Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

THE NEW POSTAL CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. -It appears that the visit of the Postmaster-General to Paris, for the purpose of entering into a new postal treaty with the French Government for the reduction of the postage on letters between the United King- dom and France from 10d. to 6d, and an assimila- tion of the weight from under a quarter of an ounce tion of the weight from under a quarter of an ounce to not exceeding half an ounce, as on inland letters in England, to the British colonies, the United States, Portugal, Spain, the Med.terranean, Egypt, India, Hongkong, and China (by the monthly mails via Southampton), llollalld, Hamburgh, &.c., has been most successful. This important arrangement, it is stated, is not only confined to letters between the two countries, but is to be extended to all letters passing through France from Great Britain to other parts of the continent. The high postage on letters to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, &c. Is. I Od. per quarter of an ounce, and on newspapers 3d.-by the fortnightly overland closed mails through France, via Marseilles, has also been the subject of his lordship's consideration, and a reduction in the tariff, or postal tax, is likewise to be extended to them. THE COUNTESS OF LANDSFELDT IN PAlus.-The Paris correspondent of the 'Globe' says, The Coun- tess of Landsfeldt (Lola Montes,) or Mrs. Hesld, the uames she bears here. arrived at the Hotel Victoria on Thursday, and to-day she takes possession of the Chateau beaujon, on the Champs Elysees, which she has hired and furnished sumptuously. It is said that Mr. Heald is to arrive this evening with ten or twelve servants and several carriages, and to alight at the Chateau Beaujon. The lady was accompanied, when she arrived on Thursday, by only two setvants, an elderly man who acts as her mait-e d'hotel, and the English lady's-maid who was with her in Spain." GEOGRAPHICAL EXPEDITION.—The Russian Geo- graphical Society has decided upon exploring that portion of the Northern Ural which lies between Mount Kwognar and the Pass of Koppol, nn extent of 2000 wersts, which has not yet been explorfd bv Ihe Ural expedition. The expedition will consist of only three persons, a geognort, who also deter- mines the altitude, a typographist, and one assistant. A number of attendants, interpreters, work people, and reindeer sledges, have been engaged. It is hoped that the expedition will complete the investigation by September.

Miscellaneous Domestic Intelligence. Two beautiful yachts has been purchased at Ports- mouth by Russian nobles. ]he W igan Times' states that the farming crops in that vicinity look very promising. Three young females took the veil in a Roman Catholic chapel in Glasgow on Monday se'nnight. The tenant-right movement in Ireland is advancing in power and making rapid strides. A man who was trespassing upon a turnip-field has been shot dead by a keeper in Ireland. 1 wo fearful deaths from glanders have been re- corded in the journal? during the past week. Another death from hydrophobia has occurred near Aberdeen. It is proposed to unite the King's and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen. 0 A Prussian vessel is now embarking passengers at Limerick for the United States. Numerous officials have been politely dismissed ioin the Department of the Mint. Rear-Admiral Hills died on the 8th inst., at his seat, Asker Hill, Essex, nged 73. Major Jones, of the III h Hussars, has been released from arrest, and has returned to his duty. A docile hippopotamus is about to be despatched from Egypt to London for the Zoological Society. I ti A great Protestant movement is preparing in Bo- hemia and Saxony. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have arrived in Cleveland-square, from Eastwall Puik, Kent. A heavy thunderstorm passed over London on Friday. The Town Council of Leeds has petitioned Par liament to repeal the taxes on knowledge. We understand that Sir Emerson Tennant is about to return to Ceylon. Major Stephens has been appointed by the Duke of Cambridge Steward of the New Forest. the Prince and Princess de Joinville have left Cadiz for England. General Prim has accepted the Captain-General- ship of the Canary Islands. Viscount and Viscoun ess Jocelyn and Lady Ash- ley arrived in town on Friday, after spending the Easter holidays in Puris. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday morning, attended by Lieut. Co!. F. fl. Seymour. 0 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Last week thirty-seven candidates were examined at Sandhurst, and of that number above thirty were considered qualified for commissions. At the late Northampton assizes there was only one cause in the civil court, and no fewer than sixty-three barristers. The Count de Neuilly has received from France a valuable painting on china, destined to be presented to Prince Albert. From a return just made to Parliament it appears that 360 sailing vessels and six steamers were wrecked last year. A fine of haIr-a-guinea has been inflicted, at Leith, upon a person who attempted to travel to Edinburgh with an old ticket. La Patrie,' of Bruges, announces that it is pro- bable that Louis Philippe and his family will visit Bruges in the month of May next. The Sherborne Journal' says it is stated that the costs incurred by the Bishop of Exeter in the Gorham case amount to 14,0001. Sir James and Lady Graham and Miss Graham arrived in town on Friday from Netherby Park, Cumberland, where they had passed the holidays. A steamer which has just arrived from Antwerp has brought 26 horses as a portion of her cargo, con- signed to order, of Belgian produce. Mr. Stephenson, M P., has addressed a letter to the Sheriff of Newcas.le accepting an invitation to a public dinner. Rear-admiral Dundas is about to suceeed Vice- Admiral Sir William Parker as commander-in-chief of the squadron on the Mediterranean station. Mr. Hodson, the late Secretary of the Printers Pension Society, has been re-elected to that office and Mr. Pope has been elected collector. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vi- sited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House. At the Concert-hall, on Saturday se'nnight, Mr. Lover gave one of his "Irish Entertainments," and, as usual, succeeded in delighting a large auditory. Accounts from Vienna state that the Ban Jellachich is betrothed to a Countess St.okau. The bridegroom is about fifty, the bride sixteen, years of age. More than a hundred men have turned out from the collieries at Rainford on account of a dispute about wages. The committee for the building of the royal com- mission for the exhibition of 1851 met on Saturday in the new Palace of Westminster. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have, during the last week, received a select circle of visitors at Goodwood. It is intended to erect a monument at Runnymede to maik the place where Magna Charta was obtained in the twelfth century. Letters from New Zealand state that servant girls were extremely scarce and very much wanted in the colony. A private in the 42nd Regiment of the line was sentenced* to death by court-martial in Paris, on Wednesday se'nnight, for striking his superior officer. Two frightful murders were committed in Clare county on Wednesday week one victim being a landlord, the other a man in humble life. Mr. Hudson arrived in Dublin, lately, and passed north, to inspect the Blaney estate, which has been for some time in the market. The grass parks of Rossie Priory were let on the 4th inst. at prices about 2} per cent. higher than the previous yeir.-I)tindee Courier. The Austrian Government have ordered a ship of- the-line, two double decker frigates, and two large steamers to be built as speedily as possible. The Portsmouth Times' states that the beautiful schooner yacht Errniriia, built for the Earl of Elles- mere, is almost ready for her ifrst trip. The Quten has presented the lioness, the ostriches, and the gazelle sent to her by the Emperor of Mo- rocco to the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The North British Mail,' has despatched a com- missioner to investigate the state of agriculture in Scotland. Nine Arabian horses, the remainder of the Empe- ror of Morocco's present to her Majesty, have arrived by the Iiulldng steamer from Lisbon. Mr, Walter Watts, the late lessee of the Olympic Theatre, has been again remanded on the charge of stealing a cheque for 1,400/. The ex-King and Queen of the French, with the Duke and Duchess de Nemours and their family, are at present staying at Brighton. The Lord Challcellor is convalescent, blit his medi- cal attendants recommend a few days' residencein the country before he resumes his official duties. Arrangements are at length concluded for affording to the public increased facilities of admission to the gardens and the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. The new church of St. James, Edmonton, was consecrated on Sunday week, by the Lord Bishop of London. Letters from Turkey announce the birth of a daughter to the Sultan. The infant received the name of Mukabile, or Fortunate; but the little creature was buried in ti few days. The annual produce of wine, as officially noticed in New South Wales, exceeds 100,000 gallons. Among the choice kinds is a highly extolled Sauterne," made at Paramatta. Prince Albert, attended by Lieut-Colonel F. II. Seymour, honoured Mr. Martin on Tuesday week, by inspecting his paintings and fresco at Lindsay House, Chelsea. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians entered on her thirty-ninth year on Wednesday week. Her Majesty was born at Palermo, on the 23rd of April, 1812. A large and dangerous rock or shoal, with heavy breakers, has been discovered about thirty miles S.W. from Natal, and distant from the land about two miles, which is not laid down in any chart. Mr. Commissioner Bullock has been elected to the office of Common Serjeant, vacant by the decease of Mr. Mireliouse, and took his seat in that capacity in the Central Criminal Court on Monday se'nnight. It is now settled that Major-General Brown, the deputy adjutant-general, will succeed the late Lieut.- General Sir John Macdonald as adjutant general and that Colonel Wetherall, at present deputy adjutant-general at Montreal, will fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of the former. This ar- rangement will effect a saving of about 7001. a year. Her Majesty s accouchement, it is expected, will take place in about a fortnight, and as soon after as her Majesty's state wi!