The Express. — London, England, 1853-05-25 00:00:00

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This visit of the King of the BELGIANS to Vienna has, indeed, attracted more than usual attention among the political classes of France and Germany. Not only the manner of his reception in the palace of the Emperor Flea:iris, and the arrival there about the same time o! the King of PRUSSIA, but the announce ment simultaneously made that a Princess of the House of 11 eesmate; was to be given in marriage to King Lr.inandis son, were all calculated to form the plausible basis of a series of surmises pregnant with every variety of political consequences, not merely to the kingdom of the Netherlands, but to the whole of western Europe. Without attaching much credit to many of the inferences which have been drawn in various quarters from the incidents of royal hospita lity above referred to, we may venture to state so tar as it is really known, the actual purpose of the Belgian Monarch's journey, and its probable results. Twenty-three years have elapsed since the people of Belgium, by a majority of their suffrages, chose Prince LEOPOLD of Saxe Coburg to be their Sovereign. The close connexion of his house with the Royal Family cf England, his alliance with the slaughter of Louts PHILIPPE, and, above all, his stedfast and loyal attachment to the principles of constitutional freedom, rendered the elected King of the BELGIANS an object little calculated to win the peculiar confidence of the Austrian Court. Nor was the policy pursued by his Government fitted to ex tinguish the ill concealed sentiments of distrust, if not of disfavour, with which his elevation to a revo lutionary throne was regarded by the Princes and Ministers of the empire. Under his enlightened administration, Belgium has continued to enjoy the blessings of internal liberty and to form a refuge and resting-place for the outcasts of despotism throughout Europe. Not only by its example of perfect religious equality and the utmost freedom of political discus sion has it become an important outpost of progress, but, by the readiness with which it has entered from time to time into active combination with other free states in favour of constitutionalism, Belgium was not unreasonably supposed to have earned for itself the aversion of the absolutist courts in a degree inferior only to that which they cherished to- ward England. Indeed few things seemed more improbable than that King LEOPOLD should ever find himself a caressed and feted guest in the halls of Schonbrunn, or that the youthful heir of his crown should be welcomed as a suitor for the hand of an Archduchess. But the events of 1818, and their subsequent constquencvs in France, have taught the Court of Vienna to forget half the jealousy wherewith they once regarded dynasties founded on the principles of limited monarchy. The con tempt which they affected to entertain after 1830 for constitutional kingship has been obliterated by the misgivings they are unable to con ceal, for the more novel power of un-constitutional liberty. The coup dila* of December, and the necessitation of Imperial pretensions in the House of BONAPARTE, ha:Lised out all the faults of LOUIS PKILLPPZ, and all the flaws which seven years ago would have been found in the political escutcheon of his grandson. the young Duke of Baanort, although the son of one revolutionary King, and the grandson of another, is still the undisputed heir of a kingdom whose independent existence all Germany regards as eminently important. And at a moment when its integrity has actually been menaced in no covert terms by the present ruler of France, the visit of King LEOPOLD, accompanied by his son, to Vienna, and the betrothal there of the Lake of BILOANT to the daughter of the late Arch duke STEPHEN, cannot be considered as anything less than a declaration on the part of Austria that any attack upon the independence of the Low Country will be resented and resisted by the Ger manic body. The presence of the King of PRUSSIA on the occa sion is not without its significance ; and it would seem as if nothing had been omitted which was cal culated to remind observers that as regards the inte grity of Belgium the interests of all the German powers were as one. The Emperor FRANCIS Joseen is described as receiving King FREDERICK WILLIAM in the dress of a Prussian Marshal, while the latter is said to have worn the uniform of an Austrian General. Nor is it too much to suppose that the Belgian Monarch has not neglected the opportunities recently afforded him of endeavour ing to allay the feelings of coldness subsisting be tween Austria and Great Britain. It is teo manifestly his interest to do so ; and if here after the weight of his conned should be recognised and respected at Vienna, we shall not care invidiously to remind that haughty court that its newly adopted ally imbibed in earlier days the prin ciples which have guided him as a sovereign from the statesmen and literature of England. On the other hand, we trust that neither King LEOPOLD nor anyother person whomsoever, will ever be suffered to entangle this country in any courtly combination whereby the guiding lights of its own free _policy shall be subserviently dimmed or obscured. It is well to seeKingLEOPOLDor any other potentate taking steps to preserve the extente cordiale between all the Eu ropean Powers, but that good feeling would be mis chievous rather than useful if it tended to link England up with the despotic leanings of Austria, or to interfere in any manner with the natural alliance and friendship that should ever subsist between this country and Me people of our nearest neighbour—France. It is well to see the King of the BELGIANS settli ng hi s son comfortably in the family of European Kings, but we must, as a nation, take care that no relations existing between this country and LEOPOLD shall have the effect of entangling us in any continental kingly schemes for putting the ORLEANS once more on the throne they forfeited. England must not be made a catspaw for the furtherance of any courtly intrigues. THE LORD PRESIDENT of the Privy Council has introduced a Bill into the Upper House which ought to be regarded with strong interest by all who care for popular education. It contains that part of the Government measure on Education which relates to the administration of Charitable Trusts. It seems as if the people of England could not be in the least aware what amount of money is squandered or accumulating, how much time is lost, and how generation after generation of children is passing away into crime, folly, or misery, for want of the education which charity destined for them, and which is withheld from them simply by the popular apathy. It cannot he that the people of England and their representatives in Parliament can be aware of the facts of the case, and leave them unrepaired. They are Ant altogether careless about popular education. We hen, ,‘ good deal—and we always listen with satisfaction—sr their views, wishes, and objections, in regard to the seionncs of education which are suc cessively proposed. It -mould