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established for the Promiition of the Fine Arts ;"
" The Artists' Annuity and Benevolent Fund ;" ".The
-Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Directors, Honorary Se
cretary, and Officers of the Institution ;" " The
Ladies ;" " The Stewards and the Stewards elect."
We cannot conclude this notice of the dinner
without expressing our admiration of the manner in
which the musical department was conducted. It is
only necessary to mention that Mr. T. Cooke, Mr.
Hawkins, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Broadley, Miss Alley-
maine, and Master 11‘Dermott, were engaged.
Sir R. Nous, before quitting the chair, stated
that the subscriptions for the institution amounted to
upwards of 5001.-(Cheers.)
The Chairman having retired, the hilarity of the
meeting was kept up to a late hour.
The following were some of the most important per-
sons present :-T. Phillips, R.A. T. Uwins, R.A.,
P. Hardwick, R.A., C. Barry, 11:A., Charles Land-
seer, A.R.A., Thomas Webster, A.R.A., Thomas
Creswick, A.R.A., Sir W. Ross, R.A., P. M'Dowell,
A.R A., C. R. Cockerell, R.A., W. Tite, Andrew
Robertson, W. Brockedon, 11. Corbould ; and, among
those who may be classed as subscribers, we have
been enabled to collect the following :-
British Institution, fourth donation, 501.
Sir George Hayter, fourteenth donation, 10/.
Richard Cook, Esq., RA., eleventh donation, 51. ss.
Robert Burfield, Esq., 51. ss.
Sir G. T. Staunton, 51.
Lord Bexley, third donation, 5/.
Sir John Swinburne, thirteenth donation, 101.
Duke of Sutherland, eighth donation, 101. 10s.
Duke of Northumberland, twelfth donation, 101. 10s.
Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., nineteenth donation, 51.55.
Lady Chantrey, third donation, 201.
T. Phillips, Esq., R.A., twenty-sixth donation, 51. ss.
J. H. Mann, Esq., sixteenth donation. 5/. ss.
Sir W. Ross, R.A., fourteenth donation, 51. ss.
Geo. Jones, Esq., RA., twenty-second donation, 5/. ss.
C. R. Cockerell, Esq., R.A., twentieth donation, 51. ss.
Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A., nineteenth donation, 5/. ss.
S. Jones Loyd, Esq., third donation, 101
W. Wyon, Esq., R.A., sixth donation, 51. ss.
H. S. Thornton, Esq., 10/.
Charles Barry, Esq., R.A., sixth donation, 5/. ss.
Henry Graves, Esq., seventh donation, 51. ss.
In this list we have doubtless omitted many valu-
able contributors.

The meeting then adjourned, after spending a most
delightful evening. We must not forget to sax,that
the arrangements on behalf of all parties were ex-
cellent.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARMA.

MENT.
FRIDAY, MARCH 29.
Guildford Junction Railway Bill, read a third time and
passed.

- Norwich and Brandon Railway Bill, read a third time and
passed.
Midland Railways Consolidation Bill, report considered,
amendments agreed to, and Bill to be engrossed.
York and Scarborough Railway Bill, read a third time
(Queen's consent signified), and gill passed.
Delabole and Rock Railway Bill, •rder for reading the Bill
a second time read and discharged, and Bill withdrawn.
Delabole and Rock Railway, No. 2, reports from Select
Committees on petitions for private Bills and on Standing
Orders read, and another Bill ordered to be brought in by
Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Pendarves, and Mr. Trelawny.

i4wquay Harbour and Railway Bill reported, and recom-
mitted to the former Committee.

Taff Vale Railway Bill, read a second time, and committed
and referred to the Committee of Selection.

