The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-01 00:00:00

nu ha ) sorc 1M o wes ; ha' wOU ['lint to; a fl essic awa: pe: chav ►m m ar good l ti" i d tl Ind ti he da. he shy Lppea/ abo' ed to aere I unt 3 Coll; polii 1.-stree • Igh A Lccuse take ate th d in b • nen al' no :I icy enteril )ns Ayr kg, as means .essed f obtain' °ruing circkia een'ist i explode:. L order but Le kno w F troxo :testy, tl not apPt form. tteraPt: . ' en loac e ;1 n a ctuel ure to 611 , ? 3 111 t i. Clock. aminatio roceediW after, ldraW e l MlSin was sir the e l :h Fu si the 11 Q1 A i? xarOnT o il ?.t, of W.,,0 witll.47tll it :te lt4 ,? " ei ng h (the c- , nstoble qinion, that he in- I Lied to destroy hitus.edf, 11.% the Queen's carriage m a r sc( " L in g in the diroiLitti of the Palace from I 1,v( 7 07 rt• - the corntahle - toticed the and flttiet , ar : •fll-; tti about f...(6 happen, and when within ten t ). tl s tht villain fired a pistol in the direction sei _ I , e, R . ontl carriage. The policeman immediately wozrs,lihii, and was assisted almost inunediately after- Ly.a zoldier. lic was then, as we have before e a ( '` l l ,' hu rried off to tifo Palace, where he. was 1 00 : e 'led, and all That was found was a quantity of p i st e t ) owil'et. in One of his waistcoat pockets. The Small and common one, with a flint lock ; it ,5101 "a mined and -declar e d b y severa l com petent belie to have b een recently discharged, and their 4w,as th a t i t had been loaded with slugs. • the(III,CE THE MANSION-HOUSE. a o e let fitted t h SiOn4;,,sChtt)M.ing notite wai p u bli s h e d a t the Man very- short time of the perpetra,- f t The intelli genc e of her Majesty s a the mo s t lively manifestations of satis to re .• ll a mong the m u ltit u d e w h o t h ronge d arou nd `` le tte: di t etilLe°llradPe-r ia :— Pr. having following received the tens in to communicate. the same to the citi him "don, Convinced that they will unite with_ the heartfelt gratitude to Divine Providence for I, fe tY of Our beloVed Queen: .a 1 • ans 'on - honse, May 30, 1842, 8 o'cloch, p.m. Whitehall May 30,1842, 7 o'clock p.m. the zarticY tsihi7isPrdthAatia'hYe'V'Tl-aijtestis', moyn h du er ty ret t u o rn in t f fo ro r n l m n . Y '''r Lord -},'• • evening, was shot at on Constitu io Lordshill..l.lie criminal has been :apprehended, and your and ' fl il) will rejoice to hear that her Majesty is safe_ •Nta: lnhurt . -- -1 have -the honour to be, my Lord T .ol lr faithful servant, ‘" • • " J. R. G. GB ARAM.e Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.' '' ti p . , S MITHS' H ALL. T he account o f the atteattempt.th(:, Nitven's lif e was b roug h t to t he G o ldsmiths' Alderman Copeland, where the livery 1 . 1.4 4bseptiT:vbYlari dinner. ' The National Anthem had just the ; 1 .,. 8 , 1 ; 111 4; it was immediately called for again, amid 411'11111.°st expressions of loyalty. !hi! r „ E ' r 7,oo Looroa.i. GARDENS.—lmmediatelylife . upon b ee r,, e ' r t, ef the diabolical attempt upon her Majest)'S tPOnt. ' til ing known at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, h sh,id,'l_ll,eous burst of loyalty was elicited from the ttu o. l uu e . ui her liege subjects there assembled, who raised ~ whieb4--i. I mo- 1 1in - ions call for " God save the Queen, _ wfh i'eleg responded to by the band, was received ,ivheers of the most enthusiastic devotion. I,e:Sunday, about six o'clock, Mr. Dousbery, o t f No._ 00k-street, Holborn; who is well known 10nrilLeurie, requested an immediate interview with s i ,,,n a subject of great importance, and introduced atdi .-eeter two brothers of the name of Pearstn, n r in stist rig at 10 . 7, Castle -street, Holborn, one of whom , 111 '_,e(1 that at. tw o o'clock on Sunday, while the Queen 11044 Prince Albert were returning from the Chapel i 6.,r t he a pistol from under his . cost fi at .78erit". hilt the Queen ; but whether it trussed rc, t he tl a whetlitr relented, was not observed ; butlrts . 11 . ( 1 , " I wish 1 had done it ; and th e t s t"l under his coat he walked sulkily . awa asst re 'll - Park. An elderly man who witnessed i the tta t i T ,qt , stated that, he would communicate it tn , _t , h i : vla iil ies, but that it was too much trouble. man, boWeVer, asked Mr. Pearson his name and afar " Mr. Donsbery thinking the facts of . ver o y n the-1g importance applied to Sir Peter Laurie '4 Li uu i t 'et, and Sir ' Peter wrote a private letter to Honourable Mr. Murray, the Comptroller of the vo ? sel micl. under the impression that such matters kn to maot be kept too secret, and that it was ly ,s e ke less noise than if communicated to the de Iv ereta •rY of • State. The- private letter was not v . red to Mr. Murray, because he was dining with her d e ,stY• The twO Messrs Pearson, who are printers, eae " 1 3 morning and of sa_w Mr. Murray, who e"llBid ervil the a ce r )mmunication th atso much importance ' l e sent Sir Peter Laurie's note to Sir J. Graham, itillaulv.requested the I'earsons to call at two o'clock ; not ‘‘ a mg kept t h e i r appo i ntment punctually, a message b r i s ng Sea t to Sir Peter Laurie, requesting that he would h forwaord the brothers. When Sir Peter went to l t - :, ll° lne-ffice he found that they had arrived, and 11-- the authorities were taking their depositions. 0311111TTAL OF THE PRISONER TO NEWGATE. U'rcrn the Third Edition of The Sun a Last Night.) The Council remained in deliberation until about -4 f-past three o'clock. At that hour Sir Robert p eel left the Home-office by the Park entrance, and w aked through the Park to Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, and 4veral other Privy Councillors left by the principal ktranee in 'Whitehall shortly before four o'clock. At that houran immense crowd had assembled in W hitehall, and it had become necessary to send for a A 7t 4 chment, of the A division to keep the pathway k4 r• In order to deceive the crowd, a hackney cab 1 • sent for and kept waiting at the entrance in ' l tehall. All e y es were immediately fixed on the t .,,; e . 1e, it being concluded . that . it was waiting to `°3 - the prisoner to his destination. tlx / . 4 kt r , 4o uta quarter after four, Sir.ltobert Peel re; lio tti e t4 ,to the Home-office from the Palace, and almos‘. the D , PAt elY afterwards a hackney-coach drew up at ' 4 41 t. „-kt b lt\ : - gate of the office. " a attlsa - I'' , 4t four, the prisoner entered the carriage, io the morning, by three of the officers e lie did not seem the least fatigued, but °°ll anxious to avoid the public gaze, for , as , 41 a , o • e entered the carriage, he threw himself back ' 48 4 1 ) 1 ; 0 7 1 4 r of the front seat, and pulled his hat over ere`lT(l)l am I to drive to ?" said the coachman. ,e%vgat," was the reply of the officer, and Nrs e tl c l u tnan immediately drove off through the O n : Gua rds, towards the City. 4111 Y e i r , 411414 3 7 , we learned that the prisoner had been tria le -4141ttted to take his trial for the atrocious b l lv ore tan Zaith‘vhich he stands charged. There were not its e oriv twenty persons present when the prisoner Th e e Yed away in custody as above stated. was cr ow t O ei ghbourhood of Buckingham Palace t° excess all the morning, and towards the w re'at lDjdd • e of the day the throng of carriages was very P quri e t ve re at th e P a l ace on ly a very short time, but 1, he,f,7, t he few m i nu t es we were there we observed or tr thh , "g among the inquirers :—The Marquis of bis"'Y, the D u k e o f N or thumberland, the Arch. 41 4 s t- of Canterb ur y, the Marquis of Clanricardc, ti‘'eral other noblemen and gentlemen. PRISONER'S RECEPTION At AT NEWGATIL. l't Y i n --4 -tf - Past four o'clock the hackney-carriage con- Ilitil! t he wretch a r rived at the end of the Old 6 r l Ludgate-hill, and in consequence of alte keatfs W hich were being made in the wooden.pave h°Pl36site Newgate, the driver pulled up there, t of ° Pris oner descended, and wa lk e d b etween t wo LC' gaolers of the House of Correction, with bthtellant Tracy, the Governor of the prison, 40 11 R .,,„ 1n'l h im. Although a number of idlers had ills i l g" a ted, - viewing the repairs of the pavement, , s ° p 4 i .l ear alice attracted not the slightest attention, b ' v ate was the whole affair kept, and he was Li t t i nto ate and the doors closed afterhim, Ith° l:4 4 ', ° ne person following him from the end of the l AN L i t,' to the prison steps. Upon entering the he sa 7 l ' , or hall, his handcuffs were taken off, when feet d °wri on a form, and gazed with the most per , e- SV e roid on th,. objects around him. During the vi m the preli m i nary arrangemen t s were m a king pre the c-s t ° his being taken to his cell, he conversed with ,tigaolers with apparent indifference generally; but cited e °r twice he asked questions in a rather ex h Inatiner. Hi s so j ourn h ere l as t e d a quar t e r of °l ' l4 , and owing to the hurry incident to his re- Ipi th 4 l we had scarcely any opportun i ty o f spea ki ng of a st but he s eeme d ra th er to avoid the notice , ,t i)otea ra a nger, and averted his face. His appearance 11 : * ant neither agitation nor the slightest . ~, t o i„,, self-possession, and the only point "`"ente a self- sense of the enormous and appalling st„.: t h l z ll t l i e ol \ i. ‘ i :h n ic th il e he contemplated, was a quickness of eye when he met the gaze of another,. f th o alight be called sinister—a sudden averting o taiJ o la nce. In stature, he is considerably below the 'co at ' e siz e , and was dressed in a dark brown frock is "d dark t rowsers. Hi s f ac e , on th e w h o l e , the wi rever se o f what a physiognom i st wou ld th irk h ad, or blood -thirsty in expression, having iati o Yes, 'which most certainly lacked not specu int Oar in the slightest degree indicated want of t , th : e s t . , and we s h ould say intelligence, while the t lineaments of his f ace were of rather a ,of tZtitnuld c haracter. His complexion was high, and as the warrant a person in perfect health. As soon warrant certifying his committal from the ..,',l l e - office was handed to Mr. Cope, the Governor hi s '\ _ e . w , gate, by Lieutenant Tracy, he was removed to j„, ra 'eli, where he will be kept solitary ; but Mr. Cope 'L!,onated that there would be no unusual observance or d any other prisoner, with respect to fettering iro ti i ng him. 1,11 a Pitir, e -11.ESTON MURDER. —Peter Whittle, cotter.