The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

CANADA.

Several new facts in regard to the fiscal policy of
Canada have recently been developed by the publica-
tion of an important correspondence between the
Canadian and British Governments. It is proposed
that the governor's salary shall be made a charge on
the British Treasury ; that the quantity of warlike
stores shall be diminished, and the barracks which
are vacated by the reduction of the troops shall be
sold ; and that the cost of maintaining the military
canals shall he assumed by the provinces. Parliament
is to assemble on the 20th inst., but nothing has
transpired in regard to the measures proposed by the
Government.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YOEK, MAY 12.—There has been but little
fluctuation in government and state stocks since our
last issue, and with a good demand the business has
been moderate.
In the money market the specie shipments have bad
no effect. This bugbear has lost its influence under
the large and steady receipts from California.
In exchange the market is firm, but not active. Ster-
ling goes at 10k to 10i; francs 510 to 5 07k, with mode-
rate supply.
In freights there is no change to note, and the busi-
ness is small. Cotton is 3-16 d., with engagements of
500 or 600 bales; corn, 4id.; flour, 16d.; dead-weights,
12s. 6d. to 15s. Within a few (lays there have been en-
gaged to London 800 barrels oil coke, ls. 9d.; and to
Glasgow 2,200 barrels flour, 2g.; 200 bales cotton,
3.16 d.; and corn, sd. A Russian barque engaged a
cargo of flour for Dundee at something over 2R.; two
cargoes of deals from Quebec to London at 41. to 41. 103.;
and an American barque a cargo of sugar from Bahia to
New Orleans at 12 dots. per ton. To California there is
no change to notice.
MAY 13.—Cotton—The cotton market had been ac-

tive, with an advance in price consequent on the unpro-
pitious weather for the young crop. The upward ten-
dency of the market was checked by receipt of the unfa-
vourable accounts from Liverpool to April 26, per Europa,
quoting a decline of 11. to d. per lb. from our previously
received quotations. 'These accounts proving so
much more unfavourable than had been looked
for, caused great disappointment, and a decline
of lc. to lc. per lb. was submitted to on the sales made
on Thursday and Friday of la.t week. On Saturday
there was a better reeling and prices recovered
Sunday, the Arctic arrived, with four days' later ac-
counts, and a further decline of id. per lb. in Liverpool;
but these accounts not only failed to produce any fur-
ther decline here, .but yesterday the market was finst

EVENING,

ciai it was diflicultito buy, except at an advance ofc.
on the low sales made on Friday. The business since
the 6th inst. has only been to the extent of 5,000 bales
on speculation and for export. The quotations are re-
duced c. per lb. as compared with those given on the
7th intr. The market closed yesterday very firmly and
with less offering stock than for some time past.
The export for the weak has been—to Liverpool,
3,636 bales; Glasgow, 216; Havre, 1,243; Amsterdam,
89; or a total of 5,254 bales.
Grain—There is a fair demand for wheat for milling,
and prices of western are a shade easier. Prime state is
firmer and in fair request.
Provisions—Our market for pork is easier, with more
doing at the decline. The demand is not active, and is
confined to the immediate wants of the trade. The sales
are 1,000 brls., at 13 dolls. for old prime; 13 dolls.
87ic. for new prima; 14 dolls. 62ia. for old mess ; and
15 dolls. 67-c. for new mess. Beef is very heavy, with
more offering ; sales of 200 brls. at 5 dohs. 25e. to 6
dolls. 50e. for prime, and 9 dolls. 25c. to 11 dolls. 503.
for mess. Prime mess and beef hams are dull and
heavy at former prices.
Salt—There is but little Liverpool arriving, but the
market evidently tends downward. Ashton', fine has
recently been sold at 1 doll. 571 e., and Wor:hiigton's
1 doll. 400., four months 2.000 bushels Sicily and 5,000
bushol3 St. Martin's out of store, Loki on terms we did
not learn.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY [2.—Flour id dull and without
any demand for export. The advises per Arciic are re-
ceived, and cotton is heavy at a &aim.) of ;le. on strict

CHARLF.STON, MAY 4.—The cotton transactions yes-
terday were limited to some 700 bales, at e, decline of
on prices paid prior to the arrival of the Earopa's
advices. Extreme prices ranged from 7;:ic. to 10. 3-16 c.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, MAY 05.
_ _

A ma finale was performed at an early hour yesterday
under the windows of the Queen's apartments by the
band of the Royal Marines, in honour of her Majesty's
birthday.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, ac-
companied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, and Prince Frederick William, their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, his Royal Highness the Duke Ernest of Wur-
temberg, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Lei-
ningen, took a drive in the interior of the Island; the
august party occupying several open carriages and four.
The Royal Family took their accustomed exercise
yesterday in Osborne-park.
In the evening the nand of the Royal Marines at-
tended, and performed a number of favourite pieces.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, with the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the other illustrious
visitors, with the ladies and gentlemen of the Court,
attended Divine service at Osborne.

