The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-16 00:00:00

SUM MARY © F't r AND V ( 'Wit! eagtnton. " Who runs way read." reamednday evening, P tl Cl ieK E in l ran s d Queen of the French the Hessian Minister, the Presi t _ le _ i s , l l .l r l l i ulis-lcdee -I:residents of the Chamber of Deputies, I A n,"ge, General Avmard, and the Barons de Humboldt and seenard and M. (Mier. The Constitutionnel states—" That Ministers assure their this year, at ftriLends that the Chambers will not b . e dissolved the same time that their agents in the departments . a 7 Prejiaring for the elections with the utmost zeal and activity. The funeral of Dr. Breschet took place on Tuesday. Be - Faaiesbdeeputations , from the _Academie des Seiences,ti' rassa__ aad Academie Royale de Mddecine, and numerous ....'7 l l of the Institute, it was att l end e edbyall -.talent medical men in Paris, and a large persOns of concourse t 1 l o e f other m o s t ism, ~., .nete, among whom w raeu rs t l a rcul de Tassy, and Bory de St. Vincent. The i - were Messrs. Floureps,le-ihllieer and M A 6c1 . • Tinerrn ceases • in L M. Elie de Bestm,the pall was borne by M. Andra' and _ a the eon-in• law of the t e bea. — . -4 , 49 representatives of th au e d A i‘ c i a . cle i n ,e i r i; u , s ll , l m . e o m rti b l er , so r .1. „ CI tbeA " 1 e laculty of Medicine, T he I e ademi e de Medecine. balite °a g - Projected restorations tie cathedral of r N at lt u r g e th e , are about to be commenced . , p t al u in p g . for sella Men are also erriplearkinen from the public being pu 1 ing the fountain rais ed Yed in laying the pipes for supplying Illte ar l.tu4 centre of the garden formed ' on the site of the Ts_ eJePiscopal palace. Of l_ e _ t iuz r 'rre de Berri states t t a b t a e t a t s he tu b g e . a l l , t e h of the wife i great uneasi str:t:a Carlos is still in such a s lusheer Physician. es , C hamber of Peers the Bill relating . to the treaty weise.,,aded with Sardinia for the prevention of literary piracy 0 n F ri almost unanimously. sets a ~rulay last the King of the Belgians received &c., and rauusd -4180 'eputation of printers, paper-m anufacturers, praying him not to %he aePutation of journeymen printers, p i . e ,, n, cut to any law forbidding the reprint in Belgium of thr ob , works. The deputations stated that such a law would leTilts°Gooo persons out of bread. s i . L . h-yrnan papers give currency to f t c h i e lem st i a st t r e y men at t that die iltih r ie -:%, the celebrated Professor o which, of Giessen, has discovered . a mineral substance, k ost i f Wt' combined with guano, iteci s essrttliaing manures known. It is d p d r e o d d , u produce one a a o je f i t n li t e - I lo is o - 0001. sterling, com- NS ra PanY, with a capital lrars e s : r the most part of leadin o g f E - ndli d sh e formed for the PtirsZ a telY on the discovery being capitalists, was, 4 47 ° of carrying on, upon a large scale, manufacture 7,11;13, compound. eesa arki9ntan Journals announce the death of the Prin ft-sueeZtrofia of S olms-Braunfels, grand-daughter of the late Tile llanover. get a „ eat ,tlogne of books for this year's L . ei teriodigs.'re last. It contains, 0_ p s s , i 7 c s f o ai m r ,iusrknso notand o aeoltstireraiPUblished during the h l ' a y s e t ve s l i , x months by 796 A the x- LAW AND" POLICP fellow ~,-se,,r Court at the Old Bailey, henry butcher's boy, . Johnson, the ebta• , •10 riad, by assuming the disguise of a . yrs. 8411 M . ' g°° ' l3 from various shops by 1 r in the neigh b°llr, hood sent b f °r them by a respectable butc ie , representing 1 . 1 . of t h ' as'as sentenced to be transported t?n i s ears. ta , o4 e lifildhall Joseph Coombes and 11 ihiam Coombes, e i s legate, :er e ,h°Zamsers! lotiging - in Three Tun-court, s a aled yrel--d-„Tri,t,h committing an assault . upon a young rlP man siss-,..54• J ennings,from which it is feared he may a PPear e -'''''' °fon his es e rested to City Solicitor was three bail to prosecute ihenons, and the William -. (be at studs Parrow described in the police-sheet 3 as Park r ,nt at St: George's Hospital, residing at th having, l a h m -de e hila-rrdellS, 'Was charged, at Queen-square, I_ t(?111 h in a st ate of drunkenness, assaulted a w . f s e e n e t n a d l e u c a t i e i ( d i baliseifer shawl, and also with having Int_ Th e f e at a Public-house and turned on the hqu d o s. r-ta p ) e e : feskianTeaces were committed at distinct Wo rt one s w a taken into custody on the first cha r eat a little th he. i ll the morning, and bailed out at a quarter to to m ofreAt about five in the morning lie committed the se• where he rafis eta . a ee, and was again taken to the stai sst eda si gee' and The cases were clearly proved, and he was sqle ' '' ye-4d " being ordered to pay for the damage he had aAtSo uti , • lit, ate w ark, a young woman, who had deserted her i , n a - s rri ed, gone to live with a man whom . she knew w hard j a , was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with °our. t The eh COr aT—FASHXONAI!X iM r % f ancellor of the Exchequer has issued invitations tilky au-dess dinner party, in honour of her Majesty's birth bfriloirseeatiay, the 27th instant, at his official residence in The street. sumptuous Ne ts , uke and Duchess of Beaufort gave a klairJllnent, last evening, at Beaufort House, Grand ‘‘ Duke and Gr an alldD uchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary, . -hen the r4,Ciskh.buchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, 1 r nce George %bi t s r idge. and the Duchess of Gloucester, b l onouredthe P.4,..c5t atid hostess by their company at dinner. Prince boat l of Saxe Weimar the Marquis and Marchiones e s on o . f r'Ng af - ‘ l7 ' tll , e CoUntess of ' Westmoreland, the Earl and C isla ps,,iton, M. Dedel, Count A. Esterhazy, Lord Adol -04 n itzclarene, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence,.Lord Gifford, to tal 'a r P,tain Macdonald, and a distinguished circle, had the Lor,l2cl! Meeting the Royal guests. Tlit td " ' 3,l Ye and Sele entertained a numerous company, on Teni o ll Y last, at Belvidere, Erith, amongst whom were Lord f) T he (1 1- 1 ; and the lion Fitzroy Stanhope. has arrived in s notr ... wager Countess of Morningt s a tid sleZilint'lluare, from passing a few vii Yn n s gt w o i n t , h ahterStNraothhle -%aye. I relative the Duke of 1 e fs eal tto Ll t ulte 15 f Manchester is abo . ut G t r o ae l e ea is v u e u T t a e n x d p r e a e g te e d e •-s ret m - J,' 4, 1 bis family in Spain. His , , Theu `° England until the latter end of tne . st e n r i l i t i . ne.. e tarl of Oxford has left town for the Continent. kr a_t, l and Countess of Leicester have arrived at thill. I ce s residence in Arlington-street, from . le Uan.„. he IS. °llle Rad has taken that mansion ii° fo lk r li t a i n ie t antisicole uEuarl and Countess of Zetland entertained the Earl Q. NV. Isitzwillial"ebef Hon. Y, Lord and Lady Worsley, the s day eveni ng, i n l'l.allts a select party at dinner, on Wedne • Lord and Lad r ' ington-atreet. 14 .figha tn h a , e y Stafford and the Honourable Miss Jer- Hall, arrived at the Pulteney Hotel from Costessy We tinder lIrseZ7L.Z. Ball for the Present season 11TEOUS. stand that it is ILProposed to hold the Caledonian kr. F allinifice°,`lntaYne Wilso , °n Monday, tional sit3lyY Presented a n thir 1 the 9 9th Melton,_ nea ro f 5 ool o . Doncaster, t June. tit e N has lt . T he Ge ` - ', e l etY for Promoting donation( theEduation of the Poor. Military savitie erlament measure to aend the Act to establish S ecret. , , banks c ontainsseven provisions. The ce ctint r s i t- ' at is to direct moneys to be carried to the . t ested _ the Military savings banks. Money is to be !li t:sated • a nd the Secretary t W ma direct moneys in ' aYM in ts an o nui ties to ef thee'l•,sr-sssenerl. s for the Reduction be ansfe a 7 r red ' to y the account of the t, the -sational Debt rolet oii)rim,issionered r to sell according tar;; l er . der 1•, bane Secret r 3 (: e t e i . N a ' pel‘c Accounts of all mill tN'"lgsks are to a hel a aid before ar. Parliament. rttr ashy "ju the tenth annual , meeting_ of the sup _.sf the F emale PlZurr'hall. JohniSbeurvants' I . lome c ty was held at Esq., in S( t ) h i e e chair. On the a nd ta m Wei e several 'e ler uc s her e e n ' L of q t . l; Established Church, elh.7,fatteridance of fej alC,su emales, was ver • a The Chairman delivered le domestics, as well as a higher y numerous. tilatel4°Priate address, in the course Ot which he observed k in , as there wei:e no less than 1,200,000 servants in the icinitv— *lltitc44l:lllshs-otilild°'!)°° 11 tti© metropolis and its theiry e..on tlitli(ln 'Then rendaye been made to ameliorate t a 'lt t ely ts , . oced to indigence !sr slimes old al s e, but unr es "I , had not been done in past , but the . 1/rett'-an" than h thti.sed 'sett s r 1 . ern given to ad " ti:Port, ss e ! esu_ ts i.n future. Ihe Secretary then read si.7 kess at al Nihlch it appeared that the Society t ha - d ., t ie wo , , p `e other i,tilraesent in full operation —one at Nut_ord a yi ser e .. .ia"tutetstipui t i e -li en ttrrs.garden. In the former,looreisi le t lf , tht 9, teeki n ag. anitiottteal u d f uring taopast year, and into the 193, admitted since the formation „ eq.,..featitution. teat n l iderabl y au Last year the funds of the Society had tztlnyear there l' ginetited by donations, and in the pro s Se t i• Pl ower was an increase of 18/. 17s. 10d in the in- TheetY, the b a g , owing to the increase of the , claims on the retetlit,..meslance in the Treasurer's hand was very small. 1t i _ a h g, whi c t r s_l i ßrow tent ,6 , orild b_getarer separated.. . n, Munroe, Jones, &c., addressed the alit, gale I , l _ efully borne in mind, so 3 8 fair f or to attend her Majesty's Bat costume must sub - the Post, that l ‘leist r° Porti o 4 ` rug it snly, to be shorn of such part of their Z e rsl e were ne al 'llS' consist of whiskers or Theremoustaches. lergush orn in the period selected-1740-50. .. ," iiiidlitaPpenclages to "Lancer or Guard service. ut • ri a fe . rs, there, ism's were a thing unknown in ou i r all ktf' ea 're tl is of the Household Cavalry espec neees. who SW, dt„„'ejlonour to be invited, will be under the kV, aisCs",."lng themselves of their facial furniture over tAkt. ri°t t° 1 ;41 111°1111 ting guard in the morning—as moustaches 4 4 t he tq. 8."