The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-06 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, J E 6, 1853.

THE UNITED STATES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.)

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain
Lana, arrived in the Mersey from Halifax and
Boston, with 75 passengers, and about $279,000.
She brings the following :
NEW YORK, MAY 24.

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The foreign appointments are—Seymour, Russia;
Vroom, Prussia • Medary, Chili ; Trousdale Brazil;
Leahie, Sandwich Islands ; Belmont, the Hague.
We have two weeks' later advices from California
by the arrival of the United States at New Orleans.
She came from San Francisco, via Panama, in
only 19 days. No news of moment, but California
markets dull. Flour firmer.
The Falcon, at New Orleans, from Aspinwall,
reports $2,300,000 in gold on board the Georgia,
for this port.

two demands contained in his note of the 7th (19th) of
April, and will regard it as a duty to place those docu-
ments under the eyes of his Government.

" But, not having hitherto obtained any reply to the
third and most important point, which claims guarantees
for the future, arid having been recently instructed to
insist with greater farce, in order to arrive at an imme-
diate solution of the question, which constitutes the
principal object of the solicitude of His Majesty the
Emperor, the Ambassador is obliged to address himself
to-day to his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
confining this time his reclamations within the last
limits prescribed by superior directions.
" The bases of the arrangement he is charged to ob-
tain remain materially the same.
"The Eastern Orthodox worship, its clergy and its
possessions, shall enjoy in future, without any moles-
tation, under the ngis of His Majesty the Sultan, the
privileges and immunities insured to them ab antiquo,
and, in virtue of a principle of high equity, they shall
participate in the advantages granted to other Christian
worships.

"At Jerusalem, the Russian monks and pilgrims shall
be assimilated, as respects prerogatives, to those of other
foreign nations.

" These points, herein summarily indicated, shall form
the object of a Sated which will attest the mutual confi-
dence of the two Governments.

" In this act, the objections and difficulties repeatedly
expressed by his Excellency Rifaat Pasha and some ?f
his colleagues have been taken into consideration, as his
Excellency will perceive by the draught of a Sened which
the Ambassador has the honour to annex to the present
note.

" The Ambassador flatters himself with the hope that
hereafter the just expectation of his august master will
not be deceived ; and that, laying aside all hesitation
and all distrust, from which its dignity and its generous
sentiments would have to suffer, the Sublime Porte will
lose no time in forwarding to the Imperial Ambassador
the Sovereign decisions of his Majesty the Sultan, in
reply to the present notification.

""It is with that hope the Ambassador requests his
Excellency Rifaat Pacha to have the kindness to forward
to him that reply on or before the 28th of April (10th of
May). He must consider a longer delay as a want of
courtesy towards his Government, which would impose
upon him the most painful obligations.
" The Ambassador of Russia offers to his Excellency
the reiterated and sincere assurance of his high considera-
tion.

(Signed)

6 , NI ENSCHISOFF."

The following is entitled " Project of Sened, or
Convention, proposed between the Ottoman Porte
and the Emperor of Russia "

" His Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of the Ot-
tomans and his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias,
in the common desire of maintaining the stability of the
orthodox Greco-Russian worship, professed by the ma-
jority of their Christian subjects, and of guaranteeing
that worship from every encroachment in future, have
appointed, viz., TIM. the Emperor of the Ottomans
and H.M. the Emperor of All the Russias —,
who, after exchanging explanations, have agreed on
what follows :

