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AIV LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
. Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, March 14, 1844.
Notice is heraby given that the BOOKS for TRANSFERRING
SHARES in this Society will be CLOSED on THUICSDAT, the 21st
instant, and will be RE-OPENED on MONDAY, the Bth day of
April next.
The Dividends for the year 1843, will.be payable on Monday, the
Bth day of April next, or any subsequent day (Tuesday excepted),
between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock.
By Order of the Directors.
GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and
18, Chancery-lane, London.
The indisputability of the policies granted by this Company ;
The obligation to pay the sum assured although the debt for which
the policy was taken may have been paid before the claim arises ;
Whole-world policies not confined to the limits of Europe.;
Option of half-premium payment for the first seven years.
These form a combination of advantages which can be obtained
only from the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Company.
ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.

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

, .
BONUSES DECLARED, 529,306/. 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.
CapitalLsoo,ooo.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
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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 withont 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 aceording to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums.

THE DISSENTERS' AND GENERAL LIFE
AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, mstitrted 1837,
empowered by special Act of Parliament, 3d Vic. c. 20, 62, King
William-street, London-bridge, London ; 21, St. David-street,
Edinburgh; 6, King-streA, Queen square, Bristol ; St. Andrew's
Hall, Plain, Norwich—Capital, One Milliom.

TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS
George Bousfield, Esq. Thomas Piper, Esq.
homas Challis, Esq , Ald. Sir Jnhn Pale, 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.
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upon the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and
Public security.

THOMAS HASLER, at present, and for
II 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
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London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects,
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March, in the year of our Lord, 1844. THOMAS HASLER.
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for the said Thomas Hasler.

T SAMUEL WEBSTER, at present, and for
I
twelve months past, residing at No. 12, Spring-place, Pad-
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being out of business, do hereby give notice, that I in-
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street, London, praying, to be examined touchinnl
8 Y debts, estate,
from
andl process upon making a lhil
effects for payment •f my
nadn
surrenderd
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and
disclosure effects,
a
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month at the least after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this
SAMUEL
1844.
25th day of March, in the year
of our Lor
SAMUEL WEBSTER.
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~
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—James Langley, a ladies' shoemaker, residing in Allen-
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MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT—Two LIVES
LOST.—On Sunday last, between twelve and one o'clock, the
following fatal accident occurred on the river Thames, between
Tilbury Fort and Gravesend. The ferry-boat belonging to
Mr. Creed, of the 'World's End Ferry, Tilbury Fort, left the
jetty at the latter place in the charge of two men, named
Bailey and Howard, having two passengers. The sail was
made fast, and a sudden squall upset the boat about three-
quarters of a mile from shore. The accident was observed on
shore, 'and the boatmen of Gravesend vied with each
other in their efforts to reach the spot, but before any assist-
ance could be afforded, Bailey and Howard, who were
dressed in fishermen's heavy boots and linen petticoat-trou-
sers, were seen to relax their hold of the boat and sink, The
passengers were, however, taken up, but in an exhausted
state, and conveyed to the Three llaws public-house, at
Gravesend, where every attention was paid them, but only
faint hopes are entertained of their recovery. The tide was
running up strong at the time of the accident. Both the men
drowned were inhabitants of Gravesend and married, Bailey
I,:wring a wife at present in her confinement, and three chil
dren wholly unprovided for. The bodies of the drowned men
were not recovered last evening.
Last week, George Ritford and John Nixon were
drowned in one of the Lead Company's mines at Middleton-
in-Teesdale, by the river Tees suddenly rushing in upon
them, while at work. The former has left a wife and nine
children, and the latter an aged mother, of whom he was the
chief support, to lament their loss.

