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London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

JULY 12, 1847.

LORD HOLLAND'S PARK.

On Fri,ay • public iL,,,ering of the vestry of r.ting-
ton was convened at the N.conal Sch.iol. room, to take
into consideration a proposal from Lord HoLand, having
for its object the diverting of a public•footpath, which
has been for some years in existence, with a view to
granting the parishioners another, more generally con-
ducive to their convenience.

The proposal made by Lord Holland, and the particu-
lars of his previous application to the vestry, have already
appeared, so that it will be unnecessary to go at any length
into detail. A vestry was summoned about a fortnight
since, to receive his Lordship's proposal, but the chair-
man having expressed some doubts as to its legality,
owing to the defective manner in which it was convened,
the meeting was adjourned until yesterday. For some
days past placards of a most infamous character, reflect-
ng upon the Noble Lord, have been printed and distri-
buted throughout the pai ish by some persons, whose con-
duct was most severely censured in the vestry.
At the vestry meeting yesterday,
Mr. BELLWORTHY, the churchwarden, presided, and
read the proposals which had been submitted by his
Lordship. A good deal of boisterous discussion ensued.
Mr. CAMPBELL contended that the new path through
the park which Lord Holland had proposed in lieu of
the old one would be of great public advantage, and of
very material advantage to the inhabitants of Kensing-
ton. On these grounds he moved that his Lordship's
proposals should be accepted.
Mr. BURNE seconded the motion.

Mr. MILEY regretted that no man of rank or stat;on
was to be found ready to fight the battle of the public
against this attempt of Lord Holland to infringe upon
the public rights. The path which it was now proposed
to close had been in existence upwards of 250 years,
having been formed by Sir W. Cope, and subsequently
much beautified by the Earl of Warwick in 1600. It
was not, therefore, a thing of yesterday. The house
in which Lord Holland resided was one of the
most ancient mansions in the country. In it
Russell, Fairfax, Hampden, Pym, and others assem-
bled to oppose the arbitrary acts of Charles, and Laud
and Strafford. There Cromwell and Fairfax met to
concert the measures which they intended to-tarry into
operation. There Addison, the poet, died; and last,
though not least, there lived the late Lord Holland,who,
as a statesman, reflected undying honour upon his coun-
try. From a view of that ancient house it was now
proposed to exclude the parishioners of Kensington and
the public generally, by means of closing up the old
path and giving them a new walk which was greatly in-
ferior to it. He moved as an amendment that it was in-
expedient to divert the old path, and that Lord Holland's
proposals should be rejected.
Mr. SULLIVAN seconded the amendment.
Captain Hood, Mr. Davis, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Hawks,
Mr. Herapath, Mr. Cousins, Mr. Browne, and other
gentlemen, subsequently addressed the meeting.
After a very stormy discussion,
The CHAIRMAN put the amendment and the original
resolution to the meeting. The former was lost, and the
latter adopted almost unanimously.
Lord Holland's proposals have therefore been agreed to.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

FOREIGN ORDERS OF KNIGHT-
H 001).
(From the London Gazette.)
The folloWing regulations respecting foreign orders
conferred upon British subjects, which have been esta-
blished by the Queen and by h& r royal predecessors, are
published for general information :-
1. That no British subjects shall accept a foreign order
or wear its insignia, without having previously obtained
a warrant under the royal sign manual (directed to the
Earl Marshal of England), granting th-m his Majesty's
permission to accept and wear the same.
2. That the intention of a foreign sovereign to decorate
a British subject with the insignia of such order shall be
notified to his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, either through the King's Minister
abroad, or through the accredited Minister of the foreign
sovereign resident at this Court.
3. That when his Majesty's Principal Secretary. of
State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken his Majesty's
pleasure, and obtained his consent upon the occasion, he
shall then signify to his Majesty's Vrincipal Secretary
of State for the Home Department, in order that he may
cause the usual warrant to be prepared for the royal sign
manual, and take such other steps as may be necessary
for carrying his Majesty's pleasure into effect accord-
ingly.
4. That when the warrant is signed by the King, it
shall be announced in the Gazette in the usual manner,
and registered in his Majesty's College of Arms.

