The Sun. — London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED). THE SPORIIIVG :?E . Herring's high•inettird racer has degenerated — Poor fellow!—to the shop. Not even the questionable dignity of a cab-hack, or the unenviable prerogative of a cockney s Sunday job-horse 1N o ; toe mise rable slave of. a butcher's boy, to be pricked by one L u sty spur, to b e flayed t the bending of the neck J the' chafing of a common meat basket, and as Dickens says feelingly (enough to him just now) 4,• to be beaten about the head as though it was made of wood !" The companion engraving, " The Stalker's Home," is clever for the peculiar dispo sition of the lights. About the literary contents there i s , as usual, a rollicking, frollicking, dashing lillerrirnent that is quite contagious, and which is Itkewiie a capital filip to digestion. COLBURAPS thVITE.I) SERVICE. _ Accordi ng t o t h e U n i te d Service Magazine,. the I* planet N e pt une b ears no t the slightest resem blancele to Canning's knife-grin der—" Story, God bless You! it has some to tell' sir ;" and the contri butor, who has become its mouthpiece, tells the oar !Vire of its discovery with all the zest of a lover of hobg o bli ns and of an enthusiast in astronomic re search. " A Leaf from an old Log" has all the fit- Your of a weavelly biscuit; it is a yarn of touch s prightlines s . The " Tale of the Sea' appears to be ofindefinite length, for it continues to wind out co i l after coil without intermission. There is an adndral:_e „ t e Wavrtiitelen headed, " Justice to the Navy Progression , by Tristram. We recommend the million to 1111 d it, and to remember the glories of the British n avy at the same time. The following, we doubt hot • , Will he an interesting list to everybody : .4ELATIvE RANK OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S RE I G N. Admirals i n of t h e Fleet ... ...with Field Marshals. 44 raires Generals. Vice -A dmirals „ Lieut.-Generals. Year -Admirals ::• „ Major-Generals. I.;?nintioderes of First Class `nullodores of Second Class Brigadier• Generals. D irector -G enera l o f t h e M e di ca l Dep.artment of the Navy a P t aine. after three years as such ~ Colonels. Ajl other Captains ... celedical Inspectors of Hospitals „ Lieut.-Colonels. a nd Fleets... ••• Eel/Inlanders— ecretaries to Flag-Officers Comi tomandin-in-Chief Majors. e gutY Medical Inspectors of Eis z e otesnpitals and Fleets ants, Masters of the Fleeti a s, Chaplains r 'er etari es to Junior Flag. Officers „ Captains. a n tici Commodores of First Class I lan!, Paymasters and Pursers.) Assistant-Surgeons Lieutenants. --,urnad Ma s t ers , Mi psh i pmen „ Ensigns. I ne subsequent portions of the magazine are of a ' e rage ability. Zap O XFORD w AND CAMBRIDGE REVIE W . Wh at c . we have throughout, from first to last, re iriaed as clearly as God's sun at the noon-day the tee VOrd and Cambridge Review has only now de tb:"- We mean about the principles, or, rather, 70- Principles by which Michelet is actuated in the li terary compositions. Thus speaks the organ of two Universities : At length t h e mas k i s t h rown off—or more charitably, inci, p ,. we believ e , more t ru ly—at length the plant is full r „ fh, the germ has reached its development,—Michelet • a i .vowed infidel. It will be in the remembrance of th is our readers that at a time when religious men in b L eountry, even good Churchmen, were more than 71 Inclined to l oo k with favour on this powerful writer , posee itt. him simply an assailant of the abuses of t o Pery and the v ill an i es of Jesuitism, we came forward warn them against making common cause with . one N ev e assaults were in truth directed against religion th e '; Whose weapons, while they seemed hurled against mere armour in which Popery stands encased. 'Pierced, through to the very vitals of Christianity. We wh „,ti , :chiefly by the writings of M. Kiear Qainet, y. i r0 ; 1 72 1 - Michelet, admitted to be his alter ego, that it VoiZe.„ spirit of ihe French Revolution, the spirit of a groo 7Fe,. Itaasaeicti . and Condorcet, which these well -4- nit ey;: i livrre end . eavouring to propagate. in n ow d tam has openly proclaimed that this is __ the case —now at last he avers that he not only : 0 4 the salie lengths with his yoke-fellow, but that he to 0 4 goes beyond him ; for the first time he sets himself th L PPese Christianity. We are glad that it has come to toto..;ltry . Ff enceforth the influence of Michelet in our own will be trivial—inappreciable. He may continue no ,.,aY the mind o f L a J eune France, but hire, among 7 es, he will be powerless. Even in France, we ope' 7l inclined to think, his popularity will suffer by the rhheation of the present work. He had better have ti 7ained wh ere h e was, t h e a d vocate o f a vague Pan theism, than hav e d ec l are d hims e lf, as be now has, a col ltl a mere V o lt a i r i s t. foist, negative, precise, and m a' cars never a t t ract me n. P a ntheism, positive, vague, glowing, has at all times a charm, and for this ge 04e.t t . which is struggling out of selfishness into love, bav °L exclusiveness into catholicity, it must of nece9sity „ 4 „,e a most p ecu li ar one . Michelet, with all his power, ti ;1 1 scarcely, we think, win men over generally from l o v.Poetic and imaginative, to the more intellectual and Seal creed. H e will fin - 1 followers, no doubt—but w e should expect a division from henceforth in the ea • . v eils of La Jenne Fiance—a schism between the uill teheleti s t s an d t h e Q u i net i s t s — w h ere i n th e f ormer , x 'eas we are much mistaken, will b e th e m i nor ity. 'fen if Qainet himself succumbs to the stronger mind kid keener intellect of his ci devant friend and present versary, the school of Quiret will remain ; in a na tion of warm and poetic temperament Deism can never Absorb Pantheism." All this is correct enough, but with a ludicrous exaggeration in regard to the importance of M. Mi chelet. The writer need have no fear that such a man as Michelet will sway the mind of La Jenne France, while such a man as the young Count de Montalem bert is in existence. The leadership of La Jeune France is the natural and avowed prerogative of le Jenne • homme ! Michelet writes like one whose principle of life is galvanism ; the divine afflatus is not for the like of him; his book-shelves are the very shambles of literature; his own works, though for a while adorned by an ephemeral glitter will, in the end, rot and putrifv, and be forgotten like the very garbage. The magazine sustains its character. TAIT'S it' AG AZ IA E. George Gilfillan has commenced in the present number a series of "'Liter - ark Portraits of Female authors"—repudiating, we presume, the vulgarism of authoresses. We regret that this br il l i a n t critic t 1 1 , 58 aband one d the sketches he had already begun of writers, for notwithstanding his very blunder ing estimate of the poetic genius of Alfred Tenny -4°ol we were solicitous to hear his utterances upon Charles Dickens, upon Thomas Noon Talfourd, upon b "uglas Jerrold, and the like. These delineations, 'We trust, are however only postponed. " Mrs. 41e rnaus " is considered in the present number, and Nve think very justly denied the too•frequently lb • I ;se d title of a poet. For her exquisite womanliness, for her passionate susceptibility, for her graceful and musical diction, we read her with the same enthusiasm 4 _ B does M r . Gilfill an , b ut we agree w i t h hi m s h e w as r', o Poet. A songs t ress s h e was — a ly r i c n ightingale She was as much as Mademoiselle Jenny Lind—but she was no poet. The article is cleverly written. °Peaking of the Liberator, Tait observes:—" O'Con- nell was the most kingly man of these days. his crown was indeed a cap, but his power was not cere monial, but real. He was the hero of his country nume In the eyes of the Liberals of Europe he was the august voice of an oppressed nation. Roman Catholic Europe revered him as the sainted champion of Religion." The remaining articles are varied, and Some of them excellent. FINE ARTS. EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY. By Count D'Orsay. We have had the pleasure of inspecting this remark able production of art, and can testify to its singular beauty. The marvel is how so faithful a likeness could be produced entirely from recollection. Her Majesty is represented on horseback, clothed in a riding habit of brilliant scarlet velvet, wearing a Lincoln green cap, with a plume of ostrich feathers " scattering" about in the breeze. Perhaps thepost.conspicuous characteristic of the composition is its extraordinary animation. The charger, a beautiful creature, worthy of its Royal Mis tress, seems to be bounding at a canter out of the can /us. Among the almost innumerable representations of our beloved Sovereign this is certainly about the very best as a correct portraiwrc of the features, and it is unquestionably the most striking for effect and general !nvention. As we looked at the painting we were irresistibly reminded of the graphic and Baffonic de scription by Milton of the creation of the lion— ---- pawing to get free its hinder parts, Then springs as broke from bonds, and rampant shakes His brindled mane." There was the same visible glorying in the horse before us, whether it was indicative of his love of freedom from the loosened reins, or of pride at his costly burden; for, as the adage saith, " the horse knoweth his rider." If we wished for a text for a churlish disparagement we might say that in the forelegs of the animal there is 11 , e ?m ewhat o f t h e c l ums i ne ss of Wouvermans. Otherwise dr.awing appeared unexceptionable. The colouring is getnousl of t h e ? y modulated, notwithstanding the brightness in rtdin g habit and the almost gaudiness of the g ni a of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. With "h care, h owever, i n th e employment of the palette the _ e entrast of hues is toned down admirably. Count ,„ Urs a y the has most assuredly earned for himself magnificent soubriquet of the Admirable Crichton, Co, N C -J/iSECRATION OF LAMBETH .EW ;BURCH.