The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-23 00:00:00

S l7 N 7 MARCH 23, 1849.

INSTALLATION ofMR. MACAULAY
AS LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
GLASGOW.

We gave yesterday an outline of the interesting pro-
ceedings attendant on Mr. Macaulay's installation. We
now present our readers with a detailed report.
The ceremony excited much interest in Glasgow, and
the demand for tickets of admission was, if not absolutely
unprecedented, at least very brisk. The proceedings
were fixed to commence at twelve o'clock, but long be-
fore that hour the venerable gates of the college were be-
sieged by eager applicants for admission, consisting prin-
cipally of the students and their friends. The College-
ball, in which the installation took place, is in nowise a
remarkable structure. It is spacious, and there its merit
begins and ends. The room is long and narrow ; along
portion of one side runs a long elevated bench ; oppo-
site is a small pulpit and desk; and at either extremity,
two galleries cross the hall at right angles. The floor is
taken up with unbacked benches, inscribed with the
names of the different classes in the University who have
a right to occupy them.
On the present occasion the students, togati and
non-togati, marched into the hall from their respective
lass-rooms, and the space appropriated for them was
Teedil) crammed by as noisy a set of young gentlemen
is can well be conceived. The galleries were set apart
exclusively for ladies, and were well filled.
The students had been admitted soon after eleven
s'clock, and from that time until twelve the uproar was
Incessant. Calls were continually made for cheers for
popular, and groans for unpopular, personagcl. The
names of the professors were mostly received with ac-
clamation. Then the ladies in the gallery were ho-
noured with three deafening cheers, and the name of the
Earl of Eglintoun obtained a similar tribute. Three
distinct rounds of groans were appropriated to the police
(there had, we believe, been some slight altercation with
these functionaries at the gates), and three cheers, and
ultimately counter-cheers, were given for anybody or for
nobody in particular.
A few minutes before twelve o'clock the dignitaries of
the college made their appearance. Mr. Macaulay, in
his robes, as Lord Rector, marched behind the mace-
bearer; after him came the Reverend Principal, the Pro-
fessors, and some of the municipal dignitaries. Mr.
Macaulay took the chair, supported on one hand by
Principal Macfarlane, and on the other hand by Profes-
sor Ramsey. The other professors were ranged right
and left, and amongst them sat Lord Belhaven, the Lord
Advocate, and Radios Smith, Orr, and Stewart.
The party was received with great cheering from the
students.

The Rev. PRINCIPAL opened the proceedings by a
short Latin prayer. After which

Professor RiMSET read the minute of election—also
in Latin—by which Mr. Macaulay was declared to have
been duly chosen Lord Rector. The Learned Gentle-
man then recited the formula of an oath, which Mr.
elecaulay repeated after him, and which he signed.
The LORD RECTOR then rose, and after bowing to the
Principal, addressed the assemblage in the following
words:—My first duty, gentlemen, is to return you my
thanks for the high honour you have conferred on me.—
(Cheers.) That honour, as you well know, was wholly
unsolicited, and I can assure you it was wholly unex-
pected. I may add, that if I had been invited to become
a candidate for your suffrages, I should have respect.
fully declined the invitation. My predecessor, whom I
am so happy as to be able to call my friend—(Cheers)
—declared from this place last year, in language which
well became him, that he would not have come forward to
displace so eminent a statesman as Lord John Russell.
I can with equal truth declare that I would not have
come forward to displace so estimable a gentleman and
so accomplished a man as Colonel Mere. But he telt last
year that it was not for him, and I feel this year that it
is not for me, to question the propriety of your decision,
in a point on which, by the constitution of your body,
you are the sole judges. I therefore accept with thank-
fulness the office to which I am called, fully purposing
to use whatever powers belong to it with the single view
of the promotion of the credit and the welfare of this
university.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, lam not using
a mere phrase of course, when I say that the feelings
with which I bear a part in this ceremony are such as I
find it difficult to clothe in words.—(Hear, hear.) lam
not surprised that, when that great master of eloquence,
Edmund Burke, stood where I now stand, he faltered
and remained mute. Doubtless the multitude of
feeling and thoughts e hich at that moment rushed on
his mind were such as even he found it difficult to
arrange and to express. And it might well be so. For,
to the reflecting mind, I doubt whether any
spectacle be more affecting and more striking than that
which a great historical place of education presents on
the day of a great public solemnity.—(Hear, hear.)
