The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

Handicap for the Great Northamptonshire Stakes of
25 sorr. each, 15 fc, •nd 5 only if declared on or before
Feb. 1.

Age et. lb'
Collingwood
Cossack
Vampire 6 8 9
Wanota
Ellerdale 6 8 7
Flatcatcher .5 8 51
Fernhill
Epirote
(laic,

Age at. lb.
Midis
St. Antonio 5 6 12
Teflis
Quiz..
Velux
riU 3
Alp
Melody .
Baptist s 6 11

Nunnykirk .4
Borneo
Inheritress
Elthiron
Clermont ...... 6
Sylvan 5
Glutton
Ballinsfad
Legerdemain
Dtliuher
Retail ....
Woolwich
Dulcet a
Westow
Montague .....
Snowstorm 4
Vesta
Belus
The Knout .
Woodlark ... 4

2 Suilboam a & 11
2 Ada Mary
Rathmines .
0 Priestess
10 Backbiter
0 Tuscan 5 6 9
7 Yardarm a 6 9
7 Aeomb
7 Andalusian 4 6 8
7Quinine
7iAnthony 4 6 7
4 6 7
67
6 moexrm . 4
6 6
6 wild Rose
6 Mantle 4 6 6
5 The Minor 4 6 6
5 Lady Bangtail 5 6 5
4 Boland 4 6 4
4 13 g, by Sir Heron-
-4 les, out of Em-
-11;0:Iro F oor
Solon

Listnahago... ...... 4

Helier Slielter 5
Clarissa
Fire-eater

press
,Puffy
RIILC
Ca 4

Quiver 4

ITrititress, by Touch-

The Flea; 4
Mrs. Taft ...

stone -
La M alheuteuse 3

Iron Rail 6
Caurire
Glenalvon
Coekermouth 5
Tarn Wadlin

Black Doe .
Cheerful
F by Vulcan, out ( f
. L0d01a....
Buscot 4

Chorister 5
Grief
Pelham
Champion
Dover
Abbot of !deux
Glen Saddel
Strychnine
Oat erley
West India Planter 5
Vangu•ird

Minto 5
Mahratta
Harriott
Damask
Little Jack 3
Windischgrats 3
rheCaatle,by Gla-
diator, out of
D ,rt'a dam 3
Modesty
Ariadne 3

6 4
6 1
6 1

6 0
6 0
6 0
6 0

6 0
6 0
6 0
5 11
5 10
5 6
5 6
5 6

5 6
5 6
5 5

Sunn) side
Second Sight
Chantrey 4 6 13 timothy ... 3
I)rakelowe
Tbriegarth 4 6 13 Salute 3
Testator - 3
Mounmer,
Tophana 4 6 13 Rubins, by Red-
Jelly Fish
Eagle's Plume 5 6 12 Rabelais
Citizen° a 6 12 Nutbrown

4 12
4 10
4 10
4 10
4 9
4 6

N.R. If the highest weight accepting is under Sat 7lb
it %ill be rased to Bst 711-, and the ( tners in proportion,
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1850.
The Newmarket Handicap of 25 MM.. * a?,11, 10 fr, and 5
ft only, if declared on or b, furs Feb. 1.
Age at. lb. Age at. lb.
Cossack
Surplice
War.ota
Flatcat:Ler .. 5 8 4 Keraun
Clermont 5 8 2 Kissaway
Epir, to
Halo 6 8 2Bf by Ilarkaway,
Fernhill
Essedarius
Bon Mot 4 8 0 Champion
Melton 5 7 13 Quasimodo ...... .. 4 6 3
Dt f (utter 57 8 Dolly Varden 46 7
linr.ington 4 7 8 Bacchanalian
1.31a,* Eagle
Legerdemain
Iron Bail
Sob' aon
Saucy Dick 4 7 3F, by Vulca-i, out
Dulca 4 7 3 of Lodola
Woolwich
4 6 1
0: t qley
Tarn Wadlin
4 7 2'l by Harkawav ' s
~,
Herbert
C!arissa
West 'w
Et-ongbow
cbdritrey
The Knout 4 7 0 Little Jack 3 5 1
Gur&r.i.s
Surwyside-
11aOrnines
Glcoakon
St. Ant,mio
Qu:vor 4 6 11
Hope
3 4 5
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COURT

Iit.CULAR.

-
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen with their Royal. Highnesses the Prin-
cess Roy al and Princess Alice, drove to Frogmore
this morning.

His Royal Highness. Prirce Albert went out
shooting this morning, accompanied by Colonel
Challoner and Colonel Hall. Colonel Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Colonel lion. R. Boyle, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
and Colonel F. H. Seymour, were in attendance upon
his Royal Highness.
The Marchioness of Normanby left the Castle this
day.

