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A RTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT
rl INSTITUTION.
For the Relief of Decayed Artists, their Widows and Orphans.
Instituted 1814.. Incorporated by. Royal Charter 1842.

Under the Immediate Protection of her Most Excellent Majesty
THE QUEEN.
PATRON—His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, K.G.
VICE-PATRONS.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G.
Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G.
Most Noble the Marquis of Westminster, K.G.
Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury.
Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth.
Right Hon. Earl De Grey.
Right Hon. Ltrd Lyndhurst.
Sir John Swinburne, Bart.
Sir Thomas Baring, Bart.
Sir George Philips, Bart.
Wm. J. Denison, Esq., M.P.
Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P.
Jesse Watts Russell.
PRESIDENT-Sir MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, P.R.A.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Thomas Phillips, Esq., R.A. Thomas Twins, Esq., R.A.
Sir Robert Smirke, R.A. B. Bond Cabbell, Esq.
Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A. William Brockendon, Esq.
C. R. Cockerel], Esq., R.A. J. H. Mann, Esq.
George Jones, Esq., R.A. Andrew Robertson, Esq.
J. P. Deering, Esq., R.A. Sir William C. Ross, R.A.
The Nobility, Friends, and Subscribers are respectfully informed
that the TWENTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be
celebrated in FREEMASONS' HALL, on SATURDAY, the 30th
instant.

Sir ROBERT HARRY INGL]
STEW.

IS, Bart., M.P., in the Chair.
ARDS.
Joseph Jennings, Esq.
Charles Knight, Esq.
Henry Mosely, Esq.
Henry O'Neil, Esq.
Charles Runciman, Esq.
Edwin D. Smith, Esq.
Joseph Severn, Esq.
W. B. Sarsfield Taylor, Esq.
Richard Twentyman, Esq!
Henry Wcekes' Esq.
George Woolcott, Esq.
at Six precisely.

John Armstrong, Esq.
George W. Baker, Esq.
Charles Barry, Esq., A.A.
J. C. Broder, Esq.
John Burrell, Esq.
F. S. Cary, Esq.
William Day, Esq.
John Dickenson, Esq.
James Dorington, Esq.
William Fisher, Esq.
Thomas H. Midge, Esq.
Dinner on Table

Tickets, IL Is. each, to be had of the Stewards ; of Charles Fovirler,
Esq., Honorary Secretary, I, Gordon-square ; and of the .Assistaut-
Secretary, 14, Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park.
WILLIAM JOHN ROPER, Assistant-Secretary.

TIM GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM-
SHIPS are appointed to leave LONDON for—
lIAMBURGII and ROTTERDAM, carrying her Majesty's Mails
—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
ANTWERP—From Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall—Every Thurs-
day, at Eleven. Morning.
HAVRE—Sunday, April 7, at Eight, Morning.
From London Bridge Wharf, for—
OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
BOULOGNE—Every Thursday and Saturday Morning.
CALAIS—Every Thursday and Sunday Morning.
HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning.
YARMOUTH—Every Saturday, at Six, Evening.
EDINBURGH—From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, every Saturday
and alternate Wednesday, at Ten Evening, March 30, and April 3
6, and 13.

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT-
STREET, FEB. 15, 1844.

BONUSES DECLARED, 529,3061. 17s. 7d.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons who hold Policies in this
Office, bearing date prior to the year 1834, may receive the present
value of the Bonuses which have been added to their Policies, upon
application at the Head Office, or to the Agents through whom the
Policies were issued. GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital.Csoo,ooo.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums.

Another Bonus will be declared in the present year.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered—
every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the.age of twenty, will, at sixty-
five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. 16s. 6d.,
or 3491. 1 ls. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at
fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment—
two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned to re-
presentatives in cases of premature death.

F. FERGUSON CAMROIJX, Sec.

DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED.
MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL
__ LIFE OFFICE.

25, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Capital, £500,000.

This Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by
which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitable Terms.
The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to
permanent health.

INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsound Liven, the amount
varying with the particular disease.

Members of CONSUMPTIVE- FAMILIES assured at Equitable
Rates.

HEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most
other offices.

Policies of twelve months' standing are not affected by Suicides,
Duelling, &c. ; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the
Policy should death ensue from any of these causes.
F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary.

AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENE-
RAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY,
126, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill.
Capital 250,0001., in 2,000 Shares.
DIRECTORS.

Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colqnhoun, Esq.
Robert Brooks, Esq. Charles E. Mangles, Esq.
Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq.
John Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
B.tractits—Union Bank of London.

COLONIAL BANKERS—The Bank of Australasia (Incorporated by Royal
Charter, 1833), No. 2, Moorgate-street.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Co.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square.
SECRETARY—Edward Ityley, Esq.

ASSURANCES may be effected with this Company at unusually
favourable rates, affording every variety of accommodation to the
assured. Participation in profits, ascending and descending scales of
premium, permission to retain one-third of the premium, which is
charged as a debt against the policy, tables for the assurance of a
sum payable in the event of death to the executors of the assured, or
to himself upon the attainment of the ages of 45, 50, or GO.
TO EMIGRANTS, TO TIIE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES in
particular, whO are assured for the whole term of life, this Company
offers the advantages of permission to proceed to, to reside in, and to
return from those colonies without extra premium ; and to pay their
premiums there.

THE DISSENTERS' AND GENERAL LIFE
AND FIRE AS ;URANC E COMPANY, institt•ted 1837,
empowered by special Act of Parliament, 3d Vic. c. 20, 62, King
William-street, London.bridge, London ; 21, St. David.stieet,
Edinburch ; 6, King-itrea, Q.ieen.square, Bristol ; St. Andrew's
Hall, Plain, Norwich.—Capital, One Miilimn.

