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Lee minds of those concerned in them; in flee, it bad TlZeh quite forgotten there just as it had in the whole eed ings of this case before the Privy Council. in Learned Counsel concluded his argument, by call eu f fi on the Court, if they entertained auy doubt that bemeie„" o pportunitiei for arguing this point had not tandedto grant him a rule. 'ale Cr,;l)oUT took time to consider. BAIL COURT. —(THIS DAY.) (Befor e Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) Ur. n "CRIMINAL INFORMATION. A NVEINS was instructed to move for a rule, call tobahlloPoh a just;ce of the peace for the cownty of Devon e filed w cause why a criminal information should not E r Against him for partiality in his office, and imprope guaZeticitn_dsurin,g the hearing an information under the stat e d :'L w • the affilavits in support of . the applt e c i at w .ioanlaid e ~_". e at on the 2d of January last an information Geor r°re the justic , -. in question against a person . named 18 '" ge • Stiter cloh, " for that be, on the 24th of October, , ofcalled land r l_ , rl the parish of Ashburton, on a close . c Itieh ard o wer Heald, an estate in the occupation of one Bu ry,with _ did use a dog and gun in pursuit of game, previously obtained a licence for so dc Tho information was filed under the Stamp Act, t h t t l it ed the p ena l ty for the o ff ence at 20 bebef ore . 1 6th o f January the defendant appeared . z n4ti r lithe ma gistrate at Newton Abbot, when a bunt i- Catre, i n t h e employ of a gent l eman name d s tated . s PPeared in support of the information. He oth er ,111 evidence that ho saw Smerdon and three Remo, L." raw irg a field of turnips with dogs, beating for eslled - 1 1 ,°Ivti as I.e3wer Heald, which adjoined a firm broth er , 'Jersey-hid, the property of the magistrate's ttne r d i n - law. The informer stated that he only knew fed - ,,1 11 of the three, but he was qui . .e certain they tie 0 , - a ".g with them. " Was it a greyhound?" asked d tl etk -gist hte, to which the witness replied thathe ,.. . be s - t rlu w, but it was a black dog. On cross-exauarralcn ga tn . ttt ed that he saw no shot fired, nor did he see any of the at artd. No other evidence was called in support szatie. ihformation; but when the defendant proposed to d itt° three persons, named Hexter, Cox, an th: 4W eh el lt th prove that there was no foundation for ii tat;n —ar ge, the magistrate refused to hear them,. fo rmer , that ho WAS satisfied with the ine fetid:' evidence, and should fine the d - how,,, lit in the full penalty of 201. The defendant, here bei tig et, in his affidavit, stated that so far from t Vas rertttlY Fou ndation for the charge, the fact was that ha beet to from th e H ersey -hill Faille, where he had tenant kill hares, with the permission of Ht xter, the 11 t he t ;„giratited under th e recen t A c t, an d was crossing o eitia.l7P a o d to reach another farm, .where he was P t evieus appointment to destroy the rats that bi lb, ;c l the place. He had neither dog nor gun with tome r ~° l. had he the remotest intention of seeking fur th is ~;4 ' the field, but the magistrate refused to receive te n e nee, observing that he did not think Hexter, iita tl C,i',tit of Lis " brother-in law, had any right to kid di:fend. nt permission to k ill hares on t h e f irm , targ e ,: k°l Perfectly certain Smerdon was in pursuit of 14 1 . 4 tia hi t ePeat , d applications gad been made to the na t i„ - -es fir the dep os i t i ons or no tes taken on the kid a ig of the infor mat i on to pro d uce i n cour t, b u t they4ion s j a w aYs been resolutely refused. On the last occa that thl t vev, that they were applied for it would seem Piet r 6 „'",tioa began to feel that he had not acted with nerdn:gularity, inasmuch as ho sent word back to I nt). f -"'S attorney at Ext ter that there was no neces illthrsZ grantiro• copies . of the depositions, since the t t:' had declined to proceed further in the case, k r. 3. taaiter must therefore drop. 44 4 e. 41,81 ice C OLERIDGE—You may take a rule to show 4,1 :141UIC nisi SCCOrdingiy. iZttLiaty_STREET.—(THIS DAY.) 1) „ 4 41 41t 5 T4 . 1 ' 41. TO LADIES. BEWARE OF " TICKETING" 1 3 ; r °P, Regent's -park, —A lady named Ashcrof , residing 1,, egent's-park, made an application to tte Ple — g u aro for a summons against a shopmsn in the e ill ire, elte‘i r f d t - h s t e r set, of a " ticketing" draper's shop 4 41,ct. , for assaulting her under the following , ence s . Ap r 4; .1 11k esitL ean t sated that yesterday afternoon she . w t a a s ti laPe t h h rough Oxf ird-street, and, on looking in a E II N° • "" opposite the Pantheon, she saw in `'w a black satin mantle ticketed 11. 4s. 6d t . stet C e rlt into the shop and asked the shopman to let !lien i kv . e the mantle she had seen in the window. 11 h fl t her e e h h aPareatly for te purpose of fetching t e hud c p hosen, and on his re:urn he laid on the bu Piittk r : a bl ac k satin mantle of the very same t more ha° inferior rho one she had previously seen, _ description as not to be worth P e t l ' u '• She immediately detected the intended kt lion;, and told him it was not the one she wanted, 1 , 11 the I ;n BB .3ing it ww , she went out of the shop, _tidthe cr s. ,7 1- 114 17-- ' 4 ow she saw the very same mantle that had firs j . f mley. She then returned to the shop, and - C 3 841 d :I,"Pnleu that he had deceived her, whereupon I Pay for Was not an honest woman, and had no money t%e (1, mantle. She then left the shop, and_n 4 . 1 4 1 .: 1 ;ehe Met a constable, to whom she related the il r r ,'et:es 'f: 11 which she had been treated, and the shopma a f ir t) let her have the mantle she bad fixed upon. •witthe ,:t-noltiraeantieseere,in her s caking to tho police.officer, and her if she was prepared to pay /r ,iud' Al eY down, she might have the mantle from the . „" e r She consequently entered the shop again, and t ", o etit,, 'etched the article from the window. Over the t r eiath, w ere suspended several other ruanl e t 4 alcuilar to the one she had . chosen, iltist,lj an. inferior quality, and having her lted distinct)l2xcited, she narrowly watched the man Saw him drop de mantle he had taken ee ier til- :•,,ndoNv on the floor, and take one of the in tjaN,,4 the--t,r(u a hook over the counter, which he laid '°uhter at the same time assuring her it was 4tlvikAtintle sh Wanted. i She, however, was not to be f ;ttlest t : 11 ' r efused to have it, when he her in the 'n,er tl4 hid term, stud said the was not an honest woman, y t ",?t get her money honestly. He followed up r ; 114 ; th' 4 ::`, her by the arm, and forcibl utting he kclu et , CO P , when he again abused her.. For such 4 1 , sh e 131 wished to have a summons against the man. llottax immediately granted the summons. ,4* o 13ittort Ank I ET RACES. (THIS DAY.) ' ' E.LECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) loop S weepst a k es, for three years old. T.Y.C. by ''' ... ••• ••• ••• ••• — The Nob, out of Harmony C h f , e She Sl weepstak es, for two yrs old. T.I.C. 1 b ane "eaut ort , out of R ece i pt ... ••• •• ... 2 . ••• T 1 0 t i e ais3INE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. it Y •• • 1 ... 1 ... 2 ..• 11•• Won by a head. N A ,. r. ~,,,,..... lilt ..1,!',.1%3•Thhtl:1e101:11-T 151.:?/.842..rDsTB80ELDESTd SON OF THE MEMBER FOR W il iz S el l i t , u e r l d a l!. t a son n ata o l f a j c . c T id . en w t ahwanp,p.e Esq.,a 4) -48 for th e Teung gentleman, who was very fond of fishing, t , wo or three years neighbourhoodof lilli s g a portion of the season in the T e to fish. been in the habit of ‘ ,. 41 1(1 0 : 11 ;„ Last week he went up the North of t ri rr: t l : 7 4v il il :t a ll'r , a fd_ t a Humble, h e a , Harrison's,hielon belonging n g I N at v i lla . , ' .. lr?g man of the name 11 1 li r *, g ,, , for the purpose of fishing near to Choller -1 ( ion I,§e.Wawn) proposed returning o t d o rce.l his father's seat that evening, and wanted a o tot it 1 , 0 tak e li ew.. t , cle e k i _ . home w . th , him. They fished until nearly a the afternoon im , ' when Humble went a little IN , sw ll _ . the stream, leaving Mr. Wawn fishing. As t M e n t tekt y 4 t. he been talking of going to Mr. Harrison's . g /v ith 1,9 pd borne by train, Humble remained absorbed o c ed e.t ,d Ir3o3Pert until six o'clock, when he then left and ro- L itl n , Ur. Harrison' When he got there, to his t as p t t h o- e nlse-iltlYle found that Mr. Wawn had not been 0 a ~."ak with thought he had ' loitered at the mill to have miller's c h tl i t ta s t r t a rg e d ti e l h i s t e h p er e . 0 111)4:4.11oetigvilhblotu.rltoncl Hes and went back and found he was to Mr. Wawn, and gave the alarm. i n m ' mediately suspected that some serarched, but no intelligence was ie Wawa that evening nor during • titli ng 4-111zi theorninng the searching part w y he c t o e m i T n e m nc h e l d e ;;A:.l;etcti,rto I:tream, and nearly opposite e i:ztpaiiteolrat on the pr •*ous evening, they discovered . a pice lark a lrn, the p ro jectin e, : si bove the water. They immedia ss tel o y . was in tile stream in eighteen aht Ilit'n'eB ater. u el of ,a o Pnt, 6 and found it was part of the t i to ui s rodWas was lying on an d his hands were ( c i o as s l?r f He Y i whom n his back, with his coat re l ou t it t i elt ed as if he ha t cl in tal e i r en l a ' fit. His body aPpeFe His Ir s :ii l l been in the water from the previous evening. . 