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hacked as he was by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government. The Right Hon. Baronet de. scribed the prisons throughout the country for the incarcera tion of prisoners to be miserable places, mere black-holes, unfit for human beings to be placed in. He had himself been much influenced by the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet, though he knew that the prison at Bristol was not such a one as had been described. Formerly the evil was that the debtor was entirely at the mercy of the creditor, but now they had gone as far wrong the other way by placing the creditor at the mercy of the debtor. The change had been too violent and sudden in its operation. Meetings had been held in the prin cipal towns in Etsgland relative to this clause, and they had been unanimous in condemning it. Mr. Commissioner Fano arid Mr. Connuissioner Evans had stated that it would afford a refuge to all the rogues of the country. It was calculated that previous to the operation of this clause fifty millions sterliek were annually lost by insolvents, and he thought it would be difficult to calculate what would be the amount of increase on that sum, if the further operation of that clause were allowed. In fact every debt under 20/. was looked upon as a debt of honour, and the courts rather presented a point of attraction to debtors, as affording them an easy mode of cheating their creditors. It was strange doctrine to urge in its favour, that it would be the means of putting an end to credit. lie did not know how a commercial country like this could do without the system of credit. Ile admitted that credit was liable to abuse, but what was there that was not liable to abuse? Theo protected the credit of the wealthy man, and he saw no reason why they should not protect the poor man equally. Th e y gave every facility to the wholesale trader for the recovery of his debts, but they turned their back upon the retail dealer. The creditor whose debt amounts to 21/. might say with some effect to his debtor, " pay me the 211. you owe me." But if the debt happened to be 191., the debtor might laugh in his face. He should like the Hononrable Baronet to define the difference between the two. Was he to be told that the man who was in debt 211. ought to be imprisoned, and that he whose debts amounted only to 191. should be allowed to escape with irapunity ? It was urged that the total absence of credit would be conducive to the welfare and well-being of the working classes ; but he denied this. It was, in his opinion, highly essential that the labourer, be he manufacturing or agricultural, should be allowed to have credit, and if they re fused it to him his cup of misery would be full. He con sidered the poor man ought to be cared for as well as the rich. It was known that this country was deteriorating into a vitiated state, and the effects of the Bill had been described by a writer of the present day as having disseminated a spirit of mistrust in both public and private life, and, in the end, it had so enervated the energies of the people, that the popula tion had been led into a system of self-abandonment as regarded running into debt. It was a notorious fact that seven-tenths of the people anticipated their incomes. It was useless to suppose that the extravagant expenditure of the reck less could be hindered, or that this class would be prevented from incurring debt, when there were so many tradesmen willing to give them credit, by any such measure as the 201. clause. There was no doubt that among tradespeople there were many individuals who would not encourage extravagant expenditure or the incurring of debt, but he would quote the language of the immortal bard•;Shakespere, which would show that all would not be guided by similar rules : “ Dart thou think, because thou'rt virtuous, There shall be no more cakes and ale? Ay, by St. Anne, And ginger shall be hot i' th' mouth, too." Honesty might be found in fustian, and often was discovered amongst the lowest classes, in whom it had sometimes been thought was not always to be found. Under these circum stances, liken, he would ask, what protection was it intended to give tradesmen ? for already every protection had been taken from them. The tradesman must be protected, and in order to this, the House should first make an inquiry, and that was all he now asked. The Honourable Member then read a paper, in which it was stated that a tradesman had been ruined by giving credit in small sums, besides hav ing to pay the income-tax, for which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had his hand in his pocket. In fact, if any tradesman who was obliged to give credit in sums up to 201. were not exempt from the income-tax, he could never get on. He held in his hand a list of many unsuccessful tradesmen, but he would not weary the House with it ; he would merely say this, that tradesmen were driven to discharge their workmen and to re dace their expenses. The nature of cases tried in small marts, and he had several in point, was this—a small debt was due from some pensen to a tradesman, and being desirous to re cover it, imprisonment being abolished, the sheriff was put into the debtor's house. A relation, the landlord, or some person at a distance, claimed the goods, an action was threat ened, and the sheriff was withdrawn. In nine cases out of ten they would find that the sheriff was withdrawn because the creditor preferred submitting to the first loss, rather than in volving himself or others in trouble, which would be entailed upon him by taking the ease before a jury. There was now a woman named Goole, aged ninety, confined in Bristol gaol for a debt of 241., and who had small auras owing to her, under 201., more than sufficient to wryer the debt for which she was incarcerated. By the opera tion of the Act, the fees to officers in small courts were mate rially diminished, and the deficiencies in their salaries had to come out of the Consolidated Fund. The aggregate annual salaries of four clerks, in the Southwark Court of Requests, was 2,241/. 103., which was created by fees. During the first six months after the Act came into operation, there was a de &hearty of 7161. 18s. 4d., so that in twelve months a deficiency of .14,432 L 169. Bd. would be created in their usual emolu ments, which would have to be made good out of the Conso lidated Fund. And as a Committee of that House appeared to him the most fitting tribunal to inquire into the evils of which he complained—at once the mode most dignified for the House, and EOM enegenial to the poor and oppressed tradesman, he trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would grant the inquiry with out tursitstios. If, however, the Government should object to the appointment of the Committee, he should take the sense of the House on the expediency of his proposition, and press the matter to a division. Mr. KEMBLE briefly seconded the motion. Sir J. GRAHAM said if he understood the Hon. Gentle man, who had introduced the motion, aright, the object sought to be accomplished by the Committee was how the provisions 1 of the Act, passed last session, respecting small debts, had ope rated upon tradesmen. If that was the object sought to be obtained, then he did not see any good that would result from it, as certain of the evils complained of had commanded the at tention of a Noble Lord of high legal acquirements (the Lord Chancellor); and he had prepared a Bill on the subject, which had been brought into the other House of Parliament. The Hon. Gentleman said that his object was not to repeal the law of last session, but to effect an improvement in it. He (Sir James Graham) rejoiced at it, as he believed nothing could exhibit such a want of sympathy with and indifference to the interests of the working classes as the reenactment of im prisonment for small debts. The measure had, upon the whole, worked well. No complaints had been made about it from the great body of the people—the complaint had issued from the tradesmen who considered themselves injured by it, but who, he might remark, had the remedy in a great measure in their own hands—the withholding of credit.—Hear, hear.) He veal willing, however, to admit that there were defects in the Aet of last session, but he denied that it was what the Hen. Member opposite (Mr. H. Berkeley) had described is--a piece of crude legislation. To no measure introduced during the last 20 years had so much attention been paid, or snore pains bestowed. The charge of indecent haste, or party legislation was, therefore, net at all applicable to the question. No arguments could have been adduced that were not then fully heard upon this question ; and when he heard the speech of the Hon. Gentleman, he expected to have beard him conclude with some such motion as a proposition for the re peal of the Act of last session. His (Sir J. Graham's) own opinion was that the present Bill was not sufficiently stringent or summary against debtors to the amount of 201. The Lord Chancellor had assured him that he had given his most earnest attention to the Government Bill, and in a very few days he hoped it would be laid before the House. Under these cir cumstances he hoped the House would suspend its opinion upon the !object till they heard more of it.—(Hear.) He admitted last session that this Bill required acme amendment and al terations; and having made that admission, he did hope the House would wait until the Bill came before it in an amended form. Mr. P ARKER said he had but very few observations to make. He hoped the system of imprisonment would not be revived. and thought the declaration of the Right Hen. Baronet would be satisfactory to the House. The Bill contained a very stringent clause, which, in his opinion, would have prevented the occurrence of some of the evils complained of, had it been acted upon at the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts. Mr. M. PHILLIPS regretted that the Committee was not to be appointed, because had there been a Committee the smell tradesmen, who complained of the Bill, would have had an opportunity of stating to the House what were the real and practical difficulties they suffered. Mr. HAWES said he did not wish to revive the oppression on the debtor which had been formerly practised. He thought the only effect of appointing the proposed Committee would be to cushion the measure coming down from the other House of Parliament. The country was very anxious for an improve. meat in the measure of last session, and the appointment of a Committee now would only impede that desirable im provement. He thought, therefore, that Hon. Members on his own side of the House ought net to press the motion.— ( Hear, hear.) As to raising a debate upon the worn-out qeseitien of imprisonment for debt, he had thought every thing that could be said upon it had been said low , ' ago. The Hon. Member concluded by saying, he hoped the Hon. Mover would not press his motion. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the altera'ion of im prisonment for debt upon final process under 2.01. had been made because of the miseries which debtors had suffered under the old law. He was now willing to believe from the ex perience he had of the present law, that the creditor was not sufficiently protected, and if any furthee protection could be given to him it would be most desirable ; at the same time he would IPis meet cantieus of placing in the hands of the creditor an arbitrary power. He hoped the Hon. Member would erehdraw his motion. In case the measure devised in the House of Lords did not give the desired protection to the creditor, he would do all in his power to make it do so.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. SPOONER hoped the Hon. Gentleman would with draw his motion. Mr. BERKELEY said, he thought he could not do less than withdraw his motion, after what had been said by the So licitor-General, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He would leave the mat ter in the hands of the Government, with the most perfect confidence of the result. Colonel RSAWDON said there were some hundreds of persons confined in prisons in Ireland, for small debts, and be hoped the provisions of the Bill would be extended to that Country. • The motion was then withdrawn. IRISH CHURCH-RATES. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee, to take into consideration the Act 17 and 18 Car. 2, c. 7, Intituled " An Act for provision of Mi nisters in Cities and Corporate Towns, and making the church of St. ftr s An e dr e en, in the iiiiburbs of the city of Dublin, presen tativer, with a view to the repeal of so much thereof as relates to the payment of ministers in corporate towns in Ireland. On looking at the census of Ireland for 1841, he leased that in the City of Cork, the Catholics of Ireland were irk tile ratio of six and a h a lf to so one, while the amount of mi nistere money raised there amounted to no less than 12,0001. It was for the removal of a sour ce of much acrimony and heeribornine, that he now solicited the interposition of th e not only e t l o s n t h d e . Home, for the removal of a burthen obnoxious Homan Catholics but avast proportion of Protestants of He was aware that when he approached this question he might be met by the objection of the difficulty of findin g a substitute that substitute he would seek in the revenues of the Established — C 'Church ; and in making that s u ggestion he was not amenable us , the insinuation that su c h a measure would div ert the pro perty of the Protestant Ch ur c h in Ireland to other a nd foreign purposes. This arrangement would be at once satisfactory to the Roman Catholics, and certainly not unjust to the Pro testants of the country. He would not detain the House by any further observations, trusting that the spirit which had of late been evinced by the Government would be carried out in the present advantageous opportunity. Sir H. W. BARRON seconded the motion. Sir T. FREMANTLE did full justice to the tone and spirit in whichfothe Hon. Member for Cork had brought forward his 'resolution, and admitted to the full the obnoxious character of •tihe tax. But while the Government were impressed with that conviction, and had submitted the subject to a rigid investiga d lin as well as a most anxious consideration, they ha *at the extreme difficulty of removing these imposts, more e escially as'no substitute could be either su gg ested or de- AW. The case was not quite so bad as the Hon. Gentleman had represented it to be. A similar tax prevailed at Edin bit 50 and elsewhere. He hoped, under the circumstances, the Hon. and Teamed Gentleman would withdraw his m otion. k l , r. ROCHE thought the Government was really bound to - find a substitute for this tax. It was very well for his Hon. and Learned Friend on the opposite side to say that he would give the subject his best consideration ; but they wanted something better. They wanted to get rid of the abuse altoge: er—they wanted a pledge that the House would deal with thi' question, which they had admitted to be an abuse, in the present session. An HoN. MEMBER here moved that the House be counted, when, 40 Members not being present, the House a journed at a Quarter to Eight o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. THURSDAY, MAY 29. The following Bills were read a third time, and passed : Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth. Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea Deviation). Exeter and Crediton Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill,—Further proceeding on third reading resumed; amendments proposed, and re ferred to the Select Committee on standing Orders. Standing Orders Comm ittee,—Resolutions reported; I. " That, in the case of the Claughton cum Grange (St. John the Baptist's) Church Bill, amendments on considera tion of report, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted by the House without the re-commitment of the Bill." 2. "That, in the case of the Claughton cum Grange (St. Andrew's) Church Bill Amendments on consideration of re port, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted by the House without there-commitment of the Bill." 3. " That, in the case of the Sunderland, Durham, and Auckland Union Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 4. " That in the case of the Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 5. " That, in the case of the Chester, Manchester, and Li verpool Junction Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." Report to lie on the table. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Kendal and Windermere Railway,—Third reading, Mon day, June 2. West London Railway,—Second reading, Monday, June 2. Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway, — Committee on Bill, Friday, June 6, at twelve. Edinburgh and Hawick Railway,—Report to be consi dered, Tuesday, June 3. North British Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday, June 3. Southampton and Dorchester Railway,—Third reading, Monday, June 2. Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln),—Third read ing, Monday, June 2. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail way,—Committee on Bill, Friday, June 6, at twelve. Gravesend and Rochester Railway,—Committee on Bill, Friday, June 6, at twelve. Guildford Junction Railway,—Report to be considered, Monday. June 2. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Hastings, Rye, and Ash ford Extension) Railway,—Second reading, Monday, June 2. Select Committee on Group V. adjourned till Saturday, May 31, at twelve. RAILWAYS. The following Bills are appointed to go into Committee on Friday, June 6, at twelve o'clock : Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway. Gravesend and Rochester Railway. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Deviation). The Select Committee on Group P is appointed by the Committee of Selection to meet on Wednesday, June 4, at twelve o'clock,tinstead of Monday, June 2. LLOYD'S SHIPPING• EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.-Wellington, Liddell, from Madras, off Plymouth, sld, Feb. 10, Cape, March 30, St. Helena, April 12, Ascension, April 17 ; Northumberland, Bird, from Madras, off Scilly, sld, Feb. 10, Cape, March 30, St. Helena, April 12 ; William Jardine, Lodge, from Van Dieman's Land, off Falmouth, sld, Hobart Town, Feb. 1 ; Hamlet, Wilson, from New South Wales, off Penzance, sld, from Sydney, Feb. 3 ; Athens, Fordice, from Port Philip, off Falmouth, sld from Geelong, Jan. 7 ; Bolina, Dalby, from New Zealand, off Falmouth. Arrivals at St. Helena-Chieftain, April 3, from Angra ; Pequena Briesbosch, from Java; Voyager, from -; Blorenge, from Calcutta to Liverpool ; Blundell, from Cal cutta to West Indies; Eliza, Grange, from Coast of Africa, and sld, 7th, to Bordeaux ; Dorothea, Dekka, from Batavia, and sld, Bth, to Amsterdam ; Semilante, Sire, from Bourbon, and sld to Nantes ; Lord Althorpe, Elliott, from Calcutta, and sailed 7th to Liverpool; Ida, Silk, 7th from Sourabaya, and sailed Bth to London; Amiens, Orange, from Mauritius; Peruvian, 7th, from Whaling; Deux, Freres, from Bourbon, and sailed 9th to Nantes; William Wallace, from Calcutta ; Rapide, Bockleman, from Batavia, and sailed 9th to Falmouth ; Josephine, Salmon, Bth from Bourbon, and sailed 9th to Bordeaux; Areta, Stewart, from Singapore; Asia, Davidson, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th to London; Hamet, Duthie, from Algoa Bay; Phmnix, 9th from Batavia, and sailed 11th to Hamburgh ; Royalist, Price, from the coast of Africa, and sailed 10th to Barbadoes ; Aden, King, 11th from China, and sailed 12th to Liverpool ; Dorothea, Smith, from Caleutta, and sailed to Liverpool ; Gentoo, Hollis, from Cal cutta ; Petite Nancy, Dufourg, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th to Bordeaux ; Mastroom, 12th from Batavia, to Rotterdam. Arrival at Cannanore-Bombay, Furley, April 10 from Lon don and Mauritius, and sailed to Bombay. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.-Her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt, March 26, from Ichaboe ; Barry', Dixon, 28th, from Brede River ; Manilla, Lloyd, from Liverpool to Hong-Kong. Departures from Table Bay.-Prince Albert, March 28, to London; Catherine, Jamieson, 27th, to Leith; Garland, to Saldanha Bay ; Lord Hungerford, 28th, to Demerara ; Le ander, to Whaling. Arrivals in Algoa Bay.-Science, March 16, from Table Bay ; Anna Louise, 17th. from Calcutta, and sailed 20th to Havre ; Prins Carl, from Table Bay. Departures from Algoa Bay.-Harriet, March 16th, to London ; Blackaller, 17th, to Mauritius. Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales.-Autumnus, Jan. 20th, from China; Shamrock, 26th, from Port Philip ; Water lily, 27th, from Hobart Town; Christina, 28th, from Port Philip ;,Palestine, 30th, from London ; St. Übes and Bahia Star of China, Feb. 1, from New Zealand ; Chance, 3d, from New castle to London. Departures from Sydney- Victor, Morgan, Jan. 26, to Ma nilla; Levant, 28th, to Whaling; Garland, Grove, 29th, to Liverpool ; James Watt, 30th, to Hobart Town ; Lowestoff, Feb. 3, to Launceston ; Matilda, 2d, to South Seas ; Moray shire, to Manilla; the Eleanor, to sail sth; the Emily, New York Packet, and Eweretta, Bth. Arrivals at Launceston-Adelaide, Jan. 15, from London ; Mary Hay, 16th, from London and Rio ; Agostina, 22d, from Manilla ; Tenasserim, 21st, from Hobart Town; William, 23d, Sisters, 25th, from Sydney. Loading at Launceston-Tasmania, Mary Hay, and Agos tina, for London. Arrivals at Port Philip-Branken Moor, Jan. 18, from Lon don and Adelaide ; Marian Watson, lEth, from Sydney. Departure from Port Philip-Ellen, Jan. 20, to London. Arrival at Adelaide-William Wise, from London to Port Philip. Arrival at Hobart Town-Osprey, Jan. 26, from Hong Kong and Manilla. Arrivals at Port Nicholson, New Zealand-Augustus, Dec. 29, from Port Philip ; Lady Leigh, Jan. 2, from Sydney, and sailed Bth to Kawan ; Sisters, 2d, from Hobart Town, and to sail 10th for Nelson ; H.M.S. Hazard, loth, from -; Hind, 7th, from Sydney to London ; Albatross,from Hobart Town. Arrivals at Pernambuco-British King, March 26, from St. Helena; Tamar, 27, from Launceston, and sailed Bth April to London ; West Indian, April 5, from Cape Dublin ; Jones, 10th, from Sydney, and sailed 11th to London. Departure from Pernambuco-Catherine Brown, March 25, to Cape. Arrivals at Ascension-Her Majesty's ship Tortoise, from -; her Majesty's ship Heroine, from coast, and to sail in a few days for England, touching at Sierra Leone ; Malcolm, from Singapore ; Ellen, from Port Philip; Seven, from Ichaboe. Her Majesty's brigs Rapid and Wasp were daily ex pected at Ascension, April 17. The former woad proceed to England with pirates for trial. Arrivals at Hong-Hong-Earl Pawls, Feb. 7, from Liver pool ; Strathisla, 13th, from South Sea Islands. Departures from Hong-Kong-Mary Ann Webb, Feb. 8, to Cork ; Surge, 11th, to London; Coromandel, 13th, to Lon don ; Eagle. 