The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

Et trra tur NOTICE. Calculations and Tables of Corresponding Equivalents, at different Rates of Exchange, of American Im ports and Exports. London : 17, Lower Eaton street, Eaton-square. We have looked very carefully through this work, and do not remember having met with anything so useful to importers, exporters, and dealers in every description of goods sold in or imported from the United States. By the elaborate calculations made here, a merchant may at once see the result of any operation on the receipt of the prcie sold at, and the rate of exchange, without troubling himself with long lines of figures. There is also afforded a mass of very valuable statistical information and com mercial forms. The detailed history of the cotton mar kets here and in the United States, is very valuable and elaborate. We observe amongst the list of subscribers the names of the most distinguished merchants in this country, the United States, and other countries, a satis factory proof of their appreciation of its usefulness. VARIETIES. There are above 20,000 lawyers in the United States, of whom 4,374 belong to New York. WILD CHASE.—A loud rushing noise was heard com ing on like a hurricane. This was a large troop of pallah pursued by a pack of wild dogs : they passed our camp in fine style within a hundred yards of us. and in two minutes the wild dogs had caught two of the pallahs, which my Bechuanas ran up and secured. A pallah in passing my camp cleared a distance of fifty feet in two successive bounds, and this on unfavourable ground, it being very soft and slippery.— A Hunter's Life in South Africa. QUEEN VICTORIA.—The first_ act of her Majesty's -queenly life was writing a letter of condolence to the be ieaved Adelaide. Her Majesty wrote the letter sponta neously, and, having finished it, folded and addressed it to " Her Majesty the Queen." Some one at hand men tioned that the superscription was incorrect, for that the letter oruht to be addressed to " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager." "I am quite aware," replied Victoria, "of leer Majesty's altered position, but I will not be the first to remind her of it !"—Lady's Newspaper. THE GREAT ITALIAN PAWNSHOP. — The Monte di Pieta was established in Rome in 1585. It is the greatest pawnbroker's shop in the world. Any person who takes a pawn can borrow from sixpence to thirty crowns without paying any interest; but all that is lent above that sum pays two per cent. per annum. At the end of the year the borrower may renew without any expense; but at the end of two years, if the pledge be not redeemed, nor in terest of the money paid, the pledge is sole, and the over plus of the debt is laid by for the owner, who has it in his power to demand it at any time within one hundred years. THE RUINS OF MEMPHIS. — At last not only the pre cise situation but some of the ruins of this renowned city of ancient Egypt has been discovered. At the last sitting of the Academy of M.,ral and Political Sciences of Paris a paper was read from M. Marlette, a gentleman charged with a literary and scientific mission of the French Go vernment in Egypt, in which he stated that having caused excavations to be made at the spot on which Memphis stood, he found, at a depth of from two to twelve yards, several monuments of Egyptian and Grecian architecture, and amongst them the Serapeum mentioned by Strabo. Having had the avenue leading to the latter cleared, M. Marlette discovered a considerable number of statues ranged in a semicircle and representing the Sphynx and all sorts of Grecian and Egyptian figures. Accompanying the communication of M. Mariette were drawings of the discoveries. The statues are described as of great beauty ; and will, it is expected throw great light, not only on Egyptian art, but on Egyptian history also. It is needless tosay that the important announcement of M. Mariette caused the liveliest interest ; and the Academy at once resolved that M. Guizot as its president, and M. Walckenner the perpetual secretary, should in its name be deputed to request the Ministers of Public Instruction and Foreign Affairs to award to M. Marlette pecuniary means for continuing his excavations. The Ministers un hesitatingly made the promise that the French Govern ment would find all needful funds, and afford the enter prising and intelligent discoverer every assistance in its power.—Literary Gazette. MR. S. M. PET°, 111. P.—There was a divine who used to say, when preaching to the youths of his congregation, " beware of being golden apprentices, silver journeymen, and copper masters;" and with a like motive it may not be useless to mention that Mr. Peto, who only forty-two years of age, left school at the early age of fourteen ; and being apprenticed to his uncle, Mr. Henry Peto, the builder, worked three years at the bench, used the trowel for a year, and passed the remaining three years of his ap prenticeship at the mason's banker. When he was little more than twenty-one. his uncle died, and left his busi ness and his capital jointly to him and to Mr. Thomas Grissell, also a nephew. Their first work was Hungerford Market, their second the new Houses of Parliament, — afterwards placed wholly in the hands of Mr. Grissell. +be Rers - ~" --taad and Cam cry oues . teuu neuae, LIM 1./Ai -- bridge Clubhouse, the Model Prison at Clerkenwell, and many other large structures : the St. James's Theatre was completed by them in thirteen weeks. Tney also entered • very largely into railway works, and to these, after the dissolution of the partnership, Mr. Veto confined his at tention : we may mention more especially the Eastern Counties line, the line from Ashford to Folkestone, the Southampton and Dorchester, the Oxford and Birming ham, and, in conjunction with Messrs. Betts, the whole of the Great Northern line north of Peterborough. When we say that there were employed on his works at one time 10 first-class locomotive engines, 2,3'0 waggons, 916 horses, and 14,800 men, some idea may he gained of their great extent, and of the energy and power required to keep all well in hand. There are many excellent traits recorded of Mr. Peto, but for none does he deserve more honour than for his continued and enlightened efforts to raise the character of the large bodies of men engaged un der him. Mr. Peto has earned for himself a great reputa tion for enlarged views anti liberality, and has shewn how much we may advance our own interests by attending to the interests of others. — The Builder. THE CLAQUEUR SYSTEM.—The system of calling on the principal performers after the play or opera, and half smothering them with bouquets, is a recent importation from the Continent, and looks more like a mockery. Not unfrequently the call originates with half a dozen boys in the gallery, for the mere fun of the thing. I once saw at the end of " The Gamester," Mrs. Beverley, Beverley, Slukeley, and Lewson, successively called Gut and dis missed with the usual gratulations. As the last was dis appearing, a wag shouted out, " Send on Bates and Daw son." I could have given him a shilling, or an order, for the truth and keenness of his satire. The vice of this prac tice lies entirely with the audience, who would do well to abolish it. Sometimes when the call is equivocal, or op posed, which always prolongs the nuisance, the actor is placed within the horns of a dilemma. He neither wishes to appear obtrusive, in presenting - himself too soon, nor disrespectful in abstaining altogether. On the first night of a new play, on a benefit, or a last appearance, the prac tice is legitimate and seasonable ; at all others it becomes ridiculous, and makes the " judicious grieve." The ab surdity appears the more glaring when the favourite has just been despatched by bowl or dagger, and lay stiffened out, as the curtain fell, in the imitation of death. For rest, the American tragedian, when shouted on after act ing in " The Gladiator," came forward, streaming with rose-pink vice blood, resembling a raw-head-and-bloody bones, which made the ladies feel squeamish, while the little children yelled with terror. The claqueur system has not yet arrived with us at the full-blown perfection it has reached in Paris. But it has been tried ever and anon, and sometimes with suitable effect. A few years ago a new play was produced at one of the leading London theatres by a very popular author, and on the falling of the curtain the hero of the night was loudly demanded. He complied, bowed gracefully, and crossed the stage under a volley of bouquets, real and artificial, which strewed the verdant carpet like the dead and dying on a field of battle. The stage servants gathered them up, brought them into the green-room, and asked the mana ger, who was reclining on the sofa, and loved not his lead ing man, what he was to do with them. " Take them to Mr. —," said the potentate, " t hey are meant for him." " Leave them in the property-room." whispered a sly comedian ; " they came from thence."