The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

[S VAI). •14 i n Liverpool , vo lb ' i that port. t i l t Liverpool b9,,A 1 corn-law, ,q.•'; April preceli the same a should be fr it , each T u f f during the 110 'hursday atter I contende d -'ed • T he u. d u o ras liable to _ ,ond, where lo c i ised 1 )101 11, 0 ;tion to re- 14 n of the CO there wet no verdict had of; 5 to the coney' the plain t iff n ide time to Co DAY.) w „ a ssi ranee, te d ng comit de Smith, witd, Titchfield-s OS ° a t there ,00 of the nott l Lof me, by th res,- against th_e o : 10 3 a ddress,,,D u i9t der the eadl' d n d it hi be. . 60 s at the b t br the evenill.4 t.ake the pri police fiheet•iiiip ke hire also c ? 1 the truth , " t ig 1, Sir. Ter; se he wow,uv Iles, said that 'ck in charge , tIO !ss given bY of live thel?'-1 f this chargctty ,'s Park, an i , rsa tion wit ' lO 4 he said n t ot it do you in 1 41 and if ton ti oi ith havlng g yi hi m mottei , ) custody to pt• for a MO, dischargrLell i )n of tracw. , mt. • I D named .street, irged vr it feo laughter of , dor nan anu ; 4 0, its i n his ..n P o i l r rade. F7 h oile spectiDg between I Cody. pg lll 88 then b r° d, r Mr. 0011, f which a her ev i , o ll l . peared her with: Le', decent bu'or, ,old her ore' ghteen 3, 1 7 0 ' oetween d him if do !ndant AP $ en tered i miiO 3 Ali d ..h a n )l aux° fle esirous, ° .,4 l lent AA o ' Dr ndent ras charg band/ t° , t to se ouP" DA Y' S th he ei! havia t ° . Bigg ins, weviou.s f the coal or, theY oise, at t l i n ter prisoner ..re i t on the.orArao, at the W113"7.. the aboventO , a montli l j 111: th ° gl 9 I o' o t io I ct csP s ' rthe r OO Ire bas 4 /10 t heir .0 4 wind .° inure f orth Ir t be. , oar iero x o bee fag wort SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltt kr`pttiton. Wito rum_ way road.' rpre.EZON. On Saturday, Tr • very l a ; the ---tng and Queen of the French received parp.? part:i et on 4 turri ne contradicts the reports that prevailed at Paris arty of the d angerous iliness.of M. Jacques Lafitte. It P~ e r-ra he is indisposed, but not seriously ill. thif. -11 = for m states th at on Saturday the Minister of Ma esthreceived dispat c h es from Admiral Dupetit Thouars, of - !ch-the members of the Opposition, it is said; will demand ct°,mtlnication before the interpolations of which they have n notice are commenced. (I,i:setters from Leghorn of the 20th repeat that as the Papal B)","4"„ernment could not be induced to make any change in its throeor institutions, a crisis, sooner or later, was inevitable. th e 1, °v"lnents among the Austrian troops, owe the line of o, had occasioned uneasiness, but they re purely er ;Cationar wird4s,,,,cametereio of Cadiz announces that a force of 5,000 . Moors, provided with artillery, had approached the ti le . o r Ceuta. It thus appears that the Moors will act on 1 , 4 ensive before the slow Spaniards get into motion. Vie eViadrid Gazette contains a Royal decree, granting to her th l u idr u tess de 13 elascoain, the widow of General Leon, and en, a pension of 45,000 reals per annum. tb LAW' AND Duke Court of Common Pleas an order was made on the 7 °Bell Prunlwick to pay Mr. Valiance, his attorney, ral iNA 'la the amount of the same having been exa • Ai'ellitatt.retuld correct. txt e ,: s . e• Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Mr. David Bassett, an seeti..P...Le 'torn-chandler and miller, was fined 40s. on six the i ( :„.'"arges of having refused as one of the constables of ehurch "" n4 liP, to execute various distress warrants for diYi t i o ' i llos, legally issued by one of the magistrates of the n, A • ltatoh.; ---Aar a long hearing he was fined in the full fro u i--"idv`,, t, 16 4 His objection to execute the warrants arose cientious scrules. efendant, contrary to the b e his solieitc,r, immediately paid the money, sayin . g 10 e16. 1 :-N§ed the Bench would prefer having the money to his • Itoht.;;l9„aPpeal against their decision. thape -- "' Aelson Paddon a clerk employed at St. Andrew's hez-ELlllackeriars was ' charged at the Guildhall with ern- Prie o ent. The ' presecutor is a cement manufacturer; . the '"'„One r h was his ledger-clerk, and he occasionally received - ;: c tlgilt to the counting-house when his master and (!er.tig?.naPpenecl to be absent. It was his duty to hand '". l 2l'sa? 44P3 on the same day. The prisoner said nothing I,..Otrie Once, and was remanded. ▪ atb e uve s , charwomsn, was charged at Clerkenwell by etas ainwright, of No.lo, Kirby-street, S ' t. Andrew's, _ r pr" v i`th haying stolen two scarfs,' two gold studs, , a , ral ' e nstr,„ l ' , errY.' The - prisoner was employed as . an o.i.a,a -h-i7154h-ter. ' - ' o 4 rl tnt, and in consequence of articles being mrsseid 11 °Pon I On being questioned she admitted I All'Auentelee the arrie r ies. She was remanded. "IA I 4- Irishman 'applied. at Marlborough-street Office, r ! „-- 4.5 0 • against -the Duke of Leinster. He e spid,he ar10y,, ,- ',George the Fourth, and brother to the Princess tl/4 inqUiry, it was proved that his intellects were '▪ et4'„l d the magiStrate directed, that he should be ..•' an cake of. tt ii4 ed adreo4SmpreCrifA 2e1.78. by Miss Meredith, has at ~..X-la-Chapelle, where she intends to remain '`reeti...''ulrldie of next month, and then return to Stratton htheeire,,,,,LNlY last' Mr. and Mrs. Long received at dinner at 'ionlfi,s.„ — mence in Hill-street, the Bishop of London and Mrs. ,-14,i7,..8ir:Philip arid • Lady Durham, Hon: Mr. Bar ,R lei t e ' rth : l n-the evening : Mrs. Long gave a soiree musicale r1 ,,, 91 . 20.9 of her friends. i„, 1f1 er,4, -4 , / te of Norfolk is expected to' leave town the week Teae r a. for Worthing,- to take the command of his yeo 7/lee r r P B ; which assembles at that place on the 13th of o . r seilit , !iht days' t ra i n i ng• rie of Morley has accepted the commodoreship of 4 igt ann ual I Vestern Yacht Club, at Plymouth, where 1 441 r egatta is fixed to take place on the 16th and ... 4- 413 s a lhil Leend Duchess of Leeds are expected to leave the ‘`wy eli rk -°4 hotel w k after next, on a visit to his Ma lre c , ae , r,d • the week Hague, here they are ex ,tea f, of Holland, at the w A t l'emain about a month. in4ys's'ebbishop of Dublin (Dr. Whateley), with part of his lilA lkr ete 'n " on visit to Mrs. Arnold, widow of the late • - stro 0 rl Rugby, at Fox Howe, near Ambleside, in Ihet' e land. res. is.7eirtaa lonsdale arrived at Lowther Castle, in West aelitl3;,), °ll Saturday morning last, where his Lordship ik ‘, r ealde for some time. It appears that his Lordship siZaslote,P interest in the success of the Lancaster . and th 'lrrT, a considerable length of the line of which 'Lah r 44 nis estates, both in Cumberland and West ""et Net!: t y ,"gel l and the officers of the 2d Life Guards ;Co: and the officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards , Nalintin and the officers of the 17th Lancers ; M.P. 414 . 0: ;: aetbioan i a rt on :P v ., ri h da av y e s r e v n c n e i t g rt h e t d . the office of stewards ANNUM:MIL 11"t Ga X lre C ry " no *D less than 16,350 persons, of t" . 3. ta4 4 dea of society, were visitors yester . day, and although ir were attired in humble garbs, either their love of "is* 9tattachrne t togood order, induced them and all V tc ri tols o h % I res ew ._ are with g the most perfect . decorum, and the "nlence produced was the immense influx of additionalta,Tlfac ra, occasioned by the showery weather, it,;94 ,e,„Z,_trouble to the hall-keepers. • be • tas of persons who visited the British Museum to ,„,"` the initial average at holiday times, viz., from - ` l , ; ,. ° °, ce O. There was nothing new in the collection ; the principal points of attraction, how ti kil n ; "le original copy of Magna Charta, -and thoe .Tae for zoological subjects and Egyptian antiqui 11.1'. 1 People, were remarkably well-conducted and reh ','-,oody of the' A division of police was on duty. Ve4e,lZr3allifthe eighth Concert of Ancient Music took ea tl i b - As enl aY Morning in the' presence of Prince Albert, 814deltk4.q• Cambridge, the Earl of Cawdor, and a very lie tt elrem la sernblage of the subscribers. The Prince has tk ttoiiZeetion from the works a Handel, Haydn, Winter, tO.fre C • herubini, Gluck, Righini, &c., including a seletco -1,,-°Pethoven's " Ode to Joy," and the grand finale ke;' 0 ,-%aet of Don Giovanni. lijia)4qy. the anniversary meeting of the , R r nya . l p G a eo ce - . Pnsteiety was held at the office, _3 , ...w p a r t e e s .l.°°. , sup t' j " Esq., o l letster,!t ed r. war tie pf Norwich, Lori. the . Mr. W. J. Hamilton, M.P., Sir Julio Rennie, Rev T. Halfordi &c. After some remarks read. The from itent i - ,;" 11 n, the rep or t fo r th e past year as eonsist e d o f 670 mem b ers , exclusive r of 61 foreign Corresponding members. His Royal Highness Ft. had accepted the of fi ce of Vice-Patron of the L t e . triee:"Ot tZgarations are now being made for . the , Anti -„,4 Th, ne Bazaar, which is to be held in Covent- I rOigt`r're, in the month of July. It is expected that 'el will be .one of the_ most splendid of the kind q • l eg in this -country. uT b .. .9, LANCASHIRE ELECTION. reileZetsit, STATE OF THE POLL. El% MONDAY MORNING.--The election c om- Rmornl°g great srit on both sides,and eo t ra he . es 41 h it 3' since nine o'clock, when the polling tot, e s z t t b een unusually crowded with people in a state ZerieLostri n `enrent. The district of Manchester contains nt i eete r li. and 4,593 voters, of which the township of i b 5 , 4 11 0 , -410 ,re‘ a , 48 1,3 85, and of the remaining townships ab i o t n_ 'test' agri'e•Purely manufacturing, and 33 either a o r tecaet,iiNtural or partially agricultural and partially tr. ?4 - 4, 14 -, 4 Places. The manufacturing townships alto - ' ‘ ll about 2,800 voters out of the 4,593. latr i s ts NEWTON, -MosnAv, 9 rat. Belt ! ti' OF THE POLL—FIRST DAY. Brown. Entwisle. 4 0, ht 1 , 11- " a ..... 419 778 rilt o ° „ - ..... ..... . 325 263 •• •getz,:: ...... ************ 402 613• ..... ... •• ........ • • 439 _ 419 -141Are—er •f. .... ... ... 1,464 ' 1 1,357 14 'bale ittlth . ....................... 325 : 2 16 . . ... ... .... • 546 367 ....... .... ...... .. . 251 • 564 . ...... ....... .. .................... 192 371. 5,702 _ . , 5 364 fi.. 4 - 4 . . .--' . •' 38 ;4e ,;:avc,„ Alajority for Entwisle, a • - -I tlill cl 'd't • 4 436 ; 4 11 1 i . siViiiii . l 8 Commit e here have issued a plaCa d rd f s o t r at il in ir g . , '- ;4 $ ° he --for Mr. Brown, , ,4 60 • -- 's t • Qh, 1 ' ' ' N —.n t h , t," ., e1. von,...7rtes biekenci is about to leave England for . 1 / I t o r a resulenee abroa d . ti , itif t ' III . .ttin Principally at Genoa; ,1, 1 a,,, or p a , I Highness Prince 'll l ,...'"Nit, 4 1 ANCE ALITEIT TO ETON COLLEGE.- 4 4, i 1 le,l3!')AT -EVENLN.G.