The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Royal West Pennard Cheese was yesterday
brought to Buckingham Palace, for presentation to the
Queen. Her Majesty saw the Cheese privately, and
was graciously pleased to express her approbation. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert received the deputa-
tion (by whom it was brought) at one o'clock, and ex-
pressed himself much pleased and gratified with the
present.
We understand that the Lord Steward of her Ma-
jesty's Household has it in command, to express to the
parties by whom the Cheese was sent, her Majesty's
gratification at tha present.

The Queen had .an evening party on Thursday, at
Buckingham Palace. .

Her- Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Lady Charles Somerset, arrived at the
Palace, at half-past nine o'clocjc. Her Royal High-
ness was received in the Grand Hall by the Hon. Miss
Paget, and the Hon. Miss Anson, Maids of Honour
in Waiting; Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting ;
Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; and Colonel
Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert. His Royal High-
ness Prince George of Cambridge arrived soon after-
wards.

Among the company were the Marquis of Anglesea,
Lady Adelaide Paget. Lord George Paget, Marquis
and Marchioness of Douro, Lady Ance Anson' the
Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Eleonora and Con-
stance Paget, Lord Paget, Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Robert Gros-
venor, Lady Leveson, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord
Cantilupe, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, Miss
Wheatley, Hon. William Cowper, Mr. George Ed-
ward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.

• Her Majesty's Private Band attended in one of the
State-Rooms during the night.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yester-
day and remained to lunch with her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Majesty the
King. of the Belgians.

Blron Butow, the Prussian-Minister; had on audience
yesterday of his Majesty the King of the Bcigians, in
Buckingham Palace.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of
the Queeo.

ller Majesty bad a dinner party labt evening. The
Company consisted of her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal High-
ne3s the Duchess of Kent, the Grecian Minister, and
the Princess Mavrocordato, M. Van de Weyer, the
Beljan Minister, the Marquis Conyngham, Rai and
Countess of Minto, Earl and Countess of Sheffield,
Earl Howe, Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne,
Baron Stockmar, the Marchioness of Nornianby, the
Countess of Mayo, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss
Paget, Hoo. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Gore, Baroness
Lehzen, General Goblet, M. Van Pratt, Lora Polti-
more, Sir Fred. Stovin, Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel
Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Captain Seymour.
The Band of the Second Regiment dt Life Guards
was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. •
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
left town by the London and Birmingham Railway at
half•past nine o'clock yesterday morning for Liverpool,
on his way to Dublin to joie his Regiment.
The Marquis of Normanby has been prevented by
indisposition from attending at the Home-office during
the present week.
Lord Charles Fitzroy and Mr. E. Rice, M.P., had
interviews with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at the
Colonial-office.

A Deputation, headed by Lord St. Vincent, and in-
cluding Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, had an in-
terview with Mr. Labauchere, yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Despatches from the Governor of South Australia
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence had a dinner, party on
Thursday, at his residence, in St. James's Palace.
Among the company were. their Royal Highnesses the
Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, the E xrl of
Cardigan, Earl of March, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir
Samuel Higgins, and Mr. Wombwell.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham,
Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice
Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Justice Ersaine gave judgment at the opening of
the Court in au appeal from the Prerogative Court,
" Harwood v. Biker," relative to the will of the late
Mr. Baker of Kensington. Their Lordships decided
against the validity of the will, and affirmed the decree
of the Court below with costs.

Messrs. Pemberton and Miller, Queen's Counsel,
were then heard during the remainder of the sitting on
an 'appeal from Bengal, " Rajah Deedar Hoosain v.
Raned Ziboor von .Nissa."

Sir E. H. East sat with the Committee as a Privy
Councillor.