0 , 144 attetring Iv as , in ` i aeY, and other effects were upon him. Th s b.y . Illtdi;;',lsved to the Ch liesford Inn, and an express . wa i h r his Panrlia NI-, el ) . sent off to Cho h . cles at Shields, his fat . e te w as nekt upon the body on Monday, when, fromthe had rice given o men i t s a n r; duties in London. An in hat Mr. Wawn fall en • ' , there remains no doubt but t IN Erb the water in a fit of apoplexy, to which he lu th the ,voyage of Ufa we should imitate the ancient gie h e ", woo, without losing sight of the earth, trusted to , aVenlY signs for their guidance.—Eliza Cook's Journal. sap" ver i„, .IetLTURAL SO CIETY. —Yesterday the anni to aa 4 Inat• otu s,R leg of this society Was held at the society's . chair. 13gent-street; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart, M.P., in the t icket s " Lindley read the report. During the year 18,517 fortetr were issued, and the receipts exceeded those of the 13 8. 4 ,2 ear by 2 22/. The expenditure amounted to 7,691/. 111 , chts g k ,,,, 1 1 r eceipts were 9,3301. 4s. 4d. ; and the disburse- The'9reN.„'„"• ld. • exclusive of 1,8681. Is. 6d. liabilities. 4-,...-I,ert th e society was valued at 13,2051. 15s. 9d. ti on ii`;tibcr offisitors to the gardens, exclusive of exhibi- Ni rg v' via 3 7,78 2, being an increase of 858 over the pre officB-,,,ear; The report was ado ted, the council and other tilt %1 1 :' 4 s he Year were eleeted, p aud thanks were voted to ttrilary THE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF THE PRINCES OF INDIA. TO THE MOST INOI :LE THE MARQUIS CF DALHOUSIE, GOVERNOR - G ENERAL OF INDIA, &e., &C. My Lord,—ln :your Lordship's minute cf the 30th August, 1848, in. which you assign your reasons for refusing to recog nise the adopted son of Appa Sahib, late Raja of Sateara, as his successor in that Princi p tlity, you assert it " to be established as a general rule, beyond cavil or doubt, that while adoption by a Prince of any individual is valid so far as to consti tute him heir to the adopter's private possessions, it is of no power or effect whatever in constituting him heir to the Princiioality, or to Sovereign rights, until the adoption so m ade, has received the sanction of the sovereign power, with whom it rests to give or to re fuse it." And y our Lordship states, that it was exclusively from the papers then before you—that is, upon the Minut es of the members of the Bombay Government—that you came to that conclusion. Now, the prim ziple thus announced by your Lord ship is of the highest importance, not merely because it constitutes tie foundation of your resolution regarding the tie happy Sattara dynasty, but far more, because, xl maintained, it will necessarily lead you to a six li:er decision as to the numerous principalities of es 'Fitral India—a decision, I confi dently assert, uttte sly at variance with justice and good faith, fatal t a the moral strength of the British name, rendering t Ye most solemn treaties of the Esst India Company a snare and a mockery, and justify ing, if it do not o-ecasion, among many millions of a breve and warlike people, a feeling wholly destructive of all security for the peace, not to say the exist ence, of our Inc ian Empire. You adopted this principle, while yet new to Indian affairs, exclusively on the authority of those, on whose judgment you might than not us inaturally rely, but of whose qua lifications to advise the supreme Government in such a case, you uow doubtless are more accurately in formed, since it seems probable that the immediate pressure of eurrenst business, that admitted no delay, may have prevented 'that careful research into the subject which you would otherwise have directed. But, above all, since your Lordship can no longer he ignmant, that the rule which you consi dered to he establ ;fished beyond " all cavil or doubt," is in direct conflitte with the deliberate and often reiterated j udgme set of your predecessors, I feel that, humble as I am, I. need offer no apology for thus pub licly calling upon you carefully and candidly to revise the conclusion which you have so unhappily, and (with all respect, I must say it) incautiously adopted. I make this call with the more confidence, because in the Minute to which I have referred, while griev ously mistaking tiro real merits of the question before you, you nevertheless announced the wholesome general principle, that " the British Government is bound in duty, :as well as policy, to act on every occasion of acquit ing territory or revenue, with the purest integrity-, and with the most scru pulous observalace of good faith, and that where even a shadow of doubt can be shown, the claim should at once he abandoned ;" and I will not insult you by questioning for a moment the good faith in which this avowal was made, however much I may feel astonished that it should find a place in such a document, and bowever strongly it may evince, that the fairest intentions and the highest talents may fail to secure their possessor from being guilty oe gross injustice when combined with despotic power. But, accepting this declaration in its plain and simple meaning, land utterly rejecting the notion that it can be a mere cover for designs of violence and spoliation, I entreat your Lordship to observe, that the papers which have lately been printed by order of the House of Commons, demonstrate, in the clearest manner, that the rule which your predecessors pro nounced to have been established " beyond all cavil or doubt," and upon which they repeatedly acted, was, that every Sovereign Prince in India has an inherent right to adopt a successor to his so vereign rights, and that the British Government is as much bound to recognise such right, as a judge is bound to enforce the law, without any, the slightest pretence to the power of arbitrarily withholding the right which it confers upon those, who sue for its protection. You will accordingly find that, in con formity with this rule, your predecessors, Lord Amherst, Lords W. Bentinck, Auckland, and Met calfe, recognised, between the years 1826 and 1846, seven adoptions meek by reigning sovereign Princes, and seven made either by the widows or mothers of deceased princes. Furthermore, in one instance, where there was an entire failure of heirs, a succes sion, made by election of the chiefs and people of the State, was instantly recognised, in accordance with a rule which had been laid down by Lord Metcalfe in October, 1837, and adopted by the Government of India of that day, viz., " That where there is a total failure of heirs, it is probably more consistent with right, that the people should elect a Sovereign, than that the principality should lapse to the Paramount State, that state, in fact, having no rights in such a case but what it assumes by virtue of its power." The same papers will show your Lordship, that all pretensions to deal with the Native Princes and Chiefs of India, by virtue of certain powers which your Lordship, in your judgment upon the Sattara adoption, assumed to have devolved upon the British Government, as successors of the Emperors of Delhi, had been formally abandoned by your prede cessors, and that it had been ruled by them, with the sanction of the Home Authorities, that in all our dealings with these princes, "we are to look only to the terms and spirit of our treaties and engagements, which we have formed with them, and bring forward no other de mand, than such as in reference to those engagements, may be indisputably consistent with good faith." And that when a question arose, as to the sense in which the words " heirs and successors" should be inter preted in our treaty with the Raja of Oo \ rcha, Lord Auckland at once determined it to mean " heirs by adoption," as well as "heirs natural," observing, that " upon words so distinct and positive, it was impossible to raise a question." Thus construing that treaty, and all other treaties, simi larly worded, in the teeth of the construc tion which your Lordship put upon the same words in the treaty with Sattara, where you determined that the words " heirs and successors must be read in their ordinary sense, in the sense in which they are employed in other treaties between states, that is, as meaning only heirs natural.' " The same papers will show your Lordship the serious error into which you fell, in assuming that the Raja of Sattara had " claimed larger powers in respect of adoption than are enjoyed by old established states," the right which he claimed being precisely the same that had been invariably recognised to belong to all other sovereign princes, viz., the right to adopt a successor to his royal rights, in failure of hairs of his body—a right which, strange to say, is unequivocally admitted in the papers which autho rised you to confiscate the principality of Sattara, upon the ground that the Raja had no such right : "for," says the Minute which bears the sig nature of a majority of the Court of Directors, by whose vote that measure was carried, "it is freely admitted, that if the Raja were created a sovereign in the ordinary acceptation of the term, he was unques tionably competent to adopt a successor to his royal rights, as well as an heir to his private estate." The conclusion, I leave it to your Lordship to draw, seeing that you have unequivocally ad admitted that the late Raja was such a sove reign as is contemplated in that paper; for in the very first paragraph of your Lordship's Minute, you de signate him with great truth and propriety as an in dependent Sovereign. Recurring, then, to your t franks puzhht Ito a b v ve o e e n v t a u l r , that e enforced, t n of o a s c k l w a i h m yico h t u o r t t h e L r e r ov i t ra o dl r is y dhii o tpy r , s el r e d d n o s u a h e b ip whether, with the proof now before you, that your confiscation S c a u t t s a t r o s m , w o a f s India, the as of tlae iedt h t the 00 wf n principality and ra ew. o a f nd peatedly acted upon by your predecessors, in accordance, I believe, with the judgment of every officer entitled to pronounce an opinion on the sub ject—amongst them, that distinguished man, Mr. M. Elphinstone, who framed, the original treaty vsith the Raja.