To-morrow (Monday) her Majesty and Prince Albert
and the Court are expected to leave in the forenoon for
London.

A deputation from the National Institute of Medicine,
Surgery, and Midwifery, on the subject of Medical Re-
form, had au interview with Sir George Grey at the
Home-office on Saturday. The deputation consisted of
Mr. James Wyld, M.P., Mr. Nathaniel Clifton (Vice-
President), Mr. James Stedman Guildford (Vice-eresi-
dent), Yr. H. P. Fuller (Vice-President), Mr. Robert
Tanner, Dr. Webster (Dulwich), Mr. Robert Dunn, Mr.
John Bowling, Mr. James Bird, Mr. George Robins, Mr.
John Propert, Mr. G. Webster, Mr. Peter Hood, Mr.
E. Baker, Mr. Thomas Martin (Reigate), Mr. George
Squibb, and Mr. S. Read.
A deputation from the Royal College of Physicians
had also an interview with Sir George Grey on Satur-
day. The deputation consisted of Dr. Paris (Presi-
dent), Doctors Mayo, Jeaffreson, Barker, and Barlow
(Censors), Dr. Hawkins (Registrar), and Dr. Nairne.
Major Blackall had an interview with Earl Grey on
Saturday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Masterman, M.P.,
Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., Alderman Sir James Duke,
M.P., Mr. Deputy Peacock, the City Remembrancer,
the Principal Clerk, and the Surveyor, had an interview
with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home-office.
Mr. Moffatt, M.P., had an interview on Saturday with
Sir George Grey.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday from the Colo-
nial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and also to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and
Hong-Kong.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was
preached by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Boyle.

DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL FUND.
THE FORTHCOMING FESTIVAL.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in the
benevolent spirit of his respected and ranch-lamented
sire, having as president and chairman of the day fixed
Wednesday next for celebrating the establishment of
this excellent institution, the master (Mr. Harley), the
secretary (Mr. William Bennett), the directors, com-
mittee, and stewards (all members of the fund) assem-
bled on Friday and Saturday in the " Fund Office" of
Drury-lane Theatre, for the double purpose of making
arrangements for giving his Royal Highness a hearty
welcome on this his first appearance on this meritorious
occasion, and also to provide an entertainment at once
worthy of their illustrious and distinguished guests.
The zealous secretary repeated on Saturday that he
had been honoured with communications from the fol-
lowing noble and eminent personages. Those communi-
cations were not only expressive of their willingue.,s to
btcome Nice•preidents, but many of them contained
substantial proofs of the benevolent feeling by which
the writers were actuated:--The Duke of Bedford,
K.G., the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., the Duke of Bile-
eleuch, K.G., the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of North-
umberland, the Duke of Rutland, K.G., the Marquis
of Clanricarde, K.P., the Marquis of Donegal,
tho Earl of Glengall, Lord Willoughby de Eresby,
Lord Saltouu G.C,13., Lord Tenterden, Lord William
Pitt Lennox, Leigh, Lord Guernsey, M.P., Cap-
tain Carlton, R.N., Captain Charles Cooke, James An-
derson, Esq., A. Arcedeckne, Esq., James Anderton,
E-4., E. G. Barnard, Esq., M.P., Decimus Burton, Eeq.,
Kits., Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S,
John F. Elphinstone, Esq., James Ewing, Esq., Henry
Merrik Hoare, Esq., Charles Hoare, Esq., F.R.S.,
Donald Nicoll, Esq., Abraham Wildey Robarts, Esq., J.
C. Robarts' Esq., M.P., Phillip Joseph Salomons, Esq.,
J. Ruddell Todd, Esq., &c.

