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THE LATE LADY FLORA HASTINGS 4 (Abridged from the 31orning Post of Saturday.) We hale been honoured by the Marquis of Hastings with OA following interesting and important communication:— TO THE EDITOR or THE MORNING POST. at Burlington Hotel, Sept. 13, 1839. Sze.,-1 will feel obliged by the publication, in your jour nal,'of the following statement and correspondence. If I am asked why I have placed these facts before the pub lic, my answer is, because it is my duty—because I have felt that it was tho only way in which I could defeat the many prejudiced statements, gross misrepresentations, and un blushing felsehoods of interested persons—because I have ' ; felt that every pert of this lamentable history ought to be published, and by so doing every falsehood might be met, and zetrue and indisputable statement of facts be handed down to posterity. I have been told, on high authority, that if 1 bring this subject before the House of Lords it will be immediately silenced as an attack upon the Throne. In surmountable technical difficulties preveut my exposing in a Court of Justice the Tile conduct of those who have slandered my sister • and but one course , therefore, remains open to me, zed dug is, to publish the accompanying correspondence. It has been asked, why each delay has taken place? A few words will answer this. The repeated solicitations of my sister, personally to my self, and by letter to my mother, urged me, during the time it was deemed necessary she should continue at the Palace, to remain silent, es, to use her own expressions, every new act of ours was 'visited upon her dear mistress's, and her own, unfortunate head. I shall not attempt to heighten the pic ture of this frightful tragedy. But it cannot be supposed that any regard for the feelings of those (be their rank and station what they may be)rtho have sacrificed every feeling of my family—who have trodden under foot every Christian principle--who have outraged all 'delicacy, justice, and ho nour—can weigh with me. That the power of the Court may for time protect the guilty—that it may prevent that measure of justice which the common law of the land holds out to the lowes,t subject—that it may foster and permit to bask in its sunshine the basest of slanderers—has, alas l been too fally proved. But I have yet to learn that in this free country it can stide the voice ef truth. I have, therefore, determined to make the public masters of the whole business, by. publishing the entire correspondence which has taken place on this melancholy occasion ; and I now cast for ever from me a subject which has been productive of such pain sad anxiety, fully confident of finding , alive in the breasts of she British nation that justice and sympathy which has been denied me in a higher quarter. On the morning of the 20th of February I received, at Danington Park, a letter from my sister, the late Lady Flora nastiness, dated the 19th of February, informing me that her honour bad beau roost basely assailed, but entering into no particulars. On the receipt of this 1 hastened instantly to London, and, on repairing to my sister, was horror-struck by learning from her own lips, for the tirst time, a partial outline of the dis gusting truths which are now, alas 1 but too well known to the peblie to need any further repetition from me. She said at once, that she felt It a duty she owed to herself, her mis tress, and her family, to submit to the inhunastn trials she underwent, in the presence of (to use her own words) her accuser, Lady Portman, Sir James Clark, and her own maid (whose deposition is now certified upon oath.) Sir Charles 'Mansfield Clarke, long known to her family, was also chosen by my poor sister to attend her. I may here very properly place the statement of sny sister, Lady Flora Hastings, merely remarking that I learned from her own lips that the elimination which she was subjected was conducted with more than ordinary disregard to delicacy and to har feelings : STATEMENT IN TUS HANDWRITING OP THE LADY IPLOHA HASTINGS, MARCH, 1839, SUBMITTED IN THE FORM OP A CASE TO SIR WILLIAM POLLETT AND HR. TALBOT. " I came into waiting on the 10th of January. The ladies then in waiting were, Lady Charlemont, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Spring Rice, and Miss Paget. Baroness Lebsen and Miss Davys are in constant waiting. The same day, having been suffering from bilious illness since the beginning of De cember, I conselted Sir James Clark, her Royal Highness's physician, !aid planed myself under his treatment. " At the expirationot that fortnight Lady Harriet Clive toek Mrs. Campbell's place, and Lady Barham Lady Char lemont's. And, a few days before the meeting of parliament, Lady Tavistoek eaine to the palace to attend her Majesty on that occasion, and to the theatres. She remained about a week sr ten days. Before she quitted, Lady Portman, Lady Caroline Barrington, and Miss Murray came into waiting. " On the 16th of February Sir James Clarke came to me, and asked me whether I were privately married, giving, as his reason, that my figure had excited the remarks of the ladies of the "Atm.' On my emphatic denial he became excited-, urged me ' to confess,' as ' the only thing to save me,' stated his own conviction to agree with that of the ladies,' that it had occurred to him at the first, that no one could look at me and doubt it,' 'and remarks even yet more coarse. " I observed to him, that the swelling from which I had been suffering was very much reduced, and offered him the proof of my dresses. He replied, ' Well, I don't think so. You seem to me to grow larger every day, and so the ladies think.' He proceeded to pay it was the only supposition which could explela my appearance and state of health, • or else you also have some • very bad illness.' I said that was possible, I had thought badly of my state of health, but that his supposition wag untrue and perfectly groundless. He ended by maturing ue, ' that nothing but a medical examina tion could satisfy the ladies of the palace, so deeply were their suspicions rooted,' and that he must inform Lady Port man, wbo had been his confidante,' of my denial. He returned with a reiteration of what he had already said, and, I think, but I will nod be positive, added that it was the more imperative as the rumour had reached her Majesty. I said, feeling perfectly innocent, I should not shrink from any examination, however rigo:oua, but that I considered it a most indelicate and diaagreeiblo procedure, and that I would not be hurried into it. I said also that before anything was determined it would be requisite for me to know the Duchess of gent's pleasure; and inquired if her Royal Highness had authorised these communications to me ? To my surprise I learned that her Royal highness was still uninformed that the slightest suspicion rested on me. " It having been notified to me that it was her Majesty pleasure that I should not appear until my_ character was cleared by the Lewes sugested, and having obtained the per mission of her Royal ISighacea to submit to it, as the most instantaneous mode of refuting the calumny, I sent on Sun day, the 17th, for Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke and Sir James Clark, and the eaaminetion took place in the presence of my accuser, Lady Postmen, and my own maid. ' " In the evening Lady Portman came to me, to express her regret for having been the most violent against me. She acknowledged that she had several times spoken a great deal to the Queen on the subject, especially when she found it was her. Majesty's own idea." She said she was very sorry, but she would have done tic same respecting any one of whom she had the same suspicion. I said my surprise is, that, knowing my family as she did, she could have entertained those suspicions." COUNSEL ' S OPINION. (The opinion of Sir William Follett and Mr. Talbot was given to the effect that the facts of the case did not afford any ground for legal proceedings on the part of Lady Flora Hastings or her family.) Feeling that with me alone rested the responsibility of pro tecting nay sister's character, and restoring her to that place in society from which the artful villainy of her enemies had driven her, I immediately hastened to Lord Winchilsea, a man whose high sense cf honour fully entitles him to the confidence I felt it necessary to repose in him. He agreed with me that the most proper course to take would be to de mand from Lord Melbourne himself an explanation of the business. On seeing his Lordship he declared his ignorance of the subject, berond his havibeen made acquainted with reports by Lady Tavistock, ands having desired the ladies of the Court to be quiet, he himself not placing any belief in it. I also received from him an assurance, on his word of honour, that no one was eonnected with the business BUT the ladies of the Court. I then declared my determination to seek an audience of her Majesty, to express my horror and disgust at the whole of this transaction, and to ask who were the originators of the plot. He urged the business being kept as quiet as possible, for the sake of all parties, the youth of the Queen, and the delicacy of the affair. He further urged my seeing the Duke of Wellington ; and I then proceeded to Apsley House, but was not tbrtunate enough to find his Grace. It may be proper for me to state here that on this and the next day several letters passed between parties high in au thority. Some of them I was permitted to read ; but, they having been strictly of a private nature, I do not feel at li berty to notice them further. I. then wrote a letter to Lord Melbourne, which, with the correspondence that ensued, I here insert:— CORICESPONDZNCS DUTWEUN THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND LOUD UELBOURNE. THE MARQUIS Or LIAI3TINGS TO VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. " Burlington Hotel, Feb. 26, 1839. " My Lord, —Having in vain waited for two days, in the hope of having the audience of her Majesty which I requested (ifnot as a matter of right as a Peer, at least as one of feeling) my patience being exhausted, and being anxious to return to the bosom of my afflicted and insulted family, I am forced to resort to the only means now left in my power, of recording my abhorrence and detestation of the treatment which my sister has lately sustained, by addressing myself to you as the organ through whom all things are now carried on at court. I will begin by stating that 1 retract nothing of what I said in your presence, and that there may be no mistake, now, or hereafter, should this matter become known, (ia which case I will I will publish every thing, having it in writing) ; and I am certain the wore it is known the better my poor sis ter's conduct will appear, and the more revolting the con duct of those who have taken part against her. " I REPZAT, that the whole business has been base and cruel, and reflects dishonour and discredit on all concerned in it, from the highest to the lowest ; and I cannot find words sufficiently strong to convey the \ sense of my disgust and contempt for the conduct of all who have figured in this bu. sinese ; and though by your assertion, on your word of ho nour as si gentlemen, that the whole thing rests with the ladies of the Court, yet I cannot bring myself to think that it has been the deliberate act of her Majesty, judging' ore parti cularly from the fondue, of the Queen since she has disco vered the foulness and falseness of the accusation; but I ascribe it to that baneful influence which surrounds the Throne, and poisons and deadens all the best feelings and dictates of human nature. And now, my Lord, it may be right fur :ne to state (not only a duty to my family and my self, but in case misconstruction might hereafter be put uposx the line of