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July 13,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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 Exchequer Bills 76s. to 78*. 



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The Irish Society.— A. meeting of Irish noblemen and 

 tlemen was he id on Saturday, the Marquess of Clan- 

 ficarde in the chair, for the purpose of forming a new 

 Society, to be called the Irish Society, for the purpose of 

 promoting social and intellectual intercourse amongst 

 Irishmen, irrespective of religious and political differ- 

 ences. The meeting was very numerously attended. 

 Lord'Castlereagh, Mr. E. Tennent, Gen. Caulfield, Sir 

 D. Norreys, Lord Trimleston, Capt. Taylor, M.P., Mr. 

 Grogan, M.P., and the Hon. G. O'Callaghao, and other 

 gentlemen, moved and seconded resolutions, excluding 

 religious and political controversy, and appointing a 

 committee of management (comprising noblemen and 

 gentlemen of all shades of politics) to draw up the con- 

 stitution of the Society; appointing Mr. J. Hartley 

 Treasurer, and Messrs. E. Tennent, M.P., and M. J. 

 OXonnell, M.P., Honorary Secretaries. Mr. Hartley 

 announced that 1361. had been subscribed by the noble- 

 men and gentlemen who planned the Society, and that 

 the subscription for members would be 21. a year each. 

 The Marquess of Clanricarde having left the chair, Mr. 

 M. J. O'Connell moved a vote of thanks to his Lordship 

 for the deep interest he took in the welfare of Ireland, 

 which was carried with applause. Among a long list of 

 the noblemen and gentlemen who have promised to 

 support the Society were Lords Rossmore, Eliot, 

 Bloomfield, Farnham, Cremorne, and Blaney ; the Right 

 Hon. G. Dawson, Pigott, and Shaw ; Colonel Torrens, 

 Sir T. B. Leonard, Sir R. Palmer, Messrs. Reddington, 

 Watson, and several other Members of Parliament. In 

 the evening about 70 gentlemen dined together at Free- 

 mason's Tavern, the Marquess of Clanricarde in the 

 chair, supported by Mr. Tennent, M.P., Mr. Gro- 

 gan, M.P., Mr. Chapman, M.P., Lord Castlereagh, &c. 

 The Irish State Trials. — A meeting of the Catholics 

 of London was held on Tuesday at the Music Hall, Store- 

 street, for the purpose of adopting an address of sym- 

 pathy to Mr. O'Connell and his fellow traversers. Mr. 

 J. A. Cooke took the chair, supported by the Rev. Mr. 

 Moore, Rev. Mr. Phillips, Rev. Mr. Chapman, and many 

 lay gentlemen of the Catholic body. Resolutions in 

 accordance with the object of the meeting were carried, 

 and a deputation was appointed to go to Dublin and 

 present the address to Mr. O'Connell.— The address 

 adopted by the meeting in Covent Garden last week has 

 also been adopted at Liverpool, where Mr. F. O'Connor 

 has held a meeting for the purpose of effecting a union 

 between the English Chartists and Ihe Irish Repealers. 

 The Waverley Ball.— On Monday night a ball was 

 given at Willis's Rooms, under very distinguished patron- 

 age, for the purpose of raising a fund to add to the 

 general subscription for the completion of the Scott 

 Monument in Edinburgh. The chief feature of this ball 

 was the idea of embodying in a fancy ball the leading 

 characters of Sir Walter Scott's novels and poems. The 

 object, both in regard to the costumes and to the success 

 of the experiment was fully gained, no less than 1438 

 tickets having been entered, so that upwards of 1000/. 

 will be added to the Monument fund. The event of the 

 evening was the " monster" quadrille, arranged by the 

 Marchioness of Londonderry, in which no less than 42 

 couples danced in appropriate costume. The Duke and 

 Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, the 



S e nt ry Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and 

 ne Duke of Wellington, were among the numerous 

 company. & ' ° 



Post Office.— The Atlas states that the description 

 given by a Liverpool paper of the mode of opening the 

 seals or letter* by a plate of lead struck smartly by a 

 machine is incorrect. The operation, it says, is much 

 simpler ; and by the process adopted at the Post-office 



minT 6 ° f spurious seals can be produced in a few 

 T , es » and with the utmost precision and certainty. 



