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

TURKE . We find the following in the Cheetttationee;: — " We have received accounts from Constaatinople to the sta inst. Publie attention was :Duels excited in the Turkish capital by the movements of troops which were taking place in the neighbourhood of the Moldavia- Wallachian provinces, and by the presence of the Em peror Nicholas in Bessarebie, where he was about to pass some grand reviews. The Divan does not, however, ap pear to share in the apprehensions entertained by the public on this subject. Fottad Effendi, who left for Alexandria on the 27th of March, only took with him his son, his private secretary, and his physician. He will be able to announce to the Pacha of Egypt the dismissalof the three Pachas who quitted his service and demanded posts from the Sultan. This fact formed one of the complaints of Abbas Mirza, and it would appear that the Porte is anxious to do everything in its power to conciliate, so that in case of a rupture no reproaches could be made towards it. One of the Sultanas has recently been confined of a son, who has received the name of Moleanathet Ruchdi. Admiral Romain Desfossiii has been admitted to an audience of the Sultan, with all his staff. Abdul Medjid expressed a wish that he would prolong his sojourn at Constantinople, and gave orders for him to be every where received with the honours due to his rank. A grand review by the. Sultan is talked of, to which the Admiral will be invited. Mehemet Ali, brother-in-law of the Sultan, and High Admiral, has visited the French Admiral on board the Pandore. A sad accident hap pened yesterday to a boat belonging to the French frigate, which, while coming on shore, was run down by a steamer. There were 16 men in the buat, but :or tunately only one was drowned, cal another wounded, though not daugerouely, by the paddle of the steamer. On hearing of the accident, the Porte immediately sent a message on board the French frigate to express regret, and to ascertain whether the Turkish captain was in fault. A letter from Alexandria states that Fonad Effendi had arrived there on the 2d inst., and on the following day had proceeded to Cairo." The iourned des Dibats has the following on the same subject : " We have news from Cairo to the sth. 'I he situa tion was becoming every day more and more compli sated, without, however, inspiring up to the present eime any serious apprehensions amongst Europeans, who aersist in their opticism. It is not the same with respect to the Viceroy, whom the encouragements of Mr. Murray do not always succeed in reassuring as to 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 appeared to dread exceedingly, particularly since the return of Reschid Pacha to power, is not of a nature to cause any very great apprehension to his Highness. This letter, it is said, has by no means the character of a menacing ultimatum, as it merely confines itself to renewing the determination come to by the Porte, and to expressing the conviction that the will of the Sultan would receive that full execution which was to be expected from a faithful vassal of the empire." The _l:)bats adds a postcript that Foutd Effendi, who had reached Cairo on the 6th, had met with so affectionate a reception from the Viceroy as to have given rise to the best hopes as to the result of his mission. THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. THE " TWO HOUSES" AND MDLLE. WAGNER.— The theme which now gives rise to so much corjec tare and much surprise in the musical world is the announcement at each operatic establishment of the forthcoming appearance of Mdlle. Johanna Wagner, the prima donna of the Berlin Opera, whose fame has already been loudly trumpeted in England. The 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 Mdlle. Wagner, it was agreed that, as an assurance of good faith on the part of the former, a certain amount of deposit money was to be paid to the prima donna on a certain day, by the non-fulfil ment of which agreement the engagement was ren dered void. The directors of the Royal Italian Opera, it would appear, leariat — thiF conditions insti tuted, and had their doubts as to the probability of their final settlement ; in the meantime they so arranged their plans that some one possessing their authority was upon the spot when the deposit money became due. Mr. Lumley's representative arrived in Berlin late in the even ing of the day appointed, and deeming it advisable not to distarb the prima donna at so late an hour, de termined to fulfil his mission on the following morn ing. In the meantime, the emissary from the managemeht of the Royal Italian Opera, finding, on application, that the deposit had not been made, im mediately offered Madlle, Wagner an engagement, which was as promptly accepted. Sach we be lieve to be the facts of the matter, and from these only can we draw our con clusions. In the case of two operatic establish ments, instituted the one in direct opposition to the other, we hold that each is possessed of full right to take advantage cf the slightest failing on the part of its rival, and for this reason we cannot blame the con duct of the directors of the Royal Italian Opera ; but having been previously, and in the first case, applied to by the lessee of her :Majesty's Theatre, the hasty conduct of MAdlle. Wag nar cannot be possibly justified, and casts a repulsive shade upon her character as a lady, which is by no means likely to benefit her at the moment of her forthcoming appearance. The consequences, in the case of the above facts being fully true, are likely to prove seriously injurious to Mr. Lumley, wh) is, under the circumstances, en titled to the kindliest consideration from the public and the press. We may, perhaps, he premature in the expression of our opinions, but we derive our con clusions from what we believe to be the facts of the case. IfAYMaRKET. — A new three-act comic drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, and entitled Mind Your Own Business, is in rehearsal at this theatre. Mr. Webster haying given English opera a full and fair trial at this theatre, finds that it doe 3 not command sufficient public patronage to warrant his continuance of it. If the public and the patrons of " native talent" do not support that talent when a me, eager produc!s at a heavy expense the best that tie country affords, the fault rests only with the public, and the lessee must be absolved from blame, if he ceases toexpend his money upon en unremanerative species of entertainment. We fear that the difficul ties of managers in the endeavour to maintain an operatic company are greatly aggravated by the con ceit, the arrogance, an the stupid impracticability of certain artists, w h ose a biliti es by n o means entitle them to extraordinary consideration. ma t ii i. :7' to L in Z e I t h a e s most strenuous efforts are aid in support of 1 . lad to lend her 11-powerful the present season. her At no I . fajesty's Theatre during previous period in the history of Italian opera h as this establish ment stood so m ac h in need of the co-operation b o f those who sh ou ld interested in its being upheld. Without detracting ngin any way from this distinguished the eminent position of first vocalist,. it can not be denied it was here sheachieved her English fame, and it would b e a proud b reflection t for her in after li f e , that b y her assistance this honottre4 resort had bee n enabled to withstand im th e e . difficulties and obstacles by which it is now sur rounded. The New York .Daily Times states that Jenny Lind Goldschmidt and her husband will sail for Europe, in the steamer Atlantic, ; previous to their departure they three con certs in New York in the latter end of the present month. ENGLISH VOCALISTS IN NBw YORK. —The fa vourite opera of The Child of the Regiment has been performed at Niblo's. Madame Anna Thillon, Mr. Hudson, and Mrs. M'Kenna, formerly Miss M a n,, , sustaining the principal characters. The las;:-named lady is a vooelist and actress of considerable talent, •who has not appeared on the st s g e 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. Tue.:Tem RoTAL, EDINBURGH.—A large audience attended on Monday nig ht , th e occasion be in g Mr. Glover's benefit. Th e perfo rmance co mmenced with the new melodrama of Th e C ors i can Brothers. After the ghostly melodrama Mr. Barnett appeared in the little interlude of Monsieur Jaques. A mire finished or artistic piece of acting, in its own line, than Mr. Bar nett's portraiture of the poor old Frenchman it would be difficult to conceive. It is an exquisite cabinet pic ture, so to speak, made up of many minute and deli cate touches, yet not over elaborate, and full of true feeling iki.(o'' quiet pathos. Not a few of the audience testified e by their tears to its touching truthfulness and power, and the call for Mr. Barnett at the end was enthusiastic. Essfet PEUDSNT, the justly-famed pianist and Composer, is now in London, and purposes giving a grand concert at the close of the present month. FEltmeiaND HILLEB—This gentleman, whose fame 1 3 as a c"irpoiser is acknowledged throughout Germany, 3upe ". l ived during the past week, with the object of du ' nnt "cling some of his musical works, to be pro duced durin. *I MR, tit .et - --e present sewon. whose 64-,,,: % z lt t 7TlT.This old and favourite actor, aPPrciiie4 by tltth'4 of Irish character have been highly Bichsel tourete ee ,: e r'iin, is about making ac protes daughteri.Mses ii et, Seetland and It oß4i:iidrratc; Z p / f : , Ireland ith his Royal, 4,, , . :P et f o rto 1 i) g i t iZ nle ci cotijnr , r of the Pulais diences at,the Rotund a , Dl lViders before large au- BElenites—Meyerbeer i s a - ," 1 ,,, 1 t celebratioa of the twenty-fif t h " an tten a cantata for the Fade con " Erection of ?since Charles of Y sli , sia n iv,it , ary of the mar- Von of Ilse• great mister is t o b, hl new composi the sejour of the Empres e ()rented during The Plailharrnonie Society g ave i l .. lt tlisia.