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" 13. Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. -THE SUPPLEMENT to BURKE'S LANDED GF,STItY beim" now in artate of great tbrwardness, it-is , earnestly requested that those , amilies to whom circulars have been sent, will reply A-' EARLY AS POSSIBLE ; and that all who are desirous of contributing information, to ensure the correctness of this important national undertaking; will address the Authors (care of Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street), without loss of time. N.8.--No communications will be available after the 15th of May. Nowdy, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Map, &c., 31s. 6d. bound, NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ROUND the WORLD, PRINCIPALLY OVERLAND. By Sir GEORGE SIMPSON. G..vernor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in North America. The great novelty of this expedition arises from its having been . principally performed overland. The position and influence of the author, his enterprise and scientific attainments, have enabled him to make extensive additions to our limited knowledge of the various interesting portions of the glebe which he traversed. The contributions to the geography of the great American continent in particular, over which he proceeded from Canada to Vancouver, will be found extremely valuable, as well as his notices of the vario us tribes of the aborigines with 'Whom he came in contact —his residence at Sitka, and account of the Aleutian Archipelago—his descriptions .of Kamchatka and Siberia —and his journeys over those vast regions of the Russian Empire, concerning which we have hitherto received such scanty information. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, April 29,1847, when will be performed Bellini's celebrated Opera, I PURITAN I. Principal Characters : —Elvira, Madame Castellan ; Giorgio, Si er Lablache ; Arturo, Signor Gardoni ; rnd Riccardo, Signor Cole:.:. In the c oarse of th e e vening a Divertissement, comprising the talents of Mdlles..Cerito, Rosati, Maria Taglioni, and;Lucile Gratin ; i. Perrot, M. St. Leon, and M. P. Taglioni. After the Opera. the first Tableau of the Ballet of LA7,LA BOOKH, in which Mdlle. Cerito, Al, St. Leon, and M. Perrott will appear. To conclude with the admired Grand Ballet (omitting the t wo first Tableaux) of :CORALIA, and comprising the Moonlight Scene, the Garden Scene, and the celebrated Aquatic Palace of the Ondines. Principal characters by Mdlle. Rosati, Mdlle. Maria Taglioni,Mdlie. Petite Stephan ;:31dlles. Honore, Cassan, Jullien , La nerenx, M. Gosselin, al a . P. Taglioni. ia, go ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. ' T h e Nobility, Gentry, and Subscribers, are respectf u lly i n f orme d , • • that on THURSDAY NEXT, an EXTRA NIGHT, not included in the Subscription, on which occasion will be performed Bellini's Opera I PURILINI. In which Madame Grist, Signor Mario, Signor Tamburini, and Signor Marini will appear. To conclude with a new grand ballet, LA REINE DES FEES. Composed by M. Albert ; music by Signor Curled. Principal cha racters by Madlle. Dumilatre, Madlle. Bertin, Madlle. Neodot, aed 21. Petipa (from the Grand Opera, Par;s). Tickets, stalls, and boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow- Stveet ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. The doors will be opened at Half-past Seven o'clock, the perform ance to commence at Eight. Puttee or ainttsszoie. ss! First AmphltheatTa Stalls, First Row ...... 0 14 0 Ditto, Second and Third Rows...—. •• •• • • 0 19 6 Second Amphitheatre -Stalls ........ •....... 0 7 0 Pit Tickets 0 8 0 Firs: Amphitheatre ............... Second Amphitheatre ............. Gallery ...: 0 8 0 ... 0 5 0 .. 0 3 0 TILEATItE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. The Last Night but Five of the New Grand Oriental Spectacle, and ot Mr. Hughes's =ii am moth Establishment. THIS' EVIsINING The Performances will coram,nce with MASANELLO. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Alphonso, Rafter ; Lo renz,), Mr. llodg' s ; Pietro, Mr. R. Jones - ; Rutlino, Mr. Howell ; Moreno, Mr. Horneastle. Finelia.Made. Giubaei; Inis, Miss Collett. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE 'DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwarils of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The imaun Useph, Mr. Howell; Hatez, Mr. Rafter; Barek, Mr. W. IL P :yne ; Yawl Oola, Mr. Harley ; Malcck, Mr.- T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee ; Princess Ipomaye, Mime Me - sent ; Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 11. Webster, sole Lessee, THIS EVENING Will be performed, Sheridan Knowles's celebrated Comedv'of THE LOVE CHASE, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Sir William F.aidlove, Mr: Tilnury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett. After which the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET ; or, Harlequin cut of Place. To conclude with a Farce, by J. R. Plauche, Esq., called SPRING GARDENS. THE.LTRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF TIIE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, 31r. Worrell ; Cynthia. Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; 'starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which will be produced en Opera Huila apropos sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullentord, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. .1. 11. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. Mrs. BUTLER, late Miss FANNY KEMBLE, is engaged for Twelve Nights only, and will make her first appearance this Evening, THIS EVENING The Pertormances will commence with THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. Creswick ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. J. Webster ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. J. Vining ; Julia, Mrs Butler ; Helen, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by the new and original Musical Romance, entitle THE SEVEN MAIDS OF 31UNI ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Bertrand, Mr. Fisher ; D'Armincourt, Mr. Barker ; Bellejambe, Mr. Delavanti ; Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; Grosdos, Mr. Compton ; Bristle bach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Bonner ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Flower, Rourke, Honner, ['hicks, Millar, L. Marshall, and LaPorte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs Fosbroke. To conclude with THE TWO RAINBOWS. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mri. Keeley. THIS EVEIs.TING will be performed a New Drama, called THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinloch, and Keeley, - Mils Dickinson, Miss MAy, Miss M. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, Tie Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, M r- T urner, Mr. ,Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. With the performonce of Mr. William Bateman. 'the great Ame rican Milrlie, Vocalist, laTturer, and Musical Performer. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called ,CRUSOE THE SECOND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley ; :Miss Dickenson, Missqiuster, and Mrs. Keeley. • And other Entertainments. FRENCH.FLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. . Last Night but Two of the Appearance of Madlle. ROSE CHERI. THIS EVENIZIC,' the Performances will. commence with the 4 " amusing Corneille-Vaudeville, entitled L'IMAGE. Le Baron de' Xerandal, M: Dumery ; Leopold, X. Rhozevil; Pierre Mauelere, M. rriston ; Madeline - , Mdlic.:Duverg,er. After which (second time), an entirely New Cemodie-Vaudeville, entitled LA BEL LEXT LA BETE. Antoinette, :Mdlle. Rose Cheri ; Ernisttne, 31011 e. Deverger. To conclude with: the popular Comedie-Vaudeville of LA MERE DE FAMILLE. Alfred de Varennes, M. David; Etienne, M. Pr4s ton ; Therese Gautlth r, Millie Rose Cher!. - Boxes; 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 35.; Gallery, 2S. ~ , , p ,oxei and Stalls may. be engaged at Mr.-Mitchell's Royal Library, . 43, Bond-street.; ,and at the Box.-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. e • • i.-ETHIOPIAN ',ZRE.N.I.DERS. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. •Tbe tele.hrateil .E.TlllciPf AS SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington. S hits, l'AitilAgoti; and %scion, have the honour of repeating their'infmlf./1116 tfl\ -- ttnyrtrymENTs• '-rt tile St. James's Theatre, — l . O-mOnitasitEvioTENo , doors open at Light o'clock ; and will 'live a grand DIY PI.HI.FOJULA.NCE on Wednesday Morning next, April 28, commencing at lialf-,past Two o cluck. The evening per formances will he continued on nuts : day,' and Saturday. They will also appear at the Hall, Oardttl, tills Evening and To-morrow, sumi tht Liniclqq4r4e liote4l,ljoMviAlt. on Friday next. l rr : ~1414,74 es and.stalls at litc . k j eh . :Sß93 - 4 - Lflai•ar4 , , 33, Old Bond-street ; 3r>? wis al tile ridx , otte. " • • Boaes arid stalls at , l4filein.ll's Royal Eitlrlry,..l3, Old Bond-street. 7 ....4-STIEY'S rttyi - AL " *pattenK r te . of - -the Qtteen,.- Prince Albert, and the • Royal. rAmily. - -- • -- • - Pr.,nrietor - and , Ilanager r. -W. Ratty. Extraordinary Novelties and grand Equestrean Fstrs every night, 'THIS EVENTEG, FOURTH WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL GORGEOUS SPEC I'ACL.EI OF lord„.oefronN-ranaaticroini,pf prdpE OF ABYDOS ; or, TRE - C9RSAIIt, introdaciEg l3 . a:tey'snumerOtis and highly trained lierses and - Fairy POilliB:Hving Elephants, Carnels42dbras, Deer, &c. ' "Fiittrethangi in - tli , e7 Scenei the Cirele;, by the first artistes in • • Euespe. ; Great success of the ANtroordiriary lefty leaper Mr. Hen n derson.