—Dub. Magazine. PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.—The population of this island is . . —males, seventy-seven ; females, seventy-nine; making a total of one hundred and fifty-six. There are twenty married couples, fifteen males unmarried, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five, and eleven females be tween the same ages ; one widow, Susannah, a Tahitian, who came in the Bounty (Young's widow, who cut off the Tahitian's bead, Tetihito, when he was as leep). There is only one instance of twins, one of whom I saw married. The great drawback to the women not marrying more than they do, is chiefly on account of the extra work which falls upon them ; and also, as some of them told me, on account of there not being enough land on the island to support their families. Hard times, inked I. The women generally wear a petticoat from the hip down wards, and over that a loose gown, often with a handker chief thrown loosely over their shoulders. A wreath of flowers round their heads denotes their being unmarried. Their hair is worn in bands, with what was, to my eye, an incomprehensible knot. The men always wear short trousers, the legs of which are cut off six inches above the knee. A shirt and a bat or cap complete their costume. On Sunday the men and women are very particular about their dress, which particularly was even extended to our selves, for they sent us white shirts (we generally wore coloured ones), requesting we would put them on to go to church in. Children generally run about until they are two years old in a state of nature. The men are, generally speaking, well formed and muscular, standing rather above the uusal hei g ht. Th e women are neither tall nor short, but inclined to be rather stout, with a fine skin ; some of them very fair, while others are as dark as Spaniards. Both men and women have fine teeth, especially the latter. The children come very early to the use of their limbs. I have seen one of those little imps walking about at the age of ten months, and was assured that he bad been able to walk two months previously. Quarrels and swearin g are unknown amongst these island ers , w h o are as on large family bred up together they are, in p o i n t of fac t, upon all more or less related to each other, and look each other more as brothers and sisters than anythin g else. The children appeared to be more nursed by their rela tions than by their mothers, which makes it often difficult to distinguish the married from the unmarried. When. ever any passenger, captain. or boat's crew remain on shore all night, each individual is received into a different house for the night,—an excellent plan, as the stranger can then be closely wa t c hed (how sad that surveillanc e should be ever nee ded to keep them out of mi s chief 1) ; while far more information is obtained from them than if they were lodged in a body, in which case only one would be able to speak at a time, and the contributions of the rest to the common stock of knowledge would be lost. The islanders generally take it in turns to entertain strangers, it being looked upon as a privilege rather than troublesome duty.—Burrow's Pitcairn's Island. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. There are several changes in the interior, completed or contemplated, which deserve notice. The first of these is that the gigantic American eagle which overshadowed with its wings the east entrance of the building has been entirely eclipsed by Messrs. Gray and Davidson's organ, which has been recently removed there. The king of birds, after a vain effort to cover the emptiness of the Yankee compartment, appears to be shrinking abashed behind the melodious shelter afforded to it, and our cou sins really have reason to congratulate themselves that their eagle at last shews some traces of modesty and diffi dence. Anotherpoint of interest relates to the Koh-i-noor. After all the work which has been made about that cele brated diamond our readers will be rather surprised to hear that many people find a difficulty in bringing them selves to believe, from its external appearance, that it is anything but a piece of common glass. Amid all the ad ventures that have befallen it, there is, perhaps, none more odd than that its genuineness should now be doubted. Yet so it is. The fact is, that the " Mountain of Light" has been shockingly ill-used in the cutting, And that when placed in the open light of day, without any arrang ements to draw forth its brilliancy, it does not sparkle an d gleam like other jewels of the kind. To obviate this disadvan tage, and demonstrate to the world that the Koh-i-Noor is a veritable diamond, it is to be surrounded with a ca nopy or tent, the interior of which is to be lighted with gas, and the idea is that this will develope its beauties as a gem of the purest water, with a certainty and splendour which undoubtedly are not attained at present. A remarkable feature of Thursday s experience in the interior of the Exhibition was the appearalce there, at an early hour, of nearly 800 agricultural labourers and coun try folk, from the neighbourhood of Godstone, in Surrey, headed by the clergymen of the parishes to which they respectively belonged, and organised for the occasion into companies like a regiment of militia. They paid ls. 6d. each towards the expenses of the trip, the rest bring defrayed by the gentry of the neighbourhood ; and, not withstanding the state of the weather, they were conveyed to the Exhibition and back again to their own homes in a very expeditious manner, and with the utmost :are for their comfort. The railway station was reached by wag gons, and from London-bridge terminus to Westminster they were brought up by steamer. Thence, after seeing Westminster-hall, they proceeded on foot and in march ing order to the Crystal Palace, and, having spent several hours there in exploring the wonders of art and industry, at four o'clock they took their departure, returning as they came. The men wore their smartest smockfrocks, the women their best Sunday dresses, and more perfect specimens of rustic attire, rustic faces, and rustic manners, could hardly be produced from any part of England. The town portion of the assemblage gathered round them as they mustered before departing in the transept, with looks full of curiosity, not unmingled with a species of half pitying interest ; and many were the questions put to them as to what they thought of the Exhibition ? what they were most struck by ? whether they understood what they had seen ? and if they would like to come again ? After some little marshalling they left the Exhibition in close order, moving three abreast—an affecting array of young and old, male and female, in which each observer might read with his own eyes the evidences of a laborious life, little relieved by intelligence or education, but simple, unpretending, and not unaccompanied by domestic virtue and happiness. On Friday the price of admission was half-a-crown, and £2,206 ss. was the amount taken at the doors, the num ber of visitors being 24,520. The Duke of Devonshire has sent to the Crystal Palace a very remarkable contribution in the shape of a hawk, which is executed with great spirit, and studded all over with precious stones. This object will no doubt attract great attention, and will probably be placed in the nave, near the department of Holland. His Grace has also for warded a magnificent snake-chain of silver filligree work, the design of which is singularly chaste and beautiful. We understand that measures are to be at once adopted for allowing the humbler classes easy access to the model cottages of the Prince Consort. The narrowness of the staircase renders it necessary to limit the number of visi tors at a time, but no great practical difficulty is likely to arise from this. The ex-Queen of the French, accompanied by the Duchess of Orleans and several other members of the late King's family, visited the Exhibition on Friday, and were chiefly occupied in examining the industrial products of the country which they so lately ruled. It was an affect ing sight to withess the respectful sympathy of manner with which they were received. M. Salandrouze, with head uncovered, conducted them through the collection, and the Frenchmen present paid all suitable homage to the illustrious visitors. Our countrymen and women were hardly so polite, their curiosity collecting them in a dense mass round the strangers. On Saturday morning the Queen and Prince Albert re sumed their examination of the interior and their personal interviews with exhibitors. Their first visit was paid to the Koh-i-noor, which is now surrounded within a tent, lighted in a particular manner by gas. It was confidently expected that this experiment to develope the lustre of the diatr4ond would be attended with complete success, but the result