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At a Court of Directors of the East India Company, on Wednesday, Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge wair sworn in as Governor-General of India.

The Directors entertained the new Governor-General at dinner, at the London Tavern, on Wednesday. The banquet was set out with great splendour, the table being covered with gold plate and wax lights; while the military uniforms and decorations of honour that abounded. among the guests lent added brilliancy to the scene. The head of tbet table was taken by Mr. Shepherd ; the Vice-Chairman was Sir H. Willett. Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington' Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Lord Eliot, the Duke of Buccleuch, and several other Ministers, were among the guests ; the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Frederick Pollock, and other legal dignitaries ; Sir John M'Donald and many military officers; the Duke of Buckingham, Viscount Combermere, Lord Jecelya, sir John Barrow, the Lord Mayor, &c.—about a hundred and fifty in all.. After some routine toasts, the Chairman proposed "The health of Sir, Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India." In doing this, he al- luded to Sir Henry's distinguished services in the Peninsula and at Waterloo ; and stated that, without any previous concert between GO.. vernment and the Court of Directors, the name of Sir Henry Hardingte. had occurred to both as that of the fittest person to be appointed to the' office of Governor-General-- He had that day had the pleasure of informing the right honourable and gal- lant gentleman, on his being sworn into the office of Governor-General, that, the Directors reposed the utmost confidence in his judgment, and were pre- pared to afford him their most cordial support ; that he bad been selected not less because of their conviction that he possessed a firm, undaunted spirit, thann, because he was also endowed with a just, a generous, and a benevolent heart. They felt persuaded that while he would ever be ready to maintain the supre- macy of power, he would also take a delight in furthering the happiness of the people of India. It was the earnest desire of the Directors, and lie was sure every one would join with them in it, that his right honourable and gallant friend, after a long course of successful service in India' might, under Divine Providence, return to his native c..untry, bearing with him the thanks and blessings of the people of India.

Sir Henry Hardinge suitably acknowledged the compliment ; antici- pating for himself more weight and authority in the performance of his duty from the support of the Directors and of his colleagues, and the sanction of the Queen-

" These considerations, however, of favour and confidence, do not mislead me. I am fully aware of the difficulties of the undertaking. lean scarcely hope to fulfil all that I desire to accomplish; but I know also that I shall receive the. assistance °fable men in the civil service of the Butt India Company—that Isbell be guided by the experience and local knowledge of the Court of Directors and. the noble Earl who occupies the station of ChierCommissioner for the Affairs of India at the head of the Board of Control ; and I believe, also, I shall have another advantage, which to me will be of an incalculable nature—that or being able unreservedly to refer to my illustrious friend and commander, the. Duke of Wellington. When the communication was first made to me briar

tight honourable friend at the head of the Government, and the proposal was made by the Directors that I should undertake the office, my first inquiry was, What is the opinion of the Duke of Wellington?' I was informed that he ap- proved of my being selected; and then, I candidly confess, I did begin to enter- tain some hope that the expectations of the Directors and of my right honourable friend would not be entirely disappointed. For, gentlemen, the greater portion of my public life has been passed under the eye and instruction of my illustrious commander, the Duke of Wellington."

Saying that he hoped to ameliorate the condition of the people of India brought him to peaceful assurances- . It is true that a large portion of my life has been spent in military avoca- tions, but I think that I have been able to afford some guarantee that my own propensities are not warlike ; on the contrary, I think I shall be a lover of peace. I may, perhaps, venture to say, that I have known the miseries and the risks of war : I cannot say that I have known its vicissitudes, because under that illustrious commander our armies never knew what vicissitudes were."

Apropos to the Army, these assurances were repeated— "In everything that regards that Army I shall always take the deepest in- terest; but let its efficiency he what it Inv, and however brilliant its recent successes may have been, I hope that the result of those successes will be that which should always he the legitimate consequence of war—a long, lasting, and durable peace ; and that the people of India will derive from those wars all the blessings of peace, in the amelioration of their condition, their improve- ment, their education—in short, in all those advantages which constitute the happiness and secure the prosperity of a nation. These, Sir, are the objects to which I shall turn my attention ; and I hope I shall he able to show that I am aranxious as the people of this country can be that the blessings of peace shall follow the successes of war—that, great as the distance may be between this conntry and our Indian possessions, we are united in one common interest— that those peaceful pursuits shall be encouraged among the people of India which are necessary in order to secure their lasting prosperity and happiness. Peace and commerce are already restored with China; and a long-continued tranquillity prevails in almost every part of India, except in the case of those internal dissensions in the Punjab, with regard to which every possible pre- caution has been taken."

