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London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

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N°. 17,683.] LONDON, TUESDAY
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UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.—S, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97,
GetHge-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, Col-
e-se-green, Dublin.

DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. D. Q. Henriques, Esq.
Hamilton Blair Avarne, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident. 1 William ltailton, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq. I F. H. 'Thomson, Esq.
SECOND SEPTENNIAL DIVISION OF PROFITS.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament in 1834, affords
he most perfect security in a large paid.up Capital, and in the great
success which has attended It since its commencement—iTs ANNUAL
INCOME. BEING UPWARDS OF 94,0001.
In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2/. per cent, per annum on
the sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected, to the 31st of December, 1840, and from
that date to 31st December, 1847, 2141. per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting on the 6th of July, 1848.
The bonus thus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of
December, 1847, is as follows:

Sam Time sured. Sum added to Sum added to Sum payable
As
Assured. • Policy inlB4l Policy in 1848 at Death.
£5OOO 13 years 10 mths £683 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
5000 12 years 500 0 0 787 10 0 6287 10 0
5000 10 years 300 0 0 787 10 0 6087 10 0
5000 8 years 100 0 0 787 10 0 5887 10 0
5000 6 years • • • • G 75 0 0 5675 0 0
5000 4 years 450 0 0 5450 0 0
5000 2 years 225 0 0 5225 0 0
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years where the In-
surance is for Life.
No Entrance Money or charge except the Policy Stamp.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Director, No. 8, Waterloo-place, London.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY.
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
Upon the Principle of Mutual Life Assurance, the Whole Profits
belonzing to the Assured.
No. 31, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
I
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Mados, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
John Hamilton, Esq.
James Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
Charles 0. Parnell, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
John Dangerfield, Esq.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE attention of parties desirous of Insuring their
Lives is requested to the lmpsrtant ativantqgen to be secured
by effecting policies with the SCOTTISII UNION INSURANCE
CORPORATION.
A printed statement of the large additions made to the policies at
the two last periodical investigations may be had at the offices.
London Offices, 37, Cornhill.
LONDON BOARD or DIRECTION.
President—Right Hon. the Earl of MANSFIELD.
Vice-President—Right Hon. the Earl of SEAFIELD.

Charles Balfour, Esq. I H. M.Kesmhead, Esq. I J. R. Robertson, Esq.
Robert Gillespie, Esq. I John Kingston. Esq. IH. F. Sandeman, Esq.
J. E. Goodhart, Esq. R. °Everson, Esq.
Prospectuses and tables in detail may be hal at the offices, 37,
Cornhill, London. F. G. SMITH, Sec.

FINANCIAL REFORM.
REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURE.
In our advocacy of a Financial Reform, it will be seen that we do
not seek to confer a privilege upon one class, at the expense of an-
other ; but in our transactions, to apply principles of such sterling
value and universal import as mast prove, in the fullest sense of the
term, equally advantageous to all. We seek, in fact, to reduce, not
the income, but the expenditure, of every individual. How this may
be effected the following outline of our novel, yet well appreciated
business system, will readily show.
POSSESSING LARGE ESTABLISHMENTS
in most of the principal towns in Great Britain, our concentrated
purchases are necessarily ♦ery extensive ; from this cause we are
enabled to obtain materials direct from the manufacturers, for cash,
at prices considerably lower than the average. Our garments are de-
signed and cut by talented artists, and manufactured by experienced
workmen ; our profits are calculated at a nominal per-tentage upon
original cost, and the price is marked on every garment, in plain
Cures, from which no deviation is allowed. These facts, together
with the accommodation afforded by the exchange of garments not
approved after purchase, afford advantages to our patrons such as
have been seldom, if ever, elsewhere presented, enabling them to
effect a reduction in their expenditure, at least in the item
" Clothing," of not less than 40 per cent., as the following brief
price list will testify to some extent :

10 0
25 0

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS.
Copy of a letter from Mr. J. J. Wilson, Chemist, Moak Bar,

York,

`• To Mr. Thomas Prout,

" 14th June, 1547.

