The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPS.
In the Press, in 3 vols.
FAT H E R EUSTACE;
A TALE OF THE JESUITS.
By Mrs. TEOLLOPE.
Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now Ready,
VOL. VI. OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S
DIARY AND LETTERS.
" The present volume is int a whit inferior to those which have
preceded it. It occupies an interval of nineteen years—from 1793
to 1812."—Atheneum.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Mr. George Bolton. sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING

Will he produced an entirely New and Original Comedy, in five
acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer; Frank Orstan. Mr.
Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob
Slnallwit, Mr. Ocorge Bolton; Sir Robert Folair, Mr. J. Cowell ;
Cancara, Mr. Wilkinson; Lady Bait, Mrs C.Jones ; Fanny Archer,
Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Emily Orstan, Mrs. Gordon.
To conclude with a new grand itALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.
On Thursday will be revived Shakspere's HISTORY OJ' JACK
CADE, as set twth in the " Second Part of Henry VI."
In rehearsal, and shortly to be produced, Beaumont and
Fletcher's Comedy of THE WILD GOOSE CHASE.

DAVLDOE'S ROYAL. SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
First Week of the Witlin Family.
TIIIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Drama, entitled QUENTIN MNTSYS ;
or, The Siege of Antwerp. (lumina Matsys, Mr. Saville ; Williewig,
Mr Reslop ; John Trevalt, Mr. Neville ; Jeanette, Miss Richardson ;
Clementine, Mrs, Saville; Dame, Mrs. W. Daly ; Joan, Miss E.
Terrey.
After wh'cli, a Ballet of Action, entitled DER CHAMOIS
YAGER; or, The Fit ud of Earth. The characters by the Duulin
Family.
To conclude with THE ROVER'S SECRET.

ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Pi ionised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, and Royal Family. Immense attraction. The Champion
Vaulters. Herr Amidio Neuperte, the great Dutch Bottle Equi-
librist. Second Week of the grand successful Magical Spectacle,
introducing the Syrian Camels and Deer.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled TILE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit. In which will be introduced a Wild Stag-Hunt, by
living Deer, and numerous attractive scenic effects.
Entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a favourite AFTERPIECE.
Box-office open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
s-Ale •mmence et half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Broadfoot.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE,

Alteration of Prices. !loxes,
s2s.;__ Half-price, is.; Pit, Is.; Half-

price. 6d. ; Gallery. 3d.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the interesting Drama of the MO(K
WAGE ; or, the Blacksmith's Daughter. In which Miss Vincent
will perform.

After which, THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY; or, The Escapes of
Adelaide of Dress en. Maszzonolo, Mr. Searle ; Karl, Mr. Iloward ;
Patoche, Mr. Forman; Adelaide, Miss Vincent; Claudine, Mrs. Lee.
To conclude with the Burletta of THE MISTAKEN STORY.

THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, NOVEMBER 17.
T tERMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 50.
BAROMETER, 29.94.—W1ND E.N.E., hazy.

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
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-
miration. Unlike their brethren the Spaniards, who
are contented to behold their princesseskidnapped 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-Sght, not in the mobbing
of a deplorable tailor, not in the casting of brickbats
at an ill-starred postillion, but in the hurried assem-
blage of civilians, in sounding the tocsin, in un-
rolling the gonfalon of an outraged country.
Matters are apparently approaching their consum-
mation in Portugal as rapidly as they are doing in
Mexico. The dispersion and discomfiture of the in-
surgent guerillas, at Cintra, is the Monterey of the
Peninsula. Less calamitous, in point of the numbers
killed and wounded, than in the defeat of AMPUDIA, this
recent encounter promises to be equally the forerunner
of some decisive conflict. SALDANHA had bivouacked
at Torres Vedras on the Bth, and was advancing but
slowly from the capital, his intention being similar to
that by which General TAYLOR is actuated in the
Rio Grande, namely, to allow his coadjutors, ScnwAr.-
BACK and CASAL, to combine their forces with those
under his own immediate command. According to
the latest intelligence SALDANHA had reached
Sobral at the very moment that his great
antagonist, Das ANTAS, was situated at Cadaval,
namely, at a distance of merely fourteen miles.
Whether this rumour be veracious or not, it is un-
questionable that the leader of the QUEEN'S troops and
the leader of the insurgent populace were gradually
coming into a somewhat perilous proximity.
A conclusive battle is inevitable, unless
DAS ANTAS forthwith retreats either to Co-
imbra, or Santarem, or even Oporto, by which
movement that sagacious General would enveigle
his opponent into difficulties, from which his extrica-
tion would be almost impossible. SALDANHA would
thereby discover himself in a district most favourable
to the popular cause, and most inimical to that of the
Court party.

