The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-29 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.—DIS TRIBUTION OF PRIZES. On Saturday the annual distribution of prizes in the medical department of University College, took place at two o'clock, in the lecture-room. The place was crowded in every part. The number present l i must have exceeded 1,000; a large proportion of the audience consisted of ladies. Lord Brougham pre sided on the occasion. Lord Auckland, late Gover nor-General of India, sat at the right hand of the Noble and Learned Chairman. Immediately after the chair was taken, a brief report was read, in which it was stated that the number of students attending the medical classes was the same as last year— namely, 300—of whom 93 had entered this year. The following distribution of prizes then took place : Chemistry.—Gold medal, Mr. C. W. Randall, of Lon don; Ist silver medal, Mr. Edward Cousins, of London; 2d silver medal, Mr. James Morris, of London ; Prize Essay, Ist silver medal, Mr. Robert Ellis,• of Rabin, N. W. ; ditto, 2d silver medal, Mr. Edward Palmer, of LLOYD'S SHIPPING. t a t 4 7 =, 4. --, Aran. 26.—Wind, A.M. E.S.E. to E. ; P.M. E. to N. Dixburg, Matanzas, for St. Peters ; Cato, Boston, Antwerp ; - Maria Lowther, Ham- , ri :lrgh, and sailed fur St. John's. Sld. Iberia steamer, Gib- Ix *, &C. • Ternate, and Oud Alblas, Batavia. g rk `' b u ee. Ll, Amu, N.N.W., light.—Sld. Amazon, -.. - a-nount, APRIL 26.—Wind S.E. ' to N.N.W.—Passed, ttlairuel Boutcher, London for St. Kitts. b'Alkorrit, APRIL 26.—Wind N. light breezes.—Off, a , ° , 114 11 Maria, Pyk, Batavia for Stockholm. ut.vo ßD Aram 25.—S1d. Orbit, St. John's, New Bruns. 8 4DERLAND, APRIL 25.—S1d. Jane, Pugwash. , APRIL 24.—Sid. Isabella, Cooper, Calcutta. 1 1 ,1*IirooL, Aram 26.—Wind, N.W. light.—Sld. William p e t..°r.d. Africa ; Pearl, Samuel, St. Joln's; 10, Miramichi b_ 1 4; Quebec; Roseana, Angra Pequina ; British Queen, N YATratFonn, Aram 24.—Arrd. Laurence Ferristal, Quebec. • Olv Coax, Aran, 24.—Pandora, St. John's. AiRRDEEN, APRIL 24.—S1d. Scotsman, Ichobae. 4 144 D 0 a, AriuL27.—Wind this day at noon N.N.E., fresh "kits and fine. THE A PIRATE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. ac— mletter received at Lloyd's, from their agents at it l itaeef the 15th inst., of which a copy is subjoined, *l'ows that this rover of the sea continues his lawless Purtmit without hindrance or dread of detection. The 111 , 14 Y cases of recent piratage in the Mediterranean, 'attributed to a Greek barque, who has escaped the vigi ittnae of the men-of-war up to the date of the following 4 t ,ter, calls for very active measures for its suppression. h u(t great injury which the shipping interest, both at A (4lo * and abroad, has sustained by the reps ated depre glans of this pirate, would insure much eclat to him it 'may be fortunate enough to capture her. Certain , is that t h e i n f amous b ut b o ld d e predations, if not 40 . r rible.butcher), of this vessel calls for very prompt In easitres for her seizure. _ _ London. Botany (Summer Term, 1843).—G01d medal, Mr. Charles Prentice, of Kingston-on-Thames; silver medal, Mr. W. H. Colborne, of Chippenham, Medicine.—Gold medal, Mr. John Gabb, of Bawdley; Ist silver medal, Mr. F. W. Marshall, of Norwich ; 2d silver medal, Mr. W. H. Allchin, of East Mailing. Anatomy and Physiology.—Gold medal, Mr. William W. Moore, of Doncaster ; Ist silver medal, Mi.. H. Crocker, of London ; 2 d siver medal, Mr. T. A. Cam mack, of Spalding. Comparative Anatomy.—Gold medal, Mr. W. H. Col borne. Anatomy—Senior Class.—Gold medal, Mr. William Cadge, of Hoveton, Norfolk ; Ist silver medal, Mr. Wil liam Brown, of Altarnum, Cornwall ; 2d silver medal, Mr. W. L. Dickinson, of London.- • Junior Class : Silver medal, Mr. T. Littleton, of Saltash. . Materia Mediea.—Gold medal, Mr. It; Babington, of, Horncastle ; Ist silver medal, Mr. J.' E. Wood, of Rochdale ;2d silver medal, Mr. Edward Cousins. - •, • Medical - JuriSprudence (Summer Term, 1843). : - - ; Prize. . • Pathological Anatomy (Summer Term; 1843).--Gold medal. Midwifery.—Gold medal, Mr, James Hakes, of Lon don'; Ist silver medal, Mr. Alfred Jackson, of Ports mouth ; 2d silver medal, Mr. James - Clifton, of Broughton. . • Surgery.—Gold medal,. Mr. Robert Ellis ; .Ist silver medal, Mr. H. J.- M'Dougall, of EZeter - ; 2d . silver, medal, Mr. Henry Vevers, of Herefordshire. Fellows' Medals for Clinical Instruction (Summer, 1843).—G01d medal, Mr. H. Fearoside, of Utley, near Leeds.—Winter 1843-4.—Gold medal, Mr. F. W. Mar shit silver medal, Mr. G. S. Deane, of Liverpool. The distribution of prizes being finished, Lord BRouGUAM rose and said; that; he had great pleasure in presiding on that occasion, as he had in being President of the Council of the University. He was gratified at again meeting them, and that it was in his power to congratulate them, not only on the rising, but the -flourishing state of their funds.. He felt also bound to express his gratification at the mode of distributing the prizes which had lately been resorted to, a mode which secured the most perfect impartiality. Nor could he'refrain from ex. pressing the great pleasure he felt, when he con.; sidered the high character of the professors of the University.—(Cheers.) He had lately had an oppor-; tunity of examining the celebrated medical institution in the south of France—he meant the institution at Montpellier—and he had great pleasure in saying that their i ns titutio.n would not suffer from com parison. The prosperity and excellence of ,their stitution was: satisfactorily proved by the. number, of degrees conferred on its students by the central university. He wished -to speak with all possible respect of the rival. institution,. (King's College) ; it was a graduating university ; but it was, not remark able for the number of degrees conferred on its students. Out of the 233 cases in whi,ch degrees had been conferred by the Central College; . 114, or nearly one-half, had been' conferred on the ituilents of the University College.--(Loud cheers.) The number of degrees conferred on the mediear students of King's College was only' one-sixth M what had just been stated. They (the University College) had no reli gious observances. They had been. blamed for thii, and told they had too little religion. He (the Chair man) differed from - those who held that opinion. It was because they had - so,much religion, that.they con sidered it too sacred a subject to be lightly dealt with. At the other places medical -students coming from Portman-squire and Other places at the West-end, at two o'clock, to hear lectures, were not allowed to enter the room unless they had been present at prayers at ten in the morning. He thought this a clumsy way of going to work. Whether medical students were the most likely persons to relish this compulsory attendance at prayers he.did not know. The financial affairs of their institution were in a most flourishing condition. The late Mr. Brindell, a barrister, and a most honourable and worthy man, .bad lately left them 20,0001., and Mr. Bacon had left them, subject to the life of his widow, a sum which was expected to realise 28,0001. —making in all nearly 50,0001., which was now at the disposal of the council. , He had no doubt whatever, at any rate he would recommend it to the council, that that great building should be now completed (Lopd cheers.) He now came to the darker side of the picture. -Instead of being the first, theirs was undoubtedly the last institution of the kind in To ference to science and literature. When the institu tion was first established, the projectors did confidently expect that their .'magnificent establishent, in which education of the highest order would be taught at so low a rate, would be crowded with persons eager to avail themselves of such opportunities. At Oxford and Cambridge the same class and quality of educa tion, for Which they would only have to pay 251. per u mqtt ex e University College, would cost from 2001. to 300/. ; yet the citizens did not send their children to receive the advantage of this economical express s h t e h y e pthrorefeorurgehd scorn (and h a e nd co c u e l n d tem nO p t t arrangement.a n n sufficiently he felt for their conduct)—they preferred making up a purse of 2001: or 3001. to educate their eldest son at Oxford or CaMbridge, and left all the rest of the family,to grow up in ignorance.--(Hear, hear.) No one said that the University in which they were as sembled was not in a centrical situation ; no one com plained that it was not a healthy place ; and no one contended that better teachers than they had were 'to be had elsewhere; and yet, notwithstanding all this, the sons of the citizens never darkened their doors. He hoped to live to see the day when this stain on the a character of the citi zens should be wiped off, and gwhen,ener al education, instead o f 19 t 0 h boysey should and have, young men receiving as they ought to have, at least 2,000 or 3,000. The Noble and Learned Chairman, after a few remarks on the desirableness of the medical students taking care to acquire general nformation, concluded amidst loud and protracted " Malta, April 15. • " We have already mentioned that a suspicious-loolting ,vr.essel had been fallen in with in the month of March off age Massaro, by the Capper, arrited at Smyrna. W'y'e how learn t h at two sma ll cra f t, w hi c h - sa il e d from Sic:a -11194 ports on the same day, for this port, with specie, ave not reach e d t h e i r d estina tion. One vessel has not been h eard of, whilst the other has been picked up . at 1 4 11 ; aband° ned , with the water-casks empti ed, and with " 81 Sns of having been plundered." • . •,-___ ...