The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1852.

CASTLE D LORAIN E; or, the Ruined Peer.
By Maria Priscilla Smith. 3 Vol's. Bentley.
To convey political opinions through the medium
of :a work of fiction, is not, generally spaaking, an easy.
or a successful und:rLaking, but the authoress of
"Castle Deloraine" has been unusually fortunate,
both in the selection of her theme and in the manner
in which ehe has presented it to the public. The in-
terest, of the story, is not diminished by its poli-
tical bearing. Tne novelist is not sacrificed to
the politician ; on the contrary, whatever ad-
verse opinions may ba elicitad by the infe-
rences drawn from the ruined fortunes of Castle
Deloraine, there can be but one opinion as to the in-
teresting nature ot the love-story which from first to
lest fascinates the reader's attention, and (far more
forcibly than; any other chapters written with that
avowed intention) points a moral, and teaches a ter-
rible lesson. In the conception and arrangement t f
this work Miss Smith exhibits some of the most
necessary characteristics of a good novelist.
The characters of both heroines are skil-
fully and beautifully.
drawn, and the unfor-
tunate hero by, turns the object of our pity
and indignation. The story, be it added, is cf a
mournful and even. tragi▪ c nature, occasionally con-
taining so much of natural pathos as powerfully to
affect the heart of the reader. For these portions of
her work we hold Miss Smith to be entitled to higher
praise than for the more argumentative chapters, ex•
cellent though these may be.; for the novelist should, i
to our thinking, share n the aspiration of him who
said, " Let who will make the laws of a
country so that I make the ballads." He who can
sway the hearts of many ▪
possesses the true power.
The politics of "Castle Deloraine" are:of the most
liberal and truly popular character. The tenantry of
Deloraine are a specimen of that miserable class
ground down to the death to pay rents to an absent
landlord, and that landlord, " the ruined Peer," is
himself forced to resort to all the expedients of po-
verty while nominally the possessor of vast estates,
which he is prevented from either disposing of or
enjoying, partly by the instrumentality of bad laws
and partly through his own iniquitous conduct, for
no laws, however good, could have given happiness
or respectabilty to a Lord Deloraine.
• • e may safely
commend this novel to the reading public as, apart
from a fascinating story, it contains much judicious
and thoughtful writing. The sorrows of the poor
cannot be too often brought under the- consideration
of the powerful.

" Evil is wrought
From want of thought,
As well as want of heart:"
hence we must feel grateful to all who, like Miss•
Smith, introduce the neglected and disagreeable topic
in a pleasing guise to high places, where otherwise it
might be passed over and its very existence ignored.

POETRY FOR CHILDHOOD. POETRY
FOR YOUTH. Original and Selected. By
Miss Jerrnyn.
An excellent collection of poems of real merit,
very much in contrast to the works usually arranged
for children. " The Poetry for Youth" is also of a
superior elms, being extracts from the best authors.
Miss Jermyn has displayed much taste and judgment
in the selection of these pieces.

A. VISIT TO ARUNDEL CASTLE.
Th i 6 is a description of Arundel Castle and the
scenery surrounding. It contains a history of the
Earls of Arundel. It describes the position of the
castle, the dungeons, the 0:d Keep, the owls, &c. It
gives an account of the siege of the castle and its
restoration. It is profusely illustrated.

CHAMBERS'S PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE.
This is the twelfth volume of this excellent series,
and contains its usual variety. There are two tales,
in one of " Marfreda ; or the Icelanders," is de-
scribed the anxiety felt by the inhabitants of that
distant istarld to share in the literary and scientific
ad vantages of the more civilized world. There are
also articles on the Incas of Peru, the Progress of
Atnerice, and the Duke of Wellington.

HOW TO EMIGRATE ; a Tale for All Classes.
By William Kingston, Esq.
An interesting tale, describing the adventures of
several families who emigrate to Australia. It gives
directions which are very useful to such adventurers.
It speaks in a calm end reasonable manner of the
pro?pects of colonists, and while greatly advocating
emigration does not deny that toil and perseverance
are necessary to attain the desired end.
A T-

RIP to the UNITED STATES and CA-
NADA. In a Series of Letters. By Edward W.
Watkin.

