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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1850.

THE METROPOLITAN INTER-

MENTS BILL.

It is quite true that certain parts of this Bill do
not go far enough for some, but then these same
parts go much too far for others ; it is likewise
thought by some that private interests are more con-
sidered than they ought to be, but, on the other
hand, a large and powerful body are of opinion that
these interests are not sufficiently protected by the
Bill ;. and if those who are honestly labouring to get
rid of intramural interments and provide means for
" burying our dead out of our sight," will take this
clashing of interests into consideration, they will see
that the Government measure is framed so as to have
the best chance of passing into an Act, and that it
should have their earnest support.
Much of the individual opposition which has been
shown to the Bill has been caused by the misrepre-
sentation of interested parties, that its provisions are
what those who have examined the Bill know they
are not.

Clause 7, for example, which provides that the
Board of Health may, if they see fit, purchase and
take by agreement or otherwise all or any of the
cemeteries mentioned in the schedule, stipulates that
it must be subject to the rights to graves, vaults, and
monuments subsisting therein.
By clause 12, the Queen in Council may, upon
report of the Board only (but is not forced to do so),
order discontinuance of interment in churchyards, &c.
By clause 13 the inhabitants of parishes comprised
in the district or part in which interment is ordered
to be discontinued are to have right of sepulture in
burial grounds provided under this Act.
And then as to the assertion that the Government
have taken forcibly into their own hands the conduct
of all funerals, let the public read the clause (26),
and judge for themselves. It runs as follows :
" And be it enacted, that the said board shall make
provision for the management and conduct, by
per-
sons appointed by them, of the funerals of persons
whose bodies are to be interred in the burial grounds
provided under this Act, where the persons having
the care and direction of such funerals desire to have
the same so conducted; and the said board shall fix
and publish a scale of the sums to be payable for such
funerals, inclusive of all matters and services neces-
sary for the same—such sums to be proportioned to
the description of the funeral, or the nature of the
Matters and services to be furnished and rendered,
but so that in respect of the lowest of such sums the
funerals may be condUcted with decency and solem-
nity ; and the persons having the care and direction
of the funeral of any person whose body is to be in-
terred in any such burial ground, where they are de-
sirous of having the same conducted by the same
board, upon furnishing to the said board or their
officers a note in writing, stating the scale according
to which they are desirous the funeral should be fur-
nished, and upon payment, for such funeral according
to such scale, shall be entitled to have such funeral
conducted by the said board accordingly."
Parties may still employ their own undertakers if
they will. But even if we admit that the manage-
ment of all funerals will fall into the hands of
Government—that they will monopolize the trade—
we must remember it is a monopoly by which the
public themselves are to benefit : no revenue is to be
derivedf rom it : the accounts will be audited, be open
to public inspection, and be brought annually before
Parliament.

