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exercise over the minds of our Legislators, endeavoured to
make our readers aware that the science of the Clergy and
th it of legislwi,n arJ in direct opposition. The Ltter
looks wholly to the future-the former wish to fix the mind
wholly on the past. That there can be a new revelation
the Clergy positively deny ; and every rankle of know-
ledge about which they are conversant, or which they essay
to fix on the mind, is the limited knowledge of an age long
since gene by. Both the future and the present are
only regarded by them with a view to model them by
tte doctrines of the pat. On the contrary the legislator
seeing that experience continually supplies new facts—that
all the best established principles of his science are con-
tinually modified by an increased knowledge—and being
continually compelled to model his conduct by the present
with a view to the future—acts as if in his science there
were a continual new revelation—he is always on the
look-out for further information ; he gathers and preserves
facts as they arise ; lie models his conduct by cir-
cumstances, and considers the past only as an index to the
future. Now, this opposition between the science of the
Legislator and the science of the Theologian is observed
other countries, and by distinguished men, as well as here
by us. In the article of the Edinburgh Review just
published, on M. GUIZOT'S admirable work on civilization,
there is an extract of an article by M. GUIZOT, contained in
a recent number of th! Revue E'rancaise of which this is a

Dr. STOCK was returned on Saturday for Cashel, with-
out opposition, in place of Mr. WOLFE, now Chief Baron.
Mr. BALL, the new Attorney-General has been re-elected
without opposition for CLONMEL.

We are happy to see, by the division last night, that Sir
R. PEEL prefers his principles as a statesman to his inte-
rest as a land-owner. He voted, though he did not speak,
with Mr. GoULBURN, in opposition to the Parochial
Assessment Bill. He regards it, therefore, like the Rev.
Mr. JONES and the rest of the Clergy, as a Bill to plunder
the Church for the advantage of the land-owners ; but as
be was left in a minority of 31 to 59, it is clear that when
a measure touches the interest of the landlords, his in-
fluence over his usual followers is little or nothing.
The Bill, be it remembered, is opposed by Mr. Goer.-
BURN in Parliament, and by the clergy out of Parliament,
because it is, as they say, an iniquitous robbery on the part
of the landed gentlemen ; and that denunciation Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL has confirmed by his vote, though he abstained
from supporting it by his speech. He believes them, as
we believe and assert, and as all the anti-Corn-law people
believe and assert, that the landowners arc capable of mak-

ing laws to plunder other classes for their own benefit.
That is a startling conclusion to be adopted by Sir Roam
PittL, and it is one w hich the anti-Corn-law people will

know how to turn to their advantage.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday have all been received,
from which we subjoin a report of the burning of the Vau-
deville Theatre. The fire was supposed to be purely ac-
cidental, and fortunately was extinguished without loss of
life. No estimate could be formed on Tuesday of the pe-
cuniary loss sustained by this calamity, as by a proper
Police regulation strangers were refused all access to the

ruins.

The Prince de JOINVILLE arrived at Neuifiy on Mon-

day evening.
The Siecle gives the following paragraph as the substance
of a communication received from a well-informed corres-
pondent at Constantinople :
" The treaty of Unkiar.Skelessi,:which, amongst other clauses, inter
dieted, as is well known, the passage of the Dardanelles to all foreign
vessels of war except Russian, is not enough for the always increasing
exigencies of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, which at this moment soli.
tits from the Ottoman Ministry, almost tin eateningly, a revision of this
treaty, already so disastrous for Turkey, and so hostile to France and
England. The Turkish Government refuses to change the stipulations
of the treaty of Unkiar, judging, with reason, that it is better to retain
a bad position, than to accept one from its enemy which cannot fail to
be worse. This diplomatic manceuvre of Russia (says our correspond.
ent), coincides wonderfully with the hostilities of Mehemet Ali against
the Sultan. In the midst of all these events, which Russia stirs up on
every side to mask her projects and mislead opinion, the inconceivable
immobility and exemplary abnegation of the French and English Cabi.
nets, may for every compromise the interests which they represent. It
is beyond a doubt, that if the Ottoman Ministry be not energetically up.
held in its refusal to change the stipulations of Unkiar, a new treaty will
be extorted from it by Russia ; and this treaty will, perhaps, be the last.
The Mole and Palmerston Ministries, generally so ill informed on the
affsirs of the East, incur at this moment a serious responsibility. God
grant that they do not prove the truth of the saying of Itivarol, ' Hell is
paved a i• h good intentions.' "

