The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF
ALEXANDRIA.
The Highland Society of London held a general
Court of the' corporation last evening, at the Free-
masons' Tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of the
battle of Alexandria. About 200 partook of the
festive entertainment. A number wore the costume
of their native land; and those present connected
with the army appeared in full uniform. The
juvenile•ban4 of the Caledonian Asylum, under the
direction of Angus M'Kay, the Queen's piper, were
in attendance, and played during the evening several
Scottish airs with their pipes. The spacious gallery
was occupied, by a number of elegantly-attired ladies.
The feast was presided over by The Chisholm, who
was supported on his right and left by the veterans
Lieutenant-General Sir James Macdonnell and
Lieutenant-General Sir James Law Lushington.
Among the company we obseaved-
-1)r. Stewart Chisholm, Dr. Power, Rev. Dr. Cum-
ming, Captain Lamont, R N., Captain Forbes, Captain
Jay, RN., Captain R. Guthrie, Sir Evan Mackenzie,
Captain Dalrymple, G. Krehner, Esq., Russian Consul;
General Pereira, Lieutenant Spurgin, J. Wedderburn,
Esq., David Charles Guthrie, Esq., S. M. Buulderson,
Esq., Charles Lushington, Esq., James Tulloch, Esq.,
James Guthrie, Esq., D. Nelson, Esq., W. Rose, Esq.,
Kyd, Esq.. W. Anwardale, Esq., Alexander R.
Irvine, Esq., Henry Rose, Esq., J. Duff Gordon, Esq.,
J. Bushby, Esq., A. Paull, Esq., Thomas Skinner, Esq.,
Captain Bague, Captain Shea, J. Bulkeley, Esq., Hector
Rose, Esq., Charles Sutherland, Esq., R. R. M'lan,
Esq., Dr. Este, of the army, J. M'Tavish, Esq., H.B.M.
Consul, Baltimore.
Due justice having been done to the viands, which
were of excellent quality and well served,
The CHAIRMAN gave " The Queen and her Consort
Prince Albert," a toast which was received with the
loudest demonstrations of applause, and drunk with
Highland honours. In proposing it he said loyalty
was a ditinctive characteristic of every Highlander,
and he should not be thought to violate that wholesome
and salutary rule laid down by the society, that no
political matter should be introduced into their pro-
ceedings, when he gave utterance to the sentiment
which he believed was entertained in common by its
members, that that free constitution which they en-.
joyed under their most gracious Queen might long
continue, that they might long live under the
sovereignty of that Queen whose limited monarchy
must ever be the best guarantee, as it had 'ever been
the safeguard, of the continued existence of civil and
religious liberty in her dominions.—(Loud cheers.)
Miss Horton then sung from the gallery, in her
usual beautiful mellow voice—" Bonnie Prince
Charlie," and being encored, " God forgi'e for liein'."
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Prince of
Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family."—(Loud
cheers.) He hoped that the nation, should the Prince
of Wales be spared to reign over it, would enjoy,
under his sway, the same benefits they possessed
under the sovereignty of his august mother. There
was, however, as a recent circumstance had evinced,
no reason to expect that there would be a failure of
the line.—(Laughter.) They would, perhaps, pardon
him if he here broke off into a short digression or
anecdote illustrative of the respect entertained for
monarchy in England. Upon a recent occasion—
(we understood the Chairman alluded to an incident
that occurred at the Caledonian fancy ball)—when
the health of the Queen was proposed, a young man,
dressed as a French cavalier, continued in his seat,
and placed a cap of liberty on his head, bearing the
inscription "Mourier pour la patrie," and refused to
remove it, or to join in the toast, when called upon to
do so. A Highlander, a member of the Highland
Society, plucked the cap from his head, and
dashed it from him.—(Cheers.) There were times
when such an act of indiscretion would have cost the
wearer his head.—(Hear.)
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Captain FORSES said the statement would not be
complete until the Highlander who had so distin-
guished himself in supporting his lawful Queen and
the loyalty of the society, and who was amongst
them, had been named.—(Cheers.) Their thanks were
due to him for the act. His name was Mr. Brown.—
(Loud cheers.) Perhaps the Chairman would allow
him to propose the health of that gentleman. Drank
with Highland honours.
Mr. BROWN (who wore the kilt) rose, and was re-
ceived with loud applause. He said he could not
find words to express his thanks for the high honour
they had conferred upon him. He was sure, however,
he did no more than hundreds would have done if
they had a similar opportunity afforded them for
evincing their loyalty to the throne. He begged to
thank them all most cordially.—(Luud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said the next toast he had to pro-
pose was that of " Prince Albert, the Chief of the
Highland Society." He presided over them on the
last occasion, and was so well pleased with the prin-
ciples and objects of the society, that, he understood,
but for an occurrence in his domestic circle— (Laugh-
ter)—he would have been amongst them that eve-
ning.—(Loud cheers).
The toast was warmly responded to.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed a toast, which he
said he was sure was one peculiarly welcome to the
Highland Society, namely, " The Army and Navy."
—(Cheers.) He was proud, on that occasion, to be
supported by a near relative of his own—Sir John
Macdonnell.—(Loud cheers.) It was now fifty-two
years ago since he became a soldier, and he believed
there was a kick in him yet.—(Cheers.) One of his
feats whilst in active service was the defence of
Houguemont—he bore upon his breast the token of his
achievments, and it was unnecessary for him (the
chairman) to say more.—(Loud cheers.) A little
further to his right was one who served under Aber-
crombie in Egypt.—(Cheers.) On his left he was
supported by a distinguished officer of the East India
Company's service ; and with the toast he begged t 3
couple the "Army of the East India Company."
The toast was received like the last.
Sir JAMES MACDONNELL returned thanks, as also
did

