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Elteraturr. OTICES Royal Progresses" in "Wales. By E. Parry, Chester. The real and unmistakeable test of the popularity and excellence of this gorgeous and truly national work has been afforded by the rapidity with which the first im• pression has been exhausted. Scarcely three monthf bare elapsed since we announced its publication, and the -demand has render a second edition necessary anticipation of the r Stati sue we have th r the King of the Belgians bas sent to him, through the . Hon. that his satisfaction of commanded a copy to ►ion a merits of the hook has been well embodied by the-cri tique of the Mornino -Advertiser, from which we extract the followinz resume of its character and style : ss of varied facts—of 1( ble, fiction, poetry, and ron 'end, nnecdot biography (of des of feasting and bardic nv imated by tb( are crowded with an a places, mentioned in t said, the rtes in triple columns of close print etical index of persons, things, and of the book. Of, we had almost fe-long ach an extensive compilation by Mr. P Judgmen abridgme and inter The author S ; as - that II reader can ent, and accuracy in pothness of style 'Leith so much at of narrative erected a 3nory !tide a urable monument to his own me 'en, and a solid claim to the grati eral-student of history." One of the most eratifyinz compliments that any author could desire Mr. Parry now enjoys. The Chevalier Bun sen, the Prussian Minister in "London, has vin:licated for himself the highest position in literature and science, and his official rank is only From this person of receiving the merited tribute-: stamp of personal distinction. _ has had the satisfaction following •very handsome and well- 111 r. Par Fir terrace, London, April, 1851 ,--I hay sseci by -Ger.eral Radinv • itz * and n more by that of Lady Ha everything relating to known—to find in your ,on Mr:: Gedr ;e Bunsen, and still zhiy inte resting sy historical rE subject of ing contemporary ill us alone I have found ti 3. Tie short perusal, for which s only served to strengthen my and I can only good opinion of your wish that every suceee pus undertaking, attend it, as it is VARIETIES In Franc, ri Par which hal re only In the sionary r 1777, the Earl of Sefton el his rever verpool to T and lordship of the corporation, for am of £2.500, thus ham 'E.—How 4 arrange the THE HOME 01 History of Liverpool clean ! E graceful pr with the tr the most apholsterer or t carpetings, the i nobler c contend far outv rican pc Cnuaci the ragge( ill-clad pc lES FOR 1_ hut snffered could w or chapel, where r Now we believe the ti ship if thm chi constructed fl for the c warmth, ss of r presen in -hot not the man who kr court in t nks be and one now a of Ban cannel t presk y, the c of the dwelling. eefol: it transfor- a its inhat S a wastc n brilliancy and glory lE RAGGED.-TI ire are schools r• the thousar t the r ce. VG our apparel is not such are to be fount to attend public we required ng in them us set the s of the church gainst the Let not )üblic- for the comfort of their bodies : forget souls.— The Builder. ARD ITT.—I have an ho in early lif n the habit of saying, " I knew a a man who knew a man who danced at of Richard Ili." Thus there have ne who knew Richard 111. s acquaintance could name who were members of his own family : o?en forgotten, but his name was Har rison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late in life settled in Bedfordshire. Richard died in 1484, and thus five persons had sufficed to chronicle an incident which occurred nearly 370 years since. Mr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remark able about Richard—that ha was not the hunchback lump of foul deformity" so generally believed until of late years. The foregoing anecdote may be of interest as showing that traditions may come down from remote periods by few links, and thus be but little differing from the actual occurrences.—Notes and Queries. CANNIBALS IN BORNEO.—Mr. Macdougall, the mis sionary of the Borneo commission at Sarawak, after giving an account of the erection of a new church at Borneo, proceeds thus :—" We have had here for some time an interesting Dyak from a long way in the interior; lie says a fortnight's journey from this. He left his tribe on account of a skin disease, ' which,' he says, ' gave him iao peace, and puts him to shame in his tribe, as the other men have all clean skins.' He heard I could cure it, and came to ask me to do so ; but the case is too inveterate, I fear, for poor Koosoo ever to be cured. He is an intel ligent fellow, and gives a most enchanting description of his country, in which, he says, there are large lakes and fine mountains, and which abound with wild cattle, deer, and other game, in abundance. But his account of a ;ace of Kayans, who border upon his tribe, is very re markable, and forms the reason for mentioning him. These people are cannibals, and of all the anthropophagi I ever heard of they seem to be the worst. They are perfect gluttons in human flesh, and prefer it to any other food. They carry attached to their sword-scabbards a sharp skewer of about eighteen inches long, which, when they have killed a victim, man, woman, or child, they introduce into the flesh, and pass it along the bones of the extremities and spine, working it so as to divide all the muscular attachment from the bones. They then take off the skin and flesh together, beginning at the soles of the feet and carrying on the operation from below upwards, doing it so rapidly that, in a few minutes, nothing but the bones and viscera are left. They take out the brain and cook it slightly in a particular Kind of leaf, and consider it the great bonne bouche of their abominable feast. When they have cooked and eaten all they want, they cook and smoke the rest, as the Dyaks and Malays do boars' or deers' flesh, and will eat no other flesh while it lasts. Koosoo says, when his tribe go to war, some of these people always come to eat the bodies of the slain. They never kill their friends for food, but always eat an enemy when they can get one—eating all indiscriminately, men, women, and children. But, with the exception of this horrible taste, Koosoo describes them as very good people, and as more civilized and clever than the Dyaks. He has lived amongst them once and again, and has always found them kind and hospitable to strangers, and very honest in their trading transactions. He is quite sure they would not eat white men, but would take great care of them. This narrative, which I quite believe, from the perfect simplicity and artlessness of the man, establishes the existence of cannibals here—a fact long disputed. These cannibals are a numerous and powerful nation, governed by a rajah, but religion seems to be at a lower ebb amongst them than even amongst the Dyaks. I am trying to get a vocabulary of his language from Koosoo ; it is very different from that spoken by our land-Dyaks." THE MERSEY AND IRWELL NAVIGATION IN THE YEAR 1720.—1 t was during this time (about 1720) that the first Liverpool dock was completed. In the same year acts were passed for rendering the rivers Mersey and Irwell navigable from Liverpool to Manchester ; the river 'W'eaver navigable from the salt district of Cheshire to the estuary of the Mersey ; and the river Douglas navigable from the coal field of Wigaii to the mouth of the Ribble. Shortly after the South Sea year, when confidence had again been restored by the prudent measures of Sir Robt. - Walpole, the act for constructing the first turnpike road ever formed in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, was pas sed, namely, the road from Liverpool to Prescot. Previ ous to that time, the Lancashire roads were nothing better than horse-tracks, scarcely passable for wheeled carriages, except in very fine weather; nor was there a proper carriage road from Liverpool to the great north road at Warrington, until about the time of the acces sion of George the Third. The act for making and keep ing the rivers Mersey and Irwell navigable from Liver pool to Manchester was passed in the seventh year of George the First. It sets forth that the making and keeping those rivers navigable for boats, barges, lighters, and other vessels, from Liverpool to Hunt's Bank, in Manchester, would be very beneficial for trade, advanta geous to the poor, and convenient for the carriage of coal, cannel, stone, timber, and other goods, wares and mer chandise ; and would tend very much to the employing and increase of watermen and seamen, and be a means of preserving the highways. It therefore