The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-27 00:00:00

:IZHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Will be performed the popular and highly successful Comedy of MASKS AND FACES: or, Before and Behind the Curtain —by Messrs. Benjamin Webster, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Lambert, and Parselle; Mrs. Stirling, Miss F. Maskell, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Rosa Bennett. After which, the gorgeous Extravaganza, entitled LEO TILE TERRIBLE. To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and SETTLED. . ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Will be performed the Comic Drama called A PFIENOMENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosina Wright will appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 13, New v•ma-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Will be presented the powerful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's Cabin—by Messrs. Allred Wigan, Cullemord, 0. Smith, and Emery ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Lama Honey, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the succe:sful new Comic rantominie, called NELL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Mende Monarch. Plincipal rytitseuse, Mdlle. Anriol Clown, Mr. Flexmore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID; or, Dorothy's Fortune (as played at Windsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal charac ters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vining, Ryder, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chester; Mrs. W. Lacy and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the Singing Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Connack ; Clown, Mr. Entine ; Pan taloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, JAL 27, Will be presented LILIAN GERVAIS. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, Jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender, and Clifton: Miss Anderton and Miss H. Gordon. To conclude with ROMEO AND JULIET ; or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the World of Dreams. Clown, Mr. Edwin Edwardes, with qis highly-trained Dogs. Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence o f Mr. Edward Chatterton. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Crowded Nightly to witness the Extraordinary Holiday Attractions. THIS EVENING, JAN. 27, ANOTHER GRAND JUVENILE NIGHT, When the Pantomime will be played first—followed by brilliant Scenes in the Clrele, and ocncluding with a Laughable FARCE. Doors open at flap-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven. Pox-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY Morning 22 min. after. 3 1 Evening 42 min.aft. 3 To-Maaaow—Morning 0 min. of 4 i Evening 19 min.aft. 4 .DAILY WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, JAN. 27, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—E., fresh breeze—overcast. GREEN WlCH—Calm—partially cloudy. SWINDON—E., light airs—cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze—cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : MULLINGAR— E., strong breeze—rain. SWINDON—S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. LEIGHTON—S.E., calm—overcast. HOLYHEAD—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LANCASTER—S., calm—foggy. WHITBY—S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. DARLINGTON—E., gentle breeze—cloudy, hazy, light frost. SHAP—S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. THURSDAY, 10'30 . A.H. LivEßPooL—Wind N.E., moderate and foggy. THE WEATHER. --SUN OFFICE, Jct. 27, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 37 highest since noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 35—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'83. WIND, E.N.E.—Dull 7eather, with slight sleet. Ot , _ a. - _~~, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1853. " RICHARD (COBDEN) is himself again I." Even in his best days, as the Champion of the Free-trade Agitation, he never once shone to greater advan tage than he does at this moment in the " Three Letters" to which we made passing allusion yes terday. We take those Three Letters to be the most convincing evidence of the shrewdness of hi, intellect, while they constitute, at the same time, the surest token of his patriotism, and the most brilliant attestation of his philanthropy. We say this cordially—and we say it not from the fervour cf a blind enthusiasm, but from the calmness of a settled conviction. We assert that the day will come when this pamphlet will reflect honour upon Mr. COBDEN'S reputation. It may be received at this moment with sus picion, it may at present call down upon the head of its auther little else than obloquy and vitu peration—but the time will arrive when it will be looked back to, from the calm of another age, with respect, and with a very- considerable amount also of admiration. We averas much at this moment boldly, without regard for whatever sneers may be excited by the ardour of our approbation. Mr. COBDEN has always found in us impartial witnesses. We have upon all occasions given him praise or blame accordingly as our judgment dic tated. His conduct in regard to the Free=trade Question, we have ever spoken of in befitting terms of eulogium. And equally candid have been our expressions of distrust in refer ence to his over-economical (rather let it be said his mistakenly parsimonious) ideas upon the subject of our national defences--or, in other words, upon the extent of our naval and military expenditure. Here, by the way, it should be ob served that the only point in the entire argument contained in this brochure entitled " 1793 and 1853," in regard to which we feel disposed to join issue with the pamphleteer, is that relating to the folly or the wisdom of providing against the pos sibility (mark ! not the probability, but the pos sibility) of a foreign invasion. Returning, how ever, to our previous allusions, we would remind our readers, in yet further illustration of our strict and unyielding impartiality in reference to the course pursued at different periods by Mr. COBDEN in his political capacity, that, while we have upon all occasions very earnestly commended his devotion to the interests of Reform, we have never scrupled to condemn quite as ear nestly his crotchet about the Peace Con gress—or, as it is otherwise designated, the Congress in favour of Arbitration. It is be cause, among other things, we believe in our con science that these " Three Letters," contrasting, perhaps we should say more Correctly comparing, the relative situation of France and England in 1793 and 1853, will subserve more than all the Peace Congresses that were ever convened the sacred interests of international tranquillity, that we c•n ceive Mr. COBDEN to have vindicated in this re markable and masterly pamphlet--his right to the popular respect at once as a patriot, as a statesman, and as a philanthropist. As we intimated last evening, in our cursory allusion to the " Three Lettere,,, Mr. C on - DEN, in one part of his a rgument, insists particularly upon the similarity of the tone adopt ed amongst ourselves in 1793 and in 1853 in re gard to the leaders of the French Government. Sixty years ago the same clamour resounded throughout these islands—the same clamour now heard in the angry invectives of m en whose remarks upon the Varis Cabinet seem capable only of taking the form of vitupera tion. Formerly, that is to say upon the last occasion, the public mind of England was excited to a pitch of fury by the rcvilings heaped upon the Constituent Assembly by EDMUND BURKE in his famous Reflections upon the French Revolution. Nowadays we have amongst us a Brummagem who has been endeavouring to perform the sam e kind offices to the Emperor NAPOLEON the Third through the rhetorical scolding of the well-known Letters of an Englishman. An anti dote to these " Lette rs " h as been supplied by MT. COBDEN' in his pamphlet, "1793 and 1853" —and more effectually, that suppli e d t o the c p we rejoice to think, than of Sir pections" by the " Yin dicice Gallicce" must ho venfes scs i, even 4 . 1 ." 