The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

11EIVNIARIMT FIRST SPRING MEETING.-184 7.
ii3NtotFilnltNetA.eunnt2-:-r, SATURDAY NIGIIT.—In the subjoined
Mee • gements and propo2ed stakes fur the corning
to horses 4rehaadvye the
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have those which we
not only
aster to be on the road. The programme pro-
kanyiesreasae good field for the 2,000 Guineas, and at least an
g
'Amount of sport for the week.
MONDAY, APRIL 19.
501 ; for 4 yrs old, 7st 101 b; 5 yrs, 84 91b; 6 yrs and
aged, 9st. Last three miles of B.C.
oweerstakes of 20 SOVB. each; for 3 yrs old, ist; 4 yrs,
tiet 91b; 5 yrs, 9st 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b.
handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, h ft if declared;
for 3 yrs old, &c. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each; for 3 yr old colts, Bst 71h;
and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. The winuer to be sold
for 200/., &c.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each for feels of 1844, out of
mare that never bred a winner, colts Bst 71b, fillies
Bst 31b; those by stallion 3 that never bred a winner
allowed 31b. A.F.
Lord Albemarle's Odille, *Duke of Bedford's Bridle,'
Alosty's King of Morven and *Planet, * Mr. W. 11.
Brook's Luminous (31b), Lord Chesterfield's Papa. Mr.
Greville's Verres and •Mirmillo, Mr. R. Hesseltine's
Tomtit, Mr. Osbahleston's br f by .I,;_toilius, out of
tern, irtr_.
air. Cutaway, "Mr. Watson's Sir Peter
Laurie.
sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each; for colts, Bst 71b : and
fillies, Bst 31b. Cambridgeshire course. (6 Subs.)
R. Bulkeley's Montpensier, *Lord Exeter's c by
Platoff, out of Marmora, Lord G. Bentinek's Devil-
me-care, Lord Glasgow's ch f (dead) by Sir IL mules,
out of Deerslayer's dam, *Mr. Shelley's Cutaway, Col.
Anson's Jesuit (dead).
Match, 200 It ft. T.Y.C.—"Duke of Bedford's Eothon
agst Sir J. Ilawley's Piccinino, Bst 71b each.
Match, 325 to 300, 100 ft. D.M.—''`Duke of Bedford's
listano, Bst 71b, apt Lord Glasgow's f by Phoenix, d
by Actaeon, Bst 41b.

TUESDAY.
Tlae Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; for mares, four yrs
old, Bst 91b ; five, 9;181b ; six and aged, 10st. R.C.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts, Bst
71h, and fillies, Bst 31b. The winner to be sold for 50
sovs., &C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each ; for three yrs old, 7st 21b ;
four, Bst 71b; five and upwards, 9st. T.Y.C. Winner to
be sold for 1501., &c.
The 2,000 Guinea Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs
each, la ft ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies
Bst 41b. R.M. (28 Subs )
*Lord Albemarle's Ingoldshy—*Mr. Mostyn's Glen-
tilt, Gabbier, and *Planet—Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—*Mr.
O'Brien's The Liberator—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Mont-
pensier—Mr. Clifton's Bedlam, *Dromedary, *The Posi-
tive Young Man, and *Brown Bess—;Lord Exeter's c
by Hetman Platoff, out of Marmara, *e by Hetman
Platoff, out of Toga, and *Voronetz—Mr. Ford's Crassus
and *Clarendon—*Lord Orford's c by Clearwell, out of
Z'pporah—*Mr. Payne's b c by Venison, out of Sister to
Cobweb—*Mr. Payne's Oregon—*Sir R, Pigot's Co-
nyngham—*Duke of Richmond's Halo—*Mr. S. Con-
way's Christopher—Lord Stanley's Ahdiel—Mr. Wal-
ler's Potinger--Mr. Worley's Golightly—Mr. Worley's
Old Port—Lord Strad broke's b c by The Saddler, out of
Marpessa, paid—Lord Exeter's c (dead) by Hetman
Platoff, out of Vr.lance, paid.
Sweepstakes of 300 SOTS. each, 100 ft ; for four yrs old
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bat 21b. B.C. (5 Subs.)
Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Macretrma, and *c
by Colwick, out of Lueetta—*Duke of Bedford's Para-
Ron—Col. Anson's Shelford—Mr. Bi)wes's Mowerina.
The Coffee-room Stakes of 50 sovs each for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bat 41b ; the produce of
mares which never produced a winner. A.F. (4 Subs )
Duke of Bedford's c by Envoy, out of Alonceda (wrong
nomination)—Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—*Lord Orford's
arcsy Clearwell, out of Zipporah—*Mr. Shelley's Cut-

SOL ; WEDNESDAY.
for four yrs old, 7st 81b; five 3rs old, Bst I Ilb ;
liandicap six yrs and aged, 9st 31b. B.C.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if
declared by ten o'clock the evening before running,
to go to the owner of the second horse ; for three yrs
old, &e.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, ist ;
and four, Bst 10Ib. D.M. The winner to be sold for
100 t, &c
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts,
Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; not engaged in the 2,000
Guineas or 1,000 Guineas Stakes ; those by untried
stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner
allowed 41bs. A.F.
Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—*Mr. Greville's Apricot
7,7*Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby—*Alr. Watson's Dr.
,‘,!podall (41bs)—Mr. Worley's Wintonia—Sir W. W.
Wynn's Faunus.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. A.F.
„Colonel Anson's lago, Bst 121b—Sir J. Hawley's
untndrurn, Bst 51b—sLord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst 31b.
Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady
Constance, Bst 71b a st *Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino,
7st 71b. g

Match, 1000, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady
Constance, Bst 71b, agst *Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser,
7st 71b.
Alatch, 200, h ft. D.M.—*Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino,
Bst 21b, receives 50 soy's. forfeit from Sir W. W. Wynn's
Bst 91b.

Colonel Anson's lago is also hare.

HAMPTON SPRING AIEETING.—SATURDAY.
The Aristocratic Hurdle Stakes of 10 soy. each, h ft,
and 25 added ; list 71b each ; half-brod horses

