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which made it necessary to have the list made out before
the quotas were completed.
Mr. ROEBUCK asked what was meant by "
Mr. WALBOLE repeated that persons of certain ages
and height would be liable, unless exempt under the 42d
of George 111.

Mr. BRIGLIT thought that unless the ballot were had
recourse td it would not be nscsssary to proceed to an
apportionment of districts. Ho urged the withdrawal of
the clause.

Mr. WALPOLE maintained the necessity of fixing
the quotas, to provide against the contingency to which
he had referred.
Mr. BRIGHT asked whether any deficiency in one
dpisbtyriaont owthhetorh?
had disrattri.ctwwAouLldpohave a
t soabi de, made
that au
fur-
nished its quota would be exempt.
Lord SEYMOUR and Mr. V. SMITH suggested the post-
ponement of the clause.
Mr. WALPOLE, in reply to a remark from Mr. Roe-
buck, saisthe proposed to insect in the 10th clause a pro-
viso to the eff.,-ct that the volunteers should he men resi-
dent in this particular county in which the quota of which
they formed part' was raised.
Mr. C. VILLIERS did not understand why they could
not di4pose of the Volunteer system in the Bill without
referenceto quotas. •
Mr. WALPOLE—If it were not intended to resort
to toe ballotenteeduitte there would be no necessity for
quotas.—(flear; hear.) In reply to Sir G. Grey, the
Right -Honourable Gentleman added, that the provi-
si3ns of the Bth clause would be necessary only in the
event of having recourse to the ballot; and that by the
101 clause they would raise a certain amount of
volunteers in each .county, and probably only
the ptoportiouate number which each county ought to
furnish; but be 04 &epared a proviso to that clause to
the effect that 'When' a county had furnished its proper
nutnben of volunteers, it should also be allowed to fur-
nish a supplemental number, with the view of raising the
whole number of men required in the aggregate.
Sir C. WOOD declared himself to be still at a loss to
understand the meaning of the Government.
Mr. WALPOLE—If the Right Hon. Gentleman
would take the Bill in his hand and examine it he would
see that there were three divisions, and that down to the
end of the 9th clause it provided that a certain number
of men were to be raised as a militia force; it would fol-
low, therefore, as a matter of course that these men
Would be raised in the ordinary way that the militia had
hitherto been raised under the 42d George 111., viz., by
having recourse to the ballot. For that purpose it was
aecassary to fix the proper quota which each county
was to furnish, giving the Queen in Council the power
to alter those quotas as might be deemed necessary.
From the 10th to the end of the 15th clause it was
provided that in the operation *of raising the force,
the necessity for the ballot might be superseded by
allowing men to volunteer. And from the 15th clause
the Bill enabled the Crown to have recourse to the bal-
lot,, after giving credit to the different counties, subdi-
vision§ of counties, and parishes, for the number of men
they had furnished by voluntary enlistment. The pass-
ing of this clause would, therefore be simply to say,
that if recourse were had to the ballot under the 42d
of George 111., the. Crown should have the power of
fixing the quotas.
Sir C. WOOD then asked if it were intended that, in
the first instance, a certain number of men should bo the
quota, of militiamen for each county in England, to
be raised in that county, either by voluntary enlistment
or by ballot ?
Mr. WALPOLE—The intention of the Bill was to
raise volunteers in certain quotas from each of the
counties in England, and to have recourse to the ballot
where they were insufficient to fill up the quotas.
In answer to an observation from Mr. ROEBUCK,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the object of the
Bill Was, first of all to raise a gross number of militia-
men; but that gross number was to be distributed over
the country in certain proportions to each. Those pro-
portions must be ascertained; and the eigh section
provided, therefore, that the quotas shthoulbe
fixed by her Majesty in Council. But the quotas being
fixed, voluntary enlistment was what they proposed to
look to in the first iustaece to supply the required force;
consequently, it was necessary that the quotas should
be established as a preliminary measure to ascertain the
number of militiamen who were to serve for each county.
If they could get the exact number by voluntary enlist-
ment everything would have been done that was neces-
sary; but if they did not get the exact number, then the
ballot would come in aid to supply the deficieney—but
only in that event.—(Hear, hear.) Thus it would be
seen that it was absolutely necessary to begin by fixing
the quota. •It was the very foundation of all their ope-
ratiees, and without it they could not proceed one step,
either in the way of voluntary enlistment or the ballot.