—l venture, I say, humbly, but firmly to ask, whether your Lordship can honestly maintain that territory and revenue, so acquired, can be retained, consistently with that " pure integrity, and scrupulous good faith," which you say should characterise all the dealings of the British Govern ment with the Princes of India? I have the honour to be, with great respect, Your Lordship's e servant, JOHN SULLIVAN. LONDON, THURSD AY EVENING, , MAY 2, 1850. SUN, THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. Little enough is there congenial to the merry month of May in the pages of Blackwood, yet as ever, in some sort, is Maga delectable. The most remark able contribution after that of dear old Christopher, No. VII. of "Dies Boreale9," is the paper written by Professor Gregory on " German Popular Prophecies ;" wherein the Professor seems to intimate with a de- lightful credulity that some such realisation of pro phecy as the following may be expected to take place before the expiration of the present year :- 1, A great war concluded by a battle, in which the East and the North shall be conquered by the South and the West; 2, The appearance of a powerful Prince, who shall arise as the conqueror, being thereupon constituted the Emperor of Germany ; 3, A. terrible massacre of the priests ; 4, The dethronement of the King of Prussia; 5, Absorption of all the churches of Christendom into the one Ca tholic religion. Remembering how our venerable Ebony was bewildered somewhile back by the Previsions of Orval, afterwards proved to be fabrications, we are not surprised to find that this strange and all-believing article should be accompanied by the name of its writer, Professor Gregory, thereby re moving the responsibility of its credulousness from Blackwood. North and Talboys have a delightful discussion between three and six o'clock A.M., while Seward an d Buller are still snoring—their confab being only brought to a close by the sounding of the b:eaktast gong ! Mingled with the most bewitching facetiousness, their dialogue is characterised by the most subtle analyses in the way of poetical criticism, Christopher himself growing unusually eloquent. Mr. " Alison's Political Essays," collected recently from the pages of this ernineet publication, are noticed in terms befitting the magazine which has been illustrated by his genius and industry. Dissenting as we do, of course, dia metrically from the commercial faith of Blackwood we yet say that the paper entitled " Tenor of the Trade Circulars" is deserving of a careful examina tion. Nor do we shrink from acknowledging the amusement with which we have perused the hu morous lines headed " The Penitent Free-Trader." Surely " Tuffnell" himself will laugh, an he have any powers of risibility. " The History of a Regi ment during the Russian Campaign" is a genuine Blackwood paper, nervous, eloquent, arresting, and powerful. It affords another awful illustration of the woes and calamities of that most wonderful enter prise when the modern Sesostris, with kings and emperors as his satellites and lieutenants, penetrated into the deserts of Russia, with the largest army ever collected together by man, and took up his abode in the castellated palace of the Kremlin. The article has been suggested by Lieut.-General de Ft zensac's recently published work descriptive of the destiny which befell his own regiment. Part six of " My Peninsular Medal" reveals yet more visibly the boisterous hilarity of disposition peculiar to the con tributor, a liveliness and esprit that would have made him welcome to the table of Major Monsoon, the home of Captain Blake, or the stable of Lieutenant Hinton. "Free Trade Finance" is a Protectionist nut ‘s hich Sir Charles Wood will, of course, relish amazingly ; and " Greece Again," being a diatribe upon his Athenian policy, will be equally delightful to Lard Palmerston. " Die Modern Argonauts" is little better than the most ordinary of political pas quinade ; but the morceau from " Ovid's Spring time," rendered by Mr. Aytoun, the gifted author of the "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers," is deliciously seasonable. Such are our pencilled annotations on turning over the pages of the May number of Black wood. ACCOUCI - lEMENT of her MAJESTY. BIRTH OF A PRINCE. (From the Court Circular.) BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAT 1. This morning, at 17 minutes after 8 o'clock, the Queen was safely delivered of a Prince. In the room with her Msjesty were his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly nurse; and in the rooms adjoin ing were the other medical attendants—Sir James Clark and Dr. Ferguson, and the Ministers and Officers of State summoned on the occasion. The Privy Councillors present were—The Most Rev. Dr. Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Right Rev. Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London ; the Duke of Wellington, Commander•in•Chief; Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Horne De partment ; the Marquis of Breacialbane, Lord Cham berlain ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse. Shortly before nine o'clock yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace. At ten o'clock the Queen's physicians issued the following bulletin : " - Buckingham Palace, Wednesday, May 1, Ten o'clock, A.M. " The Queen was safely delivered of a Prince at seventeen minutes after eight o'clock this morning. " Her Majesty and the infant Prince are well. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D." His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Major Stephens, arrived at the Palace yesterday forenoon to learn the state of her Majesty and her Royal infant. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent returned to the Palace in the afternoon, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiniogen. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attented by his Equerry in Waiting, Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon, left the Palace for the Council-office, where a Privy Council was held, which was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdcwne (Lord President), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Duke of Wellington (Commander-in-Chief), Lord John Russell (First Lord of the Treasury), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home Department), Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Sir Charles Wood (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir John Hobhouse (President of the Board of Control), the Right Hon. Fox Maule (Secretary at War), the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse). At the Council the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to prepare a form of prayer for the Queen's recovery. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Prince Albert after the Council returned to Buck ingham Palace. About eight hundred of the nobility and gentry called during the day yesterday at Buckingham Palace to make their dutiful inquiries after the state of her Majesty and the infant Prince. From the London Gazette _Extraordinary, May 1.) BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Ali!. 1. This morning, at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, the Queen was happily delivered of a Prince • his Royal Highness Prince Albert , sev eral Lords Of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and the Ladies of her Majesty's Bedchamber being present. This great and important news was made known to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower guns ; and the Privy Council being assembled as soon as possible thereupon, at the Council Chamber, White hall, it was ordered that a Form of Thanksgiving for the Queen's safe delivery of a Prince be prepared by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all churches and chapels throughout England and Wales, add the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday, the sth day of May, or the Sunday after , the respective ministers shall receive the same. Her Majesty and the infant Princ e are, God be praised, both doing well. The Gazette Extraordinary also contains the usual orders in Council for " Prayers and Thanksgivings" in " that part of Great Britain called Scotland?' HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued this morning " BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 2, 1850,9 A.M. "The Queen has passed an excellent night. "Her Majesty and the infant Prince are going on favourably. "JAMES CLARK, M.D. "CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. "ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.'' DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The version of the Antigone of Sophoelep, with Men delssohn's music, which was produced with such success at Covent-garden some years ago, was very judi ciously performed last night on the occasion of Miss Vandenhoff 's benefit, fur the character of the Greek heroine is unquestionably the one in which . her talents are displayed to the best advantage, while