The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET,
Is now RE-OPENED with the adddition of a spacious THEATRE
and GALLERIES. Specimens of Art-Manufactures are greatly in-
creased. Vast improvements have been effected in the Optical De•
partment. Popular Lectures by Dr. Ryan and Dr. Bachhoffner on
Chemistry and Experimental Philosophy. A Description of the
Deposited Works by Mr. Crispe. Experiments with the Diver and
Diving-bell. The Music will be conducted by Dr. Wallis.
Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
Saturday) from Seven to Half-past Ten.
Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.

ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, au improved edition, re-
vised and corrected, 120 pages, price 2s. In a sealed envelope, or
forwar led by the Authors, post paid, to any address, secure from
observation, for 2s. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nu-
merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings.
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT
RESTORATION.

A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs,
emanating from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex-
cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age ; with Practical Remarks
on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De-
bility, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by
which even the most shattered constitution may be &stored, and
reach the lull period of lite allotted to Man. The whole illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro-
ductive Organs in heaith and disease ; with instructions for private
correspondence, cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons,
7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
" ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thoughtless we
trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of the
danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their passions,
whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta-
tion, and to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chronicle
" Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long experience
and reputation in the treatment of these paint ul diseases is the
patient's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense cir-
culation."—Era.
" Curtis on Manhood' should be in the hands of youth and old
age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and developes the
reatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been
the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United Service
Gazette. _ .

The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast
approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease,
which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been
set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work,
he astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per-
sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con-
sumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth
much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
N.B. Hours of consultation from Lleven till Two, and Six to
Eight in the Evening.

A NEW CIVIC APPOINTMENT.—It will be recol-
lected that upon the retirement of Mr. Thomas Wood
from the aldermanic chair of the ward of Cordwainers,
that it was stated his resignation was, in some mea-
sure, identified with his being appointed as chief Clerk
at the Guildhall Police-court, with a:salary of 4001. per
annum. With a number of the aldermen the appoint-
ment was objected to on the ground that it would be in-
judicious to fill up the vacancy by one who bad been a
magistrate, and consequently-the idea was given up. At
the same time it was intimated to the ex-alderman, that,
as soon as he had obtained his certificate, a situation con-
nected with the corporation would be provided. In ac-
cordance with this promises new office has been created
—that of commissioner to the coalwhippers, an office
which gives the full jurisdiction and control over the
above body of men, and every arrangement connected
with the colliers, &c., in the pool and the river. On
Thursday last Mr. Wood obtained his certificate, and in
the course of the same day the above- appointment was
conferred on the ex-alderman, with a salary'of 8001. per
annum. The talents and business habits of. Mr. Wood
will be of the greatest advantage both to the men em-
ployed in the colliers, and also to the corporation. Mr.
Wood will commence his duties immediately.
THE ALLEGED MURDERS AT STONELRIGR ABBEY.
—Mr. Adderley, M.P., the son-in-law of Lord Leigh,
has addressed a letter to the editor of Aris's Birmingham
Gazette, in which he states that Barnett and other wit-
nesses examined at Warwick, on Saturday week, will
be prosecuted for perjury (or conspiracy); and it is now
asserted at Kenilworth and the neighbourhood of Stone•
leiell 1 that Proud and others, said to have been murdered
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and buried in the foundations of the bridge which crosses
the Avon, in the park, will be produced in propriis per-
sonis as witnesses for the prosecution. Proud is said to
be living in London.
BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Satur-
day information was circulated throughout the metropo-
litan divisions of a daring burglary, attended with brutal
violence, having been committed at the residence of
Mrs. Mary Liningston, in Brougham-street, Southsea,
alinaducctsha,raariibneodutofftwo o'clock A.M., by four men, who, after
beating that lady in a brutal manner until she became
beating that
insensible, proceeded to ransack the :premises,
marked at Chef our
relve silver table spoons, a gold watch
salt spoon,sruaker's name Knight, two silver salts aid
knitted purse conart
numbered
knife, and
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silver salt stands, a silver cream jug
bottom, a silver pepper box, fork, butter
been offered for th
99894 ainsiPnegon, a scarlet shawl, and purple
two 51. Bank of England notes,
A reward of 1004 has
—" On letters here
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.y of the baptism of the Infant Princess,
fourth daughter of the Queen and Prince Albert,
took place on Saturday evening, in the Private Chapel
of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen Dowager and the Royal Family, the
Foreign Princes in this country, the clergy, the
Foreign and Cabinet Ministers, and the ladies and
gentlemen of the royal household, assisting in or in-
vited to the ceremony, arrived at the Palace between
six and seven o'clock.

