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bring 56. This circumstance is owing to the great
number of seamen employed in the guano trade, and
bri-k demand for labour at the docks.
The annual meeting of the governors, direetors,Scc.,
of the York-road Lying-in Hospital was held yester -
.;ty in the board-room of the institution, Thomas
C.,cks, Esq., treasurer, in the chair. The secretary,
Mr. Hastings, read the minutes of the last meeting,
which were confirmed. The patients admitted and
tiitended during the year amounted to 677, being—
in-patients, 203 ; and out. patients, 474. The affairs
of the institution were reported to he going on fa-
vourably, and its condition gave general satisfaction.
A ieong the governors and directors present were T.
iV. Atelier, R. Forest. J. M. Rossiter, and T. Grissell,
Esqrs.; Drs. Rigby and Reid.

" That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the war-
dens, be sent to the Lord Bishop and the Rey. J. T.
Toy e, rector of the parish, and advertised in Trewman's
I.7yiny Post, the Western Times, Wocbuer's Gaze.'tP, and
also printer and circulated.

LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.—No. 68.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1845.
There is some talent in this Number, and the in-
formation it contains is by no means of an ordinary
character, but, as a whole, it is heavy, and wants the
relief afforded by apt choice and variety of subject.
We have too much, for instance, about China and
India, though the articles on these themes—which, of
Este, have been expatiated on usque ad nauseam—are
skilfully reasoned, and evinces no slight amount of
research. Had they appeared a year or two since,
when public attention was keenly and anxiously fixed
on the East, they would have been much more ac-
ceptable to the general reader; but, just now, they
possess no more flavour or piquancy than fish or game
out of season. The first article in the Number is
devoted to a consideration of the Baron Hormayr's
"Reminiscences of the Wars in. G-ermany"—a work
not less conspicuous by its boldness, than the justness
of its portraits of the numerous eminent politicians
and soldiers who took part in these wars. Referring
incilentally to the herculean efforts made by the
Germans to emancipate themselves from the thraldom
of Napoleon, the reviewer truly states that the
merit of these patriotic efforts belongs rather to the
Prussians than the Austrians, whose rulers were in-
variably sluggish and obstinate, and constantly
damped by their perverse, changeable, and timid
policy, the enthusiasm of the people. Had the Arch-
duke Charles been left to follow out his own views,
he would have been a far more formidable opponent
to the French Emperor than he was; but the crooked
and halting policy of the Aulic Council, by whom
his plans were perpetually circumvented, deprived
him of all freedom of action, and rendered him little
better than a mere cypher. Here is a specimen of an
Austrian Minister, Baron Thugut, who retired from
office somewhere about the year 1801. God help the
people subjected to the sway of such a man I—
" Force was in Thugut's eyes the only infallible,
eternal, divine thing; inexorable and irreconciliable,
he possessed in the highest degree the patience of
hatred. His goal lay always as plain before, as his
means and his instruments were secret and crooked.
His policy knew neither virtue nor vice, but only
means to an end. He desired neither to convince nor to
seduce, but was content when he could compel. In
him dwelt a sovereign contempt for human nature.
His great weapon was fear. " Oderint dum metuant,"
he muttered frequently between his teeth, and expa-
tiated with a smile, on the Emperor Nero, who, he
said, was a charming man, only the Romans did not
understand him. Independence of character, freedom
of opinion, generosity and pure virtue, he positively
abhorred." If this portrait be not overcharged, it
represents as heartless, unprincipled, and tyrannical
a statesman, as ever cursed a country, and degraded
human nature. No wonder that Napolean should so
speedily and easily have humbled the pride of Austria,
in his first brilliant Italian campaigns, when such a
politician as Thugut held the foremost rank in her
Cabinet I " Bettina Brentano" is a notice of the
most recently published corresp( ndence of this en-
thusiastic young German authoress, who when only
sixteen years of age, fell desperately in lore with
Goethe, then upwards of sixty, attracted by his poetic
celebrity, and the beauty of a portrait which
she had seen of him in his youth. For
this strange infatuation Bettina was much censured
by her friends; but the attachment on both sides
seems to have been purely a platonic one, and some
few years afterwards the fair enthusiast married, and
is now, we understand, quietly settled down into a
staid, homely, common-place wife, with lots of
children about her who, in conjunction with a plain,
matter-of-fact husband, have served to dispel all the
romance of her early life. In the observations on the
" Projected ship canal across the great American
Isthmus" this magnificent undertaking is warmly re-
commended, the reviewer remarking, " assuming
that it should even cost four millions, there can be
little doubt that an ample return might be realized by
a moderate toll, even should we found our calcula-
tions on the existing state of commerce and naviga-
tion, and leave wholly out of consideration the vast
increase they would infallibly receive so soon as the
barrier of the Isthmus was broken down. The new
route would then be taken by all vessels from Europe
destined for those points which are now reached by
doubling Cape Horn ; that is to say, the whole
western coast of N:lrth and South America, and the
islands of the South sea." From a discriminating
criticism on "Freiligrath's Poems," we quote a
spirited lyric entitled " Freedom and Right," which
—together with a German translation of Burn's noble
song, " A Man's a Man for a' that"—was, it seems,
prohibited by the pedantic and tyrannical Austrian
Government—
() say not, believe not, the gloom of the grave
For ever has closed upon Freedom's glad light,
For that sealed are the lips of the honest and brave,
And the scorners of baseness are robbed of their right.
Though the true to their oaths into exile are driven,
Or, weary of wrong, with their own hands have given
Their blood to their jailers, their spirits to heaven—
Yet immortal is Freedom, immortal is Right.
Freedom and Right !
Let us not be by partial defeats disconcerted ;
They will make the grand triumph more signal and
bright ;
Thus whetted, our zeal will be doubly exerted,
And the cry be raised louder of Freedom and Right I
For these two are one, and they mock all endeavour
Of despots their holy alliance to sever,
Where there's Right be
ever ye sure there are freemen, and

