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-R 0Y A L POLYTECHNIC INSTITU
During the week Dr. Ryan will Lecture daily at r4aCt:::"7-z:r 7:13::?;_. —.l
T,?:(Leiliid ,L, the
..Tjaingsilif Monday, Wednesday, and ..iii; :-."-''.l'`: 4):,-;,,,. - J
Nine, tl'e-CMIISI' Steam-boiler Explosions, and es ,. , ;:-..,,..:e ,-,-.,
arising from incrustation, with,the means of prevention. •• ' ''''''-i : 1,.,iii,,,„ Model of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, capable o c ,(-i-.•••,,' .-f.-,
visitors, is lectured on by Professor Bacphoffner and exhibi daily'_- ' --": ' c /
and also in the evening. Among the novelties recently intr c - - - N.f.../
is a dill-sized Cast, from the CENOTAPH of GALEN, in which, ,
the PORTLAND VASE was found. A Curious MECHAltiGiti % (IS .tl, ,
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HAND. New and beautiful Objects in the CHROMATROPE, PHY..
SIOSCOPE, PROTEOSCOPE, &c. New DISSOLVING VIEWS.
Submarine Experiments by the DIVER and DIVING BELL.
Working Models described daily.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.
A Class for instruction in Mathematics is now open, under the di-
rection of Mr. A. W. Hobson, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge.

NINETY-THIRD SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, July, 1843.
FOR SALE, by Order of the Honourable Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Customs, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon prechely, on MONDA7, July 14, TUESDAY, July ro, "WEDNES-
DAY, July 16, TIWILSDAY, July 17, and FRIDAY, July IS, at the
Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane :
THE FOLLOWING GOODS FOR HOME CONSUMPTION :-
161 pieces black silk hat plush,
444 pieces of pillow lace, 7 pieces point lace,
1,927 shawls, 347 silk shawls, 280 silk scarfs,
65 Canton crape shawls,
25 Turkey carpets, 40 Turkey rugs,
131 cases spermaceti',
143 gold and 32 silver watches. 47 clocks,
3 cases phosphorus, 161 sacks potato flour,
16 East India mats, each measuring 100tt. by 30ft. Gin.
Accordions, agate cups and saucers, a quantity of carved wood
panels, figures, &c., barege, gauze barege, braces, buttons, boxes.
steel and other beads, brooms, chains, Chinese silk screens, coloured
porcelain dinner and tea services, cotton braid, esmt:os, candelal.ra
and drawing-room plateaux, cornopeans, mute powder, Chatney
sauce, chillies, clay figures, East India China ware, French damask,
East India embroidered scarfs, carved ivory groups, card cases, ivory
chessmen, embroidered muslin dresses and curtains, dressed feathers.
feather boas and tippets, guitars, gongs, window glass, hand mirrors
and frames, hair fronts, cane hats, hat foundations, boot laces, itW
figures, leather pocket-books, needle-cases and card-cases, mus:cal
boxes and instruments, mock jewellery, copper matrices—being sets
of alphabets, mustard prepared, needlework, elephant and palm oil,
palmyrene, pen machines, opldeleides, opera glasses, purse slides and
garnitures, purses, pomatum, two eases printer's type, rollers, rgsin,
rings, paper hangings, cigar cases, seraphine harmonicons, studs, 3 lioe
pegs, fish skins, silk purses anti bags, tarlatans, toy prints, wasing-
stand;watehmakees tools, one smack and one hawley boat with
spars, &c., one skiff and one wherry, cigars, manufactured and un-
manufactured tobacco, snuff, tea, sugar, molasses, common green
glass bottles, white and red wine, brandy, rum, Geneva, cordials,
Eau-de-Z7ologne, &c., &c., &c.

