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Lady Caroline Bathurst, by her Grace the Duchesiof
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wath.
Lady (James) Ross, by the Countess of Haild;ngton.
Lady Rachel Russell, by the Duchess Dowager of
Bedford.
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Lady Elizaeth Villiers, on her marriage, by the
Countess of Jeysey.
Lady Green, by the Hon. Mrs. Campbell.
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Lady Laura Money, on her marriage, by Lady Mary
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Harriet Paget.
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Miss Julia Frankland, by her mother Lady Frankland
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Ireland Blackburne.
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Miss Matilda G. Wilkinson, by her mother, Mrs. Green
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The following gentlemen were also present at the
Drawing-room:—
DUKES—Rutland,
Norfolk. -
MARQUIS -
Es.ntsa-Belfast, Leicester,. Aberdeen, Wicklow, Had-
dington, Beverley.
VlscoUNTA—Adare; Barrington.
Lortos--Foreiter, Sondes, Trimleston,Byron, Wal-
singhani, Alexander Lennox, Arthur Lennox, Glenelg,
Dinorben, Carew, Charles Beauclerk, Henry J. Lennox,
Wharncliffe, Stanley, Kinnaird, John Russell, Cre-
morne, Aberdour. - . •
BIGHT Hossourtame—Sir Robert Peel.
HONocuaitvaennds.Elsr; Lloyd:: Kenyon, Richard Denman,
Phipps, Lt.-Colonel
Robert S. Carew, A
-1.-P.s Charles S. Butler, Rev. Mr.
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COUNTS—Erlach, Baptiste t a
.Ssas—Oswald Mosley, Bart., John Croft,
ax
T. and S., Francis Shuckburg Bart., ThomaS Freman-
tle, Bart., M.P., Charles Monek, Roger Palmer, Robert
Robert Rev.
A Cu
Gore Booth,-Woodbine Parish, K.C.H., Robert Frank-
land Russell, John Hare, Geo. Houlton, Robert Comyn,
John Yarde Buller.
Trevor,.Tohn
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REVEREND DOCTOR—JeIf.
DOCTOR—SU t herland.
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REVEREND MESSIEURS—Henry Arthur, Woodgate,
James O'Brien, James Nevil Heard, Provost of Eton.
MESSIEURS-=Samuel Martin Q.C.; John G. Hub-
bard, M.P. ; John -Booth, Anthony De Rothschild,
Thoyts; Alexander Mackinnon, John .Forbes? Weld,
Billingsley Parry, T. S. Forman, M.P. ; Robert Bag-
sham, Herbert, Thomas Smilers Cocks, junior ; Robert
Dennistoun M.P. •
Pulsford,. Stephenson, Wyse; M.P.- •, Middleton Berry,
Dodd; M.M.P.• R. H. Wrightson, Richard Magne, Senior,
Beauclerk,lL
Travers, Samuel Whitbread,, Howard Douglas Halford,
Elphilistone, M.P.;
Grey,' Stanley; Marry Cotton, James Duncan Gibb,
John Eld, Summers Ilarford, Ireland Blackburne, M.P.;
W. Stuart; -Farquharson, Joseph Weld, Green Wilkin-
son, Bagshaw, Frederick Cavendish, Kingsmill, Murray
Cowell. -
FIELD-Mansnes..—The Duke of Wellington.
GENERALS—Sir. Robert Gardiner, Sir Lewis Grant,
Turner, Lestrange, Sir B. Carnae, Mercer, Sir J.
Bathurst, Anderson.
COLONELS—Sir George Couper, Bart., Malcolm, Hon.
L. StanhoPe, Hon. R. Fitz Gibbon, Fluish, Vandeleur,
Hon. H. Hutchinson, Oldfield, A. B. Taylor, W. Miles,
P. Davison, Money.
MAJoa—J. W. Henderson.
CAPTAINS—Cuddy, Bedingfeld, Storer, 11. Paget,
Perceval, Bathurst, G. Carey, Whitelock, J. Richardson,
W. Cole, Bateman. B. John, Joseph.
LIEUTENANTS—FuIton, R. Smith, G. Turner, C.
Gordon, L. Mackinnon, Montresor, H. Mercer, F.
Lister.
ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir Philip Durham,

rich broche lavender and white satin, lined with gros de
iciples, and tastefully ornamented with tulle passementerie
and nceudsoliibbon,_ enibroidered blonde petticoat; trimmed
en tablier, with tulle and ribbon, blonde, berthe, and sabots.
Headdress, feathers, lappets, and diamonds.
THE HON. Mess GEORGINA Inny--Train and boddice of
azure blue marie, ornamented with roses, clematis, and tulle;
dress of white glace silk, richly flounced with lace. Head-
dress and ornaments, ()stn.* feathers, pearls, and diamonds.
MRS. CHARLES LUSHINGTON—White satin dress, richly
embroidered in gold lama; train and body of white and gold
brocaded satin, trimmed with beautiful gold blonde lace ;
Court plume. of white ostrich feathers, tipped with mara-
bouts and gold; blonde lappets ; a magn4icent diamond
tiara ' • diamonds, earrings, with a superb emerald and diamond
necklace, and emerald and diamond stomacher.

