The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

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I, ti v d ° l i l t" Ra i ti oi , [Y 4 O I 00 0 4 ao° I, ye ti, occ' .iesre a : • 1' ltiv° poioi Gibb ()° , t he esi p ests , r the ,jer e!; r wo mai Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., ATODER N ENCII LIFE. Aothor Edited by MRS. GORE, of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Dowager," " Mrs. Armytage," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NOW READY. PART 1., Price One Shilling, with Characteristic Engravings by Dick Kitcat, of THE FORTUNES OF 'RECTOR O'H ALLO R A N, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John Cumming, Ormond-quay, Dublin bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Grapel, Liverpool ; and all Booksellers. !MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY OF THE COURT OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE, Will be ready in a few days. Orders should be sent early to the respective Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in one volatile, comprising as much matter as 20 or dinary volumes, with 1,500 Eng ravings , &c., 38s. bound, .31 8.. BUR KE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1842; • Corrected to the Present Time, from the Communications of the Nobility, &c., and containing a Supplement, with ALL the NEW CREATIONS. 44 Mr. Burke's Peerage and Barenetage is the most corn- Vete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind t over offered to the public."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. u y UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIs. THIS EVENING, APRIL 8, Will lse repeate Mozart's Oera of TE MARRIAGE OF F A RO.—The character of Susan p na by Mis H s Adelaide Kemble; Count L.rnaviva, Mr retton • Cherubino, Madame Vestris ; Doctor 8ar ..,`"10 Mr. J Bland; Figa'ro, Mr. Leffler ; Basilic), Mr. C. White; the ,-Ountoss, Miss Rainforth ; Marcellina, Miss Grant ; Barbarina, Miss ' 4 4ne. mil, which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava- Arla entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wumuponatyme (King of inditAnamia), Mr. J. Gland; Princes Paragon, Pr, cious, A arm 'cid (his three Sons by Madame \lsom's. Miss Murray, and hos !I Jingo Mr. Harley; ti .e White Cat, Miss Marshall. h .Wors open' at hall-past six, anu the Performances begin at Seven. ha Boxes 7s. Second Price 3s. 6d ,• First and Second Circles 55.. nd Price So. , 6d.; Pit as., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets "_ , i Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-otl. ',„"ve. from T e n till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon an ' rucation. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book 4410 . 167, }dew Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 41 ' , * and Un'on of talent. All the matchless wonders of Astley and Ducrow by Ratty's unrivalled English and Foreign Artistes. THIS EVENING. APRIL 8, .; be performed the Grand New Equestrian'Speetacle, entitled A 'n b t„ PEA.RL OF THE HAREM, HER 1E00111)1Si - I LOVER, i•Z`" HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, tunte, and Appointments • a Double Company, Equestrian and r atuatia, and. the finest Stud of Horses in th 4 World. moors which, in a more extensive anti splendid Aren4 than ever m i lne witnessed, THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc.ng &TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. l 'erous and matchless Cream.coloured Horses, m Anlusian Chargers, Potted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Figmy Poneys, and the most nted Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the . `"2ltdont. kl* conclu le with the New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMI LY " 4 ; Olt, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. 4 ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. "'DER THE DIRECTION ur AIR. OSBALDISTON. The most prosperous Theatre in I ondort, THIS EVENING, APRIL 8, 0 • ve- In consequence of its amazing success, performed the most interesting New Domestic Drama, in ; ire Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; Oft, THE 474' 1 .E CAMBER OF THE SILENT HIGHWAY —Characters Ise V H incent, Miss Coveney, Messrs. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard . -- ` 7 ► „', Seaman, &c. '!..e,,,,,1tter which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, Sic., ALADDIN ; .THE WONDERFUL LAMP.—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the . I tatess, Mr.. E. F. Saville; 'Widow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith . conclude with a New Dram i, entitled THE HOLSTEIN HUS , 1 .,R; OR, THE GIINADIER GUARD—Frederick, Mr. Sea. y . ,g 4 ,4; Maus Olmutz, Mr. Gardner; Stultz, Mr. Paul; Minna, Miss ; ("Rita. Mrs. Griffithp.. .; FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JANIES'S THEATRE. Third Appearance. of Madlle. PLESSY, THIS EVENING, APRIL 8, , Perfermauces will commence with LES FEES DE PARIS. )2:ler w.bich, VALERIE; OU, L'AVEUGLE.—VaIerie, Mlle. -70 7 ' c!riclitde with LE REVE DU MARI ; nu, LE MANTEAU. kenilte, Plessy. t h f!! following 'Pieces are in Rehearsal, and will be produced dur. dlle. lessy's Engagement Le Verre d'Eau," by Eugene Femme" La Jenne Cale'e —s. Le Misanthrope"—" Don qan Autriche 6 Tartuffe," &c. b_ DEJ A ZET is engaged, and will h,.ve the honour of mak. te o er First Appearance in this country early in May. Ni uo nsieur BOUFFE is also engaged, and will eppear during the k „i , tjm to , Xea, Gs.; Pit, Ss. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or 'Gallery Stalls), 35.; Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per. ''..a.nees commence at Half-past Seven. Sl o t riPlications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, 0 1 t, th e, made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se is 8 , 12, Regent.street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's-street ; and at !Igi k .nor.offiee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven 'lye o'clock. INDIA SUN. d PEW DAYS WE PROPOSE PUBLISHING A MAP 9 1 . SHOWING OUR .I\l. DIAN POSSESSIONS, ♦ND THE • Sti. RROUNDING COUNTRIES OF AFFGHANISTAN, (THE DEPLORABLE SEAT OF WAR), • • - 4PAML, THIBET, BURMAH, &c. &c. &c. TOG-ETHER WITH THE LATEST 1 -eW:i FROM INDIA AND CHINA. 6 Orders pr the " India Sun" received at the Sun-office, 112, ,Strand, London, and by all .News -agents. Piice SIXP ENCE. _ 8 471 ( Mice,_ 112, Strand, A,pril 8, 1842. ... no T AE WEATHER.—NooN, APRIL 7. her k - QALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. 431 tr Ill beter... 50 Highest 52 Lowest ___ Je ter 29.88.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. kfo, ll lZ --"'- t. l WATEtt AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 26 minutes after 0. i Evening ... 42 minutes after 0. `l6 , /4 4 ' a IrCA , , • • 'S• „ tnif,ll . 3 7 , l lPir r • _ , ~b~s LONDON FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1842. ....m......0011110............ hp ' 11 2 e debate on M r . T. D UNCO MBE'S motion last nigh t th o '' s continue the Standing Order, which precludes the. It t4 Ple froth petitioning against any tax proposed for the l it % l ee of the year, demonstrates unequivocally that the qx, 4 lltr Y is to be ty rann i ze d over b y t h e strong govern , , 1 1,. f . 1. -. of the T or i es . Si r R OBERT P EEL, i t appears, had 1'74,11-, knowledge of the existence of the regulation, ~C other parti es , b ecause t h ere h a d b een no occas i on ", -. ler to it for many years, had forgotten. His atten .,4 :ili c t `vas called t o it b y Mr. C. BULLE R , a ft er h e ~8 proposed his measure, when he signified his inten ,lit t ° enforce it, and refused to wait a reasonable time ' s, ', llif l y 9ll 4. : he urged the House to agree to his resolutions. not his fault that they were not adopted before "N:- Secretly, therefore, did he propose his plans, 4'" of the rule of th e H ouse , w hi c h wou ld a ll ow ,114 14 (1 0etition a ga i ns t hi s t ax a f ter h e h a d propose d i t; ~.t h e llis has he undeavoured, without allowing 0e tax a chance of appealing, to fix on them an in :' I ,e ` lt 'c , not only for this year, but for three years, for :,, 41.8 , or even for ever. , i .. ."