The Express. — London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

ailecalt matter to point out e. remedy, without dia.i % egg the basis of 1819, which is, at least, are not to do. But, however de sorable it may be to ' the iinpregnability of the Bank, and to m idd l e depreciation and Amiss poems of an inoon .o6, orrice, still there assuredly exist mauls d ph,aut this without a total suspension of oat,— and out seeking to recall a flitting gold eurf oacy by flinging, at the same time, the existing ppe armory into the sea after it. are to be the givers and controller+ of oont acy and credit, it im pretty evident that their b o nds and intellects cannot be tied in 1847 by abstract mid immutable laws laid down in 1844, and drawn up with views , and towards ends, quite different from what exist now. Oar legislation on most things is at r esent empirical ; and for the working and testing of them things functionaries have been entrusted with =avoidably arbitrary powers. This has been pecu liarlythe case in carrying into effect the maxima of theorists and economists. The directors of the Bank o f England may not be the fit persona to entrust such p o wers to; but they certainly ought to be in some hands more cognisant of current and secret wants sad difficulties than parliament can be. The Bank itself has shown its utter distrust of the lo t n oiples of the act of 1844. Although called by Bat ad to restrict and diminish the currency, it long refrained to do so, fully aware that there was no over boding to cheek, but on the contrary every possible a id and facility required to stimulate productions and trade, in order to pay for supplies of corn in some thing else than solid bullion. The Bank, however, has many other solid and selfish reasons for upholding the law of 1844, and will not come forward to expose its defects. All parties, in tact, shirk the great duty of moiling and mooting a solemn law, of which the doh= are evident, without the remedy being at all se. The favourite panacea seems to be to stop rail read pakten sad &rads, not in haat), which might have dam wee justice and wisdom, but in regress. Like the Irishman who takes three ee far pins from his harrow to furnish iron fir dis t * his horse, and then =shoes him sitertwas to provide pins for the harrow when wanted, we are to take the money in May from the railroad to set the cotton-mills going, and hand it back to the railroad companies at the commencement of winter, when they can make no nee of it. And this is proposed at a time when all that the cotton mills want is their usual annual accommodation in the Ray of credit. But all is to be sacrificed to an inoperative scheme for keeping bullion in the Bank cellars. We have, however, no space at present to enter into the wide question of the principle of the act of 1844, limiting ourselves to the usertion, that Mr. TOOK R's principles and prognostications have not been proved ao erroneous as was so dogmatically cried forth at that time. In the May number of the Journal of the Siatistical Society are a score of pages giving a most lucid picture of the Bank and its operations since the passing of the act, which paper fully proves at least one of Mr. TOOKE'S dicta, viz., how little the amount of Bank notes is proportionate to, or can be considered an index of, the whole circulation. We have been more than once reminded b 7 corres pondents that some time since, when commenting upon of farming land, we intimated the purpose of publishing a model lease, and that we have not done so. Now there is no magic in the mere form of a lease, which should be a deed of greatsimplieity ; and in truth, a very good model lease might be framed by taking any of the forme in general use and striking out all the objectionable stipulations, leaving it a mere con tract for the possession of land for so many years at so much rent. The modern agricultural difficulty with regard to leases is, not how a lease should be framed, but of what it ought to consist ; not what is to be the form, but what the substance of a lease. There is nothing which shows more hew completely the practice and art of husbandry have outgrown the notions of owners of land, than this difficulty. Assuming a landlord to have made such an advance in the knowledge of his own business as to have got over his preliminary repugnance to grant a lease, then comes the question of stipulations. And here there is commonly a dead lock; the landlord, his lawyer, and his land agent require the insertion of regulations and restrictions, sanctioned probably by custom,—the custom of times long gone by—which the tenant knows perfectly well it would be altogether inconsistent with good husbandry and profitable farming to observe. In this state of things, if the tenant be a man careful of incurring hazardous legal obligations, he will de cline the lease altogether, andeither give up the treaty or prefer a yearly tenancy, with all its dangers and difficulties, to the being bound down for a long period of time to the performance of rural impossibilities. Or otherwise, he will sign the lease, put it in his cup board, and think no more of its contents, until, at the end of his term, he is awakened from his dream of security by information that a fresh steward, or a sew owner, of the farm, will require the strict and literal performance of the covenants of his lease. In fact, leases now in use have been aptly designated " traps for tenant farmers ;" and so fully are intelli gent farmers aware of this, that their di inclination to accept leases—such leases as they were likely to get—has been made use of by landlords as an argu ment for their system of yearly tenancies. But there sever was a farmer, following his occupation as a matter of business, who would not prefer a rational Ilse to any other kind of tenure. The "rest object, therefore, is to determine, first, what 'lease should be ; then the form will be settled readily enough. Now, the first step in the inquiry is what are the purposes of the parties to the contract ? And first, of the landlord ? Then, of the tenant ? The' rational, and usually the prevailing, purpose of the landlord is to obtain the best rent for his farm, sod to receive it back at the end of the term in a condi tion at least as good as when he let it. This is the Min purpose of ell landlords. But beyond and besides this, n ine-tenths of the proprietors of land in England desire to impose on their tenants certain Dastard-feudal services. They want all the commer cial rent they can get, and they want also certain res trictive stipulations which may be made to operate as a sort of string round the tenant's leg Amid he go too fast or too far in any direction not agreeable to the landlord. Now, these two things are obviously incon sistent, and the commercial principle is that which most largely prevails in relations of medern landlords tad tenants. Nevertheless there is enough of feudalism retained in the contract, which, though it may be in abeyance for a time, may at any time be called, at the mere will of the landlord, into an activity most noxious, Perhaps ruinous, to the tenant. These stipulations are of two ela-ses, which may be termed negative and positive. The one consisting of absurd prohibitions, such as not to remove trees, not to break up pasture, not to cut down hedges till twelve or fourteen yens' growth, and the like; the other class being positive directions as to rotations of crops, manuring, ploughing, sowing, and so forth. All each terms are altogether out of place in s farming lease, where the tenant doe, not mean to be a kind of bailiff cultivating with his own capital the landlord's plea sure farm. So far as these terms are not relics to. the practices of past ages, they result from an appre hension on the part of the landlord that the tenant will unfairly abstract from the land something