The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

AG ALINES-(CONTINUED.) teu T b hom„ de 7',1/7'. Quincey con t r ib u t es t o T a it f o r Sep er a c r i t i c i sm upon Schlosser ' s Literary to °f . the Eighteenth Century." As a piece of ua n oter, the article is incomparably clever. Every . t!nce has a re li sh. For the ignorance evinced b y ith.losser in hi s di squ i s i t i ons on Engl i sh li terature lug the l as t century he receives a castigation, such, Nv l e presume, he never ob`ain before, and which he. will assuredly wince under. Speaking of the 'Ver./a M ir Dc Quincey does justice to the abilities of Sir Richard Steele—aaesiayLit who is not, t 0 our thinking, appreciated as he deserves. Mr. De point, makes one significant observation upon this grit. Generally," he says, "if you see a line from bo l lispere (in the papers of the Spectator), it is safe to d ee , a rgely that the piper is Steele's ; sometimes, in tain't of casual contributors ; but, almost to a cer , - reniaYrki not a paper of Addi;on's." About .A.dilison % jct . tpnli Milton's Paradise Lost"—namely, a Grecian palace as !o amplitude, symmetry, 1:11,: architectural skill ; hut, being in the Euglish W "aKe. is to be regarded as if built in brick ; whereas, }IA it been so hap3v as to he wrirti.in in p re e, thea it wou ld h ave b een a p ilace built in 4r'att marble" —the critic e.;claims, in a delightful pirit of indlgnation Indeed! that's etnart—tnaCis handsome, I calculate !" ' But the most expisite bgratof wrath—for which we d avouch ourselves Positive} grateful to Mr. De Quincey—is that neillere he corr ec t s S c hl osser 's blunder about Cato. Z o sser repres en t s th e English pople as hav ! " extravagantly applauded" that wretched h on its first representation, and he expresses C l e lt if as amazed that they should so thoroughly Qe their na t ure an d f orge t Shakspere. Mr. De uincey denies th e fi rs t part of this statement, and dy s 4, - that m an must h ave f o rgotten Shakspere, w and from ramolissement of the brain, who could its first Cato." After explaining that the enthu siasm 0 f; 4 4 b " " first au di ence was so l e ly of a political kind, he y® ee4 t --- " Now, Mr. Schlosser, I have mended 41 , e, harness ; all right ahead; so drive on once But, oh, Castor and Pollux, whither P o 7,,iat direction is it that the man is driving us ? get Schlosser, you must stop and let me coachman 11l go no further with such a drunken its a ( I — He (Schlosser actually describes Addison 4 On u" pro s aitti and the patron of pedantry ! to h the Man of all that ever lived the most hostile even _ at rd . , w as good in pedantry, to its tendencies to- Ali, t he profound in erudition and the non-popular; e nw 7ni the champion of all that is easy, natural, ,‘ e c ,ali a pedant arid a master of pedantry . Get g ad I Schlosser, this moment ; or let me get out." tre , e° ends the first half of this criticism : again, hit a re grateful to Mr. De Quincey for his wrath and l a enthu s i asm Ever thus let Englishmen be lisiearnest when speaking of Joseph Addison ie Georgians Fullerton's " Grantley Malloy ttp oo /1 4 7,ed with elaborate extracts. Our own opinion col ar :" 15 beautiful tale has already appeared in the ,Ilapt;„ 43 of The Sun. A long story, called "Pauline roit e " a ll n retails to us the circumstances of a Yot tradition. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder con ses kid, disco admirable papers upon " Sco!tish Rivers . ," Ip ursing still about the Tweed, tells us again, e exquisite verse of Sir Walter Scott — "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Ge o , Go visit it by the pale moonlight." e Gilfillan, in the second of his " Sketches of of A r Authors," discriminates the peculiar merits he t a r s: Eliz a b et h B arre tt B row ning. He describes the 4" Perhaps the most imaginative and intel lectual ," females"—he might have called her one of have -154 imaginative and intellectual women that eVer lived, and not exaggerated. The opening of 14se Pa P e ! is right gallant in tone, and will be not un *lite„ll‘ reading to the gentler sex. Mr. Gilfillan With; at nervously and as eloquently as ever, and lik e h ilt to much of that Thomsonian turgescence thsit s. marred the fervour of his " Literary Por ..sitigh, tle lavishes more graceful imageries upon a kt i co ntribution than could be culled from any Nat: f ruiOns of the ordinary magazine writers.. One la„'" we mu s t quote, not so much from its excel atlin this particular as from its spontaneous energy kow a ."logium. He is writing of one of Mrs. , 1 4, 11 11 . % 5 poems : " 4 e„ . 7,„, Geraldine's Courtship.' as a transcript from est t,t-e-1ea,,,a1 tablets of the heart'—as a tale of love, 47 th e richest music—as a picture of the subtle work , Site l ,, t ! l e stern reasonings , and the terrible bursts of pas ' . 1) %.0 1 1 111 a bove praise. How like a volcano does the . t re 4 tYart at length explode! How first ail power is h a m in the dreadful trance of silence, and then in g - r ," l ed tempest of speech! What a wild, fierce --14 forth from his lips, in which, as in that of we t : , ; 113 ,_Quess, the foundations of society seem to 1 00 ,:ute reeds, and every mount of conventionalism is t : t e r found ; and in the lull of that tempest, and in `ZPerf u t,.. r ning sunshine, how beautiful, how almost is n - , i 'man se the figures of the two lovers, seen a n d the seem hofraist of the reader's fast tti„tslug teary, It tale successful love, and yet it the °u like a tragedy, ge a dy and most melts you in the crisis "'Pi On Geraldine we had gazed as on a finer „11l dry-eyed and distant admiration; but when ne t . "ir dissolves in showers at the feet of her poet trinePg.ftir t very . joy. Truly a tear is a sad yet 4' 44 4 eo constitutes a link connecting us with rtvi t nutries, nay, connecting us with diF,tant worlds. 4401 lottlnn 6 pi as, amid all her immensity, wrought no 44, 11-1 Work as when she rounded a tear." s cleod: (4 11 the misc e ll an eous articles in Tait some are l'°e Re the Political Register is a fair summary of hvea .. l . l s e , ll , I election, and the " Song of the Locomo , ed i i ‘ u e loco-amoko-motive, as poor Tom Hood lyric o rwould have been better but for the previous - -nry Tramp. DOLMAN. liAtlkbelleertllie.r interest will be found in the September . t k tli t Dolman by its metropolitan subscribers, b„" i olio h e t b , j ographical notice of the late Roman C Zito pof London. It is penned by the Rev. 4 it z s i g has a certain degree of importance, ap r,%of , L it does so soon after the honourable men- C il ltee o 7 Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths in the House of i e 'lido sth . l l the present Prime . . Minister. The editor, 1 4 1.4 of h• contribution,gives us three additional -41 :PA 13 1 , a n i irnated account of the "Gordon Rn!ts. Paley writes a paper upon the . `.‘ Anglican C h ile it Y4te rn as exhibited in the Universities," which 17 11 o - n s Wi ll be particularly unpalatable to the mem th"? Churchherself,will be peculiarly relished Dissenters.the There is a frivolous essay upon ei ler kt . al leter of Oliver Cromwell, in which . the "sid e t t g . that great man is absurdly depreciated. ‘raordi L3 l the writer makes no mention of an ex -I.?teetn.nsirY vindication of his Highness the Lor n d tL woo„ -r, ,Publish e d a few months ago—a paper o in September, 1847, without any men -1 Cff ° of -11°il las Carl le is rather an anomalous by Merle d'Aiibigne might have been over :, J o h n - utl T t Carlyle " The Lay of the Beacon, e r lowden is a spirited translation from th I ' 4 " li misi 4 the style of Macaulay—but with the former jisli t , (l 4 4 of the verse is more of a pretence. Most "me gra, - I ,", e rs will examine with curiosity and pleasure r"te liketch of O'Gorman Mahon. D, h 'eeicb.di -- E ECLEC7W REVIEW. ... -44 The . 1 the most important disuisition in this . b z' is th ~ Isse ilti ,,, e one on the " Electoral Policy of the l_tetl y r ' 3 * -- -IV hat are its Results ? ' will emi- It ' 4l l_ dersZY,Peru!al. The . notice . of Hans Christian. s ome r -autobiography is genial. A critical and, 414114 e: Pee te, a hypercritical article on " Dublin o.. l4l° the rPvirat iee 'd ye attention, as also does_ 6,: ll w °ti f e ,_ of' fir. Grate learned History of ' e Mel,' s. nave r. inadvertently taken the Septem- Ilebr°-"titiehs in th left-handed manner of a for w ards 'e t i l l i olar, 1 , 44 read e either way, backwards or the ' b ut are sensible and well-timed. 0 lie rr i v !it:SPORT/AU REVIE W . { i i i t 00% Pal _in is _ deep norn a sorry plight too, poor fellow . ''teet " ll. " )-" 4-11 0 - mettled Racer" has reachtedT'hi There this truthful series of theoth l ed for a B race " is a capital vignette It i s a aeld pi ke season, from the original of C. Josi. a stroll engravings.for this Oye r r ti e l ee as fresh and exhilirating in tone h as dew is as th e stubble or the meadow 46 when the Harry liie ove e grass." Craven, Castor, Saron, and _ er ttek t are i n And the rare spirits this month —ready to iklitaritB,l,lllmY jokes as Mantons or Eggs. °,9 his himself to be in excellent condition 4.t - Pleasant epitom e of the yachting sea son. .. 