expense of the commissioners, be removed from such
graves or vaults, and be interred in such manner as the
Bishop of London, or such person as he shall appoint,
shall direct. That if the commissioners shall cause the
soil of any burial ground to be planted, paved, or covered
over, the relatives of any deceased person who may have
been buried therein, or to whose memory any tomb,
monument, or inscription may have been erected or
placed, may cause such tomb, monument, or inscription
to be removed at the expense of the person causing the
same to be done.

The subject of Flogging in the Army is adverted to
in a report made to the secretary at war by Lieut. Col.
Jebb, the inspector-general of military prisons, which
has just been printed in a parliamentary paper. Col.
Jebb states: "If the views of the most experienced
officers in Her Majesty's service as to the deterring
influence of corporal punishment were correct, a great
increase of crime in the army might have been anticipated
as the necessary consequence of limiting the power of
courts-martial, and materially diminishing a mode of
punishment deemed to be the most efficacious for the
maintenance of discipline. It is, however, satisfactory
to see that the result has not been unfavourable, and
though it may partly be attributed to the encouragement
given to good conduct, the better class of men who have
entered the service, and the partial discharge of some of
the worst characters, yet taking all this into account, I
think experience has sufficiently shown that imprisonment
for military offences has answered the expectations
that were formed of it." In 1845, the year previous to
the establishment of prisons, the number of convictions
by court-martial was 9954, and 652 corporal punishments
were inflicted. In 1850, the convictions were
9306, and the corporal punishments 238. The effective
force was about the same in each year; in 1845, 125,252,
and in 1850, 125,119. Last year there were 495 lashes
inflicted by the visitors for serious offences, and the
number of prisoners admitted into military prisons was
3565.

The Receipts at the Great Exhibition, up to the 19th
inst. inclusive, amount to £457,986 13s. 10d. The influx
of visitors during the month has continued undiminished,
frequently exceeding 60,000 in a day. On the 18th, no
less than fifteen schools were in the building, amounting
together to 1429 children, for whose admission £71 9s.
was paid. Agricultural labourers with their families
have formed a large portion of the visitors. In one day
3000 persons of this description arrived in town from
Devonshire.

The following is a list of Articles lost by visitors to the
Exhibition, during the months of July and August, and
left unclaimed in the possession of the police—275 shawl
brooches and clasps, 319 pocket-handkerchiefs, 69 shawl
pins, 16 pocket and memorandum books, 13 pencil cases,
67 bracelets, 43 walking sticks, 48 veils and falls, 1 flask,
1 opera-glass, 168 parasols, 32 umbrellas, 31 reticules and
other baskets, 28 bunches of keys, 14 victorines, 49
neck-ties and cuffs, 8 bonnet shades, 18 pairs of spectacles,
4 ladies' season tickets, 1 gentleman's ditto, 38 pairs of
gloves, 22 bags of various colours, 7 shirt studs, 2 ladies'
pockets—1 containing 61/2d. in copper; 4 snuff boxes, 10
watch keys and seals, 1 cape, 1 overcoat, 3 boy's caps,
3 fans, 10 lockets, various, 1 petticoat, 1 lady's bustle,
2 cigar cases, 1 lady's collar, 2 ditto bands, 1 pair of
lancets, 2 rings, 2 pair of goloshes, 1 common metal
watch-guard, 1 metallic pencil, 1 camp stool, 14 shawls
and mantles, 5 pocket-knives. 4 eye-glasses; cash 15s.
101/4d.; a purse with £2 3s. 10d.; ditto, 6s.; ditto, 4s. 6d.
ditto, 1s. 6d.; ditto, 2s.; ditto, £1 2s.; ditto, 6s. 41/2d.;
ditto, 5s. 4d.; ditto, 6s. 3d.; ditto, 12s.; ditto, 3d.; ditto,
3s.; ditto, 1s.; ditto, 1s.; ditto, 5s.; ditto, 6s. 41/2d.;
ditto, 3s. 6d.; ditto 1s.—Of all the stray property found
at the Exhibition and handed over to the police for the
discovery of ownership, the most remarkable and the
most perplexing items come under the head of children;
some eighty or ninety boys and girls having lost their
parents or friends in the building. Happily the station-
house at Prince's-gate provided a mode of escape, and
thither all the stray little ones have been regularly sent:
one boy was kept there all night, and a bed having been
made for him with great-coats, he was next morning
forwarded to his relatives at Winchester. Another little
fellow was taken to lodgings in Brompton row, and was
claimed there next day by his friends from Epsom. From
eighteen to twenty children have been forwarded to
various parts of town by the constables going off duty,
and no less than sixty have been claimed at the station
by their parents.

