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SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NI.NG, FEBRUARY l, 1847.

pro
Latpuusrat-
on s CHESTER ELECTION.
morning. the constituency of Chester elected.
earl Grosvenor, to represent the borough in
to Ram the room of Lord Robert Grosvenor, resigned
the To r Middlesex. The attendance 'at the hustings in
throe ...,
.out
was unusually large, and the proceedings
t were of a very spirited character.
pk,retSHantrs. having conducted the 'usual preliminary
Thealtin"
of thei
140,,_.° -favor of Chester, D. PHILLIPS JONES, in rising to
aftrutte Earl Grosvenor as a fit and proper person to repre-
Nhtue city in Parliament, felt that however much they
regret the loss they had sustained by the resignation
psver late worthy and honourable member, Lord Robert
eentor, their sorrow was in some degree lessened by the
Nett EarV
..i&leerof having his honourable nephew as his successor.
ial thw
Should the constituency be now pleased to
d
that e
tr. Grosvenor as their representative, he felt assured
would thus be enabled.to mak of his
to on ontrp.st would be such as tp induce them to prefer
tltlatificatiscrjeding occasions. Earl Grosvenor possessed more
anus,
„ons than he would venture to name in his pre-
i might state, however, that the house of Eaton
tt,a,."''''c'Y identified with the interests of the city of Chester.
oldells was an association too in the name of Hugh Lupus,
h y.the an
of Chester must ever feel an interesf
Earlllogh Lupus, a Norman name, was the name of the first
_Grosvenor, who was in many respects an eminent mac,
i;uent!,bad devoted himself most zealously to promote the pros
.„,,17 of the city. They had a Hugh Lupus before them now,
1-_' let them hope that history would record his annals to
tare
with equal pleasure as those of his Norman fore-
theers•—(Cheers.) The mayor proposed Earl Grosvenor for
suffrages.
11°31-As DLXON, Esq., reconded the nomination. He con-
gratulated the city on the union of interests they had met
ath the course of the present canvass. The committee
k_m waited personally on 1,400 electors, and out of that num-
rthere was not more than two dozen who refused to give
Earl Grosvenor their hearty support.
There being no other candidate, the sheriff declared Earl
°roveenor duly elected, amid long continued applause.
Earl Gitosvasion, on standing forward to return thanks,
*as received with much applause. He said—Electors and
brother freemen, it is with the sincerest pride and satisfac •
Lion I now address you by that title—a title which my
ancestors have borne for many generations—a title to
Which I have long aspired, and a title which I had the
honour of receiving from you on Monday last. The
son of a freeman. and the grandson of a freeman of Chester,
I need not tell you how much gratification I feel in being per-
mitted to address you by that title, which is the only tie,
'say additional tie were wanting, to cement the union which
aa bug subsisted between this city and the house with
rich 80
lam connected. It has been my utmost endeavour
ring the short time that has elapsed between the resign-
N
;tun of your late Member, my relative, and the period fixed
nholding this election, to make acquaintance with you all,
!_a.s should 1 have omitted calling upon any, I trust you
"Nlnot impute it to neglect or disrespect; but that you will
attribute it to the only circumstance from which it could have
._llriscat the short time that has been permitted me to see you
audividually before the nomination. —(Cheers.) I have the
authority of my uncle to say that it was his most earnest
Wish to have paid his personal regards to you to-day, and to
'Lave taken a farewell of those with whom he has been so
g connected by ties political as well as personal, and whose
lUterests he has been ever most anxious to promote; but
'wen tunstances have prevented his intended visit to Chester.
lam aware that it is usual for candidates on such occasions
'.'.these to make a declaration of their political opinions; but
at present my youth and inexperience must be accepted as
~1317 suttee for not making pledges. I may, however, say,
4.nat it is my desire to promote the extension of commerce
a Support every measure calculated to improve the moral
and social condition of the people.—(Cheers.) I have again
to thank you for the honour you have done me on this oc-
'caat, and be assured that, to obtain your confidence, and
your esteem b) my future conduct shall be my most
4111.Xi0113 desire.—(Applause.)
TRomAs DIXON, sq.
E, had a resolution to submit, which
was sure would meet with the hearty concurrence of
fieldperson present ; and if the room was large enough to
/i)"', the city, he should not anticipate a dissentient voice.
D!,.oegged to move that a vote of thanks be given to Lord
Zrert Grosvenor for the attention he had always paid to the
ro"‘crests of the city, and for his unceasing exertions to pro-
mote its prosperity ; and that the vote of thanks be signed by
meeting.—
ue sheriff and transmitted to his .Lordship on behalf of the
(Great cheering.)
JIIIM. BROWN, EN., begged to second the resolution, and
7, I am convinced that there is not a man in the city who
have
not feel the deepest regret that the Noble Lord should
tiave been compelled by any circumstances to sever the con-
LT
-1, ion which has so long subsisted between him and the
ZIT of Chester. It has been a great advantage to the city
for Natalia such a representative as Lord Robert Grosvenor,
his high talents, his unbending honesty of purpose, his
val7ing support of those Liberal principles which lie at the
Lroot of aIT social improvement, have always been most cheer-
uny and cordially rendered, both for the advantage of the
1411trY in general and the city which he represented.—
I,Ptslause.) He is shortly to be placed in a situation
ere he will have a wider sphere for the exercise of his
!atoms and industry, and while our best wishes go with him,
hope We shall have no reason to regret the unanimous
Z IPPort which has this day been so cordially tendered to the
"'pie Lord, his successor.
vote of thanks was passed to the sheriff, three cheers
__"oca given for the newly-elected Member, and the meeting
inarated.

