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n •cesary. The :ionourable Member for West Surrey had asked what possible connexion there could be be tween t) phus and crime. He replied that the state of things in the dwellings of :he working classes was such that fever and disease were engendered—the labouring man was thereby rendered unable to pursue his honest avocations. Distress and want came, and was followed by theft and crime as the only means of subsistence. This was shown in the report of Dr. Neil Arnott to be the ease in Glasgow, and here he must remark that he regretted Scotland was not included in the provisions of the Bill. The LORD ADVOCA TE—There will be a separate Bill for Scotland. Lord ASHLEY rejoiced to hear that announcement. The connexion betNeen disease and crime was shown in the communications of Dr. Niel Arnott at Glasgow, by the reports of Mr. Francis Cooper, the surgeon of Senth anapton, and by those of the Rev. Mr. Clay, the chapleiti Of the Preston House of Car 7ection, to all of which he invited the attention of the Hon. Member (Mr. Dram • 1 , 41 1 4 Again he (Lord Ashley), from the e xamination had personally made, had not the slightest doubt that far more than one-half of the habits of int•.xication w hich disgrace large towns arose from the satii- tare' conditi on i n which th e people were at pr. feat compelled to live, and further, he would join his Noble Friend the Member for Plymouth (Lord Ebringtoti) in .' 4 3'ing that all attempts a: - the education of the people wer e vain so hew- as they were left in their present sanitary condition. He (Lord Ashley) could add, in referen ce to the ranged schools, that the c'aildren, in returning to their miserable homes, unlearnt in me hour more than it had taken weeks to teach them. He trusted the House would allow the Bill to go into Committee, Making what amendments they thought proper, thereby. taking one great step towards placing these poor people the p roper level of humanity—(Cheere.) Alr• MUNTZ did not oppose the Bill going into Com mittee; he was qu i te awa re that something needed doing; but there were many improvements which he • should like to see in the Bill. He doubted whether any Lord w tarY ho d lastmbeaasure would etlect so much as the Noble spoken was so sanguine as to expect t y l s 'Tei it. C entralisation was the great o bj ect i on to t hi s Isla. The large towns had their local governments; and if other l'ave thiPlaces had not , w h y s h ou ld the corporate towns I.,Qt s vast a ddi t i onal machinery t h rust u p o n them? the Bill give the right of electing inspectors to the rate-payers, who must bear the charge ; otherwise the been and th naost effici ent men wou ld re f use t o ac t, as had Man Y e case in th e b oar d of guar di ans at Bi rm i ng h am . people e x p ected too much from such a measure as this ; the needle pointers would never live to above 40 years if they resided in the most healthful place in the of human and there were other trades little less destructive great interest in "man life ' believed the medical officers had a nee f Weroev,etor•stating the case, in order to prove local bod • the se offi cer,:er their own employment. The salaries of doubted w Y h w e ° th i be fixed by Government. What proved as to re er the least t onlid submit to such dictation as this ? He the present measure could be soim nder it acceptable to the nation ; perhaps a n A e i t: „.. l3 ,l. ,B . sTtl e v ‘vould be to withdraw it and introduce into n r to: cuipoitnesneitte ART said that before the ad H e o r u st s a e ad w t e b n e t b y e : 11 11 V ought thoroughly w to as u to be guided. h the Committee . b e li i : g P n ri e b . ciples of centralisation, for instance, so far from the subject; to this Bill, would euin any measure on subject; and he hoped hat the Noble Lord who had introduced the Bill would be led to entertain this view. 311,Lwa,s. most objectionable that any three men in London _ 'cud be invested with power to overrule all the local thoritiea in the kingdom. The power given to the Privy Council of realing Local Acts relating to drain age was also highly objectionable. These were the two points which prevented the House going into Commit tee on the Bill ' • and it was, therefore, too much for the Noble Lord (Morpeth) to charge those who insisted on these points with as intention to obstruct the public busin ess- He (Mr. Stewart) should think it most Unfair to be called an opponent of the Public • health Bill ; early in the session, he ha d made a n offer to the Noble Lord who conducted the Bill to discuss its provisions in private ; and some inter ' views had taken place, but they had split on the two points he had alluded to. He believed Mr. Chadwick to • be an industrious and meritorious individual ; and much turned on the degree of credence to be attached to hie evidence. He had collected evidence on eleven points, all directed to the expediency of a central authority, and th e inefficiency of local authority. One question as ked how far there were individuals in any town i n Great Britain fit to be entrusted with sanitary work, or with imposing and collecting rates; and the answers were given in a report of the sub-committee of the Health of Towns Association. Viscount MORPETH— I think I ought to say that, to the best of my belief, Mr. Chadwick has had no con tern whatever with that publication. Mr. STEWART believed the Noble Lord would find he was a little mistaken in that matter ; for he had re eeiyed the pamphlet from a Government officer, who had sent it to him to convince him of his error in opposing centralisation. The answers to those question in 49 • towns out of 50 were " None"—in effect, that in those towns, even in the City of London itself, there was not • a single individual fit to be entrusted with sanitary work, or with the imposing and collecting of rates for the purpose.—(Laughter.) This was too absurd for argu ment. It could not be supposed that the people of England would ever submit to the extraordinary - powers proposed to be given to the central board and to the Privy Council. All private Acts were to be placed at the mercy of this board, and commissioners, lie un derstood, had already been appointed to make inquiry • as to the operation of these Acts. He approved of such inquiry, but decidedly objected to the centralisation to which it was proposed to lead. Let Government con sent to modify the objectionable centralisation clauses, • and the House would go into Committee forthwith. • The Hon. Member for Oxfordshire (Mr. Henley) had very properly suggested that the Bill should be modelled on the Inclosure Act of 1845 ; and against this no argu ment whatever had been offered. Unless some sueh • modification were consented to, it would be impossible for the Bill to get through Committee in six months. — (Laughter.) The Noble. Lord the Member for Falkirk (Lord Lincoln), who was thoroughly master of the • s ubject, had given notice of an amendment by the omission of the fourth and fifth clauses ; and th is would in a great measure destroy the centralis ing Powers, for th e res t of th e Bill would then become almost nugatory. He hoped the Government would not be greedy of patronage, but would consent to the - new Powers being exercised by some existing authority. As the Bill stood, the central board, and the host of in sPectors and sub-inspectors throughout the country, . would be appointed by the Government; this had created strong feeling of repugnance amongst the local autho• Cities of every town in the kingdom, who were de ' . pouncing the Government for having contrived, out of Irish famine, to create 10,000 pieces of patronage— " the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn (Lord G. Ben• Tiisck) decl are d the number was 16,000.—(Laughter.) b e Bill created an immense amount of patronage, to thoesxercised, if not by the Government directly, by who had imposed on them by their representations. liTtihnteejlew which he entertained was this, that e a sufficient their number of respectable persons would be found in all iti7Llebiotants. large towns who would be willing to adopt ade quate measures for the preservation of the health of the fshouldHe would not object to a temporary con avour ard to see the measure set in motion, but they no t supersede the local authorities. He was in " a. Proper measure, but they should know before th ey went goina to t i nto Committee on what principle they were _ou_ proceed, otherwise they would fall into the namec c t ntusion that they did last year.—(Hear, hear.) he 41 n PECHELL admitted that the Government as ob v j °"ed _ th_e as far as they could to meet the views of objectors to the measure. He admitted also that a ra Fo of this kind was necessary, but the principle of ligation which was enforced in the Bill rendered guite obn ox i ous to the people of the country.—(Hear, ten. hear,) He th oug h t t h ey should be careful before they k out of the hands of the people the administration or their local affairs. He would, however, vote for going into Committee, but only with a view of paring as th e N oble Lord the Member for B a th sa id, t h e talons. 3 f this formidable tieer.—(Laughter.) In Committee , 1 Ile would resist all attempts to place the local boards under the authority of the central commission. —(Hear.) Mr. W. MILES thought that the Government w giving to the ce n t ra l b oard more authority than w e a r necessary to carry out the Bill. He considered O s > present Bill to be a great i mprovement on the measure. of last year, and he would be prepared to vote for going into Committ ee , if t h e N o b le Lord opposite adopted the reasonable suggestion of the Hon. Member for Ox fordeliire. 'He thofight die Goveenmetit' were wrong in not including the metropolis in the Bill, because all the facts showed that the mortality in the metropolis was far greater than in other parts of the country, and, con sequently, stood in greater need of such a measure. He hoped some Member of the Government would give an explanation of the construction of the central board of po,mmissioners, and in the meanti me h e wou ld suspen d his littidgrnent as to th e measure. eILE.WDEGATE said that the Bill wou ld en ti re ly sup er % be very all local boards, and in that respect it would objectionable. The object which the Govern ment speeoenweearst(o)chtabve in view was to centralise the whole of the powers in the handse provin commissioners and to place those board. That body w o a f the of the central local officers to any hoped, to have the power of appointing exater which might be deemed fit.