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will aid in sustaining the good came. Whatever the I
immediate result be, it is of peal consequence to show
the country how many there are to the present House
of Commons who can be relied on in this matter. The
greater their strength is demonstrated to be, the
nearer plainly we are to eventual victory ; and in all
constitutional struggles, let ns remember that the
cause which does not stand reiterated repulses and
defeats with undaunted spirit and daily augmenting
force of resistance, dces not deserve to win. On this
account we would press upon every man who values
safe and steady progreeNto bear his aid in the pending
conflic., and to give his vote in femur of Mr.
BEIXELILY.B motion.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 24.
Tax "count out " system of tactics does not always
do. It frequently saccade, no doubt, in stifling in-
quiry and smothering investigation ; but sometimes it
suddenly fails, and leaves the contemned but poss.
wring claimant of justice in unexpected p3mesaion of
all that he demanded.
Two questions of great constitutional important.'
have been recently carried through the primary stage
of legislation in this manner. In a house containing
leas than 90 members, leave was obtained by a small
majority, on Tuesday evening last, to bring in a bill
to shorten the duration of parliaments. More
than a century has elapsed since, by a stretch
of usurping power as scandalous as any which
history record-, a parliament which had been
elec'ed only for a term of three years, resolved,
without any appeal to their constituents, that they
would sit foe seven ; and that all future parliaments
should do as likewise. Fcr many years the practice
was acquiesced in without resistance on the part of
the defrauded people ; we say defrauded, because if
ever fraud was clear, it was this, of accepting a trait,
limited specifically as to time, and then coolly turn-
ing the power so obtained to the defeat of the limita-
tions stipulated. But from the day when parliamea.
tary reform was first propounded, to the present hoer,
the recovery of the lost right of triennial election has
incessantly and unremittingly been called for. It
was amongst the omitted pointy, end they were
many, in the Reform Bill of 1832 ; but
it has frequently been urged, both separately
and in conjunction with other minor points of elec-
toral amendment on the consideration of the legisla-
ture, since that period ; and now, at lest, its expe-
diency and atom has been formally admitted by the
House of Commons.
Considering the paucity of votes given for and
against Mr. D'Ersconar's motion, it must be con-
fessed that little beyond the fact we have stated can
be supposed to be gained. It is well unders'ood
that the government, who opposed the proposition,
were only beaten by their own sanguine reliance on
the anti-popular tendencies of a large majority of the
house of elective irrespon•ibles. We doubt if any
eloqurnce or authority would induces majority of the
existing representative body to pass a ball by which
the term of their senatorial life would be brought to
a elc se in the month of July, 1830. Such a measure
would wholly upset too many grave and solid calcu-
lations. It would amount in a vast number of cease
to sheer political siecide. The men who would
seriously recommend it at the Carlton would not be
answered ; he would simply be avoided us a danger-
ous lunatic, whom it might be imprudent to irritate
by contradiction, and whose personal friends ought to
look after him more carefully. Voluntarily or of their
own free will, no parliament, we imagine, as at pre-
sent constituted, will ever give their sanction delibe-
ntely to a bill far shortening the duration of roller
masts.
A like misgiving, though by no means to the assr
extent, haunts us with regard to every slim pip -
aition for parliamentary reform, which is soseersull
with subordinate details, and leaves the one
needful untouched. With an adequate and eq
families all the rest would follow nearly as sesame,
of come. Without each a franchise we pones me
effective means whereby to accomplish even tbs.&
The most etriliag cue of this is the position in irbisb
the question of the ballot stands. In the NM* of
lest tendon the resolatioa of Mr. Hussy BitilLiT
in favour of taking votes by ballot was carried, in a
house act 'iambs, 170 members, by a small
majority. The hon. member for Bristol moves to.
sight to leave to being in a bill to carry that immola-
tion into sleet. We have little doubt that all the
friends of poplar right who supported his proposal lest
year will be at their poste, and that Reny Ain Inside

Amongst all the free constitutions that the lut
twelvemonths have seen nailed into being, it is a re-
markable het that not one has omitted to affirm the
right of secret voting. They have differed from one
another in almost every other point, but in this they are
agreed, that wherever the elective franchise is con-
ferred, there its exercise ought to be free, free alike
from the influence of open corruption, and from
the menace of illegitimate interference. We are no
abject imitators of treign experimentalism in poli-
ties. We love and treat what is indigenous in our
nailer, liberties as fervently as it is possible to do.
