The Sun. — London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen lield a Court ()a afternom at Duckiegfiam Palace. His Excellency the Duke tic Broglie had en audience of her 'Majesty, to deliver his credentials as Ambassador l'xtraordmary fr•nn his Majesty the King of the French. llis Exe. I:eney was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Mjeay's principal Secretary of Stare for Yireigu .1 ilwr s. 41,1 c,4,ntiucte,i by t.%ului el the Hon. S:r Edward Cust, K.C.il., her Majesty's ,es ter of the Ceremonies. The Quren Bove aulicnee to Viscount Palmerston. Her Majesty v. - ns ntteryled by bird 13) run, Lord in Waiting, and Sir Edward aP.vater, Groom in WiAtiug. The Queen awl Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday, attended by the Ii n. Miss Murray, Colo nel Buckley, and Lieut.-Cc:lonel Seymour. Her Majesty the Q teen Dowager, and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and her Royal Consort. His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh vi sited the Queen on Saturday. His Royal ilighneis Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at tended by Baron de Diner, Count Oriola and Count Groeben, visited her Majesty the Queen ut the Belgians on Saturday, ut Buclrin 4 ham Palace. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by Pr. Carswell, returned to Buckingham Palace from Claromont, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday after noon. _ The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Q ueen of the Belgians, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suites con sisted of the Countess of Desart, the Countess Vander straten, Lord Byron, Major do Moerkirke, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Sax ; Weimar, and Prince Peter o f Oldenburgh, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, with her presence. Her Majesty and then. Royal Highnesses were attended by the Countess of Sheffield. the Countess of Assen burg, Hon. William Ashley, Count de Beust, and Baron de Ziegesar. Their Ruyal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Bamtnerstein, also honoured the performance with their presence., Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin cess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took a carriage drive on Saturday, and their Royal High nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took pony and walking exorcise. Yesterday the Royal chil tren took their usti4.l airings. The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Bel gistni, the Ladies and th.ritlemeli of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday, in the private chaps lin Buckingham Palace. The Hon. A nd Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians v isited her Majesty the Queen D owager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited their Her Majesty Kin,' and Queen of the Belgians yesterday. tier at4jestv the Queen Dowager, and his Royal Llighntss the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povali, and the lessons by the Rev. T. lid... 'f be sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, from St. Luke. chap. 8, verse 2. The anthem was " 0 Lord give ear" (Green). The sacrament was adminis tered by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef field and the lion. William Ashley. The Hereditary Grand Duke was attended by Count de Beust. The Bishop of Norw:ch, Clerk of the Closet, was in Waiting. Among the nubility present were Ladies Fortescue, Wilton, and St. Germans, the Duke of Beau fort, the Marquises of Angles.ea, ()monde, and Win chester ; Lords Bandon, Si. Germans, Wilton, and Cawdor. The Duke of `Veiling on, the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, and the Marquis of Anglesea, attended the early service, yesterday. in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The Rev. Mr. Haden officiated, and preached the sermon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at Marlborough House. . The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at tended Divine service, yesterday, in St. Michael's Church, Cheater-square. Baron Knesebeck and Baroness Ham merstein were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. The Duke of Cambridge attended D vine service, yes terday, in Grosvenor Chapel. Sir William Davison was in waiting on his Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured Viscuuntess Palmerston with her company on Saturday evening, at her residence in Carlton-gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at tended by Baron Laner, Count Oriola, mid Count roe ben, visited the Exhibition of Drawings of India and the punjaub, by the Hon. Charles ilardinge, on Saturday, at bir. McLean's gallery. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia honoured the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, with his company at dinner, on Saturday, at his residence in Carlton House-terrace. Mr. Bond Cabbed, M.P., and Colonel Reid, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmer ston on Saturday, at the Foreign Office. Baron de Ziegeser left town yesterday for the Con tinent. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial Office for the Governor General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North Ameri can Provinces. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hammick, and Mr. Ed ward Rushton, had interviews with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home Office. FOREIGN CORN AND HiiRVEST. Eight vessels have entered the harbour of Antwerp laden with rye, and one with wheat. Our markets on Wednesday were not well sup plied, and there were only 250 sacks of potatoes, which were sold at a lower price than at Friday's market. In potatoes there was, as might have been expected, a great fall in the price. The old potatoes did not find many purchasers, in spite of the manoeuvres of certain sellers. New potatoes were sold retail at 12 to 14 centimes per kilogramme. Vegetables of every kind follow the general movement in becoming much cheaper, caused by the prospect of the most magnificent and abundant harvest which we have seen for years. The Prussian State Gazette publishes the medium prices of corn during the month of May in the diffe rent provinces of the Prussian monarchy. The medium price of corn was— In the Province of Prussia 17 Posen . B ran den berg 17f. 25c. Pormerania... Silesia . l6r. 25e. 11 Saxe .. . . Westphalia 21f. 60e. Rhenish Provin es We thus see that in the Rhenish Provinces provi visions obtained the highest price. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 20.—1 t is stated that a decree is about to be published which will prohibit the sales of standing corn in Denmark. 'This decree not only imposes heavy fines for every breach, but sets aside all contracts which may have been already made. The ships Hecla and Bellona have returned from Russia, richly laden with corn, and immediately after landing their precious freight, have returned to the storehouse of Russia for a fresh supply. The prices of corn have again fallen. The magnificent appearance of the crops, the continued aids afforded to our poor, as well as the continued free icpportation and suspension of the mill system, gives .every prospect of a happy future. A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abra ham LiiHard, approaching fourscore, who has livt d in the family of the llolintns, large farmers, at Glastonbury, for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has had through the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and though he is now too aged to work, he is still seen going for his favourite beverage. The lather of the present Mr. Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week, to be given to this faithful servant as Ling as he lived ; this he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his daily potation of cider drawn fur 11:m also; during that forty years this man must have received 14,600 gallons or 270 hogsheads 20 gallons, which at 40s. the hogs. bead, uould have realised 54.01. and up wards.— Sherburne Journal. DEATH OF A CHILD BY SWALLOWING A CHERRY ATONE.