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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.—About twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, a fire, which proved a very
destructive one, broke out on the premises of Mr. Lodge,
who has lately opened a ready-made clothes shop in the
Market-place of this town. The owner of the shop had
set etr to London but an hour or so previous to the fire
being discovered, leaving no inmate in the house. The
tire having soon demolished these premises, spread on
either side, burning down the shops and premises of
hatter; and Peerless, draper, on the Town-hall side;
and those of Orridge, chemist (the corner house of the
Market-plac); then, taking its course towards Warwick-
street, burning every house on its way, including those of
Milligan, draper; Morden, oil merchant; Wanfor, con-
fectioner; and an uninhabited house next. to Wanfor'b,
facing Warwick-street. The houses of Wilson, optician,
in the Market-place, and Andrews, bootmaker, in War-
wick-street, were also much damaged by fire and water.
The origin of the fire is not yet known. There was a
plentiful supply of water from Hobson's conduit and
various pumps in the Market-place and Rose-crescent,
but the tire-engines were very badly managed, owing to
the scarcity of firemen; the engines also were con-
stantly getting out of order, the hose being out of repair.
To the police every credit is due for their bravery. The
few gownsmcn pr.( sent showed great alacrity, some
handing buckets, others saving property or directing the
pipes, as occasion might require. The fire was not
thoroughly got under until nearly seven o'clock next
morning. A large amount of property was saved, and
safely stowed away in the Town-hall and elsewhere,
though it is supposed that even now, 10,0001. or 12,0004
worth has been destroyed.
GLASGOW, FRIDAY.—The two men, Holmes and
Walker, who were convicted yesterday, at the Circuit
Court, of robbing the Union Bank of 5004 were brought
up this morning and received the lenient sentence—
the former of 18, and the latter of 12 months' imprison-
meat.

LITERATURE.
ALISO.VS HIS7'ORY OF EUROPE.
Vols. V. and VI. Illustrated _Edition.
Portraits of a great Russien and a great Austlian
General grace the volumes just issued of the illustrate d
edition of Alison's " History of Europe"—as if in
timely mockery of a Prince IVindischgratz and a
Prince Paskewitch. Neither one nor other of the
imperialist captains represented in the first book before
us is of a very prepossessing appearance—Suwarroff
being rether crabbed in aspect than heroic, and the
Archduke Charles of Austria betraying in his somewhat
dull and unintellectual countenance no indication what-
ever of those brilliant talents and that skilful general-
ship which rendered him not unworthy of being a
competitor of the Emperor Napoleon. In the subse-
quent, tamely, the sixth volume, we have represented
two of the greatest men England ever produced,
William Pitt, the great statesman, and that man who
has been very happily termed by one of our contem-
poraries " the darling hero of England"—the im-
mortal Nelson. Those who have heard the mire-
culousa performances of Paganini on the violin
are ready to assert that his face, to them, though
grotesque in its general contour and bizarre in every
separate feature, was so illumined by the glory of his
genius, was so lit up by the rapid inspirations of his
fancy, that at times it appeared actually beautiful.
So it certainly is to us with reference to the counte-
nance of Nelson. Although without a single vestige
of grace or symmetry, the face of Nelson, from the
incomparable expression of daring which pervades
every line of it, is to us always beautiful to look upon.
It reveals the prevailing characteristic of the daunt-
less soul by which it was animated. It is the aspect
not only of the unconquered but of the unconquer-
able. And haughty as the curl of its lip appears
withal, the mouth breathes that gentleness of dispo-
sition which is ever the godlike accompaniment of
true greatness. Of late the injustice with which the
matchless achievements of Lord Nelson have been
acknowledged or recompensed by his country has
begun to agitate the public mind, and to
prompt the multitude to expiate its foregoing
ingratitude. We remember now, after forty-
four years have elapsed, that the dyirg
request of the hero of Trafalgar has been disregarded,
and that while those relatives for whom he requested
no attention were covered with the honours of the
State, were admitted to the ranks of the peerage,
were endowed with pensions, and treated as the
legatees of the glorious civism of Horatio Nelson, the
daugter of Nelson, the one being whose veins are
warm with his life's blood, has been overlooked al-
together. Suddenly the people wake from their
apathy and ingratitude, and find to their amazement
that Horatia Nelson, the child of "the darling hero
of England," is living now in honourable obscurity,
the wife of a clergyman (the Rev. Ward) without
having received that assistance of the nation which is
due to her and to her eight children—the assistance
which will enable herself and her offspring to live as
becomes the descendants of one who has helped to raise
England to its present greatness. Unhappily, we feel
when it is too late that a cruel and execrable disregard
has been shewn to the eminent services done to her
country by Lady Hamilton. The nation calls to re-
collection, when all such reminiscences are worse than
useless, how that celebrated woman enabled the British
fleet to fight the battle of the Nile, and consequently af-
forded Nelson the opportunity to gain that astonishing
victory—and how, in compensation for that patriotic
proceeding, Lady Hamilton was permitted to die of
poverty and starvation on a foreign territory. The
remorse vs ith which this circumstance must be called to
remembrance by the population of these islands should
act as a wholesome stimulant to the national justice,
we will not say the national generosity, towards the
daughter of the greatest warrior England ever pro-
duced. " There is your English Napoleon r said a
foreigner to his companion—pointing as he spoke to
the statue on the summit of the column in Trafalgar-
square. Eminently judicious as the phrase was as
indicating the pre-eminent glory of
,this one among all
the other captains of England—its irony was exqui-
sitely bitter as hinting the contrast of the homage
paid by the two countries to the memory of their two
heroes—by England to Nelson, by France to Napo-
leon. France has pronounced her homage in six
million voices, raising the representative of the
family of Napoleon to the highest post in her do•
minions, making him the first President of the new-
born Republic. England has expressed her homage
by allowing Lady Hamilton to expire from extreme
want in a distant town on the continent, and by
permitting the daughter of Nelson to live as she best
can, and to bring up eight children on the little
pittance of her husband, a simple country clergyman.
Even the monument erected to commemorate the
wonderful career of Nelson in the metropolis
of the wealthiest empire in the world

