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N°.18,615.] LONDON, THURSDAY '12.1 DT MAY 20, 1852.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, MAY 19, 1853.
THE COURT of DIREci ()Rs of the EAST
INDI COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the present rate of interest (3/0 Three Pounds per cent. per
annum on the Company's Bonds will cease and determine on the
21st day of May, 1853.
That from and after the 21st day of May, 1853, such Bonds shall
carry an interest only of (2/. 10s.) Two Founds Ten shillings per
cent. per annum.

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
CONFESSIONS of on ETONIAN.
By C IiABL E BOWCROFLE,q.

POSTAGE REFORM AND MR. WALLACE.
We republish from the papers of the House of Com-
mons a petition from Mr. Wallace, who so long 'repre...
sented the town of Greenock, and who was the father 01
Post-office reform.
PETITION OF ROBERT WALLACE, EiQ

be mainly paved the way, as he also was the mover for
the Committee which recommended to Parliament that
,great measure cf national reform, he ventures on these
ikrounds to hope that your Honourable House will listen
favourably to his present suggestion, and send his pcti•
tion to the Committee about to be appointed; and
Lastly. That your Honourable House will please
dirrct that this petition shall bs printed with the votes,
in order to obtain for its contents correct circulation
among Hon. Members, as well as among the third estate;
so that, should the entire emancipation of penny postage
be still withheld from this kingdom, that the inhabitants
of other Countries may see their way to its accomplish-
ment, and especially that our clear-sighted brethren
across the Atlantic may do so, in yet their infancy of
postal arrangements, so that in one way or other we
shall at last get at home or from abroad the complete ful-
filment of the beautiful invention.

Author of " Tales of the Colonies," &c.

" To those who enjoy, lively sketches and amusing anecdotes, this
hook Will afford great unttxtainincia."—Sun.
" The life of an I:tonlanliii pranks, his follies, his loves, his for-
tunes and misfortunes—bi here amusingly drawn and happily co-
loured ay an accomplished artist. The work is full of ane.alcte, and
lively painting of men sad manners."—Globe.
Colbnrn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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That holder s of Bonds will be allowed to bring them in to be
mari:ed for continultion at the said interest of (2/. 10s.) Tao rounds
Ten Shillings .-er cent. per annum, until the 21st day of November,
1852 ; and that sneli Ponds as bll,lll not be marked for continua-lon
as :tie: csaid on or h,o,fore the 21st d ty of November.
1852, shall be
liable to be pahl off on the said 21st day of May, 1853, on which day
all interest wi.l cease.

The petition of Robert Wallace,E,q., humbly showeth,
That your petitioner was for many years a Member of
your Hon Durable House, and as such w& chosen to be
chairman of the Select Committee appointed to inquire
tecasti by
casting
M vote
rt. e R
of o w
your
rd Hill, commonly called penny
petitioner, as chairman of the
into the best mode of reducing the rates of poitage on
letters, and more especially to ingaire into the plan pro-
posed
postage, which plan was recommended to Parliament by
h
Select Committee.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary

Your petitioner' further showeth that he has observed
with the most sincere eatis4etion that a Select Com-
mittee of your Honourable House is about to be ap-
pointed " to inquire and report upon the present mode
of engraving, printing, and gumming the postage label
stamps; and likewise whether, and how, the perforating
machine invented by the patentee could be applied to the
same with advantage to the public."
And whereas your petitioner has never ceased deeply
to lament ever since the passing of the Penny Postage
Act, 2d and 3d Vic., cap. 52, that the clear and explicit
terms contained in that Act as to the use of stamped
paper, &c , has never yet beep communicated in all its
integrity to the publieurnaameiabool useful stamped paper
_fit for cerreepoeilleneerWe erp to this day bear withheld;
although stamped covers and adhesive stamps have been
long since issued:
And whereas the Act declares " that letters written
upon stamped paper, or enclosed in stamped covers, or
having a stamp affixed thereto, should pass by the post
free of postage."
And whereas no stamped paper suited to or properly
fit for correspondence has yet been issued, while
stamped covers and postage labels and half-sheets of
wretchedly bad paper have been issued, so very bad is
it as to be despised and rejected as unfit for the corre-
spondence of the most needy persons:
And whereas the stamping of letter-paper for corre-
spondence was strongly impressed in generaland specific
erase on the notice of the Committee by highly re-
spectable witnesses, and its adoption was consequently
urged at the time by your petitioner in his place in
Parliament, and was only withheld by the Legislature
under the delusive pretext of danger to the revenue, a
pretext which your petitioner alleged at the time, and
which he still believes, was coined for the occasion to
hood *ink the Government, by certain self interested
paper-makers or contractors possessing
at the time a
monopoly, under a patent for producing paper for bank-
notes, and other special purposes, and the like, by rep.
son of introducing threads of silk into their otherwise
useless trash, which was alleged only could secure the
revenue of the Crown if used fur the purposes of penny
postage:
And whereas, in contradiction to thesabove allegation,
many highly iegenious and excellent specimens of whole
and halt-sheets of stamped paper were gratuitously fur•
wished to the Commite e by paper-makers of great repute,
and were exhibited stamped in folio, in post, and note
piper of all sizes and excellent qualiies, well suited ti
every correspondence, and fir being folded easily and at
once, with the stamps conveniently exposed at the back
of each sheet for being cancelled by the die of the post-
masters:
And whereas these stamped sheets appeared so com-
plete and satisfactory as to satisfy the whole members
of the Select Committee that the revenue of the Crown
would be secure, and that facilities and benefits, by the
adoption of the entire plan, as to the issuing of stamped
paper, stamped covers, and adhesive stamps, would be
conferred on the whole body of the people by facilitat-
ing the social and business intercourse of the nation at
home and abroad, and by encouraging in an especial
manner the education of the humbler classes, by hand-
writing, &e., through the desire thus created to acquire
knowledge and communicate by letter with their friends
in the most easy and simple manner, as well as in the
most economical way,
which stamped paper, if of a pro-
per size and of good quality unquestionably would
afford; and, in proof of this having been the view taken
by the Committee, your petitioner begs to remark that
no difference of opinion was expressed, and certainly no
division took place, in the Committee upon this all-im-
portant point, as is shown in their report:
And whereas the issue of half-sheets of paper was for
a long time opposed by the monopolists, no less strongly
than whole sheets were; and the issue of half-sheets of
the useless trash was at last only carried in spite of the
monopolists, and this on a formal motion made by your
petitioner, demanding that Parliament would sanction
the fulfilment of the Pinny Act in all its in-
togritv by the issue of wholes sets of paper along with
the other modes already adopted and then in use:
And whereas your petitioner, in his place in Parlia-
ment, solemnly protested against the silly acquiescence
in the half-sheet measure, and intimated his determina-
tion to reiterate the claim the public had to a fair and
complete trial at any rate, instead of its partial applies.
tion, so evidently agreed to at the suggestion of self-
interested parties in the helf-sheet job:
And whereas in the debate on the motion of your pe-
titioner, he so far convinced the House, Sir Robert Peel,
and his Government, which on that question was repre-
sented by Sir George Clerk, then Secretary to the Trea-
sury, as frankly to offer the assurance that, if the stamped
half-sheets agreed to be issued should not find favour
with the public, and come into general use lee corre-
spondence, that in that cas@ a fair trial should be given
to the use of sheets of stamped paper of all sizes and qua-
