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COURT CIRCULAR.
Wi Stlxo.ty.—The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Con.-
teaav officiated at the performance of Divine service this
Morning at her:Majesty's Private Chapel, in the Castle.
roag Queen and Prince Albert walked in the grounds sur-
the Castle vesterdav forenoon. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness visited, in 'private, her Royal Highness
the Dechess of Kent, at her residence, Frogmore Lodge.
Baron de Brandenstein (Grand Chamberlain to the late
Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha) left the Castle yesterday.
The Baron was the bearer of the m'mrnful and unexpected
intelligence of the demise of the Duke to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday.
Sir Robert Peel left town on Saturday afternoon, to attend
ber Majesty at Windsor Castle. The 'Right Hon. Baronet
returned to his residence in Whitehall-gardens in the early
part of the evening.
A joint deputation from London and from Liverpool, rela-
tive to the subject of the Tea duties, had an interview with
111„r Robert, Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in
-wiling-street. Sir Howard Douglas,
ar.d Mr. Duckworth fermed the deputation from Liverpool.
M.P., Mr. Potter,
,Sir George Larpent, Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., and other
gentlemen attended the London deputation.
A deputation from the London Missionary Society, con-
Vti,ing of Mr. Alderman Challis, Chairman, Mr. Hindley,
1,-;•re with the Rev. Arthin• Tidman, and the Rev. J. J.
'"an, Secretaries, had an interview with Lord Stanley,
at the Colonial-offie, on Saturday.
The Baroness de Moncorvo, lady of the Portuguese
Minister, was safely- delivered of a daughter, on Saturday,
ati, three o'clock in the morning, after a painful labour that
-'ste'l nearly forty-eight hours. Both the mother and the
child are Oilfavourably.
Sir Smith haili aninterview with Sir R. Peel on
•gstyaTtuhreaaeovmmittee on Education of the Lords of her Ma-
's Most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting on
were afternoon, at the on
afteC `ncil-office. The Lords present
b the Lord President, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of
--111,011, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor of the
''''he;:pier, and Cord Granville Somerset.
, Robert and Lady Peel gave a grand dinner to the prin-
lPal tn
1.11,. embers of the Diplomatic Corps, on Saturday, at
ra residence, in Whitehall-gardens. A select party were
esent
aSteunt..to meet their Excellencies. Dinner was served in the
s
gallery. The invitations included the French Aulbas-
an7A rend the Countess de St. Aulaire, the Swedish Minister
•4" Countess Bjornstjerna, the Belgian Minister and Madame
Ban Weyer, the Netherlands Minister, Mons. Dedel, the
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Hanoverian
iar°llmister, Count Kielinansegge, the Portuguese
_Minister,
, 11°w
de Moncoo, the Rusian Minister and Baroness
•-'l, the Am rverican Minister and Mrs. Everett, the
L- iSian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Danish Mi-
ter
giant:tad Countess Reventlow, the Austrian Minister,
• r°ll Nieumann, the Saxon Minister and Baroness
Sic•s':l°rft; the Wurtemberg Minister, Baron de Hugel, the
the
llsselrotllei_itnister' General Castelcicala, the Sardinian Mi- •
etser, Count Pollon, Baron and Baroness Langsdorff, Count
the Lord -Chancellor and Wellington,ur and
Cla II" CoPley, the Duke of Earl and
Titess of Hadding6n, Earl and Countess of Jersey and
I.)A'f Clemintina Villiers, Viscount and Viscountess Canning,
prougham and Lord and Lady Wharncliffe.
ith_ Chapel Royal, St. James's, has been hung with black,
ersas _ ecilience of
G the death of his Royal
W Highness the Du e
114 Cobourg Gotha. The Duke ofWellington attended
I)I..;;F'Y service yesterday. Prayers were read by the Rev.
.
Vaida esleY, and the sermon was preached by Archdeacon
If -ard• The Marquis of Anglesey, Lords Cawdor, Clare,
4tat;eriden, Ebrington, and Wharncliffe attended the service
bat..elve O'clock. The service was read by the Rev. Messrs.
and Hall, and the sermon was preachedby Arch-
Goddard.
METROPOLITAN DRAPERS'
ASSOCIATION.
laleeting of the members of the assistant drapers, in
,370,(ilistricts Bishopsgate and Shoreditch, was held
atr riday at the White Hart Tavern, Bishop Tate-street,
ais was fully and respectably attended, both by the as-
t'elotic' and the employers. The chair was taken at 9
Nhieh 'V Mr. Hopkins, and the business of the evening,
Tor ,a,...Wita to discuss the question and pass resolutions
T
the system for closing the shops at earlier
Inan now in use, was immediately commenced.
