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ESTABLISHED 1821.
THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORKING COMPANY, are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
'labs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-R.DOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Esher-street, Holywell-street, Milbank, Westminster.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

TO PAPER-STAINERS.
WANTED, in the Country, a PAPER-
STAINER. One who thoroughly understands his business in
all its branches, and of strictly temperate habits, will meet with con-
stant employment.
Letters (post paid) stating terms, &c., addressed A. 8., Post-office,
Carlisle, Cumberland, will be attended to.

AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENE-
RAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY.
126, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill.
Capital 260,0001., in 2,000 Shares.
DIRECTORS.:
Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Col _
Robert Brooks, Esq. Charles E. Mangles, Esq.
Henry Buckle, Esq, Richard Onslow, Esq.
John Henry Capper, Esq.. William Walker, Esq.
BANKERS—Union Bank of London.
COLONIAL BANIERS—Tht Rank of Australasia (Incorporated by. Royal
Charter, 1633), No. 2, Moorgate-street.
SoLterrolts—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Co.
Pareiciaw—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square.
SECRETART—Edward Ryley, 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 oue-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 60.
TO EMIGRANTS, TO TRH 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.

iuhoun, Esq,

GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS-
SURANCE SOCIETY,
14, WARTERLOO-PLACE, LONDON.
THE CHISHOLM, Chairman.
WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
Credit given for half the amount of the first five Annual Premiums,
by which means Assurances may be effected with the least possible
present outlay, and after payment of the arrears, the Policy-holder
will become entitled to participate in the entire profit of this Institu-
tion, precisely in the same manner as if he had paid thewhole amount
of his premiums in advance, in the usual way.
Thus, for example—a person in the twenty-fifth year of his age,
instead of paying 21. 6s. per annum for an Assurance of 1001.; would
be required to pay 11. 3s. only during the first five years, when, on
payment of the arrears of Premium, amounting to 51. 155., his share
of the Profits would be such as to reduce his future Annual Pre-
miums to very little more than the half Premium of 11. 3s. originally
paid by him. The Great Britain is the only Mutual Assurance
Society in which this very great accommodation is given to the As-
sured.
Credit allowed for the whole of the first five Annual Premiums, on
satisfactory security being given for the payment of the same at the
expiration of five years.
All the profits of the Institution divided annually among the Policy-
holders who shall have paid five Annual Premiums.
Full particulars are detailed in the Prospectus, which, with every
requisite information, may be obtained by application to
A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
TRUSTEES.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
BENJAMIN BARNARD, Esq.
CHARLES BALDWIN, Esq.
Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus—
Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies secure,
notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre-
viously obtained.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on po-
licies effected for the whole term of life.
On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the
first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the Assured.
Advances are also made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal
security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Attention is particularly requested to the detailed Prospectuses of
the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 18, King
William-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM R ATR AY, Actuary and Secretary._

HEREAS, a PETITION of CATHARINE
HEDERSTEDT, widow, of No. 13, Lambeth-road, having
been filed in the Court of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for pro-
tection from process having been given to the said Catharine Metier-
stedt, under the provisions of an Act of Parliament passed in the
Parliament holden in the sth and 6th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,"
the said Catharine Hederstedt is hereby required to appear ha Court,
before Joshua Evans, Esq., the Commissioner acting in the
matter of the said petition, on the 4th day of June next, at
half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the Court of
Bankruptcy,Basinghall-street, London, for the purpose of being then
and there examined touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be
further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Act. All
persons indebted to the said Catharine Hederstedt, or that have any
of her effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. P.
Johnson, 20, Basingliall-street. the official assignee nominated in
that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said
petition. W. ATKINSON, Messenger.

WHEREAS, a PETITION of GEORGE
BAKER; the Younger, of No. 18, St. Alban's-place, Edgware.
road, ironmonger, but now out of business, and having had a place of
business at No. 6, Harrow-road, and previously thereto of No. 4,
Upper Southwick-street, North Cambridge-terrace, in copartnership
with his father, George Baker, and previously of No. 174, High
Holborn, assistant to an ironmonger, having been filed in the Court
of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protection from process
having been given to the said George Baker, under the provisions of an
Act of Parliament passed in the Parliament holden in the sth and 6th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the
Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the said George Baker is hereby re-
quired to appear in Court before Joshua Evans, Esq., the Com-
missioner acting in the matter of the said petition, on the sth of
June next, at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, for the purpose
of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and
effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of
the said Act. All persons indebted to the said George Baker, or
that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same
but to Mr. P. Johnson, the official assignee nominated in that be-
half by the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said petition.
W. ATKINSON, Messenger.

PUBLIC NOTICE.
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TOISHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS.
Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
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Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally re-
commended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders
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SIGHT RESTORED
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Nottingham, Aug.2B, 1841
This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcocksola,
Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham.
to Mr. W. Grimstone.

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all
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A. Z. M.
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LIEHBARY, 1110410 AWE

in the Russian-Polish Loan the following Dividends will be re-im-
Jursed :—One of 1,000,000 g., one of 300,00011 , two of 150,00011., six of
2.5,00011., eight of 14,00011., &c., together 7,00$ dividends, gaining
7,970,00011. Smallest dividend 75011., largest 1,000,00011.
In the Austrian Loan 700 bonds will obtain 701,70011, in lots of
230,00011., 50,00011., 15,0001., 10,00011. &c. Smallest dividend 50011.
10 florins are equal to It. sterling, a trifle more or leas, as per day's
exchange. The prices are—
I
1 Russian-Polish Scrip for £2 15 1 Austrian Scrip for £3 0
4 de. do. do. 10 0 5 de. do. li 0
9 do. do. do. 25 I 13 do. do. 30 0
Payable by bank notes, remittances, or drafts. Dividends reim-
bursable at Frankfort, Paris, London, or New York, at the option of
the holders
T )save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris,
New York, and at Mr. A. Schivarzschild's, 1, Plough-court, Lombard-
street, London, by letter only. Prospectuses, with full particulars,
and Lists of ties Distribition, promptly forwarded to every share-
holder abroad
J. A. SCIIWARZSCHILD, Banker and Receiver-General.

Frankfort-oa-Maine, April, 1844.
w.* A Florin being 25., it follows that a fifth share at 12s. in the
Austrian Government Distribution is relatively much more valuable
than one Red Bond is tie private speculation of the 25th.

THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM-
PANY beg to inform ramifies Visiting the Provinces, that
they may procure GENUINE TEAS direct from the Company, of
their Agents, in nearly every town and village in the kingdom,
packed in Lead, and warranted Genuine by the Company.
Spurious and English made Tea being now commonly so'd by
the shopkeepers in the country, the greatest caut:on is necessary.
Observe the Company's seal on each package.
Applications for Agencies for the sale of the above Genuine Teas,
by which a considerable income may be derived, to be made to the
Company at their Warehouses, 2, Lawrence Pountney-hill, London.

FOR DUST. OR RAIN.-LIGHT COATS,
CAPES, &0., in great variety, in all the various descriptions
of material that are made.—Gentlemen will find the PATENT
MOHAIR CAMLOMERE and GOSSAMER to surpass every other
kind ofrepellant or waterproof yet invented, not being an absorbent,
like most other goods. The wet will not remain on it ; heat, cold, or
time will not affect its impervious quality, and will not confine per-
spiration, to the great comfort and health of the wearer. An inspec-
tion is solicited at the Manufacturer's. Also, Mohair Cloth, for riding
trousers, in the piece, or made up by experienced workmen, at
PAYNE and CO.'S, 28, King-street, Covent-garden; and at 19,
Conduit-street, Regent-street. Norte are real but those stamped.

GILDING—FLY SPOTS—TARNISH.
PARISIAN GOLD DETERGENT, 2s. 6d. per
Bottle. Ormolu Lacquer and Bronze, Is. Gd. each.—These
compositions are perfectly innoxious, and their effect sadden, asto-
nishing, and lasting. Gilding, Lacquer, and Bronze, are instantly
restored to their original lustre, fly spots removed, and covering
from the tly rendered unnecessary, sponging the surface is the only
trouble.

RECENT TESTIMONIALS.
" I am highly satisfied with your Gold and Lacquer Detergents.
I hope to recommend them to some of my friends, as they answer so
well, especially the Gold Detergent."—From the Right Hon. C. D'Eyn-
court, M.P.
" We first tried the Gold Detergent on a costly looking-glass frame
that had been a few years gilt. It removeil the whole of the fly spots,
the dust, and stains, and the frame has now the appearance and bril-
liancy of the day it left the workman's hands. Next on two very old
frames—from their colour we were almost in doubt whether they
were gilded or not. The Detergent soon convinced us of the fact, by
removing the accumulated stains and tarnish of many years ; these
frames have now the appearance of being nearly new."—Liverpool
Chronicle, Jan. 27, 1844.
" We have tried the Gold Detergent upon several old picture
frames, and must confess we were very agreeably surprised at the
result for it restores the splendour of gilding with very little trouble.
A single bottle is more than sufficient for all the picture and looking-
glass frames in a moderate-sized house."—Vide Nottingham Review,
April 5, 1844.
Sold by Upton and Co., 33, George-street, Hanover-square, and 66,
Basinghall-street, City ; and by the trade in general.