•1 et ,"" 'Wight he resolutely maintained the Standing f .V.t is a convenient instrument for tyr ann y. It ;,oti tk iled, as Mr. MACAULAY and Sir J. HANKER, a ltltt'2 b served, in troublesome time s , an d f or a t emporary -' , hi t • ll'ew of the p eo pl e h ave ever h ear d o f i t. I ts 'Sp:li t kiste nce is a trap, in which any oppressor may N a!e people. The general ignorance of its exist ,t:"evs that it comes seldom into use. It is plainly ;4:41, ti8 , and ought to be expunged. 11 4 e was originally framed to insure the supplies l tt I) teel ' !Y(1 1 4.. , at a period immediate)y subsequent to the Li e n- Half the nation was then opposed to the P,5lg•G 4-«) 4 Government and and determined to embarrass it. : 4 N,:" Sir R. PEEL had little to say in favour of the It eept th a t i t i s a S tan di ng O r d er, and has long tt. IL .I s tandin gt o Ord er , h e wou ld no t a ll ow i t to b e re 'Wt 4 Its maj o rity s t oo d b y hi m , an d h e carr i e d hi s 4, 1 :e to Y 1 67 to 136, the minority being sufficiently 11t ,ensure the repeal of the St an di ng O r d er a t no t... ,: To ‘'_aY. "kt —4 ' . buscomnE all the speakers on his side gave 44% an • Nk NI , just praise. We know no Member who has Ni f , , u rroly disting u i s hed hi mse lf i n t h e cause o f t h e - t, 4 4 : 3 4, 1 , 41 e is bold, honest, straightforward, and judi fik kti i ho ugh his motion was lost, it has served even !Z.. : t rtr u lt : l ,the income tax itself to exhibit the Tories in ~ 1 1 1 1 . t ) ., light of the determined opponents of public i ..1_11 0 , 1 ; ,,, ,t itet st the exposure is complete, it gives us great • ,It o :Il t to reflect that we have throughout opposed tc. , ..it . 4.1 ' PEEL'S proceedings as oppressive and ' . 1.0 _ 'We have not—like many individuals, 4;75 8 " c ontemporary journals, and like some T.l4 ed - ° l* Parliament been seduced, by the : 0 0 4, :civantages of the tariff, to acc e pt as ,Ll Tfi tat 's whole financial scheme. From the ~4, 16 1,-, We stigmatised his conduct as arbitrary sttil.ktj t. ; We have said over and over again that 40 ki u % ri ff much better than it is, the mode of brill: . it:7:l7,ttli k rd, coupled with the income tax, consuiliEg teatNute interests it meddles with, and forcing 4 threat of resignation, is so oppressile a • and unconstitutional, that it ought to be rejected. We have now the satisfaction of knowing that a great num ber of Members of the Rouse of Commons are of the same opinion, as the speeches and votes of last night testify, and we hope from that House a conviction will spread through the country that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a plausible, but dishonest politician, who is undeserving of public confidence. We have the satisfaction also of knowing that such an opinion is fast gaining ground. The agriculturists of Ayr, as well as those of Lincolnshire have con demned his tariff and his income tax. In fact, his scheme pleases no class, and is supported by his own followers as a pis oiler. It is a mere emanation of his own self, well in accordance with no public opinon, and therefore as unfit as the crotchets of Mr. OWEN, or the dicta of Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNNoR, to become the law ol' the land. He has, however, a large majority to support him, constituting what is called a strong Government ; and he is able, greatly to the satisfaction of some of our Liberal friends, who are enamoured of such a Govern ment, to laugh to scorn all respect for public opinion, and plant his foot firmly on the neck, while his hand dives doep into the pocket of the nation. His conduct in maintaining an absurd Standing Order, be cause it serves a tyrannical purpose, showing, as Mr. C. BULLER remarked, less respect fin- the public than was shown by Lord CASTLEREAGH, reveals at once his odious design. He is resolved to make the strong Go vernment thp master and tyrant of the nation. Mr. WAKLEY is a very intelligent, practical man of business, who, when he speaks of every-day matters, with which he is familiar, deserves all the attention with which he is pretty sure to be listened to ; when, however, he discusses themes which, if not beyond his capacity, are at any rate beyond the range of his sympathies, he convicts himself of egregious folly, and causes us to regret that he is not gifted with that "still tongue," which—as the Psalmist has as sured us—" maketh the wise head." On Wednesday night the Hon. Gentleman took upon himself the office of poetical critic, his sole recommendation to which—and he evi dently thought it a very great one—was his utter in competency to the task. But he did more than this. He presumed to sneer at what he called, the " avarice of literary men. He taunted them with paying their devotions exclusively at the " shrine of pelf," and abused them in good set terms for not being satisfied with such pecuniary rewards as Milton got for his "Paradise Lost." Authors, he seemed to think, should be content, as of old, with their garret and a mutton-bone. It was for publishers to grow rich, and for literary men to starve. It was their vocation—the very thing they were sent into the world to do ; and the legislative measure that should order otherwise, was mere cant—mock-sentiment, which all rational folks should treat with the scorn it de served. Now, who is he that argues in this heart less, flippant manner ? The very man who has himself driven for years a thriving trade in small lite rature—who, for years, has lived almost exelu•• sively on the weekly profits of the Lancet, to which he owes all his fame—such as it is—and all his success in life ! The disinterested and lofty indifference to vulgar lucre which Mr. WAKIEv so eloquently re commended to other literary men, he has certainly not exemplified in his own case. He may preach, but he has yet to practice. Empty praise has not satisfied him; lie has preferred the solid pudding. It was well enough to be the chief writer in the Lancet, but far better to be the weekly recipient of its profits. Had Mr. WAKLEY generously and disinterestedly refused to take money for his own literary exertions ; had he rejected with lofty disdain the pounds, shillings, and pence that the Lancet poured weekly into his shy, reluctant pocket ; and con tented himself with the consolation that " virtue is its own reward ;"—had he himself acted in this manner, we might have allowed some little weight to his sneers at the " avarice" of authors ; but when we find him driving a thriving trade by his own literary wares, and yet denying the same privilege to less fortunate authors, we are astonished at the cool audacity that dictated his invec tives. But Mr. WAKLEY, it seems, is not only a moralist, he is also—Heaven bless the mark !