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meal ?ro. Lase' AZ'• ag e " the ther hale °d i oUla- , n the e cool- i aving ye of itating czting d ier y s 17+• °4- 13 0 - S• - • I3e' Os :35' gi 0 • COO oW. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge and his Preceptor, the Rev. Mr. Wood, and the Princess Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left town at a quarter-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning, with their suite, in three carriages, on a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle. • The Duke of Cumberland went yesterday from his residence at Kew to attend the races at Ascot. The Duchess of Glocester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. Count Sebastiani (the French Ambassador) and General Alava (the Spanish Minister) visited Viscount Palmerston Yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Commander of the Forces transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. Messrs. Stewart, Alexander, and a deputation had a con ference yesterday with Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Glenelg, and Mr. Spring Rice, at the Treasury. •A deputation, including Colonel Le Couteur, M. Le Bre ton, and the Bailiff of Guernsey, had an interview yestei day With Mr. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir John Hobhouse entertained Prince Jameh-ood-Deen and a select party to dinner on Saturday evening, in Hill street. Amongst the company were the Earl of Gosford, the Right Hon. Cutler Fergusson, Sir Charles Grey, Captain Grindley, &c. Mr. Ewart and a deputation from Liverpool had an inter ►iew yesterday with Viscount Melbourne. Messrs. Baring Wall, T. Baring, and Rich, had an inter view with Mr. Labouchere, at the Board of Trade yesterday. A Deputation, headed by Lord Sandon, had a conference yesterday with Lord Glenelg and Mr. Spring Rice, at the Colonial-office. Count Matuszewic has left town to attend the Ascot races. Messrs. Neilson and Walker (from Canada) had an ihter view yesterday with Lord Glenelg at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR. JUNE 16.—Their Majesties and the Royal party left the Castle this morning in fourteen carriages for Ascot races. In th e first carriage was the King, and the Duke of Cambridge ; in the second the Queen, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and his sister, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge. The Duke of Cumberland rode on horseback a little time after. The party returned to the Castle from the races at a quarter-past 6 o'clock P.M., the Duke of Cumberland riding hack with his Majesty and the Duke of Cambridge. Their Majesties will entertain a party of visitors at dinner this evening. On Sunday evening the Queen and a small party attended divine service in St. George's Chapel. The service was chanted by the Rev. H. Bitterfield. The musical service was King's in D. The anthem, " Ascribe unto the Lord" (Tra vers), was sung by Messrs. Harris, Mitchell, Jarman, and one of the choristers. Mr. Elvey presided at the organ. Yesterday their Majesties did not go out. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and family arrived fro m town this morning, and are expected to remain till Friday. The King, it is rumoured, will go to London to-morrow. FASHION ABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Countess Stanhope, from a Continental tour ; Lady Mac donald, from ditto ; Marquis d' Harcourt, from ditto ; Lord and Lady Harley, from ditto ; Hon. Geo. John and Mrs. Milks, from ditto ; Lord and Lady de Saumarez and the Hon. Miss de Saumarez, at their new residence in Queen Anne- Street, from Guernsey ; Lord and Lady Barham, from Bar ham-court ; Sir Philip and Lady Egerton, in Hertford-street, from Lord Verulam's seat, Gorhambury, Herts ; Sir Edmund and Lady Hartopp, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from a tour ; Lady Theodosia Hale and family, in St. James's- Street, from Wilts ; Lord Brudenell, in Carlton-gardens, from Kettering ; Baron Rothschild, at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Paris ; Sir Trayton Elliott Drake, Bart., at di;:to, from his scat in South Devonshire ; Thomas Upton, tsq., and Mrs. Upton, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street, from their seat near Bristol ; Count Radolinski, at ditto, from Prussic.; Colonel Vaughan, at ditto, from Wales ; John Clif ton, Esq., at ditto, from Bedalo; T. Stonor, Esq., at ditto, from Oxfordshire ; C. Everett, Esq., at ditto, from Salisbury ; T. Gumbleton, Esq., at ditto, from Ireland. DEPARTURES. Colonel and Mrs. Woolaston, from Fladong's Hotel, Ox ford-etreet, for their seat, Shenton Hall, Leicestershire; Mr. and Miss Fort, from ditto, for Manchester; F. Barry, Esq., fr om ditto, for Ireland ; C. Coyney, Esq., from ditto, for Paris ; E. Griffiths, Esq., from ditto, for Hereford; Captain Puleher, from ditto. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. A new farce was produced at this theatre last night, en titled I, and my Double. Frederick Dial (Mr. Hemming) is Carrying on a clandestine correspondence with Lydia ( Miss P. Horton), the niece of Sir Gilbert Scutcheon (Mr. Wil liams), an old gentleman, wonderfully proud of his ances tors, and vastly indignant at the advances of the plebeian son of a watchmaker, which Dial happens to be. It happens, however, which probably makes Sir Gilbert the more sore upon this subject, that his sister had some years previously run away with one Mr. Puff, a pastrycook, whose son, Nicholas -Puff (Mr. Keeley), copies his mother's offence, and runs away from the paternal roof of his pastrycook father in quest of one Miss Smith, and arrives upon the scene just in time to help the confusion of the lovers. Frederick Dial having been refused admittance to Sir Gilbert's, and all his letters being intercepted, chances to meet with an old comrade, Dick Rocket (Mr. Wrench), flying from a tavern-waiter, whom he is unable to pay for a recently- devoured dinner. Dial satisfies his friend's inexorable creditor, and, in re turn, his friend, who delights in adventures, undertakes to Convey a letter to the hands of Lydia, and assumes the cha racter of Nicholas Puff, in order to gain admittance to the house. At this interesting point the real Nicholas Puff ap pears, and Dick Rocket, in order to get the runaway youth out of the way, represents his uncle as a most passionate indivi dual, and fully prepared to punish his scampish nephew in a way he little relishes. The consequence is, that Nicholas is but t oo h a ppy to play second fiddle in the interview which fol lows, and to allow Rocket to bear all the brunt of his uncle's vengeance, whilst he looks on his friend, Mr. Williams. A scene ensues which keeps the audience in a roar of laughter. Nothing could be imagined more droll than to see Keely, as the pretended Mr Williams, enjoying, "by proxy," the wrath of his uncle. But when Sir Gilbert threatens to scratch the /lame of Nicholas Puff out of his will if the unruly youth says another word in his defence, the real Nicholas uses all his Powers of persuasion to keep his " double" quiet, but all, alas, in vain. Dick Rocket snaps his fingers at his adopted uncle and his legacy ; and then boldly declares his right to freedom d independence, " though his father was no more than a respectable pastry-cook, and cried muffins, crumpets, and hot cross buns through the streets." The farce was given out for repetition by Wrench without a dissentient voice. VICTORIA THEATRE. A tragic drama, as it is styled in the bills, was produced at this theatre for the first time yesterday ev ening, entitled An 9elo ; or, the Tyrant of Padua. It is founded on a late work of Victor Hugo's, already sufficiently familiar to the public to render a repetition of the incidents altogether unnecessary. The attraction of the evening, however, consisted in a grand burlesque, being another new version of Bellini's opera of La Somnanzbula, called The Roof Scrambler. If considerable power in punning, humourously designed scenes, such as the " bedchamber, with a washhand-stand in the distance," and " the hazardous descent of Miss Molly over the pump-handle," 10 addition to numerous other queer and satirical notions, both or the dramatist and the actors, can entitle such a production to success, success is certain for The Roof Scrambler. BANK OF EGLAND. - - (FROM A MORNING PAPER.) The annexed communication is from a corresponder who is perfectly conversant with