The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1850.

LITERATURE

TRACTS OF AN ANTI-TRACTARIAN. No.
XIV. By a Barrister.
These tracts well deserve the notice they have
excited. It is not often we find law and theology
side by side; but the gentlemen of the long robe,
when well qualified for their profession, are fitted to
take the field whatever be the subject of inquiry. If
we did not know that they were really written by a
member of the profession, we should pronounce,
without hesitation', that these tracts came-from the
pen of a theologian, so ample is the doctrinal know-
ledge they display, and so complete a master is he of
the most secret movements going on in the religious
world. His exposure of the Jesuits in some of the
former numbers has had the effect of attracting the
public attention to the daily increase of their numbers
in London and in the provinces, in defiance of the
Act of the 10th Geo. IV., c. 7, which prohibits their
appearance either in Great Britain or in Ireland, un•
der a penalty of 50/. for every month they remain.
This is a subject to which attention cannot be too
strongly directed. The reasoning is convincing, and
the utmost force is given to it by the vigour alai
variety of the style. Sufficient proof of this will be
found in the following sample :
" There never was a time in which it more behoved
the clergy to remove from Christanity all the mysticism
which has so long impeded its progress. Never, unto
this is done, will it give a moral tone to the cliarac.or,
or influence the sympathies, of the great mass of the
people. Religion must be made a matter of feeling, not
of disputation. Lit it be taught in its simplicity, and it
will make its way to the conscience and the heart. It is
only the fountain of living water that can purify either
the one or the other.
"There is a scepticism gaining ground which nothing
but truth will convince, an active spirit of inquiry for
which nothing but truth will find employment. The
real question, as it relates to important public interests,
is, not whether this or that opinion shall prevail, but
whether the Church will make a progress in belief and
in discipline, which, by making her a copious source of
wholesome and interesting knowledge, will restore to her
that influence over the great body of the people, which
is equally necessary for her own safety and for their
enlightenment. Let her not be satisfied with remain-
ing—what she has so long remained—a fountain flow-
ing one day in seven; but a perennial Btu= issuing
from the well-spring of Divine Wisdom, and finding its
way wherever crime, and ignorance, and infidelity is to
be found."
The following observations, coupled with the elegant
and enlightened spirit of the criticism which precedes
them, will not fail to arrest the attention, of the reader,
whether lay or clerical :
"It is said by the celebreei Cardinal de Rets, in his
Memoirs, that ' a party is like a serpent, the tail pushes
on the head:' the truth of this is evidenced by all that
is going on around us. The condition of the world is
changing: the character of the English nation is not
what it was even half a century age; nor is the charac-
ter of its clergy the same. They who were sent to re-
form the world have forgotten their mission. Those
who should cure the malady of dissent, spread the in-
fection. When we look at the mass of ecclesiastical
machinery, and consider the vast expense to the country
at which that machinery is kept in motion, it is sad to
see that the chief product of its manufacture of late has
been heresy and schism. This comes of attempting to
Put new wine into old bottles, an act manifesting, at this
juncture, a great want of wisdom.
" Why was not the ordinance of baptism permitted to
rest on the ground of positive institution? It was clear
from the first to all thinking men, that to draw it into
popular discussion as a question on which our salvation
depended was in every way dangerous. THERE IS
NOTHING VITAL TO SALVATION BUT HOLINESS OF LIFE.
Be this truth ever remembered, fur its import is eternal.
Our Churchmen, loaded as they are with the learning of
both Universities, are not the deepest of thinkers.
Them are minds,' says Lord Bacon, • like milk, which
will only bear one skimming. Minds of this stamp are
abundant everywhere, and the Church holds its portion
of them, a fact but too visible amid the dust and ferment
raised by the question of baptismal regeneration. Bap-
tism--is not of Gospel origin. It was a religious rite
practised by the Mexicans in ages long anterior to the
introduction of Christianity. In their form of baptism,
the head and lips of the infant were touched with water,
and a name was Rived to it; while the goddess Cioa-
coatel, who presided over childbirth, was implored
• that the sin which was given to us befall the founda-
tion of the world might be washed away, and that,
cleansed by these holy drops of water, it might live and
be born anewl*

