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London, England, 1845-04-12 00:00:00

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COURT-FASHIONABLE!.
His Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow
gave an elegant entertainment last evening at Ashburnham
House. The party was given expressly to the Duc de Brog-
lie. Among the distinguished circle were his Excellency the
French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulairei the Earl of
Aberdeen, Count Louis de Noailles, Lord Brougham, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne,
Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, the Countess of Malmes-
bury, Dr. Lushington, &c. Covers were laid for twenty-six.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
counsel, &c., on Tuesday next, the first day of Easter Term,
at his Lordship's residence in George-street.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have arrived
at Northumberland House from Alnwick Castle, for the
season.

The Marquis of Bristol has quitted his mansion in St.
James's• square for Brighton, where the Noble Marquis pur-
poses to reside during the summer.
The Countess of lladdington will hold an assembly on
Thursday next at the Admiralty.
Viscount Melbourne received a select party at dinner, last
evening, at his residence in South-street.
The Earl and Countess of Dundonald have arrived at their
new residence, Chesterfield. street, May-fair.
Earl de Grey. who has suffered much since his return from
Dublin from an attack of rheumatic gout, is considerably
better. Great improvements and additions are in progress at
the Noble Earl's seat, Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and family have ar-
rived in St. James's-square for the season.

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WEIS CELT...A.I7Z OI7S.
The Perthshire Courier says :—We have been informed that
official intimation has been lately received, that her Majesty
and Prince Albert do not intend to visit Blair this ensuing
season. The royal visit to Ireland, and engagements with
various members of the English nobility, will entirely ab-
sorb an the leisure which the Queen can command this sea-
son ; but we understand the same intimation also conveyed
the gratifying intelligence, that her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert both look forward with much pleasure to being enabled
to pass some portion of the autumn of the following year at ''
Blair Castle. •
Last night, a meeting of the rate-payers of St. Clement
Danes was held in the vestry-room—Mr. Wilkinson, church.
warden, in the chair—to make a poor-rate for the ensuing
quarter. The chairman stated that, in consequence of the
Commissioners of Police having omitted in their last warntat
to include the Duchy of Lancaster in the Liberties of West-
minster, there was a deficiency of 2,4001. in the previous
rate, which they, the rate-payers, would have to make up this
quarte. Mr. Cull, churchwarden, moved, and Mr. Dickson
seconded the fixing of a 9d. rate, to supply that deficiency,
which was carried nem. con. .

Yesterday a general court of the Governors and friends of
the Seaman's Hospital Society was held at the office of the
institution, No. 74, King William-street, City, to receive the
report of the last quarter; Mr. T. Laboucbere, the trea-
surer, in the chair. The report showed that the receipts
amounted to 2,774/. Is. 11d., including annual donations,
1,286/. 12s. 6d., and annual subscriptions 5384 Bs. 6d., and
that after the payment of all expenses, there was a balance
in hand of 705/. 13s. Bd. There were now on board the
Dreadnought 160 patients. Altogether 840 had been re-
received, of which thirty were in her Majesty's service ; 650
of all nations in the merchant service; and there had been
49,414, since the establishment, relieved. The report was
received, and the meeting broke up.
The English Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church, to
the number of ten or eleven, at present in London, yesterday,
forwarded to Sir Robert Peel their united thanks for his con-
duct on the Maynooth grant.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE POST-OFFICE
LONDON DIRECTORY.

This addition to that useful publication contains a
complete Peerage and Parliamentary Directory, with
the town residences of Members during the present
session. As a proof of the late date to which the re-
turns are made up, we may state that it contains the
two vacancies in the Commons, caused by the resigna-
tion of Mr. Wallace and the death of the Earl of
Romney, and also the death of Lord Egremont ;
with copious information respecting money orders,
corrected to the day of publication. It will be found
a necessary complement to the " Post-office Direc-
tory." Mr. Kelly has bestowed great pains in making
it as complete and the information as late as possible,
and published at the very moderate price of one
shilling.

1845.—The following is the House List of. Gover-
nors and Directors of the Bank of England for the yoar ea-
suing, viz. :

FOR GOVERNORS.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq„ Governor.
William R. Robinson, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Edward Henry Chapman, James Malcomson, Esq.

