The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

PORTRAITS

JAMES. And so the Lord Viscount INIAInsToNE puts

spurs to his hobbihorsical fury, and endeavours to
administer what ALLAN RAMSAY calls a " lounder-
ing lick," in one of the scenes of his " Gmatle Shep-

herd." No gentle shepherd, howbeit, is this—what
though he profanely insinuates a resemblance between
himself and DAVID, the Royal Prophet. He speaks to
T. B. MACAULAY, Esquire, as one who has recently
addressed his "Philistines at Edinburgh,"—thereby
drawing a comparison between his antagonist and
GOLIATH. Instead, however, cf collecting pebbles in
the Terybinthine valley, the DAVID of 71, South And-
ley-street, appears to have picked up a few potsherds and
perhaps a little mud with them, out of the pellucid
current of Fleet-ditch, and to have slung them under-
handed at the form of his giant opponent. In his
very remarkable communication, Viscount MAID-
STONE talks of taking a hint from the clown at
Drury-lane Theatre. Perhaps it may so happen that
he may, on the contrary, give a hint to Master
MOTLEY for the purposes of the forthcoming panto-
mime. And thus the fabrication of hexameters, and

;he compiling of an Arabian epic, and the scribbling

of scolding epistles, may be altogether eclipsed by the
circumstance of the patrician pen-mender throwing
out some valuable suggestions to enhance the fun of

a harlequinade.

habitations, the cleansings of the hospitals, and the
still more disgusting waste of more than two millions
of human beings. There, comes with the turn of the
tide, the renewed visitations of these sickening inflic-
tions, rendered more pestilential by the bilge-water

A patrician can it be, whose letter wa have been
perusing ? Rather is not this the manner of one
familiar with the phraseology of the counter and the
dialect of the shopocracy ? Listen ! " Give your
orders, Mr. MACAULAY ! They shall be punctually

and other abominations of whole fleets of foreigners,
Indiamen, fruit vessels, coasters, colliers, convict-
hulks, fishing-boats, and dung-barges ! Besides all

;his, we have countless steamers of all clasps corn-

pleting the horrible mixture, more deadly than ever
compounded in the witch's cauldron, working up the
fever-feedings and death-draughts, dashing hither and
thither, washing abroad the floating putridities at

high water, and stirring up the fetid mass at low,

and thus finally accomplishing the modern application
of the " ancient crystal stream," by actually con-
verting it into the common sewerage of London—

making it the "cloaca maxima" of the metropolis of

the world.

Nor can any efforts of human ingenuity restore the
Thames to its pristine putrity. Something might be
accomplished by the expenditure of many millions of
money, and the unceasing devotion of some 20 or 30
years to the Augean labour. The only effective plan
would be, the interception, by a judicious and well-
devised system of drains and sewers, of every contri-
butive impurity up to the very springs from which

