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ET m 0 s r : 44 1 ,4-4 sr , - Cbt LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1841. In the House of Peers, which met last night as usual, Lord KENYON presented petitions from Wales against - the new distribution of Church property. There is no chance of contenting any class by any distribution of a revenue which, in its origin and appropriation, is essentially unjust. The Earl of ABERDEEN made a speech 'on the supposition that the Rev. Mr. CANDLISH had been appointed to a new Professorship in Edin burgh College, but when he had finished, and made an inquiry on the subject, the Noble Earl was informed that the appointment, though con- I templated, had not been completed. When it was ascertained that Mr. CANDLISH was one of the sturdiest opponents of the law, the offer made to him had been withdrawn. It would be surprising if the press had been the means of informing the Ministers of the mistake they had been led into, which seems probable, for the Edinburgh paper stated that Mr. CANDLISH'S appointment was completed. A timely notice of its impropriety has, however, prevented that. The Rev. Non-Intrusionist is therefore disap pointed. Their Lordships passed the Copyliold Enfran 7 ehisement Bill through a Committee, and then adjourned. In the House of Commons the S.wern Navi gation BHA was referred to a Select Committee, after a division of 74 to 40. Mr. VILLIERS, on presenting a petition against the Corn-law, gave notice that he would renew his motion on the subject after Easter. We hope it will be kept alive in Parliament, for assuredly it will not die in the country. A report, in fact, prevails that Ministers mean to make the esta blishment of a low fixed duty a Cabinet measure. We trust that this report is true, for any and every change will tend to break up the present system; and th e propos i t i on f or a fi xe d d u t y will lead we b e li eve —indeed we are sure it will, if the agriculturists comprehend their own inte rests—to the total abolition of the tax on bread. They are, w e verily believe, the first race of jolterheads wh o , ever expected to gain advan tages by lessening the consumption of, and de mand for, their produce. A great number of petitions were 1.,-T)reel,sented, or srper and amongst them a novel one from proprietors of Exeter, complaining jury done to their property by the publication of the Newspaper Stamp Returns, and praying that the practice might be discontinued. Some little discussion ensued on leave of ab sence being moved for Mr. INGHAM and Mr. W. O. STANLEY. The Members who stay i n town seem rather to envy the freedom which the holiday-seekers enjoy. The leave of absence was granted. In answer to Mr. FRESHFIELD, the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that on Jan. 5 an officer was sent to Dartmouth for the purpose of preparing to carry into effect the recommen dations of Commissioners that Dartmouth should be the port for the departure and arrival of the mail packets. Mr. F. KELLY moved that the petition of Mr. REEVES, a surveyor of taxes, who complains that his pension is not adequate to his services, be re ferred to a Select Committee. Mr. PARKER resisted the motion, because the Treasury had followed in the case of Mr. REEVES the principles it had invariably followed. After a short debate, the House divided, and M T . KELLY'S motion was rejected by 38 to 27. Returns of the expense of the Canadian and Syrian wars, were ordered on the motion of Mr. Mr. MILES obtained leave to bring in a Bill to give Justices power, in Special Sessions, to en force penalties for breach of promise of mar riage &c • Mr. LABOUCHERE moved the appointment of a Sleet Committee on the Railway Bill, which was ordered. At Half-past Seven the House adjourned. Such a qui e t S ess i on o f Parliament as the pre sent, has certainly no t b een known since 1828. Probabl y the sound of war scares trifle s out of the heads of Hon. Members, or makes them asham e d of ea scussing them. Certainly the want of interest in the not the Parliamentary discussions is conse quence of a want of many matters of great and pressing public imr, ortance, which Ought to engage the t tttention of the Le gislature. I n our r ecollection the discussion of Parliament was never less commensurate to the public wants. In fact, if we are not mistaken, it is the greatness of the latter which keeps the Members silent. War cannot lightly be spoken of. The vast discontent of the masses can neither be overlooked nor remedied. Financial difficulties stare the House of Commons in the face, and demand skill and energy to overcome them. These are matters which cannot be trifled with; they weigh, we believe, on men's hearts, and at present tie their tongues. Were the gentlemen at Westminster more loquacious, we should deem the difficulties of the Government less overwhelming than their comparative silence makes us suppose them to be. A singular, and, for all true patriots, a melan choly change has of late years crept over the mind and policy of England. There was a time when it was the boast of her sons, speaking of her free institutions, that she was the wonder of the world and the envy of surrounding nations. Latterly all respect, all love, all reverence for these institutions has come to an end, and there is one almost universal anxiety to imitate, and to rival in multiplicity and minuteness of regula tion, the despotisms of Russia and France. We reproach no one party with this as a pecu liarity, for all parties seem to act and feel alike on the subject. If, to quote an example or two, the metropolitan police, an imitation of France, was introduced by Sir R. PEEL, the centralized management of the poor, following his practices, and those of Holland, was recommended by the Whigs ; while the Radicals claim the merit of a completed police Act, and a multitude of abor tive attempts to fetter our limbs and our minds under the pretext of taking care of our health, our morals, and our lives. Having got so far in our race after foreigners, we shall no doubt, bye and bye, adopt their pass port system, and their system of 'taking an ac count of all the movements of every individual. In fact, it is somewhat unjust to insist as we now do on the Government protecting every indivi dual against every possible evil, and at the same time refusing to it the authorised means of watching over and curbing those wick& spirits who are the immediate cause of disorder. We regret this departure from the localizing and even individualizing system of our Saxon ances tors, and this imitation of the centralizing system of France, itself but an imitation of the system of old imperial Rome, which placed the whole world in subjection to one tyrant. One of the most extraordinary specimens of this anti-Saxon, un-English spirit of imitation, which we have yet met with, appeared in yester day's Morning Post. It seems to us the last stage of grovelling, misplaced worship of an idol, which time and experience have proved can give no aid to man. If there be one part of human exertion and skill for which England is, and has been, for ages superior to all the States of the Continent, except Holland, and the Hanseatic towns at one time, while they were free and independent, it is the extent of her trade promoted.by comparative freedom. While the Elbe, the Danube, the Weser, the Seine, the Loire, and the Garonne, could not boast of a single steam-vessel belonging to them, there was scarcely a river in England but was crowded with steam-vessels ; and they had been sent all round our coast, and even across the At lantic almost, before they became familiarly known on the Continent. We refer to this fact, as the example of that commercial activity and enterprise in which England has for ages sur passed all other nations but her own free-born children in the United States. Nor has this commercial activity been in consistent with agricultural improvement. On the contrary, with the probable ex ception of some parts of Belgium, of Lom bardy, and of Tuscany, all of which, however, were indebted originally to commerce or manu factures for their agricultural prosperity, Eng land is as much superior to the despotic States of tlie Continent for her agriculture as for her commerce. Most of the useful arts, and even some of the fine arts, have here obtained a like ascendancy. We cannot think that the absence of crime and the general security of person and property on the Continent are such as to warrant us in