The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-17 00:00:00

The Russians were slowly marching onwards. 1!• fi r , s tr— •• r . -^ "dy on the evciiing , J 1 the 1 The Emperor of RUSSIA has retarded the march of lii3 army, and has himself set off for Moscow, where an outbreak was apprehended. DEMBINSKI filid 13 EM are fully prepared to take advantage of any in surrection which may break out in the rear of the March of the Russian forces. PRUSSIA. Up to the 14th iiist7tlletroo7s of the line had not Made any attack on ElLerfeld, which still continued in the possession of the insurgents. It appears that the committee of safety have succeeded in preserv ing the rights of property except With regard to some obnoxious public p e rsons, and that they have sent a d e p u t y to Fra:Aifort to solicit the protection of the central executive. 0,,e of the railways leading !o Elberfeld has been partly destroyed, in order to Itnpede the arri va l o f the troops. Armed insurgents continue to pour in from ail directions, and there is no lack of provisions. It is stated on good authority that the people of Solinger have stormed the arsenal at Grafrath, and got possession of 1,500 guns, and a lar ge quantity of other weapons. NURNBERG, MAY 12.—There was a fray between the burghers and the soldiers here yesterday, occa sioned b y a v i o l ent art i c l e i n t h e newspapers aga i ns t ti military. Several persons were wounded on both B .•des• Large bodies of troops are at this moment collected in the city.. Several gentlemen of Nurn berg have set off for Frankfurt, in order to request an lmperial Commissioner for Franconia. It is as serted,. h owever , th a t th ey were no t au thorised by the Qty. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Vidette war steamer, which left Constantinople on the evening of the 29th of April, and arrived at Marseilles on the evening of the 13th inst., brings 1111 Portant intelligence from that capital. The Vidette was dispatched expressly by General AUPICK, with accounts for his Government of the result of the ne gotiations b e t ween R uss i a and the Porte, which have been in the course of negotiation for some time past, tinder th e auspices of the Russian Envoy Extraordi nary General GRABBE. few days aft e r his arrival, General GRABBE pre sented his credentials, and officially opened his nego tiations; and the following are the bases of a definitive !p•angement determined upon between him and the I orte " 1. Russia demands the occupation of the two prin cipalities of Moldavia and Wallachia by Russian troops, until the complete re-organization of the interior admi nistration of these two countries." This has been granted by Turkey, with this modi fication, that the occupation shall be half Russian and half Turkish, and that at the end of a year both Powers will evacuate the principalities simulta neously. " 2. Russia demands the nomination of two hospadors, to be appointed by the two powers, without consulting the local Assemblies." Granted, with this modification, that the two hospadors shall, before being nominated, be persons Who have been approved of by a vote of the As semblies. "3. Russia proposes the revision of the organic statutes of Moldavia and Wallachia, and the suppression of the liberty of the press." - Refused. The Porte merely consents to restrict the liberty of the press within sage limits. "4. Russia demands of the Porte that the Russian troops should have permission to (Liter the Banat, in the event of their being called for by the Patriarch." Refused. • " 5 . Russia proposes to the Porte that the two Powers should enter into a new treaty effensive and de tensive." Refused. Such are the bases of a treaty as far US agreed on, and it v,ill he acted on by both s i'les. The treaty is to be caked an Act preceded by protocol. There are some questions of detail yet to be settled. The treaty gives satisfaction at Constantinople. The firmness shown by Sir ,STRATFORD CANNING and General AUPICK are the subjects of universal eulogium. ITALY. Accounts have been received from Rome of the Gth. The defeat of the Neapolitans is described as being complete. They had retreated on Albano, fol lowed by GARIBALDI and his legions, and on the 6th they were surrounded at Albano by the Roman forces. We have received from Rome a printed paper, dated sth of May, containing a statement by a notary public, who declares he has spoken with two French prisoners, ALEXANDRE PICARD, chef de bataillon of the 20th of the Line, and Louis JEIIMELET, sub lieutenant of the 10th of the Line, through the me dium of the public interpreter of Roman tribunals ; and that the said prisoners declared they had been led into error respecting the state of the Roman Re public, by the misrepresentations of the French Go vernment. This document is signed by PaRADIsi, the interpretor COMPAGNONI, and the notary FHA.. TOCCIIL Several of the French prisoners have refused to be exchanged, but have asked for arms and for permis sion to be led against the Neapolitans. Their offers, however, have been refused by the Triumvirs, v‘ho told them that the Romans were quite capable of fighting their own battles without assistance. The POPE, hearing that the French were in posses sion of Civita Vecchia, sent Monsignor VALENTINI to be governor of the town, but the French authorities sent him back to Gaeta. The Milan Gazette of the 11th states that General IVimprEN arrived on the Bth at the head of his troops before Bologna, and addressed to the people of the Roman States a proclamation, stating that he came 'to establish the legitimate Government of Pius IX. The general has erected a battery on the heights - which command the town, and had granted a delay of twenty-four hours to the municipality to surrender. Notwithstanding the presence in the Roman States of the troops of three reactionary powers (France, Austria, and Naples), not a single village or town has declared in favour of the POPE. SICILY. The accounts of the renewal of hostilies in Sicily are confirmed. It appears that the emissaries of Ring FERDINAND had succeeded in bribing certain dn . ffuential p art i es in P a l ermo t o b e t ra y th e cause of 'Sicily, an d t h ese persons persua d e d t h e Sicilian patriots to marcla to Catania to endeavour to defend a comparatively open town against the Neapolitans. Advantag e was ta k en o f t h e i r a b sence t o t amper with the National Guard (composed principally of shop- . i ceepers, who, a b ove a ll thi ngs , w i s hed to save their brittle w ares "), an d t h e very susp i c i ous l y t ime d 'Arrival of Admiral BAUDIN (the agent of the present reactionary Government of France), who, without /he consent or knowledge of the English Admiral, I.uddenly appeared alone at Palermo, as the 'friend of FERDINAND, adding to the power :of the traitors, they, notwithstanding the efforts of N . STAIIILE and RUGGIERO SETTIMO, succeeded for 'la time in ousting the patriotic party from power, and t3ntered into negotiations with FILANGIERI. No liooner, however, was the presence of BAUDIN'S squa dron withdrawn, than the people of Palermo, discover ing the treason, rose against the traitors, expelled 'them from the city, disarmed the National Guard, 'elected Baron Riso as chief of the Provisional Go vvernment ; and under the leadership of SCORDATO I(the Ilofer of Sicily, whose name strikes terror into I.he Neapolitan troops), and of INlrcuEno, are deter )mined to hold out to the last. The infamous DEL CARETTO has arrived at Naples. ;SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) ANOTHER. V. PARKER. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) GARTON AND This was an action to recoverefen the sum of 16/. 16s. on I) dant ph tided that he did not accept d without consideration. ac commodation Mr. G RAY, f or the plaintiffslu (who are tobacconists at linceln), sa id th a t d e f en dant Was :I also a tobacconist at eicester. With res p ec t to the first p!ea the defendant dad admitted his acceptance under a Judge's order, and ... was given were rth e circumstanc es un d er w hi c h the hill ;these. Th e defendant ' s son, who resides at Nottingham, ' d ealt with pl a i n tiff s, an d b ecame indebted to them in the ab ove amount, an d sent a bill accepte d by duehis father for Ile amount, b ut when the bill became i newed at d e f en d ant ' s request. He (the Learnedit was re• Coun itel) therefore could not conceive what the defence vould be. Mr. PARRY said that the question would ba one rather tfor the Under -Sheriff than otherwise—the point was ;not so much whether this was an eccommo- Ndation bill, as understood in common parlance, /but whether it did not come within the meaning iof the Statute of Frauds. On the face of the bill there I was no expression of the consideration given for it, but it was clearly given in the nature of a guarantee for the 'debt of another, and as such, under the Statute of Frauds, 'ought to have been clearly and distinctly set forth in wilting. Mr. Jon. White Ilaythorn was called. lie was agent for plaintiffs in 1845. Goods re supplied to defen 'slant's son to the amount of 2.11.; 8!. had been paid. Mr. Gust . said that he would admit that the original bill was given for the debt, and that this was a renewed /bill, and open to any objection urged against the firm. Mr. PARRY—As a security for the SOlfti debt. The o sub mit UNDE the jur. The Learned COUNSEL said if the Learned Sheriff could could not decide the question, they would agree 'that a verdict should be taken for the plaintiffs, with riiberty to move the Court above. This course was then taken. No atternies were present in the other cases, which were struck out. Sr Xitont (;uxNa..