Sir JAMES LUSHINGTON, who said he believed the
Indian army had ever done its duty, in proof of
which he need only allude to the glorious achievements
of Lord Ilardinge—(Cheers)—and he might add
that whenever their services might be again re-
quired, he believed they would be found ready to
support the renown they had obtained.
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Duke of
Buccleugh, the late president of the society. lie
regretted that the demands upon his time prevented
him from paying that attention to the society which
a president should do. No one could deny him the
character of an highly estimable nobleman.
Drunk with Highland honours.
The CHAIRMAN then said they had met on that
occasion to commemorate the victory of Alexandria,
and it was the unanimous wish of the Highland
Society that their anniversary should be holden that
day.—(Cheers.) If there at ere any who inquired
the reason—and he did not think there were—he
would say he need scarcely remind them of the
historical claims that that day had upon all their re-
collections—he need not tell them that their troops
di*atabarked in the Bay of Aboukir, in which but
a few short years before, Nelson had achieved one of
the most glorious victories. He exclaimed, with true
British enthusiasm, when he first came in sight of the
fleet of the enemy, " Now for a peerage, or West-
minster Abbey."—(Cheers.) Three years after, under
Sir Sidney Smith, the army :gain disembarked there,
and with regard to the object which he bad in view,
and the glorious manner in which it was achieved,
and the importance of them to the nation, he need say
nothing, as they were duly felt and appreciated.
The expedition was under the command of their dis-
tinguished countryman, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, aided
by Sir James Murray, a member of the society, and
who had filled that chair. The gallant 42d, the
Highland Regiment, stood opposed, hand to hand and
foot to foot, against Napoleon's invincible legion,
who gave way before the kilted warriors of
their aative land.—(Loud cheers.) This was the
reason why they met that day.—(Hear, hear.) What
they did their countrymen yet could do.—(Hear.)
But they must cease their plaudits and check their
pride. The path of military glory had always been
a path of blood, and many victories were alloyed by
the recollection that the leaders had fallen.—(Hear,
hear.) So was it here, and it was well it should be
so—that in the moment when human pride beat
highest it should be reminded of human frailty.—
(Hear, hear.) Not long after a frigate, on which the
standard of the gallant hero floated, bore to this
country all that was mortal of Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie. lie proposed that they should drink to the
memory of Abercrombie, and the heroes who fell
with him in Egypt. He might conclude with the
words of his friend and school-fellow, General
Hutchinson, who, after enumerating his great deeds,
said,was
honourable
" but therei
so w
is one
as
his comfort—thusdeath ;he
his y
lived,
m eam s
ohis
life
will be enshrined in the annals of his country—it
will be inscribed in the heart of every British soldier,
and engraven in the recollection of a grateful posterity."
I give you in silence—" The memory of Sir Ralph
Abercrombie, and the gallant heroes who fell with
him in Egypt."
The toast was drunk in silence.
Mr. GUTHRIE then proposed—" The health of the
Chair," a toast of peculiar interest to Highlanders.—
(Loud cheers.) He paid the greatest attention to the
society ; and when a man was poor, and needed as•
sistance, the fact of his being a Scotchman
was sufficient recommendation to receive aid
from The Chisholm.—(Loud cheers.) lie was
to the society " all in all," and filled up the
vacancies of all that were absent. They owed him, '
therefore, a deep debt of gratitude.—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was received like its predecessor.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He felt the '
deepest interest in the society, for it was the means of
concentrating at certain periods the innate feelings of
Highlanders who were separated, by their avocations,
at other times.

