The Sun. — London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

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E ri ghP Keeleft iir, the I state' •eceipts 'o' caplt s, the 0 pr o 3: 3everill g year, ly had 11 Mb ight. ,4 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY VVENING,. FEIR, JAY is, 1847. THE WAR IN KAFIRLAND. (From the Small. African Commercial Advertiser of Dec. 19.) In last Gazette some official not ices brin g the authentic history of the Kafir war down to the beginning of the pre sent month. These, as well as many unofficial communica tions, induce the hope that his Excel l e nc y ma y have it now fairly in his power, and also in his intention, to subdue and secure Kafirland, without suffering any material check, though innumerable details involved in the new arrange ments may give an appearance of dilatoriness to his pro ceedings. It is not his design to m ake a solitude, and call it peace. He will not be satisfied with the submission of the Kafir chiefs. The work before him is more comprehensive. His purpose is to establish in the new territory a numerous population, u nder laws and with institutions consisten t with justice and freedom, restrained as well as protected by a well-distributed military force. This is not like a battle, the business of a day, nor even like a campaign, the work of a season or a year, to be accomplished with a stroke by superior strength or activity; it is more like a plantation of trees, where nature has the chief part to perform, the labour of man being confined to planting and guarding. And nature requires time—her own time. The chief merit of a governor in his Excellency's present employment is to lay a good foundation ; to be satisfied with nothing that is temporary in its nature, and to avoid being led astray by appearances of immediate perfection. A private letter states that the chief Macomo, now at Blockdrift, has become insane. Like his father Gaika, this man was endowed with great natural abilities, but as in the case of his father, he has fallen a victim to intemperance. Ploughing and sowing have commenced on the border, though the gun beside the ploughman, and the powder horn and shot bag girt round his body, show how little secure the borderer feels after the storm of war. (From the Frontier Times.) From Colonel Somerset's camp we have news up to yes terday, on which day Umhala arrived with some of his fol lowers. Of the object of his visit we are not informed. A convoy of mule and horse waggons with supplies reached town, with a number of loose mules for frontier service. Cape mail arrived this afternoon. We have information from Upper Kafir Drift to the 23th inst. We learn that Field Captain 11. Bowker has had many night patroles out lately. Two parties of Kafirs had been seen at a distance, and also ke o spoor o r f s a k rr a i fi v r a s t ha l d h b e ee o n ld see w n a t u n s t .o er f in th g e th po e s c t ol h on a y d the e spoor of three other p ar ti es , a ll re t urn i ng t o K a firland. sincebeetl built up, and all the men had been comfortably hutted. We are sorry, but not surprised, to learn that Sir A. Stockenstrom has resigned his appointment of Commandant General of the Burgher Forces. The Brilliant arrived at Port Elizabeth on Thursday last, having on board for Go vernment 49,0001. and stores. to Mr. Bernal, Mr. Ferrand, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. S. Craw ford, Sir George Strickland, Lord George Jientinck, and Lord Ebrington, for their able advocacy of the Ten Hours' Bill. The thanks of the delegates were also given to the 195 Members who voted for the second reading of the Bill, and to Mr. Labouchere and Sir Robert Peel, who, although op posed to the measure, resisted the base and factious efforts of Mr. Escott and Mr. Bright, to prevent a division by moving the adjournment of the House on the unparliamentary ground that certain Members of Parliament had not spoken. Thanks wsre then voted to the chairman, and the dele gates separated. COURT OF ALDERMEN. A Court was held on Tuesday, for the dispatch of business. Alderman WILSON presented a petition from an in hahitant of his ward of Castle Baynard, who had been elected at the Wardmote, in 1845, to servo on the In quest. It appeared that he afterwards declined to serve, was proscribed by his brethren of the Inquest for having refused to perform his duty, and the Court had given an order for his prosecution, and a true Bill had been found against him by the grand jury. He had afterwards appealed to the inhabitants in Wardmote assembled, stating his willingness to serve in future, and hoping that his neighbours would authorise the Aldermen to support the petition in the Court. The petitioner (Mr. Budd) having pleaded guilty, and expressed his willing ness to serve, the Alderman moved that the City Solici tor be directed to stay proceedings. ALDERNIN—Yes, upon the petitioner agreeing to pay all the expenses incurred to the present tune. Sir Jaanzs Duals seconded the motion. SCOTTISH PATRIOTIC SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES. EDINBURGH, FEE. 16.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held in the Music-hall, for the purpose of forma ll y esta blishing this soci e ty, which was provisionally instituted in September last. On th e mo ti on o f Dr. Huie, David Milne , Esq., :of Milne Graden, took the chair, and having briefly stated the object of the meeting, he pointed out various needful improvements in the condition of the labouring classes of Scotland, such as the improvement of their cot tages and gardens, th e a b an d onmen t of the bothy and bondager system s , an d o b served t h a t a soc iety like the one they had met t o es t a bli s h m i ght, b y prom oting these and similar improvem en t s , e ff ect muc h goo d. Dr. MmacExzies in moving a resolution, affirming tha t i n ordinary seasons great distress existed among the labo urin g classes in parts of Scotland, and that a society like the En glish one for impr ov i ng t h e cond i t i on o f th e labouring classes was here greatly need e d, procee d e d t o g ive a very interesting account of the English Society, which[enjoys the patronage of the Queen and Prince Albert, and is supported by a vast number of the nobility. Drawing the distinction that exists between the labouring classes in England and in Scot land, he observed that what had been productive of so much benefit to the poor and to the community in England, was equally applicable, and would be equally beneficial in Scotland. Here, as in the south, there were labourers and mechanics who might be greatly benefited by having as much garden ground as they could properly culti vate, but, in addition to these, there are the crofters and fishing classes here, which, under their present circumstances, are continually expo se d t o d es tit u tion. Dr. Mackenzie ob served that these classes exist; that it is impossible to sweep them away, for if remove d f rom es tates they flock into vil lage., and towns, and there become generally pauperised and demoralised membe rs o f th e comm unity. He then generally described the wretchedly inefficient cultivation pursued by the crofters, and the unskilful practices of the fishing classes ; he maintained, however, that the abuse of the croft or small holding was no valid argument against small holdings pro perly cultivated. Having the responsible duty of superin tending vast numbers of people on the west coast, belonging to the croft and fishing classes, he had felt it his duty to in quire whether they could be made to support themselves, and into the means of effecting this. Unfortunately, although . many proprietors had made isolated P although exce v ' t attempts to improve their peo le them, these',..,._ b. inoperative, and there was no society such as the one they were now met to establish, pro vided with practical plans and suggestion; he had, there fore,u‘ctioce had been given to search after the materials for the improvement he was desirous of effecting. Far this purpose he visited about five years ago the estates of the Earl of Gosford and of Colonel Close, in Ireland. The people on their estates a few years before very closely resembled the depressed and spiritless portion of the Highland community, but. Me, Blacker, an eminent agriculturist and philanthropist had suc ceeded in raising the destitute small tenantry on the estates under his charge to a position of great comfort; and he had effected this chiefly by employing agricultural overseers to enforce the most advantageous methods of cultivation among the small tenantry. He (Dr. Mackenzie) had also inspected the rural improvements effected by the late Mrs. Gilbert on her estate at Eastbourne, in Sussex. Time prevented his entering into minutiae, but he was surprised and delighted to find that Mrs. Gilbert'a 400 small tenants, not only were able to pay punctually hi g her rent s , b u t th a t on poor south down land, they raised far heavier and more productive crops than the neighbouring large farmers. He did n o t w i s h t o make invidious contrasts, but he was convinced, from long study and experience, that there was no physi ca l ne c essity for small tenancies being so unproductive as they are under existing mismanagement. Dr. Mackenzie then detailed the little difficulties he had encountered in commencing at Gairloch similar improvements to those effected by Mr. Blacker; but under the direction of agricultural inspectors, the cotters had not only drained their new crofts, upon each of which im proved cottages had been erected, but they had effected more work than was anticipated or appointed them, and although the potato failure had come . upon them before they were in a position to derive adequate benefits from improvements in their husbandry, yet they had better prospects before them than they otherwise would have had, and he had no doubt i that if these improvements h ad b e en three years in advance, the poor people would have bee n inde p end e nt of the p otato failure, because it would on l y form a p ortion, instead of the major part, of their rural prod uce. Dr. Mackenzie then ad verted to the success which had atten ded the fishin g crews he had prevailed upon last autumn t o p ursue under improve ments the cod and ling fishing. These crews were as desti tute as their neighbours of potatoes, but their resources from fishing enabled them to purchase meal without difficulty. It was, he observed, by thus developing the resources of the people and country that destitution is to be avoided, and as this was most efficiently to be done through the medium of an efficient society, such as he trusted the present one would prove, he