--The vessel Bucephalus, ar ived in the Docks from Wharnpoa China, has brought 0 boxes of specie, consigned to the Oriental Bank, as a )13°1310n of her cargo, 1 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWIS. 17 . 1 1 . Q 11.11; T.V Ti'; THREE. ihe sere ui Ceteei at Liveipoul 3 esteiclay were esti mated at 5,000 bales, including 1,000 American for ex port. 4,500 American realised 31 5 -l. to 61d.; 200 Pernain and Marauham, sd. to s+d. ; 3UO Surat, 33. to 3 v . and 30 Sea Island, S.W. to Is. per lb. The market closed steadily. Prices of all kinds rem in the same except Brazil and Egyptian, which were 31. per lb. lower. Railway Shares continued dull, with but a limited busi ness dolie - r. Owing to an error discovered in the calculation, the usual vreelly average of grain sales has not ap peared yet, and will not be issued until this evening. The further documents promised by the committee of Spanish ..tmerican Bondholders, upon the subject of the Mexican debt, have been duly forwarded to us, and they are to be regarded as satisfactory. A change has oc curred in the finance department, a new Minister, Senor Arranga:z. having taken office, but highly as his prede cessor was esteemed, there is no reason to conclude that the interests of the foreign creditors will in the slightest degree be prejudiced, an arrangement having already been come to, in virtue of which Senor Arrangaiz promises to submit to Congress, without delay, a proposal for the further appropriation to the payment of interest on the foreign debt, of 720,000 dollars from the United States Indemnity money. When we reflect upon the circumstances of the country, the serious war in which it has been involved, and the dis order that must be expected to prevail in every depart ment of the s'ate, we see abundant cause for grateful recognition on the part of the bondholders for all that has been accomplished; and to the Mexican Government, the Special Envoy, Mr. W. P. Robertson, the British Minister, Mr. Doyle, and, last not least, the respected firm of Manning and Mackintosh, the warmest thanks are due. One matter we cannot pass without obArvation, viz., that the English consuls have not lent sufficient aid in preventing the smuggling out of silver, which pays a handsome duty to the bondholders. Whether, as is reported, there will be any complaint made to Lord Palmerwen on the subject, we ere unable to state, but mercantile houses too frequently have a private in terest that clashes with their public duty its consuls, and we hole this will not prove to be the case here. A portion of the correspondence forwarded to the committee is of prominent interest; viz , that which con tains the statement by Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh of the probable Customs' income. They state that the duties pending on the Feb. 28, were 192,315. 83d0115., while with 20 per cent. of the duties collected in March, made up a total of 220,957-79 duds., leaving, after certain sums already paid, 168,388.48 dolls. pending for col lection on the 31st of March. In noticing the compara tive smallness of these receipts compared with the pre vious month, February, Messrs. Manning express a confident belief that the customs revenue will not exceed 2i to 3 millions of dollars annually while the present tariff is in operation. With a liberalised scale of duties the increase would doubtless, therefore, be most im portant, and from the well-known disposition of the Congress, that scale seems certain to bo introduced. That the country can consume a far greater quantity of foreign products is proved by the immense smuggling carried on. Cape of G cod Hope advices of March 30 have been received in the City. The state of Kafirland, with re spect to the tranquillity of the people and the progress of the various settlements is highly favourable. The system was evidently in good hands, as a local writer observes, a circumstance, essential to the good working of any system. The Fingces located in the colony had taken alarm at some reports circulated of the in tention of Government to reduce them to slavery and many had hastily crossed the frontier in consequence. Their fears, however, were speedily dis sipated by the efficial notices issued, and by a personal assurance of the commissioner. The new constitution for the country beyond the Orange River bail been pro mulgated, and appeared to give much satisfaction. The Amsterdam ]otters report that the Bourse on Tu. sdey was rather heavy, but with a fair business in Dutch 'le. o-and- a-Half per Cents. Generally the poli tical accounts from the Continent are looked upon by City people as being mere satisfactory. The English Fowls are much the same as yesterday. Consuls 90-;„ to 91,- 1 ,, for Transfer, and 91 to 9 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 90+ to A, and the Three per Cent. Reduced Annui ties 893 Bade Stack is 193. Exchequer-bills have been 45a. to 48s. premium. The Letter tone of the Paris Stock Market }Affords some encouragement here. In the Foreign Investments there is scarcely any thing doing. Spanish Active Bonds are 16i to 17, the Three per Cents. about 33 to Portuguese Four per Cents. 281, Brazilian small 79. and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents, about 49 Mexican are 31i for - 4 Money, and 314 to 32 with the Coupons, for Account. Railway Shares have been much quieter, but support the advanced rates of yesterday, except in one or two instances. ONE PRICES OF IsTUTOSU FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICE!•; bank Stock 3 ;:er Cent. Reduced Arms 8 9 % 14 8)3; 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 91 1 / 8 90% 911 13 91;44 Now 314 per Cent. Anu5....... 9 0 1 4 1h 90% LongAnns. to expire Jan.1860 Ditto 30 year;, Jan. 5, 1860 B 3/ 8 13-16 8 13-1 G India Stock 547 217 India Ecnads, I,ooot. ..... ........ .. 71 70 p 70 p Ditto under 1,000/.. ... 71 70 p 69 p South Sea Stock Consols for Account Exchequer 13i11A. 140. & 2(1. 1,000/. Juno 4B 45 p 45 p 500/. June Small. June 4B 45 45p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. rILICES. Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, Small 79 79 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent. 37% Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 31% 31 5 is Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, Account 000000 .•• 29% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account l7 17 Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — 23% Dividends on the above payable in London, French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange 2sf. 30c. 25f. 35c. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — Ditto, 4 per Cont. Ceztificates 76% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SIIAREs. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen ... 50 Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. 59 Ditto, Thirds Nuckinghamehire ... 161 4s. ..... dis, . .... 1% dis Caledonian Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 8 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent........... 10 ...... 11% ll% Ditto, Extension,s per Cent., No. I 6/.135. 4d.... % p 1 p Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Do. New Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42 ........ ... Great Northern Do., % B 6 per Cent... „ 7%. 574 __ sx, _ .. Great Western 100 — 7 9 IA 7814 Ditto, I ,:', Shares 5O 39 Ditto, q Shares Ditto, Fifths ... 20 D' N 171. -- 15 -101 i Ditto, New ...... ..... ... — ........ ...... A Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 — .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ....,. 44 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 ...... 20 Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 -- Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 .. - .. .. 8 1 / 2 Leeds and Bradford London &81ackwa11...... 12 1 / 2 London, Brighton, and South Coast 36% Do.Guarant. 5 per ct 9 ...... 9% London and N. Western 100 l2B .. 128% Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...... 3% 3y' 6 Lond. & S. Western 50.... Do. New 50/. ... ..... 42 1 4.... .. 26% . ..„ 25 1 Do. New 404 . 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls hlanchester.Bur.ton,and Matlock.... 4% Midland ...... ........ ...100 ... .. 68% 1 4 6 8 14 Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 ... .. 11 14 1 4 Do.Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct. —lOO ......123 122 3 / 4 Norfolk ......... 100 ...... • ...• •• Do. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20 •• North British ... .. ... 25 .. 13 • 13 North Staffordshire Scottish Central Shropshire Union South Eastern Do., N 0.2. . .. 27 Do., Registered N o . 4 10 Do~ Scrip No 4 S mth Wales York, Newcastle, and Berwick. 25 Do. Newcastle Elam). 20 Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8 ... .. 4 York and North Midland 50 .. 29 1 4 1 ' 28 3 A 29% 30 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 - Po. East and Westßid ing Extension 14% ... . FOREIGN RAILWAYS. East Indian .... ... 3 14 3,4 Great Indian Peninsular 5 Northern of France.... 13 Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 MINES. Australian 3 ...... 6% 6th Barrossa Range Min. Co. 28s. - _ % pm JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London & Westminster. 20 3% 4% 10% LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 17.—Wind at noon S.S.W., fresh breeze and cloudy, but fine. DARTMOUTH, MAY I5.