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with the other judges and the bar, remained standing)
the oaths of allwgi•wuce, supremacy, &c.
The Lord Chief Justice wore the symbol of his office,
a magnificent gold chain; but, in other respects, neither
himself nor the other judges were habited (Abet...vise
than they ordinarily are on the first day of term.
Whilst the oaths were being administered to the Lord
Chief Justice, we observed that his Lordship evinced
considerable emotion, which ho seemed struggling to
suppress, and which gave a certain tremulousness to
his voice as he repeated the words after the officer.
The ceremony being over, the Court immediately
entered upon the hearing of the case of

Jones, and John Sullivan, who were on Saturday con
victed of haying attempted to extort money from Mr.
Wyatt, the tobacconist of Great Queen-street, by
thres.tening to accuse him of having been guilty of an
infamous cud abominable crime, were this morning
brought up for ju,lguient.
Mr. 13°Dm/q, on behalf of the prosecution, recom-
mended Tiddiman to the mercy ( f the Court, on the
ground that he had pleaded guilty to al)izt' the probe-
curium

Mr. Baron PLATT, before passing sentence
gave the decision ti the Court on tho ap-
plication for an arrest of judgment on the
ground that the indictment was defective, inas-
much as it did not state the instrument, or agreement
fur 501., which the prisoners sought to obtain, to be the
property of the prosecutor.
The Learned JUDGE overruled the objection, and then
proce:ded to pass sentence as follows:—Bennett, Laidler,
Jones, and Sullivan to he transported fir life, and Tid-
diman to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for the
term of two years.
The Learned JUDGE then directed a reward cf 5/. to
be raid to Mrs. Legg, to mark the sense of the Court
for the adroitnet:s she had displayed in bringing the pri-
soners to justice.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER V. GORIIAbI.

Sir FITZROY KELLY said he was instructed, on behalf
of the Bishop of Exeter, to move for a rule to show cause
why a writ of prohibition should not issue to Sir Her-
bert Jenner Fust, the Dean of the Arches Court of Cae-
terhury, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, prohibiting
them from proceeding further in a muniticn or citation of
the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of
Exeter, requiring him to return to that court a certain
presentation by her Majesty of the Rev. George Curni -
lius Gorham to the vicarage of Bampford-Speke, in the
diocese of Exeter, and the county of Devon, and from
proce owing in carrying into effect the recent judgment of
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case
of " Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter." He had to make
this motion on the ground that the Court of Archie
hoving pronounced judgment and sentence in the case to
which he had adverted, and an appeal having been made
from that judgment to her Majesty in Council, upon
which, and on the report of the Judicial Committee of
Privy Council, her Majesty had been pleased to reverse
the judgment of the Court of Arches, and t) remit the
case back to that court, with certain directions
founded upon that reversal, and that, inasmuch
as it would appear by Act of Parham( nt that
the appeal in a matter of this nature from the Arches
Court at Canterbury, lay not to her. Majesty in Council
or to the Judical Committee, bat to the Upper Howe of
Convocation, and to that tribunal only, and that the
proceedings before her Majesty in Council and the
judgment pronounced thereupon, were entirely null and
void in law. Her Majesty had the right of presentation
to the vicarage of Bampford Speke by virtue of her
Crown, and she had presented Mr. Gorham to it by
letters patent; and this being a matter purely affecting
the rights of the Crown, he contended that the appeal
from the Arches Court lay not to her Majesty
in Council, but to the Upper House of Convo-
cation, and that this being a question involving
no point of temporal interest, but only matters of spiritual
doctrine affecting the Church of England, the Upper
House of Convocation, composed as it was of dignitaries
of the Chuch, was a tribunal much better adapted for
its satisfactory settlement than the Judicial Conamitteee
of the Privy Council.
Their LORDSHIPS intimated that they would look into
the authorities bearing on the case, and give their deci-
sion on a future day.

