The Express. — London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

yoseragars took a pomp to England in the mail l acket erut, which put them to some hundreds of pounds addt tonal asperse. Mr. Murray, one of the wealthy colonists, a bove alluded to, went to Melbourne abc ut 12 years since, when Own , te. re not a &En houses in the place. He built the first lAN. hadding there. Since that period prop er ty ha• ro ut iu that town a thousand per cent. The gold on board the Bombay was not sent home in the Toriot. Just b e f o re the thoubay left Melbourne the ship Blackwell w h e d tor urue ; en board of her was Mrs. Letrobe, t h e lady ul the Governor of Victoria, and family. The Black well hrd al.. shout 410,000 ounces of gold on board. By the Bonihay malts, which were sent home in the Teraut, we liwe nese from Melbourne up to the 26th and from Sydney Wine Ibtk of February last. COMMERCIAL. flour.—The prier of gold is still 3L 16.. f.d. lurours —Feb. _"2.—lndiana, from London: 70,000/. in specie, 12 brie. flour, 6 twig. biscuit, 3 caws oilman's stores, case turpentine, 7 sheets lead, 6 rolls ditto, 9 casks shot, 100 kegs n.ik 35 pockets hops, 1 parcel samples, I tin box, 15 blvls. wiur, 9 casks brandy, 2 eases pianofortes, 50 hbds. beer, I ease and 3 pkgs. (a carriage), 1 case clocks, 16 cases cherry brandy. 7 cases ratafia, 2 C..." 11 raspberry vinegar, 3 eases ilia, 1 rrate earthenware, 2 Claes plated good., 1 boa jewellery, .50 boxes raisins, 500 eases 44,neva, 3 cases en rayed l e n s % 9 pkgs thrashing machines, 1 case apparel, 30 firkins batter, 13 trunks boos and shoes, 116 casks 'Fettled beer, 75 casks bottled cider, 1 case rigors, 25 ppd.. er,,ussy, 60 cases champagne, 1 ease watches, 12 cwks cement, 1 bag coffee. 1 chest tea, 4 bits. nails, 130 planks, 21 Whs. battens, 124 pieces earthen pipes, 2 traps, 1 elbow, 111 foundation plates, 141 hollow brick., 37,100 bricks, 1 cart, 1,131 cases, 97 bales, 33) boxes, 22 trunks, 40 pkgs., 2 puncheons, 16 casks, 10 kegs, 20 brla., 2 chests, 3 bra, 4 basket., 4 'Talcs. Exposits --Feb. 22, Phmoix, for Adelaide, with 10 e 5..., of wuoil. as ; William 91elville, for Hobart Town, with 3,000 sheepslsna. ►DELAIDE, ren. 14. CompanyN Mills. Stevens 'and Coke, 10th February.— Fine tl u, M. per ton ; **cowls ditto, 171. ; bran, Is. 24. per bushel; 41. per ditto; wheat, fans 61. to W. 04. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. AttntrED.—February 22.—Indiana, ship, 600 tons, J. !Barham, from London, Nov. 15th. Passengers—Cabin : &v. F. Cookron, lady, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer and family, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin and family, Miss Atkin son, Mi.s Brewer, Miss Young, Mr. Nesbitt, Mr. Taylor, sen , Mr. Taylor, jun., Mr. Warre, Mr. Nicoll, and twenty. Ms in the steerage. Captain ?dacha's, agent. February 22.—Selma, barque, 337 tons, H. D. Dale, from Adelaide, ltith out. Passengers—Cabin: Thirty.four ; and seventy sin in the sti trip. John Scott, agent. CLEARED Gut.—February 22.—Phenlx, steamer, 240 tons, it. F. Pockley, for Adelaide. Passengers — Cabin : M. Emmett, M. Chambers, Mr. Sew, Messrs. Joshua Harker, Tinline, &ration, Godfrey, Sutherland, Graves, Captaiu Thomas, 8. R. Hall, T. Guy, T. Strode, J. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Reardon, Messrs. Thorpe, D. F. C. Scott, J. and W. Brown, and 51 In the steerage, February 22. Giraffe, schooner, 260 tons, 1). Gaurlay, for Launceston, yid% part of original cargo from Newcutle. Passengers— Mrs. Gourley sod family and servant. February 22. William Melville, barque, 219 tons, J. W. Raymond, for Hobart Town. No paesengers. SAILED.—Feb. 22: Blacklist'', for London; Tanered, for Akyab; Maria Charlotte, fur Akyab; rhmaix, steamer, fur Adelaide; Maid of Erin, tor Hobart Town. AIIIIVID —February 13—Lord Montgomery and DApbue. from Melbourne. CLIAREU OUT —February 14—The barque Selma Dale, 337 tons, fur Melbourne. Pasaengers—eabin : Mr.. Robin ion and two children, Mrs. March, Mrs. Copley and two children, Mrs. Reardon, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Priest, Miian. II iyner, Williameon , landale, Maffei itch, Dilaimanr, Pittell, Ratcliffe, sad Shtpherd, and ninety. four is the steerage. LA V NCES TON . Animism—February 12 —Alice, schooner, Irvine, frown Melbourne. February 14—Virtu-, schooner, Winsborrow, from Melbourne. Rattler, schooner, Foyle, from Mel bourne. Zillah, schooner, Wine, from Melbourne. Eliza, schooner, from Sy lney. February 16—Gazelle, brig, Mac doned, from Me!Warne. SAiLzu.—February 13—Alert, schooner, Harrison, for blelbourne. February 15—Arid, schooner, Ferdson, for Melbourne. February 15—William, brig, WlLlnlay, for Sydney. February 15— Peri, brig, 148 tons, Tregertha, fur Geelong. Cargo: 196 pitets timber, 3 cans rope, 2 tasks blacking, 2 eases preserves, 50,000 laths, 14,000 palings, 1,000 spikes, 3,900 ft. timber, 39 deals, 60 bags oats, 20 bundles shingles. February 16—Sarah Ana, barque, for London. INDIA'S PROSPERITY ENGLAND'S INTEREST. (Tram the Bristei Packet Tiril•.) Two hundred and fifty-three years ago, some traders in London united together to raise • capital of 30,0001., wherewith to trade to the East Indies. They ob tained • charter, under which the management of their *Heirs was entrusted to a committee of 24 of their members, chosen by thriaselves. In 1824, authority was given to the 'emptily by the King to punish its servants abroad, either by civil or martial law. And in 1661, • new charter was granted, by which the company was allowed to make pew or war with or against any people or princes, not Christian., and to seise all unlicensed pertains and wad them to England. The profits were great ; other parties attempted to get into the trade by bribing the various governments of the day ; and at one time when the old com pany offered to loan to the government 700,0001. at four per cent. their rivals offered 2,000,00001. at eight per cent., • bait too tempting to be refused. TM evils of rivalship were, however men klt to be too great to be hazarded ; a needy governena hand these great mercantile companies conve nient spasms, squeeze into dry exchequers, and in 1708 the rival emigusies united, and by a loan of 1,200,0001. to the government, without interest, purchased further privi leges, whisk lave been the basis of their sulasequent char ters. In 1184 a new feature was introduced into the system, that of the Board of Clairol, by which, in effect, the poli tical power (the miler the name of the directon) is vested is the gonident of this board, who is a member of the ablaut, and the patronage and routine dudes semis with the directors. la 1813, the trade to Imiln was thrown epee, and in 1838, the trade to Chios wee not (My made free. lint the ounagem one pre- Masi hem sommaidel operations am/ thee we lad that the functions for whisk it was segpsibed ceased altogether, and b eambiaaties of diennitsseas it had gradually elbow el a mme smameasme diestipticit until in a waft, of monerlhmegegwb gentle men are abiebite semedges of 100 Whim of The charter is now .beat expiring, and it w P itl i t for the British parliament tedetermine whether this deals meat shall continue ; this convenient sleek for, by which responsibility is evaded, and the graft. Wei** can be committed with the certainty dee shake bignfry from one set of officials to another, OM IMP iwett met in the pursuit of abases is rare to be basil ia the Searek. The population of India is 100 millines, to whisk must be added 63 'millions under native peimes, ie surgeeden to us, who are bound by treaty not to ado& any Eniregenns etc Americana into their states ; so that we have 188 maims of people looking to se for all we sea supply them, slid offering es in payment all that 1,308,113 stem miles, comprising some of the most fertile lands upset the habi table globe, can produce. With such myriads, thriving and prosperous, oild not every factory and work shop in England be pressed with orders taxing every energy to supply them? Would not the consequent shun dance of employment and remunerative wages have a two fold effect upon the shopkeeper, diminishing his expenses in the shape