The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-13 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS OPINIONS BILL.

On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, this Bill was
read a third time.

COUNTY WORKS PRESENTMENT (IRELAND

BILL.

The House then went icto Committee on this Bill.
The clauses were all agreed to, and Mr. GREENE
having reported progress, the House resumed, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Committee on the Naval and Military Depart-
ments Bill was postponed until to-morrow at twelve.
THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSIONERS (IRE-
LAND) BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill.

The clauses having been agreed to
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the House re-
sumed, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time
to-morrow.

The Report of the Public Works and Fisheries Bill
was then read and received, and the Bill was ordered to
be engrossed.
PUBLIC WORKS, FISHERIES, &c., BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
The several clauses of the Bill were agreed to, and
the report was ordered to be received to-morrow BILL.
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND, No 3)
The House next resolved itself into Committee on
this Bill. The clauses were read and agreed to, and the
report ordered to be brought up
INtoG-morrow.
CLEFT SITT.)

HOUsE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers in at-
tendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Campbell.

ROBERTSON V. PAIVTINSON.
The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed
to-day, an
Their LORDSUIPS gave judgment, affirming the judgment
of the Court below, with costs.

CUNNINGHASIE 1,141.E0D.
Their LORDSHIPS gave judgment in this case to-day,
affirming the decision of the Court below, with costs.
3LkePHERSON 24 ORAISIR.
Their Lonnsurrs also gave judgment in Ois case, affirm-
ing the decision of the Court below, with costs.
MURRAY V. PINKETT.—JUDGMENT.
Their LORDSHIPS also gave judgment in this case, affirm-
ing the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Wigram, with costs.

PATRICK V. KING.
The arguments in this case occupied their Lordships the
remainder of the morning.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY).
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuucitEm..)
DAVIS AND ANOTHER v. TUNIC.
The plaintiffs in this case are bankers in Shoreditch, and
the action was brought to recover the sum of 201., on a bill
of exchange discounted by them. The defendant pleaded
that he did not accept the bill.
A clerk to the plaintiffs was called, and proved that the
defendant bad admitted to him that he had accepted the bill
for the accommodation of a person named Ward. The de-
fendant's solicitor put one or two immaterial questions, and
the jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.
WHESSEN V. RAND.
_ _

The plaintiff in this action is a pianoforte key maker, and
the defendant a pianoforte maker, and the action was
brought to recover the sum of 91. 155., for some keys
made. _ _ _ _ _ _

Tho quedica 195 simply whether the lien Tfere well And

ProPery made. The case lasted three hours, but was not
Lener interest.
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.

BLO CKADE OF FLEET-STREET.
Another blockade of Fleet-street, being the second withal
the last twelve months, commenced a day or two ago, and it
is announced that from six. weeks to two months will be t'ie
duration of the stoppage. The enormous tide of traffic kVt
out of its ordinary course will have' to force itself into narrow
and circuitous channels. - The little out-of-the-way streets
will be flooded with a stream of public vehicles, brought to-a
state of stagnation every now and then by some obstruction,
which will no sooner be removed titan they will drive on with
fearful impetuosity, till they find as it were their level
by getting once more into a broad thoroughfare. People
ignorant of the obstructive proceedings of the pavers will get
into a conveyance for the Bank, and find themselves whirled
through the. intricate mazes that abound in the neigh-
bourhood of Chancery-lane ; while an occasional " jam-
ming np"will afford the oproltinity of W;YEenilla; the procw.
of emptying, and perhaps weighing, the entire contents of
a coal waggon. As to the uufortunate tradesmen of Fleet-
street, our pity for them is greatly modified by the con-
sciousness of their having been so frequently treated in this
unceremonious manner that they must be now quite used to
it. The owner of a shop between Temple-bar and Furring-
don-street must look to be hemmed in by the pavers once or

twice a year as regularly as the gardeners may expect to
he " frozen out " in the depth of winter. The seasons
are, indeed, frequently more merciful, and always less
certain, than the city blockaders, who assume a
variety of shapes for the persecution of their victims.
A few months ago the enemy appeared as the genius of sew-
age, whose emissaries were employed in undermining the
street as well as the prosperity of its inhabitants. Sometimes
it is a river demon, who comes to lacerate the heart of the
City under the pretext of laying down new pipes for a sup-
ply of water. After two of the elements have sent their
representatives to harass the passengers and householders
they are tormented by the agent of tire, in the shape of
some gas company, which begins to pick to pieces the pave-
ment from which the emissaries of water or the slaves of
earth may have very recently retired. Whatever may be
the necessity for the works of which the City thoroughfares
are so frequently the scene, there can be no doubt that pre-
vious arrangement would prevent the inconvenience that is
caused by a series of consecutive stoppages of the most
important lines of metropolitan communication. Ad-
mitting that the alteration in the sewers was imperative
last year, surely the authorities might have exercised
sufficient foresight to have seen that the street would
soon require fresh paving. The same time that was occu-
pied in replacing the old pavement would have sufficed for
putting down the new, anu thus two birds might have been
killed with one stone—or rather the stone need only have
been laid down once instead of twice, to the great incon-
ver.ience of the public. Perhaps those who under-
stand the mystery of these things may tell us that
the alteration in the sewers is a job of itself, and
that the restoration of the old pavement forms
regular part of it, while the repaving is another " job of
itself," in which the removal of the old pavement, so that
the business may be done ab initio, is a principal in-
, gredient. If this is really a consideration, it would
be for the interest of the inhabitants to pay com-
pensation to the parties who have, by inheritance
or otherwise, succeeded to these several " jobs," so
that the whole nuisance could be got rid of at
once, instead of its being a prolonged operation,
to be repeated at brief intervals. An attempt is made in the
present instance to amuse the public by an intimation that
the pavement about to be laid down is calculated to last for
twenty years; but who is sanguine enough to expect that
the gas or water people—to say nothing of those trouble-
some suns of the soil who represent the sewers—will let it
alone for one quarter of that period ? It is all very well
to make a "new bottom of concrete," but who can
undertake to say that the agents of the gas or ‘Nater coa'
pony will not abstract the concrete before another montM
has expired ? That a pavement might be constructed to
endure for twenty years, if it is allowed to rest froui
the pickaxe, has been proved in the case of Blackfriar's-
bridge. This, however, can scarcely be hoped in a thorough-
, fare, where the temporary derangement of a shop-ligb4
ur the bursting of a domestic water-pipe, may afford an
excuse for scarifying half a street, and shutting up one half
of it for a week or a fortnight. Surely some plan might be
devised for conducting gas and water pipes in such a mall'
' ner as to prevent the necessity for plucking up the car'
riage pavement and rendering the way impassable
whenever repair may be needed. Why are the light
ing and other companies to occupy the middle of the
t street, to cross and recrosa at pleasure, and, indeed, re;
cicalae the metropolis with an underground newel,
runningl about in every direction so that all trLw
must be stopped where examination is required? The con"
stant repetition of the blockading nuisance rendersit a serious,
evil, not only to the inhabitants of the doomed streets, bet
to all in the habit of frequenting them. We think we hell.:
• a right to insist that all persons who have a design upon
• Fleet-street pavement should now come in and prove th!..lre
right to interfere with it, or be precluded for the next
• years, at least, from taking possession of that much used
ill-used thoroughfare.— Times.

REPORT FROM THE SELECT
N TS.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY ENACTIVII,
The SELECT COMMITTEE appcinted to inquire
conditions
without discouraging legitimate enterprises fitted than
may not be embodied in railway Acts betted
secure the
those hitherto inserted in them to promote
an
veral matters
interests of the public, have considered
resolu-
tions them referred, and agreed to the following
: ether,
tive Government, so constituted as to obtain puoiic.
1. That it is expedient that a department of the Execcots's' c U
tidence, be established for the superintendence of railway
business.
2. That all proposals for the construction of new lines Of
railway, or for extensions or branches of existing lines, or
for the amalgamation of lines already authorised with other
lines or withcanals, or for leasing railways or canals to rail-
way companies, or for any other purposes relating to rail-
ways, for which the sanction of Parliament is required, toge-
ther with plans, sections, books of reference, and other papers
required by the standing orders, should be laid before such
department.
3. That the department should test these plans, section':
&c., through its own engineers and officers, by means of
loca
examination or otherwise, as it may think fit, and
inquire into and report to Parliament upon the parti
cul
required by the standing orders to be specially reported tiP°o;
by Committees on railway Bills; and that no Committee „4
any railway Bill should inquire further into such partica,w
unless by the special order of the House.
4. That this department should also inquire into the c°l7{
pliance with the standing orders, and how far the sang-
not complied with in any particular cases, ought to be
pensed with, and should report thereupon to Parliainent.,.
5. That the department should receive representations tors7j
local bodies, or from individuals, for or against any 10°Pttero
line, whether such representations have reference to no tieg,
of public or private interests, and should hear the lorwige,
and should make such inquiries, on the spot, or otheruth
as they may think necessary, and should report the
and their opinion thereupon, to Parliament.
6. That the department should report in each case and
in its judgment would be a proper tariff of fares
cha7. That
all Bills for effecting any of the objects a the
rated in the foregoing resolutions should be submitted t°llt i 6
department for examination and approval ; and 01'
should be part of the duty of the department to enforce oar ,re
formity in the preparation of such Bills, as far as
stances will allow. ifec
8. That no Bill for carrying any such proposal int° e the
should be introduced into Parliament without havii4
energy
previous sanction of such department.
9. That the department should be charged with a ectu-„
supervision of all railways, and canals in any way rOis isiless
with railways ; and that for this purpose it should P°s aa'
the powers and execute all the duties now possess' d owe
exercised by the Board of Trade, and such addition fro
/00
as may be necessary to enforce any regulations filiw Of the
time to time for the accommodation and interests
public. „
10. That the department should --”,;re from eVe:fn'iforl'

Ja. Le department shom . require fro.- iinAtv- d
way company periodical returns, according to or, $l3
plan, approved from time to time by the depart 0014,
that it should annually lay before Parliament a
~rrwith
giving the above returns, or abstracts thereof, togetb!ci pro'
such details and observations upon the state au
gross of the railway system as it may deem useful.