begged to move the adoption of the resolution he had read. E. R. Alderman CorELAND hoped the court would not en tertain the motion. He thought it was rather too bad that the gentleman should allow proceedings to go on till the bill was found, and then that he should present the petition. It was well known that it was very difficult, on St. Thomas's day, to compel gentlemen to serve on the inquest, and he hoped the cause would be allowed to go on till the Court of Queen's Bench should give its judgment. It would be time enough then to entertain a petition on the subject. Several voices here called for the petitioner. Alderman WILSON moved the gentleman's attendance be dispensed with. Ile had been all day in attendance at the last court, when he (Alderman Wilson) was bound up in the snow at Brighton, and then that petition had not been presented. A long discussion took place, which ended in the withdrawal of the petition till the next court, when the petitioner will be obliged to appear. DILL FOR ALTERING THE FRANCHISE. Alderman HUMMER"! said, that inconsequence of his absence from the Court on the last day of meeting, Al derman Copeland had asked a question relative to the appointment of the Committee to amend the Act of George 1., relative to the election of aldermen and com mon•councilmen. He regretted to find that no satin• factory answer bad been given to that question, al though the Court had unanimously agreed to appoint the Committee, and he wished to know whether it was the intention of the Court to carry the motion into effect. The LORD MAYOR (Ss we understood his Lordship) aid, if the Aldermen pleased, he could call a Commit tee himself. A !dormer' RutrannTavre hnned that Alderman Hum phery had some idea of the. makaauro ho was about so propose. For his part he could form no opinion at all of the meaning of his worthy friend, and the alteration of an Act of Parliament on such a subject was a matter not to be trifled with.—(.Hear, hear.) Alderman lIIPSPIIERI—You will find every thing ready to be acted upon when you are in Committee. t am ready to go through the whole question, and to go to Parliament with it, and produce it there at once. Sir P. LAURIE—I tell you, you are trying to legislate for the Court of Common Council, and you are not jus tified in doing any thing of the kind. Alderman Moos was anxious to know whether there was any truth in the statement in some of the news papers with respect to the refusal to allow the Remem brancer to take his seat in the House of Commons.— (Laughter.) Alderman HVMPREAT—There is not a syllable of truth in it. The Remembrancer has no seat appro priated to him, but he is allowed to enter into the body of the House under the gallery, as an officer of the city of London. As for that statement, it is all fudge. Adjourned. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. CORPORATION RZFORM. A Court was held on Tuesday. The summons stated that the Court would be special, for the election of various city officers, and on no ether business. A great number of members attended, and the proceedings ex cited an extraordinary degree of interest. A Committee of the whole Court, upon the proceedings of the Corpo ration, at which the reply to the Lord Mayor's state ment, explaining his reasons for refusing to put the third reading of the Qualification Bill was read by the City Solicitor, was previously held, and every one expected a regular blow up, on the presentation of that do- current. Mr. Joint Dixort, the moment the Lord Mayor took the chair, expressed regret that the feeling of some of the Members had manifested itself in so objectionable a manner at the last meeting of the Court. The Loan MAYOR said he fult much gratified at the expression of regret at treatment which he was con scious ho had not merited. After the minutes of the last Court were read, Mr. Wins rose to move that the minute of a former Court, on the subject of the proceedings oa the Qualifi cation Bill be amended by recording the fact that a notice given in open Court by Mr. Wood, a member of the Court, in the following words was handed in and published by him to the Court " Notice of motion tbr the nest Court by Mr. Wood. " I hat the Bill to declare the qualification of freemen of London to be elected members of the Court of Corr' MOll Council be read a third time. Eq., having seconded it, in an ap- propriate speech, the motion was carried nem. con. The Rev. D. T. K. DRUMMOND adverted to what he bad himself witnesse d s of destitution among the peasantry, and cordially moved—" That, finding that numerous landed pro prietors and other benevolent persons in September last, pro jected and provisionally established such a society as that so urgently required, under the appellation of the Scottish Patriotic Society for improving the condition of thelabouring classes,' the meeting approves of and confirms the same." Dr. Wan moved a resolution, defining the objects of the society to be the improvement of cotter husbandry, the diffusion of agricultural education, the improvement of cot tages and gardening, and of the dwellings of the labouring classes generally ; together with kindred means for inducing provident habits among the people. Professor JoiinsTon, in an able speech, dwelt upon the importance of sowing the germs of future agricultural im provements in the minds of the rising generation, and con cluded by seconding the resolution. A highly influential general committee was then ap pointed, after which a vote of thanks to the chairman having been proposed by Professor Gregory, and seconded by D. Davidson, Esq., of Strath, the meeting separated. " JOHN WOOD. " 11th February, 1847. " And the Lord Mayor declined to receive the satae." After a good deal of discussion, of by no means a conciliatory character, in which several members parti cipated, the above amendment was adopted, in prefer ence to one moved by Alderman Thompson, containing what appeared to us to be a distinction without a dif ference. ............ Mr. Low (the Chairman of the Committee of Privi leges of the whole Court) then rose, and said he begged respectfully to state that the Committee of Privileges )grßitoL:hfEol :Cram:l:Rai opu. MAYOR n making as said the officers unreasonable to o t t h n w e a o b d l b i e s r i i! r e eheeex.e. had almost unanimously agreed to adopt the paper which he held in his hand, in answer to the statement made by his Lordship at the last Court, and he bogged that it might be read. The LORD MAYOR--It is not in the paper of business, and I cannot permit it to be read. There has been no order given of it. Mr. ANDERTON—Then I shall more that the Court do now adjourn. Mr. JONES—My Lord, you are bound to have the In justice to the Court, two hundred mem bers of which have in Committee agreed to it, you ought to hear it. You thought fit at the last Court to state your opinion, and this is an answer to that paper you then read. The LORD MAvoa—When the business for which the Court was summoned, the election of officers, shall have been finished, 'I shall have the paper road. I thought we parted at the last Court on the understand ing that the officers should be elected at the following, officers — (L ou d bicydi cries ptehsareo holding tolce ofsoc.tkEet ztd( o i oavow:eunarhgioenh:t against h l, t, eattminohndec consequence annns t ugsi h edee r threat consider ere : oonh nu o ca e- f st Bud I called an early Court for that purpose. I cannot help saying that this is an unworthy attempt to appointment of its officers. 11 papereoci .tinhullof in fluence roChhetsentlneeeor. no n- a p po intme nt Aldermanoand. - which h w ad ms sp o r ß un s g aid up it b w et of the Corporation. pect that the Lord Mayor would allow any business to be proceeded with which did not appear on the paper of business. THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders in this company, adjourned from the 21st of December last, was held yesterday . at the offices, 449, West Strand; Lord Courtown in the chair. The CHAIRMAN requested the secretary to put the seal of the company to the registry. Mr. PERRY wished to make some observations previous to that being done. The CHAIRMAN—Nothing can be done before the seal is put to the registry. Mr. PERRY begged to explain his reasons for objecting. The CHAIRMAN here intimated that the seal had been put to the registry. Mr. PERRY protested against the act., which he said ought to have been done by the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN—There is no motion before the meeting. Mr. PERRY—Yes : I have protested against the act which has been done : we hav e not seen it affixed to the registry. Has it been done? Has any gentleman seen the seal the re ut to it iz the room? I ask whether it has been put to th gistry in the room? The SECRETARY—Yes, I delivered the seal for the purpose. Mr. DicxsoN here declared he had not seen the seal used in that room, and he was a s tall as any one.—Here some three other gentlemen got up, and were engag ed in address ing different parts of the room at the same moment —at the conclusion, Dr. GRAY and Mr. PER RY r ose together, an d protested at the same time against the act which had been done. After much delay and c on f us ion, the CHAIR.MAS ca lled on Mr. GroßoE, who moved the re-appointment of the former directors. Mr. CODD seconded the resolution. Mr. PERRY in moving an amendment reminded the meet ing that he had been appointed, with Mr. Boyce, at the meeting held on the 21st December last, to investigate, 22ne the part of the shareholders, the affairs of the compstlY. bk and complained of unnecessary delays which the s ecretary. detailed, at great length the course he hadhai(olursnueeedn, thrown in his way by the directors and him in Dublin by the secretary, offering the purchase hose who 17,500 scrip shares at 12s. 6d. a share, from t At length, on the Bth of February, an agreementwassenetf move were unable to meet their calls; the inuchastehe 18t to be paid on delivery of the scrip .on a resolutions of February, on condition that effect of these resolutions was to pass the directors' the directors at 1,0001. port, to fix the allowance to should be passed at the meeting of the cert 17th 1n d. i e n c s r t n . re T r h e e . r t ry at 1,000/ , a year, the salary to the accepted by Mr. Boyce, and the n . and to appoint the auditors nasmecede.egae'tTiahti He charged the directors with not pressing the Great i s on w a ended. to lease the company's line, and with coming to no similar References were made and Kingstown, who Western and the South Wales Companies to an agreement Western aarrppaenagreedmenwtillwinigth tothedoDusob:lin by the speaker to several o re 1 e them from all responsi from sharebrokers, offering to re e as this upon th t a o r m s rec o e f ived th b e y s co bility in the line, and he charged e dwitn moving tha e t direc t ors of the company. e follow- ing should be the Esmond • e, Viscount D Lord Courtovrn, Sir T. Wyse B. Osbor ne, uncannon, Lord Bossrnore, Mess n rs. Latou ' ehe, R. ec d irc ire u c i B. Colonel Acton, Messrs. S. Parr},. J. P. Smith, C. Coate s , and Dr. Gray. J. Boyce, J. t he amendment Dr. GRAY seco nded in a long and decla matory s e vera leech. other gentlemen had spoke n , After Mr. D. W. HAIIVST rec om mended the purchasing in of th e shares propo sed, that th e company might recover itself, and rebutted, with hiss eloirence, the charges which had been thrown outs gait the_directors. Mr. HATER, .P., on t e n of e t a he directors, assured the meet ing that the Great Weste .Gm an or the South Wale Company had never any . intention to lease the line. s How could they when_ ft was 130 tniles from thei r own, separated by St. :George's Channel? But they had offered this company h e lp, and had guaranteed one of their shares. As for himself he was a large shar ci eh u o a l ter in this company and had kept all is shares thr der out, and he had got many of his endsfri tooughe shares : what advantage then could he have in pedi tak line ? 