MRS. 'HOWARD ELPHINSTONE—Train of rich pink poult
de sole trimmed with point lace and nceuds de rubans ; slip
of white satin, covered with Honiton lace with deep flounce.
Headdress, plume, lappets, wreath, and diamonds.
Miss REYNOLDS.-Court costume, composed of a white
tulle dress and tunique, over -blue glace silk, trimmed with
Bouquets of mixed hollyhocks; train and body of ri,:h white
watered silk, trimmed with tulle and "bows of blue ribbon;
body and sleeves ornamented with blonde and flowers. Head-
dress,plume of feathers, blonde lappets, and diamonds.
Miss DOUGLAS HALFORD.—Court costume, composed of a
tulle dress and tuniqUe over satin, trimmed with bouquets of
mixed sweet peas ; train and body of rich pink watered silk,
trimmed with blonde and ribbon. Plume of feathers, blonde
lappets, and diamonds.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.

(Before the RECORDER, Aldermen HUNTER, GIBBS, &c.)
William Read was indicted for that he did incite and pro-
cure one 'William Simpson to feloniously and maliciously cast
away and destroy a certain vessel, called the " Coliva," on
the high sea, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of
England, and also of the Central Criminal Court, with intent
to prejudice divers persons as part-owners of, or under-
writers to, the said vessel. There were several other counts,
varying the form, in one of which 'the captain (Simpson)
was charged as a principal in the felony. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case to the jury, and then pro-
ceeded to call witnesses ; but as the case was so recently
before the police-courts, and was then so fully reported, it
will be only necessary to give the evidence of Simpson who
had pleaded guilty.
Captain W. Simpson was then brought into Court in cus-
tody, and conducted to the witness-box. He stated that in
1840 he entered the employ of the prisoner first as a mate,
and then as commander of the Colina. He continued—After
making a voyage and returning to Ipswich, I told Mr. Read
that the vessel was leaky, and I had left her at Harwich for
repair. After that I went out in her again, and being still
leaky, she was put in the prisoner's ship-yard, and again re-
paired. When I told the prisoner about the vessel, he said

"It's a bad job you did not sink her." To that I replied "If
she bad gone down we must have gone down with her."
(The witness gave his evidence in a very rambling manner,
so that he was at length placed on a bench near the Judge.)
The prisoner afterwards said,- I must make a voyage to
Newcastle to take a cargo of coals to Rotterdam. I told
'him she was not in a fit condition for it. The pri-
soner determined on her going. I sailed from the north
towards Rotterdam. When we neared the Brown Bank the
wind was S.W. by W. On Monday morning I saw several
fishing smacks about three miles from me. After I had been
some time in my berth I got up and went into the cabin. I
cut away a piece of plank and bored two holes with an auger,
and the water ran in. After I had done this I waited half an
hour below. I called the mate and told him the vessel had
sprung a leak, and that the water was running under my
bedstead. I ordered the men to the pumps, and they pumped
half an hour. I told the mate we had better leave her, and
we put out the long-boat. The crew took their clothes, and
I took mine. After we got into the boat we lay to near the
stern of the vessel about an hour and a half. A foreign vessel
bore down upon us and took us up, and-then we were put on
board a smack, to the owner of which I gave the long" boat.

We were conveyed to London by the John Bull steamer.
When I got to Ipswich I told Read all about it, and he told
me not to give the particulars to Mr. Alexander.—The Court
then adjourned.
SECOND DAY, APRIL 18.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant SHEA—The letters pro-
duced are in. my handwriting. I wrote two of. them while
the Colina was in the Tyne (river), and one of them from
Shields. The-Colina is' registered at 156 tons of coals. I
think the freight of coals for Rotterdam would be about 901.
or 951. The provisions and stores of the vessel might be
worth 30/. When the vessel sank'she was about sixty-nine
miles from Rotterdam and about eighty from the Texel.
The mate and a boy slept in the cabin with me, but they
were on the deck when I bored through the timber of the
vessel. I will not swear that the boy was not in his berth at
the time. I believe he was not. My reason for that is, be-
cause that night he was the mate's watch. Ido not think
that I told anything to anyone until March, 1843. In 1843
Mr. Page questioned me as to the fact of the Colina having
been sunk on purpose.. I said to him (Page) that there was
no truth in the story, for it was quite accidental. The vessel
was rather deep in the 'water, in consequence of her heavy
cargo. I bored the holes about four or five feet under water..
It was done with a trenail auger. lam unable to say what
diameter such an auger would prodUce, probably about an
inch and .a quarter. I do .not know that the size of these
augers vary according to the tonnage of the vessel upon
which they are employed. I called the matedoWn to find
out the leak. He did not call me down, nor was lon
deck. When I was at Glasgow I believe that I threatened.
to be revenged on Read for dismissing me from the Ranger.
I must have been intoxicated at the time if I said, " Read
shall never build another vessel at. Ipswich if I can help
it." This (a letter handed to him) is my handwriting. [Put
in and read.]
"Newcastle, Jan. 4, 1844.
" Sir, —I received your letter this morning, dated the 28th.
You wish to know the particulars of what was stated. I
can assure you that I never said to any one that was paid
to lose the Colina, nor that I had lost her purposely, or that
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I had been uncomfortable ever since. This must h-ave arisen
from the letter sent from Barking ; but, Sir, I can clear you
of the report, and myself likewise. I expect to leave next
Saturday, and if so, I am in hopes that I shall be at home in
a few days,- and get all these false reports settled, and ?lived
to be false. " I am Sir, yours BLc

