The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-29 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, in St.
James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert ar-
rived from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, with the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the royal suite, in four car-
riages, escorted by a party of the Life, Guards:
Ia Waiting were the Ladies of the Bedchamber, the
Countess of Charlemont, and the Countess cf Gains-
borough ; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl of Morton ;
the Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert, Lord George
Lennox • the Groom in Waiting, Major the Hon. Ro-
bert Boyle ; the Groom in Waitinc, to Prince Albert,
Captain Francis Seymour ; the equerry in Waiting,
Major General Wemyss ; the Equerry in Waiting to
Prince Albert, Colonel Bouverie ; and the Page of Ho-
nour, Mr. Byng.
The Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the
Master of the Horse, received her Majesty and her
Royal Consort at the Palace.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre-
sent at the Levee. His Royal Highness was attended by
Major Stephens and Mr. Edmund Mildmay.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duke of CambridA and attended by the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, having entered the Throne-

room, the Foreign Ministers were introduced, when the
following presentations to her Majesty took place in the
diplomatic circle :
By the Baron da Torre de Moncorvo, the Portuguese
Minister—La Conseiller Dietz, Secretary to his Majesty
the King of Portugal ; and M. de Moracs Sarmento
(Baron de Moncorvo's son), Attacl 6 to her Most Faith-
ful Majesty's Legation at this Court.
By the Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister—Le
Baron Clement A. de Bode, Conseiller d' Etat de S. M.
L'Empereur de Russie.
By the Commandeer Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian
Minister—M. Le Chevalier Pinto Peixoto, Attaché A In

Legation de S. M. L'Empereur du Brecil.
By Monsieur X. Isturiz, the Spanish Minister—Don
Mariano Dyaz y Requelme, and Don Fernando M. de
Terry, Attaches to her Most Catholic Majesty's Le-
gation.
By the Baron de Beust, the Saxon Minister—M. Le
Comte Clement Einsieddel, and M. Le Baron Alfred de
Zedtwitz.

By the Baron Roller, Austrian Charge d'Affaires—
The General Prince Francis Leichtenstein.

By Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of the Legation
of the United States of America—Mr. Robert C. Win-

throp, Representative of the City of Boston, of the
United States of America.

The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by M. Van
do Weyer, the Belgian Minister ; Baron de Cetto, the
Bavarian Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese
Minister ; Barcn do Brunnow, the Russian Minister ;
Count de Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ;
Baron de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister ; the Che-
valier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, and Prince

Loewenstein, Secretary of Legation ; Le Commandeur
Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister ; Count de Re-
ventlow, the Danish Minister ; Prince Cellimaki, the
Ottoman Porte Minister ; Count Schimmelpennick, the
Netherlands Minister, and Mr. de Stratenus, First Se-
cretary of Legation ; Senor X. Isturiz, the Spanish Mi-
nister, and le Chevalier de Pedronena, Secretary of Le-
gation ; Baron de Beast (Chambollan de S. M. le
Roi de Saxe), the Saxon Minister ; Baron de Re-
hausen, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires ; Count
Adrien de Revel, the Sardinian Charge d'Af-
faires ; Le Comte de Jarnac, Charge d'Affaires de
France ; Baron Koller, Austrian _ Charg6 d'Affaires ;
and Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of the Legation
of the United States for Foreign Affairs ; and Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies.

The general circle was attended by the Archbishop of
Armagh, the Bishop of London, the Lord President, the
Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Depart-
ments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President
of the Board of Controul for the Affairs of India, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of
the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, tho Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain
of the Honotirable Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms, the C tptain of the Yeoman Guard,
the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Lord Justice-General of Scotland ; the Vice-Chan-
cellor Knight Bruce ; the Judge of the High Court of
Admiralty; the Treasurers of the Household; the Comp-
troller of the Household; Lord Monteagle, Comptroller
of Exchequer ; Mr. G. E. Anson, Keeper of her Ma-
jesty's Privy Purse ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Private Secretary to Prince Albert ; Mr. Mat-
thew Wyatt, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of
the Yeoman Guard ; Mr. Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster
of the Household ; Lieutenant-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Smith,
Silver Stick in Waiting ; Reverend J. Vane,
Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; Captain
Sir George Westphal, R N., Naval A.D.C. to the
Queen •, Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the Queen ;
Colonel Sir Horace Seymour, Equerry to her Majesty
the Queen Dowager ; Captain Lord James Murray,
(Scots Fusilier Guards), Equerry to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent ; Major Stephens and Mr. Edmond
Mildmay, Equerries in Waiting to his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge ; Mr. James Bunco Curling,
Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ;
Capt. Kincaid, Exon in Waiting of the Yeoman Guard ;
Captain Sadler, Exon of the Yeoman Guard ; Mr.
Fisher, Surgeon-in-Chief of the Metropolitan Police;
Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S.; Sir Noel Harris, Groom of
the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Colonel Master, Gentle-
man Usher of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Captain
the Hon. Mortimer Sackvillo West, Gentleman Usher to
Her Majesty in Waiting; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gen-
tleman Majesty; Colonel Waiting; 13e n tine li
CodstCaptain
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Guards),toher Field
Officer
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Milman (Coldstream Guards), Acting Adutant in
Waiting.