| permit, the Court will return to Windsor, and remain there until after Ascot Races. The Belgian government has assigned places of re- sidence to the French political refugees in Belgium. M. Victor Considerant is to reside at Bouillon, M. Etienne Arago at Spa. The magistrates of Ipswich have issued a warrant for the apprehension of a person named Smeuton, charged with the embezzlement of 2,00()1- belonging to the shareholders of the Suffolk Building Company. The Rev. W. Maskell, vicar of Mary Church, Devon, and domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, has signified his intention of resigning his living preparatory to entering the Church at Horns. The Dt.ke of Noifolk has given 100 guiiieas, and her Grace the D;;chess 20 guineas, in aid of the funds of the Spina! Hospital, for the treatment of distortions, Portland-road, Regent's park. Two failures are reported to have occurred at Manchester, namely, Messis. B Royle and Co, manufacturers, and Mr. Thomas Carruthers, manu facturer. The liabilities of both houses are trifling. A strenuous contest has been engaged in between Major Moore and Mr. Prinsep for the directorship of the East India Company, rendered vacant by the death of Sir A. Galloway. A grand dinner was given on Monday week, by the citizen-8 of Cork, to Sir It. Kane, the President of the Queen's College, which was attended by about 120 gentlemen. A true bill of indictment was on Wednesday s'en- night, found at Clerkenwell, by the grand jury, against the Grosvenor district trustees, for non-repair of the King's road, Eaton-square. A decision has been given, in the Stafford Court of Bankruptcy, that a first class certificate cannot be given to a bankrupt holding shares in a joint-stock bank. Two hoys at Cherrvbank, Perth, having quarrelled about a marble, one struck the other with violence. The boy who was maltreated became ill and died in four hours afterwards. The naval captains'good service pension of 150l per annum, which reverted to the Admiralty on the promotion of Sir J. shall, has been bestowed on Captain Spaishoti, K.ll. In the list of guardians of the Limerick Protestant Orphan Society, appointed for the ensuing year at the annual meeting last week, appears the name of Mr. William Smith O'Brien. The 4 United Service Gazette' slates, that the office of Judge-Advocate for Ireland is to be entirely abo- lished and the duties transferred to the Judge-Advo- cate-General in London. Tiie Banffshire Journal, records an attempt to shoot a tradesman of Fraseburj, recently, whilst crossing the field. A few wounds were inflicted, but the injured man is recovering. Lately, a small clipper was captured on the east coast having on board a cirgo o%. smuggled tobacco valued at 4,000/. The clipper was previously a revenue cutter. Two men convicted at the last assizes of Water- ford of the murder of a bailiff iiiive been repneved by the Lord-Lieutenant. They will be tiansported for life. The Plymouth town council are about to lay down a quantity of glass pipes, joined with gutta percha, as an experiment, for the conveyance of water. 0" the night of Sunday w?ek, Mr, Butcher, a Sheffield manufacturer, had a hand-grenade thrown through his bed-room window. It explcded, but the intended victim fortunately escaped. A movement took place last week amongst the agricultural labourers of Stisted, Chelmsford, which but for the discretion with which it was met, might have led to serious conscquences. The Rev. Canon Bowles, the poet, scholar, and antiquary, whose controversy with Lord Byron may be recollected by many, died at Salisbury on the 7th inst., at the advanced age of 89. On Tuesday, the 9th inst 14 persons left the vil- lage of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, for Western Australia. About 60 persons have emigrated from this place in little more than 12 months. General Avitabile, celebrated as the organizer of Runjeet Singh's artillery, died of apoplexy, on his possessions at Castle Mare, in the beginning of the month. Capt. D. W. P. Labalmondiere is appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, in the place of Capt Hay, who has succeeded Sir C. Howan as joint commissioner with Mr. Mayne. Lord Stanley has declined to receive a deputation from an association for the total repeal of the malt tax, and has expressed himself unfavourable to the object of the association. The hotel keepprs of Paris are in great spirits at pre£eut- Arl"pa at no ua..jod we.. titers many strangers, and especially English, in Paris. Eveiy hotel is crowded. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, I on Saturday, included the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Canning, and Colonel Wylde. Major Richard Henry Tolson, who had been a p-isotier in the Queen's Bench Prison for upwards of eighteen years, was on Friday discharged by order of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday last, at Clarence House, St. James's. The establishment of a Citv and County Freehold Land Society took place on Tueday se ni)ight, III Hereford, at all influential meeting presided over by the mayor. On Sunday, in the French Protestant Church, St. Martin's-le-Gr.md, a young French lady publicly renounced the doctrines of the Romish Church, and was admitted as a member of the congregation. Captain H. C. Elwes, late of the 12th Foot, was unfortunately killed at Exmouth last week by being thrown hy a runaway horse upon the spikes of an iron rallitg, over which the animal leaped. Letters from St. Helena of the 20th February state that the Governor, Sir P. Ross, was in a very de- clining state of health, and not expected to survive more than two or three days. An entertainment on an extensive scale is to be given by the United Service Club of Dublin to Lord Gough. Sir Edward