The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

THE

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL SUNDAY AFTEIrNION.
m;i Earet; C Veir,
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dal, we nave anvices front NT w Yeik t)y telegraph
to the 18th inst. She brings 208,000 dolls. on
freight.
The steamship Pacific arrived at New York on
the 12th, and the Canada on the 18th, both from
Liverpool. The steamer Arctic was passed on the
27rn inst.
The screw-steamer City-of Manchester sailed from
Philadelphia on the 14th for Liverpool with 40,000
dolls. in specie on freight. Upwards of 1 000,000 dolls.
had been received at New York by the swan,- ship El
Dorado-
The steam-ship California left San Francisco on
the 17th ult. with 1,400,443 dolls. in specie on
freight. A conducts left the airy of Mexico: for
Vera Cruz on the 20th ult. with 2,000,000 dolls. on
freigr;t.
The New York money-market was active. The
stock market was depressed.
Exchange on London, 110 to 1104.
Cotton was in good demand at steady prices. Sales
on the 17th, 3,800 bales.
Bread-stuffs firm, and in good demand; Indian
corn dull.
Provisions without change.
Iron dull. Freights to London at firm rates.
The failure of Carleton and Co., dry goods jobbers,
of New York, it announced ; their liabilities are
700,000 dolls., and assets 140.000 dolls.
Much indignation was manifested at Mobile while
Cneva ier Hulseman, the Austrian Charge, was there;
he was " charivaried" at his hotel by a large crowd,
consisting mostly of Germans.
From California we have advices to the 21st of
January. The weather was fine, and both miners
and farmers were in good spirits. The late rains and
high waters had caused a cessation of mining in the
rivers, but increased operations had taken place on
the high land dry diggings, from which immense
quantities of gold were being washed. Quartz
mining was progre,sing favourably. Several valu-
able silver mines hod been discevered on the western
boundary of Chihue, and en the eastern boundary of
Sonora. Business in San Francisco was generally
satisfactory. Exchange on London, 43, at 60 days'
sight. Money was plentiful and obtainable on lower
terms. No change worthy of notice in dry goods.
The stock of all descriptions of hardware heavy, and
the demand limited. The market was glutted with
French and Malaga wines.
Colonel Fremout's title to the Mariposa gold estate
was resisted.
The United States troops, who created so much
disorder at Kingston, had been prevented from landing
at Chagres.
A difficulty occurred at Leon, on the 29th ult., be-
tween the Government party and the Picherigines,
which resulted fatally to the latter. The Government
were impressing citizens and mariners into their

service.
One third of the most populous section of San Juan
de Nieutagua had been destroyed by fire oti the 4th
iost.Lbut assistance was rendered by her Majesty's
ship Express.
The CJypso left San Juan on the 31st ult., and
the Saranc' on the 23d tilt.
The Supreme Government of the State of Hon-
durcs had issued a decree relative to the occupation
of the Rio Romano by Sir James Green in her Ma-
jesty's ship Bermuda. The decree declares such pro-
ceedings outrageous and unlawful, and authorised the
punishment of the aggressom
Jamaica advices to the 10th inst. are unimportant.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.)
The following cotton statement from New York to
the 18th inst. was received by electric telegraph at
Halifax on the 19th :
"Ite,c,ipts, 1852, 1,563 565 bale 4; diAo,lBsl, 1,446,434
bales; increase, 117,.131 bales. Receipo, to GI ea; Britain,
18.52, 525,820 bales; difi,o, 1851, 442,155 bales; in-
crease, 83.665 bales. Total exports to foirign ports,
1852, 826.718 bales; ditto, 1851. 733,964 wiles; in-
crease, 42,754 bales. Stocks on baud ai,d on shipboard,
1852, 533,731 bales; ditto, 1851, 658,256 bales; de-
crease, 124,525 bales."
Cotton is quoted to-day at 71-c. to 7c. for mid.:
dling, and Btc. for fair.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
Arrived at New York—Tne Pacific and Canada
steamers from Liverpool, Louisa Bliss from Newport,
Statira Morse from Glasgow, Robert A. Lewis from.
Cardiff, A. Z. Henry Gardner and Isaac Webb from
Liverpool.
Arrived at New Orleans—The Marion from Glasgow,
Arab from Bristol, Parthenon from Newport, Minne-
sota from Havre, Glen from Cardiff; Rome, Diadem,
and Patrick Henry, from London; Hope, from Oregon;
Augustus, ArabelL, Maria, Hyperien, and Charlotte,
from Manchester; Warbler from California, and Henry
Gardner and Olive from Liverpool.
Arrived at Charlestown.:--The Hashes and Abraham
Young from Liverpool.
Arrived at Boston—The Howard from Liver Venice,
001.
Arrived itt Philadelphia—The S iranak, Hero, V
and James Pennell, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Mobile—The Lady Milton, Patriarch,
Eliza Pixie, Washington, Chester, and Rankin, from
Liverpool.
The British barque Larch, from Liverpool for Charles-
town, before reported ashore on Stoney breakers near
Charlestown-light, was fast breaking up at last advices,
and would be a total wreck.
Arrived at Apalachicola--The Raritan from Dublin,
and Columbia, Importer, and England from Liverpool.
The ship Rome, from London, arrived at New Orleans,
reports that on the Ist tilt., in lat. 37 20, long. 38 10 fell
in with barque Medium, from Newport for City Point.
Virginia, with railroad iron, in a sinking condition, and
took off her officers and crew.
The ship Asbaurton sailed from New York on the
he
1311 of February for Liverpool, and got ashore t
same nig'nt in a snow-storm, but was got off on the
14,h, and proceeded apparently without any injury.
The ship Carioca, of Boston, from Glasgow for
PhiiHdelphia, was fallen in with, abandoned, on the 19th
of N .vernber, in let. 39, long. 30, with jibboom, foretop-
mast, arid rudder gone, apparently not long in that
situation.