CURIOUS CASE.—A somewhat singular case
was decided on Thursday in the Insolvent Debtor's Court.
A surgeon, named Roby, was heard by the Court in
April last, and remanded for a period of eight months
frcm the vesting order. lie brought an action against
Messrs. Moss and Humphries, solicitors, for false impri-
sonment, on making a criminal charge against him, and
afterwards arresting him in a civil action. The Jury
awarded the damages at 4001. which were on a rule, and
by consent reduced to 2001. against Mr. Moss, and the
the costs of Mr. Humphries were ordered to be paid,
amounting to 25/. 3s. 2d., making the sum to be received
1741. 16a. 10d. The assignee of the insolvent applied to
the Court to obtain the money, or a portion, for the bone.
fit of the creditors, set forth in the schedule, and the
Court granted a rule on the parties to hold the same un-
til further order, and one ou the insolvent to show cause
against the present application. Mr. Roby stated that ho
was out of practice, and bad from the time of his remand
supported himself and a family of a wife and three chil-
dren. The sums he had borrowed of the new creditors,
including Mr. Boyden, amounted to 157/. Os., and that
gentleman had a claim for extra costs in the action and
for other business, which would exced 45/. The insol-
vent further stated intis affidavit that he had lately brought
an action for slander against the assignee, and his opinion
was that Mr. Moss and his assignee were acting in con-
cert in the application now before the Court. Affidavits
from the new creditors were read, showing- the sums bor•
rowed, and one from Mr. Boydell, of his claim on the da-
mages, and his further debt mentioned. The Court or-
dered that under the present rule the sum of 601. out of
the damages should be paid to the assignee making the
application:
T
PETRARCH S LIFE AND SONNETS.—TIHS
elegant volume, just published, is the production of Miss
Wollaston's pen, and is embellished with a very beautiful
portrait of Petrarch in his youth. To almost all classes of
reader's will this " Life of Petr b and translated Son-
nets" be acceptable. His we 'rigs bespeak him one of the
best of men, the noblest of vers, and the loftiest of poets.
The world of literature wes much to Petrarch. "In the
resurrection of sci ce," observes the historian Gibbon,
.44 Italy was the first to cast away her shroud. and the elo-
quent Petrarch, by his lessons and his example, may justly
be applauded as the first harbinger of day.
VIENNA, FEB. 9.—His Imperial Highness the
Archduke Frederick, who so honourably distinguished him-
self in the campaign in Syria, has just returned to Vianna,
and was most cordially welcomed by all the members of
the Impel ial family.
It is said that Mr. Barry is to receive the sum of
25,000/. from the Leeds of the Treasury firsuperintending, and completing the new Houses of Pa-

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

We are gratified in being able to notice a alight rally
this afternoon in the rates of the Foreign Exchanges,
which, it will be remembered, were last week also more
buoyant. The rate for paper on Paris was 25f. 55e. to
60c., on Hamburgh 13 71 to /, on Amsterdam 12 2/
to 3, on Antwerp 12 21 to 42, on Frankfort 149, and
on Trieste 10 11 to 2. It is said that speculative or-
ders for grain have been forwarded to the Continent,
to be executed upon the re-opening of the navigation,
and should this prove to be the case, there will be a
check imposed upon any further improvement. One
thing is rather against the success of any such operations
in a pecuniary point of view, and that is the very fa-
vourable prospect with regard to the growing crops.
The speculators found their hopes, however, upon defi-
cient supplies until the crops are housed.
The English Funds were slightly affected to-Jay by
the intelligence from the United States of Mr.
M‘Leod's re-capture and imprisonment. The business
done in time bargains was not so extensive to-day, but
in the heavy stocks there were again numerous, and, in
many instances, good purchases on behalf of the public.
Consols for Money realised 881 to 88/, closing at 88i,
arid for Time 88i to 88. i. Bank Stock improved from
1651 to 166, and East India Stock from 2461 to 247
and 248. Exchequer Bills were dull at 6s. to 4s.
premium ; the Reduced Three-and.a-Half per Cents.
remained at 98A- to 97j ; the New Three-and-a-Halt
per Cents. at 97 to 971 ; and the Three per Cent.
Annuities at 89-a to 88Z-.
Foreign Stocks were not well supported. Spanish
Act've Bonds realised 23/ to Portuguese New Five
per Cents. were not higher than 31i to / ; the Three
per Cents. wore flat at 19i ; Mexican Stack of 1e37
remained at 27}; Colombian of 1824 was reduced to
221; Buenos Ayres was worth 26 ; French Three per
Cents. were at 76, Danish Bonds at 781, and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 501.
For Shares there is still an absence of all inquiry.
The Great Western brought 251 to 25, the New 11,
and the South Western 191 premium. Brighton were
7 to 71, Blackwall 4/ to 41, and Cheltenham :and
Great Western'34 to 341 discount. Australasian Bank
New Shares were 10/ premium, and National Pro-
vincial Bank of England declined from par to
discount.