The Duke of Wellington was toasted; and in returning thanks, among other compliments which he distributed, he congratulated the Directors on their selection of a Governor-General. In proposing "The health of Sir Robert Peel and the rest of her Majesty's Ministers," the Chairman expressed his gratitude to them for their cordial cooperation in the selection of Sir Henry Hardinge. In returning thanks, Sir Robert Peel referred to Ministers' parting with so valued a colleague, as the greatest proof of the deep interest which they felt in the welfare of India- " For the advancement of the interests of that country, we have consented to sever our connexion with a coll-ague who was entitled to our entire confi- dence, and who possesses our esteem and regard as a private friend. We have consented to appoint to the government of that country a colleague who, as a soldier, has his name connected with Corunna, Albuera, and with the whole Peninsular war, and closed his military career on the plains of Waterloo. We have consented to part with a colleague who, in the administration of civil affairs, exhibited a rare combination of temper, firmness, resolution, and moral courage. We have made this sacrifice in the belief that no other man would be better qualified for the great task he has undertaken."

A few other toasts having been given and acknowledged, the com- pany separated.

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, for the despatch of business. In accordance with the recommendation of the London Bridge Approaches Committee, a bond for 25,000/. to be advanced by the Bank of England, and paid to the Commissioners for continuing Farringdon Street to Clerkenwell Green, was sealed. The Court resumed an adjourned discussion on a motion by Deputy Corney, " That it be referred to the Parliamentary Committee to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for an act to better the moral and physical condition of the vagrant population of this metropolis, and report their opinion forthwith." Mr. Corney:declared that street-beggars had become an intolerable nuisance : he had traced families in pursuit of the begging-trade, in the same district, throughout thirty years ; the evil cannot be abolished by existing powers; and he thought that a clause might be introduced into the Poor-law Bill now before Parlia- ment. Mr. King complained that Mr. Corney proposed nothing to carry out his own object ; and he moved " the previous question." A long discussion followed ; which Mr. Richard Taylor turned upon the ini- quities of the Corn-law, and Sir Peter Laurie upon the iniquities of the Poor-law ; but eventually, the amendment was carried by a large majority.

A numerous meeting of proprietors, merchants, and others connected with the West ladies, was held at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, to pe- tition Parliament "against any alteration in the duties on sugar, coffee, and cocoa, which should not embrace a reduction of duties on similar produce from British possessions." Viscount Combermere presided ; and a number of the most influential City owners of West Indian pro- perty, with many of a more aristocratic class, were present—Con- servative poll ies predominating : some idea of the weight and influence of the leading people may be gathered from the names of those who moved and seconded the resolutions, which appear among our ad- vertisements. The Chairman stated that this was the last opportunity that they would have of making an effort to save the West Indies from rain and accordingly, the speakers entered upon their task with spirit, backing the formal resolutions with arguments of much solidity. No mere " Planter" animus, as it used to be understood, was manifested : on the contrary, there was a strong Anti-Slavery feeling; and one speaker declared that no amount of profit could induce him to re- tun to the old system. But it was shown that, at whatever sa- crifice, the present measures against the slave-trade are not suc- cessful for their object, but only encourage foreign countries to traffic in slaves. Mr. P. M. Stewart quoted a letter "from a gallant little nephew, who had recently changed from a large ship into a small one but with a higher rank, in which he said, 'We can't miss prize- money—RV-two slavers left Havanna during the last month, and the Ringdove sails like the wind.'" In like manner, it was argued, the proposed measure of altered duties, while grievously injuring the West Indies, is not calculated to succeed—is not necessary or best contrived to-give "cheap sugar" to the British consumer, nor to maintain the re- venue. If cheap sugar be the object, why not reduce the ditty on