—On Thursday afternoon the following extraor dinary and fatal csse was admitted into St. Thomas's Hospital. It appears that the deceased, a remarkably fine girl, about seven years old, named Emily Harriet Durban, whose friends reside in George-street, Croy don, on the morning of Friday last, when eating some fruit, accidentally swallowed a cherrystone, and on the following day, feeling some ill effects in consequence, complained to her parents, and Mr. Bird, the surgeon, of Croydon, was called, and tried every means to extract the stone, but without success. The little creature grew worse, and ultimately, at the recommendation of Mr. Bird, she was conveyed to the above hospital, and placed under the charge of Mr. Barnewell, one of the resident medical officers, who, with the assistance of the dresser, was about to introduce the probe, but upon seeing this the deceased made a sudden turn, and was seized with convulsive efforts, and expired in a few moments. Shoals of fellows are tramping the county, attempt ing to entrap and deceive the unwary. Some represent themselves as surgeons ; others as broken-down clerks ; others, again, as persecuted and banished schoolmasters from Ireland. In their wake come others who do not assume so lofty pretensions, but content themselves with selling religious tracts to some and dissolute songs to others. These fellows ar., undoubtedly of the same fra ternity. One fellow, who represented himself as an Irish schoolmaster, was rceog,nised as Ling one of the London runners," although ho had been, according to his own version, imported only a fortnight.. When taxed with the fact, he politely walked away. All would do well to ref o,e any relief to such vagabonds, who are impostors from Lioni.lo4 04 their summer tour. — Brighton Gazette. --.. , Ice 0 make vttr roved avely val. I , Tal e d ,!cre. h less prin. I.ltries Corb e that k.oug s show hath ; in all i ntin g rod to then Id th e Fro m train, herds. citin g ruing with I play I vain. s eye; file, I vain. ust, it fall, vain. JR. nental " The dario, The atus,' Th e ;Teed ►wing etti. etti. ktti. THE INSTALLATION AT CAMBRIDGE. ki , ,oui tile Culic"iridge The interesting and brilliant festivities connected with the installation of hip Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of this University are now close upon us; and as the time approaches more near, more evident become the bustle of preparation and the fever of expectation. From one end of the town to the other the note of pr; paration is loudly heard : one cannot turn a come: 4,t a sirta-t w;i;44ut run:;ing against a ladder, or a can of paint, or a deal ,lack. Many and many a day is it since there has been in this good town of Cambridge so universal a fever, so thorough a cleansin so general a beautification , an d g, so perf ec t an upset of all ordinary domestic matters as that which prevails at this present time of writing. if Everybody an d everything i s i n mot i on ; andone could but penetrate a little behind the scenes, a rare display s h ou ld we fi n d o f puzz l e d minds and excited feeling s . I n a wor d , t h e w h o l e town is alive, and no thing is talked of or thought of but the approaching royal visit,andnagn d t h t e h most e u n ie j a oy n sof men g t getting a to f r ready for i whenhen it, t arrives. At the conclusion of this account we appe n d a s h ort programme of the proceedings, and shall now proceed to report progress in the preparations. And first of all of THE ROYAL ROUTE. The preparations at the railway station are of an extensive character. Numbers of workmen have been engaged there for some time in repainting and colouring the establishment. A part of the platform will he cut off from the rest by large moveable parti• tions, for the use of the royal party, and this will be fitted-up with great splendour. The old refresh ment room will be appropriated to her Majesty's use, and Edgington is engaged in preparing it for the purpose. Through this room her Majesty and the Prince will pass when they leave the station. The whole building will be decorated with innumerable flags and banners, and it is expected to cut a very dashing figure. Immediately under the front portico is erected a gallery, for the accommodation of friends of the directors, and at the upper p a rt o f the road is a capacious gallery on each side, o n e of w hi c h will be occupied partly by the families of members of the Town Council. A little farther in advance the company have erected a large and handsome triumphal arch. Leaving the property of the railway company, we come into the region of private enterprise. At every available point a l ong Hill,-road stages and galleries are in course of erection for the use of persons anxious to have a good view of the royal procession; and the same remark is applicable to the whole line of route. The triumphal arch near th e h o4p i ta l i s nearly co m pleted ; it is quite an imposing structure, and one may fancy that cannons are bristling on its frowning battlements, to repel an invader or welcome a Sovereign. At the corner of 'Pi - laity -street the arch is not yet begun, but we presume we shall see some symptoms of it before this day is over. THE SENATE - ROUSE. The fittings-up are nearly completed. At the west end is a raised dais, upon which a very neat and handsome canopy of crimson cloth with gold orna ments, surmounted by a crown, has been erected ; it is approached by two steps, and on it are two chairs of state for the Queen and Chancellor; the platform is surrounded by a massive hand-rail, supported by white and gold balusters; the hand-rail is covered with pink velvet; the approach is by a handsome flight of steps. The dais is carpeted with a superb carpet. O❑ the north and south sides of the Senate house are raised seats for the ladies, the front of which is ornamented with pannelling with gold beading, capped with crimson cloth. The orchestra, capable of containing 300, and opposite the throne, is of very ex cellent construction,and ornamented like the sides, but rather more elaborately, being filled with gold mould ing. The gallery at the west end, immediately over the throne, is tastefully fitted up for ladies; adjoining it are the reporters' seats The north gallery is for Undergraduates ; the south for B.A.'s ; the whole area is for members of the Senate and gentlemen visitors. Prom the ceiling are suspended 5 splendid chandeliers. An improvement has been made in the statues, which are protected by enamelled railing, so that they are not concealed, as on a former occasion. The arrange ments have been under the management of Messrs. Bradwell and Sons. The throne, chairs, and deco rations are by Mr. J. Swan. The whole is very strongly constructed. To prevent crowding or in convenience, there are eight entrances. On the south side, the south-west entrance is fur the throne; the centre leads to the ladies' seats ; and the south-east is for graduates and gentlemen visitors. On the north side the furthest entrance leads to the ladies' gallery over the throne ; the next to the ladies' seats on the north side; the second entrance is for undergraduates, who will mount by an exterior staircase; the first for the orchestra. The principal entrance, which will be protected by an awning, is for members of the Senate, and their friends. Of course it is through this entrance that the Queen and the Chancellor will pass. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S DINNER. Owing to the smallness of the dining-hall, the company will be very select; accommodation has been made for sixty; the tables in the hall have been widened. The hall is looking exceedingly neat, and everything is going on rapidly. TRINITY COLLEGE BANQUET. The preparations here are on a more magnificent scale : arrangements are being made for 330. The Vice-Master's table will be assigned to the Queen and the Chancellor, and it may ahnost be said that it will be loaded with plate, which will be supplied by Hunt and Rosktll. PUBLIC BREAKFAST. The preparations in Trinity and St. John's are on a magnificent scale. On the north and south sides of the cloisters are tables 200 feet long; and under the Library are two tables, each 150 feet long ; a space of 19 feet broad has been left all round for walking A rustic bridge across the Cam, near the north-west gate of the cloisters, and another across the ditch, connect the two colleges. Edgington is fast progressing with his part of the preparations ; the dancing tent, which is a grand affair, is up, and the greatest activity prevails in every department. We have already mentioned that two military bands (those of the Life Guards and Scots Pusilier Cruards) will attend, and that Koenig will lead a band for the votaries of Terpsichore. We under stand that preparations are making for 4,000 visitors. Tickets, be it remembered, will be charged five shil lings extra if not taken until after Monday. THE FIREWORKS AND BALLOONS. A large area has been fenced off on Parker's Piece, opposite the Town Gaol, in order that the thousands who are expected to view the fireworks may have every facility of so doing. The standard pieces will be elevated on high poles. The selection and arrangements are under the immediate superintend ence of Mr. Deck, whose amatuer exertions in the pyrotechnic art are well known to the town, and whose employment of Mr. Darby, the celebrated pyrotechnist of Vauxhall Gardens, will en sure a rich and varied treat. Among others will be exhibited a piece termed the Kaleido scope, from the variety of forms and colours it ex hibits by its complicated machinery ; a scientific piece, in which the beautiful and varied tints of polar ized light are combined, and which excited so much applause when exhibited at the first meeting of the British Association in Cambridge; a national piece, " The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock," entwined in brilliant fire, for the finale, which will be the most splendid piece ever exhibited in Cambridge, in which all the powers an-I beauties of the pyrotechnic art will be combined. The names " Albert and Victoria," surmounted by a crown and star, with pyramids of brilliant fire 40 feet high, amid the flight of hundreds of rockets, will give effect and honour to the memo