"TrIOMAS QUICKE,
Wardens.
JOHN TIZIX,
" That the thanks of this meeting be given to the war-
dens for their promptitude in calling this meeting, and
to Mr. Quicke, for his conduct in the chair."

Monday Afternoon.
Last evening there was again a disgraceful dis-
turbance after the evening service at St. Sidwell's
Church. The sermon was preached in the surplice
by the Rev. Dr. Coleridge, who holds strong views
in favour of all the innovations. This Rev. Gen-
tleman took his text from the 2241 chapter of
Isaiah, verse 2, "Thou' art full of stirs—a tumul-
tuous city." On the text he preached a sermon, as-
serting in strong terms the spiritual supremacy of
the clergy, and used, it is said, words to the effect
that the Romish Church was the true church, and
that the present excitement showed that they were
inevitably hastening on to it, as their destiny. I
was not present, but have heard similar versions of
these words from several highly respectable sources,
and there can be no doubt that something of the
kind was stated These words created much indig-
nation, and numbers left the church, and again got
up a mob of 600 or 700 persons, who hooted the
Rev. Gentleman to his carriage. It was necessary to
protect him by the police. The feelings of the
people are this morning very strongly excited. A re-
quisition is getting up, to call on the Rev. Mr.
Courtenay to resign. The magistrates have held a
private meeting on the subject, and it is rumoured
that one of them has written to the Bishop, stating
that unless he interferes there will be blood shed.
Many of the parishioners of St. Sidwell say, they are
determined Mr. Courtenay shall not ascend the pulpit
in his surplice next Sunday ; and, unless some steps
be taken to put a stop to this conduct on the part of
the clergy, it is probable there will then be a more
serious disturbance.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND
HIS DiOCESE.