dreadfully for
about six weeks ago to
gfonrotbheenteafistt afrixomyeathrse from
it repeatedmedical Sialaail ityt aiaccveki nsl go sfutffh
couldee gout,redm
and elbows were
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taking them, which was in t .
Iwas suffering the most intense
try a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. When I commenced
agony. I had that night sound
very much swollen and inflamed . .
and before I had finished
the morning comparatively free from.
not only entirely
the box. I never was better and
praeifirie;slung sleep, and awoke in
in my life : they have
removed the gout, but have also very much improved my general
health. I have since recommended them to four individuals, who
have suffered much from gout and rheumatism ; and aey all speak
highly of the benefit they have received from them. If you think
my case worthy of insertion among the many cures effected by your
wonderful medicine, you are at perfect liberty to publish it.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
The above testimonial exhibits " J. J. WILSON."
the never-failing effects of this
valuable medicine, which affords to the afflicted with gout, rheuma-
certain relief. tism, lumbago, sciatica, and all analogous complaints,
speedy and
y
They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and
vnital par t.
ivariabl prevent the disease attacking tho stomach, brain, or other
Soldb by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint-
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Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe
the name and address of " Thomas Propuat,m2.2e9d, Sttoraneadc,
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Steel.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured E
PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE lA'
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MAIM I u'EnICAPA"
Edition, enlarged to ISG pages. Just published,lpAril .
by noA, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postageprice
2s. 64” or
IHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work
the infirmities and decay of the generative system px.rnt on
eessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of et x_
ercury,
with remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain
qualifications. Illitstrstod by 24 Coloured Engravings. By n. dnd
dis-
t,. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, an
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by
Strange,
21, Paternoster-row: liannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ;
Starie, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden_
hall-street.
Parr I. treats of the r.natoray and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
Pm 11. treats of lila cc sequences resulting from excessive indul-
gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity.
Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and centaim explicit directions for
their treatment. This ,ectioo is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravings.
PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is ob-
viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the
reader's notice.

PART Y. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and
the whale subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
TrE CORDIAL BALM Or Sri:Liam! is exclusively employed in treat-
ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, dsc„ lls. and 33e. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, as anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifyin. the blood in oases ofinfecticis, secondary symp-
toms, eruptions, and abuse of mercury, 112. and 335, per bottle.
Perry', Purifying Spociae Pills, Se. 9d., 4s. 6,L, and I Is. par box, a
certain remedy for goncrrhcca, elect, stricture, and chronic inflamma-
tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute
retail of the case is required : ago, habits, and position in society.
5/. Packets, with advlc:e, to be bad at tho Establishment only, by
which the foe, 'I., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
dance daily at 19, Besets-street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele-
ven till Two, and live to Eight ; Gil stindaya from Z'ovon to.9t2e.

TELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
IIOLTSF, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors Last of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite
Adam-street.
Messrs. .ARCHErt and HOLT most respectfully invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hote, which takes place at half-past Five precisely-, the
most comfortable and reasonable In the metropolis.—Fish and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers untt One
o'clock. Private Dining-rooms. excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stoat.
N.E. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

AFINE HAUNCH OF VENISON ready at
six o'clock every THURSDAY At the PIAZZA HOTEL, Covent
Garden. Turtle and White Bait daily. Private dining and supper
rooms. No charge made for apartments or lights.

ROYAL ACADEMY of ARTS
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY Is NOW OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
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Just published, in Bvo., rise One ShiLing,
THE TRUE STATEMENT of the CHURCH
LEASEHOLD QUESTION.
London : Longman, Brown, green, and Longmans.