13th, to Bristol ; Shepherd, 13th, to London. Arrivals at Colombo.-Sir Charles Napier, from London, and sailed March 27, to Bombay ; Competitor, March 26. from Bombay ; %caw, March 25, from Hobart Town; and Adelaide, W. and M. Brown, from London. Departure from Colombo.-Lady of the Lake, March 26, to Kurrachee. Arrivals at Galle.-Thomas Jones, March 13. from Co lombo ; Standerings, 18th, from Mauritius, and sailed 21st, to Madras ; Scaleby Castle, 19th, from China, and Singapore, and sailed 21st to Bombay ; Eleanor, Lancaster, 24th from ' Colombo ; Sir H. Compton, 26th, from Bombay. Departures.-Binkang, March 18, to Singapore ; Lady Sale, 26th, to China. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE A new grand. ballet, entitled, Rosida, ou les Mines de Syracuse, was produced here last evening, with that tri umphant success which attended almost every work, operatic or choerographic, that has been produced at her Majesty's Theatre by Mr. Lumley. The new bal let is, we believe, the work of St. Leon, and it does infinite credit to the talents of its author, who has shown that he possesses poetical feeling, a thorough knowledge of pictorial and stage effect, and constructive powers of a high order. Rosida (Madlle. Cerito) is a young Sicilian girl, in love with Alman (St. Leon), a sailor, and the first tableau of the ballet is on the deck of a ship on a gala day. The masts are hung with wreaths of flowers—the sailors are rejoicing on deck—s bevy of Sici lian damsels, among whom is Rosida, arrive on board, and of course a dance ensues. There is, first of all, a most effective bullabile, and then comes the new " pas de charactere, La Siciliene," by Cerito and St. Leon. This is an exquisite dance. Cerito displays in it all the pretty coquetting of a village beauty, and gives us those arrowy rushing steps which are so peculiarly her own. She may indeed be called " The Muse of the many twinkling feet." Alman has been condemned to the mines. Rosida resolves to follow him—the only method of accomplishing this, is by assuming the disguise of a miner—a miner's dress is brought to her, and the pantomime of Cerito is exquisite. She dances round the dress—she touches—flies from it alarmed, and rushes round the stage in a series of rapid steps, so rapid that the eye can scarcely follow the motion of her feet. She approaches and takes it up, tries on the coat in the most fascinating and espiegle manner imaginable, and at length takes the dress up, and rashes off the stage with It. The second tableau exhibits the interior of the dark and gloomy mine. The miners descend one by one, and proceed to their work ; among them is Alman. He is left alone. Suddenly the mine is illu minated—the black masses disappear, and in their place we see the splendid abodes of the fairies of the mine. The Queen of the Mine appears, and encourages Alman. l t o h o e m fairies e c a l r o a s n e c e u . p , and a t i h ita e o a minemost magnificent scenic effect, and told admi ra bly, He approaches to worship her, when instantly the pristi e n r e b g f guised as a miner. This, n we sibeali e d v e e s , cen i d s s, dithse first appearance of Ce r it o male attire, and she certainly looks mos t fascinatingly in • her miner's costume. In this tableau she pas de mineur with St. Leon. Her Hpantomime was dances the expressive, her dancing delightful. The applause was, most of course, rapturous , and at the end of the pas there was a perfect shower o f b ou q uets. The mine a g ain becomes a fairy palace. Again does the Queen of the Fairies and her court appear, and poor Rosida, terrified at these supernatural appearances, rushes from the mine. At this late hour (for the ballet did not conclude until one o'clock), it is impossible to follow minutely the adven tures of the lovers, who are, of course, at last made hof art, It re re. happy. The last scen e is a t p p rap TTIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY ?EVENING, MAY 30, 1645. sent the harbour of Syracuse. In this tableau' We • have the Pas des Villageois by Cerito and St. Leon, in which the latter displays some of the most astonishing tours deftrce that ever he has I )er formed ; the " pas des quatre, Nations," a character; etic pas by the corps de ballet, and " La W ollinienne," .by St. Leon and Cerito. Never has Cerito appeared to so much advantage as in Rosida. She exhibits throughout feeling, expression, and poetry—not unworthy of Tug lioni herself, while, at the same time, there is no lack of that neatness of execution, of that gushing flow of exube rant spirits which has hitherto been her great charm.. The scenery was magnificent, and the mise en scene per fect. Cerito and St• Leon were called for at the fall of the curtain, and honoured with the usual testimonials of public approbation. The opera was Don Pasquale, but we had, in addition, Castella, Brambilla, and Aferiani in a scene from Linda di Chamouni. The " Danseuses Viennoises" in several of their favourite pas—Carlotta Grisi and Toussaint ; the pas "de la Favorite," and Lucile Gratin, with Ferdinand, Demelisse, and Casson, in her own " pas de quatre." The house was crowded before the rising of the curtain, every nook from which eves► an occasional glimpse of the stage could be procured was occupied, and the greater part of the audience remained until the con clusion of the ballet. We are not surprised at this, for it is the most interesting, and also the most magnificent ballet that has been produced for a long tune. EPSOM RACES. THURSDAY. The weather on the Downs yesterday was just as dis agreeable as it was in town—cold, misty and rainy—con fining the prospect to a very limited range. The roads were in bad condition, and the Course, much deteriorated from the state it was in, was dirty and clammy. The company was exceedingly small, and the day's sport, consisting of three races, was for the major part very inferior, the Surrey Cup, which was originally intended to give a feature to the amusements of the third day, alone having excited any interest, or affording any room for speculation. The racing, which commenced with the walk over'at two o'clock, was";brought to a close shortly after four with the following results : I The Epsom Four Year Old Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft, for colts, Bst 111 b, and fillies, Bst 61b. Derby Course. (5 Subs.) Mr. Ford's b c Qui Tam walked over Sweepstakes of 10 aovs. each, 5 ft if declared; the second to save his stake. One mile and a quarter. (8 Subs. of whom one declared.) Lord G. Bentinck's br f Moonshine, 3 yrs, 4st 91b Kitchener 1 ass Mr. Hook's b f Wild Roe, 3 yrs, 4st 91b Mr. T. Dawson's b c Live-and-let-Live, 4 yrs, 7st Mr. Death's Isleworth , 6 yrs , B st 31b 4 Mr. Galpine's f by Elis, out of Cecilia, 4 yrs Mr. Westley's Jessie Hammond, 3 yrs, sst 6 1 b Mr. J. Day's bg by Mazeppa, —Busk, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b 7 Betting-5 to 4 agst Live-and-let-Live, and 2to 1 a gst Moonshine. Moonshine took the lead, had it all her own way, and won by three lengths. The Surrey Cup (Handicap) or piece of Plate of 200 sovs. value, the surplus in specie, by Subs. of 10 soya. each, with 50 added. Cup Course ; two miles. (22 Subs.) Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil, 7st 31b...(Kitchener) 1 Mr. F. A. Milbank's The Wreck, 3 yrs, sst 31b Mr. W. Scott's Cataract, 5 yrs, 7st llb 3 Mr. Ellis's Moustache, 4 yrs, 7st llb 4 Duke of Richmond's Lothario, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b 5 Mr. Bonsor's The Correct Card, 3 yrs, sst 31b Lord Verulam's f by Laurel, 4 yrs, 6st 1 llb 7 Betting-3 to 1 agst Moustache, 7to 2 agst Lothario, I to 1 agst Cataract, 5 to 1 agst Croton Oil, 5 to 1 agst The Correct Card, and 10 to 1 agst The Wreck. Cro ton Oil took the lead after going a quarter of a mile, and, with Lothario and Cataract in waiting, made play to the turn into the straight running; Lothario was then beaten, and the Wreck became second, Cataract lying up with her. At the distance the filly joined issue, and a beautiful race ensued, Croton Oil, splendidly ridden, winning by a head. Cataract ran in difficulties from the distance, but struggled gamely to the end, and was only beaten by a head for second. Nothing else was up at the finish. Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, with 40 added ; three yrs. old, 6st 71b ; four, Bst 71b ; five, Bst 121 b ; six and aged, 9st 116 ; mares and geldings, and horses which have run in either of the preceding races, allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 150/. ; heats, one mile. (6 Subs.) Mr. Dawson's Live-and-let-Live, 4 yrs (Lye) 1 1 Mr. Coleman's The Devil-among•the-Tailors, 6 yrs 3 2 Mr. Dyson's Loadstar, 3 yrs 2 3 . . Both heats - won in a canter. THE OAKS.—(THIS DAY.) PROBABLE STARTERS, WITH THE RIDERS AND LATEST BETTING. Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch—Temp!omen 4 to 1 Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair—F. Butler-5 to 1 Mr. Gully's Maid of Orleans—J. Day, jun.-10 to 1 Mr. Armstrong's Venus—Murphy-12 to 1 Mr. R. Bennett's Hope—Marlow-12 to 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis—W. Howlett-12 to 1 Mr. Rogers's Glee—Bartholomew-1 3 to 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere—Abdale-1 4 to Mr. Liley's Stamp—Robinson-18 to 1 Duke of Richmond's Refraction—Whitehouse Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude—Mann Sir G. Heathcote's File mal Gardee filly—Chapple Lord Eglinton's Plaudit—Marson Mr. Blake's Event—Boyce Sir J. Mill's Giantess—J. Howlett Sir C. Monck's Physician filly—Lye Mr. J. Thompson's The Wreck—Noble Mr. Osbaldeston's Fickle Wild Rose—W. Butler Mr. Bowes's Heather Bell—Simpson Major Yarburgh's Miss Sarah—Holmes Mr. Howe's Carolina—Sly Colonel Peel's Hersey One or two of the above are doubtful ; but as Sir G Heuthcote may probably start two, there will, no doubt be at least twenty runners. 5 to 1 was taken about Kent's lot, and 15 to 1 about Sir G. Heathcote's. Nat is not sufficiently recovered from his accident to ride. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—ASCOT HEATH. Acceptances for the Ascot Stakes.