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Queenhem s and Prince Albert walked yesterday iy e g in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. ,c,s King of Saxony, a tt en d e d by his Excellency kb e rsdorff, L or d C har l es W e ll es l ey , M. d e Minck lc:c't ant Albert Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, and Itsi ty r ae, left Buckingham Palace, at ten o'clock yes (. %re t t h °lll „ng, for th e M o d e l P r ison at Pentonville, Noth l ung was received by the Duke of Richmond kaa „,, e mmissioners, attended by the Governor of the 1'1,;7 1 ° conducted his Majesty through the building. 1),, 410 g next paid a visit of inspection to the Gene 111°r " st- etfiee, and afterwards honoured • the Lord t i leits with his company at the Mansion-house. His 7th e t,,aa received by the Lord Mayor, accompanied .n!riiis of London and Middlesex. h tliai n t ins arrival, the King proceeded to the Central 4a oe . '"' Court, where he was received by Mr. Sheriff 1 014 8 0 1t 1 r. Sheriff Musgrove. The King was ushered Ili s y d , Court, where a criminal trial was proceeding. ktil th ' e ßsty took his seat on the bench, and remain-d td a t rial had conc l u d e d, a p er i o d exceeding an hour h lf a t ii• • k l ag then returned to the Mansion-house, accom litted, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. A dejeune was h 44 ;. 0 the King b e --ng and a select party, his Majesty being ),Ifter the the Lady Mayoress and Mrs. Moon. : I Yot„`",, e dejeune his Majesty, attended by the Lord rath c ,'•! l u the Civic Authorities, went on foot to wit • ` le alloiration of the statue of the Duke of Wel k 1, tau; oration For 'c took place in Ins presence, the Lord Ilio.piducting the King to the front of the statue. Th e i te s s t t r y lo a n l i so inspected the Royal Exchange. party then returned to the Mansion 'rraio.esd, after remainingg some time, the King entered Nal aecompanied by the Lord Mayor. and at ka, Ttlie Sheriffs in their slate carriage,, and drove N 'edh ern Ple, where his Majesty and suite were re - N eoti ) . : Sir I?rederick Thesiger, the Solicitor - General , i tetin 'ected th e Ki ng over t h e T e mple church. After 4, :if „F the sacred edifice, his Majesty visited the t .:ae Middl e an d I nner Temples. !taiff,ta.iesty then t oo k leave of the Lord Mayor and k at a nd drove to the Gallery of the Satiety of Painters olours, in Pall-mall East, where his Majesty t he 4 4e and vie Wed the exhibition. la• i i. K ing then proceeded to the British Institution ma te taall, and after inspecting this collection of 8 h urried to Buckingham-palace. • liti,3,ll°Yal Flightless Prince Albert rode oat on horse- T h ‘estera a Y, attended by Sir Edward Bowater. Ite rd "eYal Family were taking their usual airings in the royal gardens. ° Yal Highne,s Prince Albert, attended by Lord q d e Lennox,L or d i n W a iting, and 'Major-General Ly e ~ard Bowater, Equerry in 'Waiting: went yester hb;:ehig to ho nour th e Duke of Wellington with his ea, e '"'Y at dinner at the Waterloo Banquet, at Apsley ttaa;s r day evening at a quarter past nine o'clock, the " and the King ' of Saxo - ny left :Buckingham Palace Sa le h, lir the . Italian Opera with their presence, In at ;ltalelet. ea their Majesties were the Marchioness of h 4 4 . 1 0 i l'ady Caroline Cocks, the Earl of Warwick, the a t , „ 11 doling M. de'Minckwitz, Count A. Vitzthum, n t4 l ati li tl t,.. " l.xaap ite riies ich ‘l a re r i d i t e , si D ey r.. Carus, Colonel Arbutnot, a : 1 of Warwick and Captain Meynell have 'suc h) Viscount Sydney and Admiral Sir Robert Ot- N t he Lord an d Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. ite; anneal inspection of her Majesty's body guard o f „,.'e•ey eei s rll t ,,e 9 of her Guard took place at SL-james's Pa when the whole of the corps was in , 11 1 - I :lCaptain, the 54--jeutena,nt, the Clerk of the Cheque, and the A u , ealth of Towns Commission had. a meeting ye . s-, '414" at Gwydyi 'Hose, Whitehall. The Commis- ZltlPresent were the u Duke of Bucclench, the Earl p o te - : e le, Mr: Robert .Aglionby Slaney, Sir Henry S e , - " s d,,,e la Beebe, Dr. D. Boswell Reid, Mr. William ' 4 44 u.enison, Mr. James Ranald Martin, and Mr. , unith, of Deanston. bop hie s Mr. Scovall, Mr. Parker. and's' deputa-• • ° V vhardn gers , accompanied ,by Mr. j. Trotte r, r • R. Antrobus, M.P., Mr, H. Kemble, Mr, ;Alderman b Humphery, M.P., had an intervie w with 'eLis'" t Ron. W: E. Gladstone and the Earl of Dal bi the offi ce o f the Board of Trade.>Ey , r a Ghii Franklin had an interview with Lord Stan seaterda- Y at the Colonial-office. l ' fr k` .. ‘ e ttes were sent off' yesterday from the Colonial -14,,Q10r Sir Charlei Metcalfe, Governor of Canad a, a n d r it t• °4rnorsof the Other North Amerioan C artwright and Mr. Uniacke had interviews with tie)? yesterday. assian Minister transacted business yesterday Th - 'Feign-office. Jett e ; edicial Committee of- the Privy '-Council sat Re Itilt C Y• The Lords present were the Lord President , ( 70 h : e e,:Chancellor Wi ram, the Chancellor of the 'aka . " et ornwall, and g the Judge of the Admiralty 4 N Y Peal from' Madras Moottoo Vyaya Raralia `44arsei. Rally Angst . Moottoo," was resumed. Mr Q.C., Mr.. Wigram, QC., and Mr. •Jacks_ce, I .yq for the appellant; and Mr. Burge, Q.C., Mr. kr: /a till d Mr. E. F. Moore, for the respondent : t"' “ ind . er s i tay , caeen's Counsel, was heard in reply. i N tetit s_sein g op , on the part of their Lordships, ,gave I, ll di reversing the decree of the Sudder Ada . w . leet, `an 34116 4% , th e respOndent's plaint without prejudice I t4 llt Y kit Which the respondent may be advised to in- Vir h wi thin three years. '%p•Dntrge ra - id a C,"."'Xat nsel,es v. was heard (exparte) on fro ' T e rita ll d 'lois." Ttj,KING OF SAXONY'S VISIT ,qta r ` I I„E CITY, AND THE OPENING OF THE .• ~vF LONDON STATUE OF HIS GRACE r lliif u -IiKE OF WELLING roN. tk" . „. - " e rd Mayor having invited the King of Saxony ast,`":•ottsion of his Alajesty's contemplated viaLt• to , o ,7ie buildins of the City, .and his .Majesty having Zetsfr yesterday, and, at the same time, expressed peb " that ceremony should be dispensed - with as ~Itee „ -4 Y ossible, th e necessary preparations were ma de sett e ef: l 4lsee with that request. The' Lord Mayor re bwho arrived a little after,one at : 1 gate of th e Mansion-house, in the neighbour - r °, which immense crowds were assembled , partly Zs egated in conseenc of the report of his Majes- riv h ee-trance into the City ,and partly on accountaf the Fr of the noble statue of the Duke of Wellington; °at of the Royal . Exchange. • i‘ 4l l3i," Aa ieSty having viewed the principal . rooms . in thel lYtai a,4 4l h h ouse, and expressed his admirationofthe k•iffytte all, the lobby, and the far-famed convivial by outs on the same floor, proceeded, accompanied Si as rd Alayor, to the Old Bailey, where he sat for. apf _ tt 'erable time most attentively listening to the. trial Orly at r isoner for housebreaking, and seemed particu , r eek with the mode of cross-examinationdidopt ed I piir t ' Learned Gentlemen of the Central iminal 07Y Ills Majesty, was heard to observe to the -Lord Lla() pt t i' L tliat he had often read of the proceedings of the i ll . u e et all he had read could not adequately repp 4klki,n4Practical effect. The length of time the Kin a‘ t hs 4 in the Court, which was until the conclusionl • I th 4 age which wa s tried by the Learned , Recorder tt sa us ' unl sill and diligence, prevented his Majesty bFtile Ptli ng moveinterior, e a very hasty visit to t he . *4 4 ° l , but he expressed. great interest in all that essed there. f tl4 ka . Ma jesty then returned with the Lord Mayor t A aec es ion-house, where a most splendid dejeune . a _ Stl t ie was preared in the Long Parlour : in B i rc h ' e ' li niPtuous style,. consisting of the richest . 1.1, , a 7ta x lt h rlc l wines of the highest order. As his Majesty Iltie .vrea Sed a wish that his visit should be treated i l ialit ea er i eroonious and priiate Manner, the Lord Mayo , "eta invitations to. about thirty ladies and geui 1 ,8;* t i l l s ti3 e Rine was at breakfast at the M.ansion-ltousel -11-1 Araste - rman, M.P. for the City of London, and qt. Teter (fLy t ,,,Laurie, waited upon his Majesty and the Lord i, P aa ; h as a deputation from the Royal Exchange and tr .. k- (at h „, -1 Trust u Cominittee, to notify that they wer i t °Pen the statue of the Duke of Wellington, an Zat• , e ,'„that his Lordship would signify to his royal ,"' L Y a4,`"at they hoped his Majesty would honour Apt 'as etessing the ceremony. The King, upon hearing t hnXio u ti ", of Wellington's name, expressed the most desire to be present upon an occasion of doing mays to so illustrious a man, and proposed to the Lord ,L a dy Mayoress, and the ladies an d g entle , which, the tab!,.. to proceed i m mediately to the spot on l'ab the statue of the Duke was to be unfolded to the I ze * , t. t h ; • ‘ 3 lnosnent the spacioug streets of the immediate i t 6 nrhood were not only den;?'ly crowded, but the . " i ll ` °l33 of the houses in the adjoining` Darts of . Ccrn Itteelatision l t the Voultry, king Willtam hl4l.:, :_i?nse-st t ree , I:_tances :. s street, were occupied by shoti".l ,l k t h M m a The king walked arm in arm with the: Y.er, throu g h masses of .people from: the gates of I, ll 4 tio t Plon-house thr,aigh the entrance to the spac e . "Etr rt e for the chairman and committee,' anti was most • Il e Y recei ve d, A; rr cs i l i ' t necessary to introduce some' account of the i tia e rn,„ it ; ,. l ga of the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trust niop t , a , on the occasion of opening th e statue of the At Wellington. "as t c ! , ) e . o'clo c k t he Royal Exchange 'and Gresham For. ths° 4 unittee, several of t h e Aldermen, the trustees 0 1 , - _,Qtatu e of the Duke of Wellington, thOexecutors ‘ o 4 , i t e Sir " Francis: Chantrey,, who commenced and t 4 ,. 11(1 ao t tr ; the most important parts of the statue. , ' lll4l o' gentlemen of high commercial eminence, as:, • 4a4ia- at the Guildhall, with the object of going in pro Oto r, :Perform the ceremony. They sat down to a - ‘ rts r %Kant dejune' a la -,fourchette, provided by "),t,_aP , Queen," and " the Prince," amidst great tas ti a, addressed by Mr Richard Larabert tL a. lit try a n airman, in a speech euloistioor the extra , b te t d ay. Lu.,... e in whose honour . they were all assembled te\Yv,*to t h e l called the attention of the company not transcendent national services . of the Duke 14 GI. n gt°Tl, butao the.remarkable exertions made by Dll.4c6.ve_tn.serveilte City of London, by his advocacy' wit at Aida could not have been aecomplished Isa • 18 vigorous . ; reit:Auk, and powerful aid.