T° FLYING DUTCHMAN,
THE WINNER OF THE DERBY, 1849.
Well done, my lad ! thou art a noble horse,
And well hast won the day on Epsom's course.
Come let me give thy neck a friendly pat;
I will not harm thee, rest assured of that.
In vain did Honeycomb and Old Dan Tuck
Do what they could to leave thee in the ru.A.
Thew didst thou beat, while Vatican and Nunny,
Beside thy noted self looked rather funny.
The Crowner thou hast crowned, and Vanguard, too,
And proved how little Chantrey's legs could dn.
The chattering of The Chatterer thou hast hushed,
And even past brave Hotspur host thou rushed.
Old Fox and Tadmor, Goodwood and The Knout,
Thy nimble shanks have beaten out-and-out ;
While o'er the land thy triumphs are rehearsed
In these few words—" The Flying Dutchman First."
Ale ! gallant horse ! the way the Derby closes,
Has furnished me a thought or two for Moses.
First, like thyself, have Moses ever been
Whatever may have come to intervene :
•
First in the quality of their attire.
And first in style—a style which all admire.
Tne Trousers, Coats, and Vests, of M. and Son
Have gained the odds of a successful run ;
And all who view the articles will find
That competition's efforts lag behind.
Thus, Flying Dutchman, have I done my duty,
And now a word to those who win the booty :
To such successful winners I would say,
Improve the winnings of the Derby Day.
And if they ask how this may best be done,
I'd simply point to Messrs. H. and Son.
LIST OF PRICES.
BEADY MADE.
Men' Spring, and Summer Wrappers.. from 0 8 6
The Bulwer, Fuchs, Paletot, and every descrip-
tion of light Over-coal s•••• • • • • ••• • • .... 1 2 6
Cloth Over Coats, of a light texture, and hand-
somely trimmed ............ •••. • • • • ...• 1 1 0
Do. do. lined with 5i1k.............. I 8 0
Do. do. sup error quality ............ 1 is 0
Jean and llelland Blouses .• •••• • • • ......... 0 2 9
Fancy Victoria do. •• •• •• • •
..... 0 4 6
Dress Coat ............... ..... .... 0 17 0
Spring and Summer Trousers .............. 0 4 0
Doeskin and Buckskin d 0................... 0 7 6
Spring and Summer Vests in every variety.. 0 1 6
Black and Figured Satin Vests...... •....... 0 4 6
Black de., superior quality .. ............ 0 9 6
White Ma*cella Vests .• 0 4 6
Men's Black Cloth Vests .. ••.. • • 0 3 6
Boy's Spring and Summer Tests • • ........ 0 010
Boys' (lesser and Tunic itits•...... ....... 015 0
Men's Fishing Coats in great variety 0 4 0
MADE TO atrasnag.
Paletots made from a variety of material, fitted
for Summer wear • ....
Do. very elegantly trimmed .............. 1 8 0
Superior Cloth of a light texture • • .......... 1 15 0
Ditto ditto lined with 2 2 0
Ditto Dress Coat.. •• •• •••• • • • • ........ 1 12 0
Superfine Frock do. • • •........... 1 15 0
Best do. ..... 3 3 0
Fancy Doeskin Trousers.
Black do. ... .......
••• .. 1 6 0
Black Cloth Vests •• .. ...... •• • • .... 0 8 6
Best d 0.......
Wen 'id Satin Vest.. • •• .• •• • • 014 6
Huasar and Tunic suits •• .• . 1 5 0
Superfine do. .. •••• .. • ••.••• • • • • • ... 1 15 0
al( n's White Marcelli Vests •• • • • 0 7 0
Fishing Coats in endless variety from 0 10 6to 1 16 0
Elegant Dressing Itobcs in great
variety • • ...• from 0 16 Ito 5 0 0
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice.
A Suit of Clothes complete for 1/. 10s.
The new book, entitled the "Great Fact," with full directions
for Self-measurement, can be had on application, or forwarded, post
free, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice-1 he Shawl and Parasol Department are now replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MORES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, and 157 Minorlezt, and 83, 44, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City.
London ; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Moses and Sen regret having to guard the public
against imposition ; but having heard that the untradesman-like
lsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
has been resorted ha in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
they beg to state that they have AO connexion with any other house
in or out of London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Far-
gate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire ;
ant those who require cheep and genuine clothing, &0.. should call
at or tend to the MiNories and Aidgate, City, London ; or either of
the Branch Establishments, a: above.
Take Notice.—This Establis!tment is closed from sunset Friday,
t!ll sunset aturday. when bus ness is resumed till twelve o'clock.

A A G E.
in One half the world are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
eornprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form au item
In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. In 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
oy raleinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
ter the elaset perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash pat forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
tittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library voltune, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life Nall) owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob.
servam:a of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
an the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
iterwood, s 3, Paternoster-raw; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•strcet • Mann,
33, Corrihill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand; or direct (by post or other-
wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally,
mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-plaee Regent-street; and ail
Booksellers.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, MAY 28.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk
in the Park this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, and the
younger branches of the Royal Family, walked and rode
in the grounds at Osborne.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party.
The Rev. J. I'rotheroe performed the service and
preached the service in Whippingham Church yesterday
morning. The Queen and the Prince, and the Ladies
and Gentlemen of the Royal Household, attended the
service.

Sir James Clark left Osborne yesterday for London.

Her Royal Highness the _Oneness et Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, left town at half•past nine
o'clock yesterday morning, for her residence, Frogmore
House, Windsor. Her Royal Highness returned to Cla-
rence House, St. James's, in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Stre-
litz, arrived at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday
afternoon, from Kew. The Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, after their
arrival.

His Royal Highness Prince George attended Divine
service on Sunday, in the Chap-21 Royal, St. James's.
Dispatches mere sent off yesterday evening from ao
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Our theatre this week has had
peculiar attractions, sterling pieces having been per-
formed each evening. On Tuesday, Mr. George Owen
made his appearance in A .lVew Way to Pay Old Debts,
and sustained the difficult :part of Sir Giles Overreach
in a very able manner. Thu .other characters were also
creditably sustained. On Tuesday Mr. Owen ap-
peared as Macbeth. and was ably supported by Mr.
Pritchard as Macduff, and by that talented actress Mrs.
Dyas, as Lady Macbeth. On Thursday the play was
Richard the 7 bird. Mr. Owen was very flatteringly re-
ceived each evening. This uctor's superior talent has
been publicly recognised O. over the country. At
Devonport, be was presented with a beautiful silver
snuff box; at Newcastle-u,:pon-Tyne he received a
valuable watch and guard, for his representation of
Macbeth; and at Forth the officers of the 33d Regiment
presented him with a splendid chain for his representa-
tion of the same character. -Last night he played Shy.
lock, in the Merchant of Venice, before a highly respect-
able auditory, and Mrs. Beaumont Owen appeared as
Clara. in Charles the Second- This lady is mother to
Mr. George Owen, and daugblter of the late Dr. Browne,
of Trinity College, Dublin; Ids o late of the Covent-gar-
den and Haymarket theatresi, and the Queen's Concert
Room, London. Mr. George 'Owen will make his last
appearance this evening in The Iron Chest. It will be
seen by advertisement that the celebrated Mr. George
Wild, and also Alias Fanny Williams,
a well known
vocalist, have baen engaged for the ensuing week, and
that the lessee's complitnenta ry benefit is fixed for Tues-
day evening.— York Herald.
RAILWAY TUBES.—The Tour large tubes of the
Britannia tubular bridge, on which the Chester and Holy-
head Railway will cross the 'Menai Straits, are finished
—three of the sm.iller ones arcarly so; and the last will
be commenced immediately.
THE CHOLERA.—In the. -west and south-west of
the United States the chol era, is gaining ground. At,
Cincinnati it is so fatal that a great public festival about
to take place there has b ;en postponed.--New York
Tribune.

