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THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 9.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
E. Ridley, Leicester, linen-draper and mercer, May
30, at one—W. Tiley, Reading, Berkshire, common
brewer, May 30, at half-past one—W. Collins, Rugby,
Warwickshire, tailor, May 30, at half-past one.
In the Country.
A. G. Robinson, Leicester, woolstapler, May 30, at
half-past ten, at the Court, Nottingham—S. Lavington,
Devizes, 'Wiltshire, grocer and tea-dealer, June 6, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Holland, Preston, Lan-
cashire, tallow-chandler and soap-merchant, June 2, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Houston, Whitby
the
,
Yorkshire, hotel-keeper, June 20, at eleven, at
Court, Leeds.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Robinson, Stanwix, Cumberland, cattle-dealer, Is.
lld , on Saturdays, between ten and three, at the office
of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. B. Harrison, Sunderland, draper, 3s. 9d. on Satur-
days, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley
N °lnas tle- upon-Tyne.
G. Charneck, West Derby, Lancashire, baker and
provision-dealer, 3s. 9d., on Wednesdieys, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
J. Blain, Liverpool, stationer, 2s. 9d., on Wednesdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
Brown and Todd. Liverpool, provision dealers, 5d.,
on Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
W. Laycock, Liverpool, iron merchant, is. Bd. on
Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office oeMr.
Morgan, Liverpool.
Golborne and Dobbs, Liverpool, wine merchants, sixth
dividend, Id., on Wednesdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
J. Cheshire, llartford, Cheshire, salt manufacturer,
6d., on Wednesdays, betvreen eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Morgan, Liver pool.
T. Andrews, Southampton, ironmonger, 25., on Tues-
day, May 13, or any. subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, Basinehall-streere
J. Nash and T. Neale, Reigate and Dorking, bankers,
as., on Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22, or any
subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Gefildhall-chambers, Basinghall-
street.
S. Taylor, Staines, csroeser, 3s. 4d., on Tuesday, May
13, or any subsequent'' Tuesday, between eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. femnell, Guildhall-chambers,
Basinghall-street.
B. Angle, Moorfields, victualler, Ba., on Tuesday, May
13, or any subsequent Tuead ay, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Pennell„ Guildhall-chambers, Basing-
hall-street.
C. Scarfe, Hall-street, City-road, timber merchant,
3s. 10d., on Tuesday, !day 13, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven ind two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall-chembierie Baeingball-street.
W. Heygate, Watford end Chardstock, brickmaker,
3s. 4d., on Tuesday, May 13, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and ts ro, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Guildhall-chambers, Basi aghall-street.
A. Mitchell, Cardiff, Xiamorgan, draper and tea
dealer, 11d., on Wednesday, between eleven and one, at
the office of Mr. Hutton, l 3ristol.
NOTICES OF (CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, :Basinghall-street.
J. H. Brown, Norwicl3, wine and spirit merchant,
May 31, at eleven—J. Baletrey, Woolwich, victualler
and hotelkeeper, May 31, e.t twelve—R. Avano,-Canter-
bury, fellmonger, May 30„ at eleven.
In th a Country.
11. Collings, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, farmer, June
3, at eleven, at the Co er t, Bristol—ll. Smith, West
Bromwich, builder and ui tholsterer, June 3, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham a.
CERTIFICA.TES GRANTED.
W. Waterman, Sheffiel (1,, grocer, a certificate of the
first class, 21 days after D ley 3—T. Truly, Bicester, Ox-
fordshire, hardwareman, a certificate of the second class
—W. Neck, jun., Torre,, Devonshire, corn and hay
dealer, a certificate of the second class—T. Tappenden,
Friendly-place, Old Kent/road. tailor, a certificate of
the third class—J. Thom pe on , Piccadilly, linendraper, a
certificate of the third etc 3.
PARTNERSI 11 PS DISSOLVED.
Y. J. Moore and C. R.. , Huxley, Mount-street, Gros-
venor-square, medicated va pour practitioners— J. and G.
Peppiatt, New Norfolk-st ac :et, St Leonard, Shoreditc
J. Hulme and WePowni , Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk
manufacturers—R. Godd at d and J. Hartshorn, Notting-
ham, designers—J. J. oloh, J. S. Margotaon, G. E.
Mitchell, E. Price, and ' V. Welsh, Cheapside and else-
where, stock and brace' m ai mfacturers (so far as regards
the said G. E. Mitchell)- J. Trippett, F. TeGarrettson,
and J. Trippett, Liverpocl, provision merchants (so far
as regards the said F. 'l. Garrettson)—W. Ogden and
J. Eat:field, Lees, Lana shire, cotton spinners—H.
Bright and H. Woodmat ey, Ibncaster, silversmiths—
J. Park and J. A. Dowdi le Fell, Pillgwenlly, Monmouth-
shire, grocers—E. Bilton • and G. Newsome, Somersall,
Yorkshire, plumbers an./ glaziers—L. Smith and D.
Conolly, Manchester, cot cu a manufacturers—J. Rabone,
J. Rabone, jun., and W. F. i. Rabone, Birmingham, rule
manufacturers (so far a s regards the said W. H.
Rabone)—T. Black, R. I booth, J. W. Speed, and W.
