The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON', THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1849,

ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MAN-
SION-HOUSE.

Another of those splendid entertainments which have I
rendered the present Mayoralty so conspicuous was given
last night by the Lord Mayor and Ludy Mayoress at
the Mansion-house. The guests were chiefly Parlia- •
mentary, the majority being Irish Members. The dinner,
which was supplied by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of
Cornhill, was of the most sumptuous character, and the
decorations of the table v.-ere nearly on the same scale
of magnificence as when her Majesty's Ministers ho-
noured the Lord Mayor with their company.
The following is a list of the guests:—Viscount Naas,
M.P., Captain the Hon. T. V. Dawson, M.P., the Hon.
C. P. Villiers, M.P. Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., M.P.,
Sir R. Price, Bart., M.P., Sir P. Nugent, Bart., M.P.,
Sir D. Norreys, Bart., M.P., Sir A. Armstrong, Bart.,
M.P., Colonel Sir W. Verner, Bart., M.P., Sir H. M.
Barron, Bart., M.P., Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., Mr.
Morgan J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr.
Hume, M.P., Mr. A. Matheson, M.P., Mr. Cobden,
M.P., Colonel Salwey, M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Dunne,
M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, M.P., Major Blackall,
M.P., Captain Archdall, M.P., Captain Pechell, M.P.,
Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M.P., Mr. Moffatt,
M.P., Mr. Callaghan, M.P., Mr. J. A. Hamil-
ton, M.P., Mr. Bellew, M.P., Mr. Baldwin, M.P., Mr.
Devereux, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M.P., Mr. R. M. Fox,
M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr.
Leslie, M.P., The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Mr. Moore,
M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. Perfect, M.P., Mr.
M'Gregor, M.P., Mr. M. Power, M.P., Mr. Reynolds,
M.P., Mr. Ruche, M.P., Mr. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. Scully,
M.P., Mr. Tennent, M.P., Mr. Munta, M.P., Mr.Schole-
field, M.P., Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P., Mr. Abdy, M.P., Mr.
Hardcastle, M.P., Mr. Hey Wood, M.P., Mr. Hollond,
M.P., Mr. Horsman, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. R. D.
Browne, M.P., Mr. Lacy, M.P., Mr. Lushington, M.P.,
Mr. Lennard, M.P., Mr. Morris, M.P., Mr. Pearson,
M.P., Mr. Rice, M.P., Mr. G. Thompson, M.P., Mr.
Willcox, M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.P.,
Mr. Anstey, M.P., Major Ramsay, Aldermen Sir P.
Laurie, Sir W. Magnay, and W. Hunter, Mr. sheriff
Goodhart, Mr. Sheriff Elect Nicoll, the Vakeel of the
Sattara: Raja, Count Teleki, Mr. Francis Pulski, Mr.
W. Williams, Mr. J. B. Hume, Mr. John Collett, Mr. J.
Chapman, Mr. Hill, Mr. Coles Child, Mr. Roy, Dr.
Clanny, Mr. Smart, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Lee Clayton, Mr.
I'. Laurie, Mr. Schenck, the Rev. S. R. Cattley, Mr. Col-
vin Smith, Mr. Carfrae, and other gentlemen and mem-
bers of the Common Council. Covers were laid for 150.

Grace was said before dinner by the Rev. S. R. Cattley,
chaplain to the Lord Mayor.
After dinner " We praise Thee, 0 Lord," was chanted
by Messrs. Ransford and Jolly, Miss Ransford, &c.
The cloth having been removed,
. .

The LORD MAy'O'n rose to propose " The health of
her Majesty the Queen." That toast was always most
enthusiastically received, not only in that hall, but in
every company of Englishmen. On the eve of her Ma-
jesty's visit to the sister isle, he trusted he should not be
considered exceeding his functions if, surrounded as he
was on that occasion by so many distinguished Irish re-
presentatives, he ventured to express a hope, that what-
ever their differences of opinion upon other matters,
they would all unite in giving her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty the Queen such a welcome, such a hearty spontaneous
expression of enthusiastic loyalty, as would do credit to
their proverbial gallantry, and show that they appre-
ciated the great merits of her Majesty, who, it was well
known, had long wished to visit Ireland.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours, and fol-
lowed by the National Anthem.
The next toast was " the Queen Dowager," which was
accompanied by a favourite air.

The Lone MAYOR then rose to propose the health of
" his Royal highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of
Wales, and the other branches of the Royal Family."
With respect to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, he
would venture to say he deserved the respect universally
shown to him by the people of this country, not less fur
the interest he had always taken in everything which
concerned the well-being of the country, than from the
high station he occupied in relation to the Sovereign.
He was sure that those who would have the opportunity
of witnessing the conduct of his Royal Highness in Ire-
land would reel that his claims on their attachment were

only second to thuse of our gracious Queen.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours.

The LORD Mayon, in proposing " the Navy and
Army," observed that in no part of her Majesty's domi-
nions were the services of the army and navy more
gratefully remembered than in the city of London. But
speaking as he did in the presence of some gentlemen
belonging to the Peace Society, he feared he could not
say all he felt in praise, of such a toast. But he ven-
tured to say that, till the happy period arrived when na-
tional arbitration was established, the people of England
generally would regard the army and navy as the most
efficient arm of their defence.—(Loud cheers.)
Captain PECHELL expressed the great satisfaction he
felt in returning thanks for the navy in presence of such
a company assembled around the table of the First Ma-
gistrate of the city of London, whom he had the happi,
ness to regard as a brother officer, and who, to the high
honours he had already attained, would in a few days add

another—that of representing the city of London in the
Commons House of Parliament.—(Loud cheers.)
Colonel DUNNE returned thanks for the army.
The Loan MAYOR then rose and said it was the inva-
riable rule in that Hall, without reference to politics, to
pay a mark of respect to her Majesty's Government, and
he now proposed to that distinguished company that they
should join with him in drinking " the Health of her
Majesty's Ministers."

