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eared la ntifr, As phdnuff lat that how the on for .f e ndant tomer? said be tor any verdict, krnbeth, itrewea ad WI nano' ad Pr ad la' " s oy, proles :iu►►, as he bare took to ,etter if ci avoid a co uld lected 7rAnge - nity ° I 0 bee o desire he de' d gee ?en her ye that keeP se- , f a ce 0. s suf6. tended sine ill 'ills* fat her less be [ wad e C 43" ietb i eri [at de'' nonce have lan f so ig as • have D yOl.l SPORTING INiEELI-dENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FIVE O'CLOCK. The betting l as t n i g h t was on a li m i te d sca le, the con I ,- ersation turning chiefly on the events of the day, and nior particularly on the Two Thousand Guineas' Stakes, her esult of which, as we mentioned in our dispatch from l 'oe heath, materially altered the positions of some of the l t r in g Derby favourites. Planet's defeat sent him from to 2 to 13 to 1, but must not be looked upon as decisive 'C s his real. mer i ts. He coughed severa l t i mes b e f ore start g' and sweated as much as if he had been running severe race, in fact, was decidedly " off;" this will 'ac e's:Ault for hi s d efeat in a very slow run race , an d m akes his chance for the Derby a very doubtful one. Conyngham, who was ba c k e d f or four or fi ve h un d re d p o unds on the Reath at 5 and 6 to 1, was quoted at night at 5 to 1 ; 30 to 1 laid , against Cossack, 40 to 1 agst Ulysses, and 7to 2 agst 2 1,1 1 Day's lot ; no others mentionel Several hundred pounds were laid on the match between Alarm and the;i Tra lerser, at 6 to 4 on the former ; and 3 or 4 bets on the 1,000 ; iol neas Stakes, at 6to 4 agst Slander. The Chester Cup be ts were 9 t o 1 agst Dulcet, 10 to 1 eac h agst Th e L am b Ji n d gi a l tp e o o t d . icant, 20 to 1 agst Camera Obscura, and 35 to 1 agst The settling for yesterdev's racing took place this after that Mr. Green, Mr. llargreaves, and one or two others, „ p 7n about 5,0001. The Conyngham party are moderate In ners; their investments having been checked by a dread (4 the Goodwood nag. he raci ng this afternoon had no feature of interest beyond "e great match, in which Alarm received a most signal Wen, Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sov. each. A.F. Lord of Rutland's Paultons, 5 yre, Bst 10Ib...(Robinson) 1 k. r " Orford's Tarella, 3 yrs, sst 101 b ... 2 :74% Neville's Remorse, 5 yrs, Bst slb • 3 101 b 4 jite ;: i r go d . fyi.Pt's Birthday, 4 yrs, Est agst Tarella, "2 to 1 agst Paultons, and 5 to 2 agst The running was made alternately by Tarella and p '',,,?tse, until near the c o rds, where it was taken up by ; - "° 118 , who was never afterwards caught, and won easy A *length. Run in 2 minutes 21 seconds 8 "Pstake3 of 50 soy. each, for three . year olds.. A.F. Lora (6 Subs.) Stradbrook's Coningsby, Bst 71b, and Mr Watson's Dr. Goodall, Bst 31b, divided the stakes, and Dr. Goodall Walked over. Match, T.Y.C., 1, 000 , h. B. 26 j r : O'Brien's The Traverser, lit 71 b ...... ......(Marson) 1 Mr. Greville's Alarm, Bst 71b 1 3 to Bon Alarm. The Traverser, made all the running, at a kill ing pace, disposed of the favourite in the first quarter rattle,and won by five lengths. Run in 1 min. 12 secs. S weepstakes of 200 soy& each, h. ft., A.F. (3 subs.) Lord si r *Vow s Conspiracy, Bst 31b .(Nat) 1 ilawley's Humdrum, Bst 51b Colonel Anson's lago, Bst 121 b I3etting-6 to 4on Conspiracy, who took the lead from Hum nol at the new ground, ruade the rest of the running, and .7, 0 n easy by a length ,• lago, who was beaten a length from Jaunadrum, pulsol. led u fo p r l f a o m su e rNi.r Run in 2 min. 40 sec. Mr. Neville'a yrs- 8 . s o t ld ii tc. B.C. Lord Exetelgersatcll 3 Kesheng,(Maroon) 1 , Remorse, 2 5 yrs, Set Illb Bettin by Colwicic, out of Lucetta, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 3 g-6 to 4on Kesheng. Remorse made all the run - g ' and won by two lengths ; the Lucetta colt beaten off. Run in 8 'tin. 41 secs. EWMARKET, C w EIVED THIS DAY.) RDWESDAY NIGHT, ELEVEN O'CLOCK. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Sweepstakes • winner to be sold for 80/. N I B ati f by Assassln, out ' of Esmeralda—Tanais—Millwoocl— er,_si a—lbrahim Pacha—b f by The Saddler, out of Fau ua--•and J o lli ty. _ Handicap, T.Y.C. „ 1 2ish op of Romf or d' s C o b , age d , B st 10Ib— Garry Owen, 7 r , Bst 61 b—dinglepot, 5 yrs, Bst—Best Bower, 6 yre. Ib--Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs, ist 31b—Kite, 3 yrs ' Est 101b — r, 3 yrs, s s t 101b—J o llity, 3 yrs , s s t 31b. Three paid. Queen's Plate, R.C. t tia tra, 5 yrs—Wolfdog, 5 yrs—Flahowlagh, 5 yrs-- Ydrauger, 4 yrs—Humdrum, 4 yrs. 6 to 4 apt Slander LATEST BETTING. 1,000 GUINEAS STAXES. ato 2 agst Brown Bess 3to 1 agst Clementina The above three and two car ,thers are expected to run. 9 8 t t ° agst Dulcet cat CUF. I 16 to 1 agst Clermont 10 e agst Mendicant t° 1 mat The La m b I2Bto 1 agst Inheritress (t) 30 to 1 agst Annandale to 1 agst Camera Obscura 30 to 1 agst Plaudit (taken) 40 to 1 agst Gwalior Sting and Jinglepot are declared not to start. to 2 THE DERBY. agst John Day's lot 20 to 1 agst Cossack 11 agst Conyn ham 30 to 1 agst Mr. Martin 2 agst Van Tromp 40 to 1 agst Oxonian No others mentioned. Wal let( wonic.—The result of the Two Thousand Guineas, di sew , was not run until a quarter past three o'clock, was sc V our correspondent, by horse express to Cambridge , a t o lz i lee of thirteen miles, within thirty minutes , and thence oreditch by electric telegraph. Itt GisTity of BIRTHS and DEATHS t,..,DURING THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 17. regis tered in week. Births registered in the week. "' ••• 493 Males ... ... 694 Pelll al.. ••• 48S Females ... 644 Total .• - 9 8-1 Total ... 1,338 n_ Tau ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, ADMIRALTY EXTEN rIt--Yesterday evening the operation of laying down the e tal tubes through which the communicating wires pass Zas,noncluded. The course taken from the telegraph offices the Strand is as f o llows : —On the no r th s ide of the Strand g a a e n e lao B c al m's Pillar, across Cockspar-street , through Spring ark, Passing Lord F . itzhardinge's . mansion into St. James's neat" d d °ngside the railings of Spring-gardens, an un er the Admiralty garden to the Telegraph-offices, which mre al ready fitted up with the necessary apparatus, so that conitnunication can be transmitted as soon as the wires are connected with the terminal. The above circuitous route as been adopted to obviate the inconvenience which must ne cessarily have occurred by the passage of the pipes through the principal entrance. To preclude the possibility of any defect in the communication, each wire is tested previously to being encased in the tubes. DESTRUCTION OF AN ANCIENT 7410NUMEICT.—The Inverness Courier mentions, amongst other casualties of t h e late gale which visited Scotland on Thursday week, the par tial destruction of the ancient obelisk, or standing stone at Stanwick, parish of Nigg, which was thrown down and broken. The obelisk bad various hieroglyphic sculpturing, and was supposed to commemorate the Cie - aih and burial of a Danish sea king, who, in the days of the Vikingr, was wrecked and drowned oil' the coast. --- THE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE EARL OF HAR RINOTON'S.—The footman who received Ihe other day an accident at the Earl of Harrington's, while carrying a trunk upstairs, died yesterday at the Westminster Hospital. NATIONAL HALL, HIGH HOLBORN.—A concert Was given last night at this hall, in aid of the Metropol i t an Benefit Societies' Asylum, Ball's Pond, Islington, established for the reception of aged and infirm members of benefit so cieties of both sexes, and the members of the Loyal United 14 :fiends, Old Friends, Foresters, Manchester finity, Odd &Cows, Druids, end all societies having gift funds. It was numerously and respectably attended, and consisted of a , 7'Y agreeable and judicious musical mélange, selected from the works of Barnet, Turner, Weber, Bellini, Rossini, Horn, &c. Most of the popular vocal performers at concerts ere engaged, who acquitted themselves m ost creditabl y , and Were yeses generally applauded. Among the numbe r s were the ' 8.8 e5 Adams, Thornton, and O'Connor; Mesdames A. New *, Ellis, and Dixon; Messrs. Shoubridge, Sporle, Buckland, Sedweick, and Cornish, whose names are a sufficient "arrant of the style and efficiency with which the perform anted were conducted. DEATH OF A LADY FROM ALLEGED DESTITUTION. ~..Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the University College Hospital, on the body of a female , supposed to be about sixty years of age, and named Lydia Ann Downes, ' l ° ,,hose death took place under the following circumstances. ,Thomas Delaney, police-constable 230 S, deposed that on canday night, about twelve o'clock, he was on duty in Sey !tour-street, Euston-square, when he was sent for by the landlord of the Coronation public-house, and informed that there was a woirtaif in his tap-room he feared dying. Wit tress went there, and found deceased lying upon one of the patches in an apparently dying state. The landlord said she came in about ten o'clock, and asked for half a pint of rter made hot, which she took with her into the tap-room. • ,witness procured assistance, aud brought deceased to that hospital, where stimulants were administered. She was in sensible at at the time, but rallied sufficiently to state that she lived is Johnson-street, Somers-town, but again relapsed into a state of insensibility, and died in an hour after. She was in a frightfully emaciated and filthy condition. Mr. Francis Cook, of Johnson-street, Somer's Town, said the deceased bad occupied one of the top rooms of his house for four years, for which she paid 2s. per week quarterly. She Was a most eccentric character, and no human being ever entered her apartment but herself, until since her death, and from documents he had found, there was no doubt ale had been highly connected. Among them were receipted bills . made out in the deceased's name, to the amount of 23,0001. One hill was for post-horses at a guinea per day; another, 1004 for garden seeds; but the most important were legal documents, showing that the deceased had been the defend ant in a Chancery suit, and that by an adverse decision of - the court she had been entirely deprived of very large estates in Northamptonshire. Another bill showed she had paid four guineas and a half for a white silk bonnet. Deceased was a remarkably fine and high-spirited woman, and although she appeared in the deepest poverty, she would never ask a favour. He be lieved deceased was a recipient of some annuity, which she obtained from the Strand somewhere, but he could not tell where. It must, however, have been very small. She always paid her rent punctually, and a quarter was due on the 27th inst. Deceased left home on Sunday night, about ten •'clock. On entering her apartment since death a frightful scene of misery presented itself, the whole of the furniture, consisting of a broken table and chair, and a mat, which served as a bed. The floor was sole deep in filth, and on the mattress being moved, it was one mass of vermin. There was no property, or a particle of food, clothing, or, firing in the place. After some further evidence the jury re. turned a verdict, " That deceased died from natural causes, but whether from exhaustion produced by the want of com mon necessaries of life, there was not sufficient evidence to Show." EXAMINATION OF ARTICLED CLERKS.