Glover, Salford, Lancasl iii le starch and gum manufac-
turers—G. A. Levick an .d J. M. Dolby, Market Rosen,
Lincolnshire, chemists at id. druggists—J. W. Hollings-
worth and J. T. Holli Agsworth, Watford, Hertford,
butchers—G. Myers and IA. Wolff, Birmingham, cigar
manufacturers—J. Gum brell, sen., and J. Gambrel!,
jun., Dunsfold, Surrey, an mers—W. Whitaker and A.
Porter, Coopers-row, To Neer-hill, wine and spirit mer-
chants—J. Perry and G. F. Bloxsome, Eaton-square and
Ecclestoe-street, Pimlico , surgeons.
INSOLVEN P PETITIONERS.
Alfred Green, Ramsgatt Kent, journeyman cabinet-
maker.
Robert Hills, Isle of Ely, (Cambridgeshire, farmer.
Frederick John Clark, DJ tildeuha,ll, Suffolk.
George Feat, Ramsgate, B .ent.
Robert Barton, Walsall, Staffordshire.
Thomas Ackling, High% rth, Wiltshire, general shop
keeper.
Thomas Knights, Lowos to it, Suffolk, coal-dealer.
Ann Bloxham, Southern; W firer. ickshire, licensed victualler.
John Goodenough, Lear aington Priors, Warwickshire,
carpenter.
William ripp, Binfield, il
T lerkehire, licensed victualler.
William Tindale, Askew. , Yorkshire, farm servant.
John Johnson, East Hart ;ley, Yorkshire, farmer.
Charles Lister, Green Hal ietnerton,Yorkehire, stonemason.
Thomas George, Oxford, tin-plate worker.
William Graty,Shrewsbe ry, carpenter.
Thomas Dennis, Terringt en St. John's, Norfolk, butcher.
John Norton, Blue-town, lisle of Sheppy, Kent, Inland
Revenue officer.
John Martin, Chew Stoke e Somersetshire, farmer.
Charles Slingsby, Wintrir them, Lincolnshire, ship car-
penter.
Robert East. Winterton, I incolnshire, common carrier.
William Mating Quy, Car, !tun, Cambridgeshire, licensed
victualler.
Armstrong, Great Fh tleorough, Suffolk, carpenter.
William Clayton,
Burton-i en-Humber, Lincolnshire,
shoemaker.

METROPOLITAN SATION.
NITARY ASSO-
CIA
On Saturday evening the Metropolitan Sanitary As-
sociation and the friends of sanitary reform held their
first public festival at Gore House, Kensington, under
the auspices of M. Soyer, who, for the first time, threw
open the portals of his universal symposium for the en-
tertainment of a public body. The banquet was laid out
in the baronial hall in the grounds, which was elegantly
fitted up for the occasion. The walls were hung with a
number of paintings, the productions of Madame Soyer.
Behind the chairman was a trophy emblematical of the
grand banquet supplied by M. Soyer, at York, to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the mayors of the
different English cities and boroughs. Chinese lanterns,
suspended from the ceiling, diffused a mellow and
pleasant light over the brilliant pageant below, and the
tables were decorated with a profusion of plate, rare ex-
otics in vases, and silvered mirror globes which multi-
plied and reflected the brilliant scene. A military band
was in attendance, but concealed from the view of the
spectators, and the gallery at the end of the hall was
filled with ladies.
The chair was occupied by the Earl of Carlisle, and
on either side were the Right Rev, the Bishop of Ripon,
the Right Hon. Viscount Ebrington, M.P.; Dr. Wilson;
the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.; the
Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P.; Lord Moreton; B.
Bond Cabbell, Esq, M.P.; Hon. .F. Cowper, M.P.;
H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P.; R. A. Slaney, Esq.. M.P.; W.
Ewart, Esq., M.P.; W. J. Evelyn, Esq., M.P.; ft. G.
Babington, Esq., M.D.; W. Baker, Esq., coroner for
Middlesex; Charles Cochrane, Eiq.; J. W. Barnett,
Esq.; Sir B. Brodie; George taraikshank, Eat.;
Charles Dickens, Esq.; Rev. J. G. Driffield; Hon.
Dudley F. Fortescue; George Godivin, F.R.S.•' R. Da
Grainger F.R.S.; Rev. H. Howarth; Colin lgttelteOzie,
Esq.; J. C. Morris, Esq., F.R.S.; J.'S. Rammelll
F.G.S.; H. Roberts, F.S.A.; Wilimffi Rogers. RN..
barrister-at-law; Dr. J. Southwood Smith; H. R. Wil-
liams. Eaq.;_ M. W. Lusigasn, M. A.; Adolphus Bar-
nett, Eeq., M.P., and about 170 other gentlemen.
The banquet was one every way characteristic of the
high artistic and culinary character of M. Soyer—the
wines were unexceptionable, the champagne ienirFippi,
and all the accessories in excellent taste.
Mr. Harker officiated as toast-master.
The Noble CHAIRMAN gave " The Health of her Mae
jesty the Queen, His " His Royal Highness Prince Albert
and the rest of the Royal Family," adverting to the
great interest his Royal Highness had always taken in
promoting the sanitary improvement of the dwellings of
the working classes. "The Church," which was re-
sponded to by the Bishop of Ripon—" The Army and
Navy," responded to by Dr. Gilchrist.