Mr: ROEBUCK—Did he understand the Right Hon.
Gentleman . to mean that in case the Middlesex quota,
for instance, was fixed at 5,000 men, that county would
not be allowed to raise more than that number; so that,
if it proposed to raise 8,000, 3,000 of them would be re-
jected?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—With 'ell due sub-
mission to my Hon. and Learned Friend, we should not
reject one.—(Laughter and cheers.)
Mr. M. GIBSON believed the making out of the lists
and the appeals formed one of the worst features of the
militia system, giving rise to a litigation which would
be needless, except under a compulsory system. The
Bth clause, as it stood, ought not to pass, because it in-
volved questions of fitness, &c., which would be useless
unless tne ballot were resorted to, and therefore, until
it were decided that there should be a ballot, the clause
ought to be postponed. He therefore moved that the
clause be postponed.
Sir G. GREY said he understood the 80,000 were to
be raised by voluntary enlistment. But, so far as that
went, the " fitness and liability" of the Men mattered
not in this clause, and these words could be omitted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
intention of the Government was that the quota should
be the basis of the increase, endeavouring *to supply it
first by the voluntary enlistment, and then falling back
on the ballot. By the clause the number would only be
fixed, not the particular men.
Sir C. WOOD understood the clauses as they had been
explained, but he conceived it desirable that the words
"fit and liable" should be omitted.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL agreed in thiS opinion,
and to strike out the words. The clause ran thus:—" It
shall be lawful for her Majesty from time to time to take
into consideration the number of men fit and liable to
serve in the militia who are resident in the said
several counties and places, and to ascertain and fix the
number of militiamen who shall, until other quotas
shall be fixed, in like manner serve for each such
county and place, so as to apportion as near as may be
the whole number of militiamen by the Act directed to be
raised among all the said counties and places, accord-
ing to the number of men fit and liable to serve therein
respectively, and the numbers so fixed shall be the
quotas of the several counties and places until other
quotas are appointed in like manner."
Mr. GIBSON maintained that the clause should still
be postponed.
Mr. ROEBUCK argued that the ballot being aban-
doned the clause would not be required.—(Divide.)
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said the Government
could not be certain that the voluntary enlistment would
succeed to the extent desired, and so the compulsory
clauses were requisite, that they might fall upon the
ballot.
Mr. T. EGERTON thought there was no objection
to the clause as it stood.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. MOWATT suggested that while
in one county there was a deficiency, in the next there
might be an overplus of men volunteering, and it would
be a hardship to put the ballot in force to make up the
deficiency in the former.
Mr. WALPOLE said that was provided for by the
discretion reposed in the Crown, and might be further
provided for by a proviso (in the 10th clause) that the
deficiency in such a case should not be made up by the
ballot.
Mr. BRIGHT considered the clause would be as ob-
jectionable as before, even after the Attorney-General's
amendment, and pressed its postponement. It would put
people to trouble which would be useless, if the ballot
were negatived.
The, AT rORNEY-GENERAL was willing to divide
on the cluse with words " fit end liable" retained in it,
as the omission did not satiafy the Honourable Gentle-
man.—(Divide.)
MOWATT suggested a schedule, with a list of
Mr,exceptions and exemptions in the existing militia laws,
which would much diminish the objections to this clause
and to the Bill in general.—(Divide, divide.)
Colonel THOMPSON said it was not necessary to
define the number of men " fit and liable" to serve.
Mr. RICARDO asked the Right lion. Gentleman
whether imbet war
of s th
the 80,000 in any ones intention of theill to raise the
whole nu
ounty?
Mr. WALPOLE was understood to say that the
wording of the clause did not warrant such an interpre-
staittiiooon.of It
ewHasoniMemberpossibbeler he could a(smsern.tmtoowtleteto red--
propo-
The Committee then divided, when there apps
For the amendment 216
.---117
Againstm iet
Majority
a.g..ainst the
clause, M r. pasfuthGeHy T
wouldsu g goensltye d
be theget t
tpostponement s
001
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bad no objection to
clause as amended
After a lengthened conversation the
fiitth.and liable," so as to allow jthe clause
omitt
o e the
proceeded words 'w‘
was agreed to.