still remains unsatisfactory. The Norwich shawls, lace, and poplins, which are arranged in the south galleries of the transept, next attracted the attention of the Royal party, and Her Majesty was pleased to make several purchases here. Business in London is still at a stand-still. During Whitsun-week even the streets were not more crowded than usual, nor was attendance at the Crystal Palace larger than it was previously. The theatres and other places of public amusement say they never saw so dull a season. Batty, who must have been at enormous expense in the erection and fitting up of his Hippodrome at Ken sington, is said to be losing some two or three hundred pounds a week. Lord Stanley, at the annual dinner of the Merchant Tailors' Company, London, on Wednesday last, in a bril liant speech, testified to the success of the Great Exhi bition. Up to . the present time there are among 'the articles found in the Exhibition and deposited with the police, 75 parasols and 175 silk handkerchiefs, which have not been claimed. A silver watch and two or three purses, with money enclosed therein, are also included in the unclaimed list. . Mr. Ruskin, in one of the appendices to his recently. published " Stories of Venice," thus justly criticises and condemns the Great Glass Building in Hyde Park : " All art which is worth its room in this world, all art which is not a piece of blundering refuse, is art which proceeds from an individual mind, working through instruments which assist, but do not supersede the muscular action of the human hand, upon the materials which most tenderly receive, and most se curely retain, the impressions of such human labour. And the value of every work of art is exactly in the ratio of the quan tity of humanity which has been put into it, and legibly ex pressed upon it for ever :—First, of thought and moral purpose; secondly, of technical skill ; thirdly, of bodily industry. The quantity of bodily industry which the Crystal Palace expresses is very great. So far it is good. The quantity of thought it expresses is, I suppose, a single thought of Mr. Paxton's, pro bably not a bit brighter than thousands of thoughts which pass through his active and intelligent brain every hour—that it was possible to build a greenhouse larger than any greenhouse was built before. This thought and some very ordinary algebra, are as much as all that glass can represent of human intellect. But one poor half-pennyworth of bread to all this intolerable deal of sack.' Alas I The earth bath bubbles as the water hath : And this is of them.' " Etntral Sir Thomas and Lady Hesketh arrived on Friday at London from Antwerp. Earl Grey has felt compelled to reduce his rents twenty five per cent. Mr. Huggins, a solicitor in London, has beenremanded on a charge of setting fire to his house. Viscount Melville died on Tuesday night at Melville Castle, near Edinburgh, in his 80th year. At Barnsley, a colliery explosion occurred on Monday, by which three men engaged on a new shaft were killed. Not one fourth of the operatives in Macclesfield are em ployed. Monday week completed the sixth year of Sir John Franklin's absence from England ! Cigars are now tipped with amber at the end next the mouth ; by this means cigar -tubes are quite superseded. The Marchioness of Lothian was received into the Ro man Catholic Church on Wednesday last. The hay harvest has commenced in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen. Above 40 yards of the bank of the Glamorganshire Ca nal fell in at Nantgarw, on Saturday night week, and stopped the navigation. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against William Eastwood of Wandsworth, for the murder of his wife, by stabbing her with a table knife on the 4th inst. It is stated that Government intend to compel the pre payment by stamps of all prepaid letters passing through the Postoffice. No fewer than three of her Majesty's inspectors of schools have published opinions that the time has come for an education rate. The late heavy rains seem to have been general through out the country, and the reports from all quarters as to the growing crops are good. On Saturday evening, an old building in Whitechapel, London, fell to the ground, killing two boys and injuring a labourer. The Birmingham papers congratulate the button makers on the fact, that Prince Albert attended Ascot Races and also Drury-lane Theatre wearing gilt buttons. In a list of the wills which have been recently proved, with the amount on which the probate duty was paid, we find that of Mr. R. Newcombe, the proprietor of the Stamford Mercury, for £500,000. Mr. Thorrington blew his brains out at Strand•on-the Green, Chiswick, on Tuesday. His wife, from whom he had been long separated, had returned to his house, and in the excitement he had destroyed himself. A man died in London, on Monday, from lockjaw, re sulting from a slight injury caused to his nose by his fall. ing heavily on the pavement while he was walking to a friend's house. . _ A select committee of the House of Commons have de cided that Smithfield should be done away with, and a new commodious market erected in the suburbs of the metropolis. The Ryde bench of magistrates have committed a man, named Alfred Pressley, to the Winchester assizes, for the manslaughter of Mr. Cole, on the first day of polling at the recent election for the Isle of Wight. Eight of Mr. Green's splendid fleet of Indiamen arrived in London within the last few days. Alfred, 1,400 tons ; Agincourt. 1,5,50 tons; Earl of Ilardwicke, 1,000 tons; Carnatie, 800 ton q • Trafalgar, 1,250 tons ; Vernon, 1,000 tons; and P r i nce Of Wales, 1,350 tons. Corporal Wilson, Royal Artillery, and gunner Evans, stationed at Bovisand:battery, lost their lives on Friday night last, on returning' from Devonport in a boat, the bows of which were stove in while under canvass near White-patch, Staddon HeightS; A man named Teasdale has just died by arsenic, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Suspicion attaches to the widow, and the authorities have ordered the exhumation of the body of her first husband, who died under strange circumstances ten years ago. Two men, Murphy and Keefe, have been committed for trial at the next Monmouthshire Assizes, by a coro ner's jury, on the charge of wilfully murdering Thomas Dowd, of Newport, by stabbing him in the bowels with a pocket knife, the former being committed as principal, and his companion as accessory. THE AGAPEMONE.—A house in Bristol having - sent some goods to " The Abode of Love," had the bill re turned to be made out afresh, according to the following note :—" The Agapemone, near Bridgwater, sth June, 1851.—Messr9. W. and Co. The enclosed bill is returned, to be made out with the proper address, namely : My Lord, the Agapemone, &c." ! ! AN AFRICAN EXHIBITOR.—Mr. Gordon Cumming's " African," who attends the exhibition got up by the mighty hunter, went out on Sunday, got drunk, bilked a cabman, and hit a gentleman. He told the magistrate that he " would like to go back naked to his own coun try." He was fined 305., and his master was foolish enough to pay it. ROTTEN EGGS IN DEMAND. — Capt. Williams, of the Army and Navy Club, and Messrs. Henry and Thomas Dimsdale, sons of the banker of that name, three of the vulgar rich, took with them to Ascot a hamper of rotten eggs, and on their way home pelted unoffending indivi duals, much better than themselves. We trust that the blockheads will be Somersetted. _ _ _ _ _ A man named Scott has been apprehended in Leeds for shooting at a female named Widdop, and afterwards discharging another pistol at himself. Mrs. Widdop was wounded in the side, but not dangerously. Scott him self is seriously injured. He has been depressed in spirits for a length of time, and it is supposed that his mind was affected. The report that a cairn of stones, raised by Sir John Franklin's expedition, had been discovered in Jones's Sound in 1848, by the Prince of Wales whaler, has re ceived within these few days very distinct confirmation, rendering the statement by far the most important—pre sumptive or otherwise—which has yet reached us respect ing the missing expedition. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A hostile meeting took place early on Tuesday morning, between Lieutenant S. M. Hawkins, of the 97th Foot, and Viscount Maldon, Royal Horse Guards Blue, the former attended by Mr. B. L. Donys, the latter by Captain Brownrigg. Lord Maldon received the fire of his adversary, and discharged his pis tol in the air. Thus far the affair terminated. A short time ago Miss Mary Charlton, of Linnel Wood, near Hexham, having gone into Cornwall to visit her brother, at Callington, near Devonport, proceeded on horseback to visit a castle in the neighbourhood, and not long afterwards, she was found lying on the road quite aead, having been thrown, it was supposed, from the horse on which she was riding. A correspondent of the Globe states that his attention has been directed, by accident, to a coffee-shop in the vicinity of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, where are sleeping eighty-six foreigners, averaging three and a half in a bed — the beds being arranged in two opposite rows, in perfect adaptation, so as to preclude any side approach, and to leave him to infer that most of them must get in at the bottom. The house, he says, has not healthy accommo dation for twenty. DECREASE OF PAUPERISM.