The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

THE s N, LONDON, TUESDAY WORNING, JULY 1, 1845.

=MAGAZINE DAY.

these'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
riter on the " Marlborough Dispatches" returns
I-. to important documents with•the laudable p.urpose, . _ %along others, apparently, Of correcting some mislatt_ee-
-4+ /11.e.nts, and doing justice both to the Great Duke, an h
editor of-his " Dispatches"— Sir G. Murray. In the forni.er
article it
was stated, in very plain language, that the dm-
catches and letters published in French could not have
-,
sufficient
. keen written by
-41% nowledge of the language, and was too little Marlborough, as he had not
familiar
on
with the epistolary style of the country to venture
c"ratuuninating his sentiments in French. The error
men
reins
corrected in these words. :—" Like many other
destined for future diAtinction, Churchill made no great
• figure as a scholar, a 'circumstance easily_
explained,
recollect that it is on the knowledge of w
f we
orcdfs
athinaatnt_he
, • reputation of a school-boy—of things, that i
is founded. But the dispatches now published blaisgbe he waseddemon-
T atate that before he attaiued m
% proficient at • least in Latin, French,
4ish composition; . for letters in , . and*te ln ; :nn ga-
el
:Chu c b
e' r 1
_ very pure style, are to be t °
be
n d in
otherwiseail par t s
when of leis
en it i 8
e r-
' respondence." It could hardly
known that Marlborough served
at least fiveyearsunder
the most celebrated French generals of
with of thh men e dap, and
w horn
learned the art of war in the same camp
he afterwards defeatedin many pitched battles. But
- the writer does a great deal more than correct a
errors—he gives us a concise and interesting memoir
. ort he illustrious General up to the battle of Blfnhe,m,
with occasional anecdotes not familiar to En,,,lish read, rs.
Indeed Marlborough, as is justly remarked, is better
known on the Continent than in his native country.
The French nurses used to frighten their children with
stories of " Marlbrook." Nap demi hummed the well-
• known air " Marlbrook s'en va a la guene," when he
crossed the Niemen, and but for the plpular pages of
Voltaire, Marlborough " would he virtually unitnown at
this moment to nineteen -t A entieths of the British people."
Vultsire in a few words draws a vivid picture of one great
quality to which he, as well as the Great Duke of our OWII
tune, owe their im mortality. '• He had above all the generas
t-)f the age that tranquil courage in the midst of tumult,
=and that serenity of soul in danger, which the English
call cold head (tete j; oide) It is perhaps this quality,
the highest gift of nature to a general, that gave in
'Fortner times the English such advantage over the
I?rench on the plains of Poitiers, Cressy, and
Agincourt."
The other articles in this number fully maintain the
'character of Maga. North, with a lingering look to-
wards. the old English poets, again returns to his criti-
cisms by way of supplement, for he had announced
their termination in his last notice, but we do not regret
the circumstance. One sentence, indeed, atones for
pages of tedious comparisons and poetical di,quisitions.
'Never were words more true littered than those here
subjoined. Let them sink deep into the minds of youth,
and urge them on to the study of languages, which not
only tends to humanise the mind but to give the only
true knowledge of the divine works of antiquity. It
is impossible to translate fine writing—poetry
should never be attempted. Homer, and Horace, and
Lucian, and Chaucer, and Burns, can be understood only
in their own language. "We fall back upon the old
conviction," says North, " that verse is a sacred, and song
an inspired thing ; that the feeling, the thought, the
word, and the musical breath spring together out of the
soul in one creation ; that a translation is a' thing not
given in rerun, natura ; consequently that there is
leave hnothingien elsein Ito be done with a great poet, saving to
is glory." The " Opium-Eater" is more
gloomy than ever. The sorrows of life (for he seems to
count for nothing its many joys) make him sick of ex-
istence, and prefer death to birth. "Death we. can face,
but knowing, as some of us do, what is human life,
which of us is it, that without shuddering could (if con-
sciously we were summoned) face the hour of death ?"
The following verses on " The Fall of Napol," are
by the Russian poet, Pushkin, translated byeon T. B.
Shaw, 8.A., of Cambridge. We can find room for
only three, but they are a fair specimen of the rest :
" 0 thou, of whose immortal story
Earth aye the memory shall keep,
Now, 'neath the shadow of thy glory
Rest, rest, amid the lonely deep!
A grave sublime nor nobler ever •
• Couldst thou have found for o'er thine urn
The Nations' hate is quench'd for ever,
And Glory's beacon-ray shall burn.

" There was a time thine eagles tower'd
Resistless o'er the humbled world;
There was a time the empires cower'd
Before the bolt thy hand had hurl'd :
The standards, thy proud will obeying,
Flapp'd wrath and woe on every wind—
A few short years, and thou wert laying
Thine iron yoke on human kind.

" And France, on glories vain and hollow,
Had fixed her frenzy-glance of flame—
Forgot sublimer hopes, to follow
Thee, Conqueror, thee—her dazzling shame !
Thy legions' swords with blood were drunken—
All sank before thine echoing tread;
And Europe fell—for sleep was sunken,
The sleep of death—upon her head.'