August
Cabinet
obunoe
c.
Ad/ A
JRuedidE, Esq . , 0 f
the
-il summonses were issued
the Ministers to attend a Cabinet. CounYciels
street.o' c l ock this All
the afternoonmembers at o
ftht
he e a‘ dal t°
sbleo
apnree.ssetnr
ete.Dt
~
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I:itihdd
the
theß ev.
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hFcm.NFCe°awb,eaiililnia,petucte-T,oc:vyArffibref.irs,etenerle:;:diipetialire°llsoo..r:porip:otse;iiiicat:rrort°o,3t;
: Obtireb'
lan
eldest son of William Judd, Esq , Curzon Gig;;edge, °r, -Esq" of
ton, to Alicia, daughter of the late George e
accident of a most frightful character
Derrynokane, county Limerick. s t evening,' su
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A BOY:-. sred to a b*
named Joseph Renner, aged ten years, whose
ccur.-
fro
d_ reside
sr that the
at No. 3, Pitt's-place, Old Kent-road. it appe- s trollice,
unfortunate boy and two companions had been s ~,,
himself his head became
about until they reached Kennington-common, where age
amused i',,,
bwwhehni hhewainsispsreoticeehdiisngfootottiallte 'obed_
Renner
rraaini:allinsdtatiathoencs:wornheeeltiand
amused themselves for
return home. They all left t common f h
walking back, and when nearc Kennington-lane tbe,s,ii,
cresaemveerdalopuetrtsoontshertadouridvotoso4,lmas4l
before he could recover
endeavoured to release him, ,
position of the poor boy,
tween the spokes of _, ash'
s passengers, who saw_rtier, vino in;
tree. Several of the footthe shoulder et
..7rightfto
bead presented a most frightful frleuoxe
stantly stopped the horse. his
but were unaieeueofory to .;
head was so firmly
move the wheel, and when tilti was
deeniewa as
extricated
.I!i_
b".._e of the skull to the f e oor lad,
.he scalp from 1
h sight, '
' c 0
and hanging over his facoe
r. e I led
v,b,aseingi.rrie -,
d bleeding,be
sa
exsturgeon's opposite, where the injuries were felsn'lhti°m with
__ ensive that it was deemed necessary to rercnv,e ipspital,
all speed to the accidentof S Thomas s ,Thdes
ward t. South. l'i)
where he was placed under the care of Mr.
are entertained of his recovery. .. Collar ()I'
THE PARISH OF ISLINGTON AND "Ta.. . Ir.
CHANCERY.—Last evening a numerous and highly avv,
rapletely terunetu
able meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of bsuiliv;p,
Islington, took place at the Angel Tavern. 31% meeting
having been called to the chair, stated that th. .
~t. au
was called to take into consideration the proppenq 1 the
appeal. to the Lord Chancellor against a
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, in a cause the -At,,Lirettor
General v. Pearson and others, and stated tile toned
stances as follows :—ln the year 1842, a parishioneusc
as
Eliott was placed under restraint in the workhe e_aiost
lunatic. He (Eliott) subsequently, took proceeding: at.,:, so
certain officers of the parish for false imprisonntlrical tooic
obtained a verdict, with 400/. dame es. A new
,_ judges
decisie..;ner
place before the Court of Common leas, when tuella acts
decided that the acts complained of by Eliott were n , to
done in pursuance of the local Act of Parliament,
.c_eaut of
parish officers found themselves liable to the P"170 Pal
about 9001., without any fund but the parish ratese ~
allow'
the same except the poor-rate. The parishiontors
approving of the conduct of the officers refused_itimata
the payment, and further litigation ensued. u_„artl
the Vice-Chansellor dismissed the information, each Party
to pay their own costs. Resolutions expressing u'ld be
faction with the decision of the Vice-Chi to tbe
lieving such decision would be reversed by sPII Idis%)prov"
Lord Chancellor and the House of Lords, anus 1 Other
ing of the conduct of the trustees, kc., were pas 'e
-k• ,d.
area-
resolutions were also agreed to, and the meeting se'frbe ewe
SITES FOR DWELLINGS FOR THE root._ inenq
ers 001
sites f r
her Majesty's Woods may sell, subject to condai 1. _in by the
üßnildlserjutshtisinttirtoled,upcerdepdinsetotePeabrlieeatmtebnatt,
the
tchee7tiotiisyss,eireab
dwellings /or the poor, out of lands vested . tit'
however'
The grants, les
heriditary possessions of the Crown. made be t
Acts for the improvement of the metropolis,
are to be void if the objects for which they were
parted from. or out of the

.k.IIERICAN NEW z).

4RRIVAL T CAMBRIA.

,
and of the confusion and conflict of national jurisdiction,
dangerous to the cherished peace and good understanding of
the two countries.
" With a view, therefore, that steps be taken for the abro-
gation of the said convention of the 6th of August, 1827, in
the mode prescribed in its second article, and that the atten-
tion of. the Government of both countries may be the more
earnestly directed to the adoption of all proper measures for
a speedy and amicable adjustment of the differences and dis-
putes in regard to the said territory :
"' Resolved by the Senate and house of Representatives
of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that
the President of the United States be, 'and he is hereby
authorised, at his discretion, to give to the Government of
Great Britain the notice required by the second article of the
said convention of the 6th of August, 1827, for the abroga-

