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In casks containing 148 feeds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, London. 11. B.—The public arecautioned against being imposed upon by worthless imitations. 271 E MEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, DEC. 24. The present war between Spain and Morocco preventing supplies from being sent to Gibraltar, besides crowding the place with refugees, not to mention the fact of the fleets of France, England, and Spain being in the vicinity, and even the troops at Algesiras drawing some supplies from Gibral tar, food has become very dear there Beef and mutton, of the best quality, is 7d. per lb. Fowls, from 2s. to 3s. each ; potatoes, Id. per lb; eggs, Is. 4d. the dozen. Bread con siderably cheaper than in Malta, at which place things are slightly cheaper than last year. This being Christmas time the market is crowded, and is abundantly supplied with all the necessaries of life, and looks very gay, the meat and fruit garnished with flowers and gold leaf, and taste fully ornamented with boughs. The show of meat, beef, pork, mutton &c., is excellent, and poultry of the finest to any extent, and very fine vegetables and fruit. Piles, almost hills, of magnificent oranges, mandarins, egg ')ranges, blood oranges, and pomegranates, and melons in' treat profusion. Prices—Best beef and mutton, 6d. the ound of 14 oz. ; turkeys, from 3s. 6d. to Bs. each; sucking ligs, 2s. 6d. to 4s. each ; oranges, 4d. the dozen ; manda ths, 6d. ; melons and pomegranates, id. the pound ; bread, v id. the pound ; macaroni, 4d. the pound. All these are ay dear for Malta, particularly the two latter. These two ia t are the principal food of the inhabitants, and their ..," "Nmess presses very heavily on them. rom Christmas 1858 to 1859 Malta has very much im pi.r4ted. The governor has been a most excellent steward \e land revenues, which he has administered most ably. 1 , las greatly increased the revenue, at the same time he ' fl ' as licreased the value of Government property. He has g ral ed houses and shops on long improving lease ; and in B°l4 ol cases he has very judiciously remitted a portion of r ' n 'l). condition that the tenants would lay out a sum on anPr ‘iing the dwellings. He has fairly inoculated the people with spirit of improvement and a taste for building. ' l ▪ ' s -I \ induced a vast number of shopkeepers to pave their shops lith black and white marble, and in other ways to decork them ; and for months past all the most respectable ehopke, Aers have been enlarging and beautifying their shops, and P ' a ng additional gaslights both inside and outside their doors, ll zilding their signs and renovating their establish ments, tad the result has been a vast improvement. The P ublic b ids and squares the Governor has personally super iatendo4 garnished them with trees and gaslights ; and oreamerL ect many of the public buildings, by recolouring them or lubstituting coloured glass. St. John's Church, lr of which was very dismal, is now really an ornament, the town ; and few places can boast of cleaner or better Ipt streets than Valetta. He has also brushed UP a " * . ' e . Government enzployes, giving many uniforms, en d oblig all to appear clean and respectable. The im- Pr aTemen n the palace is something wonderful : the pas sages are 1 ‘ clean, well kept, and garnished with the ar mour of thi ll ast knights of St. John of Jerusalem. i t is us l in Malta for the rich families to assist their poorer neiglk - 'ours with luxuries on Christmas-day, and I be lieve that tla year there will not be a human being in Malta g i c ;'l dinner and a glass of wine with it. I have in all directions and from all classes, and I lat not one of her Majesty's subjects in Malta wed be hung, - t on Christmas-day, but that every one will b e provided _ th good and wholesome food. All that al . . a her Majesty's employ will not only have the necessaries comb the luxuries, such as few poor in Eng land aail i e a a ; ;7nd. The soldiers sailors have made grand preparations for banquets on i i. rt I, ay. w f lu u ia l t l db y eo b uill e t l cl i aeuv-rel Turkeys, roasting pigs, hams, plum puddings' Lyles in profusion. Every vessel in port is out in k dressed cluetting style, tasteful chandeliers have great taste in ad, ing and the sailors have shown messes with orange boughs with the orange , 'qndant from them, and there is to be a 'decks, thei grand di s play of . . n• thepopular officers round the Chris airm„ decks, for on rifi alas Jack is allowed license, and he con siders be has * t to show how he appreciates the kind been erected bet t,tkon floss of particular. G, leers by chairing them on that day. One charming e the bride of a popular captain, has accepted an 4 2 t0 din© with the officers on board on overhea, that daY• h e a council among the seamen whether they would not c ea \ hn• round the decks, which one old ight fellow said 1 y be done, if they could only get her to ccclose reef her_cl,tloline.,, Th e seamen a nd go into the t own , but the officer are soldiers have leave to are very wisely doing all in their power to ind uce them t o make their ships and their bar racks their home. A quantity of holly tid missletoo was bro ug ht o ut in the Pera, and has decorates,, e shop of the Gunter of Malta, the and great has been trnand upon him for a little bit of why treasure. Those no ,fould not get misslotoo have with out hesitation ch riste some other green by that name for the nonce. Her AlajestY has also a, lt vi n d to her sailor son a good supply of mincemeat from Castle, and I saw a gentleman taking some of this as a t. g, p rize to his Maltese wife. Bands are paramb ula being " God save th e Quthe streets, every second tune ' and her will be drank over and over again Lc, il el %oldiers and h her ealth sailors at Malta this Christmas. The soldiers of the 23d g 't a ball on the 26th in honour of their new colours. Th demand for the "Ball-roam Guido" has for the time quite superseded that for the Drill 1 •ok. Euryalus sails for Palermo on the 2d of January, and Gannet for Athens. Captain Vaughan, R.M., her Majesty's ship Euryalus, proceeds to England by this mail, and the two French ad mirals from China to France. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, having been posted out of her Majesty's ship Scourge, proceeds to Trieste by liest mail. THE PAKINGTON TESTIItONL-IL. After the despatch of our parcel from Worcester on Monday evening, with a preliminary notice of the intended presentation of a noble shield to Sir J. Pakington, in recognition of his services for 24 years as Chairman of the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, the presentation was completed, the pro ceedings occupying until about half-past 9 o'clock. As stated in yesterday's Sun, the chair at the public dinner was taken by Lord Lyttelton, who, having given the usual loyal toasts, proposed " The Army and Navy." Earl BEAucriamP, in reply, said they had the authority of the Prime Minister that the army had never been in a more effective condition than it was at present. That important movement —the rifle corps—was exercising a, beneficial effect not only in this country, but also on the Conti nent. (Hear, hear.) He felt it would be wrong for him to detain them from proceeding with the principal business of the meeting, but it would be equally so if he abstained from mentioning that he had been acquainted with the right hon. baronet for a quarter of a century, and, having watched carefully all his steps, had found-that he had ever followed a straightforward lino of conduct, not only , in his performance of the duties of the chairman ship of quarter sessions, but also in tho discharge of the two important public offices with which he had been honoured by his Sovereign. Admiral HASTINGS, replying for the navy, said it was now well known that the navy had not been formerly so attended to as it ought to have been, and the right hon. baronet by the attention he had paid to it had done much good. (Cheers,) The building of ships was now actively going on; but in the period previous to that at which the right hon. baronet took office the state of the navy was anything but satisfactory. It was .then that for the first time in line-of-battle ships the navy of Eng land was found to be inferior to that of France. This was now altered, and he hoped the country would soon be in a perfect state of defence. The noble CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of the evening in a speech of some length, in which he commented upon the services which Sir J. Peking ton had rendered to the country in his capacity of Colonial Minister and First Lord of the Admiralty, and as the promoter of national education. A more loyal, consistent, or openly attached party man than Sir I. Pakington did not exist ; but in his ad ministration of the two offices with which he was intrusted by the Crown he never allowed the slightest trace of party spirit to manifest itself. Lord Lyttelton, referring to what had been doze by Sir J. Pakington during the time he held office under Lord Derby as Colonial Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty, said, with reference to the colonies, that having been iu office only 10 months, it was impossible for him to carry through any number of important measures. Oa a Colonial Minister entering newly into office he had to carry on a correspondence with many distant colonies, and this Sir John had to do, and to some of these answers had not been received un til after he had left office • but he (Lord Lyttelton) would repeat what he had said in Parliament on the oceasion of the passing of the great constitu tional Act which Sir John Pakington had matured —the Constitutional Act of New Zealand—he would repeat that he believed in respect of those great principles of colonial freedom, by allowing our colo nies o great share of self-government, that that great measure was by far the most important that had passed on colonial subjects for a very long time. (Hear, hear.) Then the subject of the disposal of land in the Australian colonies had to be settled, and, although Sir John Pakington .was unable to mature these matters and to carry through the measure necessary for their accomplishment, it was he who promoted the inquiries and corresponded with the colonies of Australia on the subject, and laid down the broad principles upon which the Australian Constitutional Acts had heen regulated from that time. (Hear, hear.) With regard to Sir Joha's administration of the navy, without at tempting to go into details, and without dwelling upon past shortcomings or defects of others, he would say that Sir John Pakington had done a great deal—more than was ever done by any First Lord since the Reform Act—for the improvement and consolidation of our great naval resources. (Cheers.) The third public service to which Sir John Pakington had devoted much of his attention was the great and intricate subject of the elemen tary education of the children of the poor, the end less ramifications of which had to do with almost every other interest of the country. It was a happy thing for the promotion of the question that Sir John took it in hand at the time he did; equally true was it as regarded all three of these subjects —our colonies, our navy, and education—that mere party politics had little to do with them. But nevertheless the question of the education of the children of the poor was one of those insoluble pro blems of human nature towards whose solution we should never get nearer than an approximation. But considerable approach towards the reconcilement of differences had been made, and they were indebted to Sir John as much as to most men for the clear re cognition of the two great principles of toleration in education, and local encouragement and support to schools. Lord John Russell, too, had been an un questionable witness in favour of the importance and excellence of the efforts of Sir John on this sub ject. After alluding to his local claims on the pub lic, the noble lord gave the toast, which was most cordially received. The formal presentation of the shield was them made. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, on rising to return thanks, was received with protracted and unbounded cheer ing. On its subsidence the right hon. gentleman said—My Lord Lyttelton and gentlemen—if any thing could have added to the difficulty of the task which now devolves upon me, it would arise . from the eloquent, the too flattering, the kind and feeling terms, in which my noble friend in the chair has done me the honour of submitting to you this toast. I now rise to attempt the difficult, I may say the impossible task of giving expression in language to those deep feelings of respectful gratitude with which my heart is filled. I have to thank you, not only for the magnificent gift which has just been presented to me, but, for all that kindness, confi dence, and support which, throughout a long series of years, has enabled me to perform my publicduties in this county. The highest, reward which can attend the labours of a public man is to be assured of the approbation and support of those amongst whom his duties have been discharged ; and that feeling acquires tenfold force when appro bation is entertained and kindness is expressed, not only by those, as is my own case, amongst whom I have labou re d, b u t by th ose i n th e l oca li ty in which I was born, and to w hi c h I am a tt ac h e d by eve ry tie that can strengthen the sentiment of local at tachment—by those in the midst of whom I have lived from boyhood to advanced life, and who are acquainted both with my publi career and my pri vate character. (Cheers.) Th re are two circum stances connected with the ceremony of this evening to which I must beg for a moment to advert,because they give me peculiar pleasure, and make this cere mony as gratifying to M 3 as it could possibly be made. The first of these circumstances is, that this beautiful present which I have now the honour to receive from the county and city of Worcester, has been presented to me by the hands of my noble friend the lord lieutenant. (Cheers.) My noble friend has told you that my chairmanship of quar ter sessions commenced at a period when his re spected father was lord lieutenant of this county, and I well recollect the kindness which I always received from that noble lord, and the respect with which I ever regarded him ; but my noble friend who presides over this great meeting, and who has just presented to me this splendid proof of your good opinion, has occupied the high place of lord lieutenant during the great majority of the years that I had the honour of being chairman of the sessions. We have constantly had the most cordial intercourse. We have communicated upon the most friendly terms throughout a long period of years with regard to the affairs of the county. I enter tain for aim those feelings of public respect and private friendship, I may say of affection, with which he is regarded by all who know him ; anti it is to me a great addition to the pleasure which the' proceedings of this day cannot but give me, that my noble friend should have been called upon to discharge the duty which he has so kindly and ably fulfilled. (Hear, hear.) The other circumstance to which I would allude, is that I see around this table—and I view it with unqualified satisfaction —abundant proof that, as my chairmanship com menced so does it now conclude under circumstances which prove that no political or party spirit has V IENCONIMMIIMINEMEMIAINIM= ever marred the transaction of public business in this county. (Cheers.) One of those who were the first in the year 1834 to request that I would fill the then vacant chair was the late Sir Thomas.Wirinington. Knowing my desire, at that moment particularly, when I was myself fresh from party contests for the representation of the county, that if in deference to the wishes of the county I undertook the duties of the chair, no party spirit on my part should mingle with the attempt, Sir Thomas Winnington, with a kindness which I highly appreciated, did me the honour to propose me on that occasion. (Cheers.) Time has passed away ; many of the friends who then encouraged me' are now, alas, no more ; and Sir Thomas Winnington is one of them. But upon. this occasion, when you are assembled to do honour to the close of my chairmanship, I see another Sir 'lhomes Winnington sitting near me. (Cheers.) From the present Sir Thomas Winnington, as from his father, it has been my misfortune to differ upon principles of public policy ; but for the private vir tues of Sir Thomas Winnington I entertain those sentiments of esteem and respect which are justly and generally entertained. (Cheers.) I see around this table also abundant proof, in the presence of other gentlenien, that no party feeling mixes here; and I hope I may infer from this gratifying fact' that you believe that, in the discharge of my local duties, being as I am of necessity a member of a political party, and one who has acted, and