The CHAIRMAN sad—My Lords and Gentleman, in
calling your attention to the present subject, I feel that
there is one thing above all others I ought to bear in
mind, and that is, to commit no trespass against the re-
cognised laws of health. Now an address after dinner
of undue length would, I am convinced, undoubtedly be
such a trespass—(A laugh)—bad, perhaps, for the diges-
tion and almost dangerous, and on the part of those who
hear it, calculated to disturb that placidity of temper
which we are told ought to follow, especially upon such
a meal as that of which we have just partaken.—(Hear,
hear.) I think we shall find in Shakspere, who always
hits the right nail on the head, that the true thing to
wish for on these occasions is " may good digestion wait
on appetite cud health on both."—(Cheers.) I feel,
moreover, that it is not for me to impress on such a
company as this, which, by its very presence, gives an
assurance of its own conviction, the importance
and dienity of what is called the sanitary cause—
(Cheers)—a cause which has its business with
deaths that may be prevented—(Hear, hear)—
since, as we know, in districts where from accident more
favourable sanitary condition exists, these deaths do not
occur—(near)—With deaths arising from epidemic and
contagious diseases, which amount to some 50,000 in the
course of every year—(Bear)—with deaths consequently
outstripping in numbers the carnage of th© most destruc-
tive campaigns and the most protracted wars—with
deaths, moreover, which strikes down those whom our
modern warfare especially saves, and cuts off one-half in
some districts of all who are born before they reach five
years of age—with deaths, in fine, which threaten all,
but especially those who fill the many walks of humble
life.—(Loud cheers.) Such a cause as this is surely one
of solemn importance, which we should do all we can to
increase in the appreciation of all classes. I have alluded
to the claims and the dangers of humble labour. We
have, indeed, close to where we sit, a remarkable build-
ing, which is in itself a shrine of labour, but while we
gaze on the large area of its vast extent, on the won-
drous results of its harmonious and completed combina-
tions, on all their gorgeous magnificence, let us
not refrain from tracing them back to that
crowded workshop, that damp 9 cellar, and that
stifling garret, in which so much of that col-
lected mass of ingenuity and splendour has
been elaborated.—(Loud cheers.) And we shall derive,
perhaps, not the least precious lesson which the Crystal
Palace itself, in all its complicated maturity, and in all
its glittering unity, can teach, if, transferring our care
from the work to the workmen, wherever it may be his
lot to weave the slender thread or guide the ductile
metal, we study as best we can to surround the scene of
his daily labour with some portion of +the decencies, the
comforts, and the enjoyments with which he so plenti-
fully enriches our own.—(Loud cheerieg ) There is too
much reason to fear that the stimulus of drink is often
mayde
r borrow
discussion,a n o
resorted to us a diversion to the depressing effects of an
uncleanly house or a polluted ateeosphere.—(Hear,
hear.) And it is well known that the typhus foyer se-
lects a large proportion of its victims
—(Hear,theif hilmeammaea)dyiaAtkend,
fromwi c
htfrom among the
adult population, and in the full vigour of bodily labour.
so speak, must still linger on your
another
and
hintthe
place in which we are met, and the recollection of
subjectif I
under
mioarrkthethsautbsntaonthaianlgandcainnvbigeosroatinligtticieuslanintiietas
palates—(Cheers and a laugh)—l 'Maid beg to re-
cookery.—(Great laughter.) I am not without reverence
isdpenifirgeil
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I would observe that our worthy host heee,
with respect to our culinary character we are somewhat
M. Soyer,
hasalready
an
exercisingaduiirableditshpeoiseitmioonretoenter
upon a career in which I really think he may do sub-
stantialbesides
recon-
dite mysteries, which qualify him to take his place
with Vatel, Ude, and Careme, he should" communicate
to our English kitchens some of those arts which would
render them at once more cheap and more versatile than
they have hitherto been.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
I believe it will be found au almost unfailing rule that
the best articles and the best methods aro in the long
run the moat economical. And if this were the fitting
opportunity I believe it could be satisfactorily shown
that the sanitary cause rests its claim to public support
as triumphantly upon the ground of financial and econo-
mical reform as upon any other. After soiree further
remarks, the Noble Chairman gave " The Metropolitan
Sanitary Commissioners."
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Lord R. GROSVENOR. said—Gentlemen, some twenty
years net) I joined that almost forlorn hope, the So-
ciety of ago Improvement. This I may say,
was really a forlorn hope at that time, for we, had to at-
teke a frightful mass of evil, which we have been gra-
dually overcoming ever since. However, lam happy to
say, in the language of the lawyers, that there is another
gentleman reboot to follow on my side who really has
taken upon himself the pr.nc_pal burden of the acting
committee of this association, I mean the Rev. Mr.
Hume, who is much more able than lam to th,e•ow souse
light on, and to give some notion of the proceedings of
this society. Before I will permit him to fellow me, as
I sin senior in, the Cass, I beg to be permitted to say a
few words in reference to the immediate question before
us. I say that, viewing the state of things as they
existed twenty years ago, and as they now are, I must
be permitted to congratulate you on the position you
now occupy. You have obtained the prohibition of
Parliament to intramural interments. Do not then
say that this society has been called together for no
purpose. You have obtained the abolition of the in-
come-tax—(Loud laughter)-,4 mean you have ob-
tained the abolition of the windoav-tax.—(Loud cheers.)
Gentlemen, you arc very powerful, but I do not quite
think that you have arrived at the amount of steam
power which I had attributed to you when I said that
you have obtained the abolition of the income-tax. It was
lapsus linyucc. But you have accomplished, after all,
ta
hat which is more important as regards sanitary matters
—I neeau the abolition of the window-tax.—(Cheers.)