Among the numerous books of travel which have
of late years been issued from the British press we
cannot particularise any one more intrinsically valua-
ble then the excellent and unpretentious volume of
Mr. Watkin. It is replete with a mass of valuable
information, lucidly and succinctly conveyed by the
pen of an evidently clear-headed and practical man.
The circumstances end progress of North America
cannot but be deeply interesting to every thinking
man of "the mother country," considering the im-
portance and extent of our mutual commercial rela-
tions, and the peculiar intimacy of the alliance sub-
sisting between us. Hitherto those visitors to the
States who have given their impressions to the public
have rather sought to contribute to our amusement,
by depicting the social peculiarities of our Transat-
lantic kinsmen, than to present a candid and impartial
view cf the mighty resources, the daring energy, and
the shrewd intelligence of the citizens of the wonder-
ful Western Federation. Not so the writer of the
letters before us, who within the
a compass of 150
D zes offers a plain unvarnished tale of the expe-
riences
of his brief but comprehensive travel, which
k
may well put more ambitious writers to the blush.
d Any English youngster," says Mr. Watkins, o will
tell you that
Areesicans speak through their noses, spit, and bold
slaves; but bow few, even of the most intelligent, know
that better English is. spoken by the mass of American,
by the majority of -L-,
than .L'eglish citizens, and that
education is practically an institution of the United
and universal; though at home it hardly exists
States,
as a system, and can never be extended in any truly
national direction without. exciting a war of parties!
Be the reason what it may, We h
ave been in the habit
of looking down on. ,America,, iv
Those who wish to gaze at ruins
.. e shall soon perhaps
have to look up to it.:.rh
need not go to it. ose. who i
"4' yearn for the sight
of crown jewels, or ancient armour, had better stay
away, But to all who. would
has spread
Aonuei in her largest features, for the
See the realm which
Nature
development of the . g o-dSazon race, under institutions
oven yet wondered at as
wh?
thudwoul see how a people can
once deemed Utopian, an
experimental—to a I.
grow --
North America i's
attraction• country of irresistible
"
dates
Mr. Watkin d
the first two of his series of letters
(which are dedicate to Mr. Carr Glyn, M.P., the
North-Western Railway
on board the steam-ship Asia in
chairman of the London end
Company) from
which he left Liverpool on the 16th of August last,
when within a few hours return to the
and the list,
on the 7th of the following Octo-
ber. This was quick wehrk ,but he had an eye to see,
a mind to digest, and and to describe, in no ordi-
nary degree of excellence.f I
s'ahng at New York
on the 28th of August,
_a ter a stay of forty.eight
he steamed up the Hudson hour
to Albany in a boat
caned7a ,c slow" one, because it at the rate
of only seventeen miles an hour, progressesusive of stoppages,
WilereL3, we are told, the Reindeer does the journey
at the rate of twenty or twenty-two
miles an hour.
Thenco through Schmeetady to Saratoga , up
the
beautiful Lake Champlain ; across the frontier to the
banks of the St. Lawrence; and so to
,Montreal on
the evening of the2d of September. IQ.
By steamer our
tourist next dropped down to Quebec, with its
Ina.
pregnable citadel and admirable commercial position,
pre,
and retracing his course up the river, worked
along
Lake Ontario from Kingston to Toronto, which he describes as being evidently a
highly prosperous place. " It has a Anthoroughly
to-Saxon cast about it and looks
, new and bright.
Everywhere is the appearance of vigorous trade
and
rapid extenaion." Niagara is, of course, next visited,
and well and graphically is the great wonder t
West described. We then find him at Dastofhe
i.oit
eshence by rail, through, the country of the B 1 ack,
Hawks and of Tecumseh, and steamer across I elk°
Michigan, he reaches Chicago on the llth. Chita
the verge of the great prairies of. the 'nine, :gu
is on
ens to
get athe main object a
view. of which was
our tra-
veller's crossing the lake, and after indulgin—
g this
' le curiosity he steams across. to ,g mietti,an
reasoner,
shore, and drives back
,6 •
city," on the southern
thrc sign
Laporte rend Carlil3e Hill to Detroit.
thentre he hi ei,an
opportunity of bearing one of
Governormost erni nent
members of the Americanbar, Sees lard ,
whose name is familiar to our readers as the .v larm
visit to the rer friend of Kossuth in his presenthroceeds by ~ th-e. ates.
Again crossing Lake Eri,e,,thee p_
Erie railroad,,th%grheatt
public work of Americr,
distance of 460 m'l fromu 1 es
recently completed, a
that city '.
Dunkirk to NEW York, revisiting. .3n, the
n of two d. :a half
17th, after his delightful excursion
27th, the dall
weeks. Between then and the
absence hPprof his
departure for Europe (his leave of
and Lowell, - out),
he visits New Haven, Boston,
and Wr Oil
the
one side, and Philadelphia, Baltimore,
not 1 I'slling-
ton on the other. This certainlyLett in g the
was
limits grass grow under his feet. Did our. Per Ix .it, we
would indulge freely in extracts this
from trio; it in-
teresti do little ea
ng tour ; as it is, we can °lse thau
cordieely recommend it to general attention, more ! of 1 'nfor '
par-
ticularly for the condensed amount mats on as
r •
to the system and progress of the American ad, ways.
Oa this head Letter XXI. contains matter wells verth
the prlice Of the entire little volume ; and when it is
considered that slavery, the public land system. , and
almost every great topic of interest, is also tree' ed of
in a masterly sketch (independent of the sum Wary
which we subjoin from the Preface) we cant (:)t be

