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13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL BY L.E.L., " LADY ANNE GRANARD; OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols., with Portrait of the Authoress by Finden. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 4, Will bs repeated Mozart's Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF F G A Ka—The character of Susanna by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Count Almaviva Mr Stream' ; Cherubino Madame Vestris ; Doctor Bar tolo, Mr. J. Bland; Figaro, Mr. Le fler; Basilio, Mr. C. White; the Countess, Miss Rainforth ; Marceline, Miss Grant; Barbarina, Miss bane. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsuponatyme (King of Neverminditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Paragon, Precious, and Placid (his three Sons), by Madame Vestris, Miss Murray, and Miss Lee; Jingo, Mr. Harley; the White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at half.past Six, ana the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Cs. 6d ; First and Second C i rcles 55., Second Price 6d. ; Pit Seeond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, a the Box-of tice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be t hd upon ap. plication. Private Loxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, 800 se.ier, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Grail un'on of talent. All the matchless wonders of Astley and Ducrow by Batty's unrivalled English and Forego Artistes. THIS EVENINU. APRIL 4, "'Will be performed the Grand New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled 11,E PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOORDISH LOVER, AN!) HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—Willi magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments • a Double Company, Equestrian and D-ainatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in th.., World. Ater which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. B A.TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. memos and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Anialusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionist, in the Kingdom. conclu le with the New Laughabli Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; OR, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. • ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. The most prosperous Theatre in I ondon. THIS EVENING, APRIL 4, In consequence of its amazing success, WIII he performed the most interesting New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, THE LONE CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HlGHWAY.—Characters by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveney, Messrs. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard ner, Seaman, &c. After which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, &c., ALADDIN ; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the Princess, Mr .E. F. Saville; Widow Musts ha, Mrs. Griffith . To conclude with a New Drams, entitled THE HOLSTEIN HUS. SAR; WI, THE GRANADIER GU ARD —Frederick, Mr. Sea xn..n ; Klaus Olmutz, Mr. Gardner; Stultz, Mr. Paul; Minna, Miss Coveney; Galas. Mrs. Griffiths, THE INDIA SUN. IN A FEW DAYS WE PROPOSE PUBLISHING A MA P, SHOWING OUR INDIAN POSSESSIONS, ♦ND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRIES OF AFFGHANISTAN, (THE DEPLORABLE SEAT OF WAR), NEPAUL, THIBET, BURMAH, &c. &c. &c. TOGETHER WITH THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA. •,,* Orders for the " India Sun" received at the Sun-office, 112, Strand, London, and by all News-agents. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, March 31, 1842. THE WEATHER.—Noon, APRIL 2. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 42 Highest 44 Lowest 33 Barometer 29.71.—Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 42 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning IS minutes after 8. i Evening 2 minutes after 9. unjust to tax all different professions and trades at the same rate, without regard to the time during which a man is likely to last, and without regard to the expense to which he is put to enable him to work, as to tax an annuity, which expires in a few years, at the same rate as an estate which is of perpetual and increasing value. If it be said, that in the payment of different trades and professions regard is had to these circumstances, and those persons who are worn out the soonest are paid the best, that may be admitted, and we should have nothing to object to if the impost were perpetual. Then these trades and professions would be regulated ac cordingly. But Sir ROBERT PEEL'S income tax is to be levied for only three years or five years and it will, in that time, take as much from the incomes of those who are able to work only ten years, as from those who are able to work twenty. With an equal income of 5001. a year each, the former will be able to gain in his life 5,000/., arid the latter 10,0001., which may be assumed to be the mea sure of the advantage or protection they receive troin the State, but while one gains only 5,000/., and the other 10,000/., each will have to pay the same sum to the State. The short period for which Sir R. PEEL proposes to levy the tax obviously aggravates, as Colonel THOAIPSON has observed, all its inequalities. Nominally it is an equal tax—actually it is the most unequal, as well as the most inquisitorial, that ever was proposed. Several projects have been suggested to reduce its inequalities, but it is not possible to make it otherwise than inquisitorial. In fact, the more numerous the exemptions, the greater necessity there will be for inquiries. There is no means of making such a law equal, just, or palatable. The project to impose it on us must be resisted in toto. We, trust, therefore, that the Members for Manchester and Edinburgh, who have been Called on by their constituents, and the Mem bers for other places, who are thoroughly con vinced that there is no other necessity for this tax than that created by the Corn-laws, that it is a great infringement of liberty—is unequal and unjust—will, in spite of a majority of mono polists, delay and impede, if they cannot defeat Sir R. PEEL'S tyrannical, demoralising, and Ma chiavellian scheme by all the means which the privileges of Parliament allow. They will yet be supported, we believe, by the country, and we are sure they will be honoured by posterity for making great sacrifices and great exertions from a sense of duty. The House of Commons meet again to-day, for the dispatch of business, when not a few of the Members will find great relief in escaping from the angry growling of their constituents, and taking shelter under their Tory leader. The Easter holi days have afforded them no enjoyment. Some have been tormented with the upbraidings of their own guilty consciences, others like Sir E. KNATCHBULL and Sir THOMAS ACLAND have been harassed by deputations from woe-be-gone farmers and graziers, and a third party have remained in town, or directed their steps along every road, except that which leads to " sweet home." Like an assembly of old, celebrated by the immortal poet, they will congregate in great num b( rs with down-cast looks, or eying their leader askance, reproach him for their woful plight, till taking courage from despair, he calls upom them in no pleasing mood to rouse themselves like men for another great struggle. And a great struggle it will be if the speakers do their duty. All accounts confirm the fact that the greatest dissatisfaction pre vails throughout the country, that men of every shade of politics, the supporters of the Government but a short month ago, as well as their determined oppo nents, are resolved to resist the new scheme as a whole, and that unless their representatives take the same view of the question, and also act up to their views, many of them will be called upon to resign their stewardships. This is the proper course to pursue. Let the constituencies throughout the country, Tory as well as Whig, assemble without delay, for the purpose of stating their objections, pointing out the duty of their re presentatives ; and at the same time announcing, that those who disregard their appeal are no longer en titled to their support and confidence. The Liberal Members, in general, will require no such impulse, but still there are waverers among them; some of the old Whig school, and some also of the Ultra-Radical section, who seem more anxious to pay court to the PREMIER, and to receive his fulsome praises, than to earn the gratitude of the electors who placed in them implicit confidence. These men, therefore, must be urged on by fear, if by no other means, to follow a leader who is pledged to resist the obnoxious measures at every step. Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced his resolution before the adjournment, and every post that has arrived during the holidays must have more and more confirmed him in his purpose to defeat by all constitutional means a scheme of taxation unknown in a time of peace, unequal in its opera tion, harassing to every class except the owners of real property, injurious to trade and commerce, and calculated to clog or destroy the great springs of national industry. Since the struggle for Parlia mentary Reform, no such occasion has occurred for the united and vigorous exertions of the great body of the people, and we confidently trust that they will not be found wanting. The Committee of the SCOTT Monument announce, we perceive, a deficiency—to the amount of one thousand eight hundred pounds—in the funds neces sary for erecting this great public Cenotaph. Above eleven thousand pounds have been subscribed; but in order to complete the Gothic Tower and Marble Statue in the style in which every admirer of the illustrious poet and novelist would wish that they should be completed, it is necessary that eighteen hundred pounds more should be collected. This additional sum will, we have no doubt, be easily made up, for who is there within the circuit of the three kingdoms, that does not feel an affectionate regard for the memory of SCOTT—the generous—the social—the high-hearted —and, what is more to his praise, the friend of uni versal humanity ? For, be it remembered, the author of " Waverley" does not appeal merely to the sym pathies of Scotchmen. His genius takes a far more comprehensive range. It is as cosmopolitan in its character as SHAKSPEARE'S, and not less cordial and magnanimous. However sectarian SCOTT may have been in politics, in his literary capacity he was catholic to an extent of which we have few examples. Men of all creeds and all classes met with fair play in his pages. The rough, home-spun, well wearing virtues of the peasant, were there as warmly insisted on, as the more refined sensibilities of the Peer ; and vice denounced with uniform indignation, even though it might take up its abode in a palace, and wear the crown of Royalty. Hence it is that the writings of SCOTT are known and admired wherever the English language is spoken ; and that the pro posal to erect a Monument to his memory in the magnificent city which he so loved in life, has been received with acclamation throughout the three king doms. Were twice, or even thrice two thousand pounds required for the completion of this great na tional undertakingoure are we that it might be col lected without difficulty. The policy of Great Britain, foreign and domestic, excites just now great interest in Paris. Again it is discovered that we are at loggerheads with Russia at Constantinople, and that we find in her rivalry a greater source of real uneasiness than in the hostility of the inhabitants of Affghanistan and the continu ance of the war with China. The Constitutionnel and the Siecle have both long articles upon this subject. The former refers to the misadven faces of Bishop ALEXANDER, in Jerusalem, who, It :tfLan ' l rms,. was not sent to make conversions to Pro ism, but to engage in English propagandism. It was this that is said to have alarmed the Porte. A n t h e .deep intrigues which brought about the Treaty of the 15th of July, are represented as having no other object on the part of England than to obtain a predominance in Asia Minor. Without a predominance in Egypt or Syria, the Constitutionnel contends that England has no key to her possessions in India. Russsia, however, thwarts her policy by her intrigues in the Divan.; but, should she fail, then France is advised to inter fere. In fact, this Journal assumes for France the sole guardianship of the Turkish empfre. She is to make war, if necessary, to maintain the inte grity of the Turkish empire against England on the one side, and Russia on the other. It seems that England and Russia have agreed to a partition of the empire, and are only quarrelling about the division of the spoil. Russia is offended because England seizes upon Syria, before an opportunity is afforded her of clutching Constantinople. ISuch are the statements in the Constitutionnel and the Siecle, which we need hardly tell our readers are sheer assumptions of dreams for facts. Bishop ALEX ANDER'S mission to Jerusalem was purely a religious one projected by a knot of fanatics in Prussia, and adopted by another knot of fanatics in England. The establishment of a Protestant Church at Jeru salem is an old hobby of the Protestants of the West, and the important services rendered by England to the Porte, by driving MEHEMET Au out of Syria, was deemed by the Protestant prelates of England and Prussia, an excellent opportunity for realising this devotional object. With this view the late Government consented to the wish of the pre lates, and instructed Lord PoNsoxur to solicit a firman from the Porte to erect a church at Jerusalem. The heads of the Greek and Armenian Churches were consulted by the Divan, and, in the true sectarian spirit of rival creeds, opposed the granting of the re quired firman. When religious objections were found not strong enough, the Patriarchs invoked political ones ; which, of course, Russia secretly supported with all her influence. The King of PaussfA, how ever, was so intent on the conversion of the Druses, Maronites, and Jews of Judea, that he forwarded a plan to England for sending out a Bishop with or without a Church, offering to defray half the expense of the mission. The fanatics upon this raised a cla mour for immediately appointing a Bishop, to which the Government weakly, and contrary to its better judgment, yielded. A Bishop was consecrated, a roving commission was made out for him by the Archbishop of CANTXRBURY, and he was shipped off to Syria, to be stoned or idolized, according to the current mood of the good inhabitants of the Holy City. This is the true account of the appointment of Bishop ALEXANDER. As to British interest in Turkey, it is identical with that of France, if the latter look only to consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. Our interference in Syria has no other ob ject than to establish firmly the authority of the Porte over that province instead of leaving it, after the blood and treasure it has cost us, a prey to dis affection, ready to be re-occupied at any moment by the Viceroy of EGYPT. It is rarely that we find a correct view of a ques tion of politics, purely English, in a French news paper. Nothing is so common among French Jour nalists as ignorance of all that constitutes the charac teristics of the English people, and the peculiarities of their domestic politics. In all, therefore, that they have written upon the Tory income tax, we find only a few relevant sentences in the Courrier Francais. This Journal predicts that the tax will pass, but that it will prove the downfall of the Tory Cabinet. If the first part of this prediction prove correct, there can be no doubt of the second. In forcing on the income tax Sir ROBERT PEEL is digging the grave of English Toryism. May he live to read its epitaph. But the Courrier Francais rightly says, that it is the inquisitorial nature of the income tax, rather than its amount, that offends the English people. This sentence shows some ac quaintance with English habits little understood in France. The worst feature in the income tax is its prying inquisitorially into the individual circum stances of a people peculiarly sensitive respecting any attempt to exact a knowledge of their private habits or their means of living. The non violation of this principle in the character of the English people has, from the earliest times formed the study of English jurists. It is that which prevented the establishment of the passport system among us, and which made it a fundamental principle in our Criminal Code that every offender is to be regarded as innocent till he is proven before a Court of Justice, out of the mouths of witnesses, or by his own voluntary and publicly repeated confession to be guilty. Were there, then, no other objection to an income tax than that it violates the privacy of social life in England, it could not stand, nor could a Cabinet advocating it. The following summary of the latest news from the Spanish capital is from a Madrid letter of the 24th ult..