is allowed to remain month after month
year after year, incomplete—one of the disgraces of
the capital, and a perpetual subject of ridicule to the
Government. All this, however, is only in keeping
with the treatment of this great man during the
time of his existence. While Sir John Jervis was

invested with an Earldom for that victory of St.
Vincent, which was gained for bim by Captain
Nelson's disobedience of his orders, Nelson himself
was only created a Baron for that unparalleled victory
gained by him near Aboukir—a battle fought at
midnight, and at anchor. And, as if this were: not
enough, the greatest sea captain whose name is recorded
in the history of the world, the victor of St. Vincent
and of the Nile, was insulted by being sent as
second in command to fight the battle of Coren-
agen. Nelson second in command to Sir Hyde
Parker ! The fact is one- of the most
significant, one of the most painful, one of the most
pitiable in our national annals. Can the period have
arrived for the expiation of so much injustice and in-
gratitude ? Earnestly and fervently do we hope so.
Earnestly and fervently do we hope that England
will, in her treatment of the daughter of her " darling
hero," endeavour to obliterate the remembrance of her
short comings in regard to that hero himself and to
Lady Hamilton. In commenting upon the little
homage paid to the memory of Lord Nelson, we have
been so far carried away by our sorrow and indigna-
tion as to have lost sight for a time of the work
which should have - been under consideration. Yet
not so. For how could we pen a more appropriate
commentary on this portion of Alison's "History of
Europe"—this portion in which the eloquence
of the annalist has been lavished upon the
record of Nelson's wonderful and ever-
memorable achievements than by insisting
with the utmost emphasis upon the necessity of a
national tribute of love, of homage, and of gratitude
to the memory of the conqueror of Trafalgar ? This
tribute may best be offered, not in bronze or in
marble, not in the shaft of a pillar or in the chiselling
of a statue, not in inscription or in basso relievo, but
in the substantial evidences of affection which the
people of England should pay to the daughter of
Horatio Nelson,

LECTURES on SCIENCE and REVEALED
RELIGION. 2 Vols. By the Right Rev. .Ni-

cholas TVisonalz.