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-room her Majesty, according to
annualoustom, 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 Depiitation consisted of Mr.
Alderman ThiUpson, M.P, the President; Mr. Richard
Hotham 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. I.r. Back, the Drawing
Master, and the 40 boys educated in the Royal Mathe-
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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 Duchess of Kent was present
at the Drawing-room. Her Royal Highness was at-
tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Colonel Sir
George Couper,'Bart.
-The Ladies in Waiting on Alia Queen, the Maids of
Honour, and the Women Of the Ifedahamber to her
Majesty, appeared at the Drawing-I.qm in mourning.
The Marquis of Ormonde was the:Lordin Waiting,
Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting; Lord Charles
Wellesley, Clerk-Marshal ; Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, Equerry in Waiting; Mr.Wiltokt awl Mr.-Wortley,
Pages of Honour in Waiting. .
The Marquis of Exeter, K.G., 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 inost
Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece, and
of the most Hon. Military Order of the Bath. Viscount
Combermere also wore three collars—those of the most
Hon. Military Order of the Bath, of the Hanoverian
Guelphic Order, and of the Tower and 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, and 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 Ilummelauer,
by the Countess de St. Aulairc, the French Ambas-
sadress.

Le Baron de Linden, Officier d'Artillerie au service de
sa Majeste 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,
anal Baron de Talleyrand, Attache to the Em-
bassy ; Ali -Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador ' • the
Belgian. Minister and Madame Van de Weyer;
M. Moreno, 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 M. C. de
ICoudriaffsky, Secretaries of Legation, and M. Alexandre
de liederstern, Gentilhomme de la Chambre de S. M.
l'Empereur de Russie ; Count Kielmannsegge, the Ha-
noverian Minister ' • Baron de Huge], Wurtemberg Mi-
nister ; Madame Bunsen, Lady of the Prussian Mi-
nister ; Baron de Thile, Prussian Charge 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 Statcs at Lisbon ; the
Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow ; Baron de
Nieumann, Austrian Minister • Baron Koller, first Se-
cretary of'
Legation, Baron Lebzeltern, Secretary, and
M. de Hummelauer ; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Mi-
nister ; Prince Castelcicala, Sicilian Minister, and M.
G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; M. M. Mosquera,
New Grenada Charge d'Affaires, and Madame Mos-
quera ; the Chevalier F. de R. de Ribas, Spanish Charge
d'Affaires, and M. Victoriano .dr Pedrorena, Attache 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 Lo!d 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,
Iron. 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. Dentin*, 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, Exon 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.
MARCITIONESSES—Lansdowne, Ailesbury, Sligo, Chol-
mondeley, Clanricarde, Blandford.
COUNTESS—Shelburne, Hardwieke, Carnarvon, De La
Warr, Rosebery, Norbury, Haddington, Egmont, Shef-
field, Eldon, Malmesbury, Arran, Cowper, Mansfield,
Verulam, Euston, Brroll, 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 Quest, 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. Lascelles, Sophia Cecil, Eli-
bank, Domville, E. S. Stanhope, L. Alexander, Worsley,
Dalrymple, Abinger, Ashley, E. de Burgh, J. Grimston,
Pottinger, Howard, Colborne, L. Fitz-Roy, F. Howard,
G. Seymour, Bloomfield, Briggs, Hamilton, Wharneliffe,
Grey, Beauvale, Mary Bouverie, Taylor, Radstock, W.
Horton, Gore, Dowager Clinton, Gordon, Vivian, King,
Antrobus, Katherine Jermyn, 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,-Dinorben, E. Hardinge.
BARONESS—LioneI Rothschild.

HoNouitAßLEs—Sophia 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. Jerninghain, Mrs. Tottenham,
Caroline Waldegrave, Mrs. Edmond Knox, Miss Mit-
ford, Helena Dillon, Miss Waldegrave, Miss Copley,
Mrs. H. 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, Nicholl, Blomfield, Hugh
Baillie, Jeremiah Pilcher, Pemberton, Hayes Sadler,
Shaw Lefevre, George Carnegie, Thesiger, Aldis,
Charles Mills, Beresford, IL Story, Howard, Mansfield,
Henry Boyce, Anson, Henry Daniell, 11. M. Denham,
M. Gaskell, Hawkins, Samuel Platt, Wm. Thornton,
Inglefield, Abdy, A. Robartes, E. Cayley, Dugdale,
Waymouth, Kingston, Henry Matson, Young, Greene,
B. Elphinstone, W. Beckford, Brunton, Nouaille Budge,
V. Stuart, Ruck Keene, G. S. Mildmay, M'Leod,
Ormsby, Henry Beaumont, Montefiore, Gibsone, W.
Stuart, H. Addington, Morrison, H. Denham, George
Graham, M. Martin, Buck, Morier, A. Strickland.
MISSES—Sadler, Mills, Charlotte Mills, Johnstone,
Emily Octavia Law, Nicholl, Mary Wheatley, Couper,
Dymo'.e, Smit'i (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 Boyce, ' Louisa Anson,
Isabella Mansfield, S. Stanhope, Mary Macleod, Garden,
Berkeley, E. 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, H. P. Stuart, Domville,
R. Trevor, T. Drummond; Louisa Kingston, Beckford,
Joanna Beckford, " Greene,'..Fanny -Platt, Raymond
Barker; Rose. Alice Greene, Hardinge, E. Hardinge,
Mit, W. Rodd, Taylor, IL -Morier. -
he 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 Sligo.
Lady Selina Bridgeman, by the Duchess of Buccleuch.
The Hon. Lady Butler, on her marriage, by Viscountess

