The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

ROYAL. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.

Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 25,
Will he performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup-
ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.
After which, will be presented Lord Byron's Tragedy of SAR-
DANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Last Six Nights of the Season.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 23,

Will be performed TRYING IT ON. Principal character by Mr.
C. Mathews

After which, A WONDERFUL. WOMAN. Characters by Messrs.
C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Madame Vestris, &c.

To be followed by TILE LAWYERS. Characters by Messrs. C,
Matnews, F. Matthews, It. Iloxby, and Cooper; Mrs. F. Matthews,
Miss Robertson, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeete.
THIS EVENING, JANE 25,

Will be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben.
Webs, er, A. Wigan, Leigh Murray, Keeley, raid Bedford, and 0.
Smith. Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, NORMA.
To be followed by BETSY BAKER.
To conclude with TAE DANCING SCOTCHMAN.

• ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee an! Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Immense Attraction. Celebration of the Anniversary of the glorious
18th of June, by the production of the Grand Spectacle of the
Battle of Waterloo, in commemoration of the great national
victory.

THIS EVENING, June 25,
As during the week, will be performed for the Seventh Time these
Three Years, the popular Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATER-
LOO, reproduced with all its original dramatic, scenic, equestrian,
and military effects.
To be followed by an incomparable display of Mr. W. Cooke's
Scenes in the Circle, supported by the most talented Artistes of the
flay,—introducing the Equestrian Wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, in
her unparalleled Feat of Leaping through 16 balloons, both forward
and backward, which is nightly received with deafening applause.
To conclude with the successful Hippo Drama of THE. CHASE,
er LIFE ON THE TURF—illustrating a Sporting Man's Career.
By express desire of several Families of distinction, and in accord-
ance with the flattering request, Mr. W. Cooke has made arrange-
ments to give a Series of Two more Grand Juvenile Morning Per-
formances during the Midsummer Holidays, namely, on WEDNES-
DAY, Jorm 29, and WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. An entire change
'of Performance, commencing at Two o'clock.
Box-Wilco open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 25,
CHUSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS.
Fplendid MENAGERIE, containing a vast number of Specimens of
Natural History, including an Orang-Outan, the only one exhibiting
in this country.
GODFREY'S unrivalled MILITARY BAND. Vocal and Instrumental
Concert. At Dusk a most brilliant display of Fireworks.

, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY —Morning 41 min. after 4 f Evening 5 min.aft. 5
To-MORROW Morning 29 min. after 5 I Evening 52 min.aft. 5

THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICB, JUNE 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
78 —highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
67 this day at noon.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1853.

Resolutely as Turkey has rejected for the fourth
time compliance with the arrogant demands of
Russia, the
.former has, nevertheless, evinced
throughout the most amiable readiness to adopt a
course at once of candour and conciliation. It is
true that the Divan has successively refused the
Convention, the Sened, the Note, and the Ulti-
matum ; but, while doing so, it has clearly ex-_
pressed its willingness to despatch forthwith to
St. Petersburgh an envoy extraordinary for -the
purpose, if possible, of opening new and more
amicable negotiations. Meanwhile, moreover, the
SULTAN, in conclusive testimony of his good-
feeling towards the Christian population in his
empire, has issued a remarkable and humane
series of firmaus, according to them a perfect
equality in all the national rights, pri-
vileges, and immunities. By these memorable
documents, not only have the Rayahs
been formally emancipated, but all classes of
Christians without distinction—Latins, Greeks,
and Armenians—have been placed upon precisely
the same footing with the mass of their Mahone-
tan fellow-countrymen. Nothing, therefore, re-
mains to be conceded by the Sublime Porte in
regard to that grievance which the CZAR, in
reference at least to the Greek Church, resolved
to vindicate by his arbitrary acts of spoliation
and encroachment. Absolutely no pretext
whatsoever is left to the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh, now that the firmans here speci-
fied have been decreed by the SULTAN, and
communicated through the agency of his Ambassa-
dors to the majority of the European Governments.
Under ordinary circumstances, of course, we should
be disposed, naturally enough, to anticipate after
this the close of all further anxiety upon the sub-
ject—counting with confidence upon the certainty
of a speedy and satisfactory settlement. Under
ordinary circumstances we should—but certainly
not under circumstances like these, altogether un-
paralleled. It signifies nothing at this moment
that no shadow of reason for hostilities remains
to the Russian Government that Govern-
ment having evinced of late a total dis-
regard to the dictates of truth and of
justice. It has followed too long a line of policy
distinguished by its tortuosity and its turpitude,
to leave us any hope of its displaying at this, the
eleventh hour, any disposition to enter upon a
manly and chivalrous course of negotiation. Be-
sides which, the circular note transmitted by
NESSELRODE to the different Russian Ambassadora
throughout AChristendom has spoken out too
plainly upon this point to admit of one
instant's misapprehension. That sophistical
document, it will be remembered, conveys,
among all its ingenious casuistries, several bold
and insolent announcements. It declares that,
" after having exhausted the last possible conces-
sions, the EMPEROR is now compelled to insist on
the unconditional acceptance of the draft of the
note"—it grants to the Porte " a reprieve of eight
days "—and, it insists that, before the expiration
of that interval, the Divan shall yield entirely to
the demands of the ultimatum. Now that the
eight days have expired, and that " the draft
of the note " has been formally and finally
rejected, it can hardly be supposed that
Russia will allow of any modulated compro-
mise, especially after solemnly declaring that the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has " exhausted the
last possible concessions," and particularly after
stating yet further, that " Russia cannot yield
another step, unless it be at the cost of her politi-
cal importance." No : the Gordian knot has
now to be severed by the edge of the sword—the
CZAR having, according to his own showing, vainly
endeavoured to have it loosened amicably !

