The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY YVENING,

ADVICE TO THE LADIES.
(From Elizq Cook's Jour-vat)
From causes I need not now stop to trace, t' awe
persons on whom the ladies liberally shower the epi-•
thets of kill-joy, square-toe!, or old quiz, 1 e
hitherto, for the most part, had it all their own Nra 'y
in the reading of " lectures" and delivering of
"preachments" to our fair countrywomen. M 131'
not I—seeing from a point of view quite diffiareot . to
theirs—jot down some notions of mine on so Tally or-
taut a subject ? I have never heard that the al .plaabet
was less easily learnt from ginger-bread Letters;
that draughts of medicine were rendered less effica-
cious by being flavoured with peppermint, gat niishcd
with pink paper, and dispensed by an assistat. .t pos-
sessed of good teeth, and valanced with those "clear
whiskers ;" nor can! believe that my obser ratit ns,
and fault-finding I may add, will be the less nc
te-
worthy for their writer's being a young bache:tor,
with not the faintest intention of ever being- an old
one; but ker ping at the bottom of bis Pandora.'a box
of daily vexation! the hope of matritnc,ity.
At all events, I shall try the experiment th rough
the medium of passionless foolscap and ink, of m taking
you acquainted with some of my convictions on what
I may call lady-vices, illustrated by no highly-
finished portraitures, but mere outlines ef the: most
prominent characteristics of those of my female
friend!, who may serve to show my meaning. And,
if you please, I shall dispense with the rules of art
altogether in my gossip to you, meeting promiscu-
ously (as I am in the habit of doing with ,Hang-aret,
of whom, more anon—though there is often some art
about that), meeting promiseuouslv, I say, with the
topics as they rise. And, first, my fair renders, I
would lay great stress on your not being frivolous;
and this I would beg of you, not to be, in defiance of
those conventional rules that indicate the manufac-
ture of book marks, fly-traps with yellow paper,
canary birds inside, torte monnaies, anti-macassars,
Joseph's. coat-like patch-work table-covers and jug-
shaped Berlin wool pence-pouches, as thefitdisposal of
your time, in defiance of a saying—current only
among the shallowest of men, and having no founda-
tion in truth—that " nothing profound should be ex-
pected from the petticoats;" and in conformity with
the sentiment of that beautiful couplet in "Man
fred,"—
‘•Think'A thou existence doth del nod on time?
It cloth, but actions are out: epochs."

Bear in mind that, as Dr. Johnson well observes ;
" many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty
cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employ-
ments." That you are, by nature, " noble in reason
and infinite in faculties ;" that—but I will introduce
you to Mrs. Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, an ex-
cellent specimen of frivolity.
Mrs. Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, then, is a
great correspondent, that is, every afternoon she un-
locks her ladies' rose-wood writing-desk, and
papeterie, which latter contains her envelopes and
fancy note-paper, and dashes off some half-dozen
vapid notes, containing less practical utility, per-
haps, than Solomon's (in the " Stranger ")
" foreign correspondence," and every morning
the business-like knock of the postman an-
nounces the arrival of some responsive echoes wafted
to her, crossed in the writing, and sealed with motto
wafers. She called her husband variously "hubby,"
" dear old crosspatch," and " old man ;" says " bless
you," unfailingly,—if she sneezes ; carries a Letts'
diary, in which she makes ostentatious memoranda,
probably having in it for subject-matter, followers and
unfair joints ; calls any hurry she may happen to be
in a " scuffle ;" loses her housewifely keys, and then
is "in tribulation about thew," and knows only two
words cf French, which she consequently wears to
death ; "distingue," and "distrait." She is no reader,
indeed, she wonders how any lady can go and see
" Othello;" she parades a superstitious dread of ill-
luck on a Friday ; she will apostrophize a singed
moth for five minutes together, in your presence ;
will speak of "styles of meat," of a cheesemonger's
"shining" in bacon, of the weather as "muggy,"
and when disposed to be jocular, aims at it by using
such exaggerating phrases as "exchequer," or
" finances," to express a purse or money ; " breaking
a charter," for making an exception, and the like. In
fine, she will go on with the same monotonous note,
as the travelling clockman announces his passing by
sounding—day after day ; like, as after they have
, " cast on," ' knitted," and " purled" ten or
twelve rows, the votaries of crotchet and embroidery
will commence again, so, ten or twelve hours of one
day of her life and employment of it, typifies the
whole. May I not write a brief moral under this
picture. I have no high-flown views about woman's
mission to impart. I was passed the other evening
by two women, one covered about the bonnet arid
cloak with small dust-fall, followed at a little distance
by two men, one of whom had doubtless been amusing
himself by pitching handsful of gravel after them. I
should not have noticed this, but that, just as they
passed me, one of the women said, in reply to an ob-
servation, I had not heard made by one of the men,
We were not made to throw stones at, however."
Very well, I adopt your sentitnen*, madam, that wo-
man's vocation is not to have stones thrown at it, nor
is it either to b 3 put in a oi3s-ease and looked at like
a wax flower—like Mrs. L 2 Grand. Should you have
"great taste in dress," but nothing besides, no genuine
sympathies—no degree of information—no average
intelligence—no anything? 13 it fittieg that you
should while away your time in conversation, well
termed small-talk, that leads to no result—elicits no
new fact, and could possibly have no Q.E.D. written
at the end of it ? I, at all events, will launch
B irchell's (in the " Vicar of Wakefield") expressive
criticism, '• Fudge," at you for it. I, at all events,
will assert that the cares of house•keeping, whether
shared by a family of daughters, or discharged
single-handed, are not so engrossing ; but that you,
engaged in no regular occupation, have the
amplest who
are
lesure for laying in a stock of that learning,
whichis justly pronounced better than houses and
lands.