Mr. Sinclair then, at the request of the CHAIRMAN,
sung " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," in excellent
style.
The CumariAN then proposed "The Church," with
which he begged to couple the name of the Rev. Dr.
Cumming.
Captain FoßnEs proposed the addition of the
" Church of Scotland."

The CHAIRMAN would say nothing for or against
it, but, as their chairman, Le called upon them to
drink " The Church."

The Rev. Dr. CUMMING briefly returned thanks.
Mr. Brown then sung " Roy's Wife."
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of Mr.
Holmes and the other Visitors."
Mr. HOLMES returned thanks.
Mr. Archibald M'Donald then danced the sword
dance capitally.
The following toasts then followed in rapid succes-
sion :—" The Highland Society of Scotland ;"
" Chiefs and Clans" (responded to by The Chisholm) ;
" Three cheers for the Caledonian Asylum."
In speaking of the band, Captain FORBES, who
had been complimented as the chief promoter of it,
said this was not so, as they were chiefly and mainly
indebted for .the establishment of the band, and the
proficiency of the lads composing it, to Captain James
Lamont—he was, he said, its chief promoter.
" The health of Mr. George Bain, the Honorary
Secretary," whose absence was much regretted, and
that of " The Ladies," followed ; and the company
separated, not, however, we must add, before mid-
night, and until two or three reels had been danced.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF COMHOIVS, Match 21.
(Continued from our Third Edition of last night.)
THE CASE OF MR. RAYSON.