'l:lletoast was drunk with much cheering.
Mr. BELLEW, in acknowledging the compliment, said
he had no expectation when he entered that hall that he
should be called upon to return thanks for such a toast.

From the humble position he occupied in the Ministry,
he could only say that he believed the great object of
her Majesty's Ministers was to promote the interests of
the united empire. They all felt how important it was
to enjoy the confidence of the citizens of London and its
representatives ; and he had no doubt her Majesty's
Government looked forward with pleasure to the return
of the Lord Mayor as one of the Members for the city.
The LORD MAYOR, in proposing the next toast, said,
however much gratified he was in giving the toast he
was about to announce, he felt very inadequate to do it
justice. He had the greater anxiety in proposing it, lest
inadvertently some expression should escape his lips,
which might by some, present or absent, be miscon-
strued, which he should indeed regret. The toast he
was about to give was—" Prosperity to Ireland."—(Loud
and continued cheers.) He felt the greatest satisfaction
in being honoured by the company of so many of the
representatives of Ireland; and he only regretted that
circumstances had occurred to prevent his having the
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centuries and a halt been connected with the sister
country oountry in a peculiar manner; and circumstances bad
recently arisen to beget a hope that they might again
be still more intimately connected with that country.
Nothing, he felt, was so essential in such circumstances
as that a clear explanation should be given of the objects
the Corporation of London had in view, in order to pre-
vent any misconstruction of their motives. He hoped it
would not for one moment be supposed that they had
any other object in view than that which he knew was
entertained by the citizens of London in general—
namely, to promote the welfare and happiness of Ire-
land.—(Cheers.) He felt, however, that whatever their
endeavours might be, unless they were met by kindly
reciprocal feeling on the part of the Irish people,
their efforts might do more harm than good. If it
could for a moment be supposed that they wished
to dispossess the owners of the soil—to sweep away
any of the people of Ireland, or to interfere with the
religion of the country, they must of course
expect to fail ; he, therefore, was glad of the
opportunity, before so many Members of Parlia-
ment connected with Ireland, to state that the Cor-
poration of London had no desire whatever, if
circumstances should arise to give the opportunity of
connecting themselves with Ireland, to do more than
endeavour, by showing confidence in the integrity and
kindly feeling of the people if properly directed, to in-
crease the employment and promote the industry of the
country.—(Cheers.) It might be said, as he had heard
it said, that the people of Ireland were ignorant; it
should at the same time be remembered that little pains
had been taken to enlighten them; and if in some in-
stances they were supposed to be suspicious, it should
also be borne in mind how often they had been misled.
—(Cheers.) Frankly and fairly, then, be repeated that
the corporation had no other desire than to show that
reliance might be placed on the people of Ireland, that
they would receive with gratitude, and meet in a con-
fiding. spirit, every effort that was made to assist them
in their present state of depression. Providence had
been pleased to visit Ireland for three or four years with
heavy affliction, and no people had shown more sympathy
or come forward with more cheerfulness and alacrity
to aid her in her necessities, than the citizens of London.
—(Loud cheers.) The same feeling still animated the
corporation.—(Cheers.) There was no arrangement
whatever, nor any concert between the parties ; the
present movement only expressed the spontaneous feel-
ing of the citizens of London, arising from the sugges-
tions which had been thrown out by Sir Robert Peel.
—(Cheers.) The desire was to lend capital, to promote
the employment and welfare of the Irish people.—
(Cheers,) He trusted what he had said would not be mis-
understood; every corporation was but a trustee for the
country, and the Corporation of London felt that in its
present object it was supported not only by the citizens,
but by the public at large.—(Cheers.) Their only de-
sire was, to whatever extent they might become English
or Scoth settlers, to cultivate a good understanding with
the people of Ireland, to promote industry, to encourage
employment, and on all occasionss
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the Lord Mayor of Dublin in that hall, he was not less
gratified to be now honoured with the company of a
gentleman who had been elected his successor in office.
This also he would say, there was no man in the House
of Commons who maintained his opinions with mote
ability and kindliness of feeling than the Lord Mayor
Elect of the city of Dublin. He, therefore, had great
pleasure in proposing " The health of Mr. Reynolds,, the
Lord Mayor Elect, and Prosperity to Ireland.
The-toast was drunk with all the honours.
Mr. REYNOLDS, in returning thanks for the compli-
ment, assured the Lord Mayor and those present of
.his
most perfect sincerity when he declared his total in-
ability sufficiently to express his sense of the high
honour be had received on that occasion. The Lad