8 MACKINTOSH. It by the thousands who differ f 7 ..em him, that Mr. COBDEN has contrived throng ,pout to be most lucidly sequential in his argur neat. The case is stated, in fact, by COBDEN as c le,arly as ever case was stated by COBBETT— aIIe L surely nothing stronger than this could be sa3 .d in the way of panegyric ! The whole pt trophlet is so convincing in the simplicity and it tcidity,of its logic, that we are sanguine it will w take converts to its opinions far and wide among rn ur intelligent population. For ourselves—we are fry no means converts to the opinions of Mr. COBDEN, having for years and years thought pre cisely as he does in reference to the course pur sued by Europe, but especially by England, upon the outbreak in 1789 of the French Revolution. Heart and soul do we go with him in his asser tion—" I do not hesitate to affirm that nothing was ever more clearly proved by evidence in, a Court of Law than the fact, resting • upon historical docu ments and official acts, that England was the aggressor in the last French War !" Heart and soul do we go with him when he adds "It is not enough to say that France did nct provoke hostilities—she all but went down on her knees (if I may apply such a phrase to a nation), to avert a rupture with this country r Yes, it is true—England in that last war, that atrocious and sanguinary war, that war which lasted two-and-twenty years, and which entailed upon this country a debt of 500, 000, 000/. sterling—was the Aggressor. It was a war not to confine France within her ancient boundaries (for when it was commenced she had not transgressed them), but to crush OPINION, to strangle LIBERTY, to restore to the throne at the Tuileries an abhorred dynasty—a dynasty that has been again and again expelled from the soil of France, though dragged back again and again over the ravaged provinces, to that capital which has only been captured by the banded armies of Christendom. Yes ! France in the last war was the Victim, and England the Aggressor. History proves this—read her documents, con her official acts, and answer when you have done so—answe from your conscience if there be not truth in the assertion. Painful the admission may be, but it is an admission inevitable with after genera tions. Terrible the truth may be to our amour propre as a nation, but it is a truth that must nevertheless be at last universally recognised. Others have proclaimed it before now, but scarcely any one so unanswerably as Mr. COBDEN in the course of this noble pamphlet a pamphlet both brave and magnanimous. Nothing could be more happily timed than the moment of its publication. It may exercise no feeble in fluence in saving this nation from a grievous peril, and an execrable injustice and a ruinous expen diture—but most of all from that national remorse which is a consequence of every unjust war, a remorse which hangs like a palsy upon the arm of Power, though it be the Power of even the mightiest Government. One benefit, at least, has been derived from the dikussion on Mr. DisRAELfs proposition for the reduction of the Malt Duties. The public atten tion has been prominently directed to the causes to which the badness of quality and extravagance of price of the poor man's beverage may fairly be attributed. These unquestionable evils do not arise solely from the Malt Tax, and the vexatious Excise regulations consequent thereon. We are told on high authority, that, if the entire impost were repealed, it would not reduce the price of ale or porter more than the fraction of a penny per pot. This, one of the most eminent of the metropolitan ale-kings has announced ; and from the calcula tions by which he sustains his views, the state ment may be accepted as strictly accurate. It appears, however, from the experience of gentle men who have brewed their own beer, that, even with the existing tax, they can produce a good wholesome beverage for about one-half the pric?, at which an adulterated article is supplied by the retailers—that for one penny per pint a better arti cle can be obtained than that for which two pence is charged at the different public-houses. Withoat then in any degree depreciating the advantages that would arise from the total abolition of the Malt Tax, of which we are strenuous advocates, we must look to other matters in which the beer drinking community, that is to say, nine-tenths ` the labouring population of the country, are deeply interested, and for which speedy and le quate remedies are imperatively demanded. We want " Free Trade" in beer ! There is at this moment a monster monopoly existing that considerably enhances the price of an article of almost primary necessity, and which is only less pernicious than that which fell before the vigor ous assaults of the champions of the Anti-Corn- Law-League,—a monopoly exercised in favour of a body insignificant in point of numbers, but power ful for wealth and influence. It might have been asserted, with some plausibility, that the entire body of agriculturists were concerned in maintaining the bread-tax—that the owners and occupiers of the soil derived considerable pro fit from the dear small loaf ; and the danger of causing loss and inconvenience to so large a pro portion of the community might be—and, while the matter remained undecided, frequently was— expatiated on with considerable force. No such argument, however, can be adduced in the present instance. The " aristocracy of the mash-tub" scarcely number units for the thousands of agriculturists ; nor can they point to any special burdens to which they are subjected, and which might possibly, in some degree, be considered as sets-off against, or equivalents for, the exclusive privileges of which they were in the enjoyment. All that can be said in their favour is, that by dexterous and skil- ful management, and by the judicious application of the enormous funds at their disposal, they were enabled to convert to their own peculiar advantage the working of measures which were originally framed for the benefit of the community, and which, intended to be of national utility, were changed by their devices from a blessing into a curse. It is the " licensing system" that has been productive of so much mischief, Which, if it has not created, has fos,%ered and increased the alo - kings' monopoly until it has swelled into its present gigantic dimensions. ;With a laudable desire of securing, or at least obtaining, the best guarantee for the correct management of the dif ferent public-houses, various regulations were enacted by Parliament; and, amongst others, the power of giving or withholding licences in each district was bestowed on the local magistracy. This extraordinary power was but too frequently capriciously exercised. We do not ascribe im proper motives to the privileged body. We be lieve, generally speaking, they were actuated by a sincere and conscientious desire to benefit the community by restricting the number of public houses. But good intentions, if leading to evil results, cannot be justified nor would we sustain an authority that had been productive of serious mischief, because those by whom it was wielded were well meaning, though imprudent, men. The brewing oligarchy were soon enabled to ascertain the grounds on which a certain number of houses only were tole rated in each district. The great firms found that it would be worth their while to acquire an interest in every licensed house, the goodwill of which was offered for sale or mortgage ; they were always ready to step in with almost un limited funds purchasing not merely an interest in a certain house and premises which could not fairly be objected to, but the privilege of supply ing all the thirsty souls of the vicinity with malt liquor at their own prices. The sapient Justices, who thought that two or three houses in which considerable capital was invested, and which became of a palatial cha racter, were quite sufficient for the wants of a locality, little tholight that the effect of their cha riness was to act as a virtual prohibition of any malt liquor, but that which was brewed in the establishments of BARCLAY and PERKINS, TRU MAN, HANBURY- and BUXTON, COMB; DELAFIELD, and CO., REID and Co., MEux and Co., or any others of the brewing oligarchy. If any person at tempted to break the monopoly, and to enter into fair competition with the brewers' houses, many vexatious, and almost insuperable, obstacles were interposed in his way, and the chances were that he had only expense and trouble for his pains. If, however, he persevered, and eventually tri umphed over every impediment, and he started on the sound principle