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those occurrences the minions of the unconstitutional

leaders have been striving to destroy the late popular
and liberal Administration. Aid was sought by them in

money is demanded for works of a reproductive cha-
racter. It lis: urged that the above requirement is
proved to be prejudicial by the fact that there are at
present only 7,000 persons employed on drainage,
whilst there are 103,000, in round numbers, engaged
on public works. Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S remedy
is, that the Government should "at once empower
the Board of Works to commence the drainage of
extensive districts where required, by assuming a
right of entry for the purpose on the lands of any
proprietor, subject to future assessment of the balance
of damage or profit by such tribunal and upon such
terms as the Legislature may next session prescribe."
This would be a tremendous responsibility to as-
sume. If the step were really necessary to be re-
sorted to, no less authority than that of Parliament
itself should take the initiative. But we do not
see the necessity at present for so large a measure of
" state:interference." Voluntary relief has not, in-
deed, been sa widely patronised, nor with such
promptitude, as we could have wished ; still, every
day's intelligence cheers us with the knowledge that
the principle is actively progressing, and that land-
lords are zealously knitting themselves together to
prove that they are sensible that property has its
duties as well as its rights. It must be borne in
mind, too, that the vast arrangements required cannot
be instantaneously effected. The Board of Works
itself, with all its powerful appliances and un-
wearied zeal, has only just got into active play;
so that, due allowance being made for the
disadvantages under which private enterprise la-
bours compared with public enterprise, there is not,
o our view, that censurable disproportion between
the two ameliorative forces which Mr. POULETT
ScßonE would infer. Again, had Parliament' been
convened, as the lion. Member desired some time
back,, the springs of private "benevolence would have
been altogether dried up, as the influential resident
proprietors of Ireland would have been thereby
summoned away from those localities where their
present co-operation is productive of so much advan-
tage upon their destitute tenantry. That some have
been swept off by famine is matter of sore lament
yet the number, when contrasted with the magnitude
of the national affliction, is exceedingly limited.
There is plenty of food in Ireland:; but it is
quite impossible for the Government to prevent a
great portion of it being exported, by becoming
its purchasers, as suggested by Mr. POULETT SCROPE.
It is nevertheless satisfactory that the prices of grain
are generally declining, and that large supplies from
the Mediterranean, America, and elsewhere, are
rapidly diminishing the chances of famine, and en-
vening us with the hope that Ireland will soon be
appily extricated from her perilous condition.

a quarter most destructive, or, at the least, most dan-
gerous to the preservation of their common nation-
ality. The assistance of the Cabinet of the Tuile-
ries was lavished upon the expatriated and
unpatriotic statesmen " the gathered storm
was ripe " the Ministry approved by the
voice of the community was crushed by a military
interference, and the instruments of Gallic ambition
endowed with the prerogatives and immunities of
office. We cannot but acknowledge that this ven-
ture was remarkable for its consummate boldness.
It has, however, failed. Indignant at so prodigious
an outrage upon their freedom as citizens of
an enlightened constitution, and their rights
as a portion of a civilised generation, the
Portuguese people have risen against their
intended oppressors with an unanimity and an
enthusiasm which involuntarily command our ad-
mi ration. Unlike their brethren the Spaniards, who
are, contented to behold their princesses kidnapped with
an :apathetic grumble, the Portuguese are roused to
action from one extremity of the kingdom to the
other. Their love for fatherland is exhibited, not in
hisses at a pageant or a bull-fight, not in the mobbing
of ;a deplorable tailor, not in the casting of brickbats
at ELH ill-starred postillion, but in the hurried assem-
blage of civilians, in sounding the tocsin, in un-
rollzing the gonfalon of an outraged country.
i tatters are apparently approaching their consum-
mat ion in Portugal as rapidly as they are doing in
Ale :deo. The dispersion and discomfiture of the in-
sur geiit guerillas, at Cintra, is the Monterey of the
Pet tinsula. Less calamitous, in point of the numbers
kill cad and wounded, than in the defeat of AMPUDIA, this
rec( ant encounter promises to be equally the forerunner
of s ome decisive conflict. SALDANHA had bivouacked
at ' Corres Vedras on the Bth, and was advancing but
slo\ vly from the capital, his intention being similar to
that; by which General TAYLOR is actuated in the
Rio. Grande, namely, to allow his coadjutors, SC 'MAL-
BAC ai and CASAL, to'combine their forces with those
and er his own immediate command. According to
the latest intelligence SALDANHA had reached
Sob ral at the very moment that his great