Blakeney, Commander of the Forces i" Ireland, will preside on the occasion. On Tuesday and on Wednesday se'nnight, her Majesty took airings in an open carriage, and on Thursday her Majesty and Prince Albert were pre- sent at the Royal Italian Opera. The Duchess of Orleans and her two children are shortly expected in this country; during their stay they will reside in the house belonging to Lady By- ron, at Esher, close to Claremont. A cabinet of coins has been presented by Mr. Beaufoy, F*lt S-, of South Lambeth, to the corpora- tion of London. It contains neatly 1000 pieces, bearing date between the years 1648 and 1675. On Thursday week, Prince Albert presided at a meeting of the Royal Commission for promoting this Exhibition. At this meeting 51 local committees made a return of their first subscription lists. It is stated to be the intention of the Admiralty, to revise the present regulations for the uniform of the Royal Navy, with the view of reducing the costly expenditure of the junior officers. Madame Grand ii, widow of M. Victor Grandin, representative of the Seine Inferieure, was burnt in her bed a f,:w days since at Elbceuf. The unfortunate lady was within a fortnight of her confinement. A numerous assemblage of the inhabitants of the ward of Langbourn took place at the London Tavern on Monday week, to celebrate by a public dinner the 27,111 arilliversary of Sir John Key's election to the office of alderman. The Bo-ird of Admiralty, at the solicitation of the widow of the late Capt. Broughton, have granted per- mission to that lady to erect a tablet to the memory of her gallant husband in the Royal chapel, Ports- mouth Dockyard. Specimens of Australian gold, mixed with the same ql/artzose detritus which accompanies the metal in other auriferous districts, have recently been received in England. Government, it is said, have agreed to give up, m (|,is case, the royalty on the precious ores. "reparations are making in Paris for a singular experiment. A balloon to ascend 300 metres and be attached, is to hold suspended in the air, like a little gun over the capital, an organised electric lighthouse, of modern discovery. A highly respectable meeting of merchants, ship owners, and others, was held on Wednesday se'nnight I at the Royal Western Hotel, Bristol; P. F. Aiken, Esq., one of the leading bankers, in the chair; for the purpose of taking steps for the formation of a Sailors' Home in that city. On Tuesday a special general meeting of graduates of the University of London and proprietors of University College was held at the college, to con- sider the s .pplemelltal charter lecenily grail. to the University of London. The Emperor of Russia has issued an official no- tice to the officers of the army of occupation in Mol- davia and Wallachia to ally themselves in marriage with native ladies who possess landed property, whenever this is possible. At the Bank of England, on Tuesday week, H. J. Prescott, Esq., was chosen Governor, and I ■ Hankey, Esq. jun., Deputy Governor, for the ensuing year. Messrs. Wigram, Craw ford, and B. B Greene, were the new Directors eiected. The Prussian and Austrian governments have finally completed all the necessary arrangemen's for the regular conveyance of le ters, &c., to and from India and China via Trieste, at one third of the ex- pense of the Marseilles route. Under the authority of the proposed bill "to make better provision for the interment of the dead in and near the metropolis," it is intended to cieate a new burial district, to include all London, Westminster, and the borough ofSouthwark. Part of a ship's round-house was observed on Monday week on the coast of the island of Guernsey, and many cocoa nuts were picked up on the beach. It is supposed that some homeward bound ship has been wrecked off the island. The I Journal de Constantinople' mentions that the proposed Industrial Exhibition in London has excited milch interest in lurkey, and that some of the productions peculiar to that country may be ex- pected. T The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- tional Debt have 14iveii notice, that the sum of 526,4761. 16s. 5d. will be applied to the purchase of stock between the 7th instant and the 5th of July. An announcement has been made that Mr. Bourne's plan for improving steam navigation in India has been referred, by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to the Government in Bengal, leav- ing it to the local authorities to decide on its merits. Tiie Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company are about to establish schools for the edu- cation of the children of those in their service. Savings' banks are also to be established for the men. An emeute which occurred on board the Stirling Cast/e, convict ship, at Portsmouth, was terminated on Monday evening week, by tile t-tiperiiitetideiit of the ship seizing and flogging several of the ring- leaders. a R Southey. Esq. is appointed Civil Commis- sioller and Resident Magistrate at Swellindam ,Cape pe of Good Hope. J. J. Le Sueur, Esq is appointed Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope. On the 5th instant, there was not a spot to he observed on the sun's disc an occurrence unprece- dented for years, and which may be truly styled a phenomenon, being so much out of the ordinary course. At the usual weekly mseting of the Repeal Asso- ciation, on Monday se'nnight, rent" was received to the amount of 4/. only and Mr. J. O Connell threat- ened to close the