" Art. 1. No change shall be made in the rights, pri-
vileges, and immunities which have been enjoyed, or
which are now enjoyed, ab antiquo, by the churches, the
pious institutions, and the orthodox clergy, in the states
of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, which is pleased to se-
cure such to them for ever, on the basis of the strict
sx!us quo at present existing.
" Art. 2. The rights and advantages conceded by the
Ottoman Government, or which shall be so conceded in
future, to the other Christian religions by treaties, con-
ventions, or special provisions, shall be considered as
appertaining likewise to the orthodox worship.
" Art. 3. It being admitted and shown by historical
traditions, and by numerous documents, that the ortho-
dox Greek Church of Jerusalem, that its Patriarchate
and the laics, who are subordinate to it, have been
from all time, since the epoch of the Caliphs, and
under the successive rights of all the Ottoman
Emperors, especially protected honoured, and
confirmed in their ancient rights and immuni-
ties, the Sublime Porte, in its solicitude for the con-
science and the religious convictions of its subjscts of
that worship, as also of all the Christians who profess it,
and whose piety has been alarmed by divers events,
promises to maintain and cause to be respected those
rights and those immunities, as well in the city of Jeru-
salem as without it, without any prejudice to the other
native Christian communities, Rayahs or strangers, ad-
mitted to the adoration of the Holy Sepulchre, and of
the other sanctuaries, whether in common with the
Greeks or in their separate oratories.
" Art. 4. His Majesty the Sultan, now gloriously
reigning, having judged it necessary and equitable to
corroborate and explain his Sovereign Firman, sealed
with the Hatti-Humayun, in the middle period of the
moon of Releiul Akhir 1268 (end of January, 0. S.,
1852), by his Sovereign Firman of -, and to order
in addition, by another Firman, dated -, the repara-
tion of the great cupola of the Temple of the Holy Se-
pulchre, these two Firmans shall be textually executed
and faithfully observed, in order to maintain for ever the
strict status quo of the sanctuaries possessed by the
Greeks exclusively, or in common with other religions.
" It is agreed that an understanding shall be ulteri-
orly come to for the settlement of certain points of de-
tail which have not found a place in the aforementioned
Firmans.

" Art. 5. The subjects of the Russian Empire, secu-
lars as well as ecclesiastics, to whom it is permitted, in
pursuance of the treaties, to visit the Holy City of Jeru-
salem, and other places of devotion, having a right to
be treated and considered on an equality with the sub-
jects of the moat favoured nations, and these last, Catho-
lics as well as Protestants, baying their prelates and
their special ecclesiastical establishments, the Sublime
Porte binds itself, in case the Imperial Court of Russia
demands it, to assign a suitable locality in the city of
Jerusalem, or in the environs, for the construction of a
church consecrated for the celebration of Divine service
by Russian ecclesiastics, and of an hospital for indigent
or sick pilgrims, and which foundations shall be under
the surveillance of the Consulate-General of Russia,
Syria, and Palestine.
"Art. 6. It is understood that the present act, occa-
sioned by exceptional circumstances, affects in nothing
any of the stipulations existing betwen the two Courts,
and that all the anterior treaties, corroborated by the
separate act of the Treaty of Adrianople, maintain all
their force and value.

"The six articles which precede having been deter-
mined and concluded, our signature and the seal of our
arms have been affixed to the present instrument, which
is delivered to the Sublime Porte in exchange for that
which is delivered to us by - before-mentioned.
"Done at the -, 1853, and of the Hegira.
(Signed) " Ambassador-Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
Emperor of All the Russias to the
Ottoman Porte."
From a perusal of the above it will be seen that
there was a good deal of exaggeration in what had
been originally said with reference to the mission
of Prince Menschikoff. That exaggeration, how-
ever, was occasioned by the extraordinary manner
in which the Prince made his entry into Constan-
tinople, by his deportment at the opening of his
mission, and other circumstances. But though
there may have been much exaggeration, the ques-
tion is not the less one of considerable importance,
and of no small danger to the Ottoman Empire.
If such a convention as that demanded singly by
Russia were put forward by all the Powers who
signed the Treaty of 1841, its importance would be
diminished, inasmuch as the influence of one Power
would neutralize that of the other ; but the danger
of the immense preponderance that would be given
to Russia, alone is regarded as very great indeed.
Intelligence from Odessa, of the 22d ult., a date
at which the late events at Constantinople were not
yet known, states that the concentration of troops
continued suspended, and that the governor of the
province had transmitted to the syndicate of the
merchants a notice of a reassuring character, in the
point of view of commercial transactions. The
Russian fleet still remained as before at Sebastopol.
The officers on leave had received orders to join at
once their respective vessels, and the crews were at
their full complement. The fleet remained at an-
chor, not making any evolutions.
The official Wiener Zeiztr,g contains the follow-
ing telegraphic dispatch from Constantinople, dated
231 May:
The exchange has risen from 1071 to 118. Prince
Menschili off, together with the personnel of the embassy,
has left. Notwithstanding the disquietude that prevails
in the minds of all parties, the hope that peace will be
maintained is held fast. The Porte has given the assur-
ance that an improved position of the Christian popula-
tion will be effected under the superintending influence

