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HOUSE OF LORDS.-(TH I S DAY.) APPEALS.. Their Lordships sat this morning to hear appeals. Tee Pcers pro seat were Lord Truro, Lord Brougham, Lord Terriegepe, the Bishop of Loudon, and the Bishop of S dist - ary. GOSLING VELEY (THE BRAIZUREE CHURCiS-ItATE CASE). The Judges attended to deliver their answers to the qiestiens which bad been put to them in this case. This case, under the name of the Braintree Church Hate, has been so frequently before the public that it will be scarcely necessary to reiterate the circumstances. The parish of Braintree has loag been celebrated for its m ines! to pay chutch-retes, and has been involved in se veral suite before the Consistorial Court in consequence. The present case dates from the year 1841, when, in Ctnsequortce of a monition addressed to them by the Consistorial Court of London, the rector, churchwar dens, and parishioners, assembled in vestry, for the purpose of naekiug a rate to repair the church. At that vestry an amendment was moved, rejecting the proposi tion for the levying of a rate, which was carried by a largo majority. Upon this the defendant, who was then churchwarden, conceiving that the supporters of the amendment had abandoned their functions, reads a rate of 2s. in the pound, with the usual formalities, in spite of the protest of the dissentient parishioners. To en force the payment of this rate a suit was commenced by the churchwardens against the plaintiff in the Consisto riel Court of London, before Dr. Lushiugton, • .who decided against the validity of the rate. The churchwardens then appealed to the Arches Court, stud on the 25th March Sir 11. J. Fast gave judgment against the plaintiff, reversing the judgment of the court 'below, and pronouncing in favour of the rate. The plaintiff then applied to the Court of geeen's Bench, which refused the applicetioe, and tdecieed in favour of the rate. From this court toe case next came before the Court of Exchequer Chamber, which in 1850 affirmed the judgment of the court below. Three courts, • therefore, out of the four before which the case had come, decided in favour of the rate, and the case was now brought before their Lordships on a writ of error. The Learned Judges then delivered their opinions, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Mr. Justice Wighfman, Mr. Jus tice Maule, Mr. Baron Platt, and Mr. Justice Coleridge being in favour of the validity of the rate; and Mr. Jus tice Crompton, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Baron Parke being of opinion that the rate was invalid. The opinions of the Learned Judges are, therefore, equally balanced, five in favour of, and five against the rate. On the motion of Lord TRURO the opinions of the Judges were ordered to be printed, and the further con sideration of the case adjourned. ELECTION OF SHERIFFS. Yesterday was the day appointed for the election of Sheriffs of London and Middlesex fur the ensuing year. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided in common ball, there being present several of the aldermen and common councilmen, amongst whom we noticed Alder men Wire, Carter, Duke, M.P., Sir George Carroll, Rut., Challis, Sidney, M.P., Salomons, Moon, and }lnnis; Common Councilmen John Wood, H. L. Taylor, Godson, De Jersey, Heaps, Deputy Holt, Barnard, Maugham, Dakin, Osmond, Deputy Lake, M`Gregor, Blake, and several others. The sheriffs, Messrs. Cotte rell and Swift, and the under-sheriffs, Messrs. Millard and Hopwood, were also present. The ball was well filled, but the proceedings were not of that interest which is usually felt upon such occasions. After the usual preliminaries, the choice of parties for sheriff took place. Several gentlemen were nominated, but the choice of the citizens fell upon Mr. Alderman Carter and Mr. John Hulbert, a merchant of high stand ing in the City. The former gentleman, however, de clined to serve. Deputy HOLT then called the attention of the Hall to the election of auditors of the City accounts for the en suing year. He moved that Mr. T. Woodsell Booth, of the Distillers' Company, be one of them.—Agreed to. Mr. James Gardiner was also elected. The following report of the auditors was then agreed to:— " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, elected by the Livery of London, in Common• hall assembled, on the 24th of June, 1850, and 24th June, 1851, auditors of the Chamberlain's account of the Corporation and Gresham fund, and of the bridgemaster's account of the Bridge•house estate, do report as follows: "' That the account of the receipt and expenditure of the Corporation of the city of London, laid before us to audit, was the seventh report of Anthony Brown, ESQ, chamberlain of the city of London.'" The report gives the cash account from the Ist of January to the 31st of December, 1850. Subjoined is the abstract:—Balance on preceding account, 12,8134 17s. 41c1.; receipts of the year 1850 (including the sum of 70,0001. for building the new House of Correction at Holloway), 257,4004 10s. 101 d.; expenditure, 247,9311 14s. 24d.; balance of cash upon account on the 31st December, 1850, 22,2821. 13s. 1 lid. In the Gresham account the following results ap peared.—Balance in the hands of the Chamberlain, 5781. 6s. Ild. Bridge•house estates, balance in hand, 651. 13s. The hall was then dissolved. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held. The Sheriffs and Common-Sergeant appeared in court for the purpose of making the return of the gentlemen elected to the shrievalty tor the ensuing year. The names of Alderman Carter, citizen and clock maker, and John Hulbert, Esq., citizen and grocer, having been accordingly returned, the usual forms were observed. Sir PETER LAURIE took occasion to observe that a mistake had been made with respect to the company to which Mr. Hulbert belonged. In the printed paper, which he believed bad been issued from the Town Clerk's office, it appeared that Mr. Hulbert was stated to belong to the Girdlers Company, which designation was perfectly correct; but in the paper containing an account of the return of the sheriffs that gentleman was called a grocer. That was, he apprehended, an error fatal to the return. The Court took no official notice of the error, which no doubt will be corrected at the proper time. The City chamberlain and the bridge-masters for the ye:sr ensuing were sworn in. The Court then proceeded to consider, with closed doors, motions proposed by Alderman Wilson connected with certain privileges of the corporation. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a CJurt was held, for the special purpose of receiving a report from the Thames Navigation and Port of London Committee, " for sealing deeds of agreement with water-works companies." TEIE GREAT NEW MARKET. Mr. ELLIOTT wished to know from the chairman of the Markets Committee what progress the committee wer e making as to the purchase of land upon which to build the new market which was to substitute Smithfield .Market.—(Hear.) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR replied that the committee were proceeding satisfactorily in the purchase of seventy-two acres of ground upon a site which he would venture to say was preferable to any other that could be found in every respect. Is was a site so much more eligible than the Islington site that no comparison could for a moment be instituted between them.— (Hear, hear.) It was quite evident that Islington Market would stand no chance cf competition when the market of which he spoke should be erected. It was, he considered, neces sary to state so much to the public, as he believed the Islington Market Company were endeavouring to induce the public to be the purchasers of their shares.—(Hear, hear.) That market had always bean a failure, and always would be henceforward a deadly failure. He made that communication for the benefit of his fellow . ciezens. [Mr. H. L. Taylor was supposed by the Court to allude to the ground in Copenhagen- fields, about which it has been reported they have been for some time ne gotiating.] Mr. Deputy HoLT said money was so lentiful at P present that every sort of speculation appeared to be legitimate. Mr. ELLIOTT said h e supposed that Mr. H. L. Taylor's object in giving such an sea ser to the question was to prevent his fellow-citizens from joining in any specula tion which was likely to be crushed by coming in contact with the powerful influence of the corporation. The deeds of agreement were then sealed. TUE MORE EASY RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. Upon the motion of Alderman WIRE, the Bemembran cor was directed to draw up an abstract of the City of London Small Debts Extension Bill for circulation am ongst the cit:zens, the subject being onefe greatest interest to all classes within the operation of the Act. Tao Court adjourned after a very short sitting. EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL NSTANCE OF MA TERNAL LOVE.—On Monday night Mr l G. S. Brent held an inquest at the Prince Alfred, Lisson-square, Marylebone, on M try Mead, aged 44, the wife of a respectable master baker. B.S. months ago deceased buried a favourite child, for whose c l ; ath she was inconsolable. She would go constantly to Ken Sal-green Cemetery, throw herself upon the child's grave, and er3eP for hours. She would then gather the flowers them in that grew over the grave, bring them home, and leave water until they decayed, when she would eat them. Day after day she thus indulged her grie f, and, upon returning home last Tuesday week, after visiting h id chit grave ahe s usual, she told he r h usband , children, and friends, that s only had a few days to live. She then had the mourning made for her children, which they were to wear for her, and having directed her husband to have the dead bell tolled for her, refused all medical aid, nourishment, and consolation, until Friday, when she fell a lifeless corpse from her chair to the ground. Mr. Obre, surgeon, performed the • utop') and found the decea sed died of disease of the whom hehear h heart, producedautopsy, in his opinion by de e p affliction. The denee greatly affected , returned a verdict in accordanceelrejtll; the medical testimony. THE WEATHER A ND CRoPS IN SC OTLAND. Enough of rain has now fallen for the growing crops ; ..i b o ri , f, v , nt from information from the north and from Ayrshire, we learn that moisture is much r e q uired there. Here wheat i bursting into ear, and in some of the more forward fields the ear is fully out, and is unusually large and well developed. The other crops are making rapid progress, and the almost universal flush of grass raised by the late genial showers, has caused an unusual demand for grazing stock of all kinds. Several fields of hay are cut, but the damp weather has re tarded operations. It seems, on the whole, to be a light crop ; and is the only exception to the most promising ap. pearance of all kinls of crop that we have bad for several seasons.