The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-25 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

EMILY. s VOL..
album, London, 1840.
Another tale of fashionable life, though by no means
so arrogant or affected as the generality of such pro-
ductions. " Emily" is, in truth, a very readable story
—that is to say, the style is easy and animated, though
sometime
;s
slip-shod, and the incidents are natural and
not deficient in variety ; but as for character, there is
very little
the young Countess of Rosendale, who is
the heroine, and from whom the novel derives its title,
is, like all other fashionable heroines we ever read cf,
beautiful, accomplished, susceptible, and so forth, but
with nothing of " mark or likelihood" abouliagr. Her
languishing, die-away sweetheart, Sir HerbtlTE Mande-
ville, is not much better, being just one of those high-
flown, romantic characters, who abound in circulating
library tales, but are never by any chance met with in
real life. As a matter of course be falls violently in
love at first sight with the Countess Emily, and equally
as a matter of course, she reciprocates his passion ; dif-
ficulties, however, arise, to disturb the "smooth course"
of their " true love ;" but these are in time got over,
and the attached couple are eventually made happy by
the instrumentality of a parson, and a Doctors' Com
mons' license. We must contest:, that the scenes wherein
Herbert and Emily chiefly figure are not mun to our
taste ; but there are some clever, piquant sketches of
aristocratic life. in the country ; sonic graphic descrip-
tions of ural scenery ; and much spirited dialogue
between a ruined man of rank, Colonel Marsden, and his
equally impoverished liberene son, Frederick. But the
best, because the most probable, characters in the tale,
are those of the Robinson family, whose Vulger purse-
pride is justly and forcibly satirized,

CHARLES LAMB'S WORKS.
Moxon, London, 1840.
The entire works of Ctiaz les Lamb, both in prose
and verse, arc comprised in this handsome octavo
volume, which is one of the cheapest of the tnany
cheap and elegant republications that have lately ap-
peared unihr Air. Moron's auspices. As an essayist,
and more especially as a critic on such productions .s
happened to take his fancy, we entertain the hig:t, t
respect for Lamb ; his remilrks on Hogarth ore tr,
justest and profoui4dest that ii,,,:., yet by, .e .vriitt
on the subj.,et ; and iiig " EU," q,,,,:n,
even ob,,ctire as the iliouglits freqwzoily
abounds in p.;ssa'.;,s reed:,-iniendesi ii, 1511, (•:ti,i,.,,tv,.7,
and feeling. But lt:s p)ctry is our allhorreuce. "fiff:..rf,
is an utter want of dace al;i1 iltxioitity about it ; alul
in no one instance ti—it .ve have ~ ,-n mile to discover,
14 there the slightes, ,:pproacti to anytio4 like euphony
His admircrs, wss know, are loud in their lu-inst.'s of
"John Wcodvil"; but it is a very s •cry pro.:itictiou—ts
mere sapid imitation of tiie manner of to,' Etiz4bl than
drainntists, but destitute of the pssietiale s,rtiestness
and skilful (I,...vel,opment of chist.:ietce that a:,: wi)oug
their chief redeeming exce:lenc.es. The volume is em-
bellished with a lialf-len;;th portrait of Limb, -4,,,ici-, we
are informed, is an excelleat liken's,.

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LECTURES ON LOCKE.
Cadell
This is a work, chiefly' Leill°(.7.zienl oe4nt.ary character, and
will be kund cxttemely serviceable to students in the
University, for whose use it is designed. The
author handles his subject with a skill that shows
his mastery aver it, and procecis regularly step by step
in his .I_,..cturey, simplifying that which is coniplex, and
smoothing that which is difficult. With the exception
of A-chbishop Whateley's admirable treatise on Logic,
we have scarcely one good elementary work on the sub-
ject ; we therefore hail with pleasure the present suc-
cessful attempt to supply the want ; and trust that it
may ere long be extensively introduced into our private
and public seminaries, for every system of education
must be consdered defective that does not comprehend
the study of Logic.

-POPULAR LI6RARY OF MODERN
AUTHORS.
Whitaker, London, 1840.
The present number of this Miscellany contains a re-
publication of the late Mr. Inglis's " Travels thraugh
Switzerland, the South of 14'race, and the Pyrenees."
They are written in a cheerful unassuming manner, for
the author was one who always looked to the sunny side
of things ; and arc particularly deserving of praise for
the minuteness and graphic spirit of their descriptions.

NAUTICAL SKL TCHES.
Painter, London, 1840.
A series of passable tales and sketches in prose,
most of which being short, can be read at a sitting
w:thout difficulty. The public, however, is b?ginning
to get tired of these nautical stories—in fact, shows
evident symptoms of sea-sickness; and we must honestly
confess we are not at all surprised at its growing dis-
taste for such productions.

THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-

WAY FESTIVAL.