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey, cum.
menced this morning, at the Court-house, Neetugten•
causeway, before Thomas suckle, Esq., and a full bench
Of Magistrates.
The calendar contained the names of only twenty-
four prisoners for trial, owing to the proximity of the
general Quarter Sessions and the Old Bailey Sessions,
which took place last week, and in a great measure
cleared the gaols. The charges are of a commonplace
nature, being most of them robberies from the person by
females.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
MURDEROIIS ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—James Bond,
a well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having committed a most violent assault
upon Louisa Williams, by cutting her across the head
with a knife.
The prosecutrix, whose head and face were covered
with blood, deposed that last night about 12 o'clock she
was in Nathan's coffee-house, in Jermyn-street, having
some supper, when three men, one of whom was the
prisoner, came into the same room. The prisoner
came up to the table where she was sitting ,and took
her supper from her, and banded a portion of it
to one of his companions. She told the :prisoner
that he bad no right to take away her
supper, and that he must pay for it, or order some more.
He said he would do neither, and then be took up the
knife with which she had been eating and struck her
with it over the right eye, inflicting a wound of a fright-
ful nature, from which the blood flowed in torrents. He
then struck her 'everts! blows and knocked her down
underneath the table, where she remained insensible for
a few minutes, when some one came to her assistance,
and she was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital where
her wounds were dressed. She had not been drinking,
and nothing had passed between them before he took
her supper. There was no other person present at the
time.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
Before the CHIEF BARON, and Barons PARSE and

ROLFE.)
This being the first day of Easter Term, the court
was very cruwded. Several of the new Queen's Counsel
were present who had been created since the last sittings,
and took their seats for the first time under the bar.

The defendant denied using the knife, but admitted
knocking complainant down, and her head fell against
the corner of the leg of the table. He was provoked to
strike her, as she had annoyed him by throwing a cup of
coffee over him.

Mr. Blzionem said the woman had distinctly sworn
to his using the knife, but as there was no medical
testimony to that effeet, he should direct a constable to
take her instantly to the hospital, and get the surgeon's
opinion.
In the course of an hour the constable returned, and
said the house-surgeon had examined the woman, and
gave his opinion that the wound might be caused by a
blow or a knife, but he could not say it was an incised
wound.

The prosecutrix expressed a wish to have her wound
examined by her own medical man.
Mr. BINGHAM said, in so doing, she was putting her-
self to unnecessary expense, but as she wished it, he
would adjourn the case for that purpose.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—CharIes Saunders WAS
charged before Mr. Bingham with embezzling the sum
of 31., received for and on account of his master, Mr.
Robert Bignell, the proprietor of the Argyll-rooms,
Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.
The prosecutor, who is the proprietor of some betting-
rooms, as well as of the above rooms, stated that the
prisoner was in his service as clerk, and his duty was to
receive sums of money from gentlemen, and to return
other sums of money should the event come off. On the
Bth of March the prisoner received from a gentleman
named Donnel the sum of 51, as a bet of 5 to 55 against
a horse called Cheerful. The prisoner gave a ticket for
the amount, with the sum laid wrote upon it.
Instead of entering the full amount in a book kept fur
that purpose, he only entered the bet laid as 2 to 1, thus
putting three pounds into his own pocket. In another
case he had taken 205., and entered in the book as
only receiving 10s. The prisoner bad no doubt robbed
him to a serious amount, and be wished to have him
remanded in order to allow him time to look over his
books.

MO,..••••••••
Several persons having proved paying money to the
prisoner,
Mr. BINGHAM remanded him far a week.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Craven Stakes.

Retail ... ...
Tisiphone ... ... ...
Sweepstakes.

Offi..ious
Abdalleth

••• ••• ... 1
... • . ... 2
Match—Bringt,n beat Canada colt.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. IV.
ANTICIPATED WINNERS.
MONDAY.
Stake. Probable winner.
100 sovs. Ab. M.—Necklace.
100 sovs. Cam. C.—Hardinge.
50 sovs. D. M.—Nutshell.
50 sovs. D. M.—Officious.
Alatch, 300 sovs. D.M.—Canada Colt.
Match, 200 sovs. D. M.—Collingwood.

TUESDAY.
Newmarket Handicap, C.C.—Keraun or Kissaway, Her-
bert, Cheerful, and Little Jack in waiting.
Riddlesworth Stakes.—Hardinge.
50 sous. D.M.—The Nigger.
50 sove. D.M.—Tomboy or Tiff.
soon. D M.—Satire Ist, Ghio 2d.
50 sous. A.F.—Compass Ist, Clincher 2d.