— Scotsman. LECTURES ON GOLD AT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL or , MlNRs.—The council of the Society of Arts have ap pointed a deputation to wait upon the director of the Go vernment School of Mines, to request that the eminent pro fessors of that school should immediately arrange a series of lectures on gold for the instruction of emigrants to Australia; and it is understood that they will endeavour to obtain the delivery of these lecture in the ensuing week. LITERATURE. THE CASE OF DR. ACHILL! AND DR IVEWMAN. (From the Times.) It i 9 curious to elenrve upon what narrow issues the spirit of party virulene,o and religious discord can cote emirate themselves. The animosities of England and _Scotland centred for a time on the disputed authenticity of the poems of Ossian, and Whig and Tory never en counteredhach other more fiercely than ou the appe rently collateral queStion raised by the frailties of Queen Caroline. The long animosity which has pre vailed between the Churches of England and R nue has been stimulated to the highest point by aggression and retaliation, by political agitation and private coots°. veray. In no breast, however, does the flame of reli gious hatred burn so fiercely as in that of a convert. Would you hear all that can be said against the doc trieihand discipline of the Church of England?—seek it from the lips of a renegade priest. Would you hear the rabid tirades of Exeter-hall against the Church of Rome outdone?—attend the preachings and read the publications of some apostate friar. Thus it comes to pass that questions of the highest dignity and last im portance are brought down to the level of a personal brawl, and that the great cause of the freedom of pri vate judgment and the-progress of the human intellect is bound up with the- questionable character of an obscure ecclesiastic. We cannot accept this issue; we cannot concede that this great controversy can be in the slightest degree advanced by attacking or defending the character of Dr. Achilli, and we feel that the scandalous and indecent matter which both parties, in their zeal to damage each other, have brought before the public eye, is likely to do more injury to the cause of morality and religion than any sectarian or controversial triumph can possibly counterbalance.- In apportioning the blame of this public scandal it is impossible to acquit Dr. Newman of having been the deliberate cause of the revolting con flict we have just witnessed. In his zeal to destroy the evidence of Dr. Achilli against the Church, which few persons have condemned with more severity than himself, Dr. Newman did not content himself with general and sweeping charges, but entered into details of time, place, and name, which were, in fact, more in the nature of a challenge than a criticism. The challenge was as greedily accepted as it was vauntingly offered, and so, by the mutual consent of the professors of two rival religions which agree in teaching that " Blessed are the pure in heart," we have been involved in one of the most indecent investigations which ever sullied the atmosphere of a court of justice. What has either party gained by dragging these revolting details before the public eye? The Protestant supporters of Dr. Achilli have, indeed, succeeded in painting in very forcible co lours the known and admitted tendencies of tho Church of Rome; they have shown how awfully the superhuman power which Rome places in the hands of weak and fallible mortals-may be prostituted and abased. They have shown that before man shall be permitted to pry into the heart and probe the conscience of his fellow creatures, he ought to be invested with the perfection as well as the omniscience of the Deity. Little has the victim of this frightful power to hope from the boasted discipline of the Church of Rome. The confessor shrouds the shame of a brother priest under the injunction of eternal silence. The religious orders connive at the delinquencies of a brother whose eloquence can support, and whose teaching edify, the Church. If scandal becomes trou blesome a change of residence removes all difficulties, and the Church is willing to let the discipline sleep which cannot be enforced without casting obloquy on the priestly character, and exposing the hollowness of the system.on which she builds her pretensions and from which she derives her riches. The dreaded Inquisition itself, that name of blood and terror, waxes mild in deal ing with merely moral offences, and reserves for heretics penalties which she is too merciful to impose on the erring sons of the Church. These things have undoubtedly been presented to us by this remarkable trial in a tan gible shape; but who is there so little versed in the his tory of the Romish Church as to require three days of indecent details in order to convince him that if weak ness has compelled abstinence from her favourite sin of cruelty, the Church of Rome still permits to her minis ters scarcely less licence than of old in the indulgence of unbridled lust? It was tcarcely worth while to pro voke such a discussion for the sake of enlightening those whose knowledge of history was too narrow I matters a s v o u i g g e a n r e al yknown triumph, by andso e ro a r t m abl t i h sh em ed. of w to el i l n stimu lating the coarse imaginations of the multitude, to draw down popular indignation on an antagonist. The ver dict in favour of Dr. Achilli, whatever be its effect in regard to him, leaves this part of the question wholly untouched. But, while they have been thus successful in damaging by these most exceptionable means the ob ject of their cherished aversion, have the ultra-Pro testant supporters of Dr. Achilli done nothing to lower their own character for fairness and impartiality, to im pugn their own judgment, and to bring contempt on their own proceedings in the never-ending controversy with the Church of Rome? How comes it that a man sus pected in the relations of private life, subjected to penal ties which would have been but a feeble retribution for his alleged vices and crimes, has only to escape from the prisons of the Inquisition, and to inveigh with sufficient bitterness and pungency against the head of a church in which ho was educated, in order to con ciliate for himself at once the friendship, the respect, and the affection of the Protestant party in religious and moral England? flow comes it that to denounce the Pope and the Inquisition supersedes the necessity of inquiry, of caution, sad of probation? A man has no thing to do but to desert the belief in which he has been brought up, which experience informs us is seldom per manently exchanged for any other, in order to become a hero among persons who find in the revelations of the renegade Papist a stimulus to their curiosity which no other species of theological incentive can supply. Let his past life have been as suspicious as it may, the single merit of conversion supersedes the necessity of inquiry. Such a man is selected, above all others, to preside over the education of the' young and pure, and to teach a religion, his belief of which is taken on trust. Thus it comes through the singular want of judgment and less singular, but more deplorable, itching tor novelty of our pre-eminently Protestant leaders, that the defence of the doctrines of the Reformation has been for a moment identified with the career of a private person who has, at any rate, the misfortune to be the object of very numerous accusa tions. These things the supporters of Dr. Achilli have brought upon themselves, and, if they have wounded the Church of Rome, the sword has passed through their own sides. There is but one party who can gain by such a course, those whom Dr. Achilli calls the " nega tive" party, to whom Protestant and Catholic are both alike, to whom religion is mere priestcraft, its ministers hypocrites, and its ceremonies mummeries. Such per sons see these things and smile, for they know from this unchristian conflict both -parties must arise weakened and discredited, and that the only gainer from such a struggle will be, not the Protestant prosecutor nor the Roman Catholic accuser, but the infidel who sneers and the blasphemer who scoffs at them both. (From the Daily News.) The Achilli case is over. The huge scandal that has crowded the newspapers, and has been the topic of so many discussions, is—so far as the Queen's Bench and its reports are concerned—concluded. Never since this journal was established have the details of such a trial found record in its columns, and —acting upon the rule laid down for the exclusion of such details as that of the Newman libel —never would such a case have been re ported by us, had it not presented an aspect very differ ent from those which characterise trials revealing m. re gross but ordinary criminality. In the present case, however, no rule of exclusion could be permitted to operate—since it was impossible to separate the charges against Dr. Achilli from the animus of those who pro moted them. The ease has been, in truth, a priestly quarrel, fought out in a legal court, with debauchery for the charge, and - oath against oath in the investiga tion. It has not been the mere case of a criminal upon trial. The women who came forward at the instance of Dr. Newman, as witnesses to declare that the ex- Dominican priest had polluted them, were not in court to ask justice against the alleged debauchee. It was not an investigation of the damage done to the Cephalonian by criminal conversation with his wife; nor was it an inquiry into the