On clause 9 being read,
progress
Mr.
given to sit
BDEN moved that the Chairman do report
ail,aiTbneomn daoFtiroinwya.s agreed to, and
d)
C Bill passed through
leave
Set Bill passed through
The Belfast Custom-house, ~
(Ireland)
oTmhma iTtteaer. °Pike, Roads
Committee.
Birthsr, Deaths, and Mar-
and the Registration
Bill,
The Apprehension of Deserters fom ps
Foren Shi
riages Bill were considered as amended, and the amend-
ments agreed to.
ComommmonistteEen.closure Acts Nstension Bill passed
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
thrTohueghC
Bill to make provision fur
a leaven twashe
erior courts of common law.
ties at nisi pries, in the sup
galivoetnioltio borfintghe'
a permanent establishmentia oaf officers to perform the dur
to abolish certain offices in
and at the judges' chambers; and for the payment of
those courts.
such officers by salaries, and
Bill was brought in and read a first time.
The
The Rouse then adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

TILE DEATH FLAG; or, The Irish Buccaneers.
By Miss Crumpe. 3 Vols. Shoberl.
Miss Crumpe does hot appear for the first time
among the female writers who have enriched our lite-
rature during the last half century. We may regret
that the works of one whose advent is, in plural
senses, " like angels visits," are not more frequent;
notwithstanding that deliberation, in Miss Crumpe's
case, has been for the advantage of those who may
avail themselves of the extensive researches in foreign
archives, by which sbe has been enabled to enrich her
romantic narrative of the litter adventures of Prince
Charles Stuart. " The Death Flag" takes up the
history of the ill-fated prince at the point where
former narrators leave him, and makes us acquainted
with facts, in connexion with the wild heroes who
inhabited the southern coasts of Ireland in the middle
of the last century, with which we were totally un-
acquainted. Added to the painfully interesting events
in the life of " the Pretender; after his defeat at
Culloden, the author's pictures of rock and rural
scenery, of ocean life and dangers, and of Irish pro-
vincial character, are among the most exciting or
amusing traits of her vivid genius. None but one
most intimate with the peculiarities of the Hiberno-
Milesian inhabitants of the far south could give such
graphic delineations, as in her portraitures of the
" O'Sullivan Beare," and his retainer " Dan Con-
nell," and none but an acute and refined genius have
drawn the pathetic scenes of domestic vicissitude
which sustain the anxiety, whilst inducing the sym-
pathy, of the reader for the amiable and lovely heroine
of her story, the youthful " Edith." In short,
" The Death Flag" is a felicitous addition to our his-
toric novel library. The dramatic structure is per-
fect, as the public will soon have an opportunity of
judging; for we believe " The Death Flag' is about
to be dramatised and performed on the stage. The
scenery and incidents change with a rapidity that
prevents weariness, and with a harmony that pre-
serves in the mind the unity of the subject. The
local descriptions are chastely beautiful and true.
Grand in their simplicity, the charms of rocks, hills,
and ocean, of calm and tempest, as described by the
accomplished author, are in the strictest accuracy of
delineation ; and her personal characters are suffi-
ciently varied, without the least of that exaggeration
or caricature which spoils half the dramatis persona
of the historico-romantic school, and works oft
e
according to the opinions of some, the
t
Magician of the North are not always exemp.