long acted and held office with a political party, I have never carried party fe e li ng b e y on d it s proper li m i ts nor allowed it to be mixed up in business with which, it has no legitimate' connection. (Loud cheers.) It is true that between the two periods to which I have thus adverted nearly a .quarter of a century has passed away ; it is true that during the 24 years I held the office of chairman I did en de;,vour to discharge its duties to the best of my ability; I did endeavour to deserve the confidence with which I was honoured, and to conduct the aflUirs of this county for the public interest. (Hear, hear.) And if I were enabled so to do, let me once more acknowledge, as I have before acknowledged over and over again, that for that result lam mainly indebted to the constant support which received from my brother magistrates, and to the able, courteous, and intelligent assistance which the learned gentlemen wijo have successively consti• tuted the bar of the quarter sessions have never failed to give me. Let me now say that whatever may have been my h um bl e services as chairman of this county, they have been generously, nay, pro fusely rewarded; for let me remind you that this is no less than the fourth occasion upon which I have received a public recognition of those services, whatever their value may have been. It is now 10 years since my brother magistrates were kind enough to enter into a subscription to place my portrait in the County-hall. That portrait was hung in its po sition on a day when an unusual number of county magistrates assembled, under the presidency of my venerable and lamented friend the late Mr. Pearson; and I can never cease to entertain the most grate ful recollection of the kindness which was shown to me upon that, to me, memorable occasion. The next instance in which a public recognition of my services in the chair was made has been already ad verted to by my noble friend. In the year 1854, having then occupied the chair of the quarter ses- sions for 20 years, and finding that its duties were really incompatible with the duties which arose from my Parliamentary position, I requested' leave to resign the office in order that it might be placed in other hands. Upon that occasion I received an address, couched in the kindest and most flattering language, and signed by 125 of the magistrates of this county, begging me to resume the duties which I intended to resign, upon the clear understanding that I was to be at liberty to absent myself from the sessions whenever my other duties required it, and intimating that my valued friend, Mr. Curtler, was willing to be a party of the arrangement, and to take the chair whenever I was unable to attend. Gentlemen, I could not refuse a request so preferred, and I resumed the duties of the chair accordingly; but in the spring of 1858, when I was called upon to take the arduous position of First Lord of the Admiralty, I felt that the time had come when it was impossible for me longer to perform the services to the county which I had been willing previously to perform, and I then again requ e st e d th a t I m i g ht be allowed to resign the chair which I had so long filled. The request was acceded to. It was allowed to be reasonable; and that. resignation on my, part was followed by the presentation to me of an address to which " I attach a degree of value that it is quite impossible for me to express. That address is one of the most touching and beautiful papers of its kind that it ever fell to my lot to read. It bears the signature of nearly 200 of the nobility and gentry of this county in the commission of the peace. It hangs upon the walls of my house as one of its most valued ornaments, and I trust it will remain there long after I have passed away. (Cheers.) I own that the last thing I expected, after receiving these repeated proofs of kindness, was that I should re ceive in any other manner a tribute from the county for those services. I had scarcely received that address, when I was told that a subscription had been entered into, intentionally limited in amount, and the result of that subscription has been the splendid present you have given me to-night. The distinction between this proof of your kindness, and thos3 to which I have before referred is this— that whilst they proceeded only from the magi stracy of the county this has been subscribed for by my neighbours and friends of all classes in this county and city. (Cheers.) Can you wonder, then, that I should feel overwhelmed by those reiterated instances of favour and goad-Will towards me in my own neighbourhood, or that I should feel it to be impossible adequately to express the sentiments by which lam at this moment influenced? (Loud cheers.) I am the more sensible of the value of these compliments, because, as a matter of strong opinion, I must distinctly disclaim the idea that j any man who performs the local duties which have devolved upon him has thereby established any right or claim to those rewards. The chair of the quarter sessions of a great English county is in itself a high honour—is in itself its own reward. (Leal cheers.) I hold that the chair of the quarter sessions of an English county is one of those posi tisas of gratuitous duty which every Englishman is proud to occupy. Notwithstanding what we have read from the pens of certain newspaper writers, whose ideas of quarter session's affairs are limited, I believe, in most cases, to what they can pick up in the streets of London, I hold that the chair of the quarter sessions is one of the most honourable posts to which an English gentleman can aspire. My noble friend has alluded, in terms in which I entirely Concur, to the