A large number of presentations took place.
After the levee, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard,
Viscount Falkland, had an audience of the Queen in the
Royal Closet, to introduce Mr. Henry Chard as an Elam
of the Yeoman Guard, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz
Maurice, K.H., as Clerk of the Cheque of her Majesty's
Yeoman of the Guard. Both Gentlemen received from
her Majesty their silver sticks of office, and had the
honour to kiss hands.
Mr. Milne had the honour of an audience of the
Queen in the Royal Closet, and delivered the badge,
and Ribbon of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, worn
by his father, the late Admiral Sir David Milne.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal Suite,
returned to Buckingham Palace in four carriages, es-
corted by a party of Life Guards.
General Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister,
being out of town did not attend the levee yesterday.
We have authority to state that her Majesty's Ball,
on the l4th of May, is to be in FULL DRESS.
Tickets to view the Two Royal Pictures, by Winter-
halter, in the Banqueting-room in St. James's Palace,
will be issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office, from
twelve to four o'clock.

Each Ticket will admit the Lady or Gentlemen,
whose name will be inserted in it, and five other per-
sons.

All applications must be made Personally, or through
a Responsible agent, as it will be impossible to send
tickets, or to answer written applications.
Ladies and Gentlemen receiving tickets will be re-
quired to leave their names and address on their cards,
at the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign•office. The Ministers assembled shortly
before four o'clock.

Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.,
and a Deputation, had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The officers and private gentlemen of her Majesty's
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arius, dined with the
Standard Bearer of the Corps, Mr. Matthew Wyatt, at
his residence in Hyde-park-square, yesterday evening.
Lord John Russell had a dinner party last evening, at
his residence in Chesbam-place.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office, from the Governor of South Australia, New
Zealand, and the Gold Coast.

THE LATE MARQUIS' OF II ERTFORD.-Among the
numerous suits, actions, and other legal proceedings arising
out of the will of the late Marquis of Hertford, with its
numerous codicils, those of the executors against Nicholas
Suisse, the valet of the testator, have stood prominent. One
of these was for the restitution of inscriptions for French
Rentes, amounting in value to 700,000 f.. which belonged to
the Marquis, and which his executors asserted Suisse had
surreptitiously taken out of his drawer, after the death of
his master. For this imputed act of robbery they prose-
cuted Suisse criminally in England ; but on the trial at the
Old Bailey he was acquitted. Notwithstanding this
acquittal, the executors, as the inscriptions were deposited
in France, instituted a suit against Suisse, in the T 9▪ bunal
de Premiere Instance, for their restitution. The Tribunal
decided in favour of the executors, and the inscri▪
ptions
were ordered to be restored to them. This, however,
was not the final termination of the claims of the executors.
They afterwards discovered that, while the inscriptions were
in his hands, Suisse had received dividends to the amount of
77,710 f., and for the restitution of this sum another action
was brought by the executors, but, in the first instance, they
were defeated. Against this decision an appeal was brought
before the Cour Royale, and it came to a hearing yesterday.
After a repetition of all the circumstances, and of the argu-
ments of counsel on both sides, the Cour Royale quashed the
judgment of the court below, and desired Suisse to repay the
77,710 f. to the executors. There was also an appeal by
Suisse against another part of the same judgment of the infe-
rior tribunal, ordering him to restore other dividends received
b 3 him to the amount of 44,0001., but this the Cour Royale
confirmed.—Galignani of Tuesday.
for PLANTATIONS.—The polling about Farnham,
Alton, and Odiham, Hants, into Sussex, is now completed.
The last week's sun has improved the shooting plants, the
poles protecting the tender bine from the cold frosty nights;
the rain, several times within the last few days, tended also
much to improve their appearance. It can scarcely be re-
collected when there was so delightful a spring as the present
for the clearing the ground of weeds, and removing every-
thing obnoitous from around the hillocks contpining the
roots of this valuable plant. In some open situations they
appear sickly and yellow, but warm weather will soon change
that appearance. Though the season is backward, yet
Inpn3., look upon such as being rather more favourable than
injurious to the growing shoots, as the rapidity with which
they grow soon surmounts the check the hop plant receives
from a slight blight. If the hope had no worse enemies to
contend with than a few frosty nights in the spring, growers
would not feel great alarm; it is the midsummer blights
which change all the hop growers' prospects and destroy
the hoped-for crop in the autumn, which they sedulously
look for to reimburse them (the growers) for all their anxious
toils, expense, and trouble.