(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
LI tlpia,-„,.
WEDNESDAY, FIALF-PAST FOUR.
z the Steam-ship Cambria, Captain Judkin ,-• s after
tol44„age of ten days 'sixteen hours, arrived here
Mternoon bringing eighty-four passengers, the
Canadian and United States mails, and papers fifteen
Is later than those brought by the Fidelia.
TLe rr•
19th nabernia, which sailed from Liverpool on the
reached Boston on the Ist., in a twelve-
lalca'half-days' Passage; and the Great Britain
ved at New York in thirteen and a half days.
-.4e ea rabrts. brings intelligence of the passing of
)11eariff Bills by a majority of One.
t rhaPs the most important item of news brought
he
11N Cambria is the passage in the Senate of the
Tariff Bill,
brought forward by the present Ad-
t4rniLstration,
reducing very materially the Whig
4;1- of 1842. The manufacturers of New England,
gyi the mining and smelting districts of Penn-
vania, made strenuous efforts to defeat the
Ifts,
014 "re) and, indeed, all but succeeded in so
hning' as the Bill became the law by the
g vote of Vice-President Dallas, who is
lelf returned by a district of Pennsylvania very
atiraical to low duties upon iron or coal. As usual,
any stirring question, a considerable debating
Were hiraee, and the speeches both for and against
I°llg and numerous.
t • r• Webster spoke at great length against the
%e' and the question was taken on the 28th, and
b,p/31easure was carried by the casting vote of Mr.
th:?; amended only by striking out a section from
.'°4llwhich had received the sanction of the Re-
pr_
"entatiVeS The Lower House subsequently con-
cb„ •
-Led in the amendment, so that the Bill was at last
PAss
ed. Mr. Haywood, from North Carolina, re-
, tilled his seat, in order not to be compelled to vote
14favour of the measure.
°lThe
Warehousing Bill had not passed the House
do
Sc Representatives when the steamer left, but would
lieusin in
all. Probability. It provides for the ware-
ZoverngtZf all goods under similar regulations which
• boni`"e British Customs, except that the period
we mg is limited to a year.
1 take the following account of the progress of the
4te ne6crotiation from the Philadelphia North American.
fitet't "'Planation which follows was not considered sat:ass-
ita,„-°rY, for it is said that the editor of the paper,
war-
rant'ediately taken into custody under a President 'ar-
r
inasmuch
breach of privilege:—
t,tasmuch as Sir Robert Peel has. laid before Parliament
tr4.,"0 most important articles in the Convention • as its
,')l4.l).3,Thave been incorrectly stated in several respectable'
M this country; as our Washington correspondent
us more than a month ago with a complete
t''..ti°';'3 of the treaty and correspondence; as the Senate
'ltfl"4 its assent to the contract, and as the ratification
tie Atlantic
British Government is now probably on its way. acr.oss
ty,t
tu under all these circumstances, and considering
dqt-roziety of the public to see the official facts, we have
Se to lay all the papers that were submitted to the
4? before our readers.
Dreas,?_,,lntnunicating this proposition, Mr. M'Lane saysnot erxe-
tevea".sto t the proposition as now submittede. has
ther,f "Y countenance. I have,
it,f 6:*e, felt it my duty to discourage the expectation that
liet:tl'l be accepted by the President, or if submitted to the
44,te2 \pproved by that body.'
tZBaYs, further, that in his opinion, the offer now made
bo considered as an ultimatum, and is not intended
1,4!
free '0
Th
tnavigation of the Columbia, It will be seen, is
*laTivLer4,-Y: any express terms in the treaty, and equally so
rGttlteinterpretation, as it strikes us on a hasty glance,
language used.
(-w:III,EN-rim, )
TEE STAIiES,
th,I4I:s:IFROM
N.?,i Fo THEUNITED FART OF TIRE
44111'4 C'rEsl"- i' r°' M
Etir'l;'°o'lLl'D.E ADJUSTMENT or THE
931 t
--')N (thE TlOti.
(June 10, 1846—read.)
%,4' TUE SENATE OP THE UNITED STATES.
con.
I,•a'Eni n"efore the Senate a proposal in the form of a.
➢ %el-I' Presented to the Secretary of State on the 6th inst.,
-1 hereov°Y Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
hestin Britannic Majesty, for the adjustment of the Oregon
n;it this, together with a protocol of this proceeding. I sub-
311est tf Proposal to the consideration of the Senate, and re-
it, xtiay )cir advice as to the action which, in their judgment,
In theper to take in reference to it.
of early
Periods of the Government, the opinion and'
Portant qtheii-'euate were often taken in advance upon im-
teksitedfu --°l's of our forei policy. General Washington
Ilee, to •Y,Fmisulted the Senate, and asked their previous ad-
tho"uich alera s conformed his action. This prac-
ix'nieti ugh rarely resoy rted to in later times, was, in my
Po,rt4,c...t,helninently wise, and may on occasions of great
•,e properly revived.
sad 111534,°,?riate.are a branch. of the treaty-making power,
"Pnrta -vusulting them in advance of his own action, upon
'gee Cut measures of foreign policy which may ultimately
vefore them for consideration, the President secures
Nilat'attY of action between that body anal himself. land
1t nit are moreover a branch of thee war-making
opiwaY be eminently proper for the Ilixr-eincuativegtT ta'ke the
any
of`on and advice of that body in advance upon
eat
of, question which may involve in its decision the issue
t), peace or war. On the present occasion the magnitude of
subject would induce me, under any circumstances, to
l4_tre the previous advice of the Senate, and that desire is
leased by the recent debates and proceedings in Congress,
jZotluolt render it, in my judgment, not only respectful to the
kt„la!e, but necessary and proper, if not indispensable ito n-
aarmonious action between that body and the
In conferring on the Executive the authority to give
Llllotice for the abrogation of the Convention of 1827, the
ate acted publicly so large a part, that the decision on
,Prep „sal now made by the British Government, without
to".',.efulite knowledge of the views of that body in reference
dkaraight render the question still more complicated and
IllderJ of adjustment. For these reasons I invite. the. con-
)terrZl°ll of the Senate to the proposal of the British Go-
illeir ent for the settlement of the Oregon question, and ask
~.ittivice on the subject.
flaibutY opinions and my action on the Oregon question were
~qz,,,loade known to Congress in my annual message of the
December last, and the opinions therein expressed re-
-zmittlnehanged.
Ittireard the Senate, by the constitutional majority re-
f this r
the ratification of treaties, advise the. acceptance
?e lam Pro Position, or advise it with such moditications as
lea ra---tY2Pon full deliberation deem proper, I shall con-
declines to their advice. Should the Senate, however,e
".,r to exj such constitutional majority to give such. advice,
'duty ‘4lltY to s 8 an opinion on the subject, I shall consider my
tp als Ject the offer.
„'"‘ the, o„"°mlnunicate herewith an extract from a dispatch
ietat„- Secretary of State to the Minister of the United
Itior!eisinagthLindoi-n,under the date of the 28th of April. last,
*eltniligrveez n accordance with the joint resolutions of
theeonceroin the Oregon territory,' to deliver the
British Government for the abrogation of the
transellti°o of August 6, 1827; and also a copy of. the notice
Trot4raitted to him for that purpose, together with extracts
bearing data of at Minister to the Secretary of State,
wg date the 18tthh of May last.
ItBhington, June 10, 1846.
" JAMES K. POLK."

tion of the same.'
" Now, therefore, after a careful consideration of the pre-
mises, I, James K. Polk, President of the United States; in
the exercise of the authority and discretion vested in me by
the said joint resolution concerning the Oregon territory,'
and in pursuance of the second article of the convention of
6th August, 1827, therein mentioned, do hereby, in behalf of
the United States, give notice to her Majesty, the Qiteen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that, at
the end of twelve months from and after the delivery of these
presents, by the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States at London, to her Britannic
Majesty, or to her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, the said convention shall be entirely annulled
and abrogated.
" In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United
States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand
at Washington, this twenty-eighth day of April, A.D.
eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Indepen-
. deuce of the States the seventieth
JAMES K. POLK.
" By the President, "
"James Buchanan, Secretary of State."

navigation of the Columbia river should be granted for a pe-
riod
sufficient to serve all the purposes of British subjects
within the disputed territory, or whether the right should be
extended indefinitely to a particular class of British subjects,
I must believe that no English statesman in the face of his
denial of a similar privilege to American citizens in regard to
the St. Lawrence, would take the hazard, upon this point alone,
of disturbing the peace of the world. Indeed, if the same
Ministry from whom the present offer proceeds should cm-
tinue toasters of their own proposition by remaining in office
until the qaalitication I am adverting to would have to be
dealt 'with, I should feel entire confidence in the belief I have
now expressed.
I regret to say, however, that I have not the least expecta-
tion that a less reservation, if proposed in favour of the
occupants of land between the Columbia and the 49th
parallel, would be assented to. I may repeat my conviction,
founded upon all the discussions in which I have been
engaged here, that in making partition of the Oregon terri-
tory the protection of those interests which have grown up
during the joint occupation is regarded as an indispensable
obligation on the score of honour, and as one im-
possible to be neglected. I am quite sure that it
was at one time in contemplation to insist upon the free na-
vigation of the Columbia river for ;British subjects and Bri-
tish commerce generally, and that it has been ultimately
confined to the Hudson's Company after great resistance,
and in the end most reluctantly. Being so confined, how-
ever, it would be only reasonable to limit the employment, of
the right to a period beyond which the company might have
no great object to use the river for the purposes of trade.
But the interests of the British subjects who have settled
upon and are occupying lands north of the 49th degree are
considered as permanent, and entitled, when passing under a
new jurisdiction, to have their possession secured. This, at -,
least, is the view taken of the subject by this Government,
and not at all likely, in my opinion, to be changed.
I may add, too, that I have not the least reason to suppose
it would be possible to obtain the extension of the 49th pa-
rallel to the sea, so as to give up the Southern Cape of Van-
couver's Island to the United States.
It may not be amiss, before leaving this subject, to call
your attention to the position of the present Ministry. The
success of their measures respecting the proposed commercial
relaxations is quite certain, and the Corn Bill, having now
finally passed the House of Commons, may be expected at no
remote day to pass the Lords by a majority no less decisive.
From that time, however, the tie which has hitherto kept
the Whig party in support of Sir Robert Peel, will be dis-
solved ; and the determination of the protectionist party,
who suppose themselves to have been betrayed, to drive him
from office, has lost none of its vigour or power. Indeed, it
is confidently reported, in quarters entitled to great respect,
that they have even offered to the leader of the Whig party
to select his own time, and that when he is ready they will
be no less prepared to force Ministers to resign. I have rea-
son:to know that at present Ministers themselves believe a
change to be inevitable, and are considering only the mode
and the time in which it will most likely happen. It
will not be long after the success of the measures for the
repeal of the corn-law before opportunities enough for the
accomplishment of this object will occur.
The Factory Bill, regulating the hours of labour, will afford
one, and most probably that on which the change, sooner or
later, must be unavoidable, and that the offer has been made
to the probable head of a new Ministry to select his own
time, may it not be expected that, instead of waiting quietly
to allow the Whig leader to select the time of coming in, the
present Minister will rather select his own time and mode of
going out, said with his usual sagacity, so regulate his retire-
ment as to leave as few obstacles as possible to his restora-
tion to power ? In that case it is not very unlikely he would
prefer going out upon the Factory Bill, before taking ground
upon more important measures—and if so, it will not sur-
prise me to witness the coming in of a new Ministry at the
end of June, or earlier. With a knowledge of the proposition
now to be made, I am not prepared to say that one more ob-
jectionable might have been apprehended from a Whig
Ministry, unless, indeed, the present Government may be
supposed to be prepared to accept the qualifications, when
proposed by the President, which it was unwilling at first to
offer. Upon that supposition, it might be-desirable that the
modificatious should be offered before the coming in of a new
Minister, who, finding only the acts of his predecessors, with-
s out a knowledge of his intentions, might not be so ready to
take the responsibility of assenting to a change.