Mr. M. MILNES then rose to bring under the
consideration of the House the injuries alleged to have
been suffered by Mr. Rayson, an English merchant, from
the Austrian authorities at Constantinople. The claim
of Mr. Rayon was not upon the Austrian Government
as such, but his complaint was, that he had been de-
prived of his rights, and had not been permitted to
bring his case before the Austrian Courts. All he
asked was to, be enabled to state his case before an Aus-
trian tribunal, and to obtain tho same justice as if he
had been an Austrian subject. In 1834, Mr. Rayson,
then a wealthy merchant at Constantinople, had a
dispute with x Jew named Me* who was an Austrian
protected subject. The super-arbiter decided the suit
in Mr. Rayson's favour, and Mo:Sji brought his claim
before the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople, who
combined ire his own person the powers exercised by
tne English Consul- General and the English Ambassa-
dor respectively. The Austrian interuuncio took it upon
him, quite illegally, to decide the case against Mr.
Rayson, who protested against the decision, and de-
manded in vain that his opponent should be compelled to
give security for the iproperty in question, while the
matter remained in dispute, and in the event of Mr. Ray-
son succeeding in proving the Jew's conduct to have
been illegal. In 183 i Mr. Rayson, being unable to ob-
tain justice from the Austrian internuncie at Constanti-
nogle, repaired to Vienna, and obtained the assistance,
first of Sir F. Lamb, and afterwards of Lord Beauvale,
the British Ambassador at that Court. From 1825 to
1838 Mr. Rayson's case was met with a series of
evasions, but after
.those three years the Austrian
Government was compelled, by the pertinacity of Lord
Beauvale, to issue an order declaring the decree of the
iuternuncio unjust and invalid. The decree was re
versed by the Imperial- and. Royal Supreme Court of
Vienna, but no communication of the decision was
made to Mr. Rayson, who was in that capital, or to
Lord Beauvale. When he heard of the decision, he
hastened to Constantinople, and demanded from the in-
ternuricio Oat security should be given to him upon the
goods of his debtor, Most This, however, was refused,
and he aftehvards heard that the man Mose had been
claimed as a Turkish subject by the Turkish Govern-
ment. Upon application to the internuncio that func-
tionary informed Mr. Rayson that the man, having
been so claimed, he had no longer any power over him,
Now, if a transaction of this -kind was to be permitted.
there was an- end to commercial faith, and our mercan-
tile affairs in the Levant could not be carried on. Mr.
Rayson went again to Vienna, and again his case was
zealously seconded by Lord Beauvale. Legal advice
was taken, and a petition entered in one of the courts at
Vienna. For .a long time no answer was given to that
petition. Lord Beauvale applied to Prince Metternich,
who promised -to see what could be done in
the matter. In 1839 the Court issued a de-
cree deciding that it had no jurisdiction, but
Mr. Rayson's papers were not returned to him, and
without his sanction the case was transferred to the
Chancery of State, which was the Foreign-office of
Vienna, or, in fact, was Prince Metternich himself.
Lord Palmerston then took up the matter, and wrote a
dispatch, stating that wrong had been done to a British
sabject, that the case had 6cm:is a question between
her Majesty's Government and the Government of Aus-
tria, and appealing for redress. Mr. Rayson then came
to England, but Lord Palmerston was just then going
out of office. Nevertheless, he attended to the case, and
probably recommended it to his successor. Lord Aber-
deen did not seem at•first to take the same view of the
matter as his predecessor, and he as much as said that
Mr. Rayson had done wrong in bringing his case before
the Courts at Vienna.

An HON. MEDINER here moved that tho House be
counted.

Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and forty Mem-
bers not being found present, the House stood adjourned
at Seven o'clock.

POLICE. IN' ELLIGENCE.
BO IV-STREET.

