The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-08 00:00:00

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

BREA?. I BARLEY. I OATS. EYE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
IS Od is Od is Od Is Od Is Od is 04

QUANTITIES OP GRAIN' SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK.
Wheat, 79,281; Barley, 1,837 ; Oats, 7,595 ; Eye, 67 ; Beans, 3,219;
Peas, 466 quarters.

SHERIFF'S COURT --(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL

BIIRLEIGH V. STONE.
SmauLen CASE.—This was an action for goods sold
and money lent, and interest. The sum claimed was
121. 10r.

The facts stated on behalf cf the plaintiff were these.
In June, 1844, defendant being desirous of making a
present of a horse t•-) his father, applied to plaintiff, wbo
was a friend of the family, and the latter advanced the
money for the purchase of the horse, as defendant, who
had been just married, did not wish his wife to know
anything about the matter. After a length of time an
application was made for payment, and detendaat's sister
wrote a letter on his behalf, and hoped for further time
under the peculiar circumstances, and subsequently 21.
was paid by defendant's mother.
A son of the plaintiff was called, but he could not
remember but very little of the transaction.
Simeon Stone, the father of defendant (an elderly
man), was called, but did not kiss the book.

The Counsel fur the defendant said there was an ob-
jection to be sworn, in consequence of his state of mind.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said that he could not try the
question of lunacy; the person had been called as a wit-
ness, and must be sworn. This having been done, the
witness said he could not remember anything about the
matter, his memory was so bad.
Other witnesses were called, but in consequence of
the lapse cf time the evidence was very indistinct.
The defence was, that the horse was bought on the
father's account, and that plaintiff had previously known
it was wanted.

The jury ultimately gave a verdict for the defendant.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Sergeant Adams and a Bench of Magistrates sat
this morning at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, to
dispose of appeals and bail cases.
ASSAULT ON MR. JOHN PATRICK SOMERS, M.P.
FOR SLlGO.—Charles Bentley surrendered to take
his trial upon an indictment charging him with having
assaulted Mr. John Patrick Somers, M.P. for Sligo.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
The assault complained of, it will be remembered, took
place in the Westminster Scholars' Cricket-ground, at
the back of Rochester-row, Westminster. The case
was taken to the Westminster police.court, but the ma-
gistrate, who could only inflict a fine of 51., said if the
matter was disposed of summarily, persons might con-
sider they had a right to amuse themselves by commit-
ting assaults by putting their hands in their pockets and
paying that sum; he, therefore, remitted the case to
these sessions.

Mr. CLARKSON who appeared for the heads of the
Westminster School, said that they had made a full in-
quiry into the case, and would pay the cost of the pro-
secution.

Mr. BALLANTINE, who apreared for Mr. Somers, said,
that he was fully aware that no blame was to be attached
to the beads of the school. lie hoped that they would
make the prisoner pay the whole of the costs.
The L( arned JUDGE, after praising the Christian and
gentlemanly conduct of Mr. Somers, convicted the pri-
soner in the nominal fine of one shilling.
The fine was paid, and the prisoner discharged.
The Court was crowded with gentlemen and scholars
anxious to hear the result.

SfrItLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
THREATENING THE LIFE OF THE PREIHIER.—Wit-
Iiam James, the young man who was brought to this
court on Thursday last charged with having a letter in
his possession threatening the life of Lord John Russell,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham fir re-exa-
mination. It will be in the recollection of our readers
that on the night of Wednesday, the 31st ult., the pri-
soner went up to Robards, 307 A, who was on duty at
the White Horse Cellar, and handed to him an unsealed
letter, at the same time expressing his horror at its
contents. The constable read the letter, which
contained threats to assassinate Lord John Russell
on his way to the House of Commons on
the following Tuesday. This letter was signed
" Thorn, Spencer, Duckworth," the names of
three paupers who were in the workhouse of St. Luke's,
Chelsea, at the same time as the prisoner, who was em-
ployed in the overseer's office. Atter having read the
letter, the constable came to the conclusion that the pri-
soner was the a riter, and very properly conveyed him to
the station, to give an account of himself. This he did
in such an unsatisfactory manner that the inspector on
duty thought it advisable to detain him until he had
been before the magistrate. Since the last examination
the prisoner's lodgings have been strictly searched, and
several letters of a threatening nature discovered,. ad-
dressed to Lord Grosvenor and several other noblemen
and gentlemen, which were taken possession of by the
police.
The following additional evidence was now adduced :
Inrpcetor Whall produced a letter addressed to Lord
Grosvenor, wherein the prisoner applies for a situation,
and using threats if his wishes were not granted.
Mr Burdes, relieving officer to the parish of St. Luke,
Chelsea, said the prisoner was formerly employed in his
office. He (prisoner) was frequently in the habit of
writing anonymous letters. Tne whole of the letters
produced were in his handwriting.
Some other evidence was gone.into, and the prisoner
was fully committed.

