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A:ALUM for Worthy AGED and DECAYED FREEMASONS. .1 14 FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVA L of this Insti ;V!' n will be held on WEDNESDAY , the 20th June, at Freemasons' ' 441 4 Great Queen-street, at Six o'clock precisely. STEWARDS. Bros. W. F. Dobson, President. „ T. Pryer, S. W. Daukes, l Tice-Presidents. , M. Costa, Treasurer. And many other Brethren. e Concert will be under the direction of distinguished Brethren. Tickets to be had of the Stewards, and at the Bar of the Freema ll9ne T %Tern. :the FoundAlen Stone will be laid shortly, with Ma sonic honours, Freehold at Croydon. THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOECIATION (Enrolled under the "`" ,II Y Societies' Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND. ths TRUSTEES. T L llas Baring, Esq., M.P. IW. G. Prescott, Esq. -. " 0,1 Haley, Jun., Esq. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. TREASURER OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND. John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P. Every description of Life Assurance effected daily. J-Avision of Profits every Five Years. Parties assured Three Years of ,;teiPate in Profits, either by an additio n to the Policy, reduction rentium, or a Cash Bonus. All parties assuring during the pre u▪ rYear will participate in the next Division of tore which will e place in 1852. Rights to nominate any r arty ceive the t Teant of a Life Policy, free of legacy and prOate City, or any other ' e h r lee• No entrance fee. y e — e Eighth Annual Report, and detailed Prospectuses, showing the ./ Peculiar advantages offered by this Association, may be had • aPPlication at the office. By order of the Board, 42 PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary. —Rgate-street, March, 1849. MORTGAGE LOANS. LA V CASHIRE and YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY, 711 $ Directors of this Company are prepared to rec eive TENDERS for t o '9 4I• TS on Mortgage, for periods of Thre ., Five, or Seven years, hill be interest at the rate of four - and - a - h alf p er cent. p er annum be allowed, payable half-yearly. lilFurther particulars %ay be known on application to Mr. S. W. ta Leel. Finance Departaent,Company's Offices , H unt's Bank, Man- By order, J. S. HERON, Secretary. 011 MR. W. TYRONE POWER. T t r issply next will be published, in 1 vol. , post Bvo., with Eight Coloured Illustrations, from Drawings made on the spot by the Author, NEW ZEALAND SKETCHES in PEN and PENCIL. By W. TYRONE POWER. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longrnans. 1 1 / A U P E R I S M: ,-, Is It the effect of a Law of Nature, or of Human Laws and ,Ustoras which are In opposition to Nature? " Sales popnil supreme lex." London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS-1847-4S. Just published, Second Edition of PrIFIE COMMERCIAL CRISIS of 1847.48. To which is added an Appendix, containing an Alphabetical List of the English and Foreign Failure's, with the Balance-sheets and Vtatements of the most important Houses, and Table of Dividends By D. MORTER EVANS. " A book which supplies a want that will have been recognised by every one interested in commercial and monetary history, and likely prove invaluable for future reference when the customary 10 years 'wall have elapsed for a new manifestation of the same tendencies." " — The Times. Letts, Son, and Steer, 8, Royal Exchange. ELEGANT TOILET REQUISITES, EACH OF INFALLIBLE ATTRIBUTES. ROWLAND'S MACASSOR OIL is highly and universally preciated for creating and sustaining luxuriant Tresses; ROWLAND' ap S KALYDOR is a preparation of unpqralleled yin improving and beautifying the Skin and C om p lexion ; and Itr,„. w LANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, is invaluable for its r - ging and preservative effects on the Teeth and Gu ms. e august patronage conceded by our gracious Queen, and the kveral Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, and the confirmation by ei t r e ; r :ro of the infallible efficacy of these creative renovating spe etie Wt . ° characterised them with perfection , and g iven them a .rity un paralleled. t, rne s os BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMI TATIONS. G o _ are offered under the implied sanction of Royalty, and the ' viu ment Departments, with similar attempts at deception. The thatg t enuine of each bears the name of "ROWLANDS' preceding the Article on the Wrapper or Label. Sold bY them at 20, Hatton -garden , Lo ndon, and by respectable Chemists and Perfumers. tirtAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH . The es manifold advantages to the He ads of Families from the vrith sion of a medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to Oecerri„""Aerlee, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness that „,, - *'g in families, more or less, every day, are so obvious to all, in the '"',..question can be raised f its importance to every householder res,,: n i , n ,g d , o M. From amoag numerous testimonials, the following submitted : " To Mr. Thomas Pr Att, 229, Stran d, London. . - :_• °• 5 , David-street, Regent-road, Manc hester, March 12,1842. Bit. have much satisfaction in commun icating to you th e re ,„ I • MY experience after repeated trials of Frarnptou's Pill of Itealth ; and I feel it bit iustice to state, that i n the course of many lean , at t rial on ,, 'al of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found results un r ed ... 1 420 salutary and efficient in the relief of the s y stem from tore wa nt bil e, & c., &c., with so little inconvenie nce ; I am there ntin wanted in declaring that they supply to me a means 10, y n g i of being able to recommend to families, schools , and espe y c a n,, e reantile mon, whether at the desk or on t he road, a meet t 0 4 7 . 8 Le ot lesource in an occa sional medicine. And I shall take cre dit giving this testimony, I am the means of making IsrtMl'sto if, •ii more generally known and appreciated.—l am, keeetf Lilly yours, " WILLIAM SMITH." The l e nPreeedented sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest il.;;; 1 2 1 M 1 ndation s o f th e man y thousands who have derived benefit arZ;ltheir use, render any lengthened comment unnecessary. They liablePu ot t forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is knewn, but for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with their many well aft er attendants, Bilious and Sick Hea d • ache, Pain and Oppression p„,l t3iddiness, Dizziness, Sing in g Noise i n the Head and Drowsiness, Heartburn, Less of appetite, Wind, Spasms, &c. T wo or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary acti et3. The stomach will sp eedil y regain its strength; a healthy 01 1 of the Liv e r, Bowels and Kidneys w ill ra p idl y take place ; a „,, i nstead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, *lll activity, and renewed health, extend in g to g ood old are, ke b e the result of taking this medicine , ac cordin g to the directions o TPanYing each box. ,('! by T. Front, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. 1 d. and 2s. 9d. I,' X • and iby the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the -ngdord. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the fan ne and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand , Londo n, " on the "erhhient Stamp. ..iro AN OLD CHEST OF DRAWERS Hall, ancient Chest 1 I never look at thee, But various musings occupy my noddle ; For thy respected form was known to me, Before my infant pegs had learned to toddle. My daddy owned thee, and I think, the rather, Thou once belongedst to my father's father. Think not, old chest, that thou shalt e'er be sold, Or chopped and changed away in foolish barter; To part with furniture so good—so old, Would nuke me sorry both before and arter ; Long in the family ha,t thou been of value. And never hest thou once changed hands, nor shall you. When but a little fellow, newly breeched, I owned a past of thee to hold my raiment ; Dress badly cut, and very badly s itched, And badly purchased for a heavy payment. Oh, when I think upon the times departed, How glad I feel that Moses ever started. What different garments dost thou now contain? Thy drawers are now enriched by Messrs. Moses, Who prove that competition I; in vain, In spite of what it vaunting l y p ro p oses. All thou containeFt—Trowsers, Coats, etcetera, Proves Moses' clothing infinitely bettes or. LIST OF PRICES. SEAM WADE. !len' Spring, and Summer Wrappers— from £0 8 6 The Bulwer, Pacha, Paletot, and every descrip tion of light Over-coats• •••••••••• • • • • • • 1 2 6 Cloth Over Coats, of a light texture, and hand ' a9Mely trimmed •••••••••••• ...... 1 I 0 De, do. lined with 5i1k.............. 1 8 0 bo• do. superior quality .•• • • • ••1 IS 0 J oan and Holland Blouses ••••••••• • • • • • • • .. 0 2 9 Fix ney Victoria do. •• • • • • • • • • weed d 0... . ....• ...• 0 4 6 •••••• •••••• 'Press Coat • • ........ •• •• 0 17 0 . Frock Coat • • •••••••••••• •••••• • 1 0 0 tPring and Summer Trousers .. •••••• • • • • • • 0 4 0 oeskin and Buckskin d 0......• •••• • . .• • . 0 7 6 %Ring and Summer Vests in every variety 0 1 6 jack. and'Figured Satin Vests •••• • • • • , de., superior Ms quality .. • ...... _ite Marcella Vests ' ?len,* Black Cloth Vests .• ••••• • • • • • 0 3 6 Boys' H and Summer Tests ••• • • • • • 00 10 ..„, — °3 ls ' Hussar and Tunic Suits— •••• • • • • ••• • • 0 15 0 Men's Fishing Coats in great variety ••• • •• 04 0 n WADE TO lEEASIIEZ. Pa l P+ • —ts made from a variety of material, fitted fer Summer wear •• .• ...... •••• •• • • • ToTY eleg trimmed . •• ••• •• ••• 1 8 0 uperlor Cloth of a antly light texture ••.. • • • ••• •• 1 15 0 • Ditto ditto lined with silk.. ••• • • • Ditto Dress Coat.. • •••• • • • • 1 12 0 2 15 0 Famerfine Frock do. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 115 0 Fancy Doeskin Trousers. .. • • ...... Black do. .......... •• • . 1 6 0 Black Cloth Vests ••..•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 8 6 •••• • • • • 0 13 6 Splendid satin Test.. •• • • ••••.. • • .. 0 14 6 0 Is 6 Hussar and Tunic suits •••••• •• • • . 1 5 0 Superfine do. ......... . Men's White Marcella Vesta.. • • ...• • 0 7 0 Fishing Coats in endless variety from 0 10 6to 1 16 0 Elegant Dressing Robes in great variety •••••• • • • • • from 0 16 •to 5 0 0 Mourning to any extent at Five minutes notice. A Suit of Clothes complete for IL 10s. The new book, e ntitled the "Great Fact," with full directions for Self-measurement, can be had on application, or forwarded, post Bee, to any part of the kingdom. Notice— fhe Shawl and Parasol Department are now replete with any novelty of the season. Obser re _Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to la altsure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned. E• MOSSS and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, R atters , ere, Farriers, Boot and Shoemte.rs34, , an B d s, G a e n a d er B a 6 l OL ig tilt a t te ers , , C l i t y 4,. 