The members of the diplomatic corps present, viz.,
the Belgian, Portuguese, Neapolitan, Hanoverian,
Prussian, and Saxon Ministers, were conducted on
their arrival to a pew on the south side of the chapel.
Behind their Excellencies were Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of
Auckland, and Viscount Morpeth.
On the opposite side of the chapel were seated the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord
John Russell, Sir George Grey, Lord Campbell, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse,
and Sir W. Somerville.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Norwich (Clerk of the Closet),
the Bishop of Oxford (Lord High Almoner), the
Rev. Mr. Howarth (Rector of St. George, Hanover-
square), Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay
(Domestic Chaplain to the Queen), and the Rev.
Lord Wriothesley Russell (Chaplain to his Royal
Highness. Prince Albert), took their places at the
communion table, the Archbishop being in front.
At ten minutes before seven o'clock the Lord
Chamberlain conducted the Queen to the room in
which the Queen Dowager and the other illustrious
visitors had assembled. Her Majesty was accompa-
nied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice.

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The procession of the sponsors was immediately
marshalled by Garter King of Arms, and passed into
the chapel in the following order :
Lancaster Herald, A. W. Woods, Esq.
Windsor Herald, It. Laurie, Esq.
Treasurer of the Household, Lord Marcus Hill.

Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, Captain F. Seymour.
Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, Captain Hon. A. Gordon.
Lord of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, Viscount Clifden.

Groom of the Stole to his Royal Eligness Prince Albert,
Marquis of Abercorn, K.G.

Lord Chamberlain to Queen Dowager, Earl Howe,

G.C.H.

THE SPONSORS, VIZ.:—
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Proxy for his Royal
Highness the Duke Gustavus of Mecklenburgh
Schwerin.

The Queen Dowager, proxy for her Royal Highness the
Reigning Duchess of Saxe Meiningen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Proxy
for her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz.
_ .

Lady in attendance upon the Queen Dowager—The
Countess of Sheffield.

Lady and Gentleman in attendance upon her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge—Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Mr. Edmond Milday.
On the entrance of the sponsors, the Queen's pri-
vate band (under the direction of Mr. Anderson)
which was stationed in the gallery of the chapel,
played the last movement of Handel's Coronation
Anthem.

The sponsors were conducted to their station by
the communion table on the north side, close by the
elegant font of silver gilt, which was elevated on a
circular pedestal of white and gold.
Her Majesty's procession was formed and entered
the chapel in the following order :
Chester Herald, W. A. Blount, Esq.
Norrey King of Arms, J. Pulman, Esq.
Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, Colonel the Hon. C.

Grey.
Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter in Waiting,
Sir J. Strachan.

Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir C. G. Young.
Clerk Marshal, Lord Alfred Paget.
Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter, and to tho Sword of
State, Sir W. Martins.
Groom in Waiting to the Queen, Mr. 0. Gore.
The Vice-Chamberlain, Lord E. Howard.
Lord in Waiting to the Queen, Lord Byron.
The Lord Steward, Earl Fortescue.
The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Spencer.
his Royal highness the Prince of Prussia, leading her
Royal Highness Princess Alice.
The Queen, leading his Royal Highness Prince Alfred.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal.
His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester.
His Serene Highness the Grand Duke Barnard of Saxe

Weimar.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

His Serene Highness Prince Frederick William of Hesse.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.
His Royal Highness the Duke George of Mecklenburg.
Her Serene Highness the Grand Duchess of Saxe

Weimar.
Her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie of Sue

Weimar.

His Serene Highness the Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar.
Her Serene Highness the Princess Anne of Saxe
Weimar.

The Master of the Horse to the Queen, the Duke of

Norfolk, K.G. -
The Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, the Duchess

of Sutherland.
Lady of the Bedchamber is Waiting, the Countess of

Charlemont.
Maids of Honour in Waiting—
Lady Caroline Somers Cocks. Hon. Matilda Paget.
Bedchamber Woman in Waiting, Hon. Mrs. George
Campbell.
Ladies in attendance upon the Royal Family—
Lady Augusta Bruce, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Baroness
de Speth, Baroness Bose, and Lady Caroline Murray.
Captain of Yeoman of the Guard, Marquis of Donegall,
Gold Stick, Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B.
Captain of the Gentleman at Arms, Lord Foley.
Master of the Household, Major General Bowles.
Silver Stick in Waiting, Colonel Williams.
Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Colonel Berkeley
Drummond.

