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STATESME He is not their act gentlemen the talent that th presidii infatuate( El trraturr, VARIE,'I'IES. An Irishman swearing the peace ag 3avit thi xmcl ad ed .—" And the deponent further sent for by her Majesty. After a long conference, his with, that, the only one of his children who showed him lordship received her Majesty's commands to form a go any real affection was his youngest, Larry, for he never vernment, and on Wednesday we were inundated with struck him when he was down !" - —John Stanley, an omnibus driver, was rumours as to the probable members of the Stanley Go COINCIDENCE 4 ssummoneduete or street Police-cot. Mr . B Marlborougn- vernment 'uesd as !t, on a Disraeli ge of having It appears that within a few hours of the delivery of iiriven hi Regent-s veh;ele was upset. A ;ray, deposed that the Lord John Russell's statement in the Commons, a final interview took place between his lordship, Lord Aberdeen, and Sir James Graham, the result of which was the aban donment of an attempt to patch up a coalition ministry. It is conffdently stated that the chief cause of difference between Sir James and Lord John was the Papal Aggres sion Bill, with which the right hon. baronet declared it 119. and brougl PellenJ ler witness named shyinz o The 'case .1 a b ,urned. that brou . gbt The tub TARY SUBSTANCES atal, caused by the ,sing at the time. long potato; n red El yellow cold' 714 'co. an( lance, r FOR THE PEOPLE i C of Bxperi the Sat !uador has f great importance. he form of an ob- to are very lad, 16 being ma came in Khan, a fine young , 00raunee Municks, was his fixed determination to have nothing to do. The Queen then desired the Earl of Aberdeen to under- mess a the lay take the formation of a cabinet ; but this task was de clined by the noble earl on the ground of want of Parlia- his fathe mentary strength to carry on such a government. Lord Stanley was then again sumw.oned-to the Palace, and then consented to form an administration. What took place in consequence, on the following day, we give in the words of the Times of Thursday : to a lad plied. n does it signi :ed ?" He r y killed four, but father accustomed to t s state cf3vsterday_ffedpesiay the commencement of the minis activity in the Tory camp, oom witl the sixth day since t was tt coned to terminate this suspense of the State. Already a regnant inference might be drawn as to Lord Stanley's opi lion of his Protectionist - supporters and of his ultimatechances respect- invited io join THE CE :e of Secretary of S ment with tilt Lord Canning has official experien whicl certainly, le is well knoWn as led to was ,f the hea ,ee the I of the last Governmen' travel! rst step, therefore, the Protecti onist leader dropped the cause • - . • • - !e to one the fore- ue, Cloudless izure of :Si e Tory ( 'n Affairs. and Par- rm adherent to the free.l rade polic N Doi ,r-eyes, the ma sail out At eleven o'clock Robert . Peel's lieutenar_ts noon Mr. Gladstone reached LOTICIOII, an.. _ diately took place between him and Lord Stanley wo o'clock, the result of this meeting had trans ' - ^own that Mr. Gladstone also declined to join ,lion. From that moment th perate, for it was not to the nist benches that Lord S' Robert Peel It was confid anlev wou!d o at the attempt proved 'ICIV 1111 Already, at all this with the glory of Him who Made him, or in any way to red, and it hallow or consecrate such a manifestation of man, by taking as openly to • give to the Lord the honour due unto his ppear to have crossed the imagination, or red into the contemplation of the promoters of the under- Yet, if the exhibition shall be set out and carried with this apparent disregard of things sacred and of undertaking I name,' does not a :acitv had 1 taking. ;lit him to look for the substance of an administration or im :h he should be the head. We know not to what extent the Supreme, its resemblance to Mebuchadneizar's pride and or Beresford and Mr. Disraeli have shared in his delibera- Belshazzar's feast will be too striking not to cause reasonable s, but it deserves to be observed that this was the first se- uneasiness to those who believe the Scriptures, who fear God, s attempt to reconstitute the Conservative party by a re- who love their country, and desire the preservation and well ' - I , Ptween Lord Stanley and some, at least, of the being of that gracious person who has been called to preside over its councils. To entertain such a fear, and not to seek to -3 ~i nse of it, would be so manifest a dereliction of duty, especially in one holding the position towards the (Wen qtly expected on Thursday that Lord and the nation which it is my lot to do, that, whether what I tain the materials out of which to con- say shall find response in your royal highness's heart or not, I unbenet these vn t of I to Ma If in the dark distance of I It' interveni WIIAT AR the pub! I no wond f the wise the state is attended ler, thi . TO THE EQUERRY IN WAITING ant Canni First Lord of the Admiralty—Lord Hardwick( President of the Board of Control—Lord Ellenborough Postmaster-General—The Duke of Richmond or LordGle President of the Board of Trade—Mr. Newdegate. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—The Marquis of Exeter, Lord Wil ton, or the Marquis of Salisbury. Chief Secretary- Mr. A. Stafford or Lord John Manners. l that being ne anken man, th ;ht for every i at the helm, who ah Be not mocked Balsam ; then he pun Thursd to everlasting Another 57 of intense excitement has c gnation by I Stanley of the char y her Ma; led to Buckingham Pa a audience of the Queen ur fell° inomect to iv.. Ation • A meeting of the leading of th took place at the residence of the Right Hon. 1 in Carlton-gardens. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Go , Cardwell we said to be !re among those present. es Graham called upon Mr. Gladstone, ith the right hon. gentleman. worse than s and mel- rter Lord St gnetion in the hands ncely fa ....cell, a despatch, written by Prince Albert, was for ted to Lord John Russell. kt 8 o'clock a communication from Sir James Graham. s' , d to her Majesty, was received at Buckingham P' Majesty immediately replied to the 0-I—* binned canons funerals, and advant by t sof a , all that cot aping that n a I the new g wernment learned of the prosper_ were the names of the eminent per aa refused to join it; and the boldest flights of and other windfalls of conjecture never reached beyond Mr. Herries, Mr. Dis ire there accurately reported, put up raeli, and Mr. Henle, as the chief organs of the adminis and their respective merits diligently tration in the House of Commons." Our contemporary - brokers, I deprecates, however, any attempt to resuscitate the old •constituted. He says : City in ls who DRURY-LANE THEATRE erend mas the man " The transaction would pass with tne worm Tor 'mule more than a piece of legerdemain. To remove these impressions anoth.'r vigorous effort should be made to strength which it requires. In political life nothing is so hopeless RS negac to attempt Aaff flriVl Lit I.llc jAdlab. ke traces of what has ceased to be, and th , left vacant has already crumbled away. of a meeting, scarcely a journal, has signi Not an has distrc IrOteCtionists, it ha remonstrated the neee The Herald has indulged in very few speculations I tring the last week, being kept by its party in mysteri- [g norar of what was going on excitement which prevailed throughout the whole if Thursday was scar"ely lessened on Friday. The clubs were crowded during the day with anxious inquirers, and as each m to the ministr struct an efficient and durable administration ; but as the feel sure that you will not consider apology to be due for this wore on, and there was no appearance of such be. communication, there being no one else to whom (I conceive) --....r, ing the case, the public were again harassed with perplex. it could be made with more or equal propriety. I will only of the grace of ing fears that we should have to return once more to a add that, white I should have considered this communicationpremature, mature if not vexatious, were I unprepared to suggest voice from which Whig administration. A telegraphic communication means te for' removing the cause of apprehension above stated, and antiquated. fit during the day brought the information that Mr. Glad- in the event of that apprehension appearing reas onable to your 'it for modern fine stone had refused to join Lord Stanley , because , it was royal hig hness and others. To tender such asuggestion without -sight of man, rumoured, his lordship was favourable to a duty of ss. on your royal highness's previous sanction or request, would seem and foreign corn. It was also positively asserted that Viscount to me to savour of a presumption for which it wou ld not be pn.,,- to offer t,,itimate excuse.