The Express. — London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

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The teeth of this protean= will ems be pat to the test, ter there are two or duce meeserm el argent practical importance on which they will ere keg be expected to take a de cided part. Ames the trimmest of these is the Equeliestien se the Peer-rates. Whether this systems aught to prevail throughout the errantry we decline to deem at preenst. We prefer to iistriet the diessedes le ths lleteepdy Though the peeper& strew has bess keg urged sad &mistime have been fermsd Orr the purism ef promoting it, there can be no desk thst of late the merest he. essipired stresith. Oar own column mg those of air contemporaries en fall of lettere es the sullied. bisstrage are sesehmtly held to raider the matter, awl te popsy petitions to Parlisment la our yester day's kapreadas we reported the precesdinge of so ism than two of these meetings. The ratepayers of the City of Lades met at the Leedom Oplite-homes to cessider the preprkty of pendia,. Perlisment kr as equalisatio• of the rate; and • depatatien Nos the Clergy of the East end of Lesion had an interview with the Poor-law Bond to prassete the same object. Nor is it asimpertant to obaseve that Lad ROIIIIT 0 atervason, in the very teat might of Parlimmestary disseedas, introduced the 'abject to the Hems of Commas A matter which excite, weds sonstaat sad wide-spew& intend mud surely bed vital importance. We have so often dimmed this question of late that we seed hardly reiterate our view. The whole argument is contained in a nutshell. The poor of the ssetrepolis mist be supported by a pat)- * rats Who ought to pay that fate? How ought that nee to be imposed? Equitably ell the., who make the presence of a certain asses of lemmas beings useamary ought to pay in properties to their means. The employers ought to pay for the employed s the masters ought to pay for the servants ; the rich ought to pay for the poor. But instead of this the very reverse is the fact. The employed pay for the employed--the servants for the servants—the pest It the poor. How come this ? By rea son of ear lesidation ; by the node in which the poenrate is levied. The parish where a man lives, not the parish when he works, is taxed. The place when the wealth is greeted or spent—the rich perish—i• relieved from poor-rate ; the place where the hard-esimed wags of toil are spent—the poor perisb--is burdened with poor-rate. Hence a &a mid evils :--bovele and garrets let at extravagant nate to the poorest and most miserable of oar fellow matures ; the necessity of the poor living at a vast distance from their work ; men, women, and children huddled together like swine to the certain dasizuction of comfort and morality—nay, of life itself; and, above all, the alienation of class from • - elm, and the engendering in the poor that rooted jealousy and diens of the rich which, when axe engendered, is so difficult to eradicate. There is esarcely a single motive fitted to influence human eendest which does not prompt a change of such a system 'entice, morality, sad expediency, all eon epbe to the same end. Ws sok, will anything be done to arrest or to ceatrol tines gigLatie Ind daily incensing crib; whit* we bare jut dowsited l' After the speech of Yr. Bottum; the President of the Poor-law Board, to the depatation from the Clara of the East end of Unica, we corn place no gnat reliance upon the Oo►enseat. Mr. Bouurnax, hie all well-educated ted-tapists, am difloaltise huaumerable. To us the proposed change does not appear so im practicable. Became the arse of taxation is to Ds ortaindsd, it dote not therefore follow that all Motive to keep the expladitare down should cease. Surely some ;NMI Mile be fond for isdiseing the repossotatives of the Metropelitestrotepayas to be as essoessical se the representatives of the perish mower& And if this sea be dose, there Nine SO good roma why the proposed system should sot be p wr i e d into s&ct t for the possible extravegssoe of the new plea le the oily ma oldeetice to it. As to Mr. Bouvons's cosetica, whether it wield be right to go to St. Osoeps's, Haaaverespers, sad ash the ratepayers thin to esatribeit lowside the d the pm la Stall ail d Lae" f Mulallbosd ,fide public meetings—meetings called, net oely oolourably but really, for the discus sion d subjects perceiving other than a mere per sonal interest. In feet, so utterly does all valid grout d of distinction fail in favour of conferring the privilege exclusively on the law courts, that we are driven upon the conclusion that the judges of the superior courts, by whom this portion of our libel law was in fact made, established the rule without any sefereuce to principle at all, solely for the protection of the tribunals in which they themselves presided. Lord CAMPBELL suggests that there may be a difficulty in defining the kind of public meet ings to which the privilege should be extended. But surely the difficulty would not be insurmount able. A fair and truthful report of any public meeting, bowl fa* called for the purpose of discuss ing matters of other than mere personal interest, ought certainly to be protected from the penalties of the libel law. There is no malice in the reporter, if the report be correct and truthful. If there be malice in the speaker, the remedy ought to be against him ; and as to the supposed detriment to the indi vidual, in so far as it arises from the report, the Journal in which the report has appeared is equally open, audio the present state of the law is bound to glve odmirion, to the contradiction. Thus wee one matter thrown out for eenfilen, tisa by Lord CAMPBELL which is demobs we t►ink, of very great attention. Ills lodides suggestion was, that wherever in an action for libel signinst a journal in consequence of a report of a proeeeding at a public