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TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY
.EVENING JANUARY Al 1844

and that disunion in the Board of Management was
the certain destruction of any Company. Before
their application' to him, he was unacquainted with
either of the present candidates ; he believed both of
them to be highly respectable and honest men.—
(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman who had spoken
last had talked of honesty. Did he suppose that any
one came there to act otherwise than honestly?—
(Cheers.) He believed the great body of the licensed
victuallers deserved, well from society, for the nume-
rous excellent institutions they had founded, and the
valuable charities they had created.—(Cheers.)
He respected the body highly, and it was
his anxious wish to see all their praiseworthy en-
deavours prosper.—(Cheers.) He was in favour of
Mr. Addis as a Director, principally because he was
recommended by the Board of Directors, and he was
also well calculated to work and co-operate with that
Board.—(Cheers.) It was by electing such men that
they would raise the character of the Institution, in-
crease their connections, and enable them to gain a
hold upon the public, that nothing could shake.—
(Cheers.) In his opinion they ought not to elect any
man of a less standing than the one they had lost.—
(Cheers.) They ought to have men of rank and cha-
racter in the City of London in their Direction. Mr.
Addis was connected with some of the first persons in
the City, he was also connected with the corn trade,
the distillers, brewers, and others who were likely
through his exertions to benefit this Institution, in-
crease its business, and thereby extend its useful-
ness. Such being his opinion he telt compelled to
support. the election of Mr. Addis as a Director.
He did not know that he had any thing else to say,
or that he should wish to say. Ile hoped they would
take these matters into consideration, believing that
they also came from an honest heart, and put forward
by a man who had no connection with one class or
the other, but who only wished to see his shares
paying- five per cent. instead of four.
The CHAIRMAN asked if Mr. Addis wished to ad-
dress the meeting ?
Mr. ADDIS said he had nothing to say.
Mr. BINGLEY then rose. He hoped, as his worthy
proposer had stated, that he stood before them with a
face of honesty, and with a feeling that was always
desirable, that of promoting the welfare of the institu-
tion. The first point to which he had to draw their
attention was the assertion that he was disqualified
under a clause of the deed of settlement in the .57th
page. He knew that doctors differed both as to the
nature of a complaint, and the mode of cure ; and it
was the same with lawyers ; they also were of dif-
ferent opinions. He believed this matter had been
discussed on the last occasion. The plain clause said
that a man should not hold two offices at one and the
same time; that was to say that a man was not to be
at the same time a Director and an Auditor,
or a Committee-man and a Director. The moment
an Auditor was made a Director, he ceased to
be an Auditor, and the moment a member of
the Committee was made a Director, he ceased
to be a Committee-man. But the clause did not
state that a man should not be eligible to offer him-
self as a candidate for that or any other office. If
that was the opinion of the Learned Solicitor, he dif-
fered with him ; if the clause were submitted to three
of the most eminent counsel in the land, two of them
would be of his (Mr. Bingley's) opinion, and one of
the Solicitor's.—(A voice—" To be sure ; when a
Common Councilman is elected Alderman, he ceases
to be a Common Councilman-. Everybody knows
that I") He knew no community of men more grate-
ful than a body of Englishmen, and he asked them on
the sound principle of gratitude, as one who had en-
deavoured to promote the well-being of the Company
from the very commencement, and who had originally
ventured his capital in it, when it was difficult to get
gentlemen to assemble on the Board of Directors,
when they asked men in vain to become Directors
—it was well to hear gentlemen eulogise the licensed
victuallers as men, who, from what they had done
in life, deserved to be eulogised, yet after having
given up eight or nine years to attending to the best
interests of the Institution, if a licensed victualler
asked for a seat at the Board of Directors, they
told him that he had no right to ask it.
They were told that the Board of Directors
thought it better that they should seek some
other food, some new connection ; but if they
abolished the name of licensed victuallers from the
Association what would become of it ?—(Hear, hear.)
They might go on ad infinitum in forming new con-
nections among timber merchants, and coal mer-
chants, or any other merchants, for the purpose of
bringing new grist to the mill ; but they might go on
in that direction till the feeling of the powerful body
of the licensed victuallers would be estranged from it,
and they would no longer possess it to guide them to
the object which they so much desired. He had
heard from the worthy proposer of Mr. Addis, and
from another gentleman, the principle of self-election
laid down, and had wondered at it; he denied that the
Board had any right to give a recommendation to any
particular individual. But had not the capital of the
Proprietors a right to express an opinion ? The
Directors had one strict line of duty to perform, that
of announcing that there was a, vacancy in the Direc-
tion, and that it was to be filled up at a given period ;
if there were one thing to be more deprecated than
another it was the liberty the Directors had taken in
advocating the interest of any one man in preference
to any other.--(Hear, and " Shame.") As long as the
liberty was left to Companies, as to nations, to elect
their representatives, dictation from any quarter was
to be deprecated. The Directors had no right by a
public declaration to signalise any individual. If
they did, it became self-election. It appeared from
the letters of the candidates who had resigned to-day,
that they had resigned in favour of Mr. Addis. That
appeared from their letters, as they stated their re-
signation to be the consequence of the recommenda-
tion by the Board of Directors of Mr. Addis. The
Society began business in 1835, but it was not till
the 19th of October, 1837, that Mr. Addis became
the holder of 2,5 shares, which were made up to
250 shares in 1841, in order to qualify him for the
Direction.
Mr. WIRE said these statements were not correct.
It was impossible Mr. Addis could take any shares
from the Company in 1841, as they had all been
issued. He purchased them in the market.
Mr. BINGLEY said he might have taken them at
the first, when others did. He was only placing be-
fore them the relative position of himself and the
other candidate. Mr. Bromley, in 1840, only held
twenty-one shares, and it was only on the 13th
of December last, that he qualified for a Director.
The letter of Mr. Butler was dated on the 15th of
December, and it was only on that day he qualified
to be a Director. He was not depreciating either the
influence, the talent, or the respectabily of any gen-
tleman; he had not a word to say against Mr.
Addis ; it was the principle that he deprecated, The
resignation of Mr. Harman was dated the 12th of
December, and did not reach the office till that day;
on the 13th the circulars of Mr. Addis, appeared.
He deprecated the proceeding by which Mr. Addis
must have received his peculiar information. He had
been eight years the Chairman of the Committee ; he
had never missed an attendance, had canvassed every
quarter of the town ; he had attended all the meet-

