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MR. LXYARD'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.

MR. LAYARD, in his farewell address to his late con.
stitnents at Aylesbury, having referred to the seve-
rance of a political connection of nearly five years,
says.--

It naturally grieves me to find that a majority of the
electors have pronounced me no longer worthy to represent
them. I should grieve still more had I reason to think
that their confidence had been withdrawn on account of
any neglect on my part of their interests, or of any vote of
mine in the House of Commons.

I may assume without presumption that the result of
the recent election is to be attributed to other and far dif-
ferent causes, and that it affords no index of the true
feelings of a majority of the constituency. Together with
many other men, known as the ablest, the most indepen-
dent, and the most truly Liberal representatives of the
people, I have been deprived of my seat in Parliament.
It behoves the Liberals of Aylesbury, as it behoves many
other Liberal constituencies, to reflect calmly, now that
the excitement consequent upon the dissolution is passed,
and to inquire whether too much has not been sacrificed
to a Minister who has been invariably opposed to every
measure of true Reform, however moderate, and has ever
failed to justify the confidence of those nations which have
trusted in him for the support and defence of their liber-
ties. Responding to the appeal made to them by Lord
Palmerston, the constituencies of England have removed

from the roll of the House of Commons many of those
historic names which will be as landmarks in the annals
of our country. To effect this result, every means that
the influence of Government could command have been
brought to bear.
It is no dishonour to suffer with Cobden, Bright, Gibson,
Clay, Cardwell, Otway, and a host of others, who have ever
been found on the side of the people, and have been in-
timately associated with almost every recent measure feu•
enlarging their liberties or contributing to their welfare.
I cannot believe that this state of things will long con•
tinue, and I feel convinced that, when the country has
recovered from the delusion into which it has been be•
traced, the very exclusion of these men will lead to nu•
portant results, and will mainly contribute to the success
of the cause of progress and lleform.

THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.
Mn. CHARLES BUTLER having sent to Mr. Gladstone
a recent speech of Mr. James Hall, and asking for
an explanation of the statements contained in that
speech, Mr. Gladstone replied:—

11, Carlton•house Terrace, April 16.
Sir,—T thank you for taking the pains to send me au
extract from the Globe newspaper purporting to be the
speech of Mr. James Hall, of Holywell, at a public meeting
recently held in that town, which you think should be
noticed on my behalf.

On the °cession of that meeting, the proceedings of
which were not, I believe, taken down by reporters, I made
a speech relating to the election for Flintahire. A gentle-
man, who was described to me as Mr. James Hall, made
a speech relating to me, and when he had concluded I re•
plied to him. This, you will agree, was the proper notice
of his speech to receive from me.

T presume from the paper you have sent me that he has
subsequently furnished his own account of that speech, and
of what he considers to have been its reception. In that
I have neither leisure nor inclination to follow him. The
question whether his invective is merited rebuke or un-
equivocal slander, is happily one of fact—namely. whetb'•r
it is true, as he says, that at the period of Mr. Roebuck's
motion Lord Palmerston consented to it, and I, with
others, took pretended offence to his consenting, and re-
signed, or whether the truth is that Lord Palmerston
likewise resigned office in January, rather than agree
to Mr. Roebuck's motion ; that Lord Palmerston informed
me, before I joined his Government in February, that he
intended to continue his resistance, and that on his
changing his mind, together with the great majority of his
colleagues, whilst I simply adhered to mine, I was de-
prived of office as a necessary consequence.

APRIL 25,1857.

The account of the matter, which I have briefly given,
stands wholly upon public record, and upon undisputed
statements made at the time in the House of Commons.
The spirit (as towards myself) in which you wrote has
induced me to trouble you with these remarks, of which
von are welcome to make any use you please.—l have the
honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,
Charles Butler, Esq. W. E. GL.U)STONE.