It also appeared from communications made at the
meeting, that the musical arrangements would be upon a
scale of unusual brilliancy, many of the most eminent
UY tistes having generously volunteered their gratuitous
services, amongst whom is a Signor Bottesini on the
double bass, who performed for the first time at Miss
Catherine Hayes's concert on Tuesday last, and whose
performance the Times designated "as great a wonder
as the Exhibition." Mrs. John Macfarren (a distin-
guished pianist), eldest daughter of Mr. W. Bennett,
will perform a duet with Mr. Lindsay Sloper, conductor
of the musical ceremonies; and Miss Birch, Miss Eliza
Birch, Miss Land, Miss P. Horton, Mr. Gerrard Taylor
(a celebrated instrumentalist), Mr. Donald King, Mr.
Barnby, Mr. W. Coward, Mr. Binge, Mr. Shoubridge,
Mr. Machin, Mr. Stretton, Mr. Edward Land, Mr. Law-
lor, Mr. Beale, Mr. Barrani, and a host of able glee
singers, will respectively display their various and fas-
cinating powers, doubtless to the high gratification of a
numerous and splendid assemblage of rank, talent,
beauty, and fashion.

SUICIDE AT BRIGIITON.—A most determined and
desperate act of suicide was committed on Friday evening
by Major William Wynn, of the lion. East India Company's
Service, by jumping from the Black Rock Cliff, at Kemp
Town. The following are the particulars of the melanchloy
event :—Shortly after 5 o'clock, as the revenue officer at the
Black Rock station was pursuing his beat, near the cliff
beyond the Abergavenny Arms Tavern, at Kemp Town,
his attention was drawn to a gentleman who was walking
along the edge of the cliff—at this place more that 100 feet
high. Seeing his perilous position, he called out to him,
"For God's sake don't go so near the edge, sir." The gen-
tleman made no reply, but muttered something to himself,
and went on a little further, and sat down on the edge of the
cliff, with his feet hanging over it. The coast-guards man
immediately went towards him, but, just as he came up to
him, he either lost his balance or precipitated himself down
the precipice. As he was falling, the officer made a grasp,
and succeeded in catching hold of a stick which he held in
his hand. This, however, broke with his weight, and the
wretched man fell to the bottom of the cliff, almost dashing
himself to pieces. When taken up, life, of course, was found
to be extinct. His remains were removed to the Aberga-
venny Arms, where they were identified as those of the
deceased officer, who had been a resident here a short time.
We are informed that the state of mind of the deceased hlajor
was such as to leave little doubt that the catastrophe was
not the result of accident. He had seen much service in
India.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN
BAmway.—Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, shortly before
2 o'clock, the numerous travellers by the South-Eastern
Railway, via the Bricklayers' Arms station, were alarmed by
a fire breaking out on the line near the viaduct over Mer-
cer's fiehls, and within a short distance of the Green Man
turnpike in the Old Kent-road. The flames originated,
from some cause not clearly ascertained, in a large heap of
sleepers, which had been removed to the scene where the con-
flagration commenced. This pile, or rather piles of timber,
stood upon the embankment near the down line, and as pre-
viously stated, near the viaduct. The timber comprised
about 15,000 or 16,000 cubic feet, and was so stored that it
was in immediate proximity to a large wooden shed, stored
with new timer, and within a short distance of sundry stacks
of new and a more costly description of sleepers
intended
to be used along the line. The moment the fire was Perceived
messengers started in every direction for the engines,
and forthwith the Brigade engines from South-
wark•bridge- road, Rotherhithe, and subsequently Tooley-
reet, and that of the West of England Company attended.
The firemen then found the flames so high that it was ex-
tremely difficult for any one to approach near on account of
the intense beat, coupled with which trains proceeding up
and down the line made the fireman's work exceedingly
dangerous. Notwithstanding, however, they kept to their
Posts, and, men having been sent in both directions of the
railway to signal the trains and engines, sufficient time waa
allowed for the firemen on each occasion to disconnect the
hose, and by working for nearly four hours the flames were
got under, but the firs was far from being entirely extin-
guished, a considerable bo,ly still remaining below the sur-
face of the piles of timber. The amount of property destroyed
is comparatively trifling, but the appearance to the passen-
gers was very alarming. The whole of the wires of the
electric telegraph have been melted in that vicinity, and
some of the posts burnt down, which will stop all communi-
cation by that means from the Bricklayers' Arms statoin to
New-cro,s until they can be repaired.

THE WAY THEY DO THINGS IN CALIFORNIA.—The
pacific News has the following :—A man was discovered on
the bank of the river two miles this side of Nicolaus, who
had been shot through the heart. On the collar of his coat
was pinned a piece of paper, on which was written the fol-
lowing:—" I caught this man stealing my mules, and I shot
I him." The deed plan wasi not reco,guised.