meeting, it could be made out that the report was a fair one, and that no seal damage had been sustained by the plaintiff, theilry might be entitled to give a verdict for the defen dant. This would, no doubt, be a very sound rule to establish ; it is, in fact, merely the application of the same principles to newspaper reports of the proceedings of public meetings which we have al ready stated to be applicable to all eases of oral or written slander in the case of private individuals. If the report is a fair one, there is no =be in the journalist; if the character of the plaintiff has not been injured by the report, there is no damage. The two elements necessary for giving a claim of redress on the ground of defamation when a private individual is the defamer are both wanting in such a case i and there is really no reason why there should be one law for the journalist, especially when he merely acts as a reporter, and another law for every other clam of the community. We trust that the Committee to be appointed on Lord CAM , nxtes motion may speedily prepare the way for a thorough amendment and reconstruction of the Law of Libel as it affects the reports of proceedings in 'aliment and public meetings. ~..... ~.,A.,..-....., I the new plan is the only teal ablation to it: de to nothi4 ? Or was he charged with pies;e lays- that thi;state — ef — things - I I ; w eminen —'- tly absurd and un- im Mr. Botraines cumuli" whistles it would be teriour °pastime in tot wonderful laboratory in raiahrtory. On prineiple,there is no resew whatever. w right to go to St Goorgee, Hanover-epera, Capel-coart, where they my premiums are man: he extending the privileges of immunity to the and eh the ratepayers thin to matributo lova* hetarad P The total amount of share, in the Western report s of the law emu which ape net equa uy , the mug et the gem lifted al d Leah Bakst LW" i oak 4 s ooo I sO OM if ho soil apply to the reprb d Flosabir ja pumragat a THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1857. we answer without hesitation in the aflinnative. , It is just that the rich people of the Weet-eni should pay for the poor people in the East end —quite Si just as that the wealthy inhabitants in Bedford-square should pay for the Irish hodasn of St. Giles's. - • - --- Bet there is one point in Mr. Bourssis's speech which deserves attention. He asked the deputation, which consisted chiefly of clergyosee, whether they had held sty semeelldeatlea with thsiebeothren at the west end of Ueda en the subject. He dared to taw stesther dee imputation teed any ilea of the seallaseslii would be made to their par. It is leadisrstand the anxiety of a Minister to be in famies this paint. No drat the demand was rea dable. The Ref. Mr. DPI:Mu mama d it by saying est Amy had no ream to apprehend any great esessaet reeistance to the equalisation of the poor rate Illionsheat London. We trait that this anticips tia a esesset, though we must admit that the meet. ap es Ai sahject have hitherto been almost exclu sively samba to the east end at Issfes. where the evils of as past system are most plpable. It woad be most umfal for the cam If sea meetings were se ad to tie West-end, kr the Mese of die mmiseg the palm Boaanem tea pea mo tive of hems sabot, but we add Yn hope that even sashase h not always synapsis with folly. The pmesseme se wealth be this peat shy mast with heipeity mesa the eaditios dale pear M the east. They 03111 M ignore that state 8 " of listsg starvation" is which the peer are kept in the ream districts. By the laws of Providence, poverty C wealth are inseparably bound together. Therm twin-brothers. We are told that at psme the clergy at the West-sad often have a large sem of money placed at their disposal far the prolapse of charity, and know not what to do with it. The spirit of charity is not extinct in this modern Babylon ; and we cannot believe that if the ease for equalising the poor-rate were properly placed before them wealthy and charitable inha bitants of the Wotan& they would oppose a measure designed far that purpose. Bat, even if the common feelings of humanity and of justice do not prevail, at all events let expediency have its effect. By perpetuating the present system, the rich of the metropolis are day by day demonstrating to the poor that they care neither for their physical nor for their sacral well-being ; they are widening that golf which separates clam from elms, and en gendering that wont of all enmities, class enmity ; they are breeding up in the very midst of their possession a race of discontented aliens, who, km their cradles, will learn to regard the wealthy Se their natural enemies, and the wealth that sem round. them as the natural inheritance of MI& they have been robbed. Ls preprieti east le eel will be the practical gospel of such a elms as this. Tax ingenio•s youth who thought he should like to be apprenticed to an Executor, because his father had made so mach money in that line, was doubt less wise in his generation ; but bad he lived in oar day he would probably have selected the trade of • Promoter, as a• easier and shorter road to wealth. The professors of this imoative art, better known as " getters up of Comrades," levy a very handsome black-mail upon the sabseribers to Joint Stock Asso ciations; bat they are like moles, and, working out of sight, their opseations are • mystery to the gems' public. Mr. Dox•ocx has, however, turned cap it melt if them to the light of day ; and the mode in which his statement of their labours, and their reward, wee received by the shareholders of the Western Bank of London was not very compli mentary or flattering to the particular set of Promoters with whom he had to deal. Mr. ROE BUCK, in his ospecity of Chairman of the Bank, called the attention of the shareholders to the item of " preliminary expenses " in the following manner: I an Is the Ikelit