The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNISSDAY MORNING MAY 26, 1847.

SPIRIT ofthe PUBLIC JOURNALS. wearing out his powers. There had been no solemn
ilt:1: CAI 1101;NING P.A.P1.1i03 te- ik:sTERD,or. iudgni,et of public opinion upon him. He had not been
CH tit i::.; •;:,:;L.1,.,.-1. eland iDaY wtil (12111 tbis a ca, cast off by the mass of his aaherefts— he lied not 12st
mitous year. Were do" b) i:‘,Liiiit, aad pest:le,e, Ole ;;'..ctions :d his p. oplo or llzi church. There h'iii
she has now to follow to the grave the remains of her , 1-,cen no evriit, no revolution, no turn of the tide that
could account for this remarkable vicissitude. The only
greatest men. The stroke will not be less severe be !
i account of it is this—that Mr. O'Connell had outlived his
cause it was anticipated. The death of a man like
O'Connell is one of those events which are scarcely be- credit and his power. There is a strangeness about the
!
lieved to be possible until the stern reality is before us. accidents and coincidences of his departure that seems to
•
Nor will Englishmen view with indifference the loss of indicate a mystery of which time only will tell all the
the great Irish leader. They will differ in their esti_ import. That he has died at the acme of an unparal-
wi li : leled disaster is no accident ; his death attests far more
mates of the good and evil of his career; but they
recognise it as the career of a giant. It his sphere of ac- ' than any act of his life the warmth, if not the unalloyed
tivity were remote from their knowledge and sympathies, I simplicity. of his patriotism. It is the famine, seen and
they would still hear with sorrow that that rnigtay soul felt though it be through an earthly and selfish medium
had passed away; but the event is one to call forth in that has *mitten down his soul. But there are other cir-
in this country a deeper feeling than that of passive sym- cumstances of his death not so naturally associated.
pithy. Mr. O'Connell, intensely national as he was, Whi:e the great Irish auitator was dying on the shores
belonged to the empire. In spite of his rs peal doctrines, of the Mediterranean, death also was visiting the abode
the union between the two countries was embodied in
his mind and character. English law, the elaborate life
which and its occupants he had maintained a
life long antagonism. A thousand miles and a still
creation of English ideas and habits, had as large wider gulf of antipathies separated the representatives
a share in him as Irish leadership. He was of Irish nationality and British royalty, both sharing
no alien. His life was identified with an epoch the calamity of the people to whom they were
in English history. England as well as Ireland has
so differently related. But twenty four hours di-
lost a great man. But the work which will make the vided the demagogue and the Viceroy, equally
name of O'Connell memorable was done in Ireland. sinking
under their intolerable burdens. It
What a work it was will
perhaps be better undersh.od
seems, too, an instructive chance that has brought
hereafter. He dies in the midst of social and political
sue-
disorder, and impatience may cry out that he lived in to the foreign obsequies of the Irish leader the
cessful chief of that great English league, founded
vain. Such men never live in vain. He found a people for better objects than the disunion of these realms. He,
of serfs, so debased by oppression as to be scarcely con-
too, may see in our present misfortunes bow little
scious of their own degradation. He awakened in them nations can do towards rectifying the errors of the past,
a sense of their own wants. He created a public ()pi-
nion, and evoked the sentiment of a national life, which, and how a good tense may achieve a present victory,
and yet see the actual fruition of its objects indefinitely
wild and wayward as their first workiuga may be, are postponed. A powerful aristocracy has been beaten, and
the only means by which nations attain the happine•s a monopoly carried by assault ; but there ends the
and the dignity of good government and self-respect. triumph hitherto barren of result. Cheapness and plenty
are beyond the reach of political agitation. The whole
It was a stupendous task to break down the ancient bar-
civilised world is so thoroughly and so unanimously per-
riers of legal inequality which divided the Irish people.
suaded of a fundamental justice iu Mr. O'Connell's
But it seemed harder still to shake the superstructure
cause, and an essential heroism in his character, diet
which custom had reared upon the basis of law. When
modesty as well as generosity compel us to deal tenderly
the legal disabilities of Roman Catholics were gone, the
ehl this belief. Whatever we may think of Mr. O'Con-
social inequality of caste still remained firm and intact,
like an arch of solid masonry from which the scaffolding nell, our respect for human nature will hardly allow us
is removed. But that solid arch already lies in crumbling to believe all the world in the wrong. At the same
fragments. The great task of social totpialisation is all time, fidelity to our own honest impressions, and to that
hut accomplished. We see old distinctions and exclu- national instinct which has so often p.oved right, re-
quires us to state bow every true hearted Englishman
sions almost obliterated. Signs of union multiply. The
reesards the career of this extraordinary mate It is
descendants of those who won at the Boyne will pro-
possible that foreigners may be dazzled by the btilliuncy
bably be seen following the hearse of him who raised up
the vanquished people. Mr O'Connell's labour was not and power of an eloquence of which they can only read
confined to the destruction of laws and usages which the language and learn the impression on the multitude
