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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

finance; Baron de Francos, war ; 'Baron de Ourem, ma-
rine. The first act of the new ministry was to issue a de-
cree announcing that the Cortes should remain open to
the 2d of June.

Liszt, the celebrated pianist, has gone to Hungary, his
native country, where he has been not only elected as one
of the members of the Legislative Assembly, but ap-
pointed one of the vice-presidents.
The Austrian Government has forbidden the exporta-
tion of gold or silver till the end of June. _ _

A number of coloured persons,' free and slave,
were arrested in New Orleans on the Bth ult., for the
crime of assembling to worship God ! A New Orleans
paper mentions, as an evidence of their criminality, that
one of them had a bible and three prayer-books.

IRELAND

~i`e-

All military officers in Dublin who may be seen to
leave their barracks in plain clothes will be placed under

Mr. Mitchell, in addition to the prosecution for sedition,
has to meet a charge of Chief Justice Blackburne, arising
out of Mr. Mitchell's criticisms on the special commission.
A visit was paid to the Repeal meeting in Conciliation-
hall on Monday by Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
now commanding a squadron on the Irish coast. Sir
Charles was introduced by Mr. Maurice O'Connell, and
remained some time as a curious listener.

The " Protestant National Repeal Association" seems
likely to drop still-born from the womb. There is a good
deal of hard " puffing" on the part of the Repeal Jour-
nals, who are endeavouring to infuse into it some sem-
blance of animation, but it " makes no sign."
SLIGO ELECTION. —The nomination took place on
Friday week. The candidates were Mr. John Patrick
Somers, the unseated Conciliation-hall member, and
Charles Totvneley, Esq., of Towneley-hall, Lancashire,
an English Roman Catholic, and a whip in politics. Mr.
Towneley was elected; he is brother to John Towneley,
Esq., M.P., for Beverley; and brother-in-law to the Earl
of Sefton, and to C. P. Grenfell, Esq., M.P., for Preston.
A tenant-farmer, holding 200 acres of land in the
neighbourhood of Clogheen, has been sentenced by Ser-
geant Howley to three months' imprisonment, for having
arms in his possession without a license. On looking
over the informations, the learned Sergeant discovered
that the prisoner had " damned the Queen and the laws,"
&c., and this, no doubt, induced the learned judge to pass
so heavy a sentence.

Every one is aware of the fervour with which, when
appended to an Advertisement, " None but a Protestant
reprobated by our liberal commentators ;
ed in vain to their columns for any cen-
sure of the recommendation in the Dublin Nation that
" the servants, the butlers, the coachmen, the footmen
and gardeners," in every house should bo " organised"
against the families that feed them. _ _

need apply,
upt urn harp

A cry is now being raised that the destruction of the
church would satisfy moderate repealers, and the cry has
been responded to by several not uninfluental whigs—
gentlemen who have ridden into lucrative places on the
strength of party agitation, and who can see nothing but
ruin in the prospect of a fusion of respectable men of all
shades of politics—a consummation which might be
achieved under such statesmanship as that which now
guides the councils of Dublin Castle.
The Lord Bishop of Killaloe (the Hon. and Right Rev.
Ludlow Tonson) has, by the demise of his brother, Lord
Riversdale, which event took place, a few days since, at
the family seat in the County of Cork, succeeded to the
title and estates. This amiable prelate, who is unmarried,
is the most eloquent pulpit orator in Ireland. Charity,
indeed, seems to have selected him as her advocate, as his
appeals in her behalf are irresistible.
COERCIVE MEASURES.—We gave heard that one of the
ssed in the year 1819. the period cf the Man-

chester riots, against training, drilling, arming, and meet-
ings encouraging to such deeds, and which was heretofore
considered as only extending to England, has been found
to embrace Ireland also, and is likely to be enforced in
the course of the present week. The penalty attached to
a conviction under this act is two years' imprisonment, or
seven years' transportation. The act is the 60th Geo. 111.,
chap. I.—Dublin Herald.