WEDNESDAY.
Column Stakes. R.M.—Mickleton Ist, Clelia 2d.
50 Boys. last half of Ab.M.—Allreda or Fernande.
Post Match, 200 sow. D.M.—Clelia.

THURSDAY.
100 sots. D.M.—Longinus or Cariboo.
50 sots. Criterion C.—Officious.
50 sots. D.M.—John• o'-Groat.
Match, 200 sots. T.Y.C.—Farthingale.

FRIDAY.
Match, 200 sous. last half of Ab. M.—Preslaw.
PortStakes.T.M.M.—Lady Es Glyn Ist, Honeycomb 21
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

April 15, 1850.

DEATH OF MR. ALEXANDER RITCHIE.—We re-
gret to observe in our obituary of Saturday the announce-
ment of the death of Mr. Alexander A. Ritchie, artist, at the
comparatively early age of thirty-four. Mr:Ritchie pos-
sessed great versatility of talent, and in delineating scenes
whether humorous or pathetic was alike successful. He de-
picted Scottish life and manners with graphic fidelity • and
his illustrations in the " Gaberlunzie's Wallet," " Miller of
Deanhaugh," " Nursery Rhymes," as well as those in other
national works to which he contributed, extensively evince a
lively fancy, a ready pencil, and a keen appreciation of cha-
racter. His picture, " The Captive Truant," now in the
rooms of the Scottish Academy, is a fair specimen of his
skill as a painter, and he has left behind him a number of
water-coloured sketches, chiefly of the most picturesque and
interesting of the wynds and closes of Edinburgh, which at-
test his skill as a rapid and correct draughtsman. The re-
presentations given in the Illustrated London News of inter-
esting events as they occurred in the Scottish capital were
generally sketched by Mr. Ritchie, and were characterised
by much truthfulness and vigour. Mr. Ritchie was also the
author of several excellent songs, which he sung with great
feeling and purity of taste. He was simple in manners
and kindly in disposition, and his loss will be deeply felt
by an extensive circle of friends and admirers.—Scotsman.
EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.--That fact is stronger
than fiction is fully verified in the following true case of
Irish ingenuity, in which the ferocious and the absurd are
curiously blended. At the present sessions, now holding in '
Mallow, an unhappy wretch was indicted for stealing turnips
from the field of Mr. Leader, of Mill-street, in this county,
the principal witness being the watchman, known familiarly
as " Mad Tom Eager." 'I he attorney who defended the
prisoner endeavoured to shake the testimony of the witness,
who swore that he was as near to the prisoner as " the
length of himself;" but, upon being further pressed, he
coolly said—" Didn't I know what the attorney would be at,
and what he'd try to make me swear? Faith, I did so, and
when I eaught the prisoner I knocked him down and took
out my knife, and cut off a piece of his ear, that I might
match it next day." This terrific statement was moruufully
corroborated by the prisoner in the dock, who turned his
mutilated ear to the Bench, crying out at the same time in a
piteous tone—" Oh 1 wisha, me Lard, shure enut, he did crap
me !" The worthy assistant-barrister, who was justly hor-
rified at the act, vented his indignation in the strongest
terms, and expressed a wish that be had the witness in the
dock; but the witness seemed to look upon this startling
mode of procuring conclusive testimony as entitling him to a
civic crown, instead of meriting a judicial reprimand.--Cork
Examiner.
- - - - -

---- -
The steam-ship, Cambria, Captain Stone, sailed
from Liverpool for New York, via Halifax, on Saturday,
having the first of this season's weekly mails, and a fair com-
plement of passengers on board.
FOOD OF PARTRIDGES AND PIIEASANTS.—In al-
luding to the game which may be reared profitably upon a
farm, partridges cannot be omitted. I do not believe they
ever pull a single ear of corn from the stalk ; it is only atter
the stubbles ate cleared of the crop that they ever feed upon
grain at all. In summer, insects and seees of grasses; and
in winter the leaves of weeds and coarse grasses from below
the hedges, constitute their food. In the latter season they
become upon such nutriment exceedingly fat. During the
continuance of a severe frost, and when the ground has been
covered to a considerable depth by snow, I have repeatedly
examined the crops, both of partridges and pheasants, and
found them filled with the leaves of grasses which grow by
the edges of springs and water-rills that have not been
frozen; and the birds, on such occasions, were in fact fatter
than at any other season of the year.— Thompson's Natural
History of Ireland.
The Lord Chancellor is convalescent, but we have
heard that his medical attendants recommend a few day's
residence iu the country before he resume his otlicial duties,

LITERATURE.