were pernicious. In destroying he also created and Roth wh
fem it is addressed. We are able to compare words
organized. Irregular and perilous as his method might i"ctlit
HERALD.—Though we ar
be, he taught a people, who were almost destitute of are nut
of the death of
not in a condition to
legel institutions, habits of united action and of obedience present. our readers with legal ev
Mr. O'Connell, still there seems to be little doubt enter-
to authorities in which they could confide. When his
,1. t
‘mvd mortal of
death,
agitation was most formidable, it was still a proof that enter-
tained in the best informed quarters that the great
ciAloi guistipadet::rristhilse.driinnottximu:e)riaien,,atiaorniundatnthisiejaptrl
ssotl
fhl washitnihs,att,r,:pt;
the Irish are eminently a governable people when the
governors are skilful in their business. Clare election
assemblages and monster meetings were not mobs, but
and reflect, that notwithstanding all his efforts—not
arrayed masses, almost as restrained and as manageable
withst:diding all the struggles of a mind at one period
as armiee. Such manifestations imply not only the
vigerous and vivacious, and of a body which long after
want of new social arrangements, but an aptitude for
he had passed the grand climacteric, still presented a
tailing in with them when they are suited to the
genius of the people. Mr. O'Connell supplied the ing his darling purpose of reaching the seat of the Pa
robust and hale conformetion—that he tailed in achiev-
place of a government in Ireland. The confi-
rerun Roma, far dearer to him as a Roman Catholic,
(fence whioh the law and institutiosie of' the country pecy, and witnessing the splendours of that mazima
never called forth was given to him and his various than as a classic city—we are tempted to muse on the
vanity of human hopes and wishes, and to
times who ruled the people with their own consent.
societies. He was, in fact, the first in modern
draw from the event which we painfully record
To accomplish so much required that extraordi-
a mournful and a moral lesson. The tomb
nary combination of powers which the world has recog-
has now closed over the greatest and the most
nised in Mr. O'Connell. His intellect, shrewd and pe-
successful agitator of modern times; h© has died, not in
nitrating rather than comprehensive, and his tact in
d the Rome of the Popes, but in Genoa the Superb, well
dealing with men, would of themselves have made him
called the Rome of the ocean, and he sleeps his lust
eminent in his profession, but not the leader of a nation.
sleep far from the land in which he was born, and from
It was the passionate irrepressible energy impelling
that ocean beside which his childhood was cradled. By
that intelligence which gave it a power so commundine.
foreign hands his eyes were closed and his dying limbs
Most of his writings and lieeches, if viewed sepa
adjusted, and it we are to believe the account of the list
rawly. may excite wonder that an apparent metigreness
of in-elieetual r> sources should be cosinected with a re- sad scene of his life, published in the Galignani, he
putation so great; but the greatest single effort of Mr. was neither conscious of the place in which he lay in his
O'Connell was but an atom in the mass of his prodigious death-s!ruggle, 11. rof the persons by whom he was sur-
round( d. The image of death should at any time dis-
activity. He was not an utterer •of novel or brilliant
aromwerreihsleinytmdoeenst
d;
,abiuht,
ahpopweaml utochums owrheeehlotrveesnttyd
withand
apothegms, but he said a few things, all of which had
probably been said before, with such tremendous force p
wattributesu
in%)
ns apdr
itidned,
ashodmsooucrociitturla—stseod t
of iteration as to drive them home to the convictions
taomai '34
n it. nay ehren royt
and to weld them into the political creed of seven mil-
lions of people. Yet that Titanic energy might have merely European, but stretching from pole to pule—
worn out the powerful frame in which it was embodied world wide, in truth, in its immense extent.
with but little result, if it had been coupled with an aus
tere and unsocial (lisp. sition. But Mr. O'Connell's nature
was genial, and full of' deep affections. His attachments
to family and friends were warm to intensity. He loved
his children, not like a father, but like a mother. There
can scarcely be a better proof of the fervour of his per-
sonal feelings than the passionate devotedness which he
inspired in others. He did not, indeed, brook rivals near
the throne; but long before his political consequence had
either provoked rivalry or invited adulation, he was
fi'med for the numb. r and the tenacity of his 1 riendships.
All such connexions became elements of strength in the
position of the popular leader;_ but perhaps the single
characteristic which contributed most to make him the
darling of his countrymen, was the rich and gushing hu-
mour which burst up constantly, as from an inexhaustible
fountain, and blended itself with the whole stream of life
and business, at one time adding poignancy to scorn, at
another heightening. by contrast, the tenderness of pity.
Few, we think, who have seen a popular meeting in this
country under the spell of Mr. O'Connell's humour, will
doubt than in that faculty lay one main source of his
Dower with a potpie so susceptible as the Irish to the
ludicrous emotions. It seemed the natural mood into
which he relapsed after every suspension of effort. His
indignation was often histrionic, his pathos sometimes arti-
ficial; but his humour appeared to be the unforced and
joyous play of the mind in relaxation. He laughed
throughout his whole frame, and the contagion of his
mirth was too potent to be resisted. Mr. O'Connell had
his faults, and they were like his character—great. But
this is u.t the time to speak of them. In his failings, as
