The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

Daring corresponding period in 1851, we received 5,053 ; in 1850, 4 410; in 1849, 2,979; in 1848, 2,731; and in 1847, 2,696 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 211 ... ... 60 ... 16 150 ... 7 ... 9 17 From Antwerp Amsterdam 2B ... Dordt Dunkirk Ostend ...... ••• ... - ... 6 ... - }fan - Wu ' 56 Rotterdam ... 214 ... 1,4 l ... 339 511 42 Harlingen Total ...... 302 .. 2,436 316 ... 641 ... 82 The yearly comparison of the weekly arrirals is as under:— Beasts. - Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1851 620 ... 3,229 ... 418 480 ... 296 IRSO 1849.... 333 ... 2,173 ... 132 329 ... 12 1818 496 ... 1,769 446 .. For the time of year to-say's market was but mode rately supplied with foreign stock, the gen eral quality or hieh was by no means first-rate; a• - al the arrivals of Bear's fre,in our own grazing districts, is well as from Scotland, were somewhat limited. The rap ld increase in the demand for barrel provisions to vtitual the immense number of vessels now about to sail to the Australian colonies, end the high value of salted provi siuns generaliy, had considerable influenc e u p on the Bt:ef trad e this morning, all breeds of Beasts commlnding ready inquiry at on advance in the quotations of Monday last of iully 2d per 81b, and a clearance was st:eedily effected. The primest Scots sold at 4s per Bam From Norfolk, Suff.dk, Essex, and Cambridge shire wo received 2 ; 000 Soots, Shorthorns, ease ; from other Parts cf England, 650 Herefords, Runts, 1:10119, and from Scotland 450 Horned and Polled Scots. With Sheep we were tolerably well, but by no means exten sively, supplied. There was less activity in the demand for this description of stock than on this day se'nnight, and, in some instances, prices were a shade in favour of buyers. However, the primest Old Downs realised 4s per Sibs. Lambs were in full average supply, amid sluggish inquiry at late rates, viz., 4s to 55 per Bibs. Prom the Isle of Wight 100 came fresh to hand. Lerge numbers of Calves were brougbt forward, yet the whole sold at late rates. There was rather more doing in Pigs, but we have no change to notice in their value. Per Sibs. to sinkthe offal. s. d. to s. d. s• d. to s. d Interior 80a5t5..... 210 3 0 Inferior Sheep 210 3 0 Second quality •• .. 3 2 3 4 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen•• 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolledditto3 6 310 Prime Scots •••••• 3 10 4 0 Southdown Weibel' 310 4 0 Large ooarse Calves 210 3 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Prtacamanditto .. 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs 2 6 3 4 Buckling Calves ..19 0 24 0 Small Porkers .... 3 6 3 8 Lambs .. • • •• 4 0 5 0 Quarterolurigs ..16 020 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT DIAUKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. i 3,6 f 9 29,690 I 385 340 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. 497 I 2,540 27a _ A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Sniithilehl Cattle Market, on Monday, June 23, 1851, and this day, Monday, Jute 21, 1852. Per Blbs., to sink the ofials. June 23, 1851. June 21,1852 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... 24t0262 10 to 3 0 Second quality ditto ..• ... 28210 3 2 3 4 Prime largo Oxen .. ... 3 0 32 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots, ••• 3 4 3 6 310 4 0 Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 2 6 2 82 10 3 0 Second quality ditto ... ... 210 30 3 2 3 4 Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 2 3 6 3 6 310 Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 3 8 3103 10 4 0 Lambs._ ... 4 0 5 0 4 0 5 0 Large coarse Calves ... 2 8 3 42 10 3 6 Prime small ditto ... ... 3 6 3 8 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs .. 2 4 3 2 2 6 3 4 Small Porkers ... ... 3 4 3 8 3 6 3 8 Beasts ... ..• 3,518 3,639 Sheep and Lambs .. —.33,080 29,690 Calves ..• 441 386 Pigs . . 385 340 LE S UP PLIES ON SA, JUNE 24, 1850.—Beasts, 3,832; Sheep and Lambs, 36,900 ; Calves, 303 ; Pigs, 320. JUNE 25, 1849. Beasts, 3,017; Sheep and Lambs, 30,420; Calves, 309 ; Pigs. 240. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Notwithstanding that these market. have been season ably well-supplied with each kind of Meat since our last report, the general demand has ruled steady, and in some instances prices have had an upward tendency. At per stone by Lae Carcase. s. d. to 1. d. S. d. to s. a. eef, interior.. 2 4 2 6 Mutton,inferior .. 2 8 210 middling •• I 2 8 210 middling•• 3 0 3 6 primelerge 210 3 0 -prime .... 3 8 310 prime small 3 2 3 4 Perk, large.. • • .... 2 6 3 0 I 2 8 310 -- small .• •• 3 2 3 6 Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d. 1101R.OUGEE AND SPITILLFIELDS. For old Potatoes, the arrivals of which have been mo derate, the demand is in a very sluggish state, at irre gular quotations. Last week's imports of new qualities Were, 1 ton from Bermuda, 340 baskets from Rotterdam, and 24 sieves from Dunkirk. York Regents, 95s to 125 s Per ton; Scotch Regents, 90s to 110 s; ditto Cups, 75s to 100 8 ; Cambridge and Wisbeach, 90s to 110 s. WOOL. The quantity of Wool actually on offer in the private contract market is comparatively small. With the ex ception of English qualities commanding rather more attention for shipment to the Continent, the amount of business doing is limited. Last week's imports were extensive, viz, 800 bales from Hobart Town, 40 from Mogador, 6 255 from Sydney, 125 from Haniburgh, 1,022 from Launceston, 1,378 from Adelaide, 756 from Geelong, 9 from Madras, 8 from Buenos Ayres, and 776 from Portland Bay. 11:103:OUGME lEOP IVICAZZICET. For the most part, the accounts from the (plantations continue favourable, the bine having grown rapidly during the past week; hence the demand hero is in a very eloggith state, at barely stationary prices. Susses Pockets, 1103 to 1269; Weald of Rents, 120 s to 1452; Mid and East Rents, 140 s to 2505; Yearlings, 70s to 110 s; Old Olds, 22s to 505. TALLOW. For the time of year the deliveries continue tolerably good, and our market is firm. at a further advnnce in the quote ions of from 3d to 61 per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 38s 9cl, and for forward delivery 393 9d per cwt. Town Tallow 37s per cwt net cash; Rough Fat 2s ld per Sibs. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1848. Stock this day •• .• .• 8,096 Gd Price of Y. C. •• •• t 044455 Delivery last week .. 1,208 bitto from June 1.• •• 4,974 Arrivals last week • 444 bitto from June 1 ... 5,546 Price of Town .• •• 46s Gd 23,304 24,733 38s 6d 36s 94 to 38s Od to 37s Oti 1,132 946 2,470 , 3,844 1,146 ; 809 1,301 2,593 39s 6d , 38s Od 37,98 I 40,807 378 6d toi 388 9d 378 9,1 to Os IV 959 1,6'17 2,935 3,524 1,912 2,904 4,100 3,703 33s Od 1 39s 6d QUEEN'S BEN CH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord CAMPBELL, and a Special Jury.) ACHILLI V. NEWMAN. This was a criminal; information filed, at the instance of Dr. Achilli, against Dr. Newman for a series of alleged libels. Sir F. Thesiger, Sir F. Kelly, and Mr. Ellis conduc ted the prosecution, and Sir A. J. E. Cothhurn, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, and Mr. Bramwell appeared for the defence. Mr. ELLIS having opened the pleadings in the case. sir F. THEEIGER addressed the jury for the prosecu tion. He said the prosecutor, Dr. Achilli, had been a monk of the Dominican order, iu the Roman Catholic Church, but was now a Protestant, and a preacher at the Italian Protestant Church in Golden-square. The de . fendant was formerly a distinguished clergyman of the Established Church, but had been converted to the Roman Catholic faith. In 1850 Dr. Achilli arrived in this country, where ho had remained ever since, having recently escaped from the prisons of the Inquisition, in which he had been confined for six months. He was a man of great talent and indomitable energy, and pos sessed besides a strong determination and a spirit of in dependence which seemed to make him unwilling to sutmit to authority. Having revelations to make re specting the dungeons of the Inquisition, and respecting the practices of the faith which he had formerly recognised, ho attended various public meet ings for the purpose of delivering lectures on the Roman Catholic Church. These excited a great deal of attention and interest, and the members of the church he had quitted lookd upon him as a very formidable adversary, and as one not to be des p ised.' They accordingly sought to impeach his veracity and destroy his credit, and no one addressed himself with more zeal, if not with more ability, to the task than Dr. Newman, the present defendant. He knew the temper of the English people, and that nothing was more likely to throw scandal on Dr. Achilli than the fact of his having committed any impropriety while clothed in the sacred office of priest. He, therefore, with great avidity armed himself with all the scandal which the malice tied invention of enemies had disseminated against Dr. Achill', and delivered it in his own language, in the co u rse of a series o f lectures tothe brothers of the Oratory at Be mtnghatr, in 1851, w hich were subsequently pub lished in a pamphlet. The lectures were five in number, and were on the logical inconsistency of Protestantism. Dr. Newman described Dr. Achilli as an infidel and a profligate, who as early as 1826 was deprived of his faculty to lecture for an offence which his superiors did their best to conceal, and who in 1827 had earned the of reputation of being guiltytY the most scandalous con duct. He went on to say that he was the same Dr. Achilli who in 1831 robbed September, woman of 18 of her honour, who in 1833, was found guilty of a similar crime in the case of a person aged 28, who perpetrated a third such offence in 1834, in the cas e of another, aged 24; that he was that son of St. Domi nic who. in 1840, violated the person of a child, aged 15, at Naples, and chosen the sacristy of the church for the cotnmistisn of one such crime at Viterbo. Dr. Achilli felt that he was bound to vindicat e his character