—The exami nation of persons applying to be admitted attorneys is fixed for the 27th inst., at half-past 9 A.M., and the articles of • e!erkship and assignment, if any, with answers to the ques- Ilona as to due service according to the regulations approved '33' the Judges, should be left at the usual place before the 23d inst. The number of attorneys applying to be admitted In the present term is 131. SULPHUR AT THE ISLAND OF 0 WYBEE..--.A. dis . Patch has been received at Lloyd's, from the Board of Trade, , Announcing, from a letter received from the British Consul at the Island of Owyhee, the existence of sulphur in abun dance in that island, at a distance of 26 miles from a shipping P3rt. DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE.—If the " Education gaestion" is allowed to pass, we propose that the first per ilous to receive the benefits of the new Act should be Mr. I'leagher and the Irish patriots who have been lately die playing their sad want of education at the Irish Confederation Dublin. It is pitiable to think that persons who have the Power of doing so much mischief should be allowed to re main in thei r p resen t h ope l ess state o f i gno r a nce. It is Tme bounden duty of the Government to teach them better. ---Punch. • CARRIAGE ROBBERY.. On Tuesday afternoon Illatne expert thieves contrived to purloin from the carriage Mrs. Ponsonby, of the North-road, Fulham, whilst wait mg for that lady in Regent-street, a jewel case containing a Ignite of diamo n d s va l ue d at 15U:a China crape shawl, and L ieu gth of French satin. The coachman was on the box at tune, and the footman on the pavement in front of the age door. ''~~ TB R goras we know little that is certain, and we have none of his writings. Of Plato, we may dist inctl y sa y that the evidence afforded by his works is decidedly against the notion of Egyptian influence. He visited Egypt; but seems to have brought nothing away from it except a pro found veneration for the orderly symmetry of society, nod perhaps also a certain inclination towards the symbolical, though the latter he might very well have learned from the Grecian mysteries, as M. .Ampre suggests. And when he wishes to express philosophical ideas by means of mytholo gical symbols, he employs the mythes of Greece, and not the legends of Egypt. As the writer elsewhere remarks, even Sclimolders, " at the very outset, stops to warn us that we can never speak of Arabian philosophy, in the strict sense of the v+ ord, as we speak of a Greek or a German philosophy." There is much justice, therefore, in gainsaying the old misconception that science, and literature, and art, all sprang from Egyptian and Arabic enterprise. Facts— undeniable facts—prove to the contrary. The other contributions are in a great measure beaming with intt 1- ligence. LITERATURE. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXIL Although there are no less than twelve separate ar ticles in the Number just published, we cannot but re gard it as deficient in variety, white we are satisfied that the generality of the contributions are inferior in point of composition. With reference to the diversity of the themes, we may observe that there are four papers upon political topics worn threadbare by their frequent consi deration, both in Parliament and the press: we allude to the Montpensier marriage, the condition of Canada, the principles of political economy, and the occupation of Cracow. There are two relating to the humanitarian class, namely, gaol discipline and juvenile outcasts. Two others are devoted to matters religious, that is to say, to miracles and the Marian exiles, Besides these there are four dissertations of a less hackneyed charac ter, bearing upon the Arabic philosophy, the cultivation of the fine arts by means of the Government schools of design, the possible reformation of the statute laws, and the last fictitious narrative written by Miss Harriet Mar tineau. We are scarcely correct, however, in desig nating that narrative—a narrative that not long since came under our own cr?ticism—as fictitious, seeing that it was suggested by, if it were not actually delineative of, the romantic adventures of Lady Grange. " The Billow and the Rock" may in some measure be regarded as a species of biography of that violent but unfortunate lady, and as such it is ci esidered by th e Edinburg h Reviewer. Incidentally, indeed as a sort of appended notice, the pamphlet lately issued by the author of Lucretia is mentioned, and of it the critic remarks— " We think it right to add, that if the author has been assailed in the manner he mentions, he has been most unjustly assailed; and that, in our opinion, his answer to the assailants is complete." Tallying so entirely with the sentiments we have continually expressed, we are gratified in making the above quotation from the Edin burgh Review. It is further added therein that " authors, like Sir Edward Lytton, who are read and admired in every quarter of the globe, have surely nothing to fear from the misrepresentations of critics, and little cause to complain of the tardy justice of contemporaries. Si monumentum requiris circumspice." Truly may this be uttered of a man whose writings are read and admired and wept over in the chateaux of France, among the students and burgomasters of Germany, in the cities of America and the homesteads of England. Sir Edward has but little reason indeed to lament the " tardy justice of contemporaries," and has consequently no cause what ever to bewail the misrepresentations of a few undiscern ing critics. Of the "Plea for Ragged Schools," con tained in this number of the Edinburgh Review, we can not speak in that language of unaffected admiration which some few months since was called from us by a similar paper in the Quarterly. Either more effort is visible in the pathetic adjurations of the pleader, or the supplications are weakened by their manifestly imita tive character. Cordially, however, do we coincide in thinking, that "though appearances may be against the present age, we suspect that the reality is in its favour; and that the general impression to the contrary may be accounted for rather by the increase of our knowledge and of our compassion, than by an increase in our viciousness and distress." We regard alike with the most un mitigated contempt those who vaunt the present age as the ultimatum of human progression, and those who whine over the utter degeneracy of these times. The generatit n in which we are now living, is essentially—more essentially so than any preceding generation—one of progress and improvement. So far from having reached the ultimatum of civilization, we are now but on the con fines of a true civilization. We have surmounted Alps upon Alps of difficulties and obstructions, but Alps upon Alps still lie before us. As we advance the prospect spreads, the vista becomes vaster and more interminable, the horizon enlarges, and enlarges as the circle caused by a pebble in the water. Whatever knowledge we have gained only shows us the more the littleness of our learning, though it affords us at the same time addi tional encitement to penetrate the mysteries by which we are surrounded. When, again, we are deafened by lugu brious lamentations upon the degeneracy of our days, we look more to the superficial analogy between this period and its predecessors. We do not, generally speaking, con template their intrinsic dissimilarity. Because wicked ness and want are, now-a-days, rendered more visible than they were formerly, we come to the preposterous conclusion that they are necessarily more enormous and more diffused. As the Edinburgh reviewer very happily expresses it, "former times did not live in the glass case we do!" Among the many sentences pregnant with mean ing, w hick might be selected from this " Plea for Ragged Schools," we may adduce one which says as much as several volumes of the old political economists ; it is this—that " England has been raised to the place she holds among the nations, not by her broad acres, but by , her thousand factories, and her miles of crowded streets.' Here that home-truth, Gentlemen of the Country Party! and ask yourselves honestly, in your heart of hearts, if our native agriculture has the right to demand those enormous sacrifices in its favour, which its quasi-friends have been so solicitous to preserve in its possession. If protection is requisite for any class in the United king doms, who ought, by right, to obtain the benefit of that protection ? The agriculturists ? England does not owe her eminence among the nations to them 1 To whom then should protection (supposing it to be us essential as Lord George and his followers still main tain) be awarded ? To the artisans in those thousand factories, to the denizens of those miles of crowded streets, through whose instrumen tality England "has been raised to the place she holds among the nations." But those artisans and those denizens repudiate the necessity, and deny the advisa bility of protection, and therefore has the principle of protection been laughed to scorn. Speaking of the accuracy with which the crime of the land may be gauged, the reviewer beautifully remarks, "Newgate has its observatory as well as Greenwich; and crime can be followed in its course almost as clearly as the stars." It is from the awful evidence of our criminal statistics that the upholders of these ragged schools derive their principal argument. It is from the broad and undeniable ulceration of the social system, through wanton mismanagement and egregious neglect that have arisen those worthy labourers in the vineyards of bane violence, the advocates for the foundation of reformatory establishments. Of our mismanagement and neglect what have been the consequences? Listen to these mournful expressions. " Looking over the tabular returns of our criminals, we learn the meaning of Averroes, when he wished Utinam natus essem Senex ! Old age we trust, still retains its advantage But in England the sweet prerogative of youth, its crown of inno cence and flowers, if not lost, is sadly faded. The igno rance of vice has ceased—the knowledge of virtue has not replaced it. The mistress of a school of industry said to a lady lately, There are no children now !' So writes the Edinburgh Review for April, 1847. Several years back Charles Lamb—dear " Elia spoke almcst to the same effect. Listen to the sad but beautiful words of that great essayist 