OVERLAND MAIL

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) I
TRIESTE, FEB. 29„
The Pyroscriphe arrived on the 2811) inst.
We learn from Bombay, under date of the 3a of-
February, that a second Burmese War bad com-

me need.
Tne new Viceroy arrived at Rangoon on the 4th
of January. He had refused to receive any deputa-
tions from the British commander, had forbidden
communication between the shore and the vessels,
insulted the British flag, and erected batteries and
stockades below the town to prevent the departure
of any of the vessels Ding there. The commodore
proclaimed a blockide of the mouths of the Ira-
waddy.
On the 9th the Viceroy wrote to the Commodore
to allow the passage of the river ; he had set fire to
the batteries mentioned.
The Pyroscaphe, Fox, and Hermes, were attacked
by the batteries in passing. They replied to the
fire, di- stroyed the fortifications, and killed nearly 300
perioans.
Imports weal; ; exports the same as at our last
advice&
Government Five per Cents., 105 r.; Debt, Four
per Cent,, 941 r.
Exchange on London, at six months' sight, 2s. ld.
Freights to London, 2/. ss. to 2/ 10s. per ton ; ditto
to Liverpool, 21. 7s 61. par tor.—Chronicle.

GAZINE DAY,
BLACKWOOD.

bis wife and an enthusiast about Borrioboola-Gha ;
Miss Barbary, Esther's aunt ; Mrs. Rachael her ser-
vant, the twin Miss Donnys, the schoolmistresses at
Reading, and The Little Old Lady. Such is the first
t;l€7. nrincipal fault (;'
appc.•ats to be its contusion: This, however,
may be cleared up or accounted for by subsequent
instalments. The illustrations by Phiz are, as usual,
graceful and characteristic, though in one of them
the jug should have had no handle, and Peepy, we
think, should not have made his appearance.

LITERATURE.
SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL GEO-
GRAPHY. By Alexander Keith Johnston. Black-
wood and Sons.
As a geographer, Mr. Johnston has
long since
acquired a very high and deserved reputation. His
''National Atlas" alone would be sufficient of itself
to establish his fame, both in regard to the skill of his
arrangement and the accuracy of his information.
Besides that important work, however, others have
proceeded from his hand in rapid succession, and not
the least admirable the series of charts appended by
him to the " History of Europe" by Mr. Alison. Those
who have ever used the Maps of Mr. Johnston in illus-
tration of the annalist's account of battle
or campaign, will bear the fact in remem-
brance with grateful sentiments such as can•
not be very easily obliterated. In the volume here
published by the Messrs. Blackwood he has concen-
trated, as it were in one focus, all the more conspicuous
excellences hitherto deemed d,sirable in a school ;;atlas
of general geography. Every plate is on a larger scale
then those heretofore generally
employed for purposes
of education : consequently more is capable of being dis-
played to the student, and that, moreover, with a
necessary increase of accuracy. Again—the facts
recorded on the maps are in every instance, according
even to the explicit announcement of the pxefaces
"brought up to the time of publication:,
Added to
' this, the colouring is throughout at once more vivid
being produced by a mechanical process
an ingenious arrangement the scholar
ainnstuanidfoorby the fatigued hand and ,
is always enabled to detect what are the possessions
dazzled. eye of a
colourist. By
of Great Britain—all our territories throughout
the globe being painted red in the plates relating to
either hemisphere. Various other advantages have
been combined in the volume under notice,—such as
those of a copious index, of a series of clear and com-
prehensible scales,, and of a difference of aspect
between the two elements, land aid water—advantages
which constitute the present the most complete and
valuable " School Atlas " hitherto published, and one
which cannot fail, it' adopted, to advance very mate-
rially the progress of popular education.