'That was the first Irish company he had ng the lie was sorry to be compelled to say it would be entered. for gentlemen at the moment they were endeavouri ngthe last, English capital into Ireland received nothing but bl a me to pass ame and vituperation in return. _ Many others followed with observations on cuff e rent sub jects, and, at the close of four hours, The Cii.ainmsw put the motion and the amendment to the meeting, and declared the former to b e carried. Mr. PERRY demanded a poll. Messrs. Slade and Harvey were appointed scrutineers of the votes. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the remain open till eight o'clock that evening, and polling would the poll would be declared tc - morrow ('Thursday),the result of o'clock, at the adjourned meeting. at twelve The meeting was then adjourned till twelve o'clock to morrow. Mr. WIRE was anxious to say a few words, that it might not go abroad that your Lordship's speech could not be answered.—(Hear, hear.) There were imputa tions in that speech upon the members of this Court, for which there was not the slightest foundation. It must not bo allowed to be stated that we wish to co erce our officers. There is not the least truth in that accusation.—(Loud cheers.) The LORD MAYOR said that such language was un worthy any member of the Court, find he was surprised to hear it from the lips of Mr. Wire. Mr. ASLIURST—Every word Mr. Wire has uttered is true. Mr. LAWRENCE said it was quite evident that the Lord Mayor was acting under the influ ence of the Recorder in distrusting th e C our t.—(H •' ar hear.) It was said that by the course in which the Court was pro ceeding, its existence was endangered. Who endan gered red the Court ? The Lord Mayor.—(Hear, hear.) The Court would, for the sake of its own character, adhere to its determination to protect itself and if any mischief should result from the non-election of the officers, upon his Lordship's head would be the onus. If his Lordship perilled the Corporation, he did it upon the advice of those who were about him (alluding to the Recorder and three or four Aldermen).—(Cheers). The LORD MAYOR called to the Town Clerk to pro ceed with the business on the paper. Mr. PEWTRECS could not suppose it possible that when a paper was prescribed by the chairman of the committee of the whole Court, the Lord Mayor could think of refusing to allow it to be read. The LORD MAYOR said the gentlemen who were con stantly rising were quite out of order, and interrupted the business for which the Court had been convened. Mr. JONES—It is the Lord Mayor that is out of order, in objecting to allow the paper to be read. My Lord, you are out of order.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and " No, no.") The LORD MAYOR.—WiII you, or will you not, go on with the election of officers? —(Loud shouts of" No, no.") Alderman WILSON-4 came here an hour and a half ago to elect the officers, and I em not to be kept here all day. All sorts of illegal and absurd things are taking place. Mr. AssunsT—There (pointing to the Recorder) is the cause of the whole confusion. The LORD MAYOR —I am myself the cause, for I em doing what is right, and nothing shall deter me from continuing in that course.—(Hear, hear, and loud disap probation.) I Mr. ANDERTON—SureIy the least your Lordship can do is to let the paper be read. There is no notice of it business, for it is an answer to your on the paper of Lordship's statement, got up at the earliest possible op portunity.. If your Lordship think proper to persist, I shall persist in my mown for the adjournment of the Court. The REC6RDER—That motion not i with ou r oath as a member of this court. cons —(Loud stent disap probation.) Mr. ANDERTON—That is an imputation of direct per jury.—(sear, hear.) Mr. wißr—The Recorder has imputed perjury to a member of the court. It is an insult to every member. I move that the Recorder be removed from the court.— (Great confusion.) The RECORDER rose with the members' pocket-book, in his hand, evidently for the purpose of reading the oath. b i n Low—Dry Lord, se chairrasu of the Whole court ----- TUX ROUDERT AT iIIESSRS. STRACUAY AND PAUL'fi.—We are requested to state that the absolute loss in this robbery was not 10,0001., but 7,505/., and that consider able hopes are entertained that as 6,5001. are in five notes of 1,000/., two 5001., 300/., and 2001, the thi eves w ill no t be enabled to circulate these large n o t es. t h ey being all stopped at the Bank, and due notice sent to all parts of the kingdom. DIPLOMACY.—The old proverb of " He lies like truth," has been altered for the u se of rising diplomat i s t s intoo He lies like thtizot."...punch, I inform your Lordship, that we are quite prepared to I proceed to the election of the officers, but, as a matter of privilege, our first duty is to have this paper read. The LORD MAYOR—That paper can be read after the election of the officers. Mr. J. H. HALL said he wished the Court would post pone, of its own accord, the reading of the paper until after the election of the officers.—(Rear, hear.) lie accordingly moved that Mr. Low, the chairman, be re quested to postpone the presentation of the paper. Mr. HARTLEY seconded the motion. The LORD MAYOR—No, ne, I shall put that question. Several members here said that the Recorder, who from time to time communicated with the Lord Mayor, was prompting his Lordship to persevere in his opposi tion to the Court. The RECORDER —I am in my office performing the duties of it. Alderman WasoN denied that there was any precedent for the course just suggested. Mr. LAWRENCE expressed strong indignation at the power assumed by the Lord Mayor. It had he said been intimated that if the Court thought they were justified in pointing out a certain line of conduct, from which the Lord Mayor could not deviate according to law, they ought to move for a mandamus. It was ♦ery easy and agreeable to suggest a cause which would probably occupy four or fire years before a decision could be arrived at. He was prepared to adopt the folio wing course, if the Lord Mayor refused to call upon the Town-Clerk to put the motion, and if that officer refused to call upon the City solicitor to perform that duty.—(Hear, hear, and No, nn.) With that view he should wish that these offi cers should be sworn in. Mr. PRENDERGAST said the Court was actually trifling, and called upon the members to proceed at once to the election. Mr. WIRE here reminded the Court of the Mayoralty of 1835, and the conduct of the Court when the Lord Mayor, that day, endevoured to ride, rough-shod, over the members. In that Mayoralty the Court carried the question of privilege unanimously, in the teeth of the person who disgraced the chair. The Town-Clerk rose, with the list of the names of the officers in bis hand. _ _ . - _ Mr. KING called upon the Town-Clerk to reflect whose officer he was.—(Cries of disapprobation.) The LORD MAYOR said that insinuation contained a threat against an officer, through his pocket, for doing his duty. Mr. WIRE said the imputation was intolerable. It was unjust, and without foundation, and possessed ad ditional offence, coming, as it had come, from the Pres,- dent of the Court. After having stood a siege of applications from many HIS .14011DSIIIP declared, in the most positive terms, that he would put no question, however modified, until the officers were appointed. He then called upon the Town Clerk to try the Court once more, and told the Court not to blame him if any ill consequence resulted from their refusal to proceed to the election. Mr. R. TA - OAR—It is your Lordship and your legal adviser, the Recorder, who are responsible. I have no doubt f your Lordship's disposition to do what is right, and just, and honourable, but, by the advice of the Re corder, you are placed in a most unenviable position.— (Cries of " No, no," and " Hear, hear.") You do not, my Lord Mayor, act upon your own judgment, and, un less you do that, you will not perform your duty to your fellow-citizens.—(Loud cries of " Hear, bear," mingled with disapprobation.) Many members expressed their readiness to proceed at once to the election, and appeared to be satisfied with the Lord Mayor's assurance, that the reply to his state ment should be read immediately afterwards. The great majority, however, considered that the principle for which they bad all along contended, would be affected if they yielded in the slightest degree to what they evi dently considered to be the usurped authority of the chief magistrate. The RECORDER again and again asked whether it was the pleasure of the Court to proceed to the election. Mr. WIRE—Yes, we are. Gentlemen, the Recorder wishes to put us into a court of law. Do not prevent him. Keep your places. We are ready and willing to go to the election of the officers, but we wish to have this paper read first. Sir PETER LAI/am—The Lord Mayor would, if left to himself, do all that is required.—(Hear, hear.) The RECORDER—The Lord Mayor has called a Special Court, and unless reason can be shown to the contrary, the Court was bound to take the business in the order of the day. You cannot disappoint in that matter on which you are called together. You are not aware of the consequences,whichimay arise from delay in swearing the Judges of the Central Criminal Court, the Clerk of the Peace, and other officers whose duties are of the most serious importance. Mr. R. L. JONES said, that at the same time that the Recorder was advising the Lord Mayor against putting a notice of motion upon the paper of business, the Learned Gentleman knew perfectly well that in the Commons House of Parliament, the Speaker durst not refuse to comply with the desire of any member to that effect. The RECORDER—I answer that the Court of Common Council, although a branch of the greatest corporation in the world, still is not exactly the House of Commons of the United Bingdom.