— • There is good reason for believing that the negotia tions fur a commercial treaty betwoen Great Britain and Spain are not in a very forward state ; indeed, we are not over anxious for it, only aiming at obtaining from the Regency Government the admission of our manufac tured cotton goods on payment of moderate import duties, and we shall certainly carry the point in this respect. Messrs. Ardouin and Ricardo have caused it to be sig nified to Government that they will only hand over the bonds (amounting to 500,000,000 of reals) they hold, upon being paid the 27,5001. sterling they claim, as ba lance of account, and obtaining an official acknowledg ment of the correctness of the said account*, which the Minister of France, properly enough, is not disposed to issue. It is shown, in the Report drawn up and presented by the Palace Intendant, Heros, to M. Arguelles, her .Majesty's guardian, on the state in which he found the whole Royal patrimony, that the Queen's mo ther received out of her daughter's annual income, from 1833 to 1840, no less than 37,122,378 reels, or about 390,000 l sterling, for what she was pleased to call " secret purse money"— besides selling to her youthful daughter, at her own price, the flock of sheep (merino ones), 28,000 in number, which was, and is, a losing concern. M. Heros distinctly asserts that it is not known what became of most of the Crown jewels, as well as of the documents showing the partitions that had been made of the late King's property among his daughters, though it is known to have been drawn up. He next gives a very de tailed and curious account of the different loyal domains, the improvements now making, &c., as well as of the present household expenses at the palace, from which latter I select the following items during five months Personal expenses of her Majesty and sister, 125,091 raals ; household expenses, 746,743 reels ; stable charges, 214.585 reels. The whole of the Paris Journals have reached us. They are, for the most part occupied with comments upon British politics, which we have noticed else where. The proposed new export duty on coals has quite delighted the miners of France, Belgium, and Spain. They remark, and in our opinion quite correctly, that the additional duty will give such an impulse to foreign coal miners as in three or four years to destroy our export coal trade altogether. The more republican the journals are the more they are delighted with such a prospect. ... , ir 1 ' . Ott ~utti. LONDON MONDAY MORNING. APRIL 4, 1642. We insert from a Leeds paper the specimens, which Mr. Alderman TOTTIE of that place fur nished to the meeting held there on Thursday, of the sort of inquiries made by the Commissioners who acted under the old income tax law. If the retail dealers and merchants of this kingdom, after reading his statements, are prepared to acquiesce in the income tax, we can only say, that there is no degree of political slavery for which they are not ready. From amongst them the spirit of freedom must have fled, and its mere forms, which our ancestors established, will not long remain reproachfully to remind the nation of its former liberty. Amongst the questions put by the Commis sioners are such as these—" What sums of money have you employed in your trade ?" " What part was advanced by you or ,'ether persons?" Then follows a demand to know' the traders, gains, losses, and deductions. In another case the parties were asked; " What was the amount of their stock ?" What excise duties t hey paid ?" " What sums the partners drew out of the con cern ?" " What was the average prices which they bought and sold different axtieles ?" It is impossible that any trade, the soul of which is confidence, can long survive such a scrutiny by the Governmez it. Mr. BURKE was wont to say of bank pap er that it was of value on 'Change, because it had no value in Westminster Hall, implying- that to legalize credit was to destroy it; so, by cposing to public sunshine, those transactions wl.Li. ch can not, indeed, be too intimately known to all the parties interested, the Government wil a make the most goodly prospects of individual c. ipul,?.nce fade into nothingness. The evil eye of ti ie Com missioners filling on a tradesman's books will slowly, but surely, wither up his fortune ts. Sir ROBERT PEEL has avowed his int€ t ation to adopt the regulations of the Act of 1 ir.l )6 with some modification. Till we see those r a odifica tions we cannot judge accurately of his scheme; but the Act of 180 G forbids a trader tt ► deduct from his profits any annual interest, or an nuity, or annual payment, payable out of such•profits. Then if a man have hot ight the good will of a business for a sum of mon y, and have, moreover, agreed to give the seller an an nuity of 2001. a-year for three, or any nut. a ber of years, he must include that annuity in ;s an nual profit, and pay the income tax on it. For a time it may absorb all his gains, and he will have to pay the tax out of his capital. Again, as we read the regulations, the cl% !bts owing to a man, unless the Commissioners c 011.. sider them to be "irrecoverable arid desperate ," will be included in his profits, and while he is mourning over heavy outstanding, unpaid clay ns which are ruining. him, he will be taxed on thie m as on a part - of his year's profits. We do not h '- neve that such another scheme of fiscal inj t ti 5 " tice and fiscal rapacity was ever devised, and t the people now to submit to it, in order to kee P on the Corn-law, will be to place their lives an d fbrtunes at the mercy of the most sordid, and, i: their corporate capacity, the least scrupulou s aristocracy that ever existed. Many of our correspondents, and the corres - pondents of other journals, have pointed ou t various inequalities in the proposed tax; but except in the case of a physician, w:3o it said to make a large income for only a very short period, we have not seen any ac count of its bearing in relation to the periods in - 1 vhich different classes may be considered fit ti la• hour. A clerk in a Public office, fbr exa► nple, whose business is regular and easy, wi 11 able to work and receiv e an income i 'or ; greater number of years than a stage-coach anar or a captain of a vessel, who is exposed to n, rous accidents and to all weather. Ther( some trades, like those of the grinders at Si l o , field, at which no man can work more the.", tei or fifteen years. There are others which, fr ort the particular nature of the occupation, mak( continual demands on the body, and require thou • who practise them to be at considerable more expense than a clerk in sustaining the body i n vigour. There are some professions, like those of the printers ot the morning papers, which require men to be up a great part of the night, and which make prodigious demands on the animal powers.. These men may all have an income nominally equal, but it may require nearly twice as much to support one nun as another. Surely, it is as THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING. APRIL, 4, 1842. BOURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 31. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pm.. Price. 4 rench 5 rer Cents ...... 117 70 117 118 117 70 ... 117 7i 4 per Cents. ...... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents BO 60 80 60 80 55 ... 80 50 Loan lane of trance (ankle Bank 1,0001. Shares 102'; ...1020 ~.I08" ...le2o 5.000 t. Meares 5042 50 ...5045 ...5042 10 ...5045 felglan Bank 1841 1057 60 ...10.57 50 ...lt 57 50 —.1051 50 Belgian 5 per Cents. 6 per Cents., 1840 106% ... 106% ... 106% 106% Dutch 2% er Cents 53% 53% ... 53% ... 55 Active 856 ... 254, ... 25 .. Passive 5% 5% ... 5% ... .eepolitan ...... ..... 106 21 ... /96 93 ... 106 85 ... 108 96 R 105 ... 105 ... 105 105 RAILWAY SHARED. St. Germain ...... 847 50 ... 947 60 ••• 847 MP ••• 847 50 Versailles. R. is 345 ... 345 ... 345 ... 345 L.B. ..... 216 25 216 95 ... 216 25 ... 216 25 Rnuen ..»..........«.».........„ 522 50 ... 522 50 1122 50 M. 522 50 S;r3raurgto Bale 243 75 ... 243 75 .. 142 50 ... 242 50 irleans • • 385 ..• 566 85 ••• 563 686 DUTCH FUNDS.—Anwrannan, APRIL 1. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent ....... 51% 52 LIM°, ditto 5 per cent. A inert Syndic,4% per cent 92% 93 Ditto, ditto, 3 )4 per cent...". ......... 76x, 76 " Commercial Company, 4yi per cent 155 156 " Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 100)4 100 Loa a 1837, 5 per cent.. . . ...... 96 % 99 Exchange on London, One 12 12% Twomonths /2 05 Haraburgh, One month 36 50 Two months ..... 36 25 Dutch Papers, April 2. BELOIAN p UNDS—BaUsesLe. APRIL 1. - - Aittral Debt, 2% per Cent. ............ - 53 Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ....... 102 st Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per'Cent 93 --.------ 3 per Cent. '72% (IWO ..... ..... 103% Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. Society of Commorce, 4perCent B2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per 79% National Society Exchange on London (short) ...... —Brussels Papers, April 1. AUSTRIAN FUN Db.—VIENNA, MARCH 21. five per Cacti. Metalliques • 1177% FcHar per Cents. ..... ....... Three P c t Cents • ... 0 0 00000000 ea. 0000000000000 ••••••••••••••••• 76 ! Bank Shares ........ .........—... 0000000000 ......... 1618 ARMY.—It is said that General Sir W. FL Clinton is to succeed Lord Hill at the Horse Guards, and we be lieve it to be the fact. CASE OF JOHN TRAVIS.—This case, which, our readers will probably recollect, caused a considerable sensation some m on th s ago, came on f or tr i a l a t Liver pool on the 31st ult. Travis stopped a 3,1.. r. Entwistle on November 2 from h unt i ng over h i s f r.ther ' s groun d, and in a sort of scuffle which ensued,, wounded Mr. Entwistle's horse and d ogs. F 'or this offence the Magistrate, before whom Ir e was carried, at Rochdale, Clement Royds, Esq. refused to receive bail, and Mr. Travis was comp e l] e d to app l y t o the ' Bail Court, which instantly libw.. a t e d him on bail. 1 Qn his trial he, was found guilty of maliciously wounding the animals, but was recommended to mercy. The judge, Mr. Baron Rolfe, sentenced him to a month's imprisonment. We shall probably re vert to this case ; it is enough now to say, that we anticipated a different verdict for wounding an animal in resisting an encroachment on a man's own property. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town on Saturday after noon, from Brighton, and immediately held a meeting of the principal Cabinet Ministers. The party on a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Strathheldsay-e was expected to break up on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, took leave in the morning. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND i)tibitt Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The political and financial prospects of England and her policy at home and abroad occupy the columns of the French Journals. Alluding to the embarrassments of our Government, with regard to Syria, the Siecle says :--" It is impossible for Englatd not to recognise the hand that deals her the insults she is now receiving at Constantinople. It is not the hand of the weak Abdul- Metijid ; behind this phantom of an Emperor stands and domineers the Czar, to excite and encourage him. All the hopes and the aims of Russia have been attained. She wished to break off the alliance between France and England ; it has been broken. It was her interest to weaken the Pacha of Egypt, who wielded the only ef fective Mahommedan power in the East ; Mehemet Ali was vanquished. It was also urgent for Russia to draw the attention of England from Constantinople, and to create embarrassments for her in Asia and America ; that also has been achieved. And now again Russia it is who encourages the Turk in his fretful opposition to the de signs of Great Britain." The Constitutionnel, in an article upon the same sub ject, observes :—" A most serious affair for England is, that of her present misunderstanding with the Ottoman Porte, and the checks which are given to British influ ence in the East. Still England cannot allow this re sistance to last, for then all the intrigues which brought about the. Treaty of the 15th of July will have been got up for nothing, and Great Britain would lose her influ ence in Asia Minor. Egypt and Syria are the two keys of the East, and one, it not both of these keys, must belong to England. This state of things irritate: , Sir Stratford Canning, who is even more violent in his anger than was Lord Ponsonby. The resistance of the Porte must be overcome, and the Sultan must be brought to grant concessions which England will know how to turn to account. In the present state of weakness of the Turkish Government it may succumb. But then Russia, of whom it is more in awe, will not allow England to reap a share of the spoils of the Ottoman empire. This explains the obstinate resistance of the Porte, and the irritation of Sir Stratford Canning. The Courrier Francais thinks the income tax will be carried, but that eventually it will destroy the Tory Ca binet. • It adds :—" It required the long wars of our Re volution to decide England to tolerate the income tax ; but it must not be forgotten that peace was scarcely re established, when the House of Commons abolished it, in spite .of the efforts of the Government to preserve it. An income tax was the extreme measure to which Mr. Pitt had recourse in 1798, to sustain a gigantic struggle. The remembrance of the state of the nation at that period is associated with such a tax, and this is the rea son why England considers herself humiliated in having to support it at a moment when she is at peace with the continent of Europe. Sir Robert Peel's plan humiliates the national pride, wounds the feeling of independence which each British citizen cherishes for his fortune and his person, and strikes against those notions of distribu tive justice on which the tax is based. To combat these powerful causes of opposition, Sir R. Peel has only his will and the strength of his position. He is necessary at present to the Government, and were he to abandon power, Lord Melbourne would be more embarrassed than he is." The National thus records its lasting hatred of Eng lend :—" As for ourselves, we have not varied in our sentiments on the subject for the last twelve years, and even when public opinion, with singular imprudence, has seemed to forget our old grievances, we have never ceased to warn it that between British aristocracy and French democracy there can exist no possible under standing ; that an alliance with England is nothing but a monstrous dream, and that between her and us the duel must be a mortal one." M. Delaroche, responsible Editor of the National, appeared on Wednesday, before the Court of Assizes, to plead an arrest of the judgment pronounced upon hitn on the 14th ult., whereby he was condemned to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 4,000 f., for a seditious libel published on September 20th. After the trial had been gone through, and the indictment supported by the Advocate-General, Thorigny, M. Marie pleaded in de fence. The jury, after remaining half an hour in de liberation, returned a verdict of guilty upon all the counts, and the Court repeated its previous sentence. _ _ The number of bodies thrown on the coast of France, from Boulogne to Dunkirk, in consequence of the storm of the 10th ult., amounts, says the Courrier du Nord, to 150. The Constitutional Barcelona journal, of the 24th ult. states that the Provincial Deputation had called on the Captain-General to re-organise and arm forthwith the three battalions of the National Guard, disbanded subse quently to the proclamation of martial law. The Depu tation observed that the arsenal contained 27,000 stand of arms. We find the following account of the Austrian army is the " Austrian Military Almanack" for 1842. There are 58 regiments of the line, 20 battalions of grenadiers, 17 regiments of national infantry, a regiment of Ty rolean chasseurs, and Illyrian battalion, 2 battalions of Banats and Czaikistes, 12 battalions of provincial chas seurs, and 6 battalions in garrison. The cavalry con sists of 8 regiments of curiassiers, 6 of dragoons, 7 of light horse, 12 of hussars, and 4of lancers. In the ar tillery there are 5 regiments, amounting together to 18,663 men, 4,47 1 in garrison, 42 companies of engi neers, miners, sappers, &c., 5 companies of firemen, 5 rocket companies, the regiment of gendarmerie of Lom bardy, the frontier cordon of Gallicia, and 400 men and 6,000 horses of waggon and artillery train. In the navy there are 2,454 men, and 6 companies of marines. The Porte, in compliance with the joint remonstrances of the Ambassadors of the Five rowers, has superseded the Austrian renegade, Omar Pasha, in the Government of Mount Lebanon, and committed the Administration of the country to two native Princes—a Druse and a Meronite. ptrigLxc OPINION. The Herald observes, with reference . to the late Lin coln Agricultural Meeting :--" As to the main business of the meeting, we must allow that—differing as we do from many of his propositions, the true nature of the dif ficulty under which the Conservative opponents of Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law scheme are placed, in relation to the seeming discrepancy between their conduct in Parlia ment and their professions out of it—is well and frankly explained Christopher. li e a pp ears to h av e h a d a much recollection of the operation, and moreb)- M ac r accurate rate the cogency of the forms of the House than some gen tlemen present at the meeting who had occupied seats in Parliament. He premised his first speech by stating, that with regard to the duties on foreign corn, the pro position was a whole measure, and must be accepted or opposed as such—that he was sure the feeling of mem bers of the House of Commons representing- the agricul tural interest was general—that, were it possible to obtain a larger amount of protection than the Ministerial measure afforded, and to secure it permanently, they ought to unite to carry it into effect, let the consequences to the present Ministry be what they might." The following is from the Advertiser:—" Let it not be supposed, because there seems to be little chance of driving Sir Robert Peel from his purpose of setting up a new inquisition at Somerset House, or of inducing the House of Commons to interpose between the self-willed Minister and the threatened infliction, that the opposi tion with which the measure is everywhere assailed out of doors will therefore be without its effect. Sir Robert Peel may carry his proposition for an inquisitorial tax with a high hand ; he threatens to do so, and the tyrant majority will do his bidding. The House of Commons is the Minister's bed of justice ; the farce of deliberation and discussion may be introduced, but it is the will of the Minister which decides the question. For our own parts, we think that great and permanent good will arise out of the course which the Minister and his adherents in the Commons seem resolved upon pursuing. The Tory House of Commons was begotten in the disgust with which the Whigs had managed to inspire the constitu encies for their party ; an d however much the Tories may presume upon their own luck , it will not be long, ere they find that their vaulting ambition has over leaped itself.'" The Chronicle says—" The opposition to the income tax in the country is much more determined than in the metropolis. In our