TRIPSTEES AND DIRECTORS :.
George Bousfleld, Esq. Thomas Piper, Fsq.
'I homas Challis, Esq , Aid. Sir John Pirie, Bart. and Ald.
Sir John Easthope, Bart., M.P. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq.
Peter Ellis, Esq. Edward Smith, Esq.
Joseph Fletcher, Esq. Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M P.
Richard Hollier, Dq. John Wilks, Esq.
Charles Hindley, Esq , M.P. Edward Wilson, Esq.
On the return of the Lady-day Quarter, the Directors beg to
remind their Friends end the Public that, in the Fire Depai tment
they receive Risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School-
rooms, Mills, Goods, and Shipping in Dock, Farming Stock, &c.,
at the same rates as other respectable Companies, and make no charge
on policies transferred from other offices.
In the Life Department they continue to teansact all business
relating to Life Assurances, Annuities, and Family Endowments,
upon the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and
public security.

ITHOMAS HASLER, at present, and for
9 twenty years past, residing at 6, East-street, Finsbury-
market, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and county of Mid-
dlesex, and being a japanner, do hereby give notice that I intend to
present a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street,
London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects,
and to be protected from all process upon making a full disclosure and
surrender of such estate and effects for payment of my just and lawful
debts; and I hereby further give notice that the time when the
matter of the said petition shall be heard is to be advertised in the
London Gazette and in the Morning Sun Newspaper one month at
the least after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this 23d day of
March, in the year of our Lord, 1844. THOMAS HASLER.
Witness, John J. Spitler, 38, Camomile-street, London, attorney
for the said Thomas Hasler.

SAMUEL WEBSTER, at present, and for
, twelve months past, residing at No. 12, Spring-place, Pad-
dington, in the parish of Paddington, and county of Middlesex, and
being out of business, do hereby give notice, that I in-
tend to present a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street, London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate,
and effects, and to be protected from all process upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects for payment of my
just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice that the time
when the matter of the said petition shall be heard is to be adver-
tised in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun Newspaper one
month at the least after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this
25th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1844.
SAMUEL
WEBSTER.
Witness, John Chisholme, 3, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, insolvent's
attorney.

THE NEW DISCOVER' for the NERVES,
BY DR. OR ANDISON..
Patronised by above 100 of the Nobility.
This invaluable Medicine has effected the most wonderful Cures,
and bestowed the boon of Nervous Vigour upon Thousands. Many
who have proved it will testify, that by perseverance, the trembling
hand may become steady. the weak heart strong. and nervous irri.
tability (so often the precursor of insanity), may be arrested. It has
ticle
secured refreshing sleep (without containing one par of any
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conquered the moat obstinate indigestion, ensuring vigour both of
body and mind.
Sold by all Respectable Medicine Vendors, in Boxes, at Is.
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ROYAL• POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The various ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS is And*lt and Modera
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illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS. the FIRT IMPROVE-
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the PELLETAN, the CAMPHINE LIGHTS, New FRENCH
LAMPS, BEALE'S LAMPS, &c., &c. The First Lecture, by Pro-
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ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE at Three o'clock
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DIVER and DIVING BELL. Among the recent Deposits is the
HEAD of a MUMMY from THEBES, very remarkable.
Admission, li.; Schools, Half-price.

THE MOC MAIN TRUSS,—The success attend-.
ant on the application of this new Truss in above 150 eases
of Hernia, Varicocele, &c., Juts induced Mr. REYNOLDS, M.R.C.S.,
42, Moorgate-street, to purchase the patent, and, with. a view to its
more extended use, he invites Medical men and persons afflicted with
this complaint, to examine its principle and mode of • adjustment,.
between the hours of One and Four o'Clock daily.

THE .AMERICAN ROCKING CHAIR.
None are genuine unless they have N Luck, Kent, and Cum-
ming" printed on the bottom. This Chair, so much. admired by all
who have visited America, for the remarkable ease, pleasdre, and
comfort which it affords, is just imported and for SALE at the exten-
sive Carpet and Upholstery Establishments of LUCK, KENT, and
CUM MING, N0..4, Regent-street; Carpenters' Hall, 68, London-wall;
and William Cumming and Co., 98, Hatton,garden: It is asserted
with confidence, that there is no piece of furniture In use.in eivilsed
society more sought after and approved of when known.
The price is 255., with a liberal discount to the trade. Stout per-
sons and invalids will find these chairs invaluable..-, •

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THE DUBLIN REVIEW, No. XXXI.
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LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
He who in pler'sure's downy arras
Ne'er lost his health or )outhfulcharms,
A hero lives, and justly can
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Weakness, Indigestion, Insanity, and Consumption. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy. Physiology, and
Diseases of the Repr,ductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
Bedford street, Bedford.square, London, Matriculated Member of
the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London
Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall, Lon-
don, &c.

" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, ate frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself ; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.

The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are
suffering from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal.

Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie,23, Tichbome.street, Quadrant, Regen t-
street ; Gordon, I ift, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eig:it.

THE MURDER AT WEDNESBURY.—In consequence
of certain suspicious circumstances, a man named Beard, a
former servant of Mr. Crowther, was apprehended, and on
Wednesday an inquest was holden on the body by the coroner
of the district.. The result of the evidence was the commit-
tal of the prisoner for wilful murder, and he was conveyedto
Stafford Gaol.
FREE TRADE IN ESSEX.--Two lectures on the corn
and provision laws were delivered in the Mechanics' Institute,
Chelmsford, on the evenings of Wednesday and Friday, the
13th and 15th instant, by Mr. Falvey. As Chelmsford boasts
of having originated the Anti-League Societies, it was thought
Mr. Falvey would meet with strong opposition. So far, 'how-
ever, from that being the case, although the lecturer invited
discussion, and challenged Messrs. Copland and Baker to de,
fend the statements made by them at the Landlord-clubs,
neither of those worthies thought proper to attend. The lec-
tures were numerously and respectably attended, and on the
second evening many had to go away for want of room. The
feeling manifested by the audience on each occasion, in favour
of free trade, was unmistakeable ; and, expressed as it was
in Essex, is a sign of the times not to be overlooked. Mr.
Falvey also lectured in the Town-hall, Maldon, on the even
ings of Tuesday and Thursday last, and there, too, although
it was the first time they had a visit from an Anti-Corn-law
lecturer, the utmost enthusiasm pervaded the meetings; and
many of the electors, who had hitherto voted for bread-taxers,
dcclared, at the close of the lectures, that they would vote
for free-traders at the next election.

THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds con-
stantly announced for promoting the growth or reproduc-
tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very
limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a
reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public es-
timation. The singular virtues of this successful invention
for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair,
are too well known and appreciated to need much comment.
The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it
enjoys, its general use in all countries, together with nu-
merous testimonials constantly received in its favour, are au-
thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title over all
attempts of a similar nature. Being universally preferred,
its consequent great demand excites the cupidity of .un-
principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash as
the " genuine" Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine article is
wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and Son,
and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders
abortive any attempt to discover its component parts—thus
proving the imposition of all other articles bearing the title
of " Macassar Oil." The genuine article has the words
" Rowland's Macassar Oil" on the wrapper.—All others are
fraudulent counterfeits

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-

ROOM.

The Queen held, a Drawing-room, the first this sea-
son. yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham
Palace about two o'clock, attended by the Royal suite.
Before the Drawing-mom her Majesty, according to
annual. cnstont, received a deputation from Christ's Hos-
pital, in the Royal closet, who were ushered to the pre-
sence of the Queen by Sir William Martins, Gentleman
Usher in Waiting. The Deputation consisted of Mr.
Alderman Thompson, M.P , the President;. Mr: Richard
Hotfiam Pigeon, the Treasurer ; Mr. John Masterman,
M.P., and Mr. William Taylor Copeland, M.P., Gover-
nors ; accompanied by the Rev. William Webster, the
MatheMatical Master ; Mr. W. H. Back, the Drawing
Master, and the 40 boys educated in the Royal Mathe-
.matiCal School, founded by king Charles Ir. Her Ma-
jesty took particular interest in the drawings and charts
of the boys, and was pleased to express her approbation
of their execution. Her Majesty inquired the ages of a
number of the scholars, and was pleased to express the
interest she felt in the prosperity of the institution.
Her Royal Highness the Dtphess of Kent was present
at the Drawin,:-room. Her It(iyal Highness was at-
tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Colonel Sir
George Courier, Bart.
The Ladies. in Waiting on the Queen, the Maids of
Honour, and the Women of the Bedchamber to her
Majesty, appeared at the Drawing-room in mourning.
The Marquis of Ormonde was the Lord in Waiting,
Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting; Lord Charles
Wellesley, Clerk-Marlal;--Colonel the Hon. Charles
trey, Equerry in Waiting;. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Wortley,
Paces of Honour in Waiting.
The Marquis of Exeter, KG., Groom of the Stole to
Prince Albert; Mr. George Edward Anson; Treasurer
to his Royal Highness.; -Captain Francis Seymour,
Groom in Waiting; Major-General Sir Edward Bowater,
Equerry in' Waiting; and. Captain G. C. Blake, R.N.,
Gentleman,-Usher to "his .Royal Highness in Waiting,
attended.

It being. a collar-day, the Knights of the several
orders of knighthood wore the collars of their re-
spective orders. His Grace the. Duke of Wellington
wore three collars of knighthood, those of the most
Noble Order of the Garter,, of the Golden Fleece, and
ofithe most Hon. Military Order of the Bath. Viscount
Conabermere also wore three collars—those of the most
Hon. Military Order of the 'Bath, of the Hanoverian
Guerphic-Order, and of the ToWersand Sword.
The Duke of Norfolk carried his baton as Earl
Marshal of England. The Earl of Errol also carried
his baton' of office.

Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen- at-Arms were
on duty at the principal doors in
.the State-rooms, and
also in the Portrait Gallery and Presence Chamber.
Messrs. Dobell and Halse, the State Pages, atid the
other Pages of her Majesty, were in attendance.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by
the Ladies in Waiting and the Lord Chamberlain, the
Lord Steward, and the principal officers of the house-
hold, having entered the Throne-room, the Foreign Am-
bassadors and Ministers, and their ladies, were intro-
duced.

In the Diplomatic circle the following presentations
to her Majesty took place:—
Madame la baronne de Langsdorff, daughter of the
Countess de St. Aulaire, and Madame de Hummelauer,
by the Countess de St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sadress.