one 8 5 U . nOUS 8eal b y which ft is intended to reseal the 

 mulk 8 ' is takeQ in Poster of Paris, and with so 



the accurac y a s to defy detection. It appears that in 

 Dri T Cr6t ° r inner bureau of the Post-office, the appro- 

 si mi apparatus f or casting is always in readiness. It 



mould C K ° nS,St3 -° f a 8mal1 cylindrical, annular brass 

 likp 1 ut an inc h in height, which opens and shuts 

 nteV ° u *J et -mou!d. After the seal has been oiled, to 

 it an*! tk pl ster adhering, this mould is placed upon 

 Poured * pla8ter of Pa "s, mixed in the usual way, is 

 is it i t at i° l - t " In about five minutes ft hardens, or sets, 

 more ? fi call y called J and in about as many minutes 

 by thp S i- resea ling the letter, which has been opened 

 has b Epphcatio11 °f a hot iron to the seal. If a wafer 

 remn^S. Used ' a little h ^t water or steam is used to 

 ™° vc the obstruction. 



DuclJ. * ° f the Man chester.— By the arrival of the 

 ascertai a Lonsdale with the Hamburgh mail, it is 

 *as disc rhe wreck of the Manchester, which 



Sa nds n T lying at the extreme end of the Reissen 



*raduil w 0I i- ° f the Elbe ' in about 12 feet of water ' has 

 y disappeared. Two bodies, one a female and 



supposed to have been part of the unfortunate persons 

 who perished with the vessel. Mrs. Smith, of Drogheda, 

 her daughter, and the stewardess, were the only females 

 that were on board at the time, and it is presumed that 

 the body is one of them. It is said that there are con- 

 siderable doubts whether the vessel was lost on the end 

 of the Reissen Sands, where her wreck was seen, as her 

 anchors and chain-cable, which, from their massive de- 

 scription, would not drift, were not found on the spot, 

 and it is considered a singular circumstance that she was 

 lying in 12 feet of water, the extent of her draught when 

 laden. It is, however, regarded as certain, that the 

 primary cause of the loss was her going too far north 

 of the harbour. 



Burning of the Madras Transport Ship. — On Mon- 

 day morning, shortly after midnight, a fire broke out on 

 board the East India ship Madras, 500 .tons, lying at 

 anchor in the river off Deptford Dockyard. The ship 

 has recently been chartered by Government for the 

 conveyance of stores and ammunition to Hong-Kong. 

 She had partially received her cargo, and was moored 

 alongside the Tory transport vessel, the only persons on 

 board being the mate and boy. As soon as the fire was 

 discovered, the floating engine was got into play, and 

 the hatchways were torn up, when it was discovered that 

 the fire was raging furiously in the hold, fore and aft, 

 and the destruction of the vessel appeared inevitable. 

 The engines having little or no effect upon the flames, 

 the ship was cut away and hauled more into the centre 

 of the river, where operations were forthwith com- 

 menced to scuttle her. Before that, however, could be 

 accomplished, owing to the strength of the tide, she 

 broke adrift and was carried athwart the fleet of steamers 

 belonging to the General [Steam Navigation Com- 

 pany, and a number of Dutch galliots. The confusion 

 and alarm that immediately followed was very great, but 

 ultimately the Madras was |got clear and sunk in the 

 middle of the river, the tide just sweeping her decks. 

 The extent of mischief done to her, in addition to her 

 stores being consumed, is very considerable. The 

 vessel belonged to the captain, who is insured. She 

 was to have received 400 puncheons of rum in the 

 course of the day. In the course of a few days attempts 

 will be made to weigh her by chain lighters. The Ma- 

 dras was built at Whitehaven, in 1827, and has recently 

 returned from Swan River and Port Adelaide. 



Loss of an Emigrant Ship.— Intelligence has been 

 received from Sydney, Cape Breton, announcing the loss 

 of the Sir George Prevost emigrant ship on a reef of 

 rocks to the westward of Gaberus. But for the mode- 

 rate state of the weather this wreck might have termi- 

 nated in a fearful loss of human life, as there were 

 upwards of 160 souls on board. The vessel, which was 

 690 tons burthen, left Newry, in Ireland, early in the 

 present year, with emigrants and a miscellaneous cargo. 