No time should be lost in providing places of sepul-
ture away from town, and closing the present over-
filled graveyards of the metropolis—the fever-stills
of this mighty centre of active life. Summer is ap-
proaching, and there is too much reason to fear that
with it will again come the mysterious destroyer
which last year carried off, in the metropolis alone,
no fewer than 16,000 persons. The deleterious effect
of graveyards on the atmosphere, and the connexion
between a tainted atmosphere and the cholera, can-
not now want proving.—Builder.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 22.
HUDSPETE V. TARNOLD.—ACTION BY AN ♦CTOR TO
RECOVER HIS SALARY.
This was an action which had been brought by a
low comedian against Mrs. Yarnold, as the lessee of
the Pavilion Theatre, to recover twenty-two and a
half weeks' salary, at the rate of 21. a week. The
case was tried before the Chief Justice at the sittings
at Nisi Prius, in Middlesex, after.last Hilary Term.
The plaintiff, in his particulars of demand, credited
the defendant with the sum of 241. odd, and sought
to recover the balance. The jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff for 121. Bs. 2d. only.
In the course of last Easter Term, Mr. Hawkins,
on the part of the defendant, obtained a rule nisi to
enter nonsuit, or to enter a suggestion upon the roll
to deprive the plaintiff of costs. The ground upon
which the Learned Counsel sought to enter a nonsuit
was that a letter in which the defendant offered to
give the plaintiff a salary of 21. a week for the sum-
mer season, constituted an agreement, and being
for an amount above 201. ought to have been
stamped, and not being stamped had been improperly
received in evidence. The Learned Counsel applied
to enter a suggestion upon the roll to deprive the
plaintiff of costs, because the jury had found that all
that was due to him was 121. odd, and that sum
being under 201. the action ought to have been
brought in a county court, and not in one of the su-
perior courts.
Mr. Joyce now showed cause against the rule, and
Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Prentice supported it.
The COURT said they were of opinion that the letter
in question only contained a proposal on the part of
Mrs. Yarnold to give the plaintiff a salary of 21. a
week, and it did not amount to an agreement between
the parties, consequently it did not, require a stamp.
With regard to the second point, the Court thought
that the action was one which ought to have been
brought in a county court, and therefore the rule
must be made absolute to enter a suggestion upon the
roll to deprive the plaintiff of costs.
Rule absolute accordingly.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, May 22.
(Before Palate's BAYLEY, Esq.)
M'CANN V. FERGUSON.
The plaintiff, Mr. M'Cann, sought to recover the
sum of 141. lls. 6d. for services rendered to the wife
1% of the defendant as her medical attendant.
His HONOUR, upon M'Cann entering the witness•
box, inquired for his "certificate." Mr. M'Cann ac-
quainted the Court that he did not consider that he
was called upon to produce it.
His HONOUR observed, that whether Mr. M'Cann
considered himself or his profession called upon to
produce their certificates, he would now take the op-
portunity of acquainting the medical profession, that
unless they came before the Court provided with their
stamped certificate most unquestionably would they
be nonsuited.
Mr. ROBERTS—Your. Honour, I am informed that
the plaintiff can produce his certificate in a few mi-
nutes; I, as counsel for the defendant, respectfully
beg that your Honour will postpone the case for a
short time.
2 His HoNOUR acceding to the request of plaintiff
1% and defendant,
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34 Mr. M'Cann deposed to the disease under which
yi Mrs. Ferguson laboured, and the treatment he had
2s directed.
The Learned JUDGE here called for the ledger,
day and scrap books of the plaintiff, and desired the
I% plaintiff to read the prescriptions.
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Ills HONOUR---I would like to know, Mr. Roberts,
od your grounds for this assumption.
a%• Mr. RonEars—lf your Honour had had to listen
f'd to the instructions given me by the unfortunate and
ill-used defendant, you would not have demanded
sthtaeted that
the grounds upon which I characterise the plaintiff.
. I think, your Honour, that there ought to be a tax-
ing master for doctors as well as for lawyers.
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judgment,postponed
the highest medical authorities, who were unanimous
that the bill was a reasonable one, and that, there-
fore, he must give judgment for the whole amount.
BARRISTERS V. ATTORNEYS.--IMPORTANT APPLI-
CATION.
Yesterday Mr. 0. W. Hoggins, in company with
Mr. M'lntyre, two barristers, attended to make an
application to the Court for the purpose of giving
members of the bar precedence over attorneys in the
hearing of causes in which they are concerned. Se-
veral barristers and solicitors addressed the Court in
support of the conflicting views held by them re-
specting the course most advisable for adoption by
the Judge in coming to a decision on the applica-
tion ; and his Honour determined on postponing his
udgment to a future day.