accused of any undue partiality in according to Mr.
Wu tkin's production our earacst approbation. it is a
daguerreotype of _North America.
" It is but sixty. two years since the foundation of the
Republic. I:, then C3D:iAed of thitacen small stores.
It new comprises twenty-Line statts; without rpekcming
the i;etv dominions of Oregon, California, New Mexicp,
and Texas. Ten years ego its araa wa3 2.000,000 square
miles, or more than 1,300,000,000 of acres. That area
has become, in 1850, 3,252,689 spun?, miles, or
2,061,717,760 acres. It is thus nearly thirty times the
size of Great Britain and Ireland.
" The
_Republic no' possesses an ocean coast of 5.140
miles —Naza 1,920 on the Atlantic, 1,620 en the Pacific,
and 1.600 on the Gulf of Mexico.
" Its population in 1790 was less than 4,000,000; in
1840 it stood at 17,000,000; it is now 25,000,000. And
if its vast territory, with a more productive soil, cud
greater resources of all kinds, should son day become
as thickly peopled a 3 our own island, it will then contain
a population of 800 000,000 of souls speaking the
English tongue. If the Federation hold together in
peace, why should this result, though distant, be
doubtful? For it now comprises almost every variety of
soil, climate, vegetable productions, and mineral wealth.
Its 20,000 miles of river and lake navigation—its 10,000
miles of railway—its 4 000 miles of canal—and its
11,000 miles of telegraphic wire—connect every part of
its vast territory together, and give to an interminable
continent the compactness of a small island. The
facilities of communication, too, place at the command
of the people of ono part of the country the climate of
every other. When the thermometer is below zero at
New York, a journey of three days will bring the tra-
veller to Savannah, where a genial temperature of 60
degrees, clear skies, and verdant nature, await him.
And when a scorching sun is filling New Orleans with
never, the cool weather of` the North, and upon the
:treat lakes, is healthy and delightful. The apple bloomed
a; Natchez in 1850, as early as the 24th March; while
at Montpelier, in Vermont, it bloomed on the 10th June.
The distance between the two places is but three or four
days' travel.
" One can hardly name a staple article of production
which some part or other of the States will not grow—
not as a mere garden curiosity, but as an article of pro-
fitable cultivation. The champagne of Cincinnati is be-
ginning to be noted, and tea is under experimental
cultivation in South Carolina.
" The mineral resources of the country are enormous;
and their development is only limited by the present
want of capital to work them more efficiently. The
coal of Pennsylvania—the iron in various parts of the
Union—the copper of Lake Superior—the lead about
Galena on the Mississippi; and lastly, the gold of Cali-
fornia, which has already put in circulation a coinage of
15,000,0001. sterling—all these, are but the first tapping
of almost:boundless resources.
"In 1791, the public debt of the United States was

75,000,000 of dollars. It is now, with six times the
population, only 64,000,000; and in the same period the
imports of the country have increased from a value of
52,000,000 of dollars, to 147,000,000: the exports from
19,000,000 to 145,000,000; and the tonnage of shipping
from 500,000 tons to 3,300,000.

" The post-office statistics show how the transmission
of intelligence has outstripped even the march of popu-
lation. In 1790, the number of post-offices in the entire
States was 75; in 1850, the number was 16,789. • In
1790, there were 4,875 miles of post routes; in 1850,
there were 167,703. In 1790, the whole post-office
revenue was 37,905 dollars; in 1850, it was 4,905,176
dollars; which sum consisted of 4,082,762 dollars for
letters, and 819,016 dollars for newspapers and pam-
phlets. The mileage run in transportation of letters in
1850, was 42,544,069 miles, at a cost, for transportation
only, of a little more than twopence-halfpenny per mile.
And the total number of letters conveyed was
67,500,000; 62,000,000 of which were paid, and
5,500,000 free and franked.
" To come from letters to arms, it is a curious fact, as
exhibiting the real military strength of this great
country, that the militia force of the States amounts to
1,960,265 men, or us many as the whole population of
Canada, or twc-thirds of that of Scotland, who could be
called out and in the field in less than a month.
" The school funds belonging to the respective states,
swelled by the constant eddition of every sixteenth sec-
tion of Government land sold, are very large. Those
belonging to seventeen free states amounted in 1850, in
fixed value, to 21,400,000 dollars. Popular education is
the condition on which all new states are admitted into
the Union.

" There are 121 colleges in the States; with a total
of 950 instructors; 50,115 alumni; 9,02 S ministers; and
11,565 students; and having 769,079 volumes in their
libraries. •

" And without a farthing from the State, or from
any source beyond the Free-will offerings of the people,
to support them, there are in this country of yesterday,
30,217 churches (exclusive of those belonging to the
Wesleyans) connected with the various seets of Chris-
tians; 26,588 ministers, and 4,558,168 communicants, or
1 in 5i of the population.
" This country, then, possesses all the elements which
are usually considered es contributing to civilization and
to power. It has far outstripped us in the rate of its
progress; and it becomes every d sy, more and more, the
refuge for the industrious poverty, not only of Great
Britain, but of Eurepe."
We cannot forbear adding the following dispas-
sionate and sensible remarks on the thorny slave
question :
" I have found throughout my tour, what all English
travellers must find—that slavery is a question which it
is better not to go out of one's way to discuss. For,
although I have had many frien thy conversations with
its most ardent supporters and most violent opponents, I
soon discovered, on the one hand, that the question is
practically compromised by the vest political parties in
the free states, from time to time, in order to conciliate
Southern votes; and, on the other, that the slave-owners
consider the word abolition' as synonymous with con-
fiscation and servile war. The latter meet you at the
outset of the argument by stating, that their whole pro-
perty consists of land and slaves. That their lands of
course derive their value from cultivation; and that,
apart from the mere question of cost, that cultivation is
impossible in the hands of the wiaite man. They tell
you, that while the negro endures the labour of the rice
field mid-leg deep in water, and with a scorching sun
above his head, without danger, anti can withstand the
miasma hanging in the night air on the plantations; the
white man is attacked with hopeless fever if he expose
himself to these influences. They declare that the un-
conditional abolition of slavery, ire a country abounding
in unappropriated lands, where ins ,n may squat without
being disturbed, means simply the, confiscation of three
hundred millions sterling, the valtr.t) of the slaves iu the
first place, and the abandonment mud the destruction of
the entire planting interest, in the second. To urge the
morality of; the question with those men, would be as
successful as a similar appeal to our opium traders; to
the maker of fire-arms certain i:o burst; or, to use an
American free•state illustration—to the successful ma-
nufacturer of wooden nutmegs.