—FlßST CLASS. Minotaur, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Lothario, 5 yrs, Bst llb— Bob Peel, ag ed, Bst—lonian, 4 yrs, Bst—Perkin War beck, 4 yrs, Bst—lnheritress, 5 yrs, 7st 101b-I)elapre, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Morpeth, 4 yrs, 7st 61b--Welbeck, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—b gby Augustus, out of Courtezan, aged, 7st— Yardley, 5 yrs, 7st—Boarding School Miss, 4 yrs, 7st— Wee Pet, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b—ch c by Ratcatcher, out of Turquoise, 4 yrs, Est 111b--Vates, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Brush, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Best Bower, 4 yrs, 65t-1) g by Mazeppa, out of Busk, 4 yrs, 6st—Heather Bell, 3 yrs, sst 91b — Desperation, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Queen Pomare, 3 yrs, sst 51b —Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, sst 41b—New Year's Day, 3 yrs, 4st 91b—Zahra, 3 yrs, 4st 61b. SECOND CLASS. Queen Mab, 8 yrt, Bst 71b—Stomacher, 4 yrs, Bst llb —I-am-not-aware, aged, Bst—Poor Soldier, 5 yrs, ist 121b—Qui Tam, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Example, 4 yrs, ist I lib—Lightning, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Beatrice, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Vol-au-Vent, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Moustache, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Fair Jane colt, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Subduer, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Pergularia, 4 yrs, 7st lib—Satyr, 4 yrs, Gst 121b—Laird o' Cockpen, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—Seaport, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Annandale, 3 yrs, Est 51 b — Ly dia Lan guish, 4 yrs, 6st 31b—Flight colt, 3 yrs, sst 111b — Stamp, 3 yrs, sst 111b—Blunderbuss, 3 yrs, sst 91b— Lyons, 3 yrs. sst 31b—Scarmentado, 3 yrs, 4st 111 b. BIBURY CLUB. Handicap for the Bibury Stakes, to declare on Mon day next. Corranna, 6 yrs, 12st 81b—Queen Mab, 6 yrs, list 121b—Una, aged, list 121b—Sorella, 4 yrs, list 61b— Ajax, aged, list 51b—Orion, 5 yrs, I Ist 31b-- Foxberry, 6 yrs, list lib—Playfellow, 6 yrs, list Ilb Jack, 6 yrs, list ilb The Conqueror, 6 yrs, lOst 131 b Yates, 4 yrs, lOst I lib Pugilist, 4 yrs, lOst 101b—Subduer, 5 yrs, lOst 101b—Trudge-it, 4 yrs, lOst 81b—Hampton, 6 yrs, lOst 81b—Cockamaroo, 4 yrs, lOst 81b—Seaport, 4 yrs, lOst 61b—Idleness, 4 years, lOst 61b—Redskin, 4 yrs, lOst— The New Forrest Deer, 4 yrs, 9st 131b—Herne the Hunter, 4 yrs, 9st 91b—Bastien, 3 yrs, 9st 31b—Giantess, 3 yrs, 9st, 31b—Wild Roe, 3 yrs, Bst 91b. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1845. TUESDAY. Lord Chesterfield's Ror Soldier, 5 yrs, Bst 71b, agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Hemp, 4 yrs, Bst 51b, T.Y.C.,150, h ft. F RIDAY. Lord G. Bentinek's Miss Ellis. Bst 71b, agst Sir R. Balkeley's Cinizolli, 7st 131 b, A.F. ; 200, h f. COMPLIMENT TO THE IRISH BAR BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The following notice is copied from a Contemporary. The compliment to which it refers is, we believe, without precedent ; " HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 27. " Mr. Napier concluded his argument in the case of Viscount Dungannon v. Smith, at two o'clock. " After a short pause Lord Lyndhurst said that all the judges had requested of him to state that they con sidered the argument of Mr. Napier to be a most able one, and that the House wished that to be intimated to him. " Lord Brougham added—A remarkably able argu ment. " There were thirteen of the judges present, together with the Lord Chancellor, Lords Cottenham, Brougham, and Campbell. " The further consideration of the question has been adjourned till after Trinity Term." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Thomas Cox, a dock labourer, living in Whitecross-street, was brought before Mr. Alderman Challis, charged with assaulting his son, George Cox, with a poker. Hannah Cox, the wife, a decent-looking woman, said she was frequently beaten by her husband. He was in the habit of spending what he earned, and this led to st,-ife at home. She did not wish to punish him for the -11, upon herself, but she rather came to give evidence or her son, who was married and living separate from them. Her husband had beaten her, and she was lying on the bed on Monday when her son came up. He saw what had happened, and said it was no man that would beat a woman. Her husband started up, and ordered him to leave the room. The son replied he had called to see his mother, and he should not go. Her husband took up the poker, and struck him with it. It was feared her son was seriously injured. and the father was taken into custody by the police. George Cox, whose arm was in a sling, stated that upon calling to see his mother ho heard below stairs that his father had been beating her dreadfully. Ile went up stairs, and found her lying on the bed with her hair hanging loose about. He asked her what was the matter ? She replied, " Nothing ;" but his father said ho would not put up with her abuse. Witness told him he did not behave like a man to her. His father seized the poker, and ordered him to leave the room. This he refused to do, and his father struck at his head with the poker. Witness warded the blow off with his arm. He was obliged to go to the doctor, who said his arm was not broken, but the bone was severely injured. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS told the prisoner this appeared to be an aggravated assault, and he should be glad to hear anything he could offer in excuse. The prisoner replied, when a son lifted his arm against his father, what would not a man do ? He admitted he struck at the wainscoat in a moment of irritation. He had a most abusive wife, who gave him " tongue-pie" for supper, and tongue again at breakfast. His case would draw sympathy from every gentleman in Court if he could tell it. His sun told him in his own place that he had been " at his tricks again, and he would not have it." Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said, however much his wife might abuse him, it would not justify the resort to blows; and if he did not learn to control his temper, he would commit murder some day and be hanged. He had nearly committed that crime even now upon his own son. Ile should commit him to the sessions, as the magistrates there could punish him more severely than magistrates sitting out of sessions. He ordered defendant to find bail, himself in 201, and two sureties in 101. each. The prisoner was committed in default of sureties. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On the police-sheet yesterday was a charge against Mr. T. Richardson, a tailor, No. 119, Jermyn-street, for " violently assaulting George Barry, a person of no occu pation, at No. 7, Carlisle-street, Leicester-square." When the charge was called on, the defendant came forward, but the complainant did not make his appear ance. The defendant, as a matter of course, was dis charged. He then begged to make a statement to the Bench, as he was very seriously injured, and wished to have a warrant against the person who had attacked him. The applicant, whose face was much bruised and his head badly cut, was desired to enter the witness-box to make his application to the Court. He said, on his return from Epsom the previous day, he stopped at the Cock at Merton. There he met with a lady, with whom he entered into conversation, and ulti mately received a card, having the name and address on it of "'Mrs. James, No. 7, Carlisle-street," with an invi tation to call on the lady. When he reached town, he paid a visit to Carlisle-street, about twelve o'clock at night. Having again met with the lady, he gave a person a sovereign to get a bottle of Champaigne. He fell asleep in the room, but was suddenly awakened by the noise made by a man who was running about the room with a poker in his hand, and asserting that he (applicant) had made himself improperly familiar with his wife. The lady, who was in the room, denied that this man was her husband. The man declared he was, and applicant, in order to extricate himself from his unpleasant situation, said he would leave the house if his sovereign were re turned. The man would not be pacified, and applicant was proceeding down stairs, when finding himself con fronted by the man who still brandished the poker, he was in self-defence obliged to knock him down. A ser vant girl supplied the man with a brass candlestick, and the man immediately used this as a weapon of offence, and applicant was beaten on the face, cut on the head, and eventually thrust into a room, the door of which was locked on him. The noise made in his efforts to pro cure his liberation ultimately led to the appearance of a police-constable, into whose custody he was given by the man who had assaulted him. Applicant was conveyed to the station-house, -and the charge, as above, entered on the police-sheet. Applicant, however, was liberated from the station-house on bail, between three and four o'clock the same morning. Mr. HARDWICK directed that a summons against the party complained of should be granted. MA RYLEBOIVE. Yesterday, a very well-dressed man, named Richard Johnson, was brought up at the instance of Mr. Barker, Superintendent of the London and Birmingham Rail way Company's police, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having wilfully broken a pane of glass, and done other damage to a carriage, to the amount of 30s. Bartholomew, one of the guards in the employ of the Company, deposed that on the same evening the de fendant was in a first-class carriage, having taken his seat at Rugby. On his way to London he several times knocked at the window with his fists, and shouting loudly to witness, said that he was being taken in a wrong di rection, alleging at the same time that he was on the Brighton-road, which was a most shameful imposition attempted to be practised upon him. Defendant—You can't tell anything about what may have happened, you were fast asleep yourself for nearly fifty miles. Mr. LONG (to witness)— Did the defendant appear to be in liquor? Witness—He seemed to be more mud than drunk, your worship; and every now and then, on his way from Tring, he kept hallooing and calling out at the top of his voice. Defendant—lt's all false ; this man will swear any thing. Posford, another guard, said, that on the arrival of the train at Camden station, he found the window broken and one of the window-curtains torn down; the de • fendant refused to give up his ticket, and altogether be haved very strangely; he was then given into custody. Mr. LONG (to defendant)—What have you to say to this ? Defendant —It's all true about my pulling down the curtain, but I never broke the glass. Mr. LONO—Have you any witness to call? Defendant —No; certainly not. Mr. Loiaa—You will pay 30s. for the damage you have done. Defendant (to the witnesses)—How much do you re quire for telling lies ? Let me know the amount you want for coming here and I'll settle with you for your services, and pay the penalty at the same time. Defendant here pulled out his purse, from which he drew a 101. note, and handed it to Franklin, the usher, who in a few minutes brought him. the required change. Defendant (to Mr. Fell, the chief clerk)—Now, Sir, will you be so good as to let me have a receipt ? In my part of the country we always do things in a straight forward regular sort of manner, and we like to have some kind of acknowledgment for what we pay. Mr. Fell—We can give you no receipt, Sir ; it is not usual to do anything of the sort. The amount which you have paid is a matter of record in the books of the Court. Defendant--That's all very well, as far as it goes; but I think I am entitled to a receipt. Defendant was again told that his request would not be complied with ; and as ho was leaving the Court he said, " I hope that the fellows who have sworn so falsely against me will have their necks broken the first time they go down by the train again." COURT CIRCULAR. The Qaeen and Prince Albert took their usual walks yes terday, in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, went yesterdar morning to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in Somerset House. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duk. de Broglie, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lady Anna Maria Dawson. the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended at Buck ingham Palace on Tuesday, and performed the followiag pieces, under the direction of Mr. Boase c The Royal Birth-day March—C. Coote. Jubel Overture—C. M. Von Weber. Grand Selection, Don Carlos—M. Costa. Dublin Wal'ses--Labielzki. Annen Polka—Strauss. The names of the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Mrs. Dempster Heming were omitted in the list of company present at her Majesty's birth-day drawing-room on Tuesday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and Prince George. visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined last even ing at the Foundling Hospital. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Countess of Brownlow with her company yester day evening, at their residence in Belgrave-square. A deputation from the Alto-Douro Railway Company had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Ecclesiastical Commisioners for England had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall -place. There were present the Bishops of Landon, Winchester, Bangor, Ely, Lichfield, and Salisbury, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Earl of Besborough, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Right Hon. John Nicholl, and the Dean of Westminster. Dispatches r w t e h r e e G se o n y t er o o ff o y r eosfteNrdeawy seoveetnhinvirg,alferr The the Colo nialf Duke de Broglie transacted b usiness yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State fo r Forei g n Affairs. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—As a portion of the public have taken some interest in the sad case of the Rev. T. Harvey, la te chaplain at Antwerp, I beg to Inform you that the Bishop of London has this morning signi fied his willingness to license Mr. Harvey to the curacy of Mar. garetting, and that as soon as he has taken possession of it his Lordship will issue a commission to the Rural Dean to license Mr. Harvey to the same. You will perceive by this that Mr. Harvey's character is relieved from the cruel stigma which has been cast upon it during the last four or five months, by his removal from the chaplaincy of Antwerp. The just inference to be drawn from this circumstance is, that the removal was altogether unjustifiable.—l am, Sir, your very obedient servant, JUSTITIA. May 29, . 1845. NIGHTINGALES NEAR LONDON !—A pair of these birds have taken up their residence in the Surrey Zoological Gar dens, where, undisturbed by the music or the tiring on the nights of the grand pyrotechnic display, they continue to warble their delicious melody early and late, LITERATURE. LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL, AND OTHER FRAGMENTS IN VERSE. By Lord Robertion, one of the Judges of the Cow tof Session. 1845. This little volume was first printed for private cir culation amongst the friends of the distinguished author. The approbation expressed of it by judges of high eminence in the literary world has induced him to give it to the public, and for more reasons than one the public should be thankful. First, its intrinsic merits are great ; and, secondly, it is delightful to find the profound lawyer, the brilliant orator, and the laborious judge, enjoying his first free vacation with all the buoyant spirit of the enthusiastic classical student just released from his University, and finding himself for the first time on the sacred soil of Italy— the land of his high dreams. " Nor (in Lord Robert son's own words) let it be said that the journey was in itself idle, and the record of it—even for the grati fication of friends—only a piece of useless vanity. To give rest to the mind is not to be without thought, any more than to sleep is to be without dreaming. And surely to have beheld the glories of the Splugen and the Simplon—to have seen the sun rising from behind Vesuvius, or his golden rays glit tering on Venice, as he sunk behind the Alpine heights which skirt the Adriatic—to have contem plated the perfection of architecture in the majesty of St. Peter's, in the beauty of the Duomo of Milan, or in the dark aisles of the Cathedral of Florence, and the triumphs of art amidst the labyrinths of the Vati can and the Florentine Gallery—or to have wandered by the Coliseum, stood on the Capitol with the Forum at his feet, and every arch and pillar pregnant with classical recollections—or, finally, to have pondered amidst the ruins of Pompeii, yet daily disinterring— all this was not to be in a position where waking dreams were likely to be absent. It may be hoped that while such images were passing before the eye, the mind was not vacant. I, therefore, resolved to show my friends that my holidays had not been a blank; and I rather chose to do so in the some what ambitious form of what cannot, I fear, be called poetry, and yet is not sober prose. I took this course, because it pleased my fancy, and I thought that truth is not less instructive al though presented to the eye in a garland of flowers; any more than the vine grows less luxuriant because gracefully festooned. lam aware that some may think the work after all extremely trifling. I feel that " Ob, my strain, Perhaps even now some cold fastidious judge Casts a disdainful eye, and calls my toil, And calls the love and beauty which I sing The dream of folly. " But from so grave a censor I must appeal to the generous and indulgent, and claim from them a sym pathy in those musings which afforded me such un feigned delight." Without quoting specimens from these effusions, we will content ourselves with a pas sage from L'Envoy, which beautifully expresses the past and present feelings of the illustrious writer. " The panoramic pastime o'er, slow drops The curtain on my sated eye, and like The rainbow in the heavens, the vision fades. Nor say, that to my task with slothful foot I turn, the holiday now o'er, and in An idle schoolboy guise creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.'—Oh, no. Over The cheerful stream lightly my bark has sped, Joy at the helm with fancy in the sails, And now—laden with larger charity, And deeper love of country—home she turns, Casting her anchor there—to seaward bound No more. Nor deem my wanderings idle, or Their record vain, for one whose constant care Duty exact demands. The memory of These hours, like water sprinkled from the brook On arid ground, amidst the summer's drought, Will fall upon my heart, freshening the soil." COMMERCIAL STATISTICS, 4-c. &c. By Macgregor. 3 Vole. Loudon, 1844. [SECOND NOTICE.] In the last of his three introductory sections, namely, that on " Taxes upon Consumption," Mr. Macgregor arrives at some pithy conclusions, which we recommend with all the full weight of his authority to the consider ation of those who advocate protection to the agricul tural, colonial, shipping, or any other class interest. " In accordance, therefore, with the foregoing principles, that country which possesses average advantages from nature, and whose population possesses the greatest industry, ingenuity, and intelligence, will, if unfettered from legislative restriction, become, in proportion to its extent, resources, and advantages, the most flourishing country in the world ; or, at least, as prosperous as any other country with equal advantages, and legislating upon equally liberal principles. We believe that the United Kingdom possesses all the requisite advantages to become that which nothing but false legislation prevents, viz.—far more independent, rich, prosperous, and power ful—and with the whole population far less poor, far better employed, more fairly paid for their labour, better sheltered, clad, and fed, and more comfortable than that at the present time of any other country in the world. The agriculture, the manufactures, the shipping, the foreign and colonial trade, and the power of the United Kingdom might, in their present stage, be viewed as only in their infancy, instead of being considered as having, before now, attained manhood—if those sound principles of fiscal and commercial legislation which we have attempted to elucidate, but which are not new, were boldly taken up in order to be carried out by the Im perial Parliament."