COLBU.RN'S NEW MONTHLY.
Air. Harrison Ainsworth is now the editor of this
niagazin and he opens the number with an admirable
tale, " Cecco del Orso." The hero is an Italian Con-
dottiere, and the scene is laid in Forli in 1448, and in
the space of nine pages and a half we have a romance
which, in the hands of oriinary scribes, would have been
dilated into a three-volume tale of " intense interest."
Shutt as it is it is Mr. Ainsworth's masterpiece. The
author of " Hillingdon Hall" gives us his " Thoughts
upon Inns," and most quaint and amusing thoughts they
ate; and Mr. Francis Ainsworth gives us a most in-
teresting account of the " Principality of the Captive
Jews in the Valley of the Euphrates;' Then follows
one of the best occasional poems we have ever read:—
WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING THE PER-
FORMANCE OF A YOUNG AMERICAN ACTRESS,
IN CHRISTINE OF SWEDEN'

BY CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.
i.
In sooth a queen ; a gentle, loving queen !
So true to nature, as to cheat the will
From all observance of the mimic scene,
To bow in reverence of thy matchless skill.
Thy brow, which well the diadem became.
Beam'd with the light and purity of truth ;
While the clear eye flash'd well and wild the flame,
From the soul's altars, fed by hope and youth.
11.
And then, the high-wrought tales of woman's love.
Shackled by chains of custom and of state,
Which the fond heart strives vainly to remove,
Preferring to be loved than to be great.
From thee, the tale came like a pleasing dream,
Cheating the heart, and robbing it of care—
Alas ! that this all bright and glorious theme
Should wild Delusion's fleeting raiment wear.
We may observe thy course, and watch thy star,
Brighten with years along the Drama's heaven,
No envious clouds thy onward fame to mar,
All threatening tempests from thy pathway driven.
With such rare powers to cultivate the Muse,
Genius to model, judgment to refine ;
Who may behold thy flight, and yet refuse
To crown thee champion of the Sacred Nine ?'
This delightful tribute to the excellencies of a rival
proves that whatever may be said of the envious nature
of actresses there is at least one, and she the greatest, in
whose bosom that passion hits no place. " The Ass
Eating Thistles" is a tale illustrative of one of ./Esop's
fables. It is from the pen of the author of " Peter
Priggins," upon whom the mantle of Theodore
Hook appears to have fallen. " The Robertses
on their Travels" are as amusing as ever, and
the author of the " Stories of Waterloo" continues
his "Lights and Shades of a Gentleman on Half-pay."
" Recreations in Natural History " consist of some must
amusing anecdotes illustrative of the sagacity of
elephants. These are followed by an exquisite lyric,
entitled "Beauteous little Mary," from the pen of Ed-
ward Kenealy. The " Chest of Cigars," by Lancelot
Wagstaff, is a quaint and humorous story, told in excel-
lent style--the sort of story that we are wont to expect
in the NewAjoet'rip.Dudley Costello contributes a tale
entitled " The Fiddler of Frankfort," and Thomas
Miller contributes a poem entitled " The Grey Old Ash
Tree." Mr Oxenford is doing good service in the cause
of literature by giving ua selections from Jean Paul Frie-
derieh Richter. Jean Paul is one of the most original,
and certainly the most witty, of German writers. With
the exception of M. Heine, he is, perhaps, the only really
witty writer that Germany has praduced ; but he is not
merely witty—there is an under-current of deep and
thoutakeghtful pliilty (Thy running through all his writings
—, f r instance, " The Molucea cad Spice Islands in
Scheeran," which Mr. Oxenford has given us in the
present number. It is one of the most biting satires
ever a ritten upon monopolies, an.- as such we recom-
mend it to the attention of the League It is too long
to extrlct, but as a specimen of Jean Paul's style, a e
cannot resist giving the following, on Rudy and N,Jul
"BODY AND buLL.
" Gratings of flesh and bone stand between hu-
man souls ; and yet men can fancy that there may
be such a thing as an embrace upon the earth, when it is
only the gratings that knock toqher, arid. behind them One
soul only thinks tipon the other.'
The I..st adventure of " I lereward tit Sax,n," by Thos
Knight, is a stirring tale of the bray.• hut inetr,ctual
struggle of our Saxon ance,tors ar4ait,st Norman
Conqueror. The number also contains a re, i a of the
opera season, and of se% erA new books which have been
eently published. A supplera.-nt is delivered gratis
with the present number of the .'sew rtTo.thly. It can-
talns all that has hitherto been published of the " Reve •
lations of Lon ion," by the editor, and the work will
henceforth be continued in the pages of the New
Mcn.t.i/y.