WASTE LANDS IN IRELAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
Jan. 30, 1847.
Sts,—You who were the first to recognise the general
.„atoundness of the views set forth in my letter to Lord John
Lumen, upon the subject of the reclamation of the waste
7,da in Ireland,would, I am sure, be much pleased that
re Government plan does not vary in one single instance,
'roue that which I proposed.
kin the postscript to a new edition, which will be published
the course of the week, I have discussed two most im-
!gutant questions on the same subject, and which I purposely
7,?_eluded- from the letter, because I knew there would be a great
agerenee of opinion respecting them, and main not wish to
L'lrert the attention of my readers from the object I had
„. view. Those two questions are,—" What shall be the
2aximura and the minimum size of the farms, and what
shall be the tenure." I have entered fully into those two
cplestions, and shall feel obliged by your insertion of so much
rvrelates to the Government proposal, not less than twenty-
ora more than fifty acres.—l am, Sir, your most obedient
°errant, ItIGBY WASON.
if To THE RIGHT HON. LORD .TOYLN RUSSELL.
414 Lord,—The Government plan, it appears
n, is to
e the unclaimed land into small possessions,not less
'WM twenty-five acres, or more than fifty acres. For the
.I;easons already given, I think these figures far too low. No
,oubt the change from a five-acre possession to one of twenty-
-I'e acres is a great and salutary improvement, for it com-
LeteY obviates one objection to the cottar system, by
Erlding permanent employment for the wretchut then
thehe condition of the agricultural labourer. It is impossible
that the possessor of 25 acres can give permanent employ-
to'a single labourer at adequate wages, and what is to
Zmotne of the next generation? Are the 25 acres to be di-
Lided among the family of the present possessor? or is it in-
',ended to introduce the principle of primogeniture? Is it
laot evident that, under such a system, the population will
increase with the utmost rapidity ? A joint-stock company,
those first duty is to make a respectable dividend, takes no
to, naiderstion of thesematters; but are they not of the utmost
IMportance, deserving the careful attention of statesmen ?
But there is another element which I think proves the
ipolicy of further extending in Ireland the system of such
araall possessions. Look at the following table, showing that
tlitt of 685,309 farms, into which Ireland is at present di-
tided. 636,997 are under 30 acres, and only 48,812 above that
tntraber
Number of 'From 1 tc
Farms. 5 acres.
tits* •• •• 234,499 100,817
...unster • • 162386 57,028
Leinster ...• 133,220 49,152
Cermaugfit .. 155,204 99,918

From 5 to From 15 to Above 30
15 acres. 30 acres. acres.
98,992 25,099 9,591
61,320 27,481 16,557
45,595 20,584 17,889
45,221 5,790 4,275

685,389 1 306,915 1 251,128 73,954 1 48,312
I would seriously ask, Has this system produced so much
aPpiness or contentment that a statesman should desire to
extend it? Would it not be far more wise, now there is an
of
-ZPPertunitY. which if lost can never be regained, to try the
glish and Scotch system of dividing the land into farms
different sizes, cultivated by agricultural labourers ?
But then your Lordship says, "You do not think that the
Ball then
of the country have been injurious." I sin-
!:ar.ely feel that the expression of any opinion by your Lord-
with7ll9,gv without any reason, would have great weight
ti all; but when you state a reason for that opinion, and
iaeicrihciarheiarn embraces a fallacy, I am confident that your
would be the first to alter your opinion when the
tte":" was clearly pointed out. The reason you gave for
opinion was this : " I have arrived at that conclusion from
I`e fact that the most prosperous and best cultivated county
Ireland is Armagh, a county in which the greatest dint-
ton of land exists."
th'e..w,i unless this fact can be most satisfactorily explained
ll no doubt that it fully justifies your Lordship's
that it
but the explanation is so clear, so self-convincing.
the it ceases to support the opinion—it is that Armagh is
centre of the linen trade. Now it has always been ad-
rtnitted that mall possessions in the neighbourhood of large
t(1311‘.113 or manufactories have no injurious quality, because
theire occupiers are certain of employment other than that of
strip of land, and in cases of failure of crop, can rely
)11::oa the sympathy and support of their wealthy neigh-
,°r3- Surround Liverpool, or Manchester, or Dublin, or
zselfast, with five-acre possessions, and would not the occu-
Ver be in totally different circumstances from the holder of
ti acres in the wilds of Connemara or the Highlands of
Scotland ?
161'But a careful examination of your Lordship's reason estab-
_,e3 not only the opinion, but positively establishes beyond
paoubt its converse. I take Munster because it was put by
ut. Lordship in juxta-position with Ulster, and not because
have any reason to believe that it is the least prosperous or
Worse cultivated province in Ireland. Now, by the above
table, I find the relative sizes of the farms in Ulster and
Munster to be

INumber of FrsomacrelB.te I to.Faroomaclrses
„ i
I
farms.
Ulster . ... 234,499 100,817 25,099
aunster... 162,383 57,028 27,481
Thus, with only one-third more farms, Ulster has nearly
double the number of cotter holdings from 1 to 5 acres, and
!tot go many farms of from 15 to 30 acres as Munster. If,
a*therefore, the prosperity of Ulster is not entirely owing to
nt her cause—that of the linen trade—surely your Lordship's
/37Y Would be to assimilate the rest of Ireland with that ot
t.i.'eler, and increase as much as possible the number of cot-
- "klinga from 1 to 5 acres; and if Munster, with so large
„_relative proportion of farms from 15 to 30 acres, be the least
T--el?erous and worst cultivated province in Ireland, what
a'e'irnttustify dividing the waste lands into a minimum of 25
liwand a maximum of 50 acres ?
„e__ ve the Government calculated the enormous extra ex-
sE,leLZtesnille,cessanly attendant upon a division of land into
creue, ail possessions as that of 23 and 50 acres.
.Thc in-
the enZ ''umber of barrs and offices of every description—
""ttl threni°" expense of making roads for such properties
boundary fences would amount to a large sum.
I have the honour to remain,
• lour Lordship's most obedient servant,

RIGBY %,"ASON.

----
earl
-unE ITALIA'S OPERA.—We are informed that an
depot bight after the opening of her Majesty's Theatre will be
ta;;ed, with e whole resources of the relief of the destitute Scotch and Irish. establishment, to
i;;alnm 11.0YAL 1113111ANE SOCIETY.—On Saturday the an-
IN)ort of this society was issued. 174 persons have
.n restored by the means adopted for restoring suspended
rzewarrteden
!,noluMation by the society's officers; 26 were beyond recovery.
silver and thirty-one bronze medals and pecuniary
oedt,:t !lavel?een given to 162 individuals for courageous
1151
rsaecveinntgstuartriinagn
sleifaes:onani;ly
the esroscoinesty7semreerne,scounelyd
c4l(,,llrig th
~,i ..,,,
aster week,
~, , ..aa in, faLt.ly.
i, l'-. Widerstand that a bazaar is to be held at Clifton
Stott for the relief of the distress in Ireland and
Natl...-riau/ Journal.

CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING
THE :dARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF MONT
PENSIER, WITH REFERENCE TO THE

TREATY OF UTRECHT.