—(l. oud t sto o d --forgottea___that' the t,O/iition for te . proVnee the splendid approaches VO . - ' - ` m , 'after having carried the bridge itself ' , as 4 sition to the strenuous labours of Members of 4, noose , who iu vain to degrade it as a t clikt c4er.s.) • „ Cod e ,th - t st. `'v with the greatest enthusiasm, as 41 4 . tt enit g")!`,The-- Lord Mayor," " The Gresham 4t I ' ltel4 ! , 'fticir • R., L. Jones " The Executors of Th* ' • ' a nu. Chas 'Yy" " Mr. Simpson. ~.zro v rixiori and Committee- and the,other gentle %.„ lt . k . M l ____ - the . numeroue company . was . formed, then , " oe - Gifildhall in the following order:— slaa' k i k s3 l , ..a k t s tu i d liki„Chairman of the Royal Exchange maw ,„ Committee. J o h n e Jai the Mercers' company. - titutif:Mtnand Sier t . Laurie, Trustees for the Statue. Executors of Sir F. Chantrey. Aldermen. Court of Mercers' Company. Mr. Tite, the Architect of the Royal . E.tchange. Members - of the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trustees Committee. City Officers. The*Duke - of Wellington's hand struck up the National Anthem as the King of Saxony and the Lord Mayor en tered the space before the statue, and the Committee received his Majesty with acclamations. The King ap peared to be overwhelmed with astonishment at the scene which presented itself, and declared that he never beheld such an extraordinary multitude. The Com mittee having walked twice round the statue, the cover ing of which was removed instantaneously amidst cheers from all around, • Mr. R. L. JONES said he thought it necessary, as it naturally might be eXpected, that he should state to his . Majesty, on behalf of the Trustees and Committee, why they were assembled on that day on that spot. They met to pay a grateful tribute to one of the greatest men ever produced by this or any other country. It was needless for him to say that he meant the Duke of Wel lington.—(lmmense cheering,) It would ill hecome him to say one word about the transcendent merits of that great men, because those merits were known and ac knowledged by ithe whole civilised world. The citizens of -- London felt it peCtiliarly incumbent upon them to erect statue to that illus trious person by subScription; and with the aid of the Government, whnhad supplied the, metal from the guns which Wellington himself had taken from the enemy, they had succeeded: in this. proving their grati tade.-*(Great cheering.) This monument of a living warrior had ben framed by the laatids,of a great Artist, now no more, and it was a gratifying fact that it was the first equestrian brenz.• statue which• had ever been raised d i uring the-life of the perion represented. Never had either-king or subject theopportunity of seeing himself so represented before.-H(Chears.) Iniependently of the -Vast military renown of, the Mike, of Wellington, the claim of his Grape upon the protection of"the citizens of London _for adVancing its ieterests by promoting the improvements and embellishments which the visitors to this great City loeked upon withwonder. was such that they were determined to give effect to .that feeling in a Way Which - posterity would. be well able to , appreciate, and would_leave an Example worthy of imitation.-- (Cheers.) The !King pulled' 'Off his hat, and joined as heartily as any one in the immense multitude. His Nlajesty, after having taken a view of the interor of. the Royal Exchange, over which his . Majesty Was Shown by the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Tite , the architect, returned with his LOrdship, loudly cheered all the way to thellansion-house, where he sat.down and finished his. repast.' His Majesty afterwarda-accompanied the Lord Mayor, to the Temple, and visited the ancient Church, the ail, and Library, and at six o'clock the King took his cave of the Lord Mayor,' having - expressed the greatest delight at all he had witnessed' in the ancient and ho nourable City of London, • ' . By the direction .of the CommissiOner of the City Police, such arrangements were: made. as prevented the slightest confusion. The police, by the acknowledgment of all, conducted tbeinielves with' remarkable skill and judgment, and the vast population in the streets appeared tnbe highly gratified at the very interesting exhibition Of the day. T 1- ' r ill I%i, it N itCl 4 4, Dlsrg - g fi WfORNX_N Ci s _JUNE 191 THE BATTLE 'OF - WATERLOO. Yesterday_ (Tuesday, the 18th) was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the noblest military exploit in which England was ever engaged, affecting as it did the interests of the'whole of Europe. • Twenty-nine years have elapsed since the tidings of that glorious victory were , proclaimed, yet the master-mind that directed the movement still flourishes. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that, notwithstanding the large portion of the cavalry and infantry present on the field 'of Waterloo during the engagement, there are now connected ,with our regiments comparatively few Waterloo'officers. The regiments composing the cavalry on - the occasion, together with the officers present at the battle, and now connected 'with them, are as follow:--The Ist Life Guards now con-I mam:led by Viscount Combermere, at present numbers but two Waterloo officers, viz., Adjutant Anderton and Quarter- Master Falconer. The 2 d Regiment of Life. Gua rds, which also figured at Waterloo, and during the Peninsular war, does not now contain amongst its ranks a single Waterloo officer. The 'Royal Horse Guards (Blues) are now commanded by the Marquis of Anglesey, who was present, as also 'were the MOjor of the regiment, E. W. Bouverie, Esq., Captain G. Smith, and J. Siddall, Esq., the veterinary surgeon. The other cavalry regiments were the Ist Dragoon Guards, the Ist (Royal) Dragoons, the 2d (Royal North Briton), Dra goons, the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, the 7th (Queen's Own) .Hussars;, the 10th (the Prince of Wales) Hussars, the 11th or Prince Albert's Own Hussars, of which the Colonel, the Earl of Cathcart and Major Joseph R. Rotton, were pre , sent ; the 12th or Prince Of. . Wales' Lancers, the 13th Light Dragoons, the 15th Hussars, the 16th Lancers, and the Royal Regiment of Artilleiy. The infantry was composed of the Grenadier Guards, now commanded by his Grace the. Duke of Wellington, the Cold stream Guards, now commanded by hii Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; the i Scots Fusilier Guards, now corn minded by his Royal. Highness Prince Albert; the I st (Royal) Foot, now'commanded by Sir George Murray; the 4th' (Rings Own) ; the' 14th (Buckinghamshire) ; the 23d 1 Royal Welsh Fusileers) ; the 27th (Inniskilling); the 28th North Gloucester); the 30th (Cambridgeshire); the .32(1 Cornwall) ; ' the , 33d (the York. West Riding); the ,40th second Somersetshire); the 42d (Royal Highlanders); the 44th (East Essex); the 53d (second York West Riding); the 52d (Oxfordshire); the. 690.*(Setith Lincoln); th e 71 st Highlandere; the 73d and .79th Canieron Highlander's ; the 92d 'Highlanders, and the Rifle Brigade. • 'The only officers (now in the service) of, the Ist Dragoon Guards who was present at Waterloo is, the' Adjutant, Richard Hollis, Esq.. who was appointed JulyB, 1836. The officers 'present of the Ist • Royal Dragoons, and now con nected with the corps, . are Colonel Sir Arthur B. Clifton, Lieutenant-Colonel T. Martin, and Quartermaster Partridge. Although the Inniskilling Dragoons bore a prominent part in the battle, there is not a single officer now in the regi ment who was present. Such is the case also with the 7th Hussars. Surgeon Wintetscale "and Quartermaster Nelson are theonly gentlemen belonging - to. the 2d, or Royal 'North Britidh'Dragoons, present. • The Waterloo officers of the 10th HuSsars are Lieut.-Col. Vandeleur, Major J. C. Wallington, and Surgeon Dennis Murray ; of the 11th Hussars, as before stated, Col. the Earl of Cathcart and Major P. Rotton ; of the 12th Lancers, Lieut.-Col. Stowell 'and Major A. Barton ; of the 13th Light Dragoons 'Lieut.-Col. R. Brunton. With the 15th Hussars no Waterloo officer is now 'connected. In the 16th Lancers there are. Sir . J. G. ,Vandeleur and Lieut. Webster.' With regard'to the infantry, there are connected with the 1 Grenadier Guards the following 'Waterloo officers,-viz., Col. the Duke of Wellington, Majors Laseelles and Clive, Capt. ' Boldero, and Quartermaster J. Payne. In the Coldstream (;Bards there are Lieut.-Col. Walton, Major Bentinek, and Surgeon W. Hunter. In the Scots Fusilier Galardi; of which bis Royal Highness Priece Albert is the Colonel, Majors W. Drummond and Berkeley Drintipaend, •Capt. 11. Montague, Quartermasters J. Ashton and G. Copeland, and Surgeon D. Good. With' the remainder of the regiments there are Waterloo officers connected as follows :-Ist (Royal), Capt. R. Blaclin ; 4th (King's Own), - Major R. R. Macdonald; the 14th,: Capt. Manby Wood and Quartermaster S. GrOddard; the 23d (Royal Welsh, Fasiliers), Major R. P. Holmes, Capt. J. ,Enoch, Lieut.'. G: D unne (Paymaster), and Quartermaster G. Moore; the 27th (Inniskilling),,capt. F.C. Smith and Siirgeon T. Moyston'•' the 28th, Quartermaster W. Kerr ; 30th.(CaM bridgeshire), none; 32d (Cornwall), Capt. G. Browne, Lieut. G. Moore (Paymaster); and Quartermaster I'. Healy; the 33d, none; the 40th, Col. Sir Alexander Woodford and Major George Hibbert ; the 42d Royal Highlanders, Quarterniaster -Edward Paton; the 44th, none; the 5 1 st, Cot Sir Benjamin D'Urban,Lieut..,Col. W., Elliott, Major Mainwaring, Capt. Austin, and J. Gibbs (Paymaster); the 52d, none; the 69th, . Lieut.-Col. Eaton Moonins; the 71st, Col. Sir Thomas Rey nell, Capt. A. R. L'Estrange ; the 73d, Col. Lord W. G. Harris. and Lieut.-Col. J. F. love ; the 79th (Cameron High landers), Col. Sir James Macdonnelt Thomas Blewitt--(Pay .master),•snd Quartermaster A. Cruickshank; the 92d High - lenders, none; Rifle Brigade,. Colonel4n-Chief the Duke of Wellington and Col. Sir A. F. Barnard.. It may be added that some regiments have been' isbonded since the commencement of the peace, and that, at .present, the 99th regiment is the highest in the service as regards number. The following o ffi cers were at Waterloo, but are now con nected with other regiments which were not at the battle:— Lieut.