. Bruce, Lord F o l ey and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord 0. Fitz gerald, Lord Dunkilling, Lord Gardner, Lady Foulis, la r il . d, and Baron Lady Lady Grosven or , L ady Palmer, the Right Honoura b le the Lord M ayor, Lady, and the Misses Carroll; Baron L. R o th sc hil d, Baron and Baroness Roths cCount De Barke, Count 0. Revel, Honourable S. Lyttelten, m C. Sandford Lord G. d, Lady A.Wood, Fitzgerald oo d , Lord Lady R c d Town ley, Sir W. an d Lady Fremantle, Sir G. Wombwell, Sir T. Hare, Sir J. Lowther, Sir A. Woodford, Sir A. Barnard, Lady, and the Misses Barnard ; Sir J. Campbell, Lady Tyrwhitt, lion. Mrs. S. Herbert, the Hon. D. Darner, Colonel 'l'. Wood, Johnstone,l 11.v.Massey iass M.P., Lady Menx, Capt. the Hon. C. Forester, M. C. Le Lyon, Mr. B. Trelawny, Koudriaffsky, General Upton, Captain Wildman, Major Buckley, Captain and the }lon. Mrs. Ryder Burton Captain 141 r. Packe, M.P., Mr. and 11Irs. Hubert De Burgh, Mr. Hurley, Mr. Shaw, Mr. W. Mrs., and Miss Burton, Captain W. Williams, Mrs. Montefiore, r. P. CR M .o r t Lawless, w r er Mrs. ss lion. Captain Foley, M. De Canofaine, M. De Kremer, Hon. Martin,LyMasdrt;:i Stanley, i n rea d yn : tu l , rs Phillips, Baldwin, i‘f ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT GARDEN. Donizetti's opera, Lucrezia Borgia, was produced for the first time at this theatre on Saturday evening. Grisi ap peared as Lucrezia; Alb on i as Orsini ; Mario as Gennaro; and Tamburini as Alf onso. The character of Lucrezia is one which Grisi has long since made her OWN. It is one of her greatest, if not her greatest character, and never did she act or sing more magnificently than she did on Saturday ; albeit, it was understood that she was suffering from the effects of illness. Mario, as Gennaro, was in excellent voice, and sang deliciously. The great feature of the evening, however, was the appearance of Alboni in the character of Orsini. She more than divided the applause with Grisi during the early portion of the opera, and when in the banquet scene in the last act she gave the far-famed drinking song, " 11 segreto per esser felice," her triumph was complete. Her rich deep contralto tones told with immense effect in this beautiful air—the audience listened in silent and breathless delight until the conclusion, and then there was a burst of hearty applause, loud and long-continued, accompanied by an universal call for its repetition. This call was, of course, complied with, and she was again called on to repeat the air, which she did with, if possible, increased effect. Alboni has made the part of Orsini. In this part she is far and away superior to any of her predecessors.. Tamburini, as the Duke, had little to do, kut o that little he did sues - 1 Lord Lor d G S e lo t :fl og i ne e . 1 Manners,d F , , o a r d Lt yha,Byron,dysLiGeorge raSouthampton,jdlylyoid.o.cdnrde. cei i , Cecilia Bathe, Milieu, DesathdDsYe, lent/ 7 . Ili, acting wee very -Ma in the ! scene J5l whic h 1 ,Laaddyy Carolineiary WLoeondn, Lennox, Lady I'a iMr. 1 Augusta he ordered Lucretia to administer the poison to Gennaro. Ti,. principle artistes were all called for at the conclusion of the opera. Her Majesty's box was occupied by Colonel and Mrs. B. Drummond, Honourable Miss Fitzroy Somerset and Lord Clarence Paget. There were present the Wurtemberg Minis ter, his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Woacester, the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, the Countess of Jersey and Lady ;;'. Villiers, Countess of Tan kerville, Earl of Sandwich, Count Einsiedel, Earl Granville, Viscount Gage, Viscountess Glentworth, Viscount and Vaughan and Lennox, Lord an Du a i n le d om Y b isc e, Viscountess Viscountess Falkland, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Temple town, Lord 13ridport, Lord Carington, Lord Archibald St. L ' ord Alexander ILounntn.lexLaHdvon.anl(tioA.,bieirts A vi la il u li r a , m Lorp o S u e le a t li t E V 'o ie rb ux es ' , To c ll o e l i o n n a e c l h e, Henry Lennox, Upton, lion. Colonel and Dins . i oh s n Fortescue, Fitzgibbon, , I. Dr ;% homoro C y h iidi i i c , : l e si s oi t rn er .vv , s.i ra L nE a d d d y wLaar b dc l iy a a c ni‘ fa di r o ka ,ea n advr e y L W a i l li l o e u 3 g '' hb l y i -, 013. li T on . . Sir Henry Webb, Sir Charles Kent, Sit Thomas Cullom R. 