MILITARY REPEALERS.—At Armagh two or three of
the 57th regiment, lately showed signs of at least very
questionable loyalty. One fellow in particular shouted
lustily for " Repeal," and was soon after sent to the
county gaol, and marched a prisoner from town next
morning. On Sunday week the Romanist soldiers at Clon-
Tel attended mass at the chapel, when many of them
signed the petition for repeal, which was reported at head
quarters. At Ballinasloe six of the Scots Greys have been
placed under arrest for having hurrahed for repeal.
THE ORANGEMEN AND THE REBELS.—The revolu-
tionary agitators in Ireland have recently been making
overtures to the loyal Orange body to " fraternise" with
rebellion ; and on Thursday a formal address to them,
full of solicitations to that effect, was adopted by the
Committee of Trades. The Orangemen have lost no
time in vindicating their fidelity to the Queen and consti-
tution, and their reply is a prompt, bold, and decisive
refusal to co-operate, which no " pikcinan or Thug" can
possibly misunderstand.
ANOTHER GROWL FOR MONEY.-4011D, Archbishop of
Tuam has addressed a letter to Lord John Russell, and
which, to say the least, fully bears out this modest prelate's
reputation as a scold of the very highest order of merit.
He demands more money out of the Imperial Treasury,
pretty much after the fashion of the beggar in Gil Bias,
and is not ashamed to assert that the whole object of the
enactment of the Poor Law was to rid Ireland of the
Roman Catholic population. " His Grace" is, moreover,
particularly angry with the recent declaration -of confi-
dence in the government of Lord Clarendon, and inti-
mates that the total subversion of the established church
would be a step in the right direction.

A " PIKE " ESTABLISHMENT.—Curiosity led me to-
day to visit Hyland's pike manufactory in Charles-street,
within half pistol-shot of the Four Courts. Outside is a
sign-hoard with a pike painted thereon. Inside the pic-
ture is realised, for 1 saw half--dozen pikes spread forth
on the dingy counter, aid two purchasers comparing the
size, strength, and polish of the various blades. There
was no secret or mystery about the sale. Hyland vended
his wares openly, and boasts of the extent of his trade,
which keeps up five furnaces and twice the number of an-
vils—all busy with pikes. The night sales, I understand,
are considerable. The persons I saw purchasing were of
the better class, at least in appearance.—Dublin Corres-
pondent of the Daily News.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES--The intelligence from the
provinces is. upon the whole, of a rather disagreeable
character. The arms' mania seems to be growing more
infectious, and the demand for pikes and rifles is particu-
larly brisk in the county of Limerick, the provincial head-
quarters of the Irish Confederates. In addition, there has
been in the same quarter a run made on the savings banks
on Monday, amounting to 14,0001., while notices have
been given for the withdrawal of double that sum. "As

almost a necessary consequence of the run on the savings
bank," adds the Examiner, "a run of a more partial cha-
racter on the Provincial Bank has occured. _ The savings

e received most of the del
Provincial Bank, and demand, and of course are

ii tors repair

gold for the notes

CHALKING DOORS

Before the i ebellion of '9B it was

the ex

lie doors of Protestants

that the pike-men might know where their victims were
to be found. Here and there the figure of a pike is
chalked on the doors in this city. On one of the quays a
few days ago, a maid-servant in the morning found the
door of the house she lived in thus distinguished, but she
rubbed off the chalk. On the following morning the
mark, we understand, was made with paint. The servant,
• • •,

day, to attend a place where some persons of tne numb l
classes were assembled, one of them said to her, " There_
but three of you on the quay." " What do you mean -
inquired the girl. " Why but three Pr( "
the answer. " and you'd better take care

We cannot

vouch for the truth of this, but we give it as we have
heard it. There are on the quay but three houses occu-
pied by Protestants, and the door of each has, we believe,
• •

are publicly inquired after by th
1. Guns with bayonets Pre in gi

ho can't afford a

THE STATE TRIALS.-At the opening of the Easter
term, in Dublin, on Saturday, the traversers, Mr. W. S.
O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher, and Mr.
John Mitchell, entered the court shortly before twelve
o'clock. Justice Crampton took his seat at twelve, and,
the grand jury having been sworn, delivered his charge to
them at some length. After referring to the nature of

the nature of their jurisdiction as compared with a petty
jury, the learned Judge concluded by saying that the de-
termination of the guilt or innocence of the parties rested
with the grand jury in the first instance, and if they were
sati,tiett that the writings and the speeches charged in the
indictment were written and spoken by the parties

were libellous

and sedition

udge had con

the bills were immediately handed up to the grand jury,
who, after about an hour's deliberation, returned with a
true bill against
_Mr. Mitchell, to whom a cony of the