- in. h* wonderf4 Arab flights. Splendid Pageant by Eight - Ladies and their trained. horses, acid Other -productlons, only to be wifnessellat this Theatre. - . " ticting7 and Stage Mr,.nager,,Mr. W. 13. Broadfoot. .• • -• Rox Offlte open from :Eleven tut Four.' Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield.. Perforraanke ebmnbenoefi s e,vcry - eVening at Seyen o'clock, • doors operl'atualf-fust'Sts—_ . „ 1 .44? , YA-T , *l;4 rt VA E 'U nder the 3 , anagemerif Fraiees Dak , itie, Lessee. " Pirni AI.PEARAI§ICE, OF TRE , BUTFALO GIRLS, ETIIIOFRANt SERENADERS, . %nth Coloured Concert.N.igzer age, tambourine and .yiolln Accompaniment* the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine, Twist. All by Female Professors. THIRD "%TEX, and Last Your Night.% of_t4e truly wonderA BEDOUIN ARABS... TINS EVENING The Performances will commence with "THE ANCHOR OF HOP or, The Seaman's Star. Mr. Dunmore, -Mr. Conway ; Squire Har greave, Mr. T. Fredericks; Captain,. Walton,. Mr. Tindel ; Mary Wheatiy, Mrs. Ware. After which THE BUFFALO GALS ; or; Female Ethiopian Sere naders. be followed by THE BEDOUIN ARABS. To conclude with THE BRIDGE OF. .NOXEE DAME; or, TFIE. PARRICIDE'S CURSE. Noel Champinon, Mr. Neville; Master. Legris, Mr. Heslop ; Godfrey Mervin, Mr. T. Johnson; Melanie, Mrs. IL Vining. Mixes, 25., Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence at Half-past Six. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. For One Week only, the Dark Brothers and the Black Gals o.f Ohio, who will sing, with full Instrumental Accompaniments, all the: Popular Melodies of the Day. Second Week of the SHIB.BY,- hailed with acclamations of ap— plause. _ • . . THJS ZVENING. AND DURING TM; WEEK, In Three Acts; POVERTY; or, A TALE Or SORROW. Characters by Mr. N. T. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Gardner ; Mrs.. G. Lee, Miss Burroughcliffe, &c., &c. After which, The Mississippi Dark Brothers,and the Black Gals or Ohio. To be follewed by the SIIIP BOY ; or, The White Slave of Gua— daloupe. The Ship Boy by Miss Vincent. To Conclude with (This Evening and To-morrow), THE RATS; OF RAT'S CASTLE; or, the Old Abbey Ruins. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes.; Parties of Four, from 10;. 6d. ; awl Parties of Eight, 1/. Is. jai; WEATIiEIt.—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 24. TIIXRMomETEit, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 50 ; Noon, 41.. • • BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND, N.W.; fine. APRIL 25. T 11.13240111ETEA, Lewast, 36; Hiqhest. 51; Noon, 55 , fIARPriETER, 30.03.—Wind W.S.W.; fine. - - - - " I W ATER A- 4 r LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 25 mina tea after U. I Evening .. 55 minutes after 11. in t 7743 - 3 , 7 ,pgigewAir ;ss' "' .... , tr 4 • • . ,_,,, , . 4' . ~ .).' 4 1''":!" - . ; ; - .',: : . , , Z 7 2' -, ' C 2 l 4 * - • 4. ~, ''', - . li . ) Ci' '' '',', 4 'Ay, ' !.' f - i.: I , , - •: - . W,, , r• 7.' - '.; ttl"*. 4, '" . . ___ 5 .. . _ ~' - ,#1,...1...e-* RO IL ' 'it"'..,,K1,... ,. _ 1,,..`...-....., ',4cl+T - DO: , T. 210.t.,1DAY, A 7 21n1;"2".6 . , 1847. The education grant, proposed bv the Government, was on Friday niga'accedar to by ti,e House of Com- mons with but very little opposition. The whole debate upon that subject has been most interesting, and its result most satisfactory. And it has been in • yirrtirtFArt cause great m en were n umbered among-' rs, or because th e i r di scourses were =mated uence, but because its theme was a most implzr:fasitneed consequently a most interesting v . one,. nametjAiii4tueation of the great body of the people. .Beycktris, the result of that debate has • 7/ .1 S THE SUN, LONDON, PIONIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1847 I been most satisfactory, not again because 'a large majority (7.%lonstrated the power of the Govern : mem, but because during that debate principles were laid down and affirmed as forcibly and as effec tively as if carried by the most overwhelming ma jority. And these principles—principles which we might have supposed would hardly have needed affirmation at the present day —were, in the first place, that the education of the lower classes is a matter of the most urgent necessity ; secondly, that it is advisable, in such an all-important affair, for the Government to interfere ; and, lastly, that the assis tance consequent upon such interference should be ex tended to all the different sects into which Christianity is unhappily divided. These great principles, of which the last, though technically negatived, was virtually affirmed,—these great principles were the topics of the debate incident to the Government measure-a measure which was introduced by the straightforward explanation of Lord J. RUSSELL, and enforced by the emphatic approval of Sir ROBERT PEEL; which ob tained the strenuous advocacy of the present Secre tary of State, and the hearty concurrence of his predecessor ; which, moreover, elicited the earnest eloquence of Mr. MACAULAY, and the mag nanimous co- operation of Lord ARUNDEL. But, after all, what is this Government measure, from which so much is expected, and to which, strangely enough, so much opposition has been raised ?. It is, in reality, very simple, very little in itself, so little indeed that Lord J. RUSSELL antici pates the general exclamation, "Is this all ? are you doing nothing more ?" It is for this very character istic, however, that we are chiefly inclined to welcome it. By attempting little, the Government are likely to do much. " This is not a final measure," ob served Sir GEORGE GREY, "In the meantime we ask you for these means," said Lord Joux Rus- SELL, adverting to greater things which may take place hereafter. It is precisely in this light, as an incipient reform, as a progressive benefit—that we regard and that we value these new education minutes. Few as are the reforms contained in them, they are nevertheless very important ones. The money voted for educational purposes has for the most part hitherto been employed in the construction of schools, the Lords of the Council have therefore now thought fit to turn their attention from the number to the nature of these schools, and instead of erecting new ones to endeavour to ameliorate the condition of- the old. For this purpose, in the first place, more inspectors will be required ; and secondly (impressed with the conviction that, in order to im prove both school and scholars, it is absolutely neces sary to improve the schoolmaster), they have framed a series of resolutions likely to be of great and last ing benefit. Beautifully and truthfully has Lord Joux RUSSELL expatiated upon the value of the teaching of a good master, as contrasted with the lessons of an inefficient or indifferent master : and in order to procure the inestimable advantage of good instructors, the Government have determined not only to reward the meritorious during the discharge of their laborious duties, and to pension them when unfit for further service, but also by a system of apprenticeship to prepare them in their youth for the duties hereafter to devolve upon them. Were it only for this one portion, upon the de tails of which it is not necessary now to enter, the proposed scheme would be most valuable ; but when united with similar, though perhaps minor reformations, and above all, when coupled with the assurance that this is but a begin ning, and that better things are in prospect, the Go vernment measure elicits our hearty and almost entire approbation. We have said almost, for surely it is not necessary for us to state that we cannot concur with the one exclusive clause of this otherwise very liberal measure. In dispensing Government assist ance to the various schools scattered over the country, Churchmen and Dissenters will alike 'be cared for, even the Wesleyans will now be admitted, while an equally loyal portion of their fellow-countrymen will still be neglected and overlooked. Half-a-million of money, Lord JOHN RUSSELL tells us, has already been expended for educational purposes, but of that suns not one shilling, The tells us, has been devoted to these religionists; and sc it is still to continue ! So it is to continue, although, the Prime Minister' himself, although Sir. GEdRGE GREY, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM,, and almost every speaker, whether in favour of, or opposed to the Government, strongly and strenuously declared their opinion to the contrary! Why this should be we leave it to the impartiality of unbigotted multitudes to determine ? Why this should be we have not sufficient indifference to the cause of religious toleration to pause and deliberate with calmness ? Turning to a less embarrassing consideration : The Dissenters have very properly objected to a Church monopoly in education ; their rights are now to a certain extent admitted ; let them join with. the Church in showing similar liberality elsewhere. Let them remernber that however strong may be our belief in the religious error of any sect, that that is no reason for keeping them in ignorance. The principal objection to the new measure, the one, indeed, upon which all depended, namely, whether the Government had a right to interfere. in state edu cation, 'vas handled in the most masterly manner by Mr..II.IAcAuLAY. Not satisfied with his own impres sive eloquence, he enforced his arguments with the most unanswerable logic. It. is the clear duty of a Government (he tells us) to protect life and property ; ignorance endangers life and property ;—consequently it becomes the duty