F-orhes. • _
Lady Mildred Hope,_ on occasion of her marriage, by

Viscountesi Be;eford.
The Marchioness of Blandford, on her marriage, by the
Duchess of Marlborough.
Hon. Miss Fanny Fraser, by her mother, Lady Lovat.
Lady Throckmorton, 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 7
stock. ' "
•
Mrs. Berestbrd, by Lady Worsley.
Hon. Mrs. Edmond Knox, by Lady Louisa Alexander.
Hon. Miss Maude, by her motber,Viseountess Hawarden.
Lady Vivian, by the 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. Milli, by Mrs. Charles Mills.
Miss Charlotte Mills, by Mrs. Charles Mills.
Miss Johnstone, by her mother, Lady B. Johnstone.
Miss Ilymoke, 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 Iron. Mrs. Augustus Liddell, by the Countess of

Hardwicke.
Lady Margaret Littelton, by Lady Wharncliffe.
Lady Sophia Cecil, by (Frances) Lady Clinton.
Lady Taylor, 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

Barkei.
Miss Harriette Beekford, by her mother, Mrs. William

Beckford.
Miss Joanna Beckford, by her mother, Mrs. William

Beckford.
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 liorritt, 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 Budge by Mrs. Hamilton Story.
Mrs. Henry,Matson;by Lady Ashley.
Mrs. Brunton, by the Countess of Verulam.

The following gentlemen were also present:—
DuKEs--Norfolk, Leeds.
MAnQuisEs—Lansdowne, Cholmondeley, Blandford,
Headfort.

EARLS—Egmont, Malmesbury, Rosebery, Shelburne,
Rosslyn, Arran, Carnarvon, Lincoln, Haddington, Erroll,
Aberdeen.

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

Bailor—Peterborough.
LORDS—Colchester, Elibank, Thomas Cecil, Lovat,
Colville9 Kilmaine, Radstock, Brougham, Dinorben,
Cottenham, Stanley, A. S. Churchill, M. W. Graham,
Vivian, Beauvale, Bloomfield, Wharncliffe, Howard.
BARON—Lionel Rothschild.

RIGHT HoNounemEs—Sir Augustus Foster, Baronet,
Sir James Graham, Sir H. Hardinge, W. E. Gladstone.
HONOURABLES—CharIes Law, M.P., Captain E. Knox,
M. S. West, C. Hope, T. Denman, H. 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. Dora-
ville, J. Sinclair.

REV. DocTon—Vivian.
DOCTORS—Loney, Mackenzie, Granville, C. Lwellyn.
REV. MEssmuns—J. H. Sadler, J. P. Walsh, J.
Dakins, F. Hewson, W. Bradford.
COUNT—G. Metaxa.