Gentlemen in attendance upon the Royal Family—
Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.8., Col. Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Sir George Couper, Bart., Hon. Colonel Liddell, Major
Von Oehrlich, Captain Von Bay en, M. De Colons, and
M. Hergt.
The Queen and the other Royal personages were
conducted to seats (opposite to those of the Sponsors)
by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward, the
Royal children being placed by the Majesty on her
left, and the Royal visitors stationing themselves in a
line with her Majesty.
The Mistress of the Robes, the Great Officers of
the Household, the Groom of the Stole to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Queen, and the
Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Prince, took their
places near her Majesty.
The Treasurer of the Household remained behind
the Sponsors.
The Queen wore a very beautiful dress of white
and silver moire, of Spitalfields manufacture, trimmed
with Honiton lace, and ornamented with white aca-
cias and diamonds. Her Majesty had the ribbon of
the Order of the Garter with a magnificent George
set in brilliants. The head-dress was a wreath of
white acacias and diamonds. Her Majesty also wore
a necklace and ear-rings of brilliants.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was
dressed in sky blue velvet, embroidered with gold.
The dress of Prince Alfred was of white and silver,
and the three Princesses were all dressed alike in
frocks of British lace, in imitation of Mechlin lace,
with flounces of the same over white satin.

The Queen Dowager wore a white lace dress.
Her Majesty also wore a turban ornamented :with
brilliants.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a
lace dress of English manufacture, in several flounces,
over white satin, the body of the dress ornamented
with diamonds. The head-dress to correspond, with
white feathers, and adorned with brilliants.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Duke
of Wellington were habited in the uniform of Field
Marshals; the Prince wore the collars of the Garter
and the Bath, and the ensigns of the Golden Fleece;
the Noble Duke wore the collar of the Garter and
the ensigns of the Golden Fleece. The Marquis of
Anglesey appeared in the uniform of the Royal
Horse Guards, of which regiment his Lordship is
Colonel ; the Noble Marquis wore the collars of the
Garter and the Bath. All the Noblemen and Gentle-
men present were in full dress uniform, and the
Kings of Arms and Heralds appeared in their richly-
embroidered tabards. The Knights of the several
orders of knighthood wore their respective collars.

Her Majesty being seated, the following corale,
the music of which was composed by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, was performed :
" In life's gay morn, ere sprightly youth
By vice and folly is enslaved,—
Oh ! may thy Maker's glorious name
Bo on thy infant mind engraved.
So shall no shades of sorrow cloud
The sunshine of thy early days—
But happiness, in endless round,
Shall still encompass all thy ways."
This corale was performed by her Majesty's private
band (under the direction of Mr. Anderson), and the
boys and gentlemen of the Chapel Royal.

.iess Prince Albert, conducted the Infant Prin-
cess into the chapel. The Royal Infant was dressed
in a robe of Honiton lace over white satin, and was
attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her
Royal Highness was carried by the head nurse.
The Baptismal Service then commenced, and was
performed most impressively by the Archbishop of
Canterbury. The Queen Dowager made the responses
on the part of the illustrious sponsors, and on his
Grace asking the name of the child, her
named the Princess " Louisa Caroline Alberta."
The solemn and interesting service being com-
pleted, the Princess Louisa was carried from the
chapel.
A very fine composition was then
performed—viz.,
a grand chorus— Majesty

"Hosanna to the God of Israel,
In Him rejoice—declare his praise:
Exalt his name for evermore."
(From a service) Mozart. Sir George Smart pre-
sided at the organ.
This concluded the ceremonial, and the august
sponsors quitted the chapel, followed by her Ma-
jesty and her illustrious visitors, and
passed
procession up the Grand Staircase Throne-
room.in
to the

The Gentlemen-at-Armallined the approaches to,
and the entrance of, the chapel. Mr. Matthew
att, the Lieutenant; Mr. David J. Harmar,
the
Standard Bearer; Mr. J. Bunce Curling, the Adju-
tant ; and Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S., attended. The
Yeomen of the Guard were stationed in the Grand
Hall of the Palace, in the passages leading
old dining-room to the approach to the chapel, and
the Lieutenant; Colonel Fitzmaurice,
upon the Grand Staircase. Sir George A-
djutant Philip Lee,
; Captain Bellairs (in waiting), and Captain
Sadler, Exons, were in attendance.
A detachment of the Foot Guards, with the band
of their regiment, mounted as a guard of honour in
front of the Palace.
The Queen gave a state banquet in the Picture
Gallery in honour of the occasion. The table was
covered with the massive and costly service of gold
plate, having interspersed among the epergnes and
candelabra a number of reduced copies of the
Warwick vase, filled with the choicest plants in flower.
On the buffet at the south end of the gallery were
arranged a number of the more valuable and inte-
resting articles of plate from the royal treasury,
enriched with elaborate carvings in ivory, medallions,
and precious stones.