it flows ; with the consequent discharge of the aggre
gated sewerage below any existing outlet of the kind,
and the reconstruction of every local system of sewers,
from the smallest township on the banks of the river,
to the great emporium of commerce included.
This is the very principle proposed to be adopted
with reference to the river Wandle, by the New
Company. From Croydon, Carshalton, and where-
ever else the springs constituting the sources of that
river rise, down to Wandsworth, and the confluence
of the Wandle with the Thames, it is intended to con-
struct an entirely new system of drainage and sewer-
age—to collect the proceeds at various eligible points,
to be disposed of for agricultural and horticultural
purposes, and, having thus benefited the inhabitants of
each town in its course, by providing them with the
sanitary means demanded at their hands by the Board
of Health, and brought along a pure and perfectly
healthy stream to Wandsworth, participated in by all
in its passage thither—to convey it in an unpolluted
state to reservoirs at different levels, rendering the alti-
tude of 300 feet above Trinity high-water mark, and
thence to distribute it, at constant high service,
throughout the entire district of South London,
affording an unlimited supply to the topmost floor of
any building in the locality. In other words, at the
most moderate charges, and in the mode above de-
scribed, to supply abundantly with water—and that
the best by any means attainable, as is testified on the
highest and most disinterested authorities—a commu-
nity comprising in round numbers the occupiers of
85,000 houses,of which scarcely more than one-half are
now intermittingly, sparingly, and imperfectly served,
at very high rates, with compound extracts of the
Thames in various stages of impurity, from the de-
ceptively clear to the more palpably thickened mix-
ture of a repulsive liquid, abounding with living ani-
n2alculce and the graduated decompositions of the dead
of all descriptions.
We might multiply proofs in favour of the propo-
sition almost without end. We might illustrate in
detail the natural causes of the superiority of the wa-
ter—the manifest advantages of constant supply at
high service—the beneficial results, in every respect,
that must accrue to the inhabitants throughout the
whole course of operations, whether of conservation
or distribution—and the moral as well as social im-
provement that must ensue ; but neither time nor
space will permit. We may, however, adduce some
tangible evidence of the highly remunerative nature
of such undertakings, assuming that, if the worst and
most inadequately suppled article is extremely profit-
able, much more so should be the best of its kind,
furnished in almost unlimited quantities.
The following, then, is the nearest approximation
to the truth attainable by the public of the gains made
by the existing companies in the Southern District.
Their gross annual rental for the impure and restricted
supply exceeds 78,0001, by far the greater portion
whereof may be set down as clear gain ; and this,
be it remembered, on a capital of about 160,000/.
On the north side, we find that the original stc
of the New River Company was about 200,0001.,
which, by the yearly investment of a portion of the
dieidends, has been increased to the present fixed
capital of 1,500,0001.! ! The original 100/. share,
therefore, now represents 7501.—and a single share
Was recently sold for 17,0001.! !!
Such results must prove sufficiently encouraging to
those making investments in the Wandle Water and
Sewerage Company. It is true that such inordinate
profits as those above referred to are not contemplated
by the Company—but there is every reason to be-
lieve that the maximum dividend now sanctioned by
the Legislature—namely, TEN PEE CENT. (!) will
speedily be attained. We, therefore, now cordially
congratulate the promoters and shareholders on these
auspicious prospects, and also the community on the
speedy prospect of obtaining so great a boon, which
must be regarded as of immense local, if not of
❑ational, importance ; and, in conclusion, unhesitat-
ingly and unequivocally express our thorough confi-
dence in the ultimate and complete success of the
undertaking.

attended to !" Our dear friend, RICHAUD SWIVELLER,
spoke somewhat after the same fashion, but it was
while showering blows innumerable upon the devoted
head and shoulders of Mr. DANIEL glum-, of
Tower-wharf. It was then DICK inquired—
" Will you have any more ?"—capering round
his victim in a kind of a war-dance invented
for the occasion adding, " Don't say ' No,'
if you'd rather not. A large assortment always on
hand. Country orders attended to with punctuality
and dispatch." Not thus does Viscount Maidstone
address his assailant, the representative of the City
of Edinburgh. Accepting for the sake of argument
the correctness of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S sneer at us
that we were little better than a nation of shopkeepers,
we can't feel much surprised when we hear even a
nobleman talking so much in the tones of TITMOUSE,
and in the style of a linendraper—saying, " Give your
orders, Mr. MACAULAY ! They shall be punctually
attended to." The phrase might be redeemed by its
having the faintest pretension to drollery. But not
so—there is not a quiver of the lip except of rage, not
a sparkle of the eye except of malignity. The truth
is Lord MAIDSTONE was in too much of a passion to
be witty. Instead of poking fun he could only snort
bluster. "In the meantime," saith he—with the
stride of BOBADIL, and the swagging strut of BONI-
BASTES—" Gare a qui me touche." The motto is
that inscribed upon the iron crown of
CHARLEMAGNE, and is adopted now, we presume, as
the crowning irony of Lord MAIDSTONE. Surely
Mr. MACAULAY is tolerably well qualified to retort
by hl3 own national motto—that of the thistle browsed
upon by asinus—" Nemo me irnpune lacessit." We
have a faint recollection of his having once stretched
an " epic poet" on the wrack of criticism in the
Edinburgh. We rather fancy acuter agony was never
inflicted by the thumbscrew, the scavenger's daugh-
ter, the wheel, the weights, the garotte, the bow-
string, or the bastinado. If we remember rightly he
pilloried one school of verse as " the Turkey-carpet
style of poetry." If we are not much mistaken he
ventured even to brand the tenderer passages of
SOUTHEY—some with indelible disgust, and some with
inextinguiahable ridicule—by complaining that all
his heroes loved " like seraphim or like cattle"—not
like human creatures. He has done terrible things
with other men before now in his capacity as the most
remorseless of reviewers—dealing about him right
and left with a classical bowie-knife and a
scholarly tomahawk. There are author's now living
of whom it may be said in a literary sense, that he
has slit their noses, and cut off their ears, and branded
their cheeks, and bored through their tongues. Yet
the writer of " hexameters," the Lord Viscount
MainsTosa, rises valiantly as becomes a descendent
of JAMES GRAHLM, of Dundee, and solemnly ad-
dresses this warning to the Right Hon. THOMAS
B ABINGTON MACAULAY :—" Recollect!" he exclaims,
" this is not the first occasion upon which Scolchmen of
your station and pretensions have had cause to regret
an unprovoked onslaught upon Englishmen of mine."
Now, either this means nothing at all, or it means
that Lord MAIDSTONE likens himself to Lord BYRON.
A-hem ! There is a refrain somewhere to one of the
songs of BERANGER
" Co-co.cockerico !
France remet ton schako—
Cockerico ! Cockerico !"
It means simply a cry we may often hear at the
dawning of day, but not very often (fortunately) at
the dawning of a career—a cry represented by our
lexicographers by an ingenious word of five syllables—
" Cock-a-doodle-doo !"