Such is the title of an admirably written and ad-
mirably argued pamphlet on the subject of the Mont-
pensier Marriage, which has been published during
the course of the last week, by Rigdway, and which
demonstrates that if the treaty of Utrecht is hence-
forth to be considered as part and parcel of the public
law of Europe, then the issue of the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier cannot succeed to the Spa-
nish crown. The author says that there are three
courses open to those who contend for the right of
succession of such issue t-Ist, To deny altogether
the validity of the treaty ; 2d, To endeavour to set
aside its provisions by interpretations More or less in-
jurious; 3d, To adopt a course between these two; and
to argue that the treaty, though not absolutely invalids
is nu longer applicable to the present times. With
regard to the first proposition the author proves by;
in our opinion, incontrovertible arguments that the
treaty is perfectly valid; but we will not enter into
these arguments, because if the members' of the
House of Bourbon deny the validity of the treaty of
Utrecht, they thereby repudiate their right to the
throne of Spain. Their right to the throne of Spain
is based upon the treaty of Utrecht, and if the treaty
of Utrecht be invalid then is a Prince of the House
of Hapsburg, not a Prince of the House of Bourbon,
the righful Sovereign of Spain. It is upon the treaty
of Utrecht, and the treaty of Utrecht alone, that the
right of the Bourbons to the throne of Spain
rests. It was upon those conditions mentioned in
that treaty, and upon those conditions only,
that Philip V. was acknowledged as King of
Spain by the powers of 'Europe, and by' the Spanish
people. The revolution which placed Philip V. on
the throne was not like the revolution in England' in
1688, or the revolution in France in 1830. It was
not a renewal of the compact between king and
people by the forfeiture for misdemeanour of the
rights of the old sovereign and the election by the
people of a new chief magistrate, who accepted cer-
tain conditions as the tenure by which he was to hold his
office. The Royal line in Spain was extinct, and the
throne was guaranteed to one of the claimants to it
(not the claimant in the direct line of succession) by
the people of Spain and by the Powers of Europe
conjointly, (one of the Powers so guaranteeing such
succession being the other claimant to the throne,
whose claim but for the treaty of Utrecht
would be acknoWledged by any jurist in Europe
to be superior to the claim of the Bourbon
prince,) upon these conditions set forth in the
treaty of Utrecht, which treaty was thereby made
part of the Public Law of Europe, and the founda-
tion of the Public Law of Spain. Whatever mem-
ber, therefore, of the House of Bourbon shall seek to
repudiate the treaty of Utrecht, or any part of it,
by that very act repudiates his or her own right to
the throne of Spain, and revives the right of the
House of Hapsburgh, or at least gives back to the
Spanish people the absolute .right of choosing their
own sovereign. It is evident, therefore, that it is not
open to any member of the House of Bourbon to
deny the validity of the treaty of Utrecht. Attempts
have been made by M. Guizot to set aside its pro-
visions by interpretations more or less ingenious.
These interpretations have been met and combated by
the writer of this pamphlet, and the medium
that of arguing that the treaty, if not absolutely in-
valid, is no longer applicable to the present tines, is
also shown to be untenable. In fact, the argument
on the marriages formed on the treaty of Utrecht, is
completely exhausted in this pamphlet, which proves
to demonstration that the children of the Duke of
Montpensier are barred from inheriting the throne of
Spain by the renunciation of the Duke of Orleans,
who, on the 19th of November, 1712, renounced for
himself and his descendants all right to the succes-
sion to the throne of Spain, in whatsoever manner
that succession might arrive to his line. His words
are—

" Nous nous declarons et nous tenons (lei-a:present.
Nous, nos enfans et Descendahs, pour exclus et inha-
biles, absolument et d jamais, et sans limitation et dis-
tinction de personnes, de degrez et de sexe, de toute
action et de tout droit a Is succession a la couronne
d'Espagne. Nous voulons et cousentons pour nous "et`
nos descendans, que des maintenant et pour to.iijoilrs on
Nous tienne, Nous et les autres, pour exclus, inhabiles et
incapables, en quelque clegve qua nous nous trouvions, et
de quelque maniere que la succession puisse arriver
notre Ligne."
The second article of the treaty distinctly declares
the object, to secure which, these renunciations were
made :

" Article 11. of the Treaty of 'Utrecht between England
and Spain, dated July 13, 1713.
" Whereas the war to which, through the grace of
God, an end is put by this peace, was undertaken in the
beginning, and has been carried on for so many years
with the greatest tffot ts, vast expense, and infinite blood-
shed, on account of the immense dangr r which would
result to the liberty and safety of the whole of Europe
from too intimate an alliance of the kingdoms of Spain
and France ; and whereas for the purpose of removing
from the minds of men all anxiety and suspicion con-
cerning an alliance of that nature, and in order to con-
firm and render stable the peace and tranquillity of the
Christian world by a just balance of power (which is the
best and the most solid foundation of mutual friendship,
and of general and Listing concord), both the Catholic
King and the most Christian King have desired that it
should be provided, by sufficient and complete securities,
that the kingdoms of Spain and France should never be
united into one empire, and that one and the same person
should never become the sovereign of both kingdoms.
And to that end his Catholic Majesty has most solemnly
renounced for himself, his heirs, and successors, every
kind of right, title, or pretension to the crown of France.

- [Here follow the renunciations.]
His said Catholic Majesty most solemnly renews, and
confirms by this present the renunciation above recorded
on his part.
And whereas it has obtained the force of a prag-
matic and fundamental law, he promises anew that he
will observe, and cause it to be observed inviolably, in
the most sacred manner by every means in his power,
insomuch that he will use his most earnest endeavours,
and will provide with all care, that the aforesaid renun-
ciations be irrevocably observed, and carefully executed,
as well on the part of Spain as on that of France, which
renunciations, in truth, subsisting in their full vigour,
and being observed with good faith on both sides,
together with the other transactions thereunto relating,
the crowns of Spain and France will be so separated and
put asunder that they caa never hereafter be joined in
one."

It is evident that if the children of the Duke of Mont-
pensier are capable of inheriting the Crown of Spain,
then, inasmuch as they are also capable of inherit-
ing the Crown of France, the Crowns of France and
Spain will not be so separated and put asunder that
they can never hereafter be joined in one, and the
treaty of Utrecht will be violated. It is, therefore,
evident, as is proved by this writer, that the children
of the Duke of Montpensier are barred from all right
of succession to the Crown of Spain by the renuncia-
tion of Philip, Duke of Orlea.ns, and by the provisions
of the treaty of Utrecht, and, England, therefore,
was perfectly justified in giving warning both to
France and Spain, that when the proper time came
she should, if she saw fit, enforce a compliance with
the conditions of that treaty.