- We have Madrid papers of the 10th, but they contain
no news of interest. Sir GEORGE VILLIERS was about to
return to London for a few weeks, having on the Bth in-
troduced Lord WILLIAM HERVEY to the REGENT as
British Charge d'Affaires during his Excellency's absence.
It is supposed that our Cabinet is desirous of consulting
with him on the subject of certain measures relative to the
pacification of Peninsula, the exact import of which has

not yet transpired.
Some wag circulated a report among the Carlists that
five of the Great Powers had recognized Don CARLOS
as KING of SPAIN. The rumour spread like wildfire, and
no sooner did it reach Estella than, notwithstanding its
obvious absurdity, all the bells were set a ringing, and gra-
tuities were distributed among the soldiers. The re-action,
when the truth would come to be known, was expected to
be frightful.
The following is the account of 'the destruction of the
Vaudeville Theatre, referred to above :

(From Galignani's Meuenger.)

At a little after three o'clock this morning, this theatre,_situated, as

eur readers are aware, almost at the corner of the Rue de Chartres and
St. Thomas du Louvre, and close to the Place du Paleis Royal, was dis-
covered to be on fire by one of the firemen who are always placed on
duty in each of the theatres of the capital. The flames originated,
it is believed, in the 1, ardrobe.room, which was placed in the upper
stories of the building, and they soon made the snout rapid pt ogress. The
alarm was instantly liven, and all the persons dwelling within the
theatre were enabled to make their eseepe; but from the nature of the
edifice itself, which was old, and one of the most patchwork build-
ings in Paris, it was impossible to oppose the progress of the fire ; and
a I that could be done was to endeavour to confine the destiuc.
live elemeht within the walls of the theatre. From its proximity to
the great reservoir en the Place du Palais Royal, and to several borne
f,nt t tines, there was nc waist of water. Detachments of firemen soon
a-rived from the neighbouring stations, as well as national guards,
troops of the line, and horse and foot municipal guards. Had not
assistance been EO rapidly procured, the fire would have corn.
mitten great ravages with the houses on the other side.of the
Rue de Chartres, where a window frame of cne aeon took file,
but the house itself wes not much injured. On account of the
confined locality it was not possible for us to get near the burning
building; and about five o'clock all communication by the Rue St.
Hanore anti other streets was cut off front the Place du Pa'ais Royal.
The ends of the .rue de Chartres anti the ltue St. Thomas du
Louvre, on the Place du Carrousel, were also guarded by troops.
From the appearance of the smoke and flames, between five and six
o'clock, it was evi•ent that much of the interior must have Buten in ;
and 60011 alter, great part of a projecting wall of the theatre in the
nue de Chartres fell corn with a tremendous crash, and blocked up
the street. The engine hoses played from the roofs and different
floors et' the opposite houses on the walls of the theatre and houses ad-
joining; and the firemen took their stations at the windows of the
Hotel do Lille, the inmates of which, including many English
vi.iters, had to deeaanp rather quickly from their beds. The
restaurant P..rly, w ieh fosrne the corner cf the two streets,
was not injured by the flames, owing to a strong party_
wall. On the Carrousel there was a vigorous press for hands to
form the chain fur pass:n,7; the buckets, &c., and we saw a fireman
give chase to an individual as tar as the gateway leading on to the quay,
and a s Idler t f the lisle threaten with his bayonet a spectator unwilling
t s Ise'p. The w.ves and children of the King's grooms and coachmen
were at the a lotto., of the stab!es in the Rue St. 'llsomai du Louvre, as
well as at the front in the Rue de Chartres, and we saw some female ap-
parently tine.' neerned at a window close to the theatre, which showed
hat not much (larger was apprehended by the neighbours. Marshal
Labau, with part of his staff, was easly on the scene of devastation, and
was succeede t by another general officer, attend st by two officers of his
stall, who went in all quarters gi, big direct,ons. The relent that a
fiscnan had been killed shortly after the breaking out of the conflagra.
lion, we have reason to believe is not true ; and, as far as we can learn,
few accidents halo tal.en place.
A letter from St. Omer, of the fith, says, " We are informed that
6.000 men ate to come to St. Omer lor the camp; 4,000 will to wt.
.*ansped, and 2,000 will lodge in the town. The 12th of Light Infantry,
the 43d, 60th, and 6711 i of the line, and part of the train, will arrive
here very shortly. We are likewise informed that cavalry and artillery
wilt e one by the month of Septemb.r, and that the Duke of Orl.ans
I go at that time to the camp of Delfaut, to command the suanuluvres.
The Marquis de Porronays died lately, in the arrondissement cf An.
cennes, at the age eight yame years.
FIIENCH FUNDS.—PAaIs, JULY 17.
rive Pe. 511* 3 C. 35c.
Four and a Hat( Der Cents. 106 f. 50sa
Four
aek.nocertrll:C'eentlis:t.s.:. 50‘
.115,:Ile.
t'hee.B I 80f. 9:7 c. 40c.
Lank Actions, 01.5 f.
t'e
sts
::ente ~e Nap!, s, e9f. Le. 10c.
10' 111%
streesh set', es. 23 eta, 3, I.
Belgian Loan, tontA.
Belgian Bank, 1,445 f.
L..u. ti Of.