indictment was handed. Truer billsweiesuVejiien7l;
found against Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher. -
INSURANCE CASE.—At Cork Criminal Court, on Fri-
day, Hugh Kinnears was found guilty of a conspiracy,
with others to defraud the Britannia Insurance company.
The Judge, in passing sentence, said, " It appears that on
the 30th May, 1846, you joined with others in conspiring
to maintain an insurance in your favour for a sum of £192,
effected on the life of a person named John M'Malion.
You have also been charged with carrying out that con-
spiracy by making false pretences to the agent of the com-
pany, and of that the jury have likewise found you guilty.
You have been charged with having in furtherance of
your object put forward these false pretences, with the
full knowledge of the falsehood of everything you bad so
pretended. The jury, on all these propositions having
been placed before them, have without difficulty or hesi-
tation come to the conclusion that you were guilty upon
the general indictment. Under such circumstancis, it
remains for me to pass upon you the sentence to which,
in my judgment, you ought to be subject. It appears
that upon the insurances so effected you received a sum of
£499. According to the verdict of the jury that sum has
got into your pocket unjustly, dishonestly and fraudu-
lently." The prisoner was sentenced to pay a tine to the
crown of £5OO, and to be imprisoned for six months, and
until the fine be paid.
ItErEAL FOR IRELAND.—We say again, in the name of
all that is crazy, let them have repeal. Let them try
their " Domestic Legislature " once again. Let them pay
for their own government. Let them pay their own in-
come-taxes. Let them pay their own assessed taxes.
Let them support, unassisted, their own officers of state—
their own share of the civil list expenditure—their own
prime minister—their own secretaries of state--their own
generale—their own admirals—their own share of the array

and navy—their own judges—their own colleges—their
own gentry—their own shopkeepers—their own navvies,
and—their own poor. Let them pay their own debts.
Let them keep their own soup kitchens, and their own
meal depots. Let them make their own railroads. Let
them job their own jobs—in Church and in State. Let
them farm their own lands—with their own capital.
Let them (if they can) collect their own rates; and (if
not) suffer, themselves alone, the consequence of their
own default. Let them have their own trade, their own
manufactures, their own commerce—and no more. And,
besides all this, let them make their own laws—and, when
made, obey them. When all this is done—then we too,
with them, shall see and believe in the feasibility of a
"Domestic Legislature "—but not till then.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-Mr. Thomas Arkins presided
over a crowded assembly at the meeting of Old Ireland-
ers on Monday. A gentleman of grotesque appearance,
with hair dishevelled and other peculiarities of dress, or
rather undress, was recognised as Dr. O'Reilly, of Anna,
county Cavan, and, having handed in his subscription,
proceeded to deliver a rambling speech on a variety of
topics peculiarly interesting to himself, and which he
omits no opportunity of laying before the public. He
descanted on the military achievements of his ancestors—
their fidelity to the House of Stuart—his recent alliance
with an English Protestant lady, and other subjects, the
general importance of which the audience were stupid
enough not to recognise, and he at length desisted, in
obedience to a hint from Mr. M. J. O'Connell that
" their time was particularly precious just now." Mr.
M. J. O'Connell then proposed a resolution expressing
the association's disgust and indignation at the bill just
brought in by ministers for the protection of the crown
and government. He also moved that it be referred to a
committee to take the opinion of counsel on the conven-
tion act, in order that they might form the National
Council of 300, meditated by O'Connell. The meeting
was warned against the Confederates. The rent was
announced to be £52 19s. 7d.

THE COLD WATER CURE.—At a repeal meeting in a
club-room, at Belfast, a few days since, a person named
Rea was recommending a general arming, and the pur-
chafe of rifles, when, lo ! to his astonishment the hose of
a water-engine was directed to one of the open windows
overlooking the mob, and the water began to fall in tor-
rents on the unhappy auditors below. It being then quite
dark, the people did not observe whence the water came,
and could not tell what was the cause. The cheering,
which had hitherto been most vociferous. soon subsided,
and all the revolutionary spark that had been burning in
their bosoms but a moment before now became entirely
extinguished ; and every individual in the square, leaving
the speaker in his glory, scampered off with the utmost
precipitation, but not until they were nearly all completely
drenched. The hose was then turned into the windows
in the club-room, where Mr. Rea still stood, magnani-
mously endeavouring to rally the auditory, but his efforts
were fruitless. The other members in the room took to
immediate flight, when the water came in upon them in
immeasurable quantities, and the rush to force open the
door and get down the stairs was tremendous. At this
period it was stated that a man was seen on the top of one
of the houses that overlooked the rooms with the hose in
his hand, directing the discharges upon the people, and
some of the individuals in the room, whose curiosity
prompted them to exa mine for a moment, by going to the
front of the window, the supposed place whence the water
came, found to their cost that there was too much truth in
the statement. Several of the more courageous bolted
down stairs in a towering passion to get stones to dislodge
the house-top occupant, but just as they had opened the
door below a water-spout broke upon them, and they were
obliged to shut the door again in all haste. Some of the
more warlike in the house, in the height of their ardour,
made several fruitless inquiries for pistols or swords, or
any such available weapons, in order to punish the
offender. During all this time Mr. Rea remained at the
window, manfully and patriotically scorning to take refuge
by flight, though the water was playing upon him in the
most liberal manner. It is doing him but poor justice to
say that be never flinched one inch from his post during
all these trying circumstances. He at length, however,
became " teetotally " silent.