Neither SA DA BANDEIRA nor DAS ANTAS have,
according to present intelligence, declared them-
selves favourable to the establishment of a Regency.
Their anathemas are hurled scarcely so much against
Queen MARIA as against that unconstitutional in-
fluence which has latterly usurped the Government.
Their abhorrence is essentially directed against an
Administration which has been forced upon the nation
by an intolerable coup d'etat, and their disgust is
peculiarly excited against that Administration
from their regarding it as identical in prin-
ciple with the obnoxious CABRAL& From, these
circumstances it would consequently appear
that an opening still remains out of these
gigantic difficulties, namely, by the dismi,sal of a
hateful Cabinet, and the guarantee of the mainte-
nance of the liberal principles of the Constitution.
Divers obstacles, however, loom in the future, and
threaten to retard, if they do not actually prevent
this most desirable compromise. On the frontiers of
Portugal a Spanish army is assembled, prepared ap-
parently to invade the insurgent provinces upon the
first emergency. And, as an additional indication of
the disposition of the Legislature of Madrid, we ob-
serve that COSTA CABRAL has been formally ap-
pointed Portuguese envoy in that metropolis, a
proceeding which is singularly significant when it
is remembered how execrable the name of COSTA
CAnnAL 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
different towns to the revolt of the inhabitants of
Cacilhas and Almada, testifies the earnestness with
which the population have adventured upon this im-
portant movement. The community can scarcely
emerge from the struggle scatheless, but it is to be
hoped that their political institutions will be de-
veloped and advanced by this extraordinary revolu-
tion.

The apprehension with respect to the alimentary
condition of Ireland, both as regards its present and
future prospects, continues to engross the minds of
different 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 earnestness of puipose, 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 engage the stateman's attention. No sooner has
one suggestion been disposed of, and abandoned as
altogether illusory, than another political chapman
starts up, and arrogantly offers a choice specimen of
his small wares as the very article which can alone
help the 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. lie happens to have s. 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 what all Downing-street would never have
hit upon without him. Accordingly, he flings the
prodig►y at the Minister's feet, exclaiming " There is
what you want, take it, you are welcome to it." It

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money is demanded for works of a reproductive cha-
racter. Itj is urged that the above requiret....ent 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 qf 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 so 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 barne 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,
to our view, that censurable disproportion between
the two ameliorative forces which Mr. POULETT
SCROPE would infer. Again, bad Parliament been
convened, as the Hon. 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
diminishing the chances of famine, and en-
us with the hope that Ireland will soon be
rapidlyiiyening
happily extricated from her perilous condition.

On the Bth of November the POPE 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 Daats:—

" A letter from Rome, dated the Bth instant, contains
some account of the ceremony of the possesso, which was
celebrated on that day. That ceremory, 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 Mario di Rome
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.
On reaching the gate of St. John of Lateran, the
oldest church in Rome, the Pepe was presented
by the Senator with the keys of the city, the sym-
bol of taking possession of the sovereignty. lie 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 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 that the sentiments attri
bated 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 hand to her in the Italian manner,
saying, in a tone full of kindness and interest A ddio
Madre Marina, addio.'" , ,

must be an agreeable relief to the responsible authori-
ties when they can draw out from amidst the heap of
coxcombical charlatanry, under which their tables
are constantly groaning, any production from a
quarter entitled by position and acquirements to
their respectful attention and serious reflection. Ilia
habits of business, Parliamentary standing, assiduous
discharge of public duties, anti the study which he
has long 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
gentleman, 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. He 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 belief that the present alleviating policy
of the Government is net sufficiently enlarged),
to an extent in which we confess we do not partici-
pate. Mr. POULETT SCROPE advises the Premier
of what 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-
rished, which in the former, would never be enter-
tained. Yet, when we find men like Mr. POULETT
SCROPE favouring a course which, we think,
no prudent Administration would dream of adopt-
ing without the express sanction of the Legislature,
it goes 11.. r 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 in which, by a dispensation of PROVIDENCE,
masses of human beings have become involved.
The gist of the Hon. Member's letter consists in
finding fault with Lord JonN for placing, as he con-
ceives, too much reliance on the voluntary efforts of
the wealthier classes to apply the means for prevent-
ing the starvation of the poor. The Earl of hEs-
nosoucues " vigour beyond the law" is objected to on
account of his requiring "undertakings from each '
and all the several landowners," wherever public 41