indeed,
thedo whatoeeddri
e abstract,bl sach relationship
,ffleo all: and:casnhts
wdi aaPhnwmi will
c eh r y
Mrs. Bell Nether too is a lady who I hope will not
include you among her disciples. She is a great
stickler for conventionalities (" I should like to do
what is proper, of course," in her own words), tells
you that no fashionable person would be seen in town
after August 12th ; that the Queen has taken her
physician with her on her tour ; or that a new ladies'
ear- trumpet has been invented, shaped like a fl)wer.
e Tr
halfeo suppliesrespect
aenNe
t ho fNoddy
hour
yrh
tet
bears
eegia
together
hrat
eeo
roa
Lady
a s,
at
dhit
yfeol
The
sublime and beautiful (a Burke wrote a book on each) ;
implicitllose title he will succeed to ; she
would lose anything rather than caste ; and
shfiehicmalakheosrrofrromof
laowtenae-iugrhu.,
eeurr"hh.oielelrds and humble people. Poor quivering shirt-
hand in White's-rents, ragged hawker in Brown's-
se I,),ni pi livi
6r ercakt i
,i)nn tl he
ae
gother
whaeym, i sapnhde r
shee, r ewaidll tsohohwer
Brown's-
lane, she knows you not ! And yet, tell her of a
soufcha
,4 a dejected 'haviour of the visage, together with all
forms, modes, shows of grief," as makes me recall a
phrase in the cheap
outfitters' advertisements,
.4 mourning to any extent at five minutes' notice."
But let me now, however, turn to a more congenial
subject; let me leave the Le Grands and Bell
IVethers (polished grates may I call them, compared
with stoves glowing with a ruddy, crackling fire), let
me leave these, and all who in their anxiety to be
lady-like forget to be womanly, and turn to that
Juan of whom I confess myself to be the Darby, that
certain party who has not the least idea of high life—
Margaret. Mind, Iby no means desire to affirm that
Margaret is the N. of —, to whom lam irrevo-
cably willed to be the M. of --- No, if it were in
that certain state, I should hardly last week have
been exacting the customary tribute, which had
cost me a three minutes' chase and all my breath,
from a very pretty girl in pink, at kiss in the
ring, or reassuring her engaging terror, while what
was billed as " a sanguine display of fireworks" was
going on, hard by : or at a still latter period have,
Petrarch-like, dogged a very Laura of charmers
in a slate-coloured bonnet, and a black silk visite,
a full two miles out of my way, until, indeed, her
abruptly 'itch ping to exchange salutations with a rival
in a shooting coat and garden bat at the corner of a
street, obliged my simultaneous disappearance down
an Opposite one. Oh no, we are not engaged, though
when, as she sews a button on for me, she asks what
we men would do without her sex, I cannot help be-
ginning to think. I shall never be able to do without
her; though, when I am sufficiently happy to be
holding skeins for her to reel, and she calls all my
fingers thumbs in such a bewitching way, that I do
fsooumrethtimfiensgecraotfchherleft h
myself glancing at the unringed
and ; and though often, when
roused by some remark of hers from a wrapt contem-
plation of her, I begin to wonder whether this may
not be the private interview preparatory to a final
settlement, mentioned in matrimonial advertisements.
one person,
I will attempt a faint outline of her appeeabroannceha:Fr,
but could I
Ithv
makeeosr
ey ahrseehr
so
ou,
n‘l should,
reel
esia
the
hp
feeoarrtl
giftsuy n tewe
tehot
ihca,h
h, rfuuus bt
cyadnl
di
intop;s
daguerreotype the "feminine assault" of her smile
when she corrects a trifling misstatement with, no—
I tell a story— or tells your and her humble servant
of wet nights, that he will "go home by water,
then"—you—why you too, perhaps, would be want-
ing to launch into the honourable estate of matrimony
A ith so winsome a steersmate. _

