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September 14, 598 library. Two copies of a catalogue, each in 153 volumes, are placed one on each side of the old 70-volume catalogue in a-manner calculated to obviate crowding, and to give easy access to any letter. The number of volumes is, in our opinion, a benent, as it divides each latter into more portions, and renders it almost im possible that a reader can monopolise it, as was often the case in former times. more boisterously applauded. The warmth of enthusiasm set the draught at defiance; and, had the walls of the building fallen in during one of Sontag's airs, it is doubtful whether the Gloucester audience would have let her off without an encore." There were upwards of 700 persons in the aisles alone, 700 in the reserved seats.

The entire number present was estimated at 2,200. The collection at the doors amounted to 3S. From Ireland we hear that Lord Clarendon made pnWre entry into 'Belfast on Thursday, and was to have been entertained on Friday night at the grand banquet to begiven bythe Ton Council. The prospects of the harvest continue to be fair. Another day has passed, and not even a solitary complaint, either through public or private channels.

All accounts represent harvest operations as being nearly completed, and the genera! estimate sets down the return as an average one. Beyond the most shadowy rumours nothing has transpired with respect to the Irish legal appointments now in the gift of the Government, nor is it probable that any definitive arrangement will be come to until the return of Lord; Clarendon from his northern tour. The "rumour" which gained moat credence on Thursday was to the effect that Baron Richards was to obtain: the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and that the Attorney-General was to be his successor in the Court of Exchequer, and Chief Commissioner ftatttf Sntenfgcnce. Saturday Mobbing, September 14, 1850. It would appear that the Nepaulese princes are getting daily into better humour with Paris and their Oriental mode of testifying satisfaction with those who minister to their pleasures, by stripping: and presenting their gorgeous trinkets, is highly gratifying to the Parisians who are fortunate enough to attract their approbation.

On Thursday night the ambassador Jung Bahadoor gave a signal proof probable condition of the troops who should attempt an invasion of our shores. A small French merchant-steamer laden with some 400 or 500 natives is about the least desirable conveyance thata man even of the strongest nerves would select; a punt and solitude in any navigable waters must be infinitely preferable. It was my unhappy lot to cross from Havre to Cherbourg in one of these commercial steamers. The sea was just as smooth as a canal, merely rippling beneath the gentlest of breezes. As the vessel moved from the quay she presented an animated picture of gaiety, good humour, and cheerfulness.

The deck was as full as it could hold from stem to stern, chairs being placed in tiers for the accommodation of the passengers, who had travelled from Paris, Caen, Rouen, and all accessible towns to enjoy themselves, and seemed as determined on their intention as smoking, drinking, eating, laughing, and talking could make them. But, alas all that pleasant frame of mind was soon destroyed. The quay was passed, and as the sea was shaking his great lazy sides in the sunshine, he gave the top-heavy boat a gentle lift, which made it incline an inch or so to one side, and then to the other out of compliment. Instantly a horrid silence reigned over the vessel she moved on mute as the Flying Dutchman. Cigars were covertly removed from between the lips and cast into the sea; pipes were stowed away in the remotest pockets the glass was left, half emptied and the most delicate little sandwitches were disregarded.

The eye, but a moment before so bright sparkling, was cast with a heavy gaze of envy on the receding piers, thronged with vivacious ladies, gentlemen, soldiers, douaniers, and fishermen, waving their adieux to their friends National Guards fixed their shakoes fiercely on their heads, and regarded the sacre mer with a stern and menacing countenance while others turned their heads away from the pernicious element altogether, and the ladies prepared for the terrible catastrophe which they felt to; be inevitable by the most favourable arrangement of their shawls and bonnets. It speedily came indeed. A few heaves more and the work was done. Smothered ejaculations, agonizing appeals to Mm Dieu began to break forth from the agitated mass, till one great sj of suffering humanity rose from that unhappy vessel. There was of Encumbered Estates.