having recourse to the police system of des potic States; but we are sure that our commer cial and agricultural success, in comparison to theirs, is sufficient to make us all start with horror at any proposition to adopt their commercial system. The writer in the Post, however deeply in love with restrictions, says— " On the Continent of Europe we behold the Governments doing all they can toencourage profitable industry, both agricultural and manufacturing. * * * * They have resolved, and we think they have very wisely and patrioti cally resolved, to encourag e their own manufactu ring i n . dustry, rather than that of Great Britain ; and, therefore, we feel confident that, it peace continue, they will not aban don their present policy, no matter what alterations Great Britain may make in her commercial tariff." On the principle here expounded the writer stimulates the Legislature to imitate the Go vernments of the Continent in encouraging, as he supposes, the industry of our people, by lay ing restrictions on its exercise. The best encou raffement is to allow it t o o bt a i n it s p roper rewar d . The farmer cultivates the ground beyond the supply of his own wants, in order to obtain the luxuries which trade supplies, and in proportion as they are cut off the stimulus to his exertions is deadened. Every encouragement for one branch of industry is a restriction on another, with a tax in addition to enforce it. We cannot believe that legislators are so well acquainted with the relative value of different branches of industry that they should say this can be advanta geously impeded, and that promoted. We are decidedly adverse to this blind plan of imitating the policy of the French and the Russians, and experience justifie* our aversion. Suppose, for example, our cotton manufacture had been regarded by the Legislature of the last century as an exotic, making us dependent on a foreign State, and the Legislature had done all in its power, instead of leaving it to its fate happily for us, to prevent its growth, and encou rage some other branch of trade—suppose that it had succeeded, and then Lancashire, instead of now containing about one million of inhabi tants, and being cultivated in every part, and everywhere intersected with roads and canals, would have remained one of the least improved counties of England. The cotton manufactory came late into existence, and is therefore unin cumbered with a multitude of restrictions which legislation previously fixed on othe r t ra d es . I n this into. esl3eet greatnessi it is like s withouttea steam n theavi navigation;-which t l i Z ITh of l i 3 e g h is h l a a- s grown tive i • potection. Both these branchesof have contrib u t e d em i nently to Britain's present greatness; but both would have been nipped in the bud had the Continental system been applied to them. At the same ' time they contribute of much to the extension agriculture and th e value of its produce. Without steam navigati on the London market would be inaccessible to many parts of Scotland. Without the cotton i m anufacture the farmers of I re l and and Lanca shire would receive nothing in exchange for their It is obvious that products.the success of these and similar branches of trade, ,foreign and domestic, affords the best encouragement for agriculture, and to lay restrictions on them is really to deprive the agriculturist of market s , cus t om ers, and payment for his labour. This leads us to expose a mistake in the Post, which no writer, looking beyond the dead letters he was transcribing, co uld have fallen into. Our Contemporary puts down a long array of statistical figures, and comes to the conclusion that from the land we raise 216,000,000/. an nually, while manufacturing industry yields only 148,000,0001., and foreign trade only 48,000,0001. But how is the value estimated? Is not a very large proportion of the 246 millions exchanged for manufacturing produce, which is the sole measure of its value ? But for the manufacturing produce, the agricultural produce would have no . . value; but for the demands of the manufacturer, and what they supply in exchange, it never would be produced. The value put down by the Post is not measured by use, but by exchange, and is, in fact, derived from the commerce and the manufactures which the Post places in opposi tion to it. Again, the Post separates our foreign from our home trade,but the slightest reflection ought to satisfy the Post that one cannot flourish without the other. A great part of our home THE SUN, .LONDON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, IQ4i trade consists in the 'exchange of cotton' cloth for food, of sugar and tea for meat, of coffee and' wine for beer and fruit, and if we imported and exported less, the home trade would suffer in proportion as the foreign trade was diminished. Knowing the intimate connection between all branches of in dustry, we never have indulged in any non sensical calculations as to the relative value of different branches. They are all, like the belly and the members, parts of the same body, and to depreciate foreign trade, or the home trade, or agriculture, is as silly as to depreciate the right or the left leg, or to say that the hand is more worthy than the eye. What Mr. HUME and Mr. WARBURTON, whom the Post ridicules, and_ what we and all the Anti-Corn-law League want, is not to injure agriculture or the home trade, but to make the Legislature remove the restrictions it has laid on foreign trade on the unfounded pretence that, by so doing, it encourages agriculture and the home trade, as if our steam-engine manufacturers would be benefited by cutting off our trade with the Brazils. We want the Legislature, by allowing freedom to commerce, to enlarge the market for the productions of our industry. Our demands are now met by holding up to us the example of the continental States for imitation. Is it then come to this that the Tories, formerly such mouthing boasters of English freedom, now tell us, for lack of sounder argument, that our own old English freedom is worth nothing, and that to be great and good we must follow the ex ample of knouted Russia and police-ruled France ? We have for some time mourned over the gradual decay of sound economical knowledge, and the growth of a. very unreason able love of political contrivances to encourage trade, amongst the countrymen pf ADAM SMITII and of this spurious importation from abroad by the disciples of the CASTLEREAGH school of poli tics, the recommendation of the Post to.en cumber our trade with restrictions, after the manner of France and Russia, is the masterpiece. Mr. WEBB HALL, whose pamphlet we on Mon day noticed, states that the landlords, or the owners of the passive capital invested in land, take advantage of the attachment which the fitrmers, or the owners of the active capital, ne cessarily and naturally form to the spot they cultivate, and, in cultivating, beautify and adorn it, to rivet on them the chains of their odious tyranny, and not unfrequently to enrich them selves at the farmer's expense. An influence he says) as cruel as it is base, is attempted to be exercised upon them, to induce them to prostitute their convictions, when an owner of an estate dares to draw upon their attachment to a place they have sedulously impr oved, and for the use of which they may have paid more than a Just equi valent ; while a wechful crew of candidates may be ready at any compromise to pounce upon a harvest of improvements they have never made. To inflict subserviency and degradation upon the farmers, the landlords profit by Attachment to a locality ox which the farmer might have been brought up,—the improvements he may have imbedded upon his farm, and WHICH THE LAW, BUT NOT JUSTICE, GIVES TO ANOTHER,—the inconvenience and hasard to those most dear to him restrain removal, and the want of that gene ral knowledge, - which would enable him to turn his attention to other pursuits, if his inclination would allow him,—or, lastly, the indisposition to quit the country that gave him birth, and seek another where land is more plentiful, and where its price is nominal. Such are the ties that bind the British farmer to his pursuit : to all his trials be sets the word " home," and frequently clings to a spot, under the most ad verse circumstances, rather than face the alternatives which change might bring. Instead of cherishing and honouring the Arca dian attachment of the tenantry to the homes of their fathers, which is justly said to be the