The Sun. — London, England, 1837-06-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JuxE 24. IN THE MATTER CF LYONS, A LUNATIC. 1,. . rionNr, a,:vertn:g to the i-:ctition in this case or 1 1:Csuperseding the commission, entered into some catements to prove ',hat the insanity of Mr. Lyons arose. kolelyfioin intemperance, anti that now having abandoned h ic habit of drinkin g I ;ran dy hr was as pciff•ctly competmt j o the management of his own affairs as any person in the .1::ourt. Mr . . Lyons had ny.7.rricd a French lady, whose in [ . - 1 3uence over his actions had proved most beneficial to his lealtli, and there was not, as long as that influence eon ) itmed, the slightest reason that he would relapse into his 7fornwr course of indulgence in ardent spirits. ! After some observations from Mr. WHITMARSH in sup -port of the commission, The Loan CllaNcur.r.on. would see Mr. Lyons, an 1 he herefore directed his committee to attend with him in his Lordship's private room on Monday morning. nEaNAL r. BERNAL. This ease has been of late frequently before the Court. The question at issue arises out of the construction to be 1 : laced by the Court on the ...ill of a Spanish ,Jew, named _ i los:_ph Gasper Beraid, who died in 1595. By that will a o i , nrn of money was gi. en on trust to pay a certain annuity -o such of his father's riations and their descendants as A:hould from time to time require and ckin the same. The . :uit was instituted in 17 - 23 for the administration of this diarity ; a scheme was aeTeed on, and by a decree of the -Court sums of money have been since phi to such persons, . 1 4 1 tale and female, as have proved themselves to be descend ' - 4 ' : ants of the testator within the meaning of the will. In 1884 4 the plaintiffs presented a petition, stating that they had dii ieovered that the bequest ought to be li:nited to the male .Idescendants of the testator, es, according to the Mosaic : I iw, females were exeluded. At the time the scheme was rgreed on it had been supposed that the testator, who had -/ in establishment in London, and whose wife was buried in -- i i.ondon, had died there himself ; hut it was now found that he lied in Amsterdam, and that his property was therefore to `: .ie distributed according so the law of the country in which ..-; , e was domiciled. The question of the domicile had been -eferred to the Master, and he found it to be in Holland ; tut on the parties coming for a confirmation of that report, be Lords Commissioners thought the evidence not satis actory and sent the matter back to be reviewed. Mr. WAKEFIELD now prayed the confirmation of the -eport, as the Master had gone into fresh evidence, and ,gain found that the domicile was in Holland. Sir W. IlonNE, for the female claimants on the fund, aantended that the proof of the domicile was still so insufll .; :ient that the Court ought to make it the subject of future nlquiry. - At three o'clock his Lordship postponed th© further ar• .;ument till Monday. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JUNE 24. UTHER V. LORD ARTHUR CHICHESTER. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of ,xcliange for 3001., accepted by the defendant. The case iad been before tried under the name of Uther v. Rich, .he defendant in the former action being the drawer of the the amount of which was in the present action sought obe recovered from the defendant, the accept Or. Some ime since Mr. Rich and Lord Arthur Chichester, both otfi ,ers in a regiment stationed at Portsmouth, Were in want f ready money, and they saw a person of the name of I.evy, who was sent down to them from London, with the iew of arranging a loan. They drew bills on each other to :le amou n t o f 1,9001., some o f them at long dates, and on -wo occasions they saw Levy, and gave him the bills to be liscounted. After some time, as they got no money, they be •ame very urgent with Levy to return the bills, and he did re ,lrn several of them; but the bill which was the subject of he present action, and another bill for a smaller amount, he lid not return. The bill in quei.tion he passed into the bands f one Charles Hunter, who was described as an attorney, 'rid who was stated to have been much engaged in discount ng bills. From Hunter it passed into the hands of the pre ,ent plaintiff. The pleas put upon the record in the present •ase were that the bill had not come into the hands of the hintiff as a bona Me holder for a valuable consideration. Sir W. FOLLETT, for the defendant, contended that the ransaction was not one in the ordinary course of business. Lord DENMAN summed up the evidence, which he left to he consideration of the Jury, %Nilo returned a verdict for the lefendant, on the issue as to the transaction being usurious. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 24. SMITH V. DE TASTET. This was an issue directed by the MASTER of the ROLLS to - ry the question, whether M. Vincent Taloclion, better znawn as the 1- ) tre ElisL, had enmn:itted an act of bank uptey previous to the 29th of March, 1811. The facts, which ac of little general interest, were detailed in our columns ,pon the occasion of the first trial during the sittings after ist Hilary Term, when the Jury having remained in delibera ion the whole night without coming to any decision were dis i!bar-bed. A new trial had been granted, and the sam e case vas to-day submitted to a second Jury, who, by giving their verdict for the defendant, found that no act of bankruptcy had been com - nitted by :he Nre p:eviously to the time in question. COURT OF EXCTIEQUER, JUNE 24. GOUGH V. BRYAN. This was an action brought to recover compensation for damage done to a gig and horse, the property of the plaintiff, :hrough the negligent driving of the defendant's servant. Ilis Lordship having summed up, the Jury found for the plaintiff, mith 5/. damages. The case occupied the entire day. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. SATURDAY. BoYam - n Halloway, aged 38, in the garb of a butcher, re iembling in his burly appearance the effigy of Henry the Eight, at the Exchange, was indicted for assaulting Sarah wife. The CHAIRMAN directed the unfortunate wife to explain her accusation, and the poor woman, some years younger than her ''husband, and bearing traces of considerable personal beauty, I narrated a sad tale of continued ill-treatment from the time she narried, very young. sixteen years ago, up to the period of the ,resent charge. She said that she had been at times left vithout support, at others severely beaten, and even during Tcgnancy had been ill-used. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN dwelt with marked emphasis on the brutal !onduct of the convicted offender, and sentenced him to six nonths' imprisonment, and, at the e4iration of that term, to Ind good sureties to keep the peac.3 for twelve months. Seventy prisoners were-discharged by proclamation, and the session terminated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Saturday, a young woman, who gave the name of Georaiana T)eronport. was charged with feloniously breaking and enter- H^ the dwelling-house or Mr. West, jeweller, on Ludgate- JIM, arid stealing therein half-a-dozen silver table spoons, value V. In reply to questions put by the Magistrate she stated that , he was a servant out of place ; she hid a mother living in r,loyd's-row, who worked at waistcoat making, but she had turned her out of doors. She was destinite. She did not snow why she comm itt e d t hi s offence. Mr. Alderman jTHOMAS WOOD said he could nit help sending such a case as his to the Sessions, and the prisoner was committed for trial. BOW-STREET. On Saturday Thomas Weis/i, a coal-heaver, was charged under the following circumstances : \Vcdnes lay afternoon, the prisoner was in the Seveu Dials, drunk, and he amused himself by pelting a number of boys who were there. In doing s.), however, he struck a child, aged only thirteen months, on the forehead, who was lying 'a its mother's lap at the step of a door. Ile was directly -oprebended on that charge by policeman F 112, and brought to this office, whence he was rem toded until Saturday. On now being again brought uo it was state I that the child , as quite safe. but a second charge was preferred against the risoner, of his having caused the death of a man, named lolita Golding, in October, 1815. The prisoner and the de ',-tased met at a lAging-house in S 7. Giles's, when, after