The Sun. — London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, ~...—..............„ T URKE Y. William has produced with great success La File du ! We find the following in the Cortstitutionne/: . Regiment. "We have received accounts from Coustenenotee t o Z trate e.—The celebrated violinist, Ernst ; has been the sth inst. Pu'ilie ettention wA s much exc it e d i n the heaei here with the greatest sUCeess. Nearly all the Turkish capit .l by the m ,vemenre of troops which were ' towns in S ei=z-rlend are off ring him engagemen's. taking place in the n tighbourhood of the eloldevia- ' THE LIAGIIP, APRIL 10.—The French Theatre Wallechian provinces, an d by the presence of the Em- Royal, whim has been ciosed for more than four peror Nicholas in Bessarabia, where he was about to pass months, hie just re-opened with the three act opera some grand reviews. The Divan does not, however, ape of the Roi de Boheme ' by Saint Georges , a nd the pear to share in the app rehensions entertained by the music by M. Lazlre Martin. The house was well public on this subject. Found Effendi, who lett for Alexandria on the 27th of M a r ch , o nl y took with him his attended. CONSTANTINOPLE.—Our theatre is getting on more son, his private searetary, and his physician. He will be able to announce to the Paella of Egypt the dism issal of the prosperou-ly than for corn® time p ast. The y oun g three Pacbas who quitted his service and demanded posts violinist - , Horace Poussard, has been giving concerts from the Sultan. This fact formed one of the complaints of here with great success. Abbas Mitzi, audit would appear that the Porte is anxious SPORR.—A. recent tourist in Germany gives the to do everything in its power to c onciliate, so that in following interesting notice- of this talented musical case of a rupture no reproaches could be in :de towards composer •—" He is known all over the country s a it. One of the Sultanas bas recently been confined of a , ., Father spohr ' and the venerable bearing, the son, who has received the nem° of Mobammet Buchdi. t ranquil and b'enevolen t expression of the gigantic Admiral Itomain Dsfeet.6. has been admitted to antitle. Where false auhence of the Sultan, with all his staff. Abdul Nl.djid old man well justify the expressed a wish that he wound prolong. his ee j eurn ut , reitee and false time are out of 111,4 qv,- Copstsntionp'e, and gave ord'rs for him to be 'very- Lion, and German politics are not on the tapir, he is wbrro receiv. d wt 4 h till briuours doe to his rani;. A on, tit' the mildest of me:_., wi.n congenial lipiri .s, molt grand review by the Sul:an is =silted of, to which tEe e - •cill, and in tiltriee%in lite even playful to the last Admiral wi'l be Invited. Vlehpw.t Al t , b rot h er i rk -kw degree. Cassel, his hone., and his gird-n are to him of the ieultan, and liigl Admiral, has voitl,ti the French ,he nearest approach to Paradise which this lower Admiral On board the Pandere. A sad emdent hap- world of ours can show. 11e his viii4...l Loudon end petted yett.rclay to a boat belonging to the French •he other g , e4t capitals more than once, yet ever re h f r i e ate, which, elide coaling. on snore, was rue dawn by 'urns from +hem I ,nly with ftes devotion to his own a steamer. Tat-re were 16 men in the boar, but !or- , home. e —,3anday Paper. tunately only one was drowned, and another wennded. thong!: not daogeromsly. by the paddle of the steamer. OR hearing of the accident, the Ports immediately sent a message on bard the French t , igete to express rettre, and to ascertain whether the TutkOt captain was in fault. A letter from Alexandria , te tra that Feuen Effendi had arrived there ou the 2 i inst., and ou the toile wine day hid proceeded to Cairo." Tne Journal des 1345ats am the following on the same subject : " We have news from Cairo to the sth. Ihe situ-- lion was b- coming every day more and more compli cated, without, however, i ns piring op to the present time any a• rioua apprehensions atnoogat Europeans, who persist in their o ptiotsm. It is not the Sarno with respect to the Viceroy, whom the encouragements of Mr. Murray do not always succeed in reassuring as to 1 the consequence of the difference which has arisen between him and the Porte. However, it is stated that the last Vizirial letter, which the Court of Cairo ap p ea red to dread exceedi n gly, particularly since the return of His;chid Pacha to power, is not of a nature to cause any very great apprehension to his Highnes s. This fetter, it is said, ha. by no means the chara cter of a menacing ultimatum, as it merely confides itself to renewing the determination cease to by the Porte, and to expressing the conviction that the will of the Sul:an wou'd receive that full execution which was to he expeceel free a faithful travel of !be criln 7 re." MARRIAGE OF JENNY LIND. (Earracc of a Letter or Feb. 7 ) I have a lirtle bit of news to tell you, of an &vent that has taken place, and having been one of the actor-, or perhaps a supernumerary in it, can give you som e prticolars that miy interest you—l mean J=ning Lind's wedding. Sae left Ne.v Yolk for Bus 'on about three weeks since, and ahorcly after wrote me a long letter, confessing what she had been too bashful to reveal before, viz., that she was engaged to be married to a young German artist—Otto G ischmidt, and to whom she was very tenderly attached. She asked me to draw up her marriage contract, gave me the particulars how she wished her property to be settled, &c., which was done in dne form ; and in con nexion herewith, I will mention, that, with that high spirit of genero4itv that has always marked her character, she set apart 20 0001. to found a charity school in S anaden ! Last Wt.dnesday I went to Bos ton, and she approved of the marriage contract ; and the next day, the sth inst , she was married to Mr. G , ldechmidt, at the flame of Mr. Ward, a friend of hers and Groldschmides. The morning was bright and cloudless, and prog nosticated welt for her married state. She was dressed in white silk, with a veil, and orange flower wreath, intermingled with myrtle a la Suedoise, with a bouquet or corsage Gf the same, and looked very charming. The queries were pronounced by the Rev. D r. Wainwright, a clergyman from New York, whom she had invited for the purp )se. Only halt a dozen lriends were present ; among them Mr. Everitt, who was mioiser to London a tea , years ago. Then came the kissing, of the b;ridt, performed by the staid guests by imprinting a beneficial kiss on the forehead, except by one, whom Jenny embraced, and gave an old fashioned Swedish kiss. She seemed a very Amiss, so joyous, so h4ppy, stepping on air, as it were. After a while she sat down to the piano, and sang " Ah non giunge" with a Ipartiness that would have brought the whole Opera-house at her In the afternoon they went off to a country seat at Northamp • ton, about one hundred miles from Bostn, which th.y have hired for a few month!. In the summer they r. turn to Europe. M-. Goldschmith is seven years younger than herself'—about 24 years old, a small, very good-INking man, of a high-toned character, well educated, and devoted to her. fie is from H-un burgh, wh , re his father is a respected merchant.— From Me Ladies' Companion. _ The Debats adds a postcript that Fousd Et - Tenth, who bad reached Csiro on the 6th. hid met with so affectionate a rPcep.ion from th,- Viceroy as to have given rise to the best hops as to the result of his mission. EXTRAORDIArAHT eAh'EER OF A LON- D ('LERr 17 - 3EIII. The inhebitent% of the di Prier of Sr. %mins, in the parish of St, L OA -street-road, Nye been paintully excited for some time pa , ..t by a se ties of statements, which have resul: e d i n t h e re . eee e tion of the licence of the Rev. Richard Jones Temple by the Bi.hoe of Lendun, and a prohibition ogaiust again taking clerical duty ip the tnetropeb too diocese. The case will be understo id from a brief recital of the facts, as they are stated by Mr. Hill, in 4 pastoral letter to his parihionerse Ain Hill states that during the hat le w months he het found that he was losing the esteem of his parishioners which he formerly eejeyed, and on making inquiries he bed reason to suspect that the minds of his friends were b-ins; poisoned by Mr. Temple, his curate. Other circumstances arose which compelled him, in justice to himself, and for the satisfaction of the 13 , shop, to institute a searching inquiry as to Mr. remple'e previous career. Mr. Hill states that Rtcherd Jones, alias 'Rtsiirt Johns, alias Robert K. Junes, alias Richard Jones Temple (for by all these fictiious names was the identity of his curate mys tithrt), commenced his public or ministerial lire in Doceinte-r, 1841, at the Itelependent Dissenters' School at Blackburn, in leciceshire, which school, being substvF.htly merged ants a more general col lege, near _Manchester, in 1843, the inmates of the Blackburn school were received there 39 first stu dents in preparetion for the ministry among the dis senting bodies, and in :laded in the number thus transferred was Richard Jones. From that college Richard .T toes was publicly expelled by an act of the gentrel eel:emitter,/ of uettagenefnr, on the ground of tk:ti 111',41 tirtleit,./tey sir eh metier 11111 etOIIEI.A 11. S in tne opinion ef the authorities wholly unfitted him for the ministry Snortly after this Mr. Jones changed his name and his rtrleeinus principles. He became a B aprist, and as the R-v. Risiart Jehns was iridue7hd into the office of pastor of the Baptist con gregstion at Wnitchurch. While holding this posi. tiou he gave out that he was engaged to a Miss Mary Owen, a young lady at B ingor, who during his res:i. Bence at Wbi'church became suddenly possessed of 18,000/., bequeathed to h.: - r by an uncle in India. One mornieg he informed some ieflu-ntial members of his cengregation that he had dreamed that his betrothed lady had ben thrown fra - in her carriage by a runaway accident, and that dreadful and ehaAly pftarances had told him that the lady was hopelessly jered. 