156, and 157 Minories, and h other, and forming one vast tendon; all communicating with a ac ' Zstablishment. itgCcanuttion.—E. Moses and S on regret having to guard the public imposition ; but having heard that the Untradesmaa-like t h e of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern, L as ,been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, 1l er ' e r beg to state that they aneyßoo,th3e6r,hFonasre. have no connexion wirthh out of London, except their Branch Estab m Yorkshire ; Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford,se 7: 4 those 'who require cheap and genuine clothing. 0., should call 11‘,73 land to the Olinories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of ranch Establishments, as above. tiller ete:t°tloe,—Thts' Establishment is clo3ed from sunset Friday, aturday, when bus ness is resumed till twelve o'clock. ris iustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engra vings on Steel. ON INCAPA CITY, DISQUALICATIONS, GENERAT IVEIN CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO mARRIA ._ E. IT "Y Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 25. 6d., or b.° Post, direct from the Establi s hment, 3s. 6,1. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work o n t , the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex =lvo indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury , __""n remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis euanneations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : said by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall -street. PAST I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive Organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings, PAST 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative ncapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PAST 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary fo rm , and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PAST IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease by a s i mp l e application, by which the danger of infection is ob viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's notice. PAar V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its cl sties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired int o . TasuoaniAL BALM of STIIAcUM is exclusively employed in treat beg nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 111. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti -syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms,.„ eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I le. and 338 , per b o t tle. 'erl'Y'e Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4a. ede and 11s. per box, a oortaiu remedy for gonorrhoea, sleet, stricture, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, if. A minute retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society. SI. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by W hich the fee,ll., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten dlul24 dallY at 19, Beraers-street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele- TIM WI Two. gug Eye to Eight oll SURCI67II Belli Leven to..01:16. r • . • -4- Itri t „„li f kon • ~/ •• \Of , •7 , ' • ,y # „Lf " y ' • :„. sattet.A,_ . ) 4 tr4^ :"^ • i s • N._ ‘ L - • ';' b. • • ti 9 J UNE. , A .4, 7, 1849 N°.l7 691.] LONDON, THURSDAY ri..a 4 HELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners, and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite Adam street. Messrs. .ARCHER and HOLT most respectfully invite their friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Cofee•room, which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived. Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with Somerset House, and the Banking Houses In the vicinity, will find the Table d'Hote, which takes place at Half-past Five precisely, the most comfortable and reazonable in the metropolis.—Fish and Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers unti. One o'clock. Private Dining-rooms, excellent Beds, superior Wines and Spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout. N.H. An Entrance also from Maiden lane. T HE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. A Lecture on Floral Botany, by Thomas Graham, Esq., M.R.C.S., on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Half-past Three.—Lectures by Dr. Bachhoffner on the various modes of producing Artificial Light, in which the Bude Light, the Oxy-Hydrogen Light, and the Electric Light, will be exhibited in juxta-position.—A Lecture on Character, with Musical Illustrations, by J. Russell, Esq., every Eve ning at Eight o'clock.—Lectures on Experimental Philosophy.—The Microscope.—The Dissolving Views include scenes in Van Diemen's Land, from Original Drawings taken on the spot by J. Skinner Front, Esq. ; also a new Series of Morainic Effects, by Mr. Chilie.—New Chromatrope.—Diver and Diving-bell. Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including =aturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. Admission, l&—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, is. IVliolesuarinenachneds inC Counting IVJ E houseSBß Sl\7° Departments lC a f for the S London A ping and Woollen Trades are in CHANGE-ALLEY, CORNe Sl IIIL i r, and 120, REGENT-STREET. THE NICOLL PALETOT WAREROOMS, 114. 116, 120, REGENT-STREET. and 22, CORNHILL. Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs. NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE is universally allowed to be the most Piquant and the Richest in Flavour of any Sauce in use, and for Fish, Gravies for Roast Meat, Steaks, Game, &c., or a zest for Curries, Soup, Cold Meat, it is entirely unrivalled. The unparelleled success of this Sauce having induced imitations, purchasers are particularly requested to see that the name of LEA and PERRINS are upon the Label and the Metallic Capsules, as also to read the Testimonials (which are enclosed with every bottle) from the residence of Royalty, the principal Club Houses and Ho tels in London, Edinburgh, &c. &c-, and from private Families in the country. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Were-street, Oxford street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen, London, and generally by all dealers in sauces. OMFORT in SHAVING depends on the proper k.„) use of a good Razor, an efficient Strop, and a Paste to renovate the surface of the Strop when it becomes black and choked with the steel from the Razor; to these must be added a Soap that will not dry suddenly on the face, and a smooth taper-pointed elastic Shaving brush. Unless all these points are attended to, and the Razor wiped and stropped after shaving, that operation must always be a troublesome, even if not a painful one. Those gentlemen whose shaving apparatus is defective. are invited to I. J. MECHI'S Esta blishment, No. 4, Leadenhall-street, London, where they will not only obtain all they require for the toilet reasonable and efficient, but may also procure gratis, his instructions for easy shaving, stropping, &c.—A large assortment of Papier-mache manufactures, dressing cases, work-boxes, and writing-desks, bagatelle-tables, &c. QPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change. While other dyes destroy the hair by their pernicious properties, this liquid promotes its growth, nourishing the roots to the latest period of life. Pe••sons who have been deceived by preparations which have a horrible stench (dangerous to the head), troublesome in their application, and unsatisfactory in their colour, will find Spencer's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye a distinct article, agreeable in every respect, and that " none but itself can be its parahel." Price 35. 6d., 65., and 105. rer bottle. To be had of Spencer and Co., 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate street, Whiteehapel-read, London; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Front, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Barclay, Farringden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London •bridge ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Finnigin, Milsom-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull street, Birmingham ; Roberts, 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post paid. Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." Observe—Spencer's and Co.'s address is on the wrapper. L OCOCK'S FEMALE PILLS, price ls. lid., are prepared expressly for Ladies. An eminent physician says—" Ladies who take No. 1 from fourteen to twenty, and No. 2 from twenty to fifty years of age, pass through life comparatively free from complaint, and never suffer from the painful diseases of advanced life." Sold by Barclay, Sutton, Sanger, llannay, Prout, and all esta blished medicine venders. The words " Locock's Female Pills" en graved on the Government stamp outside each box, will ensure pur chasers against all spurious imitations of this universally esteemed medicine. A it 2t I A G E. 31 One half the world are desolately single, and the other ,upposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a ease et right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes en:- -,Ater the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea A caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un amomprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper.. Physical incapacity, And broken health, arc the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set dement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item in the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect "rebind more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, ii these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVEItWELL'S little dEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., ls. iach (,by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining hem. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but ,sr the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom iP•ey are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on Imo above subjects, by unqualified authors, whieh alone or vether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other Atle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, my post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and kvoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pani,mhlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor arc they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's life win owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servanza of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always rue " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of .herwood, 23, Paterncster-rew ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street • Mann, 19, Cornhill ; Nielson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or ether gise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, n)rnings and aver:lnca), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all Blotsallsrs. ALARMING STEAM BOAT EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday forenoon, shortly after ten o'clock, the numerous persons who were on board the Waterman steam-boat, No. 8, were alarmed by a body of steam and fire being seen to issue from the engine room, and at the same time two men, the engineer and stoker, made their appearance at the top of the stairs, terribly scalded and calling for as sistance. The general opinion then was that the vessel had taken fire, and every one on board began to cry out for boats. The two men who had escaped from below, on gaining the deck fell down, and it at once became manifest that they were seriously if not fatally injured. The captain who had charge of the vessel gave directions to the man at the wheel to " port his helm," which he accordingly did, and the boat ran alongside some dumb lighters near Billingsgate; but there being no one in the engine room to stop the machinery, it was found impos sible to make the steamer fast, andshe continued her course down the river as far as the Custom-house quay, where the captain ran her into the mud, where she at length stopped. A great number of watermen put off in their wherries, and succeeded in taking the whole of the passengers out of the vessel. Some were so frightened that it was with difficulty they could be pre vented from jumping into the water. A Thames police galley went off to the vessel and took the two men who were scalded on board, and, having rowed them to the opposite shore, they were removed to St. Thomas's Hos pital, when it was 'ascertained that the heads, faces, arms, and other portions of both men were dreadfully injured. They were immediately put to bed, when they stated that the boat having taken in passengers at Dyer's hall- wharf, was preceding down the river for Woolwich, when, as it was passing under London-bridge, a body of fire and Steam shot forth which knocked them down and filled the engine-room with a sulphurous vapour. They were positive that the steam was blowing off whilst the boat was stopping at the pier. The examination subsequently made, shows that one of the supply tubes had exploded, and the steam escaping therefrom had entered the furnace and blown the hot cinders about. The names of the two unfortunate men are Thomas Boddington, the engineer, and Thomas Robert, the stoker. A similar explosion, by which two other men were scalded, took place on board the same vessel a short time since. During the after part of the day the vessel was towed away to the company's works to be repaired. INQUESTS.—DEATH OF TWO SEAMEN FROM ASIATIC c C bKho n i odn o lige L e arEoaaor on nrt . — wrbuoo Oa rei Tuesday Mr. Baker hell inqu es t s on th e board , m s b e ci n pa , r. w h Tr o hi g d e hi first Cartwright-street, inquestme the Smithfield,weffectsasi oe held Asiatic an t tthh the body of William Tyler, aged 29 years. It appeared that the deceased was cook on board the barque Alterhop, on a voyage from this port to the West Indies and back. The deceased frequently complained of pain in his stomach, and was ill nearly all the voyage. On the ship returning home, the crew experienced very bad weather, and the men were lashed to the pumps to prevent their being washed over board. The deceased was very ill at this time, and was compelled to work at the pumps for upwards of 40 hours at a time. The cargo was thrown overboard to save the ship, and all the clothes belonging to the crew, were washed into the sea. The ship after some difficulty ar rived in Cork, a complete wreck, and the men were all paid off. The deceased and several of the crew embarked on board anothe r vessel bound for London. On Thurs day last the deceased was attacked with all the symptoms and near d G ie r d ar o e n sen S d a . tur l d i a r y . n o f ig c h h t ole l a r s a t . , no e r d d o i u o t b n that accordance the d o w H h e e n b e t h e a e ln s e h i p w o w n a e s , o ß e r a o s w e , d i a e d s f u r r o g ra e o A n , s a s t aid io The a s inquest n econd was held at the o h n a - d s trect, St. cholera. George's-i nc he C w t o h n t o h n i s p e u v b i d l i e c Il c e o . o s e T , a th s e e - a E m as a t n , oonn thhoearbdodtyheosfhiJpols.s,eyihgreargre,slayyi,naggeind sth2eyrorus., don-docks. On Saturday morning last the deceased was attacked with cramp all over h is body, while engaged on board the ship. He was removed to his berth, and when Mr. Brown attended, he said it was a decided case of Asiatic cholera. The usual remedies were applied, but the deceased died shortly afterwards. Verdict—" Death from Asiatic cholera.". BURSTING OF A GRINDSTONE.—On Monday last, as a man named Batchelor, a carpenter, residing in Langley-row, Upper Stone-street, was grinding an axe, the grindstone, which had a large fly-wheel attached to it, and was turned by two winches, suddenly burst into six or seven pieces, one of which struck Batchelor on the head, causing a severe wound about 2i inches in length. He was immediately attended by a medical man, who dressed the wound, and he is now in a fair way of recovery. There were four persons in the room at the time of the accident, who fortunately escaped Witli9Ut itnyinjury,...Kentiel Gazette, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—If Mr. Hume did not make a case for his charter, the disability was rather in his cause than himself. He did little more than repent the generalities which may be advanced any year in favour of any change in any system. He produced no reasons specially applying to the present year, or the pre sent state of things, and his attempts to do so were the weak points of his argument. Such is the usual fate of these annual demonstrations. They degenerate into a mere political observance, and aro Bali° to be as unfor tunate in their circumstances as an annual fete, which may or may not be accompanied with a deluge of rain. Undoubtedly there is much use in keeping up a prescrip tion. Charity would very soon grow cold without anni versary dinners. But the advantage of periodical recur rences is purchased at the expense of occasional mishaps. The mishap in the present instance is that events are just now peculiarly decisive against all paper schemes of popu lar representation. This is a practical question. Mr. Hume so regarded it when he appealed to what Parliament might do, and what the present Parliament had not clone to his satisfaction; so we may fairly infer that if the Parliamentary history of the last seventeen years, and particularly of the present session, can be defended, he will surrender his case for reform. Mr. Hume made economy his test. We will take him at his word. The estimates of this year show a considerable reduction, in spite of some extraordinary charges, and in spite of great temptations, not to say valid reasons, for an increase of expenditure. As Mr. Hume has appealed to other countries, we will venture to ask whether any Govern ment of Europe has this year confined itself to its ordi nary expenditure. The British Government is the only one, to the best of our belief, that has dared to retrench, and that is actually reducing its naval and military establishments below its usual standard. Even the Budget of the United States is excessive com pared with the average of years. In the midst of almost universal war, with armaments forming on every side, with interventions and blockades springing up in all quarters, we are reducing our regiments and putting our ships out of commission. On this point, therefore, the House of Commons can stand the test of economy. As for our civil establishments and miscellaneous ex penses, though we shall always be glad to help Mr. Hume in cutting down this branch of the estimates, we are still aware that it is the least objectionable and the least reducible part of our voluntary expenditure. A single war steamer will cost from first to last more than we could possibly hope to save in our civil establish ments for half a dozen years. From the estimates Mr. Hume passes to the national debt. On this point the reformed House of Commons has com mitted no greater delinquency than paying what former Parliaments h ave p rom i se d to pay. It is undoubtedly tree that the debt is a terrible incubus on the industry of the nation, and that what we pay to the creditor would more than maintain all the poor. But Mr. Hume cannot mean to condemn the honesty with which we fulfil a burdensome obligation. If so, let him at once plainly say that a House of Com mons elected as he would wish it is likely to retrench the dividends, and put the Consols on a more economical footing. If from economy we pass to other tests of legislative efficiency, the House of Commons this year at all events may lay claim to a popular character. Since it met it has extinguished, for the public beaefit, the shipowners' monopoly; it has fixed on Irish property the burden of the poor; it has done its best to divide the Irish soil among new hands; and it has passed a Bill for removing all remaining restrictions on the choice of a representative. To be compelled by the self imposed formality of an annual motion to call for the destruction of a House, and the substitution of a more popular body, immediately in the face of such po pular measures, is at least a cruel mishap. The present state of continental affairs is equally unfortunate for Mr. flume's purpose. The popular assemblies at Frankfort, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Naples have only served to show that Parliaments are things which grow, and can not be made. The two National Assemblies successively assembled at Paris deserve more respect, and present some favourable results. Elected on Mr. Feargus O'Connor's principles, they have proved Conservative bodies; they have balanced the social democracy of Paris; and have restored the State, after terrible storms, to something like stability