source of many virtues, Mr. WEBB HALL says, that the landowners erect on that at tachment their hateful dominion, and exercise their tyranny, because they know that the love of home will make the farmers submit. The te nantry desire that their bones may be laid in the same church-yard as their fathers, that their children may be baptized at the same font, and married at the same altar, where they and their parents were baptized and married, and on this sacred affection the landowners would build their oppression. How unworthy ! how base ! how utterly are such facts at variance with the cha racter which the Corn-law advocates ascribe to the owners of land L We must make another quo tation. Mr. WEBB HALL says— There are instances where the improvements of a tenant, not protected by a lease, have been most unjustly appropriated in part by the landlord to his own use in increased rent ; to obtain which, the legal power over the whole may have been used as an instrument, or have been the influencing motive for the concession of a tenant ; while a landowner may have been ' tempted, behind the scenes, by offers for the gathering of that which he had never strewed; and therefore was wholly unentitled either to let or reap Many of the evils re hearsed in the foregoing review will attach to the tenancy of land, which is continued to be owned by the same individual or his family, for a long course of years. There are o th er cir cumstances which give additional pressure to these : when an estate changes hands and becomes the property of a purchaser to whom a tenantry are unknown,--whose connection com mences from the day of his payment for the estate, estimated at the value which it then possesses, an d a considerab!e portion of which value may have been imparted to it by improvements, to which the seller of the estate was not entitled, but which he actually realizes in such a sale, while e /en the debt of gratitude, which might be appealed to in reference to the original pos sessor, is lost by the transfer. The farmers, then, though some of them are adroit enough to he a match for the cupidity which brilliant promises tempt, are victimized by the landlords, impoverished as well as degraded by their exactions. The inhabitants of the towns give the cultivators of the soil, in return for food, useful clothing, cheering luxuries, and valuable tools. The landlords give them nothing in return for rent but degradation. To give another in stance of their conduct, we shall quote a passage which shows them extending their tyranny to the labourers as well as the tenants To show how erroneous are the sentiments which exist in high, and what ought to be well-informed, quarters upon this subject, 'it may be stated, that the adminiqratars of justice, assembled in Quarter Sessions, have been known to declare, in several instances, that it served farmers right, when robbed by their labourers, if they suffered them to keep a pig 1 'I his sentiment is alike tyrannical and absurd. What is there in the contract between tenant and labourer to authorise so gross an &sumption of arbitary power? At the same time the landowners who make the tenants' case the plea for taxing our bread, leave the property of those tenants shamefully unprotected. We do not speak of the manner in which the landowner's game devours the tenant's crops, while the tenant is forbidden to kill what are to him destructive vermin, but of a neglect which the following passage expl a i ns . _ Can it be believed, when first detailed, that all the flocks of this country, kept to supply its inhabiiants with clothing and provisions, are also not within the protection of the law in circumstances about to be mentioned,-,—not recogni.ed as valu able, until repetition of aggression can create that claim. It is to the devastation of dogs upon them that reference is here made, for which the owners, even if ascertained, are not re sponsible, un'ess criminal knowledge of such disposition to destroy can be proved against them. Thi; it no eliewnwerit;ed evil, but one of - antibirlittetiliii and costly, as well as distressing kind. A case of twenty-six killed, and thirty-six wounded sheep, in this way, has occurred to myself; and an instance of one hundred, thus devastated upon one occasion by two dogs, could be produced; and yet the laws of our gaun t r y d o no t p rov id e, an d our legislators re fuse to grant, the needful remedy. We comprehend the reason for this neglect. Sporting dogs may worry the farmer's flocks, and it would be inconvenient for the sporting gen tlemen to pay the damage. Most of our legisla tors are sporting gentlemen, or they have a close connection with that tribe, though amongst them are blacklegs and swindlers, and hence it is im possible to procure a law to make the owners of ' a sporting dog pay for the damage which he may cause to a farmer's flock. At the same time, we are told that it is all for the sake of the farmers, whose interest is so grossly neglected, and whom the landowners oppress and plunder, and for the impoverish, t a n e. T 0 thatw i th t e h d e a C v o a r r c - e l a the w la s sake of th e l a b ourers, whom they degrade and k must ndow b n e er m s aaidnd the most mean and revolting hypocrisy. The whole history of their connection with the te nantry and the agricultural labourers proves that they do not study in any respect the interest or well-being of those classes, and yet they make their well-being the pretext for taxing the bread of the people. Mr. WEBB HALL, though we can hardly suppose that he meant it, has done the Anti-Corn-law party a great service by his publi cation, and we trust that his example will be fol lowed by other practical agriculturists, who must, like him, feel the degradation lie describes. But a very short pe riod will el apse before th e intentions of the Unite d States, wi th respect to Mr. M‘LEon, are fully known and although we do not attach so much importance to the insult ing, and, if we must speak the truth, lying Re port of the Committee of Foreign Relutions, as some of our Contemporaries, we are not indiffe rent to the important fact that upon the decision of the Federal Government now depends the so lution of the question, peace or war. With the particular Government of the State of New York we have nothing to do. As a nation Eng land is not officia;ly cognizant of the existence of such a State, nor of any of the other twenty-six States comprising the Union. Our business is only with the Federal Government, and if that Government refuse to afford us redress the con sequences will of course be visited upon the whole Union. An American journal, which takes a very sensible view of this question, suggests, that in the event of Mr. M‘LEon being hanged, Eng land might make reprisals on the citizens of the State of New York. England will do nothing of the kind. She will not imitate the Govern ment of New York in the judicial murder of in nocent individuals. If a hair of M'Lzon's head fall, there is but one step to be taken by England, and, however distressing it may be to resort to that ultima ratio reg um, there is no doubt but that it will be instantly adopted. What ever Mr. PICKEN may suppose, England is not in a temper to permit her loyal and innocent subjects to be hanged with impunity. We are as far from wishing to indulge in threats against the United States, as we are from being the objects of Mr. PICKEN'S calumnies; but this we may be permitted to say without offence, that should the unfortunate events now under the painful consideration of the two countries lead to a war, there are sufficient elements of discord in the different Republican States, as to make the utter disruption of the Union .a matter of very little difficulty. Several of the States are already opposed to the deten tion of Mr. M , LEon, and assuredly they would not, in compliance with the provisions of a con stitution now proved to be unsuited to the neces sities of the Federal Government, make war upon England to screen his murderer from the vengeance of outraefed- justice. And were it otherwise, as Lord liourcrcAsnEr. well observed in the House of Lords on. Monday evening, we have, in the institution of domestic slavery in the south—in the wrongs of the aboriginal tribes— in our gallant army—and in our powerful fleet, ample means of terribly avenging any outrage of our rights committed by our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic. But we still trust matters will not come to this. We are happy to announce