EXETER, MONDAY' MORNING, JAN. 20.—After the
disgraceful exhibition of Sunday last at the church of
St. Sidwell's—the excitement and irritation shown in
the church—the hootings and yellings in the streets,
by an indignant population, at the Rev. Mr. Cour-
tenay, for continuing observances and ceremonies
in the service of the church to which his
perishioners had expressed their repeated and de-
cided objection, it was hoped by many, that a
regard for the decorous observance of the Sabbath,
and fer " the quieting of men's minds," would
have induced that gentleman to yield in a mat-
ter in which no point of doctrine or princi-
ple is involved, and in which, according to the opinions
of the great majority of his clerical brethren, he
is in error. Others, however, who, as the result has
proved, entertained a more just appreciation of the
character and qualities of mind of the Rev. Mr.
Coortenay, met the expression of thin hope by a quo-
tation from Solomon, that there are men, whom
though you " bray in a mortar," yet will you not
drive wisdom into them, and that the lesson of last
Sunday would be wholly thrown away upon this
gentleman.
I attended service in St. Sidwell's Church in this
town yesterday morning. A feeling of curiosity had
impelled many to attend there, and the church was
very full; few, however, of the parishioners were pre-
sent, nearly all the regular congregation having gone
to other churches.
The Rev. Mr. Atherley, the Vicar of Heavitree,
and the patron of this church, read prayers, after
which, the Rev. Mr. Courtenay ascended the pulpit,
immediately after the communion service, in his sur-
plice, and proceeded, without the slightest change,
in those innovations in the service which have ex-
cited the universal hostility of his parishioners.
About tvvo-thirds of the congregation rose on his
ascending the pulpit, and 20 or 30 left the church.
The shuffling of feet, the moving to and fro, the
rustling of people rising to look over their seats,
and the whisperings to one another of the con-
gregation, were strangely inappropriate to the sacred
place in which they were assembled, end the solemn
duty that had brought them together. With these
inquisitive, undevotional, and indignant feelings the
congregation that remained heard the "teaching" of
the Rev. Mr. Courtenay to its conclusion. On leav-
ing the church, the congregation mingled with a
crowd of 700 or 800 people who were assembled out-
side, and waited for the appearance of Mr. Courtenay.
He left the church in the centre of about a dozen
gentlemen, headed by the churchwardens, and was
received by the crowd with hootings and yell-
ings, which continued as he and his friends
rapidly made their way through, protected by
policemen. Several of the gentlemen around him
and the police frequently dashed into the crowd
to discover the parties hooting; and one or two
persons had their names taken down after several
such struggles, and amidst the usual confusion which
attends a street row. The broad daylight, the day,
the fact of most of those present having just left
some place of worship, and the intimidation of the
police, however, pretty well hushed the hootings, and
the crowd en masse accompanied the Rev. Gentleman
in a rapid and silent walk, with now and then occa•
sional outbreakings of hooting, to his lodgings. Near
his lodgings is a square, with a shrubbery in the
centre—round this shrubbery on the other side a
large portion of the crowd diverged, and ran, hooting
and yelling vociferously, and thus gained the Rev.
Gentleman's lodgings before him. There they are
ranged themselves in front of his house, and through
this clowd the police had to make a lane to his door. '
The police were In such strong force, and appeared
so determined to take any one into custody who gave
vent to the slightest expression of feeling, that the
crowd was again hushed, and the Rev. Gentleman
gained his door amid perfect silence, but surrounded
by an excited and angry multitude. One person in
the crowd who hooted was immediately surrounded
by a dozen policemen ; his name was taken down,
end he will probably be brought before the Mayor
to-day.
In the afternoon, although it rained in torrents,
:he church of St. Sidwell's was densely crowded. It
was a strange and unbecoming scene of excitement.
.\e do Mr. Atherley read prayers, and Mr. Courtenay
preached in his surLlice, following all the same objec-
, ionable observances as in the morning. On his en-
tt- ring the pulpit, the congregation appeared all to rise
from curiosity; many went out; the church porch
and lobby were densely crowded, and so great a noise
pr; nailed, that the opening prayer before the sermon
was scarcely audible. The churchwarden went out
and endeavoured to restore silence, the appearance
of the congregation being rather that of an excited
!elHic meeting, than that of a devotional assembly.
Ilrving thus by his foolish pertinacity in " things
in,Ltferent," raised this scene of excitement, anger,
i eiignation, curiosity, and everything but calm devo•
thee,' feeling, the Rev. Gentleman proceeded to
preach the doctrine of " peace."
The service ended, the scene outside the church
beggars description. It rained in torrents; yet the
streets were like a fair. About 2,000 people were
assembled to hoot Mr. Courtenay as he left the
church. Gibes, and shouts, and laughter, rang
through the air. It was Sunday—and the Rev. Mr.
Courtenay was their spiritual teacher.
The Rev. Gentleman was again surrounded by a
party of his friends to protect him as he left the
church. A strong body of the police made a lane
through the crowd for him, and then formed in close
file round him, to keep off the crowd. The dusk of
the evening and the immense crowd prevented the
quelling of the hootings this time, and in this kind
of procession, persevered in notwithstanding the tor-
rents of rain, amidst hootings and yellings and
uproar, was the Rev. Gentleman again escorted and
protected to his door, followed and surrounded by
the mob.