But we bold it to be the merest cant of national
' pride to disregard the unanimous verdict of the
civilised world on a question like that now at issue,.
The United States have for half a 'eatery tried the
ballot as a sides, and have not found it seating.
la France sad Belgium it has long prevailed. Will
any body illy that the ballot has not been a means of
safety in the trying circumstances through which the
turner country has lately passed? Without it, what
paraatai could there have been that so many mode-
rate and peace-loving men would have found their
way into the conetituot Numbly within two months
after such a revoluti: n se that of February 1848?
Or, taking the last and most perilous expreasion of
the popular wi I—that whose reunite we hardly as
yet fully comprehend—will any rational or thinking
man deny that for Frame, for Europe, and for man-
kind, it is more fortunate that through the interven-
tion of a system of free and naperverted voting, the
true condition of French feeling and opinion has been
so clearly and seasonably expressed ? Surely, above
all thing., it is expedient as well as right that the
truth should be spoken, even when it is bitter.

Tim news from India is comprised in one simple
yet one mighty fact—we have acted the boa cos-
stricter, and swallowed the PunjaulL After the spe-
cimens which we published last week of Lord DAL-
110C81E'S policy and appetite, this was to be expected.
The Governor-General es vs pas par quail.' Maness,
se the French ray—that is, does nothing by halves,
and takes little account of obstacles or emu-
gessoes. And for such a man India is certainly
a fine field. There an B-glish lord may_act BoNA-
PARTE in Europe, end sweep away empires with a
stroke of his pen. Nor does any °motion appear
to the sovereign will. NAPOLEON made
feature, • int-
fecture, Proms and Austria subsidiary states. Cen-
tral Germany he gave to his brother. The coefede-
ration of the Rh'ne was his plaything. But what
coetaisteney did he give to this extension of empire ?
Or what real taros did he derive from it? The Prus-
sians beet him at Leirzig. The Bavarians intercepted
him at Hutu. Bach was the result of his annexing
Germany.
The great cause of the extension of empires is, that
they cm t Aerate no rival, and conciliate no enemy.
It was the cue with Greece, whea its victorious
armies spread over Asia—of Rome when it mitered
the world. Aggrandisement sraa the profit and
policy of lieutenants whom the central power had not
either the authority or information required to
elastics,. The empire swelled still, however, by
the might and prestige of arras, and lived
in its augured provinces by the two great principles
of fear and of extortion. Its powerful baud menaced
death to resistance, and ravished every means of in-
dependence, and every source of wealth. We are in
India what the Romans were in Western Asia, with
all the aid of modern political science to enforce our
military rule. That we are neither more equitable,
more merciful, or more beseficett, the testimony of
many witnesses Infonaut India committees is there
to show. _ _ _

We forget who has said, that no virtues are to be
found amongst the native races of India,exoept military
virtues; and that by annihilating from amoagst then,
as we do, the soldier and the gentleman, we leave but
the wird more:non of a race, of which the spirit,
worth, and even industry have evaporated. By mili-
tary virtue we suppose is here meant the sense of
independence, never to be enjoyed in uncivilized
e-untrits, except
eby those who wear a sword. But
nothing can more true than that the lowest
class or any nation can only be influenced and elevated
by those immediately above them. Where this link
is wanting, where there is no example, no influence
from above, the lower class rot upon the stalk, as it
were. Now we fear that the result of our aristocratic
system of government and our modal organisation, at
home and in our colonies, is precisely that of destroy-
ing intermediate classes. This is the history of Ire-
land, and it is the history of India. There are some
fearful pilots of similitude between them, on which,
perhaps, it were not wise to dwell.
The annexation of the I'uojaub completes our ab-
sorption of the Hindoo race. This circumstance alone
was, no doubt, a temptaion to terminate what had
been so long begun, and which seems the work of
fate as much as of design. Our Indian officials were
Resolved to deal no longer with anything like
an empire, or with powers that could muster
armies of 50,000 men, and of 100 guas. The question
remains, however,whether we might not have split the
nation into principalities, for which their almost
feudal system offered great facilities; and whether so
many valiant chiefs and sturdy soldiers might
not have been turned to account in the permanent de-
fence of a frontier, which the most rash and enter-
prising Englishman durst no longer think of passing.
This large military population turned loose, deprived
of all employ, and forbidden all hope, must prove
as difficult to watch, and as expensive to guard
against, as if the %halm regiments and military re-
public still existed. We hear of 70,000 soldiers, as
required to guard this new annexation of empire.
