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DAILY NEWS, q-FBIDjMt- lr THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. annually increasing in magnitude and iniportancd. 1 The hon. membei took the opportunity to suggest some improvements in the conduct of debates, re- f. .1 1 .11 1.

ing recognition. Inspired by this sentiment we have offered him the humble tribute of our remarks. Were the law of England what it ought to be, his misdeeds might meet with a sterner retribution. COMMERCML eorsolo, tf! SffiSSffi a plentiful supply of constitutional brass. The as proprium is the best stock-in-trade for realising an unlimited command over the -to atienum nor has any method of raising the wind been yet discovered at all comparable to the process of lustily and perseveringly blowing your own trumpet.

It is scarcely possible to conceive a finer illustration of these recondite truths than has just been furnished by the examination of Mr. Humphrey Brown one of the closing scenes in that distinguished personage there have been few better judges or more earnest and thoroughly liberal politicians. In transferring to him the charge of the Great Seal, a man of high integrity and conspicuous ability would be restored to the more active duties of public life. From ld recent judicial career the public would derive ample security for an efficient administration of the law, and from his philosophical mittd and cultivated intellect there would be every reason to expect a treatment of the greater questions of law reform on a comprehensive arid enlarged system. The claims and pretensions of the present Attorney-General are also great.

But with such a chief in the House of Lords, Sir RICHARD Bethell would enjoy that support and co-operation in the Commons which have been denied to him under Lord Chancellor Cranworth, and be able, perhaps, to do at present more good where he is than in the more elevated sphere to which he may hereafter be raised- The European Commissioners to the Principalitiesat least the English, the French, and the Sardinianseem determined to do their duty. In the letter from our Bucharest correspondent, which we published on Saturday, fault was found with Sir Henry Bulwer for praising Alexander Ghika, and excusing the firman of convocation, Our correspondent ably represents and depicts the feelings of the more enlightened classes amongst whom he mingles, and we rejoice to have.in the Principalities, so faithful an interpreter. If; however, the Caimacan of Wallachia has at present recurred to the policy of impartiality, and leaves unionists and anti-unionists, free scope for expressing opinion and for deserves some credit for even tardy liberality, His conduct is by all accounts far different 'from that of Prince Vogorides, in Moldavia, whose tyrannical and one-sided administration was the other day made the subject of comment in these columns. Even the Momteur hasdenOttttcedhis proceedings. HisunscrupulousHome Minister.CATARDJi, has not only undertaken to draw up the electoral lists himself, but ho has proceeded to arrest, imprison, bully, andill-use citizens of the first respectability, merely because they profess opinions favourable to the union.

CATARDJl is the veteran chief of the old Boyard party-of the men who have been in possession of power for. half a century under Russian'patronage. He ifl a decided enemy to the emancipation of the Serfs, and treats as ehimerical the notion of any other than a WGovernment, whether in the state or in the dtatrict. Catardji is a man of enormous wealth, and that wealth has notoriously been acquired by making use of political power for personal advantage. With all this, he is able as he is audacious.

Vogorides who is and knows nothing of -Mqldavto, hot eveh the language-could not have placed himself m.the hands of any Boyard of the old sohooTmore violent and imscrupulous than. Catardji. IStw checked, his plan of operations would be to' flog all the peasants, and imprison or exile all the liberal Boyards that is, the majority of the gentry of the Fortunately, steps have beep taken to check him. The oppressed CwrtirtBiuaiajesti and these gentlemen, with laudable promptness, have hastened to Jassy. They have informed the Caimaean Voqorides that their mission was to consult hie sentiments of the' two Principalities, and that this was impossible amidst such a system of tyranny and intirnidationashisgovermBentwaspractisingthrough the instrumentality of Catardji.

They insisted that the: elections should be adjourned, as they were in Wallachia that electoral: lists should be made out in each locality according to law, instead of being cooked at Jassy by Catardji. It appears that Vogorides, in reply, pleaded the express orders; of the Porte. The Uommissionersiejoiuisi uS i that it was not Reschid Pacha's poUcy or desire to treat the Principalities in hia fashion and that, at all events, for their parts, they would not countenance, such conduct. The FanariotCaimacannot paying due attention to these remonstrances, the Com-iussioners, it appears, have departed fror? i Jassy to Galate, with the intention of embarking thence for Constantinople. The state of things is exceedingly serious.