the subject treated o Which is of great interest to monied men, but particularly to the proprietors of Bank stock. If his deductions are correct, the much-vaunted " rest" of the Bank Directors is a mere imagination, with no real existence : " In your City article of the 9th instant there are some re marks on the mode in which the Bank Directors bring the dead weight to account in their periodical balance-sheets, and after turning to the Bank accounts, I see great reason for thinking that these remarks are correct. " By the appendix to the Bank Report, No. 13, p. 30, it appears that the capital value of the dead weight annuity is set down under date of the 29th of February 1832, at 10,897,88 01 ., and in appendix No. 15, p. 32, and under the same date, the sum of 451,4151. is carried to the profit account for disposable interest on this annuity, and therefore the Bank Directors ap pear to have brought this article to account in the terms of the original contract in 1823. But this is to have no regard to the change in the rate of interest which has since taken place, and is therefore to treat the matter very erroneously. as will appear when the facts of the case are briefly and plainly stated. " The annuity is for 585,740/., and in 1832, when the above- R►entioned accounts were made out, it had 35 years to run. hr that year the Bank Directors, as we have seen, carry to the account of profit on this annuity, and distribute as dividends, 451,415/., retaining the sum of 134,3251., to accumulate at compound interest, in order to ensure the return of the capital of 10,897,880/. at the end of the 35 years. But if we even reckon interest at 4 per cent., the sum of 134,3251. per annum will, in 35 .years, produce only 9,893,3441., leaving a defi ciency at the end of the term of 1,004,546/. If we reckon interest at ai per cent., the 134,325/. per annum will, in 35 Years, produce 8,955,986/., leaving a deficiency at the end of the te r m of 1,841,8941. ; and if we reckon interest at 3 per cent., then 134,3251. per annum will, in 35 years, produce 8,121,568/., leaving a deficiency at the end of the term of 2,776,312/. " Now it is most certain, that for a very great number of years past the Bank Directors have not been able to employ money at more than 3} per cent., and probably not at more than 3 per cent. Taking it at 34- per cent. the deficiency, as we have already seen, will be 1,841,8941., and taking it at 3 per cent. it will be 2,776,312/. And therefore it appears that the Bank Directors have not retained a sufficient portion of this annuity to accumulate at compound interest, in order to in sure the return of the original capital., and that consequently they have been paying dividends out of capital. " With respect to annuities for terms of years, it should Seem filet there is only one true way by which they may be valued awl brought to account, and that is annually at a (et.- tain fixed period to estimate their value according to the then rate of interest at which money may be invested, and then divide according to that rate of interest upon the capital value, and lay out the surplus to accumulate at compound interest for the redemption of the capital. Thus at 3- per cent. in terest the capital value of an annuity of 1001. for 35 years is 2,0001., and the interest on 2,0001. at 3i- per cent. is 701. ; and, therefore, if an annuity of this kind and in these circum stances belonged to a public company, they would have 70/. to distribute that year as dividend, and 301. to lay out at com pound interest ; and in like manner, and upon the same prin ciple, they might proceed every succeeding year till the end of the term." LORD RAVNOR'S BILL RESPECTIN G THE THIRTY NINE ARTICLES. Whereas the subscription of particular articles of faith in the case of persons of tender years, and before they can have so accurately and minutely examined the same, and the grounds on which they rest, as to give an entire and implicit assent to the doctrines therein laid down, is unreasonable, and may tend to evil consequences ; be it enacted by the King's Most Ex cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act no person shall be required by any person or persons in authority in the Univer sities of Oxford or Cambridge, or elsewhere, within the King's dominions, to subscribe or declare his assent to the 39 articles of religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in 1652, or the 3 articles contained in the 36th canon, at the time of matriculation at either of the said Uni versities, or of entrance at any college or hall within the same, and until he shall have attained the age of 23 years, or, in case he shall take the degree of Master of Arts before he has attained the age of 23 years, until he shall have taken the said degree. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to exempt any person from the obligation to subscribe such ar ticles, or to make such declarations as by the custom and sta tutes of the said Universities are now required, before any person can sit and vote in the convocation or senate of the said Universities respectively, or as may now by law be required in order to qualify such person to take any ecclesiastical orders, or to preside or sit as judge in any court spiritual or ecclesias tical, or to hold any ecclesiastical office or benefice whatsoever, or as under the special requisition of the founder of any en dowment are now required to be subscribed or made to enable the members thereof to enjoy the benefits of the same. Tess :e. t of ible ecu- Juni Ma- it no retest doing Select n. eating voter; Tribes• Lower ,D AY• Blfl to 'het the 'lnstead existing Oen§ be a t Fo nts may e Leon' Ingl e s. 1 Regis and all" 'tea4 5 ° l6ll un -490 " I. FlOlO. nu r• o 9. t •0- ..... „,... ..... o / 0. ~..., / ....' /, ..... , 1J2_ 1110 " L. to _ 355 , n 66 ' la v Cou ntil .6 : 56 d• s'• 6 j to S 4 0 0 , .. ~., 0 , " A' J ,3 0 0 ' 12 6 II 3 ••• a; 0 A 6 o 5 Ik 4 t$ Si 0 4‘ l, 3 ,i, to r 2 o ti 10 0 U 2 13 ` 14 7- 1. 1:37S 0,1 35' (14 ere iola• 1 4 ; 1 s' .....-•• " to e bi vngcliora. COWES. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Cowes and its vicinity, held on Tuesday, called by the Commissioners, after a lengthened discussion between the inhabitants of Cowes, and Messrs. Hearn, A. Clark, J. Cook, S. Pring, Wilkins, and some other gentlemen from Newport, the following resolution, proposed by Mr. Moir, and seconded by Mr. Moore, was carried unanimously : " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it would be highly advantageous to the inhabitants of Cowes to particip.ite in the benefits of the Municipal Bill now in progress through Parliament, and that a Committee be appointed to forward this object, to which the following clause refers : " And whereas sundry towns of England and Wales are not towns corporate, and it is expedient that several of them should be incorporated : Be it enacted, That if the inhabitants of any town in England and Wales should petition his Majesty to grant to them a Charter of Incorporation, it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by any such Charter, to extend to the inhabitants of any such town all or any of the powers and provisions in this Act contained." The room was crowded. The thanks of the meeting being voted to the Chairman, C. Day, Esq., the meeting broke up. THE WINE TRADE AND SHIPPING INTEREST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I am much gratified to learn that a motion was made in the House of Commons last evening by Mr. Wakley, the Member for the Borough of Finsbury, requiring a return of all wines imported into Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. from the Ist January, 1831, to Ist January, 1835, by the officers of the navy in his Majesty's ships of War for their own use, and that of private individuals. This privilege has been abused to such an extensive degree, that the wine merchants of all the government ports have suffered very materially in their ti in consequence of its being tolerated. The question is natu rally asked, why should a ship of war be converted into a freight vessel, and the officers allowed to become traders, when they are absolutely paid for the protection of trade in all its branches ? The public, and the wino trade, will, I am certain, be astonished, when the returns are officially laid before the House. It is, indeed, disgraceful that a class of men who stand so deservedly high in the estimation of their countrymen, should be identified with the degrading conduct of a certain number, who place the naval profession almost on a par with that of a common vintner. I sincerely trust his Majesty's Ministers, with that spirit that distinguishes them in their liberal feeling towards the trading interests of the com munity, will at once perceive the necessity of giving a check o such an increasing evil. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. E. W. June 13. GREECE. The following interesting account of Greece, its inhabitants, and its Parliament, in the Summer of 1832, is from Miss Landon's elegant translation of Lamartine's " Pilgrimage to the Holy Land," just published by Bentley : " I rose with the sun, to view as near as possible, the Gulph of Argos—Argos itself, and Nauplia, the present capital of Greece. Deception is here complete. Nauplia is a miserable village built on the borders of a deep, narrow gulph, on a margin of earth fallen from the high mountains which cover all the coast. The houses have nothing pe culiar about them, but are built in the common form of the lowest habitations of the villages of France and Savoy. The greater part of them are in ruins ; and the masses of walls thrown down by cannon during the late war, are still lying in the middle of the streets. Two or three new houses painted in coarse colours, rise on the quay, and a few coffee-houses and shops are built upon piles in the sea ; those coffee-houses, and the balconies on the water are now covered with two or three hundred guests in their Sunday clothes, but extremely dirty. They are either sitting, or lying on planks or on the sand, and certainly form very picturesque groups ; their physiognomies are hand some, but sad and ferocious; the load of indolence weighing heavily on all their attitudes. The indolence of the Neapolitans is mild, serene, and gay—the care lessness of happiness ; while that of the Greeks is heavy, morose, and sombre ; it is a vice which punishes itself. We turn our eyes from Nauplia to admire the fine fortress of Palamide, which extends along the mountain commanding the town ; the turreted walls resemble those of a natural rock. But where is Argos ?—A vast, barren, naked plain, inter sected with marshes, extends in a circular form at the bottom of the gulph ; it is bounded on every side by chains of grey mountains. At the end of the plain, about two leagues inland, we perceive a mound with some fortified walls on its summit, and which protects by its shade, a small town in ruins. This is Argos I Close by is the tomb of Agamemnon l" * S * * * " We are on shore, in the room of a bad inn opposite the barracks of the Greek troops. The soldiers lie stretched out all day under the shade of ruined walls in the middle of the streets and other places of the town. Their costumes are rich and picturesque, but their features bear the imprint of poverty, despair, and all those ferocious passions which civil war lights and foments in these savage breasts. Anarchy the most complete reigns at this moment in the Morea. Every day one faction triumphs over another, and we hear the firing of the musketry of the Kleftes, the Colocotronis, who are fighting, on the other side of the gulph, against the troops of the government. We learn from every courier who descends the mountains, the burning of a town, the pillage of a plain, the massacre of a population by one of these parties which are ravagers of their own country ; one cannot go out of the gates of Nauplia without running the risk of being fired at." * * * , Of 9F 4 " I attended this morning at a sitting of the Greek Parlia ment. The parliament house is a wooden shed, the walls and the roof being of badly joined fir planks or boards. The depu ties are seated on raised forms or benches ; the floor is covered with sand ; and they speak from their places. We sat down to see them arrive, on a stone at the entrance of the shed. They came successively on horseback, each accompanied by an escort more or less numerous, according to the rank of the chief. The deputy having dismounted, his pilikars, with their glittering arms, go and form a group at a little distance in the plain, which presents the image of an encampment or a caravan. The attitude of the deputies is martial and haughty; they speak without confusion and without hesitation, in a tene of voice which displays feeling, but is at the same tinie firm, measured, and harmonious. We see no 10nv,..:r those fe rocious figures repulsive to the eye, which are encountered in the streets of Nauplia ; but the chiefs of an heroic people, who still hold in their hands the gun or sabre with which they have been combatting for their deliverance, and who consult together on the means o f secur i ng t h e tr i ump h o f t h e i r li berty. Their parliament is a council of war. One can conceive nothing more simple, and at the same time more imposing, than this spectacle of an armed nation, deliberating thus amid the ruins of their country, under a roof of boards raised in the open air ; while the soldiers polish their arms at the very d oor o f t h e senate- h ouse, an d t h e h orses neigh, impatient to resume the path of the mountains. Some of the heads of the deputies are admirable for a display of beauty, intelligence, and heroism. These men are from the mountains : the Greek merchants of the Isles are easily distin guished by their features (which are more effeminate), and the impress of deceit, which is legible on t h e i r coun t enances . Th e spirit of trade, and the indolenc e of their habits, have indeed effaced all traits of nobleness or force, and stamped instead, those of fraud and vulgar cunning." * * * S " I can write nothing : my soul is withered and sad as the dismal country which surrounds m e : na k e d roc k s, re d or bl ac k earth, dusty creeping . shrubs, marshy plains, where the icy wind of the north whistles through crops of rushes : this is all. The land of Greece is no better than the inding-sheet of a people ; it resembles an old sepulchre despoiled of its bones, and of which the very stones are dispersed arid discoloured by time. Where is the so much vaunted beauty of Greece, where THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 18351 its golden transparent sky? All is dull and cloudy, as in a gorge of Savoy or Auvergne in the last days of autumn." CORPORATION REFORM. LIVERPOOL MEETING. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool was held on Friday, in Clayton-square, " For the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament in favour of the Bill brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers to reform the Municipal Corporations." The total number of persons present soon after twelve o'clock was estimated at from seven to eight thousand. JAMES BRANCKER, Esq., was voted into the chair. He said, Gentlemen who entertained different political opinions were now assembled to advocate Corporate Reform, which was not a political, but a local question. Even the burgesses, hitherto, had not a fair share in the election of those who ruled over them. He could not tell when self-election first came into vogue, but he thought it must have been about 1611, for in that year, it is recorded, the town's arms were a cormorant.— (Laughter.) It was in this year, he supposed, that the Com mon Council swallowed up all the rights of the burgesses.— (Continued laughter.) At last they got ashamed of the name cormorant, and called it a liver. But, although the bird had got a new name, it continued its old practices.—( Roars of laughter.) They pretended that Liverpool took its name from this bird ; but he contended that the name was derived from two Latin words, or rather a Latin and a Greek word, signifying " free-town."—( Cheers.) He hoped it would soon be again a free town.—(Loud cheers.) In 1579 the Council was elected in Common-hall. At this time" it was very efficient, for there was no prison in the town.— ( Laughter.) Now that we were governed by a self-elected Corporation, the prisons were overflowing. In a few years after, an order was passed that no man should speak evil of the Mayor, under pain of losing his freedom--(laughter)-- so that by that time they had got into disrepute. In 1672 there was another order, that all the councilmen who did not attend the Mayor decently apparelled, should forfeit 6s. Sd. —(Cheers.) The Common Councilmen of the present day always took care to be decently apparelled.