principle which regulates this part of the administration of our in ternal affairs. Under that system of self-govern ment to which we Englishmen are so much at tached, qne of the most peculiar, but in my opinion one of the most valuable of our institutions is that under which our laws are administered and our internal affairs are regulated by the voluntary and gratuitous exertions of the gentry of England, and to be thought worthy by the gentry of England to preside in our local courts, and to take the leading part in the management of our internal affairs, has long been, and long may it continue to be, an object of honourable ambition with the noblest, the wealthiest, and the most distinguished of our coun trymen. (Cheers.) I may find proofs of the truth of this position here in our own county of Worcester. Who were my immediate predecessors in the Worcestershire chair! The late Sir Chris topher Smith, the second Earl Beauchamp, the eldest brother of my noble friend sitting near me, and the late lam en t e d E ar l Plymouth. By whom have I been succeeded ? (Prolonged cheering.) By a noble lord (Ward) of high position, of great wealth, and of acknowledged talents. (Renewed cheers.) And by the desire which my noble friend entertained to be my successor in that chair he as given practical proof that he recognises the truth of that trite but great maxim of which we have heard much of late, and which ought to dwell in the heart of every right-minded Englishman— that "Property has its duties as well as its rights." (Great cheering.) But I can find a further illus tration of my position, if illustration were neces sary, in the fact that in successive administrations, both of Whig and of Tory politics, no small por tion of those who have been entrusted with the highest duties of the state are also those who have devoted their years of comparative leisure to the duties oP the chair of the quarter sessions in their respective counties. (Hear, hear.) I might men tion many. • I will only mention one ; but that is a remarkable instance. It is the name of a noble lord who was decidedly one of the most able chair men of quarter sessions who ever presided over the business of a county, and he was also one of the most justly popular and respected of the ministers during the period that the party of my friends near me—though I do not know whether they willagree with me—were unfortunately in the ascendant. (Laughter.) The noble lord to whom I refer was one of the most respected members of the Whig administration : I allude tp the late Earl,Spencer, better known, perhaps, in his public capacity as Lord Althorp. (Hear.) I believe, then, I am jus tified in saying that the honour of filling the chair at qua *ter sessions is an honour of which the most distinguished men may be proud. It is its own re war& Those who hold it can claim no other re ward, and I can only attribute the repeated proofs of your kindness and those feelings of personal good-will which you have displayed towards me ►o the manner in which I have been able to fulfil the local duties pertaining to that office. (Hear, hear.) It is not without some degree of hesitation that I now beg,your permission for one moment to touch upon another subject. I cannot refrain from the expression of my wish that this day, so gratifying to myself and so memorable to those who are near and dear to me should, if possible, be productive of some benefit to others. (Hear.) lam one of thwie who believe that we may always draw a moral lesson from such proceedings as these. (hear, hear.) There are not a few of those who now hear _me— there are yet more of those who will read the report of what has passed to-day, whose career in life is still before them ; and I hope you will not consider me guilty of presumption or egotism if I venture, in this belief, to touch for a moment upon those prin ciples of action to which I mainly owe the honours that upon this and other occasions-it has been my fortune to receive. Have I obtained those honours by the exercise of great and transcendent talents.? Certainly not. Have I obtained them by the aid of extensive and varied acquirements ? Cer tainly not. No. Gentlemen, if it has been my good fortune to merit in any degree the favour which I have received from my Most Gracioas Sovereign ; if I have deserved any portion of the kindness which I have so largely received in this my native coun ty ; if I have been enabled to administer those great departments of the state which have been succes sively entrusted to me, and to which my noble friend has alluded in such flattering terms to-night; if, say, I-have been enabled to administer those great departments without disadvantage to the public service, and without discredit to myself, I firmly believe that I am indebted to the exercise of qualities and the adoption of rules which are equally within the power and the compass of every man who hears me,lund of every man elSewhere who desires to take a part in the public affairs of his country. (Loud cheers.) I believe that I am in debted for whatever measure of success I have at tained in public life to the combination, with mo derate abilities, of honesty of intention—(cheers) — firmness of purpose, and steadiness of conduct. (Renewed cheering.) If I were to offer advice to any young man who is anxious to make himself use ful in public life, I would sum up the results of my own experience in three short rules, so simple that every man may understand them—L-so easy that every man may act upon them. My first rule would be, leave it to others to judge for what duties and for what position you are best fitted, but never refuse to give your services in whatever position it may be the opinion