" Other extraordinary coincidences are to be found
which plainly prove the Pagan origin of many practic a
common to the Catholic and to our Protestant Church.
'lt is remarkable,' says Mr. Prescott, that the Mexi
cans administered the rites of confession and absolution.
The secrets of the
,confessional were held inviolable, aud
penances were imposed of much the same nature as
those enjoined by the Rom-in Catholic Church. There
were two remarkable peculiarities of the Aztec cere-
mony. The first was, that the repetition of an offence
once atoned for was deemed inexpiable: Confession was
made but once in a man's and was usually deferred
to a late period of it, when the penitent unbar hened his
conscience, and settled at once his long arrears of ini-
quity. Another peculiarity was, that priestly absolu-
tion was received in place of the legal punishment of
offences, and authorised an acquital in case of arrest.'t
" ThL must have proved a most abundant source of
revenue to the priesthood. It Las ever been a very pro-
ductive item in the Catholic budget of ways and means,
us the profits of the confessional can testify.
* * •
" We have, in this our United Empire, a State Church
maintaieed at a cost of ten million a year—an enorinou4
and most unproductive outlay. And this mainly for
she perpetuation of articles, the Lelief of which was
made imperative when Popery was in its meridian ; doc-
trines which contribute nothing to the enlightenment of
the ignorant, or to the reformation of the vicious;
which fat get doubt in minds into which, withoat them,
doubt never would have entered; doctrines well enough
suited to the era iu which they were framed, but a
fruitful source of sectarianism in this reasoning and in-
quiring age.

" In England the days of priestly dictatorship ha'e
gone by. They have passed away, never to return. At
no time did they ever avail
" To keep expiring honesty alive,'
which can only be done, if it can be done at all, by
preaching the truths of Christianity in their primitive
and vital energy, a duty but ill discharged by the
members of a divided household. Faction has found its
way into the Temple destined to the worship of Heaven,
and has stirred up a most unseemly and dangerous mu-
tiny. When religion is made a trade, it is not sur-
prising that there should be a strike among the work-
men. The patrons of all the richest and most coveted
of the church-livings are in the hands not of the epos.
train, but of the aristocratic; not of the Lord's anointed,
but the anointed of the Prime Minister. The elect of
Downing-street, who reckon time by a holy week of
their own—

The week, in which six days are kindly given
To think of earth, and one to think of Heaven.'
They it is that rule in the ecclesiastical realm; they it
is who appoint whatever pastors and masters it shall
please them to put in authority over us. It is from
this wealthy conclave that they
receive their apostleship.
Thus appointed, they become the sole depositories of re.
ligious light, and must be reverenced accordingly."
The great aim of the writer is directed to the pursuit
of truth, and be strews so many flowers along the
road, that we delight to travel with him. He sifts
his subject to the bottom, but is never dull, never
prosy. He throws out suggestions so striking that
they force the reader to think, while they make him
always better for his thoughtfulness. The low price
at which they are published is purposely intended to
put them within the reach of all classes. They may
of Mexico.
be ranked among first-rate productions. Though
Conquest
written anonymously, we believe it is no secret that
the ex-Chairman of the
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GENERAL PEPL's NEW 1v,,,,
oRK.--A narrative of
the late events in Italy, from 1847 to 1850, including the
Siege of Venice, by Lieut.-General Pepe, commander-in-
prdn)blict'habtaspjonstsetrity
chief of the army of Expedition of Naples, and of the
predict Forces of t
(saysl Venetian t isa appeared. We
will accept
General Pepe as the historian of the great Italian movement
of the nineteenth century. His book is written, no doubt, in
a revolutionary spirit, but it is a generous and honest revo-
lutionary spirit, which prompts him to do justice to oppo-
nents, though not always upon allies. For example, he ex-
tnanidae
tenuates the crimes of Charles Albert and the follies of Pio
Nino. In other respects, General Pepe's work is worthy of
all commendation. His style is animated and graphic, and
the immense mass of matter which his two volumes present
(nothing less than the two events of the two years of war,
universal in Italy and Sicily) is arranged without the least
confusion, while the more i .teresting occurrences, such as
battles, sieges, negotiations, &c., are described with a mi-
nuteness sufficient to satisfy the most curious military or
diplomatic reader.

