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even thrilhng, duc:iption into the veriest balderdash,
hy
exclaimin
lie bnets my daily path,
tun the victim of his wrath :
He Slncars Ls fingers o'er toy meat."
Au I ccea,i,nally the rhymning is indifferent, as
" Let u: alone," recurs—
" Your petty jars,
Your wicked wath," &c.
Howbeit we only mention these minor blemishes, for
he purpose of showing that as we cre not blind to
the faults of the volume, so neither are we the less
enthusiastic in our estimation of its excellencies. We
should be most churlishly fastidious were we to
qpiabble over a good, melodious, and heart-spoken
book of poetry, such as these " Voices from the
Mountains." Hyper-criticism is our abhorrence, and
we have merely enumerated the foregoing flaws as a
token that our opinion of the work is in no respect
biassed. We cannot he indifferent, while we hearken
to such strains as this :
Wouldst thou know what the blithe bird pipeth,
High in the morning air?
WoultlA thou know what the bright stream singeth,
Rippling o'er pebbles bare?
IVouldst thou know what the moon discourseth,
To the &elle sea?
Wouldst th,:u hear the echoes of the raus!c
(if the far infinity?
Sorrow shall ope the founts of knowledge,
And heaven shall sing to thee."
Cordially we commend this book to the public ; it is
the effusion of a sincere poet, and of an unaffected
!over of the prople.

A 77/ rLS TAN, A TRAGEDY ; LIFE AND
DEATH, AN ALLEGORY ; AND OTHEIt
I'OE2llB. .14 E(!mund H. While.
Among the numerous marks of the progress made,
•pf late years in civilisation and the general diffusion
of knowledge, is conspicuous the appearance of
authors in all departments of literature, in all classes
of society. Formerly, whenever literary talent was
exhibited by persons of a subordinate position in the
community, it was regarded as a phenomenon rather
than a matter of ordinary occurrence. Such a phe-
nomenon, in the days of antiquity, was the incom-
parable iEsop, the Phrygian slave, and the witty
Terence, the freedman of Lucanus. Such, again,
in modern times, was Chatterton, the attorney's
clerk. Now, however, the fact is not the exception
so much as the rule itself. In all the various depart-
ments of belle lettres we could point to very distin-
guished authors, who have sprung from very lowly
occupations, from Gifford, the leviathan of critics,
to the three great national poets of Ireland, France,
and Scotland ; Moore, the son of a hatter—
Beranger, the waiter at a tavern—and Burns,
the ploughman, and the son of a ploughman.
Instead of depreciating the high and almost divine
dignity of the art, as might be thought by the Lord
Foppington school of readers, it only graces and
adorns that art the more, by accumulating round it,
as it were, the spoil of so many more individual
minds. Especially has this been visible in lyric and
dramatic poetry. Now-a-days we can enumerate a
brilliant band of minor poets, sprung directly from
the people—Ebeseaer Elliot, Thom the weaver,
Thomas Miller, the late William Motherwell, and the
late Robert Nicholl. Those men are, or were,
honourable instances of the class we would indicate ;
they severally and collectively elevate the trade to
which they belong to a higher consideration than they
might otherwise have obtained ; for, although it were
an extravagance to expect to find a James Hogg
under the plaid of every Ettrick shepherd, a Thom at
every weaver's bench, an Elliot in every humble house
in Staffordshire, or a Miller behind every counterin the
metropolis, it were equally an extravagance to treat
those shepherds, those weavers, or those shopkeepers,
with discourtesy when we find amongst them men
endowed with as delicate and refined susceptibilities
as those of gentle blood. Another class has now
given forth its bard, his first effusions being nothing
less pretending than a tragedy, an allegory, and
fugitive verses. Edmund H. White is a guard on
the Great Western Railway, and he certainly shows
himself to be a guard of considerable imagination, of
no little sensibility, and of a not wholly neglected
education. One advantage must, we would believe,
inevitably result from the publication of " Athelstan."
The tragedy must produce, at the least, one beneficial
consequence; it must conduce to the elevation of the
particular class to which its author belongs ; it must
render a railway guard less liable to the incivilities
,vith which, like all other public servants, he
has been hitherto treated. People will reflect,
after hearing of this production of Edmund
White, that it is not altogether impossible that
the rail way guard or the railway porter may be a
creature of as refined sentiments, and as delicate sus-
ceptibilities as themselves. Misfortune may have
dragged men of classical education—and we have
known instances—down to that position ; and insolence
to such is as abhorred as it is to yourselves. Remem-
ber that ; remember the book written by Edmund 11.
IVhite, and restrain your impetuosity of manner and
language ; take a lesson from the French, gentle
public, to whom every artizan in his blouse and his
peaked cap is worthy of a " Monsieur" and a saluta-
tion. Although we can say but very little in com-
mendation of Athelstan itself, we can certainly say
much less in praise of the Allegory. Among the
tugitive verse,, again, many are irredeemably bad, as
when in rhyme the writer says—
" 'Tis a glorious sight, on a summer's night,
To gaze on old ocean's breast;
While the moon's pale ray o'er its bosom plays,
As it silently takes its rest."
The author, too, had better have thumbed his
grammar before he fingered the poetic tablet, and there-
by have prevented the publication of such stuff as the
following :
"Its bosom then seems, like our childhood's dreams,
Innocent, calm, and serene ;
And the stars which glow, in the waters below,
Enchantment adds to the scene."
When we come, moreover, to such euphonious twad-
dle as the subjoined, we are compelled to desist from
further examination of the volume :
"For three long weeks he vainly sought
Employment, far and near ;
His children nightly round him ran
With hungry bellies, pale, and wan,
And eyes dimmed with a tear."
The book should have gone through a careful and
competent supervision before being printed.

SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HANDBOOK TO

THE ENGLISH LAKES.

Having already noticed in terms of deserved eulo-
gium the elegant, though somewhat costly volume
upon the " Scenery and Poetry of the English
Lakes," written by Dr. Charles Mackay, we can,
with double reason, express our approbation of this
Hand-book to the same picturesque localities of
Cumberland. Every advantage possessed by the
former publication is (with the exception of the
elegant lettor•press, by the accomplished author
of the " Sala rnandrine") compacted together
into a size much more convenient, and at a
price much more within the reach of the multitude.
IVe have no hesitation in declaring " Sylvan's Hand-
book to the Lakes" to be the most popular guide to the
most bewitching landscapes in England ; clear and
distinguishable in arrangement, elegant in general
appearance, and plentifully besprinkled with engrav-
ings from original sketches by Thomas and Edward
Gilks. Of the illustrations, especially,
we can speak
in the highest praise. Minute, at times almost mi-
croscopic in dimensions, they are yet pencilled with
a skill and faithfulness that betoken not merely an
admiration for the natural beauties around Derwent-
water and Windermere, but a full and delicate appre-
ciation of the poetic genius associated with those
realms of woodland and water. In one page we have
here delineated the entrance to a village within a circle
of the circumference of a shilling piece; in another, a
champaigne country ; in another, a mountainous dis-
trict, or a cataract, such as that at Lodore, described
so quaintly, but vividly, in Southey's rhymes :

Then
saigfinai
gvnepegt
ari
nnnnagds plunges " The cataract strong
Striking andlCntr's:
swag iamong.ng,
Sinking and creeping,
Swelling and sweeping,
Showering and springing,
Conflictingly
iensf
asdaapt rliroo:oagg,k:
Flying and flinging,
Writhing and wringing,
Eddying and whisking,
Spouting and frisking,
Turning and twisting,
Around and around,
With endless rebound,
Smiting and fighting,
A sight to delight in,
Confounding,
Astounding,
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound."
Sylvan, as the name bespeaketh, is an earnest lover
of quotations sylvan, of solitudes sylvan, of pano-
ramas sylvan. Were the volume only opened as a
wile to the valetudinarian in his arm-chair, it would
convey an impression almost tantamount to a bodily
visit to the scenes it depicts. As a companion
however, into Cumberland, it will prove most valu-
able, we should say rather, perhaps, invaluable. The
arrangement is singularly excellent, and the classifi-
cation of the names at the conclusion is elaborated to
the most minute particularity. Several inimitable
maps are scattered through the " Hand•book," from
the first map-engraver in the United Kingdom—Mr.
James Wylde ; forming not the least important or
least interesting feature in the entire publication.

