The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. LITERATURE POEMS, by SIR F. H. DOYLE, Bart. Saunders and Otley, London, 1840. Whatever may have been the case formerly, Nhen Grub-street was in all its glory, none can _ ll . o w say th a t p oetry i s a d esp i se d or pleheianvoca !,l°n• The po e t no l onger con fi nes hi ms elf, as in the days of Otway, Savage, and Chatterton, to the solitude of a back attic in some blind alley ; or creeps abroad with a lank, lean visage, and a coat out at th e e lb ows, wistfully sniffing up the fragrant odours of a cook-shop, or looking sharply about hire a t every t urn , l est some un i mag i native bailiff— fhat foe to genius!---might pounce upon him un awares ;—the poet is no longer, as a matter of Co urse, this neglected, destitute creature, but, quite as often as not, is a rich, well-connected per son, who versifies in a splendid study ; sports a coa s t of th e b est an d newest cut ; i s f am ili ar wi th th e sa lons of f as hi on ; h as a good account at his banker' s; an d can meet hi s ta il or i n t h e street with outl,, any nervous apprehension of consequences. ‘ v here once he was pitied, he is now envied. Where once h e starve d lik e L azarus , h e now f easts like Dives- He wears the Sergeant's coif, and the Peer's coro ne t ; affixes Bart. and ALP. to his name country ; i s now a beneficed clergyman, and now a gentleman of ancient descent. But of all strangech metamorphoses, who would ever have \\ r u ne(' of seeincr the poet transformed—Mr. b. ordsworth would say, degenerated—into a Ca in 'net Minister, and taking up his quarters in Down street ? Yet there he is, and evidently as ' m uch at h ome as h e onc e used to be in his Grub street, attic. Downing-street, indeed, may now al tlY be called a nest of nightingales—an aviary of tinging -birds—for all our Ministers are, or have be en, poet s . S o me men have talked, and others fo ught, but the Melbourne Administration have 'Zmanng, thei r wa y to p ro m o tion ! Lords J. Russell, c . or , - br, and IVlonteagle—glorious poetic trium rate !---Messrs. Sheil, Hobhouse, and Macaulay t . " - nay, the very Premier himself, have all been no 4°doug for their flirtation with the Muse. The v 4tt orney-General is the only Member of the Go trninent who has escaped the infection ; at least fully charg e o f perpetrating poesy has never been ti u llY Proved against him ; but we can hardly won der at this exception, for the habit of drawing 3 - rd e x- officio informations has generally been con -tereddetrimental to the exercise of the imagination. We supp o se it is the example of these illustrious th eir of D o wning street, combined with that of fashionable contemporaries, Scott and Byron , t w a t has set half the existing peerage and baronet agt chirpi ng lik e so many sky-larks. It was but t he other day that we noticed the poems of two small Z.ords and one Baronet ; and now we have to notice those of another Baronet, Sir Francis castingsi Doyle. And these last, seriously speak are 1.1":ehly creditable specimens of talent. t . h ey consist of original compositions, and transla tions from the Greek ; are polished with the utmost : fr r e , yet without betraying an appearance of ; are distinguished by an evenness and se lenity of tone ; and are flushed all over with the tempered lights of fancy. The author is 'evidently an ardent admirer of Coleridge and ,Wordswortli, on whom he has in some degree mo delled himself; and we trace in his " Comet" much of that eloquent mysticism, in which the former was so ar, to shroud his meaning. But from the study of Wordsworth he has derived nought unt good ; and it is not too much to say, that his Poems entitled the " Catholic," " Platonist," (` Manichean," and " Lady Agnes," are the legi timate development of certain thoughts arid senti ments suggested and glanced at in the Lyrical ellads." To show the calm, energetic power w ith which our author writes, we quote his `` Circassian War Song," which is as spirited a martial lyric as the present age can show. Though Russia, cheating, crushing, yet Her web of ruin twines, Along Caucasian hills, unset The star of Freedom shines. The Czar upon his marshy plains, Mu count and drill his men ; More must be done, before he gains The mountain lion's den. War is to him a science cold Of numbers and array — Enough of lead, enough of gold, Enough of food and pay ; As' if men's hearts that sink and swell, ~ ike wooden chessmen were ; As th e strength of central hell Could shake a brave despair. We'll teach this monarch of machines, What living souls can do, 'When noble ends, and noble means, Conspire to bring them through. Yes! when bi,ood-red the firinc , glares Throu g h fl o ods of smoke , and' thunder, When ever , ravecing echo tears The trembling crags in sunder ; When warlike pomp of fife and drum, At,'d columns clustering deep, Mer e rottenness and dust become, Against God's mo untain -steep ; The planuieg, marching, numbering Czar, Am ong his tools, may find That something else is strong in war,— vr , The Spirit of mankind. ne cannot say much for our author's transla tions fro m t h e G ret k , t h oug h f r om the pains he has taken tc render his versions as literal as possible, it ° Oil appea r that he piqued himself on their cor eetness- Our chief objection to them is, not that , th ey are t ame l y or i ne legantly versified , but that t e t l e Y are not faithful to the original. Those from o mer, in p ar ti c ular, are sadly lax and ineffec tive, t-tand iu some places give any thing but the poet's Zteaning- For instance, in the well-known dis p ute " w een Achilles anal Agamemnon, Sir Francis °Yle translates the words of reproach, " „ . ..'' 7.4 kg," by " abandoned wretch , " when th e y mean' , esa,' at m ost , " you ver y impudent fellow Ni E7 .32.0;,;;, " he renders by " ho nouring t`hy b'rother," whereas it should be, " seek ng retribu.'ion for thy brother." 1 4 Ev Toi 7g - Ca EXW yEiOCS, 07:1:07 ! AX2IOI 0:0(1 , F/0% 'T:7O XIEOVV, "1r autho r tiatisaces as follows : " And yet my ne'er equals thine, Whene'er the G'reeks destroy, And plunder of ti:`e wealth it holds, Some peop l e d town of Troy." The word " some" of th e or i g i nal text, co mpletely alters the sense which refers exclusively to the 4 snd not to any other g r eat tow n o f T ro y it s elf, in the possession of ti:e Trojans, as Sir F rancis Doyle, chiming in wiat the opinion of 'radars t r Dacier, supposes. The lite ral meanin g of pas s ace is, " I never have a reward equal to Y°ll---tkat is, to yours,—nor do I demand an equal 7-etvard" (the words here mar ked in Italics must be ~ -onsiaered a s understood, for Homer frequently ex presses hi mse)f in this elliptical manner) " when the n "'creeks shall have destroyed the well-inhabited, city Tr o y,," Aeain, "o Ex.rope avOppovoio' our ' a uthor i n terprei.s by " man-quelling Hector," in ttead of " man -slaying Hector," which is in ,' 1 . t -Itely stronger. We have urged these objections , a.e.„ i n no unfri en dly s pi r it to‘vaids Sir Francis Doyle, , wh °se poetic genius we cordially admire, but simply oecieuse we would desire to be not less frank in our strictures on, than we have been in our commenda ticnis of, his volume. We shall be glad to meet w ith him again ; but we think, in future, he will do veil to leave Horner t o Magian, whose specimens of translation, published some few yea rs since in " Fr aser ' s Ma.eaein e ," are the most faithful and spirited that have yet appeared in print. OBJECT lONS TO V O TERS.—We understand that th e overseers of Manchester have b een serve d with no less th an a thousand and tu, o objections to persons on the list of voters for the boroug h, being S 9 more than last fear, This applies to th e iconship of Manchester on l y , ;4 and we belive the numb er i n 'he other townships corn prigod within the borough is also great, but we cannot state the precise number. Numerous, however, as are the objections ja Manchester, they are exceeded in Salford, where we untlerstand the number for the Thole borough is something llke 2,000. The number of objecti‘:ns to county voters in th e townsip of M anc h ester i s also lavget bei n g 491, and 104 overseer7,' objections.-211anchester Guardian. GALLERY OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE.. An interesting converzatioAe took place at this institution, On Thursday night, the leading subject being the vibration of rtOlwLys, and its consequ,",nces. The subject was started by Mr. G. \V. Buck, engineer to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. This conversation led to a discus sion on the merits of the six-wheel railway carriage, and its greater security and power for swift travelling. Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. llawkshaw, Mr. Richard Roberts, Mr. Eaton lio(igiinson, and other scientific men took part in the conversv,icn. We understand that the institution 11,;ve it in contemplation to present a medal, cn which will be a bust of Watt, to th e ingenious man who furnished the beauti...'il specimens of carving, representing a partridge, a bunch or' grapes, and vine leaf. ":he exhibition has been well att. deg during the week, and tht: lucid explanation given t o th e v i A itors of the diff eren t objects ocf.'cience whi c h attract attention, cannot fail to create an inereatCl inter est in it......Monchester Times. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. On Saturday, at a meeting of the Proprietors of this Company, the following report having been read, was unanimously adopted : REPORT CF THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, TO THE TWELFTH HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OP PROPRIETORS AUGUST 29, 1840. The directors of this undertaking, at the twelfth hal l -yearly general meeting of its proprietors, report the following statement of the finances of the Company to the 30th of June, 1840 : CAPITAL ACCOUNT. RECEIPTS. On Calls £1,376,056 0 0 Do., Gosport Branch 140,940 0 0 Loan on Debenture Bonds Interest 0 7 -X2,150,609 9 7 PAYMENTS. Expenditure on raising the capital, procur ing Acts of Parlia ment, &c. Land and compensa tion, law charges for conveyancing, sur veying, and valuing 291,200 2 Works, comprising cuttings and em bankments, bridges, culverts stations, temporary buildings, fencing, draining, &c 1,114,605 5 Iron Rails, chairs, and sleepers ... 340,006 0 Waggons, implements, tools, and stores . 59,566 4 Engines and carriages, 140,325 16 Surveying and engi neering Salaries and wages, rent and taxes, print ing and stationary, postage, travelling, and other incidental expenses ......... Directors' expenses, from the commence- mint of the under taking Debenture,bond stamps and brokerage GOSPORT BRANCH. 5,350 0 0 Parliamentary and law expenses 4,829 2 3 Land and compensa tion, surveying and A A Cairn. 36,597 6 10 Surveying, and engi neering Interest on calls paid... 2 ; 083 15 3 Works in progress 86,643 7 10 Balance 9,579 16 4 X 2,130,609 REVENUE ACCOUNT. RECEIPTS. Balance of last account 1,071 3 11 Traffic from Ist Jan to 30th June 87,157 6 2 Pier Dues ......... 479 19 1 88,708 9 2 Less interest on deben ture bonds 11,715 9 10 9 7 £76,992 19 PAYMENTS. Maintenance of way £11,374 17 1 Locomotive p ower,viz. : Coke, oil, cotton waste, repairs of en gines and tenders, men's wages, repair ing and engine dri vers, and coke fillers; also salaries of su perintendents, &c. 1 ti,2511 18 8 Coaching and carrying, viz.:—Mileage du ty, clerk's salaries, guards and porters' wages, repairs of car riages, truck and horse boxes, clean ing and oiling car riages, printing and stationery, advertise ments, rates and taxes, insurance, an I other incidental ex pen sea Police 41,838 3 2 Balance £76,992 19 4 " The Directors in their last half yearfy report stated that • they had the strongest assurance that the future line from London to Southampton would be available to the public in May next.' They have now the satis faction of meeting the Proprietors, after having re deemed that engagement by opening the entire line to Southampton on the 11th of that month. In the re port which was presented to the Proprietors of this railway in August, 1837, and which was printed and circulated together with a statement of present and prospective traffic, it was shown that the then existing stage coach passenger traffic would produce at railway prices 1:23,824/. 2s. Bd. per annum. It has been usual in all cases to assume soma rate of increase, when the facilities afforded by a railroad shall have been developed, and in this case it was assumed that the traffic would be doubled. It was not, however, ex pected that this increase would take place all at once, but that it would be a gradual consequence of the comparative cheapness, quickness, and personal com fort of railway travelling. " This statement scarcely obtained credence with the public, and such of proprietors as took the trouble of investigating it rather hoped than relied on it 3 realiza tion. The experience of the last three months, how ever, fully justifies the estimate of passenger traffic. The Directors are aware that in quoting the three months from the 11th May (the day on which the rail way opened) thoroughout, to th e 10th August, they must be prepared for a considerable diminution of the receipts during the winter months ; but even making due allowance for that diminution, the result will show that the passenger traffic has at once come up to the Directors' estimate of double the amount of existing traffic, according to the report of August, 1837. " That statement showed an existing stage-coach pas senger traffic, which would, at railway prices produce, per annum £123,824 2 8 It assumed that this traffic would be 123,824 2 doubled And that the passengers then travel ling by post-horses would produce... 11,331 4 8 Making altogether per annum £269,979 ;0 0 " The passenger traffic for the first three months of the entire opening of the railway, namely, from the 1I th of May to the 10th of August, has produced 75,1401. 19s. 3d., and if an account were taken, of the traffic during the months of July and August, it would show that upwards of 1,0001. per diem had been re ceived, Sundays included. It must be borne in mind, that although a considerable proportion of the Ports mouth traffic goes now by way of Southampton, yet from the comparative difficulty of conveyance, which at present exists, and which will exist until the Gosport branch is opened, much of the Portsmouth traffic is still confined to the turnpike roads. " 'The advantages of Southampton as a steam-packet station are beginning to be appreciated. The facilities which steam-vessels will afford to passengers between Southampton and the south-western coast of England are also becoming apparent, and promise great results. " The traffic in goods up to the present time, bas fallen short of the estimated quantity, but the Direc tors entertain full confidence of a very large increase. All experience shows that time is necessary to the re moval of goods traffic from the previously existing modes of transport. The Directors believe that their present rate of charge for conveying goods is sufficiently low, when contemplated arrangements and regulations are matured, to secure to the railway the carrying of a large proportion of the goods which pass through the country. " The present large passenger traffic will necessarily lead to an increased outlay for additional carriages and engines. The operation of the land-tax upon undertak ings of this description, increasing in its amount in proportion to the improvement of the property, and thereby making the augmented value a ground for additional taxation, has induced the Directors to enter upon the redemption of this impost from one end of the line to the other, and although it will cost a considerable sum, it will, in reference to permanent current expenditure, be found consistent with the best economy. The Company have, unex pectedly, been called upon to build a bridge at Northam, near Southampton, which will cost, together with the expe n ses of litigation , a sum of 4,000/. ; a brid g e also at Swathling, which it is expedient to build in reference to the security of the public, will cost 1,5001. more. " These different items will, probably, amount to 22,0001., and is to be added to the deficiency of 70,000/. to 80,000/. which the Directors at the last half-yearly meeting represented as the sum which apparently would be wanted to complete the whole undertaking. " From this there is, however, to be deducted the amount of 23,5451., the profit made upon the sale of the reserved shares ; this still leaves a deficiency of 78,5001., an amount of deficiency not exceeding that which was stated at the last meeting. " The whole of the Gosport line and all the materials needful. for its capllcetoinotnr,acttoegdetfhore.r with e the h ositea of t n ti a le t Gosport, have within n,, a quantity which land also has been purcha: .d. cannot require a sam exceeding suv.. " The Directors, in this state of the Company so far advanced towards completion, and reduced by positive contracts to so narrow a compass, venture to express their confident belief that the sum of 70,000/. to -'‘ affairs, THE SUN, ,LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1840. 80,0001., as stated at the last half-yearly meeting, beyond the amount which the present Acts of Parlia ment empower the Company to raise, will be sufficient fully to complete the undertaking. " The traffic for the half-year ending 30th June, having yielded a profit of 35,154/. 16s. 2d., the Di rectors propose therewith to pay a dividend of one pound per share, which will require the sum of 35,124/. The proprietors will be aware that this profit arose upon the line only partially opened to Southampton, from Ist January to 11 th May, and upo❑ the entire line from the 11th May to 30th June, being fifty days. This dividend of one pound per share somewhat exceeds the rate of five per cent. per annum on the money actually received from the proprietors. The gross traffic for the six months from the Ist January to 30th June, was 87,157/. 