The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

Under the t Germ ions fronl tie version time .ave. isten, A •oe k r oan u* lded, 15, t GA taf' istan )ution pct conciliation, of the pot . nt if it &in h intentiot zis chief, b" assing ies a p i.sion of th I P ed Engl 2 V , e impart e6 '...l .th histo o 7 l came, ; 1 1 id brutallkl „ and hatigi l Y )t " true ; :lity ' of , r. The L' io partict,l inected Ire, as tlll ,A + )3r A he " Adl e ! ( I " Sporti •esting. ginal tiro,"T o ht out is n o blieatiort, Cravo, le best 0 1 r may 1 0 pa ges. titled " and son?e•l'a 'hat is 'O7 heap ana con_ h ie ngs, too ets from 5'.4 ; A Z ct and :11 'gymen The 1 , 4 11 0 rs, contaii# e of Rel 3! r.:. 4 _, ‘ „,- ) 111 tic mlO l Greek- ,d . eatasttolrA :ntal IATT :he eelli, [adame, 3 bl lights ' .e, She I.* Ee t)pe,. °l : :Ts 'Or ~ 4 'e thoie Q s full .of pi f her 0 ,i o ire a 15 0. 1 7 - ry - grel i eb aining .. 4 E. sporting. .? t of w. of Winautr,- lelicacy, t:Tio shadOsi the lineg an ablZe " The, P 7, , IZ/NP..11`04 he contrir:, I prose avily, ante Inerva• COURT CIRCULAR. ' The Queen will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at Buckirigharn Palace. home* Majesty had a dinner party on Wednesday at Bucking- VilYe:ace. The company included her Royal a nd sHignes the eh en 'se of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Duke Du .,,e3s.of Saxe Meiningen, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mei- V s sgen, her Serene H ighnessi the Duchess Ida of Saxe lereirear, his- Excellency Count Mensderf, the Counts argo, Alphonse, 'Al exan d er, an d A rt h ur M ens d or f ; ron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ; the Duchess of Buc il.ideudeehli Lady Portma n , L a d y A nna M ar i a D awson, H on. Mi ss , Hon. Miss Paget, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Liverpool, .!, t , -; '" I of Aberd een, L ord Hill, Lord Forester, Colonel Scott, 'etteleur d Effra, Madame de Kea!, M. Lubeck, Baron Stock ? az, Lord Rivers, Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell, "'turd Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater. The band of the Royal Artillery attended during dinner. Her lvt ; esasesty had afterwards an evening party. The com pany included the Marquis of Headfort and Lady Olivia Tat - our, th e Ear{ Howe, Earl and Countess of West morelan-d, ,t l . O ll. Willia m and Mrs. Ashley. Sir George and Lady Couper, iefr• il t eorge Edward and th e H on . Mrs. An s o n , and Colonel eekeley Drurnratind. ... The Cou n t M ensdorf, attended by Captain Franc i s Seymour, visitrd tie Pelvtechnie. Institution yesterday. 14.erhe Queen-and P r i nce A lb ert , accompan i e d b y C oun t , nsdorf, an d attended by Lady Portman, Lord Charles Wel- I sl eYt and Si r Ed ward B owater, v i s i ted W estm i nster Abb ey lai 'std aY• On leaving the sacred edifice her Majesty and tinee Albert, Count Mensdorf, and Lady Portman entered an anribeasroNNeieicy u,t i he s and four, and took an airing, attended by Lord and Sir Edward Bowater, the Equerries in acting', on horseback. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. i The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied tiger4: fi lle n°w Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday ~ r oun in rag,e and four. e l ee h e-Roeal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday in .afa",lti ber Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Guards).(4 Dawson, and Captain Francis Seymour ( Scots Fusilier Her band o f t h e Coldstream Guards al tende d d ur i ng di nner. „ s uet Maj esty h ad afterwar d s an even i ng pa ty. Th e corn ny consisted of his Hoyal Highness Prince George of Cam b"ri _t a w2 e, the Wurtemberg Minister and the Baroness de Hugel ; 'c o r er' de Nieumat.n, the Austrian .I.itiister ; the Earl and flu tes* Delawarr and the Ladies Elizabeth and M.ry West; 14ibdEriargle of Liverp ool and Se.Ma Viscountess Milton ; Earl } r i Countess Jersey and Lad Clementine Villiers ; E Earl of and the Ladies Eleano y re and Constance Paet E td g . Counte ss o f Rose b ery an d t h e L a di es P r i mrose ; the Earl G and L a d y C aro li ne C oc k s ; t h e E ar l an d C oun t ess . rele e nor and the L a dies Grosvenor; Viscount and Vie ..Zniutess Joc e ly n ; L or d C a' til u p e , L o i d Paget., Hon. Chas. 'II:0Ln. Sidney Herbert. Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, le a " nphia Wheat , ey and Miss Mary Wheatley , Mr. George }tamard and th e H on . M rs . A ns on. e inquiries among the Nobility and Gentry at Bucking.. .I.elPalace on Tuesday and yesterday included Viscount. and £;: u nless Hawarden, Countess of Kluge on, Countess of 141.10rk and L a d y Katherine Douglas, Him. Charles and Lady , i '-qnae. Countess Dowager of Dunmore, Earl and Coun :*:7,:i4 `F auciwich, Earl of Arran, Earl of Ef fi ngham, Earl of ; t a - , 4 " e ld and Lady Jane Grant, countess Dowager of Caineath, &`,Land Count. is of Poulett, Mr. Baron 11.1fe. Mr. Wallace, ler - 7,ger Viscountess Gelw y, Lord arid Lady Stanley, Lady ford .!`nerall, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Shawe, Dean of Here . , Colonel and Mrs. Walton, Hon. Miss Monckton. Mrs. *l'4 Trevor, elr J. Balfour, M.P. ; Mr. H. and the Misses 1 1`;: 1. , L , 4 3', Lord Wa . lsingham, Mr. and Mrs. Law, Miss and Miss 4.2 0 - "`' l lea Law, Mts. Henry Coe Coale, Colonel Sir George tri 'Ver . , Mr. Au Berstein Sir T. Freernantle, Lord Fitzroy So ertet, Lord Skelnressdale and Miss Bootle Wilbraham, Hon. .mist, Thomas araiMrs. Best, Mr. and Lady Mary Stephen ,seli,..-,..rtl and Lady Lilford, Lord and Lady Worsley, Mr. and Up' i w• Erie, Lient -.Colonel Wylde, Colonel and Mrs. Ma e" --g, and Lord de L'lsle. :' te.. - " le Queen Dowiger, accompanied by the Duchesses of die Meiningen and Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday in 1 - -, . I n t ew Piny phaeton and four. Ili- e:Cluelie.ses of Saxe Meining, n and Saxe Wtimar, and ~, ttcelle ncv C ount M ens d or f, v i s i te d th e D uc h e s s o f K en t, ' h Clar ence House, yesterday '• b a , e Duke a n d D uc he s s . T of Cambridge visited the Queen 1 - es l i t a ger, yesterday, at Marlborough House. Prince ..:11,;! . Qiike and Duchess and Hereditary of e s axe tbe Duchess Ida, and Prince Gustavus nd th e a_ftesses of SaxeWeimar, were present yesterday at St a y ul s milgedi.al, at the annual meeting of the charitytschools of the opo s. 10 1 , t Putatien, consisting of Mr. M. Philips, Mr. Brother- V'' .' ll % M. Gibson, Mr. Cobden, Dr. Bowring, Mr. J. 4t i t s e n , Mr. P. Ainsworth, Mr. C. Hindley, Mr. W. A. I te:lts,„ ) °a, and Mr. Walker, had an interview with the Earl of .teitc. 4 Yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade, on the ' Ay" of the duty on raw cotton. Iti r i r • justice Brenton, of Newfoundland, and Sir Charles •:-tee t - "e Vere, had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at eOla nili.Office. Ce; ; c leeutatio n o f Machine-makers, including Mr. Matthew irife'r'se Manchester, and Mr. Richard Hacking, Bury, had an e:' re ,eviese with the Earl of Ripon on Wednesday, at the Board itraee. 4 'l?"eFreneh Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the r 7 r . „ . ,..gtiOffitre. li f k o 7 ' , Tee ttion of the Directors of the Union Bank of Austra },sesat3iiting of Mr. James Ruddle Todd, Mr. John Gore, - XC''''r. James Cummins, had an interview with the Earl of ' 51 1e,e, • !sPatches frOrn the Governor of New South Wales, and tfiV "'urn the Governor of New Zealand, were received yester ei . 7 ,,,at the Colonial office. I , 4 ;"rs J. F.-Elliot, from the Colonial Land Emigres ion Board, .-_ an interview on Wednesday with the Earl of Ripon at the 'l* , i'd of Trade. ` O .l - IPLTA.ICO-ELECTRICAL EXPE.- ;'.: , itrfriENTS IN THE SERPENTINE RIVER. ' l. es ,The di s covery by Volta, some few years since, of the battery bil,lich b e a r s his name, and which, by means of the simple ad- `"zture of - two acids acting upon a portion of zinc and plati- 1 'Urn, is the productive cause of galvanic powers, almost supra- , 'aortal, has scarcely passed 0.. t of the orbit of men 's won ,, , and becotre a fact of familiar acquaintanceship, than the ;;?Plitat of its power are beginning to develope new momenta , :_t a t t tie„ ) ; chemical world, . no . less novel _ in their action, than 4 ' 1 16 - 6; %44 ag in their overthrewal of long hitherto established , 1 1‘ - ~ .11,....i n_ e .5 . . I ~-,1) , ,,n n of these we witnessed yesterday. It had, heretofore, '• .. ilfo4:ln'ltined that aquiform fluids, such as water, and the :. ;43 coi l( ) f P l id earth, had neither of them the capability of acting ' 5.,,...0tei. it it ' 2l .ors of electricity, end re. conducting it to the battery Atili t * - ! PaOage Dr. Franklin, ,a scientific man on the spot, do wn s e rred the - former, sought to convey the electric matter the se ,wo rivers in America, and to regain the voltaic fluid at ee p r. s. ,`ot where the battery was erected, but after sedulous aerl kr4i....shitetits feurd it ineffectuel. This, however, the two .feoliblienfe l of . yesterday completely determined to be practi e.iiiitti4asad eVright. and Bain of the Polyteehnic Insti l'etWwho are the operators and discoverers, having obtained " ,, i '-' attise t eOn of the Duke of Sussex to experiment on the broad deb e : the Serpentine river, they, at three o'clock yesterday, or „rtrated the truth of their experiments to a number , 14 t1 -"ti llo gentlemen, among whom was Mr. Herapatn Nhere - ' .e s es • T he • Near the house of the ::: t h a osi i6 ofera , tion was thus. `*stall Society, on the right hand of the river, was stationed battery to which one eed of two copper wires )erti,,:gxen by the hands of the experimentalist, the remaining the en - 7," the wires being conveyed, the one to the lett, and ..bet - ;"..105t immersed in the water, and the other in like man -. Wh„ ie e f l rr e l !'d along the right path of the river up to the bridge :luti s. uleicles the park from K ensington gardens : the end of ' , 11 4 ,ter wire was then permitted to drop into the water over 1:: c 44 11. -id ge• on the top of which parr of it. was attached to a es s li k,l 4 af wire and needle. The 'purport of the experiment /e.. Sibiu 311 , ow that after the wire had been charged with the ,j.: N.: ele ctricity, that fluid passed out from the ends of the wires lstits.eavelled th roug h t h e w h o l e i nterven i ng l eng th o f t h e Ser 114Z'Water, a s pace of nearly a mile in length, returning to frt tetent r itery it had set out from, and thereby completing a con hi ',loeircuit o f a b out two m il es an d a h alf . eee l t t it; , A L' - aeedle above.mentioned, situated on the bridge as a se, e'..„ --74 . 4 nadantly proved, by its deflections, the genuineness of ,eleeil„_Perirnerit, and signal-flags stationed at that point, and ''llefilireutlieating with another in a boat down at the other end ''Aie", Ifere demonstrated, - by their motions, the velocity with 'IA • " ' .. e aqueously-conducted electricity travelled. A second ' - 'ri. r ill! „lent, made upon parallel wires extended across the Ser ii el. rill! -et Was equally felicitous in its proofs and results. e,,,, -t telesk i lT:erimeriters on the occasion subse . quently gave us to ',"'reetatid.that-they had succeeded as propitiously in conduct :t.,.PlC,,-'lloltaic electricity through an extensive stratum of list. Pelting from the banks of the Serpentine to a well 'l4 ' l , J 6 sthe precincts but not having witnessed this mu eeLe . 41 1 :1 temos - t doubtfu l ' of its practicability . , we are at present . s 'ettig h efolotts to ascribe to it ; more particularly, as if any . 'It . ,_...NZ Pervaded the soil at the time, or any tubular conduit ne be. connected with the portion of ground acted hQt xi t result of the experiment would be of course deceptive ; )._,. 1i•I'ln this we shall report hereafter. , ill:bi t .pete be any department of science at the present day tielf:tlPre si ngular than any other possesses in itself 2r.