The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-18 00:00:00

--.--''./ MMA II Y F ikc N iOttblftr 013t2Unn,.. " Who runs may read.' The ball at the Tuileries on Tuesday niche was of t a very brilliant d escr i pt i on. Their Majesties, accompaniel t hy the P r i nces and Princesses, entered the rooms to calf -past eight, and at nine the dancing commenced. At about twelve o'clock the Arab chiefs, accompanied . by Colo ne l Joussottt, arrived, an d were most grin:amble re ceived by the Royal family. A splendid supper, at which th e i r Royal highnesses Duke and Duchess de Nemours presided, was served i n t h e S a l on d e Diet,. The Royal family retired at two o'clock. Amengst tile guests were all the Cabinet Ministers, the Foreien Are hassadors, a great number of Peers, Deputies, and foreignersv of di st i nct i on. ,orr Nu merous workmen, says Galigi:ani's Messc , , , 1 Thursd a y, are en the stage night and d a y p repar i ng Stage at t h e Theatre of the Tuileries. for the perioneanee of Hamlet, which the English company will have the honour of acting before the Court. It will be 1 s,,,eit.thzJl they definitively close their repr esen t a ti ons in foes to morrow night, the entertainments being for the benefit of Mr. 3,litchell to whose spirit and enterprise the lovers of Shako dare are ind e bt e d f or the gratification affordedf t hem by this b r illi ant, b ut too brief, series of per ortnances. Mr. Macready will appear in an imposing fragment of on e o f hi s greatest characters, Henry IV., Which includes some of the noblest passages that ever le ak ' . sitdiet, sli 'se,. Proceeded from even Shakspeare's pen. Romeo and ghtly abridged, will follow, the principal chit 4,:,,`' racters by I , liss Faucit and Mr. Graham ; :eel, to col-t -elude, the charming Mdlle. Plessy, of the Francais, wil; 4 , It. parPePtetyalscionmaendyEnglish character, Lady Freelove, in ;he of A Day after the Wedding, a part io which Mdlle. Plessy received the greatest applause in 143 e , k ri dein, when she acted it before the Queen l 1 ant. e'nece - '" ) ert, and in which she will appear this evening before their Majesties at the Tuileries. i t The mayors of the different arrondissements of Paris .11;re received the following letter from Baron Fain, the ellig's Secretary: "I have the honour to announce to '; °4 that the King has been pleased to renew this year i e gift of two thousand francs which his Majesty t.ees at your disposal to be distributed in your arron soin3Zraiyenktntoownpootro families whose misfortunes are per you as worthy of interest. Be se f e ° ,l , Sir as to address to me the names of the persons to be relieved, with their address, and the amount of relief to be ply an I wll alws take ae that Your rin eo ra ° e ' d en '. n anons d i shall obtain a t y he result c th r at you desir e . aMajor-General Paixbans, Member of the Chamber of t!eeised t Duties o, and o f t h e Committee of Artillery, has beet, ra the r an k of Lieutenant-General. The statement that the Wallis and Gambier Island t•tere taken tattler the pr o t ec t orate o f F rance i s confirmed by th e f ollowing letter from M. Dudoit, FrenctConsul i loat the Sandwich Islands, dated the 12th of July, 184 1 4, the Minister of Foreign Affairs :---` I have the Zl o nour to inform you that official dispatches f t t i l i i i s t I \ e i r ost announcing that the Government .0 ristian Mit'est't has just ranted, in principle, the teti pro t;444demandedj le's L a g velua, King of ti.e Wallis (18 , and Pileto, King of the Island of Fontana ; anden thoereover that, in consequence of a convention King of the ,commander of the frigate La Charte and the .• ij . Iltatibliasmileb!er Islands, the protectorate of France is tqu e Batto n in this l ast arc hi pe l ago, su bj ect to .the ae l ,i,,- 4 of his Maj esty the K i ng of t h e French. ' 1) we read in a letter from Florence, of the Bth :!—"Tlic ao ll t n e e be , BB Cl . Q Berry and her . husband . have been here for winter aftes, and intend, it is said, to remain fiir . the at se „, Her Royal Highness was the other eveeing bilk - :,e t h ditre de la Pergola, in the box of the Grand t e • ri T i h ir e Sentinel& of Toulo n announces t h at L i eutenant ' in eh e e st of the Retry, hung himself about eight o'ciuck hatai eve ning of th e 11 t h i nstant, b y means of a silk 4 a part --Ql ‘ ei ltel faste ne d to t h e b ar of the wiedow of hi s ,t b e en ehp ro b ea t• He b e l onge d to the Montezuma, and had tel, i r , t ged to leave his ship, and come into the hospi 'l7;a Th e - e°43 equenee of the fracture of one of his arms. letTtewc°4lBe of his suicide was unknown. 4 f the evening journals of Wednesday state that soons. hoe T, been received in Paris from Ainsterdem. ai I - 11 el" g • the de thof the Emperor of Russia. The rt issels • ` 4 ' *43 earrj°4rnals of Tuesday state that such a report steef G eta there, but give no credit to it. The Dosed • terlin,a7tte announces, on the authority of letters Iron: i ' l e l ; but e t C e rt 6 th, that the Emperor was dangerously Iron s th at '..""ln Gazette of the Bth, and other letters rant the state of the same date, contain nothing to war- At of the Dusseldorf Gazette. A4t Gulkihtiri7 AND PO i ce. . thin - Ann Fitzgerald, an Irishwoman, Aldeneee -? . ...ve years r b ane ees Musgro ve sO, age, was brought . before Air. ~ii it ee,: f h oobt i 3ainiyiin ,e, charg e d with ill-treating her .hus eworn-hin. lig nelplessly ill in Holborn-buildings, ot, lteh her husband'sgili habit in ontb poor sh in an, o: P o r y is eher, it appeared, was in the E n d er, the charitable, o r fi n a l c ., co a u n n d t , is beating of beating. the it St of spending it in d i .. , e l , Lit B e d ,i ,Tor, a three itted to Bridewell ... tortaight, and dir • who has been confined to e Was corlar9 —.i* ;11 letil'TlVCllbw(' • elle, mwoviteidiarnto gateman, ection s were given that the bus ii'lltr Vivford-utreet surgeon, residing . W il l 4 dru n k ~ Br yttnstone-square, was charged with she , t „ and riotous and assaulting police constable lete 4 7° G.--. w ' coal a tab et h Jo e , as fined 20s. elle: t d pee.. Mt Manley, who was described .i a w s ,a a a k er Td tei,.,!` teoe-dealer, in Long-alley, Shorechte 1, se t , eartntB2" braining four tons of coals from two coal .. f A . e r li e d , Prom the evidence it appeared that the pt;i_ .. . -ten t giv en deli W harf order s order s to several coal merchants at d o f n to..ivery, r rh .., ,),.. two tons of coals, promising to)the I : 4 w ou h t ; 'e Prisoner prevailed on the men to shoot a f t , 4blcleaPiernises, and when they did so he told them . neer on t h ei r employer the following day a ith mie_ order . f e ; 1 the a ,._ • I his, however he neglected to do, , and o (i t , he etorunt of the coals delivered had been ce,ll , e . d . let,‘tebt, and the the parties the matter was one merely seeetoill wa s 7 must recover it in the usual way. 311 ' • o ," e te r to ° (,),I . a different opinion, and remanded Moe,. ag a i n icr charges a haul.° day, when it was said a number t n hi m, of a similar description would be brought A 0.,,,,,,, to„, aseweeattn, o r u ee (tf t h e 1, describing himself as Captain H ami a l- . IVi te il iviels p i !tia Royal Lancers, was charged t f e ' hea l °"ce Court, with the following conduct :- 44natet to tdrunk and furiously riding on the th a , With assault} he great danger of the eieseenge , rs, before th e ,itri_ng the police. The constable sta . ,ed Acct,,,l re tt e 3 _ 4l .er said he did not care about ile t earfilg t W onar e d at n'augtstrate, AS he had on a forme! occasue he e sca pe Greenwich Police-court for being drunk, stte",;de, 110 " th P i , n ,, 1 scot free, and he knew the magistrate ai r wa s th gto him. The defendant was asked if GrO,„ 4e c ate, and he frankl admitted the fact. ui '"!° Mark his sense of the defendant's dis• Pe halt Co nduct e nt , y the la ss d should certainly inflict the heaviest t i a d the def end s aw llowed. The worthy magistrate then Oeg, and t ss. for being drunk, 40s. for furiously ttl e Pon ee. " t he further sum of 40s. for the assault upon ta of constable teed; Paid _ • .The defendant, .who had a large - iittely , ai i, "Pon him when taken into custody, rim Li the amount, 41. 55., and was discharged. „It s .. p,, gc:otrz t .., .ilsi e -, cell" , , - --- riassuxoreasies . t ie r) peel visits c the Duke de Sotomayor (Spanish 11i ,,, o tt e of ,at yesterday to his Royal Highness the .11 , „ Beige,aanbrid the Lord Chancellor, Sir B. Peel, TliMcao, i Po , 1 ~,tich,ss,g an, and Dutch Ministers, Esc. _ lei 3 . 1 er nuke ot Gordon, widow of the celebrated and ,t 4 . k.n, i, ,e e of Gordon, is at Huntly Ledge, le oi th 43:trh.e.Aittr4i,en of excellent health... ~ __ , ,The 1 i (session " Bu te is staying at Dumfries louse, i'i,u, - I , • r it tori„ --arl o f -I_, Yarborough arrived by train at Abbey's 13 w„ing n'°el, lull, on Saturdaylast, and oti the f-el e -1.'4 Lerl'ing proceededtoßrocklesbv. 'eor k . t,'3wager Countess of Glasgow, with the Hon. Lear 'v.'• and Lad Diana Boyle,have 1 ft Etal House, Weeks .„,?°ler, vvhereyt heCountessliasbee e n staying seme te bee t f;ii.tliti Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzela eaCoaet bee Ladyehips residence at Edinhuigh. .'44llviteiiettsTliircle'3.lPll liinsky has left Mivart's Hotel, for I,l,4re:drGeneral Sir James Cockburn has arrived at the 1 INtiuterls .1.!?v1, Leamington Spa, on a visit to the 4 qu eles 8 Yaleutia. °4l , f or ,:1_• Newdegate, Esq., 11. P., has left Mivart's ses seat, Arbury Hall, Coventry. tAxl.;storde.y fore noon, the Commissioners of the income eoretti.et, for the London sat at their office, in 13aeing iita l';',l,"ione,. met tpnrnose of hearing the appeal:. The in the Board -roo m at eleven o'clock, 18tioili'lleejUdede. the consideration of the cases of the Me Nai7l2P Hants at two o'cleck. It is calculated that Pee„.seejit.inr _e_t:n:Zppe.llante.have been reduced about fifty `t!i ~, te •!4 panson with the number of the first year. !._iodideeb fee Board will assemble, for the last time, upon e.Petis • 41 * The Commissioners, of whom Sir G. ete Is th f k ilatlt 1 e oreraan, consist of some o the first iletlirines;,"4l3„ekwer,S, and, traders in the City of London. 