—( Laughter. ) A brighter era arose in 1735, when James, Earl of Derby was mayor, for he called a Common Hall, and the Council were elected in the old fashion. In 1791, the late Mr. Sparling, who built St. Domingo-house, was elected mayor. He called two Common Halls, and elected two Common-councilmen. A trial subsequently took place at Lancaster, and, though op- , posed by the Corporation, the jury found that it was the right of the burgesses to choose the Common-council, and that the council should choose the mayor. That was the state of things to which they were now about to return— that was the gist of the Bill.—(Great cheering.) JAMES AIKIN, Esq., moved the first resolution. The Tories had always been great prophets, and they had begun to prophesy on the present occasion. When we were advoca ting a general political reform, we were told that ruin would ensue, that property and life would be endangered. He (Mr. Aikin) found, hoewver, that the country was still worth living in, and so, he believed, did the Tories.—(Laughter.) But our Tory friends were at their prophesies again, for we were now told that if this measure passes, every thing would be turned topsy turvy.—( A laugh.) From what did this alarm spring ? Why, from the notice to quit which had been given to the Common Council against next October, and from the intention to elect 41 true and honest men in their stead.—( Laughter. ) JOSEPH HORNBY, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was put and carried almost unanimously. WILLIAM RATHBONE, Esq. moved the next resolution. THOMAS BROCKLEBANK, Esq., seconded the resolution. RICHARD SHIEL, Esq., came forward to propose a petition founded on the resolutions. The money of the Corporation had been squandered, the patronage misapplied, and the Ma gistrates improperly elected ; and he therefore called upon them to support the great measure of Corporation Reform which was now introduced. The CHAIRMAN then read the petition. Mr. Mulleneux, Dr. Carson, Mr. R. Alison, Mr. Godfrey Barnsley, Mr. Samuel Hobson, Mr. Blackburne, Mr. W. P. Freme, Mr. Ottiwell Wood, and Mr. Bradburn, severally addressed the meeting, the proceedings of which were con ducted with the greatest order and unanimity. The CHAIRMAN here intimated that the business of the meeting was at an end, and returned thanks for the attention which bad been shown him. Mr. RATHRONR moved a vote of thanks to J. Braneker, Esq., for his able and impartial conduct in the chair, which was carried, accompanied by tremendous cheering. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Dzc. 15. The King has been pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Captain the Honourable Henry Duncan, of the Royal Navy, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JUNE 10. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood on Dr. Whitelaw Ainslie, late of the Medical Staff 01 Southern India. WHITEHALL, JUNE 9. The Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal have appointed Edwin Tilsley, of Chipping Norton, in the county of Oxford, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Chippenham Troop.—William Earl of Kerry to be Lieutenant vice Fuller, resigned, May 30. Devizes Troop.—T. H. S. B. Estcourt, Gent, to be Lieutenant vice Polhill, resigned, June 1. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. FREDERICK SHEPLEY, hop-dealer, Farnham, Surrey. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. BENJAMIN BOARDMAN, tailor, Norwich. BANKRUPTS. MORGAN WILLIAMS, linen-draper, Neath, Glamorgan shire, June 29, at twelve, and July 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Pancras-lane, official assignee ; Sole, Al dermanbury, London. RICHARD LEE, RICHARD JOHN BRASSEY, FUL LER FARR, and GEORGE LEE, bankers, Lombard-street, June 30, at one, and July 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; White and Barrett, Frederick's place, Old Jewry. PHILIP SQUIRE and WILLIAM SQUIRE, linen-drapers, Southmolton, Devonshire, June 27, at two, July 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Sole, Aldermanbury, London ; Tur quand, Copthall-buildings, Throgmorton-street, London, official assignee. JOHN MURKIN CORTHOM, sheep-salesman, March, Isle of Ely, Cambridge, June 23, at twelve, and July 28, at five, at the Hoop Inn, Cambridge. Alexander, Gem, and Pooley, Carey street, Lincoln's Inn; Fisher, St. Ives, Huntingdon. SAMUEL COOPER, grocer, Bath, June 25, and July 28, a t two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London ; Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. WILLIAM DONKIN, wine-merchant, North Shields, July 7 and 28, at eleven. Spencer and Compton, Aldermanbury ; Whel don, North Shields. WILLIAM BARNES, ironmonger, Andover, July 4, at one, and July 28, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Andover. Gar rard, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East ; Earle, Andover. JAMES SCOTT, currier, Berwick-upon-Tweed, July 4, at two, and July 28, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Alnwick. Knox, Hart-street, Bloomsbury; Marshall, Berwick-upon-Tweed. JOHN WEATHERLEY, brewer, North Shields, July 7 and 23, at one. Spencer and Compton, Aldermanbury ; Wheldon, North Shields. GEORGE LILLIE and JOHN PATTERSON, merchants, Liverpool, July 4 and 28, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver pool. Mawdsley, Liverpool; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row. SAMUEL GRIBBLE, hatter, Derby, June 24, and July 23, at twelve, at Mr. Moss's office, Derby. Adlington, Gregory, Faulk ner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London; Moss, Derby. WILLIAM TAYLOR, apothecary, Liverpool, June 26, and July 25, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Avison and Son, Liverpool ; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bed- ford-row, London. - JONATHAN SYMS, clothier, Trowbridge, Wilts, June 27, and July 28, at eleven, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Fisher, Queen-street, Cheapside, London ; Timbrell, Trowbridge, Wilts. THOMAS TAYLOR and JOHN TAYLOR the younger, merchants, Hedon in Holderness, Yorkshire, June 24, and July 28, at one, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Dynely, Cover dale, and Lee, Gray's Inn ; Iveson, Hedon. HENRY SQUIRE SHRAPNEL, and MITCHELL JOUSIFF, grocers, Birmingham, June 24, and July 28, at Twelve, at the Office of Mr. Harding, Birmingham. Parkes, South-square, Gray's-Inn, London ; Harding, Waterloo-street, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. H. Metivier, clothier, Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, July 7, at twelve—F. Holland, merchant, County-terrace, New Kent-road, July 10, at twelve—R. Barnard, paper-maker, Bolling bourn, Kent, July 8, at twelve—S. Tipper, paper manufacturer, Whitebrook-mills, Landogo, Monmouthshire, July 8, at eleven— R. Gray, ironmonger, King-street, Aldgate, July 9, at twelve—J. Maberley, banker, Bread-street, Cheapside, June 26, at twelve—B. Bradley and R. Cattell, wine-merchants, New Shades, White Hart court, Lombard-street, Jaly 9, at eleven—W J. Huffy, printer, Budge-row, Watling-street, July 8, at one—E. A. Beecraft, ens broidress, Curson-street, May-fair, July 8, at twelve—B. Shirley, earthenware-dealer, Blackfriar's-road, July 8, at eleven—D. L. Cohen, grocer, Great Yarmouth, July 8, at eleven—T. Wood house, jun., hosier, Milk-street, Cheapside, July 9, at half-past eleven—J. H. Popplewell, coal-merchant, Millbank-street, West minster, July 9, at half-past twelve—C. 0. Rooks, coal-merchant, Eagle-wharf, Montague-close, Southwark, July 9, at one—J. H. Mann, scrivener, Charles-street, St. James's-square, July 9, at twelve—W. Green, silk-warehouseman, Cheapside, July 7, at twelve. In the Country. J. Watson, painter and shipowner, of Tynemouth, North umberland, July 10, at one, at the Bankrupt Commission-room, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—C. Potter, E. Potter, and S. Roberts, calico-printers, of Manchester and Dinting, Derby shire, July 9, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, St. Jana( s's square, Manchester—J. Coates, woollen-draper, of Worcester, July 7, at one, at the Hop-market Inn, Worcester—J. Dunne and T. Smith, merchants, of Liverpool, July 13, at one, at the Claren don-rooms, South John-street, Liverpool—B. Raby, innkeeper, late of Preston, July 8, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Preston. CERTIFICATES, JULY 7. William Graham, jun., merchant and commission-agent, Liver pool—Frederick Pen Jervis, upholsterer, Rathbone-place—Richard Dean, builder, Milner-place, Lambeth—William Gorton, fish monger, Gutter-lane, Cheapside—James Barber, victualler, Hun gerford-market--Charlet More Ullithorne, broker, Red Lion square—William Morris and William Henry Morris, feather-dres sers, Princes-street, Leicester-square--Thomas Gilpin, cloth-ma nufacturer, Gildersome, Yorkshire —Richard Bates, linen-draper, Wakefield—John Browne and Edmund Browne, stationers, Bath. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Swan and J. Baker, grocers and drapers, of Littlehamp ton and Yapton, Sussex (so far as regards the business at Little hampton)—J. Aspinall and W. Holmes, woolstaplers, Halifax, Yorkshire—G. E. Taylor and C. Flint, lacemen, Crawford street, Bryanston-square—H. Parker, Offiey Shore, J. Brewin, and S. Parker, bankers, Sheffield—J. Rumley and F. Knight, en gravers, Brook-street, Holborn—J. Bullivant and H. White, butchers, Tothill-street, 'Westminster—J. Potter and H. Spring , wool-brokers, Coleman-street, City—J. Taylor, W. Taylor, and W. Lloyd, scrap-iron -manufacturers, Blue Gates Forge, Smeth wick, Staffordshire—G. Boyd and W. J. Staines, spirit-dealers, Running Horses, Blackfriars'-road—A. Askew, S. Todd, and J. Todd, fish-mongers, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. Stopford, coal-mer chant, Upholland, Lancashire ; and T. Swift, flour-dealer, Wigan and Sherrington, Lancashire—W. Beddington, G. Tonks, and W. Tonks, brass-founders (so far as regards G. Tonks) Aston, Bir mingham—W. Beddingdon, G. Tonks, W. Tonks, and Elizabeth A. Shelton, lamp-manufacturers, Aston, Birmingham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. ALEXANDER SCOTT and CO., wine merchants, Dundee, June 23 and July 8, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT HEATH RACES, TUBBPAY, Jums 16. The commencement of the meeting yesterday was not marked by anything superior either in the attendance or in the sport ; both reached the average and nothing more. That they did not exceed it is owing to the inferior quality of the horses this year, which has materially lessened the interest generally excited by the Three year-old Stakes, while the Cup is so shorn of its attractions by the vast superiority of Plenipotentiary's public performances that to eouple his name with defeat would amount almost to heresy. That the company was so good is to be attributed to the extreme beauty of the weather and the promised visit of their Majesties. In the general arrangements of the meeting every thing was ex cellent, but nothing new ; there were the usual number of stands, booths, and gaming tables—the latter, perhaps, more numerous than formerly, in consequence of their prohibition in the town by the Windsor Magistrates. The only change was in the Steward ship, wherein Lord Errol has succeeded Lord Chesterfield, by virtue of his office as Master of the Buck Hdunds. His Lordship, al though not on the turf, seemed quite au fait to the business of the Race Course. About half-past one o'clock the Royal party reached the race ound, in thirteen carriages, the procession being headed by the Earl of Errol, and between thirty and forty yeomen prickers and grooms ; in the first carriage were his Majesty the King and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; in the second were her Majesty the Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and Prinee Esterhazy. The remainder of the Royal party consisted of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Gordon, Duke of Dorset, Prince Leopold of the Two Sicilies, Earl of Albemarle, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence and daughter, Prince Paul Esterhazy, Princess of Esterhazy, Lady Clinton, Sir H. Wheatley, Lord El phinstone, Sir F. Watson, Hon. Miss Eden, Miss Wilson, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, Sir A. Barnard, Colonel Bowater, Colonel Seymour, Sir J. Wyattville, Mr. Davis, &c. Their Majesties were received with every demonstration of respect on their appear ance at the front of the stand ; and, on their departure, on the close of the racing, were loudly cheered by the spectators. We are enabled to state that their Majesties will honour the course with their presence on Thursday; and that, after the race for the Cup, in which his Majesty has expressed considerable interest, the King will leave for town, to partake of the anniversary dinner given by his Grace the Duke of Wellington in commemoration of the battle of Waterloo. Besides many others we noticed on the Course—Count Matus zevic, Noori Effendi and Prince Voghoride, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Worcester, the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl Stradbroke, Earl Verulam, Earl Orford, Lord Andover, Lord A. Beauclerc, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord J. Fitzroy, Lord and Lady Maryborough, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Clanwilliam, Marquis of Downshire, Earl of Warwick, Sir M. Wood, Sir G. Heathcote, Sir L. Glyn, Sir J. Shelley, Sir G. Quintin, Hon. F. Berkeley, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, Hon. B. Craven, Colonel and Mrs. Vyse, Colonel and Mrs. Fox, Colo nel Chaloner, Colonel Peel, Colonel Stapleton, Colonel Standen, Mr. C. Greville, Mr. Gisborne, M.P., Mr. Shakerley, Mr. Irby, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Payne, Mr. A. Hunter, Captain Hunter, Mr. Batson, Mr. Mills, Captain Vyse, Mr. Cotterell, Mr. Cosby, Cap tain Gardner, Captain Ricardo, Mr. Baring, Mr. Paulett, Colonel Udny, &c. The racing commenced at two o'clock with— The St. James's Palace Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yrs old; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 81b. ; the winner of the Derby to carry 71bs. extra ; the winner of the Oaks 51bs. extra. New Mile. 5 sovs. Lord Orford's Ascot ...... Lord Warwick's c. Pelops Betting-5 to 2 and 3tol on Ascot. The horses kept together for the first quarter of a mile at a moderate pace, when Ascot took up the running, which he continued throughout ; at the betting stand, however, he had so little the best of it in appearance that Natt touched him with the spur, and lifted his whip, but without using it; he immediately regained his advantage, and in the end won very cleverly by a length, being precisely the same difference that showed itself in their running for the Derby. The Oatland's Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, &c. 3 subs. Mr. Cosby's Pussy, 4 yrs., 7st. 71b Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, 5 yrs., Bst. 41b, and Lord Jersey's Glencoe, 4 yrs., Bst. 71b, paid 10 soya. each. Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h. ft, for two yrs old; colts, Bst. 71b; fillies, Bst. 41b. (bought at the Hampton Court Sale, 1834). T. Y. C. 3 subs. Lord Exeter's f. by The Colonel—Lamia Conelly 1 Mr. Kent's f. Whisper 2 Lord Lichfield's f. Moll Flaggon, by the Colonel, 2 yrs 3 Betting-6 to 4on the Lamia filly, which started in front and kept so to the finish, winning cleverly by a length ; Moll Flaggon was beaten off. The Ascot Derby Stakes of 50;sovs. each, h. ft. ; for colts, sst. 61b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b., then three years old. To start at the Swinley Post and in. The winner of the Derby and Oaks to carry 51bs. extra. 10 subs. Mr. Greville's Griselda, sister to Pussy Natt 1 Lord Lichfield's Gipsey, 3 yrs Lord Chesterfield's Fergus The betting commenced at 7 to 4 on Fergus, and 2 to 1 agst Griselda, and, on its being statedthat Fergus " had a leg," changed to 6t05 on Griselda, and sto 4 agst Fergus. The race is soon told—Griselda took the lead, was many lengths in front throughout, .Natt 1 and won by twenty lengths. His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; three yrs old, 7st. 21b ; four, 9st. 21b ; five, lOst ; six, and aged, lOst. 51b. To start at the new mile-post, and go once round and in. Mr. Maloney's Lucifer, 3 yrs Mr. Cosby's Pussy, 4 yrs Sir G. Heathcote's Samarcand, 5 yrs Mr. Robertson's Olympic, 4 yrs 4 Betting-5 to 4on Pussy, 3to 1 agst Lucifer, and 4to 1 agst Se.marcand. Pussy made play, followed by Olympic till near the distance, where Lucifer ran by them both, made the rest of the r unning, and won in a canter by six lengths. Matc, 200, h. ft. Old Mile.—Mr. Gardnor's Comet, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b., received from Mr. Tobin's Tauntenian, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b. ASCOT GOLD CUP.-THURSDAY. 