The Committee which was appointed at a public meet-
at Southampton on the 26th of May, haying made all
the neocasary arraegemcnts, it was resolved that the cele-
bration of the opening of the whole line of railroad from
London to Seuthampton should take place on Saturday
last, and accordingly on that day a splendid festival was
bold in the Royal Victoria Archery Orounds at Southampton.
For the conveyance of the numerous visitors from London,
who bad received invitations from the Committee to be pre-
sent, a special train was in readiness at the Vauxhall station
at 10 o'clock in the morning, and it was arranged. that after
partaking of the festivities at Southampton, which were to
commence at 2 o'clock, those who wished to return to Lon-
don should be reconveyed thither by a spec:al train to leave
Southampton at 5 o'clock. At 10 o'clock a very nu-
merous company of ladies and gentlemen, upwards of
180, were assembled at the Vauxhall station, -including
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Dushess
of Inverness, his Excellency M. Guizot, the French
Ambassador, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Easthope, M.P., Mr.
Holmes, M. P., Mr. Sergeant Adams, &c. The train left
the Vauxhall station at half-past 10 o'clock, and reached
Southampton at baltpast one, without any accident en the
road. The terminus at Southampton presented a most
animated appearance; a dense crowd of persons of all
classes were assembled to do honour to the Royal Duke
and to the French Ambassador, and to congratulate them
on their visit. A guard of honour from the 61st regiment,
which is quartered in the town, with their officers and
military band, was in attendance, the Royal standard was
unfurled, and the repeated discharges of artillery an-
nounced their arrival. On alighting from the carriage in
which he had been conveyed, the Duke of Sussex was
met by the Mayor of the town and the Town Council, who
accompanied him into one of the large rooms of the ter-
minus, and presented him with an address voted at a meet-
ing on Tuesday last.
The Lodge of Freemasons also presented his Royal
Highness with a congratulatory address, to which and to
the address of the corporation he returned au appropriate
answer.

Immediately after the presentation of these addresses,
the carriage procession, consisting of many elegant private
carriages, and many ones hired for the occasion, began to
form, and an immense party were conveyed through the
principal streets of the town to the Archery Ground. No-
thing could be more pleasing than the appearance of the
whole spectacle at this time. Almost every bouce in the
town was decorated with laurels, &c., and the windows
and balconies were crowded with ladies. The procession
passed by the platform in front of the terminus, round the
eastern quay, and entered the High-street through a tri-
umphal arch erected at the southern entrance of the town,
preceded by a guard of honour with band, colours, &c. It
passed through the Barga.e and Portland-street, and was
cheered as it moved along by the voices of thousands
of spectators. Across the streets were displayed stand-
ards, flags, &c., and the place ang with the dis-
charge of guns and pieces of ordnance. On arrival at the
Archery Grounds, at which place the most excellent ar-
rangements had been made by the committee to prevent
confusion, the company were admitted by tickets to the
grounds. There, on a beautiful esplanade of turf, and
close to the edge of the Southampton Water, was erected
one of the largest marquees which the manufactory of Mr.
B. E igington, of Duke street, Borough, could supply,
and, on the erection of which, to prevent accidents, his own
workmen had been for sometime employed. Beneath
this enormous apartment of canvass, tables were laid for
upwards of 600 persons. Notwithstanding the great
number of guests, everybody was accommodated, and a
more elegant dejeune was perhaps, never provided for so
many gue is in so satisfactory a manner. The chair at the
cross table was taken shortly before 3 o'clock by Mr.
Breton, the Mayor of Southampton. On his right hand
were the Duke of Sussex, the French Ambassador, and on
his left Lend Palmerston, Lord F. Gordon, and the
Duchess of Inverness. There were also at this table Lord
Duncan, Sir E. Codrington, Mr. Easthope, and many
distinguished persons connected with the tows and
coal. ty. . .

Up-wards of 600 ladies and gentlemen ranged themselves
at the different tables, and we had then an opportunity of
observing, that among t the most distinguislrd of them, in-
dependent of those we have already named, were Lord
Duncan, the Lady Augusta Gordon, Colonel Wild-
man, Sir Thomas B 'ring,. Colonel Forbes, H. C. Comp-
ton Esq., M. P., and Mrs. Compton ; hl. Kembie, Esq ,
M P.; William Holmes, Esq., M. P. ; Thomas Knox
Holmes, Esq. ; .John M.utin, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Mar-
tin ; Sir Hcsketh Fleetwood, M.P. ; James Morrison, Esq.
M. P.. and Mrs. Morrison ; John Maher, Esq., M. P. ; Jo-
seph Hume, Esq., M. P., and two of the Misses Hume ;
Thomas Young, Esq. ; G. T. Nicholson, E. 1., of Wa-
verly-park ; George Bainbridge, El.. of Winchfield-
house; John Spicer, E.q , of Esher-place, and Mrs.
Spicer; D. Barclay, El. ;J. Wilson, Esq. ; Nottage,
Esq.; Mr. Sergeant /Owns and Mrs. Adams; Robert
Martin, Esq., and Mrs. Martin ; C E. Stanford, Esq. ;A.
II urriphry, Esq ,and Mrs. Homph-ys; W. Humphrys, Esq ;
J Wrigh', ; Vincent Et re, Esq , and. family ;
John Lewis Eyre, Esq., aid family ; J. Hibbert, E4q ;
J. W. Dies, Esq. ; .I)hn King, Esq. ; Edward Jerniog-
ham, Esq. ; Chaplin, Esq. ; Joseph Lcck,
the Engineer; and William Esq , the Secretary to
the Landon and Sriuth-Western Railway Company ; Wil-
liam Tito, E.q ; T. F Birchein, Esq ; James Duncan,
Esq.; John Black, I.l=q. ; Liggirs, Esq , Chairman of
the Daelt Comp:any; George Burnand, Esq., and Mrs.
B.,itri,nd, awl Thomas Brassy, Esq.
Grecc hazing been said, the repast commenced.
The g,ucits 1134 not tong been seated at the table before