Another consideration arises out of Sir ROBERT'S vote.
Ha and his party arc generally held up as exclusively the
friends of the landed interest. Now, however iniquitous
may be this Bill, as the Clergy say it is, it cannot be
halt' so iniquitous as the law which goes to starve the people
to enrich the landowner, for this only slightly impoverishes
the Clergy to the same end. It. is not, therefore., the mere
iniquity of the measure which influenced Sir ROBERT and
the Tories. The landed gentlemen, however, desire the
Bill much : they think it is for their benefit, and they carry
it through the House of Commons in spite of Sir R. I'EEL.
It is plain, then, that he and his party are not staunch
friends of the landed interest : they prefer the Chula, and
they only cajole the landed gentlemen by their professions
that they may maintain the clergy in splendour. For the
starving people, for strangled manufacturers, for stifled
industry, though it sus!alned millions, tl.ey do not care a
ru h ; when tiwy atone stand in tl.c way, the Tory leaders
still willingly work the iniquity which the landlords desire
of them ; but when they, to serve the same friends, must
touch the Church, then the Twin are no longer the ex-

EXC/Wing on 1.01:0014
One month, paper, 2sf. Vc.; money, 25.
Three months, paper,: nu)noy, .st. SC.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 111 f. 35c.
Three per Cents., SO(. bye.
Bank Actions, 2,5_5f.
Boman', 102.
Belgian Loan, 11314.
Belgian Bank, 1,445 f.
Spanish Actives, 23%.

Brussels and German Journa's ha% e een duly tee3ivcd
to-dly. Subjoined are extracts from tl em :
Bsussets, JULY 15.—General Giblet arrived at Et:ussels the d4y
before yesterday from Lisbon.

The Provincial Council of Liege has resolved on tl e follow:ng Ad-
dress to the King against the twenty.four articles :

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ino coal Society,tt'
a-e o,t. aware of the vast number of pstacn# in the metro- ofulyCol7.meree, 1832, 130. -MAIDTONE EILECTIO'T 'olWrlr
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polls, but chi ,fly in the suburbs, where some or all of thesePapers,.3-2,Birr3isis.elsS:cie t'Y
TEE.—(l'lllB DAY.)
VIENNA, JULY 9. —The Duchess of Berri arrived here the day before
causes of disease prevail, and on that account, probably, no • yesterday on her way to Ker,hberg, and alighted at the Imperial
general scheme 11,1 s been brought forward for abating the '''alace. Her husband, Count Luchesi, lodges in one of the first hotels
innioVrriociwina. The Illustrious travellers will proceed on their journey to.
nuisance. When the evil is known, however, the public
spirit of the inhabitants, their humanity, and also their self-
interest, will, ere long, provide their remedy. About the
past there can be no question of doubt. Let any one read
Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH'S account of a personal inspection
of the districts of Bethnal-green and Whitechapel in 1830,
and doubt for a moment why fever in one shape or another
constantly prevail,. Owing to want of water or want of
cleanliness, typhus fever periodically commits great ravages
in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In the latter town it rages at
present to a frightful extent. The causes of malaria
wound Rome and in parts of Tuscany are well known ;
and so powerrul are the effects of fluids in a stagnant state,
that even a small pool will affect the whole neighbou--
hood with disease. A. fever some years ago perio-
dically visited the inhabitants on Blackheath, with-
II
out any assignable cause, till owing to the ac-
cidental draining of a pool of stagnant water in a•
gravel-pit it entirely disappeared. II in an open space
such effects can be produced, who can wonder that fever is
so prevalent among the ill-fed poor in London ? The ex-
trnt of the evil at present requires an instant remedy.
From all accounts, fever never was more prevalent, and
till some more efficient law is passed, praise rather than
blame would be given to the parochial authorities for taking
the most severe measures againot the proprietors of houses
and grounds where these nuisances are allowed to remain.