—Vol. i. p. 9. In a work so well arranged as this is, we do not know that we can do better, when proposing to put our readers in possession of some general idea of its contents, than follow the arrangement which we find already prepared to our hands. We therefore commence with the power ful empire of AUSTRIA, occupying more than 11,631 German, or 258,000 English, square miles of the surface of Europe, and exceeding, therefore, the areas respec tively, of France by 45,000 square miles ; of the United Kingdom by 138,000 ditto, and of all the Prussian States by 141,000 ditto. Now this vast area yields, or is capable of growing, for the Austrian nation, the products of varied and extensive regions ; namely, corn, rice, wine, oil, honey, wood, silk, hemp, flax, tobacco, mad der; all useful vegetables and delicious fruits. Also, iron, coal, salt, and all other minerals in abundance ; and cattle, swine, horses, and sheep. The Danube and its other great rivers extend its inland navigation in almost every part of the empire, with many seaports on the Adriatic. Her States adjoin each other, her population is generally industrious and orderly, and she is certainly capable of becoming one of the richest and most potent empires of the world. The " States " of which the empire is composed are Austria (Proper), Upper and Lower Styria, Corinthia and Carniola, the Illyrean Coast, the Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, Gallicia, Dalmatia. And besides these, her dominions extend over Lombardy and Venice, Hungary and Transylvania. Of these, together with her military frontier, the total population is 37,550,000 souls. There are 3,177 per Austrian square mile. Nobility are a very abundant class in Hungary. In 1837 there were not less than 259,645 privileged noblemen, or one for every twenty bergers or serfs. But this number has since consider ably increased. In Transylvania there is 1 noble for 23 not noble. In Gallicia, 1 noble for 68 not noble. In Moravia and Silesia, 1 noble for 835 not noble. In Lower Austria, 1 noble for 152 not noble ; in Upper Austria, 1 noble for 353; and in Lombardy, 1 for 34'2. In Venice, 1 for 280. Of wines, the total average production in Austria is 3,200,000,000 English imperial gallons. Hungary, Dalmatia, and Bo hemia abound with oak, pine, firs, and other durable timber. In Veneto-Lombardy there are annually grown 700,000, and in Pemeser 10,000 wizen of rice. Bohemia alone raises 20,000 centners of linseed for sowing. South Hungary, Moravia, and Lombardy, are the countries for the millet crop. Flax is very largely cultivated in Upper and Lower Austria, Moravia, Bohemia, and Northern Hungary ; hemp, of the best quality, in Hungary and Transylvania. Hops are extensively produced in Bo hemia, Upper Austria, M wavia, Gallicia, and North ern Hungary. Tobacco in Hungary and Tran sylvania. In the former, alone, 250,000 to 300,000 centners annually, of which about 150,000 for home consumption, the remainder for export. Rape and other oil seeds, mustard, sumach, madder, saffron are largely raised, and ripen excellently. The same may be said of such fruits as apples, pears, melons, grapes, walnuts, chestnuts, and other nuts. It was cal culated that, in 1837, the number of live swine in Aus tria was 5,500,000, of which number there were in Hun gary and Transylvania, and the military frontier, 2,300,000 wild boars. Deer and goats abound in many districts—more than 700,000 goats were enume rated—and in the forests and the rivers game and fish are most abundant. In the whole empire there are every year produced very large quantities of raw silk—in the southern parts of the Tyrol about 320,0001b5. ; in South Hungary, Istria, and the military frontiers, 45,2001b5. ; in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, an average of 4,687,7001b5. Under the head of Trade and Manufactures, Mr. Macgregor enumerates the following :—The woollen manufactures, established chiefly in Bohemia, Moravia, and Upper . Austria; coarse woollen manufactured in most of the provinces; cotton in Bohemia and Vienna; shawls and merinos in Lower Austria; linens in all the provinces; metals and glass in Bohemia, Lower Austria, &c. The following manufacturers were licensed (Hun gary, &c., included) in 1839 ;—manufacturers, 13,649 ; bankers, 211 ; wholesale merchants, 1,350 ; retail dealers and shopkeepers, 27,290 ; various trades, 707,300 ; other licensed occupations, 72,760 ; total, 822,560. Apprentices and servants licensed under the foregoing trades, Ste., amounted to 556,100. The capi tal employed was valued at 206,000,000 florins, and the licence-tax (gewerbe struer) amounted to nearly 2.650,000 florins. The income and expenditure of Austria for 1837, were as follows:—Heads of revenue, under in come -1. Direct taxes, (48,000,000 florins)-2. Indirect, ditto, incluning customs, excise, tobacco, and salt mono polies, (81,000,000 florins) ; Crown estates, monastery lands, mines, &c., (4,750,000 florins) ; miscellaneous branches, (14.500,000 florins) ; extraordinary receipts, (6,250,000 florins ) Total The heads of charge, under expenditure, amounted to.. 17,300,000 Excess of expenditure in 1837 £1,850,000 These heads of charges were—Public Debt (67,000,000 florins). Civil List (5,500,000). Foreign Department (1,580,000). Salaries and Expenses of the Government Administrations (23,000,000). Department of War (50,000,000), Education and Endowed Institutions (3,900,000,) Police (9,000,000), Contingent expenses (2,750,000), Total -173,000,000 of florins, or 17,000,000/. sterling. Since 1837 this revenue is understood to ha ve so far increased as nearly to balance the expenditure,in cluding any increased interest on floating or other debt. In SUMMER CIRCUITS. •,-, V +•....•............. -.., Yesterday the Judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, previous to the sittings of the Courts, met in the Exchequer Chamber to choose and arrange the several Circuits upon which they will proceed at the ensuing Summer Assizes, when it was fixed they should proceed as follows : NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. HOME CIRCUIT.—The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Sir N. C. Tindal), and Mr. Justice Coleridge. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—The Right Hon. Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Patteson. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—The Lord Chief Baron (Sir F. Pollock) and Mr. Justice Maule. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Baron Platt. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Jus tice Cresswell. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER.—Mr. Baron Parke, North Wales ; and Mr. Justice Coltman, South Wales ; to meet at Chester. Mr. Justice Wightman will remain in town as the va cation Judge. Tau LATE THOMAS Hoon.—The subscription of 301. was on Wednesday paid in by an anonymous contributor to the fund now in progress of collection in honour of this eminent poet, end in aid of Ms bereavei family, —.............., ...--...... ~, .............5..... ---- of th s 1837 thorn were in all the Austrian States 268 high schools, through the regular official channel, the 'governor of 16,416 local or elementary schools, and 308 national 'settlement—and which was adopted ins consequeen: 26th h tb e s f normal ditto. Out of a population of 20.000,000 it was certain proclamations of Captain Fitaroy relatt.T; found that 1,562,546 children, or about lin 13, were ac- sale of waste lands. lt appeared that upon l ) tually trained at the elementary and high schools. In Mar lonial Government would consent to waivebiataserisgt" " submittuift the high and classical branches of education there were, ch, 1844, it was notified by a proclamation right _t f lier e. em lion of land, on condition of the purchasers of a regi' t ! s ' exclusive of Hungary, eight universities, with 10,200 students ; five lyceums, with 1,108 students ; 130 tionnafeceerttnaitoheceinndniatoGn—nyneranmely,t paymentntfiels. 0 per acre, Thisadditto! gymnasia, with 29,558 students. " If," says Mr. to the small sum payable men to the natives. Ftrii°e Maegreg u r (p. 12), , i we ta k e A us t r i a, B o hemia, the ceeding, however, of Captain Fitzroy's did not es plea a s n e , to _ Tyrol, Moravia and Styria, elementary instruction is latter, and a body of `)00 of them armed with upon as extensive, and, we can speak from personal mallawks, proceeded to the Governtnent-house, and demandedenietion knowledge, generally, upon as liberal a foundation as in that the proclamation should be rescinded, and the r r g y i e i c ted, any other country of Europe." Mr. Macgregor has abolished. The demand was successful ; the Governor .. iv reason, therefore, to remark, on the commencement of and on the 10th of October last another proclamawitacting this part of his statistical survey, that "Education, at sued, in which it was stated that "I, the Governor,,hrlm sad on behalf of her Majesty the Queen, do herevP on consenti least elementary education, far from being neglected, as . declare that from this day no fees will be demanded hepa yab e has generally been asserted respecting Austria, is ge- fees ing to waive the right of pre-emption : —that t of one pentlY nerally provided, and even enforced." on the issue of Crown grants will be at the rate , se cow The population is classed thus as to religions :—llo - acre." per These proceedings of the Governormusktu were, . • ns a an man Catholics, 25,704,000 ; Greek Church, 6,519,000 ; tended, neither more nor less than attemp ted infraetia tthae Lutherans, 1,276,000; Calvinists, 2,261,000; Unitarians. Act of the Imperial LegiOature, and virtual reductional, 45,000; Jew 5,667,000; Military, 465,000. We regret value of the land, which it was provided should be Sold lo to find that Hungary, with the most generally fertile minimum price of a od sterling, to a similar soil in Europe, is least in proportion cultivated, then read consequence of th s soundn others of a similargP has tho worst roads, is therefore subject to the memorial to Lord Stanley had been drawn U. n th e of a long letter addresaed to Lord Stanley, giving C a _; ect, w hich heaviest expenses in transporting its produce, and the state of the colony and Captain Fitzroy s 1 1 " is most opposed to education and all other social he strongly blamed. Is Cha ir ' incroachments, which would impose anything like and the Nob After thanks were voted to Dr. Evans assessments or direct taxation on tha Hungarian nobles • man, the Court adjourned. for the payment of the charges incidental to such ameliorations. Mr. Macgregor does ample justice to Prince Metternich's earnest and sustained exertions to ecort:racter, a FIRE AT RAGGETT'S 11°T°J.bee0 The shoring up of the walls had net up to last evenif_ll._.4l completed ; nevertheless, portions of them were rendered su:de::;oJ. secure to enable the firemen, under the direction of ME' S !, at the the superintendent of the brigade, to enter the ruins, 01 search, urgent request of the family of Mrs. Round, to pursue t` it in order, if possible, to discover her body, they, it is 143 1., be fore test is impressed with the conviction that the remains, not identiu'ior the jury, were not hers. Twelve firemen were apPo'n -- o f lik• task, and did so for a considerable period, in the pus o f the Huntingdon, his brother, Captain Hastings, An d tvi dtscoee red sons of Mrs. Round. For several hours nothing _ rn the of any consequence, but about half.past one ocloca h Sage tber afternoon, Fogo, the foreman of the brigade, W..°, Round, were with Lord Huntingdon the butler of turning over some rubbish, d ohserved the remains of °n u o f th e Countess of Huntingdon's toilet boxes, containing J eWe clnd ° A r ' Mrs. eo f the value of 2501.; although the case was nearly burnt ewer. strange to say the jewels were but slightly injured. r orde r t ,, ° , by this success, his Lordship increased his exertions .° 0- Ind the more valuable case of jewels, which, howeler,jlo,oo found. Up to six o'clock, a considerable number of ; eion isitli and other jewels were found, which were identified as ' s to Mrs. R reo eent During ound. the afternoon the firemen succeeded In q u i l t get --116' large chest of plate belonging to Mr. Ki n g , and on ',or:, man receiving information of tho fact he at tended for wi on g " o i of having it removed. At - the moment, however, DU . ' A bbotit hi , about to do so, a person who gave his n ame as Igi.