proposes to ap point, and does appoint, certain parties as undertakers, for making the rivers Mersey and Irwell navigable from Liverpool to Manchester. The parties the act authori - to scour, enlarge, or straighten the rivers Mersey to make new cuts for shortening distances ; 'ee3 ; to build bridges and form sluices ; to from adjoining lands ; to alter bridges, '' down mills or weirs ; to make towing 'her matters and things necessary "ntinuing. and perfecting the "T.rsev and Irwell. The his prede their nan 3 Incell take r turn h r make the rive he river slim] S to hinder the working 11 be built within a mile ithout cons( her goods ca to the unde rivers Mersey takers not exceeding 3s. 4d. per ton and that on pay- all be esteemed ment of those duties L., - navigable from Liverpool to Manchester, and free for all the king's subjects paying the said duties. The act is declared to be a public act. Under its provisions the Mersey and Irwell navigation was managed until the year 1794. when an act was passed, forming the then proprie tors into an incorporated company, though without making any important change in their powers or respon History of Liverpool. ). Carlton PLEADERS IN RINGLETS, (From the Church and State" Gazatte.) istly'lawyers are springing up. The genius of Shak apeare has already made us acquainted• with the legal acu men a 'Portia and theclerk-like wit of her maid Narissa, artistically made up by the learned Bellarici in habits that made them appear accomplished in what they chiefly lacked. 'History. too,-tells us of the fair Olympia Morati lecturing on the Pan'dects to crowds of admiring students. and 'Moore has sung of the daughter of Andreas : "Novella, a yonntr, Bolognese, The daughter of a learn'd law-doctor, Who'had with all the-subtleties Of old and modern -jurists stock'd her, I 'Was so ex That when her father, sick in bed, Or busy. sent her in his stead, To lecture on the Code Justinian, She'had a curtain drawn*before ns•were seen, the student loulti let their piling eyes wander o'er-her And•giiite forget theirjurisprudence:" . us commute been real Paris iz - ed within this fortnight in one of the-courts of The Trench ladies. oho are unwearied in--asserting is equal.in intellectual power. in cou- raze. in application, and in most other matters, to that of males, may now quote the recent case in corroboration. The American ladies, who' repeat the same strain, and. with their 'French sisters claim for women all- the social and political premeatiyes and responsibilities enjoyed and incurred by men, will, no doubt, - find their case strength ened by what has so recently -taken place on the banks of the Seine. _ _ _ _ _ The lady who emulates the fame of the Novellas and the M-eratis is "Grange." She•wes, with her sister, de fendant in a most intricate case, affecting the possession of property, wherein statistics and subtleties abounded, and the issue of which was evidently to rest with the-ad vocate most deeply skilled in cunning of legal fence. The grand pa.nre of forens7:c arms came off in the first law courts of Paris. Madame Grange •undertook the entire maintenance of the case for herself and her sister, whtk opnosed to her was no less able an advocate than M. De tangle. In the presence of each other the learned prac titioners looked in the eyes of the spectators at fearful odds. It was as though a raw Temple student had risen , . to vanquish Sugden. or an Arhligeoinbe pupil to break the guard of the accomplished Angelo. The lady was nothing daunted at odds that made the sreetators or auditors tremble. As M Delangle opened __ Madame Grange coolly untied her terry velvet and parasol, handkerchief, and a graceful little flacon of Eau de Cologne were deposited at her side with I hi. brief bonnet : opponent admitted of attention being divided between it and the female areescories we have just named. When her turn came, she spoke, ut solent domince, for three Spßrklir, chine— powerful. convincing—sarcastic, Iparned. self-possessed, irresistible The skilful Delangle replied unmerciful. exus —sl:e was all this and more ' learned sister," as he courteously styled his antazonist, who in the fray treated her " brother" a! tto be treated in family feuds. To even lawmen are a ohieetion she ha triumphanta reply It every thrust elitninr. wi th a parr• that could not be dent. reference ell npnn him with such a fury of on rfht under c ter to be -trusted and she did ti , if we may so hat the auditory was in eista t of the court compelled to postpone ,urable judgment, lest he should be uPpected of having surrendered` to the overwhelming in- fluences of the n. THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF TH SOCIETY. NATIONAL The following declaration has been signed by a large number of the clergy and laity, with the view of counter acting the efforts of the G. A. Denison party in the Na- We, the undersianed clergy and laity of the Church of ngland, feel deeply interested in providing for the la- cioles of the Secular instruct bed Church, combined with good We are at the same time of opinion that the proceedings of the majority at the last two an nual meetings of the National Society are calculated to produce the serious misconception that they declare the feeling of the whole church with regard to the educational nd may thus tend materially to mi v which it is already surrounded. We desire, therefore, to state our decided co - ' nvietior -That many members of the National Society awl a large number of the clergy and laity of the church awl managers of church schools, are far from believing that the Proceedings of the committee in Council are " inimical to the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church." Secondly—That the minutes of the Committee of Coun cil, including the management clauses aq at present exist ing, are upon the whole sound and judicious, and calcu lated not to interfere with the legitimate authority of the clergy, bnt to create and keep alive amongst the laity an interest much to be desired in the promotion of the great work of national education, as well as to raise the standard of education, by furnishing a better trained and better paid class of masters and mistresses. We are, therefore, prepared to act in the spirit of the resolution which was rejected at the meeting of the Na tional Society on May 29th, and to declare that " it is highly desirable that the most amicable relations should exist between the church and the Committee of Council on Education ; and that both the cause of sound religious instruction and the interests of the church will be pro moted by their friendly co-operation." The above declaration has been signed by—laymen, 609 ' • clergymen in all, 1892; deans, 4 ; archdeacons, 11; prebendaries, 32 ; rural deans, 29 ; beneficed clergy, 1,892; population under care of these, 3,113,517 • average population for each benefice, 2,308; heads and fellows of colleges—masters of public and grammar schools, 101 ; chaplains of prisons, workhouses, &c. 47; curates, 351; members of the National Society, 383; incumbents having schools in connection with the Privy Council, in all, 419; incumbents having had schools built under management uses, since January 1, 1847, 183; incum bents baving"Th their schools pupil teachers, grants of books, augmentations of masters' salaries, &c., 236. (Enteral lifttsrellattp. A honeycomb, filled withl)ees, was lately found in the door-lock of an outhouse near Derby. A Durham paper says that two black eggs were laid by a black duck last week, near Sunderland. The population of Leeds just exceeds 100,000. The increase in ten years is 12,000. Mr. Richard Oastler's penny publication, The Home, will commence on Saturday next. No fewer than eighteen ships laden with ice have arrived in the port of London within the last week. A Sailors' Home was opened, amidst great rejoicings, at Portsmouth, on Wednesday last. The Tablet complains that little has been done at present for the conversion of England ns a whole. Last week, a hen's egg was found at Perth, weighing four ounces and a half. 