of rates, and leading to • liberal expenditure at his counter ? And thus the good government of that great country is • matter which affects every one who pays British taus, and is connected with British industry and commerce. That the principle of Indian government is wrong Can hardly be disputed when we consider that its great oldest is not so much the welfare of the governed, as the collection of , that its principal officers are tax-eollectsrs, and that the whole machinery of government is put in motion to obtain the greatest possible amount of cash to remit to a distant part of the globe. Our highest test of the excellence of a government is the smallness of the amount which it makes to suffice for the security of person and pror, and the furtherance of those great objects desirable for the welfare of the whole body, but which private enterprise has neither the power nor the capital to undertake. What then must be the condition of the 100 millions of our Indian felllwsubjects, who are the mere instruments for raising the dividends on East India Stock ? In saying this we make no charge against the directors or company. They an simply in • false position, with pecuniary embarrass ments increasing at the rate of about a million per annum, engaged in a continual struggle to make both ends meet. It is impossible not to see looming in the not far distant future, that a day of reckoning most come for this financial bubble to burst. Who then will be the loser in this great bankruptcy ? The people of England; every reader of these pages, the Mechanic in his workshop, the Ploughman in the field, the Huckster that retails the smallest devisable amount of produce, the Child at School, and the Infant in arms; all will pay • portion of this debt. As we sometimes see members of respectable families get involved in some hispelenly ruinous concern, the ultimate loss upon which being sure to be divided among their relatives, it becomes the interest of all in a friendly and kindly spirit to stop the drain, So here we would urge • marching and friendly in quiry to ascertain what the welfare of India and the interest of Great Britain demand. ENTERTAINMENT AT Sorriumrrox TO MR. 411IDERBILT.—Orest preparations were making in South ampton on Saturday for the entertainment of Commodore Vanderbilt this day. Hitherto his business operations have been limited entirely to America, and base not extended to Europe. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, and the must distinguished Americana in England,have received invitations from Mr. Lankester, the Mayor of Southampton, to mast Mr. Vanderbilt. To-morrow the commodore has projected a splendid marine ezeunion in his monster yacht, and the Mayor of Siuthampton and • number of his chief fellow-townsmen, _with their ladies have been invited on board to meet Mr. Ingersoll, the ' American Ambassador, Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Peabody, mod other distinguished Americans. Mr. Clarke, a eon-in-law ',Mr: Vanderbilt, and who has alsompasiod him to Southampton, is a lineal de- SClllhalla of re ef the pilgrim &time, who left that town is the ship Xitiewer, to the maim* aatary. Int Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desert, Lord Clarke Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Roo, went on Saturday to Twicken ham, aid visited the Duke and DUCtlval d'Autnale. Her Majesty and his H. Highneu Ltt Buckingham Palace at one, and returned at half-past five o'clock. Her Msjesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, _ord Rivers, Lord Charles and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Roe, honoured the performance of the French Plays, at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with their presence. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Price of Wales, the Princews Royal, and the Princess Alice, the 'edits and gentlemen in waiting, and the domestic household, attended divine service yesterday morning in the Private Chapel of Buckingham l'ulace. 't he Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide of Hohenlohe, alto attended by Lady Aroma Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Rune, Sir George Cooper, and Lord Jane' Murray, honoured the concert of the Cologne Choral Union, at the Hanovecequare.rocins, with their per settee on Saturday mincing. The Duchess of Glouceger visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. A deputation, to urge the completion of certain county works in Ireland that were at present suspended for want of advances on loan from the treasury, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ezehrquer on Saturday, at hia official residence in Downing-str ct, upon which the right hon. gentleman was pleased to accede to their request. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Clare, Lord Mont. eagle, Mr. Macartney, M.P,, Mr. Bateson, M.P., Mr. Wyndham Gould, M.P., Mr. F. W. Russell, BI P., Lime rica Mr. Davison, M.P., and Mr Pakcnham, Y.P. A Deputation from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire Railway Company had an interview with the Right lion. E. Cardwell on S sturday, at the Board of Trade, on the subject of the Merchant Shipping Bill. The Deputatioa consisted of the Earl of Yarborough, Mr. C. Turner, Ml' , Mr. C. Geach, M.P., Mr.Allport, Mr. Stable, and Mr. Parker. The Master, Wardens, and Clerk of the Worshipful Com pany of Tobacco Pipe Makers, bad an interview with Mr. James Wilson on Saturday at the Treasury. A D.putation from the Steam Ship Owners' Association consisting of Mr. Aaderson (chairman), Mr. litrtley, Mr. Maleolmsun, Mr Bolger, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Morgan (secretary), had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, a. the Board of Trade, on Saturday. Lord Itatherton had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman on Saturday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present were thu Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Vis count Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, tho Hight Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours and a half. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTB.—EarI Granville (Lord President), has appointed Charles Edward Boothby, Esq., of the Council Office, to be his lordship's private secretary. Mr. Boothby was sometime secretary to the Marquis of Lansdowne. Mr. A. W. Almon, late her Majesty's Consul at Liberia, is appointed Consular Agent at &baths Castle. Mr. W. Ass/urns Tullemsehe, Unpaid Attache' at Paris, is appointed Paid Attaché to her Majesty's Legation at Rio Janeiro. THE VACANT COLONRIXT.— It is said Lieut.- General Sir A. Leith, the colonel of the 90th Regiment, will succeed the late Lord Deere u colonel of the 31st Regiment, which corps Si A. Leith formerly commanded. Major-Gene►al Calvert, C. 8., is to succeed to the ooloneley of the 90th Foot. SIR CHARLES DOUGLAS, formerly member for Warwick, is the liberal candidate for the city of Durham, with every prospect of being returned. • THE DUKE OF GENOA. His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa paid a visit to the Knightsbridge CarsLry Barracks, on Saturday mom ing, for the purpose of inspecting the quarters of the Royal Horse Gouda (Blue). The veteran Marquis of Angleans, Colonel of the regiment, wu in attendance to receive his Royal Highness. The Duke first inspected the men's dormi tories, and mess-room, and afterwards visited the officers' quarters and stables. The perfect arrangements of the latter were greatly admired by the illustrious prince. His Royal Highness subsequently paid • visit to the Senior United Service, and the Army and Navy Clubs, at which the Prince was received by the respective presidents, by whose he was eendreted threugh the various saloons and te of these magnificent establishments. de fftrafternoon the Duke, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Doke and Grand Duelists of Mecklenbargit-ffitmlitz, and the Duchess Caro line of Keekleaburg-Strelits, and attended by his Excel lency the Sardinian Minister and a numerous suite, went to f-ydenitans to Inspect the works in progress at the New Crystal Palates. The royal party were received by Mr. Owen Jones and Mr. Grove, the Secretary to the company, and after devoting a couple of hears to the examination of the building, their Royal Highnesses retired, having first expressed their unqualified admiration of the great under taking. On Saturday night his Royal Highness dined with the Duke of Cambridge at his apartments in Bt. James's Pa lace. The Hereditary Grand Doke and Grand Duchess of Meeklmhurgh-9treliu, and the Docker , Caroline of Meek lenburgh-Strelitz, were Muted to meet his Royal High new After dinner the Duke and the rut of the royal party repaired to the Royal Italia° Yesterday morning his Royal Highness went to Hew and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge. Euly in the afternoon the Duke left town for Brighton, from whines his Royal Highness intended to go on to Arundel Castle. the seat of the Deka of Norfolk, last *vetting. An inspretion of the royal dockyard sod garrison of Portsmouth will occupy the Duke to-day. His Royal Highness returns to town this evening. THE PROTECTION or Wolol4.