___ . - - Mt '• ' • RAI-LwAY RETURNS. , fie extra,' each: eek„ . received t from the Railway Magazine the sums the ; led ° a Ille principal Railways of Great Britain for ending on the day of the month prefixed to Lite return includes the money received for ' Pluillengers, parCels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer- el "knclise: . iYeek Total. i 9nded Name of Railway. X. s. -d. APril2o Arbroath and Forfar ' 152 1 61 • ', • 20 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,360 18 10 - 19 Birmingham and Gloucester 2,143 10 8 20 Brandling Junction 468 12 11 ' 19 Chester and Birkenhead 414 12 0 23 Dublin and Kingstown b67 17 4 - - 21 1 Dundee and Arbroath 258 6 2 2 0 Durham and Sunderland 366 8 7 20 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,091 15 10 . 21 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,474 11 3 • • 20 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr l,lBO 4 8 . 20 Glasgow and Greenock 7OO 1 1 • .20 Grand Junction 8,295 16 7 20 Great North of England 1,525 3 11 21 Great Western • 19 Liverpool and Manchester •. 20 London and Birmingham 25 London and Blackwall ~. 1,004 7 2 - ' ' • 2 0 London said Brighton . . 23-london and Croydon ; . 25 London ind Greenwich 894 16 3 . , 21 • London and South Western ....... • , 1 8 - Manchester, Bolton and 8ury...., 776 14 10 2 0,Makehester and Birmingham 3,345 1 3 2 0 - Manchester, Leeds, and Hull ASSOC 6,369 16 7 • ~ . . 20 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,356 9 6 21' Newcastle and North Shields 303 7 7 - 20 North . Midland 12 Northlinion and Bolton and Preston 1,189 19 0 16 Paris and Orleans 5,535 0 0 2 2 Paris and Rouen 4,353 0 0 2 Q. Preston and Wyre 266 19 8i • 20• Sheffield and Manchester 522 13 4 25 South Eastern 20 Taff Vale 2 1 Ulster 697 9 2 • 20 York and North Midland 11 cheers. Lord AUCKLAND then proposed a vote of thanks to Lord Brougham for his conduct that day in the chair, which was carried amidst loud acclamations. The meeting then broke up. 1461-tirpoli, m 6 .7olA y morAlitiN.Gl APRIL - 29, 1614.°‘ ---- .UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, APRIL 26.—1 n a Convocation holden this day, the Rev. James Reynold s Young,. M.A., of Cai College, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundum. in a Congregation holden at the same time, the fol lowing degrees were conferred : Doctor in Divinity—Rev. John Fortunatus Stansbury, Magdalen Hall. . Doctors in Civil Law Edward Everard Rushworth, Fellow of St. John's ;.and Rev. John Woolley, University. Bachelor in Divinity—Rev. William Edward Jelf, Student of Christ Church. Masters Qf Arts—William Hedley Michel, Fellow of Queen's ; Rev. Edward Matthew Pickford, Brasenose ancl.Rev. Thonias Nicholl, Worcester College, incor. porated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Bachelors of Arts—Hon. and. Rev. Thomas Clot worthy Skeffington, Worcester College, Grand Com pounder ; John Earley Cook, Brasenose ; and William Oakeley, Scholar of Jesus. On Tuesday last, at a meeting of the heads of colleges the Rev. Charles Abel Heurtley, 8.D., and late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, was selected to preach Canon Bampton's lecture for the year 1845. CAMBRIDGE. APRIL 26.—At a Congregation just holden, the following degrees were conferred : Masters of Arts—Alexander James Beresford Hope, M.P., Trinity College ; Francis Bagge 'Scott, St. John's College ; William John Butler, Trinity College ; Henry: Lovell, St. John's College ; J. W. Stephenson Rugeley, St. John's College ; Charles John Ellicott, St. John's College •, Thomas Pownall Boultbee, St. John's College Joseph Nankivell Townshend, Trinity Col lege ;. W. Villiers Fowke, Caius College. Bachelors of Arts—Henry Plumes. Stedman. St. John's College; John Pearson, Caius College; Chun pion Russell, Trinity College ; George Napoleon Tre wecke, Jesus College ; William Hayward, Trinity Col lege ;. John W. Burke, Queen's College ; Francis H. R, Wilbraham, St. Peter's College ; Roger Taylor Burton, St. John's College ; Owen Lucas O'Neill, Queen's College ; Francis P. J. Hendy, St. John's Col lege ; Christopher Robert AndreWs, Emmanuel College. Doctor of Medicine, ad eundent—Joseph Dickerson, Trinity College, Dublin. VOLUNTARY THEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION. The Bishop of Winchester has given notice that he will require of all candidates for Orders from this University, after next January, that they have . passed the Voluntary Theological Examination. This is the fourth Bishop who has issued notice to a similar effect; the others being the Bishops of London, LinColn, and Gloucester and Bristol. CHRIST'S COLLEGE.—The following prizes, at Christ's College, Lent Term 1844, have just been awarded;— Latin Verse—Char les Eaton Plater. Latin Prose—A C. Hope Bolton. The large estate near Boston, the property of Lord Monson, was sold on Thursday, at the Auction Mart, by Mr. George Robins, for fifty-seven thousand one hundred guineas, to Mr. Malcolm, the former M.P. for Boston. The room was crowded by lots of great capitalists. The opening of the Norwich and Yarmouth Rail way takes place to-morrow, the 30th' of April, for which day the contractors, Messrs. Grissell and Peto, have issued invitations to a large party of ladies and gentlemen to take a trip to Yarmouth in the morning, and return to a de jeuner at the Assembly Rooms, at four o'clock, NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. The adjourned meeting of the New Zealand Com pany took place on Friday at the New Zealand House, Broad-street -buildings, Joseph Somes, Esq., in the Chair, supported by H. A. Aglionby, Esq., M.P., John E. Boulcott, Esq., James R. Gowen, Esq., William Hutt, Esq.; M.P., Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P., S. Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P., A. Nairne, Esq., john Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.,Talward G. Wakefield, Esq., George F. Young, Esq., Lord Dillon, Hon. A. Tollemache, George Lyall, Esq., MJ., Russell Ellice, Esq., Alexander Currie, Esq., and a very large number of Proprietors. The CHAIRMAN, in reference to the report, said, from the voluminous nature of the appendices to it, it was impossible to lay them in a printed form for a day or two before the Shareholders: Mr. HARINGTON, the Secretary, then read the report, of.which the following is an abstracts— " The report stated that the Secretary of State had rejected all the proposals submitted to his Lordship, without assigning any explanation of the grounds of his refusal, referred to the correspondence contained in the appendix, on showing the Directors proceed ings in declining a suggestion made by the Colonial Department ; and it drew a contrast between the tone y the communication submitted by. the Com pany, :and the personal reproaches of which the replies consisted. " It was. stated that an impression prevailed among the Directors to the effect, that Lord Stanley himself does not participate in the ill-will towards the Com pany, constantly exhibited 'in the correspondence of the Colonial-office and the local government of New Zealand. " A large body of the proprietors had given a. written assurance of their approbation of the directors in declining to accept a loan of 40,0001. from the Go vernment. Two letters, dated May, 1843, and con taining an agreement entered into between the Com pany and Lord Stanley, had been. Put by his Lordship into the hands ofCapt. Fitzroy, when appointed Gover nor of New Zealand, and on doubts as to their inter pretation being suggested by sombody,' Lord Stanley had furnished instructions .to Governor Fitzroy, in June, 1843, which materially altered the letter and spirit of the agreement, but did not communicate those instructions to the Company until February 1, 1844, nearly seven months after Governor Fitzroy had left England; Had the Company been aware Of the ' interpretation put upbn the agreement, they would have endeavoured to effect its recal, and, failing this, would have protested against an important variation of the contract by one of the parties without the con sent or knowledge of the other. " This disregard of good faith by the Colonial-office may be productive of very serious practical wrong to wards the Company and its settlers. " From the attempt of the Government to colonise without means, instead of merely governing the colo nists already settled and the natives, had arisen the establishment of the seat of government near the end of a narrow country 800 miles long, the discourage ment of the Company's settlements, and the induce- Ments held out to. emigrants taken out at the Com pany's expense to re-emigrate to Auckland. "These schemes the directors were bound by their duty to shareholders and settlers to resist, and hence may be inferred with what reluctance they consented to that part of the agreementt, of May, 1843, by which they engaged to take lands at Auckland, and colonise there. • "What, then, induced them to consent? Their answer is, they felt the interests of settlers and pro prietors to be so completely at the mercy of the Colonial-office and the local Government with respect to the vital question of land titles, and the proceed ings of the Government were leading to such fearful results that they deemed it their duty to obtain some determination of that question by means of almost any sacrifice. They . had implicit confidence in Governor Fitzroy's.strict sense of justice and honour. That confidence remains undiminished. "But the agreement having been altered unknown to them, they look with alarm for news of what may have been the result. " The agreement of May, 1843, was in lieu of an other agreement entered into with Lord John Rus sell, in Novsanber, 1840, by which the Company sur rendered to the Crown all claim to the land it had acquired from the natives, and undertook to raise a further capital of 200,0001., in addition to its original capital of 100,0001., in consideration of Lord John Russell's engaging that it should receive from her Majesty a grant of as many acres as it had expended crowns in colonisation. This agreement the local Government seems always to have treated as waste paper. A Court of Claims was established, into which the Company was required to establish claims which that agreement had compelled it to abandon. The natives were the party on the other side. The Court consisted of gentlemen who did not understand a word of the native language. The interpreter