CABINET COUNCILS were held on Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons at the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The
Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, thzi
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon.
M. T. Baines.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL, during his stay with Earl
Fortescue, at Castle-bill, South Molton, Devon,
was presented with an address on Thursday by the
Town Council of the borough

The name of your lordship (said the address) is and
will for ever be associated with the practical working and
the sound development of those great and enlightened
principles of civil and religions liberty which, however
often tortured and misapplied, is now, to the honour, to
the happiness, and the stability of this kingdom, the
proud characteristic feature of her constitution and her
tioverurneut.

Nor is it alone in testimony of our respect for your
public virtues as a statesman that we would now address
you, but also with a sense of gratitude for the benefits you
have sought to confer upon the people of this country by
your constant and energetic labours in the cause of
national education, upon the general diffusion and the
right directiJn of which depend in a great measure the
greatness and the glory of our cherished land.
Lord John Russell replied :

I feel deeply the honour you (have done me by the ex-
pression of your confidence and regard in terms, which,
although much too flattering, are a valuable proof of yuur
friendly sentiments and political sympathy.
I will say no more regarding myself personally. I
prefer to take this occasion to look back with satisfaction
and gratitude to what is past, and to look forward with
hope to what is to come. For the last thirty years, be-
ginning in 1828, we have been making great changes in
our laws, altering the basis of our parliamentary repre-
sentation, admitting millions of our fellow subjects to the
benefits of religious equality, enlarging our commercial
liberties, extending the privileges of personal freedom to
men of every race and every colour, in whatever clime
they could be reached by the beneficent sceptre of the
British monarchy. . .

While we have been achieving these tasks Conservative
predictions of the most gloomy nature have as.lailed us in
our onward path—the fall of the Crown and the Ilouse of
Lords—the destruction of the Established Church—hope-
less anarchy in the We.t Indies—the entire ruin of the agri-
culture of the United Kingdom. Such have been a few of
the ominous c-ics which have stunned the ears of the
British people while engaged in their difficult and toilsome
march.

But, gentlemen, the result has shown that the bonds of
affection between the inhabitants of the different parts of
the United Kingdom have been strengthened, loyalty to the
throne has become a warmer and more constant flame,
internal peace has been preserved and secured, agriculture
has improved, commerce and manufactures have prodi-
giously increased, and the prophets of evil themselves can
only wonder at the material prosperity of our country and
the confirmed stability of our institutions.
Nay we not hope, then, gentlemen, that by following
the same policy, by uniting progress with order and im-
provement with wisdom, we may attain still further and
greater benefits? Tke opiuion of the good, says Milton,
is knowledge in the making. By consulting the opinion
of the good and the enlightened the House of Commons
recently elected may find means to promote education, to
extend political franchises, to enlarge the boundaries of
religious freedom by removing some remaining disabili-
ties, and to relieve the people of some of their vexatious
burdens.

1 shall have every reason to be grateful and contented
if I am prrinitted by my votes in Parliament to contribute
to such happy results.

LORD HARRY VANE AND MR. PEASE, the members
for South Durham, were entertained at a public
dinner last week by the Liberal electors. Mr. Posse,
in replying tc his health, in the course of his speech
made some allusion to the action of the public
press :

There is probably (he said) no press in the world con-
ducted with the same ability and managed with the same
regard to the maintenance of the constitutional rights of the
people. But let us not shut our eyes to the possibility that
even the press may go a step too fur. Although it is un-
popular, I am willing to say that when the press begins to
make up a budget for the Chancell3r, endeavours to make
or unmake a Prime Minister, and disposed to institute a
theology for the Christian world, it is well for Englishmen
not to rest too securely upon everything that issues from
the press. °filet estates are amenable to the laws, but
when you come to the mythical " we." which crushes or
creates by every• turn of the fly-wheel, I know not how you
are to hold it in any sort of reasonable cheek on those occa-
sions when, iu my humble opinion, it exceells its legitimate
functions,

THE PRESS.

The hon. gentleman, without following the subject
further, proceeded to give his adherence to tele cause
of reform, political and educational, and stated his
belief that though in its old members the Manches-
ter school was dead, its principles still lived and
were those of the people. Lord Harry Vane, in his
reply, expressed his general sympathy with a Liberal
policy.

