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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST ts, 1853.

POSTSCRIPT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY.

Lord KINNAIRD moved the second reading of the
Combination of Workmen Bill:

The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord TRURO opposed
the bill, which Lord KINNAIRD ultimately withdrew.

INDIA DILL.

Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reading of this
bill, which he justified on many of the grounds pre-
viously urged by Sir C. Wood.
The Earl of MALMESBDRY complained of the delay
which had occurred in bringing the measure up to the
House of Lords, and declined to discuss a bill of
such vast importance at the fag-end of the session.
The Earl of ABERDEEN defended the course pur-
sued by the Government, denying that there had
been any unnecessary delay.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, although he did not
consider the measure complete, saw much in it that
was good, condemning, however, the mode in which
it was proposed to amend the constitution of the
Court of Directors, and the proposal with regard to
the constituency.
The Marquis of SALISBURY spoke in opposition to
the measure.
The Duke of ARGYLL strongly insisted on the
necessity of legislating during the present session.
He thought the epithet which had been applied to it
(the bill), of being a bit-by-bit reform, rather com-
plimentary than otherwise, for it was only by degrees
that this country could attain perfection in govern-
ing such a vast empire as India.
Lord ASHBURTON also defended the bill.
The Bishop of OxvoßD, regarding the measure
from a religious point of view, should have liked to
see a larger machinery in it for the spread of Chris-
tianity in our Indian empire.
Lord WHARNCLIYFE urged several objections to the
hill.
After a few words from Earl GRANVILLE, the bill
was read a second time.
Several bills on the table were forwarded a stage,
and their lordships adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.

At the early sitting some discussion took place on
the South Sea Company's Arrangement and Trust
Bill, but it was ultimately read a third time and
passed without a division.
The rest of the morning was occupied with the
committee on the Pilotage Bill.
At the evening sitting the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, in reply to Mr. GinsoN, said that the few
replies yet received from our colonies on the subject
of the Government proposal as to colonial postage
were decidedly in its favour. The proposition was
to effect a low and uniform rate of postage, including
not only the ocean charge, but the charge from door
to door.
Lord Jolts Russzu. intimated that on Monday he
should move the precedence of Government orders
a portion of Wednesdays for the remainder of the
session.

SOUTH SEA ANNUITIES, &e.. BILL.
On the order of the day for going into committee
ea this bill,
Sir F. KELLY repeated his objections to the three
Government alternatives proposed to the holders of
stoat. At that period of the session, however, the
hon. and learned gentleman declined to divide the
house.
London, England, 1853-08-06

THE PRESS.

And yet, with the knowledge of this fact, it has
been resolved not only to augment the convict
population to s e
.I"nt we have described,
but to render: , q , :. of the most objection-
ait dwrip .. . I are only in future() 49
se (4 Wes ',l A' ~1' • • such of our felo
as harib I'' s )I- 3 :hest distinctionsl2
el.
the sc lof . r-. ~ e.
Bu. ,t . 's is, pt The disproportion
the iiiies in Ws ' oily has long been , e
subject of serious otiiisklaint. We learn from
the Report of the Elipgnition Commissioners
for the present year that it contained, accord.
ing to the latest estimate, 4,523 males, and
only 2,444 females. This striking disparity
has been urged upon the attention of the
imperial authorities by the present governor.
He is now to be informed, in reply to his re-
monstrances, that the evil of which he so justly
complains is to be aggravated to a degree
which it is frightful to contemplate. In a few
years, provided the present project is carried
out, the convict population of Western
Australia, consisting almost entirely of males,
will exceed in number the free inhabitants of
the colony. It would appear, therefore, that
the experience of the east has been entirely
thrown awiql The terrible disclosures made
before Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S committee,
in 1838, and the more recent history of trans-
portation in Van Diemen's Land, all teach the
same lesson. They prove conclusively the
folly and the wickedness of concentrating a
large criminal population upon any given
locality; and yet this fatal error is about to be
repeated, in a manner and to an extent more
objectionable than upon any former occasion.
" But," it will be said, "what remedy, unless
"you propose to keel) at home the whole 3,000
" convicts annually sentenced ?" We admit the
difficulty. Yet surely a" third course" is prac-
ticable. Australia is not the whole world—
penal settlements may be formed elsewhere.
Penal settlements, in our belief, asset be formed
elsewhere ; for any attempt to carry out the
ticket-of-leave system in an old and crowded
country like ours carries with it a manifest ab-
surdity ; and without the ticket-of-leave sys
tem, or something analogous to it, you have
absolutely no security for the good behaviour
of the discharged prisoner, who is thus thrown
upon the world, with a branded name, with the
certainty of being refused employment, and
without a chance, in ordinary cases, of redeem-
ing himself in the eyes of the world and his
own. But this subject we shall hereafter con-
sider more at large.
London, England, 1853-08-06

CRAVEN BERKELEY AND CONSISTENCY.

" Surely, if bells and music were permitted, what could be the harm of persons going
about with flags bearing the inscription, for instance, ' Jemmy Graham, and consistency ' ?
(Great laughter.)"--CakvEN BERKELEY, Morning Herald, August 4, 1833.
LET imputations go where they are due ; but let them also come from
legitimate sources. The following is our estimate of Mr. BERKELEY'S
achievement :
London, England, 1853-08-06

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SPAIN.