JOHANN GROSSMITR'S EAU DE COLOGNE.—hitherto
the family of Farina, the members of which seemed to equal
in number the sands of the sea, have monopolised the market
of Europe for the sale of Eau de Cologne. They have, how
ever, now met with a formidable rival in the person of Joh❑
.Grossmith, of Cologne, who has an establishment in Cannon-
street, in the City. We have tried Grossmith's Eau de
Cologne, the perfume of which is, as the fragrance of fresh
gathered ammo, delicate, yet deliciously retelling.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

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elocution, and we shall then at least have Shakspere
read properly. In the earlier scenes, we could scarcely
realise the girl Juliet, but in the three last acts, where
the girl has become a woman, Mrs. Butler was very
great. The scene in which Juliet takes poison,
and the last scene of the tragedy, were given
with electrical force and energy. It reminded us
of the palmy days of the drama. Juliet was, at the time
Mrs. Butler made her debtit as Fanny Kemblo, her
greatest character. It suited her youthful appearance
and her, us yet, scarcely developed powers; but her
great triumphs will, for the future, be achieved in
the higher walks of tragedy, and we look for-
ward to her appearance in such characters as Lady
Macbeth and Constance, with a trustful hope that it
may be her high destiny to revive among us a taste for
the sublime Shaksperian drama. Never before has
Shakspere, as an author, been more extensively read,
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Romeo. When he acted quietly he acted well, but he
at times indulged in rant and chant. Let him eschew
the chanting school of declamation, and he may be-
come a great actor. There is stuff in him, but he has
much to unlearn. Mr. S. Cowell, as the Apothecary,
acted with great propriety. He indulged not in the
buffoonery and gag of low comedy, but he acted the
part with a true Shaksperian feeling. He was a man
whom " misery had worn to the hones," and who unwill-
ingly sold a poison because "his poverty but not his
will " consented. The gods- of course were lost in
silent astonishment at being baulked of their usual
farcical fun, but Mr. Cowell, secured that which to
him, as a true artiste, is, we are assured, infinitely more
valuable than the applause of "barren spectators," the
approbation and the gratitude of every lover of Shak-
spere in the house. The tragedy was followed by a'new
farce, entitled A Wife for an Hour, in which Miss
Emma Stanley made her reptree, after a long absence,
in the character of Patty, a chambermaid at a roadside
Inn, a great reader of penny romances, and who has also
inoculated her sweetheart, Gaiter (Compton), the boots,
waiter, postboy, ostler—in fact, the factotum, with a
love of the romantic. Patty is always in hopes that she
may turn out to be "somebody," because, as she justly
argues, the nobodies in the first chapter always turn out
to be groat people in the last, and her wishes seem on
the eve of accomplishment. A fashionable youth arrives
at the inn, and asks her to be his wife for an hour. His
uncle has insisted on his being married, as the
condition of continuing the supplies, of which
the young gentleman is greatly in want. He,
himself, has fallen- in love with a beautiful in-
cognita at the opera, to whom, in his own mind,
he has vowed eternal-fidelity, and of course refuses to
bestow himself on any one else ; but his uncle is coming
to the inn. He has 'represented himself to the uncle as
married, and in order to prove the fact, he engages Patty
to act the part of his " wife for an hour." His uncle is
accompanied by the fair incognita of the opera, whom he
is escorting home to her father, and who is as deeply in
love as the young gentleman himself. This imbroglio
gives rise to a series of most amusing con-
tretemps. There is the vulgarity of Patty, the surprise
of the lady, the embarrassment of the gentleman,
the anger of the incognita at the base attempt by a mar-
ried man to entrap -her affections, the indignation of
the uncle at the gross immorality of his nephew, and
though last, not least, the most amusing jealousy of
Gaiter. After keeping the audience in a roar for half
an hour, an explanation takes place, and the respective
lovers are made n-,utually happy. This farce, which
is from the practised pen of Mr. E. L. Blanchard, is well
built and well written. The dialogue is replete with
smart repartee, and the fun never for an instant flags.
The house was crowded.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER RACES..—TUESDAY (CONCLUDED).
THE CUP.
In the early part of the day Mr. Crockford objected to
Erin-go-bragh's starting for the cup on the ground that his
owner, Mr. W. Scott, had lost 300/. lo him on the Derby in
1846, which, although a decision had been given in favour of
his claim by a committee of the Subscription Room at New-
market, he had 'refused to pay. Mr. Crockford further
claimed to have him warned off the course as a defaulter.
The Stewards having decided that the horse should start (on
the ground, as we understood, that he was not a notorious
defaulter), Mr. Crockford entered a formal protest against him,
under the authority of the conditions of the Goodwood articles,
which have reference to the Chester races, and by which, if
the horse should come in first, he will neither. be entitled to
stakes or bets.