conduct I have adopted) what I have done on this occasion. The very moment I heard of it I posted day and ai4ht to London, and, believing that you had been the chief mover in the business, I waited upon Lord Winchilsea, and asked him (if such were the case) to call you out. By his advice I called upon you myself, and received from you, on your word of honour as a gentleman, a denial of any partici pation in it, beyond having been sent for by the ladies of the Court. I next sought the advice of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Winchilsea being out of town ; and his Grace advised, for the sake of avoiding the painfulness of publicity, that the mater should rest where it stow is. " The Queen has expressed her sorrow; and here, I sup pose, is to CND us cruel a case as ever disgraced the Court of a British Sovereign. But the matter will not rest in my breast • and should it appear that I have not now learnt all particulars, or that more hove takes part in this infamous transaction than I am at present aware of, I am ready at any moment to take it up again, and, as far as lies in my power, will punish all concerned in it. Having said thus much I now close this painful and disgusting business, and retire from the polluted atmosphere of a Court in which I hope my poor sister will no longer remain than to allow her Ma jesty to mark her sorrow for what has passed, and her sense of the deep injury that has been inflicted upon a guiltless and unprotected woman. I shall remain in London till to morrow morning, in case you Lave any further communica tion to make to me ; and have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient servant, " HASTINGS." VISCOUNT MELBOURNL► TO THre. MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " South-street, Feb. 26, 1839. "My Lord—l found your Lordship's letter here on my return home this evening, anti I am much concerned to learn from it that you have been waiting for a communication from me, I can assure your Lordship that I had no idea that this was the case. I conceived myself to have explained to your Lordship that if, after - your conversation with the Duke of Wellington, you still persevered in asking an audience, I would submit your request to her Majesty,and, consequently rather waited for an intimation upon the subject from your Lordship.. If your Lordship is still desirous for an audience, I shall be ready to take her Majesty's pleasure without de lay. I ihall be here until one, and shall be happy to see your Lordship if you wish for any personal communication. I have the honour to remain, my Lord, your Lordship's faith ful and obedient EerTaut (Signed) " MELBOVItNgt" TRH MARQUIS Olt HASTINGS TO VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. " Burlington Hotel, Feb. 27, 1839. ":My Lord—l am very sorry there has been any. miscon ception about my wish to have an audience of the Queen ; but this is easily disposed of by your having the kindness to take her Majesty's pleasure on the subject. As to the ques tion raised by your Lordship, whether this was a matter of a public or private nature, I can only say, though the subject may be a private one, yet it is also of a public kind, inasmuch as it concerns her Majesty's public character.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant, (Signed) " HASTINGS. " To Viscount Melbourne, &c." VISCOUNT MELBOURNE TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " South-street, Feb. 28, 1839. " My Lord—l beg , leave to acquaint your Lordship that her Majesty will receive your Lordship at Buckingham Pa lace this day at one ,o'clock ; and I have the honmir to re main, my Lord, your Lordship's faithful and obedient serv ant,_. _ _ _ (Signed) " MELBOURNE. "The Marquis of Hastings." Os the 28th of February, having received her Majesty's command to attend her at Buckingham Palace, at one o'clock, I repaired thither, and had an audience of her Majesty (the particulars of which have been already published in my sis ter's letter). It might be improper for me more particularly to state what occurred on that occasion, beyond the assur ance of her Majesty that my sister should be treated with honour and kindness. Allinformation or satisfaction on the subject of my inquiries as to who had been the ORIGINATORS of the plot having been denied me at the Palace further than the exculpation of Lord Melbourne, I was diiven to find it out as I best could myself; a thing most difficult from the length of time that had elapsed, the number of persons sup posed to be implicated, and the late period of the business at which I was called upon to act (some days after the outrage had taken place). It therefore onlyremained for me to detect the perpetration of the cruelty; I could prevent nothing. Having seen my sister reinstated in her proper place at the Royal table, and finding that I could be of no further use to her, I returned home, and addressed the following letters to Lords Tavistock and Portman, which I herewith publish, with their answer:— CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK. THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS TO THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK. " Dunington Park, March 1, 1839. " Dear Lord Tavistock—From the length of time I have known you, from the respect and regard which I have ever entertained towards you as a man of the highest honour and integrity, I have determined to write to you on the most painful subject that it has ever been my lot to be called - to act upon, the more painful to me, because not only are those nearest and dearest to me chiefly concerned in it, but there are those who I have ever considered as friends and whose conduct now stands in such a light that I can no longer con sider them as such, till the whole of the infamous business in which their names have been mixed up is explained, and the strong impression which now rest upon my mind proved to be groundless. I need tell you no more than that I allude to the gross lie which has been circulated about my unfortu nate sister Flora, who is in the Duchess of Kent's household. Though unwell at the time I lost not a moment in going to London, and after ten days spent in the most painful investi gation of the business, having received from Lord Melbourne, on his word of honour, his assurance that none but the ladies of the Court were connected with the business, and that it originated with them alone, and that THEY sent to him, and having pressed him to mention WHO sent to him, he men tioned the name of Lady Tavistock (I believe Lady Tavistock was then in waiting) ; and it is to know from HER with WHOM this accusation first originated that _I write to you, and that I may know what part each person has taken in the bnsiness. I think I know more about it than some persons imagine, but I will not act upon my suspicions only. That Lady Portman has taken a very active part in it there can be no 'doubt, from the manner in which she sought my poor sister's forgiveness, after having inflicted the deepest injury she could upon her ! I have also received from the Queen's own lips (having with difficulty got an audience of her Ma jesty) an assurance not only of her sorrow for what has taken place, but her determination to mark her sense of the falsity of the accusation and the injury inflicted upon my poor sister, by showing her every mark of attention ; and I have the happiness to feel that I have done much (I believe I may say everything in MT power) to alleviate her sorrow on this trying occasion ; and I owe much to the kindness and judgment both of Lord Winchilsea and the Duke of Welling ton in the manner in which I have proceeded. Though my conscience acquits me of not having done ALL I CAN in the business, yet I know that my poor sister will have the pain ful ordeal to go through EVERY version which the public may give of this story, and that I myself must submit to the same, and AM at THIS moment submitting to the same UN FAIR judgment till I publish everything connected with the business from the time I first became acquainted with it (which determination I told Lord Melbourne, by letter, I had come to) ; and have only refrained from so doing in the hope that my poor sister might be spared the pain of the publicity of this metter. May I then ask, was NOT Baroness Lehzen the first person who originated this foul slander, and men tioned it to Lady Tavistock ; and if she be not the individual, who was /—I remain, dear Lord Tavistock, your very truly, (Signed) " HASTINGS." THZ MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK TO THE MARQUIS 017 HASTINGS, _ " Oakley, March 6, 1839. " My dear Hastings—Your letter has annoyed me very much, but I feel thankful to you for the frank and friendly spirit which dictated it. I knew nothing of the painful cir cumstances you relate until after they had occurred. lam unwilling even now to name the subject of your letter to Lady Tavistock, as I am sure it would distress her greatly ; nor do I like to write upon it except to say that she was influenced by the best motives in communicating the infor mation she had received to Lord Melbourne. " I am persuaded you would feel this as strongly as I do, if you could have an opportunity of conversing with her, and of hearing from herself the part she took in it; but how this is to be brought about, at the distance we are from each other, I know not. I much wish, however, that you would contrive to see her.—Believe me, dear Hastinjs , most truly yours, " AVISTOCK. " I shall not tell Lady Tavistock that I have heard from you till I receive your answer to this." THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " Oakley, March 7, 1839. " My dear Hastings—Since I wrote to you yesterday I have had some conversation with Lady Tavistock on this unfortunate subject, without saying that I had heard from yoti. I find that 'the case, so far as she was concerned, ties m a nutshell ; therefore I may as well state it to you at once. " When she went to Buckingham Palace, just before the meeting of Parliament, to attend the Queen to the theatres and the House of Lords, she was informed of the opinion that had unhappily been entertained of your sister's state of health, and was requested to name it to Lord Melbourne, as the proper person to advise upon it. Her first impulse was to mention it herself to Lady Flora, as the more direct and friendly course, conscious that the opinion in question was altogether erroneous, or that she must have been mar ried clandestinely; This feeling was overruled, however, by considerations which I need not detail to you. She accord ingly told Lord Melbourne just what I have repeated to you, stating to him also her first intention of speaking to Lady Flora.. " I did not ask Lady Tavistock, nor did she tell me (for she is one of the most discreet of ladies), from whom she had received her information, nor do I think she would feel justified in doing so under any circumstances. " Of course she must take the responsibility of having named the subject to Lord Melbourne, and to Lord Mel bourne only. She considered it the best course to be adopt ed, and there she left it. Soon after this she left London with me, and has since been informed, much to her joy and relief, from her successor in waiting (Lady Portman), that there is no foundation whatever for the suspicions that had been excited. On every account, on Lady Flora's, and yours especially, she has been much distressed, but is conscious of having acted for the best in the painful position in which she was placed. Having now, my dear Hastings, stated to you, without reserve, all Lady Tavistock has told me that is essential to her part of the case, I hope you will not press me to do more, for I must tell you fairly that I do not think she will give up her authority—even to me. I allude to the opinion of the medical attendant, which you are