1,t,,
L Chairman having briefly addressed the meeting,
I,ritteit,Yilwell having also spoken in advocacy of the_
tifeet' to be carried out, the first resolution, to the
she that tho meeting was decidedly of opinion that
by hesent protracted system of business was attended
Inor worst results to the young men engaged therein,
the bell, intellectually, and physically, was opposed to
sari, to interests of employers, and perfoctly unneces-
-4(144 51.1blic convenience, was moved by Mr. Hall, and
The hY Mr. Mills, and carried unanimously.
second resolution to the effect that the meeting,
Earlya,gd by the oodeffects which had arisen from
tiosin
"Ved g where the practice had boon adopted,
13Per • ° obtain the assistance, and relied upon the co-
- eoast:°an2.! a considerate public, was proposed by Mr.
Its the land seconded by Mr. Buckingham, and carried
A•
tr, ITlner•
• lut'proposed the third
EEDHANI, of Shoreditch,
b 441, Which was seconded by Mr. Foskey and car-
lerali4ieciamation to the effect that the meeting de-
ticbps to do its utmost to promote the closiag of
tleloe kill the districts and neighbourhood at eight
Asireh , Lttrinc.• the summer months, from October to
enThinerclusbive, and- at seven o'clock from April till
Me.
l
,ifio„,'!, fourth resolution, " That those already carried
487!
ec ha, circulated as extensively as possible by hand-
rphe2 was then put and carried unanimously.-.-
Itlanee, tbinrgo,kehativpin. g passed a vote of- thanks to the
were or CARLISLE.—OH Friday accounts
received Ala in town from Castle Howard respecting the
14,-It'ilinq illness of the Earl of Carlisle, which represent the
prrnptoonlf the N.oble Earl to be exceedingly precarious. The
4,krtn; s which have manifested themselves are of an
Z his'llg character, so as to excite painful apprehensions as
irtpc.,ll4 -,ordship's ultimate recovery. If anything the Noble
Tlia,Was somewhat improved on Thursday night, but the
the
ige was so slight as not to remove in the least degree
At that
entertained by the members of his family assembled
that seat.
tr The Hon. J. E. Elliot, late Member for the county
jdtoxburgh, brother to Earl
.pinto and paternal uncle to
y John Russell has transmitted to the Treasurer of the
~.7hati-Cern National League
Association at Hawick the sum of 10/.,
d
of the Leag'ue Fund of 100,0001.
.42),
.ItuRY-LANE THEATRE.---Mr. Bunn seems de-
lit''2l,:ned to surpass all his former efforts—for on Thursday
„,,V
_after the pertbianance of The Bohemian Girl„ Albert's
Ql,ll(tida ballet of La Jolie Fille de Guild, will be brought for-
",, ad will introduce us to one of the greatest beauties,
therbest dancers, the Parisian stage has ever produced,
oiselle Fleury, who sustains the character of Beatrice,
of the piece. 'We are, moreover,
1,.h()
lately
himself, and his pupil, to have Mon-
o Monsieur 'Haguet Vestris,
th2ZeislY made so successful a debut at the Academie—and
bee en scene report speaks in the highest terms.
TAIN TUC KETT'S BENEFIT.—This gentleman, as
Test the en from the theatrical advertisement, takes his be-
'lllteiaryulliv..evelllugiain. the character of Falstaff; in the play of
e all be well supported Keeley'and
tlie"t°rdaurit •
perf._anc, and every exertion will be made to render
iityn e effective. Two amusing pieces follow, the
tttitturceull,
Dand the Thumping Legacy.
LAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—These
tkkeLke activ4ll2,Peurefhor:n...ances have been visited during the week by the
&:m, the "' of Beaufort, the Earl and Countess of Chester-
• nleo „--"". and Countess of Errol, Lady Nleux, Lady Mary
`ge Marquis'ue CoUntess of T kervine, the Marquis of Normanby,
of an
,ouro, the Baron Dedel, Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
4104 Pere
arid Lady Forster, the Countess of Charlemont, Lady
14°1tit Kiel Lady Curteis, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild,
/ p "'eggs'. Viscount Maidstone, Lord Auckland,
slbot, • B'e aislet, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George and Miss
.411, -ATR or MAJOR-GENERAL
iAJOR- GENERAL WALK ER, C.B. —ln-
,,,,a:antil! demise of the above gallant and distinguished offi-
o;) N ding, with local rank of Major-General, the 21st
:er.d°silL tish Fusiliers,at INladr'as,) was received by the
"ice, General Walker had been forty-five years in the
'4lte 1-1 h
e had served at Bhurtpore, and compaigns of Lord
N'4l4.l.lle„i‘i.ilieigfe_owf Kaloonga, under Major-General Gillespie, who
" appointed Colonel of the 21st Fusiliers.