DUTC:I FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JULY 17.
Money It Ils.
ii•tital Debt, '25,, per r'~.nt
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A isioit Swadic, 4Va Percy emit.... ......... ...
Ditto, ditto, 3V per cent..... ..............
Commercial Company, 4 , per c, nt 1 ti 944 1711(
Ditto (114:32 and 1833) 5 per cent. ......
Laan 1.:5313. 4 i er cent.
Ditto 1337. 0 per',cent.
Exchange F...n London, One month l2 15 ,
Two monlia

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VINNNA, Jun! 9.
Five per Cents. Mytalliques
Foiir per Cents.
Three vcr Cents.
Bank Shares
—di'gemeine Zeitung, July 14.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Bsaux, JULY 11.
Bills Money
St. Salad. Sell., 4 per cent .. 1031,6 100%
Prussian Engiish Loan, 18:14, 4 per cent 10SSq 102 N
I,zehange on London, three Inoue/is 6 24N
—Prussian State Gazette, July 12.

The following very contradictory advices from the Bra-
ails have reached us this morning. Letters from Mexico
of the 15th May state that the entire coast of that State
was strictly- blockaded by the French squadron under
Commodore BAZOCHE. The squadron consisted of five
ships of war and a frigate. A Mexican brig from
Cadiz, richly laden, was seized in the Gulf, and declared
good prize. The Captain and crew were set ashore,
stripped of all they possessed, except their wearing apparel.
An English vessel from Liverpool was likewise detained,
but we are not informed whether she was declared a prize
or not. The French have gone so far as to prevent any
fishing on the Mexican coast, though, when the blockade
was first declared, the fishermen were expressly excepted
from its operation :

