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what more active, and last week's quotations are well supr.rted in every instanc Witt 117 Z: 21 APEX.. Our unniket wai very steady to-tlay; in sown in stanws the quotations in.ti an upward I.,,ndency. 132 cf, from 2s 4 , 1 to 3s Sd ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10,3; Veal, 31 4d to 3::3 MI; and Pork, 24 Sd to 4a per Sibs. by the carcase. LAW INTELLIGENCE. -=ti --- JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL-(T111S DAY•) G"RIIA➢I V. TILE BISHOP OF EXETER , The further he4ring of this important else was resumed this morning. As on the precedhog day, the Court was constituted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop ef York, the Bishop of London, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lard Langdale (tile Master of the Rolls), Lord Camp bell, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Beron Parke, the Vice-Chao eellor Knight Bruce, Mr. Pemberton Leigh, and Sir Edwerd Ryan. Mr. Turner, Q.C., of the Chancery-bar, and D:. Bay ford, the Learned Civilian of Doctors'-commons, again appeared as counsel for the Reverend Mr. Gorham, the appellant; and the Bishop of Exeter, the respondent, was represented by Dr. Addains and Mr. Betideley. Mr. TURNER resumed his argument immediately oe the Court having re-assembled. He proceeded to refer to the opinions of Martyr and Bucer, Professors in the University of Cambridge, quoted by the Judge in giving sentence on this case in the Ecclesiastical Court, with the view of showing that they thought faith and repent ance were necessary to ensure the benefits of bap tism. The Learned Ccunsel also read extracts from Bullinger's Decades, in order to show that he was of opinion that faith and the Holy Ghost, and not the sacraments, conferred tho benefit of regeneration. The time was then when the Church of England herself held the doctrine laid down by Bulliuger, namely, that faith and repentance were essentially necessary to the reception of regeneration, and if that was the opinion of the Church in those times, he (Mr. Turner) ventured to submit to their Lordships the consideration whether, in the altered views of modern times, and bearing in mind that the Church in her early days held that faith and re pentance were undoubtedly held as necessary to procure spiritual regeneration, a clergyman was now to be held incapable of holding a position in the Church by reason of his entertaining doctrines which the Church in her early days enforced on its ministers? He would then proceed to refer to the services of the Church of Eng land, and he entered upon that consideration with some feeling of pain. The first point was to con sider the principle on which those services were to be construed. They were devotional services addressed to all the members of the Church—to all classes, as well those who were faithful and devout, as those who were merely professing Christians. Let their Lordships consider how a service of that descrip tion, which was to be applied, not rnerely by professing Christians, but by the truly faithful and devout Chris tians, must be constructed. It must be constructed - on the very highest standard; a service which was addressed merely to a professing member of the Church would never excite the devotional feelings of a man who acted on principles not merely of profession. Nobody had deeded, and nobody ever could deny, that spiritual re generation might be given in baptism. Ile would ask their Lordships whethr they did not find iu the ser vice fur public baptism a thanksgiving for regenera tion actually given ? Among the members of the Church to whom that service was addressed were those who most undoubtedly, having au unfeigned trust in the mercies of Almighty God, would believe that spiritual regeneration was given in baptism. If there were some amon g a congregation whose feelings and principles led them to maintain that spiritual regeneration was actu ally given in bapti,m, it was not surprising that lan guage of thanksgiving, should be found for that gift of baptism. Their feelings would be offended if any doubt were entertained whether spiritual regeneration was given or not given in baptism. He (Mr. Turner) said it follow e d as a reasonable, and an almost necAsary consequence, that they should find is the baptismal ser vice of the Church of England a thanksgiving for the spirituel regeneration bein g actually given in or by the act of baptism. The true distinction was, that the ser vices of the Church of England were addressed to the feelings of the people and not to their doctrines. The Ifealned Counsel then proceeded to read various expres sions used in the offices of the Book of Common Prayer for private and adult baptism, and for confirmation, and in the catechism, with the view of showing that in those services absolute expressions of regeneration were em ployed. Was the spiritual regeneration se said to be given, given by God in, or at, or before, or after baptism ? Who should determine ? The question was, what was the meaning of the absolute words of regeneration, which were contained in the services of the Church of England ? Tho mean ing of those words must, of course, be taken in connec tion with the services, and with the congregation to whom those services were addressed. It was not, there• fore, a mere verbal question. Let their Lordships con sider the nature of the services in which those words were used. The very nature of the sacrament of bap tism was figurative. It was the representation and seal of the blessings of the new covenant of God. Let their Lordships look, too, at the promises which were con. tained in those services. Were they not of a figurative character ? They were so, undoubtedly, in the reuse that they were premises made by others for a being in capable at the time of making any promises for itself. Let them look also at the language of the prayer for the sanctification and the consecration of the child. It was for the mystical washing away of sin. Their Lordships, therefore, had, down to the period of the service when the thanksgiving was introduced, figurative representa tions. If the service itself was figurative might not their Lordships well believe that the words which were introduced of positive declaration of regeneration w ere figurative and sacramental too ? Again, the sacra ment of baptism itself was scriptural in the highest Possible sense—was it not natural that scriptural language should be used in that sacrament? He thought, without troubling their Lordships by going into pas sages of Scripture, they would find frequent references to a covenant as perfected, and that covenant was taken and spoken of as fulfilled. Those observations occurred to him on the frame of the services. Let their L ard ahipe now see whether they could fairly construe the words of baptism in connexion with the Articles of the Church without finding contradiction. The assertions in the baptismal service were that the child was regene rated; they applied to every child. The Articles, on the other hand, said that the sacraments were effectual in those who received them worthily. The service for adult baptism was equally clear and equally positive in its terms as to regeneration. It was undisputed—it could not bo disputed—that no spiritual regeneration could be conferred in the case of a parent unless there Were faith and repentance. Were their Lordships to Rive one construction to the words which were contained in the one set vice, and another construction to the words found in the o:her? Were they to say that the words were founded on a hypothetical assumption in the one h case, and that they were posi tive and absolute in another? God Almighty may grant regeneration either before, at the time, or after the sacrament of baptism. What hu, man being should presume to judge on such an occasion when the regeneration was granted ? Let their Lord ships again consider the baptismal service with refe rence to the sponsorial promises. The whole of it was connected with those promises. Might it not be that the performance of those promises was the con dition on which the blessing was given ? Let their Lordships teke, fur example, the words " this is my body," used in the Communion Service. Their Lordships could not construe those words literally without falling into the error of transubstantiation The Learned Counsel then read a paragraph from the works of Archbishop Cranmer, in which he said that that the body of Christ was on the earth in the Sacrament, "as the Holy Ghost was in the water of baptism." By the sponsorial service (Mr. Turner continued) baptism followed the promises, and pro ceeded upon them. The Church of England required those promises of belief from its sponsors, u tile condition on which it granted the baptism. Could it be that the Church re quired the promise, but disre garded the fulfilment of that promise ? If that were not so, must not the blessing be conditional upon the fulfilment of the promise which the Church required as the condition of the grant ? And then the sureties only gave the promises until the child came of age to take them open him,eif. Supposing the surety declined to do so, was it to be held that the baptismal bio.sing had been conferred? It might be said that the blessing had been conferred but had been lost by repudiation. Was not that strong to show that the grant of the promise was conditional on the