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“on; numborless addresses. to. the Queen,.on her.

marriage, was the following :7-

(From the Court Circular of Feb. 96.)

The [Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck:- ingham Palace, for the reception of addresses to the Throne. V .

The members of the Religious Society of Friends having, according to ancient custom, been uncoVered b the Yeomen ofthe Guard, were then introduced to the presence of her Majesty on the Throne, and presented to her Majesty the following address :—

" To Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto be- loavin .

.(l The respectful address of the undersigned. members ofa meeting appointed to represent the Religious Socie ety of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland.

May it please the Queen,

“ As a Christian and loyal body, permit us, on the im-. portant and deeply interesting occasion of thy marriage, to convey to thee the renewed assurance of our cordial attachment to thy person and Government.

“ The institution of marriage we have ever regarded as a Divine ordinance, and it is our prayer to God that his blessing may richly crown thy union, and render it conducive alike to thy own happiness, and the welfare of my people.

“It is with heartfelt satisfaction that we anticipate _

thy future happiness in this union, and earnest are our deSircs for thee and thy consort, that walking in the fear of the Lord, your example may be so ordered in all things by the wisdom which is from above, as powerfully to promote the course of true religion and virtue throughout the land. ‘ .

“The real prosperity of our beloved country is an object dear to our hearts, and under this feeling we would express our belief that in proportion as pure and practical Christianity is permitted to sway thy counsels and is promoted among tiiy subjects, will thy prosperity he most effectually advanced, social order maintained, and thy throne established in the aﬂ‘ections nfthy people.

“ May He, by whom Kings reign and Princes decree justice, bless thee, 0 Queen, and increasingly make thee a blessing to thy own and to surrounding nations, and mayesr thou, at the end of thy days, through the mercy .of God in Christ Jesus our Saviour, be received into everlasting glory.”

Her Majesty returned the following most gracious answer.

“ I earnestly join in y0ur prayers for the welfare of my people, and acknowledge with thanks your in- terest for my own happiness, which is inseparably con- nected with the subject ofyour cangratulations.

“I feel with you that the prosperity of nations is most effectually secured by observing the precepts anti cher- ishing the benevolent spirit of the Christian religion.”

THE QUEEN AND Tun CATHOLICS.-—In the printed in- structions and regulations for the fast of Lent in the year 1840, addressed to all the faithful in the London District, by Thomas Bishop of Olena, vicar apostolic in that dis- trict, there is the following passage :—-“ We cannot omit, on this our ﬁrst address to you, dearly beloved, after the solemn nuptials of our beloved Sovereign, to admonish you of the additional duty which this joyful event imposes on you ; though we are conﬁdent your loyalty to her Majesty and your devotion to your country have anticipated our admonition. With heartfelt acknowledgment you have thanked the giver of every good gift for the auspicious marriage of her Majesty with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and have fervently prayed that their union may be long and happy ; that they may see their progeny to the third and fourth generations ,- and after our gracious Queen shall have administered temporal prosperity to her subjects, they may be brought to eternal happiness in heaven. Continue thus to comply, in dutiful affection, with the obligations which almighty God, by the mouth of St. Paul imposes—:0 Tim. ii. 1, That these supplica-

' tions may be unceasing, we have directed our beloved

clergy to insert the name'of his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the prayer which they daily recite for her Majesty and the royal family, at the end of the adorable sacriﬁce.” The words inserted in the prayer are “ Albertum, consor- tem cjus Regium."

THE Hocsnuonn CAVALRY Batman—Immediately af- ter the battle of Waterloo, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, then Prince Regent, declared himself (in com- pliment to the [st and 2d regiments of Life Guards, and the Royal Horse Guards, (blue,) which had severally dis- tinguished themselves during the engagement Colonel-in- Chief of the Household Cavalry Brigade. pan the ac- cession of the Regent to the throne, on the death ofGeorge “1., his Majesty still continued to hold that appointment, and the compliment was continued to be conferred upon those distinguished regiments by the Sovereign up to the period ofthe decease of William IV. It is now rumoured that it is her Majesty’s intention (to show the high estima- tion in which her Majesty holds those regiments) to confer the honorary appointment of Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Cavalry Brigade upon Prince Albert.

Tue DUKE os- WELLINGTON AND Sm JAMES Mac. DONELL.—-S0me years ago, the Duke of Wellington was waited on at Apsley House by two gentlemen, who an- nounced to him that, as executors of the will of a deceased friend of eccentric habits, who had left £500 to the bra-

' vest man in the British army, they had called for the pur-

pose of handing to his Grace a cheque for that amount ; being fully satisﬁed, that in so doing they should religiously fulﬁl the duty imposed on them by the testator. The Duke thanked them for the compliment they had paid him, but resolutely declined to receive the money; alleging, that the British army contained many as brave men as himself After several pressing remonstrances, his Grace's visitors earnestly requested, that he would consent to become ar-

' bitrator in the matter,‘and indicate'the individual on whom

the bequest should be conferred. To this appeal he acce- ded; promising, in the course of two or three days, to give 3}: matter his consideration. and report to them the result.