‘ee 4 ea for singular and extraordinary development, no less s N l r.P.a toe intelligent and scientific minds to discover in it . Ase:rrtitee i , degrees, and adaptations, it is assuredly n the t ' 0 - ni, and as yet occult powers of galvanism and electricity, tte l ~ Li - -7_ailid . riot unimportant phase of which Messrs. Wright 3 / 4 1 f •;, E '; es- t " I Felived themselves yesterday the discoverers. - ...- . le ettli t . , „ Ore 'Titer NORTH OF ENGLA ND RAILWAY. 4 4 '.il, e veturns for the . week end ing May 28, 1842: et tie -, asengets - , £ 7lB 7 6 l, 33 4tVli 2, , 415 15 5 4i,, ,re e , f i e Stll 1.-. '' - £1134 211 1 , 1 , e - ( 1 e * . e _ b - i June I. - W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. 14 ,, • _ 4, 1; 1 1 4 . 41- rhtlie of Cleveland is going to erect a splendid eti ititt s ion at the lower end of Grosvenor-place. It will corn- IN eb a fine view. of BuckinghamiGardens. The Dowager w ilt: lllr etains the hou se i n St. J a m es ' s -square. The Earl of 1 .:: )stkild.a, the 'Marquis o f W es t m i ns t er ' s secon d son , i s g oing to ' '• ll °f!pi t tal hcw set to be called Wilton-house, where :the Lock seltra thnow stands. The new hospital now erecting, adjoin s:4l%4 Oanal on the Harrow-road, will be ready to admit the ii;I_Ill 1,', 8 i n a few months. Lord Wilton inherits Wilton Castle, ^iiiSte e se r ge estates in Herefordshire. from his grandfather, the ' iee7 t ;7 l . Tie Marquis of Waterford has bought one of the '' .l l l t,trei ; l eate on the south side of Eaton-square, preparatory , ~,..t . , . able Marquis's marriage. s , iiciv.lt t ,,,_ ki tali ; • • clt P LAYS.—There is now but one more op t, ap, „ lit ty. of seeing Dejazet in London this season. She took her . e - O. 'Wednesday in the two pieers of La Condesse de T0n ,,,,,.91t4i',.;14.''' Medemoiselle d'Angetille, In the first amusitig ~..lies. , „,int she had only p'a3ed once before. The applause at ,ll .447`,..':°1!'her performance scarcely left an idle hand in the re}STP,:is the _a full an al fashionably . attended one. Her . for Palms Ro yal, where she is so esteemed a fa 41tittleill only be atoned for by the are! gal of tiouffe in her tit.. - ~1 1 2 . o;eitifwA,RGE OF MOTT AND MOSS FROM ST. BAR -4,,-gri S HOSP lTAL.—Wednesdav Mott and Moss, the pc . 14,... s end baker, who were wounded bythe murderer Coop. r, ,''.11....Lt-7snosilestapiltaarie.d b , i , the •urgeons to be con - valescent, and quitted ~ been y h ney expressed the warmest thanks for the at . 1-. q adrnet with, end the skill with which their cases s e. .t.' treated. &:;iiii;; considerable crowd was collected a few days . : , : .., •,, I tit4',. ' l l .: l __th . e Rue Beauregard, ' before a house from which i74o44l:esl.rocee.ied. Suddenly the glass of a window was e hlt. , 1 ° pieces, the casement thrown open, and a man forced ,=,. the - "man whom he h Id only by the hair of her head over ;,fit a ; e r s e e e t• w A cry of horror r bur,t from the persons below— ,, shria 1 3 ere p laced on the place where the unfortunate ' 4 teh; l 2 WaS to fall, but she, by a desperate effort, succeeded in the window.sill, , trie at last, a fter th.mg ''P lt teriet.. -* rnahne,sawrebeornatermug,ented with her. The '41.,,, - 7 at t , and arrested the ru ffi an, who was A e eueted to the guard-house, ee P i g n u g a guard ' arrived pushed amidst the groans and hisses of • !.- "%ed. - , e , • ... . •..,:)i,r tt 'ix NIGHT TELEGRAPH IN I''RANC_E.--The Com ':'tWe 0 Deputies on the bill for granting 40,000 francs for ex ystrrit,e.tr,,ts on a night telegraph, has declared that that invented s :c °l ' l, t ~ ` -n 'Y`'` t e which is by means of moveable lanterns, is the as.tease sixty leagues, and in 'lt , .,ski..::•' %No , the which r n, is, the reef et s t taa be extended to ' a line of at "u- ""' " e . that Y ° l' misty, weather, as well in e mot. PERILOUS - ST,iTE OF BURNLEY. - (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) At Burnley yesterday 1 had sad accounts of the state of the people. It seems that the Guardians in that union have re , presented to the Seereta-y of State that the distress is far be yond the reach of their means of relief ; they have 12,000 persons on their books, and must leave the matter in the hands of the Government. Sir James Graham has sent down a special Commissioner, Sir John Walsh, I heard, who has writtcn for 500/., which has been distributed, and more is forthcoming. A fearful struggle has taken place between sinews ant machinery, and the latter has been unsuccessful. The price of weaving has come down to sd. per piece for 66-inch reed. A man can earn only 71d. per day in full work, out of which he has to pay expenses. At this price machinery even has no chance; but look :at the condition of the miserable devils, 3s. 9d. per week at,tiest in full work Of course, they cannot support themselves at this rate, and go . to the Guardians. The relief under the new Poor•law is found to be totally inadequate, and great alarm is felt. The Magistrates in the neighbourhood are conveniently not at home, and I look to an outbreak. The greatest apprehensions are entertained. On Sunday, it is said, 20,000 people met at Enfield. CLOSING OF THE BOSPHORUS AND DARDANELLES. A letter has been received at Lloyd's from the Admiralty, enclosing a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Constan tinople, Sir Stratford Canning, announcing the closing of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus to merchant steam-vessels after sunset, of which the following is a copy . _ " Constaiiiinople, May 2, 1842. " My Lord,—The Porte has sent a circular to the different legations here, informinq them that orders arc given at the Dardanelles and 13osphorus to prevent the passage of merchant steam-vessels after sunset. I have the honour to enclose here with a copy of this paper. The regulation may he attended with occasional inconvenience to those affected by it, and in the absence of any urgent cause for the measure, it may, per haps, be regarded as one of the many results of the reactive ir,licy adopted by the present Turkish Administration. Be that as it may, 1 do not see upon what grounds I could justly oppose the measure; above all, as I should probably be the sole opponent of it, with less reason fur doing so than the French and Austrian Ministers, for instance, who have to protect the numerous steam•packets navigating under their respective flap. But I have requested that an exception may be made in favour of vessels arriving under stress of weather, and seeking shelter within the entrance of the Straits; and I have the Reis Effencli's assurance that the Porte will comply with my suggestion. I have, &c. Vv " STRATFORD CANNING. " To the Earl of Aberdeen, &c." SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.—Cap tain Elliot, the recently appointed Consul-General at the Re public of Texas, who has acquired so much notoriety from the manner in which he managed affairs in China, has taken his departure this afternoon fur the seat of his future diplomatic exertions, in the Clyde Royal West India Mail steamer, which' got under weigh, and left this port between one and two nclock. The Clyde will touch at Falmouth to take in her mail-bags, thence she will proceed to Corutina, Madeira, and Barbadoes. She does not carry out many passengers—not above twenty. Among her cargo she has 400 bottles of quicksilver, for mining operations. The Great Liverpool steamer, belonging to the Oriental and Peninsula Steam-ship Company. tooa her depar ture for .wlta and Alexandria, between twelve and one o'clock this afternoon. She car:ies out about forty passengers, includ ing se-eral officers who are about to join their respective regi ments in the East Indies, among whom are Captains Prescott., Bennet, and Green, and Lieutenants- Bambridge and Wright. The Great Liverpool will touch at ,Falmouth to take in the mail for Malta and for India by the overland route. JOHNSTOWN, COUNTY OF KiLEA:NT..; Y., SUNDAY.— A most melancholy catastrophe ecentred here last night, or early this morning. Mr. George Healy, a gentleman possessed of about 5,0001. a year, was burned tis death in his own resi dence, and a great portion of the house, which was a very fine cite, was consumed. A coroner's inquest is about being held. I believe there is no doubt that the Ere was accidental.—Free man's Journal. PIirTFORD POCKYARD.--Wednesday forenoon, at twelve o'clock, Sir George Francis Seymour, and the Right Hon. Thomas L. Corry, Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by the Hon. Robert Dundas, Storekeeper-General, and several officers of the Ordnance Department, arrived at the Victualling-yard, Deptford, for the purpose of witnessing the trial of several new fire-engines, intended for her Majesty's deek.yards, and other Government establishments. The of e rations were under the direction of Mr. Braidwood, the super intendent of the Fire Brigade force, who attended at the desire of the Board of Admiralty, with a .detachment of fire men. The first exhibited was a powbrful iron-floating engine, manned by 120 convicts, which was moored in the basin alongside one of the large sheds on the eastern side of the dockyard. When in full play, it threw a column of water an inch and three-quarters in dianvter completely over the shed where her Majesty's ship Worcester, 50 guns, is lying, at a rate of 400 gallons per minute. This was continued for a considerable time, the foremen at the branches now and then directing the jet of water perpendicularly in the air, by which it was thrown to the height of nearly 100 feet. Two land engines were next tried, each 7 inches in the bar rel, and by joining these together—that is, their power thrown into ono branch-pipe—a great elevation was obtained, with a fine jet of water, at a rate of ISO gallons per minute. The floating-engine supplied them with water, by means of several hundred feet of hose, and with complete success. Two other powerful engines were next tried, and worked satis factorily. A newly-invented hose-pipe for an engine-branch was introduced by Mr. Braidwood to the notice of Sir George Seymour and the rest of the members assembled, to be used in cases of fire on board ship. lt is of a peculiar construction, being full of holes. It was placed through an aperture in the platform, fronting the bows of the Worcester, and up in the engine being got into play it sent forth innumerable jets of water, with great force. At the conclusion of the operations, which occupied upwards of two hours, their Lordships re tired. It was stated that Government intended to adopt a brigade force throughout the entire dock-yards, not only for the protection of these establishments, but to render assistance at any fire that may occur elsewhere. AWFUL OCCURRENCE AT BEAUMARIS.—FOURTEEN PERSONS DROWNED.—BrALMARIS, MAY 30.—A melancholy occurrence took place here this day, between eleven and twelve o'clock, by the upsetting of the ferry-boat, which has been accustrinu:d to take a number of persons across the channel to the Lavin Sands to collect cockles. When returning, at the commencement of flood, with, as near as can be eaclu lated, fifteen individuals on board, the boat, a small one, shipped a quantity of water, when some of the passengers mos , -(1 suddenly to the opposite side, causing her to upset, when, melancholy to relate, only one individual escaped, by swimming back to the sands, a distance of about 200 yards. Five of the unfortunate persons were picked up in about twenty minutes, but life was totally extinct. Nine were picked up at low water, making fourteen in all. Much blame is attached to the un fortunate ferry man, who lost his life, in not taking the proper ferry-boat, IN hich was at hand, instead of a small boat, which he usually went in, and which was the cause of the melancholy aceident.