That conduct will be continued by our fears which
commenced in our resentment. Eliza Cook's Journal.
COLOSSEUM AND CYCLORAMA.—This exhibition
continues to be crowded by fashionable visitors. The pro-
prietors have lately made extensive alterations in the venti-
lation of the building, and it now forms one of the most de-
lightful promenades during the warm weather. Several new
works of sculpture have lately been added to its previous
excellent c9llvctiOn,

ABOLITION ofBURIALS in TOWNS.
(From the Lancet of Saturday, July 27.)
The benefits conferred on the great human family by
the labourers and discoverers in the field of medicine,
are seldom or ever appreciated to their full extent. And
why is it that the benefactors of their species in the
medical profession are seldom or never rewarded? The
reason is obvious. The discoveries in medicine tare nut
such as to dazzle the imagination or to awaken the en-
thusiasm of the many; and it is only to the thir.king
few that the real benefits they confer on the human spe-
cies are appreciable. Look, for instance, at Harvey.
How few are there who regard his splendid discovery
of the circulation of the blood with anything like the
honour it deserves. We know and speak of it, it is
true, but not in the way in which we speak of Newton's
discovery in gravitation, that of Galileo of the pendulum,
or that of Watt in relation to the power of steam. And
yet look at the great demonstration of Harvey; look at
it as influencing the entire theory and practice of medi-
cine, and as laying the foundation of a rational system
of treatment. Who is to calculate the amount of benefit
conferred on mankind by the knowledge that Harvey
communicated to the world! Let us take a more recent
instance. Let us refer to that great benefactor of man
in every portion of the globe, in which the eff. ct of even
Ihe slightest civilization has been felt—Edward Jenner.
Who is to estimate the value of vaccination!
What was the reward of Jennie- for preserving, in thou-
sands of cases, from almost hideous disfigurement, the
" human face divine;" for saving myriads of the young
and the fair from a premature grave? It is true that he
received a grant of money from the Government to a
pitiful amount, But that grant was procured with diffi-
culty, and only through the persevering efforts of a sin-
gle great and good man. The national temple, where
the bones of statesmen, of poets, and philosophers lie
buried, contains no memorial of Harvey or of Jenner!
No statues are erected in public places; no honours con-
ferred on their descendants. Whilst Blenheim is dedi-
cated to the descendants of a Marlborough, the solitary
representative of Jenner, we believe, if alive, is at this
moment in poverty. Such are instances of the gratitude
of a nation. To the warrior, the destroyer of his
species in the field of battle, the national assembly vote
a splendid palace, and a dukedom ; to the pre-
server of his kind, to the great medical discoverer
and philanthropist, they vote a niggardly grant of
money, and leave his descendants to starve. These re-
flections have been forced upon us by the neglect which
public benefactors connected with medicine have ex-
perienced. It would be unjustifiable to contend that the
result of the late sanitary movement would ever be
equally beneficial with the Jennerian discovery; but we
may refer to the treatment which the author of that
movement has received as another illustration of the
manner in which philanthropists connected with the
practice of medicine are consiantly exposed, whose ser-
vices the state has shown no dispesition either to ac-
knowledge or reward; it is left to a committee of private
gentlemen to bestow honour on our sanitary reformer,
Mr. G. A. Walker. He was the first and the last to
labour with perseverance and ability in the cause of sa-
nitary regeneration. It would be difficult to
over-rate the value of his labours, resulting, as
they have done, in extra-mural burial. Let us
reflect for a moment on the effects of infra-mural
interment. In great cities it pollutes the atmosphere,
engenders disease, and makes those maladies which do
exist more general, more severe, and consequently more
destructive. It produces a state of system in those re-
siding near burial-places which induces typhus, and
probably that most malignant of diseases—cholera. The
newly-opened grave in a crowded churchyard has struck
down with a fatal blow the strong man who has inhaled
the poisonous vapours of a pestilent hole; it has ori-
ginated the most fatal epidemics and destroyed the most
valuable lives. And the man to whom the merit is due
of having put a stop to these terrible effects has not re-
ceived even the thanks of his country. He has worked
for years for the benefit of his fellow-creatures. We
cannot believe that the citizens of London, or his fellow-
men in general, will be so lost to all sense of grati-
tude and of decency as not to reward the man who, like
the Jewish legislator of old, stayed the plague by stand-
ing " betwixt the living and the dead."

WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICK-
LOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—The reports of Thursday's proceedings in
Parliament do me an injustice which I can only re-
medy by your indulgence. In opposition to the in-
quiry sought for at the hands of the House, Mr. La-
bouchere, in conjunction with Mr. Hayter, one of the
provisional committee, said that the Commissioners
had invited statements of any matters within their
functions, and that the House of Lords had investi-
gated the circumstances as to the abstraction of the
Commons' documents (material to the case against
the directors), and had censured the parties
implicated therein. Whereas the truth is, that the
Commissioners in their letters never once re-
ferred to " these functions," or gave any reason for
not investigating beyond that members of the Govern-
ment were concerned—they simply asked for written
statements preparatory to an interview with this
Committee—had them, and after seven week's cor-
respondence and delay, suddenly took one of these
statements to the House of Lords, and complained of
" its roam," on which ground alone, did the Lords
act. Tne House of Lords only incidentally inquired
after the " missing documents," whose loss was known
to the company two days before the grant was made
for them.

These facts appear in the printed papers, No. 297,
on the table of the House. But as the matter cannot
rest here, I will only solicit your insertion of this
correction,—l am, Sir, &c., _

Westminster, Saturday.

