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hind it. The whole audience immediately rose amidst plau-
dits, cheers, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. The
august travellers and the ROyal Consort, from delicacy, re-
tired to the back of the box, leaving her Gracious Majesty
standing alone in front, to receive the cordial tribute of re-
spect—each verse of the national anthem creating a fresh
outburst of applause. Immediately after " God save the
Queen" was over, and the curtain had descended, with the
most commendable good taste, the national Russian hymn
was played. It was, we hear, played at sight; but it was
executed with the most remarkable precision and feeling by
the admirable orchestra, under its üble conductor, and pro-
duced the most imposing effect.
Her Majesty, with his Majesty the Emperor of Russia and
his Majesty the King of Saxony, were attended by the
Duchess of Buccleuch, Baron Brunno*, Count Orloff, the

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Earl of Hardwicke, Prince Radzivil, Baron Gersdorff,
General d'Adlerberg, Earl of Morton, Colonel Arbuthnot,
Count Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, Dr. Carus, Prince
Wassiltschikoff, Dr. Reim)lds, Mons. de Minckwitz, M.
d'Alderberg, and Colonel Glasenard, the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess of Gloucester, Princess
Mary of Cambridge, were. attended by Baron nesebeck.
Amongst the company we also observed the Dukes of Wel-
lington, Devonshire, Leinster, Montrose, Leeds;. the
Duchesses of Beaufort. Somerset, Montrose, _ Sutherland,

Leinster, Roxburghe ; Baron Nipumann, the Marquises of
Ailesbury, Normanby, Douro, Clanricarde, Worcester, 'Win-
chester, Granby, Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Ailesbury,
Douro, Clanricardc, Westmeath ; the Earls of Pembroke, Aber-
deen, Liverpool; Jersey, Dunmore, Kenmare, Wilton' Bruce,
Sandwich, Falmouth ; the. Countesses of Jersey, Wilton,
Dowager Pembroke, Kenmare, Dunmore, Chesterfield, Glen-
gall ; Lords Castlereagh, Foley, Cantalupe, A. Fitzclarence,
Ernest Bruce, Macdonald, Alfred 'Villiers, Alfred Paget,
Sondes, Aylmer, Ranelagh ; Ladies Alice Peel, Gardner, Vil-
liers, Lyndhurst, Erne.st Bruce, Clementina Villiers, Somer-
set, Seymour, Southampton, Osborne, Alfred Aylmer, Edward
Thynne, Miller, Meux, ,
John Scott, Webster, Foulis' Pynn,
Bulkeley Williams; Count de Noailles ; Sirs W. Massey
Stanley, A. B. Clifton, H. Willoughby, H. Webb, H. Meux,
C. Kent, C Shakerley, J. Beckett, I'. iare ; Honourables Mr.
and Mrs. Yorke, G. Byng, C. Cavendish ; Colonels D'Oyley,
Wildman, Knox, Mrs. Colonel Fitch, Captain Meynell, Cap-
tain Lyon, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Wombwell, Mr. C. Standish,
&c., &c.

COURT CIRCULAR.

o The Bishop
.of Norwich, and a deputation from the
Unman Society, had an audience tif the King of Saxony,
on Saturday morning, at Buckingham Palace.
The deputation consisted of Sir William Jackson
Hooker, Dr. Horsfield, Mr.. Forster, and Mr." Robert
Brown, were presented to his Majesty by his Excellency
Baron Gersdorff, and the Earl of Morton, Lord in
Waiting. _

His Majesty was graciously pleased to enrol his name
as an honorary Member of the Society.
At•twelve o'clo-ck the King of Saxony held a Levee at
Buckingham Palace for the reception of the Diplomatic
Corps.
The following were present :—Count de St. Aulaire,
the French Ambassador ; Count de Jarnac, First Se-
cretary ; and Baron de Talleyrand, Attache to the Em-
bassy ; Aali Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador ; Count de
Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister ; M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister, and Mr. Charles Drouet, Secre-
tary of Legation ; M. Moreno, Buenos Ayrean Minister ;
Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister ; M. Dedel, the Ne-
therlands Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portu-
guese Minister ; M. Alejo Fortique, the Venezuelan
Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wurtemberg Minister ; le
Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister ;
Mr. Everett, United States Minister, and Mr. Rives,
the Secretary of Legation ; Baron. de Nieumann, Aus-
trian Minister, and Baron* Koller, First Secretary of
Legation ; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister ; M. M.
Mosquera, New Greneda Charge d'Affairii P • Baron de
Thile, Prussian Chargé d'Affaires ; M. de Tacon,
Spanish Charge d'Affaires ; Baron de Brockdorff, Se-
cretary to the Danish Legation (in the absence of his
Excellency Count Beventlow, who is in Scotland) ; and
Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic Agent for the Hanse Towns,
and Consul-General for the King of Saxony.
Their Excellencies appeared in their different uniforms
and official costumes, the members of Orders of Knight-
hood wearing their respective insignia.
The King received the Diplomatic Corps in the
Library. His Majesty was attended by Baron G ers-
dorff, his Excellency M. de Minckwitz, Count Albert
Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, and Dr. Carus.
The Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting, and Lord
Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting,
were also in attendance on his Majesty at the reception.
The Diplomatic Corps took their departrue from the
Palace at half-past twelve o'clock.

The Emperor of Russia, attended by Baron Brunnow,
went on Saturday forenoon to the Senior United Service
Club, in Pall-mall, where his Imperial Majesty alighted,
and inspected the different saloons. The Emperor then
proceeded to the new Houses of Parliament, where his
Imperial Majesty was met by Prince Albert, attended
by Sir Edward Bowater. The Prince accompanied the
Emperor during the inspection of the new Houses of
Parliament.
nig Imperial Majesty, attended by Baron Brunnow
afterwards, went to Montague House, Whitehall-gar-
dens,,in an open carriage, to visit the Duke and Duchess
of Buccleuch, His Royal Highness Prince Albert re•
turned on horseback to Buckingham Palace, attended by
Sir Edward Bowater.

