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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1852,

The first general report of the Directors of the
Anglo-Californian Gold-Mining Company, hrs been
issued to the shareholders, and will be read at the first
annual general meeting, which is appointed to take
place on Friday next. It is a highly satisfactory
document, explaining the various steps that have been
taken by the expedition under the command of Sir
HENRY VERE HUNTLEY since their arrival at the scene
of their future labours, and clearly pointing out the
present position and prospects of the company. Many
difficulties have necessarily occurred, but they have
been succes,fully encountered—ond we hope ere long
to be enabled to congratulate the Directors and share-
holders on reaping a golden harvest, the legitimate
reward of their enterprize and perseverance.
It will be in the recollection of our reader., that
this company was the first started in the United
Kingdom for the purpose of bringing joint-stock en-
terpriz3 into operation in the gold fields of California.
At first the prometers were treated with ridicule, and
every effort was made to sneer down the undertaking.
It required no ordinary nerve to bear up age;.nst the
amount of direct vituperation, or, what was p-rbaps
worse, the apathetic and cold-blooded indifference to
which they were exposed. Distinct and positive
charges were brought forward, and these were accom-
panie 1 by

" The whisper'd hint—the shrug—ths hum or ha,
Those petty brands that calumny doth use,"

Many openly declared that the concern was little
better than a deliberate swindle, while the more cha-
ritably disposed considered it a mere visionary scheme,
and opinion appeared to be divided as to whether the
Directors should be clnsed ranong "the dupers" or
" the duped."
But there were men of unflinching determination
engaged in the transaction. Having satisfied them-
selves of the soundness and feasibility of the under-
taking, and having secured the services and caaor,„
ration of Sir HENRY VERB HUNTLEY, a gentleman
of station and character, they resolved to go on
despite every impediment or obstruction. Bat a
small proportion of the capital was subscribed for,
and a still smaller proportion peid up—for the
" corvine" fraternity, who are so virtuously indignant
at any managerial lapse, have no hesitation in disre-
garding their own positive promises to pay on the
shares for which they make application, unless an
immediate profit can be realized, The Directors,.
however, made the most of the means at their disposal,
and dispatched Sir HENRY in March, 1851, sending
out also a steam-engine and crushing mills.
"[all
On his arrival, Sir
reference"great
to
the tenor© of
raining property, and that the titles of the claimants
„r possessors of quartz veins could not be relied on."
Here was a new difficulty.
Ifheaanittienmepted to enter
into a treaty for the purchase of
Lion of the auriferous soil, he might fi,nodr anytnot "
pt
the money paid, but all the early exertionsf
the company would ha wasted and misappii,d
—a re-
suit which, in the then state of public opinion in
England, would have been fatal to the prospects of '
the undertaking. Ile, therefore, exhibited a salutary
caution, deciding rather to operate on the gold-bear-
log quartz produced to him by others than to en-
deavour to obtain the material for himself.
While awaiting the arrival of his machinery dis-
patched from England—which, being sent via Cape
Horn, was considerably delayed en route—he di-
rected his attention to the selection of a favour-
able site on which to commence operations. He
speedily entered into an arrangement with an
.timerilan company in actual possession of a
m t mine, by ;which ;• .7,3 2 '
' agreed that they rshollid ,

While Sir HENRY has thus been displaying the
high qualities requisite for the judicious management
of such an undertaking—acquiring for himself and the
Company with which he is connected the respect and
confidence of the inhabitants of the districts, the home
Directors have not been idle. They have already
dispatched, in May last, " an engine equal to fifty-
horse power, with crushing-mills and stamps of cor-
responding force, together with a waterwheel, pumps,
and all suitable gear—the whole of the best work •
manship, from the manufactory of Messrs. WEST and
Sort, of St. Blazey. They have also contracted for
some of " Baggs' patent quartz-crushing apparatus,"
an invention of the greatest importance, and which
gives an almost unlimited power to its possessors. It
has indeed already accomplished more than
had ever previously been even thought of.
Crushing the material to a fine powder, and
thus enabling the operators to separate the precious
metal from the quartz with comparatively trifling
difficulty or labour. These will be ready within a
fortnight, and when on the spot 150 tons per diem
may be crushed—we cannot venture to state the
amount of gold that may be obtained therefrom.
We may, however, once more cordially congratulate
all parties concerned on the aespicious prospect
before them, and which promises to render the concern,
notwithstanding its early trials and difficulties, ono of
the most remunerative ever brought under public
notice.