SIR E. B. Lyrros, at a meeting of county electors
at Hitchin, is reported to have given the following
simile of Lord Palmerston in the course of a speech
which we find in the Her ta Guardian :

As to the degree of support to be given to Lord Pal.
merston, he wanted to know, not whom to support, but what
he was to support lie supported men according as those
men supported opinions. Many gentlemen had, perhaps,
seen at Astley's a man standing on two horses at the same
time; every one admired the dexterity with which the
exhibitor balanced himself first on one horse, then on the
other ; bat perhaps if an old t'oxhunter were asked, " What
do you think of that man's riding?" be would say, " That
is mightly clever, but it is not riding. Let him take one
horse or the other across a stiff country, and then I'll tell
you what sort of a horseman he really is." Gentlemen,
Lord Palmerston is now standing upon two hones: let
him settle himself upon one, and then I'll tell you what
degree of confidence I'll place in his riding.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF ELGIN took his de-
parture for Paris on Tuesday afternoon, accom-
panied by the Countess, and reached the French
capital the following day. The gentlemen asso-
ciated with the noble earl in his mission to China left
London on Tuesday and Wednesday, to meet his
Excellency, and then proceeded vii Marseilles to
Alexandria. The Earl of Elgin intends to stay two
or three days in Paris. The countess will then take
leave of him, and return to town in the early part of
next week. The gentlemen attached to the mission
are the Hon. F. Bruce, Mr. Oliphant, Mr. Cameron,
and Mr. Fitzroy.
A PEACE, RETRENCHMENT, AND REFORM DEMON-
STRATION took place on Tuesday night in Carlisle,
when one of the most crowded meetings ever held in
that city assembled "to consider the claims of
Lord Palmerston on public confidence, and the pro-
priety of agitating f..r a new reform bill." W.
Sutton, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. Washing-
ton Wilks, in a speech that was immensely ap-
plauded, moved :
That this meeting, having no confidence in Lord
Palmerston, calls upon the earnest friends of peace, re•
trenchment, and reform, immediately to agitate for a new
reform hill, including in its provisions a large extension of
the suffrage and vote by ballot.
Mr. Osborn moved as an amendment that the words
referring to Lord Palmerston be erased. He ex-
pressed his general concurrence in the views of the
mover, but advocated the omission of the words
"having no confidence in Lord Palmerston" for
the sake of obtaining unanimity on the question of
reform. The amendment having been seconded, Mr.
Wilks replied. After some further discussion the
amendment and motion were put. For the former
only twenty-four hands were held up, while for the
resolution a countless number were exhibited ; and
the resolution was carried amidst loud cheering. A
resolution approving the formation of a Carlisle
association of electors and non-electors for the pro-
motion of a new reform bill was then proposed and
carried by acclamation. _

ANOTHER BISHOPRIC FOR NEW ZEALAND has been
constituted, so as to include tha provinze.: of Wel-
lington and Nelson. The \Ten. Archdeacon Hadfield
has been nominated to the new see.

ttrololitan.

THE EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
THE question of the embankment and improve-
ment of the Thames was considered by the Metro-
politan Board of Works, at a special meeting on
Tuesday last to receive the report of their committee
upon the propositions for the embankment of the
river. Two propositions had been submitted to the
committee. The first by Mr. Gisborne, C.E., who
proposes to limit the breadth of the river to seven
hundred feet by means of quay walls on both sides,
with an esplanade and low level sewers on one side,
and a railway from Hungerford to London-bridge.
The cost tsstiniated at 2,000,000/. t►n the other
hand, the Thames Embankment and Hallway OM-
piny propose to construct an embankment and other
works, comprising floating and tidal docks on the
north side of the Thames, between Southwark and
Westminster bridges, and to form a public road and
footways to be carried on a viaduct along that part of
the embankment between Whitehall-place and
Charing-cross, and Chatham-place, Ble.ckfriars,
having communications with some of the streets
leading out of the Strand. It has also for its object
the laying down of a railway, at a low level, within
the line of embankment from Queenhithe, near
Southwark-bridge, to Manchester-buildings, near