7o. zieriother times of the year The Sportzib Ivithele fluty be devoured as a hearty suppe r, rog sia tin the slippers on the fender and the . (1111 Y 11: nd 6te arning in the tumbler—now Id eall hi s , t aken in snatches —what a nabob . wou and it can *rit e • ' tif fuL n The writers are aware of this, who ittilio,with unusual smartness ;s o th a t even th os e h k i nuty read. "431 ---- JOURNAL. The BEE S'S EDINBURGH JOU i sti a l complexion of our old favourite tert4:43's w elcome to us, for he is ever glio, well Nri L e l' d converstional —never garrulous. - "as many lively ands nstructive contributions. S'il t trgortifM") Tilßialtl3.—Tas BOSJESMAIIB.—These ex , - i thl ightL itr l b eings are nightly attracting crowded . an %pi,. '. audiences at this snug little cant, to witness Ire r , "nderful performances, and really we e must say we Theire4touished at many of ' the ar.tics of the Bushmen. ! Itl lgui t in°4e a attack and defence is very curious; their la fk i ti Re is also peculi.ir , nearly every word they utter, i rl tli a 4 : } s , i r ilt , h w e stra p - w hich, being accompanied by a click , to an EJglishman, sound s very etterrhe• f or r. Fox. Cooper deserves every success in thus ve he dol the amusement of the public, and we have state o ti f ut h e will obtain it, judging from the crowded tam; th e house last night. To all those who have Th eh i" Lot. the wonderful, 'N I' • we say—visit the Strand ,_ S A ~ t7lllporki.C..All SANDS.—One of our morning -con ship ' 34 ran C" of Thursday stated th ►t the op l iv ttnds had sailed from Liverpool for 41 4 h edne 'del• pto a late hour on Thursday night steam New Y ork . 144 a 4 pot 6ft the port, owing to &Ivens winds, e n . or 14 / 7 . 1 1 4 4 for foreign pinta gone out tbr two y • 1 , oz, * 4 ELECTIVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND. The Earl of Dundonald, whose restoration to the honours of the Bath we had lately the pleasure to re cord, has addressed the following letter to the Elective Peers of Scotland : My Lords,—The impossibility of adopting the most respectful course, that of addressing your Lord ships individually in writing, with a view more clearly to explain my in 'fives io offering myself as a candi date for the honour of obtaining one of the vacancies in the representation of the peerage, forces me again to rssort to the press, I have now, however, less hesitation in pursuiree that course, by reason of the very kind letters I have received from those peers to h i 1 im I have the honour to be personally known, or who feel that conduct free from political bias may merit the favour of their suffrages. My Lords, the honour of becoming a representative, under the peculiar circumstances of my case, 1 shall not attempt to undervalue ; nevertheless, I feel that if much personal consideration could justify my offering myself to the notice of your Lordships, further perse verance, under the circumstances of secret electoral arrangements unfavourable to me, must demand ex planation. I may, my Lords, without presumption, infer from rho habits of my whele life, that (how wet- deficient in various acquirements familiar to your Lord ships) I possess a professional knowledge with which your Lordships are unacquainted—fur itistance, that I am aware of causes which diminish the efficiency of the naval service, and the means more effectually to increase and direct its energies. That such know ledge may be rendered useful in a national point of view I hope will not be denied by those acquainted with the importance of the subject, or who shall take the trouble to inform themselves of the truth of facts I am ab )ut to state—or rather to repeat, after a lapse of nearly 40 years. My Lords, serious provocations to hostilities is pro bably more near than, on a superficial view of foreign affairs, the public may imagine. Twenty years of ill conducted wasteful war originated liabilities which 30 years of peace have failed materially to diminish. Such a contest, even of one-fourth the duration, would add some hundreds of millions to the incum brances on fixed property, the consequences of which, I apprehend, your Lordships cannot contemplate without painful anticipations. It is, my Lords, from former oversight, and mis management in regard to naval affairs, that wars in which this country has engaged have been protracted to an injurious length. From a recurrence of this evil I am low as desirous to preserve my country as when, with that view, I brought forward proofs of the most injurious abuses, which party spirit at that pe riod unfortunately defended. Naval power, my Lords, may be compared to an almost irresistible ma chine, which, if deficient of a pin (or key) to connect its energy with the work to be performed, unprofitably wastes its force. Assuredly, my Lords, had Members of your Right Hon. House, or Hon. Members of the other House of Parliament, then, or since, reflected on the conse quences of permitting the proceeds of captures (so wisely decreed by their predecessors as a provision to stimulate and reward the energy of the navy) to be wholly absorbed, during the last three-fourths of the late war, by the rapacity of the Courts of Admiralty, they would have perceived, not only the directly in jurious effect, but the suppressed discontent and dis gust manifested by those who feared to complain of being duped and plundered. The consequence of this was, my Lords, that when the sea had been swept of large vessels, whose proceeds paid amply for their condemnation, the commerce of the coast carried on in numerous small vessels, each comparatively of little value, was left unmolested, being far better protected by the exorbitant and all-absorbing charges of the Courts of Admiralty than by -.all the forts, batteries, and ports on the shores of the enemy. My Lords, the increase of the navy to thrice its number between 1802 and 1406 was an unnecessary and heavy pecuniary expense ; yet that expense was insignificant when compared with the injurious con sequences of its continued inactivity. Judging from the past, I may sincerely assure your Lordships that if measures shall not be taken prospectively in peace to give effect to enactments awarding recompense for risk and activity in war, millions on millions will again be spent without adequate results. The total disregard of this important truth was further mani fested by the determination not to relax the prohi bitory duties on captured wine, or even to purchase it at the price .of beer, and serve it as an antiscorbutic to the navy. Hence originated the practice to start the captured liquors on entering the ports of England, to get free of the expense of Custom-house officers on hoard, or the cost of storehouses on shore during the tardy and expensive process of condemnation. In the late war, my Lords, the enemy's coasting corn merce was injurious to this country only as it proved beneficial to them ; now to that commerce is to be added the carrying trade in coal, for the use of steam ships, to promote the destruction of our trade, foreign and domestic. My Lords, I trace the expenditure of mo re than the portion of the public debt which renders it im portant to landowners to desire a tax on corn, to the then asserted, and blindly supported, "vested rights " of the Court of Admiralty. If such rights remain, my Lords, the captors of vessels carrying continental coal must be indemnified somewhat atter the manner that the captors of slave ships are rewarded. Any of your Lordships may investigate these facts, and take up this subject with great advantage to the pub lic and to yourselves. There is, however, an important question, only in ferior to the national benefits to be derived from re storing to the naval service the rewards of valour and exertion, namely, the preventing the funds that might and ought to be applied to improve the naval depart ment from being diverted to comparatively useless purposes, under the mistaken impression that in war our coasts and commerce can be protected by forts and ports of refuge ; I assert, my Lords, after the most deliberate professional consideration, that one fourth of the sum necessary for such passive modes of defence would suffice to enable the navy to annihi late every ship of war in the ports of Europe or else where. I repeat, that the most effectual means of defence is to deprive an enemy of the power of ag week, but several parcels are near at hand. Brandy is little required by exporters or the home trade, whilst there are free sellers upon previous terms. Geneva is in brisk request for exportation at 2s 9d to 2s 101, and for fine for home use at 3s 2d to 3s 6d. The price of British Corn Spirits is 11s fur English, and 105 lld to lls for Scotch and Irish. COCHlNEAL.—Privately only a limited demand existed for black and silvers, and 67 bags Mexican at auction were only in part sold at rather lower rates ; middling black went at 5s 2:1 to .5s 3', and low to middling silvers 4s 9d to 4s lld per lb. INDIGO.—The demand has been more active for East India this week from the home trade, and purchases to e fair extent have ben made in all descriptions, whilst the export demand has been rather better, but the contracts concluded et present have been chiefly for the Russian markets. There are few parcels of any kind on offer, and the demand it is ex pected will continue to improve, as the importation is less than it was last year, whilst the home and export deliveries are greater, prices are lower, and the stuck smaller. There is bur a small quantity pressing for sale. Spanish does not improve in value, but there has bee,. rather more business transacted. We quote Cortes a: Is 10d to 2s 9d, Sabres 2s 10d to 33 6d, and Flores at 3s 84 to 45 83 per Db. OILS.