largely increase our satisfaction to hear them utter such an indignant cry about the waste of bequeathed property, left for edu cational purposes, as would secure a thorough reform of one ut the greatest abuses which has remained for reprobltion to this day. If the fiwts were understood we should soon hear the cry. It is tisses.fore our business and our pleasure to call attention to the subject. How many of our readers can tell what is the estimated amount, in lands, money, and other formy of p roperty bequeathed by our f ore f at h ers for chari tab e uses, and available at this day, if properly looked after ? We doubt whether any one would venture to guess anything like the real amount. It is computed to be about seventy-five millions. We have a capital of seventy-live millions to aid us in doing our duty by those of our people who cannot help themselves; the children, the aged, the sick and infirm. Our business now is with the children. Of this sum, so much relates to educa tional objects as yielded, soma years ago, an income of 312,5441. Deducting from this the amount de voted by express bequest to classical or grammar schools, we still have an income of 160,4 K/. applicable to educational purposes, outside the grammar schools. But we have much more than this. This estimate was given in several years ago, and the funds are supposed to have augmented, in some cases, by being unused. And it is certain that the neglect, misap plication, and downright fraud that have been encouraged by the bad system of admi nistration we have chosen to permit, have re duced the income of these charities far below what it might have been, and what it will be, whenever we look after our property as we ought. It was the opinion of the Bishop of LONDON, ratified by that of the present Archbishop of CANTEant:RT, in 1834, that existing educational bequests, properly ma naged, would yield as much income as the state need afford to train its youth. We really can form no conjecture as to this, so unimaginable are the abuse that are in course of exposure, and so incomputable, therefore, the resources that we may, in the day of reform, find ready to our hands. All we can say is that the nation is bound to ascertain what those re sources are, and to see that they are made the moat of; two acts of duty which the public is sadly slow in setting about. First, about the ascertainment. The Parliament of ELIZABLIII, in the celebrated act of the 43rd of her reign, showed themselves anxious to secure the right administration of the trusts bequeathed by catholic piety. The Court of Chancery was em powered to issue commissions of inquiry, and the commissioners were authorised to mare local inqui ries by means of juries on the spot, not only when complaint of abuse was made, but for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was any room for com plaint. Good as the intention was, there were de fects in the act which impeded its working. From its intention, however, some good hints might now be derived. In 1786 mea sures were taken by Parliament which obtained a return from the authorities of 13,000 parishes and townships in England and Wales (with the excep t tion of only 14, who made no return), accounting on oath for all charitable bequests and donations within their bounds. These returns have been used as a sort of index ever since; but it must be remembered that they brought up the account only to nearly 70 years ago. The benevolent and vigilant ROMILLY believed that he had secured to us a power of inves tigation and complaint into charity abuses by the Act of 1812, passed for that purpose; but it has been so impaired in its action by the construction of the judges, that small charities have no better chance under it than before. Similar failure attended an Act, also of 1812, for the registration of charitable gifts. A register, open to all the world, is highly' , desirable; but if it is made, u it was in this ease, dependent on the activity of persons "interested in the charity," there is small hope of faithful regis tration. Then arose the great Charity Commission which was to remedy all former neglect, and recover for the helpless of our people their noble income. The Commissioners had power to proceed at law against sinning trustees, and everything was to be set right. Their powers were continued by successive acts ; but when their final term expired, many counties had been left unvisited. One discovery that they com municated to us was that it took " from five to ten years" to obtain by law the correction of an abuse; and that the abuse was so much less expensive than the remedy that it was usually prudent to let it alone. A new commission was appointed, and it re ported till 1837; but it gave nothing beyond a description of the charities existing up to that time. Nothing was done about a registra tion, or investigation of the management of trusts. Such an omission was a matter of the more serious consequence, because, by the Municipal Reform of 1830, the administration of charity funds was taken from the magistracy of corporate - towns, and nomi nally confided to new trustees, appointed in all such towns by the Lunt) CHANCELLOR. Incredible as it may seem, no system of administration was provided, and such trustees proceed at their own discretion to this day. It may be said that all that happened many years ago ; and that the active citizens of the present day knew nothing about it ; or that everything was supposed to be safe under the management of a Liberal Ministry. Passing on, then, to the latest date, last year,—how do our active men suppose that charity suits instituted by the commission are going on ? and what would they guess to be the expense of such for ten years preceding ? What do they . suppose to have been the expense of the genes of commissions? What do they guess to be the amount of " the little bill" sent in by the solicitor of the commission,—who is at present also its secretary ? We will help them to the facts, which are to be found in the return presented to Parliament last session, and printed last winter. The costs incurred in charity commission snits during the ten years before 1852 are above 77,4211., or, on an average, above 7,7421. a year. The expense of the various commissions up to 1841 hu been 252,302/. The sum paid by the Trea sury to the solicitor who conducted the suits was, up to 1841, close upon 45,0001.; and the last returns show that that official continues to make out very pretty little bills. The Treasury paid in costs in 1852 a sum of 7,0001., and the list of costs in about twenty of the principal cases makes one's heart ache at the thought of what is taken from the cause of the helpless to be spent in law. In nineteen of the suits in the list before us the costs exceed 1,0001. In six of these the costs exceed 2,0001.; in two they exceed 3,0001.; and in one they exceed 4,000/. And this is the way the money goes, while tens of thousands of the youth of the nation are growing up in brutal ignorance, through the neglect of the State. But we are not to suppose that all these costs buy effectual law, and obtain a settlement of the