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L. twin. a lags.* ... a seetSli N. ofte. ..s. ammo it ow FINE ARTS. THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. The second Exhibition of this Society proves that the kdies are determined upon keeping up their " separate miduknanos." And who would not wish them to have the mini of htmontable independence, a fair field, and plenty of avow? They are, however, still bashful. Unlike the "private views" of other exhibitions, the lady.managere are determined that instead of one day, their private view shall extend over the whole of the present week. The Exhibition, which is this year at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in the gallery which contained Lord Ward's collection, is now @p ranged, but will not be opened to the public till Monday next. We were highly gratified yesterday at the increased attrac tiveness of this year's display, and with the great progress of the various oontributors. Indeed, If we could say so gal lantly, we were surprised at the result of the emulation sti mulated by public competition. Apart from all considerations 11 SIN the Exhibition is highly interesting. It is, however, Micah for the critic in such an anomalous position to divest Wm& of the notion that innumerable eyes of fair *shakos ere upon him, and in the gallery we coca elesslly experienced the sensations of a bashful under gesdnate finding himself unexpectedly alone in the alddleof a bell-room. Pen in hand, however, and screened PeettY• lovel7, The strength of the 0011110ii011 consists, u might be ex pected, of water-colour drawings, from the greater con veshuse and cleanliness of the medium, and from the peace:los being more consonant with conventional notions of • lady-like employment. There is, however, surely no reason why nature, who, as Burns says, " Tried her 'prentice hand on men, And then she made the lames o'," should not in return be interpreted by her fair and finished handy-work as suecesehilly in oil, sr by any other means, as she is interpreted by the coarser and less carefully completed sex. Among the contributions of this description of worka those by Mn. Eliza beth Murray are pre-eminent in merit. "The Best In the Market "—u No. 289 Is entitled—is a supposed recommendatory exclamation made by an fruitsencr, as she looks at the spectator with an irre sistible dimpled smile and winning glance from eyes liquid yet 'alloy, while holding an apple, embrownad and ripened by the same intense sun which bas bronzed her own ruddy cheeks, in delightful contrast with the spoihnspemso on her head. A fine, manly, picturesquely dressed so quaintance, lolls in playful familiarity on the stall, and gives her • sparkling look of knowing vivacity as some badinage seems to escape hom the tangled moustache and glistening teeth. The husear-like negligence of his jacket, and the ease of his whole attitude, the dusky complexion and hirsute character of the whole man, equal, in evident truthfulness, every other portion and detail of the picture. For technical power and vigour, and perfect command of resource, we should he at • loss to name many masculine performances which weld surpass It. Equally effective acd picturesque is the young Italian shepherd boy in No. 203; while the similar lore in No. 341, in which the bust only is given, but life the, Is still more remarkable for ire breadth of light and shads, perfect drawing, and the really wonderful truthfulness of sapresietun with which the young piper hails " The Dawn of Day." The gale of the fall eye and the breathing parting of the Ups an indescribable. la landscape Mrs. Eli. tbeth Whiney is so bee gifted, as may be seen in the tropical vivid atee and vast sealivity of "The Peak of Teneriffe" (288). The heightenisg of the tinted paper with the white lights in "An Old flow at food" (238) Is squally masterly—we beg parka, seistruselp. Those now phenomena of our civilisation again a Ikea meow of wings. Sin. Bathhouse Is also distinguished for breadth of ere_ wake, as ia "The Orphan" (221), and fiir a relined sense of hefty, as In "A Bower in Summer-tinie" (162). Very obareilag is the fair girl with her azure Greek boddice and Karla busied cap, and very beautiful the summer glow suf balm the bower. The " Morning Star of Memory" (173) Us great purity in its washes of colour, and Is sweetly sue gilse of the earliest age for tender retrospection. There is the same rhique of costume in Ne. 201 and in " Ls Rose de Leah Quatotza" (331). Brenbech on the Moselle" is a very artistically treated 'endways, rich in colour, by Mrs. W. Oliver, and " Namur on the Mame" (181), by the suns lady, is very bright and beautiful. Some Algerine scene*, by Mrs. Bodichon, are re markable. They seem cold in colour, but this may be true to the arid, parched climate. tea extr. , mes ae touellent, and we know that anesthetic applications, or benumbing a part with cold, produces the ululation of warmth. The " sere but not yellow" leaves of the olives, and the gigantic aloes, cacti, &c., in No. 170, are carefully studied. " The First Meeting . of Florirel and Perdite" (260), by Mims E. Macirons, 4 a urge, line drawing, but it hu been previously exhibited, or h a repetition. " Old Houses to Rotten (302), by Mies Isa bella Jonas, would do credit to either of the Societies of Painters in Water-colours. Mrs. Hondas Murray, in"," Bambro' Castle, Northumber land" (204), has obtained texture with much spirit, and has shown feeling for aerial effects by taking advantage of the grantalous surface of the paper. In " Entrance to &ahem Harbour, on the estate of the Marchioness of Londonderry" (219), the difficulty of drawing the point of view chosen is succesefully surmounted, and the waves, " cribbed and ma nned" between the two points of the harbour, dance very na turally. No. 254, by the semi lady, is still more powerful and animated. Miss M. Teknech's portraits (183) ere very creditable, and in " The Wife" 011) the baby la particularly well done— e", Weed, char►ctcristically enough, are nearly all the annewous