"To E. Page; Esq., Ipswich. - "W. SIMPSON."
Cross -examination continued by I.lf. Sergeant Sun. A.—l did
say that I had sunk the Colina purposely to Gardener,,and
afterwards wrote the letter which has just been read.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. Sergeant SHEA addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and proceeded to call evidence.
James Hudson—l am surveyor of the port of Stockton.
In June, 1840, the Colina was in a yard there for repair. I
examined her, and gave directions as to the repairs, as well
as a surveyor. When - complete I certified that she was in
good repair and seaworthy for four years. She was a better
vessel than most of her kind that I have been in the habit of
seeing. Her timbers were good, and her tonnage 150. I
valued her at 71. 'per ton. I made a report at Lloyd's respect-.
ing her. I have been connected with ship-building more.
than forty years. I examined her thoroughly, and considered
her sound and seaworthy.
Henry Sadler, the mate of the Colina when on her last
voyage, deposed that he was on deck when she sprung a leak
near. midnight. The ship had been pumped in the cus-
tomary way every four hours. She made about three inches
of water in four hours. At the time she sprung a leak there
was a " cross-grained" sea, which would try a vessel very
much. Finding the water gain fast I called the master, who
was in bed, and told him that the ship was making water
fast.- lam sure he did, not call me. There were seven of
us on board, and we all worked at the pumps, one of which
got choked. Captain Simpson gave the necessary directions
for working and saving the vessel. The men worked at the
pumps without intermission till one in the morning, when
we found there was no hope of saving her, so we lt)isted out
the long boat. We lay to near- the vessel a good while. No
galiot was near.us, but we were picked up by the Sarah
fishing smack, and transferred from her to the John Bull
steamer.