. . „.
of the G-reat Powers."
The Wanderer quotes the Temesvarer Zeitzng,
which latter journal has received a letter from
Jassy, of the 20th May, to the effect " that
divers indications announce the speedy arrival
of Russian troops in the Danubian princip
ties. The Russian army is said to have crossed
the Pruth ; and preparations are making for their
passing over the arm of the Danube, at Ismael, for
which purpose, partly at Galatz and partly at
Ibraila, 1,000 large and small logs, or trees, had
been purchased, evidently intended for the con-
struction of permanent bridges."
The Vienna Presse publishes the following letter
from Constantinople, dated 22d May :
"The Turks are arming. Omer Pasha is to establish
his head-quarters at Sthumla. An on dit wat current,
agreeably to which Generals Changarnier and Lamori-
ciere had made a tender of their services to the Porte,
in case of war."
A letter from Smyrna, dated the 18th May, con-
firms the fact previously reported, that an Imperial
firman had been sent by a Turkish officer to the
Dardanelles, to allow the English and French
fleets to enter the Bosphorous.

much injured in consequence of damage done to
the mulberry trees. Up to the present there seems
no prospect of a change for the better.
It would appear that the annexation of Parma
and Modena to the Austro-Prussian commercial
league has been resolved upon; indeed, the treaty
is stated to have been already signed. The con-
vention with these two States is, however, only
stipulated for four years and a half, not for twelve ;
and this because the treaty that annexes the duchies
of Modena and Parma to the Customs union of
Austria is only stipulated for that period, though
it obliges the duchies to join any commercial league
Austria may contract.
Accounts from Rome of the 24th state that his
Holiness made an excursion in the French corvette
Meteore, to visit San Felice, a small place situated
on the coast.

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

(From the Times.)