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Esq. James Moths, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq. :George Wards Norman, Esq.
C. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. 'James Pattison, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. 'Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
John Oliver Hanson' Esq. Christopher Pearse, Esq.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, David Powell, Esq.
Esq. 'Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
H. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
J. Gelibrand Hubbard, Esq. William Thompson, Esq., and
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Alderman.
Charles Frdk. Huth, Esq. Thomas Matthias Weguelin,
Alfred Latham, Esq. Esq.
William Little, Esq. Francis Wilson, Esq.
The election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 15th, and for Directors on
Wednesday, the 16th inst., from ten o'clock in the forenoon
till four in the afternoon.
DEATH OF PHILLIP JOHN MILES, ESQ..— The
death of Mr. Miles has left a void in Bristol which will not
be easily filled up. At the head of one of the largest mer-
cantile establishments of the kingdom, Mr. Miles afforded
one ,of those honourable examples which distinguish the
" merchant princes " of Britain. Of active and intelligent
business habits, the accumulation of vast wealth narrowed
not his mind. lie was a liberal patron of the fine arts, as
the high rank which the collection at Leigh Court holds
among private galleries bears witness. His manners and
deportment were plain and unassuming ; free alike from
affectation and coarseness, they bore the English stamp of
deceased
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period, when men and measures went together, might al-
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On Thursday
afternoon, at two o'clock, Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Direc-
tor-General of Artillery, Captain Palliser, of the Proof De-
partment, and Brigade-Major Sandham, Royal Engineers,
were present in the Marshes to witness experiments with a
thirteen-inch mortar,' fired at an elevation of forty-five de-
grees, at 1,100 yards range, on a platform submitted by
Lieut.-Colonel Alderson, Royal Engineers. Twenty-five
rounds were fired, and the practice was very good, and the
platform stood the recoil remarkably well, only
showing a depression of about half an inch in
the centre; and gradually receding to the out-
sides. The gallant officers, at the conclusion of the
firing, proceeded to witneas experiments with a furnace in-
vented by Captain Addison, for making shot red hot in a
more limited time than by any other plan yet tried. The
furnace resembles a barrack-room stove, and when not used
for heating shot for service at fortifications, would answer
the purpose of heating a large establishment. It is 4 feet
5 inches long by 3 feet 2 inches broad, and 3 feet 8 inches
high, sppported on wheels fur the convenience of moving,
and capable of heating at one time thirty-six twenty-
four-pounders, or thirty thirty-two pounders. The
fire was lighted a quarter of an hour before the shot
was put in, and in three-quarters of an hour more
they were red hot. When the stove is once in full heat, a
succession of shot may be made red hot in about a quarter
of an hour, and by regulating the draught they can be kept
in that state for a length of time.
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MUSICAL GOSSIP.—It would appear that the pre-
sent is the most prolific musical season known in Paris.
"Among the most interesting concerts given this year.
figures," says a private letter, " that of Madame Katinka de
Dietz, lately appointed pianists to her Majesty the Queen of
Bavaria, and who proposes visiting London in the course of
this month."
Sir 'William Smith, Bart, of Bardiston, near Ten-
bury, and the Rev. Edward Higgins, of Bosbury House,
near Ledbury, have qualikted as magistrates for the county of
Worcester.

rostatcor.
The Princess de Canino, widow of Prince Lucien Buona-
parte, has addressed a letter to several French journals, pro-
testing against several passages in the " History of the Con-
sulate and the Empire," just publishedby M. Thiers, as inju-
rious to the memory of her husband. The Princess adds, that
she is preparing for publication a refutation of these passages,
founded on authentic documents.
Father Loriquet, of the order of Jesuits, died at Paris OR
Wednesday, in the 78th year of his age.
The. Cure of Campagnac, in the Aveyron, died on the Ist
inst., in his 101st year.
General Baron Veilande, formerly a Deputy for the Ar.
dennes, was found a few days ago lying dead by his fireside.
The immediate cause of his death is believed to have been a
sudden fit of apoplexy.
The treaty which General De la Rue signed on the 18th
ult. with the Commissioner of the Emperor of Morocco has
reached Paris. M. Roche, who acted as interpreter to the
General, arrived with it; soon after his arrival U. Roche
was received by the King.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, appointed to
examine the proposition of M. Remusat relative to the in-
compatibility of certain administrative functions with those
of Deputies, had rejected it by a majority of 6 against 3, and
chosen AL Hebert, the Attorney-General, for its reporter.
A St. Petersburgh letter of the 27th ult. states that within
the last few years there have been found in Siberia, at dif-
ferent depths in the earth, a great quantity of the bones of
the Mastodontes ; and, as the tusks and other teeth of these
antediluvian animals not only possess all the qualities of
ivory, but even surpass that of the elephant, in being less
fragile and less liable to turn yellow, the merchants of To-
bolsk, Tomsk, Ornsk, and Jeunisseisk, have formed them-
selves into a company, to carry on a trade in this new article.
They are said to have been so successful that, during the last
year, they transported to St. Petersburgh upwards of
16,000 lb. weight of the tusks and teeth of the Alastodontes,
which have been sold at 30, 40, 60, and even 100 per cent.
higher than elephant ivory. Articles made of this new mate-
rial are in great request in the Russian capital.
SLAW AND VOX.= b .
The business of the Western Circuit has terminated,
Charles Peacock, who was out on bail, surrenderedto take
his trial at Gloucester on a charge of forgery. The prose-
cutor, a man named Davis, gave his evidence in a very extra•
ordinary and confused manner, and the jury at once returned
a verdict of acquittal, in which Mr. Baron Platt said
he heartily concurred. This case concluded the Oxford
Circuit.
After a trial of nine hours and a half, Rocker was convicted
at the Central Criminal Court of the murder of Mr. Delarue.
An errand boy, named Michael Henry, in the employ
of Mr. Godfrey, of Great Carter-lane, was fully com-
mitted from Guildhall, on a charge of stealing a cash- box,
containg 701., with which he had escaped to Ballinasloe.
The Earl of Bective summoned an omnibus driver, named
Searle, to Queen-square, for damaging his Lordship's cab, by
carelessly driving against it. The evidence was of a very
contradictory character, and Mr. Burrell dismissed the com-
plaint without throwing imputation upon the witnesses on
either side.