1,"to F-14,468.141",,t . days frost which prevailed last month r u se e octelety offered the attendance of an iceinto; tif Pros e t • %a, ton of Prince Albert, who replied to the et;• orldettineeaettoent. tatiiiilseßhn,:tyt 1 4 th , That • al Highness thanked the Suet th e respectfully begged to decline the din;_ te : ti , d aY 1i:tomb:I n" . g, as.some labouring men were pro 'eta ,' '''' work in s e fields at Wandsworth their at till; - 148 arrestedlib teel.ll"ing at what y a dog belonging to one If the li Ttli lea ) upon in appeared to be a bundl e of rags ; illt_elt44g(l,neittotit,tieniingstPheeetbilil'y otufrniiende wototron bfeettarapteienctett,, uZilill kuthor9 (.1 and cold, and upon being 4141), siderable taken to the 4, but ities inquiry was i „• 43 yet without a • camediately i"-- excite titti,,; to the course which prevails in the City ny satisfactory result. ion-freeltechenhlasi with re• uns b e e h e o n id tit e k rs ei o i f b t y h • e th the t e: . r p ( . : 1 - t 4,7.1 againgt / 141 V tWheitB LheelgdistiaWtoui?or three days since, V ttn when il peti- ‘,Il 4,_ ~.._ . . so oloWealis oafdtchTetvedruvainsidonrsluoir zu6stlyi ith PraYiag that l' , k nu .._, l- v., c. `6, as relates to the abolition of freeedotu s ,xteuu_, all exclusive Privileges of tter ~,nueel to t he Ci t t? of trading, mad nu London, and that such fur eb4- ott+easures nacted for checking existine tetiitcosoft.mel-adraiYnisterateion, and reducing the amount Is it h e " ev 'Y local hcl 4viog been discovered by the revenue t, officers at ~..eteouth i7.„'.,,d,fe„..,,,;;;_ri erezy7iansinCgonstoanaineinegaskpsitewhh,ihtfla.tad..ibeen en , and constructed in siz • and ) • 14 e to tea, 30] t tel two "et resembl tel_ e un th e ,, e a common red brick, each L'-:lx,''ug wce; wer e and four pounds net of Ununell.t:•t",rinl 5 4 ,‘' ., 8 i ra of thee cmieealed in the Centre of the pit 4 ch 1 ,. * itl l ' rts , ) i ~ r evenue at this port, and at the several • • . thel 0 1,4441,1 'T o e L T Kingdom, have been 1 e i l sec e l r s a d feZ4tltheir r b e : defraud the revenue, and e a t i jo r in e d io Itth-ass e t ettd4avours to detect and prevent any a vrui e ca m a y be attempted by similar means, TIER. MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS.—The celebrated stag, Rory °Wore. afforded yesterday one of the best runs this season ; the meet, at which Lord Rosslyn and a field of nearly two hundred were present, taking place at Gerrard's Cross Common. Rory, oa being uncarted near the Pig and Whistle, on the Beacons tield-road, made for Chalfont St. Giles's, across Bo!strode Park, to Hedgerley village, and Burnham Beeches, crossing Littleworth and Woburn Com mons, and thence to Bone End, where it crossed the Thames to Berkshire, the hounds being taken over Cook ham Bridge, Upon being again laid on near the village of Ccoltham, the stag went away to Quarry Wood, where it doubled to the left, and swam the Thames a second time, landing on the Bucks side, and was taken at Great Marlow, after a capital run of an hour and a half. SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD FROM EATING A PIECE OF CANDLE.—Yesterday a fine little boy, named Thomas Morgan, two years and a half old, a son of Captain Morgan, residing at No. 13, Wathey -street, Consinercial-road, St. George's-in-the East, by some means obtained a piece of candle, and contrived, before he was discovered, to eat a considerable portion of it. About three hours afterwards he was seiz-d with a yin -14-rt vomiting, by which some part of the candle was e;..cter! ftom the stomach. Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of the Commercial-road, was called in, and, upon being in- armed of the cause of the attack, administered the ne c,t,sary remedies ; but in vain, for the child died in a few hours. 'l* II E RETRIBUTION STEAM- FRIG A TE.—This mag nVicent vessel, the largest steam-frigate in the service, left Blackwall on Thuasday morning for Chatham. She got under way at tea minutes past seven A.M., and pros. eded until she reached Gravesend, at a re duced speed, in consequence of the numerous vessels coining up the river, it being nearly high water when she started. Upon her arrival at Gravesend she stopped her engines for ten minutes to land a gentle man who had proceeded thus far in her, and upon resuming her course, it was resolved to try her, at full speed, in order to test her own as well as the capabilities of the engines. The trial was particularly in tereating, and the result was most satisfactory, as the speed of the vessel after leaving Gravesend was fifteen mils per hour, and it was the general opinion of all on board, that when she gets deeper in the water she will even increase her speed. The total weight of the whole machinery is nearly 600 tons ; yet, notwithstanding this immense weight, and their extraordinary size and power, the eLgines worked with the greatest ease, and were as readily controlled by the engineer as any of those in the aniallest river steamer. It might have been supposed that when this immense mass of ponderous machinery was set in motion with such velocity, that the vibration would have been very considerable. Such, however, was not the case ; for when the vessel was going at her greatest speed nothing of the sort was in the least perceptible, and persons below would not have known but that the vessel was at anchor. She brought up in the Medway, within four miles of Chatham, at 10 50 A. 31., the tide not enabling her to proceed further. There is no instance on record of any vessel having made such an extraordinary quick passage before, as the whole distance was run in three hours and forty minutes. She was taken from Blackwall for Chatham under the com mand of Captain Smith, of Woolwich Dockyard. Mr. Llo, d, the engineer-in -chief of that establishment, was also on board, as well as several other scientific indivi duals. Upon the making of the flood tide she got under way again, and proceeded on to Chatham. SiGiss OF PROSPERITY.—We are glad to learn that within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have advanced the handloom weavers' wages fully nine per cent., making a total advance of 20 per cent. on wages since the spring of 1844. BRADFORD.—REPRESENTATION OF THE BOROUGH. —A good deal of talk has been occasioned by the ap • pearance among us, during the last two or three days, of Mr. Wilberforce, one of the borough candidates at the last election. Whether his visit is connected with a political object or not, we cannot ascertain, but certainly, taken in conjunction with the fact of Mr. Hardy's late illness, it looks suspicious. He was staying at Scarr Hall with Mr. Pollard, and visited his old political supporters. -- Leeds Times. The Hon. C. A. Murray, who is now convalescent, left Windsor Castle on Wednesday for town, and is ex pected to proceed, in the course of a few days, to. Naples, to enter upon the duties of his new appointment, as Secretary of Legation at the Neapolitan Court. NEW THEATRE IN SHOREDITCH.—The new theatre which has been fur some months in the course of erection in Shoreditch, facing the Eastern Counties Railway, has ;:t length been completed, and is to be opened on Jlonda evening. It is one of the most elegant and capacious minor theatres in existence. The building has been erected under the entire direction of Mr. Gibson, the architect. It will contain an audience of 2,200 people, namely--gallery, 700; pit, 1,000; and boxes, 500. The gallery is so constructed that an entire view of the stage can be obtained from every seat. The front rows of the pit are rather below the level of the stage, it then rises on a slope and the back rows are on a level with the stage. The boxes are so divided that no inconvenient pressure can arise from a full house. An excellent arrangement is made with regard to the approach, so that those who have an objection to a saloon can enter and ieave the theatre without coming into contact with it. The saloon is large, and fitted up with every regard to com:ort and ease. The stage is thirty-seven feet from wing to wing, and nearly fifty feet from the foot lights to the back. Beneath it is au arena for horsemanship (during an equestrian season) forty feet in diameter. To display this the stage will travel with the greatest ease to another part of the building. so that the delay in prepaving the arena will be as short as if a usual interlude followed.. The proscenium boxes draw back to prevent any obstruction to the view, and, as the curtain iises, a pair of very elegant Corinthian gold moulded pillars draw off at the side, leaving the stage its entire size during the dramatic representation, and closing again as the act drop falls. The divisions of the boxes are supported by Corinthian columns, gold moulded, and the dome is in strict accordance with the saute style of architecture. The interior of the boxes is hung with crimson. The ceiling is divided into six corn liariments, with the following devices :—'• Tragedy, Music, the Dramatic Poet, attended by Fame and Ap pl.iuse; the Comic Poet creating his subject; the Painter's :1: cam, and Romance borne by two youthful poets." 'Hie rtircle bet!, een the boxes and gallery are decorated with ni , utical and equestrian sketches in thepanels, whilst the circle between the boxes and pit are in the arabesque !,iyie, with vignettes and various devices. The house iii be lit by a chandelier of a novel description. The building lays great claims to external elegance, and o;)ens wilder the joint direction of Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee, late lessees of the Pavilion Theatre. St.ouGu, Fittn.ky.