antagonist, DAS ANTAS, was situated at Cadaval,
namely, at a distance of merely fourteen miles.
Wh, a ther this rumour be veracious or not, it is un-
questionable that the leader of the QUEEN'S troops and
the Evader of the insurgent populace were gradually
com ing into a somewhat perilous proximity.
A conclusive battle is inevitable, unless
DAS. ANTIS forthwith retreats either to Co-
imbi,a, or Santarem, or even Oporto, by which
mov, went that sagacious General would enveigle
his oryponent into difficulties, from which his extrica-
tion -would be almost impossible. SALDANuA would
then? by discover himself in a district most favourable
to thee popular cause, and most inimical to that of the
Cour t party.
N E `ither SA DA BANDEIRA nor DAs ANTAS have,
acco.: ding to present. intelligence, declared them-
selves; favourable to the establishment of a Regency.
'Fhei;x• anathemas are hurled scarcely so much against
Que' an MARIA as against that unconstitutional in-
fluemce which has latterly usurped the Government
Their abhorrence is essentially directed against an
Achr6.nistration which has been forced upon the nation
by 101 intolerable coup cr etat, and their disgust is
pecu Liarly excited against that Administration
from, their regarding it as identical in prin-
ciple with the obnoxious CABRALS. From: these
circumstances it would consequently appear
that an opening still remains out of these
gigan tic difficulties, namely, by the dismissal of a
hateful Cabinet, and the guarantee of the mainte-
nanc a of the liberal principles of the Constitution.
DiNers obstacles, however, loom in the future, and
threa ten to retard, if they do not actually prevent
this most desirable compromise. On the frontiers of
Port; :gal a Spanish army is assembled, prepared ap-
parently to invade the insurgent provinces upon the
first mnergency. And, as an additional indication of
the diisposition of the Legislature of Madrid, we ob-
serve that COSTA CABRAL has been formally ap-
point ed Portuguese envoy in that metropolis, a
proceeding which is singularly significant when it
is re membered how execrable the name of COSTA
CABE ,AL is in the hearing of his insurgent country-
men. Everything indicates the imminence of the
present juncture of affairs in Portugal. Everything,
from the simultaneous assemblage of Juntas in the
differ. ant towns to the revolt of the inhabitants of
Cacilhas and Almada, testifies the earnestness with
which. the population have adventured upon this im-
portar it movement. The community can scarcely
emerge from the struggle scatheless, but it is to be
hoped that their political institutions will be de-
velope d and advanced by this extraordinary revolu-
,ion.

On the Bth of November the PorE went through
the ceremony of taking possession of the Lateran.
The following account of the ceremony, and of the
important decrees by which its celebration was ac-
companied, appears in the Journal des Debats:—

