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known property, the most solid and ,ghts of the Church ? His Majesty's requently, though, we think, not fairly, ;cussions on the Roman Catholic Re ie fruitlessly appealed to now ? The evening in the House of Commons, of course, some symptoms of that 1" which has been afforded to the ene _ of England by the discharge of their sacred duty on the part of the Archbishop and his Right Rev. Brethren. It is morally impossible that such a Bill should pass. There is not a poor man's child in England upon whom it would not be an act of " sacrilegious rob bery."—Tinies. We have just now before us the three Bills introduced the other night by Mr. Labouchere, for consolidating the multitudinous laws relating to the Post-office, and for re pealing -various anomalous enactments connected with the same establishment, which. inflicted penalties dispropor tionate, in many cases, to the offences, and in some in stances punished an offence with greater severity when perpetrated in England than when it happened to be com mitted in Ireland. From the hasty glance that we have been able to give to the Bills, we have observed that they contain much really valuable matter, although there is a vast deal omitted that we could have wished to see in serted in them, and which we hope will form the substance of a future measure of legislation. The present Bills are highly creditable to Mr. Labouchere and those who may have assisted him in drawing them up, as they arc framed in a liberal spirit, and while they are sufficiently stringent to guard against the commission of fraud as relates to the Post-office, they impose no unnecessary or harsh restric tions upon the public. The regulations regarding the commercial classes are extremely praiseworthy, and there are a variety of clauses concerning the transmission of newspapers of a similar description. We must, however, protest against the fallowing, as it appears to us to be an ungenerous restriction upon the press " And be it further enacted, that no words or communica tion shall be printed on any such newspaper after the same shall have been published, nor any writing or marks be put or placed upon any such newspaper or the 'cover thereof, nor any printed words or communication be put or placed on the cover thereof other than the name and address of the person to whom it is sent, and no letter, paper, or thing shall he en closed or concealed in or with such printed newspaper or the rover thereof." Now as it often occurs that persons connected with the newspaper press, in their communications with each other, require to draw a score over some particular article or pa ragraph, in order that it may not escape the attention of the party to whom it is sent, we think it would be very haM were this trifling license to be tortured into a fraud against the Post-office, and thereby subject the individual to whom the paper was addressed to resign what might contain valuable information, or else to pay a penalty in 'the shape of an exorbitant postage. The Press is now the vehicle for the dissemination of every species of knowledge, and a Lil:cral Government should not en ecurage any enactment having a tendency to shackle it. While we maintain that the Post-office should afford every accommodation to the public, and at the cheapest ratc, we would discountenance every thing like smug gime-, by which we think the revenue of this department is gre.itiv impaired. The best and only means of accomplish leg this object is to appoint efficient deputies., at least in all large commercial and seaport towns. We think that it is Iles duty of the Postmaster-General not to lose an hour in recommending the superannuation of females who happen to be deputies in large seaport to.vns. What use in the world are laws if inefficient persons are to carry them into effect ? But tee cannot forbear extracting another clause, which rill demonstrate the fogy of continuing females :n sit nations rt shall I e lawful for the Postmaster-General awl his de puty or deputies, servants or agents acting under his authority, at all times between sunrise and sunset, to enter all houses, li,itdings, carriages, boats, vessels, and conveyances whatsoever in Ireland, and to search for all such letters and packets, as neon information given on catli Mere a Magistrate, he or they may have reason to suspect shall be illegally carried, con veyed, or contained therein ; snd that if any person or per_ sons driving any such carriages and convey anc:s, or na vigating any such vessels or boats, or the pr.przeto- s thereof respectively, or the owners or inhabitants of any such houses or buildings, shall neglect or refuse to admit such Postmaster-General, his deputies, servants or agents, eery such person so neglecting or rc.fitsine• as afore said, on being thereof convicted by the oath of credible witness before any Justice of the Peace, which oath any Jos. tice is hereby empowered to administer, shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds; one moiety of each and every which penalties shall be paid to the informer, and the other moiety to the Postmaster-General or his deputy or treasurer, in trust for his Majesty, his heirs and successors ; and if the said fines respec tively shall not be forthwith paid on conviction, it shall and rnay be lawful for such Justice to commit such offender to the House of Correction, there to remain and be confined to bard labour for any time not exceeding twenty-one day - 2, nor less titan fourteen days, unless such penalty or forfeiture shall be sooner paid." Here it is provided that the deputy of the Postmaster- General shall search steam-boats and stage-coaches for smuggled letters, What a pretty duty for Lord Lichfield to impose upon one of the /air sex! We cannot take cur leave of this subject without bestowing our owed of praise upon Col. Maberly, whose easiness of access an d suavity of manners promise to make the Post-office depar:ecent as popular as it was formerly the reverse, and which was in a great degree owing to an opposite conduct on the part of Isis predecessor. Colonel Maberly's is one among the best of good appointments.—Morning Adeertiser. The prohibition to publish the evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Poor Laws Amendment Act causes us neither surprise nor disappointment. We attach no importance to the proceedings of that Committee. We protested against its appointment from the beginning. We stated that no Parliamentary inquiry could or ought to be satisfactory to the public which was not a full and free in quiry. It was the Ministerial policy to limit and fetter the inquiry, so that it might serve to conceal rather than expose the iniquity of the principle which has obtained for it the peculiar admiration of Whig economists and Malthusian philosophers. What matters it that out of the 21 Mem bers who compose the Committee, there are but four who are not avowed supporters of the Act ? Were the Com mittee composed of 2 l angels, instead of 21 " honourable men," what could they do in the way of satisfactory inquiry, when, by the very terms of their appointment, they must take the principle of the Act to be unobjectionable, and only examine in what manner the incontrovertible orders of the Commissioners have been carried into execu tion ? For our part we arc of opinion that the independent portion of the press has thrown more light upon the ope ratism of the Act than will ever be thrown upon it by the labours of a Government Committee. As to the principle of the Act, we only require the light of reason and the feeli ogs of humanity to know that it is vicious, cruel, and disgraceful to a Christian country. What evidence does it need to convince all people, but the aforesaid Whig econo mists and Malthusians, that to treat poverty as crime, is an u nmoral and detestable principle? What evidence does it need. to convince all real friends of free government, that the arbitrary powers vested in the centr a