Tho 'CHAIRMAN rose to—a.k their attention. lie rewci-
ted that th,ir distinguished visitor. the French Ambassad, r,
to whose eforts in the French Cabinet in support of the
project for a railway bet 'men Paris and Rosen, the town of
South:impten owed so much, was compelled by a p. cvious
erigagerneat n'turn almost ininnAistely to London. He
was sure the company mould fed with bite, that even
though the usual course of proceeding were broken in
upon, It Gu!z of could not be permitted to !cave them
without receiving at their hands those marks of respect to
wkich he hal established so high a claim.—(Cheer;, )
Therefore, though the se2son for toast-giving had not yet
;Aropeily arrived, he b..gged to propose " The health of
M. Guz it, the Ambassador of his Mrjesty the King of the
French "

The toast waa received and drunk with the utmost en-
thusiasm.

M. Gtozor, on rising to return thinks, was greeted
with a burst of cheers, which continued for several m`-
notes. Witco silence W 43 restored, he said—l thank you,
I fear, in very bad E,glish, but with a most sincere heart
for your kinduess towards me, and still mare for year kind-
ness towards my country and my ccontry's King, whcse
ii,rue I read with &el, pluai.ure on the little flag bilore
me..—(Cocers.) Both our countries are now united in
the bonds of an intima.e friendship; but the more they
rppreash each other, the more they know each other, the
more inti.-caw will be their union, and more fruitful of
goad to both.—( Loud cheers.) I hope that this will be
the result of the great works which are nsw und.irtaken
in the two countries ; and I have been happy to contribute
the utmost in my power to the underti.i.king of the gre t
b..tween Paris and Rouen, and which shall czr-
tainly be c•ntinued to 11-tvre.—( Great cheering.) Thus
thew too countries which have each 'much to give and
much to receive, wilt be mutually -united, not merely by
intitrivo itiendstip, but by a common interest—
( 0-leers.) I ;ha-k you again fur your kindness towards
Fianct-, towards the King of the French, and towards
nivivelf.._...( Loud cheering.)

At the conclusion of the repvt,
The tuataNtaN i.arnedittely rose and said, that though
they' had assembled to celebrate the opening of the Loudon
and South- Wesaern I:.alway, they must not forget that it
was a day that would never cease to be famous in the an-
ri.,la.of histo y. It wai :he third aenivt rsary of the ac-
cession f her Nlajus'y to the threr.e.--( Ccheers.) After
11. e la. e t:easnoeb.e a:tempt upon her life, the opportunity of
driiiting her health affwied as additional la -ippiness ; a ol
Rat satiAied that all who heard him would join in a fer-
ve,it praytr tinit her Mijesty's life might be long and glo-
ri u,, and productive of peace, picsrrity, and happiness to
her peaplc.—( Loud cheers.)
The health •1' •• her NI-ksty the Queen" was then drunk
with the utmost enthu iastn. It e-as followed by " God
save the Queen," played by the military hand.
The health of " Ptince " was the next toast, and
that of the " Queen Dowager " followed. They were
received with great aoplanse.
The Ctlaitc.iaN then said—The toast I am about to
propose will be received not merely with satisfaction, but
with enthusiasm, it is—" The health of our Illustrious
Guest, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. "—( En-
thasiastie cheering ) It would ill become me to say much
upon such a toast in the presence of his Royal Highness;
but this I may venture to observe, that as the patron of
literature, the friend of science, the promo•er of public
works, there is not an individual in the United Kingdom
who has st?od more prominently forward than the Duke of
Suasex.—(Reiterated ch-ors.)
The health of his Royal Highness was drunk with the
moat raptareus applause.
'The Duke of Susss.x, on returning thanks said--I beg to
return sou my warmest thanks for the manner in which you
have received the toast just proposed to you by the Mayor;
and allow me to take this opportunity of expressing the
high delight which I have derived from seeing
so numerous
a meeting, mid at the same time such a cordial and kindly
feeling marked in the countenance
_of every individual of
which it is composed. —( Cheers. ) Of late years my
health has not pcimitted me to mix in society so much as
formerly ; bat ups* extraordinary occasions I always use
say best endeavonrs to associate myself with my fellow.
coautrymen to witness what is going on in the world, and
to acquaint myself with the gradual improvement of so.
ciety.—( Cheers.) It certainly affords me great pleasure
to observe the immense improvements which have taken
place in this town since the last time I had the happiness
of being among you, which I believe was about one and
twenty years ago. lam told that in that space of time
tite,population of the town has doubled, which I take to
tic a convincing and conclusive proof of its increasing
prosperity. I have no doubt that the completion of the
railroad which we have this day met to celebrate will
prove an additional and great benefit to Southamp-
ton, inasmuch as that it will facilitate, by so
agreeable a route, the communication betwixt this coun-
try and the continent and other parts of the world.
(Cheers.) As was very ably and very properly observed
by the French Ambassador when be addressed you, the
importance of bringing England and France ncarer to
each other, thus enabling them to know each other bet-
ter, and to form an unio: of peace, not based merely upon
friendship, but upon mutual and common interests, cannot
be over estimated.--((hers.) I will not detain you
longer than simply to return you my thanks for the persor a'
compliment you have paid me, and to drink all your got d
hearths. (His Royal Highness sat down anti Ist the most era
tbusiastic cheering).

and Army."
-ned thanks for the com-
ertakings like that, tl e
‘t to celet rite, tending
.ie interests of commerce,
benefit the navy—for the
',land were so intimately

united with each other that no advantage could be con-
ferred en the one that would not be shared by the other.
Colonel FokßEs returned thanks for the army.