—a critic ! Nay, more. He is a poet as well, having already tried his hand at a " very respectable poem ;" and, moreover, declared it as his firm belief, that he could spin such lines as WORDSWORTH writes, " by the mile." God help the man compelled to wade through " a mile' s of the Middlesex Coroner's poesy ! He may depend on it, that it will be the longest and most wearisome jour ney he ever travelled. An Irish bog is bad enough ; but what is an Irish bog compared to the dull, dry, leafless desert of Mr. WAKLEY'S imagination ? We have seen several letters from India, in which the 1 loss of the army in Affghanistan is directly and indig nantly attributed to the disgraceful conduct of General ELPHINSTONE. Without the whole evidence before us, we cannot presume to express a decided opinion ; but if the facts stated in'the Bombay and Calcutta Journals be correct, then never did British officer more disgrace himself, and inflict a more grievous injury upon his country. "It would seem," says the Cakutta _English man, of the 12th of February, "that the feeble ELPHIN STONE quitted the cantonments contrary to the advice of every officer with the force, and we only regret that SHELTON or ANQUETIL had not the moral courage to place him in arrest, when his recreancy became too ap parent to be no longer doubtful. As it was—our very soul sickens to think of the degradation—the force—a force of more than 5,000 British troops—actually marched out un der the protection of the Envoy's assassin, and submitted to 1 his conqueror-orders when to move and when to halt, and I. . , ere murdered and plundered under his eyes and au , 'vices. Then came the yielding up of the ladies, and the , virtual self-delivery up of ELPHINSTONE himself ; an i , w , \at shows the besotted nature or the man, although ! this ARC I AR KHAN rode with the force while the pillage and murch, T were going on, he had not the pluck to give orders to se kze and shoot him, but obeyed him like a slave amid all the i'lavoc of which he was plainly the instigator." Our own asto. nishment was certainly great when the news arrived thk ~ t AKBAR KHAN was in direct commu nication with Gen eral ELPHINSTONE during the slaughter of our troops in ..the Khoord Cabool Pass, and that al , though he had not' a thousand followers with him, no attempt was ma de . to secure his person. Only the I greatest incapacity ever exhibited on the part of the 1 Commander of suc. l l a force can rationally account for 4 its entire destruction. Considering the defenceless con dition of the city of Cabool, we do not see how it was pos,lible for it to resist the attack of a British army 5,000 stronj, driven by hunger' to absolute desperation, pro vided the officer in comrna nd of it enjoyed the confi dence of his troops. But th, : s it appears was far from being th a case with General IILPHINSTONE. The very 1 privates thought him no better ,than an old woman, for 1 whose in :aptu - Aty they were to he sacrificed. Again, we quote from the same article in the Englishman : Dr. Br - flow, says, that even while holding the cantonments General 111ph: netone's conduct was despicable as an officer, and calculated) only to disgust the men; and he instances the cave of his haling se: It out 400 of the 44th, a ld a like number of the 37th, to take son se guns at the village of Pahmaroo, when they carried the place , and held it for twelve hOurs against twenty times their own ne tmber, when, because no support was sent to them, and their arc Inanition was failing , they had to spike the guns and retire. otr re --entering the cantonments they audibly , expressed t heir disgu et, ar. d swore never to fight under such a man agai n . Bi:ydon say: t, that `cite Affghans were such COAards that they n ever dared to appro.cti within a thousand yards of the walls, until Eiphins tone's con duct had rendered our men sulky. But under a worthy leader, ho ''w soon that originally fine force would have crushed the rebelli:sn ; and had they been well comma nded, even at the last, they would have triumphantly made ‘ •ood their retr eat to Jellala bad ; and yet all have been sacrifice 'd to the miser able incompettmey of that one man! Whe n Tutting • the encampment at Cabool, General ELPHIUSTONg' abandoned his guns, treasure, and the whole of the at. amix eition of the troops, with the excep tion of a fel v roe tna s a man. So infatuated was he that he seemed Ito con. rt. destruction. No bediamite ever ex hibited half the pu siilanimity that he is reported to have done. But how I 'rik-htful even to contemplate the im mense mass of hut tun 1 misery which the incapacity of this one Ina) i occasi( metl! To give a faint conception of it, we quot e the ft llovn . ng extract from a letter from Jellalaba 1, publishet. 1 in the Bombay Tunes of the Ist of March :—. - -- --- • General., - n e binstonet began treiti.ing with the base and treachero us v ill a in who) had murdered the E nvoy. Four da y s after wart Is our trot ,pa country ; t} A t th . our 29th) a treaty w as si g ned, to the purinoso that w e r e to giv e up the mi litar y p ossession o! the e Gene) •al was to order the officers commis:L. lug th' t diff erent station s to give up their g ums. treasure, ma gazines,. & t ~ and that h °stages wer e to be g iven for the fulfil ment of th e terms of the treaty. The troops at Cabool were to rqtire immectiat 'el)', notwithstanding the rigours of an Afighatt • winter, at td the inability of our gallant sepoys to do n", a.nd it. This , infamous and ignominious treat y was sent t o General Sal e, .commanding at Jellalabad , but h e re ' t LI ed to .:sign it. His re ply was sent on the evening of the 9th Irsatant the day the a ne ssenger arrived. We heard nothing more ti 11 the arrival of . Dr. Brydon, wounded and a fugitive , ors the ; afternoon of the 1 3th inst. His tale announced that our we rat predictions hat t been verified. The ground was covered with show (in son to places three feet deep), and the cold wr s intense. Akbas Khan did not fail to take a barba rian's at (vantage of the now 1 'rostrate foe. After the first march the who lie .'ine was marked b y and mur Jere, t. Thousands O the dead and dying, the wounded f the barbarians stripping the de fenceless ; and . .ourdering cam, 'e who offered resistance, were s)varmir, g aroun, 1 our now disp. Irited troops. Each day brought a fresh •sdernand +tom an ewe n.'y drunk with the blood of its victims. On ' the third mar. ell Lady . S'ale ws..s wounded by a match. lock 1 , a ll, and, to core ,plete the humiliation and disgrace, Akba r Kt tan demand ed that the ladies st:ould be given up as prise 4 e , The gall( tli. t Gem.Tal consented, and they were mar.drecl, b ack by the ea tit lting enemy to Cabool. The husbands r'''insed t o abandon their 1 Ayes, and returned with them. This ' .ras a da y of humiliation... another was to be destine to whole sale bute fiery. The mud, . lay over the Haft-Kotul, a lofty . and almost impassable on account mountain , difficult of ascent. of the dep th of snow at the • summit. On this the treacherous enemy cot teentrated a large force, and attacked our troops, , re all, except the Europeans, tin. who, benu tubed with cold, 1,1 the native troops perished, and able to use t their arms. All some thous ands of camp follow, ers. Women were seen throw ing away their children, while groups were huddled together on the snow-drifts, howling with pain. Here is a picture of human misery, such as the unas sisted imagination never painted. Mothers, from the intensity of their sufferings, and their absolute despair, flinging away their own children amid the snows of the Cabool mountains and groups huddled to gether, and howling with pain ! But when the first burst of mingled grief and indignation is over, it may be some consolation to know, that had an officer of ability been at the head of our forces at Cabool, we would now have been as much the masters of that country as we were in 1839, when we placed the Shah SCOJAH upon the musnud. It was British incom petence in an officer, not British valour or discipline in an army, that succumbed to the treachery and blood thirstiness of the Afthans. Dr. BnyDoN's letter, giving an account of the whole sale slaughter of the troops, and his own miraculous escape to Jellalabad, will be found in another column. It will be read with painful interest. There is not much political news in the French Journals of Tuesday. On Monday the Chamber of De puties was occupied with the Bill for supplemental credits —an occasion which never fails to elicit from Members a vast number of random statements, remarks, opinions, and suggestions. As something is wanted for almost every branch of the public service, so every fresh de mand is sure to elicit a spurt of opposition which ends in smoke, as the sums are invariably voted. Thus M. Macs UIN on Monday volunteered an eulogium upon French diplomatists, although no person had said a word against them, and maintained that whenever they dis played less tact than the English, the cause could be traced to the Foreign-office. lle was very anxious to know what the Persian mission had been about. M. GUIZOT said that the object of the mission to Persia was to inform the SHAH that his old