AMERICAN NEWS.
DREADFUL RIOTS IN NEW YORK.

[We yesterday published a summary of the news
received by the steam-ship America; we now sub-
j.)in the interesting details.]
NEW YORK, MAY 18.—The letters brought by
the Cambria, last week, showed that Forrest's (the
American actor's) attempts to drive Mr. Macready
from the New York stage, had, by the aid of a
ruffian mob, been so far successful as to prevent
Macready going through with the performance of
Macbeth on the night of his first appearance. At the
time of writing we little dreamed that the city would
be thrown into terror, much less that riot and terrible
loss of human life would result from continued efforts
of some parties to carry out their unjustifiable and
lawless designs. New York has now played its share
in the revolutionary wars of 1849, its revolution
brought about by the quarrels of two actors. Between
20 and 30 persons were killed by the troops, and
many wounded. The affair may be thus shortly re-
lated. After Macready's first reception he had deter-
mined to leave, and had arranged to do so ; he was,
however, persuaded to make another trial, having re.
ceived an address, signed by many of the leading
gentlemen of
TO
Nv
wY.ocr.I:IACHEADY, Esq.
York.
The following is the letter :
" Dear Sir,—The undersigned, having heard that the
outrage at the Astor-place Opera House on Monday
evening is likely to have the effect of preventing you
from continuing your performances, and from concluding
your intended farewell engagement on the American
e and of assuring you that the
stage, take this public method of requesting you to re-
gcoono;lidseernseyoauhrd
respectdecision r order prevailing in this fcom-
munity will sustain you on the subsequent nights of your
performances :
" Ambrose L. Jordan, Edward Sandford, Willis Hall,
James Foster, jun., D. C. Pell, Ogden Hoffman, Howard
James Collis, Edward
W. Francis, Wessell S.
Smith,Bl-I.eGould,n(lr s 9WMSi.lal Prichard,imamu e IICBen.tR,
Benjamin D. Silliman, David
Austen, M. M. Noah, F. R. Tillou, Henry J. Raymond,
Charles A. Davis, Pierre M. Irving, Moses H.
Gtinnell, Henry A. Stone, George Bruce,
Washington Irving, Francis B. Cutting, Jos.
L. White, Matthew Morgan, David C. Colden,
Ogden P. Edwards, John It. Bartlett, Richard Grant
White, Evert A. Duyckinck, J. Prescott Hall, RoberkJ..
Dillon, Ralph Lockwood, William C. Barrett, David
Graham, Edward Curtis, James Brooks, J. E. Delray,
Jacob Little, H. W. Field, J. Beekman Finlay, Denning
Doer, Simeon Draper, Herman Melville, Cornelius
Mathews."
These are all first-rate and highly respected men.
Mr. Alacready could not well refuse this request,
urged under such a plea. He acceded in the follow-
ing terms :

" TO WASHINGTON IRVING, WILLIAM KENT, &C., ESQS.
" Dear Sirs,—l have the honozr of acknowledging
your obliging letter delivered to me this day.
" It is one I find some difficulty in answering.
" Under the unprovoked indignities offerod to me in
the Astor-place Theatre, it was certainly my desire and
my fixed purpose to avail myself of the legal right thus
offered me, and withdraw at once from nay engagement
contracted there.

" In leaving this country, which has been endeared to
my recollection by long and strong attachments, I should
not have done you the injustice of associating the
American character with the ill-deeds of persons, un-
happily too frequently to be found in every large com-
munity; and in the same spirit which would preserve me
from a hasty and inconsiderate judgment upon the
late occurrences, I assent to your request, honouring
and feeling grateful for the sentiment that has dic-
tated it.
" I remain, dear Slav, most faithfully yours,
" W. C. MACREADY.