fitness or unfitness of Dr. Achilli as a member of the Church under the shadow of which he is accused of committing so many sins. The case had a wider scope altogether, and involved a variety of interests that rendered it imperative upon every journalist to give each fact brought forward in evidence, and every argument both for and against the accused. In short, the case was one between two rival Churches —the Church of St. Peter and the Church that had its foundation at the Reformation. It was a strife between the priesthood of Rome and the Evangelical Alliance — between a seceder from Popery and the most active agents of the Pope. The Papist slandered the Protes tant, and this disgusting trial has been the result. As the trial has proceeded, the interest in the public mind has grown from day to day, until it has spread—with the reports of the investigation to every corner of the land. When the case was first opened, the statements of the witnesses were so decided, so circumstantial, and so numerous, that the feeling ran strongly against Achilli—any second thought upon the subject being one of astonishment at the amount -of systematic perjury committed, if the various allege does against him were untrue. When the case of Achilli was opened, upon the cross-examination of the several witnesses, and subsequently by the examination of the ex-Dominican himself, that astonishment was not diminished, however much the balance of belief might have inclined in his favour. Indeed, long before the seve ral advocates had fulfilled their duty, it was perfectly clear that, on one side or the other, there was an amount of perjury positively terrible to contemplate. Aud when the balance of evidence turned against the Romanists, an additional and overshadowing horror arose at the idea of what ramifications the perjury seemed to pass through—of what men in high places in the Church of Rome might be implicated in the crime—and with what deliberate pertinacity the whole web of untruth had been weveu, until it seemed strong enough to entangle and defile, if not destroy, any reputation, however pure, against which it might ho turned. Many points of the trial and of the evidence provoke especial criti cism. Sir A: Cockburn warned the jury to be on their guard against the unconscious bias of any Protestant prejudices. This was en allowable enough oratorical flourish—a hint that Dr. Newman and his witnesses might not meet with absolute fair play at the hand' of professors of an alien creed. But, on the other hand, it might be urged that the Italian witnesses really were liable to suspicion on account of the manner in which they had been ferretted out and brought together. Dr. Newman sent over emissaries to Italy, who applied to dignitaries of the Romish Church and inquisitors to aid them in collecting witnesses to defend their champion, Dr. Newman, and ditable their antagonist, Dr. Achilli —by blackening his character. This Lid was willingly lent. Many Italians were naturally disposed to help their priests against one whom they de....med an apes ., tate In addition, to refuse to bear evidence against THE PERSONAL ADVENTURES of" OUR OWN COURI-!..SPONDENT" in ITALY. By Michael Burke Ilonad. 2 bola. Chap man . and Ball. The reader is particularly informed, at the com mencement of these books, that " they ar e not a reprint nor a rechau f fe of the correspondence from Italy in the Times." They are, on the contrary, perfectly original; and the author has specially avoided making any reference to official statements, the object being to relate his personal adventures, and no compile historical facts. The anecdotes are written in a humorous style, and great ingenuity is displayed in their arrangement. They are evidently the reminiscences of one who‘writes con amore, and enjoys his pleasures over again in the recital. The events of his travels are very remarkable, and it is evident that he powsessed the true spirit of a traveller, especially one seeking information, accommodation to circumstances, and the g e nius for contrivance and invention. This facility enabled him to effect his entrance where others found closed doors ; and on one important occasion he managed to convey authen tic reports to London of the Congress at Iveplitz, in Bohemia. This last achievement took place, how ever, at a much earlier period. A great deal of infor m.ition concerning the war in Italy is here given, and, from an intimate acquaintance with many leading Characters, the narrator has gleaned intelli gence of much value, which is made manifest in a novel and attractive manner. To all desirous of ex tending their knowledge of that momentous epoch referred to, and eager to become acquainted with the customs of those often discussed characters, it will doubtless be gratifying to meet with, there volumes. The following . is a sample of his many difficulties : " I had at Plaisance to undergo the greatest danger that had occurred to me since the opening of the cam paign. "It seems that my bad manner of pronouncing Italian, added to my fair compl , xion, and desire to push forward, had induced several of the violent but not fight ing patriots to believe that I was an Austrian, and of course a spy. Many a man was sacrificed for less during the latter days of the war of independence—not where the Piedwontese soldiers were found, for they were ready to protect one, but in out of the way places, where native susceptibility or Italian pusillanimity had full play. " I was followed from the inn door by a crowd, till at our arrival at the bridge of boats which crosses the Po, I had to meet a mob of at feast a thousand men, all vociferating ‘Tadeschi and Spiel ' followed by the Consoling word Mortal' Happily for me I retained a moderate share of composure; so standing up in the carriage, I entreated a moment's silence, stated I was an Englishman, and asked if there was any one present who could read. Thislippeal was answered by a school master or a parish clerk, and to him I unfolded first my British passport, and next the special privilege I had obtained from Charles Albert. This last document was a clencher, as it was written in Italian, and bore all the official seals, and, confirmed by it, the validity of the passport was admitted. Had I not produced the Italian pass, the other paper would have been disre garded, or rather it exposed me to fresh suspicion, as no one in reality knew what it meant, and the eagle at tached to the Austrian Minister's visa rather produced an impression against me. " I saw at a glance, however, that a now doubt was engendered, certainly not creditable to me, and if I were first stopped as an Austrian spy, it was clear I was now sent as one employed by Charles Albert. The mob cheered me as I drove off, though one moment before they would have spilled my blood—but such are the risks we correspondents run, though no lady thinks of giving us credit for our adventures," HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CONQUESTS IN INDIA. By Horace St. John. Colburn. This interesting Work commences withthe intro duction of the English to India, and follows the his tory of the establishment of their power to the present constitution of the company. It is a singular fact that the first English who proceeded to India did so in the simple character of merchants, and the original charter of their association recognised no idea of political empire. "It has," observes the author, " been deprecated by the representatives of British power in the country, forbidden by peremptory de crees of the Imperial Legislature, opposed by the s upreme authorities in the Compa n y, and, s i nce 1784 especially, incredible pains have been taken to confine its limits. Their policy throughout has been opposed to territorial acquisition." The following extract from the second volume shows, however, that though opposed to territorial acquisition, it has nevertheless been their destiny : " The monuments of a genuine and pious civilization are not pyramids, or pagodas, or towers, or columns, or any of those huge trophies by which the daring but bar barian genius of a Pharoah or a Mogul endeavoured to perpetuate its frame. The achievements of the English in their Indian possessions belong to another order. " They did not appear to the natives like the Spaniards, as centaurs, wielding the lightnings of heaven, or like the Arabs; irressistible in their religious zeal, or like the Tartars in China, or the Gothic invaders of Southern Europe. They came without a plan ; they followed those who had dedicated the old Nestorian churches on the coast of Malabar, and in less than one hundred years accomplished the erection of an empire, spacious us that which nine centuries of Roman conquest, from Romulus to Trojan., were required to complete. Every ancient power has disappeared before them. The only independent princes remaining, are recent usurpations, and the governors whom their toleration allows to rule, are standing accusations against their justice, and the sincerity of their desire to promote the civilization of Asia." As e have before said, the work traces the whole history of British India in it s po li t i ca l as p ec t s , as well as in the more minute details respecting its in. habitants. The style is attractive, and the informa tion to be gained considerable, and though not pos sessing the varied adventures of t rave l s to fascinate the reader, it commands his interest and attention by its complete and consistent account of so important a subject as the political history of British India. ----- ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INTrITUTION.—During this week the institution has been visited by the Duke of Wel lington, Duchess of Northumberland, Duchess of Sutherland Duchess of Buccleuch, Marchioness of Exeter, Marchioness of Douro, and a large number of the aristocracy. ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES. OF THE EAR. — The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the governors and friends of this useful institution was held yesterday at the dispensary, Dean-street, Soho-square; the Rev. W. Brock in the chair. The report stated that the institution had been in operation upwards of thirty years, and during that time had been the means of restoring an important faculty to thousands, who would otherwise have been disqualified from following their daily vocations. During the past year, 1,029 patients had been received, of whom 335 were cured, 129 relieved, and 502 remained under treatment ; and in no case had the treatment adopted produced injurious results, where it failed to effect a cure. The patients generally consisted of clerks, needlewomen, domestic servants, artisans, dis tressed foreigners, soldiers, and sailors, who have received advice from Mr. Harvey, the medical officer, to whom the institution is chiefly indebted for its success. The principal causes of the loss of hearing are stated to be living in confined or damp localities, the want of due precaution against wet or dampness, uncleanliness, and insufficient or adulterated food. The mode of treatment has been purely constitutional. Operations have not been resorted to except in urgent cases, and the result is that none have been injured by the system pursued. In conclusion, the report stated that the funds had been augmented of late, although not commensurate with the great increase of applicants. Strict economy had, how ever, prevented any great increase of debt. They acknowledged a legacy of 1051. from the late Mr. T. Roberts, and the ready I assistance of the clergy. On the motion of Mr. Clarke, who bore testimony to the able treatment adopted, seconded by Dr. Richards, the report was unanimously adopted. Other resolutions were also agreed to, returning thanks to the patrons, subscribers, and officers of the institution. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business. ROYAL GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—The annual general meeting of this society for granting pensions to de serving and necessitous aged persona was held yesterday of the offices of the society,32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly; Sir Peter Pole, Bart., in the chair. The report of the past year was read and adopted, from which it appeared that there were eight men at 3s. 6d per week, and 30 women at 2s. 6d per week, who were receiving the society's bounty, twenty nine of whom were upwards of seventy years of age. The receipts for the past year amounted to the sum of 354/. 175., when, after paying all expenses, there was a surplus fund in the hands of the treasurer amounting to 236/. 175., in conse quence of which it was determined to raise the weekly pay ments sixpence per week extra. INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—Yesterday the anniversary fete of the above institution took place in the beautiful grounds and building at Wanstead. The weather, was truly propitious, and drew fourth a numerous and fashionable assembly of about 400 ladies and gentle men, amongst whom were Earl Manvers, Lord R. Grosvenor and daughter, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Calthorpe, Sir J. Morrison and lady, &c. The examination of the 280 children gay& great satisfaction. Subscriptions were an - - flounced to the large amount of 5,53€1., which included do nations from her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, Lord R. Grosvenor, &c. MR. WILLIAM COBBETT.—Three returns have just been printed by order of the House of Lords, in addi tion to the one already noticed, showing the writs and ap plications for writs of habeas corpus and the number of actions brought by Mr. William Cobbett in the common law courts. In the Crown side of the Court of Queen's Bench 5 writs of habeas corpus were issued, and out of the plea side 19. In fbrnici pauperis there were 14 cases, and in person, 5, making the 19. In the same side were 7 actions brought. In the Court of Common Pleas 4 writs of habeas corpus were issued, besides which 10 applications for writs were made to the Court sitting in banco, all of which, with the exception of one, were refused. In the same court two actions were brought, and no further steps taken. In the Court of Exchequer 42 applications were made by Mr. Cobbett or on his behalf, out of which 19 were refused. Mr Cobbett bra ugh. t 17 actions sow i e n d t t h ha e t 37 Court o writsfof Exchequer.habeascorpusali The ret u rn already noticed showed had been a pplied for out of t he Court of Chancer y b y . Mr. CAMBRIDGE, d GF , UNE N.—MEMBERS' PRIZE _ 4Parliamentprizes h ;iv enni:enrisl annually ?T by the representatives in Parliament o two Bachelors of Arts who compose the best dissertations in Latin prose, have been ad jrciu,redirgnpeietdye f cc or holr t li h eeg e tie p .c re eT s i e lhe n 4 t eee rar to Dr. Edward Henry Perowne, com posers at the commencement. N x a e n r cl eise D s r w . Spenceriit edrcbeyvathl have been awarded. olieurdeceirPtgeraduates' prizes LIBERAL BEQUESTS. --.The will of Mrs. Marianne Becker, of Bath, has just been proved, in which a sum of a bout 28,000 i. is be queat h ed to various charitable and reli sgiioonuasrypusrpocciseets3.7, Among 3,0001. t h t h e s e e 3,0004 ; the Bible Society, 1,0004 ; C w h e ur n c o h tic p e a — st r o r r n ,, e l C iu h d ur s c o h c A ie l t i y s: the Moravian Missions, 1,0004 Achilli might, at this moment, expose any Italian to a charge of favouring him. Lastly, it was naturally first interrogated by her curate a ; to whether she could enough stated by Eleanor Giustini or Vallenti that when tell anything against Dr. Achilli, she inquired wheteer it would be " eel' her own good?" and was assured it was " for the honour of the holy Church," " for the honour of God." Undue influence it is clear could be brought to bear on the Italian witnesses; undue influence, it Vallenti can be believed, was brought to bear on at least one of them. These proceedings cannot exactly be callecl unprecedented in an English court of justice. The charges brought against Dr. Achilli, and the means re- sorted to for obtaining witnesses in support of them, re mind one of the trial of Queen Caroline, and the green bag commission of Milan. The charges were spread over twenty-six years of Dr. Achilles life; he was called upon to rebut charges of inemtittenee with persons no; named, in places and at times not specified. It was a terrible ordeal to undergo which no man unsupported by conscious inno cence, and even in that case no raau not possessed of more than average courage, could have braved. The parallel with the case to which we have compared Dr. Achilli's is the stronger from the entire breaking down of the evidence so unscrupulously brought together. We have no space to examine the whole of that evidence in detail, but, taking it in groups or clesses its weakness, its ir relevance, can easily be indicated. There was a Cathoic priest adduced to prove the general bad character of Achilli, and some documentary evidence was offered in support of his testimony; th ere were witnesses b rou ght forward to prove specific o ffences in Italy, Malta, and the lonian Islands; there we re witnesses pro d uce d to prove (.ffences in England. W ith regard to t h e fi rs t, the priest stated that at the time to which he referred he . was a boy of from, ten to thirteen years of age. Among all the priests and monks of Viterbo, was there none who was then of mature years to speak from actual obser vation to what the younker spoke of from hearsay? He declared that Achilli h ad a bad c h arac ter at Viterbo, but admitted that h e did not know why ry Of the ex parte memorandu m of a policeman offered as a substitute for records all eged to have b een de stroyed in the revelation, it is unnecessa to speak, for it was not received. But Mr. Rarting of that court , a solicitor, pro duced " an official copy of the judgment (the Inquisitioe) on Dr. Achilli." This " judgment , " when examined, turns out to b e Merely the declara tion of a notary that he had examined the " acts " in t h e case of Achilli, and that it appears from them that he had confessed himself guilty of inconti nence w ith various women; and that for these offence s and "others re corded in the acts," he lied submitted himself to the censure and punishment of the 0 c? rt, and ha d b ee n eine er-estly f unc tions. The so-called " judgment" is, in fact, at best, a garbled ex tract from the writings in the case of Achilli preser ved n pended from the exercise of all in the archives of the Inquisition. W hen it is reineee bared that in the proceedings of that court the prisoner is not confronted with the Witnesse s against him,—isexamined in private,—is tortur e d with interrogations and his answers recorded by the In g quisitors in their own words,—even a full and certified copy of the whole written proceedi ngs and the kilt. meat pronounced would be very equivocal testimony; but extracts of isolated sentences apart from the context, that might have thrown a different light on them, interspersed with the remarks utterly worthless. They may be perverted by the mis takes of the excerptor, even on the of the extractor, are assumption that he made them in perfect good faith, A .cas for the females who swore to Achilli's misconduct with them, Mew' Vallenti, for a woman in her rank of life, showed a most suspicious familiarity with the eti netts of the con fessional. To one confessor she merely sa id she bad sinned with an ecclesiastic, without menti oning h i s na me, becauso that is not customary; to anoth er s he named Achilli lest he should suspect other and i nnocent person s. The instruction of a more instructed, wary, and expe rienced mind is here palpable. The other female, and her mother, swore that the father and mother had a procession, which they would not have been allowed to do. The daug ht e r, accosted Achilli while making one of by way of making her story more pathetic, said her tether had died of grief on account of her seduction—but of this the mother knew nothing! These witnesses,t whom was exhorted to give her evidenc e " for the ho nour of the Church," " for the honour o e God," have been living for weeks together , talking ov er the evidence they were to g i v e . Bat this is as h w ith the utter failure of the charge respecting a tailor's n oing compared one of - was brought fts brought to this c ountry, but made a precipitate retre at and refused to T return, when he knew that the en sPeetor-General of Police in the lonian Islands was her e . w ife at Corfu. The tailor