babies and children in the room. " A Winter &tidy" (261), by E. Webster, is full of minute detail and modest merit. "A Poacher in Embryo" (196)—a boy with a bird's nest and string of eggs, by Mies Adelaide Burgess— le se happy in execution as in title. We most also particularly wimassad the following Miss Stone's " Scotch Cottage Home (278) and " Tits Tweed and Eildon Hills" (306), Mrs. Den's "Cathedral, Florence" (180), and " At Honfleur " (266), by Mies Wilkinson. The works of Miss Jervono, Mrs. Davidson, Mies Blake, Lady Belcher, and Miss M. Grieve, also deserve attention. The contributors in oil are worthily beaded by the matron in art, Mrs. Carpenter. " The Little Boat Builder" (68) le charmingly free in execution, and the portrait in crayon of Dr. Arson (179) equally facile. There is sufficient evklence in the " Ballad Singer of Con nemara" (81) that Mrs. Margaret Robbinson has studied woke Mr. Media.; and the two heads, " Othello and Des. demona" (129), we should have affirmed could have been exe cuted by none else. Both are precisely in the style of the master, and the head gear and jewelled onsamenta of Othello are even a hivzureble specimen of his skill in painting such accessories. " The Bath" (47)—a chubby boy timidly sub mitting to the morning ablution—is a very pleasing subject, by Mrs. E. M. Ward, but, to be candid, scarcely so carefully painted as some of the works by the wife of the Royal Academician. " The Gleaners" (28) is an admirable picture by Kate Swift. The pathos of the subject of " Hagar and thhasef' (36), by Miss M. A. Cob., is very much increased by night being represented as impending. Very delicate in haw are also " News from the Seat of War" (150) and " The Love letter' (116), by the same artist. " Bettie'. (140) is am exquisitely delicate miniature portrait In oil, by Mrs. H. Moseley. The execution of No. 117 by Miss A. Bhagat would place her well among the pre-Raphaelites. The =perm landscapes by Mies Stoddart have some of the vary highest qualities, and resemble the works of Cr... wick. The character of everything touched by light is brought out s lib great truth. The foliage is a little slickly, but leafy and multitudinous, and the distance is pervaded with atmosphere. In the landscapes of Mrs. Brown extreme delicacy and discrimination are salient among other praise worthy qualities. The works of the Misses Lionel are very suggestive of the name they boar. "A Bedouin Encampment afar Mount Sinai" (128), by Mrs. Roberton Blaine, must be, from ha freedom of msnipulation„the product of mature sad latelligent practice. The merit of the works of the following contributors to this aspen:nest cannot wait+ the visitor's attention, viz..— lama Genteel Richards (9), A. E. Smith, Mrs. W. Smith (7), 0. Swift (101), Miss Yetts (106), Eliza Irving (108), sad Mies Batas Tatar (126). And on one of the screams displayed in their telex They an not called simply Fruit, Flowers, or Game, but by certain sentimental emblems. For example, to de cipher " Pleasant Thoughts" (162) we must consult a little book we seldom refer to, on the "Language of Flowers." "Love and Friendship" (40) is a group of myrtle, roses, and ivy, and eo forth. We must nevertheless mention, though it is almost invidious to @elect from a par terre of Bowers, that we were attracted more particularly by the works of the following ladies, viz., Mos. Withers, Mrs. V. Bartholomew, Miss E. Tunbridge, Eliza Mills, Mrs. Rymer, Mrs. P. Phillips, Min Juliette Jac.ibson, Eliza Walker, Mies Barrows, Mies R. (met, Mn. Harriers, Eliza Lance, and Mies Florence Peal. Copying is a branch of art in which the ladies particularly mei, and in this exhibition there are several re-productions of celebrated pictures of very high excellence. MUSIC. MR. HrLLAWS ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. Last night Mr. Mullah concluded, for this swop, his series of these excellent concerts; and this last wee the most excellent and the most successful that he has ever given. The music was selected entirely l in th e works of Beethoven ; and, when we say that the w included one of the last, and certainly the greatest, efforts of the mighty master's genius —the grand choral symphony on the subject of Schiller's " Ode to Joy," and that this colossal and most arduous work was performed in • manner which, on the whole, has seldom been excelled in this coun try, we bare said enough to show that this was a concert of the highest order. But this was not its only remarkable feature; it included the famous " Choral Fantasia," in which the pianoforte, the principal instrument, is blended with • great orchestra and • powerful chorea in a manner entirely original, and with an effect little inferior to that produced in the Choral Symphony ; and it included, moreover, two of Beethoven's theatrical works—his overtures to A-cnnatheiss and to Fidelto. The Choral Fantasia placed in a strong light the singular —we may say unrivalled powers of Miss Arabella Goddard. In addition to great execution and dramatic sen timent, it demands the utmost strength of hand which the pianist can possibly exert in order to contend with the mares of sound produced by the orchestra and the chorus. This strength the performer possessed in the full swell of vocal and instrumental harmony with which the pieoe is wound up, the florid passages of the piano rang through the hall with the most beautiful clearness and brilliancy. One of the most remarkable features of this young lady's talent is its versatility. In the depth and solidity of Bach, the passionate impetuosity of Beethoven, the graceful simplicity of Mozart, and the light and fasbioaable style of the day, she is equally at home ; though it is evident that her bout is in the great and beautiful in music, and that the illustrious masters of the art are the objects of her love and her study. The performance of the gigantic choral Symphony did in finite honour to Mr. Mullah, his orchestra, and his chorus. Fur the execution of so arduous a teak, there were, neces sarily, defects, especially in the