-Col. Chatterton, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards; .Lieut.-001.1. Jackion, 6th Dragoon Guards (Catabineers); Capt. Bambrich, 7th (Prince Royal's) - Dragoon Guards ; Lietit.-Coi. Sir J. Tliaekwell, 3d Light Dragoon Guards ; Col. Sleigh, 9th Lancers; Col. Sir G. Kerrison, 14th Light Dragoons ; Lieut.-Col. Hal'elock, same regiment ; Quartermas ter Broadribb, same regim ent,; Col, SirJas. Kempt, 2d . (Queen's Royal); Lieut. B. Muller, 6th. (the Royal) Warwickshire ; Col, Sir J. Lambert, 10th (South •Lineoln) ; Lieut.-Col. John Luard, ditto""; Major It H. Bloomfield, llth North Devon ; Col. Sir P. Maitland, 17th (Leicestershire) ; Capt. D. Cooper, ditto ; Right Hon. - Sir F. Adam , 21st (Royal North British Busi•; , Hers); Major J. Stoyte, .24th (Warwickshire); Col. Lord Seaton, 26th (Ciineronlans) ; Col. ' Lord Strafford, 29th (Worcestershire); Lieut.-Col. James Simpson, ditto I Col, Sir John Halkell, 31 st (Hun tin g donshire) ; Lieut.-Col. J. Furlong, 43d (Monmouthshire) ; Major W.: Bruce, 48th (Northampton); Col, Fitzroy Somerset, 53d (Shropshire); Lieut-Colt ..Mild . .Fane, .54th (West Norfolk) ; Major T. Clarke,' ditto • -Copt Ch ar les Hill, ditto; .Quartermaster J: [Willox, ditto ; Col. Right Hon. Sir Henry Holding°, 57th West Middlesex) ; Lieut.-Col. A. H. Trevor, 59th (2d Not. ' angrhatti) s .Major Hovendon, ditto ; Col. Sir Jeremiah Dixon, ,;-, ' ( g-,,th Gloucester ) ; •Lieut-Col.. Thomas" Reed;' 62d v..- , ...-• . e.'• , , • West Suffolk Neville, ditto' . 'Capt.' A. G. Sedley, ditto; Capt. (~Wilts);, Lieut..-Poi. Joseph. Logan, eau t . mutolk); Major Percy Colin Campbell, 72d 51‘..)Teil, 78eh, (Highlanciersh; 0:4 , Sir 1 George .derkel), 81st G(oulteP-OasfellAalthiTyth'AfulrfrabeYl2:cleer°s)l.• Col -00 . 1. Roderick , (Loyal:-Lincoln);- Major . Di. Lamont, 91st Argyllshire); Paymaster F. Fennam, 95th (Aerbvshire); uartermaster A. Macdonald, 99th, (Lanarkshire) s - Major Ro ert Hugh e s , lst West India Regiment ; Capt. John Griffiths, ditto 1 ,Lieut. Parkinson, 2d,Weit India Regiment; Lieut. Maxwell, ditto ; Capt. Thomas Lille, Ceylon. Rifle Regiment ; . Lieut:- ;Col. H. - Sornersat; Cape- Mounted :Riflemen ;' Lieut. James ' Black, Itcrial Canadian Rifle Catriercin, :ditto s Lieut.-Col. R. Law, Royal Newfoundland , CoMpanies • Re!gintent ,i 119.m:tater Angus ROYAL : REopmttfr oP - Orit,LEny.--Deputy - Adj utant- General Sir Hugh Dalrymple Ross ; Colonels Hutchinson, an d Whinyates s. ,Lseuf,,coloness Mercer," Brown, Dynelev, E. Y. Walcott KRudgerd, C, C, Dansey, A. Macdonald; W. Brereton, Bell, and Lewis ; 'Captains - Harding,'" Sandilands, stra,ngways, Andersoa, T: O. Cator, W. G. Ingleby, T. Bloom field, T. A. Wilson, Rfehatd Goodwin, 13-Cuppage, R. B. Burnaby, W. 11, Hennis,and Wightort...,.,, C OR PS or ROYAL ENOLNEERS.—CoI. U. C. Hoste,' Lieut.- Col. John Olddeld, Capt. M. A. Wkiters. The Waterloo men amongst the Field-Marshals-and Gene ral Field Officers nuinbei its• follow, viz. t—lielil-Marshal, One, the Duke of Wellington; Generals, 6i Lieutenanti.Ge ral, lg.; Major-Generals, 27 ; Colonels, 90 ,• and a. propor =tionatenumber of Lieutenant -Colonels and Majors. The-Field-Maraluds of the British service are—the Duke of Wellington, his Majesty the Xing of Hanover, his Royal ,Highness the Duke of Cambridge, biS Itlikjeaqf the .ping of ' the Belgians, his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Of .thig . - , number the Duke o f Wellington a l o n e h as passed through all the gradations of rank. The others are merely honorary. t nadier Guards, Loa If/ 4 ,V4 p! the Cinque is noyr Commaerm-Chief Colonel-in; The Noble Dahl' Chief of the Rifle . Brigade, Colt Mel of I he Gre ' • - Constable of the Tower,. and i Ports. Long may lie live to enjoy. these onniirs,Polt, last the troops at Devon port Of FutE.—,On Tuesday night port w ag wiled out by an alarm of fire which had broken out in the lifount-WloPP:rqteks: It ap- Oared that one of the young officers of the 44fii liggimgllt na4.Koßa_to bed with a - cigar in his mouthovading. aia failing '& 818 0, - iiet fire to fiis bed, which together with hii clothes, &c., was destroio4l gig firei-bb wevery was got under Without doiug au Autlar dalugge ,- rPMP i r TelegraPh. COURT OF SEWERS. • - A Special Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster and part of the County of Middlesex was held at the Sewer's-office, in Greek-street, Soho, for the purpose of considering the following reply of Mr. G. Bird, ; contractor, relative to the failure of portions of. the , main line of the Ranelagh sewer in Gloucester-road, Paddington, and to take such steps as may be. necessary with respect thereto. " REPLY.—That having executed my contract for the Ranelagh sewer, in accordanC9 with the piens and di rections of your officers, I submit tital't i am not liable to reinstate the existing defects." The chair was taken at twelve o'clock, by 'r. L. Do naldson, Esq.; who, having stated the object for which the Court had met, Mr. GARRARD, who appeared as the solicitor, for Mr. Bird, requested permission to make a few observations on the new matter contained in the report of Mr. Phillips, the clerk of the works. The report, which was to the following effect, was then read:— • " The statements that I have made to the Court re specting the cause of the failure of the Ranelagh sewer built along Gloucester-road, Paddington, having been impugned, I beg most respectfully to state that, after a careful and minute examination of the Rork of the said, sewer, I am still further , convinced of the accuracy of those statements, namely, that the cause .of failure is wholly in consequence of the inefficient manner in which the brickwork, in conjunction with the groundwork, has been executed. Seeing the course the question has,' taken, and believing my charaCter is at. stake in this affair, I beg to, he allowed to state, that I am prepared to prove those assertions by facts. • In excavating for this sewer, it appears that the ground was dug out somewhat wider than the sewer, including the side walls ; so that after the side or abut ment walls were built, a space of a few inches in width had to be tilled in behind the walls with ground, which, if properly and soundly rammed down, would have been of sufficient solidity,to have borne the lateral thrust of the arch, and the superincumbent weight of ground placed above • it. The abutment walls are thrust out wards from' their perpendicular position to the extent of 3i inches or more, compressing the ground filled in , behind them, which was not properly andsoundly ram med, otherwise it would be next to impossible for the abutments to have gone outwards with the pressure to which they have been exposed : moreover, from the ap pearance. of the ground taken out from behind the walls, it has not the tenacity and• solidity that ground would have that had been well and soundly rammed. . , " As regards the brickwork of the arch of the crown of the sewer, I beg toxe-assert that it has been done in a slovenly and unworkmanlike manner ; that no respect has been shown either to properly bonding the bricks together, or in regulating the courses of bricks with equal joints of mortar ;..for between some joints there is 'scarcely any mortar whatever, and between Others the thickness of, mortar, varies up to one inch or more. The number of courses of bricks in the bottom half-brie - 1i ring of the arch are 50, and in some places there are only 49, which is three and four courses less than could and ought to have been got into the bottom ring of the arch ; therefore, ther4 are nearly nine inches in thick ness of mortar in excess distributed over the arch of the sewer, where bricks ought to have .been used in stead. I would beg to call attention to the cir cumstance 'of ono course of bricks being lost in the arch as before stated, a fact in itself evidenc ing a great want of attention in the execution. The bricks appear to be of good quality. The mortar 'used was made of Dorking lime and Thames sand, and is not so strong as I should have expected from the nature of these materials—it is in a very friable state, which I should say is caused by the admixture of more water with the lime and sand than was requisite, and too long expo Sure of the lime to the air. ; and, more over, from its apßearance, the lime and sand hits not been thoroughly mixed. In the composition of mortar no more water should be used than is sufficient to' bring it to' a tough 'and proper consistency for using, other wise it has the effect of destroying the strength of the lime to a considerable degree ; and the lime should be used as-soon as possible after it has been burnt, other wise it reabsorbs the carbonic acid, which has been driven off during the process of calcination, Mortar after being used in a wall loses a considerable quantity Of its - hulk_ from evaporation and contraction, which causes the walls to shrink and settle ; in consequence of this, as little mortar as possible should be used in build ing a 'wall, more especially in an arch. In the arch of this sewer, such an unusual quantity of mortar has been used in the joints, and that so irregularly, that it is sufficient in itself to cause a considerable settlement, and also a very great distortion in its form. "-With - respect to the abutment walls, the manner in which they have been built is contrary to the contract, which says, that the brickwork shall be in every re spect of the best workmanship, no four courses to rise more than twelve inches.' There are fifteen courses of bricks in the abutment instead of sixteen, as shown and described in the original drawing of the said sewer. Those fifteen courses rise three feet ten and a half in ches, which is one and a half inch in excess over the in structions in the contract, for the like number of courses this excess is causes by the joints of mortar being too' large. " The average width of the sewer between the abut ment walls as builtperpendicularly on the invert is ten feet three inches, being three inches wider than that show') in the original drawing of the said sewer. Then the springing walls being only three feet ten and half inches high, it was necessary to elevate the centre one and half inch above the springing walls, for the purpose of keeping the requisite height from the tep of the cen tre of the invert to the under side of the arch, and in con sequence of the increased width, and the one half inch less in height of the springing walls, the arch line is lengthened on each side, making the springing point one and half inch below what it would have been had the walls been carried up to their intended height. " This one and half inch added to the versed sine of the arch in the original drawing, which is two feet ten inches, will make the versed sine of the arch as built two feet eleven and half inches. Then taking the chord line of the arch at twelve feet three inches, and the versed sine at two feet eleven inches, I find the length of the arch line is twelve feet four inches and four-tenths, which divided by fifty-three courses of bricks, gives two inches and eight-tenths for each course, including the joint of mortar ;` then for eight courses there would be one foot ten inches and four-tenths,and having measured eight of the bricks taken out of the arch after being cleanSed of the mortar, I find they measure one foot nine inches and four-tenths. - Therefore, taking this sewer as actually built with its increased width, fifty-three courses of bricks could have been got into the arch with ease, and then allowing ample joints for mortar, which would be a quarter of an inch in the centre of the half-brick ring. It is the usual practice in building brick arches for bridges, &c., to allow for each ring at its soffit one foot ten and half _inches, to the utmost, for eight courses of bricks. " I 'would" beg to observe, that there is one section, No.