7HE FORCE OF CllieC
tUheusltfiziii,
(.2andy,
carry us
litYl•
t
In every phase oflidiesww.eeetpra c
p as ,
stances; they come an
along with them, w° find ourselves insensibly altered
The young girl who
and changed by their ifhieneie.ttlre is not the saale that
planned and loved an ideal
counting its moments with
pe
sits brooding over the past,
as much veneration as the monk, his beads! No; she,
too, is altered by the tide ot human affairs: What
mother, or what wife, looking back over- the past, has
found her future
carved out? Sume there are who,
having centred their hearts requirement on love, have
tound it answered more a thousandfold than they could
have hoped or
expected. But how often in our transit
through the world—in our experience—have we not
heard sketched the sunny picture which a woman has
drawn of her youth, and the bitter contrast presented
by actual events. Young, eager, and enthusiastic; full
ot the wild spirit of jay which the consciousness of
young life imparts, before we have lived through the
trying experience of others, before we have tasted either
of deep grief or immeasurable joy, she gives her heart,
and she thinks she has done all! And what sacrifice
more can she make? What has a woman to give more
precious to man than the love of a young, confiding,
and unsuspecting heart? Full of life—impressed with
a consciousness of her own purity and devotion—she
pours forth all the treasures of her thought at roan's
feet; she lets him into all the little weaknesses of her
nature; she unfolds her unmeasurable love; she plans a
happy future; she fancies she hears the joyous tones of
infant voices, in the distant horizon ot her life, sweep
past like the tone of a distant bell; she places her little
joys in them—the happiness they must afford her. In
tancy she rears them to brilliant positions; she makes
them all like herselt—good and pure; she gives them
her thought, she inspires them with her own elevated
sentiments, and the husband of her choice with und)irl
love and tenderness! How often—we will hope that it
is not always thus—how often, we say, are these dreams
disappointed! She watches the dying out of love, of
kindness; she has her children; as long as they are
young, her pictures still continue true; they
are her
happiness and her joy • she loves them all, watches over
them tenderly, and cherishes each early indication il-
lusions; of
goodness and talent. Time, however, dissipates her
circumstances turn out dgerently from
what
she anticipated; the children of reality are
, others
not
ideal
children; they are human being
the Fs—some
bad—the fates are determined by
stances, which works out quietly a future for
orcego°'deircum-
each, but
°which, however brilliant it may be, is not what
planned!—Eliza Cook's Journal.

His
ROYAL POLITECTINIC Iligb-
ness the Rajah of Koorg, attended by. Colonel DTUTIIMOIICI
and a large suite of gentlemen and ladies, visited this insti-
tution yesterday, to see the oxy-hydrogen microscope, and
the experiments under water by the diver of the esta
up sunken blish
ment, who exhibited the process of blowing ves-
sels- The diving bell (that old favourite of the public)
also made several sub-112461;e trips, 111;161 to the ainu.iemeht
of his lliZoness.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—This company
have just introduced a new system for the conveniPnce of
travel in private compartments of the
families and parties of pie ,Rure, whereby, at a fixed fare to
to the various watering or other places
andcom pfaro°,7!6liceayrriniaagyes,
on the line.
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LITERATURE. LUMLEY v. WAGNILIt.
I AURELIA; or, a Beauty's Life in Italy. 3 Vas. The decision of the Vice-Obanceilor in the case of
Colburn.
" Lumley v. Wagner" will have more interest for a car-
t
There is the charm of novelty in these volumes to
gain class of . our
„readers than many more important
tempt those who are tired of perusing details of discussioes wi'h t: hiee. our columns aro daily filled. The
prominenthi sitnati si.s whiuh operatic performers 'fill in
home life, and who weary of being repeatedly in-katdnof importance to
formed how the gorgeous banquet is succeeded by their .. uLabbles an'cl‘v(2laitThere
Londonare, ewe rht a i elk,
la
the brilliant ball, and in what manner the votaries of good many- neon in thegvv'est *end ofwould
fashion carry on their pursuits in our native isle. o sadly puzzledj to write down a correct list who
The heroine is English, however; and although, on junior Lords of the-Admiralty or Treasury. There are
the whole, not a very favourable specimen of our race, few, comparatively speaking, who are not familiar with
she yet continues to infuse soma portion of the in- the names even of the second• rate singers at the rival
trinsic decorum and propriety of Albion into the Opera-houses. So great was the interest displayed by
reckless society and unsteady morals of the foreign the public in the coarse of the present dispute that du-
coteries into which she is plunged. She drew her ring the three days the trial proceeded the court was
fate on herself, it is true, but nevertheless none can crammed with spectators, and when the Vice-Chancellor
delivered his judgment yesterday it was impossible to
refuse sympathy to the misfortunes and injuries of
get even "squeezing" room. Independently of the in-
one so gifted and sensitive, and so misrepresented.
fler genuine affections wcre mistaken for a passing terest which naturally attaches to an operatic squabble,
sonar) little indignation had been excited by an expres-
paesion—her enthusiastic admiration of the beautiful sion which was found in one of Mr. Wagner's letters.