Wednesday the Directors of the East India Company enter-
tained Sir Henry Hardinge, the Governor-General of India.
and other distinguished guests at the London Tavern. The
preparations were on a very splendid scale. The tables were
covered with gold plate, and when the room was lit up by
hundreds of waxlights, the uniforms of the military officers
present, and the stars and decorations of the chief guests,
together with the gay drosses of the ladies in the gallery,
helped to render the scene very brilliant and animated. The
Coldstr'eam 'band was in attendance, and played favourite
music -during the evening, but there were no vocalists
The following are the names of the principal persons pre-
sent, in addition to the Chairman (Mr. Shepherd), and the
Deputy Chairman (Sir H. Willett) :—Sir Henry Itardinge,
the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham, the
Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Jersey, Sir R. Peel, the
Earl of Haddington, Lord Stanley, the Marquis Camden,
the Earl of Lincoln, Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Liverpool,
the Earl of Dalhousie, Lord G. Somerset, Lord Combermere,
the Lord Mayor, Mr. Astell, Mr. Goulburn, Sir James Gra-
ham, Sir George Murray, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr.
Gladstone, Sir Frederick Pollock, the Solicitor-General, Sir
T. Fremantle, Mr. E. Tennent, Sir J. M'Donald, Sir R. Camp-
bell, Mr. S. Herbert, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. J. W. Croker,
Mr. E. Ellice, the Judge-Advocate, Sir K. Bruce, Sir J.
Barrow, Sir It. Houston, Sir J. Smith, Lord G. Somerset,
Lord Jocelyn, Lord Eliot, Lord E. Bruce, the Eon. Mr.
Corry, Dr. Lushington, Sir R. Inglis, Lord Canning, Mr.
Holt Mackenzie, &c.
At seven o'clock the company sat down to dinner, which
was provided in a style reflecting the highest credit on Messrs.
Bache and Breache, the proprietors of the tavern.
Sir Henry Hardinge sat on the right of the Chairman, and
on his left the Deputy Chairman. Next him sat the Lord
-Mayor. The Duke of Wellington sat .on the, ril,eht of Sir
Henry Hardinge, and the Duke of Buceleuch on the left of
the Lord Mayor.
As soon as dinner was over, and grace had been said,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of her Majesty the
Queen." It was drunk with three times three. He then
proposed " The Queen Dowager," which toast was also drunk
with appropriate demonstrations of respect.
The CHAIRMAN said the next health he would propose was
that of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His attachment
to the Queen was alone enough to excite a lively interest in
him and in his welfare on the part of her Majesty's subjects,
but he had also endeared himself to the nation by his emi-
nent qualities, and his admirable public conduct. He pro-
posed ," His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family."
The toast having been duly responded to,
The CHAIRMAN then said he now rose to propose the
health of a distinguished guest, whose appointment to the
Governor-Generalship of India they were met there to cele-
brate.--(Hear.) The public services of Sir H. Hardinge
were so well known that all would feel it was unnecessary
for him to enlarge on them.—(Hear.) Most of them would
remember, and all had heard or read of the glorious
struggle in which the British arms were engaged in the Pe-
ninsula and in France—a struggle which had eventuated in
such brilliant and substantial results ; they had all heard of
the war which was so successfully terminated under the
leadership of the greatest warrior of the age.—(Hear, hear.)
Through the whole of that war Sir Henry Hardinge bore a
prominent and distinguished part—on some of the brightest
pages of the history of that war the name of Sir Henry Har-
dinge was incribed.—(Hear.) There were, however, other
services besides those which led to high military reputation
in which a man might discharge his duty to his country, and
in those services also Sir H. Hardinge had been distinguished.
His service to his country did not end with his service in the
field. The years of peace with which Europe had been blessed
since the battle of Waterloo had afforded that Right Hon.
and Gallant Gentleman an opportunity of renewing his claims
on his country, by his services in the civil government and
administration of the State.—(Hear, hear.) He was called
to fill successively high and important situations under the
Government, and in times of difficulty and trial he had never
been found wanting.—(Hear, hear.) In thus adding to the
reputation he had acquired as a soldier the distinction to be
acquired by great talents as a Minister and statesman, he
had fully merited and received the approbation of his Sove-
reign and his country.—(Cheers.) Such was the man who
he (the Chairman) was proud to say was now about to pro-
ceed to India, to exercise the high and important duties of
Governor-General. It must be most gratifying to him and
to his friends that, without any previous concert between
her Majesty's Government and the Court of Directors, the
name of Sir Henry Hardinge had occurred to both as that of
the fittest person to be appointed to the office of Governor-
General.---4 Hems hear.) But it must be still more gratifying
to the Right Hon. Gentleman,, and to all who were connected
with his appointment, that it seemed to have excited an
unanimous feeling of satisfaction throughout the country.—
(Hear, hear.) Hence the Right Hon. Gentleman, in going to
India, would bear with him the confidence of her Majesty's
Ministers, of the Directors, And of the public generally. lie
owed his appointment to the reputation he had established
for himself, and he (the Chairman) was quite sure that here-
after in India his high character would be nobly sustained.
He had that day had the pleasure of informing the Riat
Hon. and Gallant Gentleman, on his being sworn into
office of Governor-General, that the Directors reposed the
utmost confidence in his judgment, and were prepared to af-
ford him their most cordial support,—that he had been
selected not less because of their conviction that he possessed
a firm, undaunted spirit, than because he was also endowed
with a just, a generous, and a benevolent heart.—(Cheers.)
They felt persuaded that while he would ever be ready to
maintain the supremacy of power, he would also take a de-
light in..furthering the happiness of, the
.people of India.—
(Hear.) It was the earnest desire 'of the. Directors, and he
was sure every one would join with them in it, that his Right
Hon. and Gallant Friend, after a long course of successful
service in India, might, under Divine Providence, return to
his native country, bearing with him the thanks and blessings
of the people of India.—(Cheers.) With these observations
he begged to propose to them " The Health of Sir Henry
Hardinge, the Governor- General of India."
The toast was received with loud applause, and drunk with
three times three.
Sir H. HARDINGE rose and said—Mr. Chairman, my
Lord Duke, and Gentlemen,—ln acknowledging the comph-
ment you have just paid me, I will at since say that I am
deeply impressed with the importance of the trust that has
been confided to me, and I beg to offer to you, Sir, as the
Chairman of the Court of Directors, and to the other mem-
bers of that Court, my most grateful acknowledgments for
your having considered me worthy of so high a trust as that
of the Governor-Generalship of India. The assurance which
we have just heard from the Chairman, that my appoint-
ment was unanimously approved of by the Court, and that
I should receive the cordial support of the Directors, is most
gratifying to me, not on account of any private feeling
merely of personal satisfaction, but because it will enable
me to perform any public duty in India with more weight
and authority, when it is known that I carry with me the
support of the Court of Directors--men well versed in Indian
affairs—and the confidence of my late colleagues, and, above
all, that my appointment has received the confirmation and
sanction of her Majesty's high authority.—(Hear, hear.)
These considerations, however, of favour and confidence do
not mislead me. I am fully aware of the difficulties of the
undertaking. I can scarcely hope to fulfil all that I desire
to accomplish ; but I know also that 1 shall receive the
assistance of able men in the civil service of the East India
Company—(Hear, hear)—that I shall be guided by the expe-
rience and local knowledge of the Court of Directors—( Hear,
hear)—and the Noble Earl who occupies the station of Chief
Commissioner for the Affairs of India is at the head of the
Board of Control ; and I believe, also, I shall have another
advantage, which to me will be of an incalculable nature,—
that of being able unreservedly to refer to my illustrious
friend and commander, the Duke of Wellington--(Cheers-)
When the communication was first made to me by my Right
Hon. Friend at the head of the Government, and the proposal
was made by the Directors that I should undertake the office,
my first inquiry was, " What is the opinion of the Duke of
Wellington ?" I was informed that he approved of my
being selected, and then, I candidly confess; I did begin to
entertain some hope that the expectations of the Directors
and of my Right Hon. Friend would not be entirely disap-
pointed. For, gentlemen, the greater portion of my public
life has been passed under t.heeye and instruction of my illus-
trious commander, the Duke of Wellington.—(Hear.) I had
the honour, as the Chairman has stated, of passing under him
through the whole Peninsular war, and on the termination
of the peace I had the honour to be selected to conduct the
civil department of the Ordnance in the House of Commons,
of being appointed Secretary at War, and after that Chief
Secretary for Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I only mention these
things to show that I am well aware of the value of such
an instructor, and how much I owe to such a master. Under
his counsel and advice I hope to be able to carry out any
arrangements that may be necessary for the support of
our great and gallant Indian army. I hope also to be able
to promote the advantage of my own country, and to amelio-
rate the condition of the Indian population.—( Hear.) It is
true that a large portion of my life has been spent in military
avocations, but I think that I have been able to afford some
guarantee that my own propensities are not warlike. On
the contrary, I think I shall be a lover of peace. I may, per-
haps, venture to say, that I have known the miseries and
the risks of war. l cannot say I have known its vicissitudes,
because under that illustrious commander our armies never
knew what vicissitudes were.—(Cheers.) Having made these
declarations, allow me to say, that I rejoice in the opportu-
nity of turning my attention to the great and gallant army
in the service of the East India Company—(Hear)—the army
of native and European troops united—(Hear)—for between
them there was no rivalry than a competition who should
best perform the services of the State. I will venture to say,
with reference to that army, that if it Should be necessary
for me to make any arrangements with respect to that army,
I shall refer for advice to one who will, be admitted by all to
be the best qualified to afford it. Could I refer to a better
man than the conqaeror of Assaye—to him who so often led
that army to victory, and laid the foundation of the enor-
mous sway we exercise in India ?—(Cheers.) Let me add,
that the success of that army, under Pollock, and Gough,
and others, has shown that it has by no means degenerated
from its former fame. In everything that regards that army
I shall always take the deepest interest ; but let its efficiency
be what it may, and however brilliant its recent successes
may have been, I hope that the result of those successes
will be that which should always be the legitimate conse-
quence of war—a long, lasting, and durable peace ; and that
the people of India will derive from those wars all the bless-
ings of peace, in the amelioration of their:condition, their im-
provement, their education—in short, in all those advantages
which constitute the happiness and secure the prosperity of
a nation.—(Hear.) These, Sir, are the objects to which I
shall turn my attention, and I hope I shall be able to show
that I am as anxious as the people of this country can be
that the blessings of peace shall follow the successes of war—
that, great as the distance may be between this country ai.
our Indian possessions, we are united in one common interest
—that those peaceful pursuits should be encouraged among
the people of India which are necessary, in order to secure
their lasting prosperity and happiness.--(Hear.) Peace and
commerce are already restored with China, and a long con-.
tinned tranquillity prevails in almost every part of India,
except in the case of those internal dissensions in the
Punjaub, with regard to which every possible pre-
caution has been taken.—(Hear, hear.) I go out,
therefore, with the most unbounded confidence in the Indian
army, that it will maintain the national honour, and also
with a full belief that the sway of Great Britain will be
'maintained over the intelligent, cheerftil, and lild4strWus