This is a war establishment which even the Ponyaub
could not pay. And the civilians seem resolved not to
undertake its administration without being armed to the
teeth and flanked in their every movement by cannon.
Whether annexation under such circumstances wee
the wisest resolve is a fact seriously to be mooted. Arid
at any rate it may be asked Au wholesale annexation
requisite? Wu it necessary to pass the Jhelum and
the Chenaub? Are we to keep and defend the re-
gion beyond the Indus ? Is our old rivalry with the
Aff.lans to be revived; and ire we again to be inte-
r. sted in the difficulties and dangers of the Khyber
Pass?
If we could call India a permanent empire, if our
race could be perpetuated there, or if we could meta-
morphose the native race into any degree of affinity
with ourselves, there would be room for hope. But
whilst we reap and they sow—whilst we form all the
upper, and functiorary, and proprietorial, and
educated class—whilst we are their governors,
maters, soldiers, judges, tax-gatherers, landlords,
police—to hope that we can solidly found an empire
on such an unmitigated helotry is =dues. And if
so, with what warrant and what prospects do we
labour to extend the wartace, and the cares, and the
difficulties of that empire P

Tax eight days' siege, bombardment, and destruction
of Bologriaby etetksaasuoneofe of the most
gross and infamous outrages span humanity and jus-
tice that ever took pinup, even in an uncivilised age.
What have the waftetunate inhabitants of Bologna
does to deserve so terrible a chastisement? They
did not expel the Pope ; they merely ac opted and
submitted to the state of things established in the
capital. The Bolognese never attacked Austria or
the Auerian dominions in Lombardy, and not even
the relatives of the Austrian dynasty in Modena.
Bols, indeed, drove from its gates a marauding
expedition of Austrian soldiers under WILDEN wbo
came to rob, and merely asked for money and con-
tributions.
Is it this act of self-defence, that the Austrian
Ciblahas now returned to avenge, merely because
ild do it in more security, the Romans having
at the same time on their hands a Neapolitan and a
French army? The Bolognese have faught to a Man—
nay, every woman and boy must have oostnbuted to
a defame that rivals that of fieregosso. How can an
enemy pretend, that they came to dislodge a faction
from a city, whose whole population offers such a
reelitance ? Or is it in the name of the Pope and his
reakeatiee, that these wholesale murderers have been

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1849.

let loose on the Roman states P Heaven ! what a
restorrion for a Cruistian pontiff! To be brought
back wading in the blood of thousands of his subjects!
No oriental massacre has been more wholesale than
that of Bologna. Tueoun or Bauer, or any Turkish
offerer of human heads, never did a work of butchery
more atrocious. And this is done in honour
of St. Peter's successor, forsooth, in whose
name a holocaust is made of the population reared
u subjects of a Christian prelate. If the catholic
world, laity and clergy, do not rise to protest and
clear themselves from all complicity in this work
of infamy and bleed, we amuse them of more than
Mabcmedan ferccity and hard-heartedness:, We
have heard the Pope called hard names, and laughed
at them, but no appellation can at all reach what
the Pope deserves, if such massacres in the nineteenth
century are to be committed in his name.
We will do the French the justice to say that, with
all their folly, they have shrunk from the task of de-
("ruction and murder. Genpral flu.....ninoT has as yet
preferred the ridicule of apparent discomfiture to the
crime of military massacre. And wears happy to see,
from the best absolutist authority, the correspondence
of the Vines, quo' ed elsewhere, that the French officers
and soldiers scorn to act as Janissaries to the Pope,
or to march to the slaughter of the Remus
merely to set up the Papal tiara. The Croats
may do this: the French soldier scorns it;
and we honour the French soldier for his
reluctance, even though it threatens to dissolve the
bonds of discipline. We trait, however, that the
French commander will be spared the disgrace d
eny harsh measure, and his absurd intervention may
be made to serve some other purposes than those d
tyranny and bloodshed.
Al! who have meddled in the Roman interference
have rasped disgrace. The French have bad to
swallow a nauseous potion. The Neapolitans sad
their king, so brave at butchering their own
have sneaked aside, like genuine cowards, event?e'
: re
the undisciplined bends of GARIBALDI. They have
hidden and entrenched themselves in the mountains
cf Albano, waiting for reinforcements—that is, wait-
ing for the French to do the fighting work for them,
in order that they, the Larisroni soldiers, might come
to do the dirty complement of robbery and murder.