—At a General Court of the Corporation of the Poor of Bristol, held on Thursday evening, the Deputy-Governor, T. F. Gilbert, Esq., stated that when the poor-law auditor, Mr. Whittaker, was in Bristol, a short time since, he took the opportunity of in quiring of him what was the state of pauperism in the dis tricts which he audited. His reply-was, that there was a very marked decrease in every union, and more especially in the agricultural districts, where the decrease was greater than in the manufacturing districts.—Daily News. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—The Ipswich E. press contains an account of a rather singular accident, by which a young farmer named Ambrose lost his life, at Cavendish. On the evening of Sunday, accompanied by a friend, both being in high spirits, but sober, he was going home, when, seeing three trees lying by the side of the road, they pro posed to each other to have a lark by capsizing them into the ditch. They succeeded in overturning two, and while engaged with the third, the deceased lost his and fell with his head downwards into the ditch, the piece of timber falling upon his breast, causing instant death. PRINTING THE SCRIPTURES.-011 Tuesday, a parlia mentary return, obtained by Mr. Hume, was printed, from which it appears that the Queen's printers printed, from the Ist of January, 1848, to the 31st of December last, 1,157,500 Bibles and 752,000 Testaments. The drawback of paper duty received was in the same period £7,723 Bs. 101 d. At Oxford University Press, in 1848, 261,500 Bibles and 262,000 Testaments were printed. In 1849, 308,500 Bibles and 253,500 Testaments, whilst, in 1850, there were 305,750 Bibles and 235,000 Testaments. At Cambridge, in the three years, the number was 138,500 Bibles and 204,000 Testaments.—Daily News. DEATH THROUGH SOMNAMBULISM.—About half-past twelve o'clock on the morning of the 19th of May last, the wife of John Whiteside, of Kirkham, was awakened from her sleep by the noise of a fall. She found the window oon, and saw something on the ground below. Her husband was missing from bed, and on going down stairs she discovered that the object on the floor was her hus band. She got assistance, and had the unfortunate man conveyed into the house. When he became sensihle, he stated that he was dreaming when he went through the window. He was so much hurt that, despite the services of the surgeons ho died on Friday.—Preston Chronicle. SUICIDE BY THE HUSBAND OF THE NOTORIOUS MARY MAY.—The cottage of Mary May, of Wix, in this county, the wretched woman who was executed at Springfield gaol in 1848, for the murder of William Constable, her half brother, by poisoning him, was the scene of another tragedy on Monday last, her husband Robert May, hav ing put a period to his existence by hanging himself. The hovel in question, which we are told presents an almostjunparalleled: exhibition of wretchedness has been. as a correspondent remarks, the cradle, as it were,7of three violent deaths and the seat of so much injury that the parishioners are desirous that it should be let elled with the ground—a course which in all probability will be adopted, the structure itself being unfit for the habitation of any human being.—Chelmsford Chronicle. A LADY'S MEMENTO TO HER DOG.--A lady in the western part of this county has attracted some local atten tion by the marks of affection she has exhibited to the memory of a dead dog. A correspondent reports to us as follows :—" The dog was of some ugly breed unknown to me, and died lately. A painter was brought from Edin burgh to take its likeness, for which he received the trifling sum of fifty guineas. A sculptor was brought from a distance to erect a headstone at the grave. Flowers and evergreens were planted round the tomb, and the whole was enclosed with a substantial railing. The epitaph on the gravestone is, ' Sacred to the memory of Viper !' " —Perthshire Advertiser. According to Dr. Ure, it does not appear that any sum exceeding £150,000 has ever been given for a diamond. This statement, made in the year 1820, has since received signal confirmation. On July 20th, 1837, was sold in London, the celebrated Nassuck diamond, as large as a good-sized walnut, weighing 3574 grains, of dazzling whiteness, and as pure as a drop of dew ; when this mag nificent gem, though estimated by the East India Com pany to be worth £30,000, realized only £7,200, or less than one-fourth of its reputed value. One of the largest diamonds in the world, belonging to the house of Bra ganza, and about the size of a pullet's egg, is valued by lapidaries in Brazils at three hundred million pounds sterling. EMIGRATION OF QUARRYMEN. —It iS stated that a large number of the best and most experienced of the men employed in the extensive slate quarries in North Wales are preparing, during the course of the ensuing summer, to emigrate to the United States. Numbers have already gone over, and the reason assigned for the departure of these men is the heavy amount of local taxation and the smallness of remuneration for labour. It is stated that the rate of payment in the American quarries is nearly three times greater than the amount which can be realised in the Welch workings. Several instances hare recently occurred where men who left their native land deeply in volved in debt have been enabled by the excellence of remuneration for their toil to remit the amount of their debts in full. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT KINGSWOOD. — We learn from the Bath Chronicle of Thursday, that altogether eight of the persons injured by the boiler explosion, near Bristol, have died, and others of the sufferers are in a precarious state. The coroner's inquest on the bodies of some of the sufferers has concluded in the following ver dict : " That the deceased men died from injuries upon their beads and bodies, caused by the explosion of steam from the burst ing of a boiler of a certain steam-engine, and that the said explosion was caused by the want of care and attention of John Burchell the engineer, who had charge of the said engine." The verdict is tantamount to manslaughter against the engineer, who, with his two sons, is among the victims of his own carelessness. One of the poor fellows has left behind him nine and another seven children wholly un provided for. At the London Mansion-house, on Monday, the noto rious Joseph Adv appeared to answer another claim of the Postoffice forl7 15s. due for the postage of 2,142 returned letters. Joseph first objected to the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor, declaring it was a case for the County Courts, and then begged for indulgence, being an infirm man, now nearly eighty years of age. On being asked how long it would be before he could pay the money, he begged for six months, and then to pay by instalments. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor: Is there any objection to give him fourteen days. Mr. Peacock : No, but we know that the interval will be occupied in posting more letters. The Lord Mayor : Then the money must be paid in seven days. I cannot help feeling for an aged man who thus obstinately transgresses ; but there is no possibility of al lowing such an interference with the business of so im portant an establishment. THE TEETH AND BREATH. -- How often do we find the human face divine disfigured by neglecting the chiefest of its ornaments, and the breath made disagreeable to com panions by non-attention to the Teeth ! Though perfect in their structure and composition, to keep them in a pure and healthy state requires some little trouble • :rid if those who are blessed with well-formed teeth ew how soon decay steals into the mouth, making u ghtly what other wise is delightful to admire, and de- o natine unhealthiness by the impurity of the breath, ey would spare no ex pense to chase away these fa demishes. But although most ladies are careful, a. even particular in these deli cate matters, yet few a sufficiently aware of the impera tive necessity of ay& • ing all noxious or mineral substances of an acrid natu • , and of which the greater part of the cheap tooth po i era of the present day are composed. It is highly sa -factory to point out Messrs. Rowlands' Odonto, o 'earl Dentifrice, as a preparation free from all injurio = .lements, and eminently calculated to arnhellish and preserve the dental structure, to impart a grateful fragrance to the breath, and to embeilifh and perpetuate the grace of the mouth.