—The prize of OW hundred guineas, offered by the Associate Institutiou for the best easy on the Laws respecting the Protection of WOlllll2, hu been awarded to James Edward Davie, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Ozlord circuit. The adjudicator, were the Bishop of Oxford, Via-Chancellor Wood, and Mr. Bounden Palmer, M.P. DEATH OP GENERAL HOWARD VTSE.—This death of Genesi Howard Visa took place at Stoke Conn, near Windsor, on Wednesday list, at the adenoma age of 89. The gallant general was one of the richest anannonore in the county at linaldagbam, and wu as muniftsont la his charities, and lama labia Ail* of living, as say evantry gentleman in en tioapilsa In early life General I'm ' was aids-do-map to tin kis LW Hanover when Dun of Cumberland, and atontimolo repreoented to berongh of 13•terley ivesliament. In pendia be was a tory of the old school, resolutely clinging to the shadow after the sub stance bad been swept away. Ho haves behind him a numerous family, three of h i sows being officers is the Household Brigade, and ono of them (Ilifor Howard Vyse, of the Blues) member for Northamptonshire. SUSPECTED MURDER AT WISBEACH.—The Nor wicA Mercury of Saturday, states that there has been some ezeitement at Wisbeach, easaequent on the suspected murder of • young man, named Belneatone, the son of • publican at that place. The investigation which took plate before the magistrates at the Town Hall, on Thunday, went to show that the deceased was drinking at a late hour in the evening of the 29th of May, in company with a man named Wilson, at the Bowling Green Tap, near the canal, and that the wife of the landlord, Mrs. I Weeks, and a woman named Cope were there also. About half-past one o'clock, information was given to the polite that a man was drowning in the canal, and witnesses came forward who proved that they met women running down the lane from the canal, one crying that a man was drowning, and another witness swore to having heard an altercation ' and that she recognised', Wilson's voice. On the other hand it was sworn to by Weeks, the landlord of the Bowling Green tap, where Wilson lodged, that when deceased left he went to bed, and that he remained there until he was called up after the alarm was given that there was a man drowning. Medical evidence showed that deceased had received a violent blow on the side of the bead, near the ear, and that there was an extraordinary amount of extravantion of blood on the brain produced by the violence, and in consequence of the two women seen running from the direction of the canal answering the description of Weeks and Cope, they were, together with Wilson, taken into custody on the charge of murder, and were committed for trial on that charge. MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL.—On Saturday the examination, award of prizes, and election of scholars to St. John's College, Oxford, took place at Merchant Taylor's School. The chief classical pnses were obtained by T. F. Donkin, D. M. Gardner, and A. E. Graham. The chief mathematical prises for the ear w ere obtained by Alexander J. M'Canl and William G. en. Mr. Donkin obtained the chief French prise, and r. Gardner obtained the Montaore Hebrew Medal, to which Sir M. Monteflore added a money present of 61. Mr. W. W. Wilson obtained the head master's Hebrew prize and also the prize for his- tory. After the examination, the delivery of the annual speeches by the head students took place in the presence of the head master, Dr. Heseey, the professors, some of the members of the Merchant Taylors' Company, and a large number of the friends of the pupils. The manner in which the pupils acquitted themselves of this trying duty rellectr great credit on the training of the school. After the deli very of the speeches, the prixemen were called up, when the head master distributed the pries, with a few remarks on the circumstances under which they were obtained, and appropriate words of encouragement for each student. Besides the principal prises, there were smaller , ones for the best pupils on the junior forms. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1853. AFRICAN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY. --- The first ordinary meeting of the proprietors was held on Saturday, at the company's offices, No. 3, Mincing lane ; Sir J. CAMPBXLL. chairman of the board, presiding. The Sem . ..tory . , Mr. E. Borax; read the notice con vening the meeting. The CUAILMAN then read the following report of the directors ' eet ing is called in pursuance of the provision in the deed of settlement, which requires that the annual general meeting of the proprietor. should be held in the month of June. At this early period after the formation of the company, it cannot be expected that the directors should present so complete and ample a report and statement of accounts as they would desire to do. The first voyages Can only be considered as experimental, the novelty of the service, and the number of ports at which the steamers are required to touch, demanded great care and attention in compiling the tables for the postal service, so as to en sure regularity and dispatch. It is, however, a source of great satisfaction to the directors to be able to 'epee that the Company's vessels have kept their time through out the whole voyage out and home, and have finally ar rived at Plymouth withi n a f e w hours of their postal time, except in the case of the first voyage of the Forerunner, which vessel was dinnasted in • violent gale in the Biy of Biscay, and was obliged to pot into Gibraltar for repairs. It was stated in the prospectus that the mail contract com menced on the Ist of September last. This was subse quently altered by the desire of the Board of Admiralty, to the 24th of September, and the Forerunner being then ready for sea, the contract commenced en that day. In consequence of the build er n o t delivering the company's ships in time to fulfil the conditions of the government con tract, the directors were compelled to charter two steamers to carry the mails for the months of October and Novem ber. This has been attended with considerable ex pense, but tho contractor for the steamers having allowed a portion of the charter-money, the loss on these voyages has been much diminished. The mail for the month of December was taken b 7 the Forerunner, that of January by the Faith. In February the directors were again compelled to charter a steamer for the convey ance of the mails, but in this cue they were fortunate in securing a vessel, not only on more moderate terms than before, but in every respect more suitable for the service. The Forerunser returned from her second voyage in time to carry the March mails, and she was succeeded in April by the Hope. The mails of last month, May, were taken by the Faith, and the directors have now every reason to ex pect that the service will bo conducted by their own 'vessels with regularity and efficiency. From the foregoing it will be seen that the vessels delivered to the company, under the agreement with Mr. Laird, aro the