eimerideg plalry, red bid I week 1 Issaltiag et titre Yr rtl the reser thst se (13,121-) woeCl sat have tear hags. It is altdy sesis 'op el two hum, tee ct which Is the alum *I to the PTO. amen el the book, Nal the ether the WI el the Wisher. The oesVill n the Pressolses al the book woe 6,0001. TINT slobeithilthey boil bon ell swathe et week—that they wow kW Ow r the spat se—sol it wee sell that sassy saw babe hal - toga "more to tbolr Pstretwo." I thib b asestary Iht/osily to stets the raw ei these Pte. Nolte% aai I lobe then Now how a Whir ilptel by thaw whoa diklostly end divinely se prowelow. The amass am Whom Comphall Olt" J. 1. Illochwerlat, Nosey Blies. ley, Beejewia Cameo, John J. Rymer, sod Jeri Crosby. The an the mass of the panto who here noshed the 6,000/. Now, one of these gentlemen Mr. RYMER, besides being a Promoter, happens to be the Solicitor of the bank whose bill Mr. ROEBIL:CX thought very ex travagant, but it was cut down very much." It figures in the "preliminary expense" item for 3,4661. Mr.RTNEIt repudiated the Promoter part of the busi ness, declaring that he retained no more of the 6,0001. than covered his expenses out of pocket, so that the other worthies, GILLAN, WINCKWORTH, BLECKLEY, COLIMAN and CROSBY, must have divided among them a sum which gave them over 1,1001. each for six months' work. Now, we should be glad to know what sort of labour it is that these Pr;motere are so handsomely paid to perform. One of them probably manufactures a draft prospectus, with won derful attractions, hie an Beater playbill ; but what is the next promo ? Do the other Promoters, when the egg is thus laid, take it by turns to incubate until it is either hatched or addled ? Do they all go Director-hunting, and so forth? and is it done in packs, or in couples? To succeed in that pursuit, impudence and pertinacity are valuable qualities, but ere by no wane so rare as to merit a reward of 2,0001. a year, the price, according to the Western Bank tariff, of a Promoter's eervices. But they guaranteed the expenses, it ia mid. This Mr. Briars denies ; it was he who had given an indemnity against the preliminary expenses, and had considered that fact in his little bill of 3,4661. And Mr. RYMER gave up six months of his time to promoting —no, not promoting, he utterly denim that—but to doing something which required extra clerks to mist him; and that something he va►ued at 1,6001. or 2,0001., for the Charter met from 1,6001. to 2,0001. of the 3,4661. "In feet," says Mr. RUM, "I did everything which was not done by Mr. BLECKLET." Now this statement throws a new light on the case. Out of the six Promoters two, RYMER and BLECKLEY, do all the work; the former receives nothing out of the 8,0001. except the money he has spent, end the rest of the money is divided between the other working Promoter, BLECKLET, and the four drones of the hive, GtLLs.n, WINCKWORTH, COLEMAN, end CIIOBIIT. Hence it appears that Promoters are of two kinds—the useful and the ornamental—and that the quaternion just named belongs to the latter category. To an a phrase one occasionally sees in police reports, the two kinds of Promoter " work " together. But there is another item in the accounts of the Western Bank of London which sorely bewildered Mr. Roasrar-1,0001. for brokerage. What can this e.bary represent Did the Broker help in the pro moting, like °ILIA" sad the rest—that is, by doing nothing ? Or was he charged with mine mys terious operations in that wonderful laboratory in Cepa-mart, where they say premiums are mann formal P Tb total mount of shares in the Western llak of Idelmi al: 4,000 I le SW if lea soli every one of them it would give a Drawees of eve shillings per share, which we apptehe•t le • hir remuneration, especially in • wlolesale transaction of that character. The Beretary pro tem. received 6001. the Manager. 6001. ; the Chairman (Sir Betwxe Liwros, who seems to have abdicated) 3001. ; and advertising, stationery, &c., cost 9001. moat bringiag up the totd of the preliminary expenses to the monstrous sum of 11,3231. The present Directors have server fee six teen mwaths without touching a shilling o' rename ratioa ; the salaries and charges of aU kings amount to 3,6121.; sad yet we end these Promotes claim ing 6,0001. for six months' work, that Ina being, according to Mr. RTMEII, doing nothingas regards four of them. -- It is high time that this disgraceful abase was checked, and that the trade of gettint up Com. panics for the sake of pillaging tie original subscribers under any pretext, or so pretext, should be put a stop to. No one will ques tion the right of the founders of s company, who undertake the risk and labour cf forming s nucleus on which it may be based, to be emunerated, and that liberally, for their trouble; but to pay enormously men who evidently have nr further 'con nexion with, or interest in, the undetaking than getting together enough share espial to enable them to dip deeply into it witlout peril, is utterly monstrous. Mr. Monet:ex had doubt less good authority for saying that "other banks have paid much more to their ?remoter'," sod we would recommend shareholders o elicit at the earliest opportunity the sums their various Banks have paid for "promotion," and tie names of the recipients of the plunder. It is a leading in tke di rectory which is wanting, and it will be doubtlear both rueful and curious to know whether On.tkir, WINCKWORTH, and Co., is the only firm which doss the " getting up " of Campania, on a grand isle of remuneration, or whether there are still moremagni floent personages in the hierarchy of Promoters. The acknowledged chief of the tribe, Barns, is on his way to Australia to enlighten the colonists in the 'arteries of this proltable oecupatioa, and we trust some steps will be taken which will compel the rest of the " professor" either to follow kis example, or to seek