aware was borne out by appearances. It has been an unfortunate bu siness, but I am persuaded that the best intentions prevailed among the few that were concerned in it. " Your feelings have been naturally roused and your sus picions excited ; but, after the danger you have lately wit nesed of forming opinions rashly, I hope you will do nothing publicly, except upon the fullest consideration and with the best advice. " Pray pardon this piece of gratuitous counsel, given in the sincerity of friendship and regard; and believe me, dear Hastings, ever truly yours, " TAVISTOCK." THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS TO THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOC K. " Donington, March 11, 1839. " Dear Lord Tavistock—Your two letters I have duly re ceived. but they are so unsatisfactory I hardly know how to answer them. They are couched in the most friendly terms, yet what would be the most friendly thing to me (the in formation I seek) is denied me. You say my letter is frank. I expected to have been met in the same spirit. Put your self for one minute in the painful position in which every member of my family now stands, and ask yourself if you should like to be first insulted, infamy cast upon your name for ever, and then, when you seek redress, by asking who is the originator of the base and false calumny raised against you, you were to be told ' It is well known who that person is,' but you must sit down quiely, hear all this, ask no more questions, and be subject to the false judgment and lies of every scoundrel in England ? " Look, I only ask you, at the paragraphs in every day's paper, and tell me how you would succumb to such treat ment ? " My letter WAS friendly, but it was ONLY so because I thought you knew nothing of this vile business ; and it was to give Lady Taviatock a fair opportunity to clear herself from the disgrace that now attaches to all concerned in this, and whose different niodes of proceeding in it are all now mixed up together, and judged alike by the world. When I publish my- letter to Lord Melbourne (in which I do not mince matters), those concerned will, if they have any regard for their characters, have to explain to the world, not to me only, what part they have taken in this business, or all be classed together in THAT contempt and disgrace in the ZYES of the wolun which I must say, they MOST richly merit. " I only wait Lord Portman's reply before I publish all ; and in so doing, though I may make enemies by telling the truth, I shall not repent it when I think that those (some of them old friends) who have helped in this business would quietly see me and mine consigned to infamy for ever rather than do me an act of common justice. (Signed " HASTINGS. I " I must also add that will hold no personal communi cation with any whose names are now mixed up with this business. The questions I wish answered are simply these : " By whom was Lady Tavistock requested to name this business to Lord Melbourne ? '" By whom was Lady T. informed of the opinion enter tained with respect to my sister's state of health 1" THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " Wakefield Lodge, March 14, 1839. "My dear Hastings—l have this moment received your letter of the 11th, and am sorry to learn by it that mine has uot been satisfactory to you. " I told you all I knew from Lady Tavistock, and have nothing to add to that statement. " She had a painful duty imposed upon her, she discharged it in the most cautious and delicate manner, and feels she has nothing to reproach herself with. " I repeat that I am unable to answer this question you have put tome, and I do not think I should be justified in requiring Lady Tavistock to do so. If you do not consider this 'frank' I am sorry for it. " I have a sincere regard for you, and should be very sorry to forfeit your good opinion ; but Ido not see that I could with honour act otherwise.—Yours, truly, " TAVISTOCK." THE SAME TO THE SAME. " Oakley, March 15, 1839. " Dear Hastings—As you are unwilling to see Lady Tavis tock, I requested her to state in writing the part she took in this unhappy business, of which I knew nothing until it had passed over. She has not withheld anything essential from you except the names of those with whom she was in com munication. lam afraid you will still thigk that exception unsatisfactory, but I caullot help it, " I have asked the opinion of one friend of the highest honour and character, who thinks with me that I ought not to require more of lAdy Tavistock. " Imay tell you, however, that my own impression, and I am pretty "suie it is a correct one, is, that she was made ac quainted with the prevailing suspicions as matter of duty by some lady or ladies of the court who happened to be in •waiting at the time, and that she, had s po conversation on the subject with Baroness Lehzen before she found it necessary to speak to Lord Melbourne.—Yours, tru - ly, TAVISTOCK." THE SAME TO THE SAME. " Oakley, March 17, 1839. " Dear Hastings,—To guard against mistakes, I beg you to understand that what I wrote to you the other day about the probable source of Lady Tavistock's information was merely my own notion of what was likely to have occurred, and not any admission on the part of Lady Tavistock ; for I am still ignorant of what happened with respect to that. But as you named Baroness Lehzen, and appeared to fix yOur suspicions upon her, I thought it right to give you my own impressions upon that point. - Of course I can answer for nothing beyond Lady Tavistock's own statement. She alone has incurred the responsibility of having named the matter to Lord Melbourne, and has no desire that any other should share it with her.—Yours truly, " TAVISTOCK.” THE SAME TO THE SAME. " Oakley, March 28, 1839. "My dear Hastings,-1 am sorry to perceive, from Mr. Fitfgerald's 'letter to the Examiner, that he represents Lady Talustock to the public as one of those said to have been most active against Lady Flora.' Be assured it is not in her t nature to take an active part against any one. Towards one of your family, especially, it would be utterly repugnant to er feelings. " SOme day or other, when justice is done to all, she will be found merely to have discharged an obvious, but painful, duty in a kind spirit to all parties, and in a manner so cautions and discreet that she communicated the subject to no one except the minister—not even to me. But I know, from ex perience, how often our best motives and actions are misre presented, especially when judged under the influence of excited feelings. Flowever, I still indulge a hope that, when yod have full time for calm reflection, you will think more favourably,' not dnly of her conduct in this business, but also of mine ; for I am persuaded you are too high-minded a man to think ill of another for refusinc , to sacrifice what he con . sidfrs personal honour and character for any consideration whatever. It is possible I may have erred (for we.all are liable to that) in my application of these qualities to the pre sent case ; but after having it confirmed by the friend to whose opinion I appealed, and on whose judgment and honour I relied, you will have seen that I had no choice. You would not for a moment question the high character of that . friend if I were to name him to you.—Yours truly, TAVISTOCK." THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS TO THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK. " Stoke Rochford, Colsterwosth, April, 1839. " Dear Lord Tavistock—l thank you for the frank and friendly tone that pervades your letter which was forwarded to me from Donnington yesterday. lam not responsible fot any expressions in Mr. Hamilton Eitzgerald's letter, which I did not see till it appeared in the Examiner, though I knew he intended to publish something, from a kind feeling, of the cruel position in which I, as well as the rest of my family , have been placed by the incorrect statements which have ap peared in many of the public prints. " I will make no comment upon his letter, neither do I think that his publication can in any way prejudice anything which I may feel it my duty to lay before the public, no re paration having been (yet made to my family for this gross insult. " You have yourself explained the measure of Lady Ta vistock's participation in this painful transaction, and I am bound to say on that statement I implicitly rely ; but in do ing so I relinquish not my own opinions as to the course which even in that measure her Ladyship deemed it her duty to pursue. I will only add at present that I remain yours truly, " HASTINGS." STATEMENT OF THE MARCHIONESS OF • TAVISTOCK. " When I went to Buckingham Palace, at the end of Ja nuary, to attend upon the Queen, I found strong suspicions of an;unpleasant nature existing there with respect to Lady Flora Hastings's state of health. It was considered neces sary, for the honour of her Majesty and the character of the household, that these suspicions should not be permitted to continue and spread, without some step being taken to put a stop to them. Observing the opinion in question was borne out by appearances, and conceiving that Lady Flora might have been privately married, I felt much desire to speak to her at once upon the subject ; but circumstances occurred which prevented my carrying this wish into effect, and ren dered it my painful duty to inform the Prime Minister of the opinion that had been unfortunately entertained. I hope I did so in the most delicate and cautious manner, and for this I consider myself responsible. "ANNA MARIA TAVISTOCK. " Oakley, March, 15, 1839." CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND LORD PORTMAN. THE MARQUIS OF HASTING TO LORD PORTMAN. "My Lord—l have been prevented from sooner writing to you by the expectation of receiving an answer from Lord Tavistock, on the subject of the late disgraceful attack on the character of my sister, Lady Flora Hastings. My purport in now writing to your Lordship is to know whe ther Lady Portman's suspicions were suggested to her, or occurred to herself ; and what communication, if any, passed between her Ladyship and the Baroness Lehzen. I wrote first to Lord Tavistock, Lady Tavistock's name having been first mentioned to me by Lord Melbourne.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient servant, " Marsh 7, 1839. " HASTINGS." LORD PORTMAN TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " Bryanston, March 12, 1839. "My Lord—l have this day received your letter of the 7th of March. I have the honour of reminding your Lord ship that Lady Portman remained in London for the purpose of personally affording you any explanation of facts that you might require, and did not leave the Palace until you had declined to see her. Under these circumstances I must de cline to give you any answer to any isolated questions that you may ask ; but I shall be most happy to receive you here at any time, or receive you at 6, Belgrave-square, on our re turn to London in April, that Lady Portman may personally inform you most fully of such facts as are within her know ledge, and connected with the 'discharge of her duty on the late painful occasion.