THE ARMY.
(From the Limerick Chronicle, Jan. 18.)
Assistant-surgeon John Fitzpatrick, son of W.
Fitzpatrick, of Lowhill, Kilkenny, Esq., has been
promoted to the 7th Madras Light Cavalry.
Captain Curtis's con pany Ist battalion Ist Royal
depot, Clare Castle, of 1 subaltern, 3 sergeants, 1
drummer, and 60 rank and file, marched from Ennis
for Clare Castle, and joined head-quarters, a com-
pany of the same corps having relieved it at Ennis.
Captain E. Barry Owen, 17th Regt. has arrived in
Dublin from India, on two years' leave of absence, at
his father's residence, Lieut.-General Robert Owen,
Mountjoy-square.
Captain Paxton's (69th Regt.) company of 2 subal-
terns, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 60 rank and file,
are stationed at Borrisokane.
34th Regiment—A detachment of 1 subaltern.

sergeant, atid 20 rank and file, marched from Athlone
to Roscommon, and arrived to increase the company
to 60 rank and file, under Captain Brown.
Royal Marine Artillery, Spike Island—Brevet
Major Castieau and First Lieutenant Davis are
stationed at head-quarters, consisting of 1 captain,
1 sergeant, 1 trumpeter, and 8 gunners. At
Tarbert Fort, Lower Shannon, First Lieutenant
Parke, 2 serjeants, and 6 gunners. At Kilrush,
Ist Lieut. Tate, and 1 gunner. At Charles Fort,
Kinsale, 1 captain and 6 gunners. At Carlisle Fort,
Cork harbour, 4 gunners. At Camden Fort, 6 gun-
ners. At Tarbert, Lower Shannon, including Tar-
bert Fort, 5 sergeants, 1 bombardier, 2 corporals, and
47 gunners. _

Mr. Thomas Morris, late sergeant 2d battalion 73d
,egiment, has just published " Recollections of Mill-

tart' Service, in 1813, 1814, and 1815, through Ger-
many, Holland, and France; including details of the
battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo."

The 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, at Caher
and Limerick, embark for England next spring.
Captain Douglas's Troop 11th Hussars, consisting
of 'Lieutenants Peel and Duncombe, 3 sergeants, 1
trumpeter, 1 farrier, 46 rank and file, 47 troop horses,
and 7 officers' chargers, will march from Belfast for
h-ad. quarters, Dundalk, on the 22d, and join head-
quarters on the 25th inst. A troop, consisting of 1
c Iptain, 3 subalterns, 3 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, 1 far-
rier, and 42 rank and file, and 47 troop horses,
marched from Dundalk, this day, for Belfast, and will
arrive on the 22d inst.

Major Goodman, from the 27th, at the Cape of
Good Hope, has taken command of the depot of that
corps at Guernsey.
Captain Paynter's company, 24th, and Ensign
Payne, are stationed at New Ross.
A party of the 2d Royal Depot from Enniskillen
has arrived in Dublin to embark for Liverpool, en
route to Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, to raise recruits.
Doctor Hawkey, Staff Surgeon, First Class, sta-
tioned in Dublin, has been admitted a Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dr. Hawkey
is an A.M., and ex-Scholar of Trinity College,
Dublin, has served upwards of twenty years in the
army, and lately returned from Jamaica.
The 58th depot, at Chatham, is now reduced to
the East India skeleton standard, and will join the
provisional battalion. _

There was a steeple chase meeting near Lucan, on
Monday, Captains Wardlaw and Sibthorp, Royal
Dragoons, presidents. Twelve horses started for a
sweepstake of 31. each, 30 added ; won by Mr.
Murphy's St. Leger, Mr. Burge's Grisette running
second, Mr. Fox's Tidings third. Mr. Lockwood
rode Mr. Van Buren's 131ackhawk in this race. Sub-
sequently Mr. Murphy's Income won a sweepstake of
31. each, 251. added, nine hor.es running; Lieutenant
Sandiland, Bth hussars, Dwarf, a good second.
Captain de L:...ticy (late Aide-de-Camp to his de-
ceased brother, Major• General Sir Octavius Carey),
succeeds to a majority in the 75th, by purchase, in
room of Major Hall.
Lieutenant Fullerton, 48th, retires by the sale of
his commission.

