The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-01 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received journals from the Cape of Good
Hope of the 17th of January, at which period the
long-expected final decree of Earl Grey bad not ar-
rived out. In the meantime the colonists continued
to manifest a quiet, uniform, but firm and resolute
determination to resist the former order of his Lord-
ship by every legitimate means within their power.
The trade of the colony had much suffered in conse-
quence of the agitation and suspense arising out of
the protracted uncertainty in which the convict ques-
tion was involved.

The French ship, Jacques Gabriel, 292 tons,
commander Pion, had arrived in Table Bay, and
reported that in lat. 23 S, long. 52 30 E, she picked
up part of the crew of the Ocean Queen, 737 tons,
Captain Jewell, which left London on the Ist of Sep-
tember, bound.to Suez. On the 21st of December
the vessel was discovered to be on fire, the coals
having ignited in the main hold, when the crew left
the ship on the evening of the 21st, in four boats ;
Captain G. B. Jewell, second mate, carpenter, and
ten seamen and boys in two boats ; chief officer and
fourteen able seamen in the long-boat and cutter. The
boats parted company during the night, and had not
been heard of since. The names of the crew on
board the Jacques Gabriel were Captain Jewell and
second mate, J. F. Hawkins, J. Sweetenham and on
(carpenter), G. Ethesley (sailmaker), G. Edwards
(steward), James Rice (cook), W. Marlin, G. Fran-
cisco, W. Cook, W. Joyce, W. Miller, John Antum,
John Leadlets (seamen).

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SATURDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning
in the grounds around the Castle.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
The royal dinner party at the Castle included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
C. B. Phipps.

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SUNDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walk6d this morning
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.

The Royal Family took their accustomed :airings.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the ladies
and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended Divine service this morning in the
private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley
officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
attended the service.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on
Saturday at Gloucester House.

Earl Granville left town on Saturday, for Trent-
ham, Staflbrdshire.

The Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner,
preached the sermon yesterday (Kaster-day) in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read
by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the lessons by the Rev.
Messrs. Thomas and Haden, and the Communion
Service by the Bishop of London. The anthem, "If
we believe that Jesus died" (B)yce) was sung by
Messrs. Francis and Bradbury. Mr. Tune presided
at the organ.
The Bishop of London administered the sacrament.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD.

Hail yet once t!gain to King Christopher Redivlvus!
In the Wren's Net tit Cladiel,, under the .liadow of
Cruachan, the Seer of the Crutch discourses again
wittily, fervently, and eloquently, upon the themes of
criticism, poetry, end philosophy; stimulated in their
disctLoion by the companionship of TalboyF, Seward,
and Buller--Talb3ys the captious, Seward the taci-
turn, and Buller the jocose. Othello constitutes the
principle topic of the present conversation, yielding
opportunities for disquisitions on the wickedness of
lago, and for some new analyses of the genius of
Shekspere. First in ability—immeasurably first in
ability, though last in position—" Christopher under
Canvass," forms a rich and mellow background
for the contents of good Master Ebony for
April. As to the introductory paper on
the " Ministerial Measures," we can heartily
commend it for a smartness we have relished, not-
withstanding our known variance with the political
predilections of' Blackwood. "My Peninsular Me-
dal," in a fifth instalment, rattles along gallantly in
the slashing, dashing, helter-skelter style of Max-
well ; yet we entertain strong doubts as to the author-,
ship—seeing that Jones's chaneon de la dance smacks
marvellously of that most delightful mannerism of
Lever's, which sparkles in the narratives of " Jack
Hinton" and "Harry Lorrequer," and which Mickey
Free has rendered so popular in the history of his
master, " Charles O'Malley." Here it is—a capital
little tidbit of comicality in rhyme—provocative to
the last degree of an attempt at the " light fan-
tastic :"