Mr. Chairman, as you have done me the honoir to drink my
health, and to join my name with that of the British army, I
feel under the necessity of requesting your attention for a few
moments while I express my honest and sincere thanks for
the honour you have done me, and to this company for the
manner in which they have received the toast.—(Hear.)
Gentlemen, I entertain no doubt that the army will receive
with the utmost satisfaction and gratitude the information
that their services have been thus honoured by you.—(Hoar.)
Gentlemen, the history of the transactions of the British

nation in India affords many instances of the good conduct
and valour of the army, but I will venture to say that that

history records no instances of such conduct which surpaT4es4
those which have been afrorded within the last few years by
that same army.—(Hear.) I speak in the presence of some
who have been employed in that army, and who will in all

probability return to serve with it again. I beg then when
they do so not to forget the expressions of the Chairman this

night as to the conduct of the army, and also to bear in mind,
if they will, my own declaration, that there is not in the his-
tory of our transactions in India any instance of conduct more
deserving of approbation than what has been afforded by our
army in India up to the moment of the very latest accounts
received from India.—( Hear, hear.) But we have not met
here to-day to talk of by-gone transactions, although I am
very grateful to you for the honour you have done me in
mentioning the service which I had the honour of render-
ing to the East India Company when I was in India in the
prime of my life.—(Hear.) We have met here to congratu-
late my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend en his appointment
to be Governor-General of India.—(Hear.) Sir, you have
briefly stated that my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend
has been notorious, not only for his military services—
ibr his gallantry, talents, experience, and conduct in the
ield, in the exercise of his profession, but also for his talents
and conduct in the administration of civil affairs—for his
conduct in several important appointments of the state, and
for his conduct in Parliament and in her Majesty's councils.
I cannot avoid congratulating the Directors on the selection
they have made of my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend as
Governor-General of India, and especially that her Majesty
has been pleased to confirm and approve the appointment,
and that my Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Govern-
.

ment has considered himself at liberty to accept it. Sir, I
feel a confidence that my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend
will fulfil to the satisfaction of all parties, the great duties
which are imposed on him by that appointment—that he
will administer the government of the country which is placed
under his charge for the advantage, benefit, and happiness of
the people thereof, to the satisfaction of his employers, the
East India Company, of his Sovereign, and of her servants,
and of the whole British public.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, I
again congratulate you that the Court of Directors have made
such a selection as my Right Hon. Friend.—(Loud cheers.)

The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the next toast. He
said, although the East India Company disclaimed all party
considerations, and entertained, as a body no political views
except with reference to the interests of the great Indian
empire, yet they felt deeply sensible of the advantage of
having in her Majesty's Ministers men pre-eminent for un-
doubted and unbounded patriotism, and who possessed the
confidence of the country.—(Hear, hear.) He would also
add, that the East India Company had great reason to be
grateful to the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Go-
vernment for the cord co=operation he had afforded them
in the selection of Sir Henry Ilairdinge to be the Governor-
General of India. Her Majesty's Government could not
in a more efficient manner have exhibited the great
interest and anxiety they felt for the welfare of India.—
(Hear, hear.) Her Majesty's Ministers and the Directors, had
but one great united object in view—the good government
of that vast empire on the principle of justice and modera-
tion, and of extending the influence of British feeling and
sympathies among the people of that country. To ameli-
orate the condition of those people was the great object of
both. They had, however, the honour of the presence among
them of Sir R. Peel, a gentleman who, in his (the Chairman's)
opinion, had shown a noble example to his oountrymen. In
early life distinguished by high attainments and elegant
'scholarship, his manhood had been spent with advantage to
his country in her service, and now he was for the second
time at the head of her Majesty's councils.—(Cheers.) He
had great pleasure in drinking "The health of Sir R. Peel and
the rest of her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheers.)
Sir R. PEEL (who was labouring under severe hoarseness)
said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, on my own behalf and
on that of my colleagues, I beg to return you our united
thanks for the honour you have conferred upon us. Gentle-
men, however great may be the pressure on our attention of
other interests nearer home, we are not the less deeply im-
pressed with the magnitude of thosei nterests which are com-
prehended in our relations with our Indian empire. We feel
the extent and importance of those interests in a political, a
Commercial, and a moral point of view. In a political point
of view, because this country could never tolerate the seve-
rence of an empire gained by such military exertions as the
battles of Plassy and Assaye, and the recent triumphs of our
arms in the East. In a commercial point of view we feel the
importance of that empire, because, seeing the extent of the
competition to which our commerce is exposed, and"the jea-
lousy there is on the part of other nations of our commercial
and manufacturing pre-eminence, it is of the utmost im-
portance to cultivate commercial relations with India, which
can only succeed by means of a reciprocity of advantages
and the maintenance of the prosperity of India itself. In a
moral point of view the empire of India is of importancs,
because there are moral influences independent of military
power and commercial prosperity, which enable a country
to hold high language among the nations of the world, and
nothing that we could say would conduce so much to that
moral influence as to be able to exhibit the example of a
beneficent rule over millions of our fellow-creatures in the
East enjoying the blessings of trade, of the emancipation
from a state of slavery, and guaranteed the possession of life
and liberty, by establishing civil liberty on a sure founda-
tion, and receiving-perhaps an ultimate extension of it, not
by_ vexatious interferences with the religion of the natives—
(Hear)—but by exhibiting to them the advantages of a mild,
beneficent rule, founded on the great principles of the Chris-
tian religion.—(Hear.) Yet in the administration the
complicated affairs of a great empire, it cannot be expected
that there should not occasionally be an honest difference of
opinion. among those intrusted with that administration; but
I trust that those differences, when they unfortunately do
exist, will never make us forget the responsibility which de-
volves on all the authorities connected with the administra-
tion of India, and that they will never make us unmindful
of the important interests connected with the future for-
tunes of that country.—(Hear.) I consider that her Ma-
jesty's servants have recently given you the strongest proof
we can give of the deep interest we feel in the wel-
fare of India, and of our anxiety to promote it. For the
advancement of the interests of that country we have con-
sented to sever our connexion with a colleague who was
entitled to our entire confidence, and who possesses our
esteem and regard as a private friend. We have consented
to appoint to the government of that country a colleague,
who, as a soldier, has his name connected with Corunna,
Albuera, and with the whole Peninsular war, and closed his
military career on the plains of Waterloo. We have con-
sented to part with a colleague who, in the administration of
civil affairs, exhibited a rare combination of temper, firm-
ness, resolution, and moral courage.—(Hear, hear.) We
have made this sacrifice in the belief that no other man
would be better qualified for the great task he has under-
taken—(Hear, hear)—and, on the part of my colleagues and
myself, I join in that earnest and sincere prayer of the Chair-
man to-night, that, under the blessings of Divine Providence,
he may, after having performed his full service in India,
return to his native land, having added to the fame he has
already acquired, and able to enjoy the retrospect of having
maintained peace in India, consolidated its connexion with
this country—of having promoted the interests and happiness
of the millions who live under our rule—that he may return
to justify that confidence of the Crown, the servants of the
Crown and the East India Company, and that many of us
may live to see the day when we shall hail with delight and
satisfaction his return to this country, after a prosperous
and successful tenure of office.(Loud cheers.)
The CHArRMAN then gave "The Earl of Ripon" (who was
absent from ill-health).
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH acknowledged the toast In the
absence of the Noble Earl, and proposed the health of the
"Chairman and Deputy-Chairman."
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in a brief but appropriate
speech, and gave the "Legal Institutions of the Country and
the Vice-Chancellor."
The VICE-CHANCELLOR acknowledged the toast.
" The Civil Service in India" was then given by the
CHAIRMAN, and acknowledged by Mr. H. MACKENZIE.
to "TheylzlianAzy;was afttheerntehxothteonals.tth, andfthwe_aL.sorredsp;inadyeodr
phaandybseeepnadrarutendk. and acknowledged by his Lordship, the corn-
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pwearsfournmdienrgthLndei rescotlioosn ofon Mr.the
cornet-a-piston. Mr. Toole was the toast-master. The number
of guests was about 150.
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A deputation, including. Sir John Walsh, Mr. Price.
and Mr. Maynors, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
SAVINGS BANKS.—Wednesday, on the motion of
Mr. Masterman, a statement was issued of the amount of the
separate surplus fund, not bearing interest, belonging to the
trustees of saving' banks, in the hands of the Commissioners
for the reduction of the national debt up to the 9th of May
last. It appears that the separate surplus fund of Great Bri-
tain amountel, at the period mentioned, to 321,4681. 13s. 2d.,
and of Ireland, 11,3281 14s. 4d. ; making a total of
332,797/, 7s. 6d. not bearing interest.