Ph
JH otSzsl CAL GEO-
ton. Blackwood
SCHOOL
GRApny.ATBLyAASIexO.
,KF
eit
and Sons.
leveryoue ecqueinted with the celebrated " Physical
pitome
ed to
of
Atlas," by Mr. Johnstoe—one of,the most extraordi-
nary productions of its kind that has ever appeared—
will need no assurance from ourselves to be satisfiha
ed
iphreedt
etoheessp,rm) present. volume vooluoeme
entitl
v(eary 8 o fltar goef largely
admiration. As a preliminary to the study
of the geologis', the cosmogonist, the zoologist, the
botanist, the ichthyologist, the entomologist, and,
above all, of the ethnologist--a book somewhat of this
character is absolutely indispensable. It elucidates
more clearly than any description whatsoever, whether
written or oral, matters that unless mapped out
would, to the youthful intellect, be utterly incompre-
hensible. In this manner, therefore, Mr. Johnston
is a pioneer to some of the greatest philosophers of
our ege. He prepares the mind of the student for the
abstruse pages of Mrs. Somerville, for the luminous
researches of Lyell, for the analytic discourses of
Liebig, for the records of Murchison, for the argu-
ments of Latham, and for the lofty and sublime dis-
quisitions of Humboldt. Even to the educated adult,
to those tolerably well versed in the more consider-
able among the physical sciences, the diffu-
sion over the surface of the globe of certain attri-
butes or aspects of matter is ]table to fall into almost
inextricable confusion, unless aided by some lucid and
reliable guide, .such as that furnished by this volume
of Mr. Johnston. In its eighteen plates are syste-
matically arranged all the most valuable statistics re-
lating to hydrology, to geology, to natural history,
and to. meteorology. As a frontispiece we have dis-
played to us the elements of chartography, as well as
of physical geography : and immediately afterwards
are given charts of the ocean currents of the world—
of the comparative sizes of the principal lakes of the
globe—and of the various river systems in both he-
omhiasrpthseorefste .h Subsequently
ie;ire ranged in succession,
charts plains, table-lands, and
mountains. Three admirable plates afford an accu-
-1 ate and instantaneous notion of the distribution, if
one may so call it, of the winds, the rains, and the
temperature. Thereupon follow maps show-
ing the distribution of vegetable life, the dis-
tribution of animal life, the distribution of
the various races of man, and last, but not by any
means the most insignificant of bit these subjects, the
distribution and extent of the different forms of reli-
gion. An aggregation of facts so inestimable as these,
and an arrangement of those facts as lucid as their variety
is apparently bewildering—is, each, a task the ade-
quate accomplishment of which would of itself be
sufficient to confer lasting honour upon any indivi-
dual. They have both been effected by Mr. Johnston
on a grand :scale, in his more costly work entitled
" The Physical Atlas," and the pith, the marrow, the
quintessence of the whole has again been given to
the public by him, in a more p able
to the price, a more generall- accessible form, as a
minor atlas, compiled with articular view to the
use of our intelligent semin arP Upon the perfect
wishes realization of all hisort and, in regard
bt
ii'S
n this.
respect we have
reason here to proffer Mr.
Johnston our most cordial
and most earnest congratulations.

KING'S HEAD TAVERN POULTRI"..—The Te-open-
ing of this "ancient hostelry," under the auspices of the new
proprietors, Messrs. Sellwood and Neale, was celebrated on
Saturday by a sumptuous inaugural dinner, J. Thompson,
Esq., in the chair, supported by the Sheriffs of London and
Middlesex, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, Mr. L. Thompson,
e'
&c. Between seventy and eighty gentlemen sat down to the
banquet. After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, the
chairman, in proposing success to the King's Head Tavern
and prosperity to Mr. Sellwood and his partner, adverted to
several hirtorical and interesting events connected with this
house as far back as the time of the Restoration. He next
stated that Mr. Sellwood had for fifteen years been connected
with the London Tavern, and that fact, he was sure,
was a sufficient guarantee for the most unremitting atten-
tion to every department connected with the cuisine
of the establishment. The
tors started was, to supply the best of everything at the
lowest possible prices, and :
P,nrintchiep proprie-
lie congratulated Mr. Sellwood on the presence of the
Sheriffs and tO many other kind friends, who thus testified
the respect which they entertained for him personally. Mr.
Sellwood, in a very appropriate and modest speech, returned
lemoonstwilcOcmilfotrhtaeble style.
thanks. The toasts of "The Press" and "The Proprietor of
the London Tavern" were severally. drank with much cor-
diality, Mr. Bathe responding to the latter toast. The
greater part of the company, remained to'the latest moment
that propriety would allow on a Saturday night, and the en-
tertainment went off with great éclat. Messrs. ,F. Smith,
Genge, and others added much to the hilarity of the evening
by their vocal exertions. Messrs. Sellwood and Co. are
eminently entitled to the
the public, and we cordiallY wish them every success in their
arduous undertaking, patronage of their friends and of