—Shipping Gazette. In the once bustling town of _New Brentford such is now the great depression of property that the churchwardens and overseers h we the greatest possible difficulty in collecting the rates. So great is the amount of the arrears from the last poar-rstes, that the new overseers speak of being obliged to apply for a fresh .rate of 7s. in the pound. The amount of pauperism is daily increasing. Some of the inhabitant house holders, in anticipation of a visit from the Rev. Dr. Stoddart (the truly excellent Vicar) and the churchwardens, have posted bills in their windows, announcing that " The Licensed Beg • gars, acting under the authority of the Queen's Letter, are re quested not to call at this house." A letter from Alexandria, 6th inst., states that M. Blondel, the Belgian Consul-General, who was arrested on his scientific tour in Abyssinia, by the chief of an Arab tribe, has been released, through the influence of the Govereor of Kor dofan, who is entirely devoted to Mehemet Ali. BRUSSELS, AIRY 31.—The steeple of the church of Veerle, in Belgium, was struck by lightning during the storm of the 24th, and the tower totally destroyed, and doors and wall moth injured. The same storm ravaged 94 hectares sown with wheat, rye, &c., in the communes of Eynthout and Vork; the damage is above 40,000 francs. THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT. — The town is on the qui vice for Knowles's new play of The Rose of Arragon, which will be produced on Saturday next, with new scenery by Danson, &c., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean sustaining the prin cipal characters. Great things are expected from this rare combination of author and actors. Farren, Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. Nisbett are carrying all before them here in comedy, and that fascinating artiste, Madlle. Celeste, has been attracting crowds at Leeds to witness her charming acting in Marie Ducange and ForeignAlfairs. On Monday next she appears at Manchester. KING'S COLLEGE Ifosprrat.—Wednesday the an niversary festival of this excellent institution was celebrated at the London Coffee House, Ludgate-bill ; Mr. Gladstone, M.P., in the chair. After theother Irma] loyal toasts the Secretary read the report, from which it al.peared that the gross amount of receipts was 2,681/. 6s. 9d. ; the expenses for the same period, 3,193!. 75. 2d. ; deficiency, 5121. Os. sd. To meet this latter charge, together with 837/. Os. 6d. of liabilities pending on the 30th of April last, a fu:ther sale of Exchequer bills, to the amount of 1,0001., has been necessary, leaving only 500/. of vested funds wherewith to supply any deficiency that may occur in the income of the present year. Nearly 9001. was an nounced as the subscriptions for the year, which included about 25/. handed in by Dr. Major, the Head Master of the School, as the amount of subscriptions from his scholars. The HAGUE, MAY 31.—The King returned to the Hague from Soetsdyk yesterday' evening. His Majesty had gone from Soetsdyk to the Loo to welcome his Majesty King William Fretlerick, Count of Nassau, her Royal Highness Princess Albert of Prussia, and the Countess of Nassau, who had arrived at their country seat. His Majesty had the plea sure of finding his august lather in good health. VARIETIES AND QUALITIES OF SALT.—III the course of Dr. Reid's chemical lecture, delivered on 'Wednesday evening at Exeter-hall, which was for the most part experi mental, tome entertaining observations were adduced upon the properties and nature of salt. This substance, the Doctor pro ceeded to show, was procurable in a variety of ways. Its purest form was that of rock-salt, but that obtained by evaporating sea- salt in the air, known by the name of bay-salt, and obtained in warm countries, such as Lisbon, where a warmer sun acts well in this manner on the sea-water, produced salt of very good ~uality. Salt, continued Dr. heid, was largely used in curing meat, herrings, &c. ; and a curious case was related of the Dutch merchants, who Grditarily arrive in this country to purchase provisions ; they rarely ever ask for a sight of the meal, herring, or other salted commodity, but request to taste the brine in which it is immersed. This, if it be good, is found pleasant to a correct palate, but if it be bad, is nauseous, from its being loaded with magnesia. Dr. Reid stated that he had frequen ly placed, as a test of judgment, four different speci met s of salt before companies of twenty diverse people, and that with very rare exception, they had all, upon tasting selected the Dutch salt, as the best and finest, which it certainly was, as that salt sold at four times the price of ordinary salt, trom the purity of its preparation. The test of good or bad salt was a solution of an alkali added to the salt; if good, there would be little precipitate of earthy mat ter ;if otherwise, copious. The Doctor concluded his lecture by noticing ammonia, which was found to a great extent in coal or soot, and in large and especial quantities in those plants which abound in gluten, as wheat, which chiefly constitutes the food of man. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet, Giraffe, landed her mail and passengers at Brunswick wharf, Blackwall yesterday The same Company's British ship Wilberforce landed her passengers at Brunswick-wharf this morning, eighteen hours and a quarter after they had em barked at Antwerp. ARRIVAL OF TIIE STEAM-SHIP JUPITER FROM ST. PETEKSBII I:GlL—Wednesday afternoon the St. George Steam packet Company's powerful steam. ship Jupiter, Lieutenant D. C. Waters, R.N., Commander, arrived at her moorings, off the Alderman's-stairs, Lower East Smithfield, from St.. Petershurgh and Copenhagen. She brought 44 passengers, also the mate of the Joseph Story, of London, and the mate and four seamen of the Scotia, Captain Mearns, belonging to Mon trose, both of which vessels were lately wrecked by the ice in the Baltic. The Jupiter's voyage out and home has been ac complished in the unusually short period of 21 days. Lieut. Wateis reports that Susan of Liverpool, Captain Aslett, arid Melina, of Newcastle, Captain Carter, both arrived at Cronstadt on the 23d of May. ASCOT RACES. These races commence on Tuesday next,- and will terminate on the following Friday. The course is now in most excellent order, and the arrangements which have been completed promise that the ensuing meeting will equal, in every respedt, the brilliancy of former doings at far-famed Ascot. Instructions have been issued by the Stewards, the Earl of Rosslyn, the Noble Master of the Royal Buck Hounds, the Duke of Bedford, the Hon. Colonel - Anson, and the Hon. G. S. Byng, to the active .cle'rk of the course, Mr. Hibbard, to insure, not only every accommodation and facility to her Ma j esty and her Royal and illustrious visitors to and. from the heath, in their progress from and return to Wind sor Castle, but to every other visiter to one of the most fashionable race-courses in the kingdom. - A strong. body of the metropolitan police has been engaged, who will be present on each day of the races, stationed at various parts of the heath. The thimble-riggers, who have been tolerated upon some former occasions, will be prevented from following their rascally calling by the police. The only chance they will have of picking up their victims will be at the outskirts of the heath, out of the range of the police force. The Court will attend the races on Tuesday and the Gold Cup day. Indeed, it is rumoured that their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal will be.taken for an airing to the heath, should the weather prove favour able, upon one of the days of her Altiesty honouring the course with her presence. Several horses entered for the various stakes arrived at Ascot, 'Sonninghill, Bracknall, and other places in the immediate neigh bourhood of the heath during the past week. There are only i I entries for the Gold Cup, and it is net expected that more than from three to five horses will start. The entries for this stake, as well as for the majority of the other stakes during the four days, comprise some of the most celebrated and first-rate horses in the kingdom. Nearly every house unoccupied in the neighbourhood of the course, and for some miles round, has been secured for the week (and at enormous rentals for the time) by noblemen and distinguished personages who will be present, and all the principal hotels at Windsor, Salthill, Slough, and the adjacent towns and villages, will, from present appearances, be filled to over flowing. The theatre at Windsor will be opened during the week. Theatricals during the Ascot week, even under good management, have proved, for some seasons past, a very unfortunate speculation for the manager. The fact is, when people have been on the heath from one till five o'clock, and not unfrequently till six o'clock, they are far more disposed to sit down to a quiet dinner, and enjoy an arm-chair for the re mainder of the evening, than to be stowed away in a country theatre to witness such displays as a provincial company but too frequently affords. • A MAD BULL.—On Monday evening, at six o'clock, a large black bullock was seen proceeding, at a furious rate, along Bermondsey -road, in the direction. of Drptford. Men, women, and children took to their heelS, and left the road clear for the infuriated animal, which met with nothing to stop it until it arrived near the Windmill, in the Lower-road, Deptford, where it knocked down two boys, who were standing in the road, and a little further on rushed at a woman who was standing, with an infant in her arms, at her own door. The woman slipped in doors, and hastily shut to the door,but the beast, rushing with all its force against it, broke the panels in pieces, to the great terror of the poor woman. It then turned short round, and ran into a ditch, when a rope was thrown over its horns, and, with considerable difficulty, it was dragged out by the crowd that had collected. 'the poor brute plunged about so violently that its captors, after fastening the rope to a post, very pru dently stood out of its way until it became exhausted. It had gradually wound the rope round the post until it was, in every sense, " wound up," when the crowd, with the assistance of several policemen, succeeded in securing it, and about eleven at night it was safely lodged in the slaughter-house of Mr. Beale, New King-street, Deptford. A mob of about 500 persons accompanied it. MESSRS. llcatimusE AND CO'S ESTATE.— . --The As signees commenced the payment of the dividend on Tuesday, to the Bankers, and yesterday to other creditors: The amount already paid exceeds 20,000/.—Bath Chronicle.- A letter from Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 20th inst informs us that Haydn's grand oratorio of the Creation had been performed in the Lutheran church of that town, with an orchestra of 900 musicians, for the benefit of the sufferers from the fire at Hamburgh, and produced such an effect that a repi tition, on a subsequent day, was called for. The receipts amounted to about 9,000 f. (3600 HOOKING MAGPIE.—A sporting gentleman, while partaking of some refreshment a few days since on a fishing ex cusion on the Dart, fixed his rod in the ground, and repaired to a shady bower at a short distance to take a glass of sherry. On his return, to his astonishment, a magpie was fastened by its bill to the fish-hook, which no doubt the magpie intended to swallow with the fly.— Worcestershire Chronicle. The Washington Independent gives the following pithy &set iption of Lord Ashburton, whose arrival in that city set all the citizens agog to catch a sight of him :—" Lord Ashburton seems about 60, white head, face a little florid, stature above the common height, looks live'.} and vigorous for age, a quick eye, stoops a little, wears a brown coat.— A great rush to see him." _ _ A Goon ExAMrLE.