The accounts which have reached us down to the
present time from the East do not amount to
positive or direct evidence that hostilities have be-
gun, or that measures have been taken to ren-
der them inevitable ; but, on the other hand, we
learn from St. Petersburgh that the refusal of
Prince Menschikoff's ultimatum had produced consider-
able irritation, and there is reason to apprehend that the
Emperor of Russia had expressed his determination to
insist on the immediate and unconditional acceptance
by the Porte of the terms which Prince Menschikoff had
been instructed to demand. It was stated, and generally
believed in Warsaw, that orders have been given to the
4th corps of the Russian army to proceed by rapid
marches to the frontier of Moldavia, so as to reach that
position
on the 9th of this month, but nothing certain
is yet known on this subject. Meanwhile, we cannot
doubt that the British Government has been moved by
the menacing attitude of Russia, and the evasion of her
recent assurances, to take effectual measures, in con-
junction with the other Powers of Europe, to prevent a
violation of the rights of Turkey by the Russian forces,
and that the British Ambassador has been empowered
to summon the fleet from Malta, in case of necessity, to
the Dardanelles. It is also stated that the squadron
under Admiral Corry will at once reinforce Admiral
Dundas ; and that, however reluctant her Majesty's
Government has been to enage in a demonstration of so
important a nature, the course pursued by the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh compels us to assume that defensive
position which the interests of this country and of
Europe prescribe.
If the Court of Russia should actually resolve to take
up arms on the very insufficient grounds which have
been made known to the world, conjecture points
strongly to the probability of an invasion of the Danu-
bian principalities, and in the first instance of Moldavia,
from which the Russian province of Bessarabia is sepa-
rated only by the channel of the Pruth. But, although
Russia has ever since the peace of Tilsit openly expressed
her desire to possess these provinces, and has re-
peatedly occupied them, as she did under the conven-
tion of Balta Liman from 1848 to 1851, neither her
protectorate over them nor the present state of those
countries at all justifies such an invasion.
The nomination of the Hospodars and the internal
privileges of these principalities are undoubtedly a
matter of compact between Russia and Turkey,
and a convention for the sole purpose of defining
and establishing their form of government was
concluded at Ackerman in 1826, and renewed by a
further agreement at Adrianople immediately after
the general treaty of peace in 1829. But it is not alleged
that the articles of this or any other treaty have been
violated by the Porte, and the conditions established on
that occasion, and since held inviolate by Turkey, cer-
tainly furnish no ground for any fresh aggression. On
the contrary, the spirit of that convention was the semi-
independence of the Hospodars and of their administra-
tion, and "the inviolability of the Moldavian and Wal-
lachian territory," which was specially provided for, so
as to throw the Turks entirely on the right bank of the
Danube. An invasion of these principalities would
therefore simply be the overthrow of the system estab-
lished by Russia herself for their government ; and
it would still be open to the Porte to treat it or
net as an act of hostility against the Turkish do-
minions. In reality, the provinces north of the
Danube have been so effectually wrested from the
Porte by the treaties of 1826 and 1829, and by the
reiterated Russian occupations, that a fresh invasion
of them is of less consequence to Turkey than it is to the
general policy of Europe. A. movement that should
establish the Russian frontier along the Danube from
Orsova to the Black Sea is an event of the utmost con-
sequence to the Austrian Empire ; it would directly
affect the commercial interests of all Germany, and our
own commercial rights as determined by the treaty be-
tween this country and Austria in 1838. When first
we drew attention to the affairs of the East, some three
or four months ago, before the public had discovered
the alarming aspect they were about to assume, we
pointed to the fact that by far the largest portion
of our own supplies of foreign wheat are shipped
in the ports of Turkey and of the Danubian principalities,
and are consigned to the Greek houses in this country.
On that ground especially the political independence
and commercial freedom of those countries are of in-
terest to ourselves, and Great Britain cannot see
them with indifference become part and parcel of the
Russian dominions. Still less can Austria allow the
entire control of thatriver, which is the main artery of
her empire, to pass into the hands of Russia, who might