-11i8 ~-k'Y'* to -morrow morn-, •• ~ 4 . --• 0 tilt Paddington terminus . Lo . t44,4liniltee4l. train, - ihe litate Is tilt. 'ty'cotni)- i i n il y- at a quarter-past . teni will 1w carriage of . the o,c g o re c at , ;.,14),414iiit'IR'14f,,ktfj1 6 tation, - where ' the Royal -carriage His 7ir i "-11, 40 ,- , ori." the Prince and suite to W i n d s or. I,''' 1411,11:4':_-9a-::-it 'iliefi'str it% 'II one - of , the Royal carriages and four to Eton r emaining a short time, at the . Castle, llip lt i ?L. Iliglin.h,' r . ince wi . .'' ' 11 4 arrive d,h „; s t h h o o r VII; 14 ciiittratt%. 441, alf.vtiellr l t i l e e rec s e u l a v i cer ceremonial has been go ne 444414 ' :t t i l, l e ,quadi.a:n g i o . ' O' .. the College, o b v e o r :t r e and n ; h cl .. rtll ir kk 7 ,-, tg.Punt 4t. Salt-hill to witness the ft i the 11( €is!"Sren' -4 It ' g'a ulufnit, - bY the ensign.. - At the . w .,. Prince t conclus ion ursb ni will h ti kkt.„,l 4 4--,...Ar, it 13 expected, that his Royal .highness ___,l:l.l ,olizNAlliti'„'ure dire 4 ;i f o f town. It WAS at one time a•L JtoiCirt to '1,9e./C,liik'of qaxon , would accompany.the Prince _. tl tit4l4 l ll ll t o u t ! 41.14. riteniA),4 it is Ro w expected ~ that his Ala sit to the Queet P,,,, e(ll4,,iiitP/-o),n England upon a 1, 1 l_till fiC4, 44, '3• ••• - • - ' ' 7 4 : 41. 4ti( lity T- PAR.LGIN COIN —At the • Public- office, „ ther 'l' i \v i' it7 l - :, 1 11).4,4 48 1 ect 14 t, . '• Ara3 . , - C . o . rts r ul i te i ' n () tilt nt,‘selLYretfitilieldp,raeipties of mr, Nether ;-Warr hjfitrran"tililtsfirs.-Callekand Co., erai th of e th l e ag .N istFat es_ of W t e i a t ma .7 - butch ;"4_,,,il,,,4e,,,3itn:ttexecuted a large quantity .Taberrgetrr,ccotf. found and /k 114,Z tk tile thief p©t slaatiedria'islta?snisetated Ati ll l N ili4 4r e • .nt. aware that they were committing .n 41),,h1110ck Weretr. every :facility . to'. 4'Sti•. MaY Hlshowi ng that the man a u n - N" the;kilN giving up: the names of the parties 1 N-fliattiibiltle,ieleyed the orders. The penalties are . 4 klop t a t . 4 _48 not vet been determined what i° cOurse ItkiliTT kii! ----Chrrningliain Gazette._ cp e. t. tric,44413 INC ENDIARISM AT KESGItATE.--: ~.. ' l llO, ° a i. 043"), about four o'clock in the a ft ernoon, inteili 4441%. '3 1., °f at Yes liesgrave Heath, the property of . R • m 4 e \ . : .itleAltite'B,....tissrave llall, reached Ipswich , . and im en. qm Were (I.l"olklstre-otHee and the Amicable Fire-office . llit Ntti,,l4l)atched t oward s tilts t Before the engines 14 ) Ar t , v 4 e 4 :l far, ho weve hconductors o. were informed that ~,,lterti-i..,setes „subdeti. ev er , t he ci.yi appears, was confined )3tit.let.tiT"' which there i_s t he clear e st ;;, , .stb.. - .,,,, fire in the o _(1 I,o7sonsiartii_allPen dv by an incendiary. Harriett herd a whistle, k S Ming ~.‘,..ar-.17,1L _lpa.sting at the t! j ) ,N 1 4:v11 111 ,„ and,a7) ? eatn, n, saN . v the ir ' .c ne e ' ndiary stoop to , s4lNir 2; 4 ' 1(1 on 11 P y.s?metlu ng to them. After which it.'% el' r "Alt- she d _ e ,r g'lvi.g the alarm, the man, noetara 'l4,/:,,l)st h er. eB pbes lion one of gentlemanly apy _ 1., A . 0ettid......:, There is .every probability of the offender ”s h ,* • _ tatt er f 'Pseeteh Express.' tll3-tiliti, !Qin . Leipsie play 16 says :—" Die. 1 1 a 7 tteiq' tt ' eminent voteri nary .s " Urgeo ' n, and Director. of ....v‘41.6 , - -llary s eh le o , pabi a - 9ol at Rosenthal, has just died here of Itiith tnin v h.t., atter 24 hours of frightful su ff ering . M. e,'43.,r,,,,,-, IlLevur been bitten by any animal affected .1., wh,,,,. „nit about three years back he dissected l I Of i c "ad died - ' what a 44 14 was t he . mad. This fact proves in t„a rabistio virus may remain latent -- "Y• . . NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Let question and answer—as in all other cases of coquetting—tell their own tale : " How comes it that you never made these inquiries respecting the importance of having the robing-room in a particular place until the plans were so far advanced that you could not place it there without an incon venience ?—I beg to state that the inquiry was made in time, as the plans are not so. far advanced but that the change may be made with the greatest facility. I had the honour the other day of going over the whole build ing with Prince Albert, and it was a source of regret with his Royal Highness that there was a great want of large spaces for fresco paintings. On my pointing out, however, to his Royal Highness, that an 'opportunity might be afforded of obtaining large spaces in the pro posed robing room at the throne end of the house, he was pleased to express his satisfaction at the change." We have, from time to time, felt it to be our duty to direct attention to the negligent and very unsatis factory manner, in which the supervision of public works and edifices in this country is generally con • ducted. 'What adds, not a little, to the vexation which the fact is calculated to excite, is, that this evil co exists with an immoderate staff of paid individual servants of the Crown, and more than one highly salaried board, especially charged with the duty of preventing that waste of.public money, that dishonour to the national taste, and that injurious result to the national interests, which:ensue from such unsatisfac tory and negligent - superintendence. For example : how many of our public edifices have perished by fire, owing to faults of original construction, or subsequent additions which have had an evident tendency to create or enhance the liability to combustion ; and in these cases, how universal has been the absence of that ordi nary degree of precaution which would have assured the public against the io:s consequent on such cala mities ! In how many cases have sea- walls, and dock yard foundations, and piers, after being erected at an immense expense, suddenly given way, entailing, as in the case of the present Custom-house, for example, an expense of reparation absolutely frightful—for want of some competent and diligent investigation, preliminarily instituted and certified by some officers of responsible authority. how many opportunities for noble manifestations of that British genius and talent, which open competition would have been sure to have elicited, have been, and daily are, sacri ficed to the species of o►ficial favouritism which gives to Sir R. SMIRIEE, for instance, the fee simple or mo nopoly of all architectural employment in the design and construction of new buildings like those in pro gress at the British Museum? These are bad cases enough; but they are really less sickening, to our taste, than those constant, and almost inevitable, failures which appear to attend upon all the acts and perpetrations of that self-constituted dilletanti whom the credulity of Parliament selects for "Committees of Taste." Committees of Taste, 'indeed Enough, that we are indebted to them for such disgracefu Again : " Have you made, up to the present moment, any alteration in consequence of communication with the Commission of Fine Arts? —I have proposed an altera tion, in consequence of a regret expressed by the Com missioners of Fine Arts, that there was not sufficiently large spaces for paintings; namely, that a change should be made in the design of the Victoria-hall or gallery to afford the large spaces for pictures which are wished for." It is abundantly clear from the previous quotation, that this plural " Commission extends not beyond the limits of Prince ALBERT. Now, with all our own love of: art, which is ardent and sincere, we think the following remark Of Lord SUDELEY is conclusive as to the mis- take committed in sacrificing essentials of the original selected design to the accommodation for fresco paint ings. It is like preparing to convert the great Legis lative Chamber of the Empire into one vast Poaci lorania I Lord SUDELEY says, in answer to Q. 89— " If the buildings of the HouSes of Parliament are meant for the tine art,, I think then tlytt Mr. Barry's observation may be perfectly right; but I consider the Houses of Parliament as built for no such object; that the fine arts ought to be called in to embellish the Houses of Parliament. and that no necessary architectural arrangement shall be sacrificed for their display." We think wore highly of the good taste of his Lord ship than we sympathise with the regret of his Royal Highness, which Mr. BARRY was so prompt to remove. Among the papers appended to the Report, touching the alterations in consequence introduced by Mr. BARRY into his design, .we have perused with won (ler the conceded application of the Commissioners of Police, to have separate accommodations and cham bers provided in, the new Houses, for the police con stables, forthwith, " in lieu of the sort of temporary barrack in Palace-yard, in which they have been hitherto lodged." The surveyors of the Board of Works call the architect's attention to the propriety "of making provision for ample permanent accommo dation for the .police in the new general outlay," and in p. 30, Mr. BARRY, in his paper, says, that he had been called on, among other altera tions, "to provide accommodation for the A division of police." And this is actually being provided ! What next, in GOD'S name, will the gentle public be called upon to do for these mock Praetorians ? The thing is too ridiculous. Can they not be contracted for in the manner in which : arrangements for all other constables are usually made ? Send them to the " Brown Bear," or the " White Lion," but don't give them dormitories in the Palace of Westminster ! puerilities as our Law Courts at *Westminster, the Painted Chamber and the late " new buildings" of the old House of Lords ; the Corinthian façade of the Council-office and Board of Trade, which ought to have been in a line (but are not) with the eastern extremity of Downing• street ! All of them, if we mistake not, inventions of Sir JOHN SOANE, now, happily for art, in a condition to " sin no more !" Had their commissions extended so far, we doubt not that they would have given their verdict in favour of the preposterous portico at the Admiralty ; of the selection of the accepted, instead of one of the rejected designs fer the Royal Exchange; and of the superiority of design and elevation to VS ILKINS'S National Gallery over INIGO JONES'S Banquetting Hall. We are sorry to find, on a more careful perusal of the Report of the i‘ Lords' Committee, appointed a Select Committee to inquire into the building of the Houses of Parliament, and to report to the House" (brought from the Lords 13th instant, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed), that the offences of " Committees of Taste" are not yet mere matters of tradition, but are still rife and in active operation. The " Lords' Committee" reports this resolution, " That it appears from the evidence of CHARLES BARRY, Esq., that during the progress of the building of the Houses of Parliament, certain departures have taken place from the original plans approved of by the Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, and ordered to be carried into execution under the direc- We do not see, however, that any estimate is yet given in for the expense of warm baths and a billiard-room —for the same destination ; but we see that Mr. BARRY ranks the accommodation to be provided for a Librarian of the House of Lords next in order and consequence to that which is to be provided for some A policemen ! Upon the whole we do not understand how Mr, BARRY can bring himself to call the remarkable de- partures he has made, on his own responsibility, from the original plans, from the plans settled by the two Houses of Parliament, and the occasional instructions given to him by the Woods and Forests, " mere matters of detail." Does he think them to be such ? Lord WHARNCLIFFE is entitled to much commendation for bringing the whole matter be fore the House of Lords ; and it is to be hoped that such a system of uncertain accountability, and un tangible control, as are described in Mr. BARRY'S answer to question No. 85, will be got rid of with the least possible delay : " Then you left it with the intention that alterations should be made in the plan; but to whose approval were those alterations to be subjected?