'Vivian, Sir Philip Broke, Si r W. Galva a G nl eo , Sir Wombwell, Sir Bellingham Grah am , Sir James y, Car sir micha rg e Sir W. Abdy, Thomas Baring, Esq., iv . r . Admiral and Mrs. Mitford, the Chevalier de Paiva, Li eut. . ' General Sir Loftus and Lady Otway - , Sir Clayton East, Hon. Mrs. Godsal, James Pattison, M.P., and Mrs. Pattison, Captain Hood, Catain Baillie, Captain de Bthe, Colonel Brownlow Kno x , l ion. iox, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Tabuncombe, E sq., Af. p., &c, THE DISSOLUTION.—The House of Commons will be adjourned next week fo r the \V hi e t m s i mmuunomethmi e)nieultrit:oerlleai:nitafh;elsle,oeanlanvdf,nt cannot after advancing several Bills throughociawirtobhstioleehlurrsesspheacilti: will meet again after a week's recess. It is not expected that symptoms of im- Commons by Members es, and u Already of-im patience h oaeeu p e t: vdiyee s en.bn e f a s ; s relpu i rv o caop n disroiseen c ti tbei a hltlx n lyi aerldif bethebte 71 b tree r rtd o l hdn u miiei g :nssh l teo: t illnlr t iev e ct lieeol a ssonot nu. se of desirous of cultivating the sessionaces of their constituents, and even at a period of the so early as this it is not easy to keep the House together. lion. Members, however, must be more calm, for we believe it will not be possible to dispense with their services sooner than the time we have have indicated.— Observer. SCOTCH MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION B ILLS .— A numerous meeting of Members of both Houses of Parlia ment connected with Scotland was held in the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday last, for the purpose of considering these Bills, his Grace the Duke of Montrose in the chair. After various Members had delivered their sentiments, tie meeting came unanimously to the conclusion that, Nal the strong expression of opinion against these measures in Scotland, the 13illai ought not to be priNeoded With this roae,siya. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAY 15.—We regret to state that the Lord- Lieutenant has been rapidly sinking since yesterday. This morning the following bulletins were issued " The Lord. Lieutenant's strength is much reduced since yesterday." " Two o'clock. " The illustrious patient does not feel restored from the prostration of strength under which he suffered during the night." " Four o'clock. " His Excellency is not worse than he was this morning." REPRESENTATION OF MARY LE BONE. - The following letter addressed by Admiral Sir Charles r to C. Mood, Xsq.; the vestry clerk of Mary lebone„ was read .the meeting of the Marylebone vestry. ou Saturday : " May 15, 1847. __" My dear Sir—Will you be so good as to present my compliments to the vestry, and say that it was my de termination to have attended to-day, and thank them for their kindness since I have been the representative of the borough of Marylebone, and to solicit their sup port at the next election—(Laughter)—but I am obliged to go to Portsmouth and hoist my flag. " C. Flood, Esq. " CHARLS NAPIER." BOSJESMAN'S, OR BUSH PEOPLE, FROM SOUTHERN ATRlCA.—lnteresting specimens of a most extraordinary race of human beings have been landed in our port, they are the Bojesmans, or Bush People, from the interior of South Africa, of which so much has been written by the Mission aries, and the few who have travelled to that far distant region. They are natives of the country bordering the Great Orange River, 1,200 or 1,400 miles from Cape Town. They exhibit almost as striking an absence of the intellectual or higher faculties as is observable in the scull of that mockery of humanity, the Baboon, while the preponderance of the animal is almost equally as great. In every respect they are calculated to excite the greatest astonishment, and to con firm with the full those " Tales of Travellers" which we have certainly been inclined to look upon with suspicion. We could scarcely hare credited that such a race could be in ex istence on the earth. That they are genuine no one can doubt, in proof of which we give the following extract from a Cape Town Paper of the 24th of December, which we have lust received :—" We understand th e brig , `F anny,' Captain fay Wh ee l er , which recently le f t Table a) for Liverpool, had on board an of kind of exportation, viz., two males and two females of the genuine Bushman species, they are in charge of a Mr. J. G. R. Bishop, who has been at consider able trouble and expense in procuring them from the interior. I They are authentic specimens of this diminutive and rapidly decreasing tribe of aborigines, found only in Southern Africa." —Liverpool Standard. ,AND THE . CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS A Sin? Su csw ._Letters were on Saturday re- MURDERED ET THE