The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

FELAZ AND PART ENUS. 3 Vols.
qy Mrs. Gore
_

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
From the T ae an? Pr0,,,-"r7 nf Me 77,—, C:,,r,mts.)

COURT CIRCULAR.

.A,,r.(1);,,, all ii.ns o• ligt,t iit-rature, fssisionalsi
novels are proverbially the most monotonous, the mos:
unanimated, and the most flimsy. For these very rea-
sons, it is something peculiarly worthy of commenda-
tion, when a fiction of this description, though bearing
about it all the general characteristics of its class, car-
ries with it a prominence of conception, and force 0'
imeginetien, settieieot to form fel- itself a certain pr, '
portion 4,f individuality. To this commendation th,
three volumes before us are fully entitled ; they consti
Lute a tale of no inconsiderable interest—they sparkle
with much vivacity of observation—they contain an
agreeable and ingenious diversity of character. In
awarding these laudatory expressions, however, to
" Peers and Parvenus," we are compelled to compro-
mise their full application. A perception of the clever-
ness
which glitters over the surface of each chapter
cannot blind our eyes to the numerous blemishes, over-
sights, and discrepancies which militate very powerfully
against the merits of an otherwise excellent production.
In one particular (no unimportant one, be it observed)—
namely. in the diction with which Mrs. Gore has clothed
her imaginings—there is a most intolerable carelessness,
or a most egregious indifference to elegance ; a failing
not only derogatory to authorcraft, but liable to deterio-
rate the very ideas which the language embodies. Thus
the pages are swarming with such superfluous and un-
musical coinages as the following :—" Indispensability,"
" inseparability," " justifiability," " aggrandization,"
" customerless, " irreproachability," " artificiality," all
of which, though literary foibles only in themselves, are
surely better avoided. Occasionally, also, Mrs. Gore
.employs expressions of singular coarseness, the more
singular, perhaps, from the usual refinement of her
imagery ; thus, for example (vol. iii p. 91), we hear of
" Herbert Davenport hitting upon a new raw, through
whiCh it was easy to inflict tortures upon his rival."
Turning, however, from these lesser tarnishes; let us
particuierise the more successful features of the novel.
It has some piquant touches of sarcasm, as when Lady
Ursu'a Weinwright exclaims, " What man's consistency
is to be relied upon I The creatures have enough to do to
keep t'leir word to their constituents." Many of the minor
personages in the story are sketched, likewise, with ge •
uine humour, ex. gr. the subjoined mention of Prater
Parmenter :—" P. P. was sitting at an ancient bureau,
covered with ragged, rusty, black leather, and sur
mounted by a rusty black teaboard, sipping small tea,
also purporting to be black, and dippins, into it sippits
of bread and butter, purporting to be brown." The
pen-and-ink portrait of Sir Robert Dashwood is no less
happy :—" An exceedir gly narrative old gentleman,
who would lend his ears to the longest story, tobave the
satisfaction of repeating it in his turn. Circumstantial
as a legal conveyance, as an auditor he was full of clues
dons as, when a narrator, of expletives." Or again, Sir
Robert's nephew :—" Young Dashwood was as rash
and rapid as old Dashwood was deliberate. He had been
up in a balloon, down in a, diving-bell, and was the ori-
ginal deviser of the aerial carriage. Everything he did,
said, wore, ate, or drank, was done, said, worn, eaten,
and drunk on the newest and most approved principle.
The most minute action of his life might have affordee
natter for a patent." Of main characters we can speak
in terms of still more decided praise : some of these are
admirably delineated. The Hillingdons—callous
worldly, selfish. and unprincipled ; the Clutterbucka—
showy, ambitious, and extravagant upstarts ; the Cor-
bets, quiet and homely in their simplicity—are each re-
presentatives of a genus familiar to.hundreds of readers.
Jervis Cleve, however, is the mo,t delicately-coneeived
and elaborately-drawn character in the work—Jervis
Cleve, in short, is the hero—Jervis Cleve, to
speak plainly, is an original and beautiful creation,
and in his fortunes is centred the principal charm
of the fiction.. The child of a day-labourer, the protege
of a flue lady, the inmate of a charly-sehool. Jervis
gradually elevates himself by his genius and his fascina-
tion of form and manner, int) the very beau ideal of a
hero of romance ; and, nevertheless, the gradation is
managed most artistically—nothing is strained in the
portraiture of his elevation. Of course there is, after
the approved fashion of novel and melo-dramatic writers,
a villain ; the one, in this instance, is a Colonel Cleve
land, the most improbable and ill conceived personage
in the book. And as if to consummate the absurdity of
the character, this man, who is introduced to the reader
as a most elegant and accomplished roué, at the denoue-
ment changes abruptly into a swaggering, cut-and-thrust
bully, larding his conversation with cant phrases and.
vulgar pronunciation. It is in the conclusion of this
novel that Mrs. Gore's chief failure consists ; the third
volume is miserably disproportioned to its predeces-ors.
Indeed the two first volumes are admirable, the last in-
excusably bad. Poetical justice is put entirely at de
fiance ; the wishes and expectations of the reader are
every way disappointed ; the vicious characters are
crowned with success, the virtuous or amiable consigned
t', irreparable woe and despondency. Vol. 111. should
never have been published ; Mrs. Gore should have
burnt the manuscrir t, and re-written the termination of
her story as she could have written it in a moment of
better inspiration. We are thus decided in our con-
demnation from the pleasure we experienced in a perusal
of the first and second volumes, and the utter dissatis-
faction with which we closed their successor. " Peers
and Parvenus" e ill, , notwithstanding, become popular
for the many charming pictures which it contains—
descriptions of the creme de la creme in the London
drawing-rooms ; of the alumni amongst the excavations
and eruptions of Vesuvius ; of the Parvenus in the
rustic haunts of England ; and the Peers amidst the
variable society of Naples.