performance of that promise? On the whsle of the baptismal service was not the true meaning this, that the language of Scripture being "he that believeth and his baptised shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned," conuecting the beneficial baptism with the belief, and that Scripture having applied. and laid down that connexion as to adults, the Church had adopted as far as it could the scriptural doctrine, and Applied it to infants? It might mean that by the charit able assumption of the Church of England spiritual re generation was given at baptism. Man had been curious enough to inquire into and discuss that matter, and that inquiry had not re sulted very satisfactorily. It had involved, nod did involve, the Church of England in discussion by the attempt of human ingenuity to fathom almighty wisdom. The Learned Counsel then read that por.ion of the burial service of the Chuich of England which called upon its ministers to say over the dead that the departed is committed to the dust " in sure and eastaie hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ." What was the construction to be put upon these word.? Did they not proceed on the charitable assumption that the man had left the world in peace towards God and in charity towards all men? The Church of England assumed the language of uuboueduel confidence in the mercy of the Almighty. It expressed in the passage he had re al its hope that evert hotly who had left the world hail left it to enjoy eternal felicity. Could thet be on any other assumption than that of charity ? And if, therefore, their Lordship found in one service of the Church the expression of charitable hope that the dead departed this world in the 'lire and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life, could they wonder in another service, when the Church • expressed herself as to the effect of baptism, that she used terms equally charitable in speaking of regenera tion? He believed he had now concluded the observations he had to make in this case with one single exception. He thought it was his duty to call their Lordships' consideration to the question of what was the extent of the right of a hithop to examine in cases of this description. This vraa a question of vast importance, not merely to the =MN I .... , • • .M... .• • 01.11 ' be .1.110.• 1 ill• •••••• • NI • 0* o'''' ••• •••• ... o• '""" •••• - •••• / 1 14 r • ••• ... 716 a ..'‘ ..... 11•••• /0 II•••• r 8 : 9 0 I•••• . • , •• 000000 r P •••° /9 , 41 r . ) 'ls D o d irate bree/A 3 AO' of Good 7,,f1e E.—Sld. 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'✓s r's ; 24 THE SUN, clergy but to the pity, because if that course of c /Elimi nation chick had been pursued in the present else, upon words .-.N.tra., - 7ted from the strvi , ts of the Churc:i, wai to be pursued, is would be undoubtedly et the risk of gi,ing great offeuce., with respect to the rights of presentation vested iu the Lay. ([he lion. Gentlemen was still addressing the Court when our reporter kit.) MA RLBRO -ST RE ET—('f HIS D NY.) A Row AT TILE PERUVIAN AMEASSADOIt ' S. -- Einnti GI - wilier and Ow , lotte Mc:at/den, two elegantly-fittired :ernales, the latter of whom ha 4 an infant in her arms, were placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being disorderly, and f,:reing .1n entrance into the house of his Excellency the Peruvian Ambusador, No. 15, Port land place. Gore Frapwell, his Exec lency's butler, stated that latt night, about 9 o'clock, he heard a double knock at the street door, and on Ilia opening it, the defendant Crowder pushed bins on one side and forced herself into the hell. As soda es she got in she inquired :f his master was at home. Witness said he was not. Defendant then pet sisted in forcing her way up-stairs, and on his trying to prevent her she co ntuonced screaming, and created such a disturbance that he was obliged to call a constable and give her in charge. On their arrival at the station witness dec:ined to press the charge, and she was set at liberty. Ab,,ut half an hour after he returned home she came egiin, and commenced knocking at the do_w and tinging the bell most furiously. One of the other ser vants opened the door, and the two defendants forced themselves in, and the defendant Crowther ran up-stairs into the first-floor rooms, where she began screaming out that she would see his master, who bud acted like a villain to her. Witness seeing that she was determined to be as disorderly as she could, sent for u constable and gave them both in cha-go. In cross examination by Mr. Fisher, who attended for the defendants, witness said he could not tell whether Crowther had ever slept in the house. Had seen her there late at night. Never let her in at night and let her out in the morning. She did not tell him that his Ex cellency was the lather of her child, which the other defendant had in her arms. Ile had directions from his master not to admit any person into the house at any tune. Newman, E 9, raid ho was called to the residence of his Excellency about half-past nine o'clock last night, and on going up stairs he saw his Excellency, who made a complaint that two women were in the hall whom he wished to be removed. Witness wont into the hall, where he saw the two defendants with the butler. Witness requested them to leave the house peaceably. They refused to do so, and Crowther said it was his Excellency's child, and she would not go till she had seen him. They then became so very dis orderly that he took them to the station. Mr. Fisher said he could not deny that his clients had acted very wrong in going to his Excellency's house. He could assure the magistrate if they were allowed to enter into their own recognizances he would promise that they should not go there again. Crowther said she had been in the habit of going to the house when she chose, and frequently slept there. Mr. HARDWICK, after cautioning the defendants, dis charged them on their entering into their own recog nisancel to keep the peace for two months. STRAND THEATRE. A tran,lation of Henrick Hera's drama, entitled King Rents Daughter, was produced here last even ing with complete success. This exquisite drama of the Danish poet has been twice at least translated into English. A version by Colonel Phipps was recently performed at the Theatre-Royal, Dublin, in which Mrs. Charles Kean appeared as the heroine lolenthe, the blind daughter of good old King Rene, and achieved an immense success. The version of Colonel Phipps is not the one produced by the Strand manager, who has adopted the version which ap- peared some short time since in the Dublin University Magazine, and which is from the pen of a writer who assumes the name of " Bon Gaultier." The drama is no more than an exhibition of a pecu liar psychological position, and when this is developed it terminates. A daughter of King Rene, of trouba dour celebrity, has become blind at an age so early that she is nut aware by comparison of her peculiar deficiency, and as she is kept in a state of seclusion by her father, who has enjoined all her attendants to abstain from revealing the secret, she believes that her condition is that of ordinary humanity. A young nobleman, who accidentally discovers her retreat, and is struck by her beauty, awakens in her mind the feeling that there is a world of sensations, of which she has never been aware. Shortly after her sight is re stored by a Moorish physician; and thoughshe is at first terrified by the new scene presented to her, she is soon delighted to recognise her father, and to hear that the youth who first gave her a notion of light is her betrothed. This little piece, simple as it is in plot, is evidently the product of much reflection. the difficulty of making a person destitute of a sense apprehend, even to a slight degree, the objects to which that sense applies is exhibited with a great deal of acuteness, and also with much poetical feeling and the verse of the English adaptor is smooth and melodious. Mrs. Stirling is just the actress to seize on a definite idea, and to work it out with thought fulness and accuracy. The uncertainty of her move ments as the blind girl, the attitudes which were too pleasing to be called awkward, but which yet conveyed the notion of an inability in the body to obey the dictates of the mind, were highly truthful, and the air of trusting simplicity with which she replied even to a strange voice, was the snore pathetic from the complete absence of exaggeration. The attitude with which, on her restoration to sight, she greeted the sky above her, approached the statuesque, and showed a profound conception of the beauty of the situation. Mr. Leigh Murray, as the chivalric lover, looked exceedingly well, and by depicting a generous enthusiasm gave force to a character more slightly sketched. At the conclusion of the piece, which was received with loud applause, Mrs. Stirling, Mr. Leigh Murray, and Mr. Diddear (who played King Rene) were called before the curtain. Miss CLARA. SUTTON'S ENTE.RTAINMENT ON TUB POET 3 AND ATIN,TRELS OF HUNGARY.