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ARMAGH. COLERAINE, AND PORTRUSH RAILWAY. A numerous and influential meeting of the supporters of this Company took place on Friday at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the most effectual means for obtaining a snspension of the standing orders in favour of the Company, and obtaining the Bill in the present session of Parliament. Among the noblemen and gen tlemen connected with the North of Ireland present, we observed the Rod of Gosford, the Earl of Charlemont, Lord Rossmore, Lord Northland, M.P., Lord Acheson, M.P., Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P., Colonel Rowdon, M.P., Captain Jones, eoP., Captain Bateson, M.P., Edmond M'Donna, Esq., John Irving, Esq., M.P., John Boyd, Esq., M.P., Edmund Macdonnell, Esq., &c. The following names were subsequently subscribed to the petition before the meeting separated :—Gosford, Charlemont, Antrim, Rossmore, Vane Londonderry, Ranfurley, Acheson, M. P., Northland, M.P., Claude Hamilton, M.P., T. Jones, M.P., Dawson Rawdon, M.P., Thomas Beeson, M.P., William Verner, M.P., John Boyd, M.P., E hound Macdonnell, James Ronde, Richard He tviside, C. W. Spicer. Griffin Curtis Galt, James Vickers, Clement Tabor, Edward Nicolls, John Malleson, Swy fen Jervis. Or the motion of the Earl of Charlemont, seconded by Lord Rossmore, the Earl of Gosford was unanimously called to the chair. The Noble CHAIRMAN in opening the proceedings said that it was unnecessary to enter into any length ened statement as to the object for which they were then assembled. It was most desirable for the interest of the North of Ireland that the standing orders should be suspended, so that the Bill for the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway Company might be passed in the present session. —(Hear, hear.) He had every reason to bel'eve that the noblemen and gentlemen from the North of Ireland would use their utmost exertions to carry out that object, and he for one would co-operate with them to the utmoct of his power.—(Hear, bear.) The great object of the standing orders was to protect the interests of the landholders and others along the line ; but when those parties immediately interested prayed the House for their suspension, he was satisfied that no mere for mality wonld prevent the legislature extending to Ireland the benefits to be derived from a great influx of British capital. It was highly desirable, also, that the great trunk from South to North should be completed as soon as possible, and as the Newry and Enniskillen was pass ing throtigh Parliament without opposition, that object would be effected by the construction of the present line.—(llear, hear.) Capt. HEA.VISIDE said he would, before the solicitor of the company read the petition which it was proposed to present to Parliament, praying fora suspension of the standing orders, take the liberty of thanking the noble men and gentlemen present for their attendance to sup port the projected Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway. A series of public meetings had been held along the proposed lines at the principal towns, and the strongest resolutions carried in their favour for the suspension of the standing orders.—(Hear.) As Mr. Ogle would state some facts respecting the advantages which must result to the sister kingdom from the exe cution of the project, he would say no more than that he was perfectly convinced the proposed line was one de serving the hearty support of the meeting. Mr.OGLE said gentlemen were aware that the pro posed railway commenced at Armagh, and proceeding through a very rich and populous country to the ex extreme of the north coast, had its terminus at Portrush. Every effort had been made by the Com pany he had the honour of representing to place themselves in a position that would ensure the com mencement of the project at the earliest possible mo ment, but unhappily they had not had sufficieat time affoialed them to comply with the standing orders. The object of the present meeting was to endeavour to obtain a suspension of those orders, and when the pro moters of the measure looked at the peculiar circum stances under which the suspension was prayed, and the great advantages to be derived by the people of Ireland from the immediate commencement of the projected works, they had every hope, even at this late period of the session, that the prayer of the petition would be granted.—(Hear, hear.) There were at present before Parliament several bills for rail ways in the north of Ireland, and the great probability was, that these measures would pass during the present session ; but unless the standing orders were suspended in favour of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush line, and the scheme were commenced simultaneously with those he had adverted to, the greatest inconvenience would be experienced by the inhabitants of that portion of Ireland ; for, notwithstandingit would be intersected with railways, there would still be wanting a most im portant communication—viz., that between the city of Armagh, and the town of Coleraine, and the harbour of Portrush. The petition he had prepared stated these facts in detail, and with their permission he would lay it before them. He then read the following pe titic,n : " TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED HIND DON OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIA MENT ASSEMBLED. " The humble petition of the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, being Provisional Direc tors of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway Company, " Showeth, " That your petitioners are Provisional Directors of a Company formed for constructing a railway from or near the city of Armagh, in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, to or near to the town of Coleraine and the harbour of Portrush. " That the distance and entire length of such pro posed railway will be 73 miles, passing through the rich est and most populous districts of Ireland, and connect ing with each other the following important cities and towns, namely, Armagh, Moy, Dungannon, Coal Island, Moneymore, Cookestown, Magherafelt, Kilrea, Bally money, Coleraine, and Portrush. " That the necessary capital for constructing the said railway has been subscribed for, and the consent of the principal landowners on the line obtained. That as evi dent* of such consent, and of the desire of the most in fluential landowners, merchants, and traders upon the line that the orders of your Honourable House, if neces sary, should be suspended, numerous petitions have been proposed and signed, all expressive of the conviction of the petitioners that such line would be of the utmost importance to the country, and its immediate construction of the highest consideration. " That for affording to the community the greatest possible accommodation, your petitioners have entered into a conditional contract with the commissioners of the harbour of Portrush for the purchase of their interest therein, it being in the contemplation of your petitioners to expend a considerable sum of money in the improve. ment of such harbour, and for which the necessary powers have been obtained from the shareholders of the railway company. " That your petitioners attach much importance to the formation of this line, inasmuch as such a means of cern municati :n is get qtly needed by the inhabitants, and will at once connect the extreme north of Ireland with the thriving cities of Cork and Waterforcl in the south and also with other important cities and towns on the ca-t and west. " That certain Bills are r._;w pending in Parliament, having for their object the construction of lines of rail way between the towels of Belfast and Ballymena, Drogheda and Portadown, Portadown and Armagh, Iltwry and lnniskillen, Dundalk and Inniskillen,l ns ltillen and Londonderry, aed Londonderry and Cole raine, by which means the whole of the north of Ireland will he intersected with railroad., and the necessity of a lire of railroad between the city of Armagh and the town of Coleraine and the harbour of Portrush, be sensi bly experieitced. " That your petitioners have caused all the necessary surveys to be mte:e, together with the plans and sections of the line, all o f whi c h are in a state of readiness to be deposited as directed by the standing orders, in case your Hon. House should allow the measure to proceed during the present session. " That as the lines before referred to will doubtless he itn:nediately commenced, it a ould be very desirable that the line your petitioners should commence simul taneOttely, that the public might derive the fullest benefit from the co-operation and junction of the several lines, anti within the shortest possible time. " Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray ysur Hon. House that leave may now be given to present a petition for a Bill fur effecting the object aforesaid, notwithstand ing the time limited by the sessional orders of your Hon. llouse has expired, and upon such terms and conditions as to your Hon. House shall seem fit ; and your peti tioners will ever pray." He believed a series of resolutions would be submitted to the meeting, all tending to the object which the petition had its view. He begged to state that the petitions which bed been subscribed in favour of the project by the various landowners on the line were on the table, and open to the inspection of noble lords and gentlemen. The Earl of CHARLEMONT said it was Tate unneces sary for hint to detain them at any length after the ex planation they had Just heard respecting the character of the proposed line, and the object of the meeting. He would merely say that this project had been laid before him, and th at h e h a d cons i dered i t w i th the d eepest attention he w as capa bl e o f a ff or di ng i t. Wh en app li e d to on schemes of this nature, he always had in view two things; first of all, whether any public advantage was likely to he derived from the prosecution of them; a nd , secondly, h e en d eavoured to n . whether they were likely tos a prove remunerative to th e share holders. Il e had,he had said, deeply considered the worth of this project, and he did think it w ou ld b e an m advant age to the co uni , and that th ere was a f a i r prospe c t o f i ts being also advantageous t o th e proprie tors. He w ou ld e i ve the sct his strongest support, and had, therefore,hesitation in moving—" That m no pressed Pr i : this meeting, bei ng with the very great import ance of the Armagh, Coleraine, s. and Portrush line of railway to the very populousto theistriet through which it passes, desires to prom,au , t , m d utmost the suocest of the project through Parliament with that view, are most anxious to afford every ; ass . ist'an e to the pass ing of the Bill during the present sessien. Lord ACHESON, M.P., seconded the motion. R e 'was most anxious to assist in removi ng t h e d i f fi culties Which the standing orders presented to the prosecution of their scheme. The strongest feeling prevailed in the north of Ireland in regard to the great advantages that would result to the country from the Bill being immediately carried.