The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

sm . Eel )emerara; Quebec; Hannah, lip, Glas d will re- ider, Rio ra Leone. Jamaica. Priscilla, rrington , ;iffy, bul 1. 10th, , aO , New Dantzie Olinda, Ayres; Naples; 3UlOgil e ; cl Banks, ter, Rot steamer, larbuus• ammo , , Cape; reveller, enburg; Y.) on, 35 id per N 0 of th° i wale' 1 , 0 9 ', ;63 10' tA.s. a OA %. Deaci , but of Ported in the Galway and Duqin newspapers of the . day. The dinner took place on the lich of March, St. Patrick's Day, and being altogether of a festive nature, and quite unconnected with politics, Mr. Daly was induced to preside on the occasion. On the toast of the Press being given, a Mr. Blake, the printer and publisher of a Leal newspaper, rose to return thanks, an in the course 'of his speech he did make use of some such language as that referred to in this allt-ged libel, but Mr. Daly and others repressed him for so doing there, and then he was told that if he did not desist the company would have no help for it but to turn him out; where- Upon Mr. Blake resumed his seat, and nothing more was heard of the matter, nor was it alluded to in the reports of the dinner that afterwards appeared in the newspapers. Several per -s°llB who were present at the dinner, including a Mr. o , Flaherty, joined the reverend gentleman in swearing him ; he never spoke any such words as those imputed to aim; and as the libel could not be the result of au error or mistake in the reports of the dinner, there could be no question that the intention of the writer in Punch was to wantonly, grossly, and maliciously attack the dia . otter of the reverend gentleman; and he had therefore 'louse to this Court. at the earliest passible opportunity, to seek that protection which the Court was in the habit of s.ffording to persons attacked under similar circum stances. ler.r. Justice WIGHTMAN—Take a rule. Mr. BADDELEY—WiII your Lordship be good enough to make it returnable this term? Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—There is no point of law in volved in the case, end the rule may be made returnable °O Monday, to be argued on Tuesday. If, however, th. Parties are not ready then the rule mast, of course be • discharged. Rale nisi accordingly. ARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY ) GENTLEmANLI . AMUSEMENTS.--Josiah Robinson and Tkomas Bacon, described on the charge-sheet as gentle inen. residing at the Bedford Hotel, Covent-garden, were brought before Mr. Bingham charged with being arunk, and assaulting Police-constable Boyce 181 C. The constable stated that about half-past twelve on the previous night he was on duty in the Haymarket, when he 8 kw a cab drive up amongst the carriages which were Wait ing to take up at the Opera. Be told the cabman to di 'lye on, and not obstruct the way, when the de !wad ant Robinson, who was in the cab, called out, " Leave .bias alone, you -, stop till I pay him." Witness then look hold of the horse's head for the purpose of removing the cab, when Robinson got out and collared him; 4 scuffi© ensued, and Robinson fell to the ground. Wa rless %ben took him to the station. On their way there the ‘lefendant Bacon came behind him and annoyed him 8 0 in rich by treading on his heels, that when they ar rived! at the station-house he was locked up also. They Were, both very drunk. M.r. BINGHAM fined Robinson 10s., and the usual drunkard's fine of ss. was inflicted on Bacon, with a _Caution as to their future behaviour. M ORE GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENT,—Thomas Wi/- I °4 :Ind James Litton, two gentlemen from the country, at pvesent staying at PeAe a Coffee-house, Fleet-street, Were , charged with being drunk and creating a dis turb ance at Mr. Genese's Coffee• house, 125, dermyn 'tree It. „M r. Genese stated that about five o'clock this morning the two defendants came into his house with two others, and (Allied for some refreshments. Seeing they were in toxiected he refused to serve them, and desired them to leave the house. They declined doing so, and Litton ,sParred up to him in a fighting attitude, and struck sand said he would stop there and fight him. Corn. Inein.ant then ran out for a constable, and when he re turn,ed Wilson took a seat in the corner, and swore he Weal d not leave until he had some coffee. Witness then took !aim by the arm, and again requested him to leave, Red as they both still persisted in remaining, he gave them. in charge. Thm defendants, who denied the charge of drunken ness in tote, were ordered to enter into their own recog slizanrces to keep the peace towards the complainant fur three, months. TE cz TICKET-SHOP NUISANCE.—This morning a lady, ....Whoa a name did not transpire, made an application to Air. Bingham for advice under the following circum. atane es:— plicant stated that yesterday afternoon she was Passi rig a draper's shop in Oxford-street, when she was attra cted by seeing some alpacas marked Is. I Id. per Yard. As she wished to make a purchase, she entered the s h.op and, after looking at the goods, had them melt, tared, and as there were 22,i yards, which was more than iihe required, the shopman agreed, if she took the lot, to let. her have it at Is. lid. per yard. She consented to that, and gave the shopman a sovereign and a half, re eeivii ig in change 7s. Id. The goods were subsequently sent home . to her residence in Ely-place, but the servant Weal( I not take them in in consequence of 2s. more, in addiV ion to what sbe had already paid, being demanded. This morning she went to the shop and 23,W the shop. Co whom she complained of the imposition; he then raid r she had made a mistake in the change and had given him 2s. too little& This she denied, and as he Would not give up the parcel she wished to know how the v, us to act. Mr . BINGHAM said he would send a constable to the chop b to tell the party that unless the parcel was given up he ah mid grant a summons to compel him. 11, 3 lady thanked the Magistrate and left the court. About; half-an-hour afterwards, Crosbie, one of the war rant c /leers attached to this court, who was sent with the la sly, returned, and informed Mr. Bingham that after some little trouble he had succeeded in prevailing upon , L the ropman to give up the parcel to the lady without 'tar - p tying the 24. demanded. Mr BiNcalm thought the shopman had adopted the Wises. t plan. ACHE GREAT EXHIBITION. (THIS DAY.) At twelve o'clock this morning, notwithstanding the tinpr mnising aspect of the weather , 24,815 persons had be e n a d m itted into the Crystal Pa lace, of whom 11,375 enter ad in the first hour. There was no perceptible chant ;a in the class of visitors, who all appeared to be Boas sf toil, who had brought their families, many of them from a distance, evidently to inspect the congre- Rated . products of industry from all nations of the earth. It wil 1 be remembered that soon after the opening of the nzhil gtion, a pistol, exhibited in the Belgian depart ttlent, was stolen from the case in au unaccountable ramm ar, and all trace of it disappeared until yesterday, When it was offered for pledge at a pawnbroker's shop ill Ku ightsbridge. Information was given to the police, and tl le boy apprehended, and we understand he is to be broug ht up at Marlborough-street this day. i. 1 prices. 3 10d ; or k, 29 Clover , ,r load' 41 101 a losd. 41 7 s; 0 load. ruled Beef, 48 Scl 6d per roofed stock .001 26 Ito 51 6d per Cowo► ',) : . :It. tr.*. libttton 11.A.MPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.-BY EXPRESS.) Handicap Plate. Vain 1 , 113 1.• • bard. ti is Evenh2 g Star filly, Won easy.. The Richmond gtikes. Aldslf4 'lazy 'recto . ... 1 ~. 2 ••.. 3 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 Won in a canter. TAO QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELA.ND.—At the in stance a f Sir Robert Harry Inglis, the six first articles in the Dui lin Gazette, of Tuesday, August 7th, 1849, have been printed by order of the House of Commons. The return principa Ily consists of a copy of the formula of presentation then printed in thW Eirizette, for the accommodation of those Who we' re to attend the Levee and Drawing-room, but a re turn is i riven of the persons to whom the entrée to the Castle Was girl in by hilt Majesty, in addition to those who had the entree al ; St. Janes's. They were as follows :—The Primate, the Chn odellor, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Roman Ca tholic V rimate, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Dal ce of Leinster, the Cabinet Ministers, her Majesty's House t old, the Lord-Lieutenant's Household, the Lord Chief Justic a of Queen's Bench, Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justic e of Common. Pleas, the Chief Secretary to the Lord -I.lekrt• anent, the Chief Baron, the Attorney-General, the Com mand per. of the Forces, the Paymaster of Civil Services, the Uncle r -Secretary to.the Lord-Lieutenant, the Solicitor-Ge neral, the Commandant of the Garrison, the Adjutant-Gene ral, tl to Quartermaster -General. Ar titIVALS AT MIYART's HOTEL.--His Excellency Mars hal Narvaez Duke de Valencia, from Paris ; his Excel lency the Count Coucheleff Bezborodko, from St. Peters burgh -le Chevalier Andrea. Count and Countess Gerar diska, !Baron and Baroness Vonverscheur, from the Hague; Count ; Louvenconrt,the Earl and Countess of Fingal!, Mr. and Lady Emma Anderton, Marquis and Marchioness of Nate rford, Lord and Lady Farnham, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gale' Townley, the Earl and Countess of Charlemont, Colonel, Mrs. • and Miss Scudamore, the Marquis Pallavicino, Marq ails Francois Balbi Senarega, Comte (,ome-Degli Ales sandr i, Mr. Legh, Mr. O'Shea, M. Battaelle, &c. M .4)RESTER MILITARY BAND.