was also the sub-protector of the aborigines, and, as such, both prepared out of Court the claims of the natives against the Company, and acted as their counsel in Court. He was just eighteen years old when ap- THE WILLS FORGERS. pointed by his father, the chief protector, a lay mis- The history of the discovery of these atrocious sionary, personally and largely interested in whatever frauds, and the gradual development of the facts con affected the value of landed property near Auckland. nected with them, are very curious. The following "There was no surer way of raising that value at particulars have been collected from authentic the expense of the Company's settlements, than by sources decisions of the Court of Claims adverse to the Corn- The forgery of the will of Miss Slack, it will be re pany, or by delay in the decisiOn. It is net, there- membered, was that which was first discoverd. It fore, surprising that the Commissioner's Court should appears that when a w ill or other evidence of death produce the most deplorable results. is left at any of the offices of the Bank the course re " In our opinion, the massacre. at Wairoa, fol- gularly pursued is to send information of the fact to lowed directly from it. the other offices of that establishment. Accordingly, " But it is not to the Court that the Company has when the forged will of Miss Slack was left at the ever objected. A Court of Claims was, perhaps, ne- Bank for the purpose of claiming that portion of her cessary, in order that the native title should, be extin- stock which had been transferred to the Commission guished by the Government, and the Company, in- ers for the Reduction of the National Debt, notice of stead of being made a party before the Court, should her death was forwarded to the office of the-Reduced have been called as a witness on behalf of the Crown, Three-and-a-Half per Cents., in which description of according to the principle of Lord John Russell's stock Mis s S l a ck had, it a pp ears, also a sum standin g agreement. in her name. " The report detailed-other instances of Unfairnets Under this will the stock transferred to the Corn in the correspondence of the Colonial-office and the missioners was, as is well known, appropriated by the local Government, and referred to the documents fictitious Emma Slack. Matters remained in this annexed in several appendixes, showing the - injurious condition, it seems, for some months, until a gentle effects of the measures of the latter. men in the City, 'a broker, was instructed to purchase " Tracing these to their result in the massacre at a sum of Three-and-a-Half per Cent. stock in the Wairoa, the directors disclaim any desire of yen- name of the rightful Miss Slack. The gentleman, geance towards the natives, whom they consider to when he proceeded to fulfil his instructions, was told be in a great measu re unconsc i ous o f r ight and wrong by the officials of the Bank that Miss Slack was dead, according to European notions, their present conduct and that it was against the rules of the Bank to allow and ultimate fate depending entirely on their new any stock to be purchased in the name of a deceased from vva government, and th emse l ves, t h ere f or e, to be held person. He was somewhat surprised, as might be tree y of th e respons ibilities attaching to expected, upon receiving such a communica civilized men. tion, and, .by way of .solving the mystery, and " Paying a hi g h an d j ust tri b ute o f p r aise to Capt. "making assurance doubly sure," he wrote to the Arthur'e many eld, R.N., late the Company's agent at young lady herself, informing her of her reported Nelson, and pointing- out the tendency of the spirit death, and requesting to know her own opinion upon exhibited by the repo r t o f the chief protector, and the the subject. If the broker was surprised, it can be subsequent proclamation of the acting Governor, to easily imagined that the lady felt and expressed as aggravate the mutual hostility of whites and natives much astonishment as the individual who had been which the Court of Claims, and the event at Wairoa employed, and, in order to set a matter of such pain had produced, the report described its practical effect. ful importance at rest, off she came as soon as possi ble, The coloni a l population now holds all property, and and presented herself in propria persona at the Bank. life itself, upon no better tenure than the - forbearance The subject was fully investigated, and, in the result, of tribes of savages flushed with triumph and incited all parties interested in the proper disposal of the pro to rarity. perty concurred in the belief that a fraud had been - he course of events in New Zealand has ne- committed. cessarily produced the effects described in the former The first thing which naturally suggested itself to report of 15th March last. After spending half a those who were engaged in the investigation was, no million in colonisation, the Company is still without doubt, to ascertain who the solicitor employed on the a secure title to one acre of the property awarded to it occasion of the transfer was, and in this stage of the by Lord John Russell's agreement more than three inquiry the name of Mr. Barber was brought into years ago. Land sales have ceased. The Company notice. Mr. Barber was seen, but he failed to give is deprived of income. Its expenditure, is increased any satisfactory account of the transaction. Inves by that insecurity of title which has cut off its re- tigations were persevered in with remarkable zeal and sources. The only cause to which this can be as- scrupulousness, and at length Barber was taken into cribed is the errors and hostility of the Colonial- custody by Daniel Forrester. office and the local Government. In all other respects Before Barber's apprehension, his diary, it appears, a remarkable success Ma attended its prOceedings. was secured, a document which immediately made the The most sanguine hopes concerning the natural re- authorities at the Bank acquainted with the name of sources of New Zealand have been realised; the plan Joshua Fletcher, although we are of opinion that the of colonization has found . abundant favour; no loss, 'prosecutors must have obtained some previous know no distressing event has occurred from accident or ledge concerning that delinquent. The possession of from causes over which the Company had any con , - Barber's diary was, doubtless, of very considerable trol. But although bound to state the Company's service to the prosecutors in the extraordinary exa affairs •in their worst aspect, the directors are far - minations which took place before the Lord Mayor, from considering them as irretrievably ruined. upon Barber's apprehension, on which' occasion Bar e Th e ., c o nfess the present disastrous state of affairs, ber called Fletcher as his witness. After the able i s i n par t ' ow ing to their own too, long silence with crosseexamination of whom by Mr. Clarkson, for the their progressive decline. Government, both witness and accused were remanded - .Trehspeierct reluctancet°-lhe-cautose:se of ntertain a belief in systematic for,further investigation„and ordered to be kept apart hostility of the Colonial-office has been destroyed at from each other. Neither one nor the other would last.l mayw nO appeal for ju s ti ce t o hi g h er o r could tell who the Emma Slack was who had ad tribunals conscious, as they are, of th e di sa d van t ages ministered to the will, further than that she was a under uhti they ch individuals labour in struggling for jus- lady of the most u nexce p tionable res p ectabilit y . 1 tice against the policy of an official department, .they The next step to be taken by the investigators, yet rely on the flagrant character of the wrong done therefore, was' to find out who Emma Slack was, by Lord Stanley's interpretation of Lord John Rus- and that .great point was a long time involved in sell's agreement. They cannot suppose, therefore, a mystery apparently impenetrable. All that could that either Parliament or her Majesty's Ministers, be ascertained for a considerable period was, that will fail to perceive, or decline to remedy, this she had resided in a house for a few weeks, but from gross injustice. They believe that Parliament will what place she had come, or to what place she had make allowance for .the undoubted fact that gone, no one could surmise. In the meantime, Bar the formation of this Company was first pro- ber and Fletcher were, on various occasions, brought posed by the Colonial-office, and pursued by before the Lord Mayor, and their counsel and attor its founders against their own inclinations as the ne y s exercised all their skill to excite the public sy.m for colonization. But as the result of the questions at a that as p ossible fOr them, n only means then available of securing New Zealand pothyin favour o f the prisoners, a d n h d ub W t i o n b a tai pp n re as he q h u si i h ck h issue between the Colonial-office and the Company, of 'the sequel. , which Mr. Barber had been en the policy of that office in New Zealand. Ever since not the only o they should still hope for a reversal by Parliament of The Bank, j4O-n.g wisely that the Slack cas esec e asw w ieo a rn s es other transactions with which dominion of France, their colonization by England to be made relative to Abe Company had rescued those islands from the gaged of a similar description, caused a rigid search each hSteowf the four foAulrl first t th o e Fletcher were brought up for has been inevitable. Terrible disasters may befal our the name of Barber was mixed up as the attorney. urc a , and, scenes of bloodshed and devastation may even now be the case of Hunt, of countrymen now settled there; acco un t s of shocking This active spirit o t f he i h nqu th ir e y e b as r e ou o g f ht ß to b lig rd ht first on their way; tion must carry all before it. How it may be con- . subjected to a course examination, and, if we but, still in the end, British colonize-. umletimmbaetrelyr,thhtelye,aosaenndeoafF re trolled and regulated so as to benefit instead of eater-, misting the native race, is a subject of which all the on which Barber interest must now revive. A former inquiry. by Perlin- examination a new and additional charge was all d ment exposed the mischiefs of the irregula r colonization against them. In the meantime, it was not at all which was then upheld, and set aside the policy till known who were the other parties who had been then pursued. But the execution of the policy laid , confederated with Bsrber and Fletcher to carry into I effect these daring frauds. down by Parliament has been miserably defective. , actual I With the view as we ima • To say , nothing of the lavish expenditure, or act pia, of searching into the SOUTH-EAST/IrN RAILWAY.