—The following instance of integrity is worthy of being recorded. Sonic years age, it was the misfortune of Mr. Alexander Smith, merchant, Methlic, to become insolvent. Since then, his prudence and economy have been crowned with success, and his object, the payment of his debts, has been realised, every one of his creditors having now been paid to the uttermcst farthing " May his ex ample be followed by all who have been ritmlarly circum stanced!—Aberdeen Herald. PRIDE or ANCESTRY.—An anecdote is told of Mr. Roger, of Werndee, in Monmouthshire, which exhibits the pride of ancestry in a striking point of siew. His house was in such a state of dilapidation, that theproprietor was in danger of perishing ur.der the ruins of the ancient mansion, which he venerated even in decay. A stranger. whom he accidentally met at the foot of the Skyrricl, made various inquiries respect ing the country, the prospects, and the neighbouring houses, and among others, Whose is this antique mansion before us?" " That sir, is Werndee, a very ancient house ; for out of it came the Earls of Pembroke of the first line, and the Earls of Pembroke of the second line ; the Lords Herbert of Cher bury, the Herberts of Coldbrook, Ramsay, Cardiff, and York ; the Morgans of Acton ; the Earl of Hunsdon; • the houses of Ircown and Lanarth, and all the Powells. Out of this house, also, by the female line, came the Duke of Beau fort." " And pray, sir, who lives there now ?" "1 do, sir." " Then pardon me, and accept a piece of advice ; come out of it yourself, or you'll soon be buried in the ruins of it."— Welsh Paper. The Siecle states, in an article devoted to Paris gossip, that a short time before M. Aguado quitted Paris for Spain, on his late fatal journey, he offered to sell one of his houses to M. Duprez, the celebrated singer, for 500,C00fr., and Duprez having observed that he had not that sum to spare, Al. Aguado said—" Never mind, you shall pay me by way of life annuity." M. Duprez, adds the account, re quested time to think of the proposition, and eventually put it off until the return of iVI. Aguado, whereas, if he bad em braced the offer at once, he would have had the house for nothing, as M. Aguado died before the payment of the first quarter would have become due. A Constantinople letter of the 9th inst., says : " Tahir Pacha has made a proposal to the Council of Minis ters to send a commissioner to Tunis, to watch the conduct of the Dey, but the Sultan opposed it, as being unwilling to do anything that might give offence to France. Risa Marshal of the Palace, who has always been an inveterate enemy to the new system of reform, is so deeply affec ed by pulmonary phthtsis, that his life is despaired of, and the Grand Vizier is confined to his bed hy the re-opening of an old wound in his thigh, which, it is feared, will render amputation ne cessary." RoSIE, MAY 17.—Great sensation has been excited here by the marriage of an accomplished young English lady, sister of Lord R., to a Veturino ; and the arrest of --. a lady of rank, who, from a fondness for pieces of ancient kinds of marble, broke them out of places where they were fixed, in our churches and museums.-21 1 1genteine Zeitung, May 20. Two days ago the wife of an avoue was thrown down on the Boulevard St.. Denis, by a cabriolet, and the horse and carriage both passed over her body. She was for the mo ment overcome by the fright, but, on recoverin g , it was found that she had not received the slightest injury, and was able to walk home. The German Journal qf Franhfrrt states from Presburg that several extensive fires have taken place recently in Hungary. In the town of Modern 200 houses were con sumed on the 23d ult., and on the same day 10 houses were burnt in the village of Grunau. On the 2d inst. 120 houses were destroyed by fire in the village of Wainor. The King of Prussia will, says a letterfrons Ber lin, commence his journey to St. 'Petersburgh on. the Bth or 10th of thi, month. After visiting some of. the eastern pro vinces of his own kingdom, he will embark at Dantzic in the Russian Government steamer, Ischora, for Cronstadt, whence he will proceed to St. Petersburgh. The Brussels Journals of Saturday give an account of a hail storm, accompanied with thunder and lightning, at Verviers, and the adjoining count! y, on the 24th ult., which is stated to have done immense damage to the crops. At Ver viers a house was set on fire by the electric fluid, but through prompt assistance the fire was rapidly extinguished. The Memorial of Rouen states that on the 25th ult. a man was found dead on the road between Roche Guyon and Vernon, having, discharged a pistol in his mouth, and lodged the ball in his brain. After a day had passed, he was recognised to be a wine-merchant of Bercy, near Paris, named Auzanne. M. Jasmin, the poet of Agen, had the honour of being received by the King and Queen, and the Duchess of Orleans, at Ncuilly, before the departure of the Majesties for Bizy. He recited p ,rts of his composition, for which he re ceived the most flattering praise. On the 11th ult., about 250 acres of underwood in the forest of Troncais ( Allier) were consumed by a fire be lieved to have been willul. but the incendiaries have not been discovered. Another conflagration, at Alartinpuieh near Arras, also attributed to malevolence. has reduced to ashes fourteen houses, twenty barns, and other out-buildings, and a quan tity of furniture and live and dead farming stock, caus ing a loss estimated at 120,000 francs. A Rheims journal of Friday states, that, in the night of Thursday, a tire broke out at Notre Dime de Liesse, and after having destroyed twenty five horises and fifty out-buildings, was still burning. One man was suffocated in his cellar, while endeavouring to remove a part of his property. The Courrier de Lyon, of the 27th, states that a fire took place there on the eve, which, however, was of no extent, as only one house was burnt, but four persons were more or less injured. ANTWERP, Alm. - 30.—The British steam-ship Wil berforce, arrived tlis morning from Lyndon after an excellent passage of only 17 hours and 20 minutes. A meeting of the members of the Colonial Society was held yesterday in St. James's-square, for the purpose of preparing a congratulatory address to the Queen on her provi dential escape. Protestations of the heart-felt attachment of the colonies to the Sovereign of the parent kingdom were warmly made at the meeting. The address is to be presented by the Duke of Argyll, the Earl a Mi.unteashel, the Earl of Harewood, Lord Clifford, Sir Duncan M'Dougall, and Sir Agustus D'Este. Captain Fisher, R.N., the principal harbour-master, has been instructed to clear the Thames, near . Gravesend, of the obstruction made by the sinking of the collier Vesper,about eighteen months ago, near the town of Gravesend. '1 he means he intends to try eonsist of certain experiments by the galvanic iprocess, and the operation will, it is expected, commence in the ensuing week. rnE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, ,J,U • -- NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.- - The Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Company was held on Tuesday at the New Zealand House, Broad street-buildings. The chair was taken at one o'clock by Joseph Somes, Esq., the Governor of the Company. The following gentlemen were present at the meeting:— DtnEcToas.—Mr. Mangles, M.P.; Mr. Aglionby, M.P., Mr. Madoribanks, M.P.. Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. W. King, Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Bart., Mr. C. Buller, M.P., Mr. H. J. Gowen. . , SHAREHOLDERS.—Mr. I. I. Balkeley, Major Chase, Mr. Curling, Mr. Alexander Currie, Major Curphey, Mr. W. Dorset, Mr. Christopher Dowson, Mr. Thomas Frederick Everingham, and Mr. Jeremiah Filcher (Au ditors of the Company), Mr. W. G. Guyer, Mr. John Heath, Mr. Halpen, Mr. Joseph Somes, jun., Mr. Cle ment Tabor, Mr. G. Trimmer, &c. &c. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the SECRETARY read the following REPORT. • " It now devolves upon your Directors to follow up their third and fourth Reports,—severally laid before you on the 3d of May and 16th of November, 1841,—by submitting as full a statement as this occasion will permit of the progress that has been made during the year that has elapsed since the first of those dates, in prosecuting the important objects for which this Company was originally sssoeiated, and was honoured at a sub sequent perio I with a Royal Charter. During the whole of the term under review, general circumstances have been ex tremely unfavourable (as the mercantile communities of this city and of the Australian colonies are alike too well aware), for the development of the views of your Directors upon a scale proportioned to their intrinsic capacity of effecting pub lic benefit. But they rejoice to be able to assure you, at the same time, that notwithstanding these obstuees, your colonial operations have been emi,lesttly prosperous ; and that the most sanguine of your body could scarcely have anticipated a larger measure of success, than that which has crowned the united energy and perseverance of the adventurers individuals who have undertaken, under your auspices, the honourable and useful enterprise of establishing British settlements upon the fertile shores of New Zealand. " 2. In their third Report, your Directors announced the departure from England, on the 27th of April, 1841, of the preliminary' expedition for the choice and sin vey of the site cf Nelson. They have now to inform you, that (after some inef fectual riegotiation with Governor Hobson, in the hope of ob taining his sanction for the establishment of the settlement ie the neighbourhood of Banks' Peninsula) the site of Nelson has been selected at the head of Taste an's Gulf, on the northern coast of the Middle Island. Your Directors have every reason to feel satisfied that the choice of place has been exercised with judgment ; and if in some respects—particularly as regards an immense tract of plain country—the coast to the northward of Banks' Peninsula appeared to offer a more eligible location, the site actually selected, ehilst it possesses the recommendation of open and level country to an extent quite commensurate with the present wants of the settlement, has advantages of position which do not belong to the place which seemed, in the first instance, more inviting. it is nearepto this country and to the Australian colonies, and is easily accessible to vessels from both those quarters at all seasons; but its peculiar superiority consists in its vicinity to Wellington and New Plymouth, and in the facility with which, consequently, the colonists on their first arrival there will draw supplies of provisions and other bulky neces saries from the Company's older, settlements. And even after such wants have ceased to be felt, great benefits must result to ail the settlements from that constant intercourse which their relative positions will invite. It seems probable, from the different character of the country on two sides of Cook's Straits, that the occupation of the colonists of the northern shore will be chiefly tillage of land, and that advantage will be taken of the open plains in the vicinity of Nelson, for the pasturage of sheep and cattle ; that, conseqnently, flax and corn will be the staples of the former, whilst the exports of the latter may, perhaps, more nearly resemble those of Australia. Natural circumstances will, therefore, tend to impose upon the settlers on each island, that mutual dependence which must conduce most essentially to their cennnon benefit. " 3. Front Captain Wakefield's reports upon Nelson Ha ven and the country in its vicinity, and from other sources of information, your Directors learn that it is an excellent port, affording easy access and the most complete shelter for any number of vessels, and having three fathom s a t low water ithin thirty feet of the beach.