ie
planet Mercury, which is seldom seen in this
neighbourhood, is now in a position where it may easily be
observed on a clear evening. It was yesterday
at its greatest
elongation, and'was then 22 degs. east of the sun, and as its
apparent eclination is upwards of 25 degs. north, it will re-
main visible above the north-western horizon for about two
hours and a quarterafter the sun has set. OnWednesdaynext
it-will be in conjunction with the brilliant planet Venus at
seventeen minutes after three in the afternoon, and will be
only 38 mins. of a degree, or little more than the diameter
of the sun, north of the sun. If the evening of that day
happen to be clear, the two planets may be seen at the same
tNewcastle ime, within the field
,of view - an ordinary telescope.—
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mary Anne Williams was placed at the bar before
Alderman Musgrove, charged with stealing between
200 and 300 fourpenny-pieces, 60 threepenny-pieces,
and two florins, the property of her master.
The case was remanded from Saturday, and, in the
absence of any further evidence, the prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.
John Keats, Henry Fosset, and Matthew Noble,
members of the London swell mob, were brought up
on remand, charged with attempting to pick the
pockets of several ladies on Blackfriars-bridge.
The prisoners were remanded from Monday to in-
quire into their characters.
Daniel May stated that he had made inquiries, and
ascertained that Keats had been committed from Bow-
street for three months on a charge of felony, and
previous to that a former conviction stood against him,
when he had nine months. It was also ascertained
that Fosset and Noble were noted " skittle-sharps,"
and were constantly observed in company with the
worst of characters; one of their companions was
lately transported for " sharpiog" a tradesman out
of a large sum of money at skittles, and three more
were keeping out of the way for being concerned in
the same affair.
The father of Fossett was called to speak for him,
when it was proved that he lived entirely by skittle-
sharping.
Mr. Chandler, the landlord of the Prince and
Princess, Gravel-lane, appeared to give Noble a cha-
racter, and eventually proved that he was as great a
sharp as Fosset.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
Francis Johnson, clerk and bookkeeper to Messrs.
Warner and Sons, metal merchants in Jewin-street,
was placed at the bar charged with embezzling vari-
ous sums of money the property of his employers.
The prisoner, who said he would reserve his de-
fence, was committed to Newgate to take his trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mary Reynolds, a decent-looking woman about 30
years of age, stated to be the wife of a blacksmith
in Nelson-street, Bethnal-green, was placed before
Mr. Hammill, charged with an attempt to commit
self-destruction, and also attempting to destroy the
life of her daughter, Ann Reynolds, an infant eight
months old.
Alfred Watson, a hawker of china, stated, about 7
o'clock yesterday evening I was in the Victoria-park,
showing my little boy the swans and wild fowl in the
ornamental water, when I noticed the prisoner, who
is a neighbour of mine, standing a few yards from me,
by the side of the water, with her infant in her arms.
I moved away from the spot a short distance, when,
hearing a scuffling noise, I turned round, and at the
same instant saw the prisoner leap into the water
with her infant clasped to her breast. The child di-
rectly after dropped from her arms, and sank beneath
the water, but floated up again ; and the prisoner, who
had likewise sunk, also re-appearad about half-a-yard
from it, and made a violent effort to get hold of it.
I and my brother, however, jumped in, and while I
secured the child and brought it to the bank, my
brother succeeded in grasping hold of the prisoner
herself, and dragged. her on to the path. Upon getting
her up, she wrung her hands, and exclaimed, " Oh,
Mr. Watson, you had better not have saved me—you
had better have let me alone • for my husbanothas
ill-
used me. I have a poor deaf dumb boy at home,
and I wish to God that he was here also. She then
became. faint; and having laid her upon the grass, we
sent for one of the park-keepers, and gave her into
custody for her own protection. She appeared to me
to have been drinking ; but scarcely five minutes
before she leaped into the water with the infant I saw
her sitting upon a bank with another woman, crying,
and apparently in much mental distress.
Mary Thompson, a married woman, stated—l live
in the same house with the prisoner, who has four
children, the youngest of whom is now in court, and
is about Bor 9 months old. About half-past 5 yes-
terday evening I and the prisoner, accompanied by
her husband and a party of other persons, went out for
a walk, and in the course of it, had a small quantity
of spirits each. On reaching Birdcage-walk some
sharp words ensued between the prisoner and her
husband, which appeared much to hurt her feelings,
and, on reaching the park, her husband walked on out
of sight. We were walking along the bank together,
the prisoner with the infant in her arms, when I
happened to look across to the opposite side, and,
noticing that the prisoner did not follow, turned round
to speak to her, when I heard a sudden splash, and
the next instant she and the baby were struggling in
the water. The act was so sudden and unexpected that I
became greatly alarmed, and do not know what else
took place until she and the infant had been rescued
by some of the bystanders, nor do I know the cause of
her committing the act; but, whilst previously walking
near the water, I noticed that she was very low
spirited and crying bitterly, and upon asking her to
tell me why she was so, she refused to speak. The
witness added, that she bad lodged iu the same house
with the prisoner and her husband for the last twelve-
months, and that, as far as she could observe, they ap-
peared to live on happy terms together.
When asked if she wished to say anything in
answer to the charge, the prisoner, who was deeply
affected, and in such a state of debility and illness
that she was obliged to be allowed a seat during the
examination, faintly replied in the negative; and
Mr. HAMMILL ordered her to be remanded until
that day week, for the completion of the evidence.
She subsequently applied for her infant to be re-
stored to her, but the magistrate considered it unsafe
to intrust her with the care of it, and the child,
which was in the arms of a nurse.in court, and ap-
peared to have suffered from its immersion in the
water, was afterwards conveyed to the House of De-
tention, with directions that it should there be
properly attended to. Several persons before the close
of the court presented themselves as bail for the pri-
soner's future appearance, but the magistrate refused
to accept it.

THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
A magnificent entertainment in the character of a
bi-centenary festival was given last evening in the
royal banquetting room of St. James's Palace, by
the officers of the Coldstream Guards, to celebrate
the 200th anniversary of the enrolment of that dis-
tinguished corps by the celebrated General Monck,
afterwards Duke of Albemarle.
The intention of the officers of the regiment to
commemorate this event in their annals by a grand
banquet having become known to the Prince Consort,
his Royal Highness in the kindest manner interested
himself to obtain the use of the banquetting-room in St.
James's Palace for the purpose, and, her Majesty's
gracious permission having been accorded, the neces-
sary preparations have been in progress for some
weeks past under the direction of a committee, of
whom Col. Lord Frederick Paulet and Col. Daniell
were active members.
The invitations were necessarily limited to officers
formerly belonging to the regiment, and those still
attached to the corps, these forming an aggregate
number of nearly 150 gentlemen. A request was
made to the Prince Consort that he would con-
descend to honour the festival with his presence, but
the Court having arranged to leave town yesterday,
his Royal Highness was prevented joining the party.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, colonel
of the regiment, was of course present. His Grace
the Commander-in-Chief, the Secretary-at-War, the
Adjutant-General of the Forces, and a few other
officers were the only visitors present.
It should be here mentioned that the Royal Regi-
ment of Coldstream Guards is the oldest corps in the
service, with the exception of the Ist Foot. The re-
giment owes its origin to General Monck, by whom
it was raised in August, 1650, fire companies having
been draughted, by the Protector's authority, from
Heselrigge s regiment, quartered at Newcastle,
and five from Fenwick's, then garrisoned at
Berwick. Thus formed, the regiment entered
Scotland with the army under Cromwell, and
did not return till General Monck, on the Ist
of January, 1659-60, quitted his head-quarters at
Coldstream to restore the monarchy under Charles
11. From the place whence these brave men set out,
and where the plan had been matured, the regiment
derives its distinctive appellation, .an event which
Gumble, the chaplin of General Monck, has thus re-
corded :—" This town hath given title to a small
company of men, whom God made the instrument of
great things, and, though poor, yet honest, as ever
corrupt nature produced into the world, by the no
dishonourable name of Coldstreamers." Of the ser-
vices of the Coldstream Guards, it is sufficient to say
that none of her Majesty's regiments have more
distinguished themselves.
The guests assembled in the long gallery, whence,
on dinner being announced, they proceeded to the
state banquetting-room—an appartment of great mag-
nificence erected by George IV., and frequently used
by the late King William IV., but only once since
the death of that Monarch, on the occasion of the
marriage of her present Most Gracious Majesty. Two
long tables were arranged on either side of the room
with a cross table, together affording seats for 140 guests
and exhibiting a magnificent display of the choicest
plate. The appartment was superbly illuminated,
and when the guests were seated the effect was ex-
tremely grand. Behind the chair, supported on either
side by the colours of the regiment, was a fine por-
trait of General Monck, purchased by the officers of
the corps some years since, and bearing the following
inscription :—" General George Monck, Duke of
Albemarle, the first Colonel of the Regiment of
Coldstream Guards." Over the fireplace was a mag-
nificent gold cup, presented to the officers of the regi-
ment, and upon either side waved the tattered colours
borne at Waterloo, which were presented to the corps
only yesterday by Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander
Woodford, the Colonel commanding at that period.
Colonel Chaplin, the commanding officer of the
regiment, presided, and was supported right and left
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
his Grace the Duke of Wellington. To the right of
the Duke of Cambridge sat the Marquis of Huntly, the
Earl of Stradbroke, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule,
M.P. To the left of the Duke of Wellington we