The health of " The Duke of Wellington, the Lord-
Lieu enant of the county," was drunk with the warmest en •
thusiasm

The next toast was " The Chairman and Directors of
the London and South-Western Railway." The toast was
drunk with the loudest applause.
Mr. EASTHOPE, on rising to return thanks, was warn.ly
cheered. He said, on behalf of my colleagues, and in
my own name, I beg most gratefully to acknowledge
the compliment you have paid us, and to return our
heartfelt thanks to this elegant, this numerous, this
almost unexampled assembly, for the kind manner in
which the toast has been received.—( Cheers.) Rightly
has it been said that we have had difficulties to encounter ;
but it must be borne in mind that great advantages have
seldom been obtained without the interposition of great
difficulty in the progress of their acquirement.—(Cheers.)
If, in the construction of this railway, we have had oppo-
nents, we have also had friends—(Cheers)—if we have had
obstructions, we have also had hopes , and. at last, what-
ever impediments may havo lain in our path,--whatever
vexation we may have endured—we are amply repaid by
the triumph of our success—( Loud cheers)—and are grate-
fully proud of the marks of kindness and distinction with
which you have greeted us.—( Renewed cheering.) We
have heard, with a pride which I cannot express, the de.
claration of the distinguished individual who has left us, of
the pleasure with which he witnesses this junction with
his country, and to-day we hail the probability of Paris at
no distant time being brought almost as near to Havre as
London already is to Southampton.—(Cheers.) This
lessening of distance between the capitals of the world is
of the utmost importance, upon higher considerations
than those marked by mere pounds, shillings, and pence.
From the intimate connection now about to be established
between England and France, we may hope for the for-
mation of such associations and the interchange of each
kindnesses, as shall not only keep from us the evils of
hostility and strife, but open to both countrys new sources
of prosperity, and give birth to the elements of a truer
greatness.—( Cheers.) I congratulate the Noble Lord
whom I have the pleasure to recognise amongst us to•day
upon the advantages which may result to the department
over which be so ably presides—( Cheers)—from the com-
pletion of this undertaking. Who is there—for political
party is entirely out of the question—(Great cheers)—
who is there who does not not reflect with pleasure that
we may be the means of bringing nearer together the two
greatest ceuntries in the world ?—(Cheers.) Who is
there who does not hail with delight everything that may
contribute to the advancement of so great a national and
social advantage ?—(Cheers.) I should trespass beyond
the bounds of endurance were Ito attempt an expression
of all my feelings upon this subject. I feel that I have al-
ready transgressed—already exceeded the limits allowed
to those who speak upon occasions like the present. I
will, therefore, say no more than that my colleagues and
myself, moved by all the honest feelings of exultation and
pride, of gratitude and hope, mast sincerely thank you for
the kindness with which you have received us, and for the
hospitality of which we have been the happy partakers.
The CHAIRMAN observed that there was another subject.
closely connected with the railroad, namely, the docks—
( Cheers)—the completion of which, he was happy to
say, was rapidly approaching. He begged leave, there-
fore, to propose the "health of the Chairman and Di-
rectors of the Southampton Dock Company." Tae toast
was drunk with much applause.
Mr. LTGGINS (the Chairman of the Dock Company) re-
turned thanks.

The next toast was, " The Chairman and Directors of
the Royal Steam Packet Companey."—(Drunk with ap.
plause.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the healths of " The
Members for the County." It was received with cheers.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of the
Members for the town." The toast was drunk witk ap-
plause.
Lord DrNnAN returned thanks. He regarded that as a
proud day for Southampton. Three years ago when he first
came amongst the inhabitants of the town he had ventured
to predict the arrival of such a day. Ho rejoiced that his
prediction had been falfilled.—( Cheers.) He thought
that great credit was duo to the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, to whose unwearied exertions, and un-
tiring energy the triumphant completion of the work was
mainly to be attributed ; and it had afforded him the highast
satisfaction to hear the enthusiastic and well-merited cheers
w;th which that gentleman had been received. —(Cheers.)
The presence of the illustrious Duke and of his Excellency
M. Guizot, the Ambassac'or of the neighbouring kingdom,
affgded a convincing proof of the great importance attri-
buted to this undertaking, not only in England, but in
France.—( Applause.) He hoped soon to be present at
the opening of the docks, and that at no distant day the
inhabitants of the town, in addition to the beautiful woods
hick hung upon the margin of their lake- like river, might
be gratified by the prospect of a forest of masts.—( Cheers.)
In times gor.c by, it was the custom in Venice, once a
year, to marry the Doge with the sea : they were assem-
bled that day to celebrate the marriage of Southampton to
London.—(Llughter and cheers.) He doubted nut that
the nuptials would be blessed with m large increase, and an
enduring prosperity.—( Cheers.) .