It is stated that the Queen's pregnancy was to be
announced in the Gazette of the Ist of August; that
there would be a levee in consequence at La Granja
on the 2nd; and illuminations, the fountains playing,
Sze., on the and and 4th.
The dissensions in the Cabinet continue, and re•
ports of a crisis, varied occasionally by positive an-
nouncements that all, or nearly all, the ministers had
resigned, are transmitted by the electric telegraph to
Paris about every other day. At the date of the last
authentic advices, however, the Ministry were still in
place.
PORTUGAL.

Reconciliation had at last taken place between the
tiovernment and the bank. The railway project had
received the approval of the Chamber of Deputies,
and all that was required was the capital, which,
however, according to appearances, was not likely to
be obtained. In the Chamber on the 25th the
Finance Minister brought forward the second part of
his budget, which still showed a deficit of 180 contos
(40,(0/.) He hoped, however, that the excess of
the actual over the estimated revenue would remove
that debt. The grape vines were suffering severely
from disease, which threatened the most ruinous
consequences.
The Queen and Royal Family had removed from
Cintra to Mafra, where they intended to pass the
summer.
London, England, 1853-08-06

Sporting.

BRIGHTON RACES.—WtnNEsnAv.
THE TRIAL STAIMS of A son. each, with 30 added.
Mr. Spencer's Snowdon Dunhill (Charlton) 1
Mr. Ma►v's Phan)ld
Mr. Onbaldeston's Sy!rhi►►e 3
Betting: 5 to 4 against l'harold, 7 to 4 against Snowdon
Dunhill, 5 to 1 against Sylphine. Won cleverly by a
length.

SECOND YEAR Or THE FIRST BRIORTO BIENNIAL STAKES
of 10 sum emelt, with 1(N) added. . _

I►uke of Bedford's Sittingbourtie (S. Itogers) 1
I.ord 'John Seott'a Catherine liars
Betting : t to 1 on Sittinghourne, who won in a
clutter.

THE IIItIIII4TON STAKES of 25 BOVB. eseh, with 10() added.
Mr. Mattetinis'a Pantomime (Oliver)
Mr:Girville's Adint•

'flw following also ran :—Poodle, Jouvence, Oarforth,
Antigone, eneybantes. Mrs. Nutting, Extaey.
Betting : to 1 agwitott Arline, 4to 1 against Poodle,
to 1 against Pantomime, 0 to 1 against Corybantes, 6 to I
against Jouvenee, 7 to 1 against Antigone.
'Ent: MARINE PI, \TE of 100 SO'S. (handicap).
Mr Magennia's The Heriot (Oliver) 1
Mr. Darling jun.'s Puritan

THE PRESS.

THZ BRIGHTONNURSERY STAKES of 14)_sova. each, with

10U added, for two-year-olds.
Captain Lane's Cyrus (Wells) 1
Mr. DeLunere's Sine-qua•non 2
Lord J. Scott's Vingt-un 3
Mr. Elwes's Joan of Arc l,

Bribery, Winckfield, Worthless, Twinkle, Woodyeates,
Royalist, Adelaide, Bracken, Basquine, Margaretta,
Jovial, St. Spiro, Bonnie Bairn, Kitty Clover, Health, f. by
John o' Gaunt, also ran.
_ _ _

Betting : 4 to 1 against Basquine, sto 1 each against
Twinkle and Juan of Arc, 7 to 1 against Cyrus, 8 to 1 each
against Health and Bribery. Won easily by a length.
THE RAILWAY PLATE of 100 NOVEL (handicap 1.
Mr. Mare's Perfidious ( Wells) 1
Lord Exeter's Mrs. Nutting 2
Eight ran.
THE. TOWN PLATE Of 50 WAIL

Mr. Magennis's 3laitlatone (Rogers) I
Mr. Elwea's Himalaya 2
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Dear Me

Won by a head. The winner was old by auction for 190
guineas.

THURSDAY.

GRAND STAND PLATE of 100 soya., added to a handicap
sweepstakes of 10 soya. each
Baron Rothschild's Hungerford (Charlton) 1
Mr. Magennis's Sandhurst
Captain Baruett's Mayfly 3
Betting : 7 to 4 against Mayfly, 4 to 1 against Sandhurst,
6 to 1 against Hungerford.
LICENSED VIVI CALLERS' STAKES of 5 SOY& each, with
London, England, 1853-08-06

PENAL COLONIES.

44'

Tux Government plan for the disposal of our
convicts is such as might have been expected
from a divided Cabinet. It satisfies nobody, for
it settles nothing. It is condemned alike by the
advocates and the opponents of transportation ;
and justly so, for it is calculated to aggravate
the evils of which both those parties have so

long complained. The Duke Of NEWCABTLK,
it appears, desires to retain the whole of our

criminals at home. Lord ABERDEEN holds a
different opinion, and hence the present com•
promise, by which the defects of the existing

system are to be rendered still more intolera-
ble abroad, while in England we are called
upon to submit to an experiment repugnant
alike to public feeling and to sound economy.
It is to the probable results of the proposed
scheme abroad that we would at present
direct the attention of our readers. Western
Australia is still to be retained as a penal
settlement, and to it the great bulk of our con-
victs are now to be sent. Lord CRANWORTH