—(Hear.) The motion was carried unanimously. Lord NORTHLAND, M.P., in moving the following re solution, said he should give the proposed railway his cordial support, and he was authorised by the Earl of Ranfurley to say that the project would receive every assistance which he could give it--(Hear, hear) : " That the country immediately to be benefited by the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway, being one of the wealthiest and most populous in Ireland, is entitled to the warmes7eniketert of the different noblemen And gentlemen possessinepif4uence in the Legislature ; and, inasixnusk • have, by petitions, signed byti* ja-,,variouk . . 0 Ft , expressed a unani- 5 V . L r.;: meus desire that the standing orders of the House should be suspended, in order that the Bill for its con struction may pass into a law this session, this meeting signs to support a petition on the part of the Directors of the Company for that purpose." Lord C.: HAMILTON, M.P., seconded the resolution, and assured the meeting he would use his best exertions to bring the project before the House of Commons this session, in the hope that the standing orders might be suspended, and for the purpose of showing the people of Ireland the desire which the promoters of the line had to carry out their scheme with the least possible delay. The motion was carried nem. con. Captain JONES, M.P., said he was ready to do his ut most to get the standing orders suspended, and had great pleasure in moving—" That this meeting, aware that the object of the standing orders being complied with, is mainly for the prote c ti on o f t h e l an d owners an d ot h grs interested on the line, are of opinion that, after such ex ressions of public feeling as those evidenced by the pAtitions referred to, a petition on the part of the Direc tors ought to be immediately presented to the House, praying for the suspension of the standing orders." Captain BATESON, M.P., seconded the resolution which was also carried unanimously. Colonel RAWDON, M.P., moved the fourth resolution : —" That a petition on the part of the Directors of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway having been prepared, and read to the meeting by the solicitor to the Company, this meeting is of opinion, that the same should be presented to the Commons House of Parlia ment with the shortest possible delay, that the claims of the Company may 13.3 immediately brought before the Legislature, for a suspension of the standing orders in their favour." Mr. MACDONNELL, of Glanarm Castle, was gratified at having the opportunity of seconding the resolution. He had no doubt that the proposed line would prove most beneficial to the people of the north of Ireland. He was instructed by the Marquis of Londonderry and the Earl of Antrim to express their regret at being unable to attend, and to state that they would give their best assistance to get the line carried this session. The resolution was carried unanimously. Lord ROSSMORE moved the fifth resolution—" That the several petitions from the local gentry and others in favour of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway to the House of Commons, that the standing orders might be dispensed with this session in its behalf, are entitled to the greatest weight and consideration, and prove at once the importance of the line, and necessity of its early adoption. This meeting is therefore of opi nion, that the same should be immediately presented to the house ; and the proper measures should be adopted with that view." Mr CHARLES Fox seconded the resolution, which was also carried nem. con. A vote of thanks was then given to the Noble Chair. man, and the meeting broke up. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morn ing in the grounds of Osborne House. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their accustomed walks and drives yesterday. Lady Portman, the Earl of Aberdeen, Colonel Bowles, and the Hon. Colonel Grey, went from Osborne House yesterday morning to the parish church of Whippingham, and attended Divine service. Yesterday morning her Majesty and the Prince took their usual early walk. The juvenile royal family were taken an airing in a carriage. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady Portman, Colonel Bowles, Mr. G. E. Anson, Hon. Colonel Grey, and Major General Wemyss, left Osborne House to embark in the royal yacht. The royal party returned from their aquatic excursion soon after four o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert afterwards rode out in a pony phaeton in the grounds of the mansion. The Hon. Colonel Grey, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Osborne House yes terday afternoon, and had the honour of joining the royal ;circle at dinner, and remains on a visit to her Majesty. _ - - - Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left their residence at Kew on Saturday afternoon, to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Wiemar, at Bushy-house, Bushy-park. Their Royal Highnesses remained to dinner with her Majesty and her Serene Highness, and in the evening returned to Kew. ' A deputation from the Free Church of Scotland, in eluding the Marquis of Breadalbane and the Hon. Fox Maule, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Viscount Sandon, M.P., Lord Ebrington, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and the Hon. Captain Berkeley, with thirty other gentlemen as a deputation on the Mer chant Seamen's Bill, had an interview with Sir George Clerk on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the London journeymen coopers, consisting of Messrs. R. Jacks, T. Stephenson, J. Richards, and H. Ainsworth, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday in Downing-street. Lord Dunsandle had an interview with Sir George Clerk on Saturday at the Board of Trade. The Duke of Wellington and the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans attended the early Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Dakins. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis of Salisbury, Ladies Wilton and Sydney, Lords Powis, Sandwich, Wilton, J. 0. Bryen, Cantilupe, De Ros, Downes, and Hawarden, attended tha daily Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. H. Dakins. The Sermons was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleuth. The Anthem was, " Lord, let me know my end," (Greene). Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensbnry and Lady Georgiana Douglas arrived at Farrance's Hotel, on Saturday, from Italy. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday, and resumed and concluded an appeal from Bombay, •" Cowarjee v. Thompson." Mr. Serjeant Channell concluded his adds ess for the respondent, and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Queen's Counsel, was heard in reply. SPORTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUP/. Sm,—The Newcastle Meeting, one of the largest and best attended the north of England can boast of, commences on Monday with a Produce Stakes of 50 soya. each, for three yrs old, and for which there are seven entries; Midlothian and the filly by Physician, out of Castaway, look the best on paper, but as Midlothian is engaged in a better stake the sane day, I think it is more than doubtful whether he starts for this or the larger one; if he goes, I should give him the preference, but if he is reserved for the North Derby, I see nothing that is likely to beat the Castaway filly, Miss Whip colt, or the filly by Phoenix second. Th North Derby Stakes of 25 sow. each, for three yrb ohi, has seventeen subscribers, and will probably bring seven to the post, among them Midlothian, Mentor, Collier, and Extravaganza, whom I expect to see pass the Chair in the order I have placed them. The Maiden Plate ought to go to Sittenham or Firemaster. On Tuesday the Northern Oaks will bring out four or five, thd pick of which will be Marian Ramsay, and the Cast away filly, the former for winner. The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sous. each, will go to the Bat, or that queer brute Crikey Her Majesty's Plate will doubtless go to Mr. Meiklatn with Trueboy, Inheritress, or Lightning, whichever he may please to start ; at any rate, this lot, versus the Field, would not be a bad investment. The races for Wednesday and Thursday I shall defer saying anything about until I have received a list of the arrivals and probable starters, which will be on Tuesday. The Plate seems destined to become the property of Mr. Meiklam, but more of that anon.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. FATAL OCCURRENCE AT lIUNGERPORD PIER.— Two LADS DROWNEE.—Wednesday evening, at a late hour, Mr Bedford, Coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at the Star and Garter, Green street, Leicester square, on view of the bodies of John Leary, aged fifteen years, and John Sullivan, aged ten years, who were drowned in the River Thames, off Hungerford-steps, on Sunday evening last, under the following extraordinary circum stances :—A boy, named Patrick M'Mahon, stated that the witness, with the deceased boys, and two other lads named Macarthy and Gintley, were at the river side, near Hungerford-steps, when a waterman came to the shore, and gave Leary a penny to mind his boat. Leary and Sullivan immediately got into her, when Gintley said to Leary, " Now, if you don't give me half that money, I will drown you." He untied the rope by which the boat was fastened, and directly afterwards shoved the boat off, which drifted away. It was rather dark at the time, and, although witness saw the boat afterwards, there was no one in it. Ile did not see the deceased fall into the water. Another boy, named Owen M`Carthy. stated that he was down at the spot soon afterwards, and he heard Gintley ask two boys, who were minding a boat, if they had seen the deceased children ; they replied, no, they had not, and Gintley said, then they must be gone home. He subsequently, however, said that Gintley bad told him that he thought they were in the water. A sister of Gintlet yesterday morning told witness and M`Mahon not to say anythiny about " Tom," meaning Gintley. The boy Gintley wag then examined. He flatly contradicted all that the pres ceding witnesses bad stated. His statemmt was, tha- M`Mahon had untied the boat, and that witness had first shoved it out, it came in again, when M`Mahon pushed it out upwards of twelve yards; it did not return, and Leary put out a scull but could not row. M`Mahon then asked him to come home, and they all left together without stopping to see what had become of deceased. He did not know that any money had been given to Leary, and did not threaten him. Samuel Matthew, constable of Hungerford Market, deposed to finding the bodies of deceased in the mud, near Hungerford-causeway, on the following morning, about four o'clock. Witness did not think they had been in a boat at all, but had fallen off one of the barges. No boat could drift away, and no boat is known to be missing. The Coroner said it was a most mysterious case, and the jury, upon the contradic tory testimony adduced, said it was utterly impossible to say how the unfortunate occurrence had taken place, and returned an open verdict of " Found drowned." 