Forerunner, Faith, and Hope. Tho Charity was launched on the 23rd of May, and is now being fitted with her engines. The Northern Light willl be launched in July. It is extremely satisfac tory to the directors to be able to state that the three ru ms delivered to the Company by Mr. Laird, namely, the Forerunner, Faith, and Hope, have in every respect an swered the expectations that were formed of them, and while their speed is folly sufficient for the purposes of the contract, they have at the same time proved themselves to be good carrying vessels. To afford facilities for keeping a stock of coals on the coast of Africa, the directors have purchased two store ships, the Statics, of 400 tons, and the Helena, of 865 tons, which have een stationed at Sierra Leone and Fernando Po respectively. These vessels will also answer as store ships for cargo, and thereby afford great facilities to the steamers in discharging their outward, and receiving their home ward freights. It affords the directors great satisfaction to be able to inform the proprietors, that the statements in the appendix to the prospectus, regarding the pas senger traffic, and the trade between England, Madeira, and the West Coast of Africa, have been fully borne out, whilst the inter-colonial traffic iibeing developed in a very en couraging manner, and from the results of the five voyages terminating on the 13th April, now laid before the pro prietors, the directors consider that they are fully justified in expecting a fair and increasing return during the con tinuance of the government contract. The number of shippers by the company's steamers is increasing rapidly, new branches of trade are opening out, and the abolition of the soap duty will give a great stimulus to the African trade. The directors have much pleasure in stating, that up to the present time they have not lost a single man by accident or tropical (Busse ; in fact none of the men have, up to the present time, been laid up by sickness. The directors have also to report, that arrangements have been made to commence a semi-monthly line from Liver pool, in connexion with this company, the details of which will be hereafter laid before the proprietors. The number of shares issued up to the present time amounts to 11,008, and the sum paid thereon is 6.5,0401. Several proprietors have also paid up sums in anticipation of calls, to the amount of 33,4371. 101. The proprietors are aware that the directors have issued notice for a call, pay able on or before 10th of June, which will produce the sum of 66,0401., and will redness the amount of the sums paid by the proprietors in anticipation of calls to 19,7121. 10s. The amount that will then he at the disposal of the company as capital, will be as follows, vis.:—Deposit on 11,008 shares, at 61., 65,0401. ; first call of 61. on 11,008 shares, 66,0401. ; amount paid in anticipation of calls, 19,7121. 101.; total, 129,7921. 10s. The directors having fully considered the present requirements of the service, propose to limit the shares to the 11,008 now issued, and they do not anticipate that they will have to make any fur ther calls upon the proprietors, beyond the 101. already paid during the present year. Should it become necessary to issue the remaining 1,492 shares, they will be offered pre ferably and rateably to the holden of the then existing shares. The directors have now to lay before the proprie tors the result of the working account for the first five voyages under the government contract, ending the 16th April. The total amount of current receipts is 11,0411. Is. 92. ; the proportion of the government contract is 8,2591. 4e. Bd. ; together 19,3001. 61.6 d. The total amount of disbursements is 13,2281. 7s. 10d., leaving a balance of 6,0711. 18s. 7d. from which amount there must farther be deducted the sum of 2,6841. 18s. 10d., fora reserved fund, being 20 per cent. per annum on the first cost of the Forerunner and Faith, calculated for the period they were employed under the government contract, leaving • net balance of 3,48 a 19s. 9d., which has been transferred to the credit of profit sad loss. The reserve fund shows a net balance of 1,9721. 3s. 10d. after deducting the amount of insurance for the Forerunner and Faith, calculated fur the time they were employed. The expenses of the five voyages have been considerably in creased owing to the heavy . charge attending the charter ing of the two steamers required for the conveyance of the mails, in the months of October and November last. The profit and loss account gives the following result, viz: Balance of working account, 3,4861. 191.9 d. ; less for gene ral charges, and proportion of preliminary expenses, 9101. 3s. • for balance of interest on money paid in advance, due to shareholders on the 30th April last, 6461. 181. 6d. ; showing a nett balance of 1,9291. 18s. 3d.. being the amount of nett profit on the first fire voyages. Out of the balance standing to the credit of profit and toss, viz., 1,9291. lee. 3d., the directors nro . pose, a ft er de ducting the proportion payable to Mr. L aird, under his agreement with the company, to declare • dividend of 2s. Bd. per share on 11,008 shares, free of income tax." The report was adopted unanimously. The CHAIRMAN propo sed a resolution confirming the declaration of a dividen dof 2s. 6d. per share, clear of in come tax, payable on and after the 20th inst. He said we have already shown you in the report that the company have been subjected to heavy expenses from two einem stances—vis., the necessity of charteriag vessels at an extra vagant rate, no others being to be bad, and, of course, we were obliged to take what we could get rather than break our contemn with the government; and the other circum stance was the high pesos of fuel. These two circumstances frustrated our enenomitel intentions, and but for them I may say our amounts would have been far more favourable in their results. You will perceive that we have cam mewed a reserve fend by coming over oar small balance to that purpose , which, I am sure, no proprietor will object to. (Hear, hear.) It is true the sum we carry over is small, but it is the commencement of a prudential system which we feel confidant will meet with your approval. Thee resolution having been carried, Mr. HINRT Czaain expressed the satisfaction he felt that the directors had taken notice in their report of the very liberal conduct of Mr. Laird, but he thought the general body of preprietors, who were benefited by that liberality, owed it to themselves to recognise in a more di rect and formal manner their sense of that gentleman's conduct in resigning voluntarily a considerable portion of the money which undoubtedly was due to him, and he therefore proposed that the thanks of the proprietonshould be awarded to Mr. M'Oregor Laird fm the hberal manner in which he hid voluntarily met a portion of the charge ' for chartering steamers. Mr. H. Bunn seconded the resolution, which was una nimously agreed to, the Chainnan, in putting it, observing that the surrender by Mr. Laird of • portion of his claim was the more liberal as it could not have been, enforced either in law or equity. Mr. LAIRD, after retuning thanks for the compliment, remarked th at it was most satisfactory to find that this company had now completed seven voyages to Africa with out meeting with a single accident. (lieu, hear.) And he further remarked that they ought to be thankful to Provi dence that they had met with no mishaps from sickness, though en the northern side of the Atlantic the West India Company had suffered severely. A resolution appointing Messrs. Banter and Colman auditors, and awarding Gum 21/. each for their services, was nextpamed and • vote of thanks to the directors, pro posed by Mr. Dilater and seconded by Colonel Mitchell, and acknowledged by the chairman, cloud the proceedings. A STEAM PACKET is about to be established baleen Hamburg and Seethampton. THE VACANT ALDEBNANIC GOWN.—ON Saturday a meeting, numerously attended, of the friends of Henry Muggeridge, Bsq., of Castle Maynard Ward, and candidate for the aldermanship vacant through the acceptation by Alderman Wilma of the Ward of Bridge Without, was held at the St. Paul's Hotel, St. Paul's Church-yard. Mr. Thornton, the chairman of the City of London Union, presided. The object of the meeting was to present to Mr. Muggeridge the requisition of freemen and others resi dent in the ward, requesting him to come forward for the aldermanic chair. Oat of 206 electors in the ward 110 signed this requisition. Messrs. Farrar (common councilman), Walton (silversmith), and several other influential inha bitants of the ward having decided to put to the candidate certain questions as to residency in the ward should he be chosen—as to any presentations to Christ's Hospital which he might obtain by virtue of his office, itc., the meeting was adjourned, after having given orders that the requisi tion, with the signatures attached thereto, should be adver tised in the morning journals. The thanks of the meeting having been given to the chairman the proceedings ter minated. SOME PASSAGES FROM TMACBERAY'S LECTURES. THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. A few months since Chobham Common was as much a Serra incognita to the existing generation of Lon doners. se is Central Australia to the settlers on the coast. Now, it is the centre of attraction and expectation, the scene of busy labour and preparation. The ground itself has already been described, sod certainly its bleak and desolate appearance goes far to account for the curious fact of a vast uninhabited tract lying within twenty miles or so of the metropolis of the world. Heath and scrub stretches out on every side over as undulatiag surface, which is bard, rugged, and intraetaWe in the more elevated portions, boggy and spongy in the hollows, and everywhere inter sected with deep and dangerous ruts, which may possibly cost the lives of more than one valuable charger. The best point of view is the little hillock on the right of the Chobhem road, which, being favoured with a clump of trees, has bean selected as the site of Prince Albert's pavilion. Immediately below this, on the left the gallant 95th, the advanced guard of the whole summer army, and upon whom has devolved the duty, in conjunction with the Sappers and Miaen, of pureeing the ground for the rest of the troops, have taken up their quarters. On the right, the 60th (Qseen's Own) will be stationed. On the extreme right are the royal stables and the quarters of the cavalry—the Ist Life Guards, 17th Lancer, 13th Light Dragoons, and 6th Carbineers. Inside these the Sappers and Miners have established them selves, and the remainder of the section of the ground will be filled up with the three battalions of the Foot Guards. Below the 95th, on the left, the 93rd and 38th Foot have taken possession of their allotted space : then cores the Horse and Foot Artillery; and far out on the flick will be the Rifle brigade, ready to be thrown out as skirmishers at a moment's notice among.' the imaginary enemies of Virginia Water. The above will, we believe, be found to be the arrangements, in so far as they have been determined on up to this time; but any addition will be made in the same order, which is the regular "order of battle," according to the most approved principles of eastrainetation. Each regiment will have their tents placed in rows of sin, at regular distances and running at right angles with the president's pavili n. The tents of the advance parties are already on the ground, and are distinguished each by a little pinion of a particular colour. If this arrangement could be extended to the full camp, so as that each clump of tents should be distinguished by little pennons et classi fied colours fluttering from the top of each, it would not only add greatly to the picturesqueness of effect but facili tate the identification of each regiment by the admiring but usiniriated public. In that case a military "Dueling' might make a handsome speculation by the sale of cards, indicating the colour by which the encampment of each regiment was to he known. We are indebted to the cour tesy of Lieutenant Foster, of the 95th, for an opportunity of visiting in succetsion,an inhabited soldier's tent,an inhabitsd officer's tent, and such of the cavalry stables as have already been erected. The interior of the soldier's lodging struck its as being by no means uncomfortable, everytning consi dered. A thick stratum of dry straw covered the ground, and bolsters and pillows arranged round the cireum- terence indicated the position in which fifteen in habitants are to sleep, their feet to the centre pole. Round the pole the guns are ranged ready for notion at the sound of the trumpet, and havresace, "call bashes," and watch-coats scattered about, furnish, if not the pride and pomp," at least much of the "circum stance" of glorious war. The officer's tent differs in nothing from that of his men, except that it contains only a single lodger. That it is waterproof our reports r testifies from personal experience, having enjoyed the nospitable shelter of Mr. Macdonald's of the 95th during the whole of the thunder storm of Saturday afternoon. Not a drop of fluid entered on that occasion, except what came in in a perfectly legitimate and satisfactory manner. A little welled up from the bottom, but this will be obviated when each is surrounded with a trench, an operation which is being carried out with all possible expedition. The camp furniture of a British officer bears not the slightest resem blance to that of a Persian Satrap. It could not be car ried in a pocket handkerchief, as recommended by a re nowned military commander, seeing that it consists of • tub, a chest, and an iron bedstead, but it is as homely as the greatest decrier of featherbed soldiers " could desire. The stables of the Life Guards, filled with splendid red highly groomed horses, are as well worthy a visit as any portion of the encampment. They consist each of one large booth, the sides being formed of "choppings," and the roof of canvas, and are large enough to contain each the horses of a troop. The internal arrangements are the simplest poen ble, the tent being merely divided by • couple of ropes run ning down its centre, to which the horses are fastened, with their heads inwards on both sides. Persons who have only seen these superb black horses in their heavy war harness, will be quits surprised at their unadorned symmetry in the stable. The camp kitchen, the most im portant feature of all, in these warlike arrangements, is the subject of much excitement and emulation amongst the advance parties of the different regiments. The visitor is puzzled to site the ground cut up here and there into various mysterious shapes, in some places looking like the diagram of an astrologer, in others like a city of the Bea vers, and in a third resembling some ancient tumulus, the puzzle of antiquarians. The explanation of all this is, that the officers of each regiment have separate theories of combustion and cookery, and may be seen working them out, up to their elbows in mud, with all the seal of true science. One party advocates the circular form as most orthodox and uniform; but the objection to this is, that as a whirlwind is not always obtainable, one section of the pots and kettles will 'away. suffer from the absence of the necessary draught. Others of Indian experience patronise a simple arrangement of stones above ground, but these are sometimes blown away at the most critical moment in cooking, and, besides, have to be re-erected on every change of the wind. The third and most rational-looking one, to our unpractised eye, is that adopted by Lieut. Foster for the 95th, which resembles the Beavers' encampment in form boils an incredible number of kettles at the same time, eco nomises fuel, and has • chimney which draws to &dad. ration. Although the camp has shandy been crowded with visi tors, especially on the Cup Day at Ascot, when many of the fashionable attendants at the races drove over in the after noon, the first great day will be to-morrow, when all the regiments are to march in with drums beating and colones dying, and the whole canvas city is to be " pitched," in one moment, at the firing of a gun. Should the day prove