in his powers and nobler qualities, there are some
curious resemblances to another and a greater leader—
a leader of agitation—who, with similar weapons, broke
the fetters, not of one people, but of the human mind.
A rugged force of character, the keenest sensibility to
humour and pathos, a bard legal intellect. passions often
uncontrollable, fervent attachments and fervent hatreds,
the most arrogant and offensive assumption, and the
moat foul-mouthed abusiveness, were all united in the '1
great reformer of the sixteenth century. But time, and
the veneration which sees that the good done by such
men long outlasts the evil, has softened all the harsher
lineaments in the portrait of Martin Luther. Whatever
nobleness and truth and earnest purpose were in him,
whatever can el:flight en, inspire, animate, does not decay,
out brightens from age to age, and becomes an im-
perishable possession of the race. Time will in like
manner separate the dross from the gold in the character
of D mid O'Connell. His work will remain open, and vindi-
(tete its author. Other leaders, less open to accusation,
will enter into his labours, and probably demonstrate
that freedom from his faults is not the chief requisite for
e-complishing similar results. We may I::ssibly see
more enlarged views, mire strict consistency, more i
'crapulous propriety, but the mighty heart which
moved the people will scarcely be telt again. In the
government of Ireland Mr. 0 Connelre death opens a
sew era. It creates difficulties and presents opportuni-
ties, which, if not skiitully dealt with, may lead to very
tisastrous issues. The labours of half a centary had
Jotted in Mr. O'Connell's person an unparalleled combi-
nation of influences. To move him was to move Ireland.
Fer Irish Governments that resource is now at an end.
l'he tie which held together so many jarring elements
is broken, and his politic 1 despotiem seems likely to be
succeeded in the first instance by anart.hy. While men
are stel looking undecided into a doubtful future, a
vigorous policy and some regard to popular prejudices
inight win the confidence of the nation. The object, in
fact, for an Irish Executive to aim at should be nothing
less than to step into Mr. O'Connell's vacant place. But
time is precious, and there are political passions now at
work in Ireland which, if not counteracted, will soon
transfer the public mind of that country to new and more
dangerous leaders. The materials for agitation were
never more abundant, and the flame, if kindled at the
present time, will catch in quarters which it never reached
before. Government shored look welt to its position and
resources. Patronage is not an initruan nt to be "If, •
tusk at such a time. If it be relied upon for the au pr c
aion of Agitation,- the Executive may find its es-
followers
,edUci'al to a bind of placemen and exp
word upon a point to which we allude wiettett7:lLtarieen•e-,-.
though it is not impo.sible it may have already suggested
tselt to the generous feeling of her Mjesty's Govern-
in-nt. The remains of Mr. O'Connell will naturally be
brought home to be laid in his native soil. Under
existing circumstances, it would, we think, be a mark of
respect at once becoinin:.; and just. and which certainly
would be fully appreciated by the Irish people, to permit
those who are charged with this sad office to avail them-
selves of the services of one of her Majeety'e ships.
TlMES.—There was a time when the thought of Mr.
O'Comieles dis,:ppearance from the scene suggested
stagy interesting and anxious speculations. Would he
'ratis,mit his sceptre and crown, or would they be buried
in his grave ? Would his honours remain in his fatuity,
er, lik, the Macedoniati conqueror, would tie leave them
c') be fought for or divided by his chiefs ? Would it
indeed be found that so turbulent a career oily disguised
a mission of peace, anti that the prince of demegogues
mediated between the conqueror and the conquered,
between the unbending Norman and the reseugeful
Celt? When the imposing phalanx of a national confe-
Ilerecy was removed, woul i a thousand sanguinary quar-
rels occupy its place? Ireland had so lotg been identi-
&A with D Lniel O'Connell That it was scarcely possible
to conceive the one without the other. The people were
committed to a mighty enterprise, of which only one
man had the key. '1 he Argonauts without Jason, the
followers of Ulysses deprived of their leader, could not
be more helpless than the Irish repealers, should they
suddenly find their Liberator no more. Such were the
reflections that for more than thirty years, and up torn
very recent day, were familiar to the mind of . vey
thoughtful Englishman. Mr. O'Connell is dead. Where
are now the questions with which peace-loving people
were wont to torment the future, and endeavour to ex-
tract an oracle from every sign of the times ? All is
silence. All is calm. The sudden close of half a cen-
tury's agitation almost passes in the crowd of events.
The death of that formidable tribune who was supposed
to keep the whole tyranny of the old world at bay, and
whose name had long le en in either hemisphere the
watchword of revolt, falls on this changeful and melan-
choly hour with no more force than a taint recollection
of the past. No one asks what will Ireland do? The
event has no bearings on the future. O'Connell is gone,
and his mission expires. Yet how is this? Most cer-
tai, ly it is no human hard that has wrought so mar-
vellous a change. Mr. O'Connell had not been den eted
at lest in the subtleties 01 litigation or overwhelmed t,y'
the majesty of the law. He had not been crushed by
the triumph of his political tidy, aeries. He was net
under the ban of a victerious party, the frowns of indignant
royalty, or the killing vigilance of energetic statesmen.
No coercion was taming his spirit, no prosecution was