For the Two Years Old Stakes I placed the first and
second, nothing entered, in my opinion, having any
chance with Antelope.
A moderate meeting at Newmarket, 'yelept the "First
Spring" begins in earnest to-day, with four sweepstakes
to close and name the evening before running.
A Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, across the flat, for
three years old, has twelve nominations, but nothing
likely to contend successfally with the King of Morvcn,
who will not have more than two competitors.
A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, over the Cambridge-
shire Course, will be reduced to a match between Mont-
pensier and Devil-me Care; the former for choice.
Piccinino and Fistiana will win both their matches.
On Tuesday the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes—the
great attraction of the meeting—will bring together a
distinguished batch of candidates for Derby honours,
about eight in number. The following includes all that
are likely to start:—Christopher, Conyngham, Sister to
Cobweb colt, colt by Clearwell, out of Zipporah, Mont-
pensier, The Liberator, Lunedale, Halo, Planet, and
Glentilt. Kent has a string of nine for Newmarket,
including four engaged in the " Two Thousand," to wit,
halo, Planet, Glentilt, and Gabbier. Now of the last
three it is extremely dubious which will go, or whether
Mr. Mostyn will start two. The latter will most likely
be the case, and Planet and Glentilt the nags selected.
There is another doubtful affair attached to this race.
Old Port has not been so lively lately either in constitu-
tion or in the market, consequently it is not very pro-
bable that he will start; but he might, and, if all right
again, Mr. Worley would find that he had a golden drop
of Bceswing in his Old Port, which would make him
go•lightly through the year.
From Kent's lot I take Glentilt, as decidedly the
best, and from the others Conyngham, Sister to Cobweb
colt, and the Zipporah colt; but I am inclined to think
that the race will lay entirely between Glentilt and
Conyngham.
The Sweepstakes of 300 toys. each will be an easy
victory for Paragone.
The Coffee-room Stakes will go to the Zipporah colt
with a start, otherwise Projectile will walk over.
On Wednesday Coningsby will win the Fifty Sov.
Stakes, and lago the Two Hundred Says. Stakes, Con-
spiracy second, and Humdrum third.
Piccinino and Alarm will win their matches, but
neither with much to spare.
On Thursday for the One Thousand Guineas Stakes
seven or eight will start, including Climentina and
Slander, whom I expect first and second at the winning-
post, Belladonna well up.
The One Hundred Sovs. Stakes will produce a race be-
tween Epirote and Halo—the former for victor.
Typhon will have the credit of receiving forfeit from
or beating Eiithen in their T.Y.C. spin.
On Friday the Harmony colt, Cossack, War Eagle,
Epirote, and perhaps two or three more, will contest the
from the winner, Epirote, the Harmony colt
Newmarket Stakes, when War Eagle will receive his
being The
Fifty ands Cossackvs .
Stakes
are a
fourth.
quietusll but in the pocket of
his Grace of Bedford, for nothing but accident can put
a stopper on Fistiana's pretensions.
The One Hundred Says. Stakes Piccinino ought to
win, Gag second.
Lord E. Russell with Reminiscence will take the other
One Hundred Soya. Stakes, without a doubt, neither of
her opponents being within 71b. of her.
With War Eagle's match ends the First Spring Meet-
ing of 18,17.-1 am, Sir, &c.
April 19. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Tho Queen'sTHURSDAY.
ueen's Plate of 100 Guineas ; for four yrs old,
9'fBlb ; five yrs, lost 71b ; six yrs and aged, lOst 121 b.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst
71b; and fillies Bst 41b. First half of Ab. M. The
winner to be sold for 801.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 soya. each, and only 5 ft
if declared by ten o'clock the evening before running,
for three yrs old and upwards. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts,
Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold
for 150 sovs., &c. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; for two yrs old colts,
Bst 61b; and fillies, Bst 31b. T.Y.C.
The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs.
each, h ft ; for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b. D.M.
30 Subs.
Lord Albemarle's Madge Gray—Lord G. Bentinck's
Devil-me-Care, *Archness, and *Slander—Mr. Bowes's
Jennola—Mr. O'Brien's *The Emerald Isle, Lord Ches-
terfield's f by Don John, out of Arachne and Maid of
Saragossa—Mr. R. Clifton's *Brown Bess, Conceit, and
*MarbleMaid—Mr. Coape's*The Cardinal's Niece—Lord
Exeter's *Cosachia, and *f by Hetman Platoff, out of
kacremma—Mr. Ford's *Millwood—Lord Glasgow's
tby The Provost, out of Miss Whip—Mr. Grant's
ribahzadee—Mr. Greville's Ferina—Lord Orford's
llangostien—Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Lanercost, out of
`,,a,n31) Follower and Sister to Sorella—Mr. Payne's
4"ernentina—Col. Peel's *Palma and Sorrel—Lord W.
1, owlett's *i by the Saddler, out of Fanchon—Duke of
Richms°n's Pell Mell—Duke of Rutlands *Bella Donna
Stephenson's ns Extra—Mr. Stephenson's
VictreB
and Mr. Worley's Margaret of Anjou.
Sweepstakes of 100 scars. each, h ft ; for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b ; the winner of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes
to carry 51b extra. D.M. (8 Subs.)
~Lord Albemarle's *lngoldsby—Mr. Bowes's *Epirote,
411% Osbaldeston's brother to Devil-among-the-Tailors
"—Lord Stradbroke's *c by The Saddler, out of Mar-
Lessa--Duke of Richmond's *Halo and Red Hart—Mr.
reville's *Mirmillo—and Sir J. Havvley's Pampeluna.
(Paid.)
.„„Match, ino, h ft ; T. Y. C.—Duke of Bedford's*
Bst 71b, agst Lorci Spencer's* Typhon, Bst 41b.
FRIDAY.
A Handicap Sweeps of 10 suvs. each, for three and four
Yrs old. D. M.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old, 7st ;
four, Bst 61b ; five, six, and aged, 9st. The winner to
be sold for 100 soya, if demanded, &c. D. M.
The Newmarket Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft ; for three
yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. The second to
save his stake. D. M. (23 Subs.)
Mr. Watson's *Sir Peter Laurie—Mr. Caombs's 5c by
Sir Hercules, out of Harmony—Lord Exeters's *Vero-
netz—Mr. Pedley's Cossack—Mr. Wigram's*Dvriades—
Mr. Bouveries *War Eagle—Mr. Ford's Crassus—Mr.
Bowes's *Epirote—Lord Lonsdale's c by Muley Moloch,
out of Ann—Lord Orford's *c by Clearwell, out of Ange-
lina—Lord Milltown's *Shawn Buidhe—Mr. o,baldes-
ton's sis. to Sorella—Lord Stradbroke's 5c by The Saddler,
out of Marpessa—Col. Peel's *King of Naples, and
*Oregon—Mr. Payne's Ce by Venison, out of sis. to
Cobweb—Mr. Greville's *Mirmillo and Verres—Mr,
Ward's Eldon—Lord Exeter's c (dead), by Hetman
Platoff, out of Valance, paid—Sir J. Hawley's Pampe-
luna, paid—Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, paid—Cul.
Anson's Jesuit (dead), paid.
Sweepstakes of 50 soya, each, for three yr old fillies, out
of mares that never bred a winner of more than 50
soya. at any one time. R.M. (6 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Bridle, and *l'lstiana—Field
Marshal Grosvenor's by Daedalus, out of his Brocard
mare—Mr. Batson's by The Doctor, out of Revelry—
Lord Exeter's *by Hetman Platoff, out of Maeremma—
Sir W. W. Wynn's by Gladiator, dam by Buzzard, out
of Emma.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft. Last half of Ab.
M. (3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Gag, Bst 71b—Mr. Ford's Rest-
less, Bst 41b; and Sir J. Hawley's Pampeluna, Bst.
Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h ft, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.
(3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Bridle, Lord W. Powlett's *f, by
The Saddler, out of Fanchou ; and Mr. Newton's Remi-
niscence.
Match, 50, Bst 71b each, Ab. M.—Mr. Bouverie's War
Eagle agst Mr. Shelley's Cutaway.
We have marked Planet, Slander, and Glentilt as
likely to be here, of which little doubt is entertained ;
Ring of Morven, Gabler, and Halo are also expected ;
but up to the time of closing this parcel nothing definite
mac known.

allowed 51b. Two miles.
Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer, aged (Owner) 1
Mr. P. P. Roles Spectator • 2
Mr. R. Clitton's Miriam, Mr. Hussey's Quicksilver,
and Lord B. Cecil's 111,frtgl,e, also started, but were not
placed. Won by two lengths.
The Froo Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 10 soy, each, 6 ft,
and 50 added. Two miles.
__

KING's COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—In consequence of
the great increase of applicants, both for in and out-door
relief, and the inadequacy of the funds to meet the ex-
penses, the committee hare just issued the following report,
and appeal to the affluent to come forward and assist the
governors of the institution in their endeavours to con-
tinue the usefulness of the hospital. They say— "There
is no locality in the metropolis where the assistance of an
hospital is more needed than that in which King's College
is situated, being surrounded on all sides by a dense
mass of population. During the past year upwards of
16,500 out-patients and 1,296 in-patients were cured or
relieved. The expenditure for the year exceeded the in-
corns by 6301. The committee are desirous of continuing
to admit all who come with or without letters of recommen-
dation ; but as they have no funded property, and rely en-
tirely upon the donations and subscriptions of the benevolent,
they will not be enabled to do so unless some assistance is
afforded them."

RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOR MONDAY.
Plate. Last 3 miles of B. C.
Wolfdog, 5 yrs—Leopard, 5 yrs—Cantley, 4 yrs—
Itydranges, 4 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; winner to be sold for

Mr. Oliver's Ite;strCak,llst 121 b (Owner) 1
Mr. Ekin's Salopian, llst
Mr. G. H. Brettle's The Curate, llst 61b 3
Mr. G. Walter's Cavendish, 10st 101 b
Won cleverly.
The Moulsey Hurst Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft,
and 25 added ; the winner to be sold for 2501. Once
round.
Lord Strathmore's Lyons (Owner) 1
Count Batt hyany's Master Stepney
The Ladies' Purse of 151., added to a Sweepstakes of
7 sovs. each, 3 ft. One mile.
Mr. Webb's A mazr2ment, 5 yrs (Capt. Little) 1
Mr. Miner's Carrissima
Lord Strathmore's B'srnaby Rudgo
Two others started.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The past week's racing at Catterick has borne out
my anticipations pretty nearly to the letter, having hit the
mark in five cases out of s ven. At Bath I was not so sue
cessful, the state of the ground putting all my previous
calculations completely to the rout; I was only right in
two instances, in two I named the second, and in the
other two (the City Cup and the Somersetshire Stakes)
I was out altogether, having named Brave Buck and
Clermont as the couple most likely tc win the Handicap:
the first did not start; the latter ran a wretched third,

in consequence of the heavy state of the course. For
the Metropolitan Stakes I eluted, among others, the
Emerald Lie and Clermont. The former threw away
her chance (a first-rater, by the bye) by rut.ning against
the cords, jumping there, and playing off other extraor-
dinary pranks, anything but pleasant to brr backers, or
that thorough bred son of the Emerald Isle, her owner.
Blaring this accident, she would have been either first or
second, in my humble Opinion, and that she will not be
far from winning the Chester Cup is also my firm con-
riction. Clerrio won very cleverly, beating that
splendid racer \Wilting by a short neck in the last stride
or two; Brother to Stitch, by Ilornsea, out of Industry,
running a game third. The latter nag must not be lost
sight of; he will be doing something extraordinary in
the handicaps before the year is out. Clermont's per-
formance in this race entitles him to the appellation I
bestowed on him a week since, of the " champion of the
festher-weights;" whether he will be able to run suc-
cessfully with heavier weights time will prove; at present
he is indubitably one of our best second-rate three
years old. _ _

200 L

T. Y. C.

LITERATURE.
HISTORY 'OF EUROPE. Vols. IL, 111., and IV.
By Archibald Alison.
As this admirable reprint of Alisun's European His-
tory proceeds;'we cannot discern any abatement whatever
in the carefulness of its revision. The indices continue
to be of the same elaborate completeness, the typography
of the same beauty and precision, and the general appear-
ance of the volumes of the same compact and elegant cha-
racter. The narrative is brought down to the grand crisis
of the French Revolution, when Democracy not only gained
the supreme predominance, but began to illustrate the
extasy of its jubilations by the commission of crimes
more awful and ruthless than we could otherwise have
conceived humanity to be capable of perpetrating. From
the execution of the vaccinating and unfortunate Louis
Sixikne to the establishment of the Directorial Govern-
ment and the close of the National Convention, the dema-
gogues, whether Girondists or Mountaineers, gradually
extended their power, until it merged into a disguised des-
potism, and became unindurable to the populace, from
whose credulity it had imbibed its vitality. During that
interval of bloodshed and legalised sensuality, the palaces
of Paris became the lairs of men more akin to the demons
of Gehana than to the Adam of the Asiatic Paradise.

In the person of Marat the spirit of a cruel insauity
seemed to be erabodied ; in Hebert, that of despicable
blasphemy ; in " the Incorruptible," that of a relentless
egotism ; in St. Just, that of a barbarous audacity ; i n
Couthon, that of an execrable heartlessness; in Ilenriot,
that of a drunken domination ; and so on, through the
hideous catalogue of murderers. It is upon this terrible
but enthralling epoch that Mr. Alison is entering
when the third volume closes, leaving the reader
solicitous for the publication of the succeed-
ing chapters. E+•en to those who are familiarly
acquainted %+ith this extraordinary composition, the
style as well as the subject will possess an undiminished
fascination. Every successive perusal only convinces
one the more that Mr. Alison has contributed a splendid
work to the literature of his country, and that if he
cannot divest himself of certain preposterous prejudices,
he still enables us, by the very ardour of the passages in
which they are contained, to avoid the warps of his in-
tellect and judgment. Upon the opening of the fourth
volume we find the whole of the intornal crimes and
sufferings of France detailed with scrupulous accuracy
and impartiality up to the memorable campaign of 1794,
when the Republic had to withstand the assault of the
banded sovereigns of Europe. ,Among the most beauti-
ful descriptions in this portion of Alison's history must
be particularly mentioned the executions of Malesherbes,
of Chenier, and of the sister of Louis XVI. ; among the
most impassioned is the Recount of Tallien's eloquence
in impeaching the Terrorists, and the horrible deaths of
Robespierre and his accomplices.

THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

Vols. XXIII and XXIV.
As brilliantly written as heretofore, the present volumes
of Mr. Macfarlane's national history possess a peculiar
and almost paramount interest, seeing that they are the
condensed record of perhaps the grandest epoch in the
whole existence of man. But the work is flawed, is blurred,
is milerably warped in spirit. Its offence is Toryism,
and its

"Offence is rank, it smells to Heaven!"
We never read volumes so small crammed with so
many errors, so many monstrous misstatements, such
inveterate and abhorrent bigotry. The historian is a
worshipper of legitimacy ; he resembles Lord Nelson
too, in one particular, for he seems actually " to have
imbibed a hatred for the French with his mother's
milk." Whatever the English do is noble, and true,
and glorious. Whatever the French do is bad, execrably
and irredeemably bad. Is that the disposition fora his-
torian ? A party man should never presume to take up
the pen of history.

TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. A Romance. 3 Vcls.
By Elizabeth Thornton.

Seeing that we have noticed the piecemeal publication
of this clever fiction on its commencement in Tairs Ma-
gazine, it is unnecessary to give either an analysis
of its merits, or an epitome of its plot. From the hur-
ried production of Mrs. Gore's last work, " Temptation
and Atonement," in the pages of the periodical just
mentioned, the romance by Mrs. Thornton was suddenly
discontinued, and the authoress here receives ample
compensation for this (probably unavoidable and unin-
tentional) injury by the publication of the entire work
in the customary three volumes. We are induced to say
that Mrs. Thornton thereby receives ample compensa •
don, from a conviction that the amusing narrative here
presented to the public cannot but add to the reputation
already acquirLd by that lady as a romancist from the
composition of " The Marchioness." Sparkling and
interesting as that story was, it is eclipsed both in the
interest of its incidents and the sparkle of its style, by
" Truth and Falsehood." Mrs. Thornton has no ambi-

tion in this book to acquire either the sickly fame of a
depictor of fashionable life as it is now•a-days, nor the
preposterous notoriety struggled for by the cultivators of
the " virtuous indignation" line. The three volumes
are pure romance, and the tale is situated in the fittest
land for the romantic, the land of Gil Blas and
Rozinante. Spanish scenery, Spanish character, Spanish
crime, and Spanish passion, are among the most appro-
priate adjuncts of the romantic, whether it relate to love
or to adventure ; and those adjuncts Mrs. Thornton has
most skilfully employed.