favourable, it would be dincult to anticipate a more striking sight than the well-disciplined march of ten thousand of the finest troops in the world, and the spring ing up, as if by magic, of hundreds of gay pavilions, ranged with military precision, after a reinter and uniform design. The railways and omnibus proprietors are making great preparstlena, but we fear that it will sorely test their energies to meet the demands upon them. The troops will probably arrive in the afternoon, but the exact order snit, of course, be determined by circutostantes. TWO MEN KILLED ETA BOILER EXPLOSION AT STOCKPORT. On Saturday morning, about twenty minutes after seven o'clock, a steam boiler bunt at the cotton mill of Means. Marshall and Son, Heston-lane, Stockport, over a Sas, so as to allow of a large escape of steam and water through the fire-place, and two of the firemen, named John Morley and Benjamin Dawson, in the boiler hole, were almost instantly scalded to death. The mill had been at work only forty minutes, when Mr. Thos. Sazton,:the over looker, observed that the machinery suddenly slackened speed, but as the boiler in bursting did not make a loud re. port, he kad no saspieion of the cause. He instantly went to the baer-hoon, expecting to find the engine -driver there, and discovered the boiler hole filled with steam mad boiling water. Fifteen to twenty minutes elapsed before the unfortunate firemen could be released, because, from the oortstruction of the boiler hole, the steam could not get away, and to have entered the place at first would have been certain death. The poor men were quite dead. There are two boiler-houses to the mill, having each three boilers, and this was the centre one of the set, on what is called the weaving side of the mill. The boiler is one of 40-horse power, called a waggon boiler, with a flue through the centre, over the flre•plan ; and on examination there appears to be a rent in the boiler over this flue, about twelve inches long and three wide, extending along a line of rivets. The explosion does not appear to have exerted any great fora, as the boiler has not been moved by it, and the brickwork has not been disturbed. An inquest on the bodies of the two deceased was opened on Saturday after noon, by Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner. THE RE-DECORATION OP TIIE DOME OF ST. PAUL'S. —Oar readers are aware that the restoration, or rather re painting, of Sir James Thornhill's pictures in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral has been commenced. Looking up into the mighty concave lost in gloom, and so far above the eye that its decorations were scarcely visible, it has always seemed a matter of great difficulty to form a scaffold to effect the work. Various proposals have been made from time to time, including a scaffold built up from the ground —no trilling affair—and • platform covering the whole area of the dome at its sponging. Mr. Parris, aided by Mr. Penrose, hu solved the problem very satisfactorily, and at • cost comparatively trilling. Before it was done, it seemed very difficult of accomplishment; now it is effected it seems perfectly simple and easy. The greater portion of the division upon which the artist is now at work has been cut down and replutered (with lime, sand and puzzolana), and this will be the ease throughout, the damp having affected them to so great an extent u to render repair im possible. Mr. Parris is heightening the tone, keeping the colour much lighter than it formerly appeared, which will render the pictures more clearly visible from below. He considers that they were originally painted so by Thornhill, and that the boiled oil with which they were worked has changed. The medium he is now using is encaustic, his own "marble medium." When one compartment has been executed the platform will he shifted. Its extent enables the artist to retire 24 feet from the picture to see its effect. —The nuttier. POPE AND 1116 FRIENDS. You lire in them in the finest company in the world. A little stately, perhaps; • little appret.: and conscious that they are speaking to whole generations who are listening; but in the tone of their voices—pitched, as no doubt they are, beyond the mere conversation key—in the expression of their thoughts, their varicose views and natures there is something generous, and cheering, and ennobling. Yea are in the society of men who have tilled the greatest parts in the world's s'ory—you are with St. John the stateemsa, Peterborough the conqueror, Swift, the greatest wit of all times ; Gay, the kindliest laugher—it is a privilege to sit in that company. Delightful anti generous banquet! with a little faith and a little fancy any one of us here may enjoy it, and conjure up those great figures out of the put, and listen to their wit and wisdom. Mind that there is always a certain cacAet about great men—they may be as mean on many points as you or I, but they carry their great air—they speak of common life more largely and generously than common men do—they regard the world with a manlier counte nance, and see its real features more fairly than the timid shuMers who only dare to look up at life through blinkers, or to have an opinion when there is a crowd to back it. Ile who reads these noble recoids of a put age salutes and reverences the great spirits who adorn it. You may go home n Ar and talk with St. John ; you may take a volume ' from your library and listen to Swift and Pops. Might I give counsel to any young h , I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great, ' things ; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. I know nothing in any story more gal- I lent and cheering than the love and friendship which this company of famous men bore towards one another. There never I.as been a society of men more friendly, u there never was one more illustrious. Who dares quarrel with Mr. l'ope, great and famous himself, for liking the society of men great and famous? and for liking them for the qualities which made them so? A mere pretty fellow from White's could not have written the " Patriot King." and would very likely have despised little Mr. Pope, the decrepit papist, whom the great St. John held to be one of the beat and greatest of men ; a mere no bleman of the court could no more have won Barcelona, than ho could have written Peterborough's letters to Pope, which are as witty as Congieve : a mere Irish dean could not:have written " Gulliver ; " and all these men loved Pope, and Pope loved all these men. To name his friends is to name the best men of his time. Addison had a senate ; Pope reverenced his equals. He spoke of Swift with re spect and admiration always. His admiration far Boling. broke was so great, that when setae one said of his friend, "There is something in that great man which looks as if he was placed here by mistake," "Yes," Pope answered " and when the comet appeared to us a month or I two ago, had sometimes an imagination that it might pos sibly be come to carry him home, as a coach comes to one's door for visitors." So these great spirits spoke of one an other. Show me six of the dullest middle-aged gentlemen that ever dawdled round • club-table, so faithful and so friendly. PIELDINO. What a wonderful art! What an admirable gift of na ture, was that by which the anther of these tales was en dowed, and which enabled him to fix our interest, to waken our sympathy, to seize upon our credulity, so that we be lieve in his people—speculate gravely upon their faults or their excellences, prefer this ore or that—deplore Jones's fondness for drink and play, Booth's fondness for play and drink, and the unfortunate position of the wives of both gentlemen—love and admire those ladies with all eur hearts, and talk about them as faithfully as if we had breakfasted with them this morn. ing in their actual drawing rooms, er should meet them this afternoon in the park! Wbat a genius! what a vigour! what a bright-eyed intelligence and observation! what a wholesome hatred for meanness and knavery ! what a vast sympathy ! what a cheerfulness ! what a manly relish of life ! what a love of human kind ! what a poet is here ! watching, meditating, brooding, ereatin? ! What multi tudes of truths has that man left behind him! What gene rations he has taught to laugh wisely and fairly ! What scholars he has formed and accustomed to the exercise of thoughtful humour and the manly play of wit! What a courage he had ! What a dauntless and constant cheerful ness of intellect, that burned bright and steady through all the storms of his life, and never deserted its last wreck ! It is wonderful to think of the pains and misery which the man suffered; the pressure of want, illness, remorse which he endured; and that the writer was neither malignant nor melancholy, his view of truth never warped, and his gene rous human kingness never surrendered. The great charm of Steele's writing is its naturalness. He wrote so quickly and carelessly that he was forced to make the reader his confidant, and had not the time to de. eel's him. He had a small share of book learning, but a vast acquaintance with the world. He had known men and taverns. He had lived with gownsmen, with troopers, with gentlemen ushers of the court, with men and women of fashion ; with authors and with wits, with the inmates of the spunging•houses, and with the frequenters of all the dubs and coffee-houses in the town. He was liked in all company because he liked it ; and you like to see his enjoyment as you like to see the glee of a box full of children at the pantomime. He was not of those lonely ones of the earth whose greatness obliged them to be solitary; on the contrary, he admired, I think, more than any man who ever wrote ; and full of hearty applause and sympathy, wins upon you by calling you to share his delight and pod humour. His laugh rings through the whole house. He must have been invaluable at a tragedy, and have cried u much as the most tender young lady in the boxes. He has a relish for beauty and goodness wh he meets it. He admired Shakapeare affectionately, and more than any man of his time; and, according to his generous expansive nature, called upon all hie company to like what he liked himself. He did not damn with faint praise ;he was in the world and of it; and his enjoyment of life presents the strangest contrast to Swift's savage indignation, and Addi son's lonely serenity. Permit me to read to you a passage from each writer, curiously indicative of his peculiar humour: the subject is the same, and the mood the very gravest. We have said that upon all the actions of man, the most trifling sad the most solemn, the humourist takes upon himself to comment. All readers of our old masters know the terrible lines of Swift, in which he hints at his philosophy and deseribes the end of mankind : " Amend, confused, its fate unknown, The world stood trembling at Jove's throne, While each pale sinner hung hie head, Jove, nodding, shook the heavens and said: Offending race of hump kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind; You who through frailty stepped aside, And you who end through pride You who in different sects were shamed, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, bat they knew No more of Jove's design' than you.) The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no mere ; I to such bloc kh eads set my wit, I damn such fools—go, go, you're bit V " Addison, speaking on the very same theme, but with how different a 'voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26) : " For my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melan choly, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents on a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those we must quickly follow." (I have owned that I do not think Addison a heart melted very much,or that he indulged very inordinately in the "vanity of grieving.") "4When," he goes on, " when I see kings lying by those who deposed them : when I consider rival wits placed side by aide, or the hely men that divided the world with their contests and disputes,—l reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and de bates of mankind. And, when I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday and some 600 years ago, I consider that Great Day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same sub ject. You will have observed in the previous extract. the characteristic humour of each writer—the subject and the contrast—the fact of Death, and the play of 1 individual thought, by which each comments on it; and now hear the third writer—death, sorrow, and the grave, being for the moment also his theme. " The first sense of sorrow I ever knew," Steele says in the Taller, " was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quit , ' five years of age : but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than pots- ' sussed of a real understanding why nobody would play with us. I remember I went into the room where his body lay and my mother sate weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa; for, I know not how, I bad some idea that he was locked up there. My mother caught me in her arms, and, transported beyond all pa tience of the silent grief she was before in, she almost smothered me in her embraces, and told me in a flood of tears, ' Papa could not hear me, and would pixy with ma no more : for they were going to put him under ground, whence be would never come to us again.' She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport, which methonght struck me with an instinct of sorrow that, before I was sensible what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since." Can there be three more characteristic moods of minds and men? "Fools, do you know anything of this mys teay ?" says Swift, stamping one grave and carrying his scorn for mankind actually beyond it. Miserable, purblind wretches, how dare you pretend to comprehend the In scrutable, and hew can your dim eyes pierce the unfathom able depths of yonder boundless heaven ? Addison, in a , much kinder language and gentler voice, utters much the same sentiment ; and speaks of the rivalry of wits, and the contests of holy men, with the same sceptic placidity. "Look what a little vain dust we are ;" he says, smiling over the tombstones, and catching as is his wont, quite a divine eilulgence as he looks heavenward ; he speaks in words of inspiration almost, of "the Great Day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." The third, whose theme is Death, too, and who will speak his word of moral as Heaven teaches him, it'ads you up to his father's coffin, and shows you his beautiful mother weeping and hipped( an unconscious little boy wondering at her side. His own natural tears flow as he takes your hand and confidingly asks your sympathy. " Ste how good and innocent and beautiful women are," he says—. how tender little children !" Let us love these and one another, bro ther—God they—God knows we have n ee d o f l ove an d pardon. So it 1 , is each man looks with his own eyes, speaks with his own • voice, and prays his awn prayer. When Steele asks your sympathy for the actors in that charming scene of Love and Grief and Death, who can refuse it ? One yields to it as to the frank advance of • child, or to the appeal of • woman. A man is seldom more manly than when be is what you call unmanned—the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the in stinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak. If Steele is not our friend, he is nothing. He is by no means the most brilliant of wits ner the deepest of thinkers ; but he is our friend : we love him, as children love their love with en A. because he is amiable. IRELAND. DUBLIN. JUNE 11. Election rumours are once more the order of the day. Several candidates are spoken of for the county of Clare, but strange enough they all belong to the multitudinous family of Fitzgerald. We are told that Sir Edward Fitzgerald is prepared to stand with his uncle, Sir John Fitzgerald, should Mr. C. O'Brien, one of the lately unseated members, retire; and another statement afloat is that Mr. J. 1). Fitz gerald, the present member for Ennis, will get him self returned for the county, where be is popular, and make room in the borough for his brother Tho mas. It is certain that Colonel