—The bands of the two n-g,iments of Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards (Blue), the t renadier, Coldstream, and Scots Fusilier Guards, with that ; of the Royal Artillery, from Woolwich, attended at the Ro: Oa Hospital, Chelsea, on Tuesday afternoon last, for the pu ri ,ose of rehearsing . as one band, the several pie ces of mt Est c selected for performance at the Grand Military Mu sic ;al Festival which is to take place in the grounds of that este) lishment on the 17th and 18th of June. It was in t er,di id that the bands should have played in the garden, but ov in g to the inclemency of the weather, the rehearsal took p/ ace. in the pensioners' large dinner hall. The bands will a gain attend for practice on Friday and Monday next. THE LATE FAILURE IN LIVERPOOL.—We perceive ' that some of the London papers state the liabilities of Mr. Richard Hyde, cotton merchant, of Liverpool, at something like 200,0001. or :300,000/. ; a statement which, we have rea son to believe, is very greatly exaggerated. The precise amount, we believe, is not at present ascertained, as there have been some purchases of cotton at New Orleans, on joint account with another party. It is believed that Mr. .Hyde's oc n liabilities will be paid in full ; and that the divi dend on the joint debts will be large. —Manchester Guardian. ImpROVEMENTS AT BILLINGSGATE MARKET.—The first portion of the new market, namely, the architectural river front and shell-fish market, constructed on the site of the old wet dock, is nearly finished, and will in the course of a few days be opened. The river frontage extends from the Custom-house -stairs to Dark-house -lane ; it is in the Tudor style of architecture, built of Dutch brick, with dressings of Portland stone and granite, and consists of a central or clock tower, two wing turrets with an intersecting colonnade, having fifteen distinct river entrances. The bed of the old dock is reached by a double flight of stone steps; here shell fish will be exclusively sold, and its surface will be covered 'with stalls for the sale of other kinds of fish. On the open ing o f this portion of the market the removal of the houses in Dark-house -lane will commence, in order to complete the new market. The amount which the Corporation are ex pentling in tbis important invnyomentiti 22,0904 THE SUN, FINE ARTS. PYNE'S LAKE SCENERY. [ln consequence of the number of applications which have reached us for copies of the subjoined' criticism, we are induced to reprint it for the satisfac tion of our subscribers.] Almost every week enables us to announce some new pictorial exhibition to the lovers of art, as having been opened somewhere or other in the metropolis. In this manner we have successively notified the ex cellencies or defects perceptible in , the galleries throughout London from that of the Royal Academy downwards. Nevertheless, while we have repeatedly found reason to eulogize the originators of these col lections, we have seldom had more peculiar , cause than in the present instance for felicitating them very cor dially on their union of judgment and enterprise. To the Messrs. Agnew and Sons, of Manchester, the public are indebted not only for the display of this noble collection of paintings at the establishment of the Messrs. Graves, near the Opera Colonnade, but for, what is of yet greater interest to the mass or the community, the promise' of their ultimate re-production in the form of engravings. It must surely be counted as among the curiosities of the picturesque that, notwithstanding the matchless beauty and celebrity of the lake scenery of England, there has been no attempt until the one here noticed at any consecutive series of pictures by way of their illustration. Fortunately, the task has fallen to one of the most gifted artists of our time, one of the most brilliant among the many noble landscape painters of our country and generation--a worthy contemporary of Stansfield, and the most successful among the dis ciples of Turner. At any period a visit to the apart ment adorned by these five-and-twenty exquisite productions would have proved to ourselves pecu liarly agreeable, revealing as each picture does the genius of art and the splendour of nature as they are in England, but our satisfaction upon both these heads is, of course, especially enhanced by the pre sence of so many intelligent foreigners in the me tropolis, men who may here be enabled to form something like an adequate idea of the powers of English artists, and of the loveliness of English landscapes. What adds, moreover, very con siderably to the pleasure with which the collection will be viewed, is the fact that so many will be enabled to appreciate the truthfulness with which Mr. J. B. Pyne has delineated the magnificent scenery of Cum berland, as well as the poetic genius he has revealed in the process of that same delineation. Remem brance will tell the majority of spectators the close adherence to reality maintained by the artist, even at moments when to the ignorauthe would seem most to have idealized his subject in regard to colour, to per spective, or to elevation. Literary as well as physical recollections will force themselves likewise upon the minds of most people while surveying these re-1 markable drawings, representing as they do spots of our beloved fatherland hallow ed by the resi-1 dence of genius, green nooks familiar to the foot steps of Coleridge, sunny orchards haunted by Hemans, woods and umbrageous coppices where Wordsworth has so often strolled, where Southey has meditated over dreams of oriental romance, where Wilson has mused over the marvels of creation, De Quincey over the wonders of intellectual speculation, and Arnold over the miraculous truths of philosophy. Such is the classic region whose charms have been here portrayed by the luminous pencil of Pyne, with not less faithful adroitness if regarded under their most homely, or under their most sublime aspects. The names merely of some of the paintings referred to will be sufficient to remind the generality of the beauty with which, under the hand of Pyne, they are instinct. There is "Buttermore," fur in stance (No. 1), and this too, under the influence of a 'tempest. Then there are " Bassenthwaite" (No. 2), with a portion of Skiddaw ; and " Derwent" (No. 3), with a perspective peeping into Barrowdale ; and " Windermere' (No. 4) as it appears when approached from Ambleside; and "Ry der (No. 5), with a sombre darkness over it as if mourning for its great departed ; and " Grasmere " (No. 6), with that wondrous gleam of lightstreaming round the corner of the boulder stones in the fore ground, with the sheep thrown out into bright light, while overhead in the next picture (No. 7), near " Kes wick," the moon floats a pale and ghostly crescent in the watery distance of the sky. Thirlemere, Wy therburn, West. Water, Lowes Water, Langdale Pikes. Dungeon Gill Force, Ennerdale, Brothers' Water, Crummock Water, are none of them forgotten, each being represented with a marvellous verisimili tude. " Skidelaw" (No. 10) is depicted with astonish ing power under the appearance it assumes when covered with autumnal snow. " Ulleswater" (No. 11)- again is an exquisite composition. The incident of the overloaded timber waggon pausing as it descends from Gowbarrow-park, is charmingly in troduced. In (No. 14) a view embracing the Vale of Keswick, Basenthwaite Lake, and the River Greta, may be recognised one of those peculiarities of colour which we have already alluded to as observable in the Lake District, the pink clay and pebbles lying in the left.;hand corner of the foreground. Another splendid painting is (No. 17), that of the Lake of Windermere, the hand of the artist being every where traceable from the fleecy sinus or mackerel sky to the men who have clambered up into the tree tops in the frolics of the regatta. " Hawes Water and Wallergill Force" (No. 19) are rendered with surprising ability, the foaming cascade reminding us in its descent of the impetuous and inspiriting verses of Southey on the cataract. It were frivolous, however, to attempt a mere matter-of-fact enumeration of the merits of this series of pictures, requiring as they do, more than one visit ihr their full and perfect appreciation Every one familiar with the great and rare powers of Mr. Pyne as an artist — and not only as an artist, but also as a poet and a geologist, a poet in sentiment and a geologist in the minuteness of his observation—will conjecture what must be accomplished by him when, as in the instance before us, he has undertaken to depict the lake scenery of England. To such as these, and to the rest of the public indiscriminately, we commend these five-and twenty most remarkable paintings, which, for their representation, not only of earth, of water, of foliage, and of cloudland, but of airy distances and atmos pheric phenomena likewise, must be eulogised as no thing less than artistic masterpieces. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON RACES. The commencement of the Manchester races on the same day, by drawing away several parties—either owners of horses or members of the ring—to some ex tent prejudiced the gathering yesterday on Moulsey Hurst; it happened fortunately, however, that after two wretchedly cold wet days, the weather proved extremely favourable; this, and an unusually good list—the result of an improved and more liberal management—attracted a large company, the attendance, although it evidently lacked something' in fashion, being in number fully up to what we have usually seen on the first day. Ia the absence of Mr. Hibbard, from continued indisposition, the duties of clerk of the course, starter, &c., were en trusted to Mr. E. Hibbard and Mr. Walton, Mr. Clark, of Newmarket, filling the more responsible office of judge; each` acquitted himself satisfactorily; in fact, there was nothing to cavil at in the management, except the order in which the races were arranged, a match which came to nothing being first on the card, and the heats between the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes and Claremont, instead of being last; this error of judgment would have been avoided had the order ot running been left to the stewards. The sport was ample, and was got through with a commendable attention to time, and with no other drawbacks than the contretemps in the race for the Claremont Stakes, and three or four rows in the in closure amongst the " outside" betting fraternity, who, we take for granted, would not have been admitt e d h a d it been possible to identity them; one or two narrowly escaped ducking. Our list of the titled and fashionable will be - short. It embraces only the Marquis of Drogheda, Lord Clif den, Lord Strathmore, Lord Lurgan, Lord Robert Clinton, Lord Stanhope, Sir W. W. Wynn, the Hon. Major Needham, Hon. Major Pitt, Hon. Capt. Rom, Hon. Fred. Villiers, Captains Foster, Dixon, Dorsey, Little, Oakes, Blair, Bastard, Higgins, and Pettat. Messrs. Payne, Standish, fn. Graham, G. Start, Ma gennis, Archdall, Gregory, Newton, Marty's, Crommelia, Seymour, Ramabottom, Berkeley, &0., &o. The racing does not call for a very lengthy report. March 50. Catch weight. Two miles. • Mr. Waller's Little Queen Received. Mr. Morgan's Lady Ann Paid. The Stand Plate of 50/. added to a Sweepstakes of 3 Bove, each, for three yrs old and upwards; the winner to be sold for 2001. Once round and a dis. (5 Subs.) Mr. Goodman's b c Checldington, 7st 71b...