himself In lieu of h im was produced one witness, who swore that he had seen from a distance a person of Achilli's stature leave the woman's door at night, and another e of bad character who swore that he had seen the husband seize Achilli, though he confessed he had never seen Achilli before or since, and cons e quently could not k now him. I t i s strong corroboration of Achilles truthful ness that he frankly admitted the incident, the proof of which had so signally failed, and produced the wo man to allow of her being cross- quest i one d. Of Mr. Reyn o ld s, who spoke to an alleged off ence a t Z an t e , it is enough to say that be i s hostile to Dr. Achilli, who rebuked hi m for intem perance—that h e a d m i ts h e has varied in the reasons he has at different times assigned for suspecting Achilli— that in the witness-box he betrayed his state of mind by assuming what he was afterwards obliged to admit he did n o t k now — an d t h a t there are contrad i ct i ons between hi s own ev id ence an d that of hi s servant . A s to the witnesses brought forward to prove criminality in England, their characters, as described by themselves, would be enough to deprive them of credit. And all of them admitted that they had been silent in cir cumstances when it is scarcely credible they could have abstained from making the charges now pre ferred—and all of them speak under the influence of anger. These and all other points of the case were doubtless fully considered by the jury who—after the three days' investigation had closed—deliberated amongst themselves for between two and three hours before giving their verdict in favour of Dr. Achilli. And what does that verdict do? It shows to the fullest extent that Father Newman did indeed slide from the altitude of Christian faith to the depths of unworthy slander. It shows that his zeal for his new faith tempted him to leave logic, and argument, wea pons for his use -..to take up a series of unworthy and slanderous allegation s ready at h a nd in the pages of a Ronaish review, in whi c h they had been placed by an unknown anonymous but scarcely and learning — the proper writer. - But the ver dict does more. It confirms the dark suspicion s th a t began to accumulate w h en the Ita li an women came, one after another, i nto the witness -b ox t o swe a r aw ay the reputatio n of Achilli. Indeed, imagi nation is positively fatigued in the attempt g to follow out those ra m ifi cat i ons of criminality suggested by the idea that the whole case against Achilli must be one vast conspi racy _ defeated in an E n g lish court of justice, but h av i ng Italy. Wholesale perjury has, it is clear, been com mitted. What share had the original author of the slanders in the cencoction a this case for their defence; what share had Father Newman in the procuring of thesewitnesses, whoze evidence has been upset; whatshare had the Romish priestly ee its organization over half ing up of the case thrown g4 into the dust by the verdict of last night? All these ar e • $ thousands will now ask, and there is little uestion doubt but the general answer will be one little favourable to any of the reputations involved. Meanwhile we ide ourselves organization in Italy in the build ing upon the full investigati on that y the cas Y e has Peet in our fairl P r open court—so unlike the sition before which Dr A ........2._ 111 had formerly to Achilli tribunal . of the stand. lnqui- BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM PANY BILL. Thrown out upon the ground that "Standing Order No. 176 of the House of Lords" was applicable, and had not been complied with, and ought not to be dispensed with. The following is a copy of. a memori a l a b ou t t o be presented to the Prime Minister from the bankers, merchants, brokers, shipowners, and other s of the large cities, manufacturing and seaport towns of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Inserted by order, GEORGE SAWARD, Sec. London, June 24, 1852. THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF BANKERS, MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND OTHERS, OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF LIVERPOOL. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, PRIME MINISTER, &C. _ __ . . Sheweth—That your memorialists in particular, and the public in general, have lately sustained a great injury in the loss of the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill, under circumstances so wholly unprecedented, as to point to the absolute necessity of some constitutional measures being adopted to insure for the public un assi milation of those technical regulations of the two Houses of Parliament professedly formed for the protection of the public, and known as the Standing Orders. That while your memorialists fully admit the consti tutional and practical importance of separate inquiries being made in each House of Parliament into the merits of every Bill, they earnestly submit that common justice and common sense alike imperatively require either that one inquiry in limine as to matters of form should suffice, or that the two inquiries as to matters of form should, by arrangement between the two Houses of Parliament, take place in the outset of every Bill. That the contrary practice often entails the following state of things:— . _ A Bill is introduced into the House of Commons. The Standing Orders are inquired into for days together before the examiners, who find them to have been complied with. Leave is therefore given to introduce the Bill. The Bill is introduced accordingly. It is read a second time, and large House fees in curred. It goes before a Select Committee, where many thousand pounds, great industry, and much time are spent in establishing its merits. The Select Committee reports favourably. The report is considered. The Bill is read a third time, and then sent to the Lords. Then commences the most grievous anxiety on the part of the promoters, not in respect of the merits of the measure, for all admit that it is just enough that a review of the merits (being in the nature of an appeal) should take place. But all this anxiety arises from the revi►al of the points of mere form with which all this costly process first began, viz., Standing Orders : In vain do the provincial public express their incredu lity that a measure thus far tostered by so much money, labour, and care, can possibly be allowed to be wrecked in half an hour by the putting upon pure forms a con struction differing from that which had in the outset with infinite pains been put upon the same forms ; or by the sudden leap into life of a standing order long since believed and understood to be dead, and which had passed into desuetude for more than 21 years. The work of months of labour is extinguished, the parties have practically no appeal, and they go home to complain bitterly that they have suffered in a manner which no foresight could have guarded against, but which, nevertheless, a slight amount of co-operation and courteous understanding elsewhere might have wholly prevented. They have not the comfort of feeling that this Bill has fallen in a fight on merits, but as it were in an un worthy and obscure skirmish, which they would have avoided if they could, or they feel it to have been thrown into a mediaeval oubliette, the existence of which they could scarcely bring themselves to believe. That such has been the fate of ono of the most im portant, useful, and necessary measures of the present year. That your memorialists allude to the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill, which, having been for four teen days investigated betore a Select Committee of the Rouse of Commons, was unanimously approved of by that Committee, and which was carried by a majority of 150 on the second reading. That the following matters were, among others, proved before that Committeet-- That the old Electric Telegraph Company had succeeded in drawing a hitherto impassable barrier or cordon around the metropolis, so that no electric communication can reach or leave London by rail way but by the telegraphs of the old company only. That the old company have effected that state of things by coercing or by inducing, for valuabl e con sideration, railway companies to exclude the tele graph of other companies from railways having termini in London. The chairman of the Great Northern Railway , Company gave evidence before the Committee of such coercion having been effectually practised upon that reluctant company. That the chairman of the Old Electric Telegraph Company has a private signal, known as " A. K.," and that the moment any message with that signal is sent to any of such Company's Telegraphic Stations, all other business is instantly put aside and precedence given to " A. K." before all messages, even those of her Majesty's Government, or of the Royal Family. That the chairman of the Old Electric Telegraph Company has the telegraph wires carried into his own private house. That the public are highly dissatisfied with the present mode of conducting the electric telegraph communications to and from the metropolis, and earnestly desired, and by very numerous petitions to both Rouses of Parliament, prayed (though prayed in vain) for the sate passage through Par liament of the British Electric Telegraph Company's That your memorialists, in speaking on a public sub ject, are fairly entitled, without imputing any motives, or desiring, or in the slightest degree intending to sug gest or insinuate anything unworthy; to say that in this great commercial country, where knowledge is indeed power, and where the first intelligence upon public matters of importance is invaluable, and may be indeed a source of untold wealth, these gigantic powers ought not to remain as at present in the sole keeping of the old Electric Telegraph Company, but ought to be at the equal service of the public. That the Select Committee were satisfied that the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill would have remedied these public evils by accomplishing the follow ing objects:- 1. A compulsory power (subject in the case of each railway both to the veto and to the regulations to be made by the Board of Trade) to take tele graphs along the railways so as to reach the me