that there is an immediate prospect of an amicable termination of all differences between France and the Four Powers, relative to the Eastern question. Al ready have Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Eng land, signed a Protocol, announcing the expira tion of the Treaty of the 15th of July, the acts which it was intended to perform being happily accomplished. The Treaty of July, which gave such umbrage to France, has therefore no longer an existence. Having made this formal conces sion to the susceptibilities of France the Powers next proposed to her a plan for placing the con servation of the peace and integrity of Turkey under the joint guarantee of the Five Great Powers—a proposition which, we have pleasure in stating, has been received in the amicable spirit in which it was conceived by the present French Cabinet. There is no longer anything to quarrel about, and M. Guizot is too wise and pa triotic a statesmen to indulge in the fiendish luxury of keeping before the public the long buried national hatreds, which the exorcisms of M. THIERS compelled to start from their un hallowed sepulchres. The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been duly received. They are principally occupied with the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday on the condition of the slave popula tion of Guadaloupe, in the course of which dis closures were made which must cover with eter nal infamy M. TRIERS and the Cabinet of the Ist of,March. Every day brings forth some fresh disclosure of the scandalous dishonesty of the Ex-President of the Council. This, for M. TRIERS, unfortunate discussion, was commenced by M. LACROSSE, who put some questions to the Minister of Marine and Colonies concerning the case of a planter, who had been tried in Gua daloupe for brutally confining a female slave for twenty-two months iron cage, and who was not only acquitted, -, Viit carried in triumph on the shoulders of the planters, although the atrocious charge was clearly proved. Admiral DUPERRE, on the part of the Government, de nounced the sentence of acquittal as infamous, and promised inquiry. M. JOLLIVET, who re ceives a salary of 20,000 francs for defending the horrors of the slavery system in Mar tinique, had the audacity to defend the infamous wretch who had confined a human being as he keeper of a menagerie would a tierer or a _ _ hyena, or other wild beast. M. PASSY then rose, and as a Member of the Commission for In quiring into the state of the Slave system, de liberately charged M. THIERS, not only with throwing obstacles in the way of the commission, but with employing the public money in influencing the return of Deputies hos tile to emancipation ! At this charge symp . :orns of amazement were visible on every countenance, and M. TIIIERS, who but a mo ment before was in his place, was suddenly nowhere to be found. M. DE REMUSAT attempted a lame defence of himself by stating that he knew nothing of such proceedings on the part of his colleague, but M. PASSY silenced him by offer ing to prove that the late Cabinet had set aside a sum of money out of the credits of 1840 to pro cure the return of anti-Abolitionists to represent the Colonies. Expressions of general disgust now rose from all sides of the Chamber, and before a moment was allowed for it to subside, M. AUGUIS rose and read the following. modest epistle amid the ironical cheers and laughter of the Chamber, a which admirably exposes the mock philanthr o py, and mock liberality and honesty, of the ex-Presi dent of the Council : o (J AND I. E , ON COLO N IE S A 51s " LETTER OF M. GRANIER DE CASSI ONAC, SENT BY AD MIRALI INTHE TRIERS 11oe s , CABINET, MINISTER 0 0 Ir G MARINEu D SION, AND WHO IS NOW DELEGAT E FOR THAT COLONY. " My dear Sir,—Feuillide, who will call upon yon,and who leaves to-morrow for Toulon, on a Government tri . to go on board the frigate Atalante, which touches at Cayenne, will give you a friendly shake of the hand fo He will exp'ain to you how how certain engagements which have w ith the Cabinet compel me to remain here, otherwise we should have left together ; but it will depend on Guade loupe whether my voyage is deferred. . " I wrote at length to D—, in order to detail the plan of defence which would be, in my opinion, the most efficacious, and the only efficacious one. That is likewise the opinion of the most enlightened colonists who are here, and who see that all the power of our time is in the press. It is quite clear at a time and in a country where every thing may be said, the one who speaks best is naturally in the right. D— will com municate my - letter, and ram - golnotetryou *Eat I have not said to him. M. de Jabrun has sent us, without putting him self too much out of the way, by-the-bye, since he even did not take the trouble to give us notice, the 6,000 francs, which had been voted to all three by the Council. " I think I owe you on this subject some explanations, which I request yon to communicate to D—, in order that the Coun cil may be resolved on my relations with M. de Jabrun. You will perceive by one of his letters bearing the postmark of the 10th of June, 1837, that he evades owing me any arrears. They were of old date, and he has made no remittance to us since that period. Three years and more have, therefore, elapsed without my having received anything from the delegates; and the 6,000 francs which he remitted to me, with a somewitat cha racteristic sally of imagination, is the first money which I have touched. What he had requested me to accept, before 1837, amounted to 2,000 francs a year, which he forwarded to me for two years. At the period when you came to Paris I had already bought, With the view of being eligible, since the colonies wished to have a delegate to the Chamber, a small estate for a sum of 60,000-francs. I pay it off by instalments, and I confess that in buying it I had reckoned on the annual concurrence of the colonies. The concurrence entirely failed until this year. Once, about fifteen months ago, being pressed for a pay ment that was due, I went to M. de Jabrun, who consented to lend me 1,000 francs on my own bill. I must say that he re turned me my bill this year, when he paid me the 6,000 francs, informing me that he had retained the amount on some funds which had arrived from the colonies. I must also add, that about a month before the arrival of the news which you sent me, M. de Cools, delegate from M ar tinique, had r emitte d to me 1, francs. These. Sir, that is to - about a centime, are all that I have received since 1837, a period when, according to M. de Jabrun's letter, which I annex hereto, there were already arrears. I beg pardon for having entered into these details, but I was anxious that you should be informed of my situation with respect to the Council, and as some e xaggerations have been brought back to me which might be, perhaps, credited for want of documents, it was necessary for me to enter into minute details, as well as figures. " It appears to me, besides, that the colonies meet now know me. I have written for them for three years without even the slightest acknowledgment on the part of the delegates. Thera must, therefore, be a certain authority in my words. Well, I assure you that the colonies were wrong to desert me, because they would have found what to do with me. I can say, be cause every one knows it, that I have here a fine position, and fine future prospects ; I only wanted a small fortune. With what you give to some stupid people you would have made me eligible and you would have had an agent who writes and speaks when necessary. I know that I shall make my career a lone ; but I shall take twice as much time as if you had as sisted. I sincerely tell you that the colonies are q uite wron g not to understand that. You have fostered certain bankrupt journals which laugh at you. Peuillide will prove it to you. " I have the vanity to believe that though yo ur dele g a tes have not acknowledged me for the last three y ears, I have been more use f u l to you than any of them. I have got rid of those stupid fellows, Isambert and others, who were, however, so dangerous. The debate is now between U. de Lamartine and myself. I imagine that you have received the first letsers I addressed to him on emancipation. He has just written to mo that be was going to answer. Naturally I shall reply, and the quarrel will thus be brought about between us two. Be sides, on Sunday next, I descant in the Revue de Paris on the sugar question. I will send