—Court Journal. A young man named Ship, who was in custody charged with having stolen seven bullocks at Northampton, and handcuffed to a policeman, jumped out of a train when near Wolverton, on Friday, dragging the officer with him. The train having proceeded some distance, the prisoner rose, and finding that he had sustained no injury, but that the officer had broken one of his legs, insisted upon the key of the handcuffs being given up to him ; and, follow ing this by gross ill-usage, his captor, unable to rise and defend himself, was obliged to comply, when the prisoner disengaged himself and made off. The injured officer was shortly afterwards found lying in an exhausted state by some men in the employ of the railway company. Ship has not since been heard of, but as he is well known to the police, there is but little probability of his remaining undiscovered. THE EARL OF CARLISLE'S RENT DAY VMS at Na worth Castle on Monday last. There was no abatement of rent. The free-trade earl, notwithstanding the admit ted depression amongst " those embarked in the pursuit of agriculture as zheir means of living," and notwithstand ing his own protestations, evinces no inclination to resign any part of his income in mitigation of that depression. Far different is the conduct of the old Duke of Wellington, who never made any such protestations. The only notable thing wt.ich occurred at the dinner was an old farmer, who had fortified himse If with a good allowance of ale and punch, getting up and delivering himself of the following speech : —"Gentlemen, aw (all) I can say is, that I've lost money by farming the last three years, and there isn't a man at the table but what can say the same if he durst, but he darn't. And now he may take and shut me up in Belt Willy's dungeon, ye'll get me to keep there, I cannot keep mysel." (Great dismay at the beast of the table.)—Car lisle Patriot. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—At the Thames police court on Friday, J. E. Dunbar, the noted Chartist Lau reate, was brought up, charged with stealing Is. 6d. from his father's till. On being asked what he had to say, he replied, wildly :—" I am an injured man, I am the victim of misrepresentation. It was a paragraph in the Times that caused all this. I want only justice." Here the prisoner, notwithstanding the vigilance of Roche the gaoler, suddenly bounded out of the dock, and sprung upon the table at which the solicitor and reporters usually sit, and it was apprehended that he was about to attack the magistrate ; but the gaoler and Serjeant Ball, and Walsh, of the H. division, suddenly rushed upon him, on which he threw himself on his back, and began to kick so furiously with his heavy boots es to split the table from one end to the other, dashing the ink into the lap of the reporter, and besmearing the whole place with the con tents of the inkstands. He was secured with much diffi culty, and conveyed to a cell, where Mr. Ingham directed that he should be kept in a close surveillance lest be should do to himself some personal injury. When the confusion subsided, and the place was got somewhat to rights, the prisoner's father said that apprehending the young man's intellect was in abeyance, he bad applied for a certificate to that effect, but had not succeeded in securing one. A PROPHECY.—We assert boldly now, although instead of five we would have awaited seven years, that, agricul ture ruined already, Manchester is on the eve of ruination certain and sure from free imports. Do you doubt ? Ask the brother of Mr Cobden then, in Mosley Street, Man chester, as he is, and his works somewhere near Morley, the very print works where his brother of a great name made money, if ever he made any, how he fares under free trade ? Ask Messrs Wells, Cook, and Potter, his neighbours, how they have increased their profits and property, almost the best home trade in Manchester, as, before free imports, they formerly had, and yet the par ticularly stupid people subscribed some hundreds to the Cobden hoaorario of £70,000 ? Ask the Thomsons of Clitheroe, those highly scientific gentlemen and proprietors of most extensive works, whose products are well known all the world over ? We now can briefly undertake to say that we all, and every one of us, all interests agricul tural, industrial, and commercial, are on the verge of a tremendous crisis. How it will end rests with the great Providence overruling all things. You have the Bel shazzar Feast in the grand, and grandly absurd, exhibi tion, and the awful finger marks on the wall ! We say that from this day you must date the decay of this great empire. The day will come, and that ere long, when people will say of an accomplished prince, who cannot know much of the genius of Englend and Englishmen, not more than he could collect in a court of fawning Whig servitors, that, as the courtly, indiscreet, and ex aggerating flatterer Lord Ashburton said at the dinner we referred to last week, in the opposite sense, " he has done it all."—Newcastle Journal. A TAILOR'S BILL.—At Westminster County Court, on Monday, one of the Irish Brigade figured as a defen dant in an action with his tailor, under circumstances that created considerable merriment. The action was brought by Mr. Hayes, a tailor, to recover from The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P. for Clare, the sum of £6 Bs.. for goods supplied, and work and labour done. £4 16s. had been paid into court :—" The defendant said he had paid only that sum into court, being all he considered the plaintiff entitled to. The proceedings, he added, were instituted to obtain the whole demand, it being supposed that he would sooner pay it than expose the transaction in a pub lic court. In the first place, be was induced to patronise the plaintiff by seeing one of his circulars, wherein he proposed to make a dress coat for £2 10s., and, wishing to save a better one, he gave him an order, and was charged £3. He then gave him cloth to make a ' Ches terfield' for £1 Is., but was charged £1 10s.; and on showing it to some friends at the house,' instead of a ' Chesterfield' it was pronounced by them to be a ' sack.' (Laughter.) In the next place he supplied cloth for a pair of trowsers, and for spoiling the cloth the plaintiff had charged Bs. 6d., besides 2s. 6d. for altering and re spoiling them by stitching up the front part instead of the back. (Laughter.) The other items were similarly exorbitant. A witness, named 'Whitney, thought £1 for making the Chesterfield' a fair charge. Plaintiff said that the coat was a full-dress blue body coat, and a regu lar wedding coat. (Laughter.) Defendant—A wedding coat! Plaintiff—Yes; you told me it was to attend a wedding in—(laughter)—and you wore the trowsers for twelve months. Defendant—Why, I declare that I never wore them in my life, for I couldn't get into them. (Loud laughter.) His honour, having inspected the plain tiff's bill, gave judgment for 30s. in addition to the money paid into court." DOING PENANCE.—On Sunday the 4th ult., after the performance of the morning service in the mother church, Aberystwith, a scene of a novel nature in this part of the country, was performed in the vestry-room. The chief actor in the affair was Mr. Jas. Davies, of Ffosrbydgaled, near that plaie, who filled the office of sheriff for the county two years ago. This person, it appears, published a very gross libel reflecting on the chastity of the wife of a gentleman, a magistrate of the county. There was no foundation whatever for the statement, which originated in a malicious feeling, and occasioned great pain and annoyance to the parties who were the subject of it. The matter not being cognizable in the courts of common law, proceedings were taken in the Arches Court. The defendant pleaded guilty to the libel, and was condemned by the judge, Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, in the costs of the suit, and ordered to do penance in the vestry-room of the church in which the party libelled resided, by pronouncing a retractation of the libel, and asking forgiveness of the party libelled. The penance was enjoined to be done on Sunday the 4th of May, after the sermon, in the old church, which is situated a mile and a half east of Abery stwith. Long before the hour for the commencement of the service had arrived, a large concourse of well-dressed persons had assembled in the churchyard, and immedi ately the church doors were opened every pew was occu pied, and it was found necessary to secure the doors to prevent further ingress. The crowd outside were very indecorous, and the service was on more tFan one occa sion interrupted. The venerable vicar preached a very appropriate discourse, in which he strongly inculcated brotherly love and charity. The sermon having been brought to a conclusion, a simultaneous rush was made to the vestry-room, which was soon filled, whilst the windows were darkened by the crowd of persons outside, who had collected round them. The church-wardens, with the vicar and curate in their surplices, were present. The defendant was accompanied by his solicitor, Mr. Roberts, of this town, whilst Mr. Stephens, solicitor, of l'resteign, attended on behalf of the plaintiff. The vicar read the retractation, which was of a most humiliating character, in a loud and audible voice, the defendant repeating it after him. The defendant, having signed the retractation, left the vestry-room under the care of the turd police, the crowd following him, shouting "slan derer," " libeller," &c.