Weston on " The
Diluvium of the Neighbourhood of Bath ;
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OP THE
WEEK.—This day—Entomological, 8 P.M. ; Chemical, 8 P.M.
DToa-rmwionrroown —"ftnoisislanL,
". Rev. H. M. de
eBpr.c.ip3ir:iwW;,,edmn ers.d aY—Geological (Mr.
la Condernine on " The Tertiary Strata of Blackheath"), 8i
r. 3i. ; Archxological Association (Council), 4 P.M. j
United
Service Institution (Major Adams on " Fortification ; Attack
and Defence"), 3 P.M. ; Royal Botanic, 3i P.m. Thursday
—.Royal Zoological (Election of Fellows), 3 i.x. ; Anti-
quaries., 8 P.M. Friday—Royal Institution ( Mr. Faraday
on "Certain Conditions of Freezing Water"), 81 P.M.;
Botanical, 8 P.M. Saturday—Horticultural (Exhibition at
the Garden).—Literary Gazette.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON
SIR E. BUX CON'S MOTION.

(From the Morning Herald.)
PRESENT.

234 Ayes
2 Tellers
13 Pairs

275 Noea
2 Tellers
13 Pairs

249 Total

290 Total

roue individual, who has never revealed to us his name.
I am directed to follow my own course in applying these
most liberal gifts. How can I suffer any interference
with a trust thus reposed in me? But, also, how can I
he sure that such a trust ever would have been reposed
in mc, or that others will follow the Patriot's example
(by this name alone is he known to us), and confide in
otbors with whom Commissioners and statutes may at
any moment interpose, when I perceive that not even my
colleanues of the Council are thus confided in?
I with the greatest affection and respect,
My dear Duke, yours most faithfully,
H. LAOUGHAM.

(From the Times.)
To those who have noticed Lord Brougham's singular
ambition to do the greatest possible violence to the prin•
ciples of his life, it will be no matter of surprise that he
has rushed to the rescue of Oxford and Cambridge
against the Royal Commission. The perils el Alma
Mater:have roused to her aid that most errant of knights,
who displays on this occasion the same capricious sort
of tenderness that a Robin Hood would occasionally
show for the rights of property, or a lawless Baron for
the dignity of a captive Princess. It is difficult to imagine
any one more incapacitated !or undertaking the case of
the Universities than the man who, as if in remem•
brance of his youthful achievemements, still signs him-
self "H. Brougham." As those achievements could
not fail to recur to the youngest memory, his Lordship
has thought it best to quote them all boldly, and
convert them by his peculiar alchemy into arguments
against University reform. Lord Brougl. am, as he re-
minds the public in his letter to the Duke, has conducted
a series of inquiries, alincst up to the very threshold of
the Universi:ies. There. however, he stopped, and he
now claims credit for a forbearance, for which he gently
hints the Universities Lave to thank him, and to thank
him all the more because they stood on precisely the
same foiling as many other subjects cf those inquiries.
" H. Brougham " is also eresident of University College,
which is generally supposed to have been founded fur
the express purpose of supplying a better, a cheaper, a
more useful, and more available education than Ox'ord
and Cambridge. Whether his Lordship has himself ever
given countenance to that view we leave to the recollec-
tions of those who have attended any one of the annual
celebrations of that college, and heard his Lordship's re-
marks on its position and prospects. His most ordinary
and most fertile topic on these occasions is the excessive
folly and vulgarity of London citiz-ns, who prefer
making one son a gentleman at Oxford or Cambridge
to giving all their sons a useful education at the Uni-
versity College, at a less total expense. If " the great-
est happiness of the greatest number" is the maxim of
Paley or of Bentham, then assuredly Lrod Brougham
has left to pos'erity " the best education of the greatest
number." Such is the man who now comes forward to
protect the old Universities from the painful necessity of
enlarging their studies, or multiplying their students.
It is " the schoolmaster abroad" who defends Univer-
sity independence and college monopoly. His Lordship
insinuates some very grave doubts as to the fairness of
a Commission acting by voluntary depositions, and its
compatibleness with the dignity of the Crown. When a
man of uncommon ingenuity is anxious to discover the
possible evils of a course which he has a reason for ob-
jecting to, he very seldom fails. In the present instance
it is not very necessary to fellow Lord Brougham through
all the inconveniences, unfairnesses, and indignities his
strong sense of justice and loyalty has suggested,
because if they apply to one Royal Commission,
they apply to Royal Commissions altogether.
His Lordship is so extremely, so transcen-
dentally loyal, that he would deny her Majesty a
vulgar but useful privilege possessed by every one other
subjects, down to the smallest and dirtiest crossing-
sweeper,—the privilege of asking a civil question. If
" a cat may look at a king," surely a king may look at
a cat. But why has Lord Brougham only just now
found out that a royal Commission of Inquiry is undig-
nified and unfair? Some years since there was a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the revenues of the Church;
in other words, the Sovereign asked all the bishops,
deans, canons, archdeacons, and other clergy, the value
of their livings, and other particulars; and to this day
tho Earl of Guilford, with some other clergymen, has
refused to reply. A little before that there was a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the administration and
operation of the poor-laws, which, as it happened, pro-
duced a report of exactly that one-sided character which
Lord Brougham appears to apprehend in this instance—
a report which was one continued satire on magis-
trates, parish vestries, workhouses, and paupers,
and yet we do not remember that Lord Brougham,
who, as Lord Chancellor, was ministerially con-
cerned in that Commission, ever detected the un-
fairness of its working. As these objections apply- to
all Royal Commissions of Inquiry, the question now
started is a very wide one, but one, it is obvious, which
ought not to be mooted under peculiar and prejudicial
circumstances. If his Lordship has taken up a position
out of himself, and at utter variance with his own his-