-28, which shows the side walls in a perpendicular position, the arch is gone upwards on one side, and is come down on the other, that is, at the haunches, which, I should say, is caused by the thick and unequal joints of Mortar being compressed, or giving way with the weight of ground placed on tee arch, as the ground could not possibly have had the effect of causing the distorted form there shown. • •. " Therefore, taking , into account the inefficient man ner in which the groundwork was executed, namely, the -neglect to properly back up the abutment walls and spandrils of the arch with ground well and soundly rammed; and also the inferior and unworkmanlike man ' ner in which the brickwork has been executed, more particularly in the arch, I am of opinion that the failure of the said sewer is entirely attributable to these causes." After the reading of the report, some considerable discussion took place as to whether Mr. Garrard, the solicitor of Mr. Bird, should be heard. Mr. LESLIE wanted to know what the new allega tions were that had been adverted to. He' thought neither Mr. Garrard or Mr. Bird had any right to com plain of the course pursued by the Court. Mr. Garrard had done all he could, in a gentlemanly way, to dotage Phillips, and the question was, who was right. Mr. Garrard had made a most able statement on the last Court day, and he did not see why the Court was to hear him again. • Mr. WM . LOUGHBY thought Mr. Bird's solicitor could vet be again heard: Mr. F. BYNG was , of the same opinion. Mr. IIAWKES thought the Court would do great in justice if they did not hear the fUrther evidence which Mr. Bird had to tender. After acme further discussion, the Court decided upon hearing the solicitor of Mr. Bird. Mr.: GARRARD 7 then addressed the Court at some length, contending that the material assertions in the report of "Phillips .were not founded in fact; that the work hid been done according 'to the setting out of the surveyhis of •the Court, and that-the WhOle course that had been . adopted by Mr. Bird was following the in structiOnS he had received from th 6 offioers'of the Court. Mr. BYNG thought, after - the statements Thai hadleen made, the Court could come to no dedision without iiorae grave inquiries. He thought the matter ought to go before a jury, for the purpose of ascertaining whether what had been stated was true. He was not prepared to Come - to a . colichisten upon the subject after what he had heard without much further . inquiry. He had no interest at all in the question, but if he had it would be in faVour - of Mr. Bird; Whom he had londknoWn; and - whom he believed to be a most excellent man. " If they were to believe what had been stated by Mr. Garrard, tlie WOrk had been.performed according to the 'contract, and the statement of the clerk of the works was without foundation. - ' . m i ., Warm considered the , question to be, whether the failure that had occurred was in consequence of the fortaation of the works, the badness of their construe- . tion,.-or other causes. He . believed that the formation of the arch of the sewer was the cause of the whole- ae .cident. If he did not firmly entertain that opinion, he should-he-inclined to think the proper course would be to go before ajury. He could not but say that he felt they were attempting to throw up on t h e co n tra c to r that odtedta to - the bad for mationken care of the t o sewer,themselves. they b ad . A n d work when it was done. He was fully convinced that which h belonged f the the ft oident had occurred from the- formation of the sewer. lie would, therefore, move that the Court ad -1 jonrn sine'die,—(A laugh.) . . - Mr. LESLIE thought that was a most proper' motiop to make, and would most readily second it. After some, further discuision, Mr: Wrirri moved; an 4 Mr: ALLANSON seconded, a motion, to the :effect that the defective formation of the sewer was the cause: 'of the failure, at that the contracter was not liable. Mr. Wimonottnr moved as an amendment, if That the proceedings in this case be placed in the hands f 043 Solicitors of the Court." `This amendment, r aft i 3 considerable ais,citssion; wits carried by !a . majority of ; there being .16 fOr : the ftiniendiaet,lt,, .410 8 agttin§ I t!_ The court then adjourned. ----- - H.tYM'A. EATRE. , THE PRIZE COMEDY. Quid pro Quo; or The Day of Dupes, the comedy to which the Prize Comedy Committee unanimously awarded the prize of 5001. proposed •by Mr. Webster, for the 'best prose comedy_ illustrative of British manners. and customs, was produced last evening, ands as might have been expeCted, the House was crowded to excess in every .part. Longlefnre the curtain drew Up there was not. -a-noolt •or •corneis of the house Unoccupied. BoTes;.pit;galleriesy.were all crammed —even 'the seats behind the 'pillars in the, second tier of boxes, whence it is all but impossible. to catch a glimpse of the stage—were oc cupied. It would have been impossible by any conceivable means to have Crammed ten more prisons into any part of the house. After a neatly written prologue, spoken by Mr. Webster, the cur tain rose, and discovered to us the exterior of a coun try inn, at which Lieut, Ilenry Grigson, R.N. (Mr. H. Holl), and Capt. Sippett (Mr. Buckstone) have just arrived per railroad—the Lieutenant to meet by appointmeiat his aunt, Mrs. Grigson (Mrs. Glover), the wife of a retired tradesman, residing in the neigh bourhood, and the Captain, who is an inveterate tuft hunter, to proceed to the seat of the Earl of Huns. don (Mr. Stuart), to superintend the getting up of some private theatricals. Lord Tiellamont (Mrs. Nisbett), an Eton boy, the eldest son of the Earl, an admirable specimen of the• aristocracy of the race-course and . the betting,room, arrives to drive the Captain in his phaeton to Hunsdon Castle, and his Lordship having learned from Sippett that lienry is the nephew of - " Hollyhock Lodge," as he terms it, _Hollyhock Lodge being the, place of the Grigsons, determines to indulge in the luxury of quizzing a snab, and i 5 on the point of drawing down upon himself the summary punishment of the said snob, when Sippett very adroitly gets him off the around, no by drawing his attention to the country and praising the horses in Ilia' ?haat Mrs. Grigson, a plain-Speken, excellent-hearted, vulgar woman, Who hates gentility and sighs for the bustle of Gracechurch-street and the shop.' .then enters' and infoems her nephew that she has desired him to Meet her there, in order to be enabled etlisetually to carry out the scheme which she had always entertained, of uniting' him to her daughter. True, it is, that they were betrothed as children, with the consent of old Grigson, but since that period Grig , on has retired from 'business, set up 'as a flue- gentleman, become the intimate associate of Lord Hunsdon, and so de termined a worshipper of rank that he will not suffer hiS daughter to wed any one save a lord. In order, therefore, ,to win. the old man's favonr, she proposes that Henry, Who has been_ at sea ever. since he was fifteen,:sheuld introduce himself as a nobleman; and as he has been for: some years messmate with Lord Algernon Fitzurse, second son of the Marquis of Plantagenet, it is determined that he shall introduce himself to old Grigson under that title. In the next scene we are introduced to the Earl nf Hunsdon (Mr. Stuart) and his agent; Mr. Cogit (Mr. Tilbury). The Earl is a high-born, high-mannered, cold, ambi tious, aristocrat—Cogit a shrewd, unscrupulous at torney, raising himself by ruining his patron. The Earl is. endeavouring to raise money on mortgage, in order, to contest the county, hoping, that if he can return the county members and the member for the borough of Oldfield, to keep up his interest, in which borough he condescends to patronise Mr. Grigson, he may be enabled to secure,to himself the garter, the great object of his ambition. The second act opens with an admirable 'scene between Mr. and Mrs.' Grigson, in which old Jeremy Grigson (Mr. Strickland) announces his intention of becoming the 'candidate for Oldfield under the auspices of the Earl of Hunsdon. The acting of Strickland and Mrs. Glover in this scene was excellent, and kept the audience in a roar; and the manner in which El len (Mrs. Edwin Yarnold) entered, and he :cere moniously kissed her forehead, adding that that was the way in which Lord Hunsdon did the paternal, was rich in the extreme. Henry enters as Lord Al gernon, and is, of course, received by Jeremy in the most fussily ceremonious manner-imaginable, to the great delight of Mrs. Grigson. The Countess .of Hunsdon (Mrs. W. Clifford), accompanied by her daughter, Lady Mary Rivers (Miss Julia Bennett), and Sippett, are announced. They have come for the purpose of asking the Grigsons over to the private theatricals at the castle, and on Ilv , nry being intro duced as Lord Algernon, Sippett is all obsequiousness. The Countess insists on his • returning with them to the castle,' recommending her daughter to pay him particular attention, " "for his elder