—l knew not that they were subjected to any one's approval in particular. That rested with the Government. But the examination tion of the Boards of Treasury and Works, which alterations hare been made by Mr. BARRY without any authority from either of those Boards ; to which circumstance they think it right to call the particular attention of the House." This resolution really appears to us amply called for, by the amount and effect of Mr. BARRY'S own answers to the Lords' Committee. It seems to us that Mr. BARRY has not only been guilty of singular rashness and in discretion in venturing upon so extensive a field of alterations as he has adopted, however he may try to excuse himself on the ground that " they are only matters of detail," but that he has shown a certain want of feeling for the dignity of his own art, and too great a facility in listening to suggestions about the adaptation of his very beautiful designs to the last new project for ventilation and smoke dispersion and heat diffusion—and to the fresco-painting fancies of the last " Commission of Fine Arts," which is billetted, like a company of observation, on the growth of "The New Palace at Westminster." Und.ubtedly, warm and well-aired rooms and freedom .from smoke are very agreeable properties in any structure, — hut they are but acces.iories after all. It is of more consequence to give an air of grandeur, majesty, and . state, in conformity with of the Commissioners before the Committee of the House of Commons will show we expected many to be made." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. the best examples which the middle ages have left us of its mingled palatial and ecclesiastical architecture, to such a building as the sumptuous edifice in ques ion should be, than to accommodate its original plan to the theory of Dr. REID'S scheme of ventila tion, by such an excrescence as the "Victoria Gallery," objected to with so much force in the evidence of Lord SUDELET (one of the most accomplished and experienced authorities on such a question in the three kingdoms) ; or by the removal of the QUEEN'S Robing-room, immediately behind the Sousa in the original design, a distance of 140 feet from it, to re move " the source of regret" to -his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, " that by the original arrangement there was a great want of large spaces for fresco paintings." 'We should be sorry to convey any unfair impression on these two points. We, therefore, quote, some passages with regard to them. First, as to the ventilation plan, Lord SUDELET complains to the Lords Committee of the wholesale . , alteration of the plan he, as one of the Commissioners had approved, by the introduction of a new Gallery, the roof'of which being run up to the height of the main roof, will effectually destroy the very plan which Mr. BARRY had originally proposed of keeping his gallery down, at a - much lower elevation, in order to admit of light and air freely circulating through the interior parts of the edifice : . " I now come to the Victoria Gallery itself. I object to the. Victoria 'Gallery on several accounts. There was a gallery, but that was of very different character ; that was literally a gallery ; whereas I contend that this is neither one thing nor the other. It is too short for a gallery in proportion' to its width, and it is too long for a hall. Therefore, as a matter of taste, I object to its proportions. But that is not the only objection. It de prives lie Queen of her robing-room immediately ad joining the House of Lords. Another very important point is, that in consequence of this gallery there will be a continuous roof from the House of Lords to Little Abingdon-street. The roof will be from 90 to 100 feet in height, contrary 'to Mr. Barry's own princip!e, as stated in his prospectus or paper which he delivered with his plan ; for 'he there observes that he has carried up the Houses of Parliament greatly above all the rest of the buildings, for the benefit of air and light. Now I need not observe to your Lordships that both the light is Obstructed and the air is impeded by this arrangement. 3esides, we shall be deprived at one end .of the House of Lords of the power of lighting it, if it should be re quired. Then, as I before observed, the Queen is de prived of her robing-room immediat!•ly behind the I-rouse of Lords ; the very situation in which Mr. Barry . hitnself, by hiaformer plan, recommends that it should be placed, but which hss since been altered. In fact; as it appears to me, everything has been sacrificed to this Victoria Gallery." Mr. BARRY, after showing that the plan he is now working on is—riot that which • the Commissioners had originally settled, but—that which Committees of both Houses had subsequently settled and assented to, states that— " Whereas in the plan selected by the Commissioners the river ft ont is 780 feet in length, the average depth of the building from east to west is 270 feet, and the area covered is five and a half acres: in the plan approved by Parliament the length of the river front is 880 feet, the average depth of the building from east to west is 335 feet, and the area covered is seven and a half acres." And thus, in a written paper given in by him, he alludes to this new erection of the Victoria Gal lery : " With regard to the latter class of alterations, I beg to observe, that, in the first place, I was required to make the necessary arrangements for the new system adopted by Parliament for warming and ventilating the entire building, which alone have caused many serious and im portant changes." And again:— Are the Committee to understand you that the Vic toria Gallery has been carried up to as great a. height as the Holm of Lords itself merely for the sake of venti lation ?—No ; not merely on that account. That is tmly one of the reasons which has induced me to carry it up to that height." In these and other passages the plea for the altera tion is mainly founded, therefore, on the necessity for coaxing the original design into compatibility with Dr. REID'S monster flues. Next, as to the coquetting with the same design, which,. has _been 17 . 4c*A on b6alf of thefrpyoet., TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAT. THE SETTLING. " At a meeting of the most influential subscribers to Tattersall'S interested in the Derby and Oaks set tlement, it was unanimously. agreed that no possible impediment could exist to the settlement of all ac counts on the Derby, in which the names of Running Rein and Orlando do not occur • and that, therefore, the settling will t a k e pl ace t hi s day, as usual, with the above exceptions." The meeting referred to in the above document, which was posted in the Subscription-room, took place in the early part of the afternoon, and was, as intimated, attended by several of the most influential subscribers. At a late hour the room became crowded, and, as the great majority of those present, either di rectly or tacitly acquiesced in the proposed settlement, and some actually commenced paying and receiving, we presume that, with the exceptions mentioned, it will be proceeded with this day, as usual. THE LATE MR CROCIU"ORD 8 ACCOUNT. In the course of the afternoon, a letter was re ceived by Mr. Tattersall, from Mrs. Crockford, a copy of which, and of the opinion given by the Earl of Stradbroke and the Hon. George Byng, two of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, we subjoin : "Stu,—l trust that the circumstances which cause me to address you, will be a sufficient apology for doing• so. " Being ignorant of the custom in use at Tattersall's in situations parallel to the one I now find myself placed in, I consider it best for me at once to place in your hands the betting-book of my deceased husband. " You will perceive that, in case Running Rein shall receive the stakes, there will be a loss of 604 i. ; and in case Orlando shall receive them, of 7241. "I inclose you, therefore, a draft for the larger sum, and would wish you to apply this sum, together with the receipts from the several losers, to pay as far as may be the clairas of the several winners. _ _ " It is possible that, in a case of this sort, it is not cue • ternary to settle the book ; should it be so, I am not anxious to establish a precedent. • " With a deep sense of the trouble I am about to im pose upon you, I have the konour to be, Sir, yours most respectfully, " S. R CROCKFORD. " Carlton-house•terrace, 27th May, 1844." rilE StN, LOND-ON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY . 28, 1844. THE WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS, • THE RIVER AND THE RAI LWAYSL There was a general 'turn-out of thv working ,population of -the metropolis • ye.stettlayi seine' on' their way to the rail reads, others hastening to the wharfs to ein p ark, and many otter' 1 4aliing adVantag e of tonieYinices • for the purpose of • reaching' the suburban fairs at 'Greenwich, 'Stepney, and - Wandsworth. In • spite - of the Lord Maybes protlattiation, the -Woolwich- and Greenwich steamers Were occasionally most tremendously overcrowded,particularly after sunset— ler, although the Cit 7 police were stationed on the wharfs and piers in the vicinity, Of London-bridge and also at Black friars, his Lordship's • jurisdiction did not • extend beyond those places; and; consequently, there was no 'one to prevent the vessels• being overloaded 'at the Adelphi, Hangerford, and Westminster, and 'also at 'Greenwich. -The "Solid •• pier," which is in a very'dilapidated And,' insecure state, and the Watermen's floating pier at GreenWich, were' thronged With the holiday folks from an early hour' till midnight. Steamer after steamer arrived, and discharged their livlng freights ; and no sooner was one cargo got rid of than another supplied its place. The town, the fair, and the park were filled with good-humoured mobs - ; the fair was generally the fret place visited, afterwards the park, and lastly, the Royal Hospital, and there was plenty of amuseuient and re creation for the multitude in - all directions. The showers Of rain which fell at iwtervals during the day frequently dis persecrthe people; and• flirced Ilion to seek shelter in the taverns, tea-houses, and other places of refreshment. The veterans in the hospital were busily engaged in conducting the numerous visitors over the painted ball and the wards of the building. , The crowds became so great in the afternoon that numbers were obliged to go away unable to obtain ad mission. The fair is precisely similar to the one at Easter, and indeed of twenty previous years. Richardson's theatre, and the great Crown, and Anchor booth, fitted up for dancing, and where at one time 400 persons were dancing the Polka, are the principal, attractions. 'The gingerbread stalls are as numerous as ever, clad the public-houses and 'tea-rooms are stocked with enormous quantities of provisions, of which has and beef are - the :staple articles. The consumption was of course immense. The numbers landed at the two piers during the day exceeded 40,000: There were thirty steamers engaged in the traffic, viz., eleven of the Watermen's steamers, thirteen . of the old Company's, the Robert Hawkes, William Gunston, and Laurel, engaged for the holidays by the Waterriten's Company ; the Flirt and the Coquette, which kept up a comsounication with the Black wall Railway, and a Gravesend boat called • the Prince .of Wales. • The Watennen's steamers, and the vessels engaged by then', made sixty trips between • the Adelphi Pier and Greenwich, and carried down 15,000 persons and, brought back as many. • The Greenwich Railway also came in for a large share of business, and the trains were running- every quarter or an hour With as many holiday folks ..as the car riages could find room for. Thirty thousand souls 'were conveyed up and down this line duriug the day.. The greatest hilarity- and good humour, prevailed among the vast assemblage at 4reenwich, and we did not hear of any.mate rial accident. • - • Stepney ,fair has been. again.revived, and the display of booths, shows, 'and exhibitions of every description are more numerous, and immeasurably superior to Greenwich. There is more room, and'thdarrangements for the accommodation of the people are decidedly better. The fair is held in two large fields close to the 'ritames-police Court ; in one is an enormous canvas temple called the Crown and Anchor,, be longing to the Essex phenomena, Young Gipsy Stevens, and, it was brilliantly illuminated in the evening, when dancing commenced with 'great vigour,. and that popular pas the Polka was all the rage. Ile booth is 300 f ee t l ong an d . 60 in width. Refreshments were supplied in abundance to the dancers. There are two _other dancing-booths in the same field, and the outside of one of them is decorated with a large painting of the 'wife-killing Harry the : Eighth, and is conducted by Mr. Mason, the landlord of the house known by that sign in the Mile4nd-road. The veteran Clark, with his equestrian company, his corps of acrobats, and his daughter, ' Aurora Clark, who displayed moat' astonishing feats in the ring, is located in a large circus in the same field. On the adjoining field there "is an immense number of exhi bitions of every kind, Peterson'a large theatrical booth ; not inferior to Riclardson's,'where a " tale' of enchantment" was performed to admiring andiences every half hour; Johnson's theatre on a smaller but very superb scale, living wonders of every description, -ups and downs, swings, an d roun d a b outs. From. an early hour all the roads leading to the fair were pouring in an incessant stream of visitors,• and when it was lighted up at nine o'clock the scene was one of the most brilliant and animated ever witnessed. The numbers present would' defy calculation. The Prince of Wales, Maid and Magpie, Safe Harbour, Sidney- Arms, and Star and Garter Taverns in the vicinity of the fair, as well as the grounds attached to them, were filled with people,' who, from the noise they made, and the shouts of merriment which ever and anon proceeded froth them, appeared' to enjoy themselves highly. The fair is highly prodactive to the inhabitants of Stepney, and from 2/. to. 5L has been freely given for the use of one or two small rooms during-its 'three days' existence. In consequence of the competition in the Gravesend trade, and the low fare by railway and steam-boat, the concourse of Londoners who have besieged 'the town during the last two days is beyond all precedent. EXCURSION TO COLCHESTER. A little more than two hours have elapsed since we left the Shoieditch Station, and here we 'are making the best of our time at Colchester, without having experienced any incon venience • from curves, cuttings, gradients, or inclined planes, but with many thanks to Mr. Hall, one of the Ma naging Directors, for the precaution he has suggested, and which is carried out on this, line ; we allude to the signal posts which are placed along the line. It is a post of some ten feet in height, at the top of which there are five painted panels or leaves, which are spread out like a fan, or drawn in as occasion requires ; for instance, when a train is stop ping at an intermediate station to take up or set down pas sengers, and the train happens to be on the opposite line of rails to that on which the station is, then all the paneleof the signal are extended, so as to prevent any other train or engine passing. But if the stopping train happens to be on the line of rails next adjoining the station, then two panels only are exhibited, and 'another engine or train may pass along the other line of rails, provided the speed be re duced to fifteen miles an hour. When the fourth panel is removed from - sight, and any portion 'of the third is visible, no engine or train is allowed to pass more than 100 yards beyond the signal on the same line of rails, until the third panel is , entirely raised. After th e train has passed the signal-post some 14 minutes all the leaves of the signal are withdrawn from sight, which-shows the line to be clear. We are happy to state that since this simple plan of Mr. Hall's has been adopted, no accidents of any kind have occurred. SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY EXCURSION. The Directors of the above railway, very wisely and humanely followed the course pursued by them in the Easter holidays, by allowing the public the advantage of seeing either Southamp!on or Gosport at half fare; or, in other words, any one goin g d own to either terminus yester day, paid, in the first instance, full fare, but, on his arrival at his destination, he was allowed to keep his ticket, a por tion of the corner only being torn 'off by way of check, and he was at liberty to use it in returning either last night or to-day, at his pleasure. Whether it arose from a' due want ' of publicity, or from the coldness of the weather we know not, but there were comparatively few applicants for the favour. At seven o'clock a train was started, carrying about 300 passengeri, but more than half of them were regular pas sengers, who had no. thought of being .mere excursionists. Other' trains followed throughout the day, 'but they carried no more than their usual number of pas sengers. The morning, whicrh at an early hour threat ened to rain, was cold, but the seven o'clock train had a fine run down. Notwithstanding numerous stoppages, the whole distance (78 miles) was cotupleted in three hours and 20 minutes. Few of the holiday people stopped in South ampton. Waiting for the train were two steamboats, ad vertised to sail—one to Cowes, the other to Ryde. They drafted nearly all off, nor had they returned when we came a w ay ; and, although few in number, were determined to sea the most they could while out. The directors afforded the same facilities to the people of Southampton to spend their holidays in ' a rational manner, and it appeared as if they had embraced the opportunity with much more avidity than the people of London, for the early Up-trains were very long ones and every carriage filled. EXCURSION TO DOVER. Long before' eight o'clock the London station was crowded ; and so completely were the officers of the Company taken by SUrprise, that it was with the greatest possible difficulty they managed to accommodate the holiday. assemblage; and in deed it was only by a prompt yet effective " transmogri fication" of cattle and goods" trucks" into third class " car riages," that they were. enabled to satisfy the claimants for what the old Jacobins would have termed " the honours of a sitting." It was pleasing to observe that the holiday folk were as willing to be accommodated as the Company's officers were desirous of accommodating.. With so much good feeling the train could not but be a - merry one. All appeared to be gratified at, the anxiety manifested to afford every possible convenience for • the trip, and a kw minutes after eight o'clock the first train, containing upwards of 1,000 passengers, cheerful and communicative, was rapidly wending its way into the " rural districts." The atmos phere was a fine clear one, and though a sprinkling of rain now and then fell, it seemed, but to freshen up Nature's countenance and to render her smiles the gayer and the more beautiful. Just below the 'Maidstone sta tion we had a glance at the Maidstone branch line, which appeared to be in a forward state. We understand that it will be opened, in August next, some months, if we are not mistaken, before the time which the- engineer fixed for its completion. .At the Staplehurst station, where we sojourned for a short time, availing ourselves of another train by which to get to Dover, we. witnessed what might a short time since have been deemed by the directors a very strong evidence of the necessity of a' branch to Hastings—viz., three coaches with passengers from that town. The pream ble of the Dover Company's Bill. for a branch' to that pl ace has, however, been declared to be not.. : proved, and the Brighton Company will, therefore, probably have the.felicity of carrying All those passengers who now prefer travelling by way of Staplehurst. From the line we could perceive the works being carried on at the branch line leading into Folke stone harbour. This branch appears to be near its