-- cart for the season on the 24th7 "Erection of M. Leopold- Ganz. At the, P r el e e . ,r the William College the students of the first cl,",:riek given a performance of the tragedy of Anti one , originally written, and in the Greek langu age , 4,:r, the cb,orusses a biendeltiobn. The Theatre Frederick. THE S N, LONDON, world, in some suitable calling, a name that might atone, as far as possible, for his previous unbridled career of duplicity and falsehood, and there to earn for himself a character for honesty of purpose and truthfulness in its pursuit. This extraordinary affair has been productive of much ill-feeling in the parish, and it is feared that much time will elapse before it is allayed. THE EARLY LONDON CLUBS. The Beef-steak Club was founded in the reign of Queen Anne:— " Be that of honour, wit, and mirth partakes, May be a fit companion o'er beef-steaks." The Beef-steak Society, a different 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 Reynold 3 and Johnson, in 1763, and which is still maintained, must be known by all readers. It met at first at the " Turk's Head," in Gerrard -street, Soho, and, besides the founders, in cluded Goldsmith, Burke, Girrick, Boswell, Beauclerc, and Sir John Hawkins. Toe " Wednesday Club," at the Globe Tavern, in Fleet-street, was another of those to which Goldsmith belong-d. Toe position of th© parties forming such clubs may be gathered from Der rick's anecdote of Goldsmith's iotroductien to the " Robin Hood Club." Goldy was struck by the im portant appearance of the chairman in his gilt chair, and said, " This must be the Lord Chancellor at least." " No," said Derrick, " he's only mister of the rolls," He was a baker. A few years ago we made the circuit of the London taverns, and were 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 " chocolate houses" and coffee-houses, which took an associative character, White's, of St. James's-street, was, perhaps, the earliest. As White's Chocolate House, on the site of what is now " Arthur's Club House," it was established between 1690 and 1700 ; and as 117.ite's Club House, 38, 5:. Jamee'e-street, opposite to what used to be " Crockford's," 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 Ozinda'a than a Tory will be seen at the coffee-'louse of St. James's." The character which formerly attached to those who belonged to White's was that of men of pleasure and desperate gamblers. The Earl of Oxford cursed it as " the bane of half the English nobility;" 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 dead or not, and they would not permit his being bled because it would affect the fairness of the bet.—Builder. William has produced with great success La Fille du Re ment. - ZURICEI.—The celebrated violinist, Ernst, has been heard here with the greatest success. Nearly all the towns in Switzerland are offering him engagements. THE Heelux, APRIL 10.—The French Theatre Royal, which has been closed for more than four months, has just re-opened with the three act opera of the toi de Boheme, by Saint Georges, and the music by M. Lazare Martin. The house was well attended. CONSTANTINOPLE.—Our theatre is getting on more prosperously than for some time past. The young violinist, Horace Poussard, has been giving concerts here with great success. Sroun.—A recent tourist in Germany gives the following interesting notice of this talent ed musical composer :—" He is known all over the country ES ' Father Spohr,' and the venerable bearing, the tranquil and benevolent expression of the gigantic old man well justify the title. Where false notes and false time are out of the ques tion, and German politics are not on the tapir, be is one of the mildest of men, with congenial spirits, moat social, and in domestic life even playful to the last degree. Cassel, his house, and his garden are to him the nearest approach to Paradise which this lower world of ours can show. He has visited London and the other great capitals more than once, yet ever re turn; from them only with fresh devotion to his own h o me."—Sanday Paper. MARRIAGE OF JENNY LIN D. (Extract of a Letter of Feb. 7.) I have a little bit of news to tell you, of an event that has taken place, and having been one of the actors, or perhaps a supernumerary in it, can give you some particulars that may interest you—l mean Jenny Lind's wedding. She left New York for Bos ton about three weeks since, and shortly 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 Goldschmidt, 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, Sic., which was done in due form ; and in con nexion herewith, I will mention, that, with that high spirit of generosity that has always marked her character, she set apart 20,0001. to found a charity school in Sweden ! Last Wednesday I went to Bos ton, and she approved of the marriage contract ; and the next day, the sth inst., she was married to Mr. Goldschmidt, at the house of Mr. Ward, a friend of hers and Goldschmidt's. The morning was bright and cloudless, and prog nosticated well for her martwd 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 of the same, • and looked very charming. The queries were pronounced by the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, a clergyman from New York, whore she had invited for the purpose. Only half 31 dozen friends were present ; among them Mr. Everitt, who was minister to London a few veers ago. Then came the kissing of the bride, performed by the staid guest; 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 Amiaa, so joyous, so happy, stepping on air, as it were. After a while she sat down to the piano, and sang " Ah non giunge" with a heartiness that would have brought the whole Opera-house at her feet. In the afternoon they went off to a country seat at Northamp ton, about one hundred miles from Boston, which they have hired for a few months. In the summer they return to Europe. Mr. Goldschmidt is seven years younger than herself—about 24 years old, a small, very good-looking man, of a high-toned character, well educated, and devoted to her. lie is from Ham burgh, where his father is a respected merchant. — From the Ladies' Companion. EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A LON. DON CLERGYMAN. The inhabitants of the district of St. Barnabas, in the parish of St. Luke's, Old-street-road, have been painfully excited for some time past by a se ries of statements, which have resulted in the re vocation of the licence of the Rev. Richard Jones Temple by the Bishop of London, and a prohibition against again taking clerical duty in the metropolitan diocese. The case will be understood from a brief recital of the facts, as they are stated by Mr. Hill, i n a pastoral letter to his parishioners. Mr. Hill states that during the last few months he has found that he was losing the esteem of his parishioners which he formerly enjoyed, and on making inquiries he had reason to suspect that the minds of his friends were being poisoned by Mr. Temple, his curate. i Other circumstances arose which compelled him, in justice to himself, and for the satisfaction of the Bishop, to institute a searching inquiry as to Mr. Temple's previous career. Mr. Hill states that Richard Jones, alias Risiart Johns, alias Robert K. Jones, alias Richard Jones Temple (for by all these fictitious names was the identity of his curate mys tified), commenced his public or ministerial life in December, 1841, at the Independent Dissenters' School at Blackburn, in Lancashire, which school, being subsequently ,merged into a more general col lege, near Manchester, in 1843, the inmates of the Blackburn school were received there as first stu dents is preparation for the ministry among the dis senting bodies, and included in the number thus transferred was Richard Jones. From that college Richard Jones was publicly expelled by an act of the general committee of management, on the ground of such moral deficiency of character and conduct as in the opinion of the authorities wholly unfitted him for the ministry Shortly after this Mr. Jones changed his name and his religious principles. He became a Baptist, and as the Rev. Risiart Johns was inducted into the office of pastor of the Baptist con gregation at Wbitchurch. While holding this posi tion he gave out that he was engaged to a Miss Mary Owen, a young lady at Bangor, who during his resi dence at Whitclanrch became sudeenly possessed of 18,000/., bequeathed to her by an uncle in India. One morning he informed some influential members of his congregation that he had dreamed that his betrothed lady had been thrown from her carriage by a runaway accident, and that dreadful and ghastly ap pearances had told him that the lady was hopelessly injured. On the strength of these representations 101. were advanced to him to enable him to go to Wales ; a letter written in Welsh, which none of his people could read, purporting to come from Bangor, and confirmatory of his dream, having been produced. This letter, he said, informed him that Miss Owen had died from concussion of the brain. He started accordingly for Bangor, but proceeded as far as London only, and then returned to Whitchurch some days after, stating that his health had there failed him, and that his physician had told him that to prosecute his journey into Wales would imperil his life. Not appearing ill on