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
No political article graces " Rcgilia" this month, and
readers wil,.• delight in gruiribling wi!l therefore be
greatly disappointed. Since the end of May the State-
coachman has been driving at a frightful rate, the May-
ni,oth affair has been settled, the Colleges Bill is in a
fair train, free trade is triumphant, and the corn-laws are
doomed to destruction. No High Tory, therefore, could
write on politics without weeping and lamentations, and
rt-eehoing the doleful strains of Newcastle and Win-
,,passeil ovir.
ils(a. But the calarnii,y is too great to be entirely
The " organisEd hypocrisy " is be-
g every day such a prominent feature in the
of Cabinet especially chosen for the preservation
'atkaqhurch and State and the triumph of monopoly,
iotaabsolute silence is impossible, and in a character of
fulsroLyndhurst care is taken to tell,him,:amidst the most
eru praise, that he is a desperate renegade, and fit
Lyntal,"Y for Peel end his other associates. " Lord
e(), ursts like his brethren in the Ministry, was a
Rasse:entions anti-emAricipationist in August, 1828 ; he
upbottstaanch emancipationist in April, 1829. He took
most ..,n_ ides vvith equal facility. Again, he was one of the
VoWerful tad effective agents. of the Conservative

of the foremost of those mho
are acting as a Government on
Go-
vernment. Ile is now one
party in undermining and overthrowing the Whig
IN, hag policy.' e
rest of the number, however, is a
bundantiv cheerful, if
-
we except the- three epechs of the (French) Re-
volution," the first of which appears under the
title " Destruction," and gives a horrifi ing
pic-
ture of the violation of the royal tombs in the
Cathedral of St. Denis and the disinterment of the
bodies of some twenty or thirty Kings and 'Qt-lens and
scions of an illustrious line at the instigation of Barre.re,
the associate of Robespierre. Those who delight in
wonders and few do not, will find plenty of them in
"Animal Magnetism and Neurhypnotism" which-throw
all our modern mesmerisers into the shade. We give
the following as a specimen. It is abridged from Os-
borne's " Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh," and is
given as a proof that a man may be buried for months
without feeling any inconvenience. After detailing the
particulars respecting a certain Indittn buried for a month
and rising from his grave alive, the writer adds :
" There is this difference, however, between the two in-
vtances, in the latter he was rctually buried in the earth for
ten niontll:', a sentry set over him night and day, and a crop
of barley sown over his grave. This was witnessed by Gene-
ral Ventura, and performed in the presence of Runjeet and
his court. The Maha Rajawas so sceptical about the matter,
that he had the Fakir dug up twice in the ten months, when
he was found to be in exactly the same position, and in a
state of perfectly suspended animation. At length, at the
end of the ten months, he was finally taken up, in the pre-
sence of Captain Wade. His tongue was precisely as he him -
self had placed it before his sepulture—forced back, and
filling up the gullet. By the application of the usual resto-
ratives he came round, and was perfectly well again in two
hours. We ought, perhaps, to state that there are other in-
stances recorded of the interment and exhumation of this
Fakir."

"a.ets, Painters, and other Shadows" will be read
with delight by all who take delight in the
fine arts, using- the term in the most general-sense.
It is written in a spirited and also a poetic style ;
takes, on the whole, a very correct view, according to
our judgment, of some of the more remarkable poets and
painters who have afforded such enjoyment to men in
the civilised state. It contains also a great deal of in-
formation respecting the works of Reubens sind other
Dutch painters, and still more reTecting the Italian
school, without exception the first of modern times—
whether we look to painting, po?try, music, history, or
novels, or, indeed, any of the arts which dis:inguish
Italy from all other countries, and make her yet, though
conquered and a slave, the first in taste, in execution, in
beauty, and description, among all her proud and power.
ful rivsls. " Gracia capt r Romani cessit," said Horace,
but with all his prophecies which have been fulfilled to
the letter, as far as time has gone, he never ventured to
say, that when Italy was subjected to the same fate with
Greece, she would still shine in all her real glory, and
teach her barbarian conquerors that they could not
subdue her. We could give many extracts from this
article, and confirm our statement, but we are compelled
to omit them for want of space.

flitted several severe wounds on his assailants—had not the
blade of his sword snapped in two. He had endeavoured to
give the alarm, but his cries were soon stopped; and, when
his weapon became unserviceable, he was easily secured and
carried into the adjoining room. Here the alarmed soldiers
discovered that the person they had thus arrested was so
severely wounded he could not stand upright. He had just
strength to murmur an entreaty to spare the innocent Prin-
ce,,' though they murdered him, when he fell into a swoon as
they were placing him on the floor.
" The Countess made her appearance directly the wounded
man had been brought out of the hall, and the first object
that met his eyes on recovering ; consciousness, was the face
of his malignant enemy bending over him with triumphant
malice expressed in every feature. He rallied all -his re-
maining strength to denounce her as the infamous wretch
she was, but his mouth was stopped by the foot of his as-
sassin, who pretended she bad slipped in his blood, barba-
rously trod on his wounded face. Life was ebbing fast—too
fast either to resent or notice the indignity, and in a few
seconds the murdered man breathed his last."
This unfortunate result sealed the fate of the Prin-
cess. She was confined for thirty years as a state pri-
soner, and died in the fortress of Ahlden on the 15th of
November, 1726, George the First did not long survive
her, for he expired at Osnabruck in the month of June
the following year. The work furnishes a sad picture
of the state of morals at the Courts of England and
Hanover during the period of which it treats.

WHEATHAMSTEAD FREE-TRLIDE

CLUB.