a mmewhat more reputable employment in England. LORD CAMPBELL KY renewed his motion for • Select Committee on the Law of Libel, especially as it affects the publiation of the reports of proceedings at public meting,. It is high tins that the law in questios should be therms* rifted. The real pristine on which is Wed the whole law of libel is simply this—dad every man of whom anotlier maliciously speaks er writes defamateey matter should have a 'WI, or, in extreme oases, a ainsinakremedy apart the de- famer. In as far as the dawn is ommemed„ the essence of the thing is malice, either ewes or implied; in as far as the defend is concerned, the ground of his claim he Nom is the damage his character has wastalauk er h necessarily placed in jeopardy of embledrup by reason of the delimatiem and the mthasted extent of such damage molecule the ememe d Ws romper action. These en the that primigies ea whist nets the whole theory of civil nee by an laden for damages in came of definition. la order Se eem Isin melt an action there male proof of =Ma he the &hoer, cheep. to the iihmsd. If dike he. gradient be wanting, the seishile root hie, and the 'him he relines is net nude eat. The.. as,, se leek. suasion came when the MN mare of the defamatory language mph* is ma es to imply malice in the speaker or writer, so far, at least, as to throw on him the burden of showing ia point of fact, no malice existed. There are ether eases where this presumption is so strong as not to admit of being the rebutted—caeca where the lineage used is se flagrantly and grossly vituperative as not to be palliated by say alleged rectitude of intention, or explained away by say circumstance of extenuation. Again, there are came, and they are by no mane infrequent, where the ergesisa is reasonably sad properly hell to juo ay the me of language, whether in writiog or speaking, which is in itself unquestionably Ma -1 =story, in as far as it has a tendency to detract from the dr raster of another to his damage. Among the most &natter cams of this clam are those of public oommenta an the chareeter and conduct of public mot. A very considerable degree of latitude is here most properly allowed, os the clear principle that it is to the public interest that each comments should be freely made, and, =lcon manifestly prompted by personal malice, or other sinister motives, should not be reordered onenable to the penalties of the libel law. Another fami liar instance of the same principle is the protection thrown nand the master in giving the character of • domestic servant. This is an occasion in which the general interest revues that the truth should be told at whatever cost to personal charac ter; and accordingly, union dear proof be given that truth has been wilfully departed from and malice wantonly indulged, any statement whether written Of verbal regarding the quelithation of a servant, however disparaging, ia protected es a privileged All these applications of the law relating to defamation are manifestly based on the one principle from which the whole proceeds, vu., that to con stitute such defamation as can alone give a ground for claiming civil redress two things must concur— malice in tho defamer, consequent damage to the de famed. Now, apply these principles to tie state of the law brought before the attach= of the House by Lord CAMPBELL. Parliament, let it bo supposed, is in erica; a grave inquiry is pending on a mbject of the highest public importance; the result of that inquiry—all the steps by which those results are at tained—are matters on which the public have the highest interest, and therefore the best right, to be accurately informed. As a necessary part of that inquiry disclosures are made disparaging to the conduct of an individual. The report of the inquiry is published by the authority of Parliament ; the disparaged individual brings his action against the printer; and as long as " STOCKDALZ O. HANBARD" is law, in that action he must succeed, for the privilege now enjoyed by reports of proceedings is courts of justice is not enjoyed by reports of proceedings in Parliament. Take again the case which arose the other day. gown the publication by a public journal of the report of proceedings at a public meet ing which is alleged by a plaintiff, and fiend by a jury, to contain statements disparaging to hispersonal character. Here again it is now conclusively settled, by the case of DAVISON O. DUNCAN," that the plaintiff must retain the benefit of his verdict. It is no defence for the proprietor of the journal that the meeting was pnblio—that the subject crocuses& was one of general interest—that the report was truthful and trustworthy. We suppose there is no rational person in these realms who will not agree with lewd CAMPBELL that this state of things is eminently absurd and un as tiagictory. On principle, there is no reason whatevec for extending the privileges of immunity to the report, of the law courts which doss not equally apply to the mods of proossdinis in Padigmist FUNERAL OP THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. (MOW TIE COCRT CIBCCLML.) The remains of her Royal Highness the late Duchess of Gloucester arrived at St. George's Chapel. Windsor, at half-past 12 o'clock yesterday. A guard of honour of the led Battalion of Greesdier Guards wee on duty at the entrance, end the Band of the Regiment played ' the "Deed March In Saul." The nave, through which the funeral promotion passed, was covered with black cloth, and the doer and also the wets in the choir were covered with the same materiel, and in front of the reeding desk was an escutcheon of the arms of the late Duchess. On the procession moving from the setrance the gentle men and boys composing the choir of St. George's Chapel ecenmenced singing the 25th and 24th verses of the 11th chapter of St. John, "I am the resurrection;' and when the body