ALDERMEN—CopeIand, M.P., H. Hughes.
MESSIEURS—Thesiger, M.P., Wallace, John Round,
M.P., Estcourt, John Round, jun., Charles Mills, J.
Masterman, M.P., Gwynne, Cox, anderson, M.P., Je-
remiah Pilcher, 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. Stronge, S. Platt, A. Robartes,
J. Morrison, T. Farquhar, J. Kemble, Nugent Vaughan,
Keate, Boyce, C. Bruce, W. Judd, H. Stretton, H. Story,
Nouaille Budge, H. Alexander, W. Beckford, Garden,
Escott, Abdy, T. K. Holmes, S. Harford, G. Macpher-
son, Tottenham, P. Budworth, R. Thomson, M. Smith,
Macgregor, W. Peel, C. Balfour, E. Palmer, Travers,
J. Rodd, H. Mercer, H. Hughes, jun., J. Bedford, Rid-
dell, J. Williams, P. Isaacson, Sall.
FIELD MARSHAL—The Duke of Wellington.
ADMlRALS—lnglefield, C. 8., Sir Thomas Briggs.
GENERALS—Dyson, W. M. Burton, Sir W. Gordon,
Sir H. Wheatley, Viscount Beresford, H. Thomson, H.
Bowen, M'Leod, Sir A. Dalrymple, Ballantine.
COLONELS—OIivier, Rolt, Sir 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. Pottinger, Lynch, Way-
mouth, Lushington, Sir J. G. Hamilton, Brandling,
Graham, Harris, Chipchase, IL 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, H.
Hamilton, Sir T. Herbert, K.C.B. ; Glyn, F. Wood,
Wingfield, Fenwick, Gibsone, R. Watts, Alcock, Sprye,
hn , A.
W.
Crispin, B aid
Pollhill, M.P. ; Fearon, H. Bellasis, Dickson, E.
Lloyd, K.H. ; S. Gostin, Schonswar.
James Co A
MA. rifeEgaa sr —W. H. a
C. H. Hay, Sulivan, M. Hayes, H. Matson, Winnett,
Woodgate, J. C. M. Touzeau, W. C. Wood, M'Cleverty,
A. H. Ingram. Ball,
W Wood. P
D. Rob,ennms
LIEUTENANTS—W. G. Prendergast, P. Briggs, A. B.
Kingston, F. G. Leigh, H. Curling, W. Kenyon, R. C.
H. Spencer, W. S. Simpson, Robson, Petley, G. Turner,
T. A. Ewart, R. T. Snow, Horace, W. Kenyon, G. W.
Gordon, Mackinnon, H. Tall, R. Smith, J. C. Romer,
Romer, W. A. Lyers, Fairholme.
CORNETS—Whitehead, Clements.
ENSlGNS—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:High-
ness 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 TUB MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
POST.—Sir Jetties Graham is commonly remarkable for
the clearness—if not for the consistency—of his public state-
ments. The strange vagueness, therefore, of his various ex-
planations last night, in. reference to the future conduct of. the
Government on the Factory Bill, almost induces us to suspect
that there was a design, on the part of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, to leave the matter as unintelligible as possible. He
has been so far successful that, as well as we can discover,
the Bill he proposes to withdraw will only differ from its suc-
cessor in one point, which practically involves no difference
at all. The present Bill limits the period of daily labour for
adult females to twelve hours; the new one is to provide that
they shall not work more than twelve hours in the day. Does
any body who knows the millowners suppose for a moment
that they will permit the poor women to work less than twelve
hours? In fact, then, the future, like the present, mea-
sure, will be neither more nor less than a Twelve Hours'Bill ;
• and we earnestly call upon that majority of the - House of
Commons which has already affirmed the ten hours' principle,
to remain firm to their vote of last Monday. The sort of
subterfuge now attempted ought to convince gentlemen that
they have no security except in a constant and vigilant at-
tention to every clause of the Bill, and to the proceedings in
all its stages. To some Hon. Members we are proud to think
we might safely appeal on the ground of humanity ; to all we
would urge the policy of avoiding the frightful evils that may
arise throughout the manufacturing districts from that "hope
deferred which maketh the heart sick." The House of Com-
mons has declared by a majority that the Christian slaves
shall hare a sixth part of their labour remitted to them ; they
must be " bold bad men," who would venture hereafter to
vote for the revocation of the edict that has now for seven
days gladdened the victims of our factory system.
CHRONICLE.—It is the intention of Ministers to with-
draw the Factory Bill—if they can, or to resign, if they
cannot. Such was the substance of the communication made
by Sir James Graham last night to the House of Commons,
and reserved till the end of a somewhat long, but very able
speech, in which he coolly discussed the different courses
which :the Government might pursue, while most of his
hearers were suppressing, as well as they could, their impa-
tience to learn that which had been adopted. It was ex-
pected by many that a compromise of eleven hours would
have been proposed. Sir James Graham argued forcibly,
that such a compromise would be full of peril to our manu-
facturing system, and at the same time that it would not
satisfy the advocates of short hours of work, or settle the
great question at issue. A compromise being rejected, no-
thing remained but to withdraw the Bill. To break this