British semen as Foreign sugar Mr. Mackinnon reckoned, that if

25,000 tons of free-labour sugar were introduced, at the proposed duty of 34s., the revenue would gain 890,0001.; if the duty on West India sugar were reduced by 4s. a hundredweight, namely to 20s., the 1088 of revenue would be 800,0001.; but still Government would gain 90,0001. by that plan. Ministers therefore might "court popularity" without paying for it out of the pockets of the West Indians. And how ill slave-sugar to be distinguished and excluded ? It would be impossible to prevent the transport of slave-grown suear from Cuba into San. Domingo ; where it would be mixed with that "free" sugar that iS to be admitted here at the reduced duty. The speakers generally manifested a strong sense of injury. They called to mind, that it was not the Colonies who established slavery, but the Mother- country ; which forced importations of slaves upon reluctant Jamaica—. the very slaves which were afterwards hastily and incons'derately taker away, in a manner that threatens to frustrate even the object of Eman- cipation by endangering civilization in the West Indies : and it was averred, that if protection were prematurely withdrawn, and above all, if the colonists were not permitted adequately to recruit their supply of labour by free immigration, they would be obliged to abandon their estates. Instances were given in illustration : among others, the Earl of Harewood mentioned, that an estate which used to yield him a good revenue had latterly cost him 1,2001. or 2,000/. a year ; and he had con- sequently ordered it to lie fallow. Sir Edward East declared that " it would have been more honourable and sensible on the part of the Go- vernment, if they had made up their minds to pursue a course that the present state of things seemed to point to, to have given them fair no- tice, and let them die at once." Another said, if the Colonies are not worth keeping, let them be abandoned. "Let the Government," said Mr. P. M. Stewart, "speak out like men, and tell the planters their fate, and not starve them inch by inch in this way." The "twenty millions" compensation is often thrown in the teeth of the West Indians : this was well handled by Sir Alexander Grant, who explained, from personal knowledge, the course of ea- croachment, to which Lord Stanley had been a party, even on that score. Lord Stanley set out with the principle that the slave-owners were to have full compensation for the property of which Emancipatioo was to deprive them ; the value of the slave-labour was estimated by' him at 30,000,000!.; that sum was to be paid in 20,000,000/. money, and twelve years' apprenticeship, valued at 10,000,000/. : Sir Powell Buxtoft. objected to the twelve years ; Lord Stanley beat him by a majority of 7 ; but then told a deputation that he could not ultimately carry the twelve-years clause,—offering six, and saying that he would resign if they thought him bound to stand to his own proposal of twelve: they consented to take six years : that was afterwards cut down, in Lord Glenelg's time, to four years ; and even of the money, some was sent to the Cape of Good Hope and elsewhere, so that it was reduced to 17,000,000/ But this "compensation," so curtailed, was given for one thing—their property in slave-labour ; it was no compensation for their whole property, valued at 140,000,0001., and now threatened with de- struction. The meeting talked much of" protection," hut that to which they stuck as the one thing needful was immigration of labour; and Mr. John Abet Smith avowed, that "though he was one of those who en- tertained Free-trade opinions, he was convinced of the injustice of the present measure, and was disposed heartily and cordially to cooperate with those who were more immediately connected with the West Indies ' to obtain justice for them." The resolutions and the petition were adopted unanimously ; and thanks to the Chairman closed the business of the day.

A meeting, singular id its occasion and purpose, was held by the North American Colonial Association of Ireland, on Thursday, at their office in Broad Street Buildings. On the 7th of this month, the Times; instigated by a " trustworthy " but anonymous correspondent, had made a slashing attack on the Association, in a paper full of injurious inuendoes. The Association invited the Times to produce the corre- spondent, in order that he might repeat his complaint in the fece of , the Directors : but the Leading Journal did not accept the invitation. The present meetiug was held as an open appeal to the shareholders, who had been represented as injured ; and a long report from the Directors wax read. Mr. James Morrison, M. P., a dissatisfied shareholder, at war with the Directors, is pointed out by implication as the instigator of the Times; and he was specially invited to attend: but he did not appear, though a few other malecontents and " sympathizers " mastered. The principal insinuations of the anonymous article were, that the company was really though not ostensibly formed to enable Mr. Edward Ellice to sell his estate of Beauharnois in Canada, by purchasing it of him ; and that the shareholders had been deceived, as the company had fulfilled none of its professed objects of colonizing, Scc. It was triumphantly shown, at the meeting, that the formation of the company had nothing to do with the purchase of anybody's estate ; and the other aspersions were met by direct explanations of the company's transactions and prospects. After a protracted and eager discussion, over which Earl Fi,zwilhiatn presided as Chairman, the meeting, by majorities of 27 to 3,27 LO 2, and 27 to 1, passed resolutions adopting the report, thanking the Governor and Directors, and pronouncing it unnecessary hereafter "to take any notice of such totally unfounded imputations.'