ings of the Sub-Committee; and if one thing more
proved it than another it was that the Society was
established by the exertions of this Committee, they
were the instrument by which it became Firmly es-
tablished, and when a particular crisis arrived,
he thought it would only have been kind and consi-
derate in the Direction towards the Committee, if not
personally to himself, to have supported those who
had chiefly contributed to the formation of the Com-
pany. Now that the capital and the exertions of the
licensed victuallers had quite succeeded they could
find gentlemen to join them. But let them bear in
mind that if they ever lost sight of the great prin-
ciple that it was the licensed victuallers by whom the
Association was established, and that if they ceased
to be interested in it, it would prove a great injury.
The licensed victuallers were not to be excluded from
it, or to be told that they had no right to ask such a
position in the Committee till there should be a
vacancy by the death or resignation of one of the
Directors already attached to the licensed victuallers
body, but that till" then the licensed victuallers
must rest upon their oars. The licensed
victualler might become a member of the Com-
mittee. He might be a dog to fetch, but he
must not raise his views ; he must not assume the
plumage of the peacock—he must not raise his views
to the Directors chair. Such doctrine he, for his
own part, never heard without heartily deprecating it,
because he conceived it an insult to the trade which
had been the foundation of this Society ; because it
in effect said to a licensed victualler, you may become
a member of the Committee—so far shalt thou go, but
no further. Upon the last occasion he was eulogised
because he had not gone to the ballot, and he then in-
dulged a hope that he stood well with the:electors, and
that he would have their interest at the next election.
It had been said that when a vacancy occurred among
the Directors, who were connected with the trade,
then, and then only—(Dissent)—should a Proprietor
who wlis a member of the trade offer himself as a can-
didate. Was not Mr. Harman connected with the
trade ? Had he not been connected with a brewery at
Croydon ?—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Not at the
time of his election.") According to that doctrine,
the licensed victualler must wait till Mr. Float or Mr.
Game was removed from the Direction; either by death
or resignation, before any one of their members could
present himself to the Society as a candidate for a seat
among their Direction. Was that to be borne by the
licensed victuallers ? Eulogies had been passed by
Borne of the gentlemen who preceded him on the pre-
sent occasion, upon the licensed victuallers. He
delighted at all times to hear such eulogies, because
he bel:eved that no body of men deserved them better
—no class of men better performed their duty to the
State and to society at large than licensed victuallers,
and therefore it was that he deprecated their being ex-
cluded to make room for a timber-merchant, a corn-
merchant, or in fact any rain with the title of mer-

chant affixed to his name. That title "merchant" seemed
indeed, to have great weight with certain folks ; but it
should be recollected thra there were lucifer•match ma-
nufacturers who might by und bye be called lucifer-match
merchants, and why not consider those as more eligible
than the licensed victuallers for the Direction? During
his connexion with the Committee, he had discharged
his duty fearlessly and f Lithfully, and he now appealed to
the gratitude of the Corapany—he appealed to their feel-
ings as Englishn:en (for Englishmen ever possessed a
grateful recollection of services rendered thew}—and now
that he had pointed out t lie relative positions of the can
didates, he trusted they vriould show to him that he had
not only earned, but also obtained the reward of his
exertions in behalf of thi interests of the Company.
Should they do him the h onour to elect him, he would
pay every attention to the f.discharge of his duties, neither
swerving to the right nor to the left to serve the interest