WELLINGTON AND SOULT,

And so Lord MAIDSTONE likens himself to Lord
BinoN—looking (like the moon) " so modest all the
while." And so closes a magnificent fanfaronade
with the sublime " Gare a qui me touche l' And so
endeth this " bout"—not, remember, between the
big•endians and the little-endians, but of MAID•
sTONE versus MACAULAY Lilliput against Brob-
dignag.

We can scarcely conceive the constitution of a
public company possessing stronger claims for public
support, or more deserving of encouragement, than
that of " THE WANDLEI WATER AND SEWERAGE
COMPANY," whether considered in reference to the
vast advantages which it offers to the inhabitants of
South London, or as a merely commercial speculation
of ample remunerative promise. Its objects, which
are the complete purification of a river, even in its
present state, purer than any other tributary to the
Thames, by a system of drainage and sewerage, re-
productive in itself, and the cheap, abundant, and un-
ceasing supply of water, at high service, throughout
the southern districts of London, are at once most
legitimate and praiseworthy. Every disinterested
person must now be convinced of the utter impossi-
bility of rendering the water of the Thames bend-
chilly available for general domestic purposes or for
the support of human life. It may, however, not be
uninteresting to consider the causes of the extraordi-
dary deterioration. of a river, once deemed as pure as
any on the banks of which an important city was
erected.
When, in the latter end of the sixteenth century,
the first works for the supply of the metropolis with
water were erected at London Bridge, the stream
from above was comparatively limpid and wholesome,
whilst below the " Pool" was a vast lake, that, at the
ebb tide, became almost as pregnant with life-bestow-
ing influences as the downward flow of "the silver-
winding Thames," that then replaced the partial
efflux of the receding sea. But, in the course of 270
years, the entire character of the original element has
been changed. In specific gravity, once among the
highest of moving waters, the water of the Thames
is now perhaps more ponderous than any other that
could be produced. It was the most pellucid and
pure ; it is the most opaque and polluted—the
dirtiest, darkest, muddiest. For ages it was
the healthiest of Nature's bounteous gifts; but
thoughtless, if not ungrateful, man has gradu-
ally, generation after generation, converted the
sanitary blessing into an infectious curse. Down-
wards to its confluence with the ocean, and upwards
to its sources, the virulence extends—every year
adding to the baneful evils to which the Thames is
subjected, heightening their intensity, and multiply-
ing their desketctive effects.
But how could it be otherwise? How could we
for a moment hope that the original purity of the
stream could be
preserved ? Laden with the filthy
refuse of twenty-two towns and some score of vil-
lages, the Tha
odiousmes
comes
reeking
along, to wallow in
pollutions of the metropolis.
There descends the
rifog-wafted smoke from hundreds
of thousands of
myriads upon myriads of " London
chimneys, whence are almost inces-
santly emitted
blacks." There the
waste
e7Pd comprising compounds of innumerable
c
manufactories are cliecta
variety of animal and vegetable osing every
decomposition and
and mineral poison. There streetsalleys, lanes, and
mingled with the rain water,
tchoeur ts, and mews, send,
scavengers' leavings, foul,
inky, and putrid.
There, hourly, are poured into it the offal, of the
food, the riacings of the raiment, the scouriogs of the