(5. Mann) 1 Mr. J. S. Douglas's Irene, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Abrahams) 2 Mr. Taunt on ' s o b y Bre y, Tat 7lb (Donald) 3 Baron Rothschild's fby Kremlin, 7st 71b (Lenghare) 4 Mr. J. Stinton' s Od essa g, Tat 41b . (Basham) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Irene, 2to 1 agst Kremlin filiy, and 3 to 1 each agst the others. Irene and the Odessa gelding made play alternately to the turn, where the running was taken up by the latter, folios' ed by Chaddingto-n; this pair held the Trent to the distance, where Cheddington took the lead, end ran home a clever winner by a length, Irene, who c ame at the last, obtaining the second place. Run in 3 min. 10 secs. The Corinthian Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 25 'added, for three yrs old and upwards, gentlemen riders, the winner to be sold for 200/., &c. Once round and a dis. (5 Subs.) Mr.Carew's Remunerator, 4 y rs,lo st lol b(Capt.Little) 1 Mr. Berkeley na Presto, 3 yrs, 9st 81b (Mr. Berkeley) 2 Mr. Eiwes's Stockbridge Buck, 4 yre, lOst 7 1b(Owner) 3 2 to 1 on Remunerator, who made nearly ail the run ning, and won by a length. Run in 3 rain. 12 secs. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes ( handi cap) of 20 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added by the Proprietors of the Course, the second to save his stake. Two miles. (45 Subs., 31 of whom declared.) Mr. R. Barrow's Abdallah, 4 yrs, Est 81b (G. E.Sharp) 1 Major Pitt's Vampyre, aged, Bst 71b (Sly) 2 Mr. Douglas na Don Pedro, 3 yrs, sstl7lb(Fordham) 3 Mr.C.Foreaby'e Ballet Girl, 4 yrs,6st 911(1I.Sherw out) 4 Mr. Carew's Eva, 5 yrs 7st 71b ......... (Dockeray) 5 Mr. A. S. Graham na Tilsit, 5 yre, Est 91D...(A. lad) 6 LONDON, THURSDAY GRAND BANQUET BY THE MERCHANT TAILORS' COMPANY. Yesterday being St. Barnabas'-day, the annual exa mination of the Merchant Tailors' School was held, no oOrcling to the time-honoured custom, in the pre ssneo of Dr. Winter, the master, and the senior fellows of St. John's College, Oxford, and other distinguished visitors; and in the evening the master and warders gave their annual dintEr to the examiners anti their friends. The opportunity was at the same time taken of inviting a number of the distinguished foreigners who ale at pre sent in this country to partake of the magnificent hos pitality of this ancient and distinguished civic company. The banquet to , )k place in the hall, and all the resources Of the company were expended in an entertainment which should do honour to the company, and enable our foreign guests, who have come over to attend the Exhibition, to appreciate the Euunificent hospitality of the great trading companies in the metropolis. Wm. RehinsonWhite, EN., master, was in the chair, and there were also present—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, President and Senior Fellows of St. JObn's College, Oxford, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Sheffield, Earl Howe, Lord Vis count Strangford, Lord Viscount Hardings,Lord William l'aule% Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord Saltoun, Lord Redesdale, Lord Colchester, L o rd F ev ersham, Lord Stanley, Lord Leigh, the Hon. Charles Hardinge, Cap tain the Hon. Arthur Duneombe, R.N., M.P.; the Right Hon. Sir Gorge Clerk, Bart.; the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, the Right Hon. Vice-Chancellor K. Bruce, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice.Vresswell, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Baron Martin, the Hon. Arthur Hardinge, Sir J. Doke, Bart., M.P., and Alderman; Major-General Sir G. Pol lock, Major-Gen. Sir John Molt, Sir Frederick Tlaesiger, M.P.; Sir Charles Mansfield Clark, the Dean of Jersey, Major Beresford, M.P.; Thomas Baring, Esq, M.P.; Richard Maxwell Fox, Esq., M.P.; John Masterman, Esq, M.P.; Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.; Dr. Maine; the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England; the Deputy-Chairman of the East India Company; Major-Gen. Kenah, Col. Gascoigne, Col. Challoner, Mr. Alderman Finals, Jas. Bentley, Esq., Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Richard Bag galley, Esq., Treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital; H. Kemble, Esq., the Master of the Mer cers ' Company; A. K. Barclay, Esq., J. Crocker, jun., Esq., Baron C. Dupin, Chevalier do Burg, Dr. Schalhault, Captain Abdul Hamed, M. Sallandrouzo de Lamornaix, Professor. Corridi, M. Von Viebahn, M. Walwoski, E. Zohr a b, Esq., M. Cuy litz, M. P. Relli, M. G. de Kamensky, Chevalier de Loucisa, Dr. Seyffarth, Don M. de Ysasi, Dr. Holley, Signor Hamda Elmkadden, M. Santillana, Dr. Steinbeis, M. Roessler, M. Stahlschmidt, M. Noback, Signor Carlo Trebbie, Charles Tottie, Esq., Peer Ibraheem Khan Bahadoor, Syed Abdoolhah, an Indian chief and his secretary, from the Punjanb. The cloth having been removed, The MASTER proposed " The Church and Queen," which was received with the utmost loyalty and enthu siasm. • The MASTER said the next toast was " Prince Al bert" (citizen and Merchant Tailor).—(Cheers.) He had entertained great hopes that his Royal Highness would have been present on that occasion; but as he was unavoidably absent, he proposed that they should drink his health.—(Cheers.) The MASTER said they had present with them an illustrious Prince, who was also a brother Merchant Tailor—his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.— (Cheers.) lii Royal Highness was the last of the illus trious names that had been enrolled on their list of honourable members, but they were happy to enrol his name among the many distinguished men that had been connected with them as honourable members. He begged to propose " His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, the Prince of Wales, and the other members of the Royal Family." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said he felt at all times honoured and gratified to have the advantage of meeting in that hall the master, wardens, and members of this an cient and loyal company—a company to be enrolled on whose tablets he considered a distinguished honour.— (Cheers.) He, as au humble individual, felt strongly that these ancient institutions were of the greatest ud vantage and of the greatest importance to this great country. It was, therefore, a gratification to him that he had the honour of being a member of one of these ancient and distinguished civic companies. He was al ways happy in being permitted to meet them at their hospitable board, particularly when, as at present, he saw around him, not only distinguished members of this country, but also so many foreigners of distinction. — (Cheers.) Ile felt that the friendly intercourse which was thus produced would tend to promote tho general advancement and civilization of the world. He trusted that such would be the result, and he was proud, with the permission of the Master, as well as of the other members of this corporation, to bid these foreign gentle men welcome to their hospitable board.—(Ch eers . The LIASTER then proposed " The Army an d Navy." Lard HABDINGE begged, in the absence of the Com mander-in-Chief, to return his cordial thanks for the army, *he, he said, were proud on all occasions to re ceive the approbation of their fellow-citizens when assembled on these festive occasions. He would remind them that the British army maintained her Majesty's dominions in colonies extending over one-tenth of the whole terrestrial globe; and in one of which colonies alone, that of India, there was assembled one-tenth of the population of the world. That reminded him for cibly of the obligations they owed to the Indian as well as to the Queen's army; and he could never accept praises for the ono without broadly hoping that they would unite the other.—(Cheers.) With respect to the British army, he must say—and he appealed on this point to his Royal Highness, who was an excellent judge —that the British army was as remarkable for discipline and good conduct at home as it was for energy and gal lantry abroad. He hoped, however, that their swords would now be turned into ploughshares, at least for a long time to come, and in that expectation he cordially drank their good healths. Lord COLCHESTER, who returned _thanks for the navy, said, he had no doubt, if their services should be required, that the navy would be found not to have degenerated from the efficiency of their prede cessors. But it must be remembered that the navy had different duties to fulfil. They were not only called upon to protect the country against foreign ene mies, but they were called upon also to p this dutyrotect the commerce of the world. They had done hitherto, and he hoped they would continue to do it for the future.