informs us that from 800 to 1,000 may annually
be disposed of in that colony ; and to that
extent transportation is still to be continued
to Swan River. We must also bear in
mind that the convicts so disposed of will
consist of the elite, so to speak, of their
class. It is proposed that those only who are
sentenced to fourteen years and upwards shall
in future be transported ; and the whole of
these must now be sent to Western Australia.
Is it difficult to foresee the results of the con-
centration of such a population upon such a
spot?
The progress of the Swan River settlement,
as all the world knows, has been singularly
low hen compared with that of our other
ktistmilian colonies. The demand for labour,
,is but limited. At the date of the
thlataVireofficial accounts, we learn that between
five ad six hundred convicts had arrived in
eniony within the last eighteen months,
tiiitt it had been found impossible to ob-
aaployment -via for that moderate number.

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side to play into the hands of the Obscurantists.
In abandoning his motion for a committee of
inquiry on nunneries, the convenient Member
for Bath broke down a no longer useful brid e
of retreat, while he .dextrously. yielded
prestige of victory to the ultrapon
allies of his political. fr4pda. 1,0,,tpe secon
instance, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, hatiever mindful
of the " insolent," couvenien forgot 01
" insidious " part of limb& on ish
our unguarded social machinery, when he
strove, by a side wind, to destroy the law
of superstitious uses, by giving the priestly
interest a perpetual exemption from those pro
visions of the new Charitable Trusts Bill
which were intended to protect all alike
against spiritual or temporal fraud, whether
practised by Roman Catholic death-bed har-
pies or lax latitudinarian trustees. The
Noble Lord might have regarded this new
" sop " to the spiritual reversionists as an
&monde, negative and Whiggish, for some of
the superfluous insults of the Durham letter;
but the amendment of Mr. HEADLAM, limit-
ing the operation of the meditated licence
to two years, was adopted by Lord J. RUSSELL
as the sole means of saving his own. Even
this amended amendment was too subversive
of the object of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act,
and of the principle of the general law relating
to charitable trusts, to be permitted ; and on
Sir FREDERICK THESIOER resisting it " as an
" admission that a system was to be applied to
" Roman Catholic charities different from that
" adopted towards others," there was a very
close division (in which, it is worthy of re-
mark, Lord PALMIRSTON was not available), re-
sulting in the adoption of this Headlam-on
Russell rider to the bill by a majority
of only eleven. The effect of the whole affair
is to give to the ultramontanist organisers of
the money power of the faith a two years'
licence for their operations. In the ease of the
Irish education system, and of conventual
establishments, they are not so fortunate ;
being condemned to the tantalising task of
continually watching the fluctuating tide of
public indignation.
London, England, 1853-08-06

THE PRESS.

After some remarks from Mr. WILKINSON, the
house went into committee. The several clauses,
after considerable discussion, were agreed to. The
house resumed, and the report was ordered to be
brought up on Monday.
The house shortly afterwards went into committee
of supply, and a variety of estimates were proceeded
with until twelve o'clock, when the CHAIRMAN reported
progress.
The other orders having been disposed of, the
house adjourned.
London, England, 1853-08-06

ITALY.

The Pope's Government has prohibited the export
of corn from the territories of his Holiness.
The King of Sardinia, on returning from Spezzia,
met with an accident. The steamer on board of
which his Majesty was ran on a rock, and the King
was compelled to pass on board another vessel. He
has since returned to Turin.
London, England, 1853-08-06

[From our Cheltenham Correspondent.]

The bill of our respected Member for the suppression of bell
ringing, cockades, and key bugles, met its fate on Wednesday last.
The news reached Cheltenham on Thursday morning ; but the inha-
bitants of our lively town did not display the expected signs of
mourning. The waiters at the Plough preserved their equanimity ;
there was the customary demand for the chalybeate ; and there were
no barricades in the High-street. Towards noon there was a group
formed at the corner of Clarence-street, but the authorities did not
feel themselves called upon to interfere. The group consisted of
members of the various interests who were released from the operation
of Mr. BERKELEY'S measure.

" I should like to know," said the Milliner, " whether he expects
us to trim our bonnets with oak sprigs, after the fashion of West
Gloucester?"

" Yes," said the Beadle ; " and are we to march through the
town like the Foresters, with antlers 'presented by Earl FITZHAR-

DINOE ?* ''

"I should like," said the town Trombone, "to see him canvass
me and the Two Flageolets at the next election."
"Or solicit the support of the ecclesiastical interest," said
Triple Bob.

"What most surprises me," said the Trombone, " is the assistance
he received from his brother HENRY. The Member for Bristol used to
be partial to music."
" But not to your brass instruments," said the Flageolet.
"At all events, he was not scandalised at election banners, for
he was the means of procuring a banner for his young electioneering
friends at Bristol."

" He is too great a purist to remember that now," said another.
"Yet he cheers his brother's appeal to consistency."
" I wish I was between them with my trombone."
" Or I behind them with my pincushion."
" Or I had them for an hour or two's repose in my belfry."
Such was the mode of mourning for Mr. BERKELEY'S bill at
Cheltenham.
London, England, 1853-08-06

BY THE EARL OF A-.

" On the 4th inst. the oyster season opened at Billingsgate with its usual fonuali-
ties."—Morning Paper.