CHARLES NASH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:

SlR,—The acccunt given in the Morning Herald of the
meeting last evening in the Freemasons' Hall, in refer-
ence to the new postal arrangements, is such a flagrant
misrepresentation, that I, who attended from the com-
mencement to the close (myself at any rate wholly un-
connected with the press), cannot but feel surprised that
persons should imagine that a cause (if good) could be
promoted or required such means to promote it—l say
the Morning herald has certainly disgraced itself in this
perversion of facts; but still I suspect that it will not
succeed in conveying a, false.impression to thine who un-
derstand human nature, for they will perceive which side
is gaining. I have attended many meetings, bet never
one that could be more emphatically called a public
meeting. Supposing the account in the Morning Herald
true, it surely must be surprising to learn that the weekly
press keep such a formidable staff of employes, the gal-
lery in which I sat being crammed, and the spacious
room below being full. The meeting was interesting in
several respects; the applause renewed again and again,
when a touching reference was made to the universally
lamented benefactor, Sir Robert Peel, was another proot
—if any were wanting—showing (that for whatever
purpose assembled) what was yet uppermost in the minds
of the people. 'The account of the daughter who,
through the changes in the post, was unable to see her
mother alive, was affecting in the extreme; the presence
too of the veteran Reformer, who conducted the meeting
admirably, was refreshing. I bad not seen him since he
was a candidate fur Middlesex, but find he still remains
what be then professed, the enemy of abuses and Luis'.
government.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,

_ .
VERITAS.
8, New Turnstile, Lincoln's Inn.fields.

THE HARVEST.— (From a Correspondent.)--The
harvest in Bedfordshire and the adjoining counties has com-
menced, the weather as favourable as can be wished for, and
the crops, particularly of wheat and barley, are most abun-
dant. Several fields of wheat are estimated at six, and bar-
ley at seven to eight quarters per acre, which skoweth the
goodness of an all-wise Providence, and frustrates the nefa-
rious actions of designing men, who have of late attempted,
by false alarm, to lessen the bounties of creation, to gratify
a covetous and impure motive.
YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL
MEETING AT THIESE., nintaK, AuG. 7.—The thirteenth
annual meeting of this society is now holding at this place,
and promises to be the most successful of any held since the
formation of the society. Many parties who have been dis-
posed to take a gloomy view of agricultural pursuits pre-
dicted that these annual exhibitions would fall off. Mr.
Harman, a wealthy farmer, of North Deighton,
at the annual meeting of the Harewood society,
held on Friday last, told Lord Harewood that with a
continuance of the present system, his Lordship could not
keep his peerage, or his tenants their position, but his
Lordship, in reply, told the croaker to be of good
cheer, for better times were in prospect; whilst
his Lordship's brother, the Hon. Arthur Lascelles,
reminded Mr. Harman, that corn had, during the
pas t year, sold at higher prices in unprotected England,
than had been obtained in the protected countries of the
Continent; and Mr. Harman's own son himself, one of the
judges of the stock, spoke of the Harewood show of last week
as superior, especially in the quality of the stock shown, to
that of any former year. ,The same is from all appearances
likely to be the case as regards the exhibition in connexion
with the larger society of Yorkshire. The assemblage of
agricultural implements in the show-yard is very large, the
number shown being twice as many as were shown at Leeds
last year. whilst the entries of stock is 590, being nearly 200
more than have been exhibited in any previous year since
the formation of the society. The Duke of Leeds, the pre-
sident of the society, is expected here to-day or to-morrow.
The amount to be awarded in prizes for implements is 1701.
The prizes will be awarded this afternoon. As we have said,
the show of implements is very large.
NORTHUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—
On Tuesday, at Alnwick, the annual show of stock of the
Northumberland Agricultural Society took place. The ex-
hibition was held under the most favourable auspices, his
Grace the Duke of Northumberland having taken a very
active part in it. The show ground was situated on the
highest part of the town, and animals exhibited at the re-
cent great meetings at Exeter and Glasgow, and which car-
ried off first-class prizes, were again shown here with equal
success. After the show a banquet took place, the Duke of
Northumberland presiding.
THE WALKER TESTIMONIAL.—Yesterday the
Committee for the collection of a suitable testimonial to Mr.
George Alfred Walker met at 6A, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall,
fo- the dispatch of business. It is with great pleasure we
find that the subscriptions towards this testimonial are
rapidly increasing.

.
DEATH of DEAN LEE.—The Very Rev. Ussher
Lee, Dean of Waterford, died on Sunday morning last, in
the 86th year of his age.

ECLIPSE OF TUE SUN.—There was a total eclipse
of the sun yesterday afternoon, but it was invisible to any
part of England. The penumbra first touched our globe at
56 minutes past six in the afternoon, and left the Fame at
11 minutes after midnight. The eclipse was central and
total over a large extent of the Pacific Ocean.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND AND GLASGOW
UNION RAILWAY.—The Master has appointed Mr. Harding
to wind up 1444 iAtP.N.49 Whig c9o.3PanY'4. affairs.