" New York Hotel, May 9, 1549,"
On Wednesday night last, then, in pursuance of
his yielding to the wishes of the respectable citizens,
Mr. Macready appeared for the second time, to per-
form the part of Macbeth. The rights of the pro-
prietors, the rights of Mr. Macready, the rights of
those who went to the theatre, the rights, in short, of
the peaceable and order-loving portion of the commu-
nity, were preserved and vindicated ; though only by
an appeal to the last resort, and, we are sorry to say,
at a fearful cost.

A crisis had arrived which it was the duty of the
authorities to meet, firmly and effectively; they un-
derstocd this, and met it promptly, adequately, and
definitely. They showed that though forbearing, they
could act in time to save the honour, credit, and order
of the community whose servants they are.
At an early hour the theatre was surrounded by a
momently-increasing crowd of people, some of whom
evidently actuated by curiosity, many by sinister
motives, and some by an apparent sense of supervisory
responsibility, which last signalised their interest in
the forthcoming events of the evening, by distri-
buting tickets very freely among the crowd. At
nearly seven o'clock a strong detachment of police
were marched into the amphitheatre entrance, and
immediately a placard was put up there "All sold."
Meantime the police had gone in in considerable force
below. At the announced hour the doors were opened,
and a strong detachment of the police was found to
be in possession of a good point in every quarter of
the house, above and below. There were just seven
ladies present, two of whom were in a private box in
the second tier.

The overture was played without any demonstra-
tions of disorder. The witch scene was got through
without interruption;
and when Macduff appeared
he was greeted with very marked applause by a small
squad in the parquettes, and a somewhat larger one
in the amphitheatre. On Mr. Macready's first en-
trance he was greeted with tremendous applause.
The house, it was apparent, was in his favour hundreds
to one. But there were groaning and hissing, and
the party in the parquette directly down to the or-
chestra was tremendously uproarious, doubling their
fists at Macready as he came forward, and bidding
him " Be off ! be off!" &c. This was endured for a
long time, and the first act was nearly all dumb show.
At length the uproar became perfectly frantic, and
the friends of order were requested from the stage to
keep quiet. About this time the chief of police ap-
peared in front of the boxes, and ordered the police
(who had been marking their men) to take the
rioters out from below, and his order was obeyed to
the letter. His men did their duty valiantly, and
they were taken out, carried down stairs, and put
under a strong guard.
Meantime the clamour continued above ; and very
soon the Recorder appeared in the parquette with his
staff of office, accompanied by the chief of police, and
called on the police to take out those who were dis-
turbing the house. This was done, and the rioters
were carried below, and put with their companions,
amidst the plaudits of the audience.
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ejected, there commenced a perfect bombardment of
the house from the outside. Stones were thrown
against the windows (which were carefully barricaded
inside), and there was one hour of almost uninter-
rupted smashing of glass, accompanied by the most
frantic yells of the mob outside. Some of the stones
(and, at times, a volley of them appeared to be
thrown together) broke down the barricades in
places, came in among the audience, causin—
g several
of them to leave their seats very precipitately. One
stone hit the great glass chandelier, and caused a good
deal of scattering.
But through all this the play went on, and with a
comparative possibility of hearing it. Nobody on
the stage appeared in the least alarmed, though many
of the missiles were falling on the stage, from the
outside, very much, by this time. Mr. Macready,
particularly, preserved his equanimity admirably.
We have never seen the fifth act of Macbeth so splen-
didly and perfectly performed.
From time to time there were pauses in the uproar
from outside, and intermissions in the assault of
stones. This, in fact, was, at about nine o'clock,
entirely stopped on the Eightlrstreet side. The in-
siders, as it turned out, truly attributed this to the
action of the military, which was surrounding the
theatre in force. The rioters were evidently checked
in their outrages upon the house for a time; so that
the closing scenes in the tragedy were distinctly
heard and appreciated. Mr. Macready never acted
better. He was called out, and bowed his acknow-
ledgments of the warm plaudits which greeted him
on his appearance.
About this time there was a renewal of the din
outside; and just as the curtain rose for the farce
two members of the National Guard were brought
into the boxes, badly hurt by stones from the mob,
and medical attendance was demanded for them,
which was luckily at hand.
During all this a most diabolical hail storm of
paving-stones was projected through the broken
windows upon the heads of the unprotected audience,
who were forced to dodge, as best they might, from
the fearful projectiles. The mob outside was in-
creasing each moment in numbers and ferocity.
Several of the policemen had been brought in severely
wounded, one or two of the entrances were forced,
and as everything appeared like a most fixed deter-
mination on the part of the rioters outside to destroy
the house, and the most imminent danger impended
lover its inmates, Mayor Woodhull, who was present,
gave orders to General Sandford to bring the Inili•

tary into the meles. The order was promptly obeyed,
and in a few minutes several companies of the
National Guard were placed in position round the
theatre.