Little architects in sheliwork
(" Only once a year "—their motto,)
Pressing me to see their spell work—
!, too, have prepared my Grotto.
I may thank the little urchins
For their opportune suggestions—
Seeing how they open oysters,
I have learnt to open questions.
Principles I treat as shells—
Fitted to impede you solely;
Place is like the juicy fish—
You disengage to swallow wholly.
Of these principles or shells
I have now a nice collection—
Out of which my Grotto swells
To a notable erection.
Principles of all the Clans—
Whigs and Radicals, Red-tapists,
French and Russian partisans,
And Puritans and Papists.
These I've gather'd far and near,
In market-place and cloister,
Till with the Poet I can say,
That "all the world's mine oyster."
These upon each other placed
To the height they've got to,
And by my own small rushlight graced,
And there you've Geordie's Grotto.
London, England, 1853-06-25

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Con; Al Fainsv.—The arrivals of grain and four
have been small. To-day's market was pop* stiastled, and
the sale of wheat is very limited, holders Wig esteem of
selling at any decline. We make no alteration in prices.
In the value of barley, beans, and peas, we observe sou
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prices. The flour trade is quiet, and prices unaltered.
There being but few arrivals from the South the business
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Polish a klessa, 375. for Routuelia, and 30s. for hada, partly
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Wheat—English, 2)410 qrs. ; Foreign, 6,250 qrs. Harley
English, 20 qrs.; Foreign, 7so qrs. (huts—English, 2,190
qrs. ; Irish, 3,:o1N1 tire. ; Foreign, 2,030 qrs. llonr—Eng-
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Downs realised Is. 10d. per 811*. Thin was a
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from tor. to Os. 441. per t+l sr. The seal trade was firm, on
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IN

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London, England, 1853-06-25

THE PRESS.

restrained, if not hardened, by spiritual threats.
Powerless and hopeless, the poor victim waits
in the gloom of a cell for a release from misery
by death, in this or in a foreign land. Now,
this is not a religious question on any fair view
of the case, hbwever some of the Irish mem-
bers may endeavour to obscure it under a
haze of declamation concerning freedom of
conscience and delicacy of feeling. Let reli•
gion use its own sanctions, we neither want
to free the conscience from them, nor could
we, did we try : the liberty we and Mr. CHAM-
BERS seek to secure is that of the person—
liberty to breathe the air of heaven—liberty to
come forth from an asylum which has become
a prison.
Suppose, as non-interference with Masonic
lodges has been frequently alluded to and
called a parallel case, that John Thomas has
become a " free and independent " brother.
After a meeting, in which he ventures an
opinion that their secret is all flam, and he
will divulge it, JOHN THOMAS has disappeared.
His friends call at the place of meeting ; he is
denied to them, or engaged in Masonic rites
which prevent his appearing ; and, in fact,
John Thomas never appears again. Suppose
not one but several such eases to occur. Is
there a sane man in England who could ob
jest to placing Masonic lodges under inspec
tion? Or again, fancy rules for an Odd
Fellows' Society as follows :—Any person once
becoming an Odd Fellow can never again be-
come even, and if he attempts to give up his
oddities the deputy Grand shall have power
to imprison him for life or transport hint to a
foreign prison. Would Mr. TIDD PRATT be likely
to sanction them ? And really this is the
whole case.

The debate on the bill has, on the motion of Mr.
PHINN that it be referred to a select committee,
been adjourned to the 20th ofJuly. Whether the
discussion will be taken even then is doubtful,
as the whole object, apparently with the con-
currence of Ministers, is to shelve the bill al-
together. As to its final fate, something,
but happily not all, must depend on
whether Lord JOHN is in his Popery or " No
Popery " paroxysm, in the hot or cold fit
of his religious fever. Should a discussion
take place, we must be prepared for inter•
minable Irish talk, and to see weapons from
the armoury of freedom again wielded in the
cause of tyranny. Still it cannot but afford a
salutary lesson to the true friends of our free
constitution to observe how necessary it is to
guard against the assaults of religious tyranny
under the disguise of tolerance or equality,
and the advance of a servile spirit of priest-
craft under the stolen banner of liberty.
London, England, 1853-06-25

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Nth Victoria, cap. 92
for the week ending lin Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1853.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

ISSUE DEPARTIIENT.
Notes issued 532,110,905 I Govermui

£32,115,995

BANKINO 1)1
Proprietors' Capital /14,553,000
Rept

Public Deposit's 4,015,A31
Other Deposits 13,174,519
Seven Day A; other
Dills

.£36,764,927

• Including Exchequer, 'S
lindens! Debt, and Dividend

Debt . $11.015,100
Other Securities .. 2,964,900
Gold Coin .t Bullion 18,096,641
Silver Bullion .... 19,154

131,115,99

:PsirstExv.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight An.) n 3,123,910
Other Securities 1:1.700,971
Notes
Gold & Silver Coin 519,E11

£36.764.927
isaivuers of
London, England, 1853-06-25

ttlanb.