—(Cheers.) The MASTER said one of the most pleasant duties was the examination of the boys at the school of the com pany, and the election of the senior scholars to St. John's College, Oxford. The task of examination had been kindly discharged by Dr. Winter, who was himself a Merchant Tailor, and that day forty years had been elected into the Merchant Teflon' school—.now he was the distinguished president of his colleg e , • Ile begged to propose "Dr. Winter, the president, and the se n ior fel lows of St. John's College, Oxford."—(Ch eers .) Dr. WINTER returned thanks. It was now, he said, several centuries since the Merchant' T a il or .' School ha d been opened, and since Sir Thomas White, the origina tor and founder of St. John's Cellege, Oxford, h a d con ferred upon the company the privileg e of e nominating three-fourths of the fellows of his college. Since that time the Merchant Tailors' School had been industri ously and faithfully engaged in training up children in the principles of sound learning, pure re li gion, and do voted loyalty. In the examination of thi s year he was distinguished them to say that the boys had highl y thems9lves, because they had been able to nominate three fellows; and though it did not becOm e a prudent and sober person to deal in prophecies, Yet lee m i g ht ven ture to predict that these boys would do credit to them selves and to their college, and that they would establish for the school additional claims to the respect and grati tude of the nation at large..—(Cheers.) Th e MASTER then proposed " The l e l onorary Mem bers," among whom, he was happy to s aY, they reckoned one name that was the glory of the world: —the Duke of Wellington.—(Cheers.) There were ether names that were not far behind him—such as Lord Herdinee, Sir George Pollock , a nd o t her illustrious Jae,. e —(Cheers.) He b e gged , to propose " The Honorary Members of the Company. ), Lord Minnie= returned thanks. • • The MASTER then said they were gratified with having the honour of entertaining a number of distin guished foreigners, who had come to this country in connexion with the Exhibition of the Arts and Industry of All Nations. He was proud to see, also, that several as 'Royal Commissioners, with that Exhibi• distinguished stateem en who were p re sent w e r e a lso c oncocted, Lion; and he begged to propose as a toast, " Her Ma jesty's Commiseionere and the Foreign , Commissioners tors co nducting the Great Exlarbiti. Lord Stanley and and he would couple with the toast th e names of Baron C. Dupin.—(Cheers.) _ Lord STANLEY was received with loud cheering. He said—l little expected when I entered y our hospitable room this evening that I should be called upon to return thanks for a body of men to whom, _ - o havery account, I feel it a pride and a gratification 'to belong. But to 'you, master, and to this company, I personally owe a deep obligation, and I should feel myself un worthy of the kindness which I have received at your hands if I were for a moment to hesitate, bo'.vever inade quate, to undertake the task which Yee have set me. This is not the first time I have had the honour of speaking on behalf of the Royal Commissioners of the Great Exhibition, as I think I may now call it, of the Industry of All Nations. I have spoken's upon this sub ject in the City at a time when the balauce of public opi nion was suspended between the chances and hopes of , success and the fears and apprehensions of signal failure. I remember in this city, though not .n this room, a great impulse was given to the popular 'excitement in favour of the Exhibition by an entertattment, which was attended by his Royal Highness. 'Prince Albert, under whose auspices the idea originated; and was, I may etty, perfected. At that time great 'doubts existed whether the Exhibition would in any respect answer the ideas of its originator and proposer. There were I know not what apprehensions; there were fears of a pecuniary failure—perhaps that was a failure of the least kind— there were fears of constant discomfort—teere was talk even of an interference with the national amusements and recreations of the people—there were fears and apprehensions that, from the _ gatheriog of all nations, this country would become the focus of internal sedition and of external anar chy. I thank God first—l thank the genius and spirit of my countrymen next—that these apprehensions have vanished and melted into thin air. —(Loud cheers.) Nay, even the difficulties and obstacles which were interposed served only to heighten the mageeficence and the splen dour of the cerehiony; for I well remember, when üb jections were raised on a point of feeling in which I myself participated, that it was hardly right to deseci ate those splendid parks which are the beauty and glory of this city, by destroying those venerable trees under whose shade succeeding generations have sported and been amused; and when the preservation of these trees was forced upon the Commissioners by the controlling power of public opinion, that objection actually con tributed to produce the grt:udokt utd most ratignificout Mr. Payne') Guardsman, 3 yrs, Est (T. Smith) 7 Betting-2 to 1 agst Abdallah, 4to 1 agst Vampyre, 5 to 1 agst Eva. Guardsman went away with a strong lead, which, evidently against the will of his rider, he held to the back of the course, the running being then taken by Vampyre, who went on a could,: of lengths first to the bottom of the course. Two or three cf the light weights then showed in advance, but were beaten as soon as they got into the straight running. From the distance-post the race was betweenVempyre and Abdallah, the latter getting his heed first half-way up, and winning by half a length, Don Pedro a moderate third. Run in 3 mill. 42 sees. Thelnnkeepers' Plate of 30 soya. each; for three yrs old, 7st lib; four, Bst 71b; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st 211 a;, mares and geldings allowed 31bs; the winner to be sold for 150/., &c. Heats, three-quarters of a mile. (66 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Faux Pas (801.) 6st 61b (T. Smith) 0 1 1 Mr. P. P. Rolt's Preslaw (501.) 7st (Sharp) 1 2 0 Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette (501) Est 111 b (Burn) 0 3 2 Mr. West's Marquis of Cenynghao aged (50/) 7st 61b... (S. Mann) 0 0 3 Mr. C. Formby's b f by Slane out of Guzmans's dam, 4 yrs (501), 6st 11Ib (R. Sherwood) 0 0 0 Mr. Smith's Emma, (Sot.), sat 111 b (Kendall) 2 0 dr Mr. Bartley's Laundry Maid (800, 7st 131 b 0 odr Skipworth's Gimcrack, (50/.) 6.1 t 111 b ... 0 odr Mr. Young's Impression, (80/.), 74 41b Mr. M'Caw's Prospect, aged, (501), 7st 61b 3dr Lord Strathmore's Landseer, (500, 7st 41b Mr. J. Morris's Emily, 3 yrs, (100/), Est 111 b 0 dr Mr. J. Perren's Fernando, 4 yrs, (801), 7st 41b odr First heat, won by fourth length; second heat, won by a length; third hee , , won by two lengths. The Claremont Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 50 added; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b; the winner of the New Stakes at Ascot 51b, and other winners 3lb extra. Half a mile. (11 Subs.) Major Martyu's Lady Isabel (W. Abdale) 1 Captain Lowther's Barbara Bell (Rogers) 2 41r: Douglas's Miss Giddy .. (Abrahams) 3 Mr. Toinkina's Urbanity (Thick) 4 Mr. Johnson's ch cby Archyd (Balchin) 5 Mr. Yarworth's Hop-picker . (Bartholomew) 0 Mr. T. Brown na c, by Jasper (G. Brown) 0 Betting-7 to: agst Hop-picker, sto 2 agst Lady Isabel, and 4 to 1 agst Urbanity. Lady Isabel jumped off with the lead, made all the running, and won in a canter by three lengths. Hop picker jumped the ropes both before starting and in the race, and the Jasper colt threw his rider, after running half the distance. Time, 59 secs. A Plate of 50 sovs. given by the South-Western Rail way, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, if declared, &c.; one mile. (16 Subs., Bof whom de clared.) Mr. J. S Douglas's Leybourne, 6st 51b...(Hammond) 1 Major Martyn's The Moor, 6 yrs, Sst 81b (W.Abdale) 2 4 to 1 on The Moor. Won by a length. Run in 2 min. 8 secs. BETTING ON THE COURSE. GOODWOOD STAKES. 20 to 1 agst Clarissa. 4 to 1 agst Borneo. 20 to 1 :list Kick.up•the. Dust. 20 to 1 agst Vampyre. 25 to 1 gist Narcissus. 25 to 1 agst Harpsichord. 25 to 1 agst Pitsford. COODWCOD CUP. 3 to 1 apt Essedarius (taken). ST. LEGER. 20 to 1 agst Clasher (taken.) MANCHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Biennial Stakes of 10 soya. each and 50 added; for colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b; the second to receive 25 sous. ont of the stakes. T.Y.C. (11 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Merry Bird .....(J. Osborne, jun.) 1 Mr. Pedley's Trousseau (Templeman) 2 Mr. W. T. Park's Lucifer Betting -5 to 4on Merry Bird, and 6to 4 agst Trousseau. Won cleverly by a length, Lucifer a bad third. The Produce Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, and 100 added, the second to receive 501. out of the stakes; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31bs• ' those by horses or out of mares that never won allowed albs; both, 51b3. One mile and three-quarters. (33 Subs.) Mr. Halfcrd's Prime Minister (Marlow) 1 Mr. Critchley's Ringleader (Denman) 2 Mr. Smallpage's Pki!Mores (Dickinson) 3 Mr. Meiklam's Constellation (Tcmpleman) 4 Mr. Denham's Aria (Whitehouse) 5 Betting-7 to 4 on Prime Minister, and 3 to 1 agst Constellation. Ringleader made all the play to the dis tance, where the favourite took it from him, and won easy by a length. The Union Cup of 200 soya, addr.d to a handicap of 5 toys. each; the second to receive 20 30V3. One mile and a quarter. (68 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Oxford Blue, 6st 21b ...