triumvirat e are uncceistitutional, and so capable of being employed to tyrannical purposes, that they ought never to be intrusted to any man or body of men in a free state ? There were so abuses under the old Poor-laws, let them be magnified t( of old, that constituted so great an evil as the giving three Go‘sernment Commissioners the power of making laws for all t' e parishes in England. The danger of such a precedent —a precedent that tends to make tyranny familiar to the mine Is of the people of a free land—we need not point out to real friends of Constitutional Government If are had no other ground of opposition to the Act, we should think this a sufficient cause for endeavour ing to obtain its repeal. We cite not what politi cal colours: they wear who support the arbitrary and odio us imperium in inzperio which this law establishes— vvheller they call themselves Whigs, Conservatives, or Rad seals. We can give them no credit for a sincere at tach meat to the principles of Constitutional liberty. We gave, it as our opinion that Mr. Walter had acted weakly in w ithdrawing- his own motion for a full inquiry, after two nights' discussion, and adopting that of Ministers, who wished to render inquiry abortive as to all valuable purposes. We should think the Hon. Member for Berkshire must by this time be convinced that h e ought to have pressed his motion to a division. The courtesy which he showed to Ministers, and those sycophants of theirs who were in the greatest trepidation lest they should be driven to a vote upon the original motion, has been repaid with the grossest ingratitude. For attempting to add to the Committee some- independent Members suspected of being friends to the poor, he received the hootings and the howlings of the retainees of the Treasury. As to the conduct of the Select CornmiOee, as modelled by the precautionary wisdom of the Cabin et, we express no opinion, for, in truth, we care nothing about it. Let that Committee act ever so fairly, it cannot, under the limited terms of the inquiry, do any good ; and, sh.euld it act in an opposite manner, we believe it wiil not be abl to do any harm, except in delaying that Parliamentary redress of the legalised enormities of the Act which the public must have at last.-21Torning Herald. To-night the House of Commons will proceed to the con tideration of Mr. Spring Rice's scheme f or th e a b o li t i on of C burgh-rates. To us the plan, from the moment in which it was suggested, has appeared so iniquitous that we confess we at first regretted the cautious prudence which i n d uce d , Sir Robert Peel to demand some delay between the intros luction and the discussion of it. We could not but think that upon a question on which justice was so clear, and ri 'ght so plain, . there might be mischief in the appearance of doubt where we k new well doubt cou ld not Thr a moment oxist. But we are content with the policy which has beasix preferred. Undoubtedly the House of Commons aides, aces to the discharge of its task to-night w i t h f u ll er i n ,smination and riper discretion than it could have had for its guidance ten days ago. The impracticability of the plan has been demonstrated by indisputable calcula tion, the unpopularity of the plan has been proved by the ra pid presentation of petitions against it from all classes of the community, the dishonesty of the plan has been denounced by the excellent Primate of that national Church against whose sacred bulwarks this first open blow is permitted by Ministers whom education has made her disciples, and whom duty ought to constitute her defenders. We con sider the contest which is to-night to be commenced by far the most important which, within the memory of living man, has convulsed political parties in this country ; for we are not so blind as to imagine that the prize of this contest is the 250,0001. per annum which Mr. Spring Rice parades as the "be all and the end all" of his plan. The Dissen t ers state the case more fairly. The amount of the Church ' rate does not impoverish their purse ; but the principle of the Church-rate vexes their conscience. What then is the principle of the Church-rate ? That every subject of this nation, according to his means, should be liable to be called upon for contributing in support of the National Church. This is the principle which, for the first time, is openly impugned by the Ministers of the Crown. If it is maintained our National Church is preserved ; if it is abandoned our National Church is subverted. The reception of this measure will thoroughly try the House of Commons. The Members of it may have expressed strong opinions upon the expediency of re moving the scruples of Dissenters by an alteration in the manner of levying the rate ; but they are for the most part wholly unpledged and unfettered upon a proposition for its total abolition ; a proposition which indeed no man could have expressed who had observed the previous conduct and known the previous opinions of those by whom it is intro duced. They, therefore, who are committed beyond hope of conversion upon Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments, and Irish Corporations, are still free to say whether they will keep up or whether they will put down the Established Church of this realm. They cannot pretend to be in fluenced in the work of ruin by the pressure from with out ; for, wherever any such pressure is exerted, it is unquestionably exerted rather to preserve than to de stroy. They cannot pretend to be moved by a readi ness to sacrifice an immaterial difference for the mainte nance of a Liberal Ministry in power ; for, however lively Lord Glenelg's epistles to Canada, however luminous Lord Palmerston's despatches to Madrid, a vote that black is white upon a question on which the existence of the Established Church depends can surely hardly be justified even by the recognised necessity for retaining those ex emplary - - old Tories in Downing -street. The House of Commons, therefore, on this occasion may be wise if' it will. But in the majority of the Members of that Assembly we have observed so little appearance of that which is " the beginning of wisdom," that the adoption by them of Mr. Spring Rice's resolution will disgust much more than it will disappoint us. The reception of /his measure, how ever, will not try the House of Commons only. It will try the people by whom the House of Commons is elected. We will not speculate at present upon changes in the Ad ministration, which our Whig and Redical contemporaries appear to assume as certain. But without pretension to the gift of prophecy, we will assert thus much: under one Minister or under another Minister the appeal will be made to the nation before the nation's Church is surrendered. The as sent of the House of Commons to Mr. S. Rice's scheme makes a speedy dissolution of the House of Commons, in our judgment, inevitabh-. We anticipate the result with out alarm. Virong.hcaded we think our countrymen have sometimes been—wrong-hearted, nev,er. They may have i become capriciously weary of some of those political insti .ttitions under wlmse proteetion their el\ il liberties have pencil ; but they are cot yet ready to resign their religious privileges; they vtne..-ate still the altars at which their an cestors have worshipped ; they value still the Bible in which their ancestor. have read. The spirit of England is deeply and firmly religious ; and when the King's Ministers, to secure the adhesion of the more boisterous and the less ho nest of the Dissenters, ventured to awaken the long-shnn boring ind . 'griation of a peop!e to whom their Established Church is justly dear, we believe their idly was equal to their guilt. Before the next general election we would gladly placard Lord Melbourne's virulent vituperation of our hierarchy in the house of every freeholder throughout En3land.—:!lo, P,;st. ' Ci....1 -11-44.--....