LATEST BETTING ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
CHESTER CUP.,
sto 1 agst Mendicant (t) 25 to 1 agst Newconrt
7 to 1 agst The Lamb 30 to 1 agst Annandale
8 to 1 agst Dulcet (t) 30 to 1 agst Camera Obseura
13 to 1 agst Mickey Free (t) 40 to 1 agst Pal
15 to 1 agst Erin-go-bragh 40 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne
20 to 1 agst Inheritress I

THE DERBY.
75 tt oo agstg Cossack 20 to 1 agst Wanota
6 to 1 agst Tan Tromp 20 to 1 agst Mr. Martin
33 to 1 agst Mathematician
14 to 1 agst Glentilt

THE OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Farmer's Daughter.
CHESTER, WEDNESDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK.
Our last quotations were made up to twelve o'clock at
night, at which hour business, which had been singularly
flat, appeared to have concluded. It turned out otherwise.
Mendicant, who at the time mentioned had exhibited un-
equivocal signs of decline, having subsequently been driven
back to 7 to 1, The Lamb, who throughout the day had been
in great force, becoming first favourite. Although Mendicant
was said to be quite up to the mark, the "Bear"
movement excited no little apprehension amongst her
backers. Mickey Free left off a shade better, but, in
other respects, the prices returned correctly. stated
the state of the market. The weather this morning was
cold, windy, and threatening; it brightened, however, as the
day advanced, and before the commencement of the races,
was all that could be desired. The change came so late, that
so fashionable and numerous a company as we have seen on.
the Roodee in more genial seasons was not to be expected.
Nevertheless it was large—the stands were thronged, the
walls were crowded, and the assemblage around and within
the course gave evidence that the country folks had lost
none of their relish for the sport. It is undeniable, however,
that the falling off was general, but chiefly in the aristocratic
and middle classes.

The Cup betting in the town this morning was not very
animated ; still it improved Mendicant's position, as little as
6 to 1 having been taken, but without restoring her to the
premiership; The Lamb having risen to sto 1. Erin-go-
bragh was also in force, and, with reference to him, we should
,mention, that the stewards mel before the race came off
and decided that Erin-go-bragh might start, and that should
he come in a winner he would be entitled to the stakes and
bets. Business was resumed on the course, and some other
business took place, for which it will be enough to refer to
the prices at starting.
The Corinthian Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 20 added. Cup
Course. (8 Subs.)
Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa, 5 yrs, 12st llb (Owner) 1 '
Mr. F. Nicoll's Rowland, aged, 12st llb
3tol on Pantasa. Won easy. Run in 5 min. 12 sec