6s. 2d., being 478/. 17s. Bd. per diem. The gross traffic for 58 days, from the 30th June to Thurs day last the 27th instant, was 59,484/. 15s. 4d., being 1,025/. 12s. per diem, which view of the Company's finances fully justified the prospect of a still greatly in creased future dividend." EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY ACCIDENT. On Saturday evening, at six o'clock, Mr. C. C. Lewis, tha Coroner ; Mr. John Sidey Cayley, the Foreman ; and Messrs. Taylor, Zurhorot, Moss, Mayhew, S. W. Brown, Phillips, Scott, Winter, Eagles, E. Wallis, Ben son, and B. Bacon, the Jury empanelled on the bodies of Mr. George Richard Ebsworth, William Austin, John Eastman, and George Foster, the four unfortunate persons who lost their lives by the recent appalling ca tastrophe, assembled, pursuant to adjournment from Wednesday last, at the White Hart inn, Brentwood, fur the purpose of signing the inquisition and verdict in the above cases. On the Coroner taking his seat, The Foreman called his attention and that of his brother Jurors, to the species of animadversion which the Eastern Counties Railway Company had cast upon them, in consequence of the verdict they bad come to in the conscientious discharge of their duty. All he could say about the matter was, that if it had not satisfied the Eastern Counties Railway Company it had the public. He had not met with an individual who had not consi dered it a proper verdict. A juror said he had heard that it was the intention of the Company not to pay a shilling of the deodand, but he hoped there was a way to compel them to do so. The line between Brentwood and Romford was not in a fit state to be opened to the public, and it was proper some notice should be taken of it ; but. a few days since two trains coming down the one line in opposite directions had nearly ran into one another, and if they had done so the loss of life must have been frightful. The result was that the London trains had to return, causing a delay of nearly two hours. Another juror inquired how many accidents happened on the line between Brentwood and Romford before the P •.esent• It was stated there had been twelv e or thir teen; terminating fatally, on the last four miles alone. A juror inquired what would become of the deodand in the event of its being paid. He had beard that C. T. Towers, Esq., the Lord of the Manor, and High Sheriff of the County, bad set up his right to it, and had inti mated his intention, should he be able to support it, to divide it amongst the widows of the sufferers, Austin, Eastman, and Foster. The Coroner remarked, that it would be his duty as Coroner to make a return of the deodand being :evied to the Crown, and it would, he believed, be found that Mr. Towers would have to make his claim there. The Coroner here proceeded to read the forms of the several inquisitions, which were signed by the jury, and the court was dissolved. From inquiries made, the reporter ascertained that Mr. Pearson, whose skull was fractured, and who was otherwise seriously injured, up to a late hour on Friday remained in a very dangerous state, so much so that it was deemed advisable to call in the aid of Mr. Bransby Cooper, of London, and who attended a consulta tion on Saturday with Drs. Butler, Richardson, and other eminent physicians, upon his case. The unfortunate gentleman resided at Bury St. Edmunds, and he is a stu dent attached to Guy's Hospital. Mr. Corbould, the son of Mr. Corbould, the eminent engraver, also remains at the Fleece Inn, in a very precarious position, from the fright ful scalds and burns he has received. Mr. Tozer, of Bishopsgate-street, who was lying at the White Hart Inn, was sufficiently recovered to be enabled to lease Brentwood on Saturday afternoon for his residence at Hackney, in an invalid carriage. Mr. Moss, who was confined at the Spread Eagle, in Gracechurch street, is reported to be much better. The carriages and broken engine still remain in the position in which they fell on running off the line, co vered with sailcloth, but a body of workmen will he employed on Monday to remove them. Mr. Towers, who is Lord of the Manor of South Weeld, in which the accident took place, founds his claim upon privileges granted to it by the Crown in the reign of Queen Mary, who is stated to have lived there for some period, making the manor.house her palace, and thereby making it a Royal demesne. It is understood to be the determination of the Rai way Company not to pay the deodand levied upon them, but., as in the case of the sinking of the Tyiian, to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. Table refer Stations ordered and the - - THE VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO THE GUILDHALL, ON THE DAY OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. That Prince Albert felt great regret at not being able to dine with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, after the reception which his Royal Highness met in the Guildhall, the following letter, which repeats the senti ments which we heard his Royal Highness deliver to the Lord Mayor in the Council-Chamber, strongly testi fies. His Lordship received the letter on the night of the day of the presentation of the freedom : Buckingham Palace, Aug. 28, 1840. My dear Lord,-1 have received the command of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to repeat to you the very great regret with which he felt himself compelled to decline your hospitality this day, and begs you to appreciate the true motives of delicacy, which he felt imperatively bound to yield to, and to give up what, under other circumstances, would have given him so much pleasure. As his Royal Highness had hoped once more, at that dinner, to have had an opportunity of expressing the gratification which he had derived from his visit to the City, he has commanded me to take this means of conveying it to you, and through you to others ; and his Royal Highness trusts that, at some future time, he may have that pleasure which he was this day obliged to forego.-1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord, your's very faithfully, GEO. ANSON. THE ARMY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Some days ago a paragraph appeared in The Sun, giving an account of the intended movements of certain Regiments of the Line ; I confess to you that the contents of that paragraph struck ma as so extraor diaary and improbable that 1 gave no credence to it ; I nevertheless made inquiries at the Horse Guards, and, to my astonishment —to my indignant astonishment, I find that your information is perfectly correct. Suffer me then now, Sir, to expose to the public, through your excellent Journal, one of the most outrageous acts of injustice that has ever been perpetrated, and to make this appear more plainly, I refer you to the two tables attached to the foot of this letter. You will perceive that the 42d, 79th, 88th, 97th, and 2d battalion of Rifles, are to proceed to the Mediterra nean, to relieve the 33d, 47th, 59th, 92d, and 2d batta lion of the 60th, which corps are ordered to the W'KST INDIES !!! Now, Sir, will you, or the public believe, that the former foreign stations of these five unfortu nate corps, was either in the EAsT or WEST INDIES 1! ! The 33d, 92d, and 2d battalion of 60th had each their ten or eleven years of West India service, and were, I believe, twice or thrice recruited both in officers and men, owing to the diseases of that dread lid climate. The two other corps, the 47th and 59th, had also each upwards of T WENTY YEARS' service in the Bengal Presidency, and returned to Europe with little else than the mere name of regiments. Let us now inquire into the former stationsf the corps which are to relieve these hapless regiments. The last station of the 97th was Ceylon, and of but course 42d that corps is now entitled to a goo d q uarter ; the , 88th, and 2d battalion of Rifles last served—where ? at ,Jamaica. St. Lucia, Berbice ? No ; but at CoitFu ! ! ! and the 79th in NORTH AMERICA. Hence in all equity these are the regiments which ought now to go direct to the West Indies as reliefs to the corps ordered from thence to Canada. But, Sir, there happen to be four corps which are known in the service as PET REGIMENTS —corps in which the Aristocracy and men of money are serving, and it would be a great shame to send such fine gentlemen to such vile stations as the East or West Indies. I may be told this is the rotation plan—whatever it be, it is merely the carrying out of that disgraceful system of partiality and favoritism which has now grown to such an enormity, that the ser vice never expects to receive fair play from the potters that be. If anything were required to prove that mili tary men, when in authority, are the worst foes the ser vice have to contend against, the late Military Com mission would afford abundant evidence. Had that commission been composed of civilians, they