—MISS Clara Seytnn's new entertainment on the Descriptive Poets and Minstrels of Hungary was produced last evening, for the first time, at the Western Literary Institution, Leicester-square, with a success as triumphant as might have been expected from the popularity of the subject and the talents of the fair lecturcss. In the course of the entertainment Mi,;s Clara Sey ton communicated much new and interest- ing information on the subject of the various tribes by whom Hungary is inhabited, and of their manners, customs, and history. She then proceeded to descant - on the Magyar poets, illustrating this portion of her entertainment by specimens of .Magyar songs and ballads, giving, among others, the popular Magyar melody, " The Invitation to the Dance," which was rapturously encored, and narrowly escaped the honour of being called for a third time. The descriptive ballad, " The Croaking of the Frogs," was rendered with great spirit, and was warmly ap plauded, as were the Hungarian ballad "The Departure," and the scena descriptive of a war of language between a Magyar and a German, en titled " The Tiszian Chikosh." Arnoag the greatest of Hungarian poets, Miss Clara Seyton classes the Patriot-Poet, the !Statesman-Hero, Louis Kossuth, on whom she pronunced an eulo glum of surpassing eloquence, which aroused her auditors to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. She completely took her audience with her, who testifieekby repeated salvoes of applause their admira tion for the man who is at once the Hampden and the Milton of his country ; and for the gifted lady who, in langulige worthy of the subject, gave utterance to the universal feeling with which all who are worthy of freedom must regard freedom's last, and perchance greatest martyr—Louis Kossuth. The entertainment concluded. with a " Lyttel Historic of ye Operatic and Street Music of ye Present Tyme," a John Parry like prolusion in which Miss Seyton gave an imitation of Jenny Lind in the " Ah non giunge," which eli cited an unanimous and rapturous encore. The room was crowded, and among those present we observed several Ilungarians, who seemed highly delighted with the entertainment, which will, we understand, be repeated tie evening. Miss Seyton was accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr. T. Harries 'Wilson, who composed and arranged the music of the entertain ment, and who has added to his fame, both as an ac companyist and a musician, by the admirable manner in which he acquitted himself in both capacities last evening. SEAL SHOOTING IN TUE WEST.—A few days since a large seal, following a shoal of whiting, entered one of the little bays in Dunmanus harbour. It was soon seen by ene of the peasantry, from time to time protrud ing its head and shoulders for a moment, and again sinking from view in the water. Dr. O'Donovan, an experienced sportsman and a "dead shot," was at once informed of the unexpected visitor's appearance, and he instantly, with rifle in hand, approached the animal at the nearest point of land, a distance of from 200 to 250 yards. Re was not long waiting an opportunity to dis play his expertness, for the seal peeped out main with a considerable degree of confidence, and apparently look ing defiance at the learned doctor. The latter was, however, too quick, and in an instant the ball from his r:fle wao airaed with such accuracy that it entered the right eye of the seal and pease f out at the opposite side of the skull. The (mime!, now mail from pain, teased its head and shoulders wildly about, and thus gave his enemy an opportunity to fire again. In a few moments the sea became crimson with his blood, and he sank lifeless. When the water feel receded a little it enabled the boatmen with some difficulty to discover him. Some idea of the Liza of this animal may be formed from the fact that it was necessary to get sir men to raise him. llis length frem snout to tail, which was very short, was nine feet. The circumference of his body under the shoulders was six feet. The quantity of oil Noduced is computed at about 15 gallons.—Cork paper. RIGHT HON. Fox 3,lauLE.—The Perth Courier states, that "Rumour says the above. netted Right lion Gentleman is intended eventually to fill the office of Colonial Secretary, should the retirement of Earl Grey be the result of the mismanagement with which that department has bees charged while under the Presidency of the Noble Earl." LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DE , 'EMBER 12, (LITERATURE. HIGH-WAYS AND DRY WAYS. By the Author of -• Bubbles front the Brunner of Nassau." A cheap and bz.autiful reprint of tbe article pub lished in the list number of the Quarterly Review descriptive of the tubular bridges across the Alensi Straits, has just appeared from the establishment of Mr. Murray. Seeing that we commented upon thin clever effusion from the pen of Sir Francis B. Head on the occasion of its first appearance in the Quarterly, we have nothing further to do now than briefly to announce the fact of its republication. THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMER CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HISTO RICAL GAZETTEER; Travelling - Road Book, and County Atlas. The present number• contains two well•execute.d maps of the counties of Lancashire and Hampshire, and is embellished with two beautiful engravings, one of the " Etherow Viaduct," near Manchester, and the othcr of that gigantic undertaking and triumph of human skill and power, " The Great Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait," on the Chester and Holy head Railway. The historical account of the ancient city of Chester will be read with deep interest by the scholar and antiquarian, and reflects the greatest credit on the industry of the compilers. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The '.serie3 of articles composing the number of this able periodical for the present month are v aried and instructive as usual. The first is an admirably written paper on a very singular character, entitled The Last Days of Mirabeau." The other papers are " Fallacies of the Fallacies," an examination of a work by M. Frederick Bastiat, entitled " Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests ;" " Special Exhibitions of Warern, or the Divine Afflatus of the Ilindoos ;'" " Irish Rivers, No. Vll.—The FoylG ;" " A Bunch of New Novels"—" Shirley," " Ernesto di Ripalta," " Leonia Vermont," " The Woodman." These notices are truthful and judi cious, and we would particularly recommend the in teresting author of " Shirley" to take a hint from the able critic in any future delineation of an Irish gentleman. " Notes and Suggestions on Indian Affairs," are brought to a conclusion. " Purchased Love," a sad tale of the evil consequences frequently attendant on marriages for mere money ; " The Shaksperian Unities," written with great spirit and ability ; " Meetings and Partings," a sweet and touching little poem containing many passages of great beauty and feeling ; " Sire's China and the Chinese." A notice of this work closes the present number. We have so frequently bestowed our com mendations on this work in its serial progression that it is not necessary to repeat theta on the present occasion. It has attractions for every class of leaders —the mere pleasure-seeker will find amusement, the more serious inquirer instruction. Added to the pre sent number is an Index to Vol. XXXIV. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince walked this morning in t i w grounds of Osborne. His Royal Ili e iness the Prince of Wale:3, and th? younger members of the Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. Th;tra was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. His Roy hl Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, on Monday, at Gloucester House. The Commissioners for inquiring into Smithfield market, and the markets in the City of London for the solo of meat, held their first meeting yesterday at the Home office. Mr. George Cornewall Lewis ' Sir James Duke, Bart., Sir Harry Verney, lion. Fre derick Byng, Professor Richard Owen, and Mr. John Wood, were present. The Commitc;ioners received a deputation from the City of London, including Mr. Taylor, Mr. T. 11. Hall, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Dickson, the City Remetn brancer, the City Solicitor, and the Comptroller. Mr. Charles - Russel!, Chairman of the Great Western Railway, and Mr. Saunders, secretary of the company, had an interview with the Commis sioners of Rail ways yesterday, at their office: in the Board of Trade. Sir J.nnes Duke and Dr. Reid had an interview with the Right Hon. 11. Lubouchere yesterday at (La office of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary iSrood returned to town yesterday from Altho , p ?ark, Northamptonshire. THE QUEEN DOWAGER'S FUNERAL. (From the London Gazette.) WHITEHALL, Dec. 10, 1849. The Queen has been pleased to command that the following directions, given by her late Majesty Queen Adelaide for her funeral should be made public. Her Majesty has desired that these directions, which are worthy of the exalted piety and unfeigned humility of the late Queen, should be, as far as possible, carried into effect, and for this purpose has been pleased to sanction a departure from the ceremonial usually observed in the funerals of the Kings and Queens of the realm. (CPPY.) " I die in all humility, knowing well that we are all alike before the Throne of God, and I request therefore that my mortal remains be conveyed to the grave with out any pomp or state. They are to be moved to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, where I request to have as private and quiet a funeral as possible. " I particularly desire not to be laid out in state, and the funeral to take place by daylight, no procession, the