doors unless a greater contribution was made. It is said to be no longer a matter of doubt that ten of the leading mayors who were present at the late banquet will be knighted in consideration of the aid they have given to the projected Exhibition of All Nations. Captain George Smith, R.N., the Admiralty Su- perintendent of Contract Packets at Southampton, the inventor of paddle box boats for steamers, and of the moveable target for practising naval gunnery, died on Saturday morning, after a short illness. I A table has been printed, setting forth at one view the names of the judges, with the number of causes entered for trial at each assize town or. the Oxfoid circuit from the year 1780 to 1849 inclusive, a period of 70 years. An English composer, Mr. Mitchell, who labours under the affliction of blindness, has just produced an opera at Brunswick which is said to have pleased so much that the work will be shortly also repre- sented at Hamburgh. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena, took a drive in a carriage and four on Saturday. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord C. Fitzroy and Lieut. Col. F. 11. Seymour, attended on horseback. The Duke la Victoria (Esparteroj has, since his return to Logrono, occupied himself greatly in im proving the condition of his native province of the Rioja, by encouraging the growth of the wines of that district. It may be important to English engineers to know Pnucian Pivhlji, Works announces that his department is ready to re- ceive plans and proposals for the construction of a bridge over the Rhine, from Cologne to Deutz. The Belgian Government has just adopted a com- mercial measure of high importance. A royal de- cree permits the entry of linen thread of every size on condition of its being re-exported when made up into cloth. Lady Catherine Bisset, widow of the late Rev. G. Bisset, and only sister to the Earl or Suffolk, d led on the 30th lilt. at Quimper, in Brittany, where her ladyship had been residing for the last five or six years. Between Monday and Tuesday se'nnight, 326 emigrants embarked at the port of Limerick for Que- bec and New \ork. There are 1,300 passengers waiting at W aterford for vessels to convev them to America. The new church of St. James, in the parish of Edmonton, was Consecrated on Monday week, by the Bishop of London, in t|)e presence of a large number of the gentty and clergy resident in the sur- rounding district. On Tuesday morning week, a fire broke out at 25, Ship. yard, Temple Bar, when an elderly female, named Hachael lmner, was so much burnt that it was necessary to convey her to King's College Hos- pital, where she died directly after her admission. On Monday tiie Queen and Prince Albert, with Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena, visited the Zoological ~^j.ns 'n the Reaent's Park and in the evening her Majesty and the Prince were present at her iiiiijesty s l'iteatie. The Admira|ty, being must desirous of testing the line-of battle ships to which they have on'eied the screw-propeller to be fitted, have directed that the Sunsptircil* 4, blllding at Devonport Dockyard, be fitted for sea service. On Tuesday.week a splendid clipper ship, of 600 tons burthen, and^ built of the best British oik, was launched from the building-yard of the Messrs. Dnthie, Footdee. She was named the Brilliant, and is intended for the East India trade. Great excitement was momentarily caused in Waterford, on Good Friday, on seeing a man hang- ing from the yrdarm of a Portuguese vessel. It tianspirfd, however, that the figure was nothing more than a stuffed representation of Judas Iscariot. The Devonport Teleg raph' gives as a rumour, that the Bishop of Exeter contemplates secession, and that the fiist free churcl. is to built under his auspices at Eldad, in connexion with the proposed establishment of the "Sisters of Mercy." A c.tptain in the Austrian navy, named Boracich, who was discharged from the Insolvent Debtors' Court on S iturday week, alleged that he had a claim on the British Government for 210,600/ for the de- tentiori of his ship and himself. Ilis Royal High ness, the Duke of Cambridge, honoured the establishment of Mr. C. F. Hancock with a visit on Wednesday se'nnight, to inspect the silver mess box about to be presented by Prince Demidoff to the 79th Regiment of Cameron High landers. ° ° At Oxford University, on Wednesday se'nnight, the p v" G. Marshall, of Christ Church, and the Rev. Henderson, of Magdalen College, weie ad- to the office of proctors for the ensuing year, the former gentleman as senior proctor, and the latter as junior. Among the contributors to the recent erection of the tnends new meeting house, Preston, was the late j ,°r5e ^°warth, the fraudulent actuary of the Roch- da e Savings Bank, who subscribed 25/. Several of the members, considering that this money was not his own, are rajsjng the like amount.and intend to return it to the fund for paying the poor depositors. I r* 'rnSorm mountain, in Invemess-shire, is yielding greater abundance than ever of the kind of iprecioue stone which goes by its name. One shep- herd has got wealthy by the discovery of a splendid fragment of pure chrystal, weighing I ollb. which he found in what a gold-hunter of California would call a placer" of pocket. Sir Robert Peel Bart, M.P.,accompanied by Lilly and Miss Peel and Captain W. Peel, R.N., arrived at tiie family residence, in Whitehall Garden's, on Thursday se'imigh', from Drayton Manor, Sta.