—l have the honour to be your Lord ship 'EI very obedient, o' The Marquis of Hastings. PORTNAN.” THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS TO LORD PORTMAN. • " Donington Park, March 14, 1839. "My Lord—l have the honour to acknowledge the reecipt of your letter of the 12th March, and I think you cannot wonder at my not being over-anxious to speak to Lady Port man after the line of conduct she had pursued. At least she must herself have been conscious of having in some measure acted very unfairly to my sister, or she would not have sought the forgiveness of one whose character had been stamped With infamy and disgrace by one of the basest calumnies that ever disgraced a British Court. What particular part Lady Portman took in the business still remains to me a mystery. If her sorrow for what has passed be sincere she has now the only opportunity she ever will have of makilig atonement for the deepest injury which could be inflicted , on a guiltless woman, by giving up the name of the originator of this monstrous and villanous transaction. Put yourself for one moment in the painful position of one of my family, and I only ask you to look at the garbled statements and the lies which daily fill the papers, and answer me, as a man of honour and a gentleman (and, though a stranger to you, I have every right to think I am addressing both the one and the other), whether I have not a perfect right to inquire into Lady Portman's conduct on this occasion ; or am I to be suffering the taunts and false statements of the world till April, perhaps then only to be told by Lady Portman that she is sorry for what has passed, and no more ? " The same feeling which prevented me from meeting Lady Portman in' London acts still more strongly now in forbid ding me to put my foot wider your roof ; and Lady Portman must remember that I stated to Sir James Clark at the time my reason for not meeting her Ladyship, at seven o'clock in the morning, at Buckingham Palace. I did not ask the in terview, but her Ladyship was pressingly anxious to explain her conduct ; and I now say she has still the opportunity, and ought to do so ; and I demand it, as an act of common justice to my sister—not as one of courtesy. I ask no more isolated questions. I ask for the whole truth, and nothing else, in explanation of that line of conduct which ber Lady ship thought it her duty to pursue ; and, if I do not get it in this shape, I must resort to the only means then left in my power.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient servant, " HASTINGS." LORD PORTMAN TO TIIE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. " Bryanston ' March 17, 1839. "My Lord—l have this day had the honour of receiving your letter of the 14th, and am very sorry to find that you have chosen to express yourself in so unfair a manner towards Lady Portman, who has had hitherto no reason to suppose that her conduct, in the discharge of her duty, has subjected her to the slightest suspicion of having acted unfairly towards your sister, and ' whose part in the business still remains to you a mystery.' lam willing to attribute to your Wounded feelings the undue warmth of your letter, and have, on calm consideration, decided to lay aside my personal feelings on its perusal, in the hope that may be informed by you here after that you are satisfied that Lady Portman has done only her ditty. " I will, under the conviction of this ultimate result, ad mit that, while you entertain your present feelings towards Lady Portman, you are justified in declining to see her here •, and still further admit that, if I was in yourposition, I should desire to know the whole truth from her. I have therefore, requested her to draw up a statement of such facts as are within her knowledge connected with the discharge of her duty ; and I enclose it herewith, taking leave to add that she has not lengthened it by minute detail, but given the general and essential substance of all that relates to her conduct. If, however, any more particular statements have been made to you, upon which explanation may be fairly required by you, Lady Portman will be happy to afford it, so far as may relate to herself.—l have the honour to be your obedient, " PORTDIAN." STATEMENT OF LADY PORTMAN. " A few days after I had entered upon my attendance at the Palace, in February, I was informed of the existence of suspicions that Lady Flora Hastings must have been pri vately married. This informatinn, which was not given to me by or from the Baronesss de Lehzen, drew my attention more particularly to Lady F. Hastings's appearance, and I. then formed the opinion that it was necessary, for the honour of the Court, and for the character of Lady Flora Hastings, that all doubt should be removed upon the subject. " A few days afterwards Lady Flora Hastings's medical attendant communicated to me, as the Lady in Waiting, his suspicion's that Lady Flora Hastings was privately married, and asked my opinion upon the subject, which I gave only as connected with my observation of her appearance. Sir James Clark subsequently informed me that Lady Flora Hastings had denied to him her marriage, and that he bad requested her to select another medical adviser to consult with him upon her state of health. " It then became my duty to communicate to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent that until those doubts were removed Lady Flora Hastings should not appear in her Majesty's presence. Subsequently, at the request of Lady Flora Hastings, I was present at the consultation of the medical men, who communicated to me, in medical terms, their opinion, explaining the opinion by which I, as well as others, had been misled. I communicated to her Majesty the result of the consultation, and I soon afterwards had an interview with Lady Flora Hastings ; and, having discharged the duty then imposed upon me, I expressed my own feelings towards her, and explained the course which I had felt it to be my duty to take and I left her with the impression on my mind that she did not think my conduct attributable to any other motive. I remained in the Palace some days longer than I should otherwise have done, in case any information should have been required of me, as the Lady in Waiting during this painful investigation ; and on the evening before I left London, having understood from Sir James Clark that he had suggested to Lord Hastings an interview with me, I wrote to Sir James Clark, saying that if Lord Hatings wished to see me I would delay my departure for a few hours the next day ; but that if Lord Hastings did not wish to see me I should be glad to know it at an early hour in the morning, that I might not be detained. I received a note the following morning, saying, '.I have just received Lord Hastings's reply, which is, that under. resent circumstances he does not wish to see your Ladyship. " I then felt myself at liberty to return to Bryanston. " Bryanston, March 17,1539, E. rowri44N," [After this the Marquis of Hastings found it necessary to take the opinion of counsel, as to the best mode of getting at the truth by a legal process ; but, finding that all his efforts for redress were ineffectual, he wrote the letter to Lord Mel-' bourne, which we published in the Standard of April 19. Theh follows the corespondence between the Marchioness ofd Hastings and Lord Melbourne, which was published in the Standard of April 23. The Marquis of Hastings then pro ceeds.] In this state of things it was determined to let the matter rest whilst my sister remained at Court, which it was judged necessary she should continue to do for some time longer, to protect her from calumny. Some time afterwards my sister's illness again manifested itself to an alarming degree. Even the public manifestation of sympathy with which she was repeatedly greeted produced so bad an effect upon her that it was judged right to keep her as quiet as possible I need not add more than that she became rapidly worse, and all medical aid proved unavailing against an illness of long standing, and much INCREASED by the anxiety of mind her wrongs produced, and which at last hur ried her to an untimely grave. I think it proper to state some further facts which have been verbally communicated to me (and for which I so far vouch), that occurred on the occasion of the barbarous and indelicate investigation to which my sister was exposed, al though written documents to substantiate the whole of them are not in my possession. Some questions having been put to my sister, and answered, it was suggested that the inquiry ought not to proceed further, and that they might now feel quite satisfied. Sir James Clark objected, and stated that the ladies of the Court would not be satisfied without the strictest examination, and that, if Lady Flora knew her own innocence, she could have no rea . son to oppose the most complete scrutiny. It has also been stated to me, and corroborated to the ful lest extent by a deposition sworn before a magistrate of Ayr shire by my sister's maid, who was present at the examination, that while the whole demeanour of Sir Charles Clark during the painful and humiliating scene was characterised by kind ness, the conduct of Sir JAMES Clark, as well as that of Lady Poitman, was unnecessarily abrupt, unfeeling, and indelicate. This deposition I withhold, as it contains much that is WHOLLN . unfit for general perusal. I subjoin the following documents in further elucidation of the subject : EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF THE LATE LADY FLORA HASTINGS TO MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY. TO THE DOWAGER MARCHIONESS OF HASTINGS. " Buckingham Palace, March 1, 1839. ‘,` She (the Duchess of Kent) shrunk with horror from the idea of my submitting to the test demanded, but I urged her, for my sake, for that of my family, and for her own, for I felt it right towards her to allow me to meet the charge in the manner most convincingly and instantly to refute it. 1 was strong in innocence, and I felt my courage equal to any en durance." TO THE DOWAGER LADY HASTINGS. " Buckingham Palace, Wednesday, March 13, 1839. " Lady Portman apologised to me. She came to me the. Sunday evening, while I was eating my bit of dinner, and told me, with tears in her eyes, that, as all had ended so happily for all parties !' she was anxious to say that as perhaps no one had been so inveterate against me in speaking to the Queen, she thought it right to do so, that I might not be lieve the Queen had a personal bias against me. She meant to say, ' I am very sorry, but I should (such is my feeling towards the Queen) have said the same of any one respecting whom I (entertained ?) the same suspicions. , I said, Oh, Lady Portman, what surpriseS me is that you could entertain those suspicions. You do not know me much, but youknew enough of my people to have known they were impossible.' I was too ill to discuss the manner in which they had been acted upon ; so, after giving me a message of regret from the Queen, who said if I would like to see her she would see me that evening or next morning (the first I declined, not being equal to it; and next day it was equally out of the question, as I was suffering from nervous headache, and scarcely able to speak,) and a request that, in waiting or out of waiting, I would reside as her guest at the Palace as long as I liked, to show how fully we are satisfied,' she left me. I gave her my hand in token of forgiveness ; but when she asked to come to me afterwards I declined. It is one thing to forgive and another to forget. Thank God I can do the first, tont my memory is stubborn. He (Sir James Clark) began that day to speak to me with some degree of feeling ; but, irritated by my denial, became violent and coarse, and even attempted to browbeat me." " Buckingham Palace, April 6, 1839. " It is remarkable from that second day (after Lady Flora's arrival from Scotland,) the 11th of January, to the 23d day of Februury, the idea, however or by whomsoever suggested * * * was so strong in the Queen's mind, that she never opened her lips to me." TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS " Buckingham Palace, May . , 1839. " Lady Portman had my forgiveness as a Christian ; but I declined ever after seeing or knowing her from her conduct. " With regard to the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness had a very warm conversation with her, on every bearing of the transaction, and it was in that conversation Lady Portman took upon herself to aver, from her experience as a