" A letter from Rome, dated the Bth instant, contains
some account of the ceremony of the possesso, which was
celebrated on that day. That ceremony, the origin of
which ascends to the early time of the sovereignty of
the Popes over the city of Rome, and reminds the
Romans of their former municipal franchises, is more
political than religious. For that reason was the Holy
Father anxious to justify the hopes his elevation to the
throne created throughout Italy. The Diario di Roma
published on that day the nomination of three committees,
composed of prelates and laymen. The first, including the
most distinguished magistrates and lawyers in the coun-
try, is charged with the reform of the code of criminal
and civil jurisprudence. The two others, composed of
Roman princes and men possessing great influence by
their fortune and talent, are to devise a plan of amelio-
rating the municipal system and repressing vagrancy,
one of the greatest curses of Italy. In the morning,
moreover, an edict was published relative to railroads.
All those measures were received with unanimous satis-
faction by the population, which congregated in multi-
tudes at the foot of the capital, under the triumphal arch
of the forum, along the ruins of the Coliseum, and in
all the streets and squares through which the cortege
of the Sovereign Pontiff was to pass. The Pope
was everywhere cheered with the loudest acclamations.
Oa reaching the gate of St. John of Lateran, the
oldest church in Rome, the Pope was presented
by the Senator with the keys of the city, the sym-
bol of taking possession of the sovereignty. He then
entered the lodge of St. John of Lateran and bestowed
his benediction on the people, who received it with the
utmost piety and an enthusiasm impossible to describe.
Various reports circulated in the city, which added
greatly to the universal joy. It was said that the Sove-
reign Pontiff had just granted to the inhabitants of
Bologna the authorisation to organise a civic guard for
the repression of highway robberies. That authorisa-
tion was long claimed by the citizens of Bologna. It
was also added that M. Marini, the Civil Governor of
Rome, had been severely reprimanded for having suffered
domiciliary visits to be made without any well-grounded
cause."

The, apprehension with respect to the alimentary
condition of Ireland, both as regards its present and
future :prospects, continues to engross the minds of
differe n t men of all classes in every part of the united
empire,. All sorts of embryo schemes are hourly
started; ; every possible panacea is put forward with
an earn estness of purpose, which demonstrates, in a
remarkable degree, the excessive complacency with
which the several propounders regard their own in-
dividual schemes, as the most simple and self-evident
solution of one of the most difficult questions that
can eng age the stateman's attention. No sooner has
one su:R gestion been disposed of, and abandoned as
altogether illusory, than another political chapman
starts la p, and arrogantly offers a choice specimen of
his sm all wares as the very article which can alone
help tite Government over its difficulties. It is
nothing, in his view, that he is without suitable in-
formation, proper statistics, and other elements of
knowledge, essential to his arriving at a sound judg-
ment. , He happens to have a few leisure hours at his
command ; he has accidentally heard that a most per-
plexing subject is under the consideration of the
Executive ; his patriotic feelings are aroused ;
he forthwith sets to work, and, after ran-
sacking- the pigeon-holes of his ready-fur-
nished intellect, flatters himself he has disco-
vered R chat all Downing-street would never have
hit upoin without him. Accordingly, he flings the
prodigy at the Minister's feet, exclaiming " There is
what yo u want, take it, you are welcome to it." It
must be an agreeable relief to the responsible authori-
ties wile ,n they can draw out from amidst the heap of
coxcombical charlatanry, under which their tables
are con tstantly groaning, any production from a
quarter entitled by position and acquirements to
their mispectful attention and serious reflection. His
habits -of business, Parliamentary standing, assiduous
dischai ge of public duties, and the study which he
has lop g devoted to different branches of political eco-
nomy, necessarily impart considerable weight to any
opinions that Mr. G. POULETT SCROPE may favour
for meeting the existing difficulties of Ireland. This
gentler awl, after a considerable interval, addressed, a
few days back, a second letter to Lord J. RUSSELL
upon the embarrassed social condition of the sister
isle. Be expatiates upon the pressing ills of Ireland
with ability, but, at the same time, in a manner that
exhibits a fear for the future (founded upon
his be lief that the present alleviating policy
of the Government is not sufficiently enlarged),
to an extent in which we confess we do not partici-
pate. Mr. POULETT SCROPE advises the Premier
of whs .t he considers best to be done. The counsel
herein, submitted is undoubtedly bold enough. To
either its soundness or expediency we decidedly
demur,. There is a vast difference between a respon-
sible and an irresponsible adviser of the Crown. In
the latter capacity propositions are frequently che-
rish(d., which in the former would never be enter-
tain( Yet, when we find men like Mr. POULETT
SCR.DPB favouring a course which, we think,
no ,ertadent Administration would dream of adopt-
ing -without the express sanction of the Legislature,
it goes far to convince us of the forbearing spirit with
which the acts of the Ministers should be viewed, full
regard. being had to the novel and unanticipated dis-
tress i'l which, by a dispensation of PROVIDENCE,
masses. of human beings hare become involved.
The gist of the Hon. Member's letter consists in
finding :fault with Lord JOHN for placing, as he con-
ceives, too much reliance on the voluntary efforts of
the woalthier classes to apply the means for prevent-
ing the starvation of the poor. The Earl of BES-
nonou,3,Lt's "vigour beyond the law" is objected to on
accoun t of his requiring " undertakings from each
and all, the several landowners," wherever public

