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bill alleged that the defendant had delivered his bill of
costs, which had been paid by the amalgamated com-
pany, and it prayed that an account might be taken and
payment of his share made to the plaintiff.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR, in giving judgment, regretted
that he did not consider himself able to decide the case,
and he should therefore direct an issue to be tried at law
to the following effct:—Whether, upon the occasion of
the amalgamation of the two companies, or at any other
time, it was agreed between the plaintiff and defendant
that the business of the amalgamated companies should
be carried on by them jointly as partners ;
and if the jury should find that there was such an
agreement, then whether it was agreed between the
plaintiff and the defendant that the property should be
divided in equal shares between them ; liberty to state
special circumstances.
His Honour also disposed of the case of Scott v.
French, and Hirst v. Hutchings, but the cases possess
nointerest except to the parties concerned.
The case of Salmons and Hasencicver also stood in
his Honour's paper for judgment, but the Court post-
poned its decision on it to a future day.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE).
MISCONDUCT OF AN ATTORNEY.
Mr. MARTIN applied for a rule, calling upon an at-
torney (whose name he did not mention) to show cause
why he should not pay the sum of 411., which had been
placed in his hands, under the following circumstances:—
The persons on whose behalf he applied employed the
attorney to take out the probate of a will in the
o_
Eccle-
siastical Court of the Bishop of Llandaff. On the d
of September last he applied to the applicants for the
sum of 41/., for the purpose of defraying the necessary
expenses. The money was paid on the same day, but
instead of devoting it to the purpose for which it was
sought, he appropriated it to his own use. Various ap-
plications, extending over several months, had been made
to the attorney for the money without having the
desired effect, and the applicants had therefore been
driven to make this application to the Court. It had
been suggested that an attorney so acting ought to be
punished by the Court, but he (Mr. Martin) was not
very fond of the adoption of such a course. What he,
therefore, asked for was, a rule calling upon the defend-
ant either to pay the money or to answer the allegations
in the affidavit on which he moved. The case was a
very serious one against the defendant, and it would
be for his Lordship to say whether he ought to be pu-
nished or not.
Mr. Justice ERLE said it was for the Learned Counsel
in his wisdom to determine the point; if he considered
the attorney deserved punishment he had better make
an application to that effect to the Court.
Mr. MARTIN preferred to take a rule, with the alter-
native he had pointed out.
Application granted.

A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC DIC-
TIONARY OF THE PEERAGE AND BA-
RONETAGE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
By John Burke, Esq., and J. Bernard Burke, Esq.
Tenth Edition.

This, the tenth edition of "Burke's Peerage," a
work which is of the greatest possible importance
and utility, and which, being arranged in the alpha-
betical form, is the only " Peerage" which is really
useful as a book of reference, is corrected up to the
present moment, and is a correct mirror of the Peer-
age and Baronetage of the United Kingdom up to
the month of May, 1848. After the high reputation
which "Burke's Peerage" has for a series of years
enjoyed, any obFervations in praise of the plan on
which it is compiled, or of the accuracy by which it
has ever been distinguished, would be supererogatory.
In the present edition each article has been separately
and distinctly revised,and the information acquired by
the authors from the extensive collections they have
made from the "History of the Landed Gentry" has
enabled them to go more at large into collateral lines, and
thus to enrich their pages by an accession of names to
the respective Pedigrees which had previously been
entirely excluded or forgotten. The book, which is
illustrated by the armorial bearings of every Peer and
Baronet in the kingdom, is beautifully printed in a
small but clear type, and, from the manner in which
it is got up, will be an ornament to the drawing-room
or library table, independently of its great utility as
a work of reference.

The National Philanthropic Association of Lei-
cester-square have erected in Ham-yard, Windmill-
street, St. James's, a lavatory for the gratuitous use of
the labouring classes. _