vocal part, but they were sur • prisingly few and venial ; and the whole bore marks of extraordinary care and pains on the part of the able conductor. It was pleasant to °believe that this music— which, only a few years ago, was set down by our most aapient critics as strange, obscure, capricious, unintelligible, and what not—was evidently not only understood, but thoroughly appeciated and enjoyed, by a great popular assembly. In taking leave of these excellent concerts for this season, we trust that their results have been such as to encourage Mr. Mullah to continue them with undiminished spirit. MISS JULIA ST. GEORGE'S ENTERTAINMENT. Daring the present week Miss St. George is giving, every conning at Sadler. Wells, a musical and dra matic entertainment, called " llome and Foreign Lyrics," which was first produced at Liverpool in the beginning of last year, and has since been given in Ireland, Scotland, and our chief provincial towns, with great and deterred success. Miss St. George is well known to the metropolitan public as an excellent comic actress and an accomplished singer; and in this entertainment she unites her powers in both capa cities. Its plan is similar to that of Miss P. Horton, and it possesses similar merit. The framework is a narrative of an imaginary tour made by the fair entertainer through many parts of the world, which gives occasion to the intro duction of a variety of description, anecdotes, and sketches of character and manners, interspersed with vocal illustra tions of the national and popular music of different countries By rapid changes of costume and clever "making up" she transforms herself into a succession of personages, sad her impersonations are full of liveliness and dramatic truth. She parrs " from grave to gay, from lively to severe," and her speaking and singing have many touches of pathos, as well u strokes of humour. There is a charm In the engaging simplicity of her manner, as well as in the grace and beauty of her melody. The libretto, written by Miss Amelia Edwards, has no small literary merit ; and the music, by Mr. I. F. Duggan, is worthy of that distinguished young composer. The entertainment draws crowded andirons to Sadler's Wells. It is received with the warming applause; and the principal vocal; pieces, particularly the "Zingers Song," the " Song of the Neapolitan Post-boy," and the "Highland Jacobite Song" are always encored. -- - • • •-•••• •w• oeou oowevor, can wrongs Mee Dureat, Mime Rosh by oar Weerasto, let to for once be an exception to the reoe Mae Rachel Lin. T of " talbYetaad,dereitEak aua" emhiskehrewthawthreefee'n ownon tot was addle 1 wafaaYpeabeW sdt lierei wig beanie UV* be el the celebrated resdallbt dbe4 fee Sul* the WOW, befoul*, Whelk the To partionlarime all the a waeolliment we can pay them will be to twat them howettlY• bored oar limits. We ' We Ulm many a plain young woman world be bruited w ith th e f ew , display foe lb b bohla Neatly told she to not Pretty, lovely, or not canal simple Prof TILE ROUTE TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE. TO TES IDITOS OT THE EXPRT.4B. Sig,—ln the notice of the opening of the West end ■nd Crystal Palace Railway, contained in your paper of yesterday, tt is stated that on the lines of railway communi cating with the London-bridge terminus the traffic is pro hibited, under the old Greenwich Railway Act, between the hours of t I and 1 on Sundays, Good Fridays, end Christmer days. Will you be good enough to correct this statement, as no such restriction now exists, the clause in the Greenwich Act referred to having been repealed in the Wt session of parliament. You will reveries that we advertise trains to Greenwich on Good Friday every flee minutes during the whale of the day.—l am. &c., C. W. EBORALL, General Msnager. ROTAL COLLEGE OP SIAGEONS.—The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations fur tha diploma, ware admitted members of the College at the mmeeee • of theCeurt of Examiners on the 29th inst. :—/lifeaws. Pnderkk Luther Harper, Aldenham-street, Somers Town ; Jahn Bantflower, Army ; Robert Joseph Banning, Fairfield, near Liverpool; Ange Ferdinand Rene Noel, Itlauritina ; Ryan Jones , Hendnforgan, Swansea; William Hickman, Brixton; Richard William Oarnham, Upper Holloway; William Road Cremindek, Xerchant Service ; W illism Henry Philip Daken, Herne Bay ; Hann Otlin Haney, Halls ham, Sussex; and Arthur Prism, Harrow-roed. DZYNTAL PAU= ••• OWN SHILLING DMT. T EWALT, hf kROII M.—Admissions on psymist, 1 ; 127 ; ditto by mica dams, 381; 10184 1,601. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 81, 1858. wend pictures will excite great 'Amirante. Of there we eruct sufficiently extol the tine feeling and antique air of Harriet Ludlow Clarke's " Design for a stained glare window —to the memory of the late H. Berens, Esq., and put up in Bt. John's Church, &dam " (384). "The Shunamite's Sae" (380), a series of designs by Mies Fraser, are also quite Raphaelseque in purity of design and sweetness of senti ment. The pen and ink sketches, likewise, of Mrs. John nownewell (388) and Mrs. Hugh Blackburn are clever, and the series representing "Scenes from the Life of a Female Artist" (379), by F. A. Claxton, are fall of the most ad mirable humour; and " The Eight Beatitude" (383), by Min Mortar, are good specimens of missal pointing. The portrait (403), also on this maven, by Miss M. Gilboa does justice to that lady's established reputation. But, besides their intrinsic merit, the intert.it of some el the contributions is much increased by adventitious threw stances. Thus we understand that " Pen and Ink Sketobse" (383), said in the catalogue to be simply by "A Lady," ere the productions of the accomplished wife of the President of the Royal Academy. The curiously coloured view " From • Window' (144) is by Anna Mary Hearin. No. 387 is a "Portrait of Frederica Bremer, done at Stockholm by • Lady," and No. 402 is a " Mirdature of • Swedish Lady" pdatad by Frederica Bremer herself. There are several One works in sculpture, particularly those