-- on the C,t ri el io l_.. : , , he s rig i ' l l4' ' 2--- E4: -. disc 1 - 4,k"' -.4 •' , ...w Iti ;,' ' it be \q-,4 -...' I - 4 this vr-- "\ . en' . fitness, Weation' 11 es t rrChurch o STATE OF T LZADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) Tnapr. OF LEETA.—The state of the woollen trade seems to have experienced little or no alteration during the last week. IlunnEasriELD Myt;;;_r.—Tlicre has been more business dcne to•day (Tucsdriy), without any observable alteration in prices. BRADFORD MAkNET.—There is no difference to be reported in the appearance of the pi2ce market. The flatness we no ticed last week still prevails, and some manufacturers are wit. tiny to part with their goods at something less than the prices asked a fortnight ago. Iu the yarn market there appears to be not so much doing as usual. The manufacturers are re luctant to purchase, and buy sparingly, in expectation of yarn being obtained at a lower price. Wools have been more in quired after this week, prices remain as they were. HALIFAX MARKET.---There has been but a thin attendance of buyers in the Hall to-day ( Wednesday), and not muc h bu siness has been transacted in any kind of stuff goods. Low lastines and fancy mixtures ar e b es t t o se ll. Th e yarn mar k et is but dull ; spinners cannot eff2et sales to any extent, although some of them have offered at rather lower prices. There is no alteration in the wool market, either in demand or price. Middle wether fleeces are offered at Is. 6d. Der lb. ROCHDALE MARKET.—Few buyers attended to-day's (Mon day) market, although the stocks of goods offered were large ; some little business was done in the finer qualities ; in middle and low sorts there is now improvement; grey and dyed goods, floor-cloths, &c., continue in good demand. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been a decided improvement in the market to-day (Monday). and considerably more goods have been sold, chiefly of the middling and coarser kinds. Wool has undergone no alteration in price. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET. —We do not vary our report from that of last week ; the trade continued dull, with little business passing, and prices have a tendency downwards, parti. cularly in blanket and clothing wools. THE LEICESTER TrrAnE.—There is no improvement in the demand for goods. Trade is very dull. The wool markot continues without alteration. We arc glad to find that during all this flatness of trade there has been no reduction in wages, nor is.any expected. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MARCH 11. We have this week to notice a further decline of 1 / 4 d. to %d., and, in a few instances, lAd. per lb. in American cotton, at which rates the market closed with a very heavy and gloomy appearance. Sea Island remains without alteration in price. Egyptian is in li mited demand at former rates. Brazil, Pernam, and Maranham have declined 1 / 4 d. per lb. ; in Bahia some extensive sales have been made at a decline of 1 / 2 d. to 3 %d. per lb. from the lowest prices of last week. Surat continues in very limited demand, and are, in a great measure, nominal. The sales of the week amount to 18,620 bales, including 1,150 American for export, namely : d. d. 1 d. d. 70 Sea Islands 26 to 30 Demeraras .... 0 to 0 20 Stained ditto 13-18 ; Peruvians ..... 0 0 6,300 Uplands 6 3 /4 9 1 80 Laguayras 9 3 / 4— 0 1,210 Mobile, &c.... 6 84, 840 Surats .... 5,780 New Orleans... 54 —lOl Bengals ... 0 0 340 Egyptians ll —l5 1 380 Carthagenas ... 6 61 770 Pernams, &c 9 —ll 1 Manilla 0 0 760 Bahias 400 S Maranhams 9% —ll Barbadoes Boweds B4 n Bahamas The sales to-day amount to about 3,000 bags at previous prices'. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 .. Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year - .. 54,512 Increase of stock .. 112,700 Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 31,800 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 4th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year : Into the Kingdom this year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies ..... Egypt, &c. Total of all descriptions ... Same period last year. ags. American .. 1 8 47,9-26 South American •.. West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. 257,283 Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 0 ,0;0 ; Brazil. 295 ; East India, 7,393 ; West India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. 62,307 March 10, 1R37 Same time, 1836 258,100 145,400 ABEL ALLNUTT, BY THE AUTHOR OF " HAJJI BABA," &c.—This novel may be pronounced, without hesita tion, to be the best fiction .that has appeared since the " Helen" of Miss Edgeworth, and one of the very best of its class in our language. The simplicity of the narrative, its hu mour, and general fidelity to life as it is, are qualities which are now rarely to be found is work:; of this description. It ap proaches nearer to the " Vicar of Wakefield" than any novel with which we are acquainted. Nor is it admirable for what it accomplishes, hut also for what it avoids. It is entirely free from the vices of the p4eudo-fashionable school • it en forces the beauty a n d fi na l tr i ump h o f goo d ness , without de scending to the mechanical contrivances of coarse contrasts and extravagant rewards; and it is' written with so much natural pathos, that it will make a deep impression even upon the least susceptible nature.—A tlas. CHURCH RATES BILL. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated March 10, 1837, fora copy of the answers given by Mr. Finlaison, Actuary of the National Debt Office, to questions on the subject of Ecclesiastical Leas es ; with a further memorandum on the subject. Also a N o te on Ecclesiastical Leases, by Mr. Drinkwater Bethune. ( Confidential) Sir—l am directed to request your written opinion on the following questions on the subject of ecclesiastical leases, for the information of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The fines received on renewals of leases by the Bishops, Chapters, and Dignitaries in cathedral and collegiate churches are stated in the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into ecclesiastical revenues at £74,812 received by the Archbishops and Bishops 164,059 21,760 £260,631 It is also known that, of the Bishops' outstanding leases, 1,336 are granted for terms of years, 2,5b9 for lives. You are requested, upon the best consideration you can give to the subject, to state your opinion ion the two following points _ . Ist. What, according to your experience and the best in formation you have procured on the subject, is the usual rate of interest on which such fines arc calculated? 2dly. From these data, and from any other information you may possess, what is your estimate of the probable rental of the Church lands, and the reversionary inte rest of the Church therein ? You will have the goodness to send your answer to rne, un der cover to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, John Finlaison, Esq. ARTHUR HELPS. National Debt Office. ANSWERS BY MR. FINLAISON, ACTUARY OF THE NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE, ON THE SUBJECT OF ECCESIASTICAL LEASES. . Question I.—What, according to your experience, and the best information you can procure on the subject, is the usual rate of interest on which such fines are calculated ? Answer.—l have no doubt that, upon the average, seven per cent. is below the rate of interest allowed to tenants of church leases on renewals. A material distinction exists in this respect between leases for years and leases for lives ; also in the rates allowed by Bishops and by Deans and Chapters ; levt n per cent., or two years' purchase, for renewing from full teen to twenty-one years, may be safely owned as below the average. Question 2.—From these data, and any other information you may possess, what is your estimate of the probable rental of the Church lands, and the reversionary interest of the Church therein ? Answer.