—The arrivals of Fish Oils have been of little moment this week, whilst on the part of holders there has been firmness, and they have refrained from offer ink any at public sale. Seal has been in excellent request by private treaty, and the tendency of prices is upwards. For Cod the prices asked are 2715 s to 27110-. but buyers operate with caution, as the importations will be large this season. Southern met with attention, and e all descriptions several parcels have been sold at firm rates. The market is in a quiet state for Sperm, whils: the supply continues good, and the trade operate with caution. In Rape Seed Oil business has been much operated against, by the crushers asking the ad vanced rates of 38s to 38, 6d for pale, and 37 , I to 37s 6d for brown, but the amount of busi ness transacted has been of little moment. The Rape Seed crop is likely to be small this season. Olive has not met with much attention from exporters or th, home trade. Linseed Jib met with less attention, both for home consumption and exportation, and there being a better supply prices have assumed a downward ten dency. For forward delivery there are sellers at 26s 6'; to 26s 9d, but few contracts have been concluded. Ttic market will he well supplied ere long, as prices are much above those of last year at this time, and are highly re munerating to the crushers. Although the stock of Palm is not large, still prices continuo on the decline, as the home trade and export demand is limited. TALLow.—lmporters of Russian are anxious sellers. and submitted to further reduced rates on the spot, still all parties operated with caution, although P. Y. C. of fine new quality cam be obtained at 46s 6d to 47s per cwt. Soapmakers as well as chandlers only purchase sufficient for their present wants, as there is every pros pect of prices further declining. The business conclude, for the last three months of the year has been upon V small scale, although there are sellers at 45s 6d to -16 Town made is not much required and can be obtaine. at 47e to 47s 6d net cash. Other sorts are heavy of dis posal, and offered upon rather lower terms. The stock has been further increased, still prices are much above those of this time last year. That the importation will this be greater than in the past season there tan be no doubt. IikMBURGH MAIL. DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF THE MURDERER OF ' THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRlEST.—Yesterday, the 24th, the body of the person who murdered the Roman Catholic priest on the steps of the altar of his own church, was discovered in the Brijettenau, on the side of the Danube, in a fearful state of decomposi tion. He had poisoned himself by means of Prussic acid, and his corpse lay hidden among the bushes and reeds, which accounts for it not having been dis covered sooner. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL-STORM.—Letters from Elber feldt state that several villages have been visited by a most tremanious hail-storm, which commenced at tour o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th August, and lasted several hours. In some districts the oats and . vegetables, as well as the fruit, have been destroyed, the oats have been clean threshed in several fields. So great was the quantity of hail, that at nine o'clock the next morning large baskets full were taken up, some of which were even then an inch thick. FROM THE ELBE, AUG 29.—The cc et law respect ing the J.! :vs gradually coming into operation. Judges have already been appointed throughout the wh,le of the country, who are to conduct the civil condition of the Jews. The constitution of congre gations, with their districts, is to be organized forth with. The papers also are in a state of activity, and preparations are being made in many places to get ready every document against the time when the respective administrations shall be in operation.. In Pomerania and Silesia meetings of the deputies of several congregations have taken place. In Cologne a comniitree has been formed for the Rhenish pro vinces, and other provinces will doubtless speedily do the same. FROM THE SEINE, .AuG. 22.—We are authorised to state that the negotiations relative to the union of Hanover, with the English and Prussian Convention, on the international rights of the people, are con cluded, and that Hanover will join quite unshackled. The proposed union, determined upon by the pleni potentiaries, on both sides, must be ratified and put in force in two months. NORNVAY.--By a proclamation issued on the 21st ult., his AI ijesty King Oscar, in reference to the twenty-third section of the Fundamental Law, has in stituted a new Norwegian knights' order, under the name of the Order of St. Olaf. This order is a white enamelled cross, with the national arms (a golden lion, crowned with a portrait of St. Olaf, on a white field), surrounded by a red, blue, and double white enamelled ring. At the extremities of the cross is the let!er 0 surmounted by a coronet, designating the name of the founder. The riband is watered of a deep red colour, with blue and double white borders. The order is intended as a reward for distinguished services to the king and country. Baron Von Hum boldt, the Danish Minister of State, and M. Ochlen schlager, the poet, have been nominated Grand Crosses of the order. Several other nominations have also been made. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—The Bonetta brigantine, Commander Brock, arrived this morning from the Mediterranean. She is 43 days from Malta, and has. consequently, brought no news. She did not call at Lisbon, nor has she seen anything of Sir Charles Na pier's squadron. She has brought home a few invalids from the Mediterranean squadron under Sir William Parker, who was sighted und er Ca pe Spartel on Sun daysury ewyeiuekgup last. the The Archipelago. he B e ta has been employed in Having been three years and upwards in commission, she will now b. paid off. The Belvidera provision depot, Captain H. Layton, was towed into harbour to-day by the Echo. She will be followed by other of the " relief" squadron, which is to be disbanded, and the respective vessel put out of commission. The Ajax s t eam - gu ard -ship is receiving her s t eam machinery preparatory to trial. In Harbour—The Victory, 104, Captain Pasco, flag of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., Commander in •Chief; the Excellent gunnery. ship, Captain Chads, C.B. ; the Cambrian, 40, Captain Plumridge, fitting for foreign service ; the Trincomalee, 26, Captain Warren, fitting for sea; the Amphitrite, 26, Captain R. Eden, fitting for sea Belvidera store ship, Captain Layton, to be dismantled; the Seaflower cutter, Commander Dumaresque, to refit; the Fury ' steam sloop, Commander W !llcox, fitting for foreign service ; the Myrtle, Lightning, Echo, and Swallow POLISH TRIALS. BERLIN, AUG. 27.—The Court has now been occupied since the 2d of August in the investigation of twenty-one of the accused, so that each accused has occupied about one day. The act includes about 254 persons, consequently 254 days—in other words, 8 months and 14 days, till April, 1848—will be be occupied in these important trials. This calcula tion is perhaps beyond the mark. The first sentence of the court of the 2d instant can therefore not be ex pected till in the course of the year 1849, and till that time this process will accordingly form a standing article in our papers. BRESLIkIii Audi 2:W—At a meeting of the com mittees of the six railway companie's between Haul burgh, Stettin, and Vienna, a mutual arrangement was agreed upon, by which travellers will shortly he able to obtain at Stettin, Berlin, Hamburgh, Frankfort, Breslaw, Kosel, Brun, and Vienna, the tickets for the whole route respectively from any one of the above named places to the others. By the arrangement much loss of time and great incon venience in the transplrt of luggav e, &c., will be avoided.—Hainhargh Mail, August 3t . .I.ISSTILIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, noon 27 5 per Cent. 'Metalagues • • • • • • • • • • 106 4 per Cent. ditto• • • • • • • • • • • • • 95N 3 per Cent. ditt0........................68 Yi Ditto, 1839 .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 129% Bank Shares •••• • • • • ••• • • . ........... 1694 Esterhazy's Loan ........ . ........... RAILWAYS. The Northern, or S'erdinand .. •• .• .... . 166% Gloggnitz •• • • ee-... .. .. .. ... ...... .... 120% Vienna—Milan .. ..................... 108% .... 97% Perth Bridge .. • ....... •• ••••••• • • • • • •• Apenninert ••••••••••••.••••• • • •• •• •• • • 94 % HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, ACOUST 31. Bills. Money. kustrian 5 per Cents' •• •• • • . . . . . . .. 107 Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • •. • • • • • • . • • • 1600 Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • ........ 106% Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate. 1015( Ditto Ist series Inscription. • • • •• .. • • •• 102 1 % Ditto, !lope and Co., 3d and 4th series •. 97 ,L Ditto, in Certificate• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 97 .. New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• •. •• 89% Ditto Stieglitz •• • • ••••• • • .•••• • . .. 89 Spanish New 5 per Cent.. —.••• •• • ... 13U. 13% Ditto 3 per Cent .•••• • • • • • ........ 22% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent .• 25 Dutch Actual Debt, .2% per Cent .....56 steamers. In Dock—The Prince Regent, 92, nearly ready for floating out after being r4zeed from an 120 ; the Leander, 50, building; the Orestes, 18 ; Frolic, 16 ; Sappho, 16 ; and the Rifleman steam - screw gun-boat, fitting for commission. In the Basin—The Ajax steam guard ship, the Re tribution steam-frigate, the Geyser steam-sloop, Com mander W. L. Browne, fitting for foreign service, and the Rocket tug. At Spithead—The Bonetta brigantine. CHATHAM, SEPT. 3.-Ihe Elk and Heron, 12-gun brigs, building, will be completed and put out of dock the end of this month, when the keel of a steam vessel, to be named the Tiger, of 1,220 tons burden, will be immediately laid down in the same dock. The Arab, 16 guns, which was commissioned on the 30th ult. by Commander William Morris, is pro gressing with her rigging very fast ; she will be com pleted in a few days. The Antelope steam-packet, Lieutenant and Com mender F. Smythe, for the lonian Isles, will sail from this port to-morrow (Saturday). Dr. H. Peacock, assistant-surgeon of this dockyard, has been appointed staff-surgeon of the Royal Dock yard Battalion. A number of the dockyard apprentices have by subscription presented to Mr. MiGarahan, the dock • yard schoolmaster, a very handsome silver snuff-box, as a small token of their esteem for the kindness which he has shown in forwarding their education. DEVONPORT, SEPT. 2.—This morning, at ten o'clock, Lord Auckland, and the other Noble Lords and Hon. Members of the Board of Admiralty, em barked at the dockyard, on board the barge of Port- Admiral Sir John West , and proceeded down Hamoaze to the basin steps of the Royal William Victualling yard, at Stonehouse Point. Their Lordships were received on landing by Superintendent Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes, his successor, Captain Toup Nicholas, the officers of the yard, and a guard of honour from the brigade of the establishment, commanded. by Captain Jameson (secretary to the superin tendent). They were also complimented by a salute of 19 guns from the field-pieces belonging to the battalions. Their Lordships examined the mills and bakehouses and the stores of the yard, which contain at present more than 20,000 quarters of Indian corn, 30,000 bags of rye meal, besides large quantities a Indian corn meal and biscuit, purchased entirely for the relief of the Irish. The Royal William Victualling-Yard Battalion went through the manual and platoon exercise, and the field-train of four 9-pounders and battery of four 32-pounders were also drilled by . Major Armstrong (Master -Attendant), under the inspection of their Lordships. The next establishment visited was the Royal Naval Hospital at Stonehouse, through the wards and surgeries of which their Lordships were conducted by Superintendent Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes and Captain Toup Nicholas. Thence the Board proceeded to the Royal Marine Barracks, which at the present moment contain 879 rank and file, besides commissioned and non• commissioned offi cers • of these about 200 belon g to the Ports mouth and Woolwich divisions, having recently ar rived here from Ireland Ia addition to the above, about 40 are in the harbour OA board her Majesty's ship San Josef, and 120 on board her Majesty's ship Agincourt. About 400 men, under command of Colonel Mercer, fell in at half past eleven, but their in full dress, to receive their Lordships did not arrive until one o'clock. General by the southern main gate. Murray, Commander of the Forces for the Western te d a very soldterlike appear- District, was on the ground, with Colonel Mercer and ed slo b ve y time, the LToh re dsmh officers epns of ww hh t oo h e p rese corps,entered ance, were drawn up in double line, north and south, when they presented arms to their distinguished visitors. Preceded band, General qUick time, theY euusequently Murray, then Colonel Mercer, proceeded, with the other members of the Board, to msw a . rch L ed or b d y A in uc o k p l e a n nd c , ol e u s tri co n r s t , inspect the men, the barracks, infirmary, and build miPrarelceDdnedndbays,thwetirth ings; after which their Lordships went to the three gun battery at Devirs-point, also under the marine establishment, where the men were exercised at the guns. Their Lordships dine to-day, with a distinguished party, at the mess of the Royal Marines, attending the orphans' ball in the evening. In all probability', they will to-morrow visit the Breakwater and the coast fortifications at the Plymouth Citadel, Bovisa n d, Mount Edgcumbe , and Drake's Island. Mr. Ward, M.P., the Hon. Secretary, left this morning for town, and will be followed to-morrow by Admiral Dundas and Admiral Prescott. Lord Auckland and his remaining coadjutors proceed hence to Ireland. _ Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. loan, 1844.... 80 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• • 82% Itational Bank Shares • • . • ..... BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 3.—A good business has been done in sugars this week, without, however, any improvement in the currency. Rum has been in fair demand, and some large transactions have been effected at luwer rates.—Bristol Mercury. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 3.) SUGAR.—To-day less desire was shown to operate in Raw Sugar for home consumption, whilst former rates could not be generally obtained, and holders were more inclined to sell. The busine: , .s transacted in all sorts of West India Muscovado was upon a small scale only, the purchases not exceeding 460 hhds and tierces, whilst the rates taken were 6d per cwt under those of Friday last. The total sales for the week are 1,880 hhds and tierces. REFINED.—To - day the market was quiet for Refined goods, and prices are not so firm, Brown grocery lumps selling at 54s 6d to 553, and standard lumps at 55s 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar sells slowly at 31s 6d to 32s f )1. gression. Your Lordships may perhaps hear from sceptical persons, or may yourselves suspect, that my opinions are visionary ; but, my Lords, the secret plans which I presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent in 1811 have again been fully investigated, and, after six months' deliberation, were officially reported on in January last ; thus I fearlessly assert that these plans can set at nought not only all ordinary modes of defence, but the novel means of destruction pre paring in foreign countries for use, both on share and afloat, namely, the projecting horizontal shells,- car casses, and incendiary missiles, to blow up or burn our ships of war-4o which means a recent device has been added, as yet essayed only on the brute creation. placed in vessels, fired at experimentally, to prove its destructive power. As an officer, I gratuitously gave my secret war plans to my Sovereign and country ; my plans of de fence, as a substitute for forts and ports of refuge in war, I am desirous, in my character as an amateur engineer, to render useful, if I can obtain attention and dispassionate consideration. These, my Lords, were the prominent objects that induced me to in trude on your Lordships' notice, and I trust their importance will be deemed a sufficient justification. I have the honour to be, my Lords, Your faithful servant, D UNDONALD. London, Aug. 25. the best. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon of Bengal Sugar 983 bags were offered at public sale, and sold 6d under former rates: fine white Bemires went at 48s, good mid 45s 6d to 465, fine soFt yellow 44s to 445 6d, damp and washed 40s 6d to 47s 6d. Madras is not much required, and 1,755 bags sold 6d to is per cwt decline, good damp and washed yellow went at 33s to 345, middling 32s to 32s 6d, low 31s 6d to 325, good brown 31s to 31s 6d, ordinary 30s to 30s 6d, and very'low 29s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of fo reign Sugar, but privately a fair business was done, 2,500 bags of brown Pernambuco selling at 20s to 205 6d, and 600 chests of white Parahia at 26s 9d per cwt. ComE.—This afternoon at public sale 2,319 bags of Padang were all taken in at 28s 6d to 29s 6d for ordi nary and good ordinary, being above the value ; 364 bags Costa Rica only in part sold at 32s to 33s 6d ler ordinary and good ordinary, which is rather cheaper. Plantation Ceylon was only in limited demand, and 1,547 bags went upon rather lower terms—middling coloury at 56s to 583 6 I, low middling 52s to 545 tine fine ordinary 49s to 51s, fine ordinary 46s to 48s, good ordinary 455, pea berry 555 . to 64s 6:1, damaged 305 to 475, and sound triage 33s 6d to 35s 6d per cwt for auction 1,400 bags are declared. Tx&.