Mayor, in announcing the health of her Most Gracious
Majesty the Queen, in the early part of the evening,
expressed the wish that on her Majesty's visit to Ireland
the differences of Irish Members might be forgotten :
would
that wish be realized. His Lordship expressed
another desire, namely, that her Majesty should be
well received. He thought he might safely answer that
that wish also would he realised.—(Cheers) Irishmen
had their faults like others; but want of loyalty to the
British Crown never could with truth be laid to their
charge.—(Loud cheers.) They had been anxious to Pay
compliments to former Sovereigns of England in their
visits to Ireland; and they were doubly anxious to pay
such compliments on the present occasion.—(Cheers.)
He thought he might say that the visits of the Sove-
reigns of Great Britain and Ireland to his country had
been " like angels' visits, few and far between." With•
out imputing to those Sovereigns who had visited them
in former times many of the qualities of angels, he
might without hazard of contradiction ascribe many of
those attributes to our present gracious Sovereign.—
(Loud cheers.) He thought he was safe in saying that
in no part of her Majesty's dominions was the Queen more
respected, more venerated, more beloved than in Ireland.
—(Loud cheers.) The people of that country entertained
for her Majesty the most affectionate loyalty; they would
rally round her on the occasion of her auspicious visit;
and they would give her a right royal welcome.—(Cheers.)
They were bound to do so because they looked upon
this as a visit of peace—(Cheers)—as a forerunner of
better times—(Loud cheers) --and it would not be their
fault if it did not achieve the objects her Majesty had in
view.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had alluded to the
intention of the Corporation of London to acquire land
in Ireland. He hailed that intention as likely to lay the
foundation of better times in that country. It was a
happy omen—one likely to draw the bonds of union
closer between this country and Ireland; and believing,
as he did, that the prosperity of Ireland must depend
ultimately on drawing more closely those bonds of con-
nexion between this great country and Ireland, he was
delighted to have that opportunity of expressing the
confidence he felt in the result of the experiment about
to be made by the Corporation of the city of London.—
(Loud cheers.) He repeated the high gratification he
derived from being present at the festive board of the
Lord Mayor of London; and, proud as he should have
been of having his health proposed on any occasion by
the First Magistrate of the first city in the world, the
compliment was greatly enhanced because his name had
been connected with the Corporation of the city of
Dublin.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord NAAS proposed the next toast, which he was
sure all present would receive with the greatest pleasure.
He might safely say that in the annals of civic hospi-
tality the splendid entertainments of the present Lord
Mayor of the city of London stood unrivalled. As an
Irishman he felt under peculiar obligations to his Lord-
ship for the interest he had taken in the country to
which he belonged. And all Irishmen who had read
the speech lately delivered by the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, on a subject intimately affecting the welfare of Ire-
land, must feel that they owed to him and to the corpora-
tion over which he presided a debt of lasting gratitude.
—(Cheers.)—ln common with many of his countrymen,
he had that day paid his first visit to the Mansion-
house; and they must all feel how impossible it was to
do justice to the splendid hospitality with which they
had been entertained.—(Cheers.) There were many
present who, having enjoyed for a longer period the
friendship of their distinguished host, were better
qualified than he to do justice to his merits in proposing
his health; but he nevertheless felt called on to return
his most sincere thanks for the kind feelings which
the Lord Mayor had exhibited towards Ireland; and he
could only say that the name of their present Lord
Mayor would be long distinguished among many. in
this country who, during a period of great distress, had
shown themselves not unwilling to lend a helping hand
to Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had referred
to a renewed effort on the part of the corporation to
benefit that country. He believed it would be carried
out in the best spirit; and he could not help adding, he
was most sanguine as to the result. He begged to pro-
pose " Health and long life to the Lord Mayor."
The LORD MAYOR expressed the great gratification
he derived from the manner in which his health had
been proposed and received upon that occasion ; and
with reference to the corporation over which he pre-
sided, he would cnly say that, should the object they had
in view succeed, it would add greatly to his happiness.
He repeated he was happy to have the opportunity of
entertaining so many gentlemen connected with Ireland.
He saw before him a Homan Catholic clergyman (the
Very Hey. Mr. Bushe), who, coming on a mission to
this:country for the promotion of the fisheries in Galway,
had honoured him with a call. Ho was most happy to
have an opportunity of inviting him to the Mansion-
house; and he hoped on his return to his native country
he might be enabled to bear testimony to the spirit which
animated not the Corporation or the citizens of London
alone, but all Englishmen, anxiously to cultivate the
esteem and regard, and zealously to aid in promoting the
happiness of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.)