The Irish Religious Equality meeting came off duly
on the 28th, in the Rotunda, at Dublin, and all things
considered, it wag certainly much better than pro-
mise. The resolutions were at least quite as mode-
rate as Protestants would have adopted under similar
circumstances. Indeed, we should say they might
be compared advantageously with many which Pro-
testant associations and alliances have passed in
Exeter-ball and elsewhere. They asserted the neces-
sity of settling the If sh Church question on the basis
of equality, -as the only means which could or would
dathlegalizedite aCatholics
hostile
tr
view
ee of
wf thetll e
Government peace
produce content ; that the Irish Church Establishment
was a badge n
and
of
hiccaohtn conquest, ehl seetal,
Catholics,
a
and prosperity of the kingdom; the laws which pro-
hibit ecclesiastical titles (that was the meaning),
which require peculiar oaths and tests, or which ex-
clude from public offices on the ground of religious
faith, ought to be repealed at once. Such was the
substance of the manifesto voted at the meeting;
and it would certainly be difficult for any
thorough - going English Liberal to withold
his assent from such reasonable propositions.
Moreover, the speaking was for the most
part quite in harmony with the fairness of the resolu-
tions. The Chairman, Mr. G. H. MOORE, M.P., in
opening the discussion, totally repudiated " the impu-
tation that they desired ascendancy," and those who
followed him, even the Rev. Mr. QUADE, P.P., did
the same. Mr. Sergeant SHER adverted to the case
of the MADIAIS, and denounced in strong language
the conduct of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. "If it
was true that this Prince had caused a man and a
a.
woman to be imprisoned for two years for reading
the Bible in private, he would say, as a Roman
Catholic, that none of his co-religionists could justify
births ch
and
d education, proceeding. h
e( Cwhbebeirds .
declare
)
Asa
Catholic,
that the alleg by
tion of the English press, that the conduct of this
contemptible despot was consonant with the senti-
ments of the Catholics of Ireland, was a foul
calumny. (Hear, hear.) If after the efforts of
illustrious Protestants in the cause of civil and re-
ligious liberty, no man stood up in that Conference
of the Catholics of Ireland to denounce the conduct
of the Duke of Tuscany, they would be deeply dis-
graced. (Hear, hear.)" We heartily rejoice that
Catholics are found to assert such sentiments,and prove
themselves British freemen, in an assembly of
Catholics ; still more at the cordial way in which the
Sergeant's remarks were received ; and yet more at
the awkward manner in which Mr. LUCAS, M.P., who
in his paper, the Tablet, had openly defended the
Duke, was virtually compelled to apologize. He
could only affect to deny the facts, which, however,
the Duke himself does not deny. Perhaps it will be
said that all this moderation and liberality was
forced upon them by the discussions and animadver-
sions of the Press on their proposed meeting. It is,
however, hardly fair to impugn the motives of public
speakers. But be it so, grant that Irish Catholics can
learn prudence by what they see and hear. We do
net know that that is exactly the thing to throw in
their teeth ; the contrary accusation has been the
most common.

But Dr. MAC HALE commending Mr. BEIGHTI

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1852.