The celebrity acquired by these learned and elo-
quent lectures immediately on their first publication,
and the steady growth of that celebrity up to the
present period, constitute the worthiest panegyric on
their merits, and deprive us of the opportunity
to do more than announce the fact of their
appearance in a new and cheaper edi-
tion. Especially is criticism incapacitated from
doing more than repeat the announcement of the
fact of their republication, seeing that Dr. Wiseman
himself, in the "advertisement" prefixed to this, the
third edition, remarks that " it appears merely as a
transcript of the first. Higher duties," he intimates,
"leave bins but little or no leisure for the cultivation
of literature, or the continuation of those studies
which formed the delight of his youth." Hence, no
additional matter be ing interpolated in the original
materials, we have nothing further to remark than
that the two volumes before us are deserving of atten-
tion, not only for the erudition and the rhetorical
beauties which mark their composition, but also, in a
subordinate degree, for the cheapness, the compact-
ness, and tho typographical beauties which charac-
terise the manner of this republication. As an argu-
ment demonstrating the "connexion between science
and reveated religion," these lectures of Dr. NV ise.
man have a peculiar claim upon the attention of every
one filled with love and veneration for Christianity.
Christians of all denominations, whatever their creed
or the forms of their worship, must feel a profound
and absorbing interest in a series of disquisitions
with the clearness of logic and the certainty
0f
showingd induction that revealed religion is not, as many
' hare presutned to assert, incompatible with the truths
evolved in the development of the natural and the
abstract sciences; but that, on the contrary, the one
and the other are in every instance, without one soli-
tary exception, found to be consonant. The very
subject and title-page of the work will show that it
is not one jut more of a controversial character than
the "Nineveh and its Remains" of Mr. Austin
Layard. What Dr. Lingard's "Antiquities of the
Aaglo- Saxon Church" are to the cause of Roman
Catholicism, these lectures are to the general cause
of Christianity.

CULLODEN MONUMENT.—The foundations of this
monument were laid on Wednesday. It covers a circle
o f one hundred feet diameter, and the foundation stone,
it is now definitively arranged, will be laid on Wednes-
day, the 19th instant. The stone w i.l be laid with
masonic honours, by the provincial Grand Master, and
a very large assemblage is expected. '.11.1e, site of the
monument, by sanction of Mr. Forbrs, of Culloden, is
upon the actual battle-field, and within a few yards of
the graves.—Caledonian Mercury.
CHURCH-RATES AT SOUTHAMPTON.--It would
seem that church•rates are nearly doomed in this town.
At two different polls recently taken in the parish of St.
Lawrence, they were refused ; and iu the large parish of
St. Mary, a motion for collecting the amount proposed
to be levied, by voluntary contributions, was carried by
majority of thirty-eight to fifteen.

BERMONDSEY MURDER.

SOUTHWARK POLICE COURT.-(SATURDAY

RE-EXAMINATION OF MANNING AND
HIS WIFE.

The time originally fixed for bringing up the
prisoners was three o'clock, but it was altered
to one o'clock, in consequence, we understand,
of the parties engaged in the prosecution think-
ing it desirable to examine the remaining witnesses
at once, in case the life of any of them should
be placed in danger through the prevailing epidemic.
The death of the witness Basset has induced them to
take this precaution. As his depositions were not
signed, we believe that some difficulty will
arise with respect to their reception as evidence
against the prisoners at the Old Bailey. It will
be recollected that his statements formed a most
important, and almost indispensable link in the
chain of evidence which proved the disposal
of the railway shares by Manning, and traced the
changing of the bank-notes and their subsequent
possession to the female prisoner. The officers of the
court were informed this morning that though Ham-
mond, the fellow-clerk of Basset, had partly reco-
vered from his severe attack of cholera, he was this
morning unable to leave his bed.
Owing to the excellent arrangements made under
the active superintendence of Mr. Edwin, the chief
clerk, the court was prevented from being too over-
crowded.
The witnesses whose evidence will be taken to -day,
are Mr. Payne, the person who resides opposite No.
3, Minver-place, Mrs. Schofield, who lives next
door, the girl Firman, who was employed
by Mrs. Manning to clean up the house, and Miss
Wells, who is to produce the address given by Man-
ning when he purchased the lime.
The night charges were very limited in number,
and occupied only a short time.
The magistrate had appointed twelve o'clock
for hearing a summons taken at the in-
stance of the Board of Health against the
parish authorities of St. Saviour's for refusing to
close up, according to their order, the Cross Bones
burial-ground, which for a long time has been a sub-
ject of great complaint among the inhabitants. The
parish officers were in attendance at that hour, as
well as Mr. Clarkson, who appeared in sup-
port of the summons, hut Mr. Bodkin, who
was retained on the part of the defendants, did not
reach the court until half-past one. It was at once
arranged that the case should be deferred until later
in the day, and that the Meanings should be brought
up first.
Mr. Edwin immediately dispatched the van to bring
the Prisoners from the gaol, and before the lapse of
a quarter of an hour it returned into the court-yard,
where a very large number of persons were allowed
to assemble to see them alight.
All the witnesses already examined having been
requested to take up their positions behind the dock,
the prisoners were brought in.
Manning looked very pale and downcast.
Hie dress was entirely different to that which he
wore on the former occasion, and he had on a black
dress coat, black trousers, a black waistcoat, and black
silk handkerchief.
There was no apparent change in Mrs. Manning,
and she was dressed as before.
Mr. Binns again attended for Manning and took up
his usual position behind the prisoner.
Mr. Solomons not being present for the female
prisoner,
Mr. Keene, governor of the gaol, said that she ole•
jected to the case proceeding is his absence.
Mr. Edwin, after making inquiries from the
officers, stated that notice had been given to him that
the case would come on at one o'clock.
Mr. Keene—The female prisoner says that she had
an interview with jr. Solomons at half past twelve
o'cicck, and that he did not then know that the hour
had been changed.
After the lapse of a few minutes Mr. Solomons
made his appearance, and said that he was under the
impression that the hour agreed up m was three
o'clock.