You haVe, besides that, obtained somespeet of arean-
tinuow, supply: of goed and whole water; I
twat that we shall not be disappointed in our expecta-
tions upon this head—namely, a continuous supply of
the purest water to tee poorest classes in the metropolis.
And you have nearly obtained another thing, and I trust we
shall get it; but, to follow the advice of Lord Castlereagh,
"We should not hullo° until we are out of the wood.' I
refer to the abolition of one of the greatest nuisances we
have to complain o threat this town. I hope that you will
obtain this boon— the decent and respectable lan-
guage of the cattle drivers shall not be any longer heard
in the streets of this metropolis—(C
to heers
the u)—that that
agreeable titillation which is appliedunfortunate
animals that are driven to Smithfield shallf not be per-
mitted any longer---that that :peculiar perfume which is
engendered by the congregation of so much cattle shall
be removed—and that the sewers of the citizens near
that locality shall be no longer overpowered by the
filth that is distributed All t immediate vicinity of
Smithfield Market. All these advantages you
obtained; but you have not
have obtained, or nearly
quite obtained all yet. There is something Oil ee be
sought after. I do offer you my sincere congratula-
tions upon the altered position in which you now stand
to that which you occupied when I first joined your
association. The Noble Lord concluded by wishing
every success to the Metropolitan Sanitary Associa-
tion.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. HumE also acknowledged the toast.
Lord CARLISLE then gave "The Sanitary Reformers
in Parliament."
Viscount EDRINGTON would not say he wished the
duty of responding to the toast had fallen upon a greate
veteran in the service, for although Lord Robert Gros-
venor had said that twenty years ago he had joined
societies established for the purpose of sanitary reform;
he believed he might say, that prior to the year 1841,

the year in which he first entered Parliament, the cause
of sanitary reform could not be considered to have be-
come a Parliamentary question. Although allusion
was made in the reports relating to the factory question.
and the papers connected therewith, to the health of
factory workers and their dwellings, all of which re-
marks originated in the almost prophetic sagacity of
that invaluable friend of his whose name was almost
indissolubly besind up with sanitary reform (he
meant Mr. Chadwick), and although in some of the
poor-law reports remarks were to bo found, indeed he
might say, very elaborate reports, by Dr. Southwood.
Smith and others, of the amount of preventable
disease and death arising from want of proper
drainage, and although calculations had been actually
made as to the cost of the requisite alterations, yet he
believed that previous to the completion of the inquiry
into the sanitary condition of the metropolis, and indeed
of the whole kingdom of Great Britain (he feared Ire-
land was not included), which was instituted by the
Bishop of London in 1839, he believed, he said, that
prior to that inquiry no view had been presented to
Parliament of sanitary reform as a social and religious
question. He believed that until that time the public
had not been made aware that pestilence and death—
the great check to population—were two of the greatest
scourges under which the labouring and industrial
classes of the population were suffering, and were two
of the main causes of distress among those classes.
Until then they did not seem to be aware, or the fact
had not struck them, that next to a criminal population
the most expensive was a diseased population. He said
that since he entered Parliament a mighty
change had been effected throughout the civilised
world in the view taken of this question. -He duly
appreciated the difficulty in which the :GovernMent
was placed. < He; admitted that to deal with, the " august
monopolies," and the " concentrated ignorance," strong
pressure from without was required; but he could not
help reminding gentlemen present that they were the
Metropolitan Sanitary Reform Association, and that it
was from them that the necessary pressure must come, '
and such a pressure, moreover, as would cause this me-
tropolis to be dealt with in the same manner in which
less important places were dealt with. To effect the
thorough drainage of this metropolis he thought was im-
possible while the duty was entrusted to a large and un-
paid body of commissioners, who as long as they were
unpaid, and had other business to attend to, would never
execute what was required from them. A regular paid
body was necessary for this; and also, he might add, that
until the privilege of supplying this great city with
water was placed upon such a footing that it was no
longer in the hands of persons who could make it a
commercial speculation, he feared that even a paid
board could do nothing. In conclusion, the Noble Lord
thanked the company in the names of the sanitary re-
formers in Parliament, and begged to assure them
that he for one, so long as he remained a Member of
Parliament, would de his duty in the cause which they
had met to commemorate. The Noble Lord sat down
amidst loud cheers.
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, in proposing " The Board of
Health," said he was placed in that awkward position
which involved the necessity (if he faced the chairman)
of turning his back upon the company; and if he faced
the company he must necessarily turn his back upon the
Noble Chairman—(Laughter)—but as the company
formed the majority, he thought, with the chairman's
permission, he should pursue the wisest course by turn-
ing to the more numerous body, especially as he thought
that course would be most acceptable to the chairman
himself. Few were the words which were left for him
to say to them, either upon the need there was for sani-
tary reform, or as to the usefulness of the Metropolitan
Association. No man could estimate the amount of mis-
chief which was born of dirt ; no man could sav it
stopped here or there in its moral or physical e&cts,
when bath were begun in the cradle and were not at
rest in the miserable grave.—(Hear, hear.) The air
that was generated iu Gin-lane would be carried by a
stray wind into „May-fair ; and when pestilence raged
in St. Giles's no list of lady patronesses, however long,
could keep it out of Almack's.—(Hear, hear.) Twelve
or fifteen years ago, some of the valuable reports of
Mr. Chadwick and Dr. Southwood Smith much enlarged
his (Mr. Dickens's) previously imperfect knowledge
of those truths, and made him earnest in his sphere
of helping on the sanitary cause. He could honestly
declare that all the use he had since made of his eyes
and nose—(Laughter)—had only strengthened his con-
victions that a searching sanitary reform must precede
all other remedies, and that even religion could ,do
nothing until the way was paved by cleanliness and de-
cency.—(Cheers.) He did not want authority for that
opinion. The speech of the Right Rev. Prelate (the
Bishop of Ripon), who was a true sanitary reformer,
they could have hardly listened to without emotion. Of
what utility was it to send missionaries to masses of
miserable men and women condemned to live, degraded
and filthy in their persons and habits, in the most
wretched holes and dens? Patting himself in the posi-
tion of one of those poor benighted and neglected persons
he would ask what natural chord of feeling remained
in his bosom? Was it the remembrance of his children?