either intercept the whole Danube navigation, or avail
herself of the stream to menace all Southern Hungary.
Be the relations of Austria to Russia what they may,
that is a surrender and a sacrifice which she cannot
make without the loss not only of all dignity, but of all
security ; and, if there be still a statesman in the coun-
cils of the young Emperor, he will resist, at all hazards,
such a danger. This strong determination to uphold
the principles with reference to the Ottoman empire
which Russia seems now for the first time openly
to set at nought would command the assent of
England, Prussia, and France ; and, if ever there
was a time when it was urgent for four Powers to
set bounds, as in 1840, to the separate policy of
the fifth, that occasion has been brought forth by
the late pretensions of the Emperor Nicholas. It is an
essential condition of such a combination that the
German States should take a prominent share in it, and
they are deeply interested in identifying the policy of
the French Cabinet, as well as the moderating influence
of England, with their own ; because, if they suffer
themselves to connive at the aggressions of Russia, they
will find their own territories on the Rhine or in Italy
called upon to supply such compensation as the future
policy or ambition of Louis Napoleon may exact. On
the other hand, if the Emperor of the French be soli-
citous, as we believe he is, to obtain something more of
the confidence of foreign Powers, he has an admirable
opportunity of entering into closer relations with them,
and giving them some additional pledges of the attach-
ment to peace he has hitherto pro:essed. To a ruler in
his position, a quadruple alliance of the first States
in Europe, with a good cause and a definite object, is
of more value than a successful campaign, for it might
enable him to shake off the isolation to which he at
present stands, which is mortifying to his dignity, ard
fatal to his power abroad. The arguments in favour
of such a combination are so strong, that if Russia ad-
vances another step in the career she seems to be pur-
suing, it will become the last bulwark of general peace.
Already we have reason to believe that the representa-
tives of the three courts in this country have expressed
sentiments in entire accordance with each other, and
with those of the British Government ; and those senti-
ments can oily increase in intensity iiith the danger
that has excited them. The same concert prevailed at
Constantinople between the four Powers, and, while the
Porte showed its readiness to accede to any terms not in-
consistent with its honour, the Ministers of the Four
Courts unanimously tapproved its decision on Prince
Menschikoff's proposal, and M. de Klezel, the Austrian
Charge d'Affaires, was deputed by his colleagues to make
a last attempt at an amicable arrangement.
The separate interposition of one or even two Powers
in the capacity of allies of Turkey would not have by
any means the same result, and might become the signal
of a more alarming rupture, but the joint action of Eu-
rope is the true sanction of public law and of peace ; and
this would not be the first occasion on which its influ-
ence has been successfully tried. Before the Emperor
of Russia takes a decision entirely at variance with his
solemn engagements to Turkey, with his positive assur-
ances and declarations to every European State, and
with the principles which have guided him in the best
years of his life, he will do well to consider that he has
not a single legitimate ground of complaint, much less
of war. No treaty has been violated, no vessels have
been seized, no subjects maltreated, no claims refused
redress, no privileges of the Christian Church infringed.
We defy all the arts of the Russian Chancery to
extract materials for a tenable manifesto and decla-
ration of war from the events which have lately oc-
curred between the two empires, for the question
of the Holy Places is, by Prince Menschiko: '1 own
admission, already settled. Yet on such frivolo :s pre-
texts as these we are to suppose that the Emperor
Nicholas is prepared to sacrifice every tie which unites
him to the rest of Europe, to let loose not only war, but
those revolutionary passions which follow in the track
of war, and to commit an action which will render his
name odious in history ! Judgment, good faith, reason,
and policy plead against such deeds, and unless the
affairs of the world are ruled by ungovernable passion or
rapacity, these principles must still prevail.
We see no reason to regret the extreme forbearance
and moderation hitherto displayed on this question by
Great Britain, nor have we shown any disposition
hastily to impute the worst motives to one of the
greatest Powers of Europe. But it is time to provide
against every contingency that may arise, and to show
that we are neither deceived nor intimidated by the
course which the Russian Government may dare to
pursue.