MR. WLANR TO MR. BUCHANAN.—(EKTR May 18, 1846.
I received late in the day, on the 15th instant (Friday),
your dispatch numbered 27, dated the 28th of April, 1846,
transmitting a notice for the abrogation of the Convention
cf the 6th of August, 1827, between the United States and
Great Britain, in accordance with the terms prescribed in
the second article, instructing me to deliver the notice to her
Britannic Majesty in person, or to her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as will be most agree-
able to her Majesty's wishes, and at the same time leaving
the mode of the delivery of the notice entirely at my own
discretion.
I will of course execute your instructions at the earliest
practicable moment. As, howeuer, I could only ascertain
her Majesty's wishes, which I am directed to consult,
through the ,Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, sufficient time has not yet been afforded for that
purpose ; and in the midst of the preparation of my dis-
patches for the steamer to-morrow, and of my engage-
ments at the Foreign-office, connected with one of the
topics of this letter, it has not been in my power to give
to a subject of so much importance that deliberation
which I am sensible a proper exercise of the discre-
tion confided to me requires. To-morrow, however. I
propose to seek an interview with Lord Aberdeen for
this purpose, and without loss of time finally to execute your
instructions in the mode that may be deemed most effectual.
I may add, that although it is altogether probable that the
presentation of the notice to her Majesty in person will not
be admissible, and that where a treaty may be annulled upon
notice by one party, the mode of delivering the notice need
not be dependent upon the anent of the other; yet, in the
present instance, I do not apprehend there will be any diffi-
culty in giving and receiving the notice in a mode mutually
satisfactory and in conformity with usage in such cases.
I have now to acquaint you that after the receipt of your
dispatches on the 15th instant by the Caledonia, I had a
lengthy conference with Lord Aberdeen, on which occasion
the resumption of the negotiation for an amicable settlement
of the Oregon question, and the nature of the proposition he
contemplated submitting, for that purpose, formed the sub-
ject of a full and free conversation. I have now to state
that instructions will be transmitted to Mr. Pakenham by
the steamer of to-morrow, to submit a new and further pro-
position on the part of this Government for a partition of the
territory in dispute.
The proposition, most probably, will offer-substantially-
1. To divide the territory by the extension of the line on
the parallel of 49 to the sea ; that is to say, to the arm of the
sea called Birch's-bay, thence by the Canal de Arro and
Straits of Fuca to the ocean; and confirming to the United
States, what indeed they would possess without any special
confirmation, the right freely to use and navigate the strait
throughout its extent.
2. To secure to the British subjects occupying lands, forts,
and stations, anywhere in the region north of the Columbia
and south of the 49th parallel, a perpetual title to all their
lands and stations of which they may be in actual occu-
pation ; liable, however, in all respects, as I understand, to
the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States, as
citizens of the United States. Similar privileges will be
offered to be extended to citizens of the United States who
may have settlements north of the 49th parallel; though I
presume it is pretty well understood that there are no set-
tlements upon which this nominal mutuality. could ope-
rate. I have no means of accurately ascertaining the ex-
tent of the present British settlements between the Co-
lumbia and the 49th parallel. They are not believed by
Lord Aberdeen to be numerous, however—consisting, as
he supposes, of a few private farms and two or three forts
and stationt. I have already, in a previous dispatch, taken
the liberty to remind you that by their charter the Hudson's
Bay Company are prohibited from acquiring title to lands,
and that the occupations to be effected by this reservation
have been made, either by the squatters of the company or
by the Puget's Sound Land Company, for the purpose of
evading the prohibition of the Hudson's Bay charter.—They
are, in point of fact, also, according to -Captain Wilkes's
account, cultivated and used chiefly by the persons employed
in the service of the former company, and as auxiliary to
their general business of hunting and trapping, rather than
with a view, as it has been generally supposed, of colonising
or of permanent settlement.
Lastly. The proposition will demand for the Hudson's
Bay Company the right of freely navigating the Columbia
river. It will, however, as I understand, disclaim the idea
of sovereignty, or of the right of exercising any jurisdiction
or police whatever, on the part of the Government, or of the
Company, and will' contemplate only the right of navigating
the river upon the same footing, and according to the same
regulations, as may be applied to the citizens of the United
States. I have already acquainted you that Lord Aberdeen
has very positively and explicitly declined to treat of the
navigation of the St. Lawrence in connexion with that of the
Columbia; and that even if it were desirable to us to propose
to offer one for the other, he would on no account enter into
any negotiation in regard to the St. Lawreace.
I have seen no cause to change the opi-
nion, that in any attempt to divide the Oregon territory, the
obligation felt by this Government to protect the rights of
their subjects, which may have been acquired or grown up
during the joint occupation, would most probably interpose
the greatest difigulty in the way of an amicable adjustment.
And it is now obvious that the proposed reservation of the
right to the Hudson's Bay Company of freely navigating the
Columbia, and that in favour of the British occupants north
of the river, proceed from this source • although it is proba-
ble that more or less pride may be felt at giving up now,
without what they may deem an adequate equivalent, what
has been hitherto tendered by our negotiators.
In fact, except in the surrender,to the United States, of the
title of the lands not occupied by British subjects between
the Columbia and the 49th parallel, and also the surrender
of the jurisdiction over the river and the country within
the same limits, I am afraid it may, with some plausibility,
be contended that there is no material difference between
the present proposition and that offered to Mr. Gallatin
by Messrs. Addington and Huskisson, the British negotia-
tors, in 1827.
It is scarcely necessary for me to state that the proposi •
tion, as now submitted, has not received my countenance.
. . . . . I have therefore felt it my
duty to discourage the expectation that it would be accepted
by the President, or, if submitted to that body, approved by
the Senate.
I do not think there can be much doubt, however, that an
impression has been produced here that the Senate would ac •
cept the proposition now offered, at least without any mate-
rial modification, and that the President would not take the
responsibility of rejecting it without consulting the Senate.
If there be any reasonable ground to entertain such an im-
pression, however erroneous, an offer less objectionable, in the
first instance at least, could hardly be expected.
It may be considered certain, also, in my opinion, that
the offer now to be made is not to be submitted as an ulti-
matum, and is not intended as such, though I have reason
to know Mr. Pakenham will not be authorised to accept or
reject any modification that may be proposed on our part;
but that he will, in such case, be instructed to refer the mo-
dification to his Government.
It is not to be disguised, since the President's annual mes-
sage, and the public discussion that has subsequently taken
place in the Senate, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to
conduct the negotiation in its future stages, without refer-
ence to the opinion of senators, or free from speculation as
to any degree of control they may exercise over the result.
Whatever, therefore, might be prudent and regular in the
ordinary course of things, I think it is of the utmost import-
ance, upon the present occasion, if the President should think
proper to propose any modification of the offer to be
made by
Air. Pakenham, that the modification should be underood a
possessing the concurrence of the co-ordinate brandhs!' of the
s
treaty power.
It is not easy to conjecture with any certainty the extent
to which this .eovernment might be induced to modify the
proposition, even if they should be assured that the Senate,
no less than the President, demanded it. It must not
escape observation that during the preceding Administra-
tion of our Government, the extension of the line on the
49th parallel to the Straits of Fuca, as now proposed by
Lord Aberdem, was actually suggested by my immediate
predecessor as one he thought his Government might ac-
cept; and that, in regard to those English subjects who
would be left within American jurisdiction by adopting that
boundary, he considered the provisions of the second article
of Jay's Treaty as a precedent for a convenient mode of deal-
ing with them.
By the second article of Jay's Treaty, however, British
subjects would not only be secured in the absolute title of
all their lauds and effects, as fully as by Lord Aberdeen's
proposition, but would be allowed the option to continue as
British subjects, and without any allegiance to the Govern-
ment of the United States, which, according to Lord Aber-
deen's offer, as I understand it, they would not possess. In
point of. fact, therefore, the substantial points of the present
offer, and those which may be expected to be regarded as
most objectionable, are little more than the embodiment of
the various offers and suggestions which at different times
have, in some form or other, proceeded from our own nego-
tiations.
I have myself always believed, if the extension of the line
of boundary on the 49th parallel by the Straits of Fuca to the
sea would be acceptable to our Government, that the demand
of a right freely to navigate the Columbia river could be
comprised upon a point of time by conceding it for such a
period as might be necessary for the trade of the Hud-
son's Bay Company, north and south of the 49th parallel.
Entertaining great confidence in that opinion, and deeming
it only reasonable, I confess that, from an early period, I
have used every argument and persuasion in my power to re-
concile Lord Aberdeen to such a limitation; and although I
am quite aware that, with a portion of the British public, an
importance it by no means deserves is attached to the navi-
gation of the Columbia river, and that in others it is unde-
servedly regarded as a point of pride, I have been disap-
pointed by the pertinacity with which it has been, at so
much 'risk, insisted upon. Feeling very sure, however, that
the present offer is not made or intended as an ultimatum, I
think it only reasonable to infer an expectation on the part
of those who are offering it, not only that modifications may
be suggested, but that they may be reasonably required. And,
therefore, I still entertain the opinion that, although from a
variety of causes—in part, perhaps, from an expectation that
in the United States this point may not be absolutely insisted
upon, and part from deference to interests and impressions at
home—they could not be induced in the first instance to
make an offer with such a qualification ; yet, if the adjust-
ment of the question should be found to depend upon this
point only, they would yield the demand to thepermanent na-
vigation of the river, and be content to accept it for such a
number of years as would afford all the aibstanti al advantages
of those interests they have particularly in view. that could be
reasonably desired. if the only question upon which the adjust-
meat of the Oregon question depended should be whether the

k A " PROTOCOL.
to 7,theolcri June
was held at the Department of State on
, 1846, between the Hon. James Buchanan,
t%ight iton. State, the American Plenipotentiary, and the
hen Richard Pakenham, the British Plenipotentiary,
testiva e negotiation respecting the Oregon territory was
4u ed. The British Plenipotentiary made a verbal ex la-
Gov-On of the motives which had induced her Majesty'sP
the ernrnent to instruct him to make another proposition to
th,_Government of the United States for the solution of
izir".4e long-existing difficulties. The Secretary of State ex-
i„;e4sed his satisfaction with the friendly motives which had
—uniated the British Government in this endeavour.
g.." Whereupon the British Plenipotentiary submitted to the
rotary of State the draft of a convention (marked A),
flatting forth the terms which he had been instructed to pro-
lose to the Government of the United States for the settle-
'Lem of the Oregon question.
" JAMES BUCHANAN,
"RICHARD PAKENIIAM."
thViere follows t d
he raught of t Convention, which is in
Precise words of the treaty belo he
w given.]