1—" Poor people," said he, "do not bring up their children, they drag them up. The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery, in their hovel, is transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person. No one has time to dandle it, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humour it. There is none to kiss away its tears. If it cries it can only be beaten. It never had a toy, or knew what a coral meant. It was never sung to—no one ever told to it a tale of the nursery. It was dragged up to live or die as it hap pened. It had no young dreams. It broke at once into the iron realities of life. The children of the very poor have no young times. The casual street-talk of the poor man's child is not of toys, of nursery books, of summer holydays (fitting that age) ; of the promised sight or play ; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. It has come to be a woman—before it was a child 1 It has learned to go to market ; it chaf fers, it haggles, it envies, :it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles !" So wrote Charles Lamb ; and of those poor children of whom he wrote thus might we say as this Edinburgh Review says of Ireland—" Alas 1 alas I—alas for neglected opportu nities 1" Had the reviewer transcribed a single one of those sentences which we have just quoted from the " Essays of Elia," he would have uttered a more effectual Plea for Ragged Schools than by the composition of his entire contribution. He appeals, however, in one part sensibly enough to the self-interest of those purblind dolts who would depreciate the efficacy of the " Ragged School system," when he observes to them, " You will maintain them (meaning the vagabond children) cheaper, domesticated at your barn door, than when left to help themselves from your land and fields, as game l" In ferior, nevertheless, as this article is to many that have appeared elsewhere, we are rejoiced to see such an una nimous effort for the reclamation of juvenile offenders, THE BEETHOVEN QUARTET SOCIETY.—The third and for the instruction of that spawn of human poverty meeting was more fully attended than either of the others, from which they originate. Of a similar description to I which may be in a great part attributed to the presence of the foregoing paper is the Biography of Sarah Martin, Joseph Joachim, one of the most a ccomplished ofthe and admirable the benevolent milliner of Yarmouth, who did so much of living violinists, w h o l e d two quartets on the occa for thepa ssionate and beautiful the amelioration of the condition of the male and sion- The programme comprise d ff female prisoners of the local gaol. In this contribution 1 C minor (No. 4, from Op. 18); the E at (No.lo, Op. 74), there is the following incidental description of M rs. I which may be regarded as the bridge passing over from the I early and middle quartets to the " posthumous ;" and the A Fry's first entry into the female ward of Newgate minor (No. 12, Op. 132), one of the most profound and " Locked up with viragos, amongst whom the turnkeys I imaginative of the last-mentioned. Joseph Joachim led the had warned her that her purse, her watch, and even her f first and third. His playing, both in style and execution, life would be in danger, she addressed them with was superb, and the audience were moved to the warm est dignity, power, and gentleness, and soon awed them expressions of delight. Sainton led the second, in his usual into compliance with a code of regulations, which there I energetic manner. The tenor and violoncello playing of was a committee of ladies ready to aid her in carrying I Hill and Rousselot, as usual, elicited the highest marks of into execution." One criticism has afforded us extraor- approval. dinary pleasure in the perusal. We mean the paper SIR ROBERT PEEL IN BLACKBURN.—On Mond ay . upon " Arabian Philosophy," suggested by the learned evenin g last, at about half- p ast 7 o'clock, Sir R. Peel arrived work of Auguste Schreolders. Our observations have, lin Blackburn from Drayton. The Right lion. Baronet however, extended so far already, that we must content travelled by, railway to Preston, and came thence in his own ourselves and our readers with a single extract. It is i I private carriage. His arrival, having reference only to his own private estates at Oswaldtwisle, in this neighbourhood, a direct, and, we believe, a judicious denial of the intel was intended to be strictly private, the letter received at Miss lectual superiority of the ancient Eeyptians Garth's Hotel, Blackburn, simply stating that dinner would "As Egypt becomes better known, many ancient preju - be required for " two gentlemen," shortly after 7, and that dices vanish. It has been for ages the old wonder-land beds would also be wanted. The second gentleman was Mr. whence superstitious ingenuity has derived the invention of Spark, we believe, a practical agriculturist from London, who all arts and sciences. To the ancient Greeks it was the had attended Sir Robert with a view to conducting some ex mother of all wonders. No philosopher could raise himself tensive improvements on his estates, such as thorough drain into prominent distinction, but he must at once be supposed ing, &c. Notwithstanding the secresy which had so far been to have learned his wisdom from the Egyptians. Even the observed upon the subject of the Right Hon. ex-Premier's imaginary race of Pigmies (in whose existence men firmly visit, it became known a few minutes after his arrival, and believed for several centuries) could have no birth-place or i inquiries were numerous as to the fact- He stayed but a dwelling-place bu t somewhere near the source of the Nile. night at the hotel, and left at about 8 yesterday morning fur The dark mysterious Egyptians, with their 'wonderful talent Oswaldtwisle, three miles from Blackburn, where, attended for silence,' were supposed to conceal inexhaustible wisdom , by Mr. Westall, local steward of his estates, and Mr. Spark, beneath that gravity; but from all that has transpired, we he walked about some five or six hours, suggesting and de ssupect their gravity concealed nothing worth exhibiting' termining upon various important improvements, and left Knowledge, like murder, will out,'—cannot be restrained; shortly before 4 o'clock for Manchester, where it was sup so that when we see neither flame nor smoke, we are corn- posed he would pass the night. Sir R. Peel's estates in the pelled to question the presence vf fire. o "Whether th e ear li er t hi n k ers, Pythagoras and Plato, ' neLzhburhood of Oswaldtwisle produce him about 4,0001. a year, and he has not visited them since 1834.—Blackburn owed much to th e Egyptians, has long been a disputed Sti point; and certainly a ll attempts to i nd i cate any distinct SUG AR .--From a return issued yesterday, by order tnda rd. obligations have been something more than questionable. ' of the House of Commons (on a motion of Mr. Moffatt), it Coincidences of doctrine doubtless exist; but coincidences appears that 3,061,3591. is the amount of duty received in by no means necessarily imply a transmission from one to the other. The history of philosophy is United Kingdom from April the on sugars, 1846, to Jan. 5, crowded with coin- 1847 Of this amount 3,067,954/. was the aggregate receipt cidences, where direct filiation is impossible. In this very article we have allud e d t• Y on sugar unrefined, and 23,4951 . on refined sugar and sugar o som e w h ic h exist between Algazzali and Descartes, and the Germans; and as the candy sa During the period above-mentioned a sum of moderns knew no Arabic, and as the treatise que s t i on was ' 14 5711 was paid under protest at the Custom-house,London, never till recently translated or even analysed, there can be in respect of sugar that was stopped for alleged inaccurate no suspicion of transmission, direct or incl . 'rect. Of Pytha entry therein, SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE. November, 1846, to April, 1847. As we have continually noticed this periodical in its monthly form of publication, it is unnecessary to ob serve more than that, in its collected form, it presents an accumulation of those advantages and excellencies which were previously its characteristics when produced piecemeal. Sharpe's London Magazine is not merely a melange of agreeable fragments of light literature—it is diversified with clever illustrations and instructive articles. As a specimen of the papers contained in the present volume, we transcribe the following description of the renowned meeting of the Emperors of France and Russia at Erfurth, in 1808, the description being translated from the lively account of Madame Schopenhaner, who was an eye-witness of the august festivities:— " The epoch was, indeed, a striking one, in which the as tonishing man who for so many years has slept on the rock of St. Helena from the fitful fever of his life, brought toge ther in this place, as with the stroke of an enchanter's wand, emperors, and kings, and the most remarkable of living men. Towns-people and peasants, strangers from all countries, courtiers in costume richly embroidered, and somewhat ri diculous from the antiquity of their fashion; Polish Jews, statesmen and officers covered with ribbons and crosses, ci tizen's wives, ladies elegantly dressed, peasant girls, with their baskets on their backs,—all hurried here and there, jostling and labouring to make way. From time to time, French troops, moving with the music of bands to the ground appointed for review, added to the confusion of the streets. The town of Erfurth was not large enough to hold the strangers who came crowding into it. The principal inhabi tants were driven from their apartments to those of the ser vants, to make room for the suite of the Emperor of the French. In the streets more removed from the centre, the owners of houses were delighted with the golden harvest af forded by those who tenanted them. The inns were filled to overflowing. The scene is then changed to the theatre, where Telma, Mademoiselle Duchenois, Mademoiselle Mars, and others, enraptured their majestic auditors:— " I was happy enough to be placed with two of my friends in the front of a box near the stage, whence we could see all that passed in the pit. We congratulated each other on be ing so well placed ; but our joy was of short duration. The boxes near us were filled to excess. The door of ours was opened hastily. The gendarme, or whoever be was, who stood sentinel over our box, came to say that three chairs were too much for three ladies, and immediately in troduced to the seats two other ladies, who, fortunately, however, were known to us. All the boxes, as well as ours, were soon full. We were crowded unmercifully, so that we could hardly stir. The heat was enough to make one faint ; but really we had not time for anything of the kind. The importance of the grand spectacle which was forming itself under our eyes in the pit, occupied our attention so much, that every