In the House of Peers, on Thursday, a Committee for Privileges sat to consider the claim of Sir Augustus Frederick D'Este to succeed to his father as Duke of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Arklow. The counsel for the claimant were, Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Erle, and Mr. Wilde ; the claim was watched on the part of the Crown by the Attorney. General, the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Waddington. The facts of the ease are too well known to need minute recapitulation. In 1792, Prince Augustus, the son of George the Third, then twenty years of age, was tra- velling for his health in Italy. At Rome he met with the Countess of Dtut• more and her two daughters, Augusta and Virginia. With Lady Auguste ' Murray, who was six or seven years older than himself, he fell violently in love ; and he urged her to marry him privately. She was reluctant : but he threatened to starve himself—he wrote to her that he had actually fasted for forty-eight hours : she yielded ; and they were privately mar- ried, by Mr. Gunn, an English clergyman, in 1793. Mr. Gunn, fearing the displeasure of his diocesan, enjoined them to keep his nan.e secret: but the consequences of marriage becoming apparent, the couple were again married, by bans, in 1793, at St. George's, Hanover Square; s• 1ftarri4e admitted to be legally invalid. Then followed the discovery of their union, the discountenance of the King, the separation of the lovers, and finally their estrangement ; two children having been born— Augustus Frederick, and a daughter, at present resident in Paris. Three questions now came before the Committee,—whether the mar- riage at Rome was actually performed ; whether it was legal as an ordi- nary marriage ; and whether it was rendered invalid by the Royal Marriage Act, the 12th Geo. Tile. 11. Sir Thomas Wilde argued, that for the purposes of marriage between Protestants, Rome is a place where there is no law of marriage ; since Protestants cannot be married ac- cording to the lex loci by a Catholic priest ; and therefore, in the case of English subjects, the common law of England still obtains, recog. nixing a marriage per verba de prresenti. The marriage of Lord Clon- curry wilt a Protestant lady at Rome was held good on those grounds. As to the Royal Marriage Act, it is, he contended, an act imposing disabilities, and therefore to be construed strictly ; and thus it cannot hold, good where it cannot be enforced, or in any part of the British do- minions not named in it—not even in Ireland, and a fortiori not in a foreign country. In the course of his speech, Sir Thomas Wilde read several letters that passed between Lady Augusta Murray and the Prince. They are ouched in terms of the usual ardour; the lady showing the utmost devotion to her fervent lover, but manifesting some anxiety, while Mr. Grinn's scruples were under process of persuasion, lest he should think her " vile"—should think that she had been the Prince's mistress. In March 1793, she thus writes to the P. ince-- " Then, my treasure, you say you will talk of honour to him. There is no honour in the case: if there is, 1 will not marry you. I lure you, and 1 have reason to hope and believe you love me; but honour, in the sense you take it, is out of the question. I cannot bear to owe my happiness to anythirg but affection ; and all promises, though sacred in our eyes and in those of Heaven, shall not obrge you to do anything towards me that can in the least prejudice your future interests. As for honour, with the meaning Mr. Gunn will annex to it-1 am ashamed to fancy it—he will imagine I base been your mistress, and that humanity, commonly termed honour, now induces you to pity me, and so veil my follies by an honourable marriage. My own beloved Prince, forgive me if I am warm upon this subject. I wish you to feel you owe me nothing; and whatever Lowe you, I wish to one to your love and to your good opinion, beat to no other principle. Tell Mr. Gunn, my own Augustus, that you 'ove me—that y,on are reso'ved to marry me—that you have pledged a mend word tell him, if you please, that upon the Bible you ustee sworn it, that I have done the same, and that nothing shall ever divide us; but don't let him imagine that I have been vile. Do this, my only lore; but pray take care of the character of your wife, of your Augusta." The letters do not appear, at least to unprofessional eyes, very co- gent evidence, except that the parties made a passable Romeo and Ju- liet of real life ; but they are curious as specimens of royal cronies. The Prince's style does not always do justice to his GiRtingen educa- tion ; and it lacks a certain smoothness and elevation, which the lady had probably acquired from the study of novels. We pick out a few samples.