There is no addition to the royal dinner party
this evening.

Lord John Russell gave a Cabinet dinner last even-
ing at his residence in Cbesham-place. The Mi-
nisters present were the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Campbell, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hun. H.
Labouchere.
The Commissioners for inquiring into Smithfield-
market and markets in the city of Loudon for
the sale of meat, had a meeting yesterday. There
were present Mr. George Cornewall Lewis, Sir
James Duke, Sir Harry Verney, Professor Richard
Owen, HOD. Frederick 13yng, and Mr. John Wood.
A deputation from Liverpool, on the subject of the
tea duties, headed by Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Sir
Thomas Birch, had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
was present at the conference.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday. Major-General Sir William Ret-
ries, Sir James Duke, Sir Charles Adams, and Alder-
man Sidney, had also interviews yesterday with the
Right Hon. Baronet, at the Home-office.
Captain Lambert had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Hart Davis, Deputy Chairman of the Board
of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exch(quer yesterday. Sir Henry Ellis
and Mr. Sadlier, M.P., had also interviews yesterday
with the Right lion. Baronet, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yes-
terday, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday from
Paris.
Lord John Russell issued invitations yesterday to
the mover and seconder of the Address in the House
of Commons, and a numerous party of Members of
the Lower House, to a full-dress dinner, on Wednes-
day, the 30th inst. The dinner will be given at his
Lordship a cffichti rebidence in Downing-Duvet,

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
No. CLXXXIII.

Foremost, though last among the contributions
' comprised in the present number of this distinguished
periodical is the admirable criticism on Lamartine's
latest historical composition. We have failed to read
the observations made by the Edinburgh Review
without emotion, for the circumstance of its publica-
tion has vividly called to our remembrance the ap-
pearance of the last strictures of the same quarterly
upon the preceding annals penned by that illustrious
Frenchman—the lest contribution to the pages of the
Edinburgh from the hand of poor Charles Buller.
Within that interval one of the wittiest, most genial,
and rising statesmen of the Liberal party has passed
away—dying prematurely in the ripeness of his man-
hood, in the vigour of his intellect, and at
the moment w hen his political ambition
seemed culminating to its highest realisation.
his memory, if duly preserved among those
of our public characters, must consequently remain as
nothing better than a symmetrical fragment, indi-
cating, and only indicating, what might have been
expected if the lamp of his genius had not been so
suddenly extinguished. Divesting our minds, how-
ever, of these sorrowful recollections, the contribution
which has caused their revival w ill prove, on exami-
nation, to be eminently entitled to reference. A
more judicious and impartial criticism we have seldom
had the satisfaction of perusing—yielding as it does
due recognition to the meri's and deficiencies of the
work, awarding proportionate praise and condemna-
,ion to the virtues and blemishes of the writer. After
laboriously weighing the value of the effusion sub-
jected to criticism, namely, the " Histoire de la Re-
volution de 1848," the reviewer arrives at the follow-
lag conclusion :
On the whole, we do not believe that the Hi•t'sire
de la I's6volution de 1848' will raise M. do Lamartine's
reputation. It shows his conduct to have been weaker,
and his principles of action to be more absurd, than we
had thought possible. But this circumstance adds to its
interest, by aiding to its credibility. Neither the ac-
tions nor the motives which he avows are such as a man
would ascribe to himself falsely. And we must add,
that when we have had an opportunity of testing the
truth of his narrative, by comparing it with that of
other witnesses, we have generally found it correct.
We have seen, itntaace, an account drawn up by
Marshal Bugeaud, in his own handwriting, of the events
of the 24th of February, so far as he took tart in them.
The story, as told by Lamartine, agrees with this paper
in its minutest details; and probably was taken from the
Marshal's own lips."
The panegyrit pronounced in the above paragraph
upon the truthfulness of the workts a record of oc-
currences is only consistent with the annalist's pure
and unimpeachable reputation. As the critic happily
expresses it, the two volumes are in their character
less historical than autobiographical—and this cir-
cumstance we conceive constitutes, instead of the
chief error, the principal excellence of the production.
Referring to the memorable apostrophe to the Tri-
coloured Flag, the reviewer says,—
" The mob to which it had been addressed was pour-
ing back with shouts of"' "Five Lamartine!' Viva le
drapeau tricoleirl' when it was met, repulsed, and passed
thiough by a body of revolutionists more fierce and
more implacable than any of the precious columns. 'A
gal Lamartine!' *Mort d Lamartine!' they screamed!
isslnt de paroles, le decret, le decret! ou le gouverne-
me it des traitres ala lanterne!' Lamartine had placed
himielf before the great gate, raised on a chair above
the small knot of devoted adherents who stood between
him and a band t f ruffians whose bayonets and swords
temost reached his body, and, indeed, slightly wounded
one of his hands. His voice could not now be heard in
the tumult: He would not retreat; yet, if he remained,
the only result seemed to b', his being thrown down and
trampled to death by the mob.
"He was saved, as in no other place in Europe he
could have been saved, by a beggar, who rushed between
him and his assailants, invoked him as the brother, the
father, the god of the people; embraced him, kissed
him, and at length obtained for him, all that was neces-
sary to his triumph—a hearing. For whenever a
Parisian mob hears Lamartine it is subjugated. He
subdued this last detachment of the Red party as he had
subdued its predecessors: The tricolor was raised again
over the great gates; the mob dispersed, and after eight
hours of struggle the Place de Grt)are was again empty."
This in truth was one of the most sublime deeds of
heroism ever recorded by either ancient or modern
historian. Supposing the fame efLamartine as a poet,
an annalist, a philosopher, or a statesman to perish, it
would be secured to a perennial immortality by the
recollection of that one act and that one speech. Yet
that the celebrity of Lamartine, apart from this
glorious incident, is neither narrow nor evanescent,
listen to the following remarks of the Edinburgh
Reviewer :--
"M. de Lamartine has many claims to public atten-