6 to 4 on Mr. Batson's Plenipotentiary (taken) 350 to 100 agst Bran and Shillelah (taken) Nothing else done. CURRAGH JUNE MEETING, FRIDAY. The King's Plate of 100 sovs. Mr. Watt's ch. c. Rush, 4 yrs, 7st. 111 b 1 Mr. Pottinger's Confusion, 3 yrs Mr. Hunter's Lupin, 4 yrs ... Lord Miltown's Lodola dist Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. h. ft., with 25 added. Anglesea Post. Mr. Wetherell's Needle 1 Mr. Hobson's Isabella Mr. Davis's Thistle Lord Howth's Mirza Lord Charles Wellesley, as Major, commanding the sth or Northumbrian Regiment, is appointed Commandant of Dover garrison. The struggle for the desirable quarters of Dover Castle lay betwean Lord Charles and Lord William Thynne, of the 7th Fusileers. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Thomas Campbell Robertson, Esq., was appointed provisionally an Ordinary Member of the Council of India. Lord Fitzroy Somerset's visitors at the Horse- Guards yesterday morning, consisted of Lieut.-General Sir H. Lowe, Major-General Stratton, Major-General Sir J. Tay lor, Colonel Keane, Colonel Sir H. Berkeley, Major- General Maxwell, Colonel French, Colonel Hill, Colonel Hay, Colonel Sir B. Camac, Major-General Wilson, Colonel Collet, and about forty other officers. We lament to announce the death of the Duchess of Argyll, which took place yesterday morning after a lin gering illness. Her Grace's disorder was of a ♦ery compli cated character, comprising, it is said, dropsy, disease of the heart, and water on the brain. She was sedulously attended by her daughters during the progress of her illness, especially by the Duchess of Richmond, who Oas constantly with her for fifteen days. A vacancy occurs in the number of the Knights of St. Patrick by the demise of the Earl of Courtoun. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary meeting of this society was held yesterday, Dr. Henderson, Vice-President, in the Chair. Amongst the company we noticed the Countess of Stradbrooke, Lady Sarah Amherst, Sir John and Lady Trevylyan, Sir Oswald and Misses Mos ley, General St. George, &c. Dr. Lindley made several in teresting remarks on the specimens in the room. The meet ing adjourned till Tuesday, 7th July. The Princess Mary of Wirtemberg, whose hand is sought by the Prince of Orleans, has not completed her 19th year ; she is, like her sisters, distinguished for her beauty and accomplishments, and seems well fitted, in every respect, to sustain the high destinies to which she is about to be called. Her mother was Catharine, sister of the Emperor of Russia, and her cousin Pauline is the consort of the Grand Duke Michael, his brother ; thus the young Princess is doubly con nected with the Imperial family. The Spanish expedition, under the management of Colonel Evans, is proceeding with even greater rapidity and success than could have been anticipated by the most sanguine friends to the cause. Upwards of two hundred officers in the British army, we understand, have already sent in their ap plications, and the only difficulty seems now to choose from the list such as will be most effective in furthering the inte rests of the expedition in its commencement. In the course of the day, however, such a choice will be made, we learn, as to dispatch by to-day recruiting officers to Exeter, Plymouth, and Cork, and other parts of the country. A great many troops have already enlisted, and it is thought that a batch of from 400 to 500 will sail by the end of the week. COLONEL THOMPSON.—On Friday morning a nu merous meeting of the Hull Reformers was held, when resolu tions expressive of a determination to support the gallant and highly-gifted Colonel were passed. It was understood that Colonel Thompson declined offering himself, if Mr. Hill should wish to serve them. Colonel Thompson is a writer in the Westminster Review, and the son of the late Mr. Thompson, banker, at Hull.—Hull Observer. GRAND CONSERVATIVE FAILURE.—The Con servatives of the Liberal borough of Mary-la-bonne mustered the whole of their forces yesterday afternoon. An affecting appeal was put forth by the loyal and constitutional association, calling upon its members to assemble at the Riding School, Albany-road, Regent's-park, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Committee of Management, and of adopting measures the; During the last three or four days, the Conservative agents have been peculiarly busy to ensure a grand attendance, and a very mortifying contrast to the last public meeting held in the premises, viz., that for furthering the return of Mr. Hume for Middlesex, was joyfully antici pated. The failure was complete and most mortifying. The meeting was called for three o'clock ; at half-past three, not a greater number of Mary-la-bonne loyal and constitutional men than one hundred, including paid agents, &c., was present, and these cut but a sorry figure in a building which at the last Re form meeting held in it contained at least 2,500 persons. Zumalaearregui is of a highly respectable family of Ormaisteguy. He served as a Captain under Mina, and under the Constitution of 1820 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment of the Military Orders. On the return of Ferdinand he obtained the rank of Colonel, and at a later period he His intrusted with the chief command of the Regiment of Estra madura, the 15th of the line. He was dismissed, however, in 1832, and retired to Pampeluna, where he married. His brother is President of the Tribunal at Burgos.—Sentinelle de. 's Pyrenees. The Ipswich Election Committee have been re-ap pointed to inspect the minutes of evidence, and select such portions of it as relate to their special report. The following are the members :—Mr. P. Stewart, chairman ; Mr. W. F. Campbell, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Burton, Mr. Fort, Mr. Hughes Hughes, Mr. Gully, Mr. Ryle, Mr. M. L. Chapman, Mr. C. Fitzsimon, and Mr. Plumptre—three to be a quorum. BERLIN, JUNE 9.—We hear that the Polish Go vernment thinks of contracting a loan with the house of S. Frankel, in Warsaw, for 25,000,000 of Prussian dollars. The loan will be in the form of a lottery. The Emperor Nicholas, in order to put an end to the surmises and rumours relative to the non-appointment of a successor to Count Pozzo di Borgo as Ambassador to the Court of Paris, hastened to nominate to that office one of his aides-de-camp, General Count Pahlen ; and the uncertainty having been thus put an end to, Count Pahlen received leave of absence for several months. He will remain during the season at the baths of Germany, and in September attend the camp at Kalisch, so that he cannot repair to his new post till the end of October at soonest.— German paper. The failure of the Banking-house of Messrs. Lee, Brassey, and Co., will prove detrimental to Mr. Justice Patterson, the bulk of whose property was invested in the firm to one of the partners to which he is allied by marriage. The learned Judge having lately been visited with deafness, has signified his wish to retire from the bench—he will not be entitled to a retiring pension. Lord Bexley, it is said, has lost three thousand pounds by the failure. SHEFFIELD REFORM ASSOCIATION.—A meet ing is to be held in Sheffield on the 20th, on the requisition of the leading Reformers in that town, to establish a Society un der the above title. Mr. Stanley, Secretary to the Treasury, has re moved with his family from Upper Brook-street to the official residence attached to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's office, in Downing-street, lately occupied by Sir Geo. Clerk. Considerable preparations are making at the beau tiful villa of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick, for the forthcoming grand fete to' be given there, at which their Ma jesties intend to be present. Mr. Childs, of Bungay, has commenced legal pro ceedings against the parties responsible for his committal. The measure of Corporation Reform, introduced by Lord John Russell, has given very general satisfaction to the Reformers of Hastings. Objections are entertained to some of the provisions of the Bill—still its enactments must work a mighty change in the state of society in this country.— Brighton Guardian. WEST INDIAN APPRENTICES.—The Anti-Sla very Committee met on Monday week at Leeds, and pass, d several resolutions, expressive of an opinion that the Act with respect to apprentices was not complied with by the planters, who thereby rendered themselves undeserving of compensa tion-money.