I shall just
purpose,description.
.dmAy,which may excu3e her
And as I consider Margaret as coming near enough
cdhaesvhamlfer highwayman,
v aa
ne
ourt
She works
fifit o)nriNs'ih-h(
er womanly
thisal perfection
itviliynpgapNrit
hw ihtehr
.hfhoearrn
Claude
and, in
fondness for light reading in. leisure hours; she can
psyimpipts,thwisiteh
a word, generally with that numerous class of travel-
stained pedestrians who, towards the close of a wet
wthiatht ptrheauxt
day in the spring of the year —7, and at the opening
of many a dry novel I call to mind, are continually
arriving at romantic road-side inns. (I know that

JAN UAR Ne 31, 1850.

PERIA L PARLIAMENT,

(THIS DAY.)

HO USE OF LORDS.

The (le Cul session of 1850 was oreled t rot
by her Majesty in person, ')tt by her Royal Cenlinissi,n.
Long before the hour appointed f,r opening the Com-
mission the Ficuse cf Lords anu the strangers' gally
was partly filled with ladies and visitors anxious to witness
the ceremony of the opening of tie Great Council of the
nation. The assemblage thus dray n together formed a
pleasing group, though its appearance f Wed into almost
insignificance, when put in comparison with the splendid
tout ensemble of the House of Lords when her Majesty is
present, and when the beauty, the noble, and wealthy of
the land vie with each other in their endeavours to
show their loyalty to tl er Sovereign, by
being present when she appears in the upper
branch of the Legislature to open or prorogue ber Par-
liament. Among the Peers present we noticed the Earl
of Sheffield, Viscount Strangtord, Lord Colburne, Lard
Campbell, Earl Mountcashel, Lord Lucan' the Marquis
f Salisbury, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop c f
Het eord, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Montesgle, the Duke
c f Wellington, the Duke c f Norfolk, and Viscount liar-
dinge. _ _

Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Bread-
albanr, Earl Minto, and tho Bishop c f London,
robed as the Lords Commissioners for opening the Par-
liament, entered the House and took their seats below
the throne. flaring done se, their Lordships eons-
olandel Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod (who officiated in tf e unavoidable absence of Sir
Augustus Clifford), to summon the Commons to the bar,
to hear the Royal Commission read her Majesty's
most gracious Speech to both Houses on opening the
present session.

After the lapse of a few minutes, the Speaker of the
House cf Commons, attends 1 by a great number of
Members, appeared at the bar. Among the members
present we noticed Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Locke, Colonel
Thompson, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. Spooner, Lord Dudley
Stuart, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Ellictr, and several others.
On the Splicer aprearing at the bar the Commission
for opening the Parliament was read by Mr. Edmunds,
after which,

The LORD CHANCELLOR read, in a clear and
distinct voice her Majesty's' most gracious Speech,
which will be found in another part of our impression.
At the conclusion of the reading of the Speech, the
Lords Commissioners and the Speaker and Members of
the House of Commons retired, and their Lordships ad-
journed to Five o'clock.

