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NO be Wh eli a• 3 e &e ll • $ 13 ' he r° onl , $ d t ut' bo diegl ' ea left were t entered ) od, ai red i° ,$ of di e is stated, straw9llo°,4 be d is / 1- , 1005510 S 01 1 i l ! e loub t , he ►usfr°ll le luf s h il i l e do" -- L he 0 4 " . ehotlge' ns we re 3eIDS • to lost e°' light neYin ell at t he Oper a was ~,. 111 favou r ly cloS" ; sea bY ther e ie hours Om en o • c locl: xe nouslY' ill al° a s soot aoline are, a l e been h that is c'' . Jo Y. nt 8.- na Itnaa' t thA t tilej r t ie for t heir icy , t ryob SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 11EIVNIARIMT FIRST SPRING MEETING.-184 7. ii3NtotFilnltNetA.eunnt2-:-r, SATURDAY NIGIIT.—In the subjoined Mee • gements and propo2ed stakes fur the corning to horses 4rehaadvye the but i to atk (*)' u,ua m have those which we not only aster to be on the road. The programme pro kanyiesreasae good field for th e 2 , 000 G u i n e as, an d a t least an g 'Amount of sport for the week. MONDAY, APRIL 19. 501 ; for 4 yr s o ld , 7st 101 b; 5 yrs, 84 91b; 6 yrs and a ged, 9st. Last three miles of B.C. oweerstakes of 20 SOVB. each; for 3 yrs old, ist; 4 yrs, tiet 91b; 5 yrs, 9st 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, h ft if declared; for 3 yrs old, &c. T.Y.C. S weepstakes of 10 sovs, each; for 3 yr old colts, Bst 71h; and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. The winuer to be sold for 200/., &c. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each for feels of 1844, out of mare that never bred a winner, colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 31b; those by stallion 3 that never bred a winner allowed 31b. A.F. Lord Albemarle's Odille, *Duke of Bedford's Bridle,' Alosty's King of Morven and *Planet, * Mr. W. 11. Brook's Luminous (31b), Lord Chesterfield's Papa. Mr. Greville's Verres and •Mirmillo, Mr. R. Hesseltine's Tomtit, Mr. Osbahleston's br f by . I , ;_toilius, out of tern, irtr_ . air. Cutaway, "Mr. Watson's Sir Peter Laurie. sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each; for colts, Bst 71b : and fi llies, Bst 31b. Cambridgeshire course. (6 Subs.) R. Bulkeley's Montpensier, *Lord Exeter's c by Platoff, out of Marmora, Lord G. Bentinek's Devil me-care, Lord Glasgow's ch f (dead) by Sir IL mules, out of Deerslayer's dam, *Mr. Shelley's Cutaway, Col. Anson's Jesuit (dead). Match, 200 It ft. T.Y.C.—"Duke of Bedford's Eothon agst Sir J. Ilawley's Piccinino, Bst 71b each. Match, 325 to 300, 100 ft. D.M.—''`Duke of Bedford's list ano, Bst 71b, apt Lord Glasgow's f by Phoenix, d by Actaeon, Bst 41b. TUESDAY. Tlae Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; for mares, four yrs old, Bst 91b ; fi ve , 9;181b ; six and aged, 10st. R.C. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71h, and fillies, Bst 31b. The winner to be sold for 50 sovs., &C. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each ; for three yrs old, 7st 21b ; four, Bst 71b; five and upwards, 9st. T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 1501., &c. The 2,000 Guinea Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs each, la ft ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies Bst 41b. R.M. (28 Subs ) *Lord Albemarle's Ingoldshy—*Mr. Mostyn's Glen tilt, Gabbier, and *Planet—Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—*Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Mont pensier—Mr. Clifton's Bedlam, *Dromedary, *The Posi tive Young Man, and *Brown Bess—;Lord Exeter's c by Hetman Platoff, out of Marmara, *e by Hetman Platoff, out of Toga, and *Voronetz—Mr. Ford's Crassus and *Clarendon—*Lord Orford's c by Clearwell, out of Z'pporah—*Mr. Payne's b c by Venison, out of Sister to Cobweb—*Mr. Payne's Oregon—*Sir R, Pigot's Co nyngham—*Duke of Richmond's Halo—*Mr. S. Con way's Christopher —Lord Stanley's Ahdiel—Mr. Wal ler's Potinger--Mr. Worley's Golightly—Mr. Worley's Old Port—Lord Strad broke's b c by The Saddler, out of Marpessa, paid—Lord Exeter's c (dead) by Hetman Platoff, out of Vr.lance, paid. Sweepstakes of 300 SOTS. each, 100 ft ; for four yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bat 21b. B.C. (5 Subs.) Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Macretrma, and *c by Colwick, out of Lueetta—*Duke of Bedford's Para- Ron—Col. Anson's Shelford—Mr. Bi)wes's Mowerina. The Coffee-room Stakes of 50 sovs each for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bat 41b ; the produce of mares which never produced a winner. A.F. (4 Subs ) Duke of Bedford's c by Envoy, out of Alonceda (wrong nomination)—Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—*Lord Orford's arcsy Clearwell, out of Zipporah—*Mr. Shelley's Cut- SOL ; WEDNESDAY. for four yrs old, 7st 81b; five 3rs old, Bst I Ilb ; liandicap six yrs and aged, 9st 31 b. B.C. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if declared by ten o'clock the evening before run n i n g , to go to th e owner of the second horse ; for three yrs old, &e. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, ist ; and four, Bst 10Ib. D.M. The winner to be sold for 100 t, & c S weepstakes of 50 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; not engaged in the 2,000 Guineas or 1,000 Guineas Stakes ; those by untried stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner allowed 41bs. A.F. Mr. Mostyn's Projectile— * Mr. Greville's Apricot 7,7*Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby—*Alr. Watson's Dr. ,‘,!podall (41bs)—Mr. Worley's Wintonia — Sir W. W. Wynn's Faunus. Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. A.F. „Colonel Anson's lago, Bst 121b—Sir J. Hawley's untndrurn, Bst 51b—sLord Glasgow's Conspiracy, B st 31 b. Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady Constance, Bst 71b a st *Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino, 7 st 71b. g Match, 1000, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady Constance, Bst 71b, agst *Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser, 7st 71b. Al atch, 200, h ft. D.M.—*Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino, Bst 21b, receives 50 soy's. forfeit from Sir W. W. Wynn's Bst 91b. Colonel Anson's lago is also hare. HAMPTON SPRING AIEETING.—SATURDAY. The Aristocratic Hurdle Stakes of 10 soy. each, h ft, and 25 added ; list 71b each ; half-brod horses For the Two Years Old Stakes I placed the first and second, nothing entered , in my opinion, having any chance with Antelope. A moderate m eet i ng at N ewmar k e t, 'yelept the "First Spring" begins in earnest to-day, with four sweepstakes to close and name the evening bef o re running. A Sweepstak es o f 50 soya. each, across the flat, for three years old, has twelve nominations, but nothing likely to contend successfally with the King of Morvcn, who will not have more than two competitors. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, over the Cambridge shire Course, will be reduced to a match between Mont pensier and Devil-me Care; the former for choice. Piccinino and Fistiana will win both their matches. On Tuesday the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes—the great attraction of the meeting—will bring together a distinguished batch of candidates for Derby honours, about eight in number. The following includes all that are likely to start:—Christopher, Conyngham, Sister to Cobweb colt, colt by Clearwell, out of Zipporah, Mont pensier, The Liberator, Lunedale, Halo, Planet, and Glentilt. Kent has a string of nine for Newmarket, including four engaged in the " Two Thousand , " to wit, halo, Planet, Glentilt, and Gabbier. Now of the last three it is extremely dubious which will go, or whether Mr. Mostyn will start two. The latter will most likely be the case, and Planet and Glentilt the nags selected. There is another doubtful affair attached to this race. Old Port has not been so lively lately either in constitu tion or in the market, consequently it is not very pro bable that he will start; but he might, and, if all right again, Mr. Worley would find that he had a golden drop of Bceswing in his Old Port, which would make him go•lightly through the year. From Kent's lot I take Glentilt, as decidedly the best, and from the others Conyngham, Sister to Cobweb colt, and the Zipporah colt; but I am inclined to think that the race will lay entirely between Glentilt and Conyngham. The Sweepstakes of 300 toys. each will be an easy victory for Paragone. The Coffee-room Stakes will go to the Zipporah colt with a start, otherwise Projectile will walk over. On Wednesday Coningsby will win the Fifty Sov. Stakes, and lago the Two Hundred Says. Stakes, Con spiracy second, and Humdrum third. Piccinino and Alarm will win their matches, but neither with much to spare. On Thursday for the One Thousand Guineas Stakes seven or eight will start, including Climentina and Slander, whom I e xpect first and second at the winning post, Belladonna well up. The One Hundred Sovs. Stakes will produce a race be tween Epirote and Halo—the former for victor. Typhon will have the credit of receiving forfeit from or beating Eiithen in their T.Y.C. spin. On Friday the Harmony colt, Cossack, War Eagle, Epirote, and perhaps two or three more, will contest the from th e w i nner , E p i rote, t h e H armony colt Newmarket Stakes, w h en W ar E ag l e w ill rece i ve hi s being The Fifty and s Cossack vs . Stakes are a fourth. quietusll but in the pocket of his Grace of Bedford, for nothing but accident can put a stopper on Fistiana's pr e t ens i ons . The One Hundred Says. Stakes Piccinino ought to win, Gag second. Lord E. Russell with Reminiscence will take the other One Hundred Soya. Stakes, without a doubt, neither of her opponents being within 71b. of her. With War Eagle's match ends the First Spring Meet ing of 18 , 17.-1 am, Sir, &c. April 19. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Tho Queen's THURSDAY. ueen' s Plate of 100 Guineas ; for four yrs old, 9 'fBlb ; five yrs, lost 71b ; six yrs and aged, lOst 121 b. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies Bst 41b. First half of Ab. M. The winner to be sold for 801. Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 soya. each, and only 5 ft if declared by ten o'clock the evening before running, for three yrs old and upwards. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., &c. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; for two yrs old colts, Bst 61b; and fillies, Bst 31b. T.Y.C. The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs. each, h ft ; for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b. D.M. 30 Subs. Lord Albemarle's Madge Gray—Lord G. Bentinck's Devil-me-Care, *Archness, and *Slander—Mr. Bowes's Jennola—Mr. O'Brien's *The Emerald Isle, Lord Ches terfield's f by Don John, out of Arachne and Maid of Saragossa —Mr. R. Clifton's *Brown Bess, Conceit, and * MarbleMaid—Mr. Coape's*The Cardinal's Niece—Lord Exeter's *Cosachia, and *f by Hetman Platoff, out of kacremma—Mr. Ford's *Millwood—Lord Glasgow's tby The Provost, out of Miss Whip—Mr. Grant's r i bahzadee—Mr. Greville's Ferina—Lord Orford's llangostien—Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Lanercost, out of `,, a ,n 3 1) Follower and Sister to Sorella —Mr. Pa y ne's 4 "ernentina—Col. Peel's *Palma and Sor r e l—Lord W. 1, owlett' s *i by the Saddler, out of Fanchon—Duke of Richms°n's Pell Mell—Duke of Rut lands *Bella Donna Stephenson's ns Extra — Mr. Stephenson's Victre B and Mr. Worley's Margaret of Anjou. Sweepstakes of 100 scars. each, h ft ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; the winner of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes to carry 51b extra. D.M. (8 Subs.) ~Lord Alb emar l e ' s *l ngo ld s by—Mr. Bowes's *Epirote, 411 % Osbaldeston's brother to Devil-among-the-Tailors "—Lord Stradbroke's *c by The Saddler, out of Mar- L es sa--Duke of Richmond's *Halo and Red Hart — Mr. reville' s *Mirmillo—and Sir J. Havvley's Pampeluna. (Paid.) .„„Match, ino, h ft ; T. Y. C.—Duke of Bedford's* Bst 71b, agst Lorci Spencer's* Typhon, Bst 41b. FRIDAY. A Handicap Sweeps of 10 suvs. each, for three and four Yrs old. D. M. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst 61b ; five, six, and aged, 9st. The winner to be sold for 100 soya, if demanded, &c. D. M. The Newmarket Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. The second to save his stake. D. M. (23 Subs.) Mr. Watson's *Sir Peter Laurie—Mr. Caombs's 5 c by Sir Hercules, out of Harmony—Lord Exeters's *Vero netz—Mr. Pedley's Cossack—Mr. Wigram's*Dvriades— Mr. Bouveries *War Eagle—Mr. Ford's Crassus—Mr. Bowes's *Epirote—Lord Lonsdale's c by Muley Moloch, out of Ann—Lord Orford's *c by Clearwell, out of Ange lina—Lord Milltown's *Shawn Buidhe—Mr. o,baldes ton's sis. to Sorella—Lord Stradbroke's 5 c by The Saddler, out of Marpessa—Col. Peel's *King of Naples, and *Oregon—Mr. Payne's Ce by Venison, out of sis. to Cobweb—Mr. Greville's *Mirmillo and Verres—Mr, Ward's Eldon—Lord Exeter's c (dead), by Hetman Platoff, out of Valance, paid—Sir J. Hawley's Pampe luna, paid—Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, paid—Cul. Anson's Jesuit (dead), paid. Sweepstakes of 50 soya, each, for three yr old fillies, out of mares that never bred a winner of more than 50 soya. at any one time. R.M. (6 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's *Bridle, and *l'lstiana—Field Marshal Grosvenor's by Daedalus, out of his Brocard mare —Mr. Batson's by The Doctor, out of Revelry— Lord Exeter's *by Hetman Platoff, out of Maeremma— Sir W. W. Wynn's by Gladiator, dam by Buzzard, out of Emma. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft. Last half of Ab. M. (3 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's *Gag, Bst 71b—Mr. Ford's Rest less, Bst 41b; and Sir J. Hawley's Pampeluna, Bst. Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h ft, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's *Bridle, Lord W. Powlett's *f, by The Saddler, out of Fanchou ; and Mr. Newton's Remi niscence. Match, 50, Bst 71b each, Ab. M.—Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle agst Mr. Shelley's Cutaway. We have marked Planet, Slander, and Glentilt as likely to be here, of which little doubt is entertained ; Ring of Morven, Gabler, and Halo are also expected ; but up to the time of closing this parcel nothing definite mac known. allowed 51b. Two miles. Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer, aged (Owner) 1 Mr. P. P. Roles Spectator • 2 Mr. R. Clitton's Miriam, Mr. Hussey's Quicksilver, and Lord B. Cecil's 111,frtgl , e, also started, but were not placed. Won by two lengths. The Froo Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 10 soy, each, 6 ft, and 50 added. Two miles. __ KING's COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—In consequence of the great increase of applicants, both for in and out-door relief, and the inadequacy of the funds to meet the ex penses, the committee hare just issued the following report, and appeal to the affluent to come forward and assist the governors of the institution in their endeavours to con tinue the usefulness of the hospital. They say— "There is no locality in the metropolis where the assistance of an hospital is more needed than that in which King's College is situated, being surrounded on all sides by a dense mass of population. During the past year upwards of 16,500 out-patients and 1,296 in-patients were cured or relieved. The expenditure for the year exceeded the in corns by 6301. The committee are desirous of continuing to admit all who come with or without letters of recommen dation ; but as they have no funded property, and rely en tirely upon the donations and subscriptions of the benevolent, they will not be enabled to do so unless some assistance is afforded them." RECEIVED TIIIS DAY. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR MONDAY. Plate. Last 3 miles of B. C. Wolfdog, 5 yrs—Leopard, 5 yrs—Cantley, 4 yrs— Itydranges, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; winner to be sold for Mr. Oliver's Ite;strCak,llst 121 b (Owner) 1 Mr. Ekin's Salopian, llst Mr. G. H. Brettle's The Curate, llst 61b 3 Mr. G. Walter's Cavendish, 10st 101 b Won cleverly. The Moulsey Hurst Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 25 added ; the winner to be sold for 2501. Once round. Lord Strathmore's Lyons (Owner) 1 Count Batt hyany's Master Stepney The Ladies' Purse of 151., added to a Sweepstakes of 7 sovs. each, 3 ft. One mile. Mr. Webb's A mazr2ment, 5 yrs (Capt. Little) 1 Mr. Miner's Carrissima Lord Strathmore's B'srnaby Rudgo Two others started. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The past week's racing at Catterick has borne out my anticipations pretty nearly to the letter, having hit the mark in five cases out of s ven. At Bath I was not so sue cessful, the state of the ground putting all my previous calculations completely to the rout; I was only right in two instances, in two I named the second, and in the other two (the City Cup and the Somersetshire Stakes) I was out altogether, having named Brave Buck and Clermont as the couple most likely tc win the Handicap: the first did not start; the latter ran a wretched third, in consequence of the heavy state of the course. For the Metropolitan Stakes I eluted, among others, the Emerald Lie and Clermont. The former threw away her chance (a first -rater, by the bye) by rut.ning against the cords, jumping there, and playing off other extraor dinary pranks, anything but pleasant to brr backers, or that thorough bred son of the Emerald Isle, her owner. Blaring this accident, she would have been either first or second, in my humble Opinion, and that she will not be far from winning the Chester Cup is also my firm con riction. Clerrio won very cleverly, beating that splendid racer \Wilting by a short neck in the last stride or two; Brother to Stitch, by Ilornsea, out of Industry, running a game third. The latter nag must not be lost sight of; he will be doing something extraordinary in the handicaps before the year is out. Clermont's per formance in this race entitles him to the appellation I bestowed on him a week since, of the " champion of the festher-weights;" whether he will be able to run suc cessfully with heavier weights time will prove; at present he is indubitably one of our best second-rate three years old. _ _ 200 L T. Y. C. LITERATURE. HISTORY 'OF EUROPE. Vols. IL, 111., and IV. By Archibald Alison. As this admirable reprint of Alisun's European His tory proceeds;'we cannot discern any abatement whatever in the carefulness of its revision. The indices continue to be of the same elaborate completeness, the typography of the same beauty and precision, and the general appear ance of the volumes of the same compact and elegant cha racter. The narrative is brought down to the grand crisis of the French Revolution, when Democracy not only gained the supreme predominance, but began to illustrate the extasy of its jubilations by the commission of crimes more awful and ruthless than we could otherwise have conceived humanity to be capable of perpetrating. From the execution of the vaccinating and unfortunate Louis Sixikne to the establishment of the Directorial Govern ment and the close of the National Convention, the dema gogues, whether Girondists or Mountaineers, gradually extended their power, until it merged into a disguised des potism, and became unindurable to the populace, from whose credulity it had imbibed its vitality. During that interval of bloodshed and legalised sensuality, the palaces of Paris became the lairs of men more akin to the demons of Gehana than to the Adam of the Asiatic Paradise. In the person of Marat the spirit of a cruel insauity seemed to be erabodied ; in Hebert, that of despicable blasphemy ; in " the Incorruptible," that of a relentless egotism ; in St. Just, that of a barbarous audacity ; i n Couthon, that of an execrable heartlessness; in Ilenriot, that of a drunken domination ; and so on, through the hideous catalogue of murderers. It is upon this terrible but enthralling epoch that Mr. Alison is entering when the third volume closes, leaving the reader solicitous for the publication of the succeed ing chapters. E+•en to those who are familiarly acquainted %+ith this extraordinary composition, the style as well as the subject will possess an undiminished fascination. Every successive perusal only convinces one the more that Mr. Alison has contributed a splendid work to the literature of his country, and that if he cannot divest himself of certain preposterous prejudices, he still enables us, by the very ardour of the passages in which they are contained, to avoid the warps of his in tellect and judgment. Upon the opening of the fourth volume we find the whole of the intornal crimes and sufferings of France detailed with scrupulous accuracy and impartiality up to the memorable campaign of 1794, when the Republic had to withstand the assault of the banded sovereigns of Europe. ,Among the most beauti ful descriptions in this portion of Alison's history must be particularly mentioned the executions of Malesherbes, of Chenier, and of the sister of Louis XVI. ; among the most impassioned is the Recount of Tallien's eloquence in impeaching the Terrorists, and the horrible deaths of Robespierre and his accomplices. THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Vols. XXIII and XXIV. As brilliantly written as heretofore, the present volumes of Mr. Macfarlane's national history possess a peculiar and almost paramount interest, seeing that they are the condensed record of perhaps the grandest epoch in the whole existence of man. But the work is flawed, is blurred, is milerably warped in spirit. Its offence is Toryism, and its "Offence is rank, it smells to Heaven!" We never read volumes so small crammed with so many errors, so many monstrous misstatements, such inveterate and abhorrent bigotry. The historian is a worshipper of legitimacy ; he resembles Lord Nelson too, in one particular, for he seems actually " to have imbibed a hatred for the French with his mother's milk." Whatever the English do is noble, and true, and glorious. Whatever the French do is bad, execrably and irredeemably bad. Is that the disposition fora his torian ? A party man should never presume to take up the pen of history. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. A Romance. 3 Vcls. By Elizabeth Thornton. Seeing that we have noticed the piecemeal publication of this clever fiction on its commencement in Tairs Ma gazine, it is unnecessary to give either an analysis of its merits, or an epitome of its plot. From the hur ried production of Mrs. Gore's last work, " Temptation and Atonement," in the pages of the periodical just mentioned, the romance by Mrs. Thornton was suddenly discontinued, and the authoress here receives ample compensation for this (probably unavoidable and unin tentional) injury by the publication of the entire work in the customary three volumes. We are induced to say that Mrs. Thornton thereby receives ample compensa • don, from a conviction that the amusing narrative here presented to the public cannot but add to the reputation already acquirLd by that lady as a romancist from the composition of " The Marchioness." Sparkling and interesting as that story was, it is eclipsed both in the interest of its incidents and the sparkle of its style, by " Truth and Falsehood." Mrs. Thornton has no ambi- tion in this book to acquire either the sickly fame of a depictor of fashionable life as it is now•a-days, nor the preposterous notoriety struggled for by the cultivators of the " virtuous indignation" line. The three volumes are pure romance, and the tale is situated in the fittest land for the romantic, the land of Gil Blas and Rozinante. Spanish scenery, Spanish character, Spanish crime, and Spanish passion, are among the most appro priate adjuncts of the romantic, whether it relate to love or to adventure ; and those adjuncts Mrs. Thornton has most skilfully employed. KNIGHTS MONTHLY VOLUME. No. Xl. Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Vol. I. By James Thorne. Another pleasant series is here commenced, and a series which is calculated to diversify the character of the general publication. After rambling in imagination down the biographical course of some remarkable per sonage, or along the broad stream of the events recorded of a country, it is agreeable enough to follow the track of our beautiful island-rivers. Among them, of course, the Thames—old Father Thames—the silent highway —is paramOunt. And Father Thames is accordingly first selected for description by Mr. Thorne. With a variety of clever wo o d cu t s , b eg i nn i ng w ith t h e source o f the river at the Seven Springs near Cheltenham, and ter minating with a representation of Windsor Castle, the little volume presents a most attractive appearance. It is rendered instructive by a multiplicity of histoi ical and antiquarian facts elicited by the associations of the different venerable localities traversed by the monarch of English rivers. KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME, No. CXIV. Canterbury Tales from Chaucer, Vol. 11. By John Saunders. It has been recently and justly remarked by Mr. Charles Knight that Mr. John Saunders has conferred a great boon upon the future students of old Geoffrey Chaucer by the composition of these volumes. A greater boon we regard it than the " Tales from Shakspere," by Charles Lamb and his congenial sister ; for whereas the latter are only suited to the innocent tastes of children, the former have a vigour and boldness about them most suitable to the theme, and such as must impart the fullest pleasure to the hearts of the adult lovers of true poesy. The stories are daintily told, partially in prose and par tially in quotations, giving us the very marrow and core of the original. ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR POLITICAL GUARANTEES. By E. P. Hurlbut. An American writer, but especially an American political writer, never had a more flattering introduction to the readers of Great Britain than the one here afforded to Mr. Hurlbut by the brief but suggestive pre face of George Combe. The simple announcement, "A Preface and Notes by George Combe," was a thing pre cisely calculated to attract the attention of the very many thousands of admirers of that philosophic and argumen tative mind. Mr. Hurlbut, therefore, comes before us with the prestige, of being a friend of George Combe, and as such we welcome him cordially ; and the more so, let it be said, from finding, on inspection, that neither the manner nor the thoughts of this E. P. Hurlbut are unworthy of one who has communed with George Combe. As the annotator observes in his introductory remarks, " the aim of the work is to determine the foundation and objects of Go vernment, and the powers with which the Legislature and the executive should be invested, to enable them to perform their functions to the best advantage to the c c o o m m e p s re G he o n ve si r i n •e me in n q t u p i , r , y an i d nto ,, u th o e w problem s, shall we State." The object of th e wor k i s , i n ot h er wor d s , a ns " u W re h g e o n o c d e Government ?"—problems of unutterable importance . The author treats both quer i es w i t h t h e s kill of a prac tised " counsellor at law" (which he is, in New York), and his essays are printed of the form and at the price of the popular edition of the " Constitution of Man.' •Alto gether it forms a sort of sequel to the "Constitution of Man," seeing that it relates to the "Constitution of So ciety," society being, as it were, the noun multiple to the word man. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD.— Owing to the continued severity of the weather, coupled with the prevalence of typhoid fever, the doors of the Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's Inn-road, have been literally thronged with destitute sick applicants for relief or admis sion. The number of patients amounted yesterday to 333. The asylums for the houseless in various parts of the metro polis being closed for the season, accounts for this pressure upon the institution. DEATH OF LADY GODOLPHIN.—We regret to learn that intelligence of the demise of the above lady, sister of the Earl of Auckland, was received in town yesterday. The melancholy event took place on Saturday morning, at Gog magog Hall, Lord Godolphin's seat, in Cambridgeshire, after a short illness. Her Ladyship was third daughter of the late Lord Auckland, and was born on the 21st of March, 1780. The deceased married on the 31st of March, 1800, Lord Francis Godolphin Osborn, second son of Francis Godolphin, fifth Duke of Leeds, who was in 1832 created a Peer of the United Kingdom. By her Ladyship's marriage with the Noble Lord she leaves issue three sons. The families of the Earl of Auckland, Lady Brougham, the lion. Mrs. Vansit tart, Lord Bexley, Mr. C. and lion. Mrs. Drummond, the Countess (Dowager) of Buckinghamshire, &c , are placed in mourning by her Ladyship's death. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A REsrEcrAnt...x FxmALE.—Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of two and three o'clock, the neigbourhood of Man chester-square was thrown into a state of considerable alarm and excitement in consequence of the following extraordi nary attempt at suicide made by a highly respectable female whilst labouring under some temporary mental aberration. It appears that the unfortunate victim, named Fanny Richey, aged tifty-six, had for some months past resided at No. 19, Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, and was somewhat re markable for her eccentric ways and habits, though it was little suspected that she was of unsound mind. At eleven in the morning she was in conversation with the landlady, after which she retired to her apartments at the upper part of the house, and at the period specified above she deliberately pro ceeded to the roof of the house by means of a small ladder, and at once precipitated herself into the street. She fell in a diagonal direction, and lodged upon the area rails, her clothes having caught; and thus the unfortunate creature miraculously escaped an instantaneous death. The occur rence, was seen by several persons passing by at the time, and police-constable 109, D division, states that her dress caught on to the spikes of the rails, so as to break the fall, otherwise she must have been killed on the spot. The unfor tunate creature was then conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex Hospital, and Mr. Dickson, the house surgeon, ascertained that she had sustained, besides a dreadful wound on the head, some severe internal injuries, so as to leave little hopes of her ultimate recovery. She is unmarried, and very re spectably connected. LIBERALITY OF THE D U KE or BEDFORD.—MS DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The spectacle of The Desert, at the very moment it is drawing all play goers to this theatre, is to be unexpectedly cut short in its career. it having been found impossible to obtain a renewal of Mr. Ilughes's engagement. His entire establishment leaves town the end of next week. ACCIDENTS ON TRH SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. —SAListiunr, APRIL 17.