th,ir ' -- suing fallen out, the prisoner it; - ) the dece , sed in his rms, awl threw hint against a fern with so mu di vit.lence as cause his death. lie made his escipe at the time, but ";oroner's Inquest was held on the body of the deccntoJ I - verdict of " Manslaughter" returned against 1 1 . - 'le was not met with until Wednesday. Mr. MENsitutA, should not dispose Pi: the fi rst charffe hu . , thould commit the prisoner fur for the manslau ,, hter uhti .ter his trial, for which • other case must stand over, alit prlsoner 211 -' - - _..I?LBOROUGII-STREET. On Sa;'"urdav a well-dressed min, who gave the name of Cha). ; .es Smith, but who has, for purposes of fraud, occasion .ny assumed the names of Captain Cole, Captain Camph.di, Capt. Forrest, William Prentice, and other 4, and a. woman, )assinz as his wife, were brought bct)re Mr. CQNANT and ;fr. DvErt on a variety of charges of mendicity, Oce. Lieutenant Trace:., the Governor of Tothill-fields, stated hat the woman, 'N hen brought into the prison, conducted her_ 'elf with sue►; violence, and appeared so rreolved to wreak rer spite bn an infant in her arms, that he ordered the child to ie t''.'isen from her. This was not accomplished without great eulty; after which the woman, with a violent imprecation, ''Rid she would not rest until ' 6 she had his - heart out." For this threat he had caused her to be ironed and placed in ,:he dark cell. Horsfor(cone of the Mendieity Society's constables, in August last, proceeded to the residence of Colonel Frederick, 13,2rkeley-square, for the purpose of apprehending the pri loners, who had, by fraudulent pretences twice obtained the 'rum of 2/. from the Colonel. When he laid hold of the wlsoners they both attacked him, beat him very severely, and we his clothes nearly from his back. The male prisoner lade his eacape, but the woman was taken, and fully commit od for the offence. On searching the woman a quantity of 'uplicates were found, which led to the discovery that the •risoners had robbed their lodgings, 6, Princes-road, Kenning_ on, and that the male prisoner had stolen a silver spoon be miring to the landlady, and had pledged it. The spoon was reduced and identified, and the pawnbroker was desired 113! • part with it, as a look out would be kept for the prisoner. some time the search was fruitless, but lio.-sfor:l about :t week ago met both the prgo:Aer,; neeldentally, and he took them into custody. Mr. Com - NT, "Oh being informed that the pawnbroker had sold the spoon, severely reprimanded him for hr..z.ng acted contrary to the directions he had reve;re'& Colonel Frederick then Came fore.ard to substantiate his charge ; but, owing to the absence of one of the fraudulent letter!, it was found that the charge could not be supported. The next charge was for having fraudulently obtained ;4 from Lord Portarlington. This case likec.ite fell to the ground, in consequence of the letters not being forthcoming.. The Bench came to the determinatioo of fining the man -51. or two months' imprisonment for the assault on 1-lor:ford, and holding the woman to bail for threatening the Governor of the prison. QUEEN-SQUARE. A child, about seven years of age, named Elizabeth Avery was charged with having stolen a valuable silver table spool from the house of John Milts, Esq., M.P. for Bristol. Mr. WHITE should send the child for seven days' imprison, ment to the House of Correction.. L_l3l_l3E7ll- STREET. George Lee, a groom in the service of a gentleman in Enston-square, was charged with having made two desperate attempts to destroy himself—one by strangulation, and the other by drowning. The prisoner had formed a vehement at tachment to a young woman, residing with her sister and brother-in-law in Solomon's-lane, Stepney. On Friday he obtained leave of absence, and called on his lover; and at six o'clock in the evening she and her friends endeavoured to prevail upon him to return to his service ; but he refused to do so, and stopped all night. On the following (Friday) morning a noise was heard in the parlour of the house, and, on its being entered, the prisoner was found lying on the floor, with his handkerchief tied so tightly round his neck that in a few minutes he must have been deprived of life. Ile subse quently made his escape from the house, and was in the act of flinging himself off the parapet of Limehouse Bridge when he was caught by a policeman. .The prisoner expressed much penitence for what he had done, and promised not to renew his attempts. The brother-in-law of his sweetheart said there was very little reliance to be placed on his word in this re. spect ; but the tmgistrate discilarged him on his renewing his promise. UNION-HALL. William Glanville, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged with stealing a quantity of printed books in sheets ; called Pinnoeh's Guide to Knowledge, the property of Mr. Robert Wilson, a tradesman. The complainant is a cheesemonger, living in Regent street, and in November, 1835, he purchased of Mr. l'innock, sen., the copyright of the work called Pinnock's Guide to Knowledge, which was published in Charles -street, Covent garden. Subsequent to the purchase of the work he em ployed Mr. Pinnock, jun., as the editor, and the prisoner was also engaged as the publisher, and managed that department at a house in Charles-street. In November, 1836, the publi cation of the work ceased, and at that period a great quantity of the Guide to Knowledge, in sheets, was left on hand, all of which it was the intention of complainant to have properly arranged, under the inspection of the prisoner, and then sold, not as waste paper, but at the original price. Complainant, however, had recently discovered that several hundred weight of The Guide to Knowledge had been sold by the prisoner as waste paper, without complainant's knowledge. Mr. JEREMY should remand the prisoner, in order that Mr. Pinnock, jun., might attend. CORONERS' INQUEST. On Saturday night, at nine o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. BAKER and a respectable Jury, at the sign of the Cape of Good Hope. Limehouse, to investigate the circum stances attending the death of Mary Driscoll, aged forty years, and her female infant. The inquiry took place at the instigation of the medical gentleman who attended the de ceased, to rrevent any false rumours which might arise in consequence of an important operation performed on the mo ther, post mortem, but which, unfortunately, was not attended with success. Mrs. Hannah Williams knew the deceased, and saw her almost every day. On Friday last she was sent for to see the deceased, whom she found in bed, evidently in a dying state. She was in a very advanced state of pregnancy. On being sent for witness presumed the deceased was in labour, but on her arrival she found such was not the case, nor were there any symptoms of it. The deceased died within about half an hour after she arrived. Mr. Johnstone, the surgeon, was there, and paid every attention to the deceased. He subse quently performed an operation, though ineffectually; still, in her opinion, with great skill. By the Jury—Had seen the deceased alive and well the day previous, and going about as usual. The deceased a short time before she died stated that a few days before she had been washing a blanket, and in lifting a large iron pot from the fire, with hot water in it, she felt something give way within her, which at the time she thought would be her death. Mr. Charles Johnstone, of the Commercial-road, surgeon, was first called to attend the deceased on Thursday evening ; he had seen her previously the same morning, having a pa. tient to visit in the same house. At that time she corn. plained to him of a violent constipation of the bowels, which had continued w i t h ou t i nterrupt i on f or ten days ; he then sent her some castor oil ; when sent for in the evening she was la bouring under violent inflammation of the bowels ; he then ordered other medicines. On Friday morning early he again saw her, and bled her ; the symptoms under which she was labouring still increasing, other measures were then resorted to to relieve her, but without effect ; the unfortunate sufferer at that time was in such a state that the pressure of the bed clothes caused most excruciating pain ; she became delirious, got out of bed, and walked down stairs ; saw her again in a few hours, and found she was most rapidly sinking; he went