Fairyland is gradually collecting together its mar-
vels in the immediate vicinity of our vast and dingy
metropolis. Within view of St. Paul's Cathedral—
that is, upon a tolerably clear day when the gilded
ball•and-cross can just twinkle through the smoke of
London—there are now growing up a Garden and a
Palace such as the world has seldom if ever seen the
like of, except in the exquisite dreams of the imagina-
tion : a Palace like that of ALADDIN, and a Garden
like that of the Hesperides. Fortunately, the inha-
bitants of this capital were enabled, ie 1851, to wit-
ness the miracles of ingenuity which genius, aided by
industry, was capable of calling forth upon a few of
the green sods of Hyde Park—so that the remem-
brance of that extraordinary Exhibition relieves us
from the fear that, in 1852, our allusions to what is
being at this moment accomplished in the neighbour-
hood of Sydenham, may be derided as some empty
and idle fanfaronade. The marvellous beauty of the
Crystal Palace erected within a few weeks near Hyde
Park Corner, is a sufficient guarantee that whatever
may be seriously projected in regard to the scheme of
its reconstruction, is at any rate within the limits of
practicability ; and that, however improbable may be
the grandeur and diversity of the proposed achieve-
ment, they will inevitably, and that, moreover, within
the prescribed period, be beheld in their fullest reali-
zation. We all of us believe this with the sense of a
cairn and implicit conviction. We believe it, because
we remember what has already been achieved lay Sir
JOSEPH PAXTON, in that magic edifice where all the
nations of the earth stored up for a while whatever
Art could display of the Beautiful, or Science of the
Marvellous. We believe it, because we call so very
vividly to mind those wonderful perspectives of blue
end yellow by which OwEN JONES eclipsed the most
gorgeous corridors of the Alhambra! We believe it,
because we have in recollection the mingled celerity
and precision with which Sir CHARLES Fox caused to
fall into their appointed places, as if in obedience to
the wand of a magician, those thousands of girders,
end millions of sashes, and miles of counter, and
acres of glass, required in the building up of that
fabric of iron and crystal. Assurances like these were
needed, in order to convince us of the possibility of
seeing at last effected what is spoken of as at this
instant in the process of development in the midst of
the sylvan glades and meadow scenery of Sydenham.
The external embellishments alone, promise to
render the vicinity of the New Crystal Palace more
remarkable for beauty than possibly even the most
lovely spot that can now be found in Christendom.
Immediately in front of the principal fa (jade of the
edifice, we learn that there is to be constructed en
Italian garden, extending over some forty acres, and
having a breadth of one thousand six hundred rid
fifty feet, disposed in a series of terraces at
once superb and picturesque. Upon this portion
of the enterprise alone, there is to be ex-
pended a suns of no less than 60,000/. sterling !
According. to the plan sketched out by the master-
hand of Sir JosEra PAXTON, the grounds are to be
mapped out upon th© same scale of proportions es that
to be observed in the architectural arrangements. In
illustration of this it, may be observed that every dimen-
sion will have a multiple of eight feet in the Garden
as well as in the Palace, out of which will come har-
mony and grandeur in very exquisite combination
The grandour may be conjectured from the circum-
stance of the principal approach and terrace being 96
feet wide, the majority of the others 48 feet, and none
less than 24 feet. Again, the harmony may be ima-
gined from the intention kept in view throughout by
Sir JOSEPH PAXTON, that of so arranging the external
decorations that the ornate splendours of the Italian
Garden shall gradually merge into the more homely
and less artificial beauties of the English, and that
these again shall almost imperceptibly glide off into
the more moderately-cultivated charms of the sur-
rounding landscape. Intermingling with the par-
terres and the shrubberies will be a gorgeous system
of fountains, which, it is proposed, shall surpass the
astonishingly lofty jets at t. Cloud, and the most
glorious of the mythological groups spouting out their
vast columns of watr on f9:,,-cll7l at Versailles.