—A boat, marked outside " Traveller, of North Shields," and insido, " William Meldrum," apparently not lung in the water, but much damaged, was picked up 31st tilt., in lat. 38 lon. 10, by the Dromo Lago, which arrived off this port 3 esterday, from Pstras. OFF KINGSBRIDGE.—AIfred, Henning, Calcutta. OFF FAL3IOUTII, MAY 15. Bolivar, Barrow, St. Vincent ;: 16th, Swift (of Guernsey), Ilavannah for Cowes. GLOUCESTER, MAY 16.—Arrd. Breeze, .Edwards, Charleston. SWANSEA, MAY 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Young QueLn, Penhorwood, Cuba. HARTLEPOOL, MAY 14.—A lchymist, Bombay. _ CARDIFF, MAY 16 .— The Eleanor, of Whitehaven, Blacklock, laden with coals for Liverpool, had the greater part of her decks blown up by an explosion of gas this morning; and must partly discharge her'cargo; pj; the crew, excopt t.h" Tl9.tf•r, !n0,(4 or less inju-, 1:AL3L)LI:1, S. W.—Ai - rd. 13.11 Fredrick Ernst, Aemonsea, Buenos Ayres, for Ant werp; Skit4d, Clauvon, Rio Janeiro; Johanna, Becker, Para, fur Ilanaburgh. 16th, Buona Matilda, Pernambuco. PLYMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Napo leon, Collio, Buenos Ayres; Gosalpium, Lowther,Callao, for Falmouth, with foremast sprung. Orr TORBAY, MAY 16.—Fatrint.rs, Elson, Madeira, for Riga. Sld. 15th Eliza, Valparaiso. COWES, MAY 16.—Wind W.—Arrd. Emmy, Wile ken, Calcutta, for Harnburgh; Swift, Pernambuco. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind %V. to S.S.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Grecian, Pernambuco, std. 13th ult.; Henrietta, Haesloop, Charleston, for Bremen. BrusTor., MAY 12.—The Hero, Hawkins, from Barn staple, in running for the river yesterday, ran ashore on the mud bank, and is beneaped, but lies well. A vessel, of about 300 tons, bottom up, sheathed with yellow metal, was passed in lat. 25. N. lon. 53. W. by the John Pink, Jones, arrived in the river from St. Vincent. DEAL, MAY 16.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd. 15t1h Prins Carl, Boldt, St. Croix; Fantome, Bacon, Jamaica. 16th, Trafalgar, Morrison, Sydney, NQW South Wales; Athena, Ogg, Hong Kong; Lark, Madeira, for St. Pc tersburgh. Arrd. from the River,l6th, Lady Margaret, Port Philip. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, MAY 17, 1849. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGAT AND LEADENHALL. These Markets were far from active to-day, yet prices were mostly supported. Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s Gd; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s; Lamb, 5s to Gi; Veal, 33 4d to 4s 4d; end Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per Sibs by the carcase. HAT IVIA.RILETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Day, 21 103 to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 31 53 to 51 Os ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 103 per load. A full average supply, and a sluggi.ll demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 41 03 ; Clover ditto, 3/ 83 to 41 153; and Straw, 1/ 7s to 11 11s per load. Supply tolerably good, and Lade rather dull. WHITECIIAPEL.—MeaIow hay, 21 103 to 41 03 ; Clover ditto, 31 03 to 51 Os; and Straw, 1/63 to 1110 s, per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. MiUUtETB. SOUTIIALL, MAY 18.—Our market was tolerably steady for each kind of fat stock to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d per Blbs, to sink the offal. RostFont., MAY 16.—Prime Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, sold freely, at advanced currencies. The value of all other kinds of stock was well supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Lamb, 5i to 6s; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 21s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 201 each. LEWES, MAY 15.—We bad a firm trade to-day, at impruved currencies. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Mut ton, 3. 8d to 45 6d; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s per 81bs., a moderate supply and a steady trade. CORN AVERAGES. Owing to some inaccuracies in them, the averages of grain have not been published to-day. SOUTII-EA STERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The adjourned half -yearly general meeting of the above company was held this afternoon, at the Bridge House Hotel ; Mr. James Macgregor, Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The meeting was by no means so fully attended as the last, but probably the report of the committee of investigation being so highly satisfactory to all parties, deterred many of the country proprietors from going to the expense of corning to town. The chairman on entering the room and taking his seat was greeted with a burst of applause. Mr. M. L. Pritchard e as not in ettendence. The CHAIRMAN announced that the first business to ho proceeded with was to hear a communication from the Chairman of the Committee of Investigation. Mr. L. MOZLEY, as the chairman of the committee, was then presented to the meeting, and was greeted with mingled cheers and hisses. After adverting briefly to the circumstances which led to the appointment of the committee, he went on to declare that the gentle men so nominated had devoted themselves heart and soul to the dut;es allotted to them, and it was not until Monday last that the concluding paragraph was added to the report. It was then handed to the secretary of the company, who lost no time in getting it printed, and he had the gratification of knowing that, before four o'clock on Tuesday, copies had been forwarded by post to the majority of the proprietors, and to the editors of the London newspapers. Ile had only to add that the report con tained the truth, and nothing but the truth; and as the meeting had determined not to have it read, he should conclude by moving as the maximum opinion of the com mittee, the following resolutions—" Resolved, that the report of the committee of investigation now presented, be received, entered on the minutes, printed, and adopted; and that the directors be requested to carry into effect the recommendations therein contained as speedily as possible." Mr. Deceeneseer, the deputy chairman of tho com mittee, seconded the resolution. On the question being put, Mr. TRODIMON, a director, pronounced his opinion that the chairman of the board of directors was for tunate in having had the selection and nomination of his jury.—(Cries of " No, not" " Yes, yes!" and confusion.) Ho would not be put down by such unseemly expressions of opinion, for he too, as well as the Chairman, was upon his trial, and he had a right to be heard, and he would be heard. The meeting might oppose him, but he cared not for that; the public out of doors would be his judge, and to their decision only was he prepared to bow.—(Hear.) Now, he had no hesitation in declar ing that he had no confidence in the committee or their report.—(hear, and "Oh, oh.") They had delegated their duty with regard to investigating the accounts to a Mr. Quitter, while they had declined to examine him upon his not being summoned to the finance committee, and yet between March and September he had signed 288 cheques.—(oh, oh.) He confessed that he had signed the cheques without knowing what they were for, but ho was not answerable for that.—(" Oh, oh," said a voice. "Is that the way you do business?") No, it was not his way of doing business; it was their worthy chair man, who always acted upon the principle of making all under him his puppets.—(Oh.) Now then as to the share transactions which he alluded to at the last meeting. The committee attributed the blame of these gambling , manoeuvres upon Mr. M. L. Pritchard, but the responsi bility rested upon the chairman of the board, and his acquiescing directors, who allowed those transactions to be concealed in the accounts of February and August, 1848, or at least to be placed under false heads, and this Mr. L. Mozley was uware o f, b ut h e had neglected to mention it in the report.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. L. MoznEe—Will you have the goodness to re peat that? Mr. Tuomsorr would not repeat it unless the meeting required ii?—(Go on, go on.) Mr. L. MOZLEY —I call upon you, sir, as a man of honour to repeat wh:,.t you said of me perscnally. Mr. TitomsoN then repeated what he had said, but omitted to mention Mr. L. Mozley's name, substituting the word " committee " for it.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Well, then, admitting all the responsibility of these transactions; but who appointed him to rig and gamble on the Stock-Exchange? A VOICE —Ah ! who appointed him? Mr. TitousoN—Mr. Macgregor, who appoints all the directors. A VOICE—Who appointed you? Mr. Tnoarsorr—Mr. Macgregor. The CHAIRMAN—And very much to my regret. A VoicE—What have you done with Pritchard ? Mr. THOMSON—IIe is gone to Newmarket. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Thomson then proceeded- to assure the directors that although they wanted him to resign, he should remain on the board to protect the interests and property of the shareholders.—(Cries of " Oh, oh 1" and derisive cheers.) Mr. CUNLIFFE, solicitor, of Manchester, then solicited the attention of the meeting while he read to them an address upon the present state of their affairs. This address went into the details of the report of the Committee of Investigation, and expressed the conviction of the writer that the directors of the company were just as culpableas those of the Eastern Counties, for they had "cooked" the accounts, and otherwise misled the shareholders, and neglected their interests.