tropolis. • 2. Limited liability (as to future matters), with out which it was clearly proved by most eminent witnesses to the Select Committee that no company could raise the capital, from time to time required to carry on the business of the public, and to erect telegraphs for the use of the Government, especially in the face of the gigantic status and monopoly ob tained by the old Electric Telegraph Company by the means before mentioned., That this most important Bill came under the fullest consideration of the Government, and passed the House of Commons amidst the good wishes and congratulations of the public, and especially of that portion of the pub lic which is suffering so much from the present system, and which knows how to appreciate the inestimable value of the progress and development of one of the greatest boons which a beneficent Providence has of late years given to mankind. That, on the suggestion of the old Electric Telegraph Company and their allies, this important measure has been treated as deserving to be thrown out, because, in pursuance of a Standing Order (No. 176), the British Electric Telegraph Company had not deposited in the Bank of England the enormous sum of 225,0001., being three-fourths of the maximum amount contemplated to be raised under the powers of the Bill from time to time, as the extension of telegraphs might be required, which sum, under the circumstances above detailed , it is alto gether' unnecessary for your memorialists to say the company could not raise and deposit and the raising of which sum, moreover, in the first instance would be a most extravagant and useless proceeding, inasmuch as the very nature of these telegraphic works is their gra dual extension as exigencies from time to time arise. That your memorialists desire to make every state , went within the strictest bounds of accuracy, and, there , fore, they respectfully beg that careful inquiry may be made into a statement which they have reason to be lieve, viz., that such Standing Order had slept in desue tude,for about twenty-one years, until the 21st of June, 1852—in fact, during a time sufficiently long for a new generation to be born and to grow up. That the said Standing Order was made so long ago as the 2d of June, 1824, to meet the bubble companies, which were the offspring of the then monetary excite ment, and is opposed to the whole current of the modern amended Standing Orders relating to public works; and, as an evidence thereof, your memorialists state the striking fact that it applies just as much to railways, water-works, gas-works, &e., as it can by any ingenuity be made to apply to electric telegraphs; and that, (had it not happily fallen into desuetude) its application would as effectually have prevented the existence at this moment of almost every railway, &c., in the kingdom, as ,its recent application seems unhappily but too likely to keep this country behind all other countries in the use and spread of the electric telegraph. That in the case of several public works analogous to electric telegraphs, not even a subscription contract is re quired by the Standing Orders, and in the case of no other public work whatsoever do the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament require more on that head than the following:- 1. A subscription contract to the extent of three fourths of the estimates. 2. One-tenth only of the three-fourths so sub scribed to be deposited in the Bank, And yet, in consequence of this revival of a Stand ing Order passed many years before electric telegraphs were known, and when railways themselves were only just beginning their existence, it will be quite impossible for an electric telegraph company to obtain the same footing as other 'companies of vastly less importance, unless such Electric Telegraph Company can do what no other company ever could do, viz.—find and actually deposit three-fourths of its capital as a condition, pre cedent to getting its Act giving it incorporation like railway, gas, and other like companies. That the °Tile complained of in the ntuaeroua peti- NAVAL INri . , good trial cruise at sea, retu PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 24. LLIGENCE. guanery ship, Captain 14 _..ovviThe Edinburgh, 56, screw ett (acting), having had a piste her outfit this evening. eturning under steam. She O iti n g, h a e n r d e i r n u t i o se h s a h r e bo l u r r oc to ee c dc f, ed to Spithead this morn ghosisngindotwhins u p n r d o e v r ed sat t r t s n e d wr al far as the Land's•end, a g eaboat, both under steam and sail, and is repo rts Mo d us all that could be desired in a ship of her o h' to have averaged a speed Channel she is reported to h a ar acter. In beating down easy; and when under steam , ve worked well and steered of between eight and nine kn ots per hour. When out her crew were well exercised at an unmoored target, Bailin t the great gun drill, firing this experimental seagoin g ! round it, &c. Altogether most satisfactorily. g u nnery ship is reported of The Grampus, 50, advanced c The Lively naval lighter sailed Rear-Admiral Corry 's squadro n to her moorings to•day. rigate, has been taken talion has been exercised last The Boat Brigade of the p o a t Queenstown. to-day, with stores for Bat night outside the harbour's n aG a i ght and the previous ridge from their bow guns, unmet firing blank Clarence Victualling Establishm - : cart- Lieutenant-Colonel Davis (master the command of r tsmouth Dockyard attendant of the Royal themselves of their several d ut i es nt ). and they acquitted to their officers. Last night ton, second secretary .to the A P P ti la W. A. A. Hamil ea with much satisfaction Colonel Davis in his gig to see gade, with which he expressed hi : volutions of the bri thellliralty, accompanied PLYMoUTH, THURSDAY.—The ralty steam-yacht, with Sir B a hi;uick Eagle Admi t:a the Navy, Mr. Stafford, Secretariti Walker, Surveyor i tif much pleased. and Mr. Grant, arrived from P orts j to the Admiralty, oath on uy. The crew of her Majesty's' at Commander Dobbie, were paid adva ea ul - vesse T esda l Buzzard, she sailed yesterday fur the West I ndia la and North Anis - The frigate Trincomalee, 24 , was commissioned yes terday by Captain Wallace Houston of 240 men. on Tuesday, and rican station. ' With a complement The Tortoise lighter sails to-day, • th 16 caulkers, to work on the Windsor Castle , at Pembroke. The East Indiaman Hardwicke, f off the port last evening , bound up Channel. s11"1- The Sprightly , steam-tender, arrived here to -day from Portsmouth , w ith s upernumeraries, Bombay, was sighted th e Highflyer, Dauntless , Arrogant, and Encounte r, steaming westward , thirt y miles east They are ordered t o call at th is port of Start Point. on their way down Channel. —, A meeting of influential electors of took place on Wednesday evening, at the M --arylobone Court house, Mr. A. Daniell in the chair, wh en a committee was appointed to carry out the necessary arrangements for se curing the re-election of Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., and Lord Dudley Stuart, and it was unanimously determind to return the Hon. Baronet and the Noble Lord free of expense. The that such aproceeding Chairman stated Sir Francis Burdett in 1807 • the case of Sir . , and it was a regee tion on the constituencies that such a principle had been :: 1 h o o s t e e notionsl where h allowed to lie dormant for forty years. Marylebone propriety would not permit her to visit the theatre to see Lola Montes on the stage, determined, nevertheless, to gratify Peeped in through l a d A yb p o a E r L de l d C , A a T n E d S w V h ß en Pit L ioslEa.—re t A urned from the theatre, the the crack. There, to be sure, was the lioness, seated at the her curiosity. The danseuse lodgediada lady 1 table to a cozy supper, her comPanion being the peeping i lady's 'pm ImPade—Roston Gazette. latter walked softly to the door and et the tions of the public have thus been unhappily rivetted upon then], and the parties who were active and ener getic in endeavouring to remedy these evils have been greatly and unexpectedly discouraged. Your Memorialists, therefore, humbly pray that the above important public facts may be taken into your Lordship's most grave consideration; and That such me.isures may be taken, or represen tations made, as to your wisdom may seem best calculated to procure the assimilation of the Stand ing Orders of the two Rouses of Parliament, and their uniform and concurrent action in the outset of private Bills; and To amend such Standing Orders is such re spects as may be necessary to prevent their impeding the due progress of the wonderful improvements of, and the answering the great necessities of, the pre sent generation. And your Memorialists will ever pray, Sze. SPORTING NOTES. THE NEWCASTLE No. CC. MEETI LI NG-- A. RETROSPEC- Lord Clifden's Harpsichord, Bst 1 01 b.... .(F. Butler) 2 Mr. R. Eswalls Iracundus, Bst 101 b ......... (Rogers) 3 Duke of Richmond's Antigone, B s t 2lb ..(Flatman) 4 Won with difficulty by a neck. Iracundus was beaten off, and Antioon° broke down. Run in 5 win. 4 secs. The Second Year of the Third Trieanial Stakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old colts, Bst 101 b ; Sllies,Bat 51b, &c. The winner to pay 25 sovs. towards ex penses. One mile and a half. (43 Subs.) Lord Ribblesdale's Kingston, Bst 71b Mr. Parker's Joe Miller, Bst 71b (Goater) 2 Mr. Herbert's Lithograph, Bst 101 b ( S IY) 3 Mr. Dorrien's Chief Baron Nicholson, Bst 71b - 4 Betting-6 to 4on Joe Miller, 4to 1 agat Kingston, and sto 1 egst Chief Baron Nicholson. Won in a can ter by three lengtlts, the same between second and third. The race was not timed. TIVE GLANCE. The Mottisfont Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 100 sovs. added; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Sst 41b. Winners once Sib, twice or more 71b The winner to pay 25 sovs. towards expenses. R-8. (45 Subs.) - - Lord Clifden's b c Cheddar (F. Butler) 1 Mr. Howard's Vaultress (A. Day) 2 Mr. Whieldon, jun.'s Prevention (Rogers) 3 Mr. R. E. Cooper's Miss Tennyson ...(Bartholomew) 0 Mr. C. Dorrin's Golden Plover (Kitchener) 0 Mr. Farrance's Miss Emma ..... Mr. Greville's Peach (Flatman) 0 Mr. H. Hill's Ireland's Eye ...