Were we not right, therefore, in our assertion that
there is now collecting together, in the immediate
neighbourhood of London, almost under the shado w
of its smoke, and within the sound of its roaring com-
merce, a variety of works at once beautiful and extra-
ordinary, such as will, in a few months hence, trans-
form the woodlands of Sydenham into the semblance
of Fairyland?
And it is this region of enchantment which has
roused the bile of Praise-God-Barebones, and excited
the horror of Zeal-of-the-land-Busy, and called forth
expressions of the sanctimonious indignation of or*
dear old friends the Sabbatariansl Itwas the announce-
ment of the probable opening of the Crystal Palace
on Sundays, which brought about the assemblage of
some thousand individuals on Monday last, in the
parochial school room of a Chapl of Ease io the
Liverpool-road, a meeting presided over by the Re-
verend Master-of-Acts Wasoal, the Vicar of Isl;ng..
ton. According to the sentiments expressed by the
majority of the speakers upon this occasion, we ought
to look forward with dismay to the probable strolling
upon some Sunday afternoon of a poor rrtizsn, with
his wife and cluster of little children, through the
gardens of the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, as to
a foul rod most grievous desecration. Upon
the same principle, there must surely always
be upon the same days a sort of vegetable sin in
the budding of a sweet-pea—a sort of insect culpa-
bility in the birth of a butterfly—a sort of zoological
crime in the suckling of a lamb upon the meadows—
a sort of infamy carried up into the skies in the we -
bling of a lark at daybreak—an evil in the spawning
of a minnow, and an abomination in the very sparkle
of a rivulet. If there be ill in the mere sight of such
things on the LORD'S Day, surely there must—in
common logic—be a threefold evil in the things
themselves. What nonsense is this the Saints of the
so-called Sabbath are preaching to us in open day,
with grave faces, as though nothing less than idiotcy
prevailed among the population ? People are not
such dullards as to suppose, for el instant, that the
awful and Holy Loam of the Universe can be dis-
pleased because the little creatures he hri created
in the palm of His hand like grains of dust, go out
for a while from their reeking cities upon the
appointed day of rest to breathe the fresh air, and to
walk among the green trees—Ps the Sacred Book
even tells us the GOD of Heaven himself was won't to
do in the cool of evening in the garden of Paradise I
Away rather with that squalor of the intellect and
abjectness of the imagination, which are in themselves
the most despicable of all possible desecrations of the
Sunday—away rather with that grovelling bigotry
and narrow-minded fanaticism, which would shut for
ever the eyes of the over-toiled end the under-paid from
that glorious scroll of Nature which the DIVINITY
has lettered with flowers end wiltten over with
planets, and in which the very child can spell, with
the most wonderful accuracy, the mystic truths of
religion. It is not by shutting the labourer up con
tinually between the sordid walls of the conventicle
that you can best instil into his heart the solemn and
exquisite principles of Christianity. Let him obtain,
at least at intervrls, a glimpse cf the baautifri roi-
verse in which he exists for a time but es to atom,
and you will the most effectually expand his intelli-
gence, purify his morality, and elevate his aspirations.

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. —The following
circular has been addressed by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to such members of the House of Coramori rs are
supposed to be friendly to the Administration :
" Downing-street, 18th October, 1852.
"Sir—The meeting of Parliament has hen fixrd for
Thursday, the 4th November, when the Hot-3 of Cimmors
wiil immediately proceed to the choice of a Speaker, (-ad to
ibe corsideration of businus of the highost importanc!. I
+lke the !iberi,y of earnestly requesting your presence on that
day; and, I trust, you will air) excuse my expressing a wish,
that you would let me know, whether it wi" be con.'stent
v.ith y our omvenience to attend at the opening of the se-qion.
—I have the honour to be, vie, your faithful and obedient
servant, " B. DISRAELI."
MAJOR BERESFORD, M.P.—We think we may
state that the member for Noi,h Ersex, who holds a high
military appointment tinder the present Government, will be
sel?cted for the important office of Governor of Jamaica.
Mr. Mark Boyd Ird an interview with the Secre-
try of the Adrairrity yesterday.
The King end Queen of Hanover arrived at Slat-
gardt on the 20th, on a `'sit ti the King of Wuriemberg.
'lle King of Bavrtia let:. on the same day.
The King of Greece has left Munich to return to
Athens.