—The Dover terminus buildings of this line are now rapidly progressing to wards completion, and when finished, they will combine elegance and symmetry of architecture with comfort and accommodation, in a manner at once highly cre ditable to the architect, Lewis Cubitt, Esq., and the spirit of the company. We have before us an excellently executed engraving of these buildings as they will pre sent themselves from the South Pier. It must be ob vious to the most casual observer that the railway works .have much improved that portion of the sea front of Dover they at present occupy ; and when the noble buildings and the lofty clock and bell-tower that will o'er-top them (with which they are to terminate at the eastern extremity) are completed, they will give a finish to the whole that cannot fail to produce a most striking and beautiful effect. The waiting•rooms and other apartments at this terminus are to be such in point of splendour, as ;may well accommodate even Royalty itself. —Dover Chronicle. _ _ _ bankruptcy of the local Government, the state of cases, a reward of 1001. was offered to any party who ( PARIA AMEN l'An, .. _ relation between the colonists and the natives is such should discover who Emma Slack was, but the offer I .......___ as to call for till interference of Parliament. We tempted no candidate for the prize. Ultimately, ' (From Me roles mtd Proceedings of Me Home gf Commou.) Confidently trust that the whole subject of coloniza- however, the attention of the prosecutors was directed PRIDAT, APRIL 26. tion and government in New Zealand, including the to a Miss Richards, who, it was stated, came from LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY BILL. proceedings of the Company, will be strictly investi- Bath, and was intimately acquainted with Fletcher Order read, for resuming. adjourned Debate on Question (2 . 3 d April), " .That the Amendments made II the Go a gated by. that . - competent authority. A full and and his first wife, and whose description exactly cor mittee to the Bill be now reed a second time: I I t he searching inquiry into our 'own conduct is what is responded with that of a person who had visited again proposed; Debate resumed :—Ameadment Troposed, to most desired. It cannot take place without tending Emma Slack during her stay at her lodgings near leave out from the words "T atha the" te beeth end of the Quee. at least to the removal of the causes of your present i Tottenham Court-road. . lion, in ord-r to-add the " Bill -comitted," in ruin, and the restoration of your means of accom- i Miss Richards was accordingly traced from place to stead thereof:—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left oat stand part of the Question:" The House divided : pushing the valuable public objects which your charter ' place, until it was ascertained that she had married MINORITY.—AYES, MI. of incorVaration has in view. a shopkeeper named Dorey, and that she resided in Arehdall, Captain M--Fermanagh Jones, T. —Londonderry Co. Mr: RUSSELL ELLICE begged to congratulate the Oxford-street. Here she was identified as a. visitor Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Lawson, A.—Knaresberough Shareholders in the strongest manner upon the of Emma Slack, and apprehended ; and some of her f3r:wlltlrlil:iar;2,l. F.—Gloucester reader, J. Temple—Westminate d—Monmouth Lowther. J. H.--York straightforward statement then placed before' them. writing was obtained ; and in her trunk the seal was Borthwiek, P.—Evesham r w y castle-on-Tvnel Mi l 'aGnneAecrhalYlAFl:a-11:141rwaark II roil Buckley,w dE,.....Hice_ne Ife had had much experience in the proceedings of found which bore the same device as that attached to colonial officials, and his opinion respecting them had the will of Eliza Burchard. This Was a very ita- Busfeild, NVilliam—Bradford - Me a y n n o e r k, TrpQn La lr a Ti r sburnet been confirmed by what had just been read. It was portant step for the prosecutors, for the seal showed Chapman, I Aaron C_ap y, ta y t h n i .—S tiy tafrord bAliiilierise,,l:hßi.limp M.—Pontefract .with Br :se o _with much pleasure he saw that Mr. Aglionby had that she was cognisant of the will of Eliza Burchard, Cobden. R.—Stockport /4 ewdegate, C. N.—Warwick. given notice in the House of Commons for a Corn- and her handwriting resembled that in which the oa o l i l l e e t t t t , J W O;n R. A i tlo c n ° e in shire, North • Norreys Sir Charles D —Mallow mittee to inquire into colonial matters in New will of Mary Hunt was written. Still the precise Copeland w.—stadaepon-Tsent Oswald, ' James—Gia.gow . Lirr w Ritr..loertiliampton li:aLke e , r CaV ;g —Leteo ,e t i tr. south Zealand. The result of a strict investigation would part taken by her remained to be proved, and the be the dispelling of any little delusion which might presence of Emma Slack appeared to be indispensable Dlsr i a l eli, B.—Shrewsbury Pollington, Lord—Pontefract now exist in the public mind in reference to the pro- to a clear development of the plot. Douglas, Sir H—Liverpool Repton,Alban's uncan, G.—Dundee Russell. C.—Reading ceedings and affairs of the Company, and that they As the discovery of so important a character in the illuncombe, Hon A.—East Retforel Staunton. Sir Geo.— Pm tarnoutts would be looked upon, as they deserved to be, as a drama as Mrs. Dorey had taken place, those by whom Dancomae,dHo;;trot.;;Lorrtirtire T ro ale i r in ed e , .1-z. ,,o vi .g .—.la h n r b e o w r a y bury body calculated, if justice were done to them, to the investigations were conducted would naturally be induced to trace out, and sharply look after her effect a great deal of good.—(Cheers.) nnFesisYann'O.UW.—B.—Kmaresaorough Walker. R.—Bury, Lancashire Forman, T. S.—Bridgewater '4 v V s li w il, ,, C :l ßlr , ing s =iiZ i r k d i4 Mr. GEORGE ROBINS seconded the adoption of the immediate connections. The description of the per- Fox, S. L.—lp wish Wdshere, Williana—Yai milk Greenall, P. —Wigan report, and, after a few observations, said that a coin- son, manners, and habits of Emma Slack was closely Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Yorke. H. 11 .;; I:11:- mittee of the House would be moved for that evening inquired into, and upon comparison with the account l ' ags L o 6 n r ,F d A. arn C ;t7qt "ham Hodgion,iltd.Berwiek-onavrood and that one of the best ways to obtain justice for th given of the persons, manners, and habits of Mrs. Inglis, Sir it. H.—Ox. University Beckett, W.—Leeds New Zealand Company Would. be to furnish each Dorey's relations, was found precisely to correspond Member of Parliament with a copy of the printed re- with what was said of Lydia Saunders, her sister, the 'port. The Company required no other case than the wife of William Saunders, fishmonger, of Bristol. simple recital of facts set forth in the document but Visits were from time to time, as it now appears, paid recently read to them.—(Hear, hear.) They had in- to Bristol by John and Daniel Forrester, but neither deed, one of the strongest cases ever carried before she nor her husband could be found, and their ab- Parliament, and he would not believe it was .possible sence naturally tended to strengthen the suspicion which existed against them. As the investigations that justice could be denied t hem. Mr. AGLIONBY said that , his name having been were carried on it was found that not only did the mentioned in connection with a notice on the votes description of Mrs. Saunders agree with that given of the House for a Committee on the subject, he of Emma Slack, but that the description of William begged to observe, that some allusion having been Saunders also corresponded with that of Thomas pointed to this Company, in the discussion of the Hunt, the alleged executor of Mary Hunt. We do New Zealand estimates on Friday night, he deemed it not collect that the prosecutors obtained information his duty not to allow a moment to pass without from any one that these were actually the parties en stating that they desired to have a searching inquiry, gaged. in the transactions ; but so accurate were the and that he claimed it on the part of the Company. descriptions obtained, and so confirmed were they by In stating to the House that it was necessary, for the dates and other circumstances, that the prosecutors, satisfaction of the public mind, that there should be as will be remembered, offered a reward of 100/. for an inquiry into the state of affairs in New Zealand, the discovery of Lydia Saunders, and a further sum and also into the proceedings of that Company, the of 100/. for the discovery of her husband. Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department did The offer of these rewards was for some time of no not, it was right to say, make the slightest objection. avail, but ultimately, through some channel which A motion for a Committee had his Lordship's full has not been made known, Saunders and his wife consent on Wednesday evening, and the Committee were found living in an obscure part of Edinburgh, would have been granted but for a formal objection, under an assumed name, and were there apprehended. viz., that notice for it had not been given. lie had, The determination of the prosecutors to apprehend on this objection, withdrawn his motion for that night, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders was fully justified by the but he was bound to say that he believed that it was result, for these participators in the delinquencies of Lord Stanley's wish that the inquiry should not be Barber and Fletcher were, it will be remembered, postponed. There could not be a doubt but that the immediately identified as the individuals who had Committee would be granted without discussion. He personated the two fictitious parties alluded to. Mrs. 