would not have deemed the wages they give then butlers a suf ficent reward for the services of gentlemen, who peril their lives in all quarters of the globe. But to return to the immediate subject of thi s l e t, ter. Allow me to ask you, Sir, can you be surpri se d that in regiments who are treated with this crying in justice, discipline is lax, punishments frequent, deser• tions constant ? Sir, I am an old soldier, and I k now of no better met hod of disorganizing, a corps than to treat it with injustice. Its officers soon become dispi rited, and its soldiers reckless. The British army i s composed of reasonable men, and I tell Major Tulloh and my Lord Howick, that their rotation system is any, boon to the service, It is unpopular, be, net only put the country to thing buy. cause these eonstani..... immense expense, but are also ruinous, in this respect, to individuals. We know that there are unhealthy climates and colonies which must be garrisoned, and from this duty which our country demands of us, we do not shrink ; all we ask is, let every corps in the service have fair phy—kt not the Commander in-Chief, the Quartermaster-General, or the Adjutant- Generai, or the Secretary at War, abuse their power to gratify their favourites by their partiality. Let not such corps as the 9th, 14th, 0 5th, 33d, 47th, 50th, 59th, 92d, 2d battalion of the 60th, be doomed to serve perpetually in the unwholesome climate of the East or West Indies, while regiments who happen to have in their ranks the relatives of officials, and the scions of the nobility, such as the Hills, the Fitzroys, the Bayles, the Thurlorvs, the Pakcnhanis, the Lennox, the Arbuth nols, as is the case in the 7th, Vd, 43d, 53d, 60th, 71st, 72d (the cape Guards), 79th, 85th, 88th, which regiments are always indulged with the balmy clime of he Mediterranean, the Cape of Good Hope, or the not ess salubrious one of North America. I remain, Sir, -- •--~ An Old Soldier who has never been indulged with a good station in 25 years' service. United Service Club, Aug. 0 7, IS4O. TABLE 11 Table referred to in the above, showing the last foreign statio❑ and the period there served by the corps now under orders for the MEDITERRANEAN. Last Period of Service in Regim ents ' Foreign Station. j last Foreign Station. R e marks . From To 4'2d Corfu ...... ....... 1823 1836 79th North America. 1825 1836 88th c Cor f o u r f . u 1837 1 . ...... 1825 1836 2tl I Never even 1826 • ,in I rel and I. Ba Riflest tal . io n TABLE 11. red to in the above, showing the last Foreign and the Date of Return of Five Regiments o the WEST INDIES, also their present Quarters, Date of their Arrival :- 1 Last Station. , return Last 1 Year ' I Present of ar- Date Regiments. Foreign o fßemarks. , Station. rival. 'I 331 Jamaica. 1832 Gibraltar 1837 47th Bengal... 1829 Malta ... 1834 59th Bengal... 1829 Corfu .... 1834 2d Bt. 60th Berbice.. 1829 lon. Isles 1835 92d Jamaica 1827 Malta ... 1834 FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND THE EASTERN QUESTION. Generally speaking, the tone of the Paris journals is still more pacific than it was a few days ago, but those persons who should infer from this comparative calm that all ill-feeling is at an end, would be as much in error as those who, from the tone of the journals, when the news of the treaty of London first arrived, inferred that there could be no other result than war. The Constitutionnel, as if for the purpose of checking over confidence as to peace, still contemplates the possibility of war ; but nothing has appeared in the official journals since the declaration of their belief that the eventualities of the present question would be pacific, to justify fresh alarm. The Constitutionna, in answer to the call which has been made upon the Ministry toreply to the question, " Shall we have peace or war ?" says—" The French Government must wait to see what the foreign powers will do. If it engaged in a dispute which it did not pro voke, and which it has done all in its power to prevent, it is not the less in need of all its strength—that is to say, of the cool and sympathetic support of the whole nation. To obtain this powerful support, it must merit it by the justice of its cause and the moderation of its conduct. If the French Government were to become the provoking party, all the calamities of war would be ascribed to its imprudence, and public disapprobation would weaken its resources for war. So long as the treaty is merely on paper, the Government can reply to it by notes. But as the parties who signed it may pro ceed to acts, the Government was bound to provide for such a result. This is what it has done. It does not know for a certainty whether there will be peace or war, and in this uncertainty it must be prepared. It we v a e vxi et e r i n ni more s rri tee s a ‘ r ", gr a eu a r pu. m ear e rr. yan This s and nni sds rwi for rd does prepare, and it would expose itself to just re proachesen n tlio a hn s e s a e l r a , e f tr h i ie t o o n, w ' te :l e e e l v r c e e ha r ar i , s e r i s t ne s h do a t a t o c rn t e n i l havin g l owere d be proved by facts." re proaches the Ministry with it s voice, and placed itself in a humiliating attitude. It says— " No more is heard of armaments ;" but the above article of the CynOtutionnel is a re ply b y anticipation to this assertion. The Debuts, like Courrier Francais, sees in the resumption,, .of the negations for . a commercial' treaty 'be tween England and France a strong sign of recon ciliation. The fact is, indeed, an important one ; for, if the two Governments did not really believe, as both have declared, that the probabilities are for peace, the resumption of these negotiations at such a moment would be worse than mockery. To commercial men the constant dread of war is almost as injurious as war itself, for it unhinges all those arrangements and provi sions which are the soul of trade. The Debuts, after stating that the only point now to be settled in the treaty (the English Government having given way on those points which remain in dispute when Mr. Porter left Paris) is the estimation of the specific duties which are to represent the ad valorem duties fixed by the Con vention, and which, it says, is a mer e ma tt er o f d e t a il which can give rise to no dispute, adds--" This treaty is, in a political sense , a goo d omen for the maintenance of an honourable alliance between the two nations. The true national interest of England, that which do minates, is its commercial interest. Whatever dif ferences may arise in politics, so long as the commercial interests are not implicated, the ma jority will remain comparatively indifferent, but it is not so when the interests of the great mer chants and manufacturers, who, in England, are at the head of affairs, are assailed. It is evident that in Eng land the wealthy and enlightened reject with as much envy as the mass the idea of a war with France. The treaty of commerce once concluded between the two nations will be a new ground of hope for those who are at this moment anxious for peace. We see in the re turn of the English commissioner a marked disposition on the part of the British Government towards a policy more in harmony with that of France and with the in terests of Europe." The memorandum which the Augsburg Gazette has published, as a textual copy of what was presented by Lord Palmerston to M. Guizot, excites considerable interest. Most of the journals believe that if it is not textually correct it is correct in spirit, and some of them reason upon it as if it were official. If the copy given by the Augsburg Gazette be a faithful one, it can only have been procured by one of those official larcenies which are so common, and which it is perhaps difficult to prevent. It is probable, however, that the cox.