)ISTRIBUTION OF BEDS TO AGRICULTURAL
LABOURERS.

The anniversary of the Wheathamstead Free.trade Association
was celebrated at the Swan Inn, Wheathamatead, on Wednesday
last. Mr. C. H. Lattimore, the Chairman of the Association, pre-
sided, and was supported on his right by Robert R. Moore, Esq. ;
and on his left by Lattimore, Esq., Mr. Burton, &c. The vice-
chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert. Between forty and
fifty farmers sat down to dinner, and the attendance of this class
would have been much larger had not the haymaking imperatively
detained them on their farms. Many who had intended to be pre-
sent, and had purchased tickets for the dinner, were prevented
from attending by this cause.

Dinner, which consisted of an abundance and variety of season.
able viands, was served up in a tent in the yard of the Swan Inn,
and the arrangements altogether were exceedingly creditable to the
worthy host, Mr. Hewson.
After the cloth had been removed, and the usual toasts of di.
quette given,

The Criaramari proposed " Prosperity to the Wheathamstead
Free-trade Association," and in speaking to it at much length said
—Perhaps, in the first place, you will allow me to glance for a
moment at the place in which we are assembled, the population of
the village, and their usual occupation. It is impossible to find
any where a population more completely rural than exists here.
There are between 6,000 and 7,000 acres of land, the population
is about 2,000, and 1 don't know any description of manufacture
that is carried on here, or any machine that exists for the purpose
of any manufacture, even to the extent of a spinning.jenny.—
(Hear, hear.) If, therefore, any place can be isolated from manu.
factures, it is this. Perhaps a more perfect antithesis to the city
of Manchester cannot be found; and yet it is the opinion of
persons here that this place would be as much benefited by
free trade as even Manchester itself, and this Association has
been formed to demonstrate this conviction that the principle
of free trade would be equally as beneficial to this rural
village as to the manufacturing districts.—(Loud cheers.) Nothing
can possibly show more plainly the truth and beauty of this prin-
ciple, and its universality, than the fact that districts between which
there is such great contrariety in point of occupation should agree
to unite upon this principle; no greater proof of the truth of free
trade can be given then that a population like that of Wheatharre-
stead should unite with Manchester in its favour.—(Cheers.) The
Chairman next proposed "The Anti. Corn-law League, the only
true farmers and labourers' friend.''—(Drunk with applause).

ROBERT R. Moons, Esq., responded to the toast in a long and
eloquent speech, in which he dwelt forcibly on the necessity of
attending to the registration, and suggested that the farmers
should choose a representative of their own class, who would sym.
pathise with their wants and attend to their true interests.

At the conclusion of Mr. Moore's speech the curtain at the back
of the Chairman was withdrawn, and we then observed the yard
thronged with the peasantry of the district, who had come for the
purpose of receiving their tickets for the beds awarded. The ma.
jority of the assembled multitude were women, whose husbands
were unable to attend, in consequence of being engaged in getting
in the hay harvest.
Tickets for the following articles-80 beds, 80 counterpanes,
80 pairs of sheets, and 50 ditto children's sheets—were distributed
to 210 of the most necessitous and deserving labourers.
The CHAIRMAN in rising to propose " Thanks to the Council of
the Anti-Corn-law League for the munificent present which they
had made," turned round to the peasantry and addressed them to
the following effect :—You are assembled here to receive a gift in
the shape of beds and sheets, which we find it impossible to distri-
bute to you this night. You, however, to whom the various
presents have been awarded, will receive tickets, and the beds
will be distributed this night week at six o'clock. You don't
know much about free trade except from mere report. You are
aware that population increases and employment does not;
and you sometimes look at your children and ask your-
selves how they can be brought up honestly. I spoke
to a labourer the other day, who said that he did
not know what would become of his children, but he
hoped Gcd would help him to bring them up honestly. That was
a good feeling; it is your duty to bring up your children honestly,
and neither they nor you can be happy unless you do so. You
have no capital but your labour, and for that there is not now sal-
cient demand or employment. We advocate that which will give
you more employment and also cheap food. We give you these
beds and other things, not as a charity—not to degrade you. We
want to elevate you. But we know your necessity, and we give
you that which you want—not to depress you—not ostentatiously
—but to do you good ; and we are very happy to be able to assist
you in this way. We shall distribute the goods without favour
or affection, or regard to sex, class, or creed. All we inquire is,
whether you are honest and industrious. We ask
,you to endea-
vour to pronxote the happiness of your families. There is a gentle-
man named Grantley Berkeley, who says that all the labourers are
poachers.—(Cries of " No, no.") Now, I say, that is not true;
I tell him from this place that that is not the case. You are
actuated by a better spirit. You are not only interested in
your own happiness, but also in that of others. We have to work
forall we eat or wear, and whoever lives by idleness or dishonesty
takes away that which another man works for. And be you sure
that, if every man lived oy honesty and industry, more food would
be grown, and more of everything that you want made, and all of
you would have a larger share. The Anti-Corn-law League
wishes to see you better clothed and better fed. Consider this.
People who never saw you, living hundreds of miles away, and
having only heard of you by report, take an interest in you. They
are free.traders: lam one. I believe that free trade is necessary
to your happiness. 1 could live without it; but I don't believe that
the rising generation will be able to do so. Whenever you look
upon those articles which will be distributed to you, let them re..
mind you of what is the objeet of those who sympathise with your
situation.