—(Hear, hear.) All that he (Mr. Cunliffe) wanted was, that the shareholders should be protected from mismanagement, either through neglect or fraud, and that auk property should not be frittered away.— (Oh, oh.) The report of the committee attributed all the blame to the Deputy-Chairman, but in his opinion the Chairman and others were as much responsible for these shameful transactions as Mr. Pritchard.—(oh, oh, and hisses.) Mr. LEVY—Oh, it's all humbug disturbing the speaker this way. A Voice;—W ho are you, sir? Mr. LEVY—Who am I, sir? shares e. d Lomr o tee v y etty o hi u n: t A VOICE—T es , s i r . W ho are you, sir? How many I'll be you. you one hundr e d gu i neas to ono I g here interfered, and upon silence being restored, Mr. CIINLIFFE resumed his address. He explained Mr. Pritchard's absence by stating that his wife had re c( ntly died, while his business affairs were in a state of derangement, and then went en to read extracts from private letters written by Mr. Macgregor to Mr. Prit chard, to show that ha was cognizant of the latter's mo%ements on the Stock Exchange. lie concluded his address by remarking that the company had been pay ing dividends of 215., when the line had only earned 95., and seeing that the works still required 140,0001., he called upon the meeting to insist upon further explana. tions.—(Hear, hear.) • The CHAIRMAN complained that these attacks ought to have been made to his judges, the committee, who had honourably exonerated him from all the charges preferred against him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Thomson complained of the close system of management carried on between March and September. Why, from May to September of that period he was kept away onaffianirh3 his absence system was carried andwhy ifdid this not cl m o close him word of it? from the conapany's (Cheers.) had The only point which he to answer was the report of the committee relative to the paragraph in placed to construction account in. Thomson protest against it and send money having been policy.—(Cheers.) concluded when our report left. The meeting had not eo stead of revenue. Wll be was prepared to justify that SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT SOCIEI Y. One of the largest and most respectebly attended meetings perhaps ever held in the same locality, took relate yesterday afternoon at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of furthering the objects of the above institution. For some time before the hour appointed ler the meeting great crowds assembled in the neigh bourhood, attracted by the aneounecruent that his Royal Highness Prince Albert intended honouring the meeting by his presence; and shortly after two o'clock, when the doors were opened, the room in which the assemblage collected wee thronged in every part, the great majority of the audience being ledi,!s. his Royal Highness P r i nce Alb er t arrived a little after three o'cl oc k, and hi s a pp earanc e on the platform was hailed by a universal demonstration of respect and applause on the part of the immense concourse of persons present. Amongst the distinguished individuals on the plat form and at the meeting were—Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Westminster; Lords Ashley, Effingham, Adair, and Fielding; the Archbishop of Canterbury; the BLhops of Oxford, Exeter, London, Salisbury', Chi chester; Archdeacons Manning and Wilherforce; Sir T. Acland, Sir 11. Dukinfield, lion. Colonel Phipps, M. Guizot, Messrs. Philips, Acland, Colquhoun, Ste. His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, on taking the chair, as soon as the applause which greeted his rising was hushed, addressed the meeting as follows:—Ladies and gentlemen, the object for which we have met here this day is not one of charity, but one for the purpose of affording friendly assistance. and advice to a large and important class of our fellow-countrymen, the domestic servants of this empire. Where is the heart that does not feel the deepest interest in the welfare of domestic servants, or who does not sympa thise with those who minister to us in all the wants of daily life; who tend us in sickness, who r i e lj a . t — p ( a A rt P o P f la th u e " inma A te a s d re ceive us on ou r fi rst appearance in this worl d , a nd ex tend their car e even to our mortal remains—(Hear, h ear ) l findo ld thatand f a a g m — who liv e un d sr our roofs, and form part of our house of this metropolis is fo rme d of domestic servants. I am quite sure that startling as this fact is, it is no proo f o f want of liberality and kind ness on the part of masters , of yet the o n w o i r n k q h u o i inquiry I s s e or of vice on the part of servants, but the natural cen sequence of the peculiar position in which the latter are placed. During a considerable portion of their lives they share in all the expenses of their opulent masters; at other periods they have not th e means even of sus taining themselves from day to da3 . .—(llear, hear.) It is the consideration of these Peculiar, vicissitudes which makes it the duty both of masters and servants to try to discover and agree upon some plan by which domestic servants may be carried through life safe from the temptations of a prosperous, and from the sufferings of an evil day.—(Hear, hear.) On that account I rejoice in this meeting—(Cheers)—and I gladly consented to take the chair at it—(Cheers)--to assist the objects of the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel convinced that this society is based upon a right principle, as it follows the dictates of a cor rect appreciation of human nature, which requires every one, by his own exertions, to work out his own happiness —(Cheers)—which prevents us from valuing, nay, from feelir ' e satisfied, with a prosperity which othe rs h ave made for us. It is based upon a right principle, because it endeavours to trace out a plan according t o w hi ch, by previous self-denial, providence, and perseverance, not only is the servant reised in his physical and moral condition, but the master is taught how to direct his efforts so as to aid his servants in acquiring resources which shall be sufficient to sustain them in sickness, old age, and in want of employment.—(hear.) It is based upon a light principle, because it dots not hold out a temptation to set vents either by the prospect of possible extravagant advantages which would tend to transform their providence into a species of gambling; or by convivial meetings, which would lead them to ulte rior expense; or by a system of ballotting for a few prizes, which would draw the m into all the was t e o f ti me and excitement of an electicneer in g contest.—(Hear.) Such tare the characteristics of many institutions on which domestic servants and a portion of the other industrial classes in the country mainly depend; and what can be more heartrending than to see the breaking of banks and the failure of such institutions, which not only mar a man's pros peas for life, and plunge him o f a sudd en into the depths of destitution, destroy also toin others all confidence in the hon est y but which tend or the wisdom of those who have induced them to ri sk in such in stitutions the advantages of their pro, v idenee.—(Hear hear.) Let them consider well that if they. will embark their funds in such institutions — if they themselveswill have consvivial.meet ings—if they will claim for a s l o re w l i n th t o h u e t government or the country—they cannot do h happiness and that of their families. risking their future I eir savings aro capital, and Let them bear in mind t hat t that capital will only bear a certain rate of interest, out to them beyond which he ld and that any advantagecan only be purchased by a corre sponding risk of that rate of interest the capital itself. The advantages which are held out by the financial scheme of this so ciety are based upon the credit of the country at large and the faith of the Governmen t.— ( Cheers. ) It is re g ula t e d by an Act of Parliament called the Deferred Annuities Act. Its principles aro shortly these—That, according to the tables which I have hero before me, anybody whose income does not exceed 150/., may, by a small instalment, purchase an annuity, to be deferred for not less than ten years, but which after that period may begin at any time the depositor may choose to name. One annuity cannot be more than 301., but a depositor may purchase distinct annuities for his wife and chil dren, tho latter being fifteen years old. Should he wish at any time to withdraw his, deposits they w ill be re turned to him, provided the withdrawal takes place before the annuity commences. Should he die before that period, his deposits will be returned to his heirs, and the only loss he can sustain will be the interest on the money deposited.—(Hear.) Although this wise and . beneficent measure was enacted so far back as the third year of the reign of William IV., I am grieved to find that during the whol e o f t h at per i o d on ly 700 persons had availd themselves of its provisions. I can discover no reason for this, except that the existence of this Act and its provisions are not generally known, and that people are afraid of law and Acts of Parliament — (Laughter and cheers)—which frequently cannot be understood on accout of their complicated and technical wording.—(Hear, hear.) I have heard another reason stated, to which, however, I cannot attach much credit. It is said that servants aro afraid that the knowledge of their being able to purchase annuities out of the savings from their wages may induce masters to reduce their wages. But I have a better opinion of the disposition of the masters—(Loud cheers)—and I am convinced that, on the contrary, nothing tends more to counteract the liberality of masters than the idea—which is not altogether unfounded—that an increase in their wages sometimes leads to extravagance.