GORSE AS FOOD FOR LIVE STOCK.--In the northern
districts of the principality of Wales, and more especially in
the Counties of Carnarvon, Anglesey, and Denbigh, i
gorse has for time immemorial been in general use as food !
tor horses. It has also occasionally, when provender was
scarce, been used as food for horned cattle. Where,
either by itself, or in conjunction with other provender,
it has been used as food for mulch cows, the results 'nave
been highly satisfactory. It has given to the milk and
butter a fine colour and rich flavour. Those who have
applied it to this purpose are of opin',,on that cows yield
a better profit than when they .:re l'al with the best hay
or even turnips. The butter is in all respects of an im-
proved quality. The experience of its utility as food
for sheep has been very limited. This has chiefly risen I
from the little attention bestowed by Welsh farmers 'unim
the feeding of that class of live stock. Where, however,
tried in conjunction with turnips, sheep ate it freely,
and improved rapidly in cond;aion. It is in feeding
and most advantageously bee,n employed. It is because
horses, however, that gorse bite hitherto most generally
this plant grows so aburida'.itly in all parts of the princi-
pality, and because it is so much employed in the keeping
of horses, that in many seasons the less wealthy classes
of Welsh farmers may congratulate themselves on their
escape from ruin. It 'sill grow luxuriantly on the thin-
nest, the coolest, and apparently the most sterile sods.
It is capable of being used as circumstances may require at
one years growth ez well as two. With moderate atten-
tion to its culture, and by keeping it from being injured
by sheep and cattle, it will produce, if it be cut every
Ithnestarnactees
ryineoldte.at
year, at the rate of from eight to fourteen tons per acre,
cf goodly succulent provender; if it be cut every second
yfoeuarr, t
oit n
tons
willp per
having been known to atthe •
o fh
afrvoem occurredtwele toof tfNavrenalte3r's
rate of 151., 201.,
301., aye, 401., per acr, payea
gorse to those who have
bestowed some little ~!'re i
that upon land
.cultivation of it, and
immediately contiguous to that which
they themselves occup:ied. Scores f
though capable with the sli
blest'o acres of land so held,
attention of yielding
ps
luxuriant cro of gorse are suffered to be of no value. Nay,
such farmers allow whole districts to
refniain unproductive.
Their own grass crops, from want
thought, are almost ws,rthless; and of activity mid fore-
purchase in the
humediate neighbourhood at a high rate Cvf alai industrious individuals, that very r'uviLtildnore intelligent
eirf, in the form
of gorse, which land in their ownPham'lS
managed, is capable of furnishing in abundance
return for the niost trifling outlay.—ltaberes p,./..;e!paP-d in
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, JAN. 29_A' 'gr
ay
.
Mids. West India has found buyers since our' -dout 100
rather easier prices, and the market closed -i last report, at
pearance. Refined goods steady, and still ,
i scarte.a quiet ap-
SELLING MACKAREL ON SUND *,tY.—On-c Saturd y
notice was posted at Billingsgate, r; geed by Mr. Goldhana- a clerk of the market, informing the dealers that, by thi' the
and 10th of Victoria, passed the 3d of _ _ e 9th
August, 1846, the sale
of mackarel on a Sunday 'WAS now illegal. --'
ECONOMY IN THE P,CARCITY.---If those of the in-
habitants of Great Britg:in and Ireland who were in the habit
of using bread newly baked were to use old baked bread,
they would find that.three old baked loaves would go as Ear
as live new ones. Were all to adopt this practice, immensely
more would be added to the general stock for the supply of
the public itfal can posAbly be brought L'oni America. Old
baked br.ead being much more wholesome than new, the
genera!4 health of the community would by this plan be
ProAoted. .

r ~ ~..

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD.
late lF
jitohhonu derogatingtyvili
William
Smith ei t haesr a f rloamw
ytehre ,
or characterfro trt
tohfa
tthoef
Samuel Warren as a writer, we at first conceived that
the opening article in Blackwood for February was dis-
proportionately long. On reading that biographical
the former
er,w
as
the
developed
industry,be
before us
us in
s andsuc h integrity
beautifulof
colours, and under such a fascinating aspect, that we
cordially acquitted the latter from any blame as tothe
extent of his contribution. Mr. Warren, moreover, has,
more than any other of the eminent corps of the maga-
zine, with the single exception of course of its editor,
rare old Christopher North, entitled himself to the con-
sideration of its readers. His admirable notes from the
" Diary of a Physician," his yet more admirable ‘‘ Ten
Thousand a rear," and his miscellaneous
:papers in the
pages of " Ebony," have insured to everything that ema-
nates from hislpen aver) peculiar attention. The mind that
conceived the all-perfect Aubrey, the all-beautiful Kate,
and the all-wily Oily Gammon, could not fail indeed to
enlist for himself the sympathies of those who had
watched the movements of those clever creations. Mr.
Warren Cannot write anything to which his name is at-
tached without arousing in a considerable degree the
interest of the public. And how much more .is that
interest enhanced when the subject of his lucu-
brations is such as the character of the re-
markable man whose memoir he has just writ-
ten so *gracefully and tenderly. Like Sir Wilbert!'
Follett, John William' Smith was suddenly carried off
by diseases arising from the ardour of his professional
pursuits, and of his intellectual application, at the very
moment when the recompense of his extraordinary
capacities, and of his . yet more extraordinary
industry, was beginning to be showered upon him.
Both were hurried into the grave when the honour of
their fellow-men for them was ripened, and when the
golden rewards of wealth and elevation were about to be
lavished on them by their contemporaries. Both had
regarded their intellects in their proper light, namely, as
instruments which could only be employed efficiently
when embellished by knowledge and tempered by prac-
tice. To continue 'the metapbor—they,had both embla-
zoned those instruments with erudition, and covered
them with the jewels of lore, and at the very moment
when their labqur—the labour of years—was completed,
and instruments instruents were ready to be used—they
perished. Can anything be more melancholy than this?
Can there be att, spectacle more truly affecting? There
were the !Ales:, before them, beyond which was the
region where they could gain fame, and do good to their
fellow-creatures, and cause their own gecius and great-
ness to be
„recognised and acknowledged by the
world. By intense ardour, by astonishing labour,
and by wonderful perseverance they surmount
those obstacles, they climbed those Alps, and when they
stand upon the last pinnacle, and see the region of
fame lying before them—at their very feet—they die.
Such were the lives and such the deaths of Sir William
Follett and John William Smith. It seems a bold thing
otsf orrebil
observationll' ehl
gr hVp
ahasyr rg”erntehiastatojne
ur saystclaimshtiefientdha amtbueytphoo ernt •seihreee oc William
er attention oufm John
ooc
Follett,
readertiitn'but
career of the former, and particularly by the memorial
indited by Mr. Warren himself: An article upon
" Modern Italian History" is merely an enumeration of
facts taken, from the biographical work, recently pro-
duced by General PeitS, the friend and follower of the
great soldier Murat. " French Players and Playhouses"
is a delightful, though somewhat garrulous, account of
the condition of the drama across the Channel—a con-
dition rather different from that in England. Talk as
we may, however, of the diminution of the passion for
dramatic representations, the cause of the decay of the
drama in this country is of a very different kind. For a
long time there has been a suspicion that one of the
chief things detrimental to the interests of dramatic art
is—the starring system. The fact is becoming plainer
and plainer every day. Mrs. Butiter has done good
service to the art of which sle imagines herself
to be so magnificent an ornament, by rendering the
shameful height to which this starring system has
risen apparent, and herself eminently ridiculous. In a
characteristic review of Horace Walpole's Memoirs,
there is a survey of the reign of George the Second.
The paper will repay perusal as illustrative of a very
recent period (comparatively) of our national history,
and a period but too little known by the generality.
" Mildred " is brought to a conclusion in a rather
tragical manner. It is succeeded by " A Ride to Mag-
nesia," and the whole number terrainates with a tho-
rough )31aCkwoodite chapter on "Direct Taxation."