—During this week two accidents occurred on the branch of this line running to this city, which, but for the skill and great care evinced by the en gineers, might have proved very disastrous; as it was, both occurred without any serious accident, the passengers being "frightened, not hurt." The first was the half-past eight A. 31. train tor London, from Salisbury, on Monday morning . last, which ran off the rail s a pp r oaching " Clay Cutting,' about two miles and a half from the city ; after a delay of an hour only all was set right again, the train arriving within less than an hour of its usual time at Nine Elms, London. This clay cutting is ono of the most troublesome parts of this branch to work through and render safe, costing the con tractors some thousands of pounds more than they antici pated, yet they persevere, men wo r ki n g early and late in great gangs to make the line safe and firm. The second ac cident was to the half-past three r.. 31. train from London. The man at the Kimbridge Gates, about three miles from Ilomsey, which are kept closed over the line at that spot, opening only fifteen minutes before a train is due, neglected to perform that duty; on this train approaching the engine took the gate, dashing it into many pieces, carrying bars, pests, and every piece of timber away, scattering the same in every direction, but providentially the wood was forced from the carriages instead of into them, or some dreadful accident might have been the consequence ; the engine driver perceived the danger, caused the shrill whistle to be heard, and the speed to be slackened, stopping the train entirely after within fifty yards of the disaster, when it was found that no one was hurt, and but very little injury done to the engine or carriages; this occurred about eight o'clock in the evening of Friday, the 16th instant, and, to prevent accidents on this branch, the engineers have an extra quarter of an hour allowed them to go over the branch from Bishopstoke to Salisbury, a distance of twenty-two miles only: BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 16.—The market continues exceedingly dull, and although importers here show a disposition to meet the buyers by a further con e assortment i'ni'iir of Westiees'itl nit lod t' bu s in ess o r mom , nt. The India sugar is very indifferent, particularly of anything suitable for scale purpose*. Brit tol Meroury• Grace the Duke of Bedford has, we understand, most liber ally intimated his intention of giving out of his own private resources, in addition to a former gilt of 10,0001., the sum of 3,0004, still required by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, as the amount of its contribution towards the formation of the now street from Leicester-equaro to King-street, Covent-garden, and which, but for his Grace's kindness, would have had to be raised by a rate on the parishioners. It is understood that this great metropolitan improvement will be forthwith com menced. APPROACHING ELECTION OP SIIERIFFS.—The Lord Mayor has named James Hartley, Es,q., chairman of the Peninsula r an d O r i ental Steam-packet Company, for sheriff for the ensuing year, and it is expected that that gentleman and William Cubitt, Esq , will be put in nomination on Mid summer-day next ; both gentlemen have expressed their readiness to accept the office if elected. ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The 74th anniversary of this institution is to be celebrated on Saturday next at I reemasons' Hall, when his Royal IlighneEs the Duke of Cambridge will preside, and the Duke of Wellington has promised to attend. We know of no society in Scotland which has greater claims to the sympathy and liberality of the public than this; and we fondly hope that these claims w ill be generously met at the appromeiiing festival. It is a singular but gratifying fact, that the best and bravest in her Majesty's Highland regiments bave been educated in the*e fingioritt of utztruotiva. , Veronetz—Redwing handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft if declared. T. Y. C. *Bishop of R , :.mford's Cob, aged. Bst 81b—African, aged, B st 8 1b—Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs 7st 61b—Sir Francis, 5 yrs, 7 st 5 1b--Vert Vert 3 yrs;6st 71b—Jollity, 3 yrs, 6st 21b --Dublin Colt, 3 yrs, 6st—ldas, scratched. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. 5 to 4 Bast Planet. 9 to 2 eget The Liberator (1 3to 1 aget Conyegbam. Bto 1 agst Christopher. DERBY. Offers to take 6 to 1 about Planet. The following horses have arrived from Goodwood:— Planet, King (~f Morven, Halo, Projectile, Gabbles, Do l- me•e*n, Outpost, end Cherokee. THE SUN, ,ON DON, _MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1847 COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the private ,chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. C. - Leslie Courtenay otliciata. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their ac customed early walk yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took airings yesterday in the Royal gardens. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Sstnrday, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday attended by the Hon. Capt. Gordon. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual pony and walking exercise on Saturday. Her ;Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, and Major• General Wemyss, honour e d th e R o y a l I ta li an Opera House with their presence on Saturday evening. We understand that her Majesty, anxious to comply with the wish expressed by many persons to be allowed to see the pictures lately painted by Mr. F. Winterhalter, namely, one representing her Majesty, his Royal High ness Prince Albert, and the Royal children; the other, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in a sailor's dress ; has been graciously pleased to command that they shall be exhibited in the banqueting room in St. James's Palace. On inquiring at the Lord Chambvrlain's office we find that it is intended that tickets shall be issued by the Lord Chamberlain from thence to commence on Tuesday next, the 20th instant. The hours of admission to be from two to five o'clock. _ _ . At first the tickets will be limited to the Foreign Ministers; the Members of the late and present Cabinets; and the Great Officers of State. After the 28th instant, tickets will be issued for about three weeks to ladies and gentlemen upon personal applicati , .n at the Lord Cham berlain's office, between the hours of twelve and four, at the end of which time tickets may be obtained in the same manner as the orders to view the state apartments in Windsor Castle, upon application to Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, printsellers, No. 14, Pall-mall East ; Mr. Moon, printseller, No. 20, Threadneedle-street; Mr. Mitchell, bookseller, No. 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs. Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96, Strand, until the end of June, when the pictures will be removed to (shorn, her Majesty's private residence, in the Isle of Wight, for which place they were painted. Mr. Moon has purchased the copyright from Mr. Winterhalter, and engravings of the Two Pictures, in the highest style of art, will be published by sub scription. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also visited her Ma jesty yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron Knesebeck, and Major Stephens, honoured her Ma jesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Satur day afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Earl Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clcnricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere. The Council sat three hours. A deputation from the metropolitan gas companies, consisting of Mr. Bateman, from the Chartered Gas light and Coke Company ; Mr. Gainsford, from the Phoenix Company; Mr. Hinde, from the London Com pany ; Mr. Sangster, from the City of London Com pany; Mr. T. B. Simpson, from the South Metropolitan Company; Messrs. Townend and Grattan, from the In dependent Company; Mr. H witham m i Viscount f o r u o n m ot f t m h w e oor ß opd a e Ratcliffe i and Company; Messrs. Tyrrell and Richard s , f rom t h e Im perial Company; and Mr. Holdship, from th e E qu i ta b le theoffice of her m Company, hadaniajtynetesrvtew Majesty's Commissioners Forests in Whitehall-place on Saturday. A deputation from the Supporters of the Government Minutes on Education in Birmingham, waited on Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of the Rev. John C. Miller, Rector of St. Martin's ; the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector of St. Philip's ; Mr. T. Lane, High Bailiff ; and Mr. John Aston, and were intro duced by Mr. R. Spooner, M.P. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday. A deputation of the New River Company, consisting of Mr. R'chard Beauvoir Berens, Governor ; Major- General Ellicombe, Deputy-Governor ; Mr. E. W. Webster, Treasurer ; Mr. Henry Hulse Berens, and the Rev. C. Keene, Directors ; and Mr. C. Mylne, Engineer to the Company ; had an interview on Saturday with Viscount Morpeth, at the office of the Woods and Forests. THE GOLD CURRENCY. (From the Post.) The accounts of the Bank of England which we pub lished on Saturday show that a very important diminu tion of the means of the Bank for carrying on its busi ness had taken place between the 3d instant and the 10th instant. On the 3d instant the establishment possessed in its banking department 3,699,7001. in notes, and 691,770/. in coin, applicable to the carrying on of its banking business. On the 10th instant the same de partment held 2,832,9151. in notes, and 630,7134 in gold and silver coin, applicable to the carrying on of its banking business. On that day (the 10th instant), the issue department held of gold and silver coin and bullion the sum of 9,236,3401, but over this sum the banking department of the Bank had no control. The who!e funds of the Bank, and of all its branches which could be made use of for payments to the public on the 10th instant, amounted to 3,463,6281., and if more than that amount had been demanded by those depositors who had a legal right to make the demand, the Bank must have stopped, though in its issue department it held 9,236,3401. lying useless—useless, at all events, in the sense of cir culating money. It was understood last week,:by persons likely to be well informed on the subject, that on the 17th a large sum would become due to the Bank in liquidation of a part of its securities. This sum being paid to the Bank in notes would place it in a considerably stronger position than it was in