of going with ready money in hand to purchase in the best and cheapest market,—he was subjected to many annoyances. It would be well worth the while of two or three firms, that counted their annual profits by tens or hundreds of thousands, to combine to crush the interloper, or, if these means failed, to buy up the good-will of the Free-trader. Thus it came to pass that a free public-house— or one in which the occupier was at liberty to purchase or brew his own beer, as he thought proper—became the exception, not the rule ; and thus it was that the brewers could afford to set public opinion at defiance, and to make no allowance for the great reduction in the price of barley consequent upon the abolition of the Corn Laws and the establishment of that which, al though termed Free Trade, is only so far as the solid products of our cereal crops are con cerned, but which cannot apply to the liquids so long as the Malt Tax and the licensing system are retained in their present form. We invite the attention of our readers, of those who belong to the Established Church especially, to the letter of Mr. TUCKETT, which appeared in our impression of Tuesday last. If any denomination of Dissenters is entitled to be heard on the question of Church Rates, it is the Society of Friends. Not even the most virulent High Churchman ventures to charge them with unworthy motives. Their principle, whether we agree to it or dissent from it, is clear and self-consistent ; and it must be no small degree of bigotry which would refuse to call it a noble one. The only question, indeed, is, .whether it be not too noble for the world as it is. It is well known that they decline the payment of Ecclesiastical Taxes, not from the slightest tinc ture of insubordination, for they avow and practise non-resistance as a part of their religious creed, but because they acknowledge no secular authority in r gigion. They conceive of it as a purely spiritual iraing, and infer that all contributions for its sup port must be the spontaneous offerings of spiritual motives ; and hence when money is demanded of them in the name of a secular Sovereign, and the demand enforced by the terrors of secular law, they at once reply, "In secular matters we acknowledge the sacred authority of the Sovereign and the law, but when it assumes to address us in a religious capacity, we are compelled by our views to regard the authority as usurped, and to decline even the slightest acknowledgment of its exist ence." Many of our High Church friends, indeed—Mr. GLADSTONE amongst them certainly —ought to sympathise with all this. It is one and the same principle as that on which they rest, when they claim such an elevated position for the Church in regard to the State. The principle that religion ought to be free from the control of worldly powers is common to both ; and we may fairly put it to the reader to decide which takes the nobler course—the High Churchman who sighs for Church independence of State control, and yet will not part with State dignities and State pay ? or the Quaker who chooses to be independent of State control, but who consistently refuses all State favours also. It has been in the upholding of this—one of the great principles of the sect—that they have endured, as Mr. TIICKETT says, almost unheard-of sufferings. We make these remarks, because it is time for the Society of Friends to be not only known as one of the most peaceful and inoffensive of Christian denomina tions, but also to have the real mgrit of many of their leading principles fairly acknowledged and explained. Their only fault, at least in this case, it will be owned by all candid men, is, that they soar too high for the world as it is, the greater part of church-goers not being prepared to do in support of their religion what the Friends cheer fully do for theirs. As to Mr. TUCKETT'S proposition, that while " a parochial rate upon property is deemed the best mode of defraying the cost of public worship and the repair of churches, all known Dissenters should be written off exempt as when a house is void." We can only say that we would ourselves most gladly bear the increased expense which might thereby fall upon us personally, and we are confident the vast majority of Churchmen have the same feeling. Moreover, we believe that the spirit of liberality has so much increased amongst Churchmen of late, that the amount required would not be felt as a burden, but raised with pleasure. Theinstances quoted byMr. TRELAWNEY, and by us from him, fully bear out this view ; indeed, the plan so successfully carried out by the Churchwarden of Headingley, that of rating each person occupying a sitting according to his house- rental, brings out the same result nearly as Mr. MONETT'S proposition. The chief difference as the two stand would be, that Mr. RED) NEWSOME TMauckKeSET:nwlyouithde make act ualailpay the Church Rat e worshippers pay. M r . who could not give evidence of contributing to the support of some other denomination ; he would make contribution the practical test of dissent ; he would make it also the answer to those who allege, with Sir H. INGLIS, that the occupiers of houses were morally bound to con tribute to the support of religion, from the fact of all O h n o e u s g op r e apnrdreer reason, n, being however, liable to t the that Church eh Rates are so specially odious to the great majority of Dissenters is, no doubt, the peculiar form they assume as a tax. They are voted every year by every little parish parliament. Generally a con siderable number of the rate-payers, sometimes a majority of them, are composed of persons who not only conscientiously prefer a different mode of worship to that which they are forced to support, but who are paying much more than the amount exactcd for their own worship. Let us only place ourselves in their position. How should we relish it, if the Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, and In dependents, could call us together, and compel us to vote a rate for the support of their worship ? Would not the compulsion rouse our English feel ing ? Should we not feel it a degradatiou to be obliged to assess our own tribute to those whose services we never used ? Should not we,asnot too, feel the that the amount, general l y small, w question with us, so much as the dishonour done to our faith ? We are certain, from pers ona l knowledge, that the great mass of candid and honourable Churchmen are taking the view of the subject which we now. in dicate, and that therefore the immense ma jority of the country desires to see Church Rates put an end to for ever. We should,_ then, cor dially approve of Mr. TUCKETT'S proposal, did we not hope that the House of Commons would soon deal with the whole subject in a yet more satis factory way. Mr. BETHELL, it will be remem bered, wished the proceeds of cathedral sinecures to be applied to the support of the fabrics of the churches. Mr. TRELAWNEY would sell the LORD CHANCELLOR'S livings to raise the desired fund. We must say that nothing would rejoice us more than to see petitions from our fellow-Churchmen declaring their ability and wveiryllinnumerously si gli th ed e; own churches in repair, and praying that Cathedral Revenues, money II raised by the sale of advowsons, and money now diverted from educati onal purposes to the purses of sinecurists, should all be thrown into one grand fund, in aid of a really national education. It is grievous to think what a glorious fund might thus be raised, which now is literally wasted. Applied to education all sects would benefit alike ; at pre sent it only feeds and nurtures two of the greatest nuisances in the country—Government patronage and sinecurism. If arguments were needed to urge our new Ministry to act promptly in a matter which Mr. MELAWNEY'S Committee has rend9Ted easy for them, they would be found in the openings fur nished •by the present state of the law for the gratifying of magisterial spite, and the cupidity of constables. We have just noticed a gross case of this kind at Tynemouth. The seizures were made upon the Society of Friends, apparently with a sort of selection of what would be least convenient to be deprived of ; but when the bill of costs came in, it was made out with enormous profits to the constable and his clerk. Thus,—they paid a man 17s. 6d. for keeping the goods in his possession, but they charged for this man 101. 