Cochers-on the Moselle, at Carlsruhe. and even in some cities
on the Danube. What is still more significant of public opi-
Mon, they-continue Lazollect. eigaalrsres at and about Wurtz-
burg, in Bavaria, the royal order to the cbitriFyiffit-witliz'
standing."
Mr. O'CONNELL then read a long letter. addressed to him
by Ferdinand Waller, Professor of Civil and Canon Law at
the University of Bohn, Knight of the Prussian Order of the
Red Eagle and of the PaPal Order of St. Gregory. We can
find room for only the following extract :
"Your exertions and labours for bringing about the ame-
lioration of Ireland's social condition, have long attracted the
attention of all civilised nations. But in your public rely
Lions a crisis has occurred: where a mere silent interest will
no longer suffice. Hence, from various parts of Germany,' Men appear before you, Sir, personally to record in this
letter, the expression of the feelings that animate them in
your regard.
" You have, Sir, achieved many and great things in behalf
of your country. You have put an end to the rude dissen- '
sions and bloody contests, which once disfigured your beau-
tiful land, and degraded her in the eyes of Europe. You
have rd.-awakened in your nation the sense of human dignity i
' and confidence,- that ages of misfortune had depressed ; you
have made it clearly apprehend the value of these tars 1
greatest blessings that man can possess—religious and civil
liberty. But while you have inspired your countrymen with
the boldest hopes, you have ever set before them, with the
utmost earnestness and energy, the severe nioral conditions,
wheeeby the fulfilment of such hopes can alone be deserved.
You have become in a manner, whereof histoi y furnishes no
similar example, the leader of the masses; but you have be-
came so, by breathing into them the same nobility of -soul
that animates your own bosom.
"All this, Sir, though a mere private individual, you have
accomplished by the power of words, which, artless and un-
adorned, like your last speech to the jury, you have
addressed to your true-hearted countrymen. For the diffu-
sion of your sentiments you have had recourse to those
forms that constitute part and parcel of those ancient liber-
ties whereof every Englishman is proud—and you have
thereby accomplished extraordinary, prodigious things. We,
who are habituated to another state of society, have often,
not without a certain degree of apprehensiou, followed the
course pursued by you. But we were tranquillized by your
solemn assurance that you would strictly keep within the
limit of pacific and legal measures, we were tranquillised by
the possession of that moral power you possess, and which
has ever inspired you with the certain assurance• of being
able to restrain the multitude also within the bounds pre-
scribed."
The Association, said Mr. O'CONNELL, had those docu-
ments before them, and they could judge what were the
feelings of entire Europe on this course of conduct. -Yes, the
people of Germany approved of that conduct, and it now only
remained for them to continue to deserve that approbation.
—(Hear.) Their German friends were right. They would
continue to preserve the peace, no matter what would happen.
They owed it to themselves, to their country, and their God,
to remain perfectly tranquil. And as for him (Mr. O'Con-
nell) whatever terms of concession he might have been in-
duced to listen to from the enemy while at large, from the
moment he entered prison he would indignantly reject them.
He called, on the people of Ireland to be rejoiced at this ex-
pression of feeling. In France there was a great anxiety to
see justice done to Ireland, they had refused to join the Jaco-
binical party there, but that did not lessen their zeal to see
the wrongs of the Irish redressed. America was with them—
and had they any doubt that Germany was with them also?
Mr. O'Connell handed in 1001. from Virginia.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said lie had to hand in 351. from *themen
of Carric-on-Suir.
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in 100/. from New York ; it was
collected at a meeting of the Repeal Association, held there
on the 27th instant; he moved that it be referred to the
Sub-Committee to express their gratitude to their American
friends for their unbounded generosity.
Mr. RAY read a letter from-Mount-Savage, Allegheny,
inclosing 201. to the funds of the Association.
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in 140/. from the Toronto Repeal
Association ; also 20/. from the Seven Years' Operative
Bakers. Mr. O'Connell wished that the Repeal wardens
would take measures to procure signatures to the petition,
which it was the intention of the AsSociation to lay before
the House of Commons at the earliest period.
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We subjoin a copy of the petitlon .
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND HONOURABLE THE
COSISIONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the parish
of , in. the county of , Ireland,
" Humbly Sheweth,—That a Bill has been lately intro;
duced into your Honourable House, entitled A Bill to OW.
and amend the Laws which regulate.the Registration, Qua-
lification, and Polling of Parliamentary Electors in Ireland,'
which, while it purports to increase the Parliamentary fran-
chise, of Ireland, must, if passed into a law, inevitably ope-
rate to dirninish those franchises, where bond fide existing,
and to cause the creation of a large number of fictitious and
servile votes. '
" That the said Bill contains a clause enacting a 301. fran -
chise in counties, based on the poor-law rating, which your
petitioners submit would introduce a qualification altogether
too high.
" That, if a valuable franchise, based on a poor-law rating,
could be instituted, it must be on a rate at the lowest sum
at which the liability to be rated is fixed by the Act for the
relief of the poor.
" That there are but a very limited number in Ireland who
can register under the second new franchise to be created by
this Bill, viz., that of Si. holders in fee, or on perpetuity
leases; but that this franchiSe will facilitate the creation of
a very large number of fictitious - votes, in addition to those
already put on the register by.landed proprietors in Ireland,
by means of the rent-charge franchise.
" That the taking away from the 10/. freeholders - the ne-
cessity of occupation to qualify for voting, will be another
means for the multiplication of fraudulent and fictitious votes.
" That the giving ofvotes to tenants-at-will, at the amount
of rating proposed in this Bill, cannot fail to operate, as it
has done in England (where it was introduced by what is
generally styled the Chandos clause,' in the English Reform
Bill), viz., to create voters totally dependent on the will of
their landlords. • •
" That the adoption of the solvent-tenant test exclusively,
and the abolition of the beneficial test, in dealing with the
10/. franchise in counties, will, according to the statement of
the mover of this Bill, diminish the number of electors by
two-thirds.
That the framers of this Bill, affecting, as they do, to
grant an extension of franchise,-had it in their power to effect
such extension; by adopting the. beneficial interest-test ex-
clusively, instead of that called the solvent-tenant test : • yet
they reject the enlarging, and adopt the restricting test;
and, at the same thrie, have the boldness to assert, that they
,wish to extend the franchise.
" That there are very many objections to this Bill—objec-
tions both of principle and detail; but.your petitioners con-
sider that they, have said enough to show its character:
and feeling that it is an attempt to strip Ireland of all legi-
timate right of voting, and to transfer that right to the op-
ponents of popular rights, solemnly protest against this con-
duct on the part of her Majesty's Ministers, and call respect-
fully, but firmly, on your Honourable House, to reject this'
Bill, and prevent so insulting and injurious a measure from
passing into law.
"And your petitioners will ever pray."
Mr. O'CONNELL then read the following address to the
people of Ireland : .
" TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.
"Conciliation Hall, Corn-Exchange, April 16.
" Fellow Countrymen,-1- should wrong you exceedingly,
if I entertained the slightest doubt of your obeying my re-
peated and distinct advice- that you should not allow any-
thing to lead you into any violence or breach of the peace
whatsoever, no.matter what the provocation may be.
"In the next week the sentence will be passed upon us,
who are called convicted conspirators,' but who are guilty
of no Crime.
"But you would be guilty of a great crime if you were to
commit any act of violence, riot, or tumult. You would be
a criminal against your friends—you would harrow up my
heart-with sorrow and affliction; you would strengthen your
enemies—you would disgrace and injure your friends, and
you would ruin the sacred cause of repeal.
" Under these circumstances, I do not entertain the least
apprehension of any outbreak. I know the people of Ireland
are too wise and too good to commit any crime, or to be
guilty of any breach of the peace. You must know, for I
assure them solemnly of the fact, that the way to carry the-
repeal, is by perfect observance of the peace and of the law .;
nay, I have not the least hesitation in pledging myself,' that
by the people following the peaceable course, which I strongly
advise—in fact. I may say command—the repeal of the union
is not far distant. The last resources of our enemies are
being exhausted, and the restoration of the Irish Parliament
cannot be remote. 'Peace and perseverance' constitute our
motto and our duty. Perfect peace, through perseverance,
and, believe me, the repeal is certain.—l am, fellow country-.
men, your ever devoted and faithful servant,
"DANIEL O'CONNELL, Chairman of the ComMittee."
Mr. O'NEIL gave notice, that on the next day of meeting;
he would m-ove'that lest the Repeal Association should sud:
denly be dissolved, the Secretary should be directed to take
down the name of the mover and the seconder of such a
motion, and that it should be read on-the next day of meet-
ing, after such resolution has been moved.--(Hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL was glad of the notice of motion ; it could
do no harm, and it might do good. No person could pos-
sibly anticipate a sudden dissolution of that Association.—
(Cheers.) However, they could discuss the motion more at
length on the next day of meeting.