more than by the terms of the contract he is entitled to do; or, otherwise, that his own skill in husbandry, and his own sense of self-interest, are not sufficiently powerful to induce him to farm well. Therefore, a certain agricultural formulary is prescribed. AU this, however, is founded on utter ignorance of prac tical agriculture, and results from incorrect observa tion of every day's occurrences in rural affairs. When tenant of competent capital and skill is in possession of a farm, his possession and his power to deal with the surface of the land can scarcely be too absolute. He cannot farm well and injure the property at the same time, and it is every farmer's interest to farm well, for by good farming alone can he reap a profit. This is an agricultural axiom which no fanner questions, though it would seem, by the fears landlords entertain, to admit of doubt in their opinion. Nor is it possible by means of positive covenants, even supposing the course pointed out in such covenants to be in itself judicious, to convert • bad farmer into a good one. Such stipulations are insisted on in utter forgetfulness of the homely rural proverb, that " a child may lead a horse to water, but a dozen men cannot make him drink." But in truth there are comparatively few absolutely bad farmers. Most men who have that character derive it from the restric tions under which they farm, or from their being allowed to hold too mach land for the capital they an command, or from the hopeless state of depend ence and vassalage in which, from some cause or other, they ar e retained by their landlords. On the farmer's part, the object of a lease should be, and usually is, to enable him by outlay and a judicious course of management to get not a mere pittance, but such an ample reward as the care, the industry, the capital, and the enterprise of an intelligent fanner justly deserve. This can only be done where the tenant has a long term, and is free from vexatious restrictions. Nor ought Landlord's to feel jealous on this point, though we know that not a few of them imagine that if a tenant makes much money on his farm, he has done so at the landlord's expense. Nothing, however, is farther from the truth. Land is to be looked at as a machine of which the latent power of production has hitherto been very imperfectly developed ; and it is by developing that power, by drawing forth its latent capacity, not by robbing it of anything which is the landlord's, that a Food farmer expects to make or does make money. e had intended to have appended some data en I which a good form of lease might be framed ; but aa, in so doing, we should exceed our Hunts, we must take an early opportunity of returning to the sub ject—really, one of the most important agricultural questions of the day. The Paris journals of Thursday, and our usual cor respondence, have come to hand. An animated debate took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, on the subject of the extra ordinary credits taken in the department of foreign affairs, in which a sharp attack was made on the ca binet by M. Billault, and defended by M. Guizot. This formed the subject. of a leading article in the Omstittetiotmel against the minis:ry on Thursday, in which traces of the hand of M. Thera are visible. The rumours which we alluded to yesterday of ministerial changes continued to circulate, and to gain more consistency. The principal members of the cabinet, MM Guizot, Soult, Duchatzl, Hebert, and Damon, would, it was said, continue in office; the other five, MM. Saivandy, Moline de St. Yon, Cunin- Gridaine, Lacave-Laplagne, and De Mahan retiring. M. Duchatel would, it wad said, go from the Home office to the Finance, M. Damon taking his place. Count Darn was spoken of as Minister of Public Works, M. Murat de Bord as Minister of Commerce, and M. Charles Dupin as Minister of Marine. We give these as mere rumours, forming the subject of conversation in the Salle des Conferences, without guaranteeing their accuracy. In conseqfience of the affair brought by the letters of General Cubieres, M. Cremieux had laid before the bureaux a proposition to render all directors or public companies incapable of sitting in the chamber; and so strong has been the impression produced by the recent disclosures, that this proposition has been adopted without debate by all the bureaux. The Chamber of Peers, under the presidenee of Duke Pasquier, was extraordinarily convoked. The Keeper of the Seals ascended the tribune amidst profound silence. " Gentlemen," he said, " we have the honour to present to the chamber as ordonnance of the King, bearing yesterday's date, convoking the Court of Peers to try General Cubielee, peer of France, for crimes and offences provided against by articles 179 and 405 of the penal code. M. Delangle, procureur-general at the Court of Peers, aided by M. Glandes, avocat-general, are appointed to support the accusation." The Keeper of the Seals then presented the ordon nance to the chamber; and Duke Pasquicr announced that on Friday at one o'clsck the chamber would form itself into a court of justice. Hereupon Gen. Cubieres left his place, ascended the tribune, and ex pressed himself to the following effect : " Gentlemen, being prevented by serious indisposition from attend ing your sittings, I impatientlyawaited the moment of being present. I regret that the peculiar situation in which I am placed prevents me from giving ex planations on certain facts which now engross the public attention. I must, therefore, have patience. No one is more interested than myself that truth should be made manifest. Ido not fear that it will be otherwise before the wisdom of the court of peers, and I confidently await the result of their deli berations." General Cubieres then returned to his seat, but retired almost immediately from the cham ber. The chamber then went into the order of the day. Bon Maza, the celebrated African chief, had arrived in Paris, and engaged apartments in one of the hotels, but, on desoeudinz from the carriage, was in formed he would be under surveillance, and must reside in a place inuicated by the authorities. No Madrid mail was received in Paris on Thursday. FRANCE.—Ma. O'CoNNELL—Marseilles journals of the 3rd annouce the arrival there of Mr. O'Connaell, accompanied by his son, hie chaplain, and his physician. These gentlemen, says the Ciensaphorcstate that Mr. O'Con. null hadimprove d considerably atter his arrival at Avignon Iso the 25th ult. He conversed much more freely than he , had done since he quitted England. DUEL.—A duel with swords has just been fought between M. de Pommereux and the Duke de Vicente, in which the former received a dangerous wooed just below the heart. The cause of the meeting is said to be, that M. de Pommereux had emus:seed his determinetion to oppose the admiasion of the duke as a member of the Jockey Club, saying that he would never give his vote for the son of a man who had taken part in the execution of the Duke d'Enghiea HOLLAND.—AYBTERDA3I, MARCH —STATES GI EN 611 A L.