The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

LOMBARDY. The Milan Ginette, of the 31st ult., publishes a notification from the military commandant of Lom bardy, which. after announcing that the proclama tion of March Itt, Is-19, establishing the state of siege, is again in vigour since the late proclamation of Marshal Itadetzky, fixes a period of eight days for the deli% cry of anns and ammunition to the compe tent military authorities, after which time any, person having such articles in his possession, with out a special license, will be treated with all the rigour of military law. THE STATE TRIALS AT NAPLES. The great tragedy at Naples is not yet over, the curtain dropped but for a short time, and we are to licitness a new trial by those judges whom the pam phlets of Mr. Gladstone introduced to us, and on vic tims not has illustrious than Baron Poerio. We learn by the latest intelligence from Naples that the late minister of commerce and agriculture, Antonio Scialoja, is to be tried, or rather, that he is to be sentenced to the galleys. Perhaps the voice of the press may reach the shores of the Bay of Naples be fore the sentence is passed, perhaps the indignation of the civilised world may arouse in the bosom of the King of Naples if not the feeling of justice, at least the feeling of, shame; perhaps those lines may serve in some way to soothe the fate of the unfortunate man on whose behalf I address myself to the good feelings of your readers. I met Mr. Scialoja, a born Neapolitan, at Turin, where he was professor of political economy. lie made himself generally beloved by the gentleness of his temper, and by the moderation of his views. He was a free-trader and a constitutionalist, and as such the greatest enemy of violent revolutions. His ."rrattato Elementare di Economia l'olitica" contains the substance of his lectures, and is a proof', of the practical turn of his mind. His position in Turin was a pleasant one in every respect, when the revolution in ISIS broke out; but mindful of his native country, he returned to Naples in March,' ItSitt, though with the intention not to fix himself on so treacherous a soil. After his arrival there he had an interview with the King, who by the ad vice of his ministry had appointed Seialoja to a high judicial office. A few days later, on the ith of April, he was named Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. An enemy of anarchy not less than of despotism, at a moment when both these extremes were to be dreaded, he did all he could to unite the different parties in one great interest, loftier than all the others—viz.. the national interest for the independ ence of Italy. But the dynastic intrigues, the reli gious apprehensions, and the disturbances excited by the agents of the enemy, destroyed this noble enter prise, so little appreciated by the foreign press. The deplorable events of the ritli of May, 18-IS, in Naples severely tried ScialVs hopes . lie saw that the reactionary party would avail itself of the un- successful atteiniu of a few hundred madmen, who evidently were under foreign influence, and • he withdrew front office. Unwilling to use other arms than those of words and of persuasion, he resorted to both, writing for the press, and lecturing on political economy to re fute the doctrines of socialism. The government stopped these lectures. But Scialoja was member of the parliament ; he had therefore the tribune, and he denounced from it all those seeds of corruption and of absolutism which soon were to grow and bring such bitter fruits in his unfortunate country. Now who could believe that sixteen months after he left office he was imprisoned in September, 1849, under the pretence that he had been implicated in the disturbances of the 15th of May. Whoever is familiar a ith the pi iodides of Scialoja sees in this arrest a proof of the violence of the reactionary party, and no one knows to what an extent of cruelty the infuriated tyranny of the King of Naples may be carried. A man like Scialoja, who anxiously longed for the peaceful development of freedom, and who loved na tional independence even more titan freedom itself, how could he be a party to the 15th of May—to this first Now against liberty . and indepen dence? How could he participate in this mad attempt, which served but despotism, and blighted every hope of progress? But it is enough to say, that he has now been nearly two years in prison, and that the Neapolitan judges were not able to find false witnesses against him. He often. but in vain, implored the judges to try him, that he might thus have the opportunity of defending himself. Now, after a preliminary impri sonment of twenty two months, he will be dragged before the court, not to be judged but to be condemned. For in countries where justice is not admi nistered by jury, and where the judges can be dismiss'ed from office at the plea sure of the King, a judge is nothing more than a commissioner, a mercenary, a bravo, who, in stead oldie stiletto, destroys you by the false inter pretation or application of a law in order to please his master. But Scialoja was minister at the time when the constitution was in full vigour, and was acknow ledged by the K ing himself. The minister should there fore base been tried by the House of Peers when im peached by the Commons. Instead of this he will be tried by a corrupted court, by a star chamber. But it is yet more strange that those few hundred men who fought on the 13th of May in the streets of Naples, and who were taken prisoners, aims in hand, have all been distuissed without any punishment, without any law suit. Absolutism seems in fact desirous to prove grateful to those very men for the mad enterprise which was excited by foreign enemies to whom they served as tools. Scialoja's future is yet more sinister than the present ; for foreign countries maintain the principal non-intervention whenever consti tutions are crushed by absolutism, and libe rals are sent to prison ; while, in the interest of despotism, even republican France is ready to in terfere. The Neapolitan government is tlerefore sure that it has nothing to fear by trampling over every right of humanity. They think that a man-of war and two frigates, some ten thousand of bayonets, and some hundred jailers, are sufficient for carrying back the nineteenth century to the standard of the middle age. There arc many of the unfortunate prisoners at Naples who look to the next crisis in France for an alteration of their fate, but their hopes deceive them. Such is the state of poor Scialoja, the scholar and patriot, the friend of Bastiat and Say, of Wolowski, and of our Richard Cobden ; he has no other wish than to be banished for ever front his native country, and to return to his adopted country, Piedmont, there to continue his researches on political economy. But his friends are unable to rescue hint, and, Uhl, is to share the fate of poor l'ocrio, he will yet regret his present prison of Santa Maria Apparentc, which now scents unbear able to him. Unable to touch the heart of the King of Naples, we can do nothing for Scialoja than to mourn over his fate.—A FRIE—ND OF SCIALOJA GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN FlNz.BrltT.