,jAlic appointed time, they again made their appearance Iti’éipsley House. The Duke received them with great courtesy ; but assured them that he had found the task a great deal more difﬁcult than he had anticipateda After enumerating to them the various battles in which he had been engaged, and some of the most striking feats of he- roism he had witnessed, he suggested, that if they had no objection, he would make the selection from the battle of Waterloo ; that being the last, the greatest, and most im- portant action of the war. This point being adjusted, his Grace proceeded to state, that Huguemont having been the key to his entire position, and the post having been

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ost complete success, bnt ery, by, Major-General Sir ded there, he plouldﬂnomt

tno one so fully entitled to_ the legacy as t at o oer; The executors repaired atacolndinglyln‘o J Ezeizixaz‘dp'ne

hav' ac uainte 1m. wr .

glide“; Wellligngloii, tendered him the mom . _ Sir 1:058! expressed himself highly ﬂattered by so dlstlngllllsh e In mark of his Grace’s approval, and observed, that a t. oug f he should not attempt to dispute altogether the proptgety od his decision, yet, as he knew a man who had con luctpl himself with at least equal gallantry in the same batt e, e must insist on sharing the prize With him. He then went on to say, that at one period of the day, the. French troplps rushed upon Huguemont with such irresistible force, t at the gates of the farm were burst open, and, for a moment, the late of the position appeared doubtful, when a power. ful serjeant-major of the Coldstream Guards, of the name of Fraser, assisted him in closing the gates, which they did by dint of sheer physical strength, upon the enemy. Shortly afteiwards the French were driven back .wuh grent slauahter, and the fate of Huguemont was decided. _ Sir Jamies added, that the Duke of Wellington had evidently selected him because he was' able to make good a post which was a key to his position ; and he could not, on the same principle, withhold from the gallant soldier who as. sisted him at so critical a moment in forcing out the ene- my, his propenshare of the reward. He would, therefore, accept the £500, and divide it with Serjeant.Major Fraser, to whom he accordingly paid £250 of the money.— United Service Gaz'ette.

Tun LATE Sin F. L. MAITLAND.-—Th0 decease of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K. C. B. Commander-imChief in the East Indies, took place on board his ﬂag-ship, the Wellesley, 72, at sea, "1th Vicin- ity of Bombav, on the 30th December last. Sir Freder- le. who expii‘ed in the 63d year of his age, was descended from the noble house of Lauderdale ; he has at all times borne with honour and credit his character as an ofﬁcer and a gentleman, and to that we will add a thorough sea- man, warmly and sincerely attached to his protessron ; he entered at an early age, and became Lieutenant of the Andromeda in 1795. Sir Frederick was ever an active

defended‘not only with the m with the most chivalrous brav

man, and in 1800 brought home overland the despatches '

of Sir Sydney Smith, detailing his successful eﬂ'otts in of. fecting the treaty of El Arish. This treaty not being ac.

ceded to by Lord Keith led to the Egyptian expedition ; on

that memorahlepccasion, Captain Maitland covered the landing of Abescromby's troops with the armed launches of the ﬂeet, and subsequently protected one of the Wings of our army, with the boats, in the lake of Aboukir. - In the Dragon and Loire, Captain Maitland was eminently ser- viceable to his country, and by his discernment and ener- gy in the latter ship, led to the action oﬁSIr Robent Cal- der’s squadron with the combined Spanish and I‘rench ﬂeet. Captain Maitland subsequently commanded .the Emerald, and in the American war obtained the Goliah, razeed '74, and the Boyne, 98, asFlug Captain tu Sir Alexander Cochrane. on the coast of America; but on the breaking out of the war and the return of Bonaparte from Elba, he was appointed to the Bellevophon, 74, and