tion; more in number, perhaps, than any one of his
andii a He
is
sat
apt?: poet,
aann. orazirs, as
tpatiteilsornsoapntekre,
an tehmi
qn-ilities may to collected C•om the story which we
copstoorrairaine,s.
are about to relate. His merits as an hint trim' we cot-
sidered two years ago, and wo see no reason to alter our
verdict. His claims as a poet and an orator cannot be
disputee. They are matters not of inference but of fact.
The objr-ct of a poet is to please—that of an orator to
persusde; and the man who atlins eminent success in
his art is a great artist. A critic may think that he sees
objections to the means adopt d: he may wonder et the
taste c f the nation which could be pleased with such
poetry, or at the reasoning faculties of the anditors who
could be moved with such arguments; but he must b,,w
to eucteis. The poet or the orator may bave been him-
self aware of these objections; but if he could so best
obtain his object, he was right in disregarding them.
M. de Latnartihe's pot try is not Ett 41 for Engli-h popu-
larity : scarcely any French poetry is. Bet in France
its success has been rapid and universal, and he stands
at the head of her living poet-t. From this judgment
the only appeal is to that of posterity; and it would be
presumptuous—for foreigners especially—to anticipate
its reversal.

" M. de Lamartine's success as an orator has been still
more brilliant. Tho words of no other living speaker
have so much affected the destinies of mankind. His
influence has resembled that of Mirabeau and O'Con-
nell united. Both Mirabeau and O'Connell, indeed,
preserved tboir influence much longer; Mirabeau, in
fact, kept his till depth. O'Connell until extreme age
and bodily w( akness. M. de Lamartine's ir, for the
present, suspended. But, while it lasted, it was more
decisive, more instantaneous in its effects, and exercised
under less advantageous circumstances, than either of
theirs."

Upon the clever politico-historic contribution relating
to "Turkey and Christendom" we have already
commented in our leading columns, so that further
allusions to it, would be superfluous. Not so with
the ingenious criticism penned by a reader and, to a
certain extent, by an admirer of Currer Bell, in
which the consideration of the merits and demerits of
Shirley" gives rise to an interesting dissertation
upon female literature. Although coinciding
in a great measure with those who recognise
the individual superiority of celebrated men over
celebrated women, the critic expresses considerable
doubt as to whether the fair sex en masse is suffering
under an inherent disadvantage. The argument of
his opponents in this matter he does not regard as in
any remarkable degree strengthened by the mere
consideration that the gentler half of the human
family has never had its annals adorned with names
such as those of Shakspere, Bacon, Newton, Milton,
Raphael, Mozart, Watt, or Burke. Upon the ex-
traordinary deficiency of the female intellect in regard
to musical composition and to the exhibition of the
humorous, whether on the stage or in literature, the
writer cannot help remarking. Speaking of the want
of a single great musical composer among females,
he observes :