The LORD MAYOR then rose and -said—He had now
to propose a toast which he was sure would be most
acceptable to all who were present. He had already
observed that they never allowed anything like political
allusion to disturb the harmony of social enjoyment in
the Mansion- house.—(Cheers.) When he saw around
him so many Members of the House of Commons, ho
was sure he should meet their cordial approbation in
selecting his old, esteemed, and valued friend, Mr. Hume,
as the organ of that body to return thanks for the toast
he was about to propose. They all knew Mr. Hume, and
his long public career of usefulness.—(Cheers.) Few
men had laboured so long or with a more zealous desire
to promote the interests of the country than Mr. Joseph
Ilume.—(Cheers ) Disregarding everything like self-
interest, he had laboured only in the cause of the people.
—(Cheers.) He might speak of him in another capa-
city, as a friend; and ho was happy to take that occasion
of acknowledging how much he had been indebted to his
kindness.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure in pro-
posing the Health of Mr. Hume and the Members of
the House of Commons."
Mr. HUMS returned thanks, but inaudibly, at one end
of the table.
The LORD MAYOR then rose and said, that having
the honour of seeing present a near relative of the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, he hoped he might be permitted
to propose the health of that distinguished nobleman.
He would not, on such an occasion, venture to make any
observations that might elicit anything like a difference
of opinion, but this he would assert, that no man, placed
in the difficult position in which Lord Clarendon stood,
could have discharged his duties with greater for-
bearance, greater ability, or greater impartiality.—
(Loud cheers.) He was sure those qualities entitled
that distinguished nobleman, in the high position ho
filled in such responsible circumstances, to the respect
and esteem, not only of this country, but of the people
of Ireland.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure, there-
fore, in proposing " the Health of Lord Clarendon, the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland."—(The toast was drunk
amidst much cheering.)
Mr. C. P. VILLIERS, as the nearest relative of Lord
Clarendon present, rose to offer his acknowledgments for
the very great compliment they had paid to the Lord-
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difficult position ; and perhaps there was no place where
the anxieties of such a post could be better understood
than in that great city, where an exclusive jurisdiction
also existed for the protection of the peace, the life, and
the property of the community; and to learn from the
Lord Mayor that his relative had, in the opinion of that
great capital, met the difficulties and discharged the
duties of his post with judgment, justice, and ability, was
a tribute to his character with which he must feel deeply
gratified.—(Cheers.) The Lord Mayor had connected
the Lord -Lieutenant with the future welfare of Irelatul,
and if an anxious desire to promote that object entitled
him to that connexion, he had only done him justice.—
(Hear.) He had nothing, he knew, nearer his heart
than to improve the condition of that people, and that
feeling, he firmly believed, was cordially shared by the
whole English community.—(Cheers.) It was now un-
derstood that the moral and material interests of the
people of Ireland were inseparably united, and that
peace and contentment could not and ought not to be
expected till the physical condition of the labouring class
of that country was improved.—(Hear.) The Govern-
ment of Ireland anxiously desired that object—it had been
the purpose of their legislators this session to promote it,
and he could not but expect that, at last, a brighter day
was dawning on that country. He entirely agreed with
thole who had preceded him that it was ominous of a
better time coming, because her Majesty had thought
this a fitting occasion to make her first visit to that
country—(Cheers)—an event that had not occurred for
more than a quarter of a century before—(Hear)—and
ho hoped that the visit would be received as it was in-
tended—as a sign that the feeling was as strong in the
most exalted personage as in the lowest subject of the
realm, that equal favour, equal honour, and equal jus-
tice should be shown to Ireland and to England.—
(Cheers.) He would not despair that, ere long, by
means of better legislation and British capital, equal
prosperity would prevail in the two countries.—(Cheers.)
The LORD Marcia then proposed the " health of the
Magistrates of the city of London," which was responded
to by Sir P. Laurie.
Mr. HustE proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress,
which was drunk with all the honours.
Several other toasts followed, after which the company
separated.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 25.—(From a Correspondent.)
—The health of this town continues to improve. The
fatal illness has been almost entirely confined to Stone-
house-lane, a local St. Giles's, which was allowed by the
authorities to sink into a very wretched condition. This
place has been entirely cleaned, and the sick have been
removed into a temporary hospital erected in Five
Fields, near the town, where there are now about 25
patients, nearly all of whom are in a state of convales-
cence. The number of cases reported yesterday was—
Cholera, 7; choleraic diarrhcei, 5; simple diarrhoea, 7;
total, 19; deaths, 3. Dr. Milroy is down here from the
Central Board of Health, investigating and inquiring into
what has been done, and the local causes of the out-
break. In Stoaehouse the disease has broken out in
some of the dirtiest of the courts, and there have been
t-
from twelve to fifteen deaths there. In Devoeport, in-
cluding Stoke and Monica Town, there have been about
twenty d aths,
nearly all in the lowest parts of those
towns, and amongst the inhabitants of cellars. The
town of Devonport, in case of an outbreak, has been
divided into districts, and a surgeon assigned to each.
A board of health has also been established there.
A half-yearly meeting of the United Mexican Min-
ing Association was held yesterday. The report of the
directors was, on the whole, favourable; but no dividend
was declared, as the purchase of 1,000 bottles of quick-
silver for 11,8001, had absorbed the available funds. The
progress of the mines was very satisfactory, and a lease
9f a new mine adjoining the old property had been put.-
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTION.
Assistant-Surgeon—Patrick Digan, of the
Hastings, to be Acting Surgeon.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—William Swinburne, to the Wellesley,
72, flag-ship in the West Indies; Dennis Mickley, from
the Hastings, 72, flag-ship in the East Indies, to the
Cambrian, 40, on the same station, vice Moresby; G. E.
P. Serocald, from the Hastings to the Columbine sloop,
on the same station; Edward Nares from the Hastings
to the Arab sloop, on the same station.
Surgeon—Patrick .Digan, to the Columbine
(acting).
Second Master—James Rusden, to tho Queen, 116
guns, at Davonport.
Assistant Surgeon—John Murphy, from the Inflexible
steam-sloop, on the East India station, to the Fury steam.
sloop, ditto.
Engineers—James Downey (2d class), and Charles
Bidder (3d class), to La Hogue steam guard-ship at
Sheerness.
Gunner—Charles Ball, to the Phcenix steam-sloop at
Portsmouth.
Midshipmen—J. Forest, from the Mariner sloop to the
Hastings flag-ship; W. H. Malone, to the Queen.
Naval Cadets—C. D. Sandars, to the Queen;
.Alex-
ander 0. M'Farlane, to the Victory flag-ship, at
Portsmouth; George Worsfold, to the Persian, 16, at
Woolwich.
Master's Assistant—G. P. Heather, to the Crane
packet, at Falmouth.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W.
Beauclerk, sailed from Sheerness on Monday afternoon
for Portsmouth, to augment the flotilla to give eclat
to the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the
Portland Breakwater. She returned to Portsmouth
last night.
The Victoria and Albert royal yacht went from Cowes
to Weymouth yesterday morning, at half-past six, to be
in attendance upon Prince Albert.
The Fire Queen steam-yacht embarked Sir Bladen
Capel, Port-Admiral of Portsmouth, Lady Capel, and
suite, on Tuesday, for Weymouth.
The Growler steam-sloop, Commander Stoddart, will
sail to-day for Tangier direct, weather permitting.
The Lords of the Admiralty will commence their
annual inspection of the ports and dockyards on Mon-
day next.
Captain Ellice, the controller of steam machinery to
the fleet, proceeded to Portsmouth from London on
Monday, and in conjunction with Captain Stevens, of
her Majesty's ship Blenheim, made a survey of the steam
machinery of that port. Amongst other matters which
resulted from the survey, m e are informed a suggestion
was resolved upon to recommend the reduction of the
steam power of the Retribution frigate from 800 to 400
horse, and that she be sent to Woolwich to undergo the
alteration.

WooLwicrt, JULY 25.—The Flamer steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander Jones, is to leave this port for
Holyhead, to remain at that station, where she will be
employed as a mail packet when any of the regular mail
steam-packets are laid up for repairs.
The Vulcan steam troop-ship had her steam up yes-
terday, and both she and the Vulture steam-frigate were
taken out of the basin to-day preparatory to going down
the river on trial.
The Hebe and Wye convict ships and the Unite con-
vict hospital ship have been removed from nearly oppo-
site the Royal Arsenal to moorings opposite the dock-
yard. At this date there is only one case of cholera
amongst the convicts.
One of the riggers, named Butcher, who was em-
ployed in taking the Dreadnought hospital-ship to
Woolwich, died yesterday of cholera. The deceased
was very much afraid of the cholera, and was attacked
shortly after eating some cold potatoes.