previously, but as this sum of bank-notes would bo withdrawn from the general circu lation, the payment would tend to increase the " tight. [less" of money, and consequently the pressure upon all who have to make money payments in the course of their business, or in the payment of bills which they accepted nnder an easier state of circumstances. These are but the details of that pinching, draining, exhausting system to which money convertible into gold, coupled with a free trade in gold, must always be liable, and which has been so excessively aggravated by the additional restric tions of Peel's Bill of 1844—that "complement to the measure of 1819" of which he made such vainglorious boast in the prosperous period of May, 1844. It was true that previously to that time the Bank was liable to be pressed for payment of its notes in gold, but the directors had such opportunities of knowing the chan nels of distribution of their notes, and such means of judging whether they were, or were not likely to be called upon to pay to a large extent in gold, that they could issue notes, under certain circumstances of pressure, without imprudence, although not holding gold against such issue. Say that they were drawn upon for a million or two, which they knew would go into the hands of per sons who, within a week, would repay these very notes to them upon another account. This often happened, and when it did happen it made no difference to the ac commodation given to the public at large ; for the Bank increased its issues, or had the power to do so, in order to meet the particular case. Since Peel's Bill of 1844, however, there is no such liberty left with the Bank. If to-day, out of the fifteen millions of deposits which the Bank holds, a million or two were withdrawn, the bankers, well knowing that this day week the notes would be repaid, and in the meantime would lie in some iron chest in Lombard-street, still the Bank must pro portionably diminish its accommodation to the public, for without bank-notes it cannot accommodate the public, and it has no privilege to obtain from the issue depart ment a million or two to replace those which have gone to the iron safes in Lombard-street. It can only obtain notes as any private individual could, by giving gold in exchange for them, and that it has not to give. Such is the working of Peel's Bill, which some per sons have still the effrontery to talk of as a beneficial measure ! To whom is it beneficial? Does it serve the trader who relied upon the discount of good bills for meeting his engagements, and finds he cannot get dis counts, or cannot get them except at a premium which takes away all his profit? Does it serve the owner of Consols, or of Shares in joint-stock companies, who has occasion to turn his securities, or a part of them, into money, and finds them enormously depreciated in conse quence of the scarcity of money? Does it serve the banker, who is liable to heavy demands being made upon him, and who fears to make use of the funds deposited with him, lest, from the increasing pressure, deposits should be withdrawn? No, it serves only the owners of large sums of ready money, over which they have ab solute control, and who, in such a time, command almost what remuneration they please for temporary loans. These only are the people who thrive by such circum stances of pressure as such a Bill as Peel's Bill of 1844 must inevitably lead to, whenever the course of mercan tile affairs takes large sums of gold out of the country. A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been sent to us, in which the writer (Mr. T. Lamie Murray) points out the circumstances of difficulty under which the monetary concerns of the country aro now placed, and suggests a remedy. The remedy proposed is an interference with the business of the Bank of England, which we cannot conceive that any gentleman not concerned in that es tablishment has any right to propose; but his statement of the circumstances which require some remedy is worth attention, and the more so because we believe Mr. Mur ray's experience entitles him to give an opinion upon such matters. After adverting to the circumstances of the potato famine, he proceeds to say:— " Every one will admit that this visitation of Divine Providence is in itself of sufficient magnitude, but when it is increased by a monetary crisis, it may become to the last degree inconvenient. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early Service in the Chapel Royal St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. J. R. Wood. At the daily service tll.l prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. 11. Dakins, and the lessons by the Rev. 1)r. Knapp. The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. R. Wood. The anthem was " 0 give thanks " (Purcell). The Ladies St. Germans and Somerset, the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of. Anglesey and Wor cester; Lords Forteseue, St. Germans, Cawdor, Jocelyn, Cantilupo, and Ebriagton, were among the nobility present. " One of the arguments against the abolition of the corn-laws was the apprehended disturbance of the cir culation of the Bank of England by the efflux of bullion in the purchase of corn. But when that argument was put forward, it was never contemplated that this dis turbance could bear the smallest ratio to the quantity of corn imported into western Europe, and likely to arrive in the course of this year. If, therefor•, what was consi dered a serious inconvenience on so small a scale, as one ventured to assert, how much must the evil assume the character of serious alarm when this importation of fo reign corn, and the consequent efflux of the precious metals, is carried on upon a scale of magnitude beyond parallel, and perfectly disproportionate to the resources of the Bank of England acting under the restrictions imposed by the Bill of 1844? "It should be remembered that this state of things has suddenly come upon the country in the ♦ery midst of engagements for public undertakings of all kinds un precedently large, and resting on private means for their execution, already sanctioned by Parliament, and of others awaiting that sanction. " At no "period in the commercial history of this country has such an amount of floating values existed upon the stock markets. " I am disposed to agree that the amount of enter prise to which capital is pledged, and now in the course of being required, is entirely disproportionate to the an nual surplus. " This state of things is not alone confined to England —France, Belgium, and Germany are, with ourselves, equally purchasers of corn, equally require bullion for the purpose, and arc equally engaged in extensive rail way constructions, requiring a large capital and resources. "To this surcharged state of things must be added the deficiency in the cotton crop, its influence on em ployment and manufactures. The loss to the consumer in the difference of price is estimated at more than 4,000,0001. " I have drawn your attention to these facts with a view of proving that the state of England and Europe, both in respect to the deficiency of food and the under takings in which all are engaged, is widely different from that of the year 1844, when the law regulating the Bank of England was passed. " At that period, and under widely different circum stances, the inconvenience that might result from an exceptional state of things was foreseen by some of our most extensive and sagacious London bankers, who, in the memorial signed by some of the most eminent firms, dated the 11th June, 1844, clearly indicated a case such as has now arisen, for which the law has made no pro vision. exclusive " OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT."—Such is the title under which various provincial journals keep a column o uto o r f inextown whose duty it is to send a weekly manufacture it. The person engaged ance with all tha c t um is certainly intelilnigetnhcee. capacity The intelligence is exclusive he furnishes to the enough, being the exclu sive:fivuthe individual who forwards state ments, but what correspondent is audacity. Upon the circles; but a s his compelled to affect an acquaint is passing in the best-informed p th e sphere of observation is confined to the d im t i h te a d t there circle will be much veracity in his state ucatebdout obliged to draw s some e e tavern he frequents, he is upon his imagination for the "facts" provincial journal. It cannot be ex tendons, theyengagements, or Occasionally he has be writers, eo nd with reference to is to oppose eve b r y y from his fellow-reporters n on the London press, lie has want in truth is made up in generally something strength of what he picks up to say about the movements, in everything else, and impossible strength other om o r he journalk non-engagements ooiwns p existence,os iti v o e f l t y h a e on leading t a hi d si i h n tg g o. grand scheme to communicate the starting of a new daily paper, which p e c r i e 3 d o e . d fromi, Pro prietors, o. the purpose of putting every possible prietors, printers, porters, and roerhgth everybodyi nt o who o e new ha ve c n all t e r s indeed the editors, contributors, ro e entire establishment, from the highest to the lowest t spondent" to be on di are said by "our London corre character, and epoint of abandoning profit., posi tion, to the paper ev erything else, to start a wilful op position When "our in whi c h th e y all have a mutual in terest.his authority—thou London Correspondent" is asked for to do that—hisgh it is seldom worth any one's while announcement of a new paper is found to rest on no foundation whatever. It enabled him to fill up a portion of his required. sheet, and be cannot afford to be scrupulous as the mean? of doing so. " Our London Correspondent" is of course in the confidence of all the Ministers and all ' the leading members of the Op position ; and 3 et, true, he is betraying all upon h his own showing, if his boast be e secrets intrusted to him on all sides, for a few shillingst a week from a country news paper. He knows th at L at ord John Russell will not be in office another monthleast four years before he goes out, and thus " our London Correspondent" proves the access he has to very, very you early (a little too early) in telligence. He can tellwho is to have the next gar ter, when there is one vacant ; and has seen letters from Jenny Lind or Mendelssohn , notwithstanding no letter has been written by either of these illustrious indivi duals. In fact "our Londo n Correspondent: lives in a enables world of his own, which him to see a great deal more than is seen by any bod y that there can be no witnesses t o else, and the bestofhis. prove the contrary of his assertions, for hie facts are as truly original, that he has them all to himself; and no one else has an opportu nity of meeting -them.