remarked the Marquis of Westmeath, Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence, and Sir James Macdonell, K.C.B.
The banquet was furnished under the exclusive su-
perintendence of Messrs. Gunter, of Berkeley-square
—a fact in itself sufficient to guarantee the entire
perfectibility of all the arrangements.
During dinner the fine band of the regiment, under
the direction of Mr. Godfrey, played a selection of
favourite music.
The dessert having been placed upon the table,
The Gallant CHAIRMAN gave, " The Health of her
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen," by whose kind-
ness they were allowed to celebrate the present fes-
tival in a Royal palace.—(Cheers.)
The toast was responded to with the utmost en-
thusiasm, the band playing a few bars of the National
Anthem.
The Gallant CHAIRMAN next gave " The Health of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the other
Members of the Royal Family."
This toast was also enthusiastically responded to,
the band playing the Coburg March.
The Gallant CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose the
next toast, claimed the indulgence of the company, as
he felt himself unable to do it justice.—(Hear, hear.)
They were met that day to celebrate the 200th anni-
versary of the formation of the regiment of Coldstream
Guards.—(Hear, hear.) He believed it was in Au-
gust, 16.50, that this distinguished regiment was first
raised by General Monck, afterwards the Duke of
Albemarle. Had they put off their festival until
August next perhaps they might not have been
honoured with the presence of his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge and so many gallant mem-
bers of the " Nulli Secundus" as he then saw around
him. His Royal Highness having consented to
honour them with his company on that day, it had
been thought better to celebrate this festival at once,
and hence the occasion of their present meeting.—
(Hear, hear.) He regretted to say that be was not
very well up in the history of the regiment, but he
believed it.took its name from the village of Cold-
stream, which was the head-quarters of General Monck
in 1650, when he commenced his celebrated march
towards London.; In February of the same year he
arrived in the metropolis, and the regiment was
quartered in the precincts of the Palace in which they
were then assembled. In May General Monck
marched to meet Charles IL, who, on his restoration,
created him Duke of Albemarle, and converted his
regiment into one of Royal Guards.—(Hear hear.)
Since that time the regiment bad had many colonels,
but he believed he was correct in saying none so long
as their present illustrious colonel.—(Cheers.) His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had been
connected with the regiment for nearly half a century,
and, as one of the oldest officers in the corps, he could
himself bear witness to the many advantages for
which it was indebted to his Royal Highness.—
(Hear, hear.)
His Royal Highness has always
been anxious to promote the best interests of the
regiment, and he begged to propose the health of their
illustrious Colonel, with three times three, and the
expression of a fervent hope that many years of health
and happiness might be spared to him to command
the Coldstream Guards.—(Cheers.)
The toast was most rapturously received, the band
playing the Coldstream March.
His Rorer, HIGHNESS, in responding, expressed the
extreme gratitude he felt both for the kind manner
in which the toast had been received, and for the
flattering way in which the gallant chairman had in-
troduced his name. He confessed the pride he felt in
commanding so distinguished a regiment as the Cold-
stream Guards, and that pride was increased by the
fact that the regiment had been formerly commanded
by his beloved and affectionate brother, the late Duke
.of York, to whom he believed the corps owed great
obligations for the efficient system he had introduced
into his. management.—(Hear.) He trusted the
principles which had hitherto marked the regiment
would be continued, and that it would in future
prove, as it had hitherto done, "nulli seeundus." In
conclusion, his Royal Highness begged to be allowed
to propose the health of their illustrious Commander-
in-Chief, " his Grace the Duke of Wellington."
The toast was drunk with all the honours, his
Royal Highness giving the cue in the hearties
mannner.