Creon is an excellent character fn. Mr. Vandenhoff. The music was sung by the chorus of the Royal Italian Opera. At the conclusion Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff were both called with enthusiasm. FRENCH PLAYS. A most attractive novelty was presented here last evening, in the shape of a five-act comedy by Scribe, called La Camaraderie; ou, la Courte L'ehelle: a piece which was originally produced at the Tholtre Frarcais, in Paris, in the year 1837. The choice of this play shows great judgment on the part of Mr. Mitchell, inas. much as it has enabled him to bring together all the resources of his establishment in a manner which has produced an ensemble such as the patrons of this theatre have not often had an opportunity of witnessing. The acting of four distinguished members of the Theatre Franeais, viz., Mademoiselle Denain, Mademoiselle Na thalie, M. Sampson, and M. Regnier, in the same piece, formed a combination of talent which could not be ex celled. It would be a eupt-rfluous task to enter into a detailed account of the plot of La Camaraderie, or to at tempt to describe the various characters which form the dramatis persona. The play has never before been per formed in this country, but nevertheless its merits are 6uflicieLtly known and appreciated by all lovers of the school of the true French comedy. On the whole, the piece w as admirably represented, and at the close of the third act the four principal artistes were called for w•ard to receive the applause of the audience. After the second act of the play the national anthem was sung by Nliss Mes..ent and M. Drayton Dorrissa6—the whole of the company joining in chorus. SADLER'S WELLS ,THEATRE. On the occasion of Mr. George Bennett's benefit his daughter, Miss Jane Bennett, played the character of Alice' in his excellent dram a , Retribution. The young lady bad previously acted in some of the private perfor mances at Miss Kelly's Theatre, but this was her first appearance in public. To the difficulties naturally be longing to a debut were added the disadvantages of sustaining, a character which had been familiarized to her audience, illustrated with all the tragic intensity of Miss Glyn. However, she passed through her pro bation ♦ery successfully. She is very y oung, and gives instances of a careful training, while here and there were touches of pathos which promise well fur her future career. PUNCH'S HANDBOOK TO HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Leaving for awhile the regions of royaltyove descend for a moment to the fl•mr of the house, a floor which Mr. John O'Connell, of moribund notoriety, might be ex cused for a desire to die upon. The floor ,to which we allude is the parterre of her Majesty's Theatre—a par ferre abounding in flowere, some of which are of the most exquisite beauty, some a little full-blown, some rather faded, and a few that-might be weeded out with advantage to the general appearance of the locality. Among the flowers of the parterre there is a slignt sprinkling of the Pinks of elegance; ra•large assortment of the White Stocks, which give a sort of starched regu larity to the scene; a strip or two of London Pride; and a goodly collection of those highly respectable tenants of the soil, that, although neither forced in the hot-beds of luxury, nor connected with the old roots of venerable ancestral trees, are a very faveurable specimen of the productions of the land in which they flourish. There may be occasionally remarked in the parterre the sudden appearance of au object surmounted with a hat, an object which is always looked upon in the light of a rearecrow among the surrounding flowers. Some times the pleasing aspect of the place is impaired by the waddling in of a pair of ducks; but though ducks are not positively prohibited from entering the parterre, there is about them the awkward air of rarce eves, and they are very seldom met with. The visitors to the realms of Opera is the height of the season include all the component parts of that vast mass commonly termed Society, the analyeation ofwhich would be a process almost too vast for the resources of chemistry, even were we disposed to submit society to all the various tests. Within the realms of Opera, how- ' ever, there are some wonderful combinations of various qualities and properties, which amalgamate only here, as if there was something in the solening and refining air of the place which blends into harmony those matters, which are antagonistic everywhere else. We find, fur instance, in her Majesty's Theatre, the laws of political chemistry suspended, as it were, in the rigorous harshness of their operation, for we witness the correction of Protectionist Acidity, the fusion of Whig Oil with Radical Vinegar, and the easy mixture of the Sublimate cf Aristocratic Alkali with the com mon Potash or the numerous essential extracts of which Society is formed. It is difficult to account for this phenomenon, when we remember that there is in the social structure a chilly ingredient which seldom can be got above freezing point, and our only solution is, that in the genial sunshine of the realms of Opera, every quality is held for' the time in solution by means of that liquid harmony we have already spoken of, which could melt the snow that caps the summit of that Mountain, in his own opinion, and Molehill in other people's—an up start Lord. Besides the neutralisation of political acids, the eva poration of aristocratic airs, the giving off cf vaieours which are invariably dissipated at the Opera, and 'other great chemical results of the delightful climate, all lead ing to the harmonious blending of a variety of naturally repugnant parts, we may look upon many of the boxes as little laboratories themselves, for the formation of other unions of a still more delicate kind. 'Here is carried on the great science of Maternal Alchemy, the art of match-making, which consists in the happy com bination of objects possessing various properties, as die tinguished from the unhappy combination of objects pos sessing no property at all. The mysteries of Maternal Alchemy are practised with immense success in the regions of Opera, • where they can be car ried on with far more effect than in that most laboribus of laboratories, a crowded drawing-room, where the fair practitioner finds herself, after all, in the position of an exhausted receiver, with no satisfactory result achieved. In an Opera•box the best ingredients required for match-making can be used to tee' best advantage, and we might, without difficulty, furnish a manual of mater nal chemistry for the guide cf those desirous of!prace tieing the art. For instance, we might suggest a pro cese like the following, which has often been adopted with =mess. Having found the objects you ;wish to bring into union, you must place them together in the same box. Use a good quantity of the essential oil of Macassar, for capillary attraction has been known to exercise a very powerful influence, and, by the Means of these oils, external properties have been made to sup ply the place of a vacuum within. With the materials for combustion thus prepared, you must be careful to prevent contact with ordinary sparks, lest spontaneous combustion should take place in a quartet for which you were not prepared. In making up your mind as to the object you are about to introduce for the purpose of union, you must take care that, in selecting anybody, you select one that is—in chemical language—a solvent, for if you should happen to bit' upon an in-solvent, not only would your labour be thrown away, but a terrible explosion might ensue, and, in any union that should take place, both the objects would be kept constantly in hot water through the inability Of one of them to liquidate. The ascertaining e. body to' be a solvent is a very delicate process, and it is sometimes attempted by the application of a variety of tests, which, however, are not always to be relied upon, for several bodies have been known, when under the melting Opera tion, to give out a quantity of gold, of which there may have been a little loose upon the surface, without its being a fixed property of the object, which has turned out to be anything but a solvent at last. There are numerous properties favourable to the for mation of a matrimonial union, but care must be taken that these iproperties are not ,neutralised by others. of a different kind. The extract of roses in the corn ' plexion has, for instance, been frequently known to fail, in consequence of its being made up of some deleterious compound when nature has failed to furnish the 'usual supply; and the pearliest of teeth will go for nothing, if the speech is sour, for vinegar will dissolve the finest pearls. In matrimonial, as in other chemistry, the re tort is serviceable when used with discretion, but a re tort must on no account whatever be so negligently, ma naged as to lead to an explosion, or blow-up. , The theory of refraction and reflection is also to be studied by the match-making experimentalist, for, in giving out rays of light or sunshine from the countenance, it is use less to give them out upon anybody of such d4nsity that the rays do not penetrate; but when a refrction takes place, and one object consequently become:s re fractory, the other object has a tendency to reflebtion, and no union is formed. The maternal alchenais; has, however, only to manage matters with care and; pru dence, for success to crown ber efforts, and, thouo the machinery is rather expensive—consisting of the cost of a box, to form what may be called " the plant"—t4e re sult is generally achieved in a single season, after ivhich the laboratory may be given up for a repetitn of similar experiments by other hands. Having carried our remarkS on the chemistry of matrimonial combina tions to a considerable length, we will pause, left we make the reader ft el as if his head were a mortar, and every paragrriph we pour into it a fresh drug. In ing of the physical aspects of our subjects, we ha' for a time into a sort of 'Apothecaries' Hall, whi hasten to get out of, and to return to Her Maj Theatre, where we hope to be found again by the next week.