- munication was made by a person who had read the paper or heard it read more than once, and who by making notes of it at the time, was a ble at len g th to give to some thing very much like the origina l. T he Conslitu /ionize/ says :—" We have rea son incorrect in more than one po int ; but whatever that it is the t ru th may be as to the spirit of the article, the French public will remark that most of the allegati r on! of Lord Palmerston have been of fi c iall y denied. Things have not passed as the memorandum p re tends, and if a con troversy were to arise on this point, the M . inistry, we are convinced, would only have to publish in explana tion of its conduct the energetic protests which ” foll owe d the communication o f this diplomatic note. The Quotidienne has th e following : 7 " If th e asser tions of Lord Palmerston be true ; if it be t rue t h at the four powers offered to a do p t an arrangement fou nded on the views which the Frenc h Ambassador i n London had expressed towards the en d of last y ear ; if, in fact ' the French Government repea tedl y de clared that it for t . he ., purpose of obtaining bad nothing to object to in the arrangement which the L yn, o o n w d , o n b ? four powers wished to mak . e . Mehemet Ali accept, provided he should consent ; if, finally, it promised that, in any case, France would not oppose the measures which the four powers, accord with the Sultan, necessarycha of Egypt ; all this be shouldter certain, on judge sae un dt pfe rt l ea p spa, proved, how are w e compre initnsimate impatience of the public. We compre hend the warlike manifestations of M. Thie u rs t 'We will s f n t s r which cannot be will wait fr not oerfutsh g e edo to ux further ptlha enaltei go must, however, remark that the Ministerial question only learn ing the signature of u t o h fu e rt u t re r e e fl a i is raised by the menierandlii!z. If the Powers have really rece i ve d the most pacific assurances from the French Government, the treaty of Lond on i s no t on that account in ha rm harmony with the interests of France. llt is only the more c learly shown that the just demands of national honour have been neglected by an ignorant and guilty policy." The Courrier Francais says, " It will be remarked that this pretended memorandum bears the same date as the treaty of London. It is certain, however, that the interview in which Lord Palmerston gave the true me morandum to M. Guizot only took pl ace on t h e 1 7t h , two days after the s i g nature o f f the tr eaty , Th e person who arranged the version of the Au gs b urg G azette i s a clever man , but the alterations from the official text, although trifling in extent, are of great impor tance in fact We do not believe that L or d P a l merston . alluded in his memorandum to a proposition which France is said to h ave put forward under the Ministry of May 1", or that any proposition addressed by that Ministry to the four Pow ers obtained their assent. Lord Palmerston endeavoured to lay h o ld o f a ki n d o f tacit consent sai d to have been given . by F rance t o the views of the Po wers ; but this falseho o d, for it is one, is, we understand, expressed in more general terms. It is indeed true that Lord . Palmersto n , i n announc i ng to the French Ambassador in London the insult which he had just put upon us, presumed to i nv i te our Go vernment to interpo se its moral influence with Mehemet Ali in order to bring about a cowardly submission ; but it is not true that this audacious request ever assumed the form of a summons, or that a demand has been made upon us to do what it was well known we should refuse," The Commerce upon this document asks—" Is it true that reiterated declarations were made by the Grench Government that it had nothing to say against the arrangement which the four Powers wished to im pose upon Mehemet Ali ? Is it true that the French Government promised in no case to oppose the measures for compelling the Pacha of Egypt to accept the treaty of London? Is it true that it was said that the only motive which prevented France from joiningthe other powers, and taking part in coercive measures against Egypt, was dictated by considerations of different kinds—in other words, by the fear of de claring itself too openly to the country ? And, finally, is it true that the Ministry has submitted to the un heard-of-humiliation of being told that the powers might expect, from its friendship, its moral support, at least in the hostilities which had been resolved upon against Mehemet Ali ?" The official evening journal, the Moniteur Parisien, contains the following : " Several journals - are urging the Government to ex plain itself relative to certain reports, such as the des patching of a Turkish plenipotentiary to notify to the Viceroy the treaty of London, and the order given to Admiral Stopford to act immediately. It ought to be borne in mind that the Government cannot every day and instant explain itself respecting re ports which are in circulation. To affirm or deny them is equally serious, and sometimes impossible. The public may be assured that the Government will not conceal any authentic fact which is highly inte resting to it, and the revealing of which would not be of a nature to impede the march of affairs. Beyond that, it is the duty of the Government to be silent, however pressing may be the demand for publicity. As to the two reports in question, we may say that a Turkish Plenipotentiary has been sent to notify the treaty to the Viceroy. The orders given to Admiral Stoptord are and must be the secret of the English Government. We believe that those who speak of them do not know what they are, and exaggerate their character. Without doubt more than one event may take place in the East ; it is with that prospect that the Government endeavours to place France in a condition to guard against dangers which might menace her honour or her interests. All parties may be well convinced of one thing. The Go vernment is aware of the extent of the responsibility which presses upon it. It appreciates its duties and will fulfil them all ; and it reckons amongst the most sacred that of not leaving France unprepared tor the eventualities of the future. We continue to believe that these eventualities will be pacific!" REPORT OF THE SELECT COM MITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON BANKS OF ISSUE. Your Committee, in prosecuting the inquiry entrusted to them by the House, have examined evidence and called far various accounts, for the purpose of eluci dating the management of the affairs of the Bank of ' England since the last renewal of its charter, and also of ascertaining the amount of the circulation of the other banks issuing notes payable on demand, through out the United Kingdom, during the same period. Accounts containing the most minute information, upon every point which it appeared to your Committee desirable to call for relating to the Bank of England, have been furnished by the Bank. The private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales have sent, through the Stamp Office, returns of their issues, from week to week, for the last six years. A similar account has been furnished by the various banks in Scotland, which information is the more va luable from its never having been hitherto laid before Parliament. The Bank of Ireland has sent in returns of its liabilities and assets for every week during the same pe riod as has been required from the Bank of England. The private and joint-stock banks in Ireland have furnished accounts of their issues similar to those of the private and joint-stock banks in England. Your Committee consider it to be only just and due both to the Bank of England and to these various parties to state that the greatest readiness has been shown by them in furnishing all the accounts which your Committee have required. With regard to the evidence which your Com mittee have taken, they, in the first instance, examined several witnesses, who stated generally the evils which in the last few years had, in their opinion, been caused by the management of the circulation. They then called before them two of the Directors of the Bank o f England, who have given detailed information as to the management of the affairs of the Bank. It was their intention to have proceeded, in the next place, with the examination of such witnesses as might have afforded similar information respecting the management of other banks of issue. Towards the close, hew ever,of the examination of the witnesses on the part'of the Bank of England, it became evident that it would be impossible during the present Session to conclude the evidence of the witnesses connected with the other banks of issue ; and, under these circumstances, your Corn. mittec thought it more advisable to postpone the exa mination of this class of witnesses, hnd to summon one or two persons who were known to have paid particular attention to the management of the Bank of England, and whose evidence upon this point it was, therefore, de sirable to have before them. Your Committee trust that this statement will suffi ciently account for their not reporting any opinion to the House on the main subject of their inquiry ; and they feel that they shall best discharge their duty, by merely submitting to the House the evidence which they have taken, although they are fully aware of the imperfect character of that evidence, arising from the circum stanco of their being prevented, by the approaching termination of the Session, from examining witnesses whom they proposed to call, on other important branches of their investigation. They also submit, in the appendix, the accounts to which they have before referred ; in which, as well as in the evidence, they feel confident that much valuable information will be found upon the subject of their in quiry : a renewal of which they would earnestly recom mend to the early attention of the House in the next session of Parliament. In the course of the inquiry into the management of the affairs of the Bank of England, the attention of your Committee has necessarily been directed to the principle by which it was stated in the evidence taken before the Bank Charter Committee, in 1832, that the Bank was in ordinary circumstances guided in the re gulation of its issues. The principle has been re-stated to your Committee, in Mr. Horsley Palmer's evidence, in the following questions and answers : " Chairman—As it was mainly your evidence given before the Bank Charter Committee in 1832, which contained the exposition of the principle by which in ordinary times the Bank is guided in the regulation of its issues, will you have the goodness to re-state that principle to the Committee ?