inconvenience was forgotten. "Immediately before the stage were placed arm chairs for the two Emperors, Alexander and Napoleon; and, at their sides, ordinary chairs for the kings and reigning princes. The space behind these seats began to be filled up. We saw enter the statesmen and generals of the several powers of Europe, men whose names were then famous, and have be come a portion of history. Uniforms covered with gold, and an air of vivacity and assurance, distinguished the French from the Germans, more serious and more modest. There were Berthier, .Soult, Caulaincourt, Savary, Lannes, Duroc, and many others equally celebrated ' • it seemed as if the greatness of their master was reflected in the aspect of each. Goethe was there, with his calm dignified look, and the venerable Wieland. They had accompanied the grand Duke of Weimar to Erfurth. The Duke of Gotha, and several German princes, reigning or allied to those reigning, were grouped about the two veterans of German literature. "A rolling of drums was heard outside. It is the Em peror!' ran through the hall in a murmur. " Fools! what are you about?' said the commanding officer to the drummers; it is but a kisg!' s "In effect, a German king it was who entered the hall. Three others appeared in a little time after. Without noise or splendour, the Kings of Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtem berg, entered. The King of Westphalia (Jerome), who came later, eclipsed them by the eclat of his embroideries and pearls. The Emperor Alexander, with his majestic port, came next. The grand box, opposite the stage, dazzled all eyes by its brilliancy. The Queen of Westphalia, covered with diamonds, sat in the middle, and near her the charming Stepanie, Grand Duchess of Baden, more remarkable for the graces of her person than the richness of her dress. Some German princesses were seated near the two reigning print,g,o, Th. a ...rise-nen of their courts occu pied the back cf the box. "At this moment Talleyrand made his appearance in a little box arranged expressly for himself near the stage, on account of the weakness of his legs. The Emperor and the Kings remained standing by this box, in conversation with the Minister, seated comfortably within it. Everybody had arrived ; he alone who had summoned all these great people together was still looked for; and he made them wait for some time. _ _ --------- "At last, a fresh rolling of the drums was heard, louder than before, and all eyes were bent on the entrance with an uneasy curiosity. He appeared at last—this most incom prehensible man of an inconceivable era. Dressed very simply, as usual, he slightly saluted the Sovereigns present, who had been obliged to wait for him so long, and took his arm-chair on the right of the Emperor of Russia. His short round person was strikingly contrasted with the superb figure of Alexander. The four Kings took their places on chairs without arms, and the play began. But Telma displayed his excellent art in vain. Jocaste Rau court, whose beauty and talents had fascinated Baron Grimm, at Paris, during half a century, now found that she could charm no more. We had no eyes or attention for any thing but the pit before us. In the meantime, the gene darmes at the door of our box did all they could to correct the deficiencies of our education, and to teach us, in the in tervals between the acts, the etiquette to be observed to wards the master of the world. 'Take down that opera glass—the Emperor does not like it!' cried one of them leaning over the ladies seated behind us. Sit up, and don't stretch out your neck—the Emperor does not like it;' cried another. The impertinence, to be sure, was very great but we took pattern by the kings and princes before us, and bore patiently at the hands of Frenchmen what we could not remedy. _ _ _ "Immediately after the opening of the tragedy, which he had already seen a hundred times, Napoleon sat himself at ease in his arm-chair, and was soon sound asleep. It is w e ll known that he could sleep at any hour of the day or night h e pleased. Eye-witnesses have declared that, even on days of battle, he would designedly set himself to sleep during an hour or two, for the purpose of recruiting his strength, and wake at a fixed time. On the day of this representation at Erfurth he had fatigued himself in reviewing the troops for several hours together. It was a singular spectacle for us to see buried in such a quiet sleep this terrible man, whose vast plansinvolved one half the globe, either for good or evil. We were never tired of contemplating, with an astonishment mingled with tear, that flue antique profile relieved against the sombre uniform of the Czar Alexander." The other contributions are of variable interest. THE PARLOUR LIBRARY, 11. MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN, Vol. I. By Alexander Dumas. The doom of the Roman feuilleton is sealed, and the prince of feuilletonists, Alexander Dumas, is consequently in danger of finding his occupation gone like that of Othello. " Worse, says the Westminster Review, " worse than the lassitude of the brain-sucked author writing desperately to order—worse than the utmost malignity of slashing or sneering criticism—is the im practicable vis inertice of a public who have ceased to be amused and will not buy." The proprietor of the " Par lour Library" should have looked well to this alarming fact before the re-issue of the first portion of the clever but ephemeral "Memoirs of a Physician," and especially he should not have depreciated the circumstance that this identical work is the very one interrupted in its course of publication in the Constitutionnel newspaper. A little more procrastination would have been advisable. Among the very many dramatic and effective scenes in this romance is the one where Joseph Balsamo is pre sented to Marie Antoinette, where the sorcerer shows the future Queen the execution of herself upon the guillo tine in the water of a golden Carafe. It is faithfully and elegantly translated. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 2a, 1847. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yes terday, attended by the Hon. Miss Kerr and the Equerries in Waiting, Major-General Wemyss and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yester day, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took an airing, in an open carriage and four, yesterday. Their Royal Highncsses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their accustomed airings yes terday, in the Royal Gardens. The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth. the Earl of Liverpool, Lord George Lennox, Colonel the Honourable C. B. Phipps, Mr. Charles and the Honourable Mrs. Bruce, and Captain Francis Seymour. The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following pieces:-- Grand Selection from " Robert le Diable"—Meyerbeer. Valse—" Fleur de Marie"—Barnet. Due.—" What do I hear" ( Matilda of Hungary') Wedding March fro m " Mid summer Night's Dream" — Mendelssoli n. —Wallace. Original Polonaise—Jullien. Among the visitors yesterday to view the pictures of the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, in St. James's Palace, were the Portuguese Minister and the Baroness de Moncorvo, the Eatl of Ripon, the Earl and Countess Sr. Germans, the Earl" and Countess of Tinto, Sir Charles Adam, Lord Campbell, and Sir Robert and• Lady Peel. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured Mr. Moon yesterday by inserting their Royal autographs in the sub scription books for the forthcoming engravings from the pictures by F. Winterhalter. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing in a carriage and four yesterday. Tneir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Ed mond Mildmay, honoured the Duke of Wellington with their company at dinner Highnesses accompanied the Duke of Wellington to the Concert of Ancient Music, at the Hano ver-square Rooms, his Grace being the Director for the even ing. The other Noble Directors also accompanied the illus trious party to the performance. Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart., and Mr. Henry Chard had an interview with Viscount Palmerston, yesterday. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy- Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Rev. W. Tyrrell had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. Lord Colborne and Mr. Hamilton had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. . . _ Mr. Robert Hyde Greg had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart., Mr. Henry Chard, and Mr. C. W. Stokes had an interview with his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador yesterday respecting the claims of the Spanish bondholders. Mr. Rigby Wason had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Viscount Torrington, Governor of Ceylon, attended by his suite, has proceeded in the Oriental, on his way to the seat of Government, Ceylon. GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Lord Lansdowne and Lord John Russell are reported to have admitted in Parliament that the Roman Catholic schools are precluded from educational grants by the existing Minutes of Council, w hil e caut i ous ly leaving the door open for their future admission through a revision of the Minutes. The Min u t es o f 1839 , now in force, are said to require the use of the authorised version in schools. Can you point to such a minute? I cannot find it. I find that the National and the British Schools are entitled, as such, to claim grants under certain economical conditions, but that any other schools have to make out a special case. What then does the Minute say about the use of the Scriptures in the special class of schools? Nothing at all about the version—even the use of the Scriptures is not absolutely required, but a preference is promised to the schools that use them daily. The words are these:— " The Committee will further give a preference to schools in which the religious instruction will be of the same character as that given in schools in connexion with one or other of the above-named societies ; and to those in which the school committee or trustees, while they provide for the daily reading of the Scriptures in the schools, do not enforce any rule by which the children will be compelled to learn a catechism, or attend a place of Divine worship, to which their parents, on religious grounds, object."—Minutes of 1839-40, p. 14. Such, Sir, is the Minute in question. Nothing about authorised version here. That phrase occurs in reference to Church of England Schools, but I believe nowhere else. Under this Minute the Catholics are just as ad missible as Methodists, or Unitarians, or any class not connected with one of the privileged school societies. Few applications have, it is said, been made from any such classes ; no doubt, because it is not pleasant to as a ß m y ig al h l ty me fa a v n o s u l r e , t o r th be s special clause be removed , as the C o u n c il have hi r a e p t P u l ed sp l their intention to do, and let all classes apply for gra n t s e a e s ia n ll o y t and sp f g c l e a t a enough. By nted on eopal footine ; but let no doubt be expressed or per mitted tneanwhil, c. it., bci. E , 41,. I...pat purpose of the Government and the will of the supporters of these Minutes, throughout the country, to assist education without any religious preference or exclusion whatever. I am, Sir, yours, EilW. HIGGINSON, Unitarian Minister. Wakefield, April 16. 