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1 .tA r •+IONAL BANK OF IRELAND. I Fourth Annual. General Meeting of the Dime- Proprietors of the National Bank. of Ireland is piece on Wednesday, the 22(1 inst., et the Office il3o, Company, 13, Old Broad-stre , t. Among the —nen present were J. R. Elmore, Esq.. E. F. Greelt, Esq., C. Bianconi, Esq., G. Moffitt. Esq., M. O'Brien, Esq., T. Laurin Murr.ey. Esq , Low! , Wlseeler, Esq., itowand Ron.llcl, Esq., „Tmoes Hotchinson, Esq , Col. the Hon. L. Staiihop.., F NtlVigra, Esq,, R. Sutton, jun., Esq., Thomas Vine, Richari; Milne, Esq., Col. Wm. Nichol • T!!oi. Fox, E q., &c. Th;!! Secretary (T. B Smrrx, Esq r ;Li the notice calling the meeting, On the motion of 'F. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., se conded by It. SUTTON, jun., Eiq., GEORGE MOFFATT, was called to the chair. The CuAtem.ma said he believed their first business would be to read the Report of the Directors, of the transactions of the Company for the year ending the 31st December last. The Secretary then read the Report as follows : REPORT Of the Directors of the National Bank of Ireland, made to the Proprietors at the Fourth Annual General Meet- ing, held 'at the Office of the Company, No. 13, Old Broad -street, London, on Wednesday, May 22, 1839. In the Report submitted to the Proprietors at the last An nual General Meeting, particular reference was madc to the ,tern upon which the Branches of the National Bank of Ireland had been formed, and to the alteration found to be essential to the permanent prosperity of the Company. A change involving the interests and prejudices of a numerous and influential body of Local Shareholders has necessarily been attended with considerable difficulty, but the Directors felt the importance of persevering in the attainment of an object which, after the most mature deli. beration, was deemed certain to advance the general wel fare of the Establishment, they have now much satisfac tion in being able to report that the conversion of the Local Stock leas been successfully effected at all the Branches of the Company, with the exception of two; and although the change can scarcely be considered to have had a fair trial during the process of consolidation, yet the result is marked by such augmentation of profits as elearly demonstrates the soundness of the principle by which the Directors have been governed, in abandoning tha system upon which the Bank was originally formed for cue securing more simplicity in the working —a more eorswlPte controul in the Administration—arid a more pe , fi.c , unity of interest and action in the general con nection. St-t..a the last Annual General Meeting. the Kanturk Ant:i.7 has been formed into a branch. and the several ag-e , ...icts which had been opened at Killarney, Dingle. Ta:bert, Rathkeale, Banagber, and Cahirciveen, have been d ued. T'ie Directors have kept a watchful eye upon the •arious and extensive fluctuations that have occurred in the value of Irish produce, and although anxious that every reason. able accommodation and facility should be aff ,rded for all legitimate purposes of Commerce, they have been careful to discourage the tendency evinced to rash speculation during a season of unusually high prices. The natural resources of Ireland are daily becoming ?acre developed, and there cannot be a doubt that the intro duction of capital by Joint Stock Banks, his in a great mer.lure tended to promote this state of improvement, by affording to Commerce and Agriculture those e)-seutiAl facilities which had so long been required, and while these Establishments are conducted upon safe• and liberal princi plea it can scarcely be doubted that they will continue to receive such encouragement and support as will enable them to prove more remunerative to their Proprietors, when the Legislature shall have introduced such amend silents in the law affecting Joint Stock Banks, as will admit of their extending their usefulness to other Districts. In conclusion, the Directors have much satisfaction in stating that the general business of the Bank has increased, whilst an important reduction has been effected in the expenditure, and they novv beg to submit to the Proprie tors the following statement for the past year : Undivided profits at 31 Dec. 1137 £ 403 11 0 Net profits for the year ending Dec. 1883 22,796 11 6 23,202 0 6 Deduct half-year's dividend to Proprie tors at Midsummer, 1638 £8,750 Ditto, ditto, at Christmas, 1838 8,750 17,500 0 0 Leaving amount of undivided profits at Dec. 183, ... £5,702 9 II From the foregoing it will appear that notwithstanding the low rate of Interest which has obtained since the last Report, and after deducting all ordinary expenses, paying the proportion of Preliminary charges (the residue of which will be cleared off next December) and making an ample provision for all bad debts, the Directors were enabled to pay a Dividensi of five per cent., and to add the sum of 6,211 , 11. 11s. SI. to the Shareholders' Reserve Fund, tiaore'ey showing, in the course of one year, so great an improvement in the affairs of the Company, as to warrant the Directors not only to express their continued confi ience in the prosperity of the Establishment, but their firm conviction that the future profits will be considerably aug mented by its increasing connections and the important change which has been effected in its constitution. There are now to be elected Four Directors in the room of GILOROB MOPPATT, Zsq. 1 MAcaten O'CoNNELL, Esq., M.P. KORRIT St.yrox, jun., Esq., and E. F. Gozcv, Esq. I w:!.-. retire by rotatio n , a ll o f w h om are Candidates for the . office, and eligible to be re-elected. The Cstatatfax—Perhaps the concluding paragraph is that which first calls for the attention of the Pro prietors, namely, that four of the Directors go out of eilice, who are now eligible for re-election. As I hap pen to be one of these, I be; to move that Colonel Stanhope do take the chair. Colonel STANHOPE having taken the chair, A Proprietor (C. BIANCONI, Esq.), said that hav ing had before them abundant evidence of the zeal and lutiV7 of the four Directors who had retired by rota tioo, he felt much pleasure in moving their re-electien to ills Board of Directors. Tits motion having been seconded was carried una ;omously. Mr. MOFFATT having resumed the chair, said, that I.ivirg heard the Report read, it would now be his duty to •oilimit it for the adoption of the meeting. It tio L4 at be as well, however, if he, in the first instance, ,I:!=•rted somewhat more fully to the very flourishing = - - iition of the affairs of the Company.—(Hear, hear. ) i., loin; so he should begin with the beginning—he meant the alteration that had lately taken place in the onstitution of the Bank. Short as the period was since hat alteration had taken place, it had been found to work •'.x..reincly well—the result,however, was much more fully ..nd satishetorily expressed in the figures contained in the Report that had just been laid before them.—(Hear, hear.) That would more satisfactorily show them the large increase that had taken place in the receipts and other transactions of the Bank, than any statement he could offer to them. In making that alteration he would observe, that they had been especially careful to retain the local proprietary. That was one of the most judicious and beneficial features of the original system. It had been the anxious wish of the Directors to follow out that system, which would secure to them more effi cient management and controul, and to the Proprietorsge nerally, more profitable results. The consequence was, that while on the 31st of December, 1837, they had only 294 shareholders, on the 31st of December, 1838, they had I,2lB.—(Hear, hear.) The Directors felt satisfied that there could not be a better proof of the strong hold they had taken in the affections and interests if their customers, and the people of Ireland generally, than the fact that, at December last, their circulation showed an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, of more than 25 per cent. There is also a yet more gratifyin g circumstance con nected with the increasing prosperity of the establish ment, which is, that the deposits have increased on a comparison of the two periods, at least 50 per cent. That was, perhaps, the most satisfactory announcement that could be made to the Proprietors, as it showed how large a share of public confidence they already enjoyed.—(Cheers.) A PROPRIRTOR—I suppose there is some statement on the table to show the amount of the deposits, and the circulation of the Bank. The CHAIRMAN said there was. In the year 1837 the net profits were 5,9981., and in the year ending December, 1838, they were 22,7961.