* lt is described as consist ing of a large basin of water, five or six miles in length, sheltered by a boulder-bank, or spit, the whole length north and south, and bounded on the other side by undulating hills or downs, with a wooded valley of some hundred acres and gradually sloping land from it, covered mostly with flax, grass, and fern.' Capt. Wakefield states, that there is a very good site fora town, and an easy horsecommunication portionof i tis fitwith ftolriepain terior ; where the whole number of suburban land may be taken in a block, if desirable, and a good tore.' On the 7th November last, that officer reported that he had no misgivings as to agricultural success,' and that he was ' inclined to think, that the mass of country sections will be more valuable than the town, although there will be some of the town sections very valuable.' Ten days afterwards b e wrote : I have no reason, to change my opinion with respect to the harbour or the district ; but, on the contrary, I feel daily more satisfied with the choice, and convinced that it will turn out a valuable acquisition to the Company, and to all those interested in the settlement.' From another letter from the same officer, your Directors learn that ' there are certainly 70,000 acres, in a block contiguous to the site of the town, of excell en t l an d o f all descriptions; the valleys full of tine timber, and the rising grounds excellent pasture.' The same letter adds—' I should not like to mislead any body, but I think that you may safely recommend your friends to come out here : they must do well between agriculture and stock.' There is an abundance of water. Besides two rivers, the ' Motuaka' and the Waimea,' —the latter of which must be of considerable size, as it is stated that vessels of 200 tons can enter it—the country is in tersected by numerous streams, running from a mountain range, stretching thirty miles into the interior. The nature of the country will greatly facilitate the rapid progress of the surveys; the surveying staff is very efficient, and there seems to be good reason to expect that a very considerable proportion of the suburban land, and perhaps some of the rural land, will be laid out ready for selection in anticipation of the arrival of the first colonists. There is this additional advantage in Capt. Wakefield's words, that ' they can commence with stock at once.' The native inhabitants of the rteghbouring country, who appear to he few in number, are so anxious that the English should settle amongst them, that at one place, in order to induce the party to settle there, they had built houses ready for their reception. "4. Since the date of the last Annual Report, .12 vessels, conveying hit cabin passengers and 1,942 free emigrants, have been despatched to Nelson.t Four of these, the Lloyds, Mary Ann, Fifeshire, and Lord Auckland, sailed in September last, after Your Directors and the principal friends of the enterprise had taken leave of the settlers at a public breakfast at Black wall, in sight of the vessels in which they were about to em bark ; which his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and other distinguished guests honoured by their presence, and where the strongest feeling was manifested, both as to the great public value of the objects contemplated by the Company, and to the manner in which they were pursued. The pre sent season has been opened by the despatch of two vessels, on the Ist and 25th instant respectively; a third follows on the 15th of next month, and a fourth has been taken up to sail frcm the Clyde on the Ist of July. It has been deter mined. to despatch others consecutively on the Ist of each month, beginning with August. This does not, of course, in clude the emigration to Wellington and New Plymouth, which will be noticed distinctly. Your Directors trust you will think that, in this respect, the plans of the Company have been vigorously carried out. "5. \ou were informed in the Third Report, that less than 400 of the allotments into which the preliminary lands of ..1% el son had been divided, remained to be disposed of in this coun try. The following statement shows the present position of your affairs in this particular : Nelson allotments. Purchased by the Company lOO Sent out for sale in the Colonies Set aside as Native Reserves Sold to the public in this country Remain for sale 1,100 "6. Your Directors are not yet in possession of any in formation relating to the disposal of the allotments assigned for sala in the Australian Colonies; and in this respect they apprehend that the Company cannot expect that its interests should be unaffected by those mercantile and monetary' calami ties, under which every ether party connected with those Set tlements is suffering so severely. But in one of his latest despatches, Colonel Wakefield stated that it was probable seve ral allotments would be disposed of at Wellington, as soon as it was known thcie that the site of Nelson had been definitively fixed. In relation to this subject your Directors may add, that they are endeavouring toestablish a connection with our Eastern empire, in the persuasion that many of the officers who annu ally retire from the Indian services, without those very large means which are necessary tci a comfortable settlement with a large family in -this country, would, from their character, habits, and resources, become most valuable and successful colonists in New Zealand. 7. Your Directors now proceed to lay before you the substance of the important and interesting information which they have lately received, in regard to the state and prospect of affairs at Wellingnut. They are happy to have it in their power to assure you, that that settlement has advanced with extraordinary rapidity ; that every anticipation entertained of the excellence of the harbour, of the salubrity of the climate, and of the fertility of the soil, has been fully realised ; and that Colonel Wakefield's last despatches contained his assur ance, that the community was in a more prosperous and healthy condition than at any previous period of its brief ex istence. F.Your Directors are happy to find that the reports of your principal agent are in entire accordance wi:h - the accounts re ceived from other sources. They do not attach any undue importance to the high prices for which seetions of Town Land may have been sold ; since that. circumstance may be rather an evidence of unwholesome speculation, than of. the stable well being of the community. But it appears from a body of con current testimony, that the recently attained security of their titles, and a practical conviction that the expense of clearing the land has been greatly overrated, and would be abun dantly compensated by the immediate returns from its extreme fertility, bad induced many of the settlers to betake themselves vigorously to the cultivation of tiicir country sections. "9. Colonel Wakefield reported in a letter, dated the 7th November last,—' The produce of the valley o f th e Hutt will this year be nearly all exported or consumed by ships visiting us, whilst the cultivation of the town land and vicinity will supply the wants of the residents. Numerous arrivals are taking country land ; with a certainty of doing well with it.' This statement is corroborated by the appearanc e of several ad.. vertisements in the isi'erit Zealand Ga 2 etteand Welli ng t on Spec tator, offering ready money for eligible sections of country land. Your Directors are informed by Mr. Heaphy, late their draftsman in the colony,§ (several of whose interesting views have aready been published,) that when he left Wellington in No vember last, thirty-one individual capitalists were actually engaged in clearing and cultivating land in the valley of the Hutt, in the Porirua and Ghiro districts, in the Karori valley, round the harbour, and at Lyall Bay. It may be confidently expected, as the first fruits of this eriegetic attention to the great source of all real and enduring wealth, that effectual progress veill soon be made in the syste matic growth and prepaation for shipment to this country of the flax, which appears destined by nature to be the staple ex port of the agricultural districts:of New Zealand ; and which, it. is understood, is already supplied in considerable quantities to the Sydney market. In connection with this branch of their subject, your Directors have sincere pleasure in in forming you that two associations of working men have been formed at Wellington, for the purpose of applying • their combined savings to the purchase of land, to be even tually divided amongst the s ubscribers. "9. Roads, connecting the agricultural districts with the market and shipping, are much needed ; but this want will doubtless be soon provided for, as a general tax on un cultivated laud is contemplated by tire Government, fur the suhp'y of means to this end ; and your Directors have offered to advance funds, on loan, in aid of this most im portant object. as soon as the settlers shall be quali i tied, by the grant of a Municipal Charter from the Crown, to give corporate security for the same. In the mean while, the labourers fur whom, during the stagnation of enterprise arising from the insecurity of titles, the Company's agent was obliged to provide, were employed in constructing a road from Wellington along the western side f the harbour to the valley of the Hutt, and another from the village of Kaiwarra-warra, on the former line, to the harbour of Porirua. l " 10. Mr. Heaphy describes the first-mentioned road as an ornament to the colony, It is nearly Six miles in length, with 4 : 3, 1842. a sufficient width the whole way for two carriages to pass. The distance may appear Srnall, bat the difficulties to be contended with were considerable. The road, which follows the beach line, is, throughout its whole extent, built far above the influence of the tide, and, consequently, walls of rough masonry were ne': sary on the side nearest to the sea; while on the other side it has had to be cut out of the hills. Several protruding rocky points had also to be blasted ; but the stability of the road, now once made, is a recompense for the trouble that was taken upon it. ." 11. The Porirua road is fit, at present, only for the passage of cattle and pack-horses ; but is of much importance as throwing open the route to Wanganui and Taranaki. Both these roads have been made at the exclusive expense of the Company, whose pecuniary interests however, though not consulted in the first. instance, will doubtless be eventually promoted by every facility given to intercourse between the town and the country, and by the opening out of fresh agricul tural tracts to the enterprise of the settlers. " 12. It is scarcely necessary to dilate, at this day, on the easy accost of Port Nicholson, and the security of Lambton Harbour; but as both the one and the other have been ques tioned by parties seeking to disparage the settlement, it may be satisfactory to you and to the public, to hear Mr. Heaphy's tes timony on the subject. •As the accessibility of Port Nichol son (he observes), during the heavy contrary gales which sometimes prevail, has been questioned, I may here mention that the number of vessels that have beat in against strong gales, is 14, and o 3 with slight. winds. Out of this number, 47 were strangers, and 18 entered by night. Each time that I have entered Port Nicholson has been against con trary winds, and three out of the live times have been by . night. It is fortunate to be able to add, that since the forma tion of the Colony, no vessel has met with any serious acci dent, either while in the harbour, or when entering.' Of Larobton harbour he states The anchorage is not only per fectl• land-locked, but in the direction of the prevalent winds, its distance from the beach is so small, as to prevent any swell arising, in a gale which would affect the shipping.' Four piers or jetties have been run out into the harbour to facilitate the landing of cargoes, alongside of one of which, vessels of 150 tons burden can discharge. " 13. The following table exhibits the number and tonnage of the vessels which have entered between the date of the Tory's arrival with the Company's first expedition, and the 7th of December last:— Number. Tonnage. Vessels fom the Australian Colonies ....... 