1847. SMELTING ORES. (From the South Australian Gazette, Sept 26.) A meeting was held on Monday last, on the smelting question, and more especially for the purpose of taking into consideration some advice recently received from Van Diemen's Land relative to the advantages possessed by Schonter Island for the establishment of smelting works. This island lies off the eastern coast of Van Diemen's Land, to the northward of Port Arthur, is little exposed to the weather. and abounds with coal, which is said to be of quality similar to the Welsh coal. It was represented that coa l s can t h ere b e su pplied to the fur nace at 2s. per t on; t h at conv i ct l a b our could be ob tained at a cost o f f rom 6 d . to I s . per day; that the freight would be about 11. per ton, or if cargo were sent both ways, by sending ore to the island. and bringing coal to Port Adelaide, it was estimated that it could be done as low as 10s. per ton. The first view of the subject would lead to the almost irresistible conclusion that Schonter bland must become the Swansea of Australia, or, at least, that b y smeltin g a portion of ores i n that place we shall be enabled to ob tain fuel in return cargo at so low a rate as g reatl y to enhance the economy of operating here upon the other more tractable portions. Before, however , a ctin g u p on this sug ges ti on, which would necessar ily i n volve the maintenance of t wo establishments, an d t hus, to a certain extent, a doubl e expense, to say nothing o f the ques tionable econ omy which is usually conseque nt on similar works carri e d on i n different places on a s mall scale, it would be well t o l oo k more closely i nto the question. The first r emar k which suggests i tse lf refers to the data upon which the proposition is founded. Taking for granted the sufficiency and convenience of the harbour, the quality of the coal, and the price at which it can be supplied, and confining ourselves at present to the labour question, and considering the peculiar nature of the work to be done, it is perfectly clear that the idea of obtaining even convict labour for such a purpose as smelting at Is. per day per man will prove on trial altogether delusive. A man working over the furnace, although a convict, could not be maintained upon such a scale of diet as might suffice for the shepherd, the farm servant, or the quarryman. The operations to be per formed will require, for the most part, not only a superior degree of intelligence, which perhaps may be found among convicts as readily as elsewhere, but also a degree of care fulness and attention, and even of zeal in the success of what is going forward, all which we fear cannot be com manded in the class of persons proposed to be employed. Powerful inducements, in the shape of pardons or other indulgences may be held out; but, in the interim, the expense of labour will be found to cost at least double or treble the estimated sum, with the exception of those to whom the mere mechanical part of the work is intrusted. Assuming, however, the entire correctness of the esti mates of fuel, labour, and freights as they are given, the apparent saving upOn establishing two smelting works, the one in this colony, and the other in Schonter Island (for on no other supposition would there be any oaring, after paying for the freight of the ore). would amount to about 21. 164. per ton of metal, over and shove the saving to be effected by smelting it here, according to the plan originally proposed, either with charcoal or imported coal, or a mixture of both. To set up against this apparent saving, we have the expense of setting up two establishments instead of one; the doable cost of superintendence and management; we are not likely, of operating upon that the dispersion of property , with the many inconve niences consequent up o n t h at dispersion, so well known to men of business; the unavoi dable mixture of ores of differed qua li t i e s, which, as it h as b een repeatedly for some time to come, to raise m ore ore than would properly supply a sin g le establi shment, the succ ess of which will g reatl y de p end on the continuity of P° them; int edou end, modes larestquoifrealdi,istthinectfact its operations. If Swansea, which sm e lt s f or three fourths of the whole world, can only support eight hotses• how can we at present hope properly to maintainmo ? The scantiness of our mining popula tion imposes a certain limit upon the productiveness of our mines and until labour is procured in adequate abundance, their productive capabilities cannot be greatly increased. The ore upon the ground, at present, is not in the unmanageable profusion which would warrant the adoption, summarily, of the proposed plan; and we con fess, morover, that it would be scarcely fair to our neighbours across the strait to throw upon them the re sponsibilit? and expense of a first experiment. Let us begin wits one establishment here, for which we possess all the recuisite scientific and mechanical knowledge. If that suOeed, the credit and the profit will be our own ; if it fail, ether from the deficiency of fuel, or its greater expensiveiPss, o r if it become insufficient for th e wants of our m i l es, then we shall be legitimately entitled to engage the a ssistance of our Van Diemen's Land fri en d s , and to shse with them a full portion of our mineral advantage; and pains. T HE QUICKEST VOYAGE TO R IO DE J ANEIRO FR OM FALMOUTH. —Her Majesty's packet brigantine Sea gull, urn'er the command of Lieutenant J. Parsons, sailed from this port on the 6th of Decemb er l ast, arr i ve d at Madera on the 13th, sailed thence on the 14th, touched at Teneiiffe and delivered the mails on th e 16th . arr i ve d a t P ernam b u co on the 30th; sailed on the I s t o f J anuary f or Ralik, where she arrived on the 4th, and sailed again on the 51 for Rio de Janeiro, where she arrived on the morning of the 13th and delivered the mails, having performed the, voya;e, including a ll stoppages, in 37 days 21 hours. This service touching is coxsidered the shortest . voyage to Rio Janeiro ever a p t er the ferm u e o d rth by eru an p y orti p packet jamiMajesty'se BANKRUPTCY and INSOLVENCY. 'The following is an abstract of Lord Brougham's Bill (first introduced into the House of Lords) " To repeal the jatisdiction of her Majesty's Court ot Bankruptcy and District Courts ot Bankruptcy, in matters of insole vency, to abol,sh the Court of Review, and to reduce the number of Cornrni-si.ner4." The preamble states that whereas it bath been found that the jurisdiction in matters of insolvency given to her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy and District Courts of Bralkruptcy, by the Acts passed in the fifth and sixth and setenth aid eighth years of the reign of her pre-- sent Majesty, is attended with inconvenience to the suitor€ in'those Courts, and is prejudicial to such Courts as Cuurts for the administration of bankrupts' estates, and the distribution of assets. Be it therefore en acted— Clause 1 declares that after the passing of this Act, 5 and 6 Vie., c. 116, and 7 and 8 Vic., c. 96, and all powers, &c., given by the same, will be repealed. 2. Petitions under recited Acts which are now in de pendence, &c., to remain in force, &c. 3. Courts and Judges appointed under 9 and 10 Vic., c. 95, to have jurisdiction in all matters of insolvency, &c. 4 Court f ,, r Relief of Insolvent Debtors and Judges ,:f County Courti shall have, within their jurisdictions, powers to make inu rim orders, &c. 5. Court of Review and offices of the Chief and Puisne Judges abolished. 6. Power of Appeal to the Lord Chancellor against the decision of any such ccrnmissioner, in the same manner as appeals are now made trom decisions of the Court of Review. 7. On the next three vacancies of Commissioners hap pening in London, offices to be abolished. 8. Appeals from decisions of Courts of Bankruptcy to be heard by Lord Chancellor or one of the Vice- Chancellors. 9. If Commissioners in London be reduced to three, senior Commissioner in the country to succeed to va cancy. 10. Matters heretofore referred to a Subdivison Court to be decided by the Commissioner acting in the prose cution of the fiat under which the same shall have arisen, or by any other Commissioner of the Court of Bank ruptcy who may be acting for him, and that any one Commissioner shall henceforth have and exercise the same power, jurisdiction, and authority as has hereto. fore been vested in such Subdivision Courts. 11. Every fiat issued to be allotted to the Court or District Court of Bankruptcy by the Secretary of Bank rupts, &c. 12. Office of chief registrar of Court of Bankruptcy to be abolished, and duties transferred to the master of the Court. 13. After passing of this Act no fees to be taken ex cept those enumerated in schedule. 14. All papers, &c., in the office of the chief registrar shall be transferred to the office of the master, and all documents heretofore filed, &c., shall be hereafter filed, &c., in the said office. 15. On death, &c., of Clerk of Enrolments duties of office to be transferred to the master, and the Lord Chancellor may make rules, &c., appertaining to the said office. 16. Chief clerk or master may, in certain cases, act as deputy to the master, under an order of the Lord Chan cellor. 17. Providing for reduction of commissioners in London. 18. Providing for reduction of commissioners in the country. 19. On registrars in London being reduced in num ber to three, the senior registrar in the country entitled to vacancy. 20. In case of illness, &c., of commissioner, registrar may act for him, &c. 21. Registrar to be a barrister, special pleader, or an admitted attorney, of certain standing. 22. Lnrd Chancellor may order certain annuities on retirement to be paid. 23. Time within which clerk or usher whose office may be abolished is to make his claim for compensation to the Commissioners of the Treasury, who are to examine into the same. 24. Official assignees, &c., to be transferred to other Courts, as Lord Chancellor may direct. 25. Lord Chancellor, &c., to make rules for carrying this Act into execution. 