and order. We speak of what the Constituent Assembly did, and of what the new Assembly promises to do, as far as we can judge from the proportion of its ingredients. But the results are still so mixed, so precarious, and, in some respects, so deplorable, that they can only be commended with reference to the circumstances of France. The purely and elaborately popular public character of the National Assembly has not prevented a frightful insurrection on the part of the very classes which called it into existence; it has not prevented the necessity of an enormous armament always ready for action; it has not yet been able to dispense with a vir • tuat state of siege, - for such is, in fact, the condition of Paris to this day; it has not obviated the need of an expense far exceeding the sources of France, driving her still deeper into the pit of insolvency; it has not re - sored public confidence either in the preservation of order or in the stability of the present Constitution. While then, we acknowledge a remedial and reaction ary character in the French National Assemblies, of great value in their own fearful crisis, we ask what proofs have they given of that solid capacity for re gular government which we look for in a Briti,h House of Commons? But there is another consider ation, which wholly destroys the parallel, and for bids us to copy so inapplicable a model. To supply a sufficient equipoise against a purely representative and tit mocratic Senate, it has been found necessary to elect a President equally representative and democratic; and it yet remains to be seen whether the one representa tive or the 750 will prevail over the other. In the Bri tish Constitution there is an hereditary Sovereign and an hereditary House of Lords; and whatever the present or the future results of the experiment now working in France, they can never apply to the case of a Con stitution so utterly different. The division last night proved the danger felt by most sensible persons in a the oretical reconstruction of the Legislature. It did not commit the majority against practical and gradual re form; and, if we read aright the Ministerial speeches, such a reform is in contemplation. Of its nature we are ignorant, but as hints of this sort have the invariable effect of stimulating agitation and weakening resist ance, we presume that no such hint would have been given but for some corresponding design. It is very certain that the last Reform Bill would never have been introduced into the House, much less passed into a law, but for the obstinate resistance made to reform for so many years, and by so many great men. It took a long time to fill up the measure of public indignation; and it did not overflow till it was full. The fatal obstinacy of Canning, of Peel, and of Wellington accumulated those arrears, which it took a " revolution" to discharge. Without going to the projects of Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Con nor, or Mr. Bright, it is easy to point out various emen dations and enlargements of the constituency, purifica tions in the electoral system, and substitutions of the most populous for the most reduced boroughs, which would reform the House par; passe with the changing circumstances of the times. Unless some such gradual reform is early initiated by the Government, it may pos sibly find itself deserted by moderate men, and left to fight its own battles with extreme and revolutionary reformers. - - ADVERTISER.—Mr. Hume's re-appearance in the House of Commons after the illness which confined him for some time to his room, has caused universal gratifica tion. The Member for Montrose is a great favourite with men of all parties, He has not, we believe, a personal enemy in the House, or out of it. But the Honourable Gentleman possesses other qualities than those of good nature and urbanity. He is one of the most useful Members that ever sat in any modern House of Commons. He is tho most useful Member in the present House. He is unceasing in his efforts to bring about such reforms as shall be of real benefit to the people. No sooner has he, in this instance, recovered from his indisposition, than he brings forward the motion of which he had given notice some time ago, for those three great reforms in our Parliamentary representation, which have been so long advocated in this journal. In one motion he com prehends the three great principles of Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Parlia ment. The debate to which Mr. Hume's motion led was much more animated and interesting than the public were prepared to expect. The truth is, that after the reception which Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt's motion for shorter Parliaments, and that of Mr. Berke ley for the vote by ballot, met with, the country did not look forward with much interest to the motion of Mr. Hume, embracing, as it did, the principles embodied in the motions of the two Members whose names we have e . Hume's manner m i n o t w i o h n i , c h w a h s e i t n r e a a t e g d r e thereat e m a n e b a j s e u e r t e . mentioned. Th e i n t erest w hi ch attached to the discus osinetgontoMthr He made some happy allusions, which, it was to be ex pected, would call up Lord John Russell and some of the other leading men in the House. M r . H ume ' s speech was not altogether in accordance with the character of his motion. On the subject of the suffrage, his motion contemplated nothing more than the household quali fication; but a great part of his speech went to prove that the franchise ought to be universal. H ere M r . al suffrage, h© ahnet should ntladcth. have ef maintained b ta e in e i d n favourHume d e i f s p u l n a i 3 v 'e e d rs a an unbroken silence on the subject, because the avowal of his attachment to thaf principle was sure to be turned to an improper account by those trimning, truckling Whigs, who are always glad of an excuse for voting with Ministers. He might, with a much less amount of shrewdness than he possesses, have foreseen that these " expediency" gentlemen would not fail to say, that the household qualification was only intended as a stepping. stone to universal suffrage, and that if the former were conceded, Mr. Hume would never rest until he had ex torted the latter also. Mr. Hume's advocacy of universal suffrage was exceedingly ill-timed. He could not have chosen a more unfortunate moment. It was just what Lord John Russell wanted. Hence the heartiness with which he ironically cheered the Member fur Montrose, when he was expatiating on the beauties of a universal franchise. France and Prussia have lately presented us w ith some ugly illustrations of the effects of universal suf frage a s exercised in those co untri es. And yet Mr. Hume , by some unaccountable blunder, was i n d uce d to speak of universal suffrag e as if it had worked in the happiest manner, since its adoption, on the continent. There was a great want of judgmen t here. Stern facts , kno wn to all, refuted this part of the Hon, Gentleman's speech. The fruits of universal suffrage on the continent have been such as few would like to witness in this country. Mr. Hume also committed a great error in framing his motion in the way he' did. He committed a similar error last year, which we pointed out at the time. We are much surprised that he should have repeated the blunder. His main object was to obtain the consent of the House to the principle of household suffrage. Why, then, not have confined his motion to that ono point? Why have mixed ❑p with the extension of the franchise vote by !Allot and triennial Parliaments? The latter two questions had been already discussed this ses sion in the House of Commons—discussed within a period of three or four weeks. It was, therefore, a great error of judgment to associate these two questions with the extension of the franchise. It was just the thing which the expediency men wished. It afforded them a convenient pretext for voting with the Government, against the motion of Mr. Hume. It will enable them to hold to their constituents language which is contrary to the truth. They will assure their constituents that they were in favour of household suf frage, and that they reluctantly voted against the motion of the Hon. Member for Montrose, because it included the other two questions of vote by ballot and triennial Parliaments—to which they are opposed, Lord John Russell's speech in answer to Mr. Hume was one of the cleverest which the Noble Lord has made during the session. He did not fail to make a good use of the state of affairs on the continent. The Noble Lord talked in general terms about constitutional progress, but there was not a single sentence in his long and elaborate speech from which the advocates of further reforms can extract one atom of comfort. It was a repetition of the old finality speech. The Premier dwelt on the tranquillity which prevails in this country, and on the ab sence of any revolutionary feeling, It is true, that amid all the convulsions which, in the course of the last eighteen months, have shaken the continent to its centre, there has prevailed the most profound tranquillity in England. But he must be a very super ficial and short-sighted man, who would infer from this, that the tranquillity which has hitherto existed will al ways last. Until the spring of 1848, comparative quiet prevailed in France, while, until April or May of the same year, no one ever dreamt of disturbances in Prussia or Austria. These were looked on as among the most tranquil countries in Europe. So little, indeed, was any revolutionary outbreak apprehended in either of them, especially in Austria, that when the insurrection took place in Vienna, it was scarcely credited in this coupe try. Nothing, therefore, could be more unwarranted than to infer from the existing tranquillity in this country, - the perpetuity of the prevailing calm. Englishmen are. remarkable for their moderation and patience. They endure long, but there are limits to their forbearance. , And in this case there will be bounds, to their patience. The day is not distant when they will demand their rights. It is notorious to all that the House of Commons, as at present constituted, does not represent the popular sentiment or the popular feeling. That House must be brought into harmony with public opi nion. The people of England do not ask for universal suffrage; but they do insist on a household franchise. That would be a safe measure to grant. It will not be safe to go on year after year refusing it. If this course of resistance to what is moderate and reasonable be per sisted in, the banner of universal suffrage will be un furled, and then, should household qualification be offered, the people will say, as the French did in Fe bruary, 1848, when in the midst of the revolution an Or leanist regency was offered to them—" It is too late." TIMES.