THE RIVER PLATI::_ Aso
CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJES i''
TY
THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION.
of
The following bus beenpresented to both houses
Parliament:--- eATICA"
[SIGNED AT BUENOS AYRES, NOV. 24, 1549.------ s.-,
TIONS EXCHANGED AT BUENOS AYRES, MAY 15. 18T5V---j•
CONVENTION FOR RE ESTABLISHING THE rEREEco, 1.1;
LATir Ns OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN HE a Dail' lqr4
sieeresTy AND THE ARGENTINE CONEEDER&TION; ~..
Iler Majesty the Queen of Greet Britain, and It's •r,..
eellency the Governor and Captain-General of the
rP:,°_.
vines of Buenos Ayres, charged with tbe foreign :!,
tions Of the Argentine Confaleration, :beieg desirou_f_
putting an end to the existing difference, and of res;
lieg perfect relations of friendship, in accordanceiglo
, , aatnelsrea
the wishes manifested by both Governments; ''
Govcrnrnent of her Britannic Majesty having T . eietc,
that it has no separate nor interested object in e ,
nor any !independence esire tan to see securely establishe.t
_l.llo',
p ace and of the states of the !liver 11_5`.,
es recngniscd by treaty, have named to that eater( f
their Plenipotentiaries, viz.:—
n' "gen
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britairi
Southern, Esq., her Majesty's Minister Plenirtentilri
accredited to the Court of BUCDOS Ayres; apeeral
And his Excellency the Governor and Captaie"'e- the
of the province of Buenos A.yres, his ExcellehAe-iraos;
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Doctor Don FeliPe "'Their
Who, Lifter having coramuideated to each other , doe
respective full pursers, and found them in good and
form, have agreed as follows:—
Alt. 1. The Government of her Britannic ialieffsKtit:
animated by the desire cf putting an end to the vow
e:ces which. h ire interrupted the political and cotno
tbe
tat relations between the two countries, hsviog el bed
15th of July, 1847, raised the blockade which lof the
established of the pOrt4 of the two republics
cti,
Plata, thereby giving a proof of its conciliatory :canto
ments, now hereby binds itself in the same al?„ Gar-
spirit definitively to evacuate the island ofblotto in
cis; to return the Argentine vessels of warehicute they
its possession, as far as possible in the s stele
were in when taken; and to salute the flag of the 11"1
tine Confederation with twenty-one guns.
rt. 2. By both contracting parties shall
to their respective owners all the merchant ve_, ' •
.their cargoes, taken by them during the blockaoeeing iii
~
_ Art. 3. The auxiliary Argentine divisions esis" won
the Oriental State shall return across the Tjrugualoioa
theand French Government disarms the Foreign • Itud
der o°3B Les
all other foreigners Who may bo tin veal-
form the - garrison of the town ot Monte Yids°, e,_ ado
thet territory of the two Republics of the Plata, ifs estee.
Britannic Majesty's Government, in
inserhostile osition, and celebrates a treaty 01 10)„g of
bpsfsvriir
cosevCring-
its being necessary, offers to use its good office:Rinp bile'
mg about these objects with its ally theFrenc-- tereticor
Art. 4. Her Britannic Majesty's Governmee Ostia
nises the navigation of the river Farina tO be ,40 objec
snavigation of the Argentine Confederation, ett" meaner lis
olely to its laws and regulations in the saMe °Lents'
that of the river U in ' • h the Lent
common with
Goveranil ecl sea
State. lit bit"
. Art. 5. Her Britannic Majesty's
mg declared, " that it is freely acknowle.agin iba
admitted that the Argentine Republic 1, neeri
unquestioned enjoyment and exercise °,l hi sat
right, whether of peace or war, possessen
urge
ot
independent nation ; and that if the e(lceentll
eventsfor in the Oriental Republic has made it ° Baer
the allied powers to interrupt fora time thehelio it i°
of the belligerent rights of the Argentine BePe,,;hoe
fullye admitted that the principles on which tv),:no sk,
eyed would, under similar circumstances, bait ."„ villa
p icable either to Great Britain or France," It te-orel w
tagreed that the Argentine Government, with regard r'
thuis declaration, retains its right to discuss .' ;0 ilio-
nely with the Government of Great Britaint.' le,
part which relates to the application of the princltPovid
Art. 6. In virtue-of the Argentine Goverefecv on cor
declared that it would celebrate this conventica tof the(
ditionor that its ally, his Excellency the Presidelioes°
iental Republic of Uruguay, Brigadier Dee fen
the
Argentine Oribe,
should previously agree to it—this hehjgditiOS in
Government an indispensable evil...it Prir
seeded
arrangement of the existing differencee d beitill
eeed to solicit the assent of its said aili, sh°, ogre&
obtained it, the present convention is her
upon and concluded. ; ndshiP bee;
Art. 7. Under this convention perfect fr.e - }ad I-
tween hr Britannic Majesty's GovernMent its for
Government of the Confederation is restored ° A r
0 me
Ar
rstate of good understanding and cordishtet the 4..
Art. 8. This convention shall be ratified e/
the rsti"‘
gentile Government within fifteen days after 't is Pri.
cation of her Britannic Majesty's Governeoeevo :al
and the ratifications shall be exchseg • ries 6'
Art. 9. In witness whereof the plenipetent° that is
this th
convention, and affix the seals of their arnis her, '-
Done at Buenos Ayres on the 24th of NOYe°
the year of our Lord 1849. soulo6°.
(L.S.) HENRY
(L.S.) FEW" 'All114)..
....
ne Alt• t
A GENUINE BRITISH '• —rawer
If we had not the best warrant for the 'to" fieo,'l
amusing circumstance, we should)te'lmost feerlnreollo'i
placed among those apocryphal anecdotes wh3e-ece weir
endurable because they are " characteristie- ' der iS 'et;
however, vouch for its perfect truth : TberetinelsPt;',lli(l
miliar with the story of " Mazeppa," and its - Ast,'-'s e 4
to the
f stage of Mr. Batty's splendid the
°e r.e- it;
of-war evenings since a sailor, evidently %none
breed, paid a visit to the theatre nn'lr the °P.'s(
seat '
with in
the
pit.
the Iletman and tilhee
attention. lee sym • • the P.'" lam9o'"
sympathised with be Ape!'
thee eiv
e the
justiceinterruption ito f
the experienced,pree)e.eeduainunggd lh:yod uYoled.
hi ej
evh. s;:ttobt.crilifil,
:fa'aytreehed the course co
.i. jeca
horse