" But, as composers, they have never attained any dis-
tinction. They have often been great, indeed, as For-
formers—whether with the impassioned grandeur of a
Pasta and a Viardot, or with the perfkot vocalisation of
a Lind and an Alboni—who they pianists, such as Camille
Ployel—violinists, such as Madame Flipowicsz or the
little Milanolo--wht tiler ae organist=, or even as trom-
bone (!) players—yet in musical composition they are
absolutely without rank. We can undot stand their not
creating the stlrmy grandeur and tumultnary harmo-
nies, the gloom and the enchanting loveliness of a
Beethoven, since to that height women never have at-
tained in any art; but why no one among them should
yet have rivalled the moonlight tenderness and plaintive
delica:•y of a Bellini, is a mystery to us."
Again, commenting upon the want of a great comic
actress and of a great comic authoress, the Edinburgh

says :
Compare Miss Austen, Miss Ferrier, and Miss
Edgeworth, with the lusty mirth and riotous humour of
Shakspere, Rabelais,: Butler, Swift, Fielding, Smollat,
or Dickens and Thackeray. It is like comparing a quiet
smile with the inextinguishable laughter' of the Ho-
me-lc gods! So also on the stage—there have been
comic actrt rites of incomparaYe merit, lively, pleasant,
humorous women, gladdening the scene with their airy
brightness and gladsome presence; but they have no
comic energy. There has been no female Munden,
Liston, Matthews, or Keeley. To be sure, our drama
has no female j arts, the representation of which afer
such a fashion would not have been a caricature."

Besides the critical notices already mentioned we
twist particularize an able and learned review on the
" History of Greece, by George Grote." Irish
Toryism receives a castigation, to which we must
elsewhere direct attention, in the paper entitled
" Orange Prucessions." Three other contributions,
of remarkable ability and of permanent; value, remain
still unnoticed ; but our remarks have already pro.
ceeded to a length which obliges us to content our-
selves with their bare enumeration, namely, articles on
" Sanitary Reforms," on "British Mines," and on
" Colonization."

BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY FOR 1850. We are
requested to state that Mr. Colburn has this day pub-
lished Mr. Burke's "History of the Landed Gentry f
1850," a cheaper edition, correc'e I to tl'e present time,
compete in two volumes royal octavo, comprising more
matter than thirty ordinary volumes, price only 2/. 25.,
bound, which may now be had of all booksellers. This
'repellant national work comprises a genealogical and
heraldic dictionary of the whole of the landed gentry of
Britain and Ireland, with particulars of upwards
of 100,000 persona connected with them, forming a 110-
"Mg 09a3Pani94 19 au sage/.

THE RUSSIAN LOAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sie,—A few months ago you did me the favour to
insert a few remarks on the "Austrian Loan ;" per-
haps you will now allow me to say a few words on
the Russian loan just announced by Messrs. Baring
and