ally, France, was still alive and merry, and that from the tenor of M. MAGuist's observations, he could see clearly that French diplomatists were not much in the habit of communicating their instructions to hits.. M. TufEns blamed the Government for not making a safe and well sheltered harbour at Algiers, capable of holding, besides merchant vessels, twenty-five ships-of-the-line, which, in the event of a war with England, would be of immense importance. Ile assured the Chamber, that whatever England might say she was exceedingly jealous of the conquests France was making in Africa, and that no sacrifices were too great to establish the power of France on an imperishable basis on the Mediterranean It was that that would snake France the arbitress of the East. Marshal SOULT assured M. TIMERS that the harbour at Algiers was in the progress of construction, and that another was to be con structed at Stora, near Philippeville. The Minister of Public Works complained of the many expensive legacies left them by M. TRIERS' Cabinet, such as the harbour at Algiers, the walls of Paris, and others, which pressed severely on the country. The ex-Minister rose to defend himself and his colleagues, but half-past six o'clock having arrived the Chamber adjourned. PARIS BoußsE, AraiL 4, HALF-PAST FOUR. - The Market continues without much business doing. For Cash, Fives have risen 15c. ; Threes sc. ; Belgian Fives h; Ditto New *; Spanish , 1 4 - ; Nearlitan sc. ; Roman 1. For the end of the month, Fives and f hrees have declined 15c. MONEY and COMNIERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENINO. Several purchases in the various Stocks in anticipation of the payment of the dividends to-morrow, and the reduction in the rate of discount by the Bank of England, have caused a further rise in the price of Consols, which left off at 906 91 for Money, and for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1666 1676, and Exchequer Bills, 35 37 p.em. Foreign Bonds hive not advanced in proportion to the Eng- Ish Market. It used formerly to be the case, that at this pe riod of the year, when money is generally very abundant, that a portion of it found its way as investments in these securities, but of late the real value of them has been too well under stood, that they should be preferred to our own funds. Hence they appear quite neglected, and dealings are chiefly confined to the regular jobbers in the house, and the hangers on at the various coffee-houses in the immediate vicinity of it. The last quutations are Mexican, 40i 401; Portuguese Five per Cents. 36 366 ; the Three per Cents., 21 216; Colombian, 271 6 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 408. 406, and the Three per Cents., 25 256. The closing prices of Danish were 806 816 ; Belgian, 103 104 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., b2i 526 ; the Five per Cents., 100 1006; and Brazilian, 676 656. There was more inquiry for Railway Shares. The princi pal alteration has been in the Brighton, which has improved to 364 37 per share. London and Birmingham were 84 86 ; Great Western, 286 f 296 ; the Half Shares, 15 156 premium ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 56 58 ; South Western, 60 61 ; Gosport, 60 61 ; North Midland, 69 71; the New Shares, 34 356 ; Blackwell, 111 12; the New Shares, 10 per share; South E stern and Dover, 22i 21i ; and Eastern Counties, 14 14 d scour' t. The latest accounts from Calcutta state a considerable rise to have taken place in the rate of exchange upon England, which Ras negotiated .or the March mail at from 2s. lid. to 2s. 2d. per rupee. This appears to have been brought about by the Company adopting this course, for the purpose of putting an end to the system of making advances on produce to be ship ped, and which, in its operations, was acting most injuriously on the legitimate trade betweea the countries, by enhancing the price of produce in Calcutta, by an increased demand there, and I , ,wering it here by excessive importations, and obligation to realize, whereby, in the majority of instances, the lost which was naturally incurred had to be borne by the lenders, if the proceeds were not equal to the sum lent. (From Tire Sun of Last Night.) The advance which has taken place within the last few days still continues, and Consols are now 90 for Money, and WE 91 for the Account; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1006 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 99A A ; Bank Stock 166 for Money, and 167 for the Account; Exchequer Bills 35 37 prem. Foreign Stocks are lower, with very little doing. Portuguese Five per Cents., 36A; the Three per Cents., 21 for the Ac count ; Peruvian, 17; Spanish Five per Cent. Active Bonds, 25 25i; the Three per Cent. Stock, 24& 25; the price of the Dutch Five per Cents., 104 Railway Shares are firm, and the prices rather higher than yesterday. Great Western, 93} ; New Shares, 641 6 5 ; South Western, 60 61 ; North Midland, 70i; and Brighton, 36i 36k. BANK OF ENGLAND. The following notice has to-day been issued by the Bank of England : " April 7, 1842. " Resolved, that the rate of interest on bills of exchange and notes, discounted at the Bank of England, be four per cent. from this day." The effect of the above has been already anticipated on the Stock Exchange, by the rise which the funds have un dergone. And although the rate of discount has been for some time under 5 per cent. for the first description of com mercial paper, yet numerous instances have occurred of ad vantage being taken of the Bank rate, to charge the same. The announcement will therefore now oblige the country banks and diseounters generally, to reduce their rates proportionably, and thus to a certain extent give relief to a large portion of the commercial interest. Private letters from the various manufacturing districts pre sent but gloomy accounts of the state of business. Prices, which have for some time been below a remanerating point, not only show no improvement, but a tendency to decline still further ; and at Manchester, the market was so overstocked with yarns, that the competition to execute sofre small foreign orders, caused a pr ce to be taken lower than had been known before. The extent of the quantity of goods in the manufac turers' hands, has had a very injurious effect on the home mar ket also, many large wholesale houses in this city, declining to purchase, except for immediate want, under the apprehension that on each succeeding day they will find their neighbours supplied at rates lower than they had bought. at. This state .of affairs has caused many of the smaller establishments to decline business, and one instance, among many, similar, can be mentioned of a house winding up after being but ten months in business, with a loss of nearly five thousand pounds, three of which arose solely from the deprecia tion in the value of their comparatively trifling stock. _ _ Intelligence is anxiously looked for from the West Indies, especially from Jamaica, owing to the late accounts of the bad feeling existing among the negroes, as well as the want of re mittances. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 5. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9Bll f Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per sent... Ditto New 1830......... 98 Ditto 4 per ceat 3i per Cent. Debs. LtvErtroot COTTON MARKET, APRIL 6.—The sales to day were about 4,000 bales. There are no changes to notice in the prices of any of the descriptions. Exporters took about .00 bales American. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 6.--The market was rather brisk, and closed firmly. Eastern Counties Deben tures, 101. I Is. Bd. ; Ditto New, 4/. 7s. sd. to 4/. Bs. Bd. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48i to 481 ; Grand Junction, 185 to 186 ; Great Western, 93 ; the Half shares, 64i to 65% ; Fifths, 10i ; Lancaster and Preston Three-Quarter Shares, ; London and Birmingham, 174* ; London and Brighton United Company, 361; Manchester and Leeds, 81*; the Quarter Shares, 44; and North Union, 724. MANctiasTaa,`TOOK EXCHANGE, APRIL 6.