rable occasion. It is hoped that the shameful prac tice of throwing fireworks into the area, which on a former occasion nearly proved fatal, will not be re peated, involving, as it does, the pleasure of a few, but the lives of many. The firing will commence on Monday evening, about ten o'clock. On Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, Mr. Green, the veteran in aerosi Litton, will ascend from the same space, being his 361st ascent since he had the honour first to ascend by order or the Government, at the coronation of George the Fourth. The balloon is constructed of scarlet and yellow silk, contains 30,000 cubic feet of gas, and is, with the car, entirely new, and the most splendid ever made. It will hold four persons; and gentlemen wishing for a change of air had better make speedy application to Mr. Deck. GRAND HORTICULTURAL FETE. The arrangements for this magnificent exhibition are now in a most complete state of preparation, and will be on the grandest scale imaginable. The tents are placed exactly where good taste and judgment would dictate, so as to give the greatest effect to the grounds, and to leave large spaces for the prome nade. Her Majesty's tent will be supplied with mag nificent chairs of state and a superb console table, all richly adorned with gold, and in exquisite taste. The largest tent is 100 feet long : three others are 76 feet long each and another tent 40 feet long will be graced with a splendid collection of the choicest plants, &c., from the Botanic Garden, by the kind permission of Mr. Murray, the curator. Various other tents will also be introduced for the various productions. There are two band tents for the First Life Guards and the Scots' Fusilier Guards. Each band will consist of 30 performers. There will also be a refreshment tent in the grounds, which will, we have no doubt, be well frequented. It will be sup plied by Mr. Peeling. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Chancellor be received by the steward of the fete, and two of the judges; and two members of the committee will be in attendance to answer any inquiries the royal party may please to make. It is very probable the bugle band of the Sappers and Miners will play as her Majesty pro ceeds to the grounds. The entries for the various prizes amount to nearly two hundred. There can be LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1847 , SUN, no doubt this will be a most attractive fife, and we h.?art:ly most c:mvi.cte succez to the spi rited society who have introduced it. VICE -CHANCELLOR'S NOTICES. The Vice-ChancOor has issued the following no tices for the guidance of the University : " The Vice-Chancellor has the honour to announce to the Members of the University that it is the inten tion of hi s Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chan cer,r, to arrive at Trinity Ledge on Monday, July 5, a t one o cl u ck .At half past one o'cl oc k hi s Royal Llighm-s4 will ' o p f r o "r c eA e a e tdd reading gr etaehne do'clockf Hall s o e f nht l ii sn ' o i t t yo y Royal College l he n r Highness hanj eefssostry thewill hilel proceed d e s of the University. from Trinity L o d ge to "On Tuesday, July the Senate -house to confer the Honorary Deg rees . 6, the Creation of Doctors in the several f acu l t i es will take place in the Law Schools, at eight o ' c l oc k i n the morning . ; and the Creat i on o f ,Master s o f Arts in the Arts' Schools, at half-past six o'clock in the m.)rning. " His R o y a l Hi g h ness will proceedto the Senate house at t en o ' c l oc k, w h en t h e P r i ze E x ercises will be recited, and the Installation Ode performed. " On the morning of Wednesday, July 7, his Royal Highness will hold a Levee at Trinity Lodge, at nine o'clock, for Members of the Senate. " Doctors of all faculties are to appear in the Senate house in their robes ; Bachelors of Divinity in their cassocks ; and other Members of the University in their proper dress of gown and bands." " The Vice-Chancellor has the honour to announce that it is the intention of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chancellor of the University. to arrive at Trinity Lodge, on Monday, July 5, at one o'clock. " His Royal Highness alighting from the carriage and receiving from the Vice-Chancellor the Staves of Office, carried by the Bedells, will lay them at her Majesty's feet. LODGINGS. No fears need be entert : iined respecting lo(lging:. Trfurm;~t on obtt:ined from Ail Pas raetl a t t te it ) o g !l i. s ' At i , n i g fii tn c a , ?: Pas sage. There will be no attempt at imposition, and charges for lodgings throughout the town are very reasonable. " Her Majesty has signified her pleasure to receive the Address of the University in the Hall of Trinity College at half-past one o'clock. " At nine o'clock in the evening of Tueaday, July 6, her Majesty will hold a Reception at Trinity Lodge, of Noblemen who are members of the University. the Heads of Colleges, the Professors, the Officers of the University the Vice-Masters and Tutors of the several colleges, and the ladies of their families resident in Cambridge. Gentlemen in full dress, and ladies in full dress, but without feathers or trains." " The Vice-Chancellor appoints Tuesday next, July 6, for Henry Day, of Trinity Hall, to recite his English Poem for the Chancellor's Medal ; for James Camper Wright, of King's College, to recite his Exer cise for the Camden Medal ; for Brooke Foss Westcott, of Trinity College, to recite his Greek Ode, and for David James VatiAlian, of Trinity College, to recite his Latin Ode and Epigrams for Sir William Browne's Me dals; and for George James Gill, of Emmanuel College, to recite his Exercise for the Porson Prize." The VICE-CHANCELLOR has given notice, That, by permission of the Master of Trinity College, Mem bers of the University wishing to join in the Presen tation of the ADDRESS to HER MAJESTY on Monday, July 6, will be admitted into Trinity Col lege at the King's Date till Half-past Twelve on that day, on showing their Senate-House Tickets, if required.—From Half. past Twelve to Half-past One they will be admitted at the Hostel Gate in the same manner. After that time no one can be admitted without Specid Permission. For the maintenance of ORDER at the approaching CO \I MENCEMENT, and with the view of accom modating a• many persons a the SENATE-HOUSE will cimtain, the VICE-CHANCELLOR considers it necessary to publish the following : The VICE• CHANCELLOR requests that the following ORDER OF PRECEDENCY be strictly observed by ail Members of the University who join in the Presentation of the ADDRESS, on Monday, July 5. The Bedells. THE CHANCELLOR. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, accompanied by the Registrary. THE HIGH. STEWARD. The Commissary. Noblemen. Privy Counsellors. Heads of Colleges. Members of the Caput. Public Orator. Proctors. Doctors in Divinity. Doctors in Civil Law. Doctors in Medicine. Assessor to the Vice-Chancellor. Profe:sors. Scrutators. Taxors. Librarian. Bachelors of Divinity. Masters of Arts, Non-Resents. Masters of Arts, Regents. Bachelors of Law. Bachelors of Medicine. Bachelors of Arts and Undergraduates according to their Colleges, and according to Seniority in each College,'in this order : King's College. Trinity College. St. John's College. St. Peter's College. Clare Hall. Pembroke College. Caius College. Trinity Hall. Corpus Christi College. Queen's College. Catharine Hall. Jesus College. Christ's College. Magdalene College. Emmanuel College. Sidney Sussex College. Downing College. REGULATIONS FOR THE SENATE HOUSE. It will be convenient to reprint the following regu lations : 1. That no person be admitted into the Senate- House, or the Senate-House-yard on Monday, July 5, or Tuesday, July 6, without a ticket. 2. That every person, who now is a Member of the University, shall have one Ticket (not transfer able) for his own admission on each or those days. 3. That every Member of the Senate shall have one Lady's Picket and one Gentleman's Ticket—and every Incepting M.A. one Ticket either a Lady's or a Gentleman's—for the admission of Strangers on each of those days. 4. That personal application for their Tickets be made to the Registrary by all Graduates, except Bachelors cf Arts.* 5. That the Tickets of all Bachelors of Arts end Undergraduates be issued to them through the Tutors of their respective Colleges. 6. That the Platform, on which the Chairs of State will be placed for HER MAJESTY TILE QUEEN and HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CHAN CELLOR, together with the raised Seats for Ladies on each side of the Senate-House immediately com municating with it, be appropriated to those Persons who have tickets from HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, and to Noblemen, Doctors, and Heads of Colleges. 7. That the remaining parts of the raised Seats on each side of the Senate-House, and the west-end of the Gallery be appropriated to Ladies; and that on Monday, July 5, the Orchestra also be appropriated to Ladies. 8. That the body of the senate-House be appro priated to Members of the University having M.A. Tickets, and to Gentlemen, not Members of the Uni versity, who have tickets of admission. 