lities, and to be brought out, if most advisable, either in
the process of paper-making, or separate stamping. which
were the plans chiefly proposed to the Committee and
recommended to Parliament in the report made to the
House, and which was adopted in the 2d and 3d Vice,
cap. 52:
And whereas it has been found in practice, however
excellent and valuable penny postage has proved, that
the use of envelope stamped covers and adhesive stamps
are positively accompanied with a certain degree of in-
convenience and trouble, which is on all hands admitted
would be avoided or greatly diminished if writing paper
of all kinds could be purchased by the sheet, quire, or
use, and be a boon of the very
ream, coming from the paper mills or Stamp•office,ready
stamped for immediate se,
first order to every class whatsoever of letter writers;
whereas stamped half-sheets are and have long been rot-
ieg in the Stamp-office:
And whereas the withholding of sheets of stamped
paper is highly inconvenient (and unjust if it can
be
avoided) to these professional end
msrcintile men who
require Post-office stamped deeds or letters to be pro-
duced as evidence in courts of law,
actually written on and struck by the Post-office die must
be produc.d as legal proof, for which purpose envelopes
are entirely unsuitable:
And whereas it was made evident before the Com-
mittee oa Postage that the stamping of letter paper in
the process of its manufacture would be the best and most
economical mode, if secure for the revenue, and the safe
providing of which was not even doubted by practical
men; and it will be plain
that should this mode be
added to the others now in use that there will be still
enough to do in sufficiently accomincelatiog all classes,
now that money payments at the Post-office are put
an end to, and stamps of some sort must serve for all
purposes:
And whereas it was a part of frequent conversation,
although not of evidence, Which department should un-
dertake the providing stamps for penny postage; that is
either the Stamp-office or the Excise; while it appeared
quite clear to your petitioner individually that the duty
would be best performed in this instance by the junction
of the services of the two; it was nevertheless also plain
u
that each of them desired to be freed of the additional
labour, and that there was less jealousy of the one
eato ys" in
de-
partment encroaching on the privileges of the other, and
of the
both than they showed
And
seven cities or towns conferred upon him in testimony of
his services in postal reform, and the share he had in
lsof
carrying penny postage, on all of which occasions he
explained or exhibited the simple uses of paper so
stamped and folded, which were presented to his com-
mittee and left on the table of the room ea
e the exhibi-
tors, and which received the unanimous opinion of the
inhabitants when so assembled, that writing of
paper all
sizes ready stamped for being written on would be of the
utmost advantage in addition to the other facilities for
penny postage.
Your petitioner therefore submits the following reca-
pitulation:
Firsly. That your Honourable House will instruct the
Committee about to be appointed to inquire as to postage
stamps, &c., whether the time has not arrived tor the
issue of letter paper, stamped for circulation by post in
the process of manufacture or otherwise, and whether
the same would be more economical and convenient to
the public and the State than any of the present several
processes, as well as in addition to them,
Secondly. Whether in the fifty-.second year of the nine-
teenth century science and art are yet insufficient to
guard the tour great departments of the state—the Ex-
cise-office, the Stamp-office, the Post-office, and the
Treasury against
the machinations of draigning paper-
makers, and the Treasury against their frauds, so as to
admit of the Penny Postage Act being admiuisteeed
fairly in all its details.
Thirdly. That with a view to secure these desirable
objects, your flonoursble House would authorise a pre-
mium to be offered to all and sundry persons, sufficient
in amount to procure complete efficiency for the working
of the Penny Postage Act, so that, se h
otne your peti-
tioner's belief be justly founded; that ignorance or cupi-
dity, or both, have hitherto retarded,
her the lull benefits of
penny postage reaching all cla_ses of Majssty's
sub-
jects, that this misfortune may no longer be permitted to
incommode them, and that the rich may be enabled to
purchase stamped letter paper by the ream, and the
more humble by the quire or sheet, in addition to the
other modes now in use, which has teeeese the more ne-
cessary now that money payments of the postage of let-
ters bas at last been so properly put an end to:
And whereas your petit"
• ner had devoted all hisener-
glee, end a large portnea of his time, to the exposure of
the anomalies and abuses formerly to be found in the
Post-office naanagement, and had actually. aisplied the
first five years of his Parliamentery services chiefly in
these pursuits, and this he did previous to the appear-
ance of Mr. Hill's inestimable plan of penny postage, for
which, however, he hp the aotiefactio of knowivg that