37 New Zealand coasters, and vessels from 1+,611 whaling grounds.. .. Vessels from South America Vessels sent out by the Company with emigrants and stores 4l 13,002 Private vessels from India Ships of war .... Total .. . Your Directors doubt. whether an equal number of ships and amount of tonnage, ever entered the port of an infant settle ment in the first two years cf its existence. " 14. The English population of Wellington and the neigh bouring villages is estimated as amounting to about 3,700 in November last. Of these, 3,469 had emigrated from England in the Company's vessels, and the remainder had come out in private vessels, or had arrived from the Australian colonies. Mr. Heaphy states, that the number of those who have left the settlement is very trifling ; and that the births have greatly exceeded the deaths. He calculates the number of the white population at this moment at about 4,600. As many as 200 of the natives are said to live so as to be completely domesticated in the families of the English, to work for them, and to deserve to be reckoned among the civilized inhabitants of the place. The number of houses in Wellington alone—besides the adjacent villages—was estimated in Nov. last at 445, of which 195 were substantially built of brick or wood, at an aggregate cost of about 23,6001. Many of the dwellings and warehouses are stated to be excellent, and some of the former to possess much architectural beauty. Land suitable for building near the beach was letting at the close of last year, for short terms of years, for 10s. per lineal foot of street frontage, and that on the beach for I/. per foot wat.r frontage. Commerce and trade were flourishing, as is, indeed, proved by the great number of vessels which have visited the port during the short. period of its settlement, from the Austra lian Colonies and the whaling grounds, those of the latter description being, of course, excellent customers for provisions. The pecuniary difficulties of New South Wales had been the means of furnishing Wellington with a large supply of live stock at very low prices. Coal has been found at several points near the settlement. When Mr. Heaphy left Wellington there were twenty vessels in the harbour, several of which were owned by merchants of the place ; and one vessel of sixty tons burthen was on the stocks, and nearly ready for launching. From another authentic source, your Directors have learned that the receipts of the Customhouse in the first month after it was opened, avaounted to 1,0001. Mr. Heaphy mentions that up to the time of his quitting the settlement, only one tailure in business had taken place, and he believes that in that in instance the insolvent party paid 15s. in the pound. Several scientific men had taken up their residence at. Wellington, and the formation of a Horticultural Society shows the existence of a di.po-ition to pursue objects of science as well as those of profit.. There iS no want of other indications that our country men, in undertaking the war upon the wilderness, have not fo gotten, and are not inclined to neglect, the tastes and pur suits of civilized life. J. The facts recited (which have been selected from a mass of information) arc enough to show that neither the elements of wealth and social comforts, nor the energy and patient industry which qualify men to at tain them, are wanting at Wellington. The success of the great experiment which it has keen your honourable fortune to try, and the high merit of the colonists to carry out, on the beautiful but till now unreclaimed and unprofitable shores of New Zea land, is secure: the settlement has beyond all question, taken permanent root. Nevertheless, the quickness and extent of the further growth of the community which you have founded, is dependent, in a great measure, upon aid from without. The colonists and your Directors equally feel that it would conduce most essentially to the enhanced prosperity of the settlement, if means could be devised by which parties possessed of land,—to the improvement of which, in proportion to its extent, they have already devoted considerable capital,— might be able to obtain loans upon the security of such pro perty at reasonable interest, and for longer periods than con sist with the rules and practice of ordinary banks. Land in a new colony, rapidly increasing in value, must afford the best security for such advances, if made in the first instance with a prudent regard to the fair market value of the pro perty charged. And where, as in such communities, profits are extremely high, and capable, for a considerable time at least, of being acquired without diminution of rate, from an extended capital, it must manifestly be the interest of the ►andowner to increase his means of production. Your Direc tors were assured of this, and of the great anxiety of the colonists that loans of the nature in question should be avail able to parties of undoubted substance and character, disposed to engage, bona fide, in agricultural or other useful operations ; but yet they were unwilling that the Company should at once take upon itself the direct instrumentality of a system of ad vance for considerable periods upon landed security. , They preferred that the actual management of such a system should be in the hands of parties making it their primary business , ' and they have, therefore, endeavoured to arrange the matter, through the instrumentality of a Company whoso general objects are well calculated to advance the prosperity of the colonies in which they are brought into action. A negotiation with that. Company has been opened ; and your Directors regard the ob ject in view as one of so much importance, as to demand that the means of effecting it should be anxiously and unceasingly sought. for. " 16. One other subject connected with Wellington requires notice in this place. Your Directors allude to the founding of a town at Wanganui, where the sections of the holders of the secondary series have been selected. The landowners in that d,strict were anxious that the most eligible site in the block from which they had to make choice of their respective allot ments, should be set apart by the Company for a town ; and they solicited that, in consideration of the inferiority of the situation held by parties possessed of sections in Wellington, half an acre in the new town should be granted gratuitously to each proprietor of a country section, with a consecutive right of choice, following the order in which they had taken tip those allotments. But your Directors did not think it reasonable, nor even for the interests of the parties making this request, to accede to it specifically. They accordingly instructed your principal agent to lay out a town of 500 acres into quarter acre allotments ; and then to permit the holders of the seem dart' sections to draw for the choice of these town lots, alter nately with an officer acting on behalf of the Company ; di recting further, that the lots so acquired for the Company should be sold by public auction, after reasonable notice in Wellington and the adjacent settlements. If by these means, other parties possessed of capital are brought to settle in the town, your Directors are persuaded that the parts of it which shall fall to the lot of the holders of the secondary sections will be more valuable than if they had been permitted to appro priate the whole of the town, or at least all the most eligible site in it, to thernselveS. In order to commemorate their grateful sense of the great services which a noble member of their body has rendered to the settlements of the Company, yot:r Directors have instructed Colonel Wakefield to give to the town founded as above described, the name of Petre.' ‘• 17. The length to which this Report has already extended, and the necessity of adverting, before they close it, to ether subjects of great importance, compel sour Directors to no tice more briefly than they should otherwise desire to do, the slate and prospects of New Plymouth. The site of that set tlement was finally chosen in March 1841, at Taranake, tetwcen between Enui and Ewatoki, in a district which is stated to be of eminent fertility, generally level, and ft ee from timber, the plains being covered with the luxuriant ferns which attain to such an enormous size in that soil and climate. The great, indeed the only want, is that of a har bour, such accommodation for shipping being seldom found, in New Zealand in the immediate vicinity of any con siderable quantity of level land ; and the rivers above-named having bars, which prevent any but small coasters from entering them. But a wind blowing on shore is stated to be unfrcquent, and to last but a short time,. the anchorage in the road-stead is good ; and your Directors have sent out several sets of moor ings for ships, in order to facilitate the landing of cargoes. The coast holds out great inducements for adventures in whaling ; and by the latest accounts, the settlers were about to form a company to fit out a number of boats for what is called the " shore fishery." But the primasy avocations of the colonists of New Plymouth Ail' be agricultural, Wellington being indicated by nature as the commercial entrepot for all the northern shore of Cook's Strait. The surveys were advancing' satisfactorily. The town allotments were given out on the 10th November ; and it was expected that the suburban sections would be ready fur distribution about the middle of December. The total English population at New Plymouth is now about 800 souls, of whom the Company has sent out 735. " 13. To turn from the particular affairs of the several settle ments to concerns of general importance, your Directors conceive that they have great cause to congratulate you upon the constitution of a Bishopric of the Church of England. in New Zealand ; and on the appointment of the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn, a gentleman distinguished alike by zeal arid energy and by warm philanthropy, to that office. You are aware that this measure was originally sug gested and strongly urged upon the Government by the Asso ciation of 1537, in which this Company had its origin; and your Directors have always asserted the great importance of furnishing the settlers with the means of religious instruction and worship, subject to the fundamental principle, that the Company will show no partial favour to persons of any one religious denomination, but that the numbers, and consequent wants of cash class, shall be the measure of the proportion of any grant for these purposes which the Company may make. In several interviews which your Directors had with Bishop Selwyn, they could not fail to recognise, with extreme satisfaction, the enlightened views, and the earnest desire to promote the temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of the whole community inhabiting New Zealand, without distinction of rata, colour, or creed, by which the Bishop appeared to be actuated in undertaking his arduous and responsible functions. The Bishop having expressed his readiness to cover with an equal suns any contribution which the Company or its friends might be disposed to make, with a view to secure to those of the inhabirants of Welling. Oil and New Plymouth, who are in communion with the Church of England, the blessings of spi ritual instruction through the instrumentality of a fixed and per manent ministry, your Directors thought that they could not better evince the sincerity of the