tor the Affectation of display, and the pride which This worthy, as it would appear, only considers the
prompted her to conceal her miseri,:s was supposed to Enelf,,h Ia teetieht ef geese who lay golden eggs for the
be the triumph of her successes. One thought sug- benefit of ikVsgners and such like folk. Before he has
gents itself—that the author, who is said to be three done with' us Mr:. Wagner may discover that he leas
parts foreign, has not pourtrayed to the reader a very scarcely formed' a just idea of English powers of apprc-
flavourable account of foreign men and manners. cation. For some persons we have money and admire-
vbile we turn with disgust from the paltry and tion; for others money and contempt
mediocre mind orlrivulgio, and feel indignant at the The whole story may be condensed into a few pars-
base and despicable Martinergo,we ask in astonishment, graphs it it be regarded as a mere narrative of facts, and
can this he the true delineation of the char ct - of not as a theme for the ingenuity of counsel, The &-
modern Italy ? All that is classic and artisticarr ' vision lasi gone, as a matter of course, in Mr. Lumley's
shown to surround their way ; the sublime remnants
oi is favour. Teat it could not do otherwise will at once ap-
the magnificent of old still linger pear from the following brief recapitulation of the facts:
of theirf shrines of —ln the autumn of lest y. ear Dr. Bather, a friend of the
worship, and adorn their temples
beautiful is worshipped on every altar wiatmhoeu. t, Thebt faalmadil'ye, Wagneras occ?pieLdonidnonprhoncudripegaries:.ngarements fur
within the mind is left unruled by discipline and theu
cameuintoYctactinwith Mr. Lumley, and received from
heart untouched by charity. If the " garb of old that gentleman a formal paper containing his usual sti-
Gaul" has been superseded by modern innovations, Pulations upon engaging the services of a performer.
surely the " fire of old Rome" ought to be still found This paper contained a prohibitory clause which forbade
burning. Apart from these national reflections, great the appearance of Madlle Wagner at any private con-
information may be derived from the various descrip- certs, &c., while her engagement with Mr. Lumley
tions of entertainments that take place ; also consi- should subsist. When the document was shown to the
derable eloquence characterises the pictures given of Wagners, they objected to this clause, and drew up
another paper similar—we believe—to it in other re-
scenery and cities in that fair country. Venice, the
this , save that this prohibitory
their signatures, and it
to clause was omitted. To
queen of.the waters, is shadowed forth with her pa- paper the Wagners affixed
laces of yore still crowning with sublimity their pre- was conveyed by Becher Mr. Lumley. In such a
sent ruins. Naples is entered in the majestic stillness shape the manager would have nothing to do with it,
of the twilight hour, and the effect thus produced and insisted upon the restoration of the veto. To this
on the beholders is ably depicted. Altogether no one Becher assented—added the clause—and signed it as
can fail to be interested in the work as a whole ; fur agent to the Wagners. So far as it turns upon this
if not reflecting life's most happy hours, it represents mindtpthe question throughout is a simple one of agency.
its most glorious scenes in _its most gorgeous hues. ne
Wagners, by any subsequent conduct
rr. Becher the the right to sign as agent for the Wag-
While the adventures of the beauty in the gay scenes orrsa;ctoof their owilig an agreement. which might
of life in which she moved adorn the tale, it is to be not in the first instLaceore binding upon them
hoped that her premature and awful death may point for defect of auihority ? alte biellen quite unnecessary
because is appears that the
a moral Wall inexperienced and infasuated, rushing to dwell upon the first point,
acknowledge the act of their
heedlessly into temptation. These descriptions con- Wagners did subsequently
tain great beauty of style and force of language : agent, and make it their own, in a very
u come
thatplete
" What pen, what pencil might hope to render even a manner. In the first place, Dr. Bacher tells
faint idea of that scene of enchantment! The sun was when he had added the clause he forwarded the paper
sinking in a sea of crimson and gold behind the pro- to Madlle. Wagner, and it was by her acknowledged
montory, gilding Vesuvius with his last rays, and irracliat. in a letter bearing date one day of November t.