26. Interpretation of Act. AN HISTORICAL PARALLEL. --- - ---- Somewhat more than a century and a half ago King Charles 11. of Spain and bis Queen Louisa, were in a very unhappy position. A domineering intriguer had, indeed, been dismissed from the control of affairs, and a -new Administration bad been formed of as good mate tials as Madrid and Buenretiro could supply, to the de cent satisfaction of the King, and the tolerable content of the Court. But the work was only half done. It is true that the new valid° had made a magnificent entry into office, and had signalised his triumphant accession to power by a levee conducted with the profoundest Castilian etiquette. In one of the chief Royal chambers was placed a gorgeous bed, and herein the Duke de Me dina Celi lay in state, with his collar, mantle, fea thered hat, and all the diamonds of his house. The obsequious visitors swept in silent scores by this genial enuch, and nobody could doubt but that its possessor was indeed First Minister of Spain. But in this romantic country there is a camera camerarum, an inner and a closer room, a more compact, indeed, but a less manageable body than that to which our Charles 11. first thought of reducing the straggling and unorganised privy council of ancient royalty. Though the Duke de Medina Celi was Lord of the Council he was not lord of the closet, and the camsrilla was quite powerful enough to disconcert him and to discompose his master. . . . The members of this faction were but three in number, and of these the Camarera-mayor was by far the most terrible. She was no less a personage than the Duchess of Terranueva, and not a woman was there in all Madrid, from the Queen to the most humble moza, who did not heartily wish that her residence could not be perma nently fixed in the land which conferred her title. The craft and subtlety of this old ogress were really frightful, and all the privileges of her place and the powers of her presumption 'were exerted to worry the unfortunate Queen and upset the Roy al household. It was a sacred and eternal article of the Court code that a Queen of Spain should go to bed at ten o'clock in summer and nine in winter, and any deduction from the siete partidas might probably have been suspended with less uproar than this solemn edict. The unhappy Louisa liked to sit up a little later, but the Duchess and her maids were be hind her, and ten minutes before the hour approached these satellites, at a signal from their mistress, used to', pounce upon her while yet at supper, pull off her shoes under the table, undress her head, and hurry her off to bed with a discipline surpassing that re commended for the House of Commons by Mr. Brother ton. Every human or brute companion in whom the Queen delighted was persecuted and hunted eut of her reach by the morose old Duchess, who even succeeded at last in establishing a suspicious coldness between the royal pair. Charles was in reality very warmly attached to his Queen. "Mi Reyna, mi Rona, he once cried out to her, "eres la mas perfecta de todo el orbe." But the old Camarera-mayor told such dreadful stories that he did not know what to think, and at last he took a trip to the Escurial without her. The day after his depar ture, however, the Queen sent him so loving a letter that he quite relented, and dispatched to her, as a token of his undiminished affection, a sandal-wood bracelet, with a billet doux from his own hand :—" Madam, it is a great storm of wind here. I have killed six wolves." But the mischief still continued, and bid fair to do so, for nothing could cure it but the riddance of the Duchess; and the Duchess, as the old hag very well knew, could not be got rid of without such a revolution as would convulse to its centre the constitution of the Palace. The King of Spain was a mighty King, but his maid servants presumed to be mightier, and it was ruled that the absolution of the Most Catholic Crown stopped short at the Royal bedchamber. A Camerara-mayor never had been dismissed. The thing was quite impossible. They had often been very much in the way; but nobody had dared to put them out of it. At last the Duchess outstripped even her own spite. The poor Queen had a pair of parrots, the only relic of her pets, which talked French and screamed at the duenna. The Duchess watched her time, and when the Queen went out one day, she ordered the parrots into her room, took them out of their cages, and twisted their necks off. Female nature could en dure no longer, and Queen Louisa, selecting a judicious opportunity, told the King that the Camarera-mayor must be sent adrift. Charles turned very pale at the mention of the word, and the desperation of the deed ; but at length, with the boldness of a Royal namesake, and happily with better fortune, he signed the fatal or domeance. As soon as an intrepid messenger could be discovered, the Duchess was told that she " must go." She wavered for an instant between incredulity and frenzy, and then burst into a Castillian torrent of buse and defiance. She said she had nothing to do with the Queen, that the King ordered her to stay—that she couldn't be turned cut that she wouldn't go, with other allegations and determi nations of the like ancillary and agreeable character. At last it was politely hinted to her that the edict on this occasion was of that special class so fashionable in China, and that her absence would be absolutely brought about. She rushed into the Queen's chamber, eyed her like a crouching tigress for a few moments, dashed into small pieces a beautiful little table, a porcelain vase, and an exquisite Chinese fan, and at last relieved the palace from the incubus of years. The theory of the cycle has lately been transferred from history to meteorology, and tropical rather than political storms have been illustrated by reference to some imaginary law of recurrence. But if any of our readers will compare our little histoireae of 1680 with the venerable register of 1847, which we have lately published, he will admit that the days of biographical parallels did not cease with Plutarch. Spain has once more got an energetic Queen as well as a corrupt Court, and it will be hard if the ordinary results of ac tivity 'and vigour should fail in this particular in stance, when honesty of purpose and innocence of heart are rendered still more interesting by the helplessness of uninstructed youth and the perils of unprotected Ma jesty. Unfortunately we have to ascend to a remote height in Peninsular history before we reach a period which any friend of Spain can hope may be paralleled at present. Yet Spain's last Queen, and Spain's last Isa bella, rhoaaii‘tt Mendoza do glorioustr,zsea o t r h nx a a thosen miz e hasne s pctrtral reduced, end s s n use octn o rnet n edlayn c ,t iegavhtnehoi hope onei ff s her weakness or direct be long wanting to the instinctive and untutored energy that such aids may not tai lerswl been deliberately goodwill,yl ei were h e a p e t p h m e e i or e r , e e d e youthfulwhic hth the Sovereign.—Tinter. g • ena.r_ri me offre:dom has developed in this the stated course a r s that e e f t this e g reat autumn rail woaf ywillnext The Emperor of Russia has j ust g iven orders that the works of the railw a y f r om St. Patersbur g h to Moscow shall be pushed forwar d with the g reatest activit y , and the nu mber of workmen at .present employed shall be increas e d year, end p3rhsps wow. b by e s e o n , t o ir o e O ly so e l e d m ie p rs fete l d t inls PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Conc;i;• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21.. FACTORIES BILL (REPORTED). Amendments read a seond time; Motion made, anci,QUes. tion proposed, " That this House doth agree with thiWom mittee in the said Amendments:"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That". to the end of the Question, in order to add the words, " the Report be taken into further consideration upon this day six months," instead thereof: — Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 104. Acland, Sir:T.' Entwisle, W. NeWdegate, N. Adderley, C. B. Evans;Sir De Lacy O'Brien, A. Stafford Ainsworth, Peter Ewart, William Ossulston, Lord Archdall, Captain Finch, George Owen, Sir John Arundel, Earl of Floyer, John Packe, C. W. Bankes, George Fuller, A. E. Paget, Colonel Bentinok, Lord G. Outten, J. M. Pakingtoa, Sir 3 . Bentinck, Lord H. Gladstone, Captain Pahner,fßobert Beresiord, alajor Godson, R. Perfect, Robert Bernal, Ralph Gooch, E. S. Plumptre, J. P. Blackburne, J. I. Gore, W. O. Pluturidge,, Captain Blackstone, W. S. Granger, T. C. Rolleston, Colonel - Bolder°, H. G. Grey. Sir G. Round, J, Brainston, T. W Grimsditch, Thomas Russell, Lord J. Broadley, Henry Raiford, Sir Henry Rutherford. A. Brotherton, Joseph Hutton, Captain Sandon, Viscount Browne, W. Henley, J. W. Seyiner, Henryi Ker Buck, L. W. Hervey, Lord A. Shirley, E. J. Buller, Charles Hodgson, F. Somerville, Sir W. }Sunbury, W. Howard, P. H. Spooner, R. . Cabbell, B. B. Hudson, G. Strickland, Sir G.' Chichester, Lord J. Hurst, R. H. Tollemache, J. Christie, W. D. Hussey, Thomas Trollope, Sir J. Christopher, R. I. Inglis, Sir it. Troubridge, Sir E Colvile, C. It. lrton, 5: Tufnell, Henry Cowper, W. F. Jervis, Sir John Turner, Edmuhd Crawford, W. S. Kerrison, Sir E. Wakley, Thomas Davies, D. A. Lambton, H. - Walker, Richard Denison, E. B. Lowther, Hon. Col. Wawn, JT. Douglas, Sir H. Macaulay, T. B. Williams, W. Duncombe, T. Maiuwaring, T. Wodetiouse, E Duncombe, A. 1 Manners, Lord J. Yorke, R.:11. Dundas, Admiral Willies, R. Monckton Dundas, Sir David Monahan, J. H. Du Pre, C. G. Mundy, E. M Ebrington, Viscount blunt; 3 F. TELLERS. Flelden,:J elm Ferraud. W. B. MINORITY-NOES, 46. _ Aldam, William Feilden, Sir W. Philips, Mark Baine, Walter Fitzroy. Henry Protheroe, E. Baring, F. T. Gibson, T. M. Roebuck, J. A. Bell, Matthew Gisborne, Thomas Scott, Robert Bright, John Greene, Thomas Sotherou, T. 11. S. Brown, W. Hawes, Benjamin Stanton, W. H. Busfeild, W. Hay, Sir A. Strutt, Edward Colebrooke, Sir T. Hutt, William Tancred, H. W. Dalrymple, Captain Langston, J. H Thornely, T. Dawson, T. V. Leader, J. T. Ward, H. G. Demsistoun, J. Legh, G. C. Wood, Colonel T. Dickinson, F. H. Loch, James Young, John Duncan, Viscount Maitland, Thomas 1 Duncan, George Marshall, William TELLERS. Egerton, W. T. Marslawi, Henry Hume, Joseph Escott, Bickham Peel, Sir Robert Trelawny, J. S. Evans, William Pendarves, Edward Another Clause (And be it enacted, That if any accident happen to the steam-engine, water-wheel, or mill-gearing in any factory, whereby any part of the manufacturing ma chinery shall be stopped daring the usual hours of work allowed by this Act, it shall be lawful to recover the time so lost in the following manner, that is to say, any child or young person, or any woman, may be employed one hour in each day more than the time to which the ordinary daily labour of children and young persons and women respectively is restricted by law, until such lost time be recovered), brought up and read a first time; Motion made, and Ques tion _put, " That the said Clause be now read a second time.' The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 31. Antrobns, Edmund Hay, Sir A. L. Roebuck, J. A. Elaine, Walter Ilouldsworth, T. Strutt, Edward Howring, Dr. Hume, Joseph Thornely, T. Brown, W. Lindsay, Colonel Trelawny, J. S. Denuistoun;John Lockhart, W. Walker, Richard Duncan, Lord Marshall, W. Wood, Colonel T. Duncan, George Marslaud, Henry Young, J. Escott, Bickhaai Milnes, R. M. Fender', Sir W. Molesworth, Sir W. Forster, Mathew . Ogle, S. C. Greene, Thomas Philips, Mark Balmer, Sir John Protheroe, Edward TELLS 3. Leader, J. T. Bright, John MAJORITY—NOES, 94. Ackers, James Evans, Sir De Lacy Muntz, G. F. Adderley, C. B. Finch, G. Newdegatc, C. N. Aglionby, H. A. Fitzroy, Henry O'Brien, A. S. ♦insworth, Peter Fitzroy, Lord C. O'Brien, C. Archdall, Captain Floyer, John Owen, Sir J. Bernie, W. Frewen, C. H. Palmer, G. Barrington, Viscount Fuller, A. E. Perfect, Robert Bell, John Gaskell, J. M. Plumridge, Captain Bennet, Philip Gisborne, Thomas Pollington, Viscount Bentinck, Lord G. Godson, Richard Repton, G. W. Bentiuck, Lord H. Granger, T. C. Rolleston, Colonel Beresford, Major Grey. Sir G. Round, John Bernal, Ralph Grimsditch, T. Seynter, H. L. Blackburne, J. I. Hall, Colonel Shell, R. L. Brooke, Lord Hamilton, W. J. Sheridan, R. B. Browne, W. Hatton, Captain ♦. Shirley, E. J. Buck, Lewis W. Henley, J. W. Smith, Vernon Buller, Charles Hindlcy Charles Spooner, Richard Buller, Edward Hodgson, F. Strickland, Sir G. Bunbury, William Howard, P. H. Thesiger, Sir F. Busfeild, William Hudson, G. Tollemache, John Cabbell, B. B. Irton, Samuel Troubridge, Sir E. Carew, W. H. Pole Jervis, Sir John Tuinell, IL Colvile, C. R. Lambton, H. Vyse, H. Crawford, W. S. Langston, J. H. Wakley, T. Denison, E. B. Law, C. E. Ward, H. G. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lawson, A. Wawn, J. T. Duncombe, A. Maitland, T. Williams, W. Dundas, Admiral Manners, Lord J. Dundas, Sir David Miles, Philip W. S. Entwisle, William Miles, William Esmonde, Sir T. Mpstyn, E. M. Evans, William Mundy, E. Miller TELLERS. Ferrand, W. B. Fielden, John THE PRUSSIAN DIET. THE ADDRESS IN ANSWER TO THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. We have received from Berlin a copy of the Address of the Prussian Diet, in reply to the Speech from the Throne, as adopted unanimously by the Committee appointed to draw it up for the Diet. It is as followb: " Very Gracious Lord and King,—Since your acces sion to the Throne, your Majesty has laboured inces santly at the noble deielopment of the existence of the nation, and the country enjoys with feelings of gratitude the advantages resulting from the lively interest taken by the people in public affairs. A new and more elevated sphere has been opened for this interest. Recognising the necessity_ of a representative organ, common to the whole nation, and its utility for the unity of the state, your Mejt sty has deigned to convoke in an un i te d Di et the States of all the provinces. By your free and truly royal decision, your Majesty has made a great step, and we accomplish a first and sacred duty in laying at the foot of the Throne the expressions of the gratitude of a faithful people, and of our immutable attachment to the person and family of your Majesty. The country increases in greatness by the elevated mind of its Princes, and the power of public opinion; its future prosperity is based upon this community. It is mani fested anew by the fact of your Majesty having , in your letters patent of the 3d of February of this year, an nounced your intention of continuing to erect on the basis of the laws given by his Majesty the late King, and to which the people are attached as to a patrimony which it has nobly acquired, as a recompense for its fidelity in conflict. Your Majesty having realised the reserve ex pressed in the law of the sth June, 1823, and given the name of United Diet to the assembly which in the said law is called the General Assembly of States, and in the law of the 17th January, 1820, the Assembly of the States of the Kingdom, the laws founded upon the laws there laid down, and upon other anterior laws, are ac quired by the states. The decree of the 17th January, 1820, compels the authority charged with the ad ministration of the public debt to give an account annually to the Assembly of the States of the Kingdom, and thus ensures to it the vital condition of useful action, viz.—its periodical convocation. The same law subjects to the co-guarantee of the States of the Kingdom, not merely the loans for which the entire for tune of the state is given as surety, or whick are destined for the wants of peace, but also every new loan which the state should be compelled to contract to secure its' own existence, or with the view to the increase of the general prosperity. Thus the guarantee of the debts of the states demands a correct knowledge of the financial condition of the country and of the state of the national wealth, and hence the co-operation of the states, when the question affects the disposal of the domains which are not comprised in the dispositions of the law of Ja nuary 17, 1820, forms part of the attributions which be long of right to the states. The law of the bth June, 1823, determines besides that so long as there shall be no general assemblies of states the Bills of a general na ture shall be submitted to the provincial states. Hence forth this decision will cease to have any effect by the creation of a united Diet of the states, so that the advice of the latter is necessary for all the general laws having; for object to effect changes in the rights of persons or property, or to levy taxes, and cannot be replaced by the advice of provincial diets or united committees." Advices from St. Peterburgh to the Bth inst. state that in the grain -market there was less activity, in conse• quence of the duller reports from England and France, but prices were still firm, on account of the dealers having already sold so largely. The weather having again be come wintry, threatened to retard the opening of the navigation. From Riga, under date 10th instant, exchange comes 39 7-16 d. The grain-market was slightly depressed, and there were as yet no symptoms of the breaking up of the ice. SUICIDE OF A DESPERATE HUSBAND --On Satur day night an inquest was held by Mr. William Payne, the City Coroner, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Berry, aged forty-five, of Mail Coach-yard, Kings land-road. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had recently taken to ill-use his wife, and a month since they were quarrelling together, when he took up a chair, which he threw at her. The same struck her arm with such violence as to break it. That circumstance had preyed heavily on his mind, and ever since he had been in an ex ceedingly disconsolate state. The night before Good Friday he appeared quite mad ; he came home and told his wife that she should not eat another Sunday's dinner with him. He then attempted to pull the stove out of the fire-place, and afterwards collected a quantity of rags his wife been saving saving up to purchase shoes for her children, which he set fire to. The next day he went to his exployment at Hoxton Old Town, and whilst he was sorting some cotton he took the knife he had swung round his neck and deliberately cut his throat. His employer ran out to procure medical assist ance, and, on his return , fou nd him in the act of inflictin g another wound in the neck. The deceased was removed to the above hospital, where be expired on Thursday last from the effects of the injuries, Verdict, "Temporary insanity." GREAT FIRE` AT BUCHAREST.—We have seen a private letter, which arrived last night from Leipsic ' 'n w hich it is stated, that on the evening of the 13th an ex press came in from Vienna, bringing account s o f a gr at Bucharest, in Wallachia. The fire had consumeda ea l t a fi rg re e portion of the city, but had not yet reached the quarter in which the warehouses of the principal merchants be eare burnedsitu ated, although several warehou ses i n the city had down. The consternation in Leipsic was very great, and the next post was looked for with the Bucharest. anxiety. Pro perty, we believe, is no t i nsure d in There are in Leipsic just now many purchasers from that ci 't , and the intelligence which the express brought from Vienna, was that the bankers th ere wou l d not for the present accept any drafts made upon them by Bucharest merchants.—ltTan chester La - press. THE Loss or THE TWEED.--The subscription set on foot for the purpose of rewarding the conduCt of Captain Camp, the master, the chief mate, officers,and crew of the Spanish brig Emilio, w h ose intrepid exertions saved the lives of 79 persons, who were wrecked OA !nerd the TWee d, aireaclY =MU; to 14784 8. NAVAL INTELLI Zii, Vic. :f. , PORTSMOUTH. APRIL 21.—The Viarety, :04, Captain -; Pasco, was visited last evening by the\ newlY-appointed47; Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and Contuttler-i :...- o t_ ' -, Chief of the South West District,'Stsior-qcnerlA _, Frederick Fitzdaienee, G.C.13., Lady tad the 'lidtva7: . t(l.. Miss Fitzclarence; attended by Brevet Major Harvey, A.D.C. The distinguished party were escorted over the _. ship by Captain Pasco, who paid every respect to hie gallant visitor. saluting him_with 15 guns on leaving the, . ship, with w hi c h he h a d previously expressed his &R. interest. This morning his Lordship trooped the gunra (comprising d etac h ments of t h e 42 d Hi g hl an d e rs, 434: Light Infantry, th e 5 6t h , 91st, and 97th Regiments), on, the grand parade, for the first time, in the presence of S numerous and brilliant assemblage of spectators. In a- , • few days his Lordship will go on leave pending the re pairs of the Government House. At present his Lord ship resides and transacts all his official business at the George Hotel. The news of the loss of the Thunderbolt steani.sloop, Commander Boyle, created a moil lively feeling of ap prehension amongst all in this neighbourhood who have . relations or :friends onboard. a:, al bough Lloyd's re ports no lives lost, it is feared, from cue ingh trot nature of the seas wh. re she has gone ashore, that a loss will inevitably have taken place either by the wreck or the : endeavour to save some of her materials. sh e was a very fine steani Sloop of the first class, being of 1,055 - tons burden,' and 280 horse power; built at this dock yard in 1841, on the design of Sir William Symonds, surveyor of the nary. Like the Sphynx, this was her first service at sea. She was commissioned first on the 28th -of November. 1842, by ComrcLnder G. N. Broke (son of the hero who sought the Shannon in her memor able engagement with the Chesapeake), promoted, after • being three years in her, to the ran k of captain ; her , present commander succeeded to the appointment on the Ist of January, 1846. She has been absent from Eng- • land five years and four months, during which time she has done her work well. She was under orders for England to be paid off. 