REDN LSDA 1, MARCH lb.
The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members :
Shrewsbury and Birmingham—Mr. W. 0. Gore, Mr. Clive, Mr. R.

The Queen h .1(i a Court and Privy Council yesterday
afternoon at Buckingham Palace. •
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal,
the Commander-in-Chief, the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colo-
nial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Trade,
the Postmastet General, the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
the Lord Ste yard, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The Right Hon. Charles Viscount Canning, Chid
Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, was,
by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board.

Scott, and Mr. Collins.
Midland (Erewash Valley Extension)—Mr. Hudson and Mr. Mundy.
North of Norfolk—Marquis of Douro and Mr B. Smith.
Midland (Erewash Valley Branches)—Mr. Hudson and Mr. Mundy.
Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Railways—Mr. Hudson and
Mr. Benbow.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
The following resollitions were reported from this Committee:-
1. That, in the ease of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dews-
bury. Leeds, and Bradford Railway petition, the standing orders
ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to pro-
ceed with their Bill, with the exception of the clauses giving power
to the Company to sell or lease their undertaking.
2. That, in the ease of the West London Railway petition, the
standing orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be per-
mitted to proceed with their Bill on depositing in the Private Bill-
office a copy of the missing sheet of the plans and sections, being a
duplicate of that deposited with the clerks of the peace.
3. That, in the case of the Buckinghamshire Railivay (Tring to
Banbury) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed,with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on correct-
ing the errors in the note on the cross sections deposited in the Pri-
vate Bill-office.
4. That, in the case of the Worcester and Porth Dynllaen Railway
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on inserting pro-
visions therein rendering It compulsory on the Great Western Rail-
way Company to contribute the amount of subscription stated in
their declaration, under their common seal.
That the Committees on this and the preceding Bills do examine,
in the first place, how far snail orders have been complied with, and
do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill.
5. That, in the case of the Macclesfield and Lichfield Railway
petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
6. That, in the case of the North Wales Railway petition, the
standing orders ought to be dispensed with s—That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill.
7. That, in the case of the Ailhallows.Tithes petition, the standing
order ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to
proceed with their Bill.
8. That in the case of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Railway Amendments and Branches (No. 6) petition, the standing
orders ought not to be dispensed with.
9. That, in the case of thd Lancashire Waterworks petition, the
standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill.
10. That, in the case of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Rail-
way petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That
the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
11. That, in the case of the Northumberland and Lancashire Rail-
way petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That
the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
12. That, in the case of the Shrewsbury and Herefordshire Railway
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
First, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh,
and twelfth resolutions agreed to. —Report to lie on the table.

The lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At th 3 Court, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Gordon,
G.C.8., her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary to the
Court of Austria, was presented to the Queen at an
audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, had an audience of the Queen.
The Bishop of Calcutta had en audience of the Queen,
to submit to her Majesty the ground plan and,the per-
spective view of the Cathedral of St. Paul's, Calcutta,
erecting by Colonel Forbes, of the Engineers.
The Duke of Buccleuch and Sir Robert Peel had an
audience of the Queen.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of London-,
derry, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Vice-Chamberlain,
the Treasurer of the Household, and the Lord and Groom
in Waiting.
His Royal Highness' Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, attended by Sir Edward Bowater.
The Royal Family were taken their usual exercise yes-
terday in the royal garden.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his
Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the Baroness de
Cetto, his Excellency the Netherlands' Minister and
Mademoiselle Dedel, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Lady Charles Wellesley, the Hon.'and Rev.
C. Leslie Courtenay, and Captain the Hon. James P.
Murray.
The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner at the palace, and performed the following
pieces :
Medley Overture
Pot pourri
Walzer —Themis Fest Klan,e.e Labitzky.
Cori—La Jarita Rossini.
Polka—Norfolk Labitzky.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an
airing in a carriage yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of the Marquis of Bread-
albar the Earl of Eglintoun, Lord Kinnaird, Mr. W.
Forbes, M P., Mr. R. D..nnistoun, M.P., Captain Dal-
rymple, M.P., Mr. W. Baillie, M.P., Mr. A. Smollett,
M.P., Mr. Lockhart, M.P.. Mr. Anderson, of the Glas-
gow Union Bank ; Mr. Smith. of the Western Bank ;
Nhl
the City
Bof ow Bank ;mn Milne, Brock, k, tsugeClydesdaleßankane,; Mr. Salmond, of
of the Dundee
Glasgow, Messrs. Bain and
Messrs. Smith and M'Neil, of
B Brown,a n
Edinburgh,k; t
of
.e
Glasgow,L oh ardd an interview
Provosta n
d
of
with Sir Robert Peel yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the
Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
A deputation from the North American Colonial As-
sociation had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yester-
day. The deputation consisted of Mr. Dowie (Chair-
man), Mr. Gillespie, Mr. Carter, Mr. John Masterman,
M.P., and Mr. David Barclay, M.P.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday. There were present the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London,
Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Ely, Hereford, Llandaff,
Norwich, Oxford, and Rochester, the Judge of the Pre-
rogative Court, the Earl of Bessborough, the Right Hon.
H. Hobhouse, and the Dean of Westminster.
The Duke of Wellington gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday at Apsley-house.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. Vabraham, Mr.
Jervis, M P., Mr. Tolemache, M.P., Mr. P. Davies
Cooke, Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Brittain, and Mr.
Hicklin, had an interview yesterday with Sir R. Peel.

SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
MONDAY, MARCH 23.

Great Grimsby, Louth, Herneastle, Lincoln, and' idland Junction,
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Extension.
Edinburgh, Lidth, and Grant= Amendment.
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25.
- -

Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways.
Furness and Windermere.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

TUESDAY. MARCH 17.
CUSTOMS AND CORN IMPORTATION.

Question put, "That Hides or pieces thereof tawed, curried, var-
nished, japanned, enamelled, Muscovy ur Russia Hides, or pieces
thereof, tanned, coloured shaved, or otherwise dressed, and Hides, or
pieces thereof, in any way dressed, not otherwise enumerated,' stand
part of the Resolution." The House divided :

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WARWICK RACES-WEDNESDAY.