TRACTS OF AN ANTI-TRACTARIAN. By
a Barrister. No. XI. Price 4d. To be con-
cluded in 24 Weekly Numbers. C. Gilpin, Bishops-
gate-street; W. and G. Piper, Paternoster-rozy ;
and to be had of J. Rids way, Piccadilly.
These highly-interesting tracts, which continue to
engage so strongly the attention cf the public, are
ascribed, by rumour, to Mr. Sedgwick, the ex-chair-
man of the Stamp Board ; they certainly bear the
traces of his powerful Fen—so evidently, indeed, do
they bear it, that we think their authorslip cannot be
mistaken. We should not have expected to find a
barrister so profoundly versed, as he manifestly is, in
the Tractarian theology. He is an earnest champion
of the Established Church, and his exposure of the
workings of the Jesuits towards the overthrow of the
Protestant faith is the most convincing and the
most complete that has ever yet appeared. He has
brought to the attention of the public a most im-
portant fact, viz., the 10th George IV., cap. 7,
which enacts, " That if any Jesuit, or member of
any other religious order, community, or society of
the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious
vows, who at the time of the commencement of this
Act shall be within the United Kingdom, he shall
within six calendar months give notice of his place of
residence to the clerk of .the peace of the county in
hich he resides, and if he continues to reside with-
out being so registered, he shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanour, and being thereof convicted, shall be
sentenced, and ordered to be banished from the
United Kingdom for the term of his natural life." o
completely is this prohibition set at defiance, that the
Jesuit College established at Stony burst, in Lanca-
shire; is annually sending forth its pupils and mis-
sionaries all over the kingdom; and the result is
visible in the numbers that are openly uniting them-
selves with the Romish Church, and in the increase
of Jesuit churches and chapels. The public, as is
well observed, have just and urgent cause to com-
plain that the law is suffered to be violated with im-
punity—that this violation is connived at by the
Bishops, and by both Houses of Parliament. The
following extract cannot fail to excite the public
attention :

" I again return to the subject
~to which the public
attention most requires to be awakened—to the Society
of Jesuits, that, in defiance of the laws, are multiplying
their numbers in every provincial town, from London to
the Land's End.

" They were expelled from Russia by an ukase of
January 1, 1847, on account of plots in which their in-
triguing could be traced. They werec at first, expelled
only from Petersburgh and Moscow; but, as this did not
deter them from continuing their system of proselytism,
an Imperial ukase was issued on the 2d of March, 1820,
which dissolved their order in Russia and Poland jer
ever, and ordered that all its members were to be trans-
ported beyond the frontiers of both countries; and that
all their enormous estates therein should be confiscated,
and their College of Polatack abolished. But what a
former General of their Order had predicted as to the
ultimate late of the society, bears strong marks of his
foresight:—' We crept in like lambs; we govern like
wolves; we shall be driven away like dogs; but we shall
rejuvinate like eagles.' The prophecy has been fulfilled.
The progress of years brings no decay of activity. Like
vipers, they cast their skin, and re-appear in all the
freshness of youth.
" On the death of Father Vincent Paroni, Chief Vicar
of the Order, on the 27th of January, '29, Father John
Roothan, a native of Amsterdam, was elected Preppositus
Generalis, through the influence of Cardinal Alboni, the
Secretary of State. The new General chose for bia
Secretary, Pere Jansens, the Rector of the Jesuit College
at Fribourg, in Switzerland. Father Roothan is still
living, and resides, as General of the Order, in Rome.
Aware of the hatred in which it was held, he drew up a
letter which he caused to be inserted in the Journal des
Debats, eulogising the Order, and insisting that the mo-
dern Jesuits ought not to be compared with their prede-
cessors, who had drawn on themselves such universal
maledictions. This affirmation, hoatever, gained no cur-
rency; a direct refutation of it appeared in a letter ad-
dressed to the Courier Francais, the writer of which was
an eye-witness of the horrid events of the previous year
in Gallicia, of which they had been the instigators.
From this letter, which excited the moat intense interest,
not in France only, but throughout all the leading states
of Europe, the following is au extract:—
"' At the commencement of February, '46, a formal
consultation was held at Lamberg, at which the fate of
the whole province of Gallicia was decided upon. The
Archduke Ferdinand presided at the meeting; a man
weak in mind and of bad character, known by his defeat
in the campaign against the Poles in 1809, but still bet-
ter known by his affected piety anii his blind confidence
in the Jesuits. It was through his exertions they ob-
tained the vast building they possess in Limbourg, and
were authorised to superintend the education in the pub-
lic schools. In return for this important privilege -they
engaged to use the German language in their scientific
institutions, a concession that was contrary to the rules
of the society, which directs that the Latin language
only be used, or that of the country in which they
reside.'