Le Baron de Linden, 01Beier d'Artillerie au service de
se. Majesti le Roi de Wurtemberg, by Baron 'de Hugel,
the Wurtemberg Minister.
Baron Brenner, Secretary of the Austrian Embassy,
by Baron. de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister. •
The Foreign Diplomatic circle was attended by the
French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
anti Baron de Talleyrand, Attache to the Em-
bassy ; Ali Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador • the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer;
M. Wren% Buenos Ayrean Minister ; the Bavarian
Minister and-Baroness de Cetto; M. Dedel, the Nether-
lands Minister; Count de Pollon, Sardinian Minister,
and Count Revel, Secretary of Legation ; M. Alejo
Fortique; Venezuelan Minister ; the Russian Minister
and Baroness de Brunnow • M. de Berg and 111. C. de
ICoudriaffsky, Secretaries of Legation, and M. Alexandre
de Hederstern, Gentilhomme de la Chambre de S. M.
l'Emperenr de 'Russie C9unt Kielmannsegge, the Ha-
noverian Minister ' • Baron de Hugel, Wurtemberg Mi-
nister ;! Madame Bunsen, Lady of' the Prussian Mi-
nister ;.Baron de Thile, Prussian Chargé d'Affaires,and
Baron Witzleben, Captain in the Prussian Royal
Guards ; the Brazilian Minister and Madame Marques
Lisboa ; Mr. Everett, United States Minister; Mr. Rives,
Secretary of Legation, and General W. Barrow, late
Chargé d'Affaires of the United States at Lisbon ; the
Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow ; Baron de
Nieumann, Austrian Minister • Baron Koller, first Se-
cretary of Legation, Baron Lebzcltern,: Secretary, and
M. de Hiimmelauer ; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Mi-
nister ; Prince Castelcicala, Sicilian Minister, and M.
G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; Vii. M. Mosquera,
New Grenada Chargé d'Affaires, and Madame Mos-
quera ; the Chevalier F. de R. de Ribas; Spanish Charg4
d'Affaires, and M. Victorian° dr Pedrorena, Attaché to
the Mission. _

In the general circle the following presentations took
place to ..her Majesty
Mrs. Musgrave, by Lady Graham.
Mrs. Francis Graham Moon, by Lady Graham.
The general circle was attended by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary-at-
War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms,
Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Earl of Beverley, Captain of her Majesty's Body Guard
of the Yeomen of the Guard ; the Vice-Chamberlain,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the
Household, Lord Monteagle, the Comptroller-General of
the Exchequer, the Judge Advocate-General, -the
Attorney-General, the Attorney-General for Ireland,
lion. Sir Edward Butler, Lieutenant of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Sir George Philip Lee, Lieu-
tenant of the Yeoman Guard ; the Master of the Cere-
monies, Colonel. Sir George Couper, Bart., First
Equerry and Comptroller of the Household of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent ; General Sir George
Anson; G.C.8., Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert ; Colonel Bouverie, Silver Stick;
Major Hyde, Assistant-Master, and Marshal of the Ce-
remonies ; Mr. Sheriff Musgrove, Mr. Sheriff Moon,
Captain A'Court, R.N., M.P.,-Aide-de-Camp in Waiting;
Colonels Weare, Parke, H. Bentinck, and Dyneley,
C. 8., Aide-de-Camps to the Queen ; Colonel - Buckley,
Equerry to her Majesty ; Mr. James Bunce Curling,
Clerk' of the Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Gen-
tlemen-at-Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Cheque
of the Yeomen Guard ; Captain Parker Nuttall, Exon
in Waiting ; Sir Samuel Hancock, Econ of the Yeomen
of the Guard ; Sir Benjamin:Smith, C. S.; Mr. Frederic
Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, and the Hon.
Frederic Byng, Gentlemen Ushers to the Privy
Chamber in Waiting ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom
of the Privy Chamber ; Captain Green, Gentleman
Usher in Waiting •, Colonel Shaw, Field-officer in
Waiting ; and the following Ladies : .
DUCHESS—Marlborough.
MAnctuoNEssEs—Lansdowne, Ailesbury, Sligo, Chol-
mondeley, Clanricarde, Blandford.
COUNTES—Shelburne, llardwieke, Carnarvon, De La
Warr, Rosebery, Norbury, Haddington, Egmont, Shef-
field, Eldon, Malmesbury, Arran, Cowper, Mansfield,
Verulami Euston, Erroll, Radnor.

VISCOUNTESSES—Gage, Pollington, Palmerston, Beres-
ford, Dillon, Hawick, Hawarden, Dowager Dillon.
LADIES—Anne Primrose, Louisa Primrose, Lovat,
Shaw Stewart, B. Johnstone, Charlotte Egerton, Elea-
nor Balfour, Aldis, Catherine Cavendish, Bowyer Smyth,
Charlotte Guest, Throckmorton, Cecilia Des Voeux,
Dymoke, Anne Charteris, Isabella Hope, Georgiana
Toler, Norreys, Olivia Taylour, Quentin, Catherine
Buckley, Mildred Hope, Couper, E. B. Bruce, Blanche
Balfour, L. S. Churchill, Charlotte Berkeley, Selina
Bridgeman, J. Stuart, C. Laseelles, Sophia Cecil, Eli--
bank, Domville, E. S. Stanhopo, L. Alexander, Worsley,
Dalrymple, Abinger, Ashley, E. de Burghi..LGrimston,
Pottinger, Howard, Colborne, L. Fitz-Roy, F. Howard,
G. Seymour, Bloomfield, Briggs,- Hamilton, Wharncliffe,
Grey, Beauvale, Mary .Bouverie, Taylor, Radstock, W.
Horton, Gore, Dowager Clinton, Gordon, Vivian, King,
Antrobus, Katherine Jerilyn, Margaret Littleton, A.
Foster, Colville, Monteagle, L. Fitz-Maurice. Graham,
Lyndhurst, Stanley, Peel, Shelley, Kathleen Ponsonby.
Cottenham, C. Murray,. Colchester, Rodd, E. Brown, C.
Brown, E. Murray, 1 iinorben, E. Hardinge.
BARONESS—LioneI Rothschild.