by Mrs. Thorneycroft, Hies Durant, Miss Hoene R. Smith, Louisa Gann, and • of eighties TbMe - 4111116 11111ilibiliall take as Itaz *vais wy Rub emost, bowie, A VOYAGE IN A CONVICT SHIP. The following is another of the instructive letters of the excellent Bishop of Western Australia : CONVICT SNIP NIL!, JAN. 1, 1858, Approaching the Coast of Wrotern Australia. My dear Friend,—l wrote to you the beginning of November from Bahia, Brazil, giving you an account of our voyage up to that time, end of the anxieties we had under gone in consequence of the misconduct of some of the coa ♦icts. I have now every reason to express the meet heartfelt gratitude to Almighty God for the favour which has been shown to us in this latter part of our voyage. We have been favoured in every way since we left Bahia. We have had fair winds and a quick postage, and the prisoners have not bean to as an occasion of anxiety cc alarm. We reached latitude 44 deg. south cm the Lt of December; being at the name day in the meridian of Greenwich, in the parallel of latitude just mentioned, viz., 44 deg. south, our captain determined to make the greater part of his running to the eastward. The period at which we were in that latitude was, an you are aware, just the height of summer in this hemisphere, and yet we experienced some very cold, end indeed quite wintry weather. This great change of temperature took place about the 27th of November, and the cold weather continued for a month, via., to a day or two alter Chrietaswor We he ocesough plead Deem ber 23, hi longitude 90 wet, and Ince that time have be= gradually creeping to the north. The thwinometer, during the greatupart of the timeabove mentioned,while in latitude 44, was geworally abut 66 deg. in the ruddy ; several times it stood at 62 deg., and twice it was observed u low as 46 deg. and 47 deg. The usual temperature on deck during the middle of the day was about 45 deg. or 46 dog. When you consider that this was during the height of summer, and that the corresponding parallel of the northern hemisphere runs through the mild climate of the Smith of France, &a., the lowness of this temperature will appear remarkable. Our cap tain, who has bean thirty years at sea, and ban rounded the Cape of Good Hope every year during this period, is of opinion , that the season must have been quite an unusual one, arising perhaps from some very extensive break up of ice, and the drifting of large quantities to a distance from the South Polar regions. We were constantly fancying that we might get a eight of = iceberg, but nothing of the kind appeared tens. Ws had fine strong winds nearly the whole time above mentioned from ,the S.W. and W. We had four or five gales sufficiently strong to reduce no to close reefed topsails ; once we had to lay to. We have run from the meridian of Greenwich to this place (close upon 115 degrees of longitude) in 31 days ; and, as our ship is by no means a fast sailer, this is sufficient to show the character of the winds we have been favoured with. The prisoners, as I have already stated, have caused but little anxiety of late. In fact, there is no difficulty in pre serving order in convict ships when the ships are provided with the requisite appliances, and the prisoners become indi vidually known to those who have the care of them. TLe six men who were put in irons, and confined separately in the forecastle before we reached Bahia, are still in the same condition; and will be handed over to the authorities of Fre m►ntle with their irons on. They have been constantly endeavouring to keep up a communication with the other prisoners ; and have urged them to use violence to mama them; but their movements have been watched with untiring vigilance, and all their schemes defeated. About the beginning of December there appeared to be a disposition to mischief In some few men in the main prison, the members of one mess. It was understood that they intended to make an assault upon the sur geon superintendent and two of the warders ; and that they were providing themselves with bottles to be used as offensive weapons. The surgeon consequently required all bottles to be delivered up, and frustrated their intention. Upon another occasion, about the same time, he felt it ad visable to station a few soldiers at the main hatchway while be went his rounds. Abont the I=4 period there was • rumour aboard that a plan was being arranged for effecting the Tacna of the sir prisoners in irons. Asa counterplot tp this, the surgeon, without making any reworks or observations upon the subject, caused the port forecastle to be prepared and fitted up for the accommodation of close prisoners in a manner similar to the starboard forecastle, where the six men are oonfined. It I. presumed that the intending champions did not like this demonstration, as no further steps were taken in the matter of the ream, but these were merely measures of precaution. I believe I am correct in saying that not a single open act of insubordination has been com mitted since we left Bahia, With respect to the previous part of the voyage, many little things have transpired since I wrote my former letter, all tending to show the care and method with which the gang of desperadoes had prepared their mea sures for taking the ship, and the atrocious character of their designs. Two prisoners have died during the voyage; one from pulmonary disease, the other from a com plaint of the liver. It appears that in both instances the disease had been serious, and was of old standing before the men left England. The surgeon superintendent ham been most assiduous and anxious in his attention to the men during the whole voyage. He has had a most difficult task to perform, and he has performed it most ably and efficiently. The disturbances which occurred during the first month are to be at tributed to the large number of desperate characters amongst the prisoners, to the fact that the persons and cha racters of these men were wholly unknown to those who had the oars of them, and to the imperfect arrangements