ALIAMENTART DINNER.—The
--- ,
THE SPEAKER'S PA
Speaker gave his third
The following Members °it, the House of Commons were pre-
sent:—Therliamentary dinner on Saturday.
s,iociuoro, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Marquis of
Robert Grosvenor, Mr.
held another
Wortley, Mr. Goulburn, Sir by Herbert, Mr. James Stuart
Glad James Graham, Mr. Edward El-
Ili ce elf, More.
MasterW il l iamo f Et b e
Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir Tho
The-
der, Mr. Wilson Patten, l‘fr,
Rolls, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Tuf-
raaes,,,,k)aptain Fitzroy, Mr. Charteris,
siger (Attorney-G.-neral), aff`',. Dyke Acland, Sir Frederic The-
Mmooondck,
mtonr.
GM.ilAfe.se,
AvMero.dillehe.n
Loftus Wigram, Mr. Crow-
der, Mr. Posey, Mr.
sent. The Speaker's le-
bindisposition. Sir Robert
10. Baring, Mr. Henry Drum. I
vented from attending thraugi:r. Evelyn Denison was pre-
Ferguson was also unavoidably
vees will be held on Saturday
27th instant, at ten o'clock.
her
fashionable re-union,
the 20th and Saturday the
IFSCaOhnUeNrTstEOS:
PARTY.—The
on Saturday evening last, at
Yisircoriunte-\sl's
Carlton-gardens. This soiree, thou hr ladyship's residence,
tended as' on previous occasions, not so numerously
recherche and and select ; several members Was nevertheless very
tique and a long list of the aristocratic of the corps' diploma-
Ladyship's saloons, during the evratic world graced her
arrival of the company the noble belling' Previous t° the
following select private dinner party ostess presided over the
tess of Shaftesbury, Admiral and Ais'—"The Earl and Coun-
Mr. and the Misses Sullivan, Sir, 3,Bowles, ,Vlr. Hippegh
i Percy Burrell, and the Hon. Mr. wail-lel:1r" Hemming, Sir.
OFFICIAL AppooTmENTs. rruil Cowper.
has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Derby
braham to be his private secretary. e Hon. Edward Wil-
the Treasury, is also acting as the Mr. C. W. Stronge, oL
of the Premier. The Right Ron.iSeond private secretary
pointed as hls private secretary at ',LIT- Walpole has ap-
Spencer Perceval, grandson of
Minister of George the Third. ur. the Home Office, Sir.
The E Perceval, the Prime
appointed Mr. George Barris as hi., Earl of valor he
has.
cretary at the Foreign Office. Sir :joicordabio,
pointed his nor. Mr. .1..1w Showy Pailin private se-
Pakingt.n, has ap-
secretary at the Colonial Office, m_ingtOti, as his private
Treasury, is appointed private secretary J. H. Cole, of the
the Exchequer. Tire Duke of
pointed the Hon. F. S. I'. ,a4nY.
,to the Chaecellor of
pethatnto t.humbedard has ap
tary at Ihe A,imiralty. Mr. S. it. m. r, his private score-
assistant to the secretaries of the Treasura e, prinalp,tl cleik
a service of 50 years. Sir. Leake is succeeded
has retired atter
S:ephenson, one of the senior clerks, who
oeewed by Mr. W. H.
tary to Sir Robert Peel, when prime Minister. a 3 private
Ste-
phensonsecre-
is succeeded by Mr. T. P.
sistant clerks.
coNsuLAB ArrousTmENT9._The
lion. Henry
Prendergast ITereker is appointed her mafesty,s consul at
Rio Grande du Sol. Samuel Vines, Es appointed con.
sue at Para. Charles Spink, Es,
is €1:. is
appointed consul at
Maranbam. Randall Callender, Eq ' 1
•
8 appointed consul at
St. Catherine's.
HORRIBLE DEATH FROM SCALDING.—On Satur-
day Mr. W. Carter held_p inquest at the Cottage of Content
Tavern, Lock's-field,
1, alworth' Upon the body of Alfred
Okey, aged three years, the son of a dye-sinker, residing near
the above house. The deceased upset a kettle of boiling
water over himself, from the effects of Which he dial... Ye-
ti dick, "Accidental Death." .