- This day the Bishop of Winchester, attended by the diocesan clergy,r consecrated th e new ly- erec ted church of All Saints, 4 low-cut, L am b et h . The church was very respectably attendel, no person being adtnitted without tickets, and a body of the L division of police-constables, under Inspector Arnold, pre-served order among the crowd assembled. This consecration sets at rest the line the intended railway will pass to its new terminus. :rim KING OF HANOVER.—Saturday was the birth -4,1,,,y0t his MAesty the Kiug of Hanover. His Excellency -?„?un Kielmausegge, his Majesty's representative at. the =at of Great Britain, eve a grand dinner it igeolAr of the CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION. At the risk of tome ch gree of repetition we mu-t lay beture our readers a programme of the proceedings at the Installation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert next month, so tar as they are yet definitely feed upon. We have already stated that her Majesty arid her Royal Consort will arrive here on Monday, the sth of July. It was hoped that the Chancellor would have I.een amongst us on Saturday, the 3d, so as to attend Divine service at St. Mary's on Commencement Sunday ; but it was found that this would be an in coavernent arrangement, and consequently it has been abandoned. The Rey al visitors and their suite will leave Buckingham Palace about ten o'clock on Monday, and proceed to the Tottenham station on the Eastern Coun ties railway, at which place a temporary platform will be erected for their accommodation. A very elegant new carriage now in course of construction for them, in which they will travel down to Cambridge. me station here will be handsomely fitted up on the occasion, and accommodation will be provided for a considerable number of ladies to witness the arrival of her Alajesty and the Chancellor, who will be received by the Mayor and municipal authorities, and conducted by them to the gates of Trinity college We are nut at present aware what arrangements are made, or likely to be made, with regard to the afternoon of Monday; it may be that the Qieen and the Prince, retaining a lively remembrance of the glinies of King's chap!, will again attend Divine service in that magnificent temple; but this. we appre heod, is nit decided upon. In the evening there is not much doubt that they will dine in the hall of Catherine 11 all with the excellent Mast r of that society, the present Vice-Chancellor ; and subsequently there will be a con cert in the Senate House, arrangements for which are progressing, and we have reason to hope that Jenny Lind will lend the charms of her voice to the other charms of the oceasioi'. On Tuesday the grand point of attraction will be the Senate House, where the Installation Ode will be per formed, and various academical proceedings will take place under the presidency of his Royal Highness the Chancel! ir. In the afternoon the horticultural fete in the beautiful grounds of Downing College will take place, at which her Majesty will be present. We hear gratifying accounts of the arrangements in progress for this fete, which is ex pected to be of the most sumptuous kind. Edgington will supply six or seven large tents, as well as one for the exclusive use of her Majesty, and we believe that the scene will be enlivened by the presence of a military band. The admission to this fete has been fixed, by her Majesty's request, at the low price of five shillings. On the evening of Tuesday there will be a Royal banquet in the noble Hall of Trinity College; after which her Majesty will hold a small reception at the Lodge. When we wrote last week it was expected that her Majesty and the Prince would quit Cambridge at an early hour on Wednesday ; but circumstances have occurred since then which will probably delay their departure for a short time. On Wednesday last the Vice-Chancellor issued the following notice:— " St. Catherine's Hall Lodge, June 2, 1847. "Several members of the University having expressed a wish that arrangements should be made fur a public breakfast, or other entertainment at the ensuing com mencement, " The Vice-Chancellor requests that all such graduates as are disposed to promote this object will meet in the Lecture Rona under the Public Library on Friday next, the 4th instant, at one o'clock, to consider and deter mine upon the measures necessary for carrying it into effect." In accordance with this notice, the meeting took place yesterday, when the proposal fur a public breakfast was seconded in a very spirited manner, and arrangements were at once entered into for holding on Wednesday morning, in the grounds of Trinity and St. John's, which rival societies are to be united for the occasion by a temporary bridge across the Cam, in token, we hope, of a perfect burial of whatever ill-feeling may have arisen at the late election. This will be a magnificent enter tainment, and we we cannot doubt that it will upon the whole eclipse all other festivities during the Installation. A public/de at Magdalene College has been talked about, but we believe the engagements of the Royal visitors will not permit them to be present. It is understood that there will be no general illumi nation: the season of the year seems to interpose its authority against that mode of testifying loyalty. But we hope for a magnificent display of fireworks. We have authority to state that the following distin guished persons have accepted invitations to be present: —Duke of Wellington, Lord Juhn Russell, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lord Morpeth, vlarquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Northampton, Bishop of London, and Bishop of Oxford.—Cambridge Chronicle. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. (Extracts from the Provincial Journals.) LANCASHIRE.—Heaven is kind, if man is ungrateful. Never was there such glorious weather as that which has blessed the country during the last three weeks, and never, we believe, did the crops increase so rapidly in so short a time. The wheat and spring corn present a splendid appearance. The beans are equally promising. rne grass is most luxuriant, and the potatoes never came up with such a prospect of abundance if the old disease does not again attack them. In short, during the time of which we have been speaking, nature has been working long hours and short hours, and all hours for man, and the result shows that the time has been well o,•cupted.—Liverpool Chronicle. YuRKSHIRE.—Another week of magnificent summer weather has confirmed the hopes of an early and favour able harvest. There has now been a mouth of the finest weather possible, and vegetation of every kind is in a healthy and vigorous state, excepting only the potatoes, which are again found to be suffering from the mys• terious disease which destroyed them last year. The d n i t s r e y as is e, Od e ini c o o n u , however, has revived that the stock of corn in very has produced a decd low ; and this, cowithmbined the potatothe market.—Leeds Mercury. DUMFRIES.—A new order ofweather began Thursday last. Thursday and here on Friday were quite worthy of May. A slight thunder - storm storm passed over our town early on Saturday mornin s othat few of our citizens heard it. It seems tp early have been general in England: London had its sh are of it. It was followed here by a copious and refreshing h s ower, which tom prodigiously on vegetation after the heat cf the two preceding days. Saturday was a somewhat dull day; but it was soft, mild, and feeding to the crops. Since then the weather has been magnificent, and the full glory of summer is upon us. Monday evening, with the broad rising moon, was almost the loveliest we ever saw on earth. It has been noticed as a fact that the oak is earlier out than the ash this summer, which is by no means always the case ; and this, they say, foretokens a dry summer. When the ash is out before the oak the summer is to be a wet one. This is not our place for speaking minutely of the crops ; but we may state that they are looking well in this neighbour hood. Some ct the early sown oat fields seem almost ' gone, whether blighted by the cold, by vermin, or by disease. Throughout the south of Scotland , and especi ally in the confines of Lanarkshire and Peebles-shire, the mi-chiel was too common, In many eases fields were plou4tred down as quite useless. Whatever may he the case elsewhere, the blighted fields in this neighbourhood are gradually recovering, arid their crops may still be f a ir.—llunifiies.shire 'Jerald. GLOUCESTERSHIRE —THE POTATO CROPS.--Having seen statements alleging the prevalence of potato disease amongst the growing crops in this neighbourhood, we have thought it right to make as dilig,nt examination and as general inquiries into the accuracy of these state ments as our time and opportunities have puran.ted, and we are happy to say that the result has be en to per • feetly satisty us that, for the present at least, the general—almost universal—indication, points to a healthy and abundant harvest of this important root. One or two symptoms of disease on the leaf has been pointed out to our observation, and a solitary leprous tainted potato or two amongst the early hot-bed produc tions have been shown to us; but these are exceptions in proportion to one iu a thousand, which, in ordinary • times would have been overlooked entirely, and are only now of importance as tending to excite apprehensions that a greater development of nisease may unhappily supervene. We think there are good grounds for hope and confidence that such will not be the case. The atmospherical influences this year have been and are of quite an opposite character to those of the two last years. A severe and protracted winter prepared the earth for the reception of the seed. and a bright summer sue has followed to bring to healthy maturity the crops. We perceive that reports of disease have also been re ceived from Ireland, from the Isle of Wight, and from various parts of England, -but they have all been fol lowed by disclaimers, qualifications, or contradictions.— Gloucester Journal. DEvoNsmuE.—HAY HARVEST.