"After bearing these statemonts, doubtless exagge-
rated, but which were made with .Dttruestness, and are at
least partially true, I was not sus riled to learn, that
since the forcible seizare of a aThve at Boston, some
months ago, by the abolitionists of that city, many of
the Southern merchants have transferred their pur-
chases of manufactured goods to New York, to an extent
which, were it not stated on auth ovity, would be beyond
belief. Indeed, I learn that so s trong is this anti-aboli-
tion feeling, that were any option. exists, the avowed
abolitionists are systematically avoided its business
dealings. A first class firm in New York, having a
magnificent shop in Broadway, sco their old Southern
customers pass by to a rival establishment in the same
street, the only reason being that they are known to be
earnest abolitionists, while their :rival has never publicly
expressed his opinion on the ques ti.on.

• •
• • • •
" The fugitive slave law' is, indeed, simply a decla-
ratory Act. For it is unfortunt.ttily the fact that the
Southern States gave in their adhoaion to the Federal
Republic solely on condition that,, while the slave trade
should cease, the institution of slavery should be re-
spected, and they should have Coe right to follow and
seizo fugitive slaves in any part of the Union. The
fugitive slave law' was the work of the ' Union' party—
a party composed of mon of all shades of opinion, who
wish, by conciliation, to prevent; the threatened with-
drawal of South Carolina and other slave states from
the Union.

" Greatly es all just and disp ansionate men must ab-
hor slavery, every one must ad re it the difficulties with
which its immediate abolition is b.ere surrounded. The
negro does not possess the er.irdial. sympathy of the white
man. For while a small, and, politically speaking, un-
influential party are prepared to. wake every sacrifice
and run all risks in order to blot out slavery on the in-
stant, the influential and acting headers of the majority,
whatever their occasional langue,g,e of denunciation, and
affectation of horror, are not di.aposed to brave the re-
bellion of the South, and the p )14sible disruption of the
Republic, for the sake of shorte Ding the thraldom of the
negro some fifty years. They profess to rely upon the
natural progress of events, which, by quiet charge, has
already banished slavery from t a majority of the states
originally parties to the Union; and has, within the last
few years, forbidden the future .existence of slave states
north of latitude 36 deg. 30 min.—for the gradual ex-
tinction of the system; and in the mean time they are
prepared to alleviate the lot of tae slave; to refuse any
extension of slavery; and, as is in as concession can ob-
tain it, to narrow the area which it now occupies.
`jPerhaps, should these cold political views still hold
possession of the moving spirits of the country, tho nest
practical step in 'advance may b e to secure to the slave
a personal right to some small portion of the day, and to
the produce of his labour in ft:At portion;--to say, in
fact, that after a stipulated nu.naber of hours labour for
his master, the remainder of laic time shall be his own.
The effect of this would be to (enable him legally to "-
cumulate property. And if, in addition, a minimum
price be fixed at which his in aster should. be bound to
allow him to redeem himself, and savings' banks were
'
opened to receive the produce of his free earnings,.
some glimmering of daylight would dawn upon his lot,
and his condition, as a chat tel, to be bought and sold,
would not be hopeless."

THE EARTII AND MAN; Lectures on com-
parative Physical Geography. By Arnold, Guirot.
This volume is translated from the I rencb, by. C.
C. Felten. It treats of the figure of the coniincnts,
the oceans, the winds of the temperate rtgionF, the
distribution of the rains, .and similar subject/. In
speaking of the maritime .zon.e,,. the author observes
of the East Indies,
aster descrioing its singular vege-
tation
.. Everything most grand
.and powerful of the pro-
ductions of the animal world is there encountered. The
rhinoceros, the huge royal td Ter, the oratw-outang, are
all inhabitants of those cow] tries. If to these' we add
tic mineral wealth, the gold, and the diamonds which
there abound, we Laity pronc,unce thou® regions the most
richly endowed of the universe. But let us raise cur-

selves above the limits of the natural, into the inions cf
the historic rorhl. Whey!) nave we behe•id all ievie
nd soceitics arrivo at their highest perfection, if not in
Euroi;e, that i:eoiosular continent, the most indented
Fuld tuos; maritime of cll cowmen s? Call together your
historic,d recollections, acrd cast your eyes upon the map
of the world, and you will sec that all the highly civi-
lized peoples of the world, with the exception of one or
two primitive nations, have lived, or sail live, on the
margins of seas or oceans."

DIG TIONAI?Y OF GREEK AND ROMAN
G 1.-:' OGI?APHY. Part 1. Edited Gy Milliam Smith,
L L.D. Taylor, Walton, and illaLev.
Scholars will not fail to welcome another classical
dictionary, edited by a man as experienced in such
matters as the learned and pains-taking Dr. Smith,
to whose erudition and to whose industry they are
already indebted for many other works of a similar
and equally valuable descriptim. His dictionary,
for example, of Pagan Mythology, has long since been
recognised, and deservedly, as the standard bock of
reference on the religions and divinities of Heathen-
dom. Ills Dictionary of Antiquities, in like manner,
lies come to be regarded with implicit con-
fidence by archaeologists. A kindred compila-
tion is here adventured upon, and this time
the energies of Dr. Smith and his gifted
corps of contributors will be directed to the elu-
cidation of the difficulties of inquiry in relation to
Greek and Roman Geography. Part 1., as the in-
itial number, gives large hone of success in the un-
dertaking. Throughout the letter-press is embellished
with appropriate illustrations. Additional portions
are promised, in the form of a quarterly periodical,
until the work is completed—its contents being com-
prised in one large volume, as in the instance of its
two remarkable predecessors. Conducted to its close
with equal spirit, we doubt not that the book here
commenced will in every way prove worthy of its
editor's reputation. .