of any than, but looking i )lely to the welfare and success
of the Society. From ; the frankness and liberality
of the worthy magi crates on the board, he
had no doubt that tk.ey would treat the hum-
ble publican, who mi eat be elected to serve among
the Directors with every respect, and consider
him while sitting at th e board as perfectly their equal
there, so long as he co aducted himself respectably. lie
ventured, then, to ask ;he Proprietors to reflect before
they gave their decisit in, and he trusted that common
gratitude would indui to them to pause before they re-
jected him when he p resented himself as a candidate.
In February next he shemild in all probability cease to
hold the office of Ch airraan of the Committee, as it
might so haispen he would not be re-elected to that
office. lie trusted, then, -that they would not allow him
to appear as thoui,sli his long services to the Company
were not gratefully remenlbered ; but that they would
prove that they deemed an honest, humble, licensed
victualler worthy to sit by the side of the worthy magis-
trates who graced the Botlrd of Directors.—(Hear.)
Mr. Alderman Musoreove; said it was not his inten-
tion to take up so much of the time of the meeting as
the worthy candidate had who had just sat down, be-
cause he had very littlie to say to them on the subject.
He doubted exceedingly whether it should not have
been thought entirely out of place for him (Mr. Alder-
man Musgrove) to add.seas them on the present occasion,
if it had not been for one or two observations that had
been made by the worthy .candidate. That gentleman's
address was a matter with which he (Mr. Alderman
Musgrove) could have nothing to do. He had felt it his
duty to appeal to the Proprietors' gratitude for past ser-
vices. To that appeal the) ' would make their response ;
but at the same time they would probably permit him, as
feeling a deep interest in the prosperity of the Institution,
to say to them that they must have something more than
gratitude for the past.—(Cheers.) They must take en-
larged views for the Institotion. They should not be
unmindful of their preseitt position, which looked
not only to the estimations, of the licensed victual-
lers,
but to that of the public at large,—(Hear, hear.)
They had heard from a we irthy Proprietor, who had
spoken in the course of the :meeting, that he had taken
that view of the subject, and that it was after much
consideration he had come before them to recommend
to them the candidate who, in the judgment of the
Directors, was the best fitted to fill the vacant office.
The worthy candidate who had last spoken had charged
the Directors with two acts—one the act of dictation, the
other of ingratitude. With regard to the first, he (Mr. Al-
derman Musgrove) would put it to their respected Chair-
man and the Board as a body, whether they had ever
attempted to dictate to the Proprietors?—(No, no.) From .
what he could gather on the subject, the object of the
Directors, in the course they had taken in this respect,
was to save the Proprietors any unnecessary trouble in
ascertaining what might be their opinion as to the eligi-
bility of the candidates, as they had ever, from the com-
mencement of the InstittiCon, been called upon to
offer their opinions to the Proprietors on occa-
sions similar to the present. Beyond that they had
never intended to go, nor in fact had they. They felt
that it was due to the Proprietors that they should
know their opinions on the matter, and it was only to
prevent them coming to the of:flee and asking what do
the Directors think of this candidate, and what do they
think of that, that the Directors acted as they had done
in the matter. Beyond saving t'ao Proprietors that
trouble the Directors had no desire ter exercise any in-
fluence in the affair. With regard to the ingratitude
with which the Directors were supposed tie have acted,
he would answer without any personal feeling or any
desire to undervalue the services of the Hon. Candidate.
At the same time he was bound to state certain facts in
reply to the charges which the Hon. Candidate had
thought proper to make against the Board of Directors.
The Hon. Candidate had stated, and the present was net
the only occasion on which he had done so—the Hon.
Candidate had stated that for the benefit of the Institu-
tution he had taken upon himself great responsibility—
that he had been its prop from the commence-
ment, that he had risked his all, that he had
stood up for it when no one would look at it, and that
he had run the greatest risks for them. Doubtless the
lion. Candidate felt that such was the case himself, or
he would not have told them so; but he (Mr. Alderman
Musgrove) had made inquiries as to the position in
which they were at the commencement. It had occurred
to him that the statements which had been made by Mr.
Bingley at the last meeting were deserving of the
greatest consideration, and that unless those statements
could be answered it would undoubtedly appear that Mr.
Bingley had not been properly treated. The lion.
Candidate had told them that he had been one of the
first to take shares, and on looking back to the book for
1835, he found that such was the estimation in which
the lion. Candidate held the Institution, that he had
actually risked in it the enormous sum of 301.—(Cheers
and laughter. Mr. Bingley attempted an interruption,
which was put a stop to by the Chairman.) Shortly
afterwards his ability and energy pointed Win out as a
proper person to serve on the Committee, and he was
appointed one of the twenty-four gentlemen of whom that
Committee was composed. Ile was returned by the
Committee as one of the three members of that body
who were to be their representatives at the Board of
Directors, and be had taken his seat at the Board
accordingly. On taking his scat be found that the
qualification necessary was the holding of forty shares,
and accordingly lie increased his risk by ten additional
shares, which it was necessary he should hold in order
to be qualified to sit as a Director. He knew these facts
from having looked over the accounts very carefully before
he became a Director, and he felt bound to state that
the Chairman and the Directors had afforded hie] every
facility in making those inquiries.—(Cheers.) After
Mr. Bingley had been at the Board for twelve months.
finding that his two companions from the Committee
held each 250 shares, he, in 1837, finding the Institution
to be in a very prosperous statertook 210 stares, making,
with the 40 which he held preciously, 250, -the-number
which his colleagues on the Consinittee had held long
before. In 1841 Mr. AddiS took 250 'shares, at a pre-
mium.—(Cheers.) lie was anxious to remove from their
minds the idea that the Institution had ever been in a
state of apparent danger. It never had been in such a
state.—(Cheers.) Then, with regard to the responsi-
bility which Mr. Bingley said lie had taken upon him-
self. They all knew what the responsibility of a Pro-
prietor in an Insurance Company was, and that the
holder of five shares was as responsible for the liabili-
ties of the Company as the holder of 500. Therefore,
all parties who, at the commencement, had been share-
holders, might make the same boast as Mr. Bingley, that
they had been liable for it to the full extent of their
property.—(Cheers and laughter.) Ile had no wish to
detract from Mr. Bingley's merits, but it was right that
they should be made aware that Mr. Bingley had not
risked more than any other man. He had adverted to
Mr. Bingley's having been returned as a Director by the
Committee. The services which Mr. Bingley had rendered
in that capacity were invaluable.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Bingley, as the representative of the Committee, had
been indefatigable in his attention to the business of the
institution. and, as far as his influence went, it had been
exercised in their favour.—(Cheers.) Mr. Bingley had
talked about their kicking down the ladder which had
raised them up. Now it seemed to him that Mr. Bingley
was anxious to kick down the Committee.—(Cries of
" No, no.") He had been returned to the Board of
Directors by the Committee. Had he any fears as to
his re-election ?—(Cheers.) Why did he not appeal to
the gratitude of the Committee ? Was it not as honour-
able to be returned by the Committee as to be returned
by the Proprietary ?—(Cheers.) The Committee was
composed of twenty-four gentlemen, who possessed the
exclusive right of returning three of their own body to
take their scats at the Board of Directors, and who pos-
sessed all the powers and privileges of Directors, while
in their election the Proprietary had no voice at all.
The Committee had acted most judiciously in the selec-
tion which they had made, and he would appeal to the
Committee to return Mr. Bingley again out of gratitude
for the services which he had rendered to the institution,
and he would ask Mr. Bingley whether, under all the
circumstances,_ having at heart the extension of the in-
stitution, such a course would not be the most proper
that could be adopted? Within the last ten months of
the past year they had effected upwards of one million
and a quarter of insurances against fire—three-fourths
of those insurances had been brought to the office by the
public, and the other fourth by the licensed victuallers.
Was it right then that they should throw overboard the
public ? He had never heard anything of overthrowing
the originators of the Institution. The idea was absurd.
Why, six members of the Board of Directors were
licensed victuallers. There was their worthy Chairman,
a licensed victualler—(Cheers)—there was Mr. Game,
a most amiable and excellent man, and who had been
of the greatest possible utility to tho Institution.—
(Cheers). There was their excellent friend, Mr. Float.
(Cheers:) There was Mr. Bingley, with all his talents
and energy.—(Cheers). There was \Mr. Walter, a
gentleman entitled to the highest praise, and a holder
of five hundred shares—(Cheers). And there was Mr.
Fergusson.—(Cheers). Now, looking to the position
which they held as a Licensed Victuallers and General
Insurance Society, lie would ask, had the licensed vic-
tuallers any reason to think that there existed any in-
tention to swamp them, when they saw six such men
sitting at the Board of Directors ?—(Cheers). Of
the fire insurances lie had already stated, that
two-thirds had been brought to the office by the
public, and the remainder by the licensed victuallers.
Then, with regard to the Life Department. Of the
life policies, he was going to say, that five-sixths, but
he might certainly affirm that four-fifths of all the
business in the Life Department had emanated from the
public, and the other fifth from the licensed victuallers.
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And this, still further, he was prepared to state, that out
of the number taken, four-fifths were by the public, and
not by licensed victuallers. He himself had already al-
lotted between 500 and 600 shares—not to himself—
but to some of his friends whom he had persuaded to take
them. Now, those present at the meeting must allow
him to say, that they could not do a g-taator service to
the Institution than by prevailing on their friends to
take a few of the new shares.—(Cheers.) Such pro-
ceedings would place them on a pinnacle that could never
be thrown down.—(Cheers.) In all he had said he was
anxious to steer an even course. He had said nothing
in favour of Mr. Addis, or in disparagement of Mr.
Bingley, and he was sure, if they did not elect him, it
would be from no disrespect to him. Mr. Addis was a
man of influence, and would devote it to the benefit of
that Institution.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BINGLEY said a few words in explanation.
The CHAIRMAN then took a show of hands, and de-
clared the numbers to be as follow :
For Mr. Addis
For Mr. Bingley
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Majority for Mr. Addis —4B
The CHAIRMAN then declared Mr. Addis to have been
chosen a Director, upon which
Mr. BINGLEY demanded a ballot.
Mr. WIRE said he could not adopt that course. He
must get 25 shareholders of 12 months' standing to de-
mand one fOr him.