home to get some stimulant medicine, and was absent ten mi nutes, but in the interim she had expired. Knowing that the deceased was near her confinement he considered it necessary that an endeavour should be made to save the child ; but not wishing to perform the operation without previously consul ting some other medical gentleman on the subject, he sent for Mr. liens, a neighbouring surgeon, but that gentleman being from home and every moment then being of consequence, ho performed the necessary operation, and extracted the child within ten minutes after the death of the mother. The child, however, was quite dead, and evidently was so before the ope ration was performed. The COT2ONER said that Mr. Johnstone had conducted him self in a very proper manner in a case of such emergency, and that he was also quite right in instituting that inquiry. The Jury acquiesced, and returned a verdict in both cases of " Natural death." EXTRAORDINARY ACCUSATION. It will be remembered that in May last year a charge of a very strange and highly criminal nature was preferred before din Lc , .visham ma - _ , ,istrates by Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson Boyce, widow, against Mr. John Frederick Parker, a solicitor, who for many years had resided at Lewisham, where he filled the office of clerk to the district magistrates, and held other official appointments, and was universally considered to be a gentle man of high and honourable character. Mr. Lester, solicitor, of Blackheath, appeared on behalf of Mrs. Boyce, and an information was exhibited, charging Mr. Parker with having, in the spring of that year, administered certain drugs to Mrs. Boyce, to procure abortion, she then being pregnant by him, and with having subsequently taken her to the house of a German surgeon in London, where,. in a darkened ro om , an operat i on was performed upon her, which produced the intended effect of causing abortion. Upon this information a warrant was issued, and Mr. Parker was brought before a Magistrate, when time being asked on behalf of the accused to rebut the charge, the Magistrate Con sented to grant it, and in the interval to take bail for Mr. P.'s appearance. Two gentlemen of known property and charac ter immediately became sureties for Mr. Parker's appearance on the day appointed, each in five hundred pounds, and Mr. Rinker having entered into a personal recognizance of one thousand pounds, he was liberated. The day appointed for hearing arrived, but the accused was not forthcoming, and, on inquiry, it was ascertained that he had quitted his residence at Lewisham, and was gone no one knew where. Ile was (in the usual form) called upon for his recugnizances, and, not answering, they were ordered to be estrcated. Notwithstanding the disappearance of LIPo accused, the Ma giFtrates deemed it their duty to take the deposition of Mrs. Boyce as to all the details of her rive was given by her of the., :ccusation. A long narra tivecircumstances out of which her acquaintance with Mr.. Parker arose, the illicit intercourse followed : 1,.;:r bw3oming pregnant, and giving birth to a t , chill ' A . st"''quent renewal of th e i n t ercourse , and her *".cond time pregnant, upon which occasion sh e lIA ,01 • one attempts to have been made to procure abortion, b, administering drugs, and these failing, that she was taken y Mr. Parker to a German surgeon in London, where, by an instrument, the end was accomplished. Mr. Tanner, her father, was also examined as a witness upon some collateral matters of minor importance. The affair, as might be expected, caused much excitement and conversation in the neighbourhood, but like all other things at length was forgotten, till last week it was most un expectedly revived by the accused himself challenging in quiry into his conduct. In the early part of the week a formal notice was served upon the clerks of the magistrates, informing, them that Mr. Parker would forthwith surrender himself to meet the charges preferred against him. On Saturday the Magistrates met in the Asembly-room of the tavern, for the purpose of clitering upon the examination of the prisoner. _ _ The'aecused, John Frederick Parker, was produced by Atkin3. Ile is a good-looking man, of middle stature, and apparently in the prime of life. Saveral respectable friends accompanied him. The information was read by the clerk of the magistrates. It contained the charges before stated, to which Mr. Parker pleaded nut guilty. Mr. BODKIN was instructed to appear on the part of Mrs. Boyce, but he had no charge of any kind to prefer. CHAI4MAN-What motion then have you to make? Mr. BODKIN—That the information may be withdrawn. The N said spme good reason must be given before they could grant such a request. Mr. BoDKIN was instructed to say that whets Mrs. Boyce preferred her extraordinary charge, she wai labouring under great irritation and excitement of mind, and had been impro perly urged on by others to make statements which she could not, now that she had regained her self-possession, possibly ;at tempt to substantiate, and which, therefore, she wished to withdraw. lie had only to add, that he had received a letter from M. Boyce, in which she admitted the charges prefer.ed !)y r rigit'nt Mr. P.irker to be alto4ether untrue. Tie that under all the circumstances of the THE SUN, LONDON,.,,n,QNpA X. i v NyL46ot34 • case, the Magistrates had de t trrnined o Mr. Pariter, to ,llow an opportenity for a full investigation. "-r. CLARKSON trusted the Magistrates would indulge him in a few words. He never in his life knew of a case of an ac cused person being remanded when no evidence Iva expeeted to he forthcoming, and where the pret?ciltOr declared., " have no charge to prefer, and if I had knoWn at first What, now kmorv., I should herer have preferred any vfCcusation." Hb diti hope, if the Magistrates had n'ot irrevocably detdrmincti on a rem.:ml, th a t they wou ld reidonSider their judgment. The room Was ehgain ordered to be cleared, but was reopened in a few minutTs, when the CHAIRMAN announced the decision of the Magistrates to be that they could not do otherwise than remand the prisoner. Mr. ParkCr was accordingly transferred into the Custody of Fisher, the b;gh constabl e , wh o received a warrant for convey ing him to the c:.unty THE MONEY MARKET. SATURDAY.—The importation of cotton during the last week at Liverpool amounted, in fifty-four vessels, to between 80,000 and 90,000 bags, chiefly American, a quantity un usually large, and, it is believed, never exceeded, consigned principally to English merchants, in part liquidation of the claims of British creditors upon the Americans. Can any thing be more d• - monstrative of the good faith of the mer chants of the United States than this circumstance, or give stronger proof of their anxiety to relieve their correspondents here? Thsides the strenuous efforts the Americans are malc:ng to meet their obligations in this country, as evidenced in the large weekly importations of various produce into Liverpool and other ports of the United Kingdom, they are continually remitting specie in considerable amounts, obtained under most disadvantageous and ruinous terms, to sustain their credit in England, a mode of payment, be it remembered, that no one has a right to ex act from a country which did - not contract its debt in that medium. To any one conversant nith mercantile affairs, it must be quite obvious that it would be just as impracticable for any country to which 20,000,0001. or 30,000,0001. of tner chandize were expected by England, to remit for the same in specie, as it would be for the Bank of England to meet its outstanding liabilities in the current coin of the realm or bullion. Such an amount must be disbursed in the same medium in which the debt was contracted, that is merchandise, or by the barter of the staple produce of that country for the manufactures of this ; hence the propriety of the Americans suspending cash payments during a panic like the one which has recently occurred, there being in no country specie corresponding in amount with its internal and foreign obligations. Is it not, then, most unjust and unmerciful—contrary to all usage and in all probability to express agreement—to call upon the American merchants, as it were at a moment's notice, to liquidate their accounts, when perhaps the bulk of the manufactvrcs have only just been exported from this county, to bo sold in America at a credit, perhaps, of three, six, or nine months, and the proceeds returned in cotton or other produce of the United States ? The custom generally with foreign merchants is to open an account with an English house, the latter agreeing to give a running average credit of 5,000/., some more, some leas ; which ba lance is rarely reduced, as upon the strength of such credit the foreign merchant gives credit to others, so that it is quite impossible for him to pay off the balance of his stand ing credit until lie has disposed of his manufuctures, and got his returns. It seldoms happens that English merchants are indebted to foreign ; but, on the contrary, nine-tenths of the latter with whom the English have dealings are indebted to them, arising out of the superabundant wealth of our mercantile community. Thus the vast trade of this country, by giving extraordinary credits all over the world, is the primary cause of the money panics which take place when any portion of the machinery is unexpectedly deranged and must ever be so while the legal tender of the great commercial countries is of such a limited nature. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Melville Wilson, two of the partners of the firm of Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co., in com pliance with a request made by their creditors at a private meeting, will leave London on Monday, we believe, for the United States, with a vices of collecting the debts of the house as speedily as _possible. It has been our unvarying opinion, and we have little doubt the result will justify our expectations, that the Americans will strai❑ every nerve to meet their engagements most honourably ; and should there be exceptions it will rather be the effect of accident than design, caused by the extraordinary depression in the value of their property—a circumstance which they could neither anticipate nor control. Mr. Melville Wilson, who has only recently returned from New York, after having examined minutely into the affairs of firms indebted to his house, is fully convinced that time alone is required to realize every thing. In many cases where he called for payment, even where houses had suspended operations, he was shown goods and property to six, seven, and eight times the amount of the debt, and was offered his choice of every thing ; but of course nothing could be realised during a period of commercial panic, and he was compelled to give a further extension of credit. The position of the houses in this country which have been obliged to yield to the severity of the times is almost similar ; they have plenty of assets, although not immediately available, and therefore the Bank Directors are only doing an act of justice to the British merchants generally by exerting themselves to the utmost, even at some risk, to relieve the present pressure brought about chiefly by themselves and the monied interests con tracting their discounts and throwing American paper into discredit. The decision of the Bank, moreover, in refer ence to those firms in the American trade which stopped payment and threw so many houses into difficulties, was no doubt actuated. by erroneous views. They looked upon the question as one of insolvency, instead of one of time. The Roaeoc packet arrived most inopportunely with intelligence of the suspension of business on the part of many establishments in New York which were indebted to those requiring assistance in England. The Bank instantly took alarm, would not listen to the true state of things, and decided fatally. Three of the largest houses connected with the American trade stopped the following day, commerce was paralyzed, and honourable, upright men, wl:o only a short time before were regarded as persons of wealth, were compelled to call a meeting of their creditors and place their accounts before them. In regard to Messrs. Brown and Co., of Liverpool, the Bank looked upon the matter in the proper light, as a question of time, and ultimately came to a resolution, if sincerely acted upon, extremely favourable for that estab lishment. The cases of ell, however, were so similar, that this recent decision occasioned the former to be considered partial 1 and a requisition has been consequently signed by many of the leading and most intelligent men in the City requesting the I3arik to reconsider their first resolution, and we feel convineed, at we have often stated before, that they would give. universal satisfaction by enabling the firms in question to resume business, while it would give vigour to every branch of trade and be a powerful stimnlus to the merchants of the United States.—lllorninj Chronicle. SATIIIMAY EVENING.—It has been received as satisfac tory intelligence from Manchester that " the cotton spin ners are now perfectly satisfied with the relative prices of cotton and yarns, and that some who were working three days a week have in consequence been working six days in this week,' This is hailed as the first symptom of return lug confidence, and a better state of things both in England and the United States ; and it is certain that an increase of activity . in the cotton trade will do much, though it will not do the whole that is required. For this branch of ma nufacture we have several great markets, hut the great_ pressure for some time to come as regards the other branches of the, national industry will be upon Birmingham and Shef field, and those places which depend chiefly upon the United States for a market.—Times. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings will re main at their residence in Lower Grosvenor-street till August. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.--It IS now arranged that the first twenty miles of the London and Birmingham railway will open in the first week of July. Pas sengers will start from Euston-grove, and those with merchan dise from Camden-town. When the works of the London Grand Junctio n Railway are completed, the city terminus will he at Skinner-street,. Snow-hill, in the very heart of London. There will then be an uninterrupted chain of railway commu nication from the city of London to the port of Liverpool. The branch of Euston-grove will be the west-end terminus to the whole. We have high gratification in announcing that the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Mar chioness of Lansdowne to a distinguished situation, w hi c h will place her Ladyship at the head of our Sovereign's house hold, We understand that the Marchioness of Tavistock and the Countess Minto are to be the ladies of the bed-chamber to the Queen.—Sunday paper. SUFFERINGS OF TIIE CREW OF TIIE WHALERS. —We are glad to learn that William Gray, belonging to Dun dee, the seamen taken off the Advice whale ship, and landed at Port Glasgow from the ship Grace, is recovering rapidly from the effects of scurvy and general debility, although h e is still unable to walk without assistance. He gives a painful and melancholy account of the sufferings of the crew. I n t h e first place, being placed on short allowance of food from the time the Alivice got beset in the ice, and then from the ravages of that horrid disease (scurvy) attacking them in the mouth, accompaw,ed with dreadful swelling in the legs, and, latt er ly, from the incess an t a p p li cat i on o f t h e pumps, to keep the vessel from getting water-logged. The seams of the Advice , it ap pears, were open e d by th e f ros t t o a great extent, and inside the ice was three and four inches thick all round the vessel, which, by the air getting heated by the breaths of the men huddled. 'oelow, began to melt, and several feet of water were constant ly in the hold. Captain Davidson, of the Thomas, was par ticularly active in cheering and aiding the men at the pumps. which were, from the state of the vessel, kept con t4,ritly going for along period. Ten or twelve of the crew div t , l before the ship left the ice, and afterwards, Grey observes, that I , he men died like rotten sheep, seemingly without feel ing th ^ pangs of death. • They were in a listless state, and just sl oe , )ed int de,:th.— Glasgow Chronicle. IRELAND. nuntAN, JUNK Toe ELrerten , .