reached the choir the 90th Prim, " Lord, thou hest been our refuge," was chanted. The Min wee placed upon Weeds with the feet towards the alter, and the coronet and cushion were laid upon the coma. The chief mourner, the Duchess of Atholl, sat at the heed of the corpse, attended by Lady Cooper. The supporters of the pall, the Hon. Mrs. Liddell and Lady Georesee Bathurst, and Lady Candies Murray and Lady Charles 8001010 t, eat on either side. The Lord Chamberlain, the Marquis of Beesdetb®4 stood at the het, having on hie right the Vice-Chesabtelebs, Lord Ernest Bruce, sad on his left the Comptroller end Chief Equerry of the late Duchess, Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell, and the Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain's Department, Mr. Mermen Macdonald. Shortly Wore the snivel of the procession, hie Royal Highness Prime Albert, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, en tered the chapel, and were conducted to stalls immediately adjoining to that of the Sovereign. Prince Albert end the Duke wore the riband and star of the Garter. His Serene ..-- - Memos Prix* Edward of Sm Weimar was also con- ducted to a seat. Their Royal Highnesses the Ditcher of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenbargb Striate, and the Prioress Mary of Cambridge were in the royal along of the chapel. Earl Spencer, Lord Steward of the Quern's household, and the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to the Prism, occupied their empectin stalls aa Knights of the Garter on opposite side* of the chapel, and each wore the ribend sad star of the order. Bow* Lord Aberoom's stall were scaled the visitor, — Mende of the late Duchess—via, Earl Howe, Viscount Falk land, Lord &desolate, the Hon. Mr. Welders's, Sir William Gomm, Colonel F. H. Seymour (son of Sir George Seymour), Colonel Penner, and Colonel Stephen.. On the entrance of the procession in the choir the etecutore of her Royal Highness the late Duthese—the Earl of Vers ion, Mr. H. W. Vincent, and Mr. Mortimer Drummond — were conducted to seats in front of Wee occupied by the friends of the deceased Dachau _ The following were also conducted to seats, The Mester of the Home, the Duke ef Wellington ; the Lady in Welting to the Queen, the Countess of Desert; the Bed chamber Woman, Lady Codrington ; the Maids of Honour, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley end the Hem. Lucy Kerr; the Lady in Waiting to the Dueler of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson; the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Indy Gonadial Somerset ; the Lady in Waiting to the He reditary Onad Duchess of Mecklenborgh &mills, Lady Caroline Cwt; the Lord in Waiting to the Queen, Lord Waterpark ; the Oreom be Waiting, General Sir Edwerd Bowser ; the Clerk Marshal, Lord Alfred Paget; the Re presentative of hie Majesty the King of Harlow., Baron de Brandin end hisAide-de-Camp Lieut.& &media ; the Equerry to his Majesty the King of the Belgians, Major-Geo. the HOD. Sir Edward Cuat ; the Equerry to the Duchess of Kent, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bad. ; the Equerry te the Duchess of Cambridge, Baron Kneeebect ; the Gentlemen in Waiting to the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Baron von During ; the Lord fn Welting to Prince Albert, Viscount Torrington; the Groom in Waiting, Colonel P. Seymour, C.B. ; the Equerry in Welting, Lieut.-Colonel Ponemby ; in waiting on the Pr nos of Wales, Mr. F. Cavendish end Mr. Gibbs ; the Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel the Hon. Jame Macdonald ; the Chap lain of the late Royal Duchess, the Rev. E. Wept= ; and the medical attendants, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Hawkins, and Mr. Hills. Harter Zing of Anne, Sir Charles Young, bearing his gold sceptre, stood near the roan. The Canons of Windsor, the Rev. Wi!Ham Conning, the Rev. Charlie Pithy, and the Hon. and Rev. Edward Moore, preceded the body from the catenate of the chapel, end the Hon. and Rev. Mr. alai WY also present. The 90th Palm having been chLtoi,the Dean of Windsor, the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley (who wore his badge of oaks is the Osier of the Garter), reed the Lemon, com mencing "Now is Chriet risen from the dead." When this was finished, the members of the choir of the chapel Nang Handel•. anthem (feces Job szLz., 11 and 12), " When the ear heard her,' together with the chorea, "She delivered the poor that cried." The coffin of edema velvet with gilt mountings, which had been covered with a black velvet pall, having eight escutcheon, of her Royal Highness's arms emblazoned thereon, was then uncovered, and was removed to the entrance of the royal vault, and the Dean proceeded with the servios, "Man that is born of a woman," and "For am much is it bath pleased Almighty Ood," when the coffin was gradually lowered into the vault near the Sovereign's Theehoristers then mug, " I hoard a voice from Heaven" (Croft). The Dean repeated the Laves Prayer, and also the prayer Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits Of them that depart." A second anthem, oleo by Handel, "Her body is buried in peace, bat his name Reath evermore," was then sung. The Dean concluded the burial service with the collect, " 0 merciful God." Garter King of Arms proclaimed near the pave the style of her Royal Highness the late Duchess, sa widow of William Frederick Duke of Gloucester, fourth daughter of the late Xing George 111., and aunt of her present Ma jesty the Queen. Dr. Elvey, who preeitled at the organ, then played the "Dead March" fn " Saul." Their Royal Highnesses Prince Allan, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge, were conducted oat o the chapel, the service concluding at 26 minuted past one o'clock. Prince Albert arrived at eleven o'clock yesterday morning at Windsor Castle, having travelled from Odom to attend the funeral. Ilia Royal Highness took his deputed* goat three o'clock, on his return to Osborne. The Prince of Wales arrived at Windex Castle, from London, soon after eleven o'clock, in order to be meant at the funeral. His Royal Highness, attended by Mr. F. Gym dish and Mr. Gibbs, quitted the Castle in the afternoon, on hie return to Buckingham Palace. The Lord Chamberlain and the gentlemen of his depart ment remained in the Chapel after the departure of the Royal Family, to superintend the closing atlas vault. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours anti family visited Sudbrook-park Hydropathic Establiahmenton Thurs day. The royal visitor were introduced by M. Gauthier and conducted through the home and grounds by Dr. V.Dia at the extent and beauty of which they were pleased to =- prose their eurprlte. Among the company who have honoured the es tablishment of Mr. C. F. Ilencock, in Bruton-street, with visits, to inspect the Devonshire jewels, during the last few days an the Duke and Ductless of Sutherland, the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, Lady Blantyre, Lady Dover, the Earl and Countess of Effingham, Lady Lyndhurst, the Marquis of Lothian, the Swedish Minister, the Prussian Minister sad the Countess Bernstorff, &c. At a public breakfast yesterday, at Freemasons'. ball, in connexion with the movement for responding to the invitation to a general conference of Evangelical Christie= to be held at Berlin next September, Pasteur Venue of Poiton entered into radio= genealogical details, with the view of proving that both Queen Victoria of England and the King of Prussia wom descended front a Protestant refugee of Peitou. The Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe•3ehillingefuret wu married a few days ago at Herbesksbes, in the Duchy of Gotha, to M Lauchert, an artist of Sigmaringen. The primer being a protestant, the marriage took place accord ing to the protestant form, but as M. Leached is a Roman catholic, a catholic marriage was also to be celebrated. The primes is the second sister of Prince Chlodwig of Rohm lobe, and was born in 1821. A Paris letter in the indevendance of Brusel. rye Count de Moray is expected at Paris an the Roth with the young Countess his wife. It will be too /ate for him to resume the duties of his poet of president of the cham ber; but it le said ho will offer him& ea a candidate for mi eleMion to the chamber, end that he denims lobe spin nominated president next year." CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY. (TEM DAV) UPPER HOUSE, The Upper Home met this forenoon at Qum Anne Bounty-office, in Dean's-yard. There were present hi. grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (President), the Bish o p. of London, Oxford, Winchester, St. Davids, St. Aaaph, ►nd A Message from the Lower House haying brought op th e address in its amended form, their lordships et once pro. needed to the consideration of the amendments. T he i r lordship. rejected several of them, w lib 1. were merely of verbal character, and also the additi!in, which conveyed tna wish of the Lower Howse that there should be an extensionai the episcopate at bonse similar to that which bad taken peon in some of the colonies. A message from the Lower Home, headed by the Prolo cutor, Irma then summoned to attend their lordship!, ibt being come, Hia Grace the Pitranirsr specified the amendmegj a which had been rejected, and explained that their lordship, mica for rejecting that ono which related to an extension of the episcopate was simply that some of thei r lordships might hereafter be culled upon especially to Mei n the crown upon such a measure. The Message then retired, and shortly afterwatla retinal with the intimation that the lower house agreed with the lordships, in omitting the omendnients objected to. ilia Grace the Pauli ti ate then handed the Prolocutor the usual schedule of powers containing that which ambles him to prorogue at will the Lower House, and the Xessage ing withdrawn, the Upper Ilona° was prorogued. LOWER HOUSE. The Lower Howe met again this forenoon in the Jarvislsm Climber. There were present the Preload* (the Dean of Bristol), the Dents of Ely and Centerirmy, Archdeacons of Walla, Taunton, St. Albans, Coventry, Maidstone, Worcester, Berke, Westminiter, London, Meetm, Bedford, &idol, and Montgomery, Dr. Jell', sad de Wester of the Temple. The attoadamc of proctors was ad so numerous as yesterday. la all there were about fat, member repeat. . . Mr. P;otoetroit said AmMiNsoon Harrison bad soig. gonad that means should be taken for ascertaining obe en. tended the house. With that view, it would he lAMB that each member should band in hie name as be WA bemuse absentees were liable to be lined for disobey* a s manumits to attend, and it might become a question what the fine ought not to be enforced. The =NW of members having been wiled over. Mr. PROLOCUTOR said it was right that he should &WWl* tention to the fact that owing to a mistake the chapter MN*. cheater returned two member.. . . It was received that the attention of hie gram the Awl. bishop ahuald be drawn to the circumstance, with a raw d having the mistake corrected. The minutes of yesterday's proceeding. were read end eta. Armed . Mr. Prolocutor and the Deans present wtte directed t convey the address to the Upper House. The Rev. Jesus Tim Dam., M.P., Proctor for the Diocese of Ely presented a Majesty a e n raying that the servimixthe ucession of her be referred to the occasional wt. vices committee, wit the view of appertaining shade II doss not contravene the act of uniformity. On the motion of the Archdeacon of Tat - arms it me M. solved that the gravamen be referred to such committee. The Rev. J. ilanicivo presented a gravamen oomphislag of the exclusion of the unlamenced clergy. Though having the cure of soula, they