A formidable " pastoral " has been issued by Dr.
l'aul Cullen, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin,
referring to the deliberation's of the recent Synod
of the province of Leinster," and warning children
attending the national schools against the use of
Whateley's " Christian Evidences," and a little hook
entitled " Scripture Lemons." Of the former, the
writer of the pastoral says :
" It is composed by a Pmtestant dignitary, whn has
lately distinguished himself by his rmprorotteel attack on
our conventual institutions, under the hypocritical pre.
tence of protecting personal liberty. We need scarcely
state that this treatise, morning from the pen of such an
author, is Protestant in its principles and tendencies, and
that it is not fit for the instruetion of I :sthohe children to
the important question of the truth of their religion."
The other work is declared to " etestais &Seek
passages from the Old and New Testes toe, and pro-
pooess questions which would epos the ow to the
teaching of false doctrines." Through the iidetatee
of Dr. Cullen also, the " Evidences" were exposited
from the list of works accepted by the National So-
ciety for Education in Ireland, at. the last a
the Board yesterday week. The veto to that
passed by a majority of 10 to I. The Pretsbyteeha
members staled with the Roman Catholic party, and
the only opposing vete was that of Mr. Blackburn,
late Chancellor of Ireland. Another resolution was
passed at the same time, by the same majoeity, to the
effect that,
" if ato tingle child's parent objected to the nee of any
book, it was sufficient to exclude that book, not frees that
child only, but from the whole school ; so that if nineteen
parents wished their children to teal the &hinters, or imp
other work, mid thy twentieth objected, the book became
forbidden:*

On the evening of the 17th inst. Mr. John Robin-
son was shot dead on the roadside, close to his own
house, in the barony of Bantry and county of Wex-
ford. The assassin has not yet been discovered.
Government have offered a reward of 1001. for infor-
mation which may lead to the arrest of the guilty
party or parties.
The great Glengall estates, situate in the counties
of Tipperary and Waterford, will be set up for sale
on Friday, the 11th of November next. The gross
profit rental is over 15,0001. per annum. The Earl
of Glengall and his trustees are the petitioners. Tho
property will be offered in 130 separate lots.
The Weekly Telegraph, by way of showing its in-
tense "nationality " as regards the Exhibition, in-
sinuates that the camp at Chobham, with its 10,000
soldiers, has been got up for the purpose of injuring
Mr. Dargan's project, by keeping away visitors from
Dublin.
Sir Michael D. Bellew, Bart., the father of Capt.
Bellew, M.P. for the county of Galway, is to be ap-
pointed a member of her Majesty's Privy Council for
Ireland.
London, England, 1853-06-25

rrHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.-
Under the management of Mr. lhackstoue.
Last Three Weeks of the Seas u.—MR. BUCKSTONE'II
ASCENT' OF MOUNT PARNASSUS, and Ibkl'l'lNLlS AND
TABLE MOVINOS, Every Evening.
MONDAY—(By desire) Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's Comedy
of MONEY. Evelyn, Mr. Barry Sullivan; Lord Oloommure
(first time), Mr. 11. Corrie ; Sir Frederick Blunt (first time). Mr.
W. Marren ; (kaiser (first time), Mr. Compton ; Captaiu Smooth.
Mr.llowe ; Mr. Beadsman Stout, Mr. Buckstone; Clara Douglas
(first time), Miss Reynolds; lieuridans Vesey, Mrs. 1.. 14.
Buckingham; and Lady Franklyn, Mrs. Fitzwillituu. After
which (79th time) MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT (IF MOUNT
PARNASSUS, and the new and all-absorbing Faroe of
RAPPINOS AND TABLE MOVINOS ; Mr. Orpheus Toot., Mr.
Buckstone ; Miss Mawkins (a Medium), Mrs. Fitzwillitun.
TUESDAY—(ied time but two) The Cruel Kinthissa, by
Mrs. Crowe, Authoress of "The Nightside of Nature," Mr.
Ilneketone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus, Mappings and Table
Movings, and the Boarding-school Ball.
WELNESDAY—(For the last time) the new Comedy of
Elopements lu High Life, Mr. Buckstuue's Parnassus, and
'tappings and Table Moving..
TIIUItSDAY—Mr. Iluckatoue's Comedy of Married life, Mr.
Buckatone's Ascent of Mount Parlamenti, Rapping. and Table
Moving., and Deaf as a Post : Tristram sappy, Mr. Compton.
FRIDAY—(Litst time but one) The Cruel Kindness, Mr.
Buckstone's Parnassus, Itappluwe and Table Musings, said The
II nutting-m:lmo' Ball.
SATURDAY—(Ry desire, fur the 17th time) the new Comedy,
by the Author of "The King of the Commons," called The
Mousetrap. Lord Winterdell, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Clariment
Waldron, Mr. Chippendale ; General Burtoclift, Mr. Rogers;
Obadiah, a fighting Quaker, Mr. Buckstone • George, Mr. W.
Ferrel; lichen, Mica L. Howard; I 'ainomile, 'Mrs. litatadey ; said
Judith Smith, a Gipsy, Mtw. Fitzwilliam. The Bulardiusg-sehool
Ball, Mr. Bucluttune's Parnasswo, liappings and Table Musings,
said Popping the Question.
NOTICE: Mr. liuckatune respeetfWly infonaut hie friends and
the public that his Benefit will take place on Friday, the 15th of
July, being the last night of the present Hessian, when the
theatre will close fur three months fur thorough repairs and
alterations.
London, England, 1853-06-25