R re communicating the particulars of •---d from Launceston, cei•. •-c the .4.113ip Prima Donna, an d t r h s, e murder of the b • the crew. Alp sinking .. Tones, and his e Commander, Captain at Lowbock fo r wa ter and The vessel, it appears, has.,.. '-bart Town a nd England. rice, being bound from China to ”rima Donna's long In the latter part of Dece mber last the _ "le men) ar boat, containing fourteen Of the crew (All Ma th ._ ac rived at the port of Ball, in the Java seas—the stil t , cording to their statement, having foundered south of Java, and the captain and his officers had perished. Subsequently, when questioned more fully as to their fate, their statements differed so widely that no reasonable doubt cou ld b e enter tained but that they were Cruelly murdered and the ship pl u ndered and sunk. The whole of the crew have been placed under Arrest, and search is being made in the locality f where the ship is said to have been scuttl e d remains of the captain and officers. it WAS expecte d several w° l lll divulge the circumptpcos. TllO ;hip and cgr go at 8,0004 " Were Valpol NEW ZEALAND. The following is an extract from the letter of an officer who has come home in her Majesty's steam vessel Driver:— " Portsmouth, May 14. " We left New Zealand on the 28th of January, and have had a good passage of 107 days, considering the great distance and various climates to be passed through. We came by Cape Horn, and have the honour, I be lieve, of being the first steam-vessel which has circum navigated the globe. We stopped six days at Rio de Janeiro, and have a mail from Rio de la Plate; I do not know the particulars. " I arrive in better health than I had any reason ever to expect. The climate 'of New Zealand has been of essential service, not only to me, but to all our officers and crew. " The colony was gradually progressing towards im provement under the able and judicious management of Governor Grey. The natives were peaceably inclined. Heki and about 200 of his followers went to the Bay of Islands to remove the bones of their forefathers, or those of some old heathen chief; but the Governor had his eye on him, and to Heki's astonishment he found her Majestys steam- vessel Driver, with the Governor and 200 men, waiting for him. As Governor Grey most pro perly did not visit Heki he went away with his fol lowers quite chopfallen. Rangahiti in the south was in the hills. " The natives in the neighbourhood of Auckland and Wellington were actively employed on the roads, and squaring stones for buildings, bridges, &c. A native police has been established, and is a most effective force; savings banks have been established, and the deposits, European and native, were considerable. The revenue had likewise been on the increase; in fact, the character of the natives in a few years will be quite changed. They supply both Auckland and Wellington with potatoes, onions, Indian corn fish, a n d p ou l try; a l so , fi rewood. The natives are asking for resident magistrates to live amongst them; they cheerfully submit to English laws in preference to their own. Several cases were lately tried at Auckland, and decided in their favour; this has given them the greatest confidence in the Governor. In another case, a native was fined twenty-five sovereigns for property removed from a coasting vessel. I have seen him pay down the cash. He was himself the owner of a small vessel. " In the district of Wakani, in Cook's Straits, the na tives have now large fields of wheat, Indian corn, pota toes, onions, and other vegetables, and pigs, which have been valued at 4,0001. Sheep farming was on the in crease about the Straits and Middle Island. Most ex cellent beef and mutton was to be purchased at Welling ton at 6d. per lb. _ _ " I regret to say that Governor Grey had been un well, be was suffering from something like ague or the hay fever; and the spear wound in his thigh was occa sionally painful. He was, however, able (with his lady) to go on board her Majesty's' ship Driver, and pay her captain and officers a farewell visit, previous to their de parture for England. " The Inflexible steamer arrived at Auckland on the 25th of January, she had touched the ground in Sydney harbour, and damaged her forefoot. The Castor frigate was at Auckland; the Calliope and Racehorse at Wel lington and Cook's Straits. Rauparaha, the celebrated chief of Porirua, was still a prisoner on board her Ma jesty's ship Calliop e . I t was rumoured that he would be liberated, as no direct charge could be brought against him; should he be liberated, it will be on con dition that he,gives up all claim to Middle Island, and that some of the neighbouring chiefs will be responsible for his future conduct." ___„.