MAY _ 26, 1851. _

EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The public are aware, from questions recently put in
the House of Commons by Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr.
Duncombe, that the Board of Health have failed as yet
in making any private agreement with the Cemetery
Companies Ur -Obtain possession of them; that notice has
now been given to some of the Cemetery Beards, with
the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury, with a view
to having the price to be paid for their burial-grounds
settled by the arbitration of a jury, and that, meanwhile,
the Board cf Health are in negotiation for the purchase of
ground. Further, the Board of Health having made no
no report at the end of last year, as required to do by
the new Interments Act, Sir George Grey has called
upon them to address a letter to him, stating the mea-
sures they have taken in 1850 to give effect to the said
Act, which letter, when he receives it, is to be laid on the
table of Parliament.
From what fell from Sir Georee Grey in answer to
the questions above referred to it would appear that
the Beard of Health contemplate buying up the subur-
ban cemeteries, not for Inc purpose of using them as
plsces of sepulture, but cicaing them up altogether. It
also appears, from the evidence tale. n by rho Beard of
Health (see the Report of last year, page 73) that the
whole mount of relief afforded by all the metrop?littin
cometeries taken together (the joint acreage of which is
282 acres), is the extension of the burial-grounds of the
meta:polls by seventeen acres. Whilst from said report,
it also ccmes out that the Board of Health require for the 1
purchas4 of these said cemeteries, eight in number, and
" other burial.grounds," the sum of 400.0001.
Whether these ‘. oilier lurid grounds" refer to the up-
wards of 200 intramural Golgotiras, whose gaping mouths
have received during the last 30 years 1,500,000 corpses,
the decomposition of which has evolved into our civic
atmosphere an amount of poisonous gases, beyond that
absorbed by the soil, exceeding 75 million cubic feet, is
not stated; but as it is understood that the eight ceme-
teries have been created at au expenditure of about
500,0001., it is by no means likely that 400,0001. will
suffice to buy them up, and also to purchase " other
burial-grounds," whether lying within or without the
bounds of the new burial district.
From what has transpired of the movements of the
Board of Health, it is known that they are desirous to
expend 50,0001. for the extension of Kensal-green
Cemetery, so as to constitute one large western ceme-
tery; and they also propose applying 250,0001. to the
construction of one large eastern water-side cemetery at
Erith.
Unless report errs, the Board of Health are willing to
give a building price for the Abbey Wood property and
some other adjacent land at Erith, making in all from
400 to 500 acres. Here, then, for an interment provision
so limited that it is calculated in 17 years it will be ex-
hausted and the capital lost, there will be a preliminary
outlay for land alone, ranging from 50,0001. to 70,000/.
Further, if this site should be obtained, to clear it of
wood (as shown by Mr. Lacy, M.P., in his pam-
phlet) would require an expenditure that would suffice
to purchase the best arable land in England.
The most grave sanitary, as well as economical ob-
jections exist against any extension of Kensal-green
Cemetery, and no valid reasons can be shown why
the eight existing cemeteries should be closed, seeing
only seventeen acres of the whole have been exhausted.
Neither can any valid reasons be adduced why the sys-
tem of burial within these cemeteries should be taken
out of the hands of the cemetery boards. If anything is
defective as regards sanitation, it is the duty of the
Board of Health to prescribe and enforce such sanitary
regulations to be observed within them as public health
and deeeny require. This is the real use of the Board of
Health, and the exercise of any other controlling powers
is an abuse.
We have now before us a pamphlet, to be had of Mr.
Saunders, Charing-cross, entitled a " Synopsis of the
London Necropolis and National Mausoleum at Woking,"
and from it it appears that a memorial was presented
last autumn, by the proprietors of the scheme, to the
Lords of the Treasury, offering to make the Necropolis
an adjunct to the practical working of the Metropolitan
Interments Act. This Necropolis will comprise 1,500
acres of land, a quantity sufficient to make 30 cemeteries,
each nearly as large as Kensal-green; and 13G cemeteries,
each larger than that of Victoria-park. And all this
interment provision will be supplied to the inhabitants
of the metropolis by the company, which is now being
created to realize and carry out the undertaking, with-
out asking the Lords of the Treasury for a single pound,
or the rate-payers of London for so much as a single
penny. Such being the case, and seeing that the Board
of Health will have every facility afforded to them of
realizing all their sanitative views within the walls of
the Necropolis at Woking, whilst the public of the me-
tropolis at large will find burial there at about half the
charges under the proposed cemetery at Erith, why
should the Board of Health think of realizing their
scheme, seeing it involves an outlay, according to their
own showing, of 700,000/.? We think the Lords of the
Treasury and the Board of Health ought to pause and
consider what they are doing before they commit them-
selves to such an unnecessary waste of the public money.
We say waste, because, though the may expend 700,000/.
or 1,000,0001. in realizing the Erith scheme, when done,
they have no power under the Act to compel burial
there. And it is certain that the London citizens will
not go down the river by water to bury in a petty ceme-
tery of 400 or 500 acres, if they can bury in a Metropo-
litan Necropolis of 1,500 acres at about half the expense.
As Sir George Grey has promised to lay the expected
letter from the Board of Health on the table of the House
of Commons so soon as he receives it, we hope that Sir De
Lacy Evans, Mr. Duncombe, or some other of the metro-
politan Members, will move that a copy of the memorial
to the Lords of the Treasury from Sir Richard Brown
and Mr. Spr)e, on the subject of the Necropolis at
Woking, may also be laid on the table of the House of
Commons. As the public are getting quite uneasy on
the subject, we shall shortly return to this subject, and
give some extracts from the pamphlet above referred to,
which contains an exposition of the views of the promo-
ters of the Necropolis, with a notice of the objections
raised against the principle of commercial trading in
bin ial, and reasons for a general public co-operation in
fsvour of the undertaking set ou foot by them.