The Emperor of Russia returned to the Palace at
twelve o'clock.

The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Palace soon
after twelve o'clock, to have an audience of the Emperor
of Russia. The Noble Duke was habited in a Russian
uniform, and wore the insignia of the Garter and of the
Golden Fleece.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Sa-
turday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Prince
Albert, and their respective suites, left the Palace at a
quarter past one o'clock, to honour the Duke of Devon-
shire with their company, at the grand fête given by
his Grace, at his Villa at Chiswick.
The illustrious party occupied five (open) carriages
and four, and were escorted by a party of Lancers.
The first carriage contained his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and
his Majesty the King of Saxony.
The second carriage contained the Equerry in
Waiting on Prince Albert, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater ; the Count Orloff ; his Excellency Baron
Brunnow ; and the Lord in Waiting cn the Emperor of
Russia, the Earl of Hardvvicke.
The third carriage contained his Excellency Baron
Gersdorff, his Excellency M. de Minckwita, and the
Lord in Waiting on .the King of Saxony, the Earl of
Morton. _ .

The fourth carriage contained Prince Wassiltsehikoff,
Count Albert Vitzthum, Baron Radzivill, and le Colonel
Glazenap.
The fifth carriage contained M. d'Adlerberg, the Baron
de Reichardt, Dr. Carus, and Dr. Reinolds.
Lord George Lennox, Lord Charles Wellesley,
Lieut.-Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Lieut.-Colonel
Wylde had previously left the Palace, in an open carriage
and four, for Chiswick.

Prino Albert, the Emperor of Russia, the King of
Saxony, and the Royal Suite, returned to the Palace at
half:past five o'clock. .

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Emperor of Russia,
and the King of Saxony, went on Saturday evening to
her Majesty's Theatre, to honour the performance of the
Italian Opera with their presence.
A few minutes past Eight o'oclock, the august party
left the Palace for the Opera House. Her Majesty and
the Prince Consort, the Emperor of Russia, and the
King of Saxony, being in one carriage.
The Royal Suites occupied seven of her Majesty's car-
riages, and included the Duchess of Buccleuch, Lady.
Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Lister, Viscount Sydney,
Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Morton, Colonel Arbuthnot,
the Count Orloff, le General d'Alderberg, le Prince
Wassiltschikoff, le Prince Radzivill, Colonel Glasenap,
M. d'Alderberg, Dr. Reinolds, M. de Minckwitz. Count
Albert Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, and Dr. Carus.

Yesterday morning the Emperor of Russia attended
Divine service in the Chapel in Welbeck-street. His
Excellency Baron Brunnow, and the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of his suite, were in waiting.
His Majesty the King of Saxony attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the Bavarian Chapel in
Warwick-street. His Majesty was attended by the
Gentlemen of his suite.

In the afternoon the Emperor of Russia, attended by
his Excellency Baron Brunnow, honoured the Dowager
Countess of Pembroke with a visit. His Imperial Majesty
returned to the Palace at four o'clock, and afterwards
gave audience to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia took his
departure yesterday afternoon for the Continent
The Queen, .who was attended.by the Duchess of Buc-
cleuch, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Lister,
took leave of her august guest in the Sculpture Gallery.
The Royal Family accompanied her Majesty.
The Great Officers of State, the Lord Steward, the •
Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse, and
Charles A. Murray, aster of the Household; Sir Henry
alsowhe
Wheatley, Keeper
eSpeyrd Sydney, Lord in Waiting; the Hon.
her Majesty's Privy Purse; Sir
Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting; and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, were in at-
tendance in the Grand Hall, and with each of these gen-
tlemenAt five minutes before five o'clock the Emperor was
handed into one of the Queen's carriages by the Earl of
the Emperor took leave.
Jersey, Master of the Horse, his Roya Highness Prince
Albert accompanying his Imperial Majesty.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow, the Earl of Aberdeen,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of Siete for Foreign
Affairs, and the Count Orloff, occupied the next carriage
and four.
Lord George Lennox, Lieutenant-Colonel Berkeley
Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Major-Geheral
Sir Edward Bowater, le General d'Adlerberg, M. d'Ad-
lerberg, le Prince Wassiltschikoff, le Prince Radzivill,
Colonel Glasenap, and Dr. Reinolds, followed in three
open carriages and four.
The Earl of Hardwicke,,Lord in waiting to the Em-
peror had preceded his Imperial Majesty. lo Woolwich
in the forenoon.
The illustrious party quitted the Palace by the marble
arch, and was escorted by a party of the Royal Horse
Guards. On arriving at Woolwich, the Emperor in-
spected the dock-yard, and afterwards embarked on the
Black Eagle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord George Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel
Drummond, and Sir E. Bowater, returned to town, and
arrived at Buckingham Palace shortly before eight
o'clock.