—Our market has been very firm to-day. Manchester and Birminghams have advanced 20s. per Share, and are much inquired for. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49*; Lancaster and Preston, 27; Manchester and Leeds Half Shares, 35* ; Bank of Manches ter, 56. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock .. 1671 'lndia Stock 3 per Cent Red 9O Ditto Bonds , 3 per Cent Cons 9 Ol llitto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red 9.9i 'Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. 'Bank Stock k k f f o o r r A A c c e c t t .. ..... 2 16 4 7 1 Long Annuities toexpire ! Ditto Small 8.16 India for Acct 37 pm tan. 1860 ..... ...., . 91 Oct) "' . 118$651: "..". :: :: F : FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pet Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet cent lO4 Ditto, New Ditto 36k Brazilian Bonds. 67h Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres. 6 per colt . Russian, 5 per cent 113 Chilian, 6 per cent.... Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 2sh Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 2 7i Ditto, Deferred..., 126 Danish, 3 per cent ... French, 5 per cent. —4. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange f --c. Mexican, 5 per eent.... 40k French, 3 per cent Bl . —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2k per cent.. 52a Feruvian,lB2s, ti per et. 17h Ditto, 6 per cent„. . SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 55 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 564 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... .......,. ...101 lls 8d Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93k Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 65 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) S6h I.:itto Loan Notes ( 5 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) 126 Ditto New Shares ( paid) 9l 19s 2d London and Greenwich Railway pd) 6k London and South Western - 61 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 131 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... sa t Northern and Eastern (45 paid) .... 41i N or th Midland Railway (100) 70k South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) ...... . 26 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING. THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM, The Queen held her first Drawing-room this season yester day afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace, attended by the Royal Suite, and were received by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse, who conducted her Majesty and his Royal Highness to the Royal Clo.et. The Royal Suite consisted of the Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes, the Dowager Lady Lyt telton, Lady in Waiting ; Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting ; Sir Robert Otway, Groom in 'Waiting ; Major-General Wemyss. Equerry in Waiting; Mr. Wilson and Mr. Stuart Wortley, Pages of Honour in Waiting ; Lord George Lennox. Lord in Waiting on Prince Albert ; Sir George Anson, Groom in Waiting; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Sir Robert Peel ard the Lord Chamberlain had audiences of the Queen. Colonel Home, Grenadier Guards, Field Officer of Brigade in Waiting had an audience of her Majesty. Before the Drawing-room her Majesty (according to annual custom) received a deputation from Christ's Hospital, in the Royal closet, who were ushered to the presence of the Queen by Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Thompson, AL P., the President ; Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer; Mr. Thomas Poynder, and Mr. John Alliston, the Governors ; ac companied by the Rev. William Webster the Mathematical Master • Mr. W. H. Back, th e D raw i ng M as t er; an d t h e forty boys educated in the Royal Mathematical School, founded by King Charles 11. Her Majesty took particular in terest in the drawings and charts of the boys, and was pleased to express her approbation of their execution. Her Ilse al Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, were present at the Drawing -room. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were in attendance in the State Room and in the Presence Chamber. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal Family en tered the Throne-room, where the Ladies of the Bedchamber, the Maids of Honour, and the Women of the Bedchamber of her Majesty had assembled. The Foreign Diplomatic Circle were then introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty took plan : Madame Marques Lisboa, the Lady of the Brazilian Minister; Mrs. Everett, the Lady of the American Minister, and Miss Everett, their daughter; arid the Baroness de Rehausen, the Lady of the Swedish Charge d'Affaires, by the Countess ee Saint Aulaire, the French Ambassadress Madame de Helfer, born Baroness des Granges, of Lusatia, in the Prussian dominions, by Madame Bunsen, the Lady of the Prussian Minister There were also present in the Foreign Diplomatic Circle the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire ; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister; Mr. Moreno, the Buenos Ayrean 3:inister ; the Bavarian Minister, and the Baroness de Cetto • M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister ; 31. Lobo de Moira, Secretary to the Porteguese Legation, and 131. Pinto de Soveral, Attache to the LFgation ; M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister; the Russian Minister and Baroness 13runow, and M. de Berg, Counsellor of Legation; Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, and Mr. Hupedon, Conseiller de la Cour et Secretaire-General du Ministere de Commerce de S. M. le Roi de Hanovre ; Baron de Huzel, the Wurtemberg Minister ; Mt Grecian Minister and Madame Tricoupi ; the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, Baron Charles de Canit z, Secretary of Legation, and Mr. F. Schreiber, Prussian Dragoon Guards ; Mr. Everett, United States' Minis ter ; le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister; Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, and Baron Brockdorff, Secre tary of Legation; Baron de Nieumonn, Austrian Minister; Baron Koller, Conseiller of Legation, and Baron Lebzeltern, Secretary of Legation ; the Spanish Minister and AL Fran cisco Pampillo, secretary of Legation; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy ; AL M. Meequeta, Charge d'Affaires of New Gre nada, and Madame Alosquera ; Baron de Rehausen, the Swe dish Charge d'Affaires; Fuad Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter. The general company were afterwards introduced. The Lady Mayoress was presented to her Majesty by the Duchess of Buccleuch. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, 'the Comptroller of the Household, the Treasurer of Prince Albert's Household, the Lord Mayor, the Master of the Ceremonies; Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieute nant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Sir E. Pearson, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard ; the At torney-General, Mr. Ralph Gore, Groom in Waiting; Colonel Sir George Couper, Hart., C. 8., Comptroller of the House hold of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ; Sheriff Rogers • Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard-bearer to the Honourable Cores of Gentlemen at Arms; Colonel Ar buthnot, Equerry to the Queen ; Sir Archibald Macdonald, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ; Major Hyde ' Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards, Silverstick ; the Groom of the Robes ; the Rev. Henry Thomas, Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor; Mr. James Bunce Cur ling, Clerk of the Chicque of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Checque of the Yeo men of the Guard; Captain S. Sadler (in Waiting) and Cap tain J. Parker Nuttall, Exons of the Yeomen of the Guard; Captain Pechell, R.N., Equerry to her Majesty the Queen Dowager; Sir Benjamin Smith ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher the Privy Chamber ; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gentleman Usher; Sir Noel Harris, Croom of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Colonel Godwin, Gentleman Usher to Prince Albert, in Waiting. , The following Ladies were present at the Drawing-room :•-•-• D UCHESSES —lnverness, Argyll, Buckingham. Ma ncHlONESSES—Clanricarde, Ailesbury, Londonderry, Sligo, Normanby. Co NT ESSEs—Rosebery, Tankerville, Dowager Clare, De lawarr, Dowager Winterton, Morton, Leicester, Glengall, Dowager Listowel, Lovelace, Verulam, Jersey, Kinnoull, Malmesbury, Wilton, Elgin, Sheffield, Rosslyn, Cowper, Be verley, Cawdor. VISCOUNTESSES—Gage, Milton, Mallon, Canning, Guina n:to, e, Lifford, Chelsea, Palmerston, Howick, Hawarden, Dun gannon, Dowager Andover. L DIES Yarde Buller, Ellen Douglas, Isabella Fitz-Gib bon, Fitz-Wygram, Wigram, Constance Paget, Eleanore Paget, Elizabeth West, Mary C. West, Bowyer Smyth, Bulkeley Philipps, Croft, B. Johnstone, Cooper, Peel, Alice Peel, Shaw Stewart, Anne Primrose, Louisa Primrose, Clementine Villiers, Quentin, Stanley, Lyndhurst, Sondes, Sarah Ingestre, Tr.nileston, Emily Gore, Hume Campbell, Elizabeth Gore, Ali cia Erskine, Larpent, Manners, Bradford, Catherine Cavendish, Charlotte Guest, De Tabley, Wharncliffe, Jemima Eliot, Charlotte Egerton, Egerton, King, G. Stuart Wortley, E. Campbell, Dowager Floyd, Al. Stanley, A. Baring, Colborne, Dowager Ellenborough, Sophia Rendleaham, Lucy E. Low ther, Freemantle, Clay, Antrobus, James Stuart, Mildred Cecil, A. Beckett, C. Denison, Clerk, Domvile, Maria West, Wale, Cockburn, Hastings, Verney, M. Hamlym Williams, E. Spencer Stanhope, Kilmai ne , A. Vane, N. Step h enson, Ka therine Jermin, H. Baring, C . Wood, Brooke Pechell, Jane Grimaton, L. de Horsey, F . V ane, Ouse l ey, E . H ar di nge, Jolliffe, Colville, Vivian, L. Percy, Arabella Baring. Canning, Stuart de Rothsay,l Graham, Gardiner, Seymour, H. Cline, C. Browne, Colchester, A. Grenville, Ede Reede Ginkell, E. Browne, Stratheden. BA RONESS—North. HONOURABLES —Lady Duff, Lady Pearson, Mrs. Law, Mrs. Thomas Erskine, Caroline Gage, Mrs. H. Manners Sutton, Lady Hope, Mrs. E. Bootle Wilbraham, Miss Hewitt., Miss A. G. Hewitt, Mrs. Bootle Wilbraham, Caroline Lyttel ton, Lavinia Lyttelton, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Goulburn, Mrs. Ar buthnot, Miss Stuart, Mrs. A. Duncombe, Miss Mitford, Mrs. R. H. Wrightson, Mrs. Tottenham, Mrs. Vivian, Mrs, Ponsonby, E. Thellusson, S. Thellusson, Mrs. J. Talbot, Mrs. Scarlett, Lady Murray, L. Ridley Colborne, Miss Browne, Mrs. J. C. Vivian , Mrs. H. H utc hi nson , H. King, Mr s . Ryder Burton, E. King, Miss Campbell, Miss Vivian, Lady Lumley, Lady Cockburn. MrsTazsszs — Blomfield, Cornwall Leigh, Andrew Spot tiswoode, Edward Buller, Thesiger, Hugh Baillie, Canning, Hogg, Ricardo, Sebastian Smith, Thompson, De Winton, Mon tefiore, Woronzow Greig, Pennock Tigar, Harcourt, Sheloek Willis, Stapleton, John bastard, Longden, Howley, Talfourd, S. Whitbread, W. Chute, B. Wrightson, Young, V. Stuart, G. Berkeley, Milner Gibson, Fitegerald, S. Platt, P. Reading, C. Fremantle, R. Ellice, AL Gaskell, A. Wood, H. Bentinck, B. Paget, W. Feirand, Dawson, N. Sutton. Misszs—Fitz-Gibbon, Blomfield, Mary Blomfield, Fitz- Wygram, • Augusta Fitz-Wygram, Wigram, Thesiger, Julia Smith, Emma Smith, Bowyer Smyth, Marianne Bowyer Smyth, Shaw Stewart, Elizabeth Spottiswoode, Julia Erskine, Harriet Cavendish, Penelope Baillie, Frederica Law, Canning, Katha rine Shaw Stewart, Rosa Spottiswoode, Erskine, Duff, Eliza beth Croft, Stourton, Anne Vavasour, Heys, Anna Maria Sut ton, West, Sutton, Penningt on , Fanny Platt, Byrne, Geor giana Byrne, Ante Antrobus, Wetherell, Scarlett, Burdett, Frederica Bradford, Vavasour, Isabella Clark, Harriette Heys, Scott, Thompson, Wale, Augusta Wale, Harcourt Vernon, Longdee, Tompson, Antrobus, Quentin, Goulburn, Marianne Beresford, Seymour, Emily Seymour, Whitbread, Ponsonby, C. A. Macdonald, De Horsey, Cockburn, Clerk, Bradford, C. Stuart, L. D'Arey Irvine, Marian Ely, E. Ponsonby, Ham lyn Williams, S. Stanhope, Copley, Hervey Bathurst, Gardi ner, Clive, Ouseley, Adderly, Georgiana Bushe, Domvile, Louisa Domvile, Lowther, Hervey, W. Wynn, E. Gardiner, Clay. The following ladies had the honour of being presented to her Majesty : Lady Mary C. West, by the Countess of Delaware Miss Thesiger, by Mrs. Thesiger. Lady Flume Campbell, on her marriage, by Lady Peel Lady Ellen Douglas, by the Countess of Morton Miss Julia Erskine, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Erskine Miss Frederica Law, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Law Miss Fitzgibbon, by the Countess Dowager of Clare Miss Julia Smith, by her mother, Mrs. Sebastian Smith hiss Katharine Shaw Stewart, by her mother, Lady Shaw Stewart Miss Rosa Spottiswoode, by Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode, by the Right Hon. Lady Strathe den and Campbell Mrs. Ricardo, on her marriage, by her mother, the Hon. Lady Duff • Lady Wigram, by Lady Fitz-W} ram Miss Duff, by her mother, the Hon. Lady D uff Miss Elizabeth Spottiswoode, by Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode Lady Alicia Erskine, by the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Erskine Lady Larpent, by the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Erskine Lady Bradford, on her marriage, by the Countess of Kinnoull Lady Egerton, by the Countess Dowager of Listowel Lady Fremantle, by the Duchess of Buckingh am Lady Clay, the Viscountess Palmerston Miss Anne Yavasour, by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton Miss Wale, by Lady Wale Miss Catharine Anne Macdonald, by the Duchess of Argyll Miss Scott, by Lady Ouseley Miss Wigram, by Lady Wigram Miss Augusta Wale, by Lady Wale Miss Stourton, by Lady Lyttelton Miss Marianne Beresford, by the Lady Sarah Ingestrie Miss Emily Seymour, by Lady Seymour Miss Scarlett, by her mother the Hon. Mrs. Scarlett Miss Vavasour, by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton Miss Frederica Ifradford, by Lady Bradford Miss de Hervey', by her mother, Lady Louisa de Horsey Miss Cockburn, by her mother, Lady Cockburn Miss Hamlyn Williams, by her mother, Lady Mary Hamlyn Williams Miss Spencer Stanhope, by her mother, Lady ELzabeth Spen der Stanhope its Whitbread, by Mrs. Samuel Whitbread Miss Len - gden, by her mother, Mrs. Longden Miss Thompson, by Lady Granville Somerset Miss Emily Gardiner, by Lady Gardiner Hon. Lady Hope, by the Countess of Elgin The Hen. Mn,s Ed war d Bootle Wilbraham, on her marriage, by Lady Stanley Hon. Miss Anne G. Hewitt, by Viscountess Lifford Baroness North, on succeeding to her title, by the Countess of Sheffield Hon. Mrs. Vivian, by Lady Vivian Hon. Mrs. J. C. Vivian t 'by Lady Vivian Mrs, H. Hettchinsen, by Mrs. Battle Wrightson Ilan. Mrs, Manners Sutton, by the Right Hon. Lady Manners Miss Tompson, by her sister, the Hon. Mrs. H. Manners Sutton Mrs. Thompson, by Lady Granville Somerset APRIL 8, 1842. Mrs. De Winton, by the Hon. Lady Cockburn Mrs. Woronzow Greiff;, by the Countess of Lovelace Mrs. Pennock Ti g ar, by Mrs. Townley rs. Harcourt, by Lady Mahon Mrs. Shelock Willis, by Lady Wale Mrs. Stapleton, by Mrs. Canning , Mrs. John Bastard, on her marriage, by the Countess of Ux bridge Mrs. Longden, by Lady Mus , cerry Lady Cockburn, by the Hon. Lady Cockburn Lady Hastings, by Lady Harriet Clive. Lady Alexandrina Vane, by her mother the Marchioness of Londonderry Lady Verney, by her mother, Hon. Lady Hope Lady Jane Grirnston, by the Countess of Verulam Lady Catharine Browne, by her mother, the Marchioness of Sligo Countess of Malmesbury, by the Countess of Tankerville Viscountess Lifford, by the Countess of Bandon Viscountess Guillamore, by Mrs. Berkeley Paget The Countess of Elgin, on her marriage, by Lady Stanley Hen. Miss Hewitt, by Viscountess Lifford The Lady Vivian, by Lady Palmerston The following Gentlemen were present at the Drawing Room : Du K ES—Buceleuch, Argyll. \JAUQUises—Normanby, Anglesey, Londonderry, Salisbury. EAR