FOR EXPORTATION.
Gehl and silver watches, plaster casts of figures, &c., &c.
FOR EXPORTATION Mg BUYER'S PRICES, OR HOME CON-
SUMPTION ON TAYMENT OF THE DUTIES.
Grass cloth handkerchiefs and silk manufactures, rum, brandy,
cordials, wine, sugar, tea, coffee, soap, tamarinds, arrowroot, manu-
factured and tunnanuthetured tobacco. &c.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-
street; at the London, West India, and East India Docks ; and at
the Tobacco Ground, Rotherbithe, on Thursday, the 10th, Friday,
the Ilth, and Saturday, the. 12th of July, from ten o'clock in the
rooming until three o'clock in the afternoon ; and on the days of sale
from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon.
`.Take notice, that the goods sold at this sale will not he delivered
until after-two clear days of the day they are sold, and that no lots
can be paid for at the Office of the Receiver of Fines-After two o'clock
in the afternoon. During•the days of sale, money will net be received
by the Receiver of Fines after eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-hodse.
Price Is. each.

-LAW- INTELLIGENCE.

COMMISSION OF ESCHEAT, July 4.

A Jury was specially empannelled at the office of the
Secondaries for London, before Horatio Waddington, Esq.,
and other Commissioners named in the commission and letteas
patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to inquire
whether Thomas Sillito, late of White Hart-street, Kenning-
ton, gentleman, had not died possessed of landed property
within the city of London, which had become escheated to
the Crown by prerogative Royal, in consequence of his having
died without heirs of his body, or right heiss surviving, or
having made a will.
The Hon. Learned COMMISSIONER explained to the jury
the object for which they had been empannelled. The de-
ceased, it would be shown, was illegitimate, and therefore
he could have no relations to whom his property could descend,
unless he married ard had children, or unless he made a will.
He had married, but had no children, but died intestate, and
his widow had taken out letters of administration as to his
personal property, and the Crown was entitled to his landed
property.
.Although the Crown had this right it was always
liberally exercised.
Evidence was then adduced that the deceased had, in
1843, purchased a freehold house in Lower Thames-street,
which was worth, clear of all incumbrances, 761. per annum.
Mrs. Balls, wife of John Balls, Esq., of Kennington, de-
posed that she was the daughter of Samuel Sillito, Esq.,
late of the East India House, who at his decease, in 1841,
bequeathed to her all his personal and funded property. Until
his death she did not know that she was illigetimate. De-
ceased was her brother, and they always lived with their
parents. Her mother was also dead. They went by the name of
Sillito. Ik•ceased married, which caused a difference be-
tween him and his father. (The lady's fortune under the
will was 50,0001.)
Mrs. M. A. Sillito, widow of the deceased, deposed that he
had said he believed he was illegitimate. She had adminis-
tered to his personal effects, but the Crown had claimed a
moiety, which she had paid.
The jury said they were satisfied of the intestacy and ille-
gitimacy of deceased, and gave a verdict for the Crown.
The Commissioner handed a counterpart of the inquisition
and verdict, signed by themselves, to be held by the Fore-
man of the Jury, to show that all legal proof had been ten-
dered to their satisfaction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-S7'REET.

THE BELGIAN COMPANY AT COTENT-GARDEN THEATER.--Mr.
Robertson, the treasurer of Covent-garden Theatre, waited on Mr.
Jardine, in consequence of a report having appeared in the morning
papers to the effect that he had not only excluded a portion of the
Belgian Company from the theatre, but also that he had locked up
others in the house against their will, to which he was prepared to
give a different version, for he had experienced since their en.
gaging the theatre nothing but what was highly creditable to them,
and the best feeling existed between him and the directors of the
company, with whom lie had an interview a few days back ; and
they then informed him that, in consequence of the Anti• Corn.
law League meetings being held in the house, the Court would not
countenance by their attendance any performance there and they
should have recourse to another theatre ; and, subsequently, an
arrangement being entered into with the lessee of Drury.lane
Theatre, he gave directions that the entire of their property might
be removed, to which they agreed ; and, having left home in the
early part of the day, he found, on his return, that the consul had
waited upon him to require an explanation, which he readily gave,
and which proved satisfactory, as he had never any misunderstand.
ing with any member of the company, nor was he in the most in.
direct manner instrumental in having them detained, as they
seemed to have been, for one moment.

Mr. JA RDINE said the communication was made to him in a
private manner, and he was very much surprised to see an ac-
count of it in the public papers ; but he felt satisfied at the time
that when the circumstances should be made known the whole
affair would be arranged.

Mr. Robertson said he never had the least reason to complain
of the conduct of any member of the company, and the fact of
their being put to a momentary inconvenience required some ex.
planation. He thought the most effectual way would be to make a
public explanation,

TIIE POST-OFFICE ROBBERY AT GasvEsENn.—Robert Day,
alias Collinson, described as a hair-worker, was charged on his own
confession with being concerned in having, on the 26th ult., stolen
the mail-bags from the post-office at Gravesend.

Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, was in attendance.
Inspector Dodd, F division, stated that about ten o'clock on
Thursday night, the prisoner came to the station and said he
wished to make a private communication, and being shown into
the charge-room, he said " I wish to surrender myself for that job
at Gravesend." Witness inquired what he alluded to, and he said
he was one of the party who stole the mail bags. Witness inquired
at what side of the road the post-office was situate, and he replied
he must decline making further communication until he could see
the magistrate in the morning. He then said he bad no certain
place of abode, and that he had last worked for Mr. Townley in
Regent-street, but as to what became of the bags he would prefer
informing the magistrate.

In answer to questions put by the Court, the prisoner said he
knew nothing whatever of the robbery, and he could not say what
induced him to snake such a statement. He had made several
attempts to commit suicide, and had been confined in a lunatic
asylum, since which, he had been charged at this Court for at-
tempting to make away with his life.
An officer was immediately sent to Mr. Townley, to ascertain
what he knew of the prisoner, and on his return lie said that the
prisoner bad been detected in embezzling his master's money, for
which he was discharged, and he attempted to shoot himself. lie
then became quite destitute, having no certain mode of obtaining
a livelihood, and he subsequently attempted to commit suicide no
less than five diftbrent times.

Mr. JARDINE, feeling qttite satisfied that the prisoner was of
unsound mind, ordered the officer to convey him to the Strand
union workhouse.

THE ROBBERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—John Taylor, a cabinet
maker, was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing
various pieces of plate, and a valuable china vase, from Buckingham
Palace, the property of her Majesty.

Mr. Kayment, from the office of the Solicitor to the Treasury,
conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wolff appeared for the Fri.
soner.

Lord Delawarr, the Lord Chamberlain ; Sir Wm. Martin, and
Mr. Saunders, inspector of royal palaces, were present.
In order to complete the evidence, it was proved by Mr. Collin_
son, upholsterer, connected with the Lord Chamberlain's depart-
ment, that on the evening of the 13th June the prisoner was seen
near the store-room with a green bag, which appeared to be
empty, where he had no business, his workshop being on the base-
ment- floor, after the other men had gone away; and it was fur..
ther proved that he had made application to Mr. Richardson, an
upholsterer, residing in Upper Seymour-street, to say his name
was John Johnson should any person make any inquiries fer
which, upon his refusing, the constable made his appearance and
he was taken into custody.

Mr. Woolf applied to have the money found upon the pri.
Boner, and the furniture which had been removed from his house,
restored, both of which were refused, and he was fially committed
for trial.

THE STEAM SHIP “ GREAT BRI-

TAIN."

This splendid vessel, which sailed from Dublin yes-
terday morning, at ten o'clock, arrived in the Mersey last
night at nine, amidst thecheers and enthusiasm of assem-
bled thousands. As a proof of the excitement which her
appearance produced, we may state thatseveral fine steam
cargoes,
came
and
vessels left Liverpool for the purpose of accompanying
this leviathan of the deep to our harbour. As the
alongsidesteamers, frtihieghtme(lmawmitohth their veinhgeereslrg
prolonged, rent the air, and the cordial greeting, thus
genLrously given, was enthusiastically responded to by
the crew and passengers on board the Great Britain.
She is unquestionably a splendid vessel—so elegant—so
frigate- like,—and her immense proportions, great as
they are, strike the eye with less surprise than their
symmetry and elegant buoyancy. To her may be ap-
plied, without cxaggeration, and with a vast impmve-
ment on the beauty and power of the craft in Byron's
Corsair, eulogised by
the poet—
. She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife !
As a proof of the interest which her appearance in
the capital of Ireland excited, it may be statcd that the
Directors of the Dublin and Kinguorn Railway, an-,
tieipating a rich harvest in the number of passengers
whom curiosity would bring to lii:ngstown, gave a bonus
of 5001. to the proprietors of the Great Britain as an in-
ducement for her to call there and be exhibited.
She sails from Liverpool for New York on the 26th
instant, and, in the interim, the proprietors will reap a
rich harvest by exhibiting her in Liverpool, where she
will be an object of the most intense interest. We had
an opportunity of seeing her in Bristol, and still more
recently in London, but on neither occasions, as a steam
ship, or a work of art, did she convey to us an impres-
sion so vivid, or so pleasing, as she did last night in her
run of some dozen miles into the port of Liverpool.—
Wilker aria saziet's European Times of Friday.
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THE SLAVE TRADE.
According to accounts received from America by the
Cambria steamer, it seems that the slave schooner Spit-
fire, purporting to belong to New Orleans, which was
seized on the coast of Africa by the combined boats of
the United States brig Truxton, and her Majesty's
steamer Ardent, had arrived at Boston. She was
sent to the United States by the officer in command
of the Truxton, and her master, Peter Flowery,
has been convicted of intent to employ the
Spitfire in the slave trade. It appeared on the trial
that the schooner was built in Baltimore, and was once
known as the Caballero of that city. She had made one
successful voyage from Africa to Cuba, and had landed
350 slaves near the Matanzas. She was then in com-
mand of one Captain Gordon, who sold her to Paul
Faber, a Virginian by birth, and now a noted slave
factor on the Rio Pongo. Gordon and his mate, Turner,
subsequently sailed from Boston in the schooner Man-
chester, to Rio Pongo. Soon after she arrived there
Captain Gordon died, and the schooner was afterwards
wrecked. Turner, the mate, found his way to the
United States brig of war Truxton, then on the coast,
and gave information that the schooner Spitfire, then in
the Bongo River, was the same vessel formerly known as
the Caballero, and a slaver. He gave this information,
as he testified, from revenge, in consequence of some
trouble with Faber (who he supposed owned her) in not
paying him his wages.
An expedition of boats, English and American, was
immediately fitted out, and the Spitfire was seized. She
was found near Faber's slave factory, with a portion of her
cargo, consisting of ten hogsheads of tobacco and some
other articles, still on board. She was in command of
Captain Flowery, the defendant, and had been lying
there for several weeks.

By the papers found on board, it appeared that
Captain Flowery had sailed in her from Havannah
to Key West, and thence to New Orleans, where a
bill of sale appeared to have been executed by one
J. M. Anguerra, acting as the agent and attorney
of Edwin A. Falker, of Key West. The
price paid for her was 7,500 dollars. She had no
register, but upon the bill of sale there was a certificate
that she was American property, with a statement that
she could have no register in consequence of having
been owned by foreigners. There was also found a
charter party executed between the captain and one J.
Scorsur, by the terms of which the vessel was to proceed
from New Orleans to Havannah, and thence to Rio
Pongo for 5,000 dollars. It appeared in evidence that
the vessel sailed from New Orleans in November, with
a cargo consi,ting of 30 hogsheads of tobacco and some
smaller articles. She proceeded to Havannah with Scor-
sur on board. There she took in some shooks and dry
goods, and cleared for the Cape de Verd Islands, but
she proceeded to Rio Pongo direct.

IRISH NATIONAL EDUCATION.
TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE HUNTINGDON.

SHIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Gentlemen,—The Warder of last Saturday having promul-
gated your address to the Irish Prelates as " an expression of
your sympathy with the Irish Church at the present moment,
in their struggle for the maintenance of a Scripture education
for the poor," I beg leave to set you right on a most important
and misrepresented hinge of the educational controversy,
namely, the assumed mutilation and expulsion of the Scrip-
tures ; and, possibly, my refutation of this sedulously proga-
gated error may have the more weight, as coming from one
not imbued with the new-born zeal of a ministerial convert,
but coolly observing the development of a system which, as cal-
culated to diffuse the blessings of general education, he hailed
the introduction of with gratitude, and supported, ab initio,
with steadiness and consistency.
I have already, in many publications, proved that the bap-
tising of Scripture lessons, or extracts, " mutilations," is as
contrary to reason as to fact ; Sellon's " Abridgment of the
Old," or Grey's " Key to the New Testament," Mrs. Trim-
mer's Lessons from each, the Epitomes published by the As-
sociation for discountenancing Vice, and taught universally in
their schools ; or the Scripture Lessons of the late Kildare-
place Society, were never considered obnoxious to the epithet ;
and the following passage, from the preface to the Lessons of
the Board, must, to any but those wilfully blind, carry con-
viction :

,6 These Lessors, as the name imports, are drawn
from the Sacred Volume, and are almost entirely in the lan-
guage of Scripture, translated literally from the original.
When passages are introduced, not in Scripture language
(chiefly summaries of some portion of the narrative), they are
inclosed between brackets, and usually distinguished by being
printed in a smaller type. These selections are offered, net as
a substitute for the Sacred Volume itself, but as an introduc-
tion to it; and they have been compiled in the hope of their
leading to a more general and more profitable perusal of the
Word of God."

I fearlessly pronounce those Lessons to be unexceptionable
and faithful translations, and have used them in my own family
in preference to the " Volume of the Book," on the principle
of St. Paul.-1 Cor. iii., 2.

A thirst for ascendancy is the bane of both improvement and
of religion, and it is alike common to every branch of the Ca-
tholic stem ! It impedes both the philanthropist and the states-
man, has neutralised the benefits of national education in Ire-
land by its exhibitions amongst the clergy of the Establishment,
and threatens to render the noble plan of academical instruc-
tion nugatory, by its assertion on the part of the Romish eccle-
siastics ; descending to misrepresentation, it disgraces both,
and impedes the best interests of the community.—l have the
honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
E. TIGHE GREGORY, D.D., LL.D.,
Rector and Vicar of Kilmore.
Paget Priory, Kilcock, July 1, 1845.

MAGAZINES.-CONTINUED.
AINSWORTITS MAGAZINE.

This magazine, albeit Mr. Ainsworth has ceased to be
the editor, still retains his name, ut lucus a non lucendo.
But, although Mr. Ainsworth has left, other and as
worthy men have been found to supply his place, and
this is, perhaps, the best number of the magazine that
has yet been published. It opens with the introductory
chapters of a new romance, entitled " Ehrenstein," from
the pen of G. P. R. James, and albeit we have but three
chapters, the author in these three chapters has
managed to excite the most intense interest in the
fortunes of his hero and heroine. We had marked out
some exquisite descriptions of rural scenery for extract,
but want of room compels us to forego the pleasure of
presenting them to our readers. We cannot, however,
resist giving the following exquisite serenade, sung by
the hero Ferdinand, of Altenburg, beneath the window
of his ladye love, Adelaide of Ehrenstein:—
_ _

Wander with me, loved one, loved one,
Wander with me, where none can see,
Through the wood,
By the flood,
Under the greenwood tree.

Wander with me, loved one, loved one.
Wander with me where none can hear,
Where none is nigh,
But the birds that fly-,
And the timid and silent deer.
Wander with me, loved one, loved one,
Wander with me where none can mark,
Where the leaves green
Our love shall screen
In their bower 'twixt light and dark.

Wander with me, loved one, loved one,
And a tale to thee I'll tell,
Which, if thy heart
With mine takes part,
Shall please thine ear right well.
The author of the prohibited comedy, Richelieu in Love,
has also joincd the corps of this magazine, and gives us
" The Merry Wives of Stamboul," far and away the
best magazine tale of the month. If it is not a trans-
lation from some unpublished volume of the " Arabian
Nights," we shall be almost compelled to believe in the
doctrine of the transmigration of souls, for most as-
suredly the soul of him who told the tale of the Sleeper
Awakened at this moment animates the body of the
author of " The Merry Wives of Stamboul." " A
Country Editor," by Shirley Brooks, is evidently a sketch
from the life. The other article are all above par, and this
is certainly the best number of Ainswoi th that has yet
appeared.

LIGHTHOUSE ON THE Gonwrs.—Mr. Bull, after
having surmounted every obstacle in the erection of the build-
ing to contain the ‘. light for all nations," is now contend-
ing vci:h the greatest difficulty, namely its useful applica-
tion. The Trinity Board has the exclusive privilege of
managing the light-houses on the English coast, and al-
though this privilege was originally granted for the
public pod, it has now, like many more, be-
come subservient to private interests. The elder
breth-en are jealous of their rights, they cannot brook the in-
trusion of a hold, persevering, and clever man succeeding where
they have failed, and they appear more dispoied to visit the
offending party with their displeasure than to hail the sue-
ce33 of the undertaking, and to reward the skilful engineer for
the additional protection he offers to the lives and property of
our merchants and seamen.—The Builder.

BRANDING THE POOR.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, a poor half.witted creature was
seen in the neighbourhood of Finsbury-square and the City-road,
followed by a " gaping crowd," collected around him by the odd-
ness of his garb. His nether garment consisted of a pair of fustian
trousers, having impressed upon the seat and legs, in black letters,
the words—" Aylesbury Union." His body was encased in a
white duck frock, similar ro those worn by scavengers, whilst on
his back, front, and sides again appeared in formidable black let-
ters, which no washing could 011terate, the words " Aylesbury
Union." The bystanders expressed themselves in strong terms of
reprobation of the conduct of the Aylestarry guardians in thus cast-
ing an unnecessary stigma upon poverty.
The following horrible suicide took place at Ram-
touillet on Monday. A collar-maker, named Mulochot, having
become much embarrassed in his circumstances, and unable to
pay the rent of the wretched shop in which he worked, was threat-
ened With the seizure Of his goods. He declared that if a finger
was laid on anything belonging to him, he would kill himself. A
httissier having come to effect the seizure, Mulochot ran to a
heavily-laden waggon, drawn by four horses, that was passing, and
threw himself under the wheels. In a moment the vehicle passed
over him, and he was a corpse. He has lelf a widow and family.
DEATH OF LORD SEAFORD.—This Noble Lord
died suddenly on Wednesday, at his seat, Woodend, near Chi.
,cheater, in his seventy-fourth year. Charles Rose Ellis, Baron
Seaford, of the county of Sussex ;so created July 15, 1826. He
was born December 19, 1771. On the 2d August, 1798, he mar-
ried Elizabeth Catherine Caroline, only child of John Augustus,
Lord Hervey, eldest son and heir-apparent of Frederick, fourth
Earl of Bristol, and by her had two sons and a daughter. Her
Ladyship died January 21, 1803; and on the Ist October, 1840,
his Lordship married Anne Louisa Emily, daughter of Admiral
the Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, 0.C.8., and relict of
slice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart., G.C.B. The
ilikble Lord's eldest son, Lord de Walden, succeeds to the title
and estates ; his Lordship is her Majesty's Ambassador to the
roof t of Portugal

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-011 Thursday
afternoon, Dir. Hobbs, a Custom House officer, who had been in
the service many years, and had arrived at the rank of a coasting
waiter, after visiting the Ramona steamer, in the course of his duty,
stepped into a lighter alongside, and was about to get into a revenue
galley, when the swell of a steam-vessel passing at full speed, gave
.the barge a lurch, and threw him into the river. He disappeared
Instantly, and never rose again. Search was made for the body,
but it could not berecovered. The deceased, who was a most active
. and valuable revenue officer, was 35 years of age. He has left a
-widow and three children.
commune of Zurich Heugg (says the New
Zurich gazette) has conferred the freedom of that place on Dr.
Steiger anci his family. The resolution was come to by a majority
of 126 to 5. It is said that he will take up his residence in a town
of France.
In the south