They were at first greeted with hisses and groans,
but in a short time, just after the curtain fell on
Macbeth, the paving-stones began to be hurled at
them, and many of them were very severely, if not
fatally, injured. They stood this pitiless pelting,
however, like veterans, and for nearly half an hour
submitted, without an effort at retaliation, to the
dangerous assault, only removing their comrades in-
side the theatre so fast as they were struck down.
This passiveness on their part seemed, however, only
to increase the rage of the infuriated rioters,
and at the solicitations of the chief of police,
Mr. Recorder Talimadge, amid a shower of missiles,
ventured his life to warn them off. The caution was
unheeded, and the Mayor and Sheriff Westervelt
being called to the seen e—the danger every moment
becoming more imminent—the order was finally, very
reluctantly, given to fire.
To the honour of the National Guard, as citizen
soldiers, a platoon instantly answered the summons;
a number of the mob fell, and among them a noted
convict from the state prison. The rioters then re-
treated in confusion, but, soon rallying, they came on
more determined than ever ; and it was only after
three more volleys had been discharged into the ex-
cited crowd that they were induced to retire. Pro-
bably 200 balls were fired; between 20 and 30 per-
sons were shot dead on the spot or have since died,
and numerous others wounded.

•
Mr. Macready made the best of his way out of the
town, and is now at Boston. Nobody blames him in
the slightest degree ; he is supported by all ; even the
mob who rioted say he was not to blame. We
cannot refrain from expressing the high satisfaction
we felt at the noble conduct evinced by the respectable
portion of the American audience assembled on that
occasion. Their enthusiastic and generous support of
Mr. Macready, in which even the ladies joined with
determined zeal and cordiality, coupled with the firm-
ness and dignity with which Mr. Macready sustained
himself during the whole of the trying scene, actually
converted what was intended for a brutal indignity
into a species of moral triumph. The courage and
gentlemanly bearing of Macready never wavered for
a single moment. Even to the falling of the cur-
tain, when his personal safety was involved by the
hurling and crashing of the chairs at his feet, we
could detect no symptom whatever of shrinking or
fear. It was indeed a striking exhibition of mental
superiority opposed to mere brute force.
As a natural consequence great excitement has pre
vailed since this sad affair. Malignant efforts were
made by placards to draw out a demonstration of
British feeling on the subject. The British com-
munity, however, have taken no part in the matter,
having the most unbounded confidence in the will and
power of the citizens of New York to uphold their
own laws, and protect all who come amongst them.

THE RIOTS AT NEW YORK.
(Front the New York Weekly Herald)
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY

It is our painful and melancholy duty to chronicle one
of the saddest and most terrible occurrences that ever
took place in this city. It is well known that Mr.
Macready was driven from the stage of that theatre on
Monday evening last, by persons who had attended that
establishment for the purpose. On Wednesday, several
gentlemen of this city united in writing a note to Mr.
Macready, regretting the occurrence, and requesting
him to appear again and conclude his engagement, which
was to be his last in this country. To this note Mr.
Macready replied that he would again perform. Ac.
cordingly, bills were issued, and other arrangements
made, for his appearance. In the meantime rumours
prevailed throughout the city, that the opposition to Mr.
Macready's appearance would be persisted in, and that ar-
rangements had been made to carry this determination
into effect. The municipal authorities made their
arrangements likewise, and it became evident
throughout the day that there would be a serious col-
lision between the rioters and the authorities, in the
event of the former attempting to carry their threat into
execution. During Thursday, the probability of such a
collision was much discussed by all classes of the com-
munity, and great and anxious interest felt in the result.
As early as half past six o'clock persons began to
assemble around the theatre ; and, at about seven,
crowds were seen wending their way to the theatre from
all parts of the city. By half-past seven there were
several hundreds in the street, in front of the Opera
House, and the rush to get admittance was tremendous.
Tickets for a sufficient number to fill the house were
soon sold, and the announcement was made on a placard
that no more would be sold. Meantime, the crowd out-
side was increasing every minute.
Every avenue to the theatre soon became densely
crowded. Astor-place was occupied by an immense
assemblage, almost all of whom bad apparently been
attracted by curiosity. The portion of the Bowery ad-
joining the theatre was also crowded, and, in Broadway,
which had at that time been opened for the purpose of
constructing a sewer, hundreds of persons were seen
crowded together on the top of the mound of earth
thrown up from the centre of the street.
The house itself was filled to the dome. A great
portion of the assemblage in the theatre consisted of
policemen, who had been distributed all over the house
in detached parties. There was not any appearance of
an organized party of rioters in the house. When the
curtain rose, there was an outburst of hisses, groans,
cheers, and miscellaneous sounds, similar to those which
interrupted the performance on Monday night. The
opening scenes, however, were got through with after a
fashion, several persons who hissed and hooted having been
seized by the police, and Immediately conveyed to an
apartment underneath the boxes, where they were placed
under the charge of a posse of the police-officer,.
Macready's appearance was the signal for a great ex-
plosion of feeling. Hisses, groans, shouts of derision
assailed him, intermingled with loud cries of " Out with
him! out with him!" Large numbers of the auditory
started to their feet, and called on the police to eject
the individuals who had expressed their disapprobation,
and several arrests were made in the manner we have
described, each arrest being followed by loud cheers and
applause all over the house. It was speedily apparent
that those unfriendly to Mr. Macready were in the
minority.
- -