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a great
deal of public business.
CONTINUATION OF NEW FARRINGDON-STREET.
Mr. R. L. JONES, the Chairman of the London-bridge
Approaches Committee, brought up a report " For sealing
a, bond to the Chamberlain for the advance of 25,0001. by
the Bank, being the amount authorised by Act sth and
6th of her present Majesty, and paid to the Commis-
sioners for continuing the street from New Farringdon-
street to Clerkenwell-green." It stated that the Remem-
brancer having received a communication from the Soli-
citors of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, stat-
ing that the Lords of the Treasury had given their con-
sent that the sum of 25,000/. should be raised by the
Court. to be paid to the Commissioners appointed by the
3d and 4th Vic., c. 112, for opening a street to Clerken-
well-green, to be applied by them towards the expense of
making and completing the said street, the Committee
proceeded to ascertain upon what terms the Governor
and Company of the Bank of England were willing to
advance that sum ; that they had agreed to ad-
vance it at the rate of 31. 10s. per cent. per
annum, which rate of interest had been approved by the
Commissioners of the Treasury, and their Lordships
had issued a warrant directed to the Court, authorisin
the Court to raise that sum, and directing that it should
be paid to the Commissioners. That the sum of 25,0001.
and interest were to be charged upon the improvement
fund next in priority to the sum of 40.0001. raised by
the Court, and charged upon the said fund for the pur-
chase of the block of buildings between the Bank of
England and Cornhill; they had much satisfaction in
anticipating the speedy conclusion of that important
improvement of making a spacious avenue from Black-
friar's-bridge to Clerkenwell-green, which the Court had
commenced, and carried into effect so far as the juris-
diction of the City of London extended ; and that the
Committee had given directions to the Comptrollers to
prepare a bond for the sum of, 25,0001. for these pur-
poses. and recommended that the City seal should be
affixed thereto.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
The report was unanimously agreed to, and the bond
was accordingly sealed.
THE LAND-TAX.
The report on the reference relative to petitioning
Parliament in respect of the land-tax, was brought up.
It stated that the Committee considered it inexpedient
to petition Parliament on the subject at the present time.
Several of the members opposed the report, and re-
commended that Parliament should be forthwith applied
to on the subject ; but ultimately the report was
agreed to.
THE VAGRANT POOR OF THE METROPOLIS.
The discussion upon the motion of Deputy Corney,
" That it be referred to the Parliamentary Committee
to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for
an Act to better the moral and physical condition of the
vagrant population of this metropolis, and report their
opinion forthwith to the Court," was resumed. The
following is an abstract of the whole discussion :
Deputy CORNEY said it was unnecessary for him to
tell the members of the Court, that the street beggars
formed a most intolerable nuisance in the streets of the
metropolis. In the City, the difficulty felt by the au-
thorities was, in what manner to relieve one locality
without burdening another. The existing law provided
no remedy nor mitigation of the evil, and the ward of
Broad-street, to which he belonged, unfortunately sup-
plied him with a very painful experience upon the sub-
ject, as it happened to be infested more than any other
quarter of the City by those who traded in mendacity.
The City Magistrates in adjudicating on the cases
brought before them, generally punished the offence
with fourteen days' imprisonment, or discharged the
offender upon promise not to ply in his vocation within
the City. Persons brought up in habits of what might
be called the industrious idleness of begging, were not to
be removed so easily from the extensive district in
which they had all their lives found a home and support.
Ile had traced families regularly trained up for thirty
years in the art, and most diligently bringing up their
children in the same occupation, by the most inde-
fatigable manceuvring. Habits so inveterate, and recom-
mended by parental example, were not to be altered by
any process which the present poor-law provided or
sanctioned.—(Hear, hear.) He recollected that Sir
Matthew Wood had, in his anxious and commendable
desire to relieve his fellow-citizens; made an experiment,
but failed. It was to be hoped, that as a revision of the
Poor-law Bill was intended very soon to be made,
the Government would get a clause introduced to
meet the evil by which particular localities
were overwhelmed. Formerly the poor obtained relief
through the instrumentality of the monasteries which
had long since been absorbed by noble families, such as
the houses of Bedford, Cavendish, and Tavistock, with-
out producing any good, as a substitute for the charity
which was in days of old dispersed, except the getting
up of a few Liberal Members of Parliament —(Laugh-
ter.) Now the poor crowded into the City, and exer-
cised in some instances importunities, in others threats,
to obtain that which they had never attempted to earn.
It was not his intention to presume to suggest any defi-
nite plan. He should leave that to the wisdom of Par-
liament, but he felt convinced that something could be
devised by which, as was expressed in the terms of his
motion, the moral and physical condition of the labour-
ing population would be improved. Mr. Corney con-
cluded by reading his !notion.
Mr. lIEPPEL seconded the motion, but he wished that
the Deputy who introduced it had given some outline of
a plan for accomplishing the very desirable object be
wished to attain. lie believed that in the new poor-law
there was not any provision made to throw upon the
unions generally the cases which were at present con-
fined to one.—(Hear, hear.) He believed, however,
that it was the intention of Sir James Graham to cause
the expenses of the maintenance of the poor to fall upon
the unions generally.
Mr. KING said it was quite evident that the objects of
the mover and seconder were quite different—that of
the one being to improve the moral and physical condi-
tion of the poor; while that of the other was to divide the
expense of maintaining them, without reference to their
moral or physical condition at all.—(Laughter). He
considered it to be his duty to move the previous question,
for he regarded the proposition of the mover as a most
monstrous one. It was, in fact, nothing at all, or worse
than nothing, and the Corporation would certainly be
laughed at for going to Parliament for such a purpose.
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR supported the motion. What,
he asked, would be more worthy of a reference to a
Committee than such a question? Was it not an
appeal made for charitable purposes, and cal-
culated to alleviate existing distress?—(Hear, hear.)
Lord Ranelagh had said that nine-tenths of the vagrants
of the metropolis did not belong to the metropolis, but
that they came from the rural districts.—(Hear, hear.)
They came by fifties and hundreds from the neighbour-
hoods of the estates of the Duke of Buckingham and
the Duke of Richmond, and other noblemen, who derived
benefit from the destruction of the monasteries to which
Deputy Corney had alluded.—(Laughter.) They
poured in upon the City from the country, and the laws
were rendered futile by the operation of the measures
which were so strongly deprecated by the people. What
destroyed the efficacy of the poor-law ? The corn-law.
—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and " No, no.") The
exclusion of foreign corn deprived the people of food,
and thronged the streets of the metropolis with rural
beggars. He had read with horror the observations of
of a Chairman at a quarter sessions, as to the incen-
diary fires which, going on from night to night, showed
the miserable condition of the population, who, hav-
ing no other means of manifesting their condition,
adopted that dreadful course. That appeared on
the charge to the grand jury. The Times spoke of great
facts. He called the prevalence of incendiary fires a
great fact. It was horrible to think that the people
should resort to such secret and dreadful means to show
what their real condition was, but so it was—(Hear,
hear, and murmurs)—while these things were known of
the agricultural population, and while it was known that
the employment Oren by the farmer to the labourer was
so precarious that the latter was discharged when the
weather proved inauspicious, what was to be expected ?
What was the Parliament doing at the present moment?
Why, endeavouring to plunder than of all the common
lands by an Inclosure Bill. It was pretended that com-
pensation was to be given for the loss, but compensation
given to the present poor who had only a life interest in
the benefit would leave the succeeding generation strip-
ped of all advantages.—(Hear, hear.) As well might
the members of that Court take off the money from the
Chamberlain's-office. No greater robbery could, in
fact, be committed, and it was going on ever since his
birth. (Cries of "Hear, hear, and murmurs.")
They had seen the people getting worse and
worse,
as they got rid of their commons.
The poor could, formerly, do a day 's work
in procuring fuel, but now every bit of ground
was taken away, and the poor man's cow or
horse, if caught grazing on the road-side, was shut up
in pound. To expect a system of morals from such a
plan was monstrous. There was much talk about
education, but the more education the poor received, the
more palpable would the injustice with which they were
treated appear to them. The Christian religion never
taught the people to put up with starvation.—(Hear.)
Mr. W. W LAWRENCE supported the amendment. Ho
could not understand what the mover of the resolution
meant by the moral condition of the poor; and as for
their physical condition, which was, indeed, bad enough,
the worthy Deputy had not suggested anything like a
remedy. The guardians of the poor were the persons
who would most properly appeal to Parliament, for they
were armed with facts; and now that the Act was about
to undergo some change, they might apply with advan-
tage, but that Court could do nothing in the matter.
Mr. Rug. said the allusion to the Inclosure Bill re-
minded him of what a lady said about a robbery which
took place in the country. "Oh dear !" said she,
" what brutes they must have been to steal away the
geese from the common!" Now all he had to do to ex-
press his sentiments on the subject was, " Oh dear!
what brutes must they be who want to steal away the
common from the geese!"
Mr. ANDERTON said it was quite obvious to him that
if corn was ever so plentiful there would be abundance