It is called a railway loan, to give it a specious ap-
pearance. Despotism cannot afford to tell the truth ;
if it could, it would in these days often be ashamed of
it. A loan to pay the assassins hired to murder the
Hungarian patriots, flog their noble women, and im-
prison their children, would not sound well on
'Change, and would be called the Assassins' Loan
throughout the land ; but anything to do with rail-
ways, albeit they are not in the best odour at present,
has a much better chance cf public favour. Now,
it is extremely likely that Nicholas would be very
glad to see this Moscow railway of his finished, and
many others too, for without such means of rapid
transit for his troops, his largo, unwieldy empire
would be completely at the mercy of any naval power
that was induced to attack it ; but if his Autocratic
Alajesty had not spent his people's money in bullying
and slaying his neighbuurs no loan would have been
required. It is ridiculous to suppose that the
commercial engineers of a land of serfs can
demand any railways at all, and Nicholas,
although very fond of his people's progress when it
aggrandizes his own power, would be the last man to
allow it to go on too fast for the safety of despotism.
We have had accounts lately of conspiracies in his
dominions, and it is well known that in Russia assas-
sination is regarded as the natural death of an Em-
peror. These facts, with the well-known circum-
stance of the Government costing much mors than the
revenue, naturally makes his Majesty desirous of
raising the wind. He feels that he is not safe, sur-
rounded by the most enormous army in the world ;
if not the sword of the avenger, at any rate the knife
of the assassin hangs over him, and he wishes to se..
cure himself. True to the instincts of despotism, he
puts his trust in espionage and oppression. If freedom
of writing or speaking comes:near him he is alarmed,
and the assertors of human rights must be quenched
in blood, and when he has had his fling of temporarily
successful crime, he comes to moral and religious
England, and asks its people to pay for it. A beggar
once prayed hard for a trifle to keep him from doing
what he should bitterly regret, and when
the charitable coin was transferred to his pocket,
explained that had he not got it he should have been
obliged to work. Now if Nicholas would tell the
truth, he would say that if he could get no foreign
loans he would be obliged to depend for his safety on
constitutional principles, which, as the beggar said,
he would bitterly regre. The Autocrat is liked by
the people because he curbs the power of their feudal
masters, and it heals the stripes on their own backs
to see a little discipline enforced on their tyrants ; but
his power is personal, and the nobles, who hate him,
are aware of the fact that anybody would rule who
got possession of his person, and that with the ter-
mination of his life a new state of things would com-
mence. In Moscow thousands of serfs, as much the
property of their masters as pigs or horses, work in
factories, and if they are not fitting themselves for
freedom they are growing more powerful for revenge ;
thus two dangers hourly menace Russia—a successful
conspiracy of the nobles against the Emperor, and
a general rising of the serfs against their masters.
No one knows how long the crisis will be delayed,
but after it, bondholders might whistle for their
money. It is no argument against this view of
Russian stability to say, that the people are far too
uncivilized for a constitutional Government. It is
from that very fact that more danger comes. If
Russians had the strong feeling of personal inde-
pendence of the Anglo-Sixon race, the empire
would be comparatively sate, but both Russian his-
tory and general history show that slaves will, sooner
or later, rise, and when they do rise the degradation
that has been heaped upon them brings forth the most
bitter and sanguinary fruit. Nicholas is pledged to
tyranny, he has made his compact with the evil
spirit and sealed it with blood, and the aspects of the
times promise him anything but a quiet or a cheap
career. Austria is in a state of decomposition—
Germany in a torment, and from both ideas
of liberty will arise, and Nicholas may again
have another extravagant and disgraceful campaign,
in which treachery may not confer a victory that is
far beyond his military power to obtain. All these
circumstances should be well weighed before any
prudent man lends his money to Nicholas on any
pretext whatever. No one of high principle will
advance a farthing to assist in crime, and there is no
occasion to address them on this matter ; but to capi-
talists of another kind it may be well to remark that
there are times when the great mass of the people
rigidly scrutinize the doings of the rest, and it will
not be well to have it proclaimed to the working men
that the middle classes, with all their boasted love cf
freedom, are eager to lend their money to put it
down. English bishops are not likely to come for-
ward, like the mollahs cf Turkey on a recent occa-
sion, and urge their countrymen to a noble course of
action, as Russian oppression does not hurt the
churchman's craft ; but we hope Englishmen will
unanimously spurn the Autocrat's proposal as an in-
sult to their race. The Peace Society are quite right
when they go to war in such a case as this, and
although large merchants may soon take up the loan,
a little wholesome agitation will prevent their disposing
of it among the people, We have had lately many
deplorable cases of saving'-bank defaultev, and hope
we have come to the end of the list, but if any set of
men are at this moment engaged in swindling these
useful institutions, we recommend the contractors for
the Russian loan to solicit their support. Such
people would not disgrace themselves much by taking
shares, and, if the money was lost, they would have
the satisfaction of knowing it was not their own.
I arr, Sir, your obedient servant,
Jan. 16, 1850. H. I. S.

CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l perused with much satisfaction your repro-
bation of the flogging of girls in the Caledonian Asylum.
Permit me to draw your, attention to a circumstance
which has just come under my notice. At the last
examination of this school by the Rev. F. C. Cook,
one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Church Schools,
one of the boys was much commended by Mr. Cook
for his accuracy in Scriptural knowledge. The prise
awarded to the facile princeps of the school for
proficiency in Christian knowledge is " The Journal
of a Tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, the Spanish
Minstrel," with the following inscription on the fly -
sheet :—" Caledonian Asylum. Presented to * * *
for prompt and correct answers to questions on the
day of examination, June 27, 1849." I omit names,
and send the book with my card.
I am sure, Sir, you will agree with me that
a more improper book could scarcely be put into the
hands of a young man.
The public, and especially the supporters of the
Asylum, bare an imperative right to know the grounds
on which the authorities can justify, under any cir-
custances, the presentation of such a book.
I am, Sir, &c.,
A GUARDIAN.
P.S. We understand that the schoolmaster is the
protegee of the Rev. Dr. Cumming!

NTELLIGENCE BY BALLOONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE
SIR,—By your immediate insertion of an article I
sent you upon the conveyance of intelligence by bal-
loons, I may presume you take an interest in the
matter.