married woman, that there was no doubt I was in the situation they alleged me to be in. _ _ " - It is upon that averment that Lady Portman stands com mitted and convicted as a slanderer, and out of that position no ingenuity can take her ; and it was upon that feeling that the Duchess declined seeing her, and restricted her explana tion of her conduct to a written one, which explanation her Royal Highness merely acknowledged, and refgrred Lady Portman to her Majesty's advisers." ABSTRACTED FROM A DIARY KEPT BY THE LATE LADY FLORA HASTINGS, IN HER OWN HAND WRITING. With one exception, an inquiry after Lady Forbes's chil dren, her Majesty showed Lady Flora no notice from the 24th of March, the date when Mr. Fitzgerald's letter was pub lished, until the 9th of June, when her Majesty sent to ask how she was. COPY OF CERTIFICATE IN SIR J. CLARK'S HANDWRITING. " Buckingham Palace, February 17, 1839. " We have examined with great care the state of Lady Flora Hastings, with a view to determine the existence or non-existence of pregnancy, and it is our opinion, although there is an enlargement of' stomach, that there is no ground for suspicion that pregnancy does exist or ever has existed. (Signed) " CHARLES M. CLARKE, M.D. " JAMES CLARK, M.D." My heart sickens at the repetition and recollection of the scenes I have so lately witnessed ; but whatever may be the opinion of those interested in calling for silence on this sub ject, I could only regard that line of conduct on my part as the most cringing submission to the most atrocious injustice. I have therefore now performed not only a very obvious but a very painful duty, by laying this statement before the pub lic ; and I shall henceforward seek in the bosom of my family that consolation which alone remains to me, namely, the feeling of having done the utmost in my power (under cir cumstances without parallel or precedent) to wrest from infamy and disgrace the character of her who is, alas ! now no more ; and whose unostentatious piety and meekness might have shielded her from such wrongs, and with the world I now leave that painful subject for ever. (Signed) HASTINGS. FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND LORD MELBOURNE. We are authorised by Lord Hastings to publish the follow ing correspondence between himself and Lord Melbourne, relating to the tone adopted by the latter in his final reply to the Dowager Lady Hastings : SECOND CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND LORD MELBOURNE. TO VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. " Burlington Hotel, June 19, 1839. "My Lord—l have allowed the interval which has elapsed since the date of my last communication with your lordship to pass, in the expectation that a sense of justice towards Lady Flora Hastings would have led to a reversal of the decision that no satisfactory apology or atonement should be made for the cruel insult which had been offered to her feel ings and honour, and, through her, to the honour of her family. " I have abandoned the hope of this act of justice with regret, because I have felt that it is impossible for me; under existing circumstances, to take any steps publicly to enforce it, nor can I make any one personally responsible to myself for the outrage of my sister. " But, my Lord, your Lordship's letter of the 17th -of March to my mother, Lady Hastings, is of a different cha racter. " That letter I have a right to consider as of a private nature; and I have only been deterred from requiring you to make an apology to the Dowager Lady Hastings, for the offensive and insulting terms in which it is couched, by the consideration that if I had done so at an earlier date, I might thereby have precluded the possibility of that ample and public reparation being offered to my sister which I had a right to expect, and that my demand for an explanation of the, language in your private letter to Lady Hastings might have been misrepresented, and erroneously considered as applying to those letters which were written by her Majesty's command. " This difficulty has now ceased ; these considerations are no longer applicable ; and I have now only to require your Lordship to offer such an apology to my mother, Lady Has tings, for the language in which you have addressed her in your letter of the 17th of March, as will be satisfactory to her feelings, and be such as I, consistently with my own honour and my duty, can advise my mother to receive. " Lord Rosslyn, who will deliver this letter to you, is fully in possession of my sentiments upon this very painful subject, and has undertaken to receive and carry to the any communication which you may do me the honour to make to me,—l have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) " HASTINGS. " To the Viscount Melbourne, &c., South-street." VISCOUNT MELBOURNE TO THE MARQUIS OP HASTINGS. " South street, June 20,1839. "My Lord—l beg leave to acknowledge your Lordship's letter, which I received yesterday evening from Lord Ros s ly n . " The greater part of that communibation I pass by as irre velant and immaterial. The reasons which have induced your Lordship so long to delay the demand which you now make, are for your Lord ships consideration, and not for mine. ` 1 Notwithstanding the peremptory language which your Lordship thinks proper to employ, if I could either feel or be convinced that my letter of the 17th of March last, addressed to the Marchioness :Dowager of Hastings, was couched, as your Lordship expresses it, in offensive and insulting terms, 'I should be not only ready but anxious and eager to offer every reparation in my power. " Your Lordship demands that a satisfactory apology should be made to the Marchioness Dowager of Hastings for the language in which I have addressed her Ladyship in my letter of the 17th of March. If any expression can be pointed out which is disrespectful, I am ready at once to retract it ; but with respect to the substance, meaning, and import of that letter, I thought it my duty to write it, and I am prepared to abide by and sustain it. "'I have the honour to remain, my Lord, Your Lordship's faithful and obedient servant, (Signed) " MELBOURNE. ' " To the Marquis of Hastings, &c. &c.” THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS TO VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. " Grosvenor-place, June 23, 1839. "My Lord—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of your Lordship's letter of this date, delivered to me by Lord Rosslyn. " I will admit that your Lordship is the best judge of the propriety and expediency of the substance and import' of the letter which you thought it your duty to write, and I can not believe that you could entertain any deliberate ' meaning' to convey offence and insult to a lady. " But I must be permitted to repeat that the lair ' mage of the latter part of your letter, of the 17th of March, to the Marchioness Dowager of Hastings, has been considered so offensive in its general tone, and has unavoidably been so painful to the feelings of my mother, that I felt it to be my imperative duty to call your attention to it, and I have done so in the full confidence and expectation that you will *not hesitate to offer to the Marchioness Dowager of Hastingsthe only reparation in your power, by retracting the language complained of, or distinctly explaining that the expressions which have been so deeply wounding to the feelings of my mother were made use of with no intention to offend.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) HASTINGS, " To the tiisce4nt IVlelbome," N ^44% . \ it_ . I.C. "VISCOUNT MELBOURNE TO THE MARGLUIS OF " South-street, June 20, 1832. "My Lord—l have the, honour pf acknOWled g i ng y our Lordship's letter of this day. ' , " Your Lordship has not poiiited out OpPyreeise expres sions :M .nly,letter which' your _Lordship con s id ers t o h ave been 'Offensive, nor haVe you% - staed thevibwon why you so consider them. " If I were to retract these expressions without substi tuting others I should leave my onettning imperfect; and I protest I know not Where tolitid4oilriswhich, in my opinion, would be less liable to objection , than those which I have employed. . • !But the second alternative whiellyOur Lordship proposes to me I embrace without difficulty or hesitation, arid rrequest your Lordship to assure-the afarehirme!trilmmgerettirPtingl' that nothing was further from my intention than to offer her Ladyship any Offence, or to treat her Ladyship otherwise than with the feipect due to her station, rank, and ch aracter, and more particularly due to.,the..p*ft*circuP444l444&44;igtkiph a. 'that correspondende te lave thelonour to re main, my Lord, your Lordship's faithinl - .and obedient •serkant, • - • • - (Signed) • " To the Marquis of Hastings, Lc: '43 , :e. &c." THE .MARQUIS CF ."STINGS TO - ..ISCCUNT Mr:T.110 , "71N1.:. " GrOSITeiIC.C.I)IIOe,4I.Ir:C 21, 18!;'). r My' .LOrd—l have to acknowlea'ge -the receipt of your send letter of yesterday. Whilst yOur Lordship aaheres to the language of your letter of the 17th March, you request one to express to the Marchioness Dowager of ~ I-TaStings that it was not your in-, terition to offer to her Ladyship any offence, or 'to treat her wich the slightest disrespect. `,` I shall immediately communicate your evpl a nation to my mother, to whom, I trust, it' i,factory ; at the same time I cannot but regret that the Mirchioness Dowager of 1-11StintfsT; haie made use of terms and:exiireSsions without the as4uranee yon have now afforded me that no disrespect or offrnce was contemplatell, *wind & in toy opinion, tuid in that of 'all whom I have consulted, 'justly warrant the opposite conclusion.—lhaTethehonpur te be lour Lordship's, &e. • - (Signed) " " To the Viscount Melbourne,•&e. VISCOUNT MELBOURNE TO THE MARQUIS - 01 e IT.TINGS " i)owning-street,-June 21, 15:39 , "My Lord—l have the honour of ack . nowledging your Lordship's letter of this day, and remain, my „L d r s l,•yoltr Lordship's raithful servant, - i • . ... . (Signed) " ?.._l7,l4dunNE ,. . " The .Marquis of Hastings, &e. &c. &c." . , COURT CIRCULAR Wflinson, Evr.NING.-- 1 :-This • afternObTrE7rThia je4y rode on horseback to VirginiaNiTuter, , aceOmpanied by Vi+connt Melbonro . q-and Viscnnt . Polliierstan,.andiatt - etitted -by. the Earl of tlxbridgc, Earl Lord rill 'Zan, the -Hon. Miss Spring nice, ~.• Itobert Otway, and Sir George and Madatne. Hoogvorst,' y Count Aroliot fol'owed in the • suite of llor 2,lajesty, in an open pony phaeton. In a second carriage were Lady Dundas, tile Hon. Miss Pitt, and•Mon6ieur - Van de Weyer. • Lady Harriet Clive drove to Cumb * erland Lodge in a car riage and four. This afternoon, at 'bne o'clock, his Majesty - the. King. of the Belgians left the castle, for the purpose - of proceeding to Claremont, -wileie his Majesty will remain during the night. The King is expected to return to.the castle irithe course of to-morrow. . :- • • Her Majesti the %keen of ;the Belgians and her Bevai Highness the Duchess of _Kent'accomianied his hale far as Bushy, where they:remained, and paid a vi.4it to the Queen Dowager. • . The Queen of the Belgians and the Duches of Kent will return to the castle this evening to dinner. Monsieur - Van Yraet left the castle, this morning, for Claremont. ' Lady Isabella Wentyss is expected to arrive at the castle to-morrow. . . The following_ personages are - expected to arrive at the castle this evening, to join the royal dinner party :—Lord John Russell,,. Earl of Uxbridge, Sir William Lumley, - and the Hon. Miss Lister. • Sir George Grey arrived at the castle this .morning, and had the Ininour Of. .an audience 'of :her Majesty. Sir George will have the hOnour of dining with the Queen thislevetiing. The royal dinner party_this evening-, in addition to the:dis tinguished personages -we have enumerated,' will inchide:the following.:—Her Majesty . the. Queen' of the Belgians, .her Royal:Highness - the Duchess of ''Kent, Viscount Melbourne, Mons. and Madame . Van de IVe - yer, ViscOunt Palinerston, Lady Lytteltiin, Lady, C.:•DUndas, lion..l4lisSes Pitt. and Spring Rice, Baroness Lehzen,.Cotint and Countess Sclins tiani, .Earl. of Surrey, Madame..d'lloogrorst, Count Arshot, Lord Fingall, Sir Robert (Away, and Cel. Wemyss. = - UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, (From. tht o,,foiyl Yesterday sen'night- the - Rev:- Robert Appleton, Of Pembroke and Chaplain' of. the Re'adin County, Gaol, was elected by the Town Council, thc Grarn 7 mar School, Reading, in;the roiriu . iif the Rev. t i red. Valpy. The Council declared that the sum of ten guineas was to be the charge for educuting-a day scholar, including theslassics, writing, and arithmetic.. On Monday sen'niglit theßev. Sackville Gardiner Bourke, M.A. of St. Mary Hall, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to .the Rectory of fiatlierop Glou cestershire, vacant by , thedeath ofthe Rev. Thomas Pettat ; patron, the Right Hon. Lord de'Manley. • • The Rev.