There is a something essentially affecting and interesting
in the contrast between the venerable antiquity of the
body, and the fresh and ardent youth of the great ma-
jority of thorn who compose it.—(Cheers.) Recollec-
tions and hopes crowd on the mind; the past and the
future are brought near us at once in a manner in which
no other ceremony links them together. Our thoughts
wander back to the days when the foundations of this
ancient building were laid, and forward to the times
when those whom it is our office to teach and guide, will
be the teachers and the guides of our posterity.—
(Cheers.) And on the present occasion, we may, with
peculiar propriety, give such thoughts free course, for
it has so chanced that my magistracy has fallen
in a great secular epoch. This is the four
hundredth year of the existence of your university.—
(Cheers.) At such jubilees as these—jubilees of which no
man sees more than one—it is natural, it is good, that a
body like this, which outlives all the transitory parts of
which it is composed—a body of corporate existence and
perpetual succession—should review its annals—should
retrace its progress from infancy to maturity, and try
to derive from the experience of generations which have
passed away some lessons which may be profitable to
generations yet unborn.—(Cheers.) And in this case,
gentlemen, the retrospect is full of interest and import.
ance. I doubt whether it would be possible to name a
point of time since the Christian era more remarkable
and more important to the highest interests of mankind
than that at which this society began to exist.--(Hear,
hear.) It was an era of a great destruction, but it was
also an era of a great creation. Your society began to
exist just at the moment when the Empire of the East
was falling—that strange empire, which, dragging on a
lingering existence through the long age of darkness,
connected together two great ages of light—that empire
which, adding itself nothing to our stores of knowledge
—which, producing itself not one man eminent in litera •
ture, science, or the arts—yet preserved, in the midst of
barbarism, those monuments of Athenian genius which
the highest minds still contemplate, and long will con-
tinue to contemplate with admiring deseair.—(Loud
cheers.) But at that very moment, when the fanatical
Moslem was sacking Constantinople—giving to the
flames piles of Grecian eloquence—breaking to frag-
ments master-pieces of Grecian sculpture—at that mo-
ment, in a distant part of the world, a few humble
German artizans, who little knew they were creating a
power, compared with which that of the victorious
Sultan was insignificant, were busied in cutting and set-
ting the first printing types.—(Loud cheering.) Your
society began to exist just early enough to st e the last
vestige of the Roman empire disappear, and just late
enough to see the earliest printed book.—(Cheers.)
At that period—a period of unrivalled interest in the
history of letters—a man never to be mentioned without
veneration by any lover of letters held the first place in
Europe. The attachment which we feel for our Protestant
faith must not present us in this place and on this day
from doing justice to the memory of the founder of the
University of Glasgow—the greatest of the revivers of
learning—Pope Nicholas the Fiftb.—(llear.) Sprung
from amongst the common people, he yet at an ealy age
attracted the notice of the great. Ile studied much—he
travelled far—he visited Britain, which was to his ca
tive Tuscany what the vast settlements of America are
to Britain now. He was the companion and the friend
of those merchant princes of Florence who first en-
nobled trade by making it the ally of letters, science,
and taste. It was he who, under the protection of the
munificent and discerning Cosmo, collected and ar-
ranged the first public library of which modern
Europe could boast.—(Cheers.) From obscurity
and privacy your founder rose to a throne, but on the
throne he never forgot the noble studies which had de•
lighted him in obscurity and privacy. He was the centre
figure of an illustrious troop, composed partly of the last
greet scholars of Greece, and partly of the first great
scholars of Italy. Need I repeat that bright bcad• roll ?