in a court of kr,- tice against these foul slanders, and to call on his ac cusers to make good their charges. There were no hes than 24 distinct acc usations contained in the pleas, and the truth of every one of these the defendant had undertaken to prove in evidence. They extended over a period of 26 years, and some were of a very extraor dinary nature. lie was charged withnam having various women, some of whom were ,soe unknown; with having improper intercourse with one in the sacristy, and with another, a mere child, on Good Friday. He was likewise charged with having committed adultery with two persons nanss d ; with having been removed from a professorship in conse quence of acts of impropriety end fornication; and it was likewise said he had been guilty of seduction in 1847, 185 0 , and 1851, and that the archives of the P 'lice at Naples would show that he was a person of habi , ual incontinency. lie (Sir F. Thesiger) was em harassed as to the proper course he ought to pursue iv such an important investigation. Under ordinary cir cumstances, he would have anticipated the charges in the pleas, and adduced evidence to rebut them; but on the Present oocasicw, lie feued it was cltlite impossible far him to adopt that course. He would, theref4re, wait taril he heard the evidence on the part of the defnice, •13,:f0r0 ho would call any witnesses in support of Dr. ease, pledging hhnaelf to produce, among other , , Dr. Aa illi, and to submit him to the most; searclung examination of his Learned Friend cn the other side. Dr. Achil!i wos perfectly awaro of the difficulties which surrounded him, but he would calmly and fearlessly await the result, being as sured that, though a foreigner, he would receive that ina p,rtial justice which invariably distinguished British juries. He knew be must stand or fall by the result of the trial. John Waltman, clerk to the prosecutor's attorney, produced the rule of the court of 17th November, 1851. Mr. Sergeant kVILKINS requested that the witnesses should be ordered out of court. Sir F. THEsicEn hoped Dr. Achill weal:; be allowed to remain, as it was of the greatest consequence he should hear the evidence, Mr. Servant WILKINS said he filt it necessary to re quest is absence. Lord CAMPBELL —Then the prosecutor must leave the court- S - r J. E. CeCKBURN then addressed the jury on the roe - , of the (et - axe, and observed that, though the 11 sme of religions controversy had leen raised in this ca o, he trusted the jury would divest their mieds of all prejudices and partialities, and do justice hstracen these two parties, who were the great chseipioni of two antagonistic Churches. irh n a Roman Catholic became a convert to the Pro tevant faith, they were gene! ally disposed to consider he had yielded to the force of reason, truth, and light, and if his motives were called into question they would become his wivocates and supporters; but take a man who had seceded from the Protestant Church and gene over to Rome, and they would look upon him as a de serter and an i:npostor, and if his conduct were questioned, they would ascribe it to baser and more sordid motives. Both Dr. Achilli and Dr. Newman e-ere converts, apostates, who had abandoned the faith in which they were originally brought up, and become converts to the opposite church. He (the Learned Counsel) admitted that if the charges made against Dr. Achilli could not be substantiated she defendant would be guilty of a very grave and serious offence. Ho should, however, show that they were not made without good grounds, and that in making them Dr. Newman was not gratifying any spite or vindictive feeling against Dr. Achilli. It would be asked, then, why he thus attacked the character of that gentleman? Dr. Achilli presented himself before the public as a person who could reveal the secrets of the dungeons of the Inquisition; he held up to odium the practises of the Raman Catholic faith, and said, " hold a monk and priest who has become a convert to Protestantism, and who is now no longer under the con trol or subject to the abominations of the Church of Rome." His language against the church he had left was of the strongest character; he denounced not only its doctrines, but also the corruptions of the clergy, the dissoluteness of their lives, and the abomiaations of their practices. He said Popo Gregory de ceived the people with a belief not for the benefit of their souls, but his own private gains. Of course it could not be expected that he would speak more considerately of less distinguished members of the Church. From the Pope on his throne' to the very lowest priest, the general rule, according to his description, was wickedness and licentiousness, and purity and virtue the solitary and rare exception. If these statements were true, it was no doubt important to mankind and the Christian world that they should be made known to the public; but, on the other hand, if they were wholly false and scandalous, it became the duty of every Roman Catholic to vindicate his Church from the aspersions cast upon it, provided he had it in his power to do so. It naturally occurred to Dr. Newman to inquire who this Dr. Achilli was who held up to odium the church to which he formerly belonged—whether he was a person worthy of belief, and whose testimony might be safely relied upon. Both good sense and experience of mankind suggested to Dr. Newman the propriety of ascertaining what really were the ante cedents and motives of the man who thus apostatised from the Roman Catholic faith. This led to inquiry, and the result was that Dr. Newman gave publicly en account of ;the practices and conduct of Dr. Achilli, with full detail as to time, place, and circumstance; and ho was now prepared to vindicate the truth of every• statement he had advanced. There could be no ques tion that from his youth Dr. Achilli was eminently dis tinguished for his great abilities, learning, and eloquence, but still that was notirreconcileable with the immorality of his private life. The Learned Counsel then adverted to the libels, and asserting that he should be in a postion to prove the truth of every one of them, he gave a detailed history of Dr. Achilli's antecedents, commencing from the period when he entered the priesthood until ho first avowed himself a Protestant, mentioning, among other acts of mis conduct, that he had seduced three young ladies, two of whom he should call into the box, and also de bauched several married women, and the notoriety of his incontinence led to proceedings being taken. But these charges were not confined to the time he was resident in Italy, for after he arrived in England and, indeed, s i nce we had become a married man, he attempted to violate the person of a servant girl in the house in which he lodged; he did not succeed in that attempt, but, he regretted to say, that in two other instances two persons in the same position of life had been seduced by him. Under all these circumstances, Dr. Newman was justified in asking, who and what Dr. Achilli was, and whether he had been guilty of such serious out rages against religien, morality, and propriety. Eleanor Guistini was then called. She was 40 years of age, and was now married. She was married two years ago. She now lived in Viterbo, where she had been since her birth. She knew the Dominican Convent there, and was acquainted with Dr. Achilli, who was a monk of that convent. She went to that convent when he called her; that was about twenty-three years ago, when she was about 17 or 18 years old. She saw Dr. Achilli at the convent; he " deflowered" her at that time. She was a virgin. The occurrence took place in the sacristry. She h - ad been alone in his company in other places. She was then in the service of Signora Gtntilli, who was acquainted with Dr. Achilli, who had been resident in her master's house about a month. He had used liberties with her before the occurrence in the sacristy. She bad walked with him alone, and at his invitation. It was, a custom for servants in Italy to confess, and he requested her to go to the sacristy for that purpose. Btic b as there alone, sh e was obliged to c onsent to what took place. He commenced assaulting her when she was at SignoraGentilli's country house. The same circumstance that took place in the sacristy took place some time afterwards, and was renewed, once in the convent, and twice in a house. She asked him if there was no sin in it, and he replied there was not. — (Laughter.) She told him there was hell in it, and he said " not at all," or otherwise it would be quite full. Cross-examined by Sir F. TRESIGER—I arrived in this country on Thursday last. I left Viterbo six months ago. I have been residing since at Paris, Dover, and some other places between Dover and London. A lady accompanied me from Viterbo, named Madame Rosina di Berns. My husband also came with me. I lived three months at Paris, and arrived at Dover in May. It was at the request of a lawyer that I came from Viterbo to London, but I cannot recollect his name. Before leaving I saw my priest, the Cm& and he said I might come. Signor Rainaggi is his name. I have seen a priest in London, but I did not say anything to him of this matter. Dr. Achilli went to Signora Gentilh's villa to pass a month in the country; there was no other servant in the house. The family consisted of two men besides Sig nora Gentilli; it was a very retired house. He solicited my chastity the first time I Walked out with him; he took me to a place for shootirig birds, to show me two members of the family shooting. I did not see the shoot ing, but Dr. Achilli took me into a shepherd's hut, and solicited my chastity, but I positively denied him. I then considered that to do so would be a sin. I afterwards walked home with him, but I told what had taken place to my confessor, the curate of the parish.l never walked with him again iu the country. On another occasion he solicited my chastity. This was in the lady's house. He told me not to go to bed as he would come to me, because he wished me to get by heart a panegyric in praise of Cecilia, which was to be delivered in a few days.