'What animal has the greatest quantity of brains ? The hop, of course, for he has a hogshead full. Why is a lover like a knocker? Because he is bound to adore (a door.) Venus can at present be seen in the day time a little to the right of the sun. On Thursday, the starch and gum of Messrs. Matthews, at Leeds, was almost destroyed by fire. A number of gentlemen, at Carnarvon, have resolved to invite Mr. It. Stephenson to a public dinner. On Saturday week, a fine eallle was captured in a plan tation near Rainford. It attacked its captor with deter mined courage. It is now located in Knowsley aviary. Grievous destitution is again experienced among the inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland. It is stated that two persons have djed from want in Mull. Many tons of guanoliave been found in a sequestered spot, scarcely approachable but by sea, on the Isle of Man. A meeting was held at Leeds, on Wednesday, linder the presidency of the Mayor, to establish a Chamber of Commerce in that town. Bran is now selling at ss. 3d. per cwt., which would be disposed of at 2s. if flour were largely manufactured at home. A prisoner for debt in the Shropshire county gaol, named Thomas Menlove, died yesterday week from the effects of inhaling gas during his sleep. Wm. Edwd. Webster, butler, is in custody charged with stealing money, the property of his master, Mr. Cardwell, M.P. A pleasure party of eight persons were upset in a boat on the river Aire, near Leeds, on Tuesday, and two were unfortunately drowned. The confinement of convicts in hulks is to be abandoned, and a convict prison, capable of accommodating 1,000 persons, is to be erected at Portsmouth. The convictions for perjury committed in the county courts have been very numerous in almost every county during the present assizes. Mr. Todd, a barrister, while cruising in a yacht on Sunday last, near the Nore, was thrown overboard by the boom suddenly jibbing, and was unfortunately drowned. In England there are two millions of draught and pleasure horses, and one hundred thousand agricultural horses. The greater portion of the timber standing in Hainanit, Epping, and Waltham Forests, will be cut down during the ensuing year, and the land will be enclosed. A waggon of coals fell into a smack lying at the harbour terminus, Glasgow, last week, knocked a hole in the bottom, and sunk the vessel, leaving the crew floundering in the water. QUACKERY.—The love of quackery by the British government is strongly proved by the fact, that a box of life pills has to pay less duty than the maid of-all-work's advertisement for a place.—Punch. STRANGE COINCIDENCE. — The editor of the Bangor Mercury says that he knows two individuals who are cousins, have the sane name, whose fathers were brothers, whose mothers were sisters, and whose wives are sisters. The foundation stone of a blind asylum, upon an ex- ensive and magnificent minghain, on Wednesday the institution. vas laid at Edgbaston, Bir .l Howe is the president of The population of Hull, has in the last 10 years increa sed 15, 407, dwelling houses in the same period have in creased 4532. The population in 1841 was 67,C95 ; in 1851, 82 , 502 . Cardinal 'Wiseman went to Claremont last week, to pay a visit to the ex-Queen of the French and tic other mem bers of the ex-royal family of France, domiciled at that place. A gentleman of South Shields, being in gin g - street on the morning of Easter Monday, saw, in the course of half - '--q than four drapers' parcels pass unbroken ' - or.e the goods had beeu purchased to . a r, no 1 from the shops pawnshop, MACHINERY V. HAND LABOUR.—The substitution of the new roundabout frames for the old-fashioned loom is expected temporarily to throw 30,000 people out of em, ployment in Nottineham, Leicester, and Derby. There is now residing at Waterford, in 'Hertfordshire, the wife of a respectable licensed victualler, not more than 43 years of age, who was safely delivered, on Monday week, of her thirtieth child. THY MONSTER TABLE-CLOTH FOR Soy syk's BYMPO= SlUM.—This extraordinary specimen of English manufac ture was despatched from Barnsley on Monday last. ItS length isi:3o7 feet, breadth 8 feet, weight 2 cwt., and cost upwards of £5O. On Thursday week, in consequence of some previous misunderstanding, a fight took place between the members of two Irish families of labourers living in York, when an old man •named Flannedy had his skull fractured by a blow of a stone, and died soon afterwards. The bullion in both departments of the Bank ;.has decreased .from £13,589,539 to £13,342,391, being a difference of £247,138. The paper in actual circulation has increased from £21,039,574 to £20,905,412, being a difference of £134,162. The Ipstach Express says that in consequence of a statement that no hangman could be obtained to execute Maria Clarke on the appointed day, no fewer than ten written applications for the office of hangman were sent to the Suffolk gaol. The provincis are pouring in regiments of the light-fing ered gentry to the metropolis. The police are on the alert, and all the ".suspicious ones", on recognition, on being before the magistrates, will be locked up, to keep them out of " harm's way" till after the Exhibition. . A beautiful speckled snake, about five feet. long, way found last week on board the Barlow, by the lumpers employed in unloading the cargo of timber which she had brought to Sunderland from Moulmein in the East Indies. LEGACY TO "FEARGUS O'CONNOR, M.P.—A man named Haigh, who was found dead in his bed at Tiling worth, near Halifax, on last Wednesday morning, has bequeathed all the • -savings of a long and laborious life, amounting to about £2,000 to the " Hon. Member for Nottingham." Several silk handkerchiefs, supposed to have been stolen, were found sewn up in the bustle of a woman. the wife of a railway porter at Wolverhampton, who has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing goods from -packages sent to the Wolverhampton station for convey ance to Chester. Sir Claudius Stephen Ounter, Bart., died on Sunday last at Mortimer Hill, Berks, in the 77th year of his age. A vacant seat is thus caused in the London Court of Aldermen, of which Sir Claudius was the father. He was elected Alderman of the ward of Bridge Within in 1804, a period of nearly half a century since. There have been several tourist visitors to Keswick during the last few days, and some have even ventured to ascend the mighty Skiddaw, although several patches of snow were scattered here and there. On reaching the summit, which they determined to do, they found the cold so intense that they could only remain a few minutes. • ...... EXTRAORDINARY INCREASR IN THE POPULATION OF BRADFORD.—The returns disclose an aggregate increase in the population of the borough amounting to 37,064 over and above *he number of its inhabitants at the last computation. In 1841 the total population was 66,718 ; now it is 103,782. " CATCHING A WEASEL ASLEEP."—A mole catcher, near Bradley, on visiting one of the traps one morning last week, was almost petrified at finding it occunied. not by a mole but by a weasel. How it got there was of course a mystery, —it must have been " asleep."— Halifax Guardian. DREADFUL DEATH.—Last Week, William Davis, a chimney sweeper at. Minehead, near Bristol, aged 23, lost his life by sleeping at a limekiln. It is 'upposed that, feeling himself cold, he sat on the edge of the kiln, pl his feet in it and hanging his head over, when he got stu pified by the gas and fell in. When discovered he was quite dead and much burnt. - A TRUNDERBOLT.—About seven o'clock on Thursday evening, during a hail storm at Wellington, Shropshire, a thunderbolt struck a large tree near the new cutting for the goods' warehouse, and completely stripped it of the bark, splitting the tree in various places, and scattering the bark for more than l 5 yards around. The hailstones were as big as a large sized bean. On the Afternoon of Easter Sunday an overflowing con gregation assembled in the Reformed Baptist E Using Chapel, Bradford, for the purpose of hearing, according to announcement, " the public recantation, by le I a Romanist, of the delusive doctrines and ^f the vange- uoctrin. ... usages of Papal Church." The name of the convert, who is a labouring man, is Francis Read. The walls of Brougham Castle have been thoroughly propped and repaired ; and there is now every probability of the remnants of this ancient fortress standing for three or four succeeding centuries. It was from this castle, in the reign of Henry VII., that Thomas Lord Dacre, of Gilsland, carried off in the night-time Elizabeth, sole heiress and Baroness of Greystoke. At a recent inquest held in Taunton, the coroner was understood to remark, that since the introduction of free trade it had devolved upon him to hold inquests upon no less than five respectable farmers, who had committed suicide under circumstances which led one to suppose they were influenced in the sad act from a depressed state of their finance•. The Lord Mayor of London gave the customary Easter banquet on Monday at the Mansion-house, and on this occasion about 350 ladies and gentlemen partook of the chief civic magistrate's hospitality. The speeches are unreported, as the representatives of the press had seats given them where they could hear nothing ; and, on com plaining, were invited to a side table, to which " no gen tleman could consent," and which was of course declined. A considerable degree of excitement was caused in the City on Tuesday by a rumour that a forgery had been effected on the Bank of England, by means of which stock to the extent of £lO,OOO had been transferred, in conse quence of the production of a power of attorney which has proved to be a counterfeit document. The party implicated held a highly-respectable position in society at Windsor, and has absconded. A'• liberal" contemporary at the mouth of the Tyne, who has hitherto been a noisy advocate for free trade in corn, coals, shipping, and everything else, proclaims it, at last, as '• a lamentable fact" that in the recent case of the voyage of the Mary C. Fitzroy from Shields to London and back with a cargo of 274 tons and 8 cwt. of coals, the loss upon the voyage to the owner was £5 14s. ld., the total charges being £BB Os. 5d.