The Trades' Cup of 200 sovs. added to a Handicap of 25 sovs.
each, ft, &c. 'lwo miles and a quarter.
Mr. Drinkald's St. Lawrence, aged, Est 71b ...„(Ford) 1
Mr. Gully's Mendicant, 4 yrs, Bst
Captain Pettat's Newcourt, aged, 7st 101 b 3
The following alse ran :—lnheritress, Bst 81b—Dulcet, Bst
81b—Annandale, 7st 131b—Queen of Tyne, 7st 91b—Arthur,
7st 71b—Princess Alice, 7st 61b—Tom Tough, 7st 41b—
Master Downes, 7st 41b—Mickey Free, 7st 31b—Robin
Burns, 7st 21b—Plaudit, 7st—Marian Ramsay, 6st I 31b—
Flahowlagb, 6st 121b—Cherry, fist 101b—Emigrant, 6st
81b—Farthing Candle, Gat 21b—Camera Obscura, 6st—
Erin-go-bragh, 6st—Mermaid, 6st—The Lamb, 6st—Heads-
man, sst 121b—Clermont, Oct 91b—Ratcliffe, 7st 31b—Lord
Saltoun, 7st 51b—Regalia, sst 81b—and Chatterbox, sst 81b.
Betting at starting-6 to 1 agst The Lamb, 6to 1 agst
Erin. go-bragh, 7 to 1 agst Mendicant, 7 to 1 agst Dulcet,
12 to l agst Mickey Free, 15 to 1 agst Annandale, 20 to 1
agst Newcourt, 25 to 1 agst St. Lawrence, 30 to 1 agst
Arthur, and 50 to 1 agst Emigrant—( Headsman carried
3lb over, and Clermont, 101 b extra).

Won by half a neck, Newcouri third, Farthing Candle
fourth, and Tom Tough Fifth. Run in 4 min. 14 sec.
Among the noblemen and gentlemen on the course we
observed the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Strathmore,
Lord George Bentinck, Lord Henry Loftus, Lord Miltown,
Hon. Colonel Anson, lion. J. Macdonald. lion. B. Lawley,
lion. Captain R. Lawley, Hon. F. Villiers, Sir Watkin
Wynn, Sir .John Gerard, Sir C. Kent, Mr. Talbot, Mr.
Cynric Lloyd, &c.
St. Lawrence, the winner of the Chester Cup, a large
brown horse, was gat by Skylark or Lapwing, and was bred
by John Maher, Esq., late M.P. for the county of Wexford,
who sold him when bat three years old to Lord Howth for
the small sum of 1001. The latter, after winning some heavy
races with him, in England and Ireland, disposed of him to
Mr. John Day, the celebrated jocky and trainer, for 1,500/.
From Mr. Day's hands he passed into those of Mr.
and won for both several royal plates and valuable stakes.
Mr. Drinkald lately became his purchaser at a small figure.
It was generally believed that the horse was more than
ten years old, and was past his work. It can be little matter
of surprise, therefore, that those most conversant with
sporting matters, including the owner, are astonished at the
result.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Thrice round.
Mr. Johnstone's Annandale. 5 yrs, lOst (Marson) 1
Sir C. Cockerell's Congress, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ... 2
6t04 on Congress. Won by two lengths.
The City Members' Plate of 60 guineas. Heats, once round
and a distance.

Mr. O'Brien's Emerald Isle, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Ryder) 1 1
Mr. Morley's Headsman, 4 yrs, Bst 61b
Mr. Heap's Brown Fly, 4 yrs, Bst 31b ... 3 0
Mr. Meiklam's Susannah, 3 yrs, 6st'7lb
The first heat was won by half a neck, and the second
cleverly.