columns this day will be found re ports of a meeting at Edinburgh on the 29th ult., the Lord Provost in the chair; a meeting of the Merchants' Company at Edinburgh on the same day; and of a meet ing at Leeds on the 30th ult. ; at all which resolutions were carried strongly condemning the income tax. A meeting at Manchester to pass resolutions against the tax was held yesterday. But, as we have already ob served, it is against the corn bill, and the tariff, and more especially the latter, that t he o pp osition threatens to become the most formidable. Be sides the meetin g at Lincoln, at which a meeting of the county on Monday next was agreed on, already referred to by us, of which we this day give a more ample account, a meeting of the Brigg Agricultural Association was held in the Angel Inn of that place, on Thursday week, at which strong resolutions against the corn bill and the tariff were una nimously voted." We take the following from the Post :—" The really practical objection to an income tax i s t hat human na ture does not easily bear that which is p al p a b l e , direct, and honest. There is a kind of satis fact ion in hiding from one- se lf th a t one pays a tax, by mixing it up with the price of th e commo dity in daily use. Therefore, if all persons consume d t a xable commodities in proportion to their inco mes , thi s i n direct taxation were by far the best. But as t h ey d o no t, and as it is necessary to get toll for the State from people's incomings as well as their pe out - goings, there is no alternative but to ask for a con tribution in a s h a of which every payer must be cog nisant and conscious." The Times, speaking of the workhouse system, and the case of John Marshall, says :—" John Marshall, having Made trial of poor law relief in the Peckham workhouse, when in a state of the most extreme and pitiable destitution, found it something worse than starvation itself, and deliberately embraced starvation as the preferable alternative. It is also certain that, when very near the point when nature could bear up no longer, he chose to pass a very cold night, foodless, houseless, anttalmost naked, in a hovel by the side of the public road, rather than make use of a ticket for admission to the workhouse at Edmonton. Nor is it less certain that the Magistrate before whom he was brought (or the gen tleman by whom the Magistrate was advised) considered a prison, even with the accompaniment of hard labour, a titter place than a workhouse for a starving man." MONEY - TRADE-COMMERCII. By comparison with the first quarter of 1841, the port of Gloucester "shows an increase in the foreign trade of about two-thirds. From the report of the Society of Widows and Or phans of Medical Men, read at their meeting on Wednes day, it appeared that the sum of 6321. had been granted for the past half-year to 31 widows and 14 children, and that 100 L had been funded. Several cargoes of Tuscany wheat have lately been landed at the port of Perth, and put into bond, waiting the issue of the new Corn Bill. It is the growth of the Crimea ; fine coloured and strong, and bakes well. A run upon the Renfrewshire Bank took place on Thursday , in consequence of o r d ers received from head. quarters at Edinburgh, by the branch of the Glas gow Bank to decline receiving their notes ; the precise result is not yet known. ECCLESIASTICAL. The new church for the Liberty of the gulls, in Bream's buildings, Chancery-lane, is nearly completed, and will be consecrated in May; its style is Gothic, and the pews are of carved oak. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Fourteen ships are ordered by the East India Com pany to convey troops to Calcutta, Madras, and Bom bay, to sail on the 12th or 15th inst. Two ships also convey 350 troops to Quebec, and four to take stores to Hong-Kong, for the use of the China troops. The troops to embark are 3,000 in number, and as many more will soon follow. A new rock is supposed to nve been discovered off Stanraer : a barque last week struck upon it, and the spot is about to be scrutinized. LAW AND POLICE. The singular abduction case of Miss Crellin, now under investigation at Liverpool, after undergoing four days' examination, has been adjourned to Friday next, and the prisoners remanded to that day. Thomas Robinson, bankrupt, who was compelled to stop payment when about six months ago several other firms broke up, had his amended balance-sheet produced before the Court on Friday, in which it was stated that instead of 12,0001. losses on tallow as alleged by him before, he now stated it at 35,000/. Owing to these dis crepancies, he was given a month to clear up. Charlotte Weatherhead, a young woman, whose mother keeps a receiving-house for posting letters, was on Fri day brought up at Bow-street, charged with stealing a letter containing a silk purse, the property of the Post master-General. The evidence not being conclusive, the prisoner was remanded for a few days. Joseph Wicklow, found guilty at Brecon Assizes on Wednesday, of highway robbery, had sentence of death recorded against him on Thursday, with an intimation that he would be transported for life. LITERARY AND. SCIENTIFIC. _ Cardinal Angelo Mai has just completed anedition of the New Testament, on which he has been engaged ten years, with the variations of all the manuscripts existing in the principal libraries of Rome and other parts of Italy. SPORTING. The Queen and Prince Albert hunted on Friday in the Great Park with a party, and two hares were started and killed. A grand steeple-chase has just been arranged to take place in the neighbourhood of Windsor, on Friday, the 15th inst., to be performed by the officers stationed there, over a course of about four miles. COURT-FASHIONABLE. _ The DukjaTeTvcastle is expected to leave Clumber Park, Notts, on Tuesday next, for Portman-square. The Marquis of Salisbury gives a ball at Salisbury House, on Friday next. The Earl of Beverley returned to town on Satur day from Rickmansworth. The Earl of Kinnoull is expected at Hampden House to-day from Brighton. The Earl of (Mare arrived yesterday in Belgrave square, from Bedgebury Park. Viscount Sidney is entertaining a party at Frognall. Lord Kenyon is expected in town early this week. MISCELLANEOUS. Derby was inundated by a flood on Friday morning, and a newly-married woman drowned in her bed on the ground-floor. The market was swept away, and other extensive damage done. The most sudden awful loss of human life on record, took place in the year 1466, when the sea broke in on Dort, in Holland, and drowned 100,000 persons, The Hon. Mrs. Stopford, wife of Archdeacon Stopford, and niece to the Earl of Mayo, died oo Sunday week Courtown Castle, in her 39th year. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. This has been, as is usual, a comparatively blank day for business in the English functs, and exclusive of a purchase of Consols at poi for the next account, scarcely a bargain has been made. The market left off firm at 90 90* for Money, and 90* 901 for the April' Account. Exchequer Bills rose to 33 35 premium. _ _ _ In the Foreign Market, the speculators in the New Spanish Three per Cent. Stock, being anxious to secure the profit of the two last days, have refused to carry the quotations any higher, in consequence of the manifest indisposition on the part of disinter ested persons to join in introducing this description of security. Prices have accordingly declined, and the last quotation was 231 23i, and 24-8- 244, for the old Bonds. The quoted prices of other Foreign Stocks were Belgium, 103 104 ; Brazilian, 66 68, ex dividend ; Danish, 80f 81f ditto ; the Dutch Four per Cents., 100 100 f ditto ; the Two and a Half per Cents., 52 524; Portuguese Four per Cents., 354 364 ; the Three per Cents., 201 211 ; Columbian, 27 27+ ; Mexican, with all the coupons, 44 404, ex dividend ; ditto, without any over due coupons, 38 to 381. In the Share Market prices were well maintained, although the extent of purchases was comparatively trifling. The principal improvement was in Brightons and Blackwalls, the latter of which advanced 11. per share, and left off the old at 111 12, and the new, 10 10k per share, ex dividend. Brightons were 361 361; Birmingham and Gloucester, 56 58 ; South Western, 594 60k; Gosport, 59} 601; North Midland, 69 70; and the New Shares, 344 351 per share; London and Birmingham, 84 86; Great Western, .27i, 28i, the half shares 141 144 premium,. South Eastern and Dover, 23, 221 ; and Eastern Counties, 14, 131, ex dividend discount. The alteration proposed to be made on the duties at present payable upon foreign manufactured arti cles continues to excite considerable opposition. X memorial from an individual connected with the glove trade, with regard to the contemplated reduc tion in the rates on French and other des ;riptions, is deserving of notice from the facts embodied therein, 'alike interesting to this and to other trades. After some preliminary observations it is stated— " Your memorialist wishes to direct attention to this very important fact—namely, that even with the present duty the English manufacturer, in the better description of gloves, cannot compete successfully with the