--the receipts £B2 6s. 4d. PARRICIDE AT WESTMINSTER.—Richard Judd, the presumed victim of a son's atrocious violence, expired at one o'clock on Saturday morning, in the Westminster Hospital, where he has lingered in an insensible state, from the effects of the injuries he received, for the last fort night, without the least chance of recovery. The deceased was a very respectable man, and the wounds inflicted on him by his son were of a desperate character. The son has given himself up to the police. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. TOMLIN, TAE BARRISTER, OF PAPER-BUILDINGS.—About eleven o'clock on Thurs day night, this gentleman, after having returned to his chambers from his club, where he had been dining, un fortunately fell from a window on the second landing of the staircase, and was so much injured that he expired next morning. What renders this accident extraordinary is, that the deceased gentleman, at the time he fell from the window, was not in the least intoxicated, as people might infer. A BALLOON BURNT.—At Bradford, on Monday last, a young gentleman announced his intention of ascending from the cricket ground in a fire balloon. A very large one was prepared, and 30,000 people assembled to see it. The process of inflation went on slowly, and when the crowd grew impatient the balloon took fire, and was utterly destroyed—purposely no doubt. The multitude considering themselves hoaxed, commenced the grossest excesses ; but the police, under Superintendent Leverett, restored order, and won the approbation of every body. At the Middlesex sessions on Tuesday, John Thomas Cox, bookseller, 4, Holywell-street, Strand, was con victed of unlawfully publishing and having for sale a num ber of obscene and indecent prints and publications. He was sentenced by Sergeant Adams, who expressed his great sorrow at not having the power to award hard labour, to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for two years, and that he afterwards should enter into his own recognizance of £5O, with two sureties of £25 each, to be of good behaviour for one year, and b e imprisoned until such recognizance and sureties be entered into. CALIFORNIAN GOLD—MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN...--At Professor Tennant's last lecture upon mineralogy, at King's College, he exhibited, by permission of the go vernors of the Bank of England, the largest lump of Californian gold yet brought to this country. It was dug out of an alluvial bank at Carson's Creek, on the Stanis laus river, in August, 1850, by an Irishman, named John Hughes, of Ardtlass, near Downpatrick. It is a water worn specimen, and weighs 18 lbs. 3 ozs. 8 grs. ; and its value as a specimen is about £lOOO. It is the property of the Bank of England. MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—A painful sensation has prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of King street. Norwich, in consequence of a brutal murder com mitted by a man named James Flood, who resides in Ber street. The forehead of the woman had a cut an inch and a half deep, the lip was also cut through, and the nose was broken, and she vomited blood. Mr. Day, a surgeon, attended, but deceased died soon after. Caro line Collins said, she heard Food say to deceased, " You —, I'll kill you ;" when he struck her on the head.— The inquiry was adjourned for a post mortem examination o be made. TESTIMONIAL. TO MR. JERDAN.—A meeting was held on Monday, in the rooms of the Royal Society of Litera ture, London, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., in the chair, to consider the best means of testifying public respect to Mr. W. Jerdan, for the constant and great services he has rendered to the literature, science, and art of this country, as editor of the Literary Gazette during the long period from its establishment in 1817 to the close of last year. The meeting was well attended by gentlemen connected with literature and science, who all entered warmly into the objects for which they were assembled. It was determined to raise a subscription, to form a fund for the purpose of rendering Mr. Jerdan's declining years as comfortable as possible ; and a committee was formed for carrying this object into effect, containing most of the leading names of the literature of the day. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. James Duncan Wright, otherwise called " Steeple Jack," has been engaged at the Bristol Alkali-works for a few days, making arrange ments for repairing the tall chimney outside without stopping the works for a moment. At twenty minutes past two on Thursday, seeing that the wind would suit him, he flew his kite, and by twenty-five minutes past three he had a chain over the top, with proper tackle attached for ascending. In another half hour lie took his seat on a bit of board, 18 by 9 inches, and one inch thick, and went to the top (200 feet) in half a minute ! In three minutes he had placed the chain in a secure position, exactly across the top, (which it was not before,) and in another halt minute was shaking hands with his friends below. This is . only one of the m an y f ea ts for which Steeple Jack" i s celebrated.—Bristol Gazelle. TIIF LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SHAXSPEARE DISFIGURED, AND HAYNAU AVENGED —The Daily News foreign correspondent writes :—" You know that after the great battle and defeat of Marshall 'Haynau at Bankside, a correspondence took place between 'Prince Scharzenburg and Lord Palmerston, and that the Austrian minister threatened the English with reprisals. The Austrians have now in fact taken reprisals, and dit it on the most illustrious Englishman, on Shakspeare. Some weeks ago " Hamlet" was performed at the Court Theatre, and as several parts, which bear political allu sions, were highly cheered, they were all cut out at the next. performance." The Rev. G. S. Osborne, the Dorsetshire clergyman, has, in the Times, drawn public attention on the notorious ' Kilrush Union. The quarrel has reached a crisis. A report from the Poor-law Inspector, Mr. Lucas, presents a very painful picture. The doors of " the house" were besieged by a thousand applicanti a-week. The crowds whom it was necessary to admit were half-dead with disease and hunger: they were packed into places which no ventilation could keep sweet, and fed on bread and " artificial milk." Mr. Lucas says the bread is good— Mr. Osborne that it is bad, and sends a loaf, by way of sample, to Printing-house Square. A gentleman of London called at the Postoffice the other day for a letter which he had requested an accoun tant at Margate to address to " A. B.", Postoffice, Lon don: it so happened that another gentleman of London had received a threatening letter, demanding £5, to pre vent an alleged exposure, and advising that a note to that amount should be sent, addressed to A. 8., at the Post office. The gentleman first alluded to received the letter containing the money, and was forthwith taken into cus tody by a police-officer, who was on the watch. An ex planation before the magistrates cleared up the mystery, and the gentleman was discharged. 'POST-OFFICE ABUSES.