edoomed Mazeppa to be lashed to the hsee the 'ea
of the desert. In deference, however, t"tejtSene.
sence of a large audience, Jack for a long aril:91;00o
theA whole proceeding with calmness, if not vliteisfilalt
t length his indignation rose to ahi h and :from. ihe
pitch. Seeing Mazeppa, as he su pog ed, Ort.
his long gallop over the steppes,Phee boneve°,,--etceeyttrOS.
pit and endeavoured to make his way overtm„; toil- it'
inheorder to put an end to such tyrannical .„Bees,:l,ols
t stage. He invoked his eyes an limb° to 00 it'd' he
Hess that he would not allow a gentleinanet°o Wo11.01:
with. He had not deserved it, and he OgIv"-' The -es
s.e. no. matter what—if it should continne'bo ter,:tos
—eindal-aenamsveoriuneretdmh
tbaokoer
persuadechpersettrean
pretence. That
remonstrated
vi lilt b
et.ii
of i'll'hijOrg
who!
iira., 40 ._f
id 00. op,
Jacks; he had the use of his senses as fid hifer' °°'
people, and he saw what was going out The 1:06011.0('
timbers if he'd stand it at any price. i,nest 113,011.
&c., were, however, too many for the twee scot' se'
war's-man. Unlike Mr. T. P. Cooke, IT Jolt cosh
whole army of opponents single-hande ot, bolgtoeso'
eum bed to the united orchestral force, n a his col
without expressing a hearty wish that he hitt,. tbeete net
mate, Big Tem, by his sid • he'd soon 'e'hi 000 A
1 or would sit
whether a British sal. e—
• • tIY '''' (J. -
gate
such a thorough gentleman as AlezePP h ese h
ill-Osie teriefi;
length the blue jacket was induced to waive ;else fr)fo'
onee and silently await the .issue. Great nee to oars
delight to find that justice was at length, le.-0 ho;rog
zeeppq. and his true love restored to him w't".s-rele6P r
nhd rejoicings. He would now have given II "03 eoec,bl
to aye been allowed to jump on to the stage 5,-, tried U`
tulate the worthy gentleman on his uhilltr-apttiliOg
but as this was as much out of rule as hie,ccith e, the
el-arrnis interfenee, he contented hieasen • sitiOre hie
three cheers for the triumph of justice, sod ri,:tter le°oo,
best of his way home to recount the whole 133,..-the e:joo
old friend Big Tom. We need not say thtt:e cre'tht,
affair created the greatest amusement amt -edit: 101 l
huditory; and it is very much to Mr. BOO' b ?iiteoftie
interruption ivith kindness and considerstLv-.
Service Gazelle.
...._............------ IWI
Lieutenant Gale, who crossed the Channel WI
and descended near Dieppe, went up from tee, -110/ iss
yesterday,n with Jour or live companions, in lone floe
mousen Balloon.crowdMr. Gale
assembled both in and outs' Isle
$e
•A tee
drome. B r. Gale passed over the Asnieres, the Is neeSclell'
Groslay, to Montmorency, and Mr. Gs 1B ..theeterte_hes7o:,P.iieloellee.
valve, which caused the balloon to descend '
The anchor caught in a pear tree, and stupid nertlie Inel:se
ingaa injury to their fruit, unleosened' it, and downsv"- le °,O '''
of rift others, to prevent the balloon corning rgst rid
beans, shock the lower car in such a wail' 31:uAl_th'recooltd,r4
all the ballast, which placed the aeronaut 1
lion; others, again,
mgaping withvvbaodmbirs:l;olll;
. ,
closely that they e f gt /
others handled the ladder and lower car so Ned) sioolletell'
serious injury. In short, had the aeronauts fallevo_oloooeeti.
parcel of sava I t trampled on the ball 'ils t° to
favourably received. The descent took place at_eded toi.
gee, they could scarcely have been- i•
The nCOII
mn , minutesw.
where
eet six, and the aerial travellers proe%ligess. re
1 J 01
theyntes
Countess
tookof theOrford, ra i railway ay to Faris....-,... .00 0
t°
last
tered from the effects of the severe acciderit/ So
year, left town on Tuesday for Wolterton ;IP A frte;(
DUTCH CLINKERS.—A vessel itist arrive
Rotterdam has brought the t ordinary We
It 0,000 Dutch clinkers as apoexrtiroan
DEATH FROM FIGHTING. -- cargo' e last eo+
On Sateellro(PrhilvinVeoe
inquest was held at the Railway Tavern, In •e,, teatbilow,,
on the body of Thomas Bartholomew, s Yo,o:l;ith 6 fellows
18 years of age, who bad been killed in a fig o' exeiog bred- i
workman, named James Smith. A quarrel 'dispute ep I
of bar
between them, it was resolved to settle the coots bon
fight. About seven o'clock in the evening theY e, euli eos
A foe ronnyuere bl°;4s,
fighting on Horsley-fields- bridge-
besn fought, when Smith hit his opponent a see„ go° ee'.
the left side. Bartholomew imrnediately beesteitettei nol,
and expired on the ground in the course a ten n, „eare..l to
fore medical aid could be obtained. The fighte:preenocitet
to have been altogether fair, as Srniteb "see- bad •',‘; Do,' '
have struck the deceased ou the back after he ie'nele'''
, him down. Yates, Smith's second,
struck the deceased's bother twice while the isljr. 120, for
was repre ...,,,. wo lop
vouring to prevent the parties from fighting:wed higleq;
surgeon, having stated that death WAS OCCesi -t the •fle° t
ture of the stomach and one of the vessels e.e, a'Aieeo
which might have been occasioned bY a Moir Iljtier i' ilt 3
list, the jury returned a verdict of " M.aneing. e°
Of
James Smith and Wm. Yates, who were forth lit
for trial at the next assizes. mbeliCed the
Th iccil-r ic e Dil
BAPTISM IN SCOTLAND. --- it s -ell .0 ,-
Burntisland, in the diocese of St. Andrew's,ounsein:ll. ssto
practice of baptism by imnaersion. In crivdeing. ssibl,tie
diocesan he has stated five reasons for so
Close es reit es !ce
above the great desirableness of keeping aA P% ills,
the practice of the early Church in so inWoltonfessivolic 'l°oo
sacrament of baptism, viz. :-1. The geeti Clitit pa
the Scotch bishops recently witnessed to the
,_4O eiepr eds,
trine, which gives grounds to hope for GO re
tuOre - ,0 jot 0
any endeavour to approach nearer to thrhe blebePti, to
I:,
solemn mode of its administration.
,2•,.;L conforivie Ontco
urger- close. mareeile s..ero
ment in the Wagstaffe case,
rubrics. 3. The fact that the Bistr'op of
eently re-sanctioned this rubric in his esclitt'air°,ll- °tit. 'vt!ereecett.°lo:
Prayer Book. 4. A desire to draw
munion office. 5. A wish to meet the s'l_ol sne',,,,ei
Churches, whom the Scotch Church resez:reeholoegs does vi
your of baptism by immersion as the Scriq diocer
prevails among the Scotch peasantry in ' e . k I
Andrew'o. : -:
.1 , ,i; .., .