of others who are competent to judge that you can be useful either to your neigh bours or to your country. (Hear, hear.) My second rule would be, when once you have undertaken public duties, concentrate every energy and every faculty you possess to the determination that you will perform those duties well. (Cheers.) Lastly, I would counsel, in deciding upon your line in public affairs, to be guided by your opinion of that which, after mature deliberation, you believe to be right, and not by that which in the passing hour m.iy happen to be fashionable or popular. (Cheers.) Fashion has its uses, and it is all very well when applied to light and trivial things—(a laugh)—but fashion in public affairs is out of place. (Hear, hear.) Popularity, in its lowest and commonest sense, is not worth having. (Cheers.) Do your duty to the best of yeur power; win the approba tion of your conscience, and popularity in its best and highest sense is sure to follow. (Loud cheers.) I would not exchange the recollections of this day for all the acclamations that ever greeted the most popular man in England. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I cannot conclude these acknowledgments with out for a moment making special reference to the part which the citizens of Worcester have done me the honour to take in this demonstration. (Hear, hear.) lam gratified by it in a very high degree. I have the honour of seeing the Mayor of Worces ter occupying the vice chair on this occasion. I see around this table some of the most respected citi zens of Worcester. Amongst others, I have the honour of seeing one who has himself very lately received a proof of the respect in which he is held by his fellow citizens, and whose portrait now hangs opposite to me; Alderman .Padmore. (Cheers.) To what am I indebted, then, for this manifestation of the good feeling of the citizens of Worcester ? My position as chairman of the quar ter sessions for the county, whatever may have been the value of my services, has had no relation to the city. They have their own jurisdiction, and I have not acted for them. Neither can the honour which they have done me proceed from any political connection between us. On the contrary, as regards, I believe, both the gentlemen to whom I have referred, and as regards many whom I see around this table, undoubtedly there is between us neither political connection nor even political sym pathy. I am, therefore, led to believe, and I hope I am not mistaken, that those gentlemen have formed the generous and, as I believe, the just opinion that there are times and occasions when social and personal considerations may be held paramount to party obligations. (Cheers.) I believe that what ever political differences may separate us, they feel that we have long lived near together. lam will ing to believe that they regard me with personal good will—(cheers)—and view my course in public life as one which, whatever may have been its errors, has at least been dictated by honourable and conscientous motives. (Cheers.) But, whatever may have been the motives which have influenced them in the kindness they have now shown me, let me assure them—let me assure you all, that from my heart I thank you. (Cheers.) When the feelings are strong, I believe they are best expressed—if they can be expressed at all—in simple phrases. I will, therefore, only repeat that I accept at your hands this splendid gift with a truly grateful heart. (Loud shears.) So long as life is spared to me I shall value and cherish that gift as a memento of good intentions kindly appreciated, of honest services nobly recompensed, of personal friendships and attachments long cherished, and which can only end with life itself. By my descendants I hope, and I believe, that this present will be re garded as one of their proudest possessions; but I hope that my descendants will also regard it as an incentive to that honourable exertion which is the best contribution that the citizen of a free state can give to the welfare of his country, and the practical acknowledgment that we can make to a bountiful Providence for the blessings we are permitted to enjoy. (The right hon. gentleman then resumed his seat amidst several rounds of enthusiastic cheering.) The toasts of " The Lord Lieutenant" and "The High Sheriff" having been given and responded to, The noble CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of Lord Ward," as the successor of Sir John Peking ton in the chair oZ the Worcestershire Court of Quarter Sessions. Lord WARD having replied, The assembly shortly afterwards broke up: THE FIRE IN WESTMINSTER. Yesterday the inquest on the bodies of Henry John Billson, Sarah Billson, Eliza Chapman, and Clarissa Chapman, whose deaths were caused by the fire which broke out on Friday morning last at the'premises of Mr. A. C. Hook, in Little George street, was resumed by Mr. Bedford, Coroner, and the jury empannelled for the occasion. Henry Billson, the father of the two children who were burnt to death, was called by the Coroner, who expressed to him his sorrow that he should have oc casion to do so under such very painful circum stances. Mr. Billson said that he was a clerk to a solicitor at 16, Chester-terrace, Eaton-square. He left his house in Little George-street on Friday morning, about five minutes to one. At that time his children were in bed at the top of the house in Little George-street, the servant was also a bed. The family had been sitting in the kitchen parlour. He went into the other kitchen about half.past 12 o'cLck when he noticed that the fire was nearly out. There was some clothing hanging about the room ; but nothing at the present moment occurred to him by which he