of the ship. The school occupations of the men have gone on much more satisfactorily since the first month of the voyage. lam informed by Mr. Wright, the chaplain, that several of the men have made very great progress indeed. The general demeanour during the performance of Divine service has now been most orderly and satisfactory. The two men who died gave earnest attention to Mr. Wright's ministrations during the latter part of their sickness, and appeared to deplore their former evil life. But alas I a hurried repentance upon a death-bed is, at the best, but a melancholy termination to a life of crime. Mr. Wright and I share the Sunday services between us, one officiating in the prison, and the other in the caddy. I have generally taken the prison service on the Sunday morning. The pri soners have formed a very excellent choir, and sing remark ably well ; and the attention and orderly behaviour during the whole time of service has been most striking. Being myself ea femaler with the character of the Australian country and the details of pastoral occupations, I have given lectures to the prisoners on these subjects, also upon their own future prospects and positions in the colony. The men manifested the deepest iatecst in these lectures, and I trust they have been of use to them. January 7. It Is with feelings of heartfelt gratitude to Almighty God that I now inform you that the Nile cast anchor at Fremantle about 10 o'clock p.m. on the let inset Ws were at the meridian of Greenwich Dec. 1, and therefore we bad run the whole of our sag longitude (115 degrees) in exactly one month. The refractory prisoners and two or three invalids were landed the day after our snivel, the rest remained on board until the sth. I am happy to say that the majority of our men gin much satisfaction to the superintendent of the prison (so far as he is yet able to judge) by their general appearance and demea nour; of the conduct on board of this majority we have every reason to speak well, and one cannot but lament for their sakes, as well as on every other account, that the desperate character' who caused all the disturbances were net into the ship. Since our arrival I have been favoured with a sight of the " caption" of one of the deeperadoea, and it is a per fect mystery to me how any person holding a responsible position could ever reconcile it to his coosient 3to turn such a man loose into • ship with 269 other convicts, knowing there existed in that ship no sufficient appliances for the per manent safe custody of a dangerous p rson ; and knowing also that no warder or officer in the ship had bean forewarned or cautioned with respect to this man. I may safely say that the mimes and outrages committed by this one man, if divided amongst ten different convicts, instead of being all accumulated upon one, would stamp sech of the to as a desperado, utterly unfit for the purposes of colonisation. This man is known to have peened under feigned names or aliases to the number of at least 16 or 20, he has been trend and identified in no leas than seventeen different prisons in England. Hs has been guilty of violent conduct. murderotui assaults upon warders, attempt' upon governor of prisons, breaking out ajail, and outrageous behaviour of every description so many times as to ditty all attempts to (Stamped ld. Additional.)[TWOPENCE. record them all. He has become so madly and desperately , furious that, for the safety of others, it has been found neon• nary to keep him lashed down hands and feet for upwards of a fortnight together. This is the man who is sent to Western Australia in the face of the moat distinct understanding that the best and moat orderly prisoners are to be selected for transportation to this colony. In addition to this he possesses far more than average ability, has considerable command of apt, forcible language, and great fluency of speech. He has been noted in the English prisons for, and has distinguished himself on board the Nile by, his daring infidelity, and the bold, blas phemous expressions which he makes use of. In fact, if we could imagine any person indulging a wish to do the greatest amount of injury possible to a ship's company and the inhabitants of a colony, no more direct method could have been taken to carry this wish than to turn loose amongst them such • fiend like criminal as this. He had scarcely embarked in the ship before he commenced to prepare for further violence, by picking the pocket of the warder, who brought him off, of his life-preserver. (Thin is quite • different affair from that of the life-preserver which was taken from • prisoner coming over the ship's side, as mentioned in my former letter.) Happily another prisoner took the weapon from him, and gave It up to the authorities. I trust the events which have taken place on board the Nile will operate as a caution, and that henceforth we shall mein from Boglaajd tern" llniAit aag illidilliFfide4 MOW prise , / e prficm, dub* vitOleylistertaln some hope that they may, by God's grace, become reformed, and prove eventually creditable members of society.—l am, lb., MATHEW PERTH. MIGRATION OF WORKMEN. A public meeting wu held het evening at the Great School-room of the Whitechapel Society, St. Mary's street, Whitechapel, convened by the Rev. W. W. Champ neys, M.A., rector of Whitechapel and Canon of St. Paul's, for the purpose of forming • committee to raise and apply funds towards assisting workmen of good character, belongMg to the " British Workman's Emigration Association for Facilitating Emigration," with loans to enable them to emigrate to suck of the British colonies as may afford openings for their employment. The Rev. Mr. CHAMPIII2II on taking the chair, opened the meeting with prayer; la• then proceeded to explain the object of the meeting. is said it was evident that then was a large surplus of labour in this country, which was much needed in the colonies ; if, therefore, any means of promoting the emigration of workmen could be devised, the men them selves would be benefited, the labour market