01 the strength of th-se representations 101. were adv treed to him to eh thl,4 him to g ) CO Wale.; a letter written in Welsh, which none of his people could read, purpnrtalig to come from Bangor, and eeeiirmatory of his dream, having been produe-d. This letter, he said, informed bum that Miss Oven had died from concu.sion of the brain. Ha stetted accordingly for B ingor, but proceeded as bar as lhendoe only, and theta returned to Whatchurch some drys after, stating that his heal , h h a d t h ere failed his, and that has phyeiciaa had told him that to prosecute his journey into Wales would imperil his life. Not appearing ill on his return, ha was taunted at his quiet re signatien and submissive apathy under the lose of en heiress or 18,000!, and doubts arising as to the truthfulness et tar story, eoen.cted with other cir cumstances which had occurred, inquiries were pro. secuted. Tee clergyman aid the regestrar of Bangor were written to, as well as the registrar of Seinerset house, and it was escerained that no such accident ban happened at. Bengor, nor was any such person as IVliss Owen known. The R , 7v. G?ntlernatt was consequently obliged to leave Whitchurch, and havin g tacome acquainted with a clergyman of the Established Church, the conversation frecsently turned upon the subject of Church and State, and in the c''lirse of time, Mr. Waiart Johns ac knowledged the err ors h e had fallen into in keeping alive' from the Established Church. He sought months' privacweil,thillale re-appeared, employment chard Jones, un ß e icha a t i d ter pr s i i t x . the character of an Irish Scripture reader , into holy orders ahnClv Was the eventually admitted arrival in months he left Ireland, In the Copra ' of a and on his Bishop of Cashel. England asstitned the name of Richard Jones Temple, Having succeeded in induce appoint him he 1 3 u is r h ate of St. Barnebas, ing Mr. Hill to of London for a Lordship refuses application was made to t had e _ s there licence, but his here. there fore in to ordersseek twoloeriereesairs,emapnidoy clergyman from another diocseesse to who any ibis he found at Northampton, appointment of curate of St. Sepulchre's. Immediately on entering upon that sphere of labour, he informed certain members of the cougregation that he was in heritor of a ferfune, that he had lived in the family of the Marquis of Sago, that he had been in the habit mhee:rteceiiiivieasw not of writing leading articles for the London morning newspepere, whence at one time he realised 1,5001. per annutn. That he was intimate with Eerl Spencer when Lord Althorp, that he was very intimate with Shell and Tom Moore, and that he had obtained prix-s in his youth for distinguished poems. He rera Allied but a short time at Northampton, and then returned to Sr.. Barnabes, a licence to which Mr. Hill inferrned the Bishop obtained from his Lordship by forged testimoni 11. This testisnopisl purported to be signed by the Rw. J Jackson, vicar of Tallow, county IVaterford, but Mr. Jackson disavo ovedall knowledge of it. All these circums epees were represented by Me. Bill to the Bishop, and a vast quantity of docu mentary evideniva consisting of letters from all parts was put in, him b in y bicsonioorinomar incumbent, w i i b b e owfatehekcooouwnoty where Mr. Jones, claire career and his con. es m ade against regerd both to hi s p revious a convinced the Bishop t hat -11 his statements were duct since filling the curac y of S. B arnabas. They un true, and his Lordship, a ft e r a carefulconsideration of the' case, p ibite h d the Itvv. GTuatlemen from the exerciK® of his clerina , fuuct i 9 n6 in the diocese, and 641/041 0 04 4 41 to jaelif j; 14414) FRI cf tha LONDON,. world, in ,some suitable calling, a name that might atone, as far as possible, for his previous unbridled career of dup icity and falsehood, and there to earn for himself a character fur honesty of purpose and truthfulness in i!s pursuit. This extraordinary affair has been productive of much ill-fechng in the parish, and it is feared that much time will elapse before it is allayed. THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. THE " Two Houses " AND MDLLE. WAGNER.— The theme which now gives rise to so much coujec ture and much surprise in the musical world is the announcement at each operatic establishment of the forthcoming appearance of Mille. Johanna Wagner, the prima donna of the Berlin Opera, whose fam , . has already been loudly trumpeted in England. Tne facts of the matter we believe to be as follows, and we merely state what is now reported as the true version of a somewhat curious incident. By the en gagement drawn up between Mr. Lumley and Mille. Wagner, it was agreed that, as an assurance of good feith on the part of the f n-mer, a certain amount of deposit money was to be paid to the prima donna on a certain day, by the non fulfil ment of wnicti a:;reeinent the engagement was refl.' tiered void. Tbe dir ,, c!:ors of the Royal Italian Op - -ra, it would xopear, 1-?arnt the conriitiots insti tuted, and had their doubts as to the problbi 7 ity o their final setdeldent; in the meantime they so arranged their plans that some one possessing their . authority wet upon the spot when the deposit money became due. Mr. Lumley's representative arrive.' in Berlin late in toes eves.- lug o f th e day appointed, and de,ming it advisable not to disturb the prima donna at s ) krte an h.ur, dr termiged to iulal tits upstooti ou the following morn ing. In the meantime, the emissary from th management of the R /yal Italian 0?-41.4, finding. on application, that the deposit had not been mad..., i.u mediately s.ff-red Maille. Wager an engagement, which was as promply accep'ed. Stich we be lieve to be the facts of the matter, and from theses only can we draw our con clusions. In the cams of two olrra'ic establish. ments, institated the one in direct opposition ro the other, we hold that each is pos. , eaae.l of full right to take advantAgs of the slightest failing on the part of its rival, and for this reason we cannot Main, the con duct of thi direwors of the Royal Italian Opera; hu' having been previously, and in the first ca.ip, applied to by the lessee of her Nl.nj sty's Theatre, the hasty conduct of Male. Wag • ner cannot be pos.ibly justified, and casts a repu'sive shade up , n her charac'er as a lady, which is by no means likely to benefi; her at the moment of her forthcoming appearance. Toe consequences, in the case of the above facts being fully true, sr likely to prove seriously iojorious to Air. Lumby, wh, is, under the circumstances, en• titled to the kindli , lt consideration from the public and the press. We may, perh,ip=, be premature in the expression of our opinions, but w 3 derive our con. cliki:ons from what vis believe to be the facts of the case. HATNIARICET.—A. now three-act comic drriml, writ tin by .%L...51 irk Legion, and entitled Mind Your Own BUSitc , .y.v, is iu rene,rsal at this thea re. Mr. Webster having giv-9 English opt./ a full and fair trial at this th-titre, finds that it does n o t command sufficient public patronage to warrent his continuance of it. If the puhlic and the patrons of " native talent" do not support that talent when a ms nager - produc s at a heavy expel se the hest that t's country affords, the fault rests only with the pub ic, and the lessee must be absolved from blame, if he ceases to expend his money upon an unremunerative species of entertainment. We 1-ar that the difficul ties of managers in the endeavour to maintain an operatic company are greatly aggravated by th.t con - ceit, the arrogance, and the eucid impracticability of certain artists, whose abilviea by no means entitle them to evettordinary consideration. JE " Lltin.--Ine most strenulus efforts are making to induc e this lidv to lend her adepoweriul aid in support of her Aljeq3's Thewre during the present season. At no previous period in the hiitory of Dalian opera his this estahli-h -ment stood so inwh in need of the co-operation of those who should be interested in its being upheld. Without d9tracting in uny way from the entinet.t position of this distinguis , ed vnceliar, ic cannot be cl,-ni , d was h-re she first achieved her fame, and it wou ld bz a proud re.fLction fur her in afrer life, that by hoe assistance this time h onou red resort had been enabled to wi , batand the dit E, 2u fti es and obstacles by which it is now sur ionnfif'd• New York Daily Times states that Jenny Li n d G.,iiisot,tnidt d hughand w ill sal fur E id toe steamer Aloitie, in !shy, hut th a t previous it, P d,p4rture they will c a ve three con trees 10 New York In the latter end of the present month. ENGLISIT VOCALISTS TN NSw y r) , fa vouriteThe Child of the RPginzeut has b=en pfrfortued at Niblo' o. AladAne Amia Tin m r . .cvra of formerly Miss Melt on , Hudson, and Mrs. 114 . •linna, sustaining the principal characters. The last-named lady is a vocali,t and actress of considerable t dent, who has not appeared on the stage for some time; she was a great favourite at the Theatre Royal Dub lin, previous to her departure for America, where she sustained her professional reputation in various theatres of the union. THEATRE ROYAL, EDTNBUEGTI.--A large audience attended on Monda ynight, the occas ion being Mr. Glover's benefit. The performance commenced with the new . melodrama of The Corsican Brothers. After the ghostly melodrama Mr. Barnett appeared in the little interlude of Ilion.rieur Jaques. A more finished or artisticpiece of acting, in its own line, than Mr. Bar nett's portraiture of the poorold Frenchman it would be difficuli ecniceive. It is an exquisite cabinet pic ture, so to speak, made up of many minute and deli;. mate touches, yet not over elaborate, and full of true feeling and quiet pathos. Not a few of the audience testified by , their tears to its touching truthfulness and power, and the call for Mr. Barnett at the end was enthusiastic. EMILE TIME NT, the justly-famed pianist and composer, is now in London, and purposes giving a grand concert at the close of the present month. FERDINAND HILLER—This gentleman, whose fame as a composer is acknowledged throughout Germany, has arrived during , the past week, with the object of auPeri nt e • duce , some of his musical works , to be pro ' till ring th e present season. whose cleltneA""*—This old and favourite actor, appretiat e d e i : tha T!s of Irish character have been highly sional tour g public, is about mHking a nrofes4 dangi)ter, Z l h e Scotldnd and Ireland with his R9BERT Houma , ThY• Royal, is perfo rm i n l.farned conjaror of the Petah' diences at the Rotung a , l ij wo ► nders before large au- i BEELlN.