Where freemen are found, will God prosper the Right.
Freedom and Right ! •
And let this thought, too, cheer us—more proudly defiant
The twins never bore them in fight after fight,
Never breathed forth a spirit more joyous and buoyant,
Making heroes of dastards in nature's despite.
Round the wide earth they're marching ; their message
they've spoken,
And nations leap up at the heart-thrilling token ;
For the serf and the slave they have battled, and broken
The fetters that hung upon black limbs and white.
Freedom and Right I
And battle they still, where the voice of earth's sorrow
Tells of wrongs to avenge, of oppressions to smite ;
And conquerors this day, or conquered to-morrow
Fear ye not, in the end they will conquer outright.
Oh to see the bright wreath round their victor brows
shining,
All the leaves that are dear to the nations combining,
Erin's shamrock, the olive of Hellas entwining
With the oak-leaf, proud emblem of Germany's might !
Freedom and Right I
There are sore aching bosoms and dim eyes of weepers
Will be gathered to rest ere that day see the light ;
But ye two will hallow the graves of the sleepers,
0 ye blest ones, we owe to them, Freedom and Right !
Fill your glasses meanwhile :—To the hearts that were
true, boys,
To the cause that they loved when the storm fiercest
blew, boys,
Who bad wrong for their portion, but won right for you,
boys,
Drink to them, to the Right, and to Freedom through
Right !

The late Major of Brigade at York has been sent
to join his regiment in the %Vest Indies, to enable a
Guardsman to have the vacant staff appointment.
There were 2,900 soldiers billetted at Fermoy last
year, besides the regiments stationed there.
The 32d Regiment, Great; Ship-street Dublin, are
beating up for recruits.

KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE Or MAN.—Some
of our readers may remember, that about this time last
year the college in the Isle of Man was destroyed by
fire. We are glad to bear, that through the liberality of
its friends in England and the Isle of Man, the college
was by the beginning of the year in such a state of for-
wardness, that on the 2d inst. the Principal, with his
family and boarders, took possession of the renovated
building. Great improvements have been made in the
internal arrangements of the building, among which may
be mentioned its subdivision into seven fire-proof com-
partments. The chapel is expected to be ready for divine
service by Easter.
THE KING OF THE FRENCH.—The King of the
French has given the sum of 20L towards the funds of
the new Roman Catholic church now erecting in
Lambeth.

The feeling among respectable people seemed to
be one of sorrow and indignation at such a desecra-
tion of the Sabbath and at its cause, and they ask,
naturally enough, "For whom and for what are we
thus to have our town disgraced by these Sunday
disturbances ?" Their indignation is certainly ex-
cusable, for the answers to their questions are not
very satisfactory—" It is for Mr. Courtenay and a
white gown !"
It was pretty generally rumoured that the Mayor
had called on Mr. Courtenay before the afternoon
se• vice, and represented to him the danger to the
peace of the town, and the great probability of a
light with the police, if he persevered, and had put it
to him as a clergyman, if he thought it proper to
:a!! the risk of such a result by persisting in the line
•;f conduct he was pursuing. Mr. Courtenay is said
to have answered that he should persevere—lie could
tit recede. There is also another rumour current—
mat the Bishop was applied to by several gentlemen,
.:ring the past week, on his way throught the town,
use his authority to prevent Mr. Courtenay pro-
eding in a course which they were sure would
:crew the disgraceful scene of the previous Sunday,
it d that the Bishop declined to interfere.
One thing, however, is certain—Mr. Courtenay has
gained notoriety ; that is something. Many men
strive for it, and in many ways. Some are am-
bitious to obtain it for their learning and attain-
ments. Mr. Courtenay, it is said, did not at college
succeed in acquiring it in respect of either. Some
seek it by distinguishing themselves in their ♦oca-
tions, by their superiority over ordinary competitors.
Mr. Courtenay is not thought to have succeeded at
all in obtaining it in this respect. Beau Brummel
won it by his skill in arranging a white tie; Mr.
Courtenay has won it by preaching in a white gown
instead of a black one. This is a triumph!
From the subjoined resolutions of the.parishioners
of St. Stephen's, Exeter, it will be seen that another
of the clergy who has been adopting a similar course
to An Courtenay has been requested to resign his
ministry.

