The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO NDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH. 22, 1844.

THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF
LONDON.

feelings could be diffused among all those generous
Celts who were first led to believe that alienation
must necessarily exist between the Celt and the
Saxon, and who then, with marvellous inconsistency,
were told that the Saxon was well-disposed towards
them.—(Cheers.) He knew not what other branches
•f the Celtic race might believe, but he was con-
vinced he was only speaking the sentiment of every.
modern Celt, when he declared that he con-
sidered all animosity and jealousy had ceased to
exist between them and their Saxon fellow-country-
men, except that which might be called jealousy, but
which he should rather term a generous emulation to
outvie each other in feelings of loyalty to the common
Sovereign of their common country.—(Loud cheers.)
The proud pre-eminence of Highlanders in this qua-
lity he attributed to that patriarchal system alluded
to in the toast of " Chiefs and Clans."—(Cheers.)
Under that system, the Highlander was taught, from
his earliest infancy, that the chief of his clan was his
temporal superior, and one from whom he had
a right to expect every sympathy and support. The
bonds which united " chiefs and clans" were those
of reciprocal love ; in them there existed no feudal
tyranny on the one hand, and no servile vassalage on
the other.—(Cheers.) The Highlander imbibed the
principle of loyalty from his birth; and as his limbs
straightened and as his frame hardened by exposure
to the breeze on his native mountain's side, he felt
that inborn spirit of Highland chivalry which fostered
the memory of the deeds that their fathers had
done, and which their country might one day require
at their hands.—(Loud cheers.) Thanks be to God!
the finger of undying fame had not left his country's
glory without some record of its heroes' deeds. Their
attention had been called, that evening, to the ex-
pedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie;
they had been reminded of the deeds the Highlanders
there performed. While they dwelt upon .them, he
must beg to remind them of the fact that, although
the British force mustered only 15,000 swords and
bayonets, yet, so good an account did they render of
their enemy, that, besides the more than human
efforts they made on the field, for the glory of Britain
and the freedom of England, they shipped for Eng-
land 32,000 French prisoners.—(Loud cheers.)
Although assailed by the invincible legions of Na-
poleon, their enemy quailed beneath the stalwart arms
of the gallant 42d.—(Cheers.) The Colonel of that
Regiment—the Blazk Watch of Scotland—was then
present with them.—(Cheers.) If he cast his eye
over the campaigns of the Peninsular war, wherever
they had been called they had maintained the
character of their country, as if proud of the
name which, as Highlanders, they bore.—(Loud
cheers.) In the last great struggle, after the
scourge of Europe burst from his island prison,
and displayed his standard in the plains of Waterloo,
there, too, the Highlanders showed how they could
dare, and do, and die !—(Loud cheers.) Sir Walter
Scott, in speaking of the fall of Colonel Cameron, of
the 92d Highlanders, could find no stronger reason
for the gallant bearing of that distinguished officer,
than the strong Highland blood that ran in his veins.

FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
A meeting took place on Wednesday evening at the
Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-terrace, Chelsea, which was
very respectably attended by the friends of the Free
Church movement. Mr. Farmer, a gentleman residing
in the neighbourhood, was called to the chair, and was
supported by the Rev. D. M'Kellar, late Moderator of
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ;
the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow ; the Rev. Mr.
Tweedie, late of the Tolbooth Church 4 Edinburgh ; the
Rev. George Scott, Wesleyan Minister of Gravesend ;
and other ministers interested in this spiritual mission.
The CHAIRMAN stated that he regretted that justice
should not be done to the mighty cause of truth by one
more efficient than himself. It was indeed a momentous,
a most important movement which was then going on—
a movement which ought to, and did, draw blessings and
reverence upon the heads of those pious and conscientious
men engaged therein. Such blessings had been, and con-
tinued to be poured upon them, not only by those who
had the welfare of the Church of Scotland peculiarly at
heart, but praises were heard from all to whom the soul-
inspiring struggle for conscience sake was of the slightest
import.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. BUCHANAN explained the character of the
visits of the Scottish Free Church ministers. He said
that to show the extent of the movement to those who
dwelt in England, it might be but necessary to say, that
if such an one had been made in England, the results
in proportion to that in Scotland would have been, that
500 ministers would have quitted the Established Church,
and that from six to seven millions of laymen must have
followed, to be in the same ratio as the number of the
people who seceded in Scotland. But he would not say
that numbers at all times constituted the right and
honesty of the cause in which such numbers were en-
gaged. The Rev. Doctor then went fully into the rea-
sons which induced the ministers of Scotland to give up
private emolument and domestic comfort, and to become
voluntary exiles from their land in search of sympathy,
adopting, as it were, the character of sacred mission-
aries, the better to make the grievances under which their
Church laboured, known to their fellow-men. He (the
Rev. Doctor) would urge, that as God was the head of
the Church, his ministers could not bow down or obey
a temporal master. He would strongly contend for the
right of the people to elect their own pastor, and the
interference which had sprung up to meddle
with this wholesome right was a cruel and
oppressive act, wholly at variance with the strict com-
mands of Divine precept, and in direct violation of the
laws as guaranteed to the Church of Scotland. The
people had a right to see that the man who was sent to
look after the welfare of their souls was not a cold,
worldly mortal, alike careless of the spiritual welfare of
his flock, as of that of his own. They, the people, had
a right to see that such a man was not an irreligious
man, whose intrusion had only for its end the idolatry of
Mammon, and not the worship of God. Yet such a right
was denied them.—(Hear, hear.) The first step in the
revival of the Scottish Church after the Reformation,
was the check which was laid upon the law ef patronage.
The patron might nominate an individual to a parish,
but, before he could be received, he must preach at
least four sermons, and, if such accorded with the feel-
ings of the majority of the Church members, the patron's
nominee was elected, but, if otherwise, another must be
provided, and so on until a fit and proper person, whose
character, too, would bear the strongest scrutiny, was
found. This salutary system was exercised for upwards
of a century, and the results were eminently beneficial,
and there came from day to day into the various parishes
a class of ministers whom, for evangelical doctrine, ex-
cellence of heart, and brotherly love, no portion of the
civilised world could surpass, or did ever equal.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.) This period was very properly called
a revival, but such blessings excited the envy and dis-
pleasure of the world, and the most insidious opposition
to the progress of good arose. The patron became
jealous, and insisted upon his protege being thrust
upon the people. This the people resisted,
and tho wealthy patron flew to the courts of
law, where he unhappily obtained a verdict to
compel the people and ministers to elect his
protege to the parish—a man whom they they so-
lemnly believed—and had the most irrefragible proof—
was wholly unfit to be intrusted with so sacred and re-
sponsible an office.—(Hear, hear.) What did the minis-
ters do ? They refused.—(Cheers.) They said they
could not fly in the face of the laws of God. Their duty
was written in the holy book—there was their law, and
that law they must obey.—(Cheers.) The patron