—(Clear, hear.) To make this Act of Parliament more generally known to the public at large is one of the main objects of this meeting; and one of the objects of this society is to form a medium by which servants may acquire for them selves the benefits which arc held out by this Act of Parliament free of all trouble, risk, and costs.—(Cheers.) Another object is to establish a home for female ser vants when out of employment, the usefulness and im portance of which hardly requires a single word of commendation on my part. It is also proposed to establish model lodging-houses for men servants who do not lodge with their masters, and to establish a re gistry for servants in general. Anybody who is ace quainted with the inconvenience and annoyance of the general system of obtaining characters of servants will see at once how useful and important it must be to introduce a system by which both the servant, on the one hand, may be protected from the ruin which the caprice of a single master, with whom he may have stayed p e rh a p s on l y f or a s h o rt time, would bring upon him, and t o p rotect t h e mas t e r, on the other, from the risk which a character obtained from a former weak master by the importunities of an undeserving servant will expose him to.—(Cheers.) It is not a small boon we confer upon a servant when we enable him to appeal to the records of a long . and faithful service in order to redeem himself from the disqualification which a single fault might otherwise bring upon hial. -- (Cheers.) If we succeed in drawing attention to these different points, and make the public generally aware of them, I ana convinced that we shall have the satisfaction of having materially aided a most interesting class, which I find, by the last census taken in this country, to be among the most numerous of than population. His Royal Highness concluded by calling upon the t reaeurer to lay before the meeting more particular details on the points on which he addressed them. Mr. CHESTER then read the report, which entered at great length into statistical details with ref erence to the number of servants in the various union wo r kh ouses in the London district, as well as the progress w hi ch the present society had made during tie two y ears of Es existence; which had been most prosperous an d eecou raging. The additional expenditure which tlieyhadhiand curre d ha d tothebeen objectscaused o by e the t h e society. ne cessity of givin g greater publicity Th e society become incorporated with one which had already ex i ste d model lodging-houses for male a n d f ema l e ftoor establish fourtee years on specific terms, and it w as propo3e d servants out of place, and also a r egistry-office, in addition to the other benefits of the associa tion. Want of space prevents us from giving any more details of the report. The principal object of the society was to enable them to purchase The Government annuities as the only safe a n d soun d sytem of procuring annuities for old age. Th e report s concludedsociety , aodin thetll followinge principles con structed, are duly appreciated by servants ; an d i t re aowdor sdyssrei:o ow'hich it is object of this mains only to be seen whether the public at large will effectually support the benevolent fund, and enable the directors to accomplish the important objects for which that fund has been created. The aims of the society are by no means limited to the improvement of the physical condition of the. servant—we desire to promote the true interests of servants in all respects, and to develope among all classes of her Majesty s subjects in this king dom a true idea of the relation between master and servant. ' Servants, obey in all things your m as t ers ecc.)rding t o the desh; not with ey 0 service as men pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearite, God; and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in Ileaven.'— Cul. chap. iii., 22, 23; iv., 1." Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the adoption of the first resolution, said it might be thought that he was no t very well calculated to explain the objects of that society ; but, seeing that they bad already heard from his Royal Highness Prince Albert the very best pos sible summary that could be given—(Rear, hear) — of the objects and utility of that societ y, and also from the report of the treasurer the most interesting matter of those objects, he would confine his statement briefly t, what appeared to him some of the principal benefits . which th a t soc i ety would con f er . It app eared that no .e than 970,000 persons belonged to the clue of do mastic servants in England and Wales at the last census, and at present no doubt their number exceeded a million. Such was the large number en which that society proposed to confer benefits. In the next place ho would observe that this funding of the accumulates', profits and saving of domestic servants would enable many of them to contribute to the comfort and welfare of their parents, and soothe the dying hours of those connected with tht m. That was a good foundation for them to go upon. Then, in the next place, the present society was to lottery or gam bling speculation—(Hear, hear.) It held out no hopes to parties getting any more titan they contributed; it held out no hopes that persons might get any more advantage than what they were entitled to. He thought that the present society, by bringing servants into com munication with the means by which their condition might be made more comfortable, conferred not only a great benefit and advantage on that class, but that its promoters were only making some return for benefits which they had themselves received—(Hear.) There was no person who had not at some period or another of his life been indebted to his servants fur the care and attention which they had bestowed not only on him self, but on those connected with him—(hean) There fore, he said, that by contributing to the welfare of that class, they were only returning a debt of gratitude which they owed—(Hear.) The Bishop of OZFORD, in seconding the resolution, observed, that when asked by the committee to do so, he had been led to examine scme of the statistical de tails of the society, with the view of recommending its plan to their adoption. But that request had bean made before his Royal Highness, who presided over that meet ing, had entered upon the statement by which their pro ceedings were commenced. But after the singularly lucid and comprch(nsive speech with which his Royal Highness had opened the subject—(Bear)—very little remained for him or any other speaker to add to that statement.—(Hear.) In fact his Royal Highness had at once and aptly sketched out a correct description of the present society when he said it was not a charitable so ciety, but ono to enable parties to sustain and assist them selves. To show what an adequate provision could be made for such a great number of persons by such a plan as a benevolent fund, he would just say, that it had been calculated that it would require a capital of no less than 100,0001, to secure a pension of 201. a year for only 175 persons.—(Hear.) He thought there were many reasons which ought to induce them, and which made it their bounden duty, to afford the advantages held out by that institution to that large class who had so just a claim upon them. Many persons might say they would provide for their own servants in old age, but could those individuals answer for their own ability to do so when the necessity arose ?—(Hear.) One great disadvantage which arose from the circumstances of the present social system of this country was that the old re lations between servants and masters were dissevered. The present society he conceived was a step in the direction of remedying in some degree that evil. When persons entered service it was generally at that early period of life at which people had very little forethought or provident cal culation, and they imperceptibly acquired the habit of spending all their earnings until it was too late to re claim it. Another evil of the present social system was that a feeling of servility distinct from service was gene rated. It was just a consideration of the money paid, and the service rendered for it.—(Hear, hear.) Now, humanly speaking, that society afforded the servant a safeguard against that; for it would tend to give the servant a feeling of self-reliance and independence. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded an eloquent and touching appeal, of which we regret want of space compels us to give only an outline, by calling on them to give their support to a scciety which deserved it so well. The Bishop of LONDON then, at the request of his Royal Highness, read the resolution, which was to the effect that it was desirable to encourage providence and thrift amongst servants, and hold out to them the ad vantages proposed by that institution through the means of the Annuity Act. The resolution passed unanimously. Lord ASHLEY, in proposing the second resolution, said it was one of such a practical nature as would re quire no rhetorical flourish to recommend it to the meeting. It went to pledge the meeting to carry out the recommendations contained in the report. The Noble Lord, in moving the resolution, condemned the principles of what were called benefit societies, which often had a very injurious effect on the moral habits and temporal welfare of those who joined them; and he strongly recommended the encouragement of such insti tutions as they were that day met to advocate and sup port. He also pointed out the advantages which would result from the establishment of model lodging-housee for men and women servants, as very successful conse quences bad ensued from some experiments of a similar kind which had been lately made in this metropolis. The Very Reverend Archdeacon MANNING, in se conding the resolution, called the attention of the meet ing to the wide-spread benefits which would ;result from that society in a moral, social, and political point of view, in consequence of the salutary effects which its working would produce amongst the families, children, and con nexions of domestic servants in all parts of the kingdom. The second resolution having been put, like the former One was also carried unanimously. The Bishop of LONDON, in rising to move the third resolution, said that it would hardly be expected that in thus doing he should extend his observations to any great length in addressing a meeting, the pro ceedings of which had not commenced until past three o'clock. lie could not hope to urge any stronger or additional arguments in favour of that institution than had been already used; and, more especially, after the opening speech of his Royal highness—(Hear, hear)—a speech not more remarkable for the deep Christian principles which pervaded it, than for the comprehensive philosophy which marked his views. —(hear, hear.) Ile called on the public to sup port such a society as the present by their influence and contributions. It was not a charitable association; but it was calculated to promote the interests of those who came forward to sustain themselves.—(Hear, hear.) It was their duty to do so. Nay, they themselves would benefit by it; for there was no eat of duty or charity which did not confer a benefit on those who performed it. The relations between master and servant in this coun try were not the same as formerly, when the domestics were looked upon more in the light of children than any thing else, in the families which they served. Now though it might be impossible, under existing circum stances, to restore those relations to what they were be fore, he thought the society was one step towards the accomplishment of such a desirable end. Though it might be melancholy to contemplate the number of do mestic servants that were inmates of our workhouses, yet it was consoling and gratifying to be able to state that a very small proportion indeed, of those who had been household servants, and consequently exposed to great temptations upon their honesty, were criminals in our gaols or penetentiaries.—(Hear.) There might be various associations which held out greater advantages than that society, but none possessed the same solid ad vantages; and with respect to societies based upon the same principles and with similar objects, they would offer to receive them, and give them all the good which they possessed in themselves. Their chief object was, that o himselff einh h a blis dge in o g l t h a eg ohoy h d a ins w d o pr un h d enothseesrt a v a e nt r h ng t sus hd p p a ort industry.—(Hear.) Sir T. ACLAND (on behalf of Mr. W. E. Gladst one, who was unavoidably absent) having briefly seconded the resolution, it passed. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY proposed a resolu tion conveying the deep gratitude and humble respects of the meeting to her Majesty the Queen and the Queen Dowager for their patronage of the society, and to his Royal Highness Field-Marshal the Prince Albert for his condescension in presiding over the meeting that day. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER having seconded the resolution, The Bishop of LONDON put it to the meeting, when it was carried by acclamation. ltorAL HIGHNESS then rose and said—Gentlemen —Allow me to thank you for the very kind feeling you have expressed and manifested towards mysell per sonally. The part which I have had to bear in the pro.. ceedings of this day has been a very light one, and I can assure you it has been gladly borne.—(llcar.) Let me rt mind you on parting, that on you it will depend to make the worth which have fallen from this platform realities in life—(Hear]—and to carry into operation and effvet the recommendations which we have made. His Royal highness then bowed to the meeting, and withdrew amid loud and prolonged expressions of ap plause. The assemblage then broke r.p. CO URT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave a stale ball (the second this season) last evening, at Buckingham Palace, to a party of nineteen hundred, comprising the members of the Royal Family and Foreign Princes and Princesses in England, all the members of the Diplomatic Corps and their Ladies, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal House holds, and a vt ry numerous circle of the Nobility and Gentry. The State saloons were opened for the reception, and were brilliantly illuminated with handsome chandeliers and candelabra, the recesses being decorated with choice and beautiful plants in flower, which were also tastefully arranged at the southern end of the Picture Gallery, occupying the whole width and height of the gallery. The company were invited at half-past nine o'clock, and soon after nine the visitors began to arrive, alighting both at the entrance in Pimlico, and at the temporary entrance in the garden, at which latter a guard of honour of the Foot Guards was stationed, with the band of the regiment. A guard of the Yeoman Guard was on duty in the Grand hall and Staircase, under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, Exon in Waiting. The officers present were Sir George Iloulton (Ensign) and Captain Bellaire (Exon). Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at half-past nine o'clock, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir George Couper, and Lord James P. Murray. Her Royal highness the Duchess of Cambridge was accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Stre litz, and was attended by Lady 11. Cadogan and Mr. Ed mond Mildmay. Their Royal Highnesses were rece ived by the Hon. Misses Murray and Macdonald, the Maids of Honour in Waiting; Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to the Prince; General Wemyss , Eq uerr y in Waiting; and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince, who conducted the Royal Duchesses .to the White Drawing-room, where the Queen and Prince Albert received their illustrious visitors. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Au gustus of Saxe Coburg joined the August Circle. His Roy a l Highness Prince Leopold, Count of Syra cuse, wa3 attended by General Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, and the Chevalier Cotentin. Their ,: ereLt o Riglanessea Prince Ldward of Saxe Weimar, and Prince William of Hesse Philippstahl were also present. The Duke of Argyle and other Scottish nobles wore the Highland dress. Shortly before 10 o'clock her Majesty and Prince Al bert quitted the White Drawing-room, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg!' Strelitz, the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and the Count of Syracuse, and were conducted by the Lord Chamber lain through the Saloon into the Ball-room, The Queen wore a dress of white and silver tulle d'illusion, trimmed with bouquets of red and white cur rants, green leaves, and diamonds. Her Majesty's head dress was formed of a wreath of red and white currants, and diamonds to correspond. Herr Strauss and his orchestra were stationed in the Ball-room, and played the National Anthem on the entrance of the Sovereign. Her Mejesty opened the ball with his Royal High ness Prince Leopold Count of Syracuse in a quadrille. The following quadrilles, waltzes, and polkas were danced in the ball-room : QRadrilles—Martha, Carneval, Tubel, Stradells. Waltat,s—Epioneir, Loiley, Friedensbothen, Landes Farben. Polkas—Eisele, Marianka, Exeter. The Throne-room was also prepared for dancing, Mr. Weippert's quadrille band attending in this saloon. The following quadrilles, polkas, and waltzes, were danced in this apartment : Quadrilk s—Robert lo Diable, Naples, Massaniello. Polkas —Hungarian, Fire-fly, Priacess's. Waltzes—Eleanor, Ailes d'Amour, Douro, Huguenots. The Green Drawing-room was appropriated for re freshments during the Light. Supper was served in the State Dining-room. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, Prince Alfred, Prince Philip of Saxe Coburg, and Prince Auguste of Saxe Coburg, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. General Wemyss attended on horseback. His Royal highness the Prince Albert. attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieute nant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, went yester day to the llanover•square Rooms to preside at the meeting of the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness also visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. A deputation consisting of Lord Clanaarty, Sir Percy Nugent, Mr. Ennis, Mr. 0. Flagherty, Mr. Blake, Mr. Stirling, and Mr. Reynolds had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Marquis of Clanricarde gave a dinner to the Ca binet Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence in Carlton-house-terrace. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday, and heard a petition for an extension of Bod mer's Patent. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, and the Judge of the Admi ralty Court. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the 'Votes and Proceedings of the House of Coinsnons.j WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 1 (Parties having limited interests may enter into agreements to grant compensation) read :—Amendment pro posed, to insert after the word " manure" these words, " or of such articles of food for cattle, sheep, or pigs, as shall be specially mentioned in the said agreements:"— Question put, " That those words be there inserted." The Committee divided: MAJORITY-AYES, 102. Adderley,:C. B. Hamilton, Lord C. Perfect, Robert Arkwright, George Hardcastle, J. A. Pigott, Francis Armstrong, R. B. Harris, Richard I'lumptre, J. P. Bailey, Joseph Ilenley, J. w. Portal, Melville Barrington, Viscount Henry, Alexander Pryse, Pryse Bouverie, E. P. Herbert, 11. A. Roche,'E. B. Brentridg,e, Richard llerbert, Sidney Roebuck, JA. Bromley, Robert Bodges, T. L. Russell, F. C. Brooke, Sir A. B. Hope, Sir J. Salwey, Colonel Brotherton, J. Jermyn, Earl Scully; Francis Clillbrd,:lienry ➢I. King, P. J. Seymer, H. K. ~ . Cobden, It. Langston, J. 11. Sheridan, It. B. Compton, 11. C. Lawless, Cecil Smyth, J. G. Crawford, W. S. Legli, G. C. Somerville. Sir W. Crowder, It. B. Lemon, Sir Charles Sotheron, T. H. S. Currie, henry Lennox, Lor 11. Spooner, It. Heedes, W. Locke, Joseph Stafford, Augustus l)uncan, George Long, Walter Strickland, Sir G. Ellis, John I yg )t 1 , General Sullivan, Michael Eatcourt, J. B. B. M...si tighten, Sir E. Talfourd, Sergeant Farrer, James 3l`Cullsgli ZW. T. Thlcknesse, Ralph Fellowes, E. Meagher, Thomas Thompson, Colonel Fitzr,y, Henry Manners, Lord C. Tollemache, John Foley, J. 11. Mcux, Sir Henry 1 ownley, It. G. Fordyce, A. D. Miles, William Trelawny, J. S. Fuller, A. E. .Milner, W. M. Tufnell, Hoary Greene, John Moody, C. A. Vesey, Hon T. Greene, Thomas Mailings, J. R. Walmsley, Sir J. Greaten, C. Pascoe JSlumly, William Willyams, H. Grey, Sir George Newdegate, N. 'Wilson, Matthew Grogan, Edward Newport,. Viscount Wodehouse, Edmund Haggitt, F. It. Pakington, Sir J._S. Wrightson, W.B. lialford, Sir 11. Palmer, Robert TELLERS. Halsey, T.P. Patten, J. W. Pusey, Philip Handßon, J. 11. Peel, Sir Robert Denison, J. E. MINORITY—NOES, 27. Bennet, Philip Ilildyard, T. B. Morris, David Broadley, 11. Hill, Lord E. Mulgrave, Earl liroadwood, li. Hood, Sir A. Packe, C. W. Christy, Samuel Ilornhy, John Scott, Francis Cobbold, J. C. Jervis, Sir John Smith, R. V. l)ivett, Edward Julliffe, Sir W. G. Stansileld, W. R. C. Dod, J. W. Kerrison, Sir E. Vane, Lord IL French, F. Mackenzie, W. F, TXLLESS. Gore, W. R. 0. Mackinnon, W. Christopher, R. Gwyn, Bowel Maitland, T. Buller, Sir J. Y. Clause 3 (Drainage, &c., to be kept in repair) read:— Question put, " That Clause 3, as amended, staud part of the BilL" The Committee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 120. MINORITY-NOES, 11. Bass, Thomas Langston, J.:II. Pryse, Pryse Brown, H. Lawless, Cecil Denison, J. E. Mostyn, E. TELLERS. Foley,'J. H. Pechell, Captain Verney, Sir H. Hardeastle, J. A. Pimiey, W. Willy aim, H. Clause 11 (Owners and Persons who may make agree ments on behalf of Owners) read :—Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause to add the following Proviso ; " Pro vided always, That no owner of any farm, of which he is not possessed in fee simple, shall have power, under this Act, by agreement with the tenant of such farm, to render any future owner of such farm liable for any principle sum by way of compensation for improvements which shall exceed two years' rent of such farm, according to the annual value thereof at the time of making such agreement; Provided also, that no tenant of such farm shall have power, under this Act, to recover, by virtue of any such agreement, from any future owner, any such principal sum by way of com pensation for improvements, except by seven equal annual instalments; and at the time of the payment of each annual instalment, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum upon the whole amount then due shall likewise be paid ; and the first of the above instalments and payments of interest shall not be due until one year's rent of such farm shall have been paid to such future owner :"—Question put, " That the Proviso be there added." The Committee divided MINORITY—AYES, 52. Adderley, C. 13. Gaskell, J. AI. Nugent, Sir Percy A rkwrigh t, Godson, Richard Ossulston, Lord Bennet, Philip Gooch, E. S. Pry se, Pryse Boldero, 11. G. Granby, Marquis of Richards, Richard Breinridge,Richard Gwyn, Rowel Smyth, Sir 11. Broadley, 11. Halsey, T. P. Somerset, Captain Bromley, Robert Hood, Sir Alexander Spooner, Richard Buller, Sir Y. Hornby John Stafford, Augustus Burrell, Sir C. Lacy, 11. C. Strickland, Sir G. Chaplin, W. J. Lascelles, E. 'Tyrell, Sir J. Cobbold, John C. Lindsay, Colonel Vesey, T. Coles, 11. U. Mackenzie, W. F. Vyse, It. 11. R. H. Compton, 11. C. Manners, Lorkti. Walsh, Sir J. B. Dunne, F. I'. Neu r, Sir 11. Wellesley, Lord C. East, Sir J. Miles, I'. W. S. Worcester, Marquis Farrer, James Moody, Fellowes, E. Tiullings, J. R. TELLERS. Fuller, A. E. Neeld, John Christopher, R. Galway, Viscount Necld, Joseph Newdegate,C. MAJORITY-NOES, 80. Armstrong, R. B. Ileywcod, James Pigott, Francis Barrington, Lord Heyworth, L. Pinney, Wiliam Bramston, T. W. Iloward, P. H. Piumptre, J. I'. Brotherton, Joseph Hughes, W. B. Portal, Melville Brown, Humphrey Inglis, Sir It. H. Robartes, T. J. A. Cavendish, G. 11. Jervis, Sir John Rushout, Captain Cbristy,7Sauniel Johnstone, Sir J. Sandars, J. Clifford, 11. M. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Scrope, G. P. Cocks, T. S. Kershaw, James Sheridan, It. B. Crawford, W. S. King, P. J. Simeon, John g Crowder, R. B. Lawless, Cecil Somerville, Sir W. Dalrymple, Captain Legh, G. C. Sotheron, T. Darner, Colonel Lemon, Sir. C. C Stuart, 11. Deedes, W. Littleton, E. R. Sullivan, Michael Denison, Edmund Maitland, Thomas Thltourd, Sergrant Du Pre, C. G. March, Earl of Thompson, Colonel Estconrt J. IS. B, Melgwid, Viscount Thornely, T. Foley, John 11. Miles, W. Tollemaehe, F. J Fox, W. J. Milner, W. M. Trollope, Sir J. Graham, Sir James Mitchell, T. A. Walmsley, Sir J. 0 reenall, Gilbert Mostyn E , E. M. West, F. 11. ~ ~ Greene, Thomas Mundy, William Wilcox, Brodie Hann], Sir Henry Napier, Joseph Willyams, 11. Hardeastle, J. A. Parke, C. W. Wood, W. P. Harris, Richard Pakington, Sir J. Ilastie, Alexander Palmer, Robert TELLERS. Ileadlam, Thomas Patten, J. W. Pusey, P. llenley, J. W. Pearson, Charles Bouverie,E. P. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You would prevent many from loss and disap pointment by making the following public:-- CAUTION TO FARMERS AND GARDENERS AGAINST THE POISONOUS NATURE OF THE SWEEPINGS OFF THE WOOD PAVEMENT. Having been induced to submit some sweepings to chemical analysis, through continual ,loss of my garden crops, I am now informed it has been caused by the quantity of corrcsive sublimate in the sweepings. Regeues-park. A GARDENER MANSION-lIOUSE.-- —..e Th Lo r d Mayor and Lady nvitationtoth eDuke a and Y l e c s h s Duchess hero e f iltsiucchcimcoanrdd,s of Lord i and Lady Stanley, aselect c i rc le, to a banquet on We dnesda y , the 13th o f June. E ASTE RN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—On Tuesday the Select Committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the expenditure of certain sums which appear as unaccounted for under the head of Parliamentary ex penses, in the report that was recently published by the committees of shareholders appointed to inquire into the management of the affairs of the Eastern Counties Rail way, met for the first time in committee-room, No. 19, chose a chairman, arranged the order of business, and adjourned. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—A fatal boat accident, by which a young gentleman named Bullock, who is in the agency of Messrs. Bass and Co., the well known bitter ale brewers, for the Bristol district, lost his life, occurred on Tuesday evening upon the river Avon, near Bristol. Mr. B u ll oc k w i t h hi s b rother, and a gentleman in the Magistrates' office named Rogers, had been up to Hanham in a wherry, and were returning in the even ing, when the boat ran foul of some timbers which were floating in the river, and had not been perceived by the voyagers. The wherry immediately filled, and went down. Mr. Bullock was drowned, his companions escaping with some difficulty. LITERA T URE. OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By Thomas B. Shaw, B.A. As Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburgh, the attention of this leerned and accomplished author has very naturally been directed to the whole scope of that superb subject, of which he has here given us an outline. And although the volume is comprised in not more than 540 octavo pages, treating of English literature from the period of its dawn, in the ancient ecclesiastical chro nicles, down to the time of our contemporaries, the treatment of the different writers who have acquired anything like celebrity or distinction is very seldom of a superficial character. As an appropriate in troduction to the work, Mr. Shaw, in his first chapter, gives a careful and ingenious analysis of the origin and structure of the English language, commenting at the outset upon the oriental parentage of the early Britons; upon the traces of the Celtic dialect in the vernacular of England; upon the intro duction of the Saxon tongue, and the gradual disuse of the Saxon inflexions; upon