At eight o'clock the Queen was conducted by the
Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain to the
banquet in the Picture Gallery, accompanied by the
Royal Family, the Foreign Ministers, the Cabinet
Ministers, and the other Ladies and Gentlemen in
attendance at the ceremonial, the ilitary band on
duty playing " God save the Queen" on the entrance
of the august party.
During dinner the military band performed the
following pieces :
Grand March H.R.H.theDuchess
of Kent.

Overture, " Oberon" -Weber.
Cori, " La Carita" Rossini.
Walzer, "Attila"
Potpourri," La Gana Ladra" Rossini.
Polka
Scotch Medley
After the banquet, the Lord Steward gave the fol-
lowing toasts:--" Her Royal Highness the Princess
Louisa," "Her Majesty the Queen Dowager," "The
Queen and the Prince."
On leaving the Picture Gallery, after dinner, her
Majesty, accompanied by the Royal guests and the
ladies present, entered the White Drawing-room, and
soon afterwards his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the other Princes and the remainder of the
guests, proceeded to the Music-room, when the doors
of the White Drawing-room were opened.
The Queen received an evening party in addition
to the company present at the ceremony of the christ-
ening and the banquet.
The following pieces were performed in the Saloon
or Music-room, where the Queen's private band was
in attendance :

Overture, " Struenste Aleyerbeer.
Minuetto in E fl 4
... Mozart.
Fantasia, harp, Mr. J. Balsar Chat-

terton
••• Chatterton.
Allegretto Scherzaudo, sinfonia, No.B Beethoven.
Adagio and Rondo, clarinet, Mr.
Williams ... • ... C. M. Von Weber
()venue (Prometheus) ... Beethoven.
Solo, violin, Mr. Day ... Beriot.
Wedding March (Midsummer
Night's Dream) • ••• Mendelssohn.
Jubileee Overture ... ..• C. M. Von Weber
Refreshments were served to the company
during the evening in one of the ante-rooms.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Yesterdy morning the Queen and Prince Albert,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service in the pri-
vate chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty inspected an engraving of Admiral
Sir Charles Napier, from a portrait by Mr. Joy,
which was submitted by Mr. H. Meesom, on
Friday.
The following was her Majesty's answer to the
address of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of London, presented on Friday :
" I have received with the greatest satisfaction your
loyal and dutiful address, and I am very sensible of the
affectionate interest which you have expressed in my
domestic happiness.
" I rely with the most entire confidence on the
loyalty and attachment of the city of London.
" I can receive no higher gratification than to be
assured of the affection of my People, whose constitu-
tional rights and liberties it is my constant desire to
maintain, and with whose happiness my own is inse-
parably connected."
The following was her Majesty's answer to the
address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the city of London, presented on the same day :
" I have received your dutiful and affectionate address
with feelings of the highest satisfaction.
" I warmly appreciate the many gratifying proofs of
the loyalty of the citizens of your ancient city, and of
their firm attachment to the principles of the British
constitution.

" It is my earnest desire to reign in the affections of
my people and to uphold, and strengthen the free insti-
tutions which this country has long enjoyed, and which
I feel to be the surest foundation of its happiness and
prosperity."
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess
Bernhard, and the Princess Amelie of Saxe Weimar,
attended Divine service yesterday, in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's. The Prayers were read by the
Rev J. Povah, the Lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore,
and the Communion service by the Bishop of Lon-
don. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. T.
Mills. The Bishop of Norwich, the Clerk ; and the
Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, were
in waiting. Her Majesty was attended by the
Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, and
Earl Howe. The Duke of Wellington attended the
early service yesterday. Prayers were read by the
Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Sermon was preached by
the Rev. T. Mills.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ministers
in town.

The Council sat two hours.
Mr. Hagan, M.P., had an interview with Sir G.
Grey on Saturday, at the Horne-office.