—The second chamber of the states general came to an important decision, on tie 4th, respecting certain articles of the fundamental law and that of June 19, 1845. It will be remembered that a treaty of commerce and nevi tion was concluded, last summer. between Holland and Belgium—a treaty which was considered by numbers in the former country as too favourable to the Ott r. Many mem ben, moreover, of the second chamber objected to the mode of effecting the treaty—viz., by royal ordennance, instead of by virtue of a law, in w hich the states should neeessarily have taken part, the legislative power in Holland being con currently exercised by the king and the state. general. In tcm articles of the ern: melted, or funelamen•al law, it is pre scribed that no tax or impost may be levied for the benefit of the public treasury except by virtue of a law ; and it is con tended that, as the treaty referred to did impose, change, or alter certain iluties,there has been a violation of, or deviation from, the chief law of the Dutch nation. On the other hand, that same law declare, that the king has the right to conclude and to ratify all treaties—a tight, it may be observed, which has been exercised he the crown since the year 1815. The decision of the chamber, on the motion of Harr Hoffman, was to the effect—that a committee be appointed to draw span adders* to his Majesty, in order to make known to him that by the treaty with Belgium the provisions of the sicond article of the law of June 19, 1845, and of the 195th and 106th articles of the fundamental law were departed from. The motion was carried by a majority of 6. One of the chief objects of the supporters of the motion was to show the necessity of a revision of the funda mental law—a religion which, during layered years past, has been called for:II/the " liberal" party of Holland. R MA.N T. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAT 4. Tan Darr.—The AUgemeine Preamiche Zeitung of this day contains the official reports of the discussions in the meetings of the three estates held on the 29th and 30th ultimo. The three estates met immediately after the adjournment of the erasion of the combined estates. The deliberations were merely formal. Two subjects, however, were incidentally brought under consideration, which, as indications of what is fl.ating in men's minds, are of consequence. M. Mohr, after remarking that, according to the 'movements of the chamber, they were not properly an united national assembly, but merely eight provincial assemblies .fitting in the same room, pm. posed that instead of the members repreaeating one province sitting together as at present, each man should take his seat indifferently where he pleased. The marshal remarked that the sailgoet meld only be brought under consideration by =lAlleilltion to the king. The other topic was of more prostital interest M. Diergardt drew attention to dr effect alibi late increase of the duty in cotton yam to =ent the general distrear. The Rhine districts, he said, to Anselos to compensate for the short supplies of familia Europe. France and England had given extensive orders for basedstnffs in America, and the consequence was, that these countries bad received from America orders for cotton goods. " We, gentlemen," proceeded the speaker, are unfortunately usable to engage in such an exchaage. The resolution adopted at the last conference of the Zollve rein imposes a customs duty of 3 dollars the eentner on twist, and allows no drawback on exported rods. The Prussian manufacturer, if be is to compete with English, ' French, and Belgian manufacturers must, in order to plane himself on a footing of equality with them, reduce wars. (Order.) I have little more to say : I have to request that the Marshal of the Diet will immediately appoint a committee to sit on the proposal I now present to lam. My median is, to petition his Majesty that a drawback may be allowed of the whole duty on twist or all cotton [shrift' which ere exported." The marshal replied that he would immediately refer the petition to a committee.—April 30. At the opening oldie sitting it appeared, from the list of ruinous' referred to eommetees, that M. Diergert's pen. tion for a drawback equivalent to the duty on twist or cotton wares exported had been refcrred to the ninth committee. To the same committee were referred the petition of M. Von Eyes= for the immediate convocation of a congress of the Zollversio, to revise the tariff, and remedy the evils which have ensued from the decisions of the last eon bream respecting cotton and linen yarns, and a petition from M. Borne. so the same effect The order of the day was a report from the third committee, respecting the exclusion of persons of bed character from the diet. The report, which was mud by Oraf Von Stosch, is long, and relates te —the criteria by which infamy, implying exclu sion from the assembly, is to be ascertained, and the manner in which the application of these criteria to special cases is to be made. The report, long in itself, would be unintelli- THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1847. gible, unless seeempealed by tlee projei de ki, almost equally long, which it is s criticism. The 'dandle cif the subject ham hula Interest for foreicatn. The re poet concludes with ems words: " The law is wall timed, fiat up apple cemiggidatioa, and will remove many doubts. A modem emalmesle In reject the law by M. Bruit, who commeneed le reminding the manntaly that the prqjet was introduced with spaniel reference to his ease. HA had, bees prosecuted by Ohs stet* foe emery, and honourably acquitted. Yet b 7 the law he might, nothwithstanding his sequined, be excluded. Ile enlarged upon the extent to wheel such law might be made a means of oppression and casabas of popular righto. This eoatesierry of the diet admitted that the proposed law had actuated in the ease of K. Brost, but deprecated discussing its merits on so narrow a basis. lc however, the assembly wished a full explanation of the ease, he would deposit the papers with the secretary. A general wish was excreted that this should he done. In the dis mission which ensued, the leading liberals expressed their entire disapprobation of the law, on the ground that it sub jected to exclusion all persons who had been sentenced to a degrading (entralrersds) . punishment, and that such punish ments indicted for poli tical offence., or by the decision of military courts, might be made a pretext for excluding the most useful and generally respected citizens. Atter • prolonged debate, which at times became rather hot, and bordered on personalty, it was declared (without taking a vote) that the majority wire of opinion that such a law wee necessary. The debate on the general question being closed, it was intimated that the discussion of the law, paragraph by paragraph, should be began next day. THE GERMAN Pans.—The Nuremberg Corers- Mtstates, on the credit of • correspondence from the e i , dated April 28, that it is beyond doubt that a pro- penal on the subject of the press will be made on the part of Austsia, in the assembly of the confederation. By this pro ' pool the press would be freed from the restrictions which have hitherto weighed upon it, but the discussion of the external affairs of e confederacy would be still kept under censure. Internal questions may be discussed without re ' serve, if the respective governments permit it. The proposal of Austria, to which Prussia willingly leaves the initiative in this matter, will be followed in the latter country by a new law on the press, 'flu question then will be, whether any other states will follow Prunia. It may safely be in (erred that Hammer will not do so ; and it is also doubtful whether Electoral Hanka will follow. GALICIA.—CRACOW, APRIL 26.—The fabrication of tobacco for private use, or for sale, has been formally pro- Libited in the territory of Cracow. Persona who have stores of tobacco on hand are allowed to sell the same up to the end of April, after which time the government tea well be levied upon them. Salt and tobacco are the two great monopolies of the Austrian government, SAXF.:WEIMAR, MAY I.—The municipal authori ties of Weimar have interdicted the baker, of the town from selling bread which has not been at least twenty-four hours out of the oven, undo. the penalty of one dollar fine for each loaf mold contrary to this decree. A similar measure was adopted in England in 1799, during the great scarcity of that year. The economy on stale bread is estimated at one quarter. 9,9981. 11s. 3d. stook, and that the balance in the hands of the bankers was 1,96111. Pintas YOU Friars.