Company'sdesire to promote the religious and moral welfare, as well as the temporal advantage of the colonists who have connected themselves with it, than by securisi , to the settlements th e b ene fit of double the sum bestowed. ' They gave to Wellington 2,000/., and to New Plymouth 300/. Your Di rec t ors d es i re to call public attention to a Committee which is on the point of being formed, with a view to raise additional subscriptions to these church funds ; and they beg you to bear in mind, that the Bishop has pledged himself, on behalf of the great societies of the Church of Eng ' land, that a sum equal to any amount that may be thus raised, shall be applied to the exclusive benefit of the settlements above-named. From the funds subscribed by the colonists at Nelson, in the shape of an enhanced price of land, for purposes of religious minis tration, your Directors have appropriated 5,0001. (which they deem a fair proportion, in relation to the number of the mem bers of the Church of England engaged in that enterprise), to the endowment of an episcopal ministry in that settlement. This sum, also, the Bishop has undertaken to meet with an equivalent ; so that this portion of the Nelson fund has in effect been doubled by the mode of its application. " 19. The Bishop having displayed in his conferences with your Directors a great anxiety f'or the improvement of the aborigines, and that the scheme of Native Reserves, upon which the Company has proceeded, should be made conducive to that end, your Directors stated to him that the Company was willing to advance a moderate sum on loan, on the security of those re serves, upon condition that the lands in question, and the ad. ministration of the money advanced for the benefit of the native population, should be placed by the Government in the hands of trustees, in whom, trom their high station in the colony and their character, your Directors and the public might feel confi dence. By these means it appeared that a double end might be secured, in the preservation and honest management of the reserved lands, and in the simultaneous educa tion and social advancement of the aborigines. The Bishop cordially concurred in these views, and your Directors are now engaged in a correspondence with the Colonial Department upon the subject. They will not fail to use their best endeavours to ensure to the native inhabi tants of New Zealand, the greatest possible amount of benefit from the lands which have been set apart for their use and en joyment, in the midst of the civilised community which has settled on their shores. " 20. Your Directors have not failed to give their atten tion, in the course of the year under review, to the important subject of steam navigation between your settlements. They beg to refer you, for an exposition of their present views uron this matter, to their despatch to Colonel Wakefield, of the 24th instant, printed in the Appendix. " 21. Your Directors have to report, that in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of Incorporation, the addi tional capital of 200,0001. was duly subscribed, and one moiety thereof, namely 100,0001., duly paid up, previous to the ex piration of twelve months from the date of the Charter. " 22. Your Directors lay before you the usual statements of receipts and payments, and of assets and liabilities. It could not reasonably be expected that the affairs of this Company should enjoy an exclusive exemption from the operation of those depressing causes which have affected, during the last twelve months, every interest connected with the shipping, the com merce, the manufactures, and the general domestic industry of this country. The universal stagnation of enterprise, accompa nied byau unparalleled scarcity of money, has, of course, limited your sales of land in this country, w hil s t th e still more cala. initous state of things throughout the Australian colonies has interfered with those local sales, from which, under more favourable circumstances, your Directors should have looked with confidence for a considerable accession to the income of the Company. On the other hand, they have laid before you ample proof, in the course of this report, that the Colonies which have been founded through your instrumentality are eminently flourishing ; and that the prospects of the settlers are as bright as they, or their hest friends in this country, could expect or desire. " 23. In conclusion, your Directors are happy to be able to report that although some important questions, having reference both to the policy of the Home Government, and to the con duct of the local Governor, remain to be finally adjusted, and it may be necessary to address you specially upon these ques tions on a future occasion, yet your Directors are willing to believe that her Majesty's Government is actuated by friendly sentiments towards the Company, which is recognised as having made great and successful exertions in promoting the settlement of New Zealand. And it is with great gratification that they can arid, that they have been recently assured by the Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department, that he has enjoined the Governor of New Zealand to give, on all occasions, the most favourable consideration to representations which the Company's agent may make to him on public matters ; and in the discharge of his legis:ative and adminis trative functions, to afford the amplest protection, encourage. ! ment, and countenance to those who may settle upon the land of the Company. " 24. In the course of the year, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Esq., Sir George Sinclair, Bart., Russell Ellice, Esq., and Witham Taylor Copeland, Esq. and Ald., M.P., have retired from the Direction of your affairs. Their places have been respectively filled by the following gentlemen, viz :—Charles Buller ' Esq., M.P., William -King, Esq., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., and Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart. " 25. The following Directors retire by rotation at the present Meeting, viz :—Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Sir W. Molesworth, Ba , t.; A. Willis, Esq. ; John Ellerker Bouleott, Esq. ; John William Buckle, Esq. ; and Henry Aglionby Aglionby, Esq., M.P.; and being eligible, your Directors respectfully recom mend them for re-election. " 26. Your Directors also recommend that the Auditors of the Company, vii., Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., Thomas Frederick Everingham, Esq., and William Curling, Esq., should be re elected for the year ensuing. " New Zealand House, 31st May, 1842." The following abstract shows the number of ships, with their tonnage, and the number of passengers despatched by the New Zealand Company, up to the 31st of May, 1842. Cabin 9 Passengers, Steerage Total C Ist and ...d Panengers Passengers. ~.' Ton- class. ci: nage. Male. Fe " Ma l e . l Fe " Male Fe * !Totitl male. 't male • malc.i --- —...— I—. Wellington 29 14,023 321 145 2,057 1;179 2,37 t, 1,124' 4,302 Nelson l3 5,r;r4 ; 190 41 994 , 94:•• 1,114 969 .'.,10.S N.ylymouth 5 1,4 1 36! 57 li .75 : 3i 5 43i •SZ 755 .—.—.... i —.—. —_,i— —. .......... ---,.. Totals 47 21,5'23; 493 i 204 ! 5,42 i I , 3,1.32 3,924,3,216 ; 1,16 The CHAIRMAN read the cash account. - - Mr. ALEXANDER CURRIE said he believed all the Proprietofs would agree with him in approving of the. Report which had been read of the affairs of the Company. It appeared to him from that Report, that notwithstand ing the unparalleled difficulties of the past year, the sale of lands had continued to progress.—(Hear, hear.) In a speech made by the Colonial Minister not long since, in the House of Commons, it was stated that the land sales in New South Wales and in South Australia had been entirely suspended. He mentioned that fact to show that they were greatly indebted to the management of the Directors during the past year.—(Hear, hear.) He must state,. however, his belief that still more might have been done by making the sections of land less in the Nelson settlement. There were at present eleven hundred allotments, at SOU, in that settle ment. lie thought the sectionl might with advantage be diminished, and the land sold in smaller pro portions. Two hundred acres would require a capital of four or five thousand pounds to cultivate it in a proper manner, and that was more than men could be expected to advance. Having thrown out this suggestion he begged to move—" That the Report now read be adopted. That Viscount Ingestrie, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, Bart., John Ellerker Boulcott, Esq., John William Buckle, Esq., Arthur Willis, Esq., and Henry Aglionby Aglionby, Esq., M.P., be re-elected Directors ; and that Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Thomas Frederick Everingham, .Esq., and William Curling, Esq., be re-elected Auditors for the ensuing year." Mr. DORSET having seconded the resolution, it was put from the chair and carried unanimously. Mr. J. HEATH, after a speech in which he compli mented the Directors for the energy, talent, and perse verance which they had displayed in promoting the objects of the Company, proposed that a certain sum, not less than 1,5001. a-year, should in future be applied to remunerate the Directors for their services on behalf of the Company. Mr. CHRISTOPHER Dowsox seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. , The CHAIRMAN said he wished to state, in.referenee to what had fallen from Mr. Currie, that the high price of the sales of lands in Nelson was to be brought under the consideration of the Board in a few weeks, and if any satisfactory alteration could be proposed, the Direc tors would have great pleasure in acceding to the proposal. Mr. G. F. YOUNG said, it ought to be stated that the plan of the Nelson settlement was not originally drawn out by the New Zealand Company, but by other parties, whose plan had been adopted by the Company.—(Hear.) The plan proposed involved the making the sections. of their present size, as well as the price of 30s. per acre. The principle then adopted was, that all beyond 1/. • per acre, should constitute a fund, to be vested in the 1 Directors, for the purpose of being expended on certain objects, which were thought to be essential to the pro sperity. of the colony. Amongst other objects contemplated were, the providing the means of spiritual instruction, the establishment of a college, and the encouragement .of steam navigation. These were objects for which specific sums were to be set aside. The price of land in that settlement, therefore. could not be regarded as a simple investment, as in the case of Wellington and New Plymouth. The Directors had already considered whether it would be possible to lessen the. sections without doing injustice to the regular settlers, and they had declined to inter fere. The subject, however,' was to be again brought under 'consideration, 'and he trusted that on arrange ment would be made which would satify all parties. A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. The depth of water over the flats outside of Nelson Ha ven is 20 feet at hie. water at spring tides, and 17 feet at high water at neap tides. t Resides the vessels enumerated in the text, the Mandarin and other ships, not chartered by the Company, have sailed for Nelson in the course of the past year, with numerous cabin passengers. Some discouragement has resulted to the agricultural Interest of the settlement from an incautious state ment in a letter written by one of the principal colo nists, and published in the newspapers in this country, that the forest land could not be cleared at a less cost than 401. per acre. Experience has proved that the actual cost is between 101. and 12/. per acre; and it is not doubted, that the work will eventually be done much cheaper. As a proof of what may be effected by energy and industry, , Mr. Heaphy