—Hereford Journal. INHUMAN TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.—At the Wor ship-street Police-court, London, on Wednesday last Lucy Macdonald, a well-dressed woman but of dissipated appearance. was charged at the instance of the parish officers of Stepney with scandalously neglecting and other wise cruelly illtreating three children, who had been placed under her care by their father, the warder of the gaol at Dartmouth, in Devonshire. The prisoner resided in Queen-street, Cambridge-road, Mile-end, and in con sequence of the great exasperation of mobs who collected around her house ) alleging that she was most cruelly ill treating three children placed under her charge, a police sergeant, accompanied by the relieving overseer o f the district, proceeded to the prisoner's house; on entering a room on the ground-floor they found Henry Brooks, the eldest boy, and his sister Catherine, with a younger boy, five years of age, and an illegitimate child belonging to the prisoner herself, all of whom presented the most filthy and wretched appearance, having scarcely anything upon them to cover their skins. It was elicited upon questioning the first three children, that their father had left them under the care of the prisoner about 9 months previously, when he was appointed to his situation at Dartmouth, but that he had regularly remitted to the prisoner from 17s. to £1 per week for their maintenance. They stated, however, that the principal food the prisoner gave them was dry bread and a little tea, and that she was in the habit of cruelly beating them, sometimes with the wooden roller of a blind, and sometimes with an instrument which the children called a heavy stick, but on its being pointed out to the officer he found it to be the bottom bar of a window frame. The little boy also stated that he had likewise another brother about ten years old, who had been so cruelly beaten by the prisoner a few months before that he watched for an opportunity of escaping from the house, ran away, and he bad neither seen nor heard of him since. The appearance of all the children indicated that they were nearly in a state of star vation, and the youngest child was in such an emaciated condition as to resemble a perfect skeleton. The priso ner was found in an upper room in a beastly state ofintoxica tion, and the police had great difficulty in removing her to the station house, in consequence of the v iolence of the mob. The eldest of the children, who complained that he had not tasted animal food for a fortnight, stated that the woman had no excuse for her in human conduct on the ground of poverty, as she had within that period received a draught for £4 10s. from the father of her gitimate child, an o ffi cer in the army , stationed with his regiment at Malta, in addition_to the usual remittance of 17s. per week from their father. After a s hort hearing by the magistrate, the case was remanded, PI order that the board of guardians may be consulted. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their children, went to the Zoological Gardens, in Regent's Park, on Tuesday, and in the evening to the Italian Opera.—On Wednesday, the Queen and Prince, with their royal guests, revisited the Great Exhibition, and in the evening her Majesty had a dinner party at Buckingham Castle. — On Thursday, the royal party paid another visit to the Exhibition, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, took leave of her Majesty and departed for th; continent. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lord John Manners, M.P., and Miss Louisa Georgina Marley, only daughter of the late Colonel Marley, and grand daughter of the Countess Dowager of Charleville, were solemnised on Tuesday last, at the church of All Souls, Langham-place. The bride was attended by the following young ladies as bride's maids :—Lady Henrietta Fermor, Lady Beaujolois Bury, Lady Elizabeth Hervey, Lady Ka therine Howard, the Hon. Miss Boyle, and Miss Moore. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Norman, brother-in-law to the noble bridegroom. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the party proceeded to the residence of Mrs. Marley, in Cavendish-square, where a sumptuous breakfast was laid out. Amongst the distin guished company present were his Grace the Duke of Rutland, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, the Duches of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the Duchess of Richmond and Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the Marquis of Granby, &c. The happy couple left town in the course of the afternoon, for Haddon ball, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, in Derbyshire. HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. The State Ball on Friday, at the Buckingham Palace, so graciously designed by her Majesty to give an impetus to the trade of the metropolis. could hardly have failed to have effected its object even if the nobility had not been endued with the same patriotic spirit that animated the sovereign. The period selected by the Queen for this ball was hap pily chosen, in being about midway (in point of costume) between the two previous jetes of similar character given in the present reign—when the martial and chivalric cos tume, at its zenith in the time of the third Edward, had entirely passed away, and before the advent of William of Orange had changed so completely the brilliant and ele gant character of the dress of the English Court. The period represented on Friday night at her Majesty's ball—the restoration of Charles ll.—was one when in matters of costume the Courts of England and that of Louis XIV. were identical, and may be regarded as almost the termi nation of that time when elegance, costliness, and variety in dress tended so much to the splendour and influence of the court. The alteration from this period was very rapid, every succeeding sovereign gradually denuding the court dress of some of its elegance and splendour. Velvet, silk, satin, feathers, &c., ceased to be the materials for the gentlemen's court dress, and, hastily, gold lace and em broidery were removed from it. The revivification of this gay court could not therefore but have a very material effect on certain classes of trade. Some of the dresses displayed a remarkable degree of taste as well as splendour, and many were strictly histo rical. The baldrics worn by the gentlemen displayed very many beautiful specimens of gold embroidery, and the patterns were designed with great taste, and varied with nice effect with dead and bright gold. Velvet, satin, and gold and silver tissues formed the staple of most of the dresses, and the consumption of ribands must have been enormous • not only were the doublets, trunks, and sleeves ornamented with ribands, but each gentleman wore, from where the modern waistcoat terminates, a great mass of looped ribands, suspended much in the same way as a Highlander's phillibeg ; the coat sleeves, too, terminating at the elbow. The shirt sleeves were also bound and or namented with ribands, and this, without counting the quantity employed in trimming the ladies' dresses, must have formed a vast aggregate. Many of the gentlemen so thoroughly entered into the feeling that prompted this Bal Costume that they repu diated the attractions of old point, and procured beautiful specimens of Honiton point lace for their collars and ruffles. Lord Overstone displayed some beautiful Honi ton point lace in this way, made for the especial purpose. and the beautiful silver watered tissue of the Duke of Nor folk's dress was manufactured at Spitalfields for this occasion. The company began to arrive at a very early hour— twenty minutes before nine o'clock—and continued to arrive in one uninterrupted stream for above two hours. One of the first things that struck the eye in this gay and brilliant assembly was the greater effect produced by the costumes of the gentlemen than those of the ladies ; for the dress of the latter did not appear so far removed from the fashion of the present Court dress as that of the gentlemen, than which nothing could be a greater con trast. Some of the dresses of the ladies displayed extra ordinary splendour, and with the costumes of the gentle men produced a living and truthful picture of the period represented. Among the earlier arrivals was Miss Burdett