HER Iktinny's BIRTHDAY. The Attorney-
General entertained the Queen's Counsel and the leading
members of the bar, on Saturday, in celebration of her
Majesty's birthday, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street.
Covers were laid fur sixty, and the arrangements were
on a scale of great splendour.
CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY AT
CHATHAM.—On Saturday, in honour of her Majesty's
birthday, the royal standards were heisted at all the mi-
litary forts along the line of the fortifications of the gar-
rison, and also at the Ordnance and Government offices,
and royal dockyards. The Poictiers guard ship, and
other ships were dressed with flags of all nations; and at
twelve o'clock, a royal salute was fired by a detachment
of Royal Artillery from the south four-gun battery, and
as the day was a general holiday for the officers and
workpeople of the dockyard, the town was very gay.
The Princess Royal steam-vessel, in honour of the oc-
casion, took an excursion party toMargate. The boat was
very gaily dressed with flags and evergreens, and a ge-
neral feeling- of rejoicing prevailed amongst all classes.
The bells of the Rochester Cathedral, and of the several
churches throughout the town, rung merry peals during
the day.
HER MAJEsTT's THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Prussia, accompanied by his Serene High-
ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited her Ma-
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening. There were
also present his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland, and Lady A. Paulett, the
Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox, the Duchess of
Beaufort and the Ladies Blanche and Henrietta Somer-
set, the Duchess of Leinster, and Lady Jane Fitzgerald,
the Duke of Leeds, Prince Louis Napoleon, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Kildare, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Downshire, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Sligo, the Marquis of Huntly, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Douro, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Baroness Brunnow and
Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Sardinian
Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister,
his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the Earl of
Chesterfield, the Earl Bruce, the Earl of Cardigan,
the Countess of Blessington and the Misses Power,
the Countess of Lichfield, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl
of Liverpool, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Countess of
Cardigan, the Earl Granville, the Count de Berke,
the Count d'Orsav, the Baron Nicolay, M. C. Koudriaff-
sky, Viscount Eu-field, Viscount Clifden, the Viscountess
Dungannon, Viscount Somerton, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, Lady Lyndhurst, Lady C. Wellesley, Lady
Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset, Lord and Lady
Dinorben, Lord Sandys, Lord and Lady Brougham
Lord Galway, Lord Gardner, Lord Gerald
Fitzgerald, Lady Longford, Lady C. Hope Vere, Lady Emilia, Lady
Jervis, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Major Blaring,•
Hon. C. Cavendish, Captain the Hon. James Macdona Sir Roger Palmer, Bare, Sir G. Carroll, Bart., Lady
Carroll and the Misses Carroll, Colonel and Mrs. Bart
Colonel and Mrs. Estcott, Major Gordon,
Col ow,
Colonel Everest, Colonel WildmanCodtsairoTnhet o.rnatoyne, Captain Seymour Sadler, Captain Re, 3•n
the Hon. Sirs. Ryder Burton, Captain and 2rs.alAn laenxde
ander, Major Buckley, Mr. Dodd, M.P. and Mrs. Dodd,
Mr. Grote and Mrs. Grote, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing, Mr.
C. W. Packe, M.P. and Mrs. Packe Reading, Mr. Nora
man Macdonald, Mr. Rowland Errington, Mr. Drum-
mond, Mrs. Ascue, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Broadley,
M.P., Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. Hudson, M.P., and
Mrs. Hudson, Lieut.-General Sir Alexander Woodford,
Bart., &c. &c.
ROYAL
ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—There
were present at the Royal Italian Opera on Saturday
evening—The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Viscount
Cantilupe and Lord Ernest Bruce, the Duchess Dowager
of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Coore and Mr. Henry Mil-
bank, the Marquis of Titchfield, Earl Sidney, Earl and
Countess of Mulgrave, the Countess Dowager of Essex
and Miss Johnstone, the Countess Dowager of Cherie-
ville, the Earl and Countess of Glengsll, Viscount
Templeton, Viscount Eglinton, Viscountess Dillon and
Hon. Miss Dillon, Lord Alford, Lord Cranstoun and
Hon. J. Fortescue, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord George
Manners, Lady Morgan, Lady Burgoyne, Lady Car-
rington, Lady Harriet Begot, Lady Constable, Lady
Quentin, Lady Joddrel, Sir Wm. and Lady de Bathe and
Miss de Bathe, Sir B. Webb, Sir G. Armytage, Sir John
Burgoyne and the Misses Burgoyne, Sir John Campbell,
Sir Win. Abdy, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Mrs.
Charles Mills and the Misses Mills, Mrs. Henry Bain..
bridge, Mrs. Seymour Bathurst, Lady Scott, the Misses
Richards, Lady Domvile, Miss Burdett Coutts and
party, Major-General Campbell, ILA., Colonel 011iver,
Colonel Towers, Captain de Bathe, Captain Cuddy,
Captain Knox, Captain Dudly Carleton, Mr. Samuel
Rogers, Mr. and Lady Mary Christopher, Mr. Gerard
Sturt, Mr. Parnther, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P.,
Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P.
EXTENSIVE CoNXLAGRATION.-011 Saturday morn.
ing, at an early hour, a fire, by which not fewer than
five families were deprived of all the property they (use
possessed, broke out at No. 3, Hoxton-market, in the
joint occupation of Mr. Sadley, chair manufacturer; Mr.
Miller, a cabinet maker ; and numerous lodgers. The
flames were first discovered by police-constable N 145,
through perceiving smoke issuing from the chair maker's
shop on the ground floor. At this time there were near
thirty persons, including children, in their beds asleep.
By continued knocking at the street door, and pelting
at the windows, the residents were made sensible of the
great danger to which they were exposed. The fire,
however, had by that time made fearful progress, having
extended from the workshops to the staircase, and thence
to the bedrooms of the occupants. The cries of the poor
people were truly distressing; being fairly encompassed
with Line, they expected every second to be burned to
death . Fortunately, police-constable 145 N, at the
risk of losing his own life, succeeded in rescuing from
the flames two women and six children. The other re-
sidents were saved by some of the neighbours, but so
rapid was the progress of the fire, that none of them
were able to save a single article of clothing. The
several parties were taken to the George and Dragon
Tavern, where they were kindly provided for by the
landlord during the night. The engines did not arrive
until the flames had nearly effected the destruction of
the house where the fire originated, and the labours of
the firemen were consequently directed to preserve the
adjoining houses, which they succeeded in doing. The
first mentioned premises were totally destroyed. Seve-
ral other houses were more or less damaged. None of
the sufferers were insured. The origin of the disaster
its not known.