of this country would be relieved, and the colonies provided with that labour which they so much needed. The question was, how that could be effected? He took it for greeted, that there was an honesty of spirit and an independence in the British workman of good character which would lead him to support any plan which proposed to send him out not as a pauper but as an independent man, who was determined to repay by his labour the money ad vanced to him. (Hear.) The plan was this. First of all, the wealthy public required some tee that the money given by them should be ap ' to the best advantage; that guarantee would be found in the fact that one nobleman and several gentlemen bad consented to act as trustees of the fund. In the second place, • number of gentlemen in the district, well known to him, in whose judgment he had the most entire reliance, had con sented to act as a committee to distribute the funds. The third point was to secure that the men sent out by the com mittee should be of the right kind. They would send only men of thoroughly good character; these were the most worthy; the colony would not thank them to send any other, and men who were at all liable to be overmans by drink would do no good in any colony. To secure thegood character of the men the committee would connect themselves with the British Workman's Emigration Amociation, and thus insure that the men aided by them would be those whose characters had been thoroughly sifted. For the future, this association would be • kind of benefit society ; men would be admitted on the payment of a small weekly sum towards the expenses of the society, and a fur ther weekly payment towards their emigration. When it came to a man's turn to be sent out, he would get credit towards his expenses of all the money be had paid on his card. Mr. ALEXANDIR RIDGWAY moved the first resolution. " That this meeting is convinced that a plan by which work men of good character could hs enabled to emigrate to a colony requiring their labour would not only confers good benefit on those workmen themselves but on the mother country, by relieving the over-crowded labour mar ket at home, and on the colony by impo:Nng the class of labour there especially required.' He dwelt on the fact that there was room in the colonies for everybody. In this country there was not an acre of waste ground which a man could take possession of, but in the colonies they could get as much land as they wanted for 10e. an acre. With the rate of wages now current in the colonies it would not take long to earn 104. There could be no ques tion but that emigration was necessary. What a position they would now be in in this country if all the thousands who had emigrated of late years bad still remained here So convinced was he of the necessity of emigration that he had always advocated a compulsory rate in aid to assist it. (Hear, hear.) lie was more immediately interested in the colony of New Zealand, and he could assure them that any sober man must do well there. Mr. GANN seconded the resolution, and bore testimony to the great success that had attended all emigrants to New Zealand. It would be necessary however that the association should be in communication with some parties in the colonies as to the peculiar kind of labour required from time to time, The greeter number of the meeting were skilled artisans, end if they went out they must be prepared to fall back on the land if the demand for labour fell off. The resolution WM then adopted. Mr. firasw proposed and Mr. ELLIOT t secretary to the British Workman s Association, seconded the nest resolution "That this meeting being convinced that English workmen of good character would not only prefer to emigrate through the help of loans, to be repaid by themselves, rather than by monies given to them as paupers, but would be the class of persona most likely to repay each loans with faithfulness, rejoice to hear that the Right lion. Lord Ebury, John La bouchere, Esq., Robt. Heathery, Esq.. M.P., for Middlesex, and theßev.CanonChempneys, have consented toga es trus tees for any monies that may be subscribed for that purpose, end that the following gentlemen be an association to carry out the emigration by loan,,in concurrence with the committee of the British Workman's Emigration Association—The Rev.W.W. Champneys, M.A.. Mr. Craven, Mr. Straw, Mr. Fellinglaam, Mr. R.Windle, Mr. Richardson, Rev. T. Prim colt, Mr. E. Adkin, (3. Turner, Eeq., solicitor, mesentery ; and that W. I). Asperse, Esq., manager of the East London branch of the London and Westminster Bank, be the Inseam. '_ . _ I'in ... rm lotion wu carried. Alter a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting sepa rated. THENIGHTINGALEFuNo.--In some correspondence between Miss Nightingale and Mr. Sidney Heroert, which has been published Miss Nightingale writes Dear Mr. Herbert,—l have been for some time hesitating as to the course I ought to take with regard to the large fund which is called by my name, and which was so generously placed in my bands for the purpose of being applied to a most useful and beneficent object. After allowing a time to elapse fully sufficient for forming a judgment, I find my health so much impaired and I am, consequently, so unequal to begin a work which, to be properly performed, will require great exertion and unceasing attention, that I feel it incum bent upon me and due to the contributors to beg you to communicate to the trustees and council my inability to undertake the task." Mr. Herbert, on the part of the com mittee, replies—" We cannot but trust that with diminished labour you will regain your health, and that without undue fatigue or exertion you will be enabled to give a general superintendence to the plans you may devise for the applica tion of the fund. I am, therefore, desired by my colleagues to storms their earnest hope that you will postpone your final decision until further time shall enable you to judge. what degree of superintendeoce you will be enabled to bestow on the work which is identified with your name, and which we still earnestly hops will derive its organisation from your hands." Miss Nightin gale , in reply, assents. DEATH OF ME. J. H. BAziow.