ME Two. FAMILIES. By the Author of
10

" Rose Douglas.- Smith and Elder, Cornhill.
This tale is called "an episode in the . history of
Chapelton," a small country town. The characters
are well drawn, and although none of them possess
qualities to inspire admiration, with the exception of
Mary Wilson, the story is entertaining. The hero of
the first volume is Ben Wilson, the son of a pauper
woman, who runs away from his home to escape
being apprenticed to some trade. After the lapse of
many years he returns from India with a fortune,
buys an estate in the neighbourhood, and appears the
wealthiest inhabitant of the town where he once lived
on charity. The concluding part of the narrative
proves the wickedness of bringing up an heiress in
self-indulgence and flattery. Eliza, who succeeds to
her father's estate, is a lamentable instance of early
mismanagement.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 26.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
younger members of the Royal Family, took their
usual pony and walking exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel F. H. Seymour, and Colonel Hon. Charles
Grey, went to town at two o'clock to-day, by a spe-
cial train of the South-Western Railway.
The Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Constance
Leveson. Gower, and Major. General Hon. George
Cathcart left the Castle tc-day.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday of b-rnoon at a meeting of the Surplus Com-
mittee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
the Works of Industry of all Nations in ISSI.
• His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour, arrived at the Palace at Westmin-
ster at three o'clock in the afternoon. The other
members of the committee present wcre, the Right
Hon. flenry Labouchere, Sir William Cubitt, Sir
Charles L. Eastlake, Sir Charles Lyel!, and Mr.
Cobden, M.P. Mr. Edgar Bowring (secretary)
attended.

The meeting Inch up at five o'clock, when Prince
Albert, attended by his equerry in waiting, took his
departur," for Windsor Castle.
Mr. F. Mdwatt, M.P., had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, on the
subject of the Metropolitan Water Supply and Drain-
age Bill.
Major-General the lion. George Cathcart, Gover-
nor of the Cape of Good Hope, arrived in town yes-
terday 'morning from 'Windsor Castle. The general
had an interview with Earl Grey in the afternoon at
the Colernial-office.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walker, Mr. Knox,
and R. Roy (directors), and Mr. W. G. Roy (solicitor
to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany), and Mr. Stewart (secretary), and Mr. Carter
(solicitor), Mr. Ledsham, Captain Huisb, and Mr.
Morgan., representing the London and North-Western
Railway Company, had an interview with the Right
Hon. 11. Labouchere yesterday, at the railway de-
partment of the Board of Trade.
Mr. G. England (solicitor), Howden, and Mr. W.
B. Beckitt (solicitor), transacted business at the rail-
way department, of the Board of Trade yesterday.
Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in DoWning-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) ar-
rived in town yesterday evening, from his seat,
Bowood-park, Wiltshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Canada.
Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party on
Saturday at their residence in Chesham-place. The
company included the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen ; the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister;
the Earl and Countess of Minto, the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. D.
Seymour, and Mr. James Hudson.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
• 25 to 1 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Merry's Ringleader—taken freely
33 to 1 agat Mr. Greville's Ariosto
40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Scarecrow—taken freely
40 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Cockcrow
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Waterford's Duc-an-Dharras—t
2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Tomkins's Urbanity—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Gooch's Surprise—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Payne's The Mouse--taken.
The only horses backed, except for a trifle, were Ring-
leader, Scarecrow, and Cockcrow; we have quoted the
hying prices agst Nancy and Ariosto. They were not
backed.