The five seamen and Chaplin, the apprentice, who were on
board at the time, confirmed this witness.
Many witnesses were called as to the character of the pri-
soner who were seated on the bench, and in different parts of
the donrt. Among them were—William May, Esq., the pre-
sent Mayor of Ipswich ; John May, Esq., his brother ; and
several Aldermen of that borough ; as well as merchants,
shipowners, and gentlemen of the highest respectability.
IVIr CLAxsaw replied.
Mr. Justice MAUL summed up. He told the jury that the
prisoner stood indicted for being-au accessory before the fact,
of a felony alleged to have been committed by one Mr. Simp-
son, or in the terms of the indictment, he was charged with
procuring and inciting Simpson to commit the said felony.
Having made some prefatory remarks, his Lordship read
over the prolix evidence, and remarked, as he proceeded
upon the prominent features of it, and pointed out the many
contradictions. His Lordship in conclusion, made many re-
marks favourable to the prisoner, and left it the jury to say
whether a person of such a character was guilty of such an
offence as that imputed to him ?
The jury without a minute's consultation, pronounced a
verdict of Not Guilty.
Plaudits proceeded from the audience on hearing the de-
cision.

. The prisoner Simpson was then brought to the bar, and
asked whether he had anything to say whyjudgment should
not be passed upon him according to law ?
The prisoner replied, I have spoken nothing but the truth.
The Learned JUDGE told him that he stood convicted on

G.C.B.
CAPTAINS—Sir Richard Grant, Sir A. Green, T. Fre-
mantle, Sir T. Bdurchier, Sir J. Ross, Thornbrough,
Castle.
COMMANDERS—George Mends, A. Baird, R. Streat-

in Waiting, and the Captain of the
—veFa.uLediegnhc,eHtoodtghkein oonr.d
feill.
L
Chamberlain,
h eLT
FtEei t re
Queen
Ne Tge sar
Guard.
After - the Drawing-room her Majesty and Prince
Albert, attended by the Royal suite, returned to Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Count de Farrabo, a Peer of Portugal, was pre-
sented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday
by Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent yesterday, at
Clarence House, St. James's.
LADIES' DRESSES.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—COUTt
costume, composed of black crape dress over silk, richly
trimmed with jet and cordeliere ; train and body of rich black
damask, trimmed with crape and jet. Black feathers, crape
lappets, and jet ornaments.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD.—Train -of handsome black satin,
a bouquets d'or, lined with black silk, elegantly trimmed with
gold ribbon, and looped with bows; body and sleeves richly
trimmed with gold lace ; skirt of rich black satin, handsomely
trimmed with goldblonde and satin ; a profusion of diamonds
and rubies • Headdress of feathers, • and splendid parure of
diamondsamd rubies ; lappets of gold lace
COUNTESS OF LEICESTEL—COUrt. costume composed of a
tarlatane dress overglace silk, trimmed with Brussels lace
flowers ; train and body of rich• white brocade, trimmed With
Brussels lace; plume of feathers, Brussels lace lappets, and
diamonds.
TUX COUNTESS OF UHARLEHONT.—Court costume en &NM],
robe of black crape .cropee dessous 4'l{6 glace silk; the dress
elegantly trimmed en tablier,. with,coques and.raches ; train,
en suite. Headdress, feathers and lappets.
• Tine HON. MRS. R. DEsmAN.---Coetume do Cour ; a very'
rich blue and white broche dentelle poult de sole; train,
looped with agraffes of blush roses; corsage en eceur, orna-
mented with rich renaissance lace, lie, the, ,and sabots;
white tulle illusion. dress- en,
,tnnictue, trimmed with blush
roses over rich white glace gros iteaddress, plume
of feathers, rich renaissance lace lappets and ornaments.
• Tim Box. Airs. WELD.---Cwttune de Cour, composed of a-

his own confession of a very heinous offence, and he had
aggravated it by an attempt to implicate and jeopardise the
lives of others. You are either guilty of the crime of perjury,
which is not so punishable as that of casting away a vessel,
or you have in reality sunk the ship.
Prisoner—l did so, my Lord.
Mr. Justice Maule—Your case is one in which I can see no
mitigatory circumstances ; the sentence of the Court, there-
fore, is, that you be transported beyond the seas for the term
of your natural life.