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I have nzain. •-or the thina time, been successf;tl
'in my Derby prognostications. Iu my letter of Mon-
day last I stated that the van at the stand would be
composed of Van Tromp, Conyngham, Old Port, and
Cossack, the latter leading. This was the fact, with the
exception of Old Port, whose day has not yet arrived.
At that time I gave Conyngham the credit of being a
better horse than his stable companion, Cossack, conse-
quently my decision in his favour; but " a change came
o'er the spirit of the dream." On Monday night I re-
ceived positive information that Cossack was the horse,
that the stable money was entirely on bim, and that
Conyngham, though he might run forward, could not
This very materially altered the state of affairs, and on
Tuesday morning; in giving the names of the starters, I
took Cossack as well as Conyngham and Van Tromp
for the three first places; and the decision of the race
proved my judgment to be tolerably correct. Most of
the remarks I have ma3e on this great race from time
to time, by reference will be found was borne out in the
running of Wednesday last. It is a curious circum-
stance, but not the less a fact, that for the last three or
four years, The Sun is the only. newspaper that has every
successive year foret,)ll the winner of the Derby. Tbis
year it was prophesied in the meat positive manner by
that clever poetic seer " Esau," who asserted that—
" If any one wishes his fancy to back,
He must lay out his tin on the chestnut Cossack.
Folks have many fancies, but I have but one,
The winner! he comes from the banks of the Don."
This week there are two meetings deserving of atten-
tion, Newton and Manchester. I shall not enter into
particulars, but jump at once to the conclusion.
MANCHESTER.