you some of the paper s, and I hope you will be satisfied. I admit to you, frankly and orenly, that the delegation would be an immense thing for me, which would give me more weight, and would soon make me ga'n a seat in the Chamber. It is very possible that I may do so with out that, if there is a dissolution this year; but I shall come there with less importance and independence. lam going to do my utmost to gain the confidence of the Colonial Council ; I am certain of the most explicit support from the Govern ment. Feuillide will explain and support my pretensions; and I assure you, if I were not in the case, there would be few competitors who offer better security. Two volumes from me will appear next week. I will send you some copies, both for yourself and friends. " Gentlemen of the Council, give me power ; it shall be well employed on your behalf. I repeat to you that I shall be very strongly supported by the Government, and on this occasion I bring the influence of the Revue de Paris, but this time can didly and positively, because the President of the Council has sent the director to me in order that I might make my condi tions for the future. There has been a contract made. I begin business this week by the sugar question. I will send you some of the numbers. I find myself, therefore, keeping the lead at this moment in discussions on colonial matters in the Revue de Paris, in the Presse, and in the Revue du 19eme Sieck. It appears that that offers some security to the Colo nial Council. Add to that that a delegate, and a deputy at the same time, only speaks once a year at the Chamber, and that I am always speaking.—Adieu," &c. What a system of hypocrisy, corruption, ai villany does not this letter lay bare ! To silence the clamours of the Abolitionists at home and in England, M. TIMERS appointed a commission of inquiry, at the same time giving instructions to the colonists to take no heed of the Commission, to answer none of its questions, good or bad; and to return none but Anti-Abolitionists as repre sentatives. This M. PASSY affirmed in his speech, and accordingly, when papers of queries were ad dressed to the planters, they, to ridicule the powers of the Commissioners, replied to each of them with the word "nil." Besides the slave question, which has thus af fixed an indelible stain of infamy upon M. TRIERS and his colleagues, the French Journals of Sun day publish and discuss the merits of a speech which the Prince of Moscow, the son of Marshal NET, would have spoken on taking his seat on the previous day in the Chamber of Peers, had he not been interrupted by the PRESIDENT. As this speech displays a pleasing picture of filial piety, we have given it insertion in another part of The Sun : THE FORTIFICATIONS BILL.—The respective parties are mustering their forces for the struggle which is about to take place in the Chamber of Peers. In a recent interview with the King, the Chancellor, the leader of the Opposition upon that question, nobly resisted all the Royal entreaties to give up his enlightened and conscientious opinion ; he has offered his resignation of the high post which he fills with such admirable courage and real devotedness to the most sacred interests of his country. The resp ective _ strength of the o ppo s it e p ar ties is thus stated :-100 Peers for the law, such as it has been voted by the Chamber of Deputies ; 50 in favour of the amendment about to be proposed by Baron Mounier in the name of the Com mission, whose labours he is to report; and 50 wavering, and likely to be brought over by the King's blandishments and real powers of persuasion. The Ministers say they depend upon a majority of 30 in favour of the law. We have received the following letter from the frontiers of Italy, dated 27th February. " Nothing has happened to disturb the tranquillity which the Peninsula enjoys. But the Italian Government do not think of disarming, and hold themselves in readiness for all events. Ihe attitude assumed by France, though rather equivocal in the eyes of the French people, has excited the attention of the Northern Courts, and their great vassals remain armed to take part in the events which may take place in the spring. The Austrian army cantoned along the frontiers is at its full com plement, ready to proceed to any point where there may be an attempt at insurrection to be suppressed. " Diplomatic agents of all ranks are passing through Italy, and a great number of legitimists have lately traversed it to join the Duke of Bordeaux." - TOULON, MARCH 2.—The mail from Algiers havnot yet arrived; this delay becomes more and more unaccountable. (The telegraph announced this evening the arrival of the Phaeton on the 4th, and of the Castor on the sth. It will be two or three days before we have the letters.) A letter from Tangiers of the 19th of February, says that the arrival of three or four armed packets, and the announce ment of the speedy arrival of some ships of the line, has pro duced the effect that was expected. 'I he Emp eror has caused a declaration to be made to the Consul-General that he highly valued the friendship of the French, and that in proof of it he sent the copy of the orders forbidding all the Arabs on the eastern frontiers, on pain of death, to take up arms for Abd el-Kader against the French. But all this is a farce, for Abd el-Rhaman is not ignorant that ammunition is frequently em barked in his ports for the Emir, and that the caravans which convey it to the provinces of Oran pass through a part of his dominions ; so that he might very easily have them stepped, if he was so disposed. If, however, the French Government wished to prevent Abd-el-Kader from receiving supplies through Morocco, it might easily do so. The packet-boat which plies between Tangiers and Oran might announce to General Lamoricier the departure of the caravans, and the latter might go with his army to meet and stop them. But in order to effect this it would be necessary for us to have active sal. zealous Consuls in the little ports of Morocco.--Le Cont. The Madrid Papers received are of the 28th ult. At a Council of the Regency held on the 27th, it was agreed that the Duke of VITToiuA, as chief of the Regency, should read the Royal Speech at the opening of the Cortes, and that the different Ministers should prepare reports of the state of their respective departments. M. AR GUELLES had positively refused to be named a Member of the Regency, but we are sceptical on the subject of such an appointment having been seriously offered to him. The Treasury was so empty, that the Minister of Finance found great difficulty in obtaining 25,000 dollars to defray the expenses of the troops stationed round the metropolis. _ MR. WILLIAM TOOKE.—This gentleman, as our readers know, was elected some time ago Treasurer of the London University by a majo rity of two, and took occasion to boast of th e re sult, as if e had obtained a great victory. The pious Treasurer, however, hallooed too soon; on Saturday he found to his cost he was not out of the wood. The Treasurer has always been one of the Council of Management. On Saturday a ballot took place for the appointment of the members, consisting of five, and on the votes being counted, Mr. Tooke had only three votes out of twenty-five. Being thus excluded from the Committee, he may as well give up his office as Treasurer; he has lost the confidence of the Proprietors, and therefore the Council, with all its predilection for his skill in getting money and mustering dinners, will be compelled to resign him to his fate. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The funds to-day were very quiet, but they rearzed fully precious quotations. The arrival of the Acadia steamer is anxiou , ly anticipated. For money Consols brougl t 88k to 88/ and for time 881 to 881. Exchequer Bills were 7s. to 9a. premium, and India Bonds were nominally without alteration. The New Thies and-a- Half per Cents. realize.' 