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was numerously represented, and the following pre-
sentations were made:—
By Madame Fario—Madame Read, a native of Peru ;
Mlle. Read, her daughter.
By the French Ambassador—Mr. Frederic de Billing,
flans-Directeux du Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres de
France.

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By the RU118141114 Mu it--Mr. Barkoff, Gentilhomme de
laChambre de H. M. l'Emperenr des Hussies; M. Etienne
Guedesnoff, (ientilhomme de la Chambre.
By the Hanoverian Minister—Captain Lammers, of the
Royal Hanoverian Army.
By the Spanish Minister—Lieutenant Luis de Ariategui,
R.A., Military Attache to her Catholic Majesty's Lega-
tion.

By the Sicilian Minister—Le Comte de Monte can Angelo,
Prince de tlerace. _ .

By the Austrian Mixister—te Comte de Choleck, Se-
cretaire de la Legation de S. M. 1. and R. A. I Loucks..
By the Minister fre* the United Stales General
Sumner. _ _

The following ladies had the honour of being pre-
sented to her Majesty:—
Mrs. Henry Ames, on her marriage, by Lady Lovable—
Mr. Btufield, !Idle I/nches:4 of Argyll—Miss Barfield, by
Mrs. Bartleid—Hon. Mrs. Proctor Beauchamp, on her

marriage, by Lady Radatock—Hon. Jane Bickerateth, by
Lady Langdale-411 ism Constance Blakiston, by Mrs.
Blakiston—Mrs. John Bourne, by Lady Northcote—Mrs.
Brooke, by Lady Londesbomugh—Miss Buller, by Mrs.
Edward Huller—Miss Mary linrdon, by Lady Lovaine—
Hon. lotabella Calthorpe, and Hut. Olivia l'althorpe, by
Lady Calthorpe—Miss Margaret Cardew, by Mrs. George
Carpenter—Miss Carter, by Mrs. John Carter—Miss
Catherine Chichester, by Lady Clifford Constable—Mrs.
Cleobury, by Viscountess Palmerston—Mr...lames Craw-
fund, on her marriage, by Lady Charlotte Copley—Lady de
L'lsle and Dudley, by the Marchioness of Ely—The Hon.
Mrs. Edgeumbe, on her return from Hanover, by
Visommthas Palmerston—Mrs. William Eyre, by Lady
Charlotte Copley—Miss Fano (of Wormaley), by Lady
Bailey—Mrs. Spencer Follett, by Lady Stuart—Lady
Garvagh, by the Dowager Lady Garvagh—Miss Goff, and
Miss Eliza Goff, by Lady Adele Goff—Lady Margaret
Leveson Gower, on her marriage, by Lady Rivers—Lady
011iffe, by Viscountess Palmerston—Miss Granville, by
Lady Rivers—Miss Gertrude Marian Gregory, by Mrs.
Thomas Gregory--Miss Elizabeth Handley, by the Hun.
Mrs. Handley—Mrs. John Humpherv, by Lady Oldie—
Mrs. Theodosius Boughton Leigh, by Mrs. Cotterell—Mrs.
Oliver Lloyd, on her marriage, by Lady Eustace—Miss
May, by Lady Kinnaird—Mrs. Hugh Mitchell, by Lady
Raglan—Mrs. Greed, by the Marehionees of Ely—Mrs.
Powell (of Hurdeott), by the Hon. Mrs. Herbert—Hon.
Edith Powys, by Lady Lilford—Miss Puleston, by Lady
Bailey—Mrs. James Ramsay, by the Dowager Viscountess
Galway—Mrs. Alexander Cuningham Robertson, on her
marriage, by Lady Louisa Moncrieffe—Mrs. Samuel
Severne, by the Viscountess Forbes—Miss Severne, by
Mrs. Samuel Severn—The Hon. Mm. Silvertop, on her
marriage, by Lady Canioys—Mrs. Tollemache, by the
Hon. Lady Middleton—Mrs. J. Tuite, by the Countess of
T)esart—Miss Mary Turnbull, by Mrs. Alexander Adair—
The Hon. Mrs. Edward Twisleton, on her marriage, by
the Hen. Mrs. Twisleton—Lady Vassal!, lry Lady Rad-
stock—Mica Wade, by Mrs. W. H. Macintosh—Mrs.
James Wartllaw, on her marriage, by Lady Arabella
Hesketh—Mrs. Colonel Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, by
Viscountess Palmerston--Mrs. Drummond Wolff, on her