At the suggestion of the CHAIRMAN the multitude, as an ex-
pression of their thanks, then gave three vociferous cheers for the
Anti• Corn-law League; after which,
Mr. MOORE addressed them to the following effect :—As one of

the League, ----------I
am pleased to tell you how glad I am that we are
able to make you this small present. Our wish is that every agri-
cultural labourer in the kingdom should have a comfortable bed.
We don't send them to you as a charity, but as an earnest of what
you would be able to get yourselves if there were no corn-law. We
believe that you deserve them, and that you would get them your-
selves if you could. We are convinced that we are working for
the good of the lana i
ord, the farmer, the labourer, and every one n
the country. We say that labour does not get its own ; that men
work hard and don't get fairly p,id. But this is not the farmer's
fault, but that of the laws. He can't make a profit out of farming,
and so he can't pay you as he would wish to do. But if farming
were profitable he could pay you better.
The Rev. Mr. GILBERT, Independent minister of Wheatham-
stead, then addressed the labourer, as follows :—My friends, I know
most of you. I have sympathised with and endeavoured to alleviate
your distresses. You have been brought together to-night, and
have heard statements so clear and practical that you must have
been convinced by them. You will believe that what has been
spoken has come from the heart. I have been told by some that I
ant out of the path of duty in taking part against the corn-laws.
Now, I do not advocate the repeal of them as a political but as a
religious measure. I find the Bible condemns him
"who
holds
back the corn." But, if we want to get rid of the corn-laws, we
must do so in a peaceable way. We shall never get rid of them
by -ny other means. My friends, I hope you will sleep comfortably
n the beds which have been given to you.
L. LATTIMORE, Esq., proposed the health of C. H. Lattimore,
the chairman, which was drunk with enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in an able and eloquent speech,

in which he showed that monopoly taxes every working man to the
extent of 2s. per week—a sum which, if accumulated till his 50th
year, would save him from the degradation and misery of a work-
housi.
The meeting then quietly separated, highly pleased with the novel
and interesting scene they had witnessed, which, there is no doubt,
has left a deep and permanent impression upon the minds of all
classes in the neighbourhood.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.-This afternoon,
between five and six o'clock, a person, in the garb of a sailor, was
discovered suspended (by means of his handkerchief tied round his
neck) to the rails in the Long-walk, about a quarter of a mile from
the Castle, by Mr. Lima, of Brunswick-terrace. His feet were
resting upon the ground, and he appeared to the numerous passers-
by, to be kneeling and looking into the Sheet-street-road. Mr.
Lima, and Mr Tatner, of Adelaide-square, who was nn the spot,
lost no time in cutting him down and sending for the aid of the
police, who forthwith conveyed him on a plank to the gaol
when Mr. Holderness and Mr. Eton, surgeons, were immediately,
in attendance. The poor man, who was black in the face, and
for a long time, to all appearance, dead, was fortunately restored to
life after half an hour's persevering exertions on the part of the
medical men. His name is Jackin, and it appeared, from docu-
ments found upon him, that he has just been discharged from the
Dreadnought hospital ship by his own request. No money was
found upon him, and, according to his own statement, want and
poverty drove him to attempt self-destruction. He was removed
this evening, by order of the authorities of the borough, to the
Windsor Union Workhouse, to be taken care of. He ap-
peared to be between thirty and forty years of age, and an able-
bodied seaman.

We are requested to state, that Colonel Fox, M.P
for the Tower Hamlets, has been prevented by severe illness from
attending Parliament for the last three weeks.