In the gallery devotes to Members of the House of
Commons we noticed Sir James Graham, Mr. W.
Brown, Mr. Thornely, Mr. F. French, Mr. J. Wilson,
Mr. B. Denison, Mr. Greene, and several other Hon.
Members.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The gallery doors were opened at ten minutes af.er
two o'clock, when we Lund that the Speaker had left
the House, having been summotel to the Howe of
Peers, to be present at the Royal Commission, and to
hear her Majesty's Speech.
We where i that the ...I°E.I.XIIR had taken the Chair
at a quaver bef,re two o'clock, when prayers were
read, and that about 100 Members were present, nearly
all of whom accomfanied the Speaker to the other
House. The Speaker returned at half-past two.
The House then adjourned until a quarter to Four
o'clock.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cat m at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, ( f which 1,500 were taken on
speculation, and incluthd about 4,000 American, 2,000
Pernam and Maranham, at 611 to 74d.; 100 Bahia, at
6/1. to 7(1.; 100 Egyptian, at 7d. to 74d.; and 200
Surat, at 40. to 4id. pvr lb.—ln Railway Shares only a
limited business was done, at rather lower quotations.
There are no colonial arrivals.
The Frankfoi t report of the 28th inst. quotes Austrian
Metallics at 85k, and Spanish Three per Cents. at 29:41.
At Amsterdam un the 29:h inst. the Home Funds were
rather firmer ; Dutch Tar-and-..-Half par Cents.,
55 7-16.

In the funds there 1 at been sosro thtness, owing to a
sale or two for money, Consols hate tiviged from 96}
to 964 for Transfer. and 964 to 961 fur Account.
Mexican are 29i to -a, and Si,a‘iish Three per Cents.
361 to 37.
Shares generally tiro much the same.
Stafford repo' t is thought more favourable.
ONE
pivijEK OF LYNDo O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Antis
3 per C.eat.CoiLsols
New 314 per Cent. Anns.
Long Anna. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 266% 269
India Bonds, 1,000/ ....
Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... 90 93 p
South Sea Stock
Consuls for Account
Kxchequer Bills. 11A.o. di 2d
1,0001. June
5001. June
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

The Neith

• >G
MICII. S.
2051/2
96 '4l
961,,g
V13%/4

8%
26~

93 p
93 p
1U534
96,43

61 p
61 p

61

011. E
O'CLOCK.

?RIC ES

• razilian Bonds BB
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto, Account
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent. ...
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, f> per Cent. 1846, with Coupons
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Small
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account ...........
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ...... ---
Ditto Scrip 3l/a3A p
Bpanish 5 per Cent. 184 U —
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive 4
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Bank Stock for Account , 36% 37
Venezuela Bonds, DA per Cent
Ditto, Account . 33 34
Dividends on the above payable in London.

594
4k,<,
184
4tAi

20%
29%
73%
73 lei
2 9 %

36:1.i
37 32

314 r
1'74
19%
3%

231 A
34

94f. 50c.
25f. 43e.

French Rentes, 5 per Cent —
Exchange
Dutch 2-LA, per Cent., 12 Guild. ..
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. CertifieateF — 86%
I•RICES OF ;BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN+-
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PitlcEs
Aberdeen ?AID.
12%
Caledonian
Ditto, New 101. Prof... 10
pester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference
68
cast Anglian, 25L, L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 - ...
Do. 181., E. & 11.... 18
Eastern Counties........ 20
Oitto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... 1 X p ..
Eastern Union, Class A

% P

(late E. U. Shares) 25 ......
Do., Class B & C 25
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... 1434 ......
.3reat Northern
Do., '4 A Deferred ... 1214......
Do., 8 6 per Cent— 714. —
4;reat extern 100 ..... 70 69%
Ditto. 14 Shares 5O
Ditto, LA( Shares
Ditto. New 171._ 15 ... . ......
Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 .....
Ditto, 14 Shares 49 ... .. 27 ..
Do. Fifths.... ....... 10
Do. Thirds ...»........ 18 .........
Do. New Guaranteed
Cent...... lO ......... ....•
London & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d...
London. Brighton, and
_ _