French. For many years the make of these qualities in England has been gradually declining, and the import of the French has been proportionably on the advance." From 1837 to 1841, both inclusive, 6,345,365 pairs of foreign gloves were imported into the kingdom, of which 6,241,617 pairs were retained for home use, or an average of one million and a quarter pairs annually. " The cost of labour in the production of the make of gloves, which would be mainly effected by any reduction of the present duties, in proportion to the cost of the raw material, exceeds 200 per cent. With the present duty the English manufacturer is enabled to compete with the French in the middling and in ferior qualities ; but should these duties be reduced one-half, competition would be hopeless, and a ma nufacture so productive of labour be destroyed. The labour afforded by the glove trade is entirely manual ; no machinery superseding, as in many other manufactures, human labour, and a very great pro portion of 'the persons employed are women and children, who work, not in crowded factories, but in their own cottages, and whose earnings contribute greatly to the advantage of the agricultural popula tion, lightening the poor's rate, and adding greatly to the comfort of many families, where the husband is employed in agriculture, and the females in sewing gloves.' In a similar situation the boot makers, straw-plait manufacturers, and many others of a like description will most probably be placed. Alluding to the above memorial, one of the oldest and most experienced skin brokers observes : " We are of opinion that no reduction in the retail price of gloves would follow the reduction of duties, and submit that an injury would be inflicted on our Import trade as a great portion of the Mediterranea n lamb skins, hitherto consigned to England, would go direct to the French manufacturers. And it is worthy of observation, that no opportunity exists of reducing the duties payable upon raw ma terials so as to lesson the cost of production here ; thus the whole loss occasioned by the decline in prices, in consequence of foreign competition, will have to be borne principally by the wages of the artizan. (From The Sun of Saturday.) Scarcely a bargain has been made in Consols to-day, the prices of which are quoted 90 to 90* for Money, and 90* to sot for the Account. A purchase to some ex tent has been effected for the May account, at ; Nesy Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 991 99i ; India Bonds, 10 to 12 ; and Exchequer Bills, 33 to 35 prem. The new Spanish Throe per Cents. have again en grossed the principal attention of speculators, who find ing the public cannot be induced to lend themselves to their introduction, are beginning to discover that the Coupons are not quite so valuable documents as it was attempted to prove them to be. If they be left quietly alone they will speedily find their proper level, and be come like the Bonds from which they have been detached — a dead letter: the present quotation is 234 *, haying fallen from 241, the last price of yesterday, or decline of 14 per cent. from the highest price. The Old Bonds are nominally 24i. Some little business has been done in Mexican, but in consequence of some difficulty in ar ranging the Coupons, many dealers have closed their accounts, and the most correct quotation for the Bonds is 33 to 38k ex all the overdue Coupons ; Columbian, • 264 to 27 ; Peruvian, ; and Portuguese, for the Ac count, 361. - The increase in the earnings of the Brighton Railway has caused an improvement in the Shares, which have been done at 364 4. The other lines have been sold- South Western, NI; Midland Counties, 794; Northern and Eastern, 354 ; South Eastern and Dover, 25 4. The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, for the period ending the 29th ult., gives the following results, .by a comparison with the previous returns :-The circulation has in creased 183,000/, the difference between 16,952,0001. and 16,769,000/. The deposits have decreased 297,0001., the difference between 8,657,000/. and 8,954,0001. The securities have decreased 513,000/., the - difference be tween 22,586,0001. and 23,099,000/. The bullion his in creased 438,000/, the difference between 6,125,000/ and 5,687,0001. The balance in favour of the Bank is also greater by 39,000/., the difference between 3,102,0001. and 3,063,000 L These returns are generally reviewed as satisfactory. Although the increase in the circulation be so small this month, yet it has been gradually en larged during the whole of the present year, and is now but 20,0001 below December, 1841. This may be accounted for by the public availing themselves of the opportunity of borrowing more freely when the reduction of interest on loans was made. The quantity of bullion is also favourable, and would lead to the ex pectation that the present rate of discount will not be continued by the Bank. It was anticipated that it would have been lowered at the meeting on Thursday, but the object of not doing so may have been not to depreciate the nominal value of money still further. It appears singular that the Bank of England still adheres to the charge of five per cent. for discounting bills, when it will lend money at four per cent upon the same description of securites. By the Sheffield packet ship intelligence has been re ceived from New York to the 15th ult. inclusive, and which will be found in another column. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 1.-There comes no relief to our market time, and each succeeding week is steadily (although almost imperceptibly, as froin day to day) bringing about a still further reduction in our quotations. This applies to the various qualities of Americans under 'fa ir," of which the great bulk of our stock consists ; as well as to long stapled descriptions in general, including Sea Islands. To-day there was a public sale of the last kind, when it was shown to what a limited extent the demand for that description is cir cumscribed-only a comparatively small part of what was offered was sold, and that at a reduction in the pre vious rates of nearly id. per lb., nor could the buyers have been induced to take a much greater quantity, even should the prices have been reduced another halfpenny. In fact they will of be forced beyond the supply of their present wants. The sales of the week amount to 18,940 bales, of which 1,200 Ame rican have been taken on speculatin, and 600 with 250 Surat, and 200 Madras for exportation. They comprised 3,390 Upland, at 44d. to 64d. ; 6,690 Orleans, 44d. to 7d. ; 3,560 Alabama, 41d. to 51d. ; 50 Sea Island, 101 cl. to 18d. ; 10 stained ditto, 10d. ; 170 Per nams, 64d. to 71d. ; 590 Maraham, sd. to 61d. ; 580 Bahia, 6d. to 64d ; 660 Egyptian, 7d. to 9d. ; 2,680 Surat, 3d. to qd. ; 10 Laguayra, 6d. ; 60 Peruvian, 54d. to 64d. ; and 490 Sea Island at public sale, out of the 1,296 put up. LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET, APRIL 1.-There was a bare inquiry for all descriptions, and the market was heavy throughout the day. The sales were-Eastern Counties, New, 2 prem. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 45i ; Grand Junction, 180 ; Ditto, New, Quarters, 24 ; Great Western, Halves, 64 ; London and Birmingham, paid up 321 Shares, 584 ; Mancheiter and Leeds, Quarters, 4/. 6s. 6d.; North Union, 221. 10s. 10d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 1.-There is a very general inquiry for Stock, and it may be pre sumed that the difficulty of employing money, and the low rate of interest will have a beneficial influence. Manchester and Birmingham, 27+ and 271; Leeds Quar ters, 41 and 41 ; Alliance Bank, 214 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 451 to 461. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. !India Stock, - Ditto Bonds lO pm Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red. c Per Cent Cons 9OA 3i per Cent Red '— New 3i per Cent . 99i New 5 per Cent.. ' Long Annuities Loexpire Jan. 1860 .... Oct 1859. Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 35 pro Ditto 5001.... 35 pia Ditto Small. 35 pm Bank Stock for Open 16911 India Stock for Acct Jan. 1860. j Consols for Acct 9oi FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 par cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, spm cent — Ditto , New Ditto 36 Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cella Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent... Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent., 241 Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 261 Ditto, Deferred.... „ Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —l. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f ---c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 40i French, 3 per cent —•. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. , . Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ... . SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) . . .... ... 