—(Hear, and cheers.) Besides, it should be borne in mind, that the preliminary expenses of the establishment were still with drawing some portion of their net profits, but the..e would be all cleared off in the present )ear. A PROPRIETOR—It is mentioned in the Report that ieo.lliderable reduction has taken place in the expendi.. ;Ir.. May I ask in what &pertinent ? l'he SECRRTARY—In the general expenses of ma. nagement. The Cu/dal/AN—The reductions effected have been calculated up to the 31st of December last, and they arnoant to 3,0001. current expenses. A raorate•rox—As con-limed with the previous year ? The CHAIRMAN —Yes . • and as I before remarked, w i th the p resent year our preliminary expenses entirely I cse. Befor e I sit down I may mention a circum stance of which, perhaps, some few of our Proprietors are not informed, although it has made some stir in Ire load. There was a pressure upon flee Bank for gold in the spring of the present year, The demand and the sircumstatlees that gave rise to it. were purely and en tirely local. It was °paned to ens of our Branches, and did not even spread into t te Litricts connected 'via , it—l allude to the capital of the South of Irela (1, ork. Tiie demand, however, was promptly met, and we experienced an anxious desire on all hands to up port us. If the demand had h e o n ton times what waF. it could have been ja,t us effigy i-ntly and as prcimp at"' A PROPRIETOR—It was productive of benefit to the Bank ultimately. The CHAIZIMAN—I was just about to make that re mark. It wit productive of ultimate good to the Bank, for it increased the confidenre of the public in the sta b, ty and reiources of the Establishment. But, lam ,orr } to say. it tv ,s not productive of good to the par ties who made. the demand for gold. It had the bad effect of forcing down the price of produce for the time, and so far it was prejudicial. I may also observe, in conformity with a statement made by our Chairman at the last annual meeting, that wherever Branches were found not only not incurring loss, but not producing a profit to the Company, they have been discontinued. In pursuance of that pledge, six sub-agencies which had not occasioned us any loss, bat were not productive of profit, have been discontinued. A PROPRIETOR—How many Branches have been discontinued, and what are the names ? The CHAIRMAN—Six have been discontinued. The SECRETARY—They are not branches, but sub agencies, and they are enumerated in the Report. The PROPMETOR—How many branches have we now . The SECRETARY—Thirty-six branches. The CHAIRMAN—It should also be recollected that during the last year money bore a very low rate of in.. terest. Of course the higher rate of interest that is now obtained will, on a future occasion, exhibit more satis factory results. A PROPRIETOR—WiII an increase in the rate of in terest affect the transactions of the Bank in Ireland ? The CHAIIINI AN—Certainly. A PnorataTos.-1-lave we not been charging six per cent. in some cases ? The CHAlRMAN—Unquestionably, where the parties have derived corresponding advantqfes and accommo dation. The rate at which money can be obtained is always somewhat lower in Dublin than in the country, but the interest is always governed by the rate of in terest in the London market. In conclusion, I have only to express on behalf of the Governor (Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.) his regret that he could not be here to preside at your meeting this day, being called to Ireland by very urgent and important business.— (Hear, hear.) A P ROPRIETOR—Before the Report is adopted, may I ask if we shall have any statement of the assets and liabilities of the Bank laid before us ? The CHAIRMAN—I believe none of the Joint Stock Banks publish any detailed statements of that sort• They are open to the inspection of any gentleman, but they will not he published, A PROPRIUTOR sail it would be desirable to know whether there was any probability of either of the two branches to which allusion was made in the Report coming into the general plan, or whether any negotia tions were still on foot for that purpose. The CHAIRMAN could answer with regard to one of them, that. there was every probability of its coming into the views of the London Court of Directors. As re garded the other, he believed one of its Directors was present, and he could answer the question more antis factoriiy. The London Court had no other object in view but to promote the interests of all the share holders.—( Hear, hear.) A PaorataToa wished to know whether the change that had lately taken place in the constitution of the Bank had increased the number of shares. He under- . stood that there were 20,000 p rev i ous t o th e a lt era ti on The SECRETARY--.NO, the local stock became an nihilated by being converted into London shares. A PROPRIETOR-4 wish to know whether the Di rectors have taken any steps with regard to the Char ter of the Bank of Ireland, because that is a most im portant point to know. The CHAIRMAN said the Directors were also im pressed with the conviction that it was a most important question, but they had not taken 'any active steps in the matter of late. They had been in communication with Mr. O'Connell on the subject, and the letter he (the Chairman) had received from him that morning so completely embodied the views of the Directors, that he perhaps could not do better than read an extract from it.—(Hear, hear.) The PROPRIETOR thought it would be very desir able to hear the sentiments of Mr. O'Connell on the subject of the Charter of the Bank of Ireland. The CHAIRMAN then read the following extract from Mr. O'Connell's letter : " You ask my opinion as to bringing forward the question of the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland, and I candidly confess to you, that strongly opposed as I am upon first principles to the continuance of the mono poly, I deem it premature to discuss the question until the intentions of the Government are known. Nobody imagines it to be within the range of possibility that the present system should continue, such continuance being out of the question. Some substitute must be found in order to satisfy the rights of the stock-holders, and their claims on Government for the repayment_ of the loans. Such substituted plan can and ought to be altogether free from the taint of monopoly, and we are not to anticipate that it will be otherwise. In short, there must be a new plan of some kind—a Charter, preventing personal liability, hut not including any mo nopoly, would of course be valuable to the stockholders of the Bank. Yet until we know what the new plan is to be I think any discussion would be premature, as it must turn upon a suppositious case—a case which may never arise. I\l3 conclusion plainly is, that for the present we should be silent on this topic, and re serve all our strength, and all our argument, to oppose any absurd or mischievous attempt to continue the baneful off, ets of the existing power of the Bank of Ire. land if any such attempt should he in contemplation." A PROPRISTOR thought the statements in that letter must be very satisfactory to the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN would only add, that the Directors entertained sanguine hopes that Government had it in contemplation to place the Banking system in Ireland on a sound and free basis. A PROPRIETOR asked if the Charter of the Bank of Ireland did not expire in the present year? The CHAIRMAN said the Charter had expired, but had been renewed for one year, which would lapse on the 31st December, 1839. He had only now, in con clusion, to congratulate the Proprietors not only on the very favourable Report that had just been laid before them, but also that they were able to call them together in a house of their own.—(Hear, hear.) In fact, everything was as flourishing and as prosperous as the most earnest well wishers of the Bank could desire.—(Cheers.) A PROPRIETOI (C. Bianconi, Esq.), if he was not out of order, would be glad to answer a question that had been asked relative to their circulation. He had seen a very important document, the official return from the Stamp Office of the circulation of the Provincial Bank and the National Bank of Ireland, placed parallel to one another. It was a return for the year 1837, just one year and a half previous to the present time, and it showed, that, although the National Bank had not been established for ten years after the formation of the Pro vincial Bank, the circulation of the National Bank was within about 24,000/. of that of the Provincial.— (Hear, hear.) He thought the Proprietors, therefore, had just ground for congratulation, not only in the in creased and increasing prosperity of the Bank, but also in the increased confidence which the people of Ireland had evinced in it, and their anxiety to join in the ad vancement of what they considered their mutual inte rests. He felt satisfied if the Parliamentary returns were seen now, they would show that the National Bank had a very considerable circulation over that of the Provin cial Bank.—( Hear, hear.) Another PROPRIETOR (Fowler Newsam, Esq.), said he was sure the Shareholders must be very much (ibiged to the D rectors for the satisfactory report that had just been laid before their, and for the readiness with which they had answered all the question , that had been pot to them. If he understood the statement that had been made, the amount of undivided profits in 1837, was 4051., and the amount in December, 1838, after paying the dividends of 5 per cent., was 5,7001.; after deducting for preliminary expenses, and all other charges. The SECRETARY—And providing liberally for all bad and doubtful debts. Mr. NEwsalt—A n d their circulation had increased 25 per cent, beyond what it was the previous year. All that was highly satisfictory. ♦t their last Annual Meeting the Chairman had informed them, that the profts were increasing from the month of December, when the accounts were made up, to the period st whi& , they met. He wnuld be glad if the Shareholders could receive any intimation to that effect now. The CHAIRMAN said they were increasing in the same ratio as last year.