POLITICAL

MISCELLANY.

See what bad company I have been in at Kennington
Common," said Mr. Feargus O'Connor ; " my colleagues
have picked my pocket.' "What have you lost?" in-
quired Sir William Somerville. "My pocket handker-
chief." " Oh," rejoined the right hon. bart., with that
readiness and tact for which he is so distinguished, " Oh,
I thought it was your resolution.' "
THE CHARTIST "NATIONAL CONVENTION."—This
body still continues its sittings; but its proceedings have
been utterly devoid of interest. Since the failure of the
demonstration on Kennington Common, the language of
the speakers has been somewhat less violent and vaunting
than before. One amusing, circumstance is that one of
the leading delegates, Mr. Ernest Jones, has been arrested
for debt.

THE CHARTIST LEADER FRIGHTENED.—After the ex-
traordinary exposure of the moster petition in the House
of Commons on Friday, Mr. O'Connor informed the
house that " he should abandon his motion for taking the
Chartist petition into consideration on Friday. He would
not practice any delusion upon the house himself, nor be
accessory to the practice of any delusion by others. He
left the petition between the house and the country, and
also between the committee and those who signed it."

THE CHARTIST LION ASLEEP.—After the division had
been taken in the House of Commons, on Friday, on the
Crown Security Bill. the tellers appeared at the table, and
informed the speaker, amidst the laughter of the house,
that Mr. O'Connor was asleep during the whole of the
division! The hon. member having been nailed up, and
asked how he intended to vote, replied, "with the Ayes,"
an announcement which, being in opposition to all his
previous votes, had the effect of producing irrepressible
mirth.

THE REMOVAL OF ALIENS.—The bill brought in by
Government for the purpose of getting rid of foreign
emissaries of mischief, simply provides that the secretary
of state, or viceroy, of Ireland shall have power to issue a
warrant for the removal from the country of any sus-
picious foreigner, and that the latter, on disobeying the
warrant, shall be liable to apprehension and commitment
to prison for 12 months, and then be sent out of the
kingdom. Foreigners who have been settled here for
seven years are not affected by the bill.
TIHE CHARTIST CONVENTION.—At a meeting of the
delegates in London, Mr. Clark drew the attention of the
Convention to the. Alien Bill introduced last night into
the House of Lords, by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and said,
that if it were to be put in force he should be glad to see
it applied to " a person called Prince Albert," and also to
M. Guizot. Notice of motion was given against the Bill.
A Committee was appointed to consider the mode of pay-
ing the delegates. Mr. O'Connor, M.P., declared that
as soon as Sir G. Grey's Treason and Sedition Bill passed
into .s law, he would that moment avow himself to he a
Republican. He would certainly move for the impeach-
ment of Ministers.
NEW POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of the
members of Parliament, held at the Free Trade Club, in
London, on Thursday, on a requisition, signed by 49 mem-
bers, including Messrs. Hume, Cobden, Osborne, Selby,
Sir W. Molesworth, Lord D. Stuart, &c., Mr. Hume
acting as chairman, and Sir Joshua Walmesley as secre-
tary, the following resolution was unanimously adopted
-"That a more cordial co-operation is earnestly reque9'
--h -- A as are favour"'

among suck. ,00rs of Parliamen.
the extension of the suffrage and an equitable arrange-
ment of taxation, reduction of expenditure, and the gene-
ral advance of reform principles throughout Great Britain
and Ireland." A committee was appointed.
Ttic. COBDEN FUND.—The folic

wing significant letter
appears, without note or comment in the Manchester
Guardian of Wednesday last :—" Sir,—l am a partner in

closed several months, I have not seen any account re-
specting the disposal of the money. I, as well as several
other friends who contributed, have made many inquiries
about it, but have not been able to learn anythins satis-
Can you, sir, inform me whether the test►monial
presented to Mr. Cobden, and if so, in what
to what amount, and whether Mr. Cobden has
.cknowledged the receipt of the same ?—I remain, sir,
yours respectfully.- I-I. S."