The depositions of the previous witnesses were then
read over in their presence, daring which time the
prisoners remained seated.

Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon (in correcting his evi-
dence as to the state of the coal shovel received from
Mr. Bainbridge)—l said I did not think it was blood
upon the shovel. I did not say positively that it was
not blood. I could not make out what it was ; it
looked like rust ; very probably it was rust. The
hair found in it was decidedly not that of the de-
ceaFed.

In the course of reading over the depositions, it was
found that a few of the witnesses were absent from
illness and other causes. Mr. Griffiths, the clerk at
the Bank of England, it was stated, had been suffer-
kg under an attack of diarrhoea and could not attend.
Nearly an hour-and-a-half elapsed before Mr.
Elwin got through the evidence, and after this was
done, the signatures of each witness had to be ob-
tainei, which occupied an additional quarter of an
hour.

Contrary to expectation, Mr. Hammond here made
his appearance in the court, and his evidence having
been read over, he attached his signature to it. His
recovery had been rapid, but he looked still in a weakly
and debilitated state.

(Mr. Bodkin here intimated that it had been
arranged to postpone the St. Saviour's parish case
for a few days, on the understanding that no funerals
should take place in Cross-bones ground in the
meantime.)

On the application of Mr. Binns, who said that
Manning had a medical certificate to show he was
unwell, the Magistrate allowed him to be seated. Mrs.
Manning stood up.
William Conley, a dentist living at Osborne-street,
Whitechapel, examined, said—l have seen a set of
artificial teeth in the possession of Mr. Slow, search-
ing officer. They are of my make. I supplied them
to Patrick O'Connor in June, 1847. a .