Ls—Rosebery, Uxbridge, Wilton, Aberdeen, Kinnoull, Haddington, Rosslyn, Warrick, Sheffield, Cowper, Elgin. VISCOUNTS—Gage, Chelsea, Canning, Hawarden, Lifford, Ingestre, Northland. Bisrloe—Derry. LORDS—Trim!eston, Sondes, De Tabley, Mahon, Stanley, Eliot, Campbell, Kilmaine, Colville, Colchester. iRIGHT HONOURABLES—Sir Robert Peel, F. T. Baring, George R. Dawson, S. R. Lushington. HONOURABLES—Arthur Dillon, Richard Fitzgibbon, Sir E. Vavasour, H. Manners Sutton, M.P., Captain Duncombe, M.P., R. C. Scarlett, Mr. Clive, G Browne, R. B. Wilbraham, I Colonel H. Ilutchinsor., C. Scarlett, W. R. Colborne. SIRS—John Croft, Bart., K.C. T. and S., Robert Fitz- Wygram, Richard Bulkeley Philipps, John Yarde Buller, J. Guest, M.P., F. Burdett, E. L. Butwer, T. Fremantle, C. S. Hunter, G. Clerk, T. Hastings, C. Domvile, H. Verney, J. Williams. REV. DOCTORS—Hawtrey, Schwabe. REV. MESSIEURS—W. S. Rowe, W. Ellis, J. Anderson. DocToes—Henley, Ifill. MESSIEU RS—Thesiger, M.P., Andrew Spottiswoode, Poyn der, Sebastian Smith, Cornwall Legh, Chas. Cavendish, Hogg, Edward Buller, I'. H. Barton, Dehany, G. Lambert, G. Berkeley, Alliston, F. L. Price, Stephenson, Longden, B. Wrightson, W. W. Cooper, Bulkeley, S. Willis, F. Ellis, R. Ellice, Manners Sutton, A. Wood, West, V. Morris, E. Deni son, W. Y. Peel, Tottenham, P. Tigar, L. Ricardo, V. Stuart, D. Jones, Pennington, R. H. Wrightson, H. Baring, W. Brodie, Packe, F. Calvert, Cave, Weynten, W. Chute, 111. Gibson, De Horsey, Williamson, C. Huller, E. Heavy, Wils horn, Hume, Young, Taylor, Stanley, Fitzgerald, C. Burdett, Pollard, J. Stamford, M. Gaskell, S. Platt, Harcourt, FIELD-MARSHAL—The Duke of Wellington. GENERALS—Sir Charles Egerton, Cartwight, Sir Burges Carnac, Alexander, Me rcer Sir C. Wale, Sir J. Cockburn, Hen. ' Sir W. Luml e y, Si r R. Gardiner, Sir T. Hammond. ADMIRALS— Sir J. H. Whitshed, Sir George Seymour, Sir J. Beresford. COLONELS—Hugh Baillie, Cochrane, Trouson, Hon. E. Wilbraham, H. Jones, S. Dales, Sir C. Hopkinson, Dynely, Wears, Bentmck, H. Bentinck, S. Stanhope, Sir 111. Creagh, Bloke, Wood, Lord Cardigan, Le Coutenr. .11 AJOlLS—Turner, Iliamkes, Paine, Vivian, Halifax, Tat vs el 1 CAPTAINS—Hon. Robert. Gore, M.P., Fremantle, E. , Folke, F. Hamilton, J. Cole, Shea, Gahan, .1. Vivian, Lacy, S. Price, Currie, P. Cameron, Free, \V. Forrest, R. Burton, , B. Wood, Frith, F. Villiers, Lucas, Sir A. Green, Basden. , COMMANDERS—Joy, J. Reeve. LIEUTENANTS—Beauchamp Seymour, Cunningham, D. Hill, Cannon, J. Good, Bastard, George, S. Farquharson, W. Gundell, I3eresford, R. Price, Longden, A. Green. Exsics—W. C. Morrill. Con N ET—Domvile. His Excellency M. Dedel, the Netherlands' Minister, took leave of her Majesty yesterday at the Drawing-room, on his departure for Holland. his Excellency the Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Mi nister, was prevented by indisposition from attending the Queen's Drawing-room yesterday. The Mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at- Arms dined together for the first time this season at Long's Hotel, yesterday evening. At the Investiture of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, on Wednesday, at Buckingham Palace, the Queen was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Vice- Admiral Sir John Chambers White, and Rear-Admiral Sir I i Charles Richarikon, with the sword of Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and not with the Sword of State. I i WAKLEY'S POEMS. Wakley has kindly sent us the following. " Pastoral _Poem," which, he says, is the production he alluded to on Wednesday night in the House of Commons, when, in answer to an Hon. Member, he observed that he had already " tried" his hand at verse. The lines do the worthy Coroner great credit. They are exquisitely plaintive and melodious, and very different indeed from anything that Wordsworth has yet pro duced. Mr. Wakley generously promises to send us some more of his poems in a few days. How beautiful the country do appear At this time of the year ! Slow down the purling brook the black swan sails, And little fishes wag their little tails ! Phcebus descends to his aquatic prison, • Bolting from heaven—hut the fault 'a not his'n— But solely caused by Providence so wise, Who bids Apollo Let, and Luna rise;— And, see, yon work-house on that village green, Where husbands, all without their wives, are_ seen, Because, by order of some base Whig Lord, Each wife is locked up in a separate ward ! Ali me ! I never see a work-house group, But straight I think of stale, tough, horse-leg soup ; Visions of INQUESTS flit across my brain, My tender epigastrum's racked with pain, And nought but Physic sets me right again ! AN EPIGRAMMATIC CONUNDRUM ON THE POLITICS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. AIIiCUS CERTUS IN RE INCERT CERNITURA. Why are the politics of Sir Robert Peel like the Peel of an orange, and many other sorts of Peel? BECAUSE They are the Peel of Britons trial, Which make the people mutter; And like some other kind of Peel, Fit only for the gutter. Spalding, April 5, 1842. VERA X. LITERATURE. THE CASTLES AND ABBEYS OF ENG LAND. Part 3.-3lortimer, London, 1842. We hazarded an opinion, when the first Part of this work appeared, that the idea was a good one, and very likely to become popular ; and w• are glad to learn that our opinion has proved to be a correct one. The work, indeed, is exceedingly attractive, and increases in inte rest as it proceeds. The Part before us contains an ad mirable engraving of the interior of the Hall of Eltham Palace, as it appeared so long ago as the fourteenth cen tury, together with several other plates illustrative of seine of our noblest Castles and Abbey ruins. The let ter-press portion of the work is got up with great care, and does credit to the superintendence of Dr. Beattie. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. Without any exception worthy of notice, the betting yester day afternoon was confined to the Derby horses, three of whom were backed with uncommon spirit, viz., Eleus, the Frederica colt, and the Devil-among-the-Tailors, the first two, we should add, being in John Day's stable. Eleus opened at 30 to 1, and after a great number of bets at those and less odds, reached 1,000 to 60, taken repeatedly. The Frederica party then came into play. and put on a large stake at 2,000 to 40, 2,000 to 35, and 2,000 to 45 ; the last odds taken were 50 to 1. This move ment operated as a check upon the Eleus division, and at the close the thousands to sixty went begging. The Devil -among the-Tailors was backed to win nearly 20,0001., at thousands to ten, fifteen, twenty, &c., but nothing was heard of Brother to Cantle, who was so zealously upheld by his owner on Monday. Of the standard favourites we have to record an improvement in Attila and Chatham, 7 to 1 having been taken about the first to 3001. (besides other bets at 7 and a fraction), and 15 to 1 against the other to about the same amount. Auckland and the Joanna colt were also in request, and left off steady at the prices mentioned below ; it was otherwise with Meteor, the Lord of Holderness, and Wiseacre. Liberal odds were obtained in several quarters about Belcceur, Barrier and Defier. The only Oaks' bet we heard was 30 t) 1 against %h. F. Wood's Eliza, and in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes and Chester Cup we are still worse off—nothing was done. The last prices were as follows:- 100 Sovs. Sweepstakes at Newmarket--40 to 10 on Attila against the Dovil-among-the : Tailors—taken, not p.p. DERIIY. _ _ 7 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila—taken 15 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken freely 100 to 1 agst Mr. Biggs's Eleus lb to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Joanna c.