The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Ascox HEATH Racts.—Great preparations have been
ekumenced to render the course at Ascot, at the forthcoming
?Ices, one of the finest in England. A large quantity of new
tt4f 'bas been laid down under the direction of Mr. Hibbard,
the
clerk of the course; and many improvements have been
:lade in the interior of the grand stand, under tile superintend-
iia" of the clerk of the works, Mr. Skinner, which will very
materially add to the comfort and convenience of the public.
the'.watanxs:T.—The following horses have arrived here in
and fill of the week :—Mr. Batson's Barbakin, Plenary,
to Afq Plenipo, out of Acacia, at the stable belonging
r.
he sai-sogers, the bookseller. Mr. Oshaldeston't colt by
udler, dam by Granby, out of Matilda ; colt by The
,Ztddl.er,out!of Pocket Hercules's dam ; and filly by Robinson's
by Whalebone. These four are at John Robinson's
stables, under the care of H. Stebbings.
HUNTING.—Her Majesty's staghounds will meet on Mon-
day, at Ascot Racecourse, at eleven. The Bedale hounds op Monday, at Nutwith Common ; Friday, at Catteri
ek
Bridge—at eleven.
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING SO-
CIETY.—The annual contests amongst the natives of Cumber..
ltd and Westmorland, for various prizes, in their native
rt.of•wrestling, teak place yesterday at. Mr. Hinton's, High-
" Fry Barn Tavern, and vra4 well attended. There were three
eLassifications of weights : the light weights, under eleven
amine ; the next at twelve stone ; and the heavy, or all weights,
PlOngst which were many of the Horse Guards and Oxford
jines- Th.l sport commenced at an early hour in the day, in
the ballroom attached to the tavern, which was very commo-
diously fitted up for the occasion. At the conclusion of some
"
very tolerable play, which occupied until nine o'clock in the
ening, the prizes were thus awarded :
121.ight weights—J. Sandford, first prize, a silver watch, value
E.l,4i"ds; Clesamitson, second prize, a silver snuff-box ;
i'ruwn, third prize, ditto ; Gill, fourth prize, ditto.
s'rl"odd, or twelve stone weights—G. Abrim, first prize, a
vrateh, value sliver twelve guineas ; Donnahue, second prize, a
fourth
snuff-box ;H. Greigson, third prize, ditto ; Stanton,
leutrith prize, ditto.
eavY,as
or all weights—T. Heeglo, first prize, a silver
watch, value twelve guineas; Brunskill, second prize, a silver
muff.
ditto b";
Fau:der, third prize, ditto ; Plaiscot, fourth prize,

The military were not so successful on this as on many former
cttrown
a'i°T,s, and in two or three struggles in the all weights were
. by much less men.

Lord Chancellor Plutiket is expected At the St.
"ea's Royal Hotel, the week after next, from Connaught.
eThe Marquis and Marchioness of Bute have
Laf.t, Campden Hill for Luton Park, B
ationeds, for the recess. Her
at is expected to lay the found stone of a new church
...uton on Tuesday next.
ea The Marquis of Convngham is residing at Slane's
tle, county Al eath, with the Marchioness and their family.
r, Baron J. de Rothschild has returned to town
In2ll_ a short tour by the railway in the manufacturing districts.
"e Baron visited °the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, en
7°ute to tow,
Th
heap, ,arl of Coventry continues to improve in
liu"42, and will preside at the annual dinner of the 'Worcester
Loe4_,s,,,nn the 23d inst. Viscountess Deerhurst and the infant
'AiLueerhust are still on a visit to her Ladyship's mother, the
srer Lady Cockerel!, at Sezincote Hall, Moreton-in-the-
. Lord and Lady Worsley leave Belgrave-street.
a few days, on a continental tour. The Earl of Yarborough
`. 1,,
e up from Blocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire, to take leave of the
Noble Lord and his Lady.
The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch, on leav-
ing Belvoir Castle, go to Boughton House, near Kettering,
where his Grace and Duchess purpose making a short stay, and
then return to town.