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GRAND E ~,,NTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-House.
—On Saturday the Lord Mayor gave an elegant banquet
Mr. Baron
Coleride, the
Platt,
to the Judges, Queen's Counsel, and Sergeants. Amongst
those who partook of the Chief Magistrate's hospitality
were the following: —The Right lion. Lord Chief Justice
Denman, the Right Hon. Baron Parke, the Hon. Mr.
Justice,
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,Ilsohne.
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Hon. Mr. Justice Erle, the Hon. Mr. Justice Williams
Sir John Jervis, M.P., Attorney-General; Lord Robert-
son, one of the Lords of Session, Scotland; Sir Frederic
Thesiger, M.P., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M C —r. -ockburn, Q.C,
and M.P.; Mr. Humfrey, Q.C.; Sergeants Holcombe,
Shee, Wrangham, Thompson, Herbert Jones, Dowling,
Clarke, Bellasis, C. Jones, Baine, Wilkins ; Aldermen
Sir Claudius S. Hunter, Bart., Thompson, M.P., Sir P.
Laurie, Humphery, M.P., Johnson, Sir George Carroll;
Sheriffs Cubitt, M.P., and Hill; Under-Sheriffs France
and Wire; Professor Taylor (London University), Mr.
Clarkson, &c. Covers were laid for about seventy.
The fetivities of the evening were kept up with great
spirit until about eleven o'clock, and when his Lord-
ship's guests departed they seemed highly delighted
with the evening's entertainments. We understand his
Lordrhip intends giving an Egyptian Hall entertainment
to the Bishops to-morrow.
ROYAL NAVAL FEMALE SCHOOL.—On Saturday
the eighth annual general meeting of the friends and
supporters of this institution was held at Willis's Rooms,
King-street, St. James's; Rear-Admiral the Earl of
Waldegravo in the chair, supported by Lord Ingestrie,
M.P., Admirals C. Malcolm, Bain, and Knox, and several
other officers of the Royal Navy. There were, besides
several ladies present. By the financial report, it )0'
peered that the income of the institution amounted to
.
3,8481. 2s. lid., and that the expenditure was less by
2861, odd. Among the items mentioned with great
a
plause was 13/. 10s., saved by the young ladies in r
f o
staining from certain articles of luxury, such as
&c., and sent to Ireland, to relieve the distress sugar a,
persons
worse off than themselves. The report was
adopted.