—A petition, with the view of obtaining a parliamentary committee of inquiry relative to the abuses in the General Postoffice. will be laid before -parliament shortly after the recess, from the late post master of Berwick-on-Tweed, containing statements as to the-malversations in that office alone for a given period— authenticated by official vouchers—in which the defalca tions during nine months of 1849 are alleged to amount to £414 19a. 4d. lost in transit, and to £2,294 139. in bills. The public have just cause of complaint of the irregulari ties in the postal department, and no doubt such evidence will be adduced as to induce the interference of govern ment. MI7RDER OF A FARMER BY A STEP-Mg.—On Monday last an inquest was held at Silverwell. in the parish of Kenwyn, Cornwall, on the body of William Kendall, a small farmer of that place, who died on Sunday. His death was alleged to have been the consequence of a kick received from a horse on Saturday evening ; but the result of the coroner's inquest was that the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against a young man named Elijah Teague, aged about 17 years, son-in-law of the deceased. The inquest occupied the attention of the coroner and jury the whole of Monday and Tuesday, in consequence of the evidence being merely circumstantial, and of the necessity for a careful inspection of the locali ties. NEW ORANGE Lonr;E.—On Monday. a new lodge of Loyal Orangemen. in connexion with the Grand Pro testant Association of Great Britain. was opened at Ken dal, when a deputation from Bradford, Yorkshire, con sisting of Mr. Councillor Squire Auty and Mr. John Pickard, attended to explain the objects and principles of the Orange Institute, and to open the new lodge. Mr. Auty. in a very able manner, explained the principles and combatted all the charges that have been made against the Institute. After the address, the lodge was formally opened, and named the "Kendal Castle Lodge;" a large number were initiated into the order of the brotherhood ; officers were appointed ; and the other business of the evening was transacted. On Tuesday evening the depu tation again attended, and a number more were received into the brotherhood. DR. JOHNSON.—The churchwardens of St. Clement Danes, having satisfactorily ascertained that a seat in the pew numbered 18, in the north gallery of that church, was regularly occupied for many years by the great moral ist, have caused a neat brass tablet recording the fact to be affixed in a conspicuous position to the pillar against which the doctor must often have reclined. The inscrip tion on the tablet is from the pen of Dr. Croly, rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and is as follows :—" In this pew, and beside this pillar, for many years attended divine service the celebrated Dr. Samuel .Johnson, the philosopher, the poet, the great lexicographer, the pro found moralist, and chief writer of his time. Born, 1709; died, 1784. In the remembrance and honour of noble faculties, nobly employed, some inabitants of the parish of St. Clement Danes have placed this slight memorial, A.D. 1851." A ROMISH BISHOP'S OPINION OF NATIONAL PROS rERITY.—Dr. Walsh, who styles himself Bishop of Hali fax, has just issued a pastoral of unusual length. Of course we cannot transcribe it into our columns, but we may give the following as a sample of this priest's opini ons. Speaking of England's fall, from what he calls " Catholicity," he writes :—" Oh ! if she could but win back again the precious pearl which she has lost ! If she could only recover that saving faith which she so unhap pily surrendered ! If, after three centuries of spiritual degradation and chastisement—and we look upon her temporal prosperity and her mere worldly wisdom as her greatest scourges—she could only obtain pardon of her great national crime—we do believe, from the many noble and estimable natural qualities of her people, that Eng land would speedily become one of the fairest portions of the Church of Christ, and perhaps eclipse her ancient glories." STATE OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—At the Linton union workhouse, Cambridgeshire, on the 19th of March, 1851, 97 orders were issued from the work-house to the unemployed labourers ; on the 26th of March 132 orders were issued from the workhouse—which is about five times the average of former years. At the Risbridge union, Suffolk, they have a workhouse capable of holding 300 persons, which is now full ; and on the 21st of March, in consequence of the house being full, the guardians were compelled to give out-door relief to 163 persons as special cases who could get no employment; on the 28th of March, the number of unemployed applicants who could not ob tain any employment, and who had to be relieved out of the house as special cases, was 337 ; the total number of persons relieved out of the house, including the above special cases, was, on March 21, 516 persons, and on the 28th, 705. The average number of persons relieved in this union in the winter months amounted to only 150. EXECUTION. — On Wednesday, at Taunton, John Wiles and John Smith were executed, for the murder of W. Wilkins, an old shopkeeper, at Newport, South Wales. At nine o'clock the younger prisoner, Smith, was placed under the drop, and, after an interval of a few minutes, the other prisoner, Wiles, followed, and was placed by the side of his fellow culprit. Both the culprits evinced remarkable firmness, and mounted the ladder of the drop without support. The chaplain again engaged in prayer with them, and proceeded to read the service for the burial of the dead. At the conclusion of the service he shook hands with the prisoners, and withdrew ; the bolts of the drop were withdrawn, and the prisoner Wiles ex pired without a struggle. Smith writhed convulsively for a few seconds, but his sufferings soon terminated. The whole of the prisoners under sentence of transportation, and also those who had been convicted of felony, were brought out to witness the execution under the orders of the governor. Both men confessed their guilt. MURDER IN JERSEY.—On Friday afternoon week, at Jersey, a dentist, named Fonquet, discharged a pistol at a shoemaker, named Derbyshire, and the unfortunate man soon after died from the effects of the wound. It seems that Derbyshire and his wife, not having lived on very amicable terms, a short time since separated, when the wife betook herself to the care of Fonquet, to whonc she acted as housekeeper. Three months since, Derbyshire went to the lodging of Fonquet, and, after some words of rather an unpleasant nature, the dentist made an attempt on Derbyshire's life by firing at him through the door; the ball, however, missed him. On Friday, Derbyshire repeated his visit, and demanded some articles which his wife had taken with her. Fonquet was at that moment absent, but, on his return, remonstrated with him for entering his apartments, and seizing a loaded pistol, which he kept by him, discharged it at Derbyshire, the ball passing through the unfortunate man's body. Being fully sensible, and retaining all his presence of mind, Derbyshire has been able to make a full statement of the facts, which he signed before his death. ADULTERATION OF BREAD.—The last investigations of the Lancet, on the subject of adulterations, have been directed to flour and bread. Out of 44 samples of wheat flour (including several of French and American) pur chased in all quarters of the metropolis, not a single in stance was detected of admixture with any other farina, or of the presence of spurious matters of any kind. It is admitted, therefore, that millers and corn dealers are somewhat maligned. As respects bread, however, the results were not so favourable. Although its adultera tion with alum is an offence liable to a penalty of £2O, this material was found in every one of the samples ex amined, the objects for which it is used being to give bad flour the white appearance of the best, and to enable the bread made from it to retain a larger proportion of water, so as to gain in weight. The number of samples was 24, and in ten of these the quantity was very considerable, -chile in all cases it was such as to be injurious to health, the operation of the drug being to interfere with the acti vity of the digestive functions. At the same time, an examination of the weight of bread as delivered at houses shows that upon an average there is a deficiency of from 2! l oz. to 3oz. in every quartern loaf. SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.—The tercentenary celebration of the foundation of this place of public education took place on Thursday last, at the Music-hall, Shrewsbury, when upwards of three hundred gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner. Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns pre sided. There were present among the guests the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord Hill, Lord Powis, Archdeacons Allen and Powis, Mr. Slaney, M.P., Mr. Corbet, &c. After the usual loyal and national toasts had been drunk with the accustomed honours, the chairman proposed the " health of the Bishop of Lichfield," which was re ceived with great applause, and his lordship returned thanks in an appropriate speech, in which he took the opportunity, as visitor of the school, of expressing his satisfaction with the mode of education pursued in the establishment. Ile had himself been educated at Eton, but he recognized the similarity of imparting knowledge at Shrewsbury. Of such establishments he might say the resemblance was such as tile Roman poet had said : Facies - non omnibus una, " Nec diversa tamen, qualis decet esse sororum." His lordship passed an elegant compliment on the late Dr. Butler, and spoke in terms of eulogy of the late Dr. Arnold, with whom he had tile pleasure of being ac quainted. He was, though not a young man, no unquali fied admirer of past times ; no— "Lamlator temporis acti ;" but fully appreciated the improvements of modern times. Many other appropriate toasts having been drunk with the usual honours, the company broke up shortly before twelve o'clock. Why is Prince Albert like a stag in the royal park Because be is the Queen's own deer (dear.) purities. GRAND PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGEMEN.—The anniversary festival of one of the lodges of this patriotic association was held on Wednes day, at Warwiek-place, Bedford-row, London. In the absence of the Right Hun. the Earl of Enniskillen, who was expected to take the chair, Mr. J. Peyton, sen.. presided, supported by Colonel Sir William Verner, Bart., M.P. At the conclusion of an excellent repast, I o which about 40 gentlemen sat down, grace having been said, and the cloth drawn, the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given. and enthu iastically honoured. The Chairman then rose, and briefly gave the toast of the evening—" The elorions, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William 111., the maintainer of the Protestant religion." Sir William Verner was among the speakers. The Secretary had received letters from Rear-Admiral Vernon Harcourt, the Earl of Roden, Lord Mountcashell, the Earl of Bradford, the Marquis of Cholmondeley, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., and several other noble and in fluential gentlemen, expressing their regret at not being able to be present on so gratifying an occasion, and their devotion to the good cause. THE FRIMLEY GANG.—On Tuesday, James Hamilton (one of the parties in custody at Lewes), made a full con fession of all the burglaries which he and the gang have been engaged in during the last twelve months. The do cument is of a very extraordinary character, and shews the immense amount of daring possessed by those men. He has also made some revelations to the police officers engaged in the case, by which they have been enabled to discover the receivers of the stolen property. It is be lieved that some portion of the great amount of valuable property which has been stolen may yet be restored to the owners. Hamilton, in the commencement of his con fession, states that the gang consisted of himself, Levi Harwood, and Samuel Jones (hung for the murder of Mr. Holiest), Samuel Harwood, John and Edward Isaacs, William Brooks. Joseph Carter, John and James Hones, alias Smith, Hiram Smith, Thomas Toot, alias Morgan, William Hillyer, John Brooks, Mary Crowder, Sarah White, and James Jones. John Isaacs was duly elected captain, and all the others acted under his direc tions. They were sworn to obey the orders of the cap tain, and if any one attempted to back out, or refused to take part in any robbery or murder, if necessary, he or she was to be instantly shot, and if any one left the gang without the consent of the captain, he or she was to be followed and shot. TEE BRITISH Moseum.—The new west wing of the Museum, with its painted ceilings and walls, was, of course, an object of attraction. This gallery is built according to th,' design originally prepared by Sir Robert Smirke; the northern end of it was erected by him about twenty years since; the southern end has just been erected under the superintendence of Mr. Sy,:ney Smirke, under whom, too, the whole of the wing is now being decorated. The general width of the gallery is 41 feet, widening at the centre to 50 feet, and at the sonth end to 80 feet. The clear height is 31 feet. The length is 282 feet, of which the portion recently built measures 196 feet. The whole of this gallery will be occupied by Egyp tian and Assyrian antiquities ; but the permanent arrange ment of the sculpture cannot be made until the side gal lery now in coarse of erection is completed, which will not be the case till next year. Since our last visit, the walls in part have been painted red, with a black Etruscan border around each space, and look very well. West macott's sculpture for the tympanum of the portico will probably not be completed by the Ist of May, but very soon after. They were hoisting "Mathematics" when we were there,—a sitting figure of seven or eight tons weight. The central statue, standing, is "Astronomy," and is about 12 feet high. These are all of Portland stone, and are boldly and effectively sculptured. The enclosure in Great Russell-street, which seems to be of ponderous character (the central piers in particular are immense), will be finished, is is expected, about Midsum mer next.—The Builder. Loss OF THE JENNY LIND, EAST INDIA TRADER.— This fine East India trader, a new ship, nearly 500 tons burthen, with passengers for London from Singapore, has been wrecked on a reef of coral rocks in the Southern Pacific Ocean, 400 miles off the Australian coast, where the passengers and crew endured the utmost suffering and privation for a period of 35 days. The ship left Singapore on the 3d of August, for Melbourne and London, under the command of Captain Joseph Taylor, with a crew of 16 seamen and apprentices, and several passengers. On the morning of the 21st the vessel struck on a coral reef twice, and as she would inevitably break up, she was abandoned. After great difficulty the jollyboat was launched, and two hands being placed in her, she was taken to a rock a short distance inside the reef, which proved to be the Keen's-reef, in lat. 21-15.13 S., lon. 159 49 E., some 400 miles north of Moreton Bay. The whole of the passengers were got out of the vessel, and landed on the islet, which was about 150 yards by 40. Provisions were fetched from the ship, which with great management were made to sustain the party. Mr. Beal, a surgeon, who was on board, contrived an apparatus for distilling water for consumption from that of the sea, while a party were employed in constructing a boat in ' which at length they embarked on the ocean. They made for Moreton Bay, but the wind eventually in the course of five days drove the boats towards the entrance of the Brisbane river, and reached the town in safety, I where they met with every kindness and attention from its inhabitants, all of them, including the women and children, comparatively well—a circumstance almost in credible, after having been exposed for thirty-seven days and nights on a desolate cold bank in the Pacific. THE IRON TRADE.—No movement has taken place in this trade, nor is any expected until the novelty and ex citement of the all-absorbing object of attention, the Great Exhibition, has begun in some degree to lose its intensity. Till that is over merchants and dealers, both in London and elsewhere, seem altogether disinclined to attend to business, or to give out any contracts further than the absolute supplying of urgent demands. In con sequence, the general complement of orders for the sea son is falling alarmingly short. The trade remains ex cessively dull, and stocks of manufactured iron are accu mulating. Under these circumstances the Easter holi days have proved a more than usual boon to the masters, and the growing desire among the working classes to avail themselves of extended periods of relaxation upon such opportunities, have met witano discouragement. Much anxiety begins to be felt as CO the possibility of continu ing to struggle against the low-priced competition of other districts, with such a failing demand ; and fears are entertained whether the summer months can be got through without declaring a still lower scale of prices for Staffordshire iron ; a step which would necessarily in volve a general reduction of wages, and would, doubtless, be attended with much difficulty and dissatisfaction. It is, however, argued by some, thrt after the interruption of the Exhibition a large impulse may be expected, con sequent upon the accumulation of requirements unat tended to during its continuance, and from the accession of foreign demand which it is anticipated will be its re sult ; and that if an effort is made in the meantime, prices will then not only be supported, but an improve ment easily obtained. Whether there is any ground for 1 these expectations time will shortly prove. Notwith standing the present acknowledged unremunerating state of the trade, a new blast furnace is in progress of erec tion by the Messrs. Bermitt, near Oldbury, and an ar rangement is stated to have been made by B. Gibbons, Esq., for again working the Ketley furnaces, lately in the occupation of Messrs. Jones and Oaks, near Kingswin ford, and it is said that they are now being put into blast. In each case the objects seem to be the consumption of the produce of considerable tracts of mine lately opened, both ironstone and coal being with difficulty disposed of, even at reduced prices.