It is rumoured that Viscount Leveson, the Hon.
Under-Seeretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the plan of
the Hon. Fox Strangways, will he united at the close of the
season to a young lady of great beauty and considerable fortune.
Lord and Lady Poltimore will come to town for
the seasor the week after next. On Wednesday last the Noble
Lord and Lady were to have left Poltimore house, their seat
41 Devonshire, for Weymouth.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea will
return to town, from Leamington-spa, at the close of the en-
34ing week. to make preparations for a Continental tour. The
_ iarehioness% general health is good, but her Ladyship is de-
Pt rtnil of the use of her limbs.
i;:the Marquis de Bellune is daily expected at
7,;rt's Hotel from Paris.
Alehe Master of the Horse and the Countess of
s.bernarle will leave Quiddenham Hall, West Hailing, on
"I.lt,lay next, for Newmarket.
diar.. arl and Countess Cowper will see company
H's
the ensuing week, at Pansanger, Herts.
to :118. Excellency Viscount Ehrington, according
Private hater from Ireland, dues not intend leaving that
1 euentry for a few weeks ; but his Excellency had made ar-
tg.enients to leave Dublin Castle fur Summerville, his beau-
ui ruitieat near Bailimaaan, at the close of the week.
b; the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire
4Ye a select party visiting them at Hillsborough Castle, Down-
-.l:re, Ireland, where the Noble Marquis and amiable Mar-
c'
I°lness have arranged to stay until the first week in May.
1,6 .4,he Dowaer Marchioness of Conyngliam has
~eased the Marquisof Huntley's mansion in Charles-street,
Cv'i'eley-square,asaown residence for his Lordship, who has
ail
IT Dudley House to the Marquis of Abercorn.
i 'ier Majesty's Theatre, exclusive of Fanny
Irllsler bas sustained another loss in INladlle. Bellon, one of the
iqf danecrs, who set off to fulfil an engagement at the
urdeaux theatre. Taglioni is expected next month.
._
t' 'The Queen, having seen the Countess of Wil-
's elegant pony chaise during her Majesty's airings. in Hyde
tie was attracted by the style in which it was built, and at
Itiel:Press de%ire of her Majesty the little vehicle was sent! to
Jim ulastl
gham Palace la week, for the in-pection of her I a-
,iijl .and Prince Albert, both of whom were mnch pleased
''ai,its Nvearanee, and signified their intention to have a
built exactly similar.
i ou
,1 rhe lat.: Dr, Carpenter, whose death is announced
fors
tiiwrit „o uary column, was travelling with a friend on the con-
tk.._
..1 r the recovery of his health. His friend states, that
1717 .).eit Naples in a steamer on the sth inst. for Leghorn, that
4.4rlieLter had unlocked his travelling bag in his berth at
i.if_9es and had removed some things as if preparitig for re-
, vir47;:te req, when it is supposed he became sea-sick, and
1.4„.,,:uP9,a deck ; that the night was dark at(' rainy, and the sea
,4i4..:id that there was rzc, doubt a sudden lurch cf the vessel
Zpreeipitated him into the deep. When last seen, which
ibl!e!•Weeu 10 and 11 o'clock at night, he was standing on the
u stairs," as it' for the benefit of fresh air.
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EASTER INTELLECTUAL
RECREATIONS.