were excluded from the right of voting for members otthe Lower House of Convocation. The gravamen wee referred to the committee of gramma. The Mee. Mr. CLAt7OIITON presented a gravamen on the subject of presentments of churchwardens, so far as they related to notorious offenders ; by the canons of the chard. churchwardens were required to present notorious offenders. and the cy to announce such offenders at the time of ssece. Such a proceeding had become pried.. sally impossible, and the gravamen payed that it should be reconsidered. . . _ The gravamen Irma referred to the usual committee ce: such documents. On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Ticoarsor, a motion was carried for the appointment of a connate, to consider the present construction of the Lower Home of Convocation, with a view to derive and recommend cult attentions as in the judgment of ouch committee arc nen dered tweemery by the cUngre of the times, and appear bed calculated to secure for Convocation the confidence of the parochial clergy, of the laity, and of the government. A &warden then arose upon the mode of summoning Convocation and conducting In business ; it wae complained that the lower house was not allowed sufficient time for din charging ite important functions, while there were no Mr for conducting it. discussione such as these, which um enforced in other deliberative ameroblim. The both., how ever appeared to be filled with hope for the future, ethecielly ate; what had pawed yesterday in the tippeilloune. It Ins also mentioned that the present Convocation was the nag numerously attended of any on record in modern times. A Menage came down from the upper holm moods the attendance there of Mr. Prolocutor end th e deans to en cetve thelyderieton on the amendments to the dd'aa. afterwards Mr. Prolocutor returned with the address, via Wes ultimately adopted as their lordships had framed it. The bowls then proceeded to the discussion of rolsoalft• moan matters, aad We. left sitting. THE CITY FRAUD& MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, a special session ass held d Otuldhall, for the potpie of hearing an application fit • warrant of distress against the overseers of the parish dee. Stephen, Coleman-street, to recover the sum of 2,8001., tbi amount of an order made onthatparishby the guardians old* City Union, each order being misted by the oversews, °IOW ground that the parish was not bound to make gond its shay of the lose sustained by the frauds of Paul and Msekl. Mere were present the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, sal Aldermen Carter, Wire, Cubitt, Hale, and Rose. Mr. Hawkins, on behalf of the oversees; yolk& le tbl esurt to postpone the hearing until a Ms mid, which kel been granted by the Court of Queen's Bench for a ea of certiorari, should have been &octant. The pedal was perfectly willing in the mean time to pay a theumel pear* or any other arm on account, so es to meet the eury rent szpenees of the guardians, provided that such skald not be taken to prejudice the canon either Hz. PAIIRLIT Q.C., resisted the aftgieetieeirila IY growl that it w o uld la to unnecessary delay. s t of the guardians being an administrative and not a ju act, he felt perfectly emealn that the Court of Queues Bad would not for a moment sustain the rule Id when ft came to be .usd. What he proposed wee thetas disbar warrant shoats Issue ; that a formal levy omit he arlia, end that then an action for traipses druid le =IC c l , i t ylls e ezre, R wlttele ones takstleatgle Mellen tennent should net be mesa gym ad the Me bid Mil bus of. Mr. Havana eat diet tbe plea pelmet by lb Isemeel Mena me be the lent expeible sine a an hie diode had at bee as glut ou isbeeet b 1 bovlis wad an the guardians themselves. After a abort consultation, The Recommit said tile court were of opinion that le would be unseemly to grant the warrant until the Cowie( Queens Bench had pronounced its judgment on the point beton it. Nor did they think the pies by Mr. Peebles a convenient one, or or olSto bring the litigation to a more speedy co than the coulee suggested by Mr. Bastille. Under these circumstances, the Court would poetpan the further hearing of the case till Friday, the 29th instant, at eleven in the forenoon—the overseers, in the meantime, eon. smiting to pay half of the cello se they became due. This was agreed to, and the Court adjourned. We deeply regret (says the Union) to learn that Dr. Posey is in a very weak state of health. His phyliceell have given distinct orders that he should keep entirely TIM for the nest three months. Tug Mrrßorous ROADS.—Yesterday, the C. miasioners of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads, north lithe Thames, held a public meeting at their office, No. t 2, White. " for the purpose of letting by auction to the tot bidder, for the term of one year from the first of Jaly oat inclusive, the tolls payable daring such year at the sake sad tars upon and by the side of the several roads in the die. bid." The oommionioners present were Mr. Lambert Jana (chairman), and Meyer. Pound, Kempthead, Audio, Bit' deed, and Mille. There was a numerous attendance of lemma connected with the metropolis and all parts of the reastrya among whom it will be seen there was no competiffea the several roads except for the Eclgeware and the MY coeds, the latter having gone up in value to nearly 3001. be. yond the sum it fetched at the sale last year. The toll. put up, and the prices they were offered at, which preset were what they produced lame yew were m . L OI, lows : The tolls atthe Kensington ffn1 , U...0 of Isleworth-rooda at 14,9501. The tolls *Asia& f co, upper division of the Tyburn and Uobridge-read4 ana lower division of the Uthridge-rood, at 9,2101. Ana arising from the Harrow-roads of 1,060/. The tells ecilected at the Highgate and liampetood -roads net 4,834/ 13s. 