The new Russian Minister, Count BLTJDOFF, pre-
sented his letters of credence to his Holiness on the
2d of November. We find in the Univers the fol-
lowing on the subject of Count BLUDOFF'S mission :

" Count Bludoff presented his letters of credence to
the Pope three days since. This diplomatic personage
is accredited to the Holy See to treat on religious
affairs. We have only to wait with respect for the
result of this negotiation. If we may credit a
report in circulation, Cardinal Lambruschini has
been charged by the Pope to treat in this affair
with the Russian Plenipotentiary. It is said that M.
de Boutenieff does not look favourably on the collabo-
rateur sent him by the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh,
and I have reason to believe tbat the sentiments attri-
buted to M. de Boutenieff are really those entertained
by him. In the afternoon of yesterday the Abbess of
Minsk returned the visit which the Pope had paid her a
few days before ; the audience was strictly private. All
that I can tell you of the affair is, that when the Abbess
left the apartment of his Holiness with her interpreter,
the Pope waved his 'band to her in the Italian manner,
saying, in a tone full of kindness and interest, A ddio;
Madre Mahrina, addio.' "

The Peninsalair steam-packet, which arrived last
evening at Soathampton, brings intelligence from
Lisbon of the 11 th, two days later than that pub-
lished
cy
ind e our paper of yesterday.
in at Cintra does not appear to have been
so d
favour of the QUERN'S troops as had
e iaffair
The aljr
being at first represented. The peasantry fought
desperately, retreating inch by inch to their moun-
tains, which they succeeded in reaching without
leaving any prisoners in the hands of the QUEEN'S
tlrhoeoir ps.Thepeasantry only ceased firing because
ammunition was exhausted. IGNACIO DE
BARROS, their chief, had effected his escape,
and was on board the Hibernia. SenwAL-
BACK was bombarding Evora, which was stoutly
defended by BoMrIN, who was hourly expect-
ing relief. It was reported
.that SA DA BAN-
DEIRA had made a sally from Oporto, and
defeated Baron CAZAL. SA DA BANDEIRA, it
was added, had been wounded in the action. SAL-.
DANHA'S army, after three days' march, had only
advanced twenty miles from Lisbon. Colonel
WYLDE had proceeded to SALDANUA'S camp, and it
was expected he would go from thence to the camp
of DAs ANTAS, and from thence to Oporto. The
loss sustained by the QUEEN'S troops was greater than
was at first stated. Thirty-six of the wounded have
already been brought into Lisbon.