ing the undulating hills and cliffs of Castellamao Sorrecto Then we find all parties engaged in a correspeudence
and 'Massa with alternate tints of the softest lilac and on the subject—Mr. Lumley—M. Albert Wagner, the
rose. In the far background the distant mountains of father—Madlle. Joanna —Mr. Lumley Dr. Becher,
Salerno and Amalfi towered one above the other like and all of them assuming that there was a contract
Golopeau steps, casting their denticulated crests on the subsisting between the manager and the singer.
horizon in every shade, from the richest violet to the " Now," as the Vice-Chancellor shrewdly enough re-
deepest purple. At their feet lay the limpid Mediter- marked, " there had been no contract signed without
ranean, a sheet of sapphire spangled with tiny sails, this clause, therefore this is. the contract concerning
like specks of snow resting upon its waters; bounded which the parties were in correspondence. What the
at one extremity by the circling shores of Portici Re- Wagners say is, that when the paper was sent back to
sins and lone del Grew, whose gardens and groves of them they objected to the clause, and only received the
orange and lime bathe in the very water's brink, and at document upon Dr. Bacher's assurance that when they
the other closed in by the little island of Capri, glorying arrived in London the little matter should be set right.
in the rich mellow hue which flooded the whole land- Now, we cannot forget that they must have been per-
scape, melting every outline and every traced line into fectly aware that they would not be permitted to pass
one soft harmonious whole. slipshod over this clause of the contract. Mr. Lumley
" Rosa exclaimed in rapture that to die without see . insisted upon it with so much earnestness that he refused
ing Naples was not to have lived; and Amelia remarked to affix his signature to the agreement until the clause
that Naples was the only place she knew in the world which he had originally introduced, bat which had been
where the mere sensation of existence was enjoyment. struck out by the Wagners, had been replaced. Was it
" There is a tone of profound and touching melan- probable he would suffer himself to be duped out of so
choly which pervades much of the Italian church music, capital a proviso by Dr. Bacher's little diplomacy,
that renders it unlike all other. Alone it is gifted with when he had in the first instance refused to
the power of awakening every human sympathy, anti complete the contract without it? Is it possible
touching every human affection; yet, in grandeur acid that M. and Madlle. Wagner could even for
solemnity, it cedes the palm to none. No one denies a moment have entertained so preposterous an
that Handel and Mendelssohn are sublime. Yet Pales- idea? Such, however, is the only reason assigned
trine and Marcellino are:sublimer still, but while the by the Wagners against the validity of the contract--
German strikes you with awe, or chills you with fear, namely, a vague hope on their own part that, when they
the Italian overwhelms you with all the contending arrived in London, Mr. Lumley would be induced to give
emotions of love, pity, and remorse. A single hymn up the advantages for which he had negotiated with so
of Palestrina, a single chord of Baia or Baini, nay, the much earnestness.
simplest litany, the evening prayer of the nuns and pea- As many of our readers as have patience to wade
sentry in a convent church of Italy, thrills through one's through the evidence will find that another point was
veins and fills one's eyes with tears. Who that listens raised in favour of the Wagners. It was on their side
to the glorious ' Missa Papm Marcelli,' or the divine alleged that money was not paid by Mr. Lumley on a
chant of the unrivalled ' Miserere' of the Sistine, that particular day when it should have been paid; It is re-
is not irresistibly forced to compare them to the lamen- plied, in the first place, that Dr. Ba,cher had money .of
tations of the Seraphim, as he feels their accents and Mr. Lumley's in his hands, and that, even had it been
superhuman beauty, and anguish quiver through his otherwise, all deficiencies in this respect wore excused by
every fibre, till they seem to rend his very heart-strings. the conduct of the Wagners on and after the sth of
He must be dull and unimaginative, indeed, who can March, and by a subsequent tender of the money on the
leave an Italian church unmoved and unimpressed." 15th of April. It was on the sth of March that the
Wagners, who bad so bound themselves to Mr. Lumley,
were found at Hamburgh quietly entering into a
fresh contract with Mr. Grye, from which they hoped
to derive larger pecuniary advantages. More than
this, on the 10th of March, Dr. Becher wrote to
Madlle.Wegner, asking where be should pay the money
he had ready for her, and received from her father the
following reply:—" If you send the bill to Berlin, be
good enough to address it either at this time to Ber-
lin, or from (des) the 2d of April to Hamburgh, to
Engil and to Ferdinand .Hirst, where we shall remain
some time longer with our daughter." However this
may be, it is quite clear that on Mr. Lumley's part
there was no disinclination or inability to pay the money
when needed. The paltry subterfuge wag furbished
up at the last moment to serve the turn of those who
would not keep
.and could scarcely evade the terms of
an agreement into which they had entered of their
own free will. The simple truth of this long trial is
that Madlle. Joanna Wagner and her excellent parent
thought that the second bargain was better than the
first, and therefore endeavoured to repudiate their
own act. It is a shabby business, and the sooner, for
Madlle. Wagner's sake, it is forgotten, the better. At
the same time, it is clear enough that the fault lies,
not with the young girl, but with the sordid circle
around her, who were endeavouring to huckster her
talents about the most profitable market without regard
any consideration but those of .£ s. d.—Times.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen gave a concert last evening at Bucking.