In addition to the above regulations of the King, his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent deemed it expedient
to announce, in the year 1812:-
5. " That no subject of his Majesty could be allowed
to accept the insignia of a foreign order from any sove-
reign of a foreign 94t0, 'except they shall bi sp con-
ferred in nonsequencea of active and distinguishekstqc.
vices before the enemy, either at sea or in the fielXrbr
unless he shall have been actually employed in the ser-
vice of the foreign sovereign."
And in March, 1813, his Royal Highness was pleased
to command that the following proviso should be there-
fore inserted in all royal Warrants for the acceptance of
foreign orders:-
6. " That his Majesty's license and permission doth
not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to
authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank,
precedence, or privilege appertaining unto a Knight
Bachelor of these realms."
N.B.—Before the Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs takes the Prince Regent's pleasure on
any application for an officer in the army to be per-
mitted to accept a foreign order, he causes the same to
be referred to the Commander-iu-Chief, through his
Royal Highness's secretary, to know whether or not his
Royal Highness sees any objection to the Prince Regent's
pleasure being taken thereupon.
And if the application be in favour of a naval officer,
the Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs com-
municates with the First Lord of the Admiralty to the
same effect, previous to the Prince Regent's pleasure
being taken thereon.
(Signed) C A STLEREAGH.

Her Majesty has been pleased to direct-
7. " That if the service for which it is proposed to
confer the order has been performed during war, the
notification required by the second regulation must be
made not later than two years after the exchange of the
ratifieations of a treaty of peace•

"If the service has Leenaperformed in time of peace,
the notification must be made within two years of the
date of such service.

8. "When a British subject has received the royal
permission to accept a foreign order, he will at any
future time be allowed to accept the decora-
tion of a higher class of the same order, to which he
may have become eligible by increase of rank in the
foreign service, or in the service of his own c,untry ;
or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly con-
sequent upon the acceptance of the original order,
and common to every person upon whom such order is
conferred."

(Signed)
Foreign Office, August 22, 1843.

ABERDEEN.

The Queen has made known her pleasure:-
9. " That the Bth clause of the regulation respecting
foreign orders shall not be taken to apply to decora-
tions of the Guelphic Order which were bestowed on
British subjects by her predecessors, their Majesties
King George IV. and King William IV., on whose
heads the Crowns of Great Britain and Hanover were
united.
" Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be con-
sidered as rewards granted by a foreign sovereign for
services rendered according to the purport of the sth
clause of the regulations. They must be rather consi-
dered as personal favours bestowed on British subjects
by British sovereigns, and as having no reference to ser-
vices rendered to the foreign Crown of Hanover."

(Signed)
Foreign Office, July 6, 1846.

ABERDEEN.

I-11611 BAILIFFS OF THE NEW COUNTY COURTS.—
On Friday a deputation of the county high bailiffs,
consisting of Messrs. Lewis (Bath), Balme (Gloucester),
and Foley (Trowbridge), supported by Lord Marcus
Hill, Lord Duncan, the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, the
Hon. Captain Berkeley, R.N., W. Busfield, and W.
Pinney, Esqs., &c., M.P.'s, had an audience at the
Treasury Chambers, and presented memorials on the
requirement of a revision of the present very inadequate
high bailiff's scale of fees, when the subject was fa-
vourably entertained, and a desire expressed that all
statistical information possible should be rendered by
the high bailiffs throughout England and Wales, to
enable their Lordships to give the matter a full and due
inquiry.
The Municipality of Hanover has just contracted
a loan of 300,000 thalers (1,200,0000 f)r building a
new theatre, which, it is said, is to surpass in magni-
ficence most of those that exist in Germany.— Galignani.
TIIE GREAT BRITAIN.—DOWNPATRICE, JULY 6.
Since my last communication, written at Tyrella, I have
now to say that the officer sent by the Admiralty was
Captain Williams, of the Royal Engineers. He liftd thee_
ship on Friday evening. There is but little to
described
has to my last communication. The work I thenicievfersibeed
has continued to progress. The fulcrum
land
the outer or seaside of the ship were coal p et:il_ofineSatur-
day, and that at the stem is also. in place d
all except loading—the inshore side is about.. Captain
Claxton has made a contract with the lot of active young
men (farmers) who removed the fagots of the breakwater
at Ballykinler, or near there, for filling the boxes with
sand, which work they commenced this morning, and as
they will probably hoist on board about 50 tons per
boxes
diem, if not more, and as all the have a quail ity
already in, the whole will be filled ready for the coining
spring tide. It is reported on board that another hole
bas been discovered and stopped at the fore end of the
ship, which must have been a work of great difficulty,
as at present the water cannot leave her by two or three
feet. The wind is now fresh and from the south, which
is bad for the Wolk going on. I shall visit the ship again
in time for your paper either at the end of the week ur
the first of next weak. On Tuesday the ship was so
beset by visitors the officer in chat ge was obliged to pull
the ladder up.--.Newry Telegraph.

r UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
oxFoirti)„JULY 9.
TDEoLuGICAL PLIzE.
" The Prophetic Office under the Mosaic Dispensation."
The subject above stated, as appointed by the judges
for an English Essay, is proposed to members of the Uni-
versity on the following conditions, viz.:—
" 1. The candidate must have passed his examination
for the degree of B,A. or B.C.L.
"2. He must not on this day (July 8) have exceeded his
28th term.
"3. He must have commenced his 16th term eight
weeks previous to the day appointed for sending in his
essay to the Registrar of the University.
" In every case the terms are to be computed from the
matriculation inclusively.
MRS. DENYER'S THEOLOGICAL PRIZE.

The subjects for the year 1848 are:—
" The Doctrine of our Lord's Incarnation, as distin-
guished from the principal Heresies on that subject."
"In what sense is it a IVew Commandment to Chris-
tians that they should love one another?"
Persons entitled to write for the above-mentioned
prizes must be in deacon's orders at least, and on the last
day appointed for the delivery of the compositions to the
Registrar, have entered on the eighth, and not exceeded
the tenth, year from their matriculation.
The essays for the theological prize are to be sent
under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University
on or before the Wednesday in Easter week next en-
suing. The compositions for Mrs. Denyer's prizes are
to be sent in the same manner, on or before the Ist day
of March, 1848. None will be received after those
dates. The author is required to conceal his name,
and to distinguish his composition by what motto he
pleases, sending at the same time his name sealed up
under another cover, with the motto inscribed upon it.
The essay to which the theological prize shall have
been adjudged will be read before the University in the
Divinity School on some day in the week next before the
Commemoration; and it is expected that no essay will
be sent in which exceeds in length the ordinary limits
of recitation.

B. P. swum
_Vice!Chsincellor.
- cAlattarnot, JULY 9.
At a congregation held' yesterday the following de-
grees were conferred:—

HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS.
Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., Colonel
of the 96th Regiment.
bOcTou IN MUSIC. '

T. A. Welmisley, M.A., Trinity .College, Professor of
:Music in the University.

MASTERS OF ARTS.
T. G. Parry, Trinity College.
S. L. Chase, Emmanuel College.
T. G. Hughes, St. John's College.
Ralph Congreve, Corpus Christi College.
BACHELOR OF THE CIVIL LAW.
J. T. H. English, Christ's College.
The following gentlemen of Oxford were also admitted
ad eundem of this University:—
J. L. Richards, D.D., Exeter College.
R. Michell, 8.P., Lincoln College.
J. Ley, 8.D., Exeter College.
S. A. Pears, 8.D., Corpus Christi College.
J. B. Mosley, 8.D., Magdalene College.
L. R. J. Langhorne, M.A., Jesus College.
H: A. Dodd, M.A., Queen's College.
F. Metcalfe, M.A., Lincoln College.
W. J. Crighton, M A., Merton College.
H. B. Newman, M.A., Wadham Co►lage.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
JULY 9.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
At the general meeting of the members of the
squadron, at the Squadron house this day, Commodore
the Marquis of Donegal in the chsir, Sir John Bayley,
Bart, proposed, and Almon Hill, Esq., seconded, "that
Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., be elected to the honour-
able office of Vice-Commodore of the squadron," which
being put, was carried unanimously. There were
twenty-two members present. Arrangements were then
made about the regatta, the annual committee. ap-
pointed, &c., after which the-meeting broke up.
ARRIVALS.
July 3. Magic schooner, Viscount Chetwynd, from
Southampton; Proserpine, schooner, lion. G. Anson
Byrom, frcm Ipswich.
5. Peterel cutter, Earl of Hamster, from the westward.
8. Syren yawl, John Davenport, Esq., from Plymouth
and other ports.
9. Nymph cutter, Sir john Bayley, Bart., from Lon-
don; Aurora cutter, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., from
the eastward.