PROGRESS OF LOWESTOFT.—In the year 1841 the
population of this town amounted to 4,832. The result of the
castings of the seven enumerators' districts, as taken on the
31st March, shows the present number to be 6,6sB—giving
an increase of 1,826, or nearly 38 per cent., during the past
ten years. In that portion of our town denominated the
Beach, there are—inhabited houses, 218 ; uninhabited, 2 ;
building, 9. Males, 582 ; females, 533; total, 1,115. This
s exclusive of the New Town and Watering-place, which
have sprung up so rapidly on the south side of the harbour
within the last few years.—Norwick Mercury.

ROYAL VAUXHALL GARDENS.—To:day will wit-
ness the first appearance at these gardens for the season of
Mdme. Lejars and Pauline Cuzent, two of the best of the
female equestrians of the present day. These artistes, be it
remembered, will contribute their valuable services in addi-
tion to the present attractions of Palmyra Anato and Young
Hernandez, so that equestrianism, it may truly be said, will
have to be grateful to Mr. Wardell for his spirited gathering
of this combination of riding ability.

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ASSAULT OF ABMs.--SAVILLE HOUSE, LEICESTER.
SQUARE.—The gymnasium at the above place, under the
management of Mr. Green, nightly continues to attract
crowded and fashionable audiences. We must congratulate
the manager on the successful issue of his praiseworthy at-
tempt to re-establish the noble art of " self defence, which
of late years has fallen into a state of total abeyance. The
fencing of Messrs. Percy, Parker, Her Van Der Marst, &c.,
&c., is of a first-rate order, proving themselves to be perfect
masters of the art. Of the fistic tournament, fer which the
following celebrated artists are engaged--Messrs. Alex.
Keene, Young Sambo, Harrison, J. Welch, &c., &c. comment
would be superfluous, the names above being a guarantee for
the excellency of this part of the entertainment. Indepen-
dent of this, there are several wrestling matches, for which
men of well-known ability contend, including Messrs. Dixon
(the champion of Cumberland), Bowden (champion of Corn-
wall), &c.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.---The
interesting and extensive collections at these gardens have
resently received a considerable accession, in addition to
the elephant and calf, the humming birds, &c. These
consist a red kangaroo, a piping crow, an Australian crow,
a yellow-bellied paroquet, a black fronted lemur, an eagle
owl, a green monkey, two passenger pigeons, one Mala32rdi
tapir, two Savannah deer, one mino, two nightingales. and
several others. The hippopotamus still forms cile. 2`i'ti;v,
object of attraction, which, however, is now divided with
the elephant and calf, and Mr. Gould's magnificent ollection
of humming birds. The extensive alterations
and
months, have
improve-
ments which have been in progress for several
le an inte-
resting brought to completion, and give to th
resting appearance.
and general
improvement of the old and These consist of enlargement
of the reptile house, an extension ane w
erection of new
collection of eagles,
aviaries, particularly for the
oixr,gien the open air, for
vultures, &c. ; an immense
tank,
to these, to enable
the hippopotamus, &c.
been erected tit ter.
race, has on e
ing time, an elegant esplanade2 ; this has been laid with Orsi
the visitors more convenientllny to view the carnivore at feed-
race, commanding the cages:
and Armani's patent metallic lava, in brilliant colours, and
of a beautifully ornamental design. Similar decorations of
the same material are placedin front of the museum, the
the humming-birds' house, &c., while lava, in
having colour of
all the pebbly surface and
re several of the walks. A great portion of the
imitationre pt il -ho
oufs,e ,
and
have been been newly laid out with the addition of seve-
rald plants. Notwithstanding that the
attractionsall-engross-
ing of the Crystal Palace have materially • •
ing
dimi-
nished the average receipts at all other exhibitions, &c., vet,
this year, the number of visitors have exceeded those
gravel,
gardens
shrubs
nearly 20,000, and the receipts by nearly 1,006/.
appearance of the gardens on Saturday last, when
kElcur during Foh
eb,.
the company were enlivened by the splendid performance of
the band of the Ist Life Guards, the visitors are evidently on
the increase.