—MT. Pea'r submitted to the council the schedule of onus for next year, the Essays com peting for them (agreeably with conditions to be he us the next part of the Journal of the S o ci e ty), t o he sent to the secretary on or before the let of March, 1848. This eche. dule having been taken into consideration, the :olio wing sub jects and amounts of the respective prises were iiiially agreed to: Farming of Yorkshire, North Riding, 60/. ; do Kest Rid ing, 50/. ; West Riding, 101. ; farming of Gloucestershire, 601.; farming of Devonshire, 501.; management of cattle, 301. ; use of lime as a manure, 201. ; 'management of steals lend, 301.; hops, 201. ; management of farm berees, 20 1 hemp, 201. ; deuro-pneursonie, 501. The commit deeidled that 1001. of the 4501. placed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society at the disposal of the Society, in GM, shoed be ap propriated as two-thirds of the amount of prizes proposed an the foregoing schedule for reports of the Liming in the several ruling( of that county. COUXTUY MaI:TING OF 1848.—The report of Mr. Kinder, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, and Mr. Browne, of their peewee! inspection of the localities proposed in the Yorkshire district, for the purposes of the country meeting of the Society in 1848, having been read, several gentlemen forming deputa tions from different parts of the Yorkshire district, commu nicated such detailed local information respecting throe pats of the Yorkshire district with which, from their immediate raddence, they were more particularly connected. as !tar nished the coma with evidence of the respective capabi lake of the proposed localities to afford accommedatieo for the members, and best promote the objects of the society. These deputations having retired, the council proceeded to de liberate, and finally resolved, that the city of York should be the place of the country meeting of the society fur the year 1848. Mr. !Judicial, M.l'. (the lord mayor), And the other members of the deputation from York (on theta return to the council) were informed by the noble chairman of the de cision the council had just made ; when they expressed, on the port of that ancient city, their gratification at the result then communicated to them, and the unanimous and cordial feeling with which every effort would be made by the citi zens of York to give the society a hearty welcome, and pro mots, to the urinal of their power, the success of the meet ing and the national objects of the society. Dlevatcr eon 1851.—The council then proceeded to de termini, the district within which the euuntry meeting of the society should be bold in the year 1851 ; a,d decided, on the motion of Lord Portman, that such district shoal/ com prise the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Suss. x, and be deoig noted " The South Eastern District." Other business hewing been usissactsd, t►e council ad journed to Wednesday next, th. 12th inst. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The forty-third anniversary of this society was held last night in the large room, Exeter-hall. J. G. Here, EN , took the chair, and said the good this society had done could hisruly be estimated, for during the put year they had issue I upwards of 18,000,000 copies of new publicotxons, wince had been circu lated so every pert of the world, and, although the receipts of the society only amounted to 0,0001., the business was conducted in so admirable a manner, that they were enabled to pay all their expenses, and place 2,0011. at the disposal of their benevolent fund. The report then referred to the death of Samuel Hoer, the late treasurer of the society, and also George Collinson, E-q., one of the first presidents art the society, kith of whom have died since the last meeting of the society, and whose deaths would be a great li es to the society. Jelin Gurney Fiore had been ap pointed to the office of demurer. Several gentlemen ad dress-4 the meeting, and a vote of thanks to the chair closed the proceedings. LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONORT THI Jaws.—YestardAy, the 39. h annual meeting of the above society was held at Exeter-hall, Lnrd Ashley in the chair. The noble chairman read a letter from Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian minister, expresaive of his regret at not being able to attend the meeting, and express to them in person 'he deep interest his Majesty the King of Prussia felt in the welfare of the society. The sulneriptions for the year, in addition to a sum of 983/. 12a. to the temp aril relief fund, amounted to 29,0461. Os. 6d., being an increase of 3,2641. 9s. 10d. over the preceding year. T. e report having been atkitcd, and the meeting addressed in numerous speeches in support of the proposed resolutions, thanks were voted to Lord Ashley for his presidency, and the mecing separated. ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL—We were yesterday invited to a private view of the arrangements for the fancy sale to be held this day, and on the 10th, 11th. and 12th lint at the new schoolhouse, Reverse ick-hill. The house is • handsome building, in the Italian style, very mations, and well situate on the brow of the hill, surrounded by extensive grounds. The fancy sale, which is under the immediate patronage of her Majesty and the highest of the female aristocracy, is to theist of articles worked by ladies through out the country, together with numerous articles of British and foreign maautacture. Among the first class mentioned, we particularly noticed many very elegant eieces of needle work by the Counter of Sheffield. ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY.— A special general court was held yesterday at the society's office, in Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, Captain Lamont, R.N., in the chair; when the minutes of tee previous court were confirmed, and the half-yearly election of children into the aselum altered to the second Friday in the August and February of each year. The remainder of the business consisted in the election of the Hon. William Ashley, a vice president, to be one of the trustees of the satiety. REFORM IN PAELthMENT.—NATIONAL ALLIANCE. —A public meeting was held last evening at Farringdon Hall, Kireg's Arms-yard. Snow-hill, to take measures in sup port of the principles of the National Alliance. There was a very large attendance. Mr. Robertson presided. Mr. Clarke, of Walthamstow, proposed the first resolotion, to the effect that the House of Commons was not • fair repre sentation of the people ; and that the majority of its mem bers had forfeited all claims to the confidence of the earnest friend. ef civil and religious liberty. Dr. Epps seconded the resolution, which, having been carried with acelarnetion, • second was proposed by Mr. Henry Vincent, expressing the confidence of the meeting in the National Al liance, which they considered to be worthy r f the support of all classes. This resolution was also carried. The pro. mediae concluded with • vote of thanks to the chairman. A PRETTY LITTLE GAME FOR PRETTY LITTLE LORDS OF Till ADMISALTT.—An amusing game is that ef building ships, and seeing whether they wall float. You must first get some oak timber and knock it into shape any how, till at begins to look something like • tub. Then take I your ship to the seaside and see if it will Boat ; but if it will not, you must take it out of the water and pul it to pieces again, end begin making a fresh ship. Do this until it does not sink. When this is the ere, you can begin putting in your guns ; but, if it &cold roll over, which is very pro bable, you had better carry away your ship before it goes to the bottom, and pull it to pieces again, and patch it and con struct it on quite • new plan; but if, after all, it does nothing but roll over, you had better put it aside for fire wood, and lose no more time about getting some more oak timber, and begin building another ship. The most amusing game, however, is to build some four or five ships at the same time, as like one another as two eggs, and to launch them all together. It is great fun to watch them in the water. One wall pitch, the other will toss; one will roll, and another will do nothing at all but show • strong desire, like a stone, to go to the bottom. This sport is very divert ing, and never tires, no matter how often you may repeat it. You may play at this game as often as you like, (or you an come to no harm in trying the erpenments, as you do not go in the ships yourselves, and hare nothing to pay for the amusement. It is the stupid English nation which pays fur all.