- -(Laughter.) I went to bed, having previously locked the door. He came and knocked at the door gently, but I did not answer him. I said next morning I would leave the place, but I did not tell Signora Gentilli how I had been disturbed. I left Signora Gentelli's service after Dr. Achilli had returned to the convent. [The trial was proceeding when our reporter loft.] LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending June 19, 1852 ... £10,752 9 6 Traffic—Week ending June 21, 1851 ... 12,537 15 0 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 225,889 19 4 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 231,248 15 1 Total number of Passengers—Week ending June 19, 1812 ... 67,699 ... £8,577 6 3 Passengers ... Goods ... 2;175 3 3 Total ... ... £10,752 9 6 Total miles open. 1852, 173 w; ditto, 1851, 173%. London Terminus, June 21, 1852. , PROBABLE ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNE. —PORTSMOUTH, SHNDAY.—It is considered probable that he r Majesty , Prince Albert, an d th e Courter Osborne ex about the 4th of July n will remove to all ready for service. We havealreadyt. The alluded twosuperb state tand barges beautiful and other order , boatsorliwaettamclaayed royal to yachts their h a e r i e r n to ow the ad t d oya th l at yachtsthe yachtsare equally an d baosataw haveell fitted, always painted,boen mostand de superior,cc rated t . n t The ‘vo have never seen them so brilliant and tastefully brought out they are turned o at d a n of Victoriath ea e tain and Albert Captain Johnson, the as have been superintendent, swung her compasses on y, and on Sa turday he swung the compasses of the Fairy. vessel, with Master - Commander Welsh, went rto The latter Shit head on Friday to test the screw and machinery. L IT ER A P.Y TiIEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.—The ' nutnb,r of literary men in the Douse of Commons has al.: ways been comparatively small, and the pressure of business there has increased so much in modern times, that it would interfere greatly with the leisure required by authors. Lord m a hoe, Mr. Disraeli. and Mr. Gladstone are the only promi nent authors now in the House of Commo erns. B interest,lost of its greatest ornaments. Sir Bulwer Lytton, it is said, is likely to gain his election for Herts. The death of Mr. Sheil, and the promotion to the Bench of Sir T. N. Tallourd, have been further losses to the literary M.P.'s, who Certainly need some additions in an age when education is so promi nent a topic of discussion.— Atheneum. 'fur, DissourioN.—Parli iment will be prorogued, as at present arranged, en Thursday, July 1, and dissolved on the following day. It is not her ..,ajesty's intention to pro rogue ParliaMent in person. The Queen's Speech and the Royal Assent to the remaining Bills will becommunicated by Lords Commissioners. — Sunday Paper. Mrs. Disraeli will have a large assembly on Wed- Away next. LITERATURE. IMPERIAL PA RLI AMEN T. (THIS DAY•) HOUSE OFCOMMONS. The SPEAKER the Chair at Twelve o'clock. PPIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords.' amendments to the Cork Improvement Bill were considered and agreed to. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Aberdeen Hammermen Incorporation. Adams's Estate. Gedling's Estate. Leith Exchange Buildings. Magdalen College (Oxford) Estate. West Middlesex Waterwo: ks. • PE FITIONS. Mr. LOCKHART p;;;;;:tedajoetition from certain weavers complaining of distress, and praying for twee to emigrate. Mr. L aCY presented a petition from Bedvain pray ing for the inspection of nunneries. Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from Monmouth praying for the sepurnAnn of Church and State. POOR-LAW BOARD CONTINUANCE BILL. This Bill was read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass, Sir DE LACY EVANS moved the insertion of the following proviso—Provided always, that nothing in this Act, or is any other Act, shall be deemed or taken to aut.horise the said Commissioners to continua in any way to enforce, or to issue, any order by them hereto fore made, or hereafter to be made, whereby they may have determined, or may determine, or assume to deter mine, the continuance in office or dismissal of any officers appointed, or to be appointed, under the provisions of any local Act for the regulation, or the government, or the appointment of the officers of any parish. The Hon. and Gallant Officer objected to the passing of the Bill altogether, and insisted that it was not one of those indispensably necessary measures which ought to have been brought in this session. He might be told that it was only a continuance Bill, but although it was so he objected to it because it continued the existing law for two instead of one year. It concerned the distribution of 'upwards of 6 000,000/. of revenue, and it was the duty of the House not to allow so important a measure to be disposed of in a moribund Parliament. The great question, however, involved in this Bill was the appointment of the officers. For more than a century the rate-payers had the power of appointing their own officers on Easter-day; but in many instances the Poor law Board had prohibited the exercise of that privilege, and the consequence had been that several public de monstrations had been made against the board. Many of the local vestries and poor-law boards bad performed their duties so effectually that in some cases they re duced the taxation of the parish by nearly a half, and for the sake of principle and economy he contended that these local bodies ought not to be interfered with in their useful and praiseworthy operations, The Poor-law Board bad laid it down as a rule that the parish officers could not be removed without the sanction of the board, and the effect of that rule had been, and would continue to be, to improve the efficiency of the vestries and the guardians. This was another of these attempts at a centralization of power which all Governments appeared anxious to accomplish, and he prayed the House to hesi tate before it passed this Bill without the proviso which he had proposed. The clause was then brought up and read a first time. On the question that the clause be read a second time, Sir J. TROLLOPE opposed it, as being peculiarly inconvenient at this moment, and wholly uncalled for. He maintained that the present was the proper time for passing this renewal Bill, which contained no power or administrative clauses at all, while if the Hon. and Gal lant Gentleman objected to the existing Poor-law Board he could renew his opposition in the next Parliament, should he be so fortunate as to obtain a seat in it.—(A laugh.) The Hon. and Gallant Member, besides others, had stated that the Poor-law Board cost the country 250,0001, but the fact was it did not cost more than 33,604 1 . The Noble Lord the Member for Marylebone, at one of his recent electioneering meetings, accused him of leaving represented the Marylebone and St. Pancras vestries as composed of illiterate tradesmen; but be begged to tell the Noble Lord and the House that since be had been in office he had made no such imputation, nor had his intercourse with the gentlemen who formed these vestries produced such an impression in his mind. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the observation of the Hon. and Gallant Member, that parish officers ought to be elected annually, he begged to state that he enter tained a very different opinion, and was equally opposed to the proposition of the lion. and Gallant Member to place the dismissal of those officers at the caprice of the vestries.—(Hear, hear.) Lord DUDLEY STUART was prepared to support the proviso, because ho was favourable to the principle of local self-goveremeet. He differed with the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Poor-law Board, i n su pposing that the vestries ought not to be entrusted with the absolute appointment and dismissal of the parish officers. The dictates of common sense told them, that for the sake of securing subordination, the vestries should have the same power of dismissing that they had of appointing their officers, and ho for ens thoug ht that the withholding, or the prohibition of any such power, on the part of the Poor-law Board, would be contrary to law.--(Hear, hear.) He disclaimed all intention of reflecting upon the Right Hnour able Gentleman personally when he addressed his constituents the other day, but at the same time he declined to withdraw any of the statements that he made then. The Poor-law Board had cast unfounded imputations upon the Marylebone and St. Pancras vestries, and he was authorised to state that most of the statements which the Beard had put forth against either vestry were wholly devoid of truth. Years ago these vestries might have mismanaged their affair, but they must be judged by their present and not by their past conduct. Hew, for instance, would the Government like to be estimated according to the principles which they professed a short time back? Why, they were only tolerated because they had given up protection, which stunk in the nostrils of the people, and he was sure the Noble Lord at the head of the Administration woud prefer being tried by the present rather than the past. r t y o l o e bo nridiculous vestry t o w require escomposed u i T I i h it e er c a h t e e rg tr e sd t that t e h n e! : refuta tion, while, as to the other imputation which the Right Hon. Baronet bad thrown out, that the vestry sus more occupied with the wrongs of Poland and Hungary than their own affairs, he was ready to give it a flat contradiction. Now, with regard to this unnecessary Bill, he believed Government had brought it forward for private reasons, and he could nut allow it to pass quietly into a law. No reason had been given why the law, as it now stood, should be continued for two years, except that it would save the interest of the Go vernment—all the other continuance Bills were limited to twelve months, and he could see no just cause why this Bill should be made an exception to the rule. (LEFT SITTING.) ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. On Saturday Lessing's Emilia Galotti was given at St. Ja me s's Theatre, with the full strength of the German company. art of Marinelli, Appiani, He rr K u h n was allotted the p Emil Devrieut to ok the slight part of Count and Odoardo Galotti was performed by Herr Lehfeld. Frau Stolte was the Emilia. The performance, as far as the acting was concerned, was exc the el lent, and aff or d e d an individual proof of assiduity and intelligence of each individual actor, and of their perfect" pulling together." Leasing's tragedy is but a pale shad ow o f Virginus. Shorn of all the interest of history, di E insignificant lib ert i ne Duke of Gorzag e, A pp ius Clan guised under the m odern costume of an dius is brought before us in a new garb. Emilia Ga lotti is a substitute for Virginia, Count Appiani for Lucius Mlles, and th e Minister Marin elli for Marcus Claudins. Emilia Galotti, b e t ro th e d to Count Appian' , has aroused The plot, of cours e, is slightly altered. the licentious admiration of the Duke. Marinelli, it is true, does not claim her as a slave, but he hires brigands to tear her away forcibly f r om the ar ms of the Count , who is shot (very early in the tragedy), and takes her to the country seat of the Duke. Her father, to prevent her fall, stabs her with his dagger. Macready's personifica tion of the Roman patriot is still present before us, and the noble tragedy of Alfieri (Virginia), who has adhered so truthfully to history, casts Leasing into the sl3a 4 .e. We are glad to find that Hamlet is announced for repe tition, and that Faust and The Robbers are to follow shortly. BLEAK IIOUSE. No. IV. By Charles Dickens. Sufficient progress is already made in the develop ment of the plot to afford the more discerning some notion of the probable drift of the narrative. Nemo has expired before his discovery by Mr. Tulkinghorn, who thereupon goes back " to allegory and medita tion." Although no manuscripts tending to eluci date the mystery of his identity are found in Nemo's portmanteau, it is evident that such MSS. are in ex istence, and that Brook extracted them from their resting place surreptitiously when the lawyer was calling for the assistance of Miss Elite, the crazy female lodger. Equally evident is it that the dark young surgeon, who appears at the deathbed, is the same as the one mentioned at the close of the present number as likely to prove the lover of Esther Sum merson. Toe account of the it quest u pon " our dear brother" (with all its preliminaries), is admirably exact, and may lead ultimately to the re-or ganiz ition of a system at present very absurd and very inefficient. Th e b ea dl e, gener ally un ders'ood to be " a ridi cu l ous i ns itution," exis• perating the public " b y exclus i on, d e lay, and last general idiotcy," taunt e d • at by youthful voices with having " boiled a boy," the " active and intelligent" Mooney, is scarcely less delicious as a slight sketch than Mr. Bumble's more elaborate por traiture. As a compinion address to that of t he bricktnaker in the last nu m b er, take the ev idence of Mrs. riper on the " Crow ner ' s 'Quest," when the question is put as to wheth er any une else is in at tendance who knows anythi ng more ? " Mrs. Piper pushed forward by M rs . p a kini. Mrs. Piper sworn. Anastasia Piper, gentlemen. Married woman. Now. Mrs. Piper—what have You got to say ab out this ? " Why, Mrs. Piper has a goo d deal to say, c hi e fly in parenthesis and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Mrs. Piper lives in th e court (which her husb and is a cabinet-maker) and it ha s lon g b een well beknown among the neighbours (counti ng from the day aex t . but one before the half-baptising of Alexander James Piper aged eighteen months and four days old on accounts of not being e xpected to live such wa s gen tlemeu of that child in his gums)—so es ti) Mrs. Piper insists on calling the deceased—was reported to have sold himself. Thinks it was the Plaintive's air in which that report originatinin. See the Plaintive often, and considered his to be allowed to go about some children being timid (and if doubted hoping Mrs. Perkins may b e brought forard for she is here and will do credit to her husband and her selfe the _ su r ff i e a r i i n n t g i $ s e and family). Has seen the Plaintive wexed a n d worrited by the children (for children. they will ever b e and you cannot expect them specially it , of playful dis positions to be Methoozellers which you was not your self). On accounts of this and his dark looks has often dreamed as she see him take a pickax e from his pocket and split Johnny's bead (which the child knows not fear and has repeatually called after him close at his eels). Never however see the Plaintive t a k e a pickaxe cr any other wepping far from it. H£ . 11 . 1 See n him hurry away it when run and called after as not partial to children and never see him speak to aeith er child nor grown person at any time (excepting the boy that sweeps the crossing down the lane over the way round the corner which if be was here would tell you that he has been seen a speaking to him frequent)." • Thereupon the boy is sunamoned-.... g i vin _ g an account of himself, such as would qualify him to become a pupil in one of the ragged schools near Saffron-hill. Little Swills, the comic singer,. wh o ! gives a descrip tion of these proceedings in . the evening at the public house, closes each point . . in the delineation—in a manner delightfully richc.ulous—tc with his (the coroner's) tippy tol Ii doll, tippy tol lo doll tippy tol li doll, Dee !" The lamentation o ver the corpse be fore burial has evident reference to Lady Dedlock, who re-appears at Chesney Voldwith Sir Leicester—my lady being acco mpanied by for tense, her maid, a Frenchwoman w- h 0 seems to be always "on the watch, and who promises to aid much in the entanglement and ul t i mately t oo , perhaps, in the eventual revelation of whatever is mysterious in the story. An ex quisite little vignette view of Paris is given by the magic pen o f D i c k ens , in the course of his description of Sir L e i ce ster's journey from that capital to his estate in England. Arrived there, we have a record of the pe o ple as sembled under the roof-trees at Chesney Wold, and partaking of the hospitalities of Leicestershire. A capital and bizarre pasquinade here occurs on politics and politicians. The interview betwee n L ady fled lock and Mr. Tulkinghorri, trifling thou g h it may seem now, will turn out, we feel assured, to lead to many important consequ . encFs. In th e subsequent chapter " Esther's Narrative' is resum e d. The oc cupants of Bl ea k H ous e are up in London. Ada and Richard are betrothed. The latter is placed under the care of one Mr. Bayham Badger, a surgeon at Chelsea, for th e pur p os e of studying for the profes sion. Mrs. Bayham Badger, formerly. M rs . Pro fecsor Ding o , f ormer l y M r s. Captain Swosser, is al together intolerable—but still more intolerable, if that be pos s ibl e , i s h er h us band. At th e theatres , in the pit, with his hair straight and flat, and his Blurt collar down, looking up at the box containing Esther and her fri en d s , w i t h an expression o f " general feebleness a b ou t hi m, " appea rs M r . Guppy--pain fully disconsolate. Among the many happy phrases in this instalm e nt th ere i s on e peculi ar l y new and witty, where pawnbrokers' duplicates are spoken cff. as " turnpike tickets on t h e roa d o f poverty." Nothing could scarcely be more indifferent, in their way, than Hablot Browne's two very care l e ss illustrations. GUIDE TO THE LAKE DISTRICT. Written by E. L. Blanchard. illustrated by F. G. Delamotte. Lanca shire, Westmoreland, a n d Cumberlan d, A pocket guide-book t o t h e la k e di s t r i c t of times be welcome to the t our i st but mo re than ever ac ceptable when penn e d as it isthere p en ned by E. L. Bl an chard. Already th at gentleman h a s conferred ve ry considerable ben e fit s on the commun ity by his delightful volumes introd uctory to the mu st at all "Watering Places of England," to the and the "Environs of the Metropolis," published .by W. J. Adams, and now enj oy i ng a very extensive circulation. The cheapness of these guide-books, al though. very remarkable, i s L oy no means their chief attraction. They possess the advantage, in .addition to this, of being the . most complete works of the kind that have ever been issued in a stle so compact, written in a strain so peculiarly popular." Curiosities also, the best that has yet ap peared. It comprises every imaginable information beforo us—is, perhaps, that could be desired, together with a charming " run ning commentary on all the poetic associations of the incomparable scenery The author described. proves himself, by . his vivacity and intelligence, to be one of the . most delightful The last —the one nf companions. Embellished as his narrative F. by the picturesque engravings of W. n ol anaotte it conducts us through that maze of natural beauties, the mountains,. graceful and the lakes, and the waterfalls eminently lovely in themselves, but rendered y et lovelier by the v erse of Coleridge, of Southey, and of W or d s worth. Every one who traverses that ce l ebrated locality, w i t h the ea guide-book here mentio ned in his po cket, will as suredly at the close of hi s tour 11 gra t e ful benison on the head of E. L. Blanchard. a MDLLE. CLAUSS'S Mdlle. Claus's announced recital of classical and modern pianoforte music to o k ,b iee on Saturday, at Willis's Rooms, Leforo a Very i r arge and select audience. Daring her short stay in T. London Mdlle. Clauss has sue eceded in acquiring the ad tn i loving world of London. - -ration of the greet music- Ma MATINEE MUSICALE. The gentle and prepossessing manners of this youthful celehrit_ - -- , Led w ith a burst of ap plause on her taking her seat at the instrument. The solos selected on this occasion prelude and cial favourite, end she was 1 1 ,, ; , were Bach's fugue is C sharp, a nocturne i r , ri t t.