his return, he was taunted at his quiet re signation and submissive apathy under the loss of an heiress of 18,0001., and doubts arising as to the truthfulness of the story, connected with other cir cumstances which had occurred, inquiries were pro secuted. The clergyman and the registrar of Bangor were written to, as well as the registrar of Somerset house, and it was ascertained that no such accident had happened at Bangor, nor was any such person as Miss Owen known. The Rev. Gentleman was consequently obliged to leave Whitchuech, 4 and having become acquainted with a clergyman of the Established Church, the conversation frequently turned upon th e sub j ect o f Ch urc h an d State, and in the course of time, Mr. Risiart Johnej .ac knowledged the errors he had fallen into in keeping aloof from months' Jones, -, employment the Established Church. He sought privacywithin its pale, and after six he re-appeared, Richard Prit chardthe character of an Irish Scripture reader,ln Zi u s r a se rriv o- a fs l into h e l y ordn and was eventually admitted l an n a th o e n ain b f y ew the Bishop of Cashel. months he left Ireland, Richard Jones Temple. England assumed the name of appoint himeying succeeded in induc ingthe Bishopcnrate of St. Barnabas, licence, but his Lordship refuses Mr. Hill to application was made to of London fur a to receive any ohadhasnot clergyman from another diocese tnheewnht elsewhere... been in orders two years, there fore to seek clerical This be found at Northampton, receiving the appointment of curate of St. Sepulchre's. Immediately on entering upon that sphere of labour, he informed certain members of the congregation that he was in heritor of a fortune, that he had lived in the family of the Marquis of Sligo, that he had been in the habit of writing leading articles for the London morning' newspapers, whence at one time he realised 1,5001. per annum. That he was intimate with Earl Spencer when Lord Altbnrp, that he was very intimate with Sheil and Tom Moore, and that he had obtained prizes in his youth for distinguished poems. He remeined but a short time at Northampton, and then returned to St. Barnabas, a licence to which Mr. Hill infermed the Bishop he obtained from his Lordship by a forged testimonial. This testimoni d purported to he eigned by the Rev. J. Jackson, vicar of Tallow, county Waterferd, but Mr. Jackson disavo r edell knowle lge of it. All these circumstances were represented by Mr. Hill to the Bishop, end a vast quantity of &cu. consisting of letters from all parts ornfetianitealrl evidence, country where Mr. Jones, Johns, o . r Temple ' st him by his incumbent, with was put in, in confirmation of the made again . charges g e k s n known, con duct since filling the curacy o . regard both to his previous of scatr.eßerarnaanbdas.hisThectrounev,inacneddhtihseLßorisdhsohpiecnot consideration s w i d e e r r e a t u i o n:- of the case, prohibited the Lordship, thate after h a i s carefuls tate . exercise of hi s c l er i ca l functions in the diocese, Rev. Gentleman f rom and e lt drllollitted him to seek in some remote part o f the DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, the inhabi tants of Queen-street, Ratcliff, were alarmed by the sud den outbreak of a fearful fire in the premises cccupied , by Mr. W. Werneking, licensed victualler, and proprie tor of the Rainbow Tavern, situate at No. 4, in the above-mentioned street. The several residents in the house in attempting to gain the street by the staircase were driven beck to their rooms by the flames. Mr. Werneking, having fortunately sueceeded in ga i n ing the street in sefazy, obtained the assistance of so old ladder, end having placed it against one of the wi ndows, he was in the act of leading his wife down, when one of the rounds gave way, and she was thrown upon her face. Fortunately she was not very seriously injured. The servant girl, however, who was in the second floor back, on finding the fire approaching . her room, in order to avoid being burnt to -.loath, jumped out of window, and fell with a fearful crash on the ground. The poor creature was picked up and was found to be so seriously injured that she was forthwith obliged to be removed to the hospital, where she at present re mains in a state of great suffering. A man and a bcy were also obliged to melee a precipitate retreat from the first floor, and the l odg ers were driven to similar o been procured, the e a plentiful xpedie nts. supply The f firemen were setting their engines to work, when the whole building suddenly fell to the ground. The fire communicated with the premises belonging to Mr. E. Standish, No. 5, neat door. The destruction of the last-named building appeared inevitable, when the bri gade, who were aided by about 50 hired assistants, worked the engines with full vigour, and they at length succeeded in getting the flames extinguished. The damage done is thus officially reported by Mr. Braid wood to the various fire offices forming the London esta blishment :—" The premises of Mr. W. Werneking, licensed victualler, and known as the Rainbow, were very old, and fell down shortly after they took fire; con tents were insured its the Royal Exchange Fire-office. The premises which belonged to Messrs. Larchin and Co., of Queen-street, were insured in the Legal and Com mercial Fire-office. The premises of Mr. Standish have the roof and side wall considerably damaged by fire, and the furniture by removal and water ; the contents were insured in the Phoenix Fire-office, end the building was insured in the Legal and Commercial-office. The furniture of Mr. G. Thorp, cowkeeper, No. 3, in the same street, is likewise damaged by removal and water. The loss will fall on the Royal Exchange Fire-office." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS BRISTOL, APRIL 19. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The share market continues very tirm. Great Westerns were done to-day at 92 1 ,i —South- Eastern and Dover, 22% —York and North Midland, 26. LIVERPOOL, APatt, 19 _ STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was an improved feeling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business has been done at improved prices. The sales reported were— Eastern Counties, 9 9- 16---East Lancashire, 17% —Lanca shire and Yorkshire, 74 -Ditto, Fifths, G dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 21—London and North-Western, 125—Manchester, Sheffied, and Lincolnshire, 33—Mid land, 68%,, —Shropshire Lnion (Railway and Canal), 3 dis.— York and North Midland, 25 5 ,i. MANCHESTER, APRIL 19. STOCK EXCHANGL—There has been a fair amount of business transacted to-day, without material alteration in prices. The only transactions were as follow :—Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and East Junction. 1 , /,, dis.—Blackburn ( No. 1), 64 1 —West Riding I.lllioll, dis.—Preston and Wyre (No. 1), IPA—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland. 2 1 1 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35 Ditto, New 61. Preference, p. SEABW-LNE slgnifles that the mails are ient from the 4e.soral Post-office the night—and M by the morning-4ispateh.) cy nee, umat up i a From w.istl when . .?Leti: l l?-1.• ; Ger.eral Pot' .i.- , Jffice; port din- duo. 1 1 London: patehed. I...M.'•frf•• 'ricrica (by Brit. pht.)NlApril 23 iLtverpoel .• `erica (by U.S. pkt.) *April 20 Liverpool April 23 Imerica (by U.S. pkt.) Id:April 28 leouthampt. Africa (West coast).. 11 1 14th of the month Plymouth May 3 Ilexandria* • • ...... N 19th & 30th of me. Dover ,April 18 Belgium .. N Daily ..IDover ;Daily Brasil . • .. M 9th of the month Sonthampt. ;May 1; Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month I, Sonthampt. May 16 C.allfornia(via Chaves) MI 3d 17th of month Southampt. !April 20 Cape of Good Hope N 114th of month 'Plymouth • • May 3 Constantinopie* 15;7th 17th 27th of mo:Dover .. April 20 Central America .. MI 2d gc 17th of men. ISouthampt. April 20 Channel Islea • . NIMon., Wed., Rx Fri.lSouthampt. Tn. 'Ph.Sat Chili .. .• . 11;17th of the month (Southampt. April 20 Trance M &*Twice daily .. ,Dover • • Twicedaily Greece* • • .. • • N:7thl7tll27th of mo !Dover .. April 20 Hanaburgh *Tuesday is Friday ;London .. Thee. Sat. Holland .. • • .. MI Wednes. 8e Satu.r.lLondonllgon.Thar Honduras .. *l7th of the moath; Southampt.April 20 Ireland .. M . B; *Twice daily 'Holyhead .• Twicodaily India (via Southamp.) Ml2oth of the month Southampt. India (via Marseilles) N s th& 24th of month Dover • • May 1 Mediterranean (via I Southim-nton) • • M 20th of the month Southampt. Mediteri artean (via Marseilles) .. 11;t3thge 24th of month Dover .. ,May Mexico M 2d of the month.. Solithampt. ;May 5 Madeira • . • • .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. IMay 16 I I ,7t ic h 3 ,l o 7 t t h h o ,l f 9 m th o , n 27 th th I Dover April ; 18 'Malta* Naples* .. N nth 15th 35th of me Dover • • April 22 Papal States* N sth 15th 25th of mo:Dovor April 22 Peninsular .. • . 51,7 th 17th 27th of molSouthampt. lApril 26 Peru M' 17th of the month .Southampt. April 20 Tuscany* N sth 15th 25th of molDover •• April 22 West Indies .. M 17th of the month ISouthampt:hpril 20 West Indies (except 1 Havanna & Nassau) 11'2d of the month Southampt. May 5 * The malls to those c ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed t 7 French packet vi a Marseilles. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE. SQUARI, BLSHOPSGATE.