„..,..i,1' "--4sf-1 ..',/ 1... , :- - i (*). .. •-,':' we -.-44, , . .. . rz ; -.; i. 4 i . . PARIS ACADEMY si',SeitNlC .i . '' j 10 SITTINGS OF M AY 5 'P.. ,"- 1:1' . ' The Academy did not meet for b . pskAta on the 3d, in consequence of the ann - h.,r the united academies having been fixed t de'. The sitting was therefore postponed to the sth. On the 10th, the academy met in the usual way. We subjoin a re• port of the most interesting proceedings of the two sit tings :___ A report was made by M. Poncelet on a paper by M. de la Gournerie, an engineer, respecting a sub-marine boat employed last year in the harbour of Croisic, for the removal of some rocks which obstructed the entrance. We do not, however, find in the account anything new, except as to the m o difi ca ti ons rendered necessary for the peculiar perpose to which the boat was to be applied. The means of re ma i ning under water in a boat supplied by air from above, were known nearly half a century ago, and many of our readers may remember the account given by the notorious John s t one , th e smuggler, of the submarine boat in which he proposed to remove the Emperor Napoleon from hi s captivity at St. Helena. been m uc h i mprovement upon ration, and th e submarine ap a e rs to have been on a nearly s imilar plan. The real pjaorhant There sut so h n a o h as ef s n c o s os w itse e imc believe , oafp poep improvement in submarine navi gation is the discovery announced about two years ago, by which persons may, by means of a chemic a l process, which restores t o v i t i ate d a i r its vital properties, r ema i n under water sever a l h ours without receiving a fresh sup ply of atmospheric air. M. Arago gave an account of some improvements made by M. belvigne on the apparatus employed by Captain Manby for saving shipwrecked persons, by conveying to them a cable tired from a gun or mortar. The improvement consists in a greater degree of cer tainty as to the arrival of the cable, and the impossibi lity of inflicting any injury on the persons for whose re lief it is meant. M. Delvigne in his experiments has been able to cover a range of 385 metres, but he hopes with a Paixhans gun to obtain a range of at least 100 metres more. A report was made of a break ;for railway carriages, invented by M. L a i gne l, an d almost generally adopted in Belgium, where it is said to have rendered im portant service, but which, in spite of all exertions of the inventor, has been tried by only one rail road company in France. The committee of the academy charged to examine the system, and report upon it express great approbation, and as a proof unanimously recommend that, a prize of 2,500 f. shall be awarded to M. Laignel. We hope this report will have the effect of inducing some of our railroad companies to make a fair trial of the break; but we are still of opinion, until a permanent commission shall be established, with funds to pay for experiments, and power to compel the use of improvements when their utility shall have been proved, nothing, in the interest of the public will be done. The immense number of vain things submitted to the companies is made an excuse for confounding good with bad, and the frequent sacrifice of human life seems to have little effect towards the &clop• tion of plans which, in the opinion of practical men, would diminish the danger that attends the existing modes. A paper was received by M. Dolfus, on the injurious effect upon health from the stagnant water in the pools, occasioned by the excavations along the lines of railroad, for the purpose of using the removed earth for embank ments. Some of the facts stated in this paper are pain fully interesting. In the commune of Bollivelu, on the Strasburgh and Bale Railroad, where there are several of these pools, the number of cases of malaria has in. creased to a frightful extent. Ia 1842, before these pools were made, the number of cases of marsh fever was only 36. In 1844 it was 160. In 1845 the plants charac teristic of stagnant water havingincreased the number was 743, and in 1846 it was 1166, and this, too, in a popula tion of only 1446 inhabitants. The mortality also has been greatly augmented. The average number of deaths per year, from 1836 to 1845, was only 36, although a fter lB44 the evil had a l rea dy b egun to pronounce itself in a striking way, but in 1846 the number of deaths was 54. In the small