Of Mr Hatchell elevation to the post of first law officer there is no reasonable doubt while the list of candidates for the Solicitor-Generalship, instead of being narrowed, grows more extended Me Am. nA all speculation completely in the dark. The of Mr Commissioner Longfield has been added to the long roll of aspirants- Saturday Night. The President of the Eepublic arrived on Thursday night in Paris at half-past eleven o'clock. At an early hour of the evening or of his taste and which is tne wk or an raris.

He and his brothers went to the opera, where Madame Aguado has placed her box at their disposal, to see Ceritoin the Violin du Diable. The ecstacies of the prince were so intense, that he gladly suffered himself to be led behind the scenes, where he could give freer veniito his rapture, and take a closer survey of the object which dazzled his senses. Cerito was panting upon a sofa in the little room to which she retires in the intervals of her performance, when the swarthy visitor presented himself, indicating by smiles and salaams his internal satisfaction. A more solid token of the ambassador's delight remained behind, for he unclasped from his wrists a pair of magnificent diamond bracelets, and transferred, them with all the gallantry and grace in the world to the arms of the celebrated danseuse, M. de Girardin fills four columns of the Presse with an answer to the National' on the subject of therevision of the constitution.

M. de Girardin persists in advocating a revision, but in his great anxiety to be thought -even more republican than the which will see in him only a disguised monarchist, he declares that his motive for desiring a revision is to afford a chance he does not do escaping tne consequences. wnere you wouia, mio cne most Secret corner of the ship, there you would find a Frenchman in the most exaggerated attitude of despair, who had just breath enough to say that he indulges a hope that by this means the institution of inform you or his intention to perish on the spot. a small yessel, with nearly 500 persons on board, all of them more or less (and the least very much) afflicted with the mal de mer, such a state of things was not agreeable, particularly as the sufferers waxed furious if trodden upon, and yet lay in such a way that it was impossible to move without treading on them. sir Charles JNapier talk as he will, a French military invasion of England is impossible Their formidable steamers may disgorge their armed masses on our shores, but a few divisions of police could easily cart them away into the in ganised groups shouting Vive 1 Jirapereur, took up their stations near the entrance to the Kouen railway, but were compelled to retire by the-police.

and military acting together, but not before one of the staff was puljed off his horse and ill treated, because he refused to shout Vive Napoleon." The display of military was considerable, the President's carriage was enveloped by squadrons of dragoons. The cries of Vive 1'Empereur and Vive Nap oleon provoked cries of "Vive la Eepublique," which increased the agitation. At midnight all excitement was over, and the city was in its. usually quiet state. It is said that General Changarnier has had an interview with the President of the Eepublic, which he demanded for the sake of remonstrating on the subject of the violent acts which took place on Thursday night, on the part of the Tenth Decembrists, who affect to derive support and encouragement from the personal friends of Louig Napoleon.

If report speaks truth, the President is no less offended with Gen. Changarnier for not having been on the spot to receive him, for although the gallant general had been in waiting from eight to eleven o'clock, he retired home before the arrival of the head of the state. The best understanding is therefore supposed not to exist between the President and the Commander of the Forces. At the meeting of the Parliamentary Commission yesterday, the occurrences of the previous night were spoken of with much earnestness, and there were members who said that unless means were taken to put down the society of the 10th of December they would insist on having the Legislative Assembly convoked for the purpose of dealing with this dangerous association The Siecle confirms the report mentioned a few days since, that all differences between the Bourbon and the Orleans families have been arranged in a most friendly spirit, and that a manifesto from both branches of these illustrious houses will be issued in a few days A seizure was made by the Custom House officers of Cherbourg of 3,000 cigars on board an English vessel during the late festivities there. Letters received in Paris from Cologne state that General Haynau had been so roughly treated in that place that the police were obliged to take him under their protection.