South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Rail-
way Bill, reported, and report to lie on the table and to be
printed,

FATAL ACCIDENT at CAMBRIDGE.
Every one who recollects the chief circumstance which
caused the death of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Or-
leans will be struck with the similar nervousness displayed
in a melancholy accident which has just occurred at Cam-
bridge, and which had an equally fatal termination. On
Thursday Mr. Edward Jones Fox, of St. John's College, and
a son of Dr. Fox, of Bristol, was driving a phaeton and pair
along the Trumpington-road, in which were three of his
friends, when on coming near the stone bridge the horses
began to pull too strong for him. He attempted, instead of
pulling them in gradually, to stop them by a sudden and
powerful check, for which purpose he put his leg across
the reins; whilst he was in the act of doing so the reins
broke, and the horses made off at full speed. Mr. Fox
leaped unfortunately from his seat, and fell to the ground.
The other gentlemen kept to the carriage and managed
by degrees to stop the horses. Colonel Glover and his son
were walking on the road at the time of the accident,
and came up to Mr. Fox, who :they thought had landed
safely on his -feet at first, althOugh he instantly fell to
the ground. They . raised him up, and perceived there
was a profusion of blood where his head had lain for the mo-
ment. He walked"for a few paces, and declared he could not
go on any further, and they laid him down by the bank on
the way side until further assistance arrived. Mr. Bailey
Turner, a surgeon, coming up at this time in his gig, the
unfortunate gentleman was placed alongside of him, and con-
veyed towards Cambridge, with the intention of stopping
at the hospital. He became, however, unmanageable, from
the strong convulsions into which he fell, arid he succeeded
in throwing himself over the wheel. He was then taken
into the house of Mr. 'Walters, architect, where he was
put to bed and attended to. Dr. Haviland and Messrs.
Sudbury and Johnson, surgeons, afforded every medical as-
sistance, but in vain : he expired at eleven o'clock the same
night. An inquest was held on Friday, before Mr. Cooper,
the Coroner of the town, when it appeared that the names
of the gentlemen who had been in the phaeton on the
occasion, and who luckily escaped unhurt, were Watson,
Dobson, and Gordon. The first-mentioned had endeavoured,
but in vain, to assist Mr. Fox in restraining the horses in
the first instance, by pulling the rein next himself. It
was then that Mr. Fox, determining to pull in at any
risk, and put his leg across the reins, met with the melancholy
accident which occurred. Mr. Charles Davis, landlord of
the King's Head, the owner of the horses, as well as his
ostler, George Trace, were examined, and from their evi-
dence, it appeared that the harness was good and service-
able, and that the horses had been constantly driven, both
ix single and double harness, without any accident ever
having taken place with them. The dreadful occurrence
took place between three and four o'clock, and it appears by
Mr. Sudbury, the surgeon's, evidence, who saw deceased
about a quarter of an hour after he fell, that a collapse of a
couple of hours took place, when a re-action followed, and,
with the consent of all the medical men present, he was
bled. Mr. Sudbury, in continuation, stated that, for the
next hour, ho seemed to improve—his breathing was better,
but there was no return of consciousness. He remained in
much the same state till about half-past ten, becoming
gradually worse during that time. There was afterwards a
great hemorrage from the nose ; the discharge continued
from the ears. Death was caused by a fracture at the base
of the skull, producing compression of the brain. Witness
attended him some time ago, and he fancied that be had
a disease of the heart, which was, in witness's opinion, ima-
ginary. The deceased was of a nervous temperament. The
coroner was of opinion, with respect to the amount of a
deodand, that no blame whatever, was attached to Mr. Davis,
or to any one in his employment; in fact, he was not pre-
pared to say, that there should be any deodand, as the acci-
dent resulted, not from the horses becoming affrighted, but
fright of tho deceased, and his having jumped out. In ac-
cordance with this opinion, the jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased, being frightened at the breaking of the
reins, threw himself from the phaeton, and falling on the
ground, received a concussion of the brain, from Which injury
he died." The inquest was attended by a great many mem-
bers of the University, friends of the deceased, who was an
exceedingly promising, generous -hearted, and amiable young
man, and universally beloved and esteemed by all who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance. It might have been deemed
a strange circumstance that one of the best drivers of his age
in England should have evinced such want of tact and pre-
sence of mind on such a trying occasion, had not Mr. Sud-
bury, his medical attendant, testified to the fact of his nervous
temperament.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BLACKBURN STEEPLE CHASES—MunsDAY.
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, vith 100 added ; 12st each