„snedjejt He Portsea House, Southampton, entered the ruins, 110°-`0fo" t hat a man who was said to be a sheriff's officer- ho use, uf Inspector Aggs that he was the landlord o f the , : b i ll ' fe eri the deceased Mr. Raggett was his tenant, and °w that e• >f years' rent, amounting to the sum of 1,0001., instituted I"on article in the ruins belonged to him, as he had JO" J i s tree° proceedings, and was prepared with a warrant to d 1"1 s the 1 0 11 t° stances he prohibited the removal of the everything that was contained in them. s' n--.r .,1 tope' l ong Mr. King. Mr. Inspector Aggs immediately conve3slo. rge J motion to the Earl of Huntingdon and the famillho° tt , and ' L ott pr operty sa i- , R es o d. They immediately had an interview with Mc. Th e upon him to reconsider the step he was about to t a. : n tingd °d fe red, was, that Mr. Abbott consented to permit Lord dig °. ad 0 0 4° the relatives of Mrs. Round to retain what theY.dh to d ° oo oo l regard to Mr. King's plate, declaring and what they could find up to sunset, but r efus— p r with respect to the ruins wouid be enforced afte r that " h ' ffif whic es the Respecting the fate of Mrs. Round, the facts hitherto elicited are, to the members of her faia, lii ieste l l: l rfre d unsatisfactory, and on this point our reporter b7 . ., t i5df._., , " tba' following communicated to him by the sons of t""..„,, tarl.,,per in f o ,- to per k , from t heir sister she and her mother were in the act of sitting ,01 4 ." b, ' when they heard the screams of " Fire." T he ,‘, o lt o l room together and looked over the bannist7loo,oo, opening the room door, they were met by a gr,, eon° thou On going to the landing to see where Po. 00 1 '4 Round went down the stairs one or two 1 ' °the she ce saw flames rushing up the stairs, and he r t e o „ -6 that the legaperio je d. Deo and fell backwards on the landing. She t b but Ass I'4 to drag her mother back to their apartMent, the boringe"' to do so from the smoke, and seeing some r oe two et ou made certain they would rescue her mother, a° _ n cl , a aa ., Having remained in her apartment for a few Otb e ",te bet recovered, Miss Round determined to return to a ; 0 011 ° in tel l .T re-opening the door, so rapid was the fir e, that ° A ° in the bo th a body of flame was on the staircase. She 11 * - d the fi . e fli til t b : called the servant, who came out with her, ";„ r e forced to retire to the apartment, where they t here" - 4 , tee fire-escape came, and were saved. The impressantoosbet "feta the mind of Miss Round is, that the fright of h e o _ e or o ° , o it" ing the fire caused her to lose her senses, and n _ w iceP 0 pip them, she perished. Lord Huntingdon, op be in g he 10 05 0 10 terday by Mrs. Round's sons ou the subject, 6 044 14 4 e lia that "'beer ° 110 °0;1 '.Y pression that he passed that lady on the stairs " the nurse's room with his son, and a ° s e e d o n *- otie" o touched him on the shouldor ; but had b e for 110 1 • is e. own life would have fallen a sacrifice. The r .of s flo gge` eje th e family believing that the body fou nd by tl air was found hers, Is that a quantity of unburnt blerent colour. spot, whereas Mrs. Round's was of a di establish amended fiscal, commercial and other insti tutions in the empire, despite of the enormous opposi tion with which that great Minister's proposals are encountered by numberless functionaries " in the count less beaureux" of the empire, who are interested in the keeping up of old errors and antiquated abuses. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. The annual general Court of the Proprietors of this Com pany was held yesterday, in accordance with the provisions of the charter, at the New Zealand House, in Broad•-street-build ings, for the transaction of general business. Viscount Ingestre, M.P., occupied the chair, and amongst the Directors present were :—Mr. H. A. Aglionby, M.P. ; Mr. J. E. Boulcott, Mr. C. Buller, M.P., Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart., Mr. J. R. Gower, Mr. Mangles, M.P , Mr. Marjoribanks, M.P., Mr. A. Nairne, Sir J. Pixie, Bart., Alderman, Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. E. G. Wakefield, Mr. G. F. Young, and Mr. A. Currie. Mr. HARRINGTON (the Secretary) then read the 18th re port of the Directors, of which the following is the substance : —lt commenced by stating that, in furtherance of the wish expressed at their last meeting, that the Directors should pre pare at their dissretion a petition to the House of Commons, representing, on the part of the Company, the wrongs it had suffered, and praying for redress, and take steps for procuring its presentation, numerous papers had been moved for and printed by order of Parliament, each exhibiting more forcibly than the one preceding the disastrous effects of the policy pm, sued by the local Government. The petition from the Com pany itself was presented to the House by Mr. Somes on the 16th of April, and it was ordered to be printed immediately afterwards. Before the petition was presented, one of the Directors, Mr C. Buller, gave notice, on the 31st of March, of a motion " to call the attention of the House to the state of the colony of New Zealand, and the case of the New Zealand Company." On the Ist of May a communication was made confidentially to the Directors by Mr. Buller, upon which they adopted the following resolution :—" That this Court, retaining a firm de termination never to relinquish the assertion of its just claims, but sensible of the extreme delicacy and importance of the pre sent position of the Company's affairs, deems it advisable that the practical proceedings now to be adopted should be intrusted in a spirit of unlimited confidence to a small number of its members. That the undermentioned gentlemen be therefore appointed a secret committee, with full authority to conduct and conclude any arrangement which they may deem most expedient, namely, Mr. Somes, M.P., Governor : Mr. Ag lionby, M.P. ; Mr. Buller, M.P. ; Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart. ; Lord Ingestre, M.P. ; Mr. Lyall, and Mr, Wakefield." The committee at once met, and, from what there transpired they requested Mr. Buller to withdraw his motion with out delay, and that was accordingly done the same even ing. The report of the secret committee (which was inserted at this point in the report of the Directors) states, that in consequence of Sir J. Graham having, in the third week of March last, suggested to Mr. Buller that the disputes between the Company Ansi the Government had better be settled amicably, he had been in personal communication with that Minister on the subject ; had at his suggestion submitted his views, in writing, to Lord Stanley ; had held an interview at which those views had been discussed, jointly, by Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, and himself ; had, as then agreed upon, renewed his proposal in the form of a second letter to Lord Stanley, with the view of removing the objections which had at first presented themselves; and had subsequently been informed by Sir J. Graham, that Lord Stanley had no in superable objection to the plan, but was ready, under two con ditions, to entertain it as the basis of a negotiation, and to give it a full and fair consideration. These conditions were, thst the plan should be proposed officially by the Company ; and that, as a preliminary step, the motion upon the affairs of New Zealand, of which Mr. Buller had given notice in the House of Commons, should be withdrawn or disposed of, as the Go vernment could not enter into any negotiation under an appear ance of pressure, or of a wish to shrink from discussion. The plan itself was an endeavour, by a change of system, to render needless any direct decision on the precise points of pre vious controversy, and, by means of a large and bold policy, to reconcile satisfactorily the interests of the natives, the colo nists, the missionaries, and the Company, and to put matters on an entirely new and sound footing, without compromising the honour of the Government. The mode in which it proposed to effect this was by erecting a new province, com prising the middle and a portion of the northern island, and conferring the government of it upon a new Company (in which the present Company should merge), on the model on which, down to a recent period, all the colonies of England had been founded, and maintained without expense to the parent state. On ,the sth of the present month that plan was enclosed in an official commmunication to Lord Stanley, and on the 23d it was intimated officially to the Directors that her Majesty's Government, having maturely examined the project, found that the difficulties of prckeeding on the basis suggested were insuperable. At the same time Lord Stanley added, that if the Company should have any other proposition to offer, founded upon a wholly different principle, for relieving themselves, the colony, and the Government from the embarrassment consequent upon the present state of their affairs, her Majesty's Government were ready to give their best attention to such proposition, and to enter upon a discus sion with an earnest desire to find a satisfactory solution of the existing difficulties, by an amicable arrangement with the com pany. Through Mr. Buller, they understood that the propo sition specifically contemplated by his Lordship was that of treating on the basis either of attempting to settle the ques tions at issue, leaving the powers of the Company and the Government on their present footing, or of the Government buying up the interests of the Company, and dissolving that body former of these suggestions appeared to them at once to be so thoroughly indefinite as to hold out no hope of any satisfactory result; the latter obtained their most serious consi deration. Upon it the Committee state— " Had it contained any specific proposal on the part of the Government, providing for the due fulfilment of the engage ments into which the Company has entered, and especially affording a satisfactory guarantee for the welfare of the Cook's Strait colonists and natives, we should indeed have felt reluc tant, even on such terms, to relinquish the objects for which the Company has been established ; but we should not, under existing circumstances, have felt ,justified in dissuading the Court from the acceptance of those terms. But we found, on the contrary, that the proposal for our dissolution was to be submitted as emanating from ourselves; that the interests of the colonists had not been adverted to until called to mind by Mr. Buller; and that the natives had not been mentioned at all. That portion of the Parliamentary session which is most valuable for the dispatch of business was rapidly passing away; much time had already been required for the consideration of a plan previously discussed with two Cabinet Ministers, and the questions still left open were such that the time to he consumed in their discussion would evidently render impossible (if ulti mately found necessary) that appeal to Parliament which the shareholders had sanctioned, and were entitled to demand." The Company then deemed it their duty, continued the re port of the Secret Committee, not to reject the suggestions