—Yesterday evening a very full meeting was held in the board-room of the above institu tion, of which John Gurney Iloare, Esq., is treasurer. The 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 had their hospitals, but this—involving as it did Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, and St. George's-in-the-East—had but one, and that was the London Hospital (already over- crow d e d). The Metro politan Free Hospital had during the past few months re lieved 13,432 sick persons, and the average was at least 13,00) 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. - ----- v AhoiTns LiEs.—To the instances of unusually Elphinstone, who is said, by tradition, t o h ave h a d not less than 36 children, ild M . whom 27 were li v i ng a t one t i me . There is a story told of o la f r a gelinanduGymEbEe:rpscihren by one mothe r may b e a dd e d t h at this lady and he r h us b an d, L or d iti(i)nntheer,daranwd drawing-room, that they once asked a . him that he should meet no one ance to visit them, telling him Elphinstone, which seem n s ew to an c d or s r o ob m o e r w at h e at th b e as t h ra fu d l it a io cci n u i ai it nt i! guest arrived shortly before but their family circle. 1 ining h a 1 i atoa his seeing a people. On remon stratinglong table laid out for about twenty having that he had been told as he thought, he was quietly e g i - n r g o o s m il o, w w n as through m ueh the disconcerted d informed their family party, when all with his host and hostess for taken him in, no more than the truth, for that . th b one. I believe that assembled, only fell short of thirty y. of the the _Earl of Lauderdale who lived in the latter part . Jmoahkne, neioghruitehztridoEf phenomenonlp a h n i y ns e to u n ch e,and his lady, adaughter o 17th and begi • o f 'th 18th centuries, are the pair to 3 lona idnxiiY, Yet lam strongly whom thisstory r • e and, though the Scotch peerage's refers ; in ,ne,zipain- Of th 2 authority t orn which I derive the tradition, to believe it to be true. inciinei, from the goodness Coy aAG SO Notes and Queries. lowing narratil e embodies as touching a tale taken from actual and humble life as ever fiction portrayed, as it fur -Ir3 CorinucT or A W(,.stAN.—The fol lowing a beautiful example of the heroism of affection, show ing that a won lan's motherly sympathy dared that which man's courage was unequal to. On Sunday se'nnight a child about four or five years of age fell over the Pothouse-quay, Carmarthen, Into the To v - "Y, a strong tide running at eke time. Twc• young men w ere standing near, but being nn able to swim, made no eff ort to rescue the boy, merely crying out,' He i s drowning!" but a woman named Hannah Evans who wai in her house attending her nick daughter, saw the accident, and gallantly rushed into the water up to her arm-pi ta, although totally ignorant o f th e art of swim ming, and saved the child just as i t was on the po i nt 9 r dually sir tkirig.--Steciasea 1 - I.rald, _ TUESDAY IMRE R.I HOUSE OF LORDS, April 19. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from Gal way and Limerick aguinst the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented petitions from Dumbarton, Plymouth, and other places, against the Maynooth grant. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from Dun stable, praying for tha rete ntion o f the Crystal Palac e. His Lordship' added, that he did not join in the prayer of 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 p l ace . After the speech which he had made on a Masters in Chancery , and substitutin g o t h er officers in their former occasion, he should not think it necessary to de tain their Lordships any length of time in stating the provisions of the measure. It was one which he had have ave very anxiously considered, and he had had the great advantage of having consulted en the subject the four judgeo equil—namely, the Master of the Rolls and the three Viee-Chancellors, by whom the provisions of the Bill were to be worked out, and on whom would mainly depend its chance of being carried into succees distinguished judges; fel operation. He was sure their Lordships were aware quit: impossibleould t t o o fi e n n cl eo f u o n u t r er pe i r n so o n e s more learned, more able, or more willing to grapple with that it would be and he had no doubt that with such assistance the measure would be thematter d i floesffiteha than th they se brought under the most favourable circumstances before the public.—(llear, hear.) There was at present one vacancy among the Masters in Chancery, so that nine wag the actua l number of those officers. He proposed that the measure should begin to take effect from the first day of Michaelmas term in the present year, and that the four senior masters should then be released from the duties of 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 operetien. Under tke Bill they would have powers which they had never before possessed. It had always been alleged in defence of the masters, who bad been visited with all 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 defect, 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. He should also obsarve that he proposed to give to the Court itself a similar power for the future; so that the Court would be enabled to prevent the protraction of cases for a period cf, perhaps, many years. He had already had personal experience of the efficacy of such an ar rangement. When he had the honour of presiding over the Court of Chancery in Ireland he had issued, in uccordance with a power vested in him, certain orders fur compelling parties to proceed with cases which had been pending, in some itistancee, for twenty, thirty, or even forty years; and before he had left that country every single old case had been finally disposed of.---(Hear, hear.) He had taken great care in framing the present measure that under it there should be no room for favouritism in the dismissal of the masters; for the four seniors among them should be dismissed in the first instance. They would, of course, be entitled to receive their full salaries after their dismissal, and the other five would remain until their business should be wound up. Under the new scheme the Master of the Rolls and the three Vice-Chancellors should each have two chief clerks, and each chief clerk should have a second clerk, and the whole of the busi ness which had hereto! ore been in the hands of the masters should henceforTard be carried on in chambers by the judges, assisted by those clerks. There would be no references to any other officers, and no unneces nary statements of facts, with all the expense and delay which those references and statements occasioned. The judges themselves, with their chief clerks and under clerks, should transact in chambers as much of the bnsincss before them as was not to be heard in court. The effect of that would be that the judge would go into chambers during any period of the day, or for the whole day, as he might think proper, and he would there consult with his own officers. ho might, if he should deem it advisable, get reports drawn up for his use, so that there might be something on which he could afterwards proceed. It had always seemed to him (the Lord Chancellor) that if any scheme of Chancery re. form were to have a fair chance of success, the judges should work it out for themselves. With respect to the patronage to be created by the new scheme, he should observe that he thought it right that each judge should have the appointment of his own chief clerks, so that he might have persons he could himself approve of for con ducting the business of his office. Upon the same prin• ciple, he would give the appointmen t of the second elerle ' edo the chief clerks. There should be some places in which the judges and their clerks should meet. Upon that subject he proposed that the Master of the Rolls and his clerks should assemble in the Rolls' Office, and that each of the three Vice-Chancellors should have commodious chambers farniehcd for him at Lincoln's lan. 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 struction of the new chambers. He thought it very desirable that the clerks should not meet in the building hitherto used by the masters, and that they should not be led is 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 cffice, there was no power in the Crown to appoint a new Vice-Chancellor; but he pro posed that by the now Bill there should be a power given to the Crown, if it should think fit, to appoint succes sors from time to time to that judge. He fervently hoped that the system woul I be found to work without the ap pointment of any additional judges. The Master of the Rolls and the three Vice-Chancellors already con stituted a powerful judicial staff, and he should be very sorry to see any necsseity for its increase. Then would undoubtedly, h.iwever, be this inconvenience in the proposed new arrangement, that while a judge was engaged in chambers, no business could be transacted in his court; for there was not in Chancery, as in the common law courts, an extra judge in each court, who could attend in chambers. But he hoped that the in creased facility for obtaining cheap and speedy justice would more than cemp3neate that inconvenience. He would for a moment draw their attention to the present state of the procedings in reference to the reform of the Court of Chancery. He was sorry that, while ha was alluding to that subject, he did not see in the House his Noble and Learned Friend (Lore Brougham, we believe), to whom their Lordships and the country were so much indebted for his very impor tant services in the cause of legal reform. His Noble and Learned Friend had introduced in that House a Bill for extending the jurisdiction of the county courts, to which he (the Lord Chancellor) had had no time to de. vote any attention previously to the third reading; and