—The debate on Parliamentary Reform de serves, perhaps, more notice than is usually given to a discussion terminated in one sitting by a decisive majo rity and at a reasonable hour. On the one hand there was an overpowering preponderance of argument against Mr. Hume's motion; for we cannot consider that any thing said by Mr. Hume, Mr. Bright, or Mr. Wood, in teresting and diversified as their speeches confessedly are, will stand for a moment against the masterly sur vey, the calm common sense, and the lucid exposition of Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey. The debate, too, was directed with singular force and precision to the question at issue. Oa the other hand there is the fact—we cannot call it the disagreeable fact—that the majority against Mr. Hume's motion is considerably less than it was last year. At that time, after two nights' debate, the Honourable Member for Montrose mus tered 84 votes for an extensive organic reform, and was crushed by a majority of 351 against him. On the renewal of the discussion he has found his own friends very constant, so at least we infer from their still numbering 82. But the majority has fallen to 268, from which we must conclude that, for one reason or another, there are 83 Members not so anxious to record their opinions against a sweeping alteration as they were a twelvemonth since. It is ob vious to ask whence this decline of constitutional zeal proceeds. It is probable that, as in most human aff Lira, the smaller class of reasons, some of them very smell in deed, have something to do with it. Tuesday, for ex mnple, was a great day at Ascot. The night was rather too close for comfortable legislation. Perhaps many expected an adjourned debate. Perhaps the Conseil's tive furor excited by the continental revolution and our own Tenth of April, has rather abated. Perhaps those friends of good ord -r who do not swear by Lord John are rather more disposed to let him fight his own betties and will not encounter the gratuitous troubles of a gra tuitous aid. Some of them possibly would have no great objection to see his Lordship turn out for a field-day with the Chartists. But with so great and so palpable a fact as a decline of 83 votes staring us in the face against a reduction of only two votes in the opposite camp, prudence suggests that we should not rest too confidently on the smaller class of reasons. It is prudent to suspect a common and a powerful in ducement; or, if not to suspect it, at least, to think it possible. It is possible, then, th a t a certain class — a growing class of members— ma y be of opinion that wh en Lord John Russell drops vag ue a d m i ss ions in favour of gradual reform, and bet rays a lurking dissatisfaction with the present state of thin gs , ye t g ives no pledge of actual legislation, he has forf e it e d hi s c l a im to their votes against sweeping projects. It may be felt that much reform is better than no reform, and that in the absence of any moderate measures to interpret and justify a vote against Mr. Hume's proposition, it will be set down by the public to mere Conservative bigotry. The day will come when every Member --at least, every representative of a numerous or a popular constituency—will be called to account for his votes. "Why did you vote against Mr. Hume's motion for Parliament ary R e f o rm?" is a question which will be asked under very trying circumstances, and, may be, at a crisis severer than any we have known. The answer will be that Mr. Hume's "reform" would have been a revolution. Should the candidate then be brought by a cross-examination to confess that there are some defects in the representative system, his foes will fasten on him the imputation that in his general and un qualified opposition to the only reform actually sug gested, he did, in fact, declare against reform altogether. Nor is this controversial danger the only one incident to a purely negative course. A negative course has gene rally a positive development o f its own. The party which, from Pitt unto Peel, for forty years resisted the Reformers of those days because they were extravagant and dangerous, acquired a positive antipathy and anta gonism to reform. They became slavish and supersti tious anti-Reformers. They would not even touch the unclean thing. Their Conservatism ripened into a monomania against all improvements of whatever kind or degree. The party at last pushed on its chiefs with such an impetus that they were obliged to "go a-head". at ,the risk of being trodden down by their followers. Then ensued the Duke's famous declaration, the catastrophe of the Retorm Bill, and the long pros tration of the Conservative party. What, then, is more natural than that members should entertain a timely a p f a te o r ta y m e e a e r, te th ry ey ß a e r fo e r a m sk , e w d it t h o oe v t o h te ei a e g g a e in tl s o t w dread of another such suicidal career? and when, year mt the t i o o p n p o f o r r . a ed tunity of expressing themselves on more moderate pro positions, should look before them a little, to see whether it be not a cud de sac into which their leader, or their party, or their own zeal, is betraying them? Lord John Russell not only admitted the demand for gradual im provement, but referred to a like admission on his part last year, without, however, pretending that he had done anything in the interval to follow up his mental misgiv ings. Thus he said— " There is another very difficult question with which we are not called upon to deal to-night, but to which I may in passing allude. I mean the question whether, in conformity with the general principle of the Reform Act, which I belieie to be a just principle, there might not be a greater number of persons possessing the suffrage than at present; whether, in fact, the working classes should not be admitted more generally to hold the suffrage; and whether in the great towns, in the counties, and in the boroughs, there should not be another kind of fran chise introduced, to enable them to vote for the repre sentatives of such places.—(Hear.) I stated last year my opinion in favour of s uch an extension. I s t a t e d various modes in which it m g ht be done; but the Hon. Gentleman who makes the present proposition, and his friends, have always pro tested against any extension of that kind. Ever since I started the proposition I have seen it treated with ridicule by those who hold the opinions of the Honourable Gentleman as a change which would not be at all satisfactory—(' Hear, hear' from Mr. Bright)--and which ought to be derided, and not adopted." And further on— • " Therefore, I can only s ay again upon this subject, not considering this as the topic of to-night, and there fore not wishing to dwell further upon it, that there is nothing in the Reform Act, and nothing in any opinion I have ever held, or in any opinion I hold now, which would debar me from seeing with satisfaction any plan by which the admission of the working classes could be still further extended, and the basis widened upon which the representation rests.—(Hear.)" Returning to the same opinion once more towards the close of his speech, he qualified it only by his ob jection to so extreme a measure as that before the House : " The Honourable Member asks me if I do not believe in their virtue and integrity. I entirely give credit to the great body of the working classes of this country for their virtue and integrity. I believe from time to time you may enlarge the suffrage, that they will become more and more worthy of the franchise ; but, as far as I can see and observe, I say that if you were at the present time to divide the whole country into districts, and give every man a vote, as the Honourable Gentle r= proposes, the people would be liable to be misled Iby artful and designing demagogues—(Cheers)--and that the representation of this House, so formed, would not conduce to the welfare and good government of the people.—(Loud cheers.)" Such confessions and such pledges unredeemed cannot but embarrass the position of those Members who have to defend the present state of the representation against the reforming instincts of popular constituencies. They are embarrassing because they are founded in just:ce and truth. It is true that in these expressions Lord John does not commit himself to any of those wild and unreal principles on which the various "charters" of the day are actually founded. He does not admit the right of every " adult male" to a vote, or call every man not possessed of this right a slave, or an alien from the pale of the constitution. There is no principle of na ture, of constitutional law, or of historical fact, on which such a claim can be advanced. His Lordship only expres ses that wish every good citizen must feel, to see all the privileges of citizenship extended to every person really competent to discharge them. His wish is suggested by the fact that many of such persons are excluded. It is, however, an admission in favour of Parliamentary re form, and as such is a weapon in the hand of any party which is allowed a practical monopoly of the question. [PRICE SD. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Comxnwns. j WZDNESDAY. JUNE 6. BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT MEMBERS BILL. Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day three months :"- Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 55. Aglionby, H. Grenfell, Charles W. Pechell, Captain Arkwrigbt, G. Grey, Sir G. Pilkington, James Armstrong, R. B. Guest, Sir John Plumptre, J. P. Bass, M. T. Gwyn, Bowel Portal, Melville Blair, Stephen Harris, Richard Pugh, David Bouverie, E. P. Hawes, Beni. Romilly, Sir John Bremridg,e, Richard Hayes, Sir E. Simeon, John Bright, John Heald, James Stansfield, W. R. C. Brotherton, J. Houldsworth, T. Taltourd, Serge ant, Buxton, ,it E. Jervis, Sir John Thicknesse, Ralph . Campbell, W. F. Kershaw. James Thornely, Thomas Cavendish, C. C. Lewis, G. C. Tufnell, Henry . . Christy, Samuel Lewisham, Viso. Verney, Sir 11. • Clive, H. B. Mackinnon, W. Wellesley, Lord C. Colebrooke, Sir T. 3fitgan, W. H. Williams, John Compton, 11, C. Maitland, T. Wilson, James • Davie, Sir Henry Masterman, J. TELLERS., Ellis, John , Mundy, William Moffatt, George Gordon, Admiral Palmer, Bounden Mailings, J. R. MINORITY-NOES, 45. Barrington, Viscount Harris, Captain •• Pakington, Sir J. S. Bernal, Ralph Hayter, W. G. Patten, J. W. Brackley, Viscount Hildyard, T. B. T. Roche, E.B.s Bromley, Robert King, P. J. Russell, Lord J. Buller, Sir Y. Legh, G. C. Smith, It. V. • Bunbury, Edward Lockhart, A. E. Spooner, R. • Burke, Sir T. J. Lockhart, W. Stanley, Edward Burroughes, H. N. Lygon, General Taylor, T.E. Clay, James Mahon, Viscount Thompson, Colonel Deedes, W. ' ' Meux, Sir Henry Waddington, H. S. ' D'Eyucourt, C. T. Miles, William WillyaMs, H. Fitzroy, Henry Morris, David ' - ' Moon, Matthew Foley, John IL Muntz, G. F. Wood, Sir Charles Freestun, Colonel Newdegate, N. TELLF.7O. Goulburn, Henry Nichol], John ' Stuart, J. Hale, R. B. Packe, C. W. Clay, Sir W. • AFFIRMATION BILL. Read .a third time; Motion made, and Question pat, " That tke Bill do pass." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 77. .. , Armstrong, R. B. Foley, J. 11. Ogle, S. .C. Bagshaw, John Fox, W. J. Pechell, Captain Baines, M. T. Freestun,;Colonel . Pilkington.:James Bass, Thomas Gibson, T. M. ' . . -Price, Sir Robert , Berkeley, Henry F. Greene, John Rocke, E. )l. Berkeley. C. L. Harris, Richard Screpe, G. P. ' • Bernal, Ralph , Heald, James Sheridan, R. B. Birch, Sir Thomas Henry, Alexander Simeon, John Bouverie, E. P. Hill, Lord Marcus Smith, Vernon Bright, John Jervis, Sir John Smith, J. B. Brotherton, J. Keogh, William Stansfleld, W. R. Brown, W. Kershaw, James Stuart, Lord Dudley Bunbury, E 11. King, P. J. Talfourd, Sergeant Buxton, Sir E. Lewis, G. C. I hicknesse, R. A. Cavendish, C. C. Maitland, ThomaS Thompson, Colonel Clay, James Marshall, William Thompson, George Clay, Sir W. Matheson, Colonel Thornely, T. Clifford, H. M. Manes, R. M. Tollemache, F. J. Cobden, R. Mitchell, A. T. Verney, Sir H. Colebrooke, Sir T. Moffatt,George Villiers, Charles Crowder, R. B. Monsell, William Williams, John Davie, Sir H. Mostyn, E. Willyams, H. D'Eywourt, C. T. Mowatt, Francis Wilson, Matthew Duncan, George Mullings, J. R. Ellis, John Napier, Joseph • TELLEB,O. Evans, William I O'Connell, Maurice Wood, W. P. Fagan, William O'Flaherty, Anthony Aglionby, H. A. MINORITY-NOES, 73. Arkwright, George Farnham, E. B. Mundy, William Baillie, H. J. Floyer, John Newdegate, C. N. Baldock, E. H. Frewen, C. H. Scholl, John Barrington,riscouut Fuller, A. E. Packe, C. W. Bennet, P. Goring, C. Takington, Sir J. Bentinek, Lord H. Goalburn Henry Patten, J.IW. Beresford, William Gwyn, Rowel Pennant, Colonel Blair, Stephen Hale, R. B. Plumptre, J. P. Bremridge, Richard Hamilton, G. A. Portal, Melville Bromley, Robert Mayes, Sir E. Reid, Colonel Brooke, Lord Heneage, G. H. W. Robinson, George Brooke, Sir A. B. Hill, Lord E. Sanders, George Bruce, C. L. C. Hood, Sir A. Sanders, Joseph Buller, Sir J. Y. Hornby John Spooner, Richard Burke, Sir Thomas llouldsworth, T. Stanley, Edward Burroughcs, H. Kerrison, Sir E. Trollope, Sir J. Cocks, 1 homas S. Lacy, Henry C. Turner, G. J. Codrington, Sir W. Legh, G. C. Waddington, H. S. Coles, 11. R. Lewis, Sir T. Wellesley, Lord C. Compton, H. C. Lewisham, Viscount Wodehouse, Edmund Deedes, W. Lowther, Colonel Young, Sir John Duncembe, O. : Lygon, Gen. I Du Pre, C. G. M`Naghten, Sir E. East, Sir J. Mahon. Lord Egerton, W. T. Miles, W. Retcourt, J. B. B. Moody, C. A. TILLERS. Law, C. E. Sidney, Alderman COPYIIOLDS ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."— Amendment proposed, to leave out the word 'now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day three months :"—Question put, " That the word' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided:— MAJORITY—AYES, 80. Alcock, Thomas ne, John Portal, Melville Armstrong, R. B. Grey, R. W. Price, Sir R. Bagshaw, John Harris, Richard Rice, E. R. Bailey, Joseph Henry, Alexander Robartes, T. J. A. Gaines, M. T. Ilerbert, Sidney Scott, Francis Bass, M. T. Jervis, Sir John Sidney, Alderman Birch, Sir T. Keogh, William Smith, John B. Bright, John Kershaw, James Somerville, Sir W. Brotherton, J. King, l'. J. Stansfield, W. R., Brown, W. Lacy, 11. C. Stanton, W. H. Bunbury, E. H. Lewis, George - C. Stuart, Lord D. Burroughs, IL Lewisham, Vis. Talfourd, Sergeant Buxton, Sir E. Marshall, William Tancred, H. W. Clifford, Henry M. Matheson, Colonel Thicknesse, R. A. Clive, IL B. Miles, William Thompson, Colonel Cobden, Richard Milnes, It. M. Thornely, T. Coles, henry B. Moffatt, George Townley, R. G. Cubitt, William Monsen, William Tufncll, Henry D'Eyncourt, T. Mostyn, E. M. Vesey, llon. T. Drummond, Henry Mulgrave, Earl Villiers, Charles Duncan, Viscount Mullings, J. R. Wawn, J. T. East, Sir:J. B. Neeld, John Williams, John Evans, William O'Connell, M. J. Willyams, 11. Fox, W. J. O'Flaherty, Anthony Young, Sir-John Gibson, Thomas M. Pakington, Sir J. Glyn, G. C. Patton, J. W. TELLERS. Goddard, A. L. Pearson, Charles Aglionby, H. A. Gooch, E. S. Pakington, James Granger, T. C. MINORITY-NOES, 55. Adair, Hugh E. Dunne, F. P. Mackinnon, W.A. Arkwright. G. Du Pre, C. G. Magan, W. H. l3aldock, E. If. Edwards, H. Mandeville, Viscount Barrington, Vis. Farnham, E. Melts, Sir H. Bennet, Philip Floyer, John Mundy, William Bentinek, Lord H. Foley, J. H. Napier, Joseph Beresiord, William Freestun, Colonel Parke, C. W. Blair, Stephen Gaskell, J. M. Plowden, W. 11. Bouverle. E. P. Granby, Marquis of Plumptre, J. P. Brooke, Lord Grogan, Edward Richards. Richard Brooke, Sir Arthur Gwyn, Howel Rushout, Captain Buller, Sir J. Y. lialsey, T. P. Smyth, J. G. Burke, Sir T..r... Harris, Captain Sotheron, T. H. S. Cavendist, C. C. Hayes, Sir E. Spooner, Richard Cocks, T. S. Ileathcote, G. J. Stanley, E. Codrington, Sir W. Heneage, G. H. Deedes, W. Hill, Lord E.. TELLEAS. Duncombe, A. Hood, Sir Alexander Tufhell, H. Duncombe, 0. llornby, John Berkeley, C. L. G. Dundas, G. Lowther, Colonel TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Royal Highness Prince George honoured the performances at Her Ma jesty's Theatre on Tuesday evening with his presence. His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of Syracuse), attended by the Chevalier Colonna, also honoured the theatre with his presence. Her Ma jesty's box was occupied by the Viscountess Maidstone, Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Adelaide Paget, Lady Augusta Hare, Lord William Lennox, and Mr. Cadogan. Her Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box was occupied by the Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, the Honourable Mrs. Barrington and the Honourable Misses Barring ton, Lord Bloomfield, and party. Amongst the visitors were—his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Ex cellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Neapolitan Minister, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Marquis of Donegall. the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Malmes bury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Belfast, the Viscountess Bury, the Viscountess Neville, the Count and Countess de Miremont, Lord George Lennox, Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord Eddisbury, Lady Caro lina Goro, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard and Miss Howard, Sir Thomas and Lady Barrett Lennard, Lady Flower, Sir William and Lady Clay, Lady Vernon, Lady Charlotte and Miss Berkeley, Lady Burrell, Lady Wetherell Warneford, Lady Neville, Dowager Lady Monson, Sir Charles Shakerley, Sir George Wombwell, the lion. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. Mrs. Needham, the Hon. A. Upton, Sir William Freemantle, Sir Alexander, Lady, and the Misses Woodford, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Baron de Gerlache, Captain Len nox, Mrs. and Miss A c t on , M r . and Mrs. Brett, Mr. Buahe, Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., M. C. de Kou driaffsky, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ewing, Mrs. Paul, Mr. William Rose, Mrs. A. Thellusson, Mr. 11. Boadley, M.P., Colonel Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. and Mrs. John Sandford, Mr. Stacey, Mrs. Bayley, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Thornton, Mrs. Claude Wilde, Captain Meynell, R.N., Mr. Forde, &c. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.--CEIATHAM, JUNE 6.— t On Tuesday afternoon a detachment o f the 11th (North Devon), consisting of thirteen rank and file, leith Quartermaster Gavin, arrived at the Inv alid Depot , E Pitt, under command of Captain J. J. Grant, with eg one or woman and one child, also a private o f the 9t R h who is a lunatic. ment, of the name of John Ceirne After medical inspection by Dr. Walter s Henry, seven of the soldiers were sent into the hospital. The above de. taehment landed at Gravesend from the ship Waterloo, Captain Nestley, which sa iled from Sydney on the 15th of January last. Duri n g the passage Private m wyer, of the 11th Regiment, died on board. The Quarter master Sergeant who has thus come home has completed thirty-four years service, and previous to his leaving his regiment in New South Wales, he was presented with the annuity medal of 201. per year, and on his discharge, which will be in the course of the month, he will receive a pension of 2s. 4d. per day. Orders have been received at this garrison to prepare bArrack quarters for S5O men; it is expected that it is for the reception of the 17th Regiment, from Canterbury. ASCOT RACES.-FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—The Commissioners of Inland Revenue have just adopted the most efficient means for the prevention of frauds by the proprietors of vans and other vehicles attending races. Bars have been erected, by order of the Commissioners, on all the roads leading to Ascot, in the vicinity of the heath, where tickets for horses let for hire are to be collected, and the exchange tickets inspected; and where all coaches, omnibuses, &c., conveying passengers at separate fares, are also to be checked. Orders have likewise been issued by the Commissioners for the apprehension of all persons plying for hire without being duly licensed, or " specially authorised ;" and for the seizure of all horses and carriages so employed. The adoption of this plan will be an effectual means of putting a stop to the calling of " the unlicensed," and of protecting the honest and my liceu.ied VAder;UALI. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Blenheim, 60, steam guard-ship, Acting-Captain J. A. Stevens, went out to Stokes Bay to-day, to try her speed and machinery. The Nelson, 120, was removed to-day to her old quarters in the upper part of the harbour. The Vindictive, 50, was removed from dock to-day, completed for re-commission. The Euphrates freight ship arrived last night from the river, to embark troops (draughts of the 23d reserve and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade for Quebec) on Thursday. Wind, west, moderate, and hazy weather. ROYAL MARINES.—Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H., the Lieutenant-Governor, &c., of this garrison, gave a banquet last night at the Govern ment-house to the officers of this division of Royal Ma rines on the annual official visit of the Deputy-Adjutant- General. Colonel Owen, C. 8., K.H., &c., besides whom there were invited Colonel Commandant Menzies, K. H., Colonel Gibsone, Commandant of the Royal Marine Ar tillery, Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, Lieutenant-Colonel Garmstone, Major Dawes, Major Castican, R.M. A., Major Moore, Major Calamy, Captain Laurence, 8.M., Captain Kennedy, Captain Langley, A.D. C. to the Adjutant-Gene ral, Captain Dwyer, Captain Lardner, Captain Evans, Lieutenant-Adjutant Laurence, R.M.A., Lieut. Stewart, &c., of the Marine Corps ; also Colonel Lewis, C. 8., R.E., Colonel Haultaine, R.A., Lieutenant-Colonel Eger ton, 77th, Lieutenant-Colonel, 91st, &c. This morning Lord Fitzclarence commenced the annual inspection of the corps. His Lordship proceeded to the barracks at Forton in his barge, attended by his sta ff , and landed at about twelve o'clock, when he was received by the Com mandant and the following assemblage of officers :—Col. Ballingali, Colonel Mercer, Colonel Willes, Colonel Garmstone, Lieutenant and Quartermaster Lewis, Lieu tenant and Adjutant Stewart, Dr. Irvine, &c. The division was on parade in line at open order, and pre sented arms as the General, Deputy Adjutant-General, and staff approached, the band playing, and colours fly ing, &o. Lord Fitzclarence and staff rode down the line, which broke into open column right in front, and inspected the men's arms, accoutrements, and necessaries. After this his Lordship visited the men's quarters and inspected their bedding; afterwards;`remounted on the parade, and the men being drawn up in close column, asked if any man had any complaint to make. The noble General then inspected the barracks generally, which concluded the movements for to-day. His Lord ship and the Deputy Adjutant-General then partook of a sumptuous dejeiiner in the temporary mess-room of the division. The inspection will be proceeded with to- morrow. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 4.—About nine o'clock yesterday morning three ships of war were observed in the offing to the eastward. The Cleopatra, 26, Captain H. L. Massie, shortly afterwards saluted the flag of Port-, Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, entered the Sound by the Eastern Channel, with a light southerly wind, and moored inside the Breakwater, near the Camber. The Reynard, screw .schooner, ii, Commander Calcraft, sig nalled Mount Wise for orders, and, on receipt, followed the Cleopatra, saluted inside, swept through the Sound by the aid of her screw, and went up Hameaze. At twelve o'clock the auxiliary screw steam-frigate Arro gant, 46, under canvass, reached the western entrance, where her courses were hauled up. She then rounded the Breakwater, saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and moored to the westward of the Camber. The Cleopatra is from Chatham, for the East Indies. The Reynard is from Portsmouth, bound to the Cape deVerds and Sierra Leone, to join the flag of Sir F. Collier. The Arrogant left Portsmouth on Thursday, and is on her way to the Mediterranean. The Salamander steam-ship arrived on the 30th ult. from. Woolwich and Portsmouth. Orders were received this morning from the Admiralty for the dispatch of the convict-ship Stately, Captain Ginder, to Hobart-town. The Stately has been detained through the sickness of the prisoners (females), who are now convalesci-nt. Light southerly winds, and fine warm weather. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Blenheim, 60, steam guard-ship, came into harbour this morning after a very satisfactory trial of nearly two days with her altered machinery. The engines worked very well, and the speed was rather under six knots. The alteration in her engines has made them much more under control than formerly, and there is no doubt they will soon come to their original speed when the new brasses have worn smooth. The Plumper, i 2, screw steam-sloop, Commander M. S. Nolloth, went out of harbour this afternoon. She did not anchor, but received her powder, shells, &c , while under weigh, and sailed in the afternoon for the North American and West India stations. The Fairy, steam-tender to the Royal yacht, Master- Commander, D. Welch, was docked to-day. Major-General Lord F. Fitzclarence inspected the Royal Marines of the Portsmouth division at battalion drill on Haslar-common this morning. At half-past eleven his Lordship, accompanied by Colonel Owen, the Deputy Adjutant-General, and his personal staff, arrived on the ground, where the battalion (600 strong), under the command of Colonel Menzies, was drawn up in line to receive him; after marching past in slow and quick time they went through a variety of manceuvrea covered by firing; at the conclusion of which, the line being formed to its original front, advanced in open order, halted, and presented arms. Before leaving the ground his Lordship addressed the battalion, and expressed himself as highly pleased with what he had witnessed, which he said was very creditable to both officers and men. Wind, N.E.; light breezes and thick hazy weather, with rain. PLYMOUTH, JUNE s.—Her majesty's auxiliary steam frigate Arrogant, 46, will probably sail, according to order, this evening. An accident, which at one time bore a very serious aspect, occurred on board this ship shortly after she anchored in the Sound on Sunday. About six o'clock in the evening the purser's steward's boy took a lighted candle out of the lantern in the store room and let it fall accidentally among the stores. Some papers near the floor quickly ignited, and while the frightened lad foolishly sought for a basin of water the fire extended and the smoke began to fill the ship. Fortunately the officers were all on board ; the men were quickly beaten to quarters, the store-room was soon inundated, and the fire effectually extinguished. The ship's bread, however, was so much saturated with the sea water that it was sent ashore yesterday and re placed with dry bread from the Royal William Victual ling yard. The Government convict ship Stately, Captain Gin der, sailed last night with female prisoners for Hobart town. The packet-ship American Eagle, Captain Chad wick, from London, with 170 passengers for New York, which loft Portsmouth on Sunday, has put in here this afternoon, in consequence of the death of four of the passengers in the Channel. Six or seven are on the sick list, and cholera is said to prevail on board the ship. Wind northerly, with occasional rain. WOOLWICH, JUNE 6.—The Sampson steam-frigate was delayed at this port to have her guns. put on board while alongside the Salsette receiving-ship, and will leave to morrow for Sheerness, but before arriving at that port her speed will be tried by will be her towed cr e w from w i ll that port u p t o r t on to b o Sheer ness, h r d e to n avigate the Sampson, and both vessels will then proceed e r n e severa l runs betwixt the Nore and Mouse lights. The Castor, 36 guns, recently commissioned at Chatham by Captainss whe W re a il part a rY v t of t o Devonport, the Sampson to remain there a s an ad vanced war steamer. The Cleopatra, 26 guns, left Sheerne ss f or D evonport, accompanied by the Hecla war steam er . The Mountste , wart Elphinstone, Captain H. Loney, which recently left the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, with convicts, under the charge of Dr. Moray, after calling at Portsmouth, will proceed to Cork to receive on board Mr. Smith O'Brien and the other convicts found guilty of being engaged in the recent outbreak in Ireland. The first destination of the Mountstewart Elphinstone is Moreton Bay, New South Wales, where a number of the convicts will be landed, and be at once free on con dition that they never return to this country. The ves sel will then proceed to Sydney, where she will land Smith O'Brien and the other convicts, and then return to this country with a freight of general goods. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain blunday's company, 3d battalion, under the charge of Second Captain Paynter , 17 h o f May, embarked in the Athol troop ship on t he at Queb ec , f or a passage to England. Captain O rmsb y's hn's New Bruns company, 6th battalion, from Sr. Jo _ ont _ rc m M real, wick, and Captain Crofton 's comilmY , I have also embarked in the Athol for a passage to Eng. land, and may now be daily expected at head quarters at Woolwich. o w rapidly. F or some time p ast two new steam-en g ines, The drying up of the Haarlem lake is proceeding the Cruquius an d the Linden, have been added to the' Leeghwater , and the three are now constantly at work. The w ater a u t frommetre Herald.b e l ow the level at Amsterdam.—Brussels Herald. Mr. c. wr of . t G he re la n k fe e i t i s w g a o s iteacdcoide n ntall accidentally more shut than the division on Mr. Hume's motion on Tuesday evening, against which he intended to vote. _.