question, and agreed with Mr. I2awrence that it was
quite impossible fur the Court to deal with a question
which belonged not to the Corporation, but to the pub-
lic at large.—(Hear, hear.) The great nuisance in this
city was the nightly refuge to which the idle and the in-
digent crowded from all parts of the country, and to re-
sort to which they were recommended by the authorities
in the various districts from which they came. Thither
came also the masses of Irish paupers, who wanted to be
removed to their home, and continued to become
chargeable in order to accomplish that object.
The very mention of nightly shelter in the City
of London congregated immense multitudes, and
daily exhibitions were now made of the
result. The members of the Court ought to have
seen, as he had seen on the preceding day,
ten vagrant females at the Mansion-house convicted of
the most rebellious conduct. These women did not
come from any precise locality, but got together in a
union from a variety of places. It was, in tact, impos-
sible to isolate London from the rest of the metropolis,
in the endeavour to obtain a remedy for an evil which
spread far and wide over the whole of London.—(Hear,
hear.) The average of those who came for relief were
not of the industrious, but of the idle and dissolute
classes. How then were the physical ills of such masses
to be remedied ? It must be only by some general
measure.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PEWTRESS spoke in favour of the motion of Mr.
Corney: He was, he said, sure that the Court would
allow there was an overwhelming mass of poverty. The
newspapers teemed with deplorable evidences of the
fact, and showed that the City was afflicted with
the evil to such a dreadful extent as must afflict
every person of ordinary humanity.—(Hear, hear.)
Now, he believed there was no evil for which a remedy
could not be found ; and, as a matter of course, he
thought the evil of which complaint had been so strongly
made was capable of being removed. The New Poor-law
had been some time ago framed to meet the existing evil,
and in that law it was stated that relief was to he afforded
to those in necessity without examination or question of
any kind previously to the administering of relief. If
that had been carried out in spirit, all the poverty, which
now appeared to be overwhelming, would have been re-
lieved ; but let the Court look at the application of the
law: There was no penalty consequent upon the refusal
of the officers to administer immediate assistance, and the
law was actually not operative in that respect without
some tremendous process. In numerous union, lo the
country the relief admis,;ete.ked was desperately econo-
mical, and the rules were so stringent, that the pool.
were required to work a certain number of le-Ars
before they received any food, and a certain n-,,,ber
of hours after. Here was a cruel and d'Agusting
violation of the law.—(Hear, hear.) Person:, convicted
of crime were enti.led to have two hot meals a day with-
out working for each supply. while those selio had com-
mitted no offence were denied a morsel of bread until
they performed the task allotted to them by the men
by whom relief ought to be admiaistere3 without in-
quiry or question of any kind.—.(Hear, hear.) Was it
not degrading to the poor to deny them so large an
amount of food as was willingly granted to those who
came under the other denomination?—(Hear, hear.)
He was sure the evil was capable of a remedy ; but it
was necessary that all the unions should co-operate in
carrying out the law. There was another evil connected,
with the administration of the law. The magistrates
were guardians of the poor, so that they were placed in
a double capacity, which rendered their acts as g' Jar-
diens liable to be appealed against to themselves as
magistrates.—(Hear, hear.) But the paramout e'eil was
want of employment. That was the grec,6 cause
of the prevalent distress; but that could also 'oe, in his
opinion, remedied.—(Cries of" Free trade," foil laughter.)
He regretted to utter his suspicion, that the wealthy
would rather pay enormous rates than yield to the
poor the power of relieving themselves from the mise-
ries which surrounded them. He honed the motion of
Mr. Corney would be agreed to, ho would pledge
himself to state before the Colmni',tee such matters as
would probably lead to an application for certain amend-
ments in the law.
Mr. RICIIARD WILLIAMS advocated the proposition of
Deputy Corney, to whom, he said, great credit was due
for having introduced to the Court the subject of so
monstrous an evil as that with which the population of
London were beset. He lamented the defective state eif
the law which permitted the existence of such a con'ai-
tion of things as had been just represented, and sug-
gested that a power should be given in the amenried Act
to inflict punishment upon those vagrants who, having
been once passed to their settlements, should return as
mendicants to the metropolis. He at the same time
could not help expressing his dissent from the opinions
of those who spoke in general condemnation of the poor
for not finding employment.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. H. HALL was for the previous question, and
contended that the Corporation of London had nothing
to do with the que: tion. As to the extent of poverty,
they all agreed on that subject, and they all knew tl'„t, yt
prisoner lived better than a pauper, and a paupe-..
lived
better than an industrous working man.—(Hea-,., hear.)
After some observations from other metnbc4s,
Deputy CORNEY replied, and the amenClaient was car-
ried by a large majority.—Adjourned.

MEETING OF THE NATIONAL r.Senoor. TRAINING
INsTrrirriox.—Wednesday, the mini. ',nary meeting of the
above valuable institution was held at the Central National
School-room, Broadway, Weiilv.,inster. His Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury pre,s*.ded. The annual examina-
tion of the children was conducted by the Lord Bishop of
London, and a highly respectable and influential auditory
expressed great gratification at the progress which the chil-
dren had made in their respective studies. Among the com-
pany present we noticed the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishops of London, Hereford, Bangor, Lichfield, Sodor an it
Man, Newfoundland, Exeter, Norwich, Worcester, and, 14i_
pore; Archdeacon Sinclair ;.T. D. Acland, Esq., M.P. ; Rev.
Dr. Coleridge, Bishop Coleridge, Right Hon. Lord Dart mouth
Hon. and Rev. A. Saville, Sir George Baker, r„,r' ,
of,„.
Schoff, General Disney, Ambrose Hussey, Esq.,
..P.,11i
Rev.
Archdeacon Newcome, Hon. and Rev. T. C. C
Jocks
Margaret Cocks, Lady Churchhill, the Hon. Col' onel Stafford,'
Hon. Sir George Rose, Lord Viscount Clive,P. Sir. R.
Ainstie, Bart., Sir George Eyre, Bart., Lady S.
Mrs. Norton, the Earl of Yarborough, Sir (3.• H. Foley, Hon.
S. Hunter,Bart.,
Sir J. J. Hamilton, Bart. Right Hon.
Lady M'Kenzie, Hon. and Rev. R. Ed,r, E.
andm Hyde,Bart.,
Powys, T. W. Brainstone, &c. " Hon, eit
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of M. Liszt, which M. G. Schillin
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gardt, we find the following enure ur 10. s just published at Stut-
celebrated pianist :—" Aulic Col ieration of the titles of the
incillor of Prince Koenzall-
Hechingen ; leader of the band, of the chapel of the Grand
Duke of Saxe Weimar : Doi of
of Philosophy, Fine Arts,
and Sciences ; Knight of. the Royal Order of Merit
of Prussia ; Knight of. the Order of the Lion of
Belgium, of the Falcon of the Grand Duke of
Weimar, of the Orders of the Duke Ernest of
Saxony and of the Prince of Hoenzoll ; beArer of the
Royal Gold Modal (for recompensing merit, in the arts
and sciences) of Wurtemberg, and of the 'imperial Medal of
Prussia, &c, ; honorary citizen of Pest h and other Hungarian
cities; member of the`Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and
Sciences ; and member, either real or honorary, and corres-
pondent of a multitude of other 'learned and artistical socie-
ties."—Journal des Debuts,

THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds con-
stantly announced for "iwomoting the growth or reproduc-
tion of the hair, fete; 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 disting wished patronage it
eitioys, 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 proper ty of A. Rolland and Son,
and the amalgamation of its costly e xotic'ma
s
; erialsrendersr
abortiveany attempt to discover it component parts—•thus
proving the imposition of all other
:articles bearing the title
of ";Macassar Oil." The
rds
" Rowland's Macassar Oil" genuine,
warratpi
pc leer aAs
rill
others
are
fraudulent counterfeits!