factory

THE :SiONSTER. PETITION.—This Petition, like the
great demonstration got up for Monday last, turns out to
be a veritable hoax. The number of signatu: es attached
to it amounted, according to Mr. Feargus O'Connor's
statement, to between five aad six millions, and he claimed

whilst the credence attaching to the veracity of the signa-
tures may he judged- front the fact, that not only is the
name of Queen Victoria appended to it, hut the Duke of
Wellington is attached nearly twenty times. Almost
Tang name known to Englishmen, such as Snooks,
se, and other nicknames, figure in thousands, and

every

and boy, abort

ing to his master:—" I've had such a capital lark, Sir,
signing my name to the Chartist Petition. I always signs
it when I goes over the bridze and when I comes back."

Now, as his master tells me" his business regularly takes
him twice each way every day during the year, it would
give, deducting Sundays, 1,252 of his signatures alone
during the year; and, as hundreds of others no doubt
think it fine fun, it would soon make up the 5,760,000.

A MAN OF MIGHT.-At a meeting of the "National
Convention." held in London on Monday last, Mr.
Feargus O'Connor is reported to have said, in reference
to his own courage and prowess—" I have scars and marks
of bayonet wounds which I have received whilst struggl-
ing for the people; and on one occasion, at Manchester,
after a disturbance, there were no less than ninety-three
warrants issued against me, at the instance of parties who
had been injured by me in the exercise of the conflict.
On the same occasion, I was carried away by the mob in
a state of insensibility, bleeding from my wounds, and 1
am equally determined to exercise my courage to-day,
notwithstanding the threats that have been held out against
my life."—Mercy upon us ! what a terrible fellow the
Chartist member for Nottingham must be ! Why all we
have read of, in prose or verse, in history or romance,
falls short of his prowess in tight. The heroes of the
Trojan war, the paladins of Charlemagne, and the worthies
of knight-errantry, must all look small before him.
Ninety-three persons injured by him in one tight (how
many more were injured, but did not complain, we are
left to guess) obtained warrants against him. It must
have been a wonderful afair. But, pray, when did it all
happen ? We profess to have some little knowledge of
what has been going on in Manchester during the last
thirty years; but, up to the time when we read the
report of Mr. O'Connor's speeck in the convention, we
never heard of the terribl,) onslaught in which he did so
much mschief. We rather suspect that the hon. gentle-
man has been dreaming, anti has put off upon his hearers
for facts the mere wanderings of his own imagination.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Dr. Keith has declined tole nominated as Moderator of
the Free Church.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, on Wednesday, received
a deputation of the clergy of the City of London, who
waited upon his Grace at Lambeth Palace, to congratulate
him upon his elevation to the archiepiscopal see.
CAMBRIDGE.—The two gold medals, value fifteen gui-
neas each, given by H.R.H. the Chancellor of the Uni-
versity, to two commencing Bachelors of Arts, who hav-
ing obtained senior optimes a least, show themselves the
greatest proficients in classical learning, were adjudged on
Saturday last to-1. C. B. Scott, first classic, 22nd wran-
gler, Trinity ; 2. B. F. Westcott, second classic, 24th
wrangler, Trinity.

The Bishop of Exeter having afforded to the Rev. G.
C. Gorham, vicar of St. Just, Cornwall, another oppor-
tunity of explaining his views on the sacrament of bap-
tism, has finally pronounced him unsound in doctrine,
and refused to institute him to the living of Bampford
Speke, to which he has been presented by the crown. It
is reported that legal proceedings will be taken against the
Bishop, the case having been referred to the law officers of
the crown.

