The Press.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

A hoary jester's name
Be thine no more to bear,
Leave us a statesman's fame
To honour and revere.

Thou pinest for thy youth—
Recal its better part,
Its loyalty and truth,
Its warm and gen'rous heart.
flgtet the lessons learned
In those more honest days
While yet thy bosom yearned
For good miens' love and praise.
Let not the people think
" The pilot at the helm,
When our good ship is nigh to sink,
And storms to overwhelm,
Sits down with folded hands,
Laughing with senile glee,
' These planks will last till my time is pas{,
And that's enough for ma.' "

FEW( THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tvesciay, Mar 29.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—JoEN HOSKIN, Blackburn,
Lancashire, currier.
BAN KIIIIPTS.—GronoE Slf Mit STNEnnen, Lancelot-place,
Knightsbridge, buiIder—HZNRYCOX, Reeding. Berkshire, grocer
Douritra, Sunmer-terrare, Brompton, apothecary—
CHARLES MABBINDHAII, Birmingham, wholesale jeweller—Wm.
litrieflEE, Lichfield, Staffordshire, coarhbuilder—PENEcisiNN
JOYCE, Worcester, commission agent—JOHN M'Currny, Aston,
near Birmingham, publican SAmush WARREN, Gloucester,
licensed victualler THOWAs HAM, F.xeter, furrier—Joss
CHRINTIE, Arrington, Lancashire, ironfounder—Jorm Barron
and Gmonou Baspon, Broughton, Lancashire, copper roller
manufacturers—BENJAMlN GREOOIIX, Sheffield. builder.
SCOTCH SEQUBSTRATIONS. JogN Pot:muffin and
RoEERT MILWAIN, Glasgow, plasterers—ANGUS MACDONCLI,,
Keppoch, Eitmonivaig—Wm. RIDDELL, Glasgow, carter—DAVlD
Dovoirs and Jong LAIRD, Edinburgh, and Bradford, grocers.

Friday, June 1.
BANKRUPTS.—Fasscia Burrta, Berkeley-street, Clerken-
well, baker—WM. SKIPP Pkenuts, •East Dereham, Norfolk,
builder—Ozosom GEST, South-row, New-road, grocer—THomss
itourtAnos and Josses Hourtzpom, Lambeth, saw•mills pro-
prietors—THomAs PEMLErr BROWN, Woolwich, licensed sic-
tualter—Ozonox JOWS HUMPHREYS, Crown-court, Old Broad-
street, City, underwriter and insurance broker—PIREORINI
JOYCE, Worcester, commission agent—JOHN PARKINSON the
elder, and JOON PARKINSON the younger. Leicester, hosiers—.
WALTZ' Baerrett., Little Marlborough•etreet, Middlesex,
pnuter—RomEttr BI.ACIU,OCK and DonoLs* BIACKLOCK, New-
road, Whitechapel, drapers—JoHN Lz.xcE, Sarum:len, Kirkbur-
ton, Yorkshire, woollen rnanufacturer—JAMS[ MEADOWS and
RICHARD EDWIN BIBBY, Manchester, lime merchants—THOMAS
DAVIES, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, currier—loom LUPTON, Brad -
ford, innkeeper.
SCOTCIi SEQUESTRATIONS.—HonEwr JACKSON. Douglas-
street, Gloorpw, wood merohoot--D.tvw AIa:KANDER, Kirki.lD
tilloch, victualler and lime merchant.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant visited on
Wednesday two extensive Roman Catholic ragged
schools in Dublin, and in each school heard the
children examined, expressing his satisfaction at the
progress which they evinced, and at the system on
which the establishments were conducted.
THE NOTORIOUS Tom PROVIS, alias Sir Richard
Hugh Smyth, died on Sunday week in Dartmoor
Prison, whither he had been removed, on account of
ill health, from the Milbank Penitentiary.
THZ Conference brig, Peter, of and from North
Shields to Carthagena, was attacked by pirates, on
the coast of Riff, on the 2nd ult. The master and
crew escaped in their boats, and afterwards fell
in with the British brig Lively, totally abandoned,
which they took charge of and brought safe into
Gibraltar.

A QuisT COUNTRY LAD in Argyllshire, who held
three silver medals from the Highland Society for
ploughing, having heard that his brother was killed
at Inkermann, threw up his situation at Mid Term,
joined the Argyllshire Militia, got trained for six
weeks, and then volunteered into the line, and is now
on his way to the Crimea, to be revenged on the
Russians for the death of his brother.
THERE are now three Colonelcies at the disposal
of Lord Hardinge.--those of the 3rd Light Dragoons,
vacant by the death of Lord Charles S. Manners;
the 23rd Fusiliers, by that of Sir George d'Aguilar;
and the 92nd Highlanders, 14 Sir William Macbean's
demise.
Yesterday morning a fire of a very destructive
character, and attended with great loss of property,
happened on the extensive premises of Messrs.
Penns, the engineers, at Deptford. The wind blow-
ing fresh greatly increased 'the conflagration, which
speedily caught the paint and pattern stores. These
stores with their valuable contents were totally de-
stroyed before the flames could be subdued. A strict
investigation has been made for the purpose of
ascertaining how the fire occurred, but nothing
satisfactory could be elicited. The property is
nsured in various fire offices.
LIEUTENANTS DAVID ELLIOT AND HENRY STEWART,
R.N., have been appointed Admiralty agents on the
Southampton station.