(Meton) 0 Mr. Vickers's Lascelles (A. Cowley) 0 Betting-7 to 4on Vaultress, and 4to 1 each agst Cheddar and Prevention. Won cleverly by a length and a half, Vaultress beat ing Prevention by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 27 secs. The Stewards' Plate of 100 sovs., added to a Sweep stakes oft() Boys. each, h ft, for three yrs old and up wards. The winner to pay 10 soya. towards expenses. Two miles. (62 Subs.) Lord Palmerston 's Buckthorn, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Cowley) 1 Lord Clifden's Poodle, 3 yrs, 6st 10lb ...... (G. Mann) 2 Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Deer, Bst 4lb ...(Hiett) 3 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Clincher, 5 yrs, Bst 1 llb (A. Day) 4 Lord Enfield's Hernandez, 4 yrs, Bst 411A...(Flatman) 0 Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor, Bst 41b...(Abraham) 0 Mr. J. Clarke's Dept, 3 (Kendall) 0 agst Black po et , m r r , It •-, Pigott's Father Thames, 6st 101 b (Castleman) 0 yrs, Est 101 b - -- p t . ":, Woolcot's Kate, 3 xrs, Est 121 b (Barn) 0 to 1 each egst Hernandez and Mountain Deer, 8 to 1 — " t i n g-5 to 2 agat Buckthorn, 7 to 2 agat Poodle, 6 Won cleverly b r The First Year of , th and a half. A fine race for second place y a leng . Run in 3 min. The won by a neck . in min. 50 secs. l v O o t u o rt l h ag T s r t ie C an lin ifa cher. and th e Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, for tw o winner to pay 25 yrs old. The sovs. towards expenses . Six furl ongs . r Subs.) x furl • . , Mountain Deer, 8 5 t ( 5 Ellett) 1 Mr. Armstrong's Placid, gat 5 Duke of Richmond's Cucko o f , g at (Rogers) 2 Mr. J. Powney's Cineas, Bst 7113 . man) 3 Bat 21b ... ( (Rogers ) 3 Mr. Vickers's Psaltery, Bst 51b (A• D I Y) * 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Cineas, 5 .. ... .......... (Maton)fill 16to 1 agst Sister to Mountain Deer . 6 Ca cko .a, . 37 2 and 50 to 1 agst Psaltery. • 6 to 1 agat•riaClu, Won cleverly by a length, two lengths cond and third. Cineas a bad fourth. . rs b etween se zsun in one min. 29 secs._ . _ Sin, — T he TO T TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I: in a e e et s in were aakt st a p e s some in' affect some of the great tc o n s equences, which In Tuesd P ay as ' summer and au tumn.sN remarkable f wca h s e tl e has .flol r resultedtmheatvictory ir:taol ril materially of Lucio in the North Derby , ic and for that of The Cutler in the Members' Plate H an ow ing to the bolting of the Marige. The former was 11a colt, who otherwise could hardly have lost ; a n d the latter, for some time past usder-estimated, no w i n favoured by a moderate weight, Showed form and first time in his existence that ozed for the pos sessed of considerable speedy powers, beatiee was that fast filly of Mr. Afeiklanes, Evadneg andas she did others, including The Italian, Maid of Team -ti m ten and Pelopidas. This race of The Cutler it m ust be re_ e membered was only for a mile, and at that dist ance , at moderate weight, he will be found very dangerous during the present year. The fact of Azeth being dead amiss did not reach m e in sufficient time to enable me to give it publicity so as to prevent money being thrown away on his chance for the Second Triennial Produce Stakes, or the loss of many p.p. bets about him would not have occurred. If he had been in anything like form, it is perfectly clear to any one that the Miss Whip colt would have stood no earthly chance of defeating him; as it was, Lord Glas gow's colt quietly walked over. That clever filly of Mr. Bell's, by lago out of Miss Eliza, 'yclept Ann Eliza, managed to beat Osborne's Lambton very cleverly by a neck for the Tyro Stakes; Charming Woman finishing a bad third. Both Ann Eliza and Lambton are useful animals in a second-rate field, but would have very little chance if pitted against any first-rate class two years old. Happy Joe somewhat astonished his friends and the public by winning the Trial Stakes cleverly from Sham rock, Brawn, and five others, including Agnes Wickfield and England's Glory. This performance of Happy Joe's, who previous to the race was valued at 50 pounds or under, found him a new proprietor at 200 sovs. Here it must be also borne in mind that this victory was obtained over the T. Y. C., and that any distance exceeding that would be completely against the horse, as his qualities are those of speed for a short distance, but without the power of staying. The Produce Stakes on Wednesday were won some what unexpectedly, and yet very easily, by Sir C. Monck's colt by Touchstone out of Garland, who beat the favourite, Lord Faueonberg, the son of Birdcatcher, and Alice Hawthorn, without any difficulty by two lengths. The Stakes of 5 soya. each and 25 added, for two yra old and upwards. Winner to be sold &c. T.Y.C. ( 6 Subs.) for 1,5 0 L, Mr.Armstrong'sTheMoor, aged (8008 st 61b (A.D ay) 1 Mr. Magenis'sPalma f, 2 yrs,( sol .) 4 st l3l b(Humpage) 2 Mr. Dorrien's Chaplet, 4 yrs, ( 100 08st21b(Kitehen er ) Mr. S. Scott's Joy, 3 yrs, (1001.) 7st 21b (G. Mann) 0 Mr. Farrance's Terpsichore, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (W. Day) 0 Mr. T. Smith's Lady Octavia, 2 yrs (501) 4st 131 b 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Palma filly, 3to 1 agst The Moor. Won by two lengths. i Time 1 min. 23 secs. The Northumberland Plate resulted, as I and every body else expected, in favour of Mr. Meiklam's slashing colt Stilton, who won without any difficulty under the pilotage of Aldcroft by half a length; Colsterdale, giving only four pounds for the year Ito the victor, being second, Cossack a bad third, Snowdrlt fourth, Caracara fifth, the gelding by Morgan Rattler sixth, Stafford seventh, and Neasham, who finished his racing career by breaking down, last. The race was run at a fair pace from end to end, and well tests the merits of Stilton as a race-horse. The immediate con sequence of his victory was of course his elevation to the rank of first favourite for the Goodwood Cup, for which he stands a chpital chance, and not more than 3 to 1 is obtainable about his winning it. This victory, however, entirely spoils his chance for any of the great handicaps of the present year, for he is sure to be dosed with a stiff weight—too stiff to win, I calculate. Mr. Meiklam's rattling filly Evadne, after carrying 6st 61b, and running second to the Cutler at 7st slb for the Members' Plate on Monday, c omes out on the f o llowing day with 6st 111 b up, and b ea t s the Knight of the Garter, receiving but 101 b for the year, for t he Free Handicap, by a head, after a beautiful race, walking over the same day for the third Triennial Produce Stakes, Pelopidas being afraid to meet her; and yesterday finishing her three days' perf orman ces by defeat ing that wonder of other days, N ancy , rat h e r easily than otherwise, by three parts of a length. These per formances are very superior, an d prove that gett ing a distance and speed are qualities she is not deficient in; her victories this week having been over the mile, three quarters of a mile, and two mile courses. She must not be forgotten. It is an old saying, that " it never rains but it pours," for Dawson, after having swept the Northumberland Plate Free Handicap, Third Triennial, and Gold Cup, brings out his Chief Justice, who is evidently much im• proved since last year, and wins her Majesty's Plate very easily with him from the Marinette colt, Presto, and four others, on the .Wednesday; and the Corporation Plate, with tist 71b up, beating a good field yesterday. Such luck as this is not often seen. The greater part of the good things this year seem destined to find their way into the northern stables. Sir Charles Monck's Brother to Vanguard, after beat ing Lord Fauconberg on Wednesday, was again victo rious yesterday in the race for the Grand Stand Stakes, 'beating with considerable ease Anteverta, Lambton, Roger Thornton, and Nestor. In my op i n i on this horse is quite equal to his brother ; in and being so, will often bear Sir Charles's colours the van; more over, he is very susceptible of improvement, his present condition and appearance being not altogether of the most blooming description. The Gateshead Lottery Stakes being over the two mile course, suited Pelopidas to a nicety, he winning, rather easily from Happy Joe and that curiously named horse The Varmint. The Speculation Plate and Scurry Handicap require no comment. The three southern meetings of Bibury, Stockbridge, and Winchester, I shall make a point of dilating upon to-morrow. —I am, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. COURT CIRCULAR.. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, and attended by Major-General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, went yesterday morning to Westminster Hall, and afterwards inspected different parts of the New Palace of Westminster. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her M a jesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness also paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Princess Louisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Major- General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, attended on horseback. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Duchess of Athol', the Honourable Caroline Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major- General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening. Viscountess Canning has relieved the Countess of De sert in her duties as Lady in Waiting to the Queen, and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mac donald have relieved the Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Lucy Kerr, in their duties as Maids of Honour in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James Murray, ho noured the Haymarket Theatre with her presengs last evening. The Marquis of Westminster had an interview with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Viscount Torrington bad also as interview wish the Noble Earl. A Deputation on behalf of the London and North , . Western Railway Company, consisting of Captain finish, Mr. Carter, and Mr. Stewart; and a Deputation, on be half of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com pany, consisting of the Hon. R. H. Clive, Mr. W. G. Ray, Mr. Knox, and Mr. Walker, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Marquis Camden had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Hildyard, M.P., bad an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, to present a memorial from Whitehaven, against compulsory pilotage in the Mersey. The Knight of Kerry, and Mr. Herbert, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Smillie, Advocate-General, South Anstrali4had an interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial- office. A deputation from the British Beet-root Sugar Com pany, beaded by Mr. Robert Oxland and Mr. Henry Valiance, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. w. Henley yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-offices yesterday to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian islands the Governor of Malta, and the Governors of Hong: Kong and Ceylon. A deputation from St. Anne's, Westminster, on th e subject of the Metropolitan Burial Bill, bad an intervie w with Lord John Manners on Wednesday, at the iDeti e ,„ le , - , Public Works and Buildings, W hitehall-place. TRIIO-g-e8 de putation consisted cf Mr. Joseph George (churchwarden ), L n) Messrs. David Lerigo, Richard Haylett, Jiturnseespb? and H. Reeves (overseers); and C hatfie ld surgeon. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE -ON-TYNE RACES.—TEIIIRSDAY. T he Gateshead Lottery Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p. an d 50 added, the second to save his stake; three yrs old, colts, Sat 711, and fillies, Sat 41b. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Lord Eglinton's Pelopidas (Marlow) 1 Mr. Dawson's The Varmint (Cartwright) 2 Mr. Morris's Happy Joe (Basham) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Pelopidas. Won easy by a length and a half. Tho Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., for three yrs old, fist 101 b; four, Bst 51b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9s 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles. (12 Subs.) Mr. Meiklam's Evadne, 3 yrs ............... (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Martinson's Nancy, 4 yrs (slsrson) 2 Betting-7 to 4on Nancy, who was beaten cleverly in a good race by a neck. The Corporation (Handicap) Plate of 60 guineas. Once round and a dis. Mr. Williams's Chief Justice, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (T. Lye) 1 Mr. He:,seltine's Lough Bawn, .4 yrs,6 st 91b(Aldcruft) 2 Mr. Walters's Mary Nobbler, aged, 6st (J. Hall) 3 Mr. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, ist 81b (Arnold) 4 Mr. J. Anson's Hari cot, 5 y rs, 7st (Dickson) 0 Mr. John Osborne's Kathleen, Est 131 b (J Osborne) 0 Mr. Goodwin's La Gazza Ladra, Est 81b (Charlton) 0 Mr. Altardyce's Fancy Girl, 3 yrs, Est (Chilman) 0 Mr. White's Snowdrop, 3 yrs, 5a5 31b (Carroll) 0 Mr. Harrison's Lindrick , 3 y rs, 53t (F. Bates) 0 Mr. Barker's bg by Roscius, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b (Guater) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Chief Justice, sto 1 each agst Haricot and Kathleen, 6 to 1 each agst Snowdrop and Roscius gelding, and 7to 1 agst Lough Bawn. Won in a canter by a length, the same between the second, third, and fourth. The Speculation Plate of 20 Rvs., added to a sweep. stakes of 5 sovs. each, the second to receive 10 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to be sold for 2001. unless entered for a smaller sum. Once round. (8 Subs.) Mr. T. Lister's Brawn, 3 yrs (501.), Est llb (Carroll) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Cleveland, 3 yrs, Est 41b ...(Aldcroft) 2 Mr.l. Gill's b c by Melbourne, 3 yrs (Chilman) 3 Mr. Hardman's Gumflower, 6 yrs, 7 st 71 b —(Arnold) ° - Mr. Spence's Miss Lavinia, 3 yrs, 6 st llb ......(Well s ) Mr. Dawson's Miss White, 3 yrs, s st 71 b ...... (Bat eB' - ) ( i l l Mr. H.. J. Thompson's br gby Morgan Rattler,s 4lb 7 t Betting—Even on Cleveland, and 4 to 1 asst Brawn. Won by a neck, the second beating the third by t a same. The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft , added, the second to cave his stake, for yrs old. T.Y.C. (10 Subs:) two and three Mr. J. Dawson's Anteverta, 2 yrs, 6st 91 Sir C. Bionck's Vindex, 2 yrs, fist 121 b and 50 Mr. J. Osborne's Lambton, 2 yrs, Gat 911... Aldcroft) 02 Mr. J. Gill's Hecate colt, 3 yrs, Bst Est 121 b (Arnold) a nd 121 b ...(Arnold) •••(Charlton) 1 Mr. F. Walker's Roger Thornton 121 b (.1. Holmes) o u 3to lands t Anteverta. Vinndyel Betting—Even on Lambton, 2 1 made nl n a e g a s r t l ning, won a fine race a Anteverta beating Lambton by a head; the short neck,where." The Scurry Handicap of 3 s rest "no d 20 added, the ova. each an second to save his stake,(ls Subs.) Mr. T. Lister's Brawn, 3 I T.Y.C. ... (Wells) 1 ; 1 1l the run- Mr. Carter's Farmer's Bo :rs' 6st 1211 . ...(Arnold) .. let 51b (Arnold) 2 Mr. Brown's Rattlecap, 5. ' 3 yrs, t ; ......... (Carroll) 3 i Mr. Barker's Tordesill 9 Yrs, 4st 8 51 91b (J. Holmes) 0 as, yrs, Bst Mr. Spark's Pr,2sto, 4 ... (J. Sharpe) 0 I Mr. Wright's Miss Pl v Y aw rs ; v Bs 4 t , - ,..; . i s . ;l ................ 0 Mr. Skeene's Lol a Af - — . l ' -1 - 7 s t 7lb (Dickson) 0 ontes, 5 yrs; 75t 411 3 ...(T. Lye) 0 Mr. Dawson's Eaa , Mr. Cook's Torn p rry stone, 3 s, Yr st : 7 21b Aldcroft) 0 Mr. Weetwort'3inch,3 yr ro, 65 . t bib (Charlton) 0 Mr. J. Gill' Shamrock, 3 y . ' ; 4st 12lb ...... (J. Gill) 0 2 P . ' ' to 1 agst Rattlecap. 6 Be . ttlng-5 to 2Presto, 4 to 1 each a- ' ass', Ba y and Emerystone, 7 to 1 eget act 1 armer s Braw n , and Bto - t H a fod. 1 agst ths between second and Won by a length. Two le n g third. ___ CREMORNE GARDEN& The fine weather has given the Crernorne Gardens a fresh start; and on what may be called the second open ing night of the , season—that of W deea l theatre, the tents, and the dancing arena at once. In quite a gala. lhe grounas were the course of the evening a balloon ascent took place,. n rse e i s y da c y ro —them was Mr. Coxwell being the adventurer; and a new which het Cusbnie maters appear and which is very gracefully and picturesquely got up, was h i g hly . appre ciated. We understand that a regular trotiPe of ell Other trians commence their performances next Monda y. astitmrapcstoinonrse,ltuoior,eutrt,el4mboluuneeeeldy, andp onballet, in whole Mr' the a brilliant ' to W eed in summer campaign. DEATH OF \V IL L inst. He was near] relate ' : gentleman died at L IAM pe ar at the Court of King Naples, on the 13th a Pave. 0 George Lane Fox, Esq., of LANEFox, EsQ.— The above Bramham-park, to Mr. Sackviile Lane Fox, M.P. ~ I o kshire, and i, non. William Temple's mis sionnte was Attache to La THE D o r P A RLIAMENT.—We are ISSOL U TION made on Monday, in we enabled to confirm the statement. Al intormed Sunday paper, relative opposition to a usually, w- - -- , ;„, yarliament in person. The day of to the Queen's disseiv.-e ver Ferdinand of Naples. hp r apers yet fixed. The prorogation, the dissolution is„ l] , ut a: place on Thursday next, the Ist it is expected, w"` -;(1 The Lord will be deferred till J uly, but it is „ w oos „,..a, v The Lord Chamberlain has issued the following a "i s iZ,;:l to the House of Loads on the day of his tickets of att leaves a blank fox the day. Her Majesty bat yesterday visited the new Houses of .„ -Mn' d spent a long time in going over them.— t a h n e d d p iss r o in lu o tio Parliament , "- Ad . r , verti r ig g ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The n iii o f the Bill have presented a petition to the House promar nray ing that they may be allowed to proceed with of Lou!, r that the standing orders may be disPeneed their Bill, and with. Tgo S H ERIFFe DINNER TO THE JUDGES.—On Wednesday the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave a very elegant dinner to the Judges, at the Albion Tavern, Alders- Pte - s treet. The chair, as usual upon these occasions, was jointly occupied by the Sheriffs Cotterell and Swift, who, in the course of the evening, altermately proposed the different toasts. Among the guests we observed—Lord John. Russell, np., Vice-Chancellor Turner, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Mr. Justice Crompton, Baron Martin, Alderman Sir W. Magnay, Alderman Sir G. Carroll, Alderman Hooper, Alderman Sir J. Musgrove, Alderman Moon ' Alderman Fin nis, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden , Alderman Carter, Mr. Ser geant Manning, Mr. Sergeant Herbgit Jones, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Mr. Sergeant Wallenger, Colonel Phillips, Captain Erskine, Captain Hire, RN., Captain Gordon, Sir G. E. Hodgkinson, 1). Nicoll, Esq., Hon. J. Dormer, Mr. Ryland, *Mr. Locke, Rev. Dr. Rice, Mr. Secondary Potter, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. Norris, Mr. Barber, Mr. James Thomson, Mr. Y John Wood, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Stoner, Mr. T. Townel Rev. Mr. Calvert, Mr. Plumley. Mr. Catty, Mr. e' Under- Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, and about 50 other gentlemen. GLAso ow, JUNE I9.—Cotton—There bas been very a de to a only little demand small for x e cotton tent Thebetter b e week, and salliteises f hoavebeen mer il Ame rican, however, continue steady, but a decline in the mid dling and lower classes of 1 / 0, per pound has taken p l ac e. For goods and yams the dem an d i s l ess ac tive, and manu facturers and spinners are di s p ose d to mee t buyers on more accommodating terms. The finer counts of yarns are still, however, very high. Iron—Pig iron market steady, a fair demand existing. y em a = a n i rants, and 41s. open, The advance has, however, checked ,-,T D GE RACES.— THURSDLY. business, there being few transacts iir at these quotations. STOC11131" The j of the Second Triennial Stakes of 10 M.nutactured iron is in good demanal Bars, from 51. 10s. to Holders require 40s. cash for m.n. war . Third Y( ar sous. en colts se ands. Two o fillies; miles the w a i n n d ne a r 61. F p e o r ur ton; b rails, t 6/. net. ' towa rds Saturday, b to pay 25 an"' b , Teasel in the Creek whilst pting to reach a a half. ( 36 S u s ' i • M. ~ s ,•. I,,smortme l 601 1011) • sssss •••(41, Day) .>A 4 PAW 9t inta,490014 MG k VW , " - were drowned at Lymington on THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1852.