coffin to be carried by sailors to the chapel. " All those of my friends and relations, to a limited number, who may wish to attend, may do so. My no. phew, Prince Edward of Sex() Weimar, Lords Howe and Denbigh, the Hon. Wm. Ashley, Mr. Wood, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Sir D. Davies, with my dressers, and those of my ladies who may wish to attend. " I die in peace, and wish to be carried to the tomb in peace, and free from the vanities and the pomp of this world. " I request not to be dissected, nor embalmed; and desire to give as little trouble as possible. (Signed) " ADELAIDE H. " November, 1841." The following i 3 a copy of the " ceremonial for the private interment of her late Most Excellent Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager, in the Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, on Thursday, the 13,1 of December, 1849 :" Her late Majesty the Queen Dowager having desired that the interment of her remains might take place in a most private manner, and without any state, the follow ing limited ceremonial will be observed, in conformity with her Majesty's express wishes: — Oa Thursday, the 13th of December, Guards of Honour will be mounted at Bentley Priory and Wind sor. At eight o'clock precisely in the morning, the Royal Body will be removed trom the former place to Windsor. A Mourning Coach, drawn by Four Horses, conveying— The Senior Page, Two Dressers, To her late Majesty. Wardrobe Maid, A Mourning Coach, drawn by Four 'Horses, conveying— The Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household. Clerk Marshal to her late Majesty. A Mourning Coach, drawn by Four Horses, conveying— The Master of the Horse to her late Majesty. The Lord Chamberlain of her late Majesty. The Vice-Chamberlain of her late Majesty. The Equerry in Waiting to her late Majesty. Her late Majesty's State Carriage, drawn by Six Horses, in which will be The CROWN of her late Majesty, borne on a Velvet Cushion by Captain Taylor, one of her late Majesty's Equerries. THE HEARSE, adorned with Ten Escutcheons, and drawn by Eight Hones. On the arrival of the Body at Slough the Procession will be joined by the Carriage of the Queen's Most Ex cellent Majesty, conveying— The Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household. The Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household. The Mabter of the Horse to fler - Majesty. Another Royal Carriage, conveying— A Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty. Lady in Waiting to Her Majesty. Groom in Waiting to Her Majesty. Another Royal Carriage ' conveying— Equerry in Waiting to Her Majesty. Two Maids of Honour to Her Majesty. Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty. A. Mourning Coach, drawn by Four Horses, conveying— The Countess Brownlow. The Hon. Miss Hudson., Mrs. Cornwall. Upon arriving at the south porch of St. George's Chapel the Royal Body will be removed from the hearse by ten sailors, and being received at the door by the Dean and Canons of Windsor, will be placed upon a platform, and the Crown and cushion laid thereon. The Procession will then move into the choir in the following order:— The Dean and Canons of Windsor. Garter. The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, attended by one of his bffiCers. Supporter of the Pall, Lord Dyrou. THE BODY, Supporter of the Pall, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. Covered with a o Suppor er of the Black Velvet Pall, Supporter of the r a l w Viscount Barrington. S adorned with ' 5 . Lord Frederick j...- Fitzclarevce. E cutchems of Supporter of the Supporter of the Pall, Earl of Sheffica Her late Majesty's Pall, Marquis of Oruunde„, Arms. ER. lk THE CHIEF MOUR The Duchess of Norfo (veiled) attended by a Lady. His Serene highness the Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. His Serene Highness. the Prince Gustav of SAX° Weimar Master of the Horse to Her late late Majesty. Lord Chamberlain to Her late Majesty. Vice-C.!hamberlain to Her late Maj, sty. Ladies of the Bedchamber to Her late Majasty. Maids of Honour to Her lac Majesty. Women o f the Bedchamber to Her late Majesty , Ch!rk Marshal to Her late Majesty. - Equerries to Her late Majesty. Chaplains to Her late Majesty. Physicians to Her late Majesty. Surgeon to Her late Majesty. Gorr tleme:i Ushers to Her late Majesty. Senior Page to Her late Majesty. Dressers :aid Wardrobe Maid to Her late Majesty. Upon enter 'jug the Choir, the Chief Mourner will take her seat at L e head of the Corpse, the Lord Chamber lain of Her I Majesty's Household will take his place al the feet, and t he Vies-Chamberlain will stand near his Lordship; the other persons composing the Procession will arrange iemselves behind the Chief Mourner, and on either side the The Archbi shop of Canterbury will read the ser vice, and the part before the Interment, and the An. them being p erformed, the Royal Body will be depo. sited in th"s Vault, and the Archbishop having,. concluded the , Service, Garter will pronounce near the Grave the ;Style of Her late Majesty ; after which the Lurd Cht tmherlain and the Vice-Chamberlain of Her late Mti: g esty's Household will break their StaveL of Office, an , t kneeling, deposit the same in the Royal Vault. His Royitl Highness the Prince Albert will be pre sent in His Royal Highness's Stall during the Cere mony. Tlt (lir Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam bridge and ]'rinse George of Cambridge will occupy their Stalls. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the, Duchess of Cambridge, and their Serene Hi g hnesses the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and the Princess A: Jne of Saxo Weimar, and the Princess Amelia of S axe Weimar will occupy the seats provided (.n. thew.. ",rWe are uthorized to state that the several persons proceeding to Windsor to attend the funeral of her late Majest:r, are to arrive at the chapel not later than half•paq ti. - welve o'clock ; and that those who proceed to Slough .`4) join the procession at that place, are to be there not later than half-past eleven o'clock. INcoua -TAX APPEALS.—The following notice has been issued by the lucome-tax Commissioners for the city of Lou , -',on as to appeals regarding the property and lucerne-tax under schedule Dr:—" Notice is hereby given, that' if any penon shall think himself aggrieved by the assns ;E , me n t made of the said parish of —, in respect of tl te property arising from professions, trades, and offices, t end of the other profits chargeable under Schedule I) of the property and income-tax, sth and 6th Victoria, •ch up. 35, for the year ending the sth thy of April, 1859, he may (upon giving due notice in writing to the Surveyor of Taxes, residing at ,of his inten tion) appeal to the Commissioners for General Purposes acting in t .ral for the said district, at the meeting which will be he: 'd for the purpose of hearing and determining such eppe: ill, on Wednesday, the 19th of December inst., at their of flees 36, Basingliall-street, at eleven is the forenoon." The parishes in the City will be tak , n alphabetic Bally. A similar notice has been ksucd for the metropolbAn. boroughs of the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Marylebone„ Lambelh, Southwark, Greenwich, and the city of West Fluster. SPIRIT of the JOURNALS. TIMES.—In another part of our impression will be found a specimen of the opinions, or rather the conceptions, which have been formed by a prominent tnembsr of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers respecting the duties of that body to which he belongs. In one point of view these reflections are decidedly creditable to their author. They indicate not only a considerable amount of painstaking, but a proper appreciation of the point at which the work should begin. The first step of the Commissioners, as we have before remarked, should be to ascertain and specify, for their own guidance no less than public satisfaction, the particular inquiries or acts which are successively to occupy their attention. if they both know and declare what they are about the mortal vice of the old Commission will be got rid of at once. To decide upon a principle of action, to discard superfluous or irrelevant questions, and to reduce to the plainest and most comprehensive feral the duties actually before the Commissioners from time to time, must be obviously the first stage of any serviceable course. Sir John Burgoyne has at least been thus far. He has advanced with his tracing line to define the plan of operations, has calculated the engineers' means required for the work, and has pointed out some of the dangers against which pro vision should be made. But with these admissions we fear our approval must stop, for we are at a loss to discover in the suggestions referred to any positive proposition beyond a recommendation of compromise and surrender. "To rid the metropolis of the noxious sewage matter and drainage waters efficiently as regards health and convenience, and with the least possible delay," is rigli l, tly enough assumed as a defi nition of the obligation imposed upon the Commission; and if we add that the object is to be effected at the smallest practicable expense, we shall be able to agree with Sir John Burgoyne upon the premises, and to 'start fairly upon the argument. His sug gestions express, or, to speak more correctly, they comprise, the following principles :—First, that the disposal