- fords'nre. Mr. F. Peel, M.P., had previously ar- rived n town to attend to his pnliainenlary duties. A report appeals in several of the provincial jour- nals that recently a bdy wlto was about being mar- ried to a gentleman of her own standing in society ran off with his graom while the latter's master and bridal party were awaiting at church the attendance of lie fil iiiiiess fiir. It is understood that a monthly journal is about to be started in Edinburgh under favourable auspices. Literature, politics, science, and art will occupy its columns. Its politics will decidedly he lib, ral, and, though unsectarian, its spirit and tendency will be in favour of evangelical religion. ]'lie I Fifesf)jre Journal' says, "The other day a YOllng brood of redbreasts were seen parting from their nest during the tempting sunshine of the day. This is the first feathered family we have known being abroad on the world, the brood of the present year." The Rev. G. Pretyman, of Great Carlton, eldest son of the Chancellor of Lincoln, was killed a few ti-ivssiiice by the accidental discharge of his gun I while passing throgh a hede- lie was to )iiive been married this week to the daughter of the ltev. W. Smythe, of Elkington Hall. Letters have been received from Sloperton, giving a most painful account of the decaying health of the poet Moore, whose death was daily apprehended. For 3 months past Mr. Moore had not left his room, and altogether hi condition was considered hope- less. A large and influential meeting, convened by the mayor, pursuant to a requisition signed by 700 inha- bitants, was held at Portsmouth, on Wednesday week, when W. Cole, Esq., a deputation from the royal commission, attended and explained the objects of the proposed exhibition. There are twelve vessels taking in emigrants for America at the quays of Limerick. Since the I st of January theie emigrated t orn that port to America 834 passengers, of which only twenty-two had cabin berths. The emigration for the year 1849 amounted to the enormous figure of 11,554. The Archbishop of Canierbuiy has recommended a clergvman who hesitated about retaining his living in the Church, after the recent decision of the Privy Council, to hold his incumbency for six mouths, and if, at the termination of that period, he held the same opinions, to resign the living. Mr. A. II andyside Ritchie, Edinburgh, has just completed two very fine models,tohe cast in bionze, for the New House of Lords. The figures repre- sent two of the Barons who signed the Magna Charta, William de Mowbray and Eustace de Vesci. — Scottish Press. A slop s'nrt-seller, named Savage, was summoned at Guildhall on Monday se'nnight, for refusing to pay a b.dance of 9d. on the ma king of dLee shirts, the whole charge for the work being only 2s. or 8d. per shift. He -ordered to pay the amount, with expenses. The fcene-slnfter, Leihbridae, who threw a man c from the bo<es of the Strand Theatre last week, was re-examined on Saturday, and at the solicitation of the sufferer, who was able to attend, though much bruised and hurt, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. A public meeting of the tailors of the metropolis took place a few days since at the London Tavern, Alderman Sidney, M P., in the chair, convened for the purpose of bringing before the public the evils engendered by the slop, sweating, and middle- man s) tem in the tailoring trade. Dr. Prout, F.It.s, the distinguished physician ex- pired at his residence, Sackville-stieet, l'iceadiliv, on Tuesday se nnight, at an advanced age. Dr. Prout was well known to the profession and the public generally, by his various contributions to the advance- ment of medical science. A terrific conflagration has laid waste the greater portion of the village of Cottenham. Twelve farms were destroyed, four public-houses and breweries, four or five other houses and the Methodist chapel, besides many other large buildings and tenements, occupied bv tradesmen and others The loss must amount to between 20,0001 and 30,000l. A curious computation attributes to every indivi- dual an average of three hours spent in conversation daily, at the iate of a hundred words a minute, or twenty pages of an octavo volume per hour. Thus a week's talk would be four hundred pages, or fifty-two volumes per year. It is maliciously added, that "one lady we know talks a large circulating library every twenty-four hours." At the last monthly meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, B. Heywood Jones, Esq banker, was uni".miius]v nce-rnranindore. and J. Grind- rou, £ ,sq., rear-commodore. It was annouueeu mat great preparations were being made by' the yacht owners of the club to compete in the forthcoming sailing matches for the season, and the opening cruise was fixed to take place early in May. A correspondent of the Athenaeum' states, that in several cases much benefit has been derived by asthmatic patients from the simple practice of burning in "their bedrooms, previously to their retiring to rest, a piece of paper, about four inches square, soaked in a solution of saltpetre, that is, ordinary touchpaper. We understand that active preparations are set on foot for the opening of a Penny Bank in Manchester. One gentleman in Manchester, a retired banker, has shown such a deep interest in the object that he has not only offered to provide a banking-house free of expense, but has promised his attendance three hours a day for the fiist twelve