tory and position, he betrays an equal incongruity with
regard to the Noble Duke the Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Oxfbrd. " Thus, at Cambridge," he says, "it
seems of incalculable use to teach the severer sciences, I
mean mathematics, in all the branches, both for their
own sake, and also as the beat mode of disciplining the
mind to reasoning, and to habits of close attention."
This is addressed to the head of a University.where ma-
thematics still occupy a very subordinate place, and ere
very rarely considered in the election of a fellow, or for
any other purpose. The only bearing the remark has
to Oxford is, that Oxford ought to turn over a new leaf
in her mathematics. As Cambridge hai very muds
modified the rigour of her mathematical course,
and is ev. ry year enlarging the circle of fe r
studies a fact which his Lordship has noticed
with alarm—it is difficult to say whether his remarks on
the incalculable utility of mathematic:, as the best iutel-
lectual discipline, are to b regarded as a compliment or
as a reproof. Ills Lord:hip professes extreme anxiety
not to " disperse, as it were, the studious youth's atten-
tion, by carrying it over a variety of less strict, less se•
vere, and for that reason less forbidding studies;" and
he owns that he has seen " with some: alarm a tendency
of late to import from foreign countries more easy and
popular branches of education." With Vie wholesome
preference for the sound and severe, it is a pity that the
President of University College has not given the world
an actual specimen of his meaning. We the more regret
this because there is a great deal of truth in these re-
mai ks. The student has not only to acquire early in
life the elements of various sciences and accomplish-
ments, but in one or two branches he ought to be exer-
cised with peculiar severity, as a mental discipline, and a
field of competition. Perhaps the particular subject is
of less consequence. A man who learns any one thing
thoroughly will have acquired a power of universal ap-
plication. If a young man beats five hundred competi-
tors in a curriculus of cookery, entomology, and as-
trology, though he may never have occasion again
to use those particular accomplishments, we have no
doubt that if he takes to the law, he will stand a good
chance of becoming a Lord Chancellor or a Puisne
Judge. The question of legislative interference is one
which Iscrd Brougham himself has long since helped
the nation to settle. He Fars very truly, " such iater-
terence would be an act of force—lawful force, but still
force." Why, any Act of Parliament is an act of force.
A railway Act takes your house from you, if you like
it ever so much. A highway Act forces you to pay
sixpence every time you drive along a road where your
father went free. The Municipal Reform Act destroyed
by force all the corporations of this country, except the
one whose splendid hospitalities are fortunately within
reach of her Majesty's Ministers, the Government
offices, and the two Houses of Parliament. Our recent
ecclesiastical Acts' have suppressed by force ten Irish
bishoprics, and cut down the incomes of our English
Bishops, besides many other serious changes. Lord
Brougham's own Charity Reforms were acts of force,
and in our opinion's good deal more force may be ap-
plied in that direction with very great advantage. His
Lordship alleges a difference of degree. " Thus far
shalt thou come," he say s to the tide of reform, " and
no further." Specking of itSerior schools and
other bodies, whether of _ private or royal foun-
dation, he says " The entire difference of
these foundations in all material respects ren-
ders my remarks totally inapplicable to their
case. Among many other diversities I need only men-
tion the kind of persons in whom the trusts have in so
many cases come to be invested. I may also note the
un:eniable fact that without legislative aid, the, most de-
sirable, I may say the most necessary, steps cannot be
taken for enabling trustees and governors and visitors
to make a rational application of the funds vested in
them; and that in many instances interested motives
had a bias which prevents duties of importance from
being discharged under cover of restraint and incapaci-
ties, while in others those duties are neglected without
even that pretence." Very good. Matters of degree
are matters for inquiry. Let us see whether the case of
the Universities and of all the other foundations in the
country are so entirely different. The Premier proposes
to ask the very questions here suggested; whether the
will ie wanted for necessary reforms. Another interest-
ing letter, from " Oxoniensis," throws some light on
these points, and also on the question whether the Crows
is so tar exceeding its ancient province in visiting the
Universities. That subject, however, we must leave for
another occasion.