(From The Sun of Last Night. )
We have received New York Papers to the 3d February,
two days later than the last arrival.
Exchange—Foreign Sterling Bills S to titi; Southern con-
siderably lower.
BAILING OF MR. M'LEOD.
The Buffalo Commercial of Thursday states that the re-
quired bail was given the day before yesterday by Messrs. Bro-
therson' :of Queen's Town, and Brett, of Lockport, and that
Mr. 111‘Leod was, forthwith discharged from custody No
sooner was lie'ieleased than a very numerous band of armed
men—one account sass two or three hundred—interposed, and
forcibly reconducted him:to :gaol, where he is yet confined..
The avowed object of this ;disorderly and unlawful proceeding
is to afford the owner of the Caroline an opportunity of arrest-
ing Mr. M'Leod for the destruction of that boat, and thereby
detain him this side of the river.

NEW BRUNSWICK.—The Legislature of New Brunswick
assembled at Fredericton on the •20th inst.

The following is the concluding paragraph of the speech of
the Lieutenant-Governor :

" I regret that I have it not in my power, as yet, to commu-
nicate to you any definitive arrangement of the boundary line.
Ex parte explanations have been made on either side, prepara-
tory to the final settlement of that important question ; and I
see no reason to apprehend the result can be otherwise than
favourable to British interests, as well as to the continuance of
that good understanding with the neighbouring States, which
it is the true interest, and I am convinced the sincere desire,
of both parties cordially to promote."
The Spanish brig Jenis Maria, whose capture we announced
a few days since, arrived at Havannah previous to the 13th
ult., with 245. negroes, prise to her Majesty's ship Ringdovc,
taken between St. Thorns and St. Croix, which has been con-
demned by the Court of Mixt Commission, and the negroes are
sent to Trinidad.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TxuasnaY.—The sales tio•
day aro 5,000 bags, of which 300 Surats, 1,500 American are
on speculation. The remainder to the trade at previous prices.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 18. —Manclaoster
and Birmingham, 24t ; London and Birmingham, 175 ; Lon-
don and South Western, SS 58& ; North Alidland, 74i 75 ;
ditto, New, :36 37 ; London and Brighton, 43 ; Union
Plate Glass, 74 ; Manchester Assurance, 9i.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's
date.

Accounts from Vienna, of the 2d February, state that, owing
to the scarcity of money there, the Bank has raised its discount
to 5 per cent. This has had an unfavourable effect on the
prices of the public Funds.
Accounts from Trieste, Jan. 25, state that money has be-
come more abundant there, and the discount is 6 a tli on good
paper. A failure is announced, but it is not of importance.

Consols which left eff yesterday at 884 IT for the Account,
Money 884, opened this morning rather lower, 83a both for
Money and'Tinie Exchequer Bills, 4 6 prom. ; Bank Stock,
164 166 ; India Stock 245 247.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade lower than
it left off, 23,7; 24 ; Deferred, I2J ; Passive, si7i fill ; Por-
tug:nese sxme as it left off, 31i 8i; Three per Cents.,
I 9 20 ; Brazilian, 711- 72N ; Chilian, 62 64 ; Colombian,
22i 23 ; Mexican 27 ; Dutch Two.and-a-Ilalf per Cents.,
50A ; Five per Cents. 99k.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid... Per Share.
Great Western
London and Brighton -

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia (New) 4O 5Ol to
By the Hamburgh Papers, which arrived yesterday after-
noon, to the 13th inst„ the li.xchange'upon London is quoted
at 13 3 ; Gold, 424; Metal, 1041 ; Bank Actions, 1,600.

There still exists a stagnation in the British Market up to
the present time. Consols, which were in the early part of
the morning at 884 for the Account, may be gusted at 88,i ;
for Money 881 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 4 prem. ; Bank Stock,
1641 1651- • India Stock 247 248.
. . .

The FOrt;ign Market is also in an idle state. Spanish Ac-
tive 23i, lower than in the morning ; Portuguese, nothing
done • Danish, 784 ; Buenos Ayres, 25 26 ; Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents., 5t4 ; Five per Cents. 99h i•
In Shares there is also very little doing. Great Western,
89 ; London and Brighton, 43. The above are the only two
quotations to the present time.
There does not appear to be the least disposition to speculate
in either of the markets to the present time.
The chief arrival this morning is from the United States,
which is not of much importance, with the exception of the fall
in the United States Bank Shares.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
I._ per Cent. Red B9 ' Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88i Ditto Old Annuities —
ii per Cent Red........ 97i Ditto New Annuities... 86i
New 3i per Cent .. ... 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 4pm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 bpm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small spm
Jan. 1860. l3 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...