of Government to employ educas tion as a preventive. Otherwise, nothing is left but force and punishment, which latter mode is unfortunately too much preferred. " More than half of those now in our penal colonies might have been honourably and usefully employed on their native soil, if the State had expended, in' forming them into honest men, but a small part of what'has been expended iri I inflicting misery on rogues." Further on, he tells us that Government appears to be regarded as " the great hangman of the age ; the business of Govern ment is to do. nothing for the repression of crime among its subjects, except by harsh and degrading means; from the employment of all means towards that end which operate by elevating the intellectual and moral nature of man, Government is excluded." It is unnecessary, however, to pursue the argument, suffice it that the principle of Government interference has been admitted, and is being acted upon. Men have recognised the advisability, nay more, the paramount necessity (to refer to an observation quoted by Lord J. RUSSELL) " of placing a guide-post at the begin ning of a man's life rather than a gibbet at the end of it." In order to do this, however, it is necessary that unanimity should. prevail. " While we are fight ing and squabbling about points of difference," said Sir R. PEEL, " we are neglecting that which, in all Christian lands, ought to be a subject of deep consideration, namely, the enlightenment of the people in Christian principles—the improvement of their intellectual culture and their instruction in secular knowledge, I believe that true charity, true policy, and true regard for religious truth ought to encourage us to lay aside our differences—to con template the magnitude of the present evil, and to teach the children of all sects the great truths of Christianity." Upon these beautiful and truly liberal words all comment were superfluous. Again, referring to the constant disputes between Churchmen and Dissenters, he exclaims—" While this is going on, what is becoming of the 800 children born every day, of the 300,000 added yearly to our population e" Such a demand is, indeed, unanswer able ; such a figure is, indeed, appalling, At the very lowest computation, according to a calculation referred to by Lord J. RUSSELL, it appears that in • every ten years nearly 1,250,000 individuals are thrown upon society, " who have never had a place in any day school." More than one hundred and t A we d nty thousand y ear ly! I s no t th e sum a pp a lli ng ? tueh thing s perhal", s t in ull rnagn g itude ll° o l f " their we are so habituated to view in whi c h we read eehiritshtmatewaneinhgar.dlylncetmheprseahmenedwtahye Trough records of battles or and thousand left " so many na and proceed unmoved 6 dead u p on ousand prison ers , so many them as t field ;" they are mere words, and we as such ; they affect u s no more thanreaad similar m et norandum of so many piec es of cannon r to ke n. But, as it has been remarked, and do uE tless often experienced, let us but enter into d et ;a il 's ; let us but select one individual from the gha stl y group —view him inhis death agony —li s t en to his t or tured shrieks—witness his final struggles! How tame, then, and inglorious will seem the record of the victory b terrible, thin, wi;l be the thou g h t th a t tayazawls ill a siri.ilar conth!i were " left upon the field !" Much in like manner is it with the records now before us ; how many will think upon the 1,250,000 children " who have never attended any day school," and mention the number, perhaps, as a startling fact or a striking truth, just as they would talk of so many thousand acres, or of a similar amount of taxes. Let them but descend to par ticulars, and endeavour, if possible, to think what a life they must lead who are so " totally ig norant of the merest rudiments of knowledge." What a blank must be their minds! how desolate their hearts I Not desolate, alas, but full of vicious propensities. It is unnecessary, however, now to dwell upon a picture so gloomy ; a reformation has commenced, and however small And apparently trivial it may be, we nevertheless hail it thankfully. There is one plea, be it observed, among the many myriads in favour of education, which is certainly most impressive and most forcible. It is the thought of the future—a thought which in important matters is too often wanting. In trifles it is otherwise. Who ever planted a seed without thinking of the flower, or an acorn without foreseeing the oak-tree ? Who ever lays the first stone without some thought of the edifice ; or the first plank without anticipating the ship ? Happy, were there a similar calculation in all circumstances ! Let us look onwards, therefore,—let us imagine a hundred years to have elapsed; the grass to have grown over our heads, a new generation to be occupying our places. Let us think of this_; let us— " See a bright race oar spacious courts adorn, See future sons and daughters yet unborn, On every side in crowding ranks they rise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies." The chief elements of human nature have been per haps always much the same in different countrieF, yet what amazing changes may be effected in the temper and conduct of an individual, and in the general cha racter of a nation ! Let us but continue to contem plate the subject, let us but comprehend the reality, and how awful does the responsibility not appear ! We lament the errors and sorrows of the present day, errors perhaps too great for reparation, sorrows two deep for remedy; but let us not, while lamenting the past, and, perhaps, grieving for the pre sent, forget that the future, in a great measure, is in our hands. " The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity," said the eloquent author of Coningsby ; let us confide to those trustees the precious deposit of a religious and liberal education ; let us store their minds with ennobling truths, and their hearts with Christian sentiments, to be by them transmitted to that future generation which we shall never behold, but which shall thus have cause to remember us with gratitude and benedictions. The news from America, received by the ship Rainbow, which sailed from New York on the 3d instant, is important and interesting. The papers furnish us with more detailed accounts of the belli gerent operations under the auspices of the American Generals SCOTT and TAYLOR. The former had landed 12,000 'men within three miles of Vera. Cruz, and succeeded in completely investing the city and castle. This result was accom plished withcut any difficulty 'worthy of no tice. A few skirmishes took place between the opponents, and nothing more. Of these, however, the Americans give us a most inflated version, selon leur rigle. They anticipated a speedy surrender on the part of the besieged, than which nothing is more likely, seeing that from the first the Mexicans have made it no part of their policy to offer any stout re sistance to the capture of Vera Cruz. We have copies of General TAYLOR'S dispatches, three in number, dated the 24th and 25th February and the Ist March respectively. The first was written at Buena Vista, the second at Saltillo, and the last at Agua Nueva. From these we have the General's own account of his engagements with the forces under SANTA ANNA. He estimated his own loss at not less than 700 men, which he describes as " very severe." It appears that SANTA ANNA left Agua Nueva on the 27th of February, in the direction of San Luis Po tosi., General Tavion had decided upon resuming his head- quarters at Monterey, evidently With the apprehension thif,his,,line pf communication to_ the rear remains exposed to interruption. He admits that he has already sufferedsonie distressing caSualties from the arrangements which the Mexicans had made to in tercept his retreat, in case they had forced the strong line he had occupied in front of Buena Vista, where the greatest amount of slaughter occurred. It is evident that when the Mexicans were'repelled in their attack, on the 23d of February, great as might have been their loss, their rout could have been nothing like the account given of it by the Americans, as contained in the former advices brought by the Hi bernia; since, in General TAYLOR'S own dispatch from Saltillo, he admitted the' possibility of the at tack upon him being renewed, which he stated he was prepared to receive, should the " main Mexican force" venture to make it. Moreover, the - respective armies had, at that time, just effected an arrangement for an exchange of pri soners, which is an additional reason for excepting to the eiaggerated represeLtation which was made of the. total discomfiture of the Mexican troops. It re sults from the intelligence under review, that General TAYLOR'S position is still beset with difficulty. With respect to Vera Cruz, nothing will be gained by its acquisition,, seeing that the climate of itself would decimate the Americans, far more effectively than the hoitile use of the implements of war. Indeed, so. much is this dreaded, that General SCOTT, after he shall have obtained possession of the citadel, will, it is believed, immediately consign it to destruction. A reconnoitering squadron will then, it is thought, be appointed to prevent the Mexicans from again availing themselves of Vera Cruz during the " con tinuance of the war. The accounts from Ireland are still in the highest degree gloomy and unfavourable. Pestilence is raging throughout the land, and cutting off its vic tims, who, weakened by the destitution and the in sufficiency of wholesome food during the winter and spring, have little strength left to enable them to re _ sist its ravages. Many in a more comfortable situa- tion of life, who have had ample supplies of food al all times, have also perished under the fierce attacks of the prevailing malady. No class is spared, the highest and the lowest are alike sufferers—magis trates, clergymen of every sect or denomination, landed proprietors, and farmers, are in turn afflicted, as well as the half-starved labourer. Typhus broods over the entire land, and whole families are swept away under its fatal influence. Indeed it could scarcely he hoped that something of the kind would not take place from the neglect of the ordinary rites of sepul ture that has too frequently occurred. Bodies have been suffered to remain unburied for days and weeks ; coffins have been dispensed with, and many huddled into one common grave, with scarcely a covering of sods. In Westport we read that no less than fifteen corpses were cast into a hole in a sandpit without a sufficiency of earth to cover them. Equally harrowing accounts are received from other parts of the country. While such things are tolerated or permitted, how can it be supposed that the public health can be preserved ? The atmosphere is tainted, and malaria engendered on every side. Surely it is time that boards of health should be established in every dis trict, and means taken to counteract, as far as prac- ticable, the fearful scourge. The necessity of State interference respecting the sanatory condition of the people has now been fully recognised. An impor tant measure is at this moment before the Legisla ture, by which the most efficient means will be opted to preserve - that greatest blessing, health, and to do away with the causes by which it may be impaired or deteriorated. If such a measure is im peratively demanded in this more favoured country; if a general feeling in its favour is prevalent, surely a tenfold necessity exists for some energetic steps being taken on behalf of unhappy, plague stricken Ireland, which has been reduced to the con dition of a pest-house. It may be impossible at once to subdue the disease, but every exertion should be used to arrest its progress, and to abate its virulence. A supply of food is not the only neces sity o f the people. Without an adequate supply u a t ig te a r n ly tic u e se ff l o e r s ta s ; o b f u th t e th G a o t v h e a r v n i m ng en b t e a e n n d p t r h o e vi b d e e n d e thereof, everyt hi ng e l se would b e unavail i ng and by y ole th n e t c ontributions of the Brit ish people, measures should be introduced by which due and fitting ac- eommilatioo uld he provi , i ;_ o sultd:+ medieine:c awl medical :ittendar. The ! should be properly and respectfully interred, and every neans of prevention had recourse to. Some thing must speedily be done, or many valuabe lives will be lost. A few days would be sufficient to introduce the enac ments, and to organise the staff that might be requirel. Every bour's.delay may increase the evil to a fearful. extent. Local committees should be formed without loss of time, and whenever the persons more immediately interested put themselves in communi cation will the Executive, and show that they are really anlious to help themselves, we doubt not but that they will receive the most prompt, ready, and effi cient co-operation of the authorities. Madrid papers of the 17th have arrived. The Giceta announces the appointment of General RONCALI as Captain-General of Gallicia, in the room of General VILLALONGA, who has resigned. Her MAJESTY has nominated Luis Lopez Ballestero3, Beltran de Lis, the Duke of Sotomayor, Joaquim Fagoag► Mendizabal, Cantero, Carriquirri, Mariano Miguel Reinoso, the director of the Sinking Fund Board, :he Accountant-General of the kingdom, and the Director-General of the National Property, as membe7s of a Committee to prepare a plan for regu lating the Public Debt of Spain. It is said that the Marquis of GERONA will be ap pointed Ambassador to Rome. MADaID BOLSA, APRIL 17.—The Three per Cents. closed at 31-i for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 20 ; the Debt wthout interest at 6 ; and the Coupons at 17. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The motion of M. DE REMUSAT was negatived on a majority of 49, th e num b ers b e i ng, 170, against it 219. It i s sa id th a t f N o V r e t d h n e e s m d a o y t o b n y the Ministers expected a much larger majority. The Address of the Prussian Diet, in answer to the speech from the throne, is the subject of a very well written article in La Presse. After stating that it is to be hoped the draught of the address may be modified, in order that too decided an opposition may not alarm the good dispositions of the Crown, or furnish to it a pretext for withdrawing the conces sions which are in the course of execution, the Presse thus comments upon the personal situation of the KING : " The personal situation of Frederick William, as a man and as a monarch, is serious. He will have committed an imprudent act if he have not calculated all its bearings, for he can neither accept the pretensions of the united Diet without abandoning the absolute power which he is endea vouring to maintain, nor can he dissolve the Diet without weakening his consideration abroad and the affection of his people at h, , me. Such a demonstration as that at present made in Berlin is an irrevocable fact., Prussia wishes to be a constitutional monarchy. She proclaims her will in that respect by the organ of her Diet. This determination must prevail, or it will be demonstrated that the Prussian mo narchy is no longer in accord with its people. We must, therefore, hope that those opposite pretensions will be con ciliated—that the Diet will assume the initiative of the com promise —and that the King will lend himself to it." The National has the following gunpowder article on the dispute between Turkey and Greece : " The diplomatic relations bet ween Greece and Turkey are decidedly broken off. The Greek Cabinet has allowed the period prescribed by the Divan to pass, without submitting to the humiliating terms dictated by it. The Greek Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople has no longer any official commu nication with the Porte. The Ottoman Government has made known this state of things to the Great Powers by a memo randum, in which it explains the motives of its conduct, and its determination to persist in its pretensions. Three English ships of the line, the Vanguard, Albion, and Spartan, have entered the Piraeus, and are waiting the orders of the British Ambassador at Athens. This force is evidently designed to decide the fall of the Greek Cabinet. Thus will be ob tained, by the intimidation proiuced by the English can non upon the Hellenic Government, the result which had been hoped for from the fear of a rupture with Turkey. The intention of Great Britain is evident. It is resolved to have, coute q ui route, the overthrow of the Coletti Ministry, and, as a consequence, the admission into power of men who would be under the thumb of Sir E. Lyons. To establish the preponderant influence of England in Greece is the avowed object of Lord Palmerston. Defeated on the diplomatic ground, the English Ministry does not shrink from making a warlike manifestation and the three ships now in the Pinata testify that Great Britain is ready to use force if it.be necessary to ensure the triumph of its interests. But, we will ask the French Government, do you intend to submit to this state of things? Will you suffer England to arrogate to herself the right of imposing her will on Greece, and by main force overthrow a Cabinet whose only crime is having shown a degree of preference for France? Will it allow a country placed under our protection to be violated by a foreign power ? Does not the armed demon stration made against Coletti directly attack us ? If we submit to it, will it not establish a dangerous precedent for the future . ? Let these questions he answered if they can be. The question lies between England and us. If Coletti sue.. combs, we shall be vanquished. If the Ministry does submit to this, we shall not be surprised, but is there no one in the Chamber to can the Cabinet to account before the facts be accomplished? In the presence of this strange daring of the English Cabinet, the path of the French Government is clearly traced out, that of first protecting diplomatically, and of supporting its protest by sending immediately a squadron to Athens. We know no other mode of proceeding. Great Britain must be convinced that France is firmly resolved to maintain the independence of a ,nation placed under her pro tection, and at the same time to defend her interests in the Mediterranean. The gauntlet has been thrown down—it must be taken.up f" L With regard to this article, we would fain ask, when, and by what treaty, Greece was placed under the exclusive protection, of France, as assumed by this writer, and whether Russia and England have not the same rights, as protesting Powers, that France has ? This assumption' of exclusive protection is an usurpation on the part of France, and the the de struction of French. exclusive influence in Greece will be merely a restoration of the status quo. Four influential Arab chiefs, Si- damedi- el-Siikel, Caid of Tlemcen ; Hamed-ben-Adri, Agha of the Ouled-Soliman (nephew of General Mustapha, who was killed in the service of France) ; Si-Brahim, son of Osman, Khalifa of Mascara; and EI-Chahat, son of Zen-Bach, formerly Agha of the Beni-Amer, are about to visit France. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Thursday, at 78f. sc. ; the Five-per Cents., 115 E 75c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f. ' • Rouen, 935£ ; Havre, 678 E 75c. ; Great Northern, 627 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 777 f. 50c. ; Vierzan, 592 E -50 c. ; Bordeaux, 515 f. ; Boulogne, 420 f. • Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 317 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4311. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 422 E 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 432 t 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 455 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 304. MARSEILLES, APRIL 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 7751. ; Northern, 618 f. 75c.,, LYONS, APRIL 211—Paris and Rouen, 895 f; Avignon and Marseilles, 763 f. 75c. ; Northern, 621 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 425 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 23. Anglo-Belgian, 3—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Con stituted); I%—entral of France (Orleans and Vierzon),ls —East Indian, s—Madrid and Valentia, 14—Namur and Liege, 4 1 A—Paris and Lyons, 5 Sambre and Meuse, 5%. Alas. TROLLOPE.—The surprise of our readers, we suspect,• will not be less than their delight, at the announce ment of another novel from the pen of this clever lady. It exhibits at the same ti me a remarkable instance of the ver satility of her genius, which has been so recently displayed in revealing and attacking the machinations of the Jesuit.— with what success we need not dilate on, as the work alluded to (Father Eustace) has been in every ones hands. In her new work Mrs. Trollope has chosen a very different theme for the exercise of her powers; namely, that of satirizing the follies of society in general. It is entitled "The Three Cousins," and is a story peculiarly illustrative of the female character in its varied phases of maid, wife, and widow. THE ATRAPILATORY, OR LIQUID HAIR DYE—the only dye that really answers for all colours, and does not require re-doing but as the hair grows, as it never fades or acquires that unnatural red or purple tint common to all other dyes. Ross and Sons can, with the greatest confidence, recommend the above dye as infallible, if done at their esta blishment; and ladies and gentlemen requiring it, are re quested to bring a friend or servant with them to see how it is used, which will enable them to do it afterwards without the chance of failure. Several private apartments devoted entirely to the above purpose, and some of their establish ment having used it, the effect produced can be at once seen. They think it necessary to add, that by attending strictly to the instructions given with each bottle of dye, numerous persons have succeeded equally well without coming to them. Address Ross and Sons, 119, and 120, Bishopsgate-street, the celebrated Perruquiers, Perfumers, Hair-cutters, and Hair dyers.—N.B. Parties attended at their own residence, what ever the distance. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH or A Bar BY FIRE.— On Friday an inquest was held by Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Parsons Ellis, aged nine years, who was burned to death under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that the deceased, whose father is a waiter at the London Tavern, resided with his parents at No. 2, Fordham's-grove, Isling ton. The deceased had for a length of time been under the treatment of a surgeon for a disease which might one day cause him to crave for victuals. On Monday morning last, about three o'clock, hi father was awoke by hearing him walking about the next room to him, where he slept alone, and, calling to him, he became quiet. In about five minutes afterwards, however, deceased screamed violently, and on his father going to the apartment he discovered deceased running about writhing in agony, his night shirt (with the exception of the sleeves, which were then in flames) having been burnt completely off his person. Having been wrapped in a blanket, and oils applied to his wounds, a surgeon was subsequently called in, by whosp advice he was removed to the above hospital, where he sank and died on the following morning of the frightful injuries received. The father of the deceased, in his evidence, stated that from the fact of finding a candle burning on the dresser, and the door of the cupboard over it open, with the re mainder of the Sunday's dinner disturbed on the dish, he had no doubt that deceased had got out of bed, and, getting on the dresser, was in the act of helping himself to food, when his shirt, wafting near the candle, ignited. The jury, having commented on the singular and melancholy facts of the case, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." A deputation from Rochdale, consisting of Mr. Shar man Crawford, Mr. Thomas Livesey (chairman of the board of guardians), and Mr. William Roberts (clerk), had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home Office. Lord and Lady Algernon St. Maur have arrived in Upper Harley-street, from Maiden Bradley, Wilt s . 1 COURT CIRCULAR. ,iLerbooo. It attended by his Royal Highness Prill2.o Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President ; Lord Cotten ham, Lord Chancellor ; Lord John Russell, First Lnrd of the Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Earl Grey, Secretary ef State for the Colonial Department ; Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; tht Earl of Auckland, Flnt Lord of the Admiralty ; the Earl of Clarendon, President of the Boatel of Trade ; the Mar quis of Clanricarde, Postmaster-General , Lord Camp bell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Earl Spencer, Lord Ch amberlain ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Cierk of the Council in Waiting. The Queen gave audiences to Earl Spencer, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, and Lord John Russell. The Court was attended by the Marquis of Anglrsey, Gold Stick in, Waiting; the Earl of "Morton, Lord in Waiting; Lord Marcus Hill, Comptroller of the House hold, and Mnjor the; Hon. Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Alhrrt rode out on horse back on Saturday, attended by the Equeries in Waiting, Major•Gereral Wemyss and Captain the Hon. A. 11. Gordon. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyt telton took an airing on Saturday, in an open carriage and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took their accustomed exercise in the Royal Gardens on Saturday. The Royal children took their usual airings yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Morton, and Major-General Wemyss, honoured the performance of the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Alice. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived early at Buckingham Palace, to pay a visit of congratu lation the Queen and Prince Albert. His Royal Highness the Duke or Cambridge also paid a congratulatory visit to her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at tended Divine service yesterday in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Yesterday was the Birthday of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Alice, paid a visit of congratulation to her R-iyal Highness at Gloucester House. The Royal Duchess also received visits of con gratulation from Iler Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, an.l his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. During the day, many of the nobility and gentry called at Gloucester House, and left their names for her Royal Highness. The arrival of his Royal Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, who was expected _yesterday at Marlborough House, has been delayed for a few days. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal St. James's The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Lessons by the Rev.. W. Hall. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem was " The Lord is King " (Arnold). Frances Lady Clinton and the Earl Howe were in waiting on the Queen Dowager, and Lady Augusta Bruce on the Duchess of Kent. The Duchesses of Beau fort and Sutherland, Ladies St. Germans and Palmer ston. the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Anglesey, Hi adfort, and Northampton. Lords Cawdor, St. Ger mans, Evelyn, Norreys, Palmerston, and Castlereagh, were among the nobility present. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and preached the sermon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Baroness Hamtrerstein, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmond Mild may, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their pre sence on Saturday evening. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minti,, Sir G , orgw Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the EXchequer, Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, Sir John Hohhouse, Viscount Morpetb, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, anal the Right •Hon. IL Labouchere. The Council sat two hours. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. The Great Durham Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 3 only if declared. Two miles. (15 Subs., nine of whom declared,) Mr. Hesseltine's Louisa Newall, 3 yrs, Gst ...... (J. Prince) 1 Mr. O'Brien's The Magnet, 5 yes, Bst 21b 2 Mr. Johnstoue's Calista, 4 yrs, Bst 21b 3 ~.Even on Magnet. Won by a length. • The Maiden Plate of 5C4. for 3 yrs old, 7st 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst slb ; 5 yrs and upwards, Bst I.olb, mares, &c., allowed 3lbs. Haute, '2 miles. - Mr. W. Scott's Highfield's, 4 yrs.... (W. Oats) 1 4 1 Mr. R. Greenwood's Chesterfield, aged Mr. Spearman nd Faithless, 3 yrs Mr. Jacques's Spur, 4 yrs 0 0 3 Mr. Headlam's Football, 4 yrs 0 2 0 Mr. H. Clifton's Hyperion, 4 yrs 0 3 dr. Mr. Johns one's Enchantress, 4 yrs BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. DEE STAREs.