V joined the blockading squadron under Sir Henry Hutham,

oﬁ' Rochefort. The battle of Waterloo :1 second time dri- ving that chieftan from the throne of France, he took ‘re- fuge on board Capt. Maitland’s Ship, whose prevrous deter- mination to make no terms with the ex-Einperor, and whose honourable treatment to him when a guest, are well known to the world ; but it is not so well known, however, that on Bonaparte leaving the ship, he offered, for Captain Maitland's acceptance, a diamond snuff-box, valued at 3000 guineas, the acceptance of which was conscientious- ly declined. Captain Maitland subsequently commanded the Vengcur, 74, and in her conveyed the King of the two Sicilies to Leghorn ; and then the, Genoa, '74, as a guard- ship in Portsmouth harbour. On attaining his ﬂag as Rear~Admiral, Sir Frederick was appointed Superinten- dent of Portsmouth Dock-yard, which he resigned on being appointed to the important command he held at the period of his death. "Lady Maitland was on board the Wellesley at the time of her gallant husband’s death, and intends to return to England in the Herefordshire, East Indiaman. The Caledonian Mercury relates the following anec- dole of the lately deceased Admiral Sir F. Maitland :— “ When he was arcaptain in command of the Loire, he made an agreement with Captain Dixon, of the Apollo, that they would -.sliare between them whatever prize money should fall to their lot. Capt. Dixon’s life was a short one, and he left a wife far from afﬂuent. Mrs. Dixon was one morning waited on by a gentleman, who tendered for acceptance, a bank check for £95,000. Surprised and hesitating, Mrs. Dixon objected to re~ ceiving so muniﬁcent a sum. Captain Mnilland’s an- swer was characteristic, and it does him inﬁnite hon- our. ‘ My agreement with my friend Dixon was not an agreement for life, it was to continue during the war ; this money, Madam, therefore is fairly yours.’ ” COLLECTOR FlNDLATER.—We lost Burns and Byron, at the early age cf thirty-seven; and, as forty-three years have elapsed since the grave closed over the former, it may not be deemed wonderful that the appearance in last week's obituary of one of the bard’s most worthy friends and ablest vindicators, should not have called forth a sin- gle remark. To those who are familiar with the biography of Burns, especially as it is given by Mr. Peterkin, it is enough to say that we allude to Alexander Findlater, Esq, late Collector of Excise, Glasgow. Mr. Findlatcr ranked high as a classical scholar, as a man of reﬁned taste, of manly and generous'sentiments, of glowing and enlighten- ed patriotism, and sea public oﬁicer, of excellent business habits and integrity. Since, then, it was the lot of the

' high-souled Burns to become an exciseman, there is some-

thing not a little soothing and grateful in the reﬂection, thatihe happened to have such a man for his immediate ofﬁcial superior. It is also grateful to know that this good, highly accomplished man, was not, like the bard, unappre. eluted in. his life-time. He rose to the highest rank in the out-door department of the excise, and, after ﬁfty-two years of meritorious‘service, retired upon the highest super- annuation allowance ever granted to a collector.—-Dundec Courier. , - vacoma'rrou.—_Rai-on'r.—Presented to both Houses of Parliament by the Natioiial Vaccine Establishment.)—-To the Right Hon. the Marquis of Normanhy, principal secre- tary of State for ‘th‘e'ho‘me'department.—-January 28, 1840. 6—M y lord—‘The experience of another year has conﬁrmed our conviction ofthe-efﬁciency of vaccination as the best security and protection against small-pox, and has aﬁ‘orded

‘ us, moreover, proofs of the propriety, in the resent state , of our knowledge, of preferring vaccine matterf’the produce

of the original virus, furnished by Doctor Jenner, which has now passed happily through successive generations of

subjects in the course of forty-three yam, “gimme”, forms the principal source of our supply, to any which may have been taken recently from the cow.- 'We edmts‘thu it is sometimes stated to us by our correspond, supply which we had sent them has failed, but, the “m.- post has generally brought us Intelligence that the material. supplied from the very same source had'sueceeded where, and that it was found eﬂicacions in Somersetehtre when it was said to be inefﬁcient in Wiltshire... We have coucluded, therefore, either that it had. been Injured some.-. how in its transmission, or that the patients submitted to it. were not in a ﬁt condition to receive its inﬂuence, in col... sequence of some eruptive disease having pteoccnpied. their constitution, or of some prevailing epidermc disorder having rendered them insusceptible of another and a new excitement for a time. The number of patients deadof ‘ small-pox, within the .bills of mortality, if we can trust

‘ them, has been less thi; year than any One since vaccina- -

tion has been practised, and we are justiﬁed, by a careful retrospect of several years, in stating, that LOGO-lives, on an average, are saved every year, within the district ofthe - bills only, by vaccination having superseded so largely the ~ practice of innoculation. We have vaccinated, at our sen veral stations, 13,154 persons, and have sent out 165,395! charges of vaccine lymph since our last report ‘to Parliam ment in 1839. HENRY HALFORD', President of the Royall College of Physicians, President ofthe Board. Ronun'rw Kenn, President ofthe Royal College of Surgeons. Tito» MAS MAYO, Senior Censor of the Royal Collegd of Physi-— cians. CLEMENT Hun, M.D., Registrar.