—Punch. LAUNCH OF ANOTHER IRON STEAMER..--011 Sa turday afternoon a fine new iron steamer, called the Joseph Miller, was sent off the stocks into building yard of Miller, Ravenh*lil the Thames, from the Wharf, Blackwell, in the presence of a and Co., at Orchard dressed considerable number of spectators. The vessel was gaily &c. ; her paddle-boxes were up, and out with flags, a good deal of her in terior work done, eo that there was more than the usual weight: but she glided into the water strain; and when afloat th e extreme beautyvithout the slightest seen to great advantag e. She was built for of her form was Middle Rhine Company , and for service the Lower an d on that river, after a design of Mr. Pasco. Her length between is 175 feet ; breadth o f beam, 19 feet ; the perpendi cu l ars mid ships, 9 feet; draught of water, 2 f eet 10 inches; of hold, measur ement, 314 10-94ths tons. Sh e will r . l i c i l les; burden, old pair of Miller and Co.'s 40-horse power be fitted w ith a and be lightly rigged with two masts. oscillating engines, Her saloons, cabins, &c., are to be handsomely decorated, and furnished by first rate artists, and will probably exceed in elegance and com fort any vessel of the same class no .v afloat.file name was given, at the urgent request of the owners ' to Mr. Miller as an engineer, and an ex ,as a compliment expression of the coin -1 pany's sense of the important services lie as rendered them by supplying them with their best vessels, especially the Elberfeld and Concordia, which have no equals on the Rhi ne for speed or accommod ation. After t he launch a numerous party of ladies and gentlemen partook of refreshments in a room commanding a full view of the river, theover the counting house at Orchard Wh arf. " Succes s toJoseph Miller" was of course drunk w ith all the hono urs , followed health of Miss Ravenhill," sister of the the firm, who had per formed the cere mony partner of of baptism with great spirit. The Josep h Miller will be e: ompleted with all possible dispatch; the engines are nearly ready, and the vessel will, in all likeli hood, be on its station by the first or second week in June. SALE OF THB GREAT WESTERN STEAM SHIP.—The Great Western steam-ship was sold at Bristol on Friday to Captain Chappell, the secr etar y o f the Royal West India Steam-packet Mail Company, for 25,000,., putexelusive of her on plate, and which was t he reserve p rice . her when she since ' was offered for sale by auction a few we eks She will proceed in a few days t o Southam p ton, from which port it is intended that she shal l sail for a five month s' voyage, and at the expiration of that period we are informed that it is the Campany's intention to lay her up and expend a large sum upon her (report says 10,0001.) in repai, refitting, iSce. THE ELECTRIC TEL EGRAPH. — On S aturday orders, were given that the electric telegraph wires of the Sluth- Western Railway, now co nductin g to the Admiralty, should St. pass through Spring-garde n g ate intoJames's Park, to enter the Admiralty from the parade • La front of the Horse Guard,. " A situation of embarrassment, which was deemed possible, hex at length arrived ; and the Bank of Eng land, coerced by the law of 1844, is no longer able to interpose a barrier against the sweeping torrent of de preciation, and public and private discredit that has set in. The Bank has already exhausted its resources, and overstepped its prudence. Th© effort has been perhaps praiseworthy ; but the endeavour has been vain. " In former times, at periods of distrusts the aid of so powerful an establishment has always, when exerted, in vigorated tteo itsel f d ; disorganisationbo the p ul of f f priva te 1844 o n ti c r r e e ly d t, destroyed w i thout its injury this useful function, and in this exists greatest error and deficiency. " Under the law of 1844, sooner or later in this year, the present state of things was inevitable. In the one case, had the Bank restricted its accommodation, the panic would have resulted from real pressure; and in the other, as in the present instance, from anticipated pres sure, arising from the exhausted and hopeless condition of the Bank." The remedy proposed by the writer of the above is, that the Bank should employ a large portion of its " rest" In purchasing two and a half millions of Government se curities, and be empowered by Act of Parliament to issue that amount of bank-notes against such securities, over and above the sum at present allowed to be issued against such security. This might, no doubt, be serviceable as a temporary expedient, if the Bank thought fit thus to make use of its accumulated profits; but no one, except the Bank itself, has any business to propose such an ex pedient. Besides, we must remember that the vicious principle would still remain which compels the autho rised issuers of paper money to contract their issues as gold leaves the country, while the policy demanded by the nature of the case, and by common sense, is that as gold money is taken away from the country some other Medium of exchange should be proportionably supplied for the purpose of carrying on the vast business, both internal and external, in which the country is engaged. TUE MAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, APRIL 16, TEN P.M. —The Oriental Company's steam ship Montrose, Captain Burney, has just arrived in the docks from Gibraltar, with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, which will be landed under charge of Lieutenant Newenham, and for warded to London by the 2 A.m mail train of the 17th. The dates are Gibraltar, April 4th ; Cadiz, sth ; Lisbon, 10 ; Oporto, 11 ; Vigo, 12. She brings 19 passengers and a full cargo of fruit. Ships at Gibraltar, Virago •, at Lisbon, Hibernia, Trafalgar, American, Plicenix, and Polyphemus. The Montrose spoke the Royal Tar off Portland, outward bound. The Montrose experienced fine weather out, but strong gales from the eastward home. Our Portugal news will be found in another part of our paper. April 17.—The Royal West India mail packet Forth, Captain Chapman, left the port at 3 Y.M. this day for the West Indies, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Hay, R.N., Ad miralty , agent. She has taken out 60 passengers, including the Bishop of Barbadoes, family and suite, 11,0901. in valuables, and very full cargo. The Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Captain Weeks, left the docks at 8 P.M. this day for Gibraltar, with Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, in charge of the Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Smyth. She has 20 passengers on board ; also 500 barrels of flour, and full cargo of bale goods. The statue of Marshal Bessieres, Duke of Istria was inaugurated on April 5, at Fraysac (Lot), the marshal'snatal town. Upwards of 20 , 000 persons were present on the OCC3OI9n. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. TARIWORTH, APRIL 17.—Yesterday Mr. Brassey, the principal contractor for the works on this important line of railway, in company with a party of friends, tra versed the line from Rugby to Stafford. During their progress they were loudly cheered by the populace as sembled at the various stations on the line , and particu ' larly at Tamworth ; the rejoicing was manifested by the waving of flags, the firing of cannon, and the ringing of bells. From Tamworth the party (the train consisting of an engine and two carriages) proceeded to Lichfield and Rugeley, and thence through the great tunnel on Lord Lichfield's estate at Shuckborough to the neigh bourhood of the terminus at Stafford. At present, how ever, owing to the boggy state of the land, over which is an embankment, in the neighbourhood of that town, an efficient junction with the London and North-Western has not yet been effected. Notwithstanding, there is no doubt that in the course of a short time the necessary solidity will be obtained, as the Grand Junction had to contend with the same difficulty when the line was first put down in that vicinity. Mr. Brassey and his friends remained at Stafford for the night, and this morning, as previously an nounced, returned on their experimental trip to Tam worth. Here, where the sod was first turned by Sir Robert Peel, great doings were expected, and, as the directors had intimated their intention of taking lun cheon, it was not unnaturally supposed, Sir Robert Peel being at Drayton, that he would honour the party with his company. At the time the directors were ex pected to arrive a considerable concourse of people, amongst them the most respectable inhabitants of the district, had assembled in the neighbourhood of the Tam worth station:—Sir R. Peel, Lady Peel, Miss Peel, and the youngest son of the Right Hon. Baronet, were. on the platform ; but, as it subsequently appeared, Sir Robert was not there with the view of taking any part in the festivities which followed, but for the purpose of starting with his family by the next train for London. Accordingly, at half past eleven o'clock, before the Trent directors made their appearance, the Right Hon. Baronet had directed his course to the metropolis, and those wkib imagined that they were about to be favoured with an other address upon railway projects were doomed to diTs appointment. Sir Robert was looking well, and appeared to be much gratified with the gay and animated scene-of which he was a spectator. The party from Stafford arrived shortly before twelve o'clock, amidst the cheering of the populace and the booming of cannons. Amongst the gentlemen who alighted were Captain Huish, Mr. Bruyeres (of the Lon don and North-Western), Mr. Gooch, C.E., Mr. Bart lett, C.E., Mr. Dockeray, Mr. Field, Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Godson, Mr. Irving, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Brassey, &c. A sumptuous luncheon was provided by Mr. Rhoades, of the King's Arms, and, as might be expected, the festi vities passed off with great glee and good humour. The report of the directors and engineers who con stituted the party to this experimental trip is, that the line throughout, with the exception of the portion near Stafford already referred to, is remarkably firm, and the work substantially and in all respects efficiently com pleted. The station at Tamworth is an elegant Eliza bethan building of great capacity, and will be of great ornament to the line. The party, after leaving Tamworth, 'proceeded for ward through Atherstone and Nuneaton to Rugby, where the Trent line effects its southern junction with the London and North-Western. • It is intended to open the line for the conveyance of goods on the Ist of June, and for passengers on the Ist of July. From that time the traffic between London and Manchester and Liverpool will take its leave of the present route through Birmingham, DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY COM- PANY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at 12 o'clock, in the board-room of the com pany's station-house, near Handrow, Mr. George Pim in the chair. The treasurer read the usual report from the directors, from which it appeared " that there has been a decrease in the receipts of the company for the past year, the number of passengers booked at all the stations during the last six months being :1,668,650, and for the pre vious half-year 1,747,100, showing a decrease of 78,450, which produced a decrease in money receipts of 1,3451. 