he had not, therefore, thought proper to interfere with its progress. It had received their Lordships' assent, and it was at present before the other House. He wise aware that the passing of that Bill might interfere very much with the regulations of the measure he was then hying on thedabfe of the House, and he felt that it would be neces.ary to consider carefully how far the two mea sures could be worked together. But, as there was no man in this country more anxious than his Noble and Learned Friend that the present Bill should pass, be was sure that his Noble and Learned Friend would be the first is agree that his measure should be allowed to stand over until the present Bill should have become law. The Bill related solely to the masters' offices, and the new jurisdiction to be vested in the judges, assisted by their clerks. There was still a very important portion of the report of the Commissioners to be carried into effect, and that was all that related to what was termed the procedure, as distinguished from the practice, of the Court of Chancery, and the means of rendering it more easy and cheaper to obtain justice in that court. The Bill for carrying out that portion of the recommendations of the Commissiouers was at present under his (the Lord Chancellor's) consideration, and he hoped that, in the course of about three weeks, he would, with the as sistance of the other judges of the courts of equity, be able to lay it on the table of that House, and by that means to carry into effect all the suggestions made by the Commissioners for improving the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. He would not detain their Lordships any further. He was sure that it would be needless for him to go into all the details of the Bill. lie believed their Lordships would agree with him, that, as far as that measure went, no time had been lost in its prepare tiom—(llear, hear.) He would also undertake to affirm that, as far as legal improvements were concerned, the assurance given by the Noble Earl at the head of the Government that no time should be lost in forwarding those improvements would be fully and fairly fulfilled. Lord CRANWORTH was glad to 500 that the Noble and Learned Lord had shown such readiness to comply with the recommendation of the Chancery Commission, for the abolition of the Mestere' offices. The present Bill had his full approval. Lord CAMPBELL said that he considered the Master's office the root of all the evils of the Court of Chancery, and he was glad to see that the first step taken towards Chancery reform was the abolition of these offices. The Bill was then read a first time. BISHOPRIC OF QUEBEC BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. On the motion of the Earl of DERBY, the Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were read a third time and passed. • Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'cloiik. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The Sheriffs of London appeared at the bar and de livered in a petition agreed to by the Corporation of the City, pr. , yieg that the City charter may be exempt from the operatieu of the Charitable Trusts Bill. NEW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. P. MACKENZIE, new writs were ordered for East Suff)lk and 'favistock, the former in the room of Lord Rendkaham , deceased, an d the latter in the room of Mr..Trolany , who had ac cepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. PRIVATE BILLS. The following Bills were read a t hi r d time find passed:— Barnstaple Markets and Fairs. Great Munster Fair. Ilkley Waterworks. • gelvin Bridge (Glasgow) and other Works. Lyndon and S out h amp ton- Road, through BishOp's Waltham. Medina River Navigation. Rhyl Improrion4ent. AMEN T. EVENING, APRIL 2O, Skipto❑ and Craco Road. Sunderland Waterworks. The followi❑g Bills were considered and agreed to: — Aberdare Market and Slaughterhouses. Cheshire Constabulary. Dudley Water works. Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Chosterford Rail- way Companies Glamford Briggs Waterworks. Great Southern and Westernlway (Ireland). Lockwood and Meltham Road. Newmarket Railway. Norfolk Railway. Retford and Littleborough Road. Romney, Broughton, Stockbridge, 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 :—Wedmire Road—Huddersfield Burial- ground. RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Sir JAMES DUKE wished to know whether the Admiralty intended to do anything to remedy the defects w hich mani‘estly existed in the management of Rams gate Harbour. Mr. STAFFORD said the subject was under the con sideration of the Admiralty; but he was afraid there would be no time to bring in a Bill to remedy all the evils this session. Ttic present Bill mitigated some of them, and he should therefore allow it to pass, but only upon the unierstauding that a Bill 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 be committed. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented, praying for the re peal of the Maynooth 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 Meynooth grant. Mr. HEYWARD presented a petition from Colne to the same effect. Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from Ross-shiro against the repeal at 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 HOTHANI presentd a similar petition from a place in the Eat Riding. Colonel THOMPSON presented several petititions against the Extradition of Marine Deserters' Bill. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT presented a petition against the Maya oth grant. Mr. W.A.LPOLE presented a petition from the attor neys of Midhurst against the certificate duty. Mr. hIUME presented several petitions from various parts of the country praying an equalization of taxes. Mr. GEACH presented a petition from Coventry against the Militia Bill. Mr. SOTHERON presented a petition from Wiltshire against the attorneys' certificate duty 1852. sive increase in th e tonnage 0.! vessel's Loth 'inward' and for considerrstion was, whether they hid aufficieut cnnfi outwards. They had also uht4ined a great eugwerita- denee - in the Men who Live thus iniswanaged the affairs tion of territory and poeulation. Ai noel as ,of (din to give them a r e n e wal of their powers. He 165,000 square mil e s of tt reitery, and cue would say that the patronage of India cught to be con teinly not less than nine millions of popu- 1 fieed to those who tiere, really answerab!e for the go latien, had Leen added to their dominions in j veroteent of India—they ought to give fair play to the India. Ou the whole he thought tho future prosperity representative institution;; they had on already, but of India w" incomparably more advantageous now than 1 which they were endeavouring to trske away. They ought at any former period of its history. It fled Ito admit natives of rank and iztflusece into the highest besn . said that the natives were precluded place s of the sla te . The p olic y o f th is c ountr y bed only from all share in the administration of affairs succeeded in those places in India where tLey bad. not in India, but the fact was that the - Government actively iutertered. In the Puejsub, for instance the . eucouraged the employment of natives, and also -revenue was collected with -the ereatest ease, and there --; promoted their education, in order to it them were no defaulters.. Their resident at .Loodianah :had - - fur that employment. The total number of already given evidence in favour of the fitness of the ea natives employed in adm'nistrative offices, having sa le, natives of India for the exercise of the higher function' : s ries of and above 1201. per snnutnt is not less than 1,560, of the Government. •He stated that there were many Of i and there aro besides 2,840 (Rhers at a lower scale of se tae the natives whose qualifications - for the higher offices of ' .lt ries The newts of India had on the whole worked exceed- the state were such as to reflect honour upon an assembly sta ingly well, and it was satisfactory to know that of late sitting even in London or Paris. lie had gore through .:a years they had considerably itnproved. The appeals the list of places held by natives, and he found that out .a bed been few in tornber, and the adatinis.ration of the of 100,000 000 and more of natives, theta were not 100 -.7 law had on the whole been wise and salutary. Teen, receiving Meow' a amounting to 1,000 rupees a month ; again, with regard to the important subject of education, whereas out of the 800 covenanted servants of the Core ho fund that the educational establishments of India puny, 600 of them were in the receipt of between 2 000 .. • had of late years been greatly augmented. At one and 3,000 rupee s a month at lesat; and of the remainder -: time there were only two, one in Calcutta and not one-third bud fuss than the maximum amount of sa the other in &name but in 1555 there were lacy received by nadves or uncovenanted servants. What no lees than fourteen in existence ; while was the case of Colonel Otorern ? This w.s on honour last year it was found that there were no less than forty able and deserving man. In the attempt that has be:en existing in 11-ngel and the north-west part of the tcr- recently made to crash him thee hal an insight into the ritory. The systems observed in these educational dark recesses of ledien despotism and corruption. It establishments wore based on sound religious prin- ripprare that there is a tributary state to which the ciple, and there could be no doubt that the British Gevernment had ecquired by treaty a right of Government bad all along displayed sin anxious desire interventien. That right i hey had exercised in such a to improve the condition of the people committed to way as to extend their euersetee to all persons, whether their charge, both in an educational es well as a moral they b. native or foreign, of becoming British subjects, and religious point of view.