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE' BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDATS.)
Sir.—On Friday the 27th Feb. the House met foir
the-purpose of installing the Bread-. Taxers on the
Ministerial benches, and doing 'other things towerds
the Counter-Revolution which has been accomplished'
here as in France. This comes of tossing up of caph
upon partial success, and believing— that- there Si:
thenceforth never to be a contest or an enemy agail.
The same folly, if it had had its way, would have pi t
the West Riding at this moment under the directions
of -a French general of division. There were to be
no more Protectionists, no more war, no more any-
thing we did not like ; and to this the interests of yoh
and yours have been sacrificed, and many among yon
may die of thin porridge before there is a chance Of
the thing being set right again. There is no saying-
what may be in the chapter of accidents ; but the
man is a simpleton whit trusts to that chapter. The
great lesson of human life appears to be, that fore-
sight, prudence, energy, putting down a danger twice
sooner thanleave half of it to get up again, shall be
the conditions of safety, and they who act other.
wise shall be sure to suffer in the end. Like the
French in the revolution of 1830, you have trusted
to les habiles (the skilled men), and les habiles have
let in the enemy again. It was clear, after the very
first moves, that this was the course things were
taking. It cannot have taken you by surprise, for ao
far as one pen or voice could go, it has been dinned:
into you till you were tired of it.
And now what will you do? If you should ask
me for counsel, I will give it as fast as I know how.
In the mean time, there only occurs to me a sailorts
proverb, teo rough to be quoted in its original vigout.
You must bear the consequences, with such contere
lions of countenance as you may be unable to 11-
strain, It is so proverbially easier to keep a bird
w hen you have it, than to recover it after it has been
let go, that it would be deceiving you to hold out
any pteabing prospect. The same causes which have
prevented your keeping Free Trade when you bad itt,
will act against your recovering it. There will be
the same cry of " All will go well ; let things alone ;
sit down and open your mouth, and
,see what. will '
drop into it;"—and in the end it will be" Who would
have thought it?"' as it was before. It is very likely
that at some time or other Tree‘Tradet. will carry the
'day ; but in the mean time lam afraid there must be-
another " siege of Bolton," another Test Hill at Brad
ford, women and cbildrencrying in the streets, because
the leaders whom public opinion raised to the power
of carrying one victory, could not be persuaded to
take the means of preventing your enemies' return ;
because they were far too eager to divide the stock and
go to rest under the shadow of their laurels, to be on
their guard agaiust an able adversary, working day
and night to recover his lost positions. Human his-
tory does not produce an of a great cause to
wantonly end needlessly thrown back into the hands
of its- opponents.
I love distinctness, and hate insinuations. I there!,
fore repeat. with deliberation, what it has been my
endeavour to, impress upon you over and over while
there was still time for action, that this cause has
been lost or thrown into the dirt, because its supposed
guardians in Parliament threw up their brief
and declined defending it against the attacks of
its opponents. They were doing every-thing except
the one thing
.needful they were sent to do. They
were diverging into every scheme remote from this,
which however it may agree with future ages of the
world, was incompatible with the present. They
would have no more war, no more fleets, no more
armies, because they did not like them. They might
as well have said -they would have no more surgery,
no more cholera, no more hospitals, for the same rea-
son. They were thinking of Paper duties, Stamp
duties, Window duties; anything but the defence of
Free Trade, which was what they were sent to look
after. And while they were snatching at these,
they were letting fall out of their mouths the sub-
stantial mutton of your Free Trade, which it was
their 'first business to hold. I repeat it yet again,
that if the Protectionists bad been stuck to and
answered in Parliament, as they might have been if
those who had the freedom of the House bad attended
to their business, there would have been as little
chance of seeing what we now see, as of the little
boys in your factories undertaking to call themselves
the owners, and presenting themselves in that capa-
city in the Piece Hall.'
On the meeting of the House on Friday, Sir James
Graham took his seat on thee front bench of the Oppo-
sition side. One of the first proceedings was miffing 1
for ,new writs for the boroughs vacated by the ac-
ceptors of office- some of which excited laughter.
There is in truth something wonderful about the
construction of.the thing called government. If you
were to proceed in the same manner with a single
one of your West Riding commercial eitabii,hments,
certain ruin would be the result; what a wonderful
instance therefore of the powers of nature, that
directly the contrary should be the rule
for the commerce of a nation ! For example,
an individual of whom it is known that he has
written novels, but not that he ever did a sum in
rule of three inverse or found a mean proportional,
is invested with the charge of the Exchequer, and pro-
posing the taxes which are to fill it. A Tory country
magistrate, and they say a good one, is charged
with the superintendence of all matters relating to
your trade and foreign plantations ; on which probably
the only point be has ever had feirly brought under his
consideration, is that by putting an end to the foreign
orders of the West Riding manufacturers he might raise
the price of corn. And an active Chairman of Quarter
Sessions is suddenly endowed with the care and ma-
nagement of fifty fractious Colonies.' There is no-
thing in the story-books half so ridiculous. And
viewing it on the serious eide,—for there is a very
serious one to you, whose bread this is all to take
away,—it can be paralleled only by the event of the
laet.attempt in France, where a party whose success
would have been everywhere treated as a jest a few
months before, was by the fact of everybody being
found asleep wno ought to have resisted it, enabled to
start in a course of retrogradation towards the bar-
barous ages, of which heeven only knows the termi-
nation. It was the English 2nd of December and
counter-revolution; with the difference that the
tactic in one case was audacity, and in the other pro-
crastination. One result, however, is clearly made
out ; there can be no mouths made hereafter, en the
score of giving
.office to extreme men. The member
for the West Riding needs have no scruples about
being made President of the Board of Trade when
his turn comes. March upon that from this moment,
and you will have done some good.
The two first movements of the restored Govern-
ment were wonderfully characteristic ; a motion to
issue a writ for Harwich, and a trumpet sounded for
an attack on the Catholics through Maynooth. On
the first of these, if a division had been gone to, there'
seemed no reason why there should not have been a
majority against the Ministry. But the timid and
those who were for avoiding a Dissolution made a
great noise, and so it was turned into a drawn battle
by the withdrawal both of the amendment and the
original motion. The attack upon Maynooth was
conducted by those appeals to Heaven which are
equally at the command of well-meaning men of -all
sects, and declarations of the impossibility that a con-
scientious man should see a religious opponent taking
any- share of what is contributed by all. There are
plainly two movements going on ; a House of Com-
mons InF vement which is the real and substantial one,
and a movement in another place, which may turnput
the most perilous to you of the two.
The declaration of the Prime Minister in that other
place,isairobably the most dangerous to you that could
have 3een devised. It is precisely the thing to produce
to you the maximum of peril. It is just the thing to
rally against you all the elements of inactivity, delay,and
comproinise. In all contests it is an excellent quality.
'to be able to judge of the talent displayed in the op-
posite ranks ; and it is quite of the . school which
has just lost you the game for the present, to shut the
ee es to an adversary's knowledge of his weappns.
The Prime Minister talks of articles which " admi!
or do not admit the expenditure of British labour.
The point lie means to maintain, 'is that West Riding
labour labour is not. British labour; or-at least so neuhc.or of
it as goes' for; foreign orders.' He avows his t
ies
tyo
to be the American one; an d the American one ,f
put down such foreign exports es go in return or
anything which a man at home offers tot mofaktehodeoaorner.
.and worse,- taking the difference
.ou
0..
er
guar.
sumer's pock. 4 without balance
alien tn
maker of the
ters, and calling the pin
dearer end worse, the -" incidehnotfar gain to the com-
mence!) President,
munity. This-was the word of
te
no is in itself ati argu,:eheereegainst the repub-
such notions can be
liee3a form olg°verigneri: °wee.. This is hiS Lord-
thrown up into the seat p
isuy does not see.why it
ship's theory; and he sPeoe cr-o. Is this enough sae you ;
should not be applied to Do you perceive that the
or do you wait for more?„ow again; or will ou
Corn-laws are let in tiP"'" e
till you meet it in
postpone the
,kliowledige., ,your
rioviutoce to reverte
to suppose thatthis re.
sstlrieietstlesileizowuilelth bPtnanakeKinedig
should no; have happen • you once again,
• • is one of certain and illimitable
:/lat your porhur
ebentetunYkiesplteotuint. ‘i‘nh°benlicaaiguhset
He nhoarie ebsoenenetilneucrsaerde
Peril, and that the
ues
jos
men would.huve it so,
was takens i toY alirc ieancdonta
nrnaodrw). . e ah
and dandled, e the wonder_
ful .American boy 'who .
at
six
:jeers old
bad beaten his father. Somethitii, as Mr.
eneawber has it, may " turn to relieve
you; but only. Ur. Micawbers trust to what
may " turn up. The probability is that you must
go through a long course of bitter suffering beforethe
public nerves are strung to such an extent as removed
the Corn-laws once, and wanted nothing, but
care to
keep them out. I doubt whether our West Riding
friends are yet above half conscious of the fact, that the
plan is to stop all that portion of their trade and manu-
factures which now goes abroad to foreigners for corn,