mentions the case of two young Scotehmen own ing a section in the Karori valley, having cleared about twenty acres of heavily timbered land and built themselves a house, in the space of six months, with no assistance hut that of a native em loved to bring their provisions from the town. The passages hereafter quoted from Mr. Eleaphv, have been taken from a pamphlet now in preparation for the press by that gentleman, and communicated by him to the Directors. The greatest number of labourers employed by the Com party at any time in the formation of roads, w as a b ou t 60 ; a very small proportion in an European population alone of 3,700 souls. Ilia Operative Conservative Association, which once made such a bustle jn Dudley, has gone out like an evil disposed candle,'leaving a bad smell and an unsavory reputation behind it. The room where its meetings were formerly held is now occupied by the Dudley Waterworks Company, and the sign, the tables, the benches, and the other stage properties of the Association, have been taken possession of by Nlr. Cox, the landlord, for rent due to him Worcestershire Advertiser. At the Middle Temple Hall, a turtle, venison, and champagne dinner is announced to be given on Monday next, the 6th June, to celebrate the happy escape of her Majesty from assassination. A person whose wife carries on the.business of a stay-maker in the quartier des Quinze-Vingts, has just been arrested on a charge of inhuman treatment to a girl 001 l twelve years of age. who was an apprentice to his wife. t has been ascertained by the p9lice that this man was in the freqnent habit of stripping his victim and fogging ber with a kind of knout, or with a whip, having an iron ho9k at the end of it. The poor g irl, whose body was o n e sure, has become almost an idiot fr om the cruel treatment which she has exile* rienctd. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 2. Their Lordships sat at Five o'Clock. INCOME-TAX BILL. Mr. GREENE brought up from the Commons the Income-tax Bill. The Bill was read a first time. and was ordered to be printed. At the suggestion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord CAMPBELL postponed his motion relative to the pro ceedings against a witness in a Scottish Court of Justice. ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS The LORD CHANCELLOR read her Majesty's most gracious answer to the Address of the two Houses presented yesterday. The answer was as follows : " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I receive with heartfelt gratification this loyal and dutiful address from the two Houses of Parliament. " I - am' thankful to the Almighty for his merciful care, protecting me, and the Prince, my beloVed con sort, from this danger. I humbly rely on the good providence of God, in preserving me from every dan g er. "IFirm in this trust, and sincere in the desire to promote the happiness of my people, I am comforted and supported by this renewed assurance of your at tachment to my Government and person." The answer was ordered to be inserted in the - re cords of the House. . . • CRIME IN IRELAND. Lord EBRINGTON moved that the returns: of crimes' in Ireland should be continued to a later pe riod than had been moved by a Noble Earl (the Earl of Glengall) on a former evening. He thought those returns might be brought down to the month oiMarch last. The Marquis of NORMANBY remarked, with regard to the case of Mr. Biddulph, which had already come before their Lordships, that it might appear at first sight as if the blame of the delay which had occurred in that case rested between the Lord Chan cellor of Ireland and the Lord Chief Justice. He was anxious that the public should know where the blame really did rest; and he would most unhesitatingly state that it must rest either with the Crown Prosecutor or the Crown Solicitor for not having furnished the reports of the trial to the Government, and thus keeping them in ignorance of an important fact. He did not wish to stir any further in this matter, but he thought it due to the Government to say that the matter could not have originated with the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Chief Justice. The Motion before the House was then agreed to. INCUMBENTS LEASING BILL. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, this Bill went through Committee. • NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND), Viscount LORTON presented a etition from Ca' van against the system of National Education. INCOME TAX AND TARIFF. Earl STAN HOPE presented a petition from some place in Norfolk against the Income-tax and the Tariff. NEW POOR-LAW. The NOBLE EARL then presented a petition from Chipping Wycombe against the New Poor-law, and several similar petitions from Bradford and its neighbourhood. He had now to present a petition from an individual named Butler, who had been em ployed under the old Poor-law, and who in his peti tion entered into a detail of the grievances under which he laboured, in consequence of the alteration of the Poor-law, and expressing a hope that the state ments of the petition would attract the attention of the law officers of the Crown to the subject. Lord,BROUGHAM doubted whether it would not be contrary to the rules of their Lordships' House to receive the last-mentioned petition. The petitioner stated that ever since the amendment of the Poor laws had taken place, the different authorities had managed to shift the responsibility of their actions from one to the other ; and the prayer of the petition was not addressed to their Lordships at all ; it stated that - he confidently trusted that having laid his hard case beforetheir Lordships the attention of the law officers of the Crown would be attracted to the sub ject, and that they would take measures to amend the law, and to have .the petitioner's grievances redressed. laugh.) Under these circumstances he thought the petition could not be received. • E'arl STAN HOPE admitted that the petition was not in the usual form—(A laugh)—possibly the-peti tioner had framed the prayer in the way he had done for the sake of variety.—(Loud laughter.) Lord CAMPBELL apprehended that no petition could be received unless it prayed their Lordships to do something. This was a petition, not to their Lord ships, but to the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals. — (A laugh.) It had been misdirected.--(Laughter.) The petition was then withdrawn. The Earl of FALMOUTH presented, a petition against the new Poor-law. INCOME-TAX. The Earl of RIPON fixed to-morrow week for the second reading of the Property-tax Bill. THE DISTRESS OF TIIE COUNTRY. Lord KINNAIRD rose to call the attention of the House to the motion, of which he had given notice, on the distress of the country . Ile wished that some other Noble Lord on his side of the House had been found to bring forward the sub;eet, as he felt that he was not competent to undertake a question which hecon sidered of the greatest. importance. It was the causes of this distress which he thought it was necessary to inquire into. There had been so many contradictory statements on all sides, th a t h e was s a tisfi e d many Noble Lords were ignorant of the full extent to which the distress . existed. 11 bile they lived at the west end - ..0f the town, they could see but little of the misery which existed even in other parts of 'this city.. And when they returned to their country seats, in the cottages to which their own particular attention was directed they saw nothing of the misery which existed only within a few mileS of them. Ile Mt he should not be doing his duty, if he did not state to their Lordships some few, and but a few facts, which had come to his knowledge facts of the very deepest importance, as showing t 4 distress of the country, which had been gradually advancing ever since 1820, and which had now reached not only the working, but the middle and trading classes. He was satisfied that her Majesty's Government were fully aware of the distress. The proof of it was. that they had advised her Majesty to write a letter, for the purpose of raising funds for it relief. He must own that he could not altogether approve of that letter. The distress might call for it, but he doubted its policy. He also disapproved of it entirely in one sense, inasmuch as it was addressed exclusively to the members of the Established Church. For what object he knew not—no communication • bad been made on the subject to the Dissenting minis ters—what could be the object he knew not, whether it was for the purpose of setting forward the Esta- I blishment as a pattern of charity. However, he thottght it was necessary that the communication should , be general. There was another fact that convinced him that her Majesty's Government was fully aware of the existence of this distress. It was this ; ittd V:33 , a very important one, and one to which he might; perhaps feel it his dut y on another occasion to call the especial attention of the House—he meant the unconstitutional use (and he asserted it boldly) of the public money to suppress—to strangle the public ei hibition of the distress. He asserted that boldly—he could prove it. From what fund the money came, he knew not, but that money was so applied, Govern ment could not deny. There was another proof that Government was well acquainted with this distress, and the danger attendant on it. It was this, an order had been sent down from the Horse Guards to the troops in the distressed districts, desiring them to consider themselves as on active service. It was known throughout the country that those districts were in a dangerous state. He would do the Go vernment the justice to believe that • they could not have been aware, nine or ten months ago, of the then distress, because if they ,were, nothing could justify Ahem for having let so much time pass without doing anything .towards an inquiry or towards alleviating the distress. Hundreds of petitions, signed by thousands of persons, had been presented to their Lordships, praying for cheap food, and their Lordships had turned a deaf ear to their prayer. They had asked for bread, and their Lordships had offered them stones.—(" Oh, oh.") The effect of the Corn- law Bill lately passed was to raise the price of corn 3s.' per quarter, and that, too, without a prospect of anything but a further increase. Ile supposed that one reason for that was, that grant big a Committee would be holding out to the people that they could do something that would alleviate their distress. He thought such a reason very insufficient. Another ground was, that no advantage would be derived from the Committee. He thought their Lordships would remember they had heard from Noble Lords that the Import Committee was of no use now. What was the result? Why, that the Members of the Government in the other liouse, when they wanted an argument against their own friends, referred to that very Committee, and the publication of the evidence before that Committee had been of the greAtest importance. And the excuse might be, that it was not necessary, because the prospects of reviving trade were much better than they had hitherto been. He believed that such was the o pini t o . n of the Noble Earl, th e P res id en t o f the Board Trade. Certainly the accounts that had been received from Manchester were better, but it was not to be supposed that that would be permanent. The Noble Lord, the President of the Council, had stated the other night that, when the funds colleektd through the Country were exhausted, it would then be time enough to take other steps. In his opinion, they ought not to wait for the result of that appeal. Tht majority of the working classes had been existing, far the last eight or nine months, almost entirely 61 charity. The Noble Lord then went into a statement of the produce of the customs , add . mist since 1836, for the purPoeii of ilichtkvgliet So