DERBY.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hcbbie Noble—taken freely
13 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur
14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse—take 15 to I
16 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—takon freely
17 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Kingston
25 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Lapidist—taken
25 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Filius—taken
30 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Homebrewed—t.
The odds returned agst Bobbie Noble and Orelio were
taken to a considerable amount, for all the money, in
fact, that could be got on. 25 to 1 was taken, onto in
hundreds, about Lapidist (the taker offering to go on);
95 and 30 to 1, to four or five hundred pounds, about
Filius (5,000 to 200 in one bet); and 30 to 1 and 1,000
to 30, rather freely, about Homebrewed.
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, 1852.
Weights for the Liverpool Steeplechase.
Lord George, list 101b—Sir John, list 101b—Vain
Hope, I Ist 41b—Abd-el-Fader, Ilst 41b--Sir Peter
Laurie, list 21b—Peter Simple, -list 21b—
D
Dhurras, llst 21b—Ltiey Neale, I Ist 21b—peter, lelst
-3.12-
View-halloo, list—Fernhill, I Ist—Chieftain, lOst 121 b
—Bourton, lost 101b—Bedford, 6 yrs, 103 t 101
lOst 101b—Little Queen, lOst 10113--Po cr b--Agia,
101 b
-_Postilion,
ds
.t
8 1 ion 10-tglb_
Warner, 103 t 81b—Maria Day,.lost 6113.....5t.
61b—Melford, lOst 61b--
an of Arc, lOst 61b—_Oscar, lOst. 61b—
KissawaY, lOst 61b
half, 10It 61b—Jo
Brae 1" raYl
simple Harry, lost 61b—IVE,8 311
103 t 41b—
Llardwiek, lOst 21b—Dolly's5
yes, 9st 121b--LaOst—Silent Friend,
94 121b—Bedford,
9st 121 b— Gezza Ladla,
M•Ion,
9st 121b—Vengeamte,
9st 10Ib--.-Forest
Lad, 9st 101b—Abbot Laurence, gat 101b—Maria Moak,
9st 81b—Janus, 93t 81b—.
—Csrrig, 9st 81b— in, 9st 81b—Bullfinch, 93t 81b
Venture, 9st 81b--De Ginkle, 9st 7lb
—Victress, Set 71b—Lamienne,9st 71b—Cogia, 9st 61b—
AlalY' 9st 61b—Eg6t, 9st 61b—Maid of the West,
9st 61b—Cripple,
9 silt i
41b—Royal
11 vRe ,037gat l 41 b
Blue,— S
9c
satv_e 41b—Scavenger,
9st 41b—Maurice D9a3ly,
jury, 9st—Buscot Hinton pays forfeit.
Forfeits to be declaredt
by the 1 lth of February.
Handicap for the Spring Cop.—Mile and three-quarters.
Cossack, Sat 71b—The Marquis, 7st 71b—Merry Peal
7st 71h—Abdallah, 7st 41b—Hungerford, 7st 2113----Lough
Bilvin, 7st 21k lanthe, 7st 01b—Prior of Lanercost,6st
121b—Cou
Wiseman ntosP, 6st 121b—Ebor, Est 121b—Cardinal
_ ram) 6st 101b--Kilquade, 6st 101b—Abbess of .Ter
veaux, Est 81b—Melford, 6st 81b—La Flanc6e, 6st 81h—
_ Letter-press, bat 81b—Ischia, Est 41b—Porto Bello colt
6st 41b—First Fruits, 6st 41b—Young Troublesome, 66t
01b—True Girl, sst .121b—Merry Bird, Sit 121b—Sir
Charles Napier, sst 61b—Zelmyre, sst 21b—Joe Miller,
sst 21b—Fallow Doe,
_ sst 21b—Don Carlos, sst 01b—
Snowdrop, 4st 121b—Banshee, 4st 81b—Surprise, 4st 81b.
Forfeits to be declared as above.

THE NEW NOVELS.—The following new and po-
pular Works of Fiction, published by Messrs. Colburn and
Co., may be bad at all the Libraries :-1. Mr. Warburton's
Darien ; or, The Merchant Prince. 2. The Heir of Arden-
an, a Story of Domestic Life in Scotland, by the author
of "Anne Dysart. 3. Emily Howard, by Mrs. Dunlop. 4.
"
Jacob Bendixen, the Jew, by Mary Howitt. 5. Ravens-
cliffe, by the author of " Emilia Wyndham." 6. Falken-
burg, by the author of " Mildred:Vernon." 7. Clara tiar-
a Domestic Tale. 8. Mrs. Mathews; or Family
rin
Mysgton,teries, by Mrs. Trollope. 9. Cecile, or the Pervert, by
the author of " Rockingham," 1 vol. 10. The Livingstoues ;
a Story of Real Life. 11. Marian Withers,
by Geraldine E.
Dewsbury. 12. The Lady and the Priest, by Mrs. Ma-
beriy. 13. Lady Ponson yb 's Clare Abbey., 14. Caleb
Field, by the author of " Margaret Maitland:' Also, just
ready, 1. Hearts and Altars, by Robert Bell, Esq., author
of di The Ladder of Gold," &c. 2. Ruth Garnett, an Mato.
rival Romance.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCI* . •.„•.
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C.3.,M.P has Fits •
turned to the Admiralty, from Portsmouth.
„i
Britannia, 12', Captain Goldsmith i took cn board‘ i;.4 iAlci4•"%./Wa-
yesterday a quantity of heading knti ()mix cabin furni-
turn, for the use of Admiral Dundee, from tie ckckyard,
which he ecketed on Friday and Saturda.y, when at
Portsmouth. tike has bent .ud has lightened the
ship by tlizeiarging her shot and some of her water,
to enable her to g,:; out of harbour to Spithead to-morrow.
Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Captain Gordon, is
ordered to ho detached tor the Medi:erranean, and to
return to Lisbon, to be under the orders of Commodore
Martin.