The Peninsular steam-packet, which arrived last
evening at Southampton, brings intelligence from
Lisbon of the 11th, two days later than that pub-
lished in our paper of yesterday.
The affair at Cintra does not appear to have been
so decidedly in favour of the QuzEri's troops as had
being
atfirst represented. The peasantry fought
desperately, retreating inch by inch to their moun-
peasant peasantry
extains, which they succeeded in reaching without
leaving any prisoners in the hands of the QUEEN'S
troops. r
onlyh ceased firing because
their ammunition exhausted. IGNACIO DE
13ARaos, their chief, had effected his escape,
rh.e
and was on board the Hibernia. Sc wAL-
HACK was bombarding Evora, which was stoutly
defended by BOMFIN, who was hourly expect-
ing relief. It was reported that SA DA BAN-
DEI It A 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
INTLDE had proceeded to SALDANITA'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.
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 CABRAL has been appointed Ambassador to
the Court of Madrid.
A junction between the Bank and Confianga Com-
pany will shortly take place ; no particulars can be
given for the present.
Exchanges, 53}
coin ; 46i notes. Discount on
notes, 700 rs. No alteration in the Funds.

Madrid papers of the lOth 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 Tienzp, 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 BuEssozes
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,

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to appeal against this decision. We have no doubt
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 BOMA, Nov.lo.—The Three per Cents. were
done on the Madrid Bourse at 33f 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 lire 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, arid a current in a contrary sense cannot fail to
set in. Under such circumstances, the directors could

not participate in the exaggerated fears of some of its
members; 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 laAt 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 MONTPENSIER to make the re-
nunciations required of them.

There was a grand reception at the Marquis of
NORMANBY'S on Friday. According to the Prcsse
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 l'Opera,
on Sunday, at 82f. 70c.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 858 E
75c. ; Northern, 645 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBITA: 16.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Dutch Rhenish, 51A—East
Indian, j4—Louvain ii la Sanihre, I%—Luxembourg,
Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted,
10 lA—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 474—Sambre and Meuse,
4%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, VA.

ALLEGED LUNATICS' FRIEND
SOCIETY.'
70 THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN.

" am desired by the committee of the Alleged
dLunatics' Friend Society" to convey to you their cur-
ial and sincere thanks for your admirable article on the
WWI 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 I3ritish subject
from unjast confinement on the grounds of mental de-
rangement, and for the redress of persons so confined.
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 Noy.,
1846, it was moved by Mr. Bailey, and seconded by Mr.
Se•lby—

"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 da 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 new building society, called the
Kingsland, Dalston, and De Beauvior Town Improved
Building Investment Society aas held in the Downharn-
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.
Tim 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 buttered 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 Admiraty, and will be
brought into play on the first fit occasion. His plan
for building a harbour at Maeduff 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 50,600 L—Scotsman.
SINGULAR CASE OF FRAUD.—Yesterday, at the
Uxbrielge 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, ono dozen of
stockings, by falsely representing that they were for
Lady Sophia 'rower ; 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 Newgatefor

THE CONCERT HALL, LIVERPOOL.--A correspon-
lent has called our attention to the encouragement given
o 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 Blihop 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
Misios 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. min
Venablea is described as a vocalist of very great promise.
—Douglas Jerrohl's Wee* 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,
lion. 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 ShlUGGrazia.--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, lie made a more careful scrutiny, and
ascertained thet a quantity of hay, forming a false
bottom, had been made, on which the geeso were stall'
ing, and on removing that he discovered beneath a
quantity of very thin deal boards, These were also re-
moved, and a quantity of cigars, weighing 441h5.; were I
exposed to view. The case, geese, twenty-eight in num-
ber, and the cigars, were immediately seised and con-
veyed 1,9 the queen's Warehouse.

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