—l have the honour to be, sir, with the Stanley Government. The following was put iv " . ' a "ARTHUR PERCEVAIi, forward as likely to have been the programme of the Pro- " Chaplain to her Majesty the Queen." tectionist ministry : This letter was not acknowledged, and some time after- First Lord of the Treasury—Lord Stanley. wards the hon. and rev. gentleman sent the following Lord Chancellor—Sir E. Sugden or Mr. Pemberton Leig' Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr. Herne Home Secretary—Mr. Henley "SIR,—As a letter of mine; addressed to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, on the subject of the Great Exhibition, has not been acknowledged, I request to be informed whether that letter was placed in the hands of his royal highness.—l i am, sir, your obedient servant; " ARTHUR PERCRVAL." No direct answer was returned to this note, but it was intimated to Mr. Perceval that he had her Majesty'S per mission to retire from the office be held as one of the royal chaplains ; and the hon. and rev. gentleman ac cordingly tendered his resignation, which was accepted. Towards evening it became generally known that Lord On the subject under consideration, Mr. Perceval has tanley's efforts had failed, and that he had once more printed, for private circulation amongst the principal esolved to resign his commission into the hands of her members of the High Church party, the following re- Asjesty, and had proceeded to the Palace to report the marks : ermination of his efforts. This somewhat unexpected " Such is the regard now paid' to religion. to religious re ,lt seems to have set the Peel party on the alert, as monstrances and suggestions, andto the ministers of religion from the following report of their movements, on in the high places of Britain. Had his royal highoes*conde scended to acknowledge my communication, and to invite suggestion, the plan which I was prepared to communicate ' - ,sed with the re- was, that the opening of the exhibition should be by a day of sted to the noble nat i ona l h um ili a ti on - and deprecation of the wrath of God, which to no impartial bystander will seem an unreasonable or , uncalled-for suggestion, seeing that the first ecclesiastical act -63` at of her Majesty's reign was the- bill of pains and penalties against the clergy (1 Vic., c. 22), to deter them from fulfilling memos • Peel" party their ordination vows in preserving sacred the rites of matri- Ugh Sidney Herbert, mony ; and the last movement, ;road religionem, which te, . 'burn, anti Mr. marked her Majesty's reign in 1850, has been the founding in Ireland, the terra sancta of Europe, (whose hallowed associa - Ir. and had an lions supersede those of any other country out of Palestine,) lan an university without any provision for Christian instruction i re therein t while, throughout the whole of her reign, to the reli ' I gion as by law established, frowns,.oppressions, suspensions-of constitutional liberties, and every vexation, internal as well as m E - external, have been awarded ; while favour, and patronage, t I and encouragement have been reserved for the Jew, the Jesuit, o t _,......u0. oaronet. and the Infidel—to the second of these to such an extent. that 'ming expectation, „ The Eai 7 l of Aberdeen,the Sir Janes Graham, and Mr. Card- imp er ial crown of Britain has teen, by her Majesty's mi --sble rabble of w ell have been in constantduring communication the day. nis ters (e. g. Earl of Clarendon's letter to Archbishop Mtirray), --, of . placed as submissively, in effect, at the foot of the Pope , as it The Times of Friday, in announcing Lord Stanle y's was, in very deed, placed at the foot of the Pope's legate, by failure, does not fail to insult the Protestant public, - - sovereign in person, in the reign of Kin°. John ; and with - -suit, the papal foot has spurned bout the offerers and MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL BENEFIT The event, to which all that large portion of the public to whom theatrical matters are of any moment have been looking forward for many years past, took plaae on Wed nesday night. We may say that the very anticipation of Mr. Macready's benefit has been of itself a marked event. On Monday week the box-office was first opened for the letting of places, but so numerous were the applications by private letters that before this opening the choice seats in all parts of the house were gone. The house was of course crammed by a most select and influential au- dience The scene outside the theatre prior to the commence ment of the performance was most singular. Drury-lane, Vinegar-yard, and the western end of Great Russell-street, were completely occupied by a crowd, which had begun to collect as early as 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The den sity of the throng tvay be most adequately expressed by an expression uttered by one of the street witnesses, that " Jenny Lind was nothing to it." That the persons who had taken nieces might reach their seats an artificial road was formed by a body of policemen. It might have been supposed that, with the dense and excited mass, not a word of " Macbeth" would have been heard. It might have been supposed that the actor, knowing that he was the cause of the excitement before him, would have found his situation too much for his feelings. Neither was the case. So well had the arrange ments for public accommodation been made, and so great was the evident respect for Mr. Macready, that, to use a popular phrase, a pin might have been heard to drop dur ing the whole performance. So well had the artist braced his energies for the occasion that be never acted with more freshness, or with greater command of his faculties. From the subtle indication of the fate-ridden state of Macbeth's mind to the desperate combat with which the play termi nates, all was adequately represented. As long as the tragedy lasted, there was nothing to indicate that the ar tist had lost that self-control without which histrionic art is impossible. But when the tragedy was at an end, and Mr.Macready having doffed the tartan dress, came forward in his plain suit of black—when not the artist, but the man had to address the audience, the emotion which the scene before him created was most plainly apparent. And, certainly, a more imposing spectacle could not have been presented within the walls of a theatre. No sooner had he made his appearance than the body of people who filled the large hcuse rose, and presented a spectacle of personified en thusiasm that none but a huge mass can exhibit. Hand kerchiefs might be seen waving in all parts of the house, from the pit to the gallery, and for a long time it seemed doubtful whether the artist's admirers would allow him to speak at all. At last, when the tumult bad subsided, he "• •" At noon it became known that the Queen had coul d the attendance of the Duke of Wellington at In well-informed circles it was also _ler Majesty had done tins, not wien a —,,carn, and view of intrusting the formation of a ministry , bu t so lel y tificate, one of the to obtain the counsel and advice of the noble and illus. about the trious duke in the present difficulty. —.4.celience, was a The noble duke arrived at the palace before noon on 3, which bore the sign Saturday, and having been admitted to an audience, re 'le keen witted towns- mained in conference with her Majesty more than an hour. .stely nicknamed the The Marquis of Lansdowne was announced at the lles Scenerfrom palace almost immediately after the Duke of Wellington ,:c Euno _,..