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Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis); and by all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. TAE S iiN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1845 LITERATURE;. THE DESBOROUGH FAMILY. By Mrs. Ponsonby. 3 Vols. This is a lively and entertaining work, likely to be a favourite with the lovers of fiction ; it is written in a light and pleasing style, full of animated dialogues and amusing anecdotes. There is nothing very wonderful or complicated in the plot ; being a narrative of domestic life, it is chiefly occupied with the thoughts and feel ings of individuals. The alight peculiarities and dis tinctions of character are pourtrayed with minuteness and fidelity, while the varying tempers and dispositions of the different members of the " Desborough Family," contrasting with each other, produce the same effect as the light and shade in a picture, improving the whole, and rend-ring each more perfect. The chief characters in the book aro four young cousins, the heroines—each, of course, as beautiful, as amiable, and as accomplished as author could imagine, or as reader could desire—each just erring sufficiently to make her human, and suffering enough to render her interesting. These four geLtle, graceful creatures are well calculated to " adorn a tale," while the history of their trials and temptations may serve" to point a moral," full of warning for the young and inexperienced. The story of Caroline will show how vain are all the brightest talents, or the fairest gifts of genius, if the powers of the mind are unable to regulate the wild passions of the heart. The gay and thoughtless may take a lesson from the sprightly and vivacious Fanny, while the mournful history of Mary Norton exemplifies the un certainty of human happiness, the instability of human virtue. We must make one objection to the denouement of the tale, it is the exerci,e of the unlimited power of life and death vested in the hands of an author. Julia I)esborough, the most amiable of the heroines, is attached to a younger son, whose poverty prevents her parents from accepting him ; instead of showing how the per severance of the lover might overcome every obstacle, or instead of showing any possible means that might have been emproyed as a warning to others so situated, the authoress removes the two elder brothers by a sud den illness and a startling accident, and thus is en abled to please all parties. It is true there are various chances and changes in real life, but fiction should teach us how to conquer fate, and not trust for happiness to events that may never happen, and, above all,, not to seek our fortune by the death of friends. The following is a specimen of tho amusing character of some of the dialogues : "My dear Captain Jones, do not be so impetuous. I never can remember if lam so hurried. My memory is not good ; but I will try. Where did I say I met the young lady ? hum 1 where was it ?ha l hum I—hum Iha ! h-m !" "Oh ! at Lady Percival's, I think you said," exclaimed Jones, who had never heard the n ame o f D es b oroug h b e f ore, and ho had not managed to retain it now. " Percival! Lady Percival's ! my dear sir, I do not know her. But there are several families named Percival; to which do you allude? do you mean the baronet who lives in the county—you know which I mean—so famous for hops ?—or do you mean —" " Hops 1" interrupted the young man, in despair; " a baronet fatuous for hops 1" . " No, no; not the baronet—the county. You remember what I mean." " Yes, yes—Kent. Well, well, dear Mr. Manners; you think you met Miss Waters in Kent, at Sir something Per elvers ?" "Indeed," answered our host, deprecatingly, "I do not think I ever said so." " Then where did you meet her ?" "Ah ! —hum ! ha! h-m ! let me remember. It was some where last week—that I do know • and I sat betwe en h er an d some one in blue : I remember that, because I composed a little epigram during dinner (which you shall hear) about black and blue. It begins thus--" " Thank you, yes ; I shall be so happy to hear it presently. But first, if you will tell me the exact place, and give me the direction—l am really so interested." _... .. . . " Well 1 it was at some baronet's—hum 1 ha h-m I—The white soup was remarkably good. That man was there, you know, who wrote the b oo k a b ou t s h e ll s , ur fishes—l forget which ; you remember it—hum Iha 1 h-m I—he has a queer name. And Sir James somebody was there, who lives at that nice place near the town where they sell gloves —you know where I mean—hum !ha 1 h-m 1" " Yes, I know, sir--Woodstock ; pray go on." " Ehe, and the man I mean, talked about the shell or the fish book—l forget which ; and she said—" " Thank you, sir, thank you I" interrupted the eager cap. tain. " Tell me what she said !" " Ohl she only said that the copy of the book the man had given her had a very pretty binding ; that I remember dis tinctly." " 'hen the man gave her a copy of his work ?" said Jones, looking a little mortified. " Certainly ; I have said so, have I not ? hum I ha! h-rn She said it was just the colour of her dress—blue : hum 1" " 1‘ , 17 dear:sir, just now you said the dress was black." " That was the other girl—hum ! ha! h-m 1" " Sir I shall begin to think you mean to trifle with me." THE LETTERS OF PHILIP DORMER STAN HOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon. 4 vols. Lord Chesterfield was a distinguished political cha racter and diplomatist in the reign of George 11. He filled the office of Lord Lieutenant in Ireland during the Scotch rebellion of 1745, and, by his skill, prudence, firmness, and, we may add, impartiality, contributed not a little to keep that country tolerably quiet when the whole of Great Britain was in a state of the utmost ex citement, when the new dynasty trembled for its existence, one half of the statesmen of the day balanced between the Pretender and the actual sovereign, and a successful rising in the sister island was alone wanting to restore, at least for a ti me , th e e ff ete an d bigote family of the Stuarts. In this respect, therefore, he did the Guelphs some service, and the State also, for the restoration could have been only temporary •, it must have inflicted on the nation great calamities, and would have been succeeded by another revolution, for had Prince Charles possessed the best qualities, he would only, in the words of Hume, " have furnished a stronger proof how dangerous it is to allow any Prince, infested with the Catholic superstition, to wear the crown of these kingdoms." Chesterfield was also said to be a good speaker in Parliament, but merits like these are entirely forgotten, and in these days he is known only as the writer of elegant letters, and the reformer of the Calendar. His letters to his son require no remarks, and certainly no commendations, for it is admitted on all hands that, as a manual for the rising aristocracy, with some exceptions, they are entitled to the highest praise, and that they may be read by all, from the highest to the lowest, with advantage. We have always been of opinion that what is called their "immorality,'• at least as regards its effects, has been greatly exaggerated. No one can read them without seeing that Chesterfield was a man of a whimsical character, that he had many of the peculiarities which still distinguish the Stanhope family, and that any advice which he may give bordering upon duplicity, or want of sincerity, or a laxity of morals as regards the passions of youth, was to be received with great allowances, and to be obeyed by his son only in cases where they might be found necessary to combat the shifts, and tricks, and cunning devices of foreign di plomatists. The letters were written for his son, and chiefly for his instruction as a British ambassador at a foreign court. They never were intended for publica tion ; for, says Lord Mahon, " It appeared on the death of Chesterfield's son, that he had secretly married, without his father's consent or even knowledge ; anti his widow, upon Chesterfield's demise, published, for profit, the whole correspondence of the Earl with her late hus band ; a correspondence, written in the closest confidence and unreserve, and without the slighest idea of ever meet ing the public eye." We mention these circumstances however rather as a palliation than a defence of doctrines not in strict keeping with high moral principles. The copyright of these letters was sold by the widow to a publi.li e r for 1,575/., and the first edition was dedicated to Lord N.lrth. But these letters form only a minor portion of the present publication. The noble Editor his given to the world many interesting documents not to be found in the most copious editions of Chesterfield's works previously published, and, among others, the original letters to Mr. Dayrolles; and "to none of his correspondents," says Lord Mahon, " scarcely excepting even his ono son, did Lord Chesterfield write with such unreserve." These were published in Dr. Maty's " Life of ChesterfiAd," but greatly mutilated, as they referred to persons then living. The letters are now published entire. Several other manuscripts of considerable im portance have also been placed at the disposal of the Editor, which he thus enumerates : " They comprise the originals of the celebrated ' cha racters' with three new ones (of Dr. Arbuthnot, of the Mistresses of George the First, and of Lady Suffolk) which will bo found in this edition, besides an historical sketch of Lord Bute's Administration, and a parting letter from Lord Chesterfield to his godson and successor, not to be delivered until after his own death. " The editor is a:so enabled to commuicate from MSS. in Lord Chesterfield's hand, many curious and confidential letters to Lord Townshend, the Secretary, and to George Tilson, Esq., the Under Secretary, of State during Lord Chesterfield's first embassy at the Hague, Lur to Lord Harrington during his second embassy, one to the Duke of Newcastle during his Lord-Lieutenancy, and several more to Foreign Minis'ers when the Seals had devolved on himself. There are also several new letters in French to Baron de Kreuningen, one of Lord Chesterfield's friends at the Hague." These letters possess much interest, and will be found of use to the future historian in explaining the stirring events and political complications of one of the most im portant epochs recorded in British annals. The work altogether forms a valuable acquisition at the present time, and the care and judgment displayed by the noble editor, together with the explanatory notes, add new literary honours to the house of Stanhope. Being pri vileged ce nsors , h owever, we may remark that Lord Mahon's style is occasionally chargeable with defects which are unpardonable in the writings of a good classi • cal scholar. We give the two following instances to be found in the preface :—" Yet there is reason to suspect that this was not the real fact with himself." There is no fact but a real fact. The other sentence is liable to more blame, because it is worse than a pleonism, it is un grammatical :—" Chesterfield, on the contrary, left nothing undone, nor for others to do." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, FOR JUNE.—Ne. CL. The present number of this agreeable miscellany is of perhaps more than an average degree of merit. The first paper, entitled " India, Elphinstone's and Wilson's Histories," is very good, and may be recommended to those who have not previously mastered the rudiments of that branch of cosmography which includes the political as well as traditionary story of the great southern peninsula of India. It may be useful as an epitome of those multiplied details connected with the gradual settlement of many foreign stocks in Hindustan, which are essential to any notion of the sources, physical and moral, from whence this strange and heterogeneous anomaly in the social history of the world has been derived and has gradually attained its present singular aspects and devel.)pment. The write:, however, erroneously ima gines, in many passages, that he is breaking new ground, whether of traditionary anecdote or philosophical specu lation —when he has been anticipated by old Renaudot, in his comprehensive and admirable dissertation on the same interesting topics. He takes, in our opinion, a very fair and candid view of " llistory of British work as much distinguiahed by the integrity with which its author has treated all the facts that he believed to be such, and availed himself of all documents which he believed to be authentic ; but lamentably dis figured by those prejudices against the moral character of the native Hind)o races, from which, as Mr. Mountstuart Elphinstone remarks, it is hardly pos sible for European historians to be free, who write without the benefit of any personal resi dence among them, and habitual observation of their manners and deportment. We lament, with the writer of the paper before us, that ignorance on all subjects connected with the past history and present condition of our Indian empire, and its resources, should so exten sively prevail in this country ; but that ignorance is cer tainly not so excessive at present as he supposes— neither has it been so for the last ten years— among the better informed classes of society in England. Of the first portion of this critical essay, the materials have been borrowed, pretty largely, from the Periplus of the Erythrman sea, though we do not en counter any acknowledgments of the zeal and success of Dr. Vincent's cornmentarial labours, or even of Professor Robertson's inimitable " Essay on the history of the ancient trade of Europe with India.'; We have, on the other hand, the full benefit of the more modern contri butors to ;he history of the Indian manners and in stitutions, which such men as Colebrooke, Kirkpatrick, Col. Wilkes, Major Tod (or his history of Rajhpootasa), Sir Alexander Barnes, and others have given to the European public. Among the strange institutions, generated by one of the most ancient but disorganizing systems of theocratical ethics which was ever identified wit') a mytholog , those of the Thugs and the Decoits— murderers, by a fancied divine vocation, and sanguinary robbers on a principl , , of fancied religious responsibility, are, perhaps, the most extraordinary. The following pas sage will be found full of interest : " Travellers,' says Mr. Elphinstone, are full of stories of the patience, perseverance, and address, with which they will steal, unperceived, through the midst of guards, and carry off their prize in the most dangerous situations. Some dig holes in the earth, and come up within the wall of a well-closed house ; others, by whatever way they enter, always open a door or two to secure a retreat, and proceed to plunder, naked, smeared with oil, and armed with a dagger; so it is as dan gerous to seize them as it is difficult to hold.' One large class called Thugs,' or, as Mr. Elphinstone names them, ' Thags,' constantly roam about the country, assuming disguises, in which art they are perfect masters.—' Their practice is to in sinuate the mse l ves i n to the soc i e t y of travellers, whom they hear to be possessed of property, and to accompany them until they have an opportunity of administering a stupifying drug, or of throwing a noose over the neck of their unsuspecting com panion. He is then murdered, without blood being shed, and buried so skilfully that a long time elapses before his fate is suspected. The Tbags invoke Bhawane, and vow a portion of their spoil to her. This mixture of 'religion and crime might, of itself, be mentioned as a peculiarity; but it is paralleled by the vows of pirates and banditti to the Madonna; and in the case of Mussulmans, who form the largest portion of the Thags, it is like the compacts with the devil, which were believed in days of superstition.'—(' Elphinstone's India,' vol. i., pp. 369, 370.) The Decoits are, like the Thugs, remarkable for their cruelty. They are gangs, associated for plundering, who assemble by night, fall on an unsuspecting village, kill all who offer resistance, torture such as are supposed to have wealth concealed, and are, next morning, mingled with the population, where, such is the dread they inspire, that few are found to come rward and accuse them. The Decoits have, we believe, almost disappeared, under the efforts of the British Government, which has also been very successful in punishing and restraining the enormities of the Thugs. But, if there are evil casts, there are others whose hereditary object is to do good. The Mats and Chitrans, of western India, who are revered as bards, conduct caravans, which they protect from plunder; carry large sums in bullion through tracts where no escort could secure protection, and are guarantees of agreements of chiefs with one another, and even with the Go vernment. "' Their power,' says Mr. Elphinstone, is derived from the sanctity of their character, and their desperate resolution. It a man, carrying treasure, is approached, he announces that he will commit traga, as it is called ; or, if an engagement is not complied with, he issues the same threat unless it is ful filled. If he is not attended to he proceeds to gash his limbs with a dagger, which, if all other means fail, he will plunge into his heart; or he will first strike off the head of his child; or different guarantees to the agreement will cast lots who is to be the first beheaded by his companions. The disgrace of these proceedings, and the fear of having a hard's blood on their head, generally reduces the most obstinate to reason. Their fidelity is exemplary, and they never hesitate to sacrifice their lives to keep up an ascendancy on which the importance of their cast depends.' "—Vol p. 371. Of the review of Leigh Hunt's " Imagination and Fancy," we need say nothing here, having already recorded our own favourable opinions on that work. " The Devil's Ladder" is a clever, bold, sketchy "bit" of that poetical diablerie, which peoples all the mountainous and rocky region stretching from the banka of the Rhine, at the foot of the lofty Kedrich, to the plains of Nassau, with elves, fags, goblins, and wild hunters. It is too long for us to attempt any analysis of it ; but it "ends well," as ladies say of pleasant novels, and here is a pretty frag ment of scenery : " The storm had blown its fill, and the day broke, in its autumn loveliness, over the Rhine, bathing in the softest clear light his not then chiefiess' castles, his white-walled towns, his high stern rocks, and the ' coming ripeness' of his endless length of vineyard, while the godlike river, triumphing in his eternal youth, laughed back a myriad-fold answer to the glad still gaze of the eariy sun. Garlinda had stolen out without her governess, not to walk on the battlements, but to see what ravage the storm had wrought in a favourite garden, lying at some little distance without the castle walls, and at the very foot of the lofty and precipitous mountain of Kedrich. She laughed on the sentinels, as she passed them, as brightly as the sun did on the Rhine, and pasted down the steep path that led to the river shore. Perhaps she thought Ruthetra would pay a farewell visit to her garden before going away for so long a time to that detestable Hungary : perhaps she thought he would harbour some hope of meeting her there. If so, there must have been some feeling in her breast that wrought like a power of divination, for certain it is that, as she came within sight of her flower-beds, she came within view of her cousin of Falkenberg also; and equally certain it is, that Ruthelm was as little surprised to see his cousin of Sareck at that early hour as if they had met by appointment. The truth, however, is, that they bad met only by the instinct of young and loving hearts." " Personal Recollections of Thomas Campbell, No. 1," is a very coarse and we must add apocryphal reminiscence of our great contemporary so recently snatched from us. We protest at all times against these eaves-dropping, scandalising, " penny-a-liner," note takings, of the sayings and doings of great men. But these papers are the most offensive we ever saw. If the writer knew poor " Tom Campbell," it is evident that he must have been, in his day, roughly handled by the poet, of whom he writes, " his language was habitually that of sneer, sarcasm, abuse, and contempt of every body (!) and everything:' With charming naivete, it is added, " What he might have been in the com pany of dukes and duchesses, I know not, never having seen him in such society ; " and such society, assuredly, never having seen this delectable critic. Be cause, as is evident from the rancorous spirit in which he talks of " the old dandy," of his " frog like figure," his " brandy merchants' bills," and a hundred other such impertinences that Campbell must have given him the "cut direct." It would have been wonderful if Job himself could have abstained from thus treating such a pedantic bore. The whole of his paper is intended to hang on Campbell's " black wig and blue coat" some of his own " Greek songs," as he calls hi s F a th er P r