comple tion. At the present moment about 150 tons of coals per day find their way into the railway waggons. Greater facilities are to be afforded, n the shape ofcranes worked by steam, for land ing coals' upon this branch line; and it is stated that when these get into work, the average quantity of coals l an d e d d a il y ' will be upwards of 500 tons, We had almost forgotten to observe that just below the Ashford station we observed the'Canter bury, Ramsgate, and Margate branch-line marked out. This, it is expected, will be finished in about eighteen months. At Folkestone station a considerable number of the passengers left the train, and availed themselves of the opportunity of ' making a steam trip to Boulogne. • Throughout the day the trams were crowded,' and none carried fewer than 600 passengers. The most anxious atten tion was paid to the comfort of the passengers by the secre tary, Mr. Whitehead, and the superintendent, Captain Cherie wood; and, indeed, everythisig that could possibly contribute to the pleasure of the excursions was most sedulously at tended to by those gentlemen. NORTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. SCaIinIUDGE LINE.) Previous to the Whitsun holidays, the directors of this line wisely, and we may add, generously adopting the course pursued by some other railway companies, advertised their intention to issue " holiday clay-tickets" for Whitsunday, Monday (yesterday), and Tuesday (this day), by the pur chase of which a person going, to Bishop's Stortford, or the ,intervening stations, would be take n f rom L ondon to Bishop's.Stortford and back for the one fare down; and we were happy to find yesterday that many hundreds 'of per sons availed themselves of this arrangement ; though from -the repeated inquiries we heard . for places by. the " third class trains," we wish,' for the sake of those who were more immediately interested in the matter, that that portion of the public had been apprised of the fact, that no third-class carriages wore intended to be run. By the eight o'clock and by the half-past nine. &do& morning trains a vast number .of individuals took their departure from -the " city of smoke and toil," unawed and" nothing'daunted" by the melancholy appearance of the - weather. At the latte r h our appearances were indeed most unpropitious and uncongenial, and re mained so through the greater part of the day, at Bishop's Stortford and aldng the intermediate llne of country; never theless, every succeeding train -dropped its quota of pas sengers at the respective stations on the railway, all light of heart for the day, and bent upon enjoying their own rational idea of recreation, and all were alike determined to make-the most, of the.. Whitsun . holidays. _The number who availed themselves of their return tickets on -this short lino of •railj road was about 90Q; and nothing could exceed the atten, lien *hick iirb.S paid to the passengers by the Company's servants. BRIGHTON RAILWAY EXCURSION. The recurrence of Whitsuntide, like that of Easter, is always a " green spot" in the lives of the inhabitants of the metropolis, than whom we question if tiny people more enjoy the opportunities thee annual festivals afford for relaxation from their usual employments, and for participa tion in the pleasures to be found both in town and country. Emphatically it may be said that the worthy citizens then quit town and go down into the country, with the firm determination of being happy. In proportion as facilities for travelling are provided and increased, so new points of attraction open up ; and as this process is going on almost daily at a rapid rate, so the number of these who avail themselves of the means of locomotion becomes still greater and greater. An instance of this we had yesterday, when, through the liberality of the London and Brighton .Railway Company, hundreds and thousands of holiday folks were, at half the usual charge, whisked to the most beautiful watering-place in England, which, until the completion of this splendid line of road, was nearly altogether closed against the great bulk of the middle and working classes. The first train left the terminus at London-bridge early in the morning, and contained upwards of a thousand carpenters, and the second, which left at nine o'clock, was a monster one, consisting of 54 carriages, drawn by four en gines, and conveying the enormous number of 1,500 passen gers. Other trains were kept running at regular intervals. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The fifth concert took place last night. The following was the programme PART I. • Sinfonia in B flat (No. 4)—Beethoven. Duet, " Stung by horror," Miss Rainforth and Herr Staudigl ( Pascal Bruno)—J. L. Hatton. Concerto, violin, Herr Joachim—Beethoven. Overture ( Faust)—Spohr. Duetto, " Pazzarello ' o . qual ardir," Mr. M ac hi n an d H err Staudigl ( Faust)—Spohr. Quintette e Coro, "Ah ! godan for felicitade," the principal parts by Miss Rainforth, Miss A. Williams, Mr. Manvers, Mr. Machin; and Herr Staudigl (Faust)—Spohr. PART I. Overture (A Midsummer Night's Dream)—Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Scherzo (A - Midsummer .Night's Dream)—Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Song, with chorus, " You spotted snakes," Miss Rainforth and Miss A. Williams (A Midsummer Night's Dream)—Men delssohn Bartholdy. Notturno, march, and finale chorus (A Midsummer Night's Dream)—Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Song, with chorus, " Joy, 'tis a glorious thought," Herr Staudigl ( Fidelio)—Beethoven. Hunting chorus ( The Seasons)—Haydn. Leader, Mr. Loader ; conductor, Dr. F. Mendelsson Bar tholdy. The novelties introduced by Mendelssohn into the plan of the concert excited great interest in the musical world, and produced a more crowded audience than we have seen at the concerts for several years. " Everybody," in common par lance, was there; and the room had that animated appear ance which it used to have in the old palmy days of the So ciety—days which, we trust, are returning. There was only one symphony. but it was a chef d'auvre— Beethoven's in B flat. In the performance of this magnifi cent work the effects of Mendelssohn's training were appa rent. We have frequently heard it very finely played at these concerts—with satisfactory precision and great vigour. But there was last night an attention to the chiar 'oscuro of musical sound in which this orchestra, with all its excellence, has hitherto been deficient; a softness and delicacy in the piano.passages, a sharpness in taking up the points, a simul taneousness in those sudden bursts with which Beethoven startles his auditory, a unity in the whole movement of the band, as if all its members were animated by a single mind, and a fire and animation which we never before observed in an equal degree. The symphony was followed by a duet from Mr. Hatton's opera of Pascal Bruno, sung by Miss Rainforth and Staudigl. This opera was lately produced at Vienna with some success, Staudigl being one of the per formers. Such an occurrence, of course, has given occasion to, many remarks on the hard case of our native composers, who, finding it impossible to have their pieces performed at home, are compelled to try foreign lands, where they are better received than in their own country. Look (it has been said) at this case of Mr. Hatton—we should never have heard a note of his music, either on the stage or in the concert, if it had not gained some eclat at Vienna. Now, supposing, this to be the case, the fault does not lie with the public, but with the musical profession themselves. We have said again and again, that we have never yet seen a piece by a native musician, when fairly brought before the public, that did not meet at least as favourable a reception as it was entitled to ; and we have not the smallest doubt that, had Pascal Bruno been brought out in London, and performed as well as in Vienna, it would have been as well received as in Vienna. Whether it deserved a favourable reception is a question upon which the duet performed last evening threw little light. It was an impassioned dialogue, demanding much theatrical action, between two characters of whom the audience knew nothing; and it is impossible to sympathise with feelings of which we do not know the sub ject. Such a scene, to produce its effect, must be represented on the stage, as part of the piece to which it belongs, and not torn out of its place, and sung by persons standing up in the front of an orchestra. It would be unfair to give a judg ment of a piece heard under such circumstances. We can only remark that it is evidently the work of an able musi cian ; that its ideas did not strike us as remarkable for ori ginality; and that, wheth er ow i ng t o th e over f u l nesa o f t h e author's score, or to the overplayiag of the orchestra, the voices were buried beneath the ponderous load of instrumen tal accompaniment. Miss Rainforth, in particular, whose vocal organ is by no means feeble, could scarcely make her self audible. The next piece was Beethoven's violin concerto, played by young Joachim, who, though he has several times played in public since his arrival in London ' may be said to have appeared last night for the first time before a great musical audience. His appearance in the orchestra was very inte resting. He is quite a little boy, and does not look above twelve or thirteen, with a pleasing and ingenuous counte nance. He acknowledged the welcome he received, and the enthusiastic plaudits bestowed on his performance, with much modesty, and his unaffected simplicity was very engaging. Child as he is in years, and small in stature, he is, in art, a grown man and a giant. He has every quality of a great performer ; a full, rich, vocal tone ; a rapidity of bow and finger which no difficulties can embarrass ; great force and vigour, united to the utmost delicacy of taste ; and much feeling and expression. He does not belong to the Paganini school, and executes the utmost difficulties, in the highest regions of the scale, without even having recourse (or at least very rarely) to the use of harmonics. Wonderful and delightful as Joachim is now, it seems impossible even to imagine what he may be when he arrives at the age of the passions, before which time the genius of an artist can never be fully developed. There was then a selection from Spohr's Faust, preceded by the overture to that , opera. It proved, comparatively speaking, a failure. The music selected, though very effec tive on the stage, is too theatrical in a concert-room. There cannot be a greater mistake, prevalent as it is, than the practice of taking these complicated concerted pieces, full of bustling incident, which, however clear and effective they may be rendered by . dramatic action, are nothing but un