—Last night, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Messrs. James, I Wild, and Co., the extensive uplauleterers, cabinet makers, and feather merchants, situate in Worship-street and the Curtain-road, ehoreditch. The property in question was of vast extent, and formed six houses in the last-named thoroughfare, whilst another turned the angle into Worship -street, and the whole stretched backwards be tween 200 and 300 feet into Glllard's-lields. The engines of the London Brigade, West of England Company, and parish, attended with all poceinle expedition, when the fire men found the dames ascending some dozen feet above the surrounding houses. They, therefore, directed the water from the different engines in such directions as to cut off the further spread of the fearful clement. During that time a number of persona were engaged in removing the furniture, &c., from the show-rooms on the ground floor. Although the principal stock in those depots was removed it was much broken. During the pro gress of the conflagration a wagre.n filled with beds or mattresses was drawn out from the gateway, but the con tents were blazing away moat furiously, and it was not until a great part of the freight was destroyed that the tire could be extinguished. The firemen laboured without the least intermission until past midnight, when they succeeded in getting the mastery to some extent over the fire, but it was then far from being extinguished, although no danger ex• lied of any further extensiou. The damage done, the fore mail of the premises informed our reporter, would amount to some thousands of pounds, to say nothing of the injury to the premises. The whole of the extensive premises at the rear are gutted, and the eutirc length of buildings in front as far as the ground-flours arc burned out. How the fire originated is a mystery. The men had left etf work, and the premiers had not been closed more than 20 minutes, when the unwelcome discovery was made. It is to be regretted that the firm was only partially insured. GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.— Trate for the week ending Aug. 2 : 4,6861. 9s. bd. ; aaerespanding week iu last year, 3,6161. Ile.lod. gbe Court. OSBORNE, TVZSDAY, Acores 6. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the younger breathes of the royal family took their usual w.dka sad drives in the neighbourhood of Osborne yesterday. M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Lord Cowley arrived on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and Prince Albert. -- The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, yesterday morn ing, (ruin Frogmore. Lord James Murray had the honour of dining with her royal highness yesterday. Her royal highness, attended by Lady Au gus t a Bruce and Lord James Murray, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence last evening. Messrs. William Henry Coffin and John Walker, M.D., from Honduras, accompanied by Mr. John Hodge, agent for the settlement, had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Colonial-office. Captain Hindmarsh had also an interview with the noble earl. (From lost olobt's G.nefle.) LORD GREAT CH AMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ACGCST 4. —All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being pre sent on the occasion of the prorogation of Parliament, will have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if the announcement be made, at this Office, before five o'clock on Thursday, the ith instant. Peers eldest sons will have tickets fur the Peers' eldest sons' box forwarded to them upon a written or personal application at the Office. No strangers can be admitted except by a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain's Office. The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock.—WlLLol7olll4lf or. EIIESIIY, G.C. CROWN -OFFICE, Allit7sT 4.—Member returned to serve in this present Parliament for the City of Limerick : Henry Granville Fitralan Howard, commonly called Earl of Aruadel and Surrey, in the room of John O'Connell, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Ma jesty's Chiltern Hundreds. lIEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar t•eneral's R.pnrt.) The mortality exhibits a continued tendency to increase; the deaths iu London, which in the three preced ing weeks of July were successively 881, 873, 956, rose in the last week to 1,010. The average number of deaths in the ten corresponding weeks of 1841-50 was 1028, and witk the same rate of mortality amongst a population equal to the present number of inhabitants it would have been 1,131; but excluding 1819 from the account, in the corres ponding week of which year cholera had raised the morta lity from all CaIIICS to nearly 2,000, the number of deaths registered last week dues not differ materially from the average thus obtained awl corrected fur increase of popu lation. While the persons who sunk under diseases of the respi ratory omens were K-1, almost exactly the same number as in the preceding week which showed a decided reduction, and while phtl kiS ~, one of the tubercular class, has fallen to 122, the complaints classed as epidemic" continue to increase rapidly. lipidvmiei were fatal in the two previous weeks in 20:1 and 242 eases respectively, and in last week the number rose to 334. This increase arises from diarrhcra, the growing preva lence of which, concurrently with the approach of autumn, is shown by the nutnbers tit the Ladd weeks, six., 23, 53, (11, b 3, and (in week ending last Saturday) 143. The number now returned does not exceed the usual weekly amount at thi► period during the last live year. ; but it would appear from a review of the last decennial period that the fatality of this disease among children has of late years increased to an enormous extent. It will be seen that the Registrars specify local nuisances in connexion with the appearance of diarrhira in particular instances. A child died of it, LA reported in the last return, in a house in Payne-street, Islington; another has since been regutered, and now the fattier and a third child are suffering. The swell of a drain, which the Registrar de scribes as "overpowering," is considered the exciting cause. Twelve fatal cases of cholera were registered in the pre vious week, and the same number appear in the present ; the following are the particulars :—ln l'addington, St. John, at 3, Market-street, on 29th July, the daughter of a servant, aged 2 months, died of " English cholera (40 hours.)" In the same sub-district at 18, Cambridge-place, on 30th July, the daughttr of a servant, aged 1 year, "cholera infantum (4 days)," past snort. In Chelsea, north-west sub-district, in "The Vale," on 28th July, the /KM of a gentleman, aged 5 months, " cholera infantum." In the sub-district of Charing-cross, in the workhouse, on 28th July, the widow of a brewer, aged 44 years, "cholera (3 days)." Mr. Leonard states that "this ease wes brought from No. 16, Beilfordbury. Sine, the sani tary inspection in the spring of 1849, the cesspool has been removed, and a trapped pan supplied with water upon a drain has been substituted. The supply of water is good in quantity, but bad in quality, and the butt is uncovered, while the dust bin, which contains decompos ing vegetable matters, is also uncovered. The rooms, though small, are clean. The patient, who was formerly a flume in Buy's, St. Thomas, and Charing-cross hospital.. was of regular habits. lharrlicea continues prevalent." In sub-district of Berwiek-street, at 7, Rupert-street, on 26th July, the keeper of an eating-house, aged 42 years, "English cholera (3 dsr), delirium cum tremore (2 days), apoplexy." In Itegent s-park sub-district, at 89, Albany street, on 28th July, an engraver, aged 49 years, " cholera, exhaustion (8 day , )." In Tottenham-court sub-district, at 17, Fiteroy-marbet, on 21th July, the daughter of a brick layer, aged 2 years, " English cholera (7 days), chronic bronchitis (4 months)" In Clerkenwell, at 3, Suffolk street, on 28th July, the son of a tailor, aged 1 year, " English cholera, exhaustion." At 8, Rose-alley, Bishops gate, un 29th July, the son of a labourer, aged 11 months, "choleraic diarrhcea (3 days) " Mr. Spencer describes this as " a close and crowded neighbourhood; the parents of the deceased are Irish, and with his wife and four children, and his sister (a widow) with two children, making altoge ther nine persons, occupy a single apartment." In rub district of Hackney-raid, in Birdcage-walk, on 30th July, the son of a iiCer Sell victualler, aged 3 months, " cholera infantum (4 days)." In town sub-district of Bethnal-green, at 11, Princes-court, on 28th July, the daughter of a trim ming manufacturer, aged 5 weeks, "infantile cholera (12 earl)." In Spitallields, at 63, Wentworth-street, on 28th July, the daughter of a labourer, aged 2 months, "infantile cholera (1 days), cerebral congestion (24 hours)." The number of deaths from cholera near returned is not greater than is usual in a week at the end of July in ordinary years; and it appears from the above list that, with the ex ception of three eases which occurred to persons between 40 and 50 years, the sufferers were children of very tender age. The births of 773 boys and 678 girls, in all 1,451 children, were registered last week. The average number in six cor responding weeks of 1845-50 was 1,312. At the 'Loyal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 795 in. Thu mean temperature was 63 . 