"I come, now, to the Gallician massacre itself, which
is of the deepest interest.
" After several hours of discussion as to the insurrec-
tion movement in Gallicia, which bad begun to assume a
formidable aspect, from the absence of all effort on the
Fart of the oppressei nobility to suppress it, the Council
resolved at once to crush trio apprehended conspiracy,
and its Jesuit advisers were not slow in suggesting the
means; and the means suggested were—that the great
body of the Gallician peasantry, with the released cri-
minals, headed by disguised Austrian officers, should
fall suddenly on the nobles and put theca to the sword.
Some of the inembe:s of the Council opposed so cruel a
measure. Mme. Emensdurf, though a decided enemy to
Poland, protested earnestly against the eternal disgrace
which the Government would incur in the eyes of Eu-
rope by so heinous a measure. He concluded his dis-
suasive but ineffectual address with tears in his eyes, by
declaring, with the indignation of a man of honour, that
should the safety of the Apostolic Monarchy ever be in
danger, it were better to perish than to resort t the
baseness of assassination for its defence. Mr. Krieg
avowed himself decidedly of the same opinion. The
police director, Mr. Zscher, expressed himself to the
same purport. But they were speaking in the presence
of the Archduke and his adherents, and their voices
availed nothing.
" The horrors of this Gallician massacre is not s tale
of the dark ages. It is an affair of yesterday—a politi-
cal enormity fresh in youthful memory. We are send.
ing missionaries by shoals and ship-leads to convert the
heathen. Tell them of the above, and they will shrink
with horror from the relation. Tell them that it was
acted in Christian Europe, and they will tell you, with a
feeling of scorn, not to had fault with their idol-worship,
when you come from a part of the world in which they
would seem to own no God, but to be worshippers of
the Evil Spirit. The rebuke would be well earned, for
the idolatry of the untutored savage would be, ill ex-
changed for a worship of which this is the issue."

These tracts appearing, as they do, ex-
cite no little alarm among the disciples of Loyola.
It is, indeed, high time that their movements should
be watched, which, we think, they cannot fail to be,
looking at the very consequences that are following
in the train of them.

TOWN and
_COUNTRY MISCELLANY.

Edited by Albert Smith. No. I.
This is the first number of a new monthly periodi-
cal by Albert Smith and the writers of the " fast "
school. The papers are short, quaint, and amusing.
"J. Night with the Speaker," and " What shall its
name be ?" are both admirable.

ST JAMES'S. MAGAZINE.
1 new series, entitled " Heroines of the Peerage,"
is commenced in the present number of the St.
James's, and the place of honour is given, as is in
justice due, to Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess
of Derby,
of whose heroic defence of Latham House
we have here a mostinteresting narrative. " Ram-
blings iu many Counties take us this month into
Nottinghamshire, and there be sure we wander plea-
santly under " the greenwood
.tree " in Sherwood
Forest with Robin
Hood and his merry men, and a
pleasant ramble it is.
in The admirers of heraldry will
be delighted to find the present number of the
" Heraldic Register "
a complete list of the existing
peers, baronets, and untitled commoners who are en-
titled to quarter the arms of the royal house of Plan-
tagenet.