Tb'3 Duchess de Berry and the Duchess of Parma
have left Frohsdorff, the fowler for Brunsee, in Styria, the
latter for Italy. The Count and Countess of Chambord in-
tend to pass the winter at Vienw
The Duke of Devo❑shire has arrived at Devonshire
House, from Kemp Town.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk ere receiving a
few select friends at Arundel Castle. The Duke of North-
umberland, who arrived on Monday evening from London,
on a short visit to their graces, left the castle yesterday
morning, to join the Board of Admiralty at Portsmouth.
The Marquis end Marchioness of Worcester, who
have been visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufoic at
Llangattock Park, South Wales, have returned to Edinburgh.
The Earl of Derby has issued cards for his first
Parliamentary dinner for the season, to take place at his
official residence, Downing-street, On the 10th of November.
Tile Earl and Countess of Cawdor have arrived at
Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, from visiting the E4rl and
couutese vt Egeenaere at Worsley

Mayor ()invent seconded the resolutior
Mr. L)win, rithough he cud not object to a stst le,
would move en stmendmen`, ei he d,cl not think the
company ought to avaq i•-•;Ic of the funds of others t
honor.- t')

The Chairman put the resolution t) the meet;ng, and
the whole of the hands in the room were held up
-'
in its favour, with the exception of IT-. I..ivih, who did
not press his motion, but voted ag rib the resoltr;on,
The mc..3.'ng then seprrat' I.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday morning
was eelemniz.:d, at St. Mei.,in's-in-the-fields, the nuptials
of 111 r. Graham, eldest son of the Right Honourabie Sir
James Graham, Bert., of Netherbv, end the Lady Hermione
Seynt Maur, eldest daughter of Lord Seymour, and grand-
daughter of the Duke of Somerset, The ceremony was
pei.ormcd by the Rev. William Graham, rector of Ai Lieu-et,
Cumberland, uncle of the bridegrcem. The bride was mag-
nificently attired in a robe of moire antique, with flounces
end veil of Brussels lace, and superb wreath of orange
blossoms. The bride was attended to the altar by a train of
seven bridesmaids, viz., the Lady Uhica See at Maur,
Mies Graham, bliss Helen Graham, Miss Sheridan' Miss
Florence Sheridan, the Lady Gwendoline Seynt Maur,
and Miss Helen Sheridan, ell attired in white.
The ceremony was witne'sed by a large pa-ty of relatives
and friends, including the Duceas of Somerset, Sir James
and Lady Graham, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord and
Lady Dufferin, Lord Archibald Seynt Maur, Honorrable
Mrs. Norten and Mr. Brirsley Norton, Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Duncombe, Mrs. Brineley Sheridan, M". 5 Callender,
&c. The steps in front of Lord Seymour's house, and
those of St. Martin's Church were covered with scarlet cloth ;
and at the conclusion of the ceremony, and when the bride-
groom and bride left town, the bells rang forth a joyous pea'
Immediately rl.er the ceremony, an elegant dejeuner was
given by Lady Seymour, at the family residence, Spring-
gardens. The dejeuner wee of the most elegant end re-
cherche description, and the bridescake, from hunter's, was
remarkable for its fanciful devic-e and tasteful ornamentation.
The bride's troreeau was very splendid, and consisted of all
the beauti(ul objects usually display:: I on these occasions,
including rich sparkling gifts from Lie Duchess of Inverness,
the Duke of Somerset, the Duchess of Somerset, the Mar-
chioness of Aylesbury, Sir James Graham, Lady Graham,
Lady Duffef &C. Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of
Somerset will give a splendid banquet and soiree this evening
in honour of the auspicious event. The happy pair have left
town to spend the honeymoon at Lord Seymour's country
heat, Bra iley, Wiltshire.
LADIFs' CHARITY SCHOOL.—The imlf-yearly meet-
ing of the patrons end subscribers of this charity was held
yesterday, at the premises of the institution, John-street,
Bedford-row—John Masteimen, Esq , M.P., the treasurer of
the institution, in the chair. After the el-etion of three chil-
dren to fill up vacancire, the f: cretery read the report, from
which it appeared that the fell complement of children in
the institution was 51, and there are the: number in it now,
including the three just elected. The rese of the child-en,
when admitted, is from eight to ten yeses. They are boarded,
lodged, clothed, rnd educat-d for five years, and ter incd to
domestic eel, ice. The cont.- ibutions at the fret dinner, which
tcok place on the 9th of Jun amounted to 1,0001., in come-
quence of which the funds are now in a satisfactory condi-
tion. The report was adopte
FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A RESP:CTABLE TEA DEI3
MAN THIS MORN, SCI.-1141 moreing, about hetr-pest eight
o'clock, an indiviitial, most respectably dee-, ed, who's oe-
lievcd to be Mr. Wiwrn Lareenee, the extensive butcher
at Croydor, expire 1 in the Clip ing-ci pea Ho-pit:l ;'..orn *he
ink ire which ue received on the previous right about nine
o'clock, opposite the University Club-house, Erst,
under the sollowing circurnstencee, which lee no hop of Fe
recovery. He was in a light die's. c-rt, end while psesiv
by the Club-house, as is sum c- 4, on his way home to
Croydeo, he cams in C)P.^;011 something by the side of
the toad, and was pi" eh-1 viith weat force on 1"9 head. Few
persons sc timed t I have wit-o-eced the c ‘-nneence, but Mr.
Dunces, who is c ornected with University Club-house,
immediately went t i his essistence, end finding him
wholly ireensible, accompanied him in a cab to Charing-cross
Hewitt°, where Mr. Tucker, the house surgeon, and other
medical officers of the iretitution, paid him every attention,
but the base of the skull. was el dread ully fractured that his
rreove,y Wi 3 hopelese, and he died this moieing. A message
was cent down by the exprefs train to his fiiende at Croydor,
but none had arrived in London when this was written. en_
formation has been sent to the coroner.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT BETHNAL-GREEN......
Yesterday miernoon Mr. W. Baker, the Coroner, held en in-
quest at the King's Arm', Hackney-road, Bethnal-green,
on view of Ova body of Richard Trante^, aged 25 veers, who
WPM found dead, with a gun-shot wound on the left breast.
The jury returned an open verdict, " That the deceee- I WF9
found dead in own room, with a gun-shot wound in the
region of the hen • by the di, elarege of a gal into the le:
breast, but how such injeey was caused they bed no evidence
to show."