39-,
143/4
743
314

33%
16'
9!4i

27
2%

12x.i.
Of 3
85:5i
1164
13 5.y
144
68
16%

South Coatt.. .. . 109 ...... 86 ..•..•.........
Londcn and N Wostern 100 1161,,,14 117 11614
Ditto, Ncir Quarters.. 12
n' 'to, Fill ,-
London 4 s.W,at-..rn ..100 .. .. 68 ......... —•
owestoff. guar. 4 per et 20 ...... 16%
Winchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo ...... ...,
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12%...... 2% "'
Midlmcl . ............ ....P 0 ..... 4414
Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ....• 6% .. ...... .....
Birming., 6 per et...A of i ...... 124 % 123
North Stafford hire ... 17% 7% Ila
o.iferd, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Reading, Guildford, and
2155 .. .... —1255::::31...:
Reigate
Scottish Central
ihrowabtiry and Birra l2 14 , ..... 41/2 ..........
`oath Eastern ... 331/2 •• '' "
Do.. N 0.2.
Do., Scrip No 4
Wear Valley 6 per Cent. .• •••• •••
Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50
Do. do. do. ... 25
York and North Midland ski ~ .. _
1) tttl Froferenc. ~,..... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 2'-
Northern a France 11,4 Va,,, 1% db. ..

21X3
4414
614
1283,i
VA
10%

15%
151,4

15'

.....
27%8

734
2
dis

Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... 3"% .....
Rouen and Havre 2O ...... 101,i .....
MMES.
Brazilian
Cocaes&Cuiaba 30 ......3- ..... .......
Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... ...... 137 i
United Mexican 28% 5 L,§ x.div

:33.;
le%

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
These
IvENVGATIS AN NR
D LEADMALL.
markets ruled heavy, on the f )11ovring terms:—
Beef, from 23 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 6d;
Sibs
Vealby the carcase. , 38 2d to 4s Od; and Pork, 2i 8d to 4s Od per

DICE.A.T 11TAREETS.
SOUTDALL, JAN. 30.—The general demand, although
the st.pp ies on offer were very moderate, ruled to try, at
iiire:y last week's quotstion9. Beef from 3s to
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s
4d to, 33 103; and Pork,4a; 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal.
RONFORD, JAN. 30.—Prime Beasts arid Sheep were
in mod• rate request, at about stationary prices. In °tilt r
kinds of stock exceedingly little was doinr. Beef, from
3s 03 tc 4s; Mutton, 3s 4cl to 4s 23; Yer 1 3a 43 to 3s
Si; ar.cl ork, 3s 4d to 33
83 per 81br. Suckling
Illves. 18s to 245; Quarter-old Store Pies .to
218; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 1 1 5
181 each. / to
HAUSMAN, JAN. 30.—Our market Was somwhat in-
active to-day, and prices were not supported.--Beef fcrto
3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s Gd to 4s 4d; Veal, 38 6d to 33
8d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs.
ARUNDEL, JAN 29.—Prime Down Sheep moved off
steadily at fall pricer. In other kinds cf stock exceed-
ingly little business was doiug.—Beef from 35 2d to
4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 6d;
and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs.
CHICHESTER. JAN. 30.—We bad a very slow trade
to-2d3
to 479s
atibuartteolyn,st3astio4ndarytoAis2d;Veal,
prices.—Beef froms 4d to to
3
locl; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Sucking Calves,
e'2da;t
185 to 225; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 161 to 20s each.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNssuAT.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Al.
bert took their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the slopes and Windsor Park.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council at two o'clock.
It was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince,
Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Presiders
the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John
Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George
Grey, Secretary of State for the Rome Department ;
Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; Earl Grey, secretary of State for the Co-
lonies ; Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer; Sir John Hobhouse, President of the Board
of Control; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster; the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Carlisle,
First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests ; the
Right lion. Fox Maule, Secretary at War ; the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain, and the Duke
of Norfolk, Master of the Horse.

Lord John Russell had an au e ce of the Queen
previous to the Council.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had also an audience
of her Majesty.
At the Privy Council an election was ordered for
two Scotch Peers, in the room of the Earl of Airlie
and Lord Colville, of Culross, deceased.
The Queen's Speech on opening the session of Par•
liament was arranged and agreed upon.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in waiting.
Mr. Justice Tagourel was presented to the Queen
at an audience by the Right Hun. Sir George Grey,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department, kissed hands upon his appoint-
ment, and had the honour of knighthood conferred
upon him by her Majesty.
The Right lion. Sir David Dundas, Judge Advo•
cate-G-eneral, had an audience cf the Queen, and
submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some
courts• martial.