what will the Time: say to that ? The " Lion of
Judah" has actually owned the Quaker's remedy.
Yes, Dr. MacHaLt writes to the naeetag : "The
elaborate .letter of the able member for Manchester
shows that a strong ray of light he.s broken in on the
English mind, relative to the source of our social
disorders, as well as the practical remedy, which, if
the country is to b.. saved must be strongly applied."
Sc', Mr. Eniroa, .trisor's ass (we thank you heartily,
however, for the fun you made us) 2Esor's ass has
pitched you a second time over his head. We ran
with you laughing as you bestrode him through
your merry article, but laughed mcst when after all
we saw you fling head foremost upon the hard:ground
of the solid common sense of Mr. BRIGHT'S equit-
able proposals. We saw you remount,
however,
nothing daunted, and off again towards Dr. MAC-
HALE, who, with his infallible; " would submit to
no arbitration." But, alas ! another fling up of the
heels, and away you went Mr. Editor, head over
heels, and MAAIALE and the Quaker staid laughing
to see you. " Yes, for my part," says Joust TuAm—
,, give us each the million offered by the able Man-
chester Member, and I'm content " Well done
Archbishop! Stick to that ! Back him Dr.
CULLEN! Back him Irish Brigade ! The days of
common sense for Ireland may then be nearer than
any of us had thought. Our statesmen would be
but too glad to accede to some plan approaching
to reasonableness. The Liberal M.P.'s would gather
round it ; public opinion would form rapidly in Eng-
land in its favoar: this country would be but too glad
to heal the plaguy disease which has made Ireland so
troublesome a member of the British family. Yes,
consent to real equality, and it may not be long before
you get it. Meantime, since Dr MAcHALE has be-
gun concession to reason, we hand over the Irish
Episcopalians and Presbyterians to the lashing or
lampooning of the Times. Who knows but that Dr.
CooKE or the Archbishop of Armagh may soon gallop,
adorned with long ears, through the leaders of the
Times. If they do stand in the way of a fair compro-
mise—if it should come to this, that their horror of
" endowing idolatry " does hinder or prevent a fair
settlement for Ireland—let them know that the next
proposition may be that the British Lion shall claim
everything for the British people, and leave the bigots
their own resources.

IMPE RIA L PAR LIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This DAY.

The Speaker took the cha'r at 12 o'clock.
The swearing in of members was proceeded with n
the same order as yesterday, commencing with the
county of Lancaster. In the first batch sworn we
noticed were the Right Hon. Mr. Herries, the Right
Hon. Mr. Henley, the Attorney-General, Sir R.
Inglis, Mr. Gladstone, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Bro-
therton, Mr. J. W. Cobbett, Mr. P. Peel, and Col.
Sibthorp. The only metropolitan members who an-
swered to their names were Mr. T. S. Duncombe,
Sir T. Shelley, and Mr. Masterman, Mr. A. W. Wil-
kinson, Mr. Williams, and .Mr. Pellatt. The swearing-
in continued till the house rose.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

QUEEN'S BENCH.
BREFFET V. WINTERBOTTOM.

Mr. Knowles, Q.C., applied for a rule to show cause
why the verdict in this case, which was given for the
plaintiff at the last Liverpool Assizes, should not be set
aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection.
The cause of action arose out of a dispute relative to
a patent for applying an elastic stopper to a glass bottle,
and it was contended for the defendant, that, inasmuch
that the principle was old, any ono could avail himself
of its application. The learned Judge, Mr. Justice
Wightman, who tried the cause, held differently, and
the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Their Lord-
ships this morning coincided with the view of the Judge,
and refused the rule.

CUSTOMS PROMOTIONS.,-It is said that the vacancy
caused by the retirement of Mr. Ross, many years Survey or -
General, is tc be filled by the promotion of Mr. St. John, at
present Inspector-General of Liverpool, and that he is to be
replaced by Mr. Rolls, Landing Surveyor in London. Both
are young in the service, compared to many that they tbus
precede. The latter is an excellent practical officer, and the
traders of Liverpool will not suffer by the exchange. He
was the chief officer selected by the Commissioners of Customs
to superintend that depprtment in the Crystal Palace in
Hyde-park,fcr the satisfactory discharge of which he received
the thanks of the Royal Commissioners, and also a token of
come value.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 5.

The Queen and Prince, with the Princess of Hohen-
lobe Langenburg, walked is the grounds adjoining the
Castle this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family, took their ac-
customed walking and pony exercise.
Mr. Phillip had the honour of attending at the Castle
this morning, and submitting for the inspection of her
Majesty and Prince Albert his pictures of Spanish
scenery.
The Queen and Prince, with the Princess Royal and
Princess Alice, accompanied by the Prince and Prin-
cess of llohonlohe Langenburg, drove out in an open
carriage this afternoon, attended by the Countess of
Desart.