- , of Preston, whose horrible murder of his wife, and a ctiattempt at self-destruction, mated so great a Sell- LittAn that town about th ree weeks ago, was brought to e p.!! ter Castle on S a t ur d ay l ast, his enfeebled condition not " 4, tting au earlier removal,—Lancaster Guardian. MAGAZINE DAY. E LICKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 'We have read with great pleasure Sir Richmond ) - t' a Jotrne l yfroin llerant ui to Otnoourg on the wnich . heads the Present Number. This jotituty W . ab Undertaken in IS40; and its objet WaoO Obtaih the Withdrawal of the Russian &my which was at that period within three days' march of the city of Khyva. The gal lant officer accomplished his mission so satisfactorily to all parties concerned, that on his arrival at St. Po tersburgh-he was personally thanked by the Emperor Nicholas; and when 600Y1 after he tame to England, he received promotion and rank for his services, and is now - Military Secretary to the Commander-in- Chief of the Bengal Army, at present in the Khyber Pass, on its way to relieve General Sale. The nar- rator gives very minute details of his proceedings from day to day; of his sufferings from intense thirst in crossing the Desert ; and of his voyage across the Caspian to Ourenbourg. But the most entertaining passages in his Journal, are those wherein he sketches the habits and characters of the nomadic tribes of the Turcomans, whom, con- trary to general opinion, he represents as a cowardly, crafty race intent on pillage, and careless what atro cities they perpetrate on those unfortunate travellers who may chance to fall into their hands. In the " Sketches of Italy"—the most hacknied of themes there is a graphic account of the approach to Venice, with which the tourist seems to have been much dis- appointed, justly remarking, " to apostrophize distant Venice, as travellers do, as a cty of noble edifices rising out of the sea, such being unquestionably the fact, is all very well, and very veracious; but to plain vision,'any given city, divorced from the magic of its name, rising out of water, and at some miles' distance, must appear, while this earth is round, very much the same as if it had the misfortune to be below water level. Even when you draw near Venice, the first buildings offered to sight are by no means of a character to suggest that they spring up as by an enchanter's wand, rather than in the usual course of scaffold building." In the " Passages in the Career of El Empecinado" oc cur several romantic incidents, illustrative of the cha racter of this enterprising Spanish soldier of fortune." The Verdict of a French Jury " is a singular account of a trial that took place in France in the year 1834, and excited public attention in an extraordinary degree. The prisoner was a young man of rank and fortune, who was accused of having entered the bed-chamber of the daughter of a French General at midnight, and proceeded to the worst extremities. The evidence was exceedingly contradictory, nevertheless he was found guilty, and still remains in prison e:.piating his crime. Things of the Day," is a piquant melange of criticism, anecdote, and biography. In alluding to Madame D'Arblav's Memoirs, the writer makes precisely thesame objection to it that we made while noticing the first volume, and complains in no mea sured terms of its intolerable egotism. Ma dame D'Arblay evidently laboured under the aidiculous noticn that she was one of the greatest luminaries of the eighteenth century, and that society was exclusively occupied with the consideration of her powers as a novelist. Hence there is scarcely a page in the first volume that is not devoted to the subject of " Evelina."—just as if it were one of those, glorious productions destined to immortality ! Never was poor authoress so mistaken in her estimate of herself and her works I Of her six or eight tales scarce one is now remembered. " Evelina' sleeps tranquilly on the shelves of old-fashioned circulating libraries, and "Cecilia" and "Camilla" keep her company. Yet there was talent in these works—some humour, much shrewdness of observation, together with a power of pourtraying and contrasting character ; but nothing that indicated the presence of first rate ability. Of Hannah More—Madame D'Ar blay's contemporary—the writer observes, that " she was one of the most fussy women, alive or dead." This is true, but it is not the whole truth, for the sainted Hatmah—the " tenth Muse," as her sycophantic admirers called her—was neither more nor less than a pompous propounder of shallow, twaddling, orthodox common-places. We defy her warmest advocate to point to one really vigorous or original idea in all her voluminous works, whether prose or verse. She has added nothing to the general stock of knowledge ; she has suggested no new ma terials for thought ; but merely repeated, in good set phrases, what has been said—and better said too—at least a hundred times before she ever took to scrib bling. Her " Ccelebs " is dreary twaddle ; her tra- Fedies, if possible, are worse ; and as for her theology it has nothing but its orthodoxy to recommend it. We quote the writer's sketch of Sheridan, who started into celebrity about the same period—or nearly so— as the over-rated Hannah : Poor Sheridan ! the world was willing enough to do him justice, and a great deal more. Ills manners, talents, and even his vices, were exactly of the order which the world loves: He was, of all the men of his day, the most gifted by nature with variety of extraor dinary powers. But he threw them all away, and, after a life of as restless and fruitless anxiety as ever wore out the spirit of man, perished deserted, Unhappy, and un done. He had but one want, and that was' a formidable one—he wanted dignity of mind. Nothing could teach him the value of principle. Ascending from the humble condition of the son of a travelling lectures -for to this the elder Sheridan had ultimately fallen—he suddenly roso into the most showy circles of professional, public, and aristocratic life ; was the first dramatist and the first wit of a period distinguished for stage authorship and social animation; suddenly appeared the first orator of Parliament, in a time which boasted of the memorable names of Pitt, Fox, and Burke ; and gave the promise of raising British eloquence to the noblest heights of Greece and Rome. I am perfectly aware that all this has been doubted ; that he has left but little behind him ; and that Sheridan's suppression of the Hastings' Speeches apparently justifies the common idea, that they were merely things of the time—gaudy flourishes, the tinsel vesture of a temporary and overworked imagina tion. But the speeches which excited the wonder which we know those singular displays to have excited—which first held Parliament, and then the whole assembled legislature, in astonishment for hours together—which were not merely endured, but admired by such men as Burke, l'itt, and the whole crc,wd of taste and talent who had been taught eloquence by those illustrious masters, and taught fastidiousness by the habit of witnessing excellence, cannot have been tinsel or temporary. We know that the House was in a tumult of applause ; that every mm without doors was quoting the fragments of those great performances for months together ; that all the journals of the time were labouring to collect hints, figures, maxims, the strong rebukes and brilliant appeals of those magnificent ornaments. And are we not entitled to ask, could this effect have been produced without something that was worthy of admiration—something that deserved to be recorded as one of the great memorials of intellectual power—some thing that ought to have been preserved and.commemo rated as the orations of antiquity are preserved, in evi dence and illustration of the intellectual rank of the national genius ? That Sheridan never published those Speeches is as much to be regretted as it' the Parthenon had been swept away in the days of its first splendour, and before it could have given the architects of future ages the rules of' the bold and the beautiful in their noble science. That Sheridan's omission to publish them arose first from the various dissipations of a life of fashion, next from the various vexations which so soon began to sow his path with thorns, cannot be doubted. No man earlier felt the vanity of human life, or discovered the wretchedness of attempti - tg, without fortune, to sustain himself in a rank with the wealthy of the world. In a few years he was utterly ruined ; and literature, elo quence, and wit, gradually passed away from a mind perplexed with humiliating expedients to sustain exist ence. Still we must judge of his public ability by its public effect. The eloquence which won the universal admiration of a time of remarkable ability, must have been true eloquence. What orator since has produced an equal impression ? What distinguished effort of any Parliamentary speaker has ever attained the same dis tinctions ? To what speech of any man of his time did the head of the Ministry, the head of the Opposition, and the head of the political writers of England or the world—Pitt, Fox, and Burke—offer the same emulous panegyric ? These are proofs, evidences to which we have never heard an answer, and to which we never ex ;t to hear one. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The adventures of Mrs. Trollope's favourite, Bar nabys in America, are recounted with less spirit and humour than usual. There is too little incident, and too much prosy dialogue which rather encumbers than helps on the plot in the present chapters. The authoress appears solicitous rather to supply a cer tain amount of matter with the first crude notions that suggest themselves, than to develope character with skill and propriety. Yet her notion of making the Widow Barnaby write a volume of travels in Ame rica is not amiss, and should create much merriment, if cleverly folio - wed up. The good lady is now just on the threshold of her literary undertaking, and talks a world .of dull twaddle on the subject with a Mr. Beauchamp, whose portrait is, we suspect, greatly overcharged. Her pretty daughter, Annie, with her strong prejudices against England and everthing English, is delineated with far more effect, and bids fair to become the redeeming feature of the story. The "Schoolmistress Abroad" is an imitation of Sterne's quaint, abrupt mode of sketching scenes and incidents of travel. It is by Mr. Hood, but possesses little of his drollery, for he appears to have undertaken, the subject not con more, but as a sort of task-work. "An Essay on Legs" is light and fanciful. " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus" contains some sensi ble remarks on the folly of those who would prevent, if they could, every species of innocent amusement on the Sabbath, and allow the poorer classes to cultivate nothing but a long face. "It is difficult to say," re marks Mr. Horace Smith, " which predominates, the cruelty or the