The French Government, has declared if the Ministers of the Porte wiil not execute, faithfully the promises made to the Principalities in the treaty of Paris which the Turkish envoy affixed his signature Franoe will no longer consider herself bound guarantee the suzerainty of Turkey over the Principalities. The Emperor Napoleon declares that when he contributed to rescue these Principalities from Russia it was not with the view of giving their Christian inhabitants up to the mercy of the Porte, or to such tyranny as that of Vogorides. The treaty of Paris is thus menaced with nullification, unless the Porte will act up to the promises made in that treaty. We perceive that the Russian Commissioner takes no part in these proceedings. M.

Basili merely stands apart end rubs his hands. Russia must be secretly delighted: attb conduct of Vogorides, and of the auti-uniomst oittuovaru, joint efforts can have no other effect than- that of; rendering the very, name of the Turk abhorred 'in) the coBnitryi.wbilst of course that of Russia rises in proportion. Everything depends' upon tne gooa yam firmness, as well as tne conciliation oi -ay x-ugiu Commissioner. It is now evident indeed it is no; longer denied-that the Union is the desire of nine-tenths of the Roumans. The expression of that desire Muia onlv be put down by such tyranny as is now beiogctioned by Vogorides, And those very acts of tyrannybear u-.

thB unmniats: With France openly in favour of that measure, and Russia hot openly opposing it-for by -Rniuna' would! sacrifice her last''cliaii6o of influence in the country how is it to b0 supposed that the separate Hospodarates could be governed, it uie unioii wuib bbu -wikj uj fair means, or by a fair vote, it would be another matter. But the attempt to extort, a. vote by violence, and that in the teeth of such Powers as France and Russia, would only give those Powers a fair pretext for backing out of the treaty, and refusing to the Porte those guarantees in which, after all, must chiefly consist the security and independence not merely of the Principalities but of Constantinople. Is the disunion of Moldavia and Wallachia worth to the'Portt the alienation of France as a' protecting power Is the disunion of those provinces worth to England a total separation between, her and France in the affairs the.LeYant.?. Talk of strengthen-' ing Turkey by defeating the union Why, there is no measure, no political consummation, that would so weaken Turkey, for there is none so calculated to break up definitively that close understanding between France and England which offers the only seourity for the Ottoman Empire.

There is nothing, after like native, genuige impudence. The sham thing, will not; do at all, but the real article wiUido.wonders.. Especiafly in that floiinarfl. rroBration of extraetintf soldi' DvlUv TT AJHv x- i. without an equivalent, ibiit of the breeches pocket your neighbour, there is nothing to compare wnn The death of the last of the fifteen children of George Til.

carries back all minds over a large space of time, and would create a historical interest in connexion with the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, if there had been much less than there is of personal interest attending the character of th amiable princess who has just departed. Her birth, and 'her title by marriage, recall some association? which it may be useful to revive, under the altered circumstances of a new century and generation. The discontents which existed for a time between the father and the father-in-law of the deceased Princess produced consequences on her life and that of most of her family and on public morals and welfare, which ought not to be forgotten in a review of her character and position, and which are not yet over in regard to the existing gcn.rafiwi. George III. married, in 1 7ft 1, the Princess Charr lotte of Mecklenburg-StreKte.

He was not satisfied with pleasing himself ht own marriage, but fully expected that his brjthsre would please, not themselves, but him, in their marriages. They did not do so and when he was a sober married man with half-a-dozen children, he was excessively acan dalised at the discovery that the Duke of Cumber land had married Mrs. Horton, and tho Duke of Gloucester the Countess Dowager of WaldegravS. Therewere immediate political consequences arising from the family quarrel the Opposition finding their spirits and forces at once revived but a more perj-manent, and far more serious, consequence was, that the Royal Marriage Act was devised by the King and carried through parliament with a high hand, in the midst of protests and remonstrances frSia Burke, Lords Camden and Rockingham, and others, and many forebodings of the mischief it would Under this Act no descendant of George II. could marry under the age of twenty-five without the King's consent nor after that age other wise than after applying to the Privy Cous-cil (in case of the Sovereign's disapprobation! and waiting a year to see whether either House pjf Parliament would address the King against the marriage which, in that case, could not take place.