disputed cases. Many suits which were reported in 1828 are reported as still pending in 18.52. The soli citor has got his bill paid; but the infirm have died off, and the children have grown up, mean while, without the benefits designed for them ; and their funds have gone to pay costs. For 25 years have hospitals been mouldering, under the blight of Chancery; and schools have been shut up, while a long succession of children have passed before the locked doors—whither? Who will dare to say how many are in sin and sorrow who might have been saved by crossing the threshold of the school? Is not this a case for reform? Can anything be clearer than the public duty of looking after the state of our charity funds, and what they may here after amount to? What room for vigilance and re dress will be left open to the public by the proposed Government bill is yet to be seen. But it is a public duty to attend to that bill—and attention it must have. THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. This company effected a telegraphic communica tion between this country and Ireland on Monday, by sue ers•fully laying down their new cable between Donag hadee and Portpatrick. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1853. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNZSDLY. 8 30 A.M. A private message from Vienna, of the 24th, an nounces the impending departure from Constanti nople of Prince hlenschikoff, in consequence of the definitive refusal of tho ultimatum by the Porte. PARIS, TUZSDAY EVIMXO. In the Senate yesterday the measure was approved of for granting a pension of 5,000 fr. to the widow of M. Burnout. The Moniteur of this morning reports that the government, at the date of the 13th May, was offi cially informed of changes in the Ottoman ministry. Mehemet Ali Pacha, who was Grand Vizier, is ap pointed Minister of War, and replaced in his former station by Nlustapha Paella, ex-President of the Grand Council. ltifaat I'acha has succeeded to the latter's post. Reschid Paeha was entrusted with the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The important intelligence of the rupture of diplo matic relations between Austria and Switzerland is announced in the Moniteur in the following terms : Count Karnicki, Austrian Mai* d'afiaires at Berne, received an order from his government, on the 21st, to quit his post immediately and return to Vie nna, after notifying to the President of the Ilelvetic Confederation the rupture of diplomatic relations between Austria and Switzerland. There is now no doubt that this news was known yesterday to some of the leading speculators. At the opening of the Bourse therefore to-day it was conceived that the heavy fall of yesterday must have been in great measure owing to this despatch, and in the belief that the news had been "discounted" there was a disposition to operate for the rise. The following article from the New Zurich Go:ette of Berne of the 21st., was much talked of, as showing that the withdrawal of the Austrian charge ci'affaires originated in a mistake. The affair of the recall of the charge d'uffaires of Austria, M. de Karnicki, reposes on a misunderstanding. About fifteen days ago M. Fnibrose, President of the Federal Council, invited several diplomatists and members of the Federal Council to a private dinner. The invitation was caused by the presence of the ambassador of Bavaria, Baron de Verger, with whom M. Freihrose, in hie quality of chief of the department of Commerce and Customs, has nego tiated for the conclusion of a treaty guaranteeing free naviga tion on the Rhine and on the Lake of Constance. Almost all the representativesof foreign governments were invited ; but M. de Karnicki and two or three membersof the federal coun cil were not present. This latter circumstance would have sufficed to deceive the dinner of any official character. However, in several journals it was stated that /el. Karnicki had atten ded the dinner; and the New Zurich Gazette cor rected the error, and announced that M. Karnicki could not have attended a dinner to which he was not invited. The Gazette did not say formally that the dinner was not diplo- matic or official. The Court of Vienna, led into error by this news, decided on recalling its charge d'affaires. The federal council, having become acquainted with the motives of this act, caused explanations to be given by the Swiss charge d'affaires at Vienna. They perfectly tranquillised Austria, and diplomatic relations have undergone na inter ruption. M. de Karnicki has, however, obtained a eonge;. It was, however, naturally thought improbable in the high est degree that the Moniteur would an nounce in terms a rupture of diplomatic relations if M. Karnicki had only left Berne en conye, and a telegraphic dispatch from Berne, dated Tester day, arrived to strengthen the less favourable view of the case. This dispatch says : In consequence of the notification made by the Austrian charge d'allaires to the President of the Helvetic Confedera lion of the rupture of diplomatic relations between Austria and Switzerland, the Federal Council has decided on putting an immediate end to the functions of the Swiss en voy at Vienna. On the receipt of this the downward movement continued, and the Threes fell as low as 81.80, being nearly 1 , per cent. lower than yesterday. The ac counts from England of the rejection of Prince Men chikoff's ultimatum, although not implicitly credited, added to the uneasy feeling. Within ten minutes of the close of the Bourse, however, almost all secu rities rapidly recovered, and the Threes closed at 21.5. All the high-church journals, the Assenibble, the Union, and the Unirere, charge the government with having abandoned the position assumed by 2.1. Lavelctte in regard to the Holy Places, and, indeed, u I ventured to surmise two or three days ago, in spEte of the article in the lifoniteur, there can be no doubt of this fact. The Univers says: An attentive reading of the &mans that Russia has obtained from the Ports in favour of the Cheeks proves that, on the one hand, Turkey wishes to seem to have maintained the concessions obtained for the Latins by France, while at the raw time she in reality withdraws everything that was important is those concessions. There is a report that France is about to send a fleet to China, to support her "just influence" in case of a dismemberment of the Chinese empire. The Moniteur publishes the official returns of the receipts of customs duties and indirect taxes for the last month, which amounted to 11,427,993fn, being 2,816,922 fr. less than in April, 18.52, and 1,760,8751 r. more than in 1851. The receipts of the first four months of 1853 amount to 41,338,791 fr., showing a decrease of 5,444,773 fr. as compared with the corres ponding period of 1852, and an increase of 4,912,346 fr. on 1851. You will remember that the boasted equi librium in the budget is based entirely upon the as sumption that the receipts for 1833 would exceed those of 1852. The returns, confirming all reasonable anticipation, show that up to the present time, there has been a considerable fulling off from the receipts