Andrew Green, who has been so frequently men-
tioned in our reports of this court, and against whom,
at each examination,*. fresh evidence of his swindling
practices and impositions has been given, was again
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry.
On tbis occasion Mr. Clipperton, the solicitor, and
' Mr. Nicholay; one of the trustees of the London
Association for the.rrotection of Trade, attended with
other members of the managing body, some of whom
had been themselves bitten by the prisoner.
The cases already established, it will be remem•
bared, have been charges of felony, preferred for ob-
taining money and goods under false pretences (prin-
cipally in connexion with the supposed Parliamentary
Chronicle), and now another kind of offence was im-
puted to him.
M. Soyer, the celebrated. cook of. the. Reform Club,
stated that, a few weeks ago, the prisoner and his son
called upon him at' the club; and, representing him-
self as the editor and proprietor_ of the Parliamentary
Chronicle, which had en immense circulation, re-
quested a copy of . his (M. Soyer's) work, with the
view of noticing -it in his journal. Witness pre-
sented him with a-copy; Afterwards, as witness was
talking to his.frierid'M. Volant, about advertising his
" Parochial Kitchen" in the papers, the prisoner
observed -that his printing-office was close
.to
Printing-house-square, -•and he would be very
happy to take the advertisement there for him
to the Times. Witness 'then 'gave him 1/. for
the advertiseineno, besides 10s. for one in a weekly
paper, and —los.. for one in. the Parliamentary
Chronicle, the two latter of -which never appeared.
The one seise to the Times did appear in the next
•day's paper; but the isrisotier' called on witness, and
said that, unfortunately, the sovereign he (M. Soyer)
had given hint was a. bad one. Witness did not be-
lieve this, but took the bad one which the prisoner
pretended to - return to him, and gave him, another
good one, subsequently ascertaining, on inquiry at
the Times office, • that the advertisement had never
been paid for. at all.' By these' means, therefore, M.
•Soyer was defrauded .of 41., besides the copy of his
work and some soup, which the. prisoner and his son
requested the honour of tasting, and were favoured
with by the courtesy of that gentleman. -
Mr. Dobbs, hosier and•glover, of 4, Princes-street,
Westminster, identified the prisoner as the' person
who, in the name of Henry Arnold Green, desired
goods to the value of 8/. to be sent to his house, 3,
Cureon-street, May-fair, where they would be imme-
diately paid tor. When the prosecutor's lad arrived
with the things, the door was answered by the pri-
soner's son (dressed as a fostman), who took the
goods from his hands, and sent him back for a pair of
straps which had been ordered, and said he would
then have the money paid to him on his return.
Neither the prisoner nor the money, however, was
ever after seen.
Upon these charges the prisoner was again re-
manded till Saturday.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
James Parker, a journeyman tailor, was brought
up for further examination, charged with having
stabbed. Mary Ritchie and her daughter in several
Places, with a shoemaker's knife, whereby their lives
had been seriously endangered.
The daughter, who has since been delivered of a
child in the hospital, is still in such a doubtful state
as to be unable to come forward to give evidence.
Mary Ritchie, an elderly woman, living at 26
Dudley-street, said the prisoner had been acquainted,
with her daughter for about eighteen months. On
Saturday, the 19th of Februjry last' the prisoner
came in with her daughter, and asked leave to lie
down on the boards of the floor. She refused to give
him permission, and the prisoner went away. On
Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, she heard her
daughter scream. She went out of the room and
saw her daughter coming up; stairs, and the prisoner
near her, he having apparently been ill using her.
The prisoner wanted to come into her room, but she
told him she would not let him beat her daughter,
and the prisoner then went away. In a short time
afterwards witness heard a knock at her room door,
and on going to see who was there she found the pri-
soner, who said he wanted to speak to Eliza, meaning
her daughter. Witness said, "You shan't knock her
about ;" immediately on saying which, the prisoner
rushed at her, and pulled out a knife. She called out,
" Oh, my God! he has a knife." The prisoner in-
stantly attacked her with the knife, stabbing her in
the left side. She tried to get away, but the prisoner
again stabbed her near the abdomen, and she tben
contrived to get out of the room. Witness afterwards
saw her daughter Eliza bleeding furiously from a
wound in the head. Witness was conveyed to the •
Hospital, and had been under medical treatment ever
since.

Mary Ann Walker, a lodger in the house, heard-,L
some persons having high words in Mrs. Ritchie's
room on Sunday morning. Shortly afterwards a— 'tl'
screaming and scuffling took place, and she ran up ."
stairs and saw the prisoner striking at Mrs. Ritchie
with a knife, which he had in his hand. Mrs. Ritchie
got away from the prisoner, and went down stairs. ,
Her (laughter Eliza tried to pass the prisoner in.,
order to go out of the room, but the prisoner pro-
vented her, and stabbed her violently in the head. . •
The prisoner again stabbed her in the back. The
prisoner then threw the knife out of the window.

John Calverley said he lived at 18, Compton-street,
which is close to Dudley-street. On •Sunday morn-
ing he saw a knife hurled through ths air b•y some
one. The knife lodged on the roof of an adjoining
house. Witness got it, and found the blade was
stained with blood. It was a shoemaker's knife.

Noble Johnson, shoemaker, 25, Dudley-street, said
on Sunday morning about ten o'clock, the prisoner
came to him and borrowed a knife to cut the sole off
one of his shoes, as he said. The prisoner said the
knife was not sharp enough, and witness sharpened it
at his request. The knife now produced is the knife
witness lent to the prisoner.

Police-constable Curling, F 18, said he saw a great
mob of persons in Dudley-street on Sunday morning,
and the prisoner was among them, with his hand
bleeding. On learning what had occurred, he took
the prisoner into custody. The prisoner did not say
anything until he got to the station-house, and then
he said, "Am I to die ?.because, if
_I am, I'd die for any
woman who is false."