___l n had ma j e t s a t k v e i n n hi s l l i d n e g p a i n r T h r e e . n 0 b NN I e re believe marquis w t a h s e p o r e b e j et i s c el y o s f i m h e i r . s peculiarly de- lar to that we have described in the case of the Duke of .iendship of a Wellington, viz., to have the advantage of his lordship's became entirely advice as one o the most experienced members of her ho harboured them Majesty's Privy Council. venture outside A meeting of the members of the late cabinet took place forts, without a at Lansdowne-house on Friday morning. All the ex conducted and ministers were present with one exception. I t was after 'is protection. this meeting bad broken up that the Marquis of Lans n tuppeha, , downe proceeded to Buckingham Palace. .1 whose I The noble marquis had a lengthened interview with her blican storms ; lint I un erstood that 11 the loose priest a the b, Iscario D IN ASIA ANDTH ,cked t rd ' from ence of t I to ex Tx EunoPl e of tt .ir death. I Majesty In the course of the day communications passed between wd Stanley and Lord J. Russell. Graham paid a visit to the Ear tnisy lov mrd to collect • on Friday morning, and remained in consu permitted to lordship for more than two hours. )01 of Mahom- Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Sidney Herbert interview with the noble earl during the day. ncreaEing emotion as In the evenine . her Mejesty again commanded the I delivered the following spy.._ . attendance of his Grace the Duke of Wellington at Buck- trusive manner, his voice betraying and put it on with ingham Palace. he approached its termination : .e of the lines. If The Morning Advertiser of Friday makes the announce- .‘ My last theatrical part is played, and, in accordance with .arriage in his family, meet, that a meeting of 36 Roman Catholic members of long-established usage, I appear once fume before yon. Even .e, as regularly as an parliament has been held at Dr. Wiseman's house, at if I were without precedent in the discharge of this ctof duty, Irs' Commons, and had which it was unanimously resolved that the Roman Ca- it is one whi_ch my own feelings would irresistibly urge upon ), to guard the proves- , tholic members of the House of Commons will oppose, in , i i i ' l e i I but- one I as continuous ooak recorde o hr ;,3,; jo n fe e s n s e i o e n a r n d d c re er, Isupport see Notwithstanding all 1 the most strenuous manner and by every constitutional ; and "-; tented to me, cheering me in my onward progress ' holding me in most trying emergencies. I have therefore been up lities, the Ilincloo in his means, any ministry, no matter what may be its political carnival," for assuredly , principles or policy, which proposes in any way to inter- desirous of offering you my parting acknowledgments for the Mahommudan masters. fere with the recent papal aggression. In the highly pro- ; partial kindness with which my humble efforts have uniformly in Bunnoo who cculd beide event of Lord J. Russell's return to office, (says the ; been received, and for a . life made happier by your favour. t is much rarer among Advertiser,) lie is not only prepared, but resolved, to in- 1 lreirtiodni"oartehoefeinhe'eo-uarnadg- I encouragement ywre.ia,i-rcshl'aa s v il e o ;re d s i l m i impulset''dmy recol to the D a mental calculation. I troduce a much more stringent measure for checking the I inexperienced essays of my youth, and stimulated me to perse loos about hi; person as I measures of the Pope than that now before parliament. I verance when struggling hardly for equality of position with Bred up to love money I Ile will also call to the ministry such men only as will by I the genius and talent of those artists whose superior excellence indoo cuts his first tooth their very names afford a guarantee to this country that I I ungrudgingly admitted, admired, and honoured. That en ir round his neck for an the new Russell cabinet will be thoroughly Protestant. 1 couragement helped to Voce_ me, iri rpect competitors.ivilegesaiid e lowest denomination of Lord John Russell has been again sent for by her . v i lo th l i ng e ent r , o, o v i t l i a of t t 'tr ni t e ing o N u v r itl y Y favourm - on the floor. The mill- Majesty. The noble lord had an interview with her , disturbed in my hold on your opinion, from year to year I red times one hundred, is i Majesty on Sunday afternoon. I found friends more closel y and thickly clustering round me. 00l lie has two pice given I On Saturday, at half-past two o'clock, the Duke of I All I can advance to testifv how justly I have appreciated the turn it into an anna be- Wellington arrived at Burlingham Palace, in obedience P ttoh a io l e f s ' s o et la e, g i e thus liberally awarded me is the devotion throughout . educated, Hindoos, of all to the command of the Sovereign. His grace came from i s -to a f my best energies to your andservice. lilolL e a in„baai rtti r 1 for middlemen ; and the Stratlifieldsaye, where he had entertained the judges and jof our country t I ti e n a r to, l i e n al f e eg i a n n i l t t t o he d ec i y r i; ion+. ne Slinks ) : em a useful and a doubl- bar of the western circuit on the previous evening. The ; peare fitly illustrated, was frustrated by those whose duty it tithes due to him from noble duke hail a lengthened conference with the Queen. ; was, by virtue of the trust committed to them, themselves to total much under the At five o'clock on Saturday the Queen summoned the have undertaken the task. But some good seed has yet been 7 them from him, and Marquis of Lansdowne to the palace. The noble marquis sown ; and in the zeal and creditable productions of certain of fly, they collected the was' not at home when the royal summons arrived at ourlion unseemlysparnesdelt m am)gers we have assurance that the c . cir n u e - , restored, butl ItereTe equally ignorant, and Lansdowne-house, but immediately upon his return histli representationstietuityof ourof past reat lays poet's text will be the soldiers of the lordship proceeded to the palace. The noble marquis henceforward held on our l) Eng lish stage in the reverence it ever n fifty for one bun- was admitted to an audience by the Queen, and remained should command. I have fleeo to say. By some the re sed, the Ilindoo corn- in consultation with Her Majesty for nearly an hour. lotion of an actor to his audn is considered slight and tran ,,, lest for the honour of Lord John Russell arrived at Lansdowne-house shortly s c ient. Ido not feel it so. The repeated manifestation, under circumstances personally affecting me, of your favourable sen ..on with a loan upon his land ; and if the debt after ten o'clock on Saturday evening, and bad an inter- timents towards me, will live with life among my most grate he easily fi ,,, bt:ined justice by view with the Marquis of Lansdowne. , ful memories; and because I would not willingly abate one jot “s afterwards repudiated, Living then The Duke of Newcastle received a visit from the :in your esteem, I retire with the belief of yet unfailing powers, bribing his friend the 31ullick. 4 r y a e t a h r e s r . t ‘ l ,s la re n rd l s i _n gaetr least s t t h s e a s e t i a i g a e s , an d set though they did in fear and trembling• unable to display 'Marquis of Lansdowne on Saturday. style of age with the more vigorous exertions of my better tile ve r y ware 3 they wished to sell, burying . the profit that On Sunday morning, the Marquis of Lansdowne , I can command—are ineffec they ma d e i n h o l e s i n the fields and under the hearth- waited upon the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and had ti t lid to convey my thanks. In offering them, you will believe I ! feel far more than I can give utterance to. Vith sentiments of stones of their houses, marrying wives only by sufferan.ce, an audience of her Majesty. The noble marquis after keeping the ta on l y if they were ugly, and worshipping wargs called upon Lord John Russell, at his private rest- . the deepest gratitude I take my leave, - bidding you, ladies and i gentlemen, in my professional capacity, with regret and most their gods by stealth, the Hindoos of Bunnoo can still deuce in Chesham-place. not be said to have been ob'ects of pity, for their avarice At four o'clock, Lord John Russell proceeded to the ;respectfully, farewell." made them insensible to the degradation of their position, Palace, and had an audience of the Sovereign. The noble ! At the end of this speech, which was especially cheered and they derived from thegradual accumulation of wealth I lord remained in conference with heriMajesty more than in several places, Mr. Macready retired with somewhat of , look of lingering regret, and, though the audience g a mean equivalent for native country, civil liberty, and 1 an hour. Sir George 'Grey and Sir Charles Wood paid visits to : shouted for his reappearaece, he earae hew them 49, religious freedom.