That remembrance was of sickness, distortions, scrofula,
and fever. Had it reference to his hopes, latent
hopes, of immortally? He was so surrounded with
material filth, that his soul could not rise to the contem-
plation of immortality. Or, supposing he was a mise-
rable child, bred and nurtured in some noisome place,
and admitted in these better days into a ragged school,
what could the few hours' teaching that they gave him
even there do for him against the force of the vicious
and ever-renewadt example of his whole existence.—
(Hear,' hear.) Give him his first glimpse of heaven
through a little of its light and air.—(Loud cheers.)
Give him water—help him to be clean; lighten this
heavy atmosphere in which his spirit flagged, and in
which he became the indifferent and callous creature
that they saw him. Gently and kindly take the dear
body of his relation out of that close room in which he
grew to be so familiar with the change of death, that
even its sanctity was lost amid the surrounding filth and
squalor, and then he would listen—oh, how willingly—
of Him whose thoughts were so much with the poor,
and who had compassion for all of human suffering.—
(Applause.) The toast he (Mr. Dickens) had to pro-
pose was, the health of those without whose assistance
that which was so much to be desired could never be
carried into effect. His toast was " The Board of Health,"
and while recommending this toast to their notice he
would make a passing allusion to the transparent palace
so near them, which was an illustration of the fact that
no great thing can ever be done without a quantity of
abuse and a number of absurd rumours being heaped
upon it. They had, no doubt, all heard of that unfor-
tunately always-in-difficulties and never-to-be-too-
much-respected lady, and his very old friend, " the
unprotected Female."—(Laughter.) At a family
dinner party, where he last heard from that venerated
lady, she was seriously alarmed for the sparrows in
Mr. Paxton's glass-palace, for she mysteriously hinted
that certain wits of gunpowder had been smuggled into
the Exhibition under the semblance of coffee.—
(Laughter.) Those dark hints of the old lady were very
much of a piece with the names which had been applied
to the Board of Health. That Board had been called a
Board of " centralization," and, therefore, it was con-
demned. He thought that in the time of the cholera
the public had a pretty good opportunity of judging
between this so-called centralization and what be might,
be thought, call " vestrylizetion."— (Loud laughter.) He
dared to say that the company present had read the re-
ports of the Cholera Board of Health, and he dared to
say they had also read reports of certain vestries.—
(Laughter.) He had the honour of belonging to a con-
stituency which clec:ed that amazing body—the Mary-
lebone Vestry--(Laughter)—and he thought that if the
company present would look to what was done by the
Board of Health at Glasgow, and then contrast those
proceedings with the wonderful cleverness with which
affairs were managed at the same period in the parish of
Marylebone, there would be very little difficulty in judg-
ing between them. His (Mr. Dicken's) pet vestry even
took upon itself to deny the existence of cholera
as a weak invention of the enemy (Loud
laughter) —and although that stout denial had, unfor-
tunately, had no effect in stopping the ravages of the
pestilence, still it would now serve as an example to
show gentlemen what was the meaning of " vestrylize-
tion "as distinguished from " centralization." There
was another word, also, which had been wed in accus-
ing the Board of Health—he meant " delay." In this
accusation there might be some truth; but he souls,
just in defence of the Board, suggest to them
somewhat in point. Let them suppose a good chornot;
meter, which would not go when its master forgotw as
wind it up. Now he thought the Board of Health
not be put in motion
feet order, but the machine could
d had fallen
iannxaieshoms
desire to
tosim"iglaor,,,perlelditchaememnete;
from the fact that its gentle lord a mastsn up. Lord R.
into a slumber, and forgot htil ee rt.;
was a. s allnp e
f r- Let
or sanitary re orme e.
would make a capital adage f
a out of the Woods—and
them not halloo before they
h
Boardwer
Forests.—(Laughter.)Lord Castlereagh,
Grosvenorpenethahlaledeaulleutdiledyetou,aasraeyteinegtweolfn.f
He would give them the Board
ld
of a Noble Lord, of whose
couple with it the name
benevolence no man could doubt,
for to
the
earaestness in works of benevo
e the cant, which was the
and who had the courage to fac
the cant of
pleasant predicament thafrt."te could not stir until it was set
commonesta-go g b y tohf he
all,etohmeme
ai sns olanbeo.t
bo f
beingNi Y o d
Health,s nedeFddowr ee set
Boyardof riaettolwthe
re-
turncompliment which had just been paid to them.—(Ceeers.)