- ,
Mary Wells, spinster, residing at 4, Russell-street,
Bermondsey, examined—l know the male prisoner. I
saw him in the gaol mixed with a number of others.
That is the man. (Manning was here requested to
stand up.) I recollect him coming to my father's for
some lime. He bought sixpenny worth. I do not
remember the particular day, but it was on a Monday,
in July. He said he wanted it to kill slugs with in
the garden. I asked him which sort he
would have, white or grey. He said that he did
not mind which, but he wanted that which would
burn the quickest. I said I did not know which
that was. He then replied that he would have some
of each. I told him we had no white in the yard.
Then he said he would have the grey. He paid the
6d , and said it was to be sent. He asked for pen
and ink, and wrote a direction on a piece of
paper. I gave that direction to the boy Walsh,
who took the lime two days afterwards. I gave
that paper to Wali,h at the same time that the pri-
soner bought the lime.
By Mr. Binns—There was some one at home be-
sides myself at the time. There was a maid-
servant. Manning was in the yard ; she was
present in the yard at the time and
heard what was said. Her name is Anne
Taylor. She is not present. I cannot recollect when
I first heard of this affair. I heard of it from the boy
Walsh, but I cannot recollect the day or time. I
have had no conversation with any one with
respect to my evidence, except with Mr. Hay-
ward, last night. I went to him at White-
hall. Mr. Yates directed myl father to take me ;
my father went with me, and he heard ail that passed.
I first heard about the affair a month after the mur-
der was committed. The boy Walsh told Ann
Taylor of it at the same time. My father was also
telkof it. I have read a good deal with reference to
this affair in the papers. I read Walsh's evidence.
We never looked over the paper together. He can't
read. We take in the Patriot newspaper every week.
Anna Trimer,living in Staple-street, Long-lane,
examined, said—l was twelve last March. I carry
newspapera about the street to sell. I remember
being near Minver-piace on a Friday, and heard of
the finding of a dead body. I believe it was
found at No. 3. I saw some policemen in the
house. On the Saturday before that Friday,
I was in that neighbourhood, and I saw some one
cleaning the windows at No. 3. I spoke to that per-
son. I see her here (pointing to the female prisoner).
I said to her, " If you please, ma'am, don't you want
a person to clean your steps ?" She said " You 'can
come on Monday." I said I could not. She then
asked me if I could clean other things beiides
the steps, and I said " Yes." She then asked me how
much I would charge: I said 51.—(N laugh.) She
then told me to come in. I cleaned different parts of
the house under her directions. She asked me if I
could wash the blinds, and I said I could not as they
would cut my hand. I said I would clean
the back kitchen. She said "No," she sail
not want that done, as she had cleaned that the day
afterwards
before, and also the front kitchen. She
lt
said I might clean the back kitchen. I did so.
neither looked dirty nor clean. I noticed a bal:t ;
it had something white in it like lime. She wanted i
me to scrub it out. It was near a cupboard. I tried to
scrub it, but could not do it from my hand being bad.
She then scrubbed the basket. She left off because
she had used all the water. I was there from half- i
past nine till seven at night. I saw a man there
during the day, and I should know him again. That
is the man (after looking about the
court, and pointing to Manning). I am sure
it was him ; he went out twice, and came in twice.
He was in the first time half an hour. He spoke to
the female prisoner, but I did not hear what he said.
The second time he was there about ten minutes.
He stamped his foot on the ground ; this was in the
front room up stairs, into which he CaTIIC. He
stamped his foot on the ground, and said " Give it to
me directly." She said, " Yes." I saw sornetbino•

given. I cannot say what it was. I did not notice
if she took anything out of her pocket. He then
went out, I cannot say where, and I did not see him

again.
Reexamined—Had both a fether and mother.
Gilder Welder said she lived with Bainbridge, the
broker, as a servant. Identfid. Manning. Recol-
lected his coming to her master's house on the 13th
of August. Was sent by him with a message to his
wife in Minver-place ; could not find the house, and
returned and told him so. Manning went and came
back a short time after with a bottle of brandy. Mrs.
Bainbridge asked him if his wife had come in ; he
said she had not, and that she had gone into the
country.
By Mr. Binns—Was in the room laying the tea-
things when Mrs. Bainbridge asked the question.
Mary Scholefield lives opposite No. 3, Minver-
place—Recollected Mrs. Manning go away in a cab
on the 13th of August, about half-past three. Man-
ning came to the door and knocked at it at five o'clock.
He knocked first, and then tapped at the window. Came
over and asked her if she had seen his wife ; no one
having answered, I told him she had gone in a cart.
He then asked if she had any luggage with her. I
told him she had a good that He then went over ti
No. 2, and went into the house.
Mr. Colman was called, but did not answer.
Sophia Payne examined—Recollected Manning
coming to her house, 2, Minver-place, on a Monday
evening, but did not recollect the date. He said his
wife was out, and asked her to let him go through
her house. He did so, and got over the wall into his
own house. Saw him no more that day. On the
Thursday before that Monday saw him sitting on the
garden wall. He was smoking. He spoke to her,
and asked who was with her. Some trifling con-
versation took place about railway matters and
the Railway King. He was there about twenty
minutes. He then jumped down very abruptly,
saying that he must go, as he had an appointment to
keep. Saw no more of him that evening. Witness
Was not home that evening until eleven. Her hus-
band was at home. Manning had told her that he was
a traveller. Beyond that she did not know how they
got their living. Did not tell Manning she was going
out on the evening referred to.
Mr.Youngliusband, 46, Peckham-row, gauger in her
Majesty's Customs—Had known O'Connor for 10 or
12 years. Saw him on London-bridge on the Tours -
day, about five or a quarter past five. Witness saw
him from the omnibus in which he (witness) was
riding. lle was going towards the Surrey side.
Mr. J. C. Coleman, a locker in the Customs—Had
known O'Connor for eight or ten years. Saw him
last alive eight or ten minutes after five on Thursday,
9th of August, in Weston-street, about three minutes'
walk from 3, Minver- place. Was on the opposite
side of the street. Did not therefore speak to him.
Lost sight of him before he reached Alinvcr-place.
He appeared well.
Mr. Bodkin here intimated that it was proposed
to adjourn for eight days from this time ; but
seeing the mortality which unhappily surrounded them,
and by which they had lost one witness, it was de-
sirable that the depositions of the other wit-
nesses should be taken as early as possible ;
and by Wednesday next they had reasonable
expectation that those who were absent from indis-
position would be able to attend. He should there-
fore propose that they adjourn the case until that day.
The MAGISTRATE then directed that the prisoners
should be brought up again on Wednesday next at
three o'clock.
It took considerable time to clear the court before
the prisoners ceuld be taken our.
Mrs. Manning stood during the whole examination.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(Fnien the United Se, rice Gazette.)