ACCIDENT TO THE NASSAU BALLOON.
Last evening the feelings of several hundreds, who
had, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather, assembled iu Vauxhall-gardens to witness the
ascent of the Nassau Balloon, as well as those of the
vast numbers of persons on the outside of the gardens,
who had been on the lookout for the balloon, were for
some time kept in a state of painful excitement for the
safety of no less than 11 individuals, who had accom-
panied the imnamse machine. At seven o'clock, the
balloon having been sufficiently inflated, Mr. Charles
Green, the veteran aeronaut; Mrs. Green, his wife;
Mr. and Mrs. Green, his nephew and his wife ; Miss
Green, and Miss Gascoyne, of -Vauxhall-gardens; Mr.
Crashaw, the iron-master; Mr. Stephens, Mr. Faunce,
Captain Ondre, and Mr. Pierce, making altogether 11
individuals, got into the car,;and the word " all right "
having been given, the ropes were unfastened, and the
balloon mounted into the air in very good style, and
the ascent was considered a very beautiful and
successful one. The balloon proceeded in a north-
eastern course, bat it was soon observed that it
was descending so rapidly that it was generally thought
that a considerable leakage of the gas must have taken
place, and that an accident of a serious character was
inevitable. Mr. Green, who was seated in the car, per-
ceiving the extreme danger in which he was placed,
commenced emptying the sand bags or ballast as quickly
as he possibly could, but even this did not prevent the
gradual sinking of the balloon. On passing over the
St. George's-road, near 'West-square, it was painfully
evident to the thousands that were looking on that the
balloon must come in contact with some of the buildings,
and in an instant it struck the roofs of the houses 94
and 95 on the north sido of the London-road, and only
one house removed from the Nunnery which had been
formerly the Roman Catholic chapel. The car, in
which seven of the aeronauts were seated, struck the
front of the house with considerable force, so much so
that three of the persons who were standing on the
hoop were thrown forward on the roof, which fortu-
nately happened to be a flat one; but the fourth clung
to the net-work of the balloon. The machine being
thus relieved from the weight of three of its occupants,
and having fortunately escaped damage, instantly rose
into the air to a considerable altitude, when a brisk
current of air carried it in a southerly direction, ap-
parently towards Croydon. The three individuals who
had thus fortunately escaped descended through the
trap-door of an adjoining beer-shop from the roof,
reached the street, and having procured a cab drove as
fast as they could to the gardens to relieve their friends
and the visitors from their painful anxiety.
A good deal of injury is done to two houses in the
London-road—one of which is occupied by Mr. Cross,
who is a marine store dealer, and the other by Mr.
Hammond, a hairdresser. The coping-stone, for about
ten or twelve feet, has been carried on to the roofs, and
the chimneys are much damaged, so that it will take 101.
or 12/. to repair. The friends of the parties who had
escaped with the balloon continued in a state of much
anxiety for their ultimate safety, and the return of Mr.
Green or some of the party to the "Royal property" was
looked for with much interest.
LATEST PARTICULARS—RALF-PAST ONE A.M.
A messenger has just arrived at Vauxhall-gardens
conveying the information that, after passing over a
great portion of the county of Kent, the balloon had
safely settled upon terra firma in an open field within
half a mile of Erith Church.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.'

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL.
Order for Third Reading ;read; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read the third time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at
the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
three months :"—Question put, " That the word' now' stand
part of the Question." The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 65.
Armstrong, R. B. Gwyn, Howel Rice, E. R.
Barrington, Vis. Haggitt, F. It. Richards, Richard
Bernal, Ralph Harris, Richard Rumbold, C. E.
Brotherton, Joseph Heywood, James Russell, Lord J.
Buxton, Sir E. Hill, Lord M. Shell, R. L.
Colvile, C. R. Slope, Alexander Sidney, Alderman
Cowper, W. F. Howard, Lord E. Simeon, John
Cubitt, William Jervis, Sir John Smyth, John G.
Divett, Edward Jocelyn, Viscount Stafford, Augustus
Dodd, George Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Colonel
Duncan, George Meagher, Thomas Townshend, Captain
Dandas, Sir D. Mahon, O'Gorman Tufnell, Fleury
East, Sir J. Matheson, Colonel Vane, Lord 11.
Ellis, John Monsen, William Verner, Sir W.
Fortescue, J. W. Mullings, J. R. Watkins, Colonel
Fuller, A. E. Newdegate, N. Williams, John
Galway, Viscount Nichol!, John Wilson, Matthew
Greene, John O'Brien Sir LuciuS Wodehouse, E.
Goddard, A. L. I'atten, J. W. Young, Sir John
Grenfell, Charles W. Peel, Colonel
Grey, Sir G. Perfect, Robert WELLER.
Grogan, Edward Pllkington, James Spooner, Richard
Grosycnor, Lord It. Pryse. Pryse . Lacy, IL C.

MINORITY—NOES, 22.
Henley, J. W. Feel, Frederick
Hume, Joseph rower, Dr.
Lowther, Colonel Roebuck, J. A.
Lushington, C. Sturt, H. G.
Mackinnon, W. A.
Mostyn, E. M. TELLERS.
O'Connor, Feargus Anstey, Thomas C.
Ogle, S. C. Mowatt, Francis
Pechell, Captain

Barron, Sir 11.
Berkeley, 11. F.
Dawson, T. V.
Dick, Quintin
Dunne, Colon,l
Forster, M.
Fox, W. J.
Graham, Sir James
Headlam, T. E.

SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS.--DEMON-
STRATION IN MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday, at a very
numerous meeting of the St. Pancras vestry, held at the
new Vestry-rooms, King's-road, Camden Town, Mr.
Wright in the chair, Mr. Churchwarden Healey said
that a deputation from Marylebone, consisting of Mr.
Nicholay and other members of the Marylebone vestry,
had waited upon him, and requested him to ask the
vestry to co-operate with Marylebone in getting up a
borough demonstration in favour of the Hungarians.
Lord Dudley Stuart had consented to preside over the
Marylebone meeting, to be held at Hall's Riding School,
denouncing the oppressors of the brave Hungarian nation.
He now left it to the vestry to say whether they would
co-operate with Marylebone in the matter. A conversa-
tion then took place respecting the propriety of enter-
taining the question in the vestry, and much diversity of
opinion was manifested. Mr. Turner moved that the
orders of the day be proceeded with, and Mr. Dyke pro-
posed an amendment, " That this vestry resolve to co-
operate with the parish of Marylebone in calling a public
meeting to sympathise with the oppressed Hungarians."
Mr. Hockton seconded the amendment, which was ulti-
mately carried, and the meeting broke up.
DARING FEAT.—On Friday last, James Smith,
more extensively known by the appropriate soubriquet of
Steeple Jack, made the ascent of the gigantic chimney
M St. Rollox, Glasgow. lie effected the ascent by means
ot a block and tackle, suspended from au iron hook at the
top of the chimney—the block and tackle having been
previously taken up by means of kites. The object of
the ascent was to examine the rents in the chimney,
with the view, of filling them up; and this, no doubt
from the fearless facility with which Steeple Jack goes
about his business, he will be able satisfactorily to ac-
complish. A large concourse of people witnessed the
ascent, and when he reached the top-436 feet—they
saluted him with three hearty cheers, which Jack grace-
tully acknowledged by waving his bonnet in the air.—
Edinburgh News,

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE EDINBURGH RETIETv.
No. CLXXXI.

A brilliant number of thct Edinburgh has just made
its appearance. The least meritorious of the contri-
butions is not without its own peculiar excellence.
Yet, notwithstanding the importance of the question
of "Transportation as it now is"—notwithstanding
the attraction of the "Reign of Louis XV.," as de-
scribed by M. De Tocqueville, the father of the dis-
tinguished Minister under Louis Napoleon—notwith-

standing the interest attached to the defence of "Free
Trade," a system of commercial government so lately
and triumphantly vindicated by the eloquence and
the logic of Sir Robert Peel—notwithstanding the
scholastic fascination of an inquiry into the merits of
the " Corpus Ignatianum," especially at a time when
the learning of a Newman and the acumen of a Faber
have imparted a new popularity to the writings of
the early fathers—and notwithstanding the graphic
power and elegant faculty of description displayed by
Mr. Tyndale in his historical narrative of " Sardinia"
—we are, nevertheless, bold to give the preference at
once to the other moiety of the Quarterly. The five
articles not yet particularised are, for a variety
of reasons, more to our taste, and to them we
acknowledge, without any ambiguity whatever, that
we have awarded a more careful and appreciative
perusal. " Shakspere's Critics : English and Fo-
reign "—affords another and splendid testimony that
the subject is inexhaustible. Though thousands of
volumes, whole libraries we might say, have been
written by way of annotation, or as commentaries,
on the dramas of Shakspere—still the theme on every
fresh examination is found to be ever new and varied,
unfolding additional beauties never before conjec-
tured, and suggesting topics for inquiry never
dreamt of previously. Here, in proof, the reviewer
avers that one broad field of observation in regard to
Shakspere has hitherto been entirely overlooked.
Thousands of commentators have penned books upon
his immortal productions, and published them in all the
languages of Europe, considering him as a poet, but
not one has treated of the infinite art displayed by
him exclusively, or at least pre-eminently, as a dra-
matist. In the course of his own remarks upon
this particular the writer in the Edinburgh pays
due consideration to Voltaire, for inasmuch as he in-
troduced Shakspere to the French (afterwards to
abuse him as " an inspired savage"), and to Lessin
for inasmuch as he did the same by Shakspere in
regard to the Germans. Hitherto it is maintained by
the critic, that Shakspere's plays have been com-
mented upon solely as poetry, never, or at the least,
never adequately, as theatrical works.
according His
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cfiwoci
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scholastic,uhnl
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charming
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yeurcshyi:,:nethr arbitrarytigrctauvelaleehlihsltvihnebnssodtt been
insufficiencyiso.
noene nnogottoatrafrosebguftehaaGehreeoinewnuannfetetolnareseagimssiaosznsitinegvi,vdashocoeeinfcsnal
oytagefpiloetahitlditrehni
antiquarianism.
Etruria"eesnont ats—ashtchenotieqatp,
plans
uhcgi
rnaesgv
eeondfyni,
on and,
One by
inves-
tigation is demonstrated, and the reviewer closes his
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f.oPno
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is confessed at the very outset, as a curious
and incontrovertible fact, " that the last twenty years
have contributed more to our knowledge of the arts,
the manners, and the customs of ancient Etruria than
the three preceding centuries." And the entire gist
of the argument contained in the paper appears to
be an endeavour to show that whatever evidences a
superior degree of elegance and a more flexile mobi-
lity of style in the urns and painted vases found in
the Etrurian tombs, is attributable not to the Etru-
rians themselves, but to their Ilellenic contempora-
ries. Many of the reasons given by the reviewer fur
arriving at this conclusion are undoubtedly ingenious.
Yet, in defiance of their ingenuity, we are satisfied
that he will find very few indeed who will entirely
coincide with him in opinion. We are not ashamed
to acknowledge ourselves to be on this point some-
thing more than sceptical. In the course of
this very agreeable and classic contribution
one striking blunder occurs, which could only
have slipped in through inadvertence. Quoting
a famous passage from Propertius, in which the poet
delineates the aspect of Veii, the reviewer observes
of the lines that " they so accurately apply to its pre-
sent position." Now two of the verses are—
" Nunc intra muros pastoris buccina lenti
Cantat et in vestris ossibus arva metunt."
The writer in the Edinburgh himself declares that
the walls of Veii have long since disappeared—and
yet, almost in the same breath, he insists that the
description of the ruined city as given by Propertius
"so accurately applies to its present condition." At
length one of the quarterlies has noticed that splendid
epic by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, which on its
first publication was hailed with such genuine and
spontaneous admiration. The criticism on " King
Arthur," in the Edinburgh, is conceived, in a ge-
nerous and manly spirit—apart from all conven-
tional rules and predilections, and wholly without
a tinge of any splenetic sentiment having the
smallest or faintest approximation to jealousy.
[he outset is honest and cordial—it is this :—"Avery
remarkable poem, written by a man of celebrity and
genius, cannot well be overlooked in the chronicles of
literature." While, however, the strain is genial
enough, the mode of analysis appears to us to be par-
ticularly harsh and uncongenial. Before many para-
graphs are perused the commentator becomes some-
what tedious and irksome. We feel that we could
profitably dispense with his eternal periphrases and
his everlasting circumlocution. It is a miracle to us
how so dry a comment could possibly have been
penned on so noble and engaging an original.
Scarcely a dozen quotations are made by the re-
viewer, and none of them selected so as to display to
advantagehumou histhe varied
path excellences
os,hissweetnesos,f
et
lhee minstrel—his g
an
ce,
dignity,
and sublimity. Here and there a happy passage of
his hands over the chords is particularised discrimi-
natively, as where it is remarked that the identifica-
tion of the dove and Genevieve is "a singularly fine
poetic thought." Altogether the Edinburgh pro-
nounces " King Arthur" to be " a work designed in a
lofty spirit, and executed with a fine sense of the
noblest functions of poetry." Further on the writer
expresses himself thus emphatically :
" In looking back on the manner in which we have
introduced this elaborate poem to our readers, we find
that we have, almost unconsciously, handled it as if it
had been a work which had already been acknowledged
as worthy of a permanent place in literature, and the