(J.oaborne) 1 Mr. W. Moseley's Alonz'), 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (W. Sharpe) 2 Colonel Anson's Champion, 5 yrs, 7st (Charlton) 3 Mr. Campbell's Woolwich, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (Riett) 0 Mr. Wadlow's Eliza Middleton, 7st 41b (Wheatley) 0 Captain Scott's Administrator, 7st 21b ... (J. Evans) 0 Mr. Williams's Chief Justice, 4 yrs, ist (Arnold) 0 Mr. Holciford's Romance, aged, Est 61b (Coupe) 0 Mr. Gilas Gaffer Green, aged, Est 61b (Knott) 0 Mr. Thomas's Aristocrat, 4 yrs, 6st 41b (Halby) 0 Mr. E. Jones's Docility, 5 yrs, 6st 41b (Holdway) 0 Mr. Pedley's Lady_Speody, 4 yrs, sst 101 b (Dixon) 0 Mr. Kiegan's Johnstown, sst 101 b ... (Wynne, jun.) 0 Mr. Saxon's Blister, 4 yrs, sst 101 b Dar. King's Birthday, 4 yrs, sst 81b,..(R. Sherwood) 0 Mr. Walker's Mrs. Birch, 3 yrs, sst 81b ...(Carroll) 0 Mr. Copeland's Drill, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Dodd) 0 Mr. Smith na Truth, 3 yrs, sst 61b (Roden) 0 Mr. Berwick na Madeline, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (Hayhoe) 0 Mr. G. Barton's Taly, 4 yrs,. Est 61b (Wells) 0 Won easy. Match, 100, h ft. Half a mile. Mr. Scott's The Old Fox, 5 yrs, 7st 41b ......(Wells) 1 Mr. Lennoch's Tree Love, 3 yrs, sst (Rickards) 2 Betting-5 to 2 on The Old Fox. Won easy by a length. The Biennial Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 50 added for three yrs old colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 31b; the second to receive 251. out of the stakes. One mile and a half. (10 Subs.) Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor (lliett) 1 Mr. J. Lillie's Queen Bee (W. Sharpe) 2 Betting --5 to 2on Black Doctor. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Maiden. Plate of 501. ; for three yrs old, 7st ; 4 yrs, Bst 41b; 5 yrs, Bst,9lb; 6 yrs and aged, Bst 121 b; mares, &c., allowed 3 lbs. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Pedley's Paquette, 3 yrs Mt. Meiklana' a Border Boy, 3 yrs (Arnold) 2 Mr. T. Parr's Fusilier, 6 yrs Mr. Evans's Risk, 4 yrs Mr. Mountford's Young England, 4 yrs (W. Sharpe) Mr. J. Osborno's Brandy Nan , , 3 yrs ...(J. Osborne) 0 Mr. liesseltine's The Setter, 3 yrs (Day) 0 Mr. Thomas's Sister to Portobello c, 3 yrs (Haxby) 0 Mr. G. Barton's Lizars, 3 yi's (G. Oates) 0 Mr. Park's Rose bradwardi ne, 4 yrs ...(Branwood) 0 Mr. Hackett's Ida, ag ed (Frost) 0 Mr. Bailey's Scrope,3 yrs.... .(Denman) 0 Mr. Keegan's Johnstown, 3 yrs (Keegan) 0 CRIC,ICET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. FOURTEEN OF THE MARY LEBONE CLUB. —This matcla, which was commenced at Lord's on Monday, was played up to last evening, half. past seven o'clock, when the stumps were drawn, Eng .land having just rubbed the score off for the loss of five wickets. .The match is a erawn one. Score: Maryle bone Club, first innings, 169;; second ditto, 98; England, first innings, 153; second ditto, 114. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. Yesterday a very fully at tended meeting was held at the Middlesex Hospital, for the purpose of distributing the prizes to the pupils in the School of Medicine for the session 1850.51. Sir R. INGLis, Bart., M.P., took the chair, and after addressing appropriate observations to each of the suc cessful candidates, and encouraging them to persevere in their arduous duties, the clinical prize in medicine was accorded to Mr. Septimus William Sibley; the chemical prize in surgery, to Mr. Edward Rawson Denton, of Leicester. The :prizes given by the visiting apothecaries to the hospital were:—First prize, Mr. Henry William Reny, of Plymouth; second prize, Mr. H. J. Ellery, of Truro; the treasurer's prize, Mr. Wil liam Henry keen, Plyinoutic,; and the general certificates included the names of Mr. Daniel Balding, Mr. Edwin Stephen Collins, Mr. James C. Copeland, Mr. Walter Crisp, Mr. Augustus Davis, Mr. Robert John Dempster, Mr. Edward Rawson Dente n, Mr. Thomas Duxon, Mr. N. James Grant, Mr. James Hndaway, Mr. Leonard H. J. Bayne, Mr. W. A. G. .Tomes, Mr. William Lucy, Mr. Frederick Marley, Mr. David Mathias, Mr. Henry Rose, Mr. A. C. Shout; and Air. Edward Vernon. The prizes adverted to included the subjects of medicine, surgery, physiolOgy, anatomy, practical anatomy, che mistry, midwifery, materia medico., forensic medicine, and botany. The con - auding observations of the worthy chairman were listened to with the deepest attention, and the awarding of the prizis seemed to afford general satis faction. ----- COURT OF LIEUTENANCY.--A very numerous meeting of the .Commissioners of Lietitenancy for the city of London was held on Tuesday at the Guildhall, for the pur pose of electing a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal London Militia, in the room of Alderman Thompson, who had been appointed to succeed the late Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter as Colonel of the regiment; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. There were present upon the occasion Sir Moses Montefiore, Colonel Sykes, Alderman Kelly, Sir Chapman Marshall, Mr. Dodd, ALP., Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Alderman Sidney, M.P., Alderman and Sheriff Carden, Alderman Cubitt, M.P., Captain Hicks, Mr. Peters, Mr. Holland, Mr. Raiford, Alderman Lawrence, Mr. Lawford, Mr. Moore, Mr. Norris, Mr. Josiah .Wilson, Deputy llale, Mr. John Wood, Mr. Anderton, Deputy Bed ford, Deputy Conway, Mr. Eagleton, Deputy Evans, De puty Lorkin, Deputy Lott, Deputy Curling, Mr. C. Lea Wilson, Mr. Seeley, • Mr. Maynard, and many others. After a letter had been read from Lady Bunter, in answer to a letter cf condolence from the last court, the members proceeded to ballok, for a Lieutenant- Colonel. When the glasses were opened, and the numbers were cast up, the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Wilson elected to fill the vacant appointment by a majority of fifty votes. Alderman Wilson then, having proved his qualification, took the usual oaths, and the commission having been ordered to be issued, the Court broke up. WOOLWICH, JUNE 11.—The numbers of visitors to Woolwich Dockyard have been greater to-day, both of foreigners and of inhabitants of this country, and they appear to have been highly gratified with the magnitude of the works, and power and perfection of the machinery in the factory and at the saw-mills. The Royal Albert, of 120 guns, building at this yard, is also a great object of attraction. 1 CONSIDERATION ON CAB REFORM.-With such determination have cabmen persisted in the endeavour to extort more than their legal fare from the public, that it has been found necessary to reduce their demands by Mayne force.--Punch, • - EVENING, JUNE 12, 1851. ' spectacle cf the Exhibition, whilst we guarded and spared those venerable relics of a past age.—(Cheers.) And now we see with pride and satisfaction the renlizition of thin grand conception. We see brought together treasures that surpass the utmost imagination of the ancient fabulists—we see a building, magnificent in its extent—magnificent in its proportion--magnificent, I venture to hl.ly, in its un adorned simplicity —we see it springing from the earth with a rapidity ecredling the fabled leavers of magic U we tee it containing treasures of untold magnificence and wealth, the produce of all the nations of the earth brought into thin country ley the rivalry of peaceful and honourable competition, and uegrudgingly entrused to the honour and the keeping of the British public. — (Cheers.) I doubt not that that honour will be main tained, as it has hitherto been, untarnished. 1 don't doubt that while this Great Exhibition will show to foreign countries the marvels of our own industry, as it will show to us the marvels of the industry of foreigners, there will be no dishonourable rivalry, no hostile feeling, no angry competition, excited; but that there will be mutual admiration of each other's peaceful powers, mu tual desire to promote harmonious intercourse and those friendly communications which are kept up by commerce and by the interchanee of the miracles of art; and that the result of this Great Exhibition will be to bring the ends of the world together in peaceful and harmonious competition.—(Cheers.) If there is one thing in the marvels of art, in the triumphs of industry, in the magnificence of the various produc tions of various countries, which to my mind is more striking than another—if there is ono thing of which, as an Englishman, lam proud—it is to see that all classes in this great country partake in the admira tion and the interest which is felt in this great congre gation of the products of universal industry. It is not alone the high—it is not alone the wealthy—it is not alone the great merchant—it is not alone the powerful in this realm—but it is the hard-toiled mechanic—it is the hard-worked labourer—the honest sons of toil and industry who have come to view these marvellous ac cumulations of skill; and as each man returns from viewing these mighty works of art, he feels in his mind, and probably says to himself, " And I too am one of that class who have contributed these marvels."—(Loud cheers.) Forgive me if I add also, on behalf of my fellow Commissioners, and of those foreign gentlemen who are associated with us—and I hope I may say in the language not of dishonourable pride, that I wit nessed, and I am sure they witnessed, with admiration and respect, the self-imposed order, discipline, and regu larity with which this free people, confident in their free institutions, guard and protect the treasures en trusted to their charge, and, without the need of military force, without the need of coercion, they them selves maintain that order which is the greatest and highest proof of a free add enlightened people.—(Loud cheers.) While I return thanks to you on behalf of those Commissioners who are my own countrymen—for I am aware that my foreign friends will return better thanks for themselves--(Hear)—while I return thanks to you, master, and to this company, for the kindness with which you hare proposed and dratek the healths of the Commissioners—l must add that they are a body who, speaking at least for myself, have had little to do except to give the matter a little of our attention. But I am aware that others have laboured earnestly and well, and I know that no praise can be too great for our Royal President, who originated and supported this great movement.