Prince Augustus, 26th March 1793. "Do, my dearest Augusta, trust me : 1 never will abuse the confidence you put in me, and mare and more will en- deavour to deserve it. I only wait for your orders to speak to Mr. Gunn. Say only that you wish me to do it, and I will hasten to get a positive answer. See, my soul, it °oily depends upon you to speak ; thy Augustus, thou wilt find ready as at all times to serve you. He thinks, he dreams of nothing but to make thee happy. Can he not succeed in this, all his hopes are gone; life will be nothing to him ; be will pass the day in one cons:ant melancholy, wishing them soon to conclude, and finding every one longer than the other. Indeed, my Augusta, that cannot be the case; my solemn real h is given, and that can never be recalled. I am yours, my soul, ever yours." Prince Augustus, 4114 April 1793. (Still unmarried. ) " Will you allow me to come this evening? It is my only hope. Oh, let tie come, and we will send for Gunn. Every thing but this is hateful to me. More than forty-eight hours have 1 passed without the smallest nourishment. Oh, let toe not live so. Death is certainly better than this ; width, if in forty-eight hours it has not taken place, must follow ; for, by all that is holy, till when I am married I will

eat nothing ; and if 1 am not to be married the promise shall die with me! I am resolute ; nothing in the world shall alter my determination. If Gunn will

not marry me I will die. C S* I will be conducted in everything by you, but I must be married or die. I would rather see none of my family than be deprived nf you. You alone can make me ; you alone shall, this evening. I will sooner drop than give you up. Good God, bow I feel ! and my love to he doubted sincere and warm. Tire Lord knows the truth of it ; and, as I say, if in forty-eight hours I am not married, I am no more. Oh, Augusta, my soul,

let us try ; let me come ; I ern capable of everything ; I fear nothing ; and Er. Gum], seeing our resolution, will agree. I am half-dead. Good God ! what will become of me ? I shall go mad, most undoubtedly."

The Lady's Answer. " My treasure, my dearest life and love, how can I re- fuse you? and yet dare I trust to the happiness your letter promised me? Yell shall come if you wish it; you shall do as ou like; my whole soul rejoices in the assurances of your love, and to your exertions I will trust. I will send to

( ; but I fear the badness of the night will prevent his coming.

My mother has ordered her carriage at past seven, and will not, I fear, be out

before the half-hour after. To he yours tonight, sterns a dream that 1 cannot make out; the whole day have I been plunged in misery, and now to awake to joy is a felicity that is beyond my ideas of bliss. 1 doubt its success: but do as you sill; 1 am what 300 will ; your will must lie mine; and no will can ever be drape to me, more mine, than that of my Augustus—my lover, my ail. Don't be angry at my not adding, my husband. I cannot any more say this till marriage eanctions it. Forgive my doub:s—my fears. They are excusable in Augueta."

Extract from Lady Augusta's Journal, en the Marriage-day. "A bright sunshine of hope blazed upon me yesterday, but the darkest ray of despair suc-

ceeded at. 1 return Hue, alt Prince, thy promises, thy oaths; if love dues not make you mine, I Emu all other claims. I tun extremely wretched, but I must suinnit to inevitable destiny. How that destiny changed at night, dare I tell ? Oh, my God and my Lord, let tie remember this ireful day ; let me re- member the new, the dear duties it imposes upon me. At night my lover and my Prince came; then came a ch rgyman. Oh day over sacred to my memory I edi moment that I must record with letters of gold: yo r are aritten on the tablees of my heart : you have changed my destiny : this morning, wretched stud forlorn—this evening, the happy wife of the most amiable, the most ho- aourable among men. Teach me, oh Lord, to deserve the favours you lavish upon me, and grant that 1 may ever have rca. on to bless this day." From Letters exchanged after Marriage : Lady Augusta. " My dearest and now really adored hushaud! you are but this moment gone—the sacred

words I have heard still vibrating in my ears—still reaching my heart. Oh, ray Prince, my lover, and now indeed my bueband 1 bow 1 bless the dear mart who has made me yours! What a precious, what a holy ceremony! how solemn the charges; how dear, and yet how awful ! Ito you feel happy, my only love? Tell toe you do, that I may bless my- destiny. To be your wife is the summit of my wishes; I have attained that summit ; but if my loved, my adored hus- band has one moment of regret, my happiness is fled, and despair returns. But do I talk of despair when joy ought to be my only theme—when it fills my whole soul!