--1,1 direct violation of the well-known order, hi, Wis s v e their° regirnents of Life Guards and Blues " shall not aj G eorg U , D B e r _il 7 ." Ns . ' Phile - s „S ,13°A, professor for the last seventeen ears of t1b,, 1 gt kl n Y and Political economy in the Lnited died at Nac t • 'oastvador and St. Leonard, St. Andrew's, at t o ` t ; c4 fled„j ,the 13th inst. lie was for . many years the ON. 4 ' 4 l eader of the moderate party in the Church of tiit'a Th u , into Si of the Piccadilly omnibuses drove theqtY healltria Docks with about one hundred and 43 gr eater 3 ' and active-looking agricultural labourers, uuu.. ti lt of q, number of them being from the c that stt_taes, telu.lleester and Monmouth. It seems have I%l'N istoLether with their wives and families, er.. 4 e tl itt th e j'ell contract to work on the estate of Mr. r• ll 41 - t he t t e a ? . spir a l l t d a °f ,,,S i t• Kitt's. The emigrants appeared to B en ' ttey will sail at high water to-morrow b; i l : 4 , ‘,(l foite.-eniarniu Green. teaj r ,, m3 eu, 1:11,S appears in a New York paper :—" Mr. n ai t rt, left dew before the senate of Michigan for_ I c9 n •• hhil,...ter thr.`_,eyr I ork before the case was disposed 0f,1,,a' g tisrou'alug the senate to send the `reprimand' after 4,1 Q the Post -office." ftts"Abkltt -------------------------------- authorsed to To th, t E ANNA TDILLON.—We .are ladame Anna sttion i, I Vie indisposition under which betel‘ ii,jhaueUring is laryngeal irritation [his irritation has ti b ' 431Ornt P 1 of this day. for tho t ough t ob ng " • in preparing herself y th o Ile .° , ep er . 11 37 over -exertion p (rot l bronchial), as t„, d ,lll b e . a, and from present appearces ! ,vetri o 112 a state to appear before the public I 41 1 ,,' the ilveety.,lttis SOCIETY OF LONDON. —Yesterdaylich is i for s n o o n t ie i day l •s i l . ll l e it'ird arinual meetin g of this Society, 1t! i r l 4 h tj, °l'Promotin rl' ' instruction among the , n :' tive Wit 'l,l.°llgli tl, g e.igious . bk.lkis- - aano ver e inediurp of their ow , m.p., in Sir Th e T square Rooms; Lord Ashle), A n language, i Lord Bernard, tiqj Alock;:1,1 Archbishop ot Cashel,m a . , held T t ht .r ,, lay awned tehi, liarit., and a large number of the So the platf , ( l ) , r i ii i; • t4qtV' PredericelitV rdsuppovieis,rew,d 1 'A, and 14 'is 4 t s h t the s°- ' A.' " ",,ressing rapßl3 1354 . oat - -ce emf ~ ociety was pro,, the report, 11%1,44, ' l '? • During the year .299 Irls-h- c ß on ib ie le s s 'of , the I,,trN 0rc,4 11 '228 portions of the Bible, 1 3 dii 9,070 1. primers 11111 & di4tr ibi t i li t: I.'riyer, 65 gravnars, ails _laving 2 'tli,. , Of wh • 1 here were 6 / 4 schoo , 1 amounted t o 'serape 041 10,342 were adults, 302 wee above fifty r;1!62'4119(1(12,598 were females. The ts receipts includin g be it' tb Ireltl.llda,nldeeae balance e se o n f 708/. The receipt s ,en 1 0 the Z,1t,h,„4" ;xceeded the preceding year by 600 /- , Upon of 414:41, tc'hel-',.?41 -Bernard, seconded by th . 0 Atiriecnefficers for q4irtrollstlitlal'elt „•er:d7ted ; after wh n ic k h s A ,I l s ected, and tha (/ttltr ;11'(2'it's Pnr ,• . A Sunderland . 1 P; the voted to 41)ey.41.,e0;•ed a letter fAreTna::%'rfilisT•skipper in London, ti.lrketiZe," enclosed to pay the postage! He was, instruct iio his otilr out"lr,Dence freight ; and he has written to..s.p y t o b.,_.s o,rtet.ta,L, the next tim e he writes, to " las el l y' re i \ i "er, • tk ' Le ° f the lett with a note to the - 0 4 't for 141 troubl e :: 7 " . I stmaster HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The performances last evening were fer the benefit of Lucile Grahn, and the house was crowded by those who were anxious to do honour to the talent of the young Dane. The opera was La Gazza Ladra, with Grisi as Ninetta, Brambilla as Pippo, Mario as Gianetto, Fornasari as Fernando, and Lablache as t' e Podesta. It is needless to add that it was performed in a style which cannot be equalled upon any other lyrical stage in Europe. Between the acts of the opera we had a pis de quatre, the composition of the fair beneficiare herself, in which she bore a prin cipal part, and in which she was rapturously applauded. The Dansueses Viennoisses introduced two new pas— the Pas de Rococo and the Pas des Amours, and repeated the Pas des Miroirs. They exerted themselves to the: utmost, as, in fact, they w ere in duty bound to do, for Lucile Grahn did them good service in composing the exquisite ballet of Maya, more for them than for herself, and which affords them such admirable op portunities of displaying their powers. The favourite pas de six, from this ballet, was also given in the course of the evening. The great treat, however, was Un Bal sous Louis XIV., in which Lucile Grahn ap peared for the first time as the Cavalier, supported by Cerito, as La Dame. These two delightful artistes danced together the Minuet and Gavotte, in the most quaint and fascinating style imaginable. Lucile Grahn looked exceedingly well in her male attire. La Nena, too, danced El Ole, a national Spanish dance, perhaps the most original pas in which that celebrated danseuse has yet ap peared. Then we had La Cracovienne, danced in the most espiegle manner imaginable by Lucile Grahn. Madame Anaide Castellan sang the finale to La Sonnambula. Cerito gave us the Pas de l'Ombre, from Ondine ; and the whole concluded with the Mazourka d 'Extase, from Eoline, and never did Lucile Grahn appear to greater advantage than she did in this last pas. ller dancing was perfect, her acting beautiful. LITERATURE• THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1845. THE LADY'S COUNTRY COMPANION. By Mrs. Loudon. Louq►nan and Co. This is a most useful and interesting little work— full of practical information ; written in a light and pleasing style, that instructs without fatiguing. It is intended for the use of ladies who, having been educated in town, find themselves unequal to the management of a country house ; to all such it must prove an invaluable acquisition. Every lesson that experience can afford —every improvement that fancy can suggest—is here set forth for the benefit of the young and ignorant. It is written in the form of letters, supposed to be addressed to a young lady just settled at an old country house. This renders the style familiar and interesting—it is no longer the dry reading of a book, but the kind suggestions of a thoughtful friend. Though intended as a companion for the country, it contains much general informa tion that will be useful for all persons and all situa tions. Beginning with the interior of the house, the first letters are devoted to the arrangement of furniture, the preservation of stores, &c. The fol lowing remarks on the care of fires will be found useful both in town and country : " In warming a room a good deal depends upon the mode of managing the tire. Servants are very apt to throw on a quantity of coals at once, in such a manner as to smother up the flame ; and, when this is the case, the heated air produced by the imperfect combustion of the coals passes up the chimney with the smoke, and very little warmth enters the room. If, on the con trary, the coals are carefully arranged on the fire so as to allow a free current of air to pass through them, per fect combustion takes place, and the coals become a glowing mass, from which rays of light and heat spread in every direction► ; while the cheerful appearance of a bright glowing fire must be felt by every one. Where an opportunity occurs of altering a fireplace, its capa bility for diffusing radiant heat will be greatly increased by making the back and sides of fire-br►ck or fire-stone; as these substances retain heat much longer than any kind of metal, and are consequently more likely to pre vent the fire from being chilled by the addition of fresh coal." We are next initiated into all the mysteries of the " Commissariat Department;" besides instructions in the important arts of brewing, baking, making butter and cheese, &c., we have plain directions for domestic cookery, with numerous useful recipes. The care of a garden and the management of flowers forms, of course, an important part in a " guide fur the coun try." There are many letters devoted to this inte resting subject, and the following remarks will be useful to those who prefer the busy town to the quiet retreats of rural life : " The pleasures of the town and the country are, in deed, so different, that it requires some time to become accuston.ed to the change; but, when you are sufficiently , well acquainted with country pursuits to take an in terest in them, I am sure you will never feel any want of the pleasures of the town. The great secret of being happy is, to be able to occupy ourselves with the objects around us, so as to feel an interest in watching their changes; and, when you can once do this in your present situation, you will no longer complain of dulness or want of excitement. All that is wanted to give an interest in any subject is, a sufficient degree of knowledge respect ing it to be aware of its changes, and our own natural love of variety will do the rest. " It is a great advantage in a country life, that its principal objects of interest must be found at home; and hence, as home is woman's peculiar dominion, the noblest and the best feelings of the female heart are more likely to be called into action in the country than in the town. In youth, especially, the ameliorating effects of country pursuits will soon be perceptible, both morally and physically." The principal charm of this work consists in the real instruction it affords. It is not a work of theory, but a series of practical lessons, and the style is at once so pleasing and so full of interest, as to render it not only a useful, but a most entertaining com panion for a country house. We doubt not it will tend to remove many of the prejudices entertained by the young and thoughtless with regard to the " dull monotony" of retirement. It shows that every situa tion has its pleasures and its duties; that happiness does not consist in external objects, and a quiet coun try life may afford an opportunity of exercising every Christian virtue, and obtaining the purest satisfaction and delight— " For more true joy Marcellus exiled feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels." The following advice with regard to the employment of the poor is worthy of attention : " The proprietor of a large estate ought to be regarded by the labouring cottagers in the light of a protector, to whom they can look up for advice and assistance in their troubles ; and as a friend upon whose kindness they natty confidently rely, and who they know will he interested in their welfare. When this is the case, the tenantry of a country gentleman will form his best body guard ; and, instead