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London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

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SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)
The fourteenth half•yearly ordinary meeting of the
proprietors of this company was held this day. a
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the
Great Western Railway Station, Paddington, C. . .
Talbot, Esq , M.P., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of h
te rert,
regretted that the Chepstow-bridge was not finiposhcom-
ed,
and consequently there was not yet a continuous
munication between Swansea and London, but he hoped
it would shortly.
The report was carried, as also the proposed dividend
of 11 per cent.
In answer to Mr. Pram
The CHAramsx stated that the 10,000/. in the account
for the conve
16yance of the mails had not yet been paid.
There were ;0001. of debentures falling dae this half-
year.
The retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of
thanks to the Chairman terminated the meeting.

STIRRING THE FIRE.
The simple act of stirring the fire has ever apre wed
to us to be one of those operations in domestic life
which everybod h a peculiar and individual conceit
about. It is curious.. to observe how testy and obstinate
people become if interfered with in the process, how
they will cavil and dispute as to whether it is best to
rake out the lower bar," or " break up the coils at
top;" whether it shall be effected by a pell-mell, " up
guards and at 'em" sort of attack, or by steady and
skilful
manoeuvring. . . . We have often thought
the sea-coal pile very like the caloric of political govern-
ment, originally intended to promote healthy warmth,
but which, under bad management, often presents very
little heat, and a great deal of smoke, the carbo-
niferous grossness of which at last chokes up the
chimney of the people, until the chimney becomes on fire,
sad a revolutionary reform notion, in some shape or
other, gives it a temporary " clear out ;" and most cer-
tain it is that every Houourable Member thinks he can
stir the political fire better than any other Honourable
Member. One believes that the vital heat can only be
preserved by a worrying stir, given by that hard cast-
iron poker, " The Better Observance of the Sabbath ;"
another imagines that it entirely depends upon a bold
raking with a " Catholic Question ;" a third has an im-
plicit faith in breaking up the close sulky coals at top,
and letting in the draught of " Fate ree Trade";"
Education fourth
begins at the bottom of the gr with an
Bill;" a fifth declares that the vitality rests solely on
certain one-sided thrusts with the crooked lever forged
by " Protectionists;" while the majority, like our-
selves are anxious to make as much flare as
possible, merely to gratify their own petty conceits.
We beg pardon, ladies must not mention politics, though
it may be a question whether there is not as much non-
sense talked by old women: in the House, as by old
women out of the House—taking bad grammar and dis-
located sentences into the bargain. But
.see, there
the old state of things—the fire going ont while
we have been scribbling this. It is very cold,
and two friends present themselves; the lady
about to seize the poker to resuscitate the
dying fuel, but the gentleman advances rapidly.
"My dear," says he, " allow me, you know yea never
can poke a fire properly; I'll do it." We are afraid we
are laughing behind our teeth—where many genteel
people swear—but
it only tends to convince us, that
every born being, where there is a fire to stir, thinks he
or she can do it best, and if our readers will take the
trouble to enter into their own private feelings on the
subject, we are quite sure that these desultory remarks
will bo :pronounced " perfectly true."—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 16, 1852.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold
n Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 31
March next, at two o'clock.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of
February, 1852, present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this
day pleased to declare the Right Hon. William, Earl of
Lonsdale, Lord President of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council, and his Lordship took his place at
the Board accordingly.
This day the Most Noble Algernon, Duke of North-
umberland; the Right Honourable John William, Earl
of Sandwich; the Right Honourable Archibald William,
Earl of Eglinton ; the Right Honourable Charles Philip,
Earl of Hardwicke; the Right Honourable James
Howard, Earl of Malnaesbury; the Right Honourable
John James Robert Manners (commonly called Lord
John Manners); the Right Honourable Claude Hamilton
(commonly called Lord Claude Hamilton); the Right Ho-
nourable William Lennox Lascelles, Lord De Res ; tha
Right Honourable Charles, Lord Colchester; the Right
Honourable George Cecil Weld Forester; the Right
Honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bart.; the
Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Right
Honourable Benjamin Disraeli; the Right Honourable
Joseph Warner Henley; the Right Honourable Robert
Adam Christopher; the Right Honourable William
Beresford; and the Right Honourable George Entices;
were, by her Majesty's commend, sworn of her Ma-
jes'y'e Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their
respective places a; the Board nccordiegly.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to
deliver the Great Seal to the Right Honourable Sir
Ed ward Burtenshaw Sugden, Knight ; whereupon
the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Ire-
land was, by her Majesty's command, administered to
him; and he took his place at the board accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to deliver the cus-
tody of the Privy Seal to the Most Honourable James
Brownlow William, Marquis of Salisbury, the oath of
Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day administered to
him, and his Lordship took his place at the board ac-
cordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
Right Honourable James Howard, Earl of Malmesbury,
the Right Honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington'
Bart., and the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio
Walpole, to be three of her Majesty's Principal Secre-
taries of State, they were this day, by her Majesty's
command, sworn three of her Majesty's Principal Secre-
taries of State accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Benjamin Disraeli Chancellor and Under-
Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath
was this day administered to him accordingly.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to de-
dare the Right Honourable Archibald William Earl of
E ,linton Lieutenant-General and General Governor of
that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to ap-
point the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, and, in
his absence, the Right Hon. Charles, Lord Colchester'
President of the Committee of Council appointed for the
consideration of all
.matters relating
.to Trade and Fo-
reign Plantations.