Freedom through Right I

SUDDEN DEATH IN A CAB.--THE UNCERTAINTY
OF LlFE.—Last night Mr. Payne held an inquest at the
Red Lion, Poppins-court, Fleet-street, on the body of
Richard George Bamfylde, timed twenty-eight. De-
ceased was a compositor, and lived' at No. 6, St. Andrew's.
street, Doctors'. commons. On Sunday afternoon he hired
a cab in Giltspur-street, and had got as far as Bridge
street, on his way home, when he culled out to the driver
that he thought he should die. He was assisted out,
and, on a policeman coming up, he was again placed in
the cab, and taken to Black Horse-court station-house.
From there he was conveyed to the house of Mr. Hut-
chinson, surgeon, Farringdon-street, who found life ex-
tinct, and who was of opinion that the do ceased had died
from a disease of the heart. Verdict, " Natural death.'

FOREIGN LIBRARY.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1545.
The present Number of this comprehensive Mis-
cellany contains the first part of a History of
France," translated by Mr. Walter Kelly from the
French of Michelet. The history commences from
the earliest authentic period—that is to say, with a
sketch of the manners, customs, &c., of the Gauls in
the days of the Romans ; and the present Part closes
with an account of the dissolution of the Carlovingian
Empire. The author possesses many of the best
qualities of an historian ; he is thoughtful, learned,
patient of research, and shows in every page how
completely his heart is in his subject; moreover, he
is singularly dispassionate and impartial in his
opinions; takes common sense as his guide, and
does not allow himself to be led astray
as is the case with more than one of the modern
French historians—by vague, novel, and showy
theories. M. Michelet has much of the sobriety of the
English character about him, and even our own
Gibbon has scarcely surpassed him in the untiring
assuiduity with which he has pushed his extensive
hstistory is that which he entitles picturesque chapter in the
researches among the mouldering records of past ages.
presentTh The liveliest
portion
o
and f
hism o
"A Picture of France," in which we meet with much
spirited, and even graphic scene-painting, especially
as regards Britanny, and the exhausted volcanic
mountains of Auvergne.

THE ROYAL STAGHOUNDS.—In consequence of the
extremely unfavourable state of the weather, the rain
pouring down in torrents until nearly the hour appointed
for the meet, the gathering yesterday at the Golden
Ball, Bracknell, was very thinly attended. An untried
stag, upon being uncarted at the Golden Ball, took away
towards the windmill, crossing the Wokingham-road in
the direction of the town, where it doubler] to the right
to Lady Wilder's, at Binfield, where it took to the water,
followed by several of the pack. Thence it made for
Lady Malcolm's Park, at Warfield, where it was soon
run into and killed, in a coppice near Bottle-lane, after
an hour's run. The country was exceedingly heavy in
consequence of the continued rain, and the water was
out in every direction. The meet will take place to-day
at Iver-heath, and, consequently, there will be no bye-
day on Wednesday (to-morrow).
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.—On Saturday an
appendix to the report on the Merchant Seamen's Fund
was printed, showing the particulars of the invested
funds and balances in hand, with their estimated value,
&c. Among the Bills printed fdT consideration in the
present recess is one to amend the laws relating to the
relief and support, in certain cases, of merchant seamen,
their widows, and children. It is proposed by this
amended Bill that masters shall pay 2s. and seamen ls.
a-month towards the Merchant Seamen's Fund, which,
it would appear, amounts to a considerable sum, and
which, it would seem, parties wish to-perpetuate. There
is a provision to provide a fund for masters and seamen
in case of shipwreck, from which they are to obtain as-
sistance for their support, and to procure means (and a
sum for clothes) to enable them to retun to the port to
which their ship belonged. _ _

Tx' Moalto. icrrEs.—This singular sect of Ameri-
can fanatics have installed themselves in Theobald's-
road where on Sunday evening, Elder E. H. Davis,
styling himself friend and intimate companion of the late
martyr, Joseph Smith, delivered the first course of lec-
tures on their particular views and tenets—belief in the
restored gift of tongues, prophecy, healing, and inspi-
ration.

CO=I, TRADE TO SWANSEA. —The arrivals at Swan-
sea from Cuba, within the last fortnight, have been un-
usually great, about a dozen vessels laden with copper
ore from that island having entered our port during that
period. We, however, regret to state, that there has
been a considerable increase in the rate of mortality,
every vessel having lost one or more of her crew ; while
in one, the Lady Pirie, five or six individuals fell victims
to the fatal influence of the olimate.—Canthrian.