'The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, was ordered into harbour to coal for temporary service, which order she completed on Monday; but yesterday morning another order was issued for her to proceed with re plenishing fuel, as her services will be wanted for a ape- - cial purpose. The Eurydice, 26, Capt. Talavera Anson, sailed from • Simon's Bay for Algoa Bay, Cape of Godkiope, on the ' Bth of . February .... . The defects a the Dee steam-transport, which were very great, there being 'nearly 50 plugs or patches in her boilers alone, have been, at the urgent order of the di Admiralty temporarily repaired, and she has been AT coaled, watered, and made ready to proceed to Scotland with provisions, which she is now shipping. The Britannia, 120, received a new bowsprit and • mizen-mast in the basin to-day. When the Recruit comes out, she will be. docked to have her waterways repaired, and other defects made good, which will occupy about a month. A nautical mile has been measured, and is being marked out by sight posts, on the beach at Stokes' Bay, fur steamers to test their rate of speed by. It was sug gested by Captain Sherringham, of the Dasher, and has been executed under the direction of Mr. Murray, Chief Engineer of this dockyard, Mr. Charles Brown, Master Attendant, and Capt. James, Royal Engineer, Director of Works. WINDSOR CASTLE IMPROVEMENTS.--The comple. tion of the extensive improvements of Windsor Castle, pro. jected by his late Majesty King George the Fourth and his favourite architect, Sir Jeffery Wyattville, were commenced on Tuesday last, by the sale and demolition of the old houses, erected in the reign of James the First for the accommodation of five additional poor knights; but which houses, though they have long since fallen to decay, have been suffered to remain, blocking up all prospect from the Castle, and hiding a great part of the Castle, and the whole of the ChapeLof St. George, from the surrounding country. At the special sug gestion of her Majesty and the Prince Consort these ruinous places have been sold by auction, and are now in a course of removal, the purchasers having contracted with the Com missioners of the Woods and Forests to have them cleared away by the 4th of May next. The space they have occu pied will then be converted into a public terrace walk, in tended eventually to be continued all along the western front of the Castle wall, until it joins the celebrated North-terrace, erected by Queen Elizabeth, and so universally admired by, all persons of taste. The next obstruction to the carrying out of this grand improvement is the mass of miserable huts. originally constructed in the reign of Edward 111., appa rently of mere lath and plaster, patched with old pac.king cases, and which have been so long suffered to block up and disgrace the great western entrance of St. George's Chapel,' under the designation of the Horse-shoe Cloisters; and. as these hovels are now in a state of miserable decay, and can not much longer serve for the dwellings of human beings, it is expected that the Dean and Chapter will consent to their almost immediate removal in furtherance of her Majesty's wish ; and in order that the much-desired improvement of the castle and chapel may not be wilfully impeded. ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. —The first flower show of the above society for the present season was held at the Horns Tavern. Kennington, yestor• day. The number of flowers on show was very numerous, and of the highest order, chiefly consisting of ericas, azaleas, auriculas, and cinerarias. There was alio a small quantity of fruit and vegetables, comprising, some very fine strawberries, and a small lot of choice beans. Among the prizes awarded were the Royal Adelaide Cup, presented by her Majesty the Queen Dowager for the best collection of miscellaneous plants, Mr. W. P.: Ayres ; gold Adelaide medal for the best collection of miscel• laneous plants, 18 pots (erchideous plants excluded), Mr. Bruce ; ditto, second class, Mr. Fawley ; large ver Adelaide medal for the best collection of six auriculas, Mr. W. Sandilands ; small silver Vic toria medal, for the best pair of auriculas, Mr. W. S. Ginger; small silver Victoria medal for the best eighteen heartsease (dissimilar), Mr. J. Edwards; large silver Linrinan medal (offered by H. Wooler, Esq.), for the best six Indian azaleas (distinct varieties), Mr. Ayres; small. silver Victoria medal (offered by Mr. W. Ivery), for the best twelve cinerarias (in pots), dissimilar, Mr. Robinson. Extra prizes given by the Society :—To Mr. Hamp, for eighteen miscellaneous plants ; to Mr. Sandilands and Mr. Chapman, for collections of auriculas; to Mr. Fawley, for collection of azaleas; to Mr. Wocd, for Alpine plants; to Mr. Willis, for a dish of strawberries; to Mr. Parsons, for a pineapple; to Mr. Young, for French beans; to Mr. Curtis, for a brace of cucumbers; to Mr. P. Munnock, for six miscellaneous plants. The show was well attended by a numerous and fashionable company. CATHOLIC INSTlTUTE.—Yesterday the annual meet ing of the members of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain was held at St. Edward's Roman Catholic Schools, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket. The society has for its objects the education of poor Roman Catholic children, and afford ing grants of money towards improving and supporting schools. The Earl of Shrewsbury in the chair. The report was read by the Rev. T. T. Fergusson, the secretary. The receipts during the past year were 1,8221. 15s. lid., being considerably less than the pyeceding year. The report was unanimously adopted. It was then moved and seconded, " That this meeting, deeply impressed with the outrage offered to the rights of conscience by the declaration of ber Majesty's present Government, that Catholics are to be ex cluded from a participation in the grant of 100,0001. to be voted by Parliament for all other religious communion; call upon all classes of their fellow-Catholics to unite in one cry of indignant reprobation at this insulting exception from a public grant paid out of the public funds, under the admi nistration of a Ministry who have appropriated to themselves a title of liberal, but whose shrinking policy is that of a bigoted sect, who have countenanced the worst features of religious intoleratien." This resolution, moved by the Hon, C. Langdale, seconded by Bishop iseman, was carried amidst much applause. Other resolutions of a pro forms character were also adopted, when the Noble Chairman hav ing vacated the chair, read the draft of a petition to both Houses of Parliament against the proposed Government mea sure, which was adopted. The thanks of the meeting were cordially voted to the Noble Earl for his presidency on the occasion, and the meeting broke up. ALARMING FIRE AT BLACIEFRIARS•BRIDGE: Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, a fire that caused great alarm along the water-side, but which did no consider able damage, broke out in the premises known as Albion wharf, Holland-street, Blackfriar's-road, the property of Mr. Crosier, lime-merchant, &c. It commenced in a large wooden shed filled with cement and lime, and very speedily the flames burst through the sides and roof, so that for some time a most serious conflagration was apprehended. The light thrown out was so great that the fire was distinctly visible from the several bridges. In the course of a few minutes engines of the London brigade and West of Eng land attended, and also the escape of the Royal Society for h abundant ng in in p e rd w y u of t wate r a Protectionwas obtained,of L ife a from n dthe F i r i a r e r r . i n g A d n o n a - b s t u r n e set to work, and in the space of half an hour the flames were entirely extinguished. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained, but it is supposed to have originated from some lime slacking. FIRE IN HANOVER.—HILDENSHEIM, APRIL 10.-- Yesterday evening, during a most frightful storm, the town of Bockenem was reduced to ashes; only a few out of 330 houses remain standing. One of the largest silk manufactories in Brusas caught fire last week, and was almost wholly destroyed. The damage is estimated at 250,000 piastres. SUICIDE IN A HOUSE OF ILL-PAWL—Mr. W. Payne and a jury of nineteen inhabitants of St. George's. Southwark, assembled last evening at the Angel Tavern, Webber-street, Blackfriars-road, to investigate the death of Louisa Barnard, aged 22 years, who destroyed herself in 1 house of ill-fame on the morning of Tuesday last, evidence the . circumstances briefly described in the following _ half-past three o'clock on been called to see deceased about 34, Herbert's-building& Mr. Bateson, surgeon, of Waterloo-road, proved havi ng She was quite dead, and appeared of Princes-street, Lambeth, was a - t to have died from suffo the morning of Tuesday last, n deceased twelve months, and and,sle minisasbinogutdteecneasmeidnuftta4.l c n a ex tio t n.M They went Monday nigh t. to bed together was with her on called. r. Il li e e nrY had Co k x xiow He awoke a the light of a candle which was about eleren b o o clock. He e o w 'cl e oc ut k t , o burning in the zoom, saw her hanging at the foot of the his side, looked up, and by b e d. He immediately jumped out of bed, cut her down, and about not assistance, at a ll whi ch 0 u a n r arrived v for e d thein ibo tenen mcainlluedtesf.orwnriitendeic fitness s l could deceased's act. They had h a d no quarrel. On the contrary, they were on the best terms, and it was perfectly true that he contemplated marrying her, though the day was not yet fixed. It was further proved by the deceased's own mother that she had made frequent previous attempts on her own life, and, after a few remarks, from theLearnedCoroner (maths melanchy nature of the case, the jury returned a verdict to the following effect :—" That deceased had destroyed herself while labouring under temporary insanity." CHATHAM, APRIL 21. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM lxviA.--At eight o'clock 1,1,,t evening a detachment of the 9th Regiment of Foot arrived at the invalid depot, Fort Pitt, from Gravesend, at which port they disembarked from the ship Southampton, 970 tons burden, Captain W. A. Bowen, commander. These troops, consisting of 1 quar termaster-sergeant, 2 sergeants, 3 corporals, and 56 privates, were inspected by the chief medical officer, Dr. French, when it was found necessary to place 19 of them, sick and wounded, in hospital. The remainder were removed to St. Mary's Barracks at Brompton, to be discharged on pensions according to length of servitude, Six women and 16 children, with a drummer of the 53d, came with the detach. ment. The passage was completed in three months and 21 days: during that time Corporal Thomas Eccles, of the 9th Foot, died of dysentery. These troops left their head-quarters at Meerut on the 4th October last, and embarked at Calcutta on the 31st of December, under the command of Captain D. M. Bethune, of the 9th Foot. Twenty men out of the num• her come home have seen 21 years' service. The whole of those that are come home were engaged in the late war with 1 the Stikhs, under the cow :Read pt Oir Hugh 0041' nounl o n hi' rictios