9. rhat the Gallery on the North Side of the Senate-House be appropriated to Undergraduates. 10. That the Gallery on the South Side of the Senate-House be open to all Graduates, and also to Gentlemen, not Members of the University, who have tickets of admission. The VICE-CHANCELLOR requests that all Members of the University will appear in their Academical dress of GOWN and BANDS during both days. SWAN'S CHAIRS AND TABLE. Her Majesty's saloon at the Horticultural Fete and Public Breakfast will be furnished with gilt chairs, covered with rich satin damask, a centre table with marble top, gilt mirrors, girandoles, &c., &c., by Mr. John Swan, her Majesty's upholstfaer. Mejesty has been pleased to express her approval t IV ANT OF SANATORY itEGULA of ? 1, 1. !I:Pnr , es ~ f th , Prin, vr,, ! i! ; ‘,-.:,- thr , st:bi , 2rip- LA ri °Ns IN TI I E CITY tion li s t t o h e h ea d e d by h er nan , e. 'fi x inscription ' ',.tie following is the substance of observations which is as f o n ows : _ , 4 ceLissimuat Prii.cipent Albertam were drawn up by the late Dr. Ly nc h , who intended Canc,ql ar i un m i on fansto felicipe en i due inangu- to submit them to t h e press in amore careful form, if, rat an/ / ee t a cons picit Ac a d em i a Cantabrikiensis. as was his expe c ta tion, the majority of the C ourt of Ja:ii 6, 1847." Common Council persevered in turning a deaf ear to ".he ~etiti,in of the Inquest Juries of thr to the pt. Farringdon Without : ,netnottial i•as oef n :agreed to by m en o f all shades of pthitieal Every alns l ation has been dispassionately examined. I have been selected to present it, because I have been known to have for years endeavoured to improve the locality, and because my daily avocations have made me practi cally acq ua int e d w ith the wants of the poor. The memorialists discuss the propriety of an outlay of i nearly half a million of money by the Corporation n the formation of a new street, which they believe to be of questionable utility. They are of opinion that if the improvements cannot be concurrent, the diminu tion of disease and death, the preservation of life and health, are of primary importance. The memorial states that the ward contains 34,000 inhabitants; that it is princi allysituated without the walls of the city, and that it P h. contains h courts and alleys of the worst description, to ic the poor of the other city parishes resort; that the w housesthat are built back to back, without ventilation , the . rooms are not more than eight feet in width, and nine feet in length, and that th ey have on an average six under sin each . room ; that the privies are generally the stair cases, and communicate with cesspools, the effluvium from which is deadly poison to the element in which the unhappy residents struggle to exist; that such hovels are unfit for human habitation, and a disgrace to the city; that most of them are undrained, ani that where there are sewers they are untrapped and unflushed, and the sewers thus become themselves the sources of disease and death from the pestiferous gases produced by the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter beneath; that the supply of water is only on twice a week for two hours each time; that the poor have no vessels in which to preserve it, and that in the crowded and heated rooms it absorbs the poison contained in the animal exhalations, and becomes altogether unfit for use. This is the picture which the memorial presents, and to the horrors of which the Corporation of London is indifferent. Under such circumstances as the memorial repre sents the most simple diseases become malignant. Scrofula, consumption, and other fell disorders are generated, and a great portion of the labour of the poor is lost in weaness. How frightful is the mor tality in these wretched localities ! The average du ration of life amongst the middle classes in London is forty-three years, that of the labouring classes is only twenty-two. Amongst the former the deaths from epidemic disease amount to no more than six, whilst amongst the latter they amount to nineteen per cent. From such places fever is never absent. The number who suffer from that preventible poison is twelve times greater than that of those who die, and • the victims are most frequently the heads of families, as it prevails at the productive age of man (from twenty to forty), and the offspring are consequently made burdens on the poor rates. One-fifth of those who receive parochial relief are the subjects of fever. Nothing can more exclusively show the influence which want of air and water has upon the health of any district than the report of the Registrar-General, from which it appears that in the ten healthy districts in which an allowance is made of 202 square yards of space to each individual, the mortality is 1 in 49. in the medium districts, where 102 square yards are allowed, it is 1 in 30; and in the unhealthy districts, where there «re only 32 square yards to each person, the mortality is 1 in 30 ; the labourers in St. George's parish die at 27, in St. Giles's at 17 years of age. In the most unhealthy district of Liverpool, the gentle men die at 35 ; the poor at 15. In the last season, the most unhealthy within the memory of man, simple fever was the minister of death. In the quar ter ending March, 1847, 56,100 persons died. In Liverpool there was an increase of 13,034 deaths over the corresponding quarter—in London an in crease of 10,000. The increase in London, out of an equal number of males residing there, was 3 deaths for every 2in the country. The excess in London over healthy districts in seven years amounts to 97,000 persons—the excess of deaths of children in London is 58.000. To prevent the possibility of being met with the cry of exaggeration, or the denial of those statements, I submit the statis tics of Farringdon Without. Of every 1,000 females, taking the average seven years, 28 died in that ward, whilst in Islington, of every 1,000 females only 18 ; and in Hackney, of the same number only 16 died. Thus twelve lives out of 1,000 are doomed to as cer tain destruction as if they were slaughtered in the shambles in Smithfield. It is a most remarkable fact that in Hackney, of the male children under five year of age, 66 die, whilst in Farringdon West 128 die ; and that of men in the intellectual prime of life, between the ages of 45 and 55, in Hackney only 21 die, whilst in Farringdon West 34 die. Of 1,000 boys under five years of age in Surrey and Sussex, 48 die annually, whilst in London the number is 93. I adduce these details for the purpose of removing the extraordinary ignorance which prevails amongst those whose duty and condition make that ignorance iniquity. No sneer or clamour can overthrow these deplorable facts, which are written down in that invaluable repository of useful knowledge the Re gistration-office, and from which it appears there is a waste of life per annum of 22,000 lives, by contagious diseases, out of four millions of inhabitants; and that by a little care and attention to sanatory regulations, there might be a saving of 50,000 souls. I felt it to be my duty, after having read in the public papers that most ridiculous of official false hoods " that the cleanliness of London could not be surpassed," to wait upOn the foremen of the inquests of each parish, who in the discharge of their duties are obliged personally to inspect the dwellings of the poor. From the following presentments to the City Aldermen this year, it will be evident that the most charitable comment on that statement was that it was made in ignorance and not in a wicked or wilful dis regard, or criminal perversion of the truth. The in quest of St. Sepulchre alleges that numerous courts are in the most foul condition, that the habitations of the poor are unfit for beasts of burden, that the houses are dilapidated, that cesspools and open gutters are found in every court, that the privies are common to several houses, that in cellars 14 feet square, eight per sons are lodged, that these nuisances have year after year been presented to the Court of Alder men, without producing the least symptom of correction, and that the labours of the in quest were useless, as their remonstrances were unheeded. In the districts of St. Andrew's and St. Dunstan's the same state of things exists, and their active forem m in vain exerted all his capa bilities. I have visited the parish of Bishopsgate Without, in which the chairman, who made the ex traordinary statement I have repeated, resides. In front, on each side, and at the back of that chair man's house, in Devinshire-place, in Farran's-rents, in Half Moon-street, place, and mews, in Sherrard's. buildings, in Thurnps:on's -rents, abominations abound. fhe evidence of Dr. Porter before the commission exhibits the desolating effects of sanatory neglect in that particular locality, v‘ hich is one of the worst in London. Yet the chairman declares that, with all those nuisances under his nose, the health of London cannot be surpasse 1. I have been for ten years medical officer of several parishes, and of a large workhouse, and am daily called upon to attend diseases