Honesty has nothing whatever to do with the
policy of the Russian Government. The princi-
ples of truth and justice have been expunged from
the tablets of its diplomacy. Hypocrisy and dou-
ble-dealing have long been the main-springs of its
intricate and elaborate policy. And now that the base-
ness of its scheme has at length been brought to light,
it were insanity to calculate upon its adoption in
the moment of disgrace of a more honourable
1:7213_g towards contemporary Governments. It
tu the groove of its evil --a destiny groove of its
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own construction
a groove from which it were
"Luirur:duseneeto lookana for its easy extrication.
the 6U 4-interest alone can actuate
of
the councilswhether these
and it remains
to be seen wh
sufficiently influential
to motives will be
induce him to allow
of Austrian intermediation.
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to his recent declarations,
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posed to cry out—a/ea jact,
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as at this juncture beyond the reach f
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inent. Nevertheless, we should be inclined, on
the other hand, to augur differently, from
our
A
re-
membrance
of his past reputation. potentate
hitherto so wily and cautious, cannot be expected
to plunge blindly or unthinkingly into a War with
Turkey, in which the Sublime Porte would be aided
by the maritime, and possibly also by the military,
armaments of both the French and English Govern-
mote. However this ay be, the two countries,

supporting the Divan and the Sultan ABD-111,
MEDJID, are prepared for any emergency. The
signal of conflict can come alone from the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh—that signal the invasion of
the Danubian Principalities.