selfishness of these proposed restric- Victions, when we recollect tha they emanate from parties who have six days in the week for their amuse ment; and that their rigour falls exclusively upon the humbler classes, who have but one for she Purposes of innocent and healthful recreation. It used to be held the t he who gives to the poor lends to the L or d ; but our Cantwells seem to imagine that what they take from the poor, they give to the Lord, an opinion equally unwoishy of a good man, and derogatory to a benig- nant beitv." We take credit to ourselves for having always opposed, to_ the utmost of our power, the efforts of the Agnewites to convert the Sabbath into a day of gloom arid - Contrition; . when it should be one of inno- Cerit i . lawful rdereatititi; A Sunday nioftification is .thing we do not profess to understand—and we have been no inattentive readers of Sacred writ—but. a Sunday repose and cheerfulness of nature is just what accords with our notions of true, unaffected piety. " Woman's Love," professes to be n. tale founded on - fact. Rig b y Mr. Sheridan Knowles, and it 18 told with earnestness:but rather too much in that jerking, epigrammatic style so characteristic of this author. " Professional Idiosyncrasy" is an ingenious idea, skilfully worked out. " That clothes," says the writer, " do in fact exert' some considerable influence on the disposition,: is man Fest in the case of the barrister, on whom the wig and gown exercise paramount sway, enabling him to browbeat witnesses, and to advance impertinent inuendoes, not to say, ab solute untruths, in a way 'that he would be ashamed to practice, when divested of these habiliments." A whimsical . theory, s omewhat similar to this, may be found in one of the early chapters of Swift's "Tale of a Tub." " Spring" is a lively poem from the pen of the editor. But the reader shall judge for him- self : " Come gentle Spring ! ethereal rattiness came !" Oh ! Thi,mson, void of-rhyme as well as reason, How couldst thou thus poor, human nature hum ? There's no such season. The Spring ! I shrink and shudder at her name ! For why, I find her breath a bitter blighter And suffer from her blows as if they came From Spring the Fighter. Ikr praises then, lot hardy poets sing And be her tuneful laureates and upholders Who do not feel as if they had a Spring rour'd down their shoulders Let others eulogize her floral shows, From me they cannot win a singie stanza, I know her blooms are in full flow—and so's The influenza ! Her cowslips; stocks, and lilies of the vale, Her honey-blossoms that you hear the bees at, Her pansies, daffodils, and primrose pale, Are things I sneeze at ! Fair is the vernal quarter of the year ! And fair its early buddings and hut" blowings— But just suppose Consumption's seeds appear, 11 ith other sowings ! For me, I find, when eastern winds are high A frigid, not a genial inspiration ‘• Nor can, like Iron-Chested Chubb, defy An inflammation. 4 4. Smitten by breezes from the land of plague, To me all vernal luxuries are fables, Oh ! where's the Spring in a rheumatic leg, Stiff as a table's ? I limp in agony—l wheeze and cough ; And quake with Ague that great Agitator ; Nor dream, before July, of leaving off My Respirator. What wonder if in May itself I lack A peg for laudatory verse to hang on ? Spring mild and gentle?-yes, as Spring-heeled Jack 'ro those he sprang on ! In short, whatever panegyrics lie In fulsome odes too many to be cited, The tenderness of Spring is all my eye, And that is blighted ! rtiE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1842. Altarnarely sucking his thumb and his pear! What words can express The dismay and distress : , Of Sir Guy, when he found what a terrible mess His cursing and banning had now got him into? That words, which to use, are a shame and a sin too, I Had thus on their speaker recoiled; and his malison jPlaced in the hands of the devil's own " pal" his son!— COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ♦isited her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday, forenoon,• at Buckingham Palace, and her Royal Ilighness the Duchess of Kent lunched Willi her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Palace soon after two o'clock. from attending the examination at the Home-office. On quit ting the Palace the Right Hon. Baronet returned to the Privy Council. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Excel lency Count MeLsdorf, left the Palace' in the afternoon for an airing, in an open carriage and four. Throughout the whole of the drive her Majesty was most enthUsiastically received by all classes of her subjects. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting, were on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George visited her Ma jesty in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda sent to inquire after the health of her Majesty. The following members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps arrived at the Palace in the course of the day :—The French Ambassador and the Countess St: Anlaire, the Belgian Mi- Lister and Madame can de Weyer, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Portuguese Minister, the Bavarian Mi nister and Baroness de Cetto, the American Minister and Mts. and Miss Everett, the Saxon Minister, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Lisboa, the Russian Minister and Baroness Bru now, the Austrian Minister, the Grecian Minister and Madame Tricoupi, the Danish Minister and Countess Recentlow, the IVurteraburg Minister and Baroness Hugel, the Hanoverian Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Venezuelan Minister, Grenada Charge d'Affaires and Madame Mosquera, the Swedish " Char ,, e d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen, 61. Del Pozzo, M. the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy, the New Pinto de Soveral, Count Revel, Baron de Canitz, and M. Lobo de Moira. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales andthe Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Mensdorf, and the Counts Hugh, Alphonso, Alexander, and Arthur Meesdorf, anti attended by LadyPortman, Lord Rivers, Captain Meyriell, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. From ten o'clock in the morning until the close of the after noon, Buckingham Palace was thronged with the Nobility and Gentry, calling to make their dutiful inquiries after the health of her Majesty. Among them were Lord and Lady Denman, Hon. Misses Denman, Hon. Mrs. Denman, Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Right Hsnourable H. Goulburn, Colonel . Sir George and. Lady Cowper, Sheriffs Magnay and Rogers, Mr. and, Hon.. Mrs. Saundereon, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Sir R., Lady, and the Misses Gardiner, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Gen. Sir G. and Miss Murray, Sir John and Lady Macdonald, Miss and Mr. Norman Mac donald, Mr. and Mrs. Errington, Earl and Countess of Clan. william, Lady Rivers, Dowager Lady Rivers , Mr. Charles and Lady Catherine Cavendish, Miss Cavendish, Dr. Henry Lee, Sir Benjamin Brodie . , Earl and Lady Katherine Jermyri, Bishop of Sodor and Man, Earl of Mime), Lord John Russell, Hon. W. Bathurst, Countess Delawarr and the Ladies West, Mr. and Mrs. Gaily Knight, Viscount Duncan, Lord anti Lady Wharncliffe, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Espinasse, lie• corder of Rochester, Lord Portman, Lord and Lady Stafford, Gen. Sir H. and Lady Grey, Right Hon. G. S. and Lady Agnes Byng, Admiral Sykes, Duke and Duchess of Northum berland, Marquis of Normanby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, Mrs. George Hope, Lady Ashburton, Miss Baring, Colonel Wood, Colonel and Lady C. Buckley, Anne Countess of Newburgh, Dr. Chambers, Sir G. and Lady Quentin, Miss Quentin, Sir R. • and Lady Fitawygram, Earl of Clare, Countess Dowager Clare, and Lady Isabel'a Fitzgibbon, Lord Dalmeny, Viscount arid Viscountess Chelsea, Mr. Edward and Lady Emily Foley, Viscount Canterbury; Viscount and Viscountess Maynard, Lord and Lady Norreys, Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Earl and Countess Albemarle, Lord and Lady Cotten ham, Sir W. and Lady Augusta Cotton, Earl and Countess of Roseberry and the Ladies Primrose, Lord and Lady Waterparl:, Earl and Countess of Ripon, Sir J. Kempt, Marquis and Mar chioness of Downshire, and Lady C. Hill, Colonel and Mrs. Darner, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright; the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruct', Earl of Radnor, Mr. Montague Gore: M.P., Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Dunalley, Marquis of Headfort and the Ladies Olivia and Mary Taylour, Earl of Bective, Mr. Alderman '1 hompson, Mrs. and Miss Thompson, Sir Thomas Wilde, Duke of Rutland, Earl and Countess of Haddington, Sir Henry and Lady E. Hardinge, Lord Leigh, Earl and Countess of Pembroke, Sir E. and Lady Bowater, Sir D. and Lady Kinloch, Dowager Lady Kinloch, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl and Countess Cadogan, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Sir R. Westmacott, Lords A. and G. anti Lady A. Paget, Lady and the Misses Wheatley, Countess of Jersey, Lady C. Villiers, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouchere, Sir W. Fremantle, Sir Fred. B. Watson ' Lord and Lady and Miss Foley, Earl of Stamford, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Viscount and Vie countess Poll:ngton, Lady Sarah Savile, Hon. and Rev. Philip Savile, Mr. and Lady Emma Vesey, Sir Charles and Dr. Aldis, Major-General and Lady Isabella Went) as, Sir J. Lushington, Chairman of the East India Company ; Mr. Cotton, Deputy-Chairman ; Mr. Lyall, M.P. ; Mr. Master man, M. I'., Sir Thomas Freemantle, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Bannerman, Mr. John Round, M.P., Duke Duk and Duchess of Richmond, Lord and Lady Monteagle, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Admiral Sir Charles E. Nugent, Earl and Countess and • Lady G. Grey, Ladies M. and E. Lambton, Lord and Lady Byron, Rev. Dr. Russell, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Colonel Powell, M.P., and Mrs. Powell, Marquis of Northampton, Earl and Countess of Charlemore, Marquis of Anglesey, Lord and Lady Courtenay, Earl and Countess of Listowel, Dowager Countess of Listowel, Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, Right Hon. E. Ellice, Bishop of Lon don, Mrs. and Miss Blomfield, Sir S.. Hancock, Earl arid Countess Powis and the Ladies Herbert, Sir Walter Riddell, Lord and Lady Sondes, Viscount and Viscountess B e res.. ford, Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Mr. B. Est court, Countess of Morton and Lady Ellen Douglas, Earl of Arundel, Mr. John Round, Jon., Mrs. and Miss Con stantia Round. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Earl of Dun more, Sir Robert Chester, Lord and Lady J. Eliot, Lord as.d Lady R. Grosvenor, Earl and Countess ofsDalhousie, Mar quis and Marchioness of Wellesley, Mr. Rich, Sir J. Hob house, Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Lord and Lady Teign mouth, Sir S. G. Higgins, Sir G. Houlton, Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lady Dover, Hon. C. Howard, Bishop of Gloucester and Bris•ol and Mrs. m on k, Bishop of Worcester and Mrs. Pepys, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Countess of Love lace, Sir Charles ana Lady Imleoff, Viscount Duncannon and - Ponsonby, Hon. Baron and Baroness Dimsdale and Miss Dimsdale, Lady and Miss Vavasour, Sir H. Vavasour, Sir 11. and Lady . Dymoke, Sir Francis. Lady, and Miss Burdett, Miss Burdett Coutta, Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, Lady Louisa Noel, Bishop of Bangor, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, Earl of Claret,- don, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Viscount Can tilupe, Lady and Miss Trotter, Earl and Countess Manvers, Mr. A. E. Chalon, Lord and Lady Lovat, Sir J. and Lady Clark; Marchioness of Exeter, Sir Cha r les Rowley, Viscount Galway, Countess Norbury, Lady J. Toler, Sir W. and Lady Follett, Sir F., Lady, and Misses Pollock, the Bishop of Win chester and Mrs. Sumner, Dowager Lady Astley, Lord Has tings, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Duchess of Inverness, Mr. and Mrs. E. Majoribanks ' Lord and Lady Lilfurd, Earl and Countess of Verularn, Earl and Countess Glengall, Sir J. Easthope, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Pembroke, Lady Charlotte Guest, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Brightman, Lord and Lady Villiers, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Earl and Countess Nelson, Earl and Countess Craven, Dowager Countess Lis towel, Sir J. and Lady B. Johnstone, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, Miss Copley, Marquis and Marchioness of Clan ricarde, Lord and Lady Dinerben, Sir J., Lady, and Miss St-ale, , Earl and Countess Bosse, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Lord Forester, AlrF. and Miss Canning, The Chisolin, Lord and Lady Earnest -Bruce, Earl and Countess of Bandon, Lady St. Bernard, Viscount and Viscountess Ber nard, the Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby, Mr. and Mrs. H. Tuffnell, Earl and Countess Wilton, Lord and Lady Lyt telton, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Sir P. Laurie, Earl and Countess Wemyss, Ladies Charteris, Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, Rev. J. Jennings, the Duke of Newcastle, Lady and Miss Shaw Stewart, Earl and Countess Antrim, Sir B. Vavasour, Sir W. and Lady James, Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Lady J. Fitzgerald, Mr.•Charteris, Mrs. nd Miss Goulburn, Mr. and Lady Ann Culling Smith, Sir C. M. Clarke, Sir J., Lady, and Miss Macdonald, Lord and Lady Courtenay, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Sir H. and Lady Duckenfield, Marquis of Hertford, Colonel and Miss Hugh Braille, Mrs. G. E. Anson, Sir W. and Lady Burnett, Mt. and Mrs. Wilbraham Taylor, Sir 'Howard and Lady Douglas, Hon. Charles and Ladies Gore, Lieut.-Col. Hon. George and Mrs. Keppel, Lord Blayney, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Jus• tice Williams, Miss Blake, Marquis and Marchioness of West minster, Earl and Countess Charleville, Countess Dunmore, Lord Glenelg. Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R. A., had the honour of taking yester day the final sitting for a sketch of his Excellency Count Mens doll, by command of her Majesty. 'I he Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester, Gen. Count Alensdorf and his sons, visited the Duchess of Kent yesferday. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Aleiningen and the Heretli tury Prince, the Duchess. Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Prince and Princess of Saxe Weimar, visited and inspected the Thames Tunnel yesterday. ' The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, dined with the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, at the Thatel:edehouse, last evening. The Privy Council held at the Home-office at twelve o'clock yesterday was attended by the Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aber deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Lord' Fitz gerald, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir Henry Hardinge, and other Ministers and Members of the Aditiniatration, and by the Earls Delawarr and Jersey, and other Officers of State and of the Royal Household. The Attorney. General was in attendance. The meeting broke up soon after four o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Dar b y and Colonel Dundas had interv iews with Lord Stanley y es terday at the Colonial-o ffi ce. The Portuguese 'Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-otlice. - The Overland In dia Mail, which would leave Bombay on the Ist inst., is expected to arrive in London about Monday next. CHATRAM.—Orders have been received for all the troops destined for the East Indies, to embark in four divisio• s at Gravesend during the next ten days. IYESPOURRINS CONCERT.—niIIe. D'Es rourrin, so well known as a brilliant harpist, gave a • norning concert yesterday at the Hanover -square Rooms. Madame Caradori Allan executed " .Se non son darna," and the fioriture at its elcK e, most spiritedly. H er duet wit h Signor Guiticlei of •' Per pi .cer alla sigma a," s howed off the her ai r was tart the cap r i c i ous pe t t i s h ntooils of the lover to beau tiful effect ; h and pertinacious—then sweet and imprecati..e—and, ultimately, as triumphant as if she could trartmle on her lover. The hot is and harp duet between • tin and air. Jarrett formed a fine mingling of the two instruments : the quick sharp notes fell under that lady ss fingers like a sp r i n kl e o f p ear l. Signor Cava:lini, from the .31ilan theatre of La Scala, who al o a,,companied her ihrtugh this duet, exhibited afterward t the c;arione , , by himself, in a series of melodies, which were sometimes copious, as if they had bubbled from a honey-fount. Mr. John Parry's musical extravaganzas pleased exceedingly, and were encored. Mr. Benedict • presided at the pianoforte, Nihich was one of Zeitter's new patent .grand. The concert room was full, and this fashionable entertainment :asted from two o'clock till five. Count and Countess Baptiste Metaxa entertained a di,i inguklied party at dinner on the 31st, and the Countess had a si cc musicale in Bryanslone-squen. sir J. T. Tyrrell we find, has ac ce pt e d th e office , of President of the Chelmsford and Essex Agricultural So ciety for the ensuing year. — Esser Herald. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. --- Notwithstanding the want of freshness and novelty on the subject, the remarks on the " Life and Songs of Anacreon" will be read with interest, for the writer's heart is with his theme, and he insensibly carries his readers along with him. What we chiefly admire in his essay, is its light, conversational charac ter ; there is no formal pedantry about it ; no at tempt to show off classical information; the observa tions are such as easily and naturally rise out of the subject. As respects the translations, they are ju dicious and tolerably faithful, more Anacreontic than Moore's, but not so much as Cowley's. But it is dif ficult—we might almost say impossible—for any English version to give an adequate idea of the origi nal Greek. How tamely shows the ".Medea" o!' Euripides in the languid, prosy, paraphrastic transla tion of Potter ! And who can venture to say that he knows aught of Homer, after perusing the " Iliad" by Pope ? The cursory remarks on water-drinking are amusing, but, seriously considered, do not apply to poets, not a few), whom have been awful water drinkers—Southey,: ) • instance, and Wordsworth, and Cowper, and mazy others that we could men tion. " Richard Savage "is fuller of stirring incident this month than usual. The details of the death of Sinclair are given with terseness and vigour. " A Chapter on Beards" i s suggested by the writer's re collection of his first shave. The theme is inge niouily treated, but a little more thee"bradth of humour would not have been amiss. In the writer, who signs himself " A Man about Town," sketches the physical and mental peculiarities of a half-savage Englishman, who for nearly twenty years had been located in the American back-woods, and been adopted into one of the numerous Red Indian tribes. On his return to his native country, he be came a regular visitor at Olney's, in Henrietta street, where the writer was frequently in the habit of meeting with him, together wth divers other two legged curiosities. The "Great Eagle"--for such was the only appellation to which he would conde scend to answer—wa3, of course, a famous hand at the war-whoop, and the Indian Avar-dance, and on one occasion absolutely frightened his landlord into fits, by taking out his scalping-knife, bounding towards him vvith - a shrill whoop, and making it ap pear that he was bent on his utter annihilation. " Precautionary Measures" shows the folly of being over-cautious in one's actions, as is duly instanced in the case of an Englishman in India, who, having his imagination full of serpents, tigers, &c., was so need lessly on his guard against them, that one night, fancy ing he had been stung while sleeping in his bed by a venomous snake, he jumped up and cut out the. part affected with his razor, and discovered imme diately afterwards that it was merely a small, harm less lizard that had crawled over his naked arm. " John Bull in Tartary" is from the practised pen of Mr. Morier who, as most of our readers know, is at home in the East. The story regards the adventures of an Englishman who found his way, by some means or other, to a Tartar camp, where he was hospitably received, and requited the Khan's hospitality by walk ing off with his favourite daughter. " The French Cook" relates the well-known anecdote of Vatel, who destroyed himself, like an ancient Roman, with his sword—it should have been• with his spit—because • the turbots intended for the dinner of Louis the Four teenth had not arrived in time ! " Robins picking up the Crumbs" is a quizzical allusion, accompanied with appropriate wood-cuts, to the late sale of the Strawberry Hill knick-knacks and curiosities. Tom ingoldsby's description of " The Devil's . Dinner party" is one of his best and most fantastic lege nds. Sir 'Guy Scrope, a grim old English Baron, having invited some friends to dine with him, and being .an noyed at their Want of punctuality, exclaims, in a pet, " the devil take the dinner," whereupon the fol lowing incident occurs :-- In a terrible fume He bounced out of the room, He bounced out of the house—and page, footman, and groom Bounced after their master; for scarce had they heard Of this left-handed Grace the last finishing word, Ere the horn, at the gate of the Barbican tower, Was blown with a loud twenty-trumpeter power, And in rush'd a troop Of strange guests !