DEATH OF DEAN LE FANU.—On Friday morning,
at the Glebe-house, Abingdon, after a few days' illness, died the Very
Rev. Thomas Phillip Le Fenn, Dean of Emly, and Rector of
Abingdon, to the sorrowing affliction of his family and relatives, and
sincere regret of his friends and neighbours.—Limerick Reporter.
INQUEST ON THE HON. CAPTAIN DE SALIS.—On
Friday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Goat, Arabella-row,
Pimlico, on the body of Charles Lewis de Sails, aged twenty-four,
captain in the Scotch Fusilier Guards. Mr. Henry Jerome de Salis,
deceased's brother, was present at the painful inquiry. Mr. Jos.
Woolmar, surgeon, of 11, Victoria-row, Pimlico, said deceased
was brought to his house about six o'clock on Wednesday even-
ing, and witness saw him a quarter of an hour afterwards lying in
a state of insensiAlity en the sofa in the drawing-room, and at-
tended by several friends and two army surgeons, Messrs. Good
and Judd. Mr. Liston was also called in. Deceased had two
wounds, one on the right hip, and the other in the knee. He was
also labouring under concussion of the brain. He was put to
bed, and treated for concussion without success, for he gradually
sank, and died on Thursday evening at eight o'clock. Thomas
Garmonswys, a groom, said that on Wednesday evening,
about six o'clock, he was about to cross the Victoria-road from
Brewer-street, when he saw deceased and Lord Douglas cantering
slowly by. Just as they were passing deceased's horse, a pony
made a long stumble of five or six yards, in consequence of its
hitting one foreleg against the other, and in trying to recover
itself it struck the hind foot with the pastern joint of the near
fore.leg. It then stopped suddenly, and deceased fell on the off-
side, the pony rolling on to him. Witness picked him up bleeding
and insensible, and took him to the surgery of the first witness. Mr.
H. Jerome de Salis said his brother was twenty-four years of age,
and a lieutenant and captain in the Scotch Fusilier Guards. He
was an excellent horseman. The animal he rode was a hired one.
Several of the jury said they saw the accident, and that deceased
rode well, and kept his seat until the horse fell with him. Had he
been a bad rider he would have been thrown far from the horse,
and probably have escaped. Verdict-.." Accidental death."
PRiiSPERoUS STATE OF AWicK.--Trade is Still
continuing good. The mills are fully employed, and no person is
idle who is able and willing to work. Many of cur manufacturers
are gradually extending their business, and more goods are made
at present than at any former period. The population is of course
tr,creasing, and were a stranger with a family to arrive here at pre.
sent, they would find it difficult to get a house to live in.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Jura 29.—The scene of Monday last at Spithead
was repeated by the experimental squadron on Thursday, but with-
out the presence of the royal and illustrious personages who on the
former day attended ; the result, however, as regards the evolu-
tions performed, was more satisfactory, the various crews having
followed the respective evolutions made by the flag ship with a
much greater degree of alacrity than on Monday; in one respect,
however, the result was the same—the Trafalgar was again uni-
versally first in obeying the signal made. This is consequent
upon the additional efficiency of the crew of that ship over every
other ship of the squadron, the same men having been in three
line-of-battle ships (first rate) successively, without being paid off,
namely—the Camperdown, Queen, and Trafalgar, whereas the
majority of the crews of the other members of the squadron are
either volunteers or very " ordinary" seamen, except those of the
Albion, who has, if not the most efficient crew of seamen, cer-
tainly the finest body of men on board of any ship in the service.
Those who so industriously endeavour to preach up the efficient
state of the navy, will not relish the fact that the Queen, 110,
at the time she left Chatham with 700 men upon her books
had not 30 of that number rated as able seamen I The Vulture,
first-class steam-frigate, came up to Spithead about the same time
with only five able seamen upon her books, and left the anchorage
no better off. With such a comparative scarcity of able seamen on
board the squadron how is it possible the ships can be well
manoeuvred at sea, when they have so much ado to perform cre-
ditably at anchor and in smooth water? A large number of the
crews of the various ships now at Spithead are men drawn from our
dockyards, " general service" men, 1. e. men of no service at all
as seamen, being, for the most part, unaccustomed to " working"
a ship. Commanders of ships have got into a bad habit of looking
for fine men instead of good sailors; they forget that it was the
small or moderate-sized man that worked and fought so well during
the last war. A fine looking, broad-set fellow, six feet high, will
now be seized with avidity by the captain of a ship fitting out,
whereas the thorough practical seaman of five feet six or seven will
be rejected; instances of this occur daily, not only at this,
but at all our ports and rendezvous, and as long as such
ridiculous caprices are allowed by the Admiralty, it is useless
placarding the walls with huge announcements of the wants
of the navy, and it were better far to save the public money
so fruitlessly expended in printing. Admiral Sir Charles
Rowley has tried a more likely expedient for raising seamen
by exhibiting a notice at the dockyard-gates, inviting such seamen
as have recently been paid off from her Majesty's ships, or who
are about to be paid off; and who may wish to enter for any ship
of the experimental squadron, to apply on board his flag ship, the
Victory, where they will be received and entered, and be allowed
six weeks leave of absence, their pay and time going on, and re.
taining their present ratings. This is a good bait, and may, per-
haps, take, but we doubt it.
The eighth anniversary of ber Majesty's coronation was kept
here yesterday in the usual manner. A general holiday was given
at all the Government works. The ships at Spithead were gaily
decorated with flags as were those in harbour, and royal salutes
were fired at noon by the fleet and garrison. _ _ .