could account for the fire. There had been no fire in the kitchen parlour. He did not know Mr. Chapman, who died many years ago ; he was a builder and plumber. Witness s wife had assured him that she did not open the front door to the policeman ; but witness believed that it was Mrs. Chapman who moved aside the kitchen window curtain when the policeman tried the door on seeing the light going out, for she was the last person down stairs. Henry Fletcher, of 5, Little George-street, ware houseman, was awoke early on Friday morning, and on coming down stairs he saw the kitchen of No. 13A, on fire ; the flames were burning like gas. He saw a woman o n th e landing over the door. She had a baby in her arms, which she threw out of the window, and witness caught it. The woman then threw herself out sideways. Immediately after the woman and child had been taken away, the fire escape arrived. Witness, assisted by some police men, raised the bar that c ro w e d Little George- .s.. s assrvs street sr , , and the fire-escape was passed tlaro it was found not to be high enottgh to r r-4 1 7 1 5— .. 7" . ' third floor. If th e fire-escape man had ficient forethought he might have known s t tstslass7:'/ ladder was too sho r t, an d m i g ht h ave raise fikla additional l a dd er before passing the bar, or I€ 4: +a G IL might have done so after passing the bar if he had turned the ladder on one side. Witness did not see any person at any of the windows after the arrival of the escape ladder, nor did he think that anybody - else did. The man having charge of the ladder did • not appear to possess sufficient judgment to work it properly. Sarah Ann Clabh and Mr. C. IVVe were recalled, hut they gave no additional evidt-nc e of importance. Mr. Nye said it was a mistake to state that he had • been out, late on the Thursday night. lie retired a little after 12, and was aroused by his sister on hearing a noise in the street. Mr. Braidwood. said three engines were I“ Is at the Chandos Brigade Station—two large °Les nod a small .One. The first t wo were horse engines. He had seen the conduct of the police at fires very frequently, and he certainly thought that the sys tem they pursued could hardly be improved. Although there.wa.s an order from the commisaionera that the police should not work the fire engines,'- yet, generally speaking, the inspector did work them by his own men. The police commissioner had told . him tkat in cases of emergency his officers were empowered to go beyond their instructions, and cases had occurred in which it would have been im possible to have gone on without their assistance. Had he had the command of the police himself he could not have done better. With regard to the Fire-Escape Society, he was of opinion they did all the good that could be done with the money that Was confided to them by the public. As to the fire escapes being placed under the control of the police, that was a point on which he had formed no opinion. He had seen the escape that had been used on the present occasion, and he believed it to be well con structed for the pm-poses It was a most ingenious piece of machinery. It was necessarily light; other wise it could not be worked. Amid the smoke and confusion that must prevail at a fire like the one in question, a man might easily make a mistake in attempting to raise such a ladder without being in any way to blame. He had since yesterday exa s mined the parishinginek; they were good ones of the sort, but both of them were oldsfashioned things ; as a proof of it, they had both undergone repair up wards of 35 years ae 6 0. An engin e o f suc h a de scription could not have been of any use at a fire like the one in question, unless it had been on the spot almost at its very breaking out. The quantity of water delivered by the Brigade engine at 40 strokes per minute was 82 gallons and a fraction ; whereas, the quantity thrown by the large engine of St. Margaret's, at 40 strokes per minute, was only 38 gallons ; and by the small engine 29 gallons. The engine he saw had only one length of hose, which would have been totally useless. (Mr. Crow—There are four lengths.) The Brigade engines had 14 or 15 lengths, Seven lengths were the usual alloWance which, at 40 feet each, would make the hose 280 feet long. Wm. Crow, the constable, said that the parish engine had four lengths, which could have been put together in half a minute ; and he believed he could have brought the engine up to the fire and ready for work in 10 minutes. Mr. Young, a leatherseller in the Broadway, had often seen the parish engine worked at fires very satisfactorily. Mr. 'Rogers asked Inspector Butt whether he ever sent for a parish engine, and the inspector re plied that ho never did. Coroner—But he does not say he never would: Inspector Butt said lie had not seen the parish engine, and he should have considered it a lack of judgment on an occasion like the present to have sent for such an engine. Robert Bray, inspector of nolice at the Ilona° of Commons, said he knew nothing of the fire in ques tion; buChaving heard every word of the evidence given by the police at this inquiry, he was prepared to say that he perfectly agreed in the course adopted by Inspector Butt. He had had 23 years' experi ence, and if he had been in charge of a fire under the same circumstances as the present case he should have sent for the Brigade engine in Chandos-streets firmly believing that it would have arrived sooner, and would have been more effective than the parish engine. At th e same time he begg e d th e j ur y an d all others to dismiss from their minds the idea that there existed aey unfriendly feeling between Mr. Crow and himself. That Mr. Crow had