The available resources for scientific and intellectual
recreation at this period of the year are hot generally
known, and perhaps an enumeration will prove of interest
to many in this season of leisure. Those collections in
the following list which are not strictly public are yet,
from the liberality of the Directors or Proprietors, readily
made accessible to persons who take an interest in the sub-
jects to which they refer.
At the head of general collections stands the British
Museum, which, pursuant to recent regulations, will be
open on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the
vast stores of which afford rich and varied amusement.
The East India Museum, in Leadenhall-street, rich in
specimens of Oriental art and antiquity, and pos,essing
many of the spoils of the Sultan Tippoo Seib, is open
ou Saturday to the public without any restriction, and on
Tuesday and Thursday by an order from a Director.
The London Missionary Museum, principally devoted to
the Heathen Gods, domestic implements, and natural his-
tory of the South Sea Islands, collected by the active
agents of the London Missionary Society, is open daily by
orders from a Director, which are easily attainable. The
United Service Museum is also open daily to the public by
an order from a Member, and contains a very rich collec-
tion of arms and armour, as well as of relics and novelties
from all partsof the world, independent of which it is in its
collection of natural history quite unique.
The only museum of a public character especially de-
voted to antiquities is the collection now forming at Guild-
hall, consisting of relics and coins found principally in the
excavations for sewerage and other public works in the
City, and which may be inspected by an order from any
member of the Common Council. At the head of private
collections which are accessible to public inspection is that
of Mr. C. R Smith, F. S. A., of Lothbury. The collec-
tions of Mr. Newman, the City Surveyor, of the Bridge
House, and Mr. G wilt, of Southwark, contain numerous
specimens of Roman and Angle-Saxon antiquities of in-
terest and value, found in the excavations for new Lon-
don Bridge and the sewers of the Cby and Southwark.
The collections of coins and medals are more numerous.
Amongst these is that of the Numismatic Society, in So-
merset House ; the cabinet of the Bank of England, ex-
tremely rich, which may be inspected any day, on appli-
cation to Mr. Smee, the chief accountant ; Mr. Haggard,
of the Bullion Office, at the Bank, with several others,
which are, by the understood compact between men of
science, readily accessible.
In geology, the extensive museum of Mr. Sault, in Al-
dersgaie-street, merits notice. The nucleus of this rich
and extensive cabinet was the collection of the late M.
Sowerby, to which the present proprietor has added some
thousand specimens, arranged according to the probable
order of the earth's structure. This collection is open to
the public on Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock. The
museum of the Geological Society, in Somerset House, is
open to members and their friends daily, from eleven to
five o'clock. At the head of private collections is that of
Mr. Bowerbouk, of Critchell.place, New North-road, who
exhibits his unique collection of shells and fossil fruits to
the curious, by appointment, of an evening. The Museum
of Economic Geology, in Craig's-court, Charing-cross,
will shortly form a valuable addition to the list of public
collections, as a national depository of geological and mi-
neralogical specimens.
The museum of the Society of Arts, in the Adelphi, is
by a recent regulation thrown open to the public every day
but Wednesday, from three o'clock till four. It contains
an extensive series of models in every department of inven-
tion and manufacturing industry, being the whole of those
that, in the course of more than half a century in the suc-
cessful progress of the Society, have been rewarded with its
premiums, Mr. Barry's fine paintings in the meeting room
of the Society are also a great cbject of attraction.
The lover or student of natural history, in addition to the
collection at the British Museum, may have access to the
Zoological Society's museum, in Leicester-square, the ad.
mission to which is Is. A desire exists on the part of many
members to throw it open gratuitously to the public, but the
insecurity of the building, apprehended from the probable
great increase of visitors, is a great obstacle to its being
carried into execution. The museum of the Entomological
Society, in Broad-street, is open every Tuesday from three
o'clock till eight, and amongst other cabinets contains the
magnificent collection of the Rev. Mr. Kirby, the father
of British entomology. The Ornithological Society's
collection of rare exotic birds, in the ornamental waters of
St. James's Park, is well known to the public. In private
collections, the very unique one of humming birds, be-
longing to Mr. Loddige, of Hackney, the first in the
kingdom, well repays the inspection which is granted by
the spirited proprietor. The collections of insects in
London are very numerous, the most prominent being that
of the Rev. Mr. Hope, at 37, Upper Seymour-street,
Portman-square, which may be inspected on Thursdays, by
permission of the proprietor.
There are museums and collections attached to most of
the scientific institutions in the metropolis, permission to
inspect which may be obtained from the respective secre-
tarics. The museum of the Linnean Society. in Soho-
square, containing the rich original herbaria of both
the Linnes, and otherwise very valuable in mono
grams of insects and birds, is open every Wednes-
day and Friday, on the introduction of fellows; and
the Royal Asiatic Society's museum of oriental art
and antiquity, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-
day. The Phrenological Society is in possession of a
good collection of casts of persons eminent for virtue or
crime, at its present location, in the house of Dr. Elliot-
son, in Bond-street. The collections of models, diagrams,
and drawings in connection with the subjects to which the
Institutes of British Architects and Civil Engineers and
the Architectural Society refer, are easily accessible to the
profession as well as to respectable strangers. 'I he museum
of the Royal Institution is an attractive portion of that
establishment ; and most of the literary institutions arc
possessed of small collections of rarities.
The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lin-
coln's Inn-fieles, formed from a nucleus made by the late
celebrated John Hunter (which was purchased by Govern-
ment
from the executors of that great man for 20,000/. ), is
open every Monday, Wednesday, arid Friday, by orders
from members, and will amply repay a
visit Of the curious.
To the pathologist attractive collections offer at Guy's,
St. Bartholomew's, and the other metropolitan hospitals.
The National Gallery of Paintings, in Trafalgar-square,
is open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
from ten o'c ock till five. Dulwich Gallery is open each
week-day, except Friday, by tickets, which may be ob-
tained from the principal printsellers ; and the Cartoons
at Hampton Court Palace may be inspected on Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
The public gardens in the neighbourhood of London
now present an attractive eppearance, at the head of which
stand the Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick, which are
open to parties by orders which are liberally distributed
by members from nine o'clock till six. The Royal Bo-
tanic Gardens, at Kew, are open daily from one o'clock
till six, and present many attractive features; and the
Physic Garden, at Chelsea, belonging to the Apotheca-
ries' Company, is open daily to members, or by particular
order. The Botanic Gardens in the Regent's Park, with
the two Z:ological Gardens of the Regent's Park and
Walworth, present their usual attractions to visitors.