heavy fall, however, Sir James announced that in the event
obtainingof
Bill world leave
itr 0 toit
ewithdrawed embodying the
certain present
amendmentsßi l, a new
of the Factory Law on which there is no difference of
opinion. There was every reason why the language of a
Minister who had to make a statement like this, should have
been conciliatory and temperate in the extreme. Nature,
however, will break out, and the Secretary for the Home De-
partment did not hesitate, in the presence of Lord Ashley and
of not a few of Lord Ashley's majority, to adopt the strong
and pungent, but offensive, expression of a weekly contem-
porary (the Examiner), and say, that he saw in the success
of that Noble Lord's motion the commencement of "a ' Jack
Cade' system of legislation." A warm and inlignant remon-
strance from Lord Ashley did not draw from Sir James Gra- I
ham any retractation or explanation of this Parliamentarily
" untoward" phrase. With regard to the course proposed
to be taken by the Government, Lord Ashley declared
that he was not then prepared to give an opinion ; but
he appealed to the House to stand by its repeatei
decisions in favour of some less amount of labour than
twelve hours ; and Lord Howick announced that
he would resist the motion for leave to withdraw the Bill.
That motion will be made on Friday next. Meanwhile the
situation of the Government is most extraordinary. It has
taken its stand on a position of decided hostility to a majority
of the House of Commons. The House has repeatedly de-
clared that the labour of women and young persons in fac-
tories ought to be regulated, and that the hours of work
should be less than twelve. In the face of these determine
tions Ministers announce that they have resolved to abstain
from any further attempt to regulate the hours of labour, and
to resist to the utmost any proposal for the reduction of
those hours. This attitude of the Government, with regard
to the House of Commons, is significant enough. It is a
declaration to the majority that a question, already decided
upon its merits, shall be reconsidered under a sort of Parlia-
mentary duress. " Twice you have decided," says Sir James
Graham, to the House of Commons, " upon principle, that
the Government is wrong. Repeat that decision on Friday,
and Ministers will resign." It is not difficult to foresee the
result. The whip will be applied with better effect than it
was last week. Sir Thomas Fremantle's threat of resignation
will be believed by those who only laughed when he talked
of danger to the corn-laws. Ministers will have their majo-
rity, and Lord Ashley's clause go back for renewed and fiercer
agitation to the towns. As respects the important question
at issue, it could not be disposed of in a more unsatisfactory
way. The success of Sir James Graham's motion will be
the success merely of the Minister, and not of the principle
upon which lie stakes his Ministerial existence. This posi-
tion of Ministers, however, deeply humiliating as it is, is a
striking example of that moral retribution which, sooner or
later, overtakes unprincipled politicians. The political power,
which was acquired by factious means, deserts them when
they intend to act honestly. They stimulated and encou-
raged a bigoted opposition to every liberal principle of edu-
cation, and the feeling so excited amongst their supporters
disabled them from framing the only kind of education
scheme suited to the wants of the time. They obtained
office by an agitation in support of monopoly, and the neces-
sity of not offending the adherents of the corn-laws is now the
barrier to a real settlement of the factory question. Thus,
Ministers are wholly powerless in a matter which they re-
garded as vitally important. They are deeply convinced that
the hours of labour for women and children ought to be re-
gulated and limited, but they are, by their own avowal, too
weak to propose what they think right. Such a position is
not a becoming one for the Government of this country to
occupy. It is a derangement of our constitutional system
which ought to be corrected.
TIMES.—" The effect of these various divisions," said the
Home Secretary last night, " as the Bill now stands, has been
to involve the measure in inextricable confusion." Seldom
have we heard a confession so naïve and so true. The speaker
had himself, of his own motion and suggestion, attempted
to force the House of Commons to affirm in one week two
contradictory propositions. On Monday the House had vir-
tually resolved, as was admitted by Sir James himself, that
women and young persons should not be allowed to work in '
factories more than ten hours a day. After the brief interval
of four days, it found itself required to cat its own words, and
vote that twelve hours' daily labour was allowable. This was
rather sharp practice. The operations of facing about and
wheeling round are easy enough on parade ; they may be seen
accomplished very expeditiously at the Horse-Guards, but five