3s. I Id. £. s. d. " Gross income from all sources (ex clusive of Dalkey 51,691 15 2 " Income last year) . 53,036 19 1 " Decrease £1,345 3 11." The report went on to say, " that although a decrease in the company's receipts was a matter to be regretted, it was not at all calculated to excite surprise, owing to the awful calamity which had fallen upon their country, and which had not confined its effects alone to the poorer classes, but had chiefly affected all ranks and positions in society; a calamity that had curtailed all superfluous expenditure, building, &c." In referring to the agree ment between the company and the Waterford, Wex ford, and Wicklow Company, the report went on to say, " Whilst the board continue of opinion that the com pletion of a line of railway by Wicklotv and Wexford to Waterford, without unnecessary delay, and in pur suance of the agreement between the two companies, would be highly advantageous to your interest, they have not been unobservant of the late proceedings of the shareholders of the Waterford, Wexford, Wick low, and Dublin Company, and of the anxiety which has been shown by very many of them to endeavour to relieve themselves from their responsibilities. The directors have, therefore, :felt it to be their duty to seek for such information from the directors of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company, as would enable them to judge of the ability of that company to complete their undertaking in its integrity, before trans ferring to them either your powers or your property. The opinion of the board remained unchanged on this subject, and all that had occurred since their previous meeting only tended to confirm the board as to the pro priety of the course they adopted; and not only has the information sought for been withheld and difficulties thrown in the way of your obtaining it, but the directors of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Com pany have brought into Parliament a Bill for the amend ment of the Act, to enable them to shorten their line and reduce their capital, which contains provisions and clauses prejudicial to your interests, and at variance with the agreements between the two companies. The board, therefore, acting under the advice of eminent counsel, have not executed the transfer of the powers for making the Bray line on the lease of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, and they have forwarded a petition to the House of Commons, under the common seal of the company, against the Amendment Bill, &c., and are prepared to offer an effective opposition to the Bill should it be proceeded with. They trust the proprietors will rely on the best exertions of the board to watch over and protect the company's interests in this very important matter." _ _ _ A long discussion having:arisen upon the adoption of the foregoing report, two amendments were proposed, one to the effect that the directors should at once pro ceed to construct the extension from Kingstown to Bray, and throw the onus on the Wexford and Water ford Company of applying for an injection to restrain ; and the other, which was proposed by Mr. Palmer, of London, recommending that the Kingstown Company should not oppose the amendment Bill ; and also that a deputation of the directors should wait upon the directors of the Waterford and Wicklow line, in order to arrange differences, and modify the arrangements already entered into, so as to make them meet the wishes of all parties. After the discussion of thosi-• amendments for upward of two hours and a half, they were both withdrawn, and the matter having been left to the discretion of the directors the report was adopted. Some routine business was then transacted, and the meeting separated. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY. At a special meeting of the proprietors, held at Bath, Sir John Awdry in the chair, Bills were approved for constructing a railway from Bleadon to Blandford, with a branch to Glastonbury ; a railway from Compton to Wilton, with a branch to Gillingham; to make certain alterations in the main line, and to authorise certain agreements with the Great Western Company. ALARMING FIRES AND NARROW ESCAPE.—Shortly before midnight on Saturday a very alarming fire, by which a young girl nearly lost her life, broke out upon the pre mises, numbered 107, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. It originated in the third floor, occupied by Mrs. IL Sov, a milliner and dressmaker, and was occasioned thus :-- - It appears that Mrs. Soy had placed her daughter Blanche, a child about six or seven years of age, in bed, and had left. a candle burning in the room. Some time after the girl had been asleep she was awoke by a burning sensation in one of her legs, and on rising found the bed she was sleep ing in in one complete blaze of fire, caused by a spark from the candle lodging there. The child instantly jumped out of bed and ran screaming down stairs, which brought the inmates of the house to her assistance, who endea voured to subdue the flames, but without avail, for owing to the firm hold they had then obtained they were pour ing out of the door with such fury as to threaten the en tire building with destruction. The residents, finding that they were unable to extinguish the flames, sent for the en gines. In a very brief space of time the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire had one of their escapes at the scene, and the engines from Crown-street and High Hol born stations followed immediately after. The firemen, after considerable trouble, succeeded in getting the flames sub dued, not, however, until the whole of the furniture in the apartment was spoiled, three other rooms on the same floor f s ti o r 3 n , i wa r e the Scottish Union Fire-office. Yesterday , at no o n , another td u la n i eninr'easiugnre'edd,d.aainnida'l7ete'd'o-occbu3o'pni:t.rahoteefrsieliceoUnondthfoderretaurron'oamwteisit3l.:,atMlsn su red i n ' er i fire broke out at No. 3, Cole•street, Great Dover-road, Southwark, belonging to Mr. John Hardinge, lucifer-match manufacturer. It was caused by the overheat of the drying stove at the back of the house, which set about 300 gross of match splints in a blaze. Several of the inhabitants imme diately went to work, and succeeded in subduing the fire, but not before the stock in the drying h ouse was destroyed. Some of the parties in rendering assistance were burned over upset the face. Mr. Harding was not insured. a FATAL evening' small wherry, ACClDENT.—Yesterday Na y s contAaiCnCinlgDEsiNxT ; ers the Th l a t m s e e s em otf s and a young wo man namedA Anne Jervis, residing Milbank, at 42, Salamanc a - row , L ambeth, was drowned. that boa t all and h ine p t a h r e t i y r o w x e e r r e t o u n n s s tkoi get o i n u t the management of a of the way of an ap proaching steamer the brother of the young woman who was drowned dropped his scull in the t w h a e ter, and in reaching after upset the boat. The accident was o rl bse r r o v s e e d7'r i o t it fell overboard. The whole of from alarm,to and they were saved with the exception of the female, whose body has not been recovered. TAE —ORDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.—Sinze the last announcement, 978/. has been contributed to this fund, including a sum of 2001. by Mr. James G. Marshall, of Headingley House, near Leeds. The total amount of the subscriptions, so far as advertised in Manchester, is now 61,6701. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE . MALTA, APRIL s.—The Flamer, with the overland London mails of the 25th ult., arrived on the 2d inst , but the Peninsular and Ori en t a l Company's steamy; Ripon having left Southampton one day later than usual, only reached this on the morning of the 3d. Sh e was to hare proceeded to Alexandria at 7 P.M. the same day, but after getting her mails on board, a leak was dis covered in the boiler, which took' them until the follow ing morning to repair, when at 10 o'clock they attempted to move the engine in order to put to sea; but having carried away a part of the machinery connected with the steam-valves, the engines were found not to work, and after having had them examined by the engineers, it resulted that the repairs would occupy a week. Under these circumstances, in order to avoid delay to all par ties concerned, the company's agent at Malta imme diately ordered the Ariel to get up her steam; and with a degree of activity reflecting great credit on all parties employed, the whole of the cargo, specie, passengers' baggage, and passengers for Alexandria, the East Indies, and China, were transhipped, with the exception of the bale goods for Alexandria, which for want of room and time were unavoidably left behind; but these will be forwarded by the Ariel's next trip. The Flamer left for Patras and the lonian Islands on the 3d, and at the same time the Locust for the Piraeus of Athens, both vess e ls carrying dispatches from England for the British Minister at the Court of King Otho. PORTSMOUTH, SIINDAY.