—Mrs. Hadler (the mother of the unfortunate Sarah Hart, who was murdered at Salt hill, on the Ist instant), with her husband, left the neigh bourhood of the melancholy catastrophe yesterday morn ing for Gravesend, taking with her the two children of the deceased. A subscription has been commenced at Salt-hill, under the auspices of a lady sojourning at D,tham's Hotel, to which liberal contributions have been :trade by most of the principal inhabitants of the vicinity, the benevolent purpose of providing for their future t%etfare. We may mention that Mr. Butham, the pro prietor of the hotel, hay, kindly consented to receive sub • scriptiuns in their behalf. GREAT LIBERALITY.—A clergyman, not far from Exeter, was applied to by a poor woman, who had done some service in his family, to baptize her infant, and per form the usual offices of the church after her confine ment. The service was performed, and the generous clergyman, whilst he himself received the full fee paid by :be most wealthy of his parishioners, strictly admonished the clerk and sexton, that on account of the poor woman's t'xtreme poverty, they should receive but half of theirs. —Correspondent of the Western Times. SKELETON FOUND IN THE NEW -ROAD.—OH Mon day morning a poice-coastable found the skeleton of a young child in the New-road, nearly opposite to the Alarylehone Workhouse. Dr. Bo)d, the physician to infirmary of that establishment, has examined it at the request of Mr. NValtley, M.l'., Coroner, and sent to that gentleman the following description of it:--It con sists of the bones of the head and the trunk (94 inches l ag). The extremities are wanting. There is an in dentation in the right parieter bone of the skull. The te-ck of the lower jaw, on the right side., is broken ;:cross. The collar bones are broken, and numerous ribs 1 - actured. The spine is nearly divided at the bottom of !h.. neck. The thigh bones are absent, all but the heads, :4!,d the skeleton se: ms to have been that of a malformed child—hence a suspicion that ithas been destroyed on - ac:ec.unt of its deformity. The Coroner awaits the result of investigations in progress before he decides whether or not he shall hold an inquest. taking care to acquaint the Commissioners with any t COURT CIRCULAR. matters that may arise tit for their cognizance. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the The solicitor of the Customs having, pursuant to the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken directions of a minute issued by the Commissioners, laid pleasure before the Board the form o f a gen era l no ti ce , s i gn if y i ng their accu s t ome d wa lk thi s morn i ng, ,i n the that the period of eight days all o w e d f or ascerta ini ng th e grounds aijacent to the Castle. Her Royal Highness deficiencies on corn or grain warehoused, and subse- the Princess Alice was also taken an airing. quently entered for home consumption, ias been ex- The Hon. Miss Murray, Maid of Honour in Wrait t,ed,:d to fourteen days, th,l noti:e has been approved, mei e 100- of the same p r ; nte d. by ,girder of the in on her Majesty, arrived at the Castle last night. rind delivered t o th e severa l d epartm.nts in London, an,l T 11 " HE GRAM) DUCHESS OF MECKLENBURGH transmitted to the coll ec t ors an d comptrollers at the , STRELITZ. ri as outp , alsof the United Kingdom, for their govern- fhe following account of the health of her Ro3 al steal and the information of the trade. Highness was issued yesterday : " Cambridge House, January 17, 1845. " Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklen burgh Strelitz continues to go on quite satisfactorily. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D." Inquiry was made at Cambridge House yesterday morning, on the part of the Queen and the Qaeen Dowager, after the state of their illustrious relative. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent sent from Froginore House to inquire after her Royal Highness. In the afternoon the Duchess of Gloucester paid a visit at Cambridge House. The following members of the corps diplomatique called and entered their names yesterday :—The French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire, the Netherlands Minister, the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Hanoverian Minister, the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, the Mexican Minister and Madame Murphy, the Saxon Minister, and Baron de Thile. Among the nobility and gentry who called yes terday at Cambridge House to inquire after the health of her Royal Highness, were the Duchess of St. Albans, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Mr. Culling Smith, the Countess and the Ladies Cadogan, the Countess de Flahault (Barones Keith), Earl of Shelburne, the Duke of Sutherland, Countess of Jersey, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mar joribanks, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Captain and the H on . Mrs. Pechell, L or d an d Lady Mahon, Marquis of Bristol, Lady and the Misses Stephenson, Captain Henry Murray, R.N., Countess Dowager Chichester, the Ladies Pelham, Hon. W. and Mrs. Ashley, Coun tess of Mansfield, Lady Caroline Murray, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Sir Thomas Reeve, Sir Charles Wetherell, Marquis of Douglas, General Sir George Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, the Misses Somerset, Earl de Grey, the Lord Mayor, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Mr. E. D. Moore, the Earl and Countess of Erroll, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, Rev. Dr. Jelf, Mrs. R. Jelf, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, Marchioness of West meath, Dowager Lady Cooper, Misses Honywood, Colonel Sir George Couper, Mrs. and Miss Greathed, and also a great many . others of th e no bilit y an d gentry. The Hereditary Grand Duchess was going on fa vourably last evening. CHESS. We have received the following in answer to the e:ndlenge which appeared in our paper of yesterday:— " Paris, Jan. 14. I have read in your journal of this morning a letter from Mr. Staunton, to which I shall feel obliged by your I,li.,hing the following brief, and, I think, conclusive oply. I have played two matches with Mr. Staunton ; I won the first, and lost the second. We were to have played a third, which his departure alone has prevented ;Or the last three months I have been here at his dis ;,,,Eal. After my having declared, repeated, and pub (ll,lamede, vol. iii., pp. 203, 417 ; vol. iv., pp. 38, 83, 92, 133, 182, 328, 329) that, not being a 1 chess player by profession, not accepting any con .rbution from my fellow-citizens, having, besides, •o establishments in France, as well as :oy family, it was impossible for me to sacri n,:e all to go to Englaad to play with him a match any importance, and taking up a certain period of time—he challenges me to proceed to London, and gives himself the satisfaction (very little compromising, Imust , to his purse) of off.ring to stake 1501. to my 1001. A :; he is already perfectly aware that I cannot accept his 'a r. I ought perhaps to feel thankful to him for not bluing proposed stakes more di3proportionally insulting to me. We were to play here a third match, for 1001. a-side, with his own men (it is all that I could concede to him), and it is not from me, but from him, that it comes to pass that this match has not taken place. Such is the exact truth. and as history ought to be written.—l have the honour to be, s r, your very obedient servant. " ST. AMANT." The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High , rwss the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glou. cester House. A deputation from the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway, consisting of Mr. Baker, Mr. Rendell en gineer; Mr. Whitcombe, solicitor; and Mr. Elli oombe, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation from the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway, consisting of Mr. Wardell, Mr. Brown, Mr. Roy, and Mr. Williams, directors; Mr. Robertson, engineer; Mr. Kelsall, solicitor; and Mr. Ellicombe, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. A deputation Irom the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Direct and Independent Railway, consisting of Mr. Rowland, Morris Fawcett, deputy chairman ; the Vice-Provost of King' College, Cambridge; Mr. A lderinan Farncombe, Mr. Richard Dutton, Mr. William Cadman, Mr. Leather, engineer ; Mr. Blackburn and Mr. James, solicitors ; and Mr. Lang, Parliamentary agent, had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade. A deputation from the Provisional Committee of the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Rail way, consisting. of Colonel Mure, of Caldwell, Mr. Graham, of Ferenese, Mr. Robson, engineer, Mr. Tennent, solicitor, Glasgow, and Mr. Dunlop, Parlia mentary agent, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade, yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. There were present the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Juige of the Admiralty Court. A petition of Pierre Rousseau, from Trinidad, was heard. The Master of the Rolls, on the part of the Court, granted leave to appeal upon conditions. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard on a peti tion from Trinidad, " Eccles v. Brown." An appeal from St. Lucia, " Annet Jean Beauce v. the Hon. William Muter," was resumed and con cluded. Mr. James Parker, Q.C., and Mr. Burge, Q.C., were heard. The Judge of the Admiralty Court gave judgment on an appeal from the Prerogative Court, "Jones v. Godrich," affirming the decree of the Court below in favour of the will, and also in favour of the first codicil, but pronouncing against the second codicil, and reversing the decree in that particular. Their Lordships also granted costs to Mr. Jones both in the Court of Appeal and also in the Court below. HER MAJESTY AT STOWE. STOWE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—Previous to the ban quet last night, Mr. Smith, the Mayor of Buckingham, presented the addresses of the borough of Buckingham to her Majesty and Prince Albert. In the evening Jullien's band performed several fa vourite pieces of music, of which her Majesty expressed her approbation. The Life Guards' band played dur ing dinner. her Majesty retired to rest at half-past eleven. In the course of the day Mr. Smith, the librarian, and Dr. Buckland exhibited and explained to her Majesty the contents of the museum. This morning her Majesty rose at seven, and remained in her private apartments till luncheon. At ten Prince Albert went out shooting to Stratford hill-wood. He was accompanied by the Duke of Buck ingham, the Marquis of Chandos, the Earl of Jersey, Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Anson, Colonel Carrington, and Captain Roberts. The party returned at about one o'clock, the Prince having shot 80 pheasant, 66 hares, and 2 rabbits. After luncheon her Majesty and the Prince planted each a cedar and an oak in front of the Temple of Con cord. Her Majesty left the mansion soon after three o'clock, and walked with the Duke of Buckingham to the spot. Prince Albert walked with the Duchess, and the chief guests followed. As soon as the trees had been duly planted, according to custom, the Duke of Buck ingham cried out " God bless Queen Victoria." Those who accompanied her Majesty cheered and waved their hats, as did some spectators at a short distance. The dinner party to-night will consist of the royal party anti the guests in the house, with the addition of Mr. and Mrs. Dupr4e, the Hon. Captain Fitzmaurice, M.P., and Mrs. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Rice Clayton, M.P., and Mrs. Clayton, and Mrs. Scott Murray. The following have received invitations for the evening : The Duke and Duchess of Grafton, the Duke of Rutland, the D u k e o f Marlborough, Lord and Lady Southampton, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lord Alfred Paget, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Alvanley, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Miss Eden, the Hon. Miss Copley, the Countess of Bridgewater, Baroness Wenman, Sir Thomas and Lady Sheppard, Sir George Nugent, Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Nugent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, Sir ['ugh and Lady Hoare, Sir H. and Lady Verney, Lord 4i.ost , ,n and the Hon. Miss Irby, the Hon. George and Mrs. Irby, the Rev. George Chetwode and Miss Chet wode, Mr. Grenville Pigot, Mr., Airs., and Miss Ricketts, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Arnold, Sir John D. King, Mr. and Mrs. W. Cartwright, the Hon. P. S. and Mrs. Pierrepont, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hibbert, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Dashwood, Mr. and Miss Ponceford Dun combe, Mr. G. S. Harcourt, Mr., Mrs., and Miss R. Har vey, Mr., Mrs., and Miss C. H. Hoare, and Miss Prince, Mr. C. Penfold, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Williams, Mr. J. P. Deering, the Rev. Mr. Coker and Mrs. Coker, Mr. Barnes, Mr. T. T. Drake and Mrs. and the Misses Drake, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Jenny, and Mr. S. J. and Mr. A. H. Jenny ; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lowndes, and Miss Hartmann, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lowndes, the Rev. H. Fowless, Mr. and Mrs. John Bent, Mr. S. Murray, M.P., Mrs. and Miss Murray and Miss Nixon, Mr. G. Carrington and Miss Carrington, Mr. G. Carrington, jun., the Rev. Mr. Harrison, Mrs. Harrison, and Miss Harrison ; M r ., M rs ., an d t h e Mi sses Dayrell ; the Rev. J. Drake and Mrs. Drake, Mr. J. Dupree and Miss Dupree, Mr. and Mrs. B. Fuller, Rev. Mr. Gleed, Mr. and Mrs. Lowndes (Chesham), Mr. J. Palmer, the Rev.. C. Erie, Mr. J. Norris, and Lady Young, Colonel 11. Vyse, and the Misses Vyse, Sir T. F. Russell, and Lady and Mrs. Russell, Mr. P. H. Wykeham, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stone, the Rev. Mr. Martyn, Mrs. and the Misses Martyn ; the Rev. Mr. Barron and Miss Barron, Mr. T. T. Bernard, Mrs. and Miss Bernard, the Rev. Mr. Young and Mrs, Young, the Rev. Mr. Wroth, Mrs. and the Misses Wroth ; the Rev. Mr. W r i g h t an d M rs. Wright, the Rev. Mr. Rich arid Mrs. Rich, the lion. C. C. Cavendish and Lady Catherine Cavendish, Mr. W. G. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. George Merge!), Mr. Davis, the Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Mrs., and the Misses Hutchinson, the Hon. Colonel D. Pennant, the Warden of Merton and Lady Anstruther, the Warden of the New College, lady, and family, the Rector of Lin coln and Mrs. Radford, Mr. C. G. Mansell, the Rev. 11. Winfield and Miss Winfield, thy; Rev. Mr. Alharies and Mrs. Alhawes, Mr. W. G. and Mrs. and Miss Bailey, the Bev. J. Beard, Mr. T. A. Boswell and Mrs. Boswell, the Rev. T. D. Broughton and Mrs. and Mi ss Bli c kl ey, the Rev. A. Chester and Mrs. Checkley, Mr. J.Denison, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss G. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. M. Knapp, Mr. W. T. Praed, Mrs. and Miss Praed, Mr. and Miss A. G. Roberts, Miss Smythe, the Rev. F. and Mrs. Rose, the Rev. L. Smythe and Mrs. and Miss Smythe, Colonel Hall, the Rev. Mr. and Miss Cookerley, Mr. Grenville Penn, Mr. Christopher Fano and Lady Sophia Fane, Mr. M. Swabey, Mr. and Mrs. P. Wroughton, the Rev. G. and Mrs. I'hillimore, Sir T. Aubrey, the Rev. A. Owen and Mrs. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. W. Richford, Mr. J., Mrs., and Mtss Hale, the Rev. T. Carter, Mr. R. and Mrs. Sutton, Mr. J. R. Barker, Mr. Benjamin l)'lsraeli and Mrs. D'lsrueli, Mr. and Mrs, W. P. Freeman, Colonel Iligginson, Mr. R. llamnaond, Mr. J. Newman, the Rev. J. King and Mrs. Kin , the Rev. J. Pigott and 0, THE SUN, LON DON, SATURD " Carmarthen—Abbergwille Rectory, 201. "Brecknock—Talgarthen and Alawe, 35/. " Middlesex—lslewerth and Twickenham, 261. 13s. 4d. " London—Blossoms Inn, 161. &c., &c., forming a total of 6611. 6s. Bd. The copy of the charter is deposited in the Record office, and remains in an excellent state of preservation. It is engrossed on vellum, and amongst other attractions, not forgetting the autograph of the celebrated Cecil, is a likeness of the royal founder of the order of the Poor Knights, which is ascribed to Holbein. REPORTED DEATH OF THE EM PEROR OF RUSSIA. In reference to the report of the death of his Imperial Majesty, which has created so great a sensation, we shall not enter into any speculations or calculations. We merely afford to our readers, as we have heretofore done, the statements which have issued from the source from which the report emanated. Our Belgian correspondent in his letter, dated " Brus sels, Thursday evening, Jan. 16," says I have not received, in relation to the reported death of the Em peror of Russia, any intelligence since I dispatched my letter yesterday, which can enable me either to deny or to confirm positively the report so confidently announced by the Eclair and other Brussels papers of Tuesday night ; but the authenticity of the statement, which had obtained fur itself general credence, is now very muc h doubted here." Our correspondent at Amsterdam, writing on the 15th inst., expresses a similar opinion, and mentions that "the Journal de la Have states that no intelligence of the Emperor of Russia's illness had reached that place." Our Paris correspondent, dating his letter Thursday evening, says : " Berlin papers of the 6th, state that letters had been received front St. Petersburgh, announcing the illness of the Emperor. Great agitation was felt at the Russian Embassy."—Herald. NEW PROJECTED RAIL WAYS. (From the London Gazette of Last Night.) RAILWAY DEPARI'MENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17, 1845 . Notice is hereby given that the Board constituted by the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of the 24th of August, 1844, for the transaction of railway business, having had under con sideration the following schemes for extending railway communication in the district of North Kent, and in the districts of Kent and Sussex, intermediate between the South Eastern and Brighton Railways, Y. '— The Central Kent Railway, The London and Croydon —Orpington Branch, The London and Maidstone, The London and Ashford, The London, Chatham, and Chilham, The London, Chatham, and Gravesend, The London, Chatham, and North Kent, The Rye, Tenterden, and Fleadcorn, The South - Eastern—Maidstone and Rochester, The South - Eastern —Tunbridge to Hastings, Rye, and St. Leonard's, The South-Eastern —Branches to Deal and Walmer, and extension and deviation at Margate, The South-Eastern —Ashford to Hastings, The South-Eastern—Headcorn to Rye, The South-Eastern—Hungerford-bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood and Branches, The t o Chilham,S o u th-E a .w t e t t r h n — a N b r e a r n t c h h K t o e n s t , h l e r u n ng es e s f a o n r d d - b brd ra i n g o h e to connect Greenwich and Woolwich; Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of the South-Eastern—Maidstone and Rochester, South-Eastern—Branches to Deal and Walmer, and extension and deviation at Margate, South-Eastern—Ashford to Hastings, South-Eastern—Hungerford-bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood and Branches, South-Eastern—North Kent, Hungerford-bridge to Chilham, with Branch to Sh eerness, subject to any modifications which may appear to be desirable for the naval and military establishments of the country; and reserving consideration of the Branch to con nect Greenwich and Woolwich ; And against the Central Kent, London and Croydon—Orpington Branch, London and Maidstone, London and Ashford, London, Chatham, and Chilham, London, Chatham, and Gravesend, London, Chatham, and North Kent, an u d nb i n i ' e d ad geet°ornll ' astings, Ry e , an d St. s ß o y u e t , h ' . l E 'en as te te r r dn, Tne_ Leonard's (with the exception of so much of the line as lies between Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells), South-Eastern—Headcora to Rye. :..T; DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING. B h a o ih rse ll Wa e watering-place. FLOCK OF GOLDFINCIII9.