Stake. Probable winner.
Manchester Cup
Annandale.
Salford Cup - go- bragh, Spithead,
Executor,orLadyWildair.
NEWTON.
Lord of the Manor Gold Cup Eryx, Wolfdog, Newcourt,
or the Maid of Lyme..
Drawing-rolm Stakes ucy Ashton.
tit. Leger Stakes
Golborne Stakes
Shylock.
Garswood Hunt Stakes
Borough Cup
Prior of St. Margaret's.
Twenty Soya. Stakes
Garswood Cup Sir J. Gerard.
Fifteen &vs. Stakes Mermaid.
I am, Sir. &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

May 24.

CRICKET.
TWO PICKED TWELVES OF THE MARITE-
BONE CLUB AND GROUND.
This distinguished club opened their season on Mon-
day, by a one day's match between two selected sides at
Lord's. The ground was far better attended on the oc-
casion than we had anticipated would have been the case
under such a sudden cba! ge of weather.
The Earl of Strathmore was unable to be present, but
his Lordship's place was supplied by Lord Burleigh, a
nobleman who has during the last two or three lyears
manifested much interest in the game, and who 'is no
mean player. His Lordship made two astonishingly fine
catches at short slip. Hillyer, it will be seen, came out,
as he originally did, as an admirable batter, and Royston
was well up to the mark. Dakin played beautifully.
The Hon. C. Lyon also hit exceedingly well ; whilst
Mr. Haygarth has not forgotten his steadiness.; The
bowlers were all likewise to the mark, and, with f ex-
ceptions, were difficult to be got away.
As •oon as each side had had an innings the umps
were drawn, and at that moment the score stood 4us:—

EARL STRATHMORE'S SIDE.
Lord Muungarret, b Bayley
Lord Burleigh, run out
C. 11. Hoare, DAL, c Dean, b Bayley
b Dean
Clarke, b Lillywhite ••••
Royston' run out
Hon. C. Lyon, b Lillywhite
M. Ainslie, Esq., b Bayley
Lord Guernsey. b Dean
W. Mot,crieff, Esq , b Bayley •••
Good, b Dean
T. Burgoyne, Esq., not out
Byes

THE LAST MOMENTS OF MR.
O'CONNELL.
We have received the following letter from a gentle-
man, to whom it wag addressed from Genoa, with per-
mission to publish it :

9
1117
EARL WINTERTON'B SIDE.
S. Taylor, Esq., c Lord Burleigh, b Hillyer , 1
Tuck, Eng., run out
A. Haygarth, Esq., b Hillyer
83
Dean, c Hoare, b Clarke
Dakin, c Fellows, b Hillyer
Lilly white, b Royston 3
Hon. R. GrimMton, b Hillyer
Bayley. c Raleigh. b Hillyer ' 4
Earl Winterton, b Hillyer