intelligible confusion in a concert. The whole of this part of the performance, accordingly, made no impression on the audience. Mendelssohn's music in the Midsummer Night's Dream had a very different effect. It consisted, in the first place of the charming overture which everybody knows, followed by a little instrumental scherzo movement, quick, magical in its fairy lightness. It was loudly called for a second time. Then came " Ye spotted snakes. with double tongue," as a duet and chorus; the solo parts were sung by Miss Rainforth and 111iss Williams, and the 'chorus consisted entirely of female voices.' Though the verses are indelibly associated in our mind with Stevens's beautiful glee, yet we listened with delight to Meradelssbhn's elegant and imaginative treat ment 'of the subject. There were then two instrumental movements, a notturno and a march. The latter (a gorge ous .composition) was encored. And, lastly, there was the final chorus, "Through the house 'give glimmering light," for female voices, and having for its accompaniment several of the most remarkable passages of the overture. Nothing More exquisite can be imagined than the whole of these mu sical illustrations as they may be called) of the Midsummer Night's Dream. They are full of the genius and fancy of Shakspeare himself. The reception given to this beautiful music was rapturous ; and we heard all round us the most eager desire to hear it again. We can Inform our readers that this opportunity will present itself next Friday, at Mrs. Anderson's concert, where it is to be performed in precisely the same manner—bythe same solo singers and chorus—as last night; and, by the way, we may add; that, at the same con cert, Beethoven's grand choral fantasia is to be performed, Mrs. Anderson taking the pianoforte. On the whole, the concert of last night was singularly in teresting, and appeared to give the utmost delight to the audience. MR. C. KEMBLE'S SHAKSPEREAN READINGS. Mr. Kemble gave a reading of the tragedy of Othello last evening—a drama with which some of his greatest triumphs were connected in the character of Cassio, a part in which he stood alone, and in which he leaves no sucCessor. Last night, despite his advanced years, the speeches of Cassio were spoken with all that remained (with much more than could have been expected) of . the admired actor's former elastic vigour and animation. The scenes generally retained for full delivery were selected with the same sound judgment which has characterised Mr.Kemble's arrangement throughout, and were given with tasteful and still impressive elocution. It is a remarkable fact, that Mr. Kemble always obtains the greatest applause whilst he is depicting Shakspeare's female characters: As the gentle Desdemona—the most artless, in nocent, and beautiful of Shakspeare's creations—he excelled himself, as if his energy increased in proportion to the beauty of the character which he represents. The rooms were more crowded last evening than on any of the previous occasions. The Earl and Countess of Harrington, and several persons of rank and distinction, were present. WHEAT, &C.—Accounts of wheat delivered from the warehouse or vessel, duty free, under the Act .5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 92 ; of flour, &c., substituted for wheat ; of the delivery of flour and biscuit. so substituted ; and of for feitures under the Act, showing the disposal of the articles forfeited, have been laid on the table of the Commons' House of Parliament, on the motion of Mr. John Trotter, the Con servative Member for West Surrey. We take the opportu nity of presenting our readers with a summary of these very detailed accounts, which may serve in some degree to show the operation of the new Corn Act from the 10th of August, 1842 (the period of its receiving the Royal Assent), up to the sth of April, 1844 (Good Friday last). It appears, then, that the total quantity of wheat delivered from the ware house or vessel, duty free, during that period amounted to 71,048 quarters ; that the quantities of fine wheat flour de posited in the warehouses amounted to 81,171 cwt., of which 7,059 cwt. were afterwards delivered for home consumption, 69,176 cwt. were taken out for exportation either as mer chandise or as stores, and 4,935 cwt. remained in warehouse on Good Friday last ; that the quantities of captain's biscuit so deposited between August, 1842, and April, 1844, amounted to 12,625 cwt., of which 11,815 cwt. were taken out for exportation as merchandise or as stores; that the quantities of standard biscuit (of the standard of that sup plied to the navy) so deposited in the warehouses amounted to p 3, 3 16 cwt., of which 50,993 cwt. were afterwards taken out for exportation; that the quantities of common ship's bis cuit deposited .amounted to 164,821 cwt., of which 159,224 cwt. were taken out for exportation ; and that the quantity of fancy biscuit deposited amounted to 10 cwt., all of which were a ft erwards exported as merchandise or as stores. Th e ,were, under the Act, appear .to have been but few, and the return of the fines levied is nil. *Sir Fowell Buxton is at present on a visit to this city, for- the benefit of his health, and is undergoing a course of treatment at Sydney Gardens establishment. The celebrated Mrs. Fry is also staying with us for the purpose of recruiting her health, which has-beenfor some time past in a very precarious _state., • We understand that both Sir Fowell Buxton and - the venerable Mrs. Fry are _taking the mineral waters at thopump-rooto.—BdthWirard:— ' • - LITERAT URE. TIE THREE KINGDOMS. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844. In these volumes - we have an account of the Viscount D'Arlincourt's travels through England; Scotland, and Ireland.' The work is penned in a slight and superficial spirit, but _it is not, on the whole, un amusing, for the author never dwells too long and wearisomely on any one topic, but hurries - from sub ject to-subject with the velocity of a bird of passage. rile most entertaining portion of his volumes is that which refers to Scotland, whose varied scenery, tocre they with - the impression it made on him, he describes with infinite relish, and gives a lively account of a d9.y or two he passed at Eglinton Castle, and of his visit to the far-famed and romantic island of Staffs. THE GOVERNESS. C. Knight, London, 1844. There are many sensible reflections in this unas suming little duodecimo on the important subject of female education, and the duties of governesses. " Can we safely ass er t," asks. the author, " that woman is more informed, more excellent, more adapted-to the duties peculiar to her station and her sex, than in the days of our mothers—that she is more exempt from the failings of her sex, or less liable to their errors ? If the answer is even doubtful, the work of -education is still imperfectly understood." There if no doubt that, even in the present improved age, the work of female education is not so well un derstood:as could be wished; still there is no denying, the fact that it has made great progress within the last ten or twenty years, and that women are now infi nitely better and more carefully instructed than they were in the days of their immediate predeces sors. Not only are they more accom =plished, but the knowledge - they acquire is of a sounder and more practical character, and they are now, in an immense number of instances, qualified to take part in conversations which would have been wholly unintelligible to their mothers. Formerly, if they could sing a little—play a little—dance a little, and paint a few extraordinary flowers on card-bond, they were considered to be perfect in all that it was necessary they should know; but this is the case no longer; more, much more is expected from them ; and it is doing them no more than justice to say that in very many cases they fulfil all the increased ex pectations of society, and are yearly approximating nearer to man, in point of equality of intellect. The author of the little volume before us points out some of- the more obvious deficiencies that still exist in the present system of female education ; and his remarks are deserving of consideration, for they are apparently the result of an extensive practical acquaintance with the- subject. OPINION OF THE STEWARDS OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. " We are of opinion that every person indebted to the late Mr. Crockford on his. Epsom account is bound to pay the amount due to the person deputed to settle the same. (Signed) " STRADBROKE, " May 27, 1844." " GEORGE BYNG. ORLANDO AND RUNNING REIN. The following is a statement of the case as it now stands :—Anxious, for the sake of the settling, to bring the matter to as speedy' a ' termination as pos sible, Colonel Peel, on Friday last, made a proposi eion, through the Stewards, to refer it, under the re cent Act of Parliament, giving arbitrators the power to examine witnesses on oath, to a barrister, to be selected by the Lord Chief justice. This proposition was forwarded by the Stewards to Mr. A. Wood, who refused to accede to it. On this the Stewards considered themselves absolved from any further re sponsibility in the affair, a communication to that erect was forthwith made to the different parties. Colonel Peel immediately placed the matter in the hands of his solicitor; and on Saturday process was servedon the stakeholder. The betting yesterday was even. • LEANDER. We find that in one particular we were misinformed as to the travels of the lower jaw of this unlucky an imal, which does not appear to have been taken by Mr. Forth to Messrs. Weatherby; but of his decla ration (made in the presence of Lord Stradbroke) that he had been imposed upon by-the Messrs. Lichtwald, and of the other particulars of this singular affair, our account was substantially correct. BRIGHTON, MAY 26.—1 t is said t o b e i n contem plation to add a new wing to the Pavilion, for the pur pose of obtaining a better view of the sea. Yesterday a gentleman from the office of, Woods and For es t s was engaged in measuring the ground for the site of the pro posed wing. SCOTT MONUMENT.—The.arI of Weymss has li berally. transmitted 201., and Mir. Paterson the banker has remitted 15/., collected on. his schedule in Dalkeith. Upwards of 2,0001. have been eontributed by the public since the meeting, three months ago, at the Music Hall ; the deficit, therefore, does not now amount to 1,0001., and as subscription lists still lielat the banks, club-houses, and at the Royal Institution, the admirers of the genius of our illustrious countryman, - now in Edinburgh, who have not yet contributed, have still an opportunity af forded them of assisting in completing this national monument to his memory.