commune of Feldkirch the number of cases of fever in 1843 was 2 ; in 1344, 20 ; in 1845, 135 ; and in 1846, 376. It is astonishing that in a country where science has made such strides, the natural result of these excavations was not foreseen. M. Lallemande made a favourable report on a paper by M. Pujeade, recommending the use of medicinal springs during the whole of the year, instead of con , - fining it to seasons, as is now done. M. Barrol sent in a paper showing the comparative advantages and disad vantages of the two modes of gilding —viz., the old process by mercury, and the electrochemical. For solidity be gives the preference to the former, but for safety, where the article gilded is one for domestic use, and comes into contact with acid, he prefers the latter. ANECDOTES OF SIR W. SCOTT. (From Hogg's Weekly Instructor.) He used to relish Creech's stories prodigiously. have seen him in convulsions of laughter at a ludicrous anecdote told by the bookseller of a country woman, who, one market day, came into his shop (then in the Luckenbooths) with a basket of butter on her arm, which having deposited on the counter, to the imminent peril of some of his most splendid " wire -Wove, hotpressed " volumes, she asked him for " tippence worth o' creash." Utterly at a loss fo r th e woman ' s mean ing, he replied that he sold nothing but books and stationary—articles totally out of her way ; and very naturally concluded that she was wrong in the upper storey, civilly requested her to quit the shop, which was much more easy in theory than practice ; for she insisted on being served, while he insisted that he sold no such article. " What for div ye tell lees then?" demanded she, stretching her neck out at the shop door, and pointing with one finger to the large golden letters on the sign-board—" What for div ye pit double 'oo creash over your door to cheat folk then?" It is scarcely necessary to add, that the honest woman, whose education had unquestionably not been first-rate, had mistaken the name on the signboard—" W. Creech"— for the article she demanded, which was wool grease for the purpose of spinning. When the mirth and laughter at this drollery had somewhat subdued, the conversation for a few minutes turned on the impositions of horse-dealers, Scott (who had a ready rebound for every story) said—" Well, that reminds me of an anecdote quite characteristic of the fraternity, I once heard from a friend, who happened to meet with two horse-coupers at a public-house. My friend loved everything which marked a character strongly, and had purposely placed himself where he could hear without being seen, and listen to a bargain about a mare which one of these worthies wanted to sell to his companion, whom he filled mortal fou, while he contrived to keep himself comparatively sober. At last, after sitting tilt a late hour, the bargain was concluded, the money paid, and bill and their horses called for, each having to ride in a different direction to their respective places of abode ; but before mounting, the one who had sold the " meare" turned round suddenly, and told his companion that, though she was a guid beast, she had twa faults—" In the first place, man ," sa id he, " she ' s unco ill to catch," " Ou, man, that's naething to speak o', " stammered his friend ; " but what's the tither faut?" " Wait a wee," was the reply, " till I ha'e my fit in the stirrup (making sundry hopeless efforts to seat himself in the saddle). Whist, 1400, dinna hurry me— hurry nae man's cattle," clapping his hand on the pocket of his " smalls," to make sure that the Biller was safe. " Toot, toot, man," impatiently exclaimed he who had bought the beast, " yer unco lang coming out wi' the tither faut—oot wi' it ; ye telt me she was ill to catch." " I did so," was the reply, " and noo I tell ye she's no worth a single boddle when ye've gotten her!" Clap ping spurs to his steed, he was off like a shot. 2: THE MURDERS At MIRFIELD. APPREHENSION OF ANOTHER OF TIIE SUPPOSED MUR DERERS.—HUDDEIISFIELD, FRIDAY.