It was too late now, happily, to overthrow tab Duke' of Gloucester's marriage, which had takeft place five years before, It was declared at court in the autumn of 1772, the same year that the RoyA Marriage Act passed. The fanaticism of the Gennai Queen for royal quarterings, which even exceeded the passion of the King for prerogative, was net cessarily mortified this time; but both were rer solved that it should be the last. Their duldteh should marry royalty, Or not marry, at all. They neve' doubted whether they could enforce i their decision when once they had the law on their 8. Certain other, prior, and greater laws of human nature they made no account of.

JJ After the birth of two the discounte nanced' pair had a son, who remained the only brtf. He was born at Rome, on the 15th ot January, 17Tfj and all the English in Rome were present at bis baptjbm, the next On the 25th of April was born the eleventh child, af George III. the Princess Mary, who was to be thfe wife of the'little cousin at Rome. The eventVwas by a rather remarkable address presented (on the, day. of tne baptism) try tne Mayor ann.

Corporation of London an address which contairreS a sermon on laws, liberties, and the glorious Revolution, which' did hot seem to have much to do the infant Princess, and which got a very short answer from the King. That was the time when. th; Americans were preparing their Declaratipa qf Independence, which was promulgated on the 4fi dfthe; next July; and when M. Neckerwas at the head of French finance a time-atwhioh Km George did not want to hear' anything about liberties and revolutions, and when accordingly all manriep of people were seizing every opportunity of preach ing to -him about them. Dunne: the lone course of years in whieh many'ef the pthermeinbers of the family were involved hxtije penalties and perplexities of their rank, with regard love, and marriage, it was believed that the Princess Mary and her cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, were attached.

She was interested in his Cambridge lift) fhis education being finished there) and'she gloried in his receiving the General's thanks in the field, when he was fighting Flanders, so early as 179. He Tiroved himself both a frallant and able soldier, and really won his rank which rose to that Af Field-Marsnai isit. wnen tne young people were one-and-twenty the Princess Charlotte' was horn; and, as it soon became understood thattheite would be no heir apparent if the Princess of Wales lived, the necessity was admitted of keeping the Duke-of Gloucester single, to marry the presumptive heiress of the throne, in case of no eligible foreign prince appearing for that function. For twenty of their best years the Duke and tne mncess ware' kept during which interval (fa the year 1805) he succeeded to his title on his" father's death. Everybody liked and lovejd the Princess, Mary, who 'was a pattern of duty and sweetnesB through all the family trials she had to witness and share in; and the Dusy, though not a man of much political ability, was in that part of life a' Whig, and on the generous and liberal side of almost every question.

We ars obliged- to say. "almost," because he supported with whole force, the, sxclnsion of Dissenters from fie Universities, when he was. Chancellor of the University' of Cambridge, after the death of the Duke jot Graftoru On the. antilavery question he was earhest in his own way as Wilberforce in his, and kind and helpful 'in aU.matfera of charity that caine before him. Romilly tells us a curious thing of Mm that iiia tete-a-tete with Sir Romilly, his declaration that Queen Caroline Was innocent, and that her accusers were perjured.

He latterly became a Tory but, for the greater part 'of his the same genial spirit of liberality and personal unassumingness distinguished him and tho Princess Mary. As for' her, she pleased old and young alike. Lord Eldbn used to tell with delight a joke of Queen Charlotte's about the last personam the world whom anyone would suspect of jesting. Her Majesty used to charge the. Lord Chancellor with flirtinarwith her daughter Mary and the "Chancellor used to reply that he was not Emperpr, King, or nnce, antt moreover, ne was.nuirr jbu.

abeadyareplywhiehremmdsusofthatreportedby Charles-tainb of on somebojly wishing that Burns was present, all started forward on their seats to declare that that was impossible, because Burns was dead. But we must suppose that Lord Eldon, who really had humour in his way, considered the above as near an approach to jocularity as could be. permitted in.the presence of royalty. when the? Prince of Orange was in and his father announced his approaching marriage with the' Princess Charlotte, Princess Mjiry looked, bright nd happy. Lord Malmesburyre-corded in his diary what her manners were like when, the charm of.

youth i was past, and ithe character, of womanhood wasmarked. He said she "was all good humour pleasantness adding, (her manners are perfect and I never saw or convened with any princess s0lxactly what she ought to be. FriMe or more of what they really were, tnan tneoia iu- commenamg especially mo aoorevmuon ui speecues, and the earlier commencement of' important discus sions. No other candidate being proposed, the resolution was earned unanimously. Mr.