Coutts, who displayed some most magnificent jewels. Miss Coutts wore, among other ornaments, a broad band of emeralds and diamonds, worn in the same manner as a gentleman's baldrick, over the left shoulder to the right hip, where it terminated in a very large clasp of diamonds, used to fasten back the dress, which opened in front and displayed the petticoat ; a bandeau of large single-stone brilliants passed across the back. Mrs. John Towneley displayed a very elegant costume of cloth of gold trimmed with bows of purple riband and pearls. The American Minister dis played a very handsome dress of blue velvet, richly trimmed with gold lace, a gold baldrick, and a scarlet velvet man tle. The Marchioness of Londonderry's costume was ex ceedingly splendid. A girdle of diamonds and a diamond border or Berthe on the top of the corsage were among the profuse display of jewels on this magnificent dress, which was of dark crimson velvet. Her headdress was also peculiar, being a sort of csp or coronet of jewels. Sir William and Lady Molesworth both displayed very beau tiful jewels across the shoulder. The Marquis of Clan ricarde, Colonel the Hon. George Cadogan, Lieutenant Seymour Damer, and many others, displayed beautiful costumes of the perfocir The national costumes of the Turkish Minister, his Attaches, the Prince A. de Vogo rides, and that of M. de Lodoriki, (a very beautiful Greek dress,) produced a great effect from their singularity in such an assemblage. Among the dresses not of our own Court, though of the same period, were those of Lord Ernest Bruce, who wore an extremely beautiful dress as a Venetian nobleman ; Lord Holland, who wore a dress. apparently Venetian—a long mantle completely enveloping the figure. of a material resembling Utrecht or uncut vel vet on cloth of gold, and a square velvet cap edged with fur. Lord Campbell, the Chief Justice of England, appeared in the costume of Chief Justice Hale ; and Baron Parke wore the dress of a judge of the time. The suite of the state rooms thrown open for this ball were the Green Drawing-room and its antiroom, the Throne-room, the Picture-gallery, Ball-room, Saloon, Yellow Drawing-room, the State Dining-room, and the Garter-room. These beautiful apartments were illumi nated and decorated in a manner to display their magni ficence and their artistic treasures with the most consum mate effect. A throne was erected for her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the middle of the west side of the Throne-room. The throne was sur mounted by a square canopy of crimson velvet, surmounted with a gilt cornice ; from the velvet depended a double row of gold bullion fringe. The outer draperies were of crim son velvet with gold fringe; the inner draperies of muslin were worked in coloured flowers and trimmed with silver. The interior of the throne and canopy were lined with white flowered satin and barred with silver fringe. The chairs of state were placed on a haut-pas, which was covered with crimson, the chairs themse'ves being of crimson satin and gold. Some of the choicest and most beautiful flowering plants were placed behind and around the chairs of state. Seated on this throne, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert received their numerous and distinguished guests at the commencement of the ball. The Throne-room and the Ball-room were appropriated to dancing—temporary orchestras being erected in each for the quadrille bands. The Garter and the Green Drawing-rooms were set apart for refreshments during the evening, and supper was served in the State Dining- MOM. Her Majesty's Body Guard, under the command of the Marquis of Donegal, was on duty in the palace—his lord ship as captain—Sir George Lee (lieutenant), and the four Exons or Captaines Exempts de la garde du corps, Cap tains Kincaid, Phibbs, Be!lairs, and Rickford, wore the splendid uniform of the corps during the reign of Charles 11. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice Chamber lain to the Throne-room. Her Majesty wore le grand habit de cour of the fashion of the Court of Louis XIV., introduced from France by Charles H. The skirt of the dress was composed of rich grey watered silk trimmed with gold and silver lace, and ornamented with bows of rose-coloured ribands fastened by bouquets of diamonds. The front of the dress was open, and the under skirt was made of cloth of gold, em broidered in a shawl pattern in silver, scolloped and trimmed with silver fringe. The gloves and shoes em broidered alternately with roses and Ileum delis in gold. Her Majesty wore on the front of the body of the dress four large pear-shaped emeralds of immense value. His Royal Highness Prince Albert wore a coat of cloth of gold, ornamented with bows of rose-coloured ribband and jewellery ; a hat trimmed with rose-coloured and white feathers ; stockings of grey silk. Her Majesty being seated on the Throne, the general company were ushered into the Royal presence, entering the Throne-room from the Green Drawing-room, where they had previously assembled. The numerous and brilliant Court walked in procession up the whole length of the room, and making an obeisance before the Throne, passed into the Picture Gallery from the entrance to the west side of the . apartment. This being concluded a Herald of Arms, (the Hon. Leopold Ellis), in the full costume of the office of this pe riod, followed by the four Pages of the Four National Quadrilles (Lord Vaughan, Hon. Se, mour Egerton, Lord Richard Grosvenor, and Mr. Fraser), each in the characteristic dress of the nation represented, entered the Throne-room, and approaching her Majesty made a pro found reverence. The Herald and Pages then retired and joined the National Quadrilles assembled in the adjoining department. The orchestra now commenced playing a march, and the Spanish Quadrille entered the Throne-room preceded by their Page (the Hon. Seymour Egerton), in the follow ing order : Viscountess Canning Lord Harry Vane Viscountess Jocelyn Earl Bruce Countess Craven Lord George Paget Countess Bruce Earl of Wilton Lady Emma Vesey Viscount Jocelyn Frances Countess of Wal- Marquis d'Azeglio degrave Viscountess Sydney M. Sampayo Countess of Granville lion. F. Leveson Gower. June 17, 101. • f OP ° This quadrille presented a striking unifornutf * ance, all the notaem,ai, membersadoptillarevace., tume, and all the ladies in it being dressed exaciviVehf.sai This was followed by the French Quadrille' 00 0 succeeded by the Scotch and Irish, each being nim eee e ;,, of eight ladies and eight gentlemen. At the e° t ag, ment of the dancing, her Majesty led a Polon whole of the company following two and two. pd, the The introductory dances having been Perferr°-.oo°' general company prepared for the usual dances. them were noticed the P wa rince of Lat einithenzen• h or,' ° o'cl° c "; An elegant supper s served usu al k the ball terminated by the Queen retiring at two. et, jh i His serene highness wore a coat of black p o l o t, cuffs of gold brocade, edged with gold lace, ti,ebuttal the coat and the cuffs ornamented with gold „f bli f f The waistcoat of gold brocade. The breeches : L os e, veliet, with gold lace down the sides. The sto.!„,. red silk, and the gloves ornamented with gold fr i lr gold baldrick supported a sword mounted is , 0 hat was edged with gold lace, and was., e t t' O fota n ,/,'e white and red feathers placed alternately. Do w ' tied ' 4 , riband were placed on the shoulders, and ale ° o bi; Hi s sere breeches at the knees, and the shoes. nes3 wore the Star of the Order of the Garter.. bri ca s j The Duke of Wellington appeared in them olt b t es alc tume of the period, of scarlet and gold. the breec h or e t at the bottom with gold and lace. His grac e o und riband of the most noble Order of the Garter rijanjoyA neck, and the George suspended was formed o f fo tri: f The dress of Lady Fanny Howard consisted ° I; t elf i l ti c and boddice of rich white satin, lined with bbod°) and looped hack with amethysts and jewels , !"" tt s and sleeves fastened over a fine lawn cheameeds. amethysts and diamonds. A girdle of dial/3°11..0i O A petticoat of peach coloured moire antique, tr i° l vel c `; fine old point lace, headed with pearls and We ugh Head dress, pearls and diamonds twisted t br° hair. f t t s ia e Lord Foley wore the uniform of the CO. o t . 0; 1 4 Gentlemen Pensioners of the time :—A Ns" i r oot."io cloth, richly emhroidered with gold down the skirt. The cuffs of blue velvet, richly embroi.eor;o6lo' gold. The breeches of scarlet cloth, fastened 1, 8 cle t i silk scarves at the knees. The baldrick of seer.; r ibaei magnificently embroidered in gold. White s ar to p , 5 °,0 shoulder knots. The shirt sleeves double trimmed with scarlet ribands. A beautiful collerio and knee ruffles of point lace. Black velvet •11 A 10,1 plume of white ostrich feathers. face - o.' Lord Ward wore a crimson satin mantle, broad white satin, laced round with the handsomest. " r et lace. A doublet of imperial blue velvet. trialuraeleitcv broad gold lace, and puffed with white satin• a s aqi,i) breeches, puffed with white satin, and Wee' sides with a double row of gold lace, and Ino r - 01 „"Na crimson ribands. Crimson velvet baldrick, crimson satin, and richly embroidered with g° feat" velvet hat, with plume of white and crimson ty looped up with jewels. 