Two SUSPECTED SUICIDES.— Yesterday information
was forwarded to the various metropolitan police sta-
tions of a man and woman that were found on Saturday
last—male found in the river Thames, off Woolwich,
aged 30 years, 5 feet 6 inches in height, middle stature,
sandy bushy whiskers, black silk waistcoat, blue striped
trousers, Wellington boots, now lying at the dead-
house at Woolwich. The second e'.-se is that of a fema'e
who was found in Gravel-lane Doe:, Wapping, about 20
years of age, 5 feet 2 inches in height, dark brown hair,
scar on the right side of the neck, C. W. in blue ink on
the right arm, dressed in a blue cotton gown, with dark
flowers, brown cotton stockings, side lace-up boots.
The body was removed in a shell, and conveyed to
St. George's dead-house to be owned and an inquest
held,

LITERATURE.

The Autobiography of a Missionary. By the Rev.
P. Fletcher, author of " A Two Years' Residence
in Nineveh." 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

Some doubt has been expressed as to the reality
of this work—it has been questioned whether it is
truth or fiction. But it certainly appears to pre-
sent us with those fortunate chances, those ro-
mantic episodes, and those very convenient coinci-
dences which are unhappily chiefly confined to the
world of imagination. It is not usual for an adopted
child to be discovered to be the grandson of his
protector, nor in cases of disappointed attachment
does the husband of the lady usually die, and the
lady happen to meet her former acquaintance in a
foreign country.
We question the moral of this
episode, which is now fortunately disappearing
from the pages of modern romance. The work'',
however, is by no means a romantic and foolish
tale, devoid of interest ; on the contrary, it pos-
sesses a great variety of scene, a clever delineation
of character and eccentricities, and an impressive
and unobtrusive piety. It is not exactly what
would be imagined from the title, for though the
hero is certainly a missionary, and spends many
years in India, the scene of his labours, yet he nar-
rates this part of his life in a few chapters, which
is to be regretted, as it would have proved, without
doubt, the most interesting division of the tale.
To have described the first dawning of the sublime
truth on the benighted Hindoos ; to have detailed
the struggles of the minister of Christ against the
prejudices of the disciples of Vishnoo and Buddha,
against the obstinacy of ignorance and the incredulity
of learning, would surely have been a task well fitted
for a writer who has not shown himself deficient in
power to depict, or in judgment to appreciate,
such a recital. Much of the second volume alludes
to the poverty of the curates of the English Church.
Having lost all their fortune, the missionary and
his wife are in great distress. They accept a small
curacy in a populous and miserable neighbourhood,
but at length are relieved from their difficulties by
the intervention of a friend. A. gloomy picture is
drawn, but the author finds it difficult to suggest a
remedy to the perplexing evil. It is to be trusted,
however, that one will shortly be found, when we
shall no longer read (as in this work) of an associ-
ation for providing poor clergymen with second-
hand clothes. The author's great talent lies in the
little incidental sketches of character, to which he
gives life and reality. Perhaps to be more concise
in his narrative, he has abbreviated the important
events, and thus, while we sometimes find a dif-
fuseness in details, we are astonished by the catas-
trophes of a lifetime meeting us in a few pages.
Notwithstanding these inaccuracies of style, the
volumes are interesting and profitable. The high
tone of morality which pervades them 18 calculated
to elevate and refine. In these days of avarice and self-
interest, it is refreshing to turn aside from mat-
ter-of-fact ordinary pursuits and occupations to the
quiet halls of the Missionary College, where though
the students present the imperfections and inequa-
lities of human nature, their object is self-sacrifice
and their intentions sincere. But the thought
arises as we read, just before the Missionary's de-
parture for India, in a conversation between him
and one of his friends about the ignorance and
the misery of our poor—Are not the missionaries
needed here ? Need they cross the waves to find
infidels, to instruct those who have never heard of
the great truths of Christianity ? We may say in
the words of a celebrated character of the present
day, " Can you not spare one missionary from
Tahiti for your fellow-countrymen ?"

The Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment of Con-
sumption. By R. P. Cotton, M.D. Churchill.

This work does not pretend to the discovery of
any remedy for so direful a disease as consumption,
but it has the good credit of not introducing any-
thing speculative. The remarks are all practical,
and dictated by sound sense and extensive observa-
tion. As prevention is allowed to be better than
cure, it is certain that if all followed the Dr.'s ad-
vice many valuable lives might be saved, and the
astounding numerals of 71,106 deaths annually
from phthisis would cease to be registered ; for,
according to this calculation, not much less than
one-fifth of the aggregate deaths are from consump-
tion. It would be desirable information to ascer-
tain how far the climate of Australia, where so
many thousands of our countrymen are gone, is
adapted to the cure of this all-devouring malady.