The Committee met this morning at Eleven o'clock.
Mr. HILL proceeded to open the case of the petitioners, remarking
that he should confine himself chiefly to the allegations of the petition.
The prayer of the petition was, first, that this Committee should declare
that Mr.' Fector was disqualified at the last election, and, therefore,
ought not to have been returned, and that his return was consequently
void ; and, secondly, that notice of such disqualification having been
given to the electors before they voted, and their votes in favimr of Mr.
Fector being therefore thrown away, Mr. Robarts, although he had
the minority of votes, yet had the majority of legal votes, and
the second prayer of the petition was, that he might be declared duly
elected. The election of Mr. Fector was thereby sought to be. voided,
and the election of Mr. Robarts to be declared a valid election. At the
general election in this month of last year, Mr. Wyndham Lewis and
Mr. D'lsraeli were returned, and a few months afterwards a vacancy was
created by the death of Mr. Lewis. A new writ was ordered to supply
that vacancy, and at the election there appeared two candidates, Mr.
Fector and Mr. Robarts. The petition alleged that Mr. Fector, by him-
self and his agents, at that election, was guilty of bribery and treating,
and a petition was presented against him, which came on to be heard in
June. In that petition, which was set forth in the pi esent petition, there
were three allegations—first, that there was bribery by Mr. Fector and Isis
agents; secondly, that there was treating by Mr. Fector and-his agents ;
and thirdly, that there was systematic bribery and treating, by which Mr.
Fector was returned, and the last allegation did not state that Mr. Fector er
his agents took part in that systematic bribery and treating. On these al.
legaticns the hearing was had. That petition, unlike the present, did
dot seek to seat the unsuccessful candidate, but simply to void the
election on the grounds which he had mentioned. On that occasion
evidence was offered to prove that a gentleman named Potts was the
agent of Mr. Fector at that election. The Committee decided that Mr.
Potts was fixed with the character of agent, and then before anything
material had occurred, the Learned Counsel, on the part of Mr. Fector,
stated that Mr. Potts having been declared by the Committee to be in
agent of Mr. Fector, Mr. Fector would retire from the contest. Upon
that taking place the Committee resolved that the election was a void
election, and they reported that to be the c.tse, and a new writ was
directed to issue, upon which a few weeks ago a new election took
pla:te. He contended on behalf of the petitioners that Mr. Fector was
under a disqualification at the time of the last election, that he was pro.
cisely in the same situation as if he had been a contractor with the Go-
vernment, or was labouring under any other disqualification ; and he
supposed that his Learned Friends would not dispute that if the Corn.
mittee had. followed 'up the declaration of the void election by a resole.
Lion that the voidance was on the ground of bribery, or treating, by
Mr. Fector or his agents, that there would have been an undisputed
disqualification at the last election. If there was any point completely
settled it was this. But he apprehended his Learned Friends would say
here was only an avoidance in general terms, and that that avoidance was
not the same thing as an avoidance where the ground of it was stated.
He should submit that in fact it was exactly the same thing, and that he
supposed would be the main point of controvorsy. It could not depend
on the wording of the resolution of a Committee, whether that which
the law stigmatised as an offence should meet with its punishment or
not. If the resolution had stated that the seat was voided by Mr. Fec-
tor on the ground of bribery, this petition would not have been here, for
no gentleman would have undertaken the risk of au election, if he had
felt himself to be under a disqualification. It was cast upon him (Mr.
Hill) to show that Mr. Fector was unseated upon the ground of bribery
or treating, and of this there could be no doubt, as it was quite clear on
the evidence which would be put in. The moment Mr. Potts was de-
clared to be an agent, Mr. Fector retired—that was, lie suffered judg-
ment to go by default, or in other words, pleaded guilty after certain
evidence had been adduced. He submitted, %therefore, that the Corn..
mittee was exactly in the same situation as if the previous Committee
had stated the grounds of their decision; for if he showed on the mi-
nutes that Mr. Fector was unqualified, it was immaterial whether the
ground was stated or not in the resolution. There were several cases
in point, and they were all on the principle which he had laid down.
Mr. Thomas Pybus, mayor of Maidstone at the last election, deposed
that he delivered the poll.books, at the last election, to the town-clerk.
Mr. C. T. Smith, the town-clerk, produced the poll.books.
Mr. Frere, the Committee clerk, produced the preceding petition,
and the minutes of the proceedings which took place before the last
Committee.

(From the Correio Official, May 16 )
The Minister of the Interior, in his report to the Legislative Assem-
bly, says, under the head of the Imperial Family:—" The Government
has scrupulously fulfilled the only obligations imposed on it by the law
relative to the family which Divine Providence has placed on the throne
of Brazil ; they are the supply of the means for the support and the edu-
cation of the august minors, the hope and pride of the Brazilian na-
tion. It is, however, highly important that, observing the regulations
laid down on the fundamental law of the empire, you should endeavour
accurately to inform yourselves respecting the actual state of their
education, taking such measures as your wisdom may suggest,
in order that their education may be such as is suitable
to their altered station, that their income may be duly employed to main-
tain their splendour, and that their Court may be composed of en.
lighlened, and above all of virtuous persons.
With respect to the public tranquillity of the empire, the Minister
states that after the termination of the rebellion in the province of Bahia
and the successes of the Imperial troops in the province of Sin Pedro, the
force of the rebels is so broken, and that of the friends of the law and of
the Throne so increased, that if the time when legality will completely
triumph cannot be precisely fixed, it may be affirmed that it is not
distant.

..
MAY 17.—Despatches from the Government of Cuiaba, Gogas, and
Ouro Preto, announces that these provinces enjoy perfect tranquillity.

—Corrieo Official of Rio de Janeiro, May 21.
Rio DE JANEIRO, MAY 21.—The Government forces have just been
routed by the rebels, in the province of Pedro do Sul. The column
stationed on the Rio Pardo was attacked on the 29th ult. by Bento
Manoel. It is said that this is the greatest disaster that our arms have
experienced in that quarter. This event, though deplorable, must not
discourage us, since the country can make further sacrifices to save the
integrity of the empire.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A mail has arrived from Rio Janeiro, by the Skylark—sailed on the
221 May ; from Bahia, 12th June : and Pernambuco 25th June. All
was quiet at the above places. She has brought home about 80,000
dollars, for Merchants' account. The above dates are old from Rio
Janeiro.
We have received Prince Edward Island papers to the 21st June;
these papers are chiefly filled with news from Canada, already anti-
cipated.
From the Halifax papers, received to the 26th June, we extract the
following We are sorry to learn that the Seal Fishery from New-
foundland this year has not been so successful as the last."
From St. John's, Newfoundland, under date the 23d May, we learn
that a !etter has been received by his Excellency the Governor, descrip-
tive of a most frightful epidemic which had prevailed at the French
island, St. Picrres, since the month of October last; and that his Excel
lency lost no time in submitting the accounts for the consideration of
the medical gentlemen of the town.