CORPORATE REFoRIVI—CITY OF
LONDON.

On Tuesday evening, the City of London Corporate
Reform Assoctation, held their meeting at the Guildhall
Coffee-house, King-street, J. Hannan, Esq., in the chair.
Mr. HANNAN addressed the meeting, suggesting that a
committee should be formed for the purpose of going at
length into the several cases of hardship, and they should
invite all those persons who were aggrieved by the mis-
conduct of the Corporation of Lvticlon to call on those
members who would compose their committee, and state
the particulars of their grievances, which would be taken
up and exhibited to public view for the benefit of the peo-
ple at large.—(Hear.)
Mr. ROCK also addressed the assembly, upon the griev-
ances which were caused by those peculiar laws which
interfered with the commercial interests of that city, and
concluded by moving a resolution for the appointment of a
committee, as recommended by the chairman.
Mr. ELLIOTT seconded the resolution.

Mr. SAUL, Mr. ROSE, and other Gentlemen afterwards
addressed the meeting, when it was moved to be adjourned
until the 23d day of April.

CHURCH-RATES.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Easter Tuesday, that is next Tuesday, being the day on
which the accounts of the Churchwardens for the past
year are audited, and the assessment for the next year is
usually made; all those who think that every denomination
of p►ofessors of religion ought to support the fa-
brics of their own places of worship, and provide for
the decent celebration of Divine Worship therein, (with.
out putting their " hands in their neighbours' rockets,")
which two things arc the only legal objects to which
Church-rates can be applied, should attend the vestry
meetings on Tuesday, and see that the expenditure has
been strictly according to law.
The estimate made last year for the expenditure should
be produced, and the organist's salary, lighting of the
church, and every other item not according to law
struck out.

it. an assessment is made, the estimate should be pro-
duced; no rate is legal that is not pm ceded by an esti-
mate, nor can a rate be founded on any estimate which
contains items which are not according to law.
If this system was pu-su. d in every parish, and the busi-
nes only done accor ing to law, Episcopalians would soon
have to provide their own funds.

THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The
annual spring muster of the yachts of this celebrated club took
place on Thursday. At four o'clock Mr. Harrison, the Com-
modore, hoisted his flag on board the Fortuna, a very beautiful
cutter of 22 tons burden. the property of Mr. Pegg, which was
lying off Greenwich. At five, or rather before that hour, it
being about one quarter ebb, the wind blowing gently from the
north-west, the fleet of yachts at Greenwich got under weigh,
and made down the river for Etith, being joined as they pro-
ceeded by the various vessels forming the grand armada of the
Society. They were all well manned, having, besides a vast
deal of company on board, their complete equipment of crews.
The weather was. un:ortunately. not propitious for spectators
to congregate in front of the hospital at Greenwich in so great
numbers as on some former occa.,ions; nevertheless, there was
a good show of amatPurs. The intention was to make the
" meet" at Erith, and thence to proceed at once to the yore,
along the Kentish coast, to Boulogne, &c., and after a few
days' cruise, to return. In addition to the yacht bearing the
flag of the Commodore, there were the Ada Jane, Captain
Egan, the property of Mr. lteynell, one of the fastest craft on
the river ; the Widgeon. the property of Mr. Snook ; the
Venus, belonging to Air. Short; the Victorine, belonging to
' Mr. Stokes ; the St. George, Mr. Cot ington's boat; the Ada,
Commodore Craven ; and several others, forming altogether,
s it was said, a fleet of 16 beautiful vessels.
I BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The Commissioners
of Woods and Forests sent in a number of workmen on Thurs-
day, to complete various improvements and embellishments pre-
violls to the return of the Court to town. The private apart-
ments of her Majesty and the Prince Consort have been fitted
up with peculiar elegance. A brilliant series of dinners, con-
certs, balls, and evening parties, in honour of the Royal nup_
tials, will be given at the Palace after the recess.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

tROM THE MORNING PAPERS Or THIS DAY.
(From the limes.)
We foretold that war would procreate war ; and is it not
so ? The Neapolitan Government had contracted obliga-
tions to Great Britain—obligations of the most sacred cha-
racter. Pressed perhaps fur money, arid of consequence
indeed it is possib!c, not quite aware of the palpable vio-
lation of public faith which it was committing, the Court
of Naples entered into engagements with a foreign specu-
lator for establishing a monopoly in his favour, subversive
of that perfect freedom and equality of commerce which it
had guaranteed to the subjects of the British Crown.
Had Lord Palmerston watched with ordinary vigilance,
and at once protested against this breach of compact
with his country, the evil might have br.en mecied
without delay or trouble. But, according to sus
torn, the sentinel slept on his post, no earnest or peremptory
demand of redress was made until after the suffering mer-
chants of England had complained with bitterness, arid
appealed to public feeling. Then, indeed, the Melbourne
Government did take the alarm. Then it did denounce,
and threaten, and after a fashion, with crippled means,
prepare.

( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The accounts from Dublin for the last day or two will
have prepared our readers for the announcement of the
death of Mr. Drummond, Under Secretary for Ireland.
We almost question whether, in the whole range
of the public service, a loss could hive been
sustained more deeply to be deplored, and less
easily to be supplied. We have nut the materials
before us to give any regular or detailed account of Mr.
Drummond's career. Brought up to a profession (that of
engineer) which is perhaps beyond any other daily supply-
ing eminent and efficient servants to the public, he early
displayed very high and singular attainments; the dis-
covery of a species of light, which bears his name, will
probably be familiar to many. His talents were first made
available for direct political objects in the preparation of
the calculations and arrangement of the boundaries which
were adopted under the Reform Bill. He afterwards went
through a most laborious period of public service as private
secretary to Lord Althorp, whose warm regard and affection
will have followed him to his premature tomb. Upon the
formation of Lord Melbourne's second Administration, he
succeeded Sir William Gusset as Under Secretary for
Ireland, and it is upon the discharge of his duties in that
arduous and responsible post during the past five years
that his claims upon the admiration and gratitude of his
colleagues and his country will mainly rest. We greatly
wish that the devoted and almost chivalrous ardour with
which he encountered, and courted, and mastered the
most complicated and various details of business, may not
have tasked too heavily a somewhat susceptible frame ; we
write, however, in the absence of precise medical informa-
tion, and the actual illness under which he sunk would not
seem to have had any necessary connection with previous
exhaustion.