--44 Year on. the Pun'att& Frontier, by 1 I Lord John Russell on Sund a y . more. Major Edwardeg. i ne into our canip_tn a turban in their pockets delight when they doo wished to man goes to nick's soldiers ullick for a lice Sot ren le chief very r of Aberdeen ;ation with his nts and se he con - 0(i) given him to play e a holida table, up 1 o on _...owest -denomination of with on the floor. The mul aundred times one hundred, is lesson ; and on take to the baz told him a false hen offered to bu e who from the pe,,v_ one hundred for fifty, backed by ad pvc landowner was distrini e Mahommudan God. and , er star vatior inuabb nri. what Year on th Imething riOONLIGHT annhlP(l —ln th f moonlight li - ne of iron net man, the for and no tv all activ Lotant p il en of work, and a ssion to have in angling lotto) 1 i to denms i ,17 res at • _ rtood bone to jump at i is shads in Ron nceforth be in eus h I The Leonian ides ledged to t TAB MINISTERIAL DitiIeULTIES. , - We announced in a fourth edition last week that Lof John Russell's negotiation with Sir James Graham had ,st his three sons, proved abortive, and that Lord Stanley had again been fore, that I 3 that gives cted, the From t' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A communication from tier Majesty' tile Queen wa s forwarded to Lord John Russell tin Sunday evening. The " Peel" . party were very busy on Sunday. The Duke of Nercastle and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone. Mr. Cardwell, and other leading tnetnbcrs of this section of politicians, met at the residence of Sir James graham, in Grosvenor -place, and had a long conference; Sir James Graham subseqnently visited the Earl of Aberdeen at Argyll-house. Lord John Russell entertained slarge party of members of the House of Commons on Saturday evening, at his residence in Chesham-place. The noble lord was sum moned from the dinner-table to Lansdowne-house. The period of our Parliamentary history which offers the greatest analogy to the present singular crisis is that which followed the assassination of Mr. Perceval and the defeat of the Cabinet to which he had belonged. . Lord Wellesley, Lord Moira, Lords Grey and Grenville, were successively charged by the Prince Regent to form an Administration, but all with equally had success. From the 22nd of May to the Bth of June, 1812, these negotia tions went on, but as they led to no result the Regent had at last no alternative but to resume his old Ministers, and Lord Liverpool passed from the office of Secretary of State to that of First Lord of the Treasury (which he retained for fifteen years) upon the ensuing dissolution of Parliament. DISMISSAL OF ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPLAINS. The Morning Advertiser recently stated that her Ma- jesty had dismissed one of the royal chaplains, in conse quence of certain representations made by the honourable and reverend gentleman relative to the practices of the court. It appears that the chaplain undertook, in addi tion, the somewhat unpleasant task of lecturing his Royal Highness Prince Albert on the subject of the proposed great exhibition. The following letter was the first the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Perceval (brother to the Earl of Egmont) addressed to the Prince : Ildress"ypp on oi snbject deeply 6 ghness to allow me to in my mind, the f the nation, icerning, il d ren . n I connected with a project of , ;hick your royal highness has the I credit of being the chief promoter. I allude to the proposedl exhibition of 1851. As far as yet appears, the sole object of that exhibition is to set forth the skill and ingenuity, the arts and sciences. the intelligence and power of man; to connect HER MAJESTY'S LE\ EE. The 4ueeil held a Levee (the first this season) on Palace. Her Majesty and Wednesday, in Si. jam" Prince Albert arrived from Buc:::.7lahem Palace, attended by the Royal Suite, with an escort of life Guards, shortly before two o'clock, and were received by 9 10 great officers of State. Sir Henry Gordon had an audience of the Queen, and returned to her Majesty the badge and riband of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, worn by his father, the late General Sir Willoughby Gordon. The Queen wore a train of dark blue terry velvet trim med with sable, the body ornamented with diamonds. The petticoat was of white satin, trimmed with tulle. Both train and petticoat were of British manufacture. Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of velvet and gold, ornamented with diamonds. The Duke of Cambridge was present. The Foreign Diplomatic Circle were introduced, when sundry presentations to her Majesty and Prince Albert took place. In attendance on the Queen at the entree were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Carlisle, Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., the Mar quis of Clanricarde, and the Hon. Fox Maule, Secretary at War. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York were present, along with the Bishops of London, Winchester, Salisbury, Ossory, Ferns, Ripon, and Chi chester. etneral ilitsttlianv. The Queen has presented 250 guineas, for the Prince of Wales, to the Metropolitan Convalesceit Institution. A young man at Brecon named Miller, has poisoned himself through a fancied disappointment in love. The sale of season tickets of admission to the Great Exhibition, which commenced on Friday, at the Society of Arts, John-street. Adelphi, is now proceeding rapidly. The premises of Messrs. Treacher & Cuthbert, candle manufacturers, Paternoster-row, London, were destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The striae of the seamen in the ports of the north eastern coast has completely terminated, both at Hull and on the Tyne and Wear. Miss Gibbs, daughter of the ex-alderman, has been appointed matron to the school at Hertford belonging to Christ's Hospital. Several clerks in a well-known bank in the city have been detected perpetrating robberies on the establishment to the amount of £lO,OOO. The United Service Gazette notes a curious nautical fact, viz., that a ship in the Persian C4.llf,•in the course of 20 months, had her copper encased with living corahto the thickness of two feet. _ _ The Metropolitan Trades Delegates, at a meeting on Thursday, passed resolutions affirming tile gradual depr7 ciation in the value of labour, and advocating the princi ples of protection and regulation for labour.• A dish of mushrooms, about the size of walnuts, were gathered by the gardener of C. M. Webster, Esq., of Pullion-hall, near Sunderland, on Saturdarlast, from the open ground in a field adjoining the hall. The United States mail steam-ship Washington, • Capt. Floyd, witb.dates from New York to the 22d ofTebruary, is expected off Cowes about the 7th or Bth instant, en route to Bremen. The Glocester Journal states, that the defendant in a slander case which recently came before the Glocester Consistory Court has been sentenced to do public penance in Stonehouse Church previous to the 6th of Mkrch. The Hereford gnardians have contracted for a supply of best seconds flour at 255. 4d. per sack of five bushels (56 lbs. per bushel), or at the rate of lid. per lb.