4d. The tolls of the upper and lower divisions of the Stamford• hill-made and of the Green-lanes ditto, at 8,0101. The tolls arising from the Hackney and Lea-bridge-roods at 4,6004 The total arising from the New North-toad at 7801., and those from the Marylebene and Finchley-roads at 1,6001. Nattier of the above tolls were let or sold for the year. The tolls arising from the Kilburn and Edgeware-roads which were Id for the yaw ending June 30, 1852, at 3 3401. were koockoi down for 3,440 1 . , and those arising from the city-mit which were let far the clear yearly rent ending Igo) 2,6604 reached 2,840/. The former were peeed byri T. Taylor sod the litter by Mr. Bolton. bt Court. OSBORNE, Nay S. The Queen and Prince, with the Royal family, world at Oshawa yesterday, at half-past two o'clock. Ha Majesty awl hie Royal Mester walked wad drove la the vowed, Is the allsrocoo. The nine* ledt Oshtemo Ude morning, at a quarter before eight o'clock, for Window Coolly. A deputation from Lompoc!, relative to a burial ground, bad sar interview with Bir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office The deputation manna of the Rev. A. TlVCsukey, Rev. T. Major Lester, Captain Johnnie, and Yr. Richard Johnnie. The deputation wee aconrapaakd by XL lionfell, MY., and Mr. T. C. it M.P. The Royal Commission for detertniniog the die of the now National (hairy son cm Thursday, at 17, Great Queen. strest, WerfaMatte. Preeent—Lord Brengbles (Chairman), the can of St. Paul's, Professor Faraday, Yr. Cookerall, and Ik. Richmond. ATeWtatirm train the Commiegoness of St. Martin's Bathe had en interview with the Rigid Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall yemenday, at the Mee of Pub& Works, on the subject of beaks and week-hognie. The deputation consisted of Mr. Pkilip Feb.., and Mr. Samuel Barton (esnuniasioners), sad Yr. Dismerdaid, clerk to the onnatieskams. Sir Alexander Smarms bed en interview with the Chan miler of the Bache/mar yesterday. Iteemstahas f the Goveremsof the Nov& American Pro vinces won sent hat evening from the Colontaladice. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDA T. His Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived here from Oebcese aim o'clock this sorosiog la the royal Petry, comiestird by the Hes. Cori Demme. The Prier wee moirombd by Card Mid* sad Lind - Weld P mid was /mho' bylderrs. Hedger awl Len, ihe Soilowleo Ds* eretheellio. rod by Mr. Weddee, et the Salk ores RI Merl fth nem tree d el delp wooroles sod recorded to Wholore rig as. le attest dr towel of her Soya %lore Me Dobai of Gloomalat. Noce Albert retuned hoe st I p.a., IN node to Osborne, The Countess d'Appony hee issued cards for ansrabliee at Chandoe Houle, on the 18th tact. end on the Roth that. The Duke and Duchies of Richmond and Lady Cecilia Gordan Lemma and her Bw®e Highness the Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived in town yesterday from Goodwood. _ The Duke of Somerset hu returned to town for the season, from his teat he Devonshire. The Marquis' and Marchioness of Ai'rebury have arrived in town from Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Earl of Malsorebury, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Westmorland, the Countess of Tankerrine, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Nleoeuntess Finks', Lord Burgbersh, Hon. Frederick end Lady Elisabeth Finials, Mr. Norman Maodceald, and Mr. and Mrs. Banns Cochrane, at dinner on Wednesday, at the rmty onsion in Berkeley-square. A Or triee . sis ea la Use maim to coegratulate Lady Closeting Villiers her natal day: The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have arrived stßridpwater House, from Wonky Hall, Lmisoashiro. The Earl Forteseue has arrived in town, from Culls Hill, Devon. The Earl of 3finto has come to town for the sews, from Mato Hotta, war Hawick, N.B. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, who havo been peening sevenl weeks In Paris, have returned Gem the Coatiaent. Lord Brougham may be expected to arrive in town from his chateau in the south of France about the 20th init. Hh lord■hip has been suffering from a severe attack of Influenra; but we are glad to be able to announce that his metal good health is now completely Teetered. Lord and Lady Foley have arrived in Grosvenor square from their seat in Notts. The marriage of the Lady Emily Catherine Hare, mooed daughter of the Earl of Lietowel, with Mr. J. W. Becher, seemed son of the late Sir William Becker, Bart., wss solemnised at the perish church of Conramore, on Wedneeditylest. Lord and Lady Raglan have arrived in town from the Berl Beenchantp's Nat, in Worcestershire. Lord and Lady Kinnaird arrived in town a few days slum, from Scotland, for the mason. Lord and Lady Vaux, of Harrowden, arrived in town a kw days Anne from his lordship's mat in Surrey, for the mum His lordship has taken a raddance in Chca harn-idzest. Lord Ravensworth and the lion. Misses Liddell win entre in town In slew dais for the mem Mr. Gladstone entertained at breakfast, yesterday morning, the Bishop of Oztonf, Lord Stanley, the Dean of St Nara Arebdatoon Grant, Mr. F. Sims Williams, and a few other friends. Mrs. John Laurie gave an elegant the daasant on Tharaday evening In Hyde-park-place. The Prince of Clods cams, attended by • suite of Indian followers, and remained for ward hoarsen Intrastate:l spectator of the ball-room. . . Lord Byron har come to town from his seat in Ihelgehhey far the meeting of parliament. Esrl of Carlisle, during his brie stay in town, kende to renakt with the Duke and MAINS et Sutheeland Sir Charles Wood will hold his first levee of the =KS os Tbanday, Jaw 11, Cat the Ad/of:sky, Whitehall, ski oil ocloormat Tionsigs it ion owl Jull. I ,COllllB 4ba .• free glom prom pew draw enact haa c tic anrce &bow We !caw Iraq w pabli lath tbe 1 • WI bet a sin ..s clog ~ f iv Dove mon moll Sce., duril