ARLIAMENTARY FEES.
,On Saturday a numerous meeting of the bar took
place in the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inn, convened by the
Attorney-General to take into consideration certain
matters. relating to Parliamentary fees.
he ATTORNET•GENERAL took the chair, and stated
that he had been induced to call the present meeting
from the following circumstances. It appeared that a
resolution had been come to by many of the barristers
practising at the Parliamentary bar not to take any
anybr briefs f
fsefers
o remaining
companies or other persons where there were
unpaid to other counsel upon pre-
vious business transacted on behalf of such clients. That
in consequence of this resolution one of the Queen's
counsel practising at that bar had felt it is duty to de-
cline taking a brief which had been offered him by a
particular companyandatthe same time he had solicited
jhis (the Attorney-General's)
ustified in taking such aproceeding. His answer was,
that he did not consider it was competent for the
Learned Gentleman to refuse a brief when offered to
him, under the particular circumstances of the case. He
had then been requested to attend a meeting of the Par-
liamentary counsel upon the subject ; he had done so,
but in consequence of certain
resolutions then about to
be proposed, he had feared thathe might be compromis-
ing the general opinion of the bar, and had, therefore,
suggested that another and larger meeting of barristers
should be convened. The second meeting also took
place, but as very few members of the bar had assembled,
the
he had considered it better again to adjournmeet-
ing,t in order that more publicity might be given te, h
profession, and he had therefore called a general meete-
ing, and he was happy to see so large an attendance
upon this occasion. Having now explained his reasons
for calling the bar together, he would request Mr. Hill,
as the senior member present, to move such resolutions
as he might think fit.
Mr. HILL then rose and said that, in consequence of
the difficulty arising in respect of business transacted at
the Parliamentary bar, the leading members who prac-
tised there had come to a resolution to direct theirclerks
not to take any briefs unless the fees which had become
due in the previous session had all been paid. The ob-
ject of this resolution was, that the barristers might
protect themselves against the improper course which
had been taken by various parties in omitting to pay
their fees that had become justly due. He considered
this a most proper and wholesome rule, and calculated
to raise the character of the profession, and he thought
that any members of the bar who had signed this reso-
lution were justified in refusing to take any brief from
persons who had omitted to pay their fees. He should,
therefore, move first, that it was the opinion of this
meeting that it was competent for the barristers to enter
into the resolution which they had done; and, secondly,
that it was as competent for any member of the bar,
who had signed that resolution, to exercise his judg-
ment in refusing to take a brief offered to him where
the fees had not been so paid.
The SOLICITOR-GENZAAL, in addressing the meeting,
said he had consulted with very many of his friends--
chiefly those who practised at the Chancery bar—as to
the propriety of the present proceeding, and he was ex-
pressing the feelings of all with whom he had spoken
that these resolutions were most objectionable. He dis-
approved altogether of a meeting of the bar for consider-
ing a question solely relating to the way in which fees
were to be taken. The gentlemen who complained had
the remedy in their own hands; the rule of the bar had
always been that no brief should be taken unless the
fees were paid upon it, and if any section of the bar
thought fit to deviate from that principle, either for the
convenience of themselves or their clients, they ought
to bear the responsibility of their conduct. Another
rule of the bar was, that no barrister could refuse to
take a brief except under peculiar circumstances. He
did not think that the present case was one which
justified a departure from that general rule. It was
altogether contrary to the dignity of the bar that a
combination should be made for the purpose of forming a
rule as to how the payment of fees should be regulated.
If this were allowed there would soon be a combination
for refusing fees under a particular amount, and various
other resolutions which would be quite inconsistent with
that high character which the bar of England had
always maintained. It was his intention, previously to
entering the hall, to have moved resolutions expressive
of his disapprobation of the purposes for which the
meeting had been called, but since the commencement of
the proceedings he had altered his mind, and, with the
concurrence of a great many of his friends, he would
simply move a resolution in the negative, that it is not
competent for the members of the bar to refuse to take
briefs where the fees previously incurred to other mem-
bers of the bar have not been paid, and that it is not
competent for any member of the bar who shall have
signed such resolution to act in accordance with it.
Mr. TALBOT then addressed the meeting, and said it
would be necessary for him in some measure to explain
the nature of the proceedings in Parliamentary practice,
as lie had no doubt there were many gentlemen present
who were unaware of flre. 40ference which existed
between that pTilaticelftierny ()fifer. It was impossible,
he said, to carry out the general rule as to the pre-pay-
ment of fees. It was out of the question to calculate
beforehand the length of time which the business might
occupy, or the quantum of labour that might have to be
expended upon it. The practice had, therefore, grown
up of allowing a certain time after the conclusion of the
business for the payment of tees. This leniency, he was
sorry to say, had been greatly abused, and it was not an
uncommon thing for the solicitors or Parliamentary
agents absolutely to refuse payment of the fees, and
then to take their papers to another barrister, and
the same course might then be repeated. It was
in consequence of such constant occurrences that
the resolution had been come to by which the section of
the profession practising at the Parliamentary bar de-
termined not to receive briefs unless all fees to counsal
who had been previously engaged were paid up before
the commencement of the following session. In the
present instance he had received a brief from a well-
known company, the fee upon which was paid ; but
immediately afterwards circumstances had come to his
knowledge which induced him to make inquiries, and
he had considered it his duty, having himself signed the
resolution not to take briefs where the previous fees re-
mained due, to refuse this brief. He had subsequently
asked the opinion of the Attorney-General, who had
differed with him, He begged further to state, that
whether he had acted right or wrong, he was only ac-
tuated by a strict sense of honour and upright con-
duct, and had taken the course he had done solely with
a view of supporting the dignity of the bar, and carry-
ing out those resolutions which he considered for the
general benefit of the barrister practising with him.
Sir F. TnESIGER then came forward, and said he could
neither support the resolutions proposed by Mr. Hill,
nor could he consent to the negative resolution moved
by the Solicitor- General. His opinion was, that this
was not a subject which called for any interference on
the part of the bar. It was the duty of each barrister to
act as he thought most in accordance with the f
of honour and propriety, and not to call
upon theebealrngtos
give any expression of opinion upon the subject. If this
were to be done upon every occasion, the bar would have
to decide all contested points upon each individual case
of hardship which any member
might wish to be brought
move forward. He should, therefore,
thewhat in Parlia-
mentary proceedings would be calledprevious ques-
tion, the effect of which would be, in fact, that no
resolutions whatever should be proposed.
Mr. COLBURN then came forward, and with much
warmth of manner defended the conduct which had been
pursued by the members of the bar practising in the
Parliamentary Committees. lie would, therefore, move
an amendment, to the effect, " That it was competent
for a barrister, if ho thought fit, to refuse any brief that
was offered to him."
After some further discussion the amendment of Mr.
Colburn was negatived by a large majority. Sir Frederic
Thesiger's amendment was also negatived, and upon the
resolutions being put the meeting decided in favour of
the Solicitor-General's resolution, in opposition to the
resolutions proposed by Mr. Hill, almost unanimously,
there having been not more than twenty hands held up
in their favour.
D-