Oct 1859 l2i India Stock for Acct ...247
Jan. 1860 ...
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto.....
Brazilian Bonds ....• .. Prussian, 5 per cent...
.._

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 25 Russian, 5 per cent. . .
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, G per cent ... 22 Spanish, 5 per cent 23Z
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred

Danish, 3 per cent..... 78i- French, 5 per cent —f. —c.
Greek,lB2s, spercent. Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 27a French,3 per cent 76f. —e.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, WI per cent soi
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99i
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Great Western (621 paid) 28
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9O
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Huh and Selby (50 paid)
London ankl Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) 17g
London and South Western 5Bl
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) •
Amsterdam C F. 12 5-1 'Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 0 U. 12 6 Genoal .. 25 85
...

Antwerp
Harnburgh........M.l3 l3 101 Venice . .47
Alton% ..... 13 11 Naples 4oi
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 45 PalermO, per oz 119}
Ditto, 3 months 25 70 'Lisbon ... 51i
Marseilles .... 25 75 Oporto
.•
Bourdeaux... . .... 25 75 Rio Janeiro.... •••• ...... 28
Frankfort on Maine.... 1494 Bahia... 27
Petersburgh, 3Us 371; Buenos Ayres —..
Berlin...
_.. .. . . .

• .
Vienna, effee. 11. 3 AI. 10 2 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
Madrid

Cadiz..
Gilboa.

... 3si , Foreign Gold, bars.. 317 9
35 INew Doubloons 0 0 0

Barcelona 3.5 iNew Dollars 0 4 10.
Seville . 35 'Silver in Bars 0 5 04

EXPRESS EXTRA ORD INA RY.—Yesterday after-
noon Murray, one of the messengers of The Sun news.
payer-office, Strand, started on horseback from that office
with a small parcel for the five o'clock train of the South-
ampton Railway, which, notwithstanding his utmost speed,
be was enabled to reach only at the instant the train had
started. The clerk, to whom he tendered the parcel,
jocosely said, " You see the train has started, if you can
catch it, all very well." No sooner said than done.
ray seeing the door which leads to the trains open, darted
through it, to the great consternation of the clerk, officers,
and others, who witnessed it, as the up train was in sight,
which evidently must pass him, and there was barely room
enough for a man to stand in the space which separates
the two trains, much less for him to run, and the
bestlightest
mishap occurring to him, he must of necessity rushed
however, passed him safely, and
to atoms. The up train,
he actually succeeded in overtaking the down train before
it had proceeded a furlong, and, delivering his parcel to the
guard, returned in safety to the terminus, where he was
severely reprimanded for his temerity. Times of yesterday.
THE LINENDRAPERS', HABERDASHERS', &C.
INsTlTuTtom.—The ninth annual Court of this institution
was held at Exeter-hall on Thursday night, when a most
favourable report of the affairs of the past year was read.
It appeared that 1,5001. had been invested in the Three
per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, making a sum,
givenrealized:Medicalstatedpastyearhave
beensixapplicants to
hadseveral
receivede mbet"he
and during the
temporary pecuniary relief of which they had stood in need.
Lord
The petitions against
Stanley's Bill, and
for the Repeal of the Union, to both Houses of Parlia-
ment, containing in all 400,000 signatures, were forwarded
to London, per Lee steamer, on a d Satur Saturdaylast, for presen-
tation. Vast numbers of
additional names era looked for,
and will be forwarded, 'per. post, by the Committee to be
added to the original
petition.—Cork
Southern Reporter,

MORNING EDITION.

ADDRESS, TO THE WORKING
CLASSES OF THE UNITED
•KINGDOM.

NO. 11.