10s. ! ! For bills of sale, and posting them, they paid 110. 6d., but charged V. 2s. Altogether they paid 161. 13s. 6d. expenses, and charged the persons dis trained upon 301. 2s. for the same ! The Magis trates themselves might legally have included all the names in one warrant ; but by issuing distinct warrants for each, the Bench swelled that item to 81. Bs. The result is, that the average cost of seventy distraints upon Friends, taken from severe cases, and laid before the Committee of the House of Commons, amounted to 11. Os. 6d. each, while, in this case, 21. 3s. has been charged in each case. We submit that the Magistrates and constables of Tynemouth ought not to have such weapons for vindictiveness and bigotry intrusted to them ; ought not to have the power of exasperating the most peaceful of men against the Church to which they themselves belong. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Noticing a leading article in this evening's Sun upon " Intramural Burials," would you allow me to state that my shops overlook the burial ground of St. Martin's parish, situated in Drury lane, and that we are daily witnesses of the dis graceful and disgusting way the graves are dug, and sufferers from the offensive smell arising from the dampness of the ground • so much so, that some of my men have been ill, and it has obliged me to have my lower floor taken up and lime thrown in. There were two funerals on Sun day, and one yesterday, and every foot of the ground has to be probed before a depth of three feet can be found to dig the hole. I have applied to the Board of Health to see if they had any power to compel its being closed after the last Act of Parliament, and have received an official reply that they have not, and that my only remedy (if any) was in applying to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. I have done so ' • but, after your article of to-day, am afraid it is hopeless. The top of the graveyard is upwards of six feet above the level of the kerb stone, which I think will fairly prove whatever could be said of it. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ALFRED TARRANT. 4, Little Rus.sell-street, Covent-garden, January 25, 1853. MIDDLE TEMPLE.—BARDISTERS-AT-LAW, JAN. 27. The under -mentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of Barristers-at-Law by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, and they were sworn in the Mid dle Temple Hall before dinner :—Edward Godman Kirk patrick, Esq., 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Wil frid Huddlestone Simpson, Esq., 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ; Charles Smith, Esq., 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ; Stephen Martin Leake, Esq., 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ; William Talfourd Salter, Esq. ; Albany Fonblanque, Esq. ; Owen Saunders Wilson, Esq. ; James Henry Patteson, Esq., 8.A., Baliol College, Oxford ; James Maurice, Esq. ; John Thornley, Esq., 8.A., University of Lon don ; John William Grigg, Esq. ; Edmund Macrory, Esq., 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; Thomas M'En teer, Esq. ; Robert Orridge, Esq. ; John Price, Esq, ; Edward William Hornby, Esq. ; Henry Stephen Hans sler, Esq. ; Boswell Hensman, Esq., Gray's Inn Prize man ; Roger Gadsden, Esq. ; and George Pringle, Esq. LINCOLN'S -INN, JAN. 26, 1853.—The undermentioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of barris ter-at-law, by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn, viz.:— Henry Bonham Carter, Esq., George Norman Maule, Esq., and Elphinstone Barchard, Esq. GRAY'S -INN, JAN. 26.—At a Pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn, holden this day, Leonard Hill, Gent,. Esq., was called to the degree of barrister-at-law. The United States Mail steamer Atlantic, West, com mander, sailed from Liverpool yesterday morning, with 55 passengers, and a full cargo on board. Bun/o/T.—The next published bank account of bul lion will show an increase. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, JANUARY, 1853.—Informa tion having been received that, in consequence of a con vention which exists between the Government of the United States and that of the Sandwich Islands, mails for the latter place can be forwarded with facility from San Francisco, in future all letters and newspapers ad dressed to the Sandwich Islands, unless the address shall specify that they are to be forwarded by any other route, will be sent from this country vie/ Panama, in the closed mails for San Francisco made up on each dispatch of the West India mail. Letters for the Sandwich Islands will be liable to a postage for the conveyance as far as San Francisco of 2s. 4d., when not exceeding half an ounce in weight, a,41 so on according to the scale for charging inland letters ; and newspapers will be liable to a postage of 2d. each. The postage upon both letters and newspapers must be paid in advance. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.—GENERAL POST -OFFICE, JANUARY, 1853.—Minor Money Order-offies will be opened at 13allifnline, County Mayo, served from Tuam, and at Pettigo, County Donegal, served from Enniskillen, on the Ist February. CAPE MAIL STEAMERS. —The General Screw Com. pany's mail steamer, Hydaspes, left Southampton Docks yesterday at 2, p.m., for the Cape of Good Hope and India. She took out a large number of passengers, and a considerable cargo. Amongst the latter were about 500 bottles of quicksilver, and specie to the value of 20,001. She also took out a number of fine specimens of sheep, which are intended for the Cape of Good Hope for breeding purposes. The Hy daspes will call at Plymouth for her mails. She is the first of the General Screw Company's steamers which has taken her depgrture from Southampton, and excited a great deal of interest. Southampton dock has been like a fair for the last two days, in consequence of the bustle arising from the loading of the emigrant ships and the Hydaspes and the arrival of the Lady Jocelyn, another of the General Screw Company's steamers, from India and the Cape of Good Hope. The Lady Jocelyn brought home as part of her crew a number of Lascars and African sailors. The latter have never been seen at the port of Southampton before, and have excited some curiosity. They are picked up it appears at Calcutta, where they are nick-named Leedees. They come from the north-eastern coast of Africa, and look like a cross between the Arab and the Negro. Several of them were seen elevated with drink yesterday, and dancing gro tesquely in the streets. Their chief or quarter-master is a fine tall fellow. They live on rice and fish like the Lascars, but they are not quite so particular as to their diet as the latter. They are stronger than the Lascars, but not so docile. IRREGULARITY OP THE AUSTRALIAN MAlLS.—Great complaints are made by the merchants in the city at the constant delays in the transmission of the mails to Aus tralia, Victoria, Sydney, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, the Cape of Good Hope, India, the Western Coast of Africa, &c., by the new system of mail steam-packets, as not an instance has yet occurred but they have been detained at Plymouth, in conse quence of the derangement of the machinery, or some accident, which has not only been a delay in the trans mission of the letters, but a great inconvenience and annoyance to the passengers, who expected they would sail punctually, as announced, instead of being detained two or three weeks, and more, in fact. Representations have been made on the subject to the Right Honourable Viscount Canning, the new Postmaster-General. UNITED MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.—The ordi nary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at their offices, 5, Finsbury-circus ; Mr. Maellop presiding. From the report, which was read by the secretary, it appeared that since the last half-yearly meeting the company had received a consign ment of 20,000 dollars, which, with the other proceeds of the mines, enabled the directors to declare a dividend of 4s. per share, leaving about 5,0001. as a rest to meet contingencies. They had received the most encouraging reports of the Jesu Maria and Trinidad mines from their local commissioner, Captain Farrel, and there was every prospect of their increasing in value. They had relin quished the Rayas mine, and had received on account of its debt 13,099 dols., and there still remained due 223,883 dols. The Aldanha mine was still unlet, and owed a debt of 101,656 dols. Quicksilver was rising in price, and one of the company's Haciendas had recently been let at a rent of 1,000 dols. By the financial statement it appeared that the assets, Exchequer Bills, &c., amounted to 14,514/. 