WooLwicn, MAY 24.—1 n the event of the weather
being favourable, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
is expected to visit Woolwich on Monday morning, the 26th
inst. Large 13111 s have been posted in London announcing
that a review is to take place at Woolwich on the 29th inst.
The announcement must have been made in ignorance of the
celebration of her Majesty's birthday in this garrison having
been postponed to Saturday, the 31st instant, when the
whole of the troops will assemble on the Common and lire a
feu de joie. The Chelsea Pensioners of the Woolwich and
DFptiord divisions of the London district are to assemble atNN \Voolwich to the extent of 500 strong, to go through their
exercises on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
nest. and it
is expected they will brigade with the other troops in the
garrison on one of these days to take up the position they
will have to occupy at the celebration of the Queen's birth-
day on the 31st inst. It was intended that the pensioners of
the Woolwich and Deptford divisions should have assembled
on Blackheath to go through their evolutions preparatory to
assembling for review in Hyde-park on the 3d of June, but
the assembling on Blackheath of the 500 men of the Wool-
wich and Deptibrd divisions, and the review of the whole of
the 1,600 pensioners of the London district, under the com-
mand of Colonel Tulloch, is dispensed with
b y order of the
Commander- in •Chief, who does not consider it advisable to
have a review in Hyde-park while the exhibition in the
Crystal Palace is open. A royal salute WAS fired at 12
o'clock to-day from the Mortar Battery, the 24th being her
Majesty's birthday.
REPRESENTATION Os' atawicn.—The nomination
takes place to-morrow (Tuesday), and the polling on Wed-
nesday. Beth Mr. Priusep and Nr. Crawford Are vigo-
rously ptencating thou cant ass.

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TO THE SECRETARY .OF THE .U4-fly -
REFORM ASSOCIATION.I:7I-.1,A2:._:71
(EVERY MONDAY AND NVEDNRSIWy.Y
Sir,—On Thursday the 22d, Mr. EwartYikividb " t=s
it is expedient that the mitigations which‘have bee
made in the Laws inflicting Capital PunishmentidEn4p7:--'
land be extended to Scotland, and (as far as possible) to
the Colonial Possessions of this country." The Govern-
ment replied, that every effort was made to practically
apprcach to this state of things. And the motion was
thereupon withdrawn.
Mr. Fox then moved, " That it is expedient to pro.
mote the Education of the people, in England and Wales,
by the establishment of Free Schools for secular instruc-
tion, to be supported by local rates, and managed by
Committees, clewed specially fur that purpose by rate-
payers."
The arguments in opposition were desultory, incom-
plete, and misdirected. Much advantage was taken of
a dispute which occurred at Manchester touching the
use or disuse of the word " secular;" an unfortunate
cireumstanc.,, because it was construable into some-
thing like what Shakspeare's swordsman abhorred
under the title of "giving back." but which on being
examined solved itself into evidence of pubic teeliug in
favour of the terra, though unhappily born down for
the noLee by authority. There may be room therefore
for culi.gratUhitiOU that the sound worts is in its place
again. There is much virtue in sound words. and wlsen
a rause has Dot gut the length a daring to employ them,
there is no risk in predicating that it is a long way
from success,

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The reason at the bottom of the whole is, that the
opposing parties none of diem hAieve their own creed.
1. hat is to ssv, they do not believe it to be a thiag
establishabln by appeal to the reasoning faculty which
God has given us, and they dread the encouragement of
Unit reasoning faculty, unless combated from birth by
taking possession of the inlets to human knowledge.
Not so did our Protestant ancestors; for their Protes•
autism was the remit of the encouragement of all the
means of knowledge, and its application to the great
question in which they were concerned. The discovery
of Euclid in the Arabic, gave a fillip which the printing-
prc improved. Tho modern policy would have cried
oat upon " godless" diagrams and "godless" editions of
the ancients, and seen no virtue in anything but a
race for teaching to parish 'prentioes the pro or the
contra on the Real Presence.