" The partition-wall which circumstances had run up
between Reformers of the middle and working classes
is already begun to be pulled down."—Spectator.
BRETHREN,—Permit us to congratulate you upon the
high position of your movement, and especially upon
the truth of the sentence above quoted. Much have
we laboured aed long have we desired to bring about
its full accomplishment. Often have we laboured des-
pairingly ; at times,
~the suffering, together with the
misdirected zeal of the employed, and the deep-seated
pride and. prejudice of the employer, seemed almost im-
passable barriers ; but through all we had a strong faith
in the justice of our principles and of their ultimate
adoption by all who were oppressed. Nor have
we been disappointed, for although the minds of
!easy of -our countrymen of the middle classes
were for a time o%erwlielnied with the flood of
prejudice and ignorance, we rejoice that the deluge is
rawly subsiding, and the ark of reason and justice has
found an Ararat to rest upon. Especially do we feel
proud of the widtly different position you now held
from that which, on former occasions of political inter-
course with the middle classes, you were wont to oc-
cupy. The dignity of lebour bids fair to secure its legi-
timate piece in society, and without opposing wealth to
demand that it shall be placed with it upon a political
equality. We are more and more persuaded that the
most efficient way to prepare a people for the enlight-
ened use of their rights is to engage them in an agita-
tion to obtain them. Never ha-; maxim been more com-
pletely verified than in the spirit of cslm, yet earnest in-
quiry, that has pervaded' the later stages of the Char-
tist agitation. Principles of political economy have
been discussed by the people which, but a
few years ago, were considered so abstruse,
as only to be understood by those whose
profession was legislation ; every passing event has been
measured by the masses with a scrutinizing, almost
with a prophetic eye, and scarcely has a single atom in
the vast and designedly complicated machinery of
Church and State been left unscanned and unexplored
by the penetrating search of the people's eagle eye.
The Chartist press, pulpit, and platform have sent forth
thoughts, and implanted hopes, which, like lightnings,
are alive in every bosom of the multitude ; no wonder,
therefore, that when they appeared on the Leeds
hustings they came possessed of minds, princi-
ples, and determinations of their own, they were no
longer as they used to be assenting inferiors, or mere
pressure-frem-without machinery. They asked not of
the mid Ole classes leadership, but alliance : supe-
riority, but co-operation. Their motto was a bold and
independent one—" With yOu if we may; without you if
we must." Brethren, we have cautioned you to be wary of
being led by men in your own ranks. We oppose leader-
ship in Chartism. No wonder, therefore, that we cau-
tion you to watch well every step you take in political
intercourse with the middle classes, whether in your
own ranks, or in your intercourse with others. No
maxim is more ennobling as well as useful then " Think
for yourselves." Observe this, and we need not cau-
tion you against deceivers, for you cannot be deceived
To be deceived implies as much intellectual want on
your side as moral turpitude on the other ; and the man
who tells you that you cannot safely admit to your
ranks the middle classes, has either some sinister object
in view, or entertains such a 13w opinion of your moral
rectitude arid intellectual strength, as to doubt your
capability of thiaking for yourselves, or of distinguish-
ing between right and wrong. It is a mistrusting of
the intelligence of the people ; and from whatever guar-
' ter it come, or however civilly it be worded, it is an
insult, founded on the self same reason whereby
the expediency politicians withhold from them their
rights, viz. their imputed want of discriminatinr, intel-
ligence. Brethren, we see no reason to entertain such
an opinion of you ; we therefore say, receive all men
who admire the principles of your Charter, without
distinction of sect or class ; nay, mere, we say invite all.
The man who gains a single penny to the funds, or a
single name to- the lists of Chartism, has inscribed his
name honourably on the pages of Liberty's book of
life, no matter from whatever class they come. We
have said receive and invite them, nay, more, we ask
you to ennoble yourselves intellectually and morally,
that thus you may silently constrain respect and admi-
' ration for the principles you advocate. If every Chartist
was so elevated by pure morality and expanding intel-
lect as to become in reality a man, then would he poss
secs a moral power, which would so inform the judgment,
and so secure the respect even of his cnernies,that many of
them would listen to his kind yet dignified expo-
sition of facts ana truths, and, becoming insensibly con-
vinced, would feel such a lively faith in the excellence
of the Charter that they would leave our meetings re-
joicing in having found the truth. In' all your attempts
to spread your principles never lose eight of their full
efficiency to gain an entrance into the most prejudiced
tilled, if they are rr s.ntcd in their pure and native beauty,
uniudied and unmarred by the errors of the advocate.
Remember also that steady morality wins more than the
most sub!iine intellect accompanied by vice ; men and
principles will be identified ; and, we fear, too often have
noble principles suffered from a want of equal nobility
on the part of the advocate. On the method of advo-
cating much depends ; ever distinguish between vitipu-
ration and argument ; remember that insult and anni-
hiletion is not conviction, and never for a moment allow
yourself to conceive that swaggering Billingsate is either
dignity or determination.