11s. 4d., being a surplus of 9,1191. 18s. 10d., to which must be added the 4,000/. received by the last packet. The dividend would absorb 8,6001., and the balance would constitute the usual rest. —The Chairman, i n answer to one or two questions, stated that th e part of Mexico in which their mines were situated was peculiarly tranquil, and that an ini quitous claim which had been 'set up a g ainst them was likely to b e compro mised on easy terms. The resolution declaring the dividend, and one of thanks to the chair man and directors, were unanimously passed, and the proceedings terminated. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —The first experiment of per forming the pantomime in the afternoon, for the advan tage of the juvenile portion of the population, proved so successful that another performance took place yesterday. The grandchildren of the late King Louis Philippe were among the audience, and occupied the Royal box. So numerous were the spectators on this occasion, that there is every reason to look forward to a third enter tainment of the sort. THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. -- The standing orders have been declared complied with in the case of this company's bill. It appeared from the proceedings before the examiners that the sum of 400,000/. had been subscribed for the purchase of the estate at Sydenham of 350 acres, on which was being erected the Great Ex hibition building of 1851, with parks, conservatories, museums for illustration of the arts, sciences, manufac tures, and recreation of the people. The present roads were inconvenient, the estate being intersected by one a bridle-way, called Thicket's-lane, in bad repair and little used, the other being part of a public carriage-way called Penge-road, leading from Penge to Dulwich, steep and inconvenient, and both roads interfering mate rially with the designs for the pleasure grounds and gar dens. The company propose, at their own expense, to substitute better and more commodious roads, to widen the Norwood and Sydenham-road, and purchase Dulwich Wood with the consent of.the "Master, Wardens, Fel lows, Brethren, Si s t er s, an d Scholars of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich." The cost of diverting Thicket's lane and Penge-road, and w idening the Norwood a nd Sydenham-road, includin g purchase of property and contingencies, is 17,3201. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLoca. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American and 1000 Egyptialt were taken on speculation. The market closed with an upward tendency. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 500 Bahia at 6d. to 6id., 1,500 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd., 500 Surat at nd. to 4ad., and 30 Sea Island at is. 7d. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer. The six weeks' average price of wheat is 455. Bd. per quarter, and the last week's sales were 114,972 quarters. _ _ - The letters by the steamer Asia, from the United States, are interesting in one or two points which, hereafter at least, will engage particular attention. The question of a supply of food to our Australian Colonies is invested with great importance if we are to credit one half of what appears in the local journals, and parties writing over even express strong apprehensions of famine. Strictly speaking, there can scarcely in a country like Australia be a famine, and the nu merous flocks and herds afford a resource, if not an agreeable substitute, for the staff of life. The reliance, however, appears to be on supplies from America, and it is a singular circumstance that in California there is a scarcity, and prices rule very high. It will be unfortunate if the United States should be unable to meet the requirements of the colonies, and will be strong evidence of the non-existence of such large stocks of grain as were reported to be held. One can scarcely believe, however, that, after the excellent harvest of last year, a surplus is not available in the United States, and, consequently, we must not relinquish the hope. The second matter deserving notice is, that the Asia brings 200,000 dollars in specie, and that there is an idea we shall now have steady arrivals of the precious metal. The export of goods we . have made to the United States may not establish a balance of trade in our favour, but there have been shipments to California for which we must be ex pecting returns, and the gold companies formed here ought to receive dividends either by way of New York or Panama. The English Securities have been quiet, but are firm, and as it is now asserted that instead of a de crease there will be a considerable increase in the Bank of England return to be published to-mor row, under the item " bullion." Some of the Austra lian gold havingbeen paid in, buyers have more con fidence. Consols bring 99k for Transfer, and 99 k for Account. The New 3f per Cents. have been 1031 I, and the 3 per Cents. 100 k to A. Bank Stock has been well supported at 227' ; East India Stock is at 270 to 272. Exchequer s are marked 57s to 61s, and India Bonds are 67s to 71s. premium. Foreign Securities have been without any great change. Mexican continue heavy at 22i to 23. Grenada Deferred Bonds are at 11i to 1 1-. Equador Stock is at 5 . Buenos Ayres Bonds are at 65k. Spanish Thy - ) per Cents. have been 461. to 47, and the Deferred 22H. The Swedish Loan is 1/ dis count, and the Turkish k discount. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been 97i to The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under Great Wes tern North Western.. South Western . 1853. 1852. 17,373 14,973 Brighton Midland South Eastern 43,711 38,925 9 . ,777 8,766 8,603 7,754 21,805 20,182 12,181 10,062 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 16,527 15,302 York and North Midland Newcastle and Berwick 14,286 13,868 The Railway Share Market has been rather firmer, and the settlement shows a Bear account. The " continuation" is very small comparatively. East Lancashire have started up considerably. French Shares are very dull, but not lower. The Gold Mine Market is firm, but not brisk. Australian Agricultural have advanced 51. to 101. Messrs. Tredinnick and Co. give the following report on English mines : "Devon Great Consols yielded a profit of 9,7281. in dividends during the past week, upon the two months' workings, which, upon 1,0241. original outlay, gives a per tentage of 5,700 per cent., and upon the current price of shares, 430,0801., 14-15 per cent. per annum, with every prospect of an increase. Numerous other instances may be enumerated of like advantages, but our space at present prevents reference thereto. "At the sale of copper ore at Truro, on Thursday last, the standard was 1521. 65., and the produce 7.1, which was an advance of 20 on the corresponding sale last month. It is a fact which probably the public are unacquainted with, that 21. 15s. per ton is de ducted from the price of copper ores for return ing charges by the smelters : so that if the standard be 100, and the produce 7, the price would be 41. 14s. received by the miner ; whilst if the standard was 1521. 6s. at the same produce, the price would be 81. lls. per ton—so that the practical result to the miner is, with the same cost of production, he receives 31. 