—Meyerb ter tten a cantata for the celebration of the twenty t,..i,This new composi risge of Prince Chaves of Pr n ,Z"rsary of the m sr tion of the great motet , the sejour of the Empr es „ 7ecutei duribg Toe Phonarmonic Society 10 2' Ra=Ria it' • cart for the season on the 24% , con direction of Leopold Ganz. A t the Ttle i r the William,College the students of the & a t e t i e ."rick. given a performance of - the tragedy o f Anti "'a }ew e originally written and in the Greek laugus i g ge ";::''s„ da‘delufAia. 14.4--Atre THE EARLY LONDON CLUBS. The Beaf steak Club was founded in the reign of Queen Annp:— " He that of honour, wit, and mirth partakes, May be a fit cumpaniou o'er beef-steaks." _ The Beef-steak SJoiety, a d!fferent association, was com menced in 1735, and in apartments of their own, at the Lyceum Theatre, the members still enjoy beef and con viviality one day in the week during the season. The " Literary Club," founded by Reynolds and Johnson, in 1763, and which is still maintained, must be known by all readers. It risQt at first at the " Turk's Heal," in GArrard-Atreet. Soho, and, besides the rounders, in• cludA Gold-mith, Burk ,, , G - attick, 'Roswell, Bstuel.oc, nod Sir John Hawkins. Toe " Wednesday Club," at rte Globe Tavern, in Feet-street, was another of !how to e i toe l (ioldsn3i'h heioug,..d. T a posmon of tne parties forming such clubs way b, githerud from I),r -rwit's übeclore Of Uuld•inith's inttiductien to the ,od Club." Gi,ldy was struck by the im portant epos asoce of the chairman in his gilt chair, and said, fhis must be the Lrd Coancellor at leas..." " No," said Derrick, "he's only msster of the rots" Lie was a baker. A few years ago we made the circuit of the L indon taverns, and w• re surprised to find how many merely convivial clubs (thought by some to have been "put down" by the popular Literary Institutions of the day) then existed, and indeed still exist. Of the " chocolse houses" and c. ffee•houses, which took an associative character, White's, of Sr. Jatnes's-street, was, perhap', the earliest. As White's • Choes,l 4 t, House, on the site of what is now " Arthur's Club House," it was estahlished between 1690 and 1700 ; and as Wl.ite's Club House, 38. S . . Jsmes'e-street, opposite to what used to be" Crockfords," it is known at this day. White's, Boodle's, the Grecian, the Cocoa Tree, are all historical : each of them symbolised certain opinion or habits. As Defoe writes (1722), " A Whig will no more go to the Cocoa Tree or Ovule's than a Tory will b© seen at the coffee-house of St. James's." The character which formerly attached to those who belonged to White's was test of men of pleasure and desperate gamAers. The Earl of Oxford cursed it as the bane of half the English nubility;" and a story is mentioned by Walpole to the effect that a man dropping down dead at the door of the club, bets were made by the members whether he was deal or not, and they would not permit his being bled because it would affect the fairness of the bet.—Builder. DESTRUC7IVE FlllFi. Ye.st.rday slynat one the inhabi tants of 4neen-atreel, Rateliff, were alarmed by the sud den outbi teak of a fearful fire in the remises cccupiesi bi Mr. W. _Werrivking, licensed victualer, and proprie tor of the Rainbow Tavern, situate at N 4, in the above-mentioned street, The several residents in the house in attempting to gain the street ny - the staircase were driven back to their rooms by the flames. Mr, Werneking, having fortunately succeeded in gaining the street in sifiey, oetained he assistance of an old ladder. and having placed it against one of the windows, be was in the act ot leading hie wife down, when one of the. rounds give way, and she was thrown upon her face. Fortunately she was not vary seri .oily injured. The servant girl, however, who was in the :second floor back, on finding the fire approaching her room, in order to avoid 13-tog burnt to tleath, jumped out ot window, and fell with a fearful crash on the ground. The poor creature was picked up and wa, found to be so se riously injured that see was forth,vita obliged to be removed to the hospital, *bete she at present re mainK in a eta a of great suffering. A man and a boy were also obii4ed to mike a precipitate retreat from the first fl tor, and the lodgers were driven similar expodsenrs. The engin e s were quickly on the spot, and a plentiful supply of water haying been procured, the firemen were aetting heir el,giaes to work, when the whole building suddenly fit to the ground. Th e fi re with ;h.• prtuntses bilngit:g to Mr. E. . S'raodish, No. 5, next door. rho destruction of the last-Drained building appeared inevitable, when the brie Bade, who were raided by about 50 hir,d 'assistants, worked the engines with full vigour, and they at length succeeded in gettieg the . flames exti ngu i s h e d. The damage d.ne is thus otfl?taly reporttd ny M. Braid wind to the various tire • lives terming the London (seta- Olishnumt :--" The premises of Mr. W. Werneking, l:censed victualler, and koowu as the Rtinbow, were very old, and fell &mu shortly after they to k fire; con. tents ware insured is the Rty al Exchatig , Fire-; , ffiee. rho premiaPs which b longed to Niestre. Ltrchin ;aid Co., ot Queen-tttreet, mere insured in the LegAl and Com mercial Tho premises of Mr. Standish have the roof and side visit considerably damaged by fire, wad the furniture by removal and water ; the c..ntents were insured in the Pramoix Fire-offici. and the building W 45 insured in the Leg.l and C rntnercial-otfiee. The furniture of Mr. Cr, 'Thorp, coekeeper. No. 3, in the same street : is likewise datettged by removal and water. The loss will fall on the Royal Exchange Fire-afica." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, APRIL 19. STOCK Exarar;Gz. - The share market continues very firm. Great Westerns were done to-dAy at 92 1 A Eastern Lid Dover. 22 - Yolk and North Midland, 26. LIVEtiPOOL, APRIL 19 STOCK Excuaxos. - There was an improved feeling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and good business has been done at improved prices. The sales reported were— E istern C ,un' ies, 9 9-16—Ea4 Lancashire, 17;4; -Lanca shire and Yorkmbir, Ditto, Fifths, 6 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 21—London and North-Western, 125 y s —lianchester, StiotlLdd, end Lincolnshire, 33—Mid land, 68v, - Sl.lropshir , 3 Union (Ridway and Canal), 3 dis.— York and North ,Intlantl, NlANetirvi ltsts APRIL 19. Srocx ExCHANGE.—Thera has been a fair amount of bu4ness transacted to-day, w;tlinut material alteration in prices. Tut only transaottnns were a , follow:—Ambergate, tingh tin, B .rnn, and Evt Junctiun. 1",4 Btackuurn (No. 1). titi,—W.4t, Ridiog Union, 4;ii dis.—Preston and Wyre (N , ) 1), 45!,i —.l.ltuched , er, Buxton, and Midland. Auctieiter, 74hetlield, and Lincolnshire, 35 DIU°, New 61. Preference, 34 p. Post-oftce ShithottiNh A6GULS. Ili signifies that the malls are sent from the General by the night—and li by the motninr—Cse.tell.) Wit.ri auide up IR Yroui writ , 4eneral Post-office, port die London. L patched. PLACES meriea (by Brit. pkt.;N tmerica (by U.S. pkt.) America (by U.S. pkt.) 3i j Alma (West coast).. N dlexandria• • • ...... N iielgiurn. .. .. • • N 3razi) . Bueuos Ayres .. M Callionths(viaCha.rret) Cape 01 Good Hope N ::onstanttnople• N t,lentral America St. Channel Isles .. N !April 23 'Liv „ , . pee' er t • .April 20 ~ .. {Liverpool . lAp,il 2S .. .. Sontharnpt taw ot tiie month , Plymouth il4th St 30th et me.' Dover ~ Daily .• .. ..; i)over . .. .. 1 9th of the month Southampt 9th of the moat, ,:louthampt, td 14: - . 17th of mutat:: ;iuuth,trnot. :14th or month Plymouth. ,7th 17th 27th ot mo , Dover 12d it 17th of anon Southampt %lon., Wed., Fri. utAxatpt. Whoa due. !April 21 !May 3 Aprii 18 i pm" • 'May 1 ',3lay 16 April 20 Wisp 3 April 20 !April 20 Ta. Tr,. s a t April 20 Twice.tally April 20. Tae.,. •ist. 1.3144..Tbvi April 20 Twiceuall, ChM M 117 in of the mo,:th Soathampt (Prance &N • Twic-i, daily .. 'Dover . i.lreeze* .. • • N 7th I 7th 27th of Lilo Dove' ilamtnargh Nl‘aesday & Friday , London . Aoilana •• M. Wednes. & Aatur. London .. loaduras . 15 • 17th of the niont:i 6uuthatnat. Ireland M & N' Twice daily Holyhead .. India(via 9.otithamp.) M 20tb of the month Southwest. India (via NI sraailles) N •itht. 24th of month Dover -. itediterranean (via gouthareaton) .. al 20th of the month Soutbamet. A editen ..near (via Marseilles) 1.1 'kith ofmontri Dover Mexico M,2d of the month Southampt. Madeira •• •• M 9th of the month Southampt. rk7th,l7th.lhth,t7thl I Dove ii & 50th of month Naples* .. -• N oth 15th 21qt, of ins Dover ~ Pap a l mates* N ;atli 15th 25th or ino Dover •eninsular.. •• M,7tb 17th 27thwf mo Southarnpt ?ern •• • • .11'17th ut the month southarnot Tuscany* N,sth I sth s 5 th of mu' Dover peat Indies 51117th of the month 'Southampt. Weit Indies (except %miens Ir. Nassau) Mi2ci of the month tiouttunept. ; May 5 • the mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by F:ench packet yi Marseilles. ISlay' 1 Matta* .. .. !May 1 !111 ay 5 !May 16 l Apr:l 18 April 22 !April 22 !Apr 1 '.6 !April 21 A; , rll 22 April 24 METIVTOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVON4FUIIIE• SQUARE, BlStiorSGATE.