in order to set up the growers of dear corn at home,
and charge the consumers gratuitously, after all other
gains and losses are balanced, with the difference of
price. This is the intent in hand, and it is put for-
ward gently, cautiously, tenderly, as a veterinary ar-
tist dealswith a horse whose tail he is going to am-.
putate;---as.yntir tail, which is your trade, is going to
be docked, for the service Of your enemies. Alas!
alas I—that with sa fine a chance before you, you
could not hinder it from coming.to this. Man is born
to trouble, as the sparks fly upward; but he was not
born to the necessity of- seeing his own house take
fire, when he could as easily have hindered it.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN, OLD REFORMER.
'Blackheath March 1, 1852.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. -A Lord of the Admiralty,
or some Candidate in the Government inzerest, is
anxiously looked for, here to contest the borongli at
the approaching. election. The candidates at present
in
the field are the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr.•
Sergeant Gaselee, and Lnrd Frederick Fitzelarence, all
Whigs. It is rumoured among the electors that the
Hun. Captain Rous contemplates coming forward.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen,
acting-master commanding, returned to this. port yes-
terday morning, from Dublin, whither she had borne
the remains of the Right on. R. L. Sheil for later-
ment. She brought from Plymouth some men from
the gunnery-ship Hotspur as volunteers to join the
Arctic expedition.
The Lightning,
Allen,Lightning, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-Com-
waleft yesterday afternoon for the f-astward,
taking supernumeraries and the men brought by the
Sprightly for the Arctic ships.
The Fairlie, hind convict transport, arrived at Spit-
head to-day, to embark prisoners from the hulks in this
harbour for Van Diemen's Land. -

The Essex Indiaman arrived at Spithead this morn-
ing, to embark passengers and stock for• Madras and
Calcutta.