out-ish nonsense-Greek- verses.' But to say that Campbell was one of those men who was nobody's friend but his own, " that he did not care a straw for any human being," is a gross libel, disproved by our own personal knowledge of more than one object, on whose behalf he exercised an energetic, generous, and sustained friend. ship. That Campbell was not indisposed to cut his critic, there is some testimony in this statement— " When I approached him, he scarcely seemed to recognise one ; a...d it was not until I mentioned my name, that a gleam of consciousness illuminated his countenance. He put the tips of his fingers into my hand in the coldest possible way, and seemed anxious to pass on. Sudc'enly, the friend who had in troduced me to him on the former evening, came up, and Campbell was obliged to stay a moment to return bis salute. This brief interval decided the fact of our aNuaintanceship. Had he passed away, as he had evidently intended at first, I should perhaps have never again taken the liberty of addressing him, and he would have forgotten the fact of my existence." „ . _ Only to think of what the great Poet's loss would have been had his existence closed in so sad an unconscious- ness of so important a fact I Bat we are entertained to a story also, about a dinner, prior to the announcement of which the writer patronisingly compensates Lord Ashley for the rebuff which Campbell, according to him, had given to his Lordship's advances, by allowing the Nobl philanthropist to return to the seat near him, and his conversation with him. At this dinner—to remove the suspicion of"renny- a-linerism," probably, he intimates his connoisseurship in good wine by talking of the" delicious oiliness of the sherry given by their Amphytryon," at a " luxurious repast," on a "small scale" in a room plainly furnished. After which dinner, the host is made to talk to English gentlemen, in such choice phraseology as this —Speaking of Swift, (whose detestable moral character the writer as much overrrates as he does his "puny scholarship," his hollow "friendship," and his political " sincerity,") Amphytryon talks of " the veriest trifles from his pen." Then Campbell is made to confess to his having kept out of the way of such a person as Hazlitt, after calling him one of " the most false, vain, selfish blackguards who ever disgraced human nature," for one week, for fear of being assaulted by him—by Hazlitt. But it would disgust the reader to pursue the thread of this balderdash any further. We take breath and a glass of "dry sherry" to enable us to resume. "Brougham's L'ves of Men of Letters and Science" is an extended and clever review of that pleasant but unequal contributor to European literary biography. The clever story of " The Nevilles, of Garretstown," a tale of 1760, is con tinued through chapters 38 to 43, till it reaches its plea sant denouement. The interest is well kept up, and the construction of th e pl o t i ngenious to t h e l as t. I n what spirit the articl e ent i t l e d " Protestant Conversion of Ireland" is conceived, may be sufficiently gathered from this closing paragragh:— " But, above all things, again and again, we implore the people of England to distinguish between Popery as a sect, and Popery as a party in Ireland ; and to be well convinced, that the party never will be propitiated by any concession made to the sect, while the sect may be continued by concessions made to the party; and that the effect of the Maynooth Endowment Bill, and all other similar measures, by which a faction is sought to be conciliated at the expense of the Protestant interest m Ireland, will be to co n v er t ag i tat i on f rom an annu al into a perennial plant, and to make the system .of discord, which at present depends upon the accidents of character and circum stances, as universal as nationality, and as permanent and un changeable as social institutions." MORE CoMETs.—There was discovered last week another new comet. Could not a list, like Dorling's list, be pub lished every comet season, of the different planets that intend to run, with the names of the astrologers who have trained them, the colour of their tails, and their 1 3 --- m igree ? We are sure it would be very / convenient to all lovers of th e fi rmame nt w ho have backed a favourite comet, and are anxious t o k now the exact night he is likely to run and the sign of the zo di ac h e h a s been entered for. At present they are disturbed out of their beds in the middle of the night, to be told that the comet, about which they have been for months making a book, is visible at Greenwich. The list might be sailed " South's list," and all defaulters could be conveniently posted at the Royal Observatory, which would, of cow" be the grand-84nd for the great heats of the season.—Puoch. • - SUTTON ON RAILWAYS-HOW THEY MAY BE MADE CHEAPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir, —lf the following observation s u p on th e construc tion f railways possess any novelty worth entertaining, perhaps you will do me the pleasure of recording them in your very useful and instructive journal. I fear that the proposition to which I am about to give expression will excite in many a smile at its apparent impracticability ; but every one, however humbly ac quainted with the mere rudiments of science, must know how great a part common gravity plays in everything connected with matter—whether it is seen in the fall o an apple, or the whirling of a globe—the fearful rush of a mountain torrent, or the frightful precipitation of a railway train down a decline—all bear witness to its capacity as a motive agent. We will see anon how it can be made subservient to the use of man in forming a rail way. I beg leave to observe that I found my presumption of the practicability of the following mode of construc ting railways on experimental trials on various decline tions, by which I have ascertained that the impetus of decline invariably carries a carriage up an accline two thirds ; and I question not that wirer() the decline extends a great distance, it will very nearly surmount the succeeding accline, though of the like elevation. The Greenwich and the Croydon railways painfully illustrate the necessity of some more remunerative mode of transit than the present ; and lam sure none is to be found save in the adoption of the decline and the accline mode. On this principle, and this principle alone, would I construct a railway.* Suppose we take the Greenwich line, and see if we can construct it so as to supersede the use of locomo tives, or any other motive ag ent whatever, savi ng a l wa y s common gravity. We shall find that what they are now paying yearly for the cost and wear and tear of the loco motive department, and other expenses relating thereto, might be wholly saved, which would enable the proprie tors to pocket a more remunerative dividend than they have hitherto received for the immense capital sunk. We, therefore, if you please, will have two stations, one at London-bridge, the other at Greenwich. Now let these stations be high—no matter how high (within building limits) or how grand and commanding—and let the stations at either end be of the same altitude. We must have two lines one to and one from Greenwich. We now for convenience will speak of the one to Greenwich, which is about three and a half miles long. For this length of line a hundred feet fall will be enough ; but to remove all doubt, say 130 feet, which will be amply sufficient, as in every mile there may be one or two undulations, which would not only tend to keep the speed of the carriage within bounds, but also cause the power derived from the fall not to be too soon expended. The rail line at London- bridge, we IN it I say, then, is 130 feet above the terminus at Greenwich. Now let this rail line run slopingly towards Greenwich thus : —Suppose the force of the 130 feet fall is expended in the first mile ; here we shall have a great velocity, sufficient to surmount au accline two-thirds of a mile long, with a 60 feet rise, so that we shall now have 60 feet available, besides the already unspent impetus of the carriage to go down a mile of decline, which will carry us nearly three miles on our way towards Green wich, leaving ab ou t a m il e more for an accline with a 30 feet rise, which the carriage will eagerly ascend, on to a level platform, leaving 100 feet for the carriage to be drawn, by an endless rope or chain, up an incline sweep to the station at Greenwich, where it can be easily run across to the line for London. We must suppose that the moment a carriage has arrived upon the platform at the top of the 30 feet rise, it is yoked on to the rope, and drawn to the end of the platform out of harm's way, lest the succeeding carriage should come on to the plat form ere the passengers have alighted from the carriage. When all the passengers have quitted the carriage, it can be drawn up the sweep by the endless rope, which can be worked many ways, either by hand, or horse, or steam. I think if the carriages had anti-friction wheels, a much less fall than I have named would suffice, but this is open to correction. Every arrangement that is made for and in the line to Greenwich will answer for the cor responding one to London. A second mode of constructing a decline railway may be by expending about two-thirds of the fall in the first half mile, then running up and over a rise of (say) thirty feet, which, added to the remaining portion of the fall, will be quite sufficient to carry the carriage home, and up the decline on to the platform, as in the first method. Or, thirdly, the 130 feet fall might be evenly distri buted throughout the whole distance, or to within half mile of the platform—finishing with an accline on to the platform. All decline railways may be more or less undulated, pro vided only that the fall is always of amount enough to cause the carriage to attain sufficient velocity or impetus to surmount the succeeding accline. A railway on this principle might reach from one end of the kingdom to the other, as the declines and accline: may pass over or under cross roads or railways. It may be here observed, however, that the height of a terminus must depend upon the length of the line to be formed, and the geographical position or situation of the two ends or termini of the lines. Thus, after having ascertained, as near as possible, the altitude of the two extremities, then whichever end of the line has the greatest altitude, geographically considered, that end will not !require so high a terminus to be built as the contrary end. Take, for instance, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Liverpool end of this rail way is forty-six feet above the rails at the Manchester end of the line ; thereby showing that the rail-line from Liverpool to Manchester could with ease have been made upon the decline principle ; though, of course, the Manchester