------
Major-General Buckley and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. A. Gordon, were in attendance an horseback.

The Bishop of London had an interview with Sir
John Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Muflings, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches for the Governor of Canada were sent off
last evening from the Colonial-office.

THE DITIKE'S FUNERAL.—The procession, it is ex-
pected, will be two miles long. The vergers of St. Paul's
on the occasion of Nelson's funeral, netted upwards of
1,0001.
EXTENSION OF THE INCOME• TAX TO IRELAND,—
It may be stated, on highly competent authority, that a
semi-official communication has reached Dublin, conveying
the comforting assurance that her Majesty's present advisers
mean to submit a proposition, on the opening of the present
session, for the extension of the Inceme-tax to Ireland. Ac-
cording to the plan in contemplation, it is intended that the
tax shall be levied at the rate of live per cent. on incomes
from fi(l. a year and upwards; the imposition, however,
not to be extended to incomes derivable from profits in
trades or menufactures.
THE TORY WHIP.—Mr. Rumbold, the member
for Yaraloutb, received one of the official circulars issued by
Mr. Disraeli to the protectionist and Derbyite members of the
new Parliament. Two Tory votes are thus to be reckoned
for that borough.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT LEEDS:The ex-Premier
has acc;ded to the request of the committee of the Leeds
Mechatics' Institute and Literary Society to preside at the
next soirée, which, in conpliance with his lordship's request,
has been fixed to take place on the 2d of December.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P.,
has, it is understood, resigned the chair of the board of this
company ; remaining, however, in the direction. Mr. Laing
was, it will be recollected, a salaried chairman ; and now
that be is no longer able to give his undivided attention to
the atLirs of the company, he has very properly relinquished
the salary given with that view.
SOUTII-EASTERN AND BRIGHTON COMPANIES.
The amalgamation between these two companies is now con-
fidently spoken of as being in process of negotiation and
nearly concluded.
GUT FA` KES DAY.—Yesterday being the sth of
November, the usual search Wf'S made in the parliamentary
cellars to discover the shade of Guy, and prevent the blowing
up of the Parliament. This serious operation took place
shortly after eleven o'clock in the morning by several of the
officer; of the two Houses of Parliament. Every nook and
cornet was examined for the discovery of combustible ma-
terials calculated to blow up the New Palace of Westminster
and the Peers and Commoners of the land, but none wero
found.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—A petition is about to be
presented against the sitting member for the borough of
Bridgnorth. It is confidently anticipated that there will be
no difficulty in establishing a successful case against him.
Bribery and intimidation are the grounds intended to be
relied on.
DECORATION OF EXETER HALL.—The alterations
made in Exeter Hall last year left the ceiling, although
curved, perfectly plain, with the exception of openings for
ventilation, which in themselves were simple voids, and more
useful than ornamental. The directors have given their
assistance in the promotion of the public taste by authorising
a laige outlay in the decoration of this noble apartment, en-
tirely by means of colour. To the seven ventilating circles
in tie hipped hyperboloid ceiling, two more have been added,
which give points d'appuijor a geometrical arrangement, and
become essential features of the design, which consists of
panelling formed by broad margins. The panels hold a
white ornament on a blue ground, and are inserted into a
general cream-coloured margin, which is, in fact, the ceiling,
and this is elegantly subdivided by a fawn-coloured band of
a :deep shade, relieved lsy a vermillion ornament between
broad bands, which will appear little more than a line. The
great central design thus described is confined by a very
ornamental border of panels, recalling those in the ceiling,
and completed by fleurons at the corners. The spectator
will learn somewhat of the difficulty of the design, when in-
formed that, small as it looks from the floor, the outer mar-
gin is twelve feet wide.
Handel 's Oratorio of the Messiah was given at the
Hackney Road Chapel, last night, for the benefit of the Trust
Fund. The artists were Misses Stabbach and Lascelles,
Messrs. George Tedder and Lawler, who acquitted themselves
first rate. The band, under the able direction of Herr
..einschuez, consisted of the first musicians of the day. The
band and chorus numbered above 150 persons organist, Mr.

Haskins.GoVE ENEBSEst BENEVOLENT INSTlTUTlON.—Yes-
terdaylista
fR no oo mfasw for the
thanthe
a general court of the subscribers at this excellent
institutionelection
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of 2 01. Hanover-squarefrom ia
washeld
annuitantsa t the
119 candidates. In the absence of the Earl of Harrowby,
who was to have ;presided, the chair was taken by the Rev.
three
Thomas King. In the course of the past year the large
number of 2,535 governesses reaped in various ways the
benefits of the institution. The total receipts in the benevo-
lent account were 15,8831. 10s. 3d, and the expenditure
15,724/. 15s. 41., leaving in hand a balance of 1581. 14.5. 11d.
In the provident account the same items were severally
22,138/. Os. 51., 21,4471. 16s. Id., and 6901. 4s. The Rev,
D. Laing, Hon. Sec., having read the minutes of the last
meeting, the poll was opened and continued so for two hours.
Scrutineers were then appointed, upon whose report the
names of the successful candidates were declared. A vote of
thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.
SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.--A special genera court of
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this corporation was held yesterday n the hall of the hospi-
tal, Crane-court, to consider a report by the committee in
reference to some threatened deterioration of the property of
the corporation, in consequence of the erection of new bui!d-
ings by a Mr. Ireland, in Fleur-delis-court, Fetter-lane'
where the Scottish corporation possess some freehold houses.
Resolutions were passed authorizing the committee to take
legal or such other steps as may be desirable in defence of
their interests; and a deputation was appointed to wait upon
and remonstrate with the Commissionerfrof Sewers, who in
this instance do not appear to be so careful as might be sup-
posed of the sanatory condition of one of the narrowest and
darkest courts in London.
lONIAN ISLANDS.—Letters received from Corfu
yesterday, dated 29th October, state that the fleet left that
island on the preceding day for Malta. The
sickness, which
had been confined to the natives, had diminished, the wea-
ther was still very warm but as rain had commenced, a bene-
ficial change was looked for.
VEGETABLES FOR THE TROOPS AT THE
We hear from good authority, that Edwards' patent-preserved
potato, sent out last year by the commissariat for the service
of the army engaged in the Kafir. war, has been so highly
appreciated by the seldiers, that it has been recently deter-
mined that another large supply of this vegetable diet shall
be forthwith dispatched for the use of our brave fellows
engaged in this arduous service. No less than 50,0001b5.
have been ordered by the Comptroller of Victualling at the
Admiralty, to be shipped in the General Screw Company*,
ship Mauritius.
WIND3OR ROYAL ASSOCIATION.—The animal meet-
ing of the subscribers to this association, was held yesterday,
at the Town Hall Windsor, The chair was taken by Lieu.
tenant-Colonel F'. 11. Seymour. Mr. Leslie Melville (the
treasurer) read i
the balance-sheet, from which it appeared
that there had been received during the current year the
sum of 371. in donations, 1681. 14s. in annual subseripton,,
and 251. Bs. 6d. for admissions to the enclosure at the recent
exhibition at the Home Park. The disbursements during
the same period (including 1331. ss. distributed as prizes to
deserving labourers and others) amounted to 1971. 4s. 2d. ;
leaving a balance of 331. 18s. 4d. on the year's account, in
addition to the sum of 871. 4s. 6d. invested in the savings'
bank at the close of the year 1861. The rep?rt was adopted,
and the committee for the ensuing year appointed.
THE Duau's FUNERAL.—The preparations at Gael-
sea Hospital are being vigorously carried on. The ceiling
of the Hall (covered with black cloth crossed diagonally by
white cords) is finished, and the walls are in progress. A
platform is formed at the end to receive the body and
mourners. The lights (gas) will be disposed behind hollow
semi-columns fitted with reflectors, The hall is floored with
open battens, and so is the covered way (18 fe9t wide), which
has been formed from the Queen's-road. It will be necessary
to make arrangements for a queue of considerable length, or
there will be much mischief done. Some dissatisfaction has
been expressed by correspondents at the fact that the de-
sign for the car was intrusted to Professor Semper, the
Berlin architect. It will require the united efforts of many
establishments to carry out the design in time. We are
glad to find that the objection we raised to the proposed
position of the Duke's tomb is becoming generally recog-
nized. It is to be hoped the determination will be changed.
—The Builder.