96/ to 97, and South Sea stock was at 98. The Foreign Bonds are at present very little thought of, but they nominally support about the previous Spanish Acti.e stock was to-day marked at 23-,1 to 24 for money, and 23k to 24k for t:mc ; the New Five per Cent. Portuguese bonds were done at 311 to 311, though the accounts from Lisbon still leave but little room for con gratulation, and the Three per Cents. were at 19+; Colom bian bonds were dull at 23 to k, Brazilian at 72, aad Vcrie zuela at 301- ; Russian Bonds were steady at 1101 to /, and Dutch Two-arid-a-Half per Cents. at 502- to .1. It is satd - that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh is stilt con templating a new loan to meet its recent extraordinary expenditure for armaments arising out of the Eastern question. The Railway Shares do not seem, as regards activity, to be me!) influenced by the extensive business doing just now at Liverpool. The quotations to-day, however, were a little firmer. Great Western brought 231, the New 11, the Fifth 5/, the London and Birmingham 77 to 78, the New 21, the South Western 17k to 161, and the New to 1 premium. Brighton Shares were 7 to 6i, Blackwall 5, and B,istol and Exeter 27 discount. Aus tralasia Bank Shares were 14, Colonial Bank 10, Lon don Joint-stock 24, London and Westminster 4 pre mium. Union of London werei- discount. The B;11 Market still looks rather good, and the rates of Exchange on the principal Continental are sup ported. This afternoon three months' paper was most currently negotiated as follows :—Parts 25f. 621 f. to 67if. ; Amsterdam 12 31 to ; Antwerp 12 2/ to / Hamburg 13 7k to /; Frankfort 149 to ; and Trieste 10 1 to 2. The following ic: the official return of the Exports of Bullion from the port of London for tho week ending Thursday last : Silver Coia to Rotterdam 220,000 oz. !I Calais 20,000 „ Gol4 Coin to New York l7l (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The Cotton Market has been very animated to-day, and we have to notice the sale of from 6,000 to 7,000 bales. Prices have varied upon some descriptions from Bd. to 80. per lb. 250 Surats sold, and the remainder American kinds, wholly to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH B.—An extensive business has been done in the Share Market ; the following are the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange at 4 P. as. : Eastern Counties Debentures, 8 , 4; Grand Junction, Half- Shares, 10i; ditto Quarter Shares, 274; Chester and Crewe, Sil ; Great Western, Fifths, ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half-shares, 891 ; London and Birmingham, 168; South Western, Tenths, 17s. 6d. prem. ; North Midland, 69. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH B.—We have to report a quiet market, and only a very limited business done. London and Birmingham, 170; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 ; Great Western, 89; Ditto Halves, 61 ; New Midland Ceiintie;, 14 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, 69; Manchester As surance, 9/. We have received Hobart Town Papers to the 17th of Octeber M ARKETS, Our. 15.—The Grain Market, as might be an ticipated after the late extensive importations of Wheat and Flour, both here and at Sydney, and the sudden decline in the price, has been unusually dull during the last few days, and many of the settlers hav become wheat-sulky, and will not sell. They are dis t , o&d to wait for better times. The Com missariat Stores continue open to receive Wheat at 7s. 6d. per bushel. Fine Flour may now be bought for 22/. to 241. per toss ; Second, 181. to 20/. A universal panic appears to pervade the money market. The banks, for reasons best known to thernselce , , have for some time past, been curtailing their discounts, and a general pressure has consequently affected the commercial and agricul tural interests throughout the whole colony ; in the midst of plenty, and with every prospect of an abundant harvest this year, it was suddenly discovered, by the force of some financial microscope, that we were overtrading, that the specie was not more than a tenth of the paper afloat, and that the colony was in fact bankrupt: We have 120,060/. in specie to represent about 900,000/. The Government of the country was last year obliged to bor row 10,000/., and has now 130,000/. at its disposal, after paying all debts, yet the colony is bankrupt. The specie has lett us, says one, and yet we find at the present moment, and we are authorised to assure our fellow-colonists of the fact, that there is 10,0001. more specie in the colony thsn there was in May last, when money was most abundant. The silver is still here; it moves from the banks to the Treasury, and from the Treasury to the banks. The recent Sydney intelligence has added to the present temporary embarrassments in the money market. The truth is, the colonial bank, of new growth, has been eyed with feel ings of jealousy by the old established banks, because its very existence is derived from them. It is with their notes that she has been nurtured, and with their specie she is sustained. (From the Port Phillip papers to the 15th Oct.) LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION. —The excessive want of labour which is felt throughout the colonies acts with a more retard ing pressure on the affairs of Port Phillip than has ever been experienced in the progress of the oldest colony. In every branch of art, commerce, agriculture, and science, the numeri cal deficiency of operative classes is most distressing—in short, while the Sydney Government have received from the sale of provincial waste lands, during a period extending from June, 1837, to December, 1839, funds to the amount of 107,576/., two immigrant ships amounting to 7,000/., together with the excess of ordinary expenditure, 27,0001., forming a total of 34,0001, is all the off-set that can be made in return for the wasteful expenditure of our land fund upon Sydney and the penal district. During the present year have arrived at Mel bourne seven vessels with 2,000 immigrants on the bounty sys tem, and one fitted out by the Government agent with 300 passengers ; the expenditure upon which, in round numbers, will equal 50,0001. ; during the same period, however, that is in 1840, the land sales here produced, rejecting fractions, 150,0001., which brings our calculation to the following simple account :—Expenditure, 84,146/. ; Revenue total receipts, 262,5151., from which deducting Cexcess 84,1461., leaves a balance of 178,3691. One hundred and seventy-eight thon sand, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand pounds sterling of Port Phillip land fund remains to be accounted for. THE BLACKS.—In consequence of representations having been made to the authorities of the approach of several tribes of natives to the vicinity of the town, for the purpose of hold ing a Corraborra previous to a battle, it was resolved to at. tempt their capture. Accordingly the military under the command of Captain Smith and Lieutenant Vignolles, of the 28th regiment, with the border police and a number of con stables, proceeded about midnight to the scene of the native festivities, situated between two and three miles from the town. Upon seeing themselves surrounded, the blacks were thrown into considerable consternation, and finding that their weapons had been seized would have surrendered quietly, but for the opposition made by Winberry, who made a desperate , blow at Lieut. Vig,nolles. He, however, missed his aim, but re covering, was about to repeat the attempt before that gentle man could draw his sword, whereupon the sergeant discharged his musket, and this notorious murderer and robber instantly fell. The remainder of the gang were secured, consisting of about two or three hundred, including women and children, and were led captives into the town. NEW ZEALAND.-By the latest papers from New Zealand of the 22d August, we find that the principal town has received the name of Britannia, for which his Excellency Captain Hob son stands sponsor. The New Zealand Gazette has, in con sequence, changed its title by the addition of the Britannia Spectator. Up to the present time we have nothing to notice respecting the operations in the British Funds, as there is scarce a bar gain doing; the speculators are waiting for the Chinese intel ligence. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yes terday fish * for Money, for the Account, 88* ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India Sto2k shut. In the Foreign Market they are also inactive at present, the prices are nominal, Spanish Active as it left off 23i 24h ; Deferred, 12* ; Passive, 51 1 6 ; Portuguille same, 31* 4 ; Brazilian, 71 72 ; Colombian, 224 23* • Mexican, 274 28* ; Buenos Ayres, 22 24 ; Dutch Two. and-a-Half per ' Cents. sog ; Five per Cents., 99* 100. hares.—Great Western, 23 24 prem. ; New,.lli prem. ; London and Brighton, 7* 7 dis. ; Blackwall, 5* 4 dis. ; Birmingham, 77 79 prem. ; Southampton, 55i 54 per share; Croydon, 114 12* per share ; Greenwich, Si per share ; Man chester and Birmingham, 16* 154 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT Cr F. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 6O 33 London and Brighton Loudon and Bfackwall London and Greenwich........... 20 London and South Western Ditto Tenths JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 4O ...... 54 ...... to Colonial London Joint Stock ........ 10 London and Westminster . .. 20 The Leeds steamer has brought the Lisbon mail, by which we have intelligence to the Ist of March. The only feature worth observation from the above capital is the second instal ment of the British Civil Claims, amounting to 36,4024 17s. 2d. sterling, due on the Ist of March, which, by the assistance of the Lisbon Bank, will be paid. Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 52id. per mildred. It also brings an account that the British ship Heroine, from London to Calcutta, with a valuable cargo, was wrecked a few days since near Cape Spartel ; twenty-five of her crew and passengers are stated to have been drowned. Since the early part of the morning there has been an im provement in the Consols from 884 3to 883 for the Account, at present they are not so good, and may he quoted at 884 ; Exchequer Bills, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, shut; India, shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 2.38 244 ; Portu guese, 314 • Three per Cents. 194 ; Colombian 234 ; Dutch Two-and-a:Half per Cents., 508 4 ; Five per Cents. 994. In the Shares scarce anything d iing. Bristol and Exeter 33 ; London and Brighton 434 ; London and Blackwall 20 ; Lon &an and Greenwich 84 ex. div. ; South Western 554. We have not heard as yet of the arrival of the overland mail from India. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank stock „, llndia Stock... ~...... .. 3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88i Ditto Old Annuities 34 per Cent Red........ Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent .. ... 961 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 9pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ ll pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l2 pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds .. .. 72 Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . 1105 Ghilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... 228 Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred „, Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek,lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. 1)i to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 24 per cent Perucian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 004 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) . 33 _ . Great Western Railway (65 paid) BB4 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9l London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railv, ay (25 pd) 20 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 168 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) . 22 London and Greenwich Railway (2u paid) ei London and South Western 55, Ditto Tenths COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam C F. 12 6 (Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 64 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp Hamburgh... ....M.B. 13 104 Venice ..... 47 Altona... ....... 13 11 'Naples 404 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Palermo, per oz 119 Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon..... 52 Marseille3... . ...... Bourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 85 Rio Janeiro 2B Frankfort on Maine.... 150 Bahia... Petersburg!), 3 U 5..... 374 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 0 New York, 21 days' sight 464 Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 2 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz.. - . Foreign Gold, bars.. 317 9 Bilboa 35 , New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona 35 :New Dollars,. 0 0 0 Seville For nearly three weeks - past, up till yesterday, the Irish Mail to Glasgow ha; been constantly from 12 to 15 hours behind the time at wbich it is due—cooling in at various hours in the afternoon instead of 1 h. 15 no. A.M. n a great commercial community like our own, we need not say that this irregularity has been productive of much annoyance and inconvenience. As all the other mails have arrived during the peeled we have imt inced Kith general regularity, we presume the delay has arisen from the ricketty or powerless steam-vessels which ply between Donaghadee and Portpatrick, or at all events some cause has produced this effect between the ports named, which should not exist. We have heard it stated that the Post office has applied for estimates for the conveyance of the Lish Mail from the Clyde to Belfast, or some other port in the north of Ireland ; and considering the natural defects of the harbour of Portpatrick, the vast sums which have been already expended upon it by Government, and the still larger sum which would be requisite to make it even a tolerable harbour, it cannot be doubted that a ere the Irish mail transmitted direct from either Glasgow or Greeocck, the system would more readily square with t e convenience of the great mass of the Scottish population, than it has done, or ever will do, by means of the pre-ent route, through Galloway to Portpatrick. When the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway shall have been opened, these reasons will be much more forcible ; for then three hours will suffice to carry the North Mail from Edin burgh to Greenock, from which it may be transmittA di ect to Dublin or Belfast, and by this means the long route of 72 miles to Dumfries, and of 80 from Dumfries to Portpatrick—thence to Donagbadee,and from Donaghadee to Belfast or Dublin, wilt be avoided. This matter is of so much importance that we have no doubt it wil press itself upon the attention of the Post-office authorities. While on this subject we would hint that the railway van or some other conveyance should be used to convey the Greenock mails from the station in Tradmton to the Post offioe in Glassford-street. At present the heavy bags are carried on the backs of the old porters, and the poor fel lows reel so much under the weight that it seems as though a good breeze would overturn both the mail and its bearer. We have not yet heard whelier the Postmaster-General will Le generous enough to supply tie two gas-lamps to light up the outside of the Post-office : but in the mean time the authorities have allowed the Local Postmaster to retail penny stamps, which perhaps is all the measure of convenience that these officials conce:ve the citizens of Glasgow tobe entitled to.—Glasgow Herald. " I'm lost in grief," as the fly said when he was drowned in a lady's tear. MORNING EDITION. ENGLISH OPERA HOLSI• This theatre NI as last night opened for its leK . tanate purpose—the repr e sentation of Engl i '' operas—by Mr. Eafe, and, if any judgment Co l be formed from the audience and performanc es of a first night, with every prospect of a success sete:on. The company, which includes Ma dame Balfe, Wilson, H. Phillips, and Stretton, is the most powerful English operatic companY, which we have had for some years. The mu sical department is under the di rec tion of llal le himself, and Loder leads the orchestra, while the entire direction of the stage is • entrusted to Mr. Mclan, whose kne w : ledge and judgment in that department is a ' sufficient guarantee that all that can be done Ylll be done. The first piece was a new opera by Balfe himself, entitled Keolanthe, or the Un earthly Bride. The overture, which commences in a most eccentric manner, by the tolling o f bell, is a very efficient and highly elaboratea; composition, executed in a high style of art, and vet not so very abstruse as to be caviare to th e vulgar. It was rapturously encored. The plo t a of the opera may be briefly told. Andrea; student of Pavia (Wilson), is betrothed to Pavina (Miss Gould), sister of Phillippo (Stretton) also: student. Andrea has been studying EgyPtiae manuScripts, and has a painting of a beautiief Egyptian, which he regards with a species adoration. He parts from Pavina and he !, brother the night before his wedding, and redlys to rest. Ombrastes, the Spirit of the Nile (0 . _ Phillips) appears to him, and offers to re vive Keolanthe, Princess of Memphis (Madame Ba lf0)f , the original of the picture, who has been dead 0 thousand years, and who died for love of an An drea, exactly resembling him, who, havinge turned Christian, had been martyred by tea Priests of Osiris. He consents—is transports to the interior of the great Pyramid--whe re Keolanthe is revived by the incantation e the lotus flower, and is wedded to Andr es ' The lotus flower is to bloom as long as their WY , , lasts; when that fails, the lotus is to w i t h e r, an d their misery is to begin. The first act ends with their nuptial ceremony. The second act ope n in Italy, where Andrea and Keolanthe are liviai in great splendour. Two strangers, faint an.'