t pleasure in considering that it was to the
He bad grea
• of that board that they owed—through the great
exertions
talent of those who had taken up the cause—the many
mprovements which had taken place in the condition of
Lord
eAuskusaoane
behalf
alf honouredo
f the
the people during the last few years—(Cheers)-118 he
believed it was principally owing to the exertions of that
body that the sympathy and interest of the public had
been enlisted in their cause. He would not dilate upon
these exertions, but he would refer to the reports which
had emanated from the Board of Health, to show the
interests which they had taken in promoting the best in-
terests of the people.—(Cheers.) He ha for many
years studied the reports upon these subjects with the
greatest interest, and he must admit that he was sur-
prised to find the little ettehtion which was paid te the
reports of Dr. Southwood Smith and others relative to
them.—(Hear, bear.) He was:pleased by the mention
which had been made by the Board of Health, because h©

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By the arrival of the Great Western steam-ship, be.
longing to the Royal West Lite Mail Steam-packet
Company, a few days since at the net of Southampton,
an immense quantity of gold from California was brought
to this country, and which was consigned to the Bank
of England. The gold, principally dnst, was enclosed
in tin canisters, which were again enclosed in small
wooden boxes, about 18 inches long, 7 or 8 inches
broad, and 6 deep, the average weight of each box being
half a cwt. On Thursday 157 of these boxes were un-
shipped from the Great Western, and placed in four
railway trucks by the servants of the Southampton-
docks, and the packing superintended by officials of the
West India Mail Company, and two clerks, as under-
stood by the informant, attached to the Bank of Eng-
land. The four trucks were properly " sheeted" and
made secure before leaving the Dock Company's pre-
mises, and before they were attached to tho ordinary
goods train for London, they were separately placed on
the weighing bridge at the Southampton station of the
South-Western Railway, the weight of each being
taken. The usual time for the goods up-train starting
was eight o'clock, but from some delay it did not
leave Southampton until nine o'clock. It is customary
when property of a valuable description is not insured
and taken by the ordinary goods trains, for the per-
sons who are acting as agents for the owners or con-
signees to ride in the trucks containing the property.
This custom, however, was departed from-by the four
gentlemen who were in charge of the gold-dust
amounting in value, it is said, to a million and a half,
and they occupied a first class carriage. which was next
to trucks containing the treasure. Those gentleman
were—Mr. Beard, Mr. 13eardmore, Mr. Winchip, and a
Mr. Quirk. Two of the gentlemen are clerks in the
Bank of England, and Mr. Winchip has been for eight
or nine years past frequently intrusted with the convey-
ance of very valuable property. It had been remarked
as a singular fact that the parties in charge of the four
trucks wore most pressing on the guard and his breaks-
man to go and get something to drink at the different
stations which the train stopped at, commencing with
Bishopstocke, six miles from Southampton. The guard
did have, as also his brcaksman, something to drink at
Basingstoke, and at a station some further distance on,
but both men were sober when the train arrived at
Nine Elms, which was about three o'clock on Friday
morning. Between five, and six, o'clock the seine
morning Mr. Thorne, the night superintendent of the
goods traffic, found that three of the boxes containing
the gold-dust were missing, and 'the aid of the local
police was called in, and Thomas Bent, a detective
constable of the metropolitan police, but attached solely
to the South-Western Railway, was soon upon
the spot. The boxes missing wore severally
marked—the first, "B." on the top, and " N.M.R." on
the bottom, and weighed 531 b. ; the second was marked
" C. M." upwards, and " J. J. C." underneath—this box
weighed 391 b. 120 z.; the 'third box had written on it
" D. Dunbar and Son," had no weight marked, but was
valued at 6,500 dolls. After the gold had been removed
from the truck whence the boxes were supposed to have
been taken, the truck was loaded with iron to the same
weight as the gold taken out, and Mr. Bent, Mr. Thorne,
and Sergeant Eastman, of theil division, took the truck
by special engine to Southampton, where it was put upon
the weighing-bridge, and the weights tallied, thus prov-
ing incontestably that the three boxes of gold-dust were
not in the truck when it left Southampton, or there would
have been a deficiency. They then returned to Londen,
and information was sent to all the stations between Nine
Elms and Southampton to search the intervening spaces,
and at a late hour on Friday night information Was
received that the box directed to " D. Dunbar algid
Son" Son" had been discovered by a boy on the bank
of the railway near Winchester station, and unopened,
and that a man was in custody on suspicion of being
concerned in the stealing of it. On Saturday, William
Plankin, a middle-aged and respectably attired man, wso
described himself as a tailor, living in Earl-street, Soho,
was taken before the Mayor and several other magistrates
at Winchester Town-hallitMr. Crombie appearing for
the South-Western Railway Company, and Mr. Duffell,
the superintendent at the Southampton-docks, was also
in attendance. The evidence given was to the effect
that on Friday afternoon a boy, the son of a licensed
victualler, whose house is near the Winchester station,
was looking for birds' nests on the railway bank near the
station, when he discovered the box partly hid by a bush.
He took it home, and his father wont with him to the
station, and Gradidge, the railway policeman, suggested
that a watch should be kept near the spot, which was
done, and as Ws as half-past 11 o'clock that night the
prisoner came to the spot, and the constable took him
into custody. The box had not been replaced, and whim
the prisoner wai asked why he was there, he
said he had lost his way in going to the station.