Match ; 100 soy& One mile and a half, over four hurdles.
Mr. Lambden's Chance, llst 121 b (olliver) 1
Mr. Clifton's Pedlar, 12st 21b

5t04 on Chance. Won easy.
The Debdal Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added by the
Stewards,;, for hunters, 12st each. Two miles. (6 Subs.)
Mr. E. Ilycle.Clarke's Leo. aged, list 71b (Capt. Brooks) 1
Mr. Mylton!s4b q, by Volney, out of Saturnia 2
Mr. IL de Rode's Pullaway, list 71b 3
Mr. Clifton's Puff-and-Dart, aged, 11st 71b
Mr. Sanders's Princess, list 71b, came to the post, but
would not start. 6' agst Leo. Won cleverly by half a
length.
.Match; 1,000 soya. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. O'Brien's Needful, Est 21b (Wintringhara) 1
Mr. Clifton's Nottingham, Bst 71b
6t04 on Needful. Woa in a trot. Nottingham broke
down.

THE OREGON TERRITORY.—Knight's Weekly
Volume. No. LXXXIX.
A clear, candid, and comprehensive description of
those territories on the western coast of North America
known by the geographical name of Oregon, was very
greatly wanted, both on account of their growing im-
portance and in consequence of the friendship at pre-
sent subsisting between Great Britain and the United
States being just now at jeopardy solely on the score of
that segment of the Western Hemisphere. This de-
sired description is fully realised in the little volume
before us, for it possesses a title to those very requisites,
perspicuity, candour, and comprehensiveness. We re
turn our acknowledgments to the Rev. Mr. Nicolay for
having satisfied a justifiable curiosity ; he has treated
the subject in a manner precisely suitable, and without
any loftier pretensions than that of stating facts with as
much tetseness as is compatible with clearness. And
while we can never cease to deprecate that atrocious
spirit of avarice which would plunge nations into war-
fare for the mere purpose of individual agrandisement,
we cannot, especially atter a perusal of this book, but
acknowledge that a country so fertile in its resources
and so advantageously situated for the interests of its
possessors, is no ♦ery contemptible or ♦aluless tempta-
tion. To no kingdom, however, could this plea form a
sufficient palliation for the commencement of a gigantic
and sanguinary contest ; and how much the m :re doe.
this observation apply to nations so blended together in
all their social, political, and moral relations as England
and America I No language can •be strong enough to
reprobate those who would embroil such countries in
such a struggle for such unprincipled and mercenary
motives ! It would be a spectacle of civil war upon a
grand scale ; it would be an antagonism of the same
tongue, of the same religion, of the same political sym-
pathies. Before hostilities, however, are further dreamt
of, let all brawlers for national honour pause and medi-
tate ; there is a moral to be drawn even from the fable
of the two peasants who fought for the mule while a
neighbour availed himself of the opportunity to appro-
priate the animal to his own uses. It appears that the
natural productions of Oregon are various—an abund-
ance of furs, profitable whale fisheries, wool, hides, tim-
ber, tallow, and cattle of different descriptions ; to
which must be added wheat, barley, Indian corn, apples,
and minerals, such as iron, lead, tin, and copper. The
herds of wild horses alone might be rendered a source
of extraordinary wealth, scattered over the plains in
bands of from 3,000 to 4,000. For the exportation of
these the ports are most advantageously situated ; and,
altogether the Oregon territories, though no El .Dorado,
may in future times become the seat of vast commercial
enterprise.

The Warrick Handicap of 15 Errs. each ; 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared :AD .added. Twan ilea (Ten_ Sabs—Lato _of
whom paid.)
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Templeman) 1
Mr. Raworth's Kilgram, 5 yrs, 7st 51b 2
Lord Brooke's Roebuck, 4 yrs, 7st ... • .
Mr. Scott's Mosque, aged, Bst
Mr. Death's Subduer, 6 yrs, 7st 81b, Mr. E. Peel's Jack
Sheppard, aged, Tat, and Mr. Foster's Isabella, 3 yrs, sst, also
ran.