ham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
the Palace at half-past nine o'clock, attended by Lady
Coupes.
Fanny Howard and Colonel Sir George
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Camwbarsidagte.
Cambridge
'eer
and the Princess Mary were attended by Lady Suffield
d'Aquila
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and
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theliPisalßacoey at twenty minutesbeFfoa:iltyenwo
tended by CountLalorndig=asmtPtloaulet.
, attended
by Chevelier Folgori.
The Enembera of the Royal
the Maids of Honour, and by theG -
in waiting, and were conducted t rooms and Equerries
ieg-room, where her Majesty received her illustrious
The general company be
o'clock, and were ushered up to arrive soon after nine
through the Green 11-p the grand staircase, and
Shortly before 10 o'cl Drawing-rooml to the Picture Gallery.
Highness Prince oc : her Majesty and his Royal
Albert
Chamberlain f were
conducted
by the Lord
l'em the Yellow
Saloon, which was finned Drawing-room to the
of seats of crinison up for the Concert, with rover
Royal Highness wer and gold. Her Majesty and hie
nesses the eaccornpuniol by their Royal High"
bridge, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cam-
Duke of Princess
canibr, Mary, the Count d'Aquila, and the
The Lige.
a'sembled visitors circle into
the saloon. Her ra followed the royal . .
Majest and her Royal and distin-
guished guests being ay dthe Concert commenced at
five minutes before 10 o'clock.
Aefreshments were served to the company in the
Green Drawin room during the evening, and after the
concert a .sapper was served in the State Dining-room.
The Queen held a Court at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
d'Aquila had an audience of her Majesty to take leave.
Their Royal Highnesses were introcuced by the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Queen's principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by her Majesty's
Master et the Ceremonies.
The Queen was attended by the Countess of Charle-
mont, Ludy in Waiting, the Hon. Matilda Paget, Maid
of Honour in Waiting, Lord Polwarth, Lord in Wallin.
and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting. The
Count and Countess were attended by the Princess de
Villa and the Chevalier Folgori.
The Earl of Malmesbury had an audience of her Ma-
jesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the younger members of the oyal
Family, took their usual exercise yesterday in the gar'
dens of Buckingham Palace.
The Archbishop of York had an interview- with the
Earl of Derby yesterday at his official residence h
in
Dawning-street. Admiral Gordon and Mr. Beggs
also interviews wieh the Noble Earinl.
• w with Mr.
Viscount Barrington had an tervie
Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. _ _
A deputation headed by Mr. Wilson F.'atteet
with '-,
and Mr. Heywood, M.P., had an interview ke
Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester,
on Sa-
turday, at the Board of Trade.
Mr. Chandler, from Canada, had an interview with
Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview yesterday with the Earl of
Derby.
Mr. Joseph Heron (Town Clerk of Manchester) had
an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday et
the Home-office.
The American Minister had an interview with '
SO
John Pakington at the Colonial-office
yesterday.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial -office
yes-
terday from the Governors of
the North American Pro-
vinces.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor
has appointed Mr. John Stuart,] un., of Lincoln's Inn, bar'
rister-at-law (son of Mr. John Stuart, Q.C., Member for
Newark), to be his Secretary-in-Chief, in the place of Mr.
Silmmons: Colonel llaberly has appointed Mr. Alan E.
Chambre to be his private secretary at the Post-office, in
place of Mr. John Hall, resigned.
The Royal Agricultural Society
of England U. tdl
hold their county meeting, for 1853, at Gloucester.