of the sewage matter is a question essentially distinct from that before the Commissioners, which concerns only its removal; secondly, that the agent in this removal must necessarily be water, copiously supplied; and, thirdly, that soil-pits and tunnels are excluded from consideration—the former by the con ditions of the case itself, and the latter by the impale-- ticabilities attending their construction. Now, as regards the first of these points, there is, undoubtedly much to be said for the proposed simplification of the subject. Notwithstanding all that has been recom mended by argument, and even proved by experiment, it may certainly be alleged that there is no absolute warrant for believing that the whole refuse of such a city and population as ours could, consistently with a due speed and efficiency in its removal, be disposed of at a remunerative price; and, since the provisions required for such an ultimate application of the sewage matter do most materially complicate any system of drainage, it is not unreasonable to suggest the dismissal of a consideration which would induce so unwelcome a delay when action is so urgently re quired. All that can be said on the other aide is, that a certain condition of the object proposed, viz., cheap ness of execution, depended on this very point of employing the refuse as manure, and therefore the true position of the question is as follows :—Granting that London in itself is unfavourably calculated for an experiment upon the availability of sewage matter, is there, or is there not, already established upon this point a probability strong enough to dissuade the adoption of any system which excludes the eventual employment of such a resource ? We think there is, and a recollection of the illustrations which have repeatedly appeared in our columns will probably induce the reader to think so too. The importance of the question lies in this—that it does not concern simply, as Sir John Burgoyne assumes, the general benefit of the country, but directly affects the particular benefit of the metro politan ratepayers. If the sewage of the city could be taken to fertilize the marshes of Essex, the reclaimed lands of Essex would pay for the drainage of London. The conditional dismissal, however, of a consideration which has hitherto been made so indispensable enables Sir John to take two steps further in his suggestions. Assuming the object to be not the preservation but the removal of the sewage matter, he consigns it at once to the process of profuse dilution, and then, having at last reached the great and terrible question of final outfall, he calmly pro poses—to pour it all into the Thames! That the river " forms the most central, the lowest, and the readiest outlet ;" that such a proceeding " would be the cheapest and most simple ;" and that a i system based upon such a principle " might be rapidly de vised and carried into execution , " are all incontrover tible allegations. So cheap, indeed, atid simple and easy is the device that, if it was to be adopted, there was certainly no need of a commission of engineers for carrying it into effect. The only objection to it is just precisely that which has been brought against every other uncovered ditch or sewer. The cases are as similar as possible, for great as is the volume of water at London-bridge, yet, considered with re ference to the enormous districts of which it is to receive the discharge, to the incidents of its tides, and to the agitation in which it is constantly kept, it may be fairly described as bearing no greater pro portion than that of an ordinary town ditch to the filth with which it is polluted. No doubt the river is very low, very central, and very capacious, but these very dimensions and capacities indispose us to falsify all our sanitary assumptions by keeping such a gigantic sewer uncovered and exposed in the heart of the most populous city in the world. AVe reject the proposal at once upon the plain and simple ground that it does not fulfil that pri mary and fundamental condition which Sir John Burgoyne himself laid down. He and his colleagues have " to rid the metropolis of the noxious sewage matter efficiently as regards health and convenience," and this they certainly can never do by throwing it into the Thames, for the immutable laws of time and tide will bring it all back again in the course of a few hours. Though Sir John overlooks this inconvenient and intractable peculiarity of a tidal river, yet he cannot disguise the " very general" objections to which his proposal is liable, and he suggests the existence of a " complete remedy " in the projected liquefaction of the discharge, in the construction of the dischersing channels, and in the proportion maintainable between the volume of the river and the current of the sewers. As regards the first of these correctives, it is difficult to see what benefit it can be expected to produce. Dilution may be very probably useful in the conveyance and removal of the matter from its first receptacles, but it must, to say the least, be a superfluous expedient fur neutralising its action on the Thames; since in whatever state it first reached the river it must needs within a few hours afterwards undergo as thorough a dilution as it could receive from any previous process. Next, with respect to the proportion borne by the polluting current to the mass of water into which it rushes, this must natu rally remain what it is at present, when it is found considerable enough to infect the entire volume of the river at this point of its course. Sir John does not propose to increase by any particular expedient the waters of the Thames ; on the contrary, ho would to some extent diminish them by abstracting very large quantities for the use of local reservoirs, while, on the other hand, he would actually augment the discharge from the sewers by his suggested arrange ments. The only result of "improved construction and material" in the case of the outlets must be the conveyance into the Thames of the greatest possible amount of filth, with the least pov,ible loss from leakage, evaporation, or diversion. At this moment a modicum of pollution is pro bably intercepted on its way to the river by the imperfections of the sewerage ; but Sir John is for checking any such defalcations, and for so ordering matters that notone jot or tittle of the entire aggregate of abominations shall be diverted from the bed of the fliaints. This is certainly a consistent mode of action; but how such an aggravation of the evils denounced can be termed a "complete remedy," we are wholly at a loss to comprehend. By Sir John's own showing, he is to turn into the Thames a greater proportion of filth than before, and in such a form as to permeate and corrupt most speedily and effectually the whole volume of its waters. We should be reluctant, in a case less obviously comprehensible, to adopt a tone of dictation, but so self-evident is the justice of the present condition that Sir John Burgoyne and his colleagues must please to take it as an indispensable provision of the future system that London is not to be drained by transferring the filth from the streets to the river. It needs no conclave of engineers to decide this point. The first requisite for a Commissioner of Sewers is a keen nose ; and if Sir J. Burgoyne has unhappily lost the use of his nasal organ, all his engineering abilities will profit him nothing. We repeat it, when the Commissioners are debating the question of depo sitories, they must exclude the Thames ; and this " prohibition " must even be considered "absolute," and "at any cost." The limitation doubtless entails difficulties, but these difficulties are precisely those which the Commission is ap pointed to overcome. We are anxious to see some demonstration in this direction, but it must take the shape of conquest, not of compromise. Sir John Burgoyne's instructions enjoin the purification of London, and, as the moat in feeted part of it, the Thames. To leave this twice as bad as before would be a very strange interpreta tion of orders. His suggestions, however, contain in another place a definition of the true desideratum which may perhaps be pretty fairly accepted—" The plan fur adoption should be that which would carry off the whole matter to some available outlet in the cheapest effieient way,but in such mane eras would afford ' facilities for intercepting and applying it as manure, a 3 a distinct measure." Suppose, then, that pending any clearer proposition of the question the Commissioners at once adopt this, and work up to the object so de fined by plain and visible advances. It will at least 1849. preclude any further proposal or temptation to pollute the Thames. CITY COURT OF SEWERS. Yesterday a Court was held at the Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair. Mr. liairwAun, the surveyor to the Commission, laid before the Court the bills of the expenses occa sioned by the compulsory drainage ordered by the Court, in cases in which landlords had neglected the duty imposed upon them by the Act of Parliament for sanitary purposes, and peremptory directions were issued to proceed against the responsible persons for the discharge of the several amounts. A complaint was made by the authorities of Bride well Hospital, stating that the property was injured by the alterations and extension of the sewage of the neighbourhood, through the means of which the basements were affected at certain states of the tide. The complaint was referred to the surveyor, to ex amine and report. Air. Deputy LOTT gave notice of a motion to the following effect :—" That no commissioner who is a shareholder, or director, or solicitor, or architect, or valuer to any railway company, gas company, water company, or other project, speculation, or under taking, shall be eligible to vote upon this Commis sion whilst any matter of such company, pro ject, speculation, or undertaking, shall be under the consideration of the Commission." The inspectors of the Commission reported that the duties of the scavenger i had been well performed during the past week.