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1846,

It would be impossible to view the present crisis of
political affairs in Portugal with indifference. To every
one living under a liberal Government, and blessed
with an enlightened constitution, the recent and pend-
ing disturbances in the western portion of the
Peninsula will afford a spectacle singularlycalculated
to enlist their sympathies. The Portuguese are
struggling to assert their independence as a nation,
and to spurn a most audacious attempt at foreign
domination with the utmost contumely. It must be
already sufficiently manifest to King Louis PHIL-
LIPPE that his European policy is liable
to many decisive and formidable obstructions,
and that while his influence may be insinuated
upon the Spaniards by an adroit alliance, he
cannot with a mere coup d'etat force upon
their neighbours an administration that is
universally held in execration. Successful
for a while in the larger division of the
Iberian Peninsula, the diplomacy of France has been
signally worsted in the smaller. The effusion of
blood, the endangerment of public peace, the periling
of property, and all the other odious consequences of
civil war,i. are of course to be deplored when they are
inevitable, and to be shunned when they can be
avoided without the voluntary relinquishment of the
popular liberties. On the breaking out of any revo-
lution the remote observer is naturally in-
cited to the settlement in his own mind of
this political problem :—Are the :people justified in
rising in armed masses to expel those who are ob-
noxious, to punish those who have encroached upon
their authority, to maintain the integrity of their con-
stitution, to defend their individual and aggregate in-
dependence ? Until the mysteries of the palace and
the secrets of the Ministerial portfolios are revealed,
as well as the general disposition of the populace, it
is hopeless to attempt any solution of a ques-
tion so peculiarly intricate. Regarding all those
circumstances, however, which must be ma-
nifest to the most superficial ' spectator,
of recent occurrences in the metropolis of Portugal,
it is ostensible that the population has there latterly
received many extraordinary incitements to what the
sticklers for the irresponsible domination of 'Queen
MARIA DA GLORIA would designate rebellion. The
national will was significantly expressed in the re-
markable proceedings of last May ; the anxiety pre-
valent amongst the million for the maintenance of
the enlightened spirit of modern times in the admi-
nistration of the laws was then emphatically avouched ;
the hatred entertained by the Portuguese for any undue
snts h
exhibition or profligate employment of power, as in-
tan thew Cich could Ana, Ministry,notbem wisasun odudtetresrteod7 ithan
explicitness
itSince

The people of Cacilhas and Almada, on the south
bank of the Tagus and right opposite Lisbon, from
which they are not two miles distant, are in open re-
volt against the QUEEN'S Government• They have
destroyed the telegraph at Almada. The Government
has it hands so full of work in putting down insur-
rection on every side, that it cannot spare troops to
send over. The insurgents there are said not to fall
short of 500 armed men.
An infectious influenza had broken out in the
English fleet.

COSTA Cum.', has been appointed Ambassador to
the Court of Madrid.
'A junction between the Bank and Confian9a Com-
pany will shortly take place ; no particulars can be
given for the present.
Exchanges, 5
coin ; 461 notes. Discount on
notes, 700 rs. No alteration in the Funds.

Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have been received.

The courts of law in Spain have, on more than
one occasion of late, exhibited a spirit of indepen-
dence which does them the highest honour. In the
recent affair of the complaint of Count BRESSON
against the editor of the Tiempo, the French Viceroy,
thanks to the honesty of the Spanish judges, has been
defeated in his attempt at insulting the Spanish
nation by wantonly violating the laws of the king-
dom. The obsequious Afrancesado Cabinet of course
obeyed the orders of their ruler in every par-
ticular; and within twenty-four hours of MUSSON'S
complaint the Fiscal of Madrid commenced the
prosecution. The court, however, in which the
cause was to have been tried, declared that it was
not competent to the Fiscal to institute such a prose-
cution, and refused to permit the case to proceed to
trial. The Count And his Ministers intend, it is said,

SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ETEZING, NOVEMBER 17, 1846.

to appeal against this decision. We have no doubt I
they will appeal, and we should not be surprised to
hear that they have dismissed the judges who have
thus honourably performed their duty. It will be by no
means the first time that the Afrancesado faction has
tampered with the administration of justice.
MADRID BOLSA, Nov.lo.—The Three per Cents. were
done on the Madrid Bourse at 331 for cash. The prices
of the other stocks continued the same.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The French Government feel, it would appear
some alarm at the statements made by the National,
in an article which we quoted in our impression of
yesterday, as to the manner in which the coffers of
the Bank of France were being drained of specie.
The Presse puts forward the following evidently
official explanation of the statements made by the
National:—

"We can re .assure the National, which speaks of an
idea entertained by the Bank of France to restrain the
amount of commercial bills discounted, and to limit the
facilities usually afforded to our merchants. It
is not to be contested that such a measure,
adopted at such a moment, would produce serious
inconvenience, because, in order to prevent an evil
no doubt possible, but still uncertain, it would imme-
diately create a real evil. It is not at a period of the
year when accounts are being settled, and when the
want of money is most sensibly felt, that it would be
prudent to limit the assistance which commercial men
have a right to expect from a great establishment
founded on credit. Neither is the position of the Bank
so alarming as some persons too ready to feel terrified
have believed. The Bank will still possess, after all the
corn imported shall have been paid for, nearly one mil-
lion in cash. Appearances announce that the causes
which have induced the large calls for cash are about to
cease, and a current in a contrary sense cannot fail to
set in. Under such circumstances, the directors could
hot participate in the exaggerated fears of some of its
membors; and we believe we are well informed when we
state, that if such a proposition as that mentioned by
the National has been made, it has been rejected by a
majority."
M. GUIZOT submitted the draft of his reply to