brother is in a con sumption"—while Jeremy Grigson recommends his daughter also . to pay particular attention to Lord Algernon. Mrs. Grigson is delighted with the suc cess of her plot ; but Ellen has no heart to give to her cousin in either of his characters Her affections have long been bestowed upon Rivers (Mr. Howe), kinsman to the Earl, and nephew to Sir George Mordent (Mr. W. Farren), a rich old bachelor, who is on a visit at the castle, and whose acerbities are tolerated by the Earl and his family on account of the great expectances they have from blip. This love affair is nearly discovered through the prying pro - penalties - of Bridget Prim (capitally acted by Mrs. Humby); the servant of the Grigsons. However, old Mrs. Grigson treats all Bridget's hints with contempt, and the real state of.the young young lady's affections remains undiscovered. The scene then changes to Hunsdon Castle, where Rivers • has joined Mordent, who had imagined that Lady Mary was the object of his secret attentions, but finding that such 'is not the 'case, he introduces him as Mr. Francis, a young musician, who is desirous of superintending the orAiestral arrangements of the private theatricals. Meanwhile Sippett and Lord Bellamont begin to sus pect the truth as regards Henry, and, in order to bring matters ton crisis, they spread a report that Lord Algernon has left his ship' India, in consequence of having killed a brother officer in• a duel, and Henry is immediately placed under arrest; notwithstanding the earnest asseverations of Mrs. Grigson that he is her nephew, and Lord Hunsdon goes to town to make inquiries-at the Admiralty. A letter froth Mrs. Grigson to her nephew, while in durance, happening to fall into the hands of old Grigson, he takes it intd his head to wax jealous, while Ellen takes advantage of the' confusion to wed Rivera, a match at which Grigson is highly indignant, until he hears that Rivers is a relative of the Earl, and is the heir to Sir G. Mordent, when his sorrow is turned into joy, and he acknowledges Rivers as his son-in-law. The Earl returns from. London ; but his return is too late, for Lady Mary, acting on her mother's advice, has made herself so agreeable to Henry that they also are married, thus connecting the Grigson family with nobility by a double alliance. In the meantime the hour of election for Oldfield has passed over—and . no Mr. Grigson appearing, Mr. Cogit, who was in possession of the Earl's letter of recommendation to the respect, ble corporation of the borough, which was intended for Mr. Grigson, uses it on, his own account, and, as he expresses it, in order to preserve the Earl's influ ence, and is returned Member of Parliament 'for the borough, thus completing the day -of dupes. was followed by a lively epi logue, Thewells comedy ' by Mrs. Nisbett. The dialogue of the comedy is very well written, and 'at times brilliant and sparkling, and the actors all exerted 'themselves to the utmost. It was evident froth the first that there was a p ar ty in the house bent on condemning it if Possible, and this was naturally! to be expected. There were ninety-eight comedies! sent in, consequently there must have been at leastl ninety-seven persons, each of whom was convinced that he was an ill-used individual; and that he had produced a comedy 'infinitely superior to the priie comedy. It was, therefore, natural to expect that the, friends of the - disappointed candidates would muster strong last evening. Their disapprobation, however, was drowned in applause until the end of the comedy; when a vigorous effort was made to prevent the epi logue being heard. Webster, however, came forward and briefly, addressed the audience, after which quiet was restored, and the epilogue spoken, and atter), tively listened to and applauded. The applauders wersi in a decided majority during the evening, and having passed through:the ordeal or the first' night;there ii uo doubt but that the comedy will have a run. It hai been put on the stage in the best possible manner; and-will, with some judicious curtailment," make a good, lively, bustling acting play. Webster was quite right, under the circumstances, to produce it at first as it was originally sent in ; having done so, he may now, we think, venture to condense it—particularly towards the.close--so as:to bring about the denouement more rapidly. Great praise is due to all. the actors foz their exertions, and snore particularly is honour due to Mt. W. Farren for taking such a part as Mordent any other harids it would have been 4 part infinitely insi4nificant—in his hands it bel came One Of the principal charadters of the pieCe and nothing could be more telling than his manner of giving the bits sarcasm of with which the par abounds. However opinions may differ as Ao the merits of the comedy, there could be but one opinion of the public spirit of Mr. Webster in offering the prize of 5001. May his efforts' in the, cause of the British drama be amply rewarded. • • ' - - • •. "give tableau Ijitci)it or the _picture from-which the name of theldece ha: been "adopted. In short, each-sUcceed ! ing scene seerm:ll to add, fresh interest to- this'dratna of domestic lift, - .find- the , curtain - •fell amidst unanimous applause. Th principal performers were called before the -curtain at the end of the piece, acid duly aCktioW ledged the congratulations of the audience. • - 'LITERATURE... WESTM NSTER REVIEW. No. LXXXL Clarke I.6ndoii, 1844. ..- • I Tl - n 4 first artiele in the. Number before us .is . de voted to a consideration of the public charaeler and conduct 'of the present Home Secretary, 'from- the period when lw commenced his political career—now nearly a quarter of a. century since—as a Whig "and something down to the present day, when he sits in.a front.' seat on the Treasury benches as an official supporter of the Tory principle of legislation. The Right lien. Baronet will _assuredly not be best pleazed With . the cOrnments which the Reviewer . is pleased to make on his various changes in _politics; and still less \kith the numerous significant extracts .which he a ive frorn'theonce well-known, 'but novv almost wally forgotten pamphlet on " Corn and Currency," , ,v.hicit the . .11Oine Secretary published in the veer 182f1.. and the principles advocated in which he has • long. since seen- cause to repudiate. ,• But though the ar!ielf is certainly . severe; it . is• by •no moan - an tin . ; .one;. andif it blames his frequent political inc.:;;-.i,t e ney, it does justice to his temperate and judicious management of the navy, when he was First, Lord of the Admiralty, under the Grey Admi, ininisty4ttion.. "New Spirit of the A ge " is a notice of ..Mr.. Horne.;recently-published. work under this title. - 'The Iteviower admits him to be - a man of Went, but dales • him the 'possession of genii*. and ohServes, in rei'erence to his last quality :—" Genius, that 1 , , the p.)wer of creation, we take to be, an ema nation' of the divinity, that shapes our ends, -and can nc! more. Nvulli. for hire than God himself could in the •uroation.(:;.t.i.o world.' Surely this is not the fact. Walter Sc.at • and .Lord Byron were _both men of ge - nius; yet both'. of them _avowedly ."worked • for hire,' s,, t,,,0 s did. Moore, when teropted by ,the bribe 'or- three' tilogand guineas to compose his splendid poem o 4 L5.11a Rookh."- 'Moreover, are not Brunel • and Stevenson, the engineers, men of genius, and . do they not, r-a!ise a .handsome fortune by thediligent exercise, of that faculty ? Its the majority of in stances our teen of genius in modern times have been men of the World also, who have no notion of giving the'rich fruits of. their intellect to the world, except for a, handsome equivalent. -- " Alison's. History of ' Europe" is *a thoughtful and carefully reasoned essay, in which the . consummate- military abilities of the Emperor Napoleon—perhaps the greatest master of the art of war that the world ever saw--=are alluded to In a discriminating spirit. We must confess, hew eVer, that it is with no little difficulty that we bring ourselves to think otherwise than with horror and detestatiyo -of : these magnificent military despots— the wholesale plunderers and murderers of their fel low-creatures., In the article' on 'the " Affairs of India" the, Reviewer rejoices ; in the recal of Lord' Ellenborough, and• the appointment of his successor,' Sir , Henry liardinge, " whose 'experience and firm ness' of character," he says, " afford the promise of a' happy dawn to millions.' We quote the following sketch of the Home Secretary's character as a poli tician and a Minister:— • " On tile Whole review of Sir James - Graham's po• litibal life and opinion's, we find one point, and only one (his championship of the Irish Church' being not per fectly :clear of exceptions) from which, - so far as we know, he . has never swerved :--viz., that the class of - mertgaged and indebted landowners are a class worthy of special -legislative protection. On this point, we believe :we may pronounce his public character to, be witlioutspot or blemish of inconsistency. The-doctrine has shaped itself differently in his mind, at different tithes : once it was the, sponge, now it is the. sliding ,scale,-:that must save the aristocracy," preserve the landOWners' estates' :from harpy. creditors, and `prevent .the landed property of England from changing bands:" —but, however the means may have varied, the end has always been the same—either by adjustment of incum hrances, or .by protection of rents, to save insolvent owners of land from breaking. This is Sir James Gra ham's strong point. This is the one light speck in the general huize—the dot of terra firma in the - chaos. Sir James Grahain may fairly boast that, amidst incon sistencies and self-contradictions without number, he has always been consistent to the principle that the landed aristocracy and gentry must have Acts of Parliament -put between them and their creditors—must have their debts paid, or somehow provided for, at the public cost. 1 His sympathies have been, through life, with a class of men - the most mischievous that any country can be curs ed.with.