JONES loquitur.
" Hands across, back again, down the middle—
' Piease to make room, for I'm going to faint.'
Do'nt scream so loud, Miss; I can't hear the fiddle.'
Ma'am, you're quite rude.'—' No, I'm sure I aint.'
The doctor's dancing quite contrary,
Holds his breath, and turns in his toes.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes.
Cross over to Betsy Maginnis,
And foot it again to Major Shaw.
Miss Molloy, amour sweet mouth in a grin is.'
Mister Mickey, keep off your paw.'
The doctor's dancing quite contr3-7,
Holds his breath, and turns i❑ his tors.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes.
Down forty couple, I'm sure xi, ill fatigue us.'
' I told you it would'nt, and here we're come.'
Ma'am, shall I f,tch you a tumbler of negus?'
NJ, if you pleas, sir, a glass of rum.'
The doctor's dancing quite contrary,
Holds his breath, and turns in his toes.
Ranting, prancing, capering Mary
Cocks her chin, and off she goes."
Take as a delicious contrast to this the following ex-
quisite stanza of a love-song from "Festus," re-
viewed in a very masterly style in the subsequent
contribution.

" Like an island in a river,
Art thou, my love, to me;
And I journey by thee ever
With a gentle extasie.
I arise to tall before thee;
I come to kiss thy feet;
To ador❑ thee and adore thee,
Mine only one! my sweet!"

The estimate formed by Blackwood of the poetical
genius of Mr. Bailey appears to be in the highest
degree judicious—at one and the same moment to
the uttermost extreme condemnatory and commenda-
tory. Another brief quotation we must give, but this
time it shall be prose, though prose having immediate
reference to poetry. To our thinking the subjoined
is a genuine and most accurate definition of some
among the more prominent requirements as to style
in poetic composition :
" One must be pardoned for repeating the very rudi-
ments of criticism to to some of the headstrong writers
of cur day. A lucid, correct, harmonious style—they
have forgotten what it means—what virtue there is in
it. They speak or think of it as of some matter of an-
tiquated prejudice—of stale, conventional observance.
It is no matter a convention ; it is the living source of a
calm perpetual gratification. It is the music cf the
printed book. It is that which makes reading
a delight as well us a necessary task.
It is that which makes another's thought,
to the mina, what the visible object is to the eye—seen
without effort, and seen clad with beauty, as well as dis-
tinguished by form and positioP. Whether the subject
of the poet be of a calm and gentle, or of a grand and
sublime description, this charm of beautiful composition
ought always to accompany it. The theory is false
which separates beauty from sublimity. The wing of
the eagle is not less graceful than that of the smallest
bird which flutters from Lough to bough, or from flower
to flower; nor is his flight less smooth. in his stormy al-
titudes, than the slow sailing of unruffled swans in their
peaceful element. And as the pleasure attendant upon
distinct and melodious language is of itself of the calm
and graceful order, so also some degree of calmness and
self-possession should pervade the mind of the poet who
is to produce it for us."