The Bishop of London preached the sermon yesterday
morning in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courteriay read prayers.
His Majesty the King of Saxony, attended by his
Excellency Baron Gersdorff and the gentlemen of his
suite, and also by Lord Charles Wellesley, honoured Sir
Robert and Lady Peel, the Duke and Duchess of Buc-
cleuch, and the Earl and Countess of Jersey, with visits
yesterday, at their respective residences.
In the evening his Majesty, attended by his Excellency
Baron Gersdorff and the gentlemen of his suite, dined
with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester and a select party were
present to meet his Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, went
yes•erday morning to Kew, and attended Divine service
in Kew Church. Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese•
beck were in waiting on the Dake and Duchess. Their
Royal Highnesses returned to town in the afternoon.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Baroness Ahlefeldt and Major Stephens, honoured ,the
Duke of Devonshire with their company on Saturday,
at his Grace's residence at Chiswick. In the evening
their Royal Highnesses honoured the Italian Opera with
their presence.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, and
Sir F. Trench, attended the early service, yesterday, in
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached
by the Rev. Dr. Hook.
The Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquises of Salis-
bury, Northampton, and Huntley, Ladies Wilton, J.
Eliot, and S. Savile Lords Bandon, hlarrowby, Wilton,
Dartmouth, Zetlani, Eliot, Wrottesley. J. O'Bryen, and
Ingestre, attended divine service yesterday, in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Hook
preached the sermon.
A deputation, including the Lord Advocate, Mr.
Home Drummond, M.l'., Sir Thomas B. Hepburn, DI.P.
Mr. Loch, M.P., Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, M.P., Mr. Ban-
nerman, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. Smollett, M.l'.,
Mr. Edward Ellice, jun., M.P., Mr. James Morrison,
M.P., Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P.,
accompanied by Mr. John Maitland from Edinburgh,
and Mr. Melville Jameson from Perth, as a deputation
from the Scottish Savings' Banks, with Mr. M'Haffie,one
of the Directors of the Glasgow, and Mr. John Harrock,
jun., of the Dundee Savings' Bank, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the government
of the Pentonville Prison, was held at the Council-office
on Saturday. The Commissioners present were Lord
Wharncliffei the Duke of Richmond, -the Earl of Devon,
the Speaker of the House of Commons,-Sir Btinjamin
Brodie, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Russell.

A meeting of the Commissioners for Metropolitan
Improvements was held on Wednesday at the office in
Whitehall-place. There were , present the Earl of Lin-
coln, Lord Lyttelton, TA° r d Colborne, the Right Hon.
J. C. Herries, Sir R. 11., Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr.
llope, Mr. Galley Knight, Mr. A. Milne, and the Hon.
Charles Gore.

Mr. George Hamilton had an interview with Lord
Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a
meeting on Saturday, at the Office in Whitehall-place.
There were pres( nt the Bishops of Winchester, Lichfield,
Ripon, and Salisbury, and the Dean of Westminster.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Governor-Ge-
neral of India, took his departure for India from his
residence in Whitehall-gardens, on Saturday afternoon.
Dispatches from the Governors of New South \Vales,
the Mauritius; mid the Cape of Good Hope, were re-
ceived on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.

LITERAT URE.
NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.—No. I.
Kennedy, Edinburgh, 1844.
This is the first number of a new quarterly pe-
riodical which bids fair—provided it be continued
with the same care and spirit with which it has com-
menced—to obtain no inconsiderable share of public
favour. The articles have, in the first place, the merit
of being selected with judgment, and secondly, they
are ably canvassed, and are just of a fitting length.
The first is on the subject of the late Baron Cuvier, of
whom we have a minute and circumstantial memoir,
and of whose surprising discoveries in natural history
the Reviewer speaks in terms of warm, but certainly
not unmerited, panegyric. " Cuvier's genius," he
observes, "was confined to our own globe, but it
ranged through periods of unlimited duration ; it
grasped in its syllogisms the ruins and regeneration
of successive worlds; and it exhibited in their re-
mains the waving forests of our primeval earth, the
huge reptiles that took shelter in its caves, and the
gigantic monsters that trod uncontrolled its plains."
The "Highlands of 'Ethiopia" is an impartial and
careful notice of Major Harris's recently-published
work on this subject, whose chief defect, as is justly
remarked, is .its "want of precise information." It
has many spirited, and some feW brilliant chapters,
hut as a whole its information is not well digested.
In the article headed " Tracts on the Corn Trade"—
a subject, by the bye, which is handled with singular
moderation—we are told, and told rightly, that the
holders of capital, and more especially of capital
vested in the preparation of export manufactures, feel
that they have an immediate and direct interest in the
abolition of the corn-laws.. "Memoirs of Mrs. Grant
of Laggan" is a good-natured gossipping account of
an authoress whose reputation once stood higher than
it is ever likely to stand again. Mrs. Grant was a
skilful graphic writer, who excelled in the descriptive,
but none of her works—not even her well-known
" Letters from the Mountains"—have the elements of
perpetuity. They were read—admired—and are for-
gotten. We quote from the " Contributions of Lord
Jeffrey to the Edinburgh Review," which have lately
been republished in three volumes, the following just
critical estimate of this eminent periodical critic and
essayist :
" The most natural comparison, as we have said before,
to which every one is prompted to subject these volumes,
is to the writings of Sydney Smith and Macaulay : and
on a first or superficial impression, the comparison is not
in their favour. The quaint wit of Sydney Smith, and
Macaulay's stately rolling periods, and glittering images,
beguile the time more quickly, and rivet the attention
closer. Those who exp,2cted to find Jeffrey's essays of
a similar stamp, have probably read or tried to read, the
book, with a feeling of disappointment. It wants sus-
tained interest for the more indolent class of readers,
and is not a work for a lounger to skim over of a morning.
The difference arises in a great measure from causes we
have already adverted to : for these articles are truly
criticisms—intended to teach and instruct. But in other
respects they have merits of a higher order, and in a
higher degree than either of these authors. In the first
place, as pure English compositions, we think Jeffrey's
writings incomparably superior, not only to his brother
reviewers, but to most writers of his time. Sydney
Smith's style is careless, though effective. Macaulay's
is an artificial ccstume. He is alwayss in full dress,
and marches perpetually to the same majestic but rather
pompous strain. We read through his three volumes
with great delight, but as we read, the everlasting
reverberation of his sentences, like a great sea wave on
a sandy beach, made our head reel at last. Jeffrey
does not drive over the ground so smoothly, but he is
infinitely better worth loitering with. His choice of
words is unbounded, and his felicity of expression, to
the most impalpable shade of discrimination, almost mi-
raculous. Playful, lively, and full of illustration, no
subject is so dull or so dry that he cannot invest it with
interest, and none so trifling that it cannot acquire
dignity er elegance from his pencil. He can rise to the
heights of the most exalted argument, or gossip with
equal ease with Mary Montague or Pepys, and neither
his flights nor his descents seem to cost him an effort, or
to interrupt' the unencumbered flow of his thoughts.
Other writers have been more stately, more accurate,
more witty, more florid, than he ; but- few have ever
combined so much facility and so much excellence in all.
In playful satire he stands, in our opinion, without a
rival in his time. It was his favourite and most dreaded
weapon, of which his rapid fancy, quick sense of the ri-
diculous, and his command of happy expression, rendered
him as complete a master as ever practised the art. In-
dependently, however, of mere style, and apart from the
great variety of subject embraced by his pen, the distin-
guishing feature of his writings, and that in which he
excels his contemporary reviewers, is the deep vein of
practical thought which runs throughout them all. He
is not what would now-a-days be thought an original
thinker. He has no mysteries. Ile does not startle by
unexpected fancies, or by every-day thoughts arrayed in
half-intelligible language. On the contrary, he plainly
eschews such things as offences against good taste and
nature, and handles them unmercifully when they come
under his cognizance."