.
HONOURABLES—SopIua Wheatley, Lady Butler, Mrs.
Fraser, Mrs. Law, Fanny Fraser, Caroline Gage, Mrs.
Sanderson, Mrs. Thomas Denman, Mrs. L. King, Miss
Maude, Louisa Dillon, Agnes Browne, , Louisa R. Col-
borne, Emily King, Mrs. C. Drummond, Mrs. R. Trevor,
E. Littleton, Mrs. S. Jerningham, Mrs. Tottenham,
Caroline Waldegrave, Mrs. Edmond Knox, Miss Mit-
ford, Helena Dillon, Miss Waldegrave, Miss Copley,
Mrs. 11. M. Sutton, Frances Pepys, Mrs. E. Yorke, Mrs.
B. Bruce, Mrs. Grey, Mrs. A. Liddell, A. Gore.
MISTRESSES Henry Hamilton, John Round, D.
Watts Russell, T. B. C. Smith, Nichol], Blomfield, Hugh
Baillie, Jeremiah filcher, Pemberton, Hayes Sadler,-
Shaw Lefevre, George Carnegie. Thesiger, Aldis,
Charles Mills, Beresford, 11. Story, Howard, Mansfield,
Henry Boyce, Anson, Henry Daniell, 11. M. Denham,
M. Gaskeil, Hawkins, Samuel Platt, Wm. Thornton,
Inglefield, Abdv, A. Robartes, E. Cawley, Dugdale,
Waymouth, Kingston, Henry Matson, Young, Greene,
B. Elphinitone, W. Beckford, Brunton, Nouaille Rudge,
V. Stuart, Ruck Keene, G. S. Mildmay, M‘Leod,
Ormsby, henry Beaumont, Montefiore, Gibsone, W.
Stuart, H. Addington, Morrison, 11. Denham, George
Graham, M. Martin, Buck, Morier, A. Strickland.
Misscs—Sadler, Mills, Charlotte Mills, Johnstone,
Emily Octavia Law, Nicholl, Mary Wheatley, Couper,
Dymokv, Smith (2), Pole, Constantia Round, Shaw
Lefevre, Bowyer Smith, Cavendish, Katharine Shaw
Stewart, Farrer, Selina Bridgeman, Balfour, Lascelles,

Estcourt, Annette Platt, Roma Macleod, Morrison,
Herbert, -Hawkins, Frances Boyne,' Louisa Anson.
ISabella Mansfield, S. Stanhope, Mary Macleod, Garden,
Berkeley, F, S. Stanhope, Knox, S. Knox, Kingston, C.
Stuart, Inglefield, Ruck Keene, E. Drummond, Lloyd,
B. Elphinstone, Cox, Davys, Escott, MOrritt; Pottinger,
Somerset, W. Horton, Ridout, Adelaide Seymour, Mary
Cayley. Antrobus, Wedderburn, IL P. Stuart, Domville,
R. Trevor, T. Drummond, Louisa Kingston, Beckford,
Joanna Beckford, Gri.ene, Fanny Platt, Raymond
Barker, Rose Alice Greene,. Hardmge, E. Hard;nge,
Rolt, W. Rodd, Taylor, H. Morier.
The following ladies had the honour of being pre-
sented to her Majesty
Lady Anne Charteris, by Lady Rosebery.
Lady Cecilia Des Voeux on her marriage, by the Mar-
chioness of
Lady Selina Bridgeman, by the Duchess of Buecleuch.
The Hon. Lady Butler, on her marriage, by Viscountess
Forbes.
Lady Mildred Hope, on occasion of her marriage, by
Viscountess Beresford.
The Marchioness of Blandford,-on her marriage, by the
Duchess of Marlborough.
Hon. Miss Fanny Fraser, by her mother, Lady Lovat.
Lady Throekmorton, by the Countess of Charlemont.
Lady Katherine Raymond Barker, by her sister, Lady
Charlotte Berkeley.
Lady Elibank. by Mrs. George Byng.
Hon. Helena Dillon, by her mother, Dowager Viscoun-
tess Dillon.
Mrs. Henry Hamilton, by the Countess of Rosebery.
Hon: Agnes Browne, by her mother, Lady Kilmaine.
Mrs. Pemberton, by Lady Hamilton.
Hon. Caroline Waldegrave, by her mother, Lady Rad-
s tock.
Mrs. Beresford, by Lady Worsley.
Hon. Mrs. Edmond Knox, by Lady Louisa Alexander.
Hon. Miss Maude, by her motber,Viseountess Hawarden.
Lady Vivian, by be Countess of Charlemont.
Mrs. William Thornton, by Mrs. William Stuart.
Mrs. Abdy, on her marriage, by the Countess of Ve-

rulam.
Mrs. Inglefield, by the Countess of Haddington.

Mrs. Hawkins, by Mrs. Kingston.
Mrs. Henry Daniell, by Lady Aylmer.
Mrs. Henry Boyce, on her marriage, by the Duchess of
Marlborough.
Mrs. Anson, on her marriage, by the Countess of Rose-
bery.
Mrs. Howard, of Corby, on her marriage, by the Duchess
of Norfolk.
Miss Sadler, by her mother, Mrs. Hayes Sadler.
Mrs. Mills, by Mrs. Charles Mills.
Miss Charlotte Mills, by Mrs. 'Charles Mills,

Miss Johnstone, by her mother, Lady B. Johnstone.
Miss Dymoke, by her mother, Lady Dymoke.
Miss Couper, by Lady Couper.
Miss Emily Octavia Law, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs.
Law.
Miss Selina Bridgeman, by her mother, Lady Selina
Bridgeman.
The Countess of Shelburne, on her marriage, by the
Marchioness of Lansdowne.
Lady Kathleen Ponsonby, by the Marchioness of Lans-
downe.
The Hon. Mrg. Augustus Liddell, by the Countess of
Hardwicke.
Lady Margaret Littelton; by Lady Wharncliffe.
• Lady Sophia Cecil, by (Frances) Lady Clinton.