minutes' walk to the House of Commons brings one to a very
different and far more intractable region. Decency alone re-
quires therea longer delay. The result was that, though the
Ministerial word of command did tell extensively, and
though just round the person of the commander-in-chief there
was tolerable order and discipline, yet mutiny and confusion
prevailed throughout the field. The house was " demo-
ralised." It was called on to pronounce its judgment and
renounce its judgment, to act independently and subserviently
'in one and the same act, to be the House of Commons and
Sir James Graham, to pour forth sweet and bitter, blow hot
and cold, say yea and nay, to go backwards and forwards, all
at the same time. This it could not do, or, at least, did not
do. What it did do is not so clear, as the only result was, as
Sir James confesses, inextricable confusion. The House will
be readily excused by all considerate persons, on the ground
of the novelty and strangeness of the circumstances in which
it was placed. We have only heard of one instance at all
parallel, and that is the case of the unfortunate man
in the " Diary of a Physician," who woke one morning
under the singular persuasion that a violent gust of wind
(Palace-yard is a particularly windy locality) had twisted
his head backwards. His attempts to carry out this unplea.-
sant hypothesis involved him in great difficulties and some
very false positions. It was at breakfast, if we remember
right, that the physician first saw the poor creature under this
delusion. He was then sitting with his back to the table,
twisting round occasionally with the most excruciating
efforts to the tea and muffins. The tails of his coat adorned
his knees, and the lappels his shoulder blades. The nape of
his neck was graced by a very neat tie, which, it appeared,
had been by far the greatestdifficulty entailed by his disaster.
As soon as the door was opened he backed out of his chair,
and retrograded up to the physician, with whom he shook
hands a tergo, as the Parthians used to shoot their arrows.
There was a good deal more, which will readily suggest itself,
if not to our readers in general, at least to any Member
of the House of Commons present at the two divisions last
Friday. Deeply are we concerned at the perplexity of the
House. It is impossible not to smile, but serious considera-
tions present themselves. This rotatory movement of opinion
is both undignified and dangerous. The House won't bear
such twisting. The confessed author of all this confusion,
whose own whip had set the House a.spi 'nning, did his best
to fight his own way out of the eddy. In both narrative and
argument he was last night most laboriously explicit. He
opened with a history of all the ins and outs, evidently the
result of a strong mental effort ; and as much required for
the clearing of his own understanding as for that of the
House. The finale of this history was, as above mentioned,
" inextricable confusion"—allof the Right Hon. Baronet's an
making. He then divided into three heads the field of operas
tions open to the Ministry. The first alternative was a com-
promise, say eleven hours a day. This he rejected for two
very good and sufficient reasons ; first, that he would not
agree to it himself ; secondly, that Lord Ashley would not.
The second course was to throw up the Bill altogether, and
leave Lord Ashley to bring in another if he liked. This
would not do. There was every probability that Lord Ash-
ley would like to bring in a Bill, in which case all the tron- •
ble would come over again; and it was evident that Minis-
ters had already left too much to Lord Ashley, so that they
would not mend matters by leaving to him the
whole Bill.
The third course, and that actually adopted, is a very sum •
pie one, and might have been stated without any reference
to other alternatives ; it is, to make another push for the 12
hours' clause under the technical form of a new Bill, which
is to be done next Friday.

EXTRAORDINARY LAND-SLlP.—DUring the night of
Friday last an unusual and remarkable occurrence took place
on Claston estate, in the parish of Dormington, the property
of Edward Foley, Esq., of Stoke Edith-park. A large piece
of land, consisting of more than three acres of rock and
earth, with forty oak trees, slipped down Dadnor's-hill,
a distance of 200 yards, into the valley beneath, and
now presents a very curious appearance, the projected
masses of rock forming fantastic shapes of caverns, Sze.,
and some of the trees remaining upright, as if growing. The
whole scene is well worthy of inspection. From the ground,
cracking, &c., there had 'been previous indication of the
coining " slip," and no doubt the wet weather hastened the
result. The damage occasioned by the occurrence is esti-.
mated at 1501. The event has given rise to a. variety of
alarming reports about an " earthquake," &c., but we have to
state the real nature ofthe incident as above.—ilereford Times.