THE REVUE RETROSPECTIVE.
The eighth number of the "Revue Retrospective"
contains the sequel, which we subjoin, of the corre-
spondence between the royal families of France and
England. The last letter of the series is the formal
reply from her Majesty Queen Victoria to the Queen
of the French, on the announcement by the former of
the conclusion of the marriage of the Duke of Mont-
pensier. This number also contains a letter from
Louis Philippe to the Bishop of Llandaff; dated
July 21, 1804, on the occasion of the death (or
murder) of the unfortunate Due d'Enghien, who
was shot, by order of Napoleon, in one of the trenches
of Vincennes; as also a most interesting letter from
Admiral Dupetit Thouars, the French admiral at
Otaheite. We publish to-day the letter of the Queen
of the French, and the reply of her Majesty Queen
Victoria, on the Montpensier marriage.

FRO3f THE QUEEN OF THE FRENCH TO THE QUEEN OF
ENGLAND ANNOUNCING THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE
OF MONTPENSIER.

TO HER BIAJESTY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Maclaine,—Confident in that great friendship of is hich
your Majesty has given us so many proofs, and in the
amiable interest which you have always shown to all our
children, I hasten to announce to you the conclusion of
the marriage of our son Montpensier with the Infanta
Louisa Fernanda. This family event overpowers us with
joy, because I hope that it will insure the happiness of
our dear son, and that we will find in the Infanta a new
daughter as good and as amiable as the elder ones, and
who will add to our internal happiness, the only true
happiness in this world, and which you, Madam, know
so well how to appreciate. I ask of you, is anticipation,
your friendship for our new child, feeling sure that you
partake all the sentiments of devotion and of affection
which we all feel for you, for Prince Albert, and for
all your dear family.—l am, Madam, your Majesty's en-
tirely devoted servant and friend,
MAR lE-AM ELIE.
TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE FRENCH.

- - --- -
Osborne, September 10, 1846.
Madam—l have just received your Majesty's letter, of
the Bth of this month, and I hasten to thank you for it.
You will remember, perhaps. what happened at Eu be-
tween the King and me: you know the importance which
I have always attached to the maintenance of our cordial
understanding, and the zeal with which I have laboured
in it. You have learned without doubt that we refused
to arrange the marriage between the Queen of Spain and
our cousin Leopold (which the two Queens were very
anxious for), with the sole object of not departing from
a course which might be more agreeable to the King,
although we could not consider that course as the best.
You can then easily comprehend that the sudden an-
nouncementhil gaskbupt
asurprise
_r and
ad averyMadam
for regret.dsepeepaking
t, 0
t_n of the double marriage could cause us no-
sey to myself that I have been always snc°erile
pre-
sent moment about politics, but lam glad to be able to
awtitthheyou.
very
am _6
dg you to present my respects to the King, I
Beg-in- you
, Ma am your Majesty's
friend, 'devoted sister and
VICTORIA R.