—On Sat ur d ay a f ternoon a very numerous flock of goldfinchas , were alight ere observed c ri r v o e s r s s t i h d e e, N , a o North little Inch to vfreo the Con sidering that for many years the g o ldfi nc h , the most t rv a t the to beautiful of our native feathered songsters, has been a rather scarce bird, and that seldom more than from twelve to a score have been discovered together, such a flock as that seen on Saturday —upward s of 100, is some what remarkable. Somehow or other, several bird fanciers in the town had so early information of the chance of making a fine capture, that the birds were not many minutes alighted, when. call-birds and limed twigs were placed round them in every direction. The wild goldfinches would not, however, take the twigs, and in a short time they rose in a body, and flew in the direction from whence they came, to the sad disappointment of the fanciers, who expected to take a dozen or so of them ; and for which, kuLd they been successful, they would have made a very handsome sum, as a good male I.oldfinch readily brings from 4s to 55., and a female 2s. 6d. 'The appearance of so nume rous a collection of these I)inis is said to betoken a storm in the nord —Perthshire Courier. ~_ S Mrs. Pigott, Mr. T. C. and Mrs. Higgins, Mr„.and Mrs. C. Clover, Mr. T. H. Worley, the Rev. JaMes Pigott, Mr. T. Darien. the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Fitzwarren, Mr. C. G. Dupre, M.P., and Mrs. Dupre, the Rev. E. and Mrs. and Miss Neale, Mr. P. Dauncey, Mr. H. Smith and Mrs. Smith, Captain Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Sutton, jun., the Rev. Mr. Andrewes and Mrs. An drewes. Dr. and Mrs. Langley, the Hon. Captain and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Colonel and Mrs. Delsop, Sir James Watson, Messrs. Bartley, Dewes, Sir James Graham left Stowe this morning for Ox ford. He returns this evening. The royal party leave to-morrow (Saturday) morning at ten o'clock. The train is ordered at Wolverton for half-past eleven, so that it is probable her Majesty will arrive at Euston-square at about one o'clock. Last night there was a display of fireworks in the mar ket-place of Buckingham, much to the delight of the good people of the town. The weather here to-day has been very fine. MR. BRIGIEIT'S VISIT TO DURHAM. (From the Sunderland Herald.) On Wednesday evening John Bright, Esq., the talented member for this city, addressed the electors and other inhabitants in the theatre, Saddler -street. Immediately after the doors were opened the building was crowded to excess, and hundreds of persons were unable to admission. At seven o'clock Mr. Bright appeared en th accompanied by a large nuinber of his friends and con stituents. He was greeted on his appearance with loud and enthusiastic cheers. On the motion of Mr. Oliver, seconded by Mr. J. E. Marshall, JOHN lIXNDERSON, Esq., was called to the chair, who opened the proceedings in an appropriate speech, during which he referred to the fact that fbrmer representa tives of the city had not been in the habit of meet ing the inhabitants in this manner. They were much indebted to Mr. Bright for having introduced so good a custom.—(Applause.) Mr. Blamer was hailed with rapturous cheering. His speech occupied nearly two hours in its delivery, and many of its passages were extremely able and eloquent. We are only able to present our readers with a brief abstract. He commenced by stating the object of their assembly, which was that he might advert to his votes during the last session of Parliament, state to them his views of the present position of the free-trade question, and receive from them any hints or suggestions as to their wishes for the future. He was sorry to hear that similar meetings had not been hereto fore held in the city of Durham, for he was convinced that nothing was of more importance than that Members should frequently meet their constituents, especially when the connexion which subsisted between them was only of a political character. Members were far too apt to be profuse of promises on the hustings, and forgetful of them in the House of Commons. His professions as a candidate were chiefly confined to one question—the question of free tra , '-, in the fullest sense of the word not in corn only, bu. ,:ery other article of import, and with respect to every article of domestic or home manu facture.—(Applause.) The peculiarity of the circum stances attending his election seemed to demand that such a meeting should take place, for he came to the city an entire stranger, not knowing a single individual in it, and having no reputation here, save the fleeting and un satisfactory one arising from his name often appearing in the columns of the newspapers. They were satisfied with his professions, and sent him to Parliament; he had now returned to give them an account of his past conduct, and ask their approbation of the past, and their support for the future.—(Applause.) In taking a review of the mea sures of last session, he first adverted to the question of the sugar duties, explaining the discriminating duties as they existed previous to the alteration made by Government, and vindicating himself and his colleagues for the vote they gave in favour of Government and against Mr. Miles's amendment on that question—. an amendment which, he said, was supported by the Whigs simply with a desire to outvote the Ministry. - Next came Mr. Villiers's motion for a repeal of the corn-laws, and on the second night's debate the late Whig Ministers absented themselves from their usual places in the House—it was a studied insult to the advocates of free trade, because they refused to vote with the Whigs to turn out the Tories. The only exception was a nobleman nearly allied to this county, the representative of a neighbouring borough—he al luded to Lord Howick—(Applause)—and his speech was perhaps—he was going to say without any exception— the most powerful and the most beautiful speech he had ever heard in defence of free trade. —(Applause.) The Whigs attempted to lessen the minority on that division, but they did not succeed; the same number of votes was registered in its favour as on the preceding year, whilst from 20 to 30 voted with the League in 1844, who had never voted with them before. —(Applause.) Later on in the session Mr. Gibson proposed that a Government Commission should be issued to go down into Suffolk, Essex, and parts of Cambridgeshire, for the purpose of ascertaining the causes of the incendiary fires which were then raging. Mr. Gibson is a Suffolk landowner, although he represents Manchester, and as the squires who represented the rural districts sat and voted as if they had left an Elysium, he felt it hi s d uty to b r i ng forward the ques ti on . The commission was not issued, the incendiary fires had gone on and are going on still, and Government and the landowners refused to inquire into the cause of this lamentable state of things. He (Mr. Bright) sa id t h at t h e prevalence of incendiarism showed that there was something rotten in the state of the agricultural districts —something was out of joint, when men, honest and well-meaning as any then pre sent, were tempted or driven to raise their hands against the property of their neighbours and employers; and the members of the League would have been wanting in their duty if they had neglected to bring this important matter before Parliament, especially when they found it was a subject which the representatives of the agricul tural counties were afraid to grapple with. After some further statements, the Honourable Member continued: —No party had ever yet been able to make the Leagne a tool or instrument to aid its purposes, and no party should ever do so.—(Cheers.) He then adverted to the importance of free trade, and to the increased commerce which it would bring between this and other countries. Their opponents knew that free trade was good, or why did they rejoice over a free trade tariff for China? Sir Henry Pottinger had beers feted, and eight or nine thou sand pounds had been subscribed (chiefly by monopo lists) to purchase an estate for him, because when the Chinese were in a very humble mood, as most men are when they are beaten, he established a tariff, by which wheat and provisions of all kinds should enter China free of duty, the ships which brought them being also free from the usual port charges; by which there is to be no discriminating or protective duties; and, according to which all duties for revenue are to be moderate. Now this was just such a tariff as the League wanted; audit' it was good fur China, he did not see why it should not be good for England; yet the very men who lauded Sir Henry Pottinger for doing this for China heaped calumny and abuse upon the Anti-Corn-law League, because they were anxious to establish such a tariff in England.