—(Laughter below the bar.) Mr. PRENDERGAST said it was the law of every delibe rative body—of the Committee of Sewers, of the County Courts, of the Bank of England, of the East India House, that when a meeting was specially called to transact special business, that business was settled before any other was commenced. That was the law, in fact, of every common club. The Court had a public duty to perform, and it was bound manfully to assert its rights, and submit them, if necessary, to be decided by the law of the land.—(Laughter.) An alternative which was, perhaps, more eligible than either single combat or a general battle.—(Laughter.) A MEMBER—Now, Mr. Recorder, candidly say whether you would not, if you were Lord Mayor, put the question ? The RECORDER—No ; I should, if I were Lord Mayor, tell the Recorder not to put the question. Mr. PEACOCK said it would be in the power of the Recorder to settle the matter by advising the Lord Mayor to give up what., after all, was but a point of form. The I:Won:mit—Then I should have only to say to the Lord Mayor, " My advice to you is to give up this point ; but I hope you will not take my advice. Mr. BLAKE said the Lord Mayor had slandered the Court, while they were demanding what was their un doubted right. Mr. MARRSDTT thought the members were fighting with a shadow, and proposed to them the magnanimous act of being the first to retire from the contest.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") Mr. MARRIOTT then moved, and Mr. WILLIAMS se conded the motion that the Court proceed to the elec tion of the officers. Mr. WIRH immediately rose to oppose the motion, and began to read the paper containing the answer to the statement of the Lord Mayor as part of his speech, but The LORD IikTOR, before many sentences had been read, rose and, ordering the mace-bearer and the sword bearer to precede him, retired from the Court. The gallery was filled during the discussion by per sons who seemed to be struck with astonishment at the state of the proceeding& TESTIMONY TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CLARKSON. Among the testimonials of grateful admiration which the death of the venerable and beloved Thomas Clarkson has called forth, none, perhaps, will be more valued than the following, from the President of Haiti, General Riche : " Port au Prince, Dec. 24, 1846. " To the Members of the Committee of the British and Fo reign Anti-Slavery Society. " Gentlemen,—The news of the death of Thomas Clarkson has struck all the true friends of human liberty with con sternation. His Excellency the President of Haiti, who echoes the sentiments of every Haitian, has commanded me to write to you, to express the deep concern he feels at the great loss which the cause of emancipation has just susta i ned " There are, Gentlemen, some men whom Providence has raised up for the especial purposes of carrying out his great designs in reference to mankind. The mission of the vener able Thomas Clarkson was clearly pointed out to him; and that devoted man performed his duty with all the fidelity and teal of an apostle. Even in this world his perseverance and his virtues found their reward ; and after a long series of la bours and trials, he was permitted to enjoy the sweet satis faction of seeing the slave-trade abolished, liberty proclaimed throughout the whole length and breadth of the British em pire, and the spirit of emancipation struggling for the deli verance of the people yet afiiicted with the leprosy of sla very. He 'was allowed to anticipate the time when, from one end of the earth to the other, all men shall aa TRICE. He was allowed to die in peace, giving glory to his Creator, who Lad designed him to be the means of so much happiness and security to a class of men who, for so long a period, had been devoted to the most degrading slavery. " But if anything tan mitigate the sorrow felt at so great a loss, it is the fact, that his Excellency the President feels, in common with all Haitians, that the work of the venerable Thomas Clarkson is ably carried on by the society over which he presided, and in whose labours he toot a part more active than his advanced age would have seemed to allow. All of you, the Haitians, well know, are animated with the same fervent zeal as the virtuous man whom we now regret. He has often sided you with his counsels and his experience; he has often talked to you of better times to come for the African race. That the wishes of this holy apostle of eman cipation may be realised, we fervently hope. Both blacks and whites, we all will work for the accomplishment of this end, each one in his own circle; for the cause of liberty is the cause of God. You will labour for the completion of that noble temple which the venerable Thomas Clarkson de sired to raise to the honour of God, who had so o ft en assisted him in his painful exertions, by the destruction of slavery in every country where it has raised its e xecrable head. In the dwelling-place of the just made perfect, w h en ce Thomas Clarkson now contemplates your philanthropic effort, he will take delight in remembering that he has left behind him dis ciples worthy of himself, and worthy to fulfil the mission that he had undertaken in the spirit of love. " His Excellency the President of Haiti has ordered me further to express to you, Gentlemen, the high opinion he entertains of you personally, and the interest that he takes in your labours. His Excellency regards with an attentive eye the progress of this great and noble question, and his heart sincerely rejoices at each new triumph that the cause to which you have so generously devoted yourselves, obtains." (Signed by the Secretary of State for Justice, Public In struction, and Religion.) ADVENTURES or THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.—By W. Grattan, Esq., late Lieutenant, Connaught Rangers. 2 vols. small Bvo.—The above work is published this day, by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had of all booksellers. The following new works are also now ready :-2. Revelations of Portugal, and Overland Journey to Lisbon, by T. M. hughes. Esq., 2 vols. post Bvo. 3. The Third and Fourth volumes of General Montholon's History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, completing the work. 4. Burke's History of the Landed Gentry, complete in 2 vols. royal Bvo. 5. Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, translated by D. Forbes Campbell, Esq., with the sanction of the author, 6 vols. bound in 3, price 31s. 6d. 6. Volumes Six and Seven of Madame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, complete iDg the work. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. LITERATURE. THE BATTLE OF IVIBLEY GREEN. By J. B. Kington. Since the publication of the "Reliques of Old English Ballads," by Bishop Percy, the beauties of that noble species of poetry has been more and more appreciated. Not only have the lovers of ballad literature revelled in the perusal of the ancient Saxon compositions, but a number of imitators have appeared among them—men who, gifted with a natural affection and admiration for everything good and beautiful, have frequently evidenced the possession of faculties worthy of emulating the genius of their antique predecessors. Among these may almost be reckoned the present Paymaster of her Ma jesty's Forces, his "Lays of Ancient Rome" having about them all the most admirable characteristics of the most perfect ballad poems extant. He has fully trans ported his imagination to the woods of Algidus and the streets of Tusculum, to the days when the valorous lioratius " kept the bridge so well," to the merry bouts and carousals of the Roman citizens— "When the oldest cask was opened, And the largest lamp was lit, And the chestnuts glowed in the embers, And the kid turned on the spit." And ha has not only revived those days of heathen greatness, but he has embalmed them for ever and for ever in poetry—" flies in amber." The " Oriana"of Alfred Tennyson, again, though fraught with more of the fanci -I'lll than is usually found in the ballads of the olden time, has about it all the vigour and pensiveness which is so remarkable in those glorious originals. There is, moreover, in those verses of Tennyson's the impassioned iteration and verve so peculiar in the master-pieces of our Saxon bards: instance the lines— " The bitter arrow glanced Oriana,sde The false, false arrow g lau r e i d an a a s , ide, The damned arrow glanced aside, And pierced thy heart, my love, my bride, Oriana, Thy heart, my love, my life, my bride, Oriana t" Happily we might go on adding to our instances of suc cessful imitators in this particular kind of metrical com position to the length of many columns. It were unne cessary, however. We should only be reviving the recollections of the vast majority—not testifying to a fact hitherto unrecognised. What we have hero to do, is to comment upon the appearance of a littlo volume with pretensions of a like description. Mr. Kington displays in this book a genial and spontaneous enthusiasm for the manners, habits, and even the diction of our remote ancestors. Tho principal poem in the collection is modelled after a somewhat similar fashion with the chivalric poems of Walter Scott—"Rokeby," " The Lord of the Isles," and " Marmion." Excepting in the descriptive line to the first portion, or canto, or what ever else it may be designated, there is nothing incon gruous to the original conception. That line would in cline us to anticipate a species of paraphrase 1111011 Alpe pherrson—" The Earle sits in the gloom of the evening, his thou g ht s am i d the gloom of the past." If the anti cipation wer e formed, however, that the succeeding parts were Ossiani e , th at anticipation would in no manner be realised, for the " Battle of Nibley Green" is consistent throughout. The story is English, the characters are English, the lan guage is English—and that is saying much now-a-days. Sometimes in the hurried chaunting of his song Mr. Kington, like his brethren of the lyre, flings off from the strings a delicious snatch of melody, as where he says " the faint moon lit, with a silver flicker, The ivy leaf that crept along the glass." Clever, however, as the portraiture of the Lord of Berkeley may be in the " Battle of Nibley Green," we are more charmed with some of the smaller pieces appended to the volume, especially with those dedicated to the d e li neat i on of "Maid Marian." There is much delicate and gentle beauty in these stanzas, a purer wor shipping of ideal excellence than that of Sacharissa, by Waller. And there is a pleasant variety in them which renders them particularly palatable. " Marian and the Water Party" is descriptive, for example, of " a summer morn, a sunny morn," when " The butterflies were all about, The bees sang to the morning early ; And Joy rose, clamouring, with the shout That scared the bird among the barley." Immediately before this is the following graceful de scription of " Marian at her Evening Prayers:"— " Do not light the candles yet ; Close not out the Evening Star; But leave tae quite alone ; and let The door remain ajar. " Bow thee down irreverent head, For a sound comes down the stair ; Marian, kneeling by her bed, Sahli the Evening Prayer : " Praying—Evermore to Bless Those that all about her be! Hush : God gire me worthiness; Marian prays for me ! " Marian! kneeling by her bed, Earnest, meek, absorb'd, and calm; Drooping forward her dear head; Pressing palm to palm." Besides what we have already enumerated, there are various humorous, melancholy, and miscellaneous frag ments in the book, of different, and occasionally in different merit. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. No. 111. In this sensible and superior periodical there is au agreeable diversity of subjects—one being a copious synopsis of " Morell's Modern Philosophy ; ' another about the afflictions of " Deafness and Blindness," as illustrated by the writings of Dr. Kitto ; another com memorative of " Abraham Cowley," one of the most undeservedly neglected of our poets • another upon art, as visibl e i n the pictures of " Modern Painters;" another about the " Anglo-Normans ," another about " Watt and Cav en di s h , " those emin en t especially as . to the manner in which men were implicated in the researches made as to the composition of water ; and a concluding article—would that it could be a concluding article in more senses than one —upon the " State of Irelend." A merely superficial glance at the contents for this quar ter's number of the North British Review will be suffi cient to render at once manifest the variety and discri mination of talents possessed by the contributors and editor. We are especially gratified to observe the tribute of praise paid to the Oxford Graduate who penned the two volumes upon " Modern Painters." Dissenting in toto, as we do, from the opinions of that eloquent writer, in the comparison drawn between the old landscape painters and the modern landscape painters, it would be ungenerous to deny the extraordinary powers of the anonymous author. Reverencing the memory of Claude Lorraine as we dc —not from an idle accordance with any fashionable admiration, but simply because we re cognise in him a matchless interpreter of the divine glories of God's creation —we cannot refrain from applauding the impassioned panegyrist of Mr. Turner. The Oxford Graduate is among the most eloquent writers that hare appeared for many years past ; his pen is immeasurably superior, in the portraiture of na ture, to the pencil of that great master whose genius appears to be the incessant object of his wor ship, and the perpetual theme of his eulogiums. We remember reading the first volume of the Oxford Graduate's work on "Modern Painters," almost immediately after its first publication ; the remembrance of it is not effaced in any one particu lar, nor can it be speedily obliterated. As a specimen of the author's powers of painting in words, and as a specimen too of how the most gorgeous diction may be employed even in profusion, without degenerating into bombast and hyperbole, we cannot resist transcribing the foll ow i ng magnificent description of the Slave ship t...• But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, th e no bl es t cer t a i n l y ever pa i nte d by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole sur face of sea included in the picture is divided into two ridges of enormous swell, not high, nor local, but a low, broad heaving of the whole ocean, like the lifting of its bosom by deep drawn breath after the torture of the storm. Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls along the trough of the sea, dyeing it with an awful but glorious light, thein tense and lurid splendour which burns like gold, and bathes like blood. Along this fiery path and valley, the tossing waves by which the swell of .the sea is restlessly divided, lift themselves in dark, indefinite, fantastic forms, each casting a faint and ghastly shadow behind it along the illumined foam. They do not rise everywhere, but three or four to gether in wild groups, fitfully and furiously, as the under strength of the swell compels or permits them ; leaving be tween them treacherous spa•es of level and whirling water, now lighted with green and lamp•like fire, now flashing back Ale gold of the declining sun, now fearfully dyed from above with the indistinguishable images of the burning clouds, which f a ll u p on t h em i n f l akes of crimson and scarlet, and g ive to the reckless wav es th e a dd e d mot i on o f t h e i r own fiery flying. Purple and blue, the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of the night, which gathers cold and low, advan c i ng lik e the shadow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours am id st t h e lightning of the sea, its thin masts wr itten upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hu e w hi c h s i gns the sky with horror, and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight—and cast far along the desol a t e h eave o f the sepul chral waves, incarnad i nes the multitudinous sea." In many respects the last number of th e N orth British Review is superior to its predecessors. SOIREE OF THE WHITTINGTON CLUB.—The foun dation of the Whittington Club was celebrated last evening, by a gathering of the members and their friends, at the London Tavern. The room was so full that many could not gain admission. The chair was occupied by !Douglas Jerrold, Esq., the president and founder of the club, round wham were congregated on the platform a large number of distinguished indiyidtfals, including ladies. Mr. Jerrold opened the proceedings in a pithy address, which was received with enthusiasm. He adverted to the intellectual progress of the people, which an institution like the present would encourage ; and dwelt especially on the necessity for union of purpose in carrying out its objects. He then described the objects of the dub, and the advan tage which would be enjoyed by its members in reading , conversatio n , Ilse. Mr. Jerrold concluded by prophesying the highest and meat bem;ficial results from the institution, both in our own, and in times to come.—Addresses were then delivered by Dr. Mullinger, Mr. Dawson, Dr. Bowring, and other gentlemen, the entertainment being further sup ported by distinguished vocalists, among whom were Miss Rainforth, Miss Bassano, Miss Messent, and Mr. Wetherbee. A new song, written and composed for the occasion, was Wthannly a pplauded.—M. William Howitt proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr Nash.— Mr. Jerrold briefly returned thanks; after which a large pro- Portion of the party dispersed. th e rema i nder staying to par take of various amusements, of which dancing was the prin cipal feature. TH E PERPETUAL MOTION.—W e have not heard anything of the " Perpetual Motion" this year. We mean the motion which Mr. Brotherton brings forward every ses sion of a djourning the House at twelve o'clock.—Punch, (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons) WEDNEADAY, FErt. 17. FACTORIES BILL. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate upon Amend ment proposed to be made to Question (10th Feb.) " That the Bill be now read a second time," and which Amendment was to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :" Question again proposed, " That the word now' stand part of the Question :"—Debate resumed ; Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be now adjourned." The House divided 1- Bouvarie, E. P. Dennistoun, J. Duncan, Lord Leader, J. T. MINORITY—AYES, 7. Roebuck, J. A. Trelawny, J. S. Wall, C. B. TELLERS. Escott, Bickham Bright, John MAJORITY-NOES, 282. Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question." The House di,-ided : MAJORITY—AYES, 195. Entwisle, W. Mostyn, E. M. Etwall, Ralph Muntz, G. I. Evans, Sir De Lacy Napier, Sir Charles Farnham, E. B. Neeld, Joseph ' , errand, W. B. Neeld, John Finch, G. Newdegate, N. Fitzroy, Lord C. Newport, Visct. Fleetwood, Sir P. Norreys,:Sir D. Frewen, C. 11. O'Brien, A. Stafford Gardner, J. 1). O'Brien, C. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, W. 8. Gladstone, J. N. O'Connell, D., jun. Godson, 11. O'Connell, M.. 1. Gooch, E. S. O'ConnelLlJohn Gore, W. 0. Owen, Sir John Gore, Robert Packe, C. W. Goring, C. Paget, Colonel Granby, Marquis of Paget, Lord A. Granger, T. C. Pakington, Sir J. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, Robert Grimsditch, Thomas Palmer, G. ..i.sill Grogan, E. rigor, Sir R. Grosvenor, Lord.R. Plumptre, J. I'. Grosvenor, Earl Plumridge, Captain Raiford, Sir Henry Polhill, F. Hall, Sir Benjamin Powlett, Lord W. Hall, Colonel Prime, Richard Hamilton, G. A. Pusey, P. Harcourt, G. G. Rendlesham, Lord Harris, Captain Repton, G. W. Hatton, Captain Y. Richards, Richard Heathcoat, John Rollout, Captain Heathcete, G. J. Russell, Lord J. Henley, J. W. Russell, J. D. Hervey, Lord A. Rutherford, A. Ilthlyard, T. B. Sandon,.Yiscortltt Hill, Lord E. Scrope, G. P. Ilimiley, C. Seymer, Henry Rer Hodgson, R. Shaw, F. Holland, Robert Sheridan, R. B. Hope, A. Shirley, E. J. Ilernby, John Sibthorp, Colonel Steward, C_ W.G. Spooner, Richard Howard, P. ii. Staunton, Sir G. Hudson, 0. Stuart, Lord J. Humphery, Aid. Stuart, J. Hurst, R. li. Strict:land, Sir (S. Hussey, Thomas Taylor, E. Ingestre,lVlset, Taylor, J. A. Hutt, William Tollemache, .1. Inglis, Sir It. Trevor, J. It. Johnstone, Sir J. Trowbridge, Sir E. Kelly, Janes Tufnell, ii. Kemble, Henry Vane, Lord 11. Lambton, 11. Verner, Sir W. Lawless, Cecil Vyse, R. IT. K. 11. Layard, Captain Vyvyan, Sir R. R. Lefroy, Anthony Waddington, 11. S. Lennox, Lord G. 11. Watley, Thomas Liddell, 11. T. . Walker, Richard M'Carthy, Alex. Wawn, J. T. Mangles, R. 1). Williams, W. Mailers, Lord J. Yorke, Henry R. Miles, William Milnes, R. Monckton Morgan, 0. MorristDavid Acland, T. D. Acton, Colonel Aglionby, H. A. Ainsworth, Peter Aldan, William Allix, J. I'. Arundel, Earl of Braille, H. J. Bankes, George Baring, Thomas Barnard, Edward G. Baskerville, T. Bateson, T. Beckett, W. Benbew, John Bennet, P. Bentinck, Lord G. lientinek, Lord 11. Bcrestord, Major Berkeley, Grantley Bernal, Ralph Bernard, Viscount Blackburne, J. I. Blackstone, W. S. Bodkin, W. IL Bolder°, If. G. Borthwick, I'. Bramston, T. W. Broadley, Henry Brocklehurst, Johi Brooke, I,2rd Browne, W. Bruen, Colonel Buck, L. W. Buller, Charlea 'Sunbury, T. Butler, P. S. Cayley, E. S. Chandos, :Marquis of Chichester, Lord J. Cholmeley, Sir J. Christie, W. ]). Christopher, R. Churchill, Lord A. S. Clayton, It. It. Codrinzton, Sir W. Cole, il. A. Callett, John Ceuricna7, Lord Cowper, W. F. Crawford, W. S. Curie's, H. B. Denison, E. B. D'Eyneourt, C. T. Dickinson, I'. fl Disraeli, 11. Douglas, Sir 11. Douglas, .I. S. Iritucomhe, T. I Aineombe, A. Duueembe, 0. Dundas, DaTO Du Pre, C. G. Easthope, Sir 3, Ebrington, Lord Egerton, Sir I'. Elli•, Wynn Anson, Colonel Buine, Walter Darkly, Henry Baring, F. T. Ilouverie, E. P. Bowring, Dr. Bright, John Brown, W. Bruges, W. U. Cardwell, Edward Cavendish, G. 11. Clay, Sir W. Clerk Sir G. Colebrook*, Sir T. Craig, W. G. 