EXTENSIVE FIRE THIS DAT ♦T THE EAST LON-
DON WATEILWORKS.—Just after daybreak this morning the
engineering lepartments of the East London Waterworks
Company at Bow were placed in great jeopardy from the
outbreak of fire in the upper part of the building. In a short
time three engines were in attendance under the direction of
Mr. Fego, the brigade foreman of the A district. Water, of
course, was abundantly procured on this occasion, and in two
hours the fire was extinguished, after considerable damage.
The firemen prevented any serious damageto the machinery.
IRISH RAILWAYS•--Government has determined on
giving further aid to the construction of Irish railways. The
Exchequer Loan Commissioners intimated on Friday to the
directors of the Belfast Junction Company that they intend
advancing them, on the security of the line, at 5 per cent.
interest, 100,0001., and an additional 15,0001. or 20,00 C/.,
should it be required, for the purpose of constructing the
suggested bridge over the River Boyne. An influential
ude-
putation, consisting of several Members of ParlianeteLtubalildl
other gentlemen interested in the prosperity
and Drogheda Railway, waited on the Chaonfcet:l,l:omr ofto the
Exchequer last Friday, for the purpose of askingthe sum ct
duce the rate of interest from 5 to 4 per cent.
their 0 5,00! 'l.
solicitation. advanced
sbi);
the d Putationists
acceding to their request, and intimated to
contracttli a that shareholdersitthtebeywou h i findfelt b dissatisfied with Charlesthe Government
()
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ti:ondj e np
et rteoni thatptoornei companyl
, declined a'
national' treasury.—
at once discharging their liability to the
Itiblrtbwtaheintetrbnelawoafyt.hoef
Weekly Chronicle.
The adjourned inquest a
have died of poison, was re_
LIE SUSPECTED Pt 00I,Se0aNbIore
viAllaTgeCoLnAtNi'lEeßbioNdGy.—of
Richard Chesharn,
g • increased suspicion to the
slimed on Friday. IV hat -a''ethe person who two years
ago was the fact of his wife being
bo•en received from Professor
supposed to
for the supposedb murder of her two chii.drens.
'lead detected arsenic in the stomach,
t‘ehe auslysis, the inquest was agaiu ad •
bAarrgu:t3clo:oliradl:nnsitnotr,ritieticdicroagit,
cioltnubdaetldrah
jQurued.—Essex Standard.

"S U N

The Bishop of OXFORD seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.
Other resolutions, in accordance with the objects of
the meeting, wt re passed unanimously, and thank 3 having
been given to the gal!ant cfficer in the chair, the meeting
tet minated.

THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

MAILS FOR JUNE.

The following are the dates on which the foreign and
colonial mails will be made up at the General Post-office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the present month, and
when the return packets will be due at Southampton,
Liverpool, and Falmouth.—For Madeira, Brazil, and
Buenos Ayres, on the evening of the 4th inst. (to-mor-
row), by her Majesty's brig Seagull, from Falmouth.
Next packet due, her Majesty'a brig Crane, on the 24th
inst., at Falmouth. For British North America sad the
United States, on the evening of the 7th init., by steam-
packet via Liverpool, Halifax, and New York; on the
evening of the 14th inst., to Boston ; on the evening of
the 21st, to New York; and the evening of the 21th inst.,
to Boston. Next packets due at Liverpool on the 6th
inst.; from New York, on the 12th, from Boston ; on
the 20th inst., from New York; and the 26th inst., from
Boston. The branch packet for Newfoundland will be
dispatched from Halifax on the arrival at the latter port
of the homeward picket from Boston; and the branch
packet for Bermuda will be dispatched from Halifax on
the arrival at that port of the outward packet for Boston.
Newspapers for the United States must be prepaid (Id.
each), letters optional. For Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Ma•
deira via Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the mornings
of the 7th, 17th, and 27th inst., by steam-packets from
Southampton. Next packers due on tne 5,h, 15th, and
25th inst. For the Mediterrarean, Malta, Eeypt, Aden,
Ceylon (Mauritius o❑ the 24,h inst.), India, Hong Kong,
and China, on the evenings of the 7th and 24th inst.. by
the fortnightly overland closed malts via Marseilles.
Next mails due in London (this day) the 3d inst., and on
the 23d inst. Letters and newspapers must be prepaid.
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt,
Aden, Ceylon, the Mauritius, India, &c., on the morning
of the 20th inst., by steam-packet from Southampton.
Next packet due at Southampton on the 28th inst.
For Sydney, Now South Wales, Australia, Van Diemen's
Land, and New Zealand, by ship letter bags, as vessels
may sail from Loudon, Liverpool, .&c. Newspapers for
these colonies must be prepaid ld. each. For the
British and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except
Bermuda, Nassau, New Orleans, Mexico, Honduras. and
the Havannah), Madeira, Vete sub, Jacmel, Grey
Town (San Juan de Nicaragua), New Grenada, Chilli,
and Peru, on the morning of the 17th instant, by
steam-packet, via Southampton. Next packets
due on the 7th and 22d instant. The Tay
steamer conveyed the mails of the Ist inst. France,
&c., twice daily, morning and evening (except Sundays)
by steam-packets via Dover and Calais. Due daily
twice (except Sunday). Belgium. &c., every evening
(except Sundays) via Dover and Ostend. Due daily.
Hareburgh, &c., Tuesday and Friday evenings. Due
Tutadey s and Saturdays. Holland, &c., Wednesday
and Saturday mornings. Due Mondays and Thursdays,
by the General Steam Navigation Company's packets
via the Thames. Madeira, &c.—Mails will be made up
this evening for Madeira, St. Vincent, San Nicholas
(Cape Verd Islands), Sierra Leone. and the Island of
Ascension, to be forwarded by her Majesty's stean-ves-
sel Prometheus, appointed to sail to-morrow from De-
yapper. Letters fur Madeira will be liable to a postage of
is. 10d. per half-ounce. Newspapers 2d. each, which
must be prepaid.