n-lotitils.Il(iiichcstfr Spectator. On Thursday se'nnight, a very numerously at- tended meeting was held at the National lIall, Holnorn, in commemoration of the 10;h of April, and for the additional purpose of making a collection for the widows arid orphans of liliams and Sharp, the Chartist convicts, who died in the Millbank prison I during the late visitation. Lord Ashley has written to tiie editor of the Bath' Chronicle to say that, but for unavoidable detention in Paris he should have voted with the minority on Lord Duncan's motion for the repeal of the w.ndow- tax, as the state of the public revenue leaves him at full liberty to protest against a tax so injurious, in every way, to the comfort and health of the com- m""iiy. On Saturday morning three of the horses presented by the Emperor of Morocco were inspected in the Riding School, and Hadj Abdallah Lamarty and Kaid Abdekrim, together with a groom (Boojmar), exhibited feats of horsemanship, with which the Queen and Prince, and the younger members of the Royal Farn IN, .ere much gratified. At tire Central Criminal Court, on Monday week, Richard Child Willis, said to be a clergyman of the Church of England, was tried for three several misde- meanours by obtaining money for cheques on bankers with whom he had no account. lIe was found guilty in two instances, and it was stated that there were twelve other charges of a similar nature against him. He was senteneed to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. The Inverness Courier' records the enterprise of young Scottish gentleman, who fitted up a small boat for deep sea fishine, spent some thirty hours in an excursion to sea, and returned laden with scaly offerings to his friends far and wide. So great was the draught l'iat a large quantity of fish was after- wards sent to market and sold. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the younger members of the Royal Family, inspected on Friday morning, at Buckingham Palace, the presents sent by the Emperor of Morocco, consisting of nine baths, with the dress saddles of the country and horse furni- ture complete. These presents were delivered to the Queen and Prince by Hadj Abdallah Lamarty, Kaid Abdekrim, and Hassan Boocheta. The Marquis of Granby had a nariovv escape from drowning on Saturday week while bunting with the Belvoir hounds between Melton Mowbray and Kirby. The fox crossed the river, and the noble marquis charged it at full speed, where it was an im. possibility for any hoise to leap over; and it was with considerable difficulty the horse and rider were extricated. A system of imposition is being greatly practised by J,'ie London swir)(]iers^ called tbe converted Jew" dodge, which consists in obtaining money from clergymen and others, under the pretence of having renounced Judaism to embrace Christianity. One of these fellows was brought before Mr. Norton on Saturday, when it was stated by a citv officer who was in attendance to identify the prisoner, that he had received 100/. from one benevolent lady, and j from another 60/. The editor of the Nonconformist' has been dis- trained upon for" a rate for annuitants on chapel of ease, and inieiest on loan for building a new church." An old m,t|i at Kilmarnock, being deserted by a girl vill) wilom he had er.iiiiiiaily lived, took Oil Thursday week, and died in two days. A sentence of ten years' transportation has been passed upon the boy Dancev, aged fourteen, who, some months ago, shot a youth at Bristol. 11. M ..myth, Esq of Castlewidenham, in the county of Cork, blew out his brains, by placing the muzzle of a gun to his forehead, on Saturday week. I The persons named lux and Senior, who were tried at Norwich for the robbery of the Diss Bank confessed their gudt,and owing to that circumstance, coupled with the recommendation to mercy by the prosecutor, %vere sen,,eiieed-itsx to eighteen mouths, imprisonment and hard labour, and Senior to the same punishment for twelve months. Her Majesty's attention luving been called to th* distressing case of an infant family, suddenly deprived ofboth parerits in Clonmel (the father having been serjeant- major in the 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards), she has most kindly placed one of the yo ngest children in the Wansted Infant Orphan Avium. In a recent case heard before the judge of the Westminster County Court, it was decided that al- though a fire had occurred m a chimney the day af- ter it had been visited bv the servants of the Hamo- neur Company, the plaintiff could not recover any damages, inasmuch as the company only undertook to sweep" the chimney, and not to scrai)e" it. At the India House, on Wednesday we nnight, a ballot was taken for the six directors who went out in rotation, and the election fell on Sir. J. Lushing- 'on, and Messrs. Lyall, Macnaghten, Muspratt, Smith and Wigram. Major-Gen. Sir W R Gilbert, G.C.B., has been appointed a provisional member of the Council of India. J. Shepherd, Esq was chosen chairman, and Sir J. Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P., deputy chairman, for the year ensuing. The last experiment made by Nlr, Shepperd with the message ballons, which were sent up on the 3td of March, have been very successful. A letter has been received containing one of the slips picked up on the 7th of March by a commercial traveller from Birmingham, who found it, and observed several others of the same kind at Altona, near Hamburg, a distance of about 450 mdts from London.