/11(V LITERATURE.
brC/ C, a Play of Genoa. By Alfred Bate
Richards.
Our dramati‘t must I, classed among those writers
alit, are the
r: ' ''' •• - lie is already
faLon, „ i•Jst laudably industrious.
, —aulY known to some readers as the author of
- tricr
:,,, r,,Edy called " [l,:rce,us," and a drama called
_`-'rolowoi." He has penned various metrical
~b
werk''
such " The Dream of the Soul" and
hasand the a,c.clens"
heath
bten industrious in contributing to one or
ether of Dis=c periodicals,
and in labouring also in
recondite branches of literature.
thr,
“ Vandy'e kt. r
1 l'.itest frffusion, is the one now lying before us o
e,oll.Lideration. As the title intimates, its scene is pu,rhoely_
I.taliati. Alr. Richards has striven evidently to
iinioafge to the dramatic art by this "Play of
his en
r
11‘ 'iLrtilnatelY (We must say it at once) his endea.s
~
lig, u,eLnentirely successful Only in the .. Dedication.
,),i Lis same dedication " Van.dyck" is offered as a
tri'Hit' to the genius of Nlr. Justice Talfourd. Yet,
aaver giving this token of his admiration for the pure
'i clissieal d • ' , M Richards has altogether
latd it, idea rla3indhi • tr;wnstrange and fantastic
(I(ltictiiion. In ityhe has mingled prose and poetry,.
theecdr() and the terrible, the grotesque and the pea-
-4 I in one of those extraordinary jumbles, the pr
uent, characteristicsf the
h are such as come
tn(ler the •o r ldramatic and the
Dieri,ri . categories or me
takes" el'us. Sometimes even his versification paar-s
,„4,, (If this culpable inditft,rence to regularity,
ceir,e he rpoils a pretty song with the miserable
neY„rll3'tne italicised in the following :
4'
lial.
In e ye seen the Nautilus sailing
the moon-beam's silvery path,
While stars around gleam pale in
Sotaeii Their deep blue tremulous bath?.".
hill, to 71,e1", again, his haste in composition causes.
to „,, blunder into the most transparent
"titre
friend
Vata i .1, into
endeavouring to console hais
man:,
l'itadYe,", exclaims (p. 70) " Come, plagiarisms ,
feelY'('l( responding, " I am a man, and thereforebe
ksoti,, Why, the words are almost literally_..swife
sod e.,4wheta he hears of the massacrata 111.
those
Benceßence 1:,"ir:°,11. lie is told to bear the bear the intoenllyi:
/ "I't* a man." " Yes," he exclaims inag
,o, 1, Must also feel it like a man !" Occasionally,mis
tikes.V.Rihards perpetrates the most surprising
must
ta,e'i':, where he makes Olimpia say (p. tlvia Bianca
to go to mass to-night !"
Yt pert'
morning, ex
4ptio , °ruled, we opine, in the 81‘81)ap being.
The
itilioig
:stile midnight mass at Christmas.
4fr For
loar'4e° reflections of Adorn' (p. 1,
they
tre )I'ecepts, your saws, and your examples,.ed
thaa'ut. More
man
use to a kindly disposition
ttaiiiotne, books in a stall to an elderly gentleman.
roheg uown both sides of his nose, while a cunning
ills,ie extracts a
purse of sequins from his psoscakgeet" —i n l'Olive,v,i'l,ell,lY been suggested by j°11? is -"wist," where the good-natureda Mr.pa BArorwtfnui
bi; tehhed of his handkerchief by the
i,ler,V. Plagiarisms, however, are not the only
Mr, the
Richards
filll, B,'!.es perceptible in " Vandyck ;" —r'
lile. ultnself occasionally into the most cdeplorable
!-saislh .
ontl„,
tilt3' Mistaken extensions of ideas expressed with
sors.
Tans, felicity by his immortal predeces
d fo
Itti Xarnple, taking as his text the famous
4410 f Shakspere--" All the world's a stage"—
to of
the author thus delivers his own version of
to to "ught, roc d• gradually from eloquence
d'PllNan
fro ee ing•
eboi "m graceful metaphors to extravagant
,14tiai es. from sublimity to bathos, from the rave-
Th to the blasnh He sas :
Vith world, %is 'emous.
ti, sadi__ce..... true, is but a play-house vast;
g l smiling far,
iiitoio the l,
'none'
Oh wei, ti7lt eyes.osfavfaeiathn angels
.behold
~s,serreseo.nnolue roof, 'mid the myriad stars,
,1451:titsesii4leneatli a sea of azure wae (To his
na4 weep, when some poor. actor doth
tlbjeert ' , °0 Play too earnestly:
Asa° tuo • of their grief least noticed here.)
ell,st is our bright chandelier above;. Time,
lEt ti end, the great scene-shifter,
.....) -4tti's e curtain drop, and name the whole
Who khearsa/ !
Th '4 PtiVil . Few there are,
Toeit tqlow_eg it is to strut before. .
). !,ILasi) her ', e en to Fortune's giddie!tts verge,