 The voyage across the Atlantic was as favourable as 

 could be expected, but on nearing the coast off Gaberus 

 on the 31st of May, it came on a dense fog, so that it 

 was almost impossible to discern anything beyond the 

 vessel. Instead of being brought to an anchor, the ship 

 was allowed to continue her course, and about 9 o'clock 

 she struck. Guns of distress were fired, and two vessels 

 which were near the spot succeeded in saving all hands 

 and conveyed them to Arichat. They were, however, in 

 great distress, as all their property was on board, and the 

 vessel soon became a total wreck. 



New Royal Exchange.— The ground between the 

 eastern front of the New Royal Exchange, at the rear of 

 the houses in Finch-lane, is being now built upon 

 by direction of the trustees of Magdalen College, to 

 whom the property belongs. There will be a line of 

 houses from Cornhill to Threadneedle-street, for which 

 purpose the church of St. Benet Fink will be pulled 

 down, the living of which it is said will be transferred to 

 a church which will be erected on the site of what was 

 formerly Cripplegate Workhouse, Moor-lane. In exca- 

 vating for the foundation of the new houses, at a depth 

 of about 12 feet, a large quantity of common Roman 

 and of Roman tessellated pavement was found. 



The Chinese Ransom.— On Friday, a special train on 

 the South- Western Railway arrived at Nine Elms, con- 

 taining nine tons and a half of Sycee silver, which had 

 been brought from Portsmouth, under convoy of a de- 

 tachment of the 47th Reg. This specie is part of the 

 money agreed upon by the Chinese Government to be 

 paid to this country for the ransom of Canton, and 

 arrived at Portsmouth a few days ago, in H.M.S. Wan- 

 derer. The specie was conveyed in seven artillery vans 



to the Mint. 



The National Gallery On Monday two pictures 



purchased on Saturday by Mr. Eastlake, R.A., the Cura- 

 tor, at a sale at Messrs. Christie and Manson's, for the 

 National Gallery, were placed in that institution, and 

 were greatly admired by the numerous visitors. They 

 are numbered 193 and 194, and are placed in different 

 rooms ; the M Judgment of Paris " being in the second 

 large room, and immediately facing Rubens's " Rape of 

 the Sabines." This picture, it was stated at the sale on 

 Saturday, was painted by Rubens for Cardinal Richelieu ; 

 and was subsequently in the Orleans Gallery, from which 

 it was brought and sold to Lord Kinnaird, who gave 

 3000 guineas for it. It afterwards came into the pos- 

 session of Mr. Penrice, of Great Yarmouth, at whose 

 sale of pictures on Saturday it was bought for the .Nation 

 at 4000 guineas. The other picture, by Guido, of .Lot 

 and his Daughters," is placed in the large room, in the 

 north-east corner. This picture was formerly in the 



by three new pictures, purchased at the sale of the late 

 Mr. Harman's collection. They are numbered 190, 191, 

 and 192, and consist of the Portrait of a Jew, by Rem- 

 brandt ; the M Infant Christ and St. John embracing," 

 by Guido ; and an exquisite little portrait of Gerard Dow 9 

 painted by himself. 



The Duke of Sussex 1 s Library.— On Thursday the 

 sale of that portion of H. R. Highness's library which 

 comprised the Bibles and' Testaments was brought to a 

 close. The number of lots disposed of amounted to 

 2074, and the number of Bibles to 1009 ; of these, 294 

 were English, 259 Latin, 79 French, 26 Greek, 80 German 

 and Flemish, and 176 in various languages. The number 

 of New Testaments disposed of was 610 ; of these 227 

 were Greek, English 73, French 61, Latin 51, and in 

 various languages 198. The remainder of the lots dis- 

 posed of consisted of Psalters and portions of the Scrip- 

 ture in almost every tongue. The sale of the " Theo- 

 logical" works of ancient and modern writers com- 

 menced yesterday, and will continue for 14 days, at the 

 close of which the splendid collection of manuscripts,, 

 some dating as far back as the ninth century, will be sold. 