goes again to the Courts of Civil Law, and gets a ver-
dict, subjecting the Church to submit to Caesar in
the things which are Christ's.(Hear, hear.) When the
ministers deposed men for immorality, the Civil Court
interposed to keep them in office, and to this day some of
those men remain.—(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Gentleman
concluded an address, marked with great power, by
stating that he looked upon the present accident in the
Church's history as being one for its good. It had
caused persons of most religiots denominations to ex-
tend the hand of fellowship and co-operation to thorn,
and such a friendship and co-operation might, at a crisis
when he saw infidelity upon the one hand, and Popery
upon the other, coming in like a flood, be of most espe-
cial service to the great cause of enlightenment and of
truth. He was about to leave for Scotland that very
night, and ho carried back to the land of his birth a very
strong sense of gratitude for the sympathy which had
everywhere in England been raised on behalf of the
Free Church.—(The Rev. Gentleman then quitted the
platform amidst loud and continued plaudits.)
The Rev. Mr. TWEEDIE said that in England the
Reformation commenced with the King, and went
downwards to the-people ; in Scotland it commenced
with the people, and went upwards to the King.—
(Hear.) The books of policy in Scotland expressly
stated that " no minister shall be forced into any parish
contrary to the will of the people," and the principle is
embodied in the word of God.—(Cheers.) The people
must either listen to the minister thus forced upon them,
or go some twenty, or it might be thirty, miles to hear
another more consonant to the spirit within them.—
(Hear.) Such men who had been forced upon the peo-
ple were, in many cases, " experimentalists," such as
got into the Church by subscribing to her doctrines, and
when there, repudiated them—men who went so far as
to state that to visit the heathen, and endeavour to make
him acquainted with the blessed Redeemer, was both
useless and foolish.—(Hear, hear.) Now there was an
Act passed by the Court of Session in General Assembly,
and which was ultimately eulogised by the Lord Chan-
cellor Brougham from the woolsack, and its validity
recognised by the Attorney-General and Solicitor-
General of Scotland. This Act protected the people,
or was supposed by these great authorities to protect
them from the tyranny of the patron ; yet, in endea-
vouring to carry it out, the ministers got into contact
with the lay officers, and, whilst seeking to give the
people their privileges, they (the ministers) lost their
own. They (the ministers) would not consent to see
their people thus subjected to have a man sent amongst
them who was unworthy, and for this they were dragged
into the civil courts, and the damages were laid at
16,000 i. 1 Since that period, in 1836, the ministers had
not had a day's peace. Actions of damages and penal-
ties followed rapidly upon each other, and thus,
by taking the advice of the law makers, they
(the ministers) became the law breakers.—(Loud
laughter.) The Rev. Speaker then contended for
the spiritual independence of the Church of Christ,
urging that no human being had a right to give laws to
conscience, but the God of conscience. They were ready
to the death to submit to civil laws, in matters which
were civil, and they were equally ready to the death, to
resist the interference of civil laws in things which were
spiritual. The ministers preferred retiring from such
a state of affairs, where they had not the liberty to con-
sult God's word, but were to be compelled to take man-
dates from a certain Act of Parliament, which now lies
upon the Presbytery table. He (the Rev. Speaker)
would not take the interpretation of God's word from
an Act of Parliament, while he had the word itself to
go to.—(Loud cheers.) No statute should bind him to
things spiritual, but the Statute Book of the Almighty,
—(Loud cheering.) Five hundred churches had been
built during the last five months, to provide for the im-
mense number of persons who had followed, their
pastors into the Free Church. But he would tell them
that these churches were built with every regard to
economy—Scotch economy.—(Hear.) These, or nearly
all these churches had been raised out of the deep po-
verty of the people; yet so thoroughly were they embued
with the necessity for such edifices, that upwards of
206,000 L were subscribed by the poor and despised.
Two hundred and eighty-seven new churches were yet
needed. Their people were well nigh exhausted, and it
was for this the ministry appealed. The Rev. Gentle-
man concluded by stating, that the weekly income for
the support of the Free Church ministers was now
2,354 L, and that not a farthing of the money subscribed
for church-building purposes, went to the maintenance
of the clergy.
The Rev. Mr. DILKELLAit and other ministers ',attar.
wards spoke at some length, and the meeting separate,
at ten o'clock.