ZULU KAFIRS, ST. GEORGE'S GALLERY,
HYDE-PARK-CORNER, PICCADILLY.--Open Daily.
Doors open—Morning at Three; Evening at Eight.
The extensive premises known as the itt. George's dal.
lery have been taken for a Public Exhibition of a troupe and fa-
icily of Native Zulu Kafiri., consisting of eleven men, a woman,
and a child, from Eastern Africa. The exhibition represents, on
a most unexampled scale, tiro domestic habits, nuptial cerium-
niesosuperstition, witulitinding, hunting, tramp, and territorial
conflicts of that wild and interesting tribe of savages. The Ex-
hibition takes place every evening at half-past eight o'clock. A
Day Exhibition every Morning at Half-past Three. Front Rests
( bored and reserved), 4.5.; unreserved, 25.. ;to be sib.
tallied at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, OLD DOND.NTHEET ;
fuel at the Gallery. Ailmiswion One Shilling.
London, England, 1853-06-25

roc ;Irntg.

Her Majesty has commanded that the 33rd Regiment of
Foot shall henceforward bear the name of " The 3.lrd (or
the Duke of IVellington's ) Regiment," which honourable
distinction will be inscribed on the colours of the regiment.
The 33rd was the first regiment of which the duke became
commanding officer, and with it he saw much active se►vice
in India.

The Vey. G. W. Langmead, garrison chaplain at Ply
mouth, has been appointed by the. Secretary at War stall'
chaplain to the army encamped at t'hobl►am. The duties
of the garrison during his absence will be taken by the
Rev. Fortescue. _ .

31ajor-General Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.8., will, it is
reported, be commander of theforces at Madras, in room of
LieutAleueral Sir Hichani Armstrong.

The whole of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich have been marched, with their light
three-pounder guns and vamp equipage, over Shooter'?.-
hill to Bexley-heath, and pitched their tents in that loot
lity, for the purpose of being instructed in&camp duties.

Jtri4'2s, 1843.,

Devon Artillery--G . Sinslq Buck to be Lieutenant-Co-
lone/ Commandant; John LEtin to be Adjutant.
Eastern Regiment--George Hetul Woods to be Lieutenant,
via Lord Kinsale, promoted; tieorge Lane Dade to be Lieute-
nant, vice Cornish, retired ; John Tanner Davy to be EPsign,
vice Dacia, promoted.
North Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--Charies Richard
Jones to be Assistant-Surgeon. vice Coudray. resigned.
Northamptonshire Regilll6lll,--iiOMO Devas, Gent., to be En-

s Oxfordshire Regiment—Edward Campbell Stuart Cole to be '
Lieutenant, vice Preedy, deceased.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Right lion. Henry
Howard Molyneux. Earl of Carnarvon; to be Captain ' • Henry Scrap Scrape Shrapnel. Esq., late 3d Dragoon Guards, to be
Captain; William Kingsmill, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of Middle.
sea—Robert Bruce billwen, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d or North Durham Regiment—John Salmon, Gent., to be
Lieutenant.
Royal Westmorland Light Infantry Corps Captain Joseph
Spencer, from the Royal Cumberland, to be Captain ; Ensign
Robert Wilson, jun.. to be Lieutenant.
London, England, 1853-06-25

THE PRESS.

WILLIAM ECCLES, Esq., the late member for Black-
burn, died in Preston yesterday week.
Tilt REV. JOHN MAYOR, 8.D., of Lincoln College,
Oxfbrd, and son of the celebrated Dr. Mayor, author
of the Spelling-book, and many other popular works,
was found dead on Sunday afternoon in his cell on
the debtors' side of Oxford county gaol. Deceased
had been confined for debt for upwards of nine years,
declined to receive the gaol allowance, and subsisted
entirely on the bounty of his friends. He had for a
long time laboured wider illness, but invariably
refused to see the medical attendant at the gaol, and
has occasionally refused to touch any food for two or
three days together. Mr. Mayor formerly held a
living in Essex worth :150/. per annum, but it was
sequestered about ten years ago to pay his debts, and
had he lived until October next it would have been
cleared and restored to hint.

SANDWICH ISLAND LETTERS to the 16th of April
report that the King had nominated as his successor
to the throne his son Liboins.
The HEAD and ANTLERS of one of those colossal
animals of remote antiquity, the laisn Eta, were
recently found in a peat moss near Blackwatertown.
The antlers, including a portion broken off, measure
about nine feet from tip to tip. The molar teeth are
entire and in good preservation. It is now in the
possession of Mr. Barton, Dungannon.
JENNY LIND is again reported on the verge of the
theatrical horizon. The Dresden Echo says that
Madame Goldschmidt is to take the heroine's part in
her husband's opera, TOchterlein (Little Daughter).
Upwards of a year since a certain great composer is
said to have prophesied this event. He then ob-
served to a friend, " The Lind is sure to return to
the stage, and from two opposite causes, love and
revenge." " How so?" demanded the other. " Why,"
retorted the maestro, i" if she should be Ilimappointed
in her husband, and not find the domestic happiness
she anticipates, she will seek for consolation and re-
venge in public applause ; whereas, if she be happy,
and continue to love her husband, who has a turn
for composition, she will seek to satisfy her vanity
and affection by urging him to write an opera, and
she will appear in the first part, in order to ensure it
success, be it good or bad."
A SPANISH FLEET of eight vessels has appeared off
Ancona, after an experimental cruise in the Mediter-
ranean. For the last century and a half no Spanish
fleet had been seen in the Adriatic.
THE BAND OF THE BEtiD G
lENT OF Holum UARDA
stationed at Knightsbridge Barracks have commenced
their performances in Kensington °ardent' for the

summer season.
SANCLEN Of EAST INDIA TEA have been transmitted
by the directors to Mr. Fleming, secretary to the
Manchester Commercial Association. These tear
are grown in the Company's territory in the neigh-
bourhood of the Himalaya mountains, and are of
very superior quality.