—Scotsman. • In one of the accounts. of the late Leipsic fair it is said Never was the catalogue of books and other publications greater than at this fair. It extended to 284 sheets of letter-press, containing 2,000 new works, without including music anti geographical maps and charts. The number of the publishers of thiS vast addi tion to litesature is 789. The German translations are very numerous, and yet there are not more than two of any one foreign work, except the ' Mysteres de Paris" of M. Eugene S .Of. Which there are tenrersions.". . COURT CIRCULAR. The King of Saxony is expected to land at Dover this afternoon, His Majesty will proceed by t h e S out h- Eastern Railway as .far as Tunbridge, from which place he will cross the country to Buckhurst Park, the seat of the Earl and Countess Delawarr. On Wednesday his Majesty will visit Knole, Pens burst, Redleaf, &c., and returns to Buckhurst to dinner. On Thursday morning his Majesty will leave Buck hurst Park for Brighton, whence, after visiting the Pavi lion, he will proceed to Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. His Majesty will arrive in London on Saturday after noon. The Earl and Countess Amherst, the Earl and Coun tess of Wilton, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, M. de Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister at the Court of London; Lady Elizabeth and Mr. Henry Russell, Lord Cantilupe, and the Hon. Mortimer West and Lady Mary West, will form the party invited to meet his Majesty at Buckhurst Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended by Co lonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting, left Claremont for town, at half-past ten o'clock, yesterday morning. His Royal Highness proceeded to the Hanover Square Rooms, where he arrived at twelve o'clock. The Prince remained during the rehearsal of the Concert of An cient Music, and afterwards attended by Colonel Wylde, went to Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting, left - Claremont soon after one o'clock, yesterday after noon, in a carriage and fnur for town. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, were in another Royal carriage ; and Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, followed in another Royal carriage and four. The Royal party arrived at Buckingham Palace, es corted by a party of Lancers, at twenty minutes before three o'clock. Her Majesty was received at the Palace by the Master of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux, Maids of Honour in waiting, and Col. Berkeley Drummond, groom in waiting. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes terday included the Marquis and Marchioness of Lana downe, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Lord and Lady Ashley, Viscount Canning, and Lord and Lady Granville Somerset. The Band of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following pieces:— Overture, " Die Vehmrichter" Berlioz. Quadrille, " Chatsworth" Coote. Pot pourri, "Cheval de Bronze" Auber. Walzer, "Dalkeith" Galop, "Albert". Creston. • His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the queen Dowager yesterday, at Marl borough House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone left town on Saturday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. CLOSING OF THE STATE APARTMENTS. WINDSOR CASTLE.--:--We have authority to announce that the State apartments in Windsor Castle must be closed on Wed nesday next. Intimation will be given as soon as the public can be again admitted to view them. The King of Saxony is expected to land at Dover this afternoon. His Majesty will proceed by the South- Eastern Railway as far as Tunbridge, from which place he will cross the country to Buckhurst Park, the seat of the Earl and Countess Delawarr. On Wednesday. his Majesty visits Knole, Penshurst, Redleaf, &c., and returns to Buckhurst to dinner. On Thursday morning, his Majesty will leave Buckhurst Purk for Brighton, whence, after visiting the Pavilion, he will proceed to Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight. &c. His Majesty will arrive in London on Saturday afternoon. The Earl and Countess Amherst, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, M. de Gersdorif, the Saxon Minister at the Court of London ; Lady Elizabeth and Mr. Henry Russell, Lord Cantilupe, and the Hon. Mortimer West and Lady West, form the party to meet his Majesty at Buckhurst Park. A DUEL.—Ogle of those stupid - modes of adjusting a dispute, called " affairs of honour," came off in the vicinity of Bristol, on Saturday morning, between Mr. ll and' Mr. W—. The cause of quarrel has been variously stated. A correspondent of the Bristol Gazette asserts that the balls used were made of bread, coated with black lead, and adds,' that one of the belligerents made his will, bequeathing 3001• to his adversary.-Keene's Bath Journal. EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY OF THE ANIMALS . AT THE LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This week. there has been a great increase of British born' " foreigners" at these gardens. An East India monkey, has given birth to a fine Young one, which promises to arrive at full growth and t.3trength as readily as if , born within the tropics. This is a very rare birth: in these islands, and but one similar one has occurred' at the Liverpool Zoological Gardens. The female hyena has had a litter of five fine healthy whelps ; and there has been hatched a brood of beautiful black. swans. The: zoological varieties Of the gardens have likewise been aug mented by the addition of two splendid young leopards, brought by the Catherine, Captain Williams, from Calcutta ;. and, altogether, the visitor who enters these delightful grounds for the first time this season, will find a multitude. of novelties of all sorts to attract his attention. ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday morning, shortly before five o'clock, a fire, which occasioned very considerable alarm, -broke out in the Rodney's Head public-house, occu-, pied by Mr. Francom, situate in Little Suffolk-street, South wark. With all speed three engines were at the scene, with the. ,firemen. There being a good supply of water, the hose were carried into the flaming premises, and placed in such a. position as to throw a great body of water upon the fire,, which quickly extinguished it, but not before the staircase, with the flooring, joists, Be.c." were consumed, about one .htth of the roof burned off, and the rest of the building and fur niture greatly damaged by water and smoke. 111 r. Francom is fortunately insured in the Licensed Victuallers, Fire Office. During the lire it is supposed that some 'villains entered the. ofluoroar,offorucepd , n b , a a r r - d p s a o rl i o .: l 3o lla t lt e l s e t as ol l e i- t b h o e x re b from ez cas fot h in t d o o t n h e t h a m e open, and emptied of its contents. The house had only beers recently fitted up and greatly improved. FORTUNATE 14;scarE.—On Sunday forenoon, at five minutes to eleven o'clock, the large flagstaff which was situated at the top of the steeple of St. George:s Church, Cannon-street East, and upon which the union flag used on particular days to be placed, suddenly broke off through the. Violence of a stiff easterly breeze, and fell with a crash ou the stone platform at the entrance to the church, where a number of the congregation had been standing only five minutes be fore. It fell partly on the iron palisading round the platform; which it broke away to some extent, and a large cast-iron column which supported a gas lamp close by was shivered to pi e ces. The flag staff was 40 feet long, and 3 feet in circum terence at its base, tapering like the mast of a ship to a via of about four inches in diameter. It was broken into four pieces, one of which struck with some violence Mr. Hocka day, a cork cutter in Cannon. street, while standing at the north side of the church, but did not materially injure him. It is not more than a fortnight ago since the vane or wea thercock was placed on the top of the staff It was about 5 feet 10 inches long, and was found after the concussion; broken into four pieces, in the back yard of Mr. Hattersley; about 40 yards distance from the church. Several ships are fitting out at Sunderland for the coast of Africa, to bring cargoes of guano to this country.— Durham. Advertiser. Died, at Melrose, on the 18th curt., at a very ad vanced age, Jean Burnett. She entered the service of the late Mrs. Gardiner, in the year 1771, and on her marriage, continued till her. mistress's death, eleven years ago, when she passed into the service of her son, Alex. NV. Gardiner, Esq., Melrose, where she continued till her own death as above—thus completing, with undevi ating integrity and industry, a service in the e sa ri m o ; family, without ever having left it, of no less . p IMTROVEIVIENT kinxnALE.Within the last few t h h a a s n re s ,% e r v iv en r ty al - i t e h l r s e i e n y se - ea o r t y n a d. period which, it is believed, months several hundred dwelling-houses have b een erected .AVE N ERA DEE AND RESPECTED GOOSE. — We think in Kirkdale. . Th e . recently open ground about St. Mary's the following is worthy of te Church' is covered with neat cottages, and all tenanted. Be- friends how honourable old wa ge to show our Devonian is esteemed in Sotner-: tween the village and Bootle-lane, Mr. Duckworth has laid set:—There is now in the possession of Mr. Henry. out a very picturesque and elegant little square, surrounded with villas of great taste, and not more tasty than convenient. Brake, with young by her side.— Western Times: k of Closworthy, Somerset, a goose in the 37th The cry is still more neat and small houses in the environs of year of her ago, the.town, and we are.glatito see all who can afford it remove i A young Lidy offers the following serviceable and into pure air.—Liverpool Journal. Original rules for the guidance of spinsters :—"Before IRON Taaiir.—:-An additional furnace has been marriage it, is necessary that a young woman should see. blown in at Blaenefen. The greatest number of men ever her intended husband in four situations, viz.—lst, • employed are at present hilly occupied, with every prospect tipsy ; 2dly, playing at cards and losing ; 3dly, of a continuance.----Cromarthe n Journal. We are most : ing for his dinner; and lastly, in a ball-room: , happy to learn thatinatters proceed very improvingly with EXTRAORDINARY C IRCIIMSTANCE.—One mass of ' our manufacturing. neighbours, and that by every caleul o a : rock has been raised in Mr. King's quarry, Higher Beb tion we may expect a successful career in the iron trade i f th • biegton, 40 feet long, 12. feet wide, and 3i 'feet deep,' three or four years, if artier do not become too inflated . w making I,6 0 9(0 cubic . feet, or 120 tons. It is-perfect, -mid' satipinp and Ind "toy many irons the rnv• l e without stain or flaw tWouthhire Miran. for use.