4 deg., which is 2 degrees above the average of the same week in ten years. The highest tem perature occurred on Friday and Saturday, when the means were 68-3 deg. and 661 deg. respectively, being from 5 to 7 degrees above the averages of the same days. The wind blew foe the most part from the south-west, but was gene rally calm. THE LATE FATAL APFEAY IN SHOE-LANE—Last evening a public meeting was held at the Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-place, Little Saffron-hill, " to consider what steps were necessary legally to effect Mr. Long's release from prison," that individual being one of the witnesses in a recent police case, which was charac terised in the bills convening the meeting, as a " brutal police outrage in the City." Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P., was announced to take the chair, but his lordship havinz sent an excuse for his nun-attendance, Mr. t,. ' A Browne was called upon to preside, and in opening the pro ceedings, he observed that at a meeting recently held on Clerkenwell-green, it was agreed that a memorial should be seat to Sir George Grey, requesting him to offer a reward for the apprehension of the policeman who it was stated was guilty of the " murder of William Hogan (in a disturbance which took place a short time ago in Shoe-lane.) The reply of the Home Secretary was to the effect that he (Sir George Grey) had received the me morial in reference to the death of William Mogan, and that he had forwarded it to the Lord Mayor, together with the letter accompanying it. This communication, it was contended, left the memorialists in the same position which they held before they addressed the Home Secretary ; and the chairman now urged that it was the duty of all true friends of freedom to make every effort to promote the ends of justice in this important matter. Several persons after wards addressed the meeting in language strongly condem natory of the conduct of the police, and suggesting the necessity of further agitating the question in order to effect the release of Mr. Long, who, it was said, had been impri soned for the purpose of preventing him from giving his evidence against the policeman alleged to have caused the death dB illiarn Hogan. A resolution was passed con demning the course adopted by the police authorities in not causing an investigation to be made in order to identify the policemen. Other resolutions of a similar tendency were also carried, and it was agreed that the cause of the de ceased Hogan was the cause of every lover of justice and humanity, and ought to be taken up by the public, more especially by working men, who were bound to protect their own lives and property. In the various speeches which were delivered, the rights of the labouring classes were strongly advocated, seal it was ultimately proposed that public meetings should be held upon the subject in a central part of the city of London. A collection was made at the doors to pay the expenses of the movement. ABELST 01 ABSCONDING DEBTORS. Yesterday the new act for the arrest of absconding debtors, which re ceived the royal assent on Friday, was printed. It contains 12 sections and two schedules. By virtue of this law, which is now in force, the district commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy and the judges of the county courts, except in Middlesex and Surrey, are empowered, on application by or on behalf of any creditor, to grant arrant for the arrest of absconding debtors. A eapias is to issue, and the warrant of apprehension to he auxiliary to such writ of mph's. Persons so arrested may be discharged on payment of the debt and the (kilobit of 10f. for costs. When a per soh is arrested on a warrant, the effect of such warrant is to mese ea detention by the writ of capias. Any person for wham arrest a warrant shall have been granted, "either before or after the arrest," may apply to a commissioner of bankruptcy, judge of a county court, or judge of one of the superior courts, for their protection from such warrant, and the matter is to be heard and order made. There is a form of the warrant given in a schedule annexed to the act, and a notice of warning to a defendant of a eapias to be served on him after the warrant. In another schedule a table of fees is given, the highest of which is • fee of one guinea for the caption of the warrant. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1851. ARCILEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. BRISTOL, Aro. . The chapter -room of th e B r i s t o l Cathe dral, 4 in which the meetings of the architectural section were held, is not only of great antiquity, but is remarkable for the beauty of its walls and ceiling, which afford unusually tine specimens of the Salon style of architecture. It was not unnatural that this erection should excite the admiration of the members of the Institute, and accordingly Mr. Pope, the city architect, undertook to state to the section what little he knew about it. Mr. rope explained the different condition which the i building now presented from that which it wore when he first became acquainted with it eighteen or twenty years ago. When first he UM the room, • number of old Dutch sashes were standing in various parts of it ; the niches iu the centre part of the lower story did not exist ; the floor, which war of deal boarding, stood considerably above the present surface; and the doorway was much mu tilated. The first thing done, in restoring the room, wrie to remove the wooden floor ; and, in doing so, a number of leaden coffins were found, containing skeletons in a tine unite of preservation; one of the heath!, a remarkable line one, was taken away by a phrenologist fur examinution. The three windows by which the room is at present lit were then put in, and the whole surface of the walls were cleared of the hard whitewash with which they were incrusted. The room was gradually restored to the state in which it now was; but great difficulty was at first experienced in preserving it from being plastered again with whitewash, and it was only by the assistance of the ltev. Canon Harvey that such a desecration was prevented. There was no in scription seer on the coffin, to which he had alluded, nor was anything ascertained by which • probable supposition could he Memel as to whose bodies they enclosed; they were of plain lead, and very thick. Mr. Pope also men tioned that many years ago he discovered some plinths and bases of an old Norman nave, which, on the south side, ran within the walls of the present cathedral ; and though no excavation had been made on the north side, yet there was no doubt it was co-extensive in that direction. It did not, however, run very high, the latter, or Gothic structure being erected over it. An interesting paper was read by Mr. Bindon, "on the desecrated churches and chapels of Bristol." The author commeaced by observing, that although Bristol at the pre sent time contained a large number of churches, there hail been, in ancient times, eighteen, of which tew, if any traces existed. He then procetelnl to give the following account of the state of Bristol at an early period of its history :—Bristol, in its early form, is similar in place to the majority of the early tonne It will be perceived that Corn-street, Broad street, Wine and High streets formed a cross; the smaller streets or lanes followed the curvation of the wall. In the centre of the principal streets stood the high cross, and at the corners of the streets formed at their into rsection stood churches All-Saints or All Hal lows, Christ, or Trinity, St. Ewen, and St. Andrews. At the other extremities of the four principal streets were the four principal gates:—St. John and St. Lawrence, north; St. Nicholas, south; Defence-gate, cast; and St. Leonard's, west: attached to thole gates were churches. The only churches, except those before-mentioned, were St. Mary-le. l'urt, St. Werburgh's (probably St. p'eter's), within the wall. 