THE GREAT MOTT QUESTION; or the Mys-
tery Unravelled, in a Later from W. ll'Ferrand, Esq.,
M.P., to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart.,
M.P.,&e.—ollivier, Pall-mall.
This pamphlet purports to be a justification of the
author, from the attacks made upon him by the
Home Secretary, in relation to his conduct and as-
sertions about the Poor -law Commissioners, and the
reports of Mr. Mott, as to the Bolton and Keighly
unions. Its tone and temper are ala Ferrand ; and
although we think that a less violent style might
have served the purpose better, still, making allow-
ance for the cutting sarcasms which the author has
been compelled to bear, we are not surprised that he
should have used the vigorous, rather than tilt argu-
mentative.

It is the distinguishing privilege of the present
Government, in which it rejoices beyond any of its
predecessors, that the most angry and ferocious
attacks upon its policy shall proceed from apparent
friends. Thus Mr. Ferrand, dating from the Carlton
Club, and missives from the locality of Downing-
street are alike hostile ; and neither party nor situa-
tion are assurances of certain support. Monopoly
has no friends in heart at the Board of Trade—and
the most eager runners down of the Whigs are not
the most sincere holders up of the Tories.
Mr. Ferrand's pamphlet is worth a perusal. As a
treat to the uninitiated, we subjoin his view of the
question between him and Sir Jariaes Graham :
" Recollect this is no affair between man and man,
between one Member and another—it is between an
honest, independent Member of Parliament on one side,
and an unscrupulous, overbearing Secretary of State
on the other. You may, it is true, still continue in
office—still continue, like a , true despot, to insult,
and, if possiblo, to ' crush' every honest man who
ventures to raise his voice in behalf of the suffering
poor, whom you have made it the business of your office
to oppress—your expedient chief may still find it in-
expedient to part with your valuable services—but the
people of England will judge differently between us. It
was in the name of the people of England that I pro-
tested against your late unconstitutional proceedings ;
Sir, it is to the people of England that I now make my
appeal 1"
"Audi alteram portent," is the motto Mr. Ferrand
has affixed to his pamphlet ; which, in this case, may
be translated, "Do not condemn Sir James Graham,
unheard."

A TREATISE ON THE LA TV OF DEFAMA
TION. By W. H. Cooke, Esq. Richards.

Mr. Cooke, Nv'ho is well known as an author of
talent and judgment, has added to his reputation in
the work before us. It ieia condensed, faithful, and
clear statement of the law upon which it treats, anti
is a valuable book for the professional reader, or for
those to whom the law of defamation, written or oral,
may be applied. It is a work that was much needed,
and one of general utility.

THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. A Letter to the
Premier, in reply to his Speech on the Bank Charter
Aet (May 7, 1844). By "An Enquirer after Truth."
London: Clarke, Pull-mall East, 1844. —(Second
Notice.) _ _

We renew our extracts from this opportune and
very sensible pamphlet.
ln the following passage we have the statement of
the fluctuations " in the proportion of gold and silver
in our successive coinages from 1601 t 01717, namely,
in the year 1601 it was 1 to 10 56-59ths ; in 1604, it
was 1 to' 12-17ths ; in 1610 it was 1 to 13 1-sth; in
1663 it was 1 to 141-; and in 1717 it was 1 to 15
2-15ths. This is the remarkable illustration of Sir
Robert's intrepid assertion that the pound sterling
of our monetary system, means a certain, determinate
quantity of the precious metals." The Enquirer
sums up this recapitulation with these words :
" Thus, I am afraid, Sir, I must again say that your
statement of the case is not in strict accordance with
the facts." This language may be thought somewhat
" Tartarly " to a Prime Minister; but our author is
not sparing of these epigrammatic interlocutories, in
conducting his judicial investigation of the Premier's
proposals. Thus.:—" When the pilot to whom the
vessel is entrusted is found to be so widely out of his
reckoning, and breakers- .are ahead, it is our duty to
pipe all hands, take in the sails, cast anchor, and en-
deavour to ascertain where we are, before we commit
ourseiVes again to his guidance."—(P: 14.) .
" Unfortunately, Sir, for your consistency, our
pound sterling underwent four alterations after that."