—The murders of Mr. Wraith, his wife, and servant girl, at the village of Mirfield, which are almost unequalled in England's calendar of crime for atrocity and cruelty, have produced the most thrilling sensation throughout the county. The unfortunate creatures sacrificed were (excepting the servant girl) between seventy and eighty years of age. They were much respected, being quiet inoffensive people. The house which they inhabited, and where the horrid crime was perpetrated, stands in a somewhat secluded spot, about one hundred and fifty yards from the public road, and no other building near for some two hundred yards. Mr. Wraith is known to have possessed a considerable sum of money in the house, which cannot now be found, leaving no doubt that plunder was the object of the murderers, for it is pretty evident that more than one was engaged in the bloody affair. The hor rible appearance of the sufferers can never be effaced from the memory of those who saw them. The skull of each was beaten to pieces, the jaws driven in, throats cut, the arms of the two females fractured, and the fingers broken to pieces, as if the arms and hands had in vain been raised to protect the head from the fearful blows of the inhuman wretches. The sight was most horrifying. In places where the bodies lay were pools of blood, in which the teeth and brains of the deceased were lying. Amongst the first to enter the house after the discovery of the murder was Mr. Kennel, the land lord of the King's Head, at Mirtield, who states the drawers and boxes in the house were open and had been ransacked, and the blinds had been drawn down and pinned together, to prevent persons looking in. The mother of the poor servant girl, Caroline Ellis, on hearing of thei r s h oc ki ng f ate swooned, and died the following day. On Friday, Mr. Superintendent Green apprehended an Irishman named Patrick Reid,:who was:seen, in company with M'Cabe (already in custody), near the house at the time the murder must have been going on. Marks of blood were found on his clothes, and the police are in possession of circumstances which will in a great measure be the means of unravelling the mystery that at present exists. Both the prisoners are imprisoned at Dewsbury Lock-up, in charge of four police constables. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The great claims which Mr. Wallace has upon the public will, this evening, meet theii ample reward, for there can be no question of his benefit being an overflow—his own beautiful opera of Maritana, and t he aid of all the principal artistes in London, being called into requisition on this very interesting occasion. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—R'ING'S ROOMS, SOUTH SEA.—THE BACHELORS' BALL.—This reunion, which had been looked forward to with so much eagerness, came off in great style this evening. The rooms, which are of large dimensions, were on this occasion increased by the colon nades being enclosed and made to form a supper room, at once elegant and commodious. By a little after ten nearly all the Rite of Portsmouth and its vicinity were assembled, and dancing was kept up with great spirit till nearly four in the morning, a fact that tells " trumpet-tongued" how much the assembled parties appreciated the happy though fleeting moments. Fiske, of Southampton, furnished the refresh.. ments, which consisted of the usual delicacies, and the band of the 43d Regiment was in attendance during the whole of the night, and gave the highest satisfaction, their melodious and inspiring strains giving additional grace and agility to the danseurs. We hope ere long to see in the same place a similar assemblage of rank and beauty. A report has been circulated that the Portsmouth Theatre was to be purchased by Government, for the purpose of being pulled down, in order to enlarge the Cambridge Barracks; and a weekly paper asserts that the theatre was sold by auction on Wed nesday last, but no such circumstance took place. The theatre is not likely, at least at present, either to be taken down or sold. We understand that the Commissioners of Customs have at present under their consideration some rather exten sive alterations in that department of the public service, with a view to giving greater facilities to trade. It is said that one of the first changes will be the earlier attendance of such in door officers and clerks as at present attend from ten to four, summer and winter; while the officers connected with the outdoor appartments attend from eight to four in summer and from nine to four in winter (viz., from Ist Nov. to Ist March). An addition to these hours was contemplated, but is said to be abandoned, as were such carried into effect, the time that would necessarily be required in the middle of the day for dinner would so much interfere with business, par ticularly on the silk or examination floors, where all the fancy and high-duty goods are cleared, it hasbeen considered that the facilities for passing entries, reporting and clearing ships, two hours earlier than at present will meet the views