—Yesterday evening a very full meeting was hold in tile board room of the above institu tion, of which J ,hn Gurney Hoare, Esq., is treasurer. Tue chairman stated in the most emphatic manner the claims of the suffering poor upon this institution. In no part of London was disease so prevalent as the eastern district. o:her parts ha i their hospitals, but this—involving as it did Soitaltields, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, and St. Georges-in-the-East—had but one. and that was the L',ndon Hospital (already over-crowded). The Metro politan Free Hospital had during the past few months re lieved 13,432 sick persons, and the average was at least 18,00) per year. The medical staff had indeed more thrust upon them, by the pressure of calamity and disease, than they could well alleviate, unless they were more warmly supported by the subscribers to the institution. A vote of thanks having been passed to the medical officers for their valuable services, the meeting adjourned. LAnGe .... TT -- FM I LIES.—To the instances of u nusua lly ne, who is said, by tradition, to h ave h a d p P. - Wren, of whom 27 were livi ng a t one ti me . large numbers Aof c hildren by one mother m a y b e a dd e d t h at of a Lady Elhins not less than 36 chi seems to corroborate the traditi on : it i s Elphinstone, which whi d a new and somewhat bashful acquaint that they Mice ask ed telling There is a story told of this lady and her husband, L or d mace to visit them, him that he should m ee t no one Their dinner, d and being shown through the dining hall on his w a y to the rawing-room, wa , much disconcerted at seeing a but their family circle. guest arrived shortly before strating with h is h os t and ho s tess for having taken him in, lung t a bl e laid out for a b ou t twenty pe o pl e . O n remnu as he th ought, he was quie tly informed that be had been told whom this story -refers; and' by one. I believe that assembled, only fell short of thirty . no more than the truth, for that their family party, when all the Earl of Lauderd .le, who lived in the latter part of the John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, and his lady, a daughter of 17 th and beginning of the 18 t h centuries, are the pair to stone family, though the Scotch peerages make no mention of any such phenomenon in the Elphin of the authority from which I derive the tradition, to believe yet I am strongly inclineJ, from the goodness it to be true.- Notes and Queries. e was unequal to. ' (3"1"1"(ins Cotsulicr OF A WomaN.--The fol lowing narrative embodies as touching a tale taken from actual a-id humble life as ever fiction portrayed, as it fur nishes a beautiful •xample of the heroism of affection, show ing th a t a wornat,'s motherly sympathy dared that which On Sanday se 'nnight a child rn ab a o n u ' t s Carmarthen, into the Towey, a strong tide running . at the Yews of age fell over the Pothouse-quay, f c . o u u r ra o g r ti v e ti me . T wo young men were f taudiug near, bat being un able to swim, made no affort to rescue the boy, merely crying out, ‘, He is drowning!" but aannah a woman named Evans who wa4 in her house attending her sick daughter, E the accident, and gallantly rushed into the water up to her arm. it although totally ignorant of the art of swim ming, mid saved the child just as it Rag on the pint of 0444' tailkics../.slPWigo Mroft TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1852. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LtileDS, April 19. The LPED CHANcr-LLOR, took his sea , ;, ou tha Wco!- seek et Five o'clock. YETI `IONS. Lord MON EAGLE presented a petition from Gal way and Limerick ,against the E3clestastical Titles Act. The Berl of SHAFTESBURY presented petitions from D , and other places, against the Me O P N lY Tp u re tb ' presented a petition from Dun stable, praying for the retention of th e C r yatil Palace. His Lordship added, that he did no t j o i n i n t h e prayer of ; n i B Dumbarton, : grant . ni m° Lord the petition MASTERS IN CHANCERY. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he rose to lay on the table of the House a Bill for abolishing the office of Nlastere in Chaacery, and substituting caber officers in their place. After the speech which he had made on a former occasion, he should net think it necessary to de provision% of the naetotee wae one which he had having coesulted on the se.bjec , . the four lain their Lordschoinpesida,n,r)4.,dleingatnhd of he ti h rn a e d liinadsttahteit. g treb.et l it de v r i vy e a . a l'atnu te lg f i: e llu : tll.l 7 —Lamely, the Master ef the R its reel the three V ise-Cheecellers, In whom the provisions of the sit were to be winked out, and on whom would awinlY deP,nd its s e ch w a a n s sure their thhtetiinrgLir carrieddsh Lordships wintearse aware that a, ir rtl.te would be quite, itnpo,sible to find four person, f tn l ope . more learned, more able, or more willing to grapple with fee d i fficulties they would have to encounter in the matter than those distinguished judges; and he had no doubt that with such assistance the measure would be brought under the most favourable circumstances before the public.—(Hear, hear.) There was at present one vacancy a mong the Masters in Chancery, so that nine was the actual number of those officers. He proposed that the measure should begin to take eff,ct from the first day of Michaelmas term in the present year, and that the four senior masters should then be released from the duties cf their office, while the remaining five should be left to wind up the arrears of business which the Lord Chancellor might think proper to reserve for them until the new scheme should come into perfect operation. Under the Bill they would have powers which they had never before possessed. It had always been alleged in, defence of the masters, who bad buen visited with alt the sins of their offices, that they had not had power to compel suitors to proceed with cases before them. By the present Bill he proposed to remedy that d e tect, and at once to invest the masters, subject to an appeal to the Court, with the power of compelling par ties to proceed immediately with their cases. Ho should a l so o bserve that he proposed to give to the Court itself similar power for the future; so that the Court would p pe er r i s o o d ea t i f, ex P p e e th ri a e P n s c l e ma o n t y th e efficacy be enabled to prevent the p rotrac ti on o f c ases for a years. He had already had of such au ar rangement. When h e b a d the h onour o f p res idin g v " the C ci irt of Chancery in Ireland he had issued, in accordance with a power vested in him, certain orders Lir compelling parties to proceed with cases which had been pending, in some iiastances, for twenty, thirty, or even forty years; and before he bad left that country every single old case had been finally disposed of.—(Hear, hear.) He had taken great care in framieg thee present measure that under it there should be no room for favouritism in the dismissal of the mssters; for the four seniors among them should be dismissed it the first instance. They would, of course, be entitled to receive their fall salaries after their dismissal, and the other five would remain until their business shoulr be wound up. Under the new scheme the Master of the Rolls and the three Vice Chancellors should each hsve two chief clerks, and each chief clerk should have it second clerk, and the ahole of the busi ness es hick had heretofore been in the handa of the masters should hencetorward be carried on in chambers by the judges, assisted by those clerks. There would be no rethrenc , is to any other officers, and no unneces sary s'atereeres of facts, with all the expense and delay which these references and statements occasioned. The judges themselves, with their chief clerks arid under clerks, should transact in chambers as much ef the business before them as was not to be heard in court. The effect of that would be thee the judge would ge into ehembers during any period of the day, or for the whole day, as he might trituk proper, and he would there c whh . his own officers. Ile might if be should deem it advisable., get reports drawn up ' for his use, so that there might be something on which be could afterwards proceed. It had always sesmed to him (the Lord Chancellor) that if any scheme of Chaecsry re form were to have a fair chance of suCe , -ss, the jedg wil''ui.dworkit e,, ant fur r e, the4nselves. Wilt respect to the p t'r nage to be uhseree that tte thi ught it rtighbet new scheme, nave the a e peint men t o f his own chief clerks, St) that hlt e might have p-rsons he could himself approve of for h>con ducting the busin ess o f hi s o ffi ce. Upon the sam e prin mprlrrlt' tie would give s h and their c p lrka lm ah e old me eto the chief cl. rks. Tnere should be some places in which the jud ge Shoal u i t that subject he proposed that the Ma,ter,o the Rolls teappointment of the hete. second Upti end his clerks s h ou ld a s semble in then R i lls Office, and that each of the three Vice . Chancell ors shoul d have commodi , ius chambers furnished for him at Lincoln's lon. He proposed to take a power of selling, with the consent of the Crown, the offices in Southampton buildings, in which the masters at present sat;' and he hoped that the sum to be derived from that sale would be sufficient, or nearly sufficient, for the con strucion of the new chambers. He thought it very desirable that the clerks should not meet in the building hitherto toni by the masters, and that they should not be led to think by the associations of the place that they had succeeded to the situations of those officers. Under the existing law, if the senior Vice-Chancellor should cease to occupy his office, there was no power in the Crown to appoint a new Vice-Chancellor; but ho pro posed that by the new Bill there should be a power given to the Crown, if it should thick fit, to appoint succes sors from time to time to that judge. He fer vently hoped that the syaetn would he found to work without the ap pointment of any additional judges. The Master of th e Rolls and the three Vice-Chaucellors already con stituted a powerful judicial stall', and be should be very sorry to see any necessity for its increase. There would undoubtedly, however, be this inconvenience in the proposed new arrangement, that chile a judge was etigag,:d in chambers, no business could be transacted its his court; fur there was not in Chancery, as in the coremon law courts, an extra judge in each court, who ceuld attend in chambers. But, he hoped that the in creased facility