In 3 vols., post Byo.,
MR. D'ISRAELI'S " CONINGSBY ;
OR,

THE NEW GENERATION,"
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO.MORROW EVENING, MAY 25,
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO.
Elisetta, Madame Grist ; Fidalma, Mdlle. Favanti ; Carolina,
Madame Peraiani ; Paolino, Sig. Mario; Count Robinson, Sig. r.
Lablache; and Geronimo, Sig. Lablache.
Between the Acts will be presented a New Divertissement, entitled
VIVANDIERE, Introducing the Redowa Polka; the Original
Dance of Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cults and M. St. Leon.
To eon •,udewith the Grand Ballet of ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito.
Application. for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Odic.,, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will
columence at Half-paat Seven.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
ON THURSDAY NEXT, MAY FO,
When will be per tinned Roesini's Opera of *IL BARBIERE Dl
SIVIGLIA, by Madame Grist, Signor Marro, Signor Lablache,
signor F.iLablache, and SignoriFornasari, and other Entertainments,
in which Madame Persiani, and Mdlle. Fav s ill, will appear.
After %%hien will be produced, a New Divertissement, composed
by Millie. Cerito, e ititled LA VI V ANDIERE, Introducing La
Itedowa Polka, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet entitled ALMA (Omitting the
First Tableau), in which Mdlles. Cerito and Frassi, and Mons. M
t Leon and Perrot will appear.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 24,
Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES
OF VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison; Count Orio
Soranzo, Mr. Fen rani; Naiiina, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle.
Alberta:al ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
To conclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE
REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael,
M. Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile
Gratin ; Zelika, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem,
Madame Giubilei.
I ►ress Boxes vs., Second T'r'ice Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes Ss.,
ew..-ond Price 35.; Pit 3s , second Price 25.; Middle Gallery Ss.,
itseond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MAY i 4,
be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART.
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Charles
slatnews ; Vortex, Mr. Strickland; Frank Oatland, Mr. Webster;
Ellen Vortex, Mrs Edwin Yarnold; Miss Vortex, Mrs. W. Clifford;;
Assay °attend, Miss Julia Bennett.
After which. Mr. Planche's Successful Comedy of THE FOLLIES
OF A NIGHT.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.
vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Evening with PIA Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton and
Alias Lee.
To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE A BSENTEE.
Sir Patrick Delany, Mr. Tilbury ; Edward Macarthy (the Absentee),
51r H Holl ; Larty Lurgan, Mr. Leonard; Norah, Miss Jul
Bennett ; Katy, Miss Carre.
Orchestra Stalls, Is. ; Boxes, fis. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery. 25.; tipper
Gallery. Is. Half-price—Boxes 3s. ; Pit, 2.5. ; Gallery, Is. ; Lipper
G
Gallery, fkl. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances
commenee at Seven
Tickets and Places to be bad of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box-
°lice, from Ten till Five.
•

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MAY 24,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen-
riques de. Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolle,lo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La
Catarina, Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Grant.
To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS.
Atter which, A DIVERTISSEMENT. •
To be follAved by a Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man
In Search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Wright; Grosfer,
Mr. Paul Bedford ; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper ; Madame
l'ipou. Mrs. 11. P. Gra•tan.

j'HEAFRE ROY LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the lfanagernent of Mrs. KEELEY.
Open sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable audinces
THIS EVENING, MAY 2i,
Will he performed a New Comedietta, entitled THE WHITE
FEA fIiER. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Collier,
Craven, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Fairbrother.
After which, MY WIFE'S OUT. Principal Characters by Mr.
Keeley. Mr Wigan, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Keeley.
whichfn will be added a new Comic Drama, called THE
J.OVE BIRDS. l'i incipal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews,
Young?, Mrs. Woellige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin,
Miss Grove, and Ilb,s Edit ,szue.
'l'o be followed by in Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKAMANI A
Characters by Mr. F. Slat...hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a erani Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or. a Sight with the Forty Thieves. Cha.
ractess by Miss Wo.,lgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Turner, Miss Grove, Mrc. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrothec,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan,
Yartiold, and Chaplin.
PRICES OF AIIMI SY I °N.—Balcony Foxes, 4s. • Upper
boxes, ;is. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
-Upper Boxes, Is td. ; l'it, P. Private Boxes on the Balcony 'Fier
I holding eight person?). t Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private
Loxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea.

•
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Propr.etor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
G -and Attraction.
Last Week of 11. Plege, the great French Rope-dancer.
fils eVENING, MAY 24,
Will be repeated the H.stgical Spectacle of the INVASION OF
'ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR • or, the Battle
pf Hastings. With nit the erects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold. &e.
Entire Change Ric Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
ie conclude with tl,e Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET
'MINE; or, the 11.ndeos o' the Ruby Cliff's.
The door, will open niel.tly at six o'clock, and the performances
eknmence at r o-v on. Box office opened daily from ten till four. The
oivate boxes have been recohstructed and decorated with care and
splendour.
Acting and stage-miaager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
The WIZARD OF IHE NORTH'S New Wonders of Experi.
mental Philosophy and Natural Magic are the great source of attrac-
on I As his season advances he will prove that he has "no rival ;"
a his peculiar art he will support the honour and dignity of the nation
which gave him birth. lternemher that he performs wonders every
evening, which, if only heard of, would never be believed. In
addition to his own Extraordinary Performanee4, which can have
no parallel in the world, he has other Novelties which would fill his
Theatre, independent of his Mystic Entertainment.
The WIZARD is proud to announce that he has engaged (for this
week only) The HIGHLAND DANCERS with their PIPERS who
„
k eid
,of
_dancing before the Queen at Taymouth and
un recent visit to the " land
o' cakes " They will' nigifillylfrig
c hiIV oat unnit.and
`wee their grand National Dances. This
convey to the mind a style quite unknown to England. The
a. ti ARAB BROTHER-4 will repeat their classical perform-
slices, -bieb are nightly received with most rapturous applause.
In *
oons:Nuence of the addition to the usual entertainments, the
Doors will oat Half-past Six, and the l'erformance commence
l.”en
at Eight.
Boxes, 38.; Pit: Is. 6d.; Gallery, fid. Reserved Seats, and
Private Boxes ca:l be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Ageats.
svcond Price at Noe o'clock.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEASON,
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
GRAM) WHITSUN FETES.
ON 'WHIT-MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND
THURSDAY.
Strong as have been the claims of this favoured place of public
resort at the beginning of each season, the Proprietor feels justified
in asserting, that never before did it offer a tithe of the attractions
it now presents. The Gardens have been completely renovated,
tStatuee and Fountains introduced. new and extensive Promenades
divined, and- the most lavish expenditure in every department,
will evince the Proprietor's anxiety to insure a continuance of public
l'Utronage.
THE NEW GRAND PICTORIAL MODEL OF
LONDON IN THE OLDEN -TIME!
Painted by Denson and Telbin,
is the :most gigantic ichievernent ever yet produced, and for grandeur
of comvosition, fidelity of design, and beauty of execution, it far
exceeds' any previous production. It accurately represents ancient
London— Old St. Paul's—Old London Bridge—Baynard's Castle, and
all the prii. cipal Churches and Buildings of the locality, and may
with truth be designated the most wonderful production of mo.
dery times.
THE 11ENAGERIE, ALWAYS UNRIVALLED,
HAS RECEIVED MANY VALUABLE ADDITIONS.
To defy all competition, the Proprietor has engaged the celebrated
AMERICAN DWARF TJM THUMB!
m exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS—the splendid Band of Fifty
'J'.irforme.rs, conducted by Mr. Godfrey—will perform a selection of
;lie newest and most popular music.
The far-famed HIGHLAND DANCERS AND PIPERS are
also engaged, and will go through two acts of their National Dances,
which procured for them the distinguished approbation of her
Dlalesty. and Prince Albert at Taymouth Castle
And alt Dusk will take place the most astounding exhibition ever
attempted, via. a Representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Mr. Southby (to whom in justice belongs the appellation of '4 Fire
King") has exhausted the resources of his art, to give effect to this
Lon,inn Bridge, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, and other
ituildings will appear devoured by the devastating element, and
pre,.ent. a heap of blackened ruins, in accordance with the best
. delineations taken at the period, and the coup d'seil will give a vivid
representation of a Great City destroyed by fire.
Doors ope-i at Twelve. Admission. One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN lIA.LL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
.ONE SHILLT!4:I Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
EUM, the most majnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
' -teal Curiosities and Wmts of Art over known to have been formed
ey One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cwt. of 64.),000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
,structlve and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
•pe,u, history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
2.,"4#POLEOV, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
dur:ng the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
wr,iii,:gtOn, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
aise, ina,77 thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pre-
prtctur recently been able to increase, by several very fine
&a,, his previous almost incredible number and variety of
54., Works Art,
and a multitude of valuable Itches, and other
Of
eta-I.:Wes, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
lu:ht. to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of achnis -
;ion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only, at. the " Egyptian
IS IL" Piccadilly, daily ftorti Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MAY 23.
Tiummourrgn, Lowest, 45; highest, 65 ; Noon, 53.
BAnomrrkn, 30.2.—W1ND, N.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
..freezin7 point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

tl't?H WATER AT LOI,TDQN-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
4 minutes after 61 Evening ._r0 minutes; after 6.