Memoirs of a Stomach, written by himself, that all
who Eat may Read. With Notes Critical. By a
Minister of the Interior. W. E. Painter, Strand.
This is a droll, facetious book, and will rank in
the category of those favourite byegones—" The
Gold-Headed Cane," " The Velvet Cushion," and.
" The Complaint of a Left-Handed Member of So-
ciety." The grievances which a stomach has to
complain of are very wittily told, and the members
of the medical profession are unsparingly but juptly
dealt with. There is a smart dialogue between
Homoeopathy and Aeopathy, and both are hit off
admirably. Sir James Eyre, who has lately pub-
lished a book called " The Stomach and its Diffi-
culties," cuts a somewhat ludicrous figure, as the
author states Sir James " has written a book,
ostensibly about digestion, but in reality to intro-
duce what he terms an ' elegant' preparation—the
oxide of silver." The little book is a most witty
production ; and whatever Sir James may boast of
his " elegant " oxide of silver, a caustic dose of
nitrate of silver is admirably administered. We
only hope it won't turn him blue. Fashionable
doctors and fashionable doctrines are held up to the
well-deserved ridicule which they so richly merit
and de7erve. We advise all lovers of fun, and all
who have dyspeptic stomachs, to take one dose of
humour from this work ; it is worth 503 fees paid
to an M.D., which are often not worth one D.M.

The Art Journal.—The three plates of this num-
ber are all taken from the Vernon Gallery. The
first is from Mr. Etty's picture of the " Brides of
Venice;" the second is a "Woodland View," by Sir
David Wilkie ; and the last, " The Wayworn Tra-
veller," represents a poor woman arriving at a door
at which two women and a child are standing. The
selection of sketches of articles in the Dublin Exhi-
bition is continued, and a great variety of illustra-
tions given. " Dress, as a Fine Art," by Mrs.
Merrifield, proceeds, and several interesting criti-
cisms of exhibitions of pictures are added.

MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES.

The Colonial and Asiatic Review will appear
next month for the price of one shilling, thus ren-
dering it easier for many to obtain it. The present
number contains an article on the " State of
Jamaica," another on " Emigration," in which it
is stated that Van Diemen's Land has suffered
from the unfair arrangements of Government in
converting it into a penal settlement. In order to
counteract this evil tendency, it has been deter-
mined to offer a reward to any capitalist who will
settle in that " once flourishing but now neglected
colony."—Newton's London Journal and Repertory
contains tile usual information concerning new
patents in arts, sciences, &c. Scientific notices are
also given, and the provisional protections lately
granted.—Lawson's Merchant Magazine, Statist
and Commercial Review, edited by B. N. Strons-
berry, F.R.G.S., has the following appropriate
motto for its title-page :—" Commerce knits man-
kind together in a mutual intercourse of good
offices, distributes the gifts of nature, finds work
for the poor, adds wealth to the rich, and magni-
ficence to the great." It presents us with reflec-
tions on the " Indian Affairs," " American
Politics," the " Eastern Question," &e. The
Traveller's Library of Longmans', numbers 42
and 43, are on the subject of " Our Coal
Fields and our Coal Pits—the People in them
and the scenes around them, by a Traveller
underground." After giving a description of how
the coal is found, what it is composed of, &c. ; of
what information the colliers possess, their man-
ners and customs and religion, the author goes on
to tell of how some eminent characters, once
being pitmen, have gone down lower, and after-
ward risen higher, than most other men." The
following celebrated characters were associated in
early life with mines :—Dr. Hutton, the mathema-
tician ; W. Huntingdon, the preacher ; the inge-
nious Ingelby ; and Thomas Bewick, the wood-
engraver. It will be evident from this brief
epitome of the contents that this little work is
replete with information and interest.—The Poul-
try Book contains three most admirably-coloured
plates of prize birds, namely, "Black-breasted Red
Game," "Black Spanish," and " Grey Don Kings ;"
also some accounts of their treatment, &c.—The
Ladies' Companion continues Miss Pardoe's tale
of " The Race for Gold." " The Woman of the
Writers," by Mrs. Cowden Clarke, is devoted to
Richardson. The usual variety of fashions and
light literature are included in the contents.
—Chambers' s Edinburgh Journal presents its usual
features of attraction, and the little Pocket Misccl-
la:Ly which gives information of the most varied \
description, with tales and verses, for the price of
sixpence, has reached the eighteenth volume .—Tlie
Rome Companion is one of those numerous miscel-
Its chief
lanies which have recently appeared.
point is Ainsworth's romance of the " Star Cltana-
ber."—The Ladies' Portfolio gives us in the third
number a beautiful Pattern for embroidery of a
violet flower, which forms an excellent match to the
roses that bloomed last month in its pages. Patterns
for Broderie d L' Anglaise and crotchet are also
given, which are very superior and elegant. The
beauty and moderation of this serial should
render
e
it a favourite with all votaries of the work-table.—