The demand for the ballot was then signed on behalf
of Mr. Bingley by the required number of shareholders
c 25), but on being checked by the books, three were
found not to be qualified to sign the document..
Mr. WirtE said three names being unqualified, he
should, as Solicitor to the Company, advise the Chair-
man not to accept it, it being an imperfect demand.
Mr. BINGLEY contended that, a demand having been
put in, signed by twenty-five shareholders, he ought to
go to the ballot.
The CHAIRMAN adduced the practice of the City elec-
tions for Members of Parliament, where a demand of a
poll for each of the candidates must be delivered by one
of the Livery.
After some conversation on this point,
The CHAIRMAN declared Mr. Addis duly elected to
serve as a Director for the same period as Mr. J. Har-
man would have been in office. He trusted that before
another vacancy Mr. Bingley would divest himself of the
office of Committee-man, it being his (the Chairman's)
opinion that he would not, even had he gone to the
ballot, been eligible to serve as Director.
Mr. ADDIS returned thanka for the proud situation in
which they bad placed him, and he could assure them
that nothing should be wanting on his part to do all that
he possibly could to promote the prosperity of the Society.
Mr. BINGLEY having returned thanks to the gentlemen
who had supported him,
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was moved and car-
ried by acclamation, and the meeting broke up.

COURT CIRCULAR,
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert promenaded in the precincts of
the Castle this afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
his serene highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
and attended by Lord Rivers, Colonel Arbuthnot, and
Mr. G. E. Anson, went out shooting in the royal pre-
serves this morning. The party afterwards returned to
the Castle.

Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncornbe, R.N., arrived
at the Castle to-day, and has succeeded the Hon. Captain
Nelson Hood as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Royal Family have been taken out for their
usual exercise in the course of the day.
Captain Francis Seymour left the Castle to-day, for
Winchester, to join a detachment of his regiment doing
duty there.
Mr. Edward Puckle had the honour, this morning, of
submitting to the inspection of the Queen and Prince
Albert, a finished proof of a portrait of her Majesty,
from a painting by Sir W. C. Ross, of which both her
Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased
to express their approbation.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert will dine this evening
with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at her
residence, Frogmore Lodge. Almost the whole of the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on her Majesty and
her Royal Highness will have the honour of dining with
the Royal Duchess at Frogmore.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had a
select party at dinner yesterday evening, at her residence,
Gloucester House.

Mr. Everett, the American Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers
left town yesterday, for the residence of the Hon. Frede-
rick Villiers, in Northamptonshire.

Dispatches from the Governor of New Zealand were
received yesterday nt the Colonial-office. Dispatches
were also received from the Governor of Sierra Leone.

BANQUET AT FROGMORE-HOUSE
WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.— A grand banquet was
given this evening, by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent. to her Alajesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar, and a distinguished circle, in honour of the birth-
day of his Serene Highness Ernest Antoine Charles Louis, the
reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha (the father of his
Royal Highness Prince :Albert), who was born on the 2d of
January, 1784.

Covers were laid for sixteen, in the large dining-room.
The Royal dinner party included, in addition to the Queen
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Marchioness of Douro,
the lion. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Clementina Hamilton,
Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Rivers, Captain the Hon. Arthur
Duncombe, Colonel Arbuthnot, Major• General Sir Edward
Bowater, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay, the
Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart., and
Dr. Prmtorius.

At the conclusion of the banquet her Majesty, the Prince
Consort, the Duchess of Kent, and her Royal Highness's dis.
tinguished guests, retired to the grand drawing-room, where
a concert was performed by the band of the Ist Life Guard,.

OBITUARY of the NOBILITY and

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ARISTOCRACY for 1843.
Amongst the other important events Connected with the past
year may be enumerated the great number of deaths which have
taken place in that class of society termed the aristocracy of
the country. Many of those who have played prominent parts
on this world's stage have de?arted. Amongst them we finds
Prince of the Royal Blood—
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
The Dukes of Manchester and Dorset.
The Marquis of Winchester.
Earls—Re Reede De Ginkell, Athlone, Abergavenny, Hope.
toun, Coventry, Glasgow, and Plymouth.
Viscounts—Ferrard, and Hinton,
~the eldest soo of Earl-
Poulett.
Lords —Duffus, Abercrainby,the Ka' Of- Ralph Aber.
croaiby ; Forbes, (General); Pitigerald and Vesci Robert;
Ker. Rodney, Lyncdoch, and Inverury, the oldest son of the
Earl of Kintore.

Baronets— J. Hesketh, C. B. Codrington, J. P. Murray,
F. Sykes, T. W. Vaughan, A. K. Jackson, E. Syr e, M.
Wood, J. Shaw, R. Fitzwygram, J. Gordon, and J, W. Mac-
naughten.
Knights—T. Robinson, and T. C. Morgan.
Bishop Lichfield.
Judges—The Right Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, ex-Chief-
Justice of Ireland ; and the Right Hon. J. Radcliffe, Judge of
the Irish Prerogative Court.
Generals—The Hon. Sir Charles Colville, Sir W. Brooke
Thompson (the senior General but one in the British service),
Sir John Fraser, G. C. H. , and Sir John Taylor.
Majors-General—Peicy Drummond, C. 8., Director-Ge-
neral of the Royal A rtillery ; Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart.,
K. C.B. ; Edward Hutchins Bellasis, Sir Donald Macleod,
K. C. B. ; Sir J. O'Halloran.
Lieutenants-General—OTorrhlin Beever, R. A., and Sir
Archibald Campbell, G. C.B.
Colonels—Clements, M. P., for the county of Cavan ; Sir
Horatio G. P. Townsend, K.C. H., Lieutenant-Governor of
Windsor Castle; Fortescue Ellison, and Dertemet G. Muirhead.
Lieutenant-Colonels--Forbes, Champagne,Ullerton, William
L. Wood, K. IL, Archibald Cameron, Richard Murray, Sir
William Thom (Author of " The History of the War in
India, under General Lord Lake,") Morgan,
George Hart
Dyke, and Williamson.
Admirals—Thomas Alexander, and Sir R. Barlow. K. C. B.
Rear-Admirals—R. Henderson, and Sir Arthur Farquhar,
K.C. B. and K. C.H.

Vice-Admirals—Sir Edward Brace, K.C.8., Commander-
in-Chief at the Nore. _

Right Honourables—J. A. Stuart Mackenzie, Governor of
Ceylon, and afterwards Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.