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MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A TRADi,SMAN.--Yes-
terday afternoon, Mr Berfforl, coroner for Westminster, re-
ceived information that a tradesmen of t'ie name of Wni.
Hughes, carrying on business in Shepherd's-market, Mayfr;r,
had committed suicide the previous night at b;9 late resi-
dence. The unfortunate man wrs found suspended by a
cord from the bannkters, life being quite extinct. He was
cut down. lie WPM about 62 years of age, and had for some
time past been remarked to be in a melancholy state of
wind.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Considerable excitement
has prey: 'led in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn, :a con-
sequence of a generel rumour that a determined attempted
suicide had been committed by a women of the name of Mrs.
Elizabeth Glover, aged 24 years, who resided at Boswell-
court, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. One of the inmates
living in the next room had her attention attracted by a
strange no se in the adjoining apartment, which on entering
she found the unfortunate creature had inflicted with a razor
a gash in her throat of a nu ;t f :ghtful description. An
alarm was immediately raised, when she was conveyed to
Victoria Ward, li:;ng's College Dr -pita). not the slightest
hopes are entertains tof her recovery. The rash act is sup-
posed to have been committed through a querrel with her
huAlnd, cmchrman, gad yaio hid lett her.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Oilici^.l L'st )
Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99% 14
8 per Cent Con. -As Ann- lool,a 144
Now 314 per Cent. And 5....... lOBl/3 14.
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860.. 6i 9-16 7-16
Ditto 30 year. Exp., Oct 10, 1E59 6IA
V:,-)!
/26
Do. 30 Years, Exp're Jr 1. 5, 1860
India Stock 2764_