E. Desison, speaking from his place in the house, briefly returned bis acknowledgments for the honour conferred upon him. He recognised the importance of the duties ho was called upon to assume but although conscious of many deficiencies in abiUtv. Dromised to dedicate whatever talents and faculties he possessed to the service of the House of Commons. The Sneaker was then conducted bv his proposer and seconder to the chair, and took his seat after another expression, of gratitude and devotion to the house.

lord Palmerston, congratulated the right hon. gentleman on his elevation, and the house generally upon their judicious selection of a Speaker. He felt assured that the choice they had made was approved by the members of every party. Mr. Walpole, speaking, as he said, in the accidental absence of Mr.

Disraeli, in the name of his party, intimated their unanimous approval of the new Speaker. On the motion of Lord Palmeustosi the house adjourned, at three o'clock, until two this day. The Speaker of the House of Commons having been elected with unprecedented indifference and poeocurantism on all sides we would fain say a few words about the Speaker of the other place." There is a rumour current that we are to have a change in the custody of the Great Seal. It is, we trust, quite consistent with a very sincere respect for Lord Ckanworth's many personal good qualities, to express a hope that this report may prove to be well founded, The original appointment of the learned lord to the high office of Lord Chancellor came upon the public and the profession by surprise. As a law officer of the Crown he had played a tolerably respectable part at a time when law reforms occupied but a small portion of legislative attention.

As a Puisne Baron of the Court of Exchequer he displayed, no doubt, very useful judicial qualities, adapting himself with considerable ease and success to the practice of a common law court and jurisdiction. In acuteness, industry. and temper he was equal to most, superior to somo( of his colleagues. But neither injudicial ability, nor in capacity for statesmanship, did he SQ far excel tho rest of Westminster Hall as to render him a deserved exception to the very proper rule which, when a lawyer is elevated ix the puisne bench, closes his career of ambition with thatelevation. 1 It must indeed be confessed that Liberal Governments have been unfortunate, in their recent phqice of Lord Chancellors.

Lord Tftuo, despite his great powers, failed both as a judge and as it minister. His health wasf broken, and his faculties, though powerful, were not of that ready, prompt, and available kind necessary both tojudioial and political success. On his retirement the Common Law Bench was again resorted to, and the Great1 Seal placed in the custody of a man who, if vastly inferior in grasp of nund, in intellectual power, and in deep and earnest convictions, to his predecessor, possessed vhat Lord Truro failed for the want of health, quiokness, familiarity with the Court of Chancery, and available learning. The country has now had some years' experience of Lord Cranworth in this high aDd responsible position; and there is, we believe, jio seoond opinion that he has not proved equal either to tho duties of his court and the appellate business of the House of Lords, or to the requirements of legal reform and improvement. In short, it would be false and mischievous delicacy not to admit that Lord Cranworth is neither such a magistrate as the Great Seal requires, nor such a minister of justice as the necessities of the times demand.

If, under these, circumstances, the report be correct that a change in the custody of the Great Seal the nublic will be prepared to accept the retirement of Lord Cranwobth as an earnest that the Cabinet has at last resolved that tne great questions of law reform shall no longer be trifled with. Assuming its accuracy, the only regret that con be felt is, that the change has been delayed until the commencement of the ne.w Parliament. The first session of that Parliament cannot lost much more than three months. But, in the absence of hirjs political business, it ught to be iUustrated by substantial contributions to law reform. The materials are most ample, and the preparations for several measures greatly advanced; but the powers of man ore finite, and a new Lord Chancellor, op- a AW inrliniftt duties of the Great Seal, mim i 3 a -m.