for obtaining cheap and speedy justice would more than cempeisate that inconvenience. He would fur a moment draw their attention to the present state of the proceedings in reference to the reform of the Court of Chancery. He was sorry that, whil e he was alluding to that subject, he did not see in the House his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham, we believe), to whom their Lordships and the country were so much indebted for his very impor tan' services in the cause of legal reform. Ilia Noble and Learned Friend had ititroduced iu that House a Bill fur extending the juriaticiion of the county court., to white he (the L ird Chancellor) had had no time to de vote any attention previeusly to the third reading; and he had net, therefore, thou tit proper to interfere with its progrea It had received their Lordships' assent, and it was at present before the o tier House. He was aware that the pa-sine of that Bull might interfere very much with the regulaione or the measure he was then Its) mug on the lab'e of the House, and he felt that it would be neeessary to consider carefully how tar tee two tiled rnsuartels i c a ou t li i t lia ne co w u t a ir t k ry ed av t ) o r g e e tt h a e i r o . us ß t u h t a , a us hi t a he s re ob w i a e s a n n o d le , arnd Friend that the present B ill should pass, he was ttre that hi. N hie awl Learned 1 - th iend would be the first is agree that his measure should le allowed to stand over until the present Bill should have become law. The Rill related sol , ly tc the mast rs' offi3es, und the new juri-diction to be vested in the judges assisted by their here wee still a very important portion of the report of Commissioners to be carried into eif,.et, and that was all that releted to what was termed the precedhre. as distinguished tom the practice, of the Court of Chaucery, and the tO-ahs of rendering tt more asy end cheaper to oetaiu jueoce in that court. Th.' Hell for carrying out that portion of the recommendations of the Commissioriers was at present under his (the Lord Cnaneellor'e) consideration, and he hoped that, ha the course of about three weeks, he would, with the as eistance of the other judges of the courts of equity, be able to lay it on the table of that Honse, and by that means to carry into effect all the sa g g ei.ns made by the Commissioners for improving the jurisdicti m of the Court of Caancery. He would not detain their Lo rdshi p s any further. He was sure that it woul.l be needless fur him to go into alt the details of the Bill. He believed their Lordships would agree with him, that , a s far as that measure went, no time had been lost in its pre a phr r a o - 3 tion.—(Hear, hear.) He would also undertake to the that, as far as legal improvements were conce rned, assurance given by the Noble Earl at the fo r warding GovernMent that no time should be lost in Lori ORAN WORTH was glad to see that to comply and Learned Lord had shown such readiness those improvements would be fully and fairly fu lfilled. Lori with the recommendation of the Chancery Commission, n s e s s i e on t , for the abolition of the Masters' of fi ces- The present Bill had his full approval. Lord CAMPBELL said that he first step . f these Master's office the root of all the evils ocrtshi o towards Chancery reform was the abolition consi dered taken Chancery, and he was glad to see that th e d art th o e f offices. T The his Billßit Bill pa rsed sthen throughrettd a first coin t rn i m t t e te . e. On the motion of the Earl of DERBY, titheß t Their h and d IB,ptoalhrBSe:es Marine PR I C OF g y UEB E C BILL. th e Mutiny FoTuhreo'clock. pastitnheenMau,tilinf,ranße were read a third ROUSE OF COMMOIVS, April 19. The STEAMER took the Chair a few minutes before livered in a potation agreed to Sheriffs of London ap CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. bijy , EV cat t o t p ti t e aa b t a i r on an o d f d al e; City, Pr ,, Yirg that the City charter may be txtropt from the operation of the Charitable Trusts Bill. NEW witurs. On the motion of Mr. P. NIACICENZIE, new writs were ordered for E i st Suti,lk Cold Tavistook, the former in the room of Lord gendleshatn, deceased, and tho hatter in the room of Mr. Trela,.Tny, who had ac cepted the uffize of S eward of the Chiltern Hundreds. PRIV A TE BILLS. bird time and pa T ss h ed e : Lollowing Bonstaple Market s an d F a irs. Bills were read a t Great Munster Fair. I.kley Waterworks. Kelvin Bridge (Glasgow) ,incl other l a aidon and Works. Southampton Road, through . Bishop's Waltham. M di ns River Navigation. Eql ImproTeruenti Skipton and'Ciaeo Road. Sunderland Waterwork4. The following Bills were considered and agreed ta:— Aberd Ire Market and Slaughterhouses. Cheshire Cunstdbuhay. Dudley WateTwolks. Ea,torn Comities arid Newmarket and Chesterford way Companies Glamford Briggs Waterworks. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Lockwood and Meicham Road. Newmarket Railway. Norfolk Railway. Retford and Littleborough Road. Romeey, Broughton, Swckbridge, and Wallop Roads. Stockton and Darlington Railway. South Essex Estuary and Reclamaion. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed:— Wedmiro Road—Hu Idersdeld Burial ground. RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR BELL. On the,rooti,in for the second readiTig of this Bill, Sir JAMES DUKE wished to know whether the Admir , ►l-y intended to do anyt'ing to remedy the defrcts which maid'estly existed in the management of Rams gate flfirhour. Mr. STAFFORD said the subject was under aio con sideration of the Admtralty ; but he Weli afraid there would b- no time to bring in a BM to remedy all the evils this session. 'rho present 13111 mitigated some of them, and he should therefore allow it to pass, but only upon the unierstanding that a BM would be al lowed to be brought in next session which should em brace the whole subject. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to committed. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented, praying for the re zeal of the \leynooth grant. Sir J. DUKE presented several petitions from the City in favour of a uniform poor•law. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bris tol against the M4ynooth grant. Mr. HEYWARD presented a petition from Coke to the same eff et. Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from Ross-shire against the repeal of the Test Acts. Sir F. THESIGER presented a petition from the so licitors of Manchester, praying for the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. WILLIAMS presented petitions from Truro, praying for the preservation of the Crystal Palace. Lord HOTHAM presentd a similar petition from a place in the East Riding. Colonel THOMPSON presented several petititions against the Extradition of Marine Deserters' Bill. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT presented a petition against the Mayo , oth grant. Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from the attor neys of Midhurst against the certificate duty. Mr. HUME presented several petitions from various parts of the country praying an equalization of taxes. Mr. GEACa presented a petilion from Coventry :spinet the Militia Bill. Mr. SO ['HERON presented a petition from Wiltshire against the attorneys' certificate duty CHARI TABLE TRUSTS BILL. The A TTORNEY.GENER,AL intimated that he would postpone this Bill until this day week. THE REV. MR. BENNETT. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that he would move on an early day for an address to her Majesty, praying for an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Bennet to the living of Frome. CRYSTAL PALACE. Mr. HEYWOOD gave notice that he would postpone hi, motion respecting the Crystal Palace until the 29th of April. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Colonel SIB mom , gave notice that when this Bill came on for a second reading he would move that it be read a second time that day six months. MILITIA BILL. Colonel SIBTHORP also gave notice that when it was moved to read this Bill a second time, he should propos° an amendment that it be read a second time (hAt day six months.—(A laugh.) EXPULSION OFAUS BRITISH SUBJECTS FROM Mr. A.NSTEY gave notice that to-morrow be would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the cor rospondence between the Government and the Cabinet nf Vienna respecting the expulsion of the Rev. Mr. Edwards from Austria was sufficiently complete to be laid before the 11,,u40. B L L , J I R O o r t S h I e N E E x S.S 6 EXCHEQUER gave The C El ANC P E U L notice he would move that on Thursday, the 29 n of April, end on every subsequent Thursday, the orders of the day should have precedence of untiees of motion. CITY GRAND JURIES. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to render it necessary to summon grand juries within the metropolitan district, and for the ;Amendment of the criminal law in other particulars. The subject of this Bill had excited a good deal of public attention ; it could not be said to be new , for in the year 1841, when he had the h onour o f filling the same office which he now held, he suggested, amongst other things,' to the then Government a Bill of precisely similar character. The Bill was brought into Parliament in the year 1849, but although a Committee was appointed, and several witnesses were examined upon it, the Committee only reported the evidence, and the Bill fell through. He would not trespass upon the time of the House by glutt ing in detail the precise nature of the measure, but upon the second reading he would go fully into the reasons which induced him to propose this alteration in the law. Leave vts then given to bring in the Bill. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER. Mr. BERRIES rose to move for a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 85, for the better government of her Majesty's Indian territories," and to report their observations thereon. The House would be aware that the object of this Cow mitten was to take into consideration the propriety of renewing the charter to the East India Company. He need scsrcely state to the House that hitherto the East India Company had exclusively enjoyed our In. dian territories, and it was equOly unnecessary for hire to inform toe House of the extraordinary progress which the ludian,empire bad made since the year 1784,_ when the present system of gover nment began. since that period there ha l been a gradual tendency to abo lish as much as possible the exclusive rights aed privi leges which the East India Company enjoy. For instance, in the year 1793 the charter underwent a considerable modification and a great inroad was made upon the pri vilege of the Company. Amongst other things a new system of private trade was i ntroduced, which was car rted on not only in connexion with, but under the imme diate direction of, the East India Company, and this private trade had developed itself to an almost fabulous extent from that period down to 1813. About this latter period a very great alteration its the exclusive right of the East India Company as traders was made, and private traders were admitted. The only exclusive right. in fec , , reserved to the Company was the trade to China, but, with that exception, all their other trading privileges were removed. New re guletions were introduced at the time of a most valuable nature, and these regulatio ns continued for some ti m e. These new regulations wore the result of an inquiry which the House had instituted, and the y w ere con tinued down to 11133. At that time a new Act for regulating the charter w as introduced and by this Act all the rights of the Company, including t h o se of trading with China , were modified, and from this lime they lewd to be a trading company. All their powers were made over to the Crown , and their commer cial assets were disposed of under th a t A ct. rho Ac t was to coating° for twenty years, namely, from 1834 to 1854, and it was agreed to by the Company on certain conditions. The first con dition fur the immense sacrifice which the Company made WAS that their stock, amounting to, as he wa s informed,. 6,000,000/, sle tuld not b subject to redemption for torty years. That was, it was not to be called in fur forty years after the passing of the Act he had mentioned, and also, if, during that period the Government should deprive them of any privilege in cluded in the Act, they should acquire a right of de manding a redemption of their stock of 2001, for every 1001. This certainly was no great boon to the Cern. pall y, for at this present moment the 1001. stock of the Company he understood was worth 260/. The affairs of India under this arrang meat had c m antled to be administered from 1834 up to the present time, and they would eontinue to be administered till t e e year 1854, atter which it would be for this and the other House, and the Crown, to determine whether the same or another system should be adopted. The Government hid thought it necessary to submit the question with regard to the renewal of the charter to Committees of both Houses of Parliament. They considered that there were three courses open to them — first, to let the Act expire; secondly, to propose the re newal of the Act without further inquiry; and thirdly, to propose an inquiry before any further steps were taken in the matter. The present and the late Govern ment thought the latter was the best and most becoming course to adopt. Infinite benefit was found to result from the inquiry which was instituted previous to the granting of the last charter. He did not apprehend any difference of opinion with regard to the appointment of a Committee. Twenty years had nearly elapsed since 1833, and it was neces sary to inquire what effect the system of government in India had produced on the welfare and progress of that country during this period. The revenue had in some instances been satisfactory, in others unsatisfactory. At the commencement of the 'period the total income was 18,407,000/. and there had been a gradual increase in that sum during every succeeding year, and in the present year it amounted to 24 379,0001., the difference being not less than 6,000,0001. He was sorry to say , however, that the charges had increased f 18,000,000L in 1834, to 25,000 0001 i n the re froth ptient year, thus exhibiting a deficiency of 678 , 000/ . Ii w rally be inquired how this deficiency arose. natu four years there was a considerable ti the first surplus, atter that period there had been but stunt di ficiency, with the exception alim'st. a con when there was a sur p l us of one ar, of 350 000/ increase of charges was occ • •The disas trous wars in which India was occasioned by the of the period. The miserable involved during the whole war of' Atighanistan had d undertaking called the than 10,000,0001. The n drawn certainly no less a sum the war in S • d d the first and second w a r CID e , • an In the Pun subcost also an from the best accounts enormous sum. It appeared - he , had been collect, that all these able to -11 not , than have cost a less SUM altogether wars could 000,000/. There had been added t o the national debt to conisequenoe of these wars, as muc h as 20 000 w hich involved a u 0401.. large additional expenditure to the country in the shape . of interest. There were, hoe-ever, some points for con During - gratulation. n , the 20 years the exports and im cirtg A nearlY doubled, and there hed-boe.a N Froiite.P sive increase in the tonnage of PPSMIS both inwards and outwards,. Tbey had elso obtsieed u. great augmenta tion of territory end population. As many as 165.000 severe miles m f territory, and cer tainly not less than nine Milhous of popu latiou, had peen added to their dorninioes in Ou the whole he thought the futnre tiros perity of Lelia was incomparably more advantage ens now than at any formsr period of its history. I, had been said that the natives were precluded from all share in the administretion of affairs in India, but the fact was that the Government encouraged the employment of natives, and also promoted their education, in order to tit them fur that employment. The total number of natives employed in adafnistrative office?, having sala ries of and above 1201, per nurture, is not less than 1,560, and there aro besides '2,840 u. hers at a low r seale of se la rice 'lone •,,,urta ,it Incite had on the whele worked exceed ingly well, arid it Wl6 satistectery to know 'hat of la. e years they hal considerably impriee 3 .l Th. appals lagd been few in eu.nner, and the administration of the law bad on ihe whole teem raise anti salutary. Then, eg tin, with regard to the important. subj,et of education, he f and that the edueetteuel establishments of India had of late years bet n greatly augmented. At one tins(' t hate wore only two, one in Caleutea arid the other in Benares, but in 1835 there were no less than fourteen in existence while last year it was reeled that there were no le,s than forty existing in 8.-ngel and the north-west part of the ter ritory.. The systems observed in these educ Atonal establishments wore based on sound religious prin ciple, and there could be no doubt that the Government had all along displayed an anxious desire to improve the condition of the people committed to their charge, both in an educational as well as a moral and religious point of view. —(Hear, hear.) The state of affairs in India then was most gratifying; while with regard to the financial condition of that great territory tie thought the returns upon the table would give equal setisfection to the House. The interest payable on the Indian debt did not exceed two millions a year, and even that was gradually being reduced, as the works which the Government had undertaken were getting into reproduc tive operation. Many of these works consisted of high roads, and not a few of them had been undertaken within the last twenty years. Therefore, in.. considering the management and conduct of the Government of India, these matters should not be lost sight of. And with reference to the railways which bud been projected in various parts of India, he thought the works generally which had been uudertaken were called for by the exi gence of the State. The ecclesiastical establishmenet of India stood upon a very satisfac'ory footing, and the in crease which had from time to time been made is the num ber of Indian clergy displayed a laudable desire on the part of the East India Government to secure the rcli ginus instruction of the people. At present there were 130 clergymen employed in various parts of the empire, besides three biehorice. The patronage of the East India Company we impartially distributed, but with regard to political affairs the East India Company was only the agent of her Majesty's Government. The re sponsibility, therefore, fell upon the home Ad ministration; but it would, nevertheless, be a great mistake to suppose tbat that Company was simply an agent or tool, because it partook of a mixed character, and, in some respects the respon sibility of government, beyond its ministerial capacity, rested as well upon the shoulders of the Company as upon the Government. Occasionally it came to pass that a difference of opinion arose between her Majesty's Government and the executive of the Com pauy; but still, upon the whele, he thought it was infi nitely to the advantage of the public service that this system of mixed government should be continued. This, however, was one of the subjects which the Committee would have to take into its serious coneideration, and he hoped having now gone through all the topics which suggested themselves to his mind, the House would have no hesitation in agreeing to his motien.—(fleer.) Mr. ANSTEY said no one who bed heard he Right Hon. Gentleman could tail to arrive et the conclusion that it was impossible to overrate the importance of the uhject, or to perceive the danger-of proceeding to any decision without due and full inquiry; and he thought that the appointment ot a commeeste (or commute. 