—A field of young gras , ', in this neighbourhood, belonging to Mr. N. Tuckett, was carried on Tuesday in prime order.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. HAMPSHIRE.—A correspondent has sent us some fine wheat ears, which were plucked on the first of June, being two days earlier than any at all approaching them in forwardness could have been found last year. The last three weeks have done wonders for all kinds of crops, and thrown the interested prophecies of a late harvest and expected scarcity into the shade.—Hanip shire Advertiser. MONMOUTHSHIRE.--The bark season has commenced at Newport, Monmouthshire; the prices are from SOs. to 85s. per ton. Our Monmouthshire correspondent says:—" The weather for the last fortnight has been everything that could be wished for. Crops are every where looking well, and hay-making will be general in a few days. We have heard no complaints yet about potatoes in this country."—Bristol Journal. HERTFORDSIIIRE.—The hay season commenced here on Monday last. The crop has sinc e been carted, and now may be seen a new rick of meadow hay. The cinquefoins are ready for the scythe, and two farmers have begun to cut them. The crops are fine, and hay ing will soon be general.—County Press. - - - TYPHUS FEVER IN BRlSTOL.—Bristol, we regret to say, is, in common with Newport and other places el the western coast, now sufferivg from the rav a g es of the i typhus fever, imported from Ireland, in consequence of the great influx of Irish paupers who have arrivedin Bris tol in a state of complete destitution and disease, the effects of the famine in that unhappy country. In St. Peter's Hos pital, which is in Bristol used as one of the poor-houses, there are now upwards of forty cases of seve re t yp hus fever, chiefly sheeting the Irish paupers; and the great est care will be required to be taken by the medical au thorities to prevent its spreading among the other inmates of the hospital, which contains some hundreds of inha bitants. The governor and deputy-governor of the Bris tol Corporation of the Poor have memoralised the Home Secretary upon the subject, praying him to take imtne *lista steps to prevent the masters of sailing vessels from bringing paupers from Ireland, many of them in a state of fever, and landing them on our shores, leaving them to the mercy of calluil charity, or to the re li e f by the pour's 01*. PAPERS RESPECTING THE STATE OF IRELRND. Extract from a letter from Sir i John Burgoyne to Mr. Trevelyan, dated 29th Alay, 1847 : " There is a grater tendency to keep down the expen diturc and the evil consequences 01 encouraging a loose system than I expected. The number of destitute to be provided for will be, I think, much less than I at first calculated ; and our inspecting officers are generally working with zeal, activity, and in many cases with success. Extract of a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Stokes to Mr. Trevelyan, dated Lasinagh, Tralee,2Bth May, 1847. The ration system has, certainly, one most im portant effect. Its support, by the levy of paor rates, bringi home taxation more immediately to the land owners and landholders than the road system did, and their minds vi ill, in consequence', be sooner impressed with the conviction that the period has arrived when they must either employ the people on their estates or farms, or support them in idleness from the proluce of them." Extract from a report from Mr. Burrower, inspector of the Baiili, borough Union, under the Act of the 10th Victoria, c. 7:— " May 16, 1847. " At a meetirg of the Kisg's County Relief Com mittee, held on the 14th, the lists of those receiving re lief (which commenced last Tut:sday on credit) were strictly revised, and the rate-payers evinced the most laudable z -al in unmasking any impo.ition that existed. They came forward in a body, and in consequence of their statements, which arc fully substantiated by proof', the committee were enabled to strike off at least 100 persons improperly in their lib's, being possesses of stock or money. The rate payers retired, announcing their intention to protect their own interests and assist the Government by keeping a strict surveillance over appli cants fur relict; and immediately reporting any imposi tion." Report from Count I'. E. Stryelecki to the Committee of the British Association. " May 5, 1847. " I hare the honour to lay before you the original of a letter from the Government inspector Lynch, of West port Union, in which he supplies me with information that I think worthy to submit to the consideration of the committee. " Mr. Lynch accounts for the second grant of 4001. which I have transferred to his credit; he also transmits the gratifying intelligence of the new Relief Act being in full operation in every electoral division under his charge, and concludes by conveying to the committee his best thanks for the assistance afforded to the union, by which he was enabled to complete the machinery of the out door relief: " That part of Mr. Lynch's letter which refers to the population of the union, the numbers of men that are ac tually and will be eventually relieved, is very important. " It shows that out of 78,000 souls 26,350 are actually receiving daily rations, and that the double, but most probably 55,000, will compose the number of the next fortnight's daily issues. " However surprising these numbers may be, the admirable adaptation and working of the administrative relief machinery created for the distribution of the rations required is not less so, for notwithstanding the deficiency in activity, energy, and experience of the parties employed, the issues such as I have witnessed at the Jiff: rent depots are conducted without much con fusion, and, improving daily, the joint action of both the recipient and the distributor will become eventually as easy as a simple task. " The cost of the system of relief will he half of that which preceded it, for 55,0001. rations of Indian meal at 151. per ton amount to 2,275/, weekly, which with other contingencies may reach 2,5001., while the relief through the public works was 4,7001. or thereabouts (weekly average of March), which, with the grants made in money and food by the Government, the British and other associations to five relief committees, and with the not less considerable private charities poured from England, will make a total much above 5,0001, of weekly expenditure. But the great recommendation of the present system, independently of its comparative economy is, that be sides being more systematic and capable of contracting and extending its issues from fortnight to fortnight, and thus of adjusting and adapting itself to circumstances, it is more effective ; for since it came into operation the affiteting and heart-rending crowds of destitutes dis appeared, and Westport, the receptacle of misery, assumes daily a more cheering aspect. I have deemed it right to lay before you these par ticulars, as, owing to the completion of the system here, and to the machinery by which the effectual relief is afforded, the assistance of the association to this union should, I think, be discontinued." Mr. Lynch to Count Sir) eleeki:— " Ist May, 1847. " In returning you thanks for the second grant of 4001. which you have ulaced at my disposal for the uti . ion . of Westport, I have much gratification in communicating to you, for the information of the British As:ociation, that through your timely interference the new system of relief is now in operation in every electoral division under my charge, except Achill, wher e I trust it will be commenced either on this day or on Monday. "I annex a return, by which you will see the date we commenced, the number of rations daily distributed in each division, the amount expended from the funds of the British Association, and the estimated cost of the current fortnight. " I annex also a return marked No. 2, in which you will find the sums I have felt called upon to advance to districts where the lists were not prepared, and in other cases to relieve some destitute persons who are not in cluded in the lists furnished. I felt warranted in thus deviating from the condition on which I generally acted, of requiring the names of the parties to be entered upon the books provided by the relief commissioners. In the first distribution you will find that daily rations were received to the amount of 7,8891, and since M,ulay last, the 26th, this number has increased to 26,380, and I feel must still be increased to nearly double this amount. Such is the distressed condition of this union numbering about 78,000 souls. " For the last three days the rations are being sup plied from the merchants' stores, on account of two con tracts made by the finance committee for 250 tons of Indian meal at 141. 14s. and 151. per ton. E-titnates have been forwarded from all the electoral di , risions, and as the guardians have resolved on striking a rate of 10s. in the pound, I do not apprehend any difficulty in con tinuing this relief so auspiciously commenced. " May I request you will convey my sincere thanks to the Briti=h Association, not only for their unbounded liberality to this district, but for the important services, through you, rendered to me personally, in enabling me to put into operation the extensive relief so much needed in this union." DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF THE REV. H. W. STARR ON SNOWDON.