I now send you a rough plan of dropping, at cer-
tain intervals, dispatches over an extent of country.
I do not send it with a view to its finding a place in
your columns, as it cannot well be explained without
a drawing. I have already sent it to the editor of the
Illustrated London News, and, perhaps, in that paper
it may be seen next Saturday.
The plan consists of a balloon made of thin calico,
properly varnished, the size of the balloon to be such
as to afford an available buoyancy of about sixteen
ounces, supposing the inflating gas to be about one-
sixth the weight of atmospheric air. To the neck of
the balloon, when inflated, is made fast a line sus-
pending or lever lath, made of light wood, as shown by
the drawing. To one eod of the lever are fixed three
hooks, turned up at different angles ; hook c at an
angle of twenty degrees, hook b, forty-five degrees,
hook hook a, seventy degrees ; on each of these are hooked
a suitable number of dispatches or intelligence papers;
at the other end of the lever is suspended a glass con-
taining sand; the quantity of sand put into the glass
is such, that when a certain portion of it is run out
corresponding to an interval of time, say two hours,
the weights on the dispatch end of the lever will pre-
ponderate, the lever will consequently cant, and set
free the dispatches hooked on at c ; so soon as this
occurs the lever returns to a horizontal position, by
reason of the weight of the sand-glass preponderating.
In In the same manner are the dispatches hooked on
b and a disengaged at intervals of two or.thhrtiee
will The balloon, being so relieved ofitw
shouldeig be held
ex-
tend its flight, and when it descetndbs
captive to the place of its descent
suspended to the balloho for that a purpose;sail grapnel,
therc
securedn to the balloon.
should also be a di. p
which the lever is suspended should
be
withTfihtteedline
swivel,
.so that the rotary motion of
Should there be any difficulty in the running out
bya
the balloon may not be imparted to the lever.
of sand at the rate required, that is at about one
ounce per hour, alcohol might be used, the glass
being so bored as to allow the alcohol to drop slowly,
so that an ounce may be expended in about an hour.
I am, Sir, &e ,
Jan. 16, 1850. N AUTICU S.
Y.S. You are quite at liberty to show this to any
one who takes an interest in the matter. I will take
this opportunity to remark that balloons will, at no
distant day, be employed in other than peaceable
designs.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,
NORTH KENT CONTINUATION.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Faversham
was held yesterday, to take into consideration the
propriety of supporting the proposed railway to con-
!
neet Dover and the intermediate places with the North
Kent Railway at Strood. About 300 of the principal
landowners, gentry, farmers, and tradesmen of the
neighbourhood were present.
r The MAYOR, having briefly opened the proceedings
by stating the objects of the meeting, showed in glowe
L g colours the wants of Faversham and the neigh-
bourhood for railway communication.
Mr. TAYLOR, the promoter of the line, said that
he had used his best endeavours to select the line
which, in his opinion would least interfere with or-
s amental property and could be constructed at the
cheapest rate. lie had no doubt but that an amicable
arrangement could be come to, so as to remedy any
chance of danger which might be entertained from a
train passing near to the powder work?.
Mr. C. J. HILTON,
having adverted to the commer-
cial advantage's of the line, proposed a series of reso-
lutions, to the effect that an entire line of railway
passing through the towns in North Kent, and con-
necting the harbour of Dover and the Downs with
the various arsenals, dockyards, (Sze., on the north
side of Kent, was one of great national as well as local
interest; approving of the plans of Mr. Taylor,
subject to certain alterations, and appointing n
com-
mittee fur Faversham, to assist the central committee
in promoting the undertaking.
Sir J. M.TreDea, in seconding the resolutions, said
that the project had the entire and unqualified sup.
port of the landowners generally on the line.
The resolutions were then unanimously adopted.
The correspondence with the South-Eastern Com-
pany respecting the proposed line having been read,
a series of resolutions were passed, regretting the
determination of the South-Eastern Company to
oppose the proposed Bill ; and complaining of the
conduct of the company towards the inhabitants of the
district and the promoters of the new line.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.

WINDING-UP OF JOINT• STOCK COMPANIES—Tin
ROYAL INDIA; AND AUSTRALIA STEAM- PACHST
COMPANT.—Yesterday the winding up of this com-
pany's affairs came on before the Master in Chancery
Blunt, at his court in Southampton-buildings, Chan-
cery-lane, on the petition of Mr. J. Yates, of Corn-
bill, and Mr. R. Ford, master mariner, holders of 100
shares each, and two of the directors. The petition
represented that the company was started in 1847 for
the establishment of a regular communication between
Great Britain, the East Indies, Australia, New
Zealand, and other intermediate ports. It was in-
corporated by Royal charter with a capital of 100,000/.
in 5,000 shares of 201. each, with power to augment.
It was to be lawful for the directors, whenever a loss
of at least 75 per cent. on the capital for the time
being subscribed had been incurred, to call a meeting
to dissolve ; but this could not be done, as it was
found impossible to convene a sufficient number of
shareholders who had paid the calls to constitute a
legal meeting. The directors made calls, but the
shareholders refused to pay them. Business was
carried on until April, 1849, when the affairs became
embarrassed. From the report of Mr. Coleman, the
official manager, presented yesterday, it appears that
12,653 shares were applied for and allotted, of which
only 3,720 shares were paid upon, amounting to
3,2111. The debts now due amount to 4.8271., assets
in hand 497/., expenses from commencement 7,5401.
The list of contributories liable to a call has been
settled in respect of all those shareholders who signed
the deed, and of those who paid the preliminary de-
posit but who did not sign the deed. About 242 shares
were taken in Madras, and 81 in Ceylon, and these
have to be considered. The total number of shares
not included in the list of contributories is 3,925.
This arises from their being considered bad, those
to whom they were allotted being dead, insolvent, or
abroad.