—Binningham Gazelle, of yester day. THE ELEPHANT CALF AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. —The female elephant, which was first exhibited by the Zoological Society, on Saturday, was taken by the natives who captured her to the fair at Cawnpore, at the end of August, 1850; she was then heavy with young, and was purchased by Mr. Wallace, a Calcutta horsedealer, who for several years has frequented the native fairs of Bengal in the prosecution of business. During the journey towards Calcutta Mr. Wallace made a halt of three weeks in the month of September, and the elephant then gave birth to the healthy little calf which is now at her side. Within a very few minutes after that event the calf, which is said then to have weighed about half-a-hundred weight, stood up and began to suck. This operation is performed in a ve , y singular manner. The udder of the elephant is situated between the fore legs, and the calf assists himself with his trunk in placing the teat in his lips at the side of his mouth. He sucked several times a day during the journey down to Calcutta, the keeper generally halting twice or three times in the course of each morning's march, for the purpose of permitting him to take nourishment. At that time the calf was not able to walk more than a mile in each morning's march, and was therefore carried in a cart. The mother came close behind it, and generally caressed her offspring with her trunk, as they moved along, as if to assure herself of his safety. The fatigue of the march probably diminished the mother's supply, and the keeper found it necessary to add to the nourishment of the calf by a certain quantity of zebu milk, which he readily took, and which agreed with him perfectly. Arrived at Calcutta, the elephants were sold, and shipped immediately on board the Wel lesley, Captain Parish, where the calf drew rapidly, not withstanding the inconveniences to which live stock of such magnitude are necessarily subjected at sea. The mother suffered considerably in condition in consequence of the fatigue which she has undergone, but is now improving, under more succulent diet, and will probably, in a few weeks, be as sleek and well furnished with flesh as if she had never left the jungle. The natives who saw the calf on the march to Calcutta regarded it with great interest, as there is no recent instance, if any, of these animals breeding in domestication ; and, consequently, a sucking elephant is almost as rare a sight in the neigh bourhood of Calcutta as the hippopotamus was at Alex- i n am -ei rPa of Acqua D'Oro—an ex andria. Greatfi ne Talking d t Exhibition,o , , A birds rab v andtheii ybdlee golden st ~, Parkfor t The fountains eh they , , aret willa notalking n foundg longer bird si7 e , o are then - I d y- i s s u e :y e t t l b b b e i e Beauties but of art, haocrfrte,i Eng landasnt do of which ladies are invited c, y i u e i p ri a os i fi r : e r ei dnea and 11 n/dydousthosefi Goldenrariperpetualtutb I o i' Freovsnl strums. fe s t e a s n P i ce , to partake by the Alnssrs. Rowland, at their refresh men t Stand, No. 29 in lie Gallery. How delightful aft er th e heat of the giga is show ! ( t A CURE OF A , EVERIZ SKIN DISEASE BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—James Jenkins, an agricultural labourer, residing in a farm near NeWtown, suffered dreadfully from a most fearful disease of the skin, which broke out in blotches in various parts of his body ; the complaint was gradually impairing his constitution, he had become low spiriteardnd nervous. He had tried to obtain relief by medjdbe, from two or three medical men but their remedie- roved useless. He then commenced taking Hollow s Pills, and rubbing the Ointment well into the aff ed parts, and by these means he is now re stored t erfect health, and his skin freed from all im- 1 not I t' April 29, 1851. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Her Majesty's Commissioners have issued the pp gramme of the proceedings to be observed on the opening of the Exhibition, by her Majesty, on the Ist of May. The following are its principal features : A platform will be raised to the north of the centre Of the transept, on which a chair of state will be place d. Her Majesty's Commissioners will assemble at half past eleven o'clock, in the transept, opposite the platform , His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, her Majesty's ministers, the great officers of state, and the foreign ani bassadors and ministers, will take their places on the plat form, to the right and left of the chair of state. Her Majesty, proceeding in state, with the royal &art foreign guests, &c., and her and their suites from Buck ingham Palace, up Constitution-hill, and down Rotten., row, will enter the Exhibition building by the n orth' entrance precisely at twelve o'clock. She will ascend the' platform, and take her seat in the chair of state. On her Majesty's arrival a choir will sing " God save the Queen." On the Queen taking her seat, his Royal Highness Prince Albert will join the royal Commissioners, and when the music has ceased, proceed at their head to the plat" form, and read to her Majesty a short report of the pro ceedings of the Co mm i ss i on up t o t h at t i me, which he wl ll‘ then deliver to her Majesty, together with the catalog's of the articles exhibited; her Majesty will return a gra cious answer, handed to her by the Secretary of State after which his Roy a l Hi g h ness P r i nce Alb ert will take his place by the side of her Majesty. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury will then sal a prayer, invoking God's blessing upon the undertaking.- followed by a short anthem sung by the choir. A royal procession will then be formed, preceded br the Commissioners, which will make a tour of the Crystal Palace. During the procession, the organs appointed will play marches, taking up the music at the Queen's ap• proach. On her Majesty's return to the platform, the Queeft will declare "The Exhibition opened !" which will be announced to the public by a flourish of trumpets, and the firing of a royal salute on the north of the Serpentine; whereupon the barriers, which had kept the nave clear, will be thrown open, and the public will be allowed to circulate. Her Majesty will then return to Buckingham Palace by the route by which she came. The announcement of her Majesty's State visit has had a wonderful effect upon the sale of season tickets for the Exhibition. In four days they have shot up from 7,000 to between 11,000 and 12,000, and so overwhelming has been the demand that it has been deemed necessary to check it by raising the price to three guineas for ladies and four guineas for gentlemen. At the wish of Prince Albert, however. the Commissioners have authorised return to the prices fixed originally; and the advanced charge of one guinea will be refunded to the holders of tickets sold at the increased price. A meeting of three hundred commercial men and manu facturers from nearly all parts of the world, who are con tributors to the Exhibition, was held at Knightsbridge on Friday evening, for the purpose of appointing a deputation to the Royal Commissioners to request admission to the Exhibition free of expense during its continuance, and more particularly on the day of the opening Mr, H. E. Hoole, of Sheffield, occupied the chair, and after some severe remarks from various speakers relative to their intended exclusion, a deputation was appointed to carry out thh wish of the meetin g . PARISIAN EXCURSIONISTS.