More than ordinary interest was last night dis-
played in the House of Commons in reference to
the adjourned debate on the India Bill. Extra-
ordinary animation was perceptible on every side.
There was, if not a very numerous, at least a re-
spectable, attendance ; and, in place of the listless
and apathetic indifference exhibited during all the
previous discussions, there was, at least, an ap-
pearance of attention, as if Hon. Gentlemen had
been suddenly awakened to the vast importance of the
subject, the magnitude of the interests involved in
theresults, and the onerous nature of the duties im-
posed on them. Our Eastern fellow-subjects would
have felt grateful for such a display of feeling.
But a further examination would have dispelled
the illusion, and occasioned very different sensa-
tions. They would have discovered that it was
not a desire to promote the welfare and happi-
ness of 150,000,000 of human beings that had
created the excitement. No, the justice or ex-
pediency of the various provisions of the measure
were comparatively disregarded. The object was
to hear a Parliamentary star of the first magni-
tude. A Gentleman, who, by the sound.
ness of his reasoning, the grace of his dic-
tion, and the brilliancy of his eloquence,
might be expected to cast new light on
the subject —to invest it with an unusual
charm. It had been whispered about during
the morning that the poet, the historian, the
orator, had declared his intention of taking a pro-
minent part in the debate, and the announcement
insured the attendance of a crowded auditory,
anxious to enjoy the promised treat. Greater
anxiety could not have been displayed by a
fashionable audience to witness the appearance of
a new performer from whom much was antici-
pated, or for the rising of the curtain for
the pantomime at one of the transpontine
theatres on a boxing night. Indeed, there
was a great impatience to dispose rapidly
of all the preliminary matter, and to get
at once to the attraction of the evening at the
Imperial Palace of Westminster, as there could
have been at the Victoria or at the Surrey Theatre.
The veteran Member for Montrose, who had
moved the adjournment of the debate, was in
possession of the house, but he was treated with
scant courtesy, his rising being the signal for
vehement and reiterated demands for " MACAU-
LAY," which were, however, as ineffectual as those
of the Surrey sight-seers, for the adjournment of
George Barnwell, and the immediate com-
mencement of the Pantomime. The veteran
stood his ground manfully—sturdily insisted
on his undoubted privilege, and administered a
sharp rebuke to the malcontents who had ven-
tured to encroach upon his rights by endeavour-
ing to change the usual and recognised routine of
the proceedings. He, therefore, chiefly from the
respect due to his long services, obtained a hear-
ing ; but there was considerable uneasiness ex-
hibited during his speech, and great relief on his
resuming his seat, and the rising of the hero of
the evening, the Hon. Member for Edinburgh.
It is unnecessary to say that Mr. MACAULAY
delighted and instructed the Assembly. When did
lie do otherwise ? He spoke on a subject respecting
which he had considerable experience, and access to
unusual sources of information. Although the
champion of the double government, he could not
be regarded as exclusively advocating the in-
terests either of Cannon-row or Leadenhall-street.
He had been a member of the Legislative Council
of India, but his appointment was ascribable to
the Board of Control rather than to the Direc-
tors, and the code of laws which he had so
laboriously prepared had been practically shelved
by the latter, and he had no place in the
Government, of which so many of his quondam
colleagues were members, but which could scarcely
be denominated that of "All the Talents"
,while
his claims were disregarded. It was, therefore,
thought that his information would be impartially
as it would unquestionably be eloquently put for-
ward to persons of all parties who were disposed to
listen to his arguments with respectful attention,
and to give them the weight to which they might
be entitled. The result, however, was scarcely
in accordance with the previous anticipations.
The Right Hon. Gentleman was brilliant and
Sffective as usual, but still there was a feeling of
disappointment when his speech was concluded.
He astonished, but he did not convince, his audi-
tors. He was, in fact, labouring on an
un-
grateful subject, one which the most per-
suasive orator could scarcely hope to elevate
to a respectable or attractive position. It
would have been otherwise had he been on
the other side—declaiming on the absurdity
of the existing system—depicting the griev-
ances under which the myriads of inhabitants of
these extensive dominions have so long been suf-
fering, and demanding justice for the victims of
misgovernment and maladministration. His fancy
was enchained by the nature of his subject. Excus-
ing the backslidings of Directors was not a suitable
topic for his genius, and even if, as he toldus, "a single
incompetent collector of the revenues, who, under
that humble designation, practically wielded the
gigantic powers of a pro-consul of a province—
could do more mischief than six incompetent direc-
tors at home," why should we, on that account,
consent to the appointment of parties for whose
efficiency or fitness there was no guarantee, how-
ever trifling. Mr. MACAULAY omitted to assign
any reason why the administration of affairs in the
Anglo-Indian empire should be handed over to the
proprietors of East India stock, or what claim they
could possibly put forward to the retention of the
patronage and power which might just as well be
bestowed on the Court of Aldermen of the City
of London, or the Marylebone Vestry, as on the
Board of Directors. His speech, able and elo-
quent as it undoubtedly was, failed to satisfy the
disinterested and independent members as to the
expediency of adopting the make-shift proposition,
and tended more to establish the propriety of
postponement than any that had previously been
put forward on either side of the question.

Oh ! the cunning and adroitness of priestcraft !
We never saw a specimen of it more worthy of
the age of pious frauds than that of which Lord
SHAFTESBURY has been made, let us hope unwit-
tingly, the tool. The Dissenters, we perceive, are up
in arms already, and we do not wonder at it.
Lay Churchmen will certainly join them, and that
promptly, unless the mere detection of the trick
be sufficient to prevent its success. We have had
too many exposures of Episcopal avarice lately to
wonder at anything ; yet we confess we were un-
prepared to find it creeping along a bye-path of
intricate clauses in a bill to the gates of new
cemeteries, and seizing the keys till it had made
its own terms with the proprietors. To find it
literally empowering bishops to prohibit the
burials of Dissenters, as well as of Churchmen, in
cemeteries obtained by the money of both, till
a scale of fees, satisfactory to the Right Rev.
Prelates could be wrung out of the harassed

managers.