EATSI OF DR. Dula, R.N.—lt is with much
regret that we announce this week the demise of this
most respectable townsman. The Doctor had been
complaining for some little time past, but not so seriously
as to create any alarm in the minds of his friends till the
day before his death, when he sunk most rapidly, expir-
ing on the morning of Saturday last of a disease which
originated in a tumour on his back, but at last termi•
nated in a fatal attack of pleurisy. The Doctor had for
many years retired from active service, and had, from
his unobtrusive habits and quiet gentlemanly demeanour,
endeared himself to a large circle of acquaintances in
Montrose. He early entered the-navy, and we believe
was a surgeon of 1810 standing. He enjoyed a number of
very useful and honourable appointments in the navy, but
he was peculiarly proud of having been appointed surgeon
to the first expedition to the North Pole, under Capt. Bu-
chan, to which he often referred with a degree of pleasure,
although he nearly lost his life in that expedition from
an accidental wound which he received in the knee from
a companion while shooting bears on the ice. One of
his last appointments was as surgeon to one of the royal
yachts, and he also had in his offer the appointment of
surgeon to the Woolwich Dockyard, one of the best in
the service; but this he refused, preferring to spend his
declining years as a comfort to his aged mother, now 95,
and amongst the society of his native town, where he was
much respected, and where his death will be deeply and
justly deplored. His afflicted and only brother, Sir
James Duke, M.P., has arrived in town to attend the
funeral.—Montrose Standard.
Notwithstanding the exertions which have been
made, and the reward offered, no eluo has as yet been
obtained to lead to the discovery of the parties who
robbed the safe of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, Chippeo.
ham, on the :20th or 21st ult., when property to the
amount of upwards of 6,0001., chiefly in notes of the
branch, was stolen, besides other papers of considerable
value. On searching the premises behind the bank, the
cash-box was found in the water-closet, with its contents
gone, excepting some papers which would have been of
no use to the thieves. The lid of the box appeared to
have been forced open with a chisel. A bag of gold, to
the amount, it is stated, of between 1,0001. and 2,000/.,
was left in the safe, the parties appearing to prefer notes
to gold, contrary to what is usually the ease.—Bristol
Mercury.