the peculiarity of the English w and the English th; upon the Latin element; upon the Gallicisms, arising from the introduction of the Nor man French ; upon Neologism, and Chaucerism, and Euphonism, and the rest of those isms and schisms which have ultimately produced that glorious language combining in itself, at pleasure, the sonorous music of the Greek, the elegant perspicuity of the Latin, the gor geous pomp of the Spanish, the mobile delicacy of the French, and the elastic copiousness of the German. No panegyric could scarcely be exaggerated as to the capacity of a language which has produced such poets as Shakspere and Milton, such orators as Burke and Chatham, such publicists as Swift and Halifax, such essayists as Johnson and Addison, such philosophers as Bacon and Hobbes. This cannot but have forced itself upon the conviction of Mr. Shaw during the composition of his compact but laborious and elaborate synopsis of our literature. The treasures of this splendid literature he has com mented upon in separate divisions. Here it is, however, that the chief blemish of the work becomes perceptible. Those divisions are marked too conspicuously by the characteristic of " generality." As, for example, in treating of Chaucer and his times—what do we hear at all, or at least sufficiently, about Gower, and blind Harry, and Taylor the Water Poet, and the like early prophets of " Bardianna ?" As we pro gress, however, this kind of deficiency becomes less and less perceptible. Sidney and Spenser are happily treated of together. Bacon has a chapter to himself—as he should. Then is recounted the rise and developement of the English dramas, beginning with the old mys teries and moralities, and attaining the apogee Of its glory in the age of arlow and Shakspere. Among the Shaksperian dramatists are of course especially enumerated—Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Messinger, Chapman, Dekker, Webster, Middleton, Marston, Ford, and Shirley. Among the great divines— Richard Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, and Isaac Barrow. John Milton receives the homage accorded to Bacon, and—absurdly enough—denied to Shakspere, greater man than either : he is noticed in a chapter exclusively dedicated to the consideration of his writings and character. Butler and Dry den are subsequently criticised—both satirists, and one something more than a mere satirist, a true and glorious poet. Clarendon, Bunyan, and Locke, the peer, the cobbler, and the middle class man, the historian, the allegorist, and the metaphysician, are brought under view within the same interval. Then come the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and conspicuous above them all the author of the " Dunciad," the wasp of Twickenham. Next the essayists Jonathan Swift . , Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Samuel Johnson. Afterwards the great novelists—De Fee, with his golden story about " Robinson Crusoe ;" Richardson, with his renowned "Pamella ;" Fielding, with his immortal " Tom Jones;" Smollett, with his inimitable narrative of the adventures and vicissitudes of " Roderick Random ," Sterne, with that incorrigible, delightful, absurd, capital, ridiculous, famous, preposterous book—that book which turns the mind of the reader topsy-turvy and inside-out, and makes him uncertain whether he's standing on his head or his heels, whether he's sane or insane, or awake or dreaming—that book which Leigh Hunt, in an almost pardonable fit of enthusiasm, calls the wittiest book in the world—" Tristram Shandy," glorious Tristram Shandy ! endeared to us by the eccentricities of " my Uncle Toby," of Corporal Trim, and of that little absurd man Doctor Slop, as well as by the goodli ness of poor Yorick and the misfortunes of Lefevre ! As a worthy peroration to the chapter on the great novelists, Mr. Shaw gives an account of the appear ance in the world of letters of that favourite of all English readers, the author of the " Vicar of Wakefield," dear Oliver Goldsmith. Then come the great historians David Hume, Wil liam Robertson, and Edward Gibbon. The tran sition school is considered in reference to Thomson, to Gray, to Collins, to Shenstone, to Ossian, to Chat terton, to Cowper, to Crabbe, and to Burns. After wards appear Scott and Southey followed by Moore, Byron, and Shelley. And ultimately we have amost entertaining chapter on the modern novelists, Miss Burney, Miss Mitford, Miss Austin, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Shelley, Mrs. TroDope, Wal pole, Lewis, Maturin, James, Ainsworth, Bulwer (Lytton), Godwin, Galt, Wilson, Banim, Ward, Lister, Hook, Beckford, llope, Morier, Marryatt, Warren, and Dickens. " The greatest name in the contemporary literature of Great Britain," says the author, "is indubitably that of Charles Dickens." But few will gainsay the truth of that assertion. Mr. Shaw, however, has done less justice to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton; he has evinced either a strange incapacity to appreciate his genius, or a want of know ledge of his writings. A man who has written such a novel as " Night and Morning," such a romance as " Zanoni," such a classical story as the " Last Days of Pompeii," such an historical tale as "Harold," such a drama as the " Lady of Lyons," such an epic as "King Arthur," such essays as those contained in the " Student," such translations as those of Schiller, such a history as that of Athens—besides the rest of his numerous and remarkable compositions, " Pel ham," "Eugene Aram," " Paul Clifford," " Ernest Maltravers," "Alice," the "Disowned," "Deve rceux," " Godolphin," " Lucretia," " Rienzi," " Falk land," " Eva," Money," the "New Timon," " Ri chelieu," the "Pilgrims of the Rhine," &c., &c., &c. —is not exactly the man to be passed flippantly over, according to the estimate of Mr. Shaw. Unless the writer is desirous that his volume should have one con spicuous blot, he will certainly, in the next edition, emend that portion of his " Outlines of English Litera ture" where he speaks of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Wordsworth, Coleridge, And the new poets—Keats, Hunt, Hood, Lamb, &c., are finally reviewed ; and a separate division of the work is devoted to " the stage, oratory, politics, theology, metaphysics, and journal ism." In a work treating of so much it is impossible but what, in the first instance, it should be marked by some strange and startling omissions. We should have expected, for instance, to have found somewhat on such great historians as Lingard, as Hallam, and as Sharon Turner, if not upon Keightley and Ma caulay.. Taken as a whole, however, and regarded as a first effort to fill up an extraordinary hiatus in Eng lish literature—namely that recounting its rise and advance—the book is good, and what is more, it will generally prove welcome. We know of no more appropriate or valuable present for a studEnt than Thomas Shaw's "Outlines of English Literature." CLEMENT LORIMER; or, The Book with the Iron Clasps. By Angus B. Reach. The numbers of this, the most interesting of the serials which have recently appeared, are here col lected into a volume, which is got up with that ele gance and taste which so pre-eminently distinguishes all that emanates from the establishment of Mr. Bogue. The admirable illustrations of Cruikshank are placed opposite the pages to which they refer, and this excellent romance of "interest and terror" is now presented to the public as a whole in a manner worthy its author and its illustrator. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.—The annual re view of the patients of St. Bartholomew's Hospital took place on Wednesday last, by the Governors, accom panied by several distinguished visitors, who were highly gratified with the extreme cleanlines s of th e war d s , t h e comforts of the poor patients, and the general exce ll en t condition of the hospital. it must be a source of con gratulation to the public to find the funds of this most ancient establishment so admirably attended to and ably administered and affording relief to so many thousands of poor people. It appears from a statement we have seen that the number of patients relieved in the year 1841 was 35,548, of which 4,724 were in-patients; since which period there has been a large annual increase, and in 1848 the number of patients relieved amounted to 71,573, of which 5,826 were in-patients. Looi AT Yora LETTERS.—A person residing in the neighbourhood of West Ham received a letter on Sa turday morning, which he put in his pocket, with the in tention of opening at leisure. Two or three days elapsed, and the letter escaped his notice; on Tuesday his better half discovered the letter in the breast pocket of his coat, which had been put aside to be repaired, and on opening it she found it came from the executors of a deceased uncle, who died during the past year in the United States of America, bequeathing her 3,5001., as well as five of her sisters the like amount.—lpswich Express, We have papers from Port Philip . to the 14th January. The emigrants that had arrived in the colony were immediately absorbed at high rates of wages, and it is stated that quadruple the number would apparently make no impression on the labour market. 'I his is en couraging intelligence to intendisig emigrants, provided that attention is paid to those departments of labour in requisition in a new colony. Animal food was at such a low rate that legs of mutton w ere sold for 6d. in Mel bourne, and fat bullocks, weighing 7 cwt., were told at 24 15s. per head. \~ '!.C'" ,~,1 ~• _ V~ Y IN