KNIGHTS MONTHLY VOLUME. No. Xl.
Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Vol. I. By James
Thorne.

Another pleasant series is here commenced, and a
series which is calculated to diversify the character of
the general publication. After rambling in imagination
down the biographical course of some remarkable per-
sonage, or along the broad stream of the events recorded
of a country, it is agreeable enough to follow the track
of our beautiful island-rivers. Among them, of course,
the Thames—old Father Thames—the silent highway
—is paramOunt. And Father Thames is accordingly
first selected for description by Mr. Thorne. With a
variety of clever woodcuts, beginning with the source of
the river at the Seven Springs near Cheltenham, and ter-
minating with a representation of Windsor Castle, the
little volume presents a most attractive appearance. It
is rendered instructive by a multiplicity of histoi ical and
antiquarian facts elicited by the associations of the
different venerable localities traversed by the monarch of
English rivers.

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME, No. CXIV.
Canterbury Tales from Chaucer, Vol. 11. By John
Saunders.

It has been recently and justly remarked by Mr.
Charles Knight that Mr. John Saunders has conferred
a great boon upon the future students of old Geoffrey
Chaucer by the composition of these volumes. A greater
boon we regard it than the " Tales from Shakspere," by
Charles Lamb and his congenial sister ; for whereas the
latter are only suited to the innocent tastes of children,
the former have a vigour and boldness about them most
suitable to the theme, and such as must impart the fullest
pleasure to the hearts of the adult lovers of true poesy.
The stories are daintily told, partially in prose and par-
tially in quotations, giving us the very marrow and core
of the original.

ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR
POLITICAL GUARANTEES. By E. P.

Hurlbut.

An American writer, but especially an American
political writer, never had a more flattering introduction
to the readers of Great Britain than the one here
afforded to Mr. Hurlbut by the brief but suggestive pre-
face of George Combe. The simple announcement, "A
Preface and Notes by George Combe," was a thing pre-
cisely calculated to attract the attention of the very many
thousands of admirers of that philosophic and argumen-
tative mind. Mr. Hurlbut, therefore, comes before
us with the prestige, of being a friend of George
Combe, and as such we welcome him cordially ;
and the more so, let it be said, from finding,
on inspection, that neither the manner nor the
thoughts of this E. P. Hurlbut are unworthy of one who
has communed with George Combe. As the annotator
observes in his introductory remarks, " the aim of the
work is to determine the foundation and objects of Go-
vernment, and the powers with which the Legislature
and the executive should be invested, to enable them to
perform their functions to the best advantage to the
ccoommepsreGheonvesirin•emeinnqtupi,r,yanidnto,,
uthoew problems,
shall
we
State." The object of the work is, in other words, a
ns"uWrehgeonocde
Government ?"—problems of unutterable importance.
The author treats both queries with the skill of a prac-
tised " counsellor at law" (which he is, in New York),
and his essays are printed of the form and at the price of
the popular edition of the " Constitution of Man.' •Alto-
gether it forms a sort of sequel to the "Constitution of
Man," seeing that it relates to the "Constitution of So-
ciety," society being, as it were, the noun multiple to the
word man.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD.—
Owing to the continued severity of the weather, coupled
with the prevalence of typhoid fever, the doors of the Royal
Free Hospital, in Gray's Inn-road, have been literally
thronged with destitute sick applicants for relief or admis-
sion. The number of patients amounted yesterday to 333.
The asylums for the houseless in various parts of the metro-
polis being closed for the season, accounts for this pressure
upon the institution.
DEATH OF LADY GODOLPHIN.—We regret to learn
that intelligence of the demise of the above lady, sister of the
Earl of Auckland, was received in town yesterday. The
melancholy event took place on Saturday morning, at Gog-
magog Hall, Lord Godolphin's seat, in Cambridgeshire, after
a short illness. Her Ladyship was third daughter of the
late Lord Auckland, and was born on the 21st of March, 1780.
The deceased married on the 31st of March, 1800, Lord
Francis Godolphin Osborn, second son of Francis Godolphin,
fifth Duke of Leeds, who was in 1832 created a Peer of the
United Kingdom. By her Ladyship's marriage with the
Noble Lord she leaves issue three sons. The families of the
Earl of Auckland, Lady Brougham, the lion. Mrs. Vansit-
tart, Lord Bexley, Mr. C. and lion. Mrs. Drummond, the
Countess (Dowager) of Buckinghamshire, &c , are placed in
mourning by her Ladyship's death.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A
REsrEcrAnt...x FxmALE.—Yesterday afternoon, between the
hours of two and three o'clock, the neigbourhood of Man-
chester-square was thrown into a state of considerable alarm
and excitement in consequence of the following extraordi-
nary attempt at suicide made by a highly respectable female
whilst labouring under some temporary mental aberration.
It appears that the unfortunate victim, named Fanny Richey,
aged tifty-six, had for some months past resided at No. 19,
Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, and was somewhat re-
markable for her eccentric ways and habits, though it was
little suspected that she was of unsound mind. At eleven in
the morning she was in conversation with the landlady, after
which she retired to her apartments at the upper part of the
house, and at the period specified above she deliberately pro-
ceeded to the roof of the house by means of a small ladder,
and at once precipitated herself into the street. She fell in
a diagonal direction, and lodged upon the area rails, her
clothes having caught; and thus the unfortunate creature
miraculously escaped an instantaneous death. The occur-
rence, was seen by several persons passing by at the time,
and police-constable 109, D division, states that her dress
caught on to the spikes of the rails, so as to break the fall,
otherwise she must have been killed on the spot. The unfor-
tunate creature was then conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex
Hospital, and Mr. Dickson, the house surgeon, ascertained
that she had sustained, besides a dreadful wound on the
head, some severe internal injuries, so as to leave little hopes
of her ultimate recovery. She is unmarried, and very re-
spectably connected.
LIBERALITY OF THE DUKE or BEDFORD.—MS

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The spectacle of The
Desert, at the very moment it is drawing all play goers to
this theatre, is to be unexpectedly cut short in its career. it
having been found impossible to obtain a renewal of Mr.
Ilughes's engagement. His entire establishment leaves town
the end of next week.