—Lincoln Gazette. On Sunday, during divine service in the Church at Aardenburg in Holland, the steeple was struck by lightning. As the weather was extremely fine, and there had been no thunder or rain, so that nobody could expect such an occur rence, the congregation which was remarkably numerous, was seized with terror, and all with loud cries and screams, en deavoured to leave the church, so that more persons were trampled under foot in spite of the exhortations of the preacher, who remained in the pulpit, and begged the people to Le calm. His voice was overpowered, and the people hastened out, leaving prayer-books, pocket-handkerchiefs, &c., behind. No damage, however, was done to the church. Both Nottingham and Leicester were visited with a violent thunder and hail-storm on Thursday. The hailstones were remarkably large, and destroyed a great quantity of glass in all directions, besides doing other damage. The fine painted window of the new church at Leicester, which cost seven hundred pounds, has been totally destroy by the hail stones. The new Vaudeville Theatre, which may be said to be in a course of rapid construction in King-street, between St. James's-square and St. James's street, is intended to con tain an audience which will produce from 2501 to 3001. The plans, &c., have been prepared by an architect of the name of Broad, who has had considerable experience in those matters ; but we have not heard what the building is to cost. There is no doubt, therefore, that the licence has been obtained. It will be about the size and very much the shape of the English Opera House, but without any balcony to the lower circle of boxes : the pit will not extend under the boxes, and the gal lery will be small, the chief accommodation being afforded in the boxes, as it is hoped and expected that the undertaking will be supported by the aristocracy. The license is for the six months during which Mr. Arnold's theatre and the Hay market are closed.— Observer. THE ANCESTOR OF THE EARL OF MULGRAVE. DIVING BELLS.-The first diving bell was nothing but a very large kettle, suspended by ropes, with the mouth down wards, and planks to sit on fixed in the middle of its con cavity. The Greeks at Toledo, in 1588, made an experiment with it before the Emperor Charles V., when they descended in it with a lighted candle to a considerable depth. In 1683 William Phipps, the son of a blacksmith, formed a project for unloading a rich Spanish ship sunk at Hispaniola. Charles 11. gave him a ship with every necessary for the undertaking ; but being unsuccessful, Phipps returned in great poverty. He then endeavoured to procure another vessel, but failing, he got a subscription, to which the Duke of Albemarle contri buted. In 1687 Phipps set sail in a ship of 200 tons, having previously engaged to divide the profits according to the 20 shares of which the subscriptions consisted. At first all his labours proved fruitless ; but at length, when he seemed almost to despair, he was fortunate enough to bring up so much treasure, that he returned to England with 200,0001. sterling. Of this sum he got about 20,0001., and the Duke 90,0001. Phipps was knighted by the King, and laid the foundation of the fortunes of the present house of Mulgrave. ISLE OF MAN.—Sir John Rennie has completed his plan for the improvement of the harbours in the Isle of Man, and drawn up a report, which has been transmitted to the Harbour Commissioners. Sir John has suggested the pro priety of building a breakwater and other measujes for the im provement of the bay and harbour of Douglas. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN PRUSSIA.—The paucity of executions is the first point. In the 17 years from 1818 to 1834, inclusive, there have been, in all, 123 executions, and the crimes for which they took place are as follow :—Ar son, 1 ; " voluntary manslaughter," 22 ; murder, 100 ; total, 123. The one execution for arson took place in 1818, since which time, consequently, the punishment of death has been inflicted only for the intentional homicide of different degrees. Even for murder the sentence is nearly as often commuted as executed. In the whole 17 years there were sentenced to death for murder 187, of whom 100 only were executed. POPULATION OF SPAIN.—The following patti- culars of the population of Spain are copied from Marshall's Statistical Tables :—Population of Spain, 1799, 10,351,079 ; 1825, 13,953,959 ; increase, 38 per cent. Population of the Basque Provinces :—Biscay, 144,870 ; Guipuzcoa, 135,838 ; Alava, 92,807 ; Navarre, 288,244 ; total, 661,764. Of the kingdom of Arragon, 856,219 ; Catalonia, 1,116,416 ; the Castiles, 1,580,140. The whole of the insurgent provinces bear thus a proportion of only one-sixth of the amount of the neighbouring provinces. Thursday a dreadful accident occurred near the new market in the course of erection in the Nun's-fields, Newcastle on-Tyne, by which several lives were lost. Parts of the build ing on the south side of the street leading from the Turk's Head Inn, which had been raised nearly to its intended height, came down with a tremendous crash, and the men being at work, were precipitated along with them, and buried in the ruins. Five men were killed and eleven wounded, several seriously. NEW NOVEL BY COOPER.—Readers of all classes will be glad to hear that the celebrated author of " The Pilot," " The Last of the Mohicans," &c., is about to publish a new work of fiction called " The Monikins." In depicting the manners of the Anglo- Americans, whether in their cities, or in their remote western settlements, Cooper is without a rival ; and no novelist has succeeded more eminently in pre senting those striking situations in which consist the very power and essence of romance. Witness the many successful dramas derived from his masterly stories, dramas which have maintained a permanent station on the English stage. HADDINGTON.-011 Tuesday week, a man named Angus, in a fit of despair, drowned himself in the Tyne, in presence of his wife, who had followed him to the spot, al d saw him plunge into the water..—. Edinburgh Evening Courant. On Tuesday the Ramsgate steam-boat arrived at Dunkirk with a party of ninety-one individuals from England, some to remain for several days, and others to revel in the de lights of France for 48 hours, and then return to whence they came. On Wednesday morning a large party hired nearly all the conveyances in the town for an excursion to Mon Cas sel, but a temporary difficulty arose from their having neg lected to furnish themselves with passports. This, however, was soon obviated by the courtesy of the authorities, who, re flecting that their object was nothing more but innocent amuse ment, and that at the same time they benefitted the country by the free expenditure of their money, granted them the necessary permission. MISS MITFORD'S NEW WORK " BELFORD R E DIS."—" To those who have been delighted with ' Our Vil lage'—and who has not ? this book will afford a pleasure similar in kind and degree. The plan of the work is the same, and its execution is in 110 respect inferior. In place of a village, Miss Mitford has taken as her subject a large country town at great distance from London; and, in a series of charmie., ...ketches, has described the changes which thirty years have .a nought in the state of its society, and the manners and habits of its inhabitants. The sketches are told with that sweet and gentle playfulness which belongs so pe culiarly to our amiable authoress, and brimful of the best feelings and affections of human nature."