6) to investigate the .unject wes whet no one weule object to He was nut disposed to question the propriety of at pre- sent continuing to follow the old course, and thought, indeed, that Parliament ought riot to he called ripen to legislate at all until there bad been made a full inquiry eider the control of Perliane ne But he asked the House to consider wheth, r—(useful as such inquiry weuld be)—it would be under the present circtimece sufficient for the object which they sought. believed before it was impassible tin to conduct such an inquiry any committee as co be sad.factory ; and b e, tberetore, bad risen to tarn° the amendment, of which he had given melee, to add the following words:—" And that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, representing the lateness of when the powers an d session, the near approach of the period authorities under which the government of her Majesty's Indian dominions is now carried on will naturally determine, and the urgent importance of ht into the condi tion o f those obtaining a thorough insight dominions, and into the feelings and wishes of the Queen's subjects, native and Europeans, resident within the same, before Parliament is called upon to pass any measure for continuing the said powers and authorities; end praying her Majesty for that purpose to take the ne cessary measures tor sending commissioners of inquiry into British India, duly instructed and empowered to cesuateence and preseeute ad requisite inquiries in the premises, and to rep , rt the evidence, together with their observations thereupon, to her Majesty in Parliament." No incpiry (he contended) could be successfully prose cuted uclees with the assistance of local commissioners authorised to take evidence in India; the evidence of na tives, and of planter;, and other residente. Even if the flattering picture drawn by the Right Hon. Gentl emen were correctrit would surely not be wise to ze , iign 150,000,000 of our Indian subjects for another 20 years to the absolute authority of the Company, without taking the evidence of natives and residents. Without a local commission this cculd not he done. The Hindoos were prevented by their religit n fronts coming to England, for they would lose caste by crossing the a2a; and many of the 114 ehoinedans could not be expected, for tee result of the Ccuseany's rice had been to reduce that population to unspeakable wretchedness and poverty. In 1848 the Committee of Mr. Bright upon cotton cultivation reported that the con dition of the cultivating °lama was one of extreme poverty, and there were scarcely any other classes in the country. There were precedents for a Commission of Inquiry; that course had been taken with respect to Africa. and to the North American' boundary, and also to the lonian Lands. And with reference to India itself, the same course had been pursued in respect to railways, which it had been said was a subject which could only be dealt with properly by a local inquiry. He did net, however, admit the flittering picture drawn by the Right Hon. Geutlemen of the condition of the country to be correct. Toe Rght Hun. Gentleman had said chat the debt thd not exceed two years' re venue, and this appeerei plausible, but was fallacious; tor the revenue of Ineia was not medal up merely of taxation, but partly out of a rent received by the Corn ploy from the land, in the capacity of proprietors. He contended that the Company took 60 per cent, of the produce of the land, celculated not on the vatue of the land but on the probable value of the crop. And, added to this, there was taxation on every article on which it was possible to Impose ir. Yet the revenue did netex ceed 21,000,0001. from a tart-story as large as Eurote and mere fertile, better pe pled, and more complete:) , in the hands of the Governmeut—blessed with several har vests in the year, and abounding in everythieg, from the productio of the tropics to t ho s e of the pule. 'late n was all the revenue derived, and that p a ltry revenue the people were racked to produce, and often sold up and ruined. And, on the other hand, tbo ex penditure went on year a ' t e r year consuming rio only the resource s o f th e present, but also of the future. The truth was, that, as local inquiry would prove, the conditi o n of India was one of hapel ss mi sery, which was better or worse according as our rule was more or less direct, and thus it w i eeb a ette e r in the of the L e " non-reguletiou" provinces (where the 11ee Governor mitigated the tyranny of etiden e hall- street). than in the " regulation" provinces, where the tyranny prevailed to the greatest extent; and emigration was continually goin g on from those latter provinces into the dominions of the N.zina or of the King of Oude, in order to avoid the tyranny of the Company. Such was the population we had undertaken to liberate. but which practically we had enslaved. In India, indeed, we were at a dead lock, and it would be difficult to squeeze an additional farthing from the people of thatne country. EveO by the testimony of M o r. Campb e ll , of the company's servants, who had written a Panegyric of the company within the last two months, it appe are d that the amount of rent was estimated according to the crop, but that opium, sugar, and cutton paid in a double proportion. Having reduced the value of the land by our exactions, we proceeded to tax the necessarit a of life ; and whilst we forbade the manufacture of salt derived from the sea, we iniquitously mo nopolirocd the manufacture of the article produced from the earth. It was a singular fact that the break ing out of the cholera in India was coincident wieh . the creation of the s a l t monopoly by Warren Hastings, and medical officers had reported that the disease, fright fully prevalent amongst the poor in India, who ware deprived of the article of salt, left the rich almost un touched. There had been some relaxation of this mono- Poly poly during the last few years, but not to 0,11 11 % 1 , i : 4 appreciable by the general body of the p• ' l ' e ttom tax criticised arid ridiculed the a ion granted by the Compan;,exttete—a*l:asnitsig,,nad tLhearnt.hede Member proceeded to examine t P Board of Control acted Di rectors, and Vice versa. " a check h o n e n d e i d h e th ß a that trhde of Boardp of Directors were as tencti lle g ents of the day, and kitilEnyteof the Affghan and other Indian wars as the d g °territory and patronage in that they had r i"i ears. w e lt would it have been consequence of teeso wars. be paid by the if the 36 000,0000/nnthrd fnbreetnhentothe payment would people of ibis c ed. out as the unrepresented and h a ve been ditsput le of the Punjaub and ethers tyrannised-over p we re the suff,,rers there was no chance of redress. It was remarkable, also, that whilst we had been going on increasing our territory in India, there bad been a g rowing deficiency in the revenue. The state of things ge nerally was such that if Mr. Macauley w ere now a member of the House of Commons, he would no tenger find it possible to repeat the praise eo the Bea.d of Di rectors he hied uttered in 1833. Mr. Campbell stated that within the last ten years the net revenue had in creased by more than 5,000,0001., but that .43 co 1837 the cost of the ordinary establi , hcoents had increased to 6,000,00 W.. se that the dedec iene, instead of being 66 per cne, were 76 per Cent. The position of the joint Jurisdictions of the Board of Control and B card of Di vxurd Wag .9,ll,ogathu suomilloue. The 'Periii . o4 119 W • • for einsideration was, whether they had sufficient °en& &nee ire the 'rpm who have thus mismanaged the of eirs of India to give them a renewal of their powers. lie would :ay that the pettrensge et India eught to be con fided to those who were really answerable for the go' vertiment. of ludia—trey ought to give- fair play to the repreeentative instituiens !hey had oe4aintd already, but winch they were endeavouring to take away. They ought to admit natives of rack and itifluenee into the highest places of the state. The policy of this country had only succeeded in those places in India where they had not actively interfered. In the Panjaub, for instance, the revenue was collected with the greatest ease, and there were no defaulters Their resident at Loodianah had ulreedy given evidence in favour of the fitness of the natives of India for the exercise of the higher functioe* of the Government. He stated that there were many Of the natives whose, gotilific3tions for the higher efftcesof the sore were sucn as to reflect honteir upon an assembly , setting even in Laudon or Paris. lie bud goo e thrtiugh'' the list of places held by natives, and he found that out. of 100 000 000 and more of natives. there were not 100 t receiving inc.Jw. s amounting to 1,000 rueees a month whsreas out of the 800 covenanted servants .the Come!' prey, 600 of them were in the receipt of .between 2 000! and 3,000 !Up, ts a month at heat ; at d of the remainders net one-:hind hail toss than he maximum amount of es Lary receive day naives er unceveuanted servants. What ' was the c-se of Ceionel Otrrstn ? This was en [mount able anti deserving man. In the attempt that hies beat.' recently made t ► crush him they had an insight into thee dark recesses ef Indian despotism and corruption. Ite appears; that there is a tributary state to which the British Government had acquired by treaty a right ,ref intervention. That right they had exercised in s uch 6 way as to extend their guarantee to all persons, whether they be native or foreign, of becoming British subjectitr and thereby of being entitled to British protection. The righ's under that treaty were folly recognised by the Sovereign of that territery and the Court of Directors.