. . . . . "-Of-these changes you appear to have been
uninformed.,"—(P. 13.)
" At all events, men of ordinary understandings
will draw a conclusion *gnat you, when you say
that this seandard—this measure of value—which they
object to, as being obsolete and unfit for the altered
circumstances of the country, has been adhered to
ever since while the truth is that it has been four
times altered since. They will perceive that you are
mistaken in your FACTS.; while the others can only be
mistaken in their opinions."—(P. 20.)
" You have evidently misunderstood •the question
at issue, as well as misapprehended the facts of the
case."----(P. 23.)
The pamphleteer points out Sir Robert's confusion
of terms in speaking of the " standard of value," in
this forcible manner :—.

" I would merely observe,. that the indiscriminate use
of the words standard and measure' is embarrassing.
By the Standard of silver we should conceive the purity
of the metal was the thing meant; by the standard of
value we Might imagine you intended to express the
same thing as the measure of value. Harris makes use
of a convenient term which might be advantageously in-
troduced into these discussions. He speaks not only of
the measure of value, but of the standard measure of
value, when he wants to point out that metal as the mea-
sure of value to which the other is subordinate ; thus
he would say our present standard measure of value is
gold. You, Sir, may mean that the standard purity of
the silver coin was fixed in 1566 or 1567, but I cannot
understand the drift of the passage, either in this sense,
or in that of a measure of value, or of a standard mea-
sure. There may be a mistake in the dates, and whit
is placed in 1567 may be intended for 1557; his would
throw a little light on the subject, for then it might be
conceived that you allude to the restoration of the purity
of our silver coin which took place about 1557.
"But-can an interruption for fourteen years, or I
might with more exactness say of eight years, in the
preservation of the standard purity of our silver coin,
from the Anglo-Saxon times to the present, when fol-
lowed by its restoration, be 'called a fixing of the stan-
dard ? You may perhaps think so; and if this is your
meaning, I am happy to acknowledge that during this
period, in suck degree as our buyer coin was concerned,
you have some foundation for . your remark. But the
truth obliges me to add that during the same period our
gold poun, the sovereign, was unimpaired in weight
and purity, if tried by the gold pound of 1601."
On the principle assumed by the Premier, the ex-
ception of eight years, is to ride over the practice of
some eight hundred—an 'anomaly in the doctrine of
" exceptions to the general rules, that cannot be al-
lowed either in currency or grammar. It may be
recollected, that on the 7th, Sir Robert, forgetful of
the vice of interminable speeches, was so ill advised
as to speak very discourteously of interminable
pamphlets:- His very tone and manner betrayed the
anger of a man who has got more to answer than he
can manage. He certainly did not calculate the
penalty_ of insulting the busy, but irritable, inmates of
the hive which he had the temerity to attack. In
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1829-30, Mr. Tennyson .d'Eyncourt provided, in the
unanswerable and righteous case he made out for the
title of the same Birmingham to the elective fran-
chise, fOr the " out-door' relief" of Sir Robert and his
colleagnes in Government, by compelling their re-
signation of office. Two or three times successively
was the Administration to which Sir Robert belonged
compelled to go through the same annoying
.process,
on account of the still impracticable • Birmingham.
Sir Robert's attack on " Gemini," in particular, and
the Boeotian stolidity of " the town of _Birmingham"
in general, on the 7th instant, cannot be forgotten by
the reader. Nor is it by the " Enquirer after Truth,'
who says :
" As
_if you owed the town and its writers an old
grudge, you select a volume on the currency, recently
written by two gentlemen of Birmingham, and lash the
place, and the authors of this work, with as much sar-
castic severity as could be thrown into a speech. I have
not the honour-to know either of the writers personally
—one, I- have been told,- is the editor, and the'other the
printer and publisher, of a very ably conducted and well-
supported newspaper, in which the letters of Gemini first,
appeared. I had read in that paper many of those
letters, and I must say that I differ from you in opinion
as to their merits. They are written, as I conceive,
with good taste, in correct language, with courtesy and
gentlemanly feeling ; they are well-reasoned composi-
tions, full of sound sense, honestly directed to the eluci-
dation of that great subject on which you are preparing
to legislate ; the writers appear to be actuated with the
best intentions of serving—perhaps of saving—the coun-
try. Can these letters raise such resentment in you ?
Your colleague, the Home Secretary, might perhaps be
angry with their authors, because they have quoted so
freely from his writings in support of their opinions ;
but I cannot understand your cause of 'complaint.
First,' y-ou say, they laugh at the notion of using as a
standard now that which was used 300 years ago. They
say that the property of this country has increased—
that the mercantile transactions of this country have in-
creased—and to have that as a standard now which was
used in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, although it has
been adhered to ever since, shows a want of knowledge '
and illumination that is oat culpable.' Really, Sir,
to complain of sentiments such as these, is more worthy
of one of whom we have heard too much lately, than of
the leader of the House of Commons, the most accom-
plished scholar of the age.
" The Clerk of Chatham : he can read and write and
cast accompt. 0 monstrous !—We tiok him setting of
boys' copies. Here's a villain I—He has a book in his
pocket with red letters in it. - Nay, then he is a con-
juror.—He can make obligations, and write court-hand.
Away with him, I say : hang him, with his pen and ink-
horn about his neck.'" _ _