But though small consolation, it is yet a certain
fact, that if evil does not work out its own cure, it
brings with it the punishment of its authors, for find-
ing themselves thus treated in their parish churches,.
the people, naturally sensitive and discriminating,
and also deeply imbued with religious feelings,
have left those scenes of slight to themselves,
and of insult to their religion, and have sought other
communions, where they can hear the Word of God
in -their own language; where, if they find less or-
thodoxy, they find more charity; where, if the mysteri-
ous symbols of the great atonement are not distributed
under the sanction of the mitre and the cassock, they
are at least received in the confident assurance of a
charitable spirit, and of the existence of sympathy,
Christian communion, and brotherly kindness. These'
are spiritual comforts which the Church of England,
or rather, as before intimated, that rotten branch of it,
the Church of 'Wales, often withholds from the great
bulk of the people, and the people are their own aven-
gers. In the'diocese of Llandaff, there are parishes
containing twenty thousand Dissenters, with not jive
hundred Churchmen!

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals—Mona, Milligan, from Van Diemen's Land,
off Falmouth, sailed from Launceston 26th December ;
George Buekham, Simpson, Singapore, at Liverpool,
sailed-sth. December, St. Helena 27th February ; Albion,
Robertson, Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed 26th November ;
Janet Wilson, Wilson, from Bengal, in the Downs,
sailed 18th December, St, Helena Bth February.
Arrivals at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land—Here-
ford, Reabam, December 1, from Sydney, and to load
fur London.;
.Aden, Waddell, 23d, from London, bound
to Sydney.
Arrivals at Hobart Town—Davidsons, Cairncross,
2d December, from Portland Bay ; Marian Watson, 7th,
from Portland Bay ; Amelia May, Ann and Louisa,
13th,..from Sydney ; Grecian, 12th, from whaling ;
Janet Izat, 17th, Jane Francis, 17th, and Auriga, 21st,
ill from London ; Maria Orr, from whaling.
Departures from Hobart Town—Henrietta, Longford,
Dec. 4 • Orator, Tayt, 4th to Sydney ; Regulus, Hun-
ter, 12th to Port Philip. The Psyche to sail Dec. 22,
and Duke of Roxburgh, 31st, both to London.
Arrivals at Adelaide—East London, Lewis, Nov. 2,
from Hobart Town, to load for London ; Imaum of
Muscat, 9th from London, and sailed 18th to Port
Philip; Corsair, Greig, 16th, from London; Frances
'Spaight, Winn, 24th from London.
Arrivals at A lgoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Dream,
Eager, Feb. 14, froth Mauritius ;' Arrow, Walker, 15th
from London to Bombay.
Arrivals in Table Bay—Thomas Coutts, Feb.2l, from
Bombay ; Bengalee from Batavia.
Arrivals at St. Helena—lngleborough, from China,
and sailed Feb. 26 to London ; Midas, from Bombay,
Mid-sailed Feb. 27 to Liverpool.
Departures frOm St. Helena—Coquette, Feb. 25, 'to
London ; Antelope, 26th.to GottenbUrgh ; The Mayoon
to London ; Leland, to Boston.
Arrivals at Moulmein—Nestor, Dec. 12 ; Thetis, 14th,
M. C. Von Weber, and Prince Albert, 17th, all from
Mauritius.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