—IL will be in the recollection of our readers that the Rev. Mr. Starr, of Northampton, who was making thA tour of North Wales in Soptember last, after kast - ng Carnarvon to ascend Snowdon, was missed. Various rumours were circulated to account for Mr. Starr's disappearance, but the assertion of one of the guides, John Iluehes, that he had met a person on the summit of Glyder Fawr, had conversed with him, arid had received sixpence from him for pointing out the way back into tee Llanberis road. pat an end to all other conjec• turns, especially as Hugh , s's description of his person and dr , ss seemed to certesp:.n I ,q) entirely with the de scription given of the ill• fated gentleman; and the general supposition was that he had perished in one of :he terrific gorges of that mountein. It is now, how ever, well ascertained either that Hughes's story was is fabrication, or that the person whom he saw closely resembled Mr. Starr. On Monday last, William Hughes , , the huntsman in the service of Mr. William F e of Penrhos, as he was descending the vale of Cwrn Brwynog, picked up at t,.e foot of the precipice of Moel y Cyt.ghori , or, as it is locally called. Cloe,wyn Llechivedd y Lie, a red shawl and a piece of linen. These he took to the Dolbadarn Inn, Llanberis, when Mrs. Evans, the landlady, identified the shawl as having been the property of Mr. Starr. It was then discovered that the oil case used by Mr. Starr, as a knapsack, had been found a month before close to the river, by John Edwards, the tenant of a small farm in the mountain hollow, below the spot where the ,hawl was afterwards found. On Tuesday morning the huntsman was sent for, and he accompanied Mr. Edw. Humphreys, son-in-law to Mrs. Evans, of thd Dolbadarn Inn, and David Davies, a quarryman, to the place where he first saw the shawl. They then directed their course to the cliffs of Moat y Cynghorion, along the dry bed of a mountain torrent, and had not gone more than two hundred yards when they espied the mangled remains of the unfortunate tourist—that is, the body from the waist to the knees, and near it a white cambric handkerchief, marked in red with the letters " H.W.S." They proceeded upwards for about three hundred yards, and at the foot of the precipice they found the blade bone, and at the top of the precipice cue of the shoulders, with the arm and hand perfect, hanging over. At this spot, also, they found a hair brush, a small spy glass, a map of North Wales, a small theological treatise, and a pocket book. containing tweezers, scissors, a compass, and various papers. We have the gratification of being wellassured that with the exception of any fold or silver coin the unfortunate gentleman might have had about him, and a silver pencil case, every article in his possession hen he left Carnar von, has been found. There is every reason to believe that whaiever may be missing, if the search were worth the time and expense, might be found among the loose stones and earth carried down by the torrents. It is a melancholy satisfaction to know that the suspicion hinted against our mountain peasantry had no founda tion ; and it is but just to add that nothing can exceed the alacrity vthich, from the first, has been shown throughout the neighbourhood in endeavouring to un ravel the dreadful mystery ; while all of all classes, whether rich or poor, have shown the deepest and ten derest sympathy in the distress of the bereaved mother and sisters of the unfortunate deceased, who is known to have been an exemplary clergyman,—Carnurvon Herald. LIE CROPS IN WEST KENT. —The heavy rain on Saturday morning appears to have cleared the fruit trees, particularly the filbert trees, of some of the in sects ; still ;he Lent corn is much in want of more rain. The beans are in many places in bloom, although not sixteen inches high. The w heat and potato crops look ve''y promising. —Maidstone Gazette. The will of the Honourable Sophia Margaret Stuart, relict of the most Reverend and Right Hon.iWilliam Stuart, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, and grand-daughter of the famous William Penn, of Pennsylvania, was male by her in 1840, and a codicil in August last. She was in her eighty third year. She has thereby left several annuities, and among tellers an an.uit) for the life of her foster-brother, the elder Mr. John Weir. She has bequeathed to her daughter, the Countess of Ranfarly, all her jewels and a sum in the eon s„l,,, a lso a pecuniary bequest to her son William; the residue of her property she leaves to her son Henry, and appointed her two sons executore. The personal estate in England was valued at 7,0001. THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL. The Universal Prussian Gazette devotes the f'ellowing article to the late Member for the county of Cork : " It is not the least significant circumstance in the life of O'Connell that the last eventful scene of all' took place in a foreign land, so much nearer to Rome than to England, that no one member of his numerous family was in attendance upon him in his last moments, and that all which had formerly filled his life with patriotism and love was there submerged in the litanies of Italian priests and in the absolute and exclusive superintendence of the Romish Church. This is perhaps the moral and the goal of a life which has excited m ore th an th a t o f any of his contem poraries the astonishment and sympathy of the people; and the impartial historian will probably some day an nounce that, if O'Connell was active in Ireland, he laboured for Rome. A not altogether ungrounded or inappropriate comp ar i son h as b ee n made by an English print between O'Connell and the great Martin Luther; but the resemblance is only a personal one; it only con cerns the characters of the men, especially in the impe tuous manner of e x pre ss i ng th e i r e motions, but is not discoverable in their fundamental principles and objects. The great Protestant leader opened the broad highway of modern liberty to the minds of awakening Europe ; the Roman Catholic demagogue narrowed even the in terests of his country and the cause of liberty in favour of that priesthood and that church which it was the grand object of Luther to destroy. It is true that the example of O'Connell and the success of his endeavours have, in many parts of the world, powerfully excited the t ß h o e m ir a c n au C s a e th a o n l d ic th C e hu o r b c jhe,ctbsy of a strange a lliance a lliance between our age ; and Rome h a s won m ore p p r u o l s a e r ly a tt at i o n rs th o e f mask of a tribune than in the state vestments of royal confessors and monastic inquisitors. But this, after all, is the most striking, if not the only success, so far as this can be discerned in our own times, that posttrity will ascribe to Daniel O'Connell, be it for good or for evil. It it affirmed that he emancipated Ireland, that he was the saviour of his country. Would to God that he could lay claim to this renown, for Ireland would now be effectually saved and emancipated ! Would to God that only one-half of the exertions which have been made in order to maintain a party agitation, and only one-half of the money which has been s queezed from the starving apnedasaimntargyinuanrdr objects, thepretence of attaining im possibleto the enfranchisement of Irelanhdadfrobementhaenmroops appropriated ated pro found ignorance, to her redemption from the ruinous effects of idleness, to the amelioration of her social con dition, and to the teaching of her people what it really is to be free 1 If O'Connell's life was directed to the purpose of proving that the regeneration of Ireland de pended upon the assertion of certain political rights, and on the magnifying of the power of the Romish clergy — then were these the great ends for which he really com bated ; then, in fact, the last hours of his life may have deeply bowed him down, and he may have seen occasion to turn away from the desperate state of the country which once hailed him as its deliverer. For the loud cry of anguish raised by the nation, the howlings of the hungry, the desperate neglect of the first laws, according to which the inhabitants of the earth earn their daily bread—the degradation of receiving nourishment from those who had always been the object of the constant and unremitting hatred and censure of the Irish party — all these considerations are the present perturbatory re sults of the policy of O'Connell in Ireland, He bad succeeded, by his incomparable influence, in raising a whole nation in a hot headed pursuit of an illusory phantom. The repeal of the union was to be the panacea for all evils, and to result in the abolition of all kinds of injustice; everything else was to be sacrificed to this one object. They believed him—the credulous, confid ing, and blindly zealous people. They followed him, and willingly shared their miserable pence with his priests and his agents : they were ready to die for him. But even before his last hour had arrived, a more powerful judge than human Governments—a mightier arm than the power of England, had annihilated the whole fabric. It is not the repeal of the union or the voice of O'Connell that will emancipate Ireland, but the insight and industry of the people, who hold their fate in their own hands." NOTICE TO MARINERS. BAY OF NAP.,ES—CHANNEL OF PROCIDA. Sicilian Consulate General, London, 4th June, 1847. Notice is hereby given, that from the 30th of April, 1847, there will be exhibited upon the Point called Cioppeto, in the Channel of Procida, in lat. 40 deg. 46 min. 39 sec., and long. 11 deg. 40 min. 48 sec. of the meridian of Paris, a catadiop trical apparatus of the 4th class, producing a constant and unvarying light, at an elevation of about 23 metres above the medium level of the sea, and visible at a distance of about 12 miles of 60 to the degree. DEFECTIVE STATE OF THE LIGHTHOUSE AT CAPE COAST CASTLE. A communication has been received at Lloyds, complain ing of the very defective state of the Lighthouse at Cape Coast Castle. The agent for Lloyds at that port, on receipt of a written complaint to him frofn the master of the schooner Guineaman, on the subject, had addressed the Colonial Go vernment on the suhject, the reply to which was, that the causes of the grievances complained of would be in. cluired into, and necessary steps taken to remove them. The lighthouse, in its present state, is represented to be worse than useless, for that it misguides vessels. In stead of being visible seven leagues di-taut, it scarcely lights the anchorage, indeed masters of vessels knowing the an chorage prefer being guided by the lights in the merchant houses in town, or by those in the castle. The lighthouse is well situated, but badly constructed, and still worse managed. The light is seldom visible in fine weather beyond five miles, and often not at all at that distance. Captain Thompson, of the Guineaman, states that he had repeatedly, whilst at anchor, watched the lights and seen the lamps go out one after the other. Masters of all vessels pay a fine of three dollars for the lighthouse. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, June 7. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. _ Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, whic were read a first time. IRISH JUDU ES. Lord BROUGHAM begged to ask his Noble Friend on the Woolback whether there was any truth in the report that the Irish judges had refused to go their cir cuits on account of the infectious fever ? The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he was not aware that any such report had been made, but he be lievt.d that the greater number of the prisoners in the gaols had recovered. Lord BROUGHAM would then wish to ask of his Noble Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what had been the course pursued within his district? Lord CANIPBELL said, that although it was under stood that the prisoners in the gaols, which were not fifty yards from the Courts where the assizes were held, at Stafford, were dying by dozens, none of the Judges had refused to take the circuit. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the funds raised for the purposes of the minutes, could only be applied to education. Besides the dissenting body would entertain strong objections to such an arrangement as that sug gested by the Noble Lord. Lord STANLEY reminded the Noble Marquis that he had not answered his question, namely, whether a per son's being in holy orders would be deemed to be an ob tion to his filling the office of schoolmaster. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to :Jay that it would, but exceptions might arise. The Bishop of EXETER did not wish to prolong this discussion, but the Noble Marquis having stated one thing as a fact, he was quite sure the Noble Marquis would allow him to set him right upon that score. The Noble Marquis had stated that it had always been understood that a schoolmaster should apply himself solely to the care of his school. Now he held in his hand the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1839, in which he found the following question :—" Does the schoolmaster devote his whole time to the office or not ? If so, state what occupation." Now, so far as he could understand the English lan guage, that question implied that schoolmasters were likely to fill other occupations. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE did not object to a schoolmaster holding another occupation which did not interfere with the business of schoolma.ter. _ _ The Bishop ofEkTEßtru;ted the Noble Marquis's reply would not be forgotten when they came to discuss this question a;.:ain, - PEERS OF SCOTLAND (BILL) The Earl of EG LINTON moved the second reading of this Bill. He did not think that there would be any opposition to the measure, and would not therefore trou ble their Lordships with any lengthened remarks upon the Bill. The Noble Earl then briefly stated to their Lordships the objects of the Bill, which appeared to be a provision for the revisal of the roll of the Scottish Peer age, and certain enactments calculated to prevent fraud in the case of the elections of Scottish Peers. The Noble Earl considered that the whole subject was one which required to be made the subject of a legislative enactment, and ought not to be left to a mere resolution of the House. Lord CAMPBELL thought that the proposed Bill was unnecessary; the objects sought by it being attainable by a resolution of their Lordships House. Lord REDESDALE supported the second reading of the Bill. Earl of ROSEBERY thought that the subject was one which required legislative interference. If a person presented a petition to that House claiming a peerage, and, on the strength of that, presumed to vote at the election of a Scottish Peer, the returning officer would not allow the vote. He thought that the measure would prevent the evils at present complained of. The Duke of RICHMOND said, from the experience he had had in the Committee which had been appointed on the subject, he had cotae to the opinion that the defects in the election of Scottish Peers could only be corrected by an Act of Parliament. He should, there fore, not only vote for the second reading of this Bill, but support it in its subsequent stages. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. the Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) in Ilia plaost, wish to press upon him the desirableness of posteinnireg his motion with respect to the affairs of Pertugalefr Thursday to Monday next, if it can be done *with 'the consent of the Government; but I doubt not bute#lo Go vernment well wtllingty exchange the day for \* T i e. his has been tixed, as there appears to be every riei ev : e kie i expect that the corresp'inireece le the report wi4. T. , very volumnious ; and it i s only right as that' corifes:se • ee.i.'r'eeele pondence has not yet been placed on the table of the House that a postponement should take place, in order that Hon. Members may have an oppor tunity of perusing it. It it should be placed on the table of the House to-night, it would not be in the hands of Hon. Members bef . ore Wednesday morning, and as there is an early sitting on that day, li'stle time would be afforded to Henourable Members to make themselves acquainted with their contents. This is a question on which it would not be well for the House to come to a decisien without having all the papers before it. This short d-lay would not be a matter of serious consequence, as the troops of.the insurgents had been arrested in their progress. Mr. HUME said after several attempts, in order to obtain a day m which his motion could be brought for ward, Thursday V% as fixed upon by the common consent ol the House—([tear, hen)—and no party was more anxious to have the. motion brought forward on Thursday than the Node Lord and his friends— (Hear, hear)—and as he was not aware that the correspondence was beyond a research of 24 or 48 years, he should persist in brineing forward his motion on that day ; in fact, he had made an arrangement which would . make it utterly impossible for him to be in the House on Monday. The House bad fixed Thursday. He wished to continue to it. The conversation then dropped HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. Mr. WARD moved the appointment of the following Committee on tois subject:—Mr. W. 0. Stanley, Lord Sandon, Colonel Pennant, El.! Grosvenor, Mr. Hamil ton (Dubin county). Mr. Goulburn, Admiral Bowlee, Lord Morpeth, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Ward, with. five Members to be chosen by the Committee of Selection. Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the appointment of the Committee until they had the report of the Committee on the harbour, and the evidence adduced before it. Without meaning any disrespect to the gentle• men nomina'ed, he could not help stating that it appeared to him that they had a direct interest in the carrying cut of the undertaking. It' the Committee were appointed, it would be appointed before the Committee to which he had referred had made their report, wh ch would show that the estimate of 600,0001. for the cost made by the Government engi neer was egregiously wrung, as it would be shown by the testimony of Sir John Rtnnie, and some of the most eminent engineers, that the cost would be at least 2,000,0001. The very names which the Hon. Gentleman had suggested showed that he did not think very highly of the scheme ; and as a proof that the Mem bers of the Committee were interested, he might state that Mr. Stanley held 120 holdings, which would be required for the harbour, and some of the others were equally interested. He moved that the consideration of this subject be re ferred to the Committee this day fortnight. Mr. WARD said that he did not wish the Committee app o inted to investigate the mat ter to begin their labours until the report was eetore the House. He had reason to believe that it would be printed and bet ore the eeene mittee as early as Thursday next, and therefore the House would have ample time to consider the matter before it was placed wider discussion, and every con clusion come to upon it. He thought, however, that there ought to be no attempt to pospone the discussion. of the matter by a waste of time. Lord SANDON thou g ht that they ought to have the evidence before the House before they appointed this Committee. He had no objection to the Committee in itself, but he did think it would be advisable to have that document before them before they proceeded to take further eviderice. Mr. HUAIE said that matter involved the expenditure of half a million of money. He fully agreed with the Noble Lord who had last spoken, that this document should be in the hands of Hon. Members. He had, in a previous session moved for certain returns connected with the Holyhead harbour, but he had not time to follow it up, and others had not done so. Ile thought they were premature in appointing the Committee; and that the evidence, if before them, might possibly satisfy the House. Mlti) Mr. W. COLLETT said that a sum of 150,000/. had already been expended on Holy head harbour. The facts that had already been adduccd on the subject were suf ficient to warrant a Commit ee being appointed, and lie hoped the House would sanction that appointment. Mr. BANKES said the question was not quite so narrow in its character as some Hon. Members ap peared to think. In fact, it was a question whether or no Holyhead was the best harbour for English mer chants that could be formed on that part of the coast of Ireland. If large sums of money were expended upon that harbour it might prevent shipowners in this country having the most desirable harbour that could be established. Ho did not deny that Holy head was a very desirable harbour ; but it was, in reality, a question whether it was the most desirable that could be constructed for the merchants of Liverpool and ;.they