ACCIDENTS ON TRH SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.
—SAListiunr, APRIL 17.—During this week two accidents
occurred on the branch of this line running to this city,
which, but for the skill and great care evinced by the en-
gineers, might have proved very disastrous; as it was, both
occurred without any serious accident, the passengers being
"frightened, not hurt." The first was the half-past eight
A. 31. train tor London, from Salisbury, on Monday morning.
last, which ran off the rails approaching " Clay Cutting,'
about two miles and a half from the city ; after a delay of an
hour only all was set right again, the train arriving within
less than an hour of its usual time at Nine Elms, London.
This clay cutting is ono of the most troublesome parts of this
branch to work through and render safe, costing the con-
tractors some thousands of pounds more than they antici-
pated, yet they persevere, men working early and late in
great gangs to make the line safe and firm. The second ac-
cident was to the half-past three r.. 31. train from London.
The man at the Kimbridge Gates, about three miles from
Ilomsey, which are kept closed over the line at that spot,
opening only fifteen minutes before a train is due, neglected
to perform that duty; on this train approaching the engine
took the gate, dashing it into many pieces, carrying bars,
pests, and every piece of timber away, scattering the same
in every direction, but providentially the wood was forced
from the carriages instead of into them, or some dreadful
accident might have been the consequence ; the engine-
driver perceived the danger, caused the shrill whistle to be
heard, and the speed to be slackened, stopping the train
entirely after within fifty yards of the disaster, when it was
found that no one was hurt, and but very little injury done
to the engine or carriages; this occurred about eight o'clock
in the evening of Friday, the 16th instant, and, to prevent
accidents on this branch, the engineers have an extra
quarter of an hour allowed them to go over the branch from
Bishopstoke to Salisbury, a distance of twenty-two miles
only:
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 16.—The market
continues exceedingly dull, and although importers here
show a disposition to meet the buyers by a further con-
e assortment
i'ni'iir
of Westiees'itl nit
lod t' business or mom,nt.
The India sugar is very indifferent,
particularly of anything suitable for scale purpose*.
Brit tol Meroury•

Grace the Duke of Bedford has, we understand, most liber-
ally intimated his intention of giving out of his own private
resources, in addition to a former gilt of 10,0001., the sum of
3,0004, still required by the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests for the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, as the
amount of its contribution towards the formation of the now
street from Leicester-equaro to King-street, Covent-garden,
and which, but for his Grace's kindness, would have had to
be raised by a rate on the parishioners. It is understood
that this great metropolitan improvement will be forthwith
com menced.

APPROACHING ELECTION OP SIIERIFFS.—The Lord
Mayor has named James Hartley, Es,q., chairman of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company, for sheriff
for the ensuing year, and it is expected that that gentleman
and William Cubitt, Esq , will be put in nomination on Mid-
summer-day next ; both gentlemen have expressed their
readiness to accept the office if elected.
ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The 74th
anniversary of this institution is to be celebrated on Saturday
next at I reemasons' Hall, when his Royal IlighneEs the
Duke of Cambridge will preside, and the Duke of Wellington
has promised to attend. We know of no society in Scotland
which has greater claims to the sympathy and liberality of
the public than this; and we fondly hope that these claims
will be generously met at the appromeiiing festival. It is a
singular but gratifying fact, that the best and bravest in her
Majesty's Highland regiments bave been educated in the*e
fingioritt of utztruotiva.
,

Veronetz—Redwing
handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft if declared. T. Y. C.
*Bishop of R,:.mford's Cob, aged. Bst 81b—African, aged,
Bst 81b—Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs 7st 61b—Sir Francis, 5 yrs,
7st 51b--Vert Vert 3 yrs;6st 71b—Jollity, 3 yrs, 6st 21b
--Dublin Colt, 3 yrs, 6st—ldas, scratched.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES.
5 to 4 Bast Planet. 9 to 2 eget The Liberator (1
3to 1 aget Conyegbam. Bto 1 agst Christopher.

DERBY.

Offers to take 6 to 1 about Planet.
The following horses have arrived from Goodwood:—
Planet, King (~f Morven, Halo, Projectile, Gabbles,
Do l-me•e*n, Outpost, end Cherokee.

THE SUN, ,ON DON,
_MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1847

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle-
men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the private
,chapel
in Buckingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. C.
-Leslie
Courtenay otliciata.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their ac-
customed early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
airings yesterday in the Royal gardens.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen on Sstnrday, and remained to luncheon with her
Majesty and Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday attended by the Hon. Capt. Gordon.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual pony and
walking exercise on Saturday.
Her ;Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, and Major• General
Wemyss, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with
their presence on Saturday evening.
We understand that her Majesty, anxious to comply
with the wish expressed by many persons to be allowed
to see the pictures lately painted by Mr. F. Winterhalter,
namely, one representing her Majesty, his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, and the Royal children; the other,
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in a sailor's
dress ; has been graciously pleased to command that
they shall be exhibited in the banqueting room in St.
James's Palace.

On inquiring at the Lord Chambvrlain's office we find
that it is intended that tickets shall be issued by the
Lord Chamberlain from thence to commence on Tuesday
next, the 20th instant. The hours of admission to be
from two to five o'clock. _ _ .

At first the tickets will be limited to the Foreign
Ministers; the Members of the late and present Cabinets;
and the Great Officers of State. After the 28th instant,
tickets will be issued for about three weeks to ladies and
gentlemen upon personal applicati,.n at the Lord Cham-
berlain's office, between the hours of twelve and four, at
the end of which time tickets may be obtained in the
same manner as the orders to view the state apartments
in Windsor Castle, upon application to Messrs. Paul and
Dominic Colnaghi, printsellers, No. 14, Pall-mall East ;
Mr. Moon, printseller, No. 20, Threadneedle-street; Mr.
Mitchell, bookseller, No. 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs.
Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96, Strand, until
the end of June, when the pictures will be removed to
(shorn, her Majesty's private residence, in the Isle of
Wight, for which place they were painted.
Mr. Moon has purchased the copyright from Mr.
Winterhalter, and engravings of the Two Pictures, in
the highest style of art, will be published by sub-
scription.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge also visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday, at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel,
South Audley-street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron
Knesebeck, and Major Stephens, honoured her Ma-
jesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Earl Auckland, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clcnricarde, the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. 11.
Labouchere.
The Council sat three hours.
A deputation from the metropolitan gas companies,
consisting of Mr. Bateman, from the Chartered Gas-
light and Coke Company ; Mr. Gainsford, from the
Phoenix Company; Mr. Hinde, from the London Com-
pany ; Mr. Sangster, from the City of London Com-
pany; Mr. T. B. Simpson, from the South Metropolitan
Company; Messrs. Townend and Grattan, from the In-
dependent Company; Mr. H
witham m i
Viscount
foruonmot
ft
mhweoorßopdae Ratcliffe
i and
Company; Messrs. Tyrrell and Richards, from the Im-
perial Company; and Mr. Holdship, from the Equitable
theoffice of her m
Company, hadaniajtynetesrvtew
Majesty's
Commissioners
Forests in Whitehall-place on Saturday.
A deputation from the Supporters of the Government
Minutes on Education in Birmingham, waited on Lord
John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation consisted of the Rev.
John C. Miller, Rector of St. Martin's ; the Hon. and
Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector of St. Philip's ; Mr. T. Lane,
High Bailiff ; and Mr. John Aston, and were intro-
duced by Mr. R. Spooner, M.P.
Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday.
A deputation of the New River Company, consisting
of Mr. R'chard Beauvoir Berens, Governor ; Major-
General Ellicombe, Deputy-Governor ; Mr. E. W.
Webster, Treasurer ; Mr. Henry Hulse Berens, and the
Rev. C. Keene, Directors ; and Mr. C. Mylne, Engineer
to the Company ; had an interview on Saturday with
Viscount Morpeth, at the office of the Woods and
Forests.