The Devonshire, Now York line-of-packet ship, ar-
rived at Spitbead this morning from the river to em-
bark passengers for America.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 29.—Her Majesty's steam-sbip-
Vesuvius, Captain Barnard, sailed on Thursday to cruise-
in the Channel and relieve the homeward-bound.
The steam-vessel Sprightly sailed on Thursday fore
Portsmouth.
The steam block-ship Sanspareil, lying alongside the.
Master attendant's jetty, had a narrow escape from
being destroyed by fire on Thursday. Previous to lea,
log. the people observed a quantity of smoke issuing
from the engine-room, and immediately resorting to the ,
tall supply of water which is constantly kept on deck, '
the shipwrights, engineers; and ' others, amounting to.
',ixty, engaged on the vessel, soon extinguished the fire,
which occurred in the engine-room, whore there is 0.
forge, from which it is supposed a spark must have been
sent among some carpenter 'a shavings or oakum. The
only injury done was the partial burning of a temporary
platform used by the artisans in the engine-room. The
Sanspareil has been valued at 400,0001. A very careful
inquiry was instituted on Friday by Commodore guper-
intendent Sir Michael Seymour, before himself- and the
principal officers of the department. The minutes were
transmitted to the Lords of the Admiralty.

The Government hired merchant-ship Woodbridge,
Captain Coppell, which arrived here on Thursday from
Singapore, sailed this morning for London. She left
Singapere on the let of October with a cargo of anti-
monian ore, Gambia sago, nutmegs, allspice, &c., aa4
block tin from the East India Company's mines at
Banca, and brought passengers—Lieutenant Hickley,
Dr. Pottinger, Mr. M'Causland, master; Mr. Goldsack,
second engineer; Mr. Smith, clerk; the gunner, boat-
swain, and 61 men belonging to her Majesty's steamer
Reynard, Captain Cracroft, lost on the Patras shoals on
the 21st of May; also Mr.' Edwards, mate; Mr. May,
master's assistant; and Mr. Hisham, cadet, lately be-
longing to the China fleet. On the 29th of October,
while the hands were aloft sending down yards and top-
masts, the maintopmast and two topgallantmasts were
carried away; 'Charles Hotchkings and Philip
Playle were killed, and six others of the Wood-
'bridge's orew disabled. On this occasion the Reynard's
hands rendered valuable assistance in clearing away the
wreck. On the.6th -of November she sprung her main-
mast, which was fished, and when near the Cape, wearing
the ship, the maintopgallantmast fell and took the main-
topmast head with it. On arriving at the Cape an al-
teration was made in the stowage of the cargo, which at
Singapre was arranged for the accommodation of pas-
sengers. This alteration prevented much of her rolling
afterwards. .Yesterday Captain Cracroft mustered the
Reynard's crew on board the Woodbridge, expressed his
approval of their conduct on the passage home, and
stated that the Lords of the Admiralty had determined
to give them full pay up to the present period. Cheers
anduounter cheers were heartily exchanged on their
leaving theWoodbridge, the commander of which received
from 180 passengers whom he landed at Adelaide on
his outward voyage a written acknowledgment of their
approval of his conduct as a ►kilful navigator and caretul
master.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 28 . —Master John F. Loney (1645),
appointed to the Assistance, flag-ship of Captain Sir
Edward Belcher, C. 8., fitting for the Arctic Expedition,
has taken up his commission, and joined th 7 vessel at
Woolwich yesterday.
Assistant-Engineers James Morris, William J.
Brown, and William S. Crook, to the Antelope steam-
vessel, at Woolwich. -
Gunners—John Jones to the Simoom steam troop-
ship, at Portsmouth, and Henry Blyth to the Antelope.
The new Board of Admiralty has been definitively
formed, but the new Lords have not as yet taken their
seats at Whitehall. Their Lordships will take prece-
dence as under-mentioned:—
Rdat-Admiral his . Grace Algernon, Duke of Nor-
thumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Sir
Francis T. Baring.
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., vice Rear-Admirai
M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P.—Rear-Admiral Hyde
Parker is second in seniority of Rear-Admirals of the
Red for promotion to-the rank of Vice• Admiral.
Rear-Admiral Pnipps Hornby, C. 8., vice Rear-Ad-
miral Houston Stewart, C. 8., M.P.—Rear-Admiral
Phipps Uornby is also a Rear-Admiral of the Red, and,
it is said, contemplates becoming a candidate for the re-
presentation of the borough of Greenwioh when a disso-
lution of Parliament takes place.
Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, S.C.Be vice Rear-
Admiral Sir James Stirling. .
Captain Hon. Arthur Duncombe, M.A,- vice the Hon.
William Cowper, M.P.
Captain Alexander Milne, Junior Lord of the old and
new Boards of Admiralty.
Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P., First Secretory, vivo
Mr. John Parker.