The funds slightly declined yesterday, the Five per Cents, closing at 93f. 75c; and the Three per Cents, at 58f. 5c. terior. No one more admires the intrepid bravery and high spirit of the soldier than myself, but assuming that he is similarly con stituted in stomach with, bis compatriots who have not been to sea, I assert that a voyage of a few hours would leave him an assured and easy prey to the most insignificant of enemies that he would lay ttown ms arras Because He would not be able to carry thera and would, at the moment, rather like the idea of being a prisoner of war, inas the presidency, which he regards as too aristocratic, may be got rid of.

A president, in the opinion of M. Girardin, is a temporary king, a king in the third degree and, with his present ideas of government, he cannot tolerate anything which ha3 even in the third degree a resemblance to monarchy. With him, then, the great object is to abolish the presidency, and he calls upon the democrats of allkinds and colours to insist upon a revision of the constitution, and in particular addresses himself to the 1 whose personal hostility to Louis Napoleon is well known, with a prediction that in spite of Art. 45 of the constitution, and whether universal suffrage be reestablished or not, it will be again Louis Napoleonwho will he elected in 1852, if before that time the institution of the presidentship be not abolished." The Times' publishes a letter from Mr "Walker to the Controller of the Bridge-house Estates, from which it appears that the condition of Blackfriars bridge is by no means so alarming as has been represented. After five years of unremitting labour the engineers connected with the Britannia bridge safely lowered the last of the gigantic tubes to its permanent resting-place yesterday.

The Carnarvonshire end of the tube was lowered three feet, the opposite, end being joined on to the Anglesea large tube jn the interior of the tower the Britannia rock, and, obedient to the law of the novel operation, the centres of both tubes, as before, sprung up several inches. The government officer will be down on an early day to inspect the entire structure, preparatory to its permanent opening. Nothing beyond a mere fractional deflection has been observed to take place in the tu.be that has been opened -since March, and which has been subjected to the constant transit of heavy trains and traffic. Someouxious acoustic effects havebeen observed. Pistol shots or any.

sonorous noises are echoed within, the. tube half a dozen times. The cells of the top and bottom are used by the engineers as speaking tubes, and they can. carry on conversations through them, in whispers; by elevating the voice persons much as it would prevent his crossing the water again. So far, not only is our insular position a protection, but the smallness of the interval which separates us from the French coast is an additional ad-Tantage, inasmuch as it just affords enough of salt water to make a gentleman of the most vivid courage extremely sick, and does not give him time to recover.

The Spahish Bohdhomers. The Bspana of Madrid, of the 5th, corrects the statements which have been published in England respecting the negotiations between the English holders of Spanish bonds and the Spanish Government. This journal declares that no definitive proposition has yet been made to the Government, and that neither Lord Palmerston nor Lord Howden has interfered in the matter. Fatal Accideih to Lieut. the Aeronaut.

On Sunday last iiieut. Wale made an ascent with the Itoyal Uremome balloon, on the back of a pony, from the Hippodrome of Vincennes at Bordeaux. It was the first time that Mr Gaie had ever made such an ascension, and Our accounts to-day from Hesse-Cassel are of the 9 th. Great agitation exists, but there has been no rising against the government. The New Gazette of a violent opposition journal, continues to appear in spite of the prohibition of the ministry, aud as its numbers can no longer be distributed by post, it has employed men to carry them out.

The chief tribunal of Cassel has Ordered the state procurator to take means of preventing the execution of the unconstitutional acts of the government. The Communal Council of Cassel has published a protest against the violation of the may converse through the length of the bridge, nearly a quarter of a his pony had only a few days before been broken in. At first the little animal displayed great repugnance at being lifted from his feet, mile. The following, not Hitherto published, is an official return or the the entire structure Pedestals and wing walls, on Car but he gradually got accustomed to it, and on Sunday allowed himself narvon side, Carnarvon tower, Britannia tower, Anglesea tower, pedestals and walls, on Anglesea side, lions, total, 158.704. VFrought iron used in tubes, 118.946.

cast-iron in tubes and towers, to be carried ott by tne balloon witn tee greatest composure. As there was some delay in filling the balloon with gas, the pony, gaily saddled and bridled, was paraded round the Hippodrome, and was regarded with extraordinary curiosity by the spectators. An immense multitude assembled to witness the ascent. The local journals say that the town was completely deserted, and that the' adjacent villages sent their contingents. When Mr Gale was seen to ascend rapidly into ,30,619.