—l have formed such an estimate from examining the particulars of a great number of leases in various parts of England, and applying the results of that examination to the whole, I have satisfied myself that the following results cannot very much from the truth : Ist. The sum of 260,6311., assumed as the total amount of fines, consist of 109,9601. received from renewal of leases 00 years. 150,671 £260,631 2d. The fines received from renewal of leases for years are in respect of lands of which the rental is not less than £370,081 So the lands now under lease for three lives are of the annual value of not less than.. Those in lease for two lives.. Ditto one life 880,973 155,818 197,874 Making a total rental of £1,514,646 The value of the reversions of the Church in this rental, interest being assumed at 4 per cent., is— In the estate for years £4,917,201 Ditto lives £12,617,443 The interest of which, at 4/. per cent., is equal to a perpetual annuity of DeduLl the yearly income now received in:the shape of fines Perpetual surplus income JOHN FINLAISON, Actuary of the National Debt, and Government Calculator. FURTI(ER MEMORANDUM FROM THE ACTUARY OF THE NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE ON ECCLESIASTICAL LEASES. In my answers to the questions sent to me by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of Ecclesiastical Lases, I ilssnmed 7 per cent., as the rate of interest, for the purpose of estimating the rental from the fines annually re ceived by the Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Dignitaries, which I hud no doubt was materially under the average rate. Not knowing how much of the whole 74;8121., which the &shops yearly receive as fines was paid in respect of leases for terms, and how much in respect of lives, I was farther obliged to estimate, by the method of probabili ties that the fins s received in respect . of renewals for terms were 31,563/. And of those on lives 74,8121. • Those two points formed the basis of all my reasoning. The conclusion of the whole was that the Church has, at this moment, a property in its estate equal to the yearly value of -E5O-1,69s in perpetuity from henceforward, of which it re ceives only in the shape of fines Difference £24 4,0G7 I have been since supplied with a most important document, being the particulars of all the leases in the sec of Durham, with the estimated yearly rental of each tenure, and the fine paid when each lease was actually granted. We have now the means of examinieg, in a very simple manner, the accuracy of my former estimate of the property of the Church in its present state, on the assumption that Dur ham is a fair sample of the whole. One-eighth part of the fines received by the Bishops is 9,351/. ; and in the see of Durham alone those which yearly arise are 8,746/., so that it is nearly an eighth of the whole episcopal estate. But as the Bishops, by means of concurrent leases, are in vested ►itb the power of enforcing a larger amount of fines than Deans and Chapters, who have no such means, it follows that, if the whole estate of the Church (including that of the Deans and Chapters) be taken as proportionate to Durham, the yearly rental so inferred will be still less than the actual one. Among the leases in Durham there arc thirty for terms of years, and nine on lives, concerning which no Report is made of the ;early value of the tenement when the lease was granted. These, with all their particulars, are omitted from the sums which lam about to mention. In all other cases the gross annual value being stated, together with the reserved rent and land tax, I have deducted the two latter items, to show the net rental, in respect of which fines were paid. The result is as follows : Net Rent. Fines. There are, s. d. s. d. For terms of years, 277 leases 29,166 8 2i 41,401 18 6 And on three lives, 275 Thus the total sum of the fines in respect of all present leases is The fines returned 'from the Bishops as annually paid were 74,8121. Then, if they were in the same proportion .Z. as Durham, there would be in respect of terms 31,908 And of lives 42,904 But, as I have just mentioned, the proportion which I had assumed as probable, and on which my former answers were grounded, was, for terms £31,5G3 And for lives 43,429 . . So that it happens that I only differ from the result shown by the leases of the Bishop of Durham, by giving the fines for terms too low, and those for lives too high, by 345/. ; which is certainly very little, in the distribution of 74,812/. Including the Chapters, I had by proportion assumed for the whole estate of the Church that the fines for terms are £109,960 And for lives 150,671 Total But in proportion to Durham they would be for terms £111,161 And for lives 149,470 Now the Bishops' leases stated to be now outstanding are : For terms of years 1,336 in number. And on lives 2,559 Then, as in Durham, 277 leases for terms had a net rental of £ 29,166 8 2 1,336 should be under a rental of 140,672 13 0 And as 275 leases on three lives are found to be in respect of a rent of . 29,220 0 0 So 2,559 such leases would be under a rental of.. 271,905 7 8 And those two items should, if all the Bishops' rental was similar to Durham, be the yearly net rent of the episcopal estate, viz. : Yearly Fines I In respect of a now payable. Rental. For renewing leases for terms 1£31,908 I £140,672 13 0 For rene w i ng th ose o n lives... 42,904 271,905 7 8 So that, including The net rental the Chapters, when will, by pro the fines are portion be For leases on terms £111,161 I .f 490,074 And on l eases f or li ves Total present rental, if the whole be similar to Durham The rental which I had inferred, by the method of proba bilities, was 1,514,6461. It will appear below that the excess in my estimate of the rental is more than compensated by an excess in the esti mate of the value of the tenants' interest therein, by taking the average term of the subsisting leases too high. I valued the interest of the tenants and Church respectively in their present leases for years, on the basis that land in fee simple is worth only 25 years' purchase. It is almost certain that the Church has a property in this class of 'casts worth 13.28707 years' purchase of the rental. In like manner I valued the interests of the tenants and Church respectively, in the leases for lives, on the same basis, and found the property of the Church to be 6.726991 years' purchase of the rental which respects that class of leases. Then the present value of the property which the Church now has in a rental let for years, Of 490,0751. is equal to £6,511,655 Aid in that under lives, of 947,270/ Total, ~,. £12,883,832 The interest of which at 4 per cent. is Then deducting the income now received as fines 615,353 260,031 The surplus is equal to a perpetual annuity of 554,722 I have above stated that, by my previous investigations, this surplus was calculated at 244,0871. This close coincidence, like that already noticed, in the dis tribution of the fines between two classes of leases, is very remarkable. All this reasoning is exceedingly simple; there is no one proposition which is at all questionable, except the single point whether the Church has so much property in the rental of the estate for lives as 6.726991 years' purchase, which infers the tenants' property, one with another, to be worth 1.8273009 years' purchase. I will show immediately that in Durham the lives are older than in any of the leases used in the former calculation, and that the Church has therefore a greater property in the estate leased for lives than is above set forth. The ages of the lives in each lease in Durham being given, a calculation has been very carefully made of the probable number of renewals which, according to the law of mortality of the Government tables would be necessary in the course of one year; that number, out of 275 leases, is 2.328965. Then 'the average Probability of such lease being subject to a fine in the course of one year at Durham, is the fraction .0848696. The corresponding probability in the 191 leases, on which I had grounded my