• Henry Achim Sergison Atwood; M.A. of Queen's College, Curate of Mickleton - , Gloucestershire, has-been latkd to the Vicarage of Ashelworth, GtoucesterShire, aeaht by the death of-the Rev. Wiliam Frederick of Trinity College, Cambridge ; patron, the Bishop of GlOiree4.; ter and Bristol"- _ . , The Rev. -Arthur Dene, N. A. of Exeter Cope e, hissi9Cfl instituted to the Rectory of BitOclon, .I) , evonshire, aunt the death of the Rey. V. MuleS , . , ito m 67r1tr, Rev. M. .B. Whomas ; late ettrate • age of Carew, 'Petnbrokeshire r yacan. ,• 1, , t Rev. G. L. Hamilton; • patron, the . . • Rev. D. W. Adams; to "the , Perpetual C s, • 11 stone, St. IsseVs, Pembrokeshire ; patrou, ,011, Esq Rev.. ThomaSJessop, of Bilton, to theTleamse•of Yorkshire, vacant by the death of. thu Ret. 1%. M. Shaun patrori, R. F. Wilson;. Esq. Rev. Matthew, Blagden 1-IVle , t-M.A.:, of TH: - iity Cambridge, Curate. of Wottori,timier, E4h;(;;•t(v ' he Pcepetaal Curacy of Stroud,"Gloucesterslnre, ins Of ihe Rev. William Frederick PoWell ; .patron; .- 3i1 , 110 . 1) of CA'iou cester and Bristol. - • • . • - - • Rev. D. Evans, tiythe Vicarag.39f St, Keverne,- Co.,iwall, vacant by the cleath of the Rev. James Pascoe ; patrons, J. Bennett, Esq.; of Cadbury-HoliSe,"SoinorSet,"ana others. Rev. - E. Pple, tb the Rectury of Sheviol:e, v;:loaut: by the cession pfibe, Rev. I . oclnaid Polo.; pitroo, Vi 11. P. Carew, Esq. • Rev. Christopher Garstini .to •• the _Living pl, ..Wurabally., owney; Diocese' of Drum ore. • • ,:••• - Rev. Ridge, Vicar of Duragarro ,to the Living4f 'Rev. P,•Bolttn), to the miliistrr - of the pat•iWacf Afalbay, Ireland. . , • • • Rev. Henry Norman ' INCA ~•of Catherine Hall, Cambricl7,e, to the Sunday evening Lectureship at - Newport, ;•_;4lop. • . SL CfILTI & Pr iTIILIC BATE. TATT . ERSALL'S, TaunsnAy.. The last•public, : botting OR, the St: I:4.eger took place this afternoon, and; 'as,,Ou W:as tolerably brisk towards the close. Charles the Twelfth's friends. were. tgaitc as san guifie as ever, and, by taking, 7 to 4.as long-ys it could be got, widened the space letwpen.him andßioqnudgify ; mft that 'the latter lacked • kippott, for 3 to'l :Was takeo, and offers made repeatedly-to go on at the same odd's.t, a hh-e. amount; One bet" of 500 to 200 Vas - taken ;'.'but no aiteihit was made by the backer to increase his stake atitliatlig;fire. Euclid was baeked at preeisely,the Same' average 'llTon-Mtin day ; nor was any change observable in the.Propstor Bolus: The Ilyllus 'party was on the 'qui Lire : 31) tot was taken freely, and he rose - .five points in consequence. Towards the finish, however, , lBio 1 was laid two or three tinie, his ,clo sing price being 25 to 1. A little money Wasiak} on the 'Corsair, first at-50, and afterwards'3o to 1, andon Fit7,:imbo at 50 and 45 to `1... ff Plato as before, oadAuy odus against the Commodore, Sleight-of-Hand, or 2..lennier: •• • • DONCASTER ST. LtOER. 7 to: 4 agst Major l'arburgh's Charles XII. (tk) sto 2' ~ Mr. W. Ridsdale's BloornsburY . (tk) 12 to 1 • Mr. Tliornhill's Euclid (tk) • '2O to .1 „ Col: Cradock's . The PrOvest (off) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Dixon's Hyllus (off) •, 25 to -1 ;, Mr. Ram'gay Lasingwold (ofO• 30 to 1 „.. Lord LiOtield's.Tlie Cors4ir . (tk) 30 to 1 ; •;, - Mr. WOrniald's'noliis (tk) " 40 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's lietinan Platoff (t 1) !5 to 1 „ Mr: Allen's (tk) 50 to 1 „ Col: Peel's The DeY of Algiers (tl-.) 9to 4on two,against ' (tk) 500 to 200 on Charles'XlL 6gainqllieeinsbury THE nEnny. `.21 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon (tk) . . GLASGOW, PAISLEI", AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.--OR Wednesday last,.the direCtors•of the Glasgow, Paisley. - and Greenock Railway ',Made their e,narierlY inkieetfoti 'of - the Works, and as many . of our readers are deeply interested in their •:progress, we have obtained the following facts. which cannot but prove gratifying - to the shareholders :,;-.4n.Glas - gow, on what is termed the'JOint Line, the fat-S . iif the arches are springing up in'every direction," and although so lat‘ly commenced, the works are well forward. Most 'of the -ma sonry between Glasgow and Paisley is completed, and - the line is almost 'entire. Several iniles of Old permanent rails ore now laying, and in a month or two the cutting at Arklesten will be the only part unfinished. The -tunul there is bricked, and will be-ready we understand in January. - in Paisley, the masonry, which is of the mostimposing,kind; is likely to be-finished this year. We are at a loss to under stand how the inhabitants of this ancient burgh can do Other wise than admire the splendour of the structures now adorn - ing their town in every direction, ••singttlarty ' destitute a.:4• it was of •drnainental buildings but, incredible as it May .ap - Pear . —we have'heard various partreS:`CoMplaininft"' of the •injury.. done to the beauty and convenience of the town ! The v; Lore of the works, and particulitrly:the• station, will be a nitc.tei . i7d,. iinprovement,ituid we are sure that when . "they are finished, the present grumblers will be the 'first to acknowledge it. From Paisley to.the "RiVer Gryfe, the railway is in a very ad vanced state t'and thenCe over the entire Ilishopton contract the rapid advance made, during the 'hist • three, months appears' wonderful when thtynature of the material is taken - into count. The tunnels especially are pushed-forward with, great" energy and determination, and their-position is " in. "tileasing contrast with thepOpulat predictions Six• months hack. The. Vy'est . Eerry cutting is fmislied, aud presents a splendid viS,ta• of perpendicular rocks. About:4s,ooo y ar d s o f w hi n rock have been excavated here; - at an expenditu r e of nearly 100,000 pounds of gunpowder.' .Neart:home everything i,sequally, forward. The summer appeiirsitideed,- t 6 have been Fail ee ' ployed, and we learn frbm agentletnan Who.accgrnpuoied th party, that the directors exPtcgte& unqualified 'appl46l3af6Vil the manner in which the heavier part s o f the riOrkshaktheeti executed. in the evening, the direetOr s • and sortie - friendS dined together, when the very satisfactory result of the day's excursion imparted an additional. zest to the cheerful .Greenock Advertiser. • ./EROSTATION. — Mr Brown last week announced his inten tion of ascending in his balloon, -.the -`-,..Nortli;Star,'N'Ant the Hyde Park Cricket Ground, Sheffield, yestcr lay,; but awing, we believe, to some water having got irito the ; pipes "through which tlp.gas , was conveyed, thereby .conitle,rably, weakening the fluid, the t*blit was post4oned to this,day. When this fact was announced, a ruffian declared he would either have his money or tear the.-balloon to, piece:! pears that this threat was pmittko execution. The, balloon was surrounded by a number joi:'personsi mostly boy's, who tore several large pieces from it, and conveyed them . in triumph to Sheffield. The remainder of the balloon was secured. and taken into Mr George Hardesty's house. Mr clobour, Mr Brown, and several of his.Nvorkmpn wer.e roughly handled by the mob, but escaped Without any serious, ilijsiry being: doOd to them. The villain who, ptnnicnced the attack on the 14alloon has escaped, buf the strictest.search ; w . m ill, be ade• for him, in order to bring hi m t o justice. The .bumber, of per sons to witness the ascent was not great,-owing no doubt to the. doubtful nature, of former exhibitioas of tin's kind, nv. WEIS of Mr Brown will be . serious, —Sheffield Iris, \.‘ MISCELLANEOUS Tile-Duke of Norfolk i,s:;ubOut to give up farming. His grace givin insttuctions„fo his agent to sell off all the lip c+ and deid stock '.at Mquael Park Farm, including his grace's SotitWownilook. - ANdiENZ BELL.—The.tpwer of Leak Church, near North allerton, contains three bells, one of which is supposed to have been brought from the adjoining dissolved monastery of Rievaulx,' from the name " Aeldred Grendale," being upon it, the said Aeldred being the third Abbot of Rievanlx. He was the noted chronicler of that age, and was the author of " Historia de bello Standardi," the history of the battle of the Standard, near Northallerton, in the year 1138. He died tlae:yearAiWyso-Aliat- this , bell must-be , NO years old: •-• Extract of_a i s e'c,ter front NVor, , aw, 30th ult. :—" Colonel Barnett, the Elicli.sh Consul,las-returnedhere from Cracow. The Visttila, in com_equenee of the late excessive rains, has 130.44ii.and done great damage, partieularly_at and Cracow. Fears.are entertained of a renewal of dig disasters of 1813 ;the Whtor4 kiVinW g already risenatar-. sa* to 214 f ee t, being eve ti hieher tha'n in 1813. The damage alrOady done - is incalculable. Many of the inhabitants along the, 11:311k - of the river have been. 'obliged to abandon their dweilimisA - vith'ail their contents: The Lubienski - Palaee has been assigned to them asli'refuge, and the citizens of War saw, though themselves- sUfrering,, render them every assist ance in their iitiwer." • SAFF,TX OP_RAtI4 4 I.Y. TI.,IAVELLING. — The railway sys tem is fak "liiing ,do*ii':'...tho ; cab:mlles which are still so. industriously eiretilated against it,.btrt which at one time Wo t r . e so elieVed. Of, charges brought. againstrailwaytrayc , lling was.. the. r .47,Ciippr said.to rable, T:roni it. We have on. Many occasions..•shown, by a reference to facts,' that 'in point of safety the balance is greatly in favour of, tbe r 9ew modeof cOnveyance, as cora _pared' With affy'othe - r 13reido'u,...1y in existence; and we are glad to find Si r R o b ert Peel—Nvhoindo one will suspect of beingizejudie e ki&Vir,faurof railways- , - ; bearins.tiastimony to ,the tame fact.' The right bon. baronet, at.a,meeting held in Tamworth_the_other day, on the 'subject of the Manehester and Birnlinuhatn Extension scheme, is reported ,to bug said, that " since lie last 1194 ihe ,Plcat:ure of meOing thorn (his constituents), 'experience had tended to confirm the advan tages of railroad travelling, both as regarded safety, economy, and rapidity. It was at one time doubted whether there,was any benefit in adopting.this.new mode of transit, and he ac knowledged that it was impossible to see the momentum (With whic4 . pseng - ersere carried along, ,without feelings of apprehension,fer their safety b4tem)erienee had shown, that alehottgli there might be occaiOnal,accident,s; yet, on the whole, the comnzuniqc4A.,Ayarippyiyi had been proved to be really olnt. of rffikas,well as velocity, to the old 2neth,ods;': 7 -.l?ail way Times.' . PORTSMOUTII. — The‘Pique, 36,.Captain .Boxer,.has been completed by,.the deck-yard. for the conveyance of the new 'Governor General to Canada. She is also to take out Lieu, tenant .Geneoal Sir .Richard .la2kson,. appointed to succeed Sir John Colborne, whom she will.bring_home from Quebec. 