terminus or end of the line running to Liverpool would have had to be made twice that height, viz., 92 feet high, in order to give that line a decline or fall to Liverpool equal to the one from Liverpool to Manchester. A carriage, in descending a decline, will always ac quire sufficient impetus to overcome the succeeding ac cline, providing the acclivity of the accline is one-third below the summit of the preceding slope. All the stopping stations on a line should be at, or a little below, the summit of a decline, where the fall should be a little more rapid, so as to give the carriage more momentum on its starting afresh, and that no stop pages may take place anywhere but at or near the sum mit of a decline. I have endeavoured to be as explicit as possible ; but in the breaking of the ice to any new mode, it often happens that the poor unhappy wight of a projector has so many obstacles to surmount, however good the prin ciple may be on which his ideas are based, that he is at a loss how to work out his plans, so as to meet the views and the prejudices of others. If, a year or two ago, the public had been told that a carriage and passenger, whose united weight exceeded three hundred pounds, could descend a decline and mount up round a circle, with the car and passengers' heads downward, and so on up an opposite =cline, with out the least injury or danger to either, they would have laughed at the assertion as chimerical and foolish ; and so they will, perhaps, at this, as they hare done a everything that breaks in upon the dull routine of ordi nary practice. • I - do confess myself, that short lines, such as the Green wich, the West London, the Croydon, and many of the short branches from the great lines in the country, pre sent greater facilities for the decline system than the more extended ones. A good and profitable one may be formed between Paddington and the Bank, Camberwell and London-bridge, Hackney and the Bank, and many other places. I say " profitable," because the first out lay on tht erection will constitute all the expenditure, save a few current items of no moment. Another thing may be considered to promote propul sion, viz., that on long lines of decline railway, such as the Birmingham, or even on short lines, manual labour could be substituted for the steam engine, providing there is the least fall, and anti-friction wheels are made use of. For instance, I would have a carriage (in lieu of the or einary locomotive engine and tender) so constructed, as to accommodate as many men as would be equal to the task ; and as I believe rowing is looked upon as the easiest and the most powerful way for a man to put out his strength, I would have these men—say twelve in number—seated in two rows of six each, one row on one side, and one on the opposite side ; and each man's oar lever might be so attached to the working gear of the running wheels as to give the concern a neat and boat like appearance. The manual power might be applied in any other way that may be deemed proper ; but I mention the rowing mode as looking the best, and be lieving it to be the most powerful. I think, if the railway projectors who aro now about considering and devising new lines, were to club a little money, and have a line formed a mile in length, along side the West London, at Wormwood Scrubs (where the atmospheric plan was first tested) to ascertain the real worth of the system I have suggested, they would find that with a decline of twenty-two deuces, the mo mentum or impetus is sufficient to overcome an aceline of fourteen degrees above the plain of the horizon. But even should the old mode be still persisted in, it surely would be better to make railways more upon the decline principle, as by it the present heavy ex penditure for locomotive power might be greatly dimi nished. The South-Eastern Railway could have been formed with very little trouble on the decline principle, as it passes over so much flat country, that six men with ease could have borne a heavy train along at twenty-five miles the hour, if the carriages had anti-friction wheels, or even without them, as the inclination would be so good. With these views I take leave of a subject that de serves a better handling than that given to it by one of your oldest readers and subscribers, JOHN SUTTON. 14, Crown-row, Walworth-road. P.S.—lf any one going down to Brighton world con descend to trip it in a third-class carriage, he would have an opportunity of observing the little locomotive power required to propel the train along after he has passed that unfortunate and ill-adopted rise from New Cross to Annerley, which compels the companies to keep an engine constantly ready at New Cross, to assist the train up the accline. Nearly two-thirds the distance down to Brighton the carriages are hard pressing upon each other, on account of the very slight fall there is in some of the distance, and the momentum which the train acquires —thereby proving beyond all doubt the feasibility of the decline system. " I do not suppose it is novel, I merely suggest its adoption. SEIZURES FOR TITRES AND CHURN-RATES.- On the 12th instant the premises of Joseph Cooper and Co., Lawrence Pountney-lane, were entered by a churchwarden and officer with two warrants, signed by Michael Gibbs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and property to the value of about thirty pounds taken, for demands made fur tithes and church-rates, so called ; the former stated to be for the mainte nance of Wm. St. Andrew Vincent, incumbent of the united parishes of All Hallows the Great and Less, a prebendary of Chi chester Cathedral, and vicar of Bolney, in Sussex; and also for the maintenance of Robert B. Gibeon, reetor of At. Mary Abchprch and St, LlAWrence rountnoy, THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The second floricultural exhibition for the present season, under the auspices of this S )ciety, took place on Saturday at Chiswick. The weather was delightfully fine, and the road between Hyde Park-corner and the gardens was thronged with equipages conveying company to the fite from one o'clock until an ad vanced hour in the afternoon. The gardens were looking very beautiful, and the exhibi tion was considered by the judges to be most satisfactory. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bride honoured the gardens with a visit early in the afternoon and devoted a considerable period to an e..amination of the collections in the various marquees through which they were conducted by the officials of the Society. Perhaps on no former occasion has the Society had to boast of a greater degree of aristocratic patronage than was awarded to the exhibition on Saturday. The visitors were not quite so numerous as at one of the fetes held last year, but the as semblage of rank and fashion may be fairly stated to have been unequalled. The visitors on Saturday numbered 12,520 persons (on one occasion last year they exceeded 13,000). Among the members of the leant ton whom we observed in the grounds were— His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Serene Highness Prince Herman of Saxe Weimar, his Ex cellency the French Ambassador and suite, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrichstein, his Ex cellency the Danish Ilinister, and the Countess Reventiow, hs Excellency the Minister for the Netherlamis, his Excellency the American Minister, and Mrs. and Miss Everett, his Ex cellency the Brazilian Minister and Madame Marquise de Lisboa. his Excellency the Mexican Minister and Madame Murphy, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Duchess of Northumberland and Miss Percy, the Duchess of Suther land and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, the Countess of Pow is and the Ladies Herbert, the Countess Granville, Lady Dover, Lady William Powlett, Lady Bridport, Mrs. Lawrence, Sze. There were also present the following members of the Society, most of whom were accompanied by their families : The Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl of Auckland, Viscount Howick, Lord John Russell, Sir H. Middleton, the Lord Bishop of London, Lord Grantley, the Earl of Orkney, Sir William Molesworth, Sir Charles Hulse, Sir Charles Morgan, Lord W. Fitzroy, Sir John Sebright, the Earl Beauchamp, Sir George Duckett, Sir W. Heathcote, the Earl of Leicester, Sir R. Heron, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, Sir John Guise, Hon. H. T. Liddell, the Earl of Rosebery, Sir Thomas Clifton, Lord Portman, the Earl of Aboyne, the Lord Chief Baron, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir Thomas Acland, Sir Augustus Foster, Sir Francis Shuckburgh, the Earl of Burlington, the Earl of Zetland, the Lord Bishop of Rochester, &c. 'The beautiful marquees erected by Mr. Benjamin Edgington throughout the grounds afforded a refreshing relief to the pro menaders during the afternoon ; and we may mention as a curious fact, illustrating the degree of patronage bestowed on the refreshment booth, that Messrs. Gunter, who are the caterers at all the fetes of this society, sold upwards of one thousand quarts of ice on the occasion _ . Upward; of six hundred tickets were sold at the doors ; and here, en passant, it may be well to remind our readers of the existing regulation which forbids the issue of an admission ticket to any person not holding the order of a member of the society. Inattention to this rule was the cause of considerable inconvenience on Saturday. The policy of its adoption has been proved by the security it affords to the " pockets" of the patrons of the society. The following is aselection of the principal prizes_ awarded by the judges:— No. I. Pelargoniums, twelve new varieties. —Gold Banksian, Mr, Dobson; silver gilt, Mr. Cock ; large silver, Mr. Staines; nursery silver gilt, Mr. Gaines. Calccolarius, in sixes.—Large silver, Mr. G. Stanley. Pinks, twenty-four distinct varieties.—Nursery silver Knightian, Mr. Willmer ; nursery silver Banksian, Mr. Hen bery. Ranunculuses, twelve varieties for private growers, twenty four for nurserymen.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Betteridge, Abingdon ; silver Banksian, Mr. T. Starr, Airsee ; nursery large silver, Mr. Tyson. Seedling Florists' Flowers.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Beck; silver Banksian, Mr. Beck ; certificate, Mr. Beck. No. 11. Stove or Greenhouse Plants, forty plants.—Large gold, Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. Norman, Esq. ; gold Knightian, Mr. J. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. Stove or Greenhouse Plants, t wenty pl ants. —Gold Knightian, Mr. F. Frazer ; gold Banksian, Mr. Ayres, gardener to J. Ceok, Esq., F. H.S. Exotic Orchidacw, in collections of twenty species.—Large gold, Mr. Mylan, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; gold Knightian, Mr. J. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence ; gold Banksian, Mr. Rollisson. Achimenes, six species.