marriage, by Viscountess
Mn. Admiral Ayscough.

Woodruffe, by

A Chapter of tho Thistle wa.; held by the Queen
on Saturday last, for the purpose of enrolling the
Earl of Eglinton with the customary ceremonies
among the Knights of that most ancient and most
noble order.

Monday, being the sixteenth anniversary of her
Majesty's accession, was signalised by the usual dis-
play of flags and sound of bells and guns.
The Queen visited the Princess's Theatre on
Saturday night to see Sardanapalus, and on Monday
witnessed Planche's extravaganza at the Haymarket.
The Cologne Choral Union went to the Palace on
Monday morning and sang several pieces before her
Majesty.
The Royal christening is fixed to take place on
Monday next. The infant Prince will be christened
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the
Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London, in
the names of Leopold George Duncan Albert. The
sponsors will be the Princess of Hohenlohe, the
Princess of Prussia, and the King of Hanover.

The Prince and Princess of Prussia are expected
to arrive in England on Sunday evening.
The King of Hanover held a diplomatic levee on
Wednesday at the residence of the Hanoverian Lega-
lion in Grosvenor-place. The Foreign Ministers,
with their ladies, almost without exception, attended
to pay their respects to his MAjesty.
The alleged conversion of the Duchess of Hamil-
ton to Romanism is contradicted on authority by the
Glasgow Constitutional.

THE v:

of an immediate communica-

tion between the Houses of Parliament and Brussels,
by means of the submarine telegraph, WAS inaugu-
rated on Monday in the Electric Telegraph Company's
office in the lobby of the House of Commons. At
two o'clock the announcement was received from

SATURDAY,

Brussels that the Duke de Brabant was momentarily
expected at the office in that city. Shortly afterwards
a message, excusing the absence, on the English
side, of the Duke of Cambridge, was transmitted to
Brussels, the time of transit being only 2 min. btl
sees., and in an almost equally short space of time an
answer was returned to the effect that his Royal
Highness the Duke de Brabant presented his felici-
tations to the directors, and congratulated them upon
the success of the event which had then taken place.
The instrument was afterwards made to perform its
duties in carrying on various little correspondences
of minor importance. And thus the mode of instan-
taneous communication between the houses of the

Imperial Parliament and the throne of Belgium is
established as firmly and satisfactorily as if it re-
quired nothing more than well-ordered postal regula
dons or the punctuality of a letter-carrier.
The STATE of the REPRESENTATION for the Cm of
LONDON was discussed on Monday at a private meet-
ing of some of the leading City Liberals. A petition
was agreed to, urging Parliament to pass a measure
to enable Baron Rothschild to attend to City business
in the House of Commons.

An EXTENSIVE FAILURE, involving the house of
Messrs. Wrampe and Co., was announced in the City
on Saturday evening. The firm has been heavily
engaged in the foreign and Baltic trades, and their
liabilities are variously estimated at from 341,000/. to
80,000/. Messrs. Wrampe are understood to have
had on hand a large contract for coals with the
French Government.