study of -which ive desired -merely to recommend and
facilitate. A mode of treatment like this implies a high
estimate of the value of the work; and such an estimate
we have no hesitation in expressing. The author is,
we think, right in believing this to be the least perish-
able monument of his genius. Not only do we confi-
dently pronounce it to be the most vigorous and original
poem that has lately appeared among us; but, while
feeling the uncertainty of all critical vaticiaations, we
regard it as not only worthy, but likely, to take its place
among those fine though not faultless performances,
which will hereafter represent the poetical literature of
England in the first half of the nineteenth century"
We are gratified to observe that the deliberate esti-
mate of the .Edinlnirgh Review in regard to the
merits of this splendid production are entirely coin-
cident with the opinions expressed by ourselves im-
mediately after its publication. Equally rejoiced are
we to find that our views in reference to Hungary
are in no essential particular different from those now
avouched by our distinguished quarterly contem-
porary. In the politico-historical article on " Austria
and Hungary," the wrongs suffered by the latter
glorious country from the perfidy, faithlessness,
tyranny, and ultimate invasion perpetrated on it by
the former, are clearly and explicitly unfolded, and
that too in a comparatively brief but admirably se-
quential narrative. It is asserted at the very
outset that " the first and most prevalent
error is that of regarding Hungary as a
province of Austria." Only a day or two since in
our leading columns we quoted from this able paper
the felicitous expression, that " the pedigree of the
immunities of the Hungarians during the long space of
three centuries (1526-1848) continued unimpaired."
Upon one point we cannot at all agree with our con-
temporary, namely, where he declares that the late
successes of the Magyars " are not more owing to
their own valour than to the returning decrepitude of
the Viennese war-office." In this the reviewer
greatly overrates the abilities of Latour•-•that Minister
by his career in administration having never done
enough to deserve any such encomium. Remarking
upon the noble and even chivalrous disposition of the
Hungarians, it is truly said of them that, " On
the approach of foreign invasion they were
as devoted to the Kaiser as the cavaliers to Charles
Stuart, in asserting their rights they: were as keen
vigilant and unflinching as Pyna, Hampden, and
Somers." In one sentence it is shown very clearly
that the Magyars have long before this, and frequently,
evinced their determination not to submit to oppres-
sion, the people having risen, indeed, five times in
the course of a single century (1606-1711) in de-
fence of their constitution. In another paragraph it
is explained, beyond all contradiction, that Francis
Joseph is neither de jure nor de facto King of Hungary,
but that he is positively, in the language of the Hun-
garian law, " a foreigner." As to the charge that
the present rising of the Magyars in defence of their
independence is sudden and unconstitutional, it is
finally and forcefully replied :
" Tho reforms of 1818 may have been imperative in
their tone • but the results of sixty years' endurance can
scarcely be termed ridden ; nor the assertion of rightsb
—sanctioned for centuries, and as often invaded— be
justly designated as unseasonable or unconshtitutoton
t.
at
" We believe," says the Edinburgh turtreear n
its ancestral rights
sympathy
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confident that overh e
spectacle of a
and enlarged liberties, must be deeply interesting
Stuarts in
to that nation which con
people defendingtended against the
take it, is a very powerful and not
we
This,l6,lo and threw off their yoke in 1688.
irrational encouragement to our own continued argu-
ments., respecting the sympathy of Englishmen for