The misrepresentations also were wide and many.
For an assembly like the House of Commons, there is
nothing like charging the adversary with the wrong
thing. Nobody exposes it, and all who chuse take it
up. Solemn arguments, for instance, were brought
against tho cruel tyranny of making education com-
pulsory; the fact being that the proposer had done all
that occurred to him, to assimilate his plan to others in
which the power of decision is lodged with majorities
of rate-payers. At the same time it may be worth
noting, that this is a point which may be advantageously
made more prominent hereafter.
Another fallacy of the same kind, was that there was
a design to expel religion from education. Which solves
itself simply into the determination of the sects concerned,
that there shall be no education without a struggle for the
introduction of their several tenets. The thing in which
men agree, shell not be taught without the introduction
of that in which they disagree. The Roman Catholic
cries out " godless colleges, and the Anglican Cbureh-
man re-echoes " godless colleges," each meaning that
there shall be no instruction at all unless he may do the
most possible to turn it his own way. A comparatively
small heretical population at Manchester, are finding out
that it would be an admirable point gained, to educate
in spite of both. They do not want to hinder either,
from exerting any influence he likes at proper times and
places; but they say you shall not close the school-room
by a fight for your respective tenets. You may eat your
beef or your tish as pleases you best, hut you shall not
mince them up with our apple-pie, and expect us to
abide by the ruinous mixture. We mean no libel upon
either of your dishes, but we mean that you shall have
them to yourselves in the proper places, and not insist on
forcing them into our dish, when we want to sit down for
quite a different purpose.
On the whole it is plain the cause is gaining ground.
The greatest damage that can be dune to an adversary,
is to make him talk; and the way to strengthen him, is
to let him alone. There is not a debate of this kind
that does not furnish hints for future conduct, evidences
of weakness in opponents, and of leanings on the part of
what hereafter will be friends. The division showed 51
friends to secular education; a seed sufficient to sprout
into any magnitude required.
Next followed a motion for the reduction of the Ex-
cise Duty on Hops. There is a certain duty per pound on
English hops, but there is a superior, and next to pro-
hibitive duty, on foreign. The hop duty is, therefore,
paid by you at Bradford. It is paid out of the stoppage
of your trade, and your trade is stopped that it may be
paid. Hops ought to be brought from abroad and paid
for in your goods; but hops may not be brought from
abroad, and consequently your goods cannot go. The
object of the whole being, that the public may drink
dearer beer, and money be put into the pockets of the
hop-growers. Nobody noted this in the House. A
hubbub was got up once about corn; but it was allowed
to die out, like a Fifth of November squib, as soon as the
flash was over. it is perhaps right that room should
be left for your children to he wiser than yourselves.
On Friday the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill made some
slight progress in Committee, by disposing of amendments
proposed. The further consideration was adjourned
till Monday. _ __

1 am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, ;:lay 26, 1851.

THE ARMY.

We regret to announce the death of Major-General
Pitt, K.H., commanding the forces in New Zealand,
which icok place in January last.
The 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of Lan-
cerN now stationed in the Royal Barracks, Dublin,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Pole, have
received orders to prepare for enriy embarkation for the
Cape of Good Hope. This regiment returned from
Portugal in March, IS2B.
The 13th Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), about 600
strong, arrived at Landport, by the South-4L extern Rail-
way, from Winchester, on Saturday at eleven o'clock,
and were met at the station by Major-General Lord
Frederick Fitzclarence. With his Lordship at their
head, and their band playing, the regiment marched
direct into Portsmourth dockyard, and immediately
embarked on board the Herefordshire freight-ship. In
the afternoon the Herefordshire was towed out to Spit-
head, and she sailed on Sunday morning for Gibraltar.
During the last week tho 26th Regiment have been
staying in Bristol, en route for Newport. On Friday an
bbaarrkkiantgiointhaet
aChudmi
hbge raltaangde
aßtatshine.
accident of a dangerous character occurred on their eta-
enAtrsant
they yo
fwtehree em
west-
side of the basin gave way, and several of the soldiers
were precipitated into the mud. Fortunately no one was
seriously hurt.
The transport Edward, having the second detachment
cf the 44th on board, arrived at Gibraltar on the even-
ing of the 19th; also the screw steamer Arabian, from
the westward.