The anniversary dinner of the Highland Society
was held last evening at the Freemasoitis' Tavern,
Great Queen-street, it being the anniveri iary of the
battle of Alexandria, rendered memorable :to all High-
landers, by the conduct of the Scotch Rego nents upon
that glorious day, and by the fall of the Gallant Com-
mander, Sir Ralph Abercrombie. Previous to the
banquet the Society held a general court,: at which
the minutes of the former meetings we re read by
Mr. G. Bain, the Honorary Secretary. The attendance
was very numerous ; above a hundred gentlemen sat
down to dinner. The scene was a most brilliant one,
from the number of naval and military uniforms, and
the display of the picturesque costume of the
Highlands, some individual specimens of which were
of the most magnificent description. The gallery,
too, was filled with elegantly dressed ladies, who re-
mained as spectators during nearly the whole of the
proceedings. The band of the Coldstrearnt Guards
was in attendance, and played several of the most
favourite Scotch airs and popular pieces during the
dinner, its performance being varied by the skill of
M‘Kay, the piper to the Highland Society ;
and of the pipers to the Duke of Sutherland and her
Majesty. Every arrangement was made that could
conduce to the comfort, the hilarity, and the amuse-
ment of the company, and as a display of national
feeling, looking with pride upon the deeds of the
past, and forward with hope and kindliness to the
future, nothing could exceed it. The number of
visitors of " Saxon," as distinguished from " Celtic "
blood, was alluded to during the evening with very
happy effect, as a proof that there is not that anti-
pathy and estrangement between them which has
been too often stated to exist. The dinner was an
excellent one, and the wines unexceptionable, and all
the arrangements gave the utmost satisfaction.
Among the distinguished gentlemen present we
observed Colonel the Earl of Cardigan, General Sir
Fitzroy Maclean, Bart., the Adjutant-General (Sir
John Macdonald), Major-Gen. Duffy, Major-Gen.
Sir J. L. Lushington, Colonel Munro, R.A., Colonel
Rolt, Captain Sir Andrew Green, R.N., Colonel
Elwin, Captain Lloyd, R.N., Captain. Fead, R.N.,
Colonel Falconer, Captain Beares, Major Burnes (son
of the Poet), Major Lutyens, Sir J. Sinclair, Major
Chase, Captain Gunning, Sir John Hall, Sir W. D.
Ross, J: E. Tennent, Esq., M.P., Dr. Quin, Colonel
Godson, John Walter, Esq., M'Alister, of Inistrynich,
&c. &c.
Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES MACDONELL pre.
sided.
On the removal of the cloth, grace was said in
Gaelic by the Rev. J. Lee, the Chaplain of this So-
ciety and the Caledonian Asylum.
The CHAIRMAN then severally gave the toasts of
the " Queen," the " Queen Dowager," the "Prince
of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," which
were drank with every mark of loyalty and enthu-
siasm.
The CHAIRMAN next gave " His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Chief of the Highland Society."
The toast was drank with " Highland honours," and
tumultuous applause.
The CHAIRMAN said he had now to propose the
health of an illustrious individual, the mere mention
of whose name would, he was sure, make the hall re-
sound with applause. He gave them the health of
his Grace " the Duke of Wellington"—(Cheers)—
and he had to inform them, at the same time, that his
friend, Sir J. Macdonald, the Adjutant-General, was
charged to deliver to them a message from his Grace.
The Noble Duke's health was drank with the
warmest applause.—Air—" See the conquering hero
comes."

" Where Cameron in the shock of steel,
Fell like the offspring of Lochiel I "

—(Cheers.) He would for awhile forget his re-
lationship to the Chairman, and once more relate
how the blood of the Macdonell and the spirit of
Glengarry showed itself that day.—(Cheers.) These
seeds and such as these would never die—
"No Agincourt may be forgot,
And Cressy be an unknown spot,
And Blenheim's name be new ;
Yet, still in story and in song
For many an age remembered long,
Shall live the towers of Hougoumont,
And field of Waterloo !"
After a song in Gaelic, sang by Mr. M'Alister,
The CHAIRMAN gave " The British and Native
Soldiers in India."

Sir Jowls MACDONALD (Adjutant-General), re-
plied to the toast ; he said he was desired to convey
to them individually and collectively, an expression
of the great and sincere regret which his Grace,
the Duke of Wellington felt, at not being able to
meet them here to-day. He was prevented from at-
tending by the pressure of his Parliamentary duties,
which were of such a nature as on this evening to
call for his particular attention. That circumstance
must be his excuse for not meeting them.—(Cheers.)
They might well suppose that the Duke of Welling-
ton would have been desirous of meeting with the
members of a Society of Highlanders who
had always been remarkable for their loyalty and
attachment to the Crown. It RAS a great source
of disappointment to the Noble Duke, that he was
not able to mingle with the members'of a Society, of
which the Consort of their beloved Queen—(Cheers)
—had that evening been announced as the Chief.—
(Cheers.) He would also have been most anxious to
do honour to the merits of the distinguished officer
whom they, as Highlanders, must be proud to
see in the chair.—(Loud cheers.) That gallant
officer was one who had acquired, not merely high,
but the very highest, distinction in his profession,
on the most eventful day that had distinguished the
Noble Duke's career.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
At the battle of Waterloo their Chairman had the
good fortune to be called to defend, if not the most
difficult, certainly a very difficult post of the English
position ;4 and he defended it with the greatest
bravery and the most consummate military ability
and judgment.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave, " The Army and Navy."
Sir ANDREW GREENE replied to the toast, on be-
half of the Navy, paying a high tribute to the gal-
lantry of their Chairman.
Sir FITZROY MACLEAN acknowledged the toast on
the part of the army. He referred to the high esti-
mation in which the officers of both services were
held abroad, and stated that it was the constant en-
deavour of the officers cf the army to cultivate a
good understanding with the officers of the other
great branch of her Majesty`, service;
The CHAIRMAN gave, as the next toast, " The
Memory of Abercrombie, and of the heroes who fell
with him in Egypt." The toast was drank in solemn
silence, and the band played the " Dead March,"
which contrasted with great effect with the previous
festivity.
The CHAIRMAN said they were favoured with the
presence of several officers. He regretted that their
number was small who were survivors of the celebrated
battle of Alexandria.—(Cheers.)
Sir Joins MACDONALD, in acknowledging the
toast, said it could not be otherwise than gratifying
to him and his brother officers to find the last toast
so well received. There could be no doubt that the
services of the army in Egypt were most important
to the nation, while they were rendered memorable
by the fall of commander in the glorious struggle
in which he was engaged. As one of the survivors
of that battle he returned them his thanks for the
honour they had done him and them.
The Earl of CARDIGAN rose to give the next toast ;
he was received with applause, not, however, without
some expressions of disapprobation. He said that, at
a moment's notice, he had been desired to perform a,
duty, which, however agreable, he still felt some
hesitation in undertaking. That duty was to propose
the health of their gallant and distinguished Chair-
man, Sir James Maedonell.—(Cheers.) That toast
ought to be proposed in a manner worthy both of
the Gallant Officer and of the Society with whom he
was then sitting, but he felt himself incom-
petent to do justice to it. Nor was it
necessary that he should dwell upon the
gallant services he had rendered his country,
for they were well known to every indivi-
dual present. He was covered with honours and
wounds gained in the service of his country. Ho
begged to connect with the health of the Gallant
Officer some mention of the charitable exertions of the
Highland Society itself, which had been productive
of much good among the children of soldiers.
The CHAIRMAN (Sir J. Macdonell) acknowledged
the toast in a feeling speech, expressive of his sense
of the condescension of the Duke of 'Wellington, in
having taking notice of them on this occasion, and
thanking the Noble Earl for the kindly manner
in which he had introduced his health. Alluding to
what had been said respecting the share he took in
the battle of Waterloo, he said, in the defence of
Hougoumont, the instructions given to himself and
his companions were briefly these—to defend the post
to the last.—(Cheers.) They eventually succeeded ;
and in doing so, he could assure them, he laid claim
to no greater merit than that of having done his duy
to the utmost.—(Loud cheers.) On such a subject
they would excuse him from saying more.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave as a toast, " Chiefs and
Clans."—lt was drunk with all the honours, and every
mark of enthusiasm.
The toast was followed by a Highland reel by the
four young men who danced before her Majesty at
Tavmouth Castle. They wore the full costume of
the. Highlander, and displayed an activity perfectly
astonishing. The spectator might well exclaim in
witnessing it—
" Magic motion ! changeful ever,
Can I catch thee ; catch thee ? Never !
Whirling o'er the slippery boards 1"
The dancers were enthusiastically applauded by all
present.
Tna CHISHOLM rose to acknowledge the last toast.
He was greeted with cheers that continued for some
time. He said, no person could, for a moment,
doubt the cause of the enthusiasm with which the
toast had been received. The toast of " Chiefs and
Clans" included in it every Highlander.—(Cheers.)
No wonder, then, that such a toast should be so re-
ceived in such a Society. He could not forget, too,
that there were many among them of their Saxon
fellow-countrymen, and to them he felt especially
grateful for the warm sympathy with which they
had entered into their national feelings.—(Cheers.)
They had heard much--too much lately—of a
necessary incongruity between the races of the
Celt and the Saxon. Let the cordiality
and good feeling evinced among them that evening,
for ever give the lie to so vile and so false an asser-
tion.—(Loud cheers.) Would that the same good

Sir JAMES LUSITINGTON replied to the toast in a
neat speech, in which he alluded to the services of
the detachment of the army in India, which, under
Sir David Baird, marched across the Desert to co-
operate with the force in Egypt under Sir Ralph
Abercro:nbie. He also paid a just tribute .of praise
to the conduct of the 74th Highland Regiment at the
battle of Assaye.
The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Visitors," coupling
with the toast the name of the Rev. Mr. Gleig (the
Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital).
The Rev. Mr. GLEIG returned thanks. He
thanked them, as a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, for the compliment paid him by many who, he
was aware, were not members of that Church. He
had seen some service in the army, and he knew what
soldiers were ; though he never had the honour of be-
longing to a Highland regiment, yet he knew what
they were, and what was the extent of their grati-
tude to those who endeavoured to make them not only
good soldiers, but good men.
The "Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot-
land" was then drank, the " Caledonian Society"
being joined with it.
The latter part of the toast was acknowledged by
Mr. GORDON Durr, who stated that the asylum,
which educated ninety-three boys, had just added
ten to that number, and that the funds of the institu-
tion enabled them to add to their present building ac-
commodation for 100 inmates.

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A song, most sweetly sung by Miss P. Horton,
" Will ye come to the Highlands," followed.
The CHAIRMAN gave "The Branch Societies in the
Colonies and elsewhere ;" the name of the Bishop. of
Newfoundland was mentioned with great praise in
connection with this toast.

Mr. Templeton sang, in his best style, the song of
" There lived a young lassie all down in yon glen.,
" The Emerald Isle" was then toasted, and was
followed by an Irish song, admirably given by Mr.
Jones. The toast of " The poetry of out native
country" was followed by a song from Major Burns.
"The Ladies" were given with all the honours.
" llighlanders, shoulder to shoulder," followed ; after
which Mr. M'lan sang " Donald Caird."
On the motion of The CuisnoLm, Sir John Mac-
donald was elected a member of the Highland So-
ciety by acclamation. Colonel Faulkner and Mr.
M‘Gregor (of the Board of Trade) were chosen mem-
bers in the same manner.
"The Fine Arts and Scottish Artists" was then given,
and was followed by a song, "The oak and the ivy,"
from Mr. Ransford. _ .

The CHAIRMAN gave the " Gaelic School So-
ciety of Edinburgh." In introducing it, he stated
that when he was in Canada he met with
many of his old relations and friends, for
they were Highlanders, and he was much morti-
fied to find that their children could not speak
a word of Gaelic. This, he thought, was a
sort of insult to their mother country. The
French Canadians, on the contrary, still
spoke their native French, and many of them had
even learned the Gaelic, but could not speak English.
He hoped, therefore, that the Society would do all in
its power to extend the knowledge of the Gaelic

language.
The toasts concluded with "The land we live in."
In addition to Mr. M‘Kay (the Piper of the So-
ciety), his brother (her Majesty's Piper), by per-
mission, attended also, Prince Albert being chosen
Chief of the Society. Hie pipes were of the most
splendid description, the Royal arms being richly
embroidered in gold on a blue banner. Macbeth (the
Piper of the Duke of Sutherland) was also present,
and the three, in their picturesque costumes, added
much to the brilliancy and effect of the entertainment,
as they paraded the hall—
" In the plume of the eagle and plaid of the north!"
The company separated at one o'clock.

THE MURDER or Ma. SOLOMONS.—At an ad-
journed meetiag of the Brighton Commissioners of Police,
held on Wednesday, the following resolution, moved by Mr.
Folkard, and seconded by Mr. Bradshaw, wait unanimously
carried :—" It is with the most painful feelings the Corn-
missioneue have heard the awful account of the murder of
Mr. Henry Solomons, their chief officer of police, and com-
mend their clerk for the steps he has taken in bringing the
murderer to justice. The Commissioners cannot but express
their abhorrence and detestation of the cold-blooded deed
which has deprived the town of an old, faithful, and valuable
servant, the country of a most zealous and vigilant officer,
and a mother and nine children of the only support on which
they depended for subsistence. The Commissioners, deeply
commiserating the distressing situation into which, by this aw-
ful act, the family of their latechief officer is plunged, resolve,
That a special meeting be convened on Wednesday, the 27th
inst., for the purpose of taking their unhappy circumstances
into consideration, and to adopt such measures relating thereto
as the meeting may deem ex;pedient-"
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closure are proceeding rapidly towards completion, Mr.
Barry, the architect, hating devoted much of his time of
late, for the purpose of causing the whole to be thrown open
to the public during the summer months. The Artesian
well is likewise fast advancing, the bore having been alread -
sunk a considerable depth. The basins of the fountains
be 83 feet in diameter, and are to be covered with Mande's
1 Patent Portland Cement, which has been found to resist the
action of the atmosphere and of water as long as most de-
scriptions of stone, while it possesses end retains the colour
of that material. The pavement of the inner court of the
quadrangle is to be laid out in a somewhat teaselated style,
the darker parts being composed of asphalte, and relieved by
the introduction of ornamental work in the Portland Cereen.:.
The whole space to be covered is about 18,000 feet.
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The new Easter spectacle
preparing at the Princess's Theatre is from the pen of one
of the principal contributors to a most popular periodi-
cal. It will combine all the comic talent of the Theatre,
with the addition of Wright' and the aid of the admired
ballet company. The musical arrangements are entrusted
to Mr. Corri, who displayed so much tact in his labours in
the Magic Mirror, and the ballet of Lcoia.

INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF BERNADOTTE, KING
or SWEDEN.—Among the wounded prisoners, was a young
French sergeant, who so particularly attracted the notice of
Colonel Wangenheim, commandant of the Hanoverian troops
in the English service, by his interesting appearance and
manners, that he ordered the young man to be conveyed to
his own tent, where he was treated with attention and kindness
until his recovery and release. Many years afterwards, when the
French army, under Bernadotte, entered Hanover, General
Wangenheim, among others, attended the levee of the con-
queror. " You have served a great deal," said Bernadotte
on his being presented, " and, as I understand, in India?"
" I have served there"—" M. Cudalore ?"—" I was there—
Have you any recollection of a wounded sergeant, whom you
took under your protection in the course of that service 1"
The circumstance was not immediately present to the Gene •
ral's mind ; but on recollection, he resumed. "I do, indeed, re-
member the circumstance, and a very rine young man he was ;
I have entirely lost sight of him ever since, but it would give
me pleasure to hear of his welfare." "That young Sergeant,"
said Bernadotte, " was the person who has now the honour
to address you, and who is happy in the public opportunity
of acknowledging the obligation, and will omit no means
within his power of testifying his gratitude to General Wan-
genheim."— Wilks's Sketches of the South of India.
SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Wednesday evening, about six
o'clock, W. B. Glasse, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, was proceed-
ing along Portland-place on horseback, accompanied at a
distance by a youth, his groom, when the animal, a
high-spirited one, upon which the latter was riding,
took fright and ran with
.great violence against a
lamp-post ; by the concussion the horse was nearly
stunned, but after a short lapse of time, it started
off again, and came with such violence against some area
railings, that it dropped dead upon the spot. The groom
fell under the animal, and on being extricated he was
immediately conveyed in a cab to the surgery of Mr. A.
B. Chisholm, in Devonshire-street, who upon examina-
tion found that there was a severe concussion, his
right ankle being much injured, and otherwise bruised
very much in various parts of the body. Ho was promptly
bled—and we are happy to find that the sufferer is doing
well.
Dispatches were received yesterday afternoon at the Colo-
nial-oface from the Qovernor of the Falkland Wanda.

The farm of Hougoumont, on the field of Waterloo, which
watt several, times during the day Cie point againat which the
terctst Qf liftpolas'o ittidi ware cliocted.