POR'PSMOUTIL—The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole,-recently
from the Mediterranean, is gone to Cork with a strong, de-
tachment of ;Royal Marines, for the disposal of the Naval
Corrimander4n-thief, whose flag is flying in the Volage, 26,
Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart. It is understood that. the
Vernon will remain at Cork pro tempore; but she will pro-
ceed shortly to Sheerness to be paid off.
The steamer Fearless, Commander Sherringliam, is gone
to Southampton, for the purpose of making a fresh survey of
that river, and laying down new buoys from Calshot Castle,
in a line with the new pier, ordered to be forthwith erected
opposite to the Queen's new marine residence at East Cowes,
near Norris Castle will be commis-
Da. PUSEY.—Edward Bouverie Pusey is the second sinned the former to be employed as a
The
Cslrioocrtoldyilaei
son of the late Hon. Philip Pusey, and grandson of the troop-ship. 26,
Sheerness,an d Cygnet
has been masted, and
Earl of Radnor. His father assumed the name of That noble ship Collingwood, 0
81, hoisted. We
Pusey on becoming the possessor of Pusey, in the awaits orders for the pendant being
d 'until Ist May. Several understand
county of Berks, an estate held by that family frotn that she will. notd be eaorneui
waiting to enter for her;* and her
a period considerably anterior to the - Norman con- -fine abler-bodied men_
Ir'eadvfor embarkation. The Rodney, 92, and
quest, and held under a grant from Canute by
storesllasimao.s
72,
,are also in a forward state for the pendant in a
cornage, or the service, of a horn. The Pusey horn few weeks; the latter is to go as flag-ship to the West
is well known to antiquaries. Dr. Pusey was born in Indies, to relieve the Illustrious, 72.
1800, and entered the University of' Oxford in 1818, The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Mundy, left Madeira on the
as a gentlemen commoner of Christ Church. His name 24th February (having obtained the necessary supplies) to
d to the Cape of Good
appears in the first class in 1822. Shortly afterwards he
.1
proceed
umeraries to the Winches
hope,
te where she -will transfer
became a Fellow of Oriel College ;in 1824 he obtained isedches for Rear-Admiral the Hon.rJ g-ship, and land dis-
the prize for the Latin essay, and in 1828
.he became
By the arrival of the b • Pantaloon,oceline Percy.
IRELAND. Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church. rig 10, L. t L 'd
from the coast of Africa, we learn that ieu . api ge,
Dirniart, APRIL 17.—The usual weekly meeting of the In this year he married a lady since deceased. In 1825 Captain Foote, was • • •
.the Madagascar, 44,
Association took place this day. he had taken the degree of M.A., and at the usual cruising in the viciait f the dy o Cape e
Verde, and that she was to r •
D.D. Dr. cram out until August, to com-
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELT R. D. Browne, Esq~ - •
periods su sequen y
in
.3 ears eriod of •,*
M.P., was called to the chair, amid fond cheers.fore his forty-fourth year.—Spirit p sets ice. Two of her Lieu-
Lr Pusey is theretenants have come h
Mr. O'CortivELL, 'after the usual preliminary business had 'home respecting some differences with
of the Age. Captain Foote and
the slave-dealers on the coast.
been gone through, read the following letter from Germany :
IC TIIE GREAT ; lIIS COURT AND TIMES. It is determined,
" Man of Liberty and of the People,—The acts of a great FREDERICK
nested to state that Mr. Colburn has this pres •of for the more speedy and effectual sup-
man are for the benefit of mankind, and it is the duty of —We are reques sion the slave traffic, to • increase the steam navy on
new and cheaper edition, comprised in the coast of Africa,.
mankind to thank him for them, and endeavour to imitate day published a . and also to add to the number of sailing
21
small Bvo., price s., bound, of " Frederick vessels, for whichthe Albatross, •
him in his glorious career. We deeply feel this gratitude, two vols. purpose Wasp, and Ring-
and waft it to you across the sea, from a land where, alas ! and T " • h
the Great ; his Court _
__imes9 . edited, with an His- dove have been detached from the West India station.
as yet, but little enthusiasm is evinced for the nobler attri- storical Introdeetion and Notes, by Thomas Campbell, There is no truth in the report of another change in the
butes of man. You will not reject this tribute of cur respect, Esq., author ,of " The Pleasures of Hope," &c., which naval uniform being ordered ; but the naval world is looking
although we are undistinguished by any achievements in the
can now be had of all booksellers. "No book (observes to the 24th May (Queen's birth-day) for the promulgatiou
shall break,of the promotions.
great cause of liberty. When at length our day . the Britannia) ever passed more rapidly
into a Standard
the ,andard
then shall we, or those whom we leave as successors in the
work." "We recollect but few biographies • • • The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir George Sartorius, arrived at
which have - • • ''' ' .
struggle for the dearest rights of man, combat bravely, f
more highly and constantly kept war att • '' Lisbon, from Gibialtar, on the 3d inst., having left at the
•
lessly, and perseveringly. We shall be .
excited
by your ex-
confirmed. wood's Magazine. ention. —Mich- latter place the Scout corvette and Locust steamer. She
ample ; and by your deeds shall our resolution be was to'remain in the Tagus a short time, and then proceed
which 80111'. 11 LYROOD II '
Until then we can only indulge in feelings, of
anti o 01. SE.---The Palace of Holrood, so to Devonport to be paid off.
are sad and discouraging, Yet many are spirit-stirring lon_
g tenantless and dreary, has for the last few works
The New Naval Regidations established by the Admiralty
glorious—but the purest of these emotions animates our been in a sense restored to its f
g
hearts, at the moment of thus expressing our deep venera- presence
and occupancy of' jinni rtant alterations in the pay, denomination, and rank
her Grace the Ducl-o ss of • '
tion and respect towards you. Hamilton, the Mir • of the officers, and the rating of` ships with their respective
" DR. HEINRICH LUDWIG BOLTZE, , quis of Douglas and his amiable -
. . . EBREN REICH E ECHHOLZ, bride, the •
ie Princess of Baden,' the lovely Countess of complements. .
JULIUS BERENDS, Lincoln, and
their respective attendants; but we are
Eagle, In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellenti Black
- FRANZ MARGGRAST, sorry to say it is soon likely to become as lonely and dso-c Echo, and Victoria and
1 Albert.—Brighton Gazette.
• WILHELM PZTEItKE, late as it• has too long been. Her Grace the Duchess;
HEINRICH RUNGE,
WILHELM SCHEELE. and the Ccluntesses of 'Douglas and Lincoln, having
Portman-square respecting the
The inquiries in
"Berlin, 'March 23, 1844. , • - left it esterday - afternoon
ythe former f Hamilton
, or
Palace,
The affixing of signatures was indirectly prevented in ' 1 1- there certainly has
Pnissia on political pretexts. , .. Wemyss. We understand that the Marquia'of Douglas . daily, as alt ioug . been-amendment
in the last twelve days (and decided improvement •
~ In Wurtemburg strong measures were taken,' the Go- and the Princess., after a short stay at Granton, intend since
vc,rnirient being one of the Most intolerant of the Protestant to proceed 'to the ancient residence of the Duke of leis
we mentionedbeingbrought from Sandhurst in a
near a month ago), yet -
Statesin Germany. i Hamilton in the island' of . Arran, where, it is said, dying state we understand that
for him, as
•
~ A proclamation, containing a positiveorderagainst affix- I the Marquis intends to raise an elegant mansion. it is impossible yet, to be pronounced con-
. valcsc , ent and that at best
ing signatures to petitions, was issued by the Kinof B The Mar uis• of Breadalbane and the Marchioness
g a- i q his recovery must be very
.varia, who is believed to be a practical Catholictedious, though strung hopes are now entertained of the
; so tbat the still, however, their apartments at Holyrood ; , .
of his l' -
political resistance to opinions in favour Of democrati lib t it is occupy . .. 1 preservavon
but
appears to combine persons of various religious persuasions.cerY pp
y both these Mils= • A brigadier of the Horse Municipal Guards on
“.0n the other hand, signatures are abli_ affords us much pleasure to add, that
Saturday blew out his b • '-'
p inorAtt.acho to trious families, during their brief but welcome visit,. rams with a pistol at the barracks at
the address in many important localitiesthe Celestine.l
, particular, at Le was much respected in the corps, and was
have been boundless in their charities, and that their
Cologne, at Bohn, at Coblentz, at Nistnes at Oberwessell •around them.--- hikli on the liSt for promotion. Disappointment in love is
absence will' be severely felt by all .assigned as the cause this
at ochard'B on the Rhine, at Ahrweil ' ' .
er, at Mayence, at of act ofmaduess.
. . • . Scotsman. - .
,• • •