(From the Morning Post.)
When an honest man considers is hat is really the nature
of Lord Stanley's Bill for amending the registration sys-
tem in Ireland, and regards at the same time the almost
insat.e violence of the O'Connell party against the Bill,
he should be the more determined to give Lord Stanley's
measure his steady and strenuous support. The Bill is
simply to introduce accuracy and truth into arrange-
men. s which have hitherto been notoexusly full of in-
accuracy and of falsehood. Now, if the O'Connellite
faction offered no more than an ordinary opposition to
the measure, it might be regarded merely as a party
hostility which they would have equally showed to
anything else brought forward in the same quarter. It
might have been concluded that there was no especial
—no vital—interest in the monstrous abuses which it is the
object of Lord Stanley's Bill to remove. But so excessive
is the agitation of the O'Connell faction on this subject—
so convulsive the efforts to arouse popular hatred against
the measure—so audaciously false the accounts given of it
—so demoniacally fierce the denunciwions of the Bill and
of its author, that it is perfectly clear there must be a pro-
digious O'Connellite interest in the errors, the frauds, and
the perjuries which will be put an end to if happily the
Bill should become law.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Mr. O'Connell has placed a notice of a motion for the
emancipation of the Jews, on the order book of the House
of Commons, on the first open day after Easter. Atter
two majorities of the House of Commons have pronounced
in favour of the measure for the relief of our Jewish fellow-
subjects, it must be regarded as a matter of mortification
and regret, that year after year it is necessary to repeat
the same arguments, and to begin, " ab ovo," the advo-
cacy of a mere act of public justice. It is positively mon-
strous that the members of the Jewish persuasion, who
yield to no class in respectability, in probity, in intelli.
gence, in mercantile wealth and industry, and in the wide
embrace of their commercial transactions, should be ex-
cluded from their fair share in the representation of the
country, which, according to every principle of the consti.
tution, ought to be co-ordinate with the payment of taxes.
The British Jews still remain, in this liberal and enlight-
ened country, a persecuted caste.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The transfer of the allegiance of the Tory party from
Sir R. Peel to Lord Stanley seems :.Imost completed.
The tone of moderation and decorum, the smooth
and varnished plausibilitics, and well-acted respect
for public opinion, which the cool and cautious
Baronet laboured, not without success, to teach
his party, have given place to the bitter spirit of
furious, unrelenting hatred with which the Hotspur
of the Opposition has never ceased to attack the
friends and principles of his former days. Throughout
the whole of the present session Sir Robert Peel has
been thrown completely into the back ground ; and
the practical effectual leadership of the Opposition
assumed by the hero of " Obstruction," and his
fidus Achates and fellow-deserter, the Cumberland
Baronet. In the reiterated motions brought for-
ward openly and avowedly for factious purposes
—the reckless and audacious attempts to., stab the
Ministry through the sides of the credit, ho-
nour, and interests of the country—Sir Robert
Peel has, to do him justice, been dragged
along, a reluctant slave, bound to the cha-
riot-wheels of ;faction. The depressed and subdued
tone of his speech on the China debate bespolse too
plainly for his own adherents the unwilling advocate,
condemned to plead for a cause which he disapproved.
On one great question be had the courage to take an
independent course and brave the yells of disappointed
faction which burst from his own ranks, and the torrent
of abuse p3ured upon hint by the organs of his own
party. On another still more important question—that
of the Corn-laws—Lis speech was received with undis-
guised dissatisfaction by the men who, only a year ago,
were ready to worship him as the Heaven-sent advocate
of the landlord's tax.