THE GOLD CURRENCY.
(From the Post.)
The accounts of the Bank of England which we pub
lished on Saturday show that a very important diminu-
tion of the means of the Bank for carrying on its busi-
ness had taken place between the 3d instant and the 10th
instant. On the 3d instant the establishment possessed
in its banking department 3,699,7001. in notes, and
691,770/. in coin, applicable to the carrying on of its
banking business. On the 10th instant the same de-
partment held 2,832,9151. in notes, and 630,7134 in gold
and silver coin, applicable to the carrying on of its
banking business. On that day (the 10th instant), the
issue department held of gold and silver coin and bullion
the sum of 9,236,3401, but over this sum the banking
department of the Bank had no control. The who!e
funds of the Bank, and of all its branches which could
be made use of for payments to the public on the 10th
instant, amounted to 3,463,6281., and if more than that
amount had been demanded by those depositors who had
a legal right to make the demand, the Bank must have
stopped, though in its issue department it held 9,236,3401.
lying useless—useless, at all events, in the sense of cir-
culating money. It was understood last week,:by persons
likely to be well informed on the subject, that on the 17th a
large sum would become due to the Bank in liquidation
of a part of its securities. This sum being paid to the
Bank in notes would place it in a considerably stronger
position than it was in previously, but as this sum of
bank-notes would bo withdrawn from the general circu-
lation, the payment would tend to increase the " tight.
[less" of money, and consequently the pressure upon all
who have to make money payments in the course of their
business, or in the payment of bills which they accepted
nnder an easier state of circumstances. These are but
the details of that pinching, draining, exhausting system
to which money convertible into gold, coupled with a
free trade in gold, must always be liable, and which has
been so excessively aggravated by the additional restric-
tions of Peel's Bill of 1844—that "complement to the
measure of 1819" of which he made such vainglorious
boast in the prosperous period of May, 1844. It was
true that previously to that time the Bank was liable to
be pressed for payment of its notes in gold, but the
directors had such opportunities of knowing the chan-
nels of distribution of their notes, and such means of
judging whether they were, or were not likely to be called
upon to pay to a large extent in gold, that they could issue
notes, under certain circumstances of pressure, without
imprudence, although not holding gold against such
issue. Say that they were drawn upon for a million or
two, which they knew would go into the hands of per-
sons who, within a week, would repay these very notes
to them upon another account. This often happened,
and when it did happen it made no difference to the ac-
commodation given to the public at large ; for the Bank
increased its issues, or had the power to do so, in order
to meet the particular case. Since Peel's Bill of 1844,
however, there is no such liberty left with the Bank.

If to-day, out of the fifteen millions of deposits which
the Bank holds, a million or two were withdrawn, the
bankers, well knowing that this day week the notes
would be repaid, and in the meantime would lie in some
iron chest in Lombard-street, still the Bank must pro-
portionably diminish its accommodation to the public,
for without bank-notes it cannot accommodate the public,
and it has no privilege to obtain from the issue depart-
ment a million or two to replace those which have gone
to the iron safes in Lombard-street. It can only obtain
notes as any private individual could, by giving gold
in exchange for them, and that it has not to give.
Such is the working of Peel's Bill, which some per-
sons have still the effrontery to talk of as a beneficial
measure ! To whom is it beneficial? Does it serve the
trader who relied upon the discount of good bills for
meeting his engagements, and finds he cannot get dis-
counts, or cannot get them except at a premium which
takes away all his profit? Does it serve the owner of
Consols, or of Shares in joint-stock companies, who has
occasion to turn his securities, or a part of them, into
money, and finds them enormously depreciated in conse-
quence of the scarcity of money? Does it serve the
banker, who is liable to heavy demands being made upon
him, and who fears to make use of the funds deposited
with him, lest, from the increasing pressure, deposits
should be withdrawn? No, it serves only the owners of
large sums of ready money, over which they have ab-
solute control, and who, in such a time, command almost
what remuneration they please for temporary loans.
These only are the people who thrive by such circum-
stances of pressure as such a Bill as Peel's Bill of 1844
must inevitably lead to, whenever the course of mercan-
tile affairs takes large sums of gold out of the country.
A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been
sent to us, in which the writer (Mr. T. Lamie Murray)
points out the circumstances of difficulty under which
the monetary concerns of the country aro now placed,
and suggests a remedy. The remedy proposed
is an interference with the business of the
Bank of England, which we cannot conceive
that any gentleman not concerned in that es-
tablishment has any right to propose; but his statement
of the circumstances which require some remedy is worth
attention, and the more so because we believe Mr. Mur-
ray's experience entitles him to give an opinion upon
such matters. After adverting to the circumstances of
the potato famine, he proceeds to say:—
" Every one will admit that this visitation of Divine
Providence is in itself of sufficient magnitude, but when
it is increased by a monetary crisis, it may become to
the last degree inconvenient.

The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early Service in the Chapel Royal St.
James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev.
J. R. Wood. At the daily service tll.l prayers were
read by the Rev. Dr. 11. Dakins, and the lessons by the
Rev. 1)r. Knapp. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. J. R. Wood. The anthem was " 0 give thanks "
(Purcell). The Ladies St. Germans and Somerset, the
Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of. Anglesey and Wor-
cester; Lords Forteseue, St. Germans, Cawdor, Jocelyn,
Cantilupo, and Ebriagton, were among the nobility
present.

" One of the arguments against the abolition of the
corn-laws was the apprehended disturbance of the cir-
culation of the Bank of England by the efflux of bullion
in the purchase of corn. But when that argument was
put forward, it was never contemplated that this dis-
turbance could bear the smallest ratio to the quantity of
corn imported into western Europe, and likely to arrive in
the course of this year. If, therefor•, what was consi-
dered a serious inconvenience on so small a scale, as one
ventured to assert, how much must the evil assume the
character of serious alarm when this importation of fo-
reign corn, and the consequent efflux of the precious
metals, is carried on upon a scale of magnitude beyond
parallel, and perfectly disproportionate to the resources
of the Bank of England acting under the restrictions
imposed by the Bill of 1844?
"It should be remembered that this state of things
has suddenly come upon the country in the ♦ery midst of
engagements for public undertakings of all kinds un-
precedently large, and resting on private means for their
execution, already sanctioned by Parliament, and of
others awaiting that sanction.
" At no "period in the commercial history of this
country has such an amount of floating values existed
upon the stock markets.
" I am disposed to agree that the amount of enter-
prise to which capital is pledged, and now in the course
of being required, is entirely disproportionate to the an-
nual surplus.
" This state of things is not alone confined to England
—France, Belgium, and Germany are, with ourselves,
equally purchasers of corn, equally require bullion for
the purpose, and arc equally engaged in extensive rail-
way constructions, requiring a large capital and resources.
"To this surcharged state of things must be added
the deficiency in the cotton crop, its influence on em-
ployment and manufactures. The loss to the consumer
in the difference of price is estimated at more than
4,000,0001.
" I have drawn your attention to these facts with a
view of proving that the state of England and Europe,
both in respect to the deficiency of food and the under-
takings in which all are engaged, is widely different
from that of the year 1844, when the law regulating the
Bank of England was passed.
" At that period, and under widely different circum-
stances, the inconvenience that might result from an
exceptional state of things was foreseen by some of our
most extensive and sagacious London bankers, who, in
the memorial signed by some of the most eminent firms,
dated the 11th June, 1844, clearly indicated a case such
as has now arisen, for which the law has made no pro-
vision.