--Yeeterday at his residence in Francis-street, Newington, died Mr. John Henry Barrow, a gentleman for some time connected with this journal, and previously with the Timed, Horning Herald, and Sum newspapers. Mr. Barrow as, however, hem, known as the editor of the "Mirror of Parliament," a series of ori ginal reports of the parlia mentary debates, which ha started in oppoeitionto "Hansard, " and which for some yews maintained • successful contest with that compilation. He wee also the author of " Emir Malice and one or two other work' of fiction in prose and in verse. BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDOL—Under the influence of fine weather the mortality is much reduced. The deaths in London were in two previous woke 1,487 and 1,431; last week they fell to 1,268. The present return is so far favourable, that it shows the number of deaths less by 71 than that which the average rate of mortality towards the end of Much would have produced. Last week the births of 1,000 boys and 924 girls, Ina 1,924 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-67 the avenge number wee 1,616. THE CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT A DA8R1A11.....-A1 the Dublin police-court, on Saturday, Captain Buchanan, of the Soots Greys., &wired with shooting at &cabman, was again brought up. The partloulars of this singular case sp. purl in our paper a few due ego. It was now stated and admitted that - the gun was only a toy gun. and the matter I had been cetuteeeehled by the tePtele's giving the cabmen 1004 and his ley comb. corar 0! 4.r.0, Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public bamboo. TRU LAI% ALDERMAN 7AREPROTHER. The Loan MAYOR-1 am very son" , to say that since OUP last meeting I have received information from the deputy of the ward of Limootreet of the decease of Mr. Alderman Farebrother. I have this day issued my precept for the election of an alderman for the vacant ward to-morrow (this day) week. THE NEWLY-ELEOTED ALDERMAN FOIL THE WARD OP CHEAP. Mr. Sheriff Allen, who was lately elected alderman of this ward, attended for the purpose of being sworn into office. Mr. WHIT; jun.. in introducing that gentleman, said— My Lord Mayor, I beg to present to you Mr. Sheriff Allen, who has been considered by the electors of the ward of Cheap • fit and proper person to represent them in this court. Yon have known Mr. Sheriff Allen much longer than I have. As far as the ward is °concerned we believe that we have selected a gentleman whom property, knowl e d ge , w an t , an d gentlemanly bearing, qualify him efficiently to p e e, e t h e duties of the office to which he has been elected. (Cheers.) Mr. Sheriff Allen then made the customary sleclarations, and was sworn into office. At the coadusion thin ceremony, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Allen, after receiving the ma =stions of the Lord Mayor and the other members of ort, took hie scat. VIZ TRIAL Or 81110 N BIIRNAILD. g Tort Clock road the following " Sir,—Th• Lord Chancellor is about to direct the teens of • special commisoion of oyer and terminer for the trial of Simon Bernard at the Central Criminal Court. In addition to any of the judges the Lord Chancellor may appoint to try the case, he thinks it right that the names of the Lord Mayor, all the Aldtomen, the Rooorder, the Common Sarnia:it, and the City nastier, should be inserted in this commission, as well as the judges. Will you be so good as to send me a list of the officials in their ordinary precedence for their insertion in the oommission of oyer and terminer.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " N. J. SENIOR. " H. A. Merewether, Beg." The ripply of the Town Clerk, giving the list of officials as request 4 was also read. Alderman COPELAND—This is a very pleasing and a very proper compliment to the authorities of this City. (Hear.) WARD OF PORTBORIN. The office of common councilman of this ward, as held by Mr. 0. Vile, who had bear recently adjudged • bankrapt, was formally declared to be vacant, and the Lord Mayor was regarded to irae his precept for a new election forthwith. TEE LATE ALDERMAN FAREBROTHER. It was moved by Sir P. LAURIE; seconded by Alderman WILSON; and carried unanimously " That this court cannot allow the melancholy occasion of the decease of their much respected brother, Charles Fere brother, late alderman of the ward of Lime•street., to pre without placing upon record the expression of their feelings of high estimation of his personal character and his conduct as a magistrate and member of this court for the lengthened period of 32 pers." ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF DRONERS. The court was espied some time in the consideration of the petition (presented on a former day by Alderman Rose) of Mr. Alfred Laming, complaining of the conduct of Messrs. Henry Clawthome Dale and'William Henry Morgan, brokers. After bearing the parties in reference to a variety of com mercial transactions with each other, strangers were ordered to withdraw. On the re-admission of the parties they were informed by the Recorder that the further consideration of the petition would be postponed till the first court in May. Upon the motion of Alderman WIDE, the court then pro needed with the consideration of the pe tition of James John Dale, complaining of the conduct of William T. Gooch, a broker. The following are extinct& from the petition " That from the year 1827 the said William T. Gooch continued to act as a stockbroker, and in the month of August but I employed him to invest on my account a sum of 4341. 7e. 9d. in Consols; and I received • letter from him, bearing date the 20th day of the same month, in which be informed me that his bankers were Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co. and that I amid either remit the money through the London and County Bank to them, or to him direct. " That I accordingly remitted through the London end County Bank to Messrs. Jones Loyd end Co., to his credit, the sum of 4341.75. 