Her Majesty was attended by Lord Camoys, Lord
in Waiting, and Major General Sir Frederick Stovin,
Groom in Waiting.
After the Council luncheon was served to the Mi-
nisters and officers of State in attendance.

Shortly after three o'clock Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the Esrl of Car-
listle, the Earl of Minto, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Sir G. Grey,
Sir John Hobhouse, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Fox Maule, and the lion. W.
Bathurst, took their departure, returning to town by
a special train on the Great 'Western Railway. The
Duke of Norfolk, the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas,
and Sir Thomas Talfourd, also left the Coatle.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leve!on
Gower are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening.
The royal dinner party this evening will include
her Royal llighness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duchess of
Sutherland, Lady C. Leveson Gower, and Sir George
Couper.
Te Queen's private band will attend after dinner

A Sub-Committee of the Commission for the Exhi-
bition cf 1851, met yesterday at the office cf the
Board of Tnate. There were present Earl Gran-
ville, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. T. F. Gibson.

A CURIOUS CON TRIIIU'I'ION TO
THE GREAT I.XIIIBIIION OF 1851.
" Lilac Irenside" writes thus to a Sle.ffield paper :
" The public have not generally been made ac-
quainted with the discovery of a race of men in the
interior of Afric,, having tails. Some months ago
Colonel du Count, who had already penetrated far
into Africa, was about to set out on a new and exten-
sive exploration of five years, under the special aus-
pices of the French Government, and at the charge of
the Treasury. The Minister ot Public Instruction asked
of the Academy of Sciences some instruction for him,
which was read at one of the sittings. At the lame time
the Colonel addressed to the Academy a not:ce of the
Ghilanes inhabiting the interior of Airier., and known
among the neighbouring tribes as having tails. The
report is too long to be inserted here ; an extract will
suffice I inhabited Mecca in 1842,' says Colonel du
Couret ; anO, being often at the house of an Emir with
whom I was intimate, I spoke to him (f the Ghilane
race, and told him how much the Europeans doubted
of the existence of men with tails, the vertebral co-
lumn elongated externally. In order to convince me
of the reality of the species, the Einir ordered before
me one of his slaves, called Bellal, who was about 30
years old, who had a tail, and who belonged to
this tribe. On surveying this man, I was thoroughly
convinced. He spoke Arabic well, and appeared
rather intelligew. He told me that in his country,
far beyond the Sennaar, they spoke a different lan-
guage ; that of his compatriots, whom he estimated
at 30,000 or 40,000, some worshipped the sun, and
moon, and stars ; others the serpent, and the sources
of an immense river, in which they immolated their
victims (probably the sources of the Nile); that they
ate with delight raw flesh, as bloody as possible, and
that they loved human flesh above all things. This
Ghilane had become a devout Mussulman, and had
lived 15 years in the Holy City.' After describing
the race of Gbilanes, the Colonel gives the following
description of Bellal He was thin and dry, but
nervous and strong. His skin was black-bronzed,
shining, and soft to the touch like velvet. His feet
were long and flat ; his arms and legs appeared feeble,
but well supplied with muscles. His ribs could
easily be counted. His face was repulsively ugly ; hie
mouth was enormous, his lips thick, his teeth strong,
sharp, and very white; his nose broad and flat, his
ears long and deformed, his forehead low and very re.
ceding, his hair not very woolly or thick, but never-
theless curly. He had no beard, and his body was not
hairy. He was very active and hardy. His height
was about five feet. His tail was more than three
inches long, and almost as flexible as that of a
monkey. His dispcsitien, setting aside the oddity of
his tastes and habits, was good, and his fidelity was
above all praise.' My object in introducing these
facts is to suggest the propriety of the French Go-
vernment being asked to
,produce a male and female
Ghilane and to send them to the exhibition. They
would produce a sensation not to be produced by
anything else. Lord Monboddo's theoryl would be
discussed by the learned of all countries.

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