-/ CO,TeTRT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of business. Alderman WILSON said the Court would recollect that on the Ist of May, in consequence of a communication made by the Governor and Chaplain of Newgate, to the efftct that Shaw, a Chartist prisoner, had abused the privilege allowed him upon the suggestion of Baron Platt, 4 . hey made an order that in future the laws and regula ;ions established for the government of the gaol be strictly put in force. As Visiting Justice. it was his duty to communicate the order to Shaw. Shaw hoped that he would be allowed to petition the Queen and the House of Commons, to write to Baron Platt, and to be removed from the custody of the city magistrates to the Queen's Prison. The petition to the Queen was sent to the Home-office, and the petitioner wound up his list of complaints by petitioning the Court of Aldermen, in a memorial in which he accused the Governor of cruelty and tyranny, and of having disregarded Baron Platt's order to allow him to see his wife and family, and to write to them. Now, an investigation had been the re sult of these complaints, and it was quite evident that there did not exist the slightest ground fur the charge of oppression or ill treatment. He had been permitted to receive two or three letters a day, to write two or three times a week, and to see his friends three days in the week; and no check had been given to this indulgence until it was discovered that he had been writing to and receiving letters from Chartists, and visited by a woman who pretended to be his sister, but who was proncunced by:his wife to be an impostor. Here Alderman 'WILSON read several extracts from the intercepted letters. In one of the letters, written by the petitioner to a brother Chartist, was the following paragraph, which might be considered as a specimen of the mere family nature of the transmitted communica tions. After having spoken of the excellent state of his health, although his petition to the Court of Aldermen described him as suffering from many serious maladies, he proceeded:—"'Tis true I am subject to much un necessary tyranny, provocation, and annoyance, but I am a Chartist, and do not expect a relaxation of the moat rigorous rules for my comfort or accommodation, nor did I ever. I know my men, and I doubt not the restrictions I am placed under are in accordance with instructions. Yet as to these petty inconveniences I can afford to laugh at them even under present circumstances, but I can assure you, notwithstanding the utter contempt I feel for such inflictions, a prison is not a bed of roses; however, I am determined not to suffer unmerited seve rity very silently. You know I always had a fancy for taking my own part, and, should I find the people out side will not fight my battles, I will wait patiently until I can take the field myself, and, by the powers, I have a long score to rub off with my foes. I know not what is published in the newspapers, either local or metropo litan, for we are (unlike the Lancashire seditionists) not allowed to see one under any conditions." To allow this person to persevere in the course be had thought necessary to adopt would be both absurd and dangerous.—(Hear, hear.) The Alderman concluded by moving that the petition should lie on the table. Alderman FINNts, as one of the sheriffs, well knew that the complaints of the petitioner were wholly desti tute of foundation. Alderman SIDNEY considered that the allegations in the petition ought to be inquired into. The LORD MAYOR—Why, Alderman Wilson, as visiting magistrate, has inquired into them. Aid( rman SIDNEY said that, although he did not be lieve the statements made by the petitioners against the Governor, still he should vote upon principle for an in quiry. The Judge in recommending a mild exercise of discipline meant, certainly, that the letters the peti tioner should write and receive, and the visitors who should be admitted to him, should be proper letters and proper visitors; and, in order to ascertain that they were so, it was most desirable to submit the whole subject to the Gaol Committee, to which he accordingly moved, as an amendment, that the matter should be referred. Alderman SALomorts seconded the amendment. Aldermen THOMPSON said it appeared to him that by adopting the amendment the Court would be pursuing a course the best of all calculated to give encouragement to dissatisfied and discontented prisoners to complain of the treatment they received, by leading them to suppose that in order to be considered as martyrs it was cnly necessary that they should accuse and vilify those to whose safekeeping they were intrusted. The visiting magistrate had adopted the recommendation of the judge to an extent of indulgence towards the pe-. titioner altogether unparalleled, by allowing him to see his friends three times a week, and to communicate by letter with them daily. What was the consequence ? Abuse of both privileges.—(Hear, hear.) Could any man who heard the extracts read by Alderman Wilson doubt that the indulgence had been most grossly vio lated? Under all the circumstances he called upon the Court not to stultify itself by receiving such a petition, and ho suggested the propriety of adding a few words to Alderman Wilson's motion, to the effect that " the Court, having considered the petition, and heard Alderman Wilson upon the subject, determines that it should lie on the table."—(Hear, hear.) Sir P. LAURIE approved highly of the suggestion of Alderman Thompson, and said it was quite impossible that the Court should give encouragement to complaints of this kind. Alderman Girths said, if the Governor had not acted as he had acted when the petitioner was discovered violating the prison regulations, he would have been guilty of, and must have been held responsible for, a very serious infringement of the orders of the Court. The question was then put, and two hands were held up for Alderman Sidney's amendment, while all the other members of the Court voted for the original ques tion as altered upon the proposition of Alderman Thomp.-on. We were given to understand that a discussion took place while the doors of the Court were closed upon the subject of receiving a petition from Bezor, another Char tist imprisoned in Newgate, and that that petition met with the fate of the former. ALLEGED FALSE SERVITUDE-MR. INNES'S PETITION. This subject has excited much interest amongst the various companies, it being known that it was usual to admit into several companies upon the ground of servi tude persons who never had served, nor even seen the masters to whom they were bound. In the Vintners' Company, however, the mischief of this practice has been considered to be serious, for many of the infamous houses at the west end of the town have been conducted upon the authority of Free Vintners, purchased by the owners for a sum of money. A gentleman &elm the Board of Excise attended to watch the case for the Government, and he considered it necessary to observe in the course of the proceedings that upon all occasions on which the Excise authorities thought it expedient to interfere, the Vintners' Company gave them th e rea di es t ass i s t ance to put a stop to a practice by which the Queen was deprived of certain duties, and the licensed victualler was injured by unfair com petition. After several observations from Learned Counsel it was shown that IL M. Pimm had never made applica tion to the Vintners' Company for hi• freedom, and it was stated that if he should make such application, and the non-servitude were proved, the company would ex ercise its power impartially. Under these circumstances the petition of Air. Innes was dismissed. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box was occupied, on Tuesday evening, by the Earl of Cawdor, the Countess of Desert, the Countess of Shannon, Vis count and Viscountess Brackley, Mr. and Lady Caroline Duncombe. Among the visitors were, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency the Greek Con sul-General. and Madame Ralli, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Douro, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the Princess Mary of Baden, the Marquis of Winchester, the Countess of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lady Francis Hay, the Countess of Egremont, the Countess of Ashburnham, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, Lady Howard de Walden and the Honourable Miss Ellis, the Countess of Malmesbury, the Earl of Bectire, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Durham, the Countess of Glengall, Lady Margaret Butler and Captain Macdonald, the Countess de Flahault and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Earl of Munster, the Countess (Dowager) of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Mr. H. Vincent and Miss Vincent, the Countess of Shel burne, the Countess . Poulett, the Earl of Cardigan, the Countess Brownlow, Viscount Alford and Lady Mar garet Compton, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Malden. Viscountess Duncan, Viscount Sidney, the Baroness do Clifford, the lion. Misses Catharine and Mary Russell, Viscount Templetown, the Earl and Countess Grey, Lord Ward, Lady liuntingfield, Lord Churchill, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lady Brougham, Lord and Lady Poltimore, Lord Bateman, lion. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Lord and Lady Keane, Lord Robert Taylour, Baron Knesebeck, Lady and Miss Beauclerk, the Baroness Rothschild, Lady Eddisbury, Lady Char lotte Copley and Miss Copley, Sir Thomas Hare, Bert., Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Isaac Lionel, Lady and the Misses Goldsmid, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Philip Grey and Lady Egerton, Sir Henry Seale, Sir George Armytage, Sir John and Lady Harrington, andring toniaiss Sir John Sir a n d Lady n Molesworth, Sir John Walsh, Sir George and Lady Shee, Sir John, Lady, and the Misses Jervis, Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Hon. C. Hope, Hon. C. E. W. Pepys, lion. Edward Upton, Hon. Dudley Fortescue, Hon. Henry Coke, Hon. A. Neville, l e Chevalier and Madame de Horta, Mr. H. T. Hope, M.P., Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., Mrs. Mountjoy Martyn, Mr. Fitzwilliam Hume, Mr. H. Greville, Colonel Wing field, Colonel Blanc, Major and Mrs. Simpson, Captain Bligh, Captain Egerton, Captain Gordon, Captain Dal rymple, Mr. and Mrs. Arabia, Mrs. Standish Standish, Mr. W. Northage, Mr. H. Villebois, Mr. W. Jameson, Major, Mr., and the Misses Pugh, Miss Richards, &c. THE INCOME-TAX.—A return moved for by Mr. Moffatt, M.P., gives some particulars relative to the income and property-tax. It appears, that in the year ending the sth of April, 1848, the number of persons of all classes assessed to the income-tax under schedule D amounted to 147,659, of whom 34,270 had incomes under 150/. a year; 38,825 under 200/.; 29 909 under 300/ ; 15,043 under 4001.; 7,324 under 500/.; 5,532 under 6001.; 3,043 under 7004; 2,124 under 800/.; 1,713 under 9001.• 875 under 1,000/.; 5,234 under 2,0001. ; 1 , 483 un d er 3,0001.• 703 under 4,000/.; 400 under 5,0001.; 788 under 10,0001.; 371 under 50,000/.; and 22 persons with in comes of 50,000/. and upwards. The number of persona charged under schedule E in the year 1847-48, amounted to 49,707, of whom 21,960 had incomes under 1501; 8.645 under 200/ ; 8,702 under 300/.; 4,049 tinder 400/4 2,244 under 500/ ; 1,040 ndder 6001.; 694 under 7004; 522 under 8001.; 276 under 9001.; 188 under 1,0001.; 838 under 1,5001.; 244 under 2,0001.; 166 under 3,000/.; 55 under 4,000/.; 23 under 5 ,000/. ; and 61 with incomes of 5,0001. and upwards. The net total amount of the income-tax received for the year ending the sth of April, 1848, was 5,638,702/.; viz., 2,557,7931. under schedule A ; 309.890/. under schedule B ; 744,273/. under schedule C; 1,685,977/. under schedule D ; and 340.769/. under schedule E. We are requested to state that Colonel Sibthorp has been prevented from attending his Parliamentary duties since the recess by indisposition,though not of serious oluiractor.