OFFICIAL S ultv.cy.—A Committee of Mister Ship-
wrights is ordered to assemble at Shutrness Duck-
yard to survey the Revenge 76, and the Vestal, 26.
The former was built in 1819 by Hen6low, and the
latter was built in 1833 by Symonds, and it is ex-
pected that neither of them i 3 worth the amount of
money they are estimated to cost in repairing and
fitting for sea. Certainly the Revenge has outlived
her time and class, and although nearly a quarter of
a century younger, the same may be said of the
Vestal.

Major General Macdonald's departure from Kil-
kenny for Scotland, on lave, was to have taken place
on the 11th instant, but is countermanded in conse-
quence of an expected outbreak at Carrick-on-Suir,
to which place cavalry and infantry have marched.
THE REDUCTION OF LABOURERS AT PORTSMOUTH.

—lt has been reported that there has been a reduc-
tion of seamen riggers at Portsmouth. We under-
stand that the reduction is of those men who have
been retained as labourers to the prejudice of seamen
riggers who ought to have been employed ; other
labourers who were seamen and had remained more
than a twelvemonth in the dockyard have been dis-
charged into the flag-ship from the dockyard books
for sea service.

TELE BLANE MEDALS.-The Blane Medals for the
years 1845 and 1846, have just been awarded to Peter
Leonard, Esq., late surgeon of her Majesty's ship
Eagle, now doing duty at Melville Hospital ; and to
H. W. Mahon, Esq., M.D., late surgeon of her Ma-
jesty's ship Samarang.
PROMOTION IN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

—The North Pole Expedition, under Sir J. Franklin,
had, on leaving England, five mates, standing from
1841 to 1845, and two second masters, standing from

1842 to 1843, the claims of each party—the ships
sailed early in 1845—for promotion may at least have
been taken as equal. In April aad May, two months
after sailing, the five mates were promoted to be
lieutenants oftheir respective ships, and should they be
fortunate enough to reach England, say early in 1850,
will of course be promoted to commanders. The
second masters have not been promoted, but will be,
we may suppose, on their return, so that the mate will
have gained 1,8001. and his lieutenant's and his com-
mander's rank, and the second master 6001. and his
master's rank. If they are not so fortunate as to see
England again, the widows (if any) of the former get
701. per annum, and of the latter nil.
MILITARY OPERATIONS AT PonTsmouni.—The
great success which has attended the night operations,
conducted at Portsmouth under the auspices of Lord
Frederick Fitzclarence, and of which we gave a very
particular account some weeks ago, has led, we hear,
to the contemplation of some arrangements for re•
peating the exhibition on the night of the 28th inst.,
when an illustrious personage will probably be pre-.
sent, and afterwards sleep on board the Royal yacht
at Portsmouth or Spithead.
MR. PITMAN AND THE LATE MASTER'S ASSISTANT
OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CHILDEES.—We under-
stand that, on application to the Admiralty, their
Lordship's officially withdrew the words " with dis-
grace " which Commander Pitman unwarrantably
appended to Mr. Smith's diacharge from the service,
as Masters Assistant of the Childers, but their Lord-
ships intimated that it was not their intention to
employ him again. Under these circumstances, we
are informed that Mr. Smith (who is son of a Lieu-
tenant It N.) is about to commence an action at law
against Mr. Pitman.
The Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Admiral
Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., and the Lieutenant-Governor,
Rear• Admiral Sir James Gordon, K.C.8., are absent,
and so great was the panic this Meek that one officer
took French leave, and cleared with all his family,
medals, clasps, &c. Numbers of the old pensioners
have fallen victims to the prevailing epidemic, and
there is a great doal of sickness amongst the boys of
the school.