47 Great Western Railway (65 paid), 92i Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London Grand Junction Railway Ditto Quarter Shares (60 paid) 9li London and Brighton (50 paid) 36a Ditto Loan Notes ( 5 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) l2 London and Birmingham (90) London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto Quartet; shares ( 2 paid) 44 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 26i Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Ba.stern (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 2.5 i York and North Midland (50 paid) ... . . .... 95j COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR SlTNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk in the pleasure grounds of the Home Park, and in the after noon rode on horseback through theLongWalk to the Great Park, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Anson, General Wemy ss, Colonel Bouverie, and Sir George Quentin; the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Cavendish occupying a pony phaeton. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Ladies Elizabeth and Mary West, Vis count Cantilupe, Hon. Miss Devereux, and Hon. Miss Stanley took leave in the course of the morning. Sir George Couper, Bart., arrived at the Castle. The Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, were both taken an airing. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, hz,d the honour of joining the Royal dinner circle in the evening. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal Suite attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel Royal. The Rev, C. -W. Knyvett chanted the first of the Service, the Rev. W. Canning, and the Rev. Mr. Moore officiated at the Altar. The Rev. W. Can ning preached an eloquent sermon from the 12th verse of the 15th chapter of St. Paul, first Epistle to the Corin thians—" Now, if Christ be preached that he rose from the Dead, how say some among you that there is no Re surrection of the Dead." The musical part of the Service was Boyce's Te .Deum and Jubilate in C. Spencer's arrangements from Ismelli, Kyrie, Elieson, and Sanctus, King's Creed in F. The Anthem, " Mason's Collect," very nicely sung by Masters FoSter and Winterbottom, two of the choristers. The Royal Suite included the Dowager Lady Lyt tleton' L a dy Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of War wick, Hon. C. Murray, Admiral Sr Robert Otway, Major-General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at his residence in St. James's Palace on Sa turday evening from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at his seat, Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ar rived in town on Saturday evening. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar returned to Marlborough House on Saturday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Excellency Count Kielmansegge has returned to town from Walton, the seat of the Earl of Tankerville. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall Gardens, on Saturday afternoon, from Brighton. A deputation from the Leather Trade, consisting of Messrs. Williams, Boutcher, Hackblock, De Vear, and Powell, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. A deputation, including Mr. S. Gurney, Mr. Cook, Mr. J. G. Hoare, and Mr. E. Buxton, • had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. TIMBER DUTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lf Norway and the Baltic were the same dis tance from us as North America, the proposed duties of Sir Robert Peel of 255. on Foreign, and ls. on Canadian timber, would, if carried, afford a sufficient protection to our Colonies, but as the distance from America is more than double, the freight being 405., whilst it is 20s. from the Baltic only, the protective duty is thereby reduced to 45., a total prohibition of the use of Canadian produce, and throwing out of employ our British shipping, the timber from the Baltic being now brought in foreign ves sels, which go back in ballast only, so that the proposed measure would be a great boon to the foreigner. A FRIEND TO OLD ENGLAND. • April 1, 1842. DRURY LANE THEATRICAL FUND.—OR Saturday last, at the assembling of the master and committee, the secretary reported that he had been honoured with the following communication from . the widow of the late Mr Davidge, who was the proprietor of the Surrey Theatre : " 1, Davidge-terrace, Kennington-road, March 31, 1842. " SIR-It having been represented to me that at the last Covent-garden Theatrical Fund dinner the bequest of my late husband to that excellent charity was not an nounced, to say, that he ha s b equeat h ed to that institution, ouneelb eg and also to the Drury-lane Theatrical fund, the respective sums of one hundred guineas ; but, in con sequence of a very large portion of his property having been invested in mortgages and other securities not redeemable until the years 1844 and 1847, the executors are notenabled by the conditions of the will to pay them and other bequests ; but you will be pleased to convey to the committee of your truly benevolent fund the assur ance that no unnecessary delay on my part shall take place in carrying out the testator's kind intentions in institutions in which he felt such sincere interest, and to which feeling I most cordially join.—l am, Sir, yours faithfully, "F. DAVIDGE. To Wm. Bennett, Esq., Secretary to the Drury lane Theatrical Fund, 10, Little Russell- street, Covent-Garden." The master, secretary, and several members of the ommittee acknowledged the handsome bequest, and the manner in which it was communicated, in terms of gra itude, and directed a suitable reply to be forwarded to Mrs. Davidge for her kindness. PEEL'S EQUAL INCOME. TAX. (From the Examiner.) • .a 4 According to the rude arrangement of Pitt's ine e in , tax, which six and twenty years ago was thought, tgP bad, even by th e unre f orme d Parliament, the assessar. revenue of' the nation was classed under five heads er schedules ; and Sir Robert Peel's follows the same ar", rang,ement. Schedule A, or the first class, comprises !V less than rive descriptions of property, viz., land yield',a7 animal or vegetable products, tithes, house prePe r 4l mines and quar r i es , w i t h cana l s an d ra il w ays. From , income derived from these mostly distinct source s, ° no :. Robert expects an annua l revenue of 1,600,000/ I t is doubt very convenient, for purposes of mystification , blend these incongruous subjects into one lumping sr, but the exposnre, whi c h t rut h d eman ds, requires tha t we should consider them one by one. itelD+ ,Y Sir Robert takes the amount of the first-named or the land yielding animal and vegetable products — t h y is, of the property, par excellence, .of the great food SilDr nopolists at what it was in 1814, or 39,400,000/. If Robert be correct or honest, this shows that the /a i r . : rent of England has been stationary for eight-and - tw e a Y years, and that three successive stringent Corn-la"sb, r e , not only done no good to the landlords, but positli., mischief ; for, as will be presently seen, it is the description of property that has not, within the sau4 time, advanced. The contribution of the lords the broad acres to the i ncome t ax , on the suns r e ef ' named, will be about 865,9001.—1itt1e more than half the produce of Sched u l e A, an d b etween a fourth _ .. „ 0 " fifth part of the aggregate sum which Sir R. Peel exile to raise —viz., 3,700,0001. To save twelve millions , John Russell's very moderate estimate of the v fine o f the corn monopoly, they w ill pay t h e mo derate fine 0 865,9001., and the remainder of the tax, approaching 1, three millions, must be paid by those who alreadY ),e' these twelve millions. o The next item we shall inquire into is the tithe. Th t in 1814, amounted to 2,732,694, and Sir R. Peel' ell. tali; report of the Tithe Commissioners, takes therreene,' assessable amount at 3,500,001/ then, tn e „ be s, • of land has for twenty yea rs b een stat i onar y, the tsr ave which depend for their am oun t on t h e same cause, Doi, increased by above 27 p er cen t. T o accou nt for o f there are but two alternatives—either the el e11 :2 1814 made dishonest retur ns f or th emse l ve s, er, - r as. Peel now makes a dishonest return for the lan" c o Let Sir Robert and the Church settle the affair bettwo them. Out of the 1,600,0001. of schedule A the tithes art • contribute about 78,2961, or a b ou t one forty-ellhth P of the sum to be levied. O r ; The next head of sched u l e A i s —Mi nes an and ries. These were estimated in 1814 at I,3B6,B'w: t ime, the best judges are of opinion that, since thal o bich their value has increased by full 50 per cent- , would make them at present worth above two w" 00 01, But Sir R. Peel's assessment is taken only at 1, 5 t. and the produce of the tax will be only 32, 96 „ r ies ought to be at least 58,0001, but Mines and Qu' rg i are, for the most part, the property of the ari stee s kilt (their whole rental value being derived from th e - la; and capital of the und er t a k ers an d a d ventu rers t work them), and so they must be spared. in The next heading is " Rail wa y s and Canal s, Q ' ,;ll; technical language called " Sh a r es ," va l ue d hY_,_„„L O O Peel at 3,429,0001, and yi e ldi ng t o hi s p ro posed ll 7 - , tax 75,3601. In the ass essmen t ' o f 1 814 t here 1 "„ f• it heading of this kind at all, and although portions is - r es were no doubt included under other h e ads, a t el amount must be considered as a clear accession l.