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. NEWEAM said the whole of the details laid before the Mi eting were so cheering and satisfactory, that he only regretted that they had not a more numerous meet ing of the Shareholders to hear the statements. He wished that some plan could be devised to give greater publicity to the meetings, for some of his own friends who would have attended, were entirely ignorant of it ; and it was merely by accident he himself had heard of it. The CHAIRMAN said the Court were much obliged to him for his suggestion, and they would in future send a short circular to the Shareholders in London, precious to the Annual Meetings. A PROPRIETOR would be glad to know whether the Directors could give the meeting any pledge that the dividend would be paid as before ? The CHAIRMAN could say, as his own personal con viction, and without the slightest hesitation, that the di vidend would be regularly paid, and certainly would not be less than it had been last year.—(Hear.) The question, that the Report be adopted, printed, and circulated among the proprietors, was then put and carried with acclamation. A PROPRIETOR said he was afraid they were asking too many questions, but it was very desirable that the Shareholders should be satisfied on every point. He wished to know whether the bad debts had been taken into account. At the last meeting a certain proportion of profits had been set aside for that contingency, and he wished to know whether, in the accounts just sub mitted to them, any provision had been made for bad debts? The CHAIRMAN said their estimates for bad debts were governed by the same principle they had adopted in 1837. A PROPRIETOR—Has it been found that your calcu lations for bad debts have been well-grounded ? The SECRETARY—In some cases debts which had been written off as bad in the previous year have since been recovered.—(Hear.) A PEOPRIXTOR (Mr. Hutchinson) suggested whether, as the affairs of the Bank were so flourishing, they might not make a dividend of six per cent. Mr. BIANCONI said he would object decidedly to such a proposition. Five per cent. was a very fair allowance for their money when the Bank was only yet in an infant state. They should recollect that the Rest was as yet comparatively small, and it should be their object by increasing that fund, to secure the permanency and sta- Mity of an institution which was so deeply connected with the best interests of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Until their reserved fund was much larger he hoped the question would not be entertained. There was another point to which he wished to allude. He would be glad to know whether some plan might not be devised to hold the annual meetings after the books were closed in June? The CHAIRMAN would he happy to meet the views of the Proprietor, but the Deed was clear upon that point, and they must hold their annual meeting on the fourth Wednesday in May. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, Esq., s3id, as an Irish Shareholder, he could bear testimony that in the agricultural districts of that country their Bank had been productive of a vast deal of good.—( Hear, hear.) During the four years the Bank had been in operation in that agricultural dis trict it had done an immensity of good, and he was happy to say it had never lost one penny.—(Cheers.) He alluded to the district of Mitchelstown, where they had discounted upwards of 300,000/., without having sustained any loss whatever. The people of that part of the country were fully aware of their obligationi to the National Bank, and he could assure the meeting that through it the value of property had been consi derably enhanced.—( Hear, and cheers.) A PROPRIETOR said there was a rumour that they had very heavy debts to meet in Cork. Had they been provided for in the account just stated to the meeting ? The CHAIRMAN said most of the Shareholders were aware that the London Court had not been satisfied with the management at Cork, and that the Manager had been removed. In the anticipation that certain losses might occur, they had made provision for them in the present balance sheet. He would tell them fairly, that some of these losses had occurred, but not to the extent they had anticipated. A. PILOPItIETOIt- --13 it understood that these losses have been so far provided for, that they will not affect the dividend for the present year. The CHAIRMAN—I have already given an intimation that they will not affect the dividend for the present year. I am not warranted i❑ giving anything more than a personal opinion, but there need be no apprehen sion on the subject. A PROPRIETOR—Perhaps the Chairman would state what the amount of the loss is, to prevent any erroneous impression going abroad. The CHAIRMAN-It would be difficult to state what the exact amount of the losses were ; and although I have gone into many minor details, it is not customary to answer these questions at public meetings.—(Hear, hear.) I will state, however, that a sum of 10,0001. has been reserved to meet any losses that may occur at Cork.—( Hear, hear.) A PROPRIETOR—And if there be no considerable loss— The CHAIRMAN—Your profit will be by so much the larger. A PROPRIETOR ( Wheeler, Esq.), said the affairs of the National Bank had been always conducted, so far as he had been able to ascertain, on the broadest, and pl tirwst, and soundest, principles, having nothing whatever to conceal. He believed it was still corylucted on the same principles, and on that account he would beg to ask whether the Proprietors could have access to a distinct and succinct statement of the affairs of the Company. It would be matter of very great satisfaction to him, if , no objection was made from the other side of the table, and that he could receive the intimation that such a statement was accessible to the Shareholders. Another PROPRIETOR (James Hutchinson, Esq.) said, before the Chairman answered the question, he would just remark that he thought the plan proposed would be attended with some danger, if the balance sheet and books of the Company were thrown open promiscuously. He apprehended, however, that if any Member made a special request, and gave a pledge that he would make no extracts from the balance sheet, there would be no objection to show the accounts of the Bank. He recollected at their meeting a year ago, Mr. O'Connell invited the gentlemen present to come and examine the books whenever they pleased ; that he thought was an injudicious and dangerous plan, because any party could easily qualify himself as a Shareholder, and then convey information to a rival establishment. The CHAIRMAN entirely concurred in the propriety of the Shareholders being allowed to inspect the details referred to.—( Hear.) He still, however, remained of opinion, that they ought not to be published, although they would be open to the inspection of any Proprietor who wished to examine them. The results, however, were already before them, and they could draw their own conclusions.—( Heas, hear.) Mr. WHEELER said he was fully satisfied with the answer of the Chairman. The SECRETARY said he would be most happy to afford every information in his power to any gentleman who called upon him the following or any subsequent day.—( Hear.) A PROPRIETOR (Mr. Fox, of Ipswich) asked whether they anticipated that a sum of 10,0001. would be re quired to be set aside for bad debts at Cork for the present year ? The CHAIRMAN saw no probability of any such de mand being made upon their funds. It was impossible to say what was in the womb of time, but at present there was not the most remote probability of it. A PROPRIETOR (Mr. FOWLER NIWIAM) said he elt particularly happy in proposing a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Directors, for the zeal and ability they had shown in the management of the concerns of the Company. He was happy to have an opportunity of stating that their unvarying attention had been the theme of universal approbation out of doors —(Cheers.) He had much satisfaction, therefore, in proposing the warm and cordial thanks of the Proprietors to the Chairman and Directors. The motion having been seconded by Mr. WHEELER, was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks. He felt confident that the Proprietors would not be insensible to the exertions of the Directors, and without saying too much for themselves, he would venture to state that they had deserved it. No men could look more anx iously to the interests of the concern, and they bad on all occasions acted as if it was their own, and exclu sively their own. The Directors fully appreciated the kind mark of their favour that had just been bestowed, and would endeavour to merit its continuance. The meeting then separated. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING- ROOM. The Queen held a Drawing•room yesterday afternoon at St. Janies's-palace.in celebration of her Majesty's Birth- day. The Yeomen Guard wore their Col-en:woo costume. A Gun.rd of Honour of the Life G tiardi. with the Bated !fle Regiment were on they the large Court yard of the Palace, and the Queen's Guard of the Foot Guards were stationed in the Colour-court, and received the members of the Royal Family with militsry honours. The principal Knights of the several Orders of Knight hood wore their respective Collars, and the Cabinet Mi nisters and the Officers of the Royal Household appeared in their full dress costume. The Lord Chancellor came in state attended by his Mace-bearer and Purse-bearer, and the other Equity Judges also wore their State Robes: Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were on duty in the State-rooms. Her Majesty and Suite came in three carriages from Buckingham Palace, with an escort of the Life Guards. Her Majesty was received by the Lord Chamberlain and the Master of the Horse. ne Archbishop of Canterbury entered the Royal Colset, accompanied by the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, Durham, Exeter, Hereford, Ely, Lincoln, Gloucester and Bristol, Norwich, Chichester, Ripon, Chester, Rochester, Kildare, and Nova Scotia, when his Grace delivered a congratulatory address to the Queen. The Duchess of Kent came in state to the Drawing. room, escorted by a party of Life Guards. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Flora Hastings, Lieute nant-General the Hon. Arthur Upton, Captain the lion. Frederick Spencer, and Colonel the Hon. J. H. Caradoc. Her Royal Highness entered the Palace by the Colour court. Her Royal Highness's dress, on this occasion, was composed entirely of British manufacture. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia entered the Palace by the Colour-court. His Imperial Highness was accompanied by Prince Frederick Henry of the Nether lands, and was attended by Vi scount Torrington, and several Noblemen of his suite. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester came in state, attended by Lady Charles Somerset and Colonel Sir Samuel G. Higgins. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge came in state, accompanied by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kerr, Major Stephens, and Baron Knesebeck. The Duke of Sussex, the Princess Sophia Matilda, and the Prince of Leinengen, were also present. Their Imperial, Royal, and Serene Highnesses were ushered to her Majesty in the Royal Closet. The Drawing-room was very numerously and bril liantly attended, the entire suite of State Rooms being filled with the Nobility and Gentry an hour after the doors had been opened for their reception. The Queen and her Illustrious Visitors entered the Throne Room, her Majesty standing in front of the Throne. Her Majesty's suite included the Marchioness of Nor manby, in Waiting, Lady Portman, in Waiting, Mar chiones of Tavistock, Marchioness of Breadalbane, and Lady Lyttelton, Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon. Miss Pitt, in Waiting, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, in Waiting, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Cavendish. Hon. Miss Paget, and the Hon. Miss Lister, Maids of Honour ; Hon. Mrs. G. Campbell, in Waiting ; Lady Charlotte Copley, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Lady Caroline War rington, and Lady Gardiner, Women of the Bedchamber; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, Sir Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting ; Masters Cowell, C aven di s h, Chichester, and Wemyss, Pages of Honour ; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber lain, the Master of the Horse; the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the House hold, and the Clerk Marshal. The Foreign Ministers and their respective Suites were then introduced. In the Circle, the following presentations to her Majesty ok phice Madame C. de Breidenbach de Darmstadt, by a roness de Cetto, the Lady of the Bavarian Minister. Mrs. Van Buren, by Mrs. Stevenson, the Lady of the American Minister. There were present of the Corps Diplomatique, the Russian Ambassador, Reshid Pasha, Ottoman Ambassa dor, and Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter; the Wirtemburg Minister, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer; the Buenos A y rean and Danish Ministers, the B avar i an Mi n i ster a nd the Baroness de Cetto ; the United States Minister and Mrs. Stephenson; the Sardinian, H anover i an , P ortuguese , Saxon, and Spa nish Ministers, the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires and Ma dame Lisboa; the Austrian, French, Swedish, Prussian, Netherlands, Grecian, and Sicilian Charge d'Affaires ; M. Jules de Breidenbach, Secretary of Legation of H.R. H. the Grand Duke of Hesse ; Mr. Henry Brock hoist Livingston, Attache to the United States Legation ; Major Van Buren, son of the President of the United States; Count Revel, Secretary of the Sardinian Lega tion ; M. Macedo, Secretary to the Brazilian Legation ; Baron Bertouch, Attache to the Danish Legation ; M. Negrete, Secretary, and M. B. Muriel, Attache to the Mexican Legation, Chevalier de Paiva Pereira, Attache to the Portuguese Legation ; Baron de Lagos ; Count de Forbin Jauson, Attache to the French Embassy; M. d'Odelga, Secretary of the Austrian Embassy; M. de la Concha, Secretary of the Spanish Legation ; Bishop of Vermont ; Mr. Hughes, Americas Charge d'Affaires at Stockholm ; Mons. Cor, Second Secretary to the Turkish Embassy ; Mr. Zohrah, Ottoman Consul General; Count Woronzow ; Baron B,,hr, his Belgian Majesty's Minister to Turkey ; M. B. Mary, Belgian Charge d'Affaires at the Court of his Grecian Majesty; M. E. Conway, Secretary of his Belgian Majesty ; the Marquis Paul d'Athla, Chamberlain of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria; Marquis Litta Modignani de Milan ; Count Fer dinand de Gaaffe, Chevalier of the Sovereign Order of Jerusalem,and Member of the States of Moravia and Bohemia, Count Kinsky, Count Gneisenau, and M. C. M. de Lima. The Drawing-room was attended by the Captain of th Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard; Viscount Combermerc, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and Consul- General for the Hanse Towns; Mr. George Frederick Dickson, Consul-General from Buenos Ayres; Lord Denman, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; the Master- General of the Ordnance; the Vice- Chancellor ; Sir John M'Neill, G. C. B. ; her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the State of Persia; Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, G. C. H., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; Sir r Henry Parnell, Paymaster General; Hon. Edward Bade , Lieutenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Sir Edwin Pearson, Lieu tenant of the Yeoman Guard ; the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress; Mr. Maule, Under Secretary of the Home Department; Mr. Backhouse and Mr. Phillips, Under Secretaries of State ; the Master of the Cere monies ; Sir Thomas Reece, Standard-bearer to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; the Queen's Advocate ; the Attorney-General ; the Lord Advocate ; the bolicitor-General ; Mr. Thomas Shiffner, Pay master of the Household ; Mr. Sullivan, Deputy Se cretary at War; Mr. Charles \Vond, M. P., Secretary of the Admiralty ; the Adjutant General of the Forces ; the Quarter-Master-General to the Forces; Colonel Ca vendish ; the Clerk Marshal ; Mr. Rich, Groom in Wait ing; Sir George Heulton, Ensign of the Yeomen Guard; Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., G. C. H. ; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., and Mr. Keate, Sergeant-Surgeons to the Queen ; Sir William Burnett, K. C. 11., Physician-General of the Navy; the Dean of Hereford (in waiting), and the Rev. Dr. Short, Deputy-Clerks of the Closet ; Rev. Dr. Dakins, Principal Chaplain to her Majesty's Forces ' • Mr. Sergeant Arabin. Captain Phipp s Hornby, R. N., and Captain Sir A. Green (i n wa i t i ng ) , Naval A. D C.oets to her Majesty; Colonels Wood, Sir James Reynett. Q W u y e n e y n a r ; d , Lieut.-Colonel ..Sir o Adolphusonel Buckley Dalrymple, andcln A. D.e l \Cv.m to h s e , Equerries to the Queen ; Mr. Alderman Johnson and Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood, Sheriff s o f L on d on an d Mid dlesex ; Sir David Wilkie, R. A.. Principal Painter in Ordin..ry to her Majesty ; Captain Pelly, Deputy Master the Trinity House ; Captain Pechell, Royal Navy, Equerry to her Majesty . the Queen D owager; M a j or Stephens, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; the Solicitor-General to the Queen Dowager; Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, Agent for Jamaica; Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoe ; Counsel, ver Stick ; Mr. James Min ce Curlin g , Clerk of the Lieut.-Colonel Hall, Cheque of the Hon. Corps of Gent lemen at Arms; Mr. Eller _ thorpe, Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeomen Guard; M aj or Hyde, Assistant Master and Mars hal of the Ceremonies; Mr. Samuel Hancock and Mr. Parker Nuttall, Exons of the Yeomen Guard ; Mr. Under- Sheriff Langham ; Mr. Under Sheriff Ellis, Rev. Charles Cator, A. M., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Beresford, Groom of the Privy Chamber to the Queen, Lieutenant- Colonel Diggle, Cap tain Green, Mr. Blackwood. Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Strachan, and Mr. Randall, Gentleman Ushers to the Queen, Sir John Morillyon Wilson, C. 8., Gentlemen Usher to the Privy Chamber of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Lieutenant-Colonel Boldero, Grenadier Guards, Captain of the Queen's Guard. The following Ladies were present:— Ducuessee. Somerset, Roxburgh, Richmond, Can niz zero, Dowa ger R ox b urg h e , Beaufort, Dowager Richmond. NIARGIIIONESSES—Downshire, Abcrcorn, Exeter, Lans downe, Dowager Conyngham, Sligo, Cornwallis, Ades bury, Tweeddale, Ely, Thomond, Londonderry. COCNTESSES—Tankerville, Lichfield, Morton, Camper down, Listowel, Manners, Craven, Zetland , De Gre y , Erroll, Mu ns t er , D e La Warre, Beauchamp, Bradford, Dartmouth, De Flahault Dowager Ilchester, Al bemarle, Kinnoull, Durham, Winchilsea and Nottingham, Rosslyn, Brecknock, Morley Huntingdon, Mansfield , Haddington, Verulam, Dowager Chichester, Wemyse and March, Dowager Cowper, Falmouth, (Lucy) Winterton. V ISCOUNTESSES—Combermere, Canning,. Boyle, Ash brook, Barrington, Eastnor, Sydney, Howick, Valletort, Holmesdale, Dowager Andover,, Northland , .Torrington, Bcauclerk,Wheatley, C A a d t e h i e iz r a ine ma C n a n v e e rs ndi a Philipps, B. John. Dungannon. .Mahon, Fred. LADIES —Louisa Jenkinson, Ogle, Eleanore Paget, stone, Harriet Bernard, Byron, ' Le Despencer,. Charlotte Hill, Mary Pierrepont Lilford, Anne Mackenzie, Barton, Langdale, Elizabeth E ' lliot Dowager Cawdor,Mary Thornp. son, Charlotte Guest, Carroll, ' g 1 Neill, Fanny Elliot, Johnston, Elizabeth Hoe Vere, Antrobus, Elizabeth Dun can, Grey Egerton, Worsley, Elizabeth Gore, J. .Douglas, h ulke S l u e d y eleY' Foley, Alice Peel, Paul, Denman, Maria Somerville, Emily Do Prager Rivers, Cecilia Underwood, Byron, Charlotte Egerton, Shaw Stewart Astley Cooper, Barnett, Canning, Catharine B uc kl ey, C o ; ten h am , Stanley, C. L ennox, De Dunstanville, V ernon Aldi s , Gardner, Adelaide F . itzcla renee, Jane L awrenc e P ee l , Adelaide Hay, Brodie, Sal toun, Clifford C onsta bl e C. Wentworth, Fitzwilliam, E. West, Wood, Hamilton, Chatterton, Fanny Howard, Stuart de R o th esay , H a ll, Anne Fitzpatrick, Montfort, L. De Horsey, Caroline Graham, C. G. Lennox, Nugent, Douglas, Dowager Rendl es h am , K. Honoria Cadogan, Gardiner, Clark, A. Loftus, G. Somerset, L. Fitzroy, Dowager Clinton, Grey, Macdonald , Emily Hardinge. M. Christopher, M. L am b ton M. Fox, M. Bl oo m field, F. Cow.. per, Geo. M urray , Seymour,' Pellew, Eliz. Cornwallis, Otway, Poltimore, Caroline Stanhope, Howd en, Glen lyon, Anne B eres f or d , A. Gordon, Fred. Bentinck, Hen rietta Pelham, Jolliffe Mary Grimsto n, Graham, Luc y Pelham, Whatley, Georgiana' Fane, B. Pechell, • kugusta Gordon, A. Beresford, Rolle, F. Smith, G. Wood, J. Murray, L. o,way, W. Stanhope, F. Hope. Louis Cavendish, C. Turnout, Wilmot Horton, Vivian, Andover Hotham, Georgiana Grey, Sherborne, Middleton, L Fitrnaurice, Ouseley, E. Murray, Reynett, Cowley, L Cornwallis, Georgiana Russell, Wharncliff,. Kemeys Louisa Butler, Buchan Hepburn, Laura Waldegrave. Rossmore, Fitzaerald, Wetberall, Otway, Jane Walsh, Barrow, Anna Marria Donkin, Lionel Smith, Katharine Stewart, Butler, Blunt, C. Fitzroy, Cross, Theresa Lister, Caroline Strangways, Elizabeth Wathen, Georgians Codrington, Stephenson, Price, A. Lennox, Montagu, Maria West, Hardy, Mary Berkeley, Dowager Clinton, Vincent, Arabella Orden, M. Stewert, Anne Wilbraham, Watson, Jenkins, Charlotte Hay, Langham, A. Stuart, ' Louisa Hay, Augusta Padagan, Sarah Ingestre, Munro, Frankland Russell, M. Hamlyn Williams, Vaux, Caroline Campbell, Nightingale, Sandford, Graham, Catherine Lesbc, Anne M. Courtenay, Houlton, Heytesbury, M. Hill, Clerk, Braybrooke, Kinnaird, Hulse, F. Ley, Morgan, Jane Charteris Maclaine, Hanmer, Gerard, Colchester, Coote, D. Gordon, Cosset. HONOURABLES—Miss Gage, Mrs. Coulson, Mrs. Caven dish, Mrs. Fraser, Miss Fraser, Mrs. Edward Butler, Georgiana Foley, Geraldine Foley, Miss Forester, Mrs. Maule, Mrs. George E. Anson, Mrs. Henry Keppel, Miss Hanbury Tracy, Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, Miss Fanny Hanbury Tracy, Mrs. Thomas Erskine, Mrs. Law, Mar garet Denman, Mrs. Edward Petre, Mrs. B. Wilbraham, Emily Thellusson, Lady Napier, Baroness Strathede, Charlotte Barrington, Mrs. Westenra, Mrs. Montagu, Ledy Lumley, Mrs. William Herbert, Mrs. Vanneck, Louisa Knox, Mrs. Warrender, Miss Gore, Mrs. Heath cote, Miss Eden, Mrs. Keppel, Miss A'Court, Mrs. Spen cer, Lady Cockburn, Lavinia Lyttleton, Sophia Thellus son, Miss Abercromby, Lady Pellew, Caroline Lyttelton, Mrs. Pechell, Mary Hope Johnstone, Mrs. Peregrine Crest, Miss Stuart, Harriet Browne, Georgiana Barring ton, Mrs. John Talbot, Mrs. Carleton, Miss Flower, Mrs. Charles Ponsonby, Miss Neville, Mrs. Villiers, Mrs. Dun das, Mrs. George Ponsonby, Mrs.. George Leigh, Miss 0. Callaghan, Mrs. Philips, Mrs. Langdale, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs. Blackwood, Miss Wrottesley, Mary Wrottesley, Lady Borough, Mrs. Maunsell, Miss Pellew, Mrs. O'Grady, Mrs. Rushout, Mrs. Leigh, Phipps, Mary Knox, Lady Cockburn, Miss Alphinstone de Flahault, Mrs. Abercrombie, Mrs. R, Currie. MISTRESSES—Bates, Shafts Adair, Backhouse, Daniel Tyssen, Canning, Colquhoun, Myddelton Biddulph, Thesiger, Maltby, Robert Alexander, H enr y Tuf nell, Charles! Archibald, Blomfield, Howley, Mundy, Hulton, Spicer, Waymouth, Long, Affie c k, Banner man, Lane Fox, Wood, Hamilton Story, Henry Fergusson, L. Dickson, John Abel Smith, H. Moreton Dyer, Richard Wildman, Strutt, Fred. Elliot, Wm. Dickson, Wickham, Davies, Herbert, Middleton, Sykes, Crompton Stansfield, James M'Queen, Arbuthnot,Trent, Wynne Pendarves, Cavendish, Henry Colville, Ed. Rice, Stonor, Lynar Fawcett, Jobn Wood, Wm. Stuart, Inglis, Dawson, Otter, Chambers, Daniel Gaskell, Pack Reading, W. Villiers Stuart, Clementson,Wyndham, Samuel Platt, Hedworth Lambton, Fenwick, Elwood, Birch Reynardson, Allen Dosset, Birkbeck, Milner Gibson, Bethell, Henry Ellis, Coulson, Marx. DUKES—Rutland, Roxburgh, Wellington, Richmond, Beaufort. MARQUlSES—Westminster, Granby, Downsbire, Dou glas, Anglesea, Salisbury, Queensberry, Normanby, Lans downe, Sligo, Exeter, Thomond, Ormonde, Abercorn. EARLS—Bandon, Tankerville, Liverpool, Lovelace, Camperdown, Craven, Moray, Falmouth, Clarendon, Morton, Listowel, Charlemont, Waldegrave, Glengall, Sefton, Mayo, Brecknock, Huntingdon, Dartmouth, Beau cham, Bradford, Wilton, Ripon, Erroll, De Grey, Mun ster, Kinnoull, Minto, Fingall, Grey, Spencer, Winchil sea and Nottingdam, Haddington, Cadogan, Zetland, Cawdor, Rosslyn, Lincoln, Shelburne, Mansfield. VISCOUNTS—.BoyIe, Powerscourt, Canning, Ingestrie, Maidstone, Lake, Barrington, Palmerston, Melbourne, Howick, Sydney, Holmesdale, Lissmore, Eastnor, Folke• stone, Loftus, Cantilupe, Andover, Gage. LORDS—Langdale, Dinorben, Gardner, Talbot de Ma lahide, Lilford, Barham, Kinnaird, Saltoun, Sudeley, Vernon, Wrottesley, William Russell, Carrington, Hill, Glenelg, Morpeth, Lyndhurst, Bexley, Poltimore, Heytes bury, Cowley, Frederick Gordon, Burghersb, Forester, Mahon, Granville :Somerset, Saye and Sele, Dunboyne, George Quin, James Butler, Charles P. Clinton, Oran more, Grimston, Lyttleton, Montagu, Rivers, De Freyne, Stavordale, Marcus Hill, Seymour, Colchester, Kotham. Ancumsnot—Armagh. BlSHOPS—Chichester, Elphin. JUDGES—Erskine, Bosanquet. RIGHT HONOURABLES—Sir Charles Grey, G. C. H., Sir Alexander Johnston, Henry Pierrepont, Sir R. Adair, Sir W. Fremantle, G. C. H., Thomas Courte na y, Si r G. Grey, M. P., Sir Stratford Canning, James Abercromby, J. C. Herries, H. Labouchere, Sir Charles R. Vaughan, Major General Sir H. Hardinge, George Dawson, Lieut. General Sir George Murray, Sir Gore Ouseley, G. C. H., Henry Ellis, W. Sturges Bourne, Sir E. Thornton, G. C. 8., Charles Law, M. P., Q. C., Charles Hanbury Tracy, Wm. Noel, M. P., William Bathurst, H. Boyle Bernard, Cap- tain Geo. Campbell, R. N., Arthur Dillon, John Talbot Charles Hope, M. P., R. B. Wilbraham, Captain Keppel R. N., Captain Pelham, R. N., Captain Cust, MajorKep. . . pel, Rev. H. H. Courtenay, R. Pepper Arden, G. H Cavendish, H. R. Westanra, Gilbert Talbot, Chas. Pon. sonby, Captain Grey, R.N., James Bruce, Rev. W. Hen niker, H. Cholmondeley, J. 0. Murray, George Stuart, E. H. Grimston, John Stuart, Cecil Forester, Thomas K, , ox, Lieut.-Colonel O'Grady, R. S. Carew, George Ponsonby, J Charles Dundas. SIRS—R. Bulkelty Philipps, Bart., Charles Wetherell, Charles Seudamore, Geo. Carroll, J. Johnstone, J Shelly, Bart., Felix Booth, Bart., Edmund Antrobus, Bart., James Clark, Bart., William Somerville, R. Shafto Adair, Bart., John J. Hensler, John Guest, Francis Chautrey. MISTRESSMS-Morier, H. Gibbons, Robert, Gosling, Sperling, Cballoner, Russell, Charles Twisleton, Stave ley, Samuel Whitbread, Richard Wingfield, Macnamara, Irving, Battie Wrightson, Davidson, Berkeley Paget, W. Watson, Fitzgerald, Hawkins, N. Bland, Henry Petre, J. Leander Starr, Garland, Conolly, Bagshaw, General White, Ashton Yates, E. Monk, Dawson, Ainsworth, Danley Harcourt, Vernon Smith, Mosley, Nassau Sut ton, Green, Wilkinson, Merewether, O'Connor, Robert Biddulph. MissEs—Blake, Colquhoun, Katharine Colquhoun, Wheatley, Mary Wheatley, Coutts, Fanny Back house, Jane Backbouse, Pole, Antrobns, Anne Antro bus, Shaw Stewart, Dormer, Parker, Katherine Stewart, Johnston, Frederica :Johnston, Long Wel lesley, Georgiana Byrne, Canning, Julia Canning, Blomfield, Letitia Otway, Tindal, M. Stuart Otway. Marx, Barrow, Law, Henrietta Beauclerk, Myddelton Biddulph, Cavendish, Fountaine, Fraser, Napier, Mary Marx, Bur- . _ nett, Fanny Burnett, Cottin, Byrne, Christina Leslie, Charlotte Parker, Hope Vere, Sophia Hope Vere, Brad ford, G. Vernon Harcourt, Ouseley, Merewether, Legard, Fanny Stephenson, Isabella Stephenson, Hulton, Spar ling, Martin, Wyndham, Diana Ponsonby, Fenwick, Allen, Butler, Achmuty, Vanneck, Sturges Bourne, Karr, Madelina Kerr, Langdale, Charlotte Lang- dale, Cross, Reeves, Georgiana Reeves, Bethel Maunsell, Pardoe, Hill, Birkbeck, Sykes, Dutton, Suli van, Mary Sulivan, Jones, Pellew, Moreton-Dyer, Chi chester, Heyes, Wellesley, Gardiner, Wethered, Ward, Crawford. Wood, Beresford, Stuart, Conolly, Vyse, Howard Vyse, Wellesley, Herbert, Fielding, Scott, Quin, Montague, Home Drummond, Frances Wood, Courtenay Boyle, Baillie, Emma Reynardson, Seymour, Langham, Dickson, Eliza Harriet Dickson, Vivian, Frankland, Alston, Ley, Caroline Frankland, Grey, Pierrepont, Carle ton, Biddulph, Heneage, White, Hamilton, H. A. Clerk, A. Moreton Dyer, Green Wilkinson, Mellish. Rice, Hulsh, Harriett Beresford, Elizabeth Inglis, West, Coote, Clementson, Maria Green Wilkinson, Caroline Clayton, Alice Duff Gordon, Jane Codrington, Emma Codrington, Maria Codrington, Isabella Clerk, Sophia Cator, Emma Cator, Lucy Bernal, Maria Dickson, Marria Herries, Isabella Herries, Louisa Wynyard, Smith, Letitia D'Arcy Irvina, Isabella Smith, Cumming Bruce, Murray, Frances Murray, Constance Biddulph, Horatia Morier, Mary Morier, M. A. E. Thackeray, Catherine Hawkins, Elizabeth Hawkins, Anne Maria Cotton, Isabella Sutton, Anna Maria Sutton, Emma Tylney Long, Janetta Gosset, Susan Murray, Gertrude Murray. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were also pre- sent:-- SIRS-Philip Grey Egerton, Arthur Chichester, Peter Laurie, Philip Durham, Charles Aldis, Frederick Pollock, C. Rushout Cockerell, James Duke, M. P., T. Buchan Hepburne, M. P., Hesketh Fleetwood, M. P., Benjamin Hall, M.P., W. R. Clayton, M.P., Thomas Butler, Robert Price, M. P., Walter James, George Staunton, Bart., M. P., J. Rae Reid, Bart., M. P., David Dundas, Bart., Claudius Hunter, George Hamilton, J. Hamlyn Williams, John Hanmer, F. Roe, John Rennie, John Bar row, Charles Lemon, William Chatterton, William J. Newton, Harris Nicolas, Thomas Usher, Matthew Wood, David Brewster, R. Frankland Russell, George Clerk, Watkin Pell, John Hall, De Lacy Evans, Dndley Hill, Clifford Constable, Minto Farquhar, J. Pearl, R. Jenkins, M. P., Thomas Gage, G. Wood, Wm. Gosset, J. Writ villa, J. Walsh, H. Verney, C. H. Coate, T. Baring, J. B. Peelle T. H. Curteis, William Middleton, J. Gerard, J. Whatley. ARCHDEACON-Venables. REV. DOCTORS-Kuper, Foord Bowes, Dibdin, Da kins, Schwabe, Thackeray, Bowles, Haldane, Biuney. DOCTORS-Granville, Lardner, urke, Arnott, Gordon, Thomson, Lush, J. S. Newbigging, Plenderleath, Bowen, Adolphus. REV. MESSIEURS-Joseph Jackson, C. Wetherell, J. Massy Dawson, Burrell Hayley, John Allen, John Abbess, John Coles, B. Porteus, J. C. B. Warren, C. Twisleton, E. Scobell, J. Bythesia, A. Walbaum, H. Morrell, J. D. Dundas, W. W. Ellis, W. Temple, J. H. Dakins, W. S. Rowe, R. Knox, S. Leggett, J. Davis. ALDERMAN Hyndman. MESSIEURS—Edward Foley, Young, Thesiger, Q. C., Robert Alexander, Q. C., George Chilton, Q. C., Thos. Joshua Platt, Q. C., Philip Williams, Q.C., Andrews, Q. C., Shafto Adair, Crowder, Q. C., Selby, David Pol lock, Q. C., C. D. A rc hibald, Skerrow, Q.C., Shaw Le fevre, H. W. Pickersgill, R. A , Josiah Wilson, Maule, Henry Reeve, Granville J. Penn, William Chicheley Plowden, Mackenzie (of Seatwell), Brand, Montagu Parker, M.P. Jay, Q.C., Donaldson Selby, John M'Cul- Sanford;Coulson, Charles H. C. Plowden, Hamilton Story, Vaughan, Henry Tufnell, Alfred Dowling, Briscoe, M. P., William S. Sands, Affleck, J. Gwilt, William Penn, J. Booth, Bannerman, Seale, W. C. Ross, G. Cochrane, Spicer, R. Stuart, M. P., H. Tufnell, H. Adair, G. E. Anson, Cumming Bruce, T. Gisborne Knox, Edgar Disney, Alexander, De Horsey, Moreton Dyer, James Scott, Lau rence Peel, Edward Protheroe, M.P., Frederick Calvert, Jones, R. Wingfield, John Abel Smith4J. Whatman, Pen darves, Norman Macdonald, J. R. B. Wingfield, Villiers Tuthill, Greenfield, E. Sheppard, Lloyd, S. F. Dickson, William Hamilton, Jos. Maxwell, Moare, Aug. Frederick Codd, Henry spencer Cooper, Rowland Alston, Stonor, Herbert, Kirk, M.P., H. S. Thompson, Climenston, Charles Thos. Stanley, Or. P. 13 usbe, John Lyne, J. At kins Davis, Heyward John St. Leger, Herbert Woodhouse, Mellish, Beech, W. P. Hunter, Thoyts, Charles Stewart, Trafford, W. Anketell, P. Somerset, Greene, M. P., J. Lam bert, Vaughan, Turnbull, B. Wrigton, Carvick, C. Crad dock, E. Howley Helmer, Dillon Trent, Gordon Rebrow, John Tyndale, James, Cayley, M.P., Sartdprs, John Scott, William Henry Wright, Parrott, M. P., Culling Soaith, Sheffield Grace, Pemberton, Robert Rolland, Ilvdworth Lamlaton, James O'Brien, Pemberton, lobert Stewart, Carmichael Smyth. King;mill, The ,dory Price. H. Moreton Dyer, William Turner, T. Bodding ton, Redington, Arthur Balfour, G. H. Bainbridge, G R. Robinson, Bloomfield, Sully, Flood, G. A. "Fisher, ichard Wadliarn, Goulburn, Wallace, Mosley. Keate, Charles Clive, John Merriman, St John Baker, D. Stewart Ker, Halswell, Robert Purvis, Lister, Charles Stronge, Plunkett, Morgan O'Connell, M. P., Robert Holland, M.P., Henry Spencer Cooper, Gibson Car michael, Hedley, Mitchell, W. F. White, Josiah Wil ion, Lloyd Williams, E. Moore, Fielden, Borges, Gibbons, Frederick Pollock, Geo. O'Malley Irwin, Batard, N. Leader, Middleton Berry, Wardlaw Ramsey, Barry, M. P. Vaughan Jackson, Samuel Platt, Bolton Edenborough, Bernard Beamish, M.P., N. Bland, E. B. Roche, Pem berton, Edward Rice, M. P., Straubenzie, Hulton, Packe, M. P., Balfour, Raikes Currie, M.P. Gordon Gill, Frederick Howard, Robert Gosling, John Eld, Divett, Leonard Thompson, Richard Bourne, Archbold, Henry Petre, Henry Alexander, William Honeywood, W. Judd, Strutt, Barwick Baker, Brotherton, M. P., Crawford, M. P., J. M. E. Roche, Buckeley Johnson, Morgan John O'Connell, M. P., Bagshaw, Hamilton Gorges, Seale Hayne, Mosley, Fitz Gerald, Warrender, V. Smith, A. J. Neale, Boddington, H. Hughes, R. Bourne, C. Boothby, Middleton, Vizard, Ley, Challoner, Miles Stapleton, Par rott, M. P., Val Morris, Irwing, Beecher, G. B. Dawson, Bernal, M. P., Edgar Garland, Annesley, Macnamara, Mellish Chambers, Cavendish, Kater, Biddulph, Richard Wildman, John Wood, James Merrieman, Frederick El liot, Drewe, Frederick J. Morris, Green Wilkinson, Stave ley, Hockley F. Wood, Barclay de Mountenay, Ca vendish, Harding, O'Con or Don, W. B. Diamond, Babbage, Crompton Stanfield, M. P., Lumley, E dward M. Archibald, Robert Forsyth Maitland, Childers,M. P., Hussey, Pollen, Speirs, Robert Bellew, M.P., Douglas Stewart, Milner Gibson, Maunsell, M. P., G. 'Philips, M.P., Wilbraham, Alexander Lambton, Davidson, Al ston, George James Knox, Maynard, D. J. Jones, Talbot Patterson, Babbage, Arthur Robinson, Bowyer, Fitz Stephen French, C. L. Courtenay, G. Heatbcote, M. P., Ainsworth, M. P., David Salomons, Grainger, Harcourt, Robertson. GENERALS.—Hon. Sir Wm. Lumley, Lord Bloomfield, Sir Henry Wheatley, G. C. 8., Sir Charles Thornton, Sir George Anson, Sir Robert Barton, Sir Frederick Wetherall, E. Boardman, Sir R. Dundas, Geo. Michell, Sir T. Bradford, Thackeray, Delamotte, Sir H. Watson, Reeves, White, Hon. H. Murray, Sir J. Straton, Sir L. Otway, Wulff, E. Wallace, E. Frederick, Sir C. Egerton. Sir T. Arbuthnot, Stanhope, Sir P. Ross, Sleigh, Sir Arthur Clifton, Sir John Buchan, Sir F. Trench, B. Reynardson, Sir Wm. Johnston, Sir F. Gardiner, Sir J. Colburn, Dickson, Sandwich, Edward Walker, Sir Chas. Dalbiac, Sir L. Grant, Sir I. Macleod, Sir 0. Carey, Sir F. Mulcaster, Alexander, Sir R. Donkin, Sir J. C. Crosbie. ADMIRALS-Sir Charles Ogle, Honyman, Sykes, White, Sir R. Hussey Hussey, Sir H. Heathcote, E. W. Browne, Sir W. Parker, Sir E. Codrington, R. Thomas, Sir B. Martin. COLONELS—Sir Samuel G. Higgins, O'Reilly, Peel, Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Webster, Sir A. Maclaine, Teuling, Angelo, H. R. Hartley, Sir R. Mowbray. Baron Osten, Ferguson, C. S. Campbell, Copland, Elwood, Kearney, Findlay, Schreiber, Wm. Miles, Macintosh, Freestun, Sir B. Carnac, Daniell, Money, Sir H. Towns.. hend, Sir F. Stovin, Greenwood, Llewellyn, York, Parke, Webber, H. N. Douglas, Owen, Hon. Charles Phipps, Sir F. Watson ' Wood, Conolly, M. P., Cochr ane , Clinton, Cox, Davies, Hulse, Sir J. M. Doyle, Pratt, S. Cowell, Wm. Jones, Arbuthnot, Evatt, C a me ro n, A us t en , R. Wallace, H. Colville, Sir H. Seymour. MAJORS—Waymouth, Lord A. Lennox, Sir J. J. Ha milton, Vivian, B. Edwards, Hartley, Hamilton, Mae. Queen, Anderson, G. Higgins, Trevelyan, Sir H. Bayly, Young, Matson, Bruce, Cooke, Marshall, J. Anderson, Chetwynd, M.P., Sweetman, Trevor, Kelly, Elliot, E. W. Drewe, Bevan, C. Irvine, Spong. CAPTAINS—W. F. Hutton, Hon. George Grey, R.N., Stanley Clarke, Cator, R.N., Sir George Seymour, R.N., W. F. Lapidge, R. N., Herringham, Jodwell Leigh, R. N., Watson, E. Lloyd, R.N., K. H., Frederick Wm. Hamil ton, Majendie, Trent, Standish Deane Grady, Beauchamp St. John, Daniel Tyssen, Crosbie, Stuart, E. N. Scott, Rayner, Bowles, R. N., Sir Thomas Usher, Ellis, Sir L. Fleming Senhouse, R.N., S. Price, R.N., Finucane, Collard, J. Johnson, John Cooper, Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, R.N., Chappell, R.N., Willoughby Mon tague, Robert Maunsell, C. 8., Grace, R. N., W. Stewart, Newell, Badcock, R.N., F. V. Cotton, R. N., A. Wathen, Home Purves, H. L. Thomas, Corbally, George Smith, R.N., Hindmarsh, R.N., Donat H. O'Brien, R.N. C. H. Johnson, Dundas, Berford, Kelso, L o thi an Dickson, Jaffray Nicholson, John lanes, M. G. White, L. M‘Lean, Marsh Hughes, Robe, Lynar Fawcett, Octavius Vernon Harcourt, R. N., Meek, Meynell, C. Knox, Murray, Fair, R. N., Sir Spencer