Lord SHAFTESBURY'S Bill sent down from the
Lords, and now awaiting its second reading in the
House of Commons, seeks most commendably to
give Local Boards of Health power to close over-
crowded churchyards, and to provide public burial-
grounds. The 4th clause enables the Boards to
make bye-laws, relating, amongst other things, to
the compensation of ministers, and others, and for
fixing the fees. These bye-laws must be made in
accordance with the Board of Health Act of 1848,
and must receive the sanction of a Secretary of
State. Mark now, unsuspecting reader, the first
trick. It is not deemed sufficient that the Secre-
tary of State, a person responsible to Parliament,
before whom as an impartial judge the episcopal
and lay disputants could plead, should be the
final arbiter : the Bishop of the Diocese, respon-
sible to no one, must approve them too, before a
corpse can be interred either in the consecrated
or the unconsecrated part.
There is, however, no clause distinctly and
oPonly requiring the double sanction. It would
havearoused uxira. ediate oppoition had the re- 1

sponsible Secretary, and the irresponsible Bishop,
been avowedly stationed at the cemetery gates
with equal powers to send back the hearse and
the sorrowing relatives. Ecclesiastics manage
better than that. No ; it is the secret but holy
matrimony of two clauses which brings this
usurious power into existence. Ono of them
provides, very plausibly—though even here
the Secretary of State ought to be the final
judge—that all bye-laws concerning " the con-
secration of the burial-grounds, the burials
of Churchmen, compensation of clergymen,
affected by the prohibition to bury in the old
over-crowded grounds, shall be approved by the
Bishop of the Diocese." But the mate of this
avaricious clause is another which requires part of
all such grounds at least to be consecrated, but
prohibits all burials, even in the unconsecrated
part, till the Bishop has consecrated the other
part ! Dissenters may not inter in unconsecrated
ground till the Bishop has brought the unlucky
local managers to such terms in regard to com-
pensations and fees as an Episcopal conscience may
dictate ! Now we protest against all this as low
chicanery, and as a gross imposition on both
Churchmen and Dissenters. The whole sys-
tem, indeed, of supporting clergymen by fees
for religious ceremonies, is wholly unworthy
of Protestantism, and most revolting of all
is the clerical tax on the mourners for
interring their dead the tax on death and
corruption by the preachers of Life and Immor-
tality. Taking the thing as it stands, then,
why not leave it to the local authorities to agree
with chaplains to perform the requisite services,
on terms satisfactory to both parties ? Why,
if consecration is made compulsory, not make it
also compulsory on the Bishop to consecrate, when
required, at a reasonable charge ? He is a public
officer, and ought to be obliged, on reasonable
terms, to fulfil the duties for which he is put in
office. As the case stands, what with Dissenters,
and those who are perfectly indifferent whether
they are buried in consecrated ground or not,
in large towns, to which almost exclusively
this Act applies, the majority desire no con-
secration of any portion of the ground. Yet
this majority has to bear, with the minority,
the heavy costs of compensations, consecration,
and building a chapel for the clergyman (the Dis-
senters being, however, forbidden to use it), be-
sides being refused permission to bury their dead
till the irresponsible Bishop has haggled the last
penny out of the representatives of the unfor-
tunate ratepayers ! If this be not to degrade
our Church, and to expose one of her most beau-
tiful services to dislike, we know not what is.
We only add our wonder that, at this time of
clay, Bishops, or any one else, dare incur the
hazard of detection in such a one-sided and
selfish legislative juggle. Bishops, as well as
Indian Administrators, must be made more
directly responsible for their official conduct.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court, at 2 o'clock, yesterday after-
noon.

Prince Lucien Bonaparte, attended by the Count
Walewski, the French Ambassador, and his Aide-de-
camp in Waiting, had an audience of Majesty.
His Highness was introduced by the Earl of Claren-
don, K.G., the Queen's principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies.

Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation, was pre-
sented to the Queen, at an audience, by the Earl of
Clarendon.

Her. Majesty was attended by the Marquis of Ormonde,
Lord-in-Waiting, and Major-General Berkeley Drum-
mond, Groom-in-Waiting.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colo-
nel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, preE:ded yesterday morning
at the Council for the lianagement of the Duchy of
Cornwall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset-house.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colo-
nel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon.
Dudley de Ros, left Buckingham-palace at 20 minutes
before 4 o'clock yesterday eeternoon for the Camp at
Chobham.

His Serene Highness the Prince of Rolicnlohe Lan-
genhourg arrived in town on a visit to the Queen yes-
terday afternoon, at a quarter before 4 o'clock, from the
Continent. The Prince drove to Clarence-house, St.
Jmnes's, and visited the Duchess of Kent. Her Royal
Highness afterwards accompanied the Prince to Buck-
ingham-palace, where his Serene Highness remains on
a visit.

The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of Hanover
and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg► Gotha, took a drive
yesterday afternoon in an open landau and four. The
Equerries-in-Waiting, Lord Aif-ed Paget and Lord
Charles Fitzroy, attended on horseback.