" Shall 1 bear from you tomorrow morning, my only beloved ? Will you write to your wife ? Will you tell her bow you base gotten home, and whe- ther the coming out has given you cold?" 'c/em: The Prince. " Wife! dearest of all beings! my dearest Augusta! What happiness, what comfort to my wounded heart, to find all sorrow va- nished from it 1 yes, my soul, to feel what inclination, the dearest inclination,. joined to duty, has done ! We have made a hard promise to Gunn, a very hard one indeed; but what would we not have done for to have obtained the highest blessing—that of never being separated, our conscience free. Does my Gussy know that she can no more have a will of her own—that she will and: must be stiietly guided ley me ? Oh yes, that the dearest creature knows. How rigidly we must observe what we swore to Gunn. Gratitude demands this; and, though a trial, we shall enjoy every thing better afterwards..? I may say at least, Gunn has made us make a dreadful promise, and we most keep it. This is bard—much more so than we think : hut a trial for to reap so much blessings from is just: and though at times we shall b sorry fur having made it, yet comfort ourselves, we have made a great at quisition." Sir Thomas Wilde having concluded his statement, the Committee adjourned sine die.

The schedule of Lionel Felix Tollemache, commonly called Lord Huntingtower, was filed in the Insolvent Debtors Court, on Saturday ; the noble Lord having applied "to take the benefit of the act." The hearing of his petition to be discharged is fixed for the 27th June next. The schedule is truly described as an "extraordinary document"—

" In the aggregate the debts are set forth at upwards of 87,0001.; of which sum 40,0001. is the penal amount of' a bond entered into by the insolvent under his baukrupcy to the Official Assignee, to pay his bond fide debts proved to the amount of 20,000/. The other debts are principally on 'bill transactions,' and for goods obtained from tradesmen. Many of the debts are • re- newals' under the bankruptcy, and after the certificate was obtained ; and among the names appears that of Mr. George S. Ford, the attorney, who, it will be remembered, was concerned in the proceedings to set aside the fiat in bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was in 1842, and the certificate obtained in the following year. The consideration for upwards of 40,000/. of debts contracted since the bankruptcy, either in money or in property, is stated to amount to only 1,847/.; showing that the hill transactions' form as prominent a feature under the insolvency as they did under the bankruptcy. Among the creditors the name of Patrick Hay is stated for 2,000/., as having drawn four bills of ex- change, which the insolvent accepted, and on which the present holder had ad- vanced 20/. There are in the schedule not fewer than 'ninety-two creditors' and no debtors; nor any property for the creditors, except any surplus that may arise under the reversions of the insolvent after the bond in bankruptcy is satisfied. Since the bankruptcy, the insolvent has bad various residences, so- journing hut a few weeks at each ; and in the schedule a detailed account is given of his expenses, including horse-hire.'" At Bow Street Police-office, on Thursday, Ellen and Elizabeth Lind- say, sisters, the one a house-maid and the other a linen-woman at Buck- ingham Palace, were charged with stealing a quantity of blankets, linen, and other articles, valued at 401., the property of the Queen ; and. James Lindsay, their brother, a surgeon, with receiving the stolen goods. From the evidence of Mr. Charles Brimfield, at whose house in Upper Eaton Street Mr. Lindsay lodged, it appeared that the sisters were in the habit of calling on their brother several times a week, in the evening, bringing bundles : afterwards things marked with the Queen's initials or " Buckingham Palace" were observed in his room ; the greater part of which was packed in boxes, one day lately, and removed in a cart. Mr. Brimfield followed, and saw that the boxes were de- posited at a house in Lower Eaton Street, and at one in Belgrave Street South. Information was given to the Police ; the parties were watched, and arrested. In defence, Elizabeth said that part of the linen was her own, left to her by her mother, who died fourteen years ago, and de- posited it with her at the Palace: some of her linen she used for the household, and she replaced it with linen belonging to the Palace. The blankets were given to her by Sir Thomas Nash, in the late King's time, as damaged. Ellen said that she supposed she had removed a counterpane in mistake for one of her own. Mr. Lindsay said that he only took charge of the things for his sisters, to whom he supposed them to belong. All the accused were remanded for further exami- nation.