—Punch. INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—CHARGE OF CHILD MURe DIM IN A RAILWAY CARRlAoll.—Before Mr. Waklcy, at the Elephant and Castle, King' s- road, Camden-town, on the body of Hannah Causley, aged three months, alleged to have met its death from the improper treatment of her Lather, Lawrence Canary, now in custody, and remanded on the charge by Mr. Rawlineon, the Morylebone police magistrate. Henry West, a porter in the employ of the Loudon and North Western Railway Company, said the accused arrived at the Euston terminus in a third-class carriage, on Tuesday evening, from LiverpooL He bad a pack, which witness assisted on to his beck, and in doing so he observed that he had a bundle in his arm. He asked what it was, nud the man said it was a child, but that it had died about 17 miles down the line. Witness sent for Mr. Barker, the superintendent of police, who felt It his duty to give the man in custody. The brother-in-law of the accused, named Nolan, produced • letter he had wetter, stating that his wife and child were in the Fever Hospital in Liverpool, and that he was coming to Learn. Mr. T. H. Cooper, Pro on to St. Pancras w enid, having elm:mined the body, which he said *Mk wee emaciated, and covered with ulcers in the aide. was esereetion of the lungs and water on the Ink to seem{ hr death. The coroner, having serreibad that He sensed was remanded till Monday, ex pired his censeisdea did Hs taking the man into custody was a very tarter, pieurling, and said the poor fellow eight to be aerated Immediately. Verdict, " Natural death from disease of the lungs and water on the brain." COLONIAL BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. RAILWAY COLOR ItIATION.—WO understand that Mr. Ferley, her Majesty's emigration agent at New Brunswick, has brought over an act of the local parliament for the lormation of a hue of railway from St. Andrew's, on the Bsy of Fundy, to Woodstock ; betweeu which places a large umber and pro vision traffic exists, carried on at present by a very circuitous route. This will be the first instalment of the national scheme of British American Railwa3s, to connect with a main trunk line from Halifax to Quebec, upon which we have hem time to time inserted various communications from Mr. Bridges, the prime moveron this side of the Athol. tic of this great enterprise. The set of pirliament, which is to be confirmed by the imperial government, guarantees flee per cent. interest on the capital, concedes a free grant of 29,000 acres of land, besides MO feet on each aide of the Ike, and all the timber, fuel and materials requisite for the construction. It is pro posed to construct the line entirely of timber, prepared by eyne's protege, which renders the wood impervious to rot or other destructive agencies. Zbe eoun, - PORTSMOUTH, PRIDAY.—Her Maty arrived here this morning at fifteen minutes past twe lve, and embarked on beard the Fairy steam yacht, and proceeded direct for Osborne. Her Majesty was received with the usual naval and military honours. A deputation from the Midland Great. Western Railway of Ireland had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George-street. A deputation of the nterchanoi of Liverpool had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official maidenee in Dowuing.street. Too tier. Mr. Perry had as interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Rev. Mr. Taylor had also as interview with his lordship. The Duke of Richmond and Sir A. L. Hay had an interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing.street. A deputation from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Compiny had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. R. Strum The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy Governor had an intt reiew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Marquis of Westminster had an interview with Sir 0. Grey yester day. Lord C. Fitaroy had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet. A deputation, including the Right lion. T. M. Pibson, Mr. H. Houldsworth, and Mr. G. Wilson, had an interview w.th the Right lion. E. Strati yesterday. Mr. Leftwich had an interview yesterday with Sir 0. Grey. (From Let night's Gazette.) WHITEHALL. MAT 4.—The Queen has appointed the Right Hon. R Montgomery Lord Belhaven, to be her Majeaty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. . _ lIITEHALL, MAY s.—The Queen has directed letter. patent to be passed under the great seal, granting unto Admiral the Hon. Sir K. Stopford, G.C. 8., the office or place of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lieutenant of the Admiralty there of, in the room of Admiral Sir D. Gould, deceased ; and unto Admiral Sir T. B. Martin, G.C.8., the office or place of Rear. Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Brituin and Ireland, &gide( the Admiralty thereof, in the room of Admiral the lion. Sir R. Stopford, appointed vice-admiral of the said United Kingdom. WAR-OFFICE, lEee 7. 10th 1.. crags.-(apt. R. Fatima& from 16th L.Drage., to become., vice Townley, who each. llth L Drags-Paymas. W. Hooghton, from 87th F., to be pay. mas., Mee Bedford, who each. 13th L Drage.-.Reg. &y -Major G. Ma, from 4th 1.. Drage., to be toe., without par., vice Miller, prom. 16th L. Drags.-Cept. 1L 0. Townley, from 10th 1,. Drags., to be rapt., Mee Paulson, who each. ; Lear. T. Pattie lobe eapt., by par., Mee Reynolds, who ret.; Coe. W. & Lockhart lobe lieuL, by par. ; T. W. Whits to be oar., by per. 17th L. Drape.-lleut. C. W. Miles to be rapt, by Per.. Yiur Ev'tbrlL who ret.; Cur. J. C. W. Roswell to be lieut., by per.; A Campton to be ow., by per. god F.-Lion. IL IL Roth., from 78th F., lobe Rod-, vice Coed, who each. 10th F.-Major G. S. Minitizimbert, from 62nd F , to be mike., Mee Goads, wbo each. ; Lieut. J. M. W. Ens., from 39th F., to be I,ut., Moe Imams, who each. 1111 h F.-Lieut. W. H. Emerson, from 10th F., to be lieut., rift Rome, who each. 49th 1.-Capt. J. DST* from IL-p. anon, to be rapt, vise 'bur. MajorJ. Gran who each.; Lieut. W. A. ryes* to be capc., by pur., rise Davis. who ret.; Ens. & & Payne to be lieut., by par. ; R. Mire to Mad I` be=par. G. L. Pretty (who was superseded Feb.l9, 1847) has Yid bus Y.-Myer W. IL Goode. from 10th F.to be major, Mae Mead. who mob. "a iirk-Liellt. C. P. O'Comill. From 114 Y., to be lieut., vice B app. the anal COmanßide Rapt iala to -. Lieut. A. Tipping hi be rapt. by par., viee Croft, who eaL; Ran. H. O. IL Carmlultast he be lieut., by par. W. IL Seymour to he Mby per. 71141 Y.-Lunt T. J. D. Read, from tad F., to be End., Moe Hooke, whosW Bar F.-Drer. Myer C. [awls to be major, without per., vice Numb Mia.; Linea. M. A. Wilma to he eapt. 1.-aymr. W. D. lotemd, from lUt L Drage., to be pu ma, vim limghlugh aueL Nth F.-M. J. Umbra ho be em., by par. 51* F.-Clomftr en,aM ome. J. Fasters, Irmo h.+. 9trod F., to be quarter. roam Mce Gord Web P.-Pm. L Frogs to be Mat., by pm., vies Taylor, who ret.; A. Merman to be am., bp gm. Ride Brigads.-teat. I. Mabee to be mgt, by par., vies Bala, who at; Oct. Lieut. J. C. Stied to be Int RoaL, by pan; R. Nab be am. beat., by par. Dryite Ride Rev.