— (Loud applause.) After adverting at considerable length to the injurious operation of the corn-laws, and showing that the present state of commercial prosperity was owing to the cheap price of bread, arising from a bountiful harvest (which blessing would be perpetuated by a repeal of the bread tax), he stated the means which the League was now employing, viz., increasing the county constituencies by the addition of free trade voters, for hastening the abolition of monopoly. In re viewing his own conduct during the last session of Par liament, he had only one cause of regret, and it was that he had suffered the Night Poaching Bill to pass without opposition, a Bill which made it equally criminal for a man to be found armed on the high road as in his neighbour's lands. This Bill was smuggled through the House, and he had lost sight of it. He the more re gretted this circumstance, because he believed if any one Member had fairly opposed it, it would not have passed. He had some consolation, however, in believing that now, when the evils of the game-laws have become so fearful that a reconsideration of them must speedily take place, this further extension of them would add to the hatred against a system more tyrannous and galling than any that ever existed—a system which in 1843 consigned 4,500 of his fellow -countrymen to gaol, and which, within the last ten years has caused the deaths of 41 game keepers, in 26 of which cases verdicts of wilful murder were returned by the coroners' juries, besides the death of a great number of poachers. If anything could add to the hideousness of the features of these laws, it was the measure which was passed in the last session of Parliament. He had already given notice of his inten tion to bring forward a motion in the next session for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the ope ration of the game-laws, especially as they affected the prosperity of the farmer, and the morals and comfort of the labourer. He hoped and believed that the Govern ment would grant him a Committee on this important subject, and he anticipated much benefit from their labours. Mr. Bright then recounted the grounds of hope for the future ; concluding a brilliant speech by assuring them that he should return to the House of Commons stimulated and strengthened by the manner in which he had that night been received, and determined to devote himself incessantly and unswervingly to the advocacy of those great and just principles which first recom mended him to the good opinion and suffrages of the electors of the city of Durham. [The Hon. Member then resumed his seat amidst the most deafening plaudits of the crowded audience.] Mr. BassaWELL moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Bright for the able review which ho had taken of the proceed ings of Parliament during the last session, and for his past exertions, and expressive, also, of full confidence in his future conduct. The motion was seconded by Mr. J. E. MARSHALL, and carried unanimously, and with loud acclamations. Mr. BRIGHT returned thanks. _n our report yesterday an inaccuracy occurred in the description of a piece of silver plate. It is a group of Sir Bevil Grenville, and not of Sir Grenville Temple. Sir Bevil Grenville, or Granville, as he is sometimes called, lost his life at the battle of Lansdown-hill, where he charged a body of piketnen, who defended an emi nence. Mr. Cotterill is the artist who designed and modelled the group. THE POOR KNiGHTS of WINDSOR A very important document connected with the en dowment of this ancient order has recently been disco vered among the archives of the Court of Wards and Liveries, which promises to become the subject of legal controversy, involving, as it does, the rights of the Poor Knights of Windsor to the distribution among them of a large and hitherto unappropriated income. The docu ment in question is a verified copy (signed by Cecil, Lord Burleigh) of the charter, under the sign manual of Queen Elizabeth, instituting the above order, and bears date the 20th of August, 1558. The following is extrac'ed from the indenture prefixed thereto •—" And whereas divers manors, lands, tenements, and heredita merits mentioned and contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, of the clear yearly value of 600/. and above, are given and assigned unto the dean and canons of Windsor, and their successors, to and for the intent and purposes that all and singular the premises, the revenue, and profits of the same shall for ever be employed and bestowed in the maintenance and sup port of thirteen poor knights within our Castle of Windsor in such manner and form as in a book hereunto annexed, and signed with our sign manual, is set forth and declared." Following this is a covenant, on the part of the dean and canons, " to employ the rents, revenues, and profits of the same, in such manner and form as is therein set forth and appointed." The charter then goes a o p n p l t i o e d state t o t f h at the e the m a n e n t u o a w l a s r u d m s p o a f ) 2 i 3 ug lZ t 6 h s e . B r d shall io . ars all be and serving priest's wages, officers' fees, and in the repairing of the lands. The book annexed to the indenture con. tains a description of the services to be performed, a schedule of the lands, and an account of the privileges to be enjoyed by the knights. The present value of the endowment is upwards of 11,0001. per annum, although the stipend hitherto paid to the knights has never exceeded 401. a-year. Until the discovery of this interesting and valuable relic, which appears to confirm the right of the knights to the full appropriation of the endowment of their order, it was concluded that the charter of Elizabeth, and all copies thereof, were in the possession of the dean and canons of Windsor, and no access thereto has ever been permitted to the knights. The opinion of counsel has been taken upon the sub ject, which is stated to be favourable to the knights, and proceedings will be immediately instituted to recover their rights. The schedule of the lands is interesting, as showing their value in the time of Elizabeth. The following are some of the principal extracts from the charter, with the annual rentals annexed : " Cornwall —St. German's Parsonage, 48/.; Plympton St. Mary's, 461.; Plumstock Chapel, 411.; Bradwynk Rectory, 36/.; Wimbum Chapel, 30/. " Devonshire—lple Penn Rectory, 301.; Sonthmolton Rectory, 451.; Ottery St. Mary, 37/.; Islington, 16/. Wiltshire—Ambroseshire Parsonag e , 231. 13s. 4d. ; Prebend Tith es o f B e d w y n d e , 561; Stapelford Parsonage, 181. The dense assembly separated about half•past nine o'clock. VISIT OF THE COURT TO STRATHFIEDSAYE.— WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING,—Her Majesty and Prince Albert (who are expected to arrive at the Castle to morrow, to luncheon, from the seat of the Duke of Buckingham), will take their departure on Monday next for Strathfieldsaye, where the Court will remain until the following Thursday. Her Majesty and the Prince will proceed through Bracknell and Oakingham, at both of which places stabling has been engaged for relays of the Queen's horses. Her Majesty, after partaking of an early luncheon on Monday, will leave the Castle at two o'clock in the afternoon, so as to reach the residence of the Duke between four and five. The distance from Windsor to Strathfieldsaye, about twenty-five miles, will be accomplished in two hours and a half. The first stage, to Bracknell, is nine miles; the second, to Oak ingham, six miles; and thence to the seat of his Grace ten miles. ALISEURY.—FREE TRADE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY !—On Monday evening last, the tradesmen employed by the firm of Maton and Co., brewers, of this city, entertained their friends in a spacious room elegantly fitted up at the brewery, in Milford-street, when a jug, containing the modest quantity of fourteen quarts,was filled again and ag ain with superi or s t ro ng beer. This vessel is one of th e relics of curiosity belonging to the late Joiners' Company now extinct in this city, and was used by the company in 1527; but what is most remarkable is the fact that on this jug are the words, still legible, "Free Trade." A similar jug, in the course of the evening, belonging to the Tailors' Company, was also presented to the numerously assembled guests, and also foaming with malt and hop production. The evening was spent in a very agreeable and pleasing manner. Sherborne Journal. The Duchess of Inverness is passing the holidays With the Earl of Scarborough, at Milford Hall, Notts. The Noble Earl, on Christmas -day last, had above 200 of his labourers assembled in the large vaulted hall of the abbey, whom his Lordship provided with a substan tial dinner. The Earl and Duchess during the repast frequently honoured the assemblage with their prebeuce. —Doncaster Gazette. EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1345. LITERATURE. MODERN COOKERY. London, Longman, 1845. " The proper and wholesome preparation of our daily food," says the authoress of this work in her ~preface, " though it may hold in the estimation of the world but a very humble place among the useful arts of life, can scarcely be considered altogether an un important one." Miss Acton here underrates the science of gastronomy, which is so far from holding " a very humble place among the useful arts of life," that it is considered by all right thinking people as one of the most important pursuits to which human invention and ingenuity can be directed. Look, for instance, at the respect—we might almost say, the superstitious veneration—which is paid to it in this, the first metropolis of the civilised world ! Think of the intense—th e yearning spirit of devotion exhibited by . our august civic dignitaries on the first entrance of the savoury callipash and calippee into Guildhall on that day of days, the ninth of November ! The Ministers of the Crown, the judges, the bishops, &c.—all these illustrious per sonages are lost sight of in the absorbing attention paid to the venison and turtle, which may justly be pronounced the " Lio ns " o f t h e festival. y Then the famous whitebait dinners at 13Iackwall ! What well disposed Christian but locks forward to these pleasant episoles in daily life with repture, and remembers them with affection, thus cultivating, in connexion with them, both the " Pleasures of Hope " and of " Memory ?" The late Sir William Curtis was imbued with so profound a veneration fur the science of gastronomy, that he never saw a haunch of venison hanging up in a poulterer's shop, but he tcok off his hat to it as a mark of respect; and the strongest ex pression of feeling we ever saw depicted in the human countenance, was in that of a seedy epic poet who was standin g w ith hi s nose flattened against the win dow-pane of a cook's shop, sniffing the fragrant perfumes that came steaming up from the kitchen. In every age of the world a l mos t every wr i ter o f emi nence has borne testimony to his love of good eating and drinking. Homer is full of allusions to these pleasant matters ; and in his very first book of the Iliad he describes his gods and goddesses pitching into the nectar administered to them by Liebe, with such un common vigour, as leaves an impression on the reader's mind that they will all be dead drunk within the hour. Descending to more modern times, who forgets the constant references of Horace to his suppers with Maecenas, and his sketch of the party at Nasidienus's, where, if it had not been for the unlucky fall of the curtain, the guests wou ld h ave en j oye d t h eir f i ll of good things as completely as if they had been dining with Lord Walbrook Gibbs at Guildhall ? In the inimitable pages of Cervantes our delightful friend Sancho "tucks like a Trojan" --to use a well-known simile—and it is a remarkable fact that in the social Scotch novels the heroes and heroines never once lose their appetite, no matter ho w d e li cate may be the distresses in hich they are involved. Again, in the "Nocttes Ambrosianae "—would they could be continued !