Pieta, , 36 (the first of Sir William S:,montis's 36's).
it wa.i re-ported some time since was being converted, at
Pembroke, into a s.:,rew-ship. Thie, we are sosry to
i
find, is incorrect. A great deal of expense is bring o•
curred in repzirinn—er rather renewing, this bad,
co..tly, and otaaoletc man•of-war.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.--A court martial, com-
prising.. Rear-Admiral H. Prescott. C. 8.. President ;
Laptain 11. C. Chads. C. 8.. of the Excellent ; Captain
G. G. Martin,,C.B., of the Victory ; Captain Goldsmith,
of the Britannia ; Captain Yates, of the Neptune ; Cap-
tain Warden, of the Retribution ; and Mr. G. L. Greet-
hum, Deputy Judge-Advocate cf the Fleet, assembled
this morning on board the flag-ship Victory to try Mr
Lewis Scott Re eceovrepss.
sFeirrysitngLiienuhteeraramiata
joefsthye,sr
sMhiapjesty's
Royal Rod-
ney C Maap.t.rl6ll'raham, C.B. (who was the prosecutor under
the Admtrahy), on the following charges :—" For that
fh 2e3r
/. M
o ajn eastcye'csnsnhtipo Rodney,f the ward-
room did
the said Fiat Lieutenant Lewis Scott Reeves, while
borne u
omit to pay
upon
thethbeorkusmoof
mess, although a letter was addressed to him by
Colonel Menzies, K.H., pledging himself to pay the -same
gum, such conduct being unbecoming the character of an
officer and a gentleman; and allowed a debt of 271. 7s.
for his mess, and a debt of 10/. i .s. 6d. for wine, to
accrue since he joined the ship; also for having at-
sented himself from her Majesty's ship Rodney, without
leave, from the 13th to the 17th inst."
The clerk (Mr. Freelock) of the Rodney, proved the
entry on the books of that ship, on the ISth of August
last, of the prisoner. It appears that by the regulations
of all messes in her Majesty's naval service, it is cus-
tomary for each member thereof to pay the amount of
his monthly subscription thereto in advance, at the com-
mencement of every month. The evidence was much too
lengthy and void of general interest even to epitomise it.
The prisoner's defence set forth, that with respect to the
first charge, circumstances et • a private nature over
which he had no control prevented his fulfilling the pre-
mise made by him to Colonel Menzies (the Com-
mandant of the Royal Marine division to which the
prisoner belonged'), namely, to pay the sum of 23/. 9n or
before the Ist of January, and that he had no fraudulent
intention of withholding the same. With regard to ab-
senting himself from his ship without leave, he threw
himself on the mercy of the Court; he alleged he had
received no orders to go on board, either from Captain
Hunt (commanding the Marine detachment on board the
Rodney) or from any other officer.
The Court having heard the evidence in support of
the charge', and what the prisoner had to allege in (li-
r fence, and having weighed and deliberated upon the
whole, where of opinion that the last charge had not
been proved, and therefore adjeged him to be acquitted
thereof; but with regard to the other charges, they
had been fully proved against him, and therefore sen-
tenced him to be dismissed her Majesty's ship Rodney,
and to be placed at the bottom of the list of First Lieu-
tenants of Royal Marines.
Th© Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden, went
apt of harbour this afternoon, and anchored at Spit-
head.

The Fairy royal stcam•yacht, blaster• Commander
Welch, was undccked to-day, and taken into the basin
to receive her boilers.
WooLwroll, JAN. 26.—Captain Sir Baldwin Walker,
K.C.B , surveyor to the navy , and Mr. Isaac Wattr, as-
sistant surveyor of the navy, visited' Woolwich dock-
yard, and remained for some time on board the High-
tlyer steam-sloor, in the basic, anti now nearly ready for
trial down the river.
The Lizard steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich this
afternoon from Sheerness, and will proceed up the river
to Blakwall tc-morrow, to embark a parry who are to
proceed to Sheerness to witness the testing of anchors
and their holding powers in the anchorage ground off
that port.

The Tyne store-3hip, Master-Commander Peter Wel-
-scgton, is at present under the ,h(•(,...rs on the river side
of 'ale basin a: this dockyard, havitz her rigging and
outside repairs effected previous to taking. on board a
supply of stores :or the Isloud of Ascension and
A detachment of Royal Marines will embark in her
when reedy for a passage to Ascension, where they ate
to be shitioned.
The Resistance, 10, troop-ship, Almtcr-Commander
Bradshaw, is still at this port, undergoing a refit pre-
paratory to further service in the conveyance of troops.

DIGNITY OF THE /AMERICAN PRESS —The Editor
of the American Mechanic has encountered trials unknown
to ordinary men. Hearken unto his wafflings :—" Owing to
the facts that our papermaker disappointed us, the mails
failed, and deprived us of our exchanges, a Dutch pedlar
stole our sciesors, the rats ran off with our paste, and the
devils went to the circus, while the editor was at home
nursing babies, our paper is unavoidably delayed beyond the
proper period of publication."—New York Daybook.
THE WEATIIF.R. IN THE NOETH OF EUROPE —A
letter of the 13th inst. from Mundal, in the province of
Christiansand (Norway), says:—" In the last week, we have
had the thermometer at eight degrees above the freezing
point; the trees are beginning to bud, add the fields are
covered with flowers, as in the finest day of spring. This
is an event unexampled in our country. The lower classes,
in their ignorance, attribute the extraordinary mildness of
the weather to the last great solar eclipses, which they say
removed Norway farther to the southward. This warmth
does not, however, please every one, for the continual rain
which has fallen hap rendered the roads impassable, while
with our ordinary winters the
.cerumun*ations are always
open by means of sledges.— Gabgnani.