A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX., by Pros-
per Mierimee, has been translated byAndrewScoble,
which is a series of anecdotes of that Kina.---A.
somewhat similar work under the title of Cltarac-
ter and Anecdotes of Charles 11., has also recently
appeared, by the late Charles Barker, M.A.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCCXXXIV.
THE ROYAL REUNION AT ASCOT.

A little more than a week has passed away since all
classes of her Majesty's subjects, more especially the
smoke-dried metropolitans, gloried in the unparalleled
meeting on the downs of Epsom. To-morrow commences
the right royal gathering on the heath at Ascot, the
most fashionable of the season. It will extend over four
days, embracing a programme of no less than twenty-
six stakes, all well filled, with the exception of two or
three yet to name.
The arrivals of horses up to this morning are very con-
siderable, and, on account of the easy nature of reaching
the course, many will not be there before this afternoon.
The first race to-morrow will be the Trial Stakes of 5
sovs. each, with 50 added, for two-years-old and up-
wards, the winner to be sold for 600 sovs., unless exemp-
tion from being sold is claimed at the time of entry, in
which case 91b extra is imposed. New mile. The entry
includes several good names, and will probably be con-
tested by the filly Alarm, dam by Elis, 2jyrsl; Nutshell,
6 yrs , Ephesus and Ariosto, 5 yrs ; Ham, 2 yrs ; and,
perhaps, a couple more at the last moment. lam not
altogether positive of the running of EPHESUS and
ARIOSTO, on account of the penalty, and yet I think
one or other will go, consequently I shall award the
winning place to the one that starts, Nutshell and Ham
running forward.
The Gold Vase given by her Majesty, added to a
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, for three-year-olds and
with allowances and penalties, two miles, is the next on
the card. Hobbie Noble, at the same weight as the
Indian Warrior and the Knight of the Shire, will dis-
pose of the two with ease. Rataplan is the next that
engages my attention, and he will no doubt run well.
Orestes, it is said, will not start. Pelion ought to make
all his three-year-old companions perfectly safe. As to
Break-o'-Day-Boy, Rattle, and Rackapelt, notwithstand-
ing that they are at the bottom of the scale of weight, I
have no idea of their disporting in the front. I must
look for the winner in PELION, placing Rataplan
second, and whichever horse Mr. Merry staris—
Robbie Noble or Lambton in the third position.
The Ascot Stakes of 25 sovs. each, &c., two miles and
a half, will, it is said, only be contested by a small
field of somewhere about eight, consisting.principally of
Lady Evelyn, Russborough, Little Davie, Hirsuta, Ner-
vous, King Pepin, and Toosey. I have already given
an analysis of this race, and see no reason why I should
alter my selection of

LADY EVELYN.
The Welcome Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 50 added, for
three years old, penalties attached, will be contested by
Sittingbourne and Orestes, and of course will end in
favour of