TilE SON, LONDON, TUFSD-AY EVENIN-G, JANUARY 21, 1845

THE ROYAL VISIT TO STRATH-
FIELDSAYE.
STRATIMELDSATE, M )NDAr NIGHT.—Her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom-
panied by a limited suite, arrived here at a quarter to
five o'clock this afternoon, having travelled the dis-
tance between this place and Windsor in rather more
than two hours.
Lord Charles Wellesley left Strathfieldsaye this
morning, shortly after seven o'clock, for Windsor
Castle, to resume his duties in attendance on the
Queen.
The Duke of Wellington was also out at an early
hour, personaliy inspecting the arrangements for the
reception of her Majesty, which were only finally
completed this morning.
The mansion has no external decoration consequent
on the royal visit, but the interior has been refitted
in the most complete and sumptuous style, since the
fact or her Majesty's intention to honour the Noble
and Gallant Duke with a visit became known to his
Grace.

Two or three marquees, intended for the constabu-
iary force, have been set up in the park by Mr.
Benjamin Edgington ; but, beyond this, there is
nothing to indicute a change in the ordinary quietude
prevailing here.
'l'here is also an entire absence of display both in
the village of Strathfieldsaye itself and in the adjoin-
ing hamlets, and it appears by general consent to be
admitted that the present royal visit is to be consi-
dered more in the character of a private compliment
conferred by the Sovereign upon a veteran and dis-
tinguished subject than some of the royal progresses
which have preceded it.
The royal party left Windsor Castle at twenty-five
minutes past two o'clock, escorted by a detachment of
the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), under the command
of Lieutenant Hood, taking the route through the
Great Park to Ascot Heath, and thence to Fern
Hill, where the escort was relieved by a party of the
17th Lancers, under Lieutenant Haworth. From
Fern Hill the cortege proceeded to the village of
Bracknell, where the first relays of horses were taken
on, and the escort again relieved. At this village
some preparation had been made to receive the Queen.
Arches were here and there thrown across the road,
and the children of the charity schools of the neigh-
bourhood were drawn up in a position calculated to
afford them the best opportunity of seeing her
Majesty.
The preparations were humble, but not the less
loyal, and the reception which greeted the royal party
as they passed through the village appeared to be
very gratifying to her Majesty.
The country from Windsor to Bracknell and on to
Wokingham is not of a nature calling for particular
remark. A rich arable district, varied by fine wood-
lands, extends nearly throughout the whole distance,
and the roads are excellent.
At Wokingham very considerable preparations had
been made to receive her Majesty. Triumphal arches
spanned the street in several places, and almost every
house in this very neat town boasted more or less de-
coration in honour of the occasion. Opposite the
Town- hall, where it had been arranged the address
from the corporation and inhabitants should be pre-
sented, an arch of a very tasteful construction was
erected, bearing a suitable inscription, and the royal
standard floated from the summit of the hall.
The cortege arrived at Wokingham shortly after
three o'clock, and on reaching the Town-hall, in the
front of which the corporation officers were assem-
bled, the carriage containing her Majesty stopped,
and the Alderman (Mr. T. Creaker) advancing to the
window, presented the mace to the Queen in the
usual manner, which her Majesty was graciously
pleased to return. The Recorder (Mr. Jeremy, of
Greenwich) then advanced and presented the address.
Her Majesty haring graciously accepted the ad-
dress, the cortege again moved on, amid the cheers of
the multitude assembled, in the direction of Arbor-
field Cross, where it was arranged the next relay of
horses should be put to.
The face of the country here improves, and the ride
from Wokingham to Strathfieldsaye passes through a
very pretty district-
At Arborfield Cross the cortege was met by a troop
of the North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry, under Cap-
tains Hooley, Hunter, and Mildmay, who relieved the
17th Lancers at this point, and escorted her Majesty
thence to Swallowfield, a little village within less
than three miles of Strathfieldsaye, where another
escort, under the command of Colonel Charles Shaw
Lefevre (Speaker of the House of Commons), and
the Hon. Captain W. Baring, M.P., were in attend-
ance to accompany her Majesty to Strathfieldsaye.
The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Douro,
the Right Hon. H. Pierrepont, and Mr. Compton
reached this lace on horseback, from Strathfieldsaye,
about four o clock, and awaited the arrival of the
royal cortege.
The illustrious Duke entered into conversation with
the Speaker, and several other gentlemen, who had
assembled near the spot during the interval. It gave
us great pleasure to observe that his Grace was look-
ing remarkably well.
About half-put four the escort was observed ap-
proaching. The Duke of Wellington immediately
rode forward to meet her Majesty, and on approach-
ing the royal carriage it was stopped by order of the
Queen, who from the window shook hands and en-
tered into conversation with his Grace for some
moments.