-for flour with which to make excellent bread. A child, nine years old, a few days ago, picked up and eat some red wafers which had been swept out ot an oil shop in one of the London streets ' • and died a short time afterwards, having been poisoned by the red lead which the wafers contained. Mr. Paxton's sweeping machine was tried at the build ing in Hyde-park- on Saturday morning, and was-found to answer exceedingly well. His grace the Duke of Devon= shire was present at the trial, and himself swept twenty yards of flooring. Mr. George Head r the Quaker Sheriff of Cumberland, made an innovation on an old custom connected with the cavalcade, at the opening of the Carlisle assizes, yesterday week. Instead of the javelins, usual on such occasions, his followers carried poles surmounted by silvered knobs. In a recent lecture at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institu tion, Dr. Penny stated that nearly all the muriatic acid sold in Glasgow is contaminated with arsenic. Muriatie acid, with other chemical articles, is used very frequently as a substitute foryeast in the making of bread. A large catch of mackerel took place in Brighton last week. One boat brought in upwards of 12,000 fish, which were sent to the- London , market. On Sunday again, three boats brought in upwards of 20,000 fish, which fetched 14s. a hundred. _ THE BENEVOLENT BANDETt.—Not many miles from the south-west side of the bridge in this town, there is-to be seen written in large round hand in a shop window...and hanging at the door the following :—" Sailors on strike shaved gratis, on Mondays-and Fridays."— Sunderland Herald. _ _ - . A woman*, named Preston, wife of an agricultural la bourer, living at Postlip, Gloucestershire, was delivered of three children yesterday week. They were all alive, but one died shortly after birth. The other two lived a day or two and were baptized, but they have both since died. - - - - _ _ The total: numbers of packages of British manufac tures, &c., received for the exhibition up to Feb. 24 inclu sive, are 432. The total number of foreign packages received and placed in the hoardings of the country to.l which they belong, up to the 22d February, are 613;: and the total number of colonial, 352. The Duke of Northumberland's generous offer of a prize of 10:1 guineas for a life-boat has brought no fawer than three hundred models into the field. The adjudi cators, of whom Captain Washington of the Admiralty is president,'will be occupied a longtime before theycome to a decision as to the merits of the ingenious models. The exorbitant charge on Foreign. office passports has been reduced to 7s. 6d. a-piece. This is well ; but it might be better. Seven.and-sixpence is halt-a-crown too much; and the boon need not have been clogged by absurdly requiring the applicant to come prepared with a letter of recommendation from one of Lord Palmerston's acquaintances, or a London banker. A PIN IN THE TONGUE.—A few days since a fat pig was slaughtered by Mr. Turbeville, farmer, Ebbw•Mill, and,, upon the worthy yeoman cutting up the tongue of the animal afterwards, his knife came in contact with some impediment, which was found by him to be a large pin, lying snugly enclosed, lengthways, in the "unruly member." The pig had, most likely, taken up the pin at some unlucky meal.—Hereford Times. ALLEGED STARVATION OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. rumour having been spread in Bath, on Tuesday afternoon, that a woman named Harriet Sparing had died of starvation from the neglect of her husband, on inquiry it was was found that she had been left for days together without any food or fuel. The husband was agroom, but since his wife's death he has not been found. .A coroner's inquest was being held upon the body. ARTICLES NOR THE EXHIBITION.—The following are the number of packages received and placed in the hoard ings of the countries to which they belong up to Saturday last :—Foreign : Bavaria, 42 ; Prussia, 273; Switzerland, 99 ; Spain, 11 ; Sweden, 18 ; Saxony, 135 ; Belgium, 16; United States, 14 ; Mexico, 4 ; Peru, 11—Colonial : Canada, 304 ; Nova Scotia, 23 ; Guernsey, 8 ; Nassau, New Providence, 2 ; South Australia, 15. Total-965. RIOT AT YARMOUTH.—On Saturday a serious riot, arising out of disputes between the shipowners and sailors took place at Yarmouth, and so alarmed the authorities that the military were sent for from Norwich. In a few hours quiet were restored ; but the troops continued to parade the streets during the night. On Sunday morn ing all remained quiet, and it was expected that the mili tary would return to Norwich in the course of the day. It is remarkable that the last three men who unfortu nately lost their lives by being run over on the line of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick railway, near North allerton, were all of the name of Allison, but in no way related to each other. Two of them were named Wil liam and the other Thomas. It is about two years since the first of them was killed, the second in October last, and the third on the tenth of February last. FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Monday a fight came off in to T one sovereign aside, between Richard Scarf and Richard Kilby, both of Leeds. The t fi h g e h t v i l c a t s o t r e , d about was so an o ela t h e oduart, his w •li e s n Scarf, u eces w s th ahto in was lea d v declaredthe ground he set off and ran at full speed for about 100 yards, when he fell and immediately expired. An inquest has since been held on the body, when a verdict of " Man slaughter" was returned. Hannah Maria Ewens, a widow, aged fifty, stands re manded at the Marylebone Police-court, on a charge of administering gin to a little girl, aged seven, who was sent up-stairs by her father to ask the prisoner to stop a noise she was making, which prevented him, getting to sleep. On sending her brother after her, he brought her down insensible, and the child has since died from the effects of the gin given by the prisoner, who, it appears, was drunk at the time. On Monday night, about 700 people, consisting chiefly of foreigners, assembled at a " banquet," given at the Highbury Barn Tavern, to celebrate the European revolu tion of 1848. In the course of the evening. various reports were read describing the state of democracy in different parts of the Continent, and several speeches were delivered, advocating the cause of republicanism. Louis Blanc addressed the audience, and was received with great applause. The room was decorated with flags bearing republican inscriptions. ST. VALENTINES STATISTICS.—OD Valentine's day this year, there passed through the general post-office 193,941 letters, of a description proving they were valen tines. This is above twice as many as were sent in 1840. The postage of the entire number at Id. each for the 12 years, amounts to £7,006 18s. 11d. If the value of each valentine is taken at 2d., it would be seen that there was paid for the whole .£14,013 17s. 10d. The paper in quantity would require 350 reams, six quires, and twenty two sheets over. FATAL ACCIDENT AT HOLYHEAD.—As the railway steamer Anglia was leaving Kingstown on Tuesday, when off the new harbour works a blast was fired off containing two tons of powder. The superintendent at the harbour works (Captain Hutchinson, Royal Engineers) having completed his arrangements retired, and was at least half a mile from the spot when the explosion took place, but melancholy to relate, an immense block which was hurled iinto Hi s w air,th i e fe, w fallingi h n ow as standing felled i n him n e t ar o t h h i e m ea a r t th t h . e The per sons sons near him hur r i e d t o th e s pot and found him a corpse. alemreaosytemmeirnatc:loougsleyoef the sca bo p la edu: r t e o r u o c u h od ed . 111,5 H 1 e e s h b a ro s ic l e e p ft , a wife and two children to deplore their sudden and afflicting b MASSLAUGHTER.-011 Monday, an inquiry firtiff Cite, into before Mr. Baker, Finsbury, on view of the body d William Dean, aged 22, a plasterer, whose death was caused by his wife, Anne Dean, having struck him on the hand with a fork, while quarrelling. The wound inflamed and caused death.