of that exceptional year. The efforts of Admiral Maclean and his brother tars to induce the Senate to throw out the Naval Officers Superannuation Bill produced but little effect. The measure was voted by 94 against 13. This is, however, the first time that any show of opposition has been made by the Senate against the promulgation of any law. The minority, though small, is large enough to be significant. Marshal Jerome Bonaparte has taken apartments at Frascati's, at Havre, whither he intends to go ' I after the prorogation of the Senate, to stay some time. The Emperor went yesterday to visit the Duke of Genoa at the Sardinian Embassy, accompanied by Generals de Gluon and de Lourmel, his aides-de camp. Princes Jerome Napoleon and Napoleon also visited the duke. In the evening his royal highness accompanied the Emperor to the Opera, to be present at the representation of " Melee." A despatch from the Piraeus, of the 17th, an nounces that the French Mediterranean squadron having gone through some evolutions in the Gulf of Athens, had anchored at Egina. This island, situated near Salamis, possesses a good summer anchorage. The health of the crew is stated to be satisfactory. the confederation and the imperial court are broken off, and to return forthwith to Vienna. Although the imperial government has chosen the most violent among diplomatic modes of signifying displeasure, instead of allowing M. Karnicky to leave Berne en conge, as the Chevalier Hulsemann left Wash ington, and as more recently the Sardinian minister left Vienna, yet it is well to reeal that a rupture like this does not necessarily imply any , further aggravation of the dispute, much less actual hostilities. In fact, Switzerland and Austria are noel placed in a relation very similar to that mutually sustained by Spain and England after the departure of Sir Henry Bulwer from Madrid and before his replacement by Lord Howden. The successive acts of Austria since the commencement of the present differences have not been very conseluential. Towards the end of May diplomatic relations are ruptured, but already in February Austria resorted to the extreme measure of blockading the Swiss frontier—a measure which she justified on the asser tion, declared by the federal commissioner to be un foul:Lied, that succours had been rendered to the Lombard revolutionaries by the Ticinese. The Swiss deny the facts alleged against them by Austria, and her claims to interfere in their internal administra tion they reject as a violation of their rights as mem bers of a sovereign state. THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. Major-General Fane, Major-General Bentinek, and Major-General B,r Richard Englard, it is said, are to com mand brigades daring the field operations at Chobbaso. MRS. FIEECRER STOWE'S VISIT TO PLATFORM HALL.—On Friday last this justly eelenated lady, accom panied by her brother, arrived at the Ipswich station, about two o'clock, where she was met b y Mrs. Dickerson, daughter-in-law of the late Thomas Clarions, and her son, Thomas Clarkson, Esq., Mrs. It. 1). Alexander, Miss Ste venson, dte. , ate. The object of her visit was to have an interview with Mrs. Clarkson, the widow of the venerable philanthropist—to see the mansion in which he lived and died—and to visit the place of his burial. A select party were invited to dine with Mrs. Stowe. On Saturday morn ing she and her brother took their departure, by train, for London ; from whence, it is understood, they are about im mediately to proceed to the Continent. The visit of Mn. Stowe to the grave of Clarkson reminds us of the neglect of • nr•at natiosiel duty with respect to his remains. Where Or:mein. Sharp. and Wilberforce lie, there ought the ashes of Clarkson to repose. It is not, even now, too late for as to redeem our character—so that when the foreigner comes to our shores, he may have an opportunity of visiting the tomb of our distinguished neighbour, where England has deporited sn many of her illustrious deed—within the walls of Westminster Abbey.— Ipsicins Express. SPAIN. The amnor Public° states that General Narvaez will shortly be authorised to return to Loja. A letter of the 20th, received by express, announces the nomination of M. Bermudez de Castro, brother of the Minister of Finance, to the embassy of Naples, in the room of the Marquis de Viluma, appointed to Paris. A letter from Manila of the 23rd February, in the Iferaldo of Madrid, says:— , . It appears that there has been some dispute with the English consul at Manilla relative to the prosecution for robbery of a Jew named Megives Abraham, who, however, was set at liberty. Complaints are made of the unbe coming manner in which the consul expressed him self in the affair. It is desirable that the govern ment should be able to impose respect when necessary on the foreign commercial agents in that country, who, without any diplomatic character, permit them selves to meddle with our judicial administration." The French gendarmes on the Spanish frontier have just arrested Cargol, the noted Spanish insur gent chief. The two sections of the Royal Council, united under the presidency of M. Martinez de la Rosa, have resolved not only to recommend that the project of the concession of the Northern railway be referred to the Cortes, but also that the works commenced on this line be immediately suspended. In this decision the members of the sections were unanimous. SWITZERLAND. A few days ago at was stated in these columns that the Federal Council which directs the foreign affairs of Switzerland, had returned a distinct refusal to the demands put forward by Austria, and it was added that this note would probably close the pro tracted correspondence. m 4 anticipation has been realised. A telegraphs communication, wholly reliable, states that M. Kurnicky, the Austrian chargé d'affaires at .Berne, having reported the reply of the Federal Connci! to hie go vernment, has received orders to notify to the Swim executive that diplomatic relations between ITALY. Professor Scialoia, well known for hating suffered a long imprisonment at Naples, whence he has been but lately exiled, has just been elected by acclama tion, and without the examination prescribed for candidates, a member of the College of Law at Turin. His reception took place on the 19th. GERMANY. The telegraph announces that the King of Prussia arrived at Dresden, from Vienna, on Monday even ing. On the same day King Leopold and his eon arrived at the Saxon court, from Prague. The Duke of Brabant has received from the Emperor of Austria the cordon of the order of St. Stephen.! TURKEY. VIENNA, MAY 21. The Constantinople mail (overland) cannot reach Vienna, at soonest, until to-morrow, but still it was positively asserted on 'Change today that Prince Menschikoff had quitted the Turkish capital. As it is to be foreseen that this rumour will find its way to the west, it appears necessary to inform you that there is good reason for believing Prince Menschi koff has consented to postpone his departure for eight days. Nervous politicians must not forget that, even shouli the Russian ambassador quit the Turkish capital, war is not a necessary consequence. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. A telegraphic summary of the following appeared in the Expreaa of yesterday :—This afternoon the United States Mail steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in our river, with the usual mails from the United States, 197 passengers, and 100,000 dollars in specie. She reports the arrival at Boston, on the 13th, of the Royal Mail steamship Cambric The Her mann, from Southampton, arrived at New York on the 11th. The coroner's jury in the recent railway accident case had returned a verdict to the effect that the said disaster was caused by the negligence of the en gineer. A terrible calamity occurred at Buffalo on the 13th by the falling in of a building. It was supposed that 15 persons had been killed. By the arrival at New Orleans, on'the 12th, of the steamer Texas we have later news from Mexico. Santa Anna had proclaimed a new arbitrary law with regard to the press, requiring all the papers to be licensed by government, and the proprietors to deposit large sums as securities, and copies of every article to be submitted to government officers before publication : to abstain entirely from discussing po litical matters. Severe penalties attend the infringe ment of these rules, and also as to publishing matter denominated subversive, seditious, libellous, immoral and calumnious. In consequence of this law, several of the most prominent Mexican journals, including the Monitor, had been discontinued. By this arrival there are dates from Havannah to the Bth last. There had been a disagreement be tween the authorities, and Lavalete, the second in command on the island, and another officer, high in rank, were going to Spain in disgust. The troops iu the interior were showing symptoms of discontent. Everything else was quiet. From Texas we learn that the gold accounts are fully confirmed. The Galveston News says it is in fcrmed by a gentleman from Hilkhart, that a party of citizens, who had just returned from an exploring expedition, found gold in the mountains, seventy miles north-west of that town, both on the surface and by digging. They brought beck several lumps, all of which were valued at 5,950 dollars. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Nut Yoax, MAT 14. The money market has been decidedly easier during the last three days, much to the surprise of those who were pre dicting astringent market. Money on call has been freely offered at six per cent. ; first class short paper has been dis counted to good extent at 6 to 7 per cent., and four to six months' paper at 7 percent. per annum—iefact, choice four months' paper has been done at 611 per cent. The demand for foreign exchange has not been particularly entire ; the bulk of the business on London was at 1091. We quote London, 1091 to 110 ; Paris, 5.121 to 5.15 ; Amsterdam, 401 to 41 ; Hamburg, 361 to 361 ; Bremen, 791 to 791 ; Frankfort. 40 1 1 to 41. COTTON.—The market dosed steadily u advised per Canada, 9th inst., both buyers and sellers anticipating an advance of fully Ad., by the Cambria. 1/121C7 LITUIPOOL VAASIVICATIOP. L. Ord. Ord. O. Ord. L. Mid. Mid. 0.31kL Kew Wean*, Mobile, and Tem Florida and Uplands Ol 9 01 10 19* 10j FLourt.—The market remains in a somewhat firm but quiet state, varying a little from day to day, according to the supplies and tenor of the foreign accounts. For export but little is selling, but for the eastern markets and local trade there is a lair demand. ORAIN.—The supply of wheat continues limited and the market closes rather firmer, with a fair demand, for export and home use. FiLEIOIIIII.—To California the rates are 35e. to 50e., with but little offering. To Liverpool—Tobacco, hogsheads, 305.; cotton, square bales per pound, 9-321. to 5-16 d.; flour and meal, oer barrel, 2s. ; rosin, Is. 2d.; heavy goods, per ton, 221. to 235. ; grain, in bulk, per bushel, 6ld. To London—Tobacco, per hogshead, 305.; flour, per barrel, 2s. 31. ; turpentine, per 280 pounds, 3s. ; measurement goods, per ton, 18s. to 301. ; heavy goods, oil, &c., 309. to 355. ; beef, per tierce, as. 6d. to es. ; oil cake, per barrel, 3s. To Havre—Cotton, *guars bales, per pound, fc ; ashes, per ton, 8 dole. to 10 dole. ; rice, 10 dol.. ; Quer citron bark, 10 do's, ; measurement goods, 10 dols.; whale bone, c., per pound, ac. to AUSTRALIA. NEWS FROM THE GOLD REGIONS. We gave yesterday a summary of intelligence brought by tise Atrevida, Captain Shears, which left Port Phillip on the 23rd of February. Mr. Edward Khali, bullion broker, of Melbourne, has prepared a set of valuable tables, containing statistics of the gold fields, &c., from which the fol lowing extracts are made : Quantity of gold dust brought to Melbourne and Gee long.—By government escort, 1,339,8450 z.; by Victoria Escort Company, 821,1430 z. ; by private hand, 601,6450 z. Shipments of gold from the ports of Victoria—From Melbourne, 1,886,2170 z. sdwt. : Geelong, 84,0200z.14dart.; Portland. 3.0390 z. 7dwt.; Port Fairy, 1,6900 z. 7dwt. ; total, 1,974,9750 z. 13dwt. Amount of gold dust remaining at the 31st of December. ' In the Treasury, Melbourne. 83,678 oz. • Victoria Escort Company, Melbourne, 58,982 Cr.; b an ks , Melbourne, 380,000 oz.; banks, Geelong, 133,0050 z. ; private hands in Molhourne and Geelong, estimate 130,000 oz. ; total, 787,690 oz. Quantity of gold dust taken to Adelaide.—By overland escort, March to Droembet, 18;2, 228,533 oz.; ehinped from Melbourne, 17,331 oz.; tiken by private hand, 171,160 az.; estimated quantity taken in addition to above, 166,687 us. ; Fhipoed from Adelaide to London, February to Drremher, 1852, 263,60 os. Amount 700111101D7 in the basks, assay office, and private Lands at Adelaide, 290,816 or. - - Quantity of gold alien to Sydney in the year 1852. Shipped, per Melbourne customs' return, 280,589 oz.; by private bands, 341,739 oz. ; estimated quantity taken in addition to the above, 100,000 oz.; quantity held by the banks and private hands, 150,000 us ; total, 872.324 Quantity of gold dust taken to Van Diemen'a Laud in the year 1834—Shipped, per Zielbmune customs' returns, 1,953 oz. ; taken by private hands, 140,546 oz. ; estimated quantity held by the banks and in private hands, 50,000 oz. ; slipped from Launceston, per customs' returns, 36,946 oz. ; estimated quantity held by the banks and in private hands, 20,000 oz. Summary of produce during the year 1&52.-173 tons 19 ewt. Iv. 121 b. 3 oz., at 705.-14,163,3641., exclusive of gold dust in the hands of diggers, store-keepers, and others, and'on the road to Melbourne and Geelong. Amount of specie imported into Melbourne and Gee long in the year 18.52.—January, 23,0001.; April, 40,000/. ; July, 200,000/. ; August, 90,000/. ; September, 538,0001. ; October, 432,8081.; November, 397,8001.; December, 150,000/. • estimated amount by private hands, 632,200/. ; total, 2,50,000/. . . . . . . Number of persona who arrived in the colony and the number which left during the year 1852.