The Marquis of Notinatiby has issued circulars to the~ Lords Lieutenant of Counties throughout England; calling on them to use every means in their power to discounten- ance the spread of ‘ blasphemous and immoral doctrines bv printed publications, and by other 1 legal meann.’ They are also commanded to instruct the magistrates-in their respective counties to transmit to government copies of such publications, or extracts from the speeches of such parties as they may wish to submit to the goverpmengto consider the propriety of prosecuting. This circular is directed against the so-calletl Soctalists. .

Tue PENNY Pontiac—Amongst the 'nqvelJemutan- ces that passed through the Post-ofﬁce during the last week, was a half-pound of Dorset butter, in a letter, a case of pens, a pair ofladies’ boots, some leaden shot, different

samples of wheat, a silver watch to amanufacturer inlvm Cleikenwell; a child’s’ toy, called a bomerang; and d

knife, the last of which was discovered by the fracture the paper whilst stamping it. ~ I v

Irc'r'rER-wni'i'iNG.——Verily the penny postage system ‘is drawing forth the letter-dry talent of the country. As art» instance, the following is a literal copy ofthe address of a, letter which passed a neighbouring post~otﬁcetheother day :--” to the Care of Sandy fordice of Creef for potter- or Francis Mectavish or otherwise to aberfeldy to ﬁrmly scot Carrier for peter orFrancis Mectavish.”—Pcrtli Pa»

er.

P _We are informed by a gentleman who was recently trav velling iri Norfolk, that being detained in a small market- town in that country, be employed himself in asking for opium at the different shops. by Way of ascertaining how far reports of the prevalent use of that drug were true as regarded the town in question, He found it not only at the druggists’ shops, but at the grocers’ ; where it was offered for sale, in pills of Various sizes, as freely and openly as tea or sugar.—C'olanial Gazette.

PUSEYISM._—In the 65th number ofthe “ Tracts for the Times,” there are Collects tor Protestant use, running, " Grant, 0 Lord, that by the deserts of Peter and Paul, we may obtain everlasting life ’l" Can any corruption in doc- trine exceed this ’l—Re'cord. ‘

A Course GOING TO A BALL—Those who read the- tlirilling “ Passages from the Diary ofa London Physician" that were published a few years since, will remember one tale under the title of “ Death at the Toilet.” Although it was asserted by the writer that those narratives were the- records of facts, few, I presume, were willing to believe that real life could furnish matter of such romantic inter-

.cst. Especially did the one alluded to strike my own mind:

as quite unnatural, and I read it, as others, admiring the» genius more than the veracity of the writer.

Perhaps some who have seen the words at the head of this article, may imagine that they are about to be treated to a passage from the dreams of fancy ; but they are mis- taken. I have a sad and solemn tale of truth to relate, and when it has been read, there is no hesitation in believing that "‘ truth is stronger than ﬁction.” No colouring shall be laid on the story ; no art of embellishment shall heighten its interest ;‘ it shall be told to others as it was told to me, and you shall be convinced, that there is nothing more than truth in the story of the corpse that went to a ball.

You recollect the ﬁrst day of January, 1840. It was a bitter cold day. It was cold as far south as the city of New York, and up here in the country, where I am writing, it was terribly severe. You could not ride far against the wind without being exposed to freezing. I have heard of two cases of death by cold on that day in this region, and of another in which the suﬁ‘erer was saved by great excr- tion. when at the point of perishing. ‘

The night of that day was to be observed, as is usual here, by a New Year's Ball. Invitations had been ex- tended for many miles around, and a great gatheringof the young, and gay, and thoughtless, was expected. Ex—. tensive preparations had been made for an evening of men. riment and glee, and merry hearts beat quickly in anticil. patiou of the pleasure of the scene. None Was happierim the thought of coming joy than Miss , who took her- _seat in the sleigh, by the side of her partner for the even-. ing, and set out for a ride of some twenty miles to join thé. dance. She was young and gay, and her charms of. youth and beauty never were lovelier than when dressed for that, NegrYear’s'ball.‘ ' ’ '

‘ course, too thinly clad for the season, and es eciall forthat' dreadful day, she had not gone far before slie com): plauied of being very cold ; but their anxiety to reach vb... end of their ride, in time to be present at the opening 01‘ the dance, induced them to hurry onwards without 3to ping.- by the way. Not long after this complaining, she sai that- she felt perfectly comfortable, was now quite warm Indci that there was no necessity of delay on her account. The] reached at length the house where the company were gl- thering ; the young man leaped from the sleigh, and on tended his hand to assist her out, but she did not oﬂ'es hers; he spoke to her, but she answered him not—Reba was dead—stone dead—frozen stiff—a corpse on the way to a balls—New York Observer. ‘-

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