—Oreat attllilly is ditpltird 111 all perties in Making preparations for the doming electral struggle. Out there are few perior,h, even liejon'ging to the tot-y party, who dd not adibiEi that the iatilt a the t:.:locLidos t,7l l iC tl aCeestion of numbers and strength to the Reformers. No doubt, the advocates of justice to Ireland will be returned ge nerally throughout the country. The people will send only such MN: to Parliament as will there cc operate with O'Connell in scoring Alunitipal 114orni i and these tither measures of social amelioration Which, Whilst the Lords have blindly ob- Strutted ) the Aielbotlerie Administration have mat-Ally arid Stisenuously urged. We see by the Driblin Evening Post that efforts will be made by the corruptionists in Wicklow, Newry, and other places. Those also who incline to regard the prospects of the enemy as being brighter, than we are per suaded they can reasonably be considered, fear that the Ju lgcs' decision, enunciated by Mr. Justice Crampton on the fran chise, by limiting its exercise, will operate unfavourably upon the Liberal cause. For ourselves, we participate not in this or any other apprehension upon the subject of the elections. The spirit of the people—the well-directed energies of the " bondsmen," who arc determined to be free, we are convinced will achieve a decided and glorious victory at the ensuing elect ions. TIIR LORD LIT.UTEN A NT. —Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Mulgrave embarked at Kingstown, shortly after nine o'clock this morning, on board her Majesty's steamer, the Lightning, for Holyhead, on their way to London. Their Excellencies were accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke and the Hon. Capt. Liddell. The object of his Excellency's visit is to resign into the hands of her Majesty, according to custom, the seals of 11'3 high office, and his commission of Governor-General of Ireland. At three o'clock this day a Privy Council is to assemble at the Ca , tle, when the Lord Chancellor, Sir Edward Blakency, the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces, and the Lord Chief Justice Bushe, will be sworn in as Lords Justices His Excellency's absence is not expected to exceed a very few weeks. The intelligence of the King's heath has filled all hearts here with de e p regre t. A melancholy interest is manifested to learn all the details connected with the melancholy event. The public papers contain little else but matter connected with the loss of our late excellent, honest, true-hearted old King. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardeners' Gazelle.) BIZET ROOM—Thin them out to proper distances ; clear it from weeds. ONIONS, arc beginning to swell a good deal, and many will be found too close, though carefully hoed out. Draw out these for bunching or present use ; at all events, draw them out, if you throw them away afterwards. POT HERDS.—PIant out . young thyme, savory, marjorum, &c., watch for a good opportunity after rain. Slips or Cut tings of all herbs will do well if put out after a wet day, and in shady borders. CuAanooNs.--Plant out, either in' deep trenches, or in a hole like a basin. It is. the stalks that arc eaten, and they must be earthed up like celery. WATERING, WEEDING, &c., must be constantly looked to. FRUIT TREES on walls must be examined ; take off all ill grown useless shoots, leave none but sach as can be well laid in and trained. WALL FRUIT.—Look over and thin properly. FRUIT TREES, such as vier° planted in Spring must be looked to, the earth kept close about the stems, and plenty of water given. VINES out of doors must be cleared from all useless shoots ; nail all strong shoots with fruit or without, take off weak bar ren shoots. STRAWBERRIES.—Girt plenty of water, and keep clear from weeds. As soon as the runners are strong enough nursery plantations may be made of the strongest and best; let them grow till September, they will be infinitely better than plants from the old beds, or runners which may hare struck root and grown on the old plants. FLORIST'S FLOWRRS in general require a little care; pre venting the attacks of vermin is an important point. Auri culas are making growth, and require occasional water ; Tulips can take no harm. The Ranunculuses ought to be constantly shaded and watered, but the blooms must not be wetted; Anemones much the same treatment ; Pinks, Picco tees, and Carnations must be tied up, and as the buds advance they must be thinned; none of them should have more than one or two buds on a stem. PLANTS out of bloom require the same treatment as last .month; those in the houses may require shading from the extreme heat. DAHLIA4.—Tie up as they grow; remember our former injunctions about watering. Plant out seedlings. The University of Athens was opened by King Otho on the 15th of May with much pomp, but not one student had presented himself for admission. In allusio❑ to the correspondence between Mr. Mostyn and Sir S. Glynne, which we published last week, the Carnarvon Herald says—" The plain moral of it is, that the Tory proposes to the Whig, in the first place, that he shall treat the elective franchise as a property of the soil, and barter it away ns he would the cattle on his estate ; and in the next place, that he shall exhibit himself in the contemptible posi tion—worse than that of the apostate who so unblushingly makes the proposition—of a double-dealer and trader in poli tics—that he shall be a Whig in the county, and a Tory in the boroughs I And the bait held out is, to purchase the neutra lity of Sir S. Glynne in the county !' The alternative menaced is, that if he will not consent to exhibit himself in this degrad ing spectacle, lie will encounter an opposition in the county. The reply of Mr. Mostyn is as much the opposite of the letter to him, and exhibits him in as honourable contrast to his me nacer, as his most high-minded friend could wish." The hay harvest has commenced in this neighbour hood, and the crops are likely to be good and abundant. The blossom on the fruit trees is rapidly "setting," and there is every prospect of an abundant produce.—Halifax Express. On Sunday last, eight of the prisoners lodged in the Preston House of Correction for trial at the Assizes (one only of whom was re-captured) made their escape from the gaol. STINGS OF CONSCIENCE.—A respectably dressed middle-aged man, who gave his name John Alcock, on Mon day, was brought before the Bench by Inspector Douglas, to whom he surrendered himself on Sunday morning. When called upon to state his reasons for doing so, he said he had been valet for nearly thirteen months to Mr. Frederick Pear son, of Conduit-street, London; that he a short time since absconded from his employment and went to Birmingham, taking with him three five-pound notes, the property of his master, which he had stolen from his desk. He had not he said given himself up from want but from remorse of conscience, and he Wished his master to be made acquainted with the cir cumstance. He also stated that he was a native of Norwich, and formerly lived with Sir Joseph Leffen. After the man had withdrawn, Douglas said he had written to the gentleman named above, and that Alcock had informed him that he left London to follow a young woman to Birmingham, but when ho arrived there he heard she had returned to London, and upon ascertaining that to be a fact, he became careless and squandered the money.— Worcester Journal. A remarkable effect of the tremendous storm which we had on Friday last was witnessed at Leigh, near this city, where a farmer had just expended 301. in manuring his land ; the whole of which manure, with a crop of turnips, was trans forced by the storm to his neighbour's estate.