of Lord Stanley, but to represent, as they did on the 26th inst., that it did not appear to them that any advantage could re sult to them from their originating any fresh proposals ; but they expressed their readiness to give the most cordial consi deration to any plan which his Lordship might do them the honour to suggest. They also apprised his Lordship that time was of such importance to them, that unless assured that they renewed the negotiation with that fundamental requisite clearly and satisfactorily before them, they could not consent to any further delay of the motion which Mr. Buller had undertaken to bring before the House of Commons. They had therefore requested that gentleman to take the earliest opportunity of bringing the motion forward. The general report, speaking of the injurious effects produced by the measures of the local Government, observes— " It is distressing to see colonists returning to England, day by day, compelled to abandon the country of their adoption, with their property lost and their hopes blasted. And it is mor tifying beyond measure to recollect that by the exertions of such men, if simply unobstructed, large portions of that coun try might ere now have been reclaimed from virtual desolation ; that the capital which has been sunk, and the energies which have been wasted, through the aimless animosity of others, might have opened fresh outlets of industry to our countrymen, have afforded employment to thousands of our labouring poor, and have diffused happiness and prosperity where all is now despondency and ruin. ' The Company still remained in ignorance of the name of Captain Fitzroy s successor, of the probable time of his depar ture, the nature of the instructions under which he was to act, or of the principles and policy which he was to uphold. They were apprised only that, in announcing the fact of the recal of the present Governor, the Under-Secretary of State took pains to declare, in a marked manner, that it had not been oc casioned by any complaint or any representation of this Com pany. They knew not, therefore, what to anticipate. It was impossible entirely to exclude apprehension. But as their re liance had not been heretofore on the Government, so neither by the Government could that reliance now be destroyed. The financial statement, which extended from the 6th of April, 1844, to the sth of April, 1845, showed total receipts, including the balance in hand in 1844, of 60,4901. 9s. I Id., and total expenditure of 50,719/. 19s. 7d., leaving a present balance of 9,770/. 10s. 4d. The present assets of the Company were calculated at 398,8804 17s. 3d., and the liabilities at 138,063/. 6s. 9d., showing a balance of assets to meetithe paid up capital of 260,8171. 10s. 6d. Since the date to which these accounts were made up the Company has effected a further arrangement with the Union Bank of Australia, by means of which the whole of the bills drawn by their principal agent, and remaining in the possession of that institution, had been met by debentures issued to the additional extent of 23,000/. The report, of which the above forms but an abstract, hav ing been read, The CHAIRMAN observed, that the minutes of the proceed ings of the Committee and other documents were in the course of preparation, and would shortly be laid before the share holders. The Secret Committee had had a heavy responsibility imposed upon them ; on the one hand, they had to take care not to reject any mode of accommodation which might benefit the colony, and which the Government might offer ; and, on the other hand, not to compromise the interests of the Com pany, or lose the opportunity of bringing the subject before Parliament. He trusted that the , shareholders would give them an expression of opinion that they had acted to the best of their ability for the interest of the shareholders.—( Cheers.) An able and comprehensive plan had been under the notice of the Government for some time, and there had been a very full admission of their claims. After some remarks from General Batons and others the report was adopted. Dr. EVANs then addressed the Court, He had come to this country in order to represent to the Colonial-dace the wishes of the settlers in reference to some of the late proceedings pistatiannlFieytestohye, copyand also for the purpose of submitting to ° LT by the colonists—the oriofginaal memorial addressed Itess;rdintlomithtiedm 11 0 ' TRATE • 1 II) L'IC Ita A.GIS MEETING OF MIDDLES.'— tice sserabled yesterday 5 d merous meeting of Middlesex Ju s ',. %h a p dispatch of the g.,, of tthe , businessvisiting ionfgthe justicescounty, oof the e ro g W o n u a g l e i Court-house, Clerkenwell.greeot '°` _war. The rer,oo 3 n, toiletberot die those of the chaplain and surgeon, were read. it irrolentive ste ideelicep, swoeinllebwoafs orderly t hei t dj u ubse t t h fi : e er i e : , tthheecour conduct. t report was and visiting a ir s p e o c e e a s i r t v a ed ed ted t . 0 tb :: : :::T t it: e l. : - .0 ti l * 1 17 6 : ofin cthoerrueotio • ___oo 00 to r justices of the New Prison stated that few Pon, i ‘; el • 1 2, 1 ' A place, and that 117 were at present confined u' - ", e ,, i :re o — , Ps P".,4 e males, 33 females, and 16 children, all healthl, ''" - b ,, veo on one in the infirmary. Their conduct appeared ° r 1 1 ° 0 0 ' factory, both as regards cleanliness and good or '!,,; Do i° was received. Having disposed of some other row" - O P meeting separated. is fp A : g /I t t dent [ADvERTISEMENT.]—To the L awe -, , tbs-.vasally acknowledged by every one Of I I: is d'D -sSe SI ever beautiful a woman may be, if her I ° 4 hea r ; 0 I either in quantity, quality, or colour, one v o r 0 00 0 11 charms is wanting. A complete remedY ~ o f S ~ If to be found b visitin the establishmen s b_ oir pf er o l : t Sons, rn b herself, l c r, h f o r t () sin nt sg, eitherbands, head-dresses d-il e ringletss se s th t `_ s ot 0 ii sli thS , P . . , gife_ t id s splendid plaits that, encircling, the thin h 5 14 ,1 1; psj o o io the appearance of a luxuriant grow th ' t itisf e •pg l II° are so admirably contrived that the neares odobe ar confounded ; tlie transparency of the we b, 04 9 0 a san k ur i di n bse o do f nsa t , h s e lbl h e j l a iag d nd t a o sl2 b l oieg:;s3tiesnehnso through, t hel ddr e l. s r b ° ~s; have lately invented the Depinquitory , cOrnil ; featherf.o; otonk; the skin, parting of fronts, &c. r im , - _,l e sti .1 The Decay of Teeth arises front 7 r iy neg to osr, r , but, principally, it may be attributed to e t :wing 0 00 14 7! health, or the use of tooth powders 09.11 , 00 0 0 e 0 and other deleterious acids, which g l o Ye a, the , o 0 i''', e o , whiteness to the teeth, while they, —The extreme prevalence of ",tits causec ii ~5 pli % fa tame 111 , OS d ry known to need comment. To this IP to iciP d io; t bi cipally to be attributed the long b i . ° l j o iton s . 0 of ' o r which happily terminated by the most e eser ott r; a ' oo to , v . ever given to the world for the i nn a's ° , silo' Teeth, Gums, and Breath, viz.--110W " co pie 6 .01 _ dt l Pearl Dentifrice : this Powder now c ' e l' °° %O r ' guished place at the Toilets of the 6°/,eeren-113°0 i Nobility throughout Europe, while tk e 'OO 1 m ei for it at once announces the favour 10to neSt r jeu , vernally held. l'eleoc°S offo.foile, Newly -invented Spectacles, ia si ,. p, gl 00 Glasses, • Microscopes, &c. The artifi c 00 0 0 401 J the sight by Lenses, is one of the W s ! ~it al . i ‘ A rived from science, and it is indeed of .f e cti l. s, 01/ ., or tbheartetghuelaatdeodpotinonp(rifopSeprectacles to iinci e ors. d ifec‘ ii iit e4 Solomons, 39, AlbemarleP-srtirueceiPtd,leel:sioctcesi,adisibleff'telloses.ll:oPportiebn: posite the York Hotel, having to this branch of science, and their 1 01 501 , 1 or r ot tice, have enabled them to invent Spec t 7,4 l4ll „, ittl e th e new construction, which have gained t_rbefot'befe..oo tion. Immediately they- are plac e " peo r t b Bv iff eg vision, that mist and dullness which orobjec opehnos eyes is at once removed, everyd i s og i:t T v' e le: c!ear and distinct, so that the 01°- a is 'plan e os 0 "" sight becomes bright and brilliant, mead lO o f tbe T beit; youthful, natural and original state.w. Iko' fi ' l eci- t r deso scopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, r 'alas, °Wor t ' . kind of Lenses to surpass any ev e d ,go' oue ° giO Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Y r lore ; ehet rief f - persons, is not the least perceptible tr . f s oftc o 6 0, 0 0 0. able than having a piece of wool in i ts can Pipetv• immediate relief to old standing e.% t. 0 P. 1011,. $ ness. Those valuable inventions the h,, gti _ essi,o l qualified approbation of above 400 o . r n.'",, o oo l 7ste bers of the medical profession- ( :loy vill 2io ol° 1 1 and B. Solomons, opticians, are not in coothotrpto to with a person of the same nnor,f the c olt. the neighbourhood, nor in any part Avobservels.poslw prevent mistakes be cautious, ar7..adilly, ur ttOr° had at 39, Albemarle -street, Ph' 0° 0 b y for York Hotel. Ok a es ° I/ 0 Mr. Wilson, who has been C.OrlitertOgilitOde •,11, attack of influenza to postpone 11 ,7 'and wtrr' - t oic._ P i o i . i' fortnight, is now quite recoverea , t he t",-.410 0 by! pleasant evenings next Monday, „ D :knitr w hie li el l o 0 , 1 Store-street, when he will Wye c'wuvre, t i " s e o, ar e 11: 1 W itriityoftitr[rii:,slecahsetfaittractive trLiii°,llooo,,u:g/13111.° II " Tam o'Shanter." The songs, si lest. ------- oit'lli' ri -a P . " - •f e of m id' Goldney, of a son. soligv , Vei t 0 1'1 On the 26th inst., at fiCrhlirPHenllB;l3l' Wilt* INfrll. A 13' co(r)tneigthle:sq2.6,tohf aindstan., 1 ark Rec tory t i ter. t oe, On tl ' te 26th inst., at Chiona _,., as,ig tw op ' Charles Tower, ot nce a ' l the lady of the Lev. k tone- eon.- ' On the 27th inst., at Roc s r a lady of Captain J. F. Da Vernet, 0, glitter;:easarn' the w i fe o, . i e boo .51.ARAIS1). t. gArY . 0 11, On the 29th inst., at Christ Church,4‘....t F e` Charles William, son of the late Revi 1-!. Ibboxie., Brighton, to Elizabeth, daughter of tl e la' bert, Esq., of Eaton -s uare. q O r DIED . the wife ° On the 28th inst., at Bishop's Walthatn, PO Rev. W. Brock. O il) , , 10 . e rnoth , On the 28th inst., at Wilton-crescent, .0-io , e rok h L I e l ' son of Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache. foot. - °ll-40, a On the 27th inst., at Brighton, Franoes,i o, p ano" tho late Thomas Saunders, of t. John's -P FrOanneest,h;ot2m7gthestiidalstu.,gbterßeefdsfo.rd-road1111:313,111°' of i' On the 27th inst., Caroline Andetsloirrhridr°4ltd.auglitierssir Romer, Esq., Catnbridge-terrace, Regent s• T. ow( !..44/ On the 127th inst., at Eastbourne, J. 4iiitie, Do' Lieutenant. Colonel a the Royal usso% 0 Lieutenant and magistTate a the county, Lonelon: Prin" te ------ d and Published b 7 "L' ig „ Tl—ltl3 !) ° nic No. 112, Strand. Printer, at TM w GOV Strani. in the Precinct of the Savoy., in .tue Iliddlasex, Friday, Mai 30, 1345. ~.: ~.~ N^ Aig ‘s As ki,k h -.lx, R4L „ ' , 4 4 . 01, '4Y , ,IV tte I ' I re A