—I will re-state it in as nearly the same words as I can. The principle, with reference to the period of a full currency, and conse quently par of exchange, by which the Bank has been guided in the regulation of its issues, always excepting special circumstances, has been to retain an investment in securities, bearing interest, to the extent of two-thirds of their liabilities, the remaining one-third being held in bullion and coin ; the reduction of the circulation, as far as may be dependent upon the Bank, being subsequently solely affected by the foreign exchanges, or by internal extra demand. " Did you not also state it as desirable, in ordinary circumstances, that the securities should be retained at nearly the same amount ?—Yes ; the object of re taiaing a fixed amount of securities by the Bank at the period alluded to, and continuing it afterwards, as far as may be practicable, is to throw the action of the in Tease or decrease in the circulation upon the public, with reference to the state of the foreign exchanges, in the import or export of bullion. " Are the answers which you have now given a fair exposition of the principles upon which the conduct of the Bank has been regulated since the period of the renewal of its charter ?—I should say certainly, always taking into consideration the extraordinary circum stances that have intervened." Your Committee would upon this point wish to call the attention of the House to the evidence of the two Bank Directors who have been examined, Mr. Horsley Palmer and Mr. Norman, from which it appears that in several instances since 1832 the rule then laid down has not been adhered to ; and doubts have been ex pressed as to the soundness of its principle as applicable to the Bank of England, from its mixing up deposits and circulation, It appears, however, at the same time, from the following questions and answers in Mr. Nor man's evidence, that the Bank Directors conceive that this rule has received some sort of legislative sanction, in consequence of which they feel bound to adhere to it, as nearly as circumstances will permit, and that on a particular occasion they were fettered by this impres sion " Referring to the accounts of the Bank, does it not appear that the drain, in the first quarter of 1838, fell almost entirely upon the deposits of the Bank, and in no degree upon the circulation ?—I believe that it fell almost wholly upon the deposits. " The effect, then, which you anticipated in a former part of your evidence, from any reduction of circula tion during a drain, did not take place during that quarter ?—No, not to any considerable extent. " Would it not have been expedient that the Bank should in that quarter have taken some further measures for the reduction of the circulation, looking to the rapid drain which was going on ? The Bank considered itself at that time bound to adhere as nearly as it could to the principle of holding a fixed amount of securities, that principle having been to a certain extent recognised by the Legislature and the public; but if lam asked now, with in) present experience, whether it would not have been wise in the Bank to have taken earlier mea sures, I must say that I think it wou ld have been wi▪ se so to do." Without entering into the question either of the s oundness of the rule, or of the degree of sancti▪ on which it may be supposed to have received from the Legislature, your Committee are clearly of opinion that such an impression on the part o f the directors of the 'Dank of England ought not to prevent them from adopting any other principle of management which, after their further exp e ri ence , an d up on mature considera- 1 tion, they may consider to be better adapted to the , \ primary object of pr es e r ving, u n d er a ll c i rc umstances, the convertibility of their notes. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.) (From the Globe.) If we were called upon to designate the desire which pervades all classes and sects in Ireland, we should un hesitatingly describe it as a desire for peace ; that the benefits of good government may be realised to the fullest possible extent ; that civil disabilities being re moved, the party jealousies and dissensions they occa sioned may subside ; and that the members of the same commonwealth, inhabitants of the same town or dis trict, instead of regarding each other with cold suspi cion, or cherishing the elements of furious hate, may bury beneath the tree which shelters their common pri vileges, the hatchet of intestine war, and imprecate a curse upon the head of him, of whatever creed or party, who would dig it from the grave to which a sense of common interest in the general pacification of the country, every real friend of that country would consign it. We do not regard the intemperate speeches of violent men, of whatever party, as tending to shake the positiorf we have assumed. The exception rather establishes than weakens it. The conspiracy which the Standard and other Orange organs recommended, as the best means:of rendering the Irish Municipal Bill a source of perpetual bitterness and strife, instead of hailing it as another step towards allaying the hostile feelings which the exclusive corporate system had engendered and kept alive—and the " Repeal agitation" belong to the same class—originate in the same motives, and will be doomed to the same result. Both will expire of in• anition ; the food on which factions feed has been cut off by the common consent of the leaders of both par ties in Parliament, which the concessions of both to ef fect the settlement of this long agitating question fully proved, will be productive of a correspondent disposition out of doors. The march of real patriotism in his on ward course of pacification, will be rapid ; and the be nefits, social, civil and religious, which will spring up and flourish in her path, will be as numerous as the fruit they bear will prove beneficial to a long-divided and therefore degraded and impoverished people. (From the Standard.) M. Thiers is 'the type of an order, the representative of the pauper politician class, and as we suffer something by this class ourselves, it is well to show the temptations to which pauper politicians are exposed, the opportunities which they enjoy, and the unscrupulous profligacy with which, if not narrowly watched, they may employ these opportunities. M. Thiers, moreover, has threatened and insulted this country, and though, thanks to the wisdom of the King of the French, the good feeling of the French people, and—let us not forget it—the good onduct of the British press, the menace and the insult re passing away like a summer cloud ; still it is a heavy offence to create an unfriendly feeling between two great neighbouring nations, an unfriendly feeling which the least accident might have kindled into a desolating war. It is right, then, to expose the pro bable motive of the firebrand, if for no other purpose than to render difficult or impossible a repetition of his crime. It is melancholy to reflect upon what slight threads the peace of the world depends. We have it upon record that a dispute between Louis XIV and his minister, about the proportions of a window in the palace of Trianon, led to the wars which desolated Europe at the end of the 17th and be ginning of the 18th centuries. " I will give him," said the minister, " something else than criticising my taste in architecture to think of;" and more than a million of better men than either the King or the statesman paid the forfeit of their lives as the consequence. This was bad enough ; but surely a viler and more de grading origin of war would be the enlargement of the rotundity of the breeches pocket of a mean adventurer. We believe that the security of the French Throne, the well-being of France, and the preservation of the peace of Europe, will be doubtful until M. Thiers and his class are repudiated from the councils of Sovereigns, and therefore we must regret to see the Morning Chronick, or any other respectable journal, apologising for them. (From the Courier.) We beg the particular attention of our readers to one of the charges to which the seven suspended minis ters of the Church of Scotland are now called upon to plead. It appears to us one of the most grave of all the counts within the four corners of the libel. They are charged with having profaned and desecrated the Christian sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, by administering the same to their parishioners after they had