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Westminster-bridge ; and aqueducts are to be carried
over the railway to allow of the ingress of craft from
the river. The estimate for these works is 533,7701.
The promoters look to the railway as the source
from which their profits are to be derived.
The committee, before deciding on the merits of each
proposal, lay down slit rules upon the general ques•
tion as to the objects of the embankment :
I. To improve the Thames as a navigable river, having
due regard to the safety of existing bridges.
2. To increase the wharfage accommodation, and im-
prove the means for the shipment and delivery of goons.
3. To improve the Thames in a sanitary point of view.
4. To remedy the present unsightly condition of the
banks of the Thames, and afford facilities, by means of
architectural embellishment, for improving their ap•
pea ranc e.
3. To open up a new thoroughfare between the eastern
and western parts of London.
6. To facilitate the construction of a low level inter-
cepting sewer.

They then express the following opinion of the two
plans submitted :

With regard to the first of the conditions above sug-
geste4—namely, the improvement of the Thames as a na-
vigable river, having regard to the safety of existing
bridges—your committee have to observe that neither of
the schemes referred to them exactly coincides with the
line of embankment laid down by Mr. James Walker, and
which it is understood was approved by competent autho-
rity ; but they are of opinion that, provided the width of
waterway be not diminished below that now existing at the
narrowest part of the river, a little above London•bridge—
viz., 700 feet—the variations in the designs before them
are not such as Injuriously to affect the navigation.
It may also be stated that by the line laid down by Mr.
Page, and approved, atter long examination, by a committee
of the House of Commons, it was intended to narrow the
waterway of the river to a greater extent than is proposed
by either of the schemes which have been referred to your
committee.

As regards the criterion set up by the second of the
above conditions—namely, increased wharfage accommo-
dation, improved means fur the sh;prnent and delivery of
goods, and the means of access for barges,—they consider
Mr. Gisborne's plan stiperioi to that of Messrs. Bird, Loder,
and Jackson.

The basins or docks shown on the latter plan are deeper
than the aqueducts which lead to them, a feature which
the committee regard as objectionable but as each of the
schemes before the board contemplates the covering of
the muilbanks, they would, in this respect, both be bene-
ficial in a sanitary point of view.
With reference to the fourth condition, that is to say,
the improvement of the appearance of the river banks, it
is to be observed that, as by Mr. Gisborne's plan it is pro-
posed to erect buildings in some instances ninety-one feet
above highwater and seventy feet above the esplanade,
your committee consider that this would involve an ob-
struction to light and air, and form an objection to Mr.
Gisborne's plan which does not apply to the plan of Messrs.
Bird, Loder, and Jackson.

Both schemes, in proportion to their extent, satisfy the
fifth candition—uamely, the opening up of a new thorough-
fare between the eastern and western portions of the
metropolis.
And both schemes present equal facilities for the ac•
complishment of the sixth thirct—namely, that of tacili•
Win; the construction uf a low hvel intercepting sewer.
Your committee think it necessary to add, that in their
opinion the promoters of each of the designs under die.
cussion have prejudiced the efficiency and value of those
designs as works of public utility by seeking to render
them commercially remunerative ; and they consider that
the public advantage should be the primary ob;ect in a
work of such magnitude and of so peculiar a nharactei u
the embankment of the Thames.

