question, of which they heard so much; and that neither
our fleets, however well manned, nor our armies,
however valorous, nor our diplomatists, however skilful,
could do so much as the plough, the spade, and the
draining-tile, to revive exhausted provinces and to
recruit a failing population." The society will meet
next year at Carlisle.

An inquiry into the state of the Charterhouse has
taken place before Mr. Skerrow, one of the Inspectors
under the Charitable Trusts Act. It was held on the
19th and 20th inst. The following facts were elicited.
The Charterhouse was founded by Thomas Sutton, in
1611. There were to be forty Scholars, but they had
been subsequently increased to forty-four. The Poor
Brethren are forty in number. Mr. Keightley, the
Registrar and Receiver of the Charterhouse, stated that
the total income of the charity for the year from Lady-
day 1853 to Lady-day 1854 was £28,908. The salaries
and allowances to officers were £3032. The salary of the
Master, Archdeacon Hale, was £800 a year; of the
Reverend Mr. Peter, £300; of the Reverend Dr.
Elder, the schoolmaster, £244, besides an allowance
for assistant masters; Reverend Mr. Walford, £140;
the Registrar had received £500, besides some
allowances. The pension of the Poor Brethren was £2075;
which gave £26 10s. to each per annum. Under the
statute of Charles they were to have £6 6s. 8d. each.
The increase was made from time to time by the
Governors. The boys are clothed by the charity; they
have two suits every year. The Poor Brethren receive
a cloak every two years; the amount of this item for
last year was £148 5s. 6d. The furniture item was £650;
no private furniture was included in this sum. The
exhibitions for Scholars amount to £1460, and there is
an item of £475 for placing boys out. There are nine
livings in the gift of the charity. Since 1824, the sum
of £55,129 has been expended in repairs of the property.
On Lady-day there was a balance of £6289 at the
banker's, and £222 in hand to meet current expenses.

The half-yearly meeting of the Crystal Palace
Company was held on the 20th inst.; Mr. Laing in the
chair. From his statement and report it appears,
that in addition to the sum of £1,000,000 nearly
expended already, £300,000 will be required to complete
the works in contemplation. With reference to the
expected dividend, it was calculated that, allowing for
thirteen unproductive weeks, the annual income of the
Company will be £259,183; and, setting the working
expenses at £52,000 a year, there will be £207,183 for a
dividend. Next year the fountains will be completed,
and form a new attraction. As regards the refreshment
department, at present the profit has been £1000; but much
is said against the sale of refreshments, and should it not
work well it will be abolished. The report was adopted.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

THE Queen and Royal Family left Buckingham Palace
on the 17th inst. for Osborne, Isle of Wight.

The King of Portugal and his brother, the Duke of
Oporto, have concluded their visit to England. On the
10th inst. they took leave of the Queen, drove to Woolwich
in two of the royal carriages, and embarked in the
war-steamer Mindello, which sailed for Ostend.

The Queen has appointed the Honourable John Henry
Thomas Manners Sutton to be Lieutenant-Governor of
the Province of New Brunswick; and Major-General
William Thomas Knollys to be Lieutenant-Governor of
the Island of Guernsey, in the room of Lieutenant-
General Sir John Bell, K.C.B.

The Directors of the East India Company have
appointed Lieutenant-General the Honourable George
Anson Commander-in-chief of the Company's forces on
the Fort St. George Establishment, and second member
of the Council of Madras.

Miss O'Connor, sister of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, now
an inmate of a lunatic asylum, has been compelled to
apply to the Marylebone magistrate for pecuniary
assistance. She complained that her brother is kept in
confinement, instead of being placed under her care,
whereby she is kept out of property to which she is
entitled. The magistrate granted some relief.

Mrs. Giffard, the wife of the unfortunate Captain
of the Tiger, landed at Odessa under safeguard of a
flag of truce, accompanied by Captain Powell, and
remained there twenty-four hours, collecting the
particulars of her husband's death, and visiting his
tomb. The Russians gave her a lock of her husband's
hair. Subsequently she proceeded to Constantinople,
from whence she returned home.

On the 18th inst., a public tribute of respect was paid
to the memory of the late Thomas Hood, by the
inauguration of a monument at Kensal-green Cemetery, in
presence of a large number of persons, including some
intimate friends of the poet. The monument, which
has been ably executed by Mr. M. Noble, consists of a
bronze bust of the poet elevated on a pedestal of polished
red granite, the whole being 12 feet high. In front of
the bust are placed wreaths in bronze, formed of the
laurel, the myrtle, and the immortelle; and on a slab
beneath the bust appears that well-known line of the
poet, which he desired should be used as his epitaph—
"He sang the song of the shirt." Upon the front of
the pedestal is carved this inscription:—"In memory of
Thomas Hood, born 23rd May, 1798; died 3rd May, 1845.
Erected by public subscription, A.D. 1854." At the base of
the pedestal a lyre and comic mask in bronze are thrown
together, suggesting the mingled character of Hood's
writings; whilst on the sides of the pedestal are bronze
medallions illustrating the poems of "The Bridge of
Sighs" and "The Dream of Eugene Aram." The
whole design is worthy of the poet and the sculptor.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

Madame SONTAG (Countess Rossi) died in the city of Mexico
on the 18th of June, of cholera.

M. RAOUL ROCHETTE, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy
of the Beaux-Arts, died in Paris a few days since.

Count CASIMIR BATHYANI died at Paris on the 12th inst.

Mr. GEORGE KETTEL, son of the late William Kettel, Esq.,
of Wateringbury, Kent, was murdered by the blacks at
Tehanning Creek, Moreton Bay, New South Wales, on the 5th
of March last, in his fiftieth year.

Charles F. H. MONTAGU, of her Majesty's ship Odin,
youngest son of the Rev. G. Montagu, of Swaffham, Norfolk,
was killed in the night attack on Gamla-Karleby, on the 7th
June, in his twenty-second year.

Major-General CARLYON died on the 4th inst., at Tregehan,
Cornwall, in his seventieth year.

Lady MARY ANNE STURT died on the 8th inst., in Upper
Seymour-street, in her eighty-eighth year.

The Hon. FRANCES JANE MONCKTON, aunt to Viscount
Galway, died at Bawtry on the 8th inst.

Mr. Patrick CHALMERS, of Auldbar, who formerly represented
the Montrose district of boroughs in parliament, died
at Rome on the 23rd June, while on a continental tour.

Rear-Admiral HENDERSON, late Commander-in-Chief on the
coast of South America, died at sea on the 12th inst., on his
return to England.

Lord LANGFORD died on the 19th inst. at Castleton, in the
county of Kildare, in his thirtieth year.

Sir THEOPHILUS BUDDULPH, Bart., died on the 15th inst., at
his seat, Birbur Hall, near Rugby, in his sixty-ninth year.

Mrs. CAROLINE SOUTHEY, widow of Robert Southey the
poet-laureate, died on the 20th inst., at Buckland, near
Lymington.

The Right Rev. JOHN LESLIE, D.D., Bishop of Kilmore,
Elphin, and Ardagh, died on the 22nd inst. at Kilmore, in his
eighty-second year.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Bombay
to the 20th and from Calcutta to the 14th of June.
Tranquillity prevailed in India. A police force is to be
organised in Burmah for the protection of life and
property; and it will operate both on the river and on
shore. There had been a riot at Singapore, which,
beginning on the 5th May, lasted for eight or ten days.
It arose out of the quarrels of rival Chinese: the military