„„, Chopin, and a presto ocherzando by Mend e b 3 " s u.Y hich latter was rapturously encored., , Bacthovp ,° o ' w , NI onli , ht " -11 s sonata,' — 0 g , brought mdlie. Claus s f "Tilsit° fingering into full The crowning perform ance play. y have made her a spe e was Thalberg's grand fantaisie from the a . naGonbuia, w hi c h concluded . the matinee. Mdlle. Clauss vies ably supported by Piaui and Joachim in a trio by Beetbovet; Staudigl sang three German Lieder, and x d _ e. Vezzosa gondoliera," and in a duo (Rossini) with Herr additional laurels in Meyerbeer' a ul . Reichert, who possesses a most pleasing organ, well , suited to the concert room. The thunder-storm, wnich burst during the Per formance, did not in the least disturb the attention of the audience. Clara Novello won HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. A very delightftil pertormance took Owe at these rooms on Thursday evening last—the first exhibition of the students of " The British School of Vocalization," established last year, and conducted by Mr. G. F. Flowers, the giver of the concert. Mr. Flowers was assisted on this occasion by twenty-four of his pupils, who performed a variety of excellent selections in a v, ry admirable manner. The contralto voice of Miss Annie de Lara, aged twelve! and the soprano voice of Miss Clara Holmes, aged ten! astonished the audience. These young ladies were encored in two Italian duets, and certainly Mr. Flowers may well be proud of such ev idences of the excellency of his tuition, which has pro duced an unparalleled instance of vocal maturity and flexibility in singers so young. Encores were likewise bestowed on Miss Brooke and Miss Isabella Staunton, Miss Whittaker, and Mr. Benham. The concert was under the immediate patronage of her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland, was most fully and fashionably attended, and Mr. Flowers was called for ward and unanimously cheered in appreciation of the signal success of his spirited, and we may add patriotic undertaking, his design being to prove that English voices are as beautiful as those of foreigners when pro perly developed. His ultimate intention is permanently to establish schools for operatic singing and the exhibi tion on Thursday of the effects produced on the voice by his method, after only fifteen months' instruceo], satisfacwrily proves his nbilit tai carry out his object. --_,...._ Sibthorp has obtained his annual return respecting the , stun _ * Paid into the Stamp office on insurance from fire. -r he duty amounted last year to a very considerable sum. The largest sum in one quarter by one office (the Sun) was 44 39 FIRE INSURANCE. — CoIoneI 4 insured in the last of 1851 to 5 , 1,935,05 M quarter Mr. D. Wemyss Jobson,who appends to his name hrocaderemony. the words D. Author of ' History of the French Revolution," stock, which is exempt from duty, 'll has just announced himself a candidate for the represen wrann ! England, farming tation of Westminster ; and concludes his address to the electors in these words of warning to the Derby Cabinet: —" If elected your Member, I shall be no silent repre• sentstive of your wrongs, but will make them ring in DE nisterial ears in words palpable as the sun in hi s meridian splendour." with C he i s t n e u r e - The Edinburgh statue of the, Duke of Wellington keen breuglit'fronilarLeihveesrtpeoro'l by ENOICNIOUS PLANK.— Oil Tuesday there was at t he Bridgewater Canal-. 3 d b fnricaas ingtuomurweoropcol,olodrurin_ t h e cana l. Its (Innen:ions arc—length was inauguratecloilFr .a id n ly , 14,1 feet; breadth '2O inches; a9O thickness, 6 inches throughout. It is et ~a African oak, a" summe r. I; last swag The tree from which this plank has been sawn must h' ve enormous plank, which ha been of a gigantic height, Probably not much less than 300 feet. species p o o f r t w e o d o f d r okm"Aw ACCESSION OF D erday was the ER MAJESTY . fifteenth anniversary of her Majesty's accession. The royal standard was hoisted at the Tower of London, Somer et house, the Admiralty, the steeples of St Martin's-in-the Fields, St. Margaret's, Westminster, and other public edi fices. The different vessels in the various docks (St. Katha rine, London, West and East India) and in the river had their variegated colours flying on the occasion. At two o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired the usual royal salute, as did also the batteries and ships of war at Woolwich. last t roop-$ rip Resistance arrived i THE 42D RFGIMENT. on hoard the gallant 42(1 Hip hlanders.4 SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—A schooner called the llarewood, of Plymouth, was wrecked on Wedaesday, —On Thursday • 600 men and women. The trot)! s land he t 1 about a mile off the coast of the village of Beer, in the south of Devon, and her crew, consisting of six men, perished. were conveyed thence the followin, e d d at °me _ Sheis morning t ri f il r n om g ers aml upwards of The disaster occurred in the middle of the day, and in sight Nova Scotia, and has on hoard 18 the , Clyde, having of a number of people on the shore. A boat was manned and attempted to gain the vessel, but the heavy sea pre vented it, and the brave crew were compelled to put back . Stirling, Perth, Dundee, &c. 6 ay, b" railway) to again. The vessel, it is conjectured, was water-logged. LANCASIIIRE AND YORKSH Suddenly she was observed to heel over, being struck with a dividend has b IltE R A ...... The ILWAY. bee computed to be at the heavy sea, and soon a fter s unk a nd broke to pieces. If there decent surplus to go to next half-year rate of 3tA, with a had been a life-boat here, the probability is that the crew determine to ay only 34, the su rplus . Greenock, and 1 mild kayo been wed. i ro ust, of course, • much larger.—fferapath. p date the direct b 0 Yest , SPORTING NOTES. No. COXL VIII. ODDS AND ENDS WORTH KNOWING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. performance of my duty to the public, I now lay before it the following scraps of information, which will enable many who have not the opportunity of dis covering for themselves to profit considerably thereby, br at least prevent any serious blunders being made, in duced by specious appearances. At Newcastle, for the North Derby, the following will be missing from the fray :—Tomato, Helen Faucet, W itoma colt, Shagram, My Fancy, The Major, Lizzy, Consulta tion, Garibaldi, Koh-i-noor, Emerystone, Y oung Haw thorn, Miss Lavinia, King of Trumps, and the King of Troy; and I think it very possible that, notwithstanding the favouritism with which Stilton is regarded, he wilt be added to the list. The Second Triennial Stekee—Oat of the fifteen no minations to this stake, all ero out of training but the Miss Whip colt (who is as slow as a hack), Presto (who is not likely to run), and Azeth. Tho Tyro Stakes—Tee absentees for this stake are the Ace of Trumps, Tweedside, Strait dael.K.t, Miss Hilderton, Saguenay, and Poetess. The Produce Stakes—Lord Felconbzrg said to be the exclusive winner. Starters not known. The Third Triennial Stakes—Oa the missing list will be the Bitch, Veracity, Buriadale, Cleveland, and, I be lieve, Claverhouse and S:ingstress. At Newcastle only two are expected to run, Evedne and Pelopidas. Gateshead or Lottery Stakes—The non-starters are Daniel O'Rourke, Brahmin, the Varmint, the Sheltie, Veracity, Garibaldi, Stratagem, Byker, Happy Joe, and Augur. Gold Cup—As yet only two, Songstress and Miserriina, form the missin g lot. At Stockbridge, for the Third Triennial all are certain not to see the post, but Chief Baron Nicholson, Longbow, Maidstone, Harbinger, Kingston, Joe Miller, Filius, and Sir John; and of these Maidstone and King stone are very doubtful runners. The Second Triienuial—All but the following are out of training, or placed hors de combat by something or other :—Payment, Harpsichord, Phlegethoa, Lamar tine, Runnymede, Catalpa, Antigone, Knight of the Thistle, and Iracundus. For the Fourth Triennial the following are reported will be absentees :—Colt by Simoom, Glengary, Bat tery, Cavalier, Strait Jacket, Thistlewhipper filly, Sit tingbourne, Feversham, Flutter, Conspiracy colt, Miss Woolgar, Basilique, Bright Waltham, Glenarvou, Bay Middleton, and Touchstone fillies, Charon, and Con tentment. For the Mottisfont the following are reported out of the fray .—Splitvote filly, Grapeshot, Little Swift, Mo lasses, Cinamintn, Knavery, Placid, Gossip, Flutter, Frenzy, Venus filly, Mocassin, Ireland's Eye, Maria colt, Moonbeam colt, Pitfall, Pharold, Infidelity colt, Ace of Trumps, Mrs. John, Gloomy, Glenalvon, Bat tery, Telltale; and I think Veultress and Cineas will have to be added to this list. The Alkali colt, Gossip, and, I believe, Hybla, will not run for the Champagne Stakes at the Bibary Club Meet ing; and I am also given to understand that Hothorpe will be the representative of Day's stable for the Bibary Stakes. For the Northumberland Plate we are not to see the following at the post:—Cossack Confessor, Chatterbox, ' Castaway, Constellation, Elthiron Galvanism, Gold finder, Hothorpe, Haresfoot, High Sheriff, Miss Ann, Musician, Merry Bird, Nancy, Orelio, Russborough, Ringleader, Sledmere, Stafford, Sally, Snowdrop, Story teller, and Young Troublesome. Bird-on-the-Wing, it was whispered last night, will not start; how far this may be true I know not.—Yours. &c., Juno 19, 1852. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEWCASTLE, MONDAY MORNING. The fields for to-morrow's races are as follows : Trial Stakes—England's Glory, Brawn, Happy Joe, Agnes Wickfield, filly by Venison, Rattlecap, Ada, Shamrock, and Mrs. John. Second Triennial Stakes—Azeth, Presto, Miss Whip colt. North Derby—Marinella colt, Sally Warfoot colt, Lucio, and Stilton. The stable money is on the latter, but his starting is not altogether certain. Tyro Stakes—Lambton, the Queen, Ann Eliza, Nestor, and Tweedside. The running of England's Beauty is uncertain, neither having as yet arrived. Members' Plate Handicap—The Italian, Maid of Team Valley, Kathlean, filly by Fancy Boy, Farmer's Boy, Hafed, Agnes Gobbo, and one of Mr. Hesseltine's. Iris, Phantom, Gossamer, Augur, and Musician are scratched for their respective engagements, Latest betting at Newcastle—Northumberland Plate: —6 to 4 agst Stilton; 7 to 1 agst Saunder's lot; 7 to 1 agst Caracara; 9 to 1 agst Colsterdale, 10 to 1 each agst Neasham and St. Michael. Dawson 's lot consists of Stilton, Ada, Chief Justice, Sally Warfoot colt , the Italian , E vadne, and two o; three platers. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. THE DANISH SUCCESSION„ We are happy to announce that the ratifications of the treaty regulating this important question were exchanged at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The following is a translation of the several ar ticles : " ART. I. "After having taken into serious consideration the interests of his monarchy, his Majesty the king of Den mark, s ith the assent of his Riyal Highness th© Here ditary Prince, and his nearest of kin called to the suc cession by the Royal law of Denmark, as well as in concert with his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russiac, chief of the elder branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, having declared his desire to regulate the order of succession to his States in such a manner as that iu default of male issue in the direct line of King Frederick 111. of Denmark, his crown may ba transmitted to his Highness the Prince Christian of Sahleswig-Holstein-Son&rburg•Giiicks burg, and to the descendants sprung from the marriage of that Prince with her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa of Schleswig-Holstein-Sunderburg- Gliicksburg, born Princess of Hessv, in the order of primogeniture from male to male; the high contracting parties appre ciating the wisdom of the views which havo determined the adoption of this combination, bind themselves by a common agreement, whenever the eventuality contem plated may arise, to recognise in his Highness the Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-bonder burg- Gliicksburg, and his descendants male, sprung in direct line from his marriage with the said Princess, the right to succeed to all (a la totalite) the States actually united under the sceptre of his Majesty the King of Denmark. "ART. 11. " The high contracting parties, recognizing the prin ciple of the integrity of the Danish monarchy as permanent, bind themselves to take into consideration such ulterior overtures as his Majesty may think it proper to make to them, if (which God forbid) the extinction of the heirs male, in the direct line, of his Highness Prince Christian of ksburg, by hi s marriage with tho Princess Louisa, should become im minent. " ART. 111. " It is expressly understood that the rights and reci procal obligations of his Majesty the King of Denmark and of the Germanic Confederation, concerning the Duchies of Holstein and L menburg, rights and obliga tions established by the Fedral Act of 1815, and by the existing federal law, shall not be altered by the present treaty. "ART. IV. "The high contracting parties reserve to themselves the right of bringing the present treaty to the knowledge of other Powers, by inviting theta to accede to it. " ART. V. " The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifica tions shall be exchanged at London within the space of six weeks, or sooner, if possible. "In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty, and affixed their seals to it. " Done at London May 8:h, in the year of grace, 1852. " MALmEsßurtY. "KUBECK. " A. WALEWSKI. " BUNSEN. " BRUNNOW. " REHAUSEN. " DILLE," HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box a Her Majesty's Theatre was on Saturday evening occupied by Lord and Lady de Roos, Captain de Roos, Mr. Randolph, Mrs. Graham, Mr. Conelly, M.P., and party. Amoagst the noble and distinguished individuals honouring the perform ances with their presence on this occasion were the follow ing : His Grace the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Admiral Count Potemhin and party, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulett, the Marquis and Marchioness of Alesbury, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal, his Excel lency the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Abbott Law rence, the Marquis of Granby, the Marquis of Bath, the Right the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Lonsdale,Earl of Shelburne, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Aboyne, the Viscount , Exmouth, the Countess of Harring ton, an d Lady Jane St. Maur Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.---Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per formances at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lord Crofton, General Buckley, and Colonel 13ouverie. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale also honoured the performances with their presence. Among the fashionable company present we remarked the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the Duke and Duchess de Melfort, the Earl and Countess Cawdor, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Mexborough, Lord and Lady Brook., Viscount and Viscouatess Pollington, Viscount Clifden, Lady Jane Renton and Mr. Repton, BLP., the Earl Bruce, lion. Mrs. Norton, Hon. Cecil Forester, M.P., Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Manners, Lord George Manners, M.l'., Lady Cono sellßussell and Bliss O'Callaghan, Lord Ward and party, Lord Colville, Lord John hay, Baron de Paravicini, Lord Ward, Lady Honeywood and party, Lord Adolphus Vane, Baron de Stern ' berg. the Baroness Stratheden and the lion. Miss Campbell, &c., &c. GERMAN PLAYS.--These attractive representations will terminate on the 29th inst. Faust will be given on Tuesday ; Schiller's Robbers, on Thursday; Hamlet, on Sa turday next; and Goethe's Egmont, for the last performance, o n Tuesday, June 29. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The medical profes sion will hear with great satisfaction that at the last meeting of the Coun cil of the wyal College of Surgeons, Mr. Thomas' Quekett, a member of the institution, and resident Conser vator of the Hunterian Museum, was unanimously elected Professor of Histology. Mr. Quekett is deservedly well k no wn to the profession by his numerous contributions to the advance of microscopical science. Mr. John Henry Sylvester, of Cheltenham, and formerly of King's College, has also been appointed student in Human and Comparative Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons, vice Ur. 11. D. A.1911Cht913) resigned. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. IRICHINGHAMSRIRE.-011 Saturday the following ad dress was issued by the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli to his constituents of the county of Buckingham:— " Downing-street, Jane 18, 1852. " Gentlemen, The dissolution of Parliament will take place in a few days. I have so recently addressed you and at so great a length, that I will only now beg you, on the day of nomination, to support my claims to be elected, for the third time, to the high honour of being your member. If, as I confidently anticipate, the judgment of the country will ratify the choice of our Gracious Sovereign, the present Administration, under the auspices of Lord Derby, will do their utmost to ob tai❑ a just redress of the agricultural interest, and will unfalteringly uphold our free constitution in Church and State, to which, under Divine Providence, we are in debted for r. greater degree of happiness and liberty than is enjved by any country in the world. " I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, "Your obliged friend and serve. t, "B. DISRAELI." TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD EFOR Lll ASSOCIATION. (coNTI.InatTED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS ), Sir,--0 0 Practices c m o o r m ru e p attpfroare tbieeienegatteoluecehtiy at El • )BA was thrown out on Elections 2 1. ednesday the 16th of June, the Corrupt going into Committee by 516. This is an awkward elections to t bh ue t On Thursday th e At, Supply Bill went Metropolis Water into Committee. The qtuoeistaios.a reprassirg history of this Bill is best ex emplified by reference to t he feelings ascribed to the W Arch-enemy : in the Popular rhyme quoted by Sir alter Scott " When the devil %vas sick, the devil When the devil got well, the devil a monk would be. a monk was he." When the cholera was upon us, some general arrangem e nt for sanitary steps pu rposes, were taken for Board of Health was the resu l t. A ruleu rposes ' and the wasinvented and then appli e d, w h ereby the daes to be first longer to be allowed to e lb ow t h e l i ving, and to were no par ticularly in the metropolit an di str i cts, Was to of a portion of the monster s th e so l ar microsco p e urged ie plays. There was to be order i n our cleanliness, andd. we were to be kept alive by the exercise of reason as in other cases, But the cholera went off; those who were to die, died, and were eaten or drunk or inhaled by those who were destined to survive, and so the Board of Health was shelved like an umbrella in dry weather. We aro waiting for the cholera, and then there will be a bustle and the umbrella be brought out again. The undertakers have been too strong for us; we must con tinue to make meat for them, and Mr. Bumble have his own way in his parish. The present Bill of the Govern ment is a sort of compromise; it is not to wash us too clean, but leave certain chances to the animalcules of the microscope. On the same day the Corrupt Practices Bill made a kind of posthumous appearance before the House, and was killed again, on the principle probably that " such a villain cannot be too dead," by a majority of 67 to 24. And directly afterwards, as if to keep the hand in, the County Elections Polls Bill, which was to have reduced the time of taking the Poll in Counties to one day, was thrown out at the Third Reading by 49 to 39. So the gentlemen who have seven votes in seven different places, have secured the exercise of their rights, while seven out of eight of you go without a vote at all. And this leads me to some further comment on the facts connected with the increase of Bradford, formerly alluded to. Out of the great increase