LOYAL AND ORTHODOX. The opponents of the
Bishop of Hereford, so far from having recovered their
g-ood sense, or returned to an observance of decent pro-
priety, appear, we regret to say, to be more rabid and
impotent than ever. One of them has been annoying the
Lord Primate for a reply to the protest made against the
Bishop of Hereford's consecration, and has got nothing
for his pains and importunity but the assurance that his
Grace of Canterbury has not o'erstepped the bounds of
duty. In addition to this, a vveekly journal, angry at not
having slain the'Bishop of Hereford with the stabs dealt
at his back, proposes to brand his lordship with a nick-
name, and that he never be recognised among the semi-
Romanists in our church by the title which is his own.
The same paper, adverting to the recognition of repub-
lican atrocities by the French priesthood, holds it up as a
warning to ministries that will not nourish tractarianism.
It will be a sight in that Semaine des trois Jeudis which
shall see Mr. F. O'Connor ruling provisionally the des-
tinies of England from the Mansion-house. to bel_old a
tractarian deputation acknowledging the wicked abortion,
and to hear the Lacordaire of the party declaring it to be
God—created, because favour had not been given by the
fallen Sovereign of England to the friends of the Pope in
England's church !—Church and State Gazette.
PROPOSED NEW DIOCESE OF ST. ALBAN'S.—The Ec-
clesiastical Commissioners, it is said, intend to recom-
mend to the government the immediate formation of a
new diocese, to comprise a portion of the extensive see of
the Bishop of Rochester, and part of that of the Bishop
of Ely. At presents the whole of Essex, the whole of
Hertfordshire, and a large portion of Kent, are comprised
in the diocese of Rochester, whilst the see of Ely includes
the whole of Cambridgeshire, the whole of Huntingdon-
shire, the whole of Bedfordshire, and part of Suffolk. It
is proposed that the new diocese of St. Alban's shall be
composed of the archdeaconries of St. Alban's and Bed-
ford, containing 109 rectories, 112 vicarages, and 36 dona-
tive and perpetual curacies, served by about 400 clergy-
men. The new see of St. Alban's will thus be larger than
either of the dioceses of St. Asaph, Bangor, Chichester,
Llandaff, Carlisle, Durham, or Sodor and Man. When
the new arrangement Shall have been made, the diocese of
Rochester will consist of the whole of Essex (a few par-
ishes closely bordering on London excepted) and a portion
of Kent, containing 255 rectories, 165 vicarages, and 57
perpetual and donative curacies, served by about 700 cler-
gymen. Under the new arrangement, the diocese of Ely
will consist of the whole of Cambridgeshire, the whole of
Huntingdonshire, and part of Suffolk, comprising 232 rec.
tories, 131 vicarages, and 71 perpetual and donative cura-
cies, served by nearly 600 clergymen. The Abbey Church
of St. Alban's will of course serve for the Cathedral
Church.

COURT AND F

'ASHIO!IY,

The Court remains in the Isle of Wight, and the Queen
and the Royal Family have taken daily exercise in the
grounds of Osborne and on the sea shore.

On Saturday, at Osborne house, the Archbishop of
Canterbury was sworn in one of her Majesty's Privy
Council. On the same day the Bishop of Hereford
did homage to the Queen, on his appointment to the
Bishopriek. - -

Her Majesty intended to have been at Windsor during
the Easter recess ; but the numerous works now in pro-
gress there have rendered it necessary to postpone the
visit until Ascot race week. _ _

The Queen is reported to have withdrawn her patronage
from the French plays at St. James's, and there is no
doubt everything . French will very speedily be out of
fashion at Court. . _

The Howe, 120 guns, Captain Sir James Stirling, sailed
from the Tagus on the 4th instant, for Madeira, to em-
bark her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite. Her
Majesty may be expected in England about the end of the
present month.
BANQUET TO VISCOUNT HARDINGE.-011 Wednesday
the members of the Carlton Club gave an entertainment
to Lieut.-Gen. Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8., on his return
from India. The banquet took place in the spacious new
coffee-room of the club-house, covers being laid for above
200. Lord Saltoun presided, and was supported on the
right by Viscount Hardinge, the Duke of Richmond, the
Duke of Montrose, and the Marquis of Salisbury ; and
on his left sat the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Athol,
the Marquis of Abercorn, and the Earl De Grey..
NEW BOAT FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.—HIS Royal
Highness the Prince of V,Tales is about to be initiated in
the fine, Manly, and truly healthful exercise of rowing,
and a new and beautiful single sculling boat is now being
constructed for his Royal Highness, on the latest and
most improved principles, by the Messrs. Searle, her Ma-
jesty's boat-builders, of Stangate-street, near Westmins-
ter Bridge. The skiff is a complete model of the boats
used by gentlemen on the Thames, and as a specimen of
workmanship is perhaps unequalled. It is 20 feet in length,
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sinking.