exclusive " OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT."—Such is the
title under which various provincial journals keep a
column
outoorf inextown whose duty it is to send a weekly
manufacture
it. The person engaged
ance with all thactum
is certainly intelilnigetnhcee.
capacity The intelligence
is
exclusive
he furnishes to the enough, being the exclu-
sive:fivuthe individual who forwards
state-
ments, but what
correspondent is
audacity. Upon the
circles; but as his compelled to affect an acquaint-
is passing in the best-informed
pthe sphere of observation is confined to
the
dimtihteadt therecircle will be much veracity in his state-
ucatebdout
obliged to draw s
some
ee tavern he frequents, he is
upon his imagination for the "facts"
provincial journal. It cannot be ex-
tendons, theyengagements, or
Occasionally he has
be writers,eo nd
with reference to
is to oppose evebryy
from his fellow-reportersn on the London press, lie has
want in truth is made up in
generally something strength of what he picks up
to say about the movements, in-
everything else,
and impossible strength other
om o r
he
journalk non-engagementsooiwns p
existence,os iti
voef l tyhaeon leading
tahidsi ihntggo.
grand scheme to communicate
the starting of a new daily paper, which
pe cr
ie 3doe. d fromi,
Pro-
prietors, o.
the purpose of putting every possible
prietors, printers,
porters, and roerhgth everybodyi nt o who
oe
newha ve
c n allt
e rs
indeed the
editors, contributors, ro-
e entire establishment, from the
highest to the lowestt
spondent" to be on di are said by "our London corre-
character, and epoint of abandoning profit., posi-
tion,
to the paper everything else, to start a wilful op-
position
When "our in which they all have a mutual in-
terest.his authority—thou London Correspondent" is asked for
to do that—hisgh it is seldom worth any one's while
announcement of a new paper is found to
rest on no foundation whatever. It enabled him to fill up
a portion of his required.
sheet, and be cannot afford to
be scrupulous as the mean? of doing so. " Our
London Correspondent" is of course in the confidence of
all the Ministers and all' the leading members of the Op-
position ; and 3 et,
true, he is betraying all uponh his own showing, if his boast be
e secrets intrusted to him on all
sides, for a few shillingst a week from a country news-
paper. He knows thatL
at ord John Russell will not be in
office another monthleast four years before he goes
out, and thus " our London Correspondent" proves the
access he has to very, very
you early (a little too early) in-
telligence. He can tellwho is to have the next gar-
ter, when there is one vacant ; and has seen letters from
Jenny Lind or Mendelssohn
, notwithstanding no letter
has been written by either of these illustrious indivi-
duals. In fact "our London Correspondent: lives in a
enables
world of his own, which him to see a great deal
more than is seen by any body
that there can be no witnesses to else,
and
the
bestofhis.prove the contrary of
his assertions, for hie facts are as truly original, that he
has them all to himself; and no one else has an opportu-
nity of meeting -them.—Punch.
LAUNCH OF ANOTHER IRON STEAMER..--011 Sa-
turday afternoon a fine new iron steamer, called the Joseph
Miller, was sent off the stocks into
building yard of Miller, Ravenh*lil the Thames, from the
Wharf, Blackwell, in the presence of a and Co., at Orchard
dressed considerable number
of spectators. The vessel was gaily
&c. ; her paddle-boxes were up,
and out with flags,
a good deal of her in-
terior work done, eo that there was more
than the usual
weight: but she glided into the water
strain; and when afloat the extreme beautyvithout the slightest
seen to great advantage. She was built for
of her form was
Middle Rhine Company, and for service the Lower and
on that river, after a
design of Mr. Pasco. Her length between
is 175 feet ; breadth of beam, 19 feet ; the perpendiculars
mid-
ships, 9 feet; draught of water, 2 feet 10 inches;
of hold,
measurement, 314 10-94ths tons. She will
r.licilles; burden, old
pair of Miller and Co.'s 40-horse power be fitted with a
and be lightly rigged with two masts. oscillating engines,
Her saloons, cabins,
&c., are to be handsomely decorated, and furnished by first-
rate artists, and will probably exceed in elegance and com-
fort any vessel of the same class no .v afloat.file name was
given, at the urgent request of the owners '
to Mr. Miller as an engineer, and an ex ,as a compliment
expression of the coin-
-1 pany's sense of the important services lie as rendered them
by supplying them with their best vessels, especially the
Elberfeld and Concordia, which have no equals on the Rhine
for speed or accommodation. After the launch a numerous
party of ladies and gentlemen partook of refreshments in a
room commanding a full view of the river,
theover the counting-
house at Orchard Wharf. " Success toJoseph Miller"
was of course drunk with all the honours, followed
health of Miss Ravenhill," sister of the
the firm, who had performed the ceremony
partner of
of baptism with
great spirit. The Joseph Miller will be e:
ompleted with all
possible dispatch; the engines are nearly ready, and the
vessel will, in all likelihood, be on its station by the first or
second week in June.
SALE OF THB GREAT WESTERN STEAM SHIP.—The
Great Western steam-ship was sold at Bristol
on Friday to
Captain Chappell, the secretary of the Royal West India
Steam-packet Mail Company, for 25,000,.,
putexelusive of her
on
plate, and which was the reserve price. her when she
since'
was offered for sale by auction a few weeks She will
proceed in a few days to Southampton, from which port it is
intended that she shall sail for a five months' voyage, and at
the expiration of that period we are informed that it is the
Campany's intention to lay her up and expend a large sum
upon her (report says 10,0001.) in repai,
refitting,
iSce.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—On Saturday orders,
were given that the electric telegraph wires of the Sluth-
Western Railway, now conducting to the
Admiralty,
should
St.
pass through Spring-garden gate intoJames's Park, to
enter the Admiralty from the parade •
La front of the Horse
Guard,.

" A situation of embarrassment, which was deemed
possible, hex at length arrived ; and the Bank of Eng-
land, coerced by the law of 1844, is no longer able to
interpose a barrier against the sweeping torrent of de-
preciation, and public and private discredit that has set
in. The Bank has already exhausted its resources, and
overstepped its prudence. Th© effort has been perhaps
praiseworthy ; but the endeavour has been vain.
" In former times, at periods of distrusts the aid of so
powerful an establishment has always, when exerted, in-
vigorated tteo itself
d ; disorganisationbo the
p ul
of
ff private
1844 o n
ticrreelyd t,
destroyed without
its
injury
this useful function, and in this exists greatest error
and deficiency.
" Under the law of 1844, sooner or later in this year,
the present state of things was inevitable. In the one
case, had the Bank restricted its accommodation, the
panic would have resulted from real pressure; and in the
other, as in the present instance, from anticipated pres-
sure, arising from the exhausted and hopeless condition
of the Bank."

The remedy proposed by the writer of the above is,
that the Bank should employ a large portion of its " rest"
In purchasing two and a half millions of Government se-
curities, and be empowered by Act of Parliament to issue
that amount of bank-notes against such securities, over
and above the sum at present allowed to be issued against
such security. This might, no doubt, be serviceable as
a temporary expedient, if the Bank thought fit thus to
make use of its accumulated profits; but no one, except
the Bank itself, has any business to propose such an ex-
pedient. Besides, we must remember that the vicious
principle would still remain which compels the autho-
rised issuers of paper money to contract their issues as
gold leaves the country, while the policy demanded by
the nature of the case, and by common sense, is that as
gold money is taken away from the country some other
Medium of exchange should be proportionably supplied
for the purpose of carrying on the vast business, both
internal and external, in which the country is engaged.