On being questioned by Inspector Field, one of
the detective officers, who is specially employed in this
mysterious affair by the South Western Railway Com-
pany, he said he lived in Earl-street, Soho, and which
has subsequently proved so be correct; that he was a
tailor, and came down to Winchester by the train which
leaves Waterloo station at 1 r.lu.; but it was proved At
the examination he was seen in Winchester before the
arrival of that train. He said his object was to look
for work, but he had not asked a single person, although
he went to the public-house kept by the boy's fathhr
who found the box, where he partook of bread and
cheese, and afterwards to another inn, where he had a
chop, and said ha had unfortunately lost the 2 o'clock
up-train; but there is no train leaves Winchester at that
hour.
The prisoner declared his innocence before the Mayor,
who considered the circumstances sufficiently suspicious
to remand him.
A large body of the city detective police are posted cin
the various roads leading from Sauthampton and othi r
places to prevent, if possible, any of the missing properly
finding its way to the metropolis through that channel:;

ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB.
The first match this season of the Royal London
Yacht Club came off ou Saturday last, the course being,
us usual, from Blackwell Reach, round a flag-boat
moored off Gravesend, and back to the starting point.
The contest was for the Challenge Cup, presented to the
club by Mr. J. T. Hewes, which was won last year by
the Frolic, belonging to Mr. A. Cox. It was a time
match; yachts exceeding ten tons allowing a minute to
ail not exceeding that tonnage, and half a minute to
those exceeding it; yachts under ten tons allowing half
4 minute to those of lesser tonnage.
The morning was beautifully fine, and the temperature
genial, so that it would have been surprising indeed if
there bad not been a large muster of the members of the
club and their friends (amongst whom were a large
number of ladies) to witness the match. The party ac-
companied the ) uhts in the Meteor steam-boat, on
boi.cd which every arrangement (including the engage-
ment of the Royal Artillery band) had been made for
their comfort, convenience, and enjoyment. Several
yachts belonging to members of the club, including the
commodore's yacht Avalon, were cruising about the
river, their graceful forms, light and fragile rigging, and
spotless canvass, flitting to and fro in the bright sun-
shine, and bending gracefully to the fresh breeze, con-
trasting strongly with the heavier and more sombre.
looking vessels of our warlike or mercantile marine, and
certainly, as we thought, harmonising much better, in
this " merry month of May," with the picturesque
scenery with which either batik of the Thames abounds.
Seven yachts had been entered for the match, but only
six came to " the starting post," a point in Blackwell-
reach, a few hundred yards above the railway pier.
They took their places in the following order, beginning
from the Blackwell side of the river:—
Traveller lO tons Mr. G. 11. Jackson, owner
Whisper
Mazeppa l2 „ Mr. Chas. Bromley ~
Phantom

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Naval Commander-in-Chief, at Portsmouth, AA-
miral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., returned froin
—The: i H
following,D E a
short leave of absence to attend her Majesty's state ball,
t3tEaucnolrrea.-
on Saturday evening, and his flag was re-hoisted On
nor CduAtrer
junlyK2ii,o,ict;
board the Victory.
which took place vory
pondent:—
of the Firebrand, s.team•ft igate,
I am sorry to report the death of Captain T. 0. Knox,
unexpectedly on the morning of Wednesday. Deceased
was a little indis a pose_ on the Wednesday preceding, but
had recovered. On Sunday, it would soem, he bad ex-
posed himself to o draught, when a violent rheumatic
attack ensued, which flew to the he fo.rFoinTuaEmFar
art on the morning
referred to, about two o'clock, Ax., and terminated
fatally.
The vaconcies which by this calamity fall to the Q'i'
1 of Sir win. Parker hav3 been thus filled u -I't
mender E. Codd, Queen, to be Captain, with pa:—Com-
appointment to Firebrand; Lieut. the Ho t il
actit4
las, Sir W. Parker's son-inlaw, to
n. Ir. Doug-
be a Lola
• mender
vice Codd; and a nephew of ::;i
._.-r Jalllei St. • s
Stirling, mate of the Queen, to be lieutenant,irltng, Mr. C.
Doug-
las, promoted. vice
Captain Knox was a first-rate officer, and
the corn
maul of the Fireband was his firs
cap,-
aim t employment as cap,aim

„ ..
Frolic ....... .... 12 „ Mr. A. Cox •Of
Mouse ............ 15 „ Mr. G. E. Brown ft
The start, which took place about twenty minutes past
_ .

_ .
eleven o'clock, was a very good one, the Mazeppa get-
ting away first. She did not, however, long retain the
first position, as the Frolic led round the point, pretty
closely followed by the Phantom and Whisper. As the
wind at starting was a few points to the east of north
(blowing freshly), the qualities of the boats for besting .
to windward, rather than for " going free," were_hese
played in the eialy part of the match. Of course
of
are tho circumstances under which the sear°
the crews would be most tested. As
judge, and we believe also in the opinion onao.,__,,
they
fitted than we are to judge of matEtlearsmost Lice'
creditable
one and all acquitted themselvehse match the Phantom
f u f oatshet'vrrnse bceotut el could
manner. During this part ofl. t
:veil h 11,
(arivhaienhtagaernotihowever,ad considerably
thepetahke
e way, and the time lost in
halyards of the Phantembegra
far into the retc of her more
refitting of course threw passed
N or t h the
WForvou
lave Frolic then became first, and
immediate rivals. .
rlrthe veering of the wind and the
kept the lead
As Soon as it became a matter of
eetn ef th,o nt
alteration in the course of the river, changed the char-
cr°atheCr than " beating," the Whisper drew
1, and succeded in passing her in Gal.
h in continually increasing her lead from
pos7a.reac-, and. . .
of .