THE WELSH CHURCH.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) S
"Not that he cared for_ the
_poor, . but --bee01?_11
was a thief, and had the bag, and bare
_ssiliaavia;put '0
.
therein."
-
0 Judas, Judas! how numerous are ; thydisciplek - 0,3
how flourishing thy School ! Thou west but one in
twelve but thou didst soon outstrip thy fellows. Thit:-.1
professed principles, how exalted, pure) and disintsi-=4----
rested ! might not this be given to the p00r.7 (9'44.S AV:AN
poor, ye poor ! How often are your wretched heads.
made the stepping-stones for the feet of avarice
and pride to pass over to the objects of
their cupidity and ambition. How many benefac- --r
tions have been dedicated to you, inheritances be-
queathei you, commons inclosed for you, lass s en-
acted for your advantage, and yet have all left your ' ',-
miserable heads only enough above water for some
other canting philanthropist to step over towards the
real object of his parsuit 1 Yea, even churches have
been built in vour panto, and for your sole aceorn-
ino cation ; and you have been thrust into their damp
ani'mildewed corners, to kneel out your devo:ions on
the cold granite pavement, and strain your ears to
catch an occasional word from the far distant minis-
ter, whilst others passess the inner retreats of the
sanctuary, chambered and curtained, and
and footstooled, in all the luxury of the drawing-room
and boudoir !
But if we would wish to view this ecclesiastical
mockery of the poor in all the offensiveness of its
most contemptuous scorn, we have nothing to do
but to cross the Severn into the principality of Wales,
and there our curiosity will soon be gratified, and
that not merely in an occasional instance, but in a
regular and systematic course of proceedings. For
here we shall see the poor not only driven to the
corner, but actually spurned from the Lord's table!!
The first portion of the principality we light on is the
diocese of Landaff. Here, throughout extensive dis-
tricts, the Welsh is the language of the common
people, and consequently that of the working-
classes and of the poor ; but it happens
that from the attractions of the country or ,
from commercial spculation, in many of the parishes
some English families have taken up their residence,
and in these parishes the Welsh service has invariably
been more or less dropped and the English substi-
tuted in its stead, solely for the accommodation of a
few individuals, whilst the bulk of the people are de-
prived of the privilege of hearing the word of God in
their native tongue.
But this ir, not all. In most of these parishes the
Welsh service is partly continued, as it would he too
barefaced even for the present race of clergy to dis • •
continue it altogether ; but in a vast proportion of
them the Communion Service is never performed in
the Welsh language, but invariably in English; and.
on these occasions the Welsh portion of the communi-
cants are obliged to content themselves with having
merely the few short sentences accompanying the' de •
livery of the bread and wine repeated in their native
language, whilst the whole of the rest of this great
and important service is performed in English, for the
accommodation of those whose gayer apparel pro-
claims their having come from some more fashionable
part of the kingdom. Is not this the homage to the
"gold ring" mentioned by the Apostle ? The very
fact of deliirering the consecrated elements to some of
the congregation with the sentences in Welsh is a
proof of that being the only language they understand,
and yet they are to be deprived of all the rest of the
service, the Confession, the Prayer, and the Blessing.
And all this is done in scores of instances under the
very eyes of the Bishop; the people treated like serfs,
spurned from the Lord's table, like beings of an in-
ferior order, to make room for "the man with the gold
ring." Is it a wonder that, under such treatment, the
people hate our Bishops, that they curse our
hierarchy, and revile our Church ; call her Babylon,
and cry "Down with her ?" Surely Rome herself,
if she be the spiritual Babylon, was never guilty of
such an abomination as this.