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PEEL said he proposed to bring in the Bank Charter
Bill this day.
The Customs Duties Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY moved for an inquiry into the
management of the Friars Free School, in Bangor;
but on an assurance from Sir JAMES GRAHAM that
the LORI) CHANCELLOR intends to bring in this
session a Bill on the subject, the motion was with-
drawn.
Mr. 'luau moved that an address be presented to
her MAJESTY, that she will be graciously pleased to
give directions that, whenever her Manny shall
grant the honour of the peerage, or baronetcy, or
knighthood, or order, for eminent public services, no
fee shall be charged thereon.
After some brief remarks from the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER against the motion it was withdrawn.
On Mr. CHRISTIE bringing forward his motion re-
lative to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
the House was counted out, at a Quarter to Eight.

We quote the following passage from a Morning
Contemporary :—" The conduct of the Earl of
Ueanr in the present contest for South Lancashire
that which most fitly becomes him as a nobleman
who has been all his life rationally liberal in his
politics ; he has intimated that his numerous tenantry
are, so far as his influence goes, to be at full liberty to
to vote as they think fit. This is worthy of the
head of the house of STANLEY. This is that conduct
which makes him truly respected by his dependents.
He interferes not at all. He gives utterance to his
desire that those dependents shall be permitted to
exercise their constitutional right as Englishmen.'
This generous determination on the part of
the Earl of DERBY which we learn from
the same authority will be persevered in
by his son, Lord STANLEY-will inflict a "heavy
blow, and a great discouragement," on the Etirwts-
TnE party, who had fully calculated on the support of
the house of Derby, and drawn from it their chief as-
surance of a victory. As a matter of course, they
will indignantly repudiate our Contemporary's state-
ment, who seems to be well-informed on the subject ;
and, by way of raising the depressed spirits of their
friends, they will make a point of giving out through
the country, that they are sure of the votes of the de-
pendents of the house of Derby. But this hoax
will deceive no one, and if persisted in, will be sure to
recoil on the heads of the party who put it forth.
Meantime, it gives us unfeigned pleasure to state
that the prospects of the free-trade candidate are as
flattering as his most sanguine friends could desire.
Mr. BROWN, as we hear from all quarters, has met
with the most marked success on his canvass ;
many whom his supporters expected to have found
lukewarm have shown themselves most zealous in his
cause ; and he has even met with good-will where he
expected to have encountered the most inveterate hos-
tility. In fact, the principles of free trade have, since
the last election, spread in a most surprising manner
through Lancashire, and found adherents among those
who, not four years since, were warmly in favour of
the monopolist faction. But this circumstance, in-
stead of inducing the free traders to relax in their ex-
ertions, should give nerve to their determination, and
arin them with fresh spirit to persevere in their great
struggle. However flattering their prospects, they
should think nothing gained, till all is gained. Early
and late they should be in the field of action, every-
where on the alert, with an eye that never winks, and
a heart that never wearies. Crest-fallen as they
are, and diminished alike in numerical strength and mo-
ral influence, their enemies are still not to be despised.
I:hey are expert, veteran tacticians, familiar with
every species of electioneering chicanery, and utterly
unscrupulous what underhand means they have re-
course to, provided they can only succeed in accom-
plishing the darling object of their ambition—the
defeat of the Anti-Corn-law candidate. But this
triumph—if Mr. Bitowri's friends use but common
caution, and exert themselves to the utmost—the
ENTWISTLE party will never achieve; and within a
brief space of time, we feel confident that we shall be
able to congratulate the free traders on another vic-
tory more important, if possible, than those recently
gained in the metropolis and in the cathedral city of
'Durham. Mr. Baowx—if we re.v at least.
from the present eneenng ana significant indications—
will be the future representative for South Lancashire
in the Commons House of Parliament—a House
which is more in want than ever of such a Member—
of one who will not, to quote Lord CASTLEREAGH'S
startling metaphor, " turn his back on himself" at
the beck of a Minister, but will hold fast to the prin-
ciples of free trade and enlightened reform through
evil and through good report, at all risks and against
all opposition. While speaking on this subject, we
may advert to what fell from Mr. TAILOR last night,
at the weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League.
We entertained slight hopes," said that gentleman,
"of what would be done in Parliament. There was
an assembly which went by the name of the House of
Commons, but he denied that it represented the
feelings and opinions of the people, of England."
There is but too much truth in this remark. The
House of Commons has ceased for some three
or four years to be the mouth-piece of the
people, and is now nothing more than the
unhesitating, unconditional representative of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S opinions. It is, in fact, a full
length reflection of our august Premier, and the re-
flection is one of startling fidelity. The House, when
spoken of as a body, used to be called—and is still
called by 'a pleasant fiction of the Constitution—her
" MAJESTY'S faithful Commons," but henceforth it
should be called "Peen's faithful Commons," for it
endorses all his views, and unmurmuringly submits to
his ascendancy. Under such "untoward" circum-
stances, it is more than ever imperatively necessary
that the Anti-Corn-law League should take prompt
advantage of every vacancy that may occur in the
representation, and task their energies to the utmost
I in order to ensure the return of such " good men and
true" as Mr. BROWN.

We quite concur with our correspondent, who ad-
dresses us from Paris, under the signature of " A Cap-
tain in the Navy," that the Admiralty here " would
do wisely to listen, without delay, to the gallant NA-
PIER," and "allow the old officers of our navy to re-
tire," in one of the several modes proposed by the
renowned Hero of Acre, on Thursday the 16th inst.
It will be remembered that, on that occasion, Sir
CHARLES stated he had studied this subject for many
years. He was convinced that, in the event of a war
breaking out, it would be impossible for us to enter into
it, or carry it on with any degree of vigour adequate
to the exigencies of such an emergency, owing to the
advanced ages of the superior officers of this service.
He complained that, whether Whigs or Tories were
in power, the Treasury bench appeared to be, at all
times, inattentive to this matter ; and he adverted at
some length to what had passed in the House of
Commons, in '1842 and 1843, in reference to proposi-
tions that, he had brought forward for the opening of
a retirement list, upon which aged and infirm officers
of superior rank might be allowed, as in the army, to
sell out and retire. Since that debate the bellicose
pamphlet of the Prince DE JOINVILLE has appeared,
and is now the chief pabulum on which the Anglo-
phobia cravings of his party, in Paris, are subsisted ;
where the subject has sufficient strength of digestion
to take down aliment that is combined with materials
Iso nauseating and offensive to the egoisme and self-
Lr the Lords the Royal assent was given to several ,! glorification of Frenchmen, as this royal dose is. But
Baiway• Bills, among others the South-Eastern Ex- I while we may be amused with the sensation which
this hair-brained young gentlemen is managing to get
tension Railway Bill.
Some discussion took place on the amendments. up in the salons and cafes of Paris, we are not dis-
:introduced the Commons into the LanH posed, to disregard the, significancy of such a sign of
e.evaVy and Carli le Railway Bill, chiefly with re- the times. 'lt should set our Government upon think-
.
on the line proposed to be ing how paramount a duty remains yet to be discharged
Am' eve to certain gates
~rec+vi opposite Brougham Hall. After a brief con- \by them, in giving instant and absolute efficiency to
-,..asatton, rather of a personal character, the Marquis that staff out of which must be found the command-
of ciakusutrar moved that the debate be adjourned, ing officers who, in the deplorable event of hostile
division, there were, for the adjournment, mpluenrd,ewrsitlalnddirinegset NtVhietheFnerargnciees, Oorfatnhyatotmheigrhmtyarnitaivmye,
coifalwlyar,thoant most formidable arm of it, its
and, on
the sustained prowess and success
32 ; egan.,:lt it, 33. The amendments were then
agreed to, an(' the House, on the motion of the Duke an
of which will depend.... the ultimate destinies of human
of WELLINGTON: adjourned till Thursday. steamers des
In the Commore:, the South Devon Railway Bill
freedom and civilisation.
was read a third time kind passed.
The argument of Sir CHARLES NArveu. addressed
The further eonsideratien of the Harwich Railway
aid.,vier, and the Colchester and Harwich Railway itself principally to the necessity of securing for these
t ned till next session.
high and responsible duties, not merely the usual
\ pospo
.i.mas gave notice that, on the 11th of qualities of intrepid courage and loyal devotion to the
,hould bring forward a motion on the corn- service, but the physical requisites of vigour yet un-
impairedage, and activity not paralysed by long
motion of Mr. HUME, several returns re- previous by
viousabeyanee on half-pay. With all the candour
torpond punishment in the Army and Navy, i and simplicity so well befitting so distinguished a
to 1843 sailor the Gallant Commodore avowed it to be his
, were ordered. -
Isvver to a question from Mr. Hume, Sir R. opinion that
,
after sixty, a naval officer in a command