Fox CLUB.—The fifth meeting of the Fox Club
took place on Saturday at 13rookes's. There were present—
the Earl of Scarborough, -Sir Robert Adair, Lord Saye and
Sele, Earl of Leitrim, Lord Poltimore, Colonel Ferguson,
M.P., Mr. Rowland Alston, Mr. Stephenson, Lord Cremorne,
Sir W. G. Craig, Bart., M.P., Hon. E. L. Mostyn, asl. P.,
Sir M. J. Cholmnlev,y Bart, M.P., Lord Marcus Hill,
Lord Sudeley, Earl of Fingal!, Earl of Zetland, Earl of Gos-
ford, Mr. Edward A. Sanford, Mr. A. K. Stephenson, Earl
Fitzhardinge, lion. Frederick Dundas, Earl of Leicester,
Mr. E. Ellice, jun., M.P., Right Hon. Andrew Rutherford,
M.P., Mr. A. W. Robarta.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last evening, betvve(in five
and six o'clock, a boat, containing five persons, through
some unexplained cause, was capsized off Milbank, and the
retire party immersed. Fortunately, several boats were
near the spot, and three of the party were rescued in a very
exhausted state. Unhappily, Mr. Wetherell, residing at
No. 123, Princes Toad, Lambeth, and his grandson, aged five
,years, sunk acd were drowned, and though drags were used
for some time, the bodies were not recovered.

Lamar West, Esq., eldest son of Bettis
min West, the painter, and formerly President of the Royal
Academy, has just died at the advanced age of 84.
Scotsman.

Mn- become as strongly attached to others by the
benefits they render as by the favours they receive.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.

DEATH OF DR. BARDSLET.—We rPgrat to an-
nounce the somewhat sudden death of Dr. Bardsley, whose
name was for so many years connected with the practice of
medicine, and especially with the medical charities in Man-
chester. lie had been, we understand, in apparent good
health, and was on a visit at the house of a friend at Brigh-
ton, when he died after a very short indisposition. Dr.
Bardsley had, we believe, just completed his 67th year.
NEW BRIDGE AT WEbTMINSTER.—Petitions have
been presented to the House of Commons for leave to
de-
posit a petition for a Bill, with the view of constructing a
new bridge across the Thames, to be called the Westminster
Temporary Bridge.

Spirits equal in strength and quality to the best
Hollands have lately been manufactured in Scotland from
turnips.

An improvement recently adopted in the formation of
bricks is to shape them so that they dovetail with each other.
By this means extraordinary strength is tbtaintd.
According to a table just published there has been
a diminution of bankruptcies during the last three months
as compared with the corresponding period last year, to the
extent of 162.

We find the following in the Sheffield Independent:
—J. Locke, Esq., M.P., the celebrated engineer, when a
boy, drove a horse and cart to carry coals into Barnsley.
At that time the boys used to tease him by calling him
" Captain Locke," for which they had very frequently to run
out of his way to escape chastisement. As Chantry carried
milk into Sheffield, Locke carried coals into Barnsley.
A curious advertisement has appeared in the Times
as follows :—" Rescue of Sir John Franklin : to the rich and
chivalrous. A gentleman, whose claims to common sense,
respectability, and talents, are corroborated by university
distinctions, honorary medals, and works of art and litera-
ture, offers to construct for 8,0004 and is three months, a
flying machine, able to travel in the air at the rate of one
hundred miles per hour. The expense of an experimental
trip would be 3001. and one month's time.
ST IVES.—During the last week the drift boats on
the mackerel fishery have taken from 300 to 3,000 fish,
which have been retailed fur the home and Bristol markets
at 45. 3d. and Bs. 6d. per 120.—Cornwall Gazette.