'the other churches were without the walls. The early history of Bristol I pass over, excepting to remark that it is closely connected which the Berkeley's and their castle, hardly any edifice in the city or surrounding parishes but what are in ROM; way or other associated. At the dissolu tion of the abbey need if not all the records of the abbey were carried to Berkeley, and were deposited in the Chapel of our Lathe, in the eastern tower of the keep. Mr. Sayer says he acknowledges with thankfulness and pleasure the kindnessof Colonel Berkeley (Earl litthardinge), in allow ing him access to examine every paper relating to Bristol. 'the several document*, which are most valuable, were arranged, in 1628, by a Fellow of Magdalen, John Smythe. The principal historians of Bristol are—Turgot (a Bristol man), l'rior of Durham ; he wrote in 1088. His history is dune from Saxon, by Itowlie, who wrote in 1469 ; William Buttoner, 1431 ; Ricaut, Town clerk, 1470; Leland, 1534 ; William Barrett, surgeon. F.S.A., 1789 ; Rev. Samuel &Ice, M.A. ' Corpus Chribti Oxford, 18'21; Bev. S. Danie -1 Ivey, 1831; Mr. Evans; John Corry, 1810; and several others. Bristol abounds with numbers of M.S., Wenders or chronicles relating to its early history. The paper then proceeded to give such information as aus writer bad been able to collect of the churches of St. Andrew, St. Andes, Owen or E wens, Holy Trinity or Christ Church, St. Nicholas, St. Leonard, St. Gile-, St. Lawrence, St. Werburgli, St. Michael, St. Thomas.the-Martyr, St. Andrew's, L'iirton, Chapel of the Virgin, Chapel of St. Clement, of the Three Kings of Cologne, of the Holy Ghost, St. Mathias, St. Sprites, Ice. BILISTOL, AUCSIAT 5. The sectional meetings were held this morning at the Theatre of the Philosophical Institution, the Lord Talbot de Malaltide presiding. Mr. Yates submitted to the section a series of resolutions empowering the central committee to use such efforts as they might deem advisable for the purpose of procuring a IT rant of a portion of the Crystal Palace, and a modicum of its surplus funds to be applied to the formation of an ex tensive and classified collection of casts of sculpture,brunzes, cameo.., &e. Mr. Yates said such a collection might with proper exertions be finned, and it would doubtless prove highly attractive and of great advantage to the cone mutiny. The members of the institute must be aware that Mr. Heywood, one of its body, brought forward in the House of Commons a proposition that the Crystal Palace should not be pulled down until the lst of May, so as to afford time to collect the opinions of the nation upon the question of to what purpose the building should be devoted. That motion was carried by a large majority, and all the speakers, including the ministers of the crown, expressed a desire that the public should express its views on the subject. They were invited, therefore, to give utterance to their opinions, and they would not, be thought, prove faithful to arehmology if they failed to take the necessary steps for impressing on the proper authorities the desirableness of the object which he had now brought forward. Persons studying anything haying relation to the classical antiquities found themselves at a great loss in this country for want of illustrations and objects on which they could rely. If they went to the artists and dealers in Drury-lane and other parts of the metropolis they not only entailed on themselves great labour hut they very often failed in the a•tainment of the object they sought. Supposing that they had re sort to any of the existing societies, they found very little assistance. There was au institution in Pall-mall, but it only had two casts. At the Royal Academy there was a considerable number ; but they had been collected fifty years ago ur more, had been moved about from place to place fur the uses of the students, and were in a very dirty state. The student would stand very little better chance if he went to the institutions of design ; indeed, although much had been done during the last twenty years, England still remained totally destitute of anything like a good col lection. If they went to the schools of design at Norwich, Gla.gow, Sheffield, &c., they would find themselves in pretty much the same company. They might get the - Apollo Belvidere, the Venus .le Medici, and other known casts, multiplied and in each collection, but they would meet with no variety. The Bristol institution contained the best collection he had met with, but the casts were nevertheless of the commonest kind. They might search through all the minor collections of this country and they would not find more than twenty or thirty casts which were multiplied again and again; whereas, it they were to form such a collection as be contemplated they would have 200 or 300 at the least, casts of the best objects. There were three descriptions or classes of casts of which he wished the nation to possess a collection. Ist. Those statues which were remarkable for force, expression, grace, or beauty. 2nd. Those objects which by the adjuncts, sym- , holm, and characters connected with them, threw a light on history, and which were known as antiquities. 3rd, Those objects which were interesting and valuable, as showing tee history of art, its progress at various periods and in various countries so as to enable the admirers of art to sec what advances hid been made since say some 700 or 803 years before Christ. The formation of such a collec tion as lie continplated could only be obtained in such a building as the Crystal Palace. Ile did nut my that he should require the whole of that vast edifice—indeed, a tenth of it would be amply sufficient. In foreign countries good collections were formed, and at Naples, Florence, Berlin, and other continental towns were groups of great beauty, which could only be properly represented by plaster casts, and of which it was desirable to have casts in this country. Nr. Tucker said he had great pleasure in seconding the resolution, as he believed that the formation of such • col lection of casts as was referred to would tend to create a taste for the fine arts, which was not so extensive among the people of England as could be desired. The Lord de Malahide said he thought that the institute was under great obligations to Mr. Yates for the proposition he had now brought forward, as certainly the formation of such a collection of casts would, in a national point of view, be of vast importance. The resolutions were adopted, and a paper was read by Mr. W. Tyson, F.S.A., reganling the celebrated ship, "the St. Nicholas of the Tower," the crew of which captured the Duke of Suffolk, when on his way to France in the reign of Henry VI., and put him to death. The object of the paper was to prove that this vessel was not, as is commonly assumed by historians, the property of the constable of the Tower of London, but that she belonged to John Burton, of Bristol, who bad a ship-building yard near one of the towers on the old city wall, and that the vessel took her name from that circumstance. SOUTHAMPTON PAVING TRUST.—Yesterday the annual dinner and hall to commemorate th e return of the commissioners of the SouthanspronFa;rngirust,toW place at Highbury Barn Tavern, Islington; Mr. W. Dyke in the chair. About 200 gentlemen at down to dinner. The usual touts having been drunk, the company ad journed to the ball room, where dancing was kept up with great spirit till a lute hour. - - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.