M-rtr1nir of the House ot iioros, iTtm, it is obvious, find reasonable excuses for post- poninK sevewsr ol more imjjutwu. until that yeof of promise-, 1858, Another excuse jioi -ntr iinfortunatelr be foond. in the actual position of the two Law Officers of the Crown in the Lower iiouse. fear, as Wholly to incapacitate mtn strenuous 'exertion; while Sir R. Betheix, tiio orrl'nniis toils of the most exten- auuiuuu -a- i i'nA nnw nnqF-pn-jAci nv anv vnember sivepnvarepiw--- r-- oi tne de, a- 'responsibility wmcn scarcely any muu capable of.

sustaining stculoes are not propitious to the. progress of Law -1 But whether the report above alluded to he accurate or inaccurate, this is quite certain, that; the Cabi-n-ill not be allowed to the of law reforuira LtrrdCRAN worth's feeble, nay helpless, hands. Witn sucn greai lawyers as uonimniv. Lyndhurbt, and Lord St. JUULU i Leonards pressing forward, with all the irresistible weight ot tnoir mga uuuiuiny, tux buujx.hu tu Upper House, with the co-operation of Mr.

Collier, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Cairns, Mr. Napier, Sir James Graham, and Lord John in tha Lower House of Parliament, the Government must either take some means of.satiefy-ing the demands and wants of the public, or it will -be the duty of the Legislature to express an opinion that this great question Lord Palmerston's Cabinet is not equal to. the exigencies of the day. It is impossible that the Liberal Party, now in SucSi force and strength in the House of Commons, can.

again submit to the humiliations of the session of 18S6 and it is undeniable that for the humiliation maihlvindebted to the incapacity of Lord Chancellor CRANWORTH.Thi) alter- nauve is, xiiBii, tuioittUAjr -r in nn abler man, or the Cabinet i inuiWI bv his retainirie the custodv rt t.ri' It. Tt i Msi T-lc-taant ft hp nhlKTfln oi tne ureal aeai. to speak in this way of the highest dignitary ot tne -i-rhDoinllv -when he has so many: amiable and excellent personal qualities but there is no help for it. As a pnvate reer iiuumujan wiu ub able to do, the public, both as a judge and as alegis-lator, great and valuable services- audit isno io anv man's real merits to have failed in L.posiiioa where none possessing the very. hinhoatioan-iMties canacnieve success.

r- -v The 'report on which we have based these observations connects -the: name' of Mt; kbaasOe Page Wood with the change it refers ft, Than We believe we may state with confidence that Lord Palmerston has promised to take charge of a bill to remove the disabilities under which our Jewish fellow-subjects labour. We understand that Mr. Frederick Peel has resigned his office in the War Department, DEATH OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. We deeply regret to announce that Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester expired a few minutes after 5 o'clock yesterday (Thursday) morn ing, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. The following official statement was issued shortly after the melancholy event had taken place Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester expired, without suffering, at a quarter after five o'clock this morning.

Francis Hawkins. Edward H. Hills. April 30, 1857." Her late Royal Highness was the fourth daughter ot Ueorge ana, consequently, aunt to ner present most gracious Majesty. Her Royal Highness was oorn on tne aotn oi April, was therefore eighty-one years old at.

the time of her death. On the 22nd of July, 1816, she was married to her cousin, Prinse William Frederick, second Duke of Gloucester who died 30th November, 1834. Her Highness was Ranger and Keeper of Richmond. New Park. Every day during her late illness some among the royal family visited the late duchess at Gloucester House.

The duchess was the lost survivor of the numerous children of George III. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House at half-past ten on Wednesday forenoon. At one o'clock, the Duchess of Kent paid the Duchess of Gloucester a visit. The Duke of Cambridge was also with her royal highness at the same time. The Duchess of Kent remained about three-quarters of an hour.