THE LORD•LIEUTENANT.—DUBLIN, APRIL 27.
The following is a copy of a bulletin posted at the Castle this
day;—" His Excellency passed a tranquil night, and feels
rather better this morning." There is no truth, therefore, in
the alarming statements of the papers that" His Excellency
is at the point of death, and is not expected to live an hour."
Nor is the statement correct respecting the result of a consul-
tation held at the Castle last night. It is not the opinion of
his Excellency's medical attendants that his life is in imme-
diate danger. Five o'Clock —His Excellency has had no un-
favourable symptom since morning.
NEW ItING•DROPPING TRICK.—On Saturday
week, as a simple countryman from Higham,
of the name
of Clark, was returning from this town with his master's,
waggon, he sa* a small jewel-box lying .on the road.
Thinking no doubt he had discovered a prize, he eagerly
seized it, but on examination it appeared
to be empty. On
going a short distance further he met a man, with the ap-
pearance of a Jew, who seemed to be looking for something,
and telling the countryman he had lost a box containing a
valuable ring, asked if he had seen anything
of it; the
countryman replied he lead fuund a box, but it was empty,
on which the Jew offered to her a sovereign that his ring
was in it. The rustic's cupidity being thus excited, and
thinking himself sure of winning, and being without that
sum, he offered to stake his watch, worth 31., which the
Jew accepted, and producing a ring from a false bottom of
the box, he claimed and walked off with the watch, leaving
the poor countryman aghast at his own folly,
and with
ample time to repent of his own stupidity on his way home.
It is hoped that the above will serve as a warning to, and
induce such clodpoles to abstain from dealings with sharpers,
as they are sure of being plundered
and laughed at for their
pains.-Bury Post.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—
This morning (Wednesday) whilst a number of labourers
were taking down the houses of the military knights in the
lower ward of Windsor Castle, the wind at the time blowing
furiously from the north-west, one of them, a poor fellow
named Michael Saunders, standing on a stack of chimneys
abutting on the top of the western rampart, and endeavour-
ing with a pickaxe to loosen the solid brickwork, a sudden
gust of wind caused him to stagger, and he sought to steady
himself by clinging to a mass of brickwork adjoining, which,
however, gave way, and carrying him with it, fell into the
basement floor of the building. The poor fellow fractured
one of his thighs, and the leg on the opposite side, a com-
pound fracture in each instance, besides dislocating his right
wrist and receiving a severe laceration of the scalp, accom-
panied by a concussion of the brain. In this state he was
carried on a shutter to the Windsor Union, a distance of
nearly three miles, and when there nothing could be done
for him until the arrival of the district surgeon, and a mes-
senger on foot was sent for him to Egham, where he resides,
at least three miles further, so that the poor fellow had to
endure his agony for several hours unattended to. It is a
curious fact that a town, a royal borough, of such pretensions
as Windsor, should be without an infirmary, notwithstanding
all the talk there has been on the subject. It is said that his
Royal Highness Prince Albert has repeatedly suggested the
establishment of an infirmary for the reception of casualties
like this, and has offered to subscribe liberally towards its
Support ; but that the interminable squabblings of the worthy
burgesses have hitherto prevented it from being carried into
effect.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF CITEMISTRY.-The usual
monthly meeting of the College of Chemistry was held on
Wednesday evening at the institution, 16, Hanover-square;
the Marquis of Northampton, president, in the chair. The
attendance was not very numerous. Mr. Apsley Pellatt de-
livered a lecture on the mode of manufacturing simple and
compound glasses, and on the several arts of cutting, en-
graving, chasing, and enameling them. He illustrated his
subject by ingenious diagrams, and exhibited many curious
specimens of Roman and Venetian glass, with the viewthe of
showing that the ancients were more deeply versed in
mystery of making and beautifying that elegant fabric than
modern artists and authors are usually disposed to admit. In
the course of his observations the learned lecturer mentioned
a fact not very generally known, but nevertheless very in-
teresting, namely, the existence at Naples of an ancient vase
similar in in shape to the celebrated Portland vase, but more
elaborate in its designings, and, if possible, of yet more
quiaite workmanship. It was exhumed from the ruins of
Pompeii in 1827, and is still in an admirable state of preser-
vation. The lecture, though on a subject now somewhat
fletri, was interesting, and afforded evident gratification to
the auditory.
THE ORPHAN OR
W KING SCHOOL,
—AVERSTOCK-
HILL, HAMPSTEAD.—Yesterday a meeting of the friends
and supporters of this Orphan Working School, which
is instituted for the reception of children of both sexes,
of all denominations, and from every part of the kingdom,
was held at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, Mr.
J. R. Mills, treasurer, in the chair, to receive the annual re-
port, and to elect twenty-five orphan children for admission
to the charity, which would increase the number to 153.
The, report stated that during the past year many of the
children had been placed in responsible situations; that it
higher character to the education
was the intention of the committee, seeing the desire of the
Gavermnent was to give a
of the country, to carry out the principle in the asylum. The
income amounted to 9,3491. 172. id., which included 9331.
7s. 6d. annual and life subscriptions; 2,0901. Bs. 10(1. special
donations to the building fund, &c.; and after paying die
there wasahalance in hard of 600/
necessary expenses .
Ils. sd. The new asylum, which. had cost 14,0001., and
was required, was completed. The
towards which 6,000/.
report being received, the meeting, after the usual business,
separated.
, PRESENT FROM THE QUEEN TO THE ZOOLOGICAL
SOCIETY. —A splendid dog of the pure Blont St. Bernard
breed, has just been presented by her Majesty to tle London
Zoological Society. The animal, which is between two and
three years of age, WAS taken from the Queen's private ken-
nel, in Winthor Home Park, yesterday mong, under the
I care of Mr. Maynard, the keeper, and left at the Zoological
r Gardens in the Regent's Park.
DEFINITION OF A " WRETCH "—One " who scrib•
Iles for hire."—" Specimen of a New Dictionary by the
, Marquis of Westmeath." See House of Lords debate, April
22.---.ftnedt.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Baretto Junior
transport, Lieutenant Griffith, Admiralty agent, arrived
this morning from Lisbon with returned stores from the
fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker. She left Lis-
bon on the 14th inst.; the arrival of the packet, there-
fore, has put us in possession of some days' later news.
The Baretto would have been here some days ago, but
has had very foul weather and bad winds to contend
with. She sails at daylight to-morrow for Deptford, to
reload with stores for Sir %V. Parker's squadron, which
consisted of the following ships when she left:—
The Hibernia, 104 (flag-ship), Captain Richards; the
Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nott; the Canopus, 84, Captain
Moresby, which had been moved up and moored oppo-
site Black Horse-spare, in the most favourable position
for opening her fire upon the town if ordered; the Ame-
rica, 50, Captain Sir T. Maitland, which was detained
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Dennis, were also in the Tagus.
The Baretto Junior has brought to England 13 dis-
tressed British subjects under the circumstances detailed
in the following declaration :—" We were engaged at
Liverpool on the 25th of March by a person called Cap-
tain Proudfoot, at the office of Mr. Robert Palmer, ship-
ping msster, at that port, for the purpose of proceeding
on board the British steam-vessel the Falcon, of Ardros-
san, to Carril, on the north-west coast of Spain, there
to be shipped on board another English steamer, name
not mentioned to us, which we were told was to be em-
ployed on the Mediterranean line ; but, having arrived
in the Falcon at Carril, where she discharged her cargo,
she then went to sea with us, and about four hours after-
wards we were put into an open boat and told that we
were going to join our vess.:l, and we were, landed at a
t oe
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steamer, belonging to the Junta, for the purpose
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ofrom
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of forming part of her crew, which we refused to do,
being contrary to our original agreement, whereupon
the Portuguese authorities turned us ashore to provide
for ourselves, and we then came on foot from Oporto to
this city (Lisbon), selling our clothes to procure food,
and, having arrived here on the Ist inst., we have been
subsisted by her (Britannic) Majesty's Consul from that
day to this date. In witness whereof we hereunto set
our hands at Lisbon, this 9th day of April, 1847.
" FRANCIS THOMPSON. " THOMAS BRIDGMAN.
"JAMES KIRKNESS. "WILLIAM MANSELL.
" JOHN JONES. " JOSEPH PAYNE.
" GEORGE MURRAY. " DAVID REES.
"JAMES SALTER. " HENRY LACY.
" JOHN WARNER. " JAMES CI.ARKE."