-'-asptain William A. B. Hamilton, Second Secretary
to the old and new Boards of Admiralty.
Captain Hon.. Frederick T. Pelham, Private Secretary
to the First Lord.
The reappintment of Captain Alexander Milne and
Captain W. A. B. Hamilton to the new Borrd of Admi-
ralty has given great satisfaction in naval circles, these
officers having always been found most attentive and
efficient in the performance of their duties in connexion
with the old Board of Admiralty. It is also a source
of much gratification to the service that the whole of the
members of the new board are naval officers, who have
seen considerable actual service, as it will enable them
the more readily to 'appreciate the services of others.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 28.—Brevet- Major John YPArtbur'
of the Woolwich division, to be Lieutenant-Colonl,
25th inst., and appointed to the Chatham division, vie°
Clarke, retired.
First-Lieutenant Henry William Brooker,
Portsmouth division, to be Captain, 25th inst., nd
appointed to the Woolwich divioion, vice IWArthur,
Carrington,
inrls of
promoted. of
ethos.
theS°Cchonadth-Lamiendteivnisainotn,Cto hhareleaFi
WilliamFirst-Li
uteern
vice Lewis Scott Reeves, placed on ha f Chatham
a, n 2 3
Fi
Lieutenant Carrington is app
di ointed to the
moSnstehondvdi-iLsiioenu,tetnosbnet JFoihrstqiaemoetsenDan,
outg_L2lals,thOfinBtht.e, Pvliyee-
Brooker promoted. First-Lioutena,n,tie:iapti.ligiaustinigs:::
pointed to the Plymouth divisi?n.
First-Lieutenant R. G. Halliday has three months,
leave of absence for the benefit of his health, having just
returned invalided from her Majesty
flag-ship on the East India station.

SMALL TALK

We do not despise what is called " small talk" any
Iwe dd small change. We are very thankful
f
better is not to be had. One cannot always
be talking
philosophy, or discussing' heavy matters of
state.
Light conversation—what we call graceful chat
_is really an art—the gay, ornament=al art of intellect.
chore
riet, than
when
SOciety is nothing without it. You may call it trifling,
but it is very agreeable, and it iii very useful. The
world is made up of trifles, and he who can trifle
elegantly and gracefully is a valuable acquisition to
s6ciety. Don't think that a man or woman who chats
gracefully ab6ut triflts can do nothing else. Under
thcii,e light sallies of wit and huniour, you maY "Reel
.discern qualities of penetrating sagacith and
• spirit of observation, such as may be looked for vainly
.
Even the wag
in persons of more solemn 'pretensions-
Evand is
now-a-days draws - his illustrations from books,
wellday. Perhaps up with the current literature of the
.hors are
Philcsop ~
he runs as he reads, but read he does.
times they are out
a leara ,
all very well in their way,
of place—especially
sowmetimed amusing to
parlonr into a lecture-room. It .
4:
the way of small
.talk
see their Condescending efforts
minuetin is nothing to it.
when tt.eyswxwould ' convert the
—an elPphant attempting
a, go of him in that field,
The lesser wit has the
which we look for. The
ho cannot be gift-,-,d
i lat and heavy tiiiii. I?, is
andpbil , gives
opti eursthe cannot small
b e 013 aidev everything;
with the fascinstiouti of 1
i Iphilosopler• let him lor.ve st.zzrp-
eyouLth thiit ''' -silleu;,.,. A genial wit is laced a great
shooting to the tira.
s ,u^stant source of happiness w others.
treasure, and tif-av'Outite; his words are watched, and
He is a getter
repeatcd. He lightens care, diffuse
his °tali": are
eickeus the thoughts of others, and naul-
cheettnine6- 'lenjoyments—Eliza Cook's Journal.
I tipliea harmless

TESTIMONIAL TO LIEUT. CHARLES SZULCZEWOEI --
On Saturday last a number of the Polish exiles invited ththe
eir
gallant friend, Lieutenant Szulczewski, to a dinner at
Freering, in testimony of the high estimation in which his
n2asons Tavern, and presented him with a handsome
'
character is held, and. of the valuable services rendered by
him to the cause of Poland, in connexion with the honour-
able office which he has for thelast ten years occupied as
secretary of the Literary 'Association of the Friends of
beautiful specimen of workmanship:
Poland, to the great satisfaction of his own countrymen and
the members of the association. The ring, which is a
Pole, has on 'it and was made by a
,e family arms of Lieutenant
engravedaauitabionscription the polish
Szulczewski, with
language.