Lav And Police Intelligence. DIABOLICAL OLTRAGF. ON A MARKIED I.ADV. -A suburb of this city wtis, at tlie end of last week, the scene of a most distressing and ruf- fianly outrage, committed by a villain who has hi- therto succeeded in eluding detection, upon the per- son of a marned lady, whose name we withhold from a desire not to add to the pain which the revolting occurrence must have already occasioned to her and her fd;i-iii),. -Nlis. who is young, and possessed of considerable peisonal attractions, is the wife of a gemieman who lives at a short distance from the city, and carries on the business of a farmer. Having a larger house than is required for his family, and bemg located in a pictuiesqua neighbourhood, Mr. has been in the habit, in the summer season, of let- ting a part of his residence as a superior kind of out- of-town lodging. On Thursday afternoon a person who is descnbed as having the appearance ot a gen- tleman, about 35 years of age, with daik whiskers meeting under ins chin, five feet eiaht or nine inches high, wearing green spectacles, and dressed in black, with a black satin vest, rang at tie bouse bell, and the two servants be:ng out engaged oil the farm, Mrs. answered the door herself. He accosted her politely, asked if her name was and, on her replying ill the affirmative, stated that, being de- s.rous to take a country lodging for a short time, he had been recommended by the Hev. Mr. an •nfluenti.il clergyman of the neighbourhood, to ask if she could accommodate him. She told him that she could do so. Having looked at the sitting apart- ments, he went up stairs to see a nursery, which he said he should lequire, being a married man with two children. lIe also said he should want accom- modation tor their servants. lie then desired to see the bedrooms, and upon being conducted to them, spoke of them in very approving terms, and said the place would suit him exactly, and if Mr. would join him at once, he would execute an agreement for the hire on the spot. Mrs. who had before apologised for her personal attendance upon him as consequent upon the absence of her servants, now told liiiii-iiot suspecting him of an evil iii-eiition- thst her husband was from home. Upon hearing this he seized hold of her rudely, and with such vio- lence that, in breaking from him, she tore awav the sleeve of her gown, a portion of her chemise, and some of the skin of her arm. After a desperate struggle she succeeded in releasing herself and ran to me aians, ciostiv pursued by him. Unfortunately her fooling slipped, and he overlook her, when, draw- ing out a gold watch and chain, lie offered them to her il she would consent to his purpose. She in- dignantly spurned the infamous offer, screamed a? loud as she could, and again attempted to escape from 111m; but after a prolonged contest, he ulti- mately succeeded in dragging her into the parlour, where he tore nearly all the clothes from her person, and, forcing something into her mouth to prevent her cries from being heard, he accomplished his pur- | ose. Tiie villain used the unfoiianate lady with desperate violence, and on her husband cum i ng" home he found her in strong hysterics, in which sle COIl- tinued for some hours. The nngistrates and police of the district having received information of the outrage, have v-sited the house, and taken the depo- sitions of Mrs. and it is hoped that the efforts which are being used may lead to the arrest and punishment of the miscreant.— Bristol Mercury.

EXECUTION OF ELIAS LCCAS AND MARY HEEDER, AT CAMBRIDGE—Elras Lucas and Mary Ree ler, condemned at the last assizes for the mur- der of lhe wife of the former and sister of the latter, were executed on Saturday in front of the county jail. On Thursday both convicts were visited by their re- latives, and the parting scene was very affecting. Some pious ladies applied to the authorities for per- mission to visit Mary Reeder, "to pny with her," but the authorities lefused. The tallows was erected in front of the county jail, and faced the. Castle-hill. An enormous ciowd was collected, which had poured in.o Cambridge during the monr.n?. In 0 ledience to the rules now enforced, no persons were admitted to witness the last moments of the con- demned, and none but the chaplain and officials of the jail were present at the preparations for carrying out the last penalty of the law. (.acra)),theLo!i- don executioner, was brought down on the occasion' At twelve o'clock- the procession emerged from the gate of the jail, and moved '.ov/aids the scaffold. On reachinc the foot of the scaffold, Lucas ran up the steps leading to the drop, and his face was imme- diately covered m the usual way by the executioner, and the rope adjusted. Whilst tins office was being performed, Mary Reeder stood at the foot of the steps, and in her turn ascended without assistance. As soon as Calcraft had adjusted the rope round her neck, the officiating chaplain bid God bless them," and each replied, "God bless Nloki, sir at the same time the male prisoner said to Calcraft, I am going 10 God." The chaplain then retired from the scaf- fold, reading the burial service. At its conclusion he read some appropriate prayers, and then the signal was given, and the executioner loosened the bolt. 1 he drop fell, and in a few short moments the last sad scene of the Castle Camps tragedy was over. Neither of the culpiiis struggled much, and the slightest possible convulsion was the only symptom of agony evinced by either. Both the unfortunate prisoners appeared to be praying from the time of ascending the scaffold till the drop fell- At the mo- ment of the drop falling a terrific rush was "^ade for the narrow gateway leading to die roa 'rough some oversight on the part of lhe officia !■, t iere had been no barners erected at this dangerojs part of the ground. A strong body of police were in attendance, but thev were of little use in checking the rush of th multitude. A fearful scene ensued, and many per sons were seriously* if not a,:1 1urt, hy being trampled upon, lhe women being the greatest suf- ferers. The bodies having hung an hour, they were cut down, and removed in shells to the interior of the jail, In the evening they were interred m the burial ground of the chapel. About an hour before his death Lucas desired to see the Rev. Mr. Roberts, and it was anticipated that he was about to make a full confession of his guilt. The result of the inter- vieW which took place has not transpired. For some days before his execution Lucas admitted that he de- served his ate, but made no direct avowal of his guilt. lie said that the whole thing arose from the j *1 fiends were always setting him against