Lady Ta-ylor, by Lady Stanley:-
Lady Abinger, on her marriage, by the Countess of Eldon.
Lady Briggs, by Lady Seymour.
Lady Mary Bouverie, by her mother, the Countess of
Radnor.
Lady Blanche Balfour, on her marriage, by Lady Eleanor
Balfour.
Miss Taylor, by her mother, Lady Taylor.
Miss Rolt, by Lady Ernest Bruce.
Miss Rose Alice Greene, by her mother, Mrs. Greene.
Miss Raymond Barker, by Lady Katherine Raymond
Barker.
Miss Harriette Beckford, by her mother, Mrs. William
Beckford.
Miss Joanna Beckford, by- her mother, Mrs. William
Beekford.
Miss 'Louisa Kingston.
Miss Rice Trevor, by the Hon. Mrs. Rice Trevor.
Miss Pottinger, by her mother, Lady Pottinger.
Miss Mary Cayley, by Mrs. Cayley.
Miss Somerset, by Lady Granville Somerset.
Miss Escott, by the Countess of Carnarvon.
Miss Morritt, by her mother, Mrs. George St. John
Mildmay.
Miss Lloyd, by Lady Pottinger.
Mrs. Ruck Keene, by the Viscountess Gage.
Miss Ruck Keene, by her mother, Mrs. Ruck Keene.
Miss Inglefield, by her mother, Mrs. Inglefield.
Miss Susan Knox, by Hon. Mrs. Edmond Knox.
Miss Kingston.
Miss Eliza Spencer Stanhope, by Lady Elizabeth Spencer
Stanhope.
Miss Knox, by Hon. Mrs. Edmond Knox.
Miss Garden, by the Viscountess Canning.
Miss Morrison, by her mother, Mrs. Morrison.
Miss Annette Platt, by her mother, Mrs. Samuel Platt.
Miss Isabella Mansfield, by Mrs. Mansfield.
Miss Louisa Anson, by Mrs. Anson.

Miss Frances Boyce, by Mrs. Henry Boyce.
Miss Hawkins, by her mother.
Miss Lascelles, by Lady Caroline Lascelles.
Mrs. Henry Beaumont, by Mrs. Cayley.
Mrs. George Graham, by Lady Graham.
Mrs. Gisborne, of Pentland, by the Duchess of Buc-
cleuch.
Mrs. Ormsby, by Lady Louisa Alexander.
Mrs. Nouaille Rudge, by Mrs. Hamilton Story.
Mrs. Henry Matson, by Laity Ashley.
Mrs. Brunton, by the Countess of Verulam.

The following gentlemen were also present:—
DußEs—Norfolk, Leeds.
MARQUISES—Lansdowne, Cholmondeley, Blandford,
Readfort.

EARLS—Egmont, Malmesbury, Rosebery, Shelburne,
Roslyn, Arran, Carnarvon, Lincoln, Haddiugton, Erroll,
Aberdeen.

Viscourrrs—Pollington, Palmerston, Hawarden, Sea-
ham, Dillon.

BlSEOP—Peterborough.
LORDS—Colchester, Elibank, Thomas Cecil, Lovat,
Kilmaine, Radstock, Brougham, Dinorben,
Cottenham, Stanley, A. S. Churchill, M. W. Graham,
Vivian, Beauvale, Bloomfield, Wharncliffe, Howard.
BARON—Lionel Rothschild.

RIGHT HONOURABLZS—SirAugustus Foster, Baronet,
Sir James Graham, Sir .H. Hardinge, W. E. Gladstone.
HONOURABLES h arles Law, M.P., Captain E. Knox,
M. S. West, C. Hope, T. Denman, R. Trevor, H. M.
Sutton, W. Colborne, S. Jerningham, Sir H. Dymoke,
A. Dillon.

SIRS—J. Harrington, J. Richardson, J. Johnstone,
C. Forbes, J. Shelley, G. Staunton, F. Nicholson, C.
Aldis, J. Guest, F. Hamilton, C. Des Voeux, C. Dom-
ville, J. Sinclair.
REV. Docroa—Vivian.
DOCTORS—Loney, Mackenzie, Granville, C. Lwellyn.
REV. MESSIEURS—J. H. Sadler, J. P. Walsh, J.
Dakins, F. Hewson, W. Bradford.
Conmr—G. Metaxa.

ALDERMEN—CopeIand, M.P., H. Hughes.
MEssito 11S—Thesiger, M.P., Wallace, John Round,
Estcourt, John Round, jun., Charles Mills, J.
Masterman, M.P., Gwynne, Cox, anderson, M.P., Je-
remiah Filcher,. Charteris, Buck, Howard, of Corby.
Richard Hotham Pigeon, Greene, M.P., J. M. Balfour,
Pemberton, Vere, H. Hamilton, J. Reilly, C. Mulley, H.
Wood, S. Farquharson, E. Warburton, F. Howard, Dug-
dale, R. Monteith, jun., P. Moore, A. Warburton, Ban-
nerman, W. Egerton, C. Strome, S. Platt, A. Robartes,
J. Morrison, T. Farquhar, J. Kemble, Nugent Vaughan,
Keate, Boyce, C. Bruce, W. Judd, 11. Stretton, H. Story,
Nouaille Rudge, H.• Alexander, W. Beckford, Gaiden,
Escott, Abdy, T. K. Holmes, S. Ilarford, G. Macpher-
son, Tottenham, P. Budworth, R. Thomson, M. Smith,
Macgregor, W. Peel, C. Balfour, E. Palmer, Travers,
J. Redd, H. Mercer, H. Hughes, junwi. I3edford, Rid-
dell, J. Williams, P. Isaacson, Sitll.'

FIELD MARSHAL—The Duke of Wellington.
ApmmiLs—lnglefield, C. 8., Sir Thomas Briggs.
tENERALS—Dyson, -W. M. Burton, Sir W. Gordon,
Sir H. Wheatley, Viscount Beresford, H. Thomson, ft.
Bowen, M'Leod, Sir A. Dalrymple, Ballantine.
COLONELS—OIivier, Holt, i3ir C. Hopkinson, Graydon,
D. Fordes, H. Baillie, Wynyard, J. Low, Rainey, W.
'Thornton, Sir G. CoUper, G. Wilson, Falconer, Fraser,
Astell, Hibbert.