—(Cheers.) Neither can too high praise be given to the Executive Committee,' who have ably ma naged the details. But while I now return you my thanks for your acknowledgments of the services of the Royal Commissioners, while I feel pride as an Englishman in the gratifying spectacle exhibited to the world in this Great Exhibition, I must say that that Exhibition would have been incomplete if it had not been for the oppor tunity which you have given the foreign visitors this day of witnessing your magnificent, but -not more than ordinary hospitality. And I hope that our foreign friends will observe and appreciate the feeling that, amidst these festive occasions, there mingles with the festivity a due regard to the interests of religion, of edu cation, and of coraniarce and that it is by a cembina tion of all th ese grea t objects, which it is the interest of a great country t o up h o ld, end by the admixture of all ranks and professions in one common end and one com mon object—it is by such means as these that this coun try has risen —that every country may rise—and that, I trust, every country will rise to as great advancement and civilization es that to which, as an Englishman, I am proud to believe our country has attained.-- (Cheers.) I only venture to hope, speaking in the words which I soo in this book before me [ - the selection of songs and glees for the evening], that when these "gorgeous pa laces," these " edema templet'," for so they may almost be called, shall dissolve, as they will almost as rapidly as they have risen— " And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind"— at least, not a material wreck—they will leave upon the mind of these who have witnessed the great marvels of this year a feeling of satisfaction at having passed a pe riod of intellectual amusement, not unmingled with im provement—(Hear, hear)—that there will be left behind the memory of friendly feelings kindled and engendered among various nations, and I trust not soon to be severed or destroyed.—(Hear, hear.) And among the grateful recollections of the future I trust not the least grateful will be the memory of the evening we shall have passed in the presence of the Master and Wardens and Com pany of Merchant Tailors.—(Cheers.) Baron CHARLES DUPIN was also received with loud cheers. He addressed the company in English, and said—You have rendered it quite impossible for me to acknowledge the obligation I feel on behalf of myself and my fellow-Commissioners properly, by leaving me to succeed one of your most eloquent statesmen, and for this reason I pray your indulgence during the few words which I have to utter. I must express my grati tude to those eminent, energetic, and meritorious gen tlemen who, as committees of various nations, have made all the preparations necessary for this universal exposition. Afterwards I have to speak in the name of a large body of gentlemen selected by yourselves and by all other nations to sit as jurymen, in order that they may pronounce upon the degrees of merit of those masterpieces of art and industry which are now inclosed within the Crystal Palace. The gentlemen who have been thus selected are among the most cele brated in science, industry, and the fine arts ; and it is one of the finest and noblest spectacles to see the harmony that prevails amongst us, divided as we are into thirty juries, end all conducting their labours with the greatest harmony and equity in spite of the diversity of interests and nations. Now, turning my attention to yourselves —to this company—l have heard to-day that for five centuries you, as a corporation, have been faith fully cultivating those virtues which make a country prosperous —the activity, the property, and the genius which has produced the great British trade. Allow me to present to you one fact which may enable you to un derstand the magnificent point at which it has arrived in the present day. If you ware to take all your textile fabrics which you produce for the clothing of mankind, and the value of the annual quantity which you send abroad to other nations, and then if you take the largest circumference of the globe and divide it by yards, you might not only put down 1/. sterling from the value of your textile fabrics upon each yard so circling the earth, but, after the process was finished, there would still remain an enormous surplus over from the value of your fabrics. When I say this, Ido not mean that your trade is too large, but that the dimensions of the earth are too small.—(Great laughter and cheering.) Now if thou) 43 millions sterling—for that is the amount I refer to—were placed in the Bank of England, in a few years probably the Bank would be much embarrassed by tho management of such a mass of riches. But your trade does otherwise and better. In exchanging this enormous mass of British produce for an equal value of foreign produce, the products of every nation on the face of the earth are brought into Great Britain, and as no trade has ever been so large and so active, so there never was a trade which produced so many and such powerful assurances of everlasting peace. I conclude by again returning thanks.—(Cheers.) The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in a few words, proposed " the Health of the Master."—(Loud cheers). The MASTER shortly returned thanks,• and then pro. posed the " Health of Dr. Hessey, and the other mas ters of the Merchant Tailors' School."—(Cheers.) As a proof of the excellence of the training there adminis tered, ho stated that at the recent examination far ma thematical honours iu Oxford, the first, second, and third prizes were carried off by Merchant Tailors' boys.—(Cheers). Or. HEssEY returned thanks. The MASTER then proposed " Earl Etowe and the 'louse af Lords." Earl HOWE returned thanks. The MASTER then proposed the "Bishop of Oxford and the Bunco. of Bishops." The Bishop of OXFORD returned thanks. Somethirg had been said in the course of the speeches of the anti quity and loyalty of this ancient company. He rejoiced that this company was also marked by another feature— by attachment to the Reformed Church of England, which taught the youth of this country to honour the Queen, as well as to fear God.—(Cheers.) He consi dered it a high honour to be permitted to meet around their hospitable board the representatives of the whole civilized world; and to him it was matter of no small gra tification that they met with no narrow or sectarian pre judices; but that there were points on which they all could meet on common ground, in an anxiety to advance the best interests of man.—(Cheers.) The other toasts were " Alderman Thompson and the House of Commons," " Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce," " The Judges," " The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England," " The Governor and Deputy- Governor of the East India Company," and " The Dean of Jersey and the Visitors ;" after which the company broke up. Harkerthe evening Sever a b l y m glees, r.T e t e . , aed were an sung efficient in e t h h e e i courser. mr. e ably ctliciated as toast-master. We understand that two fine thoroughbred English horses have arrived on board 'of the Sultan, along with the u e npgraorpi property f o r f o m m alj'eurr kHias ey a high,e a y n a d re w l e 6 re ha a nd r s artingse and areth from General Percel, being the char g ers on which Percel fought his battles. They are to be seen at 2, Crawley street,Tz h, Oakley-square. THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGLIAM.—The Rev. Dr. Samuel Wilson Warneford has presented to his trustees, the Rev. Chancellor James T. Law, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, 8.D., and William Sands Cox, F.R.S., the sum of 5001. towards the completion of the east wing of the quad rangle. lie has also augmented to 4,4001. his endowment for the -professorship of pastoral theology, in addition to his farmer endowment of 4,0001. for the wardership, th e chap laincy of the college and the chaplaincy of the Queen's Hos pital, and 3,0001. for the endowment of medical scholarships, m e dical prizes, and a resident medical tutor. The Ri g ht Hoil. , Sidney Herbert, M.P., has contributed the liberal donation of 201. towards the same object, The chaplaincy to her Majesty's embassy at Con stantinople has been conferred upon the Rev. H. M. Blakis ton, 111. A late curate Qt Illelkehaw, Wilts. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday morrieg her Majesty and Prince Albert resumed their inspection of the Crystal Palace and their reception of the exhibitors. They were attended in their surv e y by Mr. alike, Colonel Reid, Mr. Pcx, and the other leading men connected with the Eebi bition, and proceeded first to view the Russian colloc- Uwe, which was explained to them by M. Karninehy, the Commissioner from that country. The Royal party admired exceedingly the very attractive and beautiful objects with which this compai talent is fur nished, end the malachite ornaments, the display o f plate sand of jewellery, each in turn elicited from them the highest expressions of praise. They then directed their steps to the section of machinery in mction, and proceeded with the inspection cf a vast number of remarkable objects which they had not seen during their last visit. Here they were again attended by Mr. Cabitt and Mr. Hensman, who, with the exhibi tors themselves, explained to them the leading features of the different machines. Commencing with the tools exhibited by Whitworth, of Manchester, they spent some time in examining that really wonderful collec tion. They then passed in review the meritorious con tributions of Sharpe, the wire-drawing process of John son, Hicks's illustrations of the power obtainable by the hydraulic press-punch, the method of proving cast iron beams exhibited by Cottam and Hallam, Ryder s remarkable machine for forging spindles, Holzapffel's ingenious specimens of turning in the lathe, Mends lay's new coining press, by which during their stay some medals were struck, the fine models of marine engines by the same maker, and the rope-making machine exhibited by Crawhall, of Newcastle, dis pensing with the long gallery hitherto required in that manufacture. The Royal party also paid marked attention to .Lawson's extensive display of flax ma chinery, and to the beautiful specimens of linen which he produced al examples of its efficiency. The hemp machinery of Plumber was much noticed ; and the canvas loom, with its products, exhibited by Mr. B. Brow,ne. Pestling by the lace and silk machinery in the meantime her Majesty and the Prince proceeded to inspect the printing presses; and here, of course, their chief attention was directed to Applegarth's in vention, which is exhibited by Mr. Ingram, of the Illustrated London News. They also greatly admired M'Clure's lithographic press, and the contributions of Napier, Waterlow, and others. It was half-pa s t eleven o'clock before they took their departure from the building, and, as on previous occasions, they were most affable and condescending to the numerous body of exhibitors with whom they conversed. The weather was moderately fine yesterday, and after the disappointments of the two previous days it was anticipated that there would be an unusually large influx of people, but, strange to say, the police returns and the receipts at the doors both show a con siderable decrease as compared with Tuesday, the money taken being only 2,1601. 