The Duke of WELLINGTON, in reply, said—My
lords and gentlemen, I am greatly indebted to his
Royal Highness for the honour he has done me in
proposing to you to drink my health, and to you for
the manner in which you have accepted the proposi-
tion of his Royal Highness.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I may well be gratified and flattered at the honour
you have done me in inviting me to attend your festi-
val on this occasion. Gentlemen, long before I had
the honour of holding a commission in the corps of
Guards, I had every reason to respect that corps on
account of their display of every military quality as
soldiers in every situation in which they could be
placed. I have had the good fortune to see them in'
the presence of the enemy—in situations of difficulty
under every possible circumstance, and on every such

occasion they have conducted themselves with distinc-
tion, and displayed every quality which could be ex-
pected from the best class of soldiers.—(Cheers.)

Among these the leastdistinguished have not been the
Coldstream Guards.—(Loud cheers.) I see many
around me whose conduct have had ocoasion to ap-
plaud under every variety of circumstance—in the
field, in cantonments, and in quarters. Gentle-
men, I know also it is impossible to lee troops equal
to the efficiency of the Guards. Look at your every-
' day occurrences in foreign countries. What, gentle-
men, shall it be said that in England the people are
less courageous than in other countries ? Is not an
,English mob as brave as that of any other country,
w hether French or German ?—(lipar.) Well, just
100 .k at the handful of men who in this metropolis and
in toe great towns of England have maintained peace
and or der under very difficult circumstances, and
cvmpao them-with the moraine armies-quArtferedin

foreign countries.—(Cheers.) G entlemen, you have
all seen what has passed both here and elsewhere, and
I need not enter upon it in this place. You are aware
of the difficult position and trying circumstances
which have occurred, but you must also have ob-
served that while with ourselves anarchy has never
had a chance of success, other countries, after months
of rapine and misfortune, have only been extricated
from their difficulties after severe a .d fatal contests.—

(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I want to know how it
happens; and I believe it is attributable in a great
measure to the principle of bravery and good discip-
line which animates the corps of Guards, and which
has its example and effect among all classes of the
people.—(Cheers.) Among this corps, I say again,
the Coldstreams have never been the least distinguished
and reiterating my thanks for the compliment you
have paid me, I wish every one of you prosperity and
happiness. The Noble Duke resumed his seat amid
loud cheers from all parts of the room.
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The sister service, the
N4vv," which was duly responded to.
The CHAIRMAN, on ag Ain rising', proposed " The
health of the Right H in. the Secretary at-War,"
prefacing the clmplimmt with a few eulogistic re-
marks on the official conduct of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman.

The Right Hon. Fox IVIAuLE responded in an elo-
quent address.

The other toasts proposed were—" The Adjutant-
General of the Forces," "The Grenadier Guards and
Colonel Lascelles, "The Fusilier Guards and Colonel
Drummond," " The Marquis of Huntley, the oldest
Coldstreamer present," the Gallant Marquis having
left the corps in 1790; " The Chairman," by the Duke
of Cambridge; "Sir Alexander Woodford and Gene-
ral Trevor," "Sir James Macdonnell and Sir Henry
Bouverie," "Sir William Gomm," "The Cavalry
Brigade," responded to by Lord George Manners,
M.P. ; " General Milman," " General Walton," " Ge-
neral Shawe," "Lord Frederick Fitzclarence," "Cox
and Co., the agents of the regiment," " The old Cold-
streamers," and " The non-commissioned officers ;"
the latter by Colonel Daniels.
The party broke up about midnight highly de-
lighted with the festival.