'TELLERS. Fie Wen, John Zrothertou, Joseph MINORITY-NOES, 87. Goulhurn, Henry Oswald, Alexander Graham, S r Jetties Oswald, J. Gregory, W. 11. Parker, John Hamilton, Lord C. Patten, J. W. thistle, Archibald Tattison, James Hawes, Benj. Peel, Sir Robert Ileneage, G. H. W. Fendarves, Edward Herbert, Sydney Philips, Mark Houldsworth, T. Protheroe, E. Labouchere, Henry Homily, John Langston, J. II RusseiLL•rd E. Lascelles, W. S. Scotto robertLord Leader, J. T. ym, Le Marchant, Sir D. Smith, A. Lemon, Sir C. Stansfleld, W. R. C. Lincoln, Earl of Stuart, V. Lindsay, Captain Captain Strutt, Edward Lockhart, A. E. Sutton, Henry Lockhart, W. -- Thesiger, Sir F. Maitland, Thomas Thornely, T. Marshall, William Trelawny, J. S. Marsland, Henry Villiers, Viscount Martin, J. Wall, C. It. Matheson, James Warburton, H. Alaule, Fox Ward, H. G. Mitchell, T. A. Wood, Colonel T. Mure, Colonel Wrightson, W. B. Neville, R. TELLEZI. Northland, Viscount Roebuck, J. A. Ogle, S. C. Denuistoun, J. Cripps, William Dainseny, Lord Dawson, T. V. Denison, J. E. Douglas, Sir C. E. Duncan, Viscount Duncan, George Egerton, W. T. Escott. Ilickhara Evans, William Ferguson, Col. Flower, Sir James Forbes, William Forster. Mathew Gibson, Thomas 31. Mr. Villiers paired with Mr. Halsey on the Factory fill—Mr. V. against, Mr. H. for, PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, 141111. 17. The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time: — Great Northern (Purchase of Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction, &c.)—" to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to take a Lease of or to pur chase the East Lincolnshire Railway, the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, and the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railways." Great Northern (Extension to Leeds and Wakefield, Devi ation of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)—" to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to make a Railway from the Methley Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway to Leeds and Wakefield, with certain Branch Railways therefrom, all in the West Riding of the county of York." Great Northern (Branches to Sleaford)—" to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to make a Branch of their Railway from the main Line of their Railway, in the parish of Hougham, in Lincolushire, to or near Sleaford, and thence to join the Great Northern Railway, in the parish of Gosberton, in the same county." St. Helen's Canal and Railway ("Warrington and Black brook Branches, &c.)—" to enable the St. Helen's Canal and Railway Company to make Branch Railways to Warrington and to Blackbrook, and to make certain alterations in their Railway, and also to take a Lease of the Rainford Branch of the London and North-Western Railway." Cornwall—" to authorise an alteration of the Line of the Cornwall Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, and for other purposes." Eastern Counties (Ilford to Tilbury Fort and Southend, with a Branch from Vane to Battle Bridge)—" to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near the Forest Gate Station, to Southend, with Branches." Oldham Alliance—" for making certain Lines of Railway in the county of Lancaster, to be called "Ile Oldham Alli ance Railway.' " Chester and Holyhead (Extensions at Chester and Holy head, &c.)—" to enable the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company to make certain Extensions of, and Alteration:4 in, the Line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and for other purposes." Paisley and Renfrew (Sale and Improvement)—" to autho rise the Sale of the Paisley and Renfrew Railway to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company, and the Improvement of the said Railway by the latter Company." East of Fife (Markinch Deviation)—" to enable the East of Fife Railway Company to deviate a portion of their Main Line, and to improve the junction thereof with the Edin burgh and Northern Railway, near Markinch." Dublin and Drogheda (Branch from Navan to Kells)—" to enable the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company to make a Railway from the Navan Branch of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, in the county of Meath, to the town of Bells, in the same county." Dublin and Belfast Junction and Navan Branch—" to authorise the sale to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Com pany of the Navau Branch of the Dublin and Belfast Junc tion Railway, and to enable the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company with a Branch from Drogheda to NMI!), the Ulster and the Dun dalk and Enniskillen Railway Cmnpanies, or any of them, to amalgamate with me another." Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 2) Branches—" R and a u w S a tr a r tn V s a t l D C u o d m l e p y a , n a y n d t o other c o n at places, ruct Braandnch r to enable the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, ol Valley b ride, Railwayto other purposes." The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com mitted, and referred to the Committ ee Leeds and Thin Durham, Think (Leeds, of Selection : sion, &c.). and Newcastle Exten- Leeds and Thirsk (Deviation of Main Line Valley, in Crimple alley, tic.). Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough and B Branch). oroughbridge Leeds and Thirsk (Eaglescliff and Stillington Exten • sin Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c. ). o ". Leeds and Think (Branch , from Melmerby to N o rthaller ton, &c.). Exeter and Exmouth. Midland Great Western of Ireland (Extension from Athlone to Galway). NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a second time : Dumfries, and Carlisle Caledonian (Branches al O to ND C a an Y o ' b r ie ra , &c.). 22. Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dam Railway). Caledonian (Branch SCrOSS F Clyde t: a n. and Glasgow Station). TUESDAY, South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole (Penistone, Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley! Wakefield , Huddersfield, and G oo l e R a il wa y, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and D ove C ana l) . WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24. Ike"and Edinburgh and Northern (Burntisland Pier, &c.). Great Northern (Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Alban's Branch). Great Northern (Deviations between Grantham and York). Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough, Boston, and Doncaster). East Lancashire (Southport Branch and Preston Extension). East Lancashire (Burnley Connecting Line). East Lancashire (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal Brancb' East Lancashire (Bury to Alanchester). --G mu — e N h fi p P l E ea C s T u O re it• t G o E ;s l4 ta l t ß e A t L ha O t r G. u A s tn To ot si t, s.— Es l g. t , o a f ffo w rd es s to u w s Lodge, Norwood, Inspect or -G eneral of Customs, whose severe and protracted illness hrs, for some months past, caused to his family and ntimernes frie n d s t h e utmost anxiety and fear, is rapidly regaining his health an d strength. Mr. Amott,' while engaged some years back, ma ki ng a survey of the out ports, was uddenly attacked with accut e di sease of the heart attended with such violent palpitation, as at t h e time to threaten suddkn death. This alarming disease has, within the last few months been accompanied with so much suffering from difficulty of breathing, that he could scarcely walk across his NOM Having consulted several eminent m em b ers of the profession without any relief, Mr. Amott was advised some five or six weeks since, by a gentleman who was cured by Dr. Cronin, of Leicester - place, to consult that gentlem an and try the new mode of treatment so successfully introduced by him at the Dispensary for the cure of diseases of the Heart and Lungs. The improvement in Mr. Amott's health is such, since he began to adopt the mode of treatment recommended by Dr. Cronin, that he can now take daily two or three hours' active exercise, and is rapidly recovering his wonted health and strength.— Globe, NOTICE. Head Quarters, Camp near Fort Hare, Dec. 2, 1846. Since publishing the notice of Colenel Somerset's successful patrole in October last, the forces in the field have been en gaged in clearing the ceded territory, - scouring the deep kloofs which intersect it, and sending out patroles to harass the enemy wherever an opportunity of doing so was offered. The following were the principal of these operatinna l. Several Several patroles were made by the Ist division under Lieut.-Colonel Johnstone, 27th Regiment, between the 11th September and the 25d October. In thego about twenty-two of the enemy were killed; several stand of arms, 114 homes, and 475 head of cattle were eaten. 7,450 sheep were also recaptu:ed. 2. On the 14th October a patrole was made by Captain Hogg in the Tambookie country, on which occasion the spi rited conduct of Lieut. Fitzgerald, of her Majesty's 91st Regiment, was brought-to his Excellency's notice. In this movement 27 horses and about 70 head of cattle were captured, and eight of the enemy slain. 3. On the 22d October, and on the 3d and 4th November, Sir Andreas Stockenstrom sent out patroles under the command of Field-Captain Read, of the Kat River. During these operations Field-Captain Read reports that 46 Kafirs were killed, and 1,500 head of cattle, and 1,00 goats were taken. Field-Captain Read's SC/vices are mentioned in very favour able terms by Sir Andreas Stockenstrom. 