—the needy people of quality, the insolvent lords and gentlemen, the opulent knaves, who cannot live without their hands in other people's pockets. We do not know what, if any, may be the Netherby Ba -1-61-IA 's individual interest in the maintenance of this doctrine of the right of landowners to have their debts provided for by Act of Parliament, and have no disposi tion to: inquire. Nor is it necessary to waste. words in diScussing the honesty of it. The political morality :which protects and patronises the great opulent knave interest fitly accompanies the political religion which stands up for the purity and integrity of the Church- of England in Ireland. These two are the only net pro duct that was can find of Sir James Graham's political life. After striking out all the inconsistencies and con .tradictions'—halancing and neutralising every plus with its corresponding minus—these are all that the equation gives us. It would be scarcely fair to close our estimate of Sir James Graham's political character, without ac knowledging that he possesses, in a high degree, many of the qualities of a useful servant of the, State, His administrative abilities are, we believe, generally allowed, by those who have the best opportunities of judging, to be of the first class. He is a ready, capable man, both in oMce and in Parliament-, with-a fine talent for getting through businoss. lie made an excellent First Lord - of . . the. Admiralty '; and improved the efficiency of the navy I' while curtailing its expenditure. Although he refused i` to almlish impressment, he placed two Acts on the IStatute Rook calculated to diminish its necessity and mi tigate its 'practical oppressiveness. Unfortunately for the public, his 'present share in. the Ministerial cast of parts 'is one in which mere 'administrative dexterity is but a poor set• off against a shabby spirit, a rough tem , per, and an unscrupulous partisan conscience. As a Home Secretary, Sir James Graham is one of the worst and most dangerous Ministers we have had these twenty years." • BAND-13'00K FOR CENTRAL EUROPE. i; • Hughes, London, 1844. The compiler of this volume, Mr. Coghlan, is well known for his numerous guide-books, which have proved of great -service to our tourists in the summer and autumn seasons. His present work is on a larger scale than any of his preceding ones, and con tains minute, practical directions for travellers through Belgium, llolland, the Rhine, Germany, Switzerland, and France, together with a full description of Paris, the Channel Islands, and the fashionable continental spas, and a list of the steam-packets to and from ali the foreign ports. LIVES 'OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND - • , Va. VII. - Colburn, London, 1844. The Life of Queen. Elizabeth, with which the authoress, aware of the interest and importance of the subject, has taken unusual pains, is brought to a close in this volume. It is by far the completest and most circumstantial biography that we have yet met with, of this' great Sovereign ; and it possesses the additional recommendation of being wholly free from anything like fulsome . eulogium. The documentary evidence brought forward by the authoress is exceedingly copious; and much of it will be new to the majority of our readers ; but the most •interesting portion of the work is that which describes the death-bed of Elizabeth, and the intrigues of the Ministers and the courtiers 'the instant they became aware of the utter hopelessness of her recovery. The portrait of the Queen, prefixed by way of frontispiece to the memoir, represents her as being much more comely in feature than she has been generally supposed to be. TRAVELS IN KPRPOFAN. • • , 'Madden, London, 1844. From the preface - to this. volume of travels we learn, that the author, Mr. Ignatius Pallme; a Bohemian by birth, undertook . the journey to Kordofan, of which he here professes to give an account, on commission for a mercantile establishment at Cairo, in the hope of discovering new channels of traffic with' Central Africa. In the pursuit of his object, he remained longer in th,':!-eountry than any. European had ever done before him ; and the information which he fur nishes 'us with respecting the existing condition of this province of . Etiypt may consequently be looked on as strictly authentic. But though M. Pallme's Volume ah . eunds, in : useful information, it is not,.generally specking,: very entertaining • in its character, for the author's mode of narration is dry and matter-of-facti and fie lays too miich,Stress on matters of trivial mei meat: *His account the . preSent state of slaves lilerfloka,wiil be read'with. attention by.those rested in this most complicated and difficult question, which seems' to bid defiance to all attempts at a satis factory i6ltrenient; but We prefer quoting instead his de%cription'of the Sheikhs or saints who, .it appears, irre.trea.ted with a' world of respect, not to say, rever l . , •encir , ;.-throughout the entire province of Kordofan • " The'S - e , SheikliS, or 'saints, are, what 'we call idiots.They:tiro unfortunate beings, who, although neglected by nattiro, are considered in this cduntry. *4 direct apostles froiri G6d,- to inform the children of Men of their destiiiy. These 11,-,or wretches are all but idolized, every one being anxious to show them the utmost respect. When, they walk out in the streets, they are stopped by old and young,-who kiss their face, hands, and even their feet,, and olter.them everything they wish fore Beings of this• description are generally very apathetic, and accept little. or nothing; they are, In ,fact, generally to be met dressed 'in the ui9st disgusting clothes,.in rags, or utterly nake4 , o although they would he,provided . with the finest raimenti: if they merely expressed the slightest wish. Theiri parents,, sisters, or other relatiOns, on, the_. ooi.or hand,: klitiw. how to turn their misfortune to • the best account,. : l arid accept considerable presents - for their intermesh - qv with these saints, or For procuring others an opportunitfr k , of consulting this oracle. They give the most a b sur d; and ridfonlous answers to questions that-are put, to then,,. ;partly as :a . conseqUence of their fatuity, and partly b 4-. eatise taught to - do'sO; 'lt Is, tideed, searcelrpossiblo l a4' 1844, times to-giress'at their meaning. The more• 'absurd the_ answer, the more _contented is the party interested; and absolutely delighted, if he can only make' out a single word of the _whole rhodomontade, which in the slightest agrees with ,his wishes.. To these saints the women flook in numbers, to beg for fertility., Besidel these Sheikhs, there ,are others, and Fakeers, who ;write amulets, which the women wear on their arms, or heads, firmly believing that their most fervent wishes-will:be then fulfilled. The latterprofession is exceedingly lucre. tive, and I have seen several persons who have made a small fortune in this manner, and very well understood the art of imposing on the people, and of persuading them to purchase a fresh charm, although experience must have convinced them of the futility of the last." • MISSION TO THE COURT OF VIENNA. Longman, London , _ 1844. • The diplomatic. mission t o Vienna, of which this volume furnishes us with. a memoir, was undertaken by the Righb Hon.: Sir Robert. Adair, at a most critical period in our history—namely, the year 1806, shortly after Pitt's , death, and when Fox had just succeeded to o ffi ce as Foreign 'Secretary of State." The volume consists for the most part of official documents, bearing on the negotiations between this country and Austria, whose power had been recently crippled by the decisive battle of Austerlitz ; but though supplying adinirable authentic materials of some future historian of that feverish period, when an apprehension of , the ambitious views of Napoleon was the one general feeling of Europe, yet these documents will be of -little interest to the majority of readers, for they are, with' few exceptions, dry, business-like State dispatches, whose tact and sagacity pan only be appreciated by those who are conversant with the complicated politics of thosse times. Sir Robert 'Adair appears to have' acquitted himself' with signal dexterity in his diploMatic mis sion, and possessed the most full and entire confidence of Fox, of whose princiPles he was a cordial supporter, and of whose foreign policy the volume before us may in some degree be considered: as the defence. It is ,dedicated to - Lord Grey in a brief address; wherein the author gracefully and"touchingly .observes, ." accept the work in the name of our fifty years' friendship, increasing on my side in veneration as life :and its business recede from me;" and is introdueed .by a neat, sententious preface, in the course of which Sir Robert Adair explains the reasons that indUced a large portion of the upper:and .middle classes , to, re gard Mr. Fox as the advocate of unconstitutional and revolutionary principles. , L - 6EI.IIVi:THE - I ; fRE. , r+ A neir piece' was produced on ` T uesday at this theatre - called the Momentous Question'. It is founded on orie of. .Crabbe's " Tales of the Hall," and the 'subject is still better known perhaps, at least by name, from Miss , Satchell's picture, the engraving- from which has found Its way into every . print•shop in the kingdom. In the drama the distinction between tlie' two principal malp: charaeter - s, James and Robert, which it, Was evidently the' great aim of the poet to effect, Was well maintained: throughout. Mr. Vining, as Robert Shelly, the poacher and: Smuggler, gave to the character slimts wild energy and reck-' Jessness; and Mr. Diddear, in the part of.Tarnes Greenfield, the gamelieopor, formed a striking contrast to his un-' was the representative l she performed the. for the e, E M ac i h ss el P ß or y te in s n cu d e , Part with great feeling and sensibility. The prison' scene was •admirably rendered, .and w a s the orp in o r igi ns lioni the fact of ; tale .ocitisioti: being seized. to- OUR ACTRESSES. 