His Royal 'Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, visited the Provident
Institution in St. Martin's-place on Thursday.
Mrs. Kemble Sumner, of the United States, and
Mrs. Ray and Miss Ray, of the United States, were
presented to her Majesty at the Drawing-room on
Thursday, in the general circle, by Miss Wilcocks,
niece of the American Minister.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, honoured
the Royal Italian Opera House with their presence on
Thursday evening. The Royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount. Edgcumbe, Baroness de Wangen-
heim, the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, and Baron Treskow.
His Highness Prince Lucien Bonaparte, attended by
the Ambassador of France and Major Cavagnari, after
his audience of the Queen yesterday, upon his arrival in
this country, paid visits to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
at their respective residences.
Mr. Samuel Morley and the Rev. J. H. Hinton had
an interview' with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residerice in Downing-street, as a
deputation from the friends of Voluntary Education, in
relation to the Government Education Bill.

A deputation from the parish of St. Paul, Shadwcll,
consisting of the Rev. Benjamin Cox Sangar (rector),
Messrs. Robert Charles Taylor, and Samuel Jeggins
(churchwardens), and Mr. Peter Mellish (vestry clerk),
had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday
at the Home-office.

A deputation on the subject of the privileges of the
town of Duinbarton in reference to the Clyde navigation
had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on
Thursday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Alexander Hastie, M.P., Mr. Bouverie,
M.P., Mr. Smollett; M.P., Sir J. Anderson, M.P., Mr.
Denny, chief magistrate of Dumbarton, and Mr. Win-
toqi, senior baillie of Dumbarton.

A- deputation of bankers, accompanied by the Earl of
Eglinton, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Sir James
Matheson, M.P., Sir. James Anderson, M.P., Mr. J.
Fergus, M.P., Mr. W. Lockhart, M.P., Mr. Archibald
Hastie, M.P., Mr. Alexander Hastie, M.P., Mr. John
Macgregor, M.P., Mr. George Duncan, M.P.., and Mr.
Charles Cowan, M.P., bad an interniew with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence
in Downing-street. The bankers were—Messrs. George
Forbes, James Robertson, W. Kennedy, George Read-
man, William Brand, and David Smith, with Mr. John
Richardson (solicitor).

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.— Her Ma-
jesty, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses, the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Baroness Wangenheim,
Baron Treskow, the Marquis of Ormonde, and Lord
Charles Fitzroy, honoured the French Plays with their
presence last evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, accompanied by her Royal Highness the
Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, accompanied by Lady
Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, also hon-
oured the theatre with their presence.
Her Majesty the Queen of Hanover, with the Princess
Royal, accompanied by the Baron Malertu and the
Countess Decken, honoured the establishment of Mr.
C. F. Hancock with a visit yesterday.
The St. Pancras, Marylebone, and Paddington Free-
hold Land Society has just effected the purchase of
another estate in the suburbs of London, eligibly situated
at Notting-hill.
ST. PETERSBURGII.—The advices from St. Peters-
burgh yesterday reach to the 18th inst., at which date the
quotation of exchange was slightly lower—namely 38d.
The tallow market was very firm, and the appearance of
business generally did not indicate alarm. The proba-
bilities, however, of the war question were less known
than in London or Paris. From Odessa the accounts
state that transactions were pursuing a regular course,
and that no interruption seemed to be apprehended.
APOTHECARIES' HALL. —Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and pract:ce of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
day, June 23, 1853 :—William Kaylet Curtis, Harting,
Petersfield ; Horace Kersey Debenham, Norton Suffolk ;
Edmund Chapman ; Christopher Deighton, Edinburgh ;
Fergus Armstrong, Appleby, Westmoreland ; William
Robert Faur Marchant, North Curry, Somersetshire ;
Joseph Ferguson Lindley, Staleybridge, Lancashire.
BRIGHTON AND HOVE REGATTA.—The programme is
finally determined on; and prizes to the amount of 4501.
will be offered for competition.--Brighton Gazette.
THUNDER-STORM AT MANCHESTER.—Between 5 and
6 o'clock on Thursday evening a terrific storm of thunder
passed over Manchester, accompanied by drenching
showers of rain. The peals of thunder followed closely
upon the flashes of lightning, and five or six people re-
siding in cottages in Bradford-road, at the north side of
the city, sustained injury from the lightning. Some of
them were blinded for a time, and one man was knocked
down and his limbs were paralysed for several hours.
In another part of the city a servant girl was struck on
the left arm, and was unable to use it for nearly an hour
afterwards.