—Since this day week there has been no arrival, whilst none has been submitted to public competition, but the deliveries continue as large as ever. Prices are still low, contrasted with those of last year at this time. An increased disinclination is manifested on the part of the town and country trade to operate, whilst the export orders do not in crease; still in the value we have little variation to make known in any kind this week. The small amount of business transacted privately was at rather lower rates for green, but black is generally held fur the former currency. The quantity on offer of all sorts has been larger than of late. The value of common sound Congou for cash is 9d, good ordinary 9id, Twankay, low yellowish leaf 7d to Bd, • and Hyson common Is 21 to is 4d per lb. Merchants are still complaining of the losses they are sustaining upon the importation of tea. SPlCZB.—Although there are sellers of Malabar Pep per rather under previous rates, still exporters and the home trade operate with caution, and of 315 bags 2,440 pockets offered at public sale, a part only sold. Privately Sumatra met with a dull sale at lid to 2id, and Penang at 2id to lid per lb. White •sells slowly. Jamaica Ginger continues in good supply, and not being much required can be obtained upon further reduced terms. At public sale 106 barrels were sold. Pimento is held with firmness, and none has been offered at a nt n u e : sl t s i o ht n ha es thisrbe been e hn w a see beennk c l ; u b d uel little t.passing, a privately sasti s a gt ff'air but r aes.t here amount no arecf b n u nn s ao i t sellers under the rates of the last quarterly auctions. Nutmegs have met with attention ; purchases to a fair extent have been concluded privately, at rather higher rates. Mace is in short supply, and being wanted prices tend upward. Cloves are not much required, but holders are firm, and supply the market sparingly. SPlRlTS.—Jamaica has been extensively dealt in for home consumption, whilst the export demand has been good, indeed the market has been nearly cleared of all sorts, and the prices paid have been Id per gallon above those that existed previously. The purchases have amounted to 500 puns at 3s 8d to 4s, for middling to good quality 32 to 31 per cent over proof ; small parcels of fine at 4s 4d to 4s 9d, and of choice quality at 4s 10d to 5s per gallon. Leeward Island, how ever, is little required, and can be obtained upon further reduced terms. The amount of business transacted in East India has been small, although at Is lld to 2s there are sellers of proof strength. Demerara is not much re. quired, whilst the limited] business concluded in strong sorts has been at barely former quotations, 3a 3d to 3a 6d having been accepted for 31 to 38 per cent over proof. The arrivals of Rum have been small since this day COURT CIRCULAR. ARDYEREKIE, Avo. 31. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Lei ningen, and attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, the lion. Captain Gordon, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Anson, enjoyed the sport of shooting. Hsr Majesty, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, rode out in the forenoon. 'The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, at tended by Miss Hillyard, rode out on their ponies. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High ness, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Wait ing, went on a fishing expedition on Lake Laggan. The Marquis of Abercorn and Viscount Jocelyn will join the royal circle at dinner this day. SEPT. I.—Earl Grey left Ardverekie for Howick. OSBORNE, SEPT. 2.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred and the Princesses' Alice and Helena took their usual early rides in the grounds.at Osborne this morning. The state of the tides has prevented Prince Alfred and Princess Alice from taking their accustomed sea baths for the last two mornings. Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also from the Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor-General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North Ame rican Provinces. Sir Robert Peel has purchased from a party in Edinburgh the full-length portrait of Dr. Chalmers, painted by John Watson Gordon. As a painting it is a work of great excellence. The late Waiter Long, Esq., has bequeathed to his father, the Member for North Wilts, the whole of his estates, stated to be worth 40,0001. per annum. A petition for the pardon of Lieut. Munro, having some 200 name 3 attached to it, has been forwarded to the Home Secretary from Ross•shire, of which county the Li. , -u.enant it a native. THE LATE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN THE CITT.—Upon making inquiry last evening at St. Tho mas's Hospital, the reporter was informed that Mr. Crawley would most probably leave the institution this morning (Saturday), as his medical attendant (Mr. Sell is considers him sufficiently recovered. An elderly man was on Monday leaving the Bank of France, where he had just received 14 notes of I,ooof. each, and was imprudently holding his pocket-book con taining them in his hand, when an individual suddenly came up, gave him $ violent blow in the breast, and. snatching the pocket-book from his hands, got clear off by the Place des Viotoires. 114. has no yet been ar rssteci.—Gettigivasi. Mr. J. W. Sutherland, and Mr. Mark Boyd, had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of Emigration. _ _ Art engineer from the Board of Works is at present laying out a new pier at Duncannon, county Wexford, for fishery and steam accommodati on , w hi c h w ill gre atly improve On Wexford harbour. 4: at/ wi SUN, _ LON DON, SATURDAY EVEN I NG, SEPTEMBER 4, )847. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS DE PRASLIN. • We take from Galignanis Messenger the following translation of documents connected with the prosecution of the Duke de Praslin, which have been printed and distributed by order of the Court of Peers : The first document is the prods-verbal of the ex amining magistrate, M. Broussais, and other officers if justice, immediately after the murder of the Duchess. After describing the position of the body, the itate of the room, the marks of blood in different places, and on the bell-pull, the finding of a loaded horse-pis tol belonging to the Duke, and other circumstances which have already been fully and correctly related to the public, the proces-verbal goes on to state that having discovered traces of blood from the chamber of the Duchess to that of the Duke, and on his dress,the officers of justice felt it to be their duty to question him on that point. The Duke explained these marks by tating that he had got blood upon them and upon hands by touching the body when he rushed into the room on the alarm that was raised. A frock coat, on which there were marks of blood, and to which water had been applied to efface them having oeen noticed, the Duke said he had attempted to wash out the marks, and had thrown the water, in which he had also washed his hands, out of the window into the garden, but no appearance of such water oaeing been thrown out was found. The trousers worn by the Duke being also spotted with blood, he was requested to change them and give them up, which he did. There was also marks of blood on he breast and on the sleeve of his shirt, which he lad atte opted to wash out, as it was still wet, but -he Duke said that the wet was the result of per spiration. A pair of slippers, also spotted with ilood, were found. Un searching the Duke's room there were found three napkins, more or loss wet, and stained with blood, a cambric handkerchief in the same state, and a shirt, which thesDuke said he had changed the night before at half-past eleven, with two drops of blood on it. Lastly, there were found a waiscoat, a cap, and a ceinture stained with blood. All these articles were seized, and placed under seal. In the fireplace of this room were found the ashes of papers, and articles of woollen or linen which had recently been burnt, for the remains were Mill warm. Amongst the ashes were the remains of a silk pocket handkerchief, which the Duke acknow ledged to be his, and which he said had taken fire by accident when he threw a lighted match which he had been using into the fireplace. On the chimney piece was a paper containing a small quantity of gun powder, and a knife with several blades, on the back of which was a drop of blood ; in a cartonnier, over a ,best of drawers, a box containing gunpowder an d hr e e balls ; and in a secretary in the study a poniard and its sheath, and a pair of loaded pocket-pistols. All these articles were seized, and placed under seal. The officers of justice having called upon the Duke to give a circumstantial account of the affair, he said : " Madame de Praslin and myself arrived at Paris it a quarter past eight o'clock in the evening, by the Corbeil Railway. Madame de Praslin entered a hack ney cab with my sons and their tutor, and I entered another with my daughters and youngest son, and we arrived at my hotel at a quarter past ten, after having both of us made visits in Paris ; Madame de Praslin must have made several. I went with my daughter to see their former governess, Madame de Luny, residing in the Rue du Harley, No. 9, au Marais. I did not see the Duchess on arriving at my hotel; she had already entered her apartments. I, on my part, immediately entered my bedroom, after