WHITEHALL, FEE. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to b., passed mle: the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Knight of the United Kinzdern of Great Britain
and Ireland unto Charlea Nicholson,
Speaker of the Legislative Council of
}:quire, Doctor of
Medicine, and
substituted for the one which
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DOWNING
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STREET, FEn, 23.
Plea'ecie er of
give
orders Queen has been graciously
to
orders for the appointment
an Or
of thedi Rig
ht Honour
able Lord Broughton to
3an_sasr,-y or Knights
Member
the Civil Division of the First Cl
Grand Cross of the Most Ronourable Order cf the
Bath—of Lord Bowden, her Al2jesty's Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plonipotentiaty to the Queen
Member 0
Spain, to be an ordinary
Major-General John Owen,'
C. 8., Lilo Second Class, or Knights COLlM3nders of the said
Most Honourable Order—of Ro -al Alarinens; '
C. 8., Deputy Adjutant-General of the
to be an Ordinary Member of the
the said
the Second Class or Knights Commanders ofMilitary)llivision of
Most Honourable Order,—and of William Miller,
be an
Esquire, Commissary-General to the Forces,
t
,-,f the °Third
o:dinary Member of the Military pivisi°n --
Clan, or Companions of the mild Most Honourable
Order.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint
Richard Graves Mac Donnell, Esq., C. 8., now Governor
and Comnnandor.in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Set-
tlements in the Gambia, to be Lieutenant-Governor
of the Island of St. Vincent; Maurice Pcwer, Esq ,
to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Lucia;
Henry Cartwright, Esq , to be Superintendent of the
Penal Settlement in British Guiana; John Palmer,
Esq., to be bar Majesty's Treasurer for the Island of
Dominica; and Henry Robson, Esq , to be Collector of
Customs for her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia.
DOW NING -STREET, FEB. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. John
Howlin Monsarrat to be Colonial Chaplain for her Ma-
jesty's Settlements in the River Gambia.
pleased to appoint the Rev.
Her Majesty has also been
William Cornewall to be Colonial Chaplain for her Ma.
jesty's Settlernenti on the Gold Coast.
WAR•OFFICE, FEB. 27.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant John
Davis Sherston to he Captain, by purchase, vice Archer-
But ton, who retires, Ft b. 27.
6LI-1 I)ragoons—Surgeon Alexander McGrio.or, from
the 71st Foot, to be Surgeon, vice James 6idey, 1.D.,
who retires upon half-pay, Feb. 27.
9th L'ght Dragoons—Coruct Archibald Semple Young
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Delmar, who retires;
Cornet John George Willis to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Nelthorpe, who retires, Feb. 27.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieuteuaut-Colonel George
Dry Hall, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Banham, who exchanges; Major John
Tritton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Dry
Hall: who retires; Captain John Wilkie to be Major,
by purchase, vice Tritton; Lieutenant Richard Playne
Smith to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wilkie; Cornet
J.ohn. Edmond Soverne to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
villp R. P. Smith, Feb. 27.
14th Light Dragoons—Carpet George Ross, from the