Betting-2 to lon the field, 3to 1 agst Subduer (t), 4to
1 aget Godfrey (taken freely), 4 to 1 agst Mosque (t), 4 to 1
agst Isabella, and 5 to 1 agst Jack Sheppard. Godfrey
challenged Kilgram at the distance, eefeated him without an
effort, and won easily by half a length ; Roebuck, who made
nearly all the running, was a bad third.
The Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 50 added, for 3 yrs
old, 7st ; and 4 yrs, 9st ; winner of Derby, Oaks, or
St. Leger, 101bs extra; those that never won allowed 21bs.
One mile. 9 Subs.
Mr A. W. Hill's Burlesque, 3 yra
Mr. Maugham's Cherry Bounce, 3 prs
Mr. Meiklam's bc by Touchsteve, out of Laura, 3 yrs 3
Sir R. Pigott's cby Colwick, out of Peeress, 3 yrs ...... 4
Mr. W. Scott's Highfield, 3 yrs
7 to 4 on Burlesque; 5 to 2 agst Highfield ; and 4 to 1 agst
C. erry Bounce. Burlesque made all the running, and won
in a canter.
Handicap Hurdle Race for a cup of 501. Two miles over five
hurdles. Gentlemen riders.
Lord Glamis' Belshazzar, aged, 1 Ist 81b (Owner) 1
Mr. J. Wilson's Mantrap, list 61b 2
The following also started :—Lord Guernsay's na Eagle,
list 51b—Mr. E. Welch's Slasher, lOst 41b—Mr. R. Clifton's
Pedlar, list 111b—Mr. Lambden's Chance, and Mr. Rolt's
Argus, 11 st.

The ot her match was off by consent, and the Farmers' race
not run when our acccount left.

The town full, aud the meeting a good one.
BETTING AT THE BEDFORD HOTEL,
TUESDAY NIGHT.
_ _

NORTHAMPTOWSHIRR STAKES.-300 to 25 agst Needful (t),
300 to 25 and 900 to 100 apt his winning this race and his
match for 1,000/.
CHESTER CUP.--17 to 1 agst Sweetmeat (16 to 1 was taken
on the course, and after the Trial Stakes, 10 to 1 was taken
freely), 600 to 20 agst Arthur (t), 35 to 1 agst Whinstone
(t). On the course, 25 to 1 was taken about Hope, 1,000 to
30 about Mermaid, 1,000 to 25 agst Billy Purvis,
and 40 to
1 agst Arthur.