—the redoubted Christopher NLrth takes every opportunity of impressing his readers with a lively sense of his gastronomic capabilities ; and even Milton, notes - . 7 .thstanding the surpassing loftiness of his theme, contrives to get up a very pretty little im promptu supper for Adam anti Eve in Paradise, which they discuss with a relish worthy of an alderman. It was Doctor J ahnson's opinion that the hour of dinner is the most imeortant in the whole twenty-four; and regularly as t;hat welcome hour approached, his face —especially id he happened to be dining with Mr. Thrale—would be lit up with a radiant expression resembling inspiration. Had the Doctor been now living, we cetnnot doubt but he would have been de lighted with the volume before us, which treats of the best methods of preparing his favourite meal, with an earnestness—a skill—and an animation worthy of alt. possible laud. Like the late illustrious Kitchener—that erudite professor of gastronomy— Miss Acton gives no receipts but such as she has her self strictly tested. Eschewing the theoretical, she confines hernelf to the practical portion of the science ; and. some of the sauces for which she offers receipts are :so piquant and relishing in their cha racter, that a man might almost digest his own grandmother with them. But it is on soups that she is greatest. On this important subject her genius absolutely runs riot in its prodigality of invention ; and her deletils respecting the best method of pre paring the " Lord Mayor's Soup"—what a soup that must be !—)alight beget an appetite " under the ribs of death." We have perused her volume in a spirit of the profo andest reverence, and cordially recom mend it to the attention of all gastronomists, who constitute by far the most intelligent portion of the creation. NA2OLEON : AN EPIC POEM. Longman, London, 1845. The red morocco binding of this epic poem is all that binding should be; the paper and print, too, leave nothing to be wished for on the score of neatness and elegatifee ; but when we come to speak of tie blank verso in which the poem is written, all that we can say is, that it is very blank indeed ! As far, how , ever, as were scansion is concerned, we have nothing , to object to in the lines, for they are correct to a nicety ; but, alas, there is no poetry in them—no graceful ixe sparkling imagery —n o impassioned feel ing—all is as dull, cold and barren as the road, ac cording to Sterne's Smellfungus, " from Dan to I3eer sheba. The subject of the epic is the achievements of Napoleon, whom the author has taken for his hero for the :si ngular purpose of abusing him in every page; amid " whose conquests," he tells us, " Wh , Dse conquests, glories, crimes, and sudden fall No feeble muse may sing. Thy mighty deeds, Proiaa Corsican, demand Homeric lyre !" Of cour3e the author is satisfied that his is " no feeble Natse," or he would scarcely have undertaken to sing of deeds which demand "Homeric lyre ;" but we must "beg to join issue with him on this point, for his muse is as " feeble " as if she had only just reco vered from a six months' attack of influenza, and is far better qualified to sound the praises of General Tom Tiramb, than of the Emperor Napoleon. In the mare: 7 n of his verse the author is an evident imitator of Milton, and, like him, is fond of introducing proper names cal all occasions; but the swelling, stately, organ-like roll of the melody in " Paradise Lost " is wholly wanting in "Napoleon," which moves heavily on for peges together at the dull, leaden pace of a broad-wheeled waggon, and without making the slightest approach to music of versification. We know not. when we have met with so presumptuous a production as the one before us, which, constantly at tempting to be brilliant, is constantly dull by mis take. 'The only tolerable passage in it is the de scription of the battle of the Pyramids, and even here there is more smoke than fire. DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, Vols. 111. and IV. Bentley, London, 1845. These volumes conclude the Diaries and Corres pondence of the Earl of Malmesbury—who, in the opinion of . Talleyrand, was one of the most sagacious statesmen of his age—and commence with the year 1793, and close with the year 1813. If they do not throw much important additional light on the history of this stirring period, they are, at any rate, exceed ingly entertaining, for they are crowded with inci dents ; an d we find in them numerous characteristic sketches .sf some of the most eminent public men with whoi a Lord Malmesbury was brought into con tact in the course of his long and active official career. Pitt, Canning, and that bigotted old woman, Adding ton, are frequently b roug h t on t h e Lapis, and of Can ning the noble author says :—" He has been forced like a thriving plant in a well-managed hot-house; he has prospered too luxuriantly—has felt no check nor frost. Too early in life he has had many, and too easy, advantages. This, added to very acute parts, makes him impatient of control." The whole of Canning's political career justifies this sagacious description of him which was penned in the year 1803, when he was yet but a statesman of promise, not of perform ance. Of the late Emperor Alexander the noble author appears to have entertained no very high opinion, and alluding to the battle of Friedland, in which the Russians were worsted by Bonaparte, says, " though not decisive as a battle, it was a complete victory over the mind of the Emperor Alexander; from that day all his boasted courage ended ; and fear, panic, and every dastardly feeling terror and dismay could suggest, seem to have taken at once possession of him." These Diaries and Correspondence will furnish excellent materials for the use of some future historian of the bustling period to which they refer, for, generally speaking, they are free from strong political preju dices, and the author was a cool, wary, astute ob server who was not likely to be led very far astray from the truth in his estimate of hien and things. We hare no space for extracts, or we would quote some amusing passages from his Diary during the ricketty administration of Mr. Addington. HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. London, Cadell, 1845. This is the z.iost complete and circumstantial account we have yet seen of the Protestant its progress, and its pr esent condition, and Uni versity of Dublin, describing its origin u n d er Q ueen in addition, biograph ica l notices of some o cE f oln t iz h tha e ibn n eit i n l eminent men who have received their education at this celebrated seat of learning. The work is the productio n o f a gentleman named Taylor, who has evidently bestowed considerable pains on it, and has embellished it with several appropriate illus trations. REPEAL IN TUE QUEEN'S BENCH.—Some laughter was occasioned in the Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Satur day, and not a few jokes cracked in the Hall of the Four Courts on the " advance of repeal," in consequence of Dr. Gray, who at that time twelve months was placed at the bar as a conspirator, for being a repealer, having been that day called and sworn on the grand jury, wear ing, it is said, the same repeal button in the jury. box which he had previously worn at the traversers' bar.— Freeyran, AWFUL °CCU RRENCE. Yesterday, Thomas Couch, a middle-aged man of most repulsive appearance, and who was describcal in the police-sheet as a wheelwright, was char ge d at Laufbeth Police-c o u r t w ith b e i ng drunk on that morning, and obstructing a police-constable- in the- executiaa o f hi s duty. Thomas Meatier, police-tenatable L t 9, depa a , a l that about half- past two O ' CIOCii on that inoreiug he heard a disturbandti' in Fore-street, Lambeth, and on going to the house No. 2S, in that street, he found the prisoner at the door, endeavouring to force his way in, while the occupier was endeavouring to keep hiin out, and, at the same time persuading his wife, who was in a state of intoxication, to go up stairs to bad. The wife declared that she should not, and that if the husband did not think proper to admit the prisoner into the house, she should leave it, for that wherever he was there she should be also. The husband, upon seeing him (witness) complained bitterly of the conduct of his wife, and said that though the mother of six chiklreu, she had formed an improper intimacy with the prisoner— that she had been away from her home all the evening and night with him, until that hour, and that he knew not on earth what to do with her. Witness, upon hear ing this, told the prisoner that unless he went quietly about his business, so as to put an end to the disturbance, he should take him to the station-house. The prisoner still persisted in forcing his way into the him*, and pushed witness about once or twice. He theritydd he certainly would take him to the station-home, whew, he woman inside said she should he taken there too, and repeated, that wherever the prisoner was there she would be. Her husband, the instant she had uttered these expreasions, was in the act of falling, when wtiviess caught him in his arms, and on procuring a light found that he was quite (I( ad: Mr: . Nortona-a.Do yea know of your own know ledge whether the partit a had tiny struggle in the I-es sage, or whether the deceased received any injuries F Witness-HI don't think he did, Sir. There wait no mark of violence on him, and the doctor who examined hi A is of opinion that he died • from some internal cauae. He told roe himself, a inomant or two before his death, that his heart was quite broken a ith the conduct of his wife; and when some person said " the man is dead," his wife exclaimed, " Thank God for it." -Mr. Norton—Did the unfortunate man seem much excited immediately preceding his death ? Witness--- Not very much so, Sir. He seemed to me to be very de jected and low in spirits; in fact, quite cut up. Mr. Norton—Have you ascertained what the deceased was, and what his name is ? Witness—Yes, Sir, his name is Charles Ingas ; he was a harness-maker by trade, and about 60 years of age. James Mills, a boat-builder. said he had seen the pri soner and Mrs. Ingas drinking together 'at several public-houses on the night before. He first saw them about half-past six in the evening, and heard the pri soner say he had come to take her away from her hus band. He also saw them go into the house of the de ceased about two o'clock in the morning, and immeell• ately after heard them both singing in the lower part of the house. This caused Mr. Ingas to come down stairs, and he (witness) heard the deceased frequently tell the prisoner to leave his house, else he should give him, into custody. The other part of the witness's teatime-ay was confirmatory of the constable's. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that tee had known Mrs. Ingas for about twelve months, and that he should not have acted as he had done had he not been. very much intoxicated. Mr. Norton observed that the case was one of a shock ing and lamentable character, and ordered the prisoner to find bail for his good conduct for three months, aid also to pay ss. for being drunk. The prisoner not being prepared with the required sureties was sent to Horsemonger-lane Gaol. THE LATE DANK ROBBERY.—We find that the Procureur du Roi of this city received a letter some days since from Mr. Hobler, the solicitor of Messrs. Rogers and Co., to request him to give, officially, a nosioe to the bankers, money-changers, and principal hotels here, where foreigners are in the habit of coming, of the list of the stolen Bank of England notes, and to caution the bankers and others that they should ,exenaine all Bank of England eotes offered to them by foreigners • and that if th e y t oo k any o f t h e sta b n notes after thtti notice, loss would fall upon themselves, as the' pa meat of all the notes was stopped. We believe Mr. Bobler 'lei taken the same steps with every British Embassy and Consulate in Europe, arid the official notices when completed will be forwarded to England ; so that let a note come in from Paris, Brussels. er atly other city or town in Europe, there will be official proof of notice against the banker through whose hands it may have passed, and thus rendering it hopeless in him to expect payment of the note. We have let.rned also that the Bank of England have issued a new 1,000/. note, dated the 13th of November, 1844, instead of the 18th of May, 1844, which is the date of those stolen from Messrs. Rogers and Co., and that application has been made to the bankers in London and throughout the United King dom, to send in to the Bank of Eng:and all the 1,000/. notes of the 13th of May, 1844, which we believe has been complied with, so that there would now he none returned into ,the Barak to be exchanged but those that were stolen. This extraordinary operation will, we hope, be r e sp on d e d to b y our bunkers and money changers, to lend their aid in preventing the robbers, whoever they may be, receiving any advantages now or at any future day from their iil-gotten moneys.--BrS British Gazette. THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR -SQUARE.—From the rapid progress in every department of the works, these ling -expected ornaments will soon be put in ope ration. The boring for water is completed, and a vet y plentiful supply has been obtained. For several days past the engines have been employed in raising water, a bleb has been found quite equal to the deauutd which will be required, and a jet of water has readily been forced to a height of 30 feet in the basins. The well in Trafalgar square has been sunk to a depth of about 160 feet, and that in Orange-street, Leicester-square, which is on a higher elevation, about 30 feet deeper. The large, cistern at the top of the engine -house will hold 38,00e 0 gallons of water, and that at the top of the tower, wb' lc h is about 20 feet higher, about one-third of that quas, t i ty. In addition to furnishing the fountains, cheap sire in tended to supply the whole of the Government bruildiaga and offices in the district, for daily use or emergency, in cases of fire, for which pipes are now being laid down. The ornamental iron work for the jets ;:s in a sate of great forwardness. The water, which rises in the borings to about 60 feet of the surface, ie pumped up by two Cornish engines of 20 horse power. SAMARITAN FUND OF THE ST. GEORGE ' S AND ST. JAMES'S DISPENSARY.—At the close of the year 1843 the six medical officers of this charity, who attend 5,0 )0 patients annually, and visit a large proportion at their homes, finding that an immense amount of disease was incurable from want of proper air, food, and clothing. proposed the formation of a fund, which, in addition to medicines, should supply these requisites. The fund was founded, and 300/. was collected in annnal subscrip tions and donations. By means of this fund the sick poor have been supplied during the present year, by orders from the medical officers attending them; with, 10,408 half-quartern loaves, 3,004 pints of milk, 2,85(." pints of soup, 583 flannel shirts, and 465 ventilators- The benefit has been incalculably great, but the expen diture has exceeded the income by 302 METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. —Yesterday the twenty-first report of the Commissioners of Woo& and Forests was printed, from which it appears that in re spect to the metropolitan improvements the Commis sioners hove completed purchases to the, amount in the whole of 457,884/. 15s. 10d., and have contracted for further purchases to the amount in the whole of 191,617/. 15s. 10d. ; and, besides these, the purchases now remaining to be made, in order to clear the whole of the ground required for completing the several lines of improvements, it is estimated will cost the further sum of 54,2561. 55., or thereabouts. In the line from Oxford-- street to Holborn the Commissioners have completed purchases to the amount of 211,6841. 14s. 10d., and have contracted for further purchases to the amount of 56,9691. 3s. 4d. ; and besides these, there remain to be made purchases estimated to cost the sum of 14,5712 155., or thereubouts. In the line from Bow-street to Charlotte -street, Bloomsbury, they have completed purchases to the amount of 70,958/. 18s. 3d., and have contracted for further pur.- chases to the amount of 3,009/ 11e. 9d., and besides these purchases remain to be made to about 1 7,5954 In the line from the London Docks to Spimlfields, Church they have completed purchases to 96,742/. 16s. 11d., and contracted for further purchases to 30,2360. Bs. 7d., and there remain to be made other purchases, estimated to cost 6,7402 In the line from Coventry street to Long-acre they have made purchases to 77,078 e ss. 10d. ; contracted for others to 89,202 k. 12s. 2d., and besides, purchases will be required to eneeit 8,0974 los.; and in the line from East Smithfield. ao Rosemary- ass the Commissioners have completed inerehasea to 1,421 e; contracted for further purchases to ',2,200/., and besides these, others will be needed to 7,252/. The Commis sioners, it appears, borrowed some, time ago the sum of money fe w : a t was also hs a eo ls up o rue re p ps r o o s e oe u f r d from Ex. 500,0001. from the Equitable As eurance Company, upon the security of certain portior,s of the land revenue •of aanndd ar th e e ts•aalit;•4g(?f' '.ll"::atesruirtteis: fo l r li t e k f t u a l in d i s e g ar :: Commissionersnt chequer-billsho ew Crown, nearly expended in tne sums mentioned, and the metropolis. compledrig m make any reduction in contemplationtaxatio tthh aelt viimprovements further tpl re l io o asv a re n nnmo o eft f rn 2 ot n , O tit O tlht l e .. h in Ministers to of tea. It is added that • circumstances if a very suspi cious nature have occurred t I. Cherbourg, entt and that t a , the surplus revenue in coast defences aiam and .j fo a r p lfi r ca o tio .a ns, so as to guard against surprise under any possible event; and to ensure the protection of the yards, arsenals, and merchant navy.—DOlin Evening Mail. THE BREAKWATER LIGHTHOUSE, PLystouTri,---On Thursday morning, the 16th instant, at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Jones, the head-keeper of the Breakwater Lighthouse, was unfiirtunately washed off that struc ture by an immense wave which came in from the south ward. He was proceeding from the east eat' towarde., the west to receive some clothing from a boatman named Forward, who had been sent out by the lightkeepeis n thort:Milie'n wife. Forward recovered Mr. Jones's cap, but sulks that Mr. Jones sank immediately. Graham, the mun on duty at the lighthouse, instantly hoisted a signal of dis tress, and the foreman of the works, Mr. Findlater, promptly left the Chatham hulk with a number of hi. men, who used every exertion. in their power, but with out effect. Up to two o'clock the body had not beer, found. There was no wind at the time, but it was Mgt. , water, and there was a heavy ground swell on, owing tC the recent gales. Mr. Jones was a native of Harwich, and has left a widow and lewdly. BUST OF ADAM SMITII.—The Lord P rovost 1/11 1 magistrates have confided to. Mr. Patrick Park the .sash of executing a marble bust of th© philosopher, from th e medallion by Tassy, which. is held to be the only• ness extant. The bust, wen completed, will btu p/aooti in the Council-hull, City-LinilOngs.—G/asgote Aiyus. ~;'%; •;~ 17 0 ' ; 171; 0 70' la Ire: • ero eet , d , w or ta?