having conducted my daughters to their apartment, situated on the second story of the hotel. I went to bed, and immediately atter fell asleep, without having required the assistance of a valet de 6hambre, which lam not accustomed to employ. This morn ing, at an hour I cannot indicate, but when the day was beginning to break, I was awakened by confused cries ; but, as cries are often heard in the Champs Elysoes, I was not frightened, and I even did not get up immediately : A moment after I heard steps of going and coming in the garden. I then left my bed, put on my dressing gown, and went towards the chamber of Madame de Preslin. On arriving at the third door of my chamber, which is at the bottom •f the steps of the little corridor which precedes it, I heard confused cries ; I believe there was a cry of Murder; and without going further I re-ascended to my chamber; I entered my study, and took from my table a loaded pistol. I then descended to the chamber of Madame de Praslin, into which I entered after traversing her dressing-room. Obscurity and profound silence prevailed. I called her by the name of Fanny, but she did not answer me. I then left the dressing-room, and lighted a wax candle with lucifer matches, which, as usual, were under the clock in that room. I then entered the chamber of the Duchess alone, and I found her seated on the ground, her head supported on a sofa placed between the fireplace and the window. I went to her ; her face was covered with blood, which flowed I abundantly from wounds on the head and on the neck. The idea of calling my domestics did not occur to me ; besides, I had not time to do it, for I had hardly tried to raise the head of the Duchess, and to render her some assistance, before I heard knocking at the door of her chamber, which communicates with the saloon. I went to open the lock which fastened the door of it on the in terior, and I there found the persons whom I ha v e just designated to you. It was whilst endeavouring to render assistance to the Duchess that I became stained with blood. After the entrance of these per sons, I talked with them fur about twenty minutes or half an hour. I several times touched the body of Madame de Praslin, and at last, as I was distracted, I rr-entered my chamber, where I first washed my hands, and it was not until lately that I endeavoured to remove with water the blood which I had on the breast, on the left side of my dressing-gown, in order not to frighten my children, to whom I was about to go to communicate to them the misfortune which had just deprived them of their mother. The courage to tell them tailed me. Very shortly . after, General Sebastiani, uncle of the Duchess, arrived, and he was with me when M. Bruzelin, Commissary of Police, came. My first care had been to recommend that the Commissary of Police and a doctor should be sent for:' " We (says the proces-verbal) asked the Duke de Praslin what use he had made of the pistol with which he was armed ?—He answered us, that at the time at which he had endeavoured to render assist ance to the Duchess, he had thrown it on the floor, that he did not know exactly where, but it was very close to him and the Duchess ; that he had taken it again, and by a nervous movement bad struck the floor with the barrel, and also with the butt-end, and that he had definitively abandoned it at a place which he could not determine. " We asked the Duke de Praslin if the window of the Duchess's chamber was open ?—He replied in the negative. " We asked him if he had remarked that other doors opening into that chamber, besides that of the Duchess s dressing -robin, were open ?—He answered that the door of the large saloon was closed ; that he was certain of it, since he had been obliged to go and open it; but that he could not say if the door of the boudoir was locked ; that those were the only doors, with those of the dressing-room and two little rooms which have no other issue, which open into that chamber. " We asked the Duke how it happened that the re mains of a pocket handkerchief, which had served him as a nightcap, and which had been consumed, were found in his fireplace P—He answered, Yester day evening I took this pocket handkerchief from one of my drawers to cover my head to sleep in. At the moment of entering my bed, I found this handker chief to be in a very bad state, and I threw it in the fireplace, in which was a large quantity of paper. It was this morning that these objects took fire at the moment at which I threw a match which I had lighted, for I know not what purpose, into the fireplace.' "We caused it to be observed to the Duke, that at the moment at which he re-entered the chamber, after having passed at least half an hour in that of the Duchess, he could have no need of a light to find his way to his chamber, and to wash himself; that, moreover, there was a handkerchief on the night table prepared, and which did not seem to have been used since it had been washed, and we asked him to give us explanations on those two circumstances ? The Duke replied, that he could not explain how it happened that he had desired to have a light, or for what use he had the light ; that he felt that this want of explanation might give rise to a grave c harge in presence of the burnt paper and handkerchief thrown by him in the fireplace the previous evening ; that the second handkerchief found on the night table, and which had not been used, had been pre pared in advance, either by his valet de charnbre, or by the wife of the porter, or som e other woman of the house ; that he did not perceiv e it when he was about to go to bed, and that it was on that account that he had taken the torn and burnt handkerchief from a drawer; that he had not taken another, and had slept, accor ding to his usual custom , without a fichu d unutt; that as to the movement which led him to throw the handkerchief which wa s in a bad state into the fire place, and not to take another, it could be explained to those who knew him by his character, but that it was impossible for him to give more precise explanations. " We asked the Duke de Praslin to what cause he could attribute the assassination of the Duchess, and if that lady had, either in the house or elsewhere, enmities of a nature tq cause the commission of so great a crime? —The Duke de Praslin replied, that he did not know any enemies of the Duchess, and that he could only explain the horrible crime com mitted on her person by the circumstance that it was desired to commit a robbery in the hotel, that the malefactors were perhaps ignorant of the return of Madame_de Praslin and himself from the country, where they bad been for a month, that they were consequently surprised to find the Duchess in her chamber, and had ;hen assassinated her. " We asked the Duke whence came the green cord which was found passed through his braces when he undressed, and for what cause he had that cord ? He replied that the cord was that of a powder-flask 'or a shot-bag, but that he could not say how it hap pened that the cord was found on him when he undressed. We seized this cord and put seals on it. " We afterwards asked the Duke whence came five pieces of cord, of which three were untwined, arid a piece of white cord of about 10 centimetres long and stained with blood, which were found in the pocket of the dressing -gown which he wore that morning ? He replied that these pieces of cord were found in his dressing-gown, but that he knew not how they came there; and that if the piece of white cord were stained with blood, it was because he had put his bloody hand into his pocket. " We also observed to th. , Duke de Praslin that, in entering the chamber of Madame de Praslin, we remarked a pistol primed on a table before the xindow ; that there were several spots of blood on the barrel and the ramrod, that at the butt-end some hair adhered to the blood, and that there was also a little piece of skin or flesh; that that must have been the pistol which he took on quitting his chamber, and we requested him to give explanations to these circum stances, which appeared to us to raise the gravest charges against him as the author of the assassination committed on the pers•,n of the Duchess de Praslin ? —The Duke de Praslin bent down his head and held it in his hands, whilst the Procureur de Roi addressed him in strong terms, enjoining him to explain him self with the sincerity which became his position and his name. lie at length said, 4 lf my attention had not been distracted by the exhortation of the Procu reur du Roi, I should have replied to you that I deny that the pistol found in the chamber of Madame de Praslin is that with which I armed myself this morn ing to go to her assistance ; but I deny formally to have struck her with this arm, or with any other arm ; as to the adhesion of the hair and skin to the butt-end of the pistol, if that circumstance really exists, it is impossible for me to explain it. PRASLIN. " FELIX BOUCLY. " A. BROUSSAIS. " BRUZELIN. " A. COLLERY." An addition to the preceding proces-verbal sets forth that there had also been seized a yataghan sabre, ornamented with silver which was found in a chest of drawers in the bed-chamber of the Duke de Praslin ; there had likewise been seized a hunting-knife, mounted in copper, which was behind the cushion of a sofa situated between the fireplace and a cheffonier; and there was next seized a book published by Chaix, called " Guide Officiel des Voyageurs," found on the chimney-piece of the bedroom, on the cover of which was a spot of blood.