195., and the number of visitors 47,754. It is a singular fact that the only public attraction which seems to have any power in diminishing the tide of curiosity which has set in towards Hyde-park is that of a flower show. Epsom and Ascot exercised no perceptible influence in this respect, but the Chiswick fate on Saturday did, and again yesterday the display at the Botanical Gardens was strongly felt. Had it not been for this, the more genial weather, coupled with the leisure of holiday times, would no doubt have drawn increased, instead of diminished numbers of visitors to the Exhibition. Undoubtedly, of late the popular element has been becoming more and more conspicuous among the throng of spectators, and there is no longer any diffi culty in finding among the vast concourse humble dresses and faces brown with exposure to the eon, and hands hardened by toil. 'The preseace of mothers with their infants, too, and luncheons emerging from homely-looking hasketaguring the intervals of rest— these and a hundredaather signs indicate that the Is. admission does not operate as a harrier to the curiosity of the industrial classes ; yet from some unexplained cause the masses have not yet presented themselves at the doors of the Crystal Palace, and the majority of those who go there still belong to the upper and middle ranks of life. It is almost incredible that the Whitsun holidays should have closed without the slightest detraction from the respectability of the Exhibition as a place of public resort, and that the actual number of visitors during a period when labour is released from its toil should show a positive decrease. Such, however, are the facts, and every body will explain them in his own way. Some will think that the display in Hyde-park is not popular. But an average of 50,000 spectators daily is altogether inconsistent with such an ides. In the minds of others it will be considered that the limit of the sight-seeing powers of the metropolis has been attained, and that greater crowds do not travel westward daily only because more cannot be spared from the diurnal cares and toils of a busy population. Here again, however, facts rise up to discredit such a theory. On Thursday last, there being no holiday, 55,000 people visited the Exhibition, and yesterday week there were 55,250, both larger numbers than the returns of the last three days, when so many of the working classes were disengaged, when excursion trains are coming in from all parts of the country, and when, according to immemorial custom, an irre sistible tendency is felt by the million to spend in pleasure and enjoyment a portion at least of their hard earnings. A vast accession of visitors was ex pected, and their non-appearance would by many have been attributed to the weather merely had it not been for the experience of yesterday. What, then, is the explanation of this anomaly? We believe that a number of causes have been in operation, and among them the weather, of course ; but the self-denying patience of the people, their habitual tendency to postpone pleasure to business, and their little inclina tion to rush madly forward in quest of what can be seen as well or better a week or a month hence— these seem to us the most natural and the truest solu tions of a result which surprises even the police. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha and Duke Ernest of Wurtemterg, arrived at the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations soon after nine o'clock yester day morning, to continue their inspection of the Exhi bition. Her Majesty and the Royal circle were attended by the Lion. Matilda Paget, Baroness de Wangenherm, General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, and M. B. de Tres kow. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Birch, else visited the Exhibition yesterday. Aud their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, attended by Miss Hildyard, also paid a visit to the Exhibition yesterday forenoon. The Queen and Pritico Albert and their Royal visitors left tho Exhibition at halt-past cloven o'clock, and re turned to Buckinghainyalace._. Lord 13roughton had r.n audience of the Queen yes terday, at Buckingham Palace, to present some presents from Newab Nazim, of Bengal, to hor Majesty. The articles consisted of an elephant's state trappings, of velvet and gold, the houdah framed of ivory, inlaid with gold, with coverings of gold and silver embroidery. A state palkee or palanquin, also of ivory, inlaid with gold; the covering of similar' rich materials to the laundah. A throne or state resting couch, of crimson velvet and gold, with a canopy richly embroidered with the pre cious metals, and supported by silver columns. A pair of gold morchals, or emblems of rank, and a palkee, or palanquin, for evening conveyance. These presents were brought frein India under charge of Dr. Yoni • 1 4. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Cambridge, and their Serene Highnesses the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, visited the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha yesterday, at Buck ingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Prin cesses Helena and Louisa took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Duchess of Saxe Coburg Goths visited tho Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester house. Tho Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The cowpony included their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duke turd Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gothit, the Duke Ernest of Wurteraborg, and the Prince Gustavus of Wasa, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leicingen, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the Marquis of Westminster, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Wangenheina, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Baron Roppert, M. B. d e Treskow, M. Emon do Fetzer. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance during dinner, and performed the following g a selection;-- Overture, 0 A Legend of Montrose". s Waltz, "Rose de INlai" H. R. Bishop. rb Grand Selection, Lea Huguenots" eyeeer. The Great Exhibition Quadrille Prince Arthur's Match Marien Eingugs Galop . . In the evening Herr F. ... . Kaufmann,..... f . ro ll m alle r il es d d c en il. , with his son and daughter, attended in the Palace, a n d had the honour of performin g before her Albert and their illustrious Majesty and Prince instruments, viz.,B i circle, with novel musical armonieherd, ChO r daulodion Symphonion (DioSelstpielenden ntswerke), and Orcheatrion ; also, Der i b , Ku rompet-Automat. Dispatches were received yesterday a:. the Colonial office, ,from the Governor of the Cape o foo d 1 10 1 3 - Dispatche s ; were also received from the Go vernors of Sierra Leone d the Falkland VISITORS • TO WtSTMINSTER Ann .—During the first three days of the present holiday week Upwards of 15,000 persons have visited Westminster Abbey, for the purpose of inspecting the interior of that magnificent temple, and the many splendid monuments with which it abounds. The visitors have behaved in the most decorous manner, and have wandered through the isles of the Abbey, paying the strictest attention to the works of art which have been pre sented to theirvie*, a circumstance which shows that pub lic buildings of all classes mi g ht, with advantage, be opened at stated periods, and under p ro p er regulations. The visi tors to the Abbey are allowed to roam where they please, with the exception of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, admis sion to which has been fixed at 6d. each person. Cigars are now tipped with amber at the end next the mouth; by this means cigar - tubes are quite super Thi s invention has preyed :tself the seded. offered to smokers.greatest luxury yet ROYAL BOT-4.NIC SOCIETY'S FETE. Yesterday, the second flower show of the Royal Botanic Society, which is the grand fete or the season, was held at the gardens hi the Regent's park. It has became so eorznsu, la speakieg cf this Establishment, to say that each show is the best there has ever beers, that it must almost be expseted the phrase is worn out, and yet wo must still use it, for such are the of sets el' competition that each Jae presents a visible progress of the floricul tural arts. When the society was first established it was supposed the height of luxury in cultivation had been attaiassi; and in the early shows there was some times an interiority on particular oceasioc . s, but