THE LATE EN:-IGN DANIEL

AUGUSTUS SANDFORD.

It was with feelings of no common regret that we
heard of the premature death of Daniel Augustus
Sandford, Ensign in the 2d Bengal European Infantry,
son of the Rev. John Sandford, vicar of Dunchurch,
and grandson of the late Bishop Sandford. He was ap-
pointed to the regiment in 1848, when but yet on the
verge of manhood, having just completed his twentieth
year, and is reported to have sunk under inflammation
consequent upon the excessive fatigues of the cam-
paign in the Punjaub. His health, which had been
fa some time gradually breaking down before his
corps reached its cantonments at Lahore, from long-
continued over-exertion and privations, was by no
means benefited by his abode there, the accommodation
being anything but good, and more than half of the
officers of the regiment on the sick list.
It may not be, perhap., very generally known, that
this accomplished, gallant, and fine-hearted young
gentleman, who, bad he been spared, could scarcely
have failed to have risen to distinction, and fulfill :4
the most sanguine expectations his friends enter-
tained of him, was the author of "" Leaves from
the Journal of a Subaltern during the Campaign
in the Punjaub," published a month or two ago
by the Messrs. Blackwood. These memoranda,
the gleanings of an observant eye, and the
outpourings of a finely-toned and generous
spirit, were jotted down, it appears, without the
slightest view of ever being presented to the public
eye; but, having been communicated piecemeal to
his friends in England, were, without even his per-
sonal consent, transmitted to the columns of the
Times, from the great interest exhibited at the period
regarding the position of our Indian affairs, more
especially after the sanguinary battle of Chillian-
wallah, of which, as well as of the previous battle of
Itamnuggur, and the subsequent crowning victory of
Goojerat, they contain a graphic and most animated
account.

From many interesting passages of his own
Journal, it was too evident that Mr. Sandford's
health was much broken; and although be makes
slighter account of this than most people were likely
to have done, and several times repor's himself fit for
service, when with greater propriety, perhaps, he
might have remained in the hands of his physician,
still it is but too evident that the blade was wearing
through the sheath, and that he was continuing to
hold life by a very precarious tenure, although we
were by no means prepared for such an immediate
termination of his career.

Simple and unpretending as the Journal is, it is
impressed throughout with that graphic air of reality
which it is next to impossible to communicate to any
detail of fictitious events ; and it would be difficult to
point out, in any similar narrative, so many passages
of descriptive beauty, evidently sketched from nature—
so many outbursts of a generous and heroic tempera-
ment—so many tender and touching episodes, such as
those relating to his bosom friend, Sprot, and to the
poor wounded mother dying with the unconscious in-
tent hanging at her bosom—so many traits of the sol-
dier, blended with feelings and sentiments so Christian,
so unassuming, and so delicate. For ourselves, we can
unhesitatingly say, that we have not for a very long
time perused any narrative which has interested us
more ; and now that the young and gallant author is
beyond the reach either of our praise or blame, we
feel it a duty to say so. From his Journal we could
not help forming a high estimate of the character and
abilities of the writer; and although itis the only
literary legacy he has hft to his friends, it is one to
which they are entitled to point with a mournful
pride, and which will assuredly long embalm his me-
mob, in the heart of many an admiring and thought-
ful reader.—Edinburgh Courant.

PAINTING IN CRAYONS.—III addition to the variety
of things exhibited at the Bazaar in Baker-street, a
collection of portraits in crayons or pantiles, the works
cf a French artist, M. Magins, who has lately arrived
in this country, has been opened to the public. These
pictures show a great advance in this style Ll' painting,
and very extraordinary effects have been introduced,
opvti
rhibothtiemzrei l
vitrified
queaduisn
making and
light and shade, and as to depth cf back-
ground. As this manner of portrait painting is compa-
ratively little cultivated in England, it will be a matter
( f surprise to most persona to see how much can be done
by materials hitherto neglected. The tints are naturally
and beautifully blended, and the various texturoe;
oil
costume and sus faces rendered with the effect
painting. The portraits of
lrirgdethevhdeleartnashineviakirnnngdofi known
nnt Agricultural
dpc
rhai apzrepa applying
ifennrd
are faithfully given, and will be at once recognised,
all are meritorious.
understandety o f
Scotland
hrmaevpoeso r t
awarded their
land agent, in
medal
etc adings by means of glazed
gold Sol aellistgr•mo
re-beasufnadreuir the surface. Last year Mr.
awarded by the Agricultural Society two
Ferguson was
• —a gold medal for a report on the application of
ridomthaenru power to the working of drain-tile or
aflotrothMe r.
James
steam pipe-makingopipemsaclabidines, and a silver medal for a report
and draining with tubes made of peat earth.
GRAT'd INN, JAN. 16.--The Rev. Dr. Ilessey
has this day been elected preacher to the lion. Society.
f Gray's Inn, in the room of the late Rev. Dr. Shep-
herd, II ceased.
GRAY'S INN, JAN. 16.—Saint George Kerr, Esq ,
and George Francis, Esq , were this day called to the
degree of Barrister• at-Law by the lion. Society of
Gray's Inn. _ _ _ _