—Chronicle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURN Theological hatreds were, during some ages,of__the_ world, deemed to be the most acrimonious and the most unrelenting to which the passions of men could----' give birth. Those symptoms of depravity must yield in our time to hatreds of a political character—to Tory hatreds—to the unmanly jealousies, the ever-toiling envy, the fiendish despair of a conquered faction, that knows no remorse, and defies every impulse of shame. Lord John Russell was lately the Noble game which these wolves attempted to destroy—not by open con test, but by incessant tracking—by treacherous assault from behind---by scaling the fold at the hour when the shepherd is at his rest—by every vile and fraudulent system of persecution that shuns the day. Lord Pal merston has been the next object marked out by this base confederacy for their victim. "He was a man of no talent." That would not do, for few men have " He was a man who had served under dif 'erent Administrations." That failed, for he has not swerved from his recorded political principles. He quitted office with Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Charles Grant, when the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel took their stand against liberal principles in the case of East Retford. He was " a great Yahoo !" That was the discharge of a ball that fatally rebounded on the head of the low ruffian who used it. At length, when all other calumnies proved innocuous, the Noble Lord had become " a stock-jobber !" Nothing has occurre.l within our experience, which approaches so nearly to the realization of the classic description of " Rumour," with her hundred tongues, as the stories which have been for some days in circulation upon this subject. Within a few hours after its first invention, it extended all over the City, it was the only topic at the West end, it was the whisper of every group at every window of the Clubs, of every man who stopped his friend's cab in the streets. Every particular was known, down to the very farthing of the defalcation, the day it was dis covered, the time of the day it was made known to the jobber, the expression of countenance with which he received the dreadful tidings, the words which he used, the very number of groans which he uttered. And then the narrator went on to paint a picture of mental agony worthy of the Laocoon. This act of the drama concluded, then came the scence of the reimbursement, the efforts at con cealment, the petrifying wildness of friends, the just joy of enemies, the ambiguous closing of the account, which, of course, must put an end to the Noble Lord's career, not only in public, but in private life. The forests of America, the Thames, or the pistol, had become his only alternatives. We refer to our King's Bench report for the answer to this enormous tide of slander. We shall not injure the mild simplicity of the language in which that answer is conveyed by any commentary of ours. The letter of the calumniator will be read with disgust and shame everywhere except at the Carlton club. It is a stigma upon the London press, that one who can add insult to crime, and glory in his double guilt, should be found even among the lowest of those connected with it. When we add to that Letter the following article published in the Al bion of yesterday, we shall take our leave of him, satis fied that all good men must hold in execration the course which he has pursued. (From the Albion.) " We arc authorized and requested, with reference to an article which appeared in this Paper on the Bth instant, on the subject of an alleged discovery of a Noble Lord's connection with certain Stock-jobbing speculations,' to state that the con tents of such article, and the whole of the insinuations con tained in it, if considered as meant to apply to Lord Palmer ston, are wholly destitute of foundation. " It has been demanded of us to say something more upon this subject, but we have declined to do so. We have been asked to express regret which we do not feel, and to acknow ledge an injustice which we have not committed. W 'have done Lord Palmerston no injury—we do not desire to do him any. We have given all the explanation of our former para graph which he himself desires to be given, and we will not add to it Ids expression of our feelings."—Morning Chronicle. 1110 TC. The prosecution instituted yesterday in the Court of Kin; 's Bench against an evening contemporary, by Lord Palmerston, for the vindication of his Lordship's character, cannot fail to attract much public attention. It will be seen that the grave imputation which the Noble Lord supposed to have been cast upon him by our contemporary, has been repelled by an allegation proceeding from his Lordship, as distinct in its terms and as awful, from the sanction by which it is accom panied, as it is possible to conceive. With a view to the rescue of his own reputation, the Noble Lord, it is evident, has done all that it is in his power to do. Whatever he may do more than this, will naturally be ascribed to other motives than a laudable anxiety to vindicate his character from what he regards as an un- founded aspersion. We do not hesitate to say that Lord Palmerston cannot proceed further in this pro secution without incurring the imputation of vindic tiveness or caprice. His Lordship's Counsel made a merit, in the Court of King's Bench, of his forbear ance, on the ground that he had offered the defendant to abstain from legal proceedings, upon condition that the latter would insert in his journal a paragraph which was read at the bar. This paragraph the defendant did insert, with the exception of a few words, the omis sion of which will scarcely be regarded by the world as sufficient to justify a criminal information against the publisher of a newspaper, on the part of one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. The ques tion between Lord Palmerston and the publisher of the Albion, has been reduced by his Lordship's Coun sel in the Court of King's Bench to a question as to the value of the words which the defendant did not choose to insert in his paper at the suggestion of the Noble prosecutor. We refer to our King's Bench re port for the words on the insertion of which Lord Pal merston especially insisted, and quote here the spirited and becoming language in which the Albion announces and explains their rejection : " It has been demanded of us to say something more upon this subject, but we have declined to do so. We have been asked to express regret which we do not feel, and to acknow ledge al, injustice which we have not committed. We have done Lord Palmerston no injury—we do not desire to do him any. We have given all the explanation of our former para graph which he himself desires to be given, and we will not add to it his expression of our feelings." Should this prosecution be carried further, it will afford a new and very striking illustration of the re spect and attachment of our Whig-Radical Govern ment to the liberty of the Press.—Morning Post. It is to us a subject of unfeigned and hearty felici tation to our countrymen, that the Bill for Municipal Reform has been so well received by Parliament ; and still more do we rejoice that in its principle it so well deserves the favourable reception given to it. The main principle of the Bill is the substitution of popular elec tron for that odious abuse of self-election, by which the local government of so many towns in England has heretofore been as complete a monopoly in the hands of those who already possessed it, as Old Sarum had been, politically speaking, under the dominion of the Messrs. Alexander, before the Reform Bill passed. It is true that the Bill for reforming the consti tuency greatly contributed to draw the tusks and to pare the claws of the old Corporations, in so far as concerned the manufacture of vicious and base elec tors. The town franchise became uniform through out the kingdom, and the old freemen, whose vested interests were preserved to them, formed the only class of voters to be found, not qualified upon that uniform system which had been adopted under the Bill of 1832. Certainly the experience we have had of that old body of freemen voters has not served to recommend the admission of others, resembling them in poverty, igno rance and liability to corruption, for any civic privi leges the exercise of which was likely to be much af fected by undue influence. The poor and dependent condition of such voters has been a temptation to the practice of bribery which few candidates would have virtue to resist, and this was the grand defect in our re presentative system which the Reform Bill left nnpro vided for. However, after the Reform Bill had passed, and indeed occasionally and earnestly during its pro gress, our readers will do us the justice to recollect that we strove to hnpress upon them and on the Go vernment the necessity of a reform in the local admi nistration of our corporate bodies—a reform in the ma nagement of their fund, of their patronage, of their po lice, and of their charitable establishments, as no less im portant to the interests and public morals of our muni cipal institutions, than the great Reform Bill itself had been to the purification of Parliament, and to the control exerted over it by the people. Not regarding