19s. per ton advance profit on his ore, or equivalent to 75 per cent. on what he would obtain less than twelve months ago. " During the past week more than the usual amount of business has been done, especially in dividend stock, the progressive mines, which the rise in price of metals causes to pay cost, and which promise dividends shortly, have also been in request ; whilst others of a more spe culative character, but having capital subscribed to de velope them are also in demand • and on the whole we consider the market to poz,sess a ;one and character con sistent with its increased importance, and the enlight ened appreciation of the public of this description of national investment." The Annual Supplement to the Tithe Commuta tion Tables has been completed by Mr. Charles M. Willich, and shows at sight the corn rent, in bushels, of wheat, &c. The following we epitomise from the fuller statement, as being the average prices for seven years : To Christmas 1835 Value of Tithe Rent Charge of £lOO. .. £lOO 0 0 To Christmas 1836 9B 13 9/ To Christmas 1837 97 7 11 To Christmas 1838 95 7 9 To Christmas 1839 9B 15 91 To Christmas 1840 lO2 12 5/ To Christmas 1841 lO5 8 2 4 " To Christmas 1842 To Christmas 1843 lO4 3 45/ To Christmas 1844 lO3 17 11/ To Christmas 1845 lO2 17 8/ To Christmas 1846 99 18 101 To Christmas 1847 lO2 1 0 To Christmas 1848 lOO 3 7/ To Christmas 1849 9B 16 10 To Christmas 1850 96 11 4/ To Christmas 1851 93 16 11/ To Christmas 1852 9l 13 51 17)1697 19 41 General-average for the last 17 years £99 17 n BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY , (From the Official List.) Busine:3 none. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ma 3 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities 1034 i Long AnnuitieS, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 6 3-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 3-16 4 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO 67 • Ditto, under £lOOO 7l - Consols for Account 10th February 99 i i Exchequer Bills 12d. March. June. £lOOO.. 6l 57 £5OO 6l 57 Small 6l 57 _ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4a per Cent Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 6SA Grenada Bonds, Deferred, Equador Bonds si Mexican 3 per Cent 22 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 94 4 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account 47 6i Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 22a fi Ditto for the Account 22fi Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun, 541 5h p • Swedish Loan li d Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 654 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.... HALI-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto February Account CONVERSIONS.—The Church of St. John, in Liver pool, was on the evening of Tuesday the scene of a most gratifying and impressive public ceremony—six adult converts having on that occasion renounced the heresies of Rome, and declared their adhesion to the Church of England. The sacred edifice was crowded by a most attentive audience, including a large number of the hum bler class, to which some of the converts apparently belonged. The evening service having been read by the Rev. Mr. Matthias, one of the curates, the converts were ranged around the altar, and the customary questions addressedto them by the Rev. W. F. Taylor, incumbent. Each of the adults having replied to these queries with out any reservation, they were accordingly received into the communion of the English Church. Eight children —some belonging to the present converts, and others to Romanists previously converted —were then, at the ex press desire of their parents, likewise received into the Church. — Chester Courant. BANKERS' CLERKS.—Messrs. Glyn have given their clerks an increase of pay, which example has been fol lowed by Messrs. Grote, London Joint Stock Bank, and London and County. Banking Company, no doubt in con sequence of so many resignations in the banking circles. The directors of the Blackwall Railway have also raised the salaries of their 'Dierks. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.) EDLISTON Y. COLLINS. This was an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Turner granting a decree of foreclosure in favour of the paintiff on a mortgage of 6001., advanced at various periods, on a copyhold estate in Cambridge, held by Mrs. Smith, the defendant, during the lifetime of her former husband, Thomas Collins. It appeared that the defendant and her former husband had taken the estate in their own hands, and wishing to cultivate it, had found it necessary to raise various sums of money, amounting in all, the plaintiff alleged, to 6001. For this purpose a surrender of the copyhold was effected, before the deputy steward of the manor, to Mr. Adcock, a soli citor of Cambridge, the real plaintiff in the case, for such uses as Mr. Collins, the husband, should direct—a form of proceeding adopted to save the expense of admitting the husband—and this power was used at various times to raise money as occasion required. -After the death of Collins, his wife married again, and on application being made for repayment of the advance, she refused, alledg ing that not more than 100./. had been raised on the security of the estate. A bill, asking for a decree of foreclosure, was then filed, which, being granted by Vice Chancellor Turner, an appeal was then carried to the full court. The defence set up was, first, that the deputy steward of the manor, before whom the surrender had been executed, was a minor at the time, and, therefore, that all acts done by him, were null and void ; and, secondly, that Mrs. Smith had been ,imposed on at the time of the surrender ; that she was not aware of its im port, and merely intended by it to give power to receive 100/. The Lord Chancellor, in giving judgment, said, with regard to the first point of the defence, the minority of the steward, that although Lord Coke had laid it down as a principle that infants could not be stewards, yet that must be read with the qualifica tion which he afterwards stated, that whatever things were performed by a steward, who might be held to be incompetent by reason of minority, lunacy, outlawry, excommunication, or any other reason, could not after wards be set aside, and that if in appearance they seemed good, that was sufficient. It was one of those things of which it might be said, Jeri non debet, factum valet. Ile (the Lord Chancellor) thought that to set aside the act of a steward on the ground of such incompetency, would be introducing difficulties, the amount of which it would be impossible to calculate ; and he had no hesita tion in coming to the conclusion that this legal objection could not be sustained. With respect to the second point, he was of opinion that the weight of evidence went to show, that not only was Mrs. Collins aware of the nature and extent of the surrender, and of the differ ent sums of money borrowed on it, but that she was inetrumental in borrowing them. The decree below must, therefore, be sustained. Lord Justice Turner concurred, intimating an opinion that the only manner in which the defendant could pro perly impeach the surrender, was by filing a cross-bill. Lord Justice Knight Bruce intimated that he had not come to a decision on the questions raised in this case, but finding the majority of the Court had made up their minds, he had not thought it right to delay the decision. The judgment of the Court below was therefore affirmed. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Justice Wightman.) THE QUEEN V. THE AMBEEGATE RAILWAY COMPANY.- JUDGMEN r. This was a writ of mandamus commanding the com pany to exercise the compulsory powers conferred upon them by act of Parliament to purchase land, and to make a complete line of railway between Ambergate and another place. Lord - Campbell, in delivering judgment this morning, said the Court were of opinion that a sufficient answer had been given to the mandamus in the return made by the defendants, which stated the capital the company was empowered to raise :for making the railway had never been subscribed for, and that the company had never been and was not now able to procure the whole of the said capital. The Court thought the company was not bound to undertake the works, because it was shown that without any default on its part, it had never been in a situation to exercise the powers conferred by the Legislature. Under those circumstances, judg ment on the demurrer to the 12th plea would be for the defendant. As to the demurrer to the 3d, 11th, and 15th pleas, the Court thought judgment ought to be entered for the prosecutors. It was unnecessary to enter at length into these pleas, as the judgment already given was a bar to the prayer for a peremptory man damus. Judgment accordingly. CRIMINAL INFORMATION.