Mr. COCKBURN then proceeded to sum up the case, and to contend
that, on the minutes put in of what took place before the last Commit-
tee, Mr. Fector was disqualified. In support of his argument he cited
the Honiton election case (3 Luder, p. 162), the Canterbury case (Clif.
ford's Reports, p. 353), the Camelford case (Corbett and Daniel, p. 239),
and several others.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

This case, which was opened yesterday, came before the Court upon
motion on behalf of certain bargemen navigating the Kennett and Avon
canals, to restrain the defendants from building a bridge across the
feeder to the Bristol Dock, in the way proposed by the defendants, and
which the piaintiffs contend would greatly impede their navigation, by
separating the towing-path from the canal.

Mr. PEMBERTON was heard this morning on behalf of the defendants,
who contended that in the case of every bridge built across the river
Thames, from Oxford to Datchet, the towing.path was separated from
the river, and that no complaint had ever been made that such a plan
obstructed the navigation of the river.

In the course of the argument, his Lordship suggested that, as there
was a coffer dam erected in the feeder, and as the effect of that wes
nearly similar to what the effect of the proposed bridge would be, an ex-
periment should be made by both sides, to see how far the bargemen
would be inconvenienced.

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BausscLs, Jolt 17.—The Marquis of Hastings, the Marquis de San
,nrinaa, and the Marquis de Villavieja, arrived here the day before
yesterday.
The number of travellers by the iron railroad continues to Increase.
Last month there were 225,333 ; and the receipt was 301,946 francs.
His Excellency the Count de Grunne, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiaryl6_Tof
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A letter from Ituremond, of the 14th, says—" The Per ;gam Iwo
lately established a ds.uble line of Custom-house officers on the frontier,
so that colonial produce can no longer pass."
8E1,g,4x Vpsws, JULY 17. Actual Debt, Two-amid-a-Half per
Cents, 55. Rothschild Itnall, ID Ii• Loan of Thirty Minh ns, 924,

The motion, therefore, stands over till the next Seal.

OUTFIT OF THE HASTINGS.

TO THE EDITOR 01' THE SUN.

Sts,—Having read very recently, in several of the London
papers, that the fitting her MajesWs ship Hastings, for con-
veyance of Lord Durham, his family and suite, to Quebec,
had cost an extravagant sum ; that the equipage of the table,
with the furniture of the cabins, Sze., were of the most costly
description—added to which, that the captain and officers of
the ship were deprived of their proper apartments, and other-
wise incommoded, to make room for Lord Durham's servants—

I was determined to employ an idle half-hour in visiting the
Hastings in the basin of Portsmouth Dockyard, for the ex-
press purpose of satisfying myself how far the actual state of
the ship agreed with the accounts which have been published.
An officer of the rank of Lieutenant was polite enough to
accompany me round the Hastings, and under his permission
the equipage of every description was shown. The chintz
furniture of the state apartment,, cf which so much has been
said, cost the several prices of 51, 6d., and 7d. per yard ;
the carpeting, from 3s. 6d. to 6a. per yard ; the tables and
chairs, of that usual description which we find in respectable
lodging-houses ; the glass and crockery ware, not equal to
what is used on the tables of respectable hot..ls, viz., tumblers,
Bs. per dozen; decanters, 15s. per pair ; wine-glasses. 6s. 13,=r
dozen ; earthen-ware, from Si. to 71. the crate : in short, not
one article of any description was of a quality that may not be
found in the house of any middle-class tradesman. So much
for the veracity of those very pious and ma: al papers, the
Times, the Standard, &c. !
With regard to the apartments of the officers, and the in-
convenience they bad been exposed to. I was told by my
obliging friend who conducted me through the ship, that no
other alteration was made in their cabins than what is gene-
rally adopted on the reception of a Wig-officer, or any Minister
being ordered a passage in a 74-gun ship ; indeed, in the
Hastings, the midshipmen were better off than is generally the
case in most ships.
Lord Durham's courtesy to the captain and officers of the
Hastings was remarkable rather for its suaviter than other-
wise—four officers of the ship dining at 11;s Lordship's table
every day ; and his friendly and cordial Jispositi in, to make
conversation general and agreeable, was so evident, that the
most prejudiced mind must have been relieved from any