:aouttai
xn•N ZEVER HOSPITAL.—OH Friday afternoon
chaff hfitt at ee,, tine of the Governors and supporters of this charity
Qpee tor.
smoo Freemasons, Tavern, the Earl of Devon in the
the in tuthwood read the report, which proved the exist.
ropolis of an awful amount of fever. The admis.
t,t,t" Into the
ihol2S °ter
~_hospital were 1,462 during the year ; being an excess
te,41.1e kiro`": preceding year. In March fever was at its height,
‘he '42'4lPart,:"3
attribnstannes
were 179. In the East-end there was little
some
iWith the central, southern, and northern districts,
~agthere was not a house exempt from it,
,otlkfittioo
of utable to the undrained, filthy, and closely-built
c 4,11. tied of n'.se localities. A large proportion of the patients
otenetso tof,,,c.ultural labourers and provincial mechanics who
r' rated hq°ll, 111 search of employment, and whose illness was
the ant of food and clothing rid being obliged to sleep
tiass'oto ds: Relapses frequently occurred twice and thrice.
ku,e rtallty was a,. • ,
Twenty-nine nurses
'l6ad. 'neer' of th about 15a per cent.
e hospital were attacked with fever, of whom
The 4:euipmt,bewr_res_tored to health during the year was
were 2,556/. 35. 7d., and the disbursements.
,pito rt, •
ieaving a debt of 4001. After the adoption of
London, e'olved to petition the Government, the Corp°.
theall or jpero_aowd other public bodies, in aid of the hospital.
bleear wern! es re-elected president, and the other officers
haisto4o7PPointed. After which thanks were voted to time
11,kleY tNI" ANT)
.1(1
at sPeclai toee,, MEDWAY CANAL COMPANY—On
171., jo the Geor_elngdof. the Proprietors of this Company was
i:eject7vhaer,oh.ttiruft,,, Vulture Tavcra, Cornhill, John Mown,
made for
j", ?lie purpose of considering a proposal which
ilor"tecoottr taking a lease of the canal with pa
view to the
of a railway from Gravesend to Itt.chester,
ht;re/pl:ratthwe.i.determination of such special meeting into
tto!tvweh nes and mr_,eed, from which it appeared that the object
44'114 .f7rott, RoeberaY Canal Company is to connect Graves-
vhi'r'llllestale, line of r:!er. Chatham, and Brompton, by laying
'154. then `? do uodle': the Company's property,
.which they
tc„ pc,, a'lation of their powers of incorporation, and by
t4l4l4,C,reeet,ed the canal will not be affected. Proposals
trklacNu.etiefithe
ra`iZa7a,ntatieorninent contractor, to guatroavnitdeee tom:
tit,t`qe.
fp, t?,_ n.es, stock, and eves' and
Works, and to
141,4 tft. uro of p ry requisite for conductingP the
`lle who 'f.,ouo/., the contractor taking the loan
flt the exe
.that amount, and to open the line at six
e•
s`zo catookreedu"?o or the contract. The traffic has re-
-161411 Pected tl with
great care, and the g
• 1 ross estimated
.eispensei, 8 railway is 24,0001., from which deduct
441.1, fromthere would be a nett income of
4 w0ri1d,....' Si that' take interest on 65,0001. additional
an estimated sum of 1: 7501. annual sur.
kep
,o 5 c amongst 4h and loan note
anal Com e present share
AL erne_ , Paoy• After a long discussion between
Pt en. t the ;in, Mr. Mocatta, Mr. A. Ilankey, and other
w4l a
„, a ntne es ra
df
rhaaopinspido:rg,t itothhneei nt :plot; et
wsfausr pat
dlhuoesptaremodo,
proposed
Passes for
„ilesohl:!1t hold.er; of
auha
f:r4 theo 4)11. Sir
1114t:._
tx a eholaers
ZittNitc• Wvtich'itibenor
i Manner in which he had pleaded the cause
Hayman Inmoonveecyl anvrote ofp thanks)
so likely to bweaa
peeted at n the ouTanankitstee as to their portion of the
roatusio'g
,Ifd a VOte Oct*
n separated. beneficialalst, passteod
tthoetloieldchpatior..