—(Bear, hear.) The ,nd thereby of being entitled to British protection. The state of affairs in India then was most gratifsing; rights under that treaty were fully recognised by the while with regard to the financial condition of that Sovereign of that territory and the Court of Directors. great territory he thought the returns upon the table A very deli banker in Barode, who was a native, re would give equal satisfaction to the House. The ceived a guarantee wader this treaty from the British interest payable on the Indian debt did not exceed two G o vernment, and upon the faith of such be carried on millions a year, and even that was gradually the business of a banker. That person died, leaving being reduced, as the works which the some millions behind him to his tao wilows, by each of Government had undertaken were getting into reproduc- whom he had one son, who were ultimately to inherit tive operation. Many of these works consisted of high- his property. Under the conditions of the guarantee roads, and not a few of them had been just referred to the two widows continued to carry on undertaken within the last twenty years. the business of the bank, until upon one day a fraudulent Therefore, in considering the management agent of the bank bad carried di' one of the childri n— and conduct of the Government of India, the other having died previously. The child thus carried these matters should not be lost sight of. And with off was murdered, and the guilty party to screen himself reference to the railways which had been projected in charged the unfortunate mother with having foisted a various parts of India, he thought the works generally spurious offspring upon her husband. Sho was there which had been undertaken were called for by the exi- upon immured in gaol, and the accuser was placed in gence of the State. The ecclesiastical establishments of lull p tssessiun of the property. Colonel Outram soon India stood upon a very satisfactory footing, and the in- after this circumstance wet: appointed residua of Bareda, crease which had from time to time been made in the num- and the widow contrived to make her case known to Lim . ber of Indian clergy displayed a laudable desire on the He made a seatching inqutry into all the facts, and the part of the East India Government to secure the reli- result was not only to establish her innocence, but an gious instruction of the people. At present there were extensive conspiracy, in which were implicated many of 130 clergymen employed in various parts of the empire, the officers of the late resident in this fraud. It was dis besides three bishoprics. The patronage of the East covered that many of the highest rank had been bribed India Company was impartially distributed, but with by the ill-gotten gains of this agent to refuse the slightest regard to political affairs the East India Company was support to any of the woman's applications for redress.._ only the agent of her Majesty's Government. The re- At the same juncture the facts became so widely known spunsibility, therefore, fell upon the home Ad- that the Bombay Government were obliged to make a ministration; but it would, nevertheless, be a show of interference in the matter, and a letter was sent great mistake to suppose that that Company to Colonel Outram, dated the 15th May, 1851, request was simply an agent or tool, because it partook ing bim to report whether he had any reason to suppose of a mixed character, and, in sense respects the Temper, that tiny such bribery exsted gent rally. A copy of sibility of government, bey oriel its ministerial capacity, this letter was sent to every efficer in the Bombay Go rested as well upon the shoulders' of the Company as vernment that had been charged with the office of reeia upon the Government. Occasionally it came to pass dent. Colonel Oetrem obeyed the instructions thus that a difference of opinion arose between her communicated, and made an effectual inquiry into the Majesty's Government and the executive of the Com subj. ct. He found the charge proved, and Elsner , pony; but still, upon the whole, ho thought it was ins- tuined that from 1840 large sures of money had nicely to the advantage of the public service that this been sent to Bombay Cecile, and had been expended I system of mixed government should be continued. This, iu the way of bribes. The highest persons were however, was one of the subjects which the Committee denounced us the recipients of those bribes. Colonel would have to take into its serious consideration, and Outram found, whether they were recipients or no, be hoped having now gone through all toe topics which that the money had reached the castle, and had pro suggested themselves to his mind, the House would cured those particular services which ii was meant to have no hesitation in agreeing to his rnotian.—(Elear.) purchase. Colonel Outram was enabled to intercept on Mr. ANSTEY said no one who tied beard be Right the way to Bombay Castle the most secret and extraor- Hon. Gentleman could fail to arrive at the conclusion dinary n:inutes of the Governor in Council, which had ,o : that it was impossible to overrate the importance of the been so recently adopted that they had not yet been ,t subject, or to perceive the danger of proceeding to any acted upon, anti yet they were translated into the native fo+it:. decision without due and full inquiry; and he thought dialect. This intercepted document he sent back to the 5'49..., that the appointment of a committee (or committees) to prop er q uarter. For thus acting he was suspended, eat'l l investigate the subject was what no one would object to although be (Mr. Ansley) contended that under the pe- He•-e -' He was not disposed to question the propriety of at pre- culler circumstances of the case he could not have acted, • sent continuing to follow the old course, and thought, otherwise. Notwithstanding Colonel Outrutri's demands. • ' indeed, that Parliament ought not to be called upon to the authorities have refused to mike any inquiry into bis legislate at all until there had been made a full inquiry case, but on the contrary have endeavoured by every under the control of Parliament. But he asked the means i h n their power d to ro hush it up. he most offensivnewse House to conaider whether — (useful as such inquiry articles appeare fm time to t T ime in the would be) —it would be under the present circumstances papers there, particularly the native ones, in reference to sufficient for the object which they s o ught. He believed the conduct of the British authorities in this matter. it was impossible so to conduct such an inquiry before Was this wail the treatment to which they eught f or sub any committee committee as to be satisfactory; an d he, therefore, ject that who had tendered such valuable v bad risen to move the amendment, of which he had given to their atmy in Scinde, and who bad been app, inted •• •, ' notice to add the following • words:—'• And that an resident in B& are for the last services he bad ref- - • , t o her Majesty, deredthem at humble address be presented - representing the lateness of the session, the near in Evglend asking them fer justice. tie held in his , approach of the period when the powers and hand the report of the Advocate-general in Bared*. ' authorities under which the government of her It was dated July 31, 1843, many years prior to- Majesty's Indian dominions is now carried on the appointment of Coloucl Outram, Mr. Le Mesurers will naturally determine, end the urgent ileporsence of the Advocate-general says.'' 3 here can be no doubt that • • , obtaining a thorough insight into the condittou of those his highness, fieditig his position becoming critics/. • feelings and wishes of the formed the design of bribing largely those member s of d Queen's ominions, hj a e n c d ts i , u n t a o tiv i e he and Europeans, resident within the British Government who were in a position to give the same, before Parliament is culled upon to pass tiny elf. ct to his wishes and these of his Ministers." T he measure for continuing the said powers and authorities; document went on to sa y that a long ietiniecy with OW , and praying her Majesty for that purpose to take the nee James Carnac painted teat gentleman out as the be" Brit for sending commissioners of inquiry chsnnel of reaching the Geverbor of Botebay ; and that , q . into sh India, duly instructed and empowered to 145,0001. had already been proved to have been expende d ' l ' '• commence and prosecute ad requisite inquiries in the in tee way of bribes. The accusation continued to be premises, and to report the evidence, together with their disregarded, and the Bombay Government refused to observations thereupon, to her Majesty in Parliament." vindicate its own character. H e (Mr. Anstey) would No inq dry (he contended) could be successfully prose- now ask what confidence could they place in th e evt cated unless with the assistance of local commissioners deuce produced before a select committee in reference to s . authorised to take evidence i n India ; the evidence of tut- such a state of public affairs ? What trust could awl ': - . o ' tives, and of planters, and other residents. Even if the repose in the honesty cf superintendents coming ...aja-e flattering picture drawn by the Right Hon. Gentleman forward to give evidence upon such a subj t . " ect ? llow; ;Ie rie wer e correct, it would surely not be wise to resign could they reach those who could give them in' - ar , 150,000,00 0 of our Indian subjects f or another 20 years illation upon those secret matters o f corruption ee _.. to the absolute authority 0 „ 1, of the Company, without unless they went to the place itself, an d showed the i nt 4; taking the evidence of natives and residents, people of India that they were really i n e arnest, ..e_ lor i Wi t h o ut a local commission this could not be and that they would he perfectly sate in coneingt i 7 o t,let done. The Hindoos were prevented by their religion forward to give evidence ? Tee people of England were • ~,,r , ,e, from coming to England, fur they would lose caste by deeply concerned in this inquiry; for they were the slitifi crossing the sea; and many of the Mahomedens could guarantees to India for their sincerity of purpose. 