TO•THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
In accordance with the resolution of the Senate of the 12th
instant, that " the President of the United States be and is
hereby advised to accept the proposal of the British Govern-
ment, accompanying his Message to the Senate, dated 10th
June, 1846, for a Convention to settle boundaries, &c., be-
tween the United States and Great Britain, west of the
Rocky or Stony Mountainq," a Convention was concluded
and signed on the 15th instant, by the Secretary of State on
the part of the United States, and the Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty on
the part of Great Britain.
This Convention I now lay before the Senate for their
consideration, with a view•to its ratification.
Washington, June 10, 1846. JAMES K. POLK.

(CONFIDENTIAL.)
Convention between the United States of America and her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, concluded at Washington the 15th of
June, 1846.
June 16, 1846.—Read a first time.
June 17, 1846.—Read a second time, and ordered to be
printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.
The United States of America and her Majesty the Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, deem-
ing it to be desirable, for the future welfare of both countries,
that the state of doubt and uncertainty which has hitherto
prevailed respecting the sovereignty and government of the
territory on the north-west coast of America, lying westward
of the Rocky or Stony Mountains, should be finally termi-
nated by an amicable compromise of the rights mutually as-
serted .by the two parties over the said territory, have re-
spectively named plenipotentiarieS to treat and agree con-
cerning the terms of such settlement : that is to say, the
President of the United States of America, has en his part
furnished with full powers James Buchanan, Secretary of
State of the United States, and her Majesty, the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has on her
part appointed the Right lion. Richard Pakenham, a member
of her Majesty's Most lion. Privy Council, and her Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the United States, who after having communicated to each
other their respective full powers, formed in good and due
form, have agreed upon and concluded the following ar-
ticles

"MR. BUCHANAN TO MR. M‘LANS,—(EXTRACTII.)
"Department of State, Washington, April 28.
tali_ herewith transmit a notice for the abrogation Of the
thnntion of August 6, 1827, between Great Britain and
ii'lutrnited States, in accordance with the terms prescribed
;_ctond article. This paper you will deliver to her
tasev,-114: Majesty in person, to her Majesty's Principal
44eortZ;._ I"Y„__?f State for Foreign Affairs, after you shall have
'l4 atieurd._—°°,which of these modes of presenting it will be most
your
i te with her Majesty's wishes. A duplicate of the
J°llr ,";.nernitted, to be placed on tile in. the archives of
Port ant he abrogation of this Convention is an act of an im-
LIMA hand solemn character, the delivery of the notice
'n'E env- ue attested with all due formality. The mode is
it tni
zhy to your own discretion ; but I would suggest that
coPyor, be made the subject of a protocol in triplicate; one
another be
should remain with the British Government,
mitts with with the Legation in London, and the third be trans-
theln to this department.
ithe remarks whichyou may have occasion to make on
the ,'LverY of the notice, the language of the preamble to
Ileee's4(3tilt resolution concerning the Oregon territory' must
nst,aril3' be your guide. . . Congress have spoken their
phis r(°ll the subject, in their joint resolution, and to this it
(the President's) and your duty to conform."
To

"ft MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE
_IT. ITED
tiNipIODOSI OF GR.EAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,&
nereaß, the Congress of the United States havetardso,,p,teod
prileet,_4°l resolution concerning the Oregon tern o t
N`Nkt_ha following a copy:—
of Oe "'teas by the convention concluded the 20th day
h
.
au t°l3er, 1818, between the United States of Americ.at
and ding of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Indefinite) reland, for the period of 10 years, and afterwards
y extended and continued in force by another con-
irt'l!lton of the same parties concluded the 6th -day of August,
thaTe year of our Lord 827, it was agreed country
of AmaY he claimed byte ther party on thenorth-west coast
now erica westward of the Stony or .Rocky Mountains.
Ivith itarnmonly called the Oregon territory, should,.togethel_
?iarboursbays, and creeks, and the navigation of all
eitr within the same, be free and open' to the vessels,
die:enst and subjects of the two powers, but without preju-
art t° any claim which either of the parties might have to
Y,part of the said country; and with this further provision
Auule second article of the said convention of the Gth of
.Aust, 1827, that either party might abrogate and annul
other:2 convention, on giving due notice of 12 months to the
contracting party.
;And whereas it has now become desirable that the re-
ap,edeZe claims of the United States and Great Britain should
th_ nitely settled, and that said territory may no longer
dbrilleed be remain subject to the evil consequences of the
ftliegiauvo of it; American and British population,

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1846.

current rates, par. The passage of the tariff has had no
e►Tect on the markets so far.
Exchange on England continues depresses' n nt
seldom reached. Sterling Bills are selling at 107* to 1074,
which is much below the relative value of specie. This de-
pression will probably continue for some months. The tariff
will not go into effect till December; orders for goods will,
consequently, be suspended until that period.
Importations are now very light, and for four mont'is to
come will continue to be small.
Freights have been unusally good for the whole season.
The shipments of cotton, flour, wheat, and rye have been
unusually large, and continue. All the packets as well as
transient ships have been taken up readily, and rates have
been generally low, but not advanced from what they usually
are at this season.
The wheat crop throughout the country is now harvested.
In the great grain growing districts of the west, with but
few sections excepted, the yield has been most abundant.
For other descriptions of grain prospects are most flattering.
We are now in the midst of the dullest season of business.
The trade of the city is small at present. The fall trace
commences in a few weeks.