t44,14t1ti4
wditiht:l:,_rforpeoatitibi4s4,
ttso Kin her . di round,
print theiprlcaaureluesnsesstepa,
Th:,the em eY.Bons to orchestraliss t
hatl' 40.r1t ,onf":• gladne..!s—soto m
iltbl. hack 'LIDO and dull dreary wastLe,
at
o,ard stretches to the rim of he.
n.
.s
eheris u Passage, 'mid the flickering light t. 01°14,,PoiYatst;1113 marks, and Wealth diswgu_is.es.
oii(i,le is e stroller lost his weary .aY
The bY his 13,44ta100n, and Love the child
Isi°l kis,: eiarents to the actor's curse.
'PhoN treB4eue's the Book of Life '4,411 kat, Itten many parts, and noneslike,
NilgiNeatY do resemble.—He, who plays
14 ,Ihy th Part is this Rehearsal, oft
h, x,tD•tio ° least in the great act to
The ''aNPi are men's graves, the promptercome. Reason,
apacerl 4fll3tiltelt°,l toheneiaustusliene ofis atollo."obviousto requireuap.
,etanl,, L 111 illustration. As a somewhat.,
gladly
sasf mole of ,
et t the style of the dramatist, we
cltlthf, °Our , ,
following noble panegyric
, - Reoia -chumns the
' 4bliNt.Blint. Shakspere i-
-4s. lines --'4Ye you not spoken of some wondrous
NWh R4at hi ,d ,
I° ir,,old h:-''' roet, far from hence, .
l'h, Ili! liv,d iFive trane'd the Syrens in their caves,
khrt 'e tht,'", so magical his song?
tn kings' wurld within his wizard brain,
04. qildrt, sat thron'd in greater majesty, .
the'illt Nato us' Life's river stray'd and sung:
tree
-lei, ttnitrot, that Roppd to trick her feat,udre kilti Ariesress 0, at Ile held, as if she sleek
Ft, 0 !P an orient lake at morn,
Pa h. ti tiptoe
I,r ita " e oft stole near to take
Ni INDyet e3son
thr Wiiti '
Itt a • ()Ws n._, , There liv'd such a one:
to her young;
BindSl 71ed the ,`'iluegroorn, married
with ,and
, rota the .11k, Wherewith he wrote, .
k4'lllll alo'" hour
-glass of admiring Time:
llti,tn he k, 14
ha stanip'd the nation great
Ilil;lb.u.aniti,:i." ntirtur'd • I • deed he was
eerV,7ight essence°r indeed
one e'er liv'd
llilsNo, ts',4n, ,or will,—for he made all
[tlleth,7"B. Each month, he lay within
~Ito ,Wt7ttest3 Wnnib, a several Muse did bear,
b44-e," Ilie e„°4lPauY: thus was he fram d
,Art;Nditi -YtuPathiei; and en the day
1,4 li,
I,4tretch his dimpling finger tow'rd
1114,1 sit 1,411 ng il°w'rs, Apollo left his throne
vi.al or
r'an.d kiss his smiling brow
It hits ~. e utnise,"
up into
i'i:4laftTeTzße tichards can thus at pleasure soar
ft 4 ea sjrla ef poetry, he evinces
enough
ko °al tja''tY to alternate agreeably
/1? 111 Ye tupon ocea-
it hell. 0 gay, from lively to severe."
\'' to ti, Int; t of the droll,
.141), 41, , , 0 the influences .
1 o4e to 'halls,of tne pensive,
Take as
rbati:4 of now again to Melpomene. now showing his alle-
'lf In whielis Itflectiora for the humoriolunese:the excla-
f Adorni—
e' ael 11,,,,5_ue Puts into the mouth IN' and kt u"R I 'will consent to cut
dibble for the
11 hUll) myself out with a stump to
e tiii '413 root . off one of these
mars 4 Marti„,, that bath just been introducedfrom___
to ti:" Aierica! " The plot of the drama uP
to'itc(ti, to be rather too complicated, and the
somewhat
e tlltalePr:r4)tice themselves to be
priiitt44. tbil'Ls—the materials, in fact,three-
t'iralltld ioll',lfig, rather suitable for a
___.
being,
The
is CO° ea vet than for a five-act play.
tlee6edlitaill Antonio, called El Matador,
io po after ti, Pular the most approved form of bucca-
4ra t keci. at the Victoria and supposed to. exist.
tr,:illa ii ~ krrari,a_. ,
N fuNi
6a kince.,,o•Th,..l.le,ogtrevautelgstar boor
womanm tinne.
l'''''''',u4:lllt% \thle '.'e acts is Olimpia, the. daughter o.sf
jr° the, the
ii:tsrini ; the purest lady in the story 1
11R Nyi,k4col, bathed of Pietro the boatman. Such
With
s,lt 14`tlities of " Vandyek," a drama a
a 1)04!4,44.t tii'd ladies, with officers and priests,
itizc,t,s aih 44'1 sailors, magistrates and ma.np.argera,
llracter
thetas,o'fliira4 beggar, a call-boy and an
Tolhde man,cha-
%led b „, actors, dancers, &e. &c. . ._
r; 'snsili„ 3' thp,°,i'e4t portrait painter, however, is d.e.lrai
r,,,iv, - gr., . . •
'‘'4l fi 'lt tt,_ ghlatist in colours that render hi
44Ru 'tlre, i:'eußhout. Grouped around his histo-
-4114 `.ittire e various persons introduced upon the
import-
pure
Plaem
as certain degree of reflected
‘)C
his theY are more or less directly in the
and splendid reputation.