The prisoner, when required to make his defence,
stated that he went on Sunday morning into a shoe.
maker's shop, to borrow a knife., for the purpose of
cutting the sole from his shoe. The shoemaker
handed him a knife, having previously given it a rub
to sharpen it. He went over to Mrs. Ritchie's house,
to see the girl Eliza, whom he had been living with.
Eliza swore she would have his life, for keeping com-
pany with other girls, and she 'blade a "grab" at the
knife to stick him with it. Being in a passion, he got
the knife free, and in so doing he cut his fingers. He
then stabbed at Eliza, and her mother coming to
assist, he stabbed her too, and then threw away the
knife.

The mother here said this was not true, as the pri-
soner stabbed her first.

The prisoner's present defence is very much at vari-
ance with the story he told when first examined.
The prisoner was fully committed on this charge.
He is to be brought up on the second charge when
the woman is well enough to give evidence.
LAMBETIL
_

After the night charges had been disposed of,
William Males, George Lower; Henry Brown, Ro-
bert Archer, Anthony Finlay, Henry Rowe, Sa-
muel Morgan. Henry Davis, William Barrett.
George Payne, James Taylor, Thomas Howlett,
Samuel Maney, Thomas Walker, William Brigdon,
Benjamin Prophett, Davis A. Duffy, Thomas Hen-
sey, John Denmore, Robert Webster, William
Bailey, Joseph Burdon, Thomas Briant, John Wil-
liams, and George Smith, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Elliott, for further examination, on a
charge of feloniously breaking into, and plundering
the shops of Mr. Thomas Gray, the pawnbroker, and
other tradesmen, in Southampton-street, Camber-
well, and Thomas Smeed and Alfred Butler were
also put to the bar for the first time, and charges'
with a similar offence.

Mr. Humphreys attended as the solicitor to Mr.
Gray for the prosecution ; and Messrs. Games and
Binns for four of the prisoners.
Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P division
of police, in whose district the outrage occurred, was
also in attendance to watch the proceedings.
Mr. Humphreys, addressing the magistrate, said
he attended on the part of Mr. Gray, who was as
anxious as any citizen and Englishman to protect the-
rights of his country and to maintain its laws ; btit
as he (Mr. Humphreys) begged to suggest that as
this was not a prosecution of an ordinary character,
and that there was mixed up in the offence something
like an attempt, though he would admit a futile
effort, to overthrow the Government, the Crown
should be called upon to prosecute. Had the case
been one of an ordinary description, Mr. Gray
should not have shrunk from his duty; but under the
circumstances, and Mr. Gray being already a sufferer
to a considerable amount, upwards of 1,0001., he
(Mr. Humphreys) did not think he should be indi-
vidually put to the additional expense of a prosecutor.
On a former day he had offered a similar suggestion •
before Mr. Norton, and that magistrate entirely con-
curred with it, and expressed it as his opinion, that
the law officers of the Crown should prosecute. He
(Mr. Humphreys) had carefully looked over the
evidence already given against the prisoners, and it
being his opinion that there was sufficient to send
them all before a jury, he begged to recommend that
the prisoners be further remanded to give an oppor-
tunity, in the event of the Government prosecuting,
for the Treasury Solicitoi to be present, and not, as
in ordinary cases, take it up when it was finished by
the magistrates, but attend the examination and follow
it onward.

Mr. ELLIOTT replied that he did not quite agree with
Mr. Humphreys, that the attempt was to subvert the
Government, but at the same time thought that it WAS
quite a proper case for prosecution by the Crown.

- Mr. kol;inson said he had been requested bY
Alayne, the Commissioner of Police, to state that
they (the Commissioners) would put the case in a
proper train for the Treasury solicitor to prosecute.
Mr. ELLIOTT directed the superintendent to inform
the Commissioners, that if they did not communicate
with the Treasury solicitor, to the end that he might
be present at the next examination, he (Mr. Elliott)
should.

A number of fresh witnesses were called, whose
testimony considerably strengthened the case against
the prisoners.