• A very eich backer in Bsroda, who was a native, re. ceived a guaracuse under this treaty from the British Government, and upon the faith of such he carried ote the business of a banker. That person died, leaving some millions behind him to his two widows, by each of - whom he bad one son, who were .ultimately to inherit his property. Under the conditions of the guarantee just referred to the two widows continued to carry on the business of the bank, until upon one day a fraudulent agent of the bank had carried e if one of the children-- the other having died previously. The child tbus carried off was murdered, and the guilty party to screen himself * charged the uefortunate mother with having foisted a spurious a ffspring upon her husband. She was there- , upon immured in gaol, and the accuser was placed in alt p .session of the property. Colonel Outram soon ette . ir . ..to. circumstance was appointed resident of Bared*, cud the widow t oetrived to make her case known to time He made a searcning inquiry into all the facts, and the result was not only to establish her innocence, but an, extensive conspiracy, in which were implicated many of the effieers of the late resident in this fraud. It was die covered that many of the highest rank had been bribed by the ill-gotten gains of this agent to refuse the slightest support to any nt the woman's applications for redress. At the same juncture the facts became so widely known that the. Bombay Government were obliged to make I show of interference in the matter, and u letter was sent to Colonel Outran), dated the 15th May, 1851. request ing him to report whether he bad any reason to suppose that any such bribery existed get:l%l.6lly. A copy . of this letter was sent to every officer in the Bombay Go, - ee vernment that had been charged with the office of reel" t•-i e ,,e' dent. Colonel Outram obeyed the in s tr uc ti o ns thee ee communicated, and made an effectual inquiry into the subject. He found the charge proved, and ascer tained that from 1840 large sums of money bad . been sent to Bombay Castle, and had been expended •„:te in the way of bribes. The highest persons were .. denour.ced as the recipients of those bribes. Colonel Outruns found, whether they were recipients or no, • that the money had reached the castle, and had Pro cured those particular services which it was meant to purchase. Colonel Outrank was enabled to intercept on the way to Bombay Castle the most secret and eXtraor- • chnary minutes of the Governor in Council, which had s seLetet been so recently adop .. .ed that they had not yet been acted upon, and yet they were , translated into the native dialect. This intercepted document he sent back to the proper quarter. For thus acting he was suspended , although he (Mr. Ansley) contended that under the pe: co llar cercum -mimes of the case he could not have. auteus otherwise. Notwithstanding Celeriel Outram's demands the authorities have retused to mike any inquiry into his case, but on the contrary have endeavoured by every . means in their power t hush it up. The most effeusive • articles have appeared from time to time in the netell''. p ,pers there, particularly the native ones, in reference to the conduct of the British authorities in this matter. Was this the treatment to which they ousht to sub' ject th a t man who had ren d ered such vluable services to their army in Scinde, and who had been epee in ted resident in Bared% tor the last services he bad ren dered them at Hyderabad? Colonel Outram wes n °ll in England asking them fir justice. He held in /us hand the report of the Advocate-general in Barcd th It was dated July 31, 1843, many y ears prior t o the appointment of Colonel Outram. Mr. Le Mesurert the Advocate-general says, '' There can be DO doubt tbi!s his highness, finding his position becoming critics/1 formed the design -of bribing largely those members of the British G o v e rn men t w h o w ere i n a p os iti o n 10 g ive WY, ct to his wishe s a n d th e se of his Ministers." The document went on t o sa y t h a t a l ong ietimacy with Sir James Cameo pointed that_gentleman out as the best channel of reaching the Governor of Boutbay ; end t ha e 145,0001 had already been proved to have been expend!: in the way of bribes. The a cc u sation continued to disregarded, and the Bombay Government refused t i n, vindicate its own character. H e (Mr. Ansley) now ask what confidence could they place in the evi dencte produced before a select committee in reference t o such a state of public eftairs ? What trust could they repose in the hoeesty of superintendents coMinf . forward to give evidence upon such a subject ? How could they reach those who dould give them infer' m viten upon those secret matters of corruption unless they went to the place itself, end showed the' people of India that they were really in earnest , and that they would be perfectly sate in corning forward to give evidence ? The people of England were deeply concerned in this inquiry; for they weres. IC the e peewees to India for their sincerity .ofthapucrpoorruption was ea's) , for them to inquire here practis d in some of their boroughe thou sands of miles of rolling sea separatwig them from India; b in ur there were and there was also to be consider ed the immense diffe rence which existed between this country and India in respect to language, religion, and prejudices. Unless c u r rotankisesinfutstliaasandhewith subject, power i t sitg inquiry Indi a,into se to ex pect any useful result. Such a was utterly h- P °le d• and hear evidence there commission could go to In la . and P s:a ja r: d in t Cabinet undistuibed by any contingencies of a change of 1. He was told that the Earl of Da or a new but he did not know whether boogie was coming home; war wou d permit bin to do so. When, the Burmese Pe,rhament. however, he did return home, he might pos s ibly say, in the languag e of Lord Herdin g e, that the great concerns and the con s t ant f ear o f war s had , of , be empire , quite unfitted him NI. giving a t y op i n i on on (be , a d m i n istrative affairs of India. He would implore o f c the Buse not to oppose his proposition, but rather , to remember the words of iwarning which had many great then , namely—that th e n atives ttietrd by leudiub,ii,g justly discontented were be coming disaffected en d desirous of bean ut a chanee of roaster; It was yet in their power to arrest the .further spread ef t this feeling. Let them not trust to hearsay or secondary evidence. Let them distrust the statement s . o f their irreConell , able enemies, who Nave gone to not for the benefit of the people, but for the mere Pur pose of putting money in their own pockets. The ll °. and Leaved Gentleman concluded by moving his atriendner nt. An HoN. MEMBER, whose name we could not lacer' bin, secotoled tne am. ndrnent. Tee SPEAKER hevine put the question, and 1:r. H J- BeILLIE said that as the 11° 11 ', an '! Learned Member f or opportunity of +xpl4intrig Yentehal (Mr. Acs ' ey) the views and opinions h i e : he .. tertained on this su'ej.ct to th e Hume, be truste d the lion. with lion. and Learned Gentleman would be satisfied e , to -rx di that advantage, and not press his smendmabrie Member bud ha d an .; vision. If he understood the 1 - 1 - T o ur & Commission rightly, he was of opinion that dais, io ascertain the sh mid be i*sued to - proceed to India, of that country sentiments of the native populat io n . which the govern. with refernce to the meaner t o ender the auvices of (Lent there had been adrele , te t s i ow b e (11r. !Lillie) con- •••• ... the East India Company _~.. fy,;red from the [lon. Member as ftesed that he entirely di fed that inf,,ratattota whiab• to the best mode of " h "" a use generally were .of . ie d the • however, he desirablel°"l--ve should be laid before Parliament ' opinion it was legislate for the future government - era it proceeded la y He did not think it was desirable , ... of India. ( - - El i el e3 , n 'aiission should proceed thither to in" that a Roya. - co ' in m plaints and grievances of all those die' . quire into which now acknowledged the supremS o 9 . , t nations • D leren t e —gatioes, be it remembered, differi g- British ruther in manners and customs —differing - from from one alio • religion—differingtram 911. An another in one le other- --e • language, and spread, as the Honourabl e '' e'' also in . Ifobserved, s ue' -MA had h i mse lf over a space on the • I ,se. m em ber h e globe little less—if at all less—tban th at face of t t which was occupied by the wh o l e o f E urope .. Ho c on- el e. 3s kel, then, that he did not thi n k i t would be desirab le . , . ,'.. bet t hat se herculean a task as t hi s inquiry wort', `,,A....1 prove s hould be en t rusted to commissioners sP'.' ,,til W alk ~ ! ., 1 ,;1 inted by the Crown.—(Lkar, hear.) .. „Ile ~ st..4 , IY ~ were .tad,c-,e, quite imarly to admit that if commissioners wee-- ;toy proceed proceed to India, and it were understood that -w9..,„ .:0',,. gentlemen had gone there .tor the purpose tit heari ng the complaints and grievances of the people, no donut tb..ir time would be fully occupied; that very e r t l e there wou'd be a good array of complaints af: grievances laid before the House • and doubtless, as th e .. Hen Member bad retuarLd, that never•tailing sou n r _ f ~.: if complaint and grievance in India, the operatio_ . 7 . ,u Id he band -tax. would_te ono of the most prominea e L , o , , tee-e complaints --( ! lest.. hear. ) The settlement w h ich ~,,li. took place wider Lord Corowallis—a settl(ment which -,....,' he believed was entered into in great igeeranc• ,no t t,. ca y.,,,n of the manner s and customs, but of the rights a 8 Viie g" of the naive population of India—bud WO S . c__ e: great mistorttme, and bad led Jo cons iderable ilijusti ~....._ ., „ u but wo were now unable to retrace our sir p a . , :ILL..- event!, we could not do so with reference . to l t h ee _ A: t : u.., ~..,, went without committing still greate r . iiin i t ti to during . Tl.l those interests which have grown up 111 no :T . , seventy years. But that this q uee n the r „. ;; he last sixty or ~ the main gtievauce or s , ate of the laud tax ' I " f b e fore 0 • . e had already ample proe ee. , 1 .• Tae°e of India, we • • onointnieut of a Committer,: - - very prospect or tan a.. .. . to . spring up caused an assouteion of loquiry bait c 9 . . express purpose of .le)ing that comp laint_ in India TOT the ;3 b-tore that ‘,...c181Z1 tee.. A u 11 . 0 u n _ h .. anti grit vane . Dative gentlemen—nattily of them ne " of .., cotnposed of education and iut t lii de nce, and some liesed wen of miher a , arbild taikViet 4 4l o ll o 44W - ' them *WO WO ril • , .:~ ;, ~~ ~,~,~, ti : 4 •", R.'ai