'She will sail immediately on the arrival of the above-named personages. Thelnevo three , decker (Queen ' .1111 guns, is in dock preparing with all practic.ahlartlispatela for commission. She will not,.however., be readYifor-iinne.. weeks, when she will hoist the pendant, to relievetheewship Princess Char lotte, in the Mediterranean. • The !newi Steamer 'Stromboli, of ;900 tons, lately lantiched.heireovill firaeiled in a•few days to Clyde, to receive her 'engines, boiler, &c.—Brighton Gazette. OUT-PENSIONERS OF CIIELstA-FIosPITAT,.—We under stand that in consequence of its being . formd . thatintliiidu'als not entitled-to pe,nsionaoftwnchelsea Hospital havefraudu lcatly attempted to Oetatnpaylnent thereof, by personating deeeassid pensioners, and that such attempts have.been made in .consequeuceof the facilities afforded to the out-pensioners hy, allowing them to (amage their placeS of payment, without being subject to restriction, and, also in conseqtence of fresh -inStruetion-papers- having /been efrienished, np'ons the parties mal:ing,apolication for :the same,, the Lords, Commissioners haVe prdnyed that no •ciut s peusennor shall be allowed to change the district in which he last received his. penSion,„without• lilies apphsing, 'to the caleator• pf Yaxcise (in' Great .Britain); Oe ; (chief constable of _police,(inlreland),,theeugh whom he was paid, and stating fliesgrnunds of -his makinsethe change, and the place toevhich .lie proppees to remove : and the col leaor of excise or chief conatable e upon being .satisfied.there with,,and of his identityeas an ot3-penSioner, will then trans mit to the head establishment a certificate, setting. forth the description, &c., of the pensioner, and the particular - S . re equired ; and, with theview.to prevent irregularity,ne altera tion of place or payment will - be allowed except at the com mencement of , pach . quarter,. unless under special eircum stancese( ;Their lordships have likewise ordered that no new instruction-paper shall be furnished upon•the application of any individual, ,except npowa certificate signed by the col lector of.exci§e 2 nrchief constable of the district wherein he resides, to the effect that sueleindividual has been exainined, • and has established his identity as the pensioner described. —3linisteria/paper. Fossil. ItIYtAINS OF A INIONREY FOUND NEAR WoOD DDIDGE.—A discovery of very great geological'interest has; 'jtiSt.:been. made ht . KiMSston, close-to' the town of Woo& bridge.: - , Part' of : the jaw of a Monkey in a fossil state, with , the remains of'other animals, haVe been found in a brick field, at'that place, in the occapaticra Of MessrS. Cobbold and Colchester, and are described by• Mr. Owen, the Professor of Comparative,A.natom yat the Royal College of'SurgeOns, in . the Magazine of Natural History, for the present month. Professor QW - en,etates tit I.lm,xii*e:SS:must Have belonged lowspecies differing froni anenbsy cAisting,'agleeing 'in this AeFpect with what is usually observed in fossil aniTnals, which are very rarely preeiS'e.iy!'identi ri ed !with such ai•are now in existence. Until' very latery,-keologiSts .supposed that the remains of monkeys , nevi'? :would- he , found in the fossil .. state, their creation being thMiziit td have been coeval with that of the human race; still less tOak it imagined that proofs wOulilbe discovered of theirildr , existente in this island. .-Hsebtk, Herald. • ,{lt is certainly a very consolatory reflec tion to have ascertained that - (the original inhabitants of the British •isles 'were not monkeYg, however the raee •may be ~proved to be indigenons ' •-•--but'is it:notjust possible that the - JaVy Of •the aforesaid monkey May: have once belonged to the travelling caravan . of some showman of the middle ages ? K-It•sttikez;us that the geoloyrsts are abadly-Used class of men,• on Whom everyq:rtidity iS:fathered for. hich , anexplanation appears wanting. The more smislactoryniode of ptoceeding would have'heenowc think, 'to have-got IVlK,Wakley to hold . .an inquest on the lane:nits; There could haveheen no doubt then of identiiying to whom the "ejaW-"heloaged,-,-41forn ila. Herald. . e , ' METItop OF P.T.O7vINg UP SUNI;EN NVREcKS:—The me- Illcl by which this operation is tarried into effecf,inay be wit -rwssed eveti day, a.alat half-past" three o'blioa, attlie Poly technic Intl , ai.:.o/l, Itc!crit-stltet,',Pxford:street, 'in the fol lowing manner. The (liver, ill' his tilting habiliments, first 'descends' into the reservoir, aChich"j,a' about nine feet deep ; after he hasrre!neined a fest , miniifeg beroiv toplace, the tube •Containingetheendneting'•wiee,:whichlatter paSsesythreifgh - thefoaesesse, or clesreed e cylinder'Of• powder, the diver rises . to.the., ?h'i'nd:',, ann taites tlie inoda - Of 'a. diginastedbrig under avatar; and carefully lilac:6sft at the bott6M Of theteservoir ; he then places the charged' c'ylbidet in the right position for, producing. the must powerful cleat.' ' HaYing compleW thee arrangements tile diver rises to the gni - face. Of the water, and, making a sign that is understdod, "A :;!eaftlan placed near hire. calls out; '' ready," "'fired the ," and' at . swine Institut the ee trie spark, hayine; been co" ninnicated to the conducting wire, -passes' along • it under water to 'the' eYlinder of gunpowder • througlt which it svould pass . , without 'exploding it but for a - small coil of'platinUM wire suepencled in the Cylinder, the' . conauctoedoeenot imbibe any heat from the electric fluid ; butihe moment that the lattee' Meets 'with the platina, this metal becomes red hot, and thus the powder is ignited, and :the vessel, ',flown to pieces, is soon in fragments floating on the surface: Of the water. ' . .. .. Mi - S;TERIOOS CASE OF POISONING AT HERTFORD.—A good dead of interest - h a s be e n created at Hertford, recently, on account of the death of a feMale, named Susan Woolinare, at a bees --': , e :e :,o - t•e‘sa• under circumstances of such a nature a O, ' . ':• :• a e.:: : - , ,;:ine belief that she had come by :,her death its s ~: s e. . s. : : ,ie ..ers that.the deceasedlived . witlea : Man •::::, - : : -:j ,s; her husband, and a boy his, by . a formmi,wie , : i .: ' , ..-a•holi in. Peg:a-lane, Hertford, and he. was'iljefitently i:1 : • '. !'dt of 111:iisinglier; and Was Seen to , kilsk her and bee: . • ' 1 - 'mist brutal ~manner on several oc- eitiions.• About, i, ' '-if:; •:;,i tie deceased :was taken sud-' Adnly ill—she' - ,i'01):: e, ,:liMly, and expired in the course of the next •glif. a - -,siedge of these facts having been communicated - 1:o _ "!r. Longailom, the coroner for this divi sion of the cgse k ty of Harts, tin directed that an inquesfshould be held upon : the body, when the:aboVe facts'were proved in evidence, and." Mr. Shillitoe; a inedidal gentleman who' ad been galled to attend upon the deceased expressed an opinion that, from the ' eircumstanees,'it wpli, be: adVisible that a post mortem . exaolinp.tio.•4 shoulap,k4SEio, and the inquiry was adjilinate4 for that .pbcpaos', To t irie neXtlinvestika s . tion tlre - niddical 2; : elitfeolan.:!;:tate:d that upon examiuitig . the „ . - bOdy, theffeUnd the sfonfritti'lliglilY - inflamed,*and, froth the result of a variety of tests to, which the contents of the stbmach were aubjected,- they had no - doubt:that the death of the deceastd' : , lia'i:tlid.p . ffvet of oxalic acid.: The step-son of the deceasettaS'eliniined, and he siitl - that ,he: had never seen his father ill-tteat th'6,'ilL , ceaseq, excetA upon one Occa sion, when he struck her a back-hapded blow, which gave her a black eye, and this e icyas about a fortnight before' she died. 4e, however, gavelils dvidence in such .eaufious manner, ;nlcievidpitlyAttenipted to conceal" the facts with which-be was actptaintedlili:at'the . jury in conseghenee 'expressed an o 'initiri , tfiM thercivas• Very little reliance to be placed up on NVI fat he said. Tr. w he:D', hoed as the husband of th e d ceased worrian'wee ss:: so: •• : • yesstioned, arid "he declared that ha was mar l : . • s. ;....1 said that they h a d li ve d iiiple ' • '.es, -•si .' '• I ever having, taken poison ; and on tee. eee .• , :eels s. - , :.::: i:c bailed her 'some eggs, and she ate one of them. 7 :‘' ) : : that a short time ago he hardpurChasedsothe ss - •, e ,:st's in the town andtook thein hinis'elf; lfe co. : ,:.. ,- :, season Why his wife had tile'en . Jinison e and . :" - • : : : , : ne .... hem•il her express any intetition of in e . , aves, - e,:', ..r.-e 1:. After a long in veeties;iitijin tie:e, Jury returned' :: . : :-:: , ' :hat the deceased'a dea,tdt waS"cs_ceasiened by axaiie e,::i, ;, that there was no evicenee to ;he,: 'wheitiVt, she tee i,_ sself, or whether it wie•i administered to 11(i:sly; any other pee el." . They, at the same time, said that they did 'net believe the st or y told by the husband, and expreeeel their opinion that he had treated . the deceased hsfere le:: sheath with eery great inhumanity. SiiEFI?I . I: T. I) ;-: !,'. ''.':' , . • . '• : r '-',', f 7 T I . —Oa Sunday la. - -;t ~ the : ,Chartists at She& e - . f • ' •::. :: : ilne took` Possession ef the parish clitirch'a.,.t.;•,,•.t.. pir , ..o, • 1 i ,i.,.ased numbers. The seat,A irr tha . body of the church .are ::; . : these, they left hn-. .1 IVA, liu top ,pac74F. - r-cai 9f ' tin .oe3ts it - lithe , gallery, :which are built by _a umnher .of subscribers. • ,The fair.sex equally with the gentlemen . were -turned out.. One gentleinan after rtqqe.sting a chartist to•• leave bis - peiv, which was refused,"Pi'o cesjed•4Y• force - to • turn him -- out; 'iiii it succeeded, tho Ugh - •he was,strile!cr several times.- During this the whole ofthe par , ty arose aid commenced , whistling, clapping, .hooting, and making all other noises in their pewer.,l- After this they - con-. tiuntleailingout-`, `throw him over the-gallery," and such like,. huf;Aolniniei actual mischief occurred', and• they were :quiet till : filip,iitapy,',was read, when instead of the response •" We lipsea i eli 4'0900o: hear us goad Lord I ". they shouted "Give us ..tho,cliartptigP i pd.Lorli I!' . Inc Vicar preached a Most in— structive stn.rnßo kcinaitii . e. text If I will that thi s man t arry till I, coine,. what-141'mA to ; thee ! ".• ,He showed from . nur Lord's words that l4is,not for us to meddle with God's affairs' or with other...pool)lo4, but that there was sufficient employ i•iiielit for, m 4 ;411,4W...i4tei1d:: to our • . own -business, and more ti .. ..maj f olAg4rowo.srliyatiori; • The . AN:orth y s : Vicar was-much ft4to - 1411131 t,litC,cctiYaket et the- uncivilised crew, who. w ere lking. ) pkoncifily i rikig Ow -wi - afic of the service. The chartist viiity coal - 41i44,.thi ki usi t ail4 l vas. apprehended after.service, lAr4'B-thtlin.gr.itA4o;ao4yertgcraticiis of the limb. On- Monday, d o vennig,, a i slip t it - 04in ti c tp 0,1 • place iii St. - - Pete r' s • Squ are, whmpyll4o4 ; 2l .164nd,4 - idua4",were present.. but of these : at -1 vp r qua . .. ; thtirti j veAwspogatoxs. , After - the . - nmeting- they lr°ceed'ed in ir-IPAn.Pa•SiGlqiirQuild . the to ',. No attempt t o prey#4 the.inettißg,nas l yistble, • ,on, •the part'. of ..the magis tra;gso3liolimA -bAl#la34l•Abet.ailhiect pt : i ilegal.:meetings :were 14 ,7 444 . 4ek1it4P1 5 .;44 13 ,4iiciwn. -- .Leetis listelligeacer. AlyPtiL•:Eit. - : , itor - 3 , t'tii. AN EkTRAOniStsAnY SpitlNG TIDE.