—This document also states that the Duke de Praslin was asked if he would accompany the ma gistrates to the bedchamber of the Duchess, where the corpse was then lying ; but he begged to be ex cused from the cruel visit, and this request was com plied with. The following is a continuation of the correspond ence of the late Duchess : _ God ! I was far from , 'xpecting the f r i g htf u l rage gate e d h m a i v ld e ne usedss threw eould you hav e ! e y u n n e f e o r l t n c c i n e t r o t a w in h ly ich no m v excited you further than . to pursue me on the stair case with abusive language, uttered with loud voice and insulting gestures ; and then, after retiring for a few minutes into your own re om, coaling into mine, and breaking my Saxon vase, my silver-gilt ewer (aiguiere), or rather that of Horace, and taking- awa y two presents to which I was much attsched, for you gave them me when I thought you loved so munch ; my little rose plateau, and my small gilt vases.. I trust you have not given them to her or to another. I'he other day, to punish me for having forced my - self into your room, which she can enter whenever she pleases, you -came and broke all my onthrelles. To-day. because I fled in silence to avoid a scene, s ou destroyed things most precious to me, and rob me of the memorials of a love which has been my entire happiness. You have already burnt those letters which were the sole remaining testimonies of that tenderness ; you have torn fi om me my children, you have condemned me to all the miseries of life for the present, without leaving any hope of happiness for the future, and now you deprive me of the. memorial of the past. Oh, my God ! I have loved him too much —you have struck true. I could have lost all with courage, with resignation, with joy, so long as his affection and that of his children had been left to me. Now I have no longer his esteem. In the bitterness of my grief I feel a proof of thy love for me by the magnitude of the trial. I feel in the bottom of my heart that each new grief is a new promise, oh, my God, of being again one day reunited to them in thy bos o m. Strike I strike ! 0 God, and dei gn t o grant my prayer • • in this world t o support all that t h ouer; give me strength inflict. Often do I ask myself whe t h er he loves me art pleased to still • whether he is attracted byhe r' simply by the children, and whether , or underw whe ther simply ther ideas, he . has placed himself up on suc h animpo footing with her. I cannot help beli ev i ng that,arttsielre bottom, there is much of the spirit of teazing and tormenting in all this that he does. What were his habits and connexions ? Of what nature have they , been for years past ? Is it for her that he has re nounced them'! Frequently; and at this very mo ment (half-past one o'clock in the morning), I cannot help figuring to myself that she is perhaps with him in his chamber, gossipping with him, in defiance of propriety, without being what is called his mistress. How is it that he dues not comprehend thereare many things wounding to the affections ? All is not concen trated in one animal action, as regards the pains of the heart. lam convinced that if we were separated he would soon feel the necessity of observing strictly the proprieties of society with the governess of his daughters. Can it be true, my God, that he despises me ; that he loves me no longer! Sometimes I en tertain doubts, and fancy that it is only a plan to correct me. But, on reflection, I cannot but re member that for five years he has daily broken more and more w ith me, that I am no lot ger anything to him, that he has deprived me of my rights as a mother, as mistress of his house ; that, on all occa sions, my place is assigned to me by him. Is it a lure he has held out to me, intimating that if I sup port all the severe privations be imposes upon me, without uttering a complaint, he will restore to rise all my desires? Does he imagine that he can if he wishes to do so ? Does he desire it? I often think he does. Could he then ? This I vet y much doubt. Mademoiselle D— would bring forward the bargain between them, and he w ould not dare decide in my favour. And I well conceive that she has real ad vantages as a governess, but he thinks her superior to what she really is. He would see me submissive, and believe me content ; he woul t think that the change would not be worth while, and in truth it is too certain that he has had a very bad opinion of me. I have great faults, and I suffer too much from them to be ignorant of them ; but I am convinced he be lieves 1 have vices that lam not guilty of. This morning, in conversing, Madame de Dolonieu, before this frightful scene, said to me, Your husband has an entire and tender devotion to you, has he not?' I avoided the question, for I could not take it upon myself to say a thing I did not think, which I knew too well I could no longer boast of. He loves me no more? But, my God, to whom I have said, 'De prive me, if so it must be, of his love, that only ji)y of my life—that life of my heart—hut let him be saved, that we may one day be re-united with our children in Thy bosom as the reward of this sacrifice' —0 tell me, my God, that he will love me again when he knows this—that he will not curse my me mory, and my prayer will be granted. It is so new to me to see him give himself up to these violent fits of passion, and to which mine have never approached, that I frequently cannot help thinking that this vio lence is feigned, inasmuch as in general, he does nut break things to pieces until after he has reflected. God grant that this may be so ! for if he be so anxious to correct me as to purchase my cure at the price of extravagance, with an air almost of sang froid, then he still loves me ; and yet, what horrible ex pressions of disgust! They cannot come from a feigned anger! But did he not say to me the other day, in the presence of Berthe, and throwing to me all he had broken in my absence, that he would do the same every time that I broke something in his apartnie t? This is a singular idea, since I never intentionally broke anything belonging to him. I only wished to force open the door of his chamber, at the moment he was bolting it. He afterwards told me coolly that he would do the same whenever I happened to repeat the breaking. This, then, is a plan, a calculated resolution come to in ad vance. Why then should I take it for a real fit of passion ? To day, however, I have neither said nor broken anything. Truly, this is paying dear for a silent mark of dissatisfaction. I cannot help thinking mat it must cost Theubald d- ar to commit such follies as to break, like an untoward hoe, things which be long to me. It is so little his chanter, r. Ile thinks he punishes me severely, and I confess that I do suffer much at seeing him give way to a corduet so ridicu lous, if it be not admirable from a design to correct nie. He knows not, however, to what point material objects are in themselves indifferent to me since I have lost his affection, and the hope of bringing him back to my apartment, for I have never regarded my wort precious objects other than as ornaments of the place to receive him. He has no conception of the love I bear him. At the bottom of my heart I feel that, were he but to return to me, I should love him as much, perhaps more, than ever. I suffer so much from my isolation. I should be so happy to see it brought to an end. But the will of God be done. I cannot conceive how matters will be ar ranged. I know not how to he lp thinking that a separation would be best . Things are becoming more his happi ness; and more envenome d. I wish to p romote but, a s his lite is now ar ran g ed, instead of con tributing to it, I destroy it. lam suffering a thou sand martyrdoms. If I were to go quite alone to Pretot, under the pretence of sea. bathing, he would have time to learn whether he is really more happy with the life he hasarranged with Mademoiselle D-- and the children, without having me as his wife, or whether it would be more agreeable to him to com mence a new life together with me. Three months may be sufficient for this experiment, and I could re sign myself with the greater facility to live alone down there, than to remain here in the position in which I find myself. I ... know that as things are now my absence would be rather a relief than II privation. Remember, most holy Virgin Mary, that it has never been heard that any of those who have had re course to thy protection, who have implored thy suc cour, )(led thy intercess ion, have been aban clone and dema.d. Animated with t his confid ence, 0 Virgin of Virgins I I fly to thee, and, groaning under the weight of my sins , I prostrate myself at thy feet ! Mother of the Wor d, des p ise not my prayers, hearken unto my , p e tition, and deign to grant it:—St. Bernard.' " April 23. " It is long since I have written, and my position has since become more and more painful. You seem to have changed and put aside all external appear ances. Mademoiselle D— reigns absolute. Never