—Arrived, January, 7,494 ; Fellgnarr, 7,460 ; March, 5,063 ; April, 4,111 ; May, 6,631 ; June, 3,872; July, 4,271 ; August, 6,552; Septem ber, 15,855; October, 19,162; November, 10.917; Decem ber, 14,255; total, 104,883. Left, January, 550; February, 847; March, 1,239; April, 1,511; May, 1,629; June, 1,614; July, 2,383; August, 1,618; September, 1,841; October, 3,637 ; November, 4,287 ; December, 5,866 ; total, 27,022. Addition to population, from immigration alone, in 1852, 77,661 ; arrived overland from Sydney and Adelaide, and in vessels over those reported to the Customs, also estimated increase from births in tho colony, 20,000; total increase, 97,661. The Argus of the 7th of February says, in refer ence to these computations : The total amount raised from our various gold mines during the pair 1852 appears to be 4,175,247 ounces, which, valued at 31. lOs. an ounce. shows a national income, under this item alone, of 14,163,364/. sterling. We are glad to find that there is very little discrepancy between this esti mate and that pub.iehed in our summary (ot the steamship Great Britain. Ours was a litle higher, but Mr. Shull has avowedly made his estimates, when actual data were want ing, upon a very moderate scale, and the real total is doubtless higher than even the annexed calculations w ould show. With such mines of uncounted wealth at our com mand, what might we not become if our energy, our intel ligence, and our public spirit were equal to oar riches. - - A letter from Ballarat early in February, says : In my letter to you lately I have given favourable re ports of these diggings, and yet the escort returns have rather diminished thin increase I in amount. It is impos sible to judge of the yield of Ballarat by the escort. The week before last I knew personally of more gold going pri vately than by escort. The nearness of Ballarat to Geelong, the safety of the road, and the cheap and regular convey ances, make the journey so easy and available that few lucky diggers will use the escort; and I know many who boast of never having transmitted by it. On horseback 1 you can go to Geelong from Ballarat with ease in six hours. Before the news of the nugget they a ere coming up rapidly, but the rush now is immense. A new gully at Creswiek's Creek, and new diggings at \Vahnup, were opened last week. I am told that there are nearly a thousand at the latter place already. The price of gold has risen to 31.85. Gd.; some stores giving 31. 9s. On the 6th of February three diggers, named Gough, Sully, and Bristoe, arrived in Geelong from the Ballarat diggings, bringing with them a box containing two masses of gold, one of which actually weighed 771 b. Boz., and the other 691 b. Goz., the pro portion of pure gold being more than eight-ninths. They were both found at Canadian Gully, between thirty and forty yards from the bed of the 1341 b. nugget, and within some fifty feet of the surface. It is further stated that accounts had also been received of the finding of a 1001 b. nugget in the same golden locality. The fortunate finders of the immense nugget at Ballarat are four new corners, three of whom arrived in the colony in August last, per ship Lady Head, and the fourth came in the steam ship Great Britain. The three first proceeded to Bendigo diggings imme diately after their landing, where they remained for some two or three months, and made nearly 1,0001.1 worth of gold. They then joined the fourth person, and went to Ballarat diggings. Out of one hole in I the Canadian Gully they obtained the large lump weighing 1341 b. Boz., another weighing 51b. aoz., and 21b. 4oz. of small gold—making alto,gether 1421 b. 3oz. out of one hole. They then sold their claim for 3001., and went to Melbourne. They were offered 8,000/. for the one piece. The Ovens' River escort, which arrived at the Treasury on the sth of February, brought 11,635 ounces of gold : and the Mount Alexander escort, of same date, 6,132 ounces. The gold despatched from the Ovens on the lath of February was 4,478 ounces; on the 16th, 1,500 ounces were deposited for the next escort. Up to the 12th of February , many persons were leaving Fryer's Creek for new diggings discovered on the Loddon, which were reported to be very rich, and called the Bendigo diggings, though some dis tance from the old diggings on that creek. From Fryer's Creek to Loddon is said to be 40 miles. On the 12th a man had arrived from the latter place with six pounds weight of gold, the fruit of ten days' toil. The best Van Diemen's Land flour was selling at Fryer's Creek at 41. per bag; potatoes, 9d. per pound : apples, Is. a dozen ; pudding raisins, ls.; and bread and meat at former quotations. Gold buyers were offering V. 12s. 6d. In the district of Belfast, on the 31st of January, hundreds of acres of wheat were ripe for the sickle. The harvest was plentiful, but the labourers few. Though 355. an acre was the price for cutting many and many a field would fall ere a hook could ' be put into it. The South Australian Register states that, although there is at the diggings everything to indicate gold in large quantities, none have succeeded in realising their hopes. Vessels advertised from Melbourne for London : The Bombay, Feb. 18; Henry Gillespie, 19th; Bar rackpore, Syria, Florence, Beulah, Queen of Eng land, and Blackwell, 20th; Ann Bridson and Aber foyle, March 1; Windermere, Nelson, and James Alexander, 7th; Emigrant and Condor, 10th; Golden Land, lath; and Clara Symes, 20th. COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. The arrangements respecting the Australian home ward mails (writes a correspondent) are more unsatisfactory at the present time than those regarding the outward ones. Before the steam-packet communication with Australia was established last year, the whale of the correspondence mailed in Australia u sed to be sent home by the first sailing 'hip that left for England. Al soon as the Australian post masters, however, found a mail steam communication esta blished with the mother country, they abstained from send ing the g 1 correspondence by sailing ships, and the consequence has been that we have been chicity dependent for our correspondence from Australia during the last twelvemonth to the single voyage which each of the five following steamers have made from Australia, viz., the Cbuaan, Formosa, Australian, Sydney, and Great Britain, but more particularly to the Australian and Sydney, the only two packets of the Australian Mail Packet Company which have as yet made homeward voyages. Numerous wining ships have made rapid trips from the various Aus tralian ports, but they have brought home very few letters, because they were only entrusted with the correspondence that was specially addressed by them. It appears that the I Melbourne mail steamer left Port Phillip on the 6th of February last, and the Sarah Sands on the 10th of the same month. Now, as the Melbourne was the regular mail steamer, and the Sarah Sands a private steamer, there is not the slightest doubt but what the former has a very large =sil o and the latter a very small one, so that we shall have to wait for, most probably, the slowest steamer before we get our letters. The sailing ship Altriveda, which a day or two since arrived at Plymouth, left Port Phillip several