of those of the public more particularly interested—viz., the wharfingers, who represent the mercantile community upon the present occasion. This willprevent an addition to the bur dens of the country by an allowance to any more officers than FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF ARGYLE -- are necessarily required (for extra attendance); besides, the present high prices of all descriptions of human food mast On Tuesday the remains of the late Duke of Argyle were conveyed from Inverary Castle and deposited in the family preclude the possibility of the labouring classes from pur chasing sustenance requisite to enable them to bear up under of vaultp people 0 of f l a K t oh i 1 a m pda u y n ta .. a ,stheoveme Early lnto i n lmoi ocat mark the Inverary,morningo pe largeboe u lt mpt bbel ayi rgctdel'hnen c ifa T dunire heN s , i ae. the extra fatigue lengthened hours would entail uponthem. k A. 31 , the coffin containing Few persons unacquainted with the lock or wharf andquy work can form the slightest s t n ed rro D o n u d k e e wd w h as bicyh b t . r nt o he u ne g eh h wpi t rea o oefi u tm a sno o sgu f i,orn t n h e e fros c:s t t he l g doe e r l e a large offered labour which the poor ill-clad,. half-fed classes who are i" 5 to th employed have to endure—a visit to that great butter..nmart , n ladies g h e b o la o u w f ri n t n h g e g h en ou try seh . olpd,raaynedrs were an Mr d . w Sm ai i k th ed , o d f o l w n n ver t a o ry h , e aft st e ea r m -boats i a B rewer's butter-l a den Quay, . hLioaper,e willT T h ames - street , convince a - on ic s ne t; aneyt,waod away the e r w :ir tohw e slavery unfeeling obduratel aui in the dense concourse of people, most of whom were dreassrsdedtihnin: Westhis fee li n f a ma y e, leftuntouched a the subject of white .irrnhge. steamersT he proc p es o s l i p o h n i n,cra. amounted sh t o cas about tle, Indies, we have slavery at home.—Herald. d di e v e fiu m a o l urn s. FATAL AcCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday Dunrobin Castle, were chartered to convey i the funeral com (Sunday) afternoon, at half-past two, the following fatal pally to the place of sepulture. The coffin was taken on and melancholy accident occurred at Battersea :—Two gen tlemen, one named Meeson (a member of the Thetis Club), board the Dophin, and deposited in the after part of the and a friend of his named Bownes, took the club wherry, and cabin where it lay in state surrounded by the distinguished started in it from Lambeth on their way to Putney. There relatives of the deceased and a body of Highlanders. The was a strong wind from the west, and the swell was very vessels In Inverary harbour had their colours half-mast high, heavy on " shooting" Battersea-bridge; the surf was very and the various vessels which met the steamers in their course . high, and their boat, light and uncovered, dipped three to Kihnun, also lowered their colours as they passed. The times in succession, filled, and upset. Mr. Meeson clung steamers proceeded through the Kyles of Bute with a fair to the stern, and Mr. Bownes also gained firm hold, but passage, and arrived in the Holy Loch a few minutes before feeling confidence in his powers as a swimmer, and anxious two o'clock, where a large assemblage of people, amounting to secure a safer position for his friend, he bid him " hold fast," and struck out for the shore, which most unhappily to about 2,000 from Glasgow and the surre f uTding te crn ea ri, were in waiting to witness the la a s t tti .freanntaond departe d was Breat he never reached. Mr. Meeson maintained his hold for ten ness. The forenoon of the day g ra ined without intermission minutes, and was eventually picked up by Hawkins, the very unpropitious, captain of the Citizen, passing at ,the time, who conveyed him to the White Hart, Chelsea, where prompt assistance gers was not n wz ore ; t and i i t t w had o h c w o a n v d s i e n g v en ra e t b ly een the concourse the morningoetrimo.f. favourable. By the time the funeral was afforded him. Some idea of the roughness of the reach for several hour: procession day had disembarked. the weather had cleared up, and may be gathered from the fact that in a race between three re m ; four-oared boats, two while contesting filled and sunk; the mist began to roll upwards from the hills, and the loss of life, however, ensued. a ft ern oon turned out agreeable and pleasant ; every eminence Corrunna, the landi ean n o g fd o Ab f regg t y h a e lne fbtuoenimnergoavleehtrtieaofi:m,. About twenty minutes respectably dressed people, anxiously awaiting DEPARTURE OF THE FOR.EIGN MAILS.