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• hind it, Thb whole audience immediately rose amidst plau-
dits, cheers, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. The
august travellers and the Royal Consort, from delicacy, re-
tired to the back of the box, leaving her Gracious Majesty
standing alone in front, to receive the cordial tribute of re-
spect—each verse of the national anthem creating a fresh
outburst of applause. Immediately after " God save the
Queen" was over, and the curtain had descended, with the
most commendable good taste, the national Russian hymn
was played. It was, we hear, played at sight ; but it was
executed with the most remarkable precision and feeling by
the admirable orchestra, under its able conductor, and pro-
duced the most imposing effect.
Her Majesty, with his Majesty the Emperor of Russia and
his Majesty the King of Saxony, were attended by the
Duchess of Buccleuch, Baron Brunnow, Count Orloff, the
Earl of llardwicke, Prince Radzivil, Baron Gersdorff,
General d'Adlerberg, Earl of Morton, Colonel Arbuthnot,
Count Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, Dr. Carus, Prince
Wassiltschikoff; Dr. Reinolds, Mons. de Minckwitz, M
d'Alderberg, and Colonel Glasenard, the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess of Gloucester, PriLeess
Mary of Cambridge, were attended by Baron Knesebeck.
Amongst the company we also observed the Dukes of Wel-
lington, Devonshire, Leinster, Montrose, Leeds; the
Duchesses of Beaufort. Somerset, Montrose, Sutherland,
Leinster, Roxburghe ; Baron Nieumann, the Marquises of
Ailesbury, Normanby, Douro, Clanricarde, Worcester, Win-
chester, Granby, Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Ailesbury,
Douro, Clanricarde, Westmeath ; the Earls of Pembroke, Aber-
deen, Liverpool, Jersey, Dunmore, Kenmare, Wilton' Bruce,
Sandwich, Falmouth ; the Countesses of Jersey, Wilton,
Dowager Pembroke, Kenmare, Dunmore, Chesterfield, Glen-
gall ; Lords Castlereagh, Foley, Cantalupe, A. Fitzclarence,
Ernest Bruce, Macdonald, Alfred Villiers, Alfred Paget,
Sondes, Aylmer, Ranelagh ; Ladies Alice Peel, Gardner, Vil-
liers, Lyndhurst, Ernest Bruce, Clementina Villiers, Somer-
set, Seymour, Southampton, Osborne, Alfred Aylmer, Edward
Thynne, Miller, Meux, John Scott, Webster, Foulis, Pynn,
Bulkeley Williams; Count de Noailles ; Sire W. Massey
Stanley, A. B. Clifton, H. Willoughby, H. Webb, H. Meux,
C. Kent, C Shakerley, J. Beckett, T. Hare; Honourables Mr.
and Mrs. Yorke, G. Byng, C. Cavendish; Colonels D'Oyley,
Wildman, Knox, Mrs. Colonel Fitch, Captain Meynell, Cap-
tain Lyon, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Wombwell, Mr. C. Standish,
&c., &c.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Bishop of Norwich, and a deputation from the
Linmean Society, had an audience of the King of Saxony,
on Saturday morning, at Buckingham Palace.
The deputation consisted of Sir William Jackson
Hooker, Dr. Horsfield, Mr. Forster, and Mr. Robert
Brown, were presented to his Majesty by his Excellency
Baron Gersdorff, and the Earl of Morton, Lord in
Waiting.
His Majesty was graciously pleased to enrol his name
as an Honorary Member of the Society.
At twelve o'clock the Ring of Saxony held a Levee at
Buckingham Palace for the reception of the Diplomatic
Corps.
The following were present :—Count de St. Aulaire,
the French Ambassador ; Count de Jarnac, First Se-
cretary ; and Baron de Talleyrand, Attacl4to the Em-
bassy ; Aah Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador ; Count de
Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister ; M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister, and Mr. Charles Drouet, Secre-
tary of Legation ; M. Moreno, Buenos Ayrean Minister ;
Baron de Cetto, Bavaritin Minister ; M. Dedel, the Ne-
therlands Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portu-
guese Minister ; M. Alejo Fortique, the Venezuelan
Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wurtemberg Minister ; le
Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister ;
Mr. Everett, United States Minister, and Mr. Rives,
the Secretary of Legation ; Baron de Nieumann, Aus-
trian Minister, and Baron Kolher, First Secretary of
Legation ; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister ; M. M.
Mosquera, New Greneda Charge d'Affaires • Baron de
Thile, Prussian Charge d'Affaires ; M. 'de Tacon,
Spanish Charge d'Affaires ; Baron de Brockdorff, Se-
cretary to the Danish Legation (in the absence of his
Excellency Count Reventlow, who is in Scotland) ; and
Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic Agent for the Hanse Towns,
and Consul-General for the Ring of Saxony.
Their Excellencies appeared in their different uniforms
and official costumes, the members of Orders of Knight-
hood wearing their respective insignia.
The King received the Diplomatic Corps in the
Library. His Majesty was attended by Baron Gers-
dorff, his Excellency M. de Minckwitz, Count Albert
Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, and Dr. Carus.
The Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting, and Lord
Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting,
were also in attendance on his Majesty at the reception.
The Diplomatic Corps took their departrue from the
Palace at half-past twelve o'clock.
The Emperor of Russia, attended by Baron Brunnow,
went on Saturday forenoon to the Senior United Service
Club, in Pall-mall, where his Imperial Majesty alighted,
and inspected the different saloons. The Emperor then
proceeded to the new Houses of Parliament, where his
Imperial Majesty was met by Prince Albert, attended
by Sir Edward Bowater. The Prince accompanied the
Emperor during the inspection of the new Houses of
Parliament.
His Imperial Majesty, attended by Baron Brunnow
afterwards, went to Montague House, Whitehall-gar-
dens, in an open carriage, to visit the Duke and Duchess
of Buccleuch, His Royal Highness Prince Albert re•
turned on horseback.to Buckingham Palace, attended by
Sir Edward Bowater.
The Emperor of Russia returned to the Palace at
twelve o'clock.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Palace soon
after twelve o'clock, to have an audience of the Emperor
of Russia. The Noble Duke was habited in a Russian
uniform, and wore the insignia of the Garter and of the
Golden Fleece.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Sa-
turday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Prince
Albert, and their respective suites, left the Palace at a
quarter past one o'clock, to honour the Duke of Devon-
shire with their company,' at the grand fête given by
his Grace, at his Villa at Chiswick.
The illustrious party occupied five (open) carriages
and four, and were escorted by a party of Lancers.
The first carriagecontained his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and
his Majesty the King of Saxony.
The second carriage contained the Equerry in
Waiting on Prince Albert, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater ; the Count Orloff; his Excellency Baron
Brunnow ; and the Lord in Waiting on the Emperor of
Russia, the Earl of Hardwicke.

IRELAND.

(FROM A MORNING CONTEMPORARY.)
THE WRIT OF ERROR.
DUBLIN, JUNE B.—Mr. Ford, the solicitor of Mr. O'Con-
nell in the State prosecutions, left Kingstown yesterday for
London, in order to instruct counstl respecting the writ of
error. I have learned that Sir Coleman O'Loghlen and Mr.
Close, two of the counsel for the traversers, are about hi
leave for London, to co-operate with the nglish counsel
during the argument on the writ of error before the House
of Lords.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YESTERDAY.
TIIE QUEEN V. O'CONNELL AND OTHERS.
The Attorney-General was in attendance at the sitting of
the Court.
Mr. CLOSE applied that the officer be at liberty to amend
certain clerical errors in the assignments of error filed on the
part of the several defendants.
JUDGE BURTON—We had better wait until the rest of the
Court sit.
Mr. CLOSE—The Attorney. General consents to the ap-
plication.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I do, my Lord.
Application granted.
The other Judges having entered the Court,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, I have to hand in, my
Lords, the joinders in error in the Queen v. O'Connell. Mr.
Kenunis, put your name at the foot of each of them.
Mr. CLOSE—I apprehend there can be no doubt about the
practice. My application is to have the case placed in the
Crown paper, so that it may be disposed of here without de-
lay, and our writ of error to Parliament speeded.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was of opinion that these
assignments of error could not be argued in any place but in
that Court. Mr. Close said the case was to be argued pro
forma only, and of course he (the Attorney-General) had
no idea to take up the pubic time, but he thought it neces-
sary to make this statement to the Court.
It was then arranged that the case should be disposed of
on Monday.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was perfectly satisfied not to
argue the question, if their Lordships did not think it
necessary.
The matter was then allowed to drop.
MR. O'CONNELL IN PRISON.
Yesterday and this day a considerable number of gentle-
men, many of them from various parts of the country, paid
their respects to Mr. O'Connell and the other State prison-
ers. Several addresses were presented by deputations from
public meetings.
The Limerick Reporter says—" The resolutions adopted at
the meeting in this city on Friday week, having• been re-
ceived by Mr. William Smith O'Brien, he communicated
them to the Liberator in a manner the most courteous, and
in a tone of feeling which alone could arise from his entire
concurrence in the sentiments they contained. The reply of
the Liberator, as nearly as could be collected, was to the
following effect :
" He said his heart was light, and his spirit full of hope.
Instead of considering the prison as a disgrace, or even a
punishment, he rejoiced that he had at length the honour
and the happiness of suffering for Ireland. He loved his
native land only the more intensely for that suffering, and
that love would, he was convinced, be rewarded by the result
of the trials and of the imprisonment.
" ' The repeal of the union is certain. It is certain ; be-
cause the people of Ireland will preserve the peace unbroken
—it is certain; because the nniversal people of Ireland will
persevere in their peaceful but determined, demand for that
repeal. Relaxation in the agitation for repeal is no longer
possible. Neutrality is at an end. Every man must take a
part. He who is not for Ireland is against her.
"' II who is not a repealer—he who does not unequivocally
show his disapprobation of the unconstitutional proceedings
adopted against the friends of Ireland belongs to the camp of
the enemy, and is ranged at the same side with the Attorney-
General, and comforts and abets the prosecutors who had
placed him (Mr. O'Connell) in prison.
" 4 The men of Limerick—the descendants of the heroes
and heroines of old—are amongst the first to prove them-
selves worthy of a crisis so imminent and unparalleled as the
present. The men of Limerick will rally round the all but
annihilated liberties of their country. They will secure the
universal co-operation of every true Irishman ; for no Irish-
man can be true who does not co-operate to make his native
country a nation again.
" "ro him (Mr. O'Connell) the gaol was a paradise, as it
secured that co-operation—a co-operation peaceful in its na-
ture, butsternly determined in its object—the Repeal of the
Union.' "
POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY.
A requisition is in progress for a meeting of the county of
Meath, to address Mr. O'Connell and the other State pri-
soners, and to promote the collection of the repeal rent. Mr.
H. Grattan, one of the Members for the county of Meath,
has published the following address to his constituents
" Gentlemen—After a painful and an unwilling absence, I
have returned to Ireland, and have passed through London
without entering the House of Commons.
" Of this I think it right to apprise you, and as I am in •
formed that a public meeting will be held on Monday next,
at the Corn Exchange, in Dublin, I shall attend for the pur-
pose of explaining my conduct and my views to my consti-
tuents, on the propriety of which it will be for them to
Beside.

The third carriage contained his Excellency Baron
Gersdorff, his Excellency M. de Minelcwitx, and the
Lord in Waiting on the King of Saxony, the Earl of
Morton.

The fourth carriage contained Prince Wassiltsehikoff,
Count Albert Vitzthum, Baron Radzivill, and le Colonel
Gla zenap.
The fifth carriage contained M. d'Adlerberg, the Baron
de Reichardt, Dr. Carus, and Dr. Reinolds.
Lord George Lennox, Lord Charles Wellesley,
Lieut.-Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Lieut.-Colonel
Wylde had previously left the Palace, in an open carriage
and four, for Chiswick.
Prince Albert, the Emperor of Russia, the King of
Saxony, and the Royal Suite, returned to the Palace at
half-past five o'clock.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Emperor of Russia,
and the King of Saxony, went on Saturday evening to
her Majesty's Theatre, to honour the performance of the
Italian Opera with their presence.
A few minutes past Eight o'oclock, the august party
left the Palace for the Opera House. Her Majesty and
the Prince Consort, the Emperor of Russia, and the
King of Saxony, being in one carriage.
The Royal Suites occupied seven of her Majesty's ear-
-1 riages, and included the Duchess of Buccleuch, Lady
Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Lister, Viscount Sydney,
Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Morton, Colonel Arbuthnot,
the Count Orloff, le General d'Alderberg, le Prince
Wassiltschikoff, le Prince Radzivill, Colonel Glasenap,
M. d'Alderberg, Dr. Reinolds, M. de Minckwitz, Count
Albert Vitzthum, Baron de Reichardt, and Dr. Carus.
Yesterday morning the Emperor of Russia attended
Divine service in the Chapel in Welbeck-street. His
Excellency Baron Brunnow, and the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of his suite, were in waiting.
His Majesty the King of Saxony attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the Bavarian Chapel in
Warwick-street. His Majesty was attended by the
Gentlemen of his suite.
In the afternoon the Emperor of Russia, attended by
his Excellency Baron Brunnow, honoured the Dowager
Countess of Pembroke with a visit. His Imperial Majesty
returned to the Palace at four o'clock, and afterwards
gave audience to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia took his
departure yesterday afternoon for the Continent.
The Queen, who was attended by the Duchess of Buc-
cleuch, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Lister,
took leave of her august guest in the Sculpture Gallery.
The Royal Family accompanied her Majesty.
The Great Officers of State, the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse, and
also Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting; the Hon.
Charles A. Murray, Master of the Household; Sir Henry
Wheatley, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Sir
Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting; and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, were in at-
tendance in the Grand Hall, and with each of these gen-
tlemen the Emperor took leave.
At five minutes before five o'clock the Emperor was
handed into one of the Queen's carriages by the Earl of
Jersey, Master of the Horse, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert accompanying his Imperial Majesty.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow, the Earl of Aberdeen,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of Siete for Foreign
Affairs, and the Count Orloff, occupied the next carriage
and four.

:Tiaare the honour to be, gentlemen, your sincere friend
and very attached humble servant,

_
HENRY GRATTAN.
" Dublin, Saturday, June 8, 1844."
CITY OF DUBLIN.
ST. ANDREW'S WARD.—Yesterday a numerous and re-
spectable meeting of the inhabitants of this ward was held
for the purpose of recording their opinions of the late State
prosecutions, and adopting an address of condolence to the
Liberator and his fellow-martyrs in prison. Seventy pounds
were collected on the spot.
ST. AUDEON'S WARD.—A numerous and respectable meet-
ing of the liberal burgesses of St. Audeon's ward was yester-
day held in Spitalfield Market, for the purpose of adopting
an address of sympathy to the Liberator and his fellow-
prisoners, as also for the purpose of giving public expression
to the feelings of the inhabitants of that district of the city
with respect to the recent state prosecutions.
CASTLE WARD.—A meeting of the liberal burgesses of the
Castle ward was held on Thursday last, at the Royal Ex-
change, for the purpose of considering the propriety of pre-
senting an address expressive of sympathy and conidence
to the Liberator and his fellow-martyrs. The Very Rev.
A. O'Connell, D.D., was called to the chair amid
loud applause. The very reverend gentleman said
he warmly concurred in the object of the meeting, and
thought the time had fully arrived when it was the im-
perative duty of every• Irishman, who had the welfare
of his country at heart, to come forward, and declare his sen-
timents manfully and unequivocally.--(Hear, hear.) Who
had a heart to feel, or a mind to understand, could be silent
when the man whom they all loved was confined in a prison
—the man on whom the hopes and affections of an entire na-
tion were unalterably fixed?
COLLEGE WARD.—A very numerous and respectable meet-
ing of the inhabitants of the College Ward was held in the
Adelphi Theatre, for the purpose of.adopting an address to the
Liberator and his fellow-martyrs in the cause of their com •
mon country, as well as to express their firm determination
to redouble their exertions in peaceably and constitution-
ally agitating until the repeal was carried. Alderman
Rooney was called to the chair. Several subset iptionn were
handed in to the amount of 501. A deputation s Astber...l4
pointed to present the address to Mr. O'Connell.
MEETING OF THE FOUR COUUTS' WARD.—OR nurs-
day evening the inhabitants of this ward met for the pur-
pose of making arrangements for the more efficient collec-
tion of the repeal rent, and adopting an address of congratu-
lation to the illustrious Liberator and his fellow-martyrs.
James Sheridan, Esq., T.C., presided. Several persons pre-
sent during the meeting subscribed 11. each ; but, on the
chair being vacated, the scene that presented itself was most
remarkable. Many rushed eagerly forward, and contributed
shillings, half-crowns, &c., according to their respective capa-
cities. At the close of the proceedings the" subscriptions had
amounted to a large sum.
• CORK CORPORATION.—There was a most numerous at-
tendance of the members of the Council at the usual weekly
meeting on Thursday, the Mayor presiding. An address to
Mr. O'Connell, expressive of the Council's sympathy with
him under his present trials, and their unalterable attach-
ment to him and to the national cause, for the advocacy of
which he is so great a sufferer, was passed by an overwhelm-
ing majority.—Corkßeporter.
CORK CHA3IBER OF COMMERCE.—The Corh Examiner of
yesterday contains the following :—A highly influential meet-
ing of the friends of O'Connell and repeal was held this day at
two, in the Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose of organising
the collection for the year of captivity. At the unanimous
call of the meeting Aderman Daniel Murphy took the chair.
Several resolutions were passed expressive of theunalterable
attachment of the people to their great leader. At the close
of the proceedings a subscription list was opened, and in the
space of five minutes 200/. and odd was collected. There is
not the slightest doubt but that Cork will forward 1,0001. to
the national cause in the course of the next week.
LIMERICK CORPORATION.—On Tuesday the town council
met for the special purpose of voting an address to the
Liberator, and to express their feeling of the conduct of the
Government, and their own fixed determination to persevere
in the struggle for a domestic Parliament.
CITY OF LIMERICK.—On Thursday the citizens of Limerick
assembled to record their sentiments in reference to the
monster sentence passed upon the Liberator of Ireland and
the other traversers who share his lot. The meeting was by
far the largest, most influential, and respectable seen in this
city for a length of time, and everyman wore a repeal button
in his coat.
KILKENNY CORPORATION.—The corporation yesterday
(Friday) voted an address to Mr. O'Connell, which is to be
presented by the mayor and almost all the members of the
corporation, on Monday next.
NENAGlL—Thursday evening a meeting was held at the
Temperance-hall, the Rev. Nicholas Power, C.C., in the chair.
Mr. Spain, treasurer of the fund, announced the amount of the
collection to be nearly 1401., not including the contributions
of the clergy, which are to be separately sent forward through
the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy. We may observe that the
above sum has been exclusively contributed in the (own.

....
Lord George Lennox, Lieutenant-Colonel Berkeley
Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Major-General
Sir Edward Bowater, le General d'Adlerberg, M. d'Ad-
lerberg, le Prince Wassiltschikoff, le Prince Radzivill,
Colonel Glasenap, and Dr. Reinolds, followed in three
open carriages and four.
The Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in waiting to the Em-
peror had preceded his Imperial Majesty to Woolwich
in the forenoon.
The illustrious party quitted the Palace by the marble
arch, and was escorted by a party of the Royal Horse
Guards. On arriving at Woolwich, the Emperor in-
spected the dock-yard, and afterwards embarked on the
Black Eagle.

His RoYal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord George Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel
Drummond, and Sir E. Bowater, returned to town, and
arrived at Buckingham Palace shortly before eight
o'clock.

The Bishop of London preached the sermon yesterday
morning in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, read prayers.
His Majesty the King of Saxony, attended by his
Excellency Baron Gersdorff and the gentlemen of his
suite, and also by Lord Charles Wellesley, honoured Sir
Robert and Lady Peel, the Duke and Duchess of Buc-
cleuch, and the Earl and Countess of Jersey, with visits
yesterday, at their respective residences.
In the evening his Majesty, attended by his Excellency
Baron Gersdorff and the gentlemen of his suite, dined
with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester and a select party were
present to meet his Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, went
yesterday morning to Kew, and attended Divine service
in Kew Church. Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese-
beck were in waiting on the Duke and Duchess. Their
Royal Highnesses returned to town in the afternoon.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Baroness Ahlefeldt and Major Stephens, honoured the
Duke of Devonshire with their company on Saturday,
at his Grace's residence at Chiswick. In the evening
their Royal Highnesses honoured the Italian Opera with
their presence.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, and
Sir F. Trench, attended the early service, yesterday, in
the Chapel Royal, St.:James's. The sermon was preached
by the Rev. Dr. Hook. _ _ _

The Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquises of Salis-
bury, Northampton, and Huntley, Ladies Wilton, J.
Eliot, and S. Savile, Lords Bandon, Harrowby, Wilton,
Dartmouth, Zetland, Eliot, Wrottesley. J. O'Bryen, and
Ingestre, attended divine service yesterday, in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Hook
preached the sermon.
A deputation, including the Lord Advocate, Mr.
Home Drummond, M.P., Sir Thomas B. Hepburn, M.P.
Mr. Loch, M.P., Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, M.P., Mr. Ban-
Herman, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. Sinollett, M.P.,
Mr. Edward Ellice, jun., M.P., Mr. James Morrison,
M.P., Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P.,
accompanied by Mr. John Maitland from Edinburgh,
and Mr. Melville Jameson from Perth, as a deputation
from the Scottish Savings' Banks, with Mr. M‘Haßie,one
of the Directors of the Glasgow, and Mr. John Harrock,
jun., of the Dundee Savings' Bank, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the government
of the Pentonville Prison, was held at the Council-office
on Saturday. The Commissioners present were Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Devon,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Benjamin
Brodie, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Russell.

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

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

LITERATURE.
NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.—No. I.
Kennedy, Edinburgh, 1844.
This is the first number of a new quarterly pe-
riodical which bids fair—provided it be continued
with the same care and spirit with which it has com-
menced—to obtain no inconsiderable share of public
favour. The articles have, in the first place, the merit
of being selected with judgment, and secondly, they
are ably canvassed, and are just of a fitting length.
The first is on the subject of the late Baron Cuvier, of
whom we have a minute and circumstantial memoir,
and of whose surprising discoveries in natural history
the Reviewer speaks in terns of warm, but certainly
not unmerited, panegyric. " Cuvier's genius," he
observes, "was confined to our own globe, but it
ranged through periods of unlimited duration; it
grasped in its syllogisms the ruins and regeneration
of successive worlds; and it exhibited in their re-
mains the waving forests of our primeval earth, the
huge reptiles that took shelter in its caves, and the
gigantic monsters that trod uncontrolled its plains."
The "Highlarids of lEthiopia" is an impartial and
careful notice of Major Harris's recently-published
work on this subject, whose chief defect, as is justly
remarked, is its " want of precise information.' It
has many spirited, and some few brilliant chapters,
but a 3 a whole its information is not well digested.
In the article headed " Tracts on the Corn Trade"—
a subject, by the bye, which is handled with singular
moderation—we are told, and told rightly, that the
holders of capital, and more especially of capital
vested in the preparation of export manufactures, feel
that they have an immediate and direct interest in the
abolition of the corn-laws. "Memoirs of Mrs. Grant
of Laggan" is a good-natured gossipping account of
an authoress whose reputation once stood higher than
it is ever likely to stand again. Mrs. Grant was a
skilful graphic writer, who excelled in the descriptive,
but none of her works—not even her well-known
" Letters from the Mountains"—have the elements of
perpetuity. They were read—admired—and are for-
gotten. We quote from the " Contributions of Lord
Jeffrey to the Edinburgh Review," which have lately
been republished in three volumes, the following just
critical estimate of this eminent periodical critic and
essayist :

" The most natural comparison, as we have said before,
to which every one is prompted to subject these volumes,
is to the writings of Sydney Smith and Macaulay : and
on a first or superficial impression, the comparison is not
in their favour. The quaint wit of Sydney Smith, and
Macaulay's stately rolling periods, and glittering images,
beguile the time more quickly, and rivet the attention
closer. Those who exp,,cted to find Jeffrey's essays of
a similar stamp, have probably read or tried to real!, the
book, with a feeling of disappointment. It wants sus-
tained interest for the more indolent class of readers,
and is not a work for a lounger to skim over of a morning.
The difference arises in a great measure from causes we
have already adverted to : for these articles are truly
criticisms—intended to teach and instruct. But in other
respects they have merits of a higher order, and in a
higher degree than either of these authors. In the first
place, as pure English compositions, we think Jeffrey's
writings incomparably superior, not only to his brother
reviewers, but to most writers of his time. Sydney
Smith's style is careless, though effective. Macaulay's
is an artificial costume. He is alwayss in full dress,
and marches perpetually to the same majestic but rather
pompous strain. We read through his three volumes
with great delight, but as we read, the everlasting
reverberation of his sentences, like a great sea wave on
a sandy beach, made our head reel at last. Jeffrey
does not drive over the ground so smoothly, but he is
infinitely better worth loitering with. His choice of
words is unbounded, and his felicity of expression, to
the most impalpable shade of discrimination, almost mi-
raculous. Playful, lively, and full of illustration, no
subject is so dull or so dry that he cannot invest it with
interest, and none so trifling that it cannot acquire
dignity er elegance from his pencil. He can rise to the
heights of the most exalted argument, or gossip with
equal ease with Mary Montague or Peps, and neither
his flights nor his descents seem to cost him an effort, or
to interrupt the unencumbered flow of his thoughts.
Other writers have been more stately, more accurate,
more witty, more florid, than he ; but few have ever
combined so much facility and so much excellence in all.
In playful satire he stands, in our opinion, without a
rival in his time. It was his favourite and most dreaded
weapon, of which his rapid fancy, quick sense of the ri-
diculous, and his command of happy expression, rendered
him as complete a master as ever practised the art. In-
dependently, however, of mere style, and apart from the
great variety of subject embraced by his pen, the distin-
guishing feature of his writings, and that in which he
excels his contemporary reviewers, is the deep vein of
practical thought which runs throughout them all. He
is not what would now-a-days be thought an original
thinker. He has no mysteries. He does not startle by
unexpected fancies, or by every-day thoughts arrayed in
half-intelligible language. On the contrary, he plainly
eschews such things as offences against good taste and
nature, and handles them unmercifully when they come
under his cognizance."

THE GREAT MUTT QUESTION; or the Mys-
tery Unravelled, in a-Letter from TV. B. Ferrand,
M. P., to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart.,
M.P., 4-c.—ollivier, Pall-mall.
This pamphlet purports to be a justification of the
author, from the attacks made upon him by the
Home Secretary, in relation to his conduct and as-
sertions about the Poor-law Commissioners, and the
reports of Mr. Mott, as to the Bolton and Keighly
unions. Its tone and temper are ala Ferrand ; and
although we think that a less violent style might
have served the purpose better, still, making allow-
ance for the cutting sarcasms which the author has
been compelled to bear, we are not surprised that he
should have used the vigorous, rather than the argu-
mentative.
It is the distinguishing privilege of the present
Government, in which it rejoices beyond any of its
predecessors, that the most angry and ferocious
attacks upon its policy shall proceed from apparent
friends. Thus Mr. Ferrand, dating from the Carlton
Club, and missives from the locality of Downing-
street are alike hostile ; and neither party nor situa-
tion are assurances of certain support. Monopoly
has no friends in heart at the Board of Trade—and
the most eager runners down of the Whigs are not
the most sincere holders up of the Tories.
Mr. Ferrand's pamphlet is worth a perusal. As a
treat to the uninitiated, we subjoin his view of the
question between him and Sir James Graham :
" Recollect this is no affair between man and man,
between one Member and another—it is between an
honest, independent Member of Parliament on one side,
and an unscrupulous, overbearing Secretary of State
on the other. You may, it is true, still continue in
office—still continue, like a true despot, to insult,
and, if possible, to ' crush' every honest man who
ventures to raise his voice in behalf of the suffering
poor, whom you have made it the business of your office
to oppress—your expedient chief may still find it in-
expedient to part with your valuable services—but the
people of England will judge differently between us. It
was in the name of the people of England that I pro-
tested against your late unconstitutional proceedings ;
Sir, it is to the people of England that I now make my
appeal !"
"Audi alteram partem," is the motto Mr. Ferrand
has affixed to his pamphlet ; which, in this case, may
be translated, "Do not condemn Sir James Graham,
unheard."

A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF DEFAMA-
TION. By W. H. Cooke, Esq. Richards.
Mr. Cooke, who is well known as an author of
talent and judgment, has added to his reputation in
the work before us. It is a condensed, faithful, and
clear statement of the law upon which it treats, and
is a valuable book for the professional reader, or for
those to whom the law of defamation, written or oral,
may be applied. It is a work that was much needed,
and one of general utility.

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

We renew our extracts from this opportune and
very sensible pamphlet.
in the following passage we have the statement of
the fluctuations " in the proportion of gold and silver
in our successive coinages from 1601 to 1717, namely,
in the year 1601 it was 1 to 10 56-59ths ; in 1604, it
was 1 to 12-17ths ; in 1610 it was 1 to 13 1-sth; in

-1663 it was 1 to 14i ; and in 1717 it was 1 to 15
2-15ths. This is the remarkable illustration of Sir
Robert's intrepid assertion that the pound sterling'
.of our monetary system, means a certain, determinate
quantity of the precious metals." The Enquirer
sums up this recapitulation with these words :
"Thus, I an► afraid, Sir, I must again say that your
statement of the case is not in strict accordance with
the facts." This language may be thought somewhat
" Tartarly " to a Prime Minister; but our author is
not sparing of these epigrammatic interlocutories, in
conducting his judicial investigation of the Premier's
proposals. Thus :—" When the pilot to whom the
vessel is entrusted is found to be so widely out of his
reckoning, and breakers are ahead, it is our duty to
pipe all hands, take in the sails, cast anchor, and en-
deavour to ascertain where we are, before we commit
ourselves again to his guidance."—(P. 14.)
" Unfortunately, Sir, for your consistency, our
pound sterling underwent four alterations after that."

This last illusion to the " Jack Cade Legislation, dis-
cussed by a Conservative Member at the beginning of
the present session, is very happy. But who could
have anticipated in 1819, this near approximation, in
1844, of the alarming "equitable adjustment" doc-
trine of Mr. Cobbett to the hypothetical results which
are especially connected with the leading propositions
of Sir R. Peel ? This affirmation is thus made out—
" Now. Sir, with respect to your recommendation
that they, who think that they are injured by the
altered value of money since the :ounce of gold was re-
duced from 51. in paper money to 31. 17s. lqd. should
endeavour to obtain redress by means of a separate en-
actment,—making that difference a discount from the
debt—let me, in the first place, say, that though I have
no doubt this is your meaning, your language bears a
different construction. I take for granted, however, that
you mean the reverse of what your words, as they are
reported, imply • and that 31. 17s. 104 d., 'being, in the
papment of a debt, equivalent to what' 51. used to be,
all those who have contracted debts or engagements
shall be allowed to pay their debts in that way.' This
meaning is borne out by another passage, as follows :
' Observe, Ido not deny that that may produce matter
for consideration. All contracts, during the incontro-
vertibility of paper, having been made through a differ-
ent medium of exchange, when you restore that conver-
tibility, that subject may demand consideration. But I
only want to convince you what is now the mt.aure of
value.' These, Sir, are indeed important words: they
compel us to believe that you are not unfriendly to the
principles of an EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT. so zealously
advocated by the late Mr. Cobbett. What boundless
triumph would have been his, had be lived to see this
day !
" The view which is here opened out is too vast in ex-
tent, too mighty in its consequences, to be even touched
upon at the close of this long letter. It has, moreover,
so influential a bearing on your new monetary measures,
that before I proceed to notice them, I should wish to
know what prospect there is of the expectation being re-
alised which is thus held out. I hope some member of
the House, who is sensible of the value of your answer
(whether yes or no) to the right appreciation of the
propositions which you have laid before the House and
the country, will put such questions to you on the sub-
sect of this equitable adjustment, as will give you an op-

_
portunity of setting at rest the hopes of some, the fears
of others, and the anxieties of all."

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
_

Bask Stock -----199 ii ineliiTitock........ ...... . pm.
3 per Cent. Red 96% Ditto Bonds .......... ..... pm.
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red lOl% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent. EL Bills, 1,0001. I%cl ... 71 pm.
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7l pm.
Jan Ib6o l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 — Consols for 0pg........... 1,8(
Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct....

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent 'Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... ....... Ditto New Ditto.. .........
Brazilian Bonds ............... !Prussian, 5 per Cent -
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... !Russian, 5 per Cent llB
Chllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic -
Colombian, 6 per Cent - 22-%
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 33S
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred...........---
Danish, 3 per Cent "..
681‘ French, 5 per Cent-
.... —f. —c.
Greek, 18::5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f --c.
Mexican,s per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — 'Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100,{

_ - -
SHARES.
81
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
%
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 11%
_,Paid) . „ 13
Ditto Registered (Kt t3s fad pawl)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
spoicl)paid)
75
GrDeaitt:Hesatiefirnsha(Ls
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid 22%
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ll
London and Greenwich (12t. 158. 4d. paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) ......... .... .............. S%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ................. . ...... 107
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
43%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
57
South Eastern and Dover (33 25 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
Paris
ylicrrnTrentnuikse naoaVnunadatdnhl
Scarborough
rde?pnrrosaeoi:
u(dw2olgoi
he
pphanai
(irddia)Bn . 10Z
7s
pced()2 hi ;aid)
10%
-€0„.„
20'

THE KING OF SAXONY.--We understand that the
King of Saxony will leave Buckingham Palace on Friday or
Saturday next for Scotland, attended by Lord Charles Wel•
lesley, who has the honour of having been selected by the
Queen to attend his Majesty. His Excellency Baron Gers-
dorff, his Excellency M. de Minkwitz, Count Albert %rift-
thum, Major Reichardt, and Dr. Carus will accompany their
Royal master in his journey* to the north. After visiting
Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow, Stirling, &c., his Majesty intends
to make a tour of Wales, and thence come direct to the metro-
polis, whence the King will shortly afterwards depart for
Germany. _ .

MAIL'S BY TnrEsTE.---The director of the post-
office at Trieste has issued a notice, stating that in future
there will be three mails per months between Trieste and
Alexandria. The letters will be sent from Trieste on the Ist,
Rh, and 21t1 Qf each month,

"Of these changes you appear to have been NAVAL INTELLIGENCE;
I
uninformed."-(P. 13.) PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9.-The Arrow, 6, ketch, Lieutenant•
"At all events, men of ordinary understandings Commander W. Robinson, arrived on Thursday from Ele-
will draw a conclusion against you, when you say phant Bay, near Benguela (coast of Africa), which-she left"
Ililttt
the March, when the Winchester, 50, Captain
Conway, 26,flag
that this standard-this measuxe of value-which they on
Eaetnheof Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, C. 8.,
object to, as being obsolete and unfit for the altered the Captain R. Fair, K.H., and the Sappho, 16,
circumstances of the country, has been ' adhered to , sloop, Commander the Hon. Gorge Hope, were lying at the
ever since f while the truth is that it has been four mfofr.Aeprripl,laacne4.dsaTtfhpeaAyarri oown ttobueclhsedth at
of
Asmceaynfsoiornwaoten
rt.heslhset
times altered since. They will perceive that you are
mistaken in your FACTS; while the others can only
igvs iay,nvwaalis
so riplml
asthtoe
preclude hopes
opCesapotafirneeFoavierr,y.of
Athde. be tCnonn
mistaken in their opinions."-(P. 20.) I miral Percy had appointed Commander Kelly, of the Win-
" You have evidently misunderstood the question chester, to command the Conway, which it is confidently ex-
at issue, as well as misapprehended the facts of the pected the Admiralty will confirm. The Hydra, Commander
care."-(P. 23.) 11. B. Young, and the Sealark, 10, Commander T. L. Gooch,
The pamphleteer points out Sir Robert's confusion were very sickly . the Sealark had lost her master, Mr. H.
of Pope ; and the purser, Mr. James Pemberty, 'and'
of terms in speaking of the "standard of value," in , several hands, Mr. Thomas, one of the mixed commission at
this forcible manner :- Loango, had also died.
" I would merely observe, that the indiscriminate use The Arrow has been six years and upwards in commission,
of the words ' standard and measure' is embarrassing. the greatest part of which time she has been employed in sur-
By the standard of silver we should conceive the purity veying the Falkland Islands, and for the last year and a half
of the metal was the thing meant; by the standard of as a cruiser at. the Ctapebeorf tsotd
she captured
atnudretdhetwcooaos/
the
same we might imagine you intended to express the Africa, Y
'largest s'ime-erres Itaakeneptheear'e for some years. pShe has only lost
same thing as the measure of value. Harris makes use
of a convenient term which might be advantageously in- twog men during this long service, and those died from natural
Though often in imminent peril she never suffered
troduced into these discussions. Ties peaks not only of acanuascecaident or lest a spar, and has ploughed the ocean for
the measure of value, but of the standard measure of upwards of 100,000 miles. She came into harbour on Thurs-
value, when he wants to point out that metal as the men- day evening to be paid off.
sure of value to which the other is subordinate ; thus Since writing the above we have received intelligence of the
he would say our present standard measure of value is death of Captain R. Fair, K.H., of the Conway, 26, which
gold. You, Sir, may mean that the standard purity of ship this gallant officer fitted out for the Cape of Good Hope
the silver coin was fixed in 1566 or 1567, but I cannot station in May last. His achievements in Majesty's service
understand the drift of the passage, either in this sense, wereilen
ilristinguifshiedßaend eminently mneatsoerii!,:asts.
andln tl:3loo4se,
sloop,in with
or in that of a measure of value, or of a standard men the
lie assistedaer cutting 'out the Dutch brig
sure. There may be a mistake in the dates, and what Atalanta, of 16 guns, and while Master in the Amethyst he
is placed in 1567 may be intended for 1557; this would received the praise of the Admiralty for his gallant deeds
throw a little light on the- subject, fer then it might be at the captures of the French frigates Thetis, in 1808, and.
conceived that you allude to the restoration of the purity Niemen, in 1807. Subsequently (when Lieutenant) he had
of our silver coin which took place about 1557. command of a gun-boat in the Walcheren expedition, and
"But can an interruption for fourteen years, or I afterwards, when in command of the Locust gun-brig he
might with more exactness say of eight years, in the drove a French brig-of-war ashore near Calais. and ulti-
preservation of the standard purity of our silver coin, mately succeeded in destroying her. He was at the siege
from the Anglo-Saxon times to the present, when fol- and blockade of Dantzic in 1812. He attained his post rank
in 1837.
lowed by its restoration, be called a fixing of the stan-
The Pearl, 20, Commander R. H. Stopford, arrived on
dard ? You may perhaps think so; and if this is your
meaning, lam happy to acknowledge that during this Wednesday, from South America, and sailed the same day
from Spithead for Chatham to be paid off. She had been
period, in such degree as our silver coin was concerned, eleven weeks on her passage from Rio to Falmouth, where she
you have some foundation for your remark. But the put in for supplies of water and provisions, as she had only
truth obliges me to add that during the same period our two days' allowance left, and had been on two-thirds allow,,
gold pound, the sovereign; was unimpaired in weight ance some weeks. She brought a small freight on merchants'
and purity, if tried by the gold pound of 1601." account, which was forwarded the same day to London to the
On the principle assumed by the Premier, the ex- freight agents of Portsmouth, and afterwards sailed for Chat-
ception of eight years, is to ride over the practice of ham to be paid off.
some eight hundred-an anomaly in the doctrine of The Prince George transport, Lieutenant E. Ward, agent,
arrived from Bermuda, on Thursday morning, after a pas-
" exceptions to the general rules," that cannot be al- sage of thirty-nine days, having sailed April 28. She brought
lowed either in currency or grammar. It may be a number of naval and military invalids, and 140 convicts,
recollected, that on the 7th, Sir Robert, forgetful of lov_hosesisterms of trannsici).rti!sti; have nearly 2itile)fred, in charge
the vice of interminable speeches, was so ill advised t
been tratnastletr-readr'''t.oeethe hulks, Mason,
'the passengercseannvcritnavalaiNcias
as to speak very discourteously of interminable landed. She came into harbour yesterday afternoon to dis-
pamphlets." His very tone and manner betrayed the charge her stores.
The Cygnet, 6,
nLayton,
aya
tr 0-
anger of a man who has got more to answer than he
can manage. He certainly did not calculate the rived at
tSioneg frotmo
asS
e stren of
Africant h slaw
tra-
y penalty of insulting the busy, but irritable, inmates of thetradcea.aaShe takesa' out Mr. John Duncan, the hive which he had the temerity to attack. In yeller, who will land at Cape Coast, and thence proceed to
1829-30, Mr. Tennyson d'Eyncourt provided, in the the Niger, by way of Coomasil. She also takes out presents
unanswerable and righteous case he made out for the for the chiefs of the Cameroon river.
title of the same Birmingham to the elective fran-
w.:l'. The
rPrometheus steam-frigate, Commander John I y
ltnstant, when she will pirao.'
chise, for the " out-door relief" of Sir Robert and his will u on the 12th
to the coast of Africa, to assist in the suppression of the
colleagues in Government, by compelling their re- slave trade.
signation of office. Two or three times successively The Collingwood, 80, Captain Eden, is still alongside the
was the Administration to which Sir Robert belonged dockyard jetty, fitting for sea and entering her hands.
compelled to go through the same annoying process, No commissions have yet arrived for the experimental new
on account of the still impracticable Birmingham. classTh
The Std
12-gun
Vincent,brigs.
120, Captain R. F. Rowley, returned to
Sir Robert's attack on " Gemini," in particular, andnight, the wind having changed
the Boeotian stolidity of " the town of Birmingham " ttolluerlaebnlYs,eannidVoendnTehsduarysday anchored at Spithead from the
in general, on the 7th instant, cannot be forgotten by Channel,whither shehad been dispatched to relieve the home-
the reader. Nor is it by the " Enquirer after Truth," ward bound vessela detained by contrary winds. She was
who says :-
ordered back to Spithead.
"As if you owed the town and its writers an old
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Charles,Sullivan, is expected
grudge, you select a volume on the currency, recent) at Spithead from the Mediterranean in a week, and will come
31 into harbour here to be paid off. She was in the Bay of
written by two gentlemen of Birmingham, and lash the Gibraltar on the 20th ult., taking in supplies of provisions,
place, and the authors of this work, with as much sar- and awaiting a fair wind to proceed hither.
castic severity as could be thrown into a speech. I have The Rose, 18, tloop, Commander H. R. Sturt, left Jamaica
not the honour to know either of the writers personally for Mexico on the 3d of May; the Hermes steam-vessel,
-one, I have been told, is theseditor, and the other the Commander W. Carr, left the same day for Bermuda and
printer and publisher, of a very ably conducted and well- Halifax; and the Scylla, 16, on the 7th, for Aux Cayes.
supported newspaper, in which the letters of Gemini first The Griffin,
appeared. I had read in that paper many of those Jenkin, is ordered 3 brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Charlesfor service on the coast of Africa, to assist
letters, and I must say that I differ from you in opinionßingdove, with the l6, Commander Sir William Daniell, the
as to their merits. They are written, as I conceive, Albatross, 16, Commander R. Yorke, and the Wasp, 16, Com-
mander H. Bagot, in the suppression of the slave trade.
with good taste, in correct language, with courtesy and The Pique frigate, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford,
gentlemanly feeling ; they are well-reasoned composi- was at Sacrificios on the 2d of May.
tions, full of sound sense, honestly directed to the eluci- The Nimrod, 20, Commander F. H. H. Glasse, arrived at
dation of that great subject on which you are preparing Madras, from Trincomalee, on the 19th of April, at which
to legislate ; the writers appear to be actuated with the date the Pilot, 16, Commander W. H. Jervis, left Madras for
best intentions of serving-perhaps of saving-the coun- Trincomalee.
try. Can these letters raise such resentment in you ? The Champion, 18, Commander John Clavell, was at Ma-
Your colleague, the Home Secretary, might perhaps be zatlan on the 14th of March.
angry with their authors, because they have quoted so
The Inconstant, 36, Captain C. H. Freemantle, arrived at
Barbadoes from Bermuda on the Ist.
freely from his writings in support of their opinions ; The Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, and the Satellite., 13,
but I cannot understand your cause of complaint. Commander R. H. B Rowley, arrived at Rio de Janeiro from
' First,' you say, ' they laugh at the notion of using as a England on the 23d of March.
standard now that which was used 300 years ago. They The Spiteful steam-vessel, Commander W. Maitland, left
say that the property of this country has increased- Bombay for China on the 2d of April.
that the mercantile transactions of this country have in- The Harlequin,l6, Commander, G. F. Hastings,was at Sin-
creased-and to have that as a standard now which was gak',oifeeilno thea sttllfoofMareh
, Lieutenant-Commander P. Chetwode, was
used in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, although it has i
at Sourab4also'n the Bth of December, about returning to her
been adhered to ever since, shows a want of knowledge
station (Port Essington.)
and illumination that is almost culpable.' Really, Sir, The Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Daniell, K.T.,
to complain of sentiments such as these, is more worthy was hailed or the 15th of May on her passage to the coast of
of one of whom we have heard too much lately, than of Africa, from Bermuda.
the leader of the House of Commons, the most accom- The Childers, 16, Commander G. G. Wellesley, sailed
plished scholar of the age. from Hong-Kong on the 29th of February, for England, to
" ' The Clerk of Chatham : he can read and write and be paid off.
cast accompt. 0 monstrous !-We tank him setting of 'The Dido, 18, Captain the Hon. H. Keppell, with a portion
boys' copies. Here's a villain !-He has a book in his 9fthessth
nßterenirtiti oolf!
Inirld., arrived at Calcutta from the
pocket with red letters in it. Nay, then he is a Cl-on Mauritius The lb`lon, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, arrived at Cork on
juror.-Ho can make obligations, and write court-hand.
Away with him, I say : bang him, with his pen and ink-
Monday last.
The flag (white at the main) of Admiral Sir Charles Row-
horn about his neck."' ley, G.C.8., G.C.H., &c., Commander-in-Chief at this port,

has been shifted from the Excellent, gunnery ship, Captain
Sir Thomas Hastings ,and re-hoisted on board the St. Vincent,
120, at Spithead.
The Dee steam transport, Master-Commander T. Driver,
is carrying the depot companies of the 74th Regiment from
Kinsale to Dover.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Rattlesnake, Prometheus,
Collingwood, Fearless, Malabar, Echo, Sylvia, and Arrow.
In Dock—Rodney, Prince Regent, Victoria and Albert,
Athol, Lily, Pantaloon.
At Spithead—St. Vincent, Cygnet.
DEVONPORT, JUNE 7.—The America, 50, Captain the
Hon. J. Gordon, sailed on Wednesday for the Pacific, via
Rio de Janeiro, 'having been paid in advance and inspected
by the Admiral.
The Indus, 80, Captain Sir J. Stirling. is dismantling, pre-
paratory to being paid off on Tuesday. Her crew were in-
spected on the 4th, by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir David
Milne.
The Lucifer steam-vessel, Commander G. A. Frazer, sailed
for Cork, carrying provisions and water for the homeward.
bound.
In the Harbour—The San Josef, Indus, and Confiance.
In the Sound—The Caledonia and Nautilus.
APPOINTMENTS.
Commanders—S. H. Usher to the Wasp, vice Bagot, return-
ing to England; H. M. E. Allen to the Imaum ; Edward
Hawes to the Packet-station at Port Patrick.
Lieutenants—W. Peel to the Salamander; J. Dornford to
Greenwich hospital, vice Tucker, deceased; M. Burrows to
the Sappho.
Surgeons—Mr. Hampton to the Auckland, Mi. Lancaster
to the William Jardine, and J. Munro to the Emily.
Assistant-Surgeons—A. A. Jack to the Lucifer, J. J. Mon-
teith to the Prometheus, W. Crofton to the Royal Sovereign.
Secretaries—J. W. Nicholls to Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh
Pigot, K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station ;
Alexander Kent to Rear-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Pacific.
Acting Master—D.N.Welch from the Hermes to the Rose.
Masters' Assistants—W. B. Edwards to the San Josef, J.
M'Clure to the Victory.
Mate—J. T. Parish to the Excellent.
Naval Instructor—W. J. Fowler to the Inconstant.
Naval Cadets—R. Yaskin and E. T. Bartlett to the Alfred,
J. Twisden and C. Campbell to the St. Vincent, E. M. W.
Carrington to the Cygnet, W. Andrews and C. Armytage to
the Salamander, H. Pearson to the Spartan, H. Farrington to
the Daphne, M. Bertie to the Carysfort, W. A. Barnard to the
Collingwood, G. B. Goddon to the Blazer.
COAST GUARD.
Appointment—Lieutenant Chapman Wise to the station
Seise'

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

The new Houses of Parliament were again, on
Saturday, the object of a royal visit. His Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, accompanied by Baron Brunnow and
suite, arrived as early as a quarter before eleven o'clock, and
were shortly afterwards joined by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert and the Earl of Lincoln. His Majesty took the
highest interest in the progress of the works, minutely exa-
mining the quality of the stone and its workmanship, and
was much pleased with the regularity and orderly procedure
of the immense body of masons and other workmen, as well
as with the ingenuity displayed in moving the various ma-
terials. The Emperor and his Royal Highness having taken
a view of the river front, ascended the temporary staircase
at the Victoria Tower, and having walked for a considerable
distance upon the top of the unprotected walls of the Victoria
Gallery, proceeded to examine the interior of the new
House of Lords (which is now just ready to reeeiyk the roof),
passing over the ordinary scaffolding to the housiflobby and
the central hall, whence the royal and distinguished visitors
proceeded to the model and sculpture -rooms. His Imperial
Majesty evinced the liveliest interest in the whole of the
works, and it was exceedingly gratifying to observe Vhe
freedom and condescension with which his Majesty conversed
with Mr. Barry upon the design and arrangements of the
various parts. Mr. Barry bad the honour of escorting the
royal party, attended by Mr. Grissell.
DEPARTURE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF
INDIA.—On Saturday evening, shortly before seven o'clock,
Sir Henry Ilardinge, accompanied by his son and his aide-de-
camp, arrived at Brighton by the railway from London, and
immediately proceeded to the chain pier, and went on board
the General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Fame,
which was waiting to receive him. His Excellency's luggage had
been previously shipped at Shoreham, under die direction of
Colonel 'Wood, Sir Henry's private secretary. The Governor-
General was received on board by Lord Exmouth, Sir Henry
Ellis, and Colonel Wood, and precisely. at a quarter past
seven o'clock the Fame started from the pier. It was expec-
ted that the voyage to Dieppe would occupy about six
hours. It was not Sir Henry's intention to make any stay
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great number of persons were congregated at the pier-head to
witness the departure of the packet ; but, as the Governor-
General was'not expected to arrive, he was not recognised by
them. _ _

It is currently stated in the circles of fashion that
a grand fancy ball will be got up early next month, to be
called the Waverley Ball, as the costumes are to be in ac-
cordance with the descriptions given by Sir Walter Scott, of
the heroes and heroines in his delightful tales.
Yesterday morning, about half-past ten, a woman,
having the appearance of a respectable mechanic's wife, threw
herself off Westminster-bridge, near the fourth arch, aid
perished, attempts having been in vain made to save her by
a policeman, She (lid not rise to the !tutu* of the water.