There was Theodore Gaza and George of Trebizond—
Bessarin and Silelfo—Marsilio Ficino and Poggio Brac-
ciolini. The great Pontiff of whom I speak founded the
library of the Vatican, and enriched it with the most
precious of the treasures snatched from the wreck of the
Byzantine Empire. His agents were to be found in
every part of the world—in the bazaars of the furthest
East—in the monasteries of the furthest West—
transcribing and purchasing those mouldy and
worm eaten parchments, traced with words worthy
of immortality.—(Loud cheers.) Under his patronage
were prepared accurate Latin versions of the greatest
works of the Greek philosophers and poets: but no de-
partment of knowledge owes more to him than history.
By means of this great and good man, Western Europe
first became acquainted with those two unrivalled models
of historical style—the works of Herodotus and Thucy-
dides. It was to him that our ancestors first owed their
knowledge of the lucid grace of Xenophon, and the
manly good sense of Polybius.—(Loud cheers.) It was
teen, gentlemen, in the midst of cares like these, that the
attention of your founder was called to the intellectual
wants of this region—a region now rich with cultivation
—now abounding with wealth—a region of great portst
and cities—which sc nds forth, borno by mighty fleceitls,l:
incomparable fabrics, to parts of the world
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I (Cheers and laughter.) At Bologna, he himself had
ure or to art. It was situated in a beautiful land—a coon-
' try of corn-fields, and vineyards, lying beneath the
t warm sun of the south. It was governe by the great

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house of Pentivoglio, which vied with the great house
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of the Medicis—which enriched the seat of its power
with temples and palaces, and munificently patronised
letters and the arts. As to Glasgow, all the Pope
could know of it was, that it was what he would have
called an obscure and mean town, and he would, per-
haps, have added that it would sever become any-
thing else—it lay upon a soil so sterile, and under
a sky so inclement—a soil and a sky which would
have made an Italian shudder.—(A laugh.) But it is
not upon the soil or the atmosphere that the greatness
and prosperity of nations depend.—(Cheers.) Slavery
and superstittion can make the country of the Campagna
a land of beggars.—(Cheers.) But it is not beyond the
power of human intelligence and energy, developed by
civil and spiritual freedom, to change sterile rocks and
pestilential marshes into busy. cities and smiling gar-
dens.—(Cheers.) Enlightened as your founder was, he
little knew that be was himself the chief agent in a
great revolution, moral and physical—political and re-
ligious—in a revolution which was destined to make the
first last and the last first—in a revolution which was
destined completely to invert the relative position of
Glasgow and Bologna.—(Hear.) Ido not know that we
can ;better employ a few moments than in tracing the
progress of that revolution to which our country and
your university owe so much. That review shall be
very short ; indeed I cannot do better than pass rapidly
from one centenary period to another. Look at the world
one hundred years after the seal of Nicholas had been
affixed to that instrument which called your university
into existence. We find Europe and Scotland going
through the agonies of that great revolution which we
emphatically call the Reformation.—(Hear, hear.) Tne
munificent patronage which Nicholas, and men like
Nicholas, had bestowed on learning—and of which the
creatien of this seat of education is not one of the least
remarkable proofs—had produced an effect of which they
never dreamed. Ignorance had been the talisman of
their power, and ' that talisman they themselves had
broken.—(Hear, hear.) They had called up knowledge
as a handmaid to 'decorate superstition, and the event
was such as it has always been, and always will be.
Men's minds, refreshed by the best literature of Greece
and Rome, grew too strong for the trammels of scholastic
theology. I need not, of course, tell you what a great part
the votaries of ancient learning, and of Greek learning in
particular, the Humanists, as they were called, bore
in the great struggle for spiritual freedom. They were
the great leaders of the movement. Need I mention, in
a Scottish University, the names of Knox, of Buchan-
nan, of Melville, and I may say, of Maitland, of Leth-
ington ? That, in truth, every great Reformer was a
Humanist, and every great Humanist in the north of
Europe was, according to the measure of his courage
and uprightness, a Reformer.—(Cheers.) Their in-
fluence was not, as it might have been in early ages,
confined to the highly educated classes to which they
themselves belonged ; for printing had brought books
within the reach of every ploughman and every artizan.
Thus there was, from the Mediterranean to the Frozen
Sea, a general agitation in the public mind of Europe ;
and this agitation was nowhere greater and stronger
than it was here. It was in the midst of martyrdoms
and proscriptions—in the thick of the war of
truth against power, that the first century of
your university's existence closed.—(Cheers ) Pass an-
other century, and you are in the midsi of another revo-
lution. The war between Popery and Protestantism bad
been terminated by the victory of Protestantism, but the
result had given birth to a new war, that between Prelacy
and Puritanism.—(Hear.) Each of the hostile religious
sects became allied to, intermingled with, confounded
with, a political party. The monarchical element of the
constitution was most warmly espoused by,the Prelatist,
the popular element of the constitution was regarded
with especial fondness by the Puritan. Then an appeal
to the sword took place. Puritanism triumphed, but it
was soon divided against itself. Independents and Re-
publicans ranged themselves on one side, Presbyterians
and Limited-Monarchy men embraced the other.
It was at the very darkest moment of that
dark time, in the midst of battles, sieges, and
executions, when all Europe was still standing
aghast at the recent spectacle of a British King standing
before the judgment-seat, and laying his neck upon a
block—it was when the mangled remains of the Duke cf
Himilton had just been laid in the tomb of his ancestors—
it was when the head of Montrose had just been placed
over the Tolbooth of Edinburgh—that the second century
of your university's existence terminated.—(Hear, hear.)
Another hundred years, and we have at length reached
the commencement of happier days. The price with
which our civil and religious liberties had been paid was
a fearful price; but these liberties had been actually
bought—that price ,had been actually paid. The last
British rebellion was over—the last battle had been
fought on British ground—the last black scaffold had
been set up on Tower-hill. The evil days were over,
and a bright and tranquil century a century
of toleration —of domestic peace a century of
temperate freedom and of equal justice was begin-
ning. That century closes this year; and when we look
back on it, and compare it with any equally long period
in the history of any other great nation, we shall find
abundant cause for gratitude to-the Giver of all Good.
—(Hear, hear.) And nowhere, gentlemen, should that
feeling be stronger than here; for ever the whole king-
dom I doubt whether there be any region which has
shared so largely in the blessing of that progress as has
Clydesdale.—(Cheers.) And your University has par-
taken in the prosperity of your city and your neighbour-
hood. The same tranquillity and security which have
been propitious to the industry of the merchant and of the
manufacturer, have been no less propitious to the indus-
try of the scholar. To the last century belong not all,
but the greater part of those names which constitute the
boast of the University. Time would fail me were I
to recount every one of the eminent men who, within
that period, have taught or heard wisdom within
these ancient walls. There were natural philosophers,
moral philosophers, metaphysicians, jurists, philo-
logists, poets. There were Simpson and Miller, Young
and Reid, Stewart and Black, whose discoveries consti-
tuted an era in chemical science. Adam Smith, whose
doctrines constituted an era in polical science, and Jas.
Watt—(Loud cheers)—who, perhaps, did more than any
man since Bacon wrote the New Atlantis, to accomplish
the glorious prophecy contained in that wonderful
volume.—(Loud cheers.) I may add another name—a
final name—that of Thomas Campbell.—(Cheers.) I
was one of those who not long ago followed his coffin to
' the grave, in that illustrious transept where the ashes of
Chaucer, of Spenser, and of Dryden are laid.—(Hear,
hear, and sensation.) I will not carry the enumeration
further. I,think I have said enough to justify a boast
that Glasgow now need fear no comparison even with
Bologna.—(Hear and a laugh.) Another century is
now about to commence—it is about to commerce,
as many well tell you, under melancholy auspices—but
from me you must expect no such gloomy prognostica-
tions. I have heard them too long and too constantly to
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our institutions, the more firm becomes myconviction that
they are sound at heart, and that they have nothing of
age —save its dignity.— (Cheers.) Their strength is still
the strength of youth. We still see them standing ma-
jestic and immovable while dynasties and polities lie
in heaps of ruin around.—(Cheers.) The hurricane
which has recently overthrown so much which was great,
and which seemed durable, has only proved their solidity,
and I see no reason to doubt that by pursuing a good,
and wise, and temperate policy—a policy of which the
principle shall be to preserve what is good, by reforming
in time what is evil—(Cheers)—that our institutions
may descend, unimpaired, to a late posterity; while, un-
der the shade of these political institutions, our educa-
tional institutions may long continue to flourish.
I trust, then. that, during the next hundred years, and
even utter that time, that this celebrated school of learn-
ing will continue to deserve well of our country and of
mankind. I trust that the installation of 1949 will be
attended by an even larger assemblage of students than
that which I have now the pleasure to see.—(Cheers.)
It is possible that your desendants may not sit where
you sit to-day. It is possible that these venerable
walls may then have disappeared. It is possible that
my successor may speak to your successors in a more
stately edifice, which will be admired even amid the
splendid buildings of the Glasgow of that day, as a fine
specimen of the architecture which flourished in Eng-
land in the times of good Queen Victoria ; that though
the site of your institution may have changed—though
the walls of your institution may have changed, the
spirit of your institution, I trust, will be ethe same.
—(Hear, hear.) My successor will, I hope, tell
your successors that the fifth century of the
University has been not less glorious than the fourth,
and he will, perhaps, point, in proof of that
mastersas-
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of the severer sciences, of ancient learning,
the native eloquence—the ornaments of the senate,ve
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of the feelings of which, on this solemn occasion, my
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mind is full. I again most cordially thank you, and I
assure you that while I live I shall never cease to feel a
great interest in the prosperity and the fame of that
venerable seat of learning with which, by your kindness,
I have this day become connected.—(The Right Hon.
Gentleman resumed his seat amid loud and long-con-
tinued applause.)
The Rev. PRINCIPAL then pronounced a short Latin
benediction, anti the proceedings terminated.

The appointment, by Government, of Mr. Froude,
whose book ha attained such an enviable notoriety, to
the headship of a college in Hobart Town, is said to
have been cancelled. The preliminary proceedings said
to have been taken to deprive him of his fellowship in
Exeter College have been anticipated by his resignation,
thus becoming a " fugitive from discipline." •

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.— YESTERDAY.
A very thin ette-dsiee end seasmy ,anye„,iness
7-, The o:tiv !3.--se6 ia.v.ifir were Tl. 1. .1 ei Et
il
1‘ e.,tow for the -NorthamptonsWre Sick,-5, Dtc)a, for the
Metropolitan Handicap, and Westow for the Derby. The
odds returned against the first-named horse were at one
time taken freely, but at the close were offered currently.
Nothing was done on either of the three Derby favourites;
in fact, the quotations on this event, with the exception
of Westow, are nominal. Closing prices:—
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar, 5 yrs, 7st 91b
—taken and offered
6 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Westow, 3 yrs, sst 51b—
taken and offered
8 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill, 4 yrs, Est 81b—
taken and offered
8,0 1 agst, Mr. Gregory's Loupgat -u, 3 31e., .t 211)
15 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b
—taken and offered
15 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Vasa, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—taken
and offered
20 to 1 agst Lord Euston na Watchdog, 5 yrs, Est
slb—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Bateman's Goodwood, 3 yrs, 4st
101 b—taken and offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Velox, 3 yrs, sst 31b—taken
and offered
ALTMORP STAKES (NORTHAMPTON).
7 to 2 agst Mr. B. Green's Cadger
5 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Ondine (taken)
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Dacia, 4 yrs, Est 111 b
13 to I agst Mr. Gordon's Do-the-Boys, 3 yrs, sst
16 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Surplice, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
20 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 5 yrs, Bst 31b
—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme, 6 yrs,
6st I Ilb
30 to 1 agat Mr. Watts's Mogador, 5 yrs, Bst
TWO THOUSAND CUINEAS STAKES.
b to 2 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb
3 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—take 7 to 2
CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joe o' Sot, 5 yrs, 6st 111 b
16 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, 7st 1011)
22 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher, 4 yrs, 7st 81b
25 to 1 agat Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 91b
—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 5 yrs, 9st llb
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, Set Gib
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st 61b
DERBY, 1849.
7 to 2 agat Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
15 to 2 agst Ur. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk
18 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley
30 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Strongbow
50 to I agst Mr. B. Green's Westow—taken freely
50 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Chatterer—taken
OAKS.
9 to 2 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade—taken and
afterwards offered
DERBY, 1850.
1,000 to 20 agst Lord John Scott's Windhound—taken
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASES—TnEnsiaa.Y.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, 12st each, &c. Three
miles. (23 Subs.)
Captain Dyson's Master Robin, 12st 71b ... (Owner) 1
Lieut. Carew's Lansquenet, 12st ... ••• ... 2
Captain Campbell's Musician, 12st ... 3
Lieut. Hogg's Beverley, 12st
Lieue•Culonel Shirley's Fugleman, 12st ... fell
Won easily.
Steeplechase Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. Nearly
four miles. (3 Subs.)
Captain D'Arcy's Knight of Gwynne, aged, lOst 71b 1
Mr. Bretherton's Wolverhampton, aged, lOst Illb ... 2
Lord Strathmore's Chatham, aged, 9st 101 b ... 3
Won by a head.
Sweepstakes of 3 SOTS. each. Three miles. (12 subs.)
Lieut. Ark wright's The Agent, list Sib ... (Owner) 1
Captain Boyd's The Village Doctor, list 2
Capt. Bell's Beswick, list
••• ... 0
Capt. Cole's Negress, list o
OXFORD AND CAMRIDGE •
BOAT RACE.--The great
University eight-oared race, appointed for Tnursday
next, is looked forward to with considerable anxiety.
We have much pleasure in placing before our readers a
list with which we have been favoured of those in train-
ing for the event:—Oxford—Messrs. Wonolope, Tyrell,
Tremayno, Chilty, Steward, Mansfield, Sykes, and:Rich,
jun. (stroke). Cambridge—Messrs. Proby, Jones, De Reu-
zen, Holden, Bagshawe, Waddington, Hodgson, and Wray
(stroke). The distance to be contested is the usual
course for such events, from Putney-bridge to Mortlake,
and much diversity of opinion exists with respect to the
rival crews, of which Oxford is slightly the favourite.

L YCEUM THEATRE.
Last evening one of those sparkling little pieces for
the production of which the Vestris management is so
remarkable, was represented at this elegant theatre
with the most decided success. It is entitled Hold your
Tongue. The plot rests on the indiscretion of Lady
Ryder (Miss 11. Gilbert), who is fresh from the country,
and who ventures to go to a masquerade unknown to her
husband (Mr. Selby). Here, without any ill intentions, she
contrives to make a kind of assignation with Capt. Vernon
(Mr. Parselle), who, in the dress of of a magician, has
assisted her while fainting. This captain is a harmless
personage, but one Lord Lurewell (Mr. Mathews), who
is a sort of Lovlace, hearing of the adventure, boldly
introduces himself to the lady by declaring that he is
the magician. Ile meets his match in her confidential
friend, Mrs. Lovejoy (Madame Vestris), one of those
gay widows endowed with a good heart and a keen
perception of the world, who are so frequent in the old
comedies. Mrs. Lovejoy soon perceives that Captain
Vernon, whom she loves, is the real magi-
cian, and she relieves her friend from all the
embarrassment of her situation, by declaring that
she herself was the lady who made the assigna-
tion, and bestowing her hand upon the Captain.
This outline of the plot will give a very faint notion of
the ingenuity with which the details of the intrigue are
managed. The dialogue is elegant and pointed—just
what is required for this class of drama—and does great
credit to the author, Mr. Planch6. Of the acting of
Mr. C. Mathews and Madame Vestris it is impossible to
speak too highly, and the talented author is indeed
fortunate that he has had the services of two such ac•
complished artists to sustain the leading parts. We
must also notice the performance of a very talented
young actress—Miss J. Coleman—who sustained the
part of Slipper, a lady's maid, to admiration; there was
a vivacity and a pertness about this young lady's acting
that was exceedingly amusing. Miss 11. Gilbert ac-
quitted herself with her usual ability. Mr. Selby and
Mr. Parselle were each in their respective parts excel-
lent. Altogether it is one of the most successful hits of
the season. The dresses were beautiful, and the stage
appointments, it is needless to say, were appropriate.
The piece was given out for repetition every evening
amidst the applause of a crowded and fashionable
audience.

MR. HUDSON AND THE YORK, NEIVCASTLN, AND
BERWICK RAILWAY COMPANY.-We are informed, on
what we believe to be the most undoubted authority,
that the committee which was appointed at the last half-
yearly meeting to inquire into the purchase of the shares
of the Great North of England Railway by this com-
pany have completed their inquiry, and come to the
conclusion that Mr. Hudson is entirely guiltless of the
charges which have been so unsparingly made against
him with regard to that purchase. We are informed,
however, that there was a mistake of 2,5001, in the
amount paid to Mr. Hudson for the shares sold by him,
owing to the parties who were employed to calculate
what that gentleman ought to receive having added, in-
stead of subtracted, the rebate of interest on the prin-
cipal sum; but there is no reason to suppose that Mr.
Hudson was at all aware of the mistake having been
made until after his attention was called to the particular
circumstances attending the sale by what occurred at
the meeting at which the committee of shareholders
was appointed.
ST. STEPHEN'S, WALlRROOK.—Yesterday a vestry
of this parish was held, for the purpose of nominating
trustees of the legal estate of the parish, in the room of
Mr. Alderman Gibbs. The Rev. Dr. Cruly presided,
and Mr. Rock proposed the following gentlemen as
trustees:—The Rev. Dr. Croly, Mr. Roger Cunliffe, Mr.
Benjamin Wilson, Mr. W. George Harrison, Mr. Edwin
Davie, Mr. Jacob Unwin, and Mr. Henry Rock, his
brother. lie himself and Mr. Flight had been so much
before the public in the proceedings against Alderman
Gibbs, that he would not include their names in She list.
With respect to the state of the parish funds, he men-
ohlutrocfhin
repair. Ile congratulated the
men-
tioned, that after paying all claims,there would be a
thet costs of which, to the amount
balance over of 1,000/. available for
on putting
thethreesu
recent law proceedings,
of 3,0001., had fallen upon Mr. Alderman Gibbs, besides
L 7s which he was found indebted to the
6p3„r6is h. tiei
congratulated
w 0,.
worth
himself2o,oooori havingwithout re sat orseiegdtlo
the parish an estatee
penny of cost. The resolution was seconded by Mr.
Young, and agreed to unanimously. Mr. Cunliffe then
moved that " The cordial thanks of this meeting are due,
and are hereby offered, to Mr. W. F. Rock for his
anxious and untiring devotedness to the interests of this
parish in prosecuting with success the proceedings in
the Court of Chancery, by which the parish estates
are placed in possession of, and under the control of tho
parishioners." A silver cup was suggested by one of the
parishioners as a more substantial acknowledgment of
Mr. Rock's services, but the chairman objected to the
parish being cupped as she had already lost blood
laha
slcte is
enough. The resolution having been carried and re-
sponded to by Mr. Rock, the proceedings terminated
with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, and the
expression of a hope, on his part, that
p things should
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henceforth go on quietly in the parish.
FOREIGN ICE.—The vessel Oscar, of Norway,
arrived in the river from Droback, with a cargo 0f350
tons weight of ico, the production of the la
the first importation of ice from Norway during the pre-
sent year, and with the exception of an arrival some time
since from Prussia, the first from any of the foreign
states.
At Shrewsbury on Wednesday, Joseph Sewell, a
bankers clerk, was sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment for having embezzled 387 five pound notes, the
property of the Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking
Company.
A girl named Eliza Waghorn was yesterday com-
mitted from Worship-street, charged with attempting to
murder Charles Gibson. She had been fighting with
another woman, and was worsted in the conflict, where-
upon she seized a knife, and rushing at the prosecutor,
with whom she had had a previous quarrel, stabbed him
in the throat.
T vs•—An answer
THE NAVIGATION • has been
ceived by the English Government from the Court of
Stockholm, extremely favourable to the views of the
Ministry respecting the repeal of the navigation-laws.
His Swedish Majesty is ready to abolish all the existing
restrictions on British vessels on the condition of reci—
I procity.