A Swedish corvette of 20 guns came up to Spithead this morn.
ning from the westward, and saluted the garrison, the commander.
in-chief, and the rear.admiral commanding the experimental squad.
ron, which was returned by the platform, the Victory, and the St.
Vincent, each returning 13 guns, from which circumstance it is
believed she had some distinguished personage on board, but no
communication having been made with the shore we are unable to
furnish more. At four o'clock a schooner came up and paid the
same compliment.
By letters from Ascension to the2sth of April, we are informed
of a dreadful catastrophe having happened to the Brazilian slaver,
captured by the Wasp, on board of which Mr. Harmer, the mid.
shipman, and 10 men of the Wasp, in charge, were murdered by
the prisoners, who then took possession of the prize, but which
was retaken by the Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, when Lieutenant
Wilson was put aboard to take her to Sierra Leone. It appears
that ten days after Lieut. Wilson took charge of the recaptured
prize and parted company with the Star, he was caught in a heavy
squall and capsized about 200 miles off Cape Three Points. Lieut.
Wilson, with two Kroomen, and some of the pirates who were re..
taken in the schooner, and five seamen succeeded in cutting away
some spars and making a raft, which they finished just before the
schooner settled down and foundered. They did not save any
provisions fit fer consumption, and only a small quantity of water,
which being soon exhausted, the Kroomen commenced drinking
the salt water, which killed them both. The quartermaster and
the pirates also died from the same cause, the quartermaster having
previously become raving mad. Twenty days after they left the
schooner, and, being still upon the raft, they fortunately fell in
with the Cygnet, 6, Commander Layton, to windward of Whydah,
and when taken off the raft by the Cygnet's boat, the survivors
presented a mos thorrifying spectacle, being literally a mass of pu-
trifying sores. Commander Layton, with much prudence, sent
the poor fellows on board the Wasp for conveyance here (Ascension),
where they arrived quite recovered on the 22d.
The Penelope, 22, steam.frigate, Commodore Jones, arrived at
Ascension from St. Helena on the 24th of April with a supply of
water for the Island.

The Heroine, 6, Lieut.-Commander Foote, is on her way from
the coast of Africa to England, with the pirates who massacred
Mr. Harmer and ten men of the Wasp, whilst in charge of a
Brazilian slave schooner, for trial. Lieutenant R. D. Stupart, of
the Wasp, comes home in the Heroine, as chief witness against
the pirates.

The Firebrand, 8, steam frigate, Captain Hope, left Rio for
Monte Video on the 22d of April, with Mr. Gore Ouseley, her
Majesty's Consul, on board.

The Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe, was at Bermuda, all well,
on the 24th inst., at which date the Vindictive, 50, Captain Sey-
mour, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen, Commander-in-
Chief, was also there, daily expecting to sail for Halifax ; all well
on board.

The Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliott, sailed from Vera Cruz on the
20th ult., with dispatches for the Commander-in-Chief.
The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir H. Blackwood, Bart., arrived at
Trincomalee from Bombay on the 22d of April, at which date the
Serpent, 16, Commander Nevill, and the Alligator, 26, troop.ship,
Master-Commander King, were also at Trincomalee.
The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the
lion. Jocelyn Percy,- was at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on
the 2d of April, at which date the Mutine, 12, Commander Craw-
ford, was also there. The Winchester was about taking a short
cruize.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 30.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The Royal Assent was given to-day to no less than
eighty Bills, among which were the following :—The
Officers' Qualification Indemnity Bill, the Military
Savings' Banks Bill, the Privy Council Adminis-
tration of Justice Bill, the Maynooth Col-
lege Better Government Bill, an Act to Regus
la+ e the Labour of Children and Women in Print
Works, an Act to empower Canal Companies
to vary their Tolls, the Scotland Fisheries Bill,
the Scotch Heritable Securities Bill, an Act to
amend the Laws enabling Justices of the Peace to
borrow Money on mortgage of the County-rates
in Middlesex, the Crediton Small Debts Bill,
the Battersea Poor-rates Bill, Clerkenwell Im-
provement Bill, Cheater Improvement Bill, the
Claughton-cum-Grange St. Andrew's Church Bill,
the Claughton-cum-Grange St. John the Baptist Church
Bill, the Cromer Sea Walls Improvement Bill, the Ches-
ter and Holyhead Railway Bill, the York and North
Midland Railway (York and Scarborough Branch) Bill,
the Manchester, Bury, Blackburn, and Burnley Railway
Bill, the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Huddersfield Railway
Bill, the Dunstable Railway Bill, the Leeds and Brad-
ford (Shipley to Colne Branch) Railway Bill, the Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Bill, the Berks
and Hants Railway Bill, the Yarmouth and Nor-
wich and Norwich and Brandon Railway Conso-
lidation Bill, the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester
Railway Bill, the Bedford Railway Bill, the Blackburn,
Damen and Bolton Railway Bill, the Monklaud and
Kirkintilloch Railway Bill, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
and Tynemouth Railway Bill, the Ely and Hun-
tingdon Railway Bill, the Midland Railway Company's
Extension to Nottingham and Lincoln Bill, the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Bill, the
Hull and Selby Railway (Bridlington Branch) Bill,
the Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill, the
Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company
(Keymer Branch) Bill, the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth Railway Bill, the Manchester and Leeds Railway
(Burnley and Oldham branch) Bill, the Lynn and Ely
Railway, the Midland Railway Company (Syston and
Peterborough Branch) Bill, the Glasgow, Garnkirk,
and Coatbridge Railway Bill, the Whitby and Pickering
Railway Bill, the York and North Midland Railway
(Bridlington branch) Bill, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Port Bill, Boddam Harbour Bill, the Southampton Docks
Bill, the Birkenhead Docks Bill, the Wexford Castle-
hill Docks Bill, the Hungerford andLambeth Suspension
Midge Improvement Bill, the Clifton Bridge Bill, Stoke-
upon-Trent Market Bill, Glasgow Market Bill, the Pud-
sey Gas Bill, the Devonport Gas Bill, the Plymouth Gas
Bill, the Paisley Gas Bill, the Birmingham and Stafford-
shire Gas Bill, the Taunton Gas Bill, the Scarborough
Water Works Bill, the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Works Bill, the Huddersfield Water Works Bill, the
Nottingham Water Works Bill, the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Water Works Bill, an Act to enable the
Shaws Water Joint-stock Company to increase the
supply of water, an Act to carry into effect
an arrangement between the Corporation of the Royal
Naval School and the Committee for managing the
Patriotic Fund, the Newcastle Coal Turn Bill, the Hemel
Hempsted Poor-rates Bill, the Standard Life Assurance
Company Bill, the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company
Bill, the North British Insurance Company Bill, the West
of London and Westminster Cemetery Company Bill,
an Act to enable the Master and Commonalty of
Watermen to invest the Endowment Fund of the Free
Watermen's Asylum in the purchase of land, the
Stokenchurch and New Woodstock Road Bill,
the Duke of Argyle's Estate Bill, Molyneaux's Estate
Bill, Barrington's Estate Bill, the Leicester Inclosure
Bill, the Nottingham Inclosure Bill, and the Spoad In-
closure Bill.