Vassal!, R. N., G. A. Smith, Essey,Mur. ray, R.N., De Starck, R.N., Norwich Duff, R.N., Chas. Verreker, R.N., Sainthill, R.N., Powell, R.N., Wallace, Astley Younghusband, J. G. Richardson, Craven Berke ley, Maugham, Shea, Delamaine, Onslow, Edw. Stanley, R. N., Herbert Jacob, Hodgson, Steuart, Waldegrave. R.N., Howard Galion, Brew, John Carter, R.N., Chas. Bagot, Wilson, H. A. Newman, Trotter, R. N., Jervis, Edwards, Matthew White, Thornton, R.N., Richard Wil braham, William O'Connor, Hamilton, Hon. H. Dillon, R.N., Jervis, Hine, Trafford, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bart., C. B. COMMANDERS —Hon. Joseph Denman, Butterfield, J. R, R. Webb, Fitzgerald, De Saumarez, H. G. Hamilton , Hon. W. Devereuz, S. E. Coot, J. B. Hay, Wm. Aden W. G. H. Whish, Otway, H. Vere Huntley, Farrant Dunn, R. Eden, H. G. Hamilton. LINUTZNANTS-Charles Edmund Law, Pelly, R. N., Riddell, Hicks, M' Intyre, H. Coode, R.N., G. A. Fisher, A. S. L. Hay, H. F. Gustard, E. La Mesurier, R. N., Calland, Walford, Oldmixon, R. N., A. C. Dawson, R. N., S. J. L. Nicoll, Hawker, R. N., Taylor, Ottley, Savage, T. D. Steward, R.N., W. H. Goddard, R.N., Baker, Irvine, Whalley Master, G. Skipwith, R. N., H. Woodward, F. M‘Gregor, R. N., G. Spring, R. N., R. Fergusson, M. P., Drummond, Jenkinson, Farquharson, J. Freestun, R. N., R. B. Gwilt, W. Warde, Labal mondiere, Senhouse, R. R., C. E. Joad, H. Smythe, Wm. Money, H. F. Voules, J. Ewart, Wm. Herries, Charteris, B. Haines, F. C. Colton, J. Homfray, Ste phens, J. F. Daniell, Mends, R. N. CORNETS.—PoIIock, Wm. Barnett. ENSIGNS.—E. Walker, H. Warre, A. Wallace, C. Woodhouse, Crofton, C. W. Tupper, A. Leslie, F. B. Manley. State dinner parties in honour of the day were given by Viscount Melbourne, as First Lord of the Treasury, at his residence in Downing-street, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Roxburghe, the Marquis of Westminster, Anglesea, and Queenbery, Earls Suencer, Lovelace, Camperdown, Clarendon, Oxford, Zetland, Morley, Lichfield, and Craven, Lords Vernon, Seaford, Barham, Dinorben, Kinnaird, Leigh, Talbot de Malahide, and Wenlock, Hon. William Cowper, and Mr. George Edward Anson. Lord John Russell, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, gave a dinner at Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle street, to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Denman, Lord Langdale, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, the Vice-Chancel lor, Lord Abinger, the Judge of the Admiralty, Judges Littledale, Coleridge, Pattison, Williams, Bosanquet, Coltman, Erskine, Vaughan, Barons Parke, Gurney, Al derson, the Speaker, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Johnson and T. Wood, Lord Morpeth, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Sir Matthew Wood, Mr. Pattison, M. P., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Hon. Fox Ms.ule, Mr. Phillipps, and the Hon. Charles Gore. Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, gave a dinner at his official residence, in Down ing -street, to all the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers. The Attorney-General gave a dinner to the Queen's Counsel at the Thatched-house, St. James's-street. Her Majesty's Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms, dined together at the Freemasons' Tavern, to celebrate her Majesty's birthday. At the Queen's Levee on Wedaesday, M. Jules de Briedenbach, Secretaire de Legation de S. A. R. le Grand Due de Hesse, was presented to the Queen, in the Diplomatic Circle, by the Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen presented Addresses at the Levee : The Earl of Zetland, from upwards of 1,500 inhabi tants of the city of York, congratulating her Majesty on the retention in office of a Liberal Administration and expres sing their delight that her Majesty had maintained unim paired her constitutional prerogative, ; also an Address to a similar effect from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Council lors of the borough of Richmond, in Council assembled ; and Addresses to a similar effect from the Vestry of St. Marylebone, from Braintree, and from St. Andrews. Mr. Archbold, from the parish of Kildare, County of Kildare, approving of the Government of Lord Normanby in Ireland, and praying for the continuance in office of her Majesty's present Ministers. Lieut.-Colonel Waldo Sibthorp, from the City of Lin coln, imploring her Majesty to call to her councils men of sound Constitutional principles, and to dismiss the present Ministers, as wholly unworthy of confidence and dangerous to the throne and people. Viscount Powerscourt, from the Bath Church of ling land Lay Association, praying that her Majesty " will not sanction any measure recommended by the Board of Eccle siastical Commissioners, until the Church herself, through her authorised Ministers, shall have duly considered and approved the same." And also a petition from Daniel Har rison, of Bath, "praying that he may receive a pension for services rendered as a Sergeant in the 9th Regiment of Infantry, during the Peninsular war, and on various other grounds therein recapitulated." Mr. Sanford— From the Town of Wivelsicombe, So merset, expressive of loyalty and devotion. Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun., M. P.—From the inhabitants of the parish of Aberystwith, Monmouthshire, expressive of their disapprobation of the proceedings of the Chartists, of loyalty towards her Majesty's Royal person, and of attachment to the institutions of the country. Earl Stanhope—From the Vestry of Shoreditch, against the Metropolitan Police and Metropolitan Courts Bill. Mr. John Holmes, High Bailiff of Southwark, accom panied by a deputation, consisting of Mr. John Humphery, M. P., Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, M. P., Mr. Seymour Teulon, Mr. Apsley Pellatt, and Mr. George R. Corner. From the electors of the borough of Southwark, expressive of admiration of her Majesty's firmness, and confidence that the Ministers called to her Councils will pursue such a course of policy as shall m'ost benefit the Empire. The Hon. Charles Ponsonby M.P., and Mr. George Philips, M.P.—From the inhabitants of Poole, humbly thanking her Majesty for her firmness in resisting t the pro position for dismissing the Ladies of her Majesty's Household. Lord Wenlock—From the city of York. Sir Thomas Troubridge and Sir her RfirumfanneessD, and praying Deal, thanking her Majesty fo r that her Majesty will continue her confidence to a Liberal Administration. Mr. Edward Bolton Clive, CndhiecfeSutneewilalordrs of of the City Hereford ; from the Mayor, Aldermen, and of Hereford to her, Majesty. M.P., from Berkhampstead, Bishop Stoll forMd,r.HAemlsetoln H em pstead, em pstead, Sabrid tworth and T r i n g, the county of Hartford f expressing their admiration and thank,. to her Maj:-.!sty, and assuring 11... r Maj .sty of tit, it at►ach ment, loyalty, and dc.votion. Mr. Poynder, a petition from Truro, praying that the civil and military functiotiares of India. !ray he released from the ohliation to tyke part in, or off•r homage at, the ceremonies of He ttlienism ; also to present his ad (lces, at the India House on the 20 h March lase, proving the erroneous and defective character of the Directors' despatch of Bth August last. THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION. NORMAL SCHOOL.—To found a school, in which candidates for the office of teacher in schools for the poorer classes may acquire the knowledge necessary to the exercise of their future profession, and may be prac tised in the most approved methods of religious and moral training and instruction. MODEL SCHOOL.—This school to include a model school, in which children of all ages, from three to four teen, may be taught and trained, in sufficient numbers to form an infant school, as well as schools for children above seven. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.—ReIigious instruction to be considered as general and special. Religion to be combined with the whole matter of in struction, and to regulate the entire system of discipline• Periods to be set apart for such peculiar doctrinal in struction as may be required for the religious training of the children. To appoint a chaplain to conduct the religious instruc tion of children whose parents or guardians belong to the Etablished Church. The parent or natural g uardian of any other child to be permitted t o s e cure the attendance of the licensed minister of his own persuasion, at the period appointed for special religious instruction, in order to give such instruction apart. To appoint a licensed minister to give such special religious instruction wherever the number of children in attendance on the model school belonging to any re ligious body dissenting from the Established Church, is such as to appear to this Committee to require such special provision. A portion of every day to be devoted to the read ing of the Scriptures in the school, under the general direction of the Committee, and superintendence of the rector. Roman Catholics, if their parents or guardians require it, to read their own version of the Scriptures , either at the time fixed for reading the Scriptures, or at the hours of special instruction. To arrange the classes in separate rooms or sections of the same apartment, divided by partitions, so as to enable the simultaneous method to be applied to 40 or 50 children of similar proficiency. To adopt means to assemble