9d. and on the 22nd day of August lut I received from the said William T. Gooch a letter to the effect following I am in receipt of your favour, and your menittance of 4341. 711. 9d. boo ben dully received by say bankers, Jonas Loyd and Co. I now beg to inclose your Mock receipt.' " That with the said letter was sent • stock receipt, pur porting to be signed by one George Porter, on the purchase of 4751. 7s. 2d. Three Pounds per Cent. Consolidated Annuities. That in the month of January last I applied at theßenk of England for payment of the dividends due upon such stock, when I discovered that such reoaipt wee a forgery, and that no such investment had been made. _ _ _ have made inquiTieaend have ascertained that the said William T. Gooch left his place of business in December, and has not been there since, and I have made every effort to discover him, but without success, and I believe that he has absconded from the country." The petition concludes by praying that the court would canoe such proceedings to be instituted spinet one of the sureties (the other being dead), as the law warranted, and the public interest required. In answer to the Court, Mr. DALE, after substantiating the allegations of the peti tion, said the money with which the broker had absconded belonged to three children, to whom be (Mr. Dale) was trustee under a will. He bad known the broker many years, and had entrusted him with large sums of money at different times for a fortnight together. He bad sleeps had the greatest confidence in the man. The City Solicitor was directed to put the bond in suit. The Court adjourned. The roof, stage, and boxes for the new Covent Garden Theatre are in course of construction by Messrs. Lucas, of Lowesto ft , whence they will be forwarded by water to London.—ltury Post. SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.....We regret to an nounce the death, under very painful circumstances, of Mr. J. F. Pratt, solicitor, end clerk to the County Court of this town. Mr. Pratt had been involved in pecunbiry ditficaltiey and the importunities of his numerous creditors appear to have brought about a gradual aberration of mind. On Thum dew morning, as he did not come down stairs, Mrs. Pratt want up to ascertain the came, and was horrified to find her husband on the floor in • state of insensibility, with a pistol recently discharged lying near him. It appears that he had effected his rash purpose by firing the pistol into his ear, the bullet lodging in the brain. lie lingered till about a quarter to one o'clock, when death ensued. Mr. Pratt was only about thirty years of sp.—Berwick Warder. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BANKER'S CLERK.—The London papaw gam an account last week of the absconding of James Barber, late cashier of the bank of Mesas. Gurney and Co., Great Yarmouth with defalcations alleged to amount to nearly 1,0001. We have no further information to add, as no public notification has been made on the subject, except that Mr. Barber was honorary secretary and had almost the entire management of the Young Man's Institute and Commercial News Boom, which is found to be deficient to the extent of 3001, but In what degree owing to misappro. priation, or in what to fallacious appearances in the accounts, we are unable to say. A meeting of the members was called for Monday evening, to consider as to the necessity foe winding up the concern, which for fifteen years has been the means of imparting much benefit and recreatka to the towns , people. Barber had a handsome salary at the bank, as well as income in right of hie wife, to whom he has been married only nine months ; but is said to have involved himself by speculations, especially in French railway shares.—Bury Norma* .Post. SLAVERY IN CALIFORNIA.—A letter from San Francisco of the 20th ult. lays A slave case which cams before the Supreme Court of this state the other day has caused considerable excitement. A Southerner came to California several months ago, Winging a slave-boy with him as his servant. The slave refused to accompany his master back to Missouri, and claimed his freedom in virtue of a provision in the constitution of this state, which declares that ' slavery shall not be tolerated.' The point tried was the master's right of compulsion over the boy after • resi dence In this fres country. For the master it was alleged that he was merely • sojourner here, on • trip for the benefit of his health, without intending to acquire a domicile, but it was admitted that his funds having fallen low, he betook himself to business or trade, and set his slave to work, and hired him out to replenish hie finances. Several minor points were made for the master in support of this seas, all of which, as well as the main point first stated, the court ruled against him, yet with the most glaring inconsistency, and in direct and flagrant contredio tion to these rulings, decided against the slave. The pro fessed grounds of this decision are as untenable as they are childish, vier.:—' That this is the first Me that has oc caned ; that the master is a young man travelling mainly for his health and that under than ex tenuating circumstances the lenient court is ' not disposed to rigidly enforce the rule (of law) for the first time a resolution which would have cans from the supreme batch of a free seats with far better grace bad it been in favour of the slave. The unfortunate boy was re modod to prima, then banded over to his martin, who, • fr .... lbis labor, carried him heavily ironed in a earl, by policemen, from sacraments into the interior. tre7re7l; knowledge of hi, treatment rests. This decision, in violation of the constitution, make! California virtually a slave state, for the master can hold this boy at work for him es effectually hers, until be earns the wherewithal to take them both home, as he could in any one of the slave states. 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