Lord PALMERSTON'S last note to a Cabinet Council,
held on Friday last. This note, which is couched in
very courteous terms, positively refuses to permit the
Duke and Duchess of MONTFENSIER to make the re-
nunciations required of them.
There was a grand reception at the Marquis of
NORMANBT'S on Friday. According to the Presse
no one was admitted except on letters of invitation,
and it was remarked that neither the Spanish
Ambassador nor any of his secretaries or attaches
were present.
The railway between Orleans and Tours, which
had suffered from the inundations, was re• opened on
Friday for an experimental trip. A merchandise
train of 28 waggons passed over the whole line in
safety. It was to be opened to the public on Sunday.
The KING and the Royal Family arrived on Sa-
turday at St. Cloud from Compeigne.
The price of bread has been raised in Paris. For
the last fortnight of the present month the price is
fixed at 46c. the kilogramme (21bs. English) for the
first quality, and at 38c. the kilogramme for the
second quality.
The Three per Cents. were done at the Passage de I'Opera,
on Sunday, at 821. 70c.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8581.
75c.; Northern, 6451.
BUSINESS DONE IN 'FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, NovEMur;ll 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 144—Dutch Rhenish, 514—East
Indian, %—Louvain d la Sambre, IA—Luxembourg, 3/4
Namur and Liege, 33A—Northern of France Constituted,
101—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4A—Sambre and Meuse,
4%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, OA.

ALLEGED LUNATICS' FRIEND
SOCIETY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
"Sin,—lam desired by the committee of the alleged
dLunatics' Friend Society" to convey to you their cor-
ial and sincere thanks for your admirable article on the
awe respecting lunatics and alleged lunatics, contained
in The Sun newspaper of the 12th instant. The com-
mittee feel the more gratified by your remarks, as they
so powerfully advocate the causes for which this society
was instituted—" The protection of the British subject
from unjust confinement on the grounds of mental de-
rangement, and for the redress of persons so coufined.
Also to endeavour to procure a reform in the laws
and treatment affecting the arrest, detention, and release
of persons treated as of unsound mind."—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your faithful, and obedient servant,
G. BOLDEN, Secretary.
36, Coleman-street, Nov. 14, 1846.

At a meeting of the committee of the " Alleged Lu-
natics' Friend Society," held on Saturday, the 14th Nor.,
1846, it was moved by Mr. Bailey, and seconded by Mr.
Selby—
" That the thanks of this Society be presented to the
proprietors and editors of The Sun newspaper for their
article on lunatics or alleged lunatics, on the 12th inst.,
and that copies of the paper of that date be procured for
the members of the society ; and that the prospectus of
the society be inserted in the newspaper."
Carried unanimously. By order,
G. BOLDEN, Secretary.