days after the Melbourne and Sarah Sands, and has brought very few letters. The fact is, since the establishment of a steam packet communication with Aus tralia, now nearly a twelvemonth since, we in England have been much worse off, as far as regards the receipt of Australian correspondence, than if there had been no such communication established, because we can get no letters by the smiling ships, many of which make better homeward' passages than tke steamers. A very important question now arises—What provision have the government made for the homeward mails from Australia now the mail packet company have lost their contract? The government is' ' about to give a thousand pounds once every two months to some ship to take out an Australian mail, aad the Oriental Company will convey one out also once in two months; but how are the mails to be brought home? Will tte Austra lian postmasters only send home the ordinaty correspond ence by the Oriental Company's rennin, which leave Aus tralia every two months, or will they be instructed to send mails by every ship that leaves their ports? If tho latter is to be the case, it would be important to know when such an arrangement into come into operation. The news of the loss of the mail contract by the Australian Packet Company cannot be known in the gold colonies for some time to come, and it will he months before we shall get the bulk of correspondence mailed in Australia every time a sailing vessel arrives home. Nothing could be more disastrous than the egregious talky** and blundering that have attended the attempts to effect a mail communication from Australia. To the trading interests of this country the failures have been most discouraging and ruinous, and to the thousands whose friends have emigrated such blunders have been cruelly disheartening. The govern ment that we have had for the lost *even years ought to be held responsible tor the disasters or our Australian mail services. For year. they were entreated to establish a steam communication with Australir, nod had they done so in the first place it would have been in good working order by this time, and would not have failed so miserab v just as the colony and its stews became invested with importacce and interest. CIIICORY IY COFFEE.—It appears from a parlia mentary document just printed that since the 25th of February ticre ha•e been I,Stii insprctions of coffee, out of which 91 prosecutions tiok place, and In other pro ceedin3s, Vbe Court. OSBORNE. Trr,Der, HER 'MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY. The Duchess of Kent drove out in an open car. riage yesterday morning, attended by Lady Anus Maria Dawson. The Queen and Prince, with the Duchem of Kent, Princess Helena, Princess Lcriisa, and Prince Arthur, attended by Lieut.• Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, drove out in the afternoon. This morning being her Majesty's Birthday, the Band of the Royal Marines assembled on the Terrace, at Osborne, at a quarter before 7 o'clock, and played a selection of music in honour of the day, via.: TIII4 M WALK. Chorale Selection !St. l'aul) Von Catinger. Mara. National. Selection, Elijah" COD verroanatice. Manch Overture, "Lucia di Lummtrmaor " Waltz e, " Galop, La Clnchette" The Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward of her Majesty's If ouoeleild, stave a state dinner last evening is celebration of her Mejesty's birthday nt Norfolk House, St. James's. eguare. The company coni.isted of Lord Foley, Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms, the E trl of Mulgrave, and count Drumlenrig, Treasurer and Comptroller of the llouitebold ; Major-General Sir George Bowles, Mr. ShiC. ner, Paymaster of the llonochold ; the Rev. Dr. Wesley Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal; Lord Cantor, Lord in Waiting; the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Boyle and Mr. Ormsby Gore, Grooms in Waiting; Colonel the Hon. Arthur Upton, Field-officer in 13.irmile Waiting ; the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton. Marshal of the Ceremonies ; the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Earl of Gosford, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Montcagle. Lord Poltimore, Lord Stafford, Sir Charles Young, Garter King of Arms ; Mr. Dendy, Rouge Dngo n ; Colonel Wylde, Groom of the Bedchamber to Priam Albert; Sir John Strachan, Bart., Captain ("minority Boyle, lt.N , Mr. !Lowden, Mr. Deo Vieux and Mr. Wit. brihem Taylor, Gentlemen Ushers; Mr. Wm. hose, Col James Jones, and Mr. E. M. unwell, Secritary to the Lord Steward. The Marquis of BreadaDiane, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, gave a State dinner, last evening, in eirlebratirn of her Majesty's Birthday, at his residence, in Park-lane, to the fAlowing distinguished guests :—Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Earl Somers. Lord 1:),, Table!, Lord Byron, and Lor3 Rivers, Lords in Waiting; Lieut.-General Sir F , diraril Bowater, Hon. Colonel Hood, Majnr•General Berkeley Drummond, and Captain Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Grooms in Waiting ; the Hon. Frederick Byng, Mr. Charles Heneage, Sir Jahn M. F. Smith, Sir William Martins, Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Mr. Honey Cfreville, Colonel Diggle, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Edward Holihome, and Colonel Stephens, Gentlemen Ushers ; Mr. Norman B. Macdonald. Comptroller of his Lordship's Department; Sir James Clark, Physieinn in Ordinary to the Queen ; Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart., the Puke of Itoxhurghe, the Marquis of Conyngharn. the Marquis of Stafford, Sir Edwin Landseer, and Sir Roderiek J. Murchison. The Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury, Rare a Slate Banquet yesterday, in order of the day, at Argyll House. The following were present :—The Duke of Cambridge, attended by the Hon. Sir James Macdonald; the Duke of Athol', the Duke of llueelcuch, the Duke of Leinstcr, the Marquis of Angle' y, the Marquis Camden. the Marquis of Normanhy, E rl Fitz• William, the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Deron, the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Haddingtoa, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Galloway, Earl Speacer, the Earl of Esse:, Lord Orerstone, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Broughton, Lord Panmure, Lord Ward. L-ord Beaumont, Lord Ashburton, Mr. Clinton George Dawkins, and the Hon. Arthur Gordon. _ _ _ . Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for the IRme Department, gave a grand dinner to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day, at his residence in Carlton-gardens yesterday. The company consisted of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Mr. Vice-Chancellor Kindersley. Mr. Vice-Chancellor Stuart, Mr. Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Baron Piatt, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Crompton, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Dean of the Arches (Sir John Dodson), the Judge of the Admiralty Court (Dr. Lishington), the Secretary for Ire land (Sir John Vane, Bart., M.P.), the Lord Advocate of Scotland. the Solicitor-General for Ireland. Mr. Sheriff Carter, Mr. Sheriff Croll, Sir James Duke, Bart.. and Mr. Masterman, M.P.'s for the City of London, the President of the Poor-law Board (Mr. Bianca, 11I.P.), Mr. Horatio Waddington, the Mon. 11. Fitzroy, M.P., and Mr. B. W. Grey. The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, celebrated her Majesty's birthday by a state din ner yesterday, at his residence in Portman-square, to the Commander-in-Chief, the Military Secretary to ditto, the Secretary at War, the Deputy Secretary at War, the Quarter Mader General, the I'rivate Secretary of the Commander in chief, the Master-General of the Or limner, the Surveyor- General of the Ordnance, the principal storekeeper, the Clerk of the Ordnance, the Inspector-General, the Judge- Adyneate-General, the Secretary to tho Master-General, the Parliamentary and Under-Secretaries for the Colonies, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, the Lieutenant-Governors of Tobago, Nevis, Grenada, and Mr. M'Donsld, late Governor of Sierra Leone. The Bishops of Quebec, Cape Town, Antigua, Montreal, and Nova Scotia. Sir Thomas Mitchell (Australia), the Chief Justices of Antigua, St. llelena, Honduras, and Jamaica, the Attorney- Generals of Newfoundland and Grenada, the Solicitor. General of Canada, &c., &c. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a full dress dinner in honour of the birth-day yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. The following were present:— Sir William Melcsworth, M.P.. the Right Hon. E. Strutt, M.P., the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., Lord Stanley of Alderley, Viscount Canning, Colonel Moberly, the Gover nor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Boa.rd of Customs, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board of In land Revenue, the Chairman of the Audit-office. Sir Alex. Spearman, the Han. E. P. Bouverie, the Right Hon. W. G. Hasler, M.P., Secretaries of the Treasury; Lord A. Hervey, M.P., lion. F. Charteris. M.P., and Mr. John &allele, Junior Lords of the Treasury; Sir Charles Treys !yen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; Captain Glad stone, M.P., the Hon. F. Lawley, and Mr. R.W.Wilbraham, Private Secretaries. Sir Charles Wood, President of the India Board, gave a State Dinner, to celebrate the day, at his residence. is Chesham-place, yesterday, to the Chairman of the East India Company, the Deputy Chairman of ditto, the Right Hon. Vernon Smitb, Sir James Weir Hoer, Lieut.. General Sir George Pollack, the Hon. Leslie Melville, Sir Herbert Maddock, Mr. Butterworth Barley, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Lieut.-General Sir John Littler. Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Primep, Sir Erskine Perry, Mr. Idanglee, M.P., Mr. Chu. Mills, the Hon. John Elliot, Mr. J. C. Melva', Sir Thomas Redington, Mr. Plowdcn, Mr. Martin Smith, Mr. Lowe, M.P., Mr. Halliday, and Mr. T. G. Baring. The Attorney-General celebrated bee Majesty's birth day by a grand banquet at the Albion, Aldermate-street, which was brilliantly illuminated in honour of the occasion. The company included the Queen's Advocate, the Solicitor- General, Serjeants Allen, Channel', Goulhurn, Kinglake, Merewether, Manning, Murphy, Storks, Shee, and Wil kins, T. 0. Anderson, Esq. Q C., W. J. Alexander, Esq., Q.C., B. Andrews, Esq., Q.C., W. Atherton, Esq., M.P., Q.C., J. Bair, Esq., W. Bliss, Esq., Q C., J. M. W. Bram well, Esq., Q.C., G. M. Butt, Esq., M.P., Q.C., J. Camp bell, Esq., Q.C., N. Chambers, Esq., M.P.. Q.C., R. D. Craig, Esq.. W. T. Daniell. Esq., Q.C., W. Elmsley, Esq., Q.C., B. 8. Follett, Esq., M.P., Q C., W. B. Glass, Esq., Q.C., J. Greenwood. Esq • Q C., R. Gurney, Esq., Q.C., T. E. Headlam, Esq., M.P., Q.C., Hugh Hill, Esq.. Q.C., C. Hogging, Eq., R. Ingham, Esq., M.P., Q.C., Edwin James, Esq., Q C., W. M. James, Esq., H. J. Heating, Esq., M.P., Q.C., C. J. Knowles, Esq., Q.C., J. H. Roe, Esq., R. Macaulay, Esq., R. Melina, Esq., M.P., Q.C., J. Mellor, Esq., M.P., Q C., R. Publey, Esq., Q.C., M. Pren dergast, Esq., Q.C., J. Molt, Esq., Q C.. W. C. Rowe, Esq., Q.C., J. Russell. Esq., Q.O . F. W. Slade, Esq., Q.C., C. T. Swanston, Esq., J. T. Teed, Esq., Q.C., C. Temple, Esq., Q.C., S. Warren, Esq., Q.C., W. H. Watson, Esq., Q.C., J. Walker. Esq., Q.C., C. H. Whitehurst, Esq., Q.C., F. Whitmarsh, Esq., Q C., J. W. Willem*, Esq., Q.C., T. Phinn, Esq., M.P.. J. Wilde, Esq., W. N. Weisby, Esq., W. H. Bodkin. Esq., W. Clarkson, Esq., T. H. Terrell, Esq., J. S. Willes, Esq., J. Wickens. Esq., F. J. Hamel, Esq., J. Timms, Esq., J. Gardiner, Esq., T. Clarke, Esq., W. H. Watson, Esq., H. T. Holland, Esq., J. Butt, Esq., J. D. Fitzgerald, E.q., &e. Her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of Gentlemen-at-Arms bad a full-dress dinner, in celebration of the birth-day, at their mess-room, in St. James's Palace, yesterday. The Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Comhermere, and a great number of general officers and distinguished foreigners, inspected the squadron of the 2n.1 Life Guards, and detachments of each regiment of the Foot Guards_ doing duty in Landon, on the Parade, in St. James's-park, yeste•dly morning, in honour of her Majesty's birthday. The Commander-in- Chief and his Royal Highness were received by the troops under the command of Colonel Arthur Upton, of the Cold stream Guards. Viscount Hardinge passed down the line, when the usual duty of trooping and passing in review pro ceeded. The hands and ..rums of the Foot Guards, num bering about Vid men, pinved together, under the direc tion of Mr. Godfrey, of the Coldstreams. In the evening the usual illuminations took place at the theatres and clubs, and at many of the leading establish ments of retail trade. Amongst the latter mere conspicuous —Regent-street Messrs. Futrote and Co . goldsmiths and importers, a brilliant star of gas jets, with V. R. R. Aikermann, printaeller, a large Mar and V. R. in brilliant Fla., with n magnificent royal standard. Messrs. Jay and Co., purveyors of mourning by appoint ment to hrr Majeity. a brilltant display of gas jets running along the whole front of their warehoua. s, a wreath en twining the lower mart of fac ule above the balcony, et each end two stars, a V. IL in the centre, and the whole sur mounted by a crown. St. James's Theatre, a large star in jets of gm, and the initials V. It. Mitchtll's Rotel Library, Old Bond-street, a lards Brunswick star, in the centre the letter V, surmounted by the matt°, "tied bless the Queen," all in Wadi tted jets of gas. St. Gc Drama he7Maii and V.l' street, royal In . Mess! V. it. Icon Ii Ilatton in gas. Mess: o yal iU Tho fiTti C e ll r t e r , E Smith, Mount eon, tin Almiro threw I Not I f 0 line were it lat. f Yee fourtee ration,' lobate, and al loungii ennuis solved silence The lowing 1. 11 that de Cork, I said cit mitted others. 2. It used to ing the 3. T the pol journe( and tit( 4. TI of the provid: no sufl rnittee the pre 5. TI Fagan, sent p: The mittee the 16 seem at kip ehurel the or, mash wood mist