The Queen's private band was in attendance
in the Palace in the evening, and played the following
pieces : _
__

Overture, " La Fee aux Roses" Halevy.
Introduction and Duet, "Faust" Spohr.
Selection, " Oberon" Weber.
Traumbilder Phan tasie L umbye.
Finale, Sinfonia, No. 7 Haydn.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle-
men of the Court, and the domestic household, at-
tended Divine service yesterday in the private chapel
of Buckingham Palace. The lion. and Rev. Gerald
Wellesley officiated.
The Royal Family took their usual exercise yes -
terday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen yesterday.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence Hou,e, St. James's.
his Royal Highness the Duke cf Cumhridge visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess cf Gloucester on
Saturday, at Gloucester house.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at Lansdowne House. The Ministera present were
Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Minto, Sir G. Grey, Viscount I'almerstor,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis
of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

A deputation from Rochdale, consisting of Mr. J.
Chadwick, Mr. J. Schofield, Mr. Fenton, and Mr.
Jackson, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street, on the subject of the Rochdale
Savings Bank. The depkation was accompanied by
Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Brown, M.P., Mr. Peto,
M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Sharman Craw.
ford, M.P.

The Building Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851 met on Saturday in the New
Palace of Westminster. There were present—Mr.
Cubitt, Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. C. Cockerell, Mr.
Brunel, Mr. T. Donaldson, and Mr. Barry. Mr.
Scott Russell, secretary to the commission, attended.
Colonel. Reid (chairman) and Mr. H. Cole were pre-
sent on the part of the Executive Committee, toge-
ther with the secretary, Mr. Digby Wyatt.
Mr. Elliot, M.P., and a deputation from Hawick,
consisting of Robert Miller, James Scott, and James
Dagleish, had an interview with Sir George Grey on
Saturday, at the Home•ofl'ice.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and preached the sermon.
At the daily service the prayers were read by the
Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the lessons by the Rev. Mr.
Helmore. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley. The anthem, " God is our hope and
strength" (Greaves), was sung by Messrs. Loekey,
Bradbury, and Barnby. Sir George Smart presided
at the organ.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the younger
members of the Royal Family, inspected, on Friday
morning, at Buckingham Palace, the presents sent to
her Majesty by the Emperor of Morocco, consisting
of nine barbs (five stallions and four mares), with the
dress saddles of the country and horse furniture com-
plete.
These presents were delivered to the Queen and
Prince by Hadj Abdallah Lamarty, Raid Abdekrim,
and Hassan Boochetea.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the
Horse, and the gentlemen of the royal household in
waiting, attended on the occasion.
On Saturday morning three of the horses presented
by the Emperor of Morocco were inspected in the
Riding-school, and Hadj Abdallah Lamarty and Kaid
Abdekrim, together with a groom (Boojmar), exhi-
bited feats of horsemanship, with which the Queen
and Prince, and the younger members of the Royal
Family, were much gratified.
Hadj Abdallah Lamarty, Kaid Abdekrim, and
Hassan Boocheeta, with the attendant (Boojmar), are
under the charge of the officers of the Master of the
Horse, by whom they are shown the different objects
cf interest iu the metropolis.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Queen on Saturday at Buckingnam Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback on Saturday morning, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel P. H. Seymour.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with Prince.
Alfred and the Princess Helena, took a drive in a car-
riage and four on Saturday. The Equerries in 'Wait-
ing, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel F. H.
Seymour, attended on horseback.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace
on Saturday included the Duke and Duchess of Nor-
folk, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Can-
ning, and Colonel Wylde.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1850.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REP)101 ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Wednesday the 10th, the same grievous
impolicy was repeated in the case of the County
Courts Extension Bill ; where the Government con-
trived to insert themselves into a minority of more
than 2to 1. Upon what principle is this done ?
Why could not whatever is done after it, have been
done without it ? It assuredly does not appear be-
yond the pale permitted to human prudence, to have
compassed something to that effect, and to have pre-
known the fact that public opinion was running with
such vigour in favour of an extension of the powers
of County Courts.
The truth is, men must have law, and if they
cannot have it onelshape they must have it in another.
They must have the means of settling pecuniary dis-
putes, and there must be some reasonable limit to the
process poetically described as consisting in swallow-
ing the oyster and giving each of the litigants a
shell. When a City banker declares, that any man
may sue him to the extent of five hundred pounds,
and he sill pay the money as the cheapest way of
getting► rid of the buiiness, it is clear there is not a
reasonable limit, and the public will call for altera-
tion.