CITY OF LONDON PENSION
SOCIETY.
The anniversary festival of this Institution was held
last evening at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate.street,
the most noble the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T. T. in the
chair.
g
xentlemen sat down to an
placed upon the table in
x o
that admirable style for which Messrs. Bathe and
e Ac
Ili dinner,el oe
k whichab out
wasl7o
Breache are so celebrated.
The gallery was filled by ladies, and the champagne,
which circulated briskly at the dinner-table, was not
confined to the body of the room, for the fair auditors
in the gallery had likewise an opportunity of judging
of the excellency of the champagne furnished at the
London Tavern. The band of the Fusileer guards
was in attendance, and performed several popular
airs during the course of the evening. The vocal
arrangements were under the direction of Mr. J. Bru-
ton, who wasassisted by Messrs. Genge, Turner, Sporle,
and Farquharson Smith. The veteran Toole officiated
as toast-master.
The cloth having been withdrawn, the usual loyal
Cte Navy
and Army,"
took occasion to allude to the
bloody toasts were drank w;th all the honours. In proposir.g
the
in which our troops were now engaged
in India, and in the course of which they had, as usual,
Noblearff a "r
e
icovered themselves with glory. Ile further said, that it
must be a source of great satisfaction to know that the
war in which we were at present engaged in that coun-
try was
To
toast
w
one of a purely defensive nature.—[This allu-
sion to the gallant deeds of our troops on the banks of
the Sutlej was received with enthusiastic applause.]—
The toast having been drank with all the honours,
The Crlarnmarr rose to propose the toast of the even-
ing, Prosperity. to the City of London Pen on
Suciety, and may it flourish for ever."---(Loud cheers.)
The Chat itv which they were there met to support was
characterised by that which was the peculiar character-
istic of charity proprly so called—it was universal.—
(Cheers.) It was only limited by the extent of its
means of doing good. All who were in distress were
eligible to receive its benefits without distinction of sect
or country. It was, however, more especially appro-
priated to the relief of distressed artizens, manufac-
turers, and tradesmen, who had preserved a good char-
acter through life, by allowing them in their old age,
pensions, the amount of which was settled by the
board of directors ; and also by allowing pensions to the
deserving widows of such persons. None were admitted
to the benefits of the society who were under the ago of
60, unless they were labouring under a total incapacity
of earning a livelihood. The funds of the society were
devoted to the relief of persons who had become dis-
tressed, not from their own imprudence, but
from causes over which they could have had
no control ; and the strictest inquiry was in-
stituted into the merits of each particular case. The
pensions were conferred only on persons who had been
reduced to distress by the decay of their natural
powers, or by the vicissitudes of trade. At the present
time, when such great changes were going on in trade,
such a society was particularly deserving of support ;
for however much those changes might benefit the com-
munity at large, yet it was not possible to introduce
any. changes in trade without this being accom-
panied by cases of individual distress which
could not but open a wide field for the exertions

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI

TUTIO N.

Within these few days there has been an addition to
the ordinary features of this establishment. This attract
tion is some opaque microscopic portraits of a number of
the most distinguisheneaders of the Seikhs, all but one
of whom were opposed to our troops in the late battles of
the Sutlej. The portraits have been selected from the
work of a lady of eminent artistical talent, who was
resident in the Punjaub a number of years, and her
portraits are considered to be striking likenesses. Those
men appear favoured by nature, being well formed and
athletic, and do not indicate, either by the peculiar
construction of the face,. or by the expression of the
eye, that great feeling of ferocity and cruelty which is
stated to be a leading characteristic amongst them.
On the cofitrary, the majority had handsome features,
no scowl or overhanging brow, but presenting a clear
openness of countenance, and beautifully formed features.
The instrument by which these interesting pictures are
exhibited is the well-known opaque microscope, in-
vented by Mr. Longbottom, and brought before the
piddle with great success at the Polytechnic Institution.
It is intended, we understand, that there shall be given
a series of portraits of all the public characters engaged
in the present struggle—our own bravo countryman the
late Sir Robert Sale, Lady Sale, Sir Henry Hardinge,
Sir Hugh Gough, and other distinguished individual!.
The directors, for the spirited way-with which this
splendid institution is conducted, well merit the public
approbation and support.

THN ASSlM.—Considerable inconvenience has been
felt, and in many instances grievous injury inflicted 'upon
suiters and witnessei, by reason of the short time allowed by
the judges for the transaction of public business in the dif-
ferent assize towns—b,tween the closing of the Courts in ine
bailiwick sad the opening of them in another. It is abso-
lutely and. legally neus,ary, wirien once the days
are named, and the precepts sealed, that the commission for
the county.eity, or town, should he opened on the very day
stated, without any reference to the quantity of business—
crown or civil—undisposed of at the previous place of sit-
ting. This is an evil of such magnitude. that it is to be
hoped means will be taken to pre:ent its recurrence here-
after. —D üblin Evening Mail.—[The same evil has for
years past prevailed in England. It is to lie hoped that the
'executive will provide a speedy remedy for it in both coun-
tries.—En.
STATE OF TEIE GAS MAlNS.—There are hundreds of
service pipes that are completely decayed, and from which
more gas escapes than is used in the houses they supply, and
which, working its way into the sewers, finds vent at the
gratings, and produces the annoying smell so common in •
the streets of Loudon, whilst no trace of it is discovered
(until the ground be opened) where it actually escapes.
The joints of the cast• iron pipes are generally defective, and
instances have been known of the ends of the pipe and out-
lets being left open —,,lorrespondent of ihe Builder.
Sir George Hastings, Viscount Strathellan and son,
arrived in town on Monday afternoon, passengers by the
General Steam Navigation Company's steant-ship ClaVelacep
from Edinburgh,