Perhaps also France has applauded with more playful malice
than Anglophobia the explosion of this broadside in the midst
of the late calm and base caresses of the entente cordials.
It is not displeasing that by the side of a Ministry which re-
mains hat in hand before England, the dynasty should place
its hat a little on one side on the ear of one of its Members.
That produces A good effect on the public. Who knows if
the irresponsible hand which signed the ordonnance of the
disavowal of Admiral Dupetit Thouars may not, under the
eyes of M. de Mackau himself, have corrected the proof sheets
of the firm, precise, and patriotic note of the Prince de
Joinville ?

was not qualified to bear the fatigues incident to the
duties of his station—that in action, even if he
achieved a victory, it might be anticipated that he
would not retain his bodily powers and general facul-
ties in sufficient perfection to improve that victory to
the full extent which its consequences ought to be
pursued to. It is not necessary for us to recur to the
cases by which he proposed to affirm this proposition.
Yet we may notice, by the way, the pithy rejoinder
he gave to Sir GEORGE COCKBURN'S remark that in
our last war with America, the officers under his (Sir
GEORGE'S) command were fully competent. We
may be forgiven for reminding Sir GEORGE that the
management of that war by the civil or Admiralty
part of the service was anything but honourable to
this country; though we are far from imputing its
disastrous casualties at sea, occasioned by the inferior
size and metal of our ships, their injudicious com-
missioning and defective equipments, as compared
with those of the enemy, upon the gallant officers
who fought the actions in which our flag was sub-
jected to the unwonted humiliation, even against such
odds, of defeat. Sir CHARLES NAPIEIb recalled to
Sir GEORGE'S recollection the fact that the latter had
no line-of-battle ships with him, but only frigates
and smaller vessels of war; and these, too, were com-
manded by young captains. "Will that Gallant Ad-
miral," said the Commodore, with a characteristic
mixture of good feeling and unflinching truth—" will
he tell me that he is as fit, at his age, for work, as he
was in the Chesapeake, when he was forty, and we
were boys ?" And then he read from official docu-
ments abundant data to establish his complaint, that
promotion was so slow under the present rules of the
service that, without revising that system, or remov-
ing, as he proposed to do by retirement and permission
to them to sell their commissions, the superior officers
above a certain age, and on the list of admirals, rear
and vice-admirals, and post captains, it would be im-
possible to bring in the young officers whom it was
so essential to have in active service or in immediate
readiness to enter upon it. He contended that all our
present admirals who, in virtue of seniority in rank,
would have to command our fleets, now, must be
about 75 years old at least ; two were 69 each. Of
our vice-admirals he showed that only ten are under
70, all the rest above that age; that of our rear-ad-
mirals twenty-five only are under 65, and that the
last promoted and youngest of them, Sir THOMAS
.TROUBRIDGE, is 54; other fourteen rear-admirals
being under 60. Of these thirty-seven superior offi-
cers, again, twelve had not been at sea for about thirty
years past. So, again, of the first two hundred post cap-
tains on the list; thirty are now between 70 and 75
years ; forty-eight are between 65 and 70 years ; sixty-
one are between 60 and 65: and sixty-one are
under 60 ; indeed, but with very few exceptions, bor-
dering on that age. Of these two hundred captains,
no less than one hundred and fourteen have not been
employed at sea during the last thirty years and
more ; and many have never, since attaining their
present rank, been professionally employed at all.
In all these details, Sir CHARLES NAPIER certainly
made out a powerful case to demonstrate how little
qualified these veteran superior officers must be,
from age and its infirmities, to endure the severe pri-
vations and duty of maintaining a strict blockade, for
example. And what did he ask for these noble de-
fenders of their country's flag, on its true field of
battle and of triumph on the sea? That the old
admirals, &c., should be allowed to sell their commis-
sions, and enter into an honourable retire-
ment ; or that the first one hundred captains
on these lists should be at libetry to retire
upon full half-pay with the Greenwich Hos-
pital out-pension, which should be l OQ/. a
year each. This valuable relief could thus be ef-
fected at an expense of only 10,0001. a year. But if
it were not adopted quickly, it would be useless : for
the object was to bring forward young officers of
these ranks, or that they might be already in com-
mission when any emergency called for their active
service. If this course were not taken forthwith, and
without delay, the old officers, in such an emergency,
it was clear, would not be equal to the duties devolv-
ing on them; and we should be compelled to take
young officers without recent experience. Such an
event, as it was necessary for the argument of the
Gallant Commodore to contemplate, would call for
the instant service of fifty or sixty admirals. Where,
he asked, were those to come from, if they had not
cleared in the meantime the list of those aged officers
to whom he had referred, by a means so just and rea-
sonable to them, so essential to the welfare of the
nation, so indispensable to the character and efficiency
of the navy itself ? Sir ROBERT PEEL endea-
voured to persuade the House, that if such
arrangements were made by Government,
the almost certain result would be, that the
oldest captains being nearest the list of rear-admirals
above them, would naturally stay to realise their
chances of promotion. The youngest captains would
as naturally retire, on the terms suggested, because
their chances of realising promotion were so much
inferior, from their lower position on the list. But to
this specious objection Sir C. NAPIER replied con-
clusively in three words ; he limited this privilege of
retirement, &c., to one hundred captains of the age of
60 or upwards. Did the Right Hon. Baronet, at the
head of the Government, mean then to call men at
60 young ? The motion with which he had con-
cluded, that previous to the preparation of the next
navy estimates a plan of retirement should be devised
with the view of rendering the naval service more
efficient, and of rewarding old and meritorious
officers, " was, for the present, lost." But we cannot
believe that the session will be allowed to run out
without, at least, another vigorous effort being made
by Parliament to force on the conviction of Govern-
ment the necessity for adopting soma plan for
guaranteeing the increased efficiency of the superior
ranks of our naval service, which may be conform-
able to the sensible, the fair, and manly views which
were thus expounded by one of the most distin-
guished, undaunted, and fortunate commanders who
have ever adorned it, in this or in any former age.

We learn by a telegraphic dispatch received at
Paris on Wednesday, that serious disturbances have
broken out in the canton of Valois, in Switzerland.
This canton lies between the Simplon and the Lake
of Geneva, and is divided into two districts, called
the Upper and Lower Valois, which for years have
shown great hostility to each other from religious as
well as civil disputes. The town of Sion, belonging
to the lower division, and situated on the banks- of
the Rhone, had been seized by a party of the Upper
Valois, and a general battle—if battle it can be
called—was expected to take place on the 18th. The
other cantons, however, will probably interfere to
prevent any serious mischief, and compel them to
settle their differences. It is also stated in another tele-
graphic dispatch that affairs at Tangiers began to assume
a serious aspect, and that preparations had been made
to resist the expected invasion from Spain, by sum-
moning to Tangiers some neighbouring tribes. The
foreign Consuls had protested against this step, and
those of England and France had dispatched orders
for some vessels of war, in case of a contest between
that principality and Spain ; but this affair is even
more contemptible than the disputes among the
peasantry of the Valois. These dispatches will be
found in another part of the paper.
The Paris papers of Tuesday are chiefly occupied
with comments on the pamphlet of the Prince DB
JOINVILLB, and the military operations of the Duke
D'AUMALE in Algeria : the Constitutionnel, in par-
ticular, makes severe attacks on the KING and both
the Princes, as will be seen from the following ex-
tract :

"Two Princes of the Royal Family are before the public,
one holding the pen, the other the sword, and both appear
to suppose that to make or meditate war, enters into the
prevailing passion of the country. It would be an error to
think so. if the genius of peace has on the earth a domicile,
it is in France. Unfortunately, peace, such as it has been
made for us, resembles an abjuration of our dignity, and
France has protested, protests, and will pretest, not
through any belligerent mania, but through respect for her
honour, until the full conciliation of honour with peace.
Perhaps the two Princes hare keenly felt the hu-
miliations of our pacific regime; it belongs to their age ;
besides, the unpopularity of a policy which has placed peace
under the protection of fear, must have concurred in per-
suading them that public favour was to be gained in tick-
ling the military nerve of the French. Thence the
chaurinism in word and action of the Prince de Joinville and
the Duke d'Aumale. Conformably to the order of primoge-
niture, we shall examine the note before the deed of arms.
God forbid that we should be induced to judge too
rigorously the warlike hypotheses of the young Admiral!
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