ports in this country. .Ihe question was not, therefore, as he had already observed, quite so narrow as w rs imagined. Mr. ARD had never heard of the evidence till ro w; but, in his opinion, the question simply was, whether the present Government would carry out an arrange ment entered into by the hitt, Government. It halt of the allegations of the lion. Geritl, mail (Mr. Williams) were correct, the House, he would not carry it out; but. V they were not, be thought they would. Sir RoßEur PEEL said, the question was, which port was the best for facilitating. the inierc•.urse between this country ami Ir land. S:ver,d inquiries bad been made on the subji ct. An eminent civil engineer, anti an officer of the Admiralty, 11-d inaclo a report on the sub ject, and they c,neurred in reporting in favour of head. Another inquiry bad been made with the same result, and, if he ald not mistake, a third bad been made, all of which took place during the last three years, and were in favour of that harbour. Mr. ORMSBY' GORE said that he .as aware from the inientations of the coast, that at the other place there was a tunek bett r fora h tbour t ,an there could be at liol3 h. uti. With rigatd to the. anchorage, he had taken great lute- eat on die subject, and had taken the opinion of many practical men, who had stated that the ar:chnrage was much more tree from rocks than that of Hol) head. After a few words from Viscount SANDON, which did not reach the gallery, Mr. WARD raid that it was the height of absurdity to go over the whole of the examinatum which hal al ready been taken. 11i, sole object was to pr. vent the Bill from being get rid of by a side wild, and he thought ;hat the-e objections were raised t,r the pu :pose of getting rid of th., rn asure. Mr. I'. S. DLINCOMBE said that the Coramittee had been appointed in a very tnik.ual mann. r; in tact, it was one Committee appointed to appoint atio!her. He thought that the same rub. ,hould be obsertPed in this instance, as was obsei ved upor, railways, and that no M,nrier at all interested in the sale of lane, st.oidd be appointed up in the Committee. The case involved the expenditure of 2,000.00 u/. of public !money, and it ought not to be carried out by indirect influence, nor any information on the subject refused. The public would not be satisfied it the Committee stood as proposed. Therelore, he hoped, his Hon. Friend would at all events consent to po.tpone the appointment of a Committee, 111 order that the House might breve the evidence of the Commissioners in its hards, who would LW doubt make an able report. Mr. WARD appealed to the Speaker, whether he had not adopted the pr. -- per course. Two or three Bills had been before the House, with resp-ct to which Com mittees had been nominated in the same way. He tad consulted the Honourable Gentleman in the chair, and mentioned to him that one of the Gentlemen whom he proposed to nominate was locally connected, but he over-ruled his doubts, and he placed his name on the list. ZNI — The SPEAKER said the Committee had been ap pointed strictly in accordance with the forms of the House. When Bills came before Parliament of a publie, and partly of a private nature, some Ho:nourable Members representing local interests were chosen, whilst the remainder were appointed by the Com mittee of Selection, under the ordinary rules Lid down by the House. Lord CLIVE said it was for the House to consider whether they would appoint this Committee before the report and evidence of the Commission had beqn printed and laid before the House, whether they would appoint a tribunal before they knew what they would have to decide. The question was not simply whether Holyhead harbour would be a s wa packet station, but whether it might be made a great national harheir of refuge, or whether, after enclosingtlaey spent all this money they had not s e_less be fo n r shipping. a space full of rocks and utterly w m a e s m a b m er e i t i.r Coven tryriber of a Committee on ie s i t h r a : n d u E g a d h L ( t w A t t h e c e d:t properh o p t, n v . A N Gentleman coarse. sajsaid theh he was and per , oned interest i h n er t e he we m re stre e r m u b je s r h irve q s g tig a a l t o io e n al . The Hight investigate( i by three H w' o 'l l i t i o 'c u h ra t. ble Baronet (Sir Rob ert Peel) ' s which he thought was gooil evideLee in favour of their proceedings. eminent d in s e t n aw t e d ng th in a , t e t r he , report had be , m Mr. S I'ANLEY said that he had been persionully re ferred to in the course of this debat e , and he therefore rose to express his desire that he should not sit upon the Committee, but he rose also tor the pur pose of adverting to some words made u se of by the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool, :He stated that his constituents wished to see the repot in order that they might see what further steps were r equired to be taken. He would remind the Noble Lot d that the distinct understanding with the Honourable Gen tleman near him was, that the Commi tree should see the end of the matter. There was great misunderstanding upon the subject of chi s question. The point for the Lords of the Treasury (n a an n i d ue t . h wd e erw L ea o s r a. d u s . ; and the of the Admir a lty t o ascer t a i n tw ( p f am e ekteh t t h er e s y ll : countable to Parliament) was, had rept irted up on ti c t ,i a m n m d is p s r io o i p ie e r r s h a; r p c o o in u t r ed fo h r u h inhabitants of Liverpool and h Commi t t e e was to see w Cher Rendall a the subject.. Thar repot ha y cl ot b h e e e r n zn e t s 7r a e l 6 l l d to th b e y t u h r e . pose of this plan prope r one ,TeoxprnlaonLation, said th a t th e engage ment distinctly was that no f'irther steps' should be tal;cn until this r , port were in the hands of ale Members o f this House. Lo w as rd SAa Mr. WILLIAIIB said that he could assure the House that they did not wish to get rid of this Bill by any side wind. He was as anxious as any other rerson to have a harbour of mine on that part of the coast of Ireland where Holyhead was situated. The motion was agreed to without a division. k r: HUB LE bud—kle wished to mite few Mem! ARMED INTERVENTION IN PORTUGAL. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday, a mostdestructive fire, and which, it is supposed, has been attended with loss of life, broke out in the residence of a person named Adams, residing at 61, Theobald'a-road, Red Lion-square. Before the fire was ex tinguished the interior of the house was reduced to a com plete ruin, while from rumours it would appear that some one of the inmates had fallen a prey to the devouring element. The fire was first discovered by police-sergeant Fryer, 16, E division, who, with some of. the constables, was passing the house, and whose attention was attracted by a strong light in the ship. This induced them to listen at the door, when hearing the snapping of wood, they instantly alarmed the inmates, and in a few minutes several persons, male and female, appeared at the windows in a state of nudity. As soon as they were made acquainted with their perilous situa tion a rush was made to the door, which in the mean time had been forced open by the police. The fire, which origin ated in the shop (a chandler's), from being fed by the air, in an instant burst forth with re d ou bl e d fury, and but for the coolness of the police several must have perished. In the meanwhile the fire proceeded to run through the house with astouishiug rapidity, and by the time the engine from the Holborn station arrived, which was within ten minutes from the discovery, the flames were to be seen rushing forth from out of every window, and through the roof. Within twenty minutes after the first discovery the Chandos-street, Well streets,uFpaprlyrinogfdwona-tsetrreweas obtained Watling-street,, County. and West of England engin es were on the spo t, aad, although a plen tifulthe firemen could only pre ven t th e flames unitedfes the adjoining houses. To a dd t o the confusion which inva riably attends a fire, the w h o le of the carriage way was m extending exertion to of s broken up, and this rendered it difficult for the engines to get near the place. A large body of the police of the C and E divisions were on the spot, and rendered material aid to the Fire Brigade and inhabitants. VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.-011 SS -1 sl s "whena yno2woa, anowsdflstriwhs4i apparentt 1847."—Wexford s. e e:e n ,r—ioe ' ds turday night Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly at the family residence in Carlton Gardens. His Royal Ilighnees• the Hereditary Prince of Lucca, attended by the Marquis Provenzali, and his Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden, accompanied by Boron Rehausen, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires, and attended by Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Captain Haffner, honoured her Ladyship with their presence. The Admiralty have officially announced that Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., is to command a squadron of exercise during the ensuing summer, the ships to consist of the St. Vincent, 120 ; Howe, 120 ; Caledonia, 120 ; and Queen, 110. Not any steamers have yet been named, but it is expected those fitting and nearly ready for sea, viz., Amphion, Avenger, Dragon, Odin, Terrible (en her return from the special service on which she is about to be employed), Centaur, and Retribution (the two last not yet commissioned). will also be placed under Sir Charles Napier's orders. The Admiralty have directed the Rear- Admiral to receive and distribute on board the squadron such half-pay officers as may wish to go, and are desirous of gain ing experience by the cruise. They are to be victualled as usual, but to arrange in other respects with the officers of the mess which they may join.—Hampshire Telegraph. CURRENTS IN THE SEA.