—TheParis journal, Consti tutionel, says the number of passports demanded by persons intending to go from France to visit the Exhibi tion in London already amount to 240,000. The majo rity of them have been granted to individuals of small independent; incomes, and who avail themselves of this opportunity to see the capital of Great Britain. The number demanded by the Parisians is not so large in proportion, as it is only a t th e moment o f d eparture tha t they think of this formality. It is, however, expected that Paris alone will furnish 100,000 excursionists. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE FRENCH SCE:Mr' TOR.—Amongst the visitors to the Great Exhibition on Wednesday week, was the Duke of Wellington, accom panied by his daughter-in-law, the Marchioness of Douro- After walking down the transept, the noble and gallant Duke turned into the French department, and paused to observe one of the exhibitors removing from an oaken case various articles of gold and silver plate. Among the moreeaux uncovered as the Duke walked up, were a pair of silver equestrian statuette:, representing the Duke him self, and his once-formidable rival, Napoleon. Th e g reat captain smiled at the incident, and to an inquiring look of the French artist nodded his assent. Ihe news instantly spread that the Duke of Wellington was in the " French territory," and in a very few moments—probably for the first time in his life—the noble and gallant Duke was sur prised and surrounded by a body of Frenchmen. 118P pilv, in the present instance, the national character for lit a p n o dc e a n p e s ss o f p t r h e e vaied over be l ardedstr e a v n e g r e y hrsot wereer feeling. instinetive T l yhreahi raised to Great Britain's " hero," and the noble Duke h a ving returned a military salute, passed on to the next depart ment. STRANGE DISCOVERY AT ITARTLEPOOL.—Last week in excavating a portion of a field belonging to Smith's Charity, for the purpose of making house cellars, the skulls and bones of about 150 human beings were dis covered in a space not exceeding 25 feet square. They were huddled together in all positions. Our correspon dent says they are supposed to be the bones of men slain in Burke conflict.—Sunderland Herald. EXECUTION AT BMW ST. EDNIUND'S.—The execution of George Carnt, for the murder of H anna h B a i n b r id ge, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, took place on Tuesday morning. As the fatal hour approached, the London and Nowton roads, and intervening field, were occupied in every part from which a view of the awful scene could be commanded. Shortly after 9 o'clock the death bell was heard sounding through the air, and the fatal procession began to emerge from the condemned cell. They proceeded into the infirmary, where the operation of pinioning was quickly performed by Cal craft. At this moment much of the strength of nerve which had distinguished the culprit seemed to fail ; his face turned pale, and his whole frame was violently agitated. In about five minutes afterwards he was con ducted to the scaffold, groaning and sighing deeply, and exclaiming, in low but audible accents, ' Lord ! have mercy on my soul!' The rope was adjusted to a staple fixed to the beam, and in less than a minute the cap was drawn over his face, and the executioner reti r ed. At the appointed signal, the closing of the chaplain's book, the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy man was dismissed into eternity amidst the breathless silence of the spectators. The body after hanging the accustomed time was re moved and interred within the precincts of the g aol. The prisoner has left behind him no confession in writing of the crime for which he has suffered, but he has to the governor and to the rev. chaplain made frequent and un reserved confessions of his guilt. TIIE FATAL MISTAKE.—The inquest on the 1 , 3t1y the unfortunate victim in the recent fatal mistake at Wal ton, near Brampton, Cumberland, was resumed on Tues day. By this time the news of the melancholy event had spread far and wide, and a great number of persons thronged the village in the hope of gaining access to the scene of so much melancholy interest. The room was consequently crowded to an inconvenient degree—even to the very ceiling. There was breathless silence while the several witnesses gave their testimony. Previous to open ing the inquiry the Coroner and jury went up to view the fatal spot. Of course all traces of the sad event were obliterated, and there was nothing but the unusual mul titude of persons, sad and dejected, to indicate this awful recent occurrence of the uncertainty of human life. Se veral magistrates and other gentlemen from the neigh bourhood more or less interested in the inquiry were pre sent .After so thatmebeing additional told t evidence, herew asa person Joseph Forster,lying farmer, deposed dead at the Rev. Mr. Smith's, he went there and found the body. " Some person went for Mr. Smith, after he came I knelt down, and took some letters out of big pocket, and handed them to Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith had not spoken at that time, that I know of. He found they were directed to Mr. Armstrong, of Sorbietrees. He read the address. I don't remember Mr. Smith making aria remark then. He lifted his hat, and found the same name there; they called out that it was Mr. Armstrong, of Sor bie-trees. Mr. Smith then discovered a hole in his coat upon stooping down to examine him. I was kneeling at the time, and whether it was my turning the body that shewed the hole in his breast I don't know, but he noticed that first. It was on the right, inside of his upper coat breast. He was the first to!discover that hole. He said then, " I've been the death of him." Then I lifted the under coat, and he repeated the same expression. The under coat was holed in the same way. I next opened the waistcoat, and we saw the stains of blood upon his shirt. Mr. Smith looked at this blood and exclaimed, I've been the death of the poor man.' We were all silent for a short time, we were so put about. At last I said we might have the body removed."—Some further evidence was then given ; and after an address from the coroner , the jury retired for an hour, when they returned and said, " We find Mr. Smith Guilty of Manslaughter."—The Coroner said, he had a great deal to prepare before he could conclude the proceedings, therefore he suggested the adjournment of the Court to Thursday morning, when he would read over the depositions and take the recogni zances.—The jury were then bound over in their own re cognizances of £lO each to prosecute the inquiry until it was finally completed. At this moment the Rev. Mr. Benson, the vicar of Brampton, entered the room 41 great haste, and evidently in a state of painful ex citement, and exclaimed, " lle's quite gone ! quite gone! The poor man (alluding to Mr. Smith) he is quite gone out of his mind." This caused great sensation and sympathy among those who remained, and a deep and sorrowful expression overspread the countenance s of all present on hearing the painful intimation. It appeared that Mr. Smith had been told the result 0' the inquiry, which so overwhelmed him that he cried and sobbed like a child, su b sequen tly s i n ki ng i n t o a s t a te of , ~_ imbecility of mi n d. Th e mag i s t ra t es i n a tt en d ance , with some of Mr. Smith's friends and his professional adviser, went up to the unfortunate gentleman's residence ; but they found that, owing to his dreadful state of mind, it was impossible to take the usual steps consequent upo.n such a verdict of the coroner's jury. Mr. Smith conti nued in such an excited and deranged state of mind, that the magistrates (who had waited nearly the whole day for the purpose) were obliged to leave without h av ing th e question of bail settled, either as to the sureties or as t o ' the amount, Dr. Graham having certified that the gentleman was in such a state of mind that it would be most dangerous to communicate anything to him of an exciting nature. An application is to be made to a judg e to admit Mr. Smith to bail without his having to appea r before the magistrates, and the corner has drawn out,°' certificate of the deranged state of 31r. Smith's mind In order that this step may be taken.—The deceased w as more generally known by the name of his paternal estate! " Sorbietrees," than by his name of Armstrong, and was the lineal descendant and rep r ese n t a ti v e o f th e " Sorble' trees" spoken of by Sir Walter Scott in Guy Manneriug.