—.Efalifar- Guardian. of any kind, and LS .Lluve heiue' cut up •- IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAY 26.—Sir Coleman O'Loghlen, who opens the motion in arrest of judgment to-morrow, is likely, to occupy the entire of the day. Mr. 111‘Donagh, Q.C., is on the same side in this motion. Each of the traversers, it is said, will claim the right to be heard by counsel on this as well as upon the new trial motion. But from the spirit exhibited by the Attorney-General, and the extreme anxiety mani fested by some members of the Court to reach the termina tion of the State prosecutions, it is probable that this claim will be resisted, and that the Court will limit the traversers, so, that the argument may be brought to a close within two or three days. Sir C.O'Loghlen demurs generally to the indictment, and there is good reason to believe that such a case will be esta blished, as would justify the Court in . pronouncing against the validity of some counts of this indictment, although enough. might be preserved to sustain a conviction against all the traversers except, of course, the Rev. Mr. Tierney, respecting whom the Attorney-General has abandoned the prosecution. The argument and decision upon the arrest of judgment may also become iniportant, in relation to the appeal to the douse of Lords. . The writ of error is already. prepared, in order that the ne cessary' forms should be gone through, in case the judges should decide against the motion in arrest of judgment. There is scarcely room for doubt that the appeal to the House of Lords will be successful. But the sufferers are to suffer incarceration in the meantime. The sentence, in all likeli hood, will be passed before the close of the present week; gXECUTION OF TWO BROTHERS IN NENAGH. Yesterdav John and Thomas Wade, brothers, who were found' guilty' last assize of the murder of a man named Patrick Ryan, 'were executed in front of the Nenagh gaol. A third ,brother, Patrick Wade, remains in gaol until next assizes, charged with being concerned in the same awful deed. At afew minutes after twelve o'clock the two wretched men appeared on the drop, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Power, R.C.C., and the Rev. Mr. Bowles, R.C.O. Thomas Wade, who is rather - a low-sized man, about twents, -five -years of age, repeated after the Rev. Mr. Power, a declaration of his guilt. He acknowledged that with his brother John, he was at the murder of Patrick Ryan (Morgan) —that there was so other person at it but the two ; that Shanahan, the informer, swore falsely; for he was not concerned in any way with the murder, nor did he know of it. That he forgave his prosecutors, and prayed most fervently for pardon"of his sins, and that the Lord might have mercy on his soul. John Wade, a taller and stouter man than his brother, about twenty-eight years of a ge, repeated, after the Rev. Mr. Bowles, a similar declaration i s e b a r e t or guilt. The unhappy men bade each ottheerlftgarhetwoeflli h a nds, and kissed each other, prior to the being shut out from them in this world. After the drop fell, Thomas Wade appeared to suffer inuch, but in a few minutes there was no appearance of life. John Wade died almost instantaneously. ._,, PARIS ACADEMY. OF SCIENCES. 111 Ar 13.-The sitting scarcely occupied an hour, and very few of the papers which were read possessed t general interest. M. Arago Informed the Academy 1 that arrangements were making for putting up, at the Paris observatory, a telescope of enormous dimensions, furnished with glasses combining all the new improve"- ments, and. worked by machinery. A commission was appointed to co-operate with .ill. Arago 'on this important subject. A very long paper, interesting only in its details to chemists, was received from Bordeaux, on the quantity of heat given out by the various combinations of sulphuric acid with water. M. Laignel laid before the Academy a notice of a new apparatus fur soundings at sea during the passag,e of the vessel through the water. At present, it fra c' uently happens when a vessel is going at-a quick rate, that the lead ceases to descend, and even returns towards the surface. By the new apparatus the line is made to fall by the very march of the vessel, on the same principle, in the inverse way, as a. kite rises in , the air by the apparent action of drawing it towards the holder by the string. A disk of wood to which the lead is attached is made by the action of the appa ratus in the resistance that it sustains to plunge to wards the bottom. The idea is ingenious, and will probably be found successful in practice.—A com munication was received from M. Reefer, on the organisation of the instruction and praetice of me dicine in Prussia, and the secondary states of the Germanic Confederation. 'We gather from this paper that the theoretic studies are more rigorous in Germany than in France, but that the clinical studieS are less rigid, which the author attributes to the vicious organisation of the German hospitals. In Germany, as elsewhere, sufficient attention is not paid to the practical, knowledge of medicine and sur gery, apd men who study hard in the cabinet are per mitted to take out degrees witho u t go i ng th roug h th e practical probation which can alone give real know ledge to the practitioner. We learn that it has been proposed to adopt a different system in Germany, and to establish regular grades of the faculty; requiring for the first grade—bachelor in medicine—an apprentice ship in both medicine and surgery, with a perfect knowledge of the nature and combinations of druge, and granting the physician's degree only after a cer tain period of practice, added • to this apprenticeship. The fees to the members of the first grade would of course be lower than those to persons of the higher grade, who would, in addition to their practical know ledge, as derived from apprenticeship, have the advantage of experience. The poor, and persons of the middle class, who are unable to pay high fees, would thus have a guarantee for the capacity of their medical attendants, and a phy sician could be called in occasionally, to add the ad vantage of his greater experience to the knowledge of the bachelor in medicine and surgery. Something of this kind would perhaps be useful in other coun tries as well as in Germany; for, whatever may be the theoretical knowledge of the applicant for the di ploma of doctor in medicine, it is hardly right to confer the highest degree of the most important part of human science without those guarantees of prac tice and experience which are considered necessary in less important professions. WILFUL DAMAGE OF PROPERTY . IN THE HOME PARK, WINDSOR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—About three years since a cutting of the depth of eight or ten feet. was made across a great por tion of the Home Park, leading from the Waterloo-gate, in the Frogniore-road, to Datchet, which has been a public thoroughfare from Windsor to that village for several centu ries past.. Across the trench, which is about ten feet wide, an iron bridge was thrown, in order that her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert might proceed, uninterruptedly, from the Castle to.the New Kennel, near the Dairy, where are kept her Majesty's favourite dogs, under the care of May nard, the keeper. This .excavation at the time was loudly complained of by the inhabitants of Windsor and Datchet ; which, independently of its cutting up one of the most beau tiful and delightful portions of the Home Park, renders this part of the walk, across the Royal domain, at night, and es pecially to females, of an extremely dangerous character, several of whom have been attacked during the winter by the loose characters who have congregated in that vicinity. Within the last few weeks the cutting has been extended several hundred yards, and it now reaches very nearly to the Waterloo-gate, in the Frogmore-road. I n additi on to this, a'high mud bank, faced with turf, has been thrown up along the whole length of the ravine on the Castle so that almost from the moment of entering the park until it is completely crossed, and Datchet-mead is entered upon; scarcely a glimpse of the Royal residence, not even of the Royal standard on the Round Tower, is to be obtained by the promenaders between the village of Datchet and Windsor. The old cutting has just been excavated to the depth of several additional feet, rendering this once picturesque walk one of the most dull and gloomy imaginable ; and in addition to these precautionary means to prevent the public from en joying the . liberty they once possessed of walking on the green sward, a strong iron fence is in the course of being erected throughout the whole extent of the cut, about half way up the high bank, thus rendering it almost impossible for any one to climb up the steep acclivity. These extraor, dinary proceedings (the extent of which it is not believed , either her Majesty or , Prince Albert is yet aware of, as the job was not commenced until after the Court left Windsor six 'weeks ago) have very naturally caused great complaining and dissatisfaction amongst her Majesty's lieges - throughout . the neighbourhood. For many nights past portions of the new iron fencing on the sides' of the cutting have been wil. fully bent and shattered, and large pieces broken off and thrown into the park ; and, notwithstanding the watch which. has been kept since these outrages were first discovered, the perpetrators of them still remain unknown.. This destruc-. tion of property has been of serious consequence to the con tractor, Mr. Faulkner, of Husham, nea r E s h er , w h o is com pelled to bear the whole of the loss which has been sustained, the works not being yet completed. Upwards of fifty of the' iron fences have been damaged and partly destroyed. When the whole is completed the public will be completely*" cut' off" from Herne's Oak, with all its delightful and most in teresting historical and Shakspearian associations. We shall,- however, still be permitted to view its venerable trunk and lifeless branches from the respectful distance of some fifty or sixty. yards ; but for the Fairy Dell, the scene of Falstaff's amours with the two Merry IVires7of Windsor (but which,- by the by, has lately been half filled up by some Goth-like hand), a glimpse at the commencement of what is now' termed " Cut-throat-alley " will scarcely be obtained by the passer by. We may mention that five venerable elm trees,- near Queen Elizabeth's walk, in this immediate vicinity, and which were planted in the early part of the reign of William the Third, haVe been levelled, in order to carry into effect: the " improvements" which are now in progress in this por tion of the Royal demesne. 1 I