The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the wool-
sack soon after Five o'clock.
SCOTCH BANKING BILL.
The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of this
Bill.

The Earl of RADNOR considered the Bill as un-
necessarily interfering with the present admirable system
of banking in Scotland, and he should be glad
to see any Noble Lord connected with that
country get up in his place and defend the
Bill. The object of the Bill, it was said, was to
prevent an increase in the number of banks, and
to restrict a paper currency ; but there was no
necessity for such a measure, for within the last
fourteen years the number of banks and the amount of
paper currency in Scotland had considerably diminished.
The Duke of RIC hMOND agreed with the Noble
Earl that the measure was most objectionable, and un-
necessarily interfered with a system of banking which
had for years been working successfully in Scotland.
The Earl of ROSEBERRY thought the principle as
well as the details of the Bill were most objectionable,
and if the Noble Lord determined upon dividing the
House, he should certainly say non-content to the third
reading.
The Earl of RIPON defended the measure. Already
restrictions had been placed by the Legislature upon the
Bank of England, and he confessed he could see no
reason why the same restrictions should not apply to the
existing banks of Scotland.
Lord KINNAIRD objected to the Bill, because the
averages had been unfairly taken, and he was, quite
certain it would, to a considerable extent, limit the cir-
culation of gold in Scotland.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH approved of the Bill ;
and, so far from thinking it would do any injury to the
existing system of banking in Scotland, he was quite
convinced it would place. the banks of that country upon
a more wholesome and firm basis.

After a few words of explanation from the Duke of
Richmond, the Earl of Radnor, and the Earl of Dal-
housie, their Lordships divided, when there appeared—
For the Bill
Against it .
Majority for the Bill —32
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
SANATORY REGULATIONS.

The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented a petition
numerously signed by medical men practising in the me-
tropolis, praying their Lordships to establish some sana-
tory regulation for large towns. The Noble
Marquis expressed his regret that the measure
announced in the speech from the throne for in-
quiring into the sanatory regulations of large towns
had not been brought forward, and expressed a hope
that something would be done before the next session
for establishing some central machinery for effecting the
object in view.
The Duke of BUCCLBUC LI said a Bill had been
prepared on the subject, but the state of public business
in another plate had prevented Government from intro-
ducing it into Parliament.

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.
Lord CAMPBELL, in pursuance of notice, wished to
ask the. Noble Earl the President of the Board of Trade
whether Government were prepared to adopt some steps
f.3r preventing abuses in railway amalgamation? The
Noble Lord sail the practice of amalgamating competing
railways had lately been carried on to an enormous
extent, and in many instances to the great injury of the
public. In some cases these amalgamations were effected
before one of the lines was sanctioned by Parliament,
and he should be glad to know whether some steps could
not be taken by the Legislature for protecting the public
against injury from those amalgamations.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE admitted the importance
of Parliament interfering, to prevent the public from
sustaining injury from their amalgamation, but he thought
the law, as it at present stood, was quite sufficient to
effect that. The two Companies effecting the amalgama-
tion, were compelled to come to Parliament for powers
to sanction the union, and Parliament ought to take that
opportunity of scrutinising, and, if necessary, of cur-
taiLing the powers proposed to be taken by the promoters
of the amalgamation.
Lord BROUGHAM repudiated the existing practice
of amalgamating new with old railway companies, and
remarked that the amalgamation was not always con-
fined•to two railways. Not unfrequently it was a canal
that was united with the railway, and in such a case the
canal was invariably filled up, for the protection of the
railway.
After a few words from the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE, who presented a petition on the subject,

the matter dropped.
JURORS' BOOKS IN IRELAND.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Bill entitled
an Act for making further regulations for more effec-
tually securing the correctness of the jurors' books in
Ireland, which was read a first time.
The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petition from
his own diocese in favour of the Bill for amending the
law of marriage in England and Scotland.
RAILWAY CLAUSES COSOLIDATION (SCOT-