—Yesterday a meeting. of the council of L'niversity College was held for the putpme of considering what change in the regulations of the college were requisite to meet cases of insubordination on the part of students, such as occurred some few months ago at the college. It was enacted that in future, on any occasion, any professor, lecturer, or teacher, may report any student in his class-room guilty of disorderly sets ; and, should be deem the case urgent, may require the student to withdraw from the elms-room. That the secretary shall have charge at a'l times of all parts of the college, and authority to maintain order then.in. That the dean be authorised to pass sentence, comprehending either admonition from the dean, reprimand from the dean in private, or in presence of the faculty, suspension from attendance, which would dis qualify the student from receiving his certificate; exclusion from any place of instruction ; rustication from the college, and expulsion. IRELAND. DUBLIN, AUGUST 5. The Clare Journal of yesterday has the following gloomy kitelligenee about the potato crop : We regret t 4 rind that there is no longer any doubt of the appearance again this year of the fatal blight in the potatocros. Along the western coast in this county it is painfully risible to u great extent in the stalks, and in several cases alsothe tuber has become affected. ,We trust, how ever, thetas it has appeared this year later in the season than formerly, it will not be attended with such injurious conse quences. That there will be • partial failure is unfortu nately toe evident ; but we hope that, through the forbear ance of a merciful Providence, it will be of a very slight character. The thrk Examiner, of the same date, refers to the subject in a much more cheering tone, and, I I have no doubt, describes what the prospects of the crops redly arc throughout the country generally. The Cork paper says: We have at this moment accounts before us from nearly the whole of Munster—from Kerry, Waterford, Tipperary, Limerick, and all parts of Cork—respecting this crop ; and the conclssion to which we come is this—that though there are in sone localities traces of apparent disease the crop ge nerally is safe. We could give a variety of particulars, but they would come in the end to the same conclusion. There will be no doubt isolated instances of partial disease, but as a whole we feel satisfied that there will be an abun dant yield of as fine tubers as ever were dug. Complaints arc heard of some extensive failures of wheat, but this crop has ceased to be of the same paramount importance in Ireland that it formerly was. Since the heavy rains ceased about a week ego, the weather has continued overcast, and by no means favourable to the ripening of the harvest. The Hon. C. S. Hardinge, eldest son of Viscount Hardinge, is the only candidate spoken of for the seat vacated at Downpatrick by 3lr. It. Kerr. He is a conservative, and will probably be returned without any opposition. Upwards of two hundred and fifty persons arrived by the Chester and Holyhead boat, on an excursion trip last night; the boat arrived somewhat later than usual. At the dinner given by the Galway Club to the directors of the Midland Great Western Railway, and other guests, last week, Chief Justice Black burn, in returning thanks on behalf of bituself and the lion. Judge Jackson, observed, '• that by the construction of the Railway to Galway, an iron road had been made as fur west as the land went, constituting Galway the gate to America; and see ing the quit evinced in the execution of this great design, he looked forward confidently to the next step being promptly taken, by bridging the Atlantic with a fleet of steamers that would accomplish the transit in the shortest possible period, and bring the old and new worlds into the closest proximity that could be." The Lord Chancellor, on tho recommendation of Lord Stuart de Decie4, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford, has appointed Edward Moore Mulcahy, jun., Esq., of Ballyeallane, a magistr.tto for that county. Tat: CitURCR.—The Earl of Charleville has been pleas d to appoint the Rev. Edward F. Derry, A.D., rector of Tullamore, and the Rev. John Leever, A.M., Vicar of Ardnurchcr and Kilcunireauh, to be domestic chaplains to his lordship. The Lord of Down and Connor has presented the Rey. 1). C. Courtney, Vicar of Magheragal, to the living of °known. ECCLESIASTICAL TrnEa.—A little birds has whis pered to us that Dr. M'llaie has caused his title to be changed in the books of the National 13 ink of Tuam from that of Archbishop to the Most Rev. Dr. M'llale.—Con naieilat Watchnuut. IRISH ASSIZES. TIPPERARY ASSIZES (Noirric RIDING). RECOUD COUIT.—NENAGII, FRIDAY, AUG. I. WILLIAM DLINSWOICTII V. MICHAEL FITZGERALD. This was an action brought b y the endorsee of three promissory- notes fur the sum of 7.1/. Messrs. Lynch, Q.C., and Stephens, were counsel for the plaintiff; and Messrs. Manley, Q.C., and Meagher, fur the defendant. The facts of this case were rather peculiar. The plaintiff was a nephew of the Rev. Daniel Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic clergyman, living in the county Limerick, and the maker of the promissory notes. The defendant was an archdeacon of the same church, and had been parish priest of Bullingarry. The payee of the notes was of a very ad vanced age, nearly 90, and lodged in Limerick, in the house of a Mr. Oliceffe ; but previously he had for a considerable time been residing with the plaintiff During his last illness this nephew was sent for a person named Dillon, who was in the confidence of Mr. O'Sullivan, and who had been recom mended by him to a situation in the ducks, who swore that on the 13th of July, 18.50, he was sent for, and the plaintiff and nursetender were in the room with the priest when he was -ailed in. The old gentleman, who was in bed, according to his evidence, pulled out a bunch of keys from under his pillow, and desired his nephew to open a drawer, in which he would find seven promissory notes. They were found where he described, and Mr. O'Sullivan then intimated that he intended to make them a present to the plaintiff. The latter then endorsed them in the name of his uncle, and after doing so, dated theta, and the deceased put his hand to the pen, and put his cross to, the documents. This evidence of Dillon was corroborated by the nursetender. For the defence it was alleged that the indorsements were fraudulent, and that they were written long after the 18th of July, and at a time that the payee was in such a state of mind as to be incapable of managing his affairs; that the defendant iid not deny he owed the money, but that he ought not to pay over the amount except under a will of ' the deceased to which he was exteutor. Mr. John O'Grady deposed to having been called upon by the plaintiff to be a second witness to the endorsement, and that on going into the room Mr. O'Sullivan seemed un willMg to put his mark to the notes ; got angry and called his nephew a liar, and said his saying it was necessary to put his mark to them was ouly.a trick. The witness looked at some of the seven notes, and they had not the name of Dillon as a witness on them; this was some time subsequent to the 18th of July. On cross-examination he said that Mr. Dunsworth wished him as a respectable man to witness the notes. Did not see them all on that occasion. Had always heard the clergyman speak very kindly of his nephew. The next witness was Mr. °lien'', who stated that a few dale before the death of the clergyman, which was in the middle of August, the plaintiff said he had then received the notes from him. This was lung after the 18th of July. The conversation was a casual one. The deceased resided in his house, and on several occasions sent for his nephew, the plaintiff. Archdeacon Fitzgerald used to come there some times. Dr. Carey, who on the 19th of July acquainted the bank that a cheque with the mark of the deceased was a proper one to be paid, stated that on the 21st of July the Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan, whom he attended, became in a comatose state, and was unable to manage his affairs. This witness was closely cross-examined, and stated that a few days ago he wrote part of a letter to have been sent to the defendant's attorney, requesting him to put an end to litigation by settling the case. Mr. Stephens spoke to evidence. Baron Pennefather charged the jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 751. damages and interest, and 6d. coots. These assizes were the lightest known in the memory of man in the county of Tipperary. At the ruling of the books there were but 2 prisoners sentenced to transportation, and there was no capital conviction. KERRY ASSIZES. CHARGE or MURDER.