SIR PATRICK STUART, GOVERNOR OF MALTA.—
We have much pleasure in announcing that private let-
ters from Malta by the overland mail just arrived, bring-
ing dates thence to the night of the 13th of July, an-
nounce that his Excellency the Governor had greatly
improved in health during the preceding fortnight ; but
very hot weather had set in, which it is desirable he
should avoid. The new chief secretary, Mr. Lushington,
Mid apt arrived.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
THE CATTLE SHOW.

NORTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, JULY 22.—Northampton
has salon), if ever, presented a more animated appear-
ance than it has shown to day. Visitors began to arrive
as early as six o'clock i' the morning, the hour at which
the show-yard opened. From that time until three
o'clock in the afternoon thousands continued to pour
into the town, on foot and in vehicles of various kinds;
whilst every train which arrived at the station deposited
hundreds at once. The inn-yards being incapable of
holding a tithe of the vehicles brought into the town,
carriages, gigs, waggons, and carts were placed in rows
in the streets and market-place. The streets were
crowded, and the principal routes from the town to the
show were filled up with a continuous stream of people,
the anDearance of the majority of whom bespoke them
agriculturists.
Notwithstanding the rule laid down by the society for
discouraging the exhibition of over-fed animals, there
were several in the show which came under that de-
nomination. This may be attributed to the circumstance
this being the first show which has taken place since
the common-sense view of the subject has been adopted
by the society. Now that its fiat has gone f4,rth, the
expensive process of manufacturing fat for the grease-
-I,ot, lately so much in vogue, will gradually be aban-
doned, and one may not despair of seeing, in a year or
two, even at the Smithfield show, animals that are really
well fed and healthy.
THE DINNER.

The dinner took place in a tent erected in a part of
the town called Waterloo. This pavilion, which was
erected by Mr. Manning, of High Holborn, is an ad-
mirable piece of workmanship, and well merits a minute
description, did space permit it.
Upwards of 1,100 gentlemen sat down to dinner, the
Earl of Egmont in the chair ; the Earl of Yarborough
vice-president. Amongst the company were the Duke
of Buccleuch, Marquises of Exeter, Northampton,
Downshire ; Earls Delawarr, Spencer, and Chichester ;
Viscounts Sydney, Hill, and Newry and Morne ; Lords
Rivers, Walsingham, Portman, St. John, Southampton,
and Pomfret, Fielding ; Hon. Captain Dudley Pelham,
Hon. Philip Pierrepont, Hon. H. W. Wilson, Hon. W.
Gage ; Sirs J. Johnstone, Bart., ALP., C. Lemon, Bart.,
M.P., G. Rebinsin, Bart., W. 0. Pell, Bart., Harry
Smith, J. Anson, E. Baker, and C. Knightley ; Mr. P.
Posey, M.P., Colonel Austen, M.P., Mr. W. Miles,
M.P., Mr. IV. G. Hayter, M.P., Mr. H. Stuart, M.P.,
Mr. G. Hudson, M.P., Mr. T. W. Bramston, M.P„ Mr.
T. P. Mansell, M.P. ; Colonels Challoner, Fitzroy,
Gilpin ; Sir E. Bowater ; Major Wollaston ; Mr. H.
Wilson, Mr. T. R. Barker, Mr. J. V. Shelley, Mr. G.
J. Bosanquet, Mr. W. B. Stoplord, Mr. Shaw, Mr. W.
F. Hobbs, Mr. Carter, Mr. G. Turner, Dr. Buckland,
Dr. Daubeney, Professor Way, Mr. S. Bennett, Mr. C.
Hillyard, Mr. W. H. Browne, and the present and late
mayor.
__

The dinner was provided by Messrs. Higgins, of the
George Hotel, and was a very good one.
The Rev. Dr. STODART said grace before and after
meat.

Dinner being over,
The CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose the " Health of
her Majesty," observed, that in all he might say that
evening he would avoid touching upon any topic likely to
engender ill-feeling. The sole object which should in-
fluence all present was a desire to benefit to the great
society whose anniversary they were assembled to com-
memorate. He concluded by proposing " The Queen,"
which was drunk with three times three cheers.

The CHAIRMAN then gave " the Health of the Queen
Dowager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the
rest of the Royal Family."—(Drunk with three times
three.) _ _ _

The Earl of CHICHESTER proposed " the Health of
the Foreign Ministers." Upon this occasion the society
was honoured by the presence of Mr. Bancroft, the
American Minister.—(Hear.) It must be pleasing to a
society of Englishmen that the only Minister who hap-
pened to be present was the representative not only of a
great and intelligent nation, but one who derived its
origin from Great Britain.—(Cheers.) It was desirable
to cultivate the friendship cf foreign nations, because
nothing was more calculated to enhance the interests of
agriculture than a free communication with scientific men
abroad. It was unnecessary for him to remind the meet-
ing of the good offices which this country had recently
in her necessity received at the bands of America.—
(Hear, hear.) It had frequently fallen to the lot of the
society to welcome the Ministers of America at their
meetings, but never with more hearty good will than
upon the present occasion.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded
by proposing " The Foreign Ministers," which was drunk
with three times three.

Mr. BANCROFT, the American Minister, rose amidst
much applause. He said that he could hardly find
words to express his gratitude for the kind manner in
which his country had been alluded to. Although the
Minister of a foreign country, he was not altogether a
stranger in that meeting, for nature had established
bonds of union between the farmers of every nation on
the face of the earth. The same sun shone upon
them all ; the same seasons as they returned furnished
the seed-time, and ripened the harvest. The celestial
influences to which he must look for a blessing on his
exertions might well blend in. the breast of the hus-
bandman with that spirit of brotherhood which had
made the tillers of the soil—especially those of Anglo-
Saxon origin—the guardians of freedom and conser-
vators of peace. Wherever the councils of the cul-
tivators of the soil prevailed, there it was certain
that nations would dwell in peace. Nor was that
the only point on which foreign nations found them-
selves interested in societies of this kind. Wherever
he turned his eyes he beheld evidence of the spirit
of enterprise and improvement which distinguished
the people of this country. They rifled every
clime of fruit and flowers to enhance the value of
their own. Everywhere you had evidence of the com-
binations of interest which connected together the na-
tions of the earth. Since ho had been in England he had
seen American plants to which English skill and culture
had been applied, and they had attained a degree of
beauty and perfection which they never possessed in
their native soil.—(Cheers.) It had afforded him the
highest gratification to witness the beauty of the horses
and stock exhibited that day. Agriculture in his country
differed very much from that in England. In England
the farmers went through a course of work which had
been continued from century to century, and had only
to perfect what their forefathers had handed down to
them; the Americans, on the other hand, had to grapple
with the difficulties of nature—to tame, subdue, and
render useful the natural exuberance of their exhaust-
less soil. Nothing had struck him more since he had
been in in England than the manner in which the fields
were cultivated and weeded by the hoe and the band. In
America the trees were older than the roads—older than
the towns—and, where spared, were the oldest monu-
ments existing in the country. In England not an
animal was suffered to live unless it could produce a
passport and prove its right to be fattened and fed.-
-(Cheers and laughter.) The farmers of England
cultivated the soil beneath those beloved churches—
(Cheers)—which stood amidst the graves of their
fathers, that seemed to shed a sacred influence on their
toil. With the Americans, beneath whose blows the
forests fell—with that moving and active population
those who now lived upon the soil were more numerous
than all who slept beneath it.—(Cheers.) There the
agriculturists, with the instruments of husbandry in
their hands, were obliged to erect school-houses and
churches, and prepare for competition with the mother
country in all that was calculated to promote the pros-
perity of mankind by the advancement of religion, and
the cultivation of science and art.—(Hear, hear.) In
the name of every American he responded to the wish
that peace might for ever prevail between the two coun-
tries.—(Cheers.) Let it be hoped that the relations of
commerce, and the interchange of intelligence between
the cultivators of the soil in the two countries, would
knit them together in such bonds of amity that no ap-
prehension of a rupture need be entertained. With these
sentiments, uttered from his heart and soul, he responded
to the sympathy shown for his country, and would con-
clude by praying for the prosperity of the farmers of
England.—(Loud cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose a toast, which could
not be given if the rules of the society were strictly ad-
hered to; but he had no doubt he would be excused for
deviating from them, on account of the distinguished
merits of the individual to whom he referred,—he meant
" The Hero of Aliwal."—(The toast was drunk amidst
great cheering.)
Sir H. SMITH thanked the company for the kind man-
ner in which they had received the mention of his name,
and in the course of his remarks advised that some atten-
tion should be bestowed upon keeping up the breed of
hunters, as a matter of great importance in a military
point of view. A body of English soldiers mounted en
hunters was a terror which an enemy could not easily
resist. That valuable breed of horses was so much de.
teriorated that, if 500 were wanted for the service of the
country at the present moment, he believed they could
not be obtained.—(Hear, hear.)
The Duke of BUCCLEOGN proposed the next toast,
which was, " Success to the Royal Agricultural So-
ciety of England." His Grace expressed himself in
terms of warm commendation of the exhibition, and said
that persons had come to visit it from all parts of the
kingdom.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN made an ingenious address in intro-
ducing the toast of " Agriculture, Manufactures, and
Commerce," which, owing to the late hour at which this
report reached town, it is impossible to give, and the
same reason renders an abridgment of the subsequent
portion of the proceedings indispensable. The Hon.
Gentleman concluded by saying he would give the toast
as it was usually written on their election flags, " The
Plough, the Loom, and the Sail,"—might the plough
never break in a furrow, and be still guided by the strong
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(Drunk with three times three.) Northampton."—the''
The Mayor of NORTHAMPTOM returned thanks, and
expressed a hope that the society would soon pay another
visit to Northampton.

Lord PORTMAN said, that it was his duty to propose
as a toast, "The Labouring Classes." Lie referred to
the difficulty which attended every effort to ameliorate
the condition of the lab-outing classes, ant said, that
whilst it was the duty of society to eductsto: the young
and cherish the old, it no less became it to corvect the ill-
doers of the middle-aged. That was the course which
he had endeavoured to pursue through life. "There were
7,000,000 labourers in Great Britain employed in various
occupations, but none of them enjoyed the sa me advan-
tages as the labourers engaged in agriculture, for they
beheld the works of God in all their glo: T. They, too,
saw the great principle of universal charity in daily
practice ; they saw the sun shine and, the rain fall,

LONDON FRIDAY

The Earl of YARBOROUGH returned thanks.
The meeting then broke up.

COURT CIRCULAR.

without distinction of sect or party, which taught them
that universal benevolence was the duty of poverty. It
was in that spirit he called upon them to toast the
labouring classes.—(Cheers.) All present knew their
worth—(Cheers)—and he trusted they all knew and would
perform their duty towards them. Ho would apply to
them two old lines, taking the liberty to alter one word:
• " Be to their faults a little blind?
+Pa Be to their virtures very kind."
His Lordship concluded by proposing, " The Labouring
Classes."—(Orunk with three times three.)
Mr. VERNON SMITH complained that the variety of
topics which had been offered to the notice of the meet-
ing placed him at disadvantage, for little was left for him
to say. Politics were purposely excluded from that
meeting; but it was not a tittle curious to observe that
every speaker who had referred to that rule ran as close
to the wind as he could.—(A laugh.) The itch which
speakers seemed to have for transgressing the rule in
question reminded him of an anecdote, which perhaps
the company would excuse him for repeating. A gen-
tleman who took home to dine with him a triend who
had a remarkably large nose, cautioned his wife not to
make any allusion to noses during his friend's visit; the
lady remembered the caution until they were just about
rising fr on the table, when she said to the gentleman,
Pray make a long nose and hand me the biscuits."—
(Laughter.) At the present moment the rule operated
with peculiar hardship upon him and his lion. Friend,
the Member for Northamptonshire. For his own part, he
hardly knew whether he had a political position.—(A
laugh.) The Right lion. Gentleman next adverted to
the presence of many ladies on the show ground and the
pleasure which it gave him to see the fairest of women
among the fattest of oxen, and passing to and fro, with a
lightness of step which would scarcely bend a blade of
grass, in the midst of Craskell's clod crushers and other
terrible looking implements, formed to tear but not in-
jure the bosom of mother earth."—(liear and laughter.)
The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded a humorous and
agreeable speech by proposing " The Health of the
President."

The toast was drunk with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks.
Mr. SHELLEY proposed, " The Judges of the Show."
He said that some idea might be formed of the arduous
duties which those gentlemen had to perform, when he
stated the fact, that at the first show of the society the
number of implements exhibited was only 23, whereas
at the present exhibition the number amountad to 1,250,
and if placed in a row they would occupy a space a mile
and a quarter in length, by 20 feet broad. Great im-
provement was observable in the animals exhibited, and
the short-horns were as fine a lot as ever was submitted
to judges.—(Hear, hear.)
The health of the judges was drunk with three times
three.

Mr. WItICIIT returned thanks for himself and his col-
leagues, and expressed a hope that in future exhibitors
would aim less at fattening their animals than developing
their points of breeding.—(Applause.)
The following toasts were drunk in succession:—
" The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland,
and the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of
Ireland."

The Earl of SILFORD returned tnanks, in the absence
of the Duke of Richmond, who was unable to attend from
illness.

" The Milway Companies, who have so liberally
carried cattle and implements free of charge to and from
the show."
Mr. HUDSON returned thanks.
" The President elect," proposed by.the lion. Octavius
Duncombe.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council this (Friday)
_ _ ...
afternoon at Buckingham Palace, at half-past three
o'clock.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, and attended by the Countess of Mount-
ricigecumbe, Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley,
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel
Buckley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, left Osborne,
Isle of Wight, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock yes•
torday morning, crossed in the Fairy to Gosport, tra•
veiled to town in a special train on the South-Western
Railway, and proceeded from the Nine Elms terminus lo
Buckingham Palace, where the royal party arrived at
twenty-five minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon, in
three open carriages and four, escorted by a party of the

12th Lancers.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were received at
the Palace by the Hon. Miss Murray, the Lord Steward,
the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, Vis-
count Clifden, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore.
At three o'clock the Queen held a Court and Privy
Council at Buckingham Palace.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Lord. Privy Seal, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the• Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, the President of the Board of Control for the
Affairs of India, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods
and Forests, the Pay aiaster of the Forces, the Chief
Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert.

Her Majesty in Council wits pleased to declare the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. President of the Com-
mittee of Council appointed for the consideration of all
matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations.
The Hon. William Lascelles was, by command of the
Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Wvst Honourable Privy
Council.

Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Ihrt., was, by
Her Majesty having been pleased to
command of the Queen, sworn of Ifer Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council.
appoint the Right
Hon. George William Frederick Ho yard, commonly
called Viscount Morpeth, to be Lord Deutenant of the
East Riding of Yorkshire, his Lordship hook the cus-
tomary oaths.
The Queen's speech on closing the sessi tris of Parlia-
ment this day was arranged and agreed up,-m.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the C.:Jerk of the
Council in waiting.
At the Court, the Bishop of Adelaide, the _Bishop of
Melbourne, the Bishop of Cape Town, and the Bishop
of Newcastle, were severally presented to the- Queen at
audiences in the royal closet, by Earl Grey, her Ma-
jesty's principal Secreta of State for the Colon ies.
The Earl of Westmoreland, her
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Court of Berlin, was presented to the Queen at :an audi-
ence, on his arrival in England, by Viscount -Palmer-
ston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary -of State
for Foreign Affairs. Majesty's Envoy
Lord Howard de Walden, her Majesty's minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brussels, was p resented
to the Queen by Viscount Palmerston.
Sir Thomas Cartwright, her Majesty's Minis ter Ple
nipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, was
presen WI I by
Viscount Palmerston to the Queen.
The Right Hon. Richard Pakenhara, her Ma.l('lstY's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the United States, was presented to the Queen at an
audience, by Viscount Palmerston, on his return un
leave of absence fri,m his mission.
The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lan 0-
downs, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, an d
Viscount Morpeth.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey,
Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Morley, Lord in
Waiting ; the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-
Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, and
Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ance at her Majesty's Theatre last evening with their
presence. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of
Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Mac-
donald, Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-
Colonel Seymour.
House, Bushy Park, yesterday aftern, andeprocaeeded
to Marlborough House, Pall mall, where
four, ratMt std
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite left Bushy
Theatreijg in the
and suite arrived in two carriages andenou_,
Dowager
ewretiltoy
performance at her Majesty's
umoiunruetdesthpeastseven o'clock. The a
Miss Eden, Hon. W.
W
by the Countess of Sheffield, Hon.
Ashley, and Captain A Taylor.
heriff Challis had
The City Remembrancer and Mr. S
evening with her presence. Her Majesty was attended
an interview with Sir G. Grey Yesterday.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We
are enabled to announce that the Marquis of Drogheda
is about to lead to the hymeneal altar the Hon. Miss
(laughter of the
Stuart Wortley, the beautiful and accomplished daugh-
the Earl of Clare.
daugh-
ter of Lord and Lady Wharncliffe. The Noble Marquis
has only just attained his majority, and took the custo-
mary oaths and his seat in the House of Lords on Wed-
Thursday, an
Wed-
nesday last. A marriage is also on the lapis between
nCrosby, and his
be true, hlr. Evans
lliroi Lordsel. A
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msendsT eei niecelhimself
ts Fitzgibbon,j.t—oo hoonf
to get some respectable parson to vouch
wife, applied at the parish-office. for a pass to Dublin,
whore they stated their children had gone before them.
gialcillicuracy of his statement, and they left the
(ißte,rsl
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evhdi
the
office apparently much dissatisfied with Mr. Evans's
In about ten minutes afterwards the wife re-
turnedrequest.thatil:was
in
a state of
. her husband had
been seized with a fit, and was dying in the street. I,lr.
Evans remarked, that when the man was at the office he
seemed quite well; but a surgeon was sent for, and upon
3', and ultimately
seeing
g mantthoethe
great danger. Several gentlemen who had seen the
fellow also thought he was about to make his exit from
Pa
rill: -deffic lea: stating
a
a police officer 'was sent with a coach, to take him to
the hos-pita]. Upon the officer going to the man, he
attempted to get him upon his legs, b
this world, and relieved him with mangy,
but the fellow seemed
quite incapable of mot.ion. At length he articulated,
" Where ale you going to take me to?" "To the
fever hospital," replied the officer. The words seemed to
have the effect of magic upon the man, who suddenl
was cured of all his ailments, and walked of sharply
enough, saying to the officer, "I'll see you first."
In the course of a quarter of an hour after a man was
(. taken bad," near the Town ball, and, information
having been sent to the parish officer, and suspicion being
entertained that it was the same fellow, an officer was
directed to go to him and whisper in his ear that he
would be taken to the fever hospital. These words had
the same remarkable effect as before, and the fellow
walked oft Why he was not favoured with an intro-
duction to Mr. Rushton, we are at a loss to conceive.—
Liverpool Collrier.
Tun OVERLAND INDIA MAlL.—Letters and news-
papers for the Mediterranean( Egypt, Aden, Ceylon,
India, llongl in iong, and China, will bo i_ time tomor-
row evening to be forwarded by the fortnightly overland
closed mail to India, via Marseilles.

EVENING, JULY 23, 1817.

THE FAIR IMPOSTER.
Early last summer a lady, calling herself Madame
B—, attended by two servants, arrived in a very ele-
gant carriage in a village not one hundred miles from
this oity. She drove up to the best hotel, secured lodg-
ings, and shot tly after handed the landlord a card, an-
nouncing a number of lots in New Orleans for sale, which
she desired him to place in his bar-room.
She professed to be a widow in bad health. From this
hotel she removed to a furnished house, which she
engaged for six months. She soon selected from
the merchants and market people a chosen few,
whom she honoured with her patronage. She had
a number of rich dresses made up, bought jewel-
lery, gave a soirée once a week, lived generously,
purchased all the old wine in town, and quite
monopolised the young chickens, cream, and other deli-
cacies in the neighbourhood. Several young ladies were
invited to spend the winter with her in the city; and the
smof a respectable planter was engaged to superintend
her sugar plantation for the ensuing year, at a salary of
1,400 dollars. She got up a subscription to build a new
church in the village, and headed it with 100 dollars, pay-
able on the completion of the building. It was soon
whispered, far and near, that her wealth was immense,
and no one thought of prestmtinr, her with a bill. Things
went on merrily. The two merchants she honoured with
her patronage were desperately smitten, and each had
reason to believe himself the favoured swain.

Thus passed the summer. One fine Sunday morning,
however, in the month of November, at about eleven
o'clock, one of the lovers, dressed in li!s best, and glowing
with hope, called to escort madame to a camp-meeting in
the neighbourhood. At the same time his rival arrived
with the same understanding. She had offered to each of
them a seat in her carriage. Looking by no means very
amiable at one another, they rapped at the door. No
answer was returned. They knocked again. Still no
answer. They became alarmed, but soon concluded that
the lady, piqued at their delay (they had dallied a little
too long over the toilette), had driven off soles to the
camp-ground. What were they to do? They had
loaned their horses on the promise of a seat in the car-
riage, and not another was to be had. Indeed, scarcely
a human being remained in town. Half-angry and
half-ashamed, they skulked back to their respective
lodgings, and spent the day as old crusty bachelors do in
country towns, mumbling crackers and cheese and
swigging brandy.
At breakfast, however, next morning, it was
whispered among the boarders that Madame B. had not
been at the meeting. The lovers turned red. A
feeling of alarm, perhaps a dim idea that they had been
bamboozled, came over them, and accompanied by the
crowd, they had rushed to her house. The doors and
venetians were carefully closed, and for a moment the
group paused until the question of forcible entry could
be determined. The two attorneys of the place were
summoned, differed in opinions, cited on each side a dozen
of cases directly in point, and finally flew at one another
with great fury. The magistrate and constable inter-
fered, and during the melee the door was burst open, and
in the mob went. _

Every thing was in perfect order ; flowers bloomed on
the mantel-piece ; a little slipper lay in one corner ; a
delicate glove in another ; and on the table was found
the following note, written on musk-scented paper,
couleur d'rose, in the prettiest Italian hand :
" Adieu my dear friends. The first frost summons me
away. I will be with you next summer, When you
visit the city, call on me at No. 27, Rue —. Make
my house your home. For your bills, draw on my mer-
chants, Messrs. —, Canal•street. Adieu ! Adieu !"
It is impossible to say precisely what was the feeling
of the company. Most of them were her creditors for
rent, some for supplies, and for considerable amounts of
cash loaned. A few swore roundly; others slunk off si-
lently, while the two lovers grew angry with each other.
He who loaned the money declared her an impostor ;
but the other insisted on her innocence, and treasured
up the abandoned slipper and glove, as memorials to be
cherished for ever. He that night drew upon her bank,
and enclosed a letter full of vows to the lady herself. In
ten days his draft came back protested, with a polite
note from Messrs. —, that they had not the honour of
knowing any such lady. Since then not a word has
been heard of the fair widow, and the whole village has
voted her an impostor, save the one faithful lover, who
confesses there is a in) stery about it, but insists that she
will return next summer! Such is the spell of beauty
on man's imagination.—Galt Reporter.