—Adjourned. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday was the first public day at the cattle show, and the crowded state of the bazaar through out the day evinced the interest which the public take in the rise and progress of the beef and mutton with which they are to be regaled in the approaching festive season. The Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Leicester, and other notabilities connected with agri culture, visited the exhibition during the day, and expressed their satisfaction in very warm terms. A rather remarkable circumstance connected with the present show is, that more than one-half of the horned cattle are already sold, and, what is still more curious, the best lots have been secured by country butchers. Three or four of the swell mob made their appear. ance in the course of the day, but were soon detected and removed. FINE ARTS. WEIGHING THE DEER. By Frederick Tayler. We have been favoured by Mr. Squire, of Cock - spur-street, with an inspection of this chef d'oeuvre of Mr. Tay ler's pencil ; indeed, we may say of the Bri tish school of water-colours ; for nothing in that de partment has hitherto appeared on a similar scale, o comparable in design and execution to the "Weighing of the Deer." Perhaps, the gem of the picture is the female figure in the foreground on the right, but the drawing is in every detail faultless, the expression vivid but unstrained, the grouping masterly, and the colouring perfection itlelf. In the dogs and slaugh tered deer we could discern no inferiority to Landseer, and paramount as has been our admiration of the "Bolton Abbey " of that eminent artist, we venture to predict that the forthcoming engraving of the " Weighing the Deer " will be even a higher favourite with the lovers of the arts. The original is, we un derstand, already disposed of for three hundred pounds, a price not too high for so rare a specimen of British genius. We trust it may be permitted to re main a little longer on view at Mr. Squire's, as we shall not easily look upon its like again. LINES FOlt MUSIC. SUNG AT THE SHEFFIELD ATHENEUM, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1849, ON THE OCCASION OF OPENING THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. The sweetest lays that man can raiso Should greet the spreading light of Reason, A 6 bee and bird aro ever heard The loudest in the bright spring season; And let us gladly hail the day That sees us here with goodly will, That sheds another helping ray To make Truth's sunshine wider still. God speed the esuse, and let the laws Of Peace and Knowledge rule our land; God guard the walls whose temple halls Are filled by Wisdom's Christian band, No blood-stained spear—no orphan's tear A blending with our simple glory; It laurels grace this favour'd place, They will not tell a carnage story. But higher far the mortal fame That we would bravely seek to win; Man gains his noblest hero name By quelling Ignorance and Sin. God speed the cause, and let the laws Of Peace and Knowledge rule our land; God guard the walls whole temple halls Are filled by Wisdom's Christian band. -Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE.-2 to 1 apt Sir Arthur (t), 4 to 1 apt British Yeoman (t), 5 to 1 agst Vain lope, 8 to 1 agit Maria Day (t). CHESTER CUP.-50 to 1 agst Prep-o'•day Boy (t), 50 to 1 agst Melody, 1,000 to 15 agst any other. DERBI.-25 to 1 agst The Nigger (t). His Royal Highness Prince Albert will leave Osborne at an early hour on Thursday next, and proceed by railway to Slough, where he will be joined by the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, who will accompany the procession of the late Queen Dowager's remains to St. George's Chapel. His Royal Highness will return to Osborne immediately after the melancholy ceremony. OPENING OF THE MARYLIASONE BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—YeEterday the interesting ceremony of opening the public Baths and Wash-houses erected for the great and opulent parish of Marylebone, on the site of the late Tea-gardens, attached to the Yorkshire Stiogo, New •road, took placs in the presence of the Churchwardens, Vestry, Baths and Wash-house Com- • missionert, and a vast - assemblage of ladies and gentle men. This institution, which is the largest of its kind in the metropolis, and which from the vast improvements which have been effect:A in every department under the superintendence of Mr. Christopher I: ales, the architect, may be ranked as the model establishment, has been erected urvier the superintendence of a 11.1 th and Wash house Commission, appointed by the vestry of Sr. Mary- Lebone, who adopted - file Bath; and Wa;h-houses Aci soon after it came into operation in 1347. The cost of the entire building, which is a very neat structure of red brick with Bath facing, will :amount to very nearly 20,0001. The establishment contains 107 baths, with shower and vApour baths in addition, for first and second-class customers. There aro also two capacious swimming baths surrounded by dressing boxes, and the washing department canton's eighty-four pairs of tubs, with separate drying closet for each, and a large ironing room—each class having separate entrances. The whole of the baths are so constructed that whilst the greatest privacy is preserved they have also the- advan tage of the open area of the whole building, at the top, for the purposes of ventilation. THE WHEAL CONCORD MINING COMFANT.—Yes- terday a meeting of parties interested in the winding up of this enterprise was hell at the Cornwall and Devon Mining-uflices, in King-street, Cheapside. Mr. Morrison was called to the chair; and from the pro ceedings, which extended over nearly three hours, it appeared that a petition to wind up the affairs had been served on Mr. G. W. Snell, of Callington, the purser of the mine, which had turned out an unproductive space letion, and that it stood for adjudication before Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce on the 14th instant. As the expense of the proceedings before the Master in Chan cery would be heavy, and fall ou all the shareholders, the purser now appealed to them to come forward with an equitable contribution to defray outstanding liabili ties, and so avoid the expense of a n inq u iry and pro ceeding in Chancery. As there appeared to be no ob jection on the part of the meeting to this, provided the parser would give a clear account concerning the ape cifie appropri :tiou of a sum of 5181., resolutions, after some lengthy observations from Messrs. Bridgeman, Pocock, Ileddle, Croft, and others, were passed, calling upon the purser to make out a full statement of receipt and expenditure from the commencement of the under taking, and instructing the committee of liquidation to endeavour to induce the parties, on payment of their coats, which was estimated would amount to about 201., to postpone the proste.ution of the petition before the Viet-Chancellor, until the account was ready. UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF Da. JOHNSON.—The following letter, written by Dr. Johnson nine weeks before his death, is published with a facsimile of his handwriting, in the Literary Gazette :—" To Mr. Ryland, merchant, in London.—Dear Sir,—l ern glad that so many could yet meet at the club, where I do not yet despair of some cheerful hours. Your account of poor dear Payne makes me uneasy ; if his distemper were only the the true sea scurry, it is incurred eusily, and I believe iniellehly curable. But I am afraid it is worse, not a vitiation of Funicular humours, but a do bilitetion of the whole freme, an effect not of casuality but of time. I wish his recovery, and hope that be wishes and prays for mine. I have for some days, to speak in the li, , ,htest and softest language, made no ad vances towards health. My breath is much obstructed, and my limbs are wells of water. However, I have little cause to complain. My mind, however, is caltre'r than in the beginning of the year, and I comfort myself with hopes of every kind, neither despairing of ease in this world, nor happiness in another. I shall, I think, not return to town worse than I lett it, and unless I gain ground again, not much bettor. But God, I humbly hope, will have mercy on me.—l am, dear Sir, your most humble servant, Sum. Johnson, Lichfield, October 6, 1784. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FUNERAL OF THE QUEEN DowAumt.