 University College. — At a session of the council on 

 Saturday, the three undermentioned gentlemen, formerly 

 students of the college, who had graduated with honours 

 at the University of London, were admitted members of 

 the corporate body of this college, under the title of 

 M Fellows," and had shares conferred them, viz. : — F. W. 

 Mackenzie, M.D. ; J. G. Greenwood, B.A. ; and C. J. 

 Hargreave, B.L., Professor of Jurisprudence. We un- 

 derstaid that Mr. John Ellerton Stocks, of Hull, has 

 proved the fortunate gainer of the Assistant-Surgeoncy 

 in India, placed by Martin Smith, Esq., at the disposal 

 of the Council of this College, "as a reward for pro- 

 ficiency in the study of Medicine and Surgery." Mr. 

 Stocks had previously gained the Silver Medals in 

 Anatomy, and Physiology and Botany, in the College 

 examinations, and the Gold Medal in Botany at Apothe- 

 caries' Hall. 



The Exhibition in Westminster Hall.— The success 



which has attended the exhibition of the works of sculp- 

 ture and specimens of fresco paintings recently opened 

 in Westminster Hall, has far exceeded the most san- 

 guine expectations of the commissioners, and affords sa- 

 tisfactory proof of growing taste for the Fine Arts 

 among the people generally. During the first week of 

 the exhibition, the weather was extremely unfavourable, 

 notwithstanding which the hall was never so poorly 

 filled as during the same period of the cartoon exhibition 

 last year. The attendance since Monday last has been 

 still more numerous, and the result altogether is satisfac- 

 tory. On Wednesday Prince Albert presided, for the 

 last time this season, at a meeting of the Commissioners 

 at Gwydyr-house, on which occasion some important 

 arrangements in connexion with the subject of Fine Arts 

 were unanimously agreed to. Among these, it is said 

 that the Commissioners have judged it right, after a 

 careful examination of the specimens of fresco paintings 

 sent in for exhibition by the various artists, to select six 

 individuals from among the whole number, and to com- 

 mission them to commence works on given subjects im- 

 mediately. The Commissioners, however, unwilling to 

 confine the practice of the art to a few hands, have 

 agreed to invite the competition of other artists not in- 

 cluded among the six selected individuals, under condi- 

 tions which are not yet finally determined on. The names 

 of the six artists have not yet transpired, but they will be 

 no doubt made known in the course of a few days. The 

 exhibition will be thrown open to the public gratuitously 



on Monday next. 



The Convict Dalmas.— It is now stated that the re- 

 prieve in the case of Dalmas has been granted solely on 

 the grouud of insanity. The report of Doctors Monro 

 and Sutherland, who were appointed to examine the 

 state of the convict's mind was so positive on this point 

 as to leave no alternative to Sir J. Graham. 



The Wills Forgeries.— In consequence of the declara- 

 tions of the convict Fletcher respecting the innocence of 

 Barber, the convict ship was detained at W oolwicn until 

 the case could be thoroughly investigated. She sailed 

 from the river on Monday, having both these convicts 

 on board ; and it is, therefore, presumed that the result 

 of the inquiry was unfavourable. Barber, however, has 

 since written a long letter to the Times, protesting his 

 innocence, and expressing regret at the manner in which 

 his counsel conducted the trial, as there was ample evi- 

 dence, he says, to establish that he had no guilty know- 

 ledge of the forgeries of his clients. The convict Sanders, 

 who is on board another convict ship, has made a decla- 

 ration similar to that of Fletcher, which was forwarded 

 to Sir J. Graham by Barber's solicitor on Thursday. 



He "says : " I am desirous of reiterating all my former 



statements of my firm belief and conviction of the com- 

 plete innocence of William Henry Barber of any parti- 

 cipation or guilty knowledge whatever of the late trans- 

 actions in which I or my wife, Lydia Sanders, were 

 concerned, or that he received one farthing more than 

 his professional remuneration. William Henry Barber 

 was an utter stranger to me until introduced to him by 

 Joshua Fletcher, as Thomas Hunt, nor did I after see 

 him, or have any subsequent communication with him, 

 until my examination at the Mansion-house, i JJ» 

 this declaration from an unfeigned desire of doing au 

 justice that in my power lies to one who^l^ ^ 

 instrumental in placing in a position, or tne 