The vain-glorious ruffians' had their letters even di-
rected to them to Rome, where they thought to ins'al
themselves at once as victors. But the heroes of Sicilian
and of Neapolitan massacre have shown themselves
what they were, when they bad even the most nudist-
*lined bands, composed of men, to fight.
ere must own that we look with more interest to
the change of ministry in Paris, for its probable
Beet on the Roman expedition, than for any results
it may have on France. The Roma* expedition evi-
dently went out with two faces and two seta of in-
struction', the one to extinguish liberty and Rome,
the other to save Rome and keep for it
• fair portion of freedom and lay govern-
ment. The triumph of the latter is most
desirable. Since the French have had the folly to
undertake this expedition, it is to be hoped they may
save the old capital of Christendom from the fate of
Bologna or the fate of Palermo. Poor Italy !
Who would have thought a year since, that your
aspirations for freedom, and struggle to attain it,
should end in the destruction of your palaces by
cannon—of year people by the sword, and of all
year enlightened deem by proscription, by exile, or
the executioner?

THE DERBY DAY.

The Wednesday of the Epsom race week Mr. C.
Antsy tellies is a great eatholle holiday. ILafertunately
the state of the weather, up to ten o'clock this naming, pre-
vented its being this timer eaholio as usual ; massy hun-
dreds of those who go merely to see the raw, sad to make a
holiday of it, prefering London smoke and the shalt r of a
tiled roof to the barmy breezes of the Surrey downs with the
shame of a thorough wetting in prospective. Oa this hypo-
thesis done can the very thin attendance at the sane of
action be accounted for, for with sour favourite' in the field
there was no lack of sporting interest.
The gathering in front of the Bogle, on the non*: of
the race, has fallen into disuse, the betting men, to avoid the
clamour and crush which have invariably made the trams-
don of butlers at this time-honoured bet most pentads*
inconvenient spot, so diflicalt, reserving their operations for
the inelosure on the course. No on. will deny that thee
changes are improvements, when it is borne ia due
whereas, In bygone times, in order to avoid the emit at
Ewell, and sense a good berth on the Doses, It wee mew
Nary to be stirring with the lark : one CIITI now devote a eft-
siderable portion of the more* to business la town, sad
reach the scene of mien keg bakes the commencenteat of
the news, at one fourth of the expense which the trip would
cost by the road. The changes on the Downs are not lees
important. The ring on the hill is one of the " has bens "
of the ancient regime, and pedestrians sen now move about
with Uttle danger of being trodden under foot; the bores
are saddled ia front of the stand, without interruption Irma
the mob ; are started without those vexatious failures that
have so often gives the victory to animals which, on their
merits, could not have won • EAU. plate ; the race is in view
from the commencement to the final struggle ,• sad the grand
stand hes becoree what it always ought to have been, the
centre alike of Miasma and pleasure. To suns up, Bum,
from being one of the wont endured IBeetless is the
kingdom, is now nearly everything whisk messy, Liter,
and experience can make it.
And now for the Derby, the only event eallieg fee any
settee beyond the official return. As will be palmed hem
what we have already said, little or nothing was dose la
the town ; but, from the " offers," it was set
difficult to make out that Nuanykirk was on the
goo" This was more &Mous on the come' and k
will be seen that he closed at nearly double the odds at
which be left off on Tuesday ; this decline was partly attri-
butable to a belief that be was abort of work, and partly to
a mionaderstanding in the stable as to the jockeys. Cat
tree ass went out of favour ; on the other hand Tadmor
and the Flying Dutchman were in imams, force, and left
off at 2to 1 each. The rase was filed for haltpast two, and
b, • few minutes after that time the hones, twensysix
in number, including no lees than eh from Joba floeu's
stable, weri conducted to the poet sad started without • mis-
take. The result of the race will he a heavy blow to the
"de; scarcely a man, we should say, escapee. Lord,
' lON= end his blends' end the " public" win all the
mom. The Carew Stakes ease off about four o'clock, and
the luta being run in quick time, the nose were brought to
• eanclusion at en early hoar.
Tie Denise Strums of 60 son. sub, h ft, for 3-yr olds;
eats, fat 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; the Hound horse to receive 10D
eota out of the stakes, and the wiener to pay 100 MM. to-
wards the police regulations. Mile and a bed. (237 subs.)