— (Divide.) H e seerever, that the Noble Lord htooptehdefor s (Morpeth) would not di:aodexercise the powers sought for under the B u i e ll vantage of the local boards. —(Divide.) assurance from the Go vernment that such extraordinary powers as were con ferred by the Bill would not he accepted by them. Mr. WYLD, amidst great confusion, and cries of— utlehat his constituents " Divide," was understood to sa central board was approved of the Bill in so Mr 2 a and in their view calculated to counteract local jobbing, , though there he entirely concurred. The large were favourable to the measure as a whole, the peopl e were parts of it which were objectionable. The gallery was then about to be cleared for a divi sion, when Mr. URQUHART withdrew his amendment— upon the H ouse wen t i n t o C ommittee on the Bill7her-- The preamble was postponed. Clause 1 being pro. posed, Mr. BANKES objected to the exclusion of London from the provisions of the Bill. The metropolis con : tamed gas works, chemical works, and other manufac totheeegeuerating noxious vapours, which rendered sani tary regOlations more necessary than in any other Part or the kingdom.—((-Tear, hear.) He need not to_farther t han__lliecOilPgS__garaglk to prove the truth of his assertion. In Westminster School the master was ill ; several of the scholars had been I ked ; the Dean o f W estm i nster was also affected— end,when suc h a state of things was going on, to ex t. ei ude the metropolitan districts from the operation ud he St Bill was a line of p o li cy which he could not under. . eer „ zo called upon the Noble Lord to produce a measure intended for the whole nation; or, at all events, to begin with London, where the necessity for sanitary regulations was most seriously felt. It was the fact. without attributing for a mo►uen: undue attention on the part of the Noble Lord to the interests of his con s:ituents, that the interests and wishes of London were more immediately attended to in that House than those of any other town in the kingdom. This was not right. If London was to be excluded on account of the antiquity of its corporation, there were many other towns in the kingdom which might put in a similar plea. He moved that all the words which went to exclude London and Westminster from the Bill be omitted. Lord MORPETH was free to admit that the exclu sion of the metropolis was the main detect of the Bill.— (Hear, hear.) But when it was remembered that there were a hundred local Acts referring to the metropolis, it would not be wondered at that it had been found necessary to exclude it from the present Bill. He also regretted the exclusion of Ireland and Scotland; but his belief was that the sanitary condition of both those countries would be better advanced by separate rneastr.es than by incorporating them in one vast and un manageable Bill. The question was whether this mea sure was a boon to the districts contemplated or not. If it was a boon, the exclusion of the metropolis was no reason for depriving other cities of the advantages in tended.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that he should soon be able to undertake the case of the metropolis, and he congratulated himself with the prospect of having for en able assistant the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire. Colonel SIBTHORP objected to the Bill in toto. He looked upon it as a Government job, concocted for the purpose of providing places for some of the lean and nungry followers of the Noble Lord and his colleagues. However, if the Noble Lord would consent to include the cities of London and Westminster it would remove one of his main objections to the Bill. Lord MORPETH said he had already given his reasons for not includif-g London. Colonel SIBTHORP—Then I am delighted to oppose ou.—(A laugh). The Marquis ofGR ANBYstrongly objected to the exclu sion of the metropolitan districts; but further, the Bill was objectionable on acconnt of the odious and un- English principle of centralisation which it contained. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Noble Lord had mentioned the one hundred local Acts of London as a reason for excluding it from the Bill. He (Mr. Newde gate) wished to know how many country local Acts would this Bill place at. the mercy of Government? Lord MORPETH admitted that there was an immense number of local Acts scattered over the country. It was the fact of the 100 local Acts being in a lump that con stituted the difficulty in the case of London. Mr. HUDSON said that every town in England was opposed to the centralising principle of the Bill. He had just returned from the ancient city of York, where the most determined opposition had been re solved on. He did not see why all the wisdom of Eng lish corporate bodies should be supposed to centre in the city of London. What they complained of in York was, that the corporation had no power to insist on efficient drainage.—(Hear, hear.) He said "Hear, hear" too. That was a reason for giving the necessary power to the corporation, but not for centralisation. The principle of government in this country was that taxation and representation should go together, and he and almost all the towns in the country objected to giving powers to any central body to tax them. He hoped the Noble Lord would abandon that part of the Bill which placed the towns under the control of the central board of London, and he might depend upon it that the towns would themselves, if the necessary power was given to them, do all that was required.. Lord J. RUSSELL remarked that nine-tenths of the Bill was taken up in giving those powers to local bodies which the Hon. Gentleman wished for. It was true that one part of the Bill referred to the establishment of a central board.—(Hear, hear.) But he thought it far better that the attention of the Committee should be directed to the question whether the plan proposed by the Government, or that of the Noble Lord the Member for Falkirk, should be preferred, rather than to discussing the question of centralisation, &c. Mr. BROTHERTON supported the Bill. The Hon. Member for Sunderland had admitted that the corpora tion of York, which had a local Act, had not the power necessary for ensuring sanitary improvement ; if so, in what position must those towns be which had no powers under local Acts ? After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. BANYES, The Committee divided, when their appeared— For the retention of the words 240 For the amendment Majority --169 Mr. URQUHART had presented a petition, signed by all the medical men of Stafford, and a large number of the inhabitants of the borough, against the Bill, and he claimed, ozi:the part of his constituents, the same ex ception Government had admitted inthe case of London. He would move that Stafford be exempted. Colonel SIBTHORP said that the Hon. Gentleman claimed an exemption in favour of Stafford ; he for his part demanded an exemption in favour of Lincoln. If the House was so anxious about cleaning, let them set to work and scour the Treasury bench ; they would find the job dirty to their heart's content (Laughter.) He warmly vindicated the purity of the city of Lincoln; he had represented it for more than twenty years by the unbcught suffrages of its inha bitants, and he asserted fur it as full a right to be left to its own cleansing care as the city of London or the city of Westminster, which the Noble Lord was intimi dated into exempting from the operation of his so crude and mischievous a measure. The whole thing was a miserable, sneaking, dirty job, got up as a mode of feeding a pack of poverty-stricken Ministerial depen dents, who had no resource but the pockets of the people. Viscount INGESTRE had a perfect knowledge of Stafford, and he might almost say of all its population, an.l he could bear his testimony that he knew no place which, morally or physically, required a more thorough cleansing.—(Laughter.) Mr. URQUHART withdrew his amendment. Clause 1 was then agreed to. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday. The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. - - --- REPUBLICAN FRANCE.—We observe that a work by Dr. Millengen is announced for publication, in which he records his recollections of the first French Revola• tion. As the Doctor resided in Paris during that period, under very peculiar circumstances, and lived in the same house with the Deputies Albittes—the personal friends and associates of Robespierre —ho must have had con stant opportunities of making himself acquainted with the many fearful occurrences of the time, and his per sonal acquaintance with the parties must therefore ren der his narrative more interesting than those of his torians who merely write from hearsay, and are more or less prejudiced in their opinions. We understand that Dr. Millengen's account of Robespierre differs widely from the description given of him by M. Lamartine, in his " History of the Girondins." TULIP Sliow.—Mr. Groom's annual display of tulips commenced yesterday at his establishment at Clapham. rise. The day being as splendid as a summer sun could make it, several visitors of distinoton accepted the invitation to the private view, for such it was. The , tulips again exhibited abundant proof of Mr. Groom skilful management of these dainty and evanescent pro ductions of nature. The bed was filled with the finest specimens, many of them of' the choicest class, and a perspective glance up the middle of the tent disclosed a surface of nodding flowers, strangely and capriciously variegated —a fl ora l ensem bl e , inded, of singular rich ness and variety. We do not profess to belong to the tulipomaniacs, and care little for the rarity which is so much prized, in preference to the graceful combinations of colour which characterise the common garden species, but there is a style in the tulip, let it be marked as it will, which always commands respect. It is the stateliest and most dignified of flowers, and holds up its head in a sort of vainglorious stiffness that seems to repel intimacy. The conditions which are laid down as the credentials of perfection in the opinion of tulip amateurs are re ligiously complied with by Mr. Groom, and we hays the straight stem, the capacious and well-formed bell, the broad edge, the well defined and delicately feathered stripe, and the velvetty cheek, in almost all the cases submitted for inspection. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- GARDiN.—The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. In attendance on her Majesty and Prince Albert were the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, the Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Byron, Colonel Grey, Captain Go r d on , an d M rs. Ormsby Gore. There were also present—the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, and Lady Ernest Bruce, the Duke and Duchess of Northum berland, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis ) w Earl r or a Endssex Countess Johnstone Tit c hfi e ld , Earl Sidney, Earl and Countess of Eetin- ci, a p of ns Al ton o e rle Ll Sir the J C o h o n u n a t e n s d s Lady Walsh, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Viscount Templetown, Viscount Nevill, Viscount Cantilupe, isc Exmouth, Viscount Villiers, Landuntc Morpeth, Viscount Caroline Capel and party, Lord Lascelles Lord Suffield, Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Cotton, Lord Ilothani, g Lord and Lady South ampton, Lord and Lady Duna von, Lady Ebrington, L a d y Joddrell, Lady Park Lady Shelley, Lady Doraville, L a d y Scutt, Lady Motrc' flan, Lady Flint, Miss Burdett C outta, Lady Beauvale and Sir John and Lady Campbell, Baron and Baroness Goldsmid, Hon. J. Fortescue, Hon. B. Lyon, Hon. G. Milles, Hon. F. Scarlett, lion. Mr. and Mrs. Upton, Hon. Mr. Harbord, Hon. Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Boyle, Hun. Mrs. Charles Stanley, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ponsonby, Hon. Lady Butler, Sir 11. Webb, Sir W. Fremantle, Sir Robert Cullum, Sir W. Ball, Baron and Baroness Rothschild, Sir Charles Marshall, Mrs. Locke, Mrs. henry Bainsbridge, the Miss Byrnes, the Miss Temple Bowdiens, the Miss Richards, Mrs. Charles Mills and the Miss Mills, Major-Gen. I'. Campbell, ILA., Colonel B. Knox, M.P., Col. Wingfield, Col. Wane, Major and Mrs. Gage, Capt. Cuddy, Capt. Lloyd, T. Baring. Esq., M.P., Mr. Collett, M.P.. Mr. Morris, M.P., H. B. Baring, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., H. T. Hope, Esq., M.r., &c. &c. DOVER HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.—We have it on good authority that the deepening of this harbour will be commenced very shortly. The entrance is also to be widened. A channel, six feet deep at low spring tides, it is understood is to be cut from the entrance right up to th e Cross Wall • so that with this and the widening of the mouth of the h a r bour, our steamers will be able to enter at all states of the tide ; and almost in all weather when This will be the greatest impro they can put to sea. - as it will revnelment our old harbour ever under went,( er the spacious accommodation we already possess ins i de Jouena/. perfectly available.—Canterbury We have reason to believe • that a special reporter was dispatched to Ireland subordinately to Mr. Hodge Friday's mail-boat, to act ge.'s, in taking notes of the seditious speeches at the ere carious p u bli c meet i ngs h e ld in Dubli n an d else h Jairsed. th e provinces.--Liverpool THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, __Mk_lr 9, 1848. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Prweedings of the Rouse of Commons. MONDAY, 31Ar 8. The following Resolution was reported from the above Committee:— That in the case of the Now Ross Port and Harbour petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on inserting Notices for two successive weeks in some newspaper published in Dublin and in the counties of Kilkenny. Carlow, and Wexford respectively, and once in the Dublin Gazette, and lon the insertion of a Clause restraining them from executing any work of which the Plan and Section shall not have been deposited with the clerks of the peace for the counties of Wexford and Kilkenny, and in the Private Bill-office, on or before the first day of the meeting of the Committee on the Bill, and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill.—ReaJlution agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, MAY 8. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.—(IN TIIE COMMITTEE.) Clause one :—That this Act may from time to time be applied in manner hereafter provided, by order of her Majesty in Council, to any part of England and Wales, except the parts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the city of London, the parts within the limits mentioned in certain Commissions of Sewers, &c. :—Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " except the parts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the city of London :"—Question put, " That the :words proposed to be left out stand part o: the Clause." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 240. Abdy, Thomas N. Foley, J. H. Owen, Sir J. A land, Sir T. I). Fordyce, A. D. Paget, Lord A. Adair, Hugh E. Forster, M. I'aget, Lord Clarence Anson, Colonel Fortescue, J. W. Paget, Lord George Armstrong, Sir A. Fox, Richard M. Palmer, 'Robert Armstrong, R. B. Fox, W. J. Palmer, Roundel! Arundel, Earl of Glyn, George Carr Parker, John Ashley, Lord Goddard, A. L. Patten, J. W. Bagsha a , John Godson, It. Pattison, James Bailey, Joseph Granger, T. C. Pechell, Captain Baines, M. 'l'. Greenall, Gilbert PeeL_Sir Robert. Baring, Sir F. T. Greene, John Perfect, R. Barnard, E. G. Greene, Thomas Peto, Samuel M. Barrington, Viscount Grey, Sir 0. Philips, Sir G. It. Barron, Sir 11. Grey, Ralph W. Pigott, Francis Beckett, W. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pilkington, James Bell, John Hall, Sir B. Pinney, W. Bellew, It. M. Hallyburton, Lord Plowden, W. H. Benbow,!John Hamilton, G. A. Power, Nicholas Berkeley, Captain Hanmer, Sir J. Powlett, Lord W. Berkeley, H. F. Hardcastle, J. A. Pugh, David Blackall, S. W. Hawes, Benj. Rawdon, Colonel Blake, M. J. Hay, Lord John Reid. Colonel Bouverie, E. P. Hayes, Sir E. Rendlesham, Lord Bowles, Admiral Hayter, W. G. Ricardo, Osman Bowring, Dr. Ileadiam, T. E. Rice, E. R. Boyle, Colonel Heathcoat, John Rich, Henry Brand, Thomas Ileatheote, G. J. Robartes, T. J. Bright, John Ileneage, E. Romilly, John Brotherton, J. Henry, Alexander Russell, Lord J. Brown, W. Heywood, James Russell, E. Browne, It. 1). Handley Charles Russell, F. C. H. Buller, Charles Ilobhouse, Sir J. Rutherford, A. Bunbury, E, H. Ilobhouse T. B. Salwey, Colonel Burroughes, 11. Hodges, T. L. Sandars, George Buxton, sir E. Hogg, Sir J. W. Scrope, G. P. Cardwell, Edward Hollond, Robert Seymer, H. K. Carew, W. I'. Howard, C. W. Sham to, R. D. Carter, J. B. Howard, E. G. Sheil, It. Caulfeild, J. M. Hume, Joseph Simeon, John Cavendish, C. C. Hutt, William Slaney, Robert A. Cavendish, G. H. Inglis, Sir R. Smith, R. V. Cavendish, W. G. Jackson, William Smith, J. A. Chaplin, - .W. J. Jervis, Sir John Smith, M. Tucker Chartoris, Francis Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, J. Benjamin Clay, James Keppel, G. T. Somerville, Sir W. Clay, Sir W. Kershaw, James Stanley, E. J. Clements, Charles Kildare, Marquis of Stansfleld, W. It. Clerk Sir G. King, Peter John Stanton, W. 11. Clifford, 11. M. Labouehere, Henry Strickland, Sir G. Cobden, Richard Langston, J. H. Stuart, Lord D. Cockburn, Alex. Lascelles, E. Stuart, IL Cocks, T. S. Lascelles, W. S. Sturt, IL G. Courtenay, Lord Lewis, G. C. Talbot, C. It. Cowper, W. F. Lincoln, Earl of Talfourd, Sergeant Craig, W. G. Lindsay, Colonel lhicknesse, It. A. Crawford, W. S. Loch, James Thompson, Colonel Currie, Henry Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Alderman Curteis, H. M. M`Naghten, Sir E. Thornely, T. Dalrymple,:Captain Macnamara, Major Tollemache, F. J. Davie, Sir H Mahon, O'Gorman Towneley, Charles Denison, W. J. Maitland, Thomas Towneley, John Devereux, J. T. Mangles, R. D. Trail], George Dodd, G. Marsh 11, J. G. Turner, E. Douglas, Sir C. Marshall, W. Tynte, Colonel Drummond, henry Martin, Samuel Vane, Lord 11. Duff, George S. Masterznan, John Verney Sir IL Duncan, George Matheson, Colonel Vivian, J. H. Duncombe, A. Maule, Fox Wahnsic.Y, Sir J. Dunslas, Admiral Melgund, Viscount Ward, H. G. Dundas, Sir D. Mitchell, A. T. Watkins, Colonel . East, Sir:J. B. Morpeth, Viscount West, F. R. Ebrington, Viscount Morris, David Wilson, James Elliot, John E. Mostyn, E. Wilson, MattheW Estcourt, J. B. B. Mowatt, Francis Wood, Sir Charles Euston, Earl Mulgrave, Earl Wood, W. P. Evans, John Newry, Viscount Wyld, James Evans, William Norreys, Lord Wyvill, Marmadnke Ferguson, Sir It. Norreys, Sir D. TELLSII,B. Filiner, Sir E. O'Connell. M. J. Tufhell, henry Fitawilllam, 6. W Ogle, S. C. • Hill, Lerd Marcus MINORITY-NOES, 71. ~ Adderley, C. B. Goring, Charles Packs, C. W. Arkwright, George Granby, Marquis of Renton, J. C. lialdock, E. H. Gwyn, Bowel ' Repton, G. W. J. Barkly, Henry Harris, Hon. Capt. Rushout, Captain Bennet, Philip Henley, J. W. Scholefleld, William Bentinck, Lord G. llildyard, It. C. Sibthorp, Colonel Bentinek, Lord 11. hill, Lord E. Sidney, Alderman Bereslord, William Hodgson, W. N. Smyth, John G. lioldero, 11. G. hood, Sir Alexander Somerset, Captain Brisco, 31.' Hotham, Lord Spooner, Richard Brooke, Lord Hudson, G. Stafford, Augustus Buck, L. W. Ingestre, Visct. Stuart, J. Coles, 11. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Tollemache, John Colvile, C. R. JoMire, Sir W. 11. Townshend. Captain Deedes, W. Knox, Colonel Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Dick, Quintin Locke, Joseph Urquhart, David Divett, Edward Mackenzie, W. F. Waddington, H. S. Duncan, Viscount Mariners, Lord C. Walpole, Spencer E.:erton, W..T. Manners, Lord G. Walter, 'John Farrer, James Meux, Sir henry Welby, G. E. Fitzr.y, Henry Miles, P. W. S. Wynn, Sir W. Floyer, John Miles, William Forbes, W. Morgan, 0. Txtttas. Fuller, A. E. Muntz, G. F. Bankes, G. Ualway, Viscount Napier, Joseph Newdegate, N. COURT CIRCULAR. Tho Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the Court, Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of Bavaria, had an audience of her Majesty, and presented his new credentials. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by the lion. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Messrs. Cubitt and Hill, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had an audience of the Queen, to learn her Majesty's plea sure relative to the reception of an address from the Court of Aldermen and Common Council. The Queen was graciously pleased to appoint Friday next, at half past three, for the reception of the address. A deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy, consisting of Mr. Bentley and Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, attended by Mr. llenley Smith, had an audience of the Queen, to know her Majesty's commands respecting the presentation of an address from the Court of Lieutenancy of the city of Lendon. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High ❑ess Prince Albert, the 149 rd President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State fur the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. The Qua n, in Council, was pleased to declare the Right lion. the Earl Granville Vice-President of the Committee of Council appointed for consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. The Noble Earl had the honour to kiss hands on his appoint ment. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Her Alujesty gave an audience to the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord John Russell. The Court was attended by Lord Byron, Lord its Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice- Chamberlain, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday morning to the rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient Music. Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester day evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Earl Fortescue, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Viscount Clirden, and Morish Colons (in waiting on his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse). The issue of orders for the admission of the public to view the state apartments in Windsor Castle is resumed. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duke Bernhard and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar took a drive in the parks yesterday in an open carriage and four. 1 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went yes terday to her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, re turning to town in the afternoon. Prince Frederick of Hesse left the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew yesterday, for the continent. Prince Edward and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Captain Taylor, rode on horseback in the Parks yesterday. The Mayor of Manchester and Mr. Brotherton had an interview with Sir George Gr e y yesterday at the Home-office. The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the Earl of Ilarrowby, the Bishop of Oxford, and Mr. W. Page Wood, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council yesterday. Sir Edward Buxton had an interview with the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Monteagle and a deputation had an interview with Lord John Russell Yesterday, at his official re sidence in Downing-street.. Lord Ashley and a depu tation had also an interview yesterday with the Noble Lord. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a Committee meeting yesterday. A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway Company had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Yarborough had interviews yesterday with Sir George Grey. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and New Zealand. Madame Celeste, we perceive by the advertise ment, takes her annual b ene fit a t th e Ad e lphi T heatre to morrow, on which occasion Mr. Webster is to lend his aid. An admirable bill of fare is provided, so that there will be large supplies of excellent amusement; and such being the case, we doubt not that the talented directress w ill have, what she well merits, a house "filled to the moiling.' FRANCE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.—SITTING or Mee n. The following are the reports presented to the Assembly tiering the sitting of the Gth of May by Citizens CREMIEUX and Louts BLANC : M. Cretnieux, Minister of Justice —Citizens, on the day of the great Revolution, when the people had re duced the thron e to dust, and made royalty a souvenir, it felt, in the midst of its immortal victory, the necessity of order, the guarantee of security fur all; it desired to be governed. Its wonderful nature divined all that a National Assembly would one day give it, how it would regulate its force, how it would provide for its moral interests, how it would fulfil the first duties of the country towards its children, that is to say, how it would assure to each family the means of living, by as , :uring to each citizen the instruments of labour-- labour, the sole legitimate source of an honourable ter tune, whether it be obtained by the sweat of your brow, or by the splendour of your intelligence. — (hear , hear.) But while awaiting the moment when an Assembly, which should coelprehend its whole mission, , linuld come in the b osom of the cepital to fulfil its duty , the people gave i tse l f by proclamation a Provisionare - Go vernment. Ci t i zcns, it was necessary to provide for the administr a ti on o f this country. We i mme di at ely as signed the ministries among us; we immediately re united in our council the executive and t h e e d min i stra • lion; w e concentrated in our hands all powers The ministry of j ust i ce was confided to me . I n o rdi nar y g times that mi n i stry i s the most peacefu l an d the mos t calm. Wi t h t h e l aw for our uide, knowledge for your support, v i r t ue f or your bases, modesty for your com pany, d u ty f or your rule; what have human passions, what hav e egot i st i cal and servile sentiments to d o in the, y midst of th ese grandeurs of justice ? Justice, which rejoins earth to heaven—justice, which strikes and gua rantees—justice, which represses and protects—,justice , which pron ounces on property, on r i g h t , o n life, on honour, how tak e away from it its essence of purity!— (Applause.) Citizens, the impiety high places the fallen Govern ment had vi o l a t e d that sanctuary. How many places in th e magistracy had become the recompense of the most servil e devotion, the most revolting a p ostac y ! Yes, the foot s t oo l f or arrivin at the hi g hest honours, even of the magistracy., was the tribune of the Chamber; not a free, generous, indig n ant Chamber — but an ob e dient, adulatory t r ib une, subject to a Ki ng . The speech which one d a y supported an unpopu lar measure re ceived its rew ar d t h e next; the m ore a man dis graced himself by the energy of his servility, the more worthy he showed himself of the c orrupting favours. Thus it was that policy had invaded justice; thus it was that an adulterous alliance had been formed between justice and policy. Under the ancient monarchy, often was the Parliament seen to hold, in the face of abso lute power, a fi r m an d e nergetic language, to oppose a stron g an d h onura bl e res i sta nce to unjust measures; even under the restoration, the magistracy had its days of popular opposition. On the one hand, history had greatly extolled the courageous acts of the Parliament; while on the other, by the means of the decrees which the press had sometimes obtained, its im movability had rapidly glided into the Charter of 1830. This great question, to which your patriotic attention will soon be directed, had, so to say, vanished in that singular revision made in the midst of the barricades of July, of the pact granted in 1814. But, during the tea last years of that reign of corrup tion, the laws of September dominated over that press which they could not succeed in subduing. Invested, contrary to the Charter itself, with the right of judging a considerable portion of the crimes of the press, the correctional tribunals punished the press without pity ; the laws were draconian ; the repression corresponded with the character of the laws. If the jury, whose forma tion was a mystery to no one, declared a journal guilty, the punishment was measured, not by the evil produced by become fur ure a u f r . - ew G daysener a m l, iiiis. who the writin g it se lf, b u t by the (charact er ) co l our of the journal. I say it w ith a painfulgsrita;nnd h notwithstanding the hstanditig the eloquent e ff or t s of the.:, l oc an cient hadsuasdtyanienaetdetehfetrhe press, ightsof the press—and ter of Justice, remembered well—the regulating court had crushed, by a fatal jurisprudence, the last guarantees of the citizen who proceeded against, at his own risk and peril, the culpable acts of a functionary. The law on judicial announcements presented, in its execution, the most deplorable scandals. There was not a journal in the departments whose devotion to public interests, or the sacred cause of liberty, was pardoned ; the spoils of them went to enrich the servility of the paid journals ; its ruin and speedy downfal announced to all that the liberty of the press was but a by-word. Such, citizens, were the sad results of the invasion of policy into the precincts of justice ; for, excepting in political matters, justice was wanting in none of its devoirs! Careful of the private interests of citi zens arguing before her their respective pretensions— careful of the liberty of citizens pursued for acts which enter into the common law—justice lulfilled with zeal and impartiality that so important a portion of her attributions. Notwithstanding some imperfections which our National Assemblies will endeavour to do away with, no people has simpler laws, laws more clear than our civil and criminal laws are. The judges make a wise application of them; and the magistracy, in the fulfilment of that duty, has certainly no reproach to undergo. The conduct of the Minister of the Revolution was thence forward easily traceable. On the bench of magistrates I displaced the men whose political lives were known to us. I have especially don e so i n regard to those in the higher positions. Except that, in the presence of the customs of such long standing which gave to the judges a character of inviolability, I have not revoked a single one. Till now suspensions only have been pro. nounced. A magistracy of more modest standing, but whose imnortance has been revealed since its creation, and which in the legisletion which our National Assem blies will be called on to establish fur the organization et justice, may be developed on a larger basis—l mean the justices of the peace—hav e specially attracted my atten tion. The recals have been numerous ; the late Minister of Justice, and his predecessor in a still greater degree, had placed in the offices of justices of the peace m e n th e most devoted and the most ardent in their cause. It wou ld be difficult to combine in a better degree the cont i nua l necessities of a policy with the entirely natu ra l i n fl uences of that family magistracy. Let us quit th e quest i on of 'e h r ic e h le would ou a ld number persons, and permit me to enter the domai n i tse lf of Justice. The duties of Minis ter of Justi ce h ave b een very great during these last nine weeks, in w hi c h each of us, in the sphere of his s h i l d S e direction ra tion( ) f wv attributions, h as b een a rival in zeal and devotion. To to the whol e Government. In criminal matters, the abolition o f t h e pain of death for political o ff ences , t h e a b olition of otherwise appertainedo n the laws of September, the abolition of public expose! in the pillory, decrees which change the majority of the jury, which restore to that jurisdiction the judgment of libels against public functionaries, which reverse the jurisprudence Bourdean, which authorise temporary release without giving bail in money, and which facilitate the restora tions of one's rights. In civil matters—abolition of poli tical oaths, abrogation of the law on judicial annonces, suspension of writs of personal arrest, diminution of legal expenses, naturalization of foreigners. A delegation of the most pleasing and precious sovere ignty—that of a portion of the right of pardon —was given to the Mi nister of Justice by the Provisionary Government inaine• diately after the revolution. While the Provisional Go vernment abolished the pain of death in political matters, while it commuted that terrible punishment, reserving to itself the right, the Minister caused the most useful informations to be taken, examined all the demands and all the documents, and prepared with minute care all the elements of a measure of humanity, which he wished to attach to the inauguration of the National Assembly. Citizens, the late Government granted, on an average, 800 pardons annually; it was especially on the Ist May that these favours were distributed. On the 4th May, while you were proclaiming before the people the Republic one and indivisible, the doors of the bagnies and prisons opened to the repentant, or to the sufficiently expiated• fault; and the pure air of liberty, in reanimating almost stifled existences, called down on the National Assembly gratitude and benedictions.---(General movement—lap plause.) I . would have wish e d, c i t i zen s, to be a to place before you a reduction in th e ex p e nses of the budget nl r c t of justice; for the moment they cannot be important. In the ministry, the personnel in functionaries have cm ployds hardly numbers a hundred persons. e I byed t ec.leur sup pressed one directeur de personnel, one sous - d fe , two chefs de bureau, one sous - chef. In t hi s ministry the salaries are lower than in any other; reduction in them would be difficult. As to the magistracy, you all know to I am that it does not enrich those who devote the the administration of justice. Butsurrounded by men of capability, of enlightenment,ce and of eminence, td representatives of many of whom have since been e of my hued, of our the people, under the precedence e col league, the Citizen Martin de tras bourg; they are as sembled in committee, and are eng aged in drawing up a constitutional law on the organization patriotism and devoti on to the Republic, their discussions are animated, their of justice. Th e i r knowledge of la w , an d the i r to t h e Minister a w arrant that experience in affairs, .are h of being submitted to the their Assembly. work will There be will b wo magistrates, e y foun d the real economy, by istrates, and prop er l y re muneratingdiminishing the number of ma i n , Such Is, with out d ou b t, the double object which those who remust be attained. Th e C ounc i l was composed of thirty dinaire, of State, en service or to twenty-five. I have suppressed reduce d members ; it has been suppressed the Council of State, en service exor di na i r ; the ministers will delegate to it their gener a l secretaries, s de division, every time that the int erest of the service shall require or chef i t. Such is, gentlemen, a statement of the short adminis trat i o n of justice, in th e modest ministry which I have di re cted since the 25 t h o f Fe bruary, with the love of duty, an d the desire of giving to well as to private ones, the most solid public interests, The as Republic desires honest and pure guarantees. __isteaey should give the best ex magistrates, for the ae In In c oncluding, permit me to say ample.—(Applause) myself on the newly - . chosen, how I have to felicitate our I • revo ution into the who have entered, sinc e the courts. Yes, the choice tribunals and into the proof is that they have been was good, and . by the been consecrated opinion, people, who consecrated by pub colleagues a great many of the have given you for a rand devotion have not new magistrates. Their zeebeen for a moment a cause of disappointment, . and I feel pleasure t r ibute to t h eir k now ledge and their in rendering a tre s A last observati on patriotism .—(Applaus e. , though a and important one, I have th e pleas ure o f very grave this place, whence our words submitting to you ie go decree which forth so widely. When thenine remitted the jurymen 0 declaration of guilt to impunity arosu e t in of twelve ap peared, the fear of some n ver did the jurysome timid show so much minds : vain fear ! h wisdom. I • with pride firmness united to so roue in their reeard, that the most important criminal cases have been tried by them with independence and an ad mirable rectitude. The jury have. comprehended the whole extent of their mission ;_ they feel that in their hands reposes public security ; they elevate th emselves to the level of their sublime functions. — (Applause.) a them. Republican N o Nothing n l g i Yes, Citizens, th e R e p u blic will have good laingNitatel', good juries ; honest citizens will be protected In `theft rights; had citizens will find justice ready to repress 0 0 , . e l 1 1. 1 n t l h n e ,, t n i t h a i • no n p ta o t i itl B ll g o n to ti t s h e l d w u e ti e ,,, 5 .j . Is; h a i e l i f: citizens, w e will all f u lfil them with pleasuees--(Long applause.) . M. Louis Blanc—Citizens, representatives of the people--O n the 29th of February those whom the course of events had called into power (a power by no means an enviable one, certainly, for it was the government of temp ests) s , those, I say, found themselves assembled, when, a ll of a sudden, they saw the Place de l'llotel de Ville invaded by an ardent multitude. A flag Boated in the air, and on that flag this was what was written— " Organization of Labour ; Creation of a Ministry of Progress." Admirable result! It was thus, it was in this capital, which still felt the quiverings of the combat, _ ,,,l o ,uoti n eirca these pavements, on which the people had just marked their route with their blood, it was thus, that they came to demand that which proved that their great preoccupation was that of ordsr.—(Applau , e.y For Violence ( h ). : e i what t d . : r 3 h i bat)th. e h y s i tdi c: (: ) 3t m ,,d e oa t r o irti: t i l e t m lot a rh n e i n li ..prr ' e f rs h e : %r i )ei c .ud a t m it, came to demand peace, made prolific by labour; the creation 01 . a Plini' - d impossible. What could l , r ) ; ; 1 (7 ' the s rov,s,ona. ssovernment do 2 W o l w t u : r ix ' , , t . )iifi attentionbP r) mi t e : question ti : i ) n, r , rfo a t special rhethlaatb ol 4ubr rn oeu i r r sr it a r tn y h • de t o (t)hn bay: my c l: r ,e ( n ta (i) t b, e al d ,i a;fer.bi‘ friend no t df tha ttt h :l, it at once granted was a commission of the Go vernment zen ouvrier Albert, the other was myself. h l 'l l ,le r s e im ( f i lp i ' r ro :c (t. t : e .te d 'rt r i e ti rr; e be p t r h e e se s n e t at p o o f s i i t ti s o l n aho o ti i rs a . what did we see? On the • one hand the ruin of the rich hecominetirnminent, and, the people inevitab'e. On the other, the distress of day, people becoming more and more aggravated every and the impatience of their desires violently irritated. And what was our mission? We went into that diffi a budget, without a soldier. If, cult situation without were not listened to—if the ' , .by chance, our words agitation which had been suppressed for the moment were renewed—we should have been rendered responsible trary, it was appeased, rnivht for it. If, on the re proachedcon- with being dangerous we not have been " Yes, yes.") Did we not also innovators ? —(Cries of t ? e risk of having too long prolonged a cry of distress not necessary; we cannot wait, for we " Speeches are suffer, and we are hungry." These were the dangers Yet we did not hesitate. On the day we had to run. .following a; revo lution such as ours, every citizen is a soldier ; and when every citizen is a soldier, how should one shrink before peril ? We have, then, been witnesses any a sublime spectacle, which must remain in history as of immortal proof of enlightenment and reason. We have an seen citizens running to us and exclaiming, utritso,ouwitii"e business it would be to Prevent wife ; I have children ; give me bread." And when ve we a replied to them, ." Wait ;" and when we, besides, told them of our want of power to assist them, these men have retired, their hearts moved, and crying, " Vive la Ritoublique." We have seen passing one after the other all the industries ; we have seen them passing bearing signs of distress, claiming loudly the intervention of the state ; so that the very force of affairs imposed upon us a mission which had not been given to us—the mission of interfering between the master and the workmen, in order that they might go hand-in•hand together. Well, we have obtained that result. It is in oar archives, which we preserve with pride, for they are the archives of concord and fraternity. But we had not only conciliation to effect; we had associations to realise. When workmen came to us to demand the means of as sociating together, you know what we did. At Clichy, which in former times was only inhabited by prisoners, what do you now see ? You only see labourers giving each other their hand. Formerly you read over thegate " Debtors' Prison." To-day every one will substitute in his heart for these words, " There is a debt which every one owes to all—the social debt of bread and labour."—(Hear, hear.) We have gathered on the ques tion of labour a great deal of information, which will be communicated to you, and you will examine it in all its details. Suffice it for me to say, that the two funda mental ideas of our work—whether it concerns com merce or agriculture, or the banks or the establishments of customs—the two fundamental ideas are, association and disinterested intervention, the pacific and tutelary intervention of the state. We do not pretend that the state should become the only industriel of the kingdom; but we wish it to be understood, that the state has a great duty to fulfil in what regards those who suffer. What we wish is, that the state should be the tutor of credit, giving credit not only to the rich, but to the poor. What we have demanded is, that the state should be the protector of the poor, and their tutor. Ido not know, from the bottom of my heart, if many of those who now hear me would be disposed to contradict me. The cry has been put forward of " Take care of the war of those who possess nothing against those who possess." This is a cry which has not issued from the hearts or mouths of any one. Association is a noble and beautiful thing; not because it will displace riches, but because it will make them universal, by making them fruitful ; and because it will raise the level of the people and of humanity.—(Cheers.) . , Iff Twoahiaa menvaell and PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A piece in two acts, called A Day at Dover, was pro duced at this theatre last night, chiefly for the purposes of Madame Thillon, who was provided with a character belonging to a class in which her peculiar fascinations have plentiful scope for display. The plot is founded, ilpothetically, upon the return of Charles the tiecond to this country after the death of the great hero of the Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell. Madame Anna Thillon performs the part of a Parisian milliner, Henrietta, who is induced by Count Carvalho, a l'ortu geese nobleman (Mr. Fisher), to impersonate the Queen of the exiled Monarch; the object being to with draw the attention of the people and the functionaries of Dover from the real royalties, who arrive, as is pre,umed, incog. Madame Anna ninon played the part of the " Queen for an hour" (the piece, we believe, is founded upon a French drama, entitled La Heine d'un .lour), with a great deal of spirit and as surance, and sang several songs, the composition of Mr. Loder, with considerable applause. In the end, how ever, she acknowledges her plebeian origin, and resigns herself happily into the arms of her devoted lover, Richard, a French sailor (Mr. Conway). Mr. Compton had a tolerably good part, that of a tavern keeper at Dover, where the soi.disant queen alights, and who vacillated admirably between his republican principles and his Ilyal inducements. The piece, however, having little in it, hung very heavily till the final fall of the curtain, which, on the announcement of the happy " Restoration, gave occasion for the performance of the National Anthem by the orchestra, which was received with enthusiasm. THE COLOSSEUM. As a spectacle the Colosseum in the Regent's Park continues to he unrivalled. We say this without in any manner depreciating the scientific advantag—s afforded by that more pretentious establishment, the Polytechnic Institution, or the architectural and panoramic illusions of the Diorama, or tl.e ingenious modelling," of Madame Tussaud's Ex hibition, or any other, in fact, of the p ipu'ar sights of the metropolis. As a spectacle, the Colos. seum remains, we assert, unrivalled--whether as to grandeur, variety, or cheapness. Instead of the gigantic panorama of London as viewed from the tower of St. Paul's Cathedral, we have, this year, spread out before the eye a very ex traordinary work of art—a bird's eye view of the great city of Paris, beheld, as it were, from the car of a balloon suspended over the garden of the Tuileries. Altogether the illusion is matchless. Looking down from your apparent elevation you can almost deceive yourself into the belief, that you are veritably gazing j upan that famous spot which one half of Christendom i regards as the capital of pleasure, and the other half as the capital of civilization. In every direction your glance is arrested by the delineation of that most remarkable metropolis. Here you see the prolonged front of the Louvre, in whose vast galleries are stored so many productions of genius. There you perceive the famous Arc d'Etoile, under the span of which, only a few days since, the Provisional Government of the Republic stood to receive the homage of the armed citizens. On one hand is the Palais Royale where Egalite schemed against the Bourbon dynasty, where Louis Philippe received the blessing of Voltaire, and where the young Camille Desmoulins first mounted the tri•color. On the other hand is the Madeleine, the fane raised at the mandate of the Emperor, and over the grand altar of which is represesented the apo theosis of Napoleon. Now your eye wanders along the parapets of the different bridges on the Seine, now it travels along the brilliant line of the Boulevards, now it rests upon the Rue de la Paix, now upon the Hotel de Ville, now upon Notre Dame, now upon the National Institute, now upon the Place de la Concorde, and now upon the Place Vendome, with its superb pillar of commemoration. You gaze on in breathless admiration, you breathe the very atmo sphere of Paris, you listen in imagination to the cries in its streets, to the rumbling of its carriages, to the striking of its church clocks, you watch the flickering of its thousand lamps, and the lights which glitter in its windows—for the city is revealed to you as it appears by moonlight, and the beams of that beautiful satellite' are reflected in the river w i t h suc h an asto nishing vividness thatyou forget for the moment that -you are not beholding a reality. There has never before, to our knowledge , been a more marvellous deceptio n o f a p ictorial kind—it seems more than a vraise mblance, it seems the very thing itself. You are tran s p orted in an instant across the Channel to the scene of revolutions and republicanism, and you retire from the Aste:ntacle breathless, dizzy, and full of admiration. the other attractions of the Colosseum must be ° g the those so long familiar to the public—the glyptotheca, or museum of sculp ture, the stalactite caverns the mer de glace with the Swiss cottage, the Gothic' * the conservatories. Of maivniaowrryb;utoosuintitesßtlhaenrce anal g flowe i r c s h are certainly the abundance—foremost amon g valued at forty two bunches of artificial guineas. They are of initnitable delicacy and almost expect a have all the bloom of nature. You perfume from the petals while you stoop over them. commend the With all the cordiality of delight we ommend holiday million to the Colosseum. SURREY THEATRE. An entire change of performance at this theatre took place yesterday evening. A romantic a n d t ra di t i onary drama, in three acts, entitled The 7 hree Red Men, was the opening piece, being substantially identical, we belive, with Le File du Diable, which recently attracted some attention in Paris, and of which Paul Feval is the author. The plot was somewhat intricate, turning chiefly on the mysterious murder, in the night, of a Count and his wife at their own mansion, and the subsequent for tunes of a surviving son (who first saw the light on the night of this double tragedy), until, with dramatic jus tice, he is restored to the possession of his ancestral estate. The assassins, four in number, contrive to keep' possession in the interval, and establish a banking licuse in the vicinity. One of the redmen, a brother of the murdered lady, is the chief instrument in restoring the heir to his rights. A miniature attached to the neck of the orphan performs its due part in clearing up all possible doubt as to his identity. There was some very credible acting. Miss Richardson made her first appear ance for the season, and personated one of the principal characters, and Mrs. R. Bonnor, as the orphan, made the best of her part. The second piece was The Irish Tutor, in which Mr. T. Barry, so long familiar at Astley's, at tempted, and not without considerable success, the cele brated Doctor O'Toole. There was no lack of merri ment on the part of the audience, and the parts were all sustained with vivacity and spirit. The Bride of the Bleeding Heart terminated the entertainment. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—This popular place of amusement is announced to open at the latter end of the preterit month, under the management of Mr. Wardell, sole lessee. During the recess great improvements have been made, and a variety of artists are now actively en gaged in renovating and redecorating the " royal pro perty." The grand piece de resistance for the ensuing season will be a panoramic view of the City of Con stantinople. The illuminations and fireworks will be on a scale of great splendour, uniting novelty in design with brilliancy of execution, and the other entertain ments (including a first-rate troupe of equestrians), will be of an amusing and varied character. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, sub-post masters, and letter receivers, was posted at the Gene ra l cost-office : —" Henceforward the following addition a l privileges will bo extended to printed books, magazi nes, oundth address envelope or ress of th e person to or for whom it shall be forwarded. S econdly, (o t r r e a v n ie s w rn s iite a d nd by pa t m he ph p l o e s t t s, within whieh the are U n n o i w te a d Kingdomil)wedto be at reduced rates of postage, under certain regulationa— viz. :—First, The name and address of the send er may be written or printed upon or in any such bo o k, maga zine, rthereof, in review, or pamphlet so addition to Any other writing may be on any leaf of any such book, magazine, review, or pamphlet so sent, or on the binding thereof, provided that such last-mentioned writing be on one and the self same page of the book, or corre sponding portion of the binding. The existing regula tions, so far as they are not affected by these conces sions, must be strictly adhered to, and the privileges now granted in no way exceeded, otherwise the packet must be charged as a letter, and treated as such in all respects." The operations recently carried on against the city of St. John of Nicaragua by her Majesty's forces, under the command of Captain Granville Loch, have been at tended with complete success. After a severe service of 33 days, during which the officers and seamen of the party never slept ou t o f t h e i r b oats, an d m aintained with considerable diffi cu lty th e i r p os i t i on in t h e country, a senior treaty of amity was at length concluded by the Ryder officer, Captain Loch, accompanied by Captains which all the and Peel, with the State of Nicaragua,. 3' D We points in dispute were satisfactorily adjusted. of this little expe un- derstand that the gallant commander " f the Bath, anion o dition has been designated as a Comp_ ir and that the junior officers of the n..AIm and the Daring will receive immediate promotiomAy 5. —The demand BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET,s c of supplies the sales continues good, but in the a ant - en Prices may be quoted Is. of the week are unimp, o ul I ori .......:” n stol Mercury. higher. Ron is very - • *~LU !t NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 7.—A court of inquiry:cOmpris ing Captains Yates, of the Illustrious, Dundas, of the Powerful, and Eden, of the Victory, sat on board the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, on Friday and Satur day, to investigate reports of a most extraordinary cha racter and variety, with regard to the wholesale desertion from the ship (Bellerophon), and the great amount of punishment which had been inflicted upon her crew during the seven months she had been In commission. In the course of this time about 1,600 lashes have been administered, and 94 men were posted " run" upon the books up to yesterday. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, accom panied by a small retinue, arrived here at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. The Prince's carriage was taken into the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment by Mr. Superintendent Stevens, of Gosport. Captain Eden, of the Victory, was in waiting on his Royal Highness, and showed him over the establishment, crossing to the dockyard in Sir Charles Ogle's barge. Captain Eden escorted the Royal party over the dockyard, on board the Victory and Excellent. The Prince partook of lun cheon with Sir C. Ogle, and returned to London by the thirty minutes past five afternoon train. The Pluto steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Commander R. Richardson, arrived at Limerick, from Dublin and Cork, on the 30th ult. Nind south, moderate breezes, and fine weath er . ROYAL MARINES. PR')NoTIONS. Second-Lieutenant A. F. Sutherland, of the Plymon... division, to be First-Lieutenant, and appointed to the same division, vice Winne, dismissed the service. First Lieutenant E. S. Browne, of the Chatham divi sion, to be Captain at that division. vice Brevet Major J. Fyntnore. retired on lull pay. Second-Lieutenant E. Richards. of the Chatham divi sion, to be First-Lieutenant at that division, vire Browne. promoted. Mr. Peter Rote, the contractor for the enlargement and repairs of the new marine barracks at Gosport, ha, commenced the construction of a new practice battery on an improved plan, suggested by Major Calarey, gunnery instructor, immediately in rear of Forton barracks. The decision come to by the Admiralty at their recent inspection of these barracks, to purchase all the buildings abutting on the boundary wall on either side of the gate, has, we are told, caused considerable altera tions to be made in the plans of the proposed new buildings; and as the experiment of keeping a portion of this division on either side of the harbour under one commandant, has proved to be highly inconvenient, and in many respects prejudicial to the interests of the ser vice, it is now contemplated to increase these barracks sufficiently to contain the whole division, including the artillery companies, for whom a depot of practice and instruction will be established at Fort Moncton, as was the case some years since. APPOINTMENTS. ADMIRALTY, MAY 6.—A. L, Kaye, midshipman, to the Gorgon; Lieutenant John Moffatt, to be agent for the mails; Hon. A.K. Legge, naval cadet, to the Belle rophon ; IVilliam H. Truscott, midshipman, to the Thetis. MAY 8. ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD.— Quantities of Indian corn and meal are being shipped from this yard, to the north coast of Ireland, for the relief of the poor in that country. The Express 6 gun brig packet, and the Confiance steam-tug, were taken into docks at Devonport to be repaired on Saturday. Sir Charles Napier's squadron has refitted and is ready for any orders. At 'present the St. Vincent, Prince Regent, Amphion, and Dragon are at Cork and Kingstown. The Canopus has been detached to Ply mouth to be paid off. The Wolf, 18-gun sloop, having been converted into a floating pier for Kingstown, Dublin, left Plymouth for that port on Sunday, in charge of Mr. Henderson, the master-attendant of Devonport dockyard, who will with his navigating party proceed from Kingstown to Pena broke Dockyard, to jury-rig and navigate the newly launched 80-gun ship Colossus from that station to De vonport, to be completed. Durin7, Mr. Henderson's absence, Mr. Stigant, the storekeeper, will perform the duty of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Artilleryeomgpanlentl•ees. of the dockyard brigade, and Mr. Truscott. clerk, will aman ct as a Capnttaoge, 72 gun Woolwich 0 in o of Mr. Peake's company on that op-ship, arr i ved off Ports mouthe e v i i ie t tr . to-day, from St. .John's, New Brunswick, with the 33d regiment on board, and sailed with them for a Herefordshire, Scotch The frigate-built p . ? g rt at t e-il o h d u ise t mbark i ship re, 1,400 ton s , ar rived at Ports mout h to-day, e from Halifa x , N ova Scotia, with her Maj es ty' s 49th regiment on board. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant John Moffat to be Admiralty agent for mails. This officer's c is dated o f i, navys h ipm n aetliearuchw,itlhB.ll. of March, as Lieutenant in the the West Indies in 1803; he was midshipman and mat© of the Amphion and Cerberus, the P li ou e rlTva a nt m e id in . and bore a part in nume rous boat enterprises in the - •the capture Adriatic, particularly at capture of a convoy at Pesaro; and acting Lieutenant of litherecunlethi : the Cerberus In the action off Lissa, 1811. Midshipmen --A. L. K a y o t o t h e Gorgon steam-sloop at Plymouth; w . H. Truscott to the Thetis frigate, in the Mediterranean. Naval Cadet—The lion. 11. Legge to the Bellerophon , 78, at Portsmouth. ROYAL MARINE PROMOTIONS. First Lieutenant E. S. Browne, of the Chatham division, to be Captain of the same division, vi ce Brevet- Major Fynmore, retired on full pay. Second Lieutenant A. F. Sutherland of the Plym outh , division, to be First-Lieutenant of the s ame division, vice Wynne, dismissed the service by court martial. Second-Lieutenant E. Richards, o f the Chatham divi - First-Lieutenant o f the Barna division , 'nice sion, to ba Browne, promoted. TZ r-Adiniral J. W. Deans WooLwicu, MAY 8.--Af...7,. Fi tz hardinge Berkeley, C. 8., Lords of the A Dundas, C. 8., pCa Lain ihni , ralty and Mr. Henry G. Ward, First Secretary to the. Admirals}', 1 with a number of nav a l officers and friends , - em b a rked at Black wall on Saturday Eagle steam vessel, and proceeded to last in the B lac k hir Lordships went on board the In- Woolwich, where t < the direction of fitting under In vestigator, the expe dition lii to the Arctic regions. Their Lordship ' p,, ~ after remaining some time on board the Investi gator, landed at Woolwich Dockyard, and went on board the Carodoc, Holyhead mail steam-packet, lying in the basin, and under orders to leave W oo l w i ch to morrow in charge of Lieutenant Robertson, to take her duties on the Liverpool station. Their Lordships also visited several other vessels in a forward state, and again embarked in the Black Eagle steam 1 , ves . se , and pro ceeded down the river to Greenhithe, - to visit the Enter prise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, at present having her compasses adjust e d by Captain Johnson. The Investigator, Captain Bird, is nearly ready for leaving Woolwich, and the Monkey has had her steam up this afternoon to tow her to Greenhithe, to have her i' compasses adjusted, and she will it are this evening, er at four o'clock to-morrow morning- ut latest. Captain Lord Adolphus Fazelitre nce, and Sir George Wombwell arrived at Woolwich y9sterday, and went on board the Investigator, where they remained with Captain Bird about an hour and a half, and mi nt]. ely inspected the vessel. The Llewellyn, intended for the Holyhead mail steam packet service, went down the river on Saturday on an experimental trial; and the result was a speed of 15.53 knots or 17.89 miles per hour, the draught of water being 9 feet aft and 8 feet 7i -inches forward, and the number of revolutions 27.62 per minute. KING'S COLLEGE. On Saturday afternoon the annual meeting of the pro fessors of this institution took place in the usual hall of meeting in Somerset House. His Grace thn . Archbishop of. Canterbury presided. His Grace having stated the object of the meeting-- viz., to distribute rewards to such student. of the college as had distinguished themselves in the science of medical knowledge—the following gentlemen were Called:— SCUOLARSHIPS. Second Year-4. Wood. First Year—G. May, E. Simpson, and C. Pardey. Daniell—F. Vaux. ANATOMY. Prize—G. A. K. Lake; certificates-4. W. Wakem and 'l'. C. Beale. PHYSIOLOGY. Prize—R. C. R. Jordan; certificates—G. A. K. Lake. CHEMISTRY. Prize—J. F. Hardwick; certificate—W. S. Kasen. CHEMICAL MANIPULATION. Prize—J. Vaux. MATERIA MEDICA- Prize—W. Hewett; certifieateb—R: Fowler, J. arid W. Browne. SURGERY. Prize—J. D. Macdonald; certificates-4. Wood and T. C. Beale.' MEDICINE. Prize—W. C. Lake; certificate—L. S. Beale. MIDWIFERY. Prize—J. B. Ruck; certificates—W. C. Lake, D. per. guson, and L. S. Beale. BOTANY. - Prize—W. Hewitt; certificates.'—lL C. Turnonr and J. Wood. PORENSIC MEDICINE. Prize—T. Jeston; certificates—C. J. Evans and T. C. Beale. MEDICAL CLINICAL. Prizes—J. B. Ruck (Summer); J. B. Ruck (Winter). SURGICAL CLINICAL. Prizes—R. W. Broster (Winter)r R. C. Dayies, ;Summer.) • WARNEFORD. First Prize, R. C. R. Jordane i Sseond Prize, J. N. Coffin. LEATillte. First Prize, H. H. Salter; Second prize, G. A. F. Lake. ♦SSOCIATES. T. W. Nunn, J. J. Roughton, H. Stevens, E. Thomas. and S. J. A. Salter. At the conclusion of the proceedings a vote of thanks was proposed to his Grace, and after an eloquent reply the meeting separated. DERBY SWEEPS. Lpiceernhsyedewlree;is tuaolln Say Saturday m a e f t te ro r po no l o is a , a a t w in h e o e s t e in h g ou o s f es avern. Waterloo-road, me asures to are held, too kp fo la r c t e he at po th tp e o H se e o ro f aodfoWptao.eh have been t g erloo T meet the threatened qui tarn actions whi ch i o ibierooused victuallers ghtbasolic o it f or th o o f the name o. for having Derby f Moss against the ' and other R ed sweeps ioo Westm ins ter -bridge-road, was called to the Mr. A. Mackintosh, of the chair. The Cnernmor said it was a matter of notoriety that a person of the name of Moss, who was a solicitor, had issued writs to recover 1001. penalty from publicans who had Derby sweeps at their houses, and it was to protect themselves that the present meeting was held. lie felt satisfied but one feeling pervaded the meeting, that of unanimity, and a determination to resist the system of extortion which was intended. All they had to do was to unite, and there would soon be an end of the qui tam actions. Mr. OHEY said that their Chairman had alluded to the qui tarn actions ; but were they aware that 1,400 notices of actions had been served, to recover in the aggregate the enormous sum of 1 40,000/. Could there be any doubt what was the object ? It was to frighten the licensed victuallers into a compromise. It was, however, to be hoped that every member in the trade would have the firmness to resist every attempt at com promise. As far as he was concerned, he was determined to defend the action which had been brought against him to the last. He would sooner expend 500/. than give is. to the informer. If they were firm, he felt con vinced that nothing would be heard of these qui tam ac tions. Mr. Okey proposed the following resolntion:-- " That this meeting pledges itself to defend to the utmost the qui tam actions which have been brought against them individually, and not to agree or listen to any-coq promise." Mr. BENNETT seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously. A desultory conversation ensued, in the course of which it was observed that offers had been made to withdraw t h action if the sum of 251. was • paid, and that actually receipts had been drawn out and sent round. It was, however, too well known that before the penalty could be recovered that the sanction of the Attorney-General must be obtained, and when that Was got, thee the informer would not be entitled to any part of the penaltti•. The wisest course to adopt would be in get the Attorney• General to move the Court of Zx eliegti.r for a writ of prohibition to the plaintiff to rtay the proceeding , , they not being for the politic gr.od, but merely fur the purpose of putting► money into the pocket or the prosecutor. This sucgestiun was adopted, and,, alter a rote of thanks to the chairman and Mr. °key, tor their aid and co-operation, the meeting adjourned...-. Weakly Dispatch. ALLEGED MURDERS AT STONELEIGII AIME! THIRTY YEARS AGu.—lt may he recollected that som e years ago a long protracted el3itn was made by a person natned George Leigh. as the rightful owner of the es tates of Lurd (then Mr. Chandos) Leigh, and the dis pute was brought to a close by the defeat of the former. A new claimant in the person of John Leigh, whose family resides in Lancashire, succeeded in, effecting a forcible entrance into Stoneleigh Abbey, during the ab :,ence of its noble owner in November, 1844. Thu new claimant, with his relations and friends, to the number of thirty-two, some of whom were alleged to have been attracted to the spot from mere motives of curiosity, were taken into custody, end tried betore—Mr. Justice r ti e m m e ai t u h d o e u r g to Patteson, at a special gaol delivery, shortly afterwards, and defended by Mr. Temple. Twenty. eight of them were as la sc u t r e ; nc T ed hu to me e s ig L h e te ig en h found months' guilty. imprisonment withiei Leigh hard . that an eat months'nw o e nodthwe others s s i o t entirely wel v imprisonment.mu o t nl t t e h wassth;( and : at claimtthhaetto Stoneleigh Abbey on the part of the Lancashire Leighs; but a charge that at first was looked upon with levity, w as made the subject of a lengthened investigation before four of the county magistrates, at Warwick, on Saturday last, and which alleged that the present noble of the Abbey had be en gu il ty o f t h e heinous PcrQismsec,4uorf murder. The substance of the charge was, that his Lordship had ordered two labourers, employed in the construction of a bridge on his estate, to be killed and buried beneath the abutment of the bridge, in the pre sence of himself, Lady Julia Leigh, and a large number of other persons. The charge was supported by several witnesses, who swore that they had been present on the occasion. Eventually the magistrates refused to enter tain the charge. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—BRADFORD, FRIDAY.— Yesterday, at the Court-house, George Hilton, a young man, said to be respectably connected, was brought before the magistrates, charged with having committed a most despicable outrage on Miss Louisa Joanna Kings man, a highly accomplished young lady, about eighteen years of age, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Kingsman, the vicar of Gilderstone. In order that the feelings of the young lady and her relatives might not hli be further the distressed by detailing the facts in the private room. e The case was heard in the magistrate's f man left the parsonage for a brother-in ce of about two miles. She in Oilderstone.street, a di f s e t e a t n path, and on nearing the facts are as follows :—On F r idayatfn iv o -l o a n w , , /ifi e r s e s si li de in n g ee s : had to cross a field by priso A n s er fa , r w e h e o p a u l : dressed her in the most dto avoid his unmanly conduct, and pos sible she endeavoured to hasten from him, he seized her as she was attempting y n t terms. the end of it she was o verta a i k n e d n ee b e yards from the path, and gravel-pit some four o into it, he commenced an her down f his intentions. Miss having thrown. little doubt o attack, which left l by the arms and round tfihveewaist. He dragged her to a succeeded in escaping from him. her feet she send the prisoner for trial, but regained fought with the ruffian, and having It was at first intended consent of the young lady's rela the Bench, with flue of 5/. on the prisoner, and to find lions, inflicted is Kingsman, resolute,: hisgood behaviour. good securities for , g II ARD.—On Saturday evening above ALDERSGATE workmen and others, who hundred voluntarily three constables in that ward on the 10th of acted as special dto April, were regaled with a substantial and bountiful re. past, in the great room of the Roy a l G eneral Dis pensary. Mr. John Wood pepresided, support e d b y t h e Reverend J. V. Povah, Reverend William Rogers, the Common Councilmen, and many other leading and in fluential gentlemen of the ward. The room was taste fully decorated with banners, evergreens, &c. The usual loyal toasts were proposed and responded to with great enthusiasm, and the party broke up highly de lighted with the evening's entertainment. Messrs. Staples, of the Albion Tavern, volunteered the use of their establishment, and materially assisted in all the arrangements. HISTORICAL. LECTURE ON TEE ACQUITTAL or THE SEVEN Bisuons.—The Rev. Hugh Stowed, M.A., Honorary Canon of Chester, delivered a l ec t ur e u p on the abov e su bj ect, i n Exeter Hall, last evening, being assisted in his illustrations by the celebrated picture painted by J. R. Herbert, Esq., ILA., which was hung far the occasion before the large organ. The chair was occupied by Storey, Esq., who introduced the Rev. Lecturer with a few complimentary words, after which prayers having been said, the lecturer entered into an historical account of the trial and acquittal referred to, and also into various points connected with the Reforma. tion. H e was muc h app l au d e d throughout his discourse. By our letters from the Pacific we may announce that her Majesty's brigantine, England, will not bring ship Collingwood, t. Her Majesty's Spy, now h on her way to any freight. will be the next ship of the navy home from the Pacific, with the flag-ship, freight to the be looked for about Au on merchants' account, and may amount of between 1,000,000 dolls. and 2,000,000d0115. gait or September, 3 0 W 33 r 'o' I