GREAT BRITAINAND SPAIN.
A collection of documents on the " Affairs of Spain,
with a correspondence between Sir Henry Bulwer and
the Duke of Sotomayor," has been laid before Parlia-
ment. It extends through 68 folio pages,
we
s, and is, for the
b
most part, of considerable interest;
cann only on
the present occasion find room for the followig—
vsseouNT PALDIERSTOW To life:t A .
office, DBruilfw2o,ltlB4 8
Foreign.
Sir,—l have received your dispatch ofthe 11th
a sitn.ste.
with its inclostnes, and I have to instruct you to to the Duke of Sotomayor, that her Majesty's Govern-
ment entirely approve the step which you took in mak-
ing your communication of the 7th inst., and likewise of
your note of the 12th.
'1 hat her Majesty's Government, however, are not at
all offended, either by the sending back of your com-
munication of the 7th of April, or by the angry tone and
language of the Duke of Sotomayor's note of the 10th,
however they may regret the existence of those feelings
in the minds of the Spanish Government, of which the
language of his Excellency's note and the return of
yours were proofs.
Her Majesty's Government, in making to the Govern-
ment of Spain the representations, and in giving the ad-
vice, which your communication conveyed, were inspired
by no sentiment but that of sincere friendship for Spain,
and of deep interest in the welfare of Queen Isabella.
They felt that in making that communication, they were
performing a duty and not taking any undue liberty;
and therefore, at all events, it is a satisfaction to her
Majesty's Government to reflect, that although their
counsel has been rejected and their communication has
been returned, the note has nevertheless been read and
the counsel has been tendered ; and that whatever
calamity may happen in Spain, her Majesty's Govern-
ment stand acquitted of not having done what they
could to prevent it.
With regard to the contents of the Duke of Soto-
mayor's note, her Majesty's Government have only to
observe, that if the right of her Britannic Majesty to the
throne of the United Kingdom had been disputed by a
pretending rival; if civil war had arisen out of such a
coutlict of claims; if the British Government had only a
few years ago sent a special Envoy to Madrid to solicit
the assistance of Spain in order to place her Majesty on
her throne; if that assistance had been given, both mo-
rally by treaty engagements, and physically by military
and naval forces; it the aid thus afforded by Spain had
contributed in so essential a degree to secure the Crown
to her Majesty, that it might with truth be said, that
without such aid her Majesty would not now have been
Queen of England; if, moreover, there still remained a
Pretender who asserted his right, and whose pretensions
were backed by a large party in the United Kingdom;
and if upon every symptom of danger from that Pre-
tender, and that party, the British Government was in
the habit of reminding Spain of the treaty engagements
which she had entered into; was also in the habit of
asserting that those engagements were still in force;
and was continually claiming the benefit of the alleged
existence of those engagements; if all those things
existed, and if the Government of Spain had, in a mo-
ment of general disturbance in Europe, warned the Bri-
tish Government of dangers by which, in their opinion,
the security of her Majesty's throne was menaced; I
think I may confidently affirm that under such circum-
stances any statesmen who might be Ministers of the
British Crown, instead of sending back the note in which
such representations were conveyed, and instead of re-
plying to it in discourteous terms, would have accepted
the communication in the same spirit of friendship in
which it was made; and whether they adopted or not the
advice which it contained, would at least have considered
it as a proof of the continued existence of that friendship
on the part of Spain, to which in such case would have
been owing the circumstance, that those British Minis•
ters had the honour of being advisers of the Crown, in-
stead of being proscribed exiles in a foreign land.
You will transmit to the Duke of Sotomayor a copy
of this dispatch.

I am, &c,
(Signed) PALMERSTON.
NO. 61.—SIR lIENRY BULNYER TO VISCOUNT PAL-

Al EASTON.
(Received May 23.)
(Extract.) Madrid, May 17, 1848.
Since writing my dispatch of yesterday I have received
the note, copy and translation of which are herewith in-
closed, with my passports. I start to-morrow, the in-
stant, indeed, I can at all arrange my affairs.
(Translation.)

Madrid, May 17, 1848.
Sir,—Considerations of the highest importance im-
pose on me the painful duty of addressing myself to you,
with the object of communicating to you &determination
of the Government of her Majesty, adopted with as
much reluctance as it is prompted by the purest feelings
of loyalty.
You are well aware how public opinion in this country
has pronounced itself through the press, and in every
possible way, against your person, with respect to recent
events. The efforts of the GovernMent would not be
sufficient to restrain the deep resentment which the
worthy inhabitants of this city and its loyal garrison en-
tertain; and her Majesty's Government has serious ap-
prehensions for the safety of the person of the represen-
tative of Great Britain at Madrid, if, unfortunately, the
scenes which twice have filled with tribulation this
pacific capital should be repeated.
Your conduct in the execution of your important mis-
sion, has been reprobated by public opinion in England,
censured by the British press, and condemned in the
British Parliament. Her Catholic Majesty's Govern-
ment cannot defend it when that of her Britannic Ma-
jesty has not done su.
In this state of things, your remaining in Madrid is
considered in this country, doubtlessly without founda-
tion, as a proof of the weakness of the Government, and
it' this opinion should gain strength, it might occasion
some conflict, which it is indispensable to avoid at any
cost.