--
This last illusion to the " Jack Cade Legislation, dis-
cussed by a Conservative Member at the beginning of
the present session, is very happy. But who could
have anticipated in 1819, this near approximation, in
1844, of the alarming "equitable adjustment" doc-
trine of Mr. Cobbett to the hypothetical results which
are especially connected with the leading propositions
of Sir R. Peel ? This affirmation is thus made out—
" Now. Sir, with respect to your recommendation
that they, who think that they are injured by the
altered value ,of money since the :ounce of gold was re-
duced from 51. in paper money to 31. 17s. 101 d. should
endeavour to obtain redress by means of a separate en-
actment,—making that difference a discount from the
debt—let me, in the first place, say, that though I have
no doubt this is your meaning, your language bears a
different construction. I take for granted, however, that
you mean the reverse of what your words, as they are
reported, imply • and that 31. 17s. ' being, in the
papment of a debt, equivalent to what' 51. used to be,
all those who have contracted debts or engagements
shall be allowed to pay their debts in that way.' This
meaning is borne out by another passage, as follows :
Observe, I do not deny that that may produce matter
for consideration. All contracts, during the incontro-
vertibility of -paper, having been made through a differ-
ent medium of exchange, when you restore that conver-
tibility, that subject may demand consideration. But I
only want to convince you what is now the measure of
value.' These, Sir, are indeed important words: they
compel us to believe that you are not unfriendly to the
principles of an EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT. so zealously
advocated by the late Mr. Cobbett. What boundless
triumph would have been his, had be lived to see this
day!
" The view which is here opened out is too vast in ex-
tent, too mighty in its consequences, to be even touched
upon at the close of this long letter. It has, moreover,
so influential a bearing on your new monetary measures,
that before I proceed to notice them, I should wish to
know what prospect there is of the expectation being re-
alised which is thus held out. I hope some member of
the House, who is sensible of the value of your answer
(whether yes or no) to the right appreciation of the
propositions which you have laid before the House and
the country, will put such questions to you on the sub-
ject of this equitable adjustment, as will give you an op-
portunity of setting at rest the hopes of some, the fears
of others, and the anxieties of all."

THE KING OF SANONY.—We understand that the
King of Saxony will leave Buckingham Palace on Friday or
Saturday next for Scotland, attended by Lord Charles We!.
lesley, who has the honour of having been selected by the
Queen to attend his Majesty. His Excellency Baron Gers-
dorff, his Excellency M. de Minkwitz, Count Albert Vitz-
thum, Major Reichardt, and Dr. Carus will accompany their
Royal master in his journey to the north. After visiting
Edinburgh, Perth,-Glasgow, Stirling, &c., his Majesty intends
to make a tour of Wales, and thence come direct to the metro-
polis, whence the King will shortly afterwards depart for
Germany.
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE PIGOTT, BART., OF KNAP-
TON.—This venerable Baronet died at Paris, on the 23th ult.,
in his 80th year. He was the eldest son of Major-General
Thomas Pigott, by the daughter of W. Carden, Esq. ; mar-
ried, 1794, daughter of the Right Hon. Thomas Kelly, for-
merly Judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas, and is suc-
ceeded in his title and estates by his son, now Sir Thomas
Pigott; married, 18.31, daughter o P. Brumnial, Esq., of
Wyvanhoe, Essex, formerly Captaif n
in the Royal Horse
Guards (Blue).
THE COLWICK TRAGEDY.--SiX other persons have
identified the prisoner Saville, in Nottingham County Gaol, as
being in the direction of Colwick Plantation, and at about
the period the poor woman and children were assassinated,.
two of whom are boys, who saw him sitting with his wife
and youngest child on the spot where the murders were
committed whilst the other children were playing at some
distance, and who heard .a scream shortly afterwards, have
identified the man. He still firmly persists in his innocence,
and seems to have much thought about his working imple-
ments mu! other things belonging to him.
PEEL's OWN.--At last it appears, by official re-
turns, that at least 70,000/., belonging to individuals whose
annual income is beneath 150/., has been stopped under the
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FIRE IN SPITALFIELDS.—Last night, shortly after
ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Brown.
oil and colourman, at the corner of Felix-street and Wheeler-
street, Spitalfields, and immediately facing the line of the
Eastern Counties Railway. It was first discovered raging in
the dwelling-house adjacent to the oil store.;, and the officials
on the railroad very promptly threw a vast body of water
upon the burning premises from a tank on the line until the
arrival of the brigade engines. The firemen then exerted
themselves in subduing the flames, and in the course of half
an hour they were got under, but not until the whole of the
lower part of the dwelling was consumed. The cause was not
known. The property is understood to be partially insured.
Arrived at IVarren's Hotel, Regent-street, Sir
George and Lady Napier, from the Cape of Good Hope.
-MAILS BY TRIESTE.—The director of the post-
office at Trieste has issued a notice, stating that in future
there will be three mails per months between Trieste and
Alexandria. The letters will be sent from Trieste op. the Ist,
Bth, and 24th of each mon.th.

•
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
POnTSMOUTII, JUNE 9.—The Arrow, 6, ketch Lieutenant-
Commander W. Robinsbn, arrived on Thursday from Ele-
phant Bay, near Benguela (coast of Africa), which she left
on the 14th of March, when the Winchester, 50, Captain
Eden, with the flag of Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, C.R.,
the Conway, 26, Captain R. Fair, K. 11., and the Sappho, 16,
sloop; Commander the Hon. Gorge Hope, were lying at the
former place. The Arrow touched at Ascension on the Ist
of April, and at Fayal on the 15th of May for water. She
brings invalids from the squadron. Captain Fair, of the
Conway, was so ill as to preclude hopes of recovery. Ad-
miral Percy had appointed Commander Kelly, of the Win-
chester, to command the Conway, which it is confidently ex-
pected the Admiralty will confirm. The Hydra, Commander
11. B. Young, and the Sealark, 10, Commander T. L. Gooch,
were very sickly ; the Scalark had lost her master, Mr. H.
W. Pope ; and the purser, Mr. James Pemberthy, and
several hands; Mr. Thomas, one of the mixed commission at
Loango, had tilso died.
The Arrow has been six years and upwards in commission,
the greatest part of which time she has been employed in sur-
veying the Falkland Islands, and for the last year and a half
as a cruiser at the Cape of Good Mope and the coast of_
Africa, where in September last she captured two of the
largest slavers taken there for some years. She has only lost
two men during this long service, and those died from natural
causes. Though often in imminent peril she never suffered
an accident or lest a spar, and has ploughed the ocean for
upwards of 100,000 miles. She came into harbour on Thurs.