0 4 0 4 His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge/0(J uniform of a cavalry officer of the period- - s ea n r tetUd , with gold lace, with blue breeches, ornern e ;4 rierd gold lace, and tied at the knees with bows of IL 40,.10p The baldrick nearly covered with ttold—bil 'l o ° ol' r a brown hat with a red feather, the former " rr with a gold button. oree;a' Baron de Brunnow the Russian minister, iosaret markable costume, being the dress of a Russ ian s - o dor of the year 1660. It was composed i o d B th kafetan of green velvet, with bars of gold la c ` tv er e' f or buttons in front, and an under kafetan of s " ; ,itelf hr or, having in front a double row of flowers, ortl u j - ii etP; broidered in colours, with a deep border of go. olu o o Tesbmzmbbag d enroo e dhiieTeea r btoddeene y ,uhetdhtnsgtwti ryoenthiv n aol .rthßeedi affna e lp.unjavv i beyer t rewdTi doe i tTa slhwi e gelmfw r hoeealsaeoswaias s anbostftg i nchdodfenvaddßnddesiepgad.eefiaurori was Tnsi was handsome Russian leather. dfpo s l es w engonat o rmdte r whee d eedintr w irfi uvr a oaeb s mlHy m lvaei i o rstna ; e n etst xthicsierdaehn sashed ,e n o f ffin : ctdi.: st l gi r o i): dwy ss ial i the e h star of a Russian order " t ea l hood, set in brilliants. e of et dark ie ß dennr. r iwec u adeaa n c nsenvod, velvet, w fhvl t oaehgovt w eipal o edtL r gdr e toi pi7tus a eisipamsu c reel a iad, s nui t aaw u fort ta iotatlrost r ttoei s oo po the isa covered with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, 03 o s turquoises of the largest size. The petticoa t tissue, with a broad band in front reaching to the bottom and covered with the same p re- als 1 ,,'" o or„, as the stomacher. A single row of large PT051 , " the necklace. The Baroness wore, as a hea dur 'd side a rose of the same colour as the train , h il ir , other side an ornament of diamonds and et eet" stones. ; 0 Count Wielhorski, Secretary of the Ru gs-8 t e 'ia 0 0 1 • n o t wore a dress of the Secretary of a Russia oce the period, an upper kafetan of white terry %:rO5OO mented with gold, and an under kafetan o f eri also ornamented with gold. pe l f d° La Comtesse Koucheleff (a Russian ladY?„. l s hi e ottS the Russian Court costume of the period. • 5 •" of gold, looped up in front with white an ds e ate net. The boddice of the same material, orn,a o 0f t0t ,,5 gold embroidery and diamonds. The Pet t r ° th #N g a l ttO V R a le wa n osirul d tgtd: tes g eiea o adm l npil d aobe mnrt s Ktog p oi ia o cndko t ed t oar e stcy d hr. oe n nu e ina t c:kh t te h oh fee Countess t tg r oo o pi n da t n c ocdlr cloth, t a l los nl ir e D2ei et nd n t l e or e po . hangingfas fastened d a n t the e back i hair f w t i h t r ; st isigr;so jewellery. ~r s e The Duke of Norfolk, Master of the 17„4, Ye . Queen, appeared in the uniform of General P . rib, e l , ft: l ,j of the Horse in the time of the Regtoratt c :fid sci y od i .) tie of crimson velvet, magnificently t ri n - silverjri e d rows or bars of gold plate lace, faced c"" W ith 0 pt l ' tissue, lined with white satin, and fa tened ,lo,l ld tiP , f r and tassels. The doublet of silver w ater ed ons 9 ,OtY with crimson satin, trimmed with gold of f slver ',I 0 1 10 1‘ gimp. The trunks or petticoat breeches,.ol4l o(i e i tissue, trimmed with gold gimp and 1 0 ° ' L i s . cll buttons, and also with crimson satin ribbe n , w ith g drick of crimson velvet, richly embroide ree a most elegant pattern and beautiful work baldrick was also fringed with gold. A Pl' beg OP/ with wrist and knee-rules to match. trimmed round the edge with bows of er'„,, c h l ee' having a gold button in the middle 0 ; the 5 o std, tphluemd doublet u lo b o le p t e bdeiunpg short, with n splendid b reaching e b i oos t i o t i b ,ir e e . , l4 .o The shirt sleeves were bound and trimme d ° l l eFt 5 7 Lady Mary Wood (lady of the Chanee h e tie, ! tbs, chequer) wore an imperial demi-train of t" ray 0' ,p oi / ornamented with loops of pearls with h° m ilt A the same colour. It was an open dress,,s coat of white and gold Indian brocanolit t o ° Fir large and full slashed in front with g old ~, and trimmed with pearl and point lam , re 1 ,. bishop's lawn to the elbow, finished wit h the . 9 otar richest point lace. Corsage en point, , 80 Berth:bite/4i ornamented with diamonds and pearls, of ' l4 , lace. Gloves trimmed with pearls. 5130 ,1"peor'y t/ trimmed with bows of blue ribands - 0 th e .bilt dress of blue velvet, with pearls tw isted t p , ornaments of diamonds and pearls. Her leri, at the back of the head a gossamer veil. dis t ie o r The Marchioness of Aylesbury ePP,, ea ile o f i ll !re"4,0 11 liant dress at the head of her efie' r 'ae. ' c r eel trimmed with silver and gold bre, c a t he 0 0 . 3 t shoulder her ladyship wore a band , „`",,,ercci riband of an Order of Knighthood, c" . a r°9 and diamonds. ro s se iji) 0 00 Miss Coutts appeared in a juste-au- mo d o „sta,p• dessus of white satin ; the body trin:.os covered with splendid jewe ls ; the slee nrt sl a with cosly pearls and antique la ce; the 01'0'1040 white satin; a magnificent display of distil l a . / IP iO ciou stones; rd s awon o f aa rich hrf gray f a m y o m ire oi a r n e ti a g i u lt e ig m u sr e T wo to e :11 1 ,(0 `' to ° o f J e f j dress of pearls, &c. f c i e tch s h C rair o cli u : n sp t ii e ni s k. s , W fsoart a imn l ;n e g gs r ko a in v r e tes i w na o ft r b e ger t,!:: : : : ! ii j o le vr.oi, reign fafaced composed e stripes of gold, and looped on each sid e sa tin' g o , cently embroidered in geld lama; t asse l:O il , .1/ black, gold f r i n g e ; b o d y t r i m med withl r„,, d'Espagne lace embroidered in gold, 130 50 /1 4P,' magnificent diamonds. core tti; de ornamented with pearls, diamonds , en" fine s od te'Y T d h e e ss C u o s u notfesesmoefraWldiltgorneewnorveelavej ut s;etliseupijesositeitiii4eoo,ll,e,,j'i the berthe of antique lace, and sleeves ss tia' r ea t to t lin ; the robe de dresses lined with whi r „ e r r o 'et s t ot, up with flots of rose de chine and er,'t:or boo t ribbon, pearls, and diamonds ; the "' r prge .1 o' Tours, ros de chine, brocaded wit h 0 t variegated flowers. The head-dre,er o oP e ' muslin, ornamented with pearls, an d and shoulder with agraffes of pearls. I r • A I d POLITICAL MIS CFP'' s p bs P 0. or The Manchester Chartist Associatio• ffr"C° g Brig oe 10 0 0 to support Messrs. Hume, Cobden, - the to / their efforts to procure an extension'''. t ter ;0 0 ., lc 1 ,0 10, 4 9 Mr. Posey has addressed a secon d f W .g te n ( j tuents in Berks, from the latter pert ° f rt. „ int o .0 I A pear he has been objected to on ace° (he is brother of Dr. Pusey) to th e a pa Hebrew at Oxford. it 10 3 ,,he ° I". t 0 s o r,p Mr. John Neville, of Haseleur 1 tl) 9 s te tild letter to Sir Robert Peel, intimati ng o bit ( r . ( V lished by the hon. baronet, addressed , 006 0: 0 0 0 , 1 not the letter that prevented his t en t ° Plitah 11l from supplying the recent dinner a to PO 10 1 , 0fi Protectionists, and calling upon him tbe oo more particularly referred to. g o ove r ' MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. -- Mr • - -,° ,he P r o poi neous estimates, will move 4. that " ro ilegef co o t 4.6 the repairs and maintenance of the. ti vo t, ° O oepity,',t be disallowed." Our readers will Jr. SP o t lel found the annual vote against which a nen t gl o of of 0 0 01 i la s te levelled pe e llt o w a i t d h r n t i h n s splendid trati on. fr om that Laodicean fo u n ta h i T t a i P s — h e et r l r r f c l u t e rb dii , i l t r e ht e c i ! , . tro s a li t t, i °s l r eci f l:; thousand pounds per annum, gut d t he c° ot iipa o ; Irish Romanism, is quite beyon d Di 01 ment. --`l l-1g fsa c b l o 4l t o V I THE ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION:be atEsszs.—The hiding-place of ns ion f P 4° 0 6 pprea ll ewar j t be t i io Alban's case, for whose a some time since proclaimed ;arse"' of o f jog ofr o i been discovered. Tnspector Bee , d Or, jiro t e t of the metropolitan police, parties to Boulogne, where he fo . 1 4 1 fdeu i l l e 4 0 j, ease, and evidently well supplied sv I: et ' to r ic ► e t having introduced himself, suggebtiteir 1 11 /3 etolotlialk r the necessity of their return to art tes company ; to this, however, the . I ; ies it pre,, v liberty. Under these circurastaell-08& turned to report progress at he _g a rd. m a l n iern a . p ßt p he e ec a yk l etrosotnl woulde t bhFearte reclaimed ni c f eauptlei r o f e ' lLre ti l ;I d i t i rlsl:s, o: oe : cid ° r yo 9 i matter at present stands. —Stan( I. ‘_ [OS' 4, ilk *: