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LITERATURE.

THE PRACTICE of the COUNTY COURTS,
under the 9 and 10 Victoria, chap. 95. Third Edition.

By John Jagoe, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
There is, perhaps, no subject on which sound and
accurate information is more urgently required by the
public, than that relating to the operation and mode
of working of the new Act for the Recovery of Small
Debts throughout the kingdom. A most important
alteration has been effected in the law. New tribunals
have been constituted, to which questions respecting
almost every cause of action not exceeding 201. in
amount must be submitted. A new code has been
established, by which the great majority of the affairs
of daily life will be affected ; proceedings will, of
course, become more frequent in proportion to the fa-
cilities afforded. Legal practitioners cannot be con-
sulted without a heavy fee, for which, in many in-
stances, no allowance can be made. It, therefore,
becomes a matter of general importance, and of deep
interest, that some competent person should interpret
the new provisions of the law—should simplify and
free them from legal technicalities—and should present
them in such a shape that they may be intelligible to
the many, and enable even those most ignorant of
law to acquire a knowledge sufficient for their guid-
ance, to learn what is required of them, by what
means they can enforce payment of their just de-
mands, and how they may be enabled to resist un-
founded claims. Mr. Jagoe, who has already attained
a high character as a legal writer, has accomplished
this task ; but he has done something more. He has
produced a work which will be equally acceptable to
the legal practitioner, and to the public in general ;
to the professional, and to the unlearned reader,
while its great accuracy and perspicuity, its admirable
arrangement, and collection of cases on analogous
statutes, which may form precedents for, and guide
the decisions of, the new courts, its copious index,
affording the greatest facilities for reference, will re-
commend it to the former; its great simplicity and
clearness will make it most useful to the latter. The
appendix contains the Act itself, the rules of practice
for the courts, framed by the Lord Chief Baron and
his judicial brethren, and the several districts into
which the country has been divided, while the trea-
tise itself contains the law of contract, tort, and evi-
dence, as applicable to actions in those courts, em-
bracing all the subjects within their jurisdiction.
" Each chapter," as the author correctly states
in his preface, "is in itself a separate
treatise, giving the proceedings and proof for plain-
tiff and defendant, from the entry of the plaint to the
iudgment." In selecting the cases cited, Mr. Jagoe
has not restricted himself to those reported in this
country ; he was aware that a code, in many respects
similar to that recently introduced, has existed in
Ireland for many years ; that the Civil Bill-law as
it is termed, has been administered by men of standing
and ability ; and that the more important topics have
been dicided by the highest legal authorities
appeals, on certain conditions, existing in every case,
to the going judge of assize, by whom, if there is
any serious difficulty, it is reserved for the
consideration of his judicial brethren. Mr.
Jagoe appears to have studied those decisions with
assiduity and effect, and to have culled from amongst
them such as appeared to have reference to the ques-
tions likely to be mooted before the new tribunals.
The important and much disputed point of the
right of a creditor to bring several actions against
his debtor at the same time is discussed, and the
decision of the Bristol judge, Mr. A. Palmer, in that
respect, would appear to be justified upon the authori-
ties produced, whatever may have been the intention
of the Legislature in framing the law—whatever
may be the sound policy that should prevail—
the judges have only to interpret the law
as it exists on the face of the statute, and to bring to
their aid the lights which are afforded by the recorded
opinions of eminent men, who have brought their
learning and experience to bear on a similar question.
" Splitting demands" was prohibited by the Irish
statutes in nearly the same language as in the present
Act ; and the decision of the Lord Chief Justice of
the Queen's Bench in that country (Bushe), was in
accordance with that of the English Chief Justice

(Lord Tenterden), who in the "King v. the Sheriff
of Hertfordshire," reported in I Barnewall and Adol-
phus, p. 672, decided "that the two items formed per-
fectly distinct debts, that when the defendant incurred
the debt stated in the first item the plaintiff might
have sued for it in the County Court, and his having
incurred another and distinct debt with the plaintiff
afterwards, should not have the effect of depriving
plaintiff of his remedy in the County Court for the
first debt, and if he might still have the remedy for
the first debt, he has it of course for the second also."
From the above and the other cases cited, Mr. Jagoe
comes to the following conclusion :

" The principle deducible from these cases is, when
the division is the result of mutual stipulation it is valid;
but if the division be ex park and arbitrary, the plaintiff
shall not be permitted to split the demand to bring it
within the jurisdiction of the court. If the considera-
tion for the action be single and entire, it cannot be
divided ; but if separate and distinct, several actions are
maintainable."

The chapter on arbitrations and the various forms in-
serted in reference to that mode of settling disputes will
be found most useful for those who are willing to
refer matters to the decisions of their neighbours and
friends. It contains, also, in addition to the forms
prepared by the Judges, no less than sixty new forms,
prepared with much care and accuracy for the use
of the officers and practitioners of the courts.
The general observations on the statute and prac-
tice of the court, at the end of the volume, refer
most ably to the policy of the law, and offer valuable
suggestions for its improvement. The recent case
of Thomas Dinning, who was discharged from cus-
tody by the Court of Common Pleas, in the beginning
of the present month, on the ground that a debtor
should have notice before he was committed, is given
at length, and its applicability to the present Act is
argued by Mr. jagoe. Ile says—
" We shall consider how far the foregoing decision on
the repealed statute is applicable to this Act. Section
ninety-nine leaves the judge no discretion, and if it stood
alone he should either commit or discharge the defend-
ant ; but section 100 enacts, that the judge has power,
whether he shall have made au order far committal or
not, to rescind or alter any order previously made
(meaning the order of the court upon which the sum-
mons issued), and to make any further or other order
for the payment of the debt forthwith, or by instal-
ments, or in any other manner which he may think
reasonable and just ; but if an order was made for the
payment of a debt by instalments or otherwise, after an
order of commitment was made, the party could not be
committed without a new summons served on him, and
making the inquiries directed by section ninety-nine,
which is evidently what the Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas meant by notice to the defendant ; there is
no power to make an order in the alternative, that if
the debt or instalments were not paid that the defendant
should be committed,' and no order can be made, altered,
or rescinded without sufficient notice to the defendant.
The decision in Kinning's case, and the able observa-
tions of the Chief Justice, apply with equal, if not
greater force, to this than to the former statute."
We are glad to find that the merits of Mr. Jagoe's
work are appreciated, as it has already attained a
third edition. We shall, however be surprised if it
does not run rapidly through many other editions,
and attain the extensive circulation and popularity
it so fully merits.

REMARKS ON EDUCATION IN 1847.
By the Hon. Amelia Murray.
Condensation is an art in literary composition which
is now-a-days—namely, when most required from
the extraordinary multiplicity of publications—very
little understood. Hence we may literally say of
this miniature treatise by the Hon. Amelia Murray—
duplex libelli dos est. It is useful as a brilliant ex-
ample of the advantages and beauties of condensation ;
it is useful as a token that the cause of education
among the poorer classes is a cause which finds sym-
pathy—and what is more, ardent co-operation—in
the highest circles of the community. The lady who
has written this practical plea for the poor is one who
has mingled in all the gaieties and magnificence of the
Court of Victoria ; her book is even, in a particular
manner, on the title-page, "dedicated, by permis-
sion, to the Queen and the Prince Consort ; her book
bears about it the atmosphere of Pimlico; her book
has received the distinguished approval of the most ac-
complished of foreign monarchs, King Louis Philippe.
And yet this little book, penned, as it were, under
the shadow of Buckingham Palace, associated with
the name of our Sovereign, and carrying with it
the prestige of a commendation from the Tuileries, is
one of the homeliest books we ever saw. Its argu-
ments are profound, but they are conveyed in the
language of the most singular simplicity. It speaks
the words of wisdom, but the wisdom is like the
lispings of a child. Since Mrs. Champone wrote her
incomparable letters, we do not remember a volume
of similar dimensions so filled with home truths. The
Hon. Amelia Murray has studied the exigencies of
education with an intense longing for the spread of
knowledge among the people. Government and po-
pular opinion are conspiring for the realisation of her
wishes, and the wishes of all similar philanthropists.
But while others have contented themselves with
wishing, like the married couple in the story book,
who longed for the black pudding, the Hon. Amelia
Murray has been acting for the promotion of her
favourite project. The appendices to the brief work
before us are, _ perhaps, its most valuable contents,
showing as they do the necessity of instruction as a
preventive to crime, and the blessings that are inse-
parable from secular and religious tuition. When we
see the highborn thus striving to promote the
welfare of the lowly, the noblesse struggling for the
amelioration of the tier etat, we are, indeed, justified
in being sanguine as to the future reserved for our-
selves and our posterity. Already we have had the
utterances of the Parliament, of the Cabinet, of the
Press, of the different religious bodies in the empire,
of private individuals, and of public assemblies—we
have now in these clever " Remarks on Education,"
by the lion. Amelia Murray, the utterances, so to
speak, of the Palace all are unanimous upon the ne-

cessity of a national system of cducaLion. The new
Parliament have all the materials for the erection of
a noble structure.

NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ROUND THE

WORLD. Two .17 hi Sir George Simpson.
Often as this terraqueous globe of ours has been
circumnavigated, it remained for the Governor-in-
Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in
North America, Sir George Simpson, to be the first
individual who should travel round the earth overland.
The narrative of this remarkable journey is contained
in these two handsome and interesting volumes. Sir
George announces on the title-page, that his pere-
grinations were as far back in date as the years
1841 and ]842; and he apologises in a manner
for the tardy appearance of the work by
telling us in rather indifferent grammar, in
the preface, that his numerous occupations, of an offi-
cial character, have heretofore "precluded him from
bestowing an earlier and requisite attention to the sub-
ject." Although we cannot accompany the author in
all the sentiments expressed by him during the course
of his lucubrations, we are perforce carried along with
him in imagination during the whole of his curious
progress through Europe, America, and Asia, fas-
cinated by the bonhommie of his style and allured by
the singularity of his proceedings. For example, we
are lothe to hearken to his extravagant eulogiums
upon the Imperial monster of the North, whom he
mentions in this wise s--
" The present Czsr's personal qualities, physical, and
intellectual, and moral, must induce every man's judg-
ment to actudesce in the homage which his feelings are
constrained to pay. Nicholas," he continues, " is uni-
versally allowed to present the noblest mould f form and
feature, to be the ablest and most laborious sovereign of
the age, and, what is higher praise than all in an indi-
vidual of his exalted station, to set before his people the
brightest example of all the domestic virtues."
At first such egregious toadying of a man univer-
sally execrated by civilised nations is incomprehen-
sible, but a cursory glance at a map of North
America will speedily explain the enigma ; it will
demonstrate the wherefore of such unexampled civi-
lity on the part of the Governor-in-Chief of the
Hudson's Bay Company, by revealing the contiguity
of their magnificent possessions to the enormous ter-
ritories colonised by the lieges of the Emperor
Nicholas. Sir George Simpson seems generally to
keep what is termed in sea-faring parlance his
" weather-eye open." Even in his dedication he
evinces a wholesome reverence for their High
Mightinesses, the Directors of the Hudson's Bay
Company. And upon a precisely similar, and ex-
ceedingly comfortable, and decidedly accommodating
principle, he becomes the earnest panegyrist of his
Imperial Majesty the Despot of all the Russias. Not
only this, but he degenerates into the extenuation of
the preternatural cruelties perpetrated in the icy wil-
dernesses of Siberia ; nay, he proceeds to such outrage-
ous lengths in uttering encomiums on the very pater-
nal Government of St. Petersburgh, that he holds up
the system of banishment into Siberia as one emi-
nently in accordance with the dictates of wisdom and
philanthropy, and rather serving as a model for imita-
tion than otherwise. Protesting, therefore, in
language as emphatic as we can just now select
against this miraculous malversation of truth, and
expressing our abhorrence alike of the man who
wields the sceptre of the infemous Catherine with
such congenial brutality, and of the system by which
he consigns so many thousands of our fellow-creatures
to the lingering agony of expatriation in the wintry
wastes of Siberia, we turn from this disagreeable
portion of Sir George Simpson's narrative to the
pleasanter passages, in which he depicts his wander-
ings and ponderings in many remote quarters of the
globe. At the outset we cannot resist expressing our
admiration at the inextinguishable good humour of
our author throughout the whole of this remarkable
journey. When other men would have become
soured by the petty calamities incident to the tra-
veller, he continues the same blithe, cheerful, viva-
cious being he proved himself to be on starting. The
hobbles resulting from insufficient conveyances, from
lumbering carriages that refuse to budge an inch
further through the mud, from restive horses that
suddenly, in the very crisis of a roadside dilemma,
throw up their heels, snap their reins asunder, and
gallop " over the hills and far away," from ignorant
guides, uncleanly lodging, and unpalateable fare, only
prove fresh provoeatives to the facetiousness f Sir
George Simpson. Instead of bewailing the incon-
veniences attendant upon his out-of-the-way pere-
grinations, he seems, on the contrary, to have revelled
in the consciousness that a thousand casualties were
perpetually conspiring against his comfort. Sir
George displays a wonderful aptitude for seeing things
in their ludicrous light, and he avails himself of this
capacity upon every reasonable and unreasonable oc-
casion. Besides this, he is a keen observer of animal
and vegetable nature—of the picturesque in scenery,
and the characteristic in town life and village
life. His chapters flow, one after another,
each presenting a different spectacle to our con-
templation, like the sliding glasses in the
galantee-show. Every page, moreover, reflects
upon its surface, so to speak, the trees, and the waters,
and the mountains, and the houses, and the human
beings actually seen by the writer as he proceeded
onwards, as vividly as on the disc of a camera
obscura. A better idea, however,
may be afforded of
the character of the work under consideration by
giving a condensed description of the route taken by
the traveller, than by referring to the prominent
features of his narrative, or the most conspicuous
characteristics of his style. Having embarked on the
4th of March, 1841, at Liverpool, on board the
British steamer " Caledonia," of 1,300 tons, and 450
horse power, Sir George Simpson proceeded in a
westerly course from the mouth of the Mersey. After
encountering a variety of adventures, such as only
occur to voyagers on the tempestuous Atlantic—
catching a glimpse of a whale, getting involved in the
very same hurricane in which the unfortunate "Pre-
sident" disappeared, mistaking a field of ice for land,
and a star for a " revolving light"--they entered the
harbour of Halifax on the 18th of March. On their
way thither they had passed by the Great Bank of
Newfoundland. From Halifax they
"steamed" on to
Boston, where they disembarked from the " Cale-
donia," and, leaving that pleasant city with as much
dispatch as possible, proceeded by railroad first to
Lowell and then on to Nashua. Nashua is described
by our author as one of the most precocious towns in
that most precocious of all civilised countries, America,
having sprouted into maturity with the rapidity of a
mushroom. Thence he hastened forward by a coach-
and-four to Vermont, and, exchanging that convey-
ance for a sleigh, clattered on towards Montpellier.
The party, however, were not destined to reach that
assemblage of villas without a preliminary stoppage
on the road, in consequence of the vehicle sticking
perversely in the mud, and the horses bolting no less
perversely, and defying their pursuers until after a
"chase of several miles." On leaving Montpellier
they at once crossed into the Canada territories, reach-
ing Montreal by passing over the ice of the St. Law-
rence. Their journey then appears to have assumed a
rather formidable character, seeing that they had to
travel slowly up the river in canoes, stopping now to
dine, now to bivouac, and now to diverge through
the thickets around the portages—a portage being
that portion of the banks which is situated between
the summit and the bottom of a cascade or a rapid.
Arrived at Lake Superior, Sir George expatiates at
some length on the riches imbedded in the vicinity of
the Thunder Mountain, were the soil is prolific in its
deposits of copper, tin, gold, and silver. Leaving Fort
William behind them the travellers paddled up the river
Kaministaquoia,"passing severally through the Lake la
Croix, Lake la Pluie, and the Lake of the Woods.
Here they pressed forward to the Rat Portage, to Fort
Alexander, hard by Lake Winipeg, to Assihiboine
river, and onwards across the gigantic prairies, by
Fort Ellice, Fort George, Kootanie Fort, and Fort
Colville, until their arrival at Fort Vancouver—a
spot latterly invested with extraordinary interest, be-
ing situated on that river Columbia in the Oregon
territories so long disputed by England and America.
Sir George Simpson had in this manner crossed the
American continent by a road of five thousand miles
in the brief period of twelve weeks. Instead of being
exhausted by this enormous distance, he made eccen-
tric excursions first northwards to New Archangel
and Sitka, in the Russian territories, and then south-
wards to Port St. Francisco, to Monterey (since then
the scene of a battle), and to San Barbara, in Cali-
fornia. From the latter harbour he made an elliptical
ory
narrative of
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course, touching at the Sandwich Islands, and re-
turning to the Russian settlement at New Archangel.
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ness and desolation of those northern regions, that we
shall content ourselves with a mere enumeration of the
principal stages of his subsequent journey. Having
boated up the river Okota, he went on horseback,
through pine forests, to Yakutsk, downwards by
the Lena (one of the vastest rivers in the world),
passing by the gold country near the Yenisei, and
reaching the capital, Krasnoiarsk ; thence to Tomsk,
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have been encrusted with precious stones, and as large
as soup ladles ! On to Kazan, on to Novgorod (where
is the largest fair in the world), on to Moscow (the
phoenix of cities), on to St. Petersburgh, down the
gulf of Finland, down the Baltic to Hamburgh, and
then to London, where Sir George Simpson arrived
just at the close of the October of 1842, having jour-
ni, d round the world: overland in the wonderfully
short time of nineteen months and twenty-six days!
Wonderfully short, however, it cannot long continue
to be regarded, seeing that steam promises soon to
render the route a trip of comparative facility. As a

narrative of the first journey of the kind, these two
volumes by Sir George Simpson command a very
c•nsiderable share of attention; nor are they, with the
exception of certain indications of monomania, in
regard to the Emperor Nicholas and Siberia, of a
character unworthy of a very general and distin-
guished approbation.

EXHIBITION OF PICTURES AT
WESTMINSTER HALL.
Government is at length eliciting the artistic genies
which has hitherto remained comparatively dormant
among our fellow-countrymen. The screens in West-
minster Hall sufficiently testify that the munificence of
the Legislature has not been misdirected. Only one
question forces itself upon us as still problematical, after
a prolonged inspection of the paintings—What will the
State do with the intellect it has thus summoned into
development? Will it, like the fabricator of Franken-
stein, abandon the spirit it has evoked at the very mo-
ment when the power and ambition of that spirit is
attested? We cannot think that this generous movement
will be productive of such miseries as a conclusion like
that would necessitate. There is a glorious but mournful
warning on the wall—No. 15—one of the latest, and
certainly one of the best of poor Ilaydon's—" The
Banishment of Aristides, illustrative of the Injustice
of Democracy !" With that visible manifestation of the
woes incident to the atelier before us, we cannot dream
that the Government will encourage merely to forsake.
From the multiplicity of the productions suspended in
Westminster Hall, one hundred and twenty distinct paint-
ings, it would be impossible to give an accurate analysis
of the merits of the collection from the recollection of a
single inspection, and within the compass of a
single notice. The remembrance of a first visit to
an exhibition so novel and so copious in pro-
mise as the present, is necessarily one of the most
embarrassed and confused that can be conceived. Sup-
posing due attention is paid to each individual composi-
tion, the recollection of the whole would necessarily be a
combination of excellencies and blemishes, of incidents
and emotions, of hues and distances, and groupings and
passions. Bearing this in mind, we principally confined
our attention to those pictorial creations the predominant
talent of which has been in a very signal manner pro-
claimed by the combined judgments of the Marquis of
Lansdowne, of Sir Robert Peel, of Samuel Rogers, of
Richard Westmaoott, of Richard Cook, and of William
Etty. Looking then to these directly, we were irresist
ibly reminded of the proverbial impossibility of making
any selection of this character in such a manner as to sa-
tisfy any single individual,with the exception, of course, of
the successful competitors and their particular friends.
Taste is so variable in its nature, so diverse in its mani-
festation, and so impossible to reduce within arbitrary
rules, that its definition has baffled even the astuteness
of Alison. It has even pronounced its own fickleness
by merging into the adage, chacun a son gout—that
adage, moreover, showing in a remarkable manner that
each man has son gout—his particular taste. Art, how-
ever, is anything but simply a thing appreciable by what
is commonly called taste. Taste cannot make an exe-
crable picture a masterpiece, nor distort a masterpiece
into a monstrosity. The genius of art appeals irresis-
tibly to persons of all imaginable tastes (so-called),
though it appeals to them undoubtedly through an ex-
traordinary number of different channels. Still wherever
the genius of art is imprinted upon the canvass, there,
be certain, is attracted the admiration of those who are
competent to appreciate the productions of that art; and
precisely from such a consideration are we prepared to
express our supreme astonishment at the classification
of the nine pictures to which prizes have been awarded.
We are amazed at the particular classification, and we
are satisfied the public will be amazed likewise. Fore-
most among the " Premiums of Five Hundred Pounds"
is No. 17, " Burial of Harold at Waltham Abbey," by
F.R. Pickersgill. Supposing the visitor were takenblind-
fold from the entrance-gate of the hall, and relieved from
the bandage opposite this Prize A, No. 1, we do not
hesitate to say, that his surprise would be that the pic-
ture by Mr. Pickersgill is considered by the Fine Arts
Committee as the best painting in the exhibition—nay,
we do not hesitate to say that his predominant sentiment
would be a sentiment of disappointment. For
a moment we do not deny that the " Burial
of Harold" is clever—comsummately clever—but
we do assuredly protest that in our estimation it is very
far indeed from being the masterpiece in the exhibition.
The grouping is anything but graceful, presenting as it
does the curve of so many buttocks around the corpse of
the slain monarch; and, saving the sombre green of the
female dress and the glittering mail of the soldier, the colour
is feeble. Immeasurably beyond this in point of subject
in point of inspiration, and in point of drawing, is the
painting by G. F. Watts, No. 28, " Alfred inciting the
Saxons to prevent the landing of the Danes, by en-
countering them at sea." The vestures of the great king,
as he steps upon the plank of the galley, seem to be
caught up in the storm of heroism, and the Saxons
respond tofthe trumpet tones of his voice by their daring
visages and the appropriate energy of their movements.
The conception is grand and truly historical, but the
colouring is miserably deficient. No. 31, " The Battle of
Meanee," by Edward Armitage, is a spirited battle
scene, suggested by the school of Horace Vernet,
but for anything in the shape of poetry, of ingenuity, of
truthfulness to nature, or of power in the portraiture of
passion, it is a blank. Very different is the 11th pic-
ture as marked in the catalogue, " Edward"
Generosity to the People of Calais during the
Siege of 1346," by Paul Falconer Poole. The
incident chosen by the artist is one of the noblest in the
history of our common country. Edward 111. and the
Black Prince are represented in the centre of the pic-
ture distributing alms to the poorer inhabi-
tants of Calais who have been thrust out of the city
gates, to the number of seventeen hundred, by Jean
de Vienne, the Governor. The composition of the
entire picture is masterly, and domestic passion shines
out conspicuously in the different groups. The
whole is conceived in the loftiest style of art,
and the combination of colour is marvellously beautiful.
J. Noel Paton has a dainty and imaginative picture
(No. 24), " The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania:'
it is swarming with invention, both bewitching and
fantastic. Another noble limning is that of " Wisdom"
(No. 95.) by James Eckford Lauder. Several of the
unrewarded paintings struck us as:evidencing superior
ability.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac-
companied by the Princess Mary, and attended by the
Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. E. St. John Mildmay,
honoured the exhibition of oil paintings, in Westminster
Hall, with a visit on Saturday afternoon. Her Royal
Highness was received by Mr. Eastlake, who accom-
panied the illustrious party through the hall.
Among the nobility and gentry who attended the
private view were his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duke and Duchess
of Northumberland, the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Ladies Caroline and Constance Leveson Gower and the
Hon. Miss Ellis, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis anti Marchioness of
Westminster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter,
the Earl and Countess Craven, the Countess Dowager of
Morley, the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Earl of
Rosebery, the Countess of Pembroke and the Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, the Earl and Countess of
Leven and the Ladies Melville, the Earl Compton, the
Earl Fortescue, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Ripon,
the Countess Waldegrave and Lady Laura Waldegrave,
the Earl Granville, the Earl of Powis and Lady Lucy
Herbert, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Conn.
tess Grey and Miss Copley, the Earl of Minto and
the Ladies Elliott, the Countess of Selkirk and Lady
Katherine Douglas, the Earl and Countess of Elles-
mere, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Countess Cowper,
the Earl Waldegrave, Viscount and Lady Ma-
rian Alford, Viscountess Canning, Viscountess Jocelyn,
and Lady Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Brackley,
Visc6untess Mahon, Viscount and Viscountess Folke-
stone, Viscount and -Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount
Anson, Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount
Morpeth and Lady Mary Howard, Lord and Lady Col-
borne and the Hon. Miss Colborne, Lady Holland, Lady
Frederick Bentinck, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord and
Lady Wharncliffe and the Hon. Miss Stuart Wortley,
Lady M. Pleydell Bouverie, Lord Ashley, Lord North-
wick, Lady de Dunstanville, Lord Harry Vane, the
Ladies Mary and Elizabeth Waldegrave, Lady Sher-
brooke, Lady Caroline Lascelles and Miss Lascelles
Lady Wenlock and the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wortley,
Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Dover, Lady Wil-
loughby D'Eresby and Lady Carington, Lord Glenelg,
Lady John Russell and Lord Ribblesdale, Lord and
Lady Dalmeny, Lord Seymour, Lord de Manley, Lady
Fuller, Lady Hume Campbell, Lord Holland, the Ladies
Elliot and the Honourable Mrs. Elliot, Lady Catherine
Cavendish, Lady Louisa Pennant, Lady Louisa Tenison,
Lady Jane Ogilvy, Lady William Powlett, Lady and
Miss Parke, Mr. Baron Parke, Honourable Captain
Devereux, R.N., Honourable H. T. Liddell, M.P.,
Honourable C. Howard, the Honourable Misses Baring,
Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Melville, Honourable
Mr-Warrender and Miss Warrender, Honourable W. 0
Stanley, Hon. George Herbert, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. J.
Talbot, Hon. Mrs. Gurdon, Hon. E. Phipps, Hon. Mr-
and Mrs. Hely Hutchinson, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. George
Clive, Lion. Mrs. lechtnere, lion. Mrs. Cunliffe Oa y
and the Hon. Miss A. Crewe, Hon. Mrs. Villiers, Hon.
W. Cooper, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Right Hon. E. Strutt,
Right lion. T. D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. E. J. Stanley,

Sir R. B. Phillips, Sir 'Tames and Lady Graham, Sir
Alexander and Lady Daft' Gordon, Lady Davy, Sir W.
J. Newton, Sir Frankland and Lady Lewis, Sir Ed-
mund and Lady Head, Sir A. F. Barnard, Sir J. Beau-
mont, Lady Inglis, Sir Stratford and Lady Canning and
Miss Canning, Lady Morgan, Lady Bell, Sir George
Shee, Sir H. Willoughby, Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk,
Lady East, Sir Robert. and Lady Price, Sir William and
Lady Heathcotc, Sir Y. M. Brackenburg, Sir Adolphus
and Lady Dalrymple, Sir Edward Cust, Sir W. Middle-
ton, Sir Denham Norreys, Sir William Allan, R.A., the
Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Madras, his Ex-
cellency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the
Right Honourable the Spevker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre,
Mr. and Lady Theresa Lewis, Madlle. Jenny Lind,
Count d'Orsay, Mr. Alderman Moon, the O'Conor Don.
M.P., Mr. Bodkin, M.P., Mr. Baillie, M.P., Mr. Chute,
M.P., Mr. R. M. Bellew, M.P., Mr. Stafford O'Brien,
M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. W. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Wat-
son, M.P., Mr. Henley, M.P., Mr. Denison, M.P., Mr.
Christie, M.P., Mr. Q. Dick, K.P., Mr. R. Vernon
Smith, M.P., Mr. A. Hype, M.P., Ny. Ricardo, M.P.,
Lieutenant-General Elks, MajGT•GenWal Bowles, Col.
Douglas Pennant, Captain Napier, R.Nr Rev. H. Mil-
man, &c.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of an 'Bel-
gians, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday
in the private chapel, in Buckingham Palace. Prayers
were read by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Liddell.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary visited their Majesties the King
and Queen of the Belgians yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and
the Princess Helena, took their usual airings yesterday,
in the royal gardens.
The Queen and Prince Albert went, on Saturday
morning, to the Royal Academy to inspect the marble
statue of her Majesty by Gibson. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness were attended by Lady Caroline Cocks,
Major-General Bowles, and Lord Alfred Paget.
The Queen and the Queen of the Belgians, accom-
panied by Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, took an
airing on Saturday in an open carriage and four. Lord
Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horse-
back.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, accompanied by his Royal Highness
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, and at-
tended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting.
Prince Albert visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
at Marlborough House.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians held a diplo-
matic levee on Saturday, at one o'clock, at Buckingham
Palace. It was attended by Count de St. Aulaire, the
French Ambassador, Count de Noailles, Secretary,
and Monsieur de Rabaudy, Chancelier of the
Embassy ; Count Dietrichsten, the Austrian Am-
bassador ; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister ;
Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister ; Count de
Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de
Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister ; Chevalier Bunsen,
the Prussian Minister ; Prince Lowenstein, Secretary of
Legation, and Count Redern ; Le Commandeur Marques
Lisboa, Brazilian Minister ; and M. Piexoto, Attache
to the Legation; Count de Reventlow, the Danish Mi-
nister; Col. Iturregui, the Peruvian Minister; Prince Cal-
limaki, the Ottoman Porte Minister; Mr. Bancroft, Ame-
rican Minister; and Mr. J. R. Brodhead, Secretary of Le-
gation; Count Schimmelpenninck,Netherlands Minister;
and M. Stratenus, Conseiller of Legation • Senor X.
Isturiz, the Spanish Minister, and the Chevalier Pedro-
rena, Secretary of Legation; Senor Mora, the Mexican
Minister, and M. J. de Lizardi, Attache to the Legation ;
Baron de Beust, the Saxon Minister; Mr. Colquhoun,
Diplomatic Agent for the Hanse Towns; Count Adrien
de Revel, the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires; Baron de
Rehausen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires; M. de Koudriaff-
sky, and Baron de Nicolay, Secretaries to the Russian
Legation.
The reception was also attended by M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister ; Mr. Charles Drouet, First Secre-
tary of Legation ; , M. Delepierre, Secretary of Lega-
tion ; Mr. Castellain, Consul for Belgium ; Count de
Lalaing, and le Vicomte de Yonghe.
The diplomatic corps having assembled in the library,
their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
entered the apartment, when their Excellencies were
severally presented by M. Van de Weyer.
The King was attended by Major de Moerkerke,
Aide-de-Camp ; and the Queen was attended by the
Countess Vanderstraten, Dame du Palais.
The Countess de St. Aulaire, wife of the French
Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrichstein, wife of
the Austrian Ambassador, were presented to her
Majesty the Queen of the Belgians on Saturday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Queen of the
Belgians, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, honoured the
performance at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday
afternoon, with their presence. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Marchioness of Douro, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
the performance at the Royal Italian Opera House, on
Saturday evening, with their presence. In attendance
were the Marchioness of Douro, the Countess Vander-
straten, Lord Byron, Major de Moerkerke, Lord Alfred
Paget. and Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal High-
ness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, at-
tended Divine service, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Helmore, and the Lessons by the Rev. J. C. Haden.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The
chant and service were by Sir George Smart. The
anthem was "In thee, 0 Lord" (Weldon). Sir George
Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich,
Clerk of the Closet, attended.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Dowager
Lady Clinton and Earl Howe. Among the nobility
present were Ladies St. Germans, Wilton, Fortescue,
and Ebrington ; the Duke of Beaufort ; the Marquises
of Anglesey and Ormonde ; Lords Bandon, Fortescue,
Wilton, St. Germans, Ebrington, and Falkland.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Alban's, and Sir Fred. Trench attended the early
service in the Chapel Royal. The Rev. Dr. Wesley
officiated and preached the sermon.
His Royal Highness Prince George visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough
House. _ _ _ . . - _ _

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
Divine service yesterday in Grosvenor Chapel.
Their Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary attended Divine service yesterday
morning in St. Michael's Church, Chester-square.
Baroness Hammerstein and Baron Knesebeck were in
waiting on the Royal Duchess.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar honoured Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston with their company at din-
ner on Saturday, at their residence in'Carlton-gardens.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston with his company

in the evening. "
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Baroness Hammerstein, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr.
Edmund Mildmay, honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera House with their presence on Sa-
turday evening.
The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday,
which was attended by the Lord President of the
Council, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland, Viscount Mor-
path, the Right lion. Sir George Grey, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and the Right. Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
Mr. Kay Shuttleworth was in attendance.
Sir R. Ferguson had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon on Saturday.
Mr. Wyse had also an interview with the Noble Earl.
The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview with Sir
George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home Office.
The Chairman of the Customs had an interview, on
Saturday, with the Earl of Clarendon.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge honoured the performances
at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with his
presence. The Queen's box was occupied by a party of
the royal household. There were also present—the
Prince Louis Napoleon, the Conde de Montemolin, at-
tended by Don Juan de Montenegro and Don Francisco
Merry, his Excellency the Comte de St. Anlaire, the Count
Louis de Noailles, Baron Nicolay, Count Strogonoff
the Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal, the Marquis
of Huntley, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Douro, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl and Countess of
Sheffield (who occupied her Majesty the Queen Dowa-
ger's box), the Earl of Munster, the Princess Juka
Gagarin, Count de Barke, the Prince Troubetshoi, Lord
Templemore, Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, Lord and
Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Quentin, the Count de
Revel, M. C. de Koudriaffsky, Lord Otho Fitzgerald,
the Lady Clementina Villiers and party, Lady Hastings,
Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Southampton, Lord Gardner,
Lord Harry Vane, Lady .Howard, Mr. Broadwood,
M.P., Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, Lady, and the Misses Carroll, Sir H.
Webb, Sir W. and Lad,y,Fremantle, Sir R. Howard, Mr.
Bridgeman, Hon. Miss riling, Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P.,
Colonel Wildman, Mr. Bateson, M.P., Hon. General A.
P. Upton, Hou. G. Byng, Mr. H. Baring, Sir G. Womb-
well, Major Baring, Colonel Bowers, &c.
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S

The third promenade of the season at the Zoological
Gardens, Regent's Park, was well attended on Saturday.
The stillness of the day gave great effect to the very ex-
cellent selection of music performed by the band of the
Grenadier Guards. Much has been done of late to make
these gardens attractive, both on the promenade and on
ordinary days. In the former a great improvement has
been effected by the substitution of one large band for
two or three small ones. The public, who can only hear
one at a time, are much the gainers by the change. The
efforts of the present management are unceasing to ob-
tain the rarest and most curious animals which our com-
merce brings constantly within the reach of science; and
their endeavours are nobly seconded by the liberality of
their chairman (Lord Derby), himself the possessor of
the finest zoological collection in the world.
FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST BATHING.—Last even-
inge between six and seven o'clock, a
Hurley, residing with his parents lti.outNohs
No. 14, Lawrence-
terrace, Vauxhall-road, was drowned whilst bathing in
the river off Thames Bank. tis supposed he must have
been seized with the cramp, he being
as he suddenly sunk about thirty yards from the
shore, and was not seen heseewnton rise again. The drags were
procured, but the body has not been recovered.