The Meerniect ?,ttlte'vl J,Ly cAuGUT e
wE
slarlsfield .
Newton, of the Horse and
nzt ()use A
ut cif th
4l ti etne barrel 3
. more
d
(havr tile mornino-
q gy
ttst(noNh'ecr,ne that
hia' ids
into the ig
11.1.rv,14: fit ,tut six -nt in the cellar on Monday n. 1 t. After
e an
were secured. With
' cellarbottle,
son.nhdt
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ens
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elin',lll/wiii_g_
einintittotenadinTt.
The servant had a key altered
tae,AtAl,t_th.e,cellar door.--Doncaster Gazette.
ty•—Our fishing. this season has
c rive uerel re
avourahlv. Twelv • 1 1
aud at Doefif e goo'. sa mon have
'ter. ut,out tWerl our no less than forty-five. In
ty , • _
v been caught.—Juverness

/ THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND
LORD W. PAGET.
(From the Observer. )
The foil 'wing correspondence, relative to the recent action
brought by Lord William Paget against the Earl of Cardigan,
and the two act ions now pending between the Noble Lords, has
been sent to us for publication :-
1 (No. 1.) "238, Oxford-st., 29th Jan., 1844.
•4 MY LORD DUKE,—I address myself to your Grace as
Command- r-in-Chief and head of the British army,' and I
throw myself upon your Grace's well-known love of justice and
manly conduct to protect me, by interpozing your high autho.
rity in the matter between the Earl of Cardigan and myself,
by causing a military inquiry' into the truth the charges
which I have brought against his Lordship, and which have
lei to the following correspondence, and whirls I have the
honour to inclose for your Grace's perusal. My Lord Duke,
all I seek is a full, complete, and searching inquiry into the
whole matter between us : and this, the wealth and power of
the Earl of Cardigan enables him to evade by civil process.'
My Lord, I have made the same appeal to the Earl of Had-
dington, as ' First Lord of the Admiralty,' and have forwarded
to his Lordship a copy of my letter to your Grace.—l have the
honour to remain, my Lord Duke, with the most profound
respect, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant.
" WILLIAM PAGET.
"P. S.—l have the honour to transmit your Grace a copy
of the letter I have addressed to the Earl of Haddington.
" His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., &c."
(No. 2.) " London, January 30, 1844.
" Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his com-
pliments to Captain Lord William Paget. He received last
night his Lordship's letter of the 29th inst., and several in-
closures marked No. 1,2, 3,4, 5, relating to, or giving cause
for questions between Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Cardigan and his
Lordship. The copy of the letter to the Earl of Iladdington,
referred to by his Lordship, was not sent. The questions
are all of a social character, and are properly cognizable
by a court of common law ; and it appears that one
in which the Earl of Cardigan was defendant was under ,
discussion before a competent common-law tribunal, but the
record was withdrawn by his Lordship's desire. In re-
spect to the other of more recent date, in which the Earl of
Cardigan is plaintiff, it appears that the Earl has commenced
proceedings before the competent common-law court, which
proceedings must take their course. Even if Colonel Lord
Cardigan, as plaintiff, was to apply for the interference of a
military tribunal in these proceedings, such application could
not be complied with, as his Lordship, Lord William Paget,
the defendant in these questions, is not liable to the media-
tion. Under these circumstances, Field Marshal the Duke
of Wellington begs leave to decline interfering in any mariner
in these questions.
" Captain Lord William Paget, R.N.,
238, Oxford-street, London."
(No. 3.) " 238, Oxford-street, 31st Jan., 1844.
" Ma' LORD DIIIKE,—I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Grace's letter, and will not again trouble your
Grace upon the subject; but whilst I see in every line the
justness of the opinions your Grace has condescended to make
known to me, your Grace will perhaps permit me to remark,
that in the case in which the Earl of Cardigan was defendant,
the record was not withdrawn by my consent (or even with
my knowledge), but that in the absence of a material witness,
it became the duty and business of my counsel to withdraw the
record (pro forma), but that his doing so had only reference
to the impossibility of the cause being tried on that particular
day. I beg your Grace's pardon for this further intrusion, and
have the honour to remain, with the most profound respect and
gratitude, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant,
" WILLIAM PAGET.