• - -
PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING PARLlAMENT.—Pre-
parations on a very extensive scale are being made on the
works of the new Houses of Parliament for the approaching
session, which will be opened by her Majesty in person on
the 3d of the ensuing month. The old House of Commons
and adjacent buildings in Abingdon-street, and the tempo-
rary wooden erections and hoardings in Palace-yard, facing
the entrance to Westminster-hall, have been pulled down,
and the whole space thrown open, affording an uninterrupted
view of the end wings of the new palace. The entrance to
the House of Commens will be through Westminster-hall, a
noble flight of steps at the western end leading to the main
corridor or avenue of the chambers. The hall will be lighted
by several gas illuminations of a spiral circular form, which
will have a most charming effect upon the fine and stately
proportions of the structure. The entrance of the Victoria
Tower will be used for the first time by her Majesty on the
the Thames, has
approaching opening. The State carriage will proceed under
the tower, and her Majesty, alighting, will be conducted
along the Royal corridor to the House of Lords. The entire
lliignhetoefd b quay,
ysoomrbeen
and from the water
has a very pleasing effect.
some forty promenade, or fatty fronting
g a e 1 a m p 8 ,
THE SUCCESSOR TO THE AMAZON.—.As- we stated
last week, the directors of tbe West India R
ee
mr , toa rma a
andke Val Mail
uPAmazon. The Arabia
Steam-packet Company have Just completed th
e void created
from the British and North American Royal he void
so far tillf II
C6lllpany,
was launched at Greenock on the 2
course of completion in the dockyard4th ult. and is in the
b ofy
thetil e losses Araboi af
the ste
a raD
of lee-.
Glasgow. She is considered the mr Napier, or
American
steam-liners. The engines
finest of all the North
largest size, we believe, ev are side levers of the
er put
cylinders being 103 inches in d' on board a vessel, the
stroke. The collective diameter, with a nine-feet
upwards of 1,000-horse power of the two engines will be
The wheels are 37 feet dpower, working at a low pressure.
of the Arabia are as we iameter. The principal dimensions
of keel and fore rake, have already given 'them—Length
breadth of beam, 2
_235 feet; length on deck, 310 feet;
nage, 2402 ton, 40.8
feet ; depth of hold 27.7 feet ; ton-
enabled to part with The owners have been the more readily
another of their the Arabia from the fact that the Persia,
launched ' liners, is so far advanced that she will be
in April next.
SottTu-EA
the Tunbed STERN RAILWAY.—It is intended to open
out to HasitP-w-ells and Hastings branch of this line through-
nags on the Ist of next month. This will be the
shot te t s route by •
railway from London to Hastings.
NORTH DEVON RAlLWAY.—Preparations are being
made by the contractor to resume the works on this line,
with a view to their completion. It is intended to complete
the winks at various places on the line so soon as the coat_
party obtain possession of the requisite land, which it is ex-
pected will be in the course of a few weeks.

The Earl of Derby will entertain at dinner a
number of the Peers of the Country party on Monday neat;
and on the ensuing Wednesday and Saturday the Noble
Earl will give dinner parties to the Members of the Lower
House who at present sit at the Opposition side of the
Commons.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have enter-
tained a succession of visitors at Brcadlands during the week.
.
THE Loss OF TUE AMAZON.-11 this inquiry
yesterday, the remainder of the evidence given by the wit-
nesses before the Board of Trade was almost a reapitulation
of the statements they had previously given before the direc-
tors of the company, and therefore we have not thought it
necessary to give it at length. The inquiry was adjourned
till to-morrow (this day).

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SHIPPING DISASTERS NEAR LlVERPooL.—very
Channel during
heavy weather has been experienced in the to
the past few days. The Leeds, an old steamer belonging
the Dublin Steam Packet Company, sunk on Sundaybot4 were of
south-west of Point Lynas. The cattle 011
picked up by
to the
course destroyed, though the passengers
the ship Empire State. A schooner. the Speculation,we laden
vi to Runcorn, was
with copper ore, and bound from d 'andthe
crew a),
completely disabled in the Channel onnyee:eds Steamer,
will
t. fortunately
thuen
alittle
crew having been rescued by tiffePrfLa.
d however, she was
vessel was left to her fate.
Yesterday,
in tow by a steam-
brought into dock, having been
the
tag. The cargo, unlike that o
be little affected by the water.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— yesterday morning a fire
... „„ . . .
Picture-frame
of air. poletti,
broke out on the premises,.
burned down • the top ,floors of dwelling
maker, of 64, Banner-street, St. Luke's. The whole of the.
and workshops, burnt g
°Ps, out; the
back workshops
house, used as store-roomsnisander of house and contents
roof destroyed. Tad
er
.e
, r., & Mrs. Foletti was seriously injured jsuervedebyy
damaged b) --
fit. window. The contents were insured in the
jumping °II ° Tire-office.'
were bur .
The house No. 63, Banner. street,
Phoenix r,,avern, was
damaged by fire.
It was
is.
.
the Monarch Fire- office, Several of the premises
cured in ,
ere damaged more or less severel ter
contiguous v.
rby fire, waters
s
called the Hope 1
and removal.
CHEAP BEER.—The agitation for the reduction of
the price of beer is rapidly progressing amongst the work-
favourablelC On Wednesday evening- _
last several district
meetings were held, at Whiell the reports were of the most
character, and a practical result may be shortly
anticipated. So strongly prevalent is the
feeling at the
east end of the town in favour of the movement
that it has been resolved to convene a public meeting for the
populous districts of Shoreditcb, Hackney, &c.
SOMETHING LIRE A CLIMATE'. -- The Albany
Knichepbocker, of August, says--.., The weather has beta
' all hot.' We saw a woman do her ironing with no other
fuel than the sunshine. When we came away, she hung
her kettle out of the window to get tea ready."

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