In the afternoon the Princess Royal and the Princess. Alice, attended by Marchioness of Ely, visited their illustrious relative. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and attended by Captain Du Plat, arrived at Gloucester House, later the afternoon, to learn the state of the Royal Duchess. Shortly.after eight yesterday morningher Majesty Lord Chamberlain arrived at Gloucester House, when orders were issued for the necessary arrangements for her Royal Highness's fiuieraL This, it is presumed, wifl take place in the royal taansoleum in St. lieorges Windsor Dastie, In- accordance with the desire of the illustrious deceased, the funeral proceedings will be conducted in a comparatively private manner.

i The remains 'of the late duchess will be doubtless i placed by the side of his late royal highness the Duke of Gloucester. The bells of the numerous churohes the metro polis tolled, and at the royal churches the bells rang muffled peals. The tradesmen ajp Uie. West-end closed their shops out of respect to the; memory of her late Royal Highness. (FROM A 'SUPPLEMENT TO THB GAZETTB OF TUESDAY.) WHITEHALL, Axteiz, 30.

This morning, at a quarter after five o'clock, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, aunt to her Most Gracious Majesty, departed this life at' GlouceBter-house, to the great grief of her Majesty. and of the royal family. (FROM THE COuitT CIBOrLAB;) Her Maiestv theQueen received, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, the mournful intelligence of the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, which took place without suffering at a quarter-past five o'clock, and was communicated to her Majesty and ike Prince by the Duke of Cambridge; The.Duke of Cambridge afterwards went to Clarence-house, St. James's, to notify the sad event to the Duchess of Kent. Prince Albert.paid visits in the forenoon to the Duchess of Kent at Clarence-house, and to the Duke, of Cambridge in St.

James's The Prince afterwards went to Gloucester-house. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty in the afternoon. We have authority to state that, in consequence of the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, the state apartments at Windsor Uastle will be closed until furthenorders. The theatres were closed last evening, and will be closed on the evening of the funeral of her royal highness. There were present at the last moments of the Duchess, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, the 1'nncess Mary, ana tne nereaitary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh' Strelite, who had remained, at Gloucester-house during the Two of the medical advisers of the Duchess were also in attendance on her royal highness until the time of her death.

The Duchess of Cambridge, the, Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz quitted Gloucester-house in the morning for Kewi 1 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED. Prince Alfred, who left, Geneva, where he passed the winter, on the 18th of April, arrived at Gotha on! the 26th, on a visit to his uncle and aunt, the reigning: Duke and Duchess of Sane Coburg, and to his grandmother the Do-wager Duchess. After a stay of. a fortnight at Qotha andCohurg, his royal highness will continue his journeyto England, where he is expected to arrive about the' 20th instant, The Manchester Exhibition. It is under-steood that the lamented death of the Duchess of Gloucester vm.

sot doprive the Exhibition of the honour of Prince Alberfsmeritlancy. Her Majesty's; Theatre. The theatre ha-ring been closed last evening-by, order of the Lord Chamberlain, inconsequence of the demise of hoi; Royal Highness the Duchess af the performance anaaunced will bp given this evening, Friday, May 1. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the. CounteBs Berastoff have left the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, for SteephUl Castle, near Ventaoiyin the Isle of Wight.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister entertained a nartv of friends at the BrunswicK aotel, JJiacKwau, on Wednesday afternoon. Lord and Lady De Tabley and family have arrived inn, fvnm Tablov House. Cheshire, for the season. His. lordship has taken a residence io.

Upper Brook-street. Lord and Lady Olivia Ossulston, and Lord George and Lady Adeliza Manners, are among the recent arrivals at the Bedford.Hotal, Brighton. Mrs. and' Miss Longueville Clarke have arrived; for the season at their residence in Eaton-square. Mrs.

W. E. Gladstone held an assembly on Wednesday evening, and will hold, a second on Saturday next. A selection from the extraordinary cabinet of gems in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire have been set en suite as, ornaments, as worn by the Couhtess of Granville at ite coronation at Moscow of tho present Emperor of Russia. They are.

disposed in. seven ornaments, a diadem, a coronet, astomacher, a jewelled bandean, a neckloefl, a comb, and a bracelet. The settings-rafter the manner of Holbein are inimitable for their tracery and the minute delicacy of the component both hi design and execution. The suite in its present state hao been valued at. upwards of 20,000, A deputation respecting Smitiifield-market had an interview with the Chancellor of the ExchpatterVeateriayi at his omcial residence, in Dowhing-street.