distinctly traceable to the want of pure air, the best and first of God's gifts, and to the want of water, thousands of tons of which are running to waste under their feet. In those filthy masses of bricks and mortar, rotten, tottering with age, built centuries ago, reeking with plague, vapours, and exhaling irremediable infection, as I have wound round the wretched staircases, I have frequently been called upon t o " l a y h o ld o f th e rope," in order to be enabled to guide my footsteps. Every house had its victim—there you would meet the or phan and the widow, the recipients of the poor-rates. According to the returns ordered under the commis sion, there are in this way pauperised in England and Wales, 47,000 widows and 120,000 orphans. The loss in money in the year's deaths, in round numbers, from the loss of the productive powers of labour, amounts to fifteen millions, and the loss of the East and West London Unions is 146,0001., the greater part of which may be saved to the country by sanatory regulations. In these crowded hovels, in which filth abounds, in which no order can at all exist, where no separation can be male for sex, where darkness, disease, and death are the inseparable com panions of the inhabitants, where the lowest of the animal wants are not supplied, where decency is daily, hourly outraged, where the most loathsome forms of vice are engendered, where poisonous ex halations and moral miasmata fester and react upon each other, where health and life are undermined, where youth is corrupted and innocence is destroyed; in those nurseries, those normal schools of crime, in those hotbeds of thieves and prostitutes, your la• bourers dwell. Lord Ashley well said, " While such a state of things exists schools and chapels were useless." The malaria from the cesspool, the privy, or the sewer, is a sedative poison, it depresses the energies of body and mind, it saps the constitution ; the poor fly to the gin palace for a stimulus to resist its effects. Intem perance lends the last link to complete the circle of their physical and moral degradation. The parish or the workhouse, or the hospital is the alternative. We read with horror of a certain caste of Africans, whose 'sympathy for filth is so strong upon them that they preserve the dead until the exudations gradually fill the hut and expel the survivors. In this city of Lon don, for the surpassing health and cleanliness of which the Chairman of the Commission vouches, there is to be found a parallel to the enormous abomination of the savage state of existence to which I allude. I, and other medical men, have seen the dead kept so long in the odious dens, that the horrors of the grave were le ward of revealed to the living, until the maggotsofputrefaci tion have cra,vl,,l !,t 11,e ""r•. -1-!as., ar. under ti table at whie i the relanv s were taking their meals., We read o f t h e tyrant who in the exercise of an atro i cious in genu i ty c h a i ned the living to the d ead. Thek neglect cf the poor and their necessities assimilate their condition to that of the still- breathing corpse, for the cesspool and its appendages are of like chemical; de...composition, and prose cqually d--struetive in their: :ects. All tither s hare impr , ,v(d in their o n eial psition—their condors are col.-ulted by every mnoetahnisngwwhihcahtes:eiernhce suggests. For the Ines, of so eletY—thelaroductive classes, the bees of the hive of the population has s here ill: nowus household o d OO yearpstnaarlso.of e a d s o n b e e . e With i tht the diminution increase o accommodation, which was greater than it T i he improvements—th e fine metropolis—have aggra streets in other vated the evil. Tvhieg.pali:sophie exposition of Mr. guides i ll i e t d s by a the w power k— wahnods vi mllean s hu w un ith an w it h y ic is h o h n e l y operations—and the admirable articles whic ave press, have fully de- from time to time appeared in the be disposed t o • t n h gei scarcity l ar e still c powers'ty more'°f impute the pre-," mo s n o s m tr e at p e e d r t s h o a n t s fact. may that of last bs ey y ; e r a eb r du t° ut sent mortality and food. It is true that an inadequate supply of fooct m more susce ptible injurious its r io u d s deleterious t e h r a i d o us districts, effects paesr, system of the noxious influences w of the system, it renders th h e i which surrounded it. Ire. ; _ land presents a melancholy instance o f the fac t that; famine precedes fever. Scarcity cannot be received; I have d escr ib e d. F or th e recor ds as the expl ana ti on o f th e mor t a lity in such places as prove that they proportion of deaths from epidemics in 1838, in the. ward of Far r i ng d on, was 1 i n 10 2 , w hil s t in Cam berwell it was 1 in 262, and in that year amongst children, who, like plants, are sensitive of atmos -, pheric i mpur i ty, the deaths were as 2 to 1, and the excess of deaths in east and west London was above the healthy standard 1,162. Upon the most un deniable statistic calculations the inhabitants lose, eight years of their natural lives. Thirty-eight people die of ascertained and preventible maladies every day. The city of London, without the walls, and Whitechapel,are the two most unhealthy of the thirty six metropolitan districts. In Elliott's-court there are eighteen houses, each of which has four rooms, which contain on an average thirty people, so that in each house there is an excess of 200 per cent. above the proper number. Smithfield and the Old Bailey abound with such nuisances, as well as Cow-cross, nest-street, and Fi e ld-l ane, w i th the adjacent slaugh-, terhouses and knackers'-yards. In Fetter-lane there are 2,600 people in 145 houses, and in the courts of that immediate locality there is intolerable over crowding. In Plough-court there is an excess id thirty houses of 400 per cent. over the healthy stand= ard, and in Plum Tree-court, an excess of 360. Fleet-street and Holborn, two of the finest streets, are hemmed in by dense unventilated, unwholesome masses of miserable habitations. The squalor of the courts is strikingly contrasted with the splendour of the shops. There are three times as many people in the worst courts as there are in the better class of lanes. It, however, invariably happens that where sanatory precautions are most necessary they are most deficient. Language would fail to convey any idea of the horrors of the black-holes in the lodging houses of Field-lane. Mr. Payne recently held an inquest upon a man who was asphyxiated in a crowded room, where there was no ingress of air, and the jury expressed their horror of the place, in which males and females, old arid young, were promis cuously lying, and where such was the want of ac commodation since the removal of the dens of St. Giles's, that the indigent stragglers about tows paid twopence a night for permission to stretch. or rather to huddle themselves on the staircases. The Corpo ration calls itself the guardian of the public health. It has disclaimed Government interference, and thus incurred a fearful respo ns ibilit y , which Government ought not, in the present condition of the city, to al low for a moment to exist. But as it seems they are to remain in their boasted independence of all obliga tion to do good or evil by the favour of their Minis terial representative, and as they disregard the ap peals of their fellow-citizens, I implore them through the powerful medium of the press, which knows well how to administer its bitter corrective, to devote some portion of their enormous funds to the amelioration of the physical and moral evils of the humble and neglected classes to whom they owe everything them selves. I entreat them to insist upon a constant sup ply of water, to cause the sewers to be flushed, and the foul air to be trapped and carried off by the shafts, and to apply immediately to Parliament for the necessary authority to make every house communicate by drains with the sewers, and to abolish cesspools altogether. If they expend half a million in im proving traffic, they can easily contrive to expend one-fifth part of that amount in preserving the lives and administering to the comforts of their fellow creatures. Interest, duty, humanity, economy call upon them to promote the public health. Let them at once avail themselves of the assistance of men of science (for hygienie is not to be learned by inspira tion, and men engaged in:the busy pursuits of com merce cannot be acquainted with it), and all the evils I have enumerated will disappear. They are proud of their historical traditions. Let them achieve the greater glory of raising the condition of their fellow-creatures in the scale of moral and physical improvement. At all events, whatever change may come upon the Corporation as regards the good of their fellow-citizens, it is to be hoped that the Government will acknowledge the necessity which the Corporation have not yet discovered, and so far make amends for their attempt to degrade one of the most able and honest and indefatigable public functionaries in the kingdom, by extending the operation of his enlightened plan to every filthy nook and corner of the metropolis. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, JUNE 29. (Sir John Rennie, President, in the chair.) This was the last meeting of the session, and several apparently excellent papers were obliged to be read in abstract because there was not time tor giving them in extenso. The first was "On the advantages and economy of maintaining a high degree of cle inliness in roar% and streets; with an account of the construction and opera tion of the street sweeping machine," by J. Whitworth, Assoc. Inst. C.E. It treated of the general advantages of street clean liness; the comfort of the pedestrian, the avoidance of impurity to the air from the decomposition of dirt on the pavement ; less dirt and dust being carried into the houses; a saving in the cost of maintenance of roadways; and a diminution of the draught ot carriages. The annoyances of the comm .n method of cleansing were then detailed, with the imp irtance of employing plenty of water in the cleansing of streets, to liquify the mud, to cause the dirt to swell and ris- from between the stones, to cool and purify the air during hot weather, and to prevent the dust from being driven into the d It then showed how much economy there resulted from having force enough to cleanse toe streets thoroughly and simultaneously in wet weather, particularly by Whitworth's sweeping machine—which is a cart drawn by one horse, and managed by one man. It has on one of the wheels a toothed wheel working into a pinion, which gives motion to a drum, over and around which passes two endless chains, passing also around another drum, at the lower extremity of a light frame suspended at the tail of the machine, over an inclined plane depending from the drum frame ; these endless chains carry a series of broad brushes, formed of an In dian rush of peculiarly elastic and durable nature ; they travel at a velocity depending upon the speed of the horse, and, impinging upon the ground with a force which is regulated by a coiled spiral spring, carries the dirt up the inclined plane into the cart, whence it is emptied when the receptacle is full. Great economy necessarily prevails from this method of street-sweeping, and the greater the degree of clean liness, and the more constant the attention, the greater is the actual cost. The impolicy as well as cruelty of employing casual paupers as street-sweepers was fully shown and proved. Tae saving of the roadway by constant sweeping and and the diminhhed draught of carriages upon well cleansed roads was clearly proved. A general summary of the advantages of the system closed the paper, and with an appendix containing the actual result of long employment of the machines in some of the principal towns of England, showed that in every point of view the system proposed was the most economical in point of cost, and possessed collateral ad vantagE s which, in these enlightened days, could not fail to be appreciated, both by those who only looked to their own comforts, and by the liberal minded who interested themselves in the improvement of the sanatory condition of the cities and towns of Eagland, whose proverbial cleanliness might, by the use of these simple machines, be rendered still more remarkable as compared to the state of continental cities. The next paper read ;as " An account of the sea de fences of Romney Marsh, commonly known by the name of Dymcburch Wall, and the probable origin of the marsh itself, or the manner in which it was reclaimed from the sea," by James Elliot, jun., the resident engi neer. Romney Marsh, properly so called, forms a triangle, the base of which would be a line drawn from Romney to Ap pledore and the apex at Llytne, and comprises about24,ooo acres. It is probable that this marsh was caused in the first instance by the formation of a natural barrier of shingle, nearly where Dy tuchurch Wall uow stands, by which the sea was excluded, and that the first artificial works were executed by the Romans, when they held possession of the country. They consisted of the erec tion of cross walls running from the natural barrier (" the Full") to tne hills, at the base of which the ancient river Limene ran; the chief of these (the Rhee Wall) ran nearly in a straight line from Ramsay to Appledore, and it was at that spot where probably .he main work was performed. Upon the supply of shingle from the west being cut cff by the extraordinary accumulation at Dun geness Point, the natural barrier at Dytnchurch gradually became weakened, and it was necessary . to take some steps to prevent its total destruction. The irat measure adapted was the erection o an inland wall acme little distance at the back of the "Full," and I afterwards the construction of large stone groins on the front, or sea-side, at right angles to the line of coast, in 1 order to increas e th e d epos i t o f shingle. However, as th^ stiorOy a . 0:Ingle gradually decr. asod, on aeconnt of the cot.s . Lnt mow went to the eastward, and as all that escaped in that direction was permanently lost, these means were found insufliciFnt, and a system of "arming" with brushwood and timber piling was adopted. This was found to answer the purpose for a c.;asiderable period, bat it also in the course of time gralaally length, aft er numerous experiments, irecame insufficient, an d i t was found neceSAary, at to adopt it stone gradually i ncreasing in steepness from 'wing with an average slope of abo ut 8 to I, up to the g wlth a cur ve o f 7 f, et radius. t h h i at h p -iv oi a n te t, r a i n u d a‘ t i e '' rmin at i ng Tic stones, which were laid in a bad of corcr:,!^ where they were most affectvd by th e waves, were of diff e rent sizes, averaging from 18 to 6 i nc h es in dep t h, t h e l argest of them being in the middle, where the greatest wear and tear took place, and at which point rows of sheet piling were also driven for additional security. This plan was adopted by the author after mature de liberation on the reports of Mr. Rennie and Mr. Walker and a very care f u l e xamination of the l oca li ty. Part o f the wall has now b een s tanding f o r ten y ears , and has required a very trifling amount of repair ; while the an nual expense has been reduced from 10,0001. to 4 ,0001., with every prospect of a still further reduction being effected, as upwards of two-thirds of the ,%urk is now permanently completed. The last paper was " On Ocean steam Navigation," by Captain Henderson, Assoc. Inst. C.E., calling atten tion to the fact, that in this great maritime nation naval stear o Tha v t e n ss e e i l t s he la r te th ly e built. architecture was neglected as a science, as was proved by the experimental squadrons, and some of the ordinary absence of any informationthesecostly from avanetatlgyedesc public or science had derived any described the relative i e r ;p a eriments, owing to the resist ance, power, or s systematic . form, that Peed of existing steam ships, the pro size, caoacity, sent tonnag e and nominal h To obviate this etifficulty,tllenau.thor morsed the . ado g; of analogy, b e i ng Quite fazie gse s puwer, fur all purposes showing the actual capacity for tion of a tabular form which should exh a a n t d o t t vi r e a w do t of engines Au fuel, was sapopreaitnate estimate relative dimensions of different weasels , Pla;vi and r n te d hsei w ate e ana ig po h l: t . length and depth to breadth, the is ae e o n s f en t to the of ffet city t tgh h fhoe e t; h rad u ere l im i da a utai n (m : teien t ng h rt e etosh s ir. tesotcraaenrsgc, resistance . b , ivb by the area of a th n e d resistance. ratioand other ot. th e elements aispi • es and the ratio of the tou.. The power of the engines midship. comparing the nage, displacement, and area of midship section to th e horse-power, t og ether with the a verage speed at sea, were given to enable a fair comparison to be made of how far eac h s hi p approac h e d the form of least resistance. The difficulty of ascertaining these might be overcome by the test of a dynamometer like that fitted to her Ma jesty's ship Rattler, the experiments upon which gave the resistance at 151 b. the square foot, at 61- knots, and 301bs. at 9i knots. Some observations of the proportion of power to tonnage, and on the relative advantages of paddles and screws for long voyages were given, showing that with paddle-vessels, designed for a voyage of 3,000 miles, a proportion of three tons to one horse power had been the average. He considered that for a distance of 4,500 miles a screw vessel, with a proportion of four tons and a half to one horse power, would be the best for steam communication by the Cape to Australia. Re urged the advantages of having records of what had been done, and invited builders and engineers to place in the archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers the information sought for, in a tabular form, as a means of advancing steam navigation, upon which the welfare and prosperity of Great Britain so much de pended. Several other papers were announced, which had been sent in at too late a period of the session to enable them to be read At the monthly ballot the following candidates were elected • Messrs. T. Cini, J. S. Rus,ell, Swanwick, members;—W, Brown, 