— We.,stop the press to anaonnee'the•eflect of an 'ex ttaordinary'Owitig.tide,' aecompained With a S.W. gale, to be compared only' with the hur r ic ane o n the 7th of Jan. l a st. The gdle bfirBr• in a larger. coffer dain of our New Docks, ith in (a lakt `an . hour of. hi 41 .wa te r,• j and. filred the baSi4 . - in an incredibly short 'perod , te within ten inches of the ctipmg. The daVatitatibil .wroc,zlit hy the. angr y ;an d raging element was rcajestically imitionso preees of balk,'nsed tis piles. were shattered to pieces, and nothing could' with stand the force wizh which =the - title -, :tushed •in. The gates fortunately , escaped .injury. The. mOn: enmloyed by Mr. James Stephoul :were hippily, ' , moved fromthe Works befO r e the'tremendons.(we May say) casiastrophe: The, works must he.fetatded for about a fortnight, Stones of a ton weight were.rolleitfoith as': if pebbles by thiss destructive tide, and slionld the wincleontinneduthe same point, the copinw of the dock must be covered by the succevdine tides,, ALlisies were lo.it,—Galwap4rivertim., • y,, s-41.4 101 Orle a° 5 :0 A LAZY MAN.—There. is a man in I s t f e w efts for that he carries a kitten under each arm to We' ttoa,oil; '10•Co EXTRAORDINARY POTATOES.-IVa. frolo muice Cottage, St. Co numb Minor, dug last IT", coo o of land, a bushel and half of fine early the "Early, Prime."—Falmouth Express. , ou lest A friend of ours in Ohio is such a confirrae!',,,,oslln even cayenne pepper, when applied to his nostraoeiraece'ii‘i him shiver 'with cold: He has hit upon ,t h a e a 1;t 1 stuffing his nose with gunpowder, and igrdr a sa r stre' wiabes•for a snuff. This has succeeded t me4ins to take out a patent for the diScovery. c & e t; Those blasphemous and disgusting Infidels, mo s 5 of Whom Load Melbourne, seems to be the Pat!' aold 111 :4 as ace pleteci the purchase of an estate of 505 acres , e to eo years, situate near. Southampton. They Bretheybsle°' potatee., building their " moral" barracks as soon as possession. Three things I do not like in the IndePen_ deaTilatN That they - unchurch the nation. That theYioraastli hedgeofparish order.' 3. That they throw thiciarlao :to mc,n, and allow persons to preach, that are !il a t thy two things they are to be commended a-4a , c and up . discipline amongst them. 2. That they I °' pond one with another.—Philip Henry. c i te THE LATE Sift JOHN RAMSDEN.— eroP ..e \Na ha t at this Baronet, lately deceased, is prodigious! or ta e 0r that his gra.ndson, the youna Baronet, eleve n 400,1$ of age, succeeds . to . - f5'120.600 per cu,, ann um. aa o feis vided amongst his three sons, £40,00 0 to ea w ith ters ; and to his widow the residence at B y • per annum. , OOP NEW - MARRIAGE ACT,—It is a remaraaaa 10 tas , that the unpopularity of the new marriage a ct, comprised in the Bridgnorth union, in the co t y( c which includes 29 parishes and above 14,u, a sise st a , only one solitary marriage has taken place aaaar ser o . s:as, according to the rites-and ceremonies of our 7.•"_. though the act has been in operation more thaa ...p ,p; . IMPORTANT AND SUCCESSFUL OPERATION :04faypethefilskthilfinulSity.,and .Messrs.successfully ing 17 oz,,- from the side of the neck and' fac e _ o ut 5 7it mod Crellin, who is 50 years of Age. The taw o lla -isted for 10 years, to the great distigurem e convenience of the patient, who has also I •paSt afflicted with paralysis of the left side, the operation) is gradually disappearing. • are happy to announce, doing well.—Mans' THE DONCASTER Cue.—Thia massive of Silver plate was this morning forwarded DOncaster. It is more than usually value''. -feet four inches high, and weighed upwards oQvuedaltarotumotaalei, The•forreris-thatuf the Etruscan vase, on are bas reliefs of horses, and from the oth , gaut scroll handles, each surmounted by porters of the arms of the town of Doneasta reliefs represents a beautiful group, composed —the old English horse, the Arab, and present racer. The other exhibits six hors are chased in a boldand classical style—a I due to the workmanship of the griffins. T a plinth of polished black marble, having • rim of which is ornamented with a richly-' is from the manufactory of Messrs. Storr a, with the exception of the celebrated Goo( signed and executed by that house, it i grandest prize we have seen. It is altogeth; cimere of art and workmanship.—Morning RITE OF A". CAT.—It is stated, in Journal, that the bite of an enraged cat sv , sprcies of hydrophobia ; in illustration of ing instance, is given :—" A milkman, ha vi, often - corning- to steal the'milk in his dairy and attacked it with an hatchet. There contestointil at last the cat, unable to a' at the man and seized him by the 'chin, possibility of detaching it, save by cutting patient was carried to-the hospital, and thi hydrophobia applied. On the 22d day made their appearance ; he experienced swallowing water, but this he overcame Wl' the difficulty increased ; the wound becam; grew furious, endeavoured to bite every 0 1 him, was bound in chains, and imusedia; pieces, leaped from bed, ran up and down -teeapting to bite all he met, ; till, reaehi in order to escape, he was seized with a dead. On dissection, the appearance 0 1 cisely the same as those of hydrophobia.' IMPORTANT TO AGRICULTURISTS. --11 . collection of our ,readers that a most tern ; storm'Oecurrecrat Chaddesley and the neii 14th of June last. The estimated loss to thousand - pounds, the wheat arid barley imagined, totally destroyed, the' stalks bei, and beaten into the earth. It was the p' the oldest agriculturists, that it would be them up and- sow turnips in their place' prognosticated that the old stalks which from the roots, and 'driven into the earth re s produce a new crop. It was ultina plough 'up the crops, and •the result oc, published for the information of the agri( the course of a week after the storm, forth •as though it were spring, and fiouris the owners began to cherish hopes that had been destroyed, a second would scarcely inferior in quantity or quality• been more than realized.• • In•tbe barley, had elapsed, the new ears put forth and we have how before us a sample of thl is in every respect equal to that which ' damage. The wheat crops present asom pearance. The stalks which were brok ears of wheat in greatly increased nurnbei sent an appearance of two crops, the man crop being now ready for the sickle, quite green, but most iniuriant.:--Kidder so POLISH REFI/GEES.—:It appeared fraal fished in Leipzig, by August Jiiger, who gee in England, that there are at presel about 8.00 Polish emigrants, the greater p) are resident in London ; the remainder, ci-devant soldierS anti sub-officers, RN - it Plymouth, and ether towns in England, S in Edinburgh),' and a few in Ireland. Tb opinions of these refugees are divided. author, .in three chief factions. or sect moderate, and democratic or republican . these parties has its leaders, its adhered journal." " The head of the aristocratic I'', the. future king of Poland, as be is desk herents, and he as himself well pleased called. The democratic party has no P l ' is, by some supposed to look to General head. . The moderate, or juste milieu, a' round the General Dwernicky, who' seem' iced a charge of cavalry than a political P; THE BIRMINGHAM -RIOTS.—We pace' gation is going forward before the town the late riots. AsWe c:-/nsicier that, aft' promised au investigation, _the town coup' interfere, as we consider, moreover, that are the least _competent to do it impartia. which, as a public One, we cannot take - ern as they have no authority to call upon pi we doubt not-the evidence will be all 0 0 ' tigation has been-described to us as altoge" .if a j. numbers present being generally • about la' of ei. mingliair Advertiser. NslO tn elle ) ; TRA FOR,'ALTHIEF.—A trap of a sonr„., e of 0 ' 0 was laid for a thief in-the neighbouring vw7tirrie 0 0/ few days agO. •• The blacksmith had for 50nw,..00 . , 4 41! coals. Day by day, the stock collected for 0 .1 `; ‘ , 5 t% adjacent to the forge diminished in a 113 ann er 'fdel 1 1 / 4 0 0 .' able, till at laStit oedurred that the missi a g u o find its way; by human, assistance, out throTo exetthecir which there was at the - back of the for ther4his-was so- or not, a rat trap -was -and before long a juvenile. dcpredatO neighbouring - weavar's daughter, was 'So6r, with her arm through the wilt bOund in -the iron .grasP of the rat tra) most authentic accounts, the young pil' coal stealing since..—Laneasler Gazeti - GETTING ON BOARD THE GREA this splendid steam-ship- first • came difficult to get on board of her unless or an - Order from the agent's office. of ours, in company with two New N and tried to get .admitted, but withot kirk friend Said' toi them, " I can get o " No, you• can't," his -friends - - replier pass, if they would Jet any body. • see me•try.•'. , Our friend is -a short, matf•of • about forty----say thirty-fivs hgaded cane under his lett arm, and memorandum-book in his' hands, wa' ": I- . suppose I can take - a look at thi said he to the officer: 'on duty. " Ou to admit no one." Well, I don't on my own account, but my father was bring hith - a description." "Your ft a pfiblic Officer?" - • " Well; yes, I rat father is governor of Kentucky !" gentlemen friends of - yours ?" "as. sOn' of the• Governor of Kentucky logy his companions, who -were silently city, and taking a deliberate surVeY 0 1 . he did not doubt their were very respe. , • had not the honour of his acquaintant the world."--Elffalonian. • ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE AFFLIC' bee contained a long account of anon , (a mixture of brandy and salt,) stroi its discoverer, as a powerful remed: maladies which afflict . the human rat qaestion was not the puff for a quack by a gentleman with a view to benetii we readily gave it insertion,- and al' been the means of inereasing its public had an opportunity of witnessing it 'wherein the life of ~ the - patient seem peril. A. young man who had resided Island, went to South Carolind. three ~ tentionof settling in that State, where 1.. flit a southern elimate not agreeing w; returned to Douglas about a Month bouring. under a confirmed ,consaml , benefiting under a change of air. 1 14' of the above-named medicine, he beg& after persevering according to the - lj l three weeks, all the consumptive a: o 9' 'he became so greatly- improved both ante; that he is now, actually prePa America; but with the dcs-ign of flizinb part of that flourishing country--Maa' WEATHER SIGNS. — Some days ago in a gig,,from. Creiff to. Stirling, wor six miles of the latter town. accostek said to them, " Ye had better drive a mean to. reach Stirling hi a dry Ski' clear, the sun was shining brightly, clouded ; the tourists, therefore, aisre) of the little weather Prophet, and dro . fore reaching Stirlirim a rainy Evian' ea, .completely drenched': They thought 'such as the boy evidently possessed, wild Ihe'nextday they drove back to le.. 111;f-the:bey in the same place, they 0 13 °1 skill, and asked how it was that he cod' sp accurately? ." Wheal» it's gaup to 4adkiel, " our bill (bull) aye cries-bd. was bu-u-in-ai the morning." and reSelved eaat in all future excursio alike the weather glass and appearanc e • are at hand for ascertained whether bu,n-ing on the Part of the " FLATTERING COMpLdIENT TO.LOI CONSTITITENTS.—At the Ordinary (the Noble Lord in the Chair,). Lordship's proposed' the health 9 1 e fertl oisters ;—a general hissino• lie L iody - tboi y . , toast from being drunk. 'His LordsOqt.....--aavoilt‘ 4ver, appeared to feel much ilatteredb? ' t he ' i isi e prir to mind, a story that was told of Geq u roe,,o l ,4 l, i, Repot, at the time the Potentates 0 1 0c 0d ) !, 3 i1.1,.01 land. .0a some public occasion , wh en was ° Tool el . 1 ).1 4 Eniperor . of Russia, his Royal 1'01"s:ea .to ►ijr, o t I 0- of the .mob, upon which be begt , ge 0 ;05:00 / .0tir jesty of Russia, that it was " the onlY w 3 is f o or aQ , ing their approbation." 'Whether this bo h p r Lordship's mind at the time, there 0 1 1.02 0 1 r.. that he Must at least consider a Dirge P ° outs utak, if not Qevsv, 4 's 4 ad tre2PPez b t i t Yal, the t ° he 111 res • ed P a ,. 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