Thus the play proceeded through the first two acts.
There had been a great deal of trepidation behind the
scenes, but the heroism with which the actors and
actresses sustained themselves on the stage is worthy of
all praise. The manner of Mrs. Pope, the Lady Mac-
beth of this melancholy night, deserves the most
honourable mention. It was, indeed, a trying scene.
Mr. Macready repeatedly expressed to Mr. Hackett his
wish to desist, and his desire to avoid any further colli-
sion with those who were opposed to his appearance;
but, amid the shouts, groans, hisses, and arrests by the
police, the play, as we have said, went on, much of it in
dumb show, but portions of it without much interrup-
tion. It was supposed, at this moment, that the tumult
would bo effectually quelled, for the disturbance in the
house became less and less, and even some passages of
Mr. Macready's part were heard with a tolerable degree
of order.

The first persons arrested in the parquette were four
young men, who were locked up in the temporary pri-
son under the boxed which we have already described.
In this apartment was a gas-light burning, and the pri-
soners, pulling up some shavings and pieces of wood, set
fire to them. When the policemen opened the door,
the place was full of smoke, but the officers speedily
extinguished the fire. The prisoners who had attempted
this atrocious crime were immediately put in irons. At
this moment a shower of stones assailed the windows
of the theatre. News then came in from the street,
through Captain Tilley, of the 13th ward, that a man,
known to be Edward Z. C. Judson, was heading the
mob outside, and calling upon them to stone the build-
ing. The Chief of Police immediately ordered his ar-
rest, which was promptly effected. In the meantime the
assault upon the doors and windows continued. Volley
after volley of large paving stones was discharged against
the windows. The glass was, of course, in a few mo-
ments, all smashed to atoms ; but having been barri-
caded, the windows resisted the attack for some minutes;
at last yielding, however, the fragments of glass, and
blinds, and barricades being driven iu with violence into
the body of the house, great alarm began to pervade the
aud'ence. Humours of all kinds—that the house was to
be fired—that it was to be blown up, and so on, were cir-
culated. The ladies, seven in number, who were pre-
sent, and who, with a heroism that did infinite credit to
their sex, had till this moment preserved their equani-
mity, now became alarmed, as well they might, and
shifted their seats to the part of the house not in the
rati-e of any of the windows through which the stones
and fragments of glass and wood were now flying.
At this time the scene within the house was indeed
most exciting. In front and rear the fierce assaults of
the mob, as they thundered at the doors, resounded all
over the theatre, whilst the shouts and yells of the as-
sailants were terific. Inside, however, all was compara-
tively quiet. The admirable arrangements of the. Chief
of Police and the li~ corder, and the fidelity and intelli-
gence with which their orders were carried out by the
force under their command, secured the peace and safeiy
of the interior of the building. We cannot award too
ranch praise to the police for the manner in which they
arrested the leading rioters in the house, and making
sorties among the crowd outside, secured many of the
tingleaders of the mob.
As the m: :b increased in magnitude and in the fern,
City with which they assailed the building, the cry
arose inside, and also outside, among the peaceable citie
zens attreted by a curiosity, which, in such a case, was
most culpable--" Where are the military?" " Can no-
thing he done to disperse the rioters?" 6` Where's the
Mayor?" Several dispatches were cent to the City Ha)),
where the military were stationed. At length, about
nine o'clock, the sound of a troop of cavalry coming up
Broadway was heard; and in a tow minutes afterwards,
two troops of cavalry, of the First Division of the State
Militia, and a battalion of the National Guards, were
seen approaching the scene of the riot.

[PRICE SD.