day evening to be paid off.
Since writing the above we have received intelligence of the
death of Captain R. Fair, KM., of the Conway, 26, which
ship this gallant.officer fitted out for the Cape of Good Hope
station in May last. His achievements in Majesty's service
were distinguished and eminently meritorious. In 1804,
, when Master of the Beaver sloop, with whose boats and those
of the Scorpion he assisted in cutting out the Dutch brig
Atalanta, of 16 guns, and while Master in the Amethyst he
received the praise of the Admiralty for his gallant deeds
at the captures of the French frigates Thetis, in 1808, and
Niemen, in 1807. Subsequently (when Lieutenant) he had
command of a gun-boat in the Wralcheren expedition, and
afterwards, when in command of the Locust gun-brig he
drove a French brig-of-war ashore near Calais. and ulti-
mately succeeded in destroying her. Ile was at the siege
and blockade of Dantzic in 1812. He attained his post rank
in 1837.

The Pearl, 20, Commander R. 11. Stopford, arrived on
Wednesday, from South America, and sailed the same day
from Spithead for Chatham to be paid off. She had been
eleven weeks on her passage from Rio to Falmouth, where she
put in for supplies of water and provisions, as she had only
two days' allowance left, and had been on two-thirds allow-
ance some weeks. She brought a small freight on Merchants!
account, which was forwarded the same day to London to the
freight agents of Portsmouth, and afterwards sailed for Chat-
ham to be paid off.
The Prince George transport, Lieutenant E. Ward, agent,
arrived from Bermuda, on Thursday morning, after a pas •
sage of thirty-nine days, having sailed April 28. She brought
a number of naval and military invalids, and 140 convicts,
whose terms of transportation have nearly expired, in charge
of Assistant-Surgeon R. D. Mason, 1,.N. The convicts have
been transferred to the hulks, and the passengers and invalids
landed. She came into harbour yesterday afternoon to dis-
charge her stores. -
The Cygnet, 6, brigantine, Commander H. Layton, ar-
rived at Spithead from Sheerness on Thursday, on her way to
the coast of Africa, to assist in the suppression of the slave
trade. She takes out Mr. John Duncan, the African tra-
veller, who will land at Cape Coast, and thence proceed to
the Niger, by way of Coomasil. She also takes out presents
for the chiefs of the Cameroon river.

The frinnetheus steam-frigate, Commander John Hay,
will be ready for sea on the 12th instant, when she will pro-
ceed to the coast of Africa, to assist in the suppression of the
slave trade.

The Collingwood, 80, Captain Eden, is still alongside the
dockyard jetty, fitting for sea and entering her hands.
No commissions have yet arrived for the experimental new
class 12-gun brigs.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain R. F. Rowley, returned to
St. Helen's on Wednesday night, the wind having changed
favourably, and on Thursday anchored at Spithead from the
Channel, whither she had been dispatched to relieve the home-
ward bound vessels detained by contrary winds. She was
ordered back to Spithead.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, is expected
at Spithead from the Mediterranean in a week, and will come
into harbour here to be paid off. She was in the Bay of
Gibraltar on the 20th ult., taking in supplies of provisions,
and awaiting a fair wind to proceed hither.
The. Rose, 18, sloop, Commander H. R. Sturt. left Jamaica
for Mexico on the 3d of May; the Hermes steam-vessel,
Commander W. Carr, left the ,same day for Bermuda and
Halifax ; and the Scylla, 16, on the 7th, for Aux Cayes.
The Griffin, 3, brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Charles
Jenkin, is ordered for service on the coast of Africa, to assist
with the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Daniell, the
Albatross, 16, Commander R. Yorke, and the Wasp, 16, Com-
mander H. Bagot, in the suppression of the slave trade.
The Pique frigate, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford,
was at Sacrificios on the 2d of May.
The Nimrod, 20, Commander F. 11. 11. Glasse, arrived at
Madras, from Trincomalee, on the 19th of April, at which
date the Pilot, 16, Commander W. 11. Jervis, left Madras for
Trincomalee. _ _

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The Champion, 18, Commander John Clavell, was at Ma-
zatlan on the 14th of March. _ . _

The Inconstant, 36, Captain C. 11. Freemantle, arrived at
Barbadoes from Bermuda on the Ist.

The Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, and the Satellite, 18,
Commander I.Z. 11. B Rowley, arrived at Rio de Janeiro from
England on the 23d of March.
The Spiteful steam-vessel, Commander W. Maitland, left
Bombay for China on the 2d of April.
The Harlequin, 16, Commander, G. F. Hastings, was at Sin-
gapore on the sth of March.
The Royalist, 10, Lieutenant-Commander P. Chetwode, was
at Sourabaya on the Bth of December, about returning to her
station (Port Essington.)
The Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Daniell, K.T.,
was hailed oi• the 15th of May on her passage to the coast of
Africa, from Bermuda.
The Childers, 16, Commander G. G. Wellesley, sailed`
from Hong-Kong on the 29th of February, for England, to
be paid off.
The Dido; IS, Captain the Hon. 11. Keppell, with a portion
of the 55th Regiment on board, arrived at Calcutta from the
Mauritius on the 13th of April.
The-Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, arrived at Cork on
Monday last.
The flag (white at the main) of Admiral Sir Charles Row-
ley, G.C.8., G.C.11., &c., Commander-in-Chief at this port,
has been shifted from the Excellent, gunnery ship, Captain
Sir Thomas Ilastings, and re-hoisted on board the tit. Vincent,
120, at Spithead.
The Dee steam transport, Master -Commander T. Driver,
i carrying the depot companies of the 74th Regiment from
Kinsale to Dover.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Rattlesnake, Prometheus,
Collingwood, Fearless, Malabar, Echo, Sylvia, and Arrow.
In Dock—Rodney, Prince Regent, Victoria and Albert,
Athol, Lily, Pantaloon.
At Spithead—St. Vincent, Cygnet.
DEVONPORT, JUNE 7.—The America, 50, Captain the
Hon. J. Gordon; sailed on Wednesday for the Pacific, via
Rio de Janeiro, having been paid in advance and inspected
by the Admiral.
The Indus, 80, Captain Sir J. Stirling. is dismantling, pre-
paratory
.to being paid off on Tuaday. Her crew were in-
spected on the 4th, by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir David
Milne.
The Lucifer steam-vessel, Commander G. A. Frazer, sailed
for Cork, carrying provisions and water for the homeward-
bound.
In the Harbour—The San Josef, Indus, and Confiance.
In the Sound—The Caledonia and Nautilus.
APPOINTMENTS.