2 Vols. Smith and Elder, London, 1844, These volumes consist of series of biographical no flees, accompanied with brief cursory criticisms ontheir talents, of the most eminent actresses and vocalists that have 'appeared on the London boards within the memory of the present generation. The authoress is Mrs. Clornwall Wilson, why is already favourably known to the play-going portion of the community, by her Memoir of the Duchess of St. Albans. Her present work is slight and gossipping in its character, and has the recommendation, by no means common with biography, of being penned throught in a kindly and tolerant spirit. The critical portion of it is the weakest, for Mrs. Wilson appears to be no very dis criminating judge of theatrical excellence; but as her remarks are uniformly put forth without assumption or pedantry, we feel no disposition to bear hardly upon them. The volumes are embellished with half-length Portraits of some of the most distinguished of our female performers, among whom the authoress justly allots a prominent station to Mrs. Nisbett, undoubtedly the most . finished , comic actress of the day. We quote the following passages. from the memoir of this lady : . _ • " Mr. Nisbett was a most amiable and affectionate husband ; and• the widow's anguish may be conceived, but cannot be described. It is said that a friend was one day condoling with Mrs. Nisbett on the loss of her husband. Husband 1 cried the lovely widow, wiping a tear from her brilliant eye— • " He never was a husband.' • " How ?' cried her friend, in astonishment. " ' No ;--from the day of our marriage—he always remained MY LOVER !' " The unexpected death of Captain Nisbett—who was not, is may be supposed, much. of a man of business, caused perplexity on pecuniary points ; there were dis puted claims to property, and some interested parties threw the affair into Chancery ! . Chancery ! there is ruin—perspective beggary in the very name ! '" airing the Chancery proceedings Mrs. Nisbett thought it prudent, for the sake of her 'own near, and we may add, dear relatives, to re-enter the theatrical profession ; a profession which she had quitted under 'such happy auspices : and, accordingly, in October, 1832, she re-appeared at Drury-lane. Her reception by the audience proved that they had not forgotten their old favourite, and that they could commisserate her in her 'recent bereavement, and encourage her exertions to counteract the frowns of fortune. She went through a long list of the leading characters in genteel comedy, on each night increasing her' fame. Amongst her chef d'ceuvres were Rosalind, Beatrice, Violante, &c., &c. Bankruptcies, non-payment of salaries, insolence, attempts at imposition, and all the petty vexations which crept in with the degradation and downfal of our na tional theatres, at length induced Mrs. Nisbett to accept the cash-paid salary from an engagement at a minor theatre, in preference to ' promise to pay' at a major house. She . passed through several .engagements for limited periods (so as not to interfere with her provin cial:engagements), at the Queen's, and also at the Strand Theatres. " At the Queen's Theatre we were present in Febru ary, 1835, to see Jerrold's new drama of the School fellows, in which Mrs. Nisbett sustained , the leading character with great and deserved applause. On this evening there was a terrific outcry raised by the pittites against the bonnets, which, at that time, were preps terously large if at all fashionable. The performance was for some time suspended with the cry of oti bon nets' not being attended to. One little gentlemen, whose patience could no kinpr endure the tower of Babel before his view, very coolly stretching out his arm, sud denly and somewhat uncourteously thrust the point of an umbrella into the crown of the brobdignagian head de fender that interrupted his view of the stage, and car ried off its straw-built roof on the ferrule of his con quering weapon, to the no small amusement of beholders, but to the great dismay and enragement of the fair but obstinate wearer. We are sorry to speak in terms of censure of our own sex, but really on this point they are very unaccommodating, and deserve to sufferfor their tenacity. " On the evening in question, entreaty had failed to remove the brobdignagian nuisance as it was called ; skirmish after skirmish took place between female heads and umbrella points, rendering the performance inau dible, At last a jolly tar, with lungs like a speaking trumpet in a gale of wind, got upon the seat, and roared out—' Them as is gentlewomen is expected to take off them helephant bonnets ; them as don't pretend to be sitch, may keep theni on.' The effect of this odd ad dress was like magic, the pride of every female took alarm, and in a minute all the blue bonnets were over the border,' to the great amusement as well as accommo dation of many of the audience." • GREAT WESTERN STE ---A curious dis AV-SHIP.- - pute has arisen between the Peninsular Company and the -Great Western Company. The former, it appears, pur chased the ship, the Great Western, for 32,0001., the •owners undertaking to do whatever the Admiralty sur veyors might deem necessary to qualify the vessel for the mail service. A considerable delay taking place in com pleting a set of, new boilers on the tubular principle, some time was requested and granted. All being ready, a trial :was had down the Severn, under the inspection of the Admiralty surveyor, who' found all right with the excep tion of the supply of steam, on which he declined to pass the survey. -Some 'alterations having been made in the boilers, the vessel' wasannounced as ready for a second trial, at the request of the owners. A delay of a few days occurring in sending the Admiralty surveyor down, the owners, with Captain Claxton, the manager, took on themselves to withhold the. vessel, thus virtually .cancelling the con tract, and, without notice to the Peninsular Company, ad vertised her, departure for New York. The Peninsular Company feeling that, whatever the delay might have been, it was not• t© be laid to their account, but to that of the Admiralty, and not disposed to yield to this summary `extinguishnient of what 'was considered a desirable pur chase, an application was -made to the Court of Chancery to prohibit the vessel' being sent to sea, and immediately _granted. Thus both • this Company's vessels may be said to be in Chancery, the one, the Great Britain, in the Bristol dock, the other in Westminster-hall. Odds are now laid as to which of these ships will be first discharged of the ne exeat „reyno. The Peninsular Company have been obliged to dis patch another vessel; the Lady Mary Wood, in place of the Great Western, with the Alexandria mails.--Lirerpool - *- ' - FRENCIU - MEN ' or WAIL—The arrival of the Danae, French frigate, of 56 guns, at Brest, puts an end to an idle story which Is reported in a Barbadoes pager, re ceived this week, that the . Dublin, of 50 guns, Captain Tucker,lad been sunk, with her colours flying, by three French frigates, for having given protection to the Queen , Portiere, who had taken refuge-on board of her.. The Danae was one ,of the frigates at Tahiti, .and she mentions nothing ,of such an event. The. Prench garrison at the Marquesas was inatltress for 'Clothes and money; having had no pay for fifteen months, and nothing but salt provisions. The French niicv l's . certainlj , moving about much more actively than 'formerly.. We obierve that on the sth April the 60-gun frigate•Sirene, ,, together with • the Victorieuse and the Re-. eherche, leftlths 'Cape of Good Hope, for China ; and on the 27th March the Erigone, 50-gun frigate, left the same station for, Brest ; at the same time the man-of-svar Colibri left the Isle ofYrance.for the Isle of Bourbon. —Hampshire Telegraph.' Fli/CCIOUS ATTACK in A BULL.—A. feir days ago, William Binnington, a . servant . in the. employ of Mr. , Jackson, of Old Sunflerlandwia., Hall, near Driffield, ,went Ito look after .his master S . StOCk, am ongs t which was.a bull, which made a • ferOcious attack upon. him, and, being _unable to escape from the reach of ihe infu • e d • al 'he was dreadfully . go re d. Hi s . cr f,s,, 1 mat 'alum , • for r,help,i and : the- be ll owini B afthe savage 'beast, wore beard . by . ao me , chikiten at play near, the farm , . who imme.' ~, d,re t e l y gave the alarm ; Mr. Jackson immediately called fogtthetoan: - his men, and, having armed themselves, 1 prteeedetlAci. rescue the poor man from his perilous I situation.. ',When released, he presented the appearance 4‘a;nuasi :nf . gore .and wounds ; and his clothes were to,tll ;jail - 'tatters. His collar bone was found to be thPkear.and his ribs much damaged. On different parts °E t h e body were large gaping wounds, besides being much:bruised.all over. On the arrival of Mr. Simpson, AllrgeCtil,..oii Hutton Cranswick, ho found the man in a laryaahattsted.stato, and fast sinking, but by careful , and iirseyering. efforts and the, administration of proper resterativea, the powers of life were, reanimated, and he ' ••wlts.thinable.te have his, wounds dressed and sewed up, . ,Cud his banes properly ad _adjusted.. Up to Tuesday last "haiwattoing on with the hopes_ of an,ultittiateedovery. Ilitaltaikkertiser.,,i (~ ~, _,_. - - b2ri -COURT OP SESSIONL_ EDINBURGH, JUNE 11. IMPORTANT DECISION RELATIVE TO THE PO OR-LA W. JANET HALLIDAY AND 'MARY HALLIDAY, RESIDING AT DARNHILLICE, V. THE HERITORS AND YIRK-SIISSIO:: . OF THE PARISH OF BALMACLELLAN, KIRCIIDDRIOIFY- ; SHIRE. This was a case bronght by two aged women;residing in the parish of Balmaclellan, against the heriturs and kirk-session, for an increased allowance from the fund* sot apart for the maintenance of the poor. The facts of the case are as follow:—Th e p aupers, w h o are sistera,:- . i ' and are both between eighty and n i nety y e ars o f age, 14.- have been resident in the parish of Balmaclellan for at least the last twenty years of • their lives. Tin the year . 1840—when they had each passed the ordinary term of human existence—no application was made by thenalor relief from the parish funds; but in that year, owing. to ` their great age and infirmities, they were very re • , luctantly obliged to make application to the- pareel; for.an allowance of aliment for their support. On vieY7 ing their case, the heritors and kirk-session agreed to 4 allow them 2/. each per annum, being less than three ". halfpence a-day to each. This being totally inadequate, they again petitioned that body, who, upon the 20th 4i June, 1843, increased their allowance to 31. a-year, :or Is. 13tt. . per week. In addition to this, the parish paid .3 21. per annum for a small and almost uninhabitable. hut, in which the paupers reside, and also provided them with a partial supply of peals. Nothing was, allowed tei‘..' clothes, which, with all other necessaries, they weh.e' l . left to provide as they best could out of their weekly al lowaace of thirteenpence-halfpenny. Viewing this as '• t tally insufficient for that needful sustentation to which they were entitled by the statutesproviding fer the support of the poor, particularly 1579, cap. 75, the paupers %Imp applied to the heriiors and kirk-session for an augmenta-: tion of their aliment. O n thi s p e titi on the 'following interlocutor was pronounced : " 4th September, 1843. The meeting took into Considera tion the within petition, and, on examination, find it. inaccurate in several particulars, as, in the CCiiirse of last year,, up to this date, Janet and Mary Halliday have re ceived 81. 