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EyENING. MARCH 19, 1846.

of this socloty.—(Cheers.) The class of individuals to
which 11,, alluded had given their best exertions to bene-
fit society, end it was the duty Of society to relieve them
in their distress, and that relief would be afforded as far
as their funds would admit by this society. 'Unfor-
tunately the.society had been subject to great fluctuations.
At one period they had had as many as 500 pensioners
on their books. At present they had 52 on their list.
Of these 22 were above eighty years of age, 15 were
upwards of seventy, and 15 were upwards of sixty.
Relief was afforded to all, as far as the funds would go,
without distinction of religion or country. Wherever
they found distress there they held out the
relieving hand, and this charity was what all charities
ought to be, universal.—(Cheers.)
The toast was then drank with three time three, after
which Mr. Bruton sang an admirable original comic
song, which being encored, he, after the manner of comic
vocalists, sung another song equally good with the first.
On the health of the Secretary, Mr. H. F. Richard
son, being drank, that gentleman gave a detailed history
of the society from its first formation in 1818 up to the
present time, and read a list of the subscriptions, which
amounted in the whole to upwards of 9001., and various
other toasts were drunk and responded to, and the com-
pany separated at about half-past eleven o'clock.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, MARCH 16.—The weekly meeting of the Assails-
tion was held this day; Mr. Mitchell in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN having briefly addressed the meeting, the
Secretary read the following letter from Mr. O'Connell
" London, March 14, 1846.
"My dear Ray,—l have been so hurried to-day, that I had
net time to send a commentary- upon the remaining clauses
of the coercion ukase. I regret it the more as there mixes
with the horrors of some of its enactments something exceed-
ingly ludicrous and provokingly absurd. There is one thing
very peculiar; namely, that it is the first enactment against
tee-totallers, and places on the same footing the beastly
drinkers of whisky with the virtuous and abstemious friends
of tee- totalism. In fact, under this Act, a man may be
transported seven years for presuming to drink a :cup of
coffee in any house but his own. But I shall reserve for the
next day of meeting further commentary.
" My great object in writing this hurried line is to conjure
the independent Members of Parliament to come to London
as speedily es possible. The.presence of every Irish Member
friendly,to constitutional liberty is essentially required by
the exigence of the times.
"There is one consolation—that the atrocious add ludicrous
Coercion Bill carries with it a most unanswerable argument
in favour of the protection of a domestic Parliament.
" Believe me to be faithfully yours,
" T. M. Ray, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Mr. Gaarrax, M.P., having moved the insertion of the
letter in the minutes, expressed his determination of pro-
ceeding immediately to London for the purpose of opposing
the Coercion Bill. It had been his determination not to
enter the House of Commons so long as the Irish Arms Act
remained on the statute-book, but the urgent necessity of re-
sisting the proposed despotic enactment obliged him to alter
his resolution. In conclusion, the Hon. Gentleman handed
in 1001. from the Repealers of New York.
Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting, a resolu-
tion (moved by Mr. Grattan) directing the committee of the
Association to prepare a report on the extent of crime in Ire-
land against the next day of meeting, was adopted.
The rent for the week was then announced to be 2401.95. 2d.
The meeting then adjourned.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.—CIonineI, March 13.
SOUTH TIPPERARY.

Thomas Fenissy, murder of his servant, Patrick
Crotty, was put on his trial yesterday, and the case has oc-
cupied the greater part of two days.
Judge BALL left it to the jury to say whether the homi-
cide amounted to deliberate murder, or presented the more
mitigated character of manslaughter.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty of murder, but
guilty of manslaughter.