SINE
W. S. W.
174
------
is. t
Byyt
of Anti-
kt, b. am pERsE pOL
.fizen
rikiti 4 ;41 Assistant in ,h„ department inv.tlit,e,t:lttPitisli ark,eum. ''''
1 Layard have
t. Ned th'eikns discoveries of Mr'
especial in-
s'telt e tiii •
with an tc-
ti Art i'll cif Nineveh
I °llB oft Ilttrest founed on the combined
'ttesist.brtith ttoci fiction f science and romance._
b the
11;„°41erluli° i,,,,deea i7L° charm possessed
practical,
N4tter. aid mysterious e that even in thisatraSo
o_the
Derwe N..latt Tri '3171' in the midst.
li Xttiet, neteent century,
Fe, libt arid horn il f our political and found
to 14 a few
400
z° h busyo multitude are
of
I°4lt stleawith attenntTont eand anxiety to an accountred on
socialf
some ,rn-ree,lY legible scription new
ItttNct' -41uling mono tin the wilderness.
of
_,_
ly,deciphe
The
pti, 1%,
of
,nen
and
, 'Aie. , the Past rival the interests the
r,,,,,,,...,th
„...04„
„,,.:ek 4rt, sublimity attaches tot awe the
Which the rnen of to-day contemplate tions•
fir ,1 G tikordS of tithe h cl* ork of Past genera n
ti,et bur , ean iw .
1 the many
.a d
eficiai or
Pose now to Conan er
" foot rints
p
to rho rEtieQtions suggested by these
• f
brie
P 444 N'ds of ti ~ - •
remain to mark the
ge of a Ti which remain
'Yaasties and nations—
,' po .
g4,l)!lnts that perhaps another
a,
:.4„; e'er liteB aolenati.lnel%
eilir...l
1 b other
Iht
-i--etii(3-)..r ern and 4hipwrecta.n.„
°l'work ,
~,, 03sy take heart a., i
ittid
tcj ilow nefore ali preSentS in a completemost.er_es
the
hell_en.ditts form a compilation of the didscoi‘viailor
n4tstimitrs.‘4l..elP.l travellers in the East—Layard,
and —LaYaorthers, re-
v;t4. t k4,,u0",, 6i r. R• /,
4. Porter, many
chapters con-
tis , 4 , ancient date. While these
tt '4lbe of ti,
those
} tivellw,
tale,.,e most interesting portions of
'' sti , this lit work is not intended
;IliborPet4rB"6 the se 1 e perusal of the more
orkatl'n a" Parate
more valuable
Jett i its
ob. e°osequently
excellent ob-
It i Ject, arid a very -- • out
carried
1-
very successsfully