—such a group As had ne'er before darkened the doors of the Scroope This looks like De SaYe--yet—it is not De Saye— And this is—no, 'tis not—Sir Reginald This has somewhat the favour of Alarmaduke Gres , But stay !— Where unearth did he yet those long mills? Why, they're claws!—then, Good Gracious'.—they've all of them tails ! That can't be De Vaux—why, his nose is a bill, Or, I would say, a beak !—and he can't keep it still ! Is that Poynings ?—Oh Gemini I —look at his feet ! ! Why, they're absolute hoofs !—is it gout or his corns That have crumpled them up so ?—by Jingo, he's horns ! Run ! run I—There 's Fitz-Walter, .Fitt -Hugh, and Fitz-John, And the Mandevilles, pere et filz, (father and son,) And Fitz-Osbert, and Ufford—they 'ye all got them on! Then their great saucer eyes — It 's the Father of lies • And his Imps—run ! run ! run ! disouise Who 7 ve,pa ' rtly assumed, with more sombre complexions, The forms of Sir Guy Le Scrooge's friends and con- —they 're all fiends in ncxions, And lie—at the top there—that grim-looking elf— Run ! run !—that ' s the " tnuckle•horned Clootie" himself ! And now what a din • Without and within ! For the court-yard is full of them.—llow they begin To mope, and to move, and make faces, and grin Cock their tails up together, Like cows in hot weather, And butt at each other, all eating and drinking, The viands and wine disappearing like .winking. And then such a lot As together had got ! Master Cabbage, the steward, who 'd made a machine To calculate with, and count noses,-1 ween The cleverest thing o: the kind ever seen, — Declared, when he'd made, By the suid Machine's aid, ur , what 's now called, the " tottle" of those he survey'd, There were just—how he prov'd it 1 cannot divine, — Nine thousand, nine hundred, and ninth', and nine, Exclusive of Mm, Who, giant in limb, And black as, the crow they denominate Jim, With a tail like a bull, and a head like a bear, Stands forth at Aie window,—and what holds he there, Which he hugs with such care, And pokes out in the air, Arid grasps as its limbs from each other he'd tear? • Oh! grief', and, de s p a i r ! It's lesLe Scroope's poor, dear, sweet, little, curly-vyig'd Heir ! 'Whom the nurse had forgot, and left there in his chair, COURT OF ALDERMEN. The Lord Mayor convened a Special Court of Alder men, at Ghildhall, - yesterday, for the purpose of •con siderinm the late attempt on her Majesty's life. At twelve o'clock his. Lordship took the Chair, but it was nearly half-past • be,fore a Court was formed. On the Court being opened, the Lord Mayor laid before them the letter which he had received last night from Sir James Graham, giving the aceowit of the attempt to shoot her Majesty, which was ordered to be entered on the journals. Alderman BROWN then rose, and after thanking the Divine Power for its providential mercy towards the Sovereign, moved that a dutiful and loyal Address be presented to her Majesty, congratulating her on the re cent escape from the hands of the assassin ; which being seconded by Mr. Alderman Lucas, was carried una nimously. It was afterwards carried unanimously, that similar Addresses be presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. A Court of Common Council was afterwards held, and a similar Address to her Majesty was unanimously agreed to. HERNE BAY PIER COMPANY. The annual meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held yesterday afternoon at the King's Head Tavern, Pou:t.rv, f.r the purpose of declaring a dividend, and also to elect five new Directors and two auditors, and to receive the Report of the Directors for the past year. JAOIES CLIFT, Esq., was proposed, and took the Chair, and in doing so, he said he need not state the objects of the meet ing, as they were all aware that that was their annual meeting. It was exceedingly gratifying to see so many Proprietors pre sent on that occasion, and it was equally gratifying to know that on that occasion they had something to communicate that was a little more acceptable to them than the communications at former meetings. 'f he Directors trusted that they would be able to lay before the meeting such a statement as would not. only be satisfactory to them, but that would show them that they had arrived at the time when they were able to get a're turn for the capital invested, a circumstance which had not hitherto occurred. He should, therefore, call on the clerk to read the Report of the Directors, and he should then be happy to hear any observations upon it.. DIRECTORS' REPORT. _ "To the General Annual Meeting of the Herne Bay Pier Com pany, held at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, on Tuesday, May 31, 1842. " The duty of the Dii ectors on the present occasion is much more pleasing to them, and will be more satisfactory to the Pro prietors, than that which has devolved on them at the previous geaeral meetings of this Company. It is highly gratify ing to them to state that by the adoption of the measures recommend d to the special rreeting on the sth of October, 1841, all the debts of the Company have been discharged, as will appear from a statement appended to the annual account of the re ceipts and payments of the last year, ending 25th March, 1842, which the Directors now lay before the meeting. " At the special meeting of Proprietors, held on the sth of October, 1841, the Directors were empowered to issue 500 new 501. Shares, at 151. each, being more than the market value at that time, for the purpose of defraying t'le debts of the Company, and of repairing the Pier. In order to carry out that resolution, a circular leter was sent to every Pro pietor, desiring each person to state how many Shares he was willing to take. The whole number of Shares has been issued, and every application from Proprietors has received the prompt attention of the Directors. With the money thus raised, the debts of the Company have been discharged, leaving a consi derable surplus at the disposal of the Directors. " To secure the restoration of the Pier, and the Company's property in general, in an efficient manner, drawings and specifications were prepared by Mr. Higgins, and tenders were invited by public advertisement. The lowest of these was ,elected, and the Directors entered into contracts with Mr. William Sherwood to the amount of 2,2111. The works are now in progress, and, although they have been much impeded. by the unusual continuance of strong Easterly winds, and the difficulties necessarily connected with drawing the stumps of the broken piles in deep water, the Directors feel satisfied that the repairs as far as they extend are most effectual, and have placed the Pier far beyond the reach of danger. It is also still believed, as mentioned in the Report to the last special meeting, that a present outlay of about 2,5001., and an annual expendi ture of 5901. for five years, with a subsequent standing expense of 2501. a-year, will put and keep the Pier in a permanently safe state of repair. " The income of the Company during the past year has amounted to 3,7761. Os. 5d., being an increase of 5951. 3s. 9d. over the returns of last year. The Directors have had fre quent occasion to allude to, the annually increasing reve nue of the Company, and it is gratifying to find that the increase still continues, as will appear from the following table of returns from the first erection of the Pier : In 1832 the receipts of the Company were £543 16 10 1833 ... 560 10 0 1831 1835 1836 ... 1837 1838 .. 1839 .•- 1840 ............. 1841 " Under these circumstances the Directors can safely recom mend the Proprietors to declare a Dividend of three per cent., of 30s. per Share, upon the whole amount of Shares issued. The Directors have in consideration the propriety of recom mending the payment of Dividends half-yearly; an arrange ment that must be advantageous to the Proprietors. " In accordance with the resolution of the last special meet ing, the. Directors have cancelled unpaid Shares. " The Directors have to report that, agreeably to the provi sions contained in the 22d section of the amended Act, they have balloted out four of their number—viz., Messrs. Brough, Coe, Halket, and Pocock ( who are eligible for re-election), and that the vacancies in the Direction must be filled up by the present meeting." The CLERK then read a statement of the accounts, from which it appeared that there was a balance in the hands of the Treasurers in favour of the Company of 2,0201.55. 3d. Mr. SPENCER moved that the Report be received, printed, and circulated amongst the Proprietors. Mr. Mcnniorr seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. CAMPBELL suggested that the minutes of the last meet ing should be read over. The CHAIRMAN said that the Act of Parliament did not re quire it. If they were to read the minutes of the last meeting, it would perhaps lead to endless discussion,without any ultimate good, because they could form no resolution upon them, nor could they alter them; therefore he thought it would not be ex p. to read the minutes. Mr. CAMPBELL said that under these circumstances be would withdraw his motion. Mr. SPENCER said there was very great credit due to the Directors fur their exertions in behalf of the Company, but he was anxious to draw their attention to one subject, and that was, to the present state of the Pier, which was exceedingly incon venient on account of the repairs now in progress. He hoped this inconvenience would be speedily removed. The CHAIRMAN said the Directors would be most happy to take the subject into their immediate consideration. They were ever anxious to receive communications or suggestions from any Hon. Proprietor. He need not say that during One past year they endeavoured most zealously to add to the public convenience. A PROPRIETOR wished to know if any of the Directors lived at Herne Bay. The CHAIRMAN said that four lived there, and he hoped they would hase them all there soon. Mr. SHIPWASH proposed a resolution to the effect that, the meeting thereby declare a dividend to the Proprietors of three per cent. payable on or after the 14th June next. This