'Commanders—S. H. Usher to the Wasp, vice Bagot, return-
ing to England; 11. M. E. Allen to the Imaum ; Edward
Hawes to the Packet-station at Port Patrick.
Lieutenants—W. Peel to the Salamander; J. Dornford to
Greenwich Hospital, vice Tucker, deceased; M. Burrows to
the Sappho.
Surgeons—Mr. llampton to the Auckland, Mr. Lancaster
to the William Jardine, and J. Munro to the Emily.
Assistant-Surgeons—A. A. Jack to the Lucifer, J. J. Mon-

teith to the Prometheus, W. Crofton to the Royal Sovereign.
Secretaries—J. W. Nicholls to Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh
Pigot, K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station ;
Alexander Kent to Rear-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Pacific. _ _

Acting Master—D. N. Welch from the Hermes to the Rose.
Masters' Assistants—W. B. Edwards to the San Josef, J.
M'Clure to Victory.
Mate—J. T. Parish to the Excellent.
Naval Instructor—W. J. Fowler to the Inconstant.
Naval Cadets—R. Yaskin and E. 'l'. Bartlett to the Alfred,
J. Twisden and C. Campbell to the St. Vincent, E. M. W.
Carrington to the Cygnet, W. Andrews and C. Armytage to
the Salamander, It Pearson to the Spartan, 11. Farrington to
the Daphne, M. Bertie to the Carysfort, W. A. Barnard to the
Collingwood, G. B. Goddon to the Blazer.
COAST GUARD.

Appointment—Lieutenant Chapman Wise to the station
at Selsey.
Captain Mould, of the Royal Engineers, is appointed Di-
rector of Works in Chatham Dockyard.
Commanders Peter Fisher, T. F. Birch, and J. N. Strange,
are admitted to study at the Royal Naval College.
Mr. J. Graham is appointed to the Excellent to qualify for
naval instructor.

The new Houses of Parliament were again, on
Saturday, the object of a royal visit. llis Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, accompanied by Baron Brunnow and
suite, arrived as early as a quarter before eleven o'clock, and
were shortly afterwards joined by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert and the Earl of Lincoln. His Majesty took the
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highest interest in the progress of the works, minutely exa-
mining the quality of the stone and its workmanship, and
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The, Emperor and his Royal Highness having taken
a view of the river front, ascended the temporary staircase
at the Victoria Tower, and having walked for a considerable
distance upon the top of the unproteCted walls of the Victoria
Gallery, proceeded to examine the interior of the new
House of Lords (which is now just ready to receive the roof),
passing over the ordinary scaffolding to the house lobby and
the central hall, whence the royal and distinguished visitors
proceeded to the model and sculpture -rooms. His Imperial
Blajesty evinced the liveliest interest in the whole of the
works, and it was exceedingly gratifying to observe the
freedom and condescension with which his Majesty conversed
with Mr. Barry upon the design and arrangements of the
various parts. Mr. Barry had the honour of escorting the
royal party, attended by Mr. Grissell.
DEPARTURE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF
INDIA.—On Saturday evening, shortly . before seven o'clock, -
Sir Henry Hardinge, accompanied by his son and his aide-de-
camp, arrived at Brighton by the railway from London, and
immediately proceeded to the chain pier, and went on board
wthheieGhemn.earsaul,aSittienagntioNreacNeligvaetiilohnn.Conitsniaielyeislepnac;l.:seltut4eag.Fearialed,
been previously shipped at Shoreham, under the direction of
Colonel Wood, Sir Henry's private secretary. The Governor-
General was received on board by Lord Exmouth, Sir Henry
Ellis, and Colonel Wood, and precisely at a quarter past
seven o'clock the Fame started from the pier. It was expec...
the
odursth.atlttl voyage to Dieppe would occupy about six
at Dieppe, but to proceed at once by post to Rouen, and there
wasC not Sir Henry's intention to make any stay
take the railway to Paris, and then to Orleans, where he
would pass the night; and the next morning continue his
journey to Marseilles, and there embark for Alexandria. A
great number of persons were congregated at the pier-head to
witness the departure of the packet; but, as the Governor-
General was not. expected to arrive, he was not recognised by
them.
It is currently stated in the circles of fashion that
a grand fancy ball will be got up early next month, to be
called the Waverley Ball, as the costumes are to he in ac-
cordance with the descriptions given by Sir Walter &Ott, of
the heroes and heroines in his delightful tales.
Yesterday morning, about half-past
ten, a woman,
'having the appei.rance of a respectable mechanic'swife, threw
herself of Westminster-bridge, near the fourth arch, and
perished, attempts having been in vain made to save her by
a policeman. she did not rise to the surface of the wattr.