— Worcester Journal. A day or two ago, Mr. Bebell, foreman in Mr. Hunt's ship-building yard in this port, while preparing timber for the vessel now on the stocks, discovered in the centre of an elm tree, a bird's nest, containing five eggs. The tree was two feet eight inches in diameter, and there was not the slightest aperture from where the nest, was to the surface; so that it must evidently have been built when the tree was quite young, and which, in the process of growth, had enclosed the nest and its contents, where probably they had remained un disturbed for upwards of half a century. The moss and hair of which it was composed had quite a fresh appearance, but un fortunately the neatness of its shape was discomposed by the process of extraction, and the saw broke most or all of the eggs ; they were quite dry, containing nothing but a white powder. The nest and eggs arc supposed to be those of a tom tit. They arc now in the possession of Mr. Bebell, at the yard, where they may be inspected by the curious. In the samo yard, a few years ago, a live toad was found under pre cisely similar circumstances in the heart of an oak tree, but the saw of the workmen passing through tho reptile, killed it. Gloucester Journal. Yesterday those prescribed alterations in the Liturgy which have been specified in the Gazette of Friday last were put into practice in the churches and chapels situate in Lon don and its environs. The pulpits were in most places hung with black, and festoons of crape of the same colour were sus pended from the pillars. A gentleman sent a lad with a letter to the Balti more post-office, and money to pay the postage. When he re turned, he said, " I guess I did the thing- slick; I see'd a good many folks putting letters into the post-office through a hole, so I watched my chance, and got mine in for nothing." On Monday last upwards of 670 young persons were confirmed at the cathedral at Peterborough, by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, for the Bishop of Peterborough, who still continues indisposed. His Lordship afterwards proceeded to Oundle, where upwards of 500 young persons were confirmed. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET on Saturday morning was again admirably supplied with a superabundance of choice vegetables, and fresh strawberries, grown in the open air, in quantity, and at very reduced prices ; cabbages and lettuces, each of enormous size ; greens, rhubarb, spinach, cauliflowers, piled very high in the huge waggons of the mar. ket gardeners, took their different stands before midnight, and by four o'clock the splendid square which enloses this well conducted market was entirely filled with buyers and sellers; peas, quite fresh, plentiful and cheap ; asparagus very reason able indeed. The new potatoes grown in frames were plenti ful and large ; French beans very fine, an d diminished in price, because of the increased supply; cucumbers very lengthy in deed, and cheap ; currants and gooseberries in measureless supply ; cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and pines in perfection, avery fair supply o f each. That portion of the garden appropriated to flowers was beautifully varigated. On Friday last a meeting was called at the church at Wisbeach, to lay a rate ; a large company attended, and a deal of argu?nent took place; at length a rate of four-pence in the pound was moved and seconded, and an amendment was proposed, that the meeting adjourn till that day four months. The amendment was carried.--Stamford Mercury. PoiNTs OP ArtCHITL,ci,TURAL SUBLI.III'FY IN LONDON. " Th e m rer. thuuderings, and liglitoings, and voices."— Puck of Reetialion§ 111,2g4Jlen College, Cambridge, A. 1, 1 aat „ . rif t' I,iitely for some time in London, giting evidence before a Lumrnittce t'f the of f;ornmons on the proposed improvements of the navigation dt 111 e Fss'llArinott and the Fergus; the hitter the river of my native Clare. While I was in that mighty metropolis, I revived with my tiame a proputal originally pali...thed anonymously in a letter td the e ditor of the Times, for the erection of a natlfrial monu ment to fleit-foii i i , orth* of Fmglantli anti of his memory, It nits from this College t wrote ihy Gfiil4l letter to the editor, who is himself a highly-distinguished gr;:duatetlf &Jr tTniitersi:y. . Being now herC; again, after long - absence, for a day or two before my return to Ireland, I do not think I can do any thing more in snison with the feelings with Ivhieh, retired from poli tical turmoil, I once more repose within my college walls, than writing a few paffes to cAll your attention to two magnificent earnbintvions tube found in London. Of each of these. St. Paul's Cathedral is the basis—each is unique in its way—there is nothing like either of them to be found anywhere else in the world : one has been always known, but the other does not ap pear to have been observed by any one else but myself—at least the public attention does not appear to have been called to it by any one before. Suppose yourself to stand at the eastern extremity of the quay at Bankside, near the new London-bridge, and looking up the Thames, you will observe the groat circular tower and dome of St. Paul's Cathedral appearing directly over the centre arch of the Southwark cast-iron bridge. Thus you have the very greatest arch in the world, and the second dome in the world, at one view, in exquisitely pic turesque combination—and in exquisite proportion to each other, too ; each is enormous, and so, therefore, they are both together in unison in their vastness. It is a truly sublime ar chitectural combination. Is there anything equal to it at Rome? No ; on the very contrary, it was by contrasting it with a view in Rome, that I was first astounded by its transcendent grandeur. I had often stood upon the side of the Tiber, to view the dome of the Vatican over the bridge of St. Angelo. But in this view there was no harmony ; because the bridge bore no proportion to the stupendous Vatican. There was no har mony here : but in London the harmony is exquisite, between the mighty bridge over the waters of the river, and the mighty dome, that " upheaves its vastness" " buried in air." The two come together .in magical combination—in consequence, first, of their relative positions; and, secondly, of the gorgeous perfection of their proportion to each other in their enormous dimensions. Lord Byron says in "lde Harold," and there never was anything more true:— " There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music ROAR." . . . . - About St. Paul's there is a twofold sublimity—as an object of vision—and it is doubly sublime as a musical instrument. I do not call it so in quaintness, for with Lord Byron's autho rity, which I have just quoted, I think the form of expression a good one. In the Tempcst Shakspeare, too, the thunder is called " that deep and dreadful organ-pipe ;" another precedent in my favour, and peculiarly apposite to my purpose : " Methought the billows spoke and told me of it, The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, THAT DEEP AND DREADFUL. ORGAN•PIPE, pronounced The name of ." Who that has a perception of the sublime in the works of art or of nature, has been ever in the great circular gallery in St. Paul's—" the whispering gallery"—and while he gazed above to the summit of the dome, and across the enormous diameter of the yawning , abyss beneath the gallery, and viewed the se pulchres and monuments of " the mighty dead" in the gulf beneath him, and after listening to the solemn preludizing of the mystic sounds that swept around him—like the voices of spirits of another world—then looked down the chasm, and, while doing so, heard the awful sounds produced by such simple means put in action at the opposite side of the gallery —the repercussive roar, like the reverberation of a thunder's peal—who that has seen and heard all this, unless he is pre pared to deny that there is music in the roar of ocean, can deny that the church of St. Paul's is a deep and solemn in strument of music, the most sublime I Such sounds were never heard within any other building in the world. The view from the gallery of the Vatican is superior to the view from the gallery of the metropolitan church of London ; but in this case the sight alone is astounded, but in St. Paul's the soul is taken by an irresistible spell that overwhelms it, and makes it captive by the sentiment of sublimity through two senses together—the hearing and the vision. Go alone, in the gloom of a winter's evening, into the gal lery of St. Peter's, and the effect is no more to be forgotten than the view down the crater of Vesuvius, as I have seen it from the verge, when looking down from amidst sulphureous smoke,. into the lava flood that was boiling in its abyss-breast of flame : the deep silence of St. Peter's at such a moment as I have described, is sublime to the very last extremity ; but St. Paul's, like Vesuvius, can give awful sounds as well as awful scenery. I have for some time intended to embody these conceptions in an article for publication ; and something very lately sug gested itself to me, which induces me to add it, as it perhaps may not be entirely uninteresting to artists, particularly to those who devote themselves to architecture. It occurred to me that I could, in the following manner, get something like general Teel of such a building as