—Her Ma jesty's steam yacht Fairy will be employed to-morrow in conveying his Royal Highness Prince Albert to and from Gosport, on his way to and return from the funeral of the Queen Dowager. Her Majesty's ship Eurydice, 24, Captain Talavera Anson, will be put out of commission at Portsmouth to-morrow, when it is expectad several young officers will be dismissed the service. Shipwrights are busily employed in getting th• Argus steam sloop ready for launching on Saturday , next at Portsmouth, and her slip is wanted to com mence the Royal Sovereign (three-decker of 120 guns) upon, which is to be completely in frame by the end of March next ; to achieve which, 125 shipwrights will be put upon her, on her keel being laid. Tier Majesty's ship Contest , 12 , Commander the lion. J. Spencer, was removed from the dockyard on Monday to moorings in Portsmouth harbour, where she has bent sails, and continues fitting for service on the west coast of Africa. Admiral-Superintendent H. Prescott, C. 8., whose indisposition has been several times noticed of late, was much better yesterday. Her Majesty's sloops Phantom and Lily, of the 16 .gun class, are ordered to be reduced to 12 gun sloops. They are under repair in dock at Portsmouth, and being refitted for further commissions. Her Majesty's ship Termagant, 30 guns, will go out of Portsmouth harbour this morning, under the command of Captain J. A. Stevens, of . her Majesty's ship Blenheim, for another essay in the measured waters of the Solent, to ascertain the practicability of increasing her speed without endangering the efficiency of the vessel in other respects. The apprentices' brig, Rolla, 10, in Portsmouth harbour, is having her rigging refitted. Her lajesty's ship, Raleigh, 50, Captain Hope, bearing the first class broad pendant of Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., late Commander-in- Chief of the squadron in the River Plate and Brazil (having been relieved by Rear-Admiral Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., in the Southampton, 50• gun frigate), is daily expected in England, to be put out of coin. mission. The new 50-gun frigate, Arethuss, building and fitting at the westward, is expected to be commis• sioned, when ready, by Captain Symonds, son of her designer, Sir William Symonds, Captain, R.N., ex surveyor of the Navy. Woormicu, DEC. 11.—The Hermes steam sloop, 6, 220-horse power, has a number of hands employed refitting her in the ba,in, and will be the next vessel ready at this port as an advanced war steamer, or for coin inission. The Inflexible steam-frigate has had her four boilers taken out under the shears in the basin, and is to be supplied with new boilers. The two new brass screw propellers made for the Archer steam-vessel are now ready, and one side highly finished by machinery. It is expected she will be tried with them down the river before pro ceeding to Devonport. The Retribution steam-frigate and the Desperate steam•sloop, are in the east docks. Oa the receipt of the order yesterday to copper the bottoms and expedite the Enterprise and Investi gator Polar vessels, workmen were immediately set to work on the Enterprise, at present in the west dock, and others to prepare the Investigator, at pre sent in the basin. We understand that the Misses Bathurst, who have recently been received into the Romish Church, are daw,hters of the late Rev. Robert Bathurst, and have baen residing for some time past at Edinburgh. INGENIOUS INVENTION.—A brief notice recently appeared in the columns of the Albion, extracted from a Brussels journal, announcing the invention, by a young Frenchman, of a machine capable of folding two thou sand newspaper sheets per hour. Many of our readers will probably be aware that such a machine has long been a desideratum amongst those connected with the press, more especially in the metropolis; although of late recent postal changes have impressed its value for cibly cyan in connexion with the more limited require • ments of provincial journalists. It may not bo uninterst ing to many, therefore—assuredly it will not be so to our contemporaries—to learn, that, in addition to the continental invention noted above, a skilful and ingenious gentleman formerly resident in Liverpool has perfected plans for the construction of a machine precisely similar in its aim, but superior in practical value. Its principle and mode of operation we cannot obviously at present describe in detail; nor, indeed, would any " painting by words" suffice to impress even the most perceptive mind with a just notion of the admirable manner in ,which the manifold difficulties presented are overcome. The draughtsman's sketches we have, however, had the pleasure of inspecting; and we are assured that consultation with an eminent mechanician has evoked a highly favourable opinion in regard to the novelty and practicability of the design. The invention, it is anticipated, will fold at least 3,000 copies per hour—a speed much higher than that of the conti nental machine, and much more considerable than that of the majority of presses employed in provincial news paper offices; and, whilst the motive power necessary is comparatively light and easy of appliance, the labour required whilst the machine is in action is trilling in the extreme. The saving of time and labour is, therefore, likely to be considerable; and although we can of course pronounce no decisive opinion on the merits of the in vention until it be constructed and practically tested, wo have yet reason to believe that success is assured. The cost—an essential point—is said to be comparatively small. We may add, in conclusion, that the gentleman from whose inventive skill this machine has originated has designed several other most valuable requirements of the day; one of which will shortly be adopted by the authorities of the Post-office.— Liverpool Albion. A NEW CITY AND PEOPLE.—The Courrier des Etats- Unis contains an announcement that ;he Govern ment of Chiopas "has sent an expedition to explore the Pimienta, a part of the mountain-chain of the Cordil leras, with a view to set at rest the question as to whether there exists in that locality a city and people with whom no communication has as yet been estab lithed." It will not bo uninteresting to give here an account of all that is yet known of this wonderful city and its people. Mr. Stephens, the liveliest of modern travellers, during his journey in Central America, re lates that the padre of Santa Cruz del Quiche told him something which increased his excitement to the highest pitch, viz., that four days on the road to Mexico, on the other side of the Great Sierra, was a living city, large and populous, occupied by Indians, precisely in the same state as before the discovery of America. He (the padre) had heard of it many years before, at the village of Chagul, and was told by the villagers that, from the topmost ridge of the Sierra this city was distinctly visible, lie was then young, and with much labour climbed to the naked summit of the Sierra, and from which, at a height of 10,000 or 12,000 feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a distance a large city spread over a great space, and with turrets white and glittering in the sun. The traditionary account of the Indians of Chagul is, that no white man has ever reached this city; that the iahabitants speak the Maya language; are aware that a race of strangers has conquered the whole country round; and murder any white man who attempts to enter their territory. They have no coin or ei.culatiog medium; no horses, cattle, mules, or other domestic animals, except fowls; the cocks they keep uud'r ground, to prevent their crowing being heard. TUE ARMY.—A report is in circulation of an in tention on the part of the Government to propose the reduction of the army upon the meeting of Parliament, and various plans for the furtherance thereof have been stated. Wh lst we confine ourselves upon the pcesent occasion to a simple allusion to it, we may add that nothing dccieive is known upon the subject, but that we coucider it as far from being improbable.—chronicle. PUGILISM. EDWARD DONNELLY AND DANIEL COLLINS, FOB 251. asinu.—The pugilistic pretensions of a brace of novices, so far as regards the London ring, could hardly be expected to excite such general interest and attention as the competitors of yesterday evidently awakened; this, however, was mainly owing to the high character which had gone before them. The first-named man had the reputation of being the champion of Glasgow and parts adjacent, and unmatched by " any thing on two legs" at his own weight, 9st. 111 b., or not to be particular, had several times given away a stone or two, and not regr e tted the advantage accorded to his huge adversaries : These, of course, were mere hardy roughs ; his last exploit was conquering James, of Nottingham, whose defeat by Grant, was eclipsed by Donnelly, for while one took one hour and a half, Donnelly completed the same task in less than a third of the time. Collins, on the other hand, stood high in the esteem of many of the best judges of dawning► merit, his height, and length of reach, together with a remarkable aptitude in acquiring the cleverest stops, bars, parries, and hits of the London school, pointing him out as a likely one to lower the pretensions, and baffla the efforts, of the INorthern Star. Preliminaries arranged, a steam trip was determined on, and the Dryad being officially engaged, started from Waterloo-bridge on her downward voyage at an early hour. An adverse tide and several delays made it nearly one o'clock when she brought to near Dartford Creek. The men were soon in the ring. Donnelly esquired by Macdonald, and Nick Ward, of Liverpool, Collins by Walsh and his brother Charles. The attitude and fighting style of Collins, who