• " His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., &c."
(No. 4.) " 238, Oxford-street, 28th January, 1844.
" DIY Loan,—l address myself to your Lordship, as First
Lord of the Admiralty' and the ' head of the profession' to
which I have the honour to belong, and doubt not that if your
Lordship has the power to do so, you will afford me your
powerful protection by ordering an inquiry into all the circum.
stances which have led to a correspondence between the Earl
of Cardigan and myself, a copy of which I have the honour to
inclose you. My Lord, whilst I cannot believe that two officers
holding her Majesty's commissions can ever be permitted to enter
into a correspondence conveying such grave charges as those
which characterise the letters in question with impunity (as
regards the professions to which they respectively belong), it is
equally clear to me that the wealth, and power, and moral in.
fluencs of the Earl of Cardigan are sufficient (or, at least, that
it has been so up to the present moment), to enable him to
evade by civil process' the consequence of his misconduct.
My Lord, I have the honour to enclose You the copy of a letter
I have this day addressed to his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
upon the same subject, and I entreat your Lordship to give the
matter to which I have called your attention your most earnest
consideration.—l have the honour to be. my Lord, with the
most profound respect, your Lordship's very faithful and
obedient servant. " WILLIAM PAGET.
" To the Earl of IladdinWon, &c., &c., &c.
(No. 5.) Admiralty, 7th Feb. 1844
"MY Loan,--I have turned my attention to your Lordship's
letter, and to the copies enclosed therein, of the correspond-
ence relative to the questions pending between your Lordship
and the Earl of Cardigan, and of your letter to his Grace the
Commander- in-Chief. The whole have been read by the mem-
bers of this Board, and, after mature deliberation, we concur in
thinking that, as an action is in dependence in this case, it is
one in which it would not become us to interfere. If we
thought otherwise, the circumstance that Lord Cardigan is an
officer in the army would render our interposition impossible
without the concurrence of the Horse Guards. I understand
that the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief is in accordance
with that I have just stated as the opinion of the me obers of
the Board of Admiralty.—l have the honour to be, my Lord,
your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
" lIADDINGTON.
"Captain the Lord William Paget, R.N."
(No. 6.) " 238, Oxtord-street, Jan. 28, 1844.
"MY LORD,—On the 23d December last I addressed a letter
to your Lordship, and which (writhing under a succession of
injuries which I felt I had received at your Lordship's hands),
I had determined to give every publicity to ; but the circum-
stance of your Lordship making known, through the columns of
the ' high authority of' the Times newspaper,' that so far from
having been privy to the absconding of Winter, you desired
the most searching inquiry into the whole charge I had brought
against you, and was prepared to show it was altogether without
foundation, and that it was your intention to take legal pro-
ceedings against me on account of the letter in question, I felt
that it would be most improper to carry my intentions in that
respect any further, and I instantly suppressed every means I
bad adopted for the circulation of it, in the full belief that your
Lordship really intended to take such legal proceedings against
me as could not fail to lead to a searching inquiry into the
whole of the charge I had brought against you. I find, how-
ever, that an attempt is being made by your Lordship to avert
the possibility (so far as you can) of the truth being elicited at
all, by your taking steps, which (however offensive and incon-
venient they may be to me) cannot fail to leave the real ques-
tion at issue between us a matter of doubt and uncertainty ;
and this you have done by bringing an action against
me in the Court of Exchequer for pecuniary damages
(laying them at five thousand pounds) for an alleged libel,
instead of applying to the Court of Queen's Bench for leave to
file a criminal information against me. In the civil action
which you have instituted against me, your Lordship is well
aware that neither your Lordship nor myself can be examined ;
and the simple question (in the shape the action is brought)
resolves itself into libel or no libel.' Why, my Lord, every
schoolboy would in all probability say, without a moment's hesi-
tation, that the letter to your Lordship is, per se, a libel ; but
had your Lordship taken the ether course I have men-
tioned, your Lordship must have deposed on oath
(' not upon your honour') whether you had been guilty
of the crimes imputed to your Lordship or not ; by
the same rule, and of course with the same view, in the pro-
ceedings your Lordship has adopted,,you are depriving me of
the opportunity and advantage of stating the facts, to which I
am ready to make oath. My Lord, I invite, I challenge, I
dare you, to subject yourself to this ordeal. If you are inno-
cent, why shrink from it, when, under such circumstances,
every conscientious man would believe you ?—if guilty, how,
my Lord, can you reconcile to yourself, as a man and a sol-
dier, to have treated me as you have done? My Lord, I have
always known and frit the fearful odds I have contended
with in encountering the wealth and rank and influence
of your Lordship, and of the host of furious partisans, Lords
and Ladies,' by whom you are supported ; but, let me
tell your Lordship, that in the matter between us the time is
past for any such interests to avail with you or against me.