iaurgeon Guy Alexander Acheson (1804), on the
rt t l►st ,died a few days since at. Dublir.
REGISTRY OF Snos.—The following amended
forms have been ; pproved by the Government authori-
ties, to be used in the registry of vessels:-1. Surveyors'
certificates of admeasurement for sailing vessels. 2.
Surveyors' certificates cf admeasurement for steamers.
3. Bond to be given at the time of registry by the master
and owners. 4. Bond to be given by the master when
he cannot attend at the port cl registry, and orders have
been given for copies of the newly-approved forms, to
ue ti a,usmitted to the collectors and comptrollers, or
other principal officers of the revenue, at the several
ports and places throughout the kingdom, with dim.
twos that they be adopted by them IA lieu of thole now
,in use•

,

Vteirt( Varition

RUMOURED DEATH OF LOUIS
PHILIPPE.

SUN-OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

We have just been informed that the ex-King of
the Frencb, Louis Philippe, died suddenly this
morning. We have endeavoured to ascertain whether
or not there is any foundation for this rumour, but
without success ; and we therefore give it as a ru-
mour merely, without at all vouching for its accuracy.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sit irg3 in Banco.)
ATKINS V. KINNIER.

This action, which was brought to recover damages
fir a breach of covenant, was trfel et We: tuainet a- on
Saturday last, before Mr. Baron Relfe, when a verdict
was found for the p'aintiff f r 1,000/., with leave to
reduce the damages to one shilling. The plaii.t ff and
defern'alt ha I been in part ier.ship for a ehort period as
surgeons and apt tieett-iee, a id carried on their business
at Dereet-ereseeet, but the defendant geve up his share
in it to the plaintiff, and e. t :red into a stipulation not to
practise within a distance of two miles a-id a La'f,
agreeing to Ear, if he broke this agreement, the sum of
1,0001. The breach is as that, before the e trnmencement
of the suit, he was re,leing at 44, Triniti -:square,
which, measuriog:by the usual streets and thoroughfares
it was alleged was within two miles and a-half of
Dorset•crescent. The plaintiff's residence was situated
at the angle of two roads, and there were two ways of
approach, the one which was selected by the plaintiff
being within about thirty yards cf the prescribed dis-
tance, and the other, which the defendant contended
ought to be chosen, it being the most frequented way,
was slightly teyond it. The Judge held that the plain-
tiff was entitled to measure by any usual public way,
and accordingly directed a se-diet far the plaintiff.
Mr. lIIIRLESTONE now moved for a rule to reduce the
damages to one shilling, or, in the alternative, for a new
trial, on the ground of misdirection; that the. stipulation
as to residence in the covenant was void in law, and that
the damage found by the jury was not a liquidated
damage but a penalty. •He contended that the words in
the indictment, " the usual ways cf approach," were to
be construed as meaning the most frequented ways; and
it appeared that omnibuses aad ocher descriptions of
traffic:were generally accustomed to go the longest way,
the reason being that there was a turnpike on the other
road.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON observel that he was in the
habit, on leaving the court, of sometimes riding home
through the park, but it could not be said that that was
the most frequented way.
Mr. HUaLESTONE said that many, in coming to the
courts of lay, took a near cut through Hungeifird
Market; but all knew that Charing-cross was by fir the
most crowded thoroughfare. The restriction as to resi-
dence he submit ed was illegal and void, on the ground
of public policy, tecau3e it deprived the public of the
services of the defendant as a physiciae.
The CHIEF BARON said it reamed te him that, under
the covenant, any ordinary street might be taken fir
the purposes of measurement, and that though there
were two war, one within and one beyond the distance,
the plaintiff might resort to either. The covenant was
entirely legal. The direction cf Mr. Baron Rolfe ap-
peared to him to be perfectly right, and he therefere
thought there was no ground for a rule.
The other Judges concurring, the application was
refused.