FRASER.
It is evident, from the tenour of the only political ar-
ticle in the present number of F)-aser, that, namely, which
is entitled, " What are we to Expect?" that the.old Tory
party is completely disorganised. The writer admits
that . the Protectionist opposition, either through their
own misfortune or the faults of their leaders, fall as short
of the Ministerial party in moral power as they exceed it
in numerical force, and that the breach which has severed
Lord George Bentinck and Sir Robert Peel is quite irre.
concileable. It is evident, moreover, that the Tory party
dread Sir Robert Peel, and accord'ingly, this writer,
speaking in their name, endeavours t'a persuade the Right
Hon, Baronet either to retire altogether from public
life, or In accept a peerage. We lisope he will do neither.
Thp,Hpuse of Commons is the proper- field for his exer-
tion, and as the moderator 01 parties in that House,
" sitting apart and watching for his country's welfare,
like some oracle created to advise," his position may be,
perhaps, as this writer says, " irksome,' but it will be
most useful and most honourable, and although " it may
prove a source of inconvenience to others(" that is to say,
to the incompetent, and incapable, and disappointed, and
selfish, who aspire to be statesmen, but who possess not
the requisite ability for the due performance of the func-
tions which may devolve on them), to have the most ac-
complished administrator of affairs that this country
has of late years produced, present in the House
of Commons, to puzzle them by qrAestions and to expose
their short-comings—yet the presence of 'such a one
cannot but be of vast service to the country, and there-
fore we hope that Sir Robert Peel will continue in the
House of Commons. Cumaingly is the temptation held
out to the personal frienda of Sir Robert Peel to desert

" Between the younger members of the late Cabinet and
the heads of the Protectionist party there is no feud which a
little explanation on both sides could not speedily end."
And why is this temptation so held out ? Evidently
because the Protectionists feel that they are absolutely
without any man of administrative talents among them.
The junior members of the Peel Cabinet are, therefore,
to be invited to join the Bentinck party, in order to teach
them the business of administration, and to be sacrificed
immediately afterwards. In the meanwhile it seems the
Whigs are to be tolerated as warming-pans for the Pro-
tectionists:—

"The Whigs must have fair play; that they will manage
matters well for any length of time, in promoting the
people's interests, while they maintain in their integrity the
great Institutions of the country, we rather hope than anti-
cipate. If they do, they shall have our hearty support;
and if they do not, they may rely u,on it that we will tell
them of their: backsliding, and use l our best endeavours to
turn them out; and then it will be seen how far the Pro-
tectionists deserve the good opinons which, at the present
moment, we entertain of tain.,9
Such are the present, purposes and views of the remnant
of the once complot and powerful Conservative party.
The article on" Literary Legislators" is continued. The
elaboraA,e notice of Mr. Disraeli is concluded, and fol-
lowed by a notice highly eulogistic, but not more eulo-
gistic than just, of Mr. Mackinnon. The most readable
paper in the number, however, is the article entitled
" Holland House and its Inhabitants," which is full of
amusing gossip, antiquarian, artistical, and biographi-
cal, of the far-famed Holland House and its inhabitants,
from the days of Sir Henry Rich, who began its con-
struction in the time of Queen Elizabeth, to those of its
late accomplished
Holland. occupantq the late Lord and Lady

A part 1)0L MAN.
is, as 11. dual, of a character very attractive to the general
rrom its peculiar views upon religion, Dolman
rp..ecaer'r.,
ir. ty
inTiltiserpe is no sectarianism,
ages; insomuchtlatotrheinmtoolcsTtance,
earnestor
opponent of the Roman Catholic Church may, without
any diminution of his zeal, say thus much in commenda-
tion of this organ of the Roman Catholics in England.
We observe that the editor extends the field of his his-
torical reminiscences in regard to the penal laws against
his ancestors in the faith, by going back from 1779 and
1780 to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Ills revelations
are mournful enough. Such cruelty and bigotry as he
records is hardly comprehensible in this age of humanity
and toleration. Upon the life and character of the
Empress Josephine there is a very charming
article, but it could scarcely be otherwise. Jo
sephine was worthy of being the wife of the
Great Napoleon, both in the gentleness of her heart
and the elevation of her mind, in her dignity and
her beneficence. The character of the Empress Jose-
phine is conspicuous in that age of greatness, and it is as
fascinating as it is conspicuous. A story entitled
" Kathl,en Connor" follows ; and the next paper is one
styled " The Cradles of Gold and Wicker" by an Os-
cotian. The contribution is illustrative of the insufficiency
of mere birth to render auy one either eminent or
happy : it contrasts the careers of King Louis XVII. of
France, and of a base-burn child named Jacques, whom
we should take to be fictitious, but that the writer
states to the contrary. Jacques is described as having
attained great eminence and as being still in existence.
We suspect that the writer had M. 't'hiers in his mind's
eye when delineating the character. Those who can
themselves back
read anexquisite
in imagination
little
over asketch
s vistat
cohf
teriaglhistpeeonacenturiesshould
" of one
nScene tof fe Amnocsite n
sublime
-
f Ch
he establishment o ristianity was
miracles by which t
ininotrihaet.
Anglican Revival," by Mr. Jer-
accompanied.
presentlt s a numberd description
oc
nd.
ebethsain,
farontny oittshecrano!
the contributions,
;and ItTht re is one deficiency in Doi-
dour and muuerat.on.
is the brevity of " Catholic
ninghtim, will p"eirlliitiepsi.
man for February, and that
bnc-
deservese ud mt
oor
number inferior to its predec,.ssor
Intelligence ;" in this particulars alone is the present

DOMBEY AND SON. No. V. By Charles Dickens.
Never was any work of fiction commenced with so
much evidence of genius, and goodness, and eloquence
as this. If the fifteen numbers which are to come be
only comparable with the five already published, Doulhey
and Son will be the masterpiece of Charles Dickens; and
that is saying
noble addition to the literature of our country. In the
much—that is saying that it will be a
last chapter in the present number there are sentences
that_ should be written in letters of gold. Tiny Tim and
Little Neil are ideal beings that the mind of a poet alone
could hare imagined, but Tiny Tim and Little Neil are
eYPliers to Little Paid Donabey. And Little .I.lattl
Mite description of the young child's death, gil•er il= the
part before us, is one of the most exquisite and touching
descriptions in the English language. We do not enYY

the man who can read that narrative without being
moved; he can have no sympathy with us, or we with
him. It is such passages as those about little Paul
Dombey that have made the world acknow-
ledge the pathos of " Boz " to be even more
admirable than his wit; it is such
passages
as these, delineative of our common nature under its
divinest aspect, that have rendered the name of Charles
Dickens a household word—a name most pleasant to
our ears because of its many beautiful associations.
What a gentle and endearing tone there is about those
few syllables which follow the account of Paul's death,
when the body of the child is lying on the bed and the
living mourners are all gone ! " The golden ripple on
the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in
the room. The old, old, fashion ! The fashion that
came in with our first garments, and will last un •
changed until our race has run its course, and the
wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll, The old, old
fashion—Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that
older fashion yet, of Immortality ! And look upon us,
angels of young children, with regards not quite
estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean !"
The book will be worthy of Charles Dickens, and an
honour to him.