of houses there, what has been the proportion which has led to an increase in the number of electors? In other words, how many of those who live in them and pay for them, have been thereby raised to the privilege of having one of those votes, which the man of landed property must have by sevens, and to preserve which to him in full ex ercise the County Elections Polls Bill has just been thrown out? A little inquiry on this subject at Brad ford might be a useful exercise. Ido not know whether any engagement upon this subject comes within the plans of a Liberal Protectionist and Conservative Free Trader like Lord Derby's manager in the House of Commons. Contrary to the predictions of the knowing in such matters, the Resolutions on Currency &c. which for some months loaded the Notices of Motions, were so for tunate as to be called on at two in the morning and negatived, which gives them insertion on the Journals of the House. A motion withdrawn, is not inserted on the Journals. As the adjournment of the House had been moved or threatened two or three times, the smallest attempt at explanation or confirmation would have caused some opponent to exercise the Liberuni Veto in his power, and so the end would have been missed. lam not unconscious of the danger attending pro ceedings of this nature. It is always a crime and mis demeanour, to try to know anything before the public. The question is now nearly where that of the Corn Laws was five-and-twenty years ago. But somebody must be forlorn hope. Somebody for a score or two of years must be content to work in the dark, with great disgrace and loss of fame, amid loud cries of " What would this babbler say ?" And then at some time or other will come the proper person, the " discoverer," and "discover" it all; and he will be a wonderful man. It is the course of nature; there is no use in kicking against the pricks. But for the same process, we should still have been at" Protection to British In dustry," and the Pope's right to depose kings. On Friday considerable progress was made in what is called " the business of the House," preparatory to the conclusion of the Session. 'rho bastard Romanists in the Church of England continue to rally against Mr. Horsman; and appear disposed to persevere in their course, till they invite what Napoleon and O'Connell expressed by the same metaphor, " being thrown into the river." I am, Sir, yours very sinePrely, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, June 21,1852. THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE. Various arrangements have been already made by the directors of the Crystal Palace Company, in conjunc tion with Sir Joseph Pextota Messrs. Fox and Hender son, and Mr. Owen Jones, and the other gentlemen en gag: d in the reconstruction of the edifice, and in the formation of the grounds. The total length of the building will be 1,85 3 feet, the extreme width 384. Th e new palace will undergo several modifications. It will have three transepts—two of the same size and height as the original transept, and a central one of 130 feet span, 108 feet higher than the two smaller. The roofing of the transepts, as well as of the whole of the nave, will be arched, and the ribs will bo of wrought iron instead of wood, as employed in the old transept, the former material being used, not for the sake of durability only, but with the view also of absorbing the whole " thrust" of the arches, and of preventing its being thrown on the adjacent flat roofs of the aisles. The glass for the new roofs will be all twenty-one ounces instead of six teen ounces per square foot. The sloping form of the ground on which tne building is to stand will be made available for the various works below the floor line, necessary for the heating of the interior, for maehi bury, and for the stores required in a building of a permanent character. This basement story will be formed of columns and girders, with brick arches fitted to receive the earth for the plants above. The disposi tion of the galleries will be much modified. It is deter mined that they shall not rua along the nave, as at pre sent, bat shall be generally kept back to the outside walls, coming forward only at those points where they will command the most striking views. The interior will be arranged on the folloaing general principles. At one end the climate and vegetation will be those of the tropics, gradually changing, until at the centre transept, a temperate climate and temperate vegetation are reached, which will prevail throughout the remainder of the build ing. Portions of the palace will be converted into quad rangles similar to the fine art or medieval courts of the Exhibition. These courts will hems& to represent the man ners, cutunses, &e., of different countries. For instance one court will form an Indian bazaar, with adjoining durbars and reception rooms. Hero all the illustrations of Indian life will be collected in as vivid and charac teristic a manner as possible. Another quadrangle will be devoted to the illustration of China. A third will contain a reproduction of one of the courts of the Alham bra, by Mr. Jones; and a fourth will exhibit a Pom peian house fully restored. In one of the smaller tran septs there will be Egyptian antiquities, casts from the celebrated reliefs, illustrative of the trades of Egypt, and from the most noted statues—all coloured exactly like the originals, and so disposed as not to be a mere dead collection of individual objects, but a living reproduction of Egyptian manners and things. In another part there will be presented a Nineveh palace. Steps have been already taken to procure collections of sculpture, of ar chitecture, and of ornaments, illustrating the progress of those arts from their commencement to the present time. The sculptures will include the finest works of the great European galleries and of the modern schools. Many of the latter—the compositions, for instance of Rauch, Schwanthaler, Cornelius, and Schnorr-2the English public know scarcely by name, and will be made acquainted with for the fir s t ti me . The a'irl..l hbeya.directors will be with which will be mixed the i r n eA d a u cilh st t r a i o a f l arts andm enu _ these, series, casts,factures 8L e of are the middle witin ages. the ea" of and the effect of the combination of statues sweitllbe apart as f onre geologicalw asit is striking. specimens, Aarrlaanrggeed spac en th nd i e r a d g e e r of the strata, accompanied by maps, views, of the country, specimens of veget a ti on, 8 represented,• Modern and, sections machinery and manufactures will be largely in exhibitions of materials from their ras, progressive condition up to manuf actured states in every intention of all the museums withi n the articles. The building educational. They will not constitute will be m interesting and instructive only to those ere collections, hand, acquainted with the illustrated who are, before subjects, but they. will be arranged so as to exhibit gression of all the different part",the connexion andge for the spectetor to take interest 3. It will be deriving instruction from h. in what he beeil without Up to the centre of the nave fountains isf observation. e play. The principal, or o various deseTtbe prk Victoria Fountain , t 2 e will play 150 feet high, that feet faireier than the Nelson column i _is to say, twetalrtYe. There is every reason to belie Trafalgar-seu elvemonth the e that within a tw Crystal Palace will la the Pub lic ' to a °Dee more open On S. - held at th, 84 a iaturday a Court of Director; v Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H., East India Souse, when Lieutenant - G enera ,r-i-C second member of the Company's forces on the Bo inb P r e..:ideney. In the v, as sworn in , C3 ' ) stahlishment, and well entertainment at evening the directors gave him a tredeparture to take com the orlonLo Tavern of Council at that previous to b which was numerously mand the troop ' s at BoinbaY , attended. The 1/ Nort British and Mersey at about 2 hcommander, sailed from the American Royal mail steam - ship Africa, I-farrniso_ Sna'turday, with the usual weekly M ~'•M• 0 air com plement 0 pawner& mails, A large cargo, 0 4 f; COURT critcuLAß. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the C•un teas of Desert, Major-General Buckley. and Colonel Bouverie, left town at a quarter before five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and paid a visit to their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess do Mortpensier, at the Old Palaco on Richmond-green. Her Majesty and hi s R o y a l Highness returned to Buckingham Palace at twenty-five minutes before eight o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday morning, attended by Colonel Bouverie. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four on Saturday. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desert, Lord Crofton, Major-General Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with their presence ou Saturday evening. The Queen and Prince Albert walked, and the Royal family, took their usual exercise yesterday in the garden. ut Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, attended divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. The Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, and the domestic household, were also present. The Hon. and Reverend Gerald Wellesley performed the service. The Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambeidge, at tended divine service yesterday, in the Chapel *Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. D. Vivian, the lessons by the Rev. J. Balfour, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The ser mon was preached by the Rev. J. S. Anderson. The anthem was, "0 grant the Queen" (Nures). Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. A Cabinet Cou ncil was held on Saturda y afternoon at Downing-street. The Minister s pre senttheE arl F wo o r ef e r L ig e ot ta hi - 3 Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the ilfftaEclele,r' the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secre tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Peking• toe, th e Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Elardwicke, the Right Hon J. C. Herries, and Lord John M anners. The C ou ncil sat one hour and a half. After the Council the Education Com mit t ee of her Majesty's most H o nourable Privy Council had a meeting at the C ouncil Earl of - office. Icy, Lord John El Derby, the Duke of Northumberland, the Mar quis of Salisbury., Spencer Walpole, the W &pole the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Present, the Lord President., the Hon. J.W. Hen ley,'lnner' and Sir John Pakington. The Marquis of c '' Exchequer, the Right Secretary Lord Charles Townsh e - Major-General Sir Saturday, at the Home-offiee. Right Hon. Secretary. rid had also an interview with the o a n ta cien had an interview with Mr. n i s e e n l !co: in Dow Mr. Richard Maddox Bromley the Commissioners for auditing zr i o e; a. , c : ii e h sci a p i a r ee m ar a ro n ton o us f na: t ur e i_ r t peeretary), had an d in tervieway, at his wi t the official eia l e r h e a s public Accounts, and The Finance Committee of the the Exhibition of 1851, met on Iluingstreet. , the Right Commission for Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Alexandenrville of Westminster. Present—Earl Granville, in the Palace William Cubitt, and T. F. Gibson. Ur. Edgar Bowring, Secretary to the Royal Commis sion, attended by Captain Owen, was also present. - Dr. Bevan, from Canada, had an interview o day, with Sir John Pakington, at the ColoniaalSatur- Major Valiant had also an interview with the Ri g h t e Righ t Hon. Baronet. _ A deputation from the parish of St. Clement Danes upon the subject of the Metropolitan Burial Bill, had a t ; interview on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Walpole and Lord John Manners. Tho deputation consisted of Mr. Beachim (churchwarden), Mr. Hart (overseer), M r . James Lewis, Mr. Murrougb, and Mr. Colevill, accom. panied by Mr. Isaacson (vestry clerk). Dispatches wore sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, the Mauritius, Malta, Gibraltar, and the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands: Dispatches were re ceived the same day from the Governors of these colonies and decendencies. The Earl and Countess•of Derby had a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in St. James's-square. The company consisted of the American Minister, Mrs. and Miss Lawrence, the Portuguese Minister and the C oun tess de Lavradio, the Danish Minister and the Baroness de Bille, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and 'Lady Mary Cecil, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Salisbury, the Right Hon. B. and Mrs. Dis raeli, Baron Bentinek, Lord George Manners, Viscount Ingestre, and Captain Lowther. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION. After infinite pains and vexation the County Courts Extension Bill has been safely passed through the Commons. This night it is to be taken up to the Lords to receive their Lordships' consideration, and, we trust, approval. The principle of this measure has been dis cussed usque ad nauseam, and even the details of the present ancillary Bill must be so familiar to as many of our readers es take any interest in the subject at all, that it would be mere idleness in Its to reopen the ques tion at auy length. The Commons have done their duty by the country.; it only remains for the Lords to follow the example of the popular branch df the Legislature and extend the prsetic,l utility of the County Courts. The only point in the present measure from which any obstruction may be anticipated lies in the 10:h section. Sir John Jervis, as is vv.!l knoeev, when the County Courts first came under tiiseu.sion, ousted the bar from practice before the new tribunals, unless instructed by an attorney. The question has been moused ever since; and the bar—especially what is called etie junior bar—has made desperate efforts to regain its lost position. The popularity of the new courts has drawn the clients away from Westminster-hall; and Sir John Jervis has shut the doors of the substitutes for Westminster-hall in the faces of his Learned Friends. Much inconvenience to suitors and much injustice to the bar have been the natural consequences of so false a step. Now, the present Bill, by its 10th clause, enacts, " that it shall be lawful for an attorney . . . . or for a barrister retained by or ou behalf of the party on either side, or, by leave of the judge, for any other person allowed by the judge to appear instead of the party, to address the court without any right of exclusive or pro-audience, &c." This is where the hitch lies which may in some measure interfere with the smooth progress of the Bill through the Lords this evening. A phalanx of not the first class attornies has been driven to desperation by the apprehended destruction of their monopoly. They have not left a stone unturned to en list the sympathies of one or two of the law Lords in their interest. We shall see to-night how far their mat ceavring has prevailed.— Times. LAUNCH OF A RIVER STEAMPR.—The directors of the Gravesend Star Steam-packet Company, in the same laudable spirit of providing the best class of vessels for the Gravesend station which has so long actuated them, added on Saturday to their fleet another beautiful vessel, which, I aoefk constructionwaii from her appearance, bids fair to deprive their own hitherto unexcelled Jupiter of her laurels. The vessel having re ceived from Miss Annie Dobson the name of Mars, launched about three o'clock, from the yard of the emin entrrhv se ! p ig o r w an e i r, an a d te S i o h ns c , h a n t rs ß e g builde rs, iIl e,, Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Salkeld, of Glass. h ouse-fields; but, from the interruption caused by the en gineer's ouse-fields; o f M 9 e38 0 bor es-power, is not expected that the Mars will be , strike, it before the end of July , reaaY for the station TEE NEW CRYSTAL PALAC E d eputation waited on the Right Hon. the Earl i --- A deputation ship's o ffi cial residence, Downing-street, n Derby at his Lord o'clock, in order to urge upon his Lordship on Saturday, at two adopting measures to prevent the Crystal the expediency of grounds being opened to the • Crystal Palace or its public on Sundays. The depu tation consisted of the Archbishop Ys• ' of London, the Bishop of W ' of Canterbury, the Bishop the Earl of Shaftesbury, the the Earl of Plarrowby, Sir John D. Paul, lg.' T. liOn* Arthur Kinnaird, M.re.e, Mr. H. Tudor, the Rev. C. Llankey, Rev. John d T n . , Ila r y . R ,. Carrington, Rev. Dr. Russell English' Rev. E. h ar d Lon don District School), a n d (chairman of the (chairman of the North Surrey Di s t Mr. Joseph Wileson deputation was favourably received. Et. Het School). T ailed t h ey eat im portance of the object Is Lordship a dmitted had w, and promised it should have the deputation eration in case the in his best con terference of the Gove rnment uired by the Crystal Palace Company , ware req REPEAL of T W w D e vEs.—On Saturday last a deputation HE ill" o f Bath, consisting of Wil liam from Hunt, E the city as _..., EN. waited upon Lord Duncan, at his scla and Thom . ,?2,.i t i ree , Z., t B erkeley-square, for the purpo se , residence, Ili!' ' 0, acknowledgment to his Lor dshi p a handsome piece of plate, in of his valuable, energetic, and P ers evering services whic h the re p e al of the window-tax . nial consisted of a mas sive with success. The test i monial figures, emblematic of silver candelabrum, with a lle go rical . . e . The deputation presented of light, health, and eloquenc e. he i, 'table a dd ress , thanking his Lord the testim o nial wit h a,.stlels since 1841, and his uniform at ship for his publi c 6erue • t ts, irrespective of political tention to their party.local in eres They also strongly expressed the regret of a large constituency, of all shades of opinion, that majority o f th e Dunca n 's intention to allow diem another opportunity 0 f re it was not Lord tur -rung him as one of the representatives of -. the city of son Tian N E w POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—TeIegraphic news the last overland India and China mail reached London of the the 11th inst. The date from Singapore bY that ,„ m a y 1, consequently intelligence from Singapore mail w a s to London was conveyed in 41 days. When the mail packet on their way out begin to run between Aus- Pa c— a n d Singapore, intelligence will reach the latter trails from Western Australia in rather more than a week. place th Australia in a fortnight, and from Eastern from Sau Australia in about three weeks. The telegraphic news a l 1 tided to above was dated from Marseilles at 5, A.m., on t he 11th instant, and was published in the second cations of the London morning journals of that day. The space therefore between Marseilles and London may now be said to be extinguished by electric telegraph agency. Next year the distance between Singapore and Marseilles will be tra versed, owing to the new postal arrangements, in about a month. Without, therefore, au extension of the electric telegfaph into south-eastern Europe, we shall receive news from Swan River in about five weeks, from Melbourne, Adelaide, in six weeks, and from the gold diggings in New South Wales in about seven weeks. The importance of this rapid communication to the country and colonies, and ha aiding the emigration movement, can hardly be over estimated. Australian journalists will shortly be ordering telegraphic messages to be sent from London, throug h France, a few hours before the departu re o f t h e packet from Marseilles with the ladian, China, and Australian mails, and Australian emigrants will scarcely consider themselves separted from old England, when they can receive intelli gence from it in a space of time not much exceeding a month. COUNTY COURT APPEALS. —On Saturday . notice was issued in the Court of Common Pleas that on Tuesday next two or more of the puisne judges would sit to hear and determine appeals from the county court decisions, puratutot to the 18th and 14th Vie., cap, 61.