For these reasons, which the loyalty of the British
people and of its Government cannot otherwise than ap-
preciate at their true value, her Majesty's Government
has resolved to put an end to all these fatal contingencies
by tranamiting you your passports, and requesting you,
within the term of forty-eight hours, or sooner if pos-
sible, to quit this capital, for circumstances are urgent,
and there would be much to lament if this took place
too late.

On fulfilling the painful duty of making so disagree-
able a communication toyeu, I must declare to you with
all sincerity, that her Majesty's Government does not,
with this step, pretend to wound in the slightest degree
filo a
dignity of the British Government nor of the
British nation, and, on the contrary, it considers it
Proper to state to you, upon this occasion, that not only
it eoes not conceive that your departure can be a motive
ac
which may weaken the relations of good friendship and
harmony which exist between Spain and England, an
intimacy
which no one appreciates more than the
Spanish Government ; on the contrary, it conceives that
this step may greatly contribute to draw them still
eloser, as the critical circumstances of Europe, and as
the advantage of the two nations would indicate.
'lee
Majesty's Government flatters itself that the Go-
vernment of her Britannia Majesty will do justice to
the loyalty of its intentions, particularly when it has
r",(1. e the proper explanation which would satisfy the
deueacy of the Cabinet of St. James.
have, consequently, the honour of enclosing here-
with the proper passport for yourself and the persons
who may accompany you, and the necessary license for
post-horses on the road. I avail, &c.
(Signed) EL DUQUE DE SOTOMAYOR.

Inclosure in No. 62.
KR HENRY BULWER TO THE DUKE OP SOTOMAYOR.
Madrid, May 17, 1848.
have to acknowledge your Excellency's com-
munication, dated to-clay, and I shall avail myself of
the passports transmitted to me at the earliest oppor-
tunity, informing you of the hour at which I do so.
In regard to my personal security, I place it under the

safeguard of the law of nations, the good sense of the
Spanish people, and the power of my country, which I
resides as much in me alone, and in the midst of
evilly excited persons, as in the mighty armaments
which, under a sense of wrong, a word from the Sove-
reign of Great Britain can ever call forth.

rn respect to other matters I shall not wilfully cause
any rupture of those relations of which you speak; but
after a series of measures so singular and unprecedented
as those which I have seen here lately, I can in no wise
answer for what may be the conduct of my Government.
Without, therefore, prejudicing that question one way or
the other, I leave Mr. Otway here, who will not be able
to carry on with you officially any affairs, without re
ceiving further orders, but who, as a highly sensible and
trusty member of this legation, will, in case of any great
necessity, speak to you on any subject that may occur
respecting pressing British interests, and who is autho
rised by me to sign passports and official documents for
British subjects.—l avail, &e.,

. .
(Signed) U. L. BULWER.
No. 68.-SIR HENRY BULWER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
(Received May. 24.)
__

Madrid, May IS, 1545.
My Lord,—l have just had a visit from M. Caballero,
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who came
to say in person that the communication of my departure
at two o'clock this day had been received. And he then
added that he came also as an intimate friend of the
Duke of Sotomayor, wbo had charged him to come and
assure me of his great personal regard and esteem for
me, to which M. Caballero added his own expression of
similar sentiments.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) H. L. BULWER.

DEAT_H OF HER ROYAL HIGH-

NESS THE PRINCESS SOPHIA.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, daughter of
his late Majesty George the Third, and aunt to the
Queen, expired at half-past six o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, at her residence at Kensington.
The Princess became very ill on Saturday morning,
and was visited by her royal sister, the Duchess of
Gloucester, who returned in the afternoon. Her Majesty
the Queen Dowager and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert paid visits in the course of the dsy.
Later in the afternoon the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Cambridge,
assembled at the Princess's residence, and were present
with her Royal Highness when she expired. The
Duchess of Inverness was also present at the period of
the melancholy event. The Duke of Cambridge arrived
a few minutes after his royal sister had breathed her last
Intimation of the mournful calamity having been con-
veyed to the Queen, her Majesty, accompanied by Prince
Albert, immediately proceeded to Cambridge House, and
had an interview with the Duchess of Cambridge on her
return from Kensington. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, after her return from Kensington,
visited the Queen and Prince Albert at Buckingham
Palace.

We have authority to state that in consequence of the
melancholy event of the death of her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia, notifications with reference to the
drawing-room announced for the 2d of June, and to the
parties for which her Majesty the Queen has commanded
invitations to be issued, will appear in the Gazette to-
morrow.