construction of tubes, 226,234. pontoons, ropes, capstans, the air, seated on his pony, with the bridle in one hand and saluting TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK. The first castings for the iron columns for the building intended for the Exhibition of 1851 were delivered on the ground on Saturday last, having arrived the previous day at the Kensington basin, from the foundry at Dudley. The sashes are being made in London. The corporation markets committee have prepared a report, recommending the adoption of a plan of sanitary arrangement, for draining, ventilating, and supplying water for the use of Billingsgate market, and for flushing the drains, at an expense not exceeding 1,840.

Mrs W. Clifford, the actress, died on the 5th after a long and painful illness. Mr Lillingstone, of Lochalsh, in Inverness-shire, has introduced the planting of tobacco on his estate, and fields which formerly grew potatoes now bear a luxuriant crop of this plant. Owing to the exertions of several members of mercantile firms of the parish of Eedcliffe, Bristol, it has been dete-mined to enlarge the building and increase the efficiency of Guinea-street Hospital, in that city. Mr Eaton has contributed towards it the munificent sum of 5,000., and Mr G.

Thomas no less than 1,000. Another of the lionesses in WombweU's Eoyal Menagerie gave birth to two remarkably fine cubs last week, and strange to say, they painting materials, raiBing machinery, 9,782. carpentry and labour in floating, raising, and completing bridge, 25,498. experiments, total, 601,865. The total weight of each of the wrought iron roadways, now completed, represents 12,000 tons, total mass of masonry of a million and a half cubic feet, run up at the rate of three, feet in a minute.

An inquest was held at the Court house, Leeds, on Thursday, before Mr Elackburne, the coroner for that borough, on the body of Anthony Devine, aged. 52 years. The deceased was an Irish labourer, and resided in the: neighbourhood of York street, Leeds, which on Sunday night last was the scene of great tumult and violence, occasioned by the apprehension of a drunken Irishman, at the Lloyd's Arms public-house, on a charge of felopy. No sooner had the prisoner been br.oughtinto the street than he uttered a cry which brought a great number of his fellow-countrymen and women who inhabit that quarter of the town to the rescue. Brickbats, stones, sticks, broken pots, and all the dangerous missiles that could be procured were hurled at the heads of the police officers Inspector Child, Ott- the public with the other, there was a sort of shudder of fear in the vast gathering.

The pony was perfectly calm, with his legs hanging and the neck bent but he made no movement. After having been in the air about a quarter of an hour, the aeronaut descended without danger between Merigoac and Cestas. His pony was detached from the car by some peasants, who hastened to his assistance on hearing lis cries. At this moment, whether the aeronaut himself decided on again ascending, or whether, on the weight of the horse being removed, the balloon acquired an ascensional movement of extreme rapidity, the grapnel, which was fastened to a fir-tree, broke its hold, and the balloon proceeded for the distance of nearly two miles. During the night the balloon was found half empty in the commune of Cestas, and the lifeless body of Mr Gale was discovered at some distance amongst the trees, where he had fallen.

The unfortunate man was the father of well Eell, and Samuel Gregson -while thev were endeavouring to convey the prisoner to the lock-up, and after withstanding the knocks tiuu uiuwa lut Hume tunc quite overpowered. The prisoner, after nearly all his clothes had been torn from his back. was carried off in triumpb by the lawless rabble, with two pairs of Handcuffs on nis wrists, ana ne nas not been heard of since, ln the riot the. police were compelled to use their staves, and one man, Anthony Devine, the deceased, who was a ringleader, received a blow on the forehead which caused his death, at the Infirmary, on Tuesday The policemen and other witnesses described the riot as one of a most violent character. Much evidence was gone into of a very contradictory character, which ended in the jury giving the following verdict That the deceased appears to are pure wnne South Shields has just received a charter of incorporation.