resolution having been seconded, was carried unani mously. The CHAIRMAN then said the next question that came before them, was the election of four Directors. By the Act of Parliament, four Directors were each year ballotted out of the twelve, and in accordance with that provision, the Directors had ballotted four of their number out, and it was for the meeting, therefore, either to re. elect them or appoint four other gentlemen in their stead. The persons upon whom the ballot had fallen, were Mr. Brough, Mr. Coe, Mr. Halket, and Mr. Pocock. If any Hon. Proprietor wished to propose another gentleman, he could de so ; and if more than four gentlemen were proposed, it v ould then be for the meeting to say in what way the election should take place. Mr. SPENCER wished to know if the attendance of the Directors was regular. The CHAIRMAN said thatevery one of these gentlemen were most assiduous in their attention to the interests of the Company, and had been unremitting in their attention during a most troublesome time. Mr. WILLIAMS said he thought it was essential that they should have as many resident Directors as possible, and he should therefore propose Mr. Camplin as one. The following gentlemen were then proposed, and a ballot taken, namely :—Messrs. Brough, Coe, Halket, Pocock, Campfire and Gilbert. Scrutineers were then appointed to examine the votes. During the absence of the Scrutineers, The CHAIRMAN said he expected the returns to the Pro prietors of this Company would be very large, but they required time. It was well known that they had enemies in the camp, but those enemies would drop off year after year. He had no doubt of soon seeing Herne Bay a much resorted to watering place, and he hoped to see the time arrive when the public would be able to visit it at any hour of the day. He had no doubt that the citizens of London would avail themselves of that communication, for it was well known that Herne Bay was the nearest watering place to London, and persons would soon find that it was one of the cheapest plac e s towhich they could take their families. He hoped soon. to see Herne Bay the same as Gravesend was to London, only much more respect able and to accomplish this, they only wanted more boats; to go at different times of the day, so that passengers might be brought up in the morning and taken down again in the after- noon ; and that persons having avocations in town, might be able to come up in the morning and return again at night. He saw no reason why the transit to Herne Bay should not be as quick as to Brighton. It was well known that their journey from Black wall was performed in three hours and a half. Some persons said that the railway would be brought into competition with Herne Bay, but he contended that the railway would be a benefit, because it would take parties to Dover by a circuitous route, while if they went by way of Herne Bay, they would arrive there in five or six hours from Rockwall; and instead of the fare being I/., as by the railway it would, the journey would be performed for Bs. This would be a consideration to persons who had families of five, six, or eight individuals. They would consider this as compared with the charge by the railway, where they would pay 1/., and only save one hour in the journey : therefore he said that, instead of the railway being an injury to the Herne Bay Company, it would in itself encourage the traffic to Herne Bay, because the public would always choose the cheapest route. He hoped, therefore, that they would all co-operate to benefit each other, and they would soon find a considerable addition to their re turns.—( Cheers. ) The Scrutineers having returned, 'I he CH AIRMAN declared the result to be as follows.—Mr. Cue, 382 votes; Mr. Halket, 360; Mr. Pocock, 297; Mr. Gilbert, 291 ; Mr. Brongh, 247; Mr. Camplin, 201. He therefore declared the first four elected. Mr. Jostes proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried unanimomly. The CHAIRMAN having briefly returned thanks, A PROPRIETOR proposed that the sum of 150/. be voted to the Directors for their exertions during the past year. Several Directors expressed their decided opposition to this course, and the motion, not having been seconded, fell to the ground. A vote of thanks was then carried to the Directors, arid re sponded to; a vote of thanks was also given to the Clerk and ths two Auditors. The meeting then adjourned to the last Tie slay in May, 1843. Major-General S r Niel Douglas, K.CB., the newly-appointed commander of the forces in North Britain, had a narrow escape from a serious accident while reviewing the 53d Regiment, quartered in Edinburgh Castle, on Thursday last, on Bruntsfield Links. The Gallant General's horse reared and came down, but fortunately no serious consequence ensued, and Sir Niel went on with the inspection of the corps. E Lot , EMENT.--The gossips of Boston and the neigh bourhood have had ample food administered to their appetite for news during the last week, from the c ircumstance of a mar ried man in the town having left for America, with the wife of a tradesman in humble station. The parties; who have left families (one numbering nine children, the other two), are said to have taken away nearly 2001:—Lincaht Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Ma y 31. The Court was engaged this day with cases upon the special paper. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 31. WALKER AND OTHERS C. JACKSON AND OTHERS. The defendants in this case were the proprietors of a ferry crossing the Mersey, near Liverpool ; and the plain tiffs were parties who had engaged with the defendants to have a carriage conveyed by the ferry acr..ss the river. In the box of the carriage there were a quantity of watches, which were broken during the passage. The plaintiffs brought an action for the recovery of the value of the property so destroyed, and a verdict in the sum of 250 i. was returned in their favour. The case had been tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe at the last assizes. His Lordship had re jected on the trial, as evidence on - behalf of the defendants, a board, on which a notice was fixed . , in which it was stated that he defendants would not be answerable for the safe landing of any goods which might be embarked in the ferry. A title had been obtained on a former day, calling on the plaintiffs to show cause why a new trial should not be had, on the ground that this evidence had been improperly rejected. Mr. BASSES and Mr. CROMPTON showed cause against the rule, and contended that the notice could not be received in evidence, inasmuch as the board was fixed up on the foot-pas sengers' gate and not on the carriage gate ; and it was not, therefore, a sufficient notice as regarded the plaintif f s. The COURT, after hearing Mr.KNOVVLES and Mr. MARTIN in support of the rule, decided that the notice was insufficient, and should not, therefore, have been received in evidence. The rule was accordingly discharged. BAIL COURT, May 31. APPLICATION FOR A CERTIORARI. Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to the Court fur a certiorari, to remove an indictment for a misdemeanour from the Middlesex sessions. The grounds for the application were, that by the Act of Parliament commonly called Hobhouse's Act, it was made a misdemeanour in the overseer or churchwarden not to call a meeting of the ratepayers to consider certain matters. The chu chwardena refused to call the meeting, having acted under legal advice, that the Act did not extend to the parish of Christ Church, in Middlesex. The question involved some grave points of law.—Application granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 30. IN RE GEORGE UPWARD. This insolvent, who was a builder, ar.d whose case has already appeared, came up for judgment. It appeared that he had concealed the fact of his being possessed of certain villas at Fulham. The Court adjudged him to be remanded for a period of eleven calendar months, for the fraudulent concealment of pro perty, to the injury of his creditors. IN RE WILLIAM CARPENTER. The insolvent appeared this day to be discharged. There was no opposition. In answer to questions from the Learned Chief Commissioner, he stated that he had been a bankrupt in 1827, and had passed through the Insolvent Court in 1823, and in 1837. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired as to the cir cumstances and result of the insolvent's taking the benefit of the Act in 1823. Mr. Massie, the chief clerk, said that he was then remanded for a period of eight months. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired what had brought him to the Court again; was it being concerned with newspapers, as appeared in the schedule?—The insolvent re plied in the affirmative. It was chiefly owing to his con nexion with the Southern Star newspaper, which was pub lished in Crane-court, Fleet.street. The Learned Crum , COMMISSIONER asked whether he could prove the debt of 6041., which he had put down in his schedule as due to himself for services in connexion w ith that . Journal ?—The insolvent said he had no written agreement with the Committee of Proprietors. It was a verbal engage ment; but he had only put down what was really due to him, for arrears of salary during a period of nine or ten months, and for moneys paid on account. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired whether he had kept any account ?