The report was adopted on a division by a majority
of 25 to 3, and a motion in favour of immediately
communicating upon the subject with the Govern-
ment carried by 17 to 1.
The following financial statement of the affairs of
the Metropolitan Board of Works was laid before the
board :

Balance in hands of treasurer, 13th
April, 1-537
Cheques drawn, but nut presented

Available balance
Amount of deposit account

Tctal general balance.... 467;227 7 U

THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S REPORT.
THE annual report from the Post•oftice presents us
with some curious facts. In the first place great
improvements have taken place to the public con-
venience. We find that in eight thickly-populated
suburban districts of London, General Post-ottice
letters are delivered an hour earlier than formerly.
In London itself the delivery of letters begins more
than half an hour earlier than in 1656. During last
year no fewer than fifty additional towns were pro-
vided with day mails to or from the metropolis ;
while the delivery of letters so far north as Wick
and Orkney has been accelerated, and additional
communication established with some of the Western
islands. One hundred and sixty new money order
offices have been established ; regulations have been
made whereby returned letters are sent back to the
writers more quickly than formerly, and this is no

mean duty, for we find that no less than 2,400,000
letters and 550,000 newspapers were either so badly
or erroneously directed that all attempts to find the
persons for whom they were intended failed.
The total number of letters delivered in the
United Kingdom in 1856 was 478,000,000 ; of which
388,000,000 were English, 42,000,000 Irish, and
48,000,000 Scotch. The total increase on the num-
ber delivered in 1855 is 22,000,000. In England the
increase is five and a half, in Ireland one-twentytitth,
in Scotland four and a quarter per cent. London
absorbs nearly one quarter of the whole number
delivered. In consequence of the reduction of the
postage to India from is. to 6d. the number of letters
has increased from 800,000 to 1,100,000. In a
similar way a decrease of postage has caused an
increase in the correspondence with France-200,000
last year, 800,000 the year before. There has been
an increase of 125,000 with the United States.

The whole distance over which mails are now
conveyed within the United Kingdom, exclusive of
conveyance by steam•vessels and boats, and not
counting the walks of rural letter•carriers, or the
carriage of mails from post•otffces to railway stations,
is upwards of 61,000 miles per day; 2,600 more than
at the en lof 1855. Mails carried by railway traverse
28,629 miles per dad ; mails carried by coaches,
omnibuses, mail carts, 4.7 c., travel over 22,721 miles
daily. The cost in the former case is 9td. per mile;
in the latter 141.
Among the improvements in the Post•o®ce system,
we may remark the pillar letter-boxes, which have
been so successful that they will be extended to
Dublin and Edinburgh, and various parts of the
country ; the sorting of country letters before they
reach London—about one-third of the whole number
—are now sorted for London districts in provincial
offices ; the district initial system for London, in
carrying out which the public have readily accorded
their co operation both in London and in the pro-
♦inces.

THE UNSUCCESSFUL. PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES
at Manchester, Huddersfield, Rochdale, and Oldham,
received at a public meeting on Monday night, in
the City-road, an expression of sympathy from the
working men of London, who also decided what
reforms ought to be demanded from the new Parlia•
ment. The room held about 1,000 persons, nearly
all of whom belonged to the operative classes. The
chair was taken by Mr. S. Lucas. Mr. Wiles moved
the first resolution, expressing regret at the exclu-
sion from Parliament of Messrs. Cobden, Bright,
Gibson, Miall, and Fox, at a time when they laboured
successfully in checking dictatorial power and pro-
moting beneficial refo:ms in Church and State,
The chairman observed that the mover and seconder
of the resolution were quits willing that the name of
Sir Joshua Walmsley should be added to the resolu-
tion, and it would therefore be inserted. Mr.
Dickey moved the adoption of " the charter,
the entiro charter, as a means to an end."
(Great uproar.) A person in the body of the meeting
here rose He observed that the real question
was whether Messrs. Cobden and Bright were the
Mends of the working classes. He was an advocate
of high wages, and what had they done to promote
that object? Distress and misery bad increased to
an awful extent, and when any measures were pro-
posed in Parliament for the benefit of the working
classes those gentlemen opposed them. He con-
cluded by moving as an amendment that "the ex-
pulsion of Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Gibson from
the House of Commons was a just retribution for
their opposition to measures for the social benefit of
the working classes." The original resolution and
the amendment expressing disapprobation of the
conduct of Messrs. Cobden, Bright and Gibson,
were then submitted to a show of hands, and the
chairman declared the former carried. Mr. J. J.
Lockhart enlarged at some length upon the defective
state of the present representation, and the injustice
which it involved to the working classes, and con-
cluded by moving :
That this meeting is of opinion that any measure of
reform in the representation of the people to satisfy the
country at large should at least contain—first, manhood
suffrage ; second, a more equal distribution of electors to
population ; three, no 'property qualification for members
of Parliament ; four, vote by ballot; five, triennial Parlia-
ments.