the Hungarians. When we remember that Hungary
contains an area of no less than 110,000 English
square miles, with a population of at least 14,000,000,
I it is sufficiently clear that such a territory and such
a population cannot be very readily subjugated,
especially when it is notorious that the country is, as
the reviewer observes, "adapted to every species of
warfare from the guerilla to the dense battalion.'
The devotion of the people and the genius of their
leaders are warmly and deservedly eulogised. Alto-
gether the article is penned in a wise and generous
spirit, and deserves a very wide and very attentive
perusal. The number terminates with a criticism
on Macaulay's magnificent " History of England."
Nor does it need our assurance that the
tone of the Edinburgh is other than eulogistic.
To act otherwise would have been impossible, not
only from taking into consideration the masterly
eloquence of the production itself, but the relation in
which the organ stands in regard to its distinguished
author. One of the most illustrious of its intellectual
children, Macaulay could not be regarded otherwise
than with peculiar complacency by the Edinburgh.
Upon one of the cardinal merits of the history the re-
viewer speaks as follows :
" He (Mr. Macaulay) is the first who has succeeded
in giving to the realities of history (which is generally
supposed to demand and require a certain austerity of
style) the lightness, variety, and attraction of a work
designed only to amuse. All historians we have ever
read—not excepting Gibbon and Hume, and including
all others in our language—are open to this remark.
To read them is a study, an effort of the in-
tellect—well repaid indeed by the result, but
still necessarily intent and laborious. Mr. Macaulay
has, with an instinctive sense, both of truth
and of the power to realise it, perceived that a true
story may be, and should be, as agreeably told as a ficti-
tious one; that the incidents of real life, whether poli-
tical or domestic, admit of being so arranged as, without
detriment to accuracy, to command all the interest of an
artificial series of facts; that the chain of circumstances
which constitutes history may be as finely and gracefully
woven as in any tale of fancy, and be as much more in-
teresting as the human countenance, with all its glowing
reality of life, and structure, and breathing beauty,
excels the most enchanting portrait that ever passed from
the pencil of Kneller or of Lawrence."
And reverting subsequently to the singular attrac-
tions of the historian's style, it is emphatically (we
opine rather too emphatically) remarked, that " Mr.
Macaulay's tediousness, if it can be so called, is less
fatiguing than the liveliness of most other writers."
After speaking very happily of Cromwell as one
" who ruled with a just, though an iron rod," the
critic has a sarcastic but well tempered sneer at the
financial reformers. It may be found about the middle
of page 269. One allusion made to the reign of the
good Queen Victoria is so strikingly just and beautiful
that we make no apology for its quotation :
" Although this spirit of jealousy (the reviewer is
speaking of the constitutional jealousy of the preroga-
tive) has, since the revolution, been dormant at intervals,
it has always been ready to be aroused from its lethargy,
and has never been aroused in vain; till, at last, the
practical as well as the abstract limits of the prerogative
have been so securely and precisely fixed, that under the
reign of one who wears her constitutional crown with ao
much true knowledge of the laws, and love of the people
of her country, whose virtues have given the throne a
stability, and whose accomplishments have shed over it
a grace it never, in the best of former days, could boast,
we may safely hope that this long contest, the hottest
fire of which it has been our author's task to record, is
at last sinking in its embers."
In the course of an excoriating flagellation ad-
ministered to the anonymous assailant of Mr.
Macaulay in the Quarterly, the Edinburgh quotes the
witty remark made upon it, that " the writer of it, in
attempting murder, had committed suicide." The
exposure of the ignorance of the writer of that article
in the Quarterly is altogether frightful; and yet (to
an indifferent spectator like ourselves), amusing
withal, eminently amusing. Due and eulogisie
mention is made of the scholarly and generous-
hearted review of Macaulay's history, penned by
Archibald Alison, in Blackwood's Magazine. After
our foregoing analysis of the contents it is unneces•
sary to say that the Edinburgh, for the July quarter,
displays more than usual ability.

FINE ARTS.
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.

As the last of the popular series of sporting prints
known as " Moore's Celebrated Winners," the Flying
Dutchman is, of course, above all others, the most
attractive. Nor is the engraving as a work of art
unentitled to a large share of approbation. Painted
by T. W. Hillyard, it has been excellently copied by
the graver of C. N. Smith, and coloured " to the life."
The renowned winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom,
1849 ; the property of the Earl of Eglinton ; valued
at 6,320/. ; by Bay Middleton, out of Barbelle, dam
also to Van Tromp; trained by J. Fobert ; ridden
by Charles Marlow—looks a brother in blood to his
more celebrated predecessors, Harkaway, Eclipse,
and Flying Childers.

PORTRAIT of 111ADEMOISELLE ALBONI.
A graceful little memento of this admirable song-
stress has just been issued from tho photographic es-
tablishment of M. Claudet—being a clever profile
sketch in lithography by W. Bosley from an original
Daguerreotype.

MR. OT WAY'S LECTURES ON
SIIAKSPEItE.
All our actors are loud in their complaints of the
neglect of Shakspere, and of the national drama, by
the aristocracy and upper classes, but none of them
appear to have adopted means so effectual to remedy
the evil as Mr. Otway. He has undertaken
the gigantic task of creating a taste for Shakspere
among the aristocracy, by delivering lectures on his
plays at the various public schools at which the elite
of the aristocracy and gentry of Great Britain receive
their education. This certainly is the most effectual
method that could be adopted for attaining the de-
sired end. To what are we to attribute the present rage
for foreign plays and operas, but to the fact that the
greater number of the existing aristocracy have re-
ceived their real education on the continent ? Trans-
ferred from Eton and Harrow, from Oxford and
Cambridge (where no English dramatic per-
formances are allowed), at once to Paris, or Milan,
or Vienna, their first acquaintance with the
drama has been in a foreign language, their
dramatic taste is formed on foreign models, and
they, as a natural consequence, prefer the foreign to
the English drama. By his lectures, however, which
he has delivered at the principal schools and colleges
in the kingdom, and which have been every-
where received both by Principals and Pupils
with the most enthusiastic delight, as the
numerous testimonials which Mr. Otway has
received bear witness, he has indoctrinated the
minds of our young aristocracy with a National
and Shaksperian taste before they have been exposed
to the meretricious fascinations of the continental
theatres, and thus is preparing a store of future patrons
for our national drama. In this good work he has
been most successful. An excellent actor, a sound
critic, a ripe scholar, and a polished gentleman, Mr.
Otway seems by nature designed for the enterprize
he has undertaken.