of ever attempting to injure his property, they will do all in their power to protect it. " It is the blessed privilege of wealth and rank that they give us the power of making our fellow-creatures happy, with very trifling inconvenience to ourselves. A word or a kind look from the rich to the poor speaks volumes, and carries with it encouragement and plea sure, which no efforts of persons in their own rank in life can give. It is, however, difficult for the rich to know how to be of real service to the poor, as giving alms seldom does good except in eases of sudden and un foreseen distress. The best charity is first to teach the poor how to maintain themselves, and next to give them employment ; and, when they have this, they have a better chance of happiness than any riches could bestow combined with idleness. Perhaps, indeed, there is no state of existence more happy than that of a person who is usefully and profitably employed, and whose employ ment is of such a nature as to exercise moderately the faculties both of the body and the mind. " Many ladies in the country employ a portion of their time in making clothes for the poor ; but with the exception of permitting young people to make baby linen, I question whether itis advisable that much should be done in this way. The feelings of the poor are often hurt by having it dictated to them what they are to wear, and they are apt to look upon the clothes thus given to them, and which are probably quite different from what they would have purchased for themselves, almost as a badge of slavery which they are compelled to wear to please their patrons, but of which they hate the very sight." We need hardly recommend this work to the " ladies of England," it has only to be known to be appreciated and admired. The following is an ex ample of the pleasing way in which Mrs. Loudon combines instruction with amusement : " You are perhaps not aware that a carriage is hung exactly on the same principle as a hammock is suspended in a ship at see, viz., to su b s tit u t e a gentle and regular swinging motion f or an i rregu lar jerking one. The principle of suspending carriages is as old as the time of the Saxons; but it has been reserved for modern days to break the force of inevitable jolts, by such a variety of pieces of elastic steel or springs, as to render travel ling in a carriage as easy as gliding in a boat down a smooth river. Carriages, such as those WC have now in use, are, as no doubt you know, quite a recent inven tion. You remember the celebrated letter of Henry IV., in which he says, I cannot come to you to-day, be cause my wife is using my coach t' and even in the time of Charles 11. there w e re ,but fifty coaches in Lon don and Westminster. Now it would be rather difficult to count them, and it would even be a m ore tedious task than I should like to undertake to enumerate their kinds. I shall, therefore, content myself w ith mentioning the points that are of most importance i n selectin g a car nage." MAGAZINES—CON • TINUED. SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. In the present number there is an interesting ac count of "Agriculture in Hindostan," with particu lars relating to the cultivation of the sugar-cane. " A Few Hints on Foreign and Home Coloniza tion " is written by " One about to Emigrate," and he seems desirous of inducing others to follow his example; attributing the general distress felt in so many parts of the country to over popula tion, he recommends emigration as a sure and certain remedy. Although some of his suggestions are worthy of attention, he seems to forget that, while he blames the League and others for offering but one panacea for so many evils, he himself falls into the same error. Colonization may be a useful auxiliary in ameliorating distress, but it cannot effect any improvement by itself. " The defenceless condition of Jamaica ' forms the subject of a letter written to Lord Normanby, when Colonial Secretary : it is introduced at the present time in consequence of the disputes with America. " Great Britain and the United States " is also on the same su bj ec t : th e writer seem s to thin En k that land war is inevitable, and that it is " the duty of g reduce America to s slavery." submission,er . to divide the States, and loosen the bonds of FISHER'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. This magazine is a almost entirely dev o t e d t o ma tt ers of foreign and colonial interest. The first article is on po la fr n e g tshs u ee n s g: " the subject of the " Trade . and Commerce of Webtern o " f N t e h i e lgh r e n r g ri l e is i , Australia," from which it appears that the last report from that colony was less favourable than usual. There I t a h n n e l tbe account h N ra e e s g w b r e e t e Z n e t s 0 wa,lrsioterofexa long delayed, observing, " that il)sTabiil "Visit blue e to interesting ti oleu c taßpi Hine Zealand ilal(.t)nf6dt, descriptionlocillanguage," I.ll::ltiihu:tt o arptg f teoie.ro t , : e,ni:e the only way to really, and not nominally, christianize the aborigines, is first .to teach them our language ; by degrees, they . . w . lll . adopt our habits, they will amalgamate, civilisation will follow, and Chris tianity, and probably our own s form of worship, will all occur as a m atter of course. The mos t i n t eres ti ng article in this number is on the subje c t o f " H ar b ours of Refuge ;" it contains a minute description of the floating breakwater off Brighton, from which we subjoin the following extract : " The mechanical construction of Captain Tayler's i floating breakwater s so Pimple, that a very concise de scription of it wil l be sufficient. In appearance it re sembles two prisms, united at their bases, the lower prism being equilateral, and the upper isosceles, the angles at the base being 30 degre,,,, that being the de sired angle of the sloping top upon which the sea will break or become dispersed. The extreme dimensions are as follows: —namely, 60 feet long, 24 feet broad, and 27 feet deep. The structure Is wholly of fir timber i in COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the 1' incess Royal, and the Prince of Leiningen, left Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, attended by the royal suite, fcr town. The illustrious party crossed in the Light ning steam• packet, and proceeded from Gosport by a special train on the South-Western Railway to the Nine Elms terminus. On arriving at the terminus, the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Leiningen, entered one of the royal carriages and four, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at half-past six o'clock, ac complishing the journey from Osborne House in four hours and a half. The Marchioness of Douro, Colonel Bowles, and Colonel Wylde, followed in another carriage and four. A party of Light Dragoons formed the escort from the terminus to the Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Bucking Lam Palace by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon, Miss Murray, lion. Miss Kerr, the Vice. Cham berlain, Viscount Sydney, Marquis of Granby, Hon. Captain Duncombe, Captain Francis Seymour, and Lord Charles Wellesley. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice yesterday morn ing at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Kerr have succeeded Lady Caroline Somers Cocks and the Hon. Miss Devereux as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester day included her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Marquis of Exeter, and the Marquis of Granby. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Granby, and Colonel Wylde, honoured the Archbishop of Canterbury with his company yesterday evening at Lambeth Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will have an evening party and concert this (Friday) evening at her residence, Clarence (louse, St. James's. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden yesterday, at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in Portman-square. In the evening the Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Mitchell, and the Hon. William Ashley, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty on Wednes day, at Marlborough House. Their Hu) al Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meek lenburgh Strelitz, attended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay, hononred the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in Arlinff ' ton-street. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from the Royal Military College at Sandhuri t. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Cambridge yester day. Iler Royal Highness honoured Mr. Burford's Panoramas of Nanking and Baden Baden with a visit, and was pleased to express herself highly gratified. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued invita tions for a full-dress dinner party, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, on Tuesday, the 27th inst., at his official residence in Downing-street. The Rev. G. Freeman and the Rev. John Beecham had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Sir Robert Peel arrived in Whitehall-gardens yester day afternoon from his seat, Drayton Manor, Stafford• shire. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. With the exception of the two favourites and Pantasa a the Derby favourites mentioned in the list subjoined were backed, generally, however, for such small amounts that a quotation of the prices will suffice ; DERBY. 2 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Rifts 9 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit - 11 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken. • 17 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa 20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm 20 to l agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Titmouse—taken. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whipcolt—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Forster's Remorse—taken 53 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzhos—taken 50 to 1 . agst Col. Cradock's Jinglepot —taken 50 to I agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen 50 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Maynooth 60 to 1 agst Mr. Wyatt's Sis. to Laundress colt 66 to 1 agst Mr. Waller's Columbus—taken 2000 to 15 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. W. King's Adele colt—taken 5000 to 25 agst Mr. Gulley's Winchester—taken OAKS. 17 to 1 agst M. Gulley's Maid of Orleans—taken. IRONMASTER'S QUALIFICATION. —We understand, that Mr. Hill, the owner of the lronmaster, has declined to submit the question of qualification to the Stewards of the races; but, on the ground that the whole question turns upon a point of law, has offered to refer it to any party the Lord Chief Justice may appoint. The stewards, in reply, have an nounced their determination to decide upon the matter, and have given notice to the various parties to be prepared to go into it on Monday next. ANTI. REPEALER'S QUALIFICATION. —The death of Captain Williams, Master of the Norse to the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, has given rise to a report that he was the nominator of Anti-Repealer for the Derby, and that, as a matter of course, he is disqualified and the bets void. It remains to be ascer tained whether the deceased gentleman was the nominator, upon which point some doubts exist. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. TI I URSDAY. Match-150 h. ft., Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, Bst 71b (Nat), beat Lord Exeter's Celia, 7st 71b (Mann). 4to 1 on Garry Owen, won by three lengths. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for three year olds, 7 at 7 lb, 4 yrs, Bst 91b, 5 yrs and upwards, 9st, T.Y.C., the winner to be sold for 2001. (55 Subs).) Lord Exeter's fby Beiram, out of Manto, 4 yrs (Mann) 1 Colonel Peel's Caen, 5 yrs . The following also ran :—Mr. Phillimore's Physalis ' aged 4 yrs—Mr. Marsden's Little Finch, 3 yrs — and Lord Pow lett's Energy, 3 yrs-5 to 2 agst Manto f, 3 to 1 each agst Caen and Little Finch, and sto 1 agst Physalis. Physalis jumped off with the lead, but resigned it after running about a hundred yards, to Caen, the Beiram f, and Physalis fol lowing closely ; at the cords Physalis declined altogether, and a good race ensued between the other two, and ended in favour of the filly by half a length, the winner was claimed. Match-150 h ft, T.Y.C., Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 7st 131 b, beat Duke of Bedford's Espoir, Bst 81b, 5 to 2 on Espoir, won by a head. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, 5 ft. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Nat) 1 Duke of Rutland's Yaultons, 3 yrs, Bst 71b Lord Exeter's Lyons, 3 yrs, 7st 1210 6 to 4 each agst Sir Francis and Paultons. Lyons made the running, followed by Paultons, for the first quarter of a mile. Paultons then went up and ran head and head with him half way up the cords, where Sir Francis went in front, and after a good race won by half a length; Lyons beaten a head for the second place. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three years olds, 7st 91b; four years, Bst 81b ; five years, &c., Bst 121 b. First half of Ab.M. The winner to be sold for 50, &c. (4 Subs.) Mr. Shelley's Prince of Wales , 4 yrs 1 Lord Albemarle's Tisiphone, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Rogers's St. Domingo, 3 yrs Mr. Towneley's f by Liverpool , 3 yrs 4 6 to 4 agst Prince of Wales, 2 to 1 agst Tisiphone, and 6 to 1 agst Si. Domingo. Prince of Wales made all the run ning, and won easy by two lengths. MANCHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. Th 501. Plate, on 'Tuesday, was won in three heats by Mr. Robinson's Wasp, aged (Hopwood), beating Mr. Dawsou's Montgoinerie, 3 yrs, and bord Stanley's Ambition, 4 yrs. Plate of 501. fur three years olds, 6it 101 b, and four years Bst 210, fillies &c., allowed 31bs. Heats, one mile and a'quarter. Mr. Dawson's Montgomerie, 3 yrs (Lye) 3 1 1 Mr. King's Yarrow, 4 yrs... 2 3 2 Mr. Davies's Talleyrand, 4 ,-rs Even on Montgomerie, and 3 to 1 agst Talleyrand. Won easy. (RF,CEIVED TIIIS DAY.) EGLINTON PARK RACES—TUESDAY. Match, 150 sovs., 50 ft, one mile and a half—Mr. Robert son's Tinderbox, 10st, received forfeit from Mr. Willington's Veteran, 11st 71b. _ _ _ . Match, 50 sovs., mile and a half—Mr. H. Johnstone's Flagon, Bst 101 b (\V. Noble), beat Mr. Robertson's Tinder box, 7st 311)(11. Robinson), by a length. The Trial Stakes of 5 sov.,:. each, with 20 adOccl; the last to pay the second horse's stake. llalf a mile. Mr. \Valli:l4es Erato, 6 yrs (lion. S. Erskine) 1 Lord Eglinton's Fitzjames, 4 yrs ...... 2 Mr. Dierry'e Esreyity, 5 yr 4 11, n. J. Sandiland's Lady Skipsey, 5 yrs ...... ..... ..... .. 4 Sir W. W. Wynn's Confab, 4 yrs... lArd Waterford's The Robber, 5 yrs Sir J. Loswell's Geneva, 4 yrs 7 'llie Irwine Cup, by subscription of 10 sovs each, with 150 added. Once round and a distance. Lord Eglinton's Aristides, 5 yrs (Major Campbell) 1 Captain Boyd's Dog Billy, 4 yrs Sir J. Bosweit's The Whistler, 4 yrs Mr. N eiklam's Godfrey, 4 yrs 4 Mr. Merry's Smike, 6 yrs... 5 The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sows. each, with 50 added. . Two miles. Capt. Boyd's Lara, aged . (Mr. 11. Johnstone) 1 Mr. Nicholl's Christopher, 6 yrs. Lord Waterford's The Robber, 5 yrs 3 The Balina Whapple Stakes of 10 soya., h ft, with 50 added. Two miles and a half. Mr. Merry's Smike, 6 yrs .. ... (Capt. Pettat) 1 Mr. W. 11. Johnstone's Veluti, 6 yrs Lord Waterford's Henry, 6 yrs Mr. H. Johnstone's The Bat, 6 yrs 4 Lord Beihaven's ch ni by Beagle, dam by Percy, 5 yrs The Ayton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added. Two miles. Lord Waterford's Firefly, 6 yrs (Owner) 1 Mr. 11. Johnstone's Flagon, aged ... Sir W. W. Wynn's Confab, 4 yrs Captain Boyd's Marengo, aged ••• Mr. Harvie's King of the Valley, 6 yrs x.. .......... WEDNESDAY, The Blythswood Free Handicap of 5 sons. each, p.p., with 50 added. One mile and a half. Lord llowth's Switcher, 4 yrs ............(Capt Williams) 1 Lord Waterford's Henry, 6 yrs The following also started, but were not placed : Hon. James Sandiland's Lady Skipsey, 5 yrs Mr. Merry's Brevity, 5 yrs 0 Mr. Wauchope's Erato, 6 yrs Lord Eglinton's Fitzjames, 4 yrs Sir J. Boswell's Interest, 5 yrs The Two Year Old Stakes, of 20 soya each, pp. Half a mile. ➢lr. Merry's Ur cby Don John, out of Peri ...(Robertson) 1 Sir J. Boswell's Sweetheart Mr. Meiklam's Andrew Brady The Curraghmore Cup, of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, pp. Two Miles. Sir J. Boswell's Switcher, 4 yrs (Mr. H. Johnstone) 1 Lord Waterford's Firefly, 6 yrs ... The Atalanta Challenge Whip, added to a Handicap of 5 sovs. each, pp. Quarter of a mile. Miss Boswell's b f by Bay Middleton, out of Hamble tonia, 4 yrs. ... (Capt. Campbell) 1 Lady Waterford's The Robber, 5 yrs The following also ran, but were not placed :—Miss Gil mour's Brevity, 5 yrs—Lady Eglinton's Lady Fandango, aged—Mrs. Williams's Confab, 4 yrs. The Welter Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added. One mile. Mr. H. Johnstone's The Bat, 6 yrs (Owner) 1 Lord Waterford's The Robber, 5 yrs 2 The Cockamaroo Stakes of 15 soya. each, 5 ft, with 50 added. About two miles and a half. Winner to be sold for 3001., &c. Mr. H. Johnstone's Flagon, aged (Captain Williams) 1 Lord Waterford's Henry, 6 yrs The following also started : Lord Howth's Cromaboo, aged—Hon. J. Sandiland's Lady Skipsey, 5 yrs—Lord lig linton's Blue Jacket, 4 yrs—Sir W. W. Wynn's Confab, 4 yrs—aud Captain Boyd's Marengo, aged. MANCHESTER RACES—TJICESDAY. The Kersal Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 30 added, for three yrs old. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Hesseltinc's Marian Ramsay (Bumby) 1 Mr. Cook's Yellow 80y... Mr. M. Hornsey's Stiltenham The Victoria Stakes of 15 soya. each, with 40 added, for two yrs old colts and fillies. Mile and three-quarters. Mr. T. Dawson's Lord Harry, by Recovery (Lye) 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Thalia Mr. Buckley':, Walter Mr. W. 11. llornby's Box• ller Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles and a dis. Mr. Critchley's Cceur de Lion, 3 yrs Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 5 yrs Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne, 6 yrs Mr. Salvin's Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs Mr. King's Yarrow, 4 yrs 0 PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THUIiSDAY, MAY 15. BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY (WOLVER. HAMPTON LINE) BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 41. Antrobus, Edmund Ellis,Wynn Mitchell, T. A. Baine, W alter Entwisle, William Newry, Viscount Bannerman, A. Feilden, William Osborne, Ralph Barclay, David Forman, T. S. Pendarves, E. W. Baring, F. T. Forster, Matthew Pulsford, Robert Brotherton, J. Fuller, A. E. Staunton, Sir G. Christie, W. I). Greene, Thomas Trench, Sir F. W. Colborne, W. R. Mastic, Archibald Turmr, Edmund Collins, William Batton, Captain Wakley, T. Collett, John Hawes, Benjamin Walker, Richard Copeland, Alderman James, William Yorke, H. R, Craig, W. G. Labouchere, Henry Deunistoun, John Lowther, Sir J. 11. Duncan, George M'Taggart, SirJ. buncombe, T. 'lineally, Henry Trstaits. IC Speoner, Richard Bowring, Dr. MINORITY-NOES, 22. Acland, T. D. Inglis, Sir R. H. Stanley, Edward Arbuthnott, H. Jones, Captain Wemyss, Captain Baldwin, Barry Lygon, General Winnington, Sir T. Buck, L. W. Mahon, Viscount Wrightson, W. B. Egerton, W. T. Mordaunt, Sir J. Estcourt, T. G. B. O'Brien, A. S. [TELLERS. Fitzroy, Henry Praed, W. T. rollington, Viscount Forbes, William Roßoston, Colonel Pakingtou, J. S. Ilallyburton, Lord Rushbrooke, Col. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. THURSDAY, MAY 15. The following Bills were read a second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection Whitehaven and Furness Railway. London and Croydon Railway Enlargement. London and Croydon Railway (Chatham and Gravesend). London and Croydon Railway (Maidstone, Ashford, and Tonbridge). London and Croydon Railway (Orpington Branch). London and Croydon Railway (Chatham to Chilham). Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mallingar and Athlone). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ( Wolverhampton Line). The following Bill 3 were reported, and the report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders ; Epping Railway (No. 2). Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Bury St. Ed mund's Extension). The Preston and Wyre Railway Branches Bill,—Petition ror additional provision ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Eastern Union and Norwich Railway (No. 2),—Select Committee on project, Monday, May 26, at half after twelve. Scottish Central Railway,—Further consideration of re port, Tuesday, May 20. Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North Union, Liverpool and Manchester, and Grand Junction Rail way Companies Amalgamation,—Committee on petition, Monday, May 26. North British Railway,—Committee on petition, for addi tional provision, Tuesday, May 20. Chester and Holyhead Railway (No. 2) (Mold Branch and Purchase of Chester and Birmingham Railway),—Re port, Monday, May 19. Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln),—Report, Monday, May 19. Wells and Thetford Railway,—Select Committee on pro ject, Monday, May 26, at half after twelve. Preston and Wyre Railway,—Committee on petition, for additional provision, Tuesday, May 20. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Exten sions, Stoke Branch, and Midland Railways Junction), — Second reading, Monday, May 19. Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Second reading, Monday, May 19. Lynn and Ely Railway,—Further consideration of report, Tuesday, May 20. Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea Devia• tion,—Further consideration of report, Tuesday, May 20. Belfast and Ballymena Railway,—Further consideration of report, Tuesday, May 20. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—BRUSHES. —NEW INTENTIONS. —The Triple Hair Brush, One stroke of this is equal to the effect of one penetrating, five small-tooth combs, and one even-cut brush ;to be had in four sizes, No. 7, ss. 6d, ; No. 8,7 s. 6d. ; No. 9,9 s. 6d. ; No. 10, Ils. 6d. The Double Anti Pressure Nail Brush, which does not divide the quick from the nail .no pressure being re quired, and thoroughly cleans and polishes the nails in a tenth part of the time of any other method ; price in bone, No. 1, 25.; No. 2, 2 s. 6d.; No. 3,3 s. 6d.; No. 4, 55.; and of all sizes and prices in ivory. The New Tooth-pick Brush, which entirely enters betwecn the interstices of the closest teeth ; marks, full-sized brushes, No. 1, hard; No. 2, lsss hard; No. 3, middling; No. 4, soft. The narrow brushes, No. 5, hard; Ne. 6, less hard; No. 7. middling; No. 8, soft, at Is. each, or 10s. per dozen in bone; and 2s. each or 21s. per dozen in ivory, the hair warranted! never to come out. The Medium Shaving Brush, between the usual badger hair and bristle brush, being a selection of the strongest hair only from the badger skin, in a variety of sizes, both in bone and ivory. The above articles are the inventions of Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London, and, being protected, any one imitating them will be proceeded against. The Morning Chronicle, whether actuated by an ambition of toadying the Times, and abstract ill-will to the Moi:ning Herald, or a wish to puff off its friend Mr. Mazzini, we cannot say ; but from one or other of these three motives, which ever it was, the Morning Chronicle yesterday made a most unjust and a perfectly unprovoked attack upon this journal. The Morning Chronicle charged the Morning Herald with having denounced the Times' scandalous con duct towards Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, solely as one mounte bank deprecates the drugs of another mountebank. The writer of this insulting charge knew that he was writing a falsehood when he wrote it—knew that the Morning Herald never touched upon the disgraceful conduct of the Times towards Sir. Talfourd until that dis graceful conduct had led to consequences directly affecting the whole newspaper press in its interest, in its character, and In its rank. Let not the Morning Chro nick palliate its own timid truckling to the Times for twelve days, by charging our different conduct to an unworthy mo tive. As to Mr. Mazzini, against whom we or the Standard, it is not clearly stnted which, is charged by the Mot ning Chronicle to have " concocted some villainy," we deny that we have ever made any unauthorised charge against him, or withheld any testimony in his favour. Our own opi nion of the individual is unaltered by anything that we have seen, and we will not tell lies even to disarm his resentment or the anger of the Morning Chronicle. If the party , has been wronged by us, let the wrong be shown, and we will repair it ; if no wrong on our part can be shown, we are not going to trump up a case for him.—Herald. CAB STATISTICS. — According to a late return, there are in the metropolis 130 cab-stands, and 8,592 cab men, conductors, and watermen, being an increase of 244 beyond those similarly engaged last year. It appears that during the past two years a decided refmnalion has taken place amongst those hardworking men, many of whom are regular attendants at a place of worship on Sundays, while others, from an anxiety to improve their mind, attend a school opened especially for them. Some have even given up driving cabs on Sundays, in order that they may keep holy the Sabbath. certain parts, between the double beams, cork is intro duced, to adjust the floating depth to its locality, and ; prevent oscillation. " It is impossible to contemplate this useful invention without being convinced of its efficiency; nor- can we help feeling surprised, that a plan so simple, in compari son with the vast importance of its object, has not long since suggested itself to scientific men, whose minds nave been directed to improve the commer cial interests and naval resources of this country. The extraordinary effect of the cork between the double immersed beams, prevents the horizontal waves break ing over the breakwater, and enables any weight of chain being used to moor it. This trial proves that it does not ride with the third of the strain exerted on a ship's cable at anchor, owing to the disposition and effect of the cork." THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. This is an interesting combination of serious and instructive reading. The present number contains sermons by eminent divines, sabbath meditations, and sacred poetry. There are also " Waneerings.by the English Lakes," a description of Barnard Castle, and an account of the Pantheon at Rome, with an illus tration. " Sketches from Natural History," are ap propriately introduced into a work of this description ; there is no subject more fitted to display the wonders of Providence, and to lead the mind " from Nature up to Nature's God." MUSIC. GRACE AFTER MEAT. This has been composed in imitation of the old English psalmody, as an occasional substitute for " Non Nobis Domine," by T. Williams, author of the original " Not a drum was heard," &c. The words arc few, and intelligible to all, which cannot be said of the Latin grace, and the music is very appropriate. THE COCK lAN. Written, adapted, and composed by T. Bishop. The " Cock Inn," was a favourite song of T. Phillips, aid to be the last of the Incledon school, and though the words are neither very sentimental nor refined, the air, which is spirited, makes up for the deficiency, and when sung even with ordinary taste and execution, produces a good effect. MR. D'ISRAELI'S S YBIL. The following are some further extracts from Mr. D'lsraeles interesting new. work : THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE. " Sybil, whose mind had been nurtured with great thoughts, and with whom success or failure alike par took of the heroic, who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice, found to her surprise that great thoughts have very little to do with the business of the world ; that human affairs, even in an age of revolution, are the subject of compromise ; and that the essence of comyromise is littleness. She thought that the People, calm and collected, conscious at last of their strength and confident in their holy cause, had but to express their pure and noble convictions by the dele gates of their choice, and that an antique and decrepid authority must bow before the irresistible influence of their moral power. These delegates of their choice turned out to be a plebeian senate of wild ambitions and sinister and selfish ends, while the decrepid authority that she had been taught existed only by the sufferance of the millions was compact and organized, with every element of physical power at its command, and supported by the interests, the sympathies, the holiest convictions, and the strong prejudices of classes influential not merely from their wealth but even by their numbers. " Nor could she resist the belief that the feeling of the rich towards the poor was not that sentiment of un mingled hate and scorn which she associated with Nor man conquerors and feudal laws. She would ascribe rather the want of sympathy that unquestionably exists between wealth and work in England, to mutual igno rance between the classes which possess these two great elements of national prosperity ; and though the source of that ignorance was to be sought in antecedent circumstances of violence and oppression, the conse quences perhaps had outlived the causes, as customs survive opinions. " Sybil looked towards Westminster, to those proud and passionate halls where assembles the Parliament of England ; that rapacious, violent, and haughty bcdy, that had brought kings and prelates to the block ; spoiled churches and then seised the sacred manors for their personal prey ; invested their own possessions with in finite privileges, and then mortgagedifor their state and empire the labour of countless generations. Could the voice of solace sound from such a quarter ?" TILE NEW GENERATION. " Egremont shook his head. • You still will cherish these phantoms, dear Sybil I and why ? They are not visions of delight. Believe me they are as vain as they are distressing. The mind of England is the mind ever of, the rising race. Trust me it is with the People. And not the less so, because this feeling is one of which even in a great degree it is unconscious. Those opinions which you have been educated to dread and mistrust are opinions that are dying away. Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Let an accident, which speculation could not foresee, the balanced state at this moment of par iamentary parties cease, and in a few years, more or less, cease it must, and you will witness a development of the new mind of England, which will make up by its tapid progress for its retarded action. I live among these men ; I know their inmost souls ; I watch their instincts and their impulses ; I know the principles which they have imbibed, and I know, however hindered by circumstances for the moment, those principles must bear their fruit. It will be a produce hostile to the oli garchical system. The future principle of English politics will not be a levelling principle ; not a principle adverse to privileges, but favourable to their extension. It will seek to ensure equality, not by levelling the Few but by elevating the Many.' " THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION. " ' There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. I speak of what passes under my daily eyes when I say, that these who labour can as little choose or change their masters now, as when they were born thralls. There are great bodies of the working classes of this country nearer the con dition of brutes, than they have been at any time since the Conquest. Indeed I see nothing to distinguish them from brutes, except that their morals are inferior. In cest and infanticide are as common among them as among the lower animals. The domestic principle waxes weaker and weaker every year in England ; nor can we wonder at it, when there is no comfort to cheer and no sentiment to hallow the Home,' " I was reading a work the other day,' said Egre mont, that statistically proved that the general con dition of the people was much better at this moment than it had been at any known period of history.' " Ah ! yes, I know that style of speculation,' said Gerard ; your gentleman who reminds you that a working man now has a pair of cotton stockings, and that Barry the Eighth himself was not a 3 well off. At any rate, the condition of classes must be judged of by the age, and by their relation with each other. One need not dwell on that. I deny the premises. I deny that the condition of tl main body is better now than at any other period of our history; that it is as good as it has been at several. I say, for instance, the people were better clothed, bettor lodged, and better fed just before the war of the Roses than they are at this moment. We know how an English peasant lived in those times : he eat flesh every day, he never drank water, was well housed, and clothed in stout woollens. Nor are the Chronicles necessary to tell us this. The acts of Par liament from the Plantagenets to the Tudors teach us alike the price of provisions and the rate of wages ; and we see in a moment that the wages of those days brought as much sustenance andcomfort as a rea.sonable man could desire." THE NAMELESS ONE. " I see one of your partners coming in,' said Mick, making many signals to a person who very seon joined them. Well, Devilsdust, how are you?' This was the familiar appellation of a young gentleman, who really had no other, baptismal or patrimonial. About a fort night after his mother had introduced him into the world, she returned to her factory and put her infant out to nurse, that is to say, paid threepence a week to an old woman who takes charge of these new. born babes for the day, and gives them back at night to their mothers as they hurriedly return from the scene of their labour to the dungeon or the den, which is still by courtesy called ' home.' The expense is not great : laudanum and treacle, administered in the shape of some popular elixir, affords these innocents a brief taste of the sweets of existence, and keeping them quiet, pre pares them for the silence of their impending grave. Infanticide is practised as extensively and as legally in England, as it is on the banks of the Ganges; a circum stance which apparently has not yet engaged the atten tion of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. But the vital principle is an impulse from an immortal artist, and sometimes baffles, even in its tenderest phases, the machinations of society for its extinction. There are infants that will defy even star vation and poison, unnatural mothers and demon nurses. Such was the nameless one of whom we speak. We cannot say he thrived; but he would not die. So at two years of age, his mother being lost sight of, and the weekly payment having ceased, he was sent out in the street to play,' in order to be run over. Even this ex pedient failed. The youngest and the feeblest of the band of victims, Juggernaut spared him to Moloch. All his companions were disposed of. Three months' in the streets god rid of this tender company — shoeless, half-naked, and uncombed—whose age varied from two to five years. Some were crushed, some were lost, some caught cold and fevers, crept back to their garret or their cellars, were dosed with Godfrey's cordial, and died in peace. The nameless one would not disappear. He always got out of the way of the carts and horses, and never lust his own. They gave him no food: he foraged for himself, and shared with the dogs the garbage of the streets. But still he lived ; stunted and palo, he defied even the fatal fever which was And the only habitant of his cellar that never quitted it. slumbering at "night on a bed of mouldering straw, his only protection against the plash y surface of his den, with a dungheap at his head a nd a cesspool at his feet, he still clung to the only roof which shielded him from the tempest." POPULATION RETURNS. " Well, Mr, Franklin, be sure of this, that the Popu lation Returns of this country are very instructive reading.' "' I can conceive so.' "' I became a man when the bad times were begin ning,' said Gerard ; 'I have passed through many dole ful years. I was a Franklin's son myself, and we had lived on this island at If ast no worse for a longer time than I care to recollect.az little as what lam now. B u t that's nothing ;I am not thinking of myself. lam preposterous in a fashion ; it is the serfs I live among of whom lam thinking. Well, I have heard in the course of years, of some specific for this constant degra- dation of the people ; some thing or some person that was to put all right ; and for my part I was not unready to support any propocal or follow any 1. ader. There was reform, and there was paper money, and no machinery, and a thousand other remedies ; and there were dema gogues of all kinds, some as base as myself, and some with blood in their veins almost as costly as flows in those of our great neighbour here, Earl de Mowbray, and I have always heard that was very choice : but I will frankly own to you, I never had much faith in any of these proposals or proposers ; hut they were a change, and that is somethi ng . B u t I h ave b een persua d e d of j late that there is something going on in this country of more efficacy ; a remedial power, as I believe, and irre sistible ; but whether remedial or not, at any rate a powerthnt wilt marall or cure all. You apprehend me? I speak of the annual arrival of more than three hun dred thousand, strangers in this island. How will you feed them? How will you clothe them? How will you house them ? They have given up butcher's meat ; must they give up bread ? And as for raiment and shelter, the rags of the kingdom are exhausted, and your sinks and cellars already swarm like rabbit warrens. " ''Tis en awful consideration,' said Egremont musing. " 6 Awful,' said Gerard, ''tis the most solemn thing since th P &Inge. What kingdom can stand against it? Why go to your history—you're a scholar—and see the fall of the great Roman empire—what was that? Every now and then, there came two or three hundred thou sand strangers out of the forests and crossed the moun tains and rivers. They come to us every year and in greater numbers. What are your invasions of the bar barous nations, your Goths and Visigoths, your Lom bards and Huns, to our Population Returns ?' " RAILWAY TRAVELLING. " You came by the railroad,' inquired Lord de Mow bray, mournfully of Lady Marney. " From Marham ; about ten miles from us,' replied her ladyship. " A great revolution 1' "'lsn't it?' " ' I fear it has a very dangerous tendency to equality,' said his lordship, shaking his head ; I "suppose Lord Marney gives them all the opposition in his power.' " There is nobody so violent against railroads as George,' said Lady Marney ; I cannot tell you what he does not do! He organise the whole of our division against the Marham line!' " 6 I rather counted on him,' said Lord de Mowbray, ' to assist me in resisting this joint branch here ; but I was surprised to learn he had consented.' " Not until the compensation was settled,' innocently remarked Lady Marney ; George never opposes tht m after that. He gave up all opposition to the Marham lino when tney agreed to his terms.' " And yet,' said Lord de Mowbray, I think if Lord Marney would take a different view of the case and look to the moral consequences, he would hesitate. Equality, Lady Marney, equality is not our metier. If we nobles do not make a stand against the levelling spirit of the age, I should like to know who will fight the battle. You may depend upon it that these railroads are very dangerous things.' . " I have no doubt of it. I suppose you have heard of Lady Vanilla's trip from Birninghaaa ? Have you not indeed! She came up with Lady Laura, and two of the most gentlemanlike men sitting opposite to her ; never met, she says, two more intelligent men. She begged one of them at Wolverhampton to change seats with her, and he was most politely willing to comply with her wishes, only it was necessary that his companion should move on at the same time, for they were chained together ! Two of the swell mob, sent to town for pick ing a pocket at Shrewsbury races.' " IRELAND. THE REPEAL MOVEMENT.--MR. O'CONNELL'S LEVEE. DUBLIN, MAY 14.