0 l ' ,. .aitli not be expected, for the result of the Ccuipany's rule was easy for them to inquire here into the corruption , ... 01 , had been to reduce that population to unspe a kable practissel in some of their borough; but ikon' t h eref we ra r Ts e enddijaffien.., ~,e;. ndi a . 1 ' 44 wretchedness and poverty, In 1848 the Committee of sands of miles of rolling sea separating them. Mr. Bright upon cotton cultivation reported that the con- and there was also to be considered the i m e m n r e o p elution of the cultivating classes was one of extreme newts which existed between this eon: i t i r e y es. a a Unless at, ete i 4 poverty, and there were scarcely any other classes in respect to language, religion, and P Ind rf. , and with power ~.tdie'l -si the country. There were precedents for a Commission commission was appointed to sit in . into the sub'• •ct, it ,s 4 eo*.j of Inquiry; that course had been taken vvili respect to to make a full awl searchin c i a o lull' eful j: h ' t a. resale. bue cid _ e a( Africa, and to the North American boundary, and also was utterly hepeiess to exp u n " d ü b s ar evidence here,aikee' to the lonian Islands. Arid wite reference to lu , lia commission coulti go to In itself, the same course had barn pursued in respect to undistur bed ity i lie a s of s e change of Cisthinetelso:; ' H g was told that the Earl of Dal- - railways, which it had been said wee a subject which or a new Parliament• e; but he did not know whether ' could only be dealt with preperly by a local inquiry. heusie was couareg w h o "l ied permit bim to do so. When, He did nit, however, admit the flattering picture drawn the Burmese war by the Right Hon. Gentleman of the condition of the however, he did return borne, he might possibly sae , ' any centi l e l D the great rest and the constant fear e of g yros . the country to be correct. Toe R+ ht Hon. Gentlemen in the language ofireL,ord hlardinge, that had said that the debt did not exceed two years' re- cenceres of the empire, venue, and this appeared plausible, but was fallacious; had quite unfitteda l w ly on or ion on o , tor the revenue tit India was not made up merely of admiuretrativeet to oppose his proposition imploreatt taxation, but partly out of a rent received by the Corn- affairs of for gluing the House h a r the words of Wallin ' b•la r bad patsy from the laud, in the capacity et proprietors. He to remem e, . El g l w e w hat contended that the Companybeiug justly di see 4 et( anie s ---t be • produce of the land, eslculeted not on the value of the natives o di t a ch eated f were aters. a ffected and desirous or took 60 per cent. of the been uttered by Many great Men gyet'in their power to arrest the an fU e rt o hef 3 s a prea d land but on the probable value of the crop. And, added coming to t was - feeling. Let them not trust to hearsearnye_ o . : to this, there was taxation on every article on which it Of thin evidence. Let them distrust the stet _ ,".1 , • was possible to impose it. Yet the revenue did not ex ceed 21,000,0001. from a territory as large as Europe, enemies , who have gone to 11 10 "" and more fertile, better pet pled, and more completely in the benefit of the people, but mere par the .. not . . . for the the hands of the Government—blessed with several nor- use of putting money in their own pockets. - The Hon• ' concluded by moving his S o u :: l e ci °_ their u foLr e Learned r r r n e e c d o n e G i lee Gentleman vests in the year, and abounding in everything, from the production of the tropics to those of the pole. ' sold was all the revenue derived, and that paltry revenue A n HON. MEMBER, whose Member nt for Yougbal (Mr. Atetr-eY) --- The SPEAKER havin., phi. name we could not goer' the people were racked to produces and oftenh ex . tain, seconsled the amendment •• '' ea ' '''' ' up and ruined. And, on the other hand, th© e not the question, n ld esiee, Mr. H. J. BAILLIg said that as the 11 n a :..... !- - - r7fi.f. penditure went on year atter year consuinteg . had had sn future. The truth was, that, as local inquiry . opportunity of ex 1 " would only the resources of the present, but also of the tertained on this s h uhe trusted the .. '. a L o m p ea en te d ie m d e p attnug the views and oinions be en prove, the condition of India o tee eeouse, was more or less direct, and thus it . • wee better in the Hon. and Learned Gentleman7av"' dess nt to a di- . : . 3 the that (where the influence of advantage, and not eery, which was better or worwseasiaoooerdoifrighoapsPloeuswrs °rmuullide provinces press his amen " uon-regulation" o f Leadenhall-street), vision. If he understood- rabies Member .?•:!:, I Governor mitigated the tyranny where the tyranny rightly, he was of the Ilonou a Hoy al Commission 0 than in the " regulation' provinces,and of opinion tbe_tnctia, to ascertain the ',' , i • emigration was sheuld he issued prevailed to the greatest extent; provinces into the s-ntimenta to proceed to ..!, ion of that country continually goiug on from those l King of Oude, in A - th ' the native P ° P uP • which the goTeTb. O le je 1 referee ce to Ere maut.er in dominions of the N , saus or ot the _ ut,‘ was ,be satis6ed with .:',‘,, •iiii rler alo•n t :, liberate, but the East . I Now he (Mr. &Lillie) conetef.„t order to avoid the tyranny et. the ClziPa".tllu'or ' i here II " been adwitiistered under the auspices of . ? • e It die Company. the population we had u 1 td• In mote, indeed, ' .. . I - , Ssed ti which practically we had ens t iv Ileuse . generally were Of ''. 041 - dead lock, and it would be difficult to to the b • • pin n. that in omission which. :leies we were at a . fromthe people of best mode of o btei b es , Filet he entir ely differed from t . he f Hon... Memberm ber !iP7" _ed t . 0 squ eeae an additional farthing b:uld proceed thither to t e , „. lo should be laid before Parliament ' ) ,,,0 w m ° te t months,ed according leffislate for the fuittre government - 4 country. Even by the testimony of Mr. Campbell, one o of the compeny's servants, who . had written a ; ; ric era il proce h e e ded be io lie : t-I did not think it was deairable --'" ei pinion it was desirable . t appeared cf India.—(fear.) .- -b . a . "AV itthfatthethceeanampaluntlytwoifthrinentthwe alsasetstti crop, but that opium, sugar, and cotton paid in a double quire into the complaints and grievances of all those dil ~ ea proportion. Having reduced the value of the land ' .• s which now acknowledged the suprenaftel - " , e if prop by terent nation our exactions, we proceeded to tax the necessar':of British rule— natitmse p g ...., be it remembered, differi ,ti to the tear a Royal Cenamisaion s life ; and wh i lst we forb ade the manufacture I'a of t' from one another in manners and customs—differing • " 7 - e c, eve o salt derived from the sea, we iniquitously tram one another in religion—differing tram one ne - , • . , ti te nopolis al the manufacture of the article me-1 other also in language, and spread, as the Honourable :op produce , from the earth. It was a singular fact h qeMber bad himself observed, ove raspse on the or: . .,,s4l ing out of the cholera in India w t et the break- he ..__e of A b e globe little less—if at ls—than the' eia a creation of the salt monopoly by a vv i coincident with t oci 'at' which was occupied by the whole of Europe. He con' S o o medical officers had reported Warren Hastings; and fa, i std, then, that he did not think it would be desirsh! t e i w,i, Cully prevalent amongst the that the disease, who ware that so herculean a task as this inquiry Yo u ' ig poor in India, deprived of the Snide of , ost an _ prove should be entrusted to commissioners 0 1 ) : 4lif touched. There had be salt, left the rich,a_l i f s mono _ pointed by the Crown.—(Llear, hear.) lie Wi ;; ; 3 1 poly during the irtit en soma relaxation o_t_ this „ xtent quite ready I to d admit that if commissioners were to .:.,,a4 appreciable by the gen f e e r w al e n -ee d rs, of bu t, t b, 13:0pwie.' Having' gentlemen eeemdetno badn ia, and it were understood that tho iv s; a, , e e criticised and ridiculed the o "exemptions from i a ,_ eent c l taintandgone there tor the purpose of hea r ubs asIS and Leerneclsudgrievances of the people, CO do 00 ,0 010 a ion granted by the Company, the thin. the thetheir coca o pos ttien that w . he fully occupied; that very en e 'OO l Member proceeded to einino the of Die there won o be a 'o d ac. 4 Board of Controlacted as a check on the Board . . . is oe array of complaints the :0„ that the Board grievances laid before the House• and doubtless, as t" ~ • 0 ‘,,,, rectors, acid and vice versa. 