—Large silver, Mr. E. Jack. No. 111. Miscellaneous Collections of Fruit.—Gold Banksian, Mr, Dods, gardener to Sir G. Warrender ; large silver, Mr, Spencer, gardener to the Marquis of Lansdowne. Grapes.—Silver gilt, Mr. Barnes, gardener to Whitman Esq., and R. Turnbull, gardener to the Duke of Marlborough ; silver 13anksian, Mr. Fleming, gardener to the Duke of Suth- erland; and Mr. Toy, gardener to Col. Challoner. Pineapples. Silver gilt, Mr. Toy, gardener to Col. Chal loner; large silver, Mr. D. APEwen, gardener to Col. Wynd- ham. Peaches or Nectarines.—Silver gilt, Mr. Mackintosh, gar• dener to the Marquis of Exeter; silver Kaightian, Mr. Dods, Other Fruit.—Silver Knightian, Mr. M'Ewen, and Mr. Foggo, gardener to the Marquis of Abercorn ; silver Bank. sian, Mr. Leslie. No. IV. Tall Cacti in Flower.—Gold Bar,ksian, Mr. J. Green, gar dener to Sir E. Antrobus, F. H. S. ; silver gilt, Mr. Falconer, gardener to A. Palmer, Esq. ; large silver, Mr. J. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. Fuchsias, twelve varieties, half to have a light calyx.—Small silver, Mr. Lane ; silver Knightian, Mr. Gaines ; silver Back slap, Mr. J. Robertson. __ No. V: Roses in pots, distinct varieties, amateurs twelve, nursery men twenty-five.—Silver gilt, Mr. J. Dobson; nursery gold Banksian, Mr. Lane; nursery silver gilt, Mr. Paul; nursery large gold, Mr. R. Laing. . . NIo;s Roses, in loose — bundles, twelve varieties.—Nursery silver Knightian, Mr. Cobbett ; nursery silver Banksian, Mr. Paul. Other Roses, fifty varieties.—Large silver, Mr. Betteridge ; silver Knightian, Mr. Parsons; silver Banksian, Mr. Williams, gardener to A. Rowlands, Esq. ; nursery large silver, Mr. Laing; nursery silver Knightian, Mr. Cobbett ; nursery silver Banksian, Mr. Rivers. Cape Heaths, twenty distinct varieties.—Gold Knightian, Mr. J. Robertson, gardener te Mrs. Lawrence; nursery gold Knightian, Mr. Fairbairn ; nursery silver gilt, Mr. Rollisson. Cape Heaths, single specimens.—Large silver, Mr. May; nursery silver Banksian, Mr. J. Dawson. Pelargoniums, six species.—Silver Knightian, Mr. G. Stanley, gardener to H. Berens, Esq. No. VI. New or Rare Ornamental Plants.—Silver gilt, Mr. Glen dinning; large silver, Messrs. E. Jack and Eyley ; silver Knightian, Messrs. Eyley and Veitch ; silver Bankaian, Mr. Veitch and Mr. J. Elliott, gardener to J. B. Boothby, Esq. ; certificate, Mr. Rollisson. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Anna Thillon's engage ment positively ends in seven more nights, and, with her en. gagement, closes the longest season Drury-Lane has ever made. The house is sure to be full each night, for the attraction of this charming singer increases every time she performs. SOUTH WALES RAILWA Y .—O n dit th a t th e South Wales Railway is yet likely to be submitted to v theC;m: mittee, inasmuch as the objections of the Admiralty to bridg ing over the Severn have been met by a proposal to tunnel under it. Sir Robert Peel has appointed the youngest son of the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, to a junior clerkship in the Treasury.— Observer. MR. OXBERRY'S BENEFlT.—Oxberry being the quaintest of mortals—little Oxberry—great little Oxberry takes his benefit at the Princess's on Wednesday. The whole talent of the company is to be put into requisition on the occasion ; and as Oxberry, in the various characters of author, actor, and manager, has won " golden opinions from all sorts of people," we hope that they will mint their opinions into coin, and give him a bumper. MISS STRICKLAND'S IaIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, VOL. Viii.—Besides the deeply interesting life of Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles 1., the new volume of this valuable work comprises the life of Catherine of Braganza. It is full of costume and pageantry, and sparkling with the whim and frolic of the Merry Monarch and his pleasure loving Court. The particulars of the early life and closing years of Catherine are derived from unedited Portuguese records and memorials hitherto unknown to English readers, and even to English his torians, who, in sketching the annals of the times have not put themselves to the trouble of searching the archives of the Bra ganza family. The knowledge of these curious facts has enabled Miss Strickland to enter into the secret chain of cir cumstances which led to the implication of this Queen's name with the mysterious accusation connected with the Popish plot, and which will be read with no common interest at this period of national excitement. Tha death of Charles If., of which so many contradictory statements have been written, is related from the testimony left by an eye-witness, from beginning to end, with careful accuracy, and it is one of the most striking passages in the memoir. The archives of Fra nce h ave a l so ' . . given up their long-hidden mysteries to supply some of the fresh information contained in this volume. The widowhood of Catherine, and the triumphant sunset of her days as Queen Regent of Portugal, will be read with pleasure, as affording an unexpectedly bright termination to the trials and mortifications of the virtuous and neglected consort of the reckless Charles 11. THE BRUNSWICK PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.—An excursion from London to Brighton and back in one day, by special trains engaged for the purpose, took place on Tuesday last, in aid of the funds of the above Society. This excellent Charity was formed in 1840, and ranks high amongst the numerous charities which exist for the alleviation of the dis tresses of the necessitous and deserving poor, during the in clemency of the winter season. Its object is the relief of poor persons and their families who in the winter, from want of em ployment and other casualties, experience the greatest priva tions, by supplying them with bread and coals. At nine o'clock the trains left the London terminus with nearly 2,000 persons, reaching Brighton, after a pleasant trip, in two hours. 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Address Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishops gate-street, the celebrated Perruquiers, Perfumers, Hair-cutters, and Hair-dyers. N.B. Parties attended at their own residences, whatever the distance. THE GAME-LAWS IN FRANCE. —" We are tempted," says the Presse, "to ask, do we live in a civilised country, when facts are passing round us such as we are about to relate ? A ship arrived lately at Havre from the Spanish Main, having on board a stag, intended for a merchant at Bordeaux, but as the vessel was not bound to Bordeaux, it was necessary to land the animal at Havre. A serious difficulty, however, arose. Tha new game-law declares that no game shall be suffered to be conveyed by sea or land at a period prohibited. What, then, was to be done with the stag ? Throw him into the sea. But the stag might swim to shore, and the vessel would become liable to seizure for smuggling. The case appeared so difficult of solution to the custom-house authorities at Havre, that they referred it to the authorities at Paris, and the case has nct yet been decided. Certainly, since the memorable deliberation of Dornitian's Senate, relative to the pro. per, sauce for a turbot, never was so serious a matter submitted to the consideration of a public administration. We are curious to ascertain how the custom-house authorities will extricate them selves horn the formidable difficulties occasioned by the arrival in France of an 4Jnericen stag at a mason prohibited by law.! HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE EX PE TM ENTAL SQUADRON. PORTSMOUTIJ, SATURDAY.—The day was favourable for her Ma. jesty. A light and refreshing breeze from the southwest, suffi cient to render the atmosphere cool and invigorating. enabled the various yachts and sailing vessels to perform their graceful evolu tions In tacking and wearing round the large ships of the squadron • Numberless vessels, from the large gracefully-rigged schooner to the small.sized wherry, with a variety of steam-vessels, freighted with elegantly-dressed persons, were cruising about Spithead to witness the very imposing spectacle of her Majesty's visit to the squadron. At half-past eleven the royal yacht Victoria and Albert waq seen with the royal standard flying at her mast-head coining from Cowes—the Platform Battery saluted the flag w ith 21 guns; she soon joined the Blaek Eagle, when both vessels stopped. The Admiralty barge was manned, and the Earl of Haddington, Sir NV. H. Gage, and the Admiralty Secretary, had the honour of waiting on her Majesty on board the Victoria and Albert; both steamers then proceeded towards the squadron. When the royal yacht was about one cable's length from the St. Vincent, 120, the flag-ship of the Commander-in -Chief of the squadron, that ship fired the first gun of the grand general salute —simultaneously with its discharge every ship of the squadron was immediately covered with a profusion of flags, surmounted by a red ensign at the main, a white ensign at the fore, and a blue ensign at the mizentopgallant mastheads, at the same instant the flags so sub„ denly unfur!ed, on every yard appeared a line of seamen, all dressed alike in their neat blue jackets and white trousers. When the breeze had dispersed the cloud of smoke occasioned by the dis charge of nearly 200 32. pounder guns, the royal yacht was seen lying stationary near the flag-ship. The yacht's bar g e was linme" diately manned, and her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Alberts and attended by Lord Haddington, steered by Captain Lord Fitz clarence, proceeded to the St. Vincent, and were received a t the entering port by Rear-Admiral Parker, C. 13., the Commander-in iP - Chief of the squadron. Capt. Rowley and the officers of the sh , and the Royal Marines under Capt. Collis, formed a guard of honorti t our. After Admiral Parker had presented the officers, the royal Pa. were conducted by him round this splendid ship. After remal l on board upwards of half an hour, her aLjesty, P r i n ce Albert , an ,. Lord Haddington proceeded along the line of ships in the Yacht. - barge, attended by the Rear-Admiral the Commander.in.Chief, hin his barge, to the Trafalgar, 120. Captain F. Martin had t honour of receiving her Majesty and Prince A lbert, and of con e ducting them round this beautiful specimen of naval architectur o e i The royal party again proceeded in the barge along the line ships, and passing the Queen, 110, Captain Sir B. W walker f ; to her Majesty had before seen this ship, the royal barge passed o tain the Albion, 90, where the royal party were rec eived by CaP N. Loekyer, CAI, ho had the honour of cond ucting her Majest : round the ship; and we understand that her Majesty and Fri" Albert were pleased to express their high admiration at the e v n er . : ; complete state and splendid organisation of all her apPe intre This ship is certainly the "crack ship" of the lid having 3,100 tons burd • en, is the handsomest two-decker afloat. a of the been in commission some time longer than the other sbir p a t. squadron ; 1 squadron, and better manned, is now, we should sat, tern ship." re turned on At half-past one her Majesty and Prince Albert s board the royal yacht, now lying nearly in the centre of t he _ on be The different captains commanding ships here waited jerty, and had the honour of being presented. Sir NV. H. Gage, the Right Hon. T. L. Corry, now took leave of her Majesty, and returned to the BI c k w i n g The royal yacht then proceeded to the eastward, and in n P um ber the Ellenborough, a large outward.bound Indianian wit h 3 5 three of troops on board, she received from the crew and trool:e royal and iipit 14d.Pltigntief most vociferous cheers, which was return,edged h Y t A t also yacht, the royal party bowing in The royal Y e the St• passed the large outward-bound American packet" hiP ,.. - ard, 55 James. The royal yacht having proceeded to the ea s `"' the far as the Vernon, now turned round and e n the line of ships. When opposite the St. Vincent, h thesci royal again blazed for another royal salut,, after "'hi' yacht put on full speed, and returned to Cowes. Passed back bettveueoron O BRITISH ASSOCIATION F D ll T ADVANCEMENT OF SCIEN CE ' net i c Con- CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 21.—The first sitting of the I „. eg ' ~ in toning , gress took place at the early hour of eight o'cl °._ ock in w the and the result of their deliberations will be made modal. o o general meeting of the Committ ee , w hi c h will be heldicyieetere: With the exception of th e ma th ema tical and geel° l3 oo , was Li ci t yesterday, the attendance at most of the meeting -T s ° . to eing' ° small. On account of th e d ear th o f p a pers, the fir: on ly Lo•dal . the mechanical and m e di ca l l ec t ures will take P I ae t sections :-- The following were the communications at the differenchietty of a MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.—The papers technical character, and all insusceptible of a 1 ,0 -t, la te oWerer abstract. eSting CHEMICAL SCIENCE.-1. Dr. Daubeny read an -r o f the crops, on the chemical principles involved in the rotationt the Botanic being the results of numerous experiments Made 3 ,i i nellti h3d . Gardens during the last ten years. Comparative eltPe ...f t h e 00 6 been made on land subjected to a succession of craPs u _, he turelt nature, and the other to a succession of crops of differe_u` the a shes both without manure. 2. Dr. W. Sharp read a pap er ex periments of wheat. The result of upwards of one hundred in Se ratio to showed that the weight of the ash proceeded in an Ver report the weight of the wheat per bushel. „ t y --1. D r * SECTION C.—GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGEAP.-ei n described en NV. Carpenter read the continuation of a very le. -- n _ d described the microscopic structure of shells. 2. Dr. Buckla ii in co n. the agency of land snails in forming holes and track wlth pact limestone. His attention had first been called to e subj ect at T e olajr by a discussion on the perforations, sixty feet high' at beach, Castle, which were by same taken to be evidence of a r alsr, s. fp but which he considered as the workmanship of land . 'tere 1 0°. , considered that by means of the acid with which .-,....,,, ot vided snails could make perforations into the most solid i b u . . -- a o, limestone, but the perforations were unlike those Made r the ear ' other animals, or those made by the salt of the sea, and c nev e bonic acid of the atmosphere. These perforations we' ° ,... d the found where the rain and frosts could operate, and alway n o `' ..ug h aperture downwards. From observations made at Itichhotr;de last year, he had concluded that these perforations were 0 to a greater depth than an inch in 1,000 years. ogres s ' l'd STATISTICS, —Mr. G. It. Porter read a paper on the Pr whe oft present state of savings' banks in the United Kingdom. '_ e the savings' bank regularly organised was at Ruthwell, and befi;ing, Legislature interfered on the subject there were seventy Os VI banks in England, four in Wales, and four in Irelan d ' d t he deposits last year were :—England, 832,290 depositors, tont amount 25,112,8631.; Wales, 18,690 depositors, and the a ' n - i ii ; 559,796/. ; Ireland, 91,243 depositors, and amount 2, 749 %7 3. and Scotland, 69,824 depositors, and amount 10,43/, 18 '",; 3 11. A paper was ready from Mr. R. Valpy, on the trade and - gation of Norway. • OW OP In the evening the Astronomer Royal delivered a dig , ell terrestrial magnetism in the Senate House, which Was very o f filled. It consisted chiefly of an elementary notice of th e ~ ipg to the science, and a popular description of the efforts now Ms ^ obtain more information upon this obscure science. hel d iri In the afternoon there was a grand horticultural show, ~, tho the gardens of Downing College, which was very well attende' prizes distributed being numerous. d t heir In the course of yesterday 120 fresh members enrolled names, being a total of 776 attending the present meeting' PARLIAMENTARY BUSIN,7/O . E. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL Or SATURDAY, JUNE 21. Jan e° St. Helen's Canal and Railway,—Report, TuesdaY• ra tiott Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway; of report, Tuesday, June 24. Richmond (Surrey) Railway,—Consideration of report' Tuesday, June 24. • ear Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to 3 , 1 % 1 ,14. and Athlone),—Report to be considered, TuesdayquesclsP Preston and Wyre Railway Branches, Rep ort, June 24. to be co Runcorn and Preston Brook Railway, —Rep ort Liv er sidered, Tuesda, June 24. d Liverpool and y Bury Railway (Bolton, Wig an ' an ed, l eer pool and Bury Extension), —Report to be co nsider day, June 24. ter Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Glouces sions, Stoke Branch, and Midland Railways J an Report to be considered, Tuesday, June 24. __ Re port t ° London and South Western Railway ( No. 2 ) , be considered, Tuesday, June 24. w ed, Tac eder' Tu C es o d rk ay, a3 t d ine ß 2 a 4 n . don Railway,—Report to be Cop s ' "k Oxford and Rugby Railway,--Third reading, Tbi rA June 24. Oxford, Worceste r . and Wolverhampton Railways reading, Tuesday, June 24. PIGEON SHOOTING.—The great mat ch I r l A 's s 'eeler: ,he " Old Ones" and the c , Young Ones," for I, o°° `" - Acid s. came off on Saturday at the Red House, Battersea-ova The terms were 50 birds each, 25 yards' rise, double OS ole fin traps. Colonel Anson, Colonel Bentinck, an d I•°r d, La rd ol i onald represented the seniors ; and Lord 13landfor ; i‘lri I - , ü b ntingfield, and the Hon. Ridley Colborne, theaSsOneli 0 aldeston was the umpire. The result was: c o lon' —Colonel Anson killed 42, Lord Macdonald 39 and y o ung , ~ i Bentinck 17 ; total, 93 killed and 52 miss ed ' d 40, °' Ones"—Hon. R. Colborne killed 42, Lord Blandfer d. On Lord Huntingfield 41 ; total, 123 killed and 27 En, i l,lcles t ' n . Tuesday next the grand match between Messrs. ur r ioo l . • and Gannon, at 100 birds each, 21 yards, one trap' i° side, will come off at the same place. , „, von n g„ . ELOPEMINT.-011 Sunday morning last - - . .j a rty ~'; lady, of some personal attractions and considerable P . ,,, o pe, the neighbourhood of Cardiff; made her exit with " her 1 0 ; j ` e rie 3t a young man respectably connected in Car,!iff. It vi° , " j ; indl e i d ,,, / ; they accidentally met in Bristol, where the flan l3 via r ; g,tt u ' e l. they subsequently had an interview at Cardiff, an d ° e • iiiiog ° ,, v- d night last she informed her friends that she intended tv an d t'". in the morning to take breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. - ----1 w ith o 's she would return in the evening. She accordin gly of % P ut il ls°l , lark, and went off, as her friends thought, to breakfast; ca risk of which her ardent swain, who was in waiting witblit'er fr ievcl7 and pair, carried away his prize at railway speed*eca ro u' je h lo oh * finding she t search not of her n ursuing the rou te she retur according to promise, aide and went in Was 1 . .„ fuel /- .. taken, but we have not heard of their having captured to' —Monmouthshire Merlin .. . —...------ ' On the 7th inst., at Brixton, Surr ls e: BIRTIP.?. 6 ut a lai s ri o en n ,solf.,at lli r=4 Storr, of a son. . 1,„, gen. Oa the 15th inst ., at Calverton, Bucks, '''' of R P e c O t r i e n: v t i :h u e ' .. oflscl" d h a e u l g a h cb t - er. of w. On the 18th inst M It. W. Peaks, of Lle vi ~ rs. . P .(l• ' New ' Einchley• road,of adaughter. Co l v in, On the 18th inst., the lady of Bazett D. lad y of 11 ' le• of a son. On the 19th R d Essex, the law inst., at ay on, c lad) ? Nott, Esq., of a daughter. bridg e ' tb C a mbri On the 19th inst., at Scroo e p -terrace, P c of Captain Chowne, of the Bengal Army, of a son. frs. Ar On the 20th inst., at Upper Bdf . rd-pla ce ' 3 e o he lion. On the 20th inst., in the Cloisters, Rasch, of a daughter. t r t f P o Mrs. G. H. Repton, of a daughter. • Esq'' On the 20th inst., the wife of J. P. phillips, Swithin's-lane, of adaughter. vire.'sAtintrinhiensstr_leoa;,:::::: : r ar , i )f. t t i h l e e h i t : t o h w i i t i l i s ia t. m , p d a u Ow 7 n , n h - Sfo ilji'll Town, to Bel e "' ,ttleijreaom2f9aitiihei Jamaica, f oii A S r William i a l l , itiai Spalding, g. I t 3{lhEle:ysiciCe l' l s t V il h ir . e . ,i, d Cathedra I, Chur ch, ter Edward Tumour, R.N , to Helen, younsges l oad' hill 11'1 dlesex. 0 1 portsm: .0 On the 19th inst ,at St. Thomas's Church , to P' < ll _Commander Williami Charles Chamberlain, R•i . 1;11, B• , •" • Jane, eldest daughter of the late Captain Bazil •-_,,, Loos On the 19th inst., at St. ' Ilanovers6l3";nce3 Loyd,• Jun., Esq f G George s, . uare , to . , _ ic k , 0 reen-street, Grosvenor- A ._ 3 l Frecw Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Admix Paul Irby, C. 8., of Boyland Rail, Norfolk. atp ' a r y iwe'is:k. e tE;sh:ofCLhitit t r l e e h , i.;tc t a t tgetiogct Sou til DIED. Sew On the 24th of February, at Port Phillip, EA. Wales,_ n Elizabeth Bridget, the wife of J. W. Shaw:k n ersb sl9 o : .._ 0 the 14th inst. at Coleshill nouse, near specervica Major James Eyles, of the Hon. East India Compa v Y c 5° Robert,,sucar,s. ofOn the 17th inst., at Romford, Essex, Lieutenant-Colonel read, C B late of the Ist (.1 , b a a dotte On the 17th inst., ' Swale, aged 85. -'<—,N So """----------- 1' of f riß 0 ° l ' j x , lli . e, . e c2,,E , .vi. ezid r un-lataect Ty e D.. -- 1 ?-)pel , - ll 'tir f. , ., iz2 c -, r „- , ,-,,. e Sew `Tci:ooo 4 , nt.:r. ,'-- ' Stra , ' ' ..., in the Precinct ef the &IVY , ii: l Middlesex, Monday, Jane 23, 1 845 ' - . L NTT kept I:Av *bat SOC 7,ilt, 711 e t RSL ' tb's. wt s , ez lit th e InN ee COlo rr i i kra n .auk