stood over his opponent by more than two inches, was beautiful, and his stops and parries remarkable for their neatness. If his hitting occasionally seemed to want power, perhaps from too much practice in mimic fight and too little in actual com bat, he in some measure compensated for the defici ency by the skill and strength with which, in almost every close, he threw his burly, broad-boned adver sary. Donnelly is, certainly, a most remarkable man, and a most unlucky trial horse for any aspirant to make his maiden essay on. To hands as hard as granite he adds shortish arms of immense muscular development, a back preternaturally broad, and loins fit for " Him who bore on shoulder poised The earth's huge sphere." His neck, too, and head, a cross of the taurine and human, matched the rest of his frame. He struck us as too fleshy, but that may be his habit. The fight was remarkable throughout. Collins continually popped, and popped his left on Donnelly's visage without any very striking effect, but in the third round managed to hit Donnelly off his legs with the left, to the great delight of the Southwark lads. In so doing he somewhat damaged his sinister fist. The battle went on, each showing indomitable courage, but Cellins, though the best wrestler, evidently having less wear and tear than the stranger, till it appeared at one time as if daylight would not suffice to close the performance At length Donnelly's stamina and lasting qualities were evidently tell ing their tale ; he turned the tables several times by getting home heavily on Collius's ribs and cheekbone, and, after several attempts on the part of the latter, to get down for the purpose of compelling a " draw," on the plea of the approach of darkness, the referee declared that Collins had fallen without a blow, and therefore that Donnelly must be hailed as victor The time was three hours and four minutes, and the number of rounds 78. A paddle in the dark through the marshes, a scramble down the boulder stones of the river wall, a roll and a stumble into sundry Gravesend and Purfleet skiffs out of the mud, a climb up the steamer's side, and a night voyage to the Blackwell terminus, completed the agremens of the day's adventures. RUGBY SCHOOL. The candidates who have sent in their testimonials for the Head Mastership: of Rugby School, ero—The Rev. William John Conybeare, M.A., formerly fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and formerly Principal of the Collegiate School, Liverpool; the Lev. George Edward Lynch Cotton, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Assistant Master of Rugby; the Rev. George Currey, 8.D., Preacher of the Charter house, London, formerly Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge; the Rev. Henry Dale, M.A., Magdalen College, Oxford, Head Master of the Proprietary School, Blackheath, Exhibitioner from Rugby, 1830; the Rev. John William Donaldson, D.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Head Master of Bury School ; the Rev. ',John Philip Gell, M.A., Trinity College, Cam bridge, formerly Warden of Christ's College, Tas mania, Exhibitioner from Rugby, 1835 ; the Rev. Ed win Hamilton Gifford, M A., formerly fellow of St. John's Cullege, Cambridge, Head-Master of Birming ham School ; the Rev. John Allen Giles, D.D., Bampton, near Oxford, formerly Fellow of Cor pus Christi College, Oxford, and formerly Alas , ter of the City of London School ; the Reverend Edward Meyrick Geulbourn, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford ; the Rev. John Hannah, M.A., formerly Fellow of Lincoln Cullege, Oxford, Rector of the Academy, Edinburgh; the Rev. Edward Halifax Hansel!, 8.D., Fellow, Tutor, and Mathematical L--cturer of Magdalen College, Oxford; the Rev. William Edward Jolt, 8.D., Student, and for merly Censor of Christ Church College Oxford; the Rev. William Charles Lake, M.A., Fellow, w, Tutor, and Senior Dean of Balliol College, Oxford (Exhibitioner from Rugby in 1835); the Rev. Edward Arthur Litter, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of O r i e l C o ll ege , Oxford; the Rev. Arthur John Macleane, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Principal of Brighion Col lege; the Rev. William Alexander Osborne, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly Master of Mac cl;:sfield School, and now Head Master of the Northern Church of England School, Rossall, near Fleetwood, Lancashire; the Rev. George:Rawlieson, M.A., formerly Fellow, Tutor, and Sub-Rector of Exeter College, Ox ford; the Rev. Stephen J. Rigaud, M.A.., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford, and now Senior Assistant Master of Westminster; the Rev. John Nassau Simpkinson, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, Assistant Master of Harrow; the Rev. Thomas Henry Steel, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cam bridge, and formerly Assistant Master of Harrow ; and the Rev. William Spicer Wood, M.A., for merly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge Head Master of Witham School. The trustees of Rugby School, by whom the Head Matter is elected, are the Earl of Deubigh, the Earl of Ayletford, the Earl of Warwick, tail Howe, Lord Leigh, of Stonelei g h; Sir Grey Skipwith, Bart., for merly M.P. for South Warwickshire ; Sir Francis Law ley, Bart., formerly M.P. for IVarwiekshire; Sir Theo philus Biddulph, Bart.; Mr. William Holbcche, Mr. Evelyn John Shirley, formerly M.P. for Sou:h War wickshire; Mr. Henry Grimes, and Mr William Strat ford Dugdale, formerly 11. P. for North Warwickshire. The election will take place on Monday, the 17 h inst., when it is expected that most of th , .e trustees will be present. No criterion can be formed with respect to the successful candidate from the election of former Head Masters. Dr. James, elected Head Master in. 1778, was Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge; Dr. Ingles, elected in 1794, was a Feliow cf King's Colh ge, Cambridge, and master of Macclesfield School; Dr. Wooll, elided in 1807, was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and at the time of his election was master of Midhurst School; Dr. Arnold, elected in 1828, had been Fellow of Oriel Cullege, Oxford, and Ives taking pi ivate pupils at Lekbam when elected head master; Dr. Tait, the present head master, and now Dean of Carlisle, when elected in 1842 was Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford. The number of candidates for the Head Mastership in Iso7 was 21; in 1828, 27; in 1842, 17; and there are now 21. Ot these, 10 are from the University of Oxford, and 11 from the University of Cambridge. THE ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING TIII3 DWEL LINGS OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—This morning another edifice, built by Mr. Grimsdell for this associa tion, for 234 single men, in Spicer-street, Spite'fields, was publicly opened, and possesses many convenioncri, consisting of separate bedchambers, lavoratories, au ex tensive kitchen, with ample ranges, boilers, latindrith drying rooms, and every domestic appurtenance of 0 large and well-regulated establishment. The entire structure is warmed by hot air, and a comprehensive system of ventilation by duplicate floors is adapted to each apartment. There is likewise a large coffee-room, of lofty structure, reading rooms, smoking rooms, sepa rate safes and keys for the food of each individual; and indeed nothing has been overlooked which could con tribute to the social condition of its future occupants. There is likewise another pile of buildings, built by the Messrs. Piper for sixty families, in which each suit of apartments is complete in itself, double doors opening upon the common lauding place, after the manner of chambers in our inns of court, with the addition of having many domestic comforts within reach, and that immunity from fire to which the Temple and other similarly constructed buildings have been so frequently subject to. This security from fire we look upon as an all-absorbing consideration, for it is fearful to contem plate its visitation in struetures of so great an altitude (six stories), and where so many lives are at its mercy. In the present case we are freed from alarm, the fire proof principle of the Messrs Pox arid Barrett having been adopted throughow, which it woeld appear the management have bean enabled to do, from the fact of its economy over the ordinary fl )oring being added to its more vital recommendations, and the consideration that a building thus raised, being free from ordinary con tingencies, may be looked upon as almost a perpetual estate. Mr. W. Beck, of Loedeu. is the architect of both edifices, and it should ba added that there will be a school-room fur the children in this latter building. Morals can never be very pure where manners are defective.—Eliza cock's Aram/. MONET MAIMET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per tulle, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.45; and the exchange At Paris on London at short being 25.47 k, it follows that gold is 0.10 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advises from Hamburgh the price of gold, is 437 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of St 17s. Rid. per ounce for standard gold, gives au exchange of 13.11; and the exchange at Ilamburgh on Londosr at short being 13.12 i, it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent, dearer in London than in Hainburgh. ~~