And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
ROBERT WALLACE, Member for Greenock
in four consecutive Parliaments.
No. 2, Den-terrace, Teignmoutb, Devon,
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March 22,*.1852,

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Administration, with their wives and daughters, and a
alightedth e
garden at the
entrance private
in entrance,frontet
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granddanhaud theeegeanraeirnaileccomiepratyny_
eoaitutinhenegroatudwhtaitlel.
Carrara marble of the Corinthian order, with giltcapitals,
was brilliantly illuminated. The carpeting was crimson,
emblaz med with the royal arms. The hall was deco-
rated with a great quantity of flowering plants of every
species, tastefully grouped to fill up the recesses and
angles. A party of the Royal Body Guards, carrying
their partizans, occupied the hall and grand staircase,
under the command of Captain Kincaid, the Exon in
Waiting; Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, the Adjutant,
and Captain Phibbs, Exon of the corps; were also present.
Adjoining the Grand Hall is the Sculpture Gallery,
which was adapted on this occasion for the accommoda-
tion of visitors. The Gpillery contains, among otter
works, busts in bronzy of Socrates, Archimedes, Aris-
tides, Diogenes, Seneca, Brutus, Homer, Solon, Epicu-
rus, Zeno, and Euripides. At each end of the Gallery
are statues in white marble, of Boys, emblematical of
the Four Seasons.
The Garter-room, which forms the ante-room to the
series fitted up as a refresh-
nen t
wholeo roomvState apartments,
This room contains a
portrait of the Duke of Brunswick, by
Sir Thomas Lawrence, and three Princesses (A the Royal
fine lengthduringteelung.
Family, by Gainsborough.
The approaches to the State rooms were hung witty
whole length portraits of the late Duke of Sussex, as
Earl of Inverness, by Wilkie; the King of the Belgians,
by Dewe; the Princess Charlotte, the Duke and Duchess
of Kent, George the Third and Queen Charlotte,Willitim
the Fourth and Given Adelaide, and a portrait of Prince
George of Cumberland (now King of Hanover), by Law-
rence.
The State rooms presented their usual magnificent
appearance, and were, like the grand hall and staircase,
profusely and with great taste decorated with rare
plants and beautiful flowers. The yellow drawing-room
was set apart for the reception of the Royal Family,
the general company assembling in the picture gallery.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary arrived at half-past nine o'clock,
attended by Lady Suffield and Major Baron Knesebeck.
Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Hon.
Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maids of
Honour in Waiting; Hon. W. S. Knox, Groom in Wait-
ing; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, Groom in
Waiting to Prince Albert; Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Equerry in Waiting; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in
Waiting to Prince Albert.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was at-
tended by his Equerry in Waiting.
Prince Veerajunder arrived attended by Major Drum-
mond. His Highness wore an Oriental costume of great
magnificence, enriched with gold bullion and embroi-
dery, the body of the dress being wholly formed of a gold
fabric.

The Queen and Prince Albert entered the State-rooms
at a quarter before ten o'clock, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge.
Her Majesty wore a dress of Indian muslin, embroi-
dered in silver from Dacca, over a petticoat of watered
apple-green silk, ornamented with green and silver rib-
bons and silver blonde.

Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of diamonds and
feathers.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore
a white silk dress, trmmed with point lace, the
stomacher adorned with diamonds. Her Royal High-
ness's head-dress was composed of a tiara of diamonds
and white feathers. The necklace was of diamonds.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary wore a double
skirt of white tulle, over white glace silk, trimmed with
bugles, and blue convolvoluses with silver leaves. Her
Royal Highness wore round her head a wreath of blue
couvolvoluses with silver leaves and stems, and diamond
ornaments. The necklace was of pearls.
Her Majesty was attended by the Mistress of the
Robes, the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting;
Hon. Matilda Paget, and Hon. Mary Seymour, Maids
of Honour in Waiting; the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord
Steward, the Vice• Chamberlain; and Lord Pulwarth,
Lord in Waiting. ,

The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted by the
Lord Chamberlain through the grand saloon into the
ball-room, followerl•by the Royal Circle, and the Ladies
and Gentleman in Waiting. The general company also
followed from the picture gallery and the saloon into the
ballroom. A quadrille was formed, the " Piince Ru-
pert" (Juliano), and her Majesty opened the ball with
his Royal Highness the MAP of Cambridge, the oppo-
site couple being his Royal Highness Prince Albert and
her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.
Mr. Boose's quadrille band attended in this room and
played the following dances during the night:—
QUADRILLES.
Los Fieurs de Lilao La Motte.

Morn' von Namur .. ... Kuhncr.
Le Royal Tambour .. ... Musard.
Jlilitaire ... ... .. ... Strauss.

WALTZES.

Fleur de Lis ... ... Boose.
Blue Bell ... ... ... ... ... Juliano.
Fortuna ... ... ... ... ... Gol mick.
Fairy Palace ... • • ... ... Boose.
Montrose ... ... ... ... Tinney.
POLKAS.
L'Eachantresse ... ... ... Juliano.

Veilehen ... ... G. •• • ... Gungl.
Mon Bijou ~. ... ...
... Julian'.
The Ostrich ... ... ... ... Gughelno.
Konigsberg ••• ... ... ... Anonymous.
GALOPS.

The Martha
The Carnival

••• ... ... •PO Flotow.
... ... ... ... Boose.

The Throne, room was appropriated to dancing, in
addition to the ball-room, and in it was erected a haut
pas for her M)jesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, on which seats of crimson and gold were placed.
Draperies of crimson velvet and of white embroidered
silk enclosed the haut pas and were surmounted by a
deep gilt cornice. Beautiful plants were arranged be-
hind the seats appropriated to her Majesty and the
Prince.
Soon after the ball was opened in the ball-room,
dancing commenced in this apartment. the first dance
being " The Combermere Quadrille." Mr. Adams's
band was stationed in the Throne-room, and performed
the following dance music:—
QUADRILLES.
Combermere T. Adams.
Favorite „. D'Albert.
Exhibition ... Jullien.
Como D'Albert.

WALTZES.
Buckingham Palace ... T. Adams.
Donna Sabina ... Henrion.
Mandoline ... Buller.
POLKAS.
Albert ... ... T. Adams.
Court Beauty •
Wellington Guernsey.
GALOPS.
Champagne Lumbye.
London ... T. Brown.
Amazon ••• Lumbye.
At the usual hour her Majesty and his l High-
ness Prince Albert were conducted to suppe Roye state
dining-room, by the Lord Steward, accompanied by the
Royal Circle. The table on which this repast was served
displayed some of the most choice specimens of gold
plate from the royal treasury, and the whole apartment
presented its usual appearance of gorgeous magnificence.
A Guard of Honour of
was the Coldstream Guardp, with
night
the band of the regiment, on duty during the
on the lawn in front of the Grand Portico. The guard
was commanded by Colonel Hay.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prin-
cess Alice, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon.
Mary Seymour, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, visited the Botanical-gardens in the
Regent's. park yesterday.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours visited her Majesty yesterday, at Bucking-
ham Palace.
Kent went to
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Frogmore yesterday
morning. Her Royal Highness re-
turned to Clare,nca Houee, St. James's, in the afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Baroness de Speth, visited
her Royal Flightless the Duchess of Gloucester last even-
ing, at Gloucester-house.
A deputstionupon the subject of Australian wool had
an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street. The deputation
consisted of Sir Charles Wood, the Hon. E. Lascelles,
Sir SV. Molesworth, Mr. W. Beckett, Mr. Stanafield
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