- The post mortem examination showed that there was an abscess formed under the wound, which h at ! led to the inflammation and the fever had caused death. The fury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Anne Dead, who was committed to Newgate. LADY HIINTINGTOWgn.." - O0 Tuesday Mr. Huddle stone, a barrister, addressed the tnegistrate to whom the female who stated herself to be Lady Huntingtower had previously applied, and stated that. though the female in question had cohabited with Lord Huntingtower, there was no foundation for her claim to share his title. Her name was Mrs. Langford, and she had received assistance from Lady Dysart, notwithstanding her assertions to the contrary. Until she improperly assumed the title of Lady Huntingtower, she had received a due measure of support from his lordship's family. THE HOWICK FARMS.—The Newcastle Journal says that Earl Grey has been compelled to let his farms of Ulgham Grange and Fernev Beds, which had hitherto been let as one farm to Mr. kalph Fenwick for £B2O a year, the former at £4OO a-year, and the latter at £lBO, he agreeing to pay for £5O worth of manure at the railway station. The reduction upon these farms amounts to no less than £240 a-year, or about thirty per cent., and the locality enjoys the advantage of being contiguous to a railway station, and within easy distance of several good markets. CLANDESTINE MARRIAGES.—Tt appears that persons from country parishes are not unftequently mu-tried in this city, clandestinely, by having apartments which they never occupy. A correspondent integrals us that a notice has been lately issued by the bishop to the clergy of the city, calling their attention to the practice, " in order that in every instance when parties unknown to you apply to be married, or to have their banns published, you may make strict inquiry about them, with a view of ascertaining whether they have lately arrived in your parish, and whether they have been actual residents for the time required by law." —Norfolk Chronick. A CHILD ATTACKED BY A COCK.—One day last week, a fine cock, of the silver pheasant breed, entered the yard adjoining the gas works, at Yeadon. While there, a child of Mr. Bedford, attracted by its beautiful feathers, gave chase to the animal, which immediately turned on it:s pur suer, and seizing him by the nose, struck his spur into the temple and cheek of the little fellow with such force that one of them was left imbedded in the cheek-bone, nearly an inch in depth. The secretary of the works, hearing the screams of the little sufferer, rushed out and beheld them both on the ground stri-ting for the mastery. He removed the pugnacious fowl and 'withdrew the spur from the child's cheek, which he retains as a memento of this remarkable circumstance. Happily, with the excep tion of the wound, a slight swelling is the only inconve nience from which the child suffers.—Leeelslntelligencer. A VILLAGE CHANGING ITS NAME.—rn riding through a remote and usually, we are told, very quiet village of the Isle of Axholme,-a few days ago, we were astonished to see every thing in confusion—women screaming, children shouting, and mea'fighting. " What's the name of this place ?" said we ttoa gaping rustic. " Wily, yesterday we called it Allthorpe," answered bumpkin, " but 1 reckon to day it ram be Alldrunk." Upon inquiring farther we found that some of the farmers had been dis tributing drink after delivering their potatoes, and then the labourers being prinied,adjourned to the public-house to load. And now mark the fruits of a single day's in toxication in one small village. One man was drowned in the course of the ' • two were fi ghting until they beat each other black and blue ; the mother of one of them had her nose broken in trying to dafend him ; another went home and flogged his wife ; and another tumbled over the stile into the churchyard, and-cut open his head against the figs, _ BANK of Eetoeee.ene-The return for the week ending on the 22d instant, gives the following changes compared with the previous week. In the department efeietne the notes in circulation had'increased £3,865, which bad been produced by an increase of £3,865 in the gold , coin or bullion, the silver bullion- remaining unaltered ' . On the debit side of the banking department the rest had de. creased £52,908, the public deposits • had increased £452,530, the private deposits had increased £73844, and the seven-day and other post bills had decreased £66,854, making the total of the liabilities £36,003,841.. On the credit side the government securities remain unaltered; the other securities had increased £247,257, the notes had increased £201,180, and the gold and silver coin had de creased £41,829; which equalised the account. The bul lion in both departments of the bank had decreased from £14,473,501 to £14,435-;537, being a difference of £37,964. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,039,615 to £19,775,446; being a difference of £264,169. Rosina Herbert, the person who was before the public in October last, convicted of pawning shirts she was en trusted to make up, and for whom various benevolent persons forwarded contributions to the magistrates to the amount of £45, which were however, by the advice of Mr. Yardley, transmitted-to the poor-box fund in. con sequence of her having been previously convicted of a similar offence in 1849—other charitable persons,. on the statement of the Times, -considering the prisoner harshly dealt with, sending donations through other sources, to the amount of £2O, which was paid over to her in No vember and December—was on Tuesday accused at the Thames police-office of • pawning a number of blouses eat -usted to her to be made up, and was remanded till Monday, when it appeared the work had been entrusted to her by a woman nearly as poor as herself out of charity, Mr. Yardley, .after severely lecturing her for her ingratitude, and asking what had become of the £2O in so short a space of time,. but without getting any reply, fined her £s—committing her in defaulfor two months to the House of Correction. SENDING Bowes POST.—On and after the first of March printed books,. mar nines, reviews and e pam phlets, (whether British, colonial, or foreign,) may be transmitted by the post between the United Kingdom and the British West ladies, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Hong Kong, (via Southampton,) Malta, (ditto,) Gibraltar, (ditto), at the following reduced rates of postage, via.:— For each packet not exceeding elb in weight, 6d.;: ditto, exceeding elb. and not exceeding 11b., ls.; ditto, exceed ing Ilb. and not exceeding 21b, 2s. ; ditto, exceeding 21b. and not exceeding 31b., 35.., and so on, increasing Is. for every additional pound or fraction of a pound. Provided, however, that the following conditions be carefully ob served :—Every such packet must be sent without a cover or in a cover open at the ends or sides. It must contain a single volume only. It must not exceed two feet in length, breadth, width, or depth. It must have no writing or marks upon the cover, or its contents, except the name and address of the person to whom it may be sent. The postage must be prepaid in full, by .fixing out side the packet or its cover the proper number of stamps. If any of the above conditions be violated, the packet must be charged• as a letter. INTERESTING AUTOGRAPHS.