A new edition (the 15th) of " Fortune's Epitome
of the Funds," edited by Mr. D. Morier Evans, has been
issued. It is ten years since the previous edition of this
well-known work was published, aid Mr. Evans has brought
it down to the present time by a careful account of all the
changes that have taken place in the position of the various
securities since that period. In its new form its original
value is greatly increased.
The election of organist for St. Mary-le-Strand
the present
senitioeffirecer were er
le y
ith severalAiess
took place on Friday last, in the room of Mr. Staples, re-
rcs.ansdmidaartt,esFfitourlkthneero,flipcaein
, tande
,
r
Elliott, and other influential inhabitants, with a view of
giving every candidate a fair chance, selected as the three
umpires Mr. Mather, organist of St. Bride's; Mr. Brown,
organist of St. Clement's, &c. Their choice, however, fell On
Messrs. Beale, Middleton, and Mott, when a show of bandse
took place, and Air. Beale was elected to fill the office. The
salary is 50/. per year, his attendance necessary only.
on the
Sabbath day, and yesterday the successful candidate entered
on his duties.
—Several lots of
SALES OF VALUABLE PICTURES.
asters, have re-
choice pictures, by English and foroeti n
gMens'srs. Christie and
cently taken place at the rooms_owing.
were disposed of
Manson. Ou Saturday last thefoll
counting gold at a table,
at the prices quoted :—A bankerascribed to Rembrandt, 35 guineas; portrait of Frederick
de. Marsclaire, of Opdorf, Burgomaster of Brussels, by Van
Dyck, I guineas ; a capitally painted landscape with cattle
°
and sheep, &c.,enier
• s 35 guineas. Among the more
by T
at the same establishment were the annexed
recent sales
with their prices
:_The Madonna and Infant seated in s,
rocky cavern, to the left a Bishop kneeling on a Pagan, k,
by Leonardo
da Vinci,
formerly in the collection of the
Crivelli family at Milan, one of whose ancestors is repre •
sented in the Madonna; this picture is considered to be in
the early manner of the artist, 251/. St. Jerome at his De-
votions,
by the same master; the saint is represented in the
act
of beating his breast with a stone, and kneeling before a
large crucifix, landscape, &c. This picture belonged to the
Dominican Convent del Bosco, near Bologna, 9CI. The
Passage of the Red Sea by Pharoah and his host ; to the
right, on dry land, are the Iraelites and their families, some
in the act of rejoicing, some in prayer and thanksgiving,
whilst Moses, in the centre, stretches out his arm in com-
mand over the troubled waters in which the Egptians are
er.gulphed ; inscribed, 19 M.D. XXI., by Mazzolini di
Ferrara. This picture acquired additional value from being
of large dimensions, as the works of this master are princi-
pally small in size, 220/. Christ on the Cross, at the foot
Job reclining pointing with his band to a scroll, on which is
inscribed the words, " Majora Sustinuit Ipse," by Francesa
Francis. This picture was formerly over the altar of the
Church of San Giobbe, at Bologna ; in the Pitture di
Bologna, 1732, it is highly commended for the wonderful
knowledge of anatomy and foreshortening which its com-
position displays, 2051. A bridge across a river near some
ruins, &c., by Wilson, 59/. A mounted peasant driving cows
and sheep across a bridge, on which a boy and girl are in
conversation, by Gainsborough, 53/. The celebrated picture
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, representing a little girl with a
spaniel, 1,0701.
SClLLY.—Several cargoes of potatoes have bee
shipped off for Hoyle, to be forwarded to Briato per §fefuna
Cornwall Gazdte•

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PORTSMOUTH SAILORS' 1.10 I.ki•': '• i ."- ~-.'\'';'-,,)
A public meeting was held on Saturday, at I.l7ailie„i_- .i,;.,'.; ;',14-..-..; 1
Rooms, Kin street. St. Jatec.'s-squate, for thit ptAlitoses \ . - ',f*!..7.--1:
of forming a sail( rs' home at the port of Port,stnputlt. ~. _r---„, •-.
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K C.EI., pie:ide'dy-'i 1...!...-..' ->
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and on the platform we observed, among otheri„ pet ~ , t
Bishop of Oxford, Earl Daddington, Earl M4rivere,. ' 1 '''
Earl de Grey, Lord Ashley, Lord Frederick Fascia-
rence, Admiral 'Sir Charles Ogle, the Master of the
Temple, Archdeacon Wizrain, the Hon. Captain Maude,
RN., Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Ironbridge, Rvar-
Admiral Bowles, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chetharn,
Captain Sir Edward Parry, Admiral Sir Thomas Coch-
rane, Captain Gambier, &c.
The Gallant Criaramersr, in opening the business,
alluded to the success which had attended the establish-
meat of sailors' homes in London, Liverpool, and other
seaports, and proceeded to state that exertions were at
present making to forward a similar institution at Ports-
mouth.
The Earl of lIADDINGTON moved "That the seamen
of Great. Britain mere entitled to every return from a
grateful country for the security and increase of their
peril:lament welfare, and that the establishment 4,f a
sailors' home in London, which has been in beneficial
operation for fifteen years, prose I the value and import-
ance of such inutituaons, surd th,:t it is most desirable
to extend ilier influence.