—Punch treat -43 got ;II we osty's eader POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Some few weeks since we had occasion to notice Dr. Bachhuffuer's first lecture upon the Philosophy of scien tific Recreations; that gentleman has lately commenced the second lecture of this series, and the subject-matter is confined exclusively to " optics" and the laws govern ing the sensationof colour. The Doctor commenced by rather a startling announcement—that he intended proving, he hoped satisfactorily to all parties, that out if the many accustomed certainties of every-thy life, two, if not many more, were incorrect. These be istatei as tollows:—'"That none of us see with our eyes," and " that seeing is not believing." This bold and curious assertion excited the attention of all, and anxiety was evidently paramount to unravel these seeming anoma lies. The Doctor's course of experiments proved, how ever, the justness of his correction of " proverbs 'so old and so: general" eventually, by illustration, satisfying all, beyond a doubt, that our present system of reasoning resulted merely from an imperfect tuition, and thatlmany of the commonest operations connected with ourselves are scarcely understood. We must own we' were not so opinionated concerning the two pririciples laid down as at first we had imagined, the Doctori facts settling his assertions beyond a doubt. We strongly recommend this lecture to our readers. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST -SPRING MEETING. BETTING ON TUESDAY NIGHT. DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Nutshell (t) 25 to 1 agst Penang 33 to 1. agst Knight of Avenel 40 to 1 agst Blarney (t) 1000 to 15 agstDeicoon(t) 1000 to 10 agst Hardinge (taken). 6 to 1 agst Bolingbroke (t) 6 to 1 agst Clincher 8 to 1 agst Mayors 11 to 1 agst Voltigeur (t) 13 to 1 ag?t The Nigger 16 to 1 agst Pitsfurd 18 to 1 agat Ghillie Callum (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mildew CIII7,STE: a CUP. 15 to 2 to 3001., and 8 to 1 in hundreds taken about Peep o'-day-Boy. No other change. THE FARMERS' PLATE AT NORTHAMPTON. This case was re-opened after the races this afternoon, when the Stewards, after hearing the parties interested, de cided that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant any alteration in the decision given by the stewards at Northampton. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. The fallowing are the acceEtaaces for the Suffolk Stakev.— Yrs. st. lh. Yrs. st. lb Backbiter Sauter la Coupe, 58 7 Era aiictoii ''''''''' ''''''''''' 7 6 7 1 6 Herbert (81b. extra) 4 ... 7 1 1 13ordeaux Quasimodo ... 4 ... 7 6 Thistledown 3 ; 13 Quinine The highest weight left in being 7st 101 b, it was raised to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion. WEDNESDAY'S RACES. Sweepstakes cf 50. sovs. R.M. each Subs.), h ft, for four years old. (4 Mr. Rarnshott.)m's Beebee Bunneo, 7st 121 b (S. Mann) 1 Lord Glasgow's c by Inheritor or Jerryhorse, out of Deerslayer's dam Lord W. Powlett's Rearguard, Bst 71b ... (S. Rogers) 3 Betting-6 to 4 each agst Beebe° Bannoo, and Inheri tor colt, and 2 to 1 agst Rearguard. Beebee 13unnoo made all the running, and won cleverly by a length. Run in 1 min. 55 sec. Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, h ft ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; those got by stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner allowed 31b. D.M., (9 Subs.) Lord 11. Lennox's Beehunter, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Howard's Chieftain, Bst 41b (A. Day) 2 Lord Exeter's Nuthatch, Bst 41b " (Norman) 3 Betting-8 to 1 on Bochunter, who trade all the run ning, and won in a canter by three lengths. Run in 1 min. 48 sec. Plato of 50 80Y5. 1 for three years old, 7dt 7lb ; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards, 9st 31b; mares and geld ings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 200 soya., if demanded, and allowances if t be sold for less. D. M. Mr. W.Edward's Whitstone, 5 yrs,Sst 1 Ilb (W. Nyco) 1 Col. Peel's Vasa, 4 yrs, 7st 11th ... (Fl9trnan) Sir J. Gerard's Jest, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (G. Brown) ;3 Lord Bateman's Goodwood, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Chapple) 4 Lord Exeter's Visite, 3 yrs, sst 1 11b...(W. Horlock) 5 Mr. Roger's f by the Earl of Richmond, dam by Glaucus, 3 yrs, 6st I lib (Dockt ray) 6' Betting-2 to 1 agst Vasa, sto 2 agst Jest, and 4to 1 agst Goodwood. Won by two lengths, Vasa beating Jest by a length, the latter finishing nearly two lengths before Goodwood. Run in 1 min. 47 sec. Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, h ft, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; those got by stallions, or out of mares that never bred a winner, allowed 3 b. D.M. (14 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, Sst 71b (F. Butler) 1 Mr. Combe's Necklace, Bst (R. Cotton) 2 Lord Exeter's Nutcracker, Bst 4lb (Flatman) 3 Betting-2 to 1 on Bordeaux. A very hollow race from first to last, the favourite waiting into the cords, and winning in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 50 aces. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs,each, for four yrs old and up- wards. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Crucible, 4 yrs, 7st Sib (Flatman) Lord Clifden's Rathminos, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Pearl) Ld Glasgow's fby Lanercost, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Pettit) 3 Betting-2 to 1 on Crucible, who led from end to end, and won easily by half a length. Bun in 1 min. 16 s e cs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 toys. each, and only 5 if &elated, &c., for three yrs old and upwards. A.F. (6 Subs., three of whom pay S sous ft.) Mr. Ba•nes's Sotterley, 5 yrs. Bst 121 b (Flatman) 1 Mr. C. Marson na Pius IX., 5 yrt, 7st 91b ...(Pettit) Lord W. Powlett's Give and Take, 3 yrs. 6st 121 b... 3 Betting-5 to 4 ag6t Give and Take, 6to 4 agst Sot terley, and 7to 2 agst Pius IX. Won cleverly by three parts of a length, Pius IX. beating Give and Take by half a lengt'c. Run in 2 min. 22 secs. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b, not enga,, , ,-,ed in the 2,000 Guineas or 1,000 Guineas Stakes; 41bs allowed, &c. (5 Subs.) Duke of Rutland's Ondine, ist 121 b (Boyce) 1 Mr. Combes The Trump, Bst 31b (R. Cotton) 2 Mr. Ford's Satire, 7st 121 b Betting-5 to 4 each agst Ondine and Satire, and sto 4 agst The Trump. Satire cut out the work at a moderate pace to the bushes, where it was taken up by Online, who maintained it to the end, and won very cleverly by a length. Run in 2 min. 25 sec. Handicap Plate of 501. ; for four yrs old and upwards. Ccsarewitch Course. Duke of Rutland's Fire-eater, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Chapple) 1 Capt. Lowther's Watchdog, 6 yrs, 7st 11b (Duckeray) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Fire-eater. The favourite made all the running from the ditch, and won cleverly by a length; the horses having only trotted for the first mile, it would be absurd to give the time in which the race was run. BETTING ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. ONE THOUSAND-GUINEAS STAKES. 6to 5 agst Exotic filly Isto 1 igst California 2 to 1 agst Tiff o to 1 agst Exotic filly 0 to 1 agst Tiff OA EIS. 1 15 to 1 agst_Probity DERBY. Cars to take 15 to 1 about Ghillie Callum. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Queen's Plate. R.C. Sir Peter Laurie, 6 yrs—Sotterley, 5 yrs—Dover, 5 yrs—Fernhill, 5 yrs—Fire-ea.er, 4 yrs—Retail, 4 yrs. Sweepstake fur two years old. T.Y.C. Beaufort—eh f by Slane, out of Reeoipt—Lady Stuart —Nineveh. Sweepstakes for three years old. T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 150 sove. Falcon—br c by the Nub cut of H4rmony—c by Gla diator, out c f Revival—Rose Pompon—Nuthatch. Sweepstakes for three years old. First half of Ab. M. Winner to be sold for SO SON'S. Falcon—b fby Nutwith, out of Agnes—Visite—Paul -Bullfinch—Dolly's Brao—Diligence. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ONE THOUSAND GUINEA STALES. 5 to 4 agst Exotic filly 8 to 1 agst California 2 to 1 apt Till' CHESTER CUP. Bto 1 rigft Peep-o'-day Boy 16 to 1 agst Ellerdale 0 to 1 agst Essedarius 16 to 1 agst Chantrey 2 to 1 agst Miss Ann 30 to 1 sgst John Cosser 4 to 1 agtt Glauca 160 to 1 agst Colliugwood 4 to 1 egst Fuglernan DERBY. 