Lard Eglinton's Mrs Plying Dutchman (Mitriow)
Mr. Godwin's Hotspur (Wtutebonse
Gil. Peel's Tatham
Lnrd Clildser's Honeyounb
Mr. Bone's The Kowa kr. Battu
Lind Bateman Goodin:ad
Mr. Burgess's The Crowner U. Mrs
Lord enenry's Urfa. (Hamm
64 C. Monk's Vanguard
Mr. Penance's The Old Pox
Sir C. Coekerill's Thitault
Lad Egtinton's Mir es . , ...... •..... .... (J. Mai
Mr. 0. Nichall's Nonnykisii (J. Mama
Lord Exeter's Groan=
Mr. Campbell's Robert de Rm.... ... H. Bell)
Mr. H. Hill's Henry alarm OW. Dine
Mr. Watt's Chatterer
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Mr. It Green's Waster ........ ........ ......... (W
Mr J. Hawley's Team (s. lumen
eir O. Ihrattioote's Oempreden (Ralph Sherwood)
Mr. Finley's Old Dan Teaser (Tempiesian)
Mr. Dieney's Monneps (W. Arial
Ur. Gratwicke's Ini ner dgrave (Kitche
Mr. Jaques' Channel ( Simpson
Mr. Nickoll's Woolwich
Duke of Rutland's c by Charles XL. out of Flambeau's dam
(Pearl)
Betting : 2 to 1 apt Tadmor, 2 to 1 apt Flying Dutchman,
6 to 1 egst Nuanykirk, 10 to 1 agst Chatterer, 20 to 1 eget
Vatican, 25 to 1 apt Hon-ycomb, 25 to 1 apt Elthiroo, 30
to 1 agst the Knout, SO to 1 apt Uriel, 40 to 1 apt Old Dan
Tucker, 411 to 1 apt Robert de Bras, 50 to 1 opt Hotspur,
50 to 1 apt Montague. Lord Eglinton declared to win with
the Flying Dutchman. Wastes went in frost immediately
after startisg, and made play at a moderate pear, followed by
Cbsntrey, Tadmor, Vatican, iilthiron, Unit, Henry 04
Exeter, and Nunny kirk, the Datchman, end Old Dee
Tucker lying close up. This order was maintained for
rather more than a quarter of a mile. Wastes then dropped
into the ruck, and Vatican susumed the command, pad, I
Vihanti, Hotspar, Tadmor, and Noose kirk lying with
him, inwards in their wake coming Old Den Tucker,
the Duke of Rutland's colt, add the Flying Dutchman.
On reaching the turn, the front rank was thinned by the
defeat of Elthiron and Nuenykirk, the leading hors s
from this point to the caner bane Vatican, Uriel, Hot-
spur, and the two favourites. Vatican and Uriel were
beat. n before they got to the road, and the race was left to
the Flying Dutelman, Hotspur, and Tadmor, the former
be Int, the half-bred hors at his side, and Tadmor
third. Cal. Peel's horse was in difficulty half-way up the
distance, but Hotspur made a gallant fight of it, and was
so nearly level with his opponent opposite the stand,
that the issue appeared very doubtful. The Dutch-
man, however, ran the stoutest, and won by half a length.
Tadmor struggled on to the end, and was net beaten more
than • length from the wines r. Honeycomb laid off in the
I early part of the race, but passed his bow • one by one in
the straight running, and obtained a bad fourth place.
Uriel was fifth, and the Duke of Rutland's cult sixth.
Chatterer never showed in front. The race was run in
three minutes twelve seconds ;—slower than last year.
CAREW STARR/ of 5 love. each, with 30 ad ; three
pa, Tat 10lb ; four, Bst 111 b ; five, 94 21b; six and aged,
net 61b; mares and geldings allowed 3:b. The wiener to be
NM
for 150 son. if demanded, &a. Threes-queen of a mile.
Mr. C. flornehlsEollhara, Med (Hornsb7. Jun.)
P
OaL eels Darrell, 4 yrs Masan;
Ns. Maker's Resolution, 3 yrs
As Rogers
Mr. Weller's Pottlagsr, 3 rs
Mr. Penaby's br In by Mussy Maio* oat of Oussn's due
4 yrs (W. Planner)
Mr. Carew's Phikeopher S yre J. Marne)
Mr. Dawson's St. 3 yes _ Mirtirrillbt)
Mr. Bull's Ilogadnr, S yrs
ciLl. S. ;Ey
Mr. Death's Plebeia, 3 yrs
Mr. 8. L. roe's Paha, 4 yrs (3l7i
Betting: 7 to 4 ages Philoepher sad Taffrail, sto 1 agst
Resolution, and 7to 1 apt Bokhan. Bokhara ma's all the
running, and after a severe reel at the finish, won by a bead;
Pottinger • good third.—Run in 1 re. 22 sec.