-Rom F. 0. Byer, Riga it Yy to le Ent lot. without par., Moe Berea. app. 04$. ; Used. W. algtoan b M all. Itinmer.-Capt..l. Davie, 40th F., to be swear la gbe sew= B.W oo ea ealeetor of m to the Isar of Robber bland, Cape a 000 d He" to be ma* to the army. Usarrscaso.-Lieut. W. Graham, from adjt of a reeruilimg to be eapt., without par. bnerr.-Lunt R. H. Edwards, from b.-p. matt, to be adjt. of a reersittlag diet., Moe Graham, prom. MosimAsova.-Tbs Corbel, muse of Car. Grogan, 7th L. Drags., are Cherie Edward. ADMIRALTY, Aran. W. Crepe of Royal Merino-Quartermas.-Seen R. Sarum to be see. lieut.; Colour-Seri. W. Oillies to be see. Raul. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterdayacourt was held for the purpose of pro tending further in the eonsideration of the petition of Mr. Stephen Stewart Curtis complaining of the conduct of Mears. Good and Rigg, brokers of the City, in a transaction in the skin market, the defendants having charged half per cent. brokerage to the complainant on the purchase of some hides, they not having been employed by him es his broken in the transection.—The court wee crowded with gentlemen interested in the matter.—Mr. Built, for Mr. Curtis. proceeded at peat lempli to show that the defen dants had violated the mowleelowo bid down by the Court of, Aldermen for the &reales of the broken of the City of Lan- don, as well as the isms of their heed, which e xp ressly in terdicted such double 'hems es they wen accused of having made.—Mr. Greenwood, kr the Miidants, contended that the charge to purchasers was easseissed by the practice of broken to upwards of 100 years, sad that both layer ,and seller were served by the arta' swept bukfrs to set apse emu eleaniene es anedenure lenesesand not u bilkers 6 the loud of the torm.—The further ariesest wee till the belt sitting of the court. ROYAL AuItICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. A monthly council waa held at the society's house ie Hanoverequirm, on Wednesday last, his Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G., io the chair. Ft NAN CU.—COI. AUSTIN, M.P., chairman of the Finance Committee, laid before the council the resort of that com mittee for the preceding month; from which it appeared that the amount of funded capital had been raised to IRELAND, DUBLIN, MAT 6. The following bulletin has been issued this day respecting his excellency's health : His mellow, pamsd a good night; and the cough, which for some days pest had been troublesome. has abeted. THILISII O'CLOCK Tel/ Dsv.--The Indications of Improve ment Mill continue. His excellency is better and cheerful. The city of Limerick has responded to the cry from the rock of Cashel, and the dismissed labourers have given vent to the first burst of irritation in acts of unprofitable violence. A report having been circu lated that a riot would take place in the city en Mon day, by aa union of the town and county y labourers, the authorities, military and civil, adopted the awes es tions, and stood prepared so early as Iva o'clock on Monday morning. idome carts and breadatisps were forced and plundered, and what aggravates dm enormity of this disorderly ruffmaiem is, that the friends of turbulence beast the building from which out-door relief was supplied to the poor, and u the wretched mesterei' emerged with their noggin of meal or basin of gruel they were brutally as saulted—their vessels broken, and the food scattered on the pavement. The ringleaders were seized, com mitted to prison and ought to be punished. Since Monday all has kieen tranquil in the city. In the rural districts of Limerick there her also been manifested a very riotous spirit. At the village of Annacotty, three miles from Limerick, two parties met—called forth Mr. Howley, chairman of the relief committee, and declared that the landlords were bound to support them—that they would have no porridge —that the public works should be continued, or "else there would be bad consequences in the country. They wanted no food, but work ;" when Mr. Howley stated that the able-bodied might obtain work, while the weak and aged would be supplied with food at the depas, there was a universal shout of—" We won't take your soup." In the south of the coeityLL Adam and Patrick's-well —the band having com pelled those retained on the roads to strike 'work, proceeded to the Earl of Dunraven's demesne, held a meeting, and threatened to kill and plunder if without employ meat. In Connaught there has also been some slight dis• order—to Galway and Castlebar—but no overt lets ' of violence. I have already intimated that the order for dis missal was not intended to operate as a final reduction. This view is partially confirmed •by the Mayo Tek graph of to-d.ty, which states that they " had reason to know that the works discontinued on Saturday, May 1, were to be taken up on Wednesday, May 5, but that no women or children are to be taken on." I presume that this is done in pursuance of a general order. and that the same will take place in other counties. Indeed, the non-dismissal is placed beyond a doubt, if the fact stated by the limerick Chronicle could be ,iepended upon—namely, that there were, ea Saturday la.; 260,000 employed throughout Ireland who had not been at all discharged. But the bet is, these are labourers employed on and other reproductive works, and not the Labour Rate Act. It was to the parties I employed under the latter act that •, the order of complete dismissal alone applied. 'And in the details of the discontent to which the dis missal gave rise in this very county of Limerick, and to s , inch I have referred, it is stated that on Monday last the turbulent labourers compelled such as were on the works on that day to accompany them in their demonstrations against the peace! a positive prof that there could not have been a dis missal of the labourers from all the public works on the Saturdly preceding. How difficult the collection of the relief rate is ex pected to b.' may be judged from this fact, that in the union of Cagtlebar the poundage to the collector win amount to 2a. Gd. in the pound over 12 per emit No distribution of food, under the Temporary Relief Act, has et taken place in Castlebar ; but in West port, the adjacent union, the rations to be daily dis tributed have bf.en checked at 30,000, and the expen diture is estimated at 1,2001. per week ! REPEAL AgsoCIATION.-- tile special meeting of the Repeal Anti. iatiou, convened for the purpose of agreeing to an address uf is to Americo, was held to•day. 'The chair was ...opted by Alderman Keshan, late Lord Mayor of Dublin. The address, which was proposed by Mr. John O'Connell, and seconded by Mr. James O'llea, was strongly expre-sive of gratitude, but mach leas exaggerated in poli tical sentino lit than some others which have been called forth by air benevolence of America, from other bodies. It was carried with loud acclamation, and will be presented to-morrow at 11 o'clock, a.m., t) ) Captain Clerke of the Victor, as the representative et the American people, by a deputation ..f the Repealer, SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Mir 6. Sir A. 1.. Hay has replied to the letter of his rival, Mr. G. S Duff. The gallant knight dues not dis tinctly avow his creed for next election ; but seems, if one may judge from the following passage, to favour a sort t; . l ci ketic system of politics : In so large a tonstituency as that which I have the ho nour to addre. [B:t6 by the almanac—no large number for a Scotch conritueney], there are men of all shades of political opinion ; and so long as I hold the situation of your r. pre sentative, I shall endeavour, as I have hitherto done, to prove myself. to the best of my abilities, while adhering to political principle, the zealous advocate of your rights and interests c,ii.ctively and individually, irrespective of all party feeling. 