former calculation, is the fraction .0610133; so that 275 of these leases would produce in the first year 16.77866 renewals, that is to say, not so many as seventeen fines, whilst in Durham there would be more than 23. Thus it is evident that the lives in the Durham leases are older than those of the others which I have examined ; and, therefore, the property of the Church in the rental subject to this class of leases is greater than 6.727 years' purchase, which was the result deduced from an examination of those others. In the next place, it is to be observed, that the leases in Durham were, in many instances, granted a long time ago, and there is little room for doubt that the rental on which the tenant in those days confesses himself liable to pay a fine is much below the true rental at present. The 275 Durham leases were granted in the following or der :—One year ago, 15 leases; two years ago, 21 leases; three years ag o , 11 l eases ; f our y ears a go, 12 leases ; five years ago, 22 leases ; six years ago, 15 leases ; seven years ago, 2 leases ; eight years ago, 12 leases ; nine years ago, 12 leases ; ten years ago, 13 leases ; eleven years ago, 16 leases ; twelve years ago, 21 leases; thirteen years ago, 15 leases; fourteen years ago, 8 leases ; fifteen and under twenty years ago, 16 leases; twenty and under twenty-five years ago, 23 leases; twenty-five and under thirty years ago, 16 leases; thirty and under thirty-five years ago, 8 leases ; thirty-five and under forty years ago, 7 leases ; forty and under forty-seven years ago, 10 leases ; total, 275 leases. But in the foregoing calculation of the rental from the Dur ham leases no allowance is made for any suppressed re;:tal. That which was stated as the annual value of each tenure when the lease was granted has been treated as the rack rent at the present day. Lastly, when, from among the whole of the leases for terms of years at Durham, we select those only which were renewed from a term of 14 years to a term of 21 years— We find that, for all such leases, the fines were £38,745 13 9 And that the net rental in respect of which such fines were paid is stated at 25,28.0 7 1 Therefore the average fine received was 1.53209 years' poiclisse of the rent. Now, when the interest of money is nine per cent, the proper fine to be allowed for such a renewal is 1.506 years' purchase. Therefore, without going into the question of suppressed rental, the leases in Durham have been renewed on the prin ciple of raising money at very nearly nine per cent. In my former answers I assumed the rate of seven per cent. as below tic average. JOHN FINLAISON, Actuary of the National Debt, and Government Calcnlator. NOTE ON ECCLESIASTICAL LEASES, BY MR. DRINKWATER 13ETIIIJNE. The ingenious calculations submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of Ecclesiastical leases, by Mr. Finlaison, rest upon principles the truth of which will not easily be appreciated by those aho are not familiar with such considerations. I have endeavoured, in the following remarks, to reduce the calculation to the simplest possible form, in which accuracy of assumption has been unavoid ably sacrificed in some degree to ensure facility of explana tion. The average yearly amount of fines received by the Arch bishops, Bishops, and Chapters, is about 261,000/. These arise partly from renewals of leases en lives, partly from re newals of leases on years. In order to calculate them accu rately, the value of the interest which the Church has is the lands comprised in these leases (beyond the reserved rents) it would be necessary to know the actual term subsisting in each lease, the fine separately received on each renewal of it, and the rate of interest on which that renewal was calcu lated. These three data would enable us to calculate the rack-rent of the lands comprised in each lease, and, deduct ing from that the value of the tenant's interest, the remainder would show the interest possessed by the Church. The same -thing may be done with tolerable accuracy by assum ing an average term of all the leases, and an uniform rate of interest. From the best information which bas yet been procured on the subject we shall make a supposition less favourable to the proposed plan than the truth, by assuming the common term to be of twenty-four years, and the rate of interest 7 per cent., which rate is equivalent to taking two years' purchase for the renewal of a lease from fourteen to twenty-one years. Caiculations have been made in much greater detail than this, and this term of twenty-four years has been fixed on for facility of explanation, from knowing beforehand the results of those more accurate estimates. Assuming these numbers, it is plain that, if this supposed lease of twenty-four years were suffered to expire, the Church would receive no fines in the interval, but would, at the end of that term, come into possession of the whole estate which it would possess thenceforward in perpetuity. The average annual amount of fines received, which, on the system of perpetual renewal now practised, is, in fact, a per petual annuity in possession is therefore treated as being of equal value with a perpetual annuity equal to the rental of the estate, deferred for twenty-four years, the rate of interest being taken at 7 per cent. The first question, therefore, is,--" What perpetual annuity deferred for twenty-four years, is of the same value as a per petual annuity in possession of 261,0001., the rate of interest being taken at 7 per cent. ?" Log. 1.07=.02938 24 .70512=L0g. 5.07 That is to say : 1/. in hand is of the same value, at 7 per cent., as Si. Is. sd. twenty-four years hence. The same proportion holds true of each successive annual payment of both annui ties. Therefore, an annuity of 261,0001. in hand is of the same value at 7 per cent., as an annuity of 1,323,000/. deferred for twenty-four years. This, therefore, is the rental of the Church Lands, on the foregoing suppositions. The second question is, " What would be the value of the interest of the Church in these estates if their reversion could he turned into possession at 4 per cent. instead of 7 per cent. ?" For this it is only necessary to reverse the process just gone through, at the altered rate of interest : Log. 1.04-. 1.98297 24 1.59128=L0g. .39. That is to say, 11. to be received twenty-four years hence is worth 7s. 91d. in hand, the rent of interest being 4 per cent. Therefore an annuity of 1,323,0001. deferred for twenty-four years is of the same value at 4 per cent. as an annuity of £516,000 in present possession. The fines now received are 261,000 Which leaves an available surplus of £055,000 " J. E. DRINKWATER BETHUNE. " Home Office Chambers, 25th February, 1837." COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent entertained a large and distinguished party at dinner on Saturday, among whom were the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishop of Dublin and Mrs. Whateley, Lord Palmerston, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Morpeth, the Attorney- General for Ireland, Dr. Lushington, Countess Cadogan, Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, the Earl of Ilchester, Lord Templetown, The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester, took an airing together in a carriage and four on Saturday, in the neighbourhood of Hampstead. Divine service was performed yesterday morning at Kensing ton Palace, by the Dean of Chester. The Duchess of Kent and her Royal Highness's household attended ; and in the after noon the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria attended divine service. The Dean of Chester again officiated. The Duchess of Kent has given large orders for dresses to the silk weavers in Spitalfields. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. The whole of the Cabinet Ministers were present. The Council sat an hour and a half. Mr. Mauray and Mr. Oxley, deputed by the American Chamber of Commerce, and the importers of tobacco at Li. verpool, and accompanied by Viscount Sandon, Mr. Ewart, p,, Mr. George Evans, M, P,, and Mr. Thornley, M. P., had a second interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of 1 the Exchequer and Mr. Baring, on the subject of reduction of the duty on tobacco. , The cinbassy from Madagascar visited Viscount Palmerston on Saturday, at the Foreign Office. At a meeting of the Baronets held on Saturday, at Sir Robert Fitzwygram's in, Connaught-plAce, Sir Francis Shuck burgh in the Chair, it was agreed that the petition to be pre sented to the King should solicit only the privilege of wearing the Ulster badge, similar to that granted to and worn by the Nova Scotia Baronets. His Majesty, at the last deputation of Baronets, having been graciously pleased to say that some poi:lts in that petition were entitled to receive his support and favourable consideration, and that his Majesty took a personal interest in their proceedings. A deputation of the General Synod of Ulster, including the Rev. 11. Walker Rodgers, Moderator of the General Synod, and the Rev. John Browne, Secretary, had an inter view on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Bavarian Minister and the French Charge d'Affaires transacted buSiness at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The Ilon. Fox Maule, M.P., left town on Friday, for Scotland. DESTITUTION IN SHETLAND. EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF SHETLAND. LERWICK, JAN. 12.—Your Committee having maturely considered the reports submitted to the Synod on the state of the several parishes in Shetland, lament to find that in some districts the scanty produce of the late harvest is al ready consumed ; that in a few months the whole food at present in these - islands will be exhausted ; and that, from various conspiring causes, the great body of the labouring classes are destitute of the means of purchasing the necessaries of life. Of the fourteen parishes into which the Shetland islands are divided, it appears that, in one , parish, containing 2,909 inhabitants, the present crop, in eluding grain and potatoes, will not furnish sustenance for more than two months—that in six parishes, containing 11,891 inhabitants, there is sustenance for only four months ; that in two parishes, containing 4,900 inhabitants, there is sustenance for only five months—that in three pa rishes, containing 6,548 inhabitants, there is sustenance for only six months—that in one parish, containing 950 inhabitants, there is sustenance for seven months.— and that, from the remaining parish (Sandsting), containing 2,194 inhabitants, no report has been laid before the Synod, though it is well known that in it also there is a great defi ciency. With reference, however, to 13 parishes, the fore going abstract shows the appalling result—that, when the produce of the crop is averaged, 27,198 people have not food sufficient to support life during five months of the year. The inability of the people to purchase grain for their maintenance during the remaining seven months of the year, arises from a combination of unpropitious circumstances, by which their earnings have been abridged, and their means exhausted in the course of the last two years. In 1835, the crops in Shetland were fully as deficient as those in the Hebrides ; the ling fishing failed ; the herring fish ing along the whole east and north coast of Shetland was unproductive ; the whale fishery was worse than unproductive ; and during the succeeding winter an unpre cedented mortality among their sheep, horses, and cattle, swept off nearly the whole of their stocks. In 1836, the ling fishing was again unproductive, while the whale fishery and the herring fishing were total failures. And thus all who engage in these pursuits, that is, nearly the whole male po pulation of these islands, instead of improving their circum stances, which the preceding year had so grievously impaired, were involved in still greater difficulties, and rendered alto gether unable to help themselves under this second failure of their crops which has taken place.—Edinburgh Courant. STRIKING PICTURE OF MISERY.—The inhabitants of the Isle of Skye are suffering deplorably during the present snow-storm and frost, from want of fuel. The unfavourable weather destroyed their peats, and they neither have money nor opportunities to purchase coals or wood. In this ex tremity, the poor people have lately in some places been driven to consume their turf huts and cottages for fire ! They meet and draw lots whose house is to be taken down for fuel, and afterwards in the same manner determine which of their number is to maintain the poor family deprived of their home. Almost shut up by the stormy elements— crowding round their miserable fire thus scantily and pain fully supplied—and with only, at long intervals, a handful of oatmeal or potatoes—we know not that the history of the British people ever presented such pictures of severe unmitigated want and misery, as are exemplified at this mo ment in the case of the poor highlanders.—lnverne ss Courier. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardeners' Gazette. ) In the Green-house and Conservatory it will be necessary to have occasional fires, to get rid of the damp which will now be fatal to tender plants, if allowed to accumulate ; and this cau tion is the more necessary as the mildness of the weather might otherwise induce neglect of this important subject. If the weather prove warm and wet, the windows may be opened a little, even while the fire is going. If the sun shines much, of course there will be no need of fire; but a fire may be quite as necessary with the glass at 50, with no sun, and consider able wet, as it would be with the glass at 32. There is as much mischief done with damp as with frost. TULIPS should now be covered from the wet if practicable ; it lodges in the heart of the plant, and lays some, injuring im perceptibly the embryo bud, and frequently destroying the bloom altogether. It is a good plan to have a cloth (of simi lar material to that over the roof in blooming time) just wide enough to cover the hoops or irons for it turns off all the wet, while mats are but a partial protection from rain, besides, if the rain gets to the bud after you have loosened the mould, you will have all your work to do again : cover at night suffi cient to keep off rain, be the weather what it may. &mode rate frost does not injure a tulip in its present stage if it be not wet. At RICULAS.—The blooms of many begin to advance so much that you can no longer sprinkle the plants safely, there fore carefully water them without touching the foliage, and examine every pot that looks more moist than the others, to sae if the drainage be good. Be careful to keep them from the violent wind, by some artificial shelter, for it is necessary to give . them all the air you can on mild days. Any that ad vance to show the colour of the blooms may be placed under a hand glass in a sheltered situation, the glass being raised six inches from the ground. DAIILIAS.—The amateur who has began, or is about to start, in Dahlias, will find that the shoots which arc broken out with the finger and thumb, instead of cut off, will strike root quicker, and make better plants. If the precise state at which this is to be done be not observed, there may be the less plants propagated, but there will be more than enough for any ama teur by these means. _ _ CAI NATIONS may now be potted, if you have th e means o f protecting the larger pots from excessive rain and frost. The soil in which these are bloomed cannot be too rich, but the dung in it must be thoroughly decomposed as to become mould, half good rich loam, and half decomposed leaves or cow-dung, with sand sufficient to counteract any stiffness, and allow water to go through it, will be found extremely good. The pots should be twelve to the cast. If you have not room to protect them in large pots, better delay a week or two. PINK beds may be top dressed with good decomposed dung, the earth being first stirred between them. CALCEOLARIES, established plants of the shrubby kind now begin to grow ; if they be not tied to small sticks as they ad vance, training them will be a very troublesome job ; there should be a very light stick to each main shoot. The herba ceous kinds as they advance require the same assistance, but have not a quarter so many shoots. Rosas.