0. C. D. Ross, A. Williams, and Captain D. O'Brien, as.!.ociates ; and the meeting was adjourned until the seci,nd Tuesday In January, 1848. THE QUARTER'S RE VENUE. The accounts of the Quarter's Revenue will be made up this evening, before which time it will be of course impossible to ascertain the several items of receipts with literal exactness. We believe, however, that even now we can congratulate our readers on the continued buoyancy of the public re sources of the country. In spite of the large drain for food, and the depressing circumstances to which the trade and commerce of the country have been ne cessarily subjected—notwithstanding that we have passed through a season of unexampled difficulty— the establishment of sound commercial principles have triumphed over all, and the resources of the country continue to be unimpaired. There will be an increase on the Revenue of the Quarter, as compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year. The amounts received on account of Excise Duties, &el:ups, Post-office, Taxes, and In come-tax exceed the amounts received from these sources in the Quarter ending July 5, 1846. The Customs Revenue, when made up to the sth inst., will probably be not much over or under the amount received from that item in the corresponding quarter of last year. In Miscellaneous Receipts there will be a large falling off, compared with the July quarter of last year, in consequence of the sums received in 1846 from China, which amounted to about half a million in that quarter, and of which nothing has been received in the quarter now just ending. This will greatly reduce the increase in the other branches, if it do not wholly swamp it. It is most satisfactory, however, to find that those sources of revenue upon which we rely for a regular support, and which are also the best indications of the activity of trade, and of the enjoyment of comforts by the mass of the people, continue to be steadily and permanently productive.—Observer. THE WEATHER in the HIGHLANDS. The sun shines out delightfully, and has done so for some days back, so that there is every reason to cherish the expectation that a track of the most favourable weather has set in. The progress which the crops have made since last week is surprising —one can almost suppose that he sees them growing. On Tuesday a field of wheat at Kessock, and several others in this neighbourhood, were in ear, and the winter wheats are now, in almost every case, in ear. The heads are beautiful and large. We have had sent to us, as a specimen, from Erchless Castle, a score or so stalks of Siberian oats, all with the ear finely developed. The seeds were sown on the Mans of Erchiess, on the 19th March last; and the whole fitlf is now in ear. It was this oat (weighing 461bs. per bu , hel) which gained a pt; at 4 at the agricultural seed competition at Inverness, in 1845 6. At Kessock there is also a field of barley in oar; and at Abertarff a field of the same kind of grain was in ear on Thursday. Hay-cutting commenced yes terday, in this vicinity, on a fine EL id (a first-rate crop) at Millburn, belonging to Mr. Chisholm, whose barley is in the shot blade. Other hay field:, will be cut next week. The potato still contieefis tiet-ithy. In a garden at Fortrose an alfeetiou, siini'ar to that at Nairn (mea tioned last week), has been o:.,served in one instance. From the Black Isle, ae laarn that the crops are very beautiful. The small crofters have, in general, a fine promise of oats ; and we understand that that grain was sown to a greater extent than usual. On Mr. Lair's farm ('Fullich) workmen are employed trenchieg, drain ing, and reclaiming wale laud. About IL acres have bees taken in ; and 10,000 yards of drain cut. On the farm of Wester Suddie (Ur. Campbell's farm) thorough draining is also going on. At Mains of Avoch (Mr. moss's farm) wheat was in ear on Wednesd iy. Our Skye correspondent writes—The weather having proved very favourable for the last fortnight in this quarter, the crops and the potatoes have made great progress, and things now look very promising, upon the whole, throughout the island. The oats and the grass in particular have assumed quite another appearance, and the comparatively few potatoes planted are as yet keep ing healthy-like, and growing ve s orously. The little barley sown this year is not doing quite so well, but this may arise either from its not being the proper kind for the soil that has been sown, or because the people, not having been in the habit of sowing this kind of seed for some time past, may hare so far forgotten the particular method of treating it. In reference to other matters, we are now in a kind of transition state—the people being called upon for some specific work, in return for the meal distributed by the local committees of relief—and so far as I have bad an opportunity of observing, the people are very ready and willing to do such work as is wilted out to them, and had they constant employment, with suitable remuneration, there would be no scarcity among them, nor need of external aid. It is, how -1 ever, not at all easy to provide for them at home, and hence the necessity of so many of them going south in summer to obtain the means of subsistence. For suah as remain, the local committees are endeavouring to find work suited to their sex and age—at roads and other out side improvements, as will benefit the community gene rally, for the men and lads, and stout boys; and at spin ning and knitting stocking, for the females—so that, be tween the different members of families, something like a subsistence may be earned, when matters are farther advanced and arrangements completed. In the Duirinish or Dunvegan local committee, Macleod of Macleod, who presides, is most indefatigable in carrying out arrange ments for this purpose ; and two months ago he pro cured a considerable quantity of wool for the females to spin—of which his lady takes charge—a good deal of which is made into yarn. Yarn has also been procured by him for the making of nets by old men, who can do nothing else of a heavier description of work. What, then, with the great number of men and even females who have gone south, and the employment of so many various occupations at home, if the next harvest turn out as welt as appearances promise, matters here shall have then recovered thmselves considerably, although the comparatively small quantity of potatoes planted will be a serious drawback.—lnver ness Courier. THE MIRPIELD MURDERS. — VarioUs rumours have this week been circulated respecting the nature of the confession offered to be made by M . Cabe. It has been supposed by some that it would implicate one or more females, while others assert that it would implicate Reid as the man M'Cabe saw when he called at the house. Of course no reliance can be placed upon such statements. The police are still active in the prosecution of inquiries, with a view to >tren,then the chain of evidence at the trial of the prisoners. Some additional evidence of importance, it is said, has been already obtained. The Secretary of State has offered a reward of JOU and her Majesty's pardon to any person, except the real mur derer, who will give information that will convict the perpetrator or perpetrators of the horrid crime. THE CONCERT. The programme of the Concert in the Senate• House on Monday night has been issued. The Concert will commence, we perceive, at half-past eight. THE ROYAL CARRIAGES. We understand that the Royal carriages and horses will arrive at the Lion to-day. There will be at least five carriages and sixteen horses. THE MILITARY. Billeting parties arrived yesterday, and we under stand that two troops of the Guards will arrive in the town this day The pensioners have been newly clothed and called out; and the Whittlesey troop of yeomanry under the command of the brother of the gallant Sir Harry Smith, will also be on duty. Counting the bands, there will be upwards of 260 sol diers in the town. The head-quarters of the Guards will be at the Bull. The pensioners, numbering 53 privates, 4 corporals, and 5 sergeants, under the com mand of Captain Webster, commenced drilling on Thursday at the Town Gaol, morning and evening. They all appar healthy, able-bodied veterans, and go through their drill with great precision. MEDALS. We mentioned last week that Messrs. Peters and Son, anti Mr. Reid, purposed publishing medals in commemoration of the °cession. Since our last we have inspected a model of Mr. Reid's, which is re markably chaste and elegant. We understand her • The Registrary will attend for the purpose of distribut ing tickets, at his office in the Pitt Press, on Wednesday, June 30, and Friday, July 2, from 9 o'clock to 1 A.M. ; and and at his rooms in Trinity Collepe on Saturday, July 3, from 8 to 9% ♦.m., and from 8% to 10 P.M. Monday, July 5, from 8 to 9 1 ,/ A.M., and from 8 1 4 to 10 P.M. ; and Tuesday, July 6, from 8 to 9% RACES AND SPORTS. There will be races and rustic sports, on Midsum mer Common, on Wednesday afternoon. Hacks and ponies belonging to the inhabitants of the town will be entitled to contend. The races will begin about two o'clock. THE MESSIAR. It will be seen that