a greater number of children for simultaneous instruction on subjects not so technical as to require a division into classes of 50. To include instruction in industry as a special depart' ment of the moral training of the children. To give such a character to the matter of instructio n in the school as to keep it in close relation with the con" dition of workmen and servants, Besides the physical training of the children in va rious employments, to introduce such exercises durini the hours of recreation as will develope their strength and activity. To render the moral training of the children at a times an object of special solicitude. NORMAL SCHOOL. To provide apartments for the residence of the candi date teachers. To construct the class-rooms so as to afford the candidate teachers an opportunity of attending each clan* in the Model School without distracting the attention of the children or of the teacher. To provide means for the instruction of the candidate teachers in the theory of their art, and for furnishing them with whatever knowledge is necessary for s uccess in it. To appoint a rector to give lectures on the m ethod and matter of instruction, and on the whole art of training children of the poor. To regulate the reading and exercises of the candidate teachers, and to e xamine them. To determine the order in which they met be admitted to the practice of their art in the s chool , and at length intrusted with the conjoint management of classes ; and to superintend their ultimate examina tion, subject to the rules of this Committee. The religious instruction of the candidate teachers their unless to form an essen ti a l an d prominent element of the studies, and no certificate to be grante d a ttested authorised r e li g i ous teac h er h av e previously d his confidence i n th e c h aracter, re ligious knovvle and zeal of the c an did ate w h ose re li g i o us instruction has superintended. The litigious i ns t ruct i on o f a ll ca ndidate teachers con nected with the Established Church to be committed to the chaplain, and the s p ec i a l r e ligious instruction to be committed (in any ca se i n w hi c h a wish to that effect is expressed) to the licensed minister of the religious per suasion of the candidate teacher, who is to attend the school at stated periods, to assist and examine the can didate teachers in their reading on religious subjects, and to afford them spiritual advice. The candidate teachers in all other respects to con form to such regulations as respects the entire internal economy of the household as may be issued by the rector, with the approval of this Committee. To provide accommodation in the Model School for at least 450 children, who should lodge in the house hold—viz., 120 infants, 200 boys and girls receiving ordinary instruction, and 50 boys and 50 girls receiving superior instruction, and 30 children probably absent from sickness or other causes. To establish a day school of 150 or 200 children of all ages and both sexes, in which the candidate teachers may realise the application of the best methods of in struction, under the limitations and obstructions which must arise in a small village or town day school. GRANTS TO SOCIETIES.—A grant not exceeding 2,5001. to be made to the National Society, and this British and Foreign School Society, for the establish' ment of their Normal Schools, but no further grant t ° be made. SECRETARY AND INSFECTORS.--TO appoint a Se° re. tart'. To appoint insp ec t ors , not excee di ng at fi rs t tyvo in number, to carry on an inspection of schools which have been or may be h erea ft er a id e d b y grants o f Pubn o . money, and to convey to cond uc t ors an d teachers 0 private schools in different parts of the c ountry a knowi ledge of all improvements in the art of teaching, an, likewise to rep or t t o thi s C omm i ttee the progre ss ow" in education from year to year. GRATUITIES TO TEACHERS.—.T O grant gratuities to such teachers as may appear to deserve encouragament; GRANTS FOR BUILDING SCHOOLS. Not to adher . Na invariably to the rule which confines grants to the Nal tional Society and the British and Foreign Selgat. Society, and not to give the preference in all cas es . ; w o is ever to the school to which the largest proPn r "" - h a lf subscribed. To advance in no case more than one7a of the expense of building a school. To e s P eri ` L nue grants for the building of schools not more in a l l - year than 10,0001. A marriage in extremis took place at Kon i g s, berg on the 6th instant, under the following ci rcu a c 6, stances t ---A widow, named Kirnheimscher, age 7 being on h er d eat h - b e d , w i s h ed to bequeath the exten sive brewery of w hi c h s h e was mistress, and all her other Pre; perty, to a young man who was her foreman, and to vib e ; long and faithful se rv i ces s h e chiefly attributed her p ro. ; perity. H er l awyers h a d i nformed her that she co uld tint defeat the claims of the collateral branches of her family' and upon this, resolving to adopt the only mode of sons veyance left, she married the object of her good will, an diod in the evening of the same day. The sudden departure of the eldest scion of a noble house, and brother of two fair debutantes of last a ; son, is, we believe, inti mate l y connecte d w i t h an "argot de cceur." We proph ec y hi s L or d s hi p w ill soon recove r ' being full young to know his own mind, r urt BERLIN, MAY 13.—We h ear t h a t the tic , - expects a visit this summer from the Empress of Rus g i i t who will go to the baths of E ms . I t i s probable b e new fete of the Imperial family of Russia may theii i ., o celebrated in the b eau tif u l coun t ry of the Taunus. L. Imperiai Pri nce Al exan d er i s said to have fixed his chow on a youthful daughter of a Prince in the South o f Gf i r many, already connecte d b y marr i age w i th a Royal family in Southern Germany, and with that of Prussia. ,-Ily Among the e ff ec t s o f t h e remarkably ehupi seather of the forme r p ar t o f t h e present month, lin g ; r al the destruction in d,fferent parts of this county f cL . e sheep, which hav e di e d o f co ld s ta k en wh i le being crest The clip is now becoming genera l, b ut t h ere i s very state stagnation in the wool t ra d e , ow i ng to t h e di strac ted ;4 be of the country. It is th o u g ht, h owever that there yr" some stir in this branch shortly. Th e p r i ces o f the article in this county has been stationary for some time at 20 5 . 21s. per stone.—Hereford Journal. On Wednesday and Thur s d a y n i g hts the sever est and most destructive f ro st we ever reco ll ec t a t this peri od of the year caused sad ha voc i n the gardens--the ear ly crops of kidney beans and pease were completely cut nu and the potatoes, wall fruit, apples, and pears, m uch " jured, to the serious loss of the market gardeners; the %I fruit trees are generally affected with blight and insec ts ' and will require much exertion and care to preserve then from being materially injured. We believe few gardeners can recollect the frost affecting the asparagus to the ellen' experienced on Wednesday and Thursday nights.-- j-jere ford Journal. We understand that John Stuart Blackie, Esq" a member of the Scotch Bar, has been appointed by her Majesty Regius Professor of Hum an ity in the Marisc hai College and University of Ab er d een. Mr. Blackie is 2 , 11 1 excellent classical scholar, devoted to literature, and now have the opportunity of applying his time and talents to those pursuits which have already gained him considera ble reputation in the literary world. LIE THAMES FISHERIES.—A meeting of tile Thames Angling Preservation Society was held on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. Perkins in the . Chair, in furtherance of tho obects of the Society ; at which it was resolved appoint five bailiffs for the Rive r ' to to prevent the fishermen using improper nets, and from taking the fry. Other resolutions were unanimousunanimo usly adopt e d, in order to put down the illegal practic es which have have been recently so much complained of. A liberal subscription was entered into to carry the objects 01 the Society into execution. M. D. Hill Esq., Q. C., has received t he ar pointment of Recorder of Birmingham, and preparation s will be forthwith mad° to hold quarter sess ions in that k0rt;412,. NE; Just 1 I%] Alai( Hei Th 4 reetly have quest th e p, men TH Classe rnittee careful tie and interes Politic Events Neyrsp taint S *. taisslon Offic w several they al obtainiz !ir• NC may rel PEcTi our I P. s. The d TO BE Tins r ......... PRE; The foil rangems: The etch be ] Ai AGNES To_ikf c `3lngers, Grand Mr. B 4 all Pl 'Ail rioline, 11 To oo r Al .. 7* - A ,„ Poor I ' l4 Tor Standa).. ominou s announc is true, e le Was tefiance rovvn a] l OWever, w as the w ho hai t ile &cell dent to t ab out part y are rash pled t nem, titration heartily st eps if t Onsoiati( t4 te, ani 6 t the E ' l l ) , 4 rty call e is fani has been INLL. the it 144 up fc 4 nd as hi l ther f ea i la /e him Had t : th e . Indiv th smalls C °lnlnon! the great 410 re sue( 11 43 )in fa : 5 f fr on t ! I like Jack, an Itl und pre 11 leer vi a . by any bsi e'en i n ti an • reennen :°nal we 46r busin, The n e lreer w; 4 . 4 c l the I I f it he nc t he dotes q d In i n-1-9-t; Proposing I ' l ori ev , the PI Governor d uet is nc EVENING EDITION. ITTIF, SUN, LOND , FRI DAY. MAY 24. 1939. vVr,\ING FDTTION. ionamift