Mr. Bligh, who declared himself to be an uncom-
promising chartist, moved an amendment in favour
of annual Parliaments and the payment of members.
The resolution as proposed to be amended was then
put and carried. Mr. J. P. Adam; proposed a reso-
lution declaring the meeting be in favour of a
scheme of national secular education, to be sup-
ported by the money now paid to the clergy. This
resolution was seconded by Mr. Healey, and carried
unanimously.

THE STATISTICAL. SOCIETY held a meeting on
Tuesday evening, in the►r rooms in St. James's-
square, Colonel Sykes in the chair. A paper was
read by Mr. Brown on the statistics of fire insurance.

THE PRESS.

He commenced by giving an historical sketch of the
progress of fire insurance, which has not been es-
tablished in this country above 170 years ; previous
to which time it was customary in case of fire to levy
contributions on the inhabitants of the district, such
contributions being sometimes voluntary and some-
times compulsory. The Hand in-Hand was the first
office in this country for insurance against damage
by fire. It was established in 1696, and in a few
years after the Sun Fire-office and the Union were
established. The success of those undertakings
shortly gave rise to numerous others, and at the
present time there are 74 fire insurance offices in the
United Kingdom. In 1805 the value of property in-
sured against fire was 181 millions of pounds
sterling ; in 1q55 it had increased to 807 millions,
exclusive of farming stock, which is exempt from
duty ; and in 1856 the value amounted to 927
millions. In France, the first public company for
insurance was formed in 1816. The amount of
property insured against fire in Great Britain, in
France, and in Germany, in 1856, is 4,482 millions
of property. The total annual premiums paid on
the amount insured is estimated at eight and a half
millions, and the total annual loss at four and
three-quarters. Mr. Brown maintained that not
more than eighty per cent. of the property of this
country is insured, and that if the tax were reduced
one-half, the insurances would be doubled, and would
thus prevent any deficiency in the revenue from that
cause.

THE FREE EMIGRATION OF THE LABOURING POOR
was discussed at a numerous meeting of the work-
men of Westminster on Tuesday evening. It was
expected that a number of members of Parliament
would be present, and that Mr. Cox, M.P. for Fins•
bury, would take the chair. The secretary, however,
read letters of apology from Lord Goderich, Mr.
Locke, Sir J. V. Shelley, Mr. Roupell, and Mr. Cox.
Mr. Clancy, a working man, having been called to
the chair, said that he did not look upon emigration
as the universal remedy for the complaints of the
working classes, but he looked upon it as a means
of ameliorating theircondition, that would ultimately
be felt beneficial to them. He then read a report
from the committee of the association. It concluded
by recommending the establishment of local com-
mittees, with the view of obtaining a Government
grant to aid them in their object. Several working
men spoke. The speakers all took the same view of
t'ieir affairs ; they looked forward to the British
colonies as their future homes, and considered that
Government ought to lend them the means to emi-
grate, and take the money back from them by
instalments. Some of the speakers very severely
criticised the conduct of the M.P.'s who bad not
attended the meeting, and who, they said, did not
care much for the working people. A petition to
the House of Commons was unanimously approved
of and adopted.