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOL
Sir,—On Wednesday, the 10th, the Horsham
Borough Bill was advanced a stage. The war against
the convicted boroughs appears hitherto to be suc-
cessful. It is a sad thing for a borough to live to be
convicted.
On Thursday, Horsham again. The attempt to
issue a new writ was resisted by 167 votes against 73.
On the same night the Alien Bill was read a third
time and passed. In spite of the small number that
ultimately voted against them, the Government had
the air of men who had no pride in their performance.
They might be believed to feel conscious that the
measure was forced on them from a hostile quarter,
and that the time when there was any
excuse for it was passed. It was a panic
after the panic was over ; or, as my old constituents
of Hull would have better understood me than you,
it was taking in sail after the squall was gone by.
But what is the use of the forms which interpose
delay between the conception of
tion of it, if mischievous measures aarleawt-eagnedetnhemaedroeply-
because they have been beguthn
admitted the high probabilityer
that they The
should Government
ne s-
use the law at all ; and gentlemen of easy dispositions
took this for a reason why they should have the law.
But the mischief that would be the consequence of
the law, was a matter that did not hang on probabi-
lities ; and there would be nothing unreasonable in
supposing that the reported order to fortify Bou-
lognefeel-
ing is, in part at least, founded on the
created on the other side the water. In this
manner it is, that your honest interests go to wreck.
You cannot have the chances of carrying on your
trade with foreign countries in peace and harmony,
because gentlemen who trade in nothing, cannot abide
the sight of a man with a beard. Depend on it you
able sc
o over.n tra
taitme Bradford will pay for shaving these beards many
tracts
flesr yourhouldlikgeetedoksnoawrehhork
womeannyefffavhoura-
quarrel between yourcomme'rcial traveller and y his
behaved 'in
foreign acquaintances, on the question whether the
Alien Aactg:
English have
wrong, you
gentlemanlike manner on
ever your rulers go
the subject of the
are the Greeks who
are to be rapped over the knuckles.
The inference from all this •
tively exert yourselves f s'that you must posi-
look after your own affairs, or an obtaining'to more power to
trade of Bradford is not interfered see that the honest
of men less interested in with by the fancies
Peaceand
yourselves. And the open door that is before
than
this moment, is to obtain more Power for the
ee
lyou at
of whom, bating seasons of occasional exasncersastsieos,
which it is to be hoped better knowledge would maken
rarer, you are the natural heads and leaders, and
whose exaltation is in the eyes of all sensible men
your exaltation, and as such will be resisted by your
anti-commercial adversaries, who
are quite able to
perceive the connexion between the things.
And this leads me (though somewhat irregularly
in point of time) to observe that I have just been shown
Mr. Hume's notice, as given in the Proceedings of the
douse of Commons on Friday; which I did not pre-
viously know to have appeared in print. Ido not
think the public will be contented with it ; and I do
not think the main point in question was ever fairly
decided or debated at all. And that main point, it
may be as well to state, I conceive to have been
whether Household Suffrage was the thing for which
the "Fifty-one" should agree to raise the flag. There
were many who thought, that in the actual posture of
affairs, it was as important not to be below the pitch
of public opinion, as not to be above it ; and who
did believe, that to raise the banner for
Household Suffrage, was at all events mat-
ter for grave deliberation, and to be determined
only after serious consideration of the important
classes who may be viewed as pledged to take fire at
such an announcement. It is no answer to say, that
the classes in possession of electoral power would like
it better. It is quite true that what is done must be
done through the intervention of those who have
power, and not of those who have it not. But the
middle classes, who possess tke greatest share of elec-
toral power at this moment, would act very diffe-
rently if merely asked to please themselves, and
if urged to do the most, instead of the least,
for the attainment of the genzial safety. The ques-
tion is not of what the micpile classes would like
to do of their own mere motion, but of what they
can be got to do when urged -to the utmost
by the pressure of other clasststs and the conscious
necessity of doing something to secure their friend-
ship. In this view there is no use in concealing, and
on the contrary very great use in avowing, that
there was and is a very strong party, so strong that
nothing but a distinct trial of numbers can decide
whether it is a minority or not, who thought some-
thing that was not Household Suffrage would have
had a better chance of producing the adhesion which
promises success. And the thing so thought of,
was with more,or less distinctness described under
the terms of Registered or Residential Suffrage ; im-
plying the giving the vote to all men of full
age !ice., who should have been registered as
the occupants of some fixed residence, for
the term (for example) of one year. It is undeniable
that there are large masses in this country, who
would be disposed to adhere to a proposal for a suf-
frage of this nature, but who, from foregone deter-
minations or other causes, would fly off upon the
mention of Household Suffrage ; and the fact will not
be altered, by any special pleading on the question of
whether a residence is not a house, and whether any
suffrage connected with residence may not be con-
scientiously brought within the phrase of " house-
hold suffrage" if a man likes. The question is not
how far conscience may be stretched if a man wishes
it, but of what are the ideas and feelings that will be
raised in men's minds by words which we employ.
All this, I maintain, ought to have been made the
subject of the gravest and most serious consideration.
Grave and serious consideration does not imply that
it should be a twelvemonth doing; but it does imply
that men should know the time when their decision
is made, and that it should not be done for them by a
side wind. Now what happened was simply this.
Question was asked, whether there was any indivi-
dual present who scrupled to go as far as Household
Suffrage ? As might be expected, everybody zea-
lously said " No. To which the rejoinder was,
" Then let it be written down, that the meeting was
unanimously in favour of Household Suffrage, and
let it be inserted in Mr. Hume's motion accordingly."
I mean this fur history. It would not be right to
allow an important question to be passed over in this
manner, and men be compromised with their con-
stituents by what will be understood from the publi-
cation that " the utmost unanimity prevailed."
Now, was there ever such an invention for securing
the adoption of a minimum 7 To taxe a parallel,—in
which, whatever may be the difference of absolute
magnitudes, there is a certain degree of resemblance,
inasmuch as in both cases men in possession of a cer-
tain portion of public confidence were assembled to
try to hit the highest measure of public utility in
anxious times,—let it be supposed that when the Pro-
visional Government in Paris was called on to pro-
pose something round which men's minds might
gather and unite, somebody had begun by asking,
Is
there any gentleman present who disputes
that the Reform Banquet was a proper thing,
and ought to have gone forward ?" And on
is being answered as it must have been,
imagine the recording officer desired to take his pen,
and write down that the Provisional Government de-
clared for the Reform Banquet. This would only
have been a s •of the followed specimen
Could it have been believed, that any birds would
fall into such a snare ? yet, in pure self-protection I
say it, among many who were like anything but
cock-sparrows, I could find none it was practicable to
convince, that they were virtually declaring that the
meeting fixed on Household Suffrage as its mark, and
this without going into any statement or comparison
of the reasons there might be for or against something
else instead.
In all this do not let me be understood as main-
taining, that there might not have finally
been found reasons for deciding on declaring
that Household Suffrage was the thing for which
the banner should be raised. This would have justly
come under the decision of a majority of votes, and
the ordinary obligation of minorities to submit to the
majority. But what I am obliged to maintain is,
that the reasons were never stated, never produced,
never considered, never weighed, never taken into
account, never brought into court,—that the judg-
ment was negative, not positive,—that
of hunting for what it would be wisest to do, search
was made for something that none would be so foolish
as to refuse, and this was put forward as the fine
gold found at 'the bottom of the crucible. Not that
I see any cause for anxiety, though in everything
there may he a better course and a worse. Nobody,
by either well or ill-doing, will stop the progress of
events, any more than Mrs. Partington could keep
the tide out with her broom. But I should like it to
be understood by those it may concern, that I
was not art and part in any proceedings,
for the good reason, that as regards the
main point, there were no proceedings at all.
There was no weighing, no reference to opinions
in the country, no question asked, no voting except
on the inquiry whether there was any insane person
there who objected to going as far as household

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