Vandeleur will not have a walk over, but it is also extremely probable that the gallant colonel will obtain one of the vacant seats, and that the interest of the county in parlia ment will thus be equally divided between the two parties. Sundry rumours about law changes are rife in the hall of the courts. The following paragraph from Saunders's News Letter embraces the most probable of them: It is said that Chief Justice Lefrov is about to retire, from indisposition, and that he will he succeeded by the Attor ney-General in the Queen's Bench—that Baron Penne tauter will retire from the Exchequer, and bo succeeded by Mr. Ilatchell, Q C., the Attorney-General under the last whig government—and that Mr. Commissioner Masan, the senior Commissioner of Bankrupts, will make way fir Mr. John rennefather, one of the crown prosecutors on the Leinster circuit. If these changes are carried out, Mr. Keogh, M.P., will, of course, succeed to the office of Attorney-General, which will create a vacancy in the repre sentation of Athlone; and he will moat probably be suc ceeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, whose promotion would cause the necessity of a uew election for the borough of Ennis, or by Mr. Manley. Great anticipations are entertained of the aggre gate meeting of Monday next, on the nunneries question, and, whatever may bo the weght which the demonstration may derive from respectability or numbers, it is pretty certain that it will be made a vent for a good deal of strong language. The articles and letters in newspapers, and resolutions of local meetings, have already approached an extreme point in this respect; lint it is still quite certain that the great bulk of the Roman catholics are incredulous on the subject, and that they do not expect that the pro posed measure will be pressed through parliament. The question is one which in all probability they would otherwise be induced to feel more warmly upon than even the Ecclesiastical Titles Act itself. Provincial meetings will be held in most parts of the country to-morrow, and a flood of petitions will no doubt be poured into the house before the close of next week. A meeting has been called in Cork for Thursday next, by the mayor, in compli ance with a long requisition, and special meetings on the subject have been announced in other towns. The town council of Kilkenny have adopted a strong resolution against Mr. Chambers's measure ; and bnt for the impression which is abroad that ministers are making a whip against the bill, a pretty fair amount of agitation might be expected. A meeting of the Dublin Protestant Association was held last night, at which, on the motion of the Rev. T. D.Gregg, a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant was adopted, and also the following resolution That if the government give us that due protection which we are entitled to claim, on Monday next, we shall, as Anglo-e.atholics, accept the invitation which so many digni taries of the state have published, in order to petition against Mr. Chambers's bill; and if not, that immediate steps be taken to constrain those who convene meetings of the sub jects of the crown so to do as that they may not compro mise the rights or titles of any of the Queen's subjects. The Roman catholic priests of the deanery of Mill street, in the county of Cork, have passed a series of resolutions in conference, condemning in strong terms the language which Lord John Russell has recently used with respect to their church, and call ing on their representatives in parliament to with draw their support from the government with which his lordship is connected. Three small estates were disposed of yesterday in the Incumbered Estates Court; the produce of one in the county of Kilkenny being at the rate of 331 years' purchase, of one in the county of Cork 21 years' purchase, and finally, one in the county of Wexford fetching a rate of 20 years' purchase. The prices in the Irish land market are on the whole well sustained. We hear but little of late of the " exodus," and the work of self-expatriation has evidently relaxed, but this is to be attributed to the fact that the people are waiting for the approaching harvest, and not to any permanent check to the current of emigration, which will flow out as copiously as ever when the present growing crops shall have been converted into ready money. The Mars steamer sailed yes terday, on her usual weekly trip from Waterford, with 280 emigrants, en route for the west via Liver pool. NAVAL. Poirrsmouvr, luwz 12.—The serious aspect of affairs in the East begins to cause great activity at this port. The screw troop ship Simoono, Capt. Smith, is to be paid up wages to-morrow, and then to take shot, shell, itc., on board for the fleet in the Mediterranean. It is also understood that a Baltic fleet is to be immediately formed, a force which in the event of actual hostilities with Russia would be abso lutely necessary, as the large fleet possessed by that nation in the Baltic might, if not web looked after, inflict, by a mere blockade of the Humber and the Thames for a period of 24 hours, enormous mischief on the shipping interests of this country. A powerful force is collecting at Spithead, which can be made available for this purpose, and these are chiefly screw ships. They comprise the Duke of Welling ton, 131 guns ; the Blenheim, 60 ; Edinburgh, 68 ; Hogue, 60 ; Ajax, 60 (all screws) ; Sidon, 22 (paddle) ; besides the Encounter, 14 (screw), fitting out; and Neptune, 120, being re-coppered. To these may be added about half a dozen other fine ships at Plymouth and Sheerness. This fleet would be stationed at Yarmouth Roads, off the Nor folk coast, where there has not been a fleet since 1814. The Ajax arrived at Spithead to-day from Cork, and the Hogue went out of harbour yesterday afternoon to that anchorage. The Plumper, 9 (screw), having had her boilers repaired, went out of harbour yesterday to try her engines, and afterwards returned. The con flict, 8, screw sloop, also went out Ito the measured mile yesterday to try her engines. The Vesuvius, 6, paddle sloop, was brought down the harbour yesterday sad docked, to take the place of the Geyser, whose boilers are so detest- Nye as to render her u•eleu as a steamer. The Geyser is to be paid off, but her commander (Thomas Wilson) is to com mission the Vesuvius. The Dauntless, 22, screw frigate, was taken into the steam basin yesterday. MILITARY. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 12.—The destination of the 34th Regiment was suddenly altered on Friday night, or ders being received at seven o'clock, by electric telegraph, directing them to proceed to Chichester. They had, with their baggage, been transferred from the troop-ships (in which they had been brought front Barhadoes), to the Simoom, screw steamer, for conveyance to Scotland, and this vessel had steam up and every preparation made for sailing. She was, indeed, on the p oint of departure segen the telegraphic message came dawn ordering them to land the following morning. The Simoom accordingly came alongside the dockyard yesterday, when the 34th disembarked, and at 3 p.m. they proceeded per rail to Chi chester. The baggage of the regiment was got out of the Simoom by a dettchment of the 38th Regiment and sent on to Chichester after them. _ _ The arrangements for the removal of the troops from this district to the camp at Chobham have been made. The let battalion Greedier Guards moves by special train from Winchester at 5.30 a.m. on Tuesday ; the 38th Regiment at the same hour from this garrison, and the 93rd Highlanders at 630 a.m. The 88th, Connaught Rangers, proceed from this garrison in the course of next month to the camp. The 38th Regiment does not return to Portsmouth, but goes from the camp to Canterbury, being succeeded here by the 2nd battalion Rifle Brigade. WESLEYAN 'MEDIATION MEETING AT . IANCIt ESTER. —This meeting, held on Thmsday evening, wan adjourned to:Friday evening, as Mated in the Express of Saturday. Several of the leading reformers spoke at considerable [ length, and the Binlisgharn declaration to Confezenee havilg been mC•Tia, was unanimously adopted.