THE FORTUNES OF TORLOGH O'BRIEN.

-- -
Nos. X. and XL •
In this doubts number this historical tale of the wars
of King James is brought to a conclusion. With all the
effervescence and exaggeration of the writing, there are
several brilliant descriptive passages, and fascinating
portraitures in the volume—instance Phoebe Tisdal.
Besides James 11. and William 111., Sarsfield and
Schomberg are introduced in the narrative, and are de-
lineated with some skill. Indeed it is the introduction
of these personages, celebrated in our national, history,
which is the redeeming feature of the story—the majo-
rity of the fictitious characters, as Garvey, and Hogan,
and Miles Garrett, and Tisdal, and Deveril, being re-
pulsive and disgusting in the last degree. 'From the
circumstance of " Torlogh O'Brien" being illustrated by
Piaiz, and being published uniformly with the serial
novels of Lever, it will command, no doubt, a circulation
which it could not otherwise have obtained.

HO WITT'S 'JOURNAL. Part I.
Precisely in the same form, animated with the same
spirit, and supplied by many of the same contributors as
the People's Journal, a new weekly and monthly peri-
odical has just made its first appearance under the at•
tractive Lille of Howitt's Journal. We know nothing
whatever of the causes of this separation, we do not in-
tend therefore to enter into any examination of the
merits of the case, nor have we the slightest inclination
to do so. All we feel called upon to say is that Howitt'a
Journal at its very outset evinces remarkable talent,
talent worthy of its eminent contributors (among others,
Dr. Southwood Smith, R. H. Horne, Alaric Watts, Dr.
Bowring, Gebrge Thompson, and W. J. Fox, with a
promise of Douglas Jerrold, Leigh Hunt, Charles
Mackay, Miss Mitford, Ebenezer Elliott, Barry Corn-
wall, and others), and not unworthy of its editors.
William and Mary Howitt—names peculiarly associated
with the cause of the advancement of the people. With
such editors, such writers, and an object so noble and
philanthropical as that of elevating and enlightening the
popular mind, failure is impossible.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SuNDAy.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert walked in the slopes and grounds
around the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their accustomed walking and pony exercise.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was also
taken for an airing yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
Count Alexander Mensdorff. and attended by Lord Ca-
moys, Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Colonel Seymour,
enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday morning.
The Earl of Liverpool, Lord John Russell, and Sir
Hamilton and Lady Seymour, arrived at the Castle yes-
terday on a visit to the Queen.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner left the Castle yester-
day
The Royal dinner party at the Castle last evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Count Alexander Mensdorff, the Lady in Waiting of the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl of
Liverpool, Lord John Russell, and Sir Hamilton and
Lady Seymour.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during
dinner, and her Majesty's private band performed the
remainder of the evening.
This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
took their usual early walk.
The Royal Family took walking exercise in the
grounds adjacent to the Castle.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen-
.

tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at-
tended Divine service this morning in the private chapel
of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ken
also attended the service.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Auckland, Sir John Hobbouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount
Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Counsel sat two hours and a half.
Lord John Russell left town after the Council for
Windsor Castle.
Mr. Labouchere left town after the Council for
Brighton.
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, .and
Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, transacted busi-
ness at the Foreign-office on Saturday.
Mr. Oswald, M.P., and the Hon. Mr. Bouverie, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Buckingham had an interview with the _Earl of
Clarendon on Saturday, at the Board of Trade.
Lord John Russell will have a Parliamentary dinner
party on Saturday next, the 6th of February, at his resi-
dence in Chesham-place.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of C 4 mi•
mons had a Parliamentary dinner party on Saturday...
The Earl and Countess of Minto and family am red
at their new 'residence in Eaton-square on Saturday... e
yesterday in the Chapel Ro al St. James's. y,
The Duke of Wellington attended the early sere
The 13 '•ev-
Mr. Haden officiated and preached the sermon. At , the
G.
daily service the Prayers were read by the Rev;), he
Repton, and the Lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore.T ,e
sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. °
anthem was, In thee, 0 Lord." Mr. Tune
presidtx
at the organ. The Marquis of Anglesey, Lords Gra
ville and W. Graham, and the Bishops of Ely and Ho n
*e..
ford, were among the nobility present.

THE WEST INDIA COLONIES.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BIOTA
IN
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. ; d
The Petition of the undersigned Agents aPI I°-fleo.
To-
by the Legislatures of the West India Co
nies hereinafter mentioned.

Showeth,
I. That your petitioners feel called upon to e) :press,
on behalf of the Colonial Legislatures, by whoa t they
are accredited, their gratitude to your Hono arable
House for having been pleased to entertain the ( pr.o
positions that sugar may be used in the public bre'
:duesmerl
and distilleries, and that a reduction in the present y
may
on rum imported into Great Britain and Ireland •
forthwith take place, approximating to an Wall attlice
of duty with that on British spirits in this country.
2. The undersigned deem it, a matter of sincere con-
gratulation that the principletf treating the colon ics
re-
as
an integral portion of the empire is thus practical is-
cognised as a principle whickthey confidently hop e will
be speedily and substantially carried into effect in al 1 its
bearings.
3. :Your petitioners a neverthels, be all.owev ito
observe that the permission prayed for by the coloni, sts,
to have sugar and molasses used in the public browei ies
and distilleries, will not avail the West In
h dia plant
nott trs
unless the measure be a permanent one ; it olds
inducement otherwise fur the investment of capital in
the cultivation of their estates.
Your petitioners regret to find that molasses is not. i n-
eluded in the proposed concession, and it would se€ cri
that restrictions are contemplated. as to. the permi ,usi., ul
to use sugar in the public distilleries, which may in Iptede
the success of the measure.
can be no
5. Your petitioners submit that,_ as. molasses is :ace_
mitted into consumption into Great Bhe
tain at a fixed 6:etityl
alsc lat a
levied by her Majesty's Customs,
_there
difficulty in allowing .cane juice to importedbeh
being t . runs-
fixed duty, nor in 01134611 g both of
t_t em for use i a tin
public breweries and distilleries on he same
ferred duty paid (as is propose_d to be done in rya se t°
sugar) direct from the bonded warehouses to the 1 itetAi
breweries and distilleries, where the molasses and c
juice may be dealt with under such regulations to iv.itne
protection of her Majestys revenue as may be de( ti to
public brev , .t ti
)
requisite, but to be so framed and acted upon as 1
i`ollie 3
preclude the free use of them in such
it is to be obsery ed
and distilleries. ~trio
s
West Ind i
the Qlllll
6. In regard to cane juices
the want of labourers in the Brit:sh that
eludes many of the planters from .converting es pre.
juice into sugar, to their great loss [ma' injury.
7. The undersigned are authorised to .state that these
concessions would materially promote th.:= interests of
the colonies which they represent.
The undersigned respectfully pray that your H
able House will be pleased to takeonour-
the premis
your favourable consideration. ' 38 into
T. P. MAYERS, Agent for Barbed( ,
E. L. NUGEN r, Agent for Anti 'e-*
Montserra;t. g 114 A and
T. COLQUHOUN, Agent for St, ChA
phers, St. Vincent, Dominica,sto-
and the Virgins. A :,,yii,
St. James's-place, Jan. 25,.1847.

ANOTHER DISASTER AT SEA.—LIVERPOO3 y URl-
DAY.—Anather melancholy disaster at sea is to-day 1 !ep orted
the captain, mate, and two seamen of the ship Ell; &a, War-
wick, arrived from New York, having been lost
at sea—
swept overboard. The crew of this ship, we find it ; t ted in
ia
our American files, mutinied shortly after leavir ig New
York ; and, according to the statement of the ere' wo f the
steamer which towed the vessel to sea from NE IN '.sCork,
several pistol-shots were heard shortly after she Lott the
Warwick. Our statement with regard to the arres C of the
crew of the Columbia was incorrect.
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE ADELPHI TERR ci
Oa lico;,‘" the ditapi,lated haluslrae,o on the Met, p
race, that has for some time past been in a very. L
ous state, was removed. It is to be replaced by a ,7,t;,, 'll
pain e.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Her Majesty's brig Mutine sailed
yesterday morning for the Tagus, with dispatches for Vice-
Admiral Sir William Parker, G.C.B. She took out some
officers appointed to ships of his squadron, and upwards of
100 boxes and packages for the different ships. There does
not apPearlo be any intention of immediately recalling the
Channel 'Squadron, as orders have been sent down to make
an estimate of the tonnage which will be required to send
out the various stores which the ships are in want of—sails,
cordage, spare topmasts, boats, &c.; they amount to up
wards f 1,000 tons, and are to be got ready immediately.
The Belleisle troop-ship is.fit to.go to sea at twelve hours
notice, and should her services not be wanted to convey pro-
visions to Ireland, she will probably be selected to .proceed
to Lisbon with the stores. .

Her Majesty's ship Crocodile sailed for Cork yesterday,.
to take the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.H.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Sidon has been moved into
thebasin for the convenience of the working engineers and
also to have her fore and mainmasts taken out, and: farger
ones substituted. Captain Henderson .and the officers and
men, have gone into the Retribution, and will take her to
assist in trying to get the Sphynx off the ground to-morrow
morning.
The appointment of commodore at Jamaica, with a broad
pendant in her Majesty's ship Imaum, has been offered to
Captain Lambert, of her Majesty's ship Endymion, on the
West India station, and, should he accept it, Captain G. W.
C. Courtnay will take the command of the Endvmion.
Should Captain Lambert prefer keeping the frigate, Captain
Courtnay goes to Jamaica as commodore.
The Medea steamer, after landing the body- of Com-
mander Hammond at Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, is to
come to this harbour to fit for the reception of Sir Hamilton
Seymour, and convey him,' his suite, and . baggage to
Lisbon. The Medea goes then to India, without returning
to England.
Her Majesty's screw-steamer Rattler, Commander Moor-
man, is ordered to prepare for the reception of the Right
Honourable Lord Howden, and his private secretary, the
commissioner selected by Government to proceed to the
River Plate to settle affairs in that country. His Lordship
is expected to embark in the Rattler on the 15th instant, and
goes to Rio Janeiro first.
PLYMOUTH, JA...N. 29.—Her Majesty's sloop Albatross, 16,
Commander Arthur Farquhar, which left this port for the
coast of Africa about ten days since, put back yesterday,
having been 600 miles to the westward, and experienced
very heavy weather. She was top-heavy, rolled consi-
derably, and, during the hurricane, threw overboard 14 of her
guns. Her decks were swept, and quarterboats carried
away. Her main rigging is swifted in; she was battened
down for a week, and 25 of her crew are sick ; during the
gale she passed a' merchant-ship lying to, with all sails
turfed.

The bark Silicia, Captain Boyce, from Liverpool for Ha-
vannah, put in this morning, having been in the longitude of
14 west. Her foretopmast is sprung, fore and main top-
gallant masts and crosstrees carried away, and other damage
incurred.
The brigantine Anna Sophia, Captain Stevens, of Fever
shaurrfrom Newport, with railroad iron, for Alicante, came
in this morning damaged, having shifted her cargo. On
Monday last the ship suddenly lurched, when the captain
was in the main hold, and the iron falling on him broke bis
thigh in two places. He now lies in a very dangerous state
on board the ship in the Sound.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 30.—The Odin steam-frigate was placed
in charge of Captain Williams, with the officers and crew of
the Amphion steam-frigate, and yesterday afternoon they
commenced rigging the vessel with the masts of the Gorgon
steamer while that vessel is refitting here. Both the masts
were put up and a considerable part of the rigging before
two o'clock to-day, and this day week she will be ready to
proceed to Deptford, and take on board meal and rice for con-
veyance to Ireland.
The Tartarus steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Coles,
went up to Deptford yesterday before proceeding to Ports-
mouth and Ireland.
The Avon steam-vessel is reported ready for sea, and will
be employed in conveying meal to Ireland.
Messrs. Hobbs, Williams, and Sargent, engineers to the St.
Vincent, have been appointed for service in the Tartarus.
Mr. Hodgson, master, has been appointed additional to the
William and ary yacht.
Mr. Norman, paymaster and purser to the Rosamond, vice
Stanley superseded.
Mr. Hobbs, acting second master to the Avon.
Mr. J. Gilling, acting master's assistant to the Avon.
Vessels in the Harbour—The William and Mary yacht;
Mastiff and Woodlark, surveying vessels; Black Eagle,
Lightning, Antelope, Teazer, Minx, Avon, and Monkey
steam-vessels ; Amphion, frigate ; and Fairy, tender to the
Royal Victoria and Albert steam-yacht.
In the Basin—Gorgon, Ariel, Rosamond, Dwarf, and Odin
steam-vessels.

In the Dock—The Terrible steam-frigate, and the Vixen
steam-vessel.

HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER
SPIIY NX.

PORTSMOUTH, JAIL 31.—The Porcupine and Echo
steamers went down to Yarmouth yesterday with a great
variety of stores, and some mooring lighters, and the two
camels which have been prepared, to endeavour to float this
steamer off the beach. The camels are large flat-bottomed
mud barges, covered over, and securely cauled in, and are to
be fixed under the paddles. The mooring lighters will be
anchored pretty close to the vessel, and cables passed from
them and secured, and then hove taut, and it is fully expected,
considering how light the Sphynx is, that she will be dragged
out to sea. The Retribution steamer, manned by the officers
and crew of the Sidow, who have been turned over this after-
noon, and the Myrtle steamer, go down to-morrow morning.
The Retribution will be kept ready to assist the vessels off
th

.e coast should the wind change, or the rollers set in dan-
gerously. The Myrtle is a light steamer, drawing little
water, and will be used as a dispatch boat. The
wind is now moderate and favourable for the ope-
rations, being from north and off the land. The tides
to-morrow and Tuesday are expected to be very high, and
therefore the most sanguine expectations are entertained of
the Sphynx being preserved. Captain Austen, R.N., Mr.
Murray, chief enginier, Mr. Watts, builder's assistant, Mr.
Bellamy, second master attendant, the commander and crew
of the Sphynx, and a great number of experienced and in-
telligent men from the dockyard, used to operations of this
nature, with at least 250 others, are to be employed. Some
remarks have been made by naval people, that the same
measures should have been adopted as were used to get the
Gorgon afloat in the Brazils, but the positions of the two
ships are quite different: the Gorgon was driven in a gale of
wind on a bed of sand, during a very high tide, and there
left high and dry; the officers and crew could and did get to
work on her nearly every day, they were able to raise sheers
to take out her engines, they had to clear away 9,000 tons of
sand from under her, and by downright hard heaving at the
capstan got her into the water, and then with camels floated
her into deeper water. The phynx is exposed to the open
sea, and only at certain periods can be approached, and the
weather must be watched to avail themselves of the slightest
lull to work the capstans afloat.

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF TWO

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young man, named George Hampson, about twenty-five
years of age, bad paid his addresses to a young woman of the
name of Susan Morton for about three years. Both the par-
ties resided in Wakefield, the young man being a whitesmith,
and son of Mr. George Hampson, also a whitesmith, &c., in
that town. On the evening of Friday last, Hampson went
as usual to the house of his lover, and at that time it would
appear the girl was not very well, for she sent for her younger
sister, Fanny, who came to her, but when she arrived Susan
was better. Susan, however, had, a fainting fit during the
evening, but it appears she had been subject to them for some
time. About ten o'clock, Susan feeling better, was persuaded
by her sister to go out walking fora short time, and advised
her to go and see her mother, who was in a different part
of the town. They all three went together, and
after walking round St. John's, and afterwards
into the town, Fanny left them, as she slept at the house of a
friend. It seems Hampson and Susan returned to the house
of the latter, and Susan's brother left them in the house to-
gether when he went to bed. Nothing more was seen or
heard of them until the following (Saturday) morning, when
two coats and a hat, and a bonnet, shawl, and boa, were
found on the banks of the Barnsley Canal, near the bridge
which crosses it in some fields near Heath Wood, about a
mile and a half from Miss Morton's home. Search was af-
terwards made in the water, and the bodies of Hampson and
his lover Susan were found near the place where the clothes
had been discovered. The suicidal determination must have
been strong in each, for their bodies were firmly tied toge-
ther with four handkerchiefs, which must have been fastened
by Hampson, as the knots were tied behind the young
woman. In his pocket was found a pistol loaded with ball,
and two bullets, some powder, caps, &c. ; and in her pockets
was found a soft substance, like paste, which has not yet
been analysed, but which is supposed to be poison. What
tends to make the affair more mysterious is the total inabi-
lity of any one to find a reason for the commission of such a
rash act. There were no, marks of violence on either of the
bodies, or anything to lead to the belief that either of them
had come to their death by unfair means.
The deceased young woman was about 21 years of age, a
fine figure, and very pretty.
An inquest was held on the bodies on Saturday, before
Thomas Lee, Esq., Coroner, when the jury returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" Found drowned, without any marks of
violence ; but how, or by what means, they got into the
canal, there is no evidence to show."

A JUDGE'S CHARGE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
—Johnson, in his life of Savage, gives the following
version of the speech of Mr. Justicgeei'age„tz, the jury, at the
trialjary oi—f
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11,7r27i
Savage is a very
much greater man than 'you or ll,lltgleemnteleilmoefn
ry
great
the jury :—that he wears very fine clothes; much finer
clothes than you or I
man ; a
a?bfutnhdeance
jury, oisf money in ina gentlemenN,e of the jury—that he has
than you or I, gentlemen
his pocket k much more money
should
the jury—but, gentlemen
jury, that Mr. Savage s,h,
of the same LearnejdurYjud e
gentlemen of the '
terms, and it will be seeng thlaet given
hard
therefore case, gentlemenkiu
yon
or of
mt hee,
Another remarkable charge
Iv containsen i h
t e following
anecdote
that, in one sense of the term, at all events, may
be said to be original :—" Gentlemen of the jury—Ye have
heard the evidence against this here fellow, and all that. He
not
only robbed the gentleman who was so good as to pro-
secute him, of his effects and money, but, as far as I can
learn, has always been a vagabond, a stroller, I think; a
fellow that went about with tricks and fancies. Now I
never liked your tricks and fancies. I'll tell you a pleasant
story. Some years ago, when I was at Exeter, there was a
fellow, an ill-looking dog, somewhat like the prisoner at the
bar, that went about with a bear and fiddle: a troublesome
rascal, there was no living for his tricks and fancies. So
this was very well; I was not then a judge, but went only
on private business. However, some time after I went that
circuit. You may be sure I inquired for my old friend; but,
:somehow or other, the bear was dead, and the fiddle was
broke. But how o you think I serred the fellow ? 11 hy, I
hanged him."
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v
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We understand these alterations will be made in the course
..
of next month.—Hants Indepe ;dent.
A .LucKy .NAVVY. —A I,avigator working on the
Lewes Railway has just received information that his uncle
I bequeathed 8,70001., to be divided between him and his
brother.