The MANCHESTER OPERATIVES will probably not go
out on strike like their fellows elsewhere. Most of
the employers who have yet been appealed to have
assented to give some advance upon the prices they
were previously paying.
THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEGRO EDUCATION has
formed the object of a society which a twelvemonth
since succeeded in establishing the Berkeley College
in Bermuda. The first anniversary meeting of this
society took place on Monday last, when Lord
Harrowby, the chairman, recapitulated the inten-
tions and described the success of the association
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It was, he observed, the custom in England to think that by
carrying emancipation everything had been done for the negro.
But entaneipation was only One step, others must follow. In
order that the negro might make a good use of his freedom, lie
must be trained up to use it well, and fulfil hue duties in his new
condition. One of the greatest steps towards elevating the
colottred race was to give them a higher kind of education, so
that they might have the meant; of fitting themselves to rise in
the scale of society and show that they were in no way inferier
to the whites. Something has been done in this direction by
the establishment in Barbadoes of Codrington College, and in
Sierra Leone of the college of the Church Missionary Society,
and it was seen that the mind of the black man was adequate to
the highest attainments. It was now believed that by planting
a college in Bermuda, by beginning with a grammar education,
and gradually extending it to the university lona, more than
had yet been effected would be done for the improvement of the
coloured race. Ile was not ignorant of the difficulties that pre.
seated themselves in the carrying out of this scheme of the
Berkeley Bermuda College, on account of the struggle with re•
spect to caste, for while the college invited those of dark shade
it did not exclude the white ; but when he saw how, when in the
West Indies, brown men had sat even on the judicial bench, he
perceived that this prejudice was not insuperable.
The report stated the number of students in the new
establishment, which, though now only a grammar
school, would it was hoped eventually grow into a
university. Resolutions tending to consolidate and
advance the institution were afterwards moved by the
Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. Justice Haliburton (Sam
Slick), and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, of Harrow, and
carried unanimously.
Az THE INDIA HoUSE a special general meeting of
the directors and proprietors was held on Monday,
and again atkjourned over until Tuesday, in order to
consider the measure now before Parliament for the
future government of India. Many speeches were
made in the course of the two days' proceedings, in
which the Ministerial propositions were severely cri-
ticised, and much offered in defence of the Directors
anti the existing system of Indian administration. Mr.
Hume, Mr. Sullivan, Colonel Sykes, and Sir J. W.
Hogg, were the principal speakers, and the meeting
terminated in the almost unanimous adoption of a
resolution moved by Mr. Sullivan, to the following
effect :
That having considered the correspondence and the proposal
of the (ioveniment, this Court, confining itself at present to the
question that affects the constitution of the court of directors,
and confiding in the seal and judgment of that body, deem it
right and necessary to declare their full concurrence in the opt.
Mon that the presence in the administration of Indian alfolrs of
a body independent of political party, and exclusively devoted to
the discharge of the duties entrusted to them, is essential to the
good government of India. That some of the changes proposed
to he made are, in the opinion of this Court, not calculated
to
improve it; and, especially, that the proposal to substitute six
directors to be elected by the Crown for twelve of the body
elected by the proprietors is calculated, by impairing the hide.
pendenee of the court of directors, to weaken the principal
check now imposed upon the power of the Board of Control.
That the court of directors he authorised and requested to urge
these views upon the Board of Control and upon Parliament, at
such time and in such manner as the court shall deem to be most
expedient.
THE number of persons charged to the Iscout:
TAX in the year ended the sth April, 1852, under
schedule 1) was 140,062, and under schedule E
49,026. The net amount of the property and income
tax, in the same year, was 5,664,1911.—in England
and Wales, 5,191,0531.; in Scotland, 407,536/. ; and
in Ireland, 0,1211.

JtrxE 25, 1853.