6to I agst Bolingbroke Il4to 1 ngst The Nigger 3 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum I 17 to 1 agst 6lildew (t) OAKS. to I agst Tiff I 15 to 1 apt Probity. Bto 1 agst Exotic filly I CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF CARLISLE AND DISTRICT. This match was commenced at Carlisle on Tuesday. It is the first grand match of the season. The following is the score of the first day's play : ENGLAND I N NI:CO S. Adams, b Lawrence Clarke, b Wright Parr, run out • Box, b Thompson 5S Chatterton, bAnderson N. Felix, Esq., b Thompson A. Mynn, Esq., b Anderson 4 Guy, b Wright Martingell, not out Wisden, not out llillyer Byes, 7; wide, 7 ; no ball, 4 Total 147 TO THE EDITOR OE THE SUN. Sin,—A paragraph appears in your journal of last evening, signed "11. Dempster," professing to give the results of the author's inquiries on the subject of who and what are the Fishmongers' Company. I have neither time or inclination to enter into a controversy with one who has made such vague and superficial inquiries on the subject. But I think Mr. Dempster will find on in quiry that the Fishmongers' Company appoint two free• men, who act as the company's meters to prevent the lauding and sale of unwholesome fish within the juris diction of London and its suburbs, the salaries of whom are paid by the company. Tte other ts. tatements of this astute a-d painstaking inquirer are equally void of truth, and are gross perversions of the actual facts of the Case, and I would recommend him before he again trou bles the public press on such a subject to consult "Her bert's History of the Twelve Livery Companies," where he will get all the informatinn he requires, and thus gave both his time and credit.—Yours, obediently. April 25, 1850. VERAX. SPOONER AND ROGERS' SEVEN MILE MATCH FOR THIRTY SOVEREIGNS.—This interesting affair came off yes terday at the Flora Gardens, Bayswater. Young Spooner, whose name has recently been so much before the public from his defeat of Ferguson, and his twenty mile match in three hours for 100!., was pitted against Rogers, a well-tried fast one of the old school, giving him half a minute start. In this half minute Rogers managed to get over about 140 yards. The style of his going seeming to be, as Lady Macbeth says, stand not on the order of your going —but, go I" And so he did, and as he was not turned by the referee, we chari tably suppose he was walking. The consequence of this, and Spooner feeling even too much confidence was, that Rogers at three miles and a half actually cleared 240 yards, or a clear less of the ground, and came alongside Spooner. The betting now changed, and slight odds could be had that Rogers won. At four miles Spooner let go in fearful earnest. He walked clean away from the " ould un" at a terrific bat, and in a mile had made up eighty or ninety yards; at five miles he was about the same distance in front; in the sixth he made it safe by coming within thirty or forty yards of Rogers, having made up the turn deficient previously. In the sevasth mile he walked by his man ad lib., and won by a sovereign a yard of the distance between them. MR. LEIGH MURRAY.—This popular and talented light comedian, who so ably fills the situation and discharges the duties of stage-manager of the Strand Theatre, has an nounced his benefit for Friday night. Few actors of the day have so rapidly acquired the favourable ear of the play going part of the public as this gentleman, whose versatile histrionic ability may be equalled, but h c n e s r i t n a c i a n s l . y is not sur passed by any actor in the same l The bill of calculated to fare he has provided for tbe occasion nu is highly merous;,,admirers, and will please the palates of his of itself be sufficient to secure him a bumper. The comedy of London Ass urance, strongly cast, stands fi rst , then comes a recitation by t he venerable though nev er f a di ng M rs. Glover. This will be followed by the Eton Boy, and the en tertainment will close with an introduction to that droll fellow, Compton, as Friend Waggles. There it only one reason to apprehend disappointment. It is quite clear the little house in the Strand trill turn out to be too small to ac commodate all who will be aaxious to be present EAST INDIA HOUSE.—ELECTION OF A DIRECTOR. --Yesterday a general Court of the East India Company was held at their house in Leadenhall-street for the election of a director, in the room of Major-General Sir A. Galloway, K.C.8., deceased. The only candidates were Major J. A. Moore and Mr. IL T. Prinsep. The poll commenced at 9 o'clock and closed at 6. The result was made known shortly after 10 o'clock, when the scrutineers, accompanied by several of the directors and the candidates, entered the Court-room. - The chair was then taken by Captain East wick, and the numbers were announced as follows :—For Major J. A. Moore, 1,096 ; for Mr. 11. T. Prinsep, 1,026; majority 70. Major J. A. Moore was thereupon declared duly elected a director, and the Court then adjourned. CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC.—The South-Eastern and Continental. Company's steam-ship the Prince Ernest sailed from Folkestone harbour for Boulogne at noon yestaday, with 47 passengers ' • and the Princess Mary arrived from Boulogne, bringing 80 passengers, amongst whom were Lady Chesterfield, the Earls of Aylesbury, Wilton, and Sandwich, the Count Avigdor, Mr. Lambton, &c., with several car riages and horses. THE ARCTIC EXPEDlTlON.—lntelligence has just been received of the arrival of Mr. Roe and Commander Pullen, of the Plover, at the Mackenzie; thus establishing the fact that Sir John Franklin's party had not reached any part of the coast between Behring's Strait and the Copper Mine, whilst the check which Mr. Roe appearsn% tends to have re . ctived in his course to the north of the Copper li give increased importance to the quarter eastward of that position. GRAY'S INN, MAY I.—At a Pension of the Hon , ouraWe Society of Gray's J nn , bolden this e m da b , r a h n i c e e n r r Y i then Vincent, Esq., her Majesty Court of Exchequer, was called t o the degree of I3arriste: at Law. INcoNtc-TAx IN _IRELAND. n a return which has just appeared the amount of property assessed under schedule I), arising from securities and possessions in Ireland in the 3-ear ending April, 1849, is stated to have bee❑ 734,352/. The amount of dividends ander schedule Cin the public funds was 106,3091., and the ataOuLt a salaries AB -sessed under schedule E VIM 8217321. NAVAL COURTS-MARTIAL. (From the Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette.) levee were asked, what, in our opinion, is the most inscrutable, unintelligible, perplexing thing upon earth; we should he inclined to answer, a naval court-martial, for its doings baffle all calculation, and are past finding out. We defy the man who is best versed in the law of courts-martial, and the recognised rules of the service, to predict the effect which evidence will produce upon the judges of such courts upon any par:icuiar occasion, or even to make a tolerable guess as to what decision they will come. In several recent cases these courts have, upon precisely a similar state of facts, pronounced diametrically opposite decisions : one officer has been acquitted, while another, to all men's eyes but the court's, far less blame able, has been condemned, and this, with a reckless dis regard of both private sufferings and public opinion, as if the Honourable Court was solely bent upo❑ furnish ing a naval illustration of the old adage, " One may steal a horse, while another is hanged for only looking over the hedge." The case of Commander Michell, just dismissed from the command of her Majesty's sloop Sappho, by sentence of a court-martial held last month, on board of her Ma jesty's ship Imaum, Commodore Bennett (President of the Crsurt), the chief proceedings of which will be found re ported in another column of our paper, justifies us, is our estimation, for the reflections we have cast upon judgment afloat. The salient points of Commander Michell's case are succinctly as follow : Sappho, through the ob stinacy of a second-master, lent her by lmaum, her own master being laid up dangerously ill in hospital, and the negligence or conceit of a young lieutenant, who, in spite of the express command of his captain, written in his night order, would not keep the lea going, ran upon one of the innumerable reefs in the bay of Honduras, on the Gth of December last, the weather having been thick and rainy for several previous days. We need not do more than remind our nautical readers of the rapidity as well as inca'- culable variability of the currents in the Gulf of Mexico and its adjacent bays, its fogs and atmospheric perturbations—rain, hail, snow, and vapours—in dreary December, and they will properly appreciate the difficul ties with which Commander Mitchell was surrounded. He appears ti have been unremitting in his personal care to provide against casualties, he took the best obser vations hecould in the weather which prevailed, and again and again told the master lent him from the flog-ship, that he thought he was wrong in his reckoning as to the ship's position. The master persisted in his own opi nion, and the commander, as the rules of the service require, yielded up his own judgment. After taking the utmost care that his anchors, cables, beats, &c., were fit for instant service on the occurrence of any emergency, ; and leaving strict written orders that the lead should be kept constantly going, Commander Michell went below to snatch some short repoo. Sappho ran aground during his brief eh scence from the deck, upon the Seal Cays upon which her Majesty's ship Spitfire was wrecked a few years ago, where she left her bones, and everything be longing to her, except her crew, who barely saved their liver. The same was the case with twelve other merchant vessels lost upon the same reef about the same time with Sappho's disaster. Spitfire's com mander and crew were brought to trial for her loss, and honourably acquitted. But Sappho, with all her sticks, guns, anchors, and