There is a power and an influence greater than all this—
' public opinion ;' and that I have the commiseration of every
honest man and every virtuous woman I am fully persuaded of,
and that too amongst a class of life much more numerous, in-
finitely more moral and intelligent, though somewhat in point
of rank' below the order' to which, my Ls rd, both you and
I belong, and where such matters are not viewed quite so
lightly as in the fashionable world.' My Lord, the eyes
of the world are upon you, and upon me ; my Lord,
the attention of the British army, in which your Lordship
holds so distinguished a rank, is especially fixed upon you, and
I flatter myself, that not a few of the officers of my own pro-
fession are equally alive to the unprecedented position in which
two officers, holding her Majesty's commission, stand towards
each other, in the persons of your Lordship and myself, and
which may not long remain so. My Lord, either your Lord-
ship or myself, are unworthy to hold her Majesty's commission.
Your Lordship (and you alone) has the power to prove which
of us is guilty, Lind which is not, in this matter ; and I dare
you to do so And I declare that you are afraid to encounter
the examination you would have to undergo if you took any
legal eourse by which you would subject yourself to such an
appeal to, and test of, your Lordship's veracity !
"My Lord, 1 repeat, you have put dishonour on me ! You
have made it impossible for my children ever again to hear the
name of their unfortunate mother without a blush of shame,
nor the
tion and sorrow. And lam prepared to show, and to prove
(if your Lordship will give me the opportunity of doing so),
that the charge I have made as regards the absence of Winter,
and the cause of it is not, as your Lordship has stated,
alto-
gether without foundation ;' and yet neither your Lordship,
nor Messrs. Powell, Broderip, and Wilde, may ever
have seen Winter or spoken to him, or paid him a
farthing. In doing all this, you have committed the greatest
social and moral offence which one man can offer to another;
and in the vain hope in the first instance (for I will do you the
justice to believe so) of saving the unfortunate creature from
the degradation and ruin in which you have involved her, you
have persisted, and still persist, in refusing me the reparation
which is always accorded between man and man in such cases.
Be assured, my Lord, it is in vain that you determine to per-
sist in this course. Of your guilt I cannot entertain a shadow
of doubt ; and justice you must and shall do me, sooner or
later.

" The Earl of Cardigan. " WILLIAM PAGET,"

- -
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—That dashing style of
treatment which made last year's opera so delightful to the
public and so prosperous to the management, will character-
ise the present season. Mr. Lumley exhibits even an increase
of vigour in his present programme, instead of finding in
past success a moral Capua. The arrangements for his ballet
present an unprecedented accumulation of strength. Four
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charm upon her art. Perrot is wielding his sceptre as here-
tofore, and is busily at work upon a new ballet, to be en-
titled La Esmeralda, which will follow Herold's master-
piece, the Zampa, upon the opening night. This is to re-
store us "the" Carlotta, anxious to expatiate the guilt of a
more easterly sojourn by her re-appearance on more aris-
tocratic boards. We may also announce a grand heroic
ballet, called Jeanne d'Arc, for Fanny Elssler's first appear-
ance. In opera, our old favourites and friends, the glorious
Lablache, those admirable artists Fornasari and Mario, the
divine Grisi, and that nightingale Persiani, come back to us ;
while the Signora Favanti, whom report describes as a star
of the first magnitude, and that excellent tenor,
Corelli, make their first appearance before an English
audience. Costa's opera, Don Carlos, which is composed
expressly for the company, will be produced ; and Ricci's
Corrado d'Almatura, with the Fantasma of Persiani, will be
added to the old repertoire. Such unprecedented attractions
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French to these shores, produce a season whose brilliancy will
efface that of all its predecessors. We cannot close this
notice without a word for our own compatriote, Favanti, who
comes to us crowned with unfaded laurels, won in the land
of song. We hail the advent of this native syren with feel-
ings of mingled pride and pleasure, and feel convinced she
will receive the same warm welcome which has attended her
progress through foreign lands.