-A
grand entertainment, in celebration of the event,
wet given yesterday at the Portman-street barracks,
to the non-commissioned officers and privates of the
regiment. The men, numbering 1,400, assembled
in St. James's-park at one o'clock, under the com-
mand of Colonel Bentinck, and, after a brief parade,
marched from there to the barracks at Portman•-
street, where a substantial repast had been prepared
for them. The Duke of Cambridge (Colonel of the
regiment) and all the officers were in attendance.
The large yard occupying the centre of the barracks
was completely,covered in with canvass, in the form of
an oriental marquee, this portion of the arrangement
having been entrusted to Mr. Benjamin Edgington.
The colours used by the corps at Waterloo occupied
a prominent position at the entrance, and were taste-
fully entwined in laurel and ribands. Other portions
of the tent were emblazoned with the national em-
blems of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and with a
variety of flags and banners. The men having sat
down, grace was said by Sergeant-Major Hurle, who
presided. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, occupied a seat among the privates with whom
he conversed with his wonted affability. The fare
consisted of about 1,4001 b. of beef, with a liberal sup-
ply of pudding and beer.
At the termination of the entertainment,
Sergeant-Major HURLE, in a brief address, pro-
posed " The health of her Majesty the Queen," a
toast which was drunk with acclamation.

The SERGBANT-MAJOR, then rose and proposed
" The health of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge and the Officers of the Coldstream
Guards." The sergeant, in very eloquent terms,
eulogised the services of the Coldstreamers, and en-
tered into a brief detail of their services from the time
of General Monck down wards. He observed, that
although there were no Waterloo veterans at present
in the corps, he was sure the Coldstreamers of the
present day were not inferior in point of martial
spirit to their predecessors. He next dilated upon
the many good qualities of the officers who at present
formed the staff of the regiment, and instanced several
cases in which the general welfare of the men had been
enhanced through their instrumentality. In no regi-
ment did the mutual relations between officers non-
commissioned officers, and men more cordially exist
than in the Coldstream Guards.

The toast was most heartily responded to.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS returned thanks, and con-
cluded by observing that, having been connected with
the corps for upwards of 45 years, he felt no small
pride in denominating himself " The Father of the
Coldstreamers."

The Royal party retired shortly before four
o'clock.

Later in the evening the men were permitted to
have their friends, and dancing and other amusements
were kept up for some hours.

THE ARMY.

ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, MAY 22.—An
order was issued during the latter part of last week
announcing that no permission would be granted to
any of the troops in the garrison to proceed to Green-
wich Fair during the Whitsun holidays, as several of
the men had got into trouble when they were per-
mitted to visit the fair last Easter. The drills in the
garrison were carried on from 3 to 5 o'clock P.M.,
instead of 2 to 4, and the tatoo roll-call was beat at
8 instead of 9 o'clock at the Royal Artillery and
Royal Marine barracks. A strong piquet, consist-
ing of 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 6 sergeants, and 100
rank and file of the battalions ; 1 lieutenant, 2 ser-
geants, and 13 rank and fife of. the Royal Horse
Artillery paraded on Monday, Tuesday, and Wed-
nesday afternoon, and the horses after parade were
taken to the stable and kept ready saddled in
case their services should be required, or any
attempt made to disobey orders. A sergeant of the
Royal Artillery, and a sergeant of the Royal Ma-
rines, were stationed at each of the stations of the
North Kent Railway, at Woolwich ;and a sergeant
of the Royal Artillery and Royal Marine, at each of
the steam-boat piers. The whole three days of the
fair have passed over without any attempt on the part
of the men of the garrison to disobey the injunctions
of their' superiors. The officers of the garrison in-
tend to have races on Monday next, and have sub-
scribed liberally for the amusement of the men on
that day, and a committee consisting of Brigade-M,jor
Walpole, Royal Engineers, president ; Captain Ward,
Royal Horse Artillery; Captains Wodehouse and Rad-
cliffe, Royal Artillery ; and Captain Hounslow, Royal
'Marines' has been appointed to award prizes to the
men for leaping and running,running in sacks, climb-
ing poles, and other entertaining amusements, after
the races are over.