stores, v. as rescued from the yawning and hungry deep by the admirable skill and indefatiga ble perseverance of her commander and gallant crew, who declared at his trial, with emphatic and affecting simplicity, that his conduct had uniformly been " good, nothing but good." But let us note en peasant, that by recent rules, as the complaints of a ship's company do not damage an oppressive officer—" Discipline must be en forced, sir"—so the favourable testimony of his crew does not avail their commander on his day of trial—" Ho is too indulgent, sir; under such officers the service would go to the devil!" After a torturing suspense of three months' duration, Commander Mitchell was brought to a trial, which was protracted through three tedious days. He was then sentenced to be dismissed his ship, the Court, at the same time, pronouncing their opinion that the testimony of all the witnesses against the prisoner, except that of the surgeon, whose evidence was on a collateral point unconnected with the loss of Sappho, was frivolous and malicious." We will not attempt to describe the puzzled astonish ment which, we are informed directly from Port Royal, was produced by this amazing verdict, but will pause to ask in what a position do the officers commanding her Majesty's ships now wand? If a captain differs in opinion from his master as to a ship's proper course, and explains his reasons for differing (Commander Michell's case), and that master does not formally re linquish charge, the rules of the service require the captain to defer to the master's judgment. He may, to be sure, call upon the master to give up charge, and plsce him under arrest if lie refuses, but if a mishap afterwards occurs, what is the captain's tate? Certain dismissal from his ship, and probable dismissal from the service altogether! Again, supposing the captain, after patiently enfold ing his own views, yields to the master, and the ship is lost, what then? Commander Michell's case shows that ha is still dismissed his ship. The Court pronounced Commander Michell guilty of " great negligence in steering and conducting" his ship, for the proper super intendence of which he had a master sent him from the flag. ship, to whose judgment the rules of the service constrain him to defer: the Court with the same breath stigmatizing the said master's evidence as " frivolous and malicious," yet concluding thus: " therefore, this Court adjudges Commander Michell to be dismissed his ship." Oh, fie! on such a " therefore." Is not its logical se quence from such premises tantamount to the reasoning of some solemn wiseacre who should syllogise thus: the angles of an equilateral triangle are equal to two right angles, therefore mustard is a good accompaniment to pork chops. We are almost sorry for having entertained a ludi crous idea while discussing a case so provocative of in dignation, so truly alarming to every naval officer who cannot, if in trouble, evoke the most sweet voices of Greenwich electors to his rescue, but the absurdity of this court-martial is irresistibly comic as well as cruel. We have by no means said our say upon it, but we can only to-day notice a fact cr two without comment for the present. Three of the six officers composing the court belonged to the Admiral's flag-ship, and the day after Commander Mtchell's dismissal Flag-Lieutenant the Honourable Arthur Cochrane, the Admiral's son, was appointed to her. We make no unkind comments upon this paternal act, we impute no unworthy motives, but will others be equally forbearing? CENTRAL GAS CoNSIIMERS' COMPAISIT.—The first half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held on Tuesday afternoon at the London Tavern; Mr. Thomas Dakin in the chair. The secretary read the report of the directors as to the state of the company up to the present time. After de tailing matters which have already been before the public, the report stated that the directors had entered into con tracts to supply the inhabitants along the line from Bow common to the City with gas as soon as the mains were laid down ; and they had also agreed to supply the inhabitants of Mile-end Old Town, and other places near it, within twelve months after they had commenced supplying the city of London. The receipts, up to the 30th of April, 1850, were 32,0091. 198. Id., and the directors wished that the third call should be paid up, es they were anxious to have the amount of 75,0001. at command before commencing laying down their pipes. The works at Bow-common were pro ceeding rapidly, and the wharf at Limehouse had been com pleted. The retort-house and station-meter -house were rapidly proceeding, and the excavations for the punfying house and for the tanks - for the two large gasometers were finished and ready for the construction of the brickwork. In the event of the trustees of the Essex-roads continuing to refuse the company permission to lay down their mains, the cost of diverging from them would not exceed 5001., a cost which it might be judged better to incur than the delay until the passing of the Bill. The cost of the mains to !title , end Old Town and Whitechapel would not exceed 10,0001., as no great lengths of pipe - were required. This report was received and adopted, and the meeting (which was a very full one) separated, after a vote of thanks to the chairman. ImpitoVEMENT OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY. In the event of the Royal Academy giving up their rooms to bp t I 3r l ,a e de ot N ii enaagtbi away enatol make h r ot 3i, ee l up v rn o ei u fs l oe d rnmt i t eann n td o r t acno b cne o n t te h oc tt b eb d e e b d b t e a ir s desirable ,o and it, letting the troops pass under an archway at the level of the basement, and from thence come out into Trafalg n ar-square by an ch inclined Church might p b plane? ne e don?e' farthest he away with alt entrance oget h enr considering S s i t d . gt Martin's he little use it is of to the public.—Builder. FATALEXPLOSION AT MENAI-BRIDG E.—On Thurs day evening last Mr. John Thomas, one of the firm of Messrs. R. and J. Thomas, druggists, met with his death in the fol. lowing sudden and awful manner : —lt seems he was very fond of reading chemical works, and of trying chemical ex periments. On the above evening he was making some de tonating powder (probably for the first time), and having had the inwedients properly dried proceeded to mix them together in a Wedgwood mortar, when the friction of the pestle caused the powder to explode. The explosion, which was attended with a very loud and strange report, shivered the mortar, bottles, jars, window, &c., to atoms. Mr. Thomas immediately ran through the back door to the house of a neighbour opposite, where he immediately fell, and weltering in his own blood almost instantly expired. Mr. Charier, surgeon, of Bangor, who had just left the bridge, was imme diately sent for, and having been found at Gorphwysfa, was on the spot in a few minutes, but too late to be of any help to the young man. It turned out that a portion of the mortar, or some other broken fragment, had entered the groin, a n d penetrated the main artery, the great and rapid , loss of bl oo d from which caused almost insta nt death. lue thumb of the left hand was almost completely severed at the joint which attaches it to the wrist, a narrow piece of skin on the outside alone keeping up the connexion. Numerous small pieces of glass had also penetrated the flesh about the face and head. The apprentice was the only person in the shop at the time. lie was looking out at the window, having his back turned towards Mr. Thomas at the moment of the explosion. Two pieces, o f t he entire thickness of the mortar, about an inch square, lodged in his arm. Air. Charley dressed the wounds. and we understand he is likely to do well. An inquest was held on Friday morning on the body of Mr. Thomas. when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. The de ceased was a very amiable and steady young roan.— Chester Courant. FATAL EIPLOSION,---PLYMOUTIT, APRIL 30.—The Lestwithiel powder-works, at Herod's Foot, five miles west o Liskeard, exploded at nine o'clock on Friday night, the 26th inst. There were in store three or four tons of gunpowder, which went off in three different explosions. The premises were blown to pieces, and the bodies of the two watchers, Pengelly and Truscott, shockingly mutilated. Cottages, a quarter of a mile distant, are said to have been unroofed and the walls damaged. The Honourable Artillery Company gave a splen did ball at their Artillery-ground on Tuesday evening last, the 30th ultimo, which was attended by upwards of 300 per sons. The company began to arrive at nine o'clock, and shortly after dancing commenced to Adams's fashionable band, which performed a new selection of quadrilles, polkas, waltzes, schottisches, &c., which were greatly admired. At )ne o'clock an elegant supper was provided ; after which lancing was resumed with reanimated spirit, a-id continued until dawn, when the company separated, highly delighted with the night's entertainment. Amongst the company we noticed the Lord and Lady Mayereo, Sheriff Nicoll, Sze. BENTLEY. Mr. Bell has, in the present instalment of " The Ladder of Gold," commenced a love story of the most interesting character. Richard Rawlings, deter mined to secure a high connexion for his family, fos ters in every way possible the penchant of Lord Charles.Eton for Margaret, or for her fortune ; and Margaret and Henry Winstone, who at length are brought clearly to understand the state of each other's