The whole paper is worthy of a perusal. " Cash
and Pedigree," being a sort of analytical epitome of
the gist of a certain work recently penned by M.
Jules Sandeau, affords us what Maga has so often
given us before, a clear and rapid insight into the
contemporary literature of France. " Caird's High
Farming Harrowed," and the three metrical contri-
butions to Blackwood fcr April, will prove about
equally attractive. and palatable to the majority of
magazine readers. The new song entitled " Britain's
Prosperity," is nothing better than an ingenious
piece of rhyming—calico and malecho Nevrdegate
and repudiate (1), a merry go and Jericho, Huxtable
and muck stable, ,;:himing together about as pleasantly
as spikewise and likewise, the penitent thief and hand-
kerchief, cum ceteris paribus, in the new poem pub-
lished this day from the MS. of Mr. Browning.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The " Ladder ()f Gold" is continued, and increases
in interest as it progresses. In the present in-
stalment we find the Rawlingses located in Park-
lane, Mr. Rawlings being a sort of railway king, an
influential Member of the House of Commons,
courted and sought after byiall parties. Several new
characters are introduced, among the best of whom
are the Baroness Poudre- bleu, an English lady with
a foreign title, ar,d just 8001. a-year to starve upon,
as out of that she has to job a small carriage, rent a
small house, and keep a couple of livery servants on
board wages, being herself content to feed upon
air; her son, Mr. Bulkeley Smirks, a fortune-
hunter, who, under the tuition of his excellent
mother, is endeavouring to make a favourable
impression upon Margaret Rawlings ; Lord Charles
Eton, a most favourable specimen of our old aris-
tocracy, a polished gentleman, an orator, a statesman,
and a scholar, who seems inclined to pay great atten-
tion to Margaret', in which be is encouraged by
Rawlings, much t o the annoyance of Henry Winston,
who it seems had been the intimate friend of Lord
Charles Eton at college, and who can by no means
brook the pretensions of his college friend to be suitor
to the object of his own boyish love. The account
by Mr. Wheatley of the career of Lieutenant Wag-
horn is a record o f national ingratitude, which should
bring a blush into the cheek of every Englishman.
The secret of the unrelenting persecution of which
Waghorn was the, victim is here exposed ; he had
offended that vir (heave body, the Court of Direc-
tors of the East Ixidia Company. Having traversed
the Red Sea in. an open boat in 1829, Waghorn
reached India. He shall tell the remainder of his
story in his own words :
" On my arriva I at Bombay, I received the thanks of
the Governor in Council. Armed with this record, I
commenced an active agitation in India fur the estab-
lishment of steam, to Europe. In prosecution of that
design, I returned to England, expecting, of course, to
be received with oi?en arms, at the India House espe-
cially. Judge of Ely surprise, on being told by the then
authorities in office, that the India Company required no '
seam to the East itt all. I replied, that the feeling in
India was most ardent for it; that I had convened large
C dugs at Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta; and, in
fact, all over the Peninsula. which I had traversed by
dawlt ; that the Governor-General, Lord William Ben-
tinck, was euthusia stir in the same cause, and had done
tne the honour to predict (with what prescience need
not now he stated:), that if ever the object was accom-
plished, it would t o by the man who had navigated the
Red Sea in an op( n boat, under the circumstances al-
ready named. To all this the parties made answer, that
the Governor-General and the people of India had no-
Caine; to do with the India House; and if I did not go
back and join thew pilot service, to which I belonged, I
should receive suet) a communication from that House as
would be by no moans agreeable to me. On the instant
I penned my resignation, and, placing it in their hands,
then gave utterance to the sentiment that actuated me
from that moment, till the moment I realised my aspira-
tion—that I would, establish the Overland Route in
spite of the India E:ouse. This avowal, most impolitic,
on my part, as regards my individual interests, is per-
haps the key to much of the otherwise inexplicable
opposition I subsequently met with from those upon
whose most energetic co-operation I had every apparent
reason to rely."
The charter of the East India Company expires in
1852, and when the question of its renewal comes on,
it is to be hoped that the avowal of the directors that
they required no steam to India at all, and that the
Governor-General and the people of India had nothing
to do with the India House, will be borne in mind.
This number also contains a most interesting bio-
graphy of Major Edwardes (from which we
gave a long extract in The Sun of Satur-
day), with a portrait by Alfred Crowquill.l
We have two pleasant Americanisms, the
one " Coit's Ridge," by Alfred B. Street, the other
" The Great Kalamazoo Hunt," an excellent drollery
by a New Yorker. " Women in the East repre-
sents what life in a harem really is, and should be
read by all those who have only formed their ideas of
it from the perusal of Mr. Monckton Milnes's poetry.
Our sporting friends will be delighted with Mr.
Whittle 's "Hunting in a Garman Forest," and all true
Pant agruelists will revel in Mr. Whitling's " Praise
of Smoking." It hath the true Rabelaisian flavour.

L'eutenant 'Walpole commences a :eriee entitled tb.•
" Protestant ;" in the present instalment he
gives us a pletisant account of his journey from
Frankfort-on•the-iNlaiue to the Castle of Wastburg in
the town of Aiscnach. We have besides some very
exc,;llent poetry, amongst which " A SAlg of Como
the Beauti:hl," by Theresa C. J. West, deserves es-
peciil,l mentiec.