The Noble Duke then put spurs to his horse and
gallopped on to Strathfieldsaye, where he arrived in
time to receive her Majesty, who entered the mansion
precisely at a quarter to five o'clock.
Her Majesty was received by a guard of honour of
the North Hants Yeomanry, who, with band and
colours, were stationed on the lawn, and as her Ma-
jesty alighted, the band played the National Anthem.
A royal salute was fired as the Queen entered the
house, and the national standard was immediately
hoisted on a flag-staff fixed upon the roof of the
mansion.

The Speaker and a few of the neighbouring gentry
will join the dinner circle this afternoon.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WiNDson, MONDAY.—On Saturday afternoon, the
Marquis of Downshire and the Earl of Erne had
audience of Prince Albert, to present his Royal
Highness with a gold medal from the Agricultural
Improvement Society of Ireland. The deputation
was most graciously received by the Prince, and the
Marquis of Downshire and the Earl of Erne were
honoured with invitations to remain on a visit to her
Majesty until Monday. The Earl of Erne was un-
avoidably prevented from obeying the Royal com-
mands.

Lord Charles Wellesley arrived at the Castle to
attend the Queen as the Equerry in Waiting to
Strathfieldsaye. _ _ _

The stormy and unsettled state of the weather pre-
vented the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal
Family from leaving the Castle this morning.
The Marquis of Downshire and the Rev. Dr.
Richards took their departure from the Castle to-day.
At twenty-five minutes past two o'clock this after-
noon, the Queen and Prince Albert left the Castle,
escorted by a party of the Royal Horsa Guards,
under the command of Lieutenant Hood, on a visit to
the Duke of Wellington, at Stathfieldsaye, where the
Royal party is expected to remain until Thursday
next.

Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of
Douro, the Hon. Amelia Murray, the Earl of Jersey,
and Lord Charles Wellesley. His Royal Highness
was attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Col. Bouverie.
In the Hall, at the principal entrance, were the
Hon. Lucy Kerr, Viscount Sydney, the Hon. Cap-
tain Nelson Hood, Captain Meynell, and the Hon.
and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay, to take leave of
her Majesty and the Prince.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
took an airing to Kensington Gardens yesterday.
Lord Howick and a deputation had an interview
with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.

The Governor of the Bank of England and the
Deputy-Governor, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Gladstone and Sir George Clerk had inter-
views with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel left town yesterday
afternoon for Strathfieldsaye, to have the honour of
meeting her Majesty.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF THE POWER OF
ENDURANCE IN THE HUMAN FRAME.—A Post-office
messenger passes twice daily through the village of
Great Bardfield, in Essex. In the morning he walks
fourteen miles, carrying weight which varies from 141bs.
to 401bs. The time in which he has to perform the
distance, stoppages included, is three hours. He rests
six hours, and then returns by the same rolte, and within
the same limit of time. This, over a somewhat rough,
cross-country road, he has done every day for upwards of
eight years. Throwing the average weight into the
scale, the task has been estimated equal to the labour of
walking thirty-five miles per day ; and even in the most
unfavourable state of the weather he has been rarely
known to exceed his time by a quarter of an hour.
Could he be induced to try his "powers" in public, there
is little doubt that he would put to a severe test some of
the "stags" and "deers" of walking celebrity. It is
stated that he can carry weight in a given time to a greater
distance than has hitherto been accomplished by an3i-
other pedestrian. He is confident that he could travel
on foot forty miles a day, for 365 days in lee:sane.
Ile is now in his 38th year, stands about five f
inches, and weighs under nine stone.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 20.—The Oriental
steam-ship, the Great Liverpool, Captain INTacleod, left
for
the Docks at nine, A.m., this day, Alexandria, and
proceeded down the river about three miles, and there
awaited the arrival of her passengers, above eighty in
number, as also the East India and China mails. The
East India mails will in future be dispatched twice a
month.