'that is the explanation given to the electors. This is the one to Mr. Duff : Should the person who advises you to demand explanation as to w loth, r I am "liberal or tory, er a compound of both," rea , ly show himself on the hustings at Elgin, I will there give hint the proper answer, which I am confident no elector will previously expect or require. The quid-nwics of the north are looking forward to the couti.st with some interest. - Tracking the course of the county meetings, the Inverness board was so busied with local matters, that it does not appear to have taken up either the Marriage or Registration Bills. At the Russ meeting one gentle-man seemed so impregnated with Dr. Varighan's idea and title-page, that this is " The Age of Great Cities," that he actually proposed that the county of Ross should verbatim adopt the petitions emitted against those bills by the parochial board of the town of Inverness. Unfortunately, two other gentlemen candidly admitted that they had not read the bills, and the result was that neither petition nor resolution of any kind was agreed to, and the subject dropped. At Fife the consideration of the bills was postponed. At a meeting held here yesterday, of influential distillers brewers, paper-makers, and others affected by excise restrictions, they formed themselves into " The National Association for the Reform of Excise Abuses," the object of which will be to secure the return of members to parliament who will pledge themselves to use their influence to obtain the removal of the abuses complained of--to have the various excise regulations clearly embodied in an act of par liament, no part of which the Treasury will have power to alter without at least a month's previous notice—to obtain the removal of all frivolous and vexatious restrictions unnecessary for the due collec tion of the revenue—and to procure the revision or repeal of those excise duties which were impolitic in their nature or oppressive to the public. Early and good news of the Greenland seal fishery has arrived by an Aberdeen vessel, which has 0,000 seals for her own share. Five vessels are reported as having caught 31,000 seals. This will go far to make up for the loss of whales, who appear to have left the Greenland coast altogether, and retreated to the upper parts of Davis' Straits, whither they cannot be pursued, except at the expense of a long voyage. The prevalence for some time past of bleak easterly and north-easterly winds is beginning to seriously affect the progress of vegetation. From all parts of the country similar complaints are coming in. FUNaIaL or 81a WALTER Scovv.—Thu Edinburgh Courant gives the following account of the interment : Although considered private, it had more the appearance of a public funeral. The tradesfolk of Melrose, dressed in deep mourning, met the cortege, which consisted of twenty car riages, at the church, and receded the hearse to the Cross, where they drew up is two lines, and uncovered while the mourners passed. All the shops were shut, not only in this village, but in Dominic. Mr. Walter Scott Lockhart, of the 16th Lancers, was the chief mourner. The funeral *anion (as in the cue of the author of Waverley) was performed by Archdeacon Williams ; and the day being beautiful, the ceremony, amid the ruins, wee highly Imposing. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. Qv art.tertnre AT LIVERPOOL W. ( Liverpool Messy) have the highest atitharity for stating that the Lords of bar Majesty's Privy Comma have, at last, taken the subject op, and have given iustriesdoas to the superintendent of quaran tine, at this port, to pleas wittiest delay at the dispeeM of the parochial authorities, two et the Isaarettos sow be the river, to be used as hospitals lim the Silk. leatmensee ham also been given to the enseenes• endierilise, to direst tilt ell pas senger vessels arriving hest ballad shall be beemlale a,the ry tide-sueyors, who sita ewesM 611 yellow leg OM b and kept flying at the geastned,lati sate wool aall lave been exasnioed by the Needled clef aggelated Orr the per. pose and until the sick, If there be gay ma ea beard, MA have been removed direct to the lemmetto. In order Mill further to entry oat these stsimgmt sagulationa, a madder Lion will be given to the sommashiss WWI pumas' mush from Ireland, that shoed my KW* •11111111 - slam ben a second time with ink eat heed, they will le sanest to quarantine for a certain Mega et tini. Of geese the mail packets which do net ger the lei poor, will be exempted frost Ws T A Mango or woainio Mae leek ;plea he the Tem peemeelell, Bredford, as Tandegate she man et *Ede lstein, ad segehengg a prlim* it Waft a eseemill, in 2,0311 agree et IL ar k. - The ledge of the Met-week omen, le to suable the repringe•after Winos or laming a earsedll, what their joint caned. le mew at their own RIM, at all seeloas, Soar, " of melded paeley," at " from 2d. to 4d., or even dd. seme Lim the nada prim." A Working Men's AaeiWa Is Is meow Waismstioa f r this • t oo sad the aretleg was sommod ter the of the same nee pgademtly Win public. was veal: a singe el negignee, pidgin the is otteraege ands= ta diet the preset. mad in veighs owsmaanga ad wept* at all, idesatial as well am Immihkrwere manned ;nig aidrewee lailisir sup port, were dgneered. Mr. Weft gme as etergegeg god meat of the adgls ael pogrom et the ISM M jb % W att II“ Whitby ; see d ling kens baga sla► liad bt MN • century sr man The admeligge sammed to the yeepeletoes were bee at IL asi vela Gl. Magath the market price, and ales Moor them glom diger, at the sad of each half year, as • beaus epee sea the. _ NORTH Dustman Etascriow.—An address from Yr. Hed worth Lazabton, appeared, acnewasfag that it is not his intention to offer him...lff for re-election. Colonel Beckwith, of Sillueorth, near Sunderland, has addressed the electors, haring been brought forward at the instance of the Reform yB : fi A.S.C.ZiaLIOII, in land. H. advocates household suffrage, triennhal 'laments, vote by ballet, the abolition of all state enta of the church, and a change in the law of inheripmice, and the en fr anchisement of copyhold property. A maitempondent says.—" Mr. Liddell, the present member, willr be a candidate again, and it is abo said Lord &sham Wilbeffer himself, under the support of the United c i imumagative party, whose recent differences, it is believed, ikrgan. ovine of satisfactory adjustment. If this is a there will be warm work, but at present nothing more is known than what is stated above:'__ CIIEBHIBZ. Tae Comm] Ettcrtom.—A oorrespondent says "There is beginning to be • little movement in North Cheshire. Canvassing books are being prepared ; but whether the divi sion will be contested or not is at present very doubtful. The only names as yet mentioned as likely to go to the poll are E. D. Davenport, Esq., of Capesthorn, and J. Cheetham, Esq., of stalybridge ; both liberal,. WARWICKSHIRE. ELECTION MOVNIIENTS is BIILYINGHAM.—At a meeting of the retail brewers' associxtion, on Wesinesday afternoon, a resolution was passed pledging the members to use every exertion to ensure the return of Mr. William Seholefield (liberal), in the stead of Mr. Monts. ..—....... ------- ^ 10 PROCEEDINGS AT 1.-A correspondent states that " the Independents and Baptists are on the movement to bring in Mr. Seriesnt Gazelee, whose ancestor wee may or of Portsmouth in 1798, end a Mr. N. Griffin, ► Whig barrister, who was very prominent in the Exeter Hall meetings against education, in the room of the present members. There is, however, a difficulty in the dissenting camp, whether it shall be Mr. Griffin, or the pre sent Mayor of Portsmouth, Mr. B. Bramble, a contractor in the new works fur the steam navy in 11.M'a. dockyard. Mr. Gazelee islaberal in his patronage of the different institutions in the borough, whsle Sir George Staunton's vacillating conduct in moat matter. goes far to lessen the public confidence in him." COMMISSION BY TIM LORD LiEuventwv.