-4 to 1 agst Nerissa (t), 5 to 1 agst Horn of Chase (t), 5 to 1 agst Slander, and 6 to 1 agst Adminis trator (t). CnrsrEn CLIP. —8 to 1 agst Dulcet (t), 9 tot agst Mendi cant ( t), .10 to 1 agst The Lamb, 14 to 1 agst Clermont, 16 to 1 agst Camera Obscura (t), 20 to 1 agat Inheritress (take 22 to 1), 30 to 1 agst Annandale (t), 30 to 1 agst Mickey Free (t), - 130.. to I agst Newcourt, 40 to .1 agst Gwalior (t), 40 to I AtstPhititlit; - 40 to 1 agst Cawrouch, 40 to 1 agst St. Lawrence, 50 i61.--o w Farthing Candle, 50 to 1 agst Lady Wildair, and 50 tol. aggtermaid. DERBY.-5 to 1 agst (t), 11 to 2 agst Van Tromp (t), la to 1 agat Glentilt, 20 to 1 agst Cossack (t), 20 to 1 agst War Eagle (t), 33 to 1 agst Wanota (t), 35 to 1 Igst - 111r. -- Martin, and 35 to 1 agst Ited Hart. OAKS.-4 to 1 agst Clementina, 7 to 1 agst Farmer's Daughter, 12 to 1 agst Nerissa, and 20 to 1 agst Ellerdale (t). CHESTER RACES. The following entries were made at Chester, at five o'clock yesterday evening TUESDAY. The Groivenor Stakes of 15 sovs„ each. Mile and a quarter. Pantasa, 5 yrs—Deloraine, 3 yrs—The Swallow, 3 yrs-- Burlesque, 4 yrs—Princess Alice, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes of b soys. each, and 50 added. Heats, one mile and a half. Lord 'George, 3 yrs—Hawkestone, 3 yrs—Curb Chain, 4 yrs—b f by Don John, out of Arachne, 3 yrs—Smuggler Bill, 4 yrs—Tommy Moore, 5 yrs—Butterton, 8 yrs. WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate'of 100 Guineas. Thrice round. Congress, 3 yrs —Hawkstone, 3 yrs—Princess Alice, 4 y r s --The Lam b,4 yrs—Erin-go. bragh, 4 yrs—Sir Tatton Sykes, 4 yrs—Annandale, 5 vrs—Pal, 4 yrs—lnheritress, aged— Bannockburn, 3 yrs—Woodpecker, 4 yrs—St. Leon, 3 yrs-- Cawrouch, 4 yis. The City Members' Plate of 60 Guineas. Heats, once round • • and a distance. Lord George, 3 yrs—Brown Fly, 4 yrs ; Congress, 3 yrs— The Lamb, 4 yrs—b f, by Don John, out of Arachne, 3y,nrse— ' at.fstian, 4 yrs—Pal, 4 yrs Emerald Isle, 3 yrs—s 3 yrs—St. .Leon, 3 yrs—Susannab, 3 yrs—Bannockburn, A i, 3 •yrs--Woodpecker, 4 yrs—Cawrouch 4 , yrs. FRIDAY. The Wirral Stakes, of 10 sovs. each. T.Y.C. Beverlac, 3 yrs—Abdiel, 3 yrs—b c, by Tory Boy, out of Mam'sel Otz, 2 yrs—Buckstone, 2 yrs--Jovial, 3 yrs. • The following horses, besides many others, were expected to reach Chester by Sunday evening:— Alias], the Dart, T'Auld Squire, Jovial, Elemi, Lord George, GwaliOr, Lord &Moan, Inheritress; Annandale, the Emerald Isle, the Magnet, Blackie, Godfrey; Pinkedkindess, Poyntou, Deloraine, St, Leon Susannah, Tribute, Philip, Abdi e l, Pre mier (3 yrs old), Sir Martin, Vanish, Kismet, the Stinger, Burlesque, • Claribal, the Cur, Sweetmeat, Miles's Boy, Moonlight, Princess Alice, the Lamb, Beverlace, Miss Norton, Restoration, Curb-Chain, St. Lawrence, So Nice, Farthing Candle, Miss Burns, Mendicant, Bourton, Adminis trator, Chertsey, Lady Mary, Montpensier, Camera Obscura, Winchester, Sagacity, Swallow, Nerissa, Plaudit, Dulcet, Watchdog, Queen of the Tyne, Banana, Arthur, Sylvanus, Emigrant, Maid of Lyme, Pal, Mermaid, Flahow lagh, Clermont, Mickey Free, Horn of Chase, Erin-go- bragh, five or six of Lord Chesterfield's, &c. 'the Assembly-room at the Royal Hotel will be opened as a Subscription Betting Room during the races, and for this purpose will be found• one of the most convenient in the kingdom. The course, which has been much improved since last year, is represented to be in good order, and the meeting, should the weather continue favourable, promises to be a brilliant one . WEST BETTING AT THE WEST END. CHESTER CUP. 7 to 1 agst Dulcet 20 to 1 agst Clermont —taken 7 to 1 agst Mendicant and aft, off. 12 to' 1 agst The Lamb—taken "10 to 1 agst Erin-go-Bragh—t and aft. off. 25 to 1 agst St. Laurence 18 to 1 agst Newcourt—taken 25 to 1 agst Mickey Free 20 to 1 agst Camera Obscura 25 to 1 agst Inheritress 25 to 1 agst Annandale • THE CHESTER Cur DAY.—Some misconception having arisen with regard to a proposed special train from the Euston-square station to Chester on the Cup day, it will be as well to mention that nothing has yet been determined; should the directors resolve on starting one, it will in all probability leave at six in the morning. DURHAM RACES.--YRIDAY, The Two Years Old Stakes of 10 guineas each, with 20 sovs. added; colts, Bst 31b; and fillies, Bst. Three quarters of a mile. (4 Subs.) Mr. B. Green's Miss Margrave (W. Oates) 1 Mr. R. Hessel , ine's Doll 2 Captain Boyd's Sybil 3 Captain Pott's Jealousy 4 Won by half a length. The Cup Stakes of 10 guineas each, 3 yrs old, Est 10lb ; 4 yrs, Bst 31b ; 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st ; mares and geldings allowed albs. Two miles. (5 Subs.) Mr. Ewbank's Louisa Newell, 3 yrs. (Longetaff) 0 1 Mr. W. Cranston's Comme it taut, 3 yrs 0 2 Mr. Bell's Quadruped, 4 yrs Mr. Jaques's Nell Cook, 4 yrs Mr. Johnstone's Calista, 4 yrs 6to 4 agst Louisa and 6to 4 agst Comme it Faut. A fine race ended in a dead heat between the faiourite. Deciding heat.—Even betting. Won on the post by a head. The Selling stakes of 3 sovs. each, p p, with 25 added; 3 yrs old, Bst; 4 yrs, 9st; 5 yrs, 9st 61b; &c. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Mr. Ewbank's The Helmsman, 5 yrs. ..... (Bumby) 0 1 1 Mr. Jaqu es ' s N e ll C oo k, 4 yrs, Est 111 b.. Mi. Spearman nd bf, by Inheritor, 3 yrs, sst 111 b 3 2 3 Mr. Dawson's Pleasure Trip, 4 yrs, Est 111 b Mr. Dawson's Tribute, 3 yrs, Get Mr. Kitching's Lucy, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b 0 dr Three well contested heats. MONEY fs)(1 COYFATEIR CIA L NEAVc:. , ay ti ! g : • Cotton .a! Livern.)oi described in some ao c . as ye,teriby. 23,6.)i) bales. now 516,970 bales against 841,240 bales at this time last year. American sorts have declined %d. to 1 /d. per lb., and Brazil, Egyptian, and Surat %d. to 1 . 4 d. per lb.—Railway Shares were again decidedly worse, awl at lower rates buyers were " shy.' The Bank of England statement for the week to April 17 exhibits many important features, viz. : Notes Issued, £22,801,100 Decrease Rest, increase Public deposits, decrease Other deposits, decrease Seven-day and other bills, decrease 77,494 Other securities, decrease .. 1,025,376 Notes unemployed, decrease 274,600 Bullion 9,329,841 - Decrease ..... .537,212 The statement is so far explanatory as to need but little comment. The active circulation has not been much redUced, because the directors have made use of some of the unemployed notes in the banking department to accommodate the public. This so far is as it should be, but the bullion left in the " banking" department is getting too low, 528,7411., to allow of the operation going much further. The question arises, " What is a sufficient, reserve of notes and coin to carry on the banking busines?" for no one denies that the issue depattment is well taken care of, while most consider that it locks up far too much money. We shall no doubt find less bullion leave the country in con sequence of the Bank screwing; but is it not a serious matter, that to accomplish this the mercantile interest should be so severely punished? The Bank must perforce restrict its discounts to keep the coin, and to obtain coin the " ex change" capitalists will lessen the amount of their balances. Hence the decline in the other securities and other deposits. The Funds are very depressed again this morning. Con sols have - been 86 1 to 85% for present transfer, and 86% to 86 for Accdunt. Exchequer-bills have been par to 3s. discount. • Bank Stock is at 193, and New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 87 1 ,E to 86%. Spanish Active Bonds have been 24 1 /, and the Three per Cents. 35 1 ,4. Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 34. Mexican Stock is 20 1 4 to 1 / 2 . Dutch Four per Cents. are 89 1 . The Share market looks very " sickly " this morning. It is needless to particularise, for the decline is general. BRITISiI FONDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRI‘ ES. Bank Stock .. • . 193 193 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 85% 85 854 84% 84% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 86% 85% 85% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 87 % 86% 86% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9 9 t;onsols for May 27 .. •. 86% 85 86', 86 Exchequer Dills. INd. 2d. 1,0001... 1 dis par 3 dis 5001. 2 1 dis Ditto, Small .... par 3 dis 3 ells 1 dis 3 dis ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Grenada, I per Cent .. .. .. . 19% li 193 4 Ditto, Deterred .. .. .. 3% % 3 % Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cen t . .. 20%% 20% Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 34 34 Spanish Bonds, 5 Der Cent .. 24% _ _ 24 y. Ditto, Passive Bonds .. „ Ditto, Three per Cent .. Ditto. for the Aeceunt 35% 35% Dividends on the above payable in Landon. Dutch Two-and.a-Halt per Cent .. 58% 5856 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89% 89% PRICES OF BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. •• 2% .... .. 1% Birmingtoun and Oxford Junction 10 .... 18 ••..• • • . • • 17% Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... .. • • ...... 6 Caledonian .. 30 .... 24 23% ...... 23% Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% % Chester and Holyhead 2736 .... 22 ........ • • 22 .Eastern Counties .. 20 . 18% % . . 183¢ Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. .......... t 3 p Ditto, York Extension .. 6% .... 5 East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 .... 65% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... ......... Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% •• .. ........ • • 17 Ely and Huntingdon .. 15 .... 15 .... ••• • .. 15 Great Northern .. .. •• 2 36 ..... • ....234 Do., London & York Extension 2% .... % ........ Great Southern & )Vest. (Ireland) 30 t... 25 Great Western .. 85 114 .. •• .. 114 Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... •• • • Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 12)6 .... 17 .... ••• • .. 17 Ditto, Fifths 20 .... 26% .......... 263¢ Ditto, Xeui 4% .• • • 7 1 7 3% Bull and Selby .. .. 50 .... , Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • 1.231 ••• • 23 .. • • ...... 23 Ipswich mad Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .... 934 . 9% Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... .... • • .... 60 Ditto, New• Leicester and Bedford .. 165..... dis dis. Liverp., Manch., & Newe. Junct. 2% .... 1.. ..... .ond on and Blackwell .. 161. las. 4d. .......... Ditto. New, No. 1 . • .. 5 .......... 5% London, Brighton, and S Coast • . 50 .... 50% %34 51 Ditto, Consul. Eighths .. 10 ~ •• 11 1036 London an North-Western . • 100,.170 169 171% .. 1713 Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 Ditto ditto, New Shares •• .. 2 .... 11% % .... • . 1 t Ditto, Fifths . .. 2 .... 16 .......... 16 Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .... • 67 Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) I— .. • • London and South. Western • 411, 6s, 10d.. • 6 g 3 1 6 63% Ditto, New Consul. Eighths .. 40 .... 47 .... ..... 47 New. 273 .......... 29% -Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 .... .......... 52% Ditto, Scrip.. .. .. • • .. 5 .... .......... 4% Lynn and Ely. .. 20 21% Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .... 99 • .. •• • • 99 • Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .... 4 5 U Ditto, Fifths .. .. 5 .... 934 --Ditto, 1' !Ards (Reg.).. .45...., p.. • • 75,. 1) . Manchester. Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • . • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... .• .• ••• • • • 1% Midland ..100 ....113 114... .. • • 1 ! 9 4 Ditto, New .. •• 38 •• • - 381 / 4 %•••• • • • • ' 3% Ditto, New .. .. • • 2 •• • • 3% 4 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .. .• 90 89 .... •• 89 emeastle and Berwick .. 20 .... 25% . 25% Ditto, New .. . .. • . 5 .... 76% ........ . 6% Ditto, North Shields.. .. 25 .... 30% ........ 3036 Northern•Countie; Union .. 4 .. ........ 114 North 25 . ......... 31 %. Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 12% .. • . 14% 14% Ditto, Quarter 'Shires .. 234..., 3 36 3 • • 3 D; uo, Extension .. . • .. .. 1.•.•• .. • • • • 1 Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 2%% • ..... 23 . 1 Northerft and Eastern .. 50 .......... 5t North StatTorashire .. • • • • 5 •• .. 6 1 / 6 % 1 % • • 6% Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and Blythe) • • - .. 2 •• .. 334 3 IA North Western • • .. • • 4 .. .. 2 Preston and. Wyre .. • • • • 25 .... 34% 1 4 .... • . • 343¢ Ditto, Half Shares (B) ;. 134 .. 1 % Beading, Guildford,' and Reigate 5 .... Shropshire Union .. 425...... 1 .... Snail Devon .. 40 .... 29 30.. • South Stafford Shire ••• 21, 125... 34' dis... •• • 34 dis South Eastern'and Dover • •• 3314 .... 35% •• • . ; to., N ew(d6..l AI.) No. 4. 5 .... 5 • • .•.. • • 5 South York Shir-, Doncaster, and ••1)6 Waterford and Kilkenny .. 13% .... G 44 61 4 West Riding Union "• . .. 4/. 2s P•••• 5d p York and Neweastle .. 25 , Ditty, New.. . .. 10 ... •• • • •••• . • 14 Ditto, 'Preference .. 4 York asti North Midland .. .. 50 Ditto, Extension .. .. 25 .. Ditto. Prefeience • . .. 2 Do.,E and ,W. Riding Exten.• • 10 •• • - 20%........ • . 20% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 Central of France (Orleans and • Vierzon) .. • . .. 12 Demerara .. 234 Dutch Rhenish. .. 7 ..... . East In Usti . ss. Luxembourg 11 / 4 Namur and Liege .. .. • . .. 10 g— .......... 4% Northern of France Paris arid Lyons •". .. 8 Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 Paris and Strasbourg .. 5 2 .......... 2 Rouen and Havre . Sombre and Meuse .. 12 53e .... • • 53¢ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. British North American .. .. 50 .... ••••• • • • • • 4414 Provincial of Ireland .. • . .. 25 .......... 4334 MINES. Beal del Monte,. Unierristered .... 336 -•"- VENTILATING VATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE s iy. space can be spared in the crowded columns of T he Sun to insert the following simple and rapid plan of ventillating vats in breweries and the fermenting backs in distilleries, it may be the means of preventing loss of lite from suffocation with carbonic acid gas among the vat,cleaners—a class of men much pressed fir time. at this season of the year, when the store-vats •reqnire to be filled before the warm weather sets in. • The usual method of getting rid of the carbonic acid gas consists in opening the man-hole and taps, allowing ventilation to take place by diffusion; large vats of 1,200 to 1,800 barrels capacity, when foul, requiring tno or three days. The plan recommended (and which has been in use by the writer for three or four years) is, to pump in common air • by the portable force-pump (the jigger) which is in use and at .hand in all breweries. The small tire-engines,.generally kept on the premises, can likewise be used for the same purpose. In some establishments force-pumps _worked by steam power are employed in pumping up,water into tanks or in starting beer; these pumps, after a little alte ra ti on , can as rea dily b e used in pumping in common air into the vats for ventilation by the beer r main or by a hose, and the carbonic acid gas " blown out" in three or four hours. Dudley. JAMES YOUNG. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. TO - THE EDITOR OF THE-SUIV: Sin,--What with Free Church riots, and meal riots—, the one, in the opinion of many, the offspring of the other, though the latter most ungratefully and spitefully visited some of those who were the grand leaders in the agitation which produced. the former--Ross-shire has obtained for itself an unenviable notoriety. Whatever may have been the cause of such disordoly proceedings on the part of people who, till lately, knew not how to set about a riot, or what a riot meant, they should not suffer from abuses that may easily be cor rected. There is one which cannot bear the light of the sun, and that need: only to be known to be mprobated by all men who have a :ease of justice, and hate what leads to imposition. The Act of the Legislature, enjoining uniformity of weights and measures, is a dead letter in Ross-shire. Some importers of meal from Banff and Aberdeen use the imperial, some of our meal dealers use the Dutch, and some no standard whatever; but instead. a round block of stone, which may have been sufficient weight, hut the weight of which must be changing by every knock and fall it gets. This irregularity may cause some injustice, and, certainly. occasions much discontent tnd complaining. A man buys a boll of meal at 325. (Ross-shire boll), and hears that meal has just been sold at Invergordorn or Fortrose for 28s. (imperial boll). and fiercely denounces the unfeeling farmer, or greedy miller ; and the man who bong •t his meal at the latter price finds that it does not lied his bairns so long as he expected, that there was no blessing in it, and speaks in no gentle terms of the meal dealer. Land owners and land occupants assure the population around them, that they shall be supplied with meal at the lowest market price. They make good their premise— they get neither credit nor thanks, but abuse for it— they give only the imperial weight, the little boll Jobbers buy by one a eight or measure and sell by another, and thus perpetrate some injustice in order to have some profit. All who must go the market for supplies necessary to feed their families, and all who desire that peace and contentment should, in as far as possible, prevail around ""m. Trllqt ( I .esire tluit such abuse woula svrailY Ar. I ki.b•• •. • •.• - is disorc....fl . , ••, o..i:i 6 ed, did you advert to this I am, Sir, your most obedient servan t, A ROSS-SHIRE MA- • April 20, 1847. s. It utserv , :s rqrubai,ion. }t %~iB S MASTERS' OFFICES. TO HE DITOR ti TH , • Sza, There appears iv last a prop. ct that to tors' Offices of the Court of Chancery are ah ut ode undergo a revision, and that some attempt will be made to to render this branch of the Court more apPlica" 'lst other the present exigencies of the community. Wh l a nd legal institutions of the country have been altered modified to meet the alterei condition of the pe"P l9 ' is singular that this branch of the law remains esac''th, as it stay not centuries ago. . 1 o ,t' I stay not to point out the particular evils g at Institution, or its want of adaptation to times ; but proceed at once to a few sugges tian n et the Pre s by which the system may be improved, and here I are oc ates met with the difficulties which beset the ad reform in general—the fear of expense- 0 I ant shoutbe to show that a saving of several thousands a year ca n effected. e au, Every one who has had the misfortune to pr° s ,, the business in these offices, must have been struck w i l : " er y, preponderance of mind, over matter in the maew n stst a The mental energies of the master seem to be in k % the of torpor for want of adequate employment; v f,"; n ee • powers.of the poor clerk are taxed beyond his enu th ; t he ° wheel And until the balance is restored the operation machine must continue faulty. When the bal 4 n ee- ; jog shall have adjusted these two p o wers, by dilbi als nt iog the superabundant force of " master," and sog ni ,dthill the force of " clerk," then, and not till then, t... .v"' n - t i as complicated machine be brought toperform its 11. - ° effectuall d the The advanced age of several of the Rfastere, an for state of health of others, affords an opportdniti making this adjustment which may not aga in ° ler Without injury to the feelings of the Masters in g c , t i r e, ral, five of the present body mi 4 ht be invited to rest and the conduct of the office committed to tbe i l e a — s iga ing cox. To each of these six masters I Won,' „ . 