—A small collection of autographs was sold on Friday, by Messrs. .Puttick and Simpson, the well-known auctioneers of Piccadilly. Lot 5, a short but good letter of Beethoven, sold for £2 12s. Lot 9, a letter of Edmund Burke, on the Catholic ques tion, sold for £2 . -Is. Lot 25, a letter of S., T. Coleridge sold for £1 153. Lot 60, a parcel of letters of Dr Philip Doddridge, many of which were in whole, or in part, published, sold for £l3. Lot 148, forty-eight official letters, signed by Marshal Nev . , sold for £5. Lot 160, a letter of Pope sold for £1 12s. Lot lat, a signature of Archbishop Angus, who married the widow of James IV. of Scotland, sold for £1 2s. Lot 182, a signature of the Regent Morton, sold for £1 lls. 6d. ; and the next lot, a signature of Cardinal Beatoun, sold for the same sum. Lot 186-was perhaps the most interesting lot in the sale, being the original declaration of J ames 111., the " Old Pretender," addressed to the people of England, shortly before the attempted invasion by Prince Charles Edward, The document was signed by James 1.11. in two places; it sold for £ll, and it is to be regretted it was not bought for the national collection. Lot 137, a letter of the " Pretendcr," but not on any matteref interest, £3 ss. INSURANCE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—It has been. stated that the various insurance companies have freed extraordinary high rates of premium for the insurance of the articles in the Crystal Palace. They would, there fore, appear to assume, that the risk is proportionately, great. Now probably no building in the world is better protected against fire. A sin: inch pipe will run round the outside of the building, with 16 branches into-the in- . tenor, by which, with one length of hose, and without a fire-engine, the whole area will be under control. Eyery one knows that a small quantity of water at hand is suffi cient to extinguish a fire at the commencement ;, and as the water will be always. on the main, there will be no risk of a fire spreading. Under these circumstances, we would suggest that the exhibitors should form a Mutual Insurance Fund, which would amount to. a sufficiently large sum to cover all- risks, whilst the amount—after deducting the expenses of the management, which would be very slight—would be divided amongst the subscribers at the conclusion of the exhibition.—Msohanical Gaz. CHARTULARY Or THE MONASTERY OF, PAISLEY. —By the efforts of Provost Philips, the old chartulary of the burgh has been recovered and brought to town within the last few days. It is a folio volume of vellum, con taining 123 leaves, well written and quite legible, begin ning the 2d of December, 1489, and ending the 29th of August, 1547. It contains 183 charters in . Latin and lin Scotch ; 130 of these are for burgbal lands, and 51 for outfield lands in the burgh. Two. charters to John Stew ard, of Woodsyd, and one charter to Robert Sympill, Master of Sympill, of the office of Justieiar and Baillie of the hail regality of Paisley, besides tacks, licenses to sell, and precepts for infeftment, appondment of vicars, and. presentations to churches. The charters are granted by the Abbots George Schaw, Robert Stewart, and Jelin Hamilton. It is not known, how this volume has been withdrawn for such a length of time from the archives of the town, and its recovery may he regarded with impor tance by those interested in the history of the locality.— Glasgow Chronicle. THE " GUN WIFE" OF CALLANDER.—An old woman died at Callender last week known by the appellation of " The Gun Wife." This name arose from her having in her possession a large gun, no less than seven feet in length, said to have belonged to the celebrated " Rob Roy," also a dirk and aporran-molach, and a number of other articles, said to have belonged to Highland chiefs of olden times. Before she took up her residence at Cal. lender, she dwelt in a small hut on the side of Loch Lo mond, where she had a sighboard stuck to the top of a long polo, announcing " Great curiosities to be seen within. " Doubtless she had a vast number of visitors during the summer months, as she used to divert strangers by going through a number of frolics, dancing, singing,e4e. Three hours before she expired, she said she was worth more than £lOO sterling ; and desired her last " will and testament" to be drawn out. A certain longheaded villager under took the task. It afterwards turned out, however, that the whole was " bungled," the will being, in the eye of the law, not woeth a straw,—so, OM it is likely the law yers will have to vipend some of the old woman 's powder In trying 119 W 14 Old gun. lop, "Aoot—Sterling Jogrnal, • , March 4, 1851. itrienre aiib 30ortirtilttit. It is proverbial that the things of most importance near home are often the least known and appreciated. and certainly this remark is applicable to the subject we have in hand, namely, the manufactures of St. Helens. This small town is situated not more than ten miles from Liverpool ; it consumes three or four thousand tons of coal weekly in manufactures of glass and chemical sub stances ; and yet one-half of the inhabitants of this great town know St. Helens only by name, and are totally ignorant of the gigantic works there carried on. In our last, we stated our intention to publish a series of papers • upon this subject ; and, through the kindness of Mr. Henry Deacon, of the St. Helens Crown and Sheet-glass Works, we shall be enabled to lay before our readers the most complete description and history of the interesting manufaCtures of crown and sheet glass ever published. When Mr. H. Deacon's papers are completed, we propose to give a description of the manufactures of plate glass, glass bottles, flint-glass articles, glass staining, the alkali or soda-ash manufacture, chloride of potash, and chloride of lime manufactures, and the other manipulations for which this little town is so remarkable. We have in• spected most of the works personally, and have much pleasure in recording our gratitude and admiration for the delicate attention and frank explanations which we uni versally met with from the proprietors of the various works; and we should not do justice if we omitted to mention the valuable statistical information and assistance ' we received from Mr. Sinclair, the resident Manager of the St. Helens Junction Railway. We found him is complete repository of the statistics of St. Helens ; his energy and activity seemed to us to want wider scope ; for it appeared that every ton of material passed over " the line" appeared quite familiar to him. We now proceed to give Mr. Henry Deacon's papers ON TIIE MANUFACTURE OF BLOWN WINDOW-GLASS. The different varieties of window-glass are usually dis tinguished by the terms plate, sheet, and crown ; but these words do not define the method of manufacture. Plate glass is sometimes supposed to signify, necessarily, cast glass ; but all blown , window-glass which is at least one-eighth of an inch thick,-or is ground and polished, is also called plate glass. The recent case at the Winchester jail skews the practical importance of the definition. The word " plate' appears to have been applied to pieces of glass in the same way as tcrpieces of metal. A. plate of iron may be hammered or rolled, and a plate of glass either blown or cast. The word refers to the article, and not to , the way it is made. Thickness only was recognised by the excise laws, and the same distinction is now made by the customs. Irrespective of thickness, all ground and polished window-glass is called plate glass. For distinc tion, the terms blown and sheet plate were introduced; and when some of the machinery employed in the proces ses of grinding and polishing blown plate glass was im proved and patented, it was called "patent plate,"and is now known- in the market by that name. With this apology for the title of my paper, I will refer slightly to the bygone literature of " the art of glass," before describing the modern practice; - and I cannot help , noticing of the old writers, that they are as great plagia rists as their successors. The-first old work on glass I met with, -was Blancourt's " Art of Glass,"' published in England in 1699, the origi nal being printed in France, I believe in , 1667i or soon af terwards; certainly not before. The 3rd chapter contains a circumstantial account of the tradition thet all glass.' makers are "noble," the author's words being, at p. 28 - of: the English edition—" The workmen who are employed• in this- noble art, are all gentlemen, for they admit of , none but such. They have obtained many-and large pri vileges, the principal whereof is to work themselves with out derogating• from their nobility. The first who ob tained these privileges, according to historians, were the workmen of the-great glass-houses (windove-glass houses); and