LITE RAT URE,

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS. By
Thomas Babington Macaulay. :3 Vols. Fourth Edition.
A criticism upon essays which are in themselves criti-
cisms, appears, and with some reason, to be one of the
anomalies of literature. Every one must perceive this
upon reading any of the innumerable commentaries
which have been written upon the labours of l)acier,
and Johnson, and Gifford, and the rest of that honour-
tble fraternity. Our remarks, therefore, upon these
twenty-three essays, first published in the Edinburgh
Review, must necessarily possess that characteristic;
they must necessarily be anomalous. We will acknow-
ledge, moreover, that the many excellencies contained
in these volumes, the luxuriance, and yet the polish, of
the composition ; the subtlety, and yet the transparency
of the analysis ; the splendour, and yet the propriety,
of the diction ; the simplicity, and yet the enthmiarim,
of the eloquence ; all of which qualities are now genes ally
recognised, andgenerally admired, render any recommen-
dation of them altogether superfluous. The principal pur-
pose, therefore, iu the present notice is one of comment
rather than of anatomy. We would avail ourselves of
the opportunity presented, by a new edition of these
productions, to particularise the various peculiarities of
Nit-. Macaulay's style—peculiarities which sometimes
adorn the pages with a novel and beautiful lu,trc., but
which might occasionally fascinate any inexperienced
peruser in a wrong direction. The compositions of Mr.
Macaulay are unlike the compositions of any other
writer ; they are as dissimilar to Gibbon's compo-
sitions as Gibbon's are to Johnson's, or Johnson's
to Addison's. The construction of the sentences
although always in accordance with the rubrics of
grammar, is occasionally new even to eccentricity.
The language is invariably selected with the most fas-
tidious taste ; the fOreign words which have been im-
perceptibly engrafted upon our native tongue are rejected ;
the words of a purely Saxon origin abound in every
paragraph, conveying the ideas vigorous and musically.
We know no writer who so entirely gains the
mastery over the prejudices of his reader as Mr. Nla-au-
lay. His manner is singularly disputatious; but, as he
himself says of the late Lord Holland, it is " cour-
teously and pleasingly disputatious." His themes ap-
pear to have been usually selected for the purpose of
rectifying some prodigious mis-statement, of disabusing
the public mind of some egregious misconception, of
placing important events or extraordinary charac-
ters in their true light, whenever they have
been misrepresented, either by unnecessary aspersions
or undeserved panegyrics. For example—the review
of Mr. Robert Montgomery's poems was a wholesome
castigation of all poetasters, and it was, we believe, the
first manly criticism that revealed the fact to certain
credulous old gentlemen and elderly ladies, that the man
whose books they were encouraging edition after
edition, whose busts were on their mantlepieces,
and whose portraits were in their picture frames,
was, after all, little else than a literary charlatan ;
that his sublimity was rant, his tenderness puerility, his
grandeur fustian, his rhymes doggrel. Again, the
article on Machiavelli was a noble and successful effort
to redeem a very eminent man from an obloquy which
was not only undeserved but which had been sanctioned
by the acquiescence of entire empires and successive
generations. Mr. Macaulay, in this admirable paper,
reasoned that the principles inculcated by the great Tus-
can statesman in his so mewhat notorious " Prince" were
merely such as were in vogue among the politicians
of his age—that they were principles in which his con-
temporaries recognised no depravity—that they were
published without malice prepense—that the author of
" The Prince" was at heart a patriot, and inclined to
promote good government, and that whatever atrocity
is discoverable in those principles should in justice
be charged to the generation of which Ma-
chiavelli was an unit, and not to Machiavelli
individually, merely because be happened to expound
those principles with more perspicuity and brilliancy
than any other of his countrymen. In the audacity of
this endeavour to correct a blunder which had been con-
firmed by the accordance of millions, and by the lapse
of centuries there was something chivalrous; and in the
complete triumph of that endeavour there was some-
thing solemn and affecting. Mr. Macaulay did,
with less labour, but with equal success, for Machia-
velli what Mr. Carlyle has subsequently done
for Cromwell. Both men have been reviled with
the intensest acrimony ; one as the most callous and in-
tollerant of hypocrites, the other as the most vicious
and shameless of villains. Oliver Cromwell, before Mr.
Carlyle undertook his vindication, had been scorned as
the very impersonation of religious cant ; the digging
up of his dead body, and the hanging of it up in chains
upon a gibbet at Tyburn was regarded by the multitude as
an ignominy not wholly unmerited ; the figure of the
Protector shedding tears in his paroxysms of devotion,
and alternately thumbing the Bible and fingering his
matchlock, was regarded as the most contemptible spe-
cimen of the most heartless hypocrisy. Machiavelli, on
the other hand, had been abhorred as the advocate
of a diabolical system of despotism ; his memory
was execrated as infamous ; his writings were
condemned as demoralising, both by civil and
ecclesiastical tribunals; the blackest crimes since perpe-
trated by tyrants have been attributed to the influence
of his accursed doctrines, and in our own country his
name has actually become incorporated with the language
as a synonyme for villainy and depravity. Mr. Carlyle
has, by a quaint earnestness and a felicity of
candour, revealed to us the true Cr. unwell.
Mr. Macaulay has, by a most lucid and a
most graceful exposition of an epoch in Fallen
history, revealed to us the true Machiavelli. That fog
of prejudice which had intercepted the popular view of
those men, and which had distorted them into the most
monstrous deformity, was dispelled. The distance of
centuries became- suddenly nullified by the clearness of
the medium of vision, and we beheld the veritable
forms of those veritable men, with all their real
imperfections and all their real merits. Miss Balcombe,
in her " Recollections of Napoleon," tells us, if our
memory be not marvellously deceived, that when quite
a child, at " The Briars," in St. Helena, she shuddered
at the terrible, news that Bonaparte was approaching the
house. Her imagination was filled with the phantom of
a hideous ogre, with flaming eyes, and bristling hair, and
hands armed with talons, and jaws ever ready to devour a
fresh victim of his demonised and bloodthirsty nature.
Nor was this creature of her fancy annihilated until she
saw a horseman, surrounded by a brilliant staff of
officers, galloping over her father's lawn—until she saw
a small, but symmetrical form—until she looked into his
benign and beautiful countenance, listened to the gentle
intonations of his voice, and was told that this was
Napoleon. The ogre of Miss Balcombe's imagination
was not more unreal or extravagant than the ogres of
Cromwell and Machiavelli, such as the populace had
pictured to themselves before Mr. Macaulay and Mr.
Carlyle had boldly advanced and impeached the judg-
ment of millions of their predecessors : nor were the
people less amazed on first beholding the real Machia-
velli and the real Cromwell than was Miss Balcombe on
first beholding the real Napoleon. We have been
lured into this digression from the importance
which we are inclined to attach to this particular
essay; because, moreover, we would direct the attention
of those to it who may by possibility have hitherto re-
mained ignorant of its character; and especially because
we conceive, that in that single article are com-
prised all the most remarkable and beautiful pecu-
liarities of its eminent author. His impassioned
and melodious expostulations ; his elucidations
by skilful antitheses; his logical enumeration of
facts and arguments his exquisite and sometimes
fantastic metaphors ; his striking alternations of abrupt-
ness and fluency ; his earnestness, his zeal for truth, his
love of brilliant and startling thoughts ; the silver melody
and exceeding purity of his diction. If Mr.
Macaulay possesses one faculty in writing
more remarkably than another it is the faculty of
illustration. His mind teems with an astonishing
profusion of images for the symbolising of any idea.
Classical literature, history, the productions or phases
of nature, poetry, the fine arts, fiction, manufactures,
everything by turn supplies him with a similitude, dis-
playing at once the ingenuity of his fancy, the facile
obedience of his memory, the abundance and the range
of his erudition. By one of these adroit metaphors
he will, moreover, convey a juster notion of
his meaning to the reader than another man
would do in a dozen elaborate paragraphs of explana-
tion; they often throw a glare of light upon a matter
that an instant before was enveloped in darkness; wtat
was previously indistinct to the extremest limits of
obscurity, under their influence, becomes suddenly
comprehensible to the most mediocre understand-
ing. Sometimes, indeed, his illustrations ,sin this
manner are so unexpected, and there is such a
vivid analogy between the two things compared as lite-
rally amounts to wit, and wit of the most sterling and
lustrous description. Thus, in the paper already parti-
cularised, he compares the double character com-
bined in the intellect of Machiavelli to "the va-
riegated threads of shot silk, the combination of
which gives to the tchole texture a glancing and
ever-clanging appearance." The comparison also drawn
between the poetical schools of Pope and Milton, and
the pictures of Paradise, as represented in an old wood-
cut and a masterpiece of painting, is inimitable.— Vide.
Vol. 1., p. 329. We might, indeed, enumerate multi-
tudes of these similes, were it not utterly a matter of
supererogation, seeing that there is scarcely a single
page that is not decorated by them, scarcely a
single subject that does not evoke them, scarcely
a single train of ideas in the three volumes that does
not derive from them much adventitious brightness and
many most charming associations. Another striking
peculiarity in the compositions of Mr. Macaulay is that
of ingenious contrasts. Here our author is always
and singularly happy. His contrast of the Puritan and
and the old Cavalier (Vol. 1., p. 49-55) ; his contradis•
tinction between the ancient philosophy and the modern
philosophy (Vol. IL, p. 396-404) ; his comparison of
Dante and Milton, of Essex and Villiers, with a variety
of others, too numerous to particularise, are, in
their way, perfect specimens of the chiaroscuro
of letters. They impart a remarkable vividness
to the delineations ; they bring out events in
distinct groups, such as are readily seized by the
imagination and indelibly imprinted on the memory;
they give the keenest chiselling to the features of a face,
and toe brightest colouring to the portraiture of an
occurrence. Among the three-and-twenty distinct
papers comprised in this collection, we should be embar-
rassed to make a selection of the most meritorious.
The apple of Paris was not reserved from a deeper
incapacity to arrive at a decision than
sense of
would our judgment be withheld in this par-
ticular. Whatever article we have perused the latest
we prefer to its companions : every additional perusal
alters our opinion. Nevertheless each' of the essays,
whether historical or critical, possesses some especial
attraction peculiar to itself, and in which it admits of no
competition. Mr. Macaulay is gifted with an intellect
at once zeithetieal and contemplative. He is equally at
home when expatiating upon the elementi of high art,
or in accounting for the -motives of a statesman. His
elaborate disquisition upon Lord Bacon is a. splendid
tribute of reverence to one of the -gfeateSt" minds

The news from Mexico is not important. At
the last account from the city of Mexico, Paredes
was still there, though it was still stated he was to
take command of the army. It seemed to be
the general impression that the Mexican Govern-
ment intended to make another struggle against
their invaders, though from inward troubles, disor-
ganisation, and want of funds, it was difficult to
believe it would meet with success. Several small
affairs had taken place near Vera Cruz, 'between the
troops along the shore and the ships assembled in
the Gulf, but nothing worthy of notice had occurred.
No attempt was to be made against St. Juan
Dulloa, the general impression being, that sufficient
benefit would not accrue from its capture to com-
pensate for the certain loss its attack would cause.
Business in the Atlantic Cities continued very dull,
the principal business people being rusticating, owing
to the intensely hot weather. Exchange at New
York on England, 7 a 7i pm.
FROM THE ARMY.
The steamship James L. Day, Captain Griffii, ar-
rived at New Orleans on the 18th instant, from Brazos
Santiago, which place she left on the 15th.
The news is four days later and of considerable inte-
rest, and especially as the announcement that a deputa-
tion from the British navy arrived at Fort Polk upon
business with General Taylor, calculated to excite curio
sity and speculation. The troops were being sent for-
ward as fast as the means of transportation and the
high water would allow. The Andrew Jackson regi-
ment left for Reynosa on the 9th instant, and Colonel
Davis moved up the river on the 10th instant. An
article in the American Flag, of the 10th instant, informs
us that broils occasionally break out between the volun-
teers and the Mexicans, resulting in death. That paper
states that General Taylor uses every exertion to pre-
vent persc ns attached to the army from disturbing the
citiz( ns of Matamoras.
The Mexican authorities are urged to use more at-
tention in keeping their citizens in order, and dispersing
them when engaged in riotous proceedings. Some of
Canales' men are supposed to be lurking about Mats-
moras for purposes of rapine and murder. A young
American soldier was found near the office of the
American .Flag on the 9th instant with his throat
dreadfully cut, and his heart pierced with several
dangerous wounds ; the murderer has not yet been dis-
covered. The Rio Grande was still rising on the 10th.
In several places about Alatamoras it had overflowed its
banks.