—The insolvent said there was only a book kept by the treasurer of the newspap er , who, when he received money, debited him with it. He kept no account of his own. He had no interest in the Southern Star further than that arising from the sale of some of the copies. After the examination of a witness as to the disposal of the insolvent's property, he was declared to be entitled to the benefit of the Act in the usual form, and ordered to be discharged forthwith. MAY 31. IN RE EMANUEL LAZARUS. The insolvent in this case was a merchant and trader be tween the port of Liverpool and America, and also carrying on general business in Cutler-street, in the City. His petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr. Cooke. The LEARNED COUNSEL said he appeared on behalf of the detaining creditor. In the year 1839 the insolvent had re ceived a quantity of goods from several persons, among 4 which were hardware, from Messrs. Blight, of Sheffield, to the amount of 5001.; cloths, &c., from Air. Baillie, of Manches ter, for 1,200/. ; and other sums to a large amount, soon after which he started for America,and during his absence, the credi : - tors struck a docket of bankruptcy against him; and on his return about two years since he succeeded in passing his final examination. Two debts were contracted, one on a promissory note with a person named Myers, and a second with Mr. Mears, a looking-glass manufacturer, from whom he got a quantity of goods on condition of paying ready money, but having been left at the insolvent's house in Cutler-street, they were removed almost immediately afterwards, when Mears went to a tavern where the insolvent was, and was sent for a receipt-stamp to be paid, but upon his return with it the in solvent was gone, and was never seen again until after his re turn from America. Mr. WOOPRD E appeared in support of the insolvent's peti tion, and subjected him to a lengthened examination, in which he attempted to cast imputations upon the character of the de taining creditor. After the Learned Counsel had addressed the Court, Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said the Court was of opinion that the case, in its present state, could be proceeded no further with. It was therefore ordered that it stand further adjourned until a fresh debtor and creditor account was furnished, com mencing six months prior to, and ending in the month of March, 1839. He would, however, say that sufficient had I transpired with respect to the transaction of the insolvent with Mr. Mears, to state that it was one which there could be Ti) doubt came under the discretionary clause of the Act. I The insolvent was then removed to prison. RE VIE W COURT, May 30. EXPARTE HALIFAX IN RE RIDGE. Judgment was given in this case on the opening of the Court. His HONOUR said that the bankrupts were bankers at Chi chester, in Sussex, and the petitioners were their London azents. It appeared that on the 30th of October last, the bankrupts, then indebted to the petitioners, Messrs. Halifax, Glyn and Co., to the amount of 6,0001, applied for a further loan of 8,000/. upon certain securities, amongst which was a bond of one Padwick and a policy of assurance, as a collateral security on the bond, but the policy was not then delivered, and had since come into the hands of the assignees. The pc titioners on the bankruptcy of the Messrs. Ridge tendered a ' proof under the fiat for 10,0001., which was rejected by the Commissioners, unless they delivered up the bond and relin quished their claim to the policy of assurance ; and the assignees had since entered up judgment thereon. The bond was against only two of the partners at the bankruptcy, but the petitioners maintained their right to prove against the three for the amount of their debt, and keep the bond as a collateral security. The assignees contended that they were not entitled to the bond, because they had not given notice to the obliger of the bor.d before the act of bankruptcy. Upon the whole, the judgment of the Court was, that the petitioners were entitled to prove without delivering up the bond, and the assignees would he restrained from following up judgment, except in aid of the petitioner's claim ; but they were not entitled to the policy of assurance, as it never came into their hands. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. SUMMER ASSIZES, 1842. The days appointed for holding the Assizes for the Northern Circuit, before the Right Hon. Thomas Lord Denman, Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench at West minster, and the lion. Mr. Justice Maule, one of her Ma jesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas at Westmin ster, and Justices assigned to take the Assizes, pursuant to the statute, &c. Du RHA Nl.—Saturday, July 9, at Durham. NORTH UMBER LA ND. —ThUrSday, .luly 14, at the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. TowN OF N EWC ASTLE-UPON-TYNE. — Thursday, July 14. at the Guildhall of Newcastle-upon-TS•ne. CU MBERLAN P.—Tuesday, July 19, at Carlisle. WEsTsioRELAND.--Saturday, July 23, at Appleby. LANCASHIRE (Northern Division). —Tuesday, July 26, at Lancaster. LaricasittaE (Southern Division). —Saturday, July 30, at Liverpool. YORKSHIRE.—Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Castle of York. CITY OF YoaK.—Saturday, August 13, at the Guildhall of the City of York. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOIV-STREET. Two gentlemanly-looking young men, named Walter and Da niel Henessy, where charged by Mr. Crouch, with committing a violent and unprovoked assault upon him on Monday night. It appeared that the complainant and the defendants had been intimate acquaintances for tome y ears, and had, till the present time, always been good friends, but that whilst going home over Waterloo Bridge on Monday night, they eummenced a frolic, and the assault c omplained of ensued. The prisoners stated that they had received provocation which induced them to commit the assault with which they were charged They expressed their sorrow for their conduct and their willingness to apologise ti Air. Crouch. Mr. Ja KOINE suggested a reconciliation, but the complain and was inexorable; he said he had a position in society to maintain, and must show cause for being away !rum business. He demanded justice, too, upon public grounds. Mr. .1A RDINE said, if he must act as a Magistrate lie would do so ; the assault appeared to be of greater magnitude than the provocation would, ustify ; he should fine them each 3/. John Leman, who had been remanded at this office on the charge of stabbing his wife, was brough' up yes erday, before Mr. Jardine, for re-examination. Th re is a very wild dtpres. sion about this prisoner's eyes, otherwise be has the appearance of an honest country yeoman. Mary Leman, the wife of the prisoner, stated that she lived at 27, Castle-street, Long Acre, where she kept a chandler's shop. About half-past twelve o'clock on the night of the 9th of May, she went to bed with her husband as usual ; he had not been in bed above a quarter of an hour when he rose and went into the shop ; in about five minutes he again returned to bed, and began beating her outside the clothes with a knife. Wit ness then got out of bed to escape frown him, and he followed her into the shop ; she was opening the door to get into the street, when he stabbed her in the. right breast with a large carving knife; they then struggled, and she ultimately suc ceeded in getting the knife from him ; lie then said—" You may go now." She screamed violently, and some persons soon came to her i assistance, when the prisoner was given 11 into custody. tness had not been quarrelling with the prisoner previously, but he had. been in very low spirits tor the fast two or three days, and had talked of her going to leave him, for which there was not the least mound. The prisoner was a keep, r at the Northampton Lunatic Asylum sonic time ago. and about two years since he received an injury on the head, which affected his intellect, and in the (month of October last he received another injury on the head, since whic h time he had not been as he used to he. Witness,believed that he was not in hi s right mind when he inflicted the wound upon her, with which she now charged him. tithe prisoner, who had been fumbling about his handker i chief during the whole of this witness's evidence, was then called on for his defence. He spoke in a very subdued tone of voice,. and as mill be seen in a very inc oherent manner; he certainly had the appearance of on e of unsound mind. s that his wife had told him he should never come into her bed any more, and that was the only thing he remembered. He was ver y bad at that time, and his fits tame on at times, and unless he got physic they became very bad. He did not think he should be right any more till he got into some prop er asylum. He had no intention of doing a nything to his wife, nor did he know till he saw the blood that he had done anything ; it was the devil that got into him. He thought if he could get i n to an asy lum he sh o uld get better. Mr.JraRPIN e said he thought it was very likely he would, and he would endeavour to bring about some arrangement by which means he would be admitted to an asylum. Until he could effect that, he should remand him. The prisoner was then ordered to be remanded till next Tuesday. CLERKENWELL.- At Irishman, named Flanagan,. was charged with a violent assault. It appeared that on Monday evening the prisoner and his wife, after returning to their home in St. Giles's, quarrelled about some trifle. A man who was present took the woman's part, which so enraged the prisoner that he seized a cleaver and aimed a blow at his wife's head, whisch would doubtless have proved fatal bad she not received it on her arm : it severed the flesh to the bone. She soon fainted from less o f blood, and was conveyed to the hospital. A policemen wen t to ascertain her condition, to whom E he: expressed her deter. initiation not to prosecute, whatever the result might be. He was in consequence discharged. John Mooney, alias Spooney, was fined twenty shillings for: spitting in a policeman's face ! John Ellis, Master of the IslingtintWorkhouse, and James Herbert, lodge-keeper in the same establishment, were charged by Frederick Holmes, a pauper, with violently assaulting him. 'I he complainant, a lad about 15 years of age, stated that on Monday morning last, between 9 and 10 o'clock, he was in the oakum-room of the workhouse, when fire defendant Her bert entered and told him to go to his business (tailoring). lie refused doing so, whereupon he seized him by the collar, and with a large sti c k struck him several times. At the Magistrate's reque!t, the boy undressed. There were the marks of a stick across the ,mall of the back from side to side ; his It-ft arm was likewise blackened ; in some parts . of the hack the skin was excoriated. Mr. Hicks, oho appeared for the defendant, represented the complainant's conduct as extremely bad. GREENwoon said that could not justify such violence, and ordered Ellis to pay a fine of :Itts„ and Herbert Is. U.N.ION-11AL James Iratts, a tailor, living in North -street, Newington, was brought bef ire err. Cottenham, charged with cruelly ill treat ing his son, a young man twenty years of age, by keeping him wit houtfood or raiment. The young man, who was bent double from infirmity en gendered by the filthy condition in which he was kept by his unnatural parents, his weakness of body such that he could not walk erect, was obliged to be supported into court, and accom. misdated with a seat while giving his evidence. Hobert Brankes, the Relieving Officer of Newington, stated, that in consequence of a report in the neighbourhood where the defendant lived that he had a son whom he kept with• out the common necessaries of life, he (the Relievi4 Officer) went there on Saturday morning to make inquiries as to the truth of the rumour. On going