The Burma SrAnna of 5 son. each, 30 added, 3 yr-olds,
Bst 21b ; tour, Bst 111 b; five, 9st ; six and aged, 94 41b ;
mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for
80 sovs. if demanded, die.. beets half • mile.
Mr. Burger's Hind of the Pored. 4 Sharp I 1
Mr. J. Try's Coke as. 4 yrs ..... ------Wakedeld 7 2
Captain Richard's lLasdrall,, 4ye Sly 2 3
Mr C. Cockerell's Kennett. 3no Brooks 6 4
Mr. Price's Dabbler, 3 yes W. Oates 5
Mr. Greville's Paquita, 3 yrs. Dockeray 3 dr
Mr. Miner's Grief, 3 yrs Rodney 4 dr
Fist best: 2 to 1 each age, Grief and Landrail ; won by
half • length—Psqui'a • bad third.
Second heat : 7 to 4 apt Toe Hind, won by two lengths--
the winner wee thirsted.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
THE OAKS.
11 to 2 apt Neter to Arkwright il2 to 1 spit Imperatrix (t)
11 2 Clarissa 12 1 Dear&
6 1 Glean l 4 1 Lady nuperior
6 1 IYoodierk
ET. L GER.

2 tot aesttl;e7yUreftutchman.
An accident, occasioned apparently from want of due
caution on the part of the driver, occurred to one of the spe-
cial up-trains on the Epsom line after the race. The train,
running as they were every ten minutes were comparatively
but a short dieanoe apart, sad a little below Croydon—one
of the trains being detained near that station—the one
which followed ran into it, damaging one of the carriages,
and brubing, by the ooncamion, several of the parengers—
some of them rather seriously. The alarm was congderable,
and to the occupants of the train which had been the cause
of the disaster by no n.eans lessened when, after resuming
their seats (mast of them having left the carriages when the
aceilent occurred), a cry of "jump out for your live*" was
raised—the next train, which by this time we. due, being
close upon them. Many obeyed the call, and did jump out.
One gentleman, in harlequin fashion, we observed leaping
out of the window of a first clam ciartisge ; and several
others, in their hurry to escape, fined themselves over
shoes in a ditch at the foot of the embankment. The driver
of the third engine, however, perceiving the danger signal,
speedily brought up his me* and no farther mischief
occurred.

SALE OF THE EYFECrd OF THE PRESIDENT OF '
FRANCIL-0a Timidity the sale by acetic. of the effects of
Prince Louis Napoleon INN concluded by Messrs. Christie
and Manson, on the premises, No. 3, Ling•stnet, Bt. James's.
square. The property consisted of a quantity of valuable
Gobelin tapestry, of choice pictures, engravings, furniture,
etc. the. Thera were 208 lots. The following ware among
those which fetched the highest prime :—The " Death of
Attala," by Guaira% 60 guineas ; an " Italian Landscape,"
try Terslick, 30 guineas; " The Entombment, with Joseph
el Armethra, the Marys, and two Assets," epagsoletti,
100 opium ; The Virgin and Chill, with two Saints,"
Early Florentine, 60 guineas ; Dada% and Icarus," by
David, 100 guineas, " Manger and Atalanta," Venetian,
1001. ; a fine piece of Othello tapestry, with a Sacrifice, %%-
resided by the imperial crown sad cypher, and eagles at the
erthles (this was the property of the Emperor Napoleon), 200
guineas ; a magniflosnt eldeneey 52;sal rare Egyptian
granite, sculptured with a him of , 300 guineas.
ACCIDENT ON THE RITES— 0 Livzs LOST.—
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, an %%lent
oceurred on the river, neer the St. Hatharine's steam packet
wharf, by which two man were drowned. It appears that
two fishermen were navigating a small Peter-boat down the
river, and on reaching ate Tower, they made towards the
New tlaity steam tug, which was about proceeding to
Gravesend, to tow a vessel up into the docks. One of the men
In the Peter•boat, made feet his boat to the stern of the
Unity, for the purpose of beteg towed dews the rim. The
Unity started shortly aftwews, and the two men sat in the
stern of their boat. Oa yewidag St. Irealborlaa's steam
packet wharf, the Peemalisit wee swidonly upset by the
swell from the seam tie,sal a•ese imeedrately sunk.
Several boats wens pet of from the denee, but before any
whine. Isedd Wreaks* the mos diropearod and were
we seea alleweraoda. The walnuts doemod the river, but
woeer mile is fat 114 Wish