1-1° contended the Afighan and Hon,, Member had rem ked t: , li n g bourn - ,dit of Directors were us much guilty of of the day, and of compisint awl r' ar a.., t-at never-Jai rm ., __ o t : ~ other Indian wars as the governments nd patrooage in , he land-tax, ivtel g i levance in India, the ope lil t:7; o f : el that they had acquired tertti.TlriY ;mild it have been the-e cow ' h serene of the most Pr' 423 w elch , :-) venues —(, e hear.) Th e settlement 4.,:0, consequence Of these wars. been w s te tie p sid by the took placs under Lord Cornwallis—s seal, Writ wh iv i . , ~a If the 36,000,0001. hat. the Payment woole be betie ' t 0011 u r country, for then vett was entered into in great igeerancas not po ll nerfr people of thia i nu . ; t.t the tier pr..:ented and ot !he merino A 4 ' , he rigies alai pr's,_,, have bean dispute , i 1 0. , t•tht Fuujaub and i theft, vileges et the 2 lie customs, but of t ~. . ~,, ~,o) leer have r P" s1) e e was no enance of r..iite,-. g t • ' r wive . poputaiton of LAM — n . 0 .`e; ~I.l ' ; _ 4 tto, e eat nestortut e. a,it had led so comodelable none' i i „ t ots were the cuff reed at e r it was reosarkeble, l ose, that whil.t we head been naitte Out we arrr. i.ow unable' to retrace our st , ps---- ie , ,11 ' • sing our territory in Unlit, there had b t sett , ' " a ' el " , '''e cauld not sto so with reference to tha a ~ i 0 on iccrea, in Lee reveeue. . The state f s , e to 0 - a o growing deficiettcy h o. thiegs went without committing stil , greater it j uslie , . ip s . ,PYr g - elaCrailY was 'lle , that if Mr. •' Mauauley were hew e those interesis whice haves grown up in India "% on j attf member of the House of 0.)1110:101t4, be , would Liu tenger •he las': sixty ia. seventy years. But that this que" tbe -,ae l find it possible to repeat the praise o' the Board of Di- of the laud tax was the main grievance of c) to , e illi rectors be had uttered in 1833. Mr. Campbell state e o ople of India, we bad already ample proof befor ~.. ~, i i ie that within the last ten years Ca) net revenue bed in roe very prospect of the appointment of a Coannittos: ~,,0 , 1 creased by more than s, °°° , °°° l ” but that eine° 1837 the of Itiquiry bad caused an association to spring _,,,,, coat of the ordinary establishments had increased to in India for the express purpose of laying that coMP:. l _,_ ,l i 6,000,0001., so that the deductions, instead of being 66 and grievance before that Committee. An. asseciiiettbot7 ~ per cant. , were 76 per cent. Th e position of the joie compo.ed of native gentlemen—many of them ee, e of -- jurisdictieue of the Board of Control and Beard of Di tiered wee of education acid iutelligence, and e st u , _-, 0 , rectors was _altogether Ituomitleini. 2143 question now them also of high rank—had associated together, el" ~; CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The AifORNEf:GENERAL intimated that ho would postpone this Bill until this day week. THE REV. MR. BENNETT. Mr. 11ORSMAN gave notice that he would move on an early day fur au address to her Majesty, praying for an inquiry iiro 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 hig motion respecting the Crystal Palace until the 29th of April. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Colonel SIB TEIORP gave notice that when this Bill came on for a second reading he would move that it be read a second time that day slx months. MILITIA . BILL. Colonel SIBTHORP also gave notice that when it was moved to read this Bill a 'second time, h© should propose an amendment that it ice read a second time Lb/It day six months.—(A laugh.) EXPULSION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FROJI AUSTRIA. Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that to-morrow be would ask the. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the cor respondence between the Government and the Cabinet of Vienna respecting the expulsion of the Rev. Mr. Edwards from Austria was sufficiently complete to be laid before the House. PUBLIC BUSINESS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice he would move that on Thursday, the 29th of April, end on every subsequent Thursday, the orders of the day should have precedence of notices of motion. CITY GRAND JURIES. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to more 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 bad excited a good deal of public attention ; it could not be said to be new, for in the year 1841, when he had the honour of filling the same office which ho 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 wore 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 stat ing in detail the precise nature of the measure, but upon 'he second reading he would go fully into the reasons which induced him to propose this alteration in the law. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. EAST INDIA COUPANY'S CHARTER. Mr. BERRIES rose to move for a Select Committee to iequire into the operation of the 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 35, " 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 Com nittee was to take into consideration the propriety of renewing the charter to the East India Company, He need scircely state to the House that hitherto the East India Company had exclusively enjoyed our In iian territories, and it was equally unnecessary for elm to inform the House of the extraordinary progress which the Indian empire had made since the year 1784, when the present system of government began. Since that period there had boon a gradual tendency to abo fish as much as possible the exclusive rights teal 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 new system of private trade was introduced, which was a car ried on not only in connexion with, but under the imme diate direction to', the East India Company, and this private trade had developed itself to an almest fabulous ex t en t from that period down to 1813. About this latter period a very great alteration in the exclusive right of the East India Company as traders was made, and private traders were admitted. The only exclusive right, in fact, reserved to the Company was the trade to China, but, with that exception, all their other trading privileges were removed. New re gulations were introduced at the time of a most valuable eaeure, and these regulations continued for some time. Chese new regulations were the result of an inquiry which the House had instituted, and they were con tinued down to 1833. At that time a new Act .or regulating the charter was introduced Ind by this Act all the rights of the Company, including those of trading with China, were modified, and from this ime they ceased to be a trading company. All their Dowers were made over to the Crown, and their commer cial assets were disposed of under that Act. ['he Act was to continue for twenty years, namely, from 1834 to 1854, and it was agreed to ty the Company on certain conditions. The first con dition for the immense sacrifice which the Company made was that their stock, amounting to, as he was informed, 6,000,0001., should not b.. subject to redemption for forty years. That was, it was not to be stalled iu for bey years after the passing of the Act he had ineutioned, 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 Com• pony, for at this present moment the 1001. stock of the Company he understood was worth 2601. The affairs of India under this arrangement had cen tinned to be administered from 1834 up to the present time, and they would continue to be administered till the year 1854, after 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 tied 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— tirst, to let the Act expire; secondly. to propene the re• newel 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 moot becoming course to adopt. Infinite benefit was found . to t r o es t u n it e 'rem the inquiry te hi c h was institute d previous not eranting of th e last charter. He did apprehend any differen ce of opinion with e ' regard to tne appoi n tment of als3C3,omamnidttiete.wasTnweeonetz years had nearly elapsed since t s of eery to inquire what effectne he we7.ealre:an government d progress f in India had produced on t riod. lt The revenue had in dant country during this pe in others unsatisfactory. solve instances been satisfactory, the year, and in the At Ole commencement of _o n e: e i n e eased the ra n t outaall increaseineom e was 18,..407,0001. audrtehreyreshoacdceeding in that emu daring present swear it alllOellnted to 24 379,0001., the difference being not :tees t h a n 6,000, 0001 . H e was sorr y to say , Oa t the charges had increas e d from h owev er, 18,000.0001, 104, to 25,000 0001 in the present year, deticieney 01678,000/. It would net thus aiy V7 1(1 ' 1. 4,1, 1 . how this deficiency nrose. In the fi•st there was a considerable s ur pl us, four years but after t hat pet io d t theee bad been alm ost a con ti,ent deficiency, witu the exception of one year, when there was a surplus of 3 50,0001. he iucrease of charges was occasioned by the disas trous wars in which India Nks involved daring the whole of the period. The miserable undertaking called the war of Affghanistan had drawn certainly no less a sum than 10,000,000/. Then the scar in Scinde, and the firs t and second weir in the P un i aub, cost also an enormous sum. It appeared, front the best accounts he had been able to collect, that all these wars couid not have coat a less sum altogether than 36,000,000/. There had been added to th e nat i ona l d e bt in conseq u ence of these wars, as much as 20,000,000/e large additional expenditure to the cou ntr y in the shape ho of interest. Ther e were , wh i c h involved a owe-, soap, points for con gratulation. During the 20 years the exports and im port§ had nearly doubled, and there had boon Progrel" V i ~L , 's . 4i, ty‘l! r