'hoped that there would be a most searching inquiry Dorey was also identified as Eliza Burchard, the into the matter. . fictitious niece and executrix of the testatrix, Eliza Mr. Cuttain said, that with respect to the conduct Burchard. of the Colonial Minister, he thought the report had It still, however, remained to be discovered who fully shown the simple ground of all the colonial oc- Elizabeth Stewart, the assumed sister and adminis currences complained of, to have been the non-settling tratrix of John Stewart, was. This question was of the land claims. If Lord Stanley had the feelings involved in more than ordinary obscurity and con of an Englishman, he would, under the circumstances fusion, as no person living could he found who of the case, and knowing that his own countrymen answered the description of the performer of that were now in New Zealand unprotected, afford the part. The servant who attended on the aged female, protection required. The settlers did not 'require Elizabeth Stewart, was, however, as it appears, much military protection, but they were entitled to traced out ; and the most accurate information was that which a just cause and an undisputed title to obtained respecting the infirm mistress ; and, after a their land ought to secure for them from the autho- lengthened investigation, Elizabeth Stewart was ra rities, and if more blood were shed in the settlement, tisfactorily proved to be no other than Mrs. Dorey's in consequence of inadequate protection, the intended and Mrs. Saunders's mother, who shortly afterwards monument of Wairoa would be a lasting memorial died, and whom Mrs. Dorey visited in the pretended of Lord Stanley's apathy and neglect of his fellow- relationship of niece. This servant, who is very ob men. He begged to move— serving and intelligent, gave such an account of the " That this Court, continuing to confide in the fictitious Elizabeth Stewart that the portrait was consi ability, 'discretion, and honour of the directors, ap- dereel perfect, and those who knew the mother of proves cordially of their determination to appeal to Mrs. Dorey declared it to be quite impossible that Parliament for the redress of wrongs inflicted on the the lady who played the character could have been Company, assured that the proprietors may rely on any other. Indeed, with such truth was the descrip their receiving from that tribunal the justice which tion given that Mrs. Dorey upon hearing it burst has been denied them by the Colonial department of into tears, and became an object of much commisera the Executive Government." tion. The gown, or rather the remnant of the gown, The motion was seconded by Mr. PERCIVAL, and of Mrs. Richards was, notwithstanding the lapse of carried unanimously, three yearse since her death , searched for and found Mr. SOMES then left the chair, which was taken by in the hands of a charwoman, to whom it had Lord INGESTRE, and been given by Mrs. Dorey upon the decease of her Mr. GEORGE ROBINS moved, and Mr. HARDING mother, and that gown was immediately identified seconded, " That the best thanks of this meeting be by the attendant upon the old woman. especially presented to the Governor, for his conduct The whole of the circumstances of the conspiracy in the chair ; and to the Governor and Deputy -Go- have been thus most satis factoril y : develo p ed ; and vernor and Directors, for their uniform and valuable those who have been prosecuted have met with con attention to the affairs of the Company." dign punishment with the complete approbation of The motion was carried'unanimously, and the public, who are not to be convinced, in the teeth The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Somes) having returned of such evidences of guilt, that any one of the ac hanks, the meeting separated. cused is innocent. The mother of Mrs. Dorey and Mrs. Saunders was the daughter of an aged soldier, of the name of Crene, a pensioner of the Government at Falmouth, and their father, William Richards, was the steward of a Lis bon Government packet.. On the proclamation of peace Mr. Richards went to Lisbon to establish him self there, but he soon afterwards died in embarrassed circumstances in that city. The daughters had been brought up as milliners, but on their father's death the mother and daughters opened a china shop at Falmouth, where they remained a few years, when they removed, we believe, to Biddesham, in Somersetshire, and at last to New Bond-street, Bath, where they carried on the busi ness of straw bonnet-makers. In this street Saunders kept a fish shop, and thus, from the circumstance of neighbourhood, became acquainted with Lydia, who played the part of Emma Slack, and it is believed led the unfortunate naan, with the aid of her sister, into all the mischief and misery to the details of which the public have been so long accustomed. Here, also, Mrs. Dorey, then Georgiana Richards, became ac quainted with that miserable ruffian Carlisle, on one of his visits to that city, and to this source and the blasphemous doctrines of Carlisle the whole of the family ascribe their total ruin.—Sunday Times. —Myths Cardwell. FAlward—Clithero. Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Cavendish, Hon G. H.—N. Dinky Marshain, Lord—West Kent Christie, Wm. D.—Weymouth Marsland, Henry—Stockport Clive, Viscount —Salop, North Master, C. —Cirencester Cockburn, Sir G orge—Ripon blasterrnan, J.—London Colborne, Hon. \V.—Richmond Mauls, Hon. Fox—Perth Colquhoun, John C.—Newcastle- Mildmay, St. Jeho—Southateptog under Lvme Miles Will am—Som ersetahir• Cripps, William—Cirencester Mitcalte, H.—Tynemouth Darby, George—fit Sussex Mitchell. T. A.—Bridport Adderley, C. B.—Staffordshire Labouchere , Bight Hon. Henry-. Ag lloriby, 11. A.—Ceckerrnoutls S. — C hat ham h Y am — N m a r 0 j E O r E i b , a i l k 5 8 , 4 . s . Taunton Aldan, W illtam —La. da Langton, Col. Gore—Somersot Arkwright, George—Leom;nster Lascelles, Hon. W.—Waketitid Baldwin, Charles Barry —Totnes Layard, Captain. Carlow Barnard, E. G.—Greenwick Lennox, Lord A.—Chicheater Baskerville, 'l'. B.—Herefordshire Liddell , Hon. IL—North Durbain Bell, J.—Thirsk Lincoln. Earl of— No rtlaampases. Bernal, Ralph—Weymouth shire, South Bodkin, W. H.—Rocheste r Loch, Samos.—Kirkwall Bowring, Dr..—Bolton Lockhart, William—Lanarkshire Boyd, John—Coleraine Borough Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Bright, John—Durham Macaulay, T B _Edinburgh Brotherton, J.—Salford Mackinnon , W. A.—Lymingtosa Bulkeley, Sir R. W.—Flint l\PTaggart; SirJ oh n—Wigton. &C. Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co. Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Butler, P. S.—Kilkenny County Mainwaring. T —Denbighshire Bing, Right Hon M .G A .S j .— ° Denison, E. B.—West Yorkshire Morrison, James—lnverness Denistoun, J.—Glasgow Munts, G. F.—Birmingham Dick, Quintin—Maldon Neeld, John—Cricklade Dickinson F. H.—Somerset W. Northland,Viscount — Dungannon Divett, Edward—Exeter O'Brien,A.—N.Northamptonshire Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick (YConor Don—Roscommon C.. Duncan, Viscount—Bath Ora, W —Newcastle.upen-Tyte Duncannon, Viscount —Derby Paget, Lord A.—Lichfleld Duncembe. T. S. —Finsbury Patten, J. Wilson—lAncaahlre Dusdas, Admiral—Greenwich Pattison, James—London Eaton, R. J. —Cambridgeshire Pendarves, E.—West Cornwall Ebrington, Lord—Plymouth Philips, G. R.—Poole Elphinstone, IL—Lewes Philips, Mark—Manchester Estcourt, T. 0. B.—Oxford Univ Plumptre, John P.—East Kent Evans, William—North Derby Flumridge, Captain—Pe..lp. and Ewart, Vv illiam—Dumft lea Falmouth Feilden, W. J.—:-Blackburn Polhill, Frederick—Bedford Fi zmaurice, , W. E.—Bucks Pringle, Alexander--Selkirkshire Flower, Sir J.—Thetford Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Forbes, W.—Stirlingshire Rashleigh, W.—East Cornwall Forster, M.—Berwick-onTweed Riosirdo,l.—Stoko.upor..ll eye French, F.—Rosscommon Roebuck, J. A.—Bath Fuller, A. E.—East Sussex Rushbrooks, Colonel—Sufkilt Gardner, J. D. Russell, J.—N. Staffbrdshlre Gibson, T. M.—Manchester Smith, Abel—Hertfordshire Gill, T.—Plymouth Smith, Benjamin—Norwick Gladstone, W. E.—Newark-on Smythe, Hon. G.—Canto bury Trent Somerset, Lord G.—Monsisiutkals Gore, M.—Barnstaple Sts.nsfleldW.R. C.—Huddersfield Gore, Ormsby—Salop Stewart, John—Lymingtsa Gore, W. R. o.—Sligo Co. Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co, Gore, Robert--New Ross Stuart, 11.—Bedford Granger, T. C.—Durham Stock, Dr.—Cashel Greene, T. o.—Lancashire Strickland, Sir G.—Preston Grey, Sir George--Devonport Strutt, Edward—Derby Hamner, Sir J.—Hull Tennent, J. E.—Belfast Harcourt, G. G. V.—Oxfordshire Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampten Hastie, Archibald —Paisley Trelawny J. S.—Tavistock Hatton, Capt.—Wexfor d C o. ; Trotter, John—West Surrey Hawes, B.—Lambeth Vivian, John Ennis -. Truro Hay, S ir A. L.—Elgin ,Ao Warburton , H.—Kendal H ea thcote, Sir W.— Hampshire Watson, W. H.—Kinsale Hepburn, Sir T.—Haddingtonsh Williams. William—Coventry Hindley, Charles--Ashton Winnington, Sir T. E.—Bewdley H o bhouse, H. W.—Hereford Wodehouse, Edmond—E. Norfolk Hogg, James Weir--Beverley Wood, Charles—Halifax Houldsworth, T.—Nottingharash Wosd, Colonel T.—Middlesei Howard," P. H.—Carlisle Wortley, J. A. S.—Buteshire Howick, - Viscount--Sunderland Wortley, Hon. al.—W. Yorkshire Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Wrightson, W. 11.—Northallertoil Hume, Joseph—Montrose, &e. Wynn, C. W.—Montgoreerysli James, Sir W. C.—Hull Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suflblk TIILLIII.III. Jervis, J.—Chester Colebrook., Sir 'l'. E.—Taunton Kemble, H.—East Surrey Hardy,:J.