—Meetings have been held in Cork, Limerick, and Kilkenny, and other places, for the appoint ment of deputations to attend the levee on the 30th of May, "for the commemoration of the Imprisonment of the repeal martyrs," and which is to take place in the Rotunda. • Most of the corporations are to be represented on that occasion, and their deputations will join in the procession. A special meeting of the Repeal Association has been con vened for Thursday, the 29th of May, at the Conciliation • hall, "for the purpose of adopting an address to O'Connell and his late fellow-prisoners on their illegal and unconsti tutional imprisonment for having advocated the Parliamen tary independence of- Ireland, and congratulating them on their triumphant liberation." The requisition is signed by Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bart. ; Messrs. Smith O'Brien, M.P. ; H. Grattan, M.P. ; N. Maher, M.P. ; E. B. Roche, M.P. ; James Kelly, M.P. ; R. A. Fitzgerald, M.P. ; R. D. Browne, M.P. ; J. P. Somers, M.P., &c. The county of Meath repeal dinner is to be held at Tara on Thursday, the 22d inst. The repeal meeting and dinner in Cork have been fixed for the Bth of June. LIQUIDATION OF FATHER MATHEW'S DEBTS. The following letter, addressed to the parish priest of Castletown-Delvin, by Father Mathew, mentions the grati fying fact that he has been relieved from his pecuniary em barrassments chiefly through the generous aid of th e friends of temperance in England : " Cork, May 9th, 1845. " Rev. dear Mr. Fitzgerald,—To you and your generous parishioners I am deeply indebted for the large subscription you have raised for my relief, and I return you my heartfelt thanks. " It pains me, I confess, to be so burdensome to my friends, but expenses unforeseen, and that could not have been avoided unless I abandoned my sacred mission, involved me in difficulties from which I could not extricate myself. " In the very first glorious year of the great temperance movement I incurred the greater part of the debts that op pressed me, but I had an almost certainty of being able to liquidate them by the aid of a rich relative. In this hope I pursued my career, but a sudden death frustrated the bene volent intentions f my friend, and I was left to my own private resources. By the sacrifice of family property I paid off the medal manufacturers (my only creditors), but I was crushed and crippled, and unable to proceed. " My circumstances became known to friends in England, and with their aid, and some partial help from Ireland, a sum ever 7,0001. has been raised, and my debts are liquidated. " Pardon this tedious detail; but I consider it due to you, and my benefactors in Castletown-Delvin and Killulagh, to give this explanation. " Add, reverend dear Mr. Fitzgerald, to the many obliga tions you have conferred on me, by presenting my most grateful acknowledgments to each of my benefactors in your parishes, and assure them of my constant prayers for their happiness. " Believe me, with profound respect, dear reverend Mr. Fitzgerald, your affiectionate friend. " THEOBALD MATHEW." MURDER TEN YEARS AGO. The following proclamation appeared in the Dublin Gazette last night, offering a reward for the discovery of the persons concerned in a murder perpetrated ten years ago : .'"Dublin Castle, May 10,1845. " Whereas it has been represented to the Lord Lieutenant that on the 7th of August, 1835, as Mr. Mathew Hill, agent to Captain Dawson, was superintending the sale of timber in the Glen of Aherlow, near Tipperary, he was attacked by five men, who knocked him down, and shot him dead while on the ground, " His Excellency, for the better apprehending and bringing to justice the perpetrators of this murder, is pleased hereby to oiler a reward of three hundred pounds to any person or persons (except the person or persons who actually fired the shots) who shall, within six months from the date hereof, give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of all or any of the persons concerned therein. By his Excellency's command, "E. LUCAS." The same Gyzette also contains a proclamation, offering a re ward for the apprehension of the murderers of James Scully, Esq., of Kilfeacle, who met his death in November, 1842. DEATH OF LIEUT.-COL. SHELTOS.—This gallant and dis tinguished officer, who had been in a state of insensibility since the terrible accident on Saturday, died yesterday even ing at seven o'clock. The inquest was held this day, and the verdict was accidental death. The Freeman's Journal says, " Colonel Shelton lost his right arm in the Peninsular cam paigns, while serving as a captain in the 9th regiment of Foot, from which corps he exchanged into the 44th, about 26 years ago. Since that time he has been almost constantly in ac tion in India, and rose by his talent to the honourable posi tion, which he held at the time he met with the deplorable accident which caused his death. The Gallant Gentleman served in India for 25 years, and had only returned from that country about three weeks. As already stated, wehave heard few officers in the afmy so deeply lamented by his brothers-in-arms, and the men of the corps were all, yester day, lamenting the loss of their respected commander. The following are the dates of the commissions of the Gallant Colonel and the details of his services. He held rank as Brigadier-General in Affghanistan :—John Shelton, En sign, 21st November, 1805 ; Lieutenant, 26th AugustlBo7 ; Captain, 17th June, 1813 ; Major, 6th February, 1825 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 6th September, 1827 ; Colonel, 23d No vember, 1841. "Colonel Shelton landed at Mondego Bay in the beginning of August, 1808, and was present at the battles of Rotel*, Vimiera, and Corunna. Served also on the Walcheren expe dition, and at the capture of Flushing in 1809. Subsequently in the Peninsula, including the siege and capture of Badajoz, battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid, retreat from Burgos, battle of Vittoria, siege and capture of San Sebastian, where he was severely wounded, and lost an arm ; campaign of 1814 in Canada. Subsequently he served for 21 years in the East Indies, and was employed in the campaign in Ava and taking of Arracan. Served as second in command through out the disastrous operations in Affghanistan, under Major- General Elphinstone. DEATH OF LORD CARI3ERY.—This venerable peer died on Monday last at hit residence, Castle Frake, county of Cork. His Lordship was born in 1765, married in 1783 the third daughter of the second Earl of Arran, succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1777, and his cousin in the peerage in 1807, and was eighty years of age at the time of his decease. _ _ THE NEW CoLLEGEs.—On Monday the Right Worshipful the Mayor, the Right Rev. Dr. Ryan , and a few private a citizens, waited on Mr. Smith O'Brien, at h i s father - in-laws, in George-street, to consult the lion. G entleman, with a tevdi third to the adopting such a course as wo uld be best calculated olleg t e o procure for Limerick the establishme nt of the t. l‘lar. s.O e O'Brienthe me i deputationdthe adoption immediate i b a u t e t was reluctant t t a i l nt 3 t r o. received O'C rec(' onnell and the Association had expressed course rl until themselves with regard to it. It was, however, considered well that the corporation, institution, and other constituted bodies in this city and the surrounding towns in the province, take the subject immediately into consideration, and that a public meeting be c:lled in Limerick for an early day next week, at which all the towns in the province should have their representatives.—Limeritk Reporter. ARRIVAL or A CARGO OF rEAS FROM CIIINA.—The good s hip Ilersev,Boo tons burden, arrived in our port in the coin sc of last week, with a cargo of teas direct from Canton. 'rtf cargo consists of about 2,080 packages, imported by different amerchantsnd warehoused. itt the m T et h r i o s po c l a i r s g . T o he teas ohfasveevbe. neeicihaolplsl,atnhdreede of which are fine ; it is said they are nearly equal to the "Quentin Leitches," so lately in the market here; the other four chops being of the ordinary class of teas now so much in use in Dublin. We understand that about ") 000 packages will be offered for sal e b y auct i on in a few days.—Freeman's rn A u iE G LAN L CHOLY OCCURRENCE.-011 Sunday morning a brat containing four men and one woman was proceeding from Calnrciveen to Dingle, when on passing Cromwell's Fort, off the Island of Valentia, the boat was upset in a sudden squall of wind, and all on board perished.--Kerry Examiner. BLOWING UP LIMELIOUSE SHOAL.—III the course of a few days attempts will be made, by means of gun powder, to remove the shoal which has so long impeded the navigation of the river off Limehouse Hole. The operation is under the direction of Captain Fisher, the harbour. master. Should the weather permit, it is not at all impro bable that the novel proceeding will take place to-morrow (Saturday). SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS. The annual festival of the Society of-Friends of Foreigner in Distress took place last evening at the London Tavern. The Duke of Cambridge presided. Ills Royal Highness was supported by the Prussian, Spanish, and Hanoverian Minis ters, and about 220 of the most emiuent merchants - and citizens of London. The cloth being removed, Non Nobis was chanted by Messrs. Cooke, Francis, Machin, &e. Her Majesty the Queen, and other loyal toasts, followed in suc cession. The Prussian Ambassador, the Chevalier Bunsen, concluded a speech of considerable force and elegance, by proposing the health of the Royal Chairman, which being responded to with unbounded cordiality, his Royal Highness acknowledged the com pliment, and stated the benefits conferred by the Society upon the objects of its bounty during the past year. They had had seventy pensioners, besides which seventy three persons had received small regular allowances, and 102 persons had been assisted with the means of returning to their own countries. Casutd relief had been given in 2,289 instances, among which there were 236 new cases. Yet still such was the mass and depth of misery which the metropolis contained, that comparatively few of the really deserving objects of their bounty received relief.—(Hear, hear.) In the coarse of the evening David Salmons, Esq., with the permission of the chair, proposed the "Senate and City of Hamburgh," and hi doing so took occasion to compliment that body for their cordial response to the call of the vener able Mr. Brandt, who had been first and foremost in pressing the claims of the unfortunate who had suffered from the me lancholy disaster which had befallen Hamburgh_ two years ago, upon the citizens of this metropolis. The toast was drunk with great cordiality of feeling. The "Health of the Foreign Ambassadors," and also that of " The Vice-Presidents," was drunk, and acknowledged by the Chevalier BUNSEN, who took occasion to deprecate the funding of any of the munificent donations of the foreign sovereigns, as indicating a want of confidence in the benefi cence and charity of the succeeding years. His Excelleney also alluded to the new German Hospital proposed to be founded very soon by numerous benevolent individuals, in which the Queen, Prince Albert, the King of Prussia, and the Duke of Cambridge, took peculiar interest, with a view to disabuse the minds of those present of the idea that it would injure that institution. On the contrary, he declared, and was followed by the Royal Chairman, that one spring of charity was the source of another.—(Hear.) The Duke of CAMBRIDGE handsomely proposed the health of Mr. Adolphus Brandt, one of the stewards, who had col lected from his friends in all parts of the world the munifi cent sum of 1,3001. Mr. BRANDT returned thanks with much feeling. The liberality of the company was not exceeded, we be lieve, in any former year. The sum total of subscriptions announced, including 100 guineas from her Majesty, amounted to 2,5851. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. The centenary festival of the hospital was celebrated yes terday by a public dinner, given at Willis's-Rooms, fit. James's - street, previous to which a sermon was preached at All Souls' Church, St. Marylebone, by the Lord Bishop of London. Upwards of 300 gentlemen afterwards sat down to dinner; among others were—Lord Dartmouth,. Lord Robert Gros venor, Lord Aylmer, Lord Harvey, Lord Teignmouth, Sir Thomas Herbert, Bishop of Llandaif, Dean of Chichester, John Astell, Esq., W. Astell, Esq., M.P., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., Captain Fremantle, Dr. Tenfold M. Pepys, Esq., J. N. Aruott, Esq., and many other distinguished professional gen tlemen. Lord Prudhoe presided, at the special request, and as the representative of the Duke of Northumberland. After the usual loyal toasts, The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the President of the institution, the Duke of Northumberland, who very much regretted his inability to attend that day.-(Applause.) Glee-" A generous friendship no cold medium knows." The CHAIRMAN then said he had to propose to them the toast of the evening, " The Middlesex hospital, an:l success to it:" He much regretted that their President vas unable to preside, as he must have fulfilled the duties of the chair in a much more efficient manner ; he would, however, throw himself upon the generous feelings of the company. The hospital, as might be seen from the report, was of an exten sive nature, and required extensive funds to support it. It was a charity that blessed him who gave, and him who re ceived.-(Cheers.) It was not established merely for the re ception of sick persons, but patients who were already con valseccnt were retained within its walls until they had per fectly recovered their health, and were enabled to return to their daily labour with renewed strength, and with thank ful feelings towards those who had enabled them so to do. Lord DARTMOUTH proposed the health of the Chairman, which he shortly acknowledged ; and proposed the health of the Vice-Presidents, coupling with the toast the name of Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., who returned thanks. The Treasurer's reportwas then read. Among the subscrip tions read, some of the larger ones were as follow :-Her Most Gracious Majesty, Patron, 105/. ; her Majesty Queen Adelaide, 101. ; Iris Grace the Duke of Northumberland, President, 300/. ; the Right Hon. Lord Prudhoe, Vice-Presi dent and Chairman, 2001. ; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., Vice-President, 1001.; Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart., Vice-President, 1001 ; the Earl of Egmont, 50/. ; H. Merick Hoare, Esq., 52/. 10s. ; T. T. Rennell, Esq., 50/. ; Edmund Stansfield, Esq., 501.: Messrs. Clout ts and Co., 501 ; Thomas Hunt, Esq., 42/. ; Charles Wardell, Esq., 1051.; Rev. J. G. Foyater, 1001.; Earl Amherst, 501.; the Lord Chief Justice Tindal, 50/. ; John Pepys, Esq., Vice- President, 501.; Charles Piesehell, Esq. (annuity), 100/.; Sir B. Bosanquet, 31/. 10s. ; Charles Gibbes, Esq., 311. 105. ; Major-General Mercer, 311. 10s.; W. Poynter, Esq., 31/. 10s.; Viscount Beresferd, 31/. 103.; Robert Vaughan Rick ards, Esq., Q.C., 20/. 10s.; Dr. btewart, 311. 10s.; Hon. P. S. I'ierrepoint, 31/. 10s.; Rev. Thomas Halford, 21!.; Dean of Chichester, 25/.; Dr. Mervyn Crawford, 31/. 10s.; W. Ranscim Lettsom, Esq., 31/. 10s.; Thomas Copeland, 1 Esq., 311. 10s.; William Fox, Esq., 311. 10s. ; Edmund Pepys, Esq., 201.; General Caulfield, C. 8., 31/. 10s. ; Wm. Northage, Esq., 20/. ; Major-General Briggs, Esq., 311. 10s. ; General Clarke, 251.; Miss Curier, 20/.; W. C. Towers, 311. 10s.; F. Thompson, Esq., 31/. 10s. ; J. Laboucbere, Esq., 21/. ; Wm. S. Jones, Esq., 311. 10s. ; and many others, amounting to upwards of 3,000/. Several otker toasts followed, including "The health of the Stewards," and the company did not break up till a late hour. COVES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROIrI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town at the Town-hall, on Tuesday, the following address to her Majesty was unanimously agreed to, and the Chairman, the Rev. J. B. Atkinson, was requested to sign it in the name of the meeting, and forward it to Sir J. Graham for presentation : " ADDRESS. "TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, VICTORIA I. " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the inha bitants of Cowes, beg leave to approach your Majesty with the most fervent assurances of our devoted attachment to your august person. "Next to these sentiments of loyalty, which, in common with the rest of our fellow-subjects, we owe, and are happy to profess, we entreat your Majesty will permit us to testify our peculiar sense of joy and gratitude arising from the cir cumstance of your Majesty having been pleased to become the proprietor of a residence in our favoured island. "And we fervently hope that, under God's blessing, these salubrious shores, which - we have reason to think afforded so much delight to your Majesty in the days of your childhood, may likewise conduce to the health and enjoYment of your royal offspring, who are, with your Majesty, the objects of a nation's hearty prayers. " At the same time that we deliver to your Majesty this grateful testimony of our feelings, we should be deficient in that respect which we owe to your illustrious Consort if we did not add the assurance of his sharing in all those expressions of loyalty and attachment which we have the satisfaction of conveying to your Majesty." Her Majesty and suite embarked this day (Thursday) at two o'clock, on board the Lightning steamer, under salutes from the Castle and R.Y.S. battery. It is expected that the royal party will return to Osborne in about three weeks. During their stay the Queen and Prince Albert daily walked out through Osborne Park and grounds, and also through East Cowes Park—(it is surprising that none of the beautiful houses lately erected there are neither let nor sold)—and took drives to Carisbrook and its neighbourhood. A project is on foot to form an atmospheric railway from East Cowes to Ventnor ; from thence one branch is to be laid along the shore to Black Gang Chine, and thence over the cliffs to the Needles, and another to the eastward to Beim bridge-point, and under the Haven to Hyde! Next we shall have a !midge from the main to the island, or a tunnel under the Solent. WooLwicn, MAY 15.—Sedi Mahomet Mustapha, at present in this ccuntry on a mission from the Emperor of Morocco to the British Court, visited the Royal Arsenal yesterday-. mar riedTo her.• She turned out t o be a p erfect vira g o, but died in o f ours courted EN TLE a bi l E a N dy TfogrAtwlen e ty- A e N ig i h r t 3 ‘l :ea A r i s T , andt A hen frend ttoiniee,w,e,dsdeeingw—h:tNlenh•a,'v' e sa es id ca o p u ed r fr b i y end a , in a a long THE COAL TRADE .—NEWCASTLE, TUESDAT. -- The s t c e u o l t f o , - , gr 3 t ' s e a h a t i r p u s . l regu l a tions so long established by the coalowners of the north after the American Messenger. of England, iu respect to the supply of coal to the London market, are now at an e e x n p d e , c a t n t d o be henceforthsupplsupplied witht he inhabitants of use on more reasonable terms y l7 . The circumstances out of which this state otPotiffeanttnsahhiefbningresmeatlertrartis arisen are manifold, but confined chiefly to the trade itself. Many of the large coalowners having refused to bind themselves to the proposed conditions, which have been some time under revisal by the Coal-Trade Committee, after several meetings, and much discussion, the Committee determined this da y to leave the trade open. STEAM-BOAT COLLISION NEAR GRAVESEND.—A collision of a very alarming character happened on Tuesday afternoon in Sea Reach, just below Gravesend, between the Prince of Wales, Margate steam-boat, and a collier brig, Flora. It appears that the steamer was proceeding down the river to Margate, with a good freight of passengers, at her usual speed, and in endeavouring to clear the brig, which was running across, the latter came upon her with most considerable NvE i sn anAuj, p a r d Y i, E i . ev ß de terrific violence on the after part of her paddle-box, causing the most extensive mischief. The alarm of the passengers on board can be more easily imagined thanttooadlesotsthcierreairbeteeadaivts.e.tedTlNaThh,eeryia.ye were, however, speedily removed from her, and taken on Docks to a too n f o rN t el l p e aa r liers v hv. es e.ras sel dta a hn n el d ang co eb.r n o vi g, y hh e et d bu o rpi n g gw A ei tE tiro C ani rt nl s o: ma n s a . dk — itih T , ge h at e ti I T ) oaZpods m o s t here i s being ow remarkably abundantlyTlE gratify ing progress. Every description of crop looks the grain crops being equally and richly braded. Clover grass is finer than fur several y ea r s p as t, c l over plants 'being w ore a b un d ant, and b oth clover and rye grass un uitik il y healthy and luxuriant. Pasture lands are fresh and close in the roll, and afford an ample sup ply of food to grazing stock. The weather being highly fat ourable fur the preparation of summer fano% s, great progress has btu' made, and altogether the prospects both of the grower and consumer are of the most cheer ing desctipt ion.—Sectanon. WILL OF GENERAL ROBERTSON.—Probate of the will and two codicils, as far as respects the property in Eng land, of James Robertson, formerly of Hill-side, but late of Canaan-bank, near the City of Edinburgh, a General in her Majesty's army, has just been granted to his nephew, John Russell, Esq., one of the executors, a power being re served to Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson Alactionald, the brother, and William Robertson, Esq., a nephew of the deceased, to prove hereafter. The personal estate in Eng• land, sworn under 4,000/., bequeaths annuities to his sisters, legacies to his nieces, the Countess of Minto, Lady Adam, and Lady Nicholson, and others, his relations; leaves 1,000/. to his nephew, Licnt. James Robertson. East India Company; also a legacy to his wife, and 100/. to each of his children ; leaves to his own servant a legacy of 400/., and all his apparel, and legacies to all his other servants; bequeaths all his property at Canaan-bank (including plate, pictures, furniture, and moveables) to his nephew, J 11 2 ,1 Russell, and leaves Lim a moiety of the residue; the _ moiety to his brother, Col. Macdona ld, and his family. The - • will is dated December 1, 1855, and the second codicil No vernber 9, 1842. The decea sed, who was of Principal son ‘.ch • Robertson, the historian, died on the 29t of a. The will was approved in Edinburgh on the sth of