(From the Courier.)
The value of Lord Stanley's reform in the election
system of Ireland may be learned from the violence of
the party, who feel interested in the duration of a sys
tern, irreconcilable with common sense and common
honesty. A meeting of the "Loyal Registration Asso-
ciation," was held in Dublin on Monday, whose proceed-
ings will justify the employment of the strongest cen-
iure. But before we proceed to notice the resolutions
passed by this self-constituted body, let us apologise
tor the mention of a person on whom the Press has indis-
creetly conferred a popularity to which he could never
have attained by his acquirements or his genius. While
we thus blame a conduct which we were the first
to avoid, let us not withhold the excuse which
respectable Englishmen are entitled to claim. It is a
disgrace not precisely to the country, but to the men
who should direct its affairs, that they are influenced by
interests immediately proceeding from a foreign Priest,
and submissively acquiescent to the dictates of that
priest's avowed minion. Here is the man's importance
—a corrupt, ignorant, and puny Administration de-
pends upon his breath for its pitiful existence. Of any
moral quality, or political quality, independent of his
absolute command over the Melbourne Administration,
we tore ignorant ; and we feel a degradation in noticing
the ribaldry, and sedition, and sometimes treason, which
are reported in the Irish papers devoted to the cause
of rebellion.

(From the Standard.)
The news brought by the British Queen is not sa-
tisfactory, but it is not altogether so alarming as it ma,
seem to be at first sight. The language of the United
States Government in its correspondence with Mr. Fox
is menacing, and almost, if not altogether, insolent; but
this is easy to he accounted for without giving it any
credit for sincerity. The leaven of seditious spirit—of
that spirit which always justifies actual crime by fabricated
grievances, still works strongly in the Republicans. At the
very time when they would willingly violate every one of
their most solemn engagements, they make it a subject
of complaint that the British Governor is so little com-
plaisant as to prepare the defensive means of resisting
them—just as an ingenious artist in the pit of one of our
theatres might fasten a quarrel upon a man for button-
ing his pockets and turning in his watch-chain, and
bluster exceedingly. The answer in such a case would
be—if you mean no harm to my pocket or my watch, I
do you no injury, and offer you no affront. The same
answer will serve the American Government.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday TTlOrti•
ing, the 11th inst., as a boy about 13 years of age, of the name
of Salt, was carelessly sweeping under the machines at the lace
factory, Little Brampton, his apron was caught by a strap, and
his body drawn into the machinery. One arm was broken, his
head and other parts of his body dreadfully bruised. The pro-
prietors have adopted proper precautions to prevent the recur-
rence of similar accidents.—Derby Reporter.

TEMPERANCE MEETING.—The annual tea
meeting of the City and North of London Auxiliary, for the
suppression of intemperance, was held on Friday at the White
Conduit-house, when upwards of 1,000 lovers of the cup which
cheers, but nut inebriates, indulged in libations to an extent
which would have excluded the application of the term tem-
perance, had not the precaution bi en taken that even the tea
itself should not be strong. The company consisted of persons
of both sexes, the generality of whom were respectably at-
tired ; and the clean and tidy appearance of the rest, particularly
several coal porteis and labourers of the lower grade, was
pleasing. The chair was taken by Mr. Spence, of Liverpool,
who said that upon receiving the invitation by letter he did not
hesitate to come 200 miles to preside over them. The assem-
bly was addressed by several speakers, one of whom was inter-
rupted by a person at the lower end of the room exclaiming,
" I should like to have a glass of brandy and water, Sir, if you
have no objection." This excited some mirth ; but many of
the tee-totallvrs seemed inclined to be imtemperately wroth,
and loud cries of " Turn hira out" were raised. The person,
however, assured the chair-wan, with the same it.ziticti4 that
he meant no offence, and was allowed to remain. Some slit-
seriptions were announced, but the Auxiliary was 281. in debt.