TUE MAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, APRIL 16, TEN P.M.
—The Oriental Company's steam ship Montrose, Captain
Burney, has just arrived in the docks from Gibraltar, with
the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, which will be
landed under charge of Lieutenant Newenham, and for-
warded to London by the 2 A.m mail train of the 17th. The
dates are Gibraltar, April 4th ; Cadiz, sth ; Lisbon, 10 ;
Oporto, 11 ; Vigo, 12. She brings 19 passengers and a full
cargo of fruit. Ships at Gibraltar, Virago •, at Lisbon,
Hibernia, Trafalgar, American, Plicenix, and Polyphemus.
The Montrose spoke the Royal Tar off Portland, outward
bound. The Montrose experienced fine weather out, but
strong gales from the eastward home. Our Portugal news
will be found in another part of our paper. April 17.—The
Royal West India mail packet Forth, Captain Chapman,
left the port at 3 Y.M. this day for the West Indies, with the
usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Hay, R.N., Ad miralty
, agent. She has taken out 60 passengers, including the
Bishop of Barbadoes, family and suite, 11,0901. in valuables,
and very full cargo. The Oriental Company's steam-ship
Madrid, Captain Weeks, left the docks at 8 P.M. this day for
Gibraltar, with Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, in
charge of the Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Smyth. She has
20 passengers on board ; also 500 barrels of flour, and full
cargo of bale goods.
The statue of Marshal Bessieres, Duke of Istria
was inaugurated on April 5, at Fraysac (Lot), the marshal'snatal town. Upwards of 20,000 persons were present on
the
OCC3OI9n.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.
TARIWORTH, APRIL 17.—Yesterday Mr. Brassey, the
principal contractor for the works on this important line
of railway, in company with a party of friends, tra-
versed the line from Rugby to Stafford. During their
progress they were loudly cheered by the populace as-
sembled at the various stations on the line, and particu-
' larly at Tamworth ; the rejoicing was manifested by the
waving of flags, the firing of cannon, and the ringing of
bells. From Tamworth the party (the train consisting
of an engine and two carriages) proceeded to Lichfield
and Rugeley, and thence through the great tunnel on
Lord Lichfield's estate at Shuckborough to the neigh-
bourhood of the terminus at Stafford. At present, how-
ever, owing to the boggy state of the land, over which is
an embankment, in the neighbourhood of that town, an
efficient junction with the London and North-Western
has not yet been effected. Notwithstanding, there is no
doubt that in the course of a short time the necessary
solidity will be obtained, as the Grand Junction had to
contend with the same difficulty when the line was first
put down in that vicinity.
Mr. Brassey and his friends remained at Stafford
for the night, and this morning, as previously an-
nounced, returned on their experimental trip to Tam-
worth. Here, where the sod was first turned by Sir
Robert Peel, great doings were expected, and, as the
directors had intimated their intention of taking lun-
cheon, it was not unnaturally supposed, Sir Robert
Peel being at Drayton, that he would honour the party
with his company. At the time the directors were ex-
pected to arrive a considerable concourse of people,
amongst them the most respectable inhabitants of the
district, had assembled in the neighbourhood of the Tam-
worth station:—Sir R. Peel, Lady Peel, Miss Peel, and
the youngest son of the Right Hon. Baronet, were. on
the platform ; but, as it subsequently appeared, Sir
Robert was not there with the view of taking any part
in the festivities which followed, but for the purpose of
starting with his family by the next train for London.
Accordingly, at half past eleven o'clock, before the Trent
directors made their appearance, the Right Hon. Baronet
had directed his course to the metropolis, and those wkib
imagined that they were about to be favoured with an-
other address upon railway projects were doomed to diTs-
appointment. Sir Robert was looking well, and appeared
to be much gratified with the gay and animated scene-of
which he was a spectator.
The party from Stafford arrived shortly before twelve
o'clock, amidst the cheering of the populace and the
booming of cannons. Amongst the gentlemen who
alighted were Captain Huish, Mr. Bruyeres (of the Lon-
don and North-Western), Mr. Gooch, C.E., Mr. Bart-
lett, C.E., Mr. Dockeray, Mr. Field, Mr. Berkeley, Mr.
Godson, Mr. Irving, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Brassey, &c.
A sumptuous luncheon was provided by Mr. Rhoades, of
the King's Arms, and, as might be expected, the festi-
vities passed off with great glee and good humour.
The report of the directors and engineers who con-
stituted the party to this experimental trip is, that the
line throughout, with the exception of the portion near
Stafford already referred to, is remarkably firm, and the
work substantially and in all respects efficiently com-
pleted. The station at Tamworth is an elegant Eliza-
bethan building of great capacity, and will be of great
ornament to the line.
The party, after leaving Tamworth, 'proceeded for-
ward through Atherstone and Nuneaton to Rugby,
where the Trent line effects its southern junction with
the London and North-Western. •
It is intended to open the line for the conveyance of
goods on the Ist of June, and for passengers on the Ist
of July. From that time the traffic between London
and Manchester and Liverpool will take its leave of the
present route through Birmingham,

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY COM-

PANY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Saturday, at 12 o'clock, in the board-room of the com-
pany's station-house, near Handrow, Mr. George Pim
in the chair.

The treasurer read the usual report from the directors,
from which it appeared " that there has been a decrease
in the receipts of the company for the past year, the
number of passengers booked at all the stations during
the last six months being :1,668,650, and for the pre-
vious half-year 1,747,100, showing a decrease of 78,450,
which produced a decrease in money receipts of
1,3451. 3s. I Id.

£. s. d.

" Gross income from all sources (ex-
clusive of Dalkey 51,691 15 2
" Income last year). 53,036 19 1

" Decrease £1,345 3 11."
The report went on to say, " that although a decrease
in the company's receipts was a matter to be regretted,
it was not at all calculated to excite surprise, owing to
the awful calamity which had fallen upon their country,
and which had not confined its effects alone to the poorer
classes, but had chiefly affected all ranks and positions
in society; a calamity that had curtailed all superfluous
expenditure, building, &c." In referring to the agree-
ment between the company and the Waterford, Wex-
ford, and Wicklow Company, the report went on to say,
" Whilst the board continue of opinion that the com-
pletion of a line of railway by Wicklotv and Wexford
to Waterford, without unnecessary delay, and in pur-
suance of the agreement between the two companies,
would be highly advantageous to your interest, they
have not been unobservant of the late proceedings of
the shareholders of the Waterford, Wexford, Wick-
low, and Dublin Company, and of the anxiety which
has been shown by very many of them to endeavour to
relieve themselves from their responsibilities. The
directors have, therefore, :felt it to be their duty to seek
for such information from the directors of the Waterford,
Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company, as would
enable them to judge of the ability of that company to
complete their undertaking in its integrity, before trans-
ferring to them either your powers or your property.
The opinion of the board remained unchanged on this
subject, and all that had occurred since their previous
meeting only tended to confirm the board as to the pro-
priety of the course they adopted; and not only has the
information sought for been withheld and difficulties
thrown in the way of your obtaining it, but the directors
of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Com-
pany have brought into Parliament a Bill for the amend-
ment of the Act, to enable them to shorten their line and
reduce their capital, which contains provisions and
clauses prejudicial to your interests, and at variance
with the agreements between the two companies. The
board, therefore, acting under the advice of eminent
counsel, have not executed the transfer of the powers for
making the Bray line on the lease of the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway, and they have forwarded a petition
to the House of Commons, under the common seal of
the company, against the Amendment Bill, &c., and are
prepared to offer an effective opposition to the Bill should
it be proceeded with. They trust the proprietors will
rely on the best exertions of the board to watch over and
protect the company's interests in this very important
matter." _ _ _

A long discussion having:arisen upon the adoption of
the foregoing report, two amendments were proposed,
one to the effect that the directors should at once pro-
ceed to construct the extension from Kingstown to
Bray, and throw the onus on the Wexford and Water-
ford Company of applying for an injection to restrain ;
and the other, which was proposed by Mr. Palmer, of
London, recommending that the Kingstown Company
should not oppose the amendment Bill ; and also that a
deputation of the directors should wait upon the
directors of the Waterford and Wicklow line, in order
to arrange differences, and modify the arrangements
already entered into, so as to make them meet the
wishes of all parties. After the discussion of thosi-•
amendments for upward of two hours and a half, they
were both withdrawn, and the matter having been
left to the discretion of the directors the report was
adopted.
Some routine business was then transacted, and the
meeting separated.