the Choral Society propose to wind up the festivities by a performance of "The Messiah," for which they have made some metropolitan engagements. THE COMPANY. Amongst the company expected are the following : Trinity Lodge—The Queen, Chancellor, and suite; Chevalier Bunsen and Lady; Belgian Ambassador and Lady; Marquis and Lady Northampton; Lord and Lady Monteagle; Bishop of London; Prince Waldemar of Prussia. Trinity College—Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, St. David's, Norwich, and Antigua ; Earl Nelson ; Lord Lyttelton ; Lord Ernest Bruce; Sir Harry Smith, Bart. ; Sir E. F. Buxton, Bart.; Right Hon. H. Goulburn, M.P. ; Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre ' • Prussian Minister; Marquis of Lansdowne; Lord William Russell ; Lord Fielding ; Lord Spencer ; Lord For tescue ; Sir W. Jones ; Hon. Leigh ; Hon. Campbell ; Sir P. Heygate ; Archdeacon Thorpe ; Professor Pryme ; Dr. Cooper ; Dr. Aldis ; Dr. Shuttleworth; M. Van de Weyer ; Mr. Ord Powlett. St. Peter's College—Bishop of Tasmania; Earl of Devon ; Captain and Miss Tarleton ; Mr. and Mrs. Howarth. Magdalene College—Bishop of Oxford ; Sir Robert and Lady Peel. Corpus Christi College—Viscount Palmerston. St. John's College—Duke of Buccleuch ' • The Chancellor of E ng l an d ; H on . C. E. Law, M.P.; Right Hon. W. Yates Peel. Christ's College—Duke of St. Alban's ; Marquis of Bute. Trinity Hall—The Attorney-General; Lord Camp, bell. Catherine Hall—Duke of Wellington ; Lord John Russell. King's College—major General Thackeray, Lady Elizath 'llackera Y, and two daughters. Queen's College—L ord and La d y H ar d w i c k o , an d party ; Colonel and M rs. Sm i t h an d family ; M r . Fardell and family. Pembroke Colle ge —Si r T. G . C u ll um , B ar t. ; William Coxhead M arsh, Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Essex. . Cams College Lodge —The Bishop of Durham, and Mrs. Maltby; th e Hon. and Rev. H. Pakenham Dean of St. Patrick' s , D ublin ; Si r Ed w a r d, L a dy, and Miss Alderson ; the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, and Mrs. Symons. Sidney Sussex College --Lord De L'lsie; Mr. McDonnell, and Lady Louisa Kerr; the Rev. L. Loraine Smith, and Mrs. Loraine Smith. Downing College—Prince Waldemar of Prussia and suite; Prince Lowenstein ; Lord Morpeth, and the Hon. C. Howard; Baron Parke, Lady and Miss Parke; Sir 11'illiam Worsley, Lady and Miss iV ors ley ; R. M. Milnes, &1.P.; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Coltman. Clare Hall Lodge—Mr. and Mrs. Williams, and family ; M isses Ruse ; Miss Kirby ; and Mr. Horsetail. Jesus Lodge—Marquis Camden ; the Rev. G. Mur ray, son of the Bishop of Rochester. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst are prevented attending by the indisposi tion of his Lordship. Emmanuel College —Sir Robert Inglis, M.P. ; Bishop of Norwich; Mr. George Bankes, Magdalene College —Viscount Alford, and Lady Marian Alford ; Bishop of Oxford ; Sir Robert and Lady Peel ; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Lawley ; Sir Thomas Fremantle ; Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour tenay ; William Wells, Esq., and Lady Frances Legge, are among the company expected at Magda lene Lodge. Lady Wenlock ; Miss Coutts ; Lord Glenelg; the Hon. W. Leigh, and Lord Brougham, are also invited. Bull Hotel—Sir John Lowther, Bart.; the High Sheriff; Lord and Lady Fitzwilliam, and Family; Mr. Augustus Fitzroy. King's Parade—No. I.—Mr. Saunders, Revising Barrister; No. B.—T. T. Fryer, Esq. (late Sheriff); the Rev. Parkes, Rector of Hilgay ; No. 13. Mr. Burrows, and Mr. Fryer ; No. 21.—Dr. Locock ; Mr. Vansittart ; Mr. and Mrs. Barrow ; (Dimmock's) W. W. Lee Warner, Esq. St. Andrew's-street— No. 9. Mr. Langhorn Christie, M.A. ; No. 27.—Mr. Freere (Downing) and Company. St. Mirys Passage—Rev. E. Baines, and two Ladies. Bridge-street (Dyball's)—The Hon. Lady Pell ; Albert Pell, Esq., Mrs. Albert Pell ; Mr. and Mrs. Turner, and Miss Turner; Miss Palmer; J. Pell, Esq.; Francis Pym, Esq.; T. B. Butt, Esq.; 0. C. Pell. Esq.; H. B. St. John Pell, Esq. ; Rev. G. E. Wellry ; Julius Ark wright, Esq. Parker's-street, Parker's-piece--Lady Wale, Miss Wale, Mr. Wale. INSTALLATInN CALENDAR. SATURDAY, JULY 3.—Sermon at Great St. Mary's, in aid of the funds of Addenbrooke's Hospital, by the Hon. and Rev. Grantham Yorke. SUNDAY, JULY 4.—The Bishop of Oxford will preach at Great St. Mary's, in the evening, in aid of ►he National Society's funds. Promenade in the evening, in the grounds of King's College and Clare Hall Piece. MONDAY, JULY .s.—The Corporation will assem ble at the Town-hall at half-past ten o'clock, anti go in procession to the railway-station. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Chancellor will arrive at half past twelve at the station, from which place they will be escorted to Trinity College by the Mayor and Corporation. Presentation of University Address to the Queen, in the Hall of _Trinity Coll.-ge, at one.— Senate-house, at 3.—Vice-Chancell,,r's dinner, at half-past 6.—Concert in Senate house, at half-past B.—Music and Promenade on Parker's Piece, in evening.—Fi,e-works on Parker's Piece, at 10. TUESDAY, JULY 6.—Doctor's Degrees in the Law Schools at 8. Masters' Degrees in the Arts' School at half past 6, A.M., Senate-House at 10 : Installation Ode, Prize Poems, &c.—Grand Horticultural Fête in Downing, commencing at I.—Grand Banquet in the Hall of Trinity College, at 6.—Reception of her Majest at Trinity Lodge, at 9.—Promenade and Music on Parker's Piece, in evening. —Ascent of the Installation Balloon on Parker's Piece, at 6. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7—The Chancellor's Levee in Trinity Hall, at 9.—Public Breakfast in the united grounds of Trinity and St. John's, at 12.—The Queen and the Prince will take their departure in the afterncon. DEATH OF AN IRISH PATRIARCH ON THE GAMBIA. —The following very curious intedigence appears in the Limerick Chronicle :—" Captain Edward Llyod, of Beechmount, near Limerick, died on the 17th of March last, having resided on the west of Africa during the incredible period of forty-two years, having gone to that couuntry in 1805, along with t h e celebrated African traveller, Mungo Park. He lived at the Gambia since 1816, where his then wigwam formed the nucleus of the present beautiful settlement of splendid stone and brick houses, now inhabited by a population of 3,000 souls. The town can boast of a spacious school house, fine streets, a noble square, barracks, a church, and Wesleyan chapel, hospital, and Government house, which last cost about 20,000/. He was rec koned the venerable patriarch of the loeality, living respected and dying regretted, not only by his nu merous children and grand-children, colonists, native chiefs and kings, but by the natives generally on the banks of the Gambia, far into the interior of that extensive continent. His word had so much influence among them, that it stayed many a sanguinary war, or shortened its duration. In the Egyptian expedition, in 1810, he was a captain in Abercronaby's army. The Rev. Mr. Rankin, colonial chaplain, died in April last of an attack of periodical illness to which he was subject, having suffered much from the country fever. The chaplaincy of 4501. a year is again vacant to any church aspirant who may feel disposed to risk himself in that extraordinary country. It is to be regretted that church men, of all other professions, are found to be rather chary of the coast, as their hopes are fed on livings at home." The Bishop f Sodor and Man, on Tuesday, the 29th tilt, was installed in St. Mary's Chapel, in Castle town, in presence of the clergy and a numerous con gregation. His Lordship was afterwards sworn a mem ber of council, and granted commissions or appointments to the vicar-general, registrars, and surrozates. His Lordship, the Archdeacon, the clergy, &c., dined with his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, at the Govern ment-house. FATHER MATHEW.—The following are the par ticulars relating to her Majesty's grant of 3001. a year to the Apostle of Temperance:—" A committee has been lately formed in London, consisting of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Leinster, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Marquis of Sligo, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Stanhope, Earl of Wicklow, E,rl of Fitzwilliam, Lord J. Russell, Lord Morpeth, Lord Monteagle, Sfc., for the purpo,e of creating a fund sufficient to purchase an annuity of 8001. a year for this public benefactor, to enable him to continuo his unceasing exertions and most useful labours for the welfare of millions. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, anxious to aid in the ac complishment of so desirable an object, has been pleased to grant the sum of 3001. per annum towards thil praiseworthy object. With such an example of munifi cence before those who are anxious and able to promote so desirable an object, we trust that the labours of the noblemen and gentlemen who form the committee will be speedily brought to a close in the realisation of the contemplated fund."—Dubtin Freeman's Journal. way, kin ; )Ven. .Itti. 4