° 0 10 national income made during the last 28 years. u' ec , and railways have no more r e l a ti on to t h e find Pr e ' t bsa by the corn monopoly, economically speaking' t hef steam vessels or cotton factories have, and therefore si s are absurdly included under the head of land. They purely of a manufacturing and commercial charso te jiiet! House Kent is estimated at 25,000,0001., . sum it has risen from its estimated value in I'd 16,260,0001 This house rent has nothing to manor-houses, or with farm-ho uses , or farm-bnualt included under other heads. I n f act , t h ey are , "it' rte exceptions, the rents of houses in towns, either the perty of, or occupied by, the commercial and ma n 0 4 Luring population, on whose prosperity their value ,fit increase wholly depend. During the last twentYl, years this description of property has not only el. 5# no protection, but for the better part of the 6 7 4 borne nearly the whole brunt of the house and old tax, amounting to upwards of tw o m illi ons an d a 1 0 ',,, g et annum. With all this, while the r en t s o f t h e privP' o .o property have continued, by Sir Robert lit'elL sr statement, stationary, house rents hav e i ncreas ed w.'rr wards of 50 per cent., and consequently contribn o portionally one half more to the public rev e nue tha u ,pel petted, bolstered, and swaddled inheritance. The_n bt sum which it will contribute to the income tax so about 549,450/. And so much for what Sir R. s-- schedule A call "Land." 1‘ 4t5 ° Schedule Bis confined to one su bj ec t, t h e pr,(:4;ao farmers, and the amount assesse d un d er t his 0 011 0 1814 was 38,396,000/. Now there is no one par t o c oor scheme in which Sir Rohert Peel' s j ugg l ery i s 01°re ii fiti spicuous than this. Under the old ta x fitrmers' P i n t, were estimated in England at three-f our th s of tile? and in Scotland at one-half. Sir R. Peel now r ed' 0 10 the amount assessed on, to half a rent, and by tbis l33 l , brings the amount liable to taxation down to coot 26,000,0001. "Then," says he, " I mi s t a pply a° jr 4 exemption, namely, all tenants who derive profi t ' for than 1501 a year ; on that amount I must make ther reduction, so that, upon the whole, I eann° t late upon a greater amount of duty than 150,00 0 1 4 al e i After striking off one-fourth for all tenants n i ' rs , profits under 1501. a-year, according to the rule obs e ol in every other case, the sum available for 0 ,14 41 1 1, would be 19,500,0001., which, at 7d. t o t h e pound' °ftie to have produced, not 150,0004, but 568,75 01 . WO actual sum which our juggler h as assesse d upon'.,.a out to be no more than 5,142,8501. B ut h ow he all at such a conclusion he does not say, nor can any e 'j, creature, unless a landlord or two in hi s se cret, e 'L o r o ture. Thus, therefore, he strikes o ff, no t' t he part, as in all other cases, but f our -fifths °' bi t whole : and so he makes a present to the tessa l 'i s i, virtually to the landlords, and at the co s t of their citizens, of the net sum of 418,750/. ! ! ih t It turns out, then, that four-fifths of the tenant s - b e kingdom, as estimated according to rent a l, and Pr Ili 99 out of 100 according to numbers, will not, by j e t 1 14 Peel's scheme be touched by the tax at all. 1 30 ~0 0 t give an example. No tenant paying l ess than . 3 . 130 1 1 ' year is subject to the tax. His Grace the Duke o f re nt fort has, in the counties of Monmouth an d B r econ , a t I, roll of 30,0001. a-year, and not a tenant p a yine' es , ' only) as much as 300/. a-year. His Gracee e therefore, will not contribute one farthing to the tail to tax. Earl Grey, has, perhaps, a similar ren t ' pas, Northumberland and Durham, and probably not of paying so little as 3001. a.year. The tenantry f .t , Grey will, therefore, all contribute to the income,,'' - -pe Earl Grey's tenantry have leases, and farm No_ 1) , ' and intelligence. The Duke of Beaufort's are Pv;? 6 : pendent, tenants-at-will, who farm much as their 0 1 5, tors of the reign of Henry the Eighth did before re d,' Earl Grey's tenants will contribute to Sir Rolglit g . trumped-up exigency the sum of 4251 a Y e , fr i A r t il , Grace of Beaufort's nil! But to couuterbalaa' o rlic the latter are good at a poll—for returning three l p members to swell Sir R. Peal's Corn-law mai er ltry will appear from this that the income tax is, 50 ..,0 1 , penalty on large farms and good farming, and a r„,O - 0 on small farms—on tenantry-at-will--- on bad fa r ; and on cringing political slavery. It is at the sa;llo,,i, a boon to the proprietor of the ill-farmed land , oe ds he pleases, may put every farthing *of Sir in the pound into his pocket, and who, tO 6 will do so if the tax should last for any lengt 11 ;; ; 14. Under the old income tax, as it stood in ``,, r ibe t y tenants of land, after many exemptions, still el . Of 2,734,450/., or approaching to one- s i x th Pe r p.) rip whole produce of the tax. The tax was the a tr ieatz4 cent., and, therefore, they ought n ow to coa - ai d t ie/ the proportion of about three t o t en . This o' te above 600,0004 but they are to contri% u o le d ,'"se; 150,0001, being, instead of one-sixth of the w' at• to be raised, scarcely one tw en ty-f our th P d h farmers friends favour the fa rmers , b ut , i n trtj i le,' ll „ i aer their own pockets ; and the co nc l us i on i s illev 1 ":; 0 ifirpt , since the year 1798, they hav e grea tly grow n dente and rapacity. e d to • , But how ought the farmer to be assess t wit , s i t income tax We are decidedly to fpini b j e c w er, ought not, in justice or expediency, be 0 0 ' 0 1 t iv , the tax at all, any more than a merchant or e ! turer. But as these are to pay it, the point W, it ivatw i ' s consider is, how the capitalist, engaged in the i e li s irlY , of the land, ought to be assessed equally andt common with all other capitalists. italell_AeCe When a farm is skilfully cultivated, the e a r i d pry to equal ten times the rent, and the gross aw l° in 'rato• ought to equal five rents in value. The len t ' ~.r os s• case, is usually estimated at one-fifth duce, and the farmer's profit, besides inter t e: c . o itte f tal, at three-tenths, the remaining four-ten"' i• n r 'rin, Q t bsl O f the o f r:f or all expenses. Let those data be applied tube fo und 5 0/., farthing less than 3001. a year, and it Will eee t i l ve rs the profits are 2251., and interest at 5 per ref, making the farmer's income 3751 Under s eoPl t 1, scheme this capitalist pays nothing, but th e s 6cl. • sin would, with the same income, an impost of 111 1 5 ... ow e in . would, no doubt, be unjust and impolitic to l e ia orse„.. to a rule as this for the assessment of the who, terest of England, but then it is ten time s W is totew trades, professions, and annuities, where 31 possible to frame any fair rule at all. .„. The rent of land, according to Sir been credit showing, has, as we have already seen, _ to cret ll ,' tl for twenty-eight long years, but if we are_s far e° satc same great and impartial authority, it .r n:_ it o worse with the farmers. Instead of their cap increased, as he represents all othe.res done, it has, under the happy p positively fallen off from 38, 396,0a071 • 1tc0 ut , 26 :- ° -Vire , :pir ti by near one-third part of its whole am oo o oi " fifth part of what it gave his pi-F(l ns u,,„ need, it can give him but a poor 150,_ enest • os _l s j : I l s fou t i s i: i placeman he is under great obligatieoar that he is shA interest, but as a financier it is c t W e' s o Income Tax. air. It Ye • - tr none at all. Enough for thiewpori:egn_tTix._ yinoe. n soo;HrEeslummaeulosurrrloeNxaomrinaTtHioun .of Sir by the standard of does not dep end s foliogs• Air ors being consideration in the world ris on which his n og buck did not fairly tr hs th oN e vn qu f e e st e 6o being rich or poor. The possessio ; they are r i: j. 4 tation rests are talent and knowledge I „ a . h man. Tbe tradesman would frieniasere—ilt.z,let knowledge°i o V . eno"' cares not who knows c r t e lh d ia i rt t I f ß o ao r me b w un e c a ok l t t hsaa)i,mss man no thatea rbs c e c a rts,.. just as . tl at he is not a man of wealth. t that ther e But let us suppose for a mourn into the 0. ,, /_,0 . 1 professional ,inquisition to examine_ men, an d to r a p 4 ments and abilities of professionsl sulfa insufficiency, judgment upon their superiority, abroad that . nothing objectionable in te a whisper termed,pinca as it Is wffoerueldnt3tlondßispoesbraugclmbeentth; larvontoldhehtilialitHop, been tried and found wanting, or, kkiad "Dt! as Le Pu we h tation f a tr ade or tn an's an bus business Q U Si TO Tr I t fact •• erzni Deus quack s , 1 g Reg ent ,eullg With hi cl ,?,.k.. v o.utside t h e iil44eyual allud the 4 ands of stl bh,!_street with ose in the ittatct occasi, ton, the road ti k ? 4 ,ts was had bee tivifrea, voured orders znfortne, ' a l to gi% canna( ~, uremia e coot 11 1 "(I to by Mat :s.ng this sp th o.poi *i th !red t,the_ulcir pun r 54 locality 4 ( 1 to ' ,ep r , sse , st— '() btatE Gr,[e n.; id ea 6 ' t e the to What