FOURTH OF JULY IN MEXICO.
Advices from New Orleans to the evening of the 15th
have been received at Washington, with letters from
'Matamoros of July 3 and 5.
General Taylor announced to two of the regiments on
the 4th, that in a few days he would have boats to tran-
sport them to Camargo, whence he would put them
directly in motion for Monterey, and if they got no fight
before the summer closed, it would not be his fault.
The papers of Texas and Matamoros are full of details
of the celebration of the 4th. The rains were holding
up. Some sickness prevailed. mostly bowel complaints.
The measles had appeared in Mark's regiment, and seve-
ral men were down with the complaint.
Mr. D. E. Gray had arrived in Reynosa from the
upper country, by way of Monterey, and reported the
Mexicans full of apathy to the war.
Five hundred Mexican volunteers at Monclova had
refused to serve on hearing of Taylor's victories.
Some disaffection among the Louisiana volunteers had
appeared, but it would be settled, having been referred
to General Smith. The wounded and sick were doing

well at Fort Polk.
Accounts from the Army, dated at Matamoras, July
8, and at Point Isabel, July 11, have come forward by
mail, having been received at New Orleans on the 15th,
per steamer New York. Letters from Reynosa had
been received as late as the 30th June. We are in-
debted to the editors of the New Orleans Picayune for
an extra, containing their correspondence, which has
been anticipated in part by the telegraph. General
Taylor had ten steamers at Matamoras, with which to
move his rapidly increasing forces up the river, on the
way to Monterey, via Reynosa, and which was
being accomplished as rapidly as possible. • The
United States revenue cutter Forward, the schooner
Flirt, and the British brig of .war Rose were
off Point Isabel. The Impresario, aground on the bar,
had been got off. The 4th of July was duly celebrated
at all the encampments. Considerable alarm prevailed
among the Mexicans, in consequence of the discharges
of artillery in the morning. Many of them fled from
their houses, but returned on learning the cause of the
" great skare." Corporal Mervin, a Louisiana volunteer,
was accidentally killed on the 4th, by the rebound of a line
attached to the steamer Aid. Another paper, the Ameri •
can Flag, has been established at Matamoras. The
lierille is now printed exclusively in English. The 7th
Infantry moved up to Camarago on the Gth instant.
Captain M`Cullough's Rangers whilst out on a scout in
the vicinity of Reynosa, capturred three of the party
who were engaged in the Rodger's massacre on the Sal
Colorado some two months ago. One of the three ma-
nagede, but the. other two are in safe keeping
will be sent down to Gen. Taylor
A ball having been given at Monterey to General
atht e Rfier
yst otn
ooe
spsi ao
A rista's retreating forces, among those who offered their
prt'runilietYy.
hands for a waltz with the Mexican ladies, were some of
the fellows who had danced so nimbly to a different
tune at the Resaca. The answer of the ladies was noble,
and at the same time cutting to a degree :—" We do
not dance with our own sex 1" Matamoras wears the
appearance of a faubourg of New Orleans, and partakes
of some of its characteristics, numerous dis-
graceful scenes having occurred on the night
preceding the fourth. Five or six Mexicans
are said to have been killed by drunken brawlers, Texian
camp followers. General Henderson, of Texas, was
recovering from a severe attack of illness from which he
had suffered. Colonel Lewis P. Cook had also been
very ill, and it was at one time reported that he was
dead. He was convalescent at last accounts. The
steamer New York brought as passengers Colonel
APlntosh and son, Lieutenant Bibb, Lieutenant Power,
and Lieutenant Lown, Twenty discharged soldiers also
came over in her. Colonel M'lntosh has recovered in a
great measure from his wounds. General Taylor has
issued the following
plast4i6on. , No. 59.
Head Quarlyfeartsa,mAorrmasy,
JorulOye3cl,l
Sir,—It has been brought to my notice that an omis-
sion occurred in my detailed report of the action of the
9th, which I beg leave to supply immediately after the
mention of Lieut. Colonel Mackintosh's being " twice
severely wounded -
" The command of the sth Infantry then devolved
upon Major Staniford, who conducted it with zeal and
ability to the close of the engagement."
I need hardly say that this omission was entirely ac-
cidental, and I beg, as an act of justice to Major Sta-
niford as well as myself, that the above paragraph may
be inserted in the original report, and may receive the
same publicity.--I am, Sir, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
(Signed)

Z. TAYLOR,
u nt General of MajortheßArervmert.
t Genera
The Adj

'BEARD'S 10TOGRAPHY.-In former notices of Mr.
Beard's success, in, carrying out and improvin,7. upon
Daguerre's magnificent discovery, that painting can be exe-
cuted with a "yencil of light," we have expressed our anti-
cipation, that, in the progress of " Photography," the scien-
tific patentee would at length arrive at the power of fixing
upon his plates not only form, or that simple modification of
colour, which is called light and shade, but even colour itself,
u after the tur
ce sndone
in all its combinations. Of course, in speaking of such anti-
cipations, we had no idea if o any " touching up,had" or
is
owrrk. t hvv pe
p hg
atePdhiethapt the time would come, and, before
voe e heoxt ago re
which we hay, seen from Mr. Beard's studio
long, when Mr. Beard would be able to catch the rays, and
stitution, convince:hieiseytehsawt we
permanently stamp them on his panels, not merely in theirwhite
union or prismatic dispersion, but in every variety of combina-
tion which the eye of Rembrandt has observed, and the hand
s, strangely
of Reubens vainly endeavoured to imitate. The last specimens
of photography
at the Roy
enough, that
the first approach to the production of colours by the pho-
tographic process, is found inl the EYES! whereas in those,
the most expressive and sou -speaking of the features, it
had always been observed. that pictures produced in this
have not hoped too much. It happen
always more or less cold, ghastly, and
Royal Polytechnic
inexpres-
sive ; and were, of necessity, always
.) 8 of one
way were especially defectthat, in fact,
colour, whatever might be the complexion of
the countenance which it was intended to pourtray. We
now find the various tints of the iris preserved upon Mr.
Beard's photographic plate, with as much delicacy as those
minute and tine touches of iform, which no pencil of artist
could imitate, and which hitherto have formed the unmatch-
able excellence of photograplaic portraits. The portraits of
some children with very light, delicate blue eyes, just issued
from Mr. Beard's laboratory, are extraordinary as well as
beautiful specimens of the perfection to which tact gentle-
man has 14hught life in portraiture.
REDucnosr OF WAGES. -- ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE,
ACTGUiT 111.--The master roller turners of Stockport. Park-
bridge, Oldham, Ashton-under Lyne, Dukingfield, and other
places, have given notice to their workmen that at the ex-
piration of the next fortnightly pay they would be under the
necessity of reducing their wages to the amount of five per
cent., owing to the badness of trade. This announcement
has created considerable feeling amongst the turners of this
district, who appear determined to oppose it, and for this
purpose they convened a delegated meeting on Alondav, at
the house of Mr. Thomas Moss, the Grapes Inn, Aston
under-Lyne, when, the subject having been fully discussed,
they passed the following resolution :—" That we unani-
mouslY agree to work four days in the week, should circum-
stances in connexion with the trade require it, but on ro
account will we submit to the proposed reduction of 5 per
cent. of our wages." Several other branches of mill workers
are threatened with reductions, and they are at the present
time again forming themselves into unions to resist them.
The power-loom weavers of the town of Stalybridge are
holding a public meeting of their numerous body this even-
ing, for the purpose of cariTing out the principles of union,