—G. Churchill, Cent to be cornet, vice Molts, promoted, of Queen's Own Regiment of Yeornany Cavalry, bollEktsEttilllßE. COMMISSIOn BY TIIIILILDIII7I.TINANT.—W. H. P. O. Langton, Esq., to be captain, rice Blathwayt, resigned, of North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. if int acts ROYAL COMMISSrON OF FINE ARTS.—Her Ma jolty 'a Commisaionen of lime Arta have just issued the follow ing notice res pecting the exhibition of oil paintings in West minter-hall in June next:—" Her Majesty's Commissioners cf Fine Arts hereby give notice, that oil paintings intended for exhibition are to be sent to Westminster-ball between the bouts of ten and five, from Monday, the 31st of May, to Saturday, the sth of June, but no painting will be received after that day. Each exhibitor is required to send together with has work a letter containing his name and address, with such title or quotation descriptive of his work as may be intended for publication, subject to the approval of the commissioners. The name of the exhibitor is also to be written on each specimen sent by him. The artists may send their works in frames or not, as they please, hut in the event of frames being &est they must be of moderate width. The artists, or their agents, will not he admitted into the hall at the time of depositing the works sent for exhibition, but one or more slays will be appointed for varnishing or retouching the pictures after they shall have been arranged. No picture will be allowed to be retouched except by the artist himself. Every possible care will be taken of the pictures, but in ease of injury or loss the commissioners will not be responsible." ltlustc. SOCIETY OF FEMALE MUSICIANB.—The annual concert of this institution took place last evening in the Hanover-square Rooms. The programme presented an abundsut and very miscellaneous selection, among which there woo much that was trite and common-place, mingled with things of a superior and less ordinary discripuon. Among the pieces of the latter kind were Mozart's beautiful but little known recitative and air, " A quests *enc.," sung by Mimi Dolby; Mendelasohn's song, "By Celia's Arbour," sung by Mr. Lockey ; and two duets by the same composer, " Where o'er my steps may wander," and "The May-bells," sung by Miss Lincoln and Miss Duval. The last of these is a little gem, graceful, li tht, and airy, like the music of the " Midsummer Night's Dream." It was prettily sung by the fair vocalists, and had a charming effect. Settas'hui Bach's trio for three piano-fortes was admirably played by Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Benedict, and Mr. Sterndale Bennett. The two young Viennese violinists, Mews. Hellmestmerger, played a duet by Kalliwoda, and threw awry a great deal of clever execution upon wortklos trash. The veteran Brabant gave his " Deeper and deeper still." He was most warmly received, and showed himself to be still unrivalled in grand tragic declamation. The little " Chorus of Bridesmaids," from Beethoven's " King Stephen," so simple and yet PO original, was nicely sung and loudly encored. Madame Jenny Lutuer sang " Ro bert, toi qua refine." We could hove wished for something more recherchi from this accom plished artist. The room was completely filled; and we hope the concert will have substintially benefited a most excellent institution. HERE Knwa's CONCERT.—This gentleman, well known in the satyrical circles as • pianist of distinguiahed talent, gave a strairaie onsuicak yesterday, in the Hanover square Rooms, which was attended by • numerous and very musical audience. His own performances were a ery mas terly, and received great applause, partienlarly the duet for the pianoforte and violin, which he played along with Herr Joseph Hellmesberger. There was, besides, a very agree. able melange of vocal music, in which Madame Lutser, Miss Dolby, the Misses l'yne, Signor M , and others, took part. Signor Ciardi, an Italian performer on the flute, made his first appearance in Englaud in a fanta.ia of his own somposition, and exhibited extraordinary powers both of tone and execution. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. Last moirr's Gcrarrs contains codas m council rant) log schemes for constituting • separate district out et the parieltes ol Meths= sad Oillinglieni, Kent, db. Rochester. to be rolled the distend or *amp. ton —Yoe moth° mot+ er estorate district out at the parish of Ilettrao, la Loci , Chester, to be celled the district d (Kelley. cosa-Nenton.—And "fee ranking better provision Is the cure of souls to the weevil puishos of Corringhaor and Eon," in the county and dia. of Lincoln. Ay • Kama° or mu Gus:ears& Thor's. Cuusor BrILDVIO Awomsnos on Tuesday, &reit of 731. was made for improving the than* of Brosictrmili, by welch additional secommodation will be provided for 110 persons. A plea to. improving Upireden church Ira. aide sabinittcd, by ',bleb antemincelation will be rendered for 130 pardons, Instead of 82. The estimated coot is 3201., towards which a grant of 401. was popmed. NAVAL. Poe rooms, MAT 7.—The Hazard, Com. Egerton, woe Pain egr Cisy. Owlets ham beim franked by the Admiralty granting liberty o:erto volunteer from the ship in ordinary at tide port for the, Howe and Ca!adonis, fitting at Sheerness and Plymouth. The Apoilo, =lp, at Bbermers, is ordered to this port to embark trocao: and to bring home the 32ad Light Infantry from that Ammtater, MAT 7.—Appointments: &mond Master 0. E. and Ovniner W. Davidson. to the Dragon • Acting Boatswain J. Harris to % .'1 re ; Carpenter W. larld, of Itatord, advanced to meond clam Acting *mum at itommakers, J. T. nylor, to Chatham Yard. MILITARY. OINOWOOTO, NAT 7.—lt reported that the Portemeath theatre Mu teem Veer I,4 b at=government, Poe the prior of in. cram everal OeW reguldleam frar. r=rkon=terd ism t oe d F. Fitsciarenee has been in Wu At the !prier chapel, cm Sunda " God ear the Quern. pler v i n t the red of each wirvice. The lieut.-governor will alleed the guard" every Wednesday, when every akar of doe Is pubes will attend in full uniform, and remain oe the arena el Ihejeueralleavra On this day, the whole of the instrumerleibesesiffeerpr of drummer e and riflemen are to be pre" eel sd air leper, se in Dublin and other large garrianne. At tattoo, the seeps at drummers and bailers are ideo to word eft togs. ther am els day. KoirJa. AwrILLART.—WOOLWICa, HAT 7.—Lient...Gol. W. Wjide C. 8., who is at mart as a medal niers in Perusµ is to bo breveted to the rank of o.J -Omeese la the airy, to o maideration of Me Gelid arewirea Wylie ea preset hold. rent nod r erierL la etervquense stirs premedem mod the nalmater Limil..Oels. IL H. Vairdes. sad JAL hew, GM Oapt. A. B. leez tie ewbst BeenWteee will bake elm la Me mew linott.l4.ws W. R. Hobby amd T. O. Mon tiViontwele3 Oilit siesees. J. H. H. r. Miesago. ormihr UMW& ; ft* Mete H. A. B. Crap. lt S. Akio, I. Mil MIL le be Der nab ; and doe. Hiroffme Ore" . 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Tea MaimiNis Oro if 111 soya oath, sad SO odds& I( stile. . Mr. Quarlmmlaires lady Uft ( =vizi 1 Mr. Mama% Mid PLY 11100111 SPRING RACES.—Taroasser. Ti. Immo. Suss of 3 ors. owe, 3R. Meade ass rend sad a dams. yr. ==cs i = 4 4 in. yra (Mx. J.Noweenle) 3 1 1 1 1 1 Idr. Derea s s tralerths, I yrs 1 4 1 far W. peavey b. a. by Voltaire, oat of Mace, 4 yrs 4 I dr Mr. J. 11. Ilsedag's Min Verso , 6 yes Ilue. weil aratosial boats. 11155050 m Purr of 504. Haab, ow. rend. Mr. R. 1110 Ilsgslty, 4 yrs Mr. J. IL Mamas% Tao Gaq 6 yrs Oarlialiallsa'a Porto Bello, aged lars2 a = ty TM imam Us vas !PCS , L 4llO baits, by Mr. Bab ibrams. MIN Odle al Illamps awl. The Soma On et Mt was was very eerily by Mr. Jodd's 110 a; Weft fins= awl aulbar. I 4