Three miles.
Mr. Ward's Commodore (Mr. Loft) 1
Captain Bradley's The Romp 2
Four others were not placed.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, 70 added. Heats, one mile
and a half.
Mr. Bretherton's Marengo, aged (Owner) 2 1 1
Mr. Hollinshead's Little Peter 1 0 4
Mr. Hornby's Paul Pry, 5 yrs 3 2 2
Mr. Loft's Ovid, 5 yrs 0 3 3
A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, p.p., with 15 added, list
each, one mile and a half, was won by Mr. Crofton's Fair
Penitent.

MALTA, MARCH 17.—MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—On
Thursday. week last the English brig Chieftain, Captain
Reay, arrived here from Spalatro, bound to Hull, with a cargo
of bones. The object of her ptitting in here was to be enabled
to change her crew, by the advice of her Majesty's Consul at
Fiume, they being in a high state of insubordination, as also
to obtain a legal opinion us to the consequences of a fatal
circumstance which recently occurred, in which the captain
is the actor, and of which the following is a narrative :
Whilst loading at Spalatro the crew, which had been on
shore, returned in a state of intoxication. Between ten and
eleven P.M., the master was aroused by the carpenter (a man
b'jthe bye of very questionable respectability, who requested
his immediate attendance on deck to silence the people who
were in a state of mutiny. Reay put a pair of loaded pistols
into his pocket and went on deck. Here the circumstance,
which cost a man his life, becomes involved in obscurity.
The carpenter, the only person who appears to have the
slightest knowledge of the fact, himself one of the principal;
rioters, swears that the captain levelled his pistol at the cook,
and shot him. The captain was arrested and tried, and
though not positively acquitted, the proceedings were, ac-
cording to the law of Austria, suspended, for want of suffi- '
cient evidence, and the mau released from durance. The
question is, will the criminal courts at home take cognizance
of this offence? • Of ourselves we are unable to answer the
question, but should lean to the opinion that the nnhappy
man has nothing to fear, even if they should do so; for it is
a remarkable fact, that the whole crew, although mutinously
disposed, declared, when on their oaths, that the treatment
experienced by them front Reay on every occasion was
kind and indulgent—thus leading to the conclusion • that
the unfortunate tragedy was purely accidental. The vessel
has sailed for Hull.
PRINCE ALBERT,—The Princess Alice returned to
Dover yesterday morning, bringing back Captain Seymour,
Sir Edward Bowater and Colonel Bouverie only accompany-
ing the Prince to Germany. The Prince was received at
Ostend by the King of the Belgians. His Royal Highness,
after passing the night at Ostend, left ;yesterday morning at
half-past six A.m., for Brussels, by special train, and it is ex-
pected he will reach Gotha by to-morrow (Sunday), where
he will remain a few days with his brother and the other
members of his family, and thence proceed to Coburg for the
arrangement, it is said, of some important business. The
Prince will return to England on the 11th of April ; and the
Princess Alice is ordered to be at Ostend on the 10th, to bring
him across. The King of the Belgians is expected to land at
Woolwich on Monday.—Dover Chronicle of Saturday.
Goon OLD AGE.—Siace the 16th December, 1843,
to the 25th March, 1844, twelve individuals have been in-
terred at Ripon, and one at Kirkby Malzeard, whose united
ages amount to 1,125 years, viz.—Widow Brown 82, Mary
Tuting 83, Widow Whittaker 84, George Wharton 112, Ben-
lamin Dearnley 84, Widow Pickersgill 90, John Rudd 70,
sabella Brown 84, Widow Smith 90, Miss Clough 95, Wm.
Myers qo, Richard Almon 85, Lawrence Nelson 76.—Total
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