The whole of the parliamentary boroughs in Durham and Northumberland have now municipal corporations. The Duke of Athol, notwithstanding the recent decision of the Court of Session, has again shut up Glen Tilt, no one being allowed to pass without an order from his Grace. The value of the property bequeathed for scientific purposes to the town of Southampton amounts to upwards of 90,000. The passenger trade between Southampton and Madeira is rapidly increasing. The last packet took out thirty passengers for that island.

The official routine, preparatory to taking the census of the population of Great Britain, on March 31, 1851, hascommenced. A suite of offices has been taken in Craig's court, Charing cross, whither some of the clerks of the Eegistrar-General's Department have proceeded. The statue to the late Professor Samuel Cooper, F.R.S., is and a. public meeting of medical men will shortly be convened to decide where it shall be placed. Opinion appears to be divided between University College Hospital and the Eoyal College of Surgeons.

The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that henceforth the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ships, sailing between Liverpool and New York, shall cease calling at Halifax on their outward and homeward passage. The company's ships sailing between. Liverpool and Boston will continue to call at Halifax, both out and have come to his death by a blow or blows in a riotous affray and an attempt to rescue prisoner that it appears from the evidence ad- eight children. The French papers received this morning give further details with regard to the above accident; but, according to a statement in to-day's Lieutenant Gale's family believe the report of that gentleman's death to be incorrect because it is reasonable to suppose that if the fatal accident had occurred, Mr Gulston and Mr A. Gulston, Mr Gale's partners and companions throughout the tour in the French provinces, would have immediately sent notice of it to Mrs Gale, or to their own family, which they have not done.

The Mcseph Library Improvements. The Builder' thus describes these improvements the removal of the absurd wire-guard fronts is as great an improvement, almost, as the means which have been taken to give light to the sides of the rooms under the windows, by inserting iron gratings in the floors of the galleries it is a reproach to the trustees that these steps in the right path have been delayed so long. The contents of the bookcases have been considerably altered, and Mr Panizzi has not only improved their arrangements, but has.considerately withdrawn nearly all the old lumber, and replaced it by books of standard reference. The parliamentary and law Papers, i with the occupy nearly their old station, and three sides of the left-hand zoom on entering; the fourth, or end opposite the entrance, is supplied with books on general and English history, in lour cases; state papers, one case; and the remainder by topographcial history. Iu the right-hand room four large cases are TV-i- travels.

Then follow the encyclopasdias ntlmT ln old Place9 i English classics are Bible two glvea t0 magazines and reviews, two to the to Wdrv at tlst0.rVMrteen t0 factions of societies, wj reaiuder to calendars, directories, But the hattbe reader will sow wTfftfrftSi aucea mat tne pouce-omcers used no more force than was necessary for the detention of the prisoner and the preservation of their own lives. Verdict Justifiable homicide." The Shire-hall of Gloucester presented a brilliant annpftronfifi nn Thurs day night, at the third and last of the miscellaneous concerts, which was attended by nearly all the distinguished families of the vicinity. There was not space enough to accommodate the vimtnra: tn the. intro duction of chairs and benches.at the extremities and up the middle of the hall. These, being movable at will, -were iu everybody's way, and rendered passage to and fro a matter of hazardous experiment.

Moreover, the heat was so intense that numbers of persons expressed a preference for certain stations outside the hall, and to affnrrl home, as usual. and hearing the greatdoors at the back were thrown open, which gave access to a current of air that made its way from the street up the grand staircase, and breathed a refreshing though a dangerous coolness the1 assemblage. The enjoyment of a long concert under such circumstances would seem to be an impossibility but to the amateuaa of the ihree. cathedral towns it was nothing of the sort. We never," smfi the a musical jpsrfbrmance more heartily relished A French paper states that regulations have just been issued by the Prefect of the Seine with respect to the admission of persons who desire to send their goods to the Exhibition.

All persons who have obtained gold or silver medals at French exhibitions are to le admitted of full right,.