The Herefordshire freight-ship hauled alongside the
jetty this afternoon to disembark the 89th Regiment,
which will proceed by railway, to-morrow, for Dover.
The' Hazard, 18, Commander Egerton, came into the
harbour this morning. She was inspected and her crew
exercised and mustered this afternoon by the Commander-
in-Chief, accompanied by Captain Milne, his flag-captain,
and Captain Chads, of the Excellent.
Since the appearance of our remarks on the appoint-
ment of Mr. Scarlett, of the Commander-in-Chief's yacht,
the Admiralty have granted that officer 401. per annum,
besides his pay as Second Master.
The Kestrel, 4, Lieutenant-Commander Baker, was
removed from the basin yesterday alongside her hulk.
She has bent sails.

The remains of the late Lieut. Henry, of the Royal
Marine Artillery, were interred yesterday in the burial-
ground of the garrison chapel on the Grand Parade, in
the presence of many thousands of spectators. The
father of the deceased, Lieut. William Henry (1815),
R.N., of the Coast Guard, was chief mourner. Nearly
all the officers of the Royal Marines and Artillery, as
well as numerous others, military, naval, and civil, fol-
lowed the corpse to the grave, to show their respect for
the memory of the deceased.
The Frolic, 16, Commander Hamilton, was at Rio on
the 25th of February, having arrived a day or two prior
from the Pacific, with a freight in specie on merchants'
account, with which she is hourly expected at Spithead.