—DREADFUL CASE OF CRUELTY. Michael Donohoe, and Julia Donohoe, man and wife, the former about 40, and the latter 30 years of age, were placed at the bar, and indicted for the wilful murder of Denis Shee, near Cahirciveen, in this county, upon the 13th of April last, by beating him, and otherwise ill-treating him. There were four counts in the indictment, which varied the terms of the charge in some degrees. The crown counsel (assisted by Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Q.C.) conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Olles., who was assigned by the court, defended the prisoners. A man named Casey, and several other witnesses, were produced on behalf of he crown; and, according to their evidence, a case of more barbarous cruelty never came before a court of justice. It appeared that the deceased was the nephew of the female prisoner, was not more than ten or twelve years of age, and that he lost his life by the ill treatment be received f rom h er an d h er husband, not only from the severe beatings thus inflicted on him im mediately before death, but front having turned him out at night, and exposed hint to cold and hunger. The occurrence took place near Cahirciveen, in this county, and under the following circumstances. The receiver of the estate, an agent of the landlord, the Marquis of Lansdowne, posted a notice to the effect that persons who admitted paupers or strangers to lodge in their cabins would be dis possessed ; and the result was, that the several tenants on the lands were afraid to allow any one to retain in their houses who came under either of those classes. Casey, the owner of the cabin where this occurrence took place, bad the prisoners lodging with him, and the deceased had been there a few days; but the prisoners, lest they should be put out themselves, determined upon putting him out, and, in doing so, resorted to the violent measures which ultimately ended in his death. The deceased, who was in a most emaciated and delicate state of health—in fact, almost a living skeleton—was first beaten by the female prisoner with a p itchfork handle, and put out, and afterwards the male p risoner beat him with a long stick. They then tied his hands behind his back, and threw hint outside the door at 11 o'clock at night, where he was found dead in the morning. The medical evidence showed that the poor boy was in a most wretched state of starvation, and that he was covered over from head to foot with severe bruises from the beating . he had received. The jury convicted the prisoners of manslaughter. LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY.—At a public meeting of proprietors in this company, which took place yesterday at the offices in Fleet street, Mr. Crowder, Q.C„ was elected a director in licu of Sir Francis Simpkinson, Q.C., deceased. CLERICAL. VIMPEIMENTR. Rev. R. Allen, to KenewortTiVicarage, Herta ; value, 1801. and residence; patrons, Dean and Chapter of St. Rev. (1. E. Faulkner, to Li.ton Cutaey, Eisez, and to the Chaplaincy of Sudbury Union, Suffolk. VACANT. Oxford—St. CVIRS Perpetual Curacy, Ifulyarell ; value, 801. ; patrons, Merton College, Oxford ; Rev. C. E. Prichard, resigned. NAVAL ADYMALTT. AUGUST 5. -API ncr : R. Yealland, to Centaur. Boitawains : J. Stanley, to Centaur ; and H. Collins, to Calypso. Carpenter R. Sargeont, to Centaur. 1 - 110 MOTIONS, AUGUST 5.—J. G. Phillips, to Retired Captain, 1110. lion. M. Stopford, to IVaterloo. Captain Greville, to Trafalgar. Commander H. Stevrart, to Virago. Commander lion. 0. D. Keane, to Gre,ian. Commander C. E. Ilillgax, to Penelope. -Gun SPORTING. RIPON RACES.—MosDAY. Two Yataz OLD SULU. RDCharles ..................... Captain Flesh Paddy EWA »...«..... .. . ......... 3 BILLIXO STAKES. Mary Noble. ____---- -----. 1 Joe Sutherhod Tv lISDAY. GILAXD LITALIES. Captain Flash. Sir Charles Napier BT. WILTED HAXDICILIP. Mr.. Birth Lid L as-of Little It'aint AllATErt STAKES. Prudery Joe Sutherland STOKE-UPON-TRENT RACES.-TuESDAY. IiERCAOTLE STAK Y. Tame Langtry NoitTll STARR. (lIANDICAP) lady Ulb.na Young England 2 Caltulaar HANLEY STAKES. Atari Nell Gwynn TRADESMEN'S PLATA. The hftwe -T_. Aldg.de ..... BRIGHTON RACES. TVEADAY ERWIN°, 7 o'cLoCa.—The fol lowing plates, &c., dosed this evening at 6 o'clock. TRIAL STARES.--MtPaPT, 3 yrs; The squaw, 3 yrs; Cheerful, 5 yrs; Margellina filly, 3 yrs. HOTEL KEEPER. I'LATE.—Gloom, 3 yrs; Tordesillas, 4 yrs; Iraeundus, 3 yn; Guardsman, 3 yrs; Euro., 3 yn; Hurry Scurry, 3 yn; Margellina filly, 3 yrs; Exeter, 3 yrs; Ilippogritf, 3 yn; Preslaw, 4 yr+ ; Abdallab, 4 yn; Handsome Doe, 4 yrs; Timid Fawn, 3 yrs; Ella, 3 yrs; Miirnon, aged ; Catalpa, 3 yrs. SPEW AND.' PLATE.—Ploughboy, 5 yrs; Preslaw, 4 jT , I The Moor, 6 yrs; Iresinc , 2 yn; St. Ann, 6 yr s ; Miss Landon, 2 yn. Tows, PLATE.—The Verdercr, 4 yn (1001.); Cheerful, 5 yrs (IOU); Ella, 3 yn (1061.) ; (Mimi.yrs (1001) ; Aristocrat, 4 yrs (I 00!.) ; Manilla, 3yn 5 100 .5 /4 Locaxsto yn PLATE.-1 imid Fawn, 3 yrs; Ploughboy, 6 yrs; Hurry Scurry, 3 yrs; The Squaw, 3 yrs ; llippogritl, 3 yn ; Preslaw, 4 yrs ; Ftrnande, 4yn ; Forg one, 5 yrs; Eurus. 3 yrs; Iracundu., 3 yrs; Knight of the Thistle, 3 yrs; Mignon, aged; Alicia, 5 yrs; Handsome Doe, 4 yrs; Kakistos, 3 yrs; Forest Flower, aged; Chat terer, 5 yrs; Catalpa, 3 yrs; Kick up the Dirt (late Protec tionist), 3 yn ; St. Ann, 6 yrs; Eva, 5 yrs ; Prestige, 3 yrs; Gloom, 3 yrs; Tordesillas, 4 yrs ; Fallow Derr, 6 yrs. ILAN DICA P for 2 and 3-yr-olds—half-a-mile.—Leybourne, 3yn ; Prestige, 3 yr.; Hampton, 2 yrs; Herschel, 2 yrs; f by Epirus, dam by Emilius, 3 yrs; Julia 3 yn; The Squaw, 3 yrs; Iresinc, 2 yrs; Spark, 2 yrs; Miss Landon, 2 yrs ; Eurus, 3 yr.; c by Venison—Passion, yn ; France, 2 yes; Wedastra filly, 3yn ; Lady Isabel, 2 yrs; Ethelwolf, 2 yrs; Freedom, 2 yr.. Sessns PLATE.—Perjury (late Pandora), 4 yrs (.591.) ; Ella, 3 yrs (801.) ; Duster, 3 yrs (sa) ; Chatterer, 5 yrs OW.); Norton, 3 yrs (50/.) ; Mignon, 7ed (501 ; Manilla, 3yn ( SO/.) ; Hurry Scurry, 3 yrs (501. ;f by Epirus, d by Emilius, 3 yrs (50/.) ; Cusachia, age (501.) ; Aristocrat, 4 yrs (50/.) HANDICAP for the GRAND STAND PLATE.-IAtIdgPITP, 4 yrs, 9st ; Westow, 4 yrs, R 4 MD ; Due and Dhurras, 6 yr., Bst 416 ; Rewil, 5 yrs, Bst 21b ; Agi., 6 yn, 7st 1 Ilb ; Cheerful, 5 yrs, 7st 91b ; Remunerator, 4 yrs, 7st 91b ; Gm-- forth, 4 yrs, Ist 716; Mrs. Taft, 6 yrs, 7st 51b; Cnoeus, 3 yrs, ist IA ) b ; Beebe.) llunnoo, 5 yrs, bet 10lb ; Aristocrat, 4 yrs, Ost 71b; Ingratitude, 3 yrs, sst 101 b; Ischia, 3 yrs, sst 416. Gillyflower is scratched fur the Brighton Stakes. AUKIVALB.—The following is a complete account of the horses now in the neighbourhood, or who will be here be fore the commencement of the races =Lord George, Due an Dhurras, Catalpa, Herschel, Tilsit, Sir Rowland Tren chard, Fifty-one, Chatterer, Manilla, Ethelwolf, Ischia, Falcon, Champion, Pelerinc filly, Landgrave, Ploughboy, Guardsman, Miss Landon, '2 yrs, Cossack, Pitsford, Ingra titude, Spark, Wadastra filly, Newport, The Moor, Fer nand,-, Upton, Freedom, Glen Saddel, Cnams, Backbiter, l'erjury (late Pandea), Windischgratx, Remunerator, Agis, Eva, Aristocrat, hurry-scurry, Cheerful, Alicia, Narcissus, (Ethyl's, The Ileriot, Sulky, Tordesillas, Exeter, Duster, The Verdercr, Kakistos, Prestige, Harp, Hampton, l'ren law, Westow, St. Ann, Alatalluh, Mr.. Taft, Valentine, Kick-up-the-Dust (late Protectionist), Julia, Hippogrilf, Baroness, Margellina filly, Lady Isabel, Handsome Doe, Norton, The Nautch Girl, Iresine, Mignon, Timid Fawn, The Squaw, Iracundus, Knight of the Thistle, Waterfall. A two-year old from Goodwood, either Ilarbin.rer or Maidstone, will be here, tn-morrow, for the Marine Stakes. The races commence at '2 o'clock. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—WARWICK, 1551. FOIL TUE LEAIIINOTOB STAILEti of 25 sum each, 15 ft, and 6 only if declared on or before Tuesday next.—Cossack, aged, Bst 12Ib ; Landgmve, 5 yrs, Sat slb ; Olauca, 5 yrs Sit 31b ; Elthiron, 5 yrs, Bst ; Pitsford, 4 yrs, 7st 12Ib ; Backbiter, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b; Turnus, 5 yrs, 7st Olb ; The Nigger, 4 yrs. 7st Blh ; Lady Evelyn, 5 yrs, 7st bib; Alonzo, 4 yrs, 7st 51b; Old Dan Tucker, 5 yn, 7g 61b; Windiselagrats, 4 yrs, let 31h; Montague, 5 yrs, 7st 21b; Mark Tapley, 4 yrs, ist '216; Vampyre, aged, 7st 21b; Doubt, 6 yrs, 7.1 21b; Clothworker, 5 yrs, 7st; Italian, 4 yrs. 7st; Little Jack, 4 yrs, ist ; Fugleman, 6 yrs, Est 121 b; Sauter la Coupe, b yrs, list I'2lb; Musician, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b; Herbert, 5 yrs, fret 10Th; Borneo, 5 yrs, Gat 101 b; Glenalvin, 5 yrs, 6st 91b; Officious, 4 yrs, Get 911); The Cocktail, 5 yrs, Est 71 6 ; Abdallah, 4 yrs, Gist 71b; Admi nistrator, aged, Gst 6lb ; The Baronets, 5 yrs, Gut 41b; Re munerator, 4 yrs, 6st 41b ; Windhound, 4 yes, 6st 4lb ; Tophana, 6 yrs, Est 41h; Nutcracker, 4 yrs, 6st 31b ; Gar forth, 4 yrs, fret 316; Calmer, 4 yrs, Got 31b ; Haricot, 4 yn, Got 21b Flareup, 4 yrs 6st 21b; Joe Mugging, 4 yrs, 6st ; Valentine, 4 yrs, 6s;; Clarissa, .5 yrs, 6st; Carus, 3 yrs, Gat; Chief Justice, 4 yrs, Got; Quicksand, aged, sst 121 b; Warwick, 4 yrk, sst 12 1 b; Humphrey, 4 yrs, sst 101 b ; Theseus, 3 yrs. sst 10Ib ; Enter prise colt, 3 yrs, sst 1016; The Castle, 4 pis, fist 1016; La Fiancee, 4 yrs, sst 1016; Sprite filly, 4 yrs, sst 101 b; The Heriot, 3 yrs, sst 1016; lanthe, 3 yrs, sst Jib; Consola tion, 3 yrs, sst 9lb ; Grief, 5 yrs, sst 91 b; Ilippogriff, 6 yn, sst 916; The Tout, 3 yrs, sst gib; liungerford, 3 yrs, sst 91b ; Miss Julia, 5 xrs, sst klb ; Glenhawk, 3 yrs, sst 81b; Sunrise, 3 yrs, ost bib ; Unity, 3 yrs, sst /lb: Salute, 4 yrs, sst 71b; Guldfinder, 3 yrs, sst 51b; Tight waist, 3 yrs, sst 516; Ringleader, 3 yrs, sst 51b; Aaron Smith, 3 yrs, sst slb ; lteindeer, 3 yrs, sst 4lb ; Colsterdale, 3 yrs, sst 31b; Entrc Nous, 3 yrs, fist 316 ; The Wren, 4 yrs, sst '2lb ; Coryphee, 3 yn, .t ; e by Prince Caradoc out of Miss Julia Bennett, 3 yrs, ost ; Tilsit, 5 yrs, sst; Lough Bawn, 3 yrs, sst ; b c by Coranna out of Monica, 3 yrs, tist; Knook Kuoll, 3 yrs, fist; Louis Napoleon, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b; Cyclops ' 3 yrs, 4st 12Ib ; Waterfall, 3 yrs, ist 121 b; Reaper, 3 yrs, 4st 1211. ; Avis, 3 yrs. 4st 121 b; Minna, 3 yrs, 4st 91b ; Heart of Oak, 3 yrs, 4st 91b ; Ischia, 3 yrs, 4st 81b ; Leap Year, 3 yrs, 4st 61b; Once more, 3yrs, 4stelb; True Blue, 3 yrs, 4st 216. If the highest weigh; accepting be under Sat 71b. it will he raised. &c. CRICKET. TIIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MATCHES.-ETON v. WINCHESTER. The Wykehamists have, by their proceedings during yes terday, accomplished that which many a long year has failed to witness—the Eleven of this year having won both matches—the representatives of Harrow they vanquished by two wickets, whilst those of Eton fell behind by 26 runs. The goal state of this latter match was as follows: Mr. E. Llaworobe, b Tel mlt Ct. 7..72V - 1. Hoare, b Trentlett 24 Hon. W. ' , wanes, b Unto.... ...... 5 I b tr, b lteay Mr. G. Fuller, Ibw, b Hoar, Mr. t. Panther, b Hoare Mr. G. Bennett, b Hoare l4 b Hoer* .... —.— l5 Mr. B. TrLyiltan, b Tieralott ..... ... 7 b Brown Mr. V. Brdie, b Ilo.re Mr. E. Grant, b Hoare 0 b Brown Mr. Y. Pode, not out Mr. J. Stonboww, b H0ww........... 4 not Mt Mr. J. Gdlett, b Itauy L 0,1; w, 1 Mr. T. Tremlett, b ileums 4 b Stobbowot 4r. 11. Ilo•re, a Bennett, b Gillett II b 11•aam Mr. J. B. Morey, b &tabour' Mr. T. Bess, b VuLer Mr. C. Th atm, b :ton►urt lO • Brandt, b litoabouto Mr. A. Coleridge, c Brodie, billows 29 b Fuller Mr. W. Brown, b Fuller . Mr. A. Wilma's, b Piennes Mr. G. Dupuis, b Ileums - 3 Mr. D. Iltyter, oat out Mr. A. 11. Younger, run out 0 not out B, 7 ; I b, I ; w,7 FRENCH EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA.—The lot tery of golden ingots, of which to moch bas been seen and heard in France, has already realised a sum sufficient for carrying out the purposes which g.ive rise to it. 6,000 emigrants are to be sent to California with the pmceeds of the lottery. The house of V. Marron and Co., of Havre, has obtained the concession from goverrment of tho transport of these emigrants. if.ain intelligence. EQUITY COURTS.-YESTERDA T. BRIORB THE LORD CRANCII.I4OI. SITTINGS OF THZ COUNT. On application by counsel to hear a certain matter to morrow (this day), Isis lordship said he would not sit us court ; and in the course of the dny his lordship intimated that he would sit in the House of Lords to hear Heller v. *Bright et contra canes in the winding-up acts; and that on Friday morning also he would have to sit in the house to give some judgments; and also that, ns it had been settled that these courts would terminate their sittings on Friday, he would not interfere with that arrangement, but any petition or other matter that was pressing he would hear in hie room on Saturday. IN Tltli MATTNIt OP MKS. Er.wr.u, A LUNATIC.—AP. POINTIIF.NT OF COMIIITTE FS. Ms lordship addressing the counsel in this matter said ho had read the papers' and propouils sent to him from Mr. Elwe., and from Mr. Aykes. 110 thought Mr. Sykes asked too much—he asked to be the committee practiellly. Ir THE MATTER OF Miss BAGSTER LL'Y \TIC There were several petitions in this matter, one by Mr. Lyall, now acting as a friend of the young lady; another from Miss Hopwood, who had been her companion for some years, but has not been yet paid ; and a third from three persons who had been servants in the establi-h -meat which Mrs. Waddell, the young lady's mother, kept for her. The allowance to Miss Bagster at that time was 1,000/. a year, hut in consequence of the income of tho property to which she was entitled from her grandfather, the late Alderman Crowder, falling short of that income, great embarrassment arose, to the motherly' well as to these petitioners. The allowance is now reduced to 600!. a year. . . The Lord Chancellor directed a refer:nee to the M;utter on all the petitions, to inquire into the removal of tho clauses, with a view to payment so faros the present allow ance could be made applicable to them. ZULVETTA C. VINC;;T.-INJUNCTION.-AWNDMENTS. PRA( ricz. This was a motion to alter or reverse an order of the pre sent Master of the Rolls, and the question appeared to be, whether an injunction which was dissolved en the coming in of the defendant's answer, could be revived and extended upon ❑ntendment of the bill, and before an.wer to the amendment.. The suit has for its obj• et to obtain dis covery in aid of a defence to nn action brought by the above defendant, as consignor of good. from Cuba to the plaintiffs, the consignees), who applied the proceeds differently front the instructions given by the consignor. Mr. Roupell was opening the apptal motion when thu court rose. Btrota Vlca-Cluomritos Kerner Pave, IlAuvra r. IlumiAlcu.—Cosbritucrium OF• CILARITABLIII BEYUEST. Mr. 11. Nicholls and Mr !Lassiter appeared for the plain tiff in this cas e, _in which the principal question turned on the effect to be given to a charitable bequest, contained in the will of Mr. Isaac Bean, of Siloldea, Keut. By the will, dated in September, 1119, the testator gave to Mr. Harvey and Mr. Hammond all his estate upon trust, to sell the same and pay his debts and legacies; and he gave his per sonal estate upon the same trust, and gave .