_ .
lntto under 1,1 101.
South Soa Stock
Consols for Account
ExeriGnuer Bill. I%d. March June.
1,0001. ..
SW/.
Smrll
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. lOl/z
Ditto for the Accorrt
Ditto Scrip •.. 1%
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cen`
Chilian Bonds 3 per Cent 76
Equador Bonds 5
Grenada, 11,4 per Cont.
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account .. 24%
Peruvian Bondr, 1849, 6 i er Cont ...... ... 103
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent
Poi tusuese 4 per Cent 37% 81/2
se-e:nian Bonds, 5 per C Int
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cen' .. —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Swedish Loan
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 . ... 4 27, 3 2-1 3 24 p.
French Renter, 3 per Cent ...81f. Vf 5Cc .ex. 251.50 c 2tc
Dutch Excha., 2% per Cent., 12 Gull 6434
Dutch 4 per ent. Certificates 9614

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols ••• •• ••• •. • 1004 yk,
E: to Account. Nov. 11 100% ,6

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchest?r Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, Oct. 26.-1 a this market, the impulse
given to prices by the very extensive operations
of last week has b:-en felt to day 51 the s' hl upward
tendency of yarns 57 general, end of mrny decariptions
of goods. This i 3 esp:zielly r.- an in the finer yens suq-
sble for home manuf:ate-e, i.r cop twist and pin aops of
the medium numbers, end M 40's reeled mu!e. the de_
mend for China is Mereesing the value of water twist;
and it may be st-Itad generally that warps, from 24's up-
wards, and tl.o reeled mule twist, are dearer. Goods
c-e at le:it firm at lest week's Hvence, which wr,
so considerable on India goods in pr:ticelr-. The
makers of dornstics, T cloths, rad long cloths, ere
getting rid of stcck hardening in their tams, rid in-
deed getting an advance Ns ith diminished tmublP. The
day's trarseations fall a good deal short of those of 014
day week, c 3 indeed they necessarily must, because the
eugagemen'a then entered into tie up the hends of pr, -
priatorr.

MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—A bus4e.esa con''nues
to t 3 done in 59k menufectured gocds, and at mere
renarnerating prices then have Int )Iy rr'ed. Stocks
on hand continue very Thrown Silks : The
market is still influencel by foreign orders, the
export of silk this year having len larger then prc
s;opsly known. The home market up to the preint
t'nre has tniten but spa, ingly ; bat as stocks of throwns
understee 3 to to very low in the trends of our manu-
facturers, a resump'en of purchases is shortly expected
to make preparation for the aping L'ade. Raw Silk:
At the pab''e sr'es 'n T ,ndon le -t week a fe'r bu-
siness was transacted: the prices actuely ob.ainecl, for
both 23ngals and Ch;nes, were about those ruling pre-
viously to the sale.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY. The market today
has not ten quit 3 so gc3d es lest week, perhaps on e'-
count of the roughness end wetness of the weather; still
there have 13n inquiries in the Cloth Hell for pilot
clothe, end heavy goods generally, for overcoat cloths
end trouser;ngs. Trade in the warehouses during the
week has been ill'.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—Wo have had another gocd
market to-day, bat the manufacturers comple.n at the
low prices they are obliged to take for their pieces,.
There has boen a fair hotness doing in wool, at prices
much the same as, those of last week. Coa-se or low
priced wool is scarce at present.

DEATH OF THE EDITOR OF BELL'SLIF.
Geo. Dowling, Esq , the editor of " Bell's Life in London,"
died at his residence, Eilbuto, on the 25th instant, in the
67th year of his age.
of gentlemen connected with the great
METROPOLITAN FREE LIBRARIES.....—On Monday a
was held at the house of Mr. Oliveire,
boroughpr elimin aorfymnai
reyetlienbgo
my., at the requisition of that gentleman, the object being
the establishment of a free library la the borough tor the be-.
nefit of the working-dosser, on a plan similar to those which
have already been so successfully opened in Manchester and
Liverpool. Several resolutions, moved and supported by
Mr. A. Goldsmid, Mr. Grace, Mr. Withers, Mr. Bridge-
man, Mr. G. Gyll, Mr. Evelly, Mr. George, Mr. M'Gregor,
Mr. Graham, and other gentlemen, were adopted. Mr.
Oliveira, in the course of the discussion, intimated that it wrs
his intention to present the library with 500 volumes. It
was also stated that a hrdfpenny rate on the parishes within
he borough of Marylebone would produce about 4,0001.
a-year, but that it ccrald laQt be legally levied.