MAJORS—C. Bridge, W. Fottinger, Lynch, Way-
mouth, Lushington, Sir J, G. Hamilton, Brandling,
Graham, Harris, Chipchase,'H. A. O'Neill, De Winton,
F. S. Hamilton, Wade.

CAPTAINS—Cuddy, Morrison, W. G. Hebbert, G.
Loche, H. Smart, Ormsby„ J. C. Wright, S. C. Dacres,
Shea, S. Hart, Pitman, Pring, Sands, Daniell, Berkeley,
G. T. Curry, T. C. Bate, W. H. Henderson, C.B. ; C.
T. Hill, N. Wood, E. Taylor, M.P. ; Liddell, Scott, K.
Hamilton, Sir T. Herbert, K.C.B. ; Glyn, F. Wood.
Wingfield, Fenwick, Gibsone, R. Watts, Alcock, Sprye,
Pollhil), M.P. ; Fenton, G. H. Bellasis, Dickson, E.
Lloyd, K.H. ; S. Gostin' Schonswar. •
COMMANDERS—W. H. Hall, J. P. Robinson, A. Baird,
James A. Legard, J. F. L. Wood, Denham, W. Crispin,
C. H. Hay, Sulivan, M. Hayes, H. Matson, Winn( tt,
Woodgate, J. C. M. Touzeau, W. C. Wood, M'Cleverty,
A. H. Ingram.
LIEUTENANTS—W. G. Prendergast, P. Briggs, A. B.
Kingston, F. G. Leigh, H. Curling, W. Kenyon, R. C.
H. Spencer, W. S. Simpson,-Itobson, Petley, G. Turner,
T. A. Ewart, R. T. Snow, Horace, W. Kenyon, G. W.
Gordon, Mackinnon, H. Tall, R. Smith, J. C. llomer,
Romer, W. A. Lyers, Fairholme.
CORNETS— W hitehead, Clements.
ENSIGNS--Andrews, Beadnell, C. Roberts, Dowling.

Her Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chamber-
lain and the Field Officer, in Waiting.
After the Drawing room the Queen and Prince Al-
bert and the Royal suite returned to Buckingham Pa-
lace, escorted by a party of the Household troops.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected, yesterday,
the reduced specimen drawings executed by the Messrs
Linnell, from the Prize Cartoons, which were conveyed,

by Royal command, from the Cosmorama Gallery to
Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Higli-
'less were graciously pleased to express their high ap-
probation.

The mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gen-
tlemen-at-Arms dined together yesterday evening at the
Thatched House.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTFRDAY.
GLOBE.--As Easter term approaches, the public
attention in Ireland is almost wholly engrossed by the
discussion of the national question, " What will the Go-
vernment do with O'Connell ?" Nor is this question, in
its absorbing interest, confined to the Irish people. In
England the same inquiry is heard on every hand. The
interest excited by, this strongly-debated question is
second to none of the numerous pending ques-
tions involved in the uncertainty of the .future.
Speculations as to the most prudent course for Go-
vernment to adopt, under the peculiar circumstances
in which it is placed by the prosecution and conviction
of O'Connell and his co-defendants, are rife in all quar-
ters. In Ireland the question is debated by the-party
organs with the fervid heat which characterizes party
discussions in that country. As a specimen of the tone
and manner in which the Irish press treats this ques-
tion, an extract or two from the journals of the two
antagonist parties—the one braving the vengeance of
the law, and the. other invoking the severest punish-
ment of the convicted parties—will afford some faint
idea of the excitement which prevails. The Freeman's
Journal thus raves :—" The . testing time is coming.
It will soon be seen whether a British. Governmeut,
boasting of its moderation, will, in the nineteenth
century,,,yeattsEe on an act of political vengeance
which will pfottuße milking but exasperation
home , and infamy abroa& They looked anx-
iously for a compromise—for any pretext of consis-
tency to set up against the vindictive clamours of
that Orange rancour which would lead the miserable
Irishmen whom it possessed to demand even the life of
the great patriot, and to exclaim, like a similar faction
of old—' His blood be upon us and upon our children !'
But compromise there can be none. The chief traverser
has defied their worst. They admit that he has cut off all
retreat by destroying the bridge behind him.' There
can be no surrender, except on the part of the Go-
vernment. The men whom they would victimise have
no guilt to confess—no apology to make. Were they
to bind themselves now to refrain from the deeds for
which they are prosecuted, they would be false to their
own principles and pledges, traitors to their country,
and they would lay suicidal hands on their public cha-
racter. On such terms, the Pardon of the Government
would wither in a moment the laurels of half a century."
The Tory prints are not a whit less violent in their
appeals to the Government for vindictive punishment
on the convicted Repealers. They had the indecency
before trial to predict, with unwavering certainty, the
verdict which an exclusively Protestant jury would
return, and to fix the period and the place of imprison-
ment which the Court would award as punishment.
And now the Packet (the most moderate of the Dublin
anti-O'Connell press) boasts that the ".Mendicant
tyrant " must certainly "go to gaol ;" the Mad taunts
the Ministry with infirmity of purpose, and intimates
that the measure of its infidelity to the Protestant in.
stitutions of the country will, there is reason to fear,
be completed by some mean compromise with the con-
victed conspirators. That Ministers are placed in a
perplexing dilemma, there can be no question. That
they would gladly escape from the perils which beset
them—the Scylla of compromise on the one hand, and
the Charybdis of incarcerating O'Connell on the other—
no one can doubt, who has watched the course of events.
'The demonstration.: of public feeling, provoked by the
op!nion which pervades the public mind, in both coun-
tries, that a conviction, rather than a fair adminis-
tration of justice, was the determined purpose of the
law-officers of the Crown, have been almost unpre-
cedented. The law is supposed to have been stretched,
td comprehend those whose proceedings were not fairly
within its prohibitions. The punishment which, in the
ordinary course, follows conviction has therefore been,
by anticipation, rendered powerless. The Government
may punish O'Connell ; but they cannot degrade him.
The Court may sentence him to confinement in
Kilmainham or Carrickfergus ; but as one of the jour-
nals, writing in anticipation of such a course, remarks,
‘. Whatever be the prison of the Liberator, it will be the
Thermopylae of Ireland ! It will be the holy ground of
patriotism to which many a pilgrim will resort in coming
ages." The reception which O'Connell has met with in
the English metropolis, and also in several of the largest
towns of England, has tended to increase the embar-
rassments of Ministers, when contemplating the course to
be pursued in following up his conviction to judgment.
The cordial cheers with which his entrance in the
House of Commons was hailed on his first. appearance
after his trial—the immense multitudes which assem-
bled at Covent-garden Theatre, both at the meeting
of the Anti-Corn-law League and at the dinner
which was given to him in the same immense building,
which WAS crowded in every part ; and especially the
enthusiasia with which the announcement of his
name was received, and the speeches he delivered on
these occasions were applauded—the meetings at Bir-
mingham, at Coc'entry, and other places, where the
same demonstrations' of feeling were exhibited—the de-
bates in the House of Commons on the prosecution, and
the unequivocal declarations of some of the best consti-
tutional lawyers in that asaembly, that the law had been
perverted, and thus justice violated, in the State prose-
cutions—the complaints of the Catholics that, by ex-
punging the jurymen of their creed from the panel,
insult and injury were inflcted on their body—last, not
least, the petition, to which Mr. Wyse will call the at-
tention of the House of Commons this evening, signed
by nearly one million of persons in Ireland, of all
grades, praying for inquiry into the complaints, in con-
nection with these trials, with which it abounds—these
are sufficient to induce Ministers to pause in their pro-
ceedings, and to desire to prevent consequences which,
whatever course they adopt, may involve them in yet
greater dangers than any they have yet encountered.
We have heard, in generally well-informed circles.
that it is by no means improbable that something like
the following course will be adopted by the Government,
with, possibly, a tacit understanding with the defend-
ants. On calling the convicted parties up for judgment,
certain objections will be taken in arrest of judg-
ment. Instead of arguing the objections forthwith,
the Court will postpone the case, and allow the de-
fendants to stand out upon their recognisances till
the . next term. Thus delay will be obtained,
and the evil day postponed ; trusting to the chapter of
accidents; or anticipating a more sobered state of public
feeling when a 'final and conciliatory termination of the
controversy may be effected. Others assert that a writ
of error will be consented to by the Irish Attorney-
General ; and the judgmant, instead of being passed,
ad interim, will be hung up until the House of Lords has
pronounced its final decision oh the points raised for
argument before it.
STANDARD.—We will not pay to our readers the
ill compliment of supposing that they can be indifferent
to the question which at this moment engrosses the
attention of Parliament and of the public. We therefore
offer no apology for returning to the factory question—
really the question of questions, for it extends generally
to the remuneration of labour in every department of in-
dustry; as we trust to be able to show before we conclude
-this article. The position of the question in the House
of Commons is now singular, if not unprecedented. The
House decided on Monday last that women and children
shall. not work in factories between six in the afternoon
and six in the morning, and again decided on Friday that
they. shall not work twelve hours ; the inference that
they shall work ten hours, and ten hours only, would
be necessary (for all allow the necessity of two
pauses of an hour each) if the House had not, by a
small majority, negatived an express declaration to this
effect—a decision which it is impossible to explain upon
any rational grounds. The decision against twelve hours
on Monday might be, and was regarded as the effect of
a surprise ; but the affirmation of that decision on
Friday cannot possibly be so considered : there
are, therefore, two decisions of the House of
Commons—the one of them at least solemn and deli-
berate, against the labour of women and children in fac-
tories for twelve hours. Sir James Graham has declared
his purpose of explaining to-night what course he will
pursue in dealing with these two decisions. Three courses
are open to him ; he may propose some period between
ten and twelve hours ; but this period must be
nearer to ten than to twelve hours, for of the two
decisions by which Parliament has bound itself, one
forbids that women and children shall be in the
mill for more than twelve hours, and a stronger law
than the law of Parliament or than any muni-
cipal law, interdicts twelve hours of consecutive toil.
Ten hours and a half, or thereabout, is as much as
can possibly be taken out of any twelve hours ; is it
worth the while to make a stand for the half hour ?
Secondly, Sir James may abandon the Bill altogether ;
but this would not set the question at rest. Lord Ash-
ley would, of course, introduce a substantive measure,
with a p rfect certainty of carrying the ten hears
restriction. though with the unfortunate accompa-
niment -of a formidable agitation in the manufae-
turine- districts, and a continued 'and an in-
creasing division in the Conservative party.
Lastly, the Home Secretary may gracefully yield to
the twice-declared will of Parliament, satisfied that no
one can charge him with having deserted his own con•
victions, or having violated any engagements which he
may have formed in conformity with these convictions.
But whatever course may be adopted by the advocates of
long time, the event of the contest is certain, because the
more the question is discussed, the more manifestly fal-
lacious are all the pretexts for resisting a return to
the usual and natural periods of labour proved to be.

We are sorry to learn that Lord Worsley is at
present prevented by indisposition from attending to his
Parliamentary duties. A too close application to them, and
to the immense extent of correspondence which the im-
portant public Bills introduced by him have produced, has
(for a short time only, we hope) wade rest necessary.—
Stamford Mercury.