been suspended from their ministerial functions by the Commission of the 11th of December and the Gene ral Assembly of 1840. This charge, upon the face of it, is a most grave and serious imputation, in so far as it lays profanity and sacrilege at their door, is grounded on the assumption that the sentence of suspension took from the seven ministers " the power of the keys," as it is called in the Confession of Faith ; and that until this power is restored, by the same authority that took it away, all the acts of the Strathbogie ministers are acts of gross profanation of religious ordinances, these minis ters during this period being, as Mr. Candlish expressed it—" no ministers of Christ at all !" Without at pre sent showing, as we could do, that the doctrine involved in this assumption, and on which aloce this count in the libel is made torest, resolves substantially into the most purely papal dogma that can be imagined, and proves to a demonstration that the Kirk is but half-reformed, we must ask our readers to look at it under another phasis. It holds, that Ministers deposed by the Church Courts, which gave them " the power of the keys,"— although these Courts are themselves of " this world"— cannot administer the word and ordinances as ministers of Christ, whose kingdom is of another world, until the same Courts shall restore them. Let this be granted to the present guides and leaders of the Kirk ; and let us just remind them of an historical fact, in connexion with their own recent proceedings. In 1736, or thereabouts, the Church Courts in Scotland deposed a body of minis ters, who afterwards originated and formed the well known and most highly respected Secession. From these ministers so deposed " the power of the keys" was taken ; yet in face of this deposition they exercised this power. Among other things they exercised the highest functions understood as coming under this power—the ordaining of future office-bearers in the Church of Christ. But according to Mr. Candlish, these Ministers so ordained were " no Ministers at all :" every act they did was an act of gross profanation and sacrilege ! and the grossest of all was " the laying of their hands" on others, and assuming to authorise them to dispense the word and sacraments. And who do our readers think arc " the office-bearers in the house of Christ"—the General Assemblies and Com missions of the Church of Scotland—now aiding and abetting in condemning the seven suspended ministers of Strathbogie, as profane and sacrilegious invaders of Christ's crown and kingdom? the very men who re ceived ordination at the hands of the deposed seceders ! who, according to Mr. Candlish, were "no ministers at all !" We are told, that when the Rev. Gentleman uttered this sentiment he was loudly cheered by the spiritually-begotten children of the deposed seceders, now sitting in the General Assembly. Surely if ever men were called upon more than others to make com mon cause with the ministers of Strathbogie in with standing the doctrines, under which it is now attempted to crush them, they are the descendants of the Erskines and Gillespies. EXCLUSIVISM AT PlSA.—When I was about to enter the Campo Santo, I was followed by an old man, a peasant, with three daughters, who were by no means handsome, but looked very good-natured. My consequen tial guide admitted me only, and shut the door in the faces of those who were behind me. On my asking the reason of this, he replied, " Such low people (popolaccio) ought to come on the public days." " When are those days ?" " Five times a-year." " Are then these poor people to wait, or must they come on purpose." (They were sixteen leagues from their home.) " Yes, sir." " Then I will wait too, and come again on one of the pub lic d a ys." This had the desired effect, and the door was opened for the grateful party. My philanthropy, however, as I had no small change left, cost me, of course, somewhat more.—Raumer's Italy and the Italians. CHURCH EXTENSION.--A report has been laid before the Town Council of Glasgow, exhibiting the num ber of let and unlet sittings in the City churches ; on the face of which statement, the following significant fact ap pears, namely, that in the ten churches in the City, the sit tings let amount to 6,820, and the unlet sittin e g aT s s t z o_4 l ,B B 2 3 9 7 . , 3 But this is not all. Instead of the number of these unlet sit tings diminishing of late , w ith the progressiBvy2. No e9increadsoeuotft population, it has been ra p idl y and steadil y increasin g ; h , a s v 9 i n 2 g ; I been, ,B3B a372n9d; r , 1 8 i n 3 9 th , 4 e , four ; followin glB4o, 4, this rapid diminution has been caused in some degree by the opening of new churches in the suburbs ; but if the ' effect of building new churches is only to rob the old ones of their congregations, the expenditure of the money for which the ze alots of the Scotch Church, and the dish onest politicians who join with them, are crying out s o lustily, would not be attended with much benefit. One of the hasb en ta g k i e v n en b u y p t f h o e r for the dis semination that a few facts of actualch urch wantesin the e a suburbs congregation, ienei t ( oi nn S sg t . . s A n\a n vni n ted ' ha 8 Sundays be en a m mp anly declaration of the Duke of Wel lington,stChembi saikrntiaiestdti : w :nw i w l o l ihtf p oht u hh t teohi l a erd n end to the foolish outcry w hi c h h as b ee n made on the subject of national grants for b u ildi ng churches. —Manchester G uar di an. ARCHIVES OF VENICE. Yesterday I saw this collection for the first time. ni It is a coll ec ti on arrange d e in a countless succession of rooms and halls, and so volu minous that millions o f worms may s f to come, and a thous an d literary glu e t e to d n o s n w i o t u f l o d r h c o et u it t u a r h ie l s o to read it through in a thousand years. There was a time when such a spectacle would have made me grieve over the limited nature o f human powers ; but I have grown bolder, and now, in presence of all this rather grieve over human b folly, The ar p ra a n p g e e r m w e i n gd t, o u n Pon l the value of each individual e l leellent ; the whole, appears to never likely to be explored a b p ) , but the contents and navigatorsarthterefemwailnitearaterryrain appointed to the service. • The masses will, probably, re nl re main for a long time in a state of profitless neglect, till accident, or some disciple of Caliph Omar, destroys the 1 whole.--..Baumer's Italy and the Italians. EVENING EDITIO,:. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA. ( Fsom the South Australia)? Register, March 14.) Since the announcement in our last of the discovery on the north-west coast of the Victoria and two other large rivers, we have received, through the kindness of Captain Grey, the following deeply interesting account of the expedition, furnished to the Swan River paper, we believe, by Lieutenant Stokes, of her M a j esty ' s s hi p Beagle :—" The Beagle sailed from Sydney last June, making the passage through Torres' Straits, by the inner route, one that should always be chosen for a single ship, from its being safe ; whereas the outer never can be so, without greater precaution than is generally taken by merchant ships. On the passage up the north east coast, many parts of it appeared a fine coun try ; high peaked mountains, 1,000 to 2,000 f eet , with rich green valleys. Where this occurs, native fires were invariably numerous. A small fresh water river was found on the low shore west of Cape Upstart, which at 'some seasons is a large stream, but only fit for boats, the mouth being almost closed up by a long bar of sand. The Beagle passed a little outside the shoal off Cape Croker ; it lies from three to seven miles N. ,i W. from the Cape. Few persons can enter Port Essington without being struck with the truly grand sheet of water it is, and its situation is so central and well adapted for a settlement. Many accounts of the young town of Victoria have already aeached Swan River, and from those who have better means of giving one than the writer of this. A good substantial mole., overlooked by a small battery, with some respectable sized houses in the rear, gives the settlement rather an imposing appearance from the water, which 1 imagine is the object at present aimed at to make an impression on the visiting Malays, the success of the colony de pending so much on them. With such a know ledge of the Malay nation as Sir Stamford Raffles possessed, it would soon be a second Singapore. From Port Essington the coast has been strictly ex amined as far as Cape Groze. This comprises the shores of Dundas and Clarence Straits. On the south side of the latter, Adelaide River was discovered, amid traced upwards of seventy miles in a south direction. The water was fresh twenty-five miles from the mouth, and navigable for a draught of twelve feet for fifty miles. The banks for several miles were fenced with bamboo, and the country on each side extensive alluvial flats, in some spots