although-they were not in use till long after the little ones (table -glass or flint-glass houses), yet they have out• stripped them in this-point of honour." He tben'gives a list of several noble glass-blowers, be ginning with Anthony de Brossard, who in 1453 was a glass-blower, and Lord of St. Martin and St. Brice, as well as gentleman to Charles d'Artois, Count of Eu,• prince of the blood royal. He traces the descent of De Brossard for , many generations, proving his gentle birth, and dilates at length on his coat of arms and the various grants concerning it. After mentioning others who flou rished in the fifteenth century, he names-those living in his own time : - the Messieurs De Virgille, De la Maisie. De Sagrier, De-Bougard, and many more whose nobility was confirmed during the search in 1667, eshort time be fore his book was published, His preface and introduc tory chapter- on the antiquity of glass, and the various an cient writers who mention it; hi) praises of its beauty and many valuable qualities, as well as his naive belief in its being rendered malleable by the " red , elixir" of the alchemists are -quaint and attractive, though too long for extracts. The numerous- recipes are all curious, and many absurd ; but hisengraving of the interior of a glass-house, and his description of the method of blowing window glass, I consider the greatest curiosities of the book. At page 24, English edition,.is this description—(great glass houses, it must be remembered, are vendavr-glass houses; little glass-houses are table or flint glass-houses) :—"The gentlemen of the great glass-houses work only twelve hours, but that without resting, as in the little ones, and always stending and naked. This work passes through three hands. The first through the hands of the gentle men apprentices, who gather the matter with their hollow iron that is in the pots in the little working holes, when it is fit to be used or worked, and that till three beats ; then he puts it on a marble. Then a second workman, more advanced in the-art, takes the iron and gives it yet three heats more,...and setting it on the marble,, makes it into a lump. Then the master workman takes• it and makes it perfect by blowing it, and making it ready to be worked. Then there comes a servant with a sharp tool of wood, which he thrusts intethe end of the lutrip or mass, and the master workman,. with an almost inconceivable ad dress and art, works-it at the heat of the mouth of the great working-hole„ then casts the plate upon a place prepared upon the ground with live coals, to give time to a servant of = the glass-house to take it, and carry it to a furnace which is at some distance from the body of the oven ; whence youlake it out again when it is cold. And it is of these plates they make window-glass for the glaziers."' My next acquisition was a little book published in Am sterdam, in 1669, being a Latin translation of an English man's (DreMerrett's) reprint and: annotation of a still older work by. Anthony Neri, published 1612 ; Merrett's reprint being published in England in 1662, just five years before the earliest date of Blancourt's publication.. From Merrett's Latin and English works, and from a French reprint of Kunkel.''; edition of Neri„ with his own nume rous experiments and remarks, T found that, antiquated as I took Blancourt's book to be,.the most of it was much more so than I had suspected, and that my favourite au thor werea complete set of borrowed plumes. The Latin edition of Merrett's work contains an engraving, with the exact attitudes,. but not the dresses of Blancourt's, and pointedly refers-to a much older work ')y Geo. Agricola, as containing the original engraving. To Merrett belongs the credit of Blancourt's learned essays on the, antiquities and classical allusions respecting glass, and to Neri and Kunkel belong the credit of. his.v!trious rec ipes. So far as I am -, aware, Blancourt's sole claim to originality rests on his description of a method of making glass eyes. I at l eng th procured a copy of Agricela's celebrated wo r k, D e Re Metallica.. The date on the title-page, which appears to be of more modern i paper than the rest of th e b oo k, is /1657, and the date n the body of the work itself is 1550 : this. I belie ve tiohaiasidoubt, toa b uli e s: correct. i,inheeoriginalcaun rys ittnhwteeerlrefitochra can; book p H ao tii points sh w ae o An o gee d orn c iuca u ro t tl oac o foi f sp theti feha copied more natural than his imitator. On the subject of the nobility of glass-blowers. 1 found Blancoure's statement confirmed. In " Howel's Familiar Letters," dated from Venice, then the queen of glass-making cities, the Ist - June,l62l, and quoted by' Apsley Pellet, in his " Curio sities of Glass.making," is this sentence—" The art of: glass-snaking is very highly valuedin, Venice, for whoso ever comes to be a master of th a t : pro f ess i on i s re p u t e d a. gentleman Ipso ante; for the art's sake." I also learn-. from the combined testimony of some of our oldest hands, that, as lads, they knew and worked with the last gentle- ... man glass-maker in England. His name was Henzel,, and he worked, or, as h e wou ld sa y, h e p r actised his pro fession at Sir Matthew White Ridley's, at Newcastle. He maintained his dignity by : various ingenious mermen- ores ; it was his part to complete the last process in mak- . . ing the table of window-glass e and to deliver it at the kiln, mouth for annealing. He was closely followed by a boy, who handed the gentleman. his-stick as soon as he was at liberty to receive it, and he thus walked back in state to his minute's.rest, and to, receive another table to com plete. In dining, he always. cut From a whole joint, h is boy waiting, en regle, behind his chair. Such was the last of a school quite passed away, In my next paper I will proceed with an accountof the modern practice of glass-making. HENRY DEACON. fnbruttang AltrbantrO. A new buss has been, introduced into London, so at. ranged that every passenger has a door, a seat, and a window for himself, with a gutta percha tube through whioh to convey orders to, the cad. The arrangement is most ingenious. Connected with every seat, or cell, or box, whichever it may. be called, is a self-acting machine for registering the daily number of passengers. LIQUID LEXT,ilmi.. — Dr. Burnland, of Larria, in Ger many, is said to have discovered a method of making lea ther out of a certain refuse and waste refuse animal sub stances. lie has established a manufactory near Vienna. No part of the process is explained, but it is stated that the substance is at one stage in a state of fluidity, and may be cast into boots, shoes, 4e. Such a discovery is not improbable. An American paper gives the following description of a mode of milking cows by means of India rubber bags : " The bags are drawn over the cow's teats, which sit close enough to exclude the air, in the lower end of which metallic tubes are inserted, closed by taps ; when the four are adjusted, the taps are withdrawn, and the milk streams from each teat into the pail, exhausting the whole quantity in the cow's udder in half the time it would take to milk in the ordinary way. When cows are stalled, a man can milk ten in fifteen minutes."—[This invention has been patented in England.] NEW WATER-WHEEL. — Another ingenious contribu tion to the forthcoming exhibition is the model of a ver tical water-wheel, neatly made by Mr. Walker, watch maker, Maryport, The invention is designed to be used as a breast-wheel, or undershot-wheel, having governor paddles so constructed as to obviate the back water, and thereby increase the efficiency of the wheel. Its peculiar features consist in the feathering action of the paddles, the application of the balance-balls in connexion with them adjusting their gradual easy descent uyon the abut ments at each revolution, by which, repeated, successive rotary concussions are avoided k and in the manner which they (the paddles) are attached to the wheel, whO, by a simple method admits of aj paddle being instapPA • ty4loYedi sad to easily rstkcccli eccasion may cecka"