SECOND EDITION.
London, England, 1853-06-25

assumption. These rumours assist stock
jobbers, and cloak the embarrassment of diplo-
matists. The state of affairs, bowel, r, is much
simpler than it seems.
Having reason to believe, after the fall of
the Derby Government, that the cordial un-
derstanding between England and France was
impaired, Russia seized the first fitting occa-
sion to assert that traditionary policy of St.
Petersburg which has been so long maturing,
and so long matured. She acted, as she
always must act under such circumstances,
with a PRETEXT ; and arguments to prove that
her pretext is not well founded, and arrange-
ments devised to settle that about which she
is really indifferent, are modes of dealing with
the shadow, while the CAUSE, which is the sub-
stance, alone engrosses her attention.
Had Russia grounds to believe that the good
understanding between England and France,
the keystone of Lord NIALNIESBURVS success-
ful policy, was impaired? In the first place,
she found, in the new Prime Minister, one
who, in the course of a career of half a cen-
tury, had never concealed his sympathy with
her fortunes and her policy ; one who had
been educated in the negotiations of Vienna
and in the traditions of the Great Alliance ;
statesman whose anti-Gallican prejudices had
only been mitigated by his relations with the
house of Orleans, and who was plotting to
contrive their restoration or to avenge their
fall. It was known to Russia that the most
powerful journals of the country were under
the immediate influence of the new Prime
Minister, and that they teemed every day with
scurrilous invectives against the Emperor of
the FRENCH. The hustings of Carlisle and of
Halifax resounded with applause, while the
discreet colleagues of Lord ABERDEEN either de-
nounced the French ruler as a despot, or, with ri-
bald intemperance, described the French nation
as slaves. It was known that the Prime Minis-
ter, if not exactly in his place in Parliament,
under circumstances scarcely less exposed,
was in the habit of expressing his opinion that
the French Emperor could not be trusted, and
that concerted action with the spoliator of the
house of Orleans was impossible.
In this temper of the English Government,
France, unhappily, unwisely. and unwarrant-
ably, embroiled herself for the privileges of
the Latin Church in the Levant. Her ambas-
sador, M. LAVALETTE, forced the Sultan to
grant concessions Lto the Latins which in-
London, England, 1853-06-25

THE AZTECS, the newly-discovered race of
human beings.—The AZTEC I.II.I.IPI'TIANM, from Centr
America, whose exhitence was hitherto enflamed to be fabulous,
have arrived in London, anti will wake their drat appenranoe in
public Ina few 'lays.

DEAFNESS.—The only medal award©d at
the Greta Exhibition of 101 (fur Acoustic Inatrunients)
war to F. C. fur hie new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS
for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit ex-
treme and every degree of Deafiriefia. To be procured only of his
sole inventor and maker, F. C. Hein, Ifie, Strand, nearly opposite
Exeter-hall, where the histrutuent mil he tried, and iiiiinertues
testimonials seen, amongst many ons from the Right Hon. Sir
John Poltroon, you of her llviiiiaty's Privy Caudillo,.
London, England, 1853-06-25

dout ant lastiot

On Monday her Majesty gave her third State eon•
cert.

On Tuesday, though all the world went to Chob-
ham, they notwithstanding returned in time and
sufficiently fresh to appear in large numbers at the
balls given by Lady Hume Campbell and Mrs. George
Hanker. This last festival was announced as in
honour of the King and Queen of Hanover and the
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg, who arrived
early, and remained till long past twelve.
On Wednesday a magnificent ball was given by
Lady Clanticarde, in Carlton-terrace, for which up-

wards of eight hundred invitations were issued. The
ball was kept up with great spirit, and concluded
with " God save the Queen "at half-past four. The
house is an excellent one—the rooms large ; and the
ball may be reckoned as one of the most successful
of the season.

On Thursday the order of the night was Lady
Wodehonse's ball, in Bryanston-square; and this
evening the Duchess of Montrose gives a ball in
Belgrave-square.
There was a large attendance on Thursday at the
bazaar in aid of the Cambridge Asylum Fund at the
Knightsbridge Barracks. A most excellent and
artistic luncheon was given by the "Blues " to the
ladies who visited the sale. The only thing to be
regretted was the absence of so many of the officers,
who were on duty at the drawing-room, leaving only
two or three of their comrades to wait upon the
numerous fair dames, who did ample justice to their
good cheer and hospitality.
In eonikmation of what I have before had occa-
sion to say relative to the bad constantly
observable amongst the young men of the present
day, I take occasion strongly to reprobate a practice
far too prevalent of retaining the hat whilst engaged
in dancing. In former days the hat was an im-
portant element in the stately minuet; but no person
can possibly maintain that my modern namesake is
any addition to the grace of the owner. To see a
man dancing with his hat in his hand shows a want.
of respect for his partner, and seems as if he danced
from necessity rather than choice. In the days
when Rome was a lounge for English fashionables,
and boasted her pack of hounds and " hunt ball,"
there was a lively Italian cavaliere who was said to
live upon the produce of the English hats which he
nightly purloined. Can there be in existence at the
present day any similar cormorant for beaver whose
presence, real or sup used, causes the breach of
etiquette we are now ca upon to condemn ?
ay Night. OURTS.