thickly wooded, in others open plains. From the furthest position of the Adelaide, some low hills, about 130 feet, were examined to the south-west, the only high ground seen. Alligators and wild fowl were numerous. Between Clarence Strait and Cape Groze the coast is much broken, forming three deep bays. Tortuous mangrove creeks emptied themselves into each. The water in them was salt as far as the Beagle's boats could examine, which, in many, was thirty and forty miles from the coast, generally in a south-east direction. The large opening south of Point Pearce offered a fine field for the speculative reasoner, and had always been looked forward to as one of the most interesting parts of the voyage, in a great measure from the opinion the Surveyor-General of Western Australia enter' aired of its being the mouth of a large river. This idea must strike every one in passing Point Pearce, from the muddy disturbed state of the water, and the strength of the tide (flood setting to S.E.) ; and the correctness of it hes been proved by the discovery of Victoria River—a discovery that promises to be the high road to the inte rior of this vast continent. It has been explored 170 miles in a S.E. direction from Point Pearce. Fifty miles ! from the latter, it becomes a narrow rapid stream, rush ing between ragged rocky ranges, from 500 to 600 feet high, with a velocity varying from two to six miles an hour. The country improved as the distance increased from the sea-coast ; and at 80 miles from Point Pearce the river crosses a valley, 16 miles wide, of alluvial soil. A pedestrian party explored the last 35 miles of the Victoria in five days, in a temperature between. 05 and 110 degrees, and carrying, between eiebt persons, 143 pounds. At this season of the year some parts of the river were found dry across ; but at those places, if we may judge from the inclined growth of the trees, there must sometimes pass a large body of water. Many ot the reaches were steep and picturesque. The valley through which the river takes the latter part of its tortuous course, is from three to seven miles, between rocky level topped ranges from 500 to 600 feet high: The soil is a mixture of bad and good, lightly timbered with the white gum. Kangaroos were very numerous, and fhb plenty—a kind of bream, common i n the river near Sydney. Muscles, similar to those noticed by Oxley in the Lachlan and Macquarrie, were also found. The last seen of the Victoria was in lat. 15 deg. :Ski min. S., long. 130 deg. 52 min. E., flowing from the southward through a wide verdant valley. Its continued, magnitude made every mile it was traced of greater into.- rest ; added to which was the satisfaction of knowing the centre of Australia was only distant 500 miles, the nearest approach that has yet been made by laud. By water, the head of the Great Australian Bight and bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria are about the same distance. To show how the country abouuds with game, a list of what was killed by the officers ot tne Beagle, the month they were in the Victoria, is here added .—One alligator, 20 feet in length ; 22 kanga roos, 15 brace of ducks, 24 brace of pigeons, two of quail, and two of a large kind of white ibis ; besides several rare birds, among which was a beautiful rifle green ibis. The number of natives seen did not ex ' need 40, in small parties. A specimen of their treachery was experienced just before leaving the river by Lieutenant Stokes, who was very dangerously wounded ; another instance of their not being the harmless, inoffensive race that many suppose them to be. Owing to the strong tides and numerous sand banks, entering the Victoria will at all times be attended with some risk. At the full and change of the moon, the tide rises 30 feet, and runs at the rate of five miles an hour. The fact of all the rivers discovered b l r the Beagle on the N.W. coast, and those before by Captain King on the north-coast, flowing from the south, strongly indicates the drainage of the whole continent being to the north, and the existence of either an inland sea or extensive swamps ; probably a succession of t'ae latter joining the marshes the Macquarrie was loet in also running to the northward. More light will be thrown on this subject when the great w tnt of low coast lying to the N.E. of Exmouth Gulf is examined. On the passage to this place some sperm whales were seen, 80 miles off the N.W. Cape % and two American whalers the week following." BRIGHTON THEATRICALS.—There has been a slight theatrical war, en paper, at Brighton, which, at this dull season, has afforded some degree of amusement to the vacant idlers who frequent that fashionable water ing-place. The belligerent parties are Mr. James WO lack and a Mr. Holmes, the acting manager of the race. trc Royal. The cause of the quarrel may be rerkfiy stated :—The calamitous fire which destroyed Ms. \Vai lack's property at New York, and with it his welt-founded hopt of speedily realising a fortune, rendered it necessary that he should endeavour, as far as it was possible, to alleviate his loss by the constant exertion of his profes sional talents. He accordingly entered into an engage. ment with Mr. Holmes, the acting raanager, to perform for a certain number of nights. So far all went on well, but now comes the extraordinary part of the affair. No sooner does Mr. Wallack announce his intention to open his engagement with Richard the Third, ' than Mr. Holmes writes to inform him that that character was tabooed, as well as those of Shylock, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Sir Giles Overreach ; that those parts'ne must not think of playing, becauso for sooth, Mr. C. Kean had stipulated with the stag' manager that the aforesaid characters should be exclasiv, e ly reserved for his performance. Not one word of this, supposed pre engagement had ever been hinted at by IV..r. Holmes during his negotiation with Mr. Wallack, acid the latter gentle man very properly insisted on his right, in common with his professional brethren, to perform the interdicted cha racters, and remonstrated strJngly against so monstrous and preposterous an agrcFn - ..ent as that which secured for Mr. C. Kean, a monop'iy of certain first-rate characters. He (Mr. NVallack) al.so declined appearing in certain parts which the acting r.lanager had pointed out to him, because several of 91e,dn he had never performed, others of them were operat%c characters, and some of them were weak, trashy, a:id worn out. The consequence was that the en gagew.ent was annulled, and Mr. Wallack has not per forrAed at Brighton at all. That gentleman, in his own : j ustification, has published the correspondence, which is rather lengthy ; and it is evident that every unprejudiced man must, on reading it, arrive at the conclusion that Mr. Wallack has been mu.t unfairly dealt with, especially its not being apprised until the "eleventh hour" of Mr. C. Kean's extraordinary engagement. SUFFOCATION BY FOUL AIR IN AN ICE noUSE.7A melancholy circumstance occurred on Wed ncsday night at Southampton, which for the time spread an intense feeling of gloom over the whole town. Mr. Stephens, confectioner, residing Above Bar, a tradesman very deservedly respected by his neighbours, ventured into an ice vault, containing foul air or carbonic acid gas, and being overpowered, fell to the bottom, where he was suffo cated by the operation of that deadly foe to anima( life. The Jury found a verdict of " Accidental death by suffo ! cation." 'SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—It is a singular coincidence that both the baptismal names of the royal Lady are uuited in a beautifui little shrub called th e Alexandrine or victory laurel. It is the same that used to be gathered to wreathe the brows of the Greek heroes after their victory ; for which purpose it naturally presented itself, as it grows profusely all over Greece and Asia Minor. It ought to be considered as a plant peculiarly devoted to Victoria the Firat.--Queen Victoriafrom her Birth to her Bridal. _ —..... ,Ithuntfil h Bo e tin w e a t s it s n e e ized as SUDDEN DEATH.—The Rev. Dr. Giierson, Duni,lane, was seized suddenly, Near his own house, on the m viies e r d ihne q ga uite sensible until he had afternoon of Thursday last, the 20th current, w i t h what was supposed to be a shock of apoplexy. lie had been past, t a bca : bu s rn i ot e x v c wp t e o la e n ams i d a net i h hn a n t t otg t iv a a og n e n lk heotdm n i .t n i oe n w t e b h i ihe o e ae c r l esi o nec c eo k i evening, on and Fti d ay be morning, h eexpired. His remains were accompanied to the place of interment in Dunblane churchyard by a numerous cirri: if friends and acquaintances. The Countess of Durham, with the youthful Earl, and Ladies Lambton, will leave Howick-hall, where they are still staying with Earl and Countess Grey, the week after next for town; and after p.ssing a few days ;n the metropolis, will take their departure for the Cfrn tinertt. ith on tal► ' et° ;ell 70