into a roots • on the first-floor, which the prisoner arid his family oc cupied, he found one corner of it boarded off, and behind the beard or screen he witnessed a scene which could not be easily forgotten. The yourg man, above alluded to, he found crouched up in the corner, lying on the bare boards, without a stitch to cover him, and his body was covered with filth and vermin. In reply to the questions put to him on the occasion, it was evident he was desirous of shielding his fatrily from any blame as to the condition in which he was fiend, bat he admitted that he had had no denies upon him for the last two years, during which period he occupied the corner of the room where he was discovered. There were some hard crusts of bread and cold potatoes found within his reach lying on the floor. The witness, finding the prisoner was not at home, went to where he was at work, and asked him why he treated his son in such a scandalous manner, and his reply was that he was in distress and could not afford to give him clothes, and that he preferred lying on the boards to a bed. The witness added that the other children of the prisoner were decently attired, and that they had decent accommodation to sleep, un like their brother, the subject of the inquiry. As it was a case of gross inhumanity, as far as the father was concerned, the witness sent for a policeman and gave him into custody. Charlotte Jones stated that she lodged in the same house, and that she saw the defendant's son in February last, at welch time lie was lying as described, without clothes, in a corner of the room. She was given to understand at the time that he was weak of intellect; but on finding that there was such a marked distinction made by his parents between him and the other children, and that he was evidently dwindling away from want of common attention, she considered it her duty to give information of the fact to the parochial anthorities. The unfortunate young man was here interrogated by the Magistrate, and in reply to the questions put to him, he said • that lie was 20 years of age, and that he was brought up to his father's trade, that of a tailor, but that he had not worked at it for the last four or five years. That f4r the last Iwo years he was kept without clothes, and occupied the corner of the room where tie was found by the officer. He had no bed to sleep upon, as he preferred lying on the boatels, but he had a piece of carpet under him. To other questions relating to the treatment which had reduced him to his presetit"'rmaciated condition he evinced a desire to withhold any information. When asked, however, the cause of his stooping, he said that leaning forward became so habitual to him, owing to his being kept without clothes, that he now found a difficulty in keeping his body up straight. He also said that the reason he was kept without clothes was in consequence of his lather being so poor. Mr. William Bell, a surgeon, stated that he was called on to examine the young man on Saturday, and that he never be held such a miserable spectacle as he was at that time. He was perfectly naked, and his body was in a most filthy con dition from dirt and vermin, and there were sores upon it, produced by continual scratching. His body was bent for ward, and he was so weak and emaciated, that he could not move or stir without help. It was evident that he had been treated with great inhumanity, and be must in a short time have been totally deprived of the use of his limbs if such treat ment had been persevered in. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that between three and four years ago his son fell down stairs and cut his head, ever since which period he was of weak intellect, and was obliged to be treated as a child. That he (prisoner) being in very indigent circumstances, could nut afford to buy him clothes ; and that rather than suffer him to be taken from under the roof of his parents, they maniged with him as well as they could, but never kept him without food. Mr. COTTENHAm having made some strong observations on the conduct of the prisoner towards his unfortunate son, which he characterised as of the most unfeeling description, ad judged him to enter into his own recognisance in the sum of 2001 , and find two sureties of 1001., to defend the charge at the ses s ions. C H U RC II -R &TES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Passing through Dartmouth-street this morning , in the parish of Aston, came in contact with a large concourse of people. who were hooting and groaning, and crying "Down with the Church 1" 1 inquired the cause, and my attention v as directed to four policemen taking seven bundles of wire, value -14 train the warehouse of Ak. Cornforth, wire-drawer, Inr a Church-rate amounting to Ir: ‘ds. 6d. ' From Mr. Cornforth's, they went to Mr. Walter Oo4er's, and took two pair of bras 4 candlesticks at:d a large family BNe, value h!., for a rate of 13s. 1 wish to ask you, why -m Bishops recommend Bible Societies if their underlings are td` rob the poor man of that slcred volume with impunity ? Constant subscriber, s. Birmingham, May 30. HOP INTELLItNCE. MA I DSTONE.—In Mid-Kent generall theAtnles have grown surprisingly during the last weele.cif war s veers and sunny weather. In the best grounds the hinesPere at the top of the poles, and can scarcely look more tlourihing. WaTE}ttNGsUItY, EKEWO WE &t the hops are looking well and grow fast, and are become of a better colour within these few days, but there are thousands of flies in most grounds. TIOEHURST. —The hops in this and adjacent parishes are making considerable progress since the warm weather and genial showers, and until Wednesday last had but little ver tutu ; but have now a considerable number of flies, accom panied by their natural adversary, the fly-Bolding. POST-OFFICE NOTICE FOR JUNE. France daily ( Sundays excepted) per steam-packets, tie; Dover. Ostend, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, ditto. Holland and Liamburgh, Tuesdays aid Fridays, from the Thames. Rotterdam every Saturday, ditto. Swed'en and Norway every Friday, ria Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, every Satur day. via Falmouth. .. Malta, Greece, Corfu, and the lonian Islands, 15th and 31st, ditto. Egypt and India 3 I st of the month, ditto. Malta, Egypt, and India. via :Nlarseilles, on the 4th of the month. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, first Tuesday, ditto. West Inelies and Madeira, Panama, New Orleans, British Guiana, Surinam, Mexico, &c., Ist and 15th of the month, Via Falmouth. The Clyde steamer for the. mails of the Ist of June to morrow. British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, on the 3d and lStb of the month, excepting in December, January, February, and March, only the Id, ma Liverpool. The Britannia for the mail of the 3d of June. N.B. All letters to foreign parts, France and the British Colonies excepted, must he prepaid in this country. Newspapers for New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, Australia, New Zealand, and the Cape of Good Hope, must be paid Id., or they will not be forwarded to their destination. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Oxt - oun, May 30.—Messrs. F. Compton, H. G. Hulse, A. S. Lawson, and T. M. Rice, have been elected Postmasters of Merton College. The Trustees have recommended Mr. T. C. L. Wraxall, of Bath, to be elected a Scholar on Dr I)yke's foundation, in St. Mary's Hall. These Scholarships (six in number) are tenable for s.x years. Mr. R. Dangertield has been elected an Exhibitioner in St. Mary Hall, on the loundation of Dr. Nowell. There are three exhibitions on this foundation. Beyides Mr. Waste, of Trinity College, Mr. Frederick Tem ple, of llalliol College, should have been mentioned as being in the first class in both classical and mathematical lists. There have not been two double first class men in an list since Michaelmas Term, 1b . 36. 'I he Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Rev. J. F. lienwell to the Rectory of Neenton, Shropshire. lhe Lord Bt-hop of Winchester has presented the Rev. D. Morgan to the Rectory of Werke, Hampshire. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. W. Worsley to the Rectory of Braytoft, Lincolnshire. 'The Duke of Rutland has presented the Rev. J. Healey to the Vicarage of Scalford, Leicestershire. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE DERItY DAY.— Monday evening Mr. Payne, City Coroner, held an inquest at St. Bat tholornew's Hospital on the body .of Wm. Plenty, aged 62, parish clerk of St. Sepulchre's. It appeared from toe evidence taken by the Coroner, that on W'ednesday evening last, between ,even and eight o'clock, John Fawcett, a toll collector, being nearly opposite to Cross-street, Newington, at a short distance from the church, saw deceased walking in the carriage road, near the kerb stone, towards Kennington. The roa, it on the evening of the Derby-day, was -very much crowde d d, andg the witness saw a young ma•named Coulson, rate coming towards London on horseback, and g n, a lloping at thebetween twelve and thirteen miles an hour. (/Alison had hold of the reins, but was leaning forwards on the horse in a sprawling manner. Witness saw that deceased was in dair4er, and railed to him, but he did not heat, and the horse's chest r an a ho . . t :t .!i t s r t m l t uj u n ;io a n nd de tk!: ' la'scekfte'sd .and the animal's hind hess stopped the h orse , and gave Coulson into the ct stoe y of the police. Coul- set: was the worse for liquor at the tiims, and the horse ap eared very to uch fatigued. A t the Police Court Coulson denial Oita he was in liquor., and stated that. he tried all he eould to curb the horse, but the animal' got the better of him as he seas c oming front Ev.som Mr. H. M. Blakey, house,orgeoo, said tee ea•cd . w admitted on the morning of the 26th, sulfeling front concuss on of the brain, fracture of the right collar bone, and of several of the ribs on the right tide. He received proper treatment, and died on Friday of la ceration of the brain and of the lunge, caused by the•fractured ribs. •Verdiet---‘. Accidental death," Captain George hope Johtu4one: enungest :011 the late Vi ce _ Lark ,sf Admiral Sir William HopeJo'hnstone, G. C. 8., died at his cotta ge , near th e L a ke of C ons tance, on the 21st ihstant, in his 40th vear . Captain Johnstone was cousin to t he Hopetoun, and brother to Mr. hope Johnstone, M.P.. and obt a i ne d hi s post rank as Captain - in the Na v y on the Sth of July, The Gallant Officer has left a widow and infant amily. • • It is rumoured that Government Will reduce their .• proposed export duty on coals from 4F.: iY ,.