One of the witnesses, Ann Brown, said she saw
the prisoner Payne in front of Mr. Gray's shop, with
a thick bludgeon in his hand, and striking the win-
dow with the weapon, exclaiming, " Come on, my
brave boys, we'll have our liberty.
The prisoners, after a long investigation, were re-
manded to a future day, but some strong evidence to
prove an alibi having been given for Joseph Burdon,
that person was admitted to bail, as was also Henry.
Rowe, who is only eleven.years of age.
The majority of the prisoners are mere' youths.

We have learned that Mr. George Hudson, M.P.
has in the most liberal manner headed, with a donation
of SU, the subscription opened at the Railway Times
office, for the suffering railway labourers who hare been
expelled from France.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received
101. from an anonymous correspondent for " a game
certificate and income-tax omitted." The amount will
belcarried to the credit of the public service.
An appropriate tablet to the late Lord Chief Justice
Tindal is about to be erected in the parish church of
his native town, Chelmsford. We hear that the project
of placing a bust of the deceased in some public building
in Chelmsford is revived.—Bury and Norwich Post.
MORNING MAlLS.—Yesterday notice was issued *t -
the General Post-office, St. Martin's.le-Grand, that
Winchfield, in Hampshire, and Oldham, had been added
to the list of towns to which morning mails are for-.
warded. The total number of !towns in England and
Wales to which morning mails are now dispatched is
283, exclusive of Ireland and Scotland.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night, at a ..quarter.
past eleven o'clock, a man threw himself from the pa-
rapet of Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames. He wash
however, rescued by William Neary, Gee of the piensen,
and conveyed to the house of Mr. Cheshire, theGlaziere
Arms, Water-lane, whose humanity has been taxed
with five similar deplorable acts of indiebretioa within
the last month. After great efforts, under the direction
of Dr. Hutchinson, the man was restored, and said his
name was Thornton, that he was a watchmaker. from
Bristol, and that he had had no food lately. No money
was found in his clothes.

EDUCATION Or NEGRO CHILDRRN.--TOSterday a
public meeting was held at the Literary Institution, in
Cadogan-gardens, Sloane-street, Chelsea, the Marquis
of Cholmondeley in the chair, in aid of the Ladies' So-
ciety for Promoting the Improvement of Children of
Negroes and People of Colour in the British West
Indies. Resolutions in accordance with the meeting
were supported by the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of
Antigun, Sir E. N. Burton, Bart., M.P., and the Rev
Dr. Burgess.

MATHS.
On the 17th inst., Dirs. James Johnston, of Botolph•huto,
Lower Thames-street, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Cleveland-rovr, St. Janlefesl the wife
of the Rey. Charles D. Breretsn, ILA., of a son.

On the sth inst., at Rome, the wife of Calverly Bewhoke,
Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., in Palace-street, 'Norwich, the wife of J.
J. Blake, Esq., of a daughter. '
On the 17th inst., the lady of G. E. F. Hatch, Esq., nrgeon,
Cambridge-terrace, South-street, Greenwich, of a son.
On tke 111th inst. at Bolton Hall, the lady of W. H. 0.
Powlett, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Balharn, Surrey, Mrs. Thomas Ken-
nedy, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Westbourne-crescent, Hyde-park,
Mrs. Frederick Chinnock, of a daughter.

On the 20th inst., at Richmond-park, East Sheen, the wife
of Williams Adam Loch, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 15th inst., at Fearn, Rosshire, ♦lexander Simpson,
Esq., to Cecilia Gardner, eldest daughter of George Middle-
ton, Esq.

DIED.
On the 18th inst., at Cardiff, the Most Hon. the Marquis
of Bute.

At Paris, Eliza, the second daughter of is Duo de Stao.
poole, aged 28.
On the 10th inst., Mr. George Stephens, aget 41.
On the 16th inst., at Greenwich, Charles Rowland Parker,
Esq., aged 73.

4:5;1 tile 17th inst., at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Charles
Stanbridge, Esq.
On the 17th inst., at Harpole Rectory, Northamptonshire,
the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Lawrence Dundee, aged 73.

London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county et
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