—Prune them now close, the garden kinds espe cially, select the strongest wood a year old, and cut down to the last bud or the last two, and wherever you can spare it cut the old wood clean out. The china sorts you may either cut into any form you wish, or if you want show flowers, those should be cut very close alio. Garden roses may be propagated by Grafting, and especially as the cuttings would otherwise be wasted, but the china and noissette kinds strike so freely, that the cuttings may be placed under a hand-glass in the open garden, under a north or east wall. Cabbage and Cauliflower plants may now be put out for a general crop. Brocoli, Cauliflower, Savoys, and Cabbages of all kinds may be sown. Lettuces may be planted out every week to succeed each other; sow also for a succession. Peas and Beans for general crop may be got in tire first fa vourable day, if not done before. Endive, selccttoine of the best plants for seed, and sow endive. - In the stove keep the plants well syringed, once or twice a day. The facilities for doing this easily and effectually are great. Look well to past directions, and see if you have omitted anything ; if you have, lose no time. The Duke of Palmella, accompanied by his two sons, the Marquis of Fayal and Don Rodrigo de Sousa, are making a tour in the manufacturing districts. Mozart was fond of saying, " Give me the Bohe mians, they comprehend me." This great compliment has been long appreciated, but it is only now that some return is about to be made for it. The people of Prague, to which city the great composer was particularly partial, are about to erect a monument to his memory. Yesterday the Rev. Dr. Macleod, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, now in town, ad vocating the cause of the starving Highlanders, preached a Gaelic sermon in the National Church. The congregation was very large and respectable, but, whether from a desire to avoid the appearance of ostentation on the Sabbath, we did not observe any of the carriages of the Highland gentry, who doubtless attended on so interesting an occasion. The Mode rator's eloquence in both languages is well known, and on this occasion he powerfully arrested the attention of his hearers. Dr. Macleod is a strenuous advocate for imparting instruction by means of the Gaelic, and after it has been so completely proved that the attempt to teach through the medium of the English, when that language was not understood, it is hoped that a different system will be pursued, and both schoolmasters and clergymen perform their duties in the mother tongue of those who are unacquainted with any other. THE DIVORCED.—BY LADY CHARLOTTE Bur.—" The works of this distinguished Authoress always afford us both amusement and instruction. Like Mrs. Inch bald, she has the art of exciting strong sympathy by following the course of the natural passions ; whilst, from her knowledge of life and manners, she fills her canvass with a greater variety, and more pleasing objects. The present charming work is, perhaps, one of Lady Bury's best productions ; the story is simple and affecting, and makes its progress through a course of well-contrived incidents, and characters, always pleasing, and often striking."—Bell's Messenger. Mr. Campbell was justly-reproached many years ago by his fellow-poet, Lord Byron, with having " written too little." After a long lapse of time, the reproach still holds good; indeed, the grace, simplicity, and purity of style by which his " Letters from the South" (just published) are dis tinguished, corahined with the intrinsic worth of the opinions expressed upon subjects of the gravest interest to most readers, the force and freshness o f t h e d escr i pt i ve parts of them—the ex tent of the informati on conveyed, and the sense of truth and accuracy which is everywhere a characteristic of the wotk, unite in giving a double point to this reproach. In short, what was true of the poet is true of the prose writer ; and the new charge to be brought against Mr. Campbell is, that he has not contrived to travel east, west, and north, with the laudable de sign of doing justice to his brilliant powers, by writing Letters from than all. —Court Journal. CHURCH-RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Suc,—By your advocacy of the principles on which resist ance to Church-rates has become all but universal, you have obtained for The Sun Newspaper the respect and commenda tion of every friend of religious freedom in the country. Taking the ground, then, which from the beginning of the contest you have so ably defended, namely, that there is no moral nor scriptural right any where to be found to warrant one sect of Christians to demand, much less to enforce, pay ment from all others, I wonder how it could happen that in the debate on the Church-rate question on Friday last, there was not one speaker who noticed the power Churchmen possess by the present law to coerce, with harassing suits in the Ecclesiastical Courts, and imprisonment, those who con scientiously believe the ceremonies of the Church of England to be unscriptural, and unwarranted. The whole debate turned on the question of money arrangements alone ; the only ca,e wherein principle was adverted to being Lord Sandon's asser tion, that when the Dissenters are tired of putting their hands into their pockets, they call conscience to their aid, as an ex cuse for not paying Church-rates. I sat in the House and heard the false and unchristian taunt with mingled feelings of sorrow and contempt. Are the whole of the Society of Friends, who have suffered imprisonments, paid thousands of pounds in expenses, over and above the demands of the Church, rather than violate the dictates of conscience, to be abused as persons who object to pay just and lawful demands ? Are the thousands of Christians of other denominations in the country who have suffered, who are ready to suffer, the penalties and imprisonments which the Church has the power to inflict, rather than pay for ceremonies in which they dare not join, to be told that it is an imposture invented to save their pockets? They have fearlessly encoun tered the hostility of Churchmen, who would rekindle the fires of by-gone days, miscalling- it the support of religion, and are they to be taunted with dishonesty ? The Ministers deserve, and have the thanks of the friends of religious freedom, for the greater part* of the proposed measure, and the people who wish to see Christians of all de nominations living together in harmony and peace, will do all in their power to support the Administration, by pursuing such a course as shall bring the matter to a speedy and final settlement. Manchester has shown them how this is to be done—there, according to the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, no Church-rates have been collected for years past. Many other places, pursuing different courses, have produced the same effect ; and it is already apparent, that henceforth where one person has refused voluntary payment, thousands will sup port the Ministry by leaving the present law to take its course, if the Tories shall be mad enough to perpetuate it, by throwing out the wise and hcpling measure now proposed. A NONCONFORMIST, ON PRINCIPLE. Doctors' Commons, March 10, 1837. P. S. In the House of Lords last night, the Bishops hit upon an odd way of carrying out the principles of Christianity. If our Lord had said to his disciples go into that house, ask the owner for money for my use, if he refuse to give it you, take whatever you can lay your hands on, and let us sell it for any sum, regardless of its value—or drag the mas ter or mistress of the house to prison without further en quiry, what a very different book the New Testament would have been—especially if he had added, let us take the highest scats, call ourselves Dignitaries, wear the purple and fine linen, and clothe our servants also in the livery of Dives It * That part of the plan which continues the payment of Church-rates in parishes where there are debts, will, it is hoped, be modified. t Sec the speech of the Bishop of London. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln a paragraph of your paper of the Bth inst., relating to the unfortunate catastrophe in North- s t ree t, P entonv ill e, it is therein st a t e d th at the Radical Executive have been the means of raising the poor-rate four times its usual amount. Let me show to you and your readers that that statement is in correct, by the following illustration : Rate made Lady-day, 1832, to Lady-day, 1833, was 3s. Bd.. in the pound for a year ; 1833 to 1834 1834 to 1835 1835 to 1836 1836 to 1837 Those reductions have been through the instrumentality and perseverance of the Radical party, who have up to this time been enabled to meet all their engagements. I hope, Sir, you will in justice to all parties insert this, to correct the misstate ment to which I have alluded. I am, Sir, yours respectfully and obliged, JAMES HAYWARD, Churchwarden of Clerkenwell. 20, Aylesbury-street, March 9, 1837. SCOTCH MARTYRS IN THE CAUSE OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. The following letter from Lord Holland to the Chairman of the Committee, shows the opinion which the Noble Lord entertains of the treatment of these men ; and it is to be hoped that Reformers will come forward in support of the objects of the public meeting : (COPY.) " South-street, 7th March, 1837. DEAR send you my subscription to the monuments intended to be erected to the memory of five persons who were the victims of an iniquitous sentence ►n Scotland, in 1793. I do so because it seems to me an unexceptionable method, and a fit opportunity of recording the disgust and abhorrence which I have always felt at those proceedings, and at the expedient of transporting men among common felons for political offences,' which, as Mr. Fox justly observes, was then for the first time invented. " If such perversion of law, or such harsh and vindictive ex— ercise of its powers, must remain, and I fear they must, a stain upon our annals, it is surely right that the feelings of indigna tion they excited in well regulated minds, and which have been confirmed by deliberate reflection, should also be perpetuated. Such I conceive to be the object, such I hope will be the effect of the monuments you propose, and I therefore feel plea sure in offering my contribution to the plan. " The moment seems fortunately chosen; the Legislature is actually employed, on this very day, in repealing the bar barous punishment for leasing-making, which was so harshly inflicted on these unfortunate men, and the country is every clay enjoying, in the labours of Parliament, and the improve ment of its laws, the benefit of that Reform which they were persecuted for recommending and promoting. " I am, Sir, with great regard, " Your obedient and obliged, (Signed) " VASSAL HOLLAND. " Joseph Hume, Esq., M. P." iords Brougham and Lyndhurst, by their -unremit ting attention to judicial duties, wherever their - labours are available, evidently evince a disposition not to receive their pensions as retired Chancellors, for doing_ nothing. Most of th e mem b ers o f the Committee of the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund have attended the Fund-office every day during the past week, with the praiseworthy anxiety of doing all within their power to render the Festival on Wednesday next "a feast of reason and a flow of soul." Mu nificent contributions have flown in from the following distin guished patrons :—The Duke of Bedford, Lord Francis Egerton, the Earl of Coventry, Lord Tenterden, Sir Geortge Rose, Sir Frederic Roe, General Phipps, W. J. Denison, Esq., Wm. Harrison, Esq., Hugh Barton, Esq., H. Hugh Hoare, Esq., &c. Mrs. \Vaylett, Miss Romer, and Miss E. Honner have kindly consented to display their fascinating notes from the ladies' gallery ; and the vocal strength of the entertainment will boast of the names of Braham, Balk, Sin- • clair, Bedford, Bland, Fitzwilliam, Giubelci, Hawes, Henry, S. Jones, Nelson, H. Phillips, Robinson, Seguin, and a num ber of the principal artistes from the Italian Opera House, The whole of the musical department will be under the abl direction of Mr. T. Cooke. The master and treasurer (M r. Harley) will as usual deliver an address upon the merits e.nd advantages of the charity ; and Mr. Edwin Forrest, ha'iing become a vice-president, will, it is expected, address the com pany in the course of the evening, in acknowledgment foe the bast—" Prosperity to the American Stage." Mr. D• Rice, the real " Jim Crow," has also volunteered his se . riices. 13ouLoGNE.—..A. small smack, time North Star, 01 11 tons burthen, belonging to Rye, came into th harbour a few days ago, but under the assumed name of the Rover. She had not been long here, when the Consul received a letter advising him that the vessel in question had been taken from Rye against the will of the owner, and begging she m ight be detained. The consul found her out although the words North Star were obscured by that of Rover, and ordered her deten tion, when it was found that the register was not forthcoming' it being asserted that some money had been obtained on it.. However, on the arrival of the owner,-the matter was arrange4' and the North Star, alias Rover, left Boulogne for EnglP.nd° • —Boulogne Journal. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. CLARKSON, TOS THAMES POLICE MAGISTRATE.—We have the melancholy task of announcing the death of Thomas Clarkson, Esq., Barrister at-Law, and one of the Magistrates of the Thames Police' which occurred under very dreadful and melancholy circunl; stances, on Thursday night. He had been at Brentwocu during the day, hunting with Lord Pctre's hounds, an d was re turning home in a pony chaise belonging to his brother-in-la _:j when the h orse too k f r i g h t i n Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, started off at full speed. He attempted in vain to stop th e horse, which fell down in Ray-street ; and the unfortuna te ' gentleman was pit c h e d out o f t h e c h a i se, and fell on his h e ad He expired i n a f ew m i nutes a f terwards, at the house of a sn..'. geon in• Red-l io n - s treet. M r. C larkson was in his 40th Ye't!ri; and was the s on o f th e R ev. Th omas Clarkson, of Ipsw i c h, the celebrated ad voca t e o f negro emancipation, and the friew l 4 and coadjutor of the philantrophic Wilberforce. Thu iteoease has left a wid ow an d one son, who are now stayingat Ra, l ; s_ r. gate. Friday aft ernoon , an i nquest was held 'before 1 7 0 Stirling, the C oroner , i n t h e Board-room al'Clr.:rkee"e work-house, on th e b o d y o f M r. Clarkson. The Jur y re turned a verdict of Accidental Death. On Saturday morning last two coal whippers, w wh ile proceeding in a b oat tow a co lli er lyi ng o ff IroVsT he Stairs, saw a larg e Lag floating on the water, which, with assistance of the waterinen they hauled into the wherry , a nd found it t o conta i n 10,000 yards of blonde lace, and a e 5 e.... 5 . City of lace veils. The property was enveloped in o il . skir t and was not at all damaged. The men gave informat.re.: the Custom-house, and the property, the value of Tviv ' eil -; 'as of been estimated at upwards of 5001. was seized on th'a pa' the Crown, and lodged in the King's warehouse. The quantity of incat brought in one week to Lei' Lr. denhall d Newgate Market s f rom S cot l an d. by , amounted to 700 sheep and 50 oxen; and front Yorkshi rotc sheep, and 420 pigs. THE SUN, LONJ)QN, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1837.