been called upon oftener by the B division than the A division was explained by the fact that more fires occurred in the district of the former than in that of the lat ter. An engine might be fetched from Chandos sta tion in 11 or 12 minutes. A Juryman—lf so, how was it that the engine in this instance did not arrive within 25 minutes? Inspector Bray—l cannot tell. Mr. Sampson Lowe said his son was secretary to the Fire Escape Society, which was an institution supported by voluntary contributions, and the men- bers of it were anxious to obtain every information that might lead to improvement in their operations. They lcoked, therefore, with great interest to an investigation like the present, in the hope of acquir ing additional practical knowledge, by which they might be enabled to become further instrumental in the saving of human life. Joseph Sell, the fire-escape conductor, was then examined. After stating the circumstances under which he reached the fire with the escape machine, he said there was net room in the street to throw the ladder on the third floor. The ladder, in being raised, caught against the house on the opposite side of the street, which caused the irons to bend —the irons formed the lever which, on pulling a rope, threw up the ladder. The irons having been bent the ladder was of no further use. There were several policemen pulling at the rope to raise the ladder. Finding that he could not raise the ladder to the third floor he attempted to get into the house at the second-floor window, but the flames were too intense for him to do so, and he then shifted the ladder and succeeded in getting to the back of the premises by mounting the roof of the adjoining house. Witness was of opinion, even if he had succeeded in raisin g the additional length of ladder, that lie would still have been unable to lodge it on the third floor, owing to the narrowness of the street, which would not admit of the angle that would have been required. The Coroner here suggested that the fire-escape should be brought and an experiment made, in order to ascertain whether it would be possible to render assistance by means of the ladder to the persons in the house which was on fire. The escape machine was accordingly fetched, and an placing it sideways in front of the house it was found to be perfectly practicable to effect a com munication with any person inside the building by one end of a short ladder being'tied to the fire escape and the other end lodged on the window sill. The Coroner said he was not aware that further evidence could be brought forward to assist the jury in coming to a conclusion on this unhappy case. He believed it was the fact that poor Mrs. Billson really could remember nothing in the matter that could throw any light upon the inquiry., The learned gentleman then summed up the evidence, accom panying it with such remarks as the nature of it sug gested. He adverted to the two collateral questions which had arisen out of the inquiry --namely, as to the conduct of the police, who had a duty to perform to the public in cases of fire, and next, as to the conduct of the fire-escape man who had a duty to perform to his employers; but the great question to whiCh the attention of the jury had to be directed was, as to how the fire took place. The evidence OR that point was not very satisfactory. Although it was little comfort to the surviving relatives, yet it was of great public importance to ascertain, if pos sible, the cause of the fire. They ought not hastily to come to the conclusion that it was accidental, be cause by so doing they would release everybody from blame. If there was not evidence to satisfy them as to the way in which the fire occurred, it would be best perhaps for the jury to say so. The jury then retired,and after being absent about three-quarters of an hour they, by their foreman, re turned the following as the verdict of 12 of their number, a few of the jury withholding their assent to the latter portion of it : "That the deceased Henry John Ralson, Sarah B 'son, Eliza Chapman, and Clarissa Chapman, died from the effect of burns by the house, No. 13a, Great George•strect, taking fire, but how it took fire there is no evidence to show. " The jury cannot part without expressing how greatly they feel obliged to all parties who have assisted in this inquiry, but still they do extremely regret that the parish engines were not sent for at the time." The Coroner could not help saying that consider able energy and intelligence were used, more espe cially by the police. The Foreman—No doubt of t hat ; but the parish engine being so very near, it might have been sent for. The Coroner—True, if the parish engine had ar rived there, even though it had done nothing, it might have been mote satisfactory ; for thatreason he regretted it was not there, though it might not have been of any use. A MISCHIEVOUs PARROT.—One day a party of ladies paid us a visit aboard, and several had been hoisted on deck by the usual means of a " whip" on the mainyard. The chair had descended for another " whip," but scarcely had its fair freight been lifted out of the boat alongside, than the' unlucky parrot piped, " Let go !" The order being instantly obeyed, the unfortunate lady, instead of being comfortably seated on deck, as had been those who preceded her, .was soused over head in the sea I—The Autobiography of a Seaman. By Me Ears of .Dundonald. This day, Part VII., price ed., T ALES FROM BENTLEY. Contents: Father Mathew, by P. M'Teague. 'The Double-Bedded Room, by Bon Gaul tier. The Handsome Clear-Starcher. The Contrabandista, by Captain Medwik Marie de Billemare. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlingtokstreet.