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THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Even:ng Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS
and a THIRD EDITION a SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour.
ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
TO• TEACHERS of SUNDAY and other SCHOOLS,
BENEFIT SOCIETIES, and SIMILAR ASSOCIATIONS.
With a ,view to afford facilities to parties VISITING the SEA
COAST, the Directors 9( this • Railway are ready to run SPECIAL
TRAINS ,at LOW FARES on the Week Days ; Children under
Fifteen at half those Fares.
arties in numbers of !400 and upwards may arrange for a cheap
Excursion Train to Brighton on any week day. Application may be
made to Mr. P. Clarke, the Manager, or to
T. J. BUCKTOIT, Secretary.
London-bridge Station, June 16, 1845.
Excursion Trains, as usual, on Sundays by the 7 15 and 8 15
Morning Trains, and on Mondays by the 7 40 Morning Train. to
Brighton and back at a Single Fare.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The CENOTAPH of GALEN, in which the PORTLAND
VASE was discovered, a full-sized Cast, finely executed. The AT-
MOSPHERIC RAILWAY, working Model, with a power to carry
visitors. A Curious MECHANICAL HAND. Dr. Ryan's
LECTURES on the Chemistry of Domestic Life daily, and
en Wednesday and Friday Evenings. Professor Bachhoffher's varied
Lectures. Mr. J. Russell's Lectures on Character, accompanied
by Dr. Wallis on the Piano-forte, on the Evenings of Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. New and beautiful Objects in the CHRO-
MATROPE, PHYSIOSCOPE, PROTEOSCOPE, &c. New DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS. Submarine Experiments by the DIVER and
DIVING BELL. Working Models described daily.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

THE NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND BEL,
FAST JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 400,000 L, in 8,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, 21. 15s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Viscount Newry and Monte, M.P.
The Hon. John Henry Knox
David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P.
James Emerson Tennent, Esq., M.P.
Peter Kirk, Esq., M.P.
James Goddard, Esq.
William J. C. Allen, Esq.
Directors of the Ulster Railway Corn-
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Letors of the Belfast and Ballymena Rail-
John Harrison, Esq. way Company
James Bristow, Esq. /Directors of the Northern Banking
John 211`Neale, Esq. Company
John Heron, Esq., Director of the Ulster Banking Company
Charles Jennings, Esq.
John Hancock, Esq.
James Lyle, Esq. Directors of the Newry and Ennis.
James M'George, Esq. killen Railway Company
William Morley, Esq.
James John Kinloch, Esq.
Robert Heron, Esq., Ardigon, Killileagh
John Martin, Esq., Killileagh 2%1111s
John Young, Esq., Shamrock Lodge, Belfast
Thomas Walkington, Esq., Ballinderry
George Matthews, Esq., Harcourt-street, Dublin
Robert James Tennent, Esq., Belfast
Richard Baxter, Esq., Belfast
Denis Caulfield Brady, Esq., Newry
John Caraher, Esq., Newry
Peter Murphy, Esq., Newry
William Kirk, Esq., Keady
Robert M'Clelland, Esq , Bellemennt, Banbridge
John Mulligan, Esq., Parkmount, Banbridge
George Chapman, Esq., Banbridge
John Smyth, Esq., Miltown, Banbridge
Brice Smyth, Esq., Brookfield, Banbridge
David Lindsay, Esq., J. P., Ashfiold, Dromore
Charles Magee, Esq., J. P., Banbridge
John Finlay, Esq , Banbridge
William Nicholson, Esq., Douacloney, Waringetoun
James M'Clelland, Esq., Banville, Banbridge
John Welsh, Esq., J. P., Chinauley, Banbridge
Isaac Stoney, Esq., Monntplea ant, Gifford
John Woods, sen., Esq., Banbridge
Gilbert Mulligan, Esq., Parkmount, Banbridge
George Milligan, Esq., Ballydewn, Banbridge
Edward C. Clibborn, Esq., Banbridge
Samuel Hill, Esq., Banbridge
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS IN IRELAND.
The Bank of Irelend and its Branches
The Northern Banking Company and its Branches
BANKERS IN ENGLAND.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., London
The Union Bank of London
The Borough Bank, Liverpool
Eliattezett—John Godwin, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hugh, Wallace, and Co., Belfast and Dublin.
Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgate-street,
London.
SECRETARIES.
Hugh Boyd, Esq., Newry.
Thomas Ward, Esq., Belfast.
James Bryden, Esq., 290, Regent-street,
John White, Esq., 30, North George-street, Dublin.
This railway is proposed to be in connexion with the Ulster Rail-
way, with other railway companies whose Bills will be obtained
during the present session of rarliament, and with the proposed
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Roestrevor Railway.
The line will traverse a most highly Improved, wealthy, and
populous district of the county of Down, the principal seat of
the linen mannfacture in Ireland, and passing through the
town of Banbridge will join the Ulster Railway at or near the
town of Moira, and thus form (in continuation of the Dublin
andßelfast Junction Railway) the shortest and most direct commu-
nication between Dublin and Belfast; and at the same time open
the greatest manufacturing district in the north of Ireland to the
ports of Belfast and Newry, and will also (in connexion with the
proposed Belfast and County Down Railway to Bangor and Donagh-
adee) be the most direct route, and by the shortest sea, to Scotland
and the north of England.
The country has been carefully examined, and, as the railway can
be constructed with favourable gradients at a moderate expense, and
the trade, manufactures, and population must secure an abundant
source of traffic, there cannot be any doubt of an ample return for
the capital invested

' NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIILLL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred . ltinulties.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the prera4urt paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the c =version
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. A sserances
ibr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has: enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 !per cent. on the premiums raid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

AMERICAN NEWS.

GREAT FIRES AT QUEBEC AND

NEW YORK.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK.
The New York packet-ship Cambridge, Capt. Barstow, has
just arrived at this port from New York, which city she left on
the 2d inst., and consequently made the passage home in 21
days. She brings a number of both cabin and steerage pas-
sengers. Sailing so shortly after the steam-ship Britannia,
the news contained in the New York papers is devoid of po-
litical interest, but we regret to state that the accounts from
Canada are of a most distressing nature. One of those dread-
ful conflagrations, for which the North American provinces
are remarkable, has made shocking ravages in Quebec. We
give it as forwarded to us in anticipation of the American
papers :

GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
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CREMORNE HOUSE and GARDENS, King's-
road, Chelsea.—Mr. LITTLEJOHN, late of ths Rosherville
Gardens, Gravesend, and King William-street, City, has the honour
to announce that he will OPEN the Tavern, Park, and Gardens of
Cremorne, for the Season, with a THREE DAYS' FETE, entitled
" The Feast of the Forest, a Sherwood Pic Nic," on Monday, Tues-
day, and Wednesday, June 23rd, 24th, and 25th, on whieh day Mr.
GREEN will ascend in his Monster Nassau Balloon, accompanied by
ten Ladies and Gentlemen. Admission, One Shilling. Cremorne
House can be reached from any part of town by omnibus for Six-
pence, by steam-boat for Fourpenco. After the Fete the admission
to the Gardens and Entertainments will be reduced to Sixpence.
Steam-boat Companies are respectfully informed, that a safe and
convenient Pier is in course of erection, and will be opened on the
occasion of the Fete, for landing passengers at the river entrance to
the Gardens.

Notice is hereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS
for SHARES in this Company can be received, except from parties
locally interested, and that such applications must be made on or
before FRIDAY Nxxx, the 27th inst.

THE' ALTO DOUttO 'EA'ILWAY
COMPANY.
" The Oporto and Spanish Frontier Railway Company" formed in
Portugal under great influence and the highest auspiees, has this day
been amalgamated with the Alto Douro Railway Company.
T. M. RUSSELL, Secretary.
95, Gracechureh-street and 29, Threadneedle-street,
June 23, 1845.

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New York, June 2, 1845.
I avail myself of the departure of the Cambridge far Liverpool
to send the following account of an awful and destructive fire al
Quebec, which has just reached my hands by express from Quebec,
Yours, &c., CHAS. K. WILLMER.

THE. ALTO DOURO RAILWAY
COMPANY FROM OPOItTO to the SPANISH FRONTIER.
The new Prospectus will appear in a few days. A re-allotment of
Shares must necessarily take place, but a preference will be given to
previous applicants. T. M. RUSSELL, Secretary.
95, Gracechurch-street and 29, Threadneedle-street;
June 23, 1845.

COL 0 S SEUM.—Patronised by her Most Gracious
MAJESTY, and his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT. Open
daily from Ten till Six. Pronounced by the Press, and confirmed by
every visitor, to be the most perfect triumph of ART in Its various
branches, both by DAY and NIGHT, that has ever been achieved—
equal to SIX EXHIBITIONS. The Glyptotbeca, containing works
of the first Artists ; Mont Mane, and Mountain Torrents ; Superb
Conservatories ; Gothic Aviary ; Classic Ruins and Fountains ; Pa-
norama of London, re-painted by Mr. Parris, &c. Admittance 38.
Children, Half-price. The S alactite Caverns the most magnificent
of all the Temples which Nature has built for herself in the regions
of night, la. extra.

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made Is De-
eember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Xles.

A most destructive fire took place at Quebec, where, it seems,
2,000 houses have been destroyed, and 12,000 persons rendered
houseless ! The fire commenced shortly before mid-day on the 28th
of May, in a tannery in St. Valliere.street.
The day was remarkably Warm; and the heat and dryness of the
few days previous had rendered the roofs of the buildings in the
neighbourhood, and those more remote, highly susceptible of igni-
tion. The adjoining and opposite dwellings were soon involved,
and in an inconceivably short space of time the burning flakes,
carried afar by the then rising wind, had ignited some buildings in
the neighbourhood of the St. Roch's Church—a considerable dis-
tance from the outbreak of the fire.
The wind gradually freshened from the west, with a coming
storm, and it was soon evident that all human endeavours to
arrest the progress of the fire in a locale studded, for the most
part, with wooden buildings, alone would be useless—..an im-
pression but too fatally verified. Onward swept the flames—street
after street fell before them. A species of whirlwind seemed to
aid its fatal advances—for in advance, in the rear, on every side,
the raging element developed itself with momentarily increasing
fury. Spots that to the shrieking and afflighted refugee were now
apparently safe, in a few minutes subsequent were wrapped in a
vast sheet of flames.
From eleven in the morning until midnight did this dread fire
hold uninterrupted sway, until its career was arrested in St.
Charles-street—nearly one mile from the place of its outbreak!
At the broadest point the breadth of the burnt district is about one-
third of a mile.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 houses are supposed to have been
consumed, and it is calculated that 12,000 persons (one-third
of the population) are this day houseless. Most of these people
have lost their all, the rapid advance, and sudden capricious
directions taken by the flame, not only rendering it impossible to
save any portion of the property in the dwellings, but in a vast
number of instances barely allowing the Inmates sufficient time to
escape living.
The church in St. Roch's is in ashes. The convent is saved. St.
Peter's Chapel is also burnt. The large brewing establishments
of Messrs. Lloyd and Lepper and M'Cullum are consumed, and
the line of wharfs from Munn's to the one at the foot of Hope
Hill. On these were an immense quantity of deals, which were
all consumed.
At this point the fire was arrested by throwing down the piles of
deals, and on the town side by blowing up two houses. This opera-
tion was conducted by Lieut.-Colonel Warde, of the Royal Engi-
neers, and some of the officers and men under his command.
Two Methodist churches were also burnt. The Artillery Bat\
rack was three times in danger. A general meeting had been
called, attended by 3,000 persons, at which between 3,000!. and
4,0001. were collected on behalf of the sufferers. At Montreal steps
were being taken to aid the unfortunate persons who have lost their
all by the calamity.
The most painful event was the destruction of the hospital, to
which, as being considered entirely out of the reach of the con.
flagration, numbersof sick persons of all classes were carried. The
building became ignited by the flakes of fire carried from the dis
tance by the wind; the unfortunate inmates, unable to help them.
selves, perished miserably.

UNITED KIN GDOM LIFE ASSURA NCE
COMI'A,
TEMPORARY OFFICES DURING THE ALTERATIONS,
No, 23, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONI)ON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords th a most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its AN frAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Sharehold)ers of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1534, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added! Sum Time Sum Added
Assured. ASsured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to P.Dlicy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 68i £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years '2OO
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scabs, and
only one halfneed be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insu-
rance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Re &lent
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of NO. 28,
Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London.

THE CITY and WEST-END RAILWAY and
TERRACE COMPANY, for the UNION and EXTENSION of
the METROPOLITAN TERMINI of the LONDON and BIRMING-
HAM, GREAT WESTERN and WEST LONDON RAILWAYS,
along the NORTH BANK of the RIVER THAMES to SOUTH-
WARK BRIDGE, and for the CONSTRUCTION of GRAND TER-
RACES or ESPLANADES, from BLACKFRIARS to WESTMIN-
STER BRIDGES, and at CHELSEA. With a reserve for further
Extension.
Provisionally registered, pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.
Offices, 32, Poultry, London.
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
The preliminary expenses not to exceed Five Shillings per Share,
without the sanction of a General Meeting of the Shareholders.

Evening Exhibition, open from Eight till Eleven, consists of an
eniirely new p inorama of LONDON BY NIGHT, erected in front
of the day picture, the largest in the world, comprising 46,000 square
feet, projected and carried out by Mr. IV. Bradwell, and painted by
Mr. Denson and Mr. Telbin. The Caverns, Mont Blanc, and Tor-
rent by Night, the Glyptotheca and refreshment saloon brilliantly
illuminated, forming a promenade perfectly unique. The whole
exhibition designed by Mr. Bradwell. Admission at the door, ss.
each. Family tickets to admit four persons, at 4z. each. to be had
at the North Lodge, Colosseum, from Ten to Six ; of Messrs. Mit-
chell, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Andrews, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams,
St. James's-street; Messrs. Duff and '.:ocigson, Oxford-street; and
Messrs. Addison and Co., 7, Regent-street. Children under twelve
years of age, half-price.

The responsibility of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount
of their shares, and in the allotment a preference will be given to
the holders of stock in the co-operating companies.

Applications for Shares to be made to the Solicitors and Secre
taries.

NOTTINGHAM, VALE OF BELyattc,-
AND GRANTHAM RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS for
SHARES in this undertaking can be received after the 28th day of
JUNE instant. By order,
Nottingham, June 22, 184.5. THOMAS JACKSON, Sec.

The losses by the mercantile lower town people will be heavy.
Almost all the bakers are burned out—M`Conkey, Clarihue,
Tourangeau, &c., and nothing saved. What renders matters more
disastrous Is, not one house in ten in St. Roth's was insured, and
those insured are principally at the Mutual Insurance Company,
which being composed of persons resident at St. Roch's, the
company is defunct, for if one man owes his neighbour I Os., and
his neighbour owa him 10s., and neither have wherewith to pay,
both are ruined.

117 ARWICK and' CHELTENHAM JUNC-
TION
Committee of the House of Commons having rejected the
London, Worcester, and Staffordshire line, the Provisonal Com-
mittee of this Company have resolved, as provided for in their deed,
to continue their line from Stratford to Evesham, and have instructed
their engineer to survey the ground and report upon it.
By order,
HENRY CASSIN, Secretary.
3, Church-court, Old Jewry, June 24, 1845.

Every exertion was made to relieve the unfortunate sufferers.
Lord Metcalfe forwarded 2,0004 for their relief; the Catholic
bishop sent 5001., and the Hotel Dieu 5001. The good bishop
has addressed a circular letter to his clergy, imploring subscriptions
for the poor families thus deprived of a home and an asylum, and
suggesting the calling of public meetings in every pariah for

that purpose, together with contributions of clothing, money, and
provisions.

The loss of life, according to one of the accounts, exceeds one

hundred persons and the loss of property is said to be above
750,0001. Eighteen schooners were burnt at the Palais. " No-
thing left," says one of the letters from the scene of the conflagra-
tion, " from where you begin to descend Cote les Braz at Tou.
rangeates, running down the large street towards the Marine
Hospital; everything on the right until you reach the water,
thence to the two distilleries, M'Cullum and Lloyd's, these in-
cluded, is destroyed : the fire ending, or rather being arrested, at
the point where the roads St. Paul street and Hope hill diverge.
The loss in round numbers cannot be easily ascertained, but half
a million will not cover the losses, nor perhaps 750,0001."
New York, we regret to find, has also been the scene
of a similar, though not so extensive, a calamity as that of
Quebec. By the New York fire, which occurred on Saturday
Might, the 31st ultimo, one hundred buildings and twenty-
five horses have been burned, and four hundred families left
destitute. The greater portion of the demolished buildings
are represented as "poor shanties," occupied mostly by Irish
families. It is said that not fifty dollars' worth of furniture

or property of any kind has been saved by any of these poor
individuals, and not twenty of them all have been saved.
" Nothing," writes the Neu; Fork Tribune," can be conceived
so utterly sad and pitiful as the condition of these three
thousand men, v: omen, and children (for the number will

:each that), thus in an instant reduced to absolute want and
hunger, shelterless, and many of them unclad, and with only
a blanket about their shoulders They are sitting weeping
and starving under the fences, and in the vacant lots, crowded
into cow--pens and out-houses—the middle-lifed, the young,
the decrepid, aged—the helpless infant—what a scene!" The
same paper humanely suggests that a public meeting, for the
relief of the sufferers, should be held without delay.
In the commercial affairs of the United States nothing
worthy of notice had occurred from the time of the sailing
of the Britannia to the departure of the Cambridge.
There was but a moderate amount of business done for
the steam-ship Britannia. English bills of exchange were
offered at 10914 ; France, 5.25.
The account of the weather and crops throughout the
United States is rather encouraging, and in many parts the
approaching harvest is represented as likely to be both early
and abundant.

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OURT CIRCULAR.
n and Prince Albert attended the aftunoon ser-
Whippingham Church on Sunday last.
Majesty and her R,iyal Consort, attended by tady
1, Colonel Bowles, Mr. G. Anson, Hon. Colonel
ind Major-Ge.neral Wemyes, returned to Osborne-
lortly before five o'clock on Monday afternoon, iron
.og the fleet. The Earl of Aberdeen did not return
with the royal party, but proceeded to town.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party in
the evening.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the
forenoon in the grounds of Osborne House.
The juveaile Royal family were taken an airing in an open
carriage, yesterday morning, in the rides adjoining Osborne
House.

His Excellency Sami Paella and Suite have arrived from
Parts. His Fxcellency has taken up his residence with the
Ottoman Ambassador. at 13ryanstoue-square.
The Ecclesiastical Commist,ioners for England had a meet-
ing, yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place.
There were present the Archbiahr.p of York, the Bishops of
London, Durham, Winchester, Bangor, Chichester, E!y, Glou-
cester and Bristol, Here'ord, Lichfield, Rechester, Salisbary,
Worcester, the Lord President of the Council, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Chi.
cheater, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon.
H. Holahotve, the Right Hon. John Nicholls, ard the Dean
of Westminster.
Mr. E. W. Eyre bad an interview with Lord Stanley yes.
terday at the Colonial Office. Mr. N. Balfour had also an in-
terview with his Lordship. The Post-Master General had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at
his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Henry Carey
had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman. Lord
Wharncliffe, Lord President of tke Council, arrived in town
on Monday morning from Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Offit e
from the Governor of New south Wales. Dispatches were
sent off last evening from the Colonial Office for the Governor
of Hong Kong, and also for the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land,

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS.-JACOBITE MINSTRELSY.

On Monday evening, at the Music Hall, Store-street,
Mr. Wilson repeated this, the most popular and stirring
of all his entertainments, illustrative of that eventful
period of the history of Scotland during which the ad-
herents of the ill-fated house of Stuart endeavoured to
re-establish the power and authority of that fallen
dynasty. Mr. Wileon was in excellent voice, and sung
the several songs with great feeling and animation,
calling forth repeated bursts of applause, and several
encores, among which were, " Cam ye by Atholl,"
" Johnnie .Coe," " There were twa bonny Maidens," and
" Allister McAllister." What added to the eff.et of the-
entertainment on this occasion, and in excellent keeping
with the object in view—the representation, through the
medium of song. of high courage, resolution, and
devoted attachment of the people of Scotland to the-
cause of the House of Stuart—was the attendance of
the boys of the Caledonian Asylum, in full Highland
costume, who excited genera! admiration for the striking
and picturesque illustration they afforded of the " Garb
of old Gaul," and of the time when the " Heather was
on tire," and the mountain glens of the far north poured
forth their devoted thousands to rally round the standard
of the "Young Chevalier." Mr. Wilson, we perceive,
is to repeat the " Adventures of Prince Charles" on
Monday next.

MUSIC.
SONGS IN THE ENCHANTRESS.
" She is seen where the vapours of morn arise."—
" When slumber's pinions o'er me play."—" Oh, hither
plume thy wing."—" She loves him."—" Woman's
heart."—" The young Nadir."—" The love almost sub-
lime I felt."

The a)ove are all from the opera of The Enckat ess,
they are set for the piano-forte, by the composer him-
self; and we cannot but admire the musical talent of
Balfe, in so admirably expressing in the piano-
forte accompaniments the orchestral effects of
the full score. To praise that which has already re-
ceived, and is nightly receiving, the enthusiastic appro-
bation of the whole musical world, would be a work of
supererogation, and we doubt not but the music will
become as popular in the drawing-room as it already is
on the stage. No. 5, " Woman's Heart," is the exquisite,
song sung by Madame Thilkin in the second act, com-
mencing with the words " A youthful knight," a song
that is always honoured with a double encore.

THEY LED HER FROM THE COTTAGE
HOME. Words by Miss Cushman. Music by Mr.
H. J. St Leger.
A song from the pen of the greatest living tragic
actress is a literary curiosity. This exquisite little
lyric proves that Mi-s Cushman's poetical powers ale of
a very high order. The sentiment is very beautiful, and
has been beautifully expressed by Mr. St. Leger in the
tasteful melody to which he has adapted the words.

THE NEW REDO WA POLKA, as danced at tie
Princess's Thett. e Gy Mr. and Miss Marshall.
Composed by ra,lo
This is one of the most agreeable of the many Polkas
with which we have of late been inundated, and, unlike
many of its rivals, its merits will probably cause it to
outlive the present Polkawania. We hope frequently
to meet Signor Minasi as a composer.

PUBLIC PROMENADES BY TIIE RIVER
THAMES.
The elegant and magnificent concepthyns Or Martin;
which about twenty Stars ago elicited the admiration o . ,
.- -f' 4
-peers and pat-lots, prf latex and philosophers, are about „
being realised by a Joint-Stock Company. A noble
esplanade for public promenades is promised on the
n ,rth bank oldie River Thames, and a Moorsom—not a
Martin—is the man to do it. Many Ministers have
talked about it, but none have attempted it. Ile object
has often been declared a great desidelatum for this
mighty,tnetropidis, but—" where was the cash to come
from ?' The " ignorant impatience of taxation "
frightened many a willing Premier, and was pleaded by
many. -an- unwillieg Chancellor of the Exchequer. A
Joint-Stock Company is to effect this great work " for a
consideration." The pact sings—
" Self-love when ptitll'd to social is divine;"
and though public companies may be said, in the lan-
guage of a popular orator, to have "no hearts and
cannot feel," it mutt not he added that they have "no
heads and cannot think." The promoters of this Com-
pany kave thought; and, with 5 per cent. compound in-
terest for the cost of the Promenade above, and indefi-
nite profits for the Railway below, there is now little
doubt that another ." lung" will shortly be given to Lon-
don.--Globe. '

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 20.—The Great Britain iron
steam-ship made an excursion round the Eddystone this morning.
She left Millbiy pier, the tide half ebb, at a quarter to nine
o'clock, and arrived at the Eddystone at five minutes after ten
o'clock. There were about 500 passengers on board. Tickets, ss.
On returning the ship was several times suddenly stopped, owing
to the heated state of some parts of the main bearings of her im-
mense engines. There was no wind, the sea smooth, and the
weather warm, the thermometer being seventy in the shade. On
the occurrence of these stoppages the machinery was allowed to cool,
and when again put in motion, plentifully supplied with water
poured from a hose pipe. The machinery of all new engines is
liable to this casualty. it may be recollected that when ber Ma-
jesty's steamer Penelope made her first trip down chatme!, her
paddle boxes become ignited from the same cause. On entering
the Sound, while ur.der way, Captain Hosken had the helm put
hard a.port, and turned the immense ship completely round in
about six minutes, and then, by reversing the screw, had her
worked astern, and having stopped her way, turned her round in a
circle, the diameter of which scarcely exceeded her own length.
Her passengers, and the spectators crowded on the heights
ashore, appeared highly gratified by these evolutions, which
furnished undeniable evidence of one of the numerous advan-
tages derivable from this method of propulsion. At twelve
provedsutitofillthay
o'clock she landed her passengers at the pier, and in the
satfteaLoohnip to Plymouthdepart has departed for
sDublin. The vi
fully theit ofit the y
the Great
5 Britain
e
Pier, recently constructed by Mr. T. Gill, M.P. During the stay
of that immense vessel, from the 14th to the 20th instant, about
15,000 persons have been on board, without accident, and although
3,-,2 feet long, and drawing 16 feet when loaded, she lay as securely
alongside as if she had been in the London Docks. Within four
years upwards of 100,000 tons of rough stone, 37,000 feet of
gh and 1,000 loads of timber, have been deposited
here; and atone, and
the perseverance of a gentleman, single.
handed, and at an expenditure approaching 30,0001., a pier has
been constructed capable of accommodating the longest ship In the
world.

SPORTING AT PARIS.—ALLEGED FORGERY IN
Hiatt LIFE.—A circumstance has just occurred which has caused
the greatest astonishment in the upper circles of Paris. Prince de
B—, twenty-two years of age, married, about eleven months
back, to the daughter of a a rich banker, was arrested on Thursday,
and committed to prison, on a charge of forgery, committed under the
following circumstances :—Tbe Jockey Club, in order to facilitate
the payments of racing and other debts, have been in the habit of
using counters made of ivory, stained red, bearing the year on one
side and the signature of the secretary on the other, each represent_
ing 100 f. Some time back, Prince de B—, who is not a member, of
the club, handed over to his brother-in-law, also a banker, ten of
these counters, and asked him to give him cash for them. This
was done, and the banker sent them in the course of business to
the club, where nine were declared to be forgeries. The secre-
tary immediately proceeded to the banker's, and the Prince was
sent for. He declared unhesitatingly that he had received them at
the races of Chantilly, in payment of a bet, from a person on the
course, whose name he believed to be Zarlatti, an Italian, whose
address he did not know. A complaint was lodged before M. St.
Didier, Juge d'lnstruction, who at once instituted inquiries, and suc-
ceeded in discovering the man who had made the counters. This
person declared he had received the order for them from a young
man whom he had seen only twice, and whose person he could not
well describe. We delivered them, he said, as he would prove by
his books, on May 24. This deposition was in flat contradic-
tion with the account of Prince de B----- , who had
fixed May IS as the day on which he received them at
Chantilly. The Prince then declared that they
had been handed
to him by certain of his friends ; but these gentlemen denied in
the most formal manner the truth of this allegation. The
maker of the counters and the Prince were then confronted, and
the former at once recognised the latter as the person who had
given him the order. The Prince then burst into tears, and
avowed that it was he who had himself circulated the twenty five
counters, twenty-two of which have come into the club. Be was
at once committed to prison for forgery. What makes this case
the more extraordinary is, that the young man is not only rich,
but was brought up most religiously. It is difficult to account
for such an act, unless by supposing that his reason is affected.—
Gabgnani.
'lug LATE THOMAS MOOD.—We are glad to ob-
serve that the example of Manchester, in starting a local subscrip_
tion in aid of the Hood Fund, is being followed in other large
towns, and that the provincial journals are beginning to call
public attention in their respective districts to this excel.
lent object. A paragraph in the Bath ihronicle of Thurs.
day last announces the opening of a subscription in that
city and its neighbourhood ; the result of whin will, we
doubt not, be such as to place Bath on a line with Manchester for
liberality, and for an intelligent appreciation of literary genius.
These unsolicited efforts on behalf of the deceased poet's family,
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has been engaged
during the preceding week in holding confirmations at Ramsgate,
Deal, Faversham, and other places in his diocese.