—A slip of pasteboard with writing on both sides, put into a bottle, was found near the larger of the Saltee Islands, o ff our coast, on Monday. The writing on one side is—" Barque Mohawk, from Singe. pore to London, March 8, 1847. Current papers—Please to coatWobir regard, oy i egf n za d e ftt r o h , r " r n e: send to the editor of the Nautical Magazine when and where found. Latitude 49 degrees 00 minutes north ; longitude 12 degrees 29 minutes west. W. Douglas, master." On di "West fea l ohl i lr a n t 9p.d tc io e :e. the other side—" Latitude 49 degrees 00 minutes north ; longitude 15 degrees 29 minutes west. W. Douglas, mas twoefirt.Ll'a Large gh Underneath n s d a e l r t ne requeste s ea t t l o a this Island,state o P w E r t sessions s hei S and - e o r t i l d l others s r p sm e e n i ce nu ie toi n of t n. PUBLICcis uta or Etsehxr public purse, they are never heard t o say a word about the serious train of expenses incurred on account of the game preserving and thegame prosecutions. No, not a w or d o f h com pl a int on that head ' It is high time those g entlemen b ecame sensible of the extreme strong feeli ng w hi c hi setting in against them because of the game preserving s now the ga and me-law nuisances. HARVEST PROSPECTS.—In the Exchange News room, on Saturday, a clump of wheat was exhibited from Mr. Neilson 's farm, at H a l ewood. It was ow the first week in October, is now upwa r d s of three sn feet high, and beautifully shot into ear. Mr. Thomp son, of Sutton, near Easthate, states, in a letter to the Mail, that he cut a field of grass last Mon day, and was carrying it on. Saturday. The crop was so heavy that the mowers laboured to deliver it from the scythe. An old practical farmer who was present stated that he had never seen a finer crop, and it was in first-rate condition. lie intend- , to teke a second crop from the same field. " Grain," he adds, " looks excellently well. As con cerns the potato blight,my crop is not enough advanced to give any opinion at present. I can detect no symptoms The plant looks well." Haymaking commenced near Beth above a week ago, and in the neighbourhood of Holmfarth heavy aid luxuriant crops have been housed." The Leeds Intelligencer says, "On Tuesday morning last a gentleman called at our office with a fine stalk of rye, with the ear shot, which he ha i plucked on the previous day in a field near Addle. We should doubt whether that ancient of men, 6 the oldest inhabitant,' ever knew rye shot in the month of Ms)* before." —Liverpool Albion. BODY FOUND. —We are requested by the superin tendent of police at Margate to insert the f Mowing notice: —“ Found at sea this morning, near Margate, the body of a respectably dressed man, about five feet tea inches high, wall in vie and very much decomPesA, dressed in slate Or gray' -is ckled trousers, Albert slippers, cotton socks, black dress coat, and Mixed LaSitnere waistcoat; supposed to live bee n i n tae water about two mouths." . The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished to ask the Noble Marquis opposite (the Marquis of Lansdowne) what system it was intended to pursue in the armed in tervention in Portugal, if it were necessary; whether the command of the combilied fleets was to be committed to the senior officer; in other words, whether the com mand of the British fleet was to be given to the Prince de Joinville? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he could not reply directly to the inquiry of the Noble Earl, and all he could say was that the British fleet would be com manded by their own officers. POOR REMOVAL (ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND) BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this Bill. He said the present Bill proposed what was but equitable justice to both countries—England and Scot land. The law for the removal of paupers first originated in the reign of Charles 11., when power was given to remove paupers out of the parish on which they had no claim. In the reign of George 11. the necessity was felt of a law giving the power to remove the paupers that had come from the Channel Islands, Ireland, and Scotland, and had become chargeable to England. Laws more stringent had been enacted from time to time after wards, until the enactment of the law as it at present stood. But there was great difficulty in putting that law in execution ; for, first, the pauper must be brought before a court by summons ; if the pauper did not heed the summons a warrant was issued against him, but before that could be done the pauper was out of the way, and the law could not be carried into effect. The Noble and Learned Lord read a statement from a private in dividual to the effect that up to the 31st of May last 176,462 Irish paupershad gone over to Liverpool, and that previous to January there were already 160,000 in Liverpool. making in all 236,462. Lord BROUGHAM was understood to say that he entirely concurred in the view which the Noble Lord had taken of the subject. Atter a few words from Lord ELLENBOROUGH and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl FITZ WILLIAM said that there was an ambi guity in the Bill which he would wish to see removed • the Bill did not state where the paupers were to be re moved to. Lord CAMPBELL was understood to say that pro vision would be made to meet that case in some clauses which it was proposed to introduce into the Bill. Earl FITZ WILLIAM thought that considerable diffi culty would arise in carrying out the provisions of the Bill even acceding to the proposed clauses. Irish paupers would be removed from Liverpool to Belfast, and upon Belfast would devolve the duty of forwarding the pauper into the interior of the country. It was quite clear, therefore, that the Bill did not treat with the Irish pauper in the same way that it did with Eugli-h paupers. Lord CAMPBELL said, the case suegested by the Noble Earl was provided for by another Act. Earl EITZ WILLIAM wanted to know whether the whole of the expense of the entire removal was to fall upon the parish of Liverpool. His Noble and Learned Friend had not answered that question. The Earl of WICKLOW contended that the Bill was most unconstitutional, and ought not to be passed. His Noble and Learned Friend who had introduced the Bill justified it by producing a letter he had re ceived from certain magistrates of Liverpool, who found it too much trouble to carry out the law as it pi esent stood. Under an existing law a man could not be removed from one place to another unless it could be proved before a magistrate that he had become chargeable to a parish,:and he thought it would be extremely dangerous if not impolitic to repeal that pro vision. He deeply regretted that Liverpool had suffered so much from the influx of Irish paupers ; but looking at the immense advantages, the great wealth that town had derived from the importation of corn from all parts of the world, for the use of Ireland, he did not think, after all, that the people of Liverpool had so much cause t o com plain. This Bill arose out of the clamour and pressure to which the Government were now subjected, but it was a Bill which would not have the slightest tendency to promote the objects which the parties had in view. It bad been said that the existing law bad become inoperative. The Bill was inoperative, solely in conse quence of the misconduct and neglect of the magistracy, and it was not right, upon that account, to pass a mea sure so unjust and unconstitutional as the present. But he contended that the existing Bill had not alto - gether failed in carrying out the objects for which it was passed. lle begged their attention to the effect of this Bill on Londonderry. That town and district was as much unprotected as any part in England now was. After the passing of this Bill, therefore, swarms of Irish paupers from the west might come in upon that district and swamp the wealth of the place. The Bill was un• 'constitutional, and gave powers over the pauper which were never allowed except in the case of felony. He must oppose the further progress of the Bill. Lord BEAUMONT said the question was how an Irish pauper stood now in England, and how he would stand if the Bill passed. A pauper now applied f( r relief and obtained it. The guardian, if he chose, complained to the magistrate, and got a summons against the pauper, who forthwith appeared under the summons. After this Bill, all that would be effected was the doing away with the formal ceremony of complaint to the magis trate. In all other things the proceeding was the same. If this was the result they were encouraging mendicity of the grossest kind, and thus by travelling ingeniously through the whole of England the pauper might live on the alms of the poor-house, without being removed to the place from whence he came. This Bill, therefore, only prevented a great evil by dealing with it summarily, so that a pauper might be passed at once to the parish from which he was entitled to relief. In his opinion the poor law of Iselaud and England ought to be placed precisely on the same footing as the poor-law stood between town and town in England. He had not, therefore, entered at all into the spirit of the complaint of the authorities of Liverpool, fur it stood upon entirely dif ferent grounds from those on which this poor-law was built, and ought not therefore, in his opinion, to be en tertained. Yet this did not in the slightest degree effect the serious question which had been so seriously and so forcibly put by the Noble Lord, as to that where the instance showed that there was no means of subsistence whatever, and where the pauper would have to be passed to the place where the means of a livelihood might be obtained, for he thought that such a case was far out of the pale of all minor considerations. Neither would he enter into the sanatory state of the country, although it was intimately connected with the question. For these reasons he thought that the observations of his Noble Friend were needless and uncalled for. The House then went into Committee without a division. EDUCATION. The Bishop of EXETER rose, pursuant to notice, to ask a question of the Lord President of Council respect ing a communication with deputies of certain bodies of dissenters, relative to the minutes of the Committee of Privy Council on Education. He should not feel justified in enquiring what might have passed bete een any Mem bers of the Cabinet and a deputation from the dissenting body, but what had occurred at the interview to which he alluded had been disclosed by a colleague of the Noble Marquis in another place, and he therefore felt no difficulty in putting his questions. He wished to know whether any interview had taken place between the Noble Lord at the head of the Government and the Noble Marquis the President of the Council, and a deputation from the Wesleyan body? Whether any, and if any, what promise of an alteration in the minutes of Council on Education was made at that interview? and whether any record had been kept of the same? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said soon after the minutes of education were laid on the table of this House, communications connected with the minutes were made to his Noble .Frtend the First Lord of the Trea- sury and himself, as Prestdent of the Council, from various bodies, and a deputation from the Wesleyan body, attended upon himself and his Noble Friend, to be Informed upon certain particulars relating to the minutes. The explanations were given as required, and a record of the explanations was kept, which would be ul timately laid upon the table of the House. In pursuance of that communication, a slight alteration was made in the minutes, but not in their spirit. One of the chief ob jections urged by the Wesleyan body was that those who filled the office of schoolmasters under the minutes, ought not to be allowed to exercise ecclesiastical functions, and to that extent an alteration bad been made in the mi nutes. The Bishop of EXETER hoped the Noble Marquis would have no objection to lay on the table of the House a copy of the paper or communication to which the Noble Marquis had alluded. Very likely, when that paper came before them, it might be necessary for him to pro pose to their Lordships the expediency of considering the propriety of expressing an opinion upon some part of the contents of that paper. It would be found that the paper contained a distinct declaration that no person holding any ecclesiastical office, or performing any eccle siastical functions, should be eligible to the office of schoolmaster ; but nothing was said about Dissenting Ministers being excluded from the same office. It was extremely desirable that their Lordship's should have an opportunity of expressing their opinion upon this ques tion of education in all its bearings ; but, before they could do so, it was indispensably necessary that they should have this paper before them. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to promise the production of the paper. Lord STANLEY did not clearly understand the ex planation of the Noble ➢Marquis. The Noble Marquis had told them that Ecclesiastical Masters were to be debarred from exercising Ecclesiastical functions. Did the Noble Marquis mean that no schoolmaster must have taken up holy orders ? If so, ho thought the con cession highly objectionable ; what the Church most wanted, in his opinion, was the services of an inferior class of ministers. and ho thought no better persons could be found to perform the functions of such minis ters, than those who had filled the office of school maiden' under time tainuteu. IRISH VAGRANCY BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should move the second reading of this Bill on Thursday next. POOR-LAW SUPERVISION BILL (IRELAND). This B►ll was postponed fur a few days. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. This Bill was read a third time. NAVAL PRISONS BILL. This Bill was rtild a third time. LUNATICS ASYLUM BILL (IRELAND). This Bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 7. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. W ARWICK COUNTY PRISONS BILL. This Bill was read a second time. On the motion that the Bill be committed, Mr. DUGDALE opposed the committal of the Bill, and moved that it be committed that day three months. Mr. WILLIAMS supported the amendment Mr. NEWDEGATE also supported the amendment. Lord BROOKE was in favour of the committal of the Bill. He thought, instead of the Bill having been hur ried on, it had been too much delayed. Mr. R. SPOONER supported the amendment moved by Mr. Dugdale. Mr. ADDERLEY opposed the amendment and sup ported the Bill. Sir R. H. INGLIS supported the Bill. After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE and Sir C. DOUGLAS, The House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 6O Against it Majority against committal The Bill was consequently lost. HORNE'S (FERGUSON'S) ESTATE BILL. This Bill was read a second time. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up : Ashton Gas. Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (Deviatiun of Line, &c.) Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway (Stonrbridge and West Bromwich). Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Chester and Alteration of Levels). Eastern Counties Itailway (Lynn and Ely Railway, and Ely end Huntingdon Railway, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Lease). Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Improvement of the Ferry between Ferry Port on Craig and the North Shore of the River Tay). Edinburgh, Leith, and Uranton Railway (Leith Exten sion). Edinburgh and Northern Railway, St. Andrew's and Newburgh Harbour Branches and Road Crossings (Newport Railway Extension). Kilmarnock Police and Improvement. Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Fareham Railway. Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Eaglescliffe and Stillington Extension). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Knaresborough and Bo rough bridge Branch). Leeds and Think Railway (Branch from Melmerby to Northallerton, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrowgate and Pateley Branch, &c.) Liverpool Guardian Gas. Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railways Amalgamation. Norfolk Railway (Branch from Norwich to Aylsham, with a Branch to North Walsbam). Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Ra lway. htockport Manorial Toll.; and Bridges. Wolverhampton General Cemetery. York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock En largement). York and Newcastle Railway (Pelaw Tyne Dock, &c., Branches). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: — East Lothian Central Railway. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Branch to the Caledonian Railway and Diversion of Car_al). Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Lease to the London and North-Western Railway Company). Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Branch to Lau rencekirk). The reports on the following Bills were further con sidered and agreed to: — Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail way, and Chester and Birkenhead Railway Purchase or Amalgamation. Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton, and Chiches ter, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and South-Western Railways. Great Northern Railway (Purchase of Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Rail way, &c.) Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Ches terfield and Gainsborough Canal Amalgamation. Royston and Hitchin Railway (Sale or Lease). Weymouth and Melconibe Regis llarbcur and Bridge Trusts. THE CASE OF MARY DAWSON. Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on the House going into a Committee of Supply, he would move that copies of the correspondence which had passed between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the magistrates in the case of Mary Dawson be laid upon the table of the House. SPIRIT'S (IRELAND). Sir ROBERT FERGUSON moved for a return of the accounts of the produce of the Excise duty received on spirits in Ireland during each of the years ending the sth day of April, 1846 and 1847, and the number of gallons brought to charge, showing the increase or de crease in gallons and in duty. Also of the number of gallons of spirits brought to charge in Ireland, and the duty paid thereon, in the quarters ending respectively April 5, 1846 and 1847, showing the increase or decrease. Also of the number of gallons of proof spirits (distin guishing the quantities produced from malt, and from a mixture of malt anti unmalted grain) on which duty was paid for home consumption in Ireland in each quarter of the years ending respectively the sth day of April, 1846 and 1847, and in each of the years. Also of the number of detections, and of the number of persons prosecuted for offences in Ireland against the laws for the suppression of illicit distillation, in each quarter of the years ending respectively the sth day of April, 1846 and 1847, distinguishing those con victed. Also of the number of persons confined in each gaol in Ireland, for offences against the laws for the sup pression of illicit distillation, on the sth day of January, the sth day of March, and the sth day of April, in each of the years 1846 and 1847 (in continuation of Parlia mentary Paper, No. 361, of Session 1846). Motion agreed to. HULKS AT WOOLWICII. Colonel ROLLES . TON asked the Secretary of State for the Homo Department when the report and the evi dence taken before the Committee respecting the hulks at Woolwich would be laid before the House ? Sir G. GREY said that the report and the evidence were very voluminous, and that, as soon as he had time, he would examine and see if all, or what part of it, should be printed and laid before the House. NORFOLK ISL AND. Lord MAHON asked the Under-Secretary for the Home Department whether it was proposed that Norfolk Island should be retained as a penal settlement? Mr. HAWES said that instructions had been given to the Lieutenant-General to use his discretion regarding it, but in ea se i t s h ou ld not b e cont i nue d as a pe rnont, care w ou ld b e ta k en t h at t h e Gover n ment na i build ingss should not go t o ru i ns . Lord G. BENTINCE *aid, seitioS the ll ' u ett AFFAIRS OF PORTUGoIt Gentlexitu TiiE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1847. U N