4. His Excellency has received the following report of a patrole conducted by Colonel Somerset, C.M.R. (EXTRACT.) "Camp on the Chalumna, Nov. 24, 1846. " Sir—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the infor mation of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that I marched from the Boka at six 1.31. on the morning of the 22d inst., aid encamped with the troops on the Wanahanna stream, five miles above the Kieskamma. At eight A. 31. I was joined by Captains Moultrie, Hogg, and Bouchier, with 400 men ; halted all day, and at six r.x. I marched with the following force :—two guns Royal Artillery, under Captain Burnaby; owe troop 7th Dragoon Guards, under Captain Sir Harry Darell ; 150 Cape Mounted Rifles, under Captain Napier; 156 of the 73d Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Van der Meulen ; the troop of burghers, under Commandant Niekerk ; 1 company of Size's Levy, under Captain Heath cote ; 1 Fingoe Legion, under Captain Bird, to proceed to the Kieskamma. I detached Lieutenant-Colonel Mackinnon to the Shoushou Drift on the Kieskamma with 1 company 73d Regiment, 1 company Size's Levy, under Captain Lange, and 300 of the Swellendam Native Corps, under Captains Hogg and Bouchier. I directed the whole of these troops to move at day-dawn across the Kieskamma, and attack the enemy's kraals on the left bank of the river, and scour the valley of the Shoushou to the Kieskamma height. Moving with the guns, cavalry force, and 73d Regiment at four I advanced up to the height of the Kies kamma, and bringing our right shoulders forward I de tached the Cape Mounted Rifles and Burghers to the flanks. The troops attacked the enemy's kraals at theupper source of the Chalumna, and after a most fatiguing march of ten hours, the several parties returned, having captured above 9CO head of cattle, and 16 horses and mares. About four r.m. the parties detached to scour the valleys of the Shou thou debouched from the bush, having captured from 700 to BCO head of cattle, and a few horses. I regret to state that I privates Isaac Tieman and Adam Dragooner, C.M. Rifles, were unfortunately killed at Nonibi's kraal. These men having proceeded ahead of their party, were incautiously talking to some woman at a kraal, when a body of the enemy rushed out of a kloof and fell upon them; Private Tiernan shooting one of the enemy after having received a ball through his body. These men I buried at Nonibi's kraal. Although the heat was excessive, the troops went through the duties of this fatiguing day with their usual activity. A large body of mounted Kafirs having shown themselves en some high ground above the Tamaka, Captain Bur naby opened his gun upon them, which speedily dispersed them. " During the whole of these operations I received every as sistance from the officers commanding corps, and all the officers ; end from Major Stocks, and the officers of the staff. The troops were. Hi usual most active and intelli gent, and performed their work with great cheerfulness. I have the honour to transmit Lieutenant-Colonel Mackin non's report. About thirteen of the enemy were killed daring the day. 1 have the honour, &c., (Signed) 11. SOMERSET, Colonel. " Lieutenant-Colonel Cloete, K.H., Sic." 5. His Excellency has received the following report of a patrole from the Ist division, under Lieutenant- Colonel Slade, on the Ist instant " Camp, Block Drift, Dec. 1, 1846. " Sir,—l have the honour to report to you, for the infor mation of the Commander-in-Chief, that in compliance with instructions received from his Excellency in person, I, at two A.m. this morning, caused the columns as detailed in the margin to parade, for the purpose of patrolling in search of cattle. " I had also directed Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, Reserve Battalion 91st Regiment, stationed at Fort Cox, to make a sortie at the same hour, for a similar purpose. I inclose the reports of Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone, 27th Regiment, of Lieutenant-Colonel Erskine, Reset ve Battalion 45th Regi ment, and of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, Reserve Battalion !Ist Regiment. " I myself accompanied the first column, and proceeded up to the right bank of the Chnmie for nearly six miles, when we crossed that stream, and bringing up our left shoulders we swept the country until we reached the point of rendezvous as selected by his Excellency. The column under my imme diate command captured 668 head of cattle, 32 horses, and 98 goats, and a vast number of cslves, 6 guns, and several bun dles of Assegais. Thirteen of the enemy were slain, amongst whom (I am informed) was Yoka, the chief of oue of the krails we swept, and a valued councillor of Sandilli. "The (-Ale and horses captured by the several columns are as follows : Cattle. Horses. Lieutenant .Colonel Slade 668 32 Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone 332 16 Lieutenant-Colonel Erskine ...... '274 8 Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell " Making a grand total of captured cattle, 1,419 ; horses, 62 ; goats, 98 ; killed of the enemy, 14. "These operations were performed withont any casualty on our hide ; and the troops returned to the crimps betwetn nine and ten, A.M. " From the reports made to me I have every reesen to be lieve that all those of the enemy who fell upon this occesion were slain in resistance to her Majesty's troops. " I have the honour, ice. ' (Signed) "M, J. SLADE, Lieut.-Colonel, " Commanding Ist Division. " Lieut.-Colonel Cloete, K H., &c." Many other patroles f minor importance, made in the course of this period, have been conducted with great spirit. Amongst the cftieers whose exertions on these occasions have been brought to his Excellency's notice are Lieutenant Bisset and Ensign Salis, Cape Mounted Rifles, Field Captains Ayliffe, Biddulph, Conway, O'Brien, Ross, and Stubbs, and Field Lieutenants Cumming, &c. The troops of all descriptions, including the newly arrived companies of her Majesty's 73d Regiment, employed in the movements made by the Ist and 2d Divisions, have conducted themselves in a highly creditable manner. The Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the military post now in the course of erection near Block Drift shall be named Fort Hare, after the late Lieut.-Governor and colonel commanding the forces in the erstern districts, cwthhhetiiehefe t h anksh hasc o hem of his Ex cellency record of th a t di s ti ngu i s h e d o ffi cer ' s l ong services in the British army, a nd hi s recen t a d m i n i s t ra ti on o f th e erstern xcellency provinces of the co l on y. of Sir Andreas Sto c k ens t rom h av i ng t en d ere d hi s res i gna ti on h m e sa been nd pleased of made,t a h n e dt otoea c Burghercseeprserv ices r c Sire. rendered r , n Ad t e h nr e d re d C Commander - in- Chief ab smy retiresmh a m n d e during n t h the trying ci rcumstances of t- edict H A R G L u E n S r d 3 1 :Ass MA is I t T . MLAilNitaDry,he for . t l h as e t gr se e v a e t n p m er o so n n th a s l . exertions Captain Gre Secretary. THE TEN HOURS OF meeting T H E o S f h°eRrBILL.: ME DELEGATES. a rooms, No. 2, Northumberland court, Legit E En nightTt IhNe their whole of the delegates was held diately r .er the division on the sec hours Bill. The object of their m u t ing !eliding of the Ten their thanks to these Members of Parliament was to convey in the debate, also to devise the best m e ans who took part final success of the measure. Mr. Jehn luta of securing the field, was called to the chair. Leech, of Hudders- The following answer to the delegates' mem • orial to Sir Robert Peel, which was presented to him on Saturday night, was read to the meeting " Whitehall, Feb, 17. " Gentlemen, --I have received your communication of the 13th of February, addressed to me in your capacity of dole , gates f;om the operatives of Lancashire and Yorkshire. " I am not disposed to deny the special obligations which are imposed upon me, on account of the relation in which my family has stood towards that branch of industry to which your letter refers. " But the duty implied by those obligations is that I should take that course which I conscientiously believe to be just towards the working classes an d conducive to their perma nent welfare; and, as I consider further legislative restriction on the Fours of labour in factories to be inc ntonsiste with justice and good policy, I de cline to support thern.—l gentlemen, 3 our obedient servant, " ROBERT PEEL. " Mr. Thomas Mawdsley, " Mr. John Brewer." A conversation arose as to the present position of the Bill owing to the Tote of the House of Commons having been taken after six o'clock, and it was explained that, as the division only negatived the amendment pr o p osed b y Mr. Joseph Hume, it was probable that the opponents of the Bill might to. morrow night raise a factious opposition, and still defeat the Bill. Under these circumstances, the dele gates expressed great anxiety that their friends should again attend to-morrow night. The thakk4 of tko dolostez were UM uukkikaously pod - - COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Alexander Ilensdorff, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel th;Hon. Charles Grey and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon, attended on horseback. _ His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff, and attended by the Hon. Captain Gordon. The Royal Family took their accustomed walks and rides yesterday, in the Royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alexander Mensdorff, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended during dinner. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended on Mon day at Buckingham Palace, and performed the galop " Das Glockenspiel," composed by Wilhelm Kuhe, pianist to his Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenzol lern Hechingen. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, visited the National Gallery, yester day. The Royal Duchess was attended by Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. The Governor of the Bank of England and the De puty Governor had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Ludlow Bruges, M.P. for Devizes, bad an inter view with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Tuesday, at the office of the Commissi oners o f Ra i lways, in Great George-street. _ _ Mr. H. F. Tiarks, Conseiller de Legation and ChargE d'Affaires of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, expired on Monday, at his residence in Oxford-square. Mr. Tiarks was accredited as ChargE d'Affairs during the negociation of a convention between Great Britain and Oldenburg. THE ARMY. DISCIPLINE IN MILITARY PRISONS. Horse Guards, Jan. 16th, 1847. It having been represented by the Secretary at War that it world be for the advantage of discipline in the military prisons if those establishments could be relieved from the ne cessity of receiving incorrigible delinquents, and prisoners whom, from the disgraceful nature of the offences of which they have been convicted, it may be deemed expedient to dis charge at the termination of their imprisonment, the Com mander-in-Chief desires that henceforth all soldiers who, in addition to an award of imprisonment, may have been recom mended by courts-martial for discharge, with ignominy, or whose discharges may have been sanctioned en the grounds of incorrigible misconduct, be committed, when practicable, to civil prisons. 