On the same day an attempt to stop the Public
Libraries and Museums 11, was prevented by the
substantial mejority of 99 against 64. It is wonder-
ful how the party of the Extinguisher stick to their
points. Their next struggle is to be, for placing the
contemplated libraries &c., under the official influ-
ence of the Clergy of the Establishment. IVh.t
should we think of the establishment of public libra-
ries in Vrance, under the official patronage of the
' cure of the parish ?
On Thursday the Parliamentary Voters, &c. (Ire-
land) Bill, which I hear called the Irish Rororm Bill,
was considered in Committee for seven hours and a
half, and reported, as amended, to be considered
again on the 22d of April. Judging from the oppo-
sition, there must be good in this Bill; and some-
thing of the same kind might be inferred with respect
to the Distressed Unions Advances and Repayment
of Advances (Ireland) Bill, which was only read a
second time after being dragged through wearisome
divisions on behalf of an adjournment, ending in the
slender proportion of 6 to 134.
On Friday a long and rather dull debate, to deter-
mine whether the Government should proceed to
make its promised reductions by the instrumentality
of a Committee or without. The true point at issue
being, whether the Protectionists by withholding all
mention of ulterior purposes, should angle with suf-
ficient success among the Free Trade ranks, to do
damage to the Government. From some cause or
other the Free-Traders were unusually shy, and the
fishery concluded with a majority of 250 against 159
in favour of the Government.

Mr. Horsman then brought on his motion for add-
ing the episcopal revenues to the subjects for the
Committee. It would have been invidious to join in
so direct an attack upon a class of functionaries, if
the statement from the Conservative benches could
have been trusted, that they really were doing their
duty as 'sell as any other class which had been men-
tioned. But everybody knows that this is not the
case. The public opinion of reflective England iF,
that one portion of them are doing their duty as
badly as possible, and the other has not energy
and principle enough to hinder them. When the
English nation wants to go back to Rome, it must be
treated like other determinations of the national will.
But in the mean time half or a large portion of the
bishops and clergy are going there without waiting
for the national consent, and the other half are looking
on. The active ones are at this moment doing their best
to organize a resistance to that contract for the supre-
macy of the civil government, which is the only bond
by which they hold their possessions or their churches.
In doctrine, too, they are selecting all the points on
which the disunited state of the Anglican Church at
the moment of the 'separation from Rome has left dis-
cordant or doubtful pleas, and persecuting the honest
men who stand upon the common sense on which the
heresy of Protestantism is based. A fair number of
votes announced the consciousness of these dangers;
as was evinced by a respectable minority of 95
against 208.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 15th April, 1850.

THE BOARD OF CONTROL AND
AUSTRALIAN STEAU NAVIGATION.

A deputation waited, by appointment, on Sir John
llobhouse, at the Board of Control, on Friday last, in
reference to the question of steam communication
with Australia. Amongst the members present were
—Lord Lyttelton, Lord John Manners, M.P., Lord
Monteagle, Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr. William Brown,
M.P., Mr. De Salts, Mr. Mark Boyd, Hon. 11.
Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Mr. Logan,
Mr. Divett, M.P., Sir Win. Verner, Bart., M.P., Mr.
Smith, Mr. Bass, M.P , Mr. Jackson, Mr. Da-
vidson,
In the absence of the Hon. F. Scott, M.P.,