The last drawing-room of the season was held by
lief Majesty on Thursday, at St. James's Palace. It
wagr attended by the King and Queen of Hanover
eii several members belonging Lathe Royal Families
of this and other countries. The diplumatic corps
London, England, 1853-06-25

THE PRESS.

lions on the second paper were not of a testamentary
character, that they were written under a temporary
misapprehension of certain circumstances connected
with Dr. Wiseman and Stonyhurst College, and es-
pecially that the paper on which they were inscribed
was of a sort not invented until some years after the
date of the will, and therefore could not have formed
a part of it. On the other side it was pleaded that
such a way of drawing up wills used to be commonly
adoptod by Roman Catholic testators, and was still
sometimes acted on.—Sir J. Dodson, remarking that
the two papers were evidently not contemporaneous,
granted probate only to the one first written, which
was clearly valid and complete as a will. The per-
sonalty, estimated at twenty thousand pounds, passes
accordingly to Mr. Sing absolutely. Costs were al-
lowed for both parties out of the estate.
London, England, 1853-06-25

[SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1853.1

PRESENT STATE 0?

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TWO VISITS TO CHINA AND INDIA.
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MURRAY 8 MODERN COOKERY BOOK.
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UNDER ROYAL. PATRONAGE.

LENNI"S BALBRIGGAN COTTON
k.r STOCKINGS are superior to every other make of hosiers,
emabining the beauty of silk with the desirable qtudities of wit-
ness, elasticity, and strewth.
MB. Sold only at Balbriggan House, 33. tombard•street.
productions are superior even to our own celebrated
manufactures. Their elasticity, beauty, and softness
of texture were evident at once. A dozen of these stockings,
full ladles' size, weigh only 'civil ounces together."—Morning
Ottroisicle, August 25,

THE ONLY HARMLESS APERIENT.-
REINS DOUBLE-ACTION FOUNTAIN, producing a
wttal stream without the introduction of air. A little water
MB give instantaneous relief in eases of obstructione—it is its
own reservoir—may be carried in the !loan ready for nee to the
IMO* convenient pIIM`PN. Also. Reins improved Railway Con-
sistence, for travellers and invalids, adapted for ladies and gen-
tlemen. Mrs. Rein attends on Ladies at their residences, and
M home. To be had only of the inventor and maker, who manu-
factures every mechanical assistance for infirmities, F.
MS, Strand, nearly opposite Exeter-14U.
London, England, 1853-08-13

tout anb insttn.

Hag MAJESTY paid a farewell visit to the Chobham
Camp on Saturday last. On Monday the Queen held
a Court and Privy Council, and on the following day
guided Buckingham Palace for the Isle of Wight.
Wednesday some distinguished visitors, including the
Prince of Prussia, the Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburg, and the Duke of Cambridge, arrived
at Osborne-house, on a visit to her Majesty. Accom-
panied by these guests and the Royal Family, the
Queen on Thursday morning embarked on bowl the
royal yacht and witnessed the grand naval review at
Spitbead.
THE BIRTHDAY 01, PRINCE ALFRED, who has at-
tained his ninth year, was observed al. Windsor on
Saturday with the customary honours.
THE EARL u►• ELLESMERE, who went out to repre-
sent this country at the opening of the New York
Great Exhibition, is expected home immediately.
THE CONTEMPLATED ALLIANCE between Mr. Charles
H. Mills, son of Charles Mills, Ea+, of Camelford-
house, and the Lady Louisa Ltiscelles, daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and niece to
the Duchess of lluccleuch and the Countess of Caw-
dor, will take place early next month, at Harewood,
Yorkshire.
London, England, 1853-08-13

The great Lord Steward admires a bark

Whose canvas is not show•n—
In fact (the picture-folks remark),

He hates to show his own—
But thought you " need not stray to view
The working of an endless screw."

Lord JOHN had doubts—" The rule was good
To give one's wife her way,
But how the Constitution stood

Ho scarcely liked to say ;
The Charter, nor the Bill of Rights,
Stating whence wives shall see sea-fights."

The Privy Seal gave prompt decree,
"They'd better stay in urbe ;
The ladies any night might see

Himself assail Lord DERBY
And so behold with satisfaction
The little Arrogant in action."

When CLARENDON this answer caught,
His lip in anger curled,
" For his part he had always thought

Women should see the world."
" Your World,' " was prompt ARGYLL'S reply,
" Was scarce the thing for woman's eye."

The whole affair will soon be done,
To-morrow falls St. Grouse ;
\Ve'll tear through all the bills like fun,
And then prorogue the House.
"rwas hard to leave you, but the shame's
On oily, long, and shabby JAMES.
With a fal lal la, de.

QUERY ON CIiANGE.-Why did Ministers withhold their impression
that the Russian business was settled?