THE Tow; Corxert, of litrt.t. have granted a sum
of :1,000/. towards making the necessary preparations
for the Queen's visit to that borough.
ANOTHER MAGNIFICENT STEAMER, the Crams, was
launched at Mr. Mare's yard, Blackwell, on Tuesday.
She is :4500 tons burden, will carry engine s of -100.
horse power, and is built for the General Screw
Steam Shipping Company.
THE QrEEN has appointed the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, Knt.,
and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq., to be her
Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the
existing state of the Corporation of the city of

London.
THE NEW HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT is now passed
and will take effect on the 10th Jul-.
THE NUMBER OF DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS held
by persons entitled to vote is set forth in a recent
return :—Greenwich, 051; Chatham, 429 ; Ports-
mouth, 431; Devonport, 409 ; Plymouth, 60 ; Pem-
broke, 01; and Sandwich, 4. There are in addition
332 voters in the same places, or some of theft,
holding appointments under the Board of Ordnance,
making a total of '2,1•67 Government men voting in
the eight boroughs.
THE TOTAL REPEAL of the ADVERTISEMENT DUTY
was urged upon Lord John Russell on Tuesday
by a deputation bearing a memorial numerously
signed by influential citizens of London, and pointing
out that all the gross inequalities of the old tax would
remain under the sixpenny rate, which would con-
tinue to cripple and extinguish cheap literature. His
lordship stated that revenue was the sole considera-
tion for which the tax was retained, and denied any
intention to control the press.
THE SOAP DUTIES REPEAL DILL has been printed.
The measure will take effect from the sth of July.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN LONDON, according to the
official report, is now in a more satisfactory state.
The weekly deaths were, at the beginning of April,
above 1,300; in May they averaged more than 1,100;
in the week that ended last Saturday the number fell
to 1124. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1543-52 the average number was $OOl, which, if raised
in proportion to increase of population, becomes 956.
Hence it appears that the actual mortality is less than
the estimated amount by 62—a result more favour-
able than has been obtained during a long period.
A STRANGE SCENE has occurred at the Roman
Catholic chapel in Bristol, which has resulted in an
action for libel brought against the pastor, Mr.
Culinan, by Mr. Mascarenhas, Portuguese consul in
that city. The cause of action arose out of some
observations which Mr. Culinan pointed at the che-
valier on Sunday last, at mass, when, after the Gospel,
Culinan delivered himself of nearly the following
words I cannot preach, but 1 have to say that a
person employed a cripple to put bills on the walls of
this church and the trees without my consent; such
conduct is a violation of the rules, and I will not
allow it; that person has no religion in him. He is
worse than an infidel; calling himself a Catholic,
having no Catholic spirit in him. My good people,
I desire you not to associate with him ; to any person
that is in his favour it is a curse rather than a bless-
ing. Ido not want his donations. I. can carry on
my mission without his assistance. The bishop ad-
monished him, and I have the letter in my pocket."
The notice alluded to was one which the chevalier
had placed on the walls of the chapel, offering a
reward for the discovery of some person or persons
who had broken the windows of the building.
A DINNER AND TESTIMONIAL were given on Wed-
nesday by the electors of Lambeth to their late mem-
ber, the Right Hon. C. T. D'Eyncourt. The testi-
monial was in the form of a richly-chased silver vase,
intended for a centre-piece for a banqueting-table,
weighing 500 ounces, and with appropriate inscrip-
tions. Ai►out 150 gentlemen sat down to the dinner,
at which Lord P. Stuart presided.
STRENUOUS OPPoSTTION TO THE INDIA RILL was
announced on Tuesday by the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce, at a meeting held in Manchester.
Among other strong resolutions passed at that meet-
ing was the following :
•fhat this meeting cannot discover in the hill which her Ma-
jesty's Mini-t,rs have brought before Parliament even a latent
hope that their project tor the future government of lulls will
provide Ally imMeirtit remedy for the kilning omissions of the
iutst, inasmuch as the system is not reformed in any essential
deluti•e, and no urenrity eau be found in it for an active develop-
molt of agrienittind resom•ees, or that an adequate portion of the
revenue shall h.• applied to the much-nefuhol menial aincliora•
lion of the country•, instead of being, as heretofore, wholly
lavished on territorial aggrandisement.
Messrs. Bright, Ashworth, and Bazley were the chief
speakers on this occasion.