The -15uke of eUSSEX next rose and said—The hour is
approaching for our return to town ; but I cannot leave this
company without expressing my thanks to the Mayor and
Corporation for the kind manner in which they have re-
ceived me. With your leave I will drink to their health.
—( Cheers.) I propose to you " The health of the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses, and prosperity to the town of
Southampton."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in the name of the Corporation, re-
turned thanks for the honour conferred upon them.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Lord
Vi,count Palmerston," and in doing so adverted to the
assistance which his Lordship had rendered to the Dock
and R ilk ay, and a!! otter B:Ils connected with the in-
terests of Southampton.

The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm.

Lord PALMERSTON, on risieg, was loudly cheered. He
slid, I Leg to return my most sincere and grateful thanks
for the kind and flattering, manner in which you have con—
ferred unnn rne the unexpected honour I leave just received
at ‘our hands. I can assure yeti that the Mnyor does me
no Irle then justice in believing that no man earl feel a
deeyer interest than I do in tie weltare and prosperity of a
tow n to which I have the happiness et being so near a neigh-
bour—( Cheers)—a town associated with all my earliest re-
collections, and one to which, upon every account, I must
feel the sincerest attachment. I feel proud of the occasion
upon which we are here to-day assemble I, end I am grate-
ful for your having done me the honour to invite the to
be present amongst the illustrious and ❑oble personages
whom you have gathered around you.—( Cheers.) I
feel the deepest interest in the success of the great under-
taking, which you have now accomplished, as a landlord
and a preprietor, resident in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the town, and, therefore, individually interested
in all that contributes to the prosperity of the surrounding
district.—(Cheers.) I feel proud of the success of this
unlertaking, as an Englishman interested in everything
that tends to the improvement of the country in which I
have the happiness of being born; but I am still more
gratified at the success of the undertaking as a lover of
peace.—( Cheers.) Because, althoue hit is impossible to
add anything to those topics which have been so ably
dwelt tri.on by the illustrious Duke who sits at your table,
and by the distinguished visitor who was obliged to leave
early in the course of the day, yet I must say that I feel
deeply that nothing can more contribu'e to the meinte-
naece of those peaceful relations to which, upon
every account, social, moral, and political, we all
attach the utmost Leportence—l feel that nothing
C2II so greatly contribute to the maintenance of those
peaceful relations as the accomplishment of works
such us the completion of which we are met to-day to
celebrate.—(Cheers.) Governments may make treaties
between different countries, but if those treaties do not
rest upon community of interest—upon sympathy of feel-
ing—upon the spread of knowledge occasioned by in-
creased facilities of communication amongst the people,
the first political blast will blow them to atoms, and no
slid foundation will be found upon which to base the
relations of friendship and peace.—( Cheers.) It is
an old remark that the highest gratification that a man
can enjoy, is the successful conquest of difficulties
which at the outset appeared to be insurmount-
able. In completing this railway, the Directors have
vanquished obstacles which were said to be beyond their
reach, and are only yet beginning to reap the reward ( which
ultimately must be a rich one) of their perseverance and en-
terprise. When the docks which are now in progress, and
which must be locked upon as the legitimate and natural
off.pring of the railway, are completed—when the great
work which is about to be undertaken on the opposite side
of the Channel—l mean the railway communication between
Paris and Havre—is also completed, it is difficult for the
mind of man to conceive the height of prosperity to which
this town and neighbourhood ma► arrive within the lives of
most of those whom I have the honour to address.—
(Cheers. ) Again I thank you for the honour you have con-
ferred upon me, and I beg at the seme time to assure you,
that if ever it be in rny power, in Parliament or out of it,
to render any service to the town and neighbourhood of
Southampton, the greatest satisfaction I can receive, and
the proudest employment [can make of the humble means
at my cammand, will be so to exert them as to contribute
to your welfare and happiness.—(Loud and continued
cheering.)

Some other routine toasts were given, and the company
then rose, and returned to the Railway terminus in pro-
cession.

It now wanted but twenty minutes to six o'clock. At
one minute past eight his Royal Highness was in his own
carriage at Nine Elms, and on his way to Kensington
Palace—the whole distance between Southampton and
London, including a stoppage of nine minutes and fifteen
seconds, having been accomplished in two hours, twenty
minuteg, and fifteen sccondse There was not an accident,
even of the most trifling nature, to mar the enjoyment of
the day.

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The CHURCH.—A Correspondent informs us
that in the richly endowed parish of Bishopsgate (the:Rector, a
Prebendary) there is a district church, situated among the poor,
which contains sittings for 500 persons, and he is grieved to say
there is seldom more than 40 present, some drone reads a ser-
mon like a schoolboy, and the inhabitants can be as well amused
elsewhere.

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extraordinary degree.
I enjoy, sharpens their
noYiatsthi the abstemious people
pile of rice which
Indians will astonish the European b
they will consume ; and Arabs are
observed them
usually supposed; but both sink to
guides would
entrails,fa in
with what this people will accomplish. Ighnaivficance compared
make four meals of animal food in the twern _ef
yet partake of rice between whiles. Our threehours, and
finish the whole of a sheep, including the heamdeaangt
this time ; and our, comparatively speaking,
cited the utmost surprise.— Wellsteds City of the Caliphs,
ex-
SPRING-HANDLED CRICKET BATS, _A
spring handled bat has been invented by a cutler at Salisbury.
It differs nothing in appearance from the common bat, but.
owing to a bar of steel being let into the middle of the handle,
it drives the ball to a great distance, with very slight exertion
on the part of the striker, while at the same time it is entirely
free from the unpleasant jar to the hand to which even the best
poised bats are at times subject.—Bath Chronicle.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juarz 24.

The SPEAKER took the chair this afternoon at Four
o'Clock, but there being only thirty•five Members present
the House adjourned till To morrow.

THE NEW FAITH.

We copy the following fearful account of the progress
of Popery in the English Church, from the Somerset
County Gazette. We have long been of the same
opinion as the writer of the article, but were not aware
certainly that there existed such a deep-laid and wide- I
spreading scheme for destroying the Protestant faith.
It has been carefully studied by the editor of that
journal. He has evidently watched its progress in the
different districts, and his testimony therefore must have
proportionate weight :
Two years have rolled over us since we first in-
vited the attention of the western public to the rise and
progress, in the bosom of the Church, of a sect, eminent
for talent, distinguished by zeal, having its head-quarters
in the very nursery of our clergy, and holding doctrines
identical with those of Rome, from whom they dif-
fered only in name. At that time the Oxford Papists
were little known beyond the immediate scene of
their exertions : few persons were aware even of
the existence of such a sect, much less of its din•
gerous character. This Journal Wnfil the first of the
newspaper press to meet the subject, and waken
its readers to the danger that threatened them from
the quarter where they had least suspected its presence.
We set forth, week after week, the true principles of
this awful heresy of the Church, quoting from autho-
rities that none could question. Other newspapers
followed our example, and the whole periodical press
was, in a very short time, engaged in the controversy
on the one side or the other. We then ventured to
predict that the New Faith, as we named it, though
in truth it is only the revival of the old one of the
dark ages, would grow in the Church, become the most
powerful, and finally take possession of our national al-
tars. We founded this prediction on the fact of its alli-
ance with Toryism, from congeniality of principle be-
tween a system of spiritual despotism and a system of
political despotism, and we exhorted Protestants of all
classes, both within the Church and out of it, to unite
at once for the purpose of expelling the monster that
was growing in the bosom of our land, before it became
strong enough, with the political aid of Tory ism, to
crush them.

Our predictions have been already amply verified.
The Popery of Oxford has spread over the coun-
try ; already it is in undisturbed possession of
the majority of our churches. It is cordially sup-
ported by the great and powerful Tory party,
who are striving to place within its withering grasp the
education of the people, and to add to its power by a
gift of eight trillions of money, under the plausible name
of Church Extension. We have seen that in Leeds,
out of, we believe, 18 churches, 17 are devoted to the
propagation of this hateful heresy. The " Quarterly
Review," the leading organ of the Tories, has embraced it
cordially, and appears now as its unflinching champion.
The Tory newspapers are for the most part lending it
their aid. Mr. Gladstone, the most eloquent of the Tory
party, has published a volume in support of its prin-
ciples, which has been widely read. Mr. Acland, the
Member for NA, est Somerset, is one of its warmest vo-
taries. It is already powerful in the Legislature. -The
Bishop of Exeter has embraced it, and omits no oppor-
tunity of promulgating its detestable doctrines. Other
Bishops are said to have become converts to it. In
short, it needs but a like progress for two or three years
more, especially if aided, as it would certainly be. by a
Tory Government, to establish a real Popery in Great
Britain, and to prostrate Protestantism in the dust ;
and, with it, the civil and religious liberties of the land.
The cause of this rapid advance of the Oxford heresy is
not difficult to be found. It is the fault of the Protestants
themselves : they have been slumbering at their posts ;
they have not united themselves to resist it ; they have not
protested against its admission to the national altars ; they
have not reflected upon the consequences of its alliance
with political Toryism ; they have not boldly met the
enemy, but have slunk away in fear and trembling. We
charge the Protestant Churchmen with permitting this
perversion of their Protestant Church to proceed, with-
out lifting up their voices, as of old, and solerimly pro-
testing against it : we charge the Methodists with as-
sisting it to the ascendancy it has nearly obtained, by
the aid they have given to Toryism, especially on the
question of National Education, which was really
whether it should or should not ho entrusted to the
Oxford Papists. We charge the Dissenters generally
with supineness, which is tacit encouragement, and a
folding of the arms to sleep when Protestantism is in
imminent peril. •
We own that excuses may be found for all these
classes. They have been systematically misled by a
clever stratagem of the enemy. A great outcry has
been raised against Roman Catholicism. The "No
Popery" howl has been the loudest lifted by the Oxford
Papists and their
_party. Why so ? Plainly, to put
the Protestants off their guard. Is it. the old trick of
the thief bawling " Stop thierloudest. While hound-
ing on the timid against the Roman Catholics, they
have been enabled to spread their own Popery on every
side, without hindrance. But the peril all the while
was proceeding from quite another quarter. It is from
Oxford, not from Rome, that Protestantism is menaced.
We hate not to fear the Roman Catholics, but the
Oxford Papists. If Protestantism is doomed to fail,
the Church of England, in the grasp of the Oxford
Papists, will plant the dagger in her bosom ; if Pro-
testants are to be persecuted, the flames will be re-lighted
by Oxford bigots, and the laws securing religious liberty
be repealed by their allies the Tories.
The writer thus proceeds to show the dangerous
protensions of the new sect.
We begin with proof of the identity of the New
Faith with Popery, as it was in the dark ages—in its
very worst days.
The first great doctrine of the Oxford Papists is the
withholding of the bible from the people. Its mysteries,
they say, can only be understood by those who have re-
ceived the divine spirit through apostolical succession.
The ordained priests only are enabled and empowered
to explain it, and their explanatioa is to be unhesitating-
ly received Bible societies are, therefore, warmly de-
nounced, and, to use the language of No. 80 of the
Tracts for the Times, " the popular modes of extending
Christianity,--that of bringing churches near to the
llamas of every body, cheap publications and national
schools" arc considered very objectionable and not to
be encouraged.
But to justify this closing of the Bible to the people,
and setting up the authority of the Church as superior
to that of the Word of God, the Oxford Papists assert
that the Catholic Church is specially endowed with
truth, and that truth can come to man only through
her. This truth consists not of Scripture truth alone,
but of traditions handed down from the fathers, and
which traditions only can be admitted as interpreters of
Scripture.
if the C'iureli possess this divine gift—if it be en-
joyed by the clergy alone, it is a miraculous gift, be-
stowed upon them at the time of ordination, and the
days of miracles have not passed, and the clergy, con-
sequently, arc superior beings—a species of prophets
(for these are necessary conclusions from the original
premises). And such, in truth, arc the blasphemous
pretensions of these Oxford divines. Hear them:--
" If Christ is with his Ministers according to his pro-
mise, even to the end of the world, so that be that de-
spiseth them despiseth Him, then, though they da no
miracles, they are in office as great as Eiisha. And if
baptism be the cleansing and quickening of the dead soul, '
to say nothing of the Lord's supper, they do work miracles."
—Tract 85, p. 95._

Dr. Posey, in his Letter to the Bishop of Oxford,
says—

" To receive the Holy Ghost (in the Ordination Service)
had been a manifest impiety, unless the act of ordination
were to those worthily receiving it, accompanied with the
gift of the 11-ily Spirit."
And how do they justify their claim of an exclusive
right and power to interpret God's holy word ? Upon
what pretences do they close the Bible to all the world
but themselves ? Mark, Protestants of every sect, and
tremble! They contend that the Scriptures are in
themselves contradictory and unsatisfactory—that there
is not a text which is not. to be answered by two other
texts—that without the help of tradition it is impossible
satisfactorily to construe the Bible—that tradition is
preserved only by the Church—and that, therefore, the
Church alone is able t teach the truth. Thus is the
authority of the Scripture impugned in Tract 85, page 13.
" The more arguments, it is said, there are for a doc-
trine in Scripture, the more objections will be found
against it ; so that on the whole, I think, even the Scrip-
ture evidence for the Divinity of Christ will be found, in
fact, as little to satisfy the captious mind, when fairly en-
gaged to discuss it, as that for infant baptism, great as is
the difference between the evidence for the two."
But we must not trespass too much on our limited
space or the patience of our readers. Here we pause,
leaving them to digest as they may this first instalment
of evidence of the startling and alarming fact that Pro-
testantism is in imminent danger ; not, as we have been
told, from the Roman Catholics, but from the Estab-
lished Church of England, the larger section of whose
if Clergythey areha e
startled lapsed
b
into y
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b, they
will be shocked by the far more terrible things that re-
main to be told of the Oxford Papists.

One of the most numerous and influential meet-
ings ever held in Dublin upon any occasion, assembled on Sa-
turday in the Royal Exchange, for the pu.pose of presenting
an address of congratulation to her Majesty and Prince Albert,
upon their late providential escape from assassination. Lot ti
Cloncurry was, amidst loud acclamation, called upon to preside.
On Wednesday morning, the goods-train on the
Stockton and Darlington Railway, took tire between Middles-
brough and the former place, by which five waggon loads of
goods, part of which had been just landed from the Loadon
steam-packet, were destroyed or greatly damaged. The
waggons, we are informed, were private property, and being
unprotected with the regular tarpailing always used by the com-
pany, it is supposed the tire was caused by a spark from the
engine falling upon some flax which formed part of the goods
destroyed.
The loss is estimated at between two and three I
thousand pounds.—Durham Chronicle.

SUCCESSFUL MINING OPERA-

TION.

MR. FITZGERALD'S COLLIERY, NEAR
MANCHESTER.
To Mr. Fitzgerald, the owner of a large property at
or near Pendletiin, and within two miles of the Man-
chester Exchange, belongs the extraordinary merit, in
having solely and at an immense outlay, had the reso-
lution to explore the bowels of the earth, to a depth
hitherto unprecedented in this or indeed any other part
of Great Britain, with the exception of a mine at Monks-
wearmouth, which is .535 yards deep. Mr. Fitzgerald's
object was to ascertain how many beds of coal lay en-
tombed within his extensive estates, and this has been
done almost regardless of the cost of the undertaking.
Few, indeed, it may be said, would have had the
courage to have commenced, much less to have per-
severed in, similar efforts, especially when many of the
mining sages of this locality were prognosticating the
certain failure of the project. Happily, however, for
the enterprising gentleman, these dark prophecies have
not only not been fulfilled, but, on the contrary, suc-
cess the most signal has rewarded his unwearied and
untiring labours.
Mr.Fitzscrald commenced the sinking of two pits
or shafts, each nine feet diameter, in 1838 ; and in the
course of the years 1839 and 1840, after sinking 464
yards, had the satisfaction of extracting at that depth
a small portion of coal, which proves to be a seam of no
lessthan seven feet in thickness.
There are some facts connected with the sinking of
the two pits in question, which cannot be other than
interesting to our readers, and to the geological and
mining part of them especially so.
To the great suprise of most, even of such as possess
great mining experience, but little or no water was
found in this operation ; not more, in fact, than could
be drawn by means of what is known as a sinking
bucket. This fact alone stamps a value on the mine
(or rather mines, for there are three others that lie
within 47 yards of the seven feet, all of which are work-
able, say three feet three inches, three feet seven inches,
and one foot four inches), which none but experienced
parties are at all capable of duly appreciating ; for the
quantity of water now drawn from the mine does not ex-
ceed sixteen buckets in twenty-four hours! a quan-
tity so small that it will not be surprising, should the
statement, by many, be allowed as totally unworthy of
credit. The statement, however, may be fully relied
upon as literally true. Nor is the circumstance of the
non-finding of what colliers and other miners term faults,
a trifling consideration : on the contrary, it is most im-
portant, and, in the working of the mines, will no
doubt, be found a great pecuniary saving to the spirited
proprietor ; and besides this, it also establishes uner-
ring data for all future mining operations, on which Mr
F. and the owners of contiguous mines may with confi-
dence rely, and thus be enabled to prosecute their still
distant objects with unerring certainty, and at a previous
well-defined cost—a most important thing in all mining
projects. Another extraordinary feature in this bold
and successful undertaking is the fact, that no foul air,
or fire-damp, as it is called, occasioned the least inter-
ruption to the workmen in the sinking, no, not for a
moment; and there is also pleasure in stating, that the
worthy proprietor does not now anticipate the least im-
pediment from this generally present, and often uncon-
trollable and destructive, agent.
The two pits have been what is termed bricked or
walled the entire depth ; and for some 40 or 50 yards,
in addition to this security, there has been a succession
of cast-iron cylinders introduced, or which are better
known in the north as tubbing. The weight of these
cylinders exceeds 300 tons, and they have been suc-
cessfully used for the purpose of keeping or backing
out the water. The small quantity of water in these
pits affords a strong contrast indeed to the quantity in
two other pits now working, and belonging to the same
gentleman, and which are only 261 yards distant. To
clear the water from this mine, which is only 120 yards
deep and four feet thick, it requires an engine of 95
horse power, and which works day and night without
intermission.
The dip or angle of the seven-feet mine is one yard
in three, and the other three workable mines are be-
lieved to lie at the same angle. Mr. Fitzgerald has
sunk twelve yards below the seven feet mine, for the
purpose of forming a reservoir for the little water that
accumulates during the week, rather than for any
other object ; thus making the entire depth sunk 482
yards ; and below this he has bored 27 yards, at which
depth, say 509 3ards from the surface, he had the ad-
ditional pleasure to find another bed f coal four feet
in thickness.
There arc no fewer than 32 beds of coal, varying
from four inches to seven feet between the surface and
the seven feet mine, only four of which, however, as
before stated; can be worked to advantage ; but even
these give rather over fifteen feet solid coal ; an im-
mense addition to the previous workable mines of this
district. The depth to the seven-feet mine below that
which has been working for the last fifteen years, and
under which many supposed coal would not be found,
is 342 yards. '
At 172 yards from the surface, a bed of ironstone,
but not a very rich one, was found, of thirty inches
thickness ; and at 418 yards deep, a muscle-shell bed
of 18 inches! What astounding facts for the contem-
plation of the geologist !
The seven-feet mine, there is little doubt, none in
fact, is now working at Worsley, about five miles dis-
tant, on the estate of the late Duke of Bridgewater, at
70 yards only from the surface. From this it is evi-
dent, that what miners call faults must exist to a greet
extent between Worslcy and Pendleton ; for, suppos-
ing this bed of coal at Worsley to lie at the same angle
as does that of Pendleton, the additional depth to the
coal at Pendleton would have been just one-third of the
distance from the two places. This mine breaks out in
Clifton, near Kearsley Hall, at a place called the
Giant's Seat.
Every part of this undertaking, but especially the
machinery to work the mines in the most cff...ctual
manner, is surprising. The winding engine is what is
called high pressure, the cylinder of which is of very
large and unusual dimensions for such a purpose,
viz., 381 inches diameter, but at present working only
52 horses' power ; though capable, with another boi:er
(now erecting), of working up to 90 horses—an amount
of power; for merely winding, perhaps never before ap-
plied. The magnitude of the engine will not, however,
cause much astonishment with practical mechanics,
when it is further stated that the ropes, flat ones, and
which weigh 3 tons, 15 cwt. each, are coiled upon a
barrel 14 feet in diameter ; and that it is intended to
draw a ton of coals- at• once, in the short space of a
m;nute and a half. The engine is without beam ; the
medium between the crank on the fly-wheel shaft and
the piston-rod being simply a connecting rod.
The coal thus most opportunely discovered is well
suited for steam-engines, dye works, &c., &c, but not
for 11,,uselio!d use. Its contiguity to Manchester, and
especially to sonic parts of
.Salford, will be found highly
convenient to many proprietors of large works, and it
is to be hoped, highly ben. ficial to the worthy owner.

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