by the applicatisu of the largely increased pia ) fund, svd .the greater public brought as spectators, 'such a stimulus has been given as to make 'it almost a matter cif course some strong evidence of im provement should manifest itself at each display. The tents were in three groups, forming attraction.three centres of On the west, near the American exhibition, was a tent with stove and g reenhouse plants, in which were most rem ar k a bl e the collections of Mrs. Lawrence, Lady Ararat's, and Miss Traill. These were pictu resquely grouped, and anew arrangement of turf banks having been introduced by the Curator for their display, a very beautiful coup d'ecil was presented. On the north behind the grand conservatory were three tents , i n which were the orchideous collections, the heaths, and the pelargoniums. Th e b eauty and variety of the or chideous collections immediately struck the spectator, and near them was a remarkable group of pitcher plants, contributed by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter. The pelar goniums were in admirable condition, and were the sub ject of just admiration. On the east side of the garden was the fruit tent, in which the productions were in the finest condition. The pines were well grown, the grapes large, the strawberries of great size sad well-flavoured, while the tropical fruits showed great progress. Con spicuous among these were the vanilla and the cycas re volute. The roses exhibited in this tent had suffered by the late unfavourable weather. Besides the special exhibitions of the day the others attracted the attention of the visitors. The American exhibition was in the full flesh of beauty, and presented a scene from fairyland. In order to afford better views of the exhibition, Mr. Marnock has constructed covered gallery, from which several exquisite vistas are afforded. The exhibitors, Messrs. Standish and Nobl e , ' Mr. John Waterer, and Mr. Baker, of Bagshot, had many new plants in flower, and several exotic curiosities. , The Victoria Regis was in full and was likewise illustrated by cut leaves and by wax models in the museum. The great conservatory was specially ar ranged for the occasion with large groups of flowers. Although the weather was far from agreeable, and the anticipated number of visitors did not attend, there was not less than fifteen or sixteen thousand, a larger number than ever assembled on such an occasion. The musical arrangements were under the direction of Messrs. Tattoo, Waddell and satisfaction. The numerous and Grattan Cooke, with their three bands, an gave grea foreign visitors w ere j ustly surprised at the extraordi nary culture of the plants, but more particularly at a re union of fashion, wealth, and beauty which no other country can present, and which on few other other oc casions has been surpassed. The total number of tickets sold to the present time is 31,000. LIST OF PRIZES. Extra Gold Medal—To Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, for 30 stove and greenhouse plants ; Mr. Mylan3, gardener to S. Beaker, Esq., Wandsworth, for 25 exotic orchids. Large Gold Medal—To Mr. Cole, gardener to 11. Colter, Exq., Dartford, Kent, for 30 stove and greea house plants ; Messrs. Veitch and Son, nurserymen, Exeter, for 32 pitcher plants. Medium Gold Medal—To Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter, for 20 exotic orchids; Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Cheap), or 20 stove and greenhouse phints; Mr. Williams, gardener to C. B. Warner, Esq., Hoddesdon, Harts, for 25 orchids ; Mr. R. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lswrencc, Ealing Park, for 25 orchids; Mr. Blak!>, gardener to H. Schroder, Esq., Stratford green, Es:xx, for 15 orchids; Mr. Smith, gardener to J. Quilter, Eq., Norwood, Surrey, 15 Cape heath:. Gold Medal—To Mr. Taylor, gardener to S. Coster, E:q., Streatham, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants; Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen, Lea- briei t ,ge-road, Essex, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Culyer, Esq., Danford, Kent, for 15 Cape heaths; Mcs2rs. Roll E-son, nurserymen, Tooting, for 12 Cape heaths; Mr. Cock, Chiswick, for 12 pelargoniums; Mr. C. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough, for 12 pelargoniums; Messrs. L'sne and Son, Bcikharupstead, Harts, for 12 roses; Mr. Barnes, gardener to R. Hanbury, Esq., Poles, Ware, for 10 exotic orchids. _ The company included the following distinguished persons:—Dukes of St. Albans, Marlborough, and Nor folk; Duchesses of St. Albans, Cleveland, and Suther land; Prince Demideff; Marquises of Aldovini and Ailcsbury; Bishops of Winchester and Durham; Lords Walsingham, Listowel, and Massy; Ladies Vaughan Williams, Crewe, Grant, Antrobtts, Blantyre, Palmer, Mary Wood, Massy, Fellows, Goldsmid, and Barrow; Counts Kielmansegge, Reventlow, Tolstoy, and Bathy ani; Countesses Bathyani, Cornwallis and Winterton; Barons Koller, Eichthal, Brnnnow, and Gcldsmid; Sirs S. Goodfellow, C. Malcolm, Palmer,— Hare, C. Fel lows, and R. Harvey; Mdlle. Rachel, Mr. Joseph Paz ton, &c,, &c. THE KAFIR WAR. The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Cape Town, May 2:— No official accounts or reports of proceedings in British Kafraria nor on the eastern frontier later than April 19 have reached Cape Town, but the information contained in the newspapers of the paramount chief Kreili having at length joined the war party, and of having been actually engaged in hostilities against us (his fidelity was always doubted), as also that the Gaikas under Sandilli are becoming tired of the war, entirely accord with the communications we have received in letters dated King William's Town the 22d and 23d ult., and which were received yesterday." RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORM-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of Traffic for the week ending June 8: Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £39,507 10 6 Merchandise ... 17,886 16 9 Cattle ... ... 1,061 11 10 Total ... ... ... £58,455 19 1 Corresponding week last year 48,277 9 3 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--Return of traffic for the week ending June 8 ... £25,183 710 Corresponding week last year... 17,291 10 9 • LONDON AND SOUTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Amount of Traffic for the week ending June 8 : Passengers ... ....E12,973 7Oi Goode 2,446 4 4 Total £15,419 11 4i Corresponding week last year... 11,068 14 1 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. — (Miles 0pen,112.)-. Return of traffic for the week ending June 10: Railway and canal .- £4,974 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,322 0 0 Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD HAILWAYo , .TraffiC for the week ending June 8: MAIN LECI. Passengers ••• ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... Illails ••• ••• ••• • £1,701 17 2 • 70 18 0 ▪ 442 0 0 ... 575 0 0 Total ~. £2,789 15 2 MOLD. Passengers Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. Total ... £44 18 4 2 3 6 ". 70 16 11 STEAM-BOATS: Passengers ••• Parcels, H. C. and D. £llB 0 9 ••• £22012 3 14 lu 10 Total .. £235 3 1 t CALEDONIAN RAILWAY...-. (160 mil es o p ene d.) —Re-u of xatlie for the week ending June 1: Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. - £2,566 16 ei To -•• ... 3,927 7 8 week last year ... ....£6,494 64 11 Corresponding. including„' factor. shaw and Coltness, now charge of a MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE --Married, on Tues day morning, at Finchingfield, Essex, by the Rev. Alfred Bowyer Smyth, rector of Attleborough, Norfolk, assisted by the Rev. John Stock, vicar of Finchingfield, Lord Garvagh, to Cecilia Susan, daughter of John Buggies Brise, Esq , o f Spains Hall, Finching.fickl, and Cavendish, Suffolk. Shortly. after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom took their de parture for the I:le of Wight. CORN IN THE EAR. The wheat is said to be in a I3u very forward conditi on. The papers speak of large ears of corn already shown a s samples. 4.- Fe rhares at the late Corn Exhibition at Tamworth were shown the very longest E to-morrow t T a' ears of ad.—Punch. THE rt w hi n s l o b L e N r ' e E s N u T me rl d C ( o F ti r ß i d T a . y 3 , when two courts will be open, and the b • nsiness allotted to the Chief Commissioner will ,be divided The sittings ~SITTINGS OF the between the two other Commissioners, Mr. Commissioner L m i ss i on er Phillips. Law and Mr. Con - TOE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWE RS AND TOE Ma'' =OMUTA"; CLERGY. —The Archdeac o n has o a dd re ssed the followi ng note t of the clergy of Middlesex_ the diocese of London who those cf . are within his jurisdiction, on the subject of sewers rate on rentcharges, Bcc in the metropolis : —"Kensington Vicarage, J Sir,—As your parish is ' ' line' within the limits of the Metropolitan Commission of Se wers, I think it r i g h t t o inform you that 1 lately observed a sudden,lconceived , an and, as exorbitant increase in the demand made upon me on account of sewers rate. Having understood that this additional demand was not made upon myse lf alone, bat generally upon the clergy of the me tropolis holding rent charges or glebe lands, I determined to resist it, and I availed myself of the ablest professional advice. The result is that this charge has been reduced, and I have drawn your attention to the subject in the hope that if you are subjected to the same grievance, you may have the satisfaction of obtaining the same redress.—Believe me to be, reverend and dear sir, yours very faithfully, JOLIN SINCLAIc, M.A., Archdeacon of al,ddlesex." ANOTHER NEW CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER. Arrangements have been made for forthwith laying the foundation-stone of a large new chinch, to be erected in the new street now being formed from the Abbey to Bucking -1 Palace. It is to be called St. Mark, and will contain upwards of 1,500 free seats.