13s. from the parish • and further, that as the said aged womee keep in their h'ouse a pePhew, for whom, 'on the lowest estimate, they receive, or are entitled to re ceive, 21. 12a. per annum, or Is. per week ; while there:- fore the session will deem it their duty, in case of. emer gency or great distress, to grant, from time to tittle, additional relief, they refuse to place them on the per 'manent roll fora larger sum than at present." , Raowing ' these statements to be quite erroneous, the paupers brought the deliverance under review of the Court of Session by advocation,; ,pleading-Ist . , That, 'in the ' circumstances of their case, they were entitled. to be provided with "needful sustentation," including clothes and lodging, at the expense of the heritors and k irk- sessi6u. 2d. That the judgment complained of ought to be a dvocated - and the advocators found entitled to such sum as should be sufficient for the purpose of their aliment and cloth- . ing, and also to the use of a habitable dwelling-house. in place of their present miserable hut. 31 That their: nephew not being able, and though he were so, not being ander any legal obligation, to support the advocators, , he must be left out of view; and 4th. That the respon-, dents were not entitled to evade the statute (which en joins a fixed and definite allowance) by pleading that. they might give " occasional aid," and that such " Occa sional aid" must also be left out of view. , These pleas were met by the following on the part of , the heritors and kirk-session :--Ist. That though, afttr the decision in the case of Ceres, they raised no question as to the competency or power of the Court to 'review. .. their deliverance, yet they submitted that no ground:i were stated which were either relevant or sufficient to • warrant any interference with their deliverance in the matter. 2d, That the permanent allowance made to the advocators was adequate and sufficient for their. GUS tentation, and that it was open for them to apply for any occasional :aid as disease, or other emergent causes, might require ; and, 3d. That the advocation should be. dismissed." After hearing parties, the Lord Ordinary (Murray) pronounced the following interlocutor and note :-- " 20th March, 1844.—The Lord Ordinary having heard parties' procurator, and thereafter considered the cause, in respect it is inexpedient to interfere .with tha allowances allocated to paupers by kirk-sessions except in extreme cases, and that no sufficient allegations have been made for such interference in the present instance d repels the reasons of advocation, remits the case simpliciter to the kirk-session ; finds no expenses due on either side and decerns. (Signed) " JOHN A. MURRAY. - " Note.—The Lord Ordinary considered this • case ; very attentively, holding it as a settled point, that it wit*, competent for the Court to give instructions to the kirks,. session if that appeared necessary. His impression was, however, that the funds were, in the present instance, : administered with care and discrimination. No allega tion was made against the bona fide of' the kirk-session., The Lord Ordinary, therefore, felt that he could not in-. terfere without a great hazard of doing mischief,-and -he relied on the statement made on the part of the , kirk session, that they would regard the increasing infirmi ties of these old persons, and give them such further al-. lowance as might be required. (Initd.) "J.A, M. Against the interlocutor the advocators reclaimed to. the First Division of the Court, and when the case came, to be advised before their Lordships, on the 11th inst.. Professor More was heard on behalf of the advocators ? . and Mr. Robert \Vhigham for the heritors and kirk-, session. The LORD JUSTICE-GENERAL thought the allowance not sufficient for the " needful sustentation" of the ad vocators. He felt the delicacy of judging in such cases, as the present. He knew the Court had not the 8111130 means of judging of the circumstances of the paupers as the heritors and kirk-session, who were on the spot 144 and he was glad to find that the Commissioners lately ; employed by Parliament to report as to the Scot- tish Poor-laws had recommended that the Court of Sea. sion should have no power to review the decisions of he ritors and kirk-session. Still he found it his duty, booi, as a judge and an heritor, to say that the whole allow- 1 ance made to these two old women was totally intu* quate for their needful sustentation, and he was of opi, nion that they should remit to the heritors and, kirk-, session to increase the allowance. Lord ISl.LatzratE concurred. He said it was impos, sible to believe twopence a-day to be " needful susten, tation." Lord FULLERTON was of the same opinion. It waa clear that " needful sustentation" was not given. But the difficulty was to fix what was needful—and he cown curred in the proposal to order an increase, and remit -to the heritors. and kirk-session to make it. Lord JEFFREY entirely concurred. He lamented -the evil of being called on to relieve such cases as the present, and was sorry for the dissipation of the funds intended for the poor in such litigations as the present. He could not go along with the Lord Ordinary, by calling. two ? pence -t-day sufficient sustentation. -He did not be. here that the advocators could live on such a sum, and was sure they must be assisted otherwise by kind or benevolent persons. If they , had had nothing but the mere allowance of the parish to subsist on, he was sure they must heve been starved before this time. It was im possible for the Court to look at any casual allowances. from other persons. The old paupers could not have long now to live, and it was not right in the parish to stint them in the manner they did of the austentation they, of all paupers, so much required. It was said that it was a great evil to raise the allowr ances of the poor, or for the Court to judge in such cases, but he was sure, on comparing this evil with the bad effects of reducing the allowances to the lowest possible sum, that the interposition of the Court to prevent starvation was the minor evil of the two. The crimes and other bad effects that must result frpta refusing to afford the relief to the poor which the law had appointed are evils of no small magnitude, and which ought to he prevented by a fair administration of the existing p 001!" laws of Scotland. Their Lordships unanimously pronounced the . follop• ing judgment:— " Edinburgh, 11th June, 1844.—The Lords having considered the reclaiming note for Janet and Mary Hal liday, advocators, and having heard the Counsel the parties, find that the present allowance to the advoca tors does not afford the needful sustentation to which they are entitled. Therefore, recal the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary reclaimed against, and remit to the respondents, the heritors and kirk-session of Balmaclei lan, to reconsider their deliverance, dated 4th Septem ber, 1843, and to award such farther allowance as may, under the whole circumstances of the case, be deemed reasonable ; and decern. Find the advocators entitled to expenses of process so far as hitherto incurred, ap point an acccunt thereof to be given in, and remit to the auditor to tax the same and to report. (Signed) D. BOYLE, I. P. D." THE ELDER Corrix.—On Monday last, Michael . Field, aged 78 years, was buried at St. Nicholas Ash, next Wingham. For many years he carried on the business of collar and harness m aker in Ash-street. Fort y . s i x wars since ord he planted o f elder t grow i n h ow ls garden, and, in his own to a large tree," under words, had "lived a sPtosee whose shadow he oft enjoyed himself with his pipe and cup of wine, vatted from its berries—and this was ips only Me dicine. But, " man must die," and as Michael thought he should like to have a coffin made from the said tree, his wish was gratified about three months since, through the permis sion of Mr. Marsh, the owner, and the mortal remains of old Michael now repose in the slip of his own plantation.— Can terbury, Journal.. ROMANCE IN RRA.L Lips.—ln the month of June 1837, the schooner Ebenezer, a regular trader for coals to this port, J. Little, commander and part owner, sailed from Ply lArinth for Shields, for a cargo of coals, having a regular crew, and a passenger named Edward. Jeffery, son of the late Mr. Thomas Jeffery who died about three years s ince, and w ar for many years a faithful serva nt of J. and W. Collier, Esqrs., timber merchants, or this town. It appears th e Ebenezer arrived safely at Shields, took in a cargo of coals, and sailed again for this port, having still on board the young man Edward Jeffrey, whose design had been to take a summer's excursion to ghields and return again. Coming down the North Channel when off Yarmouth, the schooner experienced a severe gale, which lasted a day and a night, when, by the violence of the storm, she was shattered, and went down ; and it was believed at the time, for no one heard anything about her for two months after, that "every soul on board had perished ; however, the desk of Captain Little, with some papers inclosed, was washed into Yarmouth, at the latter end of July, when no doubt existed in the minds of the friends of those on board, but that every soul had perished—and the captain's widow, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery and family, went all into deep mourning. But the sequel of the story is, that Jeffery and another, after having clung to the wreck for several hours, were placed up by a foreign vessel bound to India, which touched at the Cape.. There Jeffery and his companion were put on shore, but being destitute of money and clothing, to return to his friends, he entered on board the Arrow, which was then lying there, bound oh a surveying expedit ion to the Falkland Islands-- there it appears she has been for the last six years, and eller returning and cruising on the coast of Africa for some thus ) , has taken two very large slivers—and on Saturday, shear' tivediin.Portamouth Harbour, where Jeffery ent a coming nication to his. friends, announcing 11.13 RTlfal.-.:Deronport 'lndependent. , - _~ S