—Bradford FACTORIES (No. 2) BILL. Order for Committee read ; Order for committing the Bill to a Committee of the whole House read :—Motion made, sad Question put, " That the said Order be discharged :" Th. House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 42. Forster, Matthew &holdleld, Joshua French, F. Smith, Benjamin Hatton Captaini: Standeld, W. E. Hay, Sir A. Strutt, E.dward Hill, Lord Marcus Tancred, Henry W. Hindley, Charles fhornely, Thomas Hume, Joseph Trelastny J. S. Humphery, J. Villiers, Charles T. Leader, J. T. Wzkley, Thome M.Taggart, J. Weer]; J. T. Marshall, William Williams, W. Philips, (.1. It. Yorke, R. H. Plumridge, Captala 'MUM. Protheroe, Edward DuncomUs, T. S. Puleferdlßo►ert Ward, H. 0, Aldam, William Barnard, E. G. Berkeley, Captain Bernal, Captain towring, Dr. Bright, John Browne, Hon. W. Buller, E. Itusfeild, W. Cobden, Richard Colebrooke, *ir T. Collett, John Duncan,- Lord Duncan, Georg* Ewart, William MAJORITY—AYES, 146. Acland, Sir T. D, Eliot, Lord Miles, William Acland. T. D. Fielden, J. Mordaunt, Ipso, Adderley, C. B. Feilden, W. Morgan, DeWitt' Aglionby, H. A. Flower, Sir James Mundy, E. Millar .Ainsworth, Peter Forbes,William Napier, Sir Chutes Arbuthnot, lion. H. Forman, T. S. Newdcgate C N. Arkwright, Geot go Gaskell, J. M. Nichol', Sir John Ashley, Lord Gladstone, W. E Norreys, Sir D. J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Gordon, Captain Ord, W. Baillie, Colonel Gore, Montague Oswald, Alexandee Baird, William Gore, W. 0. Pakington, J. S. Baring. W. B. Gore. W. R. 0. Palmer, U. Baring. F. T. Gore, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Baskerville, T. B. M Graham, Sir James Peel, Jonathan ' Beckett, William (banger, T. C. Philips, M. Bernal, R. Greenall, Peter Pollington, Viscount Blackburne, J. I, Greer.e, T. Ponsonby. C. F. A. t; Blakemore, It. Hamilton, Lord C. Pringle, A. Boldero, Henry G. Hanmer, Sir John Pusey, Philip Borthwick Peter Harcourt, 0.:0.11 Rashleigh , Wag, Botfield, Boriah Hardinge, Sir H. Round, C. G. Bowes, J. Harris, E. A. J. Round, John Brotherton, Joseph Hawes. B. Rous, Hon. Captain Bruce, Lord Ernest Heathcote, Sir W. Rushbrooke, Colon.. Buck, Lewis W. Henley, J. Werner Russell, Lord John Miller, Sir J. Y. . Hepburn, Sir T. B. Russell, J. D. W Cardwell, Edward Hope, Charlie Seymour, Sir H. S. Carnegie, C ap t a in Hope, G. W. Smith, Vernon Cavendish, G. H. Howick, L ord Somerset, Lord Id. Ch a p m an, Aaron Hussey , Am brose Stanley, Lordt, Chelsea, Viscount. James, Sir Walter, Stewart, Jelin Chetwode, Sir John Jelmyn, Earl Stuart. Henry Clayton, Rice It Jilliffe, Sir W. Strickland, Sir G. Clerk, Sir George Kemble, Henry Sutton, Hon. H. M. Clive, R. H. Knatchbull, Sir E. Toinline, G. Collett, W. R. Knight, F. Winn Trench, 31r F. W. Colquhoun, John C. Labouchere, H. Trotter, John Coote, Sir C. L ambten, H. Vane, Lord H. Corry, Hon. Henry Lemon, Sir C. Walsh, Sir John Cowper, Hon W. Lincoln, Earl of Warburton, Hoary Cresswell, A. J. B. Lygon, Qeneral Wellesley, Lord C. Cripps, %V. M'Geachy, F. A. Winnington, Slr T. Darner, Hon. G. 7,l'Neill, Duncan Wood, Colonel Darby, George Mainwaring, - ,T, Wortley, Hon. Joball Denison, E. Beckett Marsland. H. Young, John Dodd, George Master, T. W. C. Douglas, Sir C. Masterman, John East, James Buller Maule, Hon. Fax Egerton, W. 'I. Moynell Captain Egerton, Sir P. Miles, P. W. S.I Fremantle. Bit T. Baring, U. SUICIDE or AN ACTOR .—A remarkable case of self-destruction occurred a few days ago, at Blackburn, in Lancashire. The suicide was a gentleman most respectably connected, a Mr. William Weston Ball, aged 35. It appears that he had been a member of the Lincoln company some time previous to his engagement at Blackburn. The latter situation had been procured for him, a few days before his death, by Mr. Arthur Dillon, the theatrical agent, of the Harp Tavern, Covent garden. He arrived at Blackburn via Manchester, and took uphis abode at the house of Mr. John Wilson, Dun Horse'lnn, Blackburn, and, having introduced himself to the manager of the theatre (Mr. Mills), he was assigned Ferrado Gonzago, in the play of The Wife, and was furnished the book to write his character. After passing a pleasant evening in the landlord's com pany, he retired to his room at half-past eleven o'clock, taking with him a glass of rum and water, and pens and ink, giving the landlord the prompt book, which was sealed up, to send to the manager after nine the next morning. At ten on the following morning, the manager hastened to the deceased's lodgings, and inquired for him, and was directed by Mr. Wilson to his room. Mr. Mills immediately returned, and stated that he was un able to wake deceased, on which the landlord went up to deceased's bedroom, and found him dying. Medical assistance was immediately summoned , but w ithout avail . He expired at half-past eleven. I n the room was — one found three phials, which had contain ed laudanum pur chased at Boston, in Lincolnsh ire ; the otheritwo at Mr. Robert Wilding's, surgeon , i n Blackburn, on the Tues day and Thursday previous to his death on Friday. A number of Each phial had contained an ounce. r e letterct e d , addressed others letters were lying on the table, some he open, and a sem o f 245. was place d on t to Mr. Wilson, landlord. DEATH or REAR-ADMIRAL THE HON. F. P. 'REY, C.B.—We have to record the demise of this Hon. and Gallant Officer, which took place at Byland Hall, Norfolk, en Wed nesday last. The deceased was second son of Frederick, second Lord Boston, and brother of the present Peer. He was born on the 18th of April, 1779, and has been twice married, and leaves issue by both marriages. The late Admiral was Midshipman of the Montague in Lord Howe's action, and was also present at Camperdown, at that time being Lieute nant on board the Circe. When in the command of the Amelia assisted at the destruction of three French frigates off Sable D'Olonne, in 1809 ; and in the same y ear, bearing com pany with the Statira, captured the Mouche corvette, and several armed vessels, off St. Andero. In 1811 he assisted at the destruction of l'Amazone French frigate off Cherbourg. He fought a sanguinary action with l'Arethuse, in which the Amelia lost 144 killed and wounded, her adversary 195, who escaped, from her consort, the Rubis, of equal force, being in the vicinity. His commissions were dated as follows : Lieutenant, San. 6, 1797 ; Commander, April 22, 1800; Cap tain, April 14, 1802 ; and Rear-Admiral, Jan. 10, 1837. NAPOLEON MusEum.—On Friday the Proprietor of the Napoleon Museum received Captain Siborn, Principal, also the officers and all• the boys and girls of the Duke of York's Military School at Chelsea, in the Napoleon Museum ; and the whole party marched in and out of the Museum, preceded by their military band, playing martial airs. OFFICIAL RuMoras.—lt is generally understood in official circles, that the Ministers intend making a strenu ous effort to buy off the opposition of Mr. Hume. If the Honourable economist is placed in a position for which he is adapted by his peculiar talent, he will be offered the com mand of a revenue cutter—for his tact in cutting down the avenue mast be, on all hands, admitted.—P" b• (IN THE COMMITTEE.) TIELLE IS. Fremantle, Sr T. Clerk, Sir Georg* 61111 MINORITY-NOES, 53. Ware, W. Feilden, J. Ricardo, J. 1.1 Barnard, EG. Forster, Matthew Schelefield, J. Blakemore, R. Gibson, T. M. Stanstield, W. L Bowes, J. Granger,:Thomas C. Stuart, Lord J. Bowring, Dr. Grey, Sir 0. Talbot, C. M. I. Bright, John Hawes, B. - Trelawny. J. L Brotherton, J. Howard. P. H. Vane, Lord Hull Buller, C. Howiek, Viscoun t Villiers, Chitties T. Buller, E. Hume, Joseph Walker. R. Busfeild, William Leader, J. T. Warburten,fienry Cavendish, Hon. G. Marshall, W. Ward, H. 0. Collett, John Marsland, H. Wawn, John T. Copeland, Alderman Mitcalfe Henry Williams. W. Craig. W. Gibson Mitchell ' , T. A. Wood, Charles Dawson, T. V. Norreys, Sir D. J. Wrightson, W. Duncan, Lord o•Ferrall, More maxim Duncan, George Philips, oit Elphinstone, Howard Plumridie, Captain Evans, W. Protheroe, E. Philips, Mark Strutt, Edward Fifth Clause (that a proper office, to be called " the Oflce of Factory Inspectors," shall be provided in London or West minster for the preservation of Records, &c. ):—Motion made, and Question put, " That the Clause stand part of the Bill:" The Committee divtded : MAJORITY—AYES, 157. Aeland, Sir T. D. Egerton, Sir P. G. Maunsell, T.lr. Acland, T. D. Eliot, Lord Meynell, Captain. Adare, Lord Farnham, E. B. Miles, W. Adderley, C. B. Fitxmaurice, W. Mordaunt, Sir J. Aglionby. H. A. Flower, Sir James Morris, David Ainsworth,Peter Forbes, William Mundy, Ed. Millar Arbuthnott, Hugh Forman, T. Seaton Neville, Ralph _. Arkwright, George Fuller, A. E. Nichol' : Rigb td" . “ : Ashley, Lord Gaskell, James M. Norreys, Lord Astell, William Gladstone. - W. E. Oswald, Alexander Gladstone.: W. Joseph, jun. Gladstone, J. N. Owen. Sir John Bane Colonel H. Godson. Richard Patten,. Wilsos Baird, William Gordon. Hon. W. Peel, Sir Rob.rt Balfour, J. M. Gore, W. IL 0. peel. Jonathan Plumptre, J. P. Baring, Hon. W. B Gore, Robert Polhill, Frederick Baring, F. T. Graham, Sir J. Pollington, Vi MW S Baskerville, TB. M. sheens'', Peter Powell, Color* Beckett, William Grimston, Lord Pringle, Alexander Bernard. Viscount Hale, R. B$ • R Rll: u na s h h di b lee. r ig oo hhara k i e W , C iaram elssei Russell Lord Jolts 1 3 3 1 a o tcfikebl du,rnßee,riJa.threland HHaarndminegr,,,SsirirJAhn HUM., E. A. J. Russell, Charles Bort h wick, Peter Botfield, Beriah Brampton, T. W. i ll ii ie c e p t e j c r :l 2 s W i S r u: T N . V B . . Russell. J. 1) Brisco, M. Herbert. Hon. 3. Sanderson, R. Brownrigg, J. S. Bruce, Lord B. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Bandon, Lord Hodgson, R. Seymour. Sir H. Buller, Sir J. V. Smith, Abel Smith, Y. Cardwell, EdT,h:marasd. HHHEiggfiesoJ...,s‘v‘vV...B. C.lrnegie, Capon Smith, R. Vernon Chelsea, Lord Hussey, Ambrose Somerset, Lord G. , Lerd C h e twode, Sir John Ingestre , Lord Stanley Cholmondeley, H. Inglis, Sir R. H. Stuart, H. Christopher, It A James, Sir W. C. Sutton, Henry IL j j J K :or me i fle n ie , C l a S p Ea m i r tae r W ii l inr y . Clayton, ft. R. Taylor, Edward Clive, Viscount Tollemache, F. I. Clive, R. H. Collett, W. Bickford Trench, Sir Frederick Compton, H. Trollepe, Sir Jshe Knatchbull, Sir E. Trotter, .1. LaLe En naf i r g ob h ; t : , n _ A H nn e t n h. r e y n G y. ally V w ee t e il y e , si H ey s i n. Lo Thallle tt 4 Coote, Sir C. H. Corry, Henry r L y ord . Walsh, Sir Jibe Crippe, W. Lemon, Sir C. Wood, Colonel Darner Colonel Lincoln, F.arl of Wortley, Jas. Davies, D. A. S. M.Geschy, F. A. Wortley Hon. Ju. L Denison, E. B. M'Neill, Duncan Wynn, Sir W. Dick, Quintin Manners, Lord C. Yorke, E. T. Dickinson, F. EL Manners, Lord J. Young, John Dodd, George Marjoribanks, S. Douglas, Sir H. Martin, C. W. Duncombe, A. MasterAT. W. East, James Buller Mastercnan, John Egerton, W. T. Maule, Hon. Felt The auction at the Countess of Mansfield's,• on Richmond-hill, commences this day, and continue* eight days without interruption, excepting only Sunday. THE KING OV TRH Fn cit.--We understand that there no longer exist any doubts respecting the visit of the King of the French to this country. The precise period of his Majesty's arrival has not yet been definitely decided, but there is, we believe, every reason to suppose that he will land at Portsmouth. His Majesty ha.s selected Portsmouth la preference to Southampton at the suggestiou of tiolne naval officers, on account of there being a clear channel at all tiros of the tide at the former place.--Pox Nig:4k* !merit in P ti " . gtatos in nnttl" lisjestien kinghol store quo nt. Th.. Queen •; • , 011 tho perry 1 Equerlt 13er rofo; fejeuse destr lioness ley,sli d !shoe ikt' ?sacs ott:. ess 1)elo. he Boys and Gee' : attended' e l R o yal. .aebed by C. Lou' nn Friday the Cony Fine Mt . The Cow' Lord Col -. W_ys led D o. ill' s° loysl, St. e serrolt • by the r.sleP a nthel J or Me ss rs. 4 rgell4:l. Barring' irquiso 44 . °E ' 'almerorai riltoth ck Ttene b Royaie:r r. Well 4 airing in * return liy Kisighs' Mr. S. A' alters' SO' Lind le y i n tervie N , a t u rdaY, 15 Wielchso l f present . with. Lo Mr. M. hip . P ll Si Provexpe%, wereborne,- ' 3 41.,: Mr. II WY. Charle. an iitb Saturdof • kim to hus sh Tir'C 10 00° rani quid 's loft I'o ket. bq OA o ti ;r: ind c for 4,1 0 '; add•d by 1, coated) cart- 0 ..... ... f Mr. Weil; 4. ortwiatl 11' rhoP ci t t .' • 00 024 ,• • r. Sine' I itigS e of esP..„ • i w ith '" Th o se en" are n° „ it the and It 1 wo e.- in . one; ot a be Pll ce s till what . 1 S p syso n44 o lo I ple b° MUSIC. OWING MATCH EXTRAORDI NARY AT OSTEND ONE LONDON WATERMAN VERSUS FIVE FLEMISH 1 `, 1 !• —•The match made by some English an d Fle taan gentlemen at Ostend, the former agre ein g to !• produce One London waterman to row against four tend boatmen and a coxswain, came off on Thurs day last. Very , considerable interest was excited, and number of gentlemen, we are informed, left Lon don in the Waterman steam-boat, No. 10 , in order n witness the contest, the vessel reaching h er desti i,il§3n in nine hours and twenty-six minutes. R obert _ewell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, London - br id g e, a s rat-rate waterman, and the winner ofthe chief prize 111 the 11 ' scu ees match at the Thames Regatta, was se , ~.'t e c,ted t o conten d aga i ns t the Belgians, and he l.:srted. on Wednesday for Ostend, accompanied by ."-obert Coombes, of Millbank, the champion of the ; 4 _ s wlia_sert,-- ig taken Newen - ;lace 11 the event of illness or any unforseen circumstance d 4... aPPening to the latter. They took with them the ex `r rtiely li g ht and admirably constructed sculters' boat e' built by Wentzell and Cownden, of Lambeth, in " 411 ch Newell rowed and proved succes-ful last summer %t 'Parley, and which is now the property of Captain Tollemache, who kindly allowed her to be taken Reross the water. The match was originally stated for 1001. a-side, but the Flemish men could only • g et hikked for 401. a-side, and the stakes were duly V____ ° ,stea at Mr. Guy's, the steam-packet Hotel, Ostend, hereat few bets were made on the result. On • the tnorni to'th e n '? of the eventful day thousands repaired e of action, the weather being extremely propiti ous. Brui se - A vast number arrived by railway from theu 5 1 Bruges, and Ghent, and the path alongside wide and extensive canal leading from Ostend to ,whom were was thronged with spectators, hundreds of • • inn were on horseback, the great majority of per sons thfiassembling at the starting place, others preferring .nishing point, at Bruges, the distance to be rowed being twelve miles in still water. The note of pre tataati'an • was sounded shortly before one o'clock, 7 cl ; on Newell and Coombes launching the boat the canal at Ostend, the Belgians seemed stunned her lightness and beautiful construction , •. .and w hat little betting there was at the time imme 'Lc ately ceased, no one, as we are informed, being found f c alrageous enough to speculate his money on the very r t large - oo k ngig, but it was a comparatively light and boat of the sort, 27 feet long and 2 feet :,inches in depth, with round oars, having tremendous 'wades, enough to pull the men's arms off after rowing long distance. The crew, it is said, averaged 1 3 1 st. e ach, their average height being sft. llin., and age 25 • years; one of them stood 6ft. lin., and they were I n ;4 ll seular and robust looking fellows. They had no of stripping to their work like our London men, ..n.t 'wore striped shirts and blue t rousers, and the y a„ ""tainly appeared determined to take the shine out of the, Thames waterman if possible. Newell was attired in white drawers and whit e Guernsey, and lo oked particularly fresh an d in excellent spirits, r, voo ,MbeS having, it may he said , take n es p ecial care ~, him, giving him occasionally long runs to get his • :wind in proper order. By the side of his oppo ''' 11 , / ,, L nts, Newell might be compared to G eneral Tom • dumb alongside a well-grown child of the same age ; • 'lit even the disparity of size did not increase the 'eanfidence of the friends of the Belgians, who still 'fused to speculate any more money on the mat ch. Sewell rowers having taken their respective sides, ."N ewell on the south and the Ostend boatmen on the li tlth, they started by the report of a pistol at two tnid:ites before one o'clock. Newell, in a few strokes, tool lead, and before they had r owed 200 y ards he was at least half - a - dozen boats' len g ths a-head. • tie3pite ~ ,the. strenuous exertions of the fout-oared e . ,r.ew, t aculler's boat gradually increased her '4 , l4 tanee he in advance, and when half the journey ' c lwitrds Bruges had been completed, Newell had a -;lad of six minutes and a half. He, however, con 'tuned his course at nearly, if not quite, the same Peed as at the commencement, and pursuing the • even "teriour of his way, arrived at the goal a R e a 'ore -winner, completing the tw elve miles, and, as we tore stated, in still water, in one h our and forty .' L. "' minutes, beating the Belgians by upwards of Zeive minutes, amid the cheers of the immense • — ' ll wds assembled. TAE EARL AND COUNTESS OF JERSEY'S GRAND ?~tT D splendid entertainment was given on Friday by MI/aster of the Horse and C ountess of Jersey, at the ; , ‘ ",;''''',... l l`nransion in Berkeley - squa re. The. Countess's assembly Preceded by a sumptuous banq uet, for which covers were 11 _ for twenty.two. His Serene Hig hness Prince Edward Ilf r ,S.aae Weimar, his Excellency the French Ambassador and u . onntess de St. Aulaire, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke 1 / 4 4 Puchess of Beaufort , the Mar q uis of Salisbury, his Ex „ - vuellty Baron Nieumann , th e Lord Chancello , Lady r LyV is n 1,, .... --' and the Hon. Miss Copley, Marquis of Granby, d mount Curzon, Ear( of Brownlow and Lady Caroline Cust, 221 V Augustus Somertet, Lord Lovaine, Viscount Ossulston, were among the guests of the Noble Earl and Countess. • 'll the latter part of the twining the entire suite of elegant : l imns were cast open for t,he romeption of a brilliant circle raP, leading nobility. Tile status* end apartments gene -1.,17-Were adorned by the choicest Aow,etis and rare exotics. `uert were nearlySive hundreApersons preaalkt• DISTRESSED I`l EEDLENYOSIRE t00ND.0N.74 vpcal and instrumental concert, in aid of the funds of ,this charity, v „ h a: given on Friday at Covent -garden , and if the rminter of t h e Idience be any index of the amount of funds given to Society, we regret to say, they must have had more to ley than to receive, for a more wretched house we never it'u% Among the vocal and instrume ntal p erformers who 141;43 1 gave their assistance, we may mention Miss Romer, Sara Flower, Mr. Leffler, Mr. Edney , Si g nor F. Lablache, Madame Drikken, M. Moscheles, and Signor Benedict, bu t tat all this talent we cannot say much f or their execution, on such an occasion we have no desire to be critical Laeed we have no ground—for the emptiness of the house sufficient excuse for the spiritless performances of the ~.!i•TTEMPT TO POISON --On Friday, at Norwich, a mat, following the profession of an artist was commit ' for trial on a charge of attempting . to poison his mother, Zl'ged lady, named M ee k, residing in Cathedral - closer in at City, Th • e young man's name is Joseph WILSON'S EDITION OF THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND.—Book VI. The present number of this classical national work contains " 0, weel may the boatie row," "Up in the morning early," "The maid that tends the goats," "My Nannie s awa'," " The land of the Leal," " Bonnie Lizzie Baillie," " Busk ye, busk ye," " Highland Mary," "John Anderson, my Jo," " What ails this heart o' mine," " We're a noddin," and " Logie o' Buchan." Each song is preceded by a short introduction, giving a history of the author, Iwhere known, and also of the song itself. The pre sent number is characterised by the same care in the getting up which has been exhibited in the produc tion of Mr. Wilson's previous publications on the subject of Scottish song. No musical library can be considered as complete without this collection, which is not a mere ephemeral publication, but a work for all time. THE MAESTRO. Nos. I. to V. This is a new musical weekly periodical which as sumes much higher ground than any of its predeces sors. It aims at being what the musical periodicals of Paris, conducted by Fetis Berlioz, and other notabi lities, are. Its Continental musical intelligence is full and valuable. Its criticisms are certainly not milk and water : the critic wields a scourge, and wields it with a strong arm, albeit we demur to the justness of many of his strictures. The,great danger to which an exclusively musical periodical is exposed is that of becoming the organ of a clique—this is a rock on which many of its predecessors have split, and which, we trust, the conductors of the Maestro will carefully avoid. We perceive by an announcement in No. IV. that an entire change has taken place in the editorial department of the journal, and we therefore abstain from animadverting upon certain ill-natured and un just attack , upon a talented composer, which ap peared in the earlier numbers. There is one feature of excellence by which the Maestro is very pleasantly distinguished from its fellows ; with each number two pieces of music are presented to the subscribers. Among those who have already composed pieces for the .zestro are Duprez, Jullien, Musard, De Witte, cola, and Benedict. MR. TEMPLETON'S MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS. Mr. Templeton produced his new entertainment, entitled " Lays of the last great Scottish Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott," at the Hanover-square Rooms, on Friday evening last, with most unqualified success. The libretto of this entertainment is excellent—it is replete with interesting anecdotes of the " Anosto of the North," which were admirably given by Tern pleton, whose enunciation is remarkably distinct, and who reads beautifully. The first song was " Jock of Hazeldean," which was sung with great feeling, and was much applauded. The beautiful lines from the " Lay of the Last Minstrel"—" And said I that my limbs were cold," were equisitely recited. They were followed by the air, " In peace love tunes the Shepherd's reed," which was given with great feeling and rapturously encored ; and then came the well known " Young Lochinvar," which was sung with great spirit. " Where shall the Lover rest," was given with exquisite feeling and expression.; and the first part concluded with " The Last Words of Mar mion. ' This splendid song, the composition of the late Dr. Clarke, of Cambridge, was given with more than the general effect of Templeton's execution: His taste ful transitions from the forte to the piano, on the con trary, as the sentiment required, were executed with much taste and tact, in all the songs, but it was more particularly marked, because more called for in this glorious composition, in which admirable effect was given to the contrasted expression of the fire of the battle, and the physical feebleness of Marmion, as life ebbed from him. The gem of the evening, how ever, was the exquisite song , from the "Lady of the Lake," "The heath this • night must be , my bed," which was given with exquisite pathos and power, and rapturously encored. Had it not been out of regard to the physical powers of the vocalist, its re petition would have been called for a second time ' • as it was, there was a strong disposition manifested on the pare of the audience to insist on a double encore. "'Tis merry, 'tis merry in fairy land," was very cleverly sung. "There was a Marechal of France" was loudly encored. This, which bids fair to become one of the most popular of Templeton's entertainments, was given under the immediate patronage of his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the members of the " London Scott Committee," and between the first and second part, Mr. Templeton sang in honour of his Royal patron, a- loyal and patriotic ballad, corn , posed expressly for this occasion, entitled " Hail to the Prince." The proceeds of . the entertainment were handed over , by Mr. Templeton to the Scott Monument Committee—a delicate and appropriate method, on his part, of testifying his veneration for he memory of Scotia's most gifted son. The enter :ainment was very fashionably attended. THE CEOLOPHON ORGAN. On Saturday we visited. Mr. Blagrove's New Con cart-room, 71, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, for the purpose of hearing the Nottingham cEolophon Organ. Mr. Myers, the inventor was in attendance to exhibit its construction. The sound is produced in the same manner as the serap hine, by passing a stream of air over springs of metal, but by an im proved patent process, the invention of r. Myers, the tongues of metal producing the sound, instead of being attached - to fixed metal supports by means of screws, are cut out from the supports themselves, , so there is none of that unpleasant jarring sound which is so often found in the seraphine. This instrument has two sets of keys, and five stops—the diapason double diapason, principal, soft diapason and reed, with separate pedal bass, manual coupler and pedal coupler. Mr. Putkiss performed several popular over tures and other pieces for the purpose of exhibiting the powers of the instrument, which for its size (not exceeding that of a very small chamber organ) are enormous. The Colophon organ is certainly the best substitute for the organ that has yet been offered to public notice. The precise reasons for the recal of Lord Ellen borough by the Court of Directors of the East. India Company were yesterday the subject of much discussion in, political circles. Nothing official has yet transpired to satisfy the public curiosity on this point, but we un derstand that the strong measure of the Court Of Di rectors proceeds not so much . froin any objections to the general policy of. Lord Ellenborough as from considera tions of minor importance. It is said that the bearing of.his Excellency towards the Court was not marked, in their opinion, by sufficient deference to their high autho. rity—that he did not, in fact, accommodate himself enough to their wishes and expectations in matters par taking rather of the character of detail in his govern-, went than of general direction.—Merver. RESPITE OF MARY FURLEY.-011 Saturday, about four o'clock, the Sheriffs received a communication from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, stating that her Majesty had been pleased to respite the sen tence of death passed at the last session of . the Central Criminal Court, on Mary Furley, during her Majesty's royal pleasure. When the respite arrived at Newgate, four of the Aldermen of London and a Member of Par liament,. distinguished for his philanthropy, were pre sent, anxiously awaiting the result of their exertions. The moment the important information arrived, it was at once communicated to the - wretched woman, .by the Ordinary of Newgate, and other official personages. The poor creature, on receiving the information that her life would be spared, burst into a flood of tears, and when she had somewhat recovered her self-possession, ex pressed her gratitude in the warmest terms to the gen tlemen who had so kindly interested themselves in her behalf. It is not at present known what her commuted sentence will be, but it is expected that she will undergo a very short imprisonment. REMOVAL or CONVICTS.—On Saturday morning, at an early hour, seventy-nine prisoners, whe had been convicted at the late sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to transportation, were removed in the van from that gaol to the Penitentiary it Millbank, there to undergo a short imprisonment preVious to their being taken on board the transport ship which is to convey them to Botany Bay. Among them were Wil liam Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, and. Henry Saun ders, the parties convicted of the late will forgeries, the two former having been sentenced to be transported for life, and the latter for seven years. There were also among the female convicts the lady shoplifters, Mrs. Earnshaw and Miss Wills, whose cases excited so muck interest a short time since. Both Barber and Fletcher were extremely low spirited. Mr. Hanbury Hall still continues in a very preca rious state. The answer to inquiries in Portman-square during the last few days has been that his indisposition continued alarming. Mr. Manning, the Comptroller of the Customs at the port of London, has retired on full salary of 1,000/. a year. Mr. Manning has been nearly, if not quite, half a century in the service of the Crown, DEATH OF SIR TIMOTHY SHJLLEY, BART.—This venerable Baronet expired on Wednesday last, at his seat in Sussex. He was son of the first Baronet, and was bora in 1756. In 1791 he married Miss Pinfold, daughter of Mr. Charles Pinfold, of Effingham, Surrey. On the death of his father, in 1815, he succeeded to the Baronetcy. His grand • son, Mr. Percy Florence Shelley, inherits the family honours, being the son of Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wolstonecroft, the authoress of " Frankenstein," who was daughter of Mr. Wm. Godwin, the celebrated author of H Caleb Williams." The present Baronet is in his twenty fifth yk‘v• POOR-LAW ADPITORS.—(From a Correspondent.) —lt is said that there is an intention of disposing of the pre sent auditors under the poor-law, and substituting district auditors. A district auditor will audit for severe unions, attending, most probably, at the union houses periodically • audit, and giving notice for parish officers when to meet him with their accounts. MASTERS AND SERVANIB.—Mr. H. G. Knight is one of the tender nurses of the Masters and Servants Bill now in Parliament; and if the infant be well nursed what a " monster" it will prove ! Meetings throughout the country are holding, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against this infamous Bill. It is a lamentable fact that, since the Tories regained power, we have had nothing but fresh oppressions pod tyranny.---Nottingham Review. GE. OA. op..' IViTaioNs. • k