ADROIT MILITARY SWINDLERS.
William B •
M‘Millan, alias amps.
Couch and Alexander
dr av el le dt
the Rev.
•the iSth Foot, deserted from that regiment,.
belonging to
Soma limo ago two private soldiers, named Henry
they b
• timising parties wherever id
down the country, Tic
and they have for several
e that
a chance. On the 4th instant
L. L. Smith, a magistrate, residing at
.11.1weethke6y-pcaasltlet
Passenham, near
Bach. inghamshire, and obtained from
billigs, under the pretence ShitmonythSetsruamtforofd,
ten 8
ho march to Coventry. By the aid of
they were on
t ts and billets, showing that they
forged documents . were in
Couchand M`M•ll
recruiting service, 1 an succeeded at
the recrui .
various pieces Inprocuring board
and lodging at the
houses of publicans, -
always making their exit before the
and chest was discovered, leaving the landlord's bill un-
paid. After going from town to town in this way,
availing themselves of railway transit in many instances,
our two heroes arrived at a place called Titchmarsh, in
Northamptonshire, where, in order to carry on their
dishonesty with better chance of success, they
purchased some ribbons to fasten to their cape
and got a tailor to sew some stripes upon their
jackets. This being done, Couch was promoted to the
rank of sergeant, and M‘Millan was advanced to the
post of corporal. The game these two fellows were
playing in the country became known in London, and,
consequently, a notice respecting them appeared in the
Police Gazette, with a reward to any person who should
effect their apprehension. On Saturday last Couch and
M'Millan were at Market Weighton, when Mr. Hartley,
police officer, who had read the account respecting them
in the Police Gazette, was satisfied in his own mind that
they were the men, and he took them into custody. On
Monday last Hartley brought Couch and M'Millsn to
York, end during the day they were examined before
John Clough Esq., at Mr. Holtby's office. They were
identified as deserters from the 58th Regiment, and a
few of their tricks having been adverted to, the magis-
trate committed them to York Castle, there to remain
until the War-office determine upon the
and Al‘Millan the course to be
pursued respecting them. Couch
studiously avoided visiting large towns, lest they should
be detected, but extended their favours to places of little
importance.

TnE RAILWAY COLLISION AT LONG EATON.---All
the passengers bruised and mutilated by this terrible colli-
sion—two of whom up to Friday Were in great danger—are
now in a fair way for recovery. On Friday night Lieutenant
Galion, the Government inspector, commenced an inquiry
into its causes at the Derby station, which was adjourned to
the termination of the inquest at Chesterfield upon the unfor-
tunate people killed by the accident at Clay Cross. John
Robson, the driver of the passenger train, whose carelessness
is supposed to have led to the catastrophe, has, it is said, been
suspended.
ROYAL °union-Epic HosriTAL.—Yesterday (Sun-
day) morning a sermon in aid of the Royal Orthopcedic
Hospital was delivered by the Rev. Edward Scobell, MA.,
at St. Peter's Chapel, Vere-street, Cavendish-square, before
several members of the Government and a very crowded con-
gregation. During an impressive address the rev. preacher
eloquently dilated upon the peculiar object and claims of the
charity. Upwards of 1,400 had been admitted during the
last year, and out-patients to the number of 700 were now
under treatment, with a weekly accession of 30 or 40 new
caws. At the conclusion of Divine service a collection was
made amounting to 711. Ss. 2d., with the subscriptions of
several gentlemen wishing to become governors of the hospital.
PROTECTIONIST DINNER AT Irswlcu.—A Pro-
tectionist demonstration took place in Ipswich on Friday,
when upwards of 600 persons assembled at a public dinner
in the Corn Exchange. Mr. E. S. Gooch, M.P. for East
Suffolk, presided ; the vice chair being filled by Mr. J. C.
Cobbold, AI.P. for the borough of Ipswich
• , and amongst
the company were—G. F. Young, Esq., Capt. R. S. Gooch,
R.N., Sir C . Blois, Captain Vyse, M.P., Hon. and Rev. F.
Hotham, &c. Various toasts and speeches of the usual
character were given, the speech of the evening being that
of Ur. Q. F. Young'