-EXPARTE GEO. LEWIS. The Attorney-General said he was instructed on the part of Mr. Geo. Lewis, who was secretary to the Master of the Horse to her Majesty, and superintendent of the department belonging to that officer, to move for a rule calling on Mr. Kay Dinsdale, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for publishing a libel on Mr. Lewis. The libel arose out of circumstances, which he should briefly state, Mr. Kay Dinsdale carried on the business of a saddler and harness maker, in Oxford-street, and in the course of last year he was honoured by the com mands of her Majesty to supply to the royal stables a set of harness for two ponies and two outriders. The harness was made and delivered, and Mr. Dinsdale sent in a bill for the articles making a charge of as much as 5851. It was the duty of Mr.i Lewis, on behalf of the Master of the Horse, to examine and pass all bills for goods sup plied to her Majesty, before they could be paid ; and in the discharge of that duty, he refused to pass a bill making a demand of such an extravagant and exorbi tant nature, but he wrote to Mr. Dinsdale, proposing that it should be referred to some competent persons in the trade, who should look into the matter, and settle the account, to which he was entitled. When Mr. Dinsdale received the letter, instead of intimating to Mr. Lewis that he agreed to the proposal, he called in three saddlers, and made a statement, favourable to himself, to them, as to the labour expended on the harness, and the cost of the materials, and he then wrote to Mr. Lewis, stating that he had• adopted the course he had suggested, and that the individuals whose opinions he had takenhad cut down the amount to 510/. Mr. Lewis expressed his surprise at this mode of arbitration, which was not what he contemplated, and again pro posed that each party should name an individual to go through the accounts, and that an umpire should be called in if necessary. This brought an angry letter for Mr. Dinsdale, and finding that he could do nothing with him, Mr. Lewis placed th e matter in the hands of Messrs. Price and Bolton, the solicitors of the Master of the Horse, in order to bring it to a train of settlement. It appeared that Mr. Dinsdale had, on his application, received 1001. on account, for the purpose of paying his workmens' wages, but this was given without any pre judice on the part of Mr. Lewis. On the 4th of Dec., he wrote demanding the payment of the balance, and said if he did not receive it he should be under the painful necessity of serving a writ on her Majesty without further notice and that if she was not liable, he would sue Prince Albert. His correspondence was altogether of a very hostile cha racter, and showed an absence of respectful feeling to wards her Majesty and her illustrious Consort. At the end of another letter to Mr. Lewis, dated the 31st Dec., he said, " What a fool you made yourself in sending for a policeman to take into custody a tradesman of her Ma jesty." It seemed that on one occasion he was so offen sive in his manner, that Mr. Lewis was under the neces sity of sending for a constable, but on that functionary appearing, he quietly went away. On the first day of the New Year he wrote again, describing the trans action as t o his bill as disgraceful and unprincipled, and saying he supposed Mr. Lewis intended it as a new way of paying old debts: Mr. Lewis did not complain of these letters, but another was received, dated the sth January, which contained the alleged libel, and was one of the most outrageous and atrocious productions which had ever been sent from one man to another. It was as follows : " Mr: Geo. Lewis,—Yon are the proudest tyrant, and greatest knave, and most unprincipled fellow I ever met with. lam sorry I ever condescended to have spoken to you. Your character is the lowest, and appears to be generally known. An intimate personal friend of yours called upon me on Monday, and remarked that he was not surprised of any action of yours, for you were the greatest blackguard he ever met with. What a pity it is so respect able an office should be filled by so unworthy a wretch. There is no boy in your stable who does not bear a better character than you do. You vile scoundrel. Your conduct may come to the knowledge of your royal mistress, and general will be the rejoicing if you are turned out of your situation. Your family I pity.—Your superior, " KAY DINSDALE." The learned counsel said he apprehended the Court would consider this was a very scandalous and outrageous libel. Lord Campbell—Take a rule. SNOWSTORM IN NEW YORK. A fierce snow storm has lately visited New York. By the papers dated the 14th January, we learn that the snow lay from eight to nine inches deep up on the ground, taking the entire l eve l o f t h e city. The merry tinkle of the first sleigh bells aroused the people at daybreak, and afforded a joyous impulse towards fun and frolic. The mammoth stages, belonging to the different city lines, drawn by beautiful teams of four, six, and eight horses, were in early requisition, and before noon an omnibus running upon wheels was looked upon as an antiquated mode of conveyance. The entire town was in motion, and every person, young and old, male and female, prepared for sleigh riding and sport. In Broadway, the fun soon grew "fast and furious," and the 'great thoroughfare presented an exciting and varied scene, not excelled, and perhaps unequalled, by the merriest carnival display seen either in Rome or upon the Rialto. The centre of the street was occupied by one unbroken line of stage sleighs, running up and down, whilst the entire way was crowded with those of private families, dashing along with a rapidity which would have been dangerous but for the grace with which they were driven. A person standing at one point, and glancing to the right or left, became almost bewildered with the variety of robes, winter dresses, blooming faces, cheers, and merry greetings, which saluted his eyes and ears. Noon, evening, and at midnight, the scene was still the same. The boys had a day suited to their most ardent wishes, and they kept a constant fire of snow-balls from stage to stage, which, falling at random in the crowd, afforded much fun and merriment. The snow appears to have also visited the other States.. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 26. The following had the honour of dining with her Ma' jesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth,. and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey. Her Majesty's private band attended in the Castle after dinner, and played the following selection : Overture (op. 85) Kalliwoda. Solo de Concert—Violin M. Sainton Sainton. Selection—" La Somnambula" Bellini. Finale 3d act ". Le Pre aux Clercs" Herold. Prince Albert went out hunting this forenoon, sv tended by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of Breadalbane, and Viscount Canning have been invited, and are expected this afternoon. A deputation consisting of Mr. H. Clay, of Burton- o n' Trent, banker ; M r . Willi am R ath b one, of Liverpoo l , Mr. William Fenton, of Rochdale ; Mr. Alexander Mac' gregor, of Liverpool ; and Mr. Henry C. Beloe, of Liver . pool, had an interview yesterday with the Right Soo. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley at the Board of Trade. Sir W. Gore Ouseley had an interview with the Da. of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. Ml' Blackburn and Mr. Girod had also interviews with th e noble duke yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstolle left town yesterday for Oxford. , SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCOLXVT. OUNDLE STEEPLECHASES. These steeplechases —got up principally, I believe) by Messrs. Wright and Francis, of the Talbot and Dolrbil Inns at Oundle—are under the st ewar d s hi p of ;;he of Cardigan, Lord Burghersh, and Herbert de Berg' Esq. They are three in number. The entries for ev e ' however,—the Farmers' and Tradesmen's Steepleebl; —have not as yet come t o h an d. Th e principal steel). chase is a Ha n ai ca p S weepsta k es o f 1 5 sous. each, 10 it' &c., and is the first marked for decision to=morrow, come off at two o'clock. This race is considered to r i , all one way. FOREST .L AD b e i ng i n at 10st 121 1 without a penalty for his Epsom victory. Trust-me 4" or Proceed, if they were to run, would not, by,,l means, stand an inferior ch ance . This morning bo th them seem to be considered as non-starters. The Selling Stakes are booked a certainty for TO; ME-NOT ; and if he is a sure runn er h e i s un d ou bt e dly t winner. • 0 6 Last year, in addition to nam i ng th e majority o winners