Mr. MACGREGOR stated that the gentletnen then
present were induced to seek this interview vOth Sir
John llohhouse from having understood that some
difficulty, in which the East India Company were con-
cerned, stood in the way of the arrange.nent, otherwise
nearly completed, for effecting steam communication
with the Australian colonies, and they hoped
that, if any such obstacle as had been represented
did really exist, Sir John Ilobhouse, as head of the
Board of Control, would interpose his official influ-
ence to remove the objection. lle (Mr. Macgregor)
was in almost daily receipt of communications on this
important subject, not only from his constituents in
the large mercantile city which he had the honour to
represent, but from other quarters of the kingdom.
In fact, commercial enterprise, and all projects for
the investment of capital in the Australian colonies,
were completely paralysed from the want of any cer-
tainty in the intercourse with those distant posses-
sions, and which were every day becoming of more
importance to this country, whether considered in a
commercial or political point of view. He therefore
expected that now, when it was understood that the
Government and the public were equally favourable
to the measure, no impediment would be thrown in
the way by the directors of the East India Company,
who should, he thought, be interested in promoting
the welfare of the Australian colonies.

Lord MONTEAGLE stated that, when lately he at-
tended at the Colonial-office as a member of a depu-
tation on this subject, they were led to hope that it
would be brought to a successful isssue, and they felt
grateful to Earl Grey for the assurance given by his
Lordship of the great anxiety and earnestness of her
Msjesty's Government to bring pending negotiations
to a close. The public voice had already been fully
expressed in favour of this measure, and with such
united influences he could not see how any obstacle
should be seriously presented. Lord Monteagle ad-
verted forcibly to the interesting relations of Aus-
tralia with this country, and how much the political
and social position of our colonies in the Southern
Pacific was likely to be advanced by a frequent faci-
lity of intercourse with this country. lie instanced
the advantages derived by the North American colo-
nies from the steam communication opened up
.by
Mr. Cunard's vessels, and observed, as an interesting
fact connected, as be believed, with the existence or
this intercourse, that during the time of Canadian
disaffection Nova Scotia and New Brunswick stood
firm in their allegiance and loyalty to the mother
country.
Several other gentlemen having expressed their
sentiments,
The llon. BERKELEY, on the part of his con-
stituents at Bristol, testified to the strong solicitude
prevailing in that large mercantile community on
behalf of the Australian colonies, with a view to
whose progress and prosperity a quick and certain
mode of communication was indispensable.
Lord LYTTELTON stated that when in office he bad
a great desire to see, the measure carried out, and he
hoped that as the Government and the public were
alive to its necessity, and the former fully prepared
to sanction the proposals made to them, no further
delay would occur, and that if objections existed in
any quarter, they would give way to the anxiety
which prevailed on the subject.
Sir J. HounousE observed that he would give his
best attention to all that had been stated, and make
representations accordingly in the proper quarter.
He could assure the deputation that he was per-
sonally anxious to see the object they had in view
carried out, and he would endeavour, as far as possible,
to assist in removing the difficulties which at present
prevailed.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, APRIL 14.—The royd
mail steamer Dee, Captain W. Allan, will depart on Wednes-
day, the 17th instant, with the usual West India and Pacific
mails. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Iberia, Captain C. F. Burney, will leave on the same day
with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibral-
tar. The United States mail steamer Washington, Captain
G. W. Floyd, is expected here from Bremen, en route t, New
York, on Wetnesday ; she will sail for her destination on
the 20th instant (Saturday next). The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Ripon, Captain
li. Moresby, Indian Navy, is appointed to sail on the 20:l1
instant, with the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails,
for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. The Montrose, Captain
Bowen, is hourly expected with the Spanish and Portuguese
mails. A large sugar refinery is about to be built on the
premises of the Southampton Dock Company, at this port,
for the refining of sugar in bond for exportation. It is to be
seven stories high, and will,ho calculated to retine from 80
to 100 tons of sugar per week. The building is to be erected
at the expense of the Docki.:9LlpaPY, but will be rented for
the sugar trade, who will
impott their cargoes
21 years by a London hinise
port outhatnptort direct troth
enter into the business ektensieply
of sugar for refining into the
abroad.
A
THE IRISH TENANT-RIGHT QUESTION.--- depll
tation from the Tenant-Right Associations in Ulster has ar-
rived in town for the purpose of opposing Sir W. Somerville's
Bill, and of organising measures fur the Advauccluqut of the
tenant-right cause.