that which I have proposed for a national, monument to Newton in my let ters to the Editor of the Times. I cut out from one of my pictures the view of the proposed building, but preserved the outline with the utmost accuracy. Then going in the gloom of the evening, in what in Scotland would be called " the gloaming," that the angular parts might not obtrude themselves too strongly, and so to a certain extent cause a failure of my purpose, .if too distinctly defined, I held up the paper before me from which I had cut out the picture, in such a manner, that, standing in Cheapside, the base of my design appeared to coincide with the base of St. Paul's (a sort of crude coincidence, of course, in consequence of the angle at the transept), and that the highest point of my designed build ing should, at the same time, appear to coincide with a point of the great tower of the Cathedral, about 200 feet high—the height of the building which I propose to have erected. Thus you will perceive that I made use of the mighty pile already in existence, in a manner somewhat analogous to that in which a sculptor uses a block of marble in order to hew out his form ; for, .by the process I have described, I not only, per fectly, as it were, hewed out from the church the form I wanted to view, but also got before me the dimensions of my proposed building, delineated perfectly to my vision, when I looked through the paper from which (as I have said before, accu rately preserv►ng the outline) I had cut out my design. Perhaps these few observations may not be entirely uninte resting to those who take an interest ►n architectural combi nations, and the general harmonies of nature. In a description I wrote of Cadiz, that magically beautiful city, where, after the fall of Paphos, Lord Byron says Venus deigned to fix her shrine, there is the following passage : " Some years ago, when I was in Rome, I frequently passed whole hours together in roaming round the Coliseum, and through its arena and arches and galleries, by which I formed to myself a series, to infinity, of beautiful combinations. When I spoke of this amusement to my friend Gabrielli, who is a musician as well as painter, I, laughingly, called it playing a melody on the Coliseum—and a number of such melodies might well be played in Cadiz." Yes, there arc melodies of this kind in Cadiz of magic fasci nation ; and I have quoted the passage about melody, as bear ing something of analogy to part of what I have been writing now, viz., harmonies of nature. " The Lady," in Milton's Comas, invokes Echo— _ " Sweet Echo ! sweetest nymph that dvvell'st unseen Within thy airy cell," &c. And describes her as giving " a resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies." Now, if echo ever gave, in this world, a harmony worthy of Heaven, it was when her voice was first heard in the appalling and thunder-peal-like repercussion in the Church of St. Paul's— when her voice, from within it er airy cell, was as if the " seven thunders, described in the book of Revelations, had " uttered their voices." No—not from the time when God himself sanctified with his presence the ark of the covenant within the tabernacle, sitting on the mercy-scat between the cherubim ; in Horeb, or iloronahn, or by the brook of Cedron, or Siloa, or in Zoar, or on Mount Hermon, or on Sion-hill—was there ever a place consecrated to his worship so awfully solemn and sublime, as that thunder-pealing temple, the vast Cathedral of St. Paul ! Could anything increase the sublimity I have vainly made an attempt to describe ? Yes, if those sounds were to be pro duced in the dreary depth of winter midnight—while the only illumination for a person in the gallery should be from the flashing of lurid lightnings in tile firmament, from time to time showing the interior for a moment, and then again as suddenly leaving it in darkness. I have the honour to be, my dear Sir, Ever most ;ineerely yours, THOMAS STEELE, A Member of the Senate of this University. ARCHITECTURAL SUBLIMITY IN WALES. Theyfollowing eloquent tribute to the merits of Me. Tel ford's great work, the Menai Bridge, appeared some years ago in the Dedication to Mr. T. Steele's " Practical Suggestions on the Improvement of the Shannon :"—" On the evening when I took my scat as an associate member of the Institu tion of Civil Engineers, I signed in your presence a declara tion that I would always, to the utmost of my power, endea vour to promote the objects for which the Society had been founded; and I now, without at all identifying you with my politics, beg permission to dedicate to you the following pages, and at the same time when I make an humble effort to fulfil my pledge to the Institution, I may, as an Irishman, have the gratification of publicly expressing my sense of the benefit you have conferred on my country, by increasing to the ex tent that you have increased it, the rapidity of the communi cation between Ireland and England. In the progress of your work, Sir, for drawing the two countries by so many hours nearer to eadi other than they were before, you hare not only formed one of the most magnificent roads in the world over the mountains of Wales, but you have suspended in the mid way air—not over a river, but over a portion of the mighty deep itself—a monument to your genius, harmonising with the objects around, beneath, and on high ; for, like the ridge of the Cambrian mountains, the ocean-tide, and the firmament of Heaven, This new wondrous Pontalice unhoped.' The bridge over the billows of the Menai is sublime." It is not, we believe, generally known that Mr. Telford was a poet as well as engineer. (BURT CiltuULAl. The PAC c,f Argyll, Lord Steward of the Household,nS had an audience cf the Queen, on Saturday at Kensingto7 Palace, to present the Address from the Eouse of Lords.:,. Sir Mihail; Fremantle, Treasurer of the flousehohirlowth, Col. Cavendibb, Equerry in Waiting, were is attendancerxV the oceaaion. Divine Service was performed yesterday bJore the Qn -' l een- and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent by the-Dean of Cite:ger. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the funeral anthem, " Lord, let me know mine end" (Green), was perl, formed ; Sir George Smart presiding at the organ. ilicei Sanctus and Commandments were composed by the Earl of Wilton, and his Lordship presided at the organ. The '1 mon witg preached by the Sub-Dean. The Duke of Mn.,sex visited the King of Hanover on Sa•V turday. In the evening his Majesty dined with the Princess 4 h r Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glouceste-0 bowie, At ten o'clock the King, having taken leave of i Royal Sister.l, left town, attended by Col. Hattori, in hi ll of the Duchess of Gloucester's carriages, for Deptford,'N where his Majesty embarked in a government steam-packet" fur the Continent. The remains of the late King will, it is expec ted, lie u) .., state in the Waterloo-chamber on Friday the 7th and Sa- „. turday the Bth of July. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gl o ucester 6,F4 1 1 took an airing together yesterday to Kew. The furniture belonging to the Queen Dowager lir s been R: removed from her Majesty's late residence in town t o Bushy- I park. The Earl of Durham, his late Majesty's Ambassador E - traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emp eror'nf All the Russias, arrived in town on Saturday. Earl Grey .. visited his Lordship yesterday. The Marquis of Lansdowne was sufficiently recovereal from his recent accident to attend a Cabinet Council held, at. the official residence of Viscount Melbourne in Downing' street on Saturday afternoon. The Council was attendedh by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor', of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Y., Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The Council sat two hours. The Russian and French Ambassadors transacted busi ness on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Sir Charles Grey had an interview with Lord Glenelg on '.. Saturday, at the Colonial-office. Lord Worsley and Mr. Barrow had interviews with Vis count Melbourne on Saturday, in Downing-street. t. Messrs. Wood and Thornton, the Chairman and D e puty _ Chairman of Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with thei Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, in Downing-street . . Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, sat on Saturday in the Privy Council Chamber, and resumed Shuttleworth's peti tion for an extension of Wright's patent (in penmaking.) The case occupied the greater part of the sitting, and was adjourned. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. We are informed by a correspondent that Lord Duncannon and Sir B. C. Stephenson have given instructions for many additional hands to be employed in preparing the new palace for the residence of the Queen, her Majosty having ex pressed her wish that it may be ready early in July. The King of Hanover came from his residence at Kew on Friday to Kensington Palace, where his Majesty visitedl the Duke of Sussex, and afterwards went to his residence in St. James's Palace. His late Majesty died in the same apartment in which George the Fourth breathed his last. About two hours previously to the death of the King it was theught necessary to remove his Majesty from one chamber to another, in the hope that a change of air might assist respiration. The room into which his Majesty was carried happened, by mere accident, to be that in which George the Fourth expired, and there Wit' Liam the Fourth died also. BOARD OF TRADE, JUNE 24.—Sir J. Hall a nd a numerous Deputation from the City of London had an inter- 1 view with the President this day. Lord Wallace also had,nn interview. Mr. Shutt, M. P., had an interview. THE EARL OF DURHAM.—This distinguished. Nobleman landed, on his return from Russia, on Saturday, at Woolwich, from the Firebrand steamer. His Lordship, W e j are happy to state, is in excellent health. His luggage was disembarked at Hungerford Wharf from one of her Majesty 'n naval craft, yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Several waggons were immediately put in requisition. When the Master of the Horse waited upon the Queen, to know her pleasure as to the arrangement of the royal carriages, &c., on the day of her proclamation, her Ma. jes•y is said to have replied, with great naivete and simplicity , ; .. Why, my Lord Albemarle, this is a subject which you arc' so well acquainted with, and I know nothing, that I can only beg the favour of you to do whatever is right upon the' occasion." Sir James Flower, Bart., has been giving dinned parties this season at his mansion in Russell-square, on a scale of great magnificence. The service of gold and the plateau' were formerly the property of the late Duke of York, and thel plates in the dessert service are said to have cost three guineasi each. _ I vVv Marlborough House, Pall-mall, the residence of the Queen Do ager, was thronged du ing the whole of Fridai: afternoon with the Nobility and Gentry and foreigners of dis-1 tinction leaving their names for her Majesty. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury enter tained the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Henry Hardinge, and a dis tinguished party at dinner Friday evening, at their mansion in Arlington-street. We are authorised to state that, in consequence of the numerous solicitations which have been made to him, Capt. Scobell has consented to offer himself as a Candidate for this City at the ensuing election.—Bath _Herald. We understand that Mr. Thomas Moore is engaged at Paris making researches in the " Bibliotheque du Roi" for the third volume of his " History of Ireland." He has been successful in discovering some very interesting documents con nected with the period when Irishmen were compelled to seek for military honours in a foreign land. The solemnization of the marriage of Miss Paken ham, the daughter of the Hon. General Pakenham, with Si',' Edmund Hayes, Bart., M. P., is postponed until this day week,;;; in consequence of the serious casualty that happened on Wed- s ncsday last to the Gallant General. To the inquiries blade at ' Mivart's Hotel Saturday as to the condition of the Hon. Ge-' neral and his son the answers given were—" That both the, General and his son had passed a good night and were much better." • ~ The closing of shops and houses on the pres ent li: melancholy occasion is, if possible, even more general in the environs ti,en in the metropolis. In the parish of HackneY there is but one sinp which is not partially closed, whilst:, rom the closed shutters and blinds at private houses it would?, appear to a strange' , as if death, aided by a devastating pot tileece, had visited eveej• habitation. It is stated by several:, shopkeepers that the demand .for mournings is less than dot e , on the demise of George the Foe-'the on account of the re cent great mortality from the influenza, .hy which parties arc; already supplied. DRURY-LANE.—An English version of Benin' =I, Norma was produced at Drury- Lane on Saturday eveniniA The scene is laid after the time of Caesars invasion, in fia u '4 where Norma (Mde. Schroeder), a Druidical Priesteo44' breaks her vestal vow in favour of Pollio (Mr. Wilson), w ll° is Roman Pro-Consul there. When two children have re ' : suited from their secret marriage, Pollio finds his heart e a P a " cious enough for the enthronement of another Queen, Ada , ' gisa (Miss Betts), another vestal too I Rather unfortu nate ', in the selection of a confidante she tells her love to Normallo but Norma alone is the mighty Priestess, who can, and doe!!. free her from her holy vow. Not until then does the lover ' t name transpire—he enters, and they unite in the expression °_. much becoming abhorrence at his treachery, which conc lude' the first act. In the second the scene is opened by Nortn i a:..4 about to avenge herself by slaying ker children, but 5 f adopts the more magnanimous resolve of self.slaughtcr, °. confiding them to Adalgisa, and of urging her to seek 14)1°s and live with him as a husband, all of which the lady very P r V: perly declines, to intercede with him on behalf of Norma. il e r e el however, unrelenting ; Adalgisa returns in tears, Pollio ; 1 ! e s..Z, suing to bear her " e'en from the sacred circle." Upon hear 1 . n ,,,';,.2 this result, Norma is aroused to vengeance, and, by stri'. i gt:.t thrice on the sacred shield of the temple, summonses 130,01/-01 Bards, and Warriors to " War, carnage, and extirpation.' . if ai. this moment Pollio, pursuing his design upon Adalgisa, iS " i ° d covered in the very circle devoted to the virgins." His bl010: ‘, 1 must atone, and Norma declares, in vengeance, her hand sho t o .. shed it. She offers, howcvcr, to spare his life on one o n h i c , i tion—that of flying from Adalgisa. He braves her fury, 5 , I then threatens the murder of their children, and gloats :e. fancy on the pangs of his soul when he shall behold the 9a Foe to which she dooms Adalgisa, shining around her vietim_e_ e 4 the latter purpose the Druids are summoned to bear Pw r i er ,s) denounce that Gaulish Priestess, who, for I vile strane‘or4 broke her vestal vow. Whilst Pollio implores mere)? ' I e , i ,. Adalgisa, the chorus demand the name, and Pollio feel s t ie . I love—the faith—he has lost when she exclaims " 'tis Noerna_, e i , They are re-united under the veil of darkness, and led to tri os flaming pile. Meagre as arc these materials, the opera s' _ s, ' ,l; 1 Norma abounds in fine musical expressions, and the s itua . i n ef . , marred as they are by the syllables, arc highly pro duct i v e ~ passion. We never heard Miis Betts to greater 'Ova_ !Z s , . than in the arduous part of Adalgisa. The Clotilda of P p 1_ 1 _,, ,, , 1 Poole was very well. Mr. Wilson was a satisfactoryireei itivid., scntative of Pollio, the hero and lover. Mr. Giub l , e at eerp great justice to the part of Ororeso, the arch-Druid arta , he of Norma. The opera was well received, and is likely to we . the concluding effort of the Drury-lane season. inn - Yesterday morning as John Hulforcol, Esq., tleman of independent property, residing in Great street, Fitzroy-square, was attending the Unitarian c _U anl i !r iol , together with his wife and family, he uttered an e . x I_ . !,,,,j, ,, of pain, and, falling down in his pew, suddenly expireelrus.., melancholy and awful circumstance took place at the p' e s on the cotnus! tion of the second lesson, and so great was serei ceie thereby produced that it was with great difficul theeviave the:4 could be afterwards proceeded with. All efforts to_ e a. is 01 1 4 unfortunate gentleman proved unavailing, and, WI , t . 1 9 1 i i!!:31 Coltett. c!rOl ni r o A' more lamentable, Mrs. H. is in danger, through the stance, of losing her senses.