The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-20 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL

THE HAGUE, APRIL was a conference
yesterday, a:, the ffice, at which Our Ministers
of Fori ign Affairs and Finance on the one part, and on
the other General Wilmer, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of helgium, and M. Mercier,
Minister of State, on an exrraordinary mission to our
Court. were present. The subject of the conference was
the differences which have arisen b-tween the Nether-
lands and Belcium in respect to the :ariff.
The Second Chamber of the Sate. General
,will
th
re-
sume its sittings on Monday n--. 10.
,Onwthfoart day the
debate will be opened on the project 0:_
't„l;lon ing North
an indemnity for the military
inuni d. sion of
4..
e s y.'esterr ay
several other projects of
lawlisf this r'a.
Brabant, Zealand, and Leinberg.
expected very thz.aly.
to visit oests L', but
evenin .
re-
turned by eight in the .
Ills
APRIL 15. Ihe necessary p, eplritions
attstfyivetnoe'clioicikn,g
AMSTERDAM,
now making for the reception of the Cur', on its
arean nual visit to chi. city. We understand that tie ax•
rival of their Majesties may be expected on
next, and that they will he amomf &riled by rheif Rol 1,1
Highnesses the Prince arid Fri, ceas of Orange, and
Princes A.exander and Henry. lbe Court will probably
stay eight days here.
ROTTERDAM, APRIL 15.—Great exertions ars row
making to complete the railway from this city to the
Hague. We have been informed that it is to be ready
by the 6th of September next, which is his Majes,y's
birthday. vi hen it is to be opened by the hang in per-
son ; but we understand, further, that it is not to be
opened to the public till the Ist of February next year.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 18.—'I he Slants Courant, of this
date, gives a comparative statement of the revenue in
the first three months of the years 1845 and 1846, by
which it appears that there has been a considerable in-
crease in the last year. The sum total received in
these two years was-1846, f. 12,759 344.031 ; 1845,
f. 11,762,604.20. The excess, in 18-i6, was f.1"7.260,45.
The decrease was -rule £10.520 61:t.

CONFTERST,NS 'lO THE ROMAN ATITOLIC CIIITRCtI
IN SCOTLAND—Robert iNionteitti, yr., of Carsta'r, was re-
eel eit into :he church on the festival of St. Jie.epl. (19.1, of
Marc:.), at Oscott College ; and on the festival of the A n-
nonciation of our Lady (25th of March) his lady was received
into the church at the convent of St. Margaret, Edinburgh,
on which occasion the inmatesof diet establishment made (
customary annual renewal of their vows.—Taidet
On Sunday Lieutenant Parsons, of the coast guard
station at this place, discovered something floating iu the

SPORTING INTELLIGE CE.
CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES—Thurtsnay.
The Champagne makes of 20 sows. each, h tt, for 2 yrs old
colts, 8$ 41b; fillies, Bst. Six furlongs.
Lord EgUnton's Nerissa (Marson) 1
Mr. Metklam's Susannah
Mr. W. Scott's Christopher
The following were not placed :—Mr. E. l Clai•k's Ben-
digo' Lord Zetland's Katziwiki, Mr. Jacques's Miss Martin,
and Mr. Meiklam's Deloraine.
Won by a length.
The Claret Stakes. of 10 s-c2l. each, p. p, for 3 yrs old colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, 8 t 31b. Two miles
Lord Eglintou's Dolo (Marson) 1
Mr. W. D. Cook's Brother to Sir Henry
Mr. Arrowamith's Tractarian
Mr. Stephenson's Eulogy
Captain Allan's Themis
Mr. S. L. Fox's Waxholn e
Wta '7 a head.
The Gold Cup Stakes, of 10 guineas each. Two miles.
Mr. Meiklam's Lightning, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Templetnan)
Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Inglewood, 5 yrs, 7st
Duke of Leeds's na Pagan, aged, 9st 21b
The following also ran :—Crauebrook, 31b' Driffield,
6st 91h; The Druid, 6st 91b; Rowena,Bst 71b; Ada, 6st 11lb;
and Dictator, 6st 91b
The Speculation Plate, 401., added to a Sweepstake of 5
:tors. each. Heats, one mile and a-halt.
Mr. Bell's Fidolestring, 3 yrs
Mr. Meiklam's Di,,med, 3 yrs . 1 3 2
Mr. J. Clarke's f by Bretby, 4 yrs •4
4 3
Mr. Dawson's Montgomery, 4 yrs
Mr. W. Scott's Loudon, 4 yrs
THE HOO RACES.—Aran.. 18.
Stewards :—T. Brand, ,Esq.; E. P. Delmer Radcliffe, Esq.;
Lionel Ames, Esq. Clerk of the Course: Mr. J. Messer.
Judge: Mr. Cotton.
Toese old-established races attracted, as usual, a Large and
fashionableompany, although the weather was anything
but inviting, being from an early hour wet and storcny. The
day chosen being Saturday, must plead our excuse in not
giving a mon,. le ,gthened account of the sport, or the names
of the fashite ibles who graled the course with thei,- presence,
but in our next we: k's paper we shall be better sbl e to do
justice to both, the sport being first. rate. Precisely at half-
past one the first race came off, being
The Farmer's Plate Handicap of 40 soya., given by t'he Hunt,
with 5 from the Club for the second horse. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Nightingale's St. Albans, 5 yrs, 13st 71b (Owner) 1 /
Mr. Hayward's Harkaway, aged, Ilst, 71h .. 0 f'
Mr. Brown's Rockwood, 6 yrs, 12st 101 b rev • 2 t
Is. Archer's Rebel, 4 yrs. llst
The Claret Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 25 soya. added by
the Hunt Club, for horses to be named by members of th,
Herts Hunt Club; three-yrs• old. lest ; four, 11 at 71b
five, 12st ; six, and aged, 12st 41b ; horses having; won a
any time before the day 41 naming, 71b extra ; the whine
to be sold for 300 sous. Gentlemen riders, azeording to th
Goodwood articles ; mile and a half. (7 Subs-)
Mr. F. Cavendish as Hawkesbury, 3 yrs, lOst 71b (Mol,,re)
Mr. Delores Ratcliffe ns Chatham, 3 yrs, lOst 71b .....
Mr. G. Ongley's Mystery, 3 yis. 10st 71b
Lord Glamis ns Croat-, 5 yrs, 12st 7lb
Mr. Ames ns Fairplay, 6 yrs, 12st 41b
The Scurry Stakes of 5 sous. each, for all horses; 1 Ist 71
each ; the win'er to be sold for 40 soya. Gen ti ems'
riders, according to the Goodwood articles ; half a., Mil'
(11 Subs.)
Mr. Reid ns St. Albans, list 71b (Capt. Scobtlll)
Mr. Brand ns Artful Dodgt r, list 71b
Capt. Boyle's Water Lily, list 71b
The following also started, but were not placed :-I%.Er.
Pryor ns Ranger, Lord Glamis us Pauline, Mr. Crawley r
Bet t v.
Match, 50 soya. each, h ft; three. quarters of a mile.
Mr. Sheller's flawkesbura , 3 yrs, 12st 41b ( Mr. G. Moo re)
Mr. Deltue Radclifl'e's Ociiihree, aged, 10$ 41b
Match, 20 soya each ; a mile and a quarter.
Mr. Cox's Miller's Mai I, 16$ (Owner)
Mr. Hill's R.,cket, 165 t... ..
A Subscription Purse of 60 soy, added to a Sweepstakes'
1 soy. each, for half-bred horses, the property of faxine
holding 250 acres of land within the limits of Air Br and
Hunt, that have been regularly hunted, Sae., arid to ha'
been their property from the Ist January ; 12st each.
the subscription amounts to 30 soy., 5 to be given W
second ; if 50 sov., 10. Three to start, or ro race. s
trainer to run a horse for this stake. To be ridden by fa
mers or sons of fanners ; a mile and a half (7 Subs.)
Mr. Archer's Rebel, 4 yrs (Owner) 1
Mr. Latimore's Lucifer, aged
Mr. J. Iron's Brown Bess ...
Mr. Sworder's Taffy

.RAT ETRE,
C PEA TION; 11 VISION OF THE SOUL.
As a suggestive producrien. this honk clysorves a casual
Perusal. Nevertheltss it might almo,t b. reproleted for
thg extreme audacity of its cmc.ption ; prelendiag (as
it does) to be an amplification of the mt,st sublime
narrative ever presented to the human race. " Caliche
de ereatinni mundi, et origine humani iteneris !" exclaimed
the Venerable Berle, and here the " Christian Platonist"
has dared.to echo his announc•nuent, and repeat his en-
deavour. That, however, which has been sanctified in
the divine records of Genesis, and which has likewise
tasked the inspired imagination of cur incomparable
Milton, was a theme scarcely compatible with the size,
arrangement, or impoverished language of the present
volume. From the ineffable vastness of the subject, a
failure in this respect was a necessary consequence of
the undertaking. We cannot, of course, blame tn. author'
of this work for allowing his fancy the most unbridled
scope in meditating upon the creation of the universe ;
what we blame him for is, the reduction of a series of
very crude and rambling ideas to print. Still, undoubt-
edly, as a suggestive essay, the present can hardly be
read without some little profit ; the mind of the reader
is exalted by the consummate grandeur of the subject
itself ; it glides back to a remote antiquity, when
chaos was being merged into order by the will of Omni-
potence, and looks on awe-stricken and enthralled at the
prodigious workings of the Divinity. If for one other
consequence alone this " Vision of the Soul "
is, to a certain extent, meritorious, it serves again and
again to demonstrate the perfection of the opening de-
scriptions contained in " The Book of books." So
solemn, so entire, so earnest, so stupendous, are the brief
verses in the commencement of Genesis, as contrasted
with any human endeavour to delineate that epoch of
eternity when " the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters ;" whether that contrast be with
the word-glories of Milton, or the choral
majesty of Haydn, or the singular bathos of
our Christian platonist. Holy writ has ever
commanded the admiration of infidelity itself ; its
majestic utterance moved even the heart of sceptism.
Byron, amidst the vortex of his most libertine excesses,
holm over its pages with a reverential ewe ; Shelley,
in the haughtiest moments of his disbelief, drank
deeply from its mysterious wisdom. It is stamped with
the signet of its celestial origin even in its composition.
And, as we are willing to conjecture that it is from his
love for the Great Book the present publication has been
called into existence, we may concede a negative ap-
proval of the notion, and overlook the non-success in
the execution of the work before us. There are, how-
ever, some discrepancies and incongruities scattered over
its pages, which req'iire an especial deprecation. Thus,
for example, when the writer is attempting to depict
the creation of birds in a peaeeful and sinless
Paradise, he describes the blood-thirsty chase
of a vulture after a dose, and subsequently a similar pur-
suit of a fox by hounds and hors-s. These, besides be-
int anachronisms, are very mean adjuncts to a picture
like that of a new-born world. Again, he represents the
Deity as promising a M and Red emer to Adam and
his race before the fdi of our first parents ; a circum-
stance which, if conscientiously maintained, would be
nothing lese than broaching a doctrine most incon-
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LITE

gruous to Christianity, namely, the doctrine of pr, des-
tination. A little more caut,on shoull at the least have
been observed by the en.hor before he presumed on the
publication of such a work. even granting that the sub-
ject itself was a fitting one for a prose dit.q iisition. One
other fault there is—the language is at times most into-
lerably turgid. An epic has yet to be written recon-
ciling the expositions of geology with those of revealed
religion.

TALES FROM 7HE GERMAN OF HEIN-
RICH ZSCUOKKE. By Parke Godwin.
Perhaps no literature has so suddenly attained such
an eminence in the world of letters as that of Germany,
and, as another well-stream of that same literature, the
fictions of Zschskke are peculiarly interesting, The
"present. translation, though partaking occasionally of
the' 'license of periphrasef is nevertheless good, as an
E'xPdeent of the vein of thought which has gained the
author so 'much popularity in " fatherland." Born at
M agdeburg, in Prussia, " somewhere about the year
1774" Heinrich Zschiikke passed through a series of
singular vicissitudes, which no doubt coloured his fancy
with an air of romance, and imparted such a truthful-
- mess to his delineations of passion, and his in-
sight into character. An actor, a playwright,
a schoolmaster, a literateur, he gained a wide
and varied experience ; and in his works the
fruits of that experience are faithfully embodied.
Mr. Godwin tells us as follows :—" In 1805, our author
Was married, and still lives at a simple and beautiful
country place near Aaran surrounded by a large family,
sad universally esteemed wherever he is known. In the
seventy fourth year of his age, after an intensely exciting
but useful life, he awaits with calmness the summons to
the eternal world." This paragraph alone could not fail
to enlist the interest of the most lymphatic reader, while
the stories themselves contained in this volume would
confirm the most favourable estimate of his abilities.
There is a homely wisdom in the fictions which cannot
fail' to exercise an effectual and beneficial influence upon
those who will afford the writer an opportunity of listen-
ing to his teachings. If only as a necessary portion of
the series of German novelettes, the book has our com-
mendation.

7EMOIRS OF THE JACOBITES. Vol. 111.
By Hrs. Thomson.
On the appearance of the two preceding volumes of this
history, we took occasion to comment upon their impar-
tiality and completeness ; the third and concluding
volume,-now lying before us, has similar claims upon our
attention, and a similar title to our applause. Mrs.
Thomson has filled up a gap in our natienal literature,
and, corscious of the responsibility which devolved upon
herself in the undertaking, she has laboured cautiously
and resolutely to untold what was hitherto enigmatical.
and to explain what was hitherto incongruous. Her task
has now reached its completion—her perseverance has
conducted her to the goal towards which she has been
striving—her seattered materials have resolved them-
selves into a certain symetrical form—her " Memoirs of
the Jacobites," as far as could reasonably have been
anticipated, are dispassionate and suceitett. In the por-
tion just published, five of the prineipal personages who
engaged the observation of their contemporaries, in that
stormy and romatic age when the representatives of the
Stuart dynasty were stigmatised as Pretenders, and the
hopes of their adherents crushed on Drunirno.sie-moor,
are pourtraved in their actions and analysed in their cha-
racters. The handsome and prudent Lord George
-Murray, the chivalrous and noble-hearted Duke of
Perth, the luckless and generous Earl of Kilmarnock,
the haughty and eourege ms Charles Radcliffe, and that
renowned heroine whom Walter Scott has so inimitably
delineated in all her pensive elevation of heart and un-
estentatious amenity of temperament. are here grouped
together with an earnestness of pur ,ose very creditable
to the authoress. Her bosom seems animated with a
sincere desire to commemorate in a.?equate language the
self-forgetful and disint. rested chivalry of those cele-
brated men who, undaunted .rfid ne d b misfortune, and unbaffelled by.eyhicP4'nerie}:, ustrcio lluve teo up
hold the fain!'
be sacredYtowards
ni bvholrin they conceived their
allegiance to
obligatory However sonic
rthßy have abused their trust, end however much the
atrocities committed by their Contemporariesh may cause
us to blush for our species, theseof
thistorzeal personages
loom upon us from the darknessand
a the past
with a lam-
bent integrity of soul
purity of
heroism most consolatory to all who are apxious to be-
hold the balance, at least of good and evil, in the human
'race. No matter what may be the political teas of the
reader, no matter what may be his preposse,slens, it
-would be as impossibe to lay down these volutnes with-
out a deep reverence for the moral, and a full admiration
for the bodily intrepidity of the majority of the Jaco-
bites, as it would be to resign the Memoirs of Marat
and his revolutionary accomplices, without a shudder of
abhorrence. It will afford no little satisfaction to all
who have listened to Mr. Wilson's tongs in reference to
Prince Charlie and his followers, and to all who can
sympathize in the sufferings of good men, to find, ac-
cording to the Preface of Mrs. Thomson, that an inter-
esting collection of Jacobite songs is being accumulated
by Miss Charlotte Maxwell, whose enthusiasm for the
memory of that " party" is only surpassed by her in-
dustry, in preserving their relics from oblivion. This
_volume is embellished with three portraits, those of
Flora Macdonald, Prince Charles, and Lord Balmerino,
the latter of which, however, we are inclined to regard
as somewhat unflattering s it affords us some inkling of
the resolution of his character, but has no indication
whatever of the sustained and elevated valour of his lite.
These " Memoirs of the Jacobites" require so recom-
mendation, in the same manner that Izaak Walton's
"Lives" render any panegyric sup. rflueus.

THE NEW TIMON. Third Edition.
Our opinion of this very original poem has been con-
firmed by public approbation; its popularity has already
crinducted it to a third edition, and by this means en-
couragement has been extended to the author. still
anonytnousahe has no reason to shrink from the an-
nouncement of his name in connexion w'.cti the present
production; though we would fain imagine he is reserv-
ing that disclosure until he can couple it with the üb-
lication o‘ti'vea work
have more
ret, fe.ntiAied to the applause of p
pos-
terity.
t„araed the " Romance of London'
with satisfaction, rat,ier as a promise than an achieve-
ment—rather; a 4
rather for its Wear harbinger than as an ultimatum,
Qs a whole. v v,, :;0"`"1 than its positive excedeuce
eo,trafahr
applause; on the retract one iota of our
trcn:h°atzeeond perusal has unfolded
tense fresh beauties
overlooked in our first
lion; the d :15;7
sense of gran tie
pear more coign' us; the ti.,,it eations of character ap-
wore appreciabl..;
the
vein
(ilf
vii:,in..re transpetrefit and
possible, d-eper, richt,r, An" en,
I,ight throttle, i(ltit i., if
bloom of poesy., As a first eff:ir-t .uff ,-;e . with the
"New Tiinon. is undoubtedly remark if
it
be Act —the
in no single particular Comparable Cell
and th,ugh,
—that morvellous first effort of Shiell y'Queen Mat!'"
the au .eir
need not fear the eff-ot Of its jurtaposietio—
effort) with li, roe's •.
timm
.bt I
,1e..,,,a
,3 on
I.rzs a first
" Letter to Felix Fatly'. Bristol Journal. " 4"eer°4'.'
the chaste but untdicative " Pastorals" of
iexder
even with
ian
Pope. Compared with thee,-0 three, , have
no ' tion in hazarding the (pinion that the 6,
NewTiu..°
Sitkl,
contains intini7ely more promise. la s.tyin,. this,nholll:
ever, we do not for a moment imply that the author is a
Pope' or a Chatterton, or a Byron in embryo; we merely
infer from the comparison that the writer of this recent
poem gives good augury of his powers. The realisation
however of this augur% rests entirely with iittos;•l!, with
' his self tuition, with his industry, with the real vigour
of his intellect. Experience has too often shown the
fallacy and impossibility of drawing any just conclusions
Of a poet from his first production—so many have leaped
forth, like Pallas, fully armed, only to wi!her into their
original‘ obscurity—so many have, as it, were, emitted
corrdications of poetry as P‘w e-c-nt and solitary as
th-y were nrdltant. I: tit: efipacitie,4 %vliic'.i ,i,-, 04;•
sated in "The New Timon" be eventually realised, the
present pm will live as the first of a series; if, on the
QOM baud, its author fails, like eke mazy etherst al the