. weary, request a resting-pla ce an d refreshinee t d it is granted, and they prove to be Philipp° an his sister Pavina, who is dying broken-hea rted in consequence of the perfidy of Andrea. Pavier dies. Philippa challenges Andrea ;- they m , and Philipp° is stabbed by Ombrastes. The miliars of the Inquisition seize Andrea as : murderer. Keolanthe, attempts to save 111 ,,I; and perceives the portrait of Pavina iu4„ possession: The lotus fades; she leaves ",: e stretched on the tomb of PaVina, and tL, scene, as if by magic, again represents „:" . "' t chamber as in the heginnning of the fibs act. He is stretched, not on the tomb of 1 1 vina, but on his own couch, and is awakell h e e . ftom We slumbers by Pavina, Philipp°, ale i , t ,. o , villagers, who come to awake him for his weut i v,i the whole adventure of Keolanthe having b emerely a dream. The concerted music in first act was excellent; but the second was by the best. The air sun g by Wilson, on beholding tth'e portrait of Pavina, was exquisitely beautiful. 111-1 0 scena by Madame Balfe in the same act 'was 7 ,,,al h s e admirable, and was also r a pt urous l y enco red. I", melody of a duet, sung by Str e tt on a nd Wil s " previous to the duel, wag also exquisitely beau; tiful ; and a sort of diaboli ca l buffo song, w a d excellently given by Phillips, who scone g thoroughly to enjoy his part, and acted, as t r , sung, admirably. ,Miss Go u ld, a p u pil of' J. Barnett, 'Made her first appearance on Wu 0 1 stage in the character of Pavi n a ; she had to do, but that little she did well, and she gi r t ; mises to be an acquisition to th e com p a ny. the getting up of the piece was excellent, scenery was magnificent, and the dances ve'J good. Balfe announced the piece for e re ; petition, amidst the unanimous applause 0 4 „1 crowded house, and stated that the piece lr s. been got - up in the short space of three vir i e e ' t t io Had three months been employed it could have been put upon the ein better stY, le ; * Balfe, Madame Balfe, Miss Gould, Wilson, r' c i lips, and Stretton, were called for and receivte. the usual honours. The opera of Betly, L O 3- Donizetti; followed. This, although a new er el o 'l is well known as an after-piece, under the title Betly ; or the Return to Switzerland.. 1t,1,e produced for the purpose of introducing to ;ft, public Miss Emma Howard, a pupil of Allen. This'young lady, who was exceedieg'4 nervous On first torning on, is by far the 11u ' s ,. promising debutante we have seen for many a "" I .‘ Her voice. is exceedingly powerful, and e cuz. l i.. pletely under command ; she is not a mere e l ler tatrice, she is a naive and natural actress. finale was a splendid e ff or t, an d d r ew ni t .. thunders of applau se . W e cOngratulate 1 - /r . Allen on having so p rom i s i ng a pup il, amid so Bare on having. s e c ure d t h e serv i ces 0' talented a young lady. The house was crowd r• to the ceiling, and sincerely do we wish • 0 Balfe success in his me r it or i ous u ndertak la er feeling assured that he has done all in his P° l% to deserve it. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty had an evening party on Monde r ; Buckingham Palace. A mong th e companY;: if , Baron de Bourqueney, th e F renc h Ch arge cl'A ua. : o B the Marquis and Mar c hi oness o f N orman by, Ea r l -- a Countess of Cadogan, and the Ladies Augusta Honoria Cadogan, arl and Countess of Roseberf9 and the Ladies Primrose, the Countess of Ux br L ici „ g t i; and the Ladies Eleanora and C ons t ance Paget, '" W. Stanhope, Lord P age t, C ountess o f Errol , '' l g % ) l , Lady Ida Hay, Countess of Surrey, an d LaclY rl Howard, Lord Edward H owar d, E ar l of Mareb, Ha of Morley, Viscount ess P a l mers t on , L or d Claud 1 13 1 milton, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lady riy Anson, Lord and Lady L eveson , Si r H enr y and 11 9 :1i. Wheatley, and the Misses Wheatley, the Righ t "lgr. George Stevens an d th e L a d y - Agnes Byogi tio p. George Edward and th e H on . M rs . Anson. l'" 0 1 Hugh Fortescue, Mr. and L a dy M ar y Stank.' a the Misses Stanley. Her Majesty's private Band attended in the S alt° during the night. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the g ar. dens of Buckingham Palace 3 esterday forenoon. o f Viscount Melbourne had an au di e nce yesterclaY the Queen. Her Royal Highness the Du c h e ss of Kent vis i ted her Majesty yesterday. Mrs. Viscount Melbourne and M r . a nd the fl° ll ' t he George E. Anson, h a d t h e h onour o f joining l as t Royal Circle at Buckingham Palace at dinner evening. 'noir Royal H:ghnesses the Duchess of Gloucestg6 the Duke of Su ssex , and the Duke of Cam bridge' visited her Majesty the Qurea Dowage r at Me irib°. rough House yesterday. The Duchess of Kent, attended by LadY , F 1. 11 5; Howard, honoured th e H aymar k et Theatre, v" t " e presenceevening • The Depwation from the Gentlemen intcresteldtti: Canada, consking of M essrs . C o l v ile, J. A'B°„ks, Rusull, Ellice, Crapnrin, Auldjo, Wakefield, 11-0 Robinson, G ou ld, an d M art i n, an d Dr. RAO , h a ~,• - (- interview with L or d J o h n R u • se 1 a t the C' elf)-1 :c• office yesterday, up on th e su bj ect of the memorial p r e' by them. Tee Agent of Jam a ica. an d a D e Putation from thollia e Al.sociation of Jamai ca Prop r i e tors, Sir W. Sir H. Lushington, Sir E. H. East, Mr. Be cilf : r s- Mr. Dehany, and Mr. Christie, h a d a n intervi evi ' e terday with Lord John Russell at the Colonial.oiVc,i, Lord JAmes Stuart, Mr. J. Sh aw Lefevre, an d : u bl Sparks, had interviews with t h e M arqu is of Nor ma yesterday at Li e Home-office. cotelial The. Deputation of the North American j' 9— die Committee, consisting of the Earl of M ou ntcash e x l Duke of Argyll, L or d Bl ayney , t h e 111‘Ki00( .t,y • the M.Leod, the Cnisholm, Sir R. M‘Leod, Mr' z , O'Brien, M.P., Mr. G. P. Scrope, ALP. , ( . 1.7 ", i rel D'Este, Sir D. M.Dougail, Sir Joseph de ' ° „ -- p y, Laffan, Bart. ; the Governor of the Canada Cor : P„ - , o rn the Chairman of Lloyd's, Dr. Ifill, Mr. L. go b „ 50 °, of Canada, Mr. R. P. Crooks, of Canada, Mr. Ju'e t ,.. Hagerman, of Canada, Dr. Rolpb, from Upper w ith nada, and Mr. John Hughes, had an interview o n Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-°ffi'°le'eri the subject of emigration t o t h e B r itish North A- can Provinces. The Agent . of Jamaica, and a Deputation from, t r i . Association of Jamaica Proprietors, consisting of Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., Sir W. Dolling, Mr• Debl ith Mr. Christ e, and Mr. Green bad an interview wie Mr. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of Tra on Saturday. His Excellency th e S oan i s h Mi n istry bad an irnteir; view with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at th e nial-office. INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX j :f SURANCE CONCERN.—At a meeting of t. e Proprietor. v., the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance S°Cle ff: , held in E i n b urg b , on W e d nes d ay l as t, Lord Mon . er ie the chair, on the motion of Sir James Gibson Craig, P be In of Ricearton, it was resclved—" That the Directors tc structed to subscribe such a sum as they think prer s i c , ards defraying the expenses incurred by Mr. M'l' en the Edit o r o f th e S co t c h Reformer's Gazette, Glasgel'Eed r 'defending himself in the several actions of damages ra against him at the instance of this most fraudu lent coeiceso styling themselves The Independent West Miaci,erieg Fire and Life Assurance Company.'" Lord Moo t he slated that Mr. M'Kenzie deserved the thanks t i t t he public for his conduct in the matter, and be hoped sol d ia Pl , of other Insurance Companies would follow t he the Scottish Widows' Fund Society, in relieving fo, M'Kenzie from loss, in consequenc,- of his early annoy gorous exposure of this great imposture, whereby so 131 have been saved from min.—Glasgow Argits. / I `,y