BUILDING SOCIETIES.—Last night the first meeting
to enrol members in a now building society, called the
Kingsland, Dalston, and De Beauvior Town Improved
Building Investment Society was held in the Downham-
road, Kingsland. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by ,
B. Bingley, but, in consequence of the meeting having
been convened before the directors had got their rules
ready for delivery, much time, was occupied by the
chairman and directors in endeavouring to answer
questions respecting the contemplated workings of the
society's funds; and, from the circumstance, we think, of
the meeting having been convened before the chairman
and directors were sufficiently acquainted with the
working of such a society, two hours were occupied
without any business having been got through, and the
meeting threatened to terminate in a joke; but, fortu-
nately, a Mr. Bowman, with the following initials to his
name, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., came to the rescue of the
directors, and moved the first resolution, stifling all other
questions being asked, and saving the chairman a great
deal of trouble. But few shares were applied for, many
gentlemen having left before the business had concluded.
—From a Correspondent.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Mr. James Bremner, civil
engineer, who has been appointed to take off the Great
Britain, has been a shipbuilder in Wick for nearly forty
years; he has taken off the strand, and some from
great depths, upwards of two hundred sail of merchant-
men. He has been a harbour builder on a large scale,
and he is now the patentee of a plan for building har-
bours and raising vessels, which has gained the appro-
bation of the Lords of the Admiralty, and will be
brought into play on the first fit occasion. His plan
for building a harbour at Macduff has been adopted by
the trustees in preference to that of Cubitt's, and will
soon be carried on under Mr. Bremner's inspection, at an
expense of 50,0001.—Scotsman.
SINGULAR CASE OF FRAUD.—Yesterday, at the
Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Daniel Bright, a young man,
20 years of age, footman in the service of Mr. Hemmings,
of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, was brought up before the
bench of magistrates for final examination on a charge
of having obtained at the shop of Mr. George Messen-
ger, linendraper, High-street, Uxbridge, one dozen of
stockings, by falsely representing that they were for
Lady Sophia Tower ; also with having obtained at the
shop of Messrs. Love and Bastard, drapers, of Uxbridge,
half a dozen stockings, by falsely representing that
they were for the lady's maid of C. Mills, Esq., of Hil-
lingdon. It appeared from the evidence that the pri-
soner had previously borne a most unexceptionable
character, and that he was going to leave Mr. Hemmings'
service in a few days, having got a more lucrative and
responsible situation. Neither the prisoner nor his
friends could assign any motive for the fraud he had
committed. He was committed to Newgate for trial.
THE CONCERT HALL, LIVERPOOL.—A correspon-
dent has called our attention to the encouragement given
to music and song in Liverpool—the concert-room, ori-
ginally built by the Socialists, being crowded every
Saturday evening by an audience of about 2,060. It is
in connexion with the Northern Mechanics' Institution,
and on Sundays is used as a church, being licensed by
the Bishop during the rebuilding of St. Simon's. During
the week-days, too, it is often rendered serviceable as a
sort of Liverpool Exeter-hall. Among the singers engaged
for the Saturday evening concerts are Miss Hawes, the
Misses Smith, Miss- Romer, Miss S. Venables and her
father; Mr. Braham and his sons; Mr. John Parry, Mr.
Wilson, Mr. Henry Russell, Mr. Edney, &c. &c. Miss
Venables is described as a vocalist of very great promise.
—Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.
The Earl of Auckland received the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Right Honourable Charles and Lady
Mary Wood, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell.
Lord De Manley, the Hon. William Cowper, Mr. Ward,
and a select party to dinner last evening, at the Noble
Earl's official residence at the Admiralty. A small
circle assembled after dinner, when among the visitors
were his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs.
Bancroft, the Countess Grey, Sir George and Lady
Grey, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Seaford and Misses
Hardy, Baron and Lady Parke and Miss Parke, Sir
Richard and Lady B. Phillips, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eliot,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Captain
Moore, Sir Edward Ryan, Captain Eden, Rear-Admiral
Dundas, Lord Dudley Stuart, Colonel Upton' Mr. West,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Montgomery, Sir Charles Adam, Mr.
Adams, Mr. Grenfell, &c.
INGENIOUS SMUGGLlNG.—Yesterday morning a
seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the
St. Katherine's Dock Steam-packet Wharf, by a Custom-
house weigher, named Gaudner. A case of live geese,
brought over from Harlingen in the Magnet steamer,
had been landed from the vessel and was being examined
by the officer, when he thought the geese appeared
unusually tall. He made a more careful scrutiny, and
ascertained that a quantity of hay, forming a false
bottom, had been made, on which the geese were stand-
ing, and on removing that he discovered beneath a
quantity of very thin deal bt yards. These were also re-
moved, and a quantity of &gars, weighing 441b5., were
exposed to view. The case,, geese, twenty-eight in num-
ber, and the cigars, were immediately seized and con-
veyed to the Queen's Ware house.