that was ever granted to mortal, while it rigidly ad- I Bishops of London and Durham, the Right Hon.
bores t the statement of those mournful facts which IH. Gotilburn, the Right Hon. J. Nichol', and the Dean
invest the glorious memory of that man with so much of Westminster.
of incongruous shame and infamy. The intellectual The Sardinian Minister transacted business yesterday
strength and moral weakness of our noblest philosopher at the Foreign-office.
are there pourtrayed with the utmost impartiality. The Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
same veneration for truth, kindles the writer's enthusiasm had an interview with the Chancellor of the ExcheqUef
in one instance, and arouses his indignation in the other. yesterday. Lord Monteagle had also an interview with
He is consistent to his own tenets ; he acts upon his ab- the Right lion. Gentleman.
horrence for what in one place he designates " the Lucs The Earl of Elgin had an interview yesterday with
Rostvellicina, or disease of admiration ;" in another, Earl Grey at the Colonial-office.
" the idols tribes," and in a third " the Furor Biographi- Mr. Fowles had an interview yesterday with the Earl
cus." He contemns, and with the strictest justice that of Clarendon at the Board of Trade.
leniency to faults, that tendency to eulogium, The Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Priv).
that indiscriminate partiality evinced by biographers Council sat yesterday in the Council. Chamber, i'er:the
for the personages whose characters they have further hearing of a petition of the Provost and Fellows
undertaken to define. Loving eternal truth and of the College of Eton against a scheme of the, Ec-
immutable justice better than sounding_ names, Mr. clesiastical Commissioners for carrying into effect certain
Macaulay reprobates Bacon where Bacon deserves repro- altereion3 in the Dioceses of Orford and Salisbury.
bation, and rewrences him where he deserves reverence. The Attorney-General :lid Mr. rkthell (Queen's Conn-
And, as an evidence that our author is not incapable of cil) were heard. The Lords present were the Lord
entertaining some sentiments of enthusiastic admiration President, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord CarnOell, the
for an illustrious memory where the memory is suffi- Vice-Chancellor of England, and the Judge of the Ad-
ciently illustrious and unsullied to justify such sentiments, mirahy Court.
itis pleasant to peruse that earnest termination of his paper
on Milton, where he pictures himself in the presence of the
poet, and continues, " We image to ourselves the breath-
less silence in which we should listen to his slightest word,
and the pasionate veneration with which we s!iould kneel
to hiss his hand and weep upon it." Notwithstanding the
apology (volunteered by the writer himself, in his pre•
face) for this essay being " overloaded with gaudy and un-
graceful ornament," and notwithstanding that this blemish
is really apparent towards its commencement, especially
in that redundant sentence where he speaks of the muse
of Milton being able " to skim the earth, to soar above the
clouds, to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow, and to
inhale Vie balmy smells of nerd and cassia, which the musky
wings of the zephyr scatter through the cedared alleys of tke
Hesperides;"--notwithstanding all this, our partiality
for this paper on the divine genius of the writer
of Paradise Lost is cordial and unaffected.
It is eloquent with the heart's devotion, and is teeming
with a thousand original and picturesque fancies. If
indeed for nothing else, that essay would be particu-
larly valuable as a proof of how the ornate splendour of
a young author can be modulated to a style as mellow
and as luminous as that in which Mr. Macaulay now
writes : how the abundance of blosar ma and of foliage
may be succeeded by blooming and delicious fruit.
Such fruit, for example, as the essay on Lord Clive, on Sir
William Temple, on John Hampden, on Boswell's Life of
Johnson. The criticism on Croker's edition of Boswell
is, to our thinking, one of the finest pieces in these three
volumes. It begins with a terrible enumeration of the
blemishes introduced into that inimitable biography ;
blemishes as much resulting from the ignorance as the
carelessness of its incompetent and self-sufficient editor.
It then eulogises the production of that Prince of
Toadies, Boswell, while it covers the latter with
the deadly poison of ridicule. The passages
which follow this, illustrative of the progress
of literature, but especially of poetry, during the John-
sonian era, are blended with judicious comments upon
the powers and the weaknesses of that great sage—that
man who could " grapple with a whole library," and
yet could not conquer the most puerile superstitions !
Among the most elaborate of Mr. Mkaulay's critical
essays are the one on llallam's Constitutional History,
the one on Sir James Mackintosh, the one on Southey's
Colloquies on Society, the one on Leigh Hunt, and the one
on Horace Walpole. They are all characterised by a
fastidious yet liberal taste, a lively perception of the
idiosyncrasies of the various writers, and a stern and
inflexible regard to accuracy. Among the historical are
those on the Earl of Chatham, the Succession in Spain,
Burleigh and his Times, Ranke's History of the Popes,
Warren Hastings, and others already mentioned.
From the singular impartiality displayed in
the latter, as well as from the lucid manner
of, the narration, we may be readily justified in looking
forward with the most sanguine anticipations to the
great history which Mr. Macaulay is understood to have
in preparation. Nevertheless, if we might be permitted
to presume upon any recommendation of the kind, we
would earnestly and respectfully commend Mr.
Macaulay to digest one or two of his conclusions
upon events in English history before his volume
be permitted to issue from the press. We
would, for instance, hope that his acute mind
might before then re-investigate the ecclesiastical con-
duct, so to speak, of Sir Thomas More, that he would
re-peruse the "Apology" of that great man, and especially
the thirty-sixth chapter, and after so doing he would
divest himself of what we believe, from our hearts, to be
the erroneous opinion that Sir Thomas More was guilty
of fanatical intolerance. The article upon Warren
Hastings may be particularised as perhaps the
most elaborate composition in these three splendid
volumes. It is not unworthy of being a compendium
and counterpoise to the grandest philippic of modern
times ; it corrects the indignation aroused by the rheto-
rical libels of Sheridan ; it places in a correct light a
subject which has possibly been more repeatedly and
more egregiously misrepresented than any connected with
the atrocities of war and the woes of misgovernment.
It explains, that while Governor-General Hastings
was most reprilensible for selling the English
troops to Sujah Dowlah, for a purpose so
execrable as the conquest of the unoffending Rohillas,
the massacre of an innocent race, and the devastation of
a peaceful country, those directors of the East India
Company who were the foremost to wreak vengeance upon
Warren Hastings were no less guilty than himself. That
when they recommended him to govern the Indian mil-
lions with leniency, and at the same time required him to
remit thousands of specie from an impoverished exchequer
they were tempting him to the commission of fraud and
despotism. Hastings is likewise vindicated from the
charge of murder, in causing the execution of Maharajah
Nuncomar, the great Brahmin; the whole.oblouuy of
that ci uel deed being cast upon Chief Justice Sir Rlijah
Impey. Throughout the literary labours of Mr.
Macaulay, it is as impossible not to recognise his pro-
found and untiring reverence for Truth as it is not
to discern the erudition of the scholar and the
accomplishments of the rhetorician in Isis musical periods
aval antithetical climaxes. One brief, but touching and
eloquent paper, will ellicit the praise of every reader—
we mean the beautiful tribute of affection and respect to
the memory and genius of Lord Holland. We have
spoken more than once of Mr. Macsulay's eloquence as
a writer, and we would have it particularly observed
that the word is not here employed as a mere hack
phrase in criticism. Those who have perused Mr.
Macaulay's productions will readily comprehend how
fully the expression "eloquence" may be applied to
them—how much, in that characteristic, those produc-
tions are akin to the Parliamentary orations of the Pay-
master of her Majesty's Forces—what an intimate ana-
logy subsists in this respect between his "Essays," his
speeches, and his " Lays of Ancient Rome." Who does
not, for instance, remember that noble passage com-
memorative of the antiquity and the stability of the
Catholic Church, terminating with that superb image of
her existence in undiminished vigour—" When some
traveller front New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast
solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London-
bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's?" It would be
frivolous, however, to endeavour to give any isolated
passage as a specimen of these writings. It would be
the fool of Ilieroc:es all over again, bringing a brick as a
sample of his house. Mr. Macaulay has, indeed, given
us more than a mere inkling of his literary powers ; and
though he himself may regard these essays with in-
difference, as unworthy of what he feels himself capable
of accomplishing, they are anything but unworthy of a
language which has been adorned by a Gibbon, a Gold-
smith, and a Burke. Mr. Macaulay may be privileged to
depreciate these volumes, as he appears to do in his
simple and dignified preface, but others will not be in-
fluenced even by that authoritative depreciation. Though
sometimes abrupt, even to rigidity and ruggedness, the
style is always luminous, the sentiments generally just,
and the earnestness invariably unaffected. The vo-
;
lumes will live to posterity.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCL.

WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—TUESDAY (CoNci.,llDiD).
The Wolverhampton Stakes of 25 Sots. each, 15 ft, and 5
only if declared, with the Tradesmen's Purse of 1001. added;
the second saves his stake. Twice round and a dis. (54

Subs., 34 of whom declared.)
Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 51b (Templeman) 1
Mr. I'arr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, Get 101 h 2
Mr. Clifton's Burgundy, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
The following also started but were not placed :—Sir
C. Monck's Glossy, 6 yrs, Bst 41b ; Mr. Meeson's The
Dart, 4 yrs, 7st ; Mr. Bell's Winesour, 6 yrs, Bst 71b; Mr.
dander's Golden Bee,3 yrs, 4st 111 b.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Dulcet; sto 1 agst Inheritress; sto
1 agst Golden Bee; and 7 to 1 agst Winesour.
Dulcet and the Dart made alternate running to the last
turn, where the former went in front, was challenged at the,
distance by Inheritress, and defeated by a neck only. Bur-
gundy a length behind him, and the others nowhere.
The ',Mies' Purse of 501. Heats, once round and a die.
Mr. Godson's Susannah, 5 yrs (G. Calloway) 2 1 1
Mr. Whitehouse's Charlotte, 3 yre 1 0 2
Mr. Thompson's br c by Stansty, dam by Brutan-
dorf, 3 yrs
Mr. Jones's f, by Revolution, 3 yrs
Mr. Whitlake's Nosegay, 3 yrs ... 0 dr.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties
the King and Queen of the Belgians, took a drive to
Ryde on Tuesday afternoon.
Yesterday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians left Os-
borne House for town. Her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied their august visitors, in the royal yacht. to
Gosport. Their Belgian Majesties left Gosport, by a
special train on the South-Western Railway, for town,
attended by the Countess Vilain XIV. and Lord George
Lennox, Lord Alfred Paget and Major A. d'llanins
de Moerkerket

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual walks and rides yesterday in the pleasure
grounds of Osborne House.
Their Majt sties the King and Qua en of the Belgians,
attended by the Countess Vilain XIV., Lord George
Lennox, Lord Alfred Paget, and Major de Moerkerke,
arrived at Buckingham Palace at a quarter before two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Nine Elms termi-
nus of the South-Western Railway. Their Alajesties
were received by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, and the lion.
Sir Edward Cast, the Comptroller of the Household of
his Majesty the King of the Belgians in this country.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived in town, from
her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, shortly be-
fore one o'clock yesterday afternoon. Her Royal High-
ness proceeded to Buckingham Palace, and met their
Belgian Majesties on their arrival. A dejeun6 was
served to the illustrious party.
At a quarter before three o'clock their Majesties the
King of the Belgians left BuAingham Palace in a
chariot and four for Woolwich, to embark fin... Wend.
The Countess Vilain XIV., his Excellency M. Van de
Weyer Lord George Lennox, Lord Alfred Paget, the
Hon. Sir Edward Oust, and Major de Moerkerke, fol-
lowed in two carriages to Woolwich, where the illustri-
ous party arrived at a quarter before four o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent afterwards
left Buckingham Palace for Clarence House, St. James's.
At a quarter past four, her Royal Highness, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir George Couper, left
town on her return to Frogmore House.
Count de Jarnac, French Charg‘ d'Affaires, bad an
interview with Lord John Russell, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street. The Count also transacted
business at the Foreign-office.
A deputation of the Aborigines Protection Society,
consisting of Mr. Samuel Gurney (president), Sir Edwd.
Buxton, Bart., Mr. Charles Hindley, M.P., Mr. Shirley
Woolmer, Mr. John Burtt, the Rev. A. Wright, L.L.D.,
Mr. George L. Neighbour, the Rev. H. Bromley (secre-
tary), and Mr. James Bell (treasurer), had an interview
with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from booksellers, including Mr. Jackson,
Mr. Jones, and Mr. Haydon, had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the office' of the Board
of Trade. • -
,The. Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday. There were present the