anxiety.
In troubling you with this statement of- facts, for which I
solicit a place in your widely-circulated and liberal paper, I
have no other motive than to disabuse the public mind of a
fa'sc impression, which has doubtle,:s bz'en s t afloat for some
vie purpose which the Times and Standard have in view.
I am, Sir, your vi•ry obliged,
CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER.
Portsmouth, July 18, 1838,

The. Pique frigate came into harbour yester.lay, to refit ;
and the Apollo and Edinburgh are ready fur sea.
Lord Howe and Captain Cuizon, who a-0 attached to the
establishment of the Dowager Queen, mere on board the
Hastings Yesterday, for the purpose of rnAking such alterations
and arrangements as may be required for bar Majesty's ac-
commodation. The Hastings is expected to proceed
about the end of August for Malta, via Lisbon, Catliz, Gibral-
tar, Genoa, and Naples.

[Our• Correspondent is probably not aware that an offleial
account of the expense of the outfit of the Hastings has
already been published, and put to silence, if not to shame,
the poor scribblers.]

It was generally stated in and about the House of
Commons yesterday evening, that the present Session will not conclude
until the 20th of August. If so, the two Houses will have continued
sitting for nearly nine months. _ _

The Must' ions foreigners having expressed a wish
to seethe superb edifice, which was once the residence of Cardinal
\Volsey, and afterwards the abode of the unfmtunate Duke of Mon•
mouth, the Marquis of Westminster, the possessor of that mansion, has
invited them to a dejeune a la faurclaette on Saturday next. Since
the period when Lord and Cat), \Vo•tminster entertained William IV.
and his Queen, a bum considerably more than thirty thousand pounds
has been expended on the estate.
. _

A inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the
King's Arms, Ronpell.street, Lambeth, on the body of an infant, named
Harris ; s!.veral witnesses were examined, from whose testimony it ap-
peared that on the morning of Tuesday, the 10th instant, the mother of
the deceased was coming out of her house in White Horse-street, when
a woman, named Fitz, came up to her and struck her several severe
blows. The poor woman in endeavouring to get into a neighbour's
house, in her fright let the deceased fall out of her arms on to the stone
steps. The child was attended by Mr. Brady, a surgeon, living in
Charlotte.strect, Blackfriars-road, up to the time of its death, which
took place on Saturday morning. In consequence of the various reports
in circulation the coroner ordrred a post mortem examination to be
made, which was done; but Mr. Brady having given it as his opinion
that the blow (although it was a very severe one and might have
hastened dissolution) was not the cause of death, the jury, after a long
consultation, as one was of a different opinion, ultimately returned a
verdict of " Died front inflammation of the lungs."
. _

KING'S COLLEGE.--The University of Edinburgh
has determined that three out of the four years required by the Uni-
versity for its degree of 51. D. may be passed in studying at the medical
school, King's College, London. The resolution thus made places this
College on the same footing as the Universities of Dublin and Paris
with regard to Edinburgh medical degrees.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM.—We are informed that
one of the female patients, or rather actresses, in the London Univer-
sity, has, like Petronilla Leclerc, in Paris, turned traitress, and peached
about the tricks and contrivances; for which she has been unceremoni-
ously dismissed from he: situation in the hospital —Literary Gazette.
ST. SWITHIN DEFEATED.—The rainy saint held
his anniversary, and satisfied his devotees with abundant showers.
The charm, however, is since broken, n i more rain havirg since fal-
len, and some of his former admirers begin to think him, like Murphy,
a hit of a humbug.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—OiI Tuesday last, a
stout young man, belonging to Alloa, lost his life under the following
revolting circumstances. He had been drinking with some pensioners
on the evening of the above day, when, in order to gain same foolish bet,
he persisted in swallowing such s quantity of ardent spirits, that he im.
mediately died in consoluonee.—Edinburgh Courant,