was a governess seen to assume so scandalous a posi tion. Believe me that it is a great misfortune—a great evil, for all the intimate and familiar conduct with you, this authority over the whole household, shoves thit ilie is a person who believes that she has a right - to put herself above all propriety With her all this is vanity, love of rule, domination, and plea. sure. Reflect that a fraternal intimacy between you and her, looking at your age and her position, is out of a \ ll consistency. What an example to give to young persons, to give to them, as a thing of course, a woman aged only twenty-eight, going and coming at all hours, and in any state of costume, to and from the chamber of a man no more than thirty seven, receiving him in her own chamber, being tole-a tete with him for whole evenings, ordering fur. niture, directing journeys, parties of pleasure, &c She has broken with her female friends in order to bring herself into greater relief, and thus engross you entirely to herself; always finding means to get rid of the children. Has she not had the effrontery to say to me—' I regret, Madame, that it is not pos.ible for me to act as mediator between you and M. de Praslin ; but for your own interest I recommend you to pay, attention to your manner of conducting yourself to wards me. I conceive that it would he painful for you to be separated from your children; but, after the positive resolution come to by M. de Praslin in this respect, I am sensible that he has reasons too well founded for coming to such a decision, for me not to feel it to be an important duty to conform to it.' Is it possible that your wife, who has ever been so pure, who has never loved but your children and yourself above all things, shall be constrained to hear herself thus insulted by her whom you intrust to bring up our children, whom you have known only a few months, and of whom you spoke ill to me in the first part of that time ? You are afraid that I should cor rupt your children, and yet you abandon them to a person who makes a mockery of all the decenciei of life, trampling them under her feet, who regards as superstitious all the exercises of religion ! You despise me so much that I dare not repeat the expres sions you made use of in telling me so, because I blamed her manners and her arrogance. It would he better for me to approve of that which is blame able, in order to obtain her permission for you to treat me better. Then, indeed, should I render my self • despicable, when I submitted to purchase pleasure—even happiness by baseness so vile. You are in such a state of irritation that you will not listen to me, and cannot comprehend me. I do not mean, as you always seem to conceive, that Made moiselle D— is your mistress in the full force of the expression. This supposition, on account of your children, is revolting to you, and you do not perceive that, in the eyes of all, her familiar relations with you, her absolute empire over the house, my isolation, are as fully established as if she were so openly. You have often concluded from appearances much less de cisive that there were criminal relations between others. Cannot you, therefore, conceive my grief at seeing my children torn from their mother, to be abandoned completely to a parson who has no concep tion that good conduct and virtue have their own external forms, and ought never to adopt those of vice ? How can I help being afflicted when I see them in the hands of a person who has avowed her contempt for me by what I have repeated to you above, and who establishes her empire by making you hate ar.d despise me ? You have always said to me, • When there are suspicions. they should al ways be cleared up.' But do you not find that she daily en grosses your time, and abuses her power over you by using it to aggravate our differences and alienate u. more and more from each other ? Mademoiselle D— might be a very good governess, but it is necessary she should be guided and controlled; but not by a young man, because she is too light and inconsi derate, cluettish, sod imperious. 4 My son, when you enter into the service of the Lord, prepare your soul against temptation and against trials ; remain firm in justice, and in the fear of the Lord ; keep your soul humbly and wait in patience ; lend thine ear to the words of wisdom, and lose not courage at the moment of proof ; suffer with patience the expectation , and the delays of God. Remain united to God, and be not weary of waiting. Accept with a good heart whatever may happen to you ; rest in peace in your grief, and in the time of your humiliation have patience; for gold and silver are purified by fire, but the men whom God is willing to receive into the number of His own He tries in the crucible of humi liation and grief. Have, therefore, confidence in God, and he will deliver you out of all your trouble; hope in Him, preserve His fear, and grow old in His love."—(Chap. 11 of Ecclesiastes.) To preserve si lenceh under the pains of life, to suffer and hold ty peace, is the manner to profit by the coun sels m wi o s t e ivesthere of these consoling words. , ch and thereby with the heart full, not to say toy mu . , are for adopting them ! It H is o s w o rrearaenywhen speaking to please God, and r sure . our w e p oesrie envenom the sore! By h k n e ow e t p e in amg g gayr s a il rn e ao n tet ce ' ame 'orate even the human, ought it. All Awlilththmesaenkradio,urato calculations, therefore to make us decide upon adopting this determination. But this empire over ourselves can come only from God. Let us, therefore, pray for it with the confidence that he will oue day yield to our prayers. He who has said, ' Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart,' will not refuse to grant the means of following this precept. Absolute silence under circumstances which others know to be grievous to us is as impeaching as re proaches. It is not, therefore, a cowardice, but better maintains the dignity of the per s o n offended than violent bursts of passion. It'is much easier to be silent than to say what ought to be said, and no more. Happiness in this world consists in the affec tions we are able to inspire. Let us then remember who it was that said, ' Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,' and let us take courage by recollecting that it was he also who said, ' Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask, and it shall be given to you. Blessed are those who weep, for they shall be comforted.' These reflections, which I wrote yesterday upon a fly-leaf, are curious for me to have copied, and prove my maladresse to the full ex tent of its excess. The best weapon, if I take it into my hand, is sure to turn upon and wound me. To day, feeling disgust at seeing you come from a fete-a. tote with Mademoiselle D--, I thought I was making a master stroke by flying without saying , a word; thinking by this to avoid a scene, and mark I my disapprobation mildly and without risk. Good " May 1, 1842. " It is evident that Theobald makes towards me what is for him great advances ; he has ever shown me real tenderness, and a sincere desire to change our manner of life. But does he truly wish, as he tells me, to adopt, if I lend myself to it (these are his ex pressions), a life of intimacy, and to restore to me my natural position as a wite and mother ? Do we com prehend each other in this respect ? Does he clearly understand that I cannot be happy unless I possess his unlimited confidence, nor content myself unless I sat restored to the possession of my position as mistress of the house, and particularly to the surveillance and direction of my children ? Will he ever admit that ? Will he ever dare to signiFy such a thing to Mdlle. D- ? I doubt it ; for she will put the case to him, ' Choose between her and me :' and she will carry her point. My defects and the qualities of Mdlle. D- he regards at the same time through the same magnifying glass. I fear that he will cause \ himself a complete illusion ; that he will imagine . that, whilst I shall be mild, hii affection and his re conciliation will su ffi ce for me, and that I rel inquish as_ a . wife . _ and a with a good grace all my . rights . mother ; but he deceive.: himself , for . it is for me a serious and positive duty, las it is sweet and desirable, to return to the enjoyment of my rights t owar ds my children. Under these circumstances my r i g ht s are duties, and of the most sacred kin d . H e has, unfortunately, ideas the most false and the most dangerous in the relations which he ought to have with governesses, •tnd on their position i n a house. lie forgets that nothing in the relations, the position, and the conduct of a governess shoul4 be capable of giving rise to unpleasant interpret's tion ; he trusts too much to the purity of his inten tions. Faults consist in bad actions, but scandal , arises from appearances ; for one can only judge by what one sees, and scandal is a great evil, particularly on a question so delicate for a man of his age, with so young a governess, and whose natural character is frivolous, inconsistent, familiar, impertinent, coquet tish, without tact, without a solid religious founda• tion, and overruling. He treats governesses as certain persons treat nurses ; they spoil them until they be..