1 two chief clerks with an efficient force of unaer — ,y e ara and by this means the mechanical force to move fr ie d, so unwieldy a body as a Chancery suit may be nbt f al ;Pe' The recommendation to this improved syster a a t cost , ration is, that it can be effected not only wltb o t te atr but at a very considerable saving of expense, a s nexed computation explains:— Five master's discontinued at 2,5001. per an.:. 12,500 numeach .............. One additionnal chief-clerk to make up the corn' 1,00 0 plement of 12, at 1,0001. per annum ......... •• 4 . 11 500 Making an annual saving f •.• -- t; be Put fro-n this gross amount of .............•• t 0 bet 1,500 cis !acted the retiring allowance of five masters it ye 2 ad. a-year each. I make no allowance for the tweogiof tional clerks, as their salaries can be provided for the fees now received for copy-money. o f re' The grand stu obling-block to such a scben 3e a Go' trenchment will be patronage. Is her IllsiestY:l.holf vernment prepared to act really a great pars , ' ln - the ir by their acts the disdain of patronage, which t° spoeches they profess ? Nous verrons. _ rt I arn, &c. lt ' AN UNSUCCE SSFUL CANDIDAT E ' FO II o f. OFFICE OF A. CLERIC IN C 0414 Furnival's Inn, April 19, 1847. ROYAL HIGHL AND SCri-- SOCIETY. o cieti The seventy-fourth anniversary festival of this,: o a ll, of was held on Saturday night, in ,the Freen'as°llpake Great Queen-street. His Royal Highness th e A O% Cambridge, President of the Institution, in the- to b' 9 Amongst the company present, in addit"T ,jatei s Royal Highness the Chairman, we recognised St i r j, pp, Duke, Alderman, M.P., Benjamin Bond Cabb e Pcle M.P., W. Ewart, Esq., M.P., Robert Barbenira'od And and a number of gentlemen connected with Sc ot d interested in the progress of the society. - a chy, an s i Dinner was served up at six o'clock Pre ci s r etnov comprised every delicacy of the season. On ;11, of the cloth, fora the The Duke of CAMBRIDGE gave in successi,, of the chair, " The Queen," "The Queen Dowagers Duchess of Kent," " Prince Albert, the patrowe of Society and Chief of the Highlands," " The Frt. nrc l of Wales, Duke of Rothesay , Baro n of Renfrew, raw the Isles, Etc.," "The Duchess of Gloucester and ~Tee burgh, the Lady &c Patroness ai o l f of th w e : h er w et e y e rece ived A r my and- Navy, . &e. ; with the usual h onours • a the The Duke of CAMBRIDGE than proceeded to gie - hion d toast of the e verting—" Prosperity to the 13 ig f l School Society." This important society (said his Tr' to Highness), it was well known, was instituted in oruci_., extend the blessings of education to the reniote cr udely of the Highlands of Scotland. The London' b eard of with adv it a had e its been interestsform ed i n 177 3, hi; ha d received the countenance and sup p ort c io n n n e e nt n h to a nd in 1829 brother Geofge the Fourth, as asociety wel l entitle ee' public confidence and support. The object of L . 1 , L i a l lcires ciety was the-education and improvement of - the of Highlanders, and it was now very desirous thta_ a its directors should increase its funds, in order to exte 2 n o,o oo usefulness still more. At the present time „ ro ost of his late tile d edntetod children were receiving education, for which P - t 's 120 schoolmasters were engaged. The inhabitirt wo e the Highlands were in all about 450,000, and Lh o ols very desirable to extend the number of re b' , lo g among them. This present assembly, therefo g called together to see what could be done towar o r o f lecting a sum of money to facilitate the extel .oe deo these schools. The • whole sum raised by. thl t , 'ed th e board, last year, _was about 600 L, and it was s c l i . ge amount this year would be considerably increa be hoped, therefore, the appeal of the directors w_iunude attended with success ; and he would now ecce,` c ,,beol proposing "Prosperity to the Roy Society:" an d dranit The toast was received with loud applause , 8- with all the honours. en The SECRETARY (MY. Mackie) then read te net for the past year, but in such a low and indistin.b th is Royal Sigbiana as to be nearly inaudible throughout. Owing' ; e r a sed circumstance, and our being rather uncourtealleY c gri either a copy of the document, or a sight of it, .7,'„„ 0 . only offer a very meagre outline of its contents. 1 - 1 _ rod sisted, as far as could be gathered, of a statementciZrisian progress of the society since 1843, took place in .the Church of Scotland': difference formation of the Free Church. Owing to the to who ho l that arose in consequence of this schism as rtio° the right to the Society's schools, a great propto. vet) hwehnicti led to tb° of the direct, rs and teachers having gone with the test the Church. a law-suit was entered upon, in order to _ of she validity of the respective claimants to the charter t he Society. The result was, to establish the right 01,00 Established Church. During all this time, the -ere Church directors had remained in office, but they ji removed at the annual election in January lest - i oee then became nec essar y to ascertain w ho were qua,i' the to remain in the Society, and in order to ascertruni, sentiments of all the teachers, a printed circular was i' s ' e re and sent to each. The result was, that but one-third Peet filling M ep are t h he th v e ac C an o e m ie rzitt e l e tsa t : o o o 9 measuresftooutnadketobe di 11 a f l o i fi r e( fi l i fill up all the vacancies so created, found that they had means enough and at stepstheie e s r P ne u t : gbe iol taken by which it was hoped ere long that the .„ 0 de' of schoolmasters would be-the same as before. re . ; finite report could be made till all the arrangem e° ,:er"' specting the' teachers were comp leted, when a pre mad gsseatntaittoenm there efrnot from wereotub the society. above ei 20,000 children ° h - c e h t r he i r s e weunebrsrecercilehEisn.g 4.9 edit"t the first patent, giving instruction only ; 3; c e b i l° ; k el i rs : nuated teachers in ditto; 50 missionaries and cateem 0 .• trO 102 schools on the second patent, including both in sled tion and manual occupations • and 18 superannm,eot teachers in ditto. The total expenditure of lastl h ol had been about 5,000/. Last year the London boavocea paid 6004 to the fund, and, in addition, had ad v i , the 2001. to relieve destitute schoolmasters. Thougo-ons. disruption in the church had caused the society :oil derable inconvenit nce in the change of the directors, 9eo the vacancies had been speedily replaced, and at Pr% 0 all the arrangements in this respect were as eOcie' before. the ll The list of subscriptions by the company vv,asp the read. The Queen. 101., in addition to 4501 bee9l-,;10149 Queen Dowager, 1 0 guineas , in addition to 210 g - to e' previously; Prince Albert, 12 guineas, in additi`fil the previous subscription of 100/.; his Royal High of Chairman, 201., in addition to 100/. before; the fil li add ° ' Buckingham, 101., in addition to 60/ before; Lord be' one of the stewards, 10 guineas, in addition to 2.1 fore; Sir James Duke, M.P. ( a s teward) 2 "tha neas, in addition to' 10 guineas prey 010 ce • 0 ; Dukeabobfen, E Bu celsq., euc m. b, 159.! 10 guineas, in addition i, bets 1 ., in addition to 62 01 be to ;964 B. c ai g gn oo n before ; the C o unt e ss o f Dunmore, 9 tittle' s; Oh Barbour, Esq., 10 guine as ; Lord stoun , &c. These, in addition to sev e ral smallefsu ln ' upwards of 3CO/ Mr. B. B CABBELL then, in a highly proposed the health of his Royal Higb ries i s pled out the Cambridge, in the course of which h° Society 131 eulogistrns u P ee ke eb. of benefits which had been conferred on the more esPir several members of the royal cially by the Dukes of Kent, Sussex, a nd their r family, but .. Dos Chairman. The toast was received with great cheering. Oa The Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thanks!. off,e,,ne° only sincerely thank thorn for the honour d0n0_5„.",,177, ii drinking his health ; and as for the presents er'_lo.4 hail not only his good wi:hes, but he was ,tLef;re) to support it by every means in his power.---Cur. His Royal Hiehness then retired, and the chair the taken by Mr. B. B. Cabbell, the Treasurer u society. The following toasts were then given . The b holm and the Highlands of Scotland , " the Treasurer," .; Dr. Stebeing and the Church . the land," " The Press," " The Rev. J . U. Fisher ,r; Th e Church of Scotland," " The Caledonian Societyi , ,, ; Land o' Cakes," " Mr. Prior an d the Steward „ore' all of which were responded to in elo q uent and sir. priate speeches. During the evening several pupils of t t li h e e :root gig ? dressed in full Highland costume, paraded the intervals discoursing most excellent music on ne liie hinders' ati nal instrument, the bagpiPe• _".. t 00 Od' urchin of a p per especially performed his pal as _...„blp mirably as to elicit the repeat, d applause of the :Zoe, Thl vocal department was represented . 1 .12 . Srooo l3 bole and Moody, ant Miss Townsend, but(ea.r though being absent, it was stated, through illnes s), he nigh t " several Scotch airs were sung in the course_of t we cannot award much pr a ise to t h e execution.