The deputation, consisted of.Mr, H. t. Taylor (chairman), Miy Deputy Holt, Mr. De Jersey, Mr; Deputy Hicks, Mr. Boss, the City Be-membraacer, and CSty-feb the infamous history of the thing ironically called the Royal British Bank." We think it is Cole.

hidge who, in discoursing of the stages of human philosophy, sagely declares that in wonder all knowledge begins, in wonder it ends, and admiration fills up the interspace." Applying this aphorism with a slight change to the case before us, we may say of Mr. Brown's connexion with the Royal British Bank that in impudence it began, in impudence it ends, and hocus-pocus fills up the inter- space." He opens his account with 18J. he closes it with an unsecured debt of end all that intervenes is nothing but the legerdemain of the ledger a mighty maze of discount and double entry, of imaginary assets and delusive pro mises where nothing is clear except the one per petual purpose, to borrow without paying; nothing tangible except the cash that is always going out of the Bank till into the ever-gaping pocket of this model Bank Director. The story begins in February, 1853. In that month Mr.

Humphrey Brown characteristically commenced his career as a director, with the three nearly contemporaneous operations of Opening an account by a cash payment of 18. 4s. taking up the 20 shares necessary for his qualification by a note of hand for which was of course, never paid; and efiecting a small loan on his own account for 2,0001. This was in 1853. By the 2nd of May that year a succession of similar small loans had brought the total debt to and having once reached this point it went on at a rapidly accelerating ratio.

By the end of 1854 it had reached some 30,000. In May, 1855, Cameron, on his return to the Bank after a three months' illness, found that it had been increased to upwards of 74,000. In November, 1855, it had reached ite maximum, and then stood at 77,698. At this point even Cameron thought it time to interfere. On the 26th November; 1855, he writes to the effect that something must at once be donef' an immediate settlement is, indispensable" at least a portion of the outstanding debt must be immediately paid in cash "some, of the ships mortgaged (but neither insured nor and therefore, as all concerned well kndw, utterly worthless as must be selected for sale." The.

lettervrinds three- categorical demands i. To provide immediately additional security, i. 2. To provide for the payment of past-due bills and ovetdfajsvn balance, 38,162. 3.

Ib for the liquidation in. the incoming year of tho on cqnvertible securities of 31,0291" Pleasant demands these on a man who had no addi-tioaal'securities to give, who had no means of paying past-due bills bat by other bills still more worth- and whose convertible securities were at that time pledged to at least their full yalue.to other parties. Pleasant, of course, hopeless. It is fine to see how Mr. Brown bears up.against diffi-, cultiea which at once have crushed, an individual of Jess genuine and elastic impudence.

We find him telling Cameron, in reply, that he considers himself, really a much injured man. He; is on the verge of- bankruptcy, and he; cannot, understand their thus pressing him. I ''Have you ever don this," he 'asks, "with your previous friendsT-the originators of your. Cefn debt with M'Greqor, Mullins, M'Kenzie, Cocfi-rafe, Gwynne He sees great peril in the course, they are indeed, in. the state of the accounts and deposits: not a bit of "I never," he' writes, "feel any over anxiety on this score.

I was always more afraid that some day some question ivotild arise in sop)e shareholder's mind asvtq. some transactions of some kind or another (mark the euphemism), and that inquiry may lead to sufficient to ask for an investigation by th These are the breakers a-head. excuse my saying so you are making these very breakers as certain as. I subscribe this very letter to youf' Notwithstanding this skilful application of dark hints and portentous inuendoes the instincts of sheer self-preservation were too strong even for the Bank(parloux of the Royal British, and in March, 1856, the ill-used Director, whose little account then amounted to'some 70,000. of unsecured debt, is told that a line is drawn," and that his future favours will' not be honoured.

Even this explicit announcement does not shake off the indomitable Humphrey. He had long wished to withdraw from' the he had over and over again told them, "they must get more men of business habits, as the board was, a lamentable exhibition." He had sacked 70,000. of their money, and ho was on the whole not reluctant to subside into virtual retirement. But there was one more little stroke of discount which he contrived to effect with his friend Cameron. One of his mortgaged and re-mortgaged ships wanted an.

outfit for the East Indies, 'on? the? 14th of June, more than three months after his. account had, been virtually closed, he managed to borrow from Cameronv without any pretence of consideration, a further sum of 1,02,0. iW ffiat'pwpos When the final crash came in August he coinpSitaa.of very crude letter" having been written to him by the Bank solicitor for 75,000., when the real sum he owed was actually not more than 63,000. Such, then, is in brief thehistoryof Mr. Humphrey Brown's account with the Royal British Bank.