of flat races, I was lucky enough t o select t oo winner of the first flat race of the year, and also of ti last. Whether I shall be so successful this year or n i it of course I cannot say ; but I yesterday managed to the mark with Cripple Kate in th e fi rs t race o f this le g, and was very near placing the first three. Owing to the hurry in whi c h th e l as t no t es on t d 1) : Derby were put together, a couple of omissions, a c li ke i r like number of blunders, w ere th e consequence. °"y bing's lot was stated to consist of four instead of 0 The two omitted were Beverlac and Moscow. . former was acc id en t a lly ma d e to appear as one of v,„105, lot, and th e l atter was l e f t out altogether. P ta d cow, the property of Mr. W. Stebbings, noninqiy by Mr. H. Mann, is a bay colt by Hetman 4 10 toff out of Mi ss M ar i a , a smart, compac t o c r e animal, not bl esse d w i t h t h e b est of legs ; has ile)fr, started, and is o f no use f or t h e D er b y. Overlooking oilt H. Stebbings' nomination, PICKATREE, by Picaroon, t ya of Royalty, can scarcely be called an omission, 35 0 13 brute was n ever a bl e to stand training, and wagte'r; some time since t o b e converte d i nto a hack or 1111,11„',4 consequently, anythi ng concern i ng hi m must be AP" ther devoid of interest. bli Accounts from the Cu rrag h repor t very un f av our 3 of the Derby horses at work there. They are ib ur number, namely :—Marquis of Waterford's ch. ~e;0 Crescent, out of He a d an d Pl uc k (Ki c k- up - t h e -n g f dam), trained by R. P r i nce ; M r. I rw i n ' s c h . c. 1(141,10er OF THE THIMBLE, by Mi c k ey F ree , out o f the Beccol, trained by P. Doucie, of Rathbride-house ; Mr* - 0 . 1 0 ran's b. g. COGNAC, by B urgun d y , out o f Kild a re P oo , by Tearaway (h. b.), nominated by Mr. L. ic,, g ee : trained Joy L. Byr ne , o f M ount j oy -l o d ge ; an d Ivio St. George's gr. C. BROTHER TO CHANTICLEER, it, catcher, out of Whim, trained by L. Keegan, of v OO er ton-lodge. They have all appeare d in public, Mr,. formed in such manner th a t a v i s i t to Epsom 0' Derby-day will not be made by any of them. THE SPIRIT OF THE Troll NEWTON SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY., BA The Golborne Steeplechase Handicap of 10 soirS• 0 10 half forfeit, with 60 added, the second to save hi° About 4 miles. 13 subs. t 4/11 AD" Mr. Munday's Young Lottery, aged, 100_ ff so Mr. Wainwright's Heroine, aged, lOst 61b. ...... 0 ; Mr. R. Martin's Cabin Boy, aged, Bst 101b.....' • ...• Mr. W. H. Scott's Shinrone, aged, 10st 111b•••'' ,„ d Mr. Barnard's Quickstep, aged, lOst 91b.. ..... • o Mr. Warburton's Balli nas l oe, age d , 9st 716 Mi. Powdrell's Jenny Jones, aged, 9st 51b...•... Mr. Morris's The Dwarf, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b• • ... Po Betting-5 t o 2 agst Shinrone, and 9to • : 1 4 . Quickstep and Young Lottery. Won by a length, Cabin Boy a bad third. e 3 e lb The Selli ng St eeplechase Free Handicap of 500%. and 30 add e d, w i nner to be sold for 80 so lc " . ' About 3 miles. 16 subs. Mr. Williams ns Woodfold, aged, 9st 81b (TheraP s° ,, Mr. Henry's Lady Wilton, aged, 9st 61b ....... .•••"., Mr. 13 retherton;s Clatterbox, ag e d, 9 s t 1 11b.. ..... Mr. Thrift's Freshwater, aged, 9st 71b.........••• Mr. B re th erton ' s b m by The Genius, aged, 9st Mr. Coburn's Flying Buck, 6 yrs, 9st 131 b ....... ••... Mr. smith's Harkover, aged, 7st 131 b Mr. Tempest's The Knight of the Pipe, aged, Bst Betting-2 to 1 agst The Genius, and 4to Freshwater. Won by 3 lengths, Clatterbox a bad third. Of s ' The Hurdle-Race Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and "" added. Two miles over six hurdles. 13 OW; 0•6•01 I Mr. Barton's Uncle Tom (late Pi oneer ), ae , .) Bst 91b (FoNgl e Mr. Barnard's Quickstep, aged, lOst 21b.......... ••'.. Mr. Lamplugh's Mary Machree, 5 yrs, 9st 21b••• Mr. Martin's Queen of the Vale, aged, 9st 21b.•••"' e 4' Betting-6 to 4 agst Quickstep, sto 2 agst Cl ue the Vale, and 3 to 1 agst Uncle Tom. Won by 3 lengths. qua' (1 ik Handicap Plate of 301. Heats, 1 m il e an d 13 1 Mr. Grimes's Cripple Kate, 5 yrs, 7st llb (Pickard) Mr. Walker's True Girl, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b 5 , Mr. Morris's Apple Blossom, ag e d, 7 s t llb ..... • Mr. Powdrell's Nero, 5 yrs, Bst 51b ................ • 0 (if' Mr. Tempest's Jupiter, 5 yrs Bst llb .............•• Mr. Wilson's f, by Game Boy, out of Maid of 0 (IP Monton, 3 yrs, sst 1 21b .............................. Won easy. v e to SALE OF THE DIORAMA, REGE NT ' S - PARK .--w--- ho tents of the Diorama, Regent's-park, among whic" f tb a included the pictures which f orme d th e su bject ?, 0 0, 11 , various exhibits, have this w e ek b een so ld by sue"' , the premises. The building has been purchased bi r c of Peto, M.P., for a sum of 4,5001., it i s sa id, f ° o o l, „ version into a Baptist ch a p e l. Th e fi rs t p i c t u re PI was the Castle of Stol zen f e ll s , on th e Rhi ne . 10 . ; guineas were offered, an d it was b oug ht i n a t that The next picture w as th a t o f M ount /E tna, whi cii 0 0 ' represented under three a s p ec t s . It was a l so boa The fixtures were disposed of for 400/. _, ‘ , l ill Baron Lionel de Rothschild h as been how:linte° an invitation from the Empe ror o f t h e French to t i i , his approaching nuptials, and leaves London the purpose. co i „ f The English and Irish Telegraph Company lis' le a Jr ° menced laying th e i r underground wires for the ue between London, Manchester, and Liverpool. ag iOv' e THE LATE SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER AND c o AT CAMB ERWELL.—yesterday, Mr. W. Carter, for East S urrey, proceeded to investigate the ; c'' e o o ,l ' s tances connected w ith th e a b ove h orr id affair'rol6 mencing by h o ldi ng an i nqu i ry at the Marlb° of Arms Tavern, Camberwell, touching the death 1 4, newly-born female infant, the offspring of Eli linger, aged on ly fift e en, lately i n th e serv i ce o f •L' nr ife, Cooper, grocer , o f N o . 3, Cl arence - p l ace, Can if) High-street, where the infant was f oun d concea ls fo r cupboard. From the peculiar and ex t raor di n ary of the case, great excitement prevailed in the neig 015, hood, each of the inquest rooms being densely cr ° ., It will be recollected, from wh a t h as a l rea dy bee , lar lished, that upon the discovery o f th e b o d y o f th e to to the girl Pullinger declared th e f a th er o f the ch il 'boo lj e / a man named James David St y l es B rowne , bleacher, &c., as also owner of some of the w e pls houses in the locality, and who is stated to be a „, 11 of two military officers, the one a captain in tl yt al:i ll Highlanders, and the other a captain i n the o olj arm y. Browne having asserted that a neighbou r 0 01; Blackie had been also intimate with Pullinger, a ensued, which it is a ll ege d led to h i s commiting s;,,,tlfrj In the case of the infant, the evidence went to o ° ,( the child died from natural causes, and the jury r a se a verdict accordi ng l y ; w hil e, w i th regard to the e 4 the man, the ju r y f oun d " that the deceased did i en himself by cutting his throat whilst in a state of P . 3 , derangement. „ # FORTUNATE ESCAPE. —A gen tl eman well i r no n l city circles, having been on a visit on Friday country seat of a n em i nen t ra il way contractor , ri` ye 06 escaped destruction from the accidental discha r p o 010 pistol. His attention was called by the latter o aLl j o novelty in the Manufacture of those weapon s ' s of id pointin g ou t th e c h ange, as he was unconscious i 4 being load e d, h e pulled the trigger of one he h, ° , hand. Th e p i sto l went off, lodging the lia",iiiroll° looking-glass after having passed, in its course, the breast of visitor's coat. s irO , 0 3 4 EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.—A poor w idoW doe i9 who was re t urn i ng from her employment at Poil, with a few s hilli ngs, the produce of her week's so es° to met by two fellows who robbed her of all she P ° tri o s /' She implo re d th em to let her have a shilling ° t he lo t save her child ren from starvation, when One of *nt° ed lows, melted by her entreaties, put three coius s hand, and then hastened off. The three CO'% tll O out not to b e s hilli ngs, b ut sovere i gns, so t h a t Us were rather the losers by the transaction. DON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1853.