'rhe discharge documents will in all such cases be com pleted; and if the soldier is to be discharged with ignominy the forms prescribed at page 127 et' her Majesty's Regula tions, must be gone through before - he is permitted to leave the regiment, transmitting the certificates of discharge to the Governor of the pri.Gon, for the purpose of being delirred the prisoners when the term of their imprisonment shall have expired. The Commander-in-Chief further directs that soldiers com mitted to military prisons during the summer months, but whose term of imprisonment will terminate after the winter sets in, may, in all cases, carry with them their trousers and other articles of clothing suited to the season at which their release from imprisonment is likely to place.—By com mand of Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON, Commander-in-Chief, (Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adj.-General. Horse Guards, Jan. 25, 1847. The observations contained in the annexed extract of a report from Dr. Tufnell, surgeon to the military prison in Dublin, as to the best position of the soldier while employed at shot exercise, have appeared to the Commander-in-Chief so judicious, that his Grace desires they may be considered as instructions to be attended to, and enforced, by command ing officers, when soldiers are subjected to that description of punishment in the garrison or barrack cells under their superintendence. It must be clearly understood, that all prisoners, previon., to their admission into the cells, are to be carefully examined by a regimental medical officer, and every possible precau tion taken that no man having a tendency or predisposition to rupture shall, on any account, be employed at shot ex ercise, or any other species of hard labour which may be likely to be prejudicial to his health. By command of Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief, (Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adj.-General. Extract from the Half-yearly Report of the Surgeon of the Military Prison in Dublin to 31st December, 1846. " In lifting the shot the man should keep his heels pretty close together, the body being thrown well over the shot, and the weight brought up to the level of the hips close to the person ; so long as this is done the whole effort is made by the muscles of the loins, back, shoulders, and arms, and none required from the muscles of the abdomen ; but if the legs be allowed to be separated, and the shot be lifted oft from the body, the whole effort then c omes u p on th e mus cles of the belly, and by their contraction, as well as that of the diaphragm, the disposition to rupture is excited." RECRUITING DEPARTMENT. Horse Guards, Feb. 9, 1847. All correspondence relative to the recruiting of the troops serving in Ireland is henceforth to be addressed direct to the Adjutant-General, with " Recruiting Service" written on the left-hand corner of the cover, as directed by the Regulations, The Lieutenant-General commanding in Ireland will con tinue to dispose of the cases of recruits, who, having been rejected on joining their regiments or depots, have been declared unfit for the service by medical boards, in the manner pointed out by the Circular Memorandum of the 31st May, 1842, and the proceedings and other documents will be transmitted as heretofore to the Deputy-Adjutant- General in Dublin, for the Lieutenant- GE informa tion, but that office will henceforth be relieved from all the details of the recruiting service, except in so far as they relate to the discipline of the officers and troops employed on that duty. By direction of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, (Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. Horse Guards, Feb. 8,.1847. Officers commanding regiments and depots will imme diately transmit to this department a return showing the n•mber of boys who may have been received by their corps respectively, from tlid various union workhouses throughout the United Kingdom, for the purpose of being trained as drummers or musicians, from the year 1840 inclusive, speci fying the dates of their enlistment, and the workhouses from which they have been received. By command of the Commander•in-Chief. (Signed) J. DIACDONALD, Adjutant-General. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. P orasmorm, FEB. 16 —The Dragon steam-vessel, 1,270 tons, and 560-horse power, commanded, pro tem., by Captain Ramsay, of the Terrible, came into harbour this afternoon from Cork, whither she had conveyed a cargo of meal from the river. The Dragon was ne ar ly lost in a gale off the coast at Ireland. She broke the entablature of one of her engines this morning, and has done herself other damages since she has been in commission—only two months. She has now come in to coal. We mentioned some months since that the new armament ordered for the walls of Portsmouth and its dependencies, including the works on both sides of the harbour and ap proaches, consisted of 330 guns of heavy ulibre. They are in course of being mounted, and comprise the following pieces : NUMB'S.. DESCRIPTION. WEIGHT JACIt. 13 inch mortars ... 5 tons 1 quarter 8-inch shell or shot ... 65 cwt. 8-Inch ditto ... 50 cwt. 8-inch howitzers. 56-pounders ... 97 cwt. 32-pounders ... ... 56 cwt. 24-pounders ... 50 cwt. 24-pounders ... 20 cwt. 24-pounders, carronades. 18-pounders 42 cwt. ......... 330. In addition to the above a strong battery will be erected on the site of the 53 houses in course of demolition on the south side of Broad-street, " Point." The Belleisle troop-ship, Captain J. Kingcome, sailed to day for Gibraltar with the .56th Regiment. No accounts have been received from the Sphynx to-day up to three o'clock, but the state of the wind and weather, blowing fresh from S.W., with thick haze and rain, forbids any hope of getting her off these springs without a change. and that very soon, as the tides " take off " again after to morrow. 5 P.M.—The Ryde packet has just arrived, with Mr. Biddle -sAlausstteernoftothtehSet.CVominmceanntd, e w r h -in -C ea h r i s ef d . isp ß a y tch th es e co from mb* Captainin , packet we learn that the Sphynx is still safe, with her bow to the sea, as before; but the weather continues unfit for boats to go off to the vessel. Yesterday Captain Austen and Mr. Biddlecombe went on board, when it was scarcely pos sible for the surf-boat to live; the boat was unable to land for hours after, when the tide receded. There is no chance of an improvement during the present high tides, as it would be impracticable to move the Sphynx through the surf. She must, therefore, wait more moderate weather, during which interval Captain Austen, no doubt, will continue his arduous duty in removing all possible weight, such as ma. chinery, &c. Wocamicm, Fzu. 16.—The Cockatrice victualling trans port-ship left Woolwich yesterday morning, with boilers for making soup for the poorer inhabitants of Ireland. She is to call at Sheerness to take in a quantity of boilers at that port for the same purpose and same destination. the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, was mo . The Benbow, 72 guns, converted into a depot forveadptaortthoef shteaintigonhif‘o,ormurearblyie.occupied by the Hebe to-day, is to . be ate, Captain Ramsay, t is tu tobe The Terrible steam-f riga , will then be taken into taken out of the dock to-morrow, and the high tides the basin. taken into the dock when the Terribl e. ~ previous to proceeding un the surveying t.s t ß ak e e ch n e o r u , exa mine her bottom . service in the ensuing season. The Mastiff surveying vessel, Captain Master Commander Petlev, ontoTb.ietctlnti:Vetpetaforurd-vgfi edrrowt to tow the W o olwich, to be fitt with her boilers. Kite steam- The Hibernia, Boston steamer, brings a box ad dressed to her Majesty the Queen. It is entered in the bill ct‘it World, no t ri a l, i di n : s o mi a n q t eo u nt a l de n e t od i f t y atsh o e f a i mp l l r u oes s st t e r ne a tt n t e ti d o. of entry as "one box, contents unknown, for h er M a j est y n a ti n e le n d t Q o p t u h u e e e b r n li . im er W e s ri i e c n a b i t i e i l l p i e e u l N y b e l e i i v, c t a . Mr T s. H O E sb l i:rn AT e E , w A ho T s T e E e st as P e T h A as T e A x i c t it n ea DE s her Majesty.—Lire T e o l C our i er. R o nruch D in E t ß er l e Y st . , -- is still living. O n M on d ay l ast she appeared in a rapidly sinking state, but, by the timely administration of stimu lants, she rallied towards evening, and passed a tolerably quiet and tranquil night. At the In ur of going to press we learned, on inquiry, that though a slight change for the better had taken place, she still continued in a state of the greatest uncertainty and danger.—Derby Mercury. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—Arnonif the very many and almost daily instances of the sterling utility of this most wonderful invention of our inventive age , the.fol lowing little incident may be named, as, although the affair serves to show the apparatus as instantaneous l y a pp licable may not, perhaps, be one of absolute public importance, it to subjects important in themselves, and to the parties ix tTell Derby a Dlr. F t r i i ie • d e a r y e st ed , evening, although thof l oe a w i p urely domes. m e d s o sag es e t w ic a c s ha r r e a c c e t iv er e . d O a n t folt Harrison has escaped from the ork As y lum, a nd is sup • Chesterfield station, per telegrak,b:—" posed to have fire-arms about his person. Search all the trains from York. He is tall, has a crooked nose, and has ' en a green coat with pockets at the side. Tell the police to ' look out." To this message another succeeded from Leeds as follows :—" He is caught at Leeds--they have made him quite aecure."..Derby Mercury, LL- ). 5. hest , Ivb 3L ne, o r ervic e Lin, be Int be to S t. b ere arC h; fif e. otb °f s. to to w ere' seal,' ,gliSh ,caci 0 the A I