' i t until the termination the match. As soon
that P"°. m had refitted she began
;rot l'hieurgiive
La the Pliant° _ to draw very
t ;zt upon the Frolic, so that before the yachts reached
Gravesend it bi.came pretty clear that she would, even
after her disaster, obtain the second place. The fol-
lowing was the order and the times et which the
yaelits came up to the flog-bent :

b. m. s.
Whisper '•• •• • ... 1 55 45
Frolic ... ... ~. 2 430
...
Phantom ... ...
... .2 7 22
Alawlpa •• ••• ..• " 10 30
..
The Frolic roundtd• the boat in much the best style;
neither the Whisper nor Frulic lay sufficiently to wind-
ward, and therefore Ind to make a short tack beforened
they could get round. The contest was now confined
to those tour yachts, the Mouse having conrohrtu-
b, been unto her
least ill Ilitifw4y-reach,
nately thrown out of the match by Carr sing 74 giVen
up, on finding it hopeless to struggle I
vvnitsiderably, the
and the Tiaveller
.11., ohl:r
swifter
rivals. The breeze having fallen off
vessels, alter rounding the boat, crowed e"Tbe phantom
CO
every, rossible
sail, for the long free run before tbernw•hich
she
passed
Wish the lead of
place in the posi-
now rapidly gained upon the Frolcic,eim
shout Puttleet, though she did
enotook
the W hisper. No other ehan,g, r
__. up the river
present
tions of the yachts, nor didetn3hark.u" v
The in!eret of the
any features calling firoroe„d by the falling off of the
match way in lac' muel-'er's of rain in the latter part of
wind, and several shoat
detracted from the pleasure of
the afternoon somewhat
the trip. re the order and the times at which
The following were
the uni
"w i •ng post:"—
the vessels came yr
is. in. s.
whi,per••• ••• ••• ... 454 10
ebae_o
t zu • ••• ... 5 7 20
Frolic ••• ••• ••• ... 5 9 30
Maz*Pa••• ••• ... ... 5 16 30
Although the Frolic came in third,
because,
match, which we have given above,
second, as will be seen by the terms of the
she was placed
a greater allowance from the Phantom on account of
sizc, than the dit7areuee in their times of coming fn.
~_. T.
she was entitled to
Immediately alter the termination of the race. Mr.
Goodson, the commodore of the club, in a coT_P_lie.ge.7/
i n the
speech, presented the cup to Mr. Thomas TeL
at the ter-
owner of the Whisper, in whose posse.esasii:O;ia it will of
course remain during the the ensuing )
mination of which another contest will decide whether it,,,,
text )ear into
shall become his property or pass fre.rvaL,7 "
the hands of some mere tertiult

Captain Codd, promoted to the vacancy, is a corn.
mangler of 1844, and lieutenant of 1834. He was lieu-
tenant of the Talbot, 26, at St. Jean d'Acre.
Commander Douglas is a lieutenant of 1844, and was
the third lieutenant of the flag-ship.
Retired Commander William Johnson (b) 1850,
lieutenant of 1810, died recently in Canada.
On the report of survey on the Alert, brig of 8 gun',
at Devonport, the estimate for her repair being more
thaw
her original cost, their Lordships ordered her to
be broken up.
k•in
The survey on the Cambrian, 40, in No. 3 doe • •
Devonport Dockyard, by the three master shipwri letedghts,
Messrs. Edye, Laire, and Abethell, has beau comp,
and their report forwarded to the. commodore super for
in-
tendent. Messrs. Laire and Abethell left Davonport
their respective yards.
Hecate, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Han.d, arrived at ,
Spithead on Saturday, and afterwards went int_o harbour.
,i MAGISTRATES'
Avon, steamer-tender to the admiral at Devoupori
.. The labourer is worthy of
CLmms.--The notion of placing
magistrates' clerks upon salary is another of the unsound
arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday morning, with ,°14.", „.„_,
" fits and fancies" of the day.
supernumeraries for the Prince Regent, &c. his hire," and why, therefore, in,the name of common sense
Tug FIRST CAPTURE OF THE PENGUIN.-011 a for. . and of justice, are maga.itrates cideris to be deprived of a
•6, Commander portion of ht b their ta'
tike
a intrtestgltlenZe due to
mer occasion we stated that the Penguin
Etheridge, left Sierra Leone. for the southward on the In msny instance. 119,3'
the poverty of complainants, where
12th of March. After helping the Athol, store-ship, them (in consequeucOal
which had touched the ground, and returning with li, r a defendant
' goes to gaol), and in many. other instances they-
to Sierra Leone, she started again on a cruise. On the to be salaried, and sarrender a portion
morning of the 30th, at daylight, she sighted a suspi- get no fee at all, the law not authorising any . remuneration.
Why,e.the,
feesarto t
he county-rate? To that' fund it would
of their
ciows vessel, and crowded sail utter her. At eight a.m . avail Arttle,wbilst, individually to the clerks, it would be a
thd winds "1 light' and both the whalers manned and manifes-t injustice. If some magistrates have a desire to
plan, the public, no, even , the public, will
armed were sent away under the orders of Lieutenant act upon such a
Veiteh; and after six- hours' hardulling an d some not thank them for it. Were it their own CaSe, what WCitld
the vessel rounded to, and was boarded withoutfirin re-g i they say then?—From a Correspondent.