APPEARANCE OF THE MILITARY.
A troop of hor.e then turned from Broad% ay into
Astor-place, and rode through the crowd to the Bowery,
receiving showers of stones and other missiles on their
way. The horses became unmanageable, and the troop
did not again make its apps arance on the ground. In a
few minutes afterwards the National Guard, one of our
independent volunteer companies, made their appearance
on the ground, and attempted to force a passage through
the crowd to the theatre. The mob hissed and hooted
at them, and finally attacked them with stones, which
were at hand in consequence of the building of a sewer
in the neighbourhood. The company were at this period
thrown into disorder by the attack made upon them,
and retired to Broadway, where they rallied; and
made another attempt to reach the theatre. They
were hissed and pelted as before with stones, but
they succeeded in reaching the desired point. They then
endeavoured to form in lino on the side-walk, and while
doing so five or six of them were felled to the ground by
paving stones, and taken into the theatre in a state of
insensibility. Captain Pond, the captain of the com-
pany, was one of those thus injured.
The next officer in command then said to the Sheriff,
who was on the ground, that if he did not get orders to
fire he and his men would abandon the streets. Accord•
ingly that officer directed the company to fire a round
over the heads of the people, which was accordingly
done, but without effect. The people continued to pelt
them with paving stones as before. An order was then
given to the company to fire at the crowd, and it was
done, two men falling, one shot in the arm, and the other
through the right cheek. The first was sent to the hos-
pital, but the other was found to be dead. After the
volley the mob retreated a short distance, but rallied
and renewed the attack with greater vigour than before.
Paving stones'and other missiles were discharged at
them in great quantities; and while the mob was going
on, another volley was fired by the military, killing and
wounding several more, some of whom were taken by
their friends to the drug store, on the corner of Ninth-
street and Broadway. One young man, named John
McKinley, of No. 147, Third avenue, was shot through
the body, and taken to a public-house in the neigh-
bourhood.

After this volley the crowd retreated again, and the
military and police took advantage of it to form a line
across the street at both ends of Astor-place, so as to
prevent any connexion between Broadway and the
Bowery. Major-General Sandford then issued an order
for more troops and two brass pieces loaded with grape
to be brought to the scene immediately, as it was ru-
moured that the crowd intended to arm themselves and
renew the attack. It was at this time half-past eleven
o'clock, and the additional troops, consisting of several
companies and the artillery, reached the scene in dis-
order. The cannon loaded with grape were placed in front
of the theatre, ready in case of a renewal of the attack.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12.
As will be readily imagined, the excitement through-
out the city, growing out of the deplorable occurrences
of the previous night, was most intense throughout the
whole of yesterday. Everywhere little groups of per-
sons, of all classes, were observed discussing the affair,
and expressing their opinions with more or less vehe-
mence. As an illustration of the absorbing interest felt
in the matter, we may state that no fewer than thirty.
three thousand five hundred copies of the Herald, con-
taining our full and-graphic account of the whole me-
lancholy alLir, were disposed of, and circulated all over
the city. Our telegraphic accounts from other cities,
brought intelligence that an equally intense excite-
ment prevailed wherever the heartrending news had
been dispatched. Of course, considerable diversity of
opinion on all the principal features of the case pre
vailed amongst those who were engaged, in the streets
and elsewhere, in conversation on the subject. It was
manifest, however, that the business had assumed
a new aspect in the minds of many, and that it
was looked upon by them as involving nothing short of
a controversy and collision between those who have been
styled the ".exclusives," or " upper ten," and the great
popular masses. Some blamed the authorities with no
little acrimony—others applauded them. It was gene-
rally considered, however, among the more intelligent
and dispassionate classes, that a proelamation should
have been issued by the Mayor, warning the citizens
against participating, even in the most passive manner,
in any tumultuous assemblage at the Astor-place Theatre
or elsewhere, and that an overwhelmning military force
should have taken possession of the ground at an early
hour, and prevented the gathering of a crowd in the
vicinity of the building.
Throughout the day rumours were abundant that a
riotous organization of the moat formidable character
was in progress, and that a still more bloody scene than
that of the preceding night might be anticipated. It
was said that fire-arms had been purchased and obtained
in large quantities by persons riotously disposed. Almost
all over the city the tollowiag placard had been posted
in the most conspicuous places, attracting crowds of
readers:

"Americans! arouse! the great crisis has come! ! De-
cide now whether English aristocrats!!! and foreign rule!
shall triumph in this America's metropolis, or whether
her own sons, whose fathers once compelled the base-
born miscreants to succumb, shall meanly lick the hand
that strikes, and allow themselves to be deprived of the
liberty of opinion—so dear to every true American
heart. Americans! come out! and dare to own your-
selves sons of the iron hearts of '76!! AMERICA."
A still larger placard, of which we give a copy, was
also posted, calling for a meeting in the Park:—
" To the Park !—The citizens of new York, opposed to
the destruction of human life, are requested to assemble
in the Park, at six o'clock, this evening!! Friday, May
11, to express public opinion upon the lamentable oc-
currence of last night."
It was then apparent that an attempt was in progress,
of some kind or another, to give an expression of feeling
which might lead to unpleasant consequences. The
authorities were not inactive. A long consultation was
held by them in the morning. The lessee of the Astor-
place Theatre announced his design to close the house for
the present. Orders were issued to the military to be in
readiness at any moment, and the following proclama-
tion was issued by the Mayor, and dispersed all over the
city:—