—The r ? s i t : o a rd lon e g rly th an e d lin res e p of procession wa a s rodu o srn ec teh u r p e. ied by crowds of lowing notice was issued on Saturday at Voffiigeoe,,OSpot.rtMo, Martin's - , le iGardaenirad:Tvzl TLlTsbmona,ilsCafdoriz, and Gib- past two o'clock the procession was arrangeednHuraocvnhin,tgbhiesrepGaiecrrhaec4 a t h p e a c n o coffin impressive having b been de si t rafter, will be made up t Ki he im D an ui (this morning), Neat packet due, . by the Iberia steamer. The the burial vault, situated behind the church of Rilmun, and the 17th T e s i t a . Southampton). . . h and foreign colonies in the mails for Madeira, the Brit's to be forwardeddeday tinheereMiaedgri, ed ► th R D ' 9 fervent prayer. Immediately after , e ev. r. M Leal offered and asmal i p t ar e ty llu of ke t „ he L ir ad ir v ie E n m d za lef C t a t m he pbe gr ll o , u Mr nd s. in ßo t n h ar eir , West Indies (except Mexico,mu u p Venezuela, Bermuda, Hen d dur N asy car an ag d ua H a van Grenadesn a_h ) , the funeral h carriages and the company Chili, and Peru, will San ade jesn on t e he m i orning , of the 17th to be forwarded by the Thames Next packet due, on the 22d. • f „,,,, re-embarked on board the Dol.. steamerinstant ( fr t o h m is America, and the United Bermuda, British North . States, on phin, the Craignish Castle, and the Danrobin Castle, for , their several destinations.—North British Mail. Southampton. i a ln in gbe l;ton. evening of the 18th instant (to-morrow), to be conveyed they the Hibernia steamer via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. NUMEROUS ROBBERIES.—On Saturday information Next packet due, the Caledonia steamer, on the 30th inst. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, was received of the following robberies .—From Mr. lies- Ceylon India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the m • keth, in the Edgware-road, a purse, containing thirteen so- Thursday, the 20th inst., to be forwarded by the Rion 0111113 g o steamer, via Southampton. By the fortnightlyoverland vereigns ; from the office of the terminus of the railway, Brighton, the property of the Brighton Railway Company, Lilly-boy Sarah, ly ing off the Rose closed mail to the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, s4 the and Crown-stairs, Shad Thames, the property of 'William evening andseals ; from MT evening of the 24th instant, via Marseilles. Wake, a silver watch, No. 951, THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN THE silver spoons, quantity of tobacco, sugar, and clothes, be- CITY. —On Saturday 8 • the police as to the foreigner who, on Thursday, cut his a ome information was circulated b y longing to lodgers; ingo i Tavern,n-1 irtn d Goodfellow's, the Waterman's s, Lower Shadwell, several l fromd; fro M m r. the Howell's, Thatched the ITaad House a quantity of silver plate and Holborn, 6Ol. throat in Princes -street, in tll City nd has since been lying in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a ' dangerous state. It had eT. H. I. ; from Mr. Brown, of South ' been ascertained that his name is Halentine Legg, a nativeof amlinen, in a house in Leman's-pond, Southwark, 27 Bove. - "any. and that he had been only a few days in London. re igns, six 5L and four 101. Bank of England notes; and ,R n e , d m Li a o r n k - e s d treer, Holborn, Get.._ -c abode was not certainly known, but was believed f r om Mrs. Gullives, 51, Trafalgar -square, Walworth, 50 so- His 8 2. 1. , nd 10s. in silver, and a quantity of plate, marked p l ace ~,. -bbourhood of Holborn. He is described to be in the neig..... s ee feet eight inches in height, with aS. A. O." about 45 years of age,,.. l 'ag blue jacket. ., MILL STOPPAGE IN WAKEITELD.—We regret to light brown hair, and wore a u.-, e - si• provisi ons of stii --rn that the extensive worsted mill of Mr. Samuel Lee, A high price is deman d e d 1.- .... alb. househol d , "-- operations on Tuesday rhomae-laue, Wakefield, suspended be will thrown out of resent time. T he --- __,,„ • - b ee f ,t 200 hands l as t. We hen that about kinds in Stamford at loaf is 111., the p fine, 111—; and 10d per lb• • M abtl " " 1 61 41 ° Yaelati by "" - • 9d. • . 7d. and 7 fan acon,. __. . la mutton, 7d. and 8d• Pr 14. 4, $ ae ire per peeteandi VirOnidee vereign. =Spec D after Won Led otePPage -- - 0 " • i ig a A et- UI to , • to 0 , • 4,1 to --' to -- to —'" , Bar ebec' ), JO" ;•orrig , Iwo , ircr 3 00 ft aittO 3 !224 .eery► xi ion the lea ort ult