" Genoa, May 18, 1847.
" Intent on visiting the tombs of the apostles, and
paying his homage, as a Catholic, to Pius IX., O'Connell
was interrupted at this stage of his pilgrimage. by fatal
illness, and expired at the Hotel Feder, in this city,
about an hour and a halt after sunset on Saturday, the
15th instant.
" His life is for history, which will take care of it, but
this memorandum of what occurred since his last illness
seized him will be received, perhaps, with some interest,
were it only for its complete exactness. It has been
read for the approval of Mr. O'Connell's frienes and
the physicians who attended him ; they sanction it as
e. G•rect.

H. Follows, Esq., not out
Titchmarsh, Esq., run out 4
Captain Blackwood, c Burleigh, b Hillyer 0
Byes 8, no ball 1

" For two days after his arrival here from Mar-
seilles by the Lombardo :t-'timer, the friends of the
illustrious pilgrim onserved with joy that the im-
provement in his health, which they begin to date
from Avignon, went on increasing ; but on Satur-
day, the Bth, it became necessary to have recourse to
the same aperient remedies which had been for some
time past adopted to Mtisve him, and always with com-
plete :success. Diarrhesa, however, set in some time
after the remedies applied on Saturcay night had pro-
duced the desired result:, and as it still continued on
Monday morning. (tutee' a partial cessation on Sunday)
it was deemed expedient to call in additional medical
aid. The English physician- resident here, Dr. Duff,
and Dr. Berretta, of this city, met in consultation with
Dr. LAcour, the physician who had accompanied O'Con-
nell from Lyons. The diarrhavi was regarded as rather
fortunate than otherwise, as helping to relieve the head,
where they were of opinion the chief danger was to be
apprehended.
With thisCo view (which coincided exactly with that
taken of 0
fitie.l's case from first to last by the most
eminent physicians of France), their remedies were
mainly dire-cted to check the congestion, which they
judged to have been gaining ground in the brain from a
even
a fourth
period considerably distant. The success with which
their
e efforts wererthatptehnytediawasur
Dnro.tvloaysitainugi:
wasH o woeavl
leord,
u after
in
was o
aFdrgi
day,
rtuhdeeriet t tsctii lbi e wp
rl'er pe a hr
e Is; r the Nevertheless,w,,rstlauidt
on Friday night the last rites of the church were re-
ceived by the illustrious sufferer with a serenity and
a fervour of piety which produced upon the members of
the clergy and his friends who surrounded his beta the
most proround and edifying impressions.
' "Towards three P. M. on Saturday he called his own
man, and, taking him warmly by both hands to acknow-
ledge the rare fidelity wi:h which he had served him, he
said, As yet I um not dying ;' but. two li.,urs later he
cawed for the Rev. Dr. Miley (his chaplain), to whom he
said, when he had bent down over hive, tee better to
hear his fast sinking voice--'I am dying, my dear friend!'
" The physicians were still in attendance ; but from
that moment the prayers and other offices of religion,
which had not been interrupted from the preceding
night, were pursued with red,ubled earnestness by his
friends and the chief members of the clergy. At first
his voice was united in the prayers and responses ; but
as it became 'vs and less distinct, his hands clasped in
fervour—his eyes, his countenance revealed how his soul
responded to the litanies for the dying, which they were
mingling with their tears around his bed.
" Occasionally, during this, his last illness, as the
brain became more and more invaded, there was a