Honourables—Wm. Howard; Robert Kennedy, brother of
the Marquis of Ailsa ; Henry Browne, the youngest son of
Lord Orenmore ; R. G. Quin, brother of the Earl of Dunraven ;
and F. T. Tollemache, brother of the Earl of Dysart.
Members of Parliament—Major G. Brown, for the county
of Kilkenny ; and Valentine Maher, Esq., for the county of
Tipperary.
Late Members of Par:iament—C. P. Palmer, G. A. Mus-
kett, W. H. Sarsfield, A. Blennerhassett, J. B. S. Merritt,
J. B. Hoy, G. W. Wood.
Private Secretaries—Edward Drummond, Private Secre-
tary to Sir Robert Peel ; and Colonel Shaw, Private Secre-
tary to the Marquis of Wellesley, when Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.

year ono Prince of
Earls, two 'Viscounts,
Majors-General, three
Colo-
nels, two Admirals, two Rear-Admirals, one Vice-Admiral,
one Right Honourable, five Honourables, two Members
of Parliament, seven late Members of. Parliament, and two
Generals, five
Colonels,five ioeutenant.
Private Secretaries, have died—making the total eighty-
eight individuals, who
during
their lives were what are termed
public men, by their connection with the Government of the
country.

DEATIL—At Shoe-lane, on New Year's Day, in
the ordinary course of nature, the double sheet of the Morning
llerald.— post.

We have really been so much amused at a New
Year's manifesto by one of our contemporaries (the Morning
Herald) that we feel bound to rescue it from the obscurity in
which its own limited circulation might otherwise leave it, by
offering it the additional notoriety of our own columns. Our Con-
temporary appear/ to be in a state of revolution , it has changed
its size—it has changed its managers ;it appears conscious of
having (" not essentially") changed its politics ; it
has, if wo
mistake not, changed its type (at least we recognise here and
there in its columns the familiar letters of an, evening contem-
porary), and out it comes, "spick and span," on New Year's.
day, to pay its readers the compliments of the season in its new
dress.— Times.

ACCIDENT TO TILE EARL OF MOUNTCASITEL.—In
consequence of a statement having appeared in the account
given of the meeting of Magistrates lately held at Fermoy that
the Earl of Mountcashel had received but a slight injury by
his carriage being upset, we are authorised to say, that the
accident was of a much more serious nature. On Tharsday,
the 21st, as his Lordship was returning from the mountains,
where he had been shooting, the horse took fright, and running
away down a hill, the carriage in which he was seated came in
contact with a stone fence at the side of the road with such vio-
lence as to separate the two hind wheels from the body, and he
was dashed owl with considerable force. He was taken up in-
sensible immediately afterwards by some persons who were
passing, and carried into an adjacent cottage. For the last week
he has been confined to his bed, suffering much pain, but is now
out of all danger.—Cork Paper.
We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. \Vood are en-
gaged at the Princess's Theatre, and will make their first ap-
pearance in a few slays in the opera of The Maid of Judah.

THE CURRENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—l am glad to perceive that you are turning
your attention to the currency, and that other able
persons are doing so likewise.
The effect has already been the dealing heavy blows
to the preposterous "metallic currency" illusion ; but
I regret to observe, that two enormous errors still
pervade the reasonings of those who have made the
greatest advances in the right direction.
The least of these is, the confining the term "cur-
rency" to the Bank notes and specie in circulation,
overlooking the fact that bills of exchange form, in
truth, the main part of our circulating medium, a
part so vast, that all others sink into insignificance.
It can scarcely be requisite to prove that these
bills are as strictly a part of our circulation,
as a Bank note of 160/. Their conversion into
cash cannot, indeed, be enforced before a cer-
tain date, but practically they are exchangod as
often as bank notes of equal amount. Every
commercial man is accustomed to see bills with
half a dozen endorsements indicating as many pay-
ments and transfers. In fact, while a million in bills
changes bands and effects transfers nearly as readily
as a million in 1001. Bank notes, the number of millions
represented by bills immensely exceeds those repre-
sented by bank paper.
The second, and more important and fatal error, is
the admission of depreciation in paper currency.
Now such depreciation is impossible, except from
doubts of the solvency of the issuers.
Ha bank or a State issues any given amount of
paper, and the holders do not believe in the power
(America compels one to add inclination), of the
issuer to pay what has been promised, the paper
becomes depreciated in the ratio of doubt—if the
holder expects to get only 90/. for the promised 100/.,
the paper is depreciated 10 per cent. ; if he looks but
for 601. the depreciation is 40 per cent.
But this is the only passible case of " depreciation"
—the change in the value of no commodity whatever
can " depreciate" the paper.
This the least reflection will show : cotton may
have fallen 20 per cent,, and sugar risen as much,
since a Bank note was issued ; and shall we say that
the note is " depreciated" because it will not purchase
as much sugar as it would have done on the day of
issue ? If so, we must say that it is appreciated,
or enhanced in value, because it will buy more cotton,
1. e., that the same note is, at the same moment, " de-
preciated and appreciated, diminished and increased
in value!"
If not with cotton and sugar, neither with gold or
silver ; all are alike commodities and subject to the
same laws of increase or diminution of value, accord-
ing to the ratio of demand to supply.
The whole blunder arises from a loose and unphi-
losophical mode of thinking and expression. People
see the relation of two articles, in point of value,
altered, and fancy that it is a matter of indifference,
whether they say that " A has risen," or that " B
*
has fallen ; and thus, because gold, being in exces-
sive demand during the war with France (for pay-
ment of troops, &c., &c.) rose in price, the currency
writers immediately talked about the paper being
" depreciated !"

Would these gentlemen, in case they had two chil-
dren of like size, and that at the end of two year
they had found the one six inches taller, and the
other only three, assert that the latter was diminished
or " depreciated" in height ? The truth is, that it is
impossible to find an immoveable standard. Metals,
precious stones, corn, labour—all are liable to fluctua-
tion in their value relative to other commodities. A
general average of the whole might possibly be ap•
proximated to, although a task of enormous labour,
difficulty, and nicety.
I will, however, venture to assert, contrary to the
fancy of the vast body of currency writers, that the
paper of a State, regarding which no doubt of sol-
vency exists, is less liable to fluctuation, and ap-
proaches nearer to the abstract idea of the unit of
comparison than any metal whatever. A Bank note
for 1001. (or a good bill of exchange for that amount)
will, for example, at the time of issue, command
in the market a certain amount of manual labour, of
cotton, sugar, meat, &c., &c.
Let us suppose, for example, that it will command
the following articles :—viz., 200 lbs. weight of flour,
200 lbs. of meat, 200 lbs. of butter, 200 lbs. of iron,
200 lbs. of oak timber, 200 lbs. of copper, 200 lbs.
of sugar, 200 yards of linen, 200 days of the labour of
an unskilled labourer, and fifty days of the labour of
a skilled artisan.

Let us now imagine that the money value of half
these things advanced 10 per cent., that the other
half decreased in value in a like ratio—the 100/. note
would purchase the same intrinsic value.
If a greater proportion than a moiety rose or fell in
value, the command would be somewhat varied ; but,
as probably the balance might be restored by the
change in the smaller number, exceeding in ratio
that of the major number, in an opposite direction,
the actual command might remain nearly unal ered.
I am, Sir, yours, with best wishes,
BEIRNIARD.

A SCENE in the FRENCH CHAMBERS

•
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SITTING OF DEC. 30.
The Chamber met this day for the choice of Vice-
Presidents; and for the definitive constitution of the
Chamber. After the election of the Vice-Presidents,
M. Lafitte, who, as the senior member of the Cham-
ber, had acted as pro tem. President, addressed the
Chamber as follows : Gentlemen, called for
the seccnd time to the honour of presiding over
you, I will not abuse the privilege of my
age and my functions. The sorrowful reminis-
cences which I feel in this place would perhaps
lead me to speak to you of my appre-
hensions for the future, whilst I would only wish at
this moment to express to you my thanks for the kind-
ness, of which you have given me a fresh ,proof ; but,
in,thepresence of a situation which does not appear
witllont danger, my conscience obligesme to tell you
what France expects of you. In the course of your
session, besides the official programme of your
labours, opportunities will offer themselves for ex-
amining if our late illusions and our fortune will be
engulfed in the abyss which opens at our very doors
—(lnterruption)—whether the struggle entered on
in various localities—(oh, oh)—between the Go-
vernment and the elective powers does not contain
within itself the seeds of a struggle still more
grave between the two principles which, for four-
teen years, we have laboured to . conciliate—(Loud
exclamations from the Centre)—if the artificial calm
created on the surface of the country—(Ah, ah) —be
sufficient for our dignity—(oh, oh)—whether dis-
order and anarchy are not at the foundation of our
situation—(Murmurs from different parts of the
Chamber)—and whether good faith and rectitude in
the administration of public affairs are not preferable
to the resources of venality--to a traffic in corruption.
—(Loud interruption from the Centre, and a Member
loudly called " Order, order.")
M. Lafitte—l consider that my age, my character,
and my position, give me a right to speak the truth
when I consider it useful.—(Marks of assent from the
Gauche.)
M. Lafitte—l shall not carry my inveAigations
any further.

A voice from the Centre exclaimed, " That will be
no misfortune ;" and another voice from the Left
called on the interrupter for silence.
M. Lafitte—l will not carry my invest;gat:ons any
further ; but bear in mind that factious die away,
Ministries are changed, systems become ( xhausted,
and we, Gentlemen, we remain responsible for the
obstacles which the country meets with in the deve•
lopement of those resources of power and of prosperity
which it ought to expect from the Revolution of July.
—(Loud murmurs from the Centre, and approbatory
exclamations from the Left.)
M. Lafitte then said—" I now invite the President
and the Definitive Secretaries to take their places ;"
and returned to his usual seat in the Chamber.
A voice from the Centre—" A la, bonne heure."
M. Sauzet, the President, then addressed the Cham-
ber, amidst the most profound silence; and after
thanking the Chamber for the honour they had done
him in electing him again to fill the honourable
office of President of the Chamber, he concluded thus
—" The first session has fulfilled its work—let the
second do the same ; let the Chamber concur in it
with the Bureaux by the good order of its delibera-
tions, the prompt and wise distribution of its labours,
that no salutary idea may be lost sight of, that no one
moment be lost; let us know how to show what may
be expected from an intelligent and powerful nation,
and thusmerit the gratitude of the country.
The President then declared the Chambers to be
constituted, and proposed to vote the usual thanks to
the Member, who, from his seniority, had temporarily
presided
Some voices from the Centre here exclaim " Ob,
oh !" and " No, no !" and others from the Left,
" Consult the Chamber."

President—l demand that the thanks be voted es
usual to the members of the provisional bureau.—
(Oh, oh.) There is no opposition to the vote.
A voice from the Left—" Yes, there is opposition,
Consult the Chamber."

President—l again demand that thanki be voted to
the Provisional Bureau.—(Yes, yes). Thtre is no
opposition.—(No, no.) The thanks are voted.—
(Loud murmurs and exclamations from the Left.)
The Chamber soon after adjourned.

THAMES TUNNEL.-The number of persons who
passed through the Tunnel last week was 37,114.
LIEUTENANT MUNEO.—It does not appear that the
statement which has been put forth by several of the
papers with something liko authority, namely, that
Lieut. Munro would surrender this session and take his
trial at the Old Bailey, has any foundation or truth in
it. No notice of any such intention has been given to
the officers of the Central Criminal Court, nor is it
likely; under all the circumstances, that there will be.

SPiRiT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Terra DAY.
TIAIES.--We have really been so much amused at a New
Year's manifesto by one of our Contemporaries that we feel
bound to rescue it from the obscurity in which its own limited
circulation might otherwi-e leave it, by offering it the ad-
tional notoriety of our own columns. Our Contemporary as-'
pears to be in a state of revolution; it has changed its size—it
has changed its managers; it appears conscious of having
(" not essentially ") changed its polities; it has, if we mistake
not, changed its type (at least we recognise here and there in
its columns the familiar letters of an Evening Contemporary),
and out it comes," spick and span," on New Year's-day to pay
its readers the compliments of the season in its new dress. Its
first words are its own name, "Ab Jove principium." " The
Morning herald having lately changed its proprietors and
managers, we deem it right, at the commencement of the pre-
sent year, to announce to our readers the principles upon which
the paper will be henceforth conducted." These announce-
ments of principles are very dangerous things. Few people
court them, and those who do are very apt to burn their fingers.
Placemen in posse do, because they wish to gain the confidence
of an office-bestowing Government, and can only do so as
pledged men. Premiers in ease do so, because their friends
cannot know how to support them if they don't.. Members of
Parliament, in vdle do, because there they are on the hustings,
and have to state ea'egorically what merits or opinions of their
own, have brought them there. But none of the sober men t,f
the day like it. Look at Sir Robert Peel. HIe parts with his
opinions as if they were so much gold. He loves them so dearly
that he cant bear to let them drop out. of his mouth ; and if !is
does, he takes them up again and whips them into his pecker
before we have, had time to be sure what they are. And e e
frankly admit that we do net wonder at it. To the most honest
and straightforward man abstract professions of principle are
sure to prove embarrassing. Explained by the circumstances
of the moment, the known opinions of the speaker, and tha
understood requirements of the hearer, they do very well to con-
vey a true impression in conversation or an after-dinner speech.
But when liable, as such public declarations are, to be noted
down, treasured up, and produced at some future period, under
circumstances to which they were never intended or under-
stood to apply, with a demand for literal performance, they are
about the most unmanageable and unreasonable enemies that a
statesman in an electioneering town can well leave behind him.
What in the world, then, we asked ourselves, can our Contem-
porary mean by this sudden and apparently gratuitous exposure
of its inmost heart? Is New Self going to throw Old Self
overboard ? In plain words, is there a rat in the case ? The
suspicion was half rebutted and half confirmed, but our wonder
was scarcely abated by the next sentence which we read:—
" They (the principles aforesaid) will not essentially differ
from those which have been espoused by the Morning Herald
for some time past, viz., the principles of moderate Conserva-
tism in Church and State." " Not essentially." Well, then,
we get rid of a few uncomfortable articles in the Morning
Herald, Senior, which might have embarrassed us. " Mode-
rate Conservatism,"—that may be made in the course of the
next year and a half to embrace anything between Lord John
Russell and Lord Winchilsea. On the whole, the readers of
this paragraph will not gather much beyond the fact
that the writer had no great wish to be hampered by the
past or for the future. But to proceed into particulars.
The theology of the paper is to be consonant to that of the
" great body of divines" of the English Church, from Hooker
downwards. This again is somewhat of the vaguest, and will
do, not indeed correctly, but plausibly for anything between
Laud or Andrewes on the one hand, and Tillotson or Warbur-
ton—perhaps even Newton or Cecil—on the other. Like
everybody else, our Contemporary is unfavourable to what he
considers " extreme High Church views ;" but where modera-
tion ends and extremity begins is left for future consideration.
On the poor-law our Contemporary is not less judicious in his
sentiments. Under the law of Elizabeth we are told, " Eng- I
land has reared up an industrious and efficient population of
labourers;" but that law was abused, and some amendment be- I
came really desirable. "At the same time when a system is
introduced which, instead of recognising the right of the un-
happy pauper to relief, treats him as an intruder upon society,
if not as a criminal, we are disposed"— Well, what are we
" disposed" to do on this alarming hypothesis' To do battle,
tooth and nail, against the unrecogn.sed right of the pauper—
to expose abuses—denounce false principles—.beard Ministers
—urge petitions—exhort electors--confute fallacies? Nothing
of the sort—" We are dispose-I to look with doubt on its wis-
dom, and to watch its administration wiih the utmost jea-
lousy." No one, certainly, will think that this pledge is likely
to be very embarrassing to its maker. Let the question of the
poor-law fall hbw it may, our Contemporary will not break his
head against it. But the sliding scale is left in a still more alarm-
ing state of unstable equilibrium. Was the Morning Herald
frightened by the false report of Lord Hardsvicke's speech, when
it could bear to be so very backward in " backing its friends,"
as it shows itself in the following most unsatisfactory sentence:—
" The adjustment of the corn-laws upon the modified sliding
scale of Sir Robert Peel is an experiment, to which we think
that a fair trial should be given. We deprecate frequent and
hasty change in financial matters ; but most strongly
do we condemn that restless agitation which tends to dis-
turb the public mind, create panic in the commercial
world, and destroy all confidence in the security of the law."
Not a word of approval of this most eminently Ministerial mea-
sure—not a hint as to the probable duration which is to be
wished or expected for this " experiment." Only our Con-
temporary advocates that most uncertain advantage " a fair
trial"—" condemns restless agitation"—deprecates " frequent
and hasty changes in financial matters," as everybody else does
in every other branch of human practice, and tl ea proceeds
with the same oracular caution through the various heads of
Irish and foreign politics, manufactures, and law reform. Only
one somewhat unguarded expression a hypercrital eye might
notice—and that upon an incidental point where it is amiable to
be enthusiastic. " With the progress of the reformed religion,"
says our Contemporary, " is associated not only all the glory
and happiness of our own kingdom, but everything which is
great in the history of man,"--including of course, Abraham,
Moses, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, Julius Cassar, Tamerlane,
Peter the Great, and the wall of China. This is not quite
historically true. But, with this exception, we can do nothing
but approve. We will only venture to regret that such a con-
fined application has been made of a formula which occurs but
in one paragraph of the article, but than which nothing; could
have been more happily appropriate as a beginning and ending
of the whale composition. " W need scarcely say," says our
Contemporary ; " You need not, indeed," we cannot help re-
plying; and we are irresistibly pushed on to add, " and why
in the world did you ?" Yet we cannot regret a composition in
which the coy dignity of a maiden Queen addressing her first
Parliament is so gracefully compounded with the mysterious
caution of an experienced Minister. We will even hope that
our Contemporary will continue his annual exhibition of a
counter Queen's speech (the imitation is obvious), detailing to
the world with the same majesty his probable course for the
next twelvemonth. It would be a novelty in newspaper his-
tory, and we think might tell—at least no worse than some late
vagaries of our resuscitated friend.
POST.—Our Ministerial Contemporary, the Herald, has
once more changed its shape. It has ceased to be " perma-
n'ently enlarged." The Herald's " principles," however, will,
we are assured, be hereafter very much what they have been
heretofore. These will undergo neither "permanent enlarge-
ment" nor contraction. They will remain, we presuile, in a
state fit for the application of either pro Ts's. They will prove
as " stretchable," in short, hereafter as they have proved in
time past. Of the corn-law of 1842 the Gerold, in his new
confession of faith, discourseth in the following strain:—
" The adjustment of the corn-laws upon the modified sliding
scale of Sir Robert Peel is an experiment to which we wish that
a fair trial shad& given." .A fair trial given to the corn-
law of 1842! . Why, the Herald has, ever since the pass-
ing of that law, pronounced it to-be the consummation of
political wisdom'!'' And' is that admirable law to be
now described as • merely an " experiment ?" The
cern-law of 1842 was, as the Ileraid has a thousand
times proclaimed, " a settlement of the question ;" het
from that " settlement" the Herald, looking to Ministers
(whom, according to the measure of his feebleness our Con-
temporary flatters), desires now to escape. Ministers dread
the League, and that base fear may soon induce M.nisters to
abjure the policy of protection in practice, as they have al.
ready abjured it theoretically. The Herald naturally longs
to be free to follow it- patrons. Four years ago the Herald
advocated a protective policy so stringent as to amount al-
most to a policy prohibitive of the use of foreign labour. For
tire years the Herald has mouthed the modified free trade doc-
trines of Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Gladstone. For two years
the Herald has sought. to defend free trade doctrines, when
these have been assailed by the Post—and yet, durirg the
whole of the same period, the Herald has been abusing free
trade doctrines when advocated by Mr. Cobden. This process
of blewing hot and cold must hare proved awkward work.
The Herald is naturally anxious to escape from it, and
to prepare for the assumption of a place in the ranks
of orthodox free traders. The Herald has, for a long
time, trumpeted forth League doctrines—the Ecrald- will,
doubtless, speedily be employed in trumpeting the
praises of the League itself. Of the daily press, only the He-
rald and the Standard have supported the industrial policy of
Ministers. This unity of view would seem to have led the way
to union of a closer kind. These worshippers of the wisdom
of Peel and Gladstone have, at length, been joined together.
The morning and the evening song of sycophancy will now be
more harmonious than ever. As Ministers, moreover, shall
approximate towards the League, so will the Standard become
more and more impregnated with the spirit of that benevolence
by which all Leaguers—whether Ministers or millowners—are
animated ; and as the Peel of 1843 is, in the Standard's judg-
ment, the wisest of Ministers, while the Peel of 1829 was pro-
nounced, on the same authority, to be the basest of traitors, so
may the Bright of 1845 appear to our Contemporary an angel
of light, although the Bright of 1843 has been described by
him as among the vilest of mankind. Why, in short, should
Standard and Herald quarrel with the League ? Herald
and Standard have, for two years, been doing the League's
work. It is time that they openly wore the League's colours.
Let Ministers give the word, and these colours will forthwith
be " sported" by our lofty-minded Contemporaries !

Mr. S. Cotterell, one of the victims slain in the
affray at New Zealand, way the son of Mr. F. Cotterell, of this
city, a member of the Society of Friends. It is stated on the
best authority that he took no part in the affray, except as an
" unarmed peace. maker ;" that, during the whole of his so-
journ in New Zealand, he was on the best terms with the na-
tives; and the very last letter received from him here mentions
the pleasure he experienced in having acquired sufficient of the
native language to be enabled to converse with the " Maories"
on religious subjects, and thus to benefit them in the highest
sense. He wanted only a month of twenty-four years of age.
—Bath Journal.

CHRONOLOGY OF SPORTING EVENTS IN 1843.
Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, the 7th of January,
will consist of two folio stamped sheets of the same size, the
second gratis ! comprising full and accurate Chronologies of
all the important Sporting Events of the year—Racing, Steeple
Chasing, Aquatic, Cricket, Trotting, Pedestrianism, and the
Prize-ring; all alphabetically and intelligibly arranged for
immediate reference. Entries for the Derby, Oaks, and St.
Leger ; horses in training, trainers, and places of training ; the
two-years-old and their engagements, &c. ; forming a concen-
tration of intelligence invaluable to the sporting circles. Price
of both sheets, 6d. Papers forwarded on transmission of 6d ,
or six Post-office stamps, to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand.
BODY OF A MAN FOUND IN THE PUBLIC ROAD.—
About six o'clock on Monday morning, as a youth named
Wright, the son of a milkman of that name, residing at Nor-
wood, was proceeding along the road at Norwood Hill, he dis-
covered the body of a man lying across the road, completely
encased in mud, and his clothes torn almost to ribbons. Wright
immediately raised an alarm, and the body was removed to the
George the Fourth public-house;opposite, to await a Coroner's
inquest. Nothing was found upon the body which could lead
to its identity. It has the appearance of being that of one of
the superior order of mechanics, and is about the middle age
and stature. During the night a man named Tidy, who re-
sides in a cottage close to the place where the body was found,
heard a voice say, " Come, an't you going to get up—do get
up, mint," but supposing the noise proceeded from some
drunken men, he took no further notice of it. Death is sup-
posed to have been caused by apoplexy, but it cannot at present
be conjectured as to the manner in which his clothing had been
so flinch torn.

PRESENT TO lIER MAJESTY.-Eight most beau-
tiful and purebred bantams (consisting of a cock and three
hen., of gold, and the like number and description of silver
bantams), arrived at Windsor Castle on Monday last, as a pre-
sent to the Queen, from W. H. Holcombe, Esq., of Campden,
in Gloucestershire, a gentleman who has long been celebrated
for his peculiar breed of this rare and curious species .of do-
mestic birds.

THE DISTUBANCES OF AUGUST, 1842.-THE
CHARGE AGAINST AN ALDERMAN OF LEEDS.—It will be
remembered that a statement, which excited a good deal of
public attention, recently appeared in the public prints, charg-
ing an alderman of the borough of Leeds, and a member of the
watch committee, with not only being cognisant of the diltur-
bailees of 1842, previous to their commencement, but with
having been actually instrumental in producing them. The
statement was first made public by Mr. Joshua Hobson, pub-
lisher of the Northern Star, and a member of the Town Coun-
cil, at a public meeting held in Leeds a short time ago, and on
Monday the subject came under discussion in the Council,
where Mr. Hobson reiterated his statement, stating that the
Alderman was named Bateson. From the exilanations of Mr.
Hobson, Mr. Bateson, and others, it appeared that the charge
had been preferred by a person named Smith, who had been
made a bankrupt by Alderman Bateson, and who, it was con-
tended, could not be believed on his 4ath. After a f reat deal
of boisterous altercation, the Council decided that the matter
did not come within their jurisdiction.
THE SALE OF LIEUTENANT MUNRO'S EFFECTS:-
The opinion of counsel upon Mr. Wakley's proceedings on the
late occasion of the attempted sale of Lieutenant Munro's
effects being adverse to the legality of the Coroner's right to
interfere, the auction has been re-announced to take place this
day and to-morrow. From circumstances which occurred at a
late hour last night it would appear, however, that the Hon.
Member in'ends to contest the matter in spite of the lawyers.
Mr. Kirke (the auctioneer employed by Mrs. Munro) has,
it seems, been placed under the curs eillance of the police for
some days past, a sergeant and two officers of the B divi-
sion being stationed near his residence, so as to observe all
persons passing to and fro. Last night, shortly offer seven
o'clock, Mrs. Munro arrived at Mr. Kirke's house in Bromp-
ton-row. The carriage in which she rode drew up by the
roadside, arid before Mr. Kirke could reach the door the
police had surrounded the vehicle, apparently with an in—
tention to discover who was inside. Mrs. Munro having re-
quested Mr. Kirke to let her have a small dressing-case which
had been left in his care, that gentleman returned to the house
for it, and as he was handing it into the carriage, the police-
sergeant required to know " where that box was going?" Mr.
Kirke replied that it belonged to Mrs. Munro, and he believed
that she was about to convey it to her mother's residence.
Having closely examined the case, the officer permitted
Mr. Kirke to place it in the carriage, at the same time
directing h:s brother officials to run off to the nearest stand and
call a cab to fillow the vehicle. Mrs. Munn, having 'in;
rleted the purpose of her call, ordered the coachman to di
home, and the cab not having arrived at. this time, the
the carriage as fast as his legs could carry him
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of a memorial forwarded by Harriet Hurst to the Duke of
Wellington.