CLAIIVIA OF THE ROMAN CA-
• THOLIo SCHOOLS.
The following correspondence has taken place be-
tween Mr. Langdale and Lord Morpeth :
" 10, Mansfield-street, April 24.
"My Lord,—l trust your Lordship will allow me to
call your attention to an expression reported by the
Times newspaper to have been made by your Lordship
in the House of Commons on Tuesday night :—` But
With respect to Catholic applications, the fact is, that
they have never assumed a distinct ferm.
" Now having been appointed by the concurrent
authority of all the Catholic Bishops of England and
Wales, and of the great body of the Catholic clergy and
laity, chairman of a committee for promoting the re-
ligious education of the Catholic poor, and having as
such pledged myself to bring the necessities of this poor
class before the Council of Education, your Lordship's
assertion, if correct, would charge me with a gross
neglect of duty in this sacred cause. Asa proof, however,
how far your Lordship has—l am sure unintentionally—
misrepresented the state of the case, I beg to call your
attention to the enclosed correspondence between myself
and different members of her Majesty's Government,
" Your Lordship will observe that my first communi-
cation with Sir Robert Peel is dated as long ago as June,
1846. This was, with a letter of greater length, en-
closed to Lord John Russell, August 11, 1846, and a
still longer communication in the course of the same
month was made to the Marquis of Lansdowne, to whom,
as Lord President of the Council, Lord John Russell's
reply stated that he had communicated my application.
" The Marquis of Lansdowne's note in August last
states that he has been in communication on the subject
with Lord John Russell, and that no determination can
be taken until it has been maturely considered. In
January, 1847, your Lordship will observe, by my letter
dated Jan. 23, that I again applied to the Marquis of
Lansdowne for the decision of his Lordship and her
Majesty's Government. To that a reply was sent from
the President of the Council on Feb. 5, 1847.
" I do not feel myself justified in occupying your Lord-
ship's time with any argument on the interpretation to
be put upon this letter ; suffice to say that I con-
sidered, with all my fellow-Catholics, and I believe I
may add with all classes of Protestant Dissenters who
took alarm at its import, that Catholic schools were
thereby intended to be included with all others in the
Parliamentary grant. I accordingly made immediate
application for a grant for a Catholic school proposed
to be erected in the town of Blackburn, and a few
days after for two other schools proposed to bo erected
in the eastern part of the metropolis, for 2,000 chil-
dren. To these applications a reply was received as
dated February 18, and it being signified to mo that
it was desirable that our highest ecclesiastical autho-
rities should respond thereto, this last letter was laid be-
fore the assembled Catholic Bishops on the 13th of April,
by whom the enclosed reply was made the following day,
April 14.
"Such, my Lord, is the evidence which I am forced
to bring before your Lordship in my own self-justifica-
tion, to show that not only distinct, but persevering
applications have been made to secure for poor Catholic
children a participation in that Parliamentary grant to
all other classes, to which I must make bold to say they
are equally justly entitled.
" Under these circumstances I trust that your Lord-
ship will not refuse to make, either in the House of
Commons, or by letter which I may publish in the
public press, such an explanation of the expression
attributed to your Lordship as I feel assured would have
been the case had your Lordship been. aware of all that
had transpired upon this subject.
"I have the honour to remain,
" Your Lordship's obedient servant,
"CHARLES LANGDALE.
" The Viscount Morpeth."

" Grosvenor-place, April 27.
"My dear Mr. Langdale,—I certainly believe that I
did not express myself in the positive manner in which
I have been reported on Tuesday last, respecting Ca-
tholic applications having never assumed a distinct form.
However, this matters the less, as I readily admit that
it appears by s our own correspondence with members of
the Administration, and the Secretary of the Committee
of Privy Council, that you have made persevering efforts
to bring the claims of Catholic schools under their no-
tice, and I as readily declare that the sooner those claims
are recognised and complied with, the better pleased I
shall be.—Believe me, my dear Mr. Langdale, your very
faithful servant, " M °RYE TH.
"Hon. Charles Langdale."