THE SANITARY STATE OF THE CITY, according to
the last report of Dr. Letheby, is satisfactory. The
following is an extract :

The mortality returns for the last fortnight indicate a
favourable state of the public health. The total number
of deaths is 105, of which 43 were among children of lets
than five years of age, and 27 among persons of sixty and
upwards. There were 44 deaths from diseases of the re-
spiratory organs—namely, 12 from bronchitis, 12 from
plithisia, 10 from pneumonia, and 10 from whooping.
cough. During the last week this disease was fatal in
eight instances, and it indicates an unusual severity of the
disease. There were also 5 deaths from fever, 3 from
scarlet fever, 3 from measles, and 8 from the convulsions
of infancy. Most of the other deaths were occasioned by
diseases of a chronic character. I beg to submit certfi-
cites as to the overcrowding of 29 rooms, in which there
are lodged 51 families, composed of 42 men, 58 women,
and 43 children—in all 143 persons; and lam of opinion
that it is necessary to the public health that those houses
should be registered as common lodging.houses.
THE RATCLIFFE RATEPAYERS have held " an in-
dignation meeting " this week, to express their sur-
prise at the unjustifiable conduct of the vestry refusing
to permit the ratepayers to exercise their right of
electing a churchwarden and twelve trustees accord-
ing to ancient usage. Resolutions pledging the
meeting individually and collectively to prevent the
re election of those vestrymen who so interfered with
the rights of the ratepayers were unanimously passed
on Monday, and the District continues in an unex-
ampled state of parochial ferment.
THE FUNERAL OF A FRENCH EXILE, which took
place on Sunday morning, that. of M. Bougie, whose
body was interred at the rower Hamlets Cemetery,
attracted an enormous concourse of foreign exiles,
who to the number of about two thousand formed in
procession, and followed, carrying flags, bearing
various republican devices, encircled with crape
fringed with silver. The procession proceeded from
the Blackfriars road, through the Borough, over
London bridge, and along Fenchurch-street and the
Mile.end Road, to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Large as the procession was at starting, it increased
in magnitude as it proceeded, until by the time it
arrived at the canal bridge in the Mile-end Road it
Could not have numbered less than 10,000, When

SATURDAY,

the coffin was lowered into the grave, M. Pyat pro-
nounced a funeral oration over the grave. M. Tilaa-
dier, M. Louis Blanc, M. Dilliart, and Mr. Nash also
addressed the assemblage. The people, who had
conducted themselves with decorum, then retired
peaceably from the burial-ground.
THE FREEHOLD, LEASEHOLD, AND REVERSIONARY
PROPERTY OF REDPATH, including his houses at
Weybridge and in Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
and houses in Westminster and Soho, have this
week been sold for 4,3801.

Sr. JAMES'S THEATRE was put up for sale on
Tuesday by Messrs. Robins, and bought iu at
16,5001. Smith, of Drury Lane, made the first bid
of 10,0001. The reserve price was 19,9001., at 1001.
bids.

THE DISTRESSES OF GnVERNMENT ARTISANS AT
WOOLWICH led to a public meeting being held in the
town on Saturday evening, and a committee of
dockyard workmen being appointed to present a
report, and communicate with a committee of work-
men employed at the arsenal.
THE NEW RECTOR OF MARYLEBONE, the Rev.
Charles James Phipps Eyre, M.A., was educated at
St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he gra-
duated in 1835, being thirty•sixth senior optime in
mathematics. His name does not appear in the list
of classical honours. In 1843 he was appointed to
the incumbency of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds,
which he has held up to the present time. On the
resignation of the rectory of All Souls', Langham-
place, by Dr. Thompson, Provost of Queen's College,
Oxford, it was offered to Mr. Eyre, who declined it.
The new rector of course belongs to the Evangelical
section.

AN EXTENSIVE FIRE occurred at Lambeth on
Wednesday morning, at the Imperial Pottery pre-
mises of Messrs. Green. The discovery was made
between four and five a.m., and in a short time the
brigade engines were on the spot, bat the supply
of water was so scanty that the fire was spreading
rapidly, when the steam-float was at length brought
to bear, and, after several hours' hard work, the
flames were at length subdued. The damage is
estimated at 0,000/. A serious fire a few hours
earlier burned out the premises of Messrs. Goodyear,
of St. Paul's-churchyard. The loss was also heavy.
THE REGISTRAR•GENERAL'S RETURNS show a slight
increase in mortality, 1,084 deaths being returned,
over 1,059 of the previous week—the births num•
bered 1,933.