We have been thus particular in our alvice to. you,
heeause we we fully sensible of the immense importance
of Ciartism to the came of humanity, c.vilization, and
religion ; on the speedy success of Chartism depends the
happine.sof millions of human Leings in almost every
part of the world. Britain is so linked with the inte-
rests of all nations., that the dial hand of the world's de-
liverance must move Lankwards or forwards on the
event of this movement ; every battier to its progress is
answered by t'.e groans of the human family ; every
aid, however ft ebl, has its reward in the loud licclaim
of liberated millions. On then, and gain strength, for
t'e mighty conflict ; let.the question be, " Wherein is
it that our great strength lieth ?" Reason and expe-
rience answer, Union! Remember tl,e old saying, " Di-
vide the thunder notes, and it becomes a lullaby for
childrp ; but pour them fortis in one loud peal, and
the royal sound shall shake the heavens."— We remain,
your fellow lsbourers in the cause of freelom,
JOHN COLLINS.
ARTHUR O'NEILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—The whole of the fittinin-
up of the House of Lcrds for the trial of the Earl of Car-
digsn were-on Wednesday removed in a few h.mrs by the
workmen employed under the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests. The woolsack and all tits benches were taken
out, the floor striprod.of the carpets. and the new gantries
entirely oismant!od, nothirg rernieing of all the tempo-
rary accommodations, except that part which had been
added to the strangers' gallery, by throwing it forward
several feet. The gentleman who had the direction of the
workmen announced to some members a !he press who
happened to be on the spot, that it was intended to appro-
priate this projection to the use of Members of the
House of Commons, an arrangement which would be pro-
ductive of the greatest iceonaenience to the reporters, as
their station then would be in the centre of a crowd of
persons whose conversation and whispeti.igs would render
it ifiapossible to hear distinctly what passes in the House.
The representative of the Woods arid Forests, on being
made acquainted with this serious objection, said he had
reeeived orders from Lord Duncannon, to afford every
facility to the gentlemen of the Press, and be would
therefore partition off about one-third f tin stew front
gallery from that designed for the use of Members of the
House of Commons. The reporters would then have a
sories of short seats, one behind the other, capable of hold-
ing about three in a row. The effect of this would be,
that not half of them would find seats, and those in the,
front row only would have the proper accommodation for
performing their duty; and, moreover, constant intcrrup_
tion would arise from passing in and out, and crossing
their
each other's places, In fact, such a plan would be much
more inconvenient than useful. If it is necessary that
some of tho Members of the other House should be pro-
vided with a place in the Strangers' Gallery in the House
of Lords, surely it is not too much to ask that the front
row should be given up to those who have to execute inn--
portant busisess, the pirnoreerer
stpeed irfloi ran; atnhceeconufnrt,r
e a u.g
Lordships are as much
and must desire to have promoted by securing to the re-
porters the same positipn in the new gallery s.rhich they
have had all along in the old one.lf Noble Lords wish
to have frequent opportunities of complaining of omissions
and mistakes in their speeches, let them countenance the
plan of the Woods and Forests; if they wish to be heard
and understood, let them insist upon the front row cf the
galleiy being allotted to the Pte3S. The front row alone
w;ll be of any real service.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO PRINCE ALBERT
ON TUE Ins AT .131TEINGLIAM PALACE..-..When Prince Al-
bert broke through the ice on the lake in the gardens of
Buckingham Palace, one day last week, his Royal High-
ness's situation was far more perilous than the public were
led to imagine;, and, had not her Majesty and the Hon.
Miss Murray been fortunately close to the spot at the time,.
there is very little doubt that the result would have proved.
fatal to the Prince. The water where the ice broke wea
upwards of seven feet in depth, although close to the
shore, and the sides of the bank afforded him no footing to
enable him tl extricate himself without assistancr. The
Prince was in the water for up wards cf three minutes, and
went twice under before he could grasp the hand of her
Majesty. The Hon. Mr. Murray, the Master of the
Household, who was skating at a distant part of the gar-
dens hearing the screams of a female (which were those
of Miss Murray) hastened to the spot from whence they
proceeded, where he arrived just as the Prince had been
dragged on dry ground by the Queen. It was supposed
by the Prince that, during the time his Royal Highness
°was immersed, he must bare swallowed upwards of a pint
of water.
The inhabitants' of Belgrave-square and its
neighbourhood have petitioned the Governnient to allow
a new carriage entrance into Hyde-park at Knightsbridge,
and Mr. dutitt has offered to erect an ornmental lodge,
at hit own expense, if the proposition be acceded to.
FORGED BANK NOTES.—Three men on
Thursday, the 11th inst., at Bishops Stortford, uttered a
number of forged notes purporting to be of the Bank of
England, and purchased with them articles of apparel, ob-
taining considerable sums in exchange ; they have at pre-
sent eluded the vigilance. of the police, and have escaped
with bath cash and goods,