-ninth of the residue to the Spanish and Portuguese Hospital, called Bethlehem, or Bethulesu ' in the Mile-end-road ; one-ninth to the London Hospital, Whitechapel-road ; one-ninth to the Ophthalmic Iluspital, MoortickLi ; onc-ninth to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the Kent-road; one-ninth to the school of the Indigent Blind, St. Gcorge's.tiehls ; one ninth to the St. George's Hospital ; one-ninth to the Society fur the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign darts, Pall-mall, in the county of Middlesex; one-ninth to the Society for Translatin; the Scriptures; also in Middlesex ; and the other remaining one-ninth to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in Lincoln's-inn Fields in the county of Middlesex ; and he directed that the residuary personal estate or the produce should be paid in the shares aforesaid to the treasurer,re 'ecrtiir institution-., to the b time a b P : p i ted for gort the p the a foresaid r°" u ' r a pise i s dn s of ttatlt such institutions respectively. The question was what so ciety was intended by the Society for Translating the Scriptures in Middlesex now having that title. Mr. Wigratn, Mr.J . Parker, M r.B:con,'M r.Cotton ,and Mr. Baggalay appeared for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Trinitarian Bible Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society, and relivetively contended for the claims of each of these societies as that Intended by the testator. The Vice-Chancellor said that there were two difficulties in the way of construing the bequest, one was the gene rality of the title used by him, the Society for Translating the Scriptures ; the other arose out of the words " in Ilia llonour's opinion woo that the meaning WAS uncertain, and that the court was itself at liberty to direct a scheme. Ile should feel disposed to dime% the money to be divided between the three aocieties. Mr. W. M. James, for the Attorney-General, said the same course had been pursued in the Guernsey Hos pital case. The Vice-Chancellor said that such a mode of applying the fund would probably carry into effect the testator's general object, as they were all their very useful instill,- lions and would all do good. lle had his own titivate opi nion which of them would do most good, hut he did not thiuk he ought judicially to give weight to it. ARCHES COURT-YESTERDA v. w■ _ The attention of the learned judge was confined to ii...ig natiour and motion* of no public importance. PREROGATIVE COURT.—YF.STERIMY. Smut I4i IL J. Ems.. DEIGIITUN C. lIANCOX.—JUDOMENT. A report of this case has already appeared in our journal. The learned Judgo Raid the question for the decision of the court wan as to the state of the deceased, Mrs. Mary Edwards, of Tiddiugton, Warwickshire, at the time of the execution of a codicil to her will, dated the Ist of January, There was no opposition to the will, but it appeared that between the date of the will and the date of the codicil in question the deceased had an attack of paralysis, under which she eventually sank, and it was contended that at 'he time the latter instrument was executed the weak state of her mental faculties would nut allow of her doing any act requiring thought, judgment, or reflection. Atter going carefully through the evidence, the learned judge could not say he was satisfied the transaction took the course repre sented by the witnesses for the codicil. Upon the whole facts he was of opinion the case was one in which the party had failed in establishing the codicil propounded. Thu court therefore pronounced against it, and decreed probate to the will, but as there was a question so to the jurisdic tion of the learned judge, he should make no order as to costs. IIooKER AND ANOTHER AGAINST AYLING AND OTiltdie. A report of this case appeared in our columns on the Vith July last. The learned judge, in giving his decision to-day, said it came before the court under circumstances some what similar to the one just disposed of. The deceased Mr. William hooker, lute of Midhurst, Sussex, by a will dated in April, Isis, distributed the residue of his estate among his children in equal proportions, but it appears that under former wills all advances made to the several children in the testator's lifetime, were to he taken into account, and to form a part of the residue to which each would be entitled. By the latter paper Mr. William Hooker, the son of the deceased, who had received an advance in his father's lifetime, would still take equally with the rest. Its validity was opposed ou• the ground of the tes tator's incapacity, arising from an attack of paralysis. The court held. as it, the former case, it was one in which the party had failed to establish that the will was executed by a testator with a full knowledge of the act he was perform ing. It pronounced against the will, and decreed probate of a former will executed in MIL to the executors. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YINTERDAY. Snou Mt. COlllll.lO/411 IN SP BENTON. This was the last examination meeting in the rase of John 11,:nton, dm-crib cd as a corn mail coal merchant, of Stepney. The balanee-sheet, prepared by Messrs. Harding and PuNein, of Gresham-street, extended over a year and a half prior to June !ant, and showed a sum of 1,2:13/. due to creditors, with about 3601. of assets in good debts and pro perty. The prolits had been 2181.; trade expenses, 2841. ; personal do., 222'.; haws, 3161.; deficiency at the eoni mencctueut of the account, 2'36i. Mr. Linklater supported the bankrupt. Mr. Ifilleary, fur the assignees, offered no opposition, and the bankrupt palmed. THE CHEAP" SYSTEM. Mr. Linklater made an application, under the '2s3rd c tion of the new act, as to the filing of a certificate of ar rangement with creditors, which is directed to be tiled with "the registrar of the court," and a question had arisen whether these words designated the registrar of the parti cular court in which the arrangement had been made or the chief registrar. His Ifonour said that as the office of chief registrar was now vacant the document must be filed with Mr. Pollak, the registrar of this court—at all evetds until the office of chief rvgiqrar was filled up. The economists advocated the restating of eserything connected with that court to the loweat possible figure ; but, if he was not much mis taken, people would soon find out that what was so very cheap was, alter all, not worth the money. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-YESTEIWAY. Sarno vs. (RU CON111.10:41[1. INSOLVENCY Ur Mk. INU EitSON, - 1•11E - L . ATE or DRURY-LANE TWEATRE. This insolvent, the late lessee of Drury-lane 'Theatre, applied to be discharged. There was no opposition entered to the application ' not withstanding there were 201 creditors on the schedule. The accounts filed by the insolvent (prepared by Messrs. Lewis and Lewis) make the debts amount to 5,6811. Ls. 1 1 1., and the in...olveney to have arisen by the loss sustained in the manag.mient of the theatre ; the whole of his capita, exceeding 4,0001. in money, being absorbed in the specula tion, independent of the debts now owing. During the two seasons (1849-50 and 1840,51) that Mr. Auderon had the theatre the losses amounted to 9,161/. 3s. Id. In the first season the thoatre was open 98 nights, and the takings were 11, 211 4s. 6d ; the payments were 14,2611. 12s. I(J., 'hewing a leas of 2,90.5/. 34. 4d. ; being equal to 30/. 51. per night. The resnit of the last season, in which nearly all the debts wero in. - mined, showed the takings to be. in 134 nights, 13,66 V. ti 584 and the payments, 14,3671. 15s. Id. The loss in ta•ntry was 702 1 . 10A. 7d , and, with the deals, made the a':out 441.. per night during the whole period. The total loss in the ..41rst seasoil u irtg 2,9651. 3s. 4d., and in debts, 4931. second season Ole lass, in payments, ds. in debts, 5,0001 making ofll6ll. 3s. The*. some few ilet).; owinz t6' the iniorvewt. Be giVltp ili t Cash, 2831., and his theatrical seardrobs. a -t. • .