The printers of the metropolis are making strenuous
exertions to establish a literary institution under the
title of the Printers' Athenæum, and have already
received considerable encouragement in its formation,
both from compositors, and the trades directly connected
with the printing profession, as typefounders, book-
binders, engravers, letterpress and copperplate printers,
&c., the members of which are eligible. The object
contemplated is to combine the social advantages of a
club, with the mental improvement of a literary and
scientific institution, and to adapt them for the position
and circumstances of the working-classes. All persons
engaged in the production of a newspaper, or book, such
as editors, authors, reporters, readers, &c., although
strictly not belonging to the printing profession, are
competent to become members, and persons not so
connected will be permitted to join the society upon their
being proposed by a member. It is expected that the
Athenæum will be opened previous to the commencement
of the ensuing year.

A Great Reform Meeting was held at Manchester on
the 25th. The vast Free Trade Hall was densely
crowded long before the proceedings commenced. Mr.
G. Wilson was in the chair; and the assembly was
addressed by Sir Joshua Walmesley, Mr. Dyer, Mr.
W. J. Fox, Mr. Williams, Mr. G. Thompson, and other
eminent reformers. Several resolutions were unanimously
passed: the first, which embodied the principal objects
of the meeting was to the following effect: "That the
First Minister of the Crown having intimated his intention
to introduce a measure of parliamentary reform
during the next session, the people should lose no time
in giving effective expression to their wishes; this
meeting doth therefore declare that any measure which
does not re-arrange the electoral districts, extend the
franchise to every occupier of a tenement, protect the
voter by the ballot, shorten the duration of parliament,
and abolish the property qualification required of
members, will fail to satisfy the just expectations of the
people, will be ineffectual in preventing the corruption,
intimidation, and oppression now prevailing at elections,
and in securing the full and free representation of the
people in the Commons House of Parliament."

The Presidents of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland
have made their report for the session 1850-1. The
results are favourable.—Dr. Shuldham Henry, of Belfast
College, reports that the number of matriculated students
attending this session is 110, against 107 last year; and
of non-matriculated students, 74 this year, against 85
last year: and he explains the difference in favour of the
first session of the College by these remarks: "Many
young men, who had previously prosecuted their
education at the Royal Institution at Belfast and other
places, entered the Queen's College for a year to
complete it; a number fell back to compete for the scholarships;
and, to a considerable extent, the College
not having commenced its operations a year after
the expected period, there existed an accumulation
of students at the time of opening." Considering
these things, the Council and Professors feel and
express gratification at the number of students who
have regularly attended during the past year. Sir
Robert Kane, at Cork College, gives very full
statistical comparisons to establish his position, that
"notwithstanding the exertions made to embarrass the
progress of the Queen's Colleges, and to prevent students
from availing themselves of the advantages therein
afforded for superior education," a still larger number
of matriculated students have entered this session than
last, and that such a proportion of the matriculated
students of last year have remained, that the total
number is "almost double" what it was last year. The
entire number this year is 156; of whom 118 are
matriculated, and 38 non-matriculated. There are 14
under 16 years of age; 82 between 16 and 21; and 25
over 21 years of age. The extreme ages are 14 and 35
years. The ages of non-matriculated students are