AQUATICS.
HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA.
This event came off on Monday evening, aud, consider.
ing the many attractions which had been provided for
the amusement of the million at this holiday season, was
most numerously attended. Nine scullers, the greater
part of whom were fine powerful fellows, daily employed
upon various descriptions of craft upon the river Thames,
contended. in four heats, for a purse of sovereigns, given
by the nobility and gentry of the vicinity, and the races
throughout were of the most spirited description.
FIRST HEAT.
Thomas Hoare (Yellow) 1
,Tatues George (Red) 2
George Otterway (Blue) 0
The distance was from buoys off the Red Lion, up
round a boat moored off Hammersmith-terrace, down
thebu placeoyofftohfesauretienng's. (Brandenburg) House, and
back
all got away at the same moment, and after a
rfeoTvnhsd a
tetroyokes. Yellow took the lead, and maintained it
throughout, winning by two or three lengths. Blue was
second in the start, and held it round thelower boat, but
lost it in winding the upper buoy.

momentary wandering of the mind, from which, how-
ever, the slightest word recalled I?im. He never mur-
mured, though his internal sufferings, at times at least,
must have been great. Every one was struck with
his serenity, his recollection, and fervour in receiv-
ing the last rites of religion. The adorable name of
Jesus, and the prayer of St. Bernard to our Blessed
Lady. mingled from time to time with verses from the
Psalms, and the most earnest and contrite aspirationth,
were almost perpetually upon,bis lips.- Up,to a few tac)-
'memo before he expired be continued to recognise his
confessor, and to respond to his suggestions.
" Far from am prising him, he had been long, long fa-
miliarised with th. contemplation of his last end, pre-
p,red for it perectly. and almost eager for its advent.
When that spirit, ro mighty, which seemed glory in
and to sway the tempests which agitate our being, .auk
its flight, there wits DO more traces or sign of pain or
struggle than when. the baba in smiling sinks to slumber
upon the mother's breast.
It will be a lasting, though still a sorrowful consola-
o' for his frn-qvis ""d anailY, that no resource ut skill
o irt iclimate calculated to prolong- tb,• exe.tenee of this ex-
traordinary min has been left untried. The professional
udvice obtain‘d ter JIM was always the best that could
be procured.
His body is to be embalmed and conveyed to Ire-
land. Ills heart he bequeathed I•torne. The autopsy
demon ztrati. d singularly the correctness Of the view
t:lken of his case, and how wonderfully successful had
been the reartiaies recommended in postponing the fatal
event.
His obsequies commenced from the moment of his
decease, and are still continued with princely pomp in
the church of our Blessed Lady delle Vigne. They
are to close to-worrow with a grand requiem mass, at
which his Excellency the Governor G. neral, the Io-
I reign Consuls, and Mr. R. Cobden, are invited to be
present."

THE LINNEAN SOCIETY.—Monday, the 24th of
May, being the anniversary of the birth of J. Linnaeus.
was held at their apart-
ments, Sono-square. The Bishop of Norwich, the Pre-
sident, in the chair. The report of the auditors, read by
R. H. s„ily, Esq.. stated the receipts to have amounted
to 1,0971., and the expenditure to a sum less by 1671.
theth e cel ebr
membersate d
of naturalist, r a
society,list, the annual general meeting of
The debt on the society amounted to 905/. Since the
last meeting the society had lost, by death, sixteen Fel-
low, two foreign members, and one foreign associate.
he to,,st distinguished members tho society had
lost
:,'ter the reception of the report, the secretary read me-
nof Norwich was re-elected pre.ident ; J. S.
Bowerbank, Esq., W. J. Burchell, Esq., F. H. Janson,
E,q Deniel SFarpe, Esq., and N. Wallich, Esq., were
ariC,7iiv yed members of the ai.c:et...
The ine->eting then
di,solved, and in the evewng the members dined t,..-
ttti .rs
B ofl
ish he ufficers were then balloted for and elected.
The op
gether at the Freemasons' er,serr,.
DIR. COBDEN IN ITALY.--A leter from Livorno,
d.oed the stik insf., announce,that a sphiplid banquet
is being preparvd in that city in honour of Mr. Cobden,
M.P.--La Bilancia (Italian paper).