—We are enabled to state, on the best authority, that no court or courts martial will take place on any officer of the Salamander, and that that vessel was ordered to be paid off at Woolwich on Friday last, and if not paid off yesterday, will most probably be to-morrow. Since the 16th of March last, when the Salamander returned from the Paci fi c, the Admiralty have been engaged in sifting t he numerous h a u t d h e thmeosrtesul fragilet is e th ° a m t P t l h a e in ir ts L o o f rd b :h t i h ps offi ca c r e n rs ot an fi d n d m e e i n 'e , „..rouenhdawraocrtker of h ercm whichcapttoaifn.rame a charge prejudicial to the The Virago steam-sloop, Commander Lunn, was at Gibraltar on the 4th inst. The Hibernia, 104, Captain Richards, flag of Vice , Admiral Sir William Parker, K.C.8., with the Trafal gar, 120, Captain Nett ; the Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby, C.B. ; the America, 50, Captain Sir S. Mait land; and the Phcenix steam-sloop, Commander Dennis, were off Lisbon on the 10th. The Gladiator steam. frigate, Captain Robb; the Nau tilus, 10, Lieutenant -Commander Western, were off Oporto on the 11th. The Superb, 80, Captain Corry, was cruising off Cape Finisterre on the 12th, steering southward. 1 he Polyphemus, steam. sloop, Commander M'Cleverty, is reported by the Montrose, which arrived at South ampton on Friday night, to have let t Lisbon for England on the 9th inst. The Eagle, 50, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., is ordered from Monte Video to Lisbon, to augment the squadron under Sir William Parker. The Geyser steam sloop, Commander F. T. Brown, will come into harbour to-morrow to fit for foreign ser vice—it is reported, in China. The Herefordshire transport arrived at Halifax on the 2d inst., in sixteen days from Barbadoes, with the 23d Regiment on board ; she was to embark the 89th for England. On her passage to Halifax she had expe rienced extremely foul weather, and had been thrown on her beam-ends. The Hon. John Rodney, the oldest captain in the world, having held that rank in the British navy for sixty-seven years, died at Boulogne-sur-Mer on the 9th inst. He was third son, we believe, of the celebrated Rodney, who fought the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse. In September and October, 1780, he was midshipman, lieu tenant, commander, and captain, in the service, all within the space of six weeks. He was tried by court-martial and broke, was re-instated; but never rose afterwards. The Recruit, 12 (iron), Commander Slade, was docked yesterday to have her bottom cleaned, and it was full time. Although this vessel has been in cbmmission only nine months, and has been docked twice before this for the same purpose, the growth of weeds upon her was truly astonishing, forming a thick cluster just below the line of flotation, more resembling a luxuriant crop of grass in a field than the bottom of a brig of war. The African steam-tug, and Drake lighter, came back yesterday from Brook with the flat and boats, having succeeded in recovering the guns, &c., belonging to the Sphynx. The Berkshire, dismasted, from Sydney, left this morning in tow of the Sir William Wallace, and another tug. for the Thames. The officers and crew belonging to the Apollo troop ship, Commander Radcliffe, who were during the refit ment of their own ship at Sheerness employed in navi gating the Euryalus convict depot to Gibraltar, came from that port to Devonport in the Inconstant frigate. They were subsequently, on the arrival of the Dee steam•transport from Ireland, transhipped to her for passage to this port. Part proceeded by railway, and the remainder were put on board the Myrtle steamer yesterday, and taken to Sheerness to rejoin their ship, which is nearly ready for sea, having been refitted by the dockyard riggers. The following mates have passed their examination for lieutenants at the Royal Naval College during the past week :—Messrs. John Henry Howard, Henry Anson Ford, Henry Samuel Hamilton, Norman Bernard Bed dingfield, and John James Onslow. During the past week the Admiralty have conferred the following APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—C. 0. H. P. St. John, of the Excellent, to the Albion ; W. N. L. Lockyer, of the Albion, to the Excellent ; Frederick Marryat (who exerted himself so admirably in the endeavour to extricate the Sphynx when ashore), and Francis Brooke, to the Avenger ; Thomas A. Swinburne. and Samuel Fuwell, to the Bull dog ; Edward Barnard, to the Vindictive. Masters—William Archer, the Avenger ; John Cole• borne, to be Chief Officer in the Coast Guard Service. Paymaster and Purser.—C. H. Jones, to the Avenger. Surgeons.—J. 11. Steele, to the Caledonia, f or serv i ce in the Avenger ; A. R. Bradford, to the Albi on, v i ce Tarn ; G. A . Munro, to the Growler ; T. H. Keuwn, to the Crocodile. ___ _ Second Master—W. Betts, to the Avenger. Assistant-Surgeon—B. Delany, to the Avenger. Midshipmen—Graham Eden, to the Queen ; R. A. Stupart, to the Sidon ; G. W. Rice, to the Vindictive ; F. H. Sterling, to the St. Vincent ; W. H. Neste, to the Recruit. Clerk—J. A. Messum, to the St. Vincent. Masters' Assistants—T. Bower, to the Caledonia ;C. Renny, S. Libby, and J. Molloy, to the William and Mary yacht. Naval Cadets—H. J. Challis, late of the Sphynx, to he Queen ; and F. F. Waddington, to the Bulldog. ROYAL MARINES. Captain Thomas Fraser, First Lieutenant J. E. W. Lawrence, and Second Lieutenant Arthur Charles Steel, of the Woolwich Division, have been appointed to the Artillery Corps at Portsmouth ; First Lieutenant H. Timpson, to the Avenger. Wonwictr, APRIL 17. Captain Henry Mangles Denham, Royal Navy, F.R.S., who has been recently investigating the steam-vessel accidents in Ireland, com mencing with the loss of the Sirius steamer, and those that have occurred in England since the passing of the recent Act of Victoria, chap. c., opened his inquiry yesterday touching the collision of the Royal Victoria and Albert steam-yacht with the Rose. _ _ The ship Venice sailed from Liverpool with 170 passengers, twelve of whom ditd on the passage to Boston. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay honoured the performances at her Ma jesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with their presence. In their Royal Highnesses' box were the Marqais and Mar chioness of Douglas; in her Majesty's box were the Hon. Miss Las.celles, Lady Caroline Leveson Gower and party. p a t i : o n e i l d n e r 0 1: ' Taylor . a Majest y dl3iisL E x c el le ncy the Louisa isa ThereQWarren,tieNrnetriDeeoat'l Dow ager's g u l s ei s ro i present, ' a ns n.bi%oi Minister,xi s t s h w e i P s itrocinhccetuhel occupied Louisie"d4b BaronessyCl a p r - : Bruno; v, and Mademoiselle Olga de Leaner, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro. lir t l h o e f 3 B la e r l- - qtbueisl%offarcqiuniviitalrldue,ntltely,e. Earlthe A o l f a L rq o i n ii s s d o a f ie D , o t n h e e ga r l Bel fast, the Countess of Blessington and Miss Power, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Strathmore, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone and Lady Adelaide Paget, Vis count Cantilupe, Count D'Orsay, Viscount Torrington, Baron Reliausen, M. de Couttu, Lord and Lady Templemore, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord and Lady Francis Gordon,_ Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Som erse t, th e Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady Carroll, Lady Woodford and Miss Woodford, Lady Jervis, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady Dormer, Lord Nugent, Count de C ourcv , Si r R . Vi v i an, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., General Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, Hon. Cecil Forester, Hon. Frederick Cadogan and Lady Honoria Cado gan, Hon. Adolphus Chichester, Hon. Mrs. Chichester. Mr. C. de Koudriatisky, Mr. Brenton Trelawney, M.P., and Miss Trelawney, Mr. Stewart, M.P., &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty and his Theatre Pritlce onA Albert rhdoanvoluasretdth withe ptherefiorrmpraensecnecaet. L c o a - rd p.. CRllooev3;eaMnlta.lijesaigrthsd-enwnesas attended by the Countess of Mount-Edge- Gtheeneiriaoln.llMTeimssyKss,ertrh'ethHeonn.oCna.pAtaiiisnsGCoardvoennd, Cavendish, tßeaulymnrobßncerkelev Drummond. There were also present his Ex cellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Marquis Duke d e S a t n a d c k po Marchionessl e, Count n e ßaron ester ,s d a i e ti hs, l e ) . u tthzee Countessn the, vja r. Dowager of EssiNe,axirs,leotuhinleireu:Cseo,untess de the Earl of Strathmore, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount M i o u rp ns e t t er h, Dt t i h n e cann E o a n rl l o ri f ccou l‘ nt and o :ise L ou i 7t r" an i' d Viscountess Ebringt 0 Templetown, Lord n Viisocrocr HtleesinsryGileenn'tsnvooxrt:hiLlp7.i,se4unrdt Alexander Lennox,_ Lord Anson,Geol.-, Lady Ashburton, Lads' Lvndligt' 111. p., and Lady Moleswo - rth, I a . :4 Williams, Lady Caroline Lii s a r ins il. Lord i‘ S i Somerville, Jodrell, the Lashes Primrose,,i i Drummond, o eswort ad , :. (II L, , Harrieti Macfarlane, ttichard Cu- , the lon. Miss Copley, Hon. ,z , n, lion. F. Byron, Hon. Spencer Cowpnr, Hon. A. D. Willoughby, the Hon. Dawson Darner, M.P., and Mrs. Dawson Darner, Hon. John Fortescrie, Hon. Sir Edward and. Lady Butler, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Sir F. Trench, M.P., Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Charles and Lady '1 -(3 , L__adyy Cecilia De Veaux, Sir W. Clayton, Sir Andrew Leith Hay, Sir John H. Lowther. Sir William Abdey, Sir Charles lb botson, Sir Charles Kent, Sir William and Ladv de Bathe, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir Augustus Porster, Zit John Johnstone, Sir George Wombwell, &c. SECOND A MATEUR PERFORMANCE FOR TEE BENE FIT OF THE PIIINTEIZS' PICCSION SOCIETY.—we have great pleasure in drawing attention to a performance, which is to take place on Saturday next at the Olympic Theatre, for the benefit of the above excellent institution. me pieees selected for the occasion are the comedy of the Poor Gentleman and Luke the Labourer, together with a variety of singing and. dancing. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Saturday the counting house of James Morrison and Co., No. 28, St. Mary-at-Hint Thames-street, was plundered of a tin cash-box, containing 60 South -Eastern Railway shares, 25 Taff Vale Railway shares, and 10 Paris and Lyons; 3721. in notes and bills of exchange, as well as several3,d an bill stamps, co.,andstamps,signed and Co., payable Jones not fille d J. MorrisonuLo