hearts, by the attempts made to separate them, mutu ally confide in each other, and Henry Winstone is accepted by Margaret as her lover, at the same mo ment that Lord Charles Eton is accepted by her father as a suitor for her band. At this interesting portion of the story the present instalment stops, and we must wait until next month to learn how Richard Rawlings sped in his wooing for Lord Charles Eton. There are several social pictures in this instalment of the " Ladder of Gold," which are very daguerotypes of English life, as it at present is ; among these, we would more particularly select as a subject of special commendation the description of the meeting of railway shareholders, and that of the eventful dinner at Mr. Rawlings's, in which Mr. Mick Costigan is introduced. This latter scene is the sub ject of a spirited illustration. Among the articles of permanent interest in this number of Bentley, is the commencement of a series of " Inedited Letters of Celebrated Persons ;" the present chapter gives a batch of letters from Horace "Walpole to Lysons the antiquary, written between the years 1787 and 1796. Alfred Crowquill furnishes a pen and ink sketch, and a short biography of Mr. Sims Reeves. This is followed by a paper on her Majesty's Theatre, in the course of which the writer thus comments on the immense progress that dramatic musical science has made of late years, and on the perfect manner in which the musical drama has been repre sented of late years at the first lyrical theatre in the world—her Majesty's Theatre. The writer says— " There is nothing more surprising in the way of pro gress than the height of excellence the Italian opera has attained within the last half century an excellence which is developed in its most perfect form this season at her Majesty's Theatre. To the mere attraction of melody and concerted music, expre esed with sensibility and taste, have been added all the accessories requisite to bring out the passions and the action of the piece. An opera is no longer an incoherent patchwork of musical, effects, but a drama of plot and character, in which the performers are not singers merely, but actors, and some of them great actors—Coletti and Lablsche, for example. Criti cism is no longer satisfied on the stage with the attain ments that delight us in the concert-room; much more is required to fulfil the demands of the theatre—pas sionate utterance, dramatic power, feeling, energy, and judgment. To render the illusion more complete, the scene is dressed with a scrupulous attention to historical propriety, and pictorial art supplies a Lack-ground, that realises, as far as art can realise, the last exaction of a cultivated and pampered taste. " The performances at her Majesty's Theatre this .teason may be referred to in illustration of the justice these remarks. The combination cf talent collected within the walls of that house, which still retains a supremacy worthy of its traditions, has enabled the management to produce an ensemble beyond which it would be difficult to imagine the achievement of greater triumphs." We haves reviews of Mr. Erskine: Neal's recently published biography of the Duke of Kent, and of Frank Forester's Books on Field Sports in America, besides an elaborate criticism on the writings and genius of George Sand, and several other papers of an amusing character. LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. It is worth a visit to Exeter-hall to hear the overture and incidental music,of Beethoven to Goethe's tragedy of Egmont, which was performed last night at the ninth concert of the spring series. The Egmont ranks high among the very few examples of dramatic music which Beethoven has left. The overture is well known as one of the sublimest compositions of the master, but the rest of the music is almost new to this country. It com prises two songs for a soprano voice, and several in strumental pieces descriptive of certain passages in the tragedy. The two songs belong to Clare, the betrothed of Egmont; the first, illustrating the young maiden's aspirations when her lover is gone to the wars, is a com position of peculiar wildness and beauty. The second, which describes Clare's feelings previous to her last interview with Egmont, is in a half-joyful, half-melan choly strain, that captivates and enchains the attention by its intense earnestness. The instr umen t a l pi eces , con sisting of a brilliant war march, and a number of move ments of diflerent characters, which give musical ex pression to the most prominent situations of the drama, are all highly dramatic, and some exquisitely beautiful. In order to facilitate the public performance of the music of Beethoven, independent of the theatre, Dr. Moisen geil wrote a poem which embodied the most important characters and points of the tragedy of Egmont, with pauses and directions for the music to come in. It is a very loose translation of this poem which Mr. Stammers recites at Exeter Hall, between the intervals of the music, the instrumental portions of which were exceedingly well performed by the band, under the direction of Herr Anschue z; while the two songs of Clare are sung with a great deal of energy and enthusiasm by Madame Zim merman. Herr Dreyschock, the pianist, has also been engaged at the Wednesday Concerts, and made his se cond appearance last night. The difficulties he performs are astonishing. His left hand has extraordinary strength and agility,while his octave playin g , f or f orce an d ra pidity,islmost unparalleled. Some variations on the " National Anthem," for the left hand alone, in which he accomplished quite as much as the majority of pia nists could achieve with both hands, created as immense sensation. de Parkla G OV ERNMENT INTERMENTS BILL.--On to-morrow (Friday), a meeting of Membe rs of P arliament and gentle men, will take place at the residence of . W. Alexande r Mac it n E preparatory to the Bacn.cl4, Hy ce, to consid er th e measure being brought before the i objectionable nno, sq ~ clausesA l .' , Com mittee of the House of Commons. HOUSE or COMMONS.—The amount required for the completion of the official houses for the Speaker and the officers of the House of Commons is estimated, according to a return just published, at 30,1001. The expense already in curred on this account is 74,0001. The amount of house rent paid for the temporary official residence of the Speaker, together with allowances for house-rent to the officers of the House of Commons, since 1835-6, has ranged from 1,552/. 2s. Ed. paid in 1835, to 2,56c1., the amount for 1840. The total amount paid on this account has been 27,196/. 118. sd. FURTHE R APPEAL IN THE GORHAM CASE.— Before next week, we understand, another court of West. miuster -hall wid have the same question submitted to it, as that on which the court of Queen's Bench have decided:— The Guardian. SURREY THEATRE. On Monday evening a new three act drama, entitled The Fugitive; or, Duty and Honour, was presented at this theatre with the most complete success. The author has chosen for the period of his drama the year 1746, and the Pretender for his hero. ,TLe drama has been elegantly written by Mr. Moreno ; 'a gentleman who has on former OCCUSiODS received the public approba tion for his dramatic productions. Prince Charles Ed ward (Mr. Shepherd), after the disastrous battle of Cul and seeks loden, becomes a fugiti ve, an asylum in the house of Sir Duncau Forbes (Mr. Creswick), here en.: countering Katherine (Madame Ponisi), the, wife of the Lord Commissioner, who, a. stanch adherent" to the house of Stuart, determines to save him. She accordingly meets the Princo in the gardens of the ma nsion, where they aro discovered by Sir Duncan, who, not recognising the Pretender, becomes at once a prey to jealousy. He follows the pair to a neighbouri ng cottage, w h ere the Prince escapes, but the husband discovers his wife. The lady, however, keep herself closely veiled during the return to the mansion, and by changing dresses with her waiting maid, Cary (Miss Laporte), is enabled to turn the tables on her irate spouse. Still the Prince is in jeopardy, again he returns to the mansion, w h e n the lady con cea l s hi m i n h er chamber. The soldiers, on the look out for the fugitive, now get a clue to where the Prince is hidden. Woman's wit again saves him; Sir Duncan's jealousy is now raised to the the highest pitch, when the Prince regard less of his own personal safety, ret urns to excu l pate the lady, and explain away her equivocal position. It also transpires that Prince Charles has saved the Lord Commissioner's life in France. A struggle now takes place in the breast of Sir Duncan between loyalty and gratitude ; the former, however, triumphs, and he summons the soldiers to arrest Charles; they, however, aro busily engaged in a hand to hand fight with a party of the Pretender's adherents, who are victorious. The Prince magnanimously pardons Sir Duncan, who ogain takes his wife to his bosom. As a conclusion to the performances of the evening, an other new drama, entitled Lizzie Leigh, was produced. It is an adaptation of the tale of that name, which has recently appeared in Charles Dickens's Household Words. The story has been pretty closely followed,. and the drama was successful. The house was crowded. A CABMAN'S ESTIMATE OF RES PECTABILITY: . " What do you take me for, Sir?" said an elderly gentleman to a cabman who had been grossly insulting him. " Take yer for ? Vy, I took yer for a shillia' a mile, but I find yer a shab as only gives eightpence,"•rruncli. A