It began with a deposit of 18. 4s, it ended with adebt of 63,000. And this debt was virtually unsecured the ships which he assigned as pretended securities were, as such, valueless. Having engaged to get them registered, he openly and impudently eyaded.his engagement. I undertook to register them in the port of London, but I never did, and never mean to do Many of the vessels thus mortgaged to the Bank had been previously mort gaged to their full value to alton, tne lormer governor, on his private.account, On one, for in stance, offered as security to tne uanK ior an advance of 15,000., two mortgages for 10,000.

each had previously been effected witn Walton, Well might Mr. Brown decline to register these vessels in the port ot ne ima engaged to insure them. He openly avows that he never did so, and never meant to do so. Cameron, out of the funds of the Bank depository, actually paid away thousands in insuring ships, worthless as a security, for this man who was then indebted to the Bank between 60,000. and 70,000.

One of the ships was lost at sea, and Brown with characteristic impudence complains that the Bank had not insured her for more that is, that they had not spent more of the shareholders' money in keeping alive his worthless securities But we cannot pursue further the windings of this man's knavery, and the barefaced impudence of his avowals. He has built his own monument, and it is, cast in brass. A s-rateful constituency, on the occasion of ihia' late; defeat at.Tewke.sury,;c(imbinedfto present; him, with a testimonial like his 'have a national1 value; and'snoiild meet with a correspoari- OIL PAINTINGS, by Old and Modem limom 14 Oxford- im nt 0. NAYBOUltanato. 1-11 attiXnwr Voro-stroot.

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ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mis. ANDERSON. Blanlato to her Majesty tho Queen, and la- Mrnctreai to his Royal Highness the Prince ot Wales, her Hovm High-seas tae Princess Royal, her Royal Highness the il'rinooss Alice, her Hum) HA'AnAfihll his ltCVftl HicMieHl thQ PrUMK Alfred, has the honour to inform her patrons and friends that, ha ANNUAL GRAND' MORNING CONOEItT will tako place in her glalesty Theatre, MONDAY, May 18, 185T. commencing et Mtpast no o'clock rwjlioly, en which occasion, by an arrangement effected with the direction, ho will be supported by all tho principal ntMtrad tne orchestra and ohorus of that establishment Full partScularawlll bo Mnnourioedforthiduu Appliostlowr for Boe, Stalls, and Tiotete.

to be made tho Bos-office at the Theatre and at Mis. Anderson residence, 34, Nottlng-tiam-place, BO YAL ITALIAN OPERA, LYCEUM. SUBSCRIPTION NIGHT. THIS EVENING JKlSay), May 1, wiU be glvea qa a BITB-8QRIPTI0N NIGHT iin.llen of aaturday. August on which, ecasion will beporformeaifoV ho third Mmo this season), Terdi'e Grand Onera IL TR.OYATORE.

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The House of Lords met yesterday at The proceedings, which occupied only a few minutes, we limited to the formalities customary upon the assembling of a new Parliament. The members of the newly returned House of Commons assembled at half-past 1 o'clock, and at 2 we summoned to the Upper House to hear the Boyal Commission read fjtmvrikiiig'Parliament. On their return the members proceeded to elect a Lori'k. Vane proposed Mr. Evelyn Denison, the xaember for North NottmgharnsMre, The noble lord eleserHied the onerous oharaeter of the duties devolve ing upon the official director of their debates, and for whose 'performance there was required a rarexom-feination of qualities.

After referring in a tone of' warm eulogy to the eminent services of Mr. Shaw expressed his conviction that Mr. Denison would pipve a.fit successor to the office, and briefly ajketohed the parliamentary career of that honourable member asatfortfing grounds to believethat theselec- xt lia nilfWPRftfYll. Mr. Thornbly seconded the, DVnATI- wntie, patience; firrnness; and1 impartitflityi AU-pf these he believed thatMr; Denison Jioasessedj in ad- dition to groat industry rind' taet in thB transaction of that vast amount of private busiiiess whicn.

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