—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramshay's Moss Trooper—t. and aft. off. 33 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness 33 to I agst Mr. Bowes's Meteor 40 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Espartero 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre 45 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Acacia colt 50 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Devil-among-the -Tailors—t 50 to I agst Mr. Forth's Policy—taken and aft. offered 2000 to 35 agst Mr. Gregory's Defier —taken 2000 to 35 agst Mr. Allen's Belcceur—taken 66 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Defier—taken and aft. offered. 13 to 1 agst Eleus and Frederica colt—taken 7 to 1 agst Scot's lot, bar Attila—taken 1500 even betty. the Devil-among. the- Tailors and Barrier—t 1000 even between Chatham and Eleus---taken OAKS. 30 to 1 agst Mr. F. Wood's Eliza—taken Greville's Gunter and Edgeworth Bess passed through town )estcrday en route for Newmarket. he Fineldey Steeple Chase, which was advertised to take place on to-morrow, has been postponed till Tuesday next. CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATII OF A PRISONER IN THE PENITENTIARY.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Penitentiary, Milbank, before Mr. Higgs, the Co roner, on the body of John Cuff, aged sixteen years, late a pri soner in the above institution, whose death occurred under the following circumstances :—The Rev. Daniel Nihill, the chap lain and governor, stated that the deceased was received into the Penitentiary on the 4th of August, 1840, having been con victed on the preceding 6th of July, at Wells' Sessions, of stealing lead from a building, after a former conviction of felony, and sentenced to seven years' transportation, which, being commuted to imprisonment in the Penitentiary, would expire on the 14th of July, 1843. Mr. William Bayley, phy sician of the institution, stated that the deceased was ad m itt e d into the infirmary on the 12th of February last, suffering under dysentery. He recovered in a few days, but shortly afterwards .was seized with hectic fever, and died on the s:h inst. The Jury having made strict inquiry as to whether the deceased had been properly attended and treated during his illness, and being convinced that he had, returned a verdict of Natural Death REV . DR. PEDDIE.—On Sabb a th l as t , t hi s venerable clergyman commenced the sixtieth year of his ministry in this c ity. On that occasion he preached in the afternoon to a large audience, and took for his text 1 Cor. i. 21, " It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." In the introduction he stated that, fifty-nine years before, he had commenced his public ministry in Bristo-street congrega tion, by addressing them from the same text, and feelingly ad verted to the many changes which had taken place in the con gregation since that time, and how very few of his hearers on that occasion still survived. The Rev. Doctor preached with great animation, and was listened to with deep attention.— Edinburgh Paper. OM MARY OF NEWS AND tiubitt Optttton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The budget for 1843 gives the following details respecting the diplomatic agents and consuls of France in various coun tries. There are in all twenty ambassadors, of whom those at St. Petersburgh and London . are allowed salaries of 300,000 f. each ; the ambassador at Vienna has 200,000 f. ; Madrid, 120,000 f. ; Constantinople, 100,000 f. ; Turin, 85,000 f. ; Naples, 7 5 ,000 f. ; Brussels, 60,0(X)f. ; Berne, 50,000 f. In addition, there are 21 extraordinary envoyes, of whom the one at Berlin has 100,000 f. ; Mexico and Washington, 80,000 f. each ; Rio Janeiro and the Hague, 70,000 f. ; Buenos Ayres, Frankfort, and Lisbon, 60,000 f. ; Stockholm and Copenhagen, 50,000 f. ; Athens, Dresden, Hanover, and Stutgardt, 45,000 f.; Florence, 40,000 f. ; Carlsruhe and Cassel, 30,000 f. ; Darm stadt and Weytnar, 25,000 f. each. There are charges d'ajfaires at Bogota and Texas, with 35,000 f. each ; 33 secretaries of legation, having from 6 to 10,000 f. salary, and 'l3 attaches, with 3 to 4,600 f. each. There are 2.3 consuls-general, of whom the one in London has 45,000 f. a-year. The others are not paid at so high a rate; at Bagdad, for instance, the consul general has 15,000 f. The number of consuls of the first class amounts to 40, with from 12 to 30,000 f. salary ; and of the second to 44. Some new consular appointments are, as our readers are aware, proposed in this budget. Ihe whole amount of salaries for diplomatic agents and consuls put down in the budget for 1843 is 2,931,000 f. The French Journals of Tuesday are chiefly ori the discussion of Monday in the Chamber of Deputies. They are, however, without interest to the general reader. Two of them have found room to notice the absurd statement of the National, relative to the baptism of the Prince of Wales ; not, as one would expect, for the purpose of denying the truth of it, and wondering how the National has been so mystified, but to re cord it as a political event of deep importance. Nothing is too absurd for the credulity of French Journalists. The Quotidienne announces that it has received a letter from General Donaslieu, stating that, wishing to publish a work, the printer be applied to refused to print it, alleging as Ins reasons the new rigorous measures taken against the press, which placed him under the necessity of not printing any work whatever, from fear of prosecution. The Quotidienne adds, that it has perused the manuscript, which contains only general views of politics and moral philosophy, and takes this opportunity of repeating its censure of the severity with which the law relative to the responsibility of printers has been en forced, with a view of fettering the press. The Constitutionei has the following news from Africa : Lieut.-General Renault having left Mostaganem at the head of 250 chosen men to meet a battalion that was expected, fell in by chance with a camp of Arabs 4,000 strong, established about six leagues in the interior. Notwithstanding the vast disparity of numbers, the French did not hesitate to attack the enemy, who thus surprised !were defeated with a loss of five hundred men. Sixty prisoners with their horses fell into our hands. The following financial news is from a Madrid Journal of the 28tb of March :—Notwithstanding that the Stock Exchange has been closed during the last six days, the speculators for the rise have been supposing private bargains amongst themselves at 30, 31, and even 311 per cent. ; but the Five per Cents., without the eight coupons, are only worth 20 per cent., and the Three per Cents. :as much. The general impression is, that the funds in question must destine from 24 to 25. In a letter from Constantinople of the 17th ult. we find the following :—" The Porte has hitherto held firm on the subject of Omer Patches nomination as Prince of the Mountain, and adhered to its customary system of temporising. Several councils have been held, but nothing has been decided. A sort of half measure was conic to yesterday, in order to save ap pearances. Selim Be 3, formerly Mouhassil of Smyrna, is sent as mediator and commi,sioner. It is believed that the dis missal of Omer Paella is already settled, but no one can say v‘lio is to replace him." _ _ _ _ I. Lard EIV T AMY. The House of Lords met yesterday, subsequent to the holidays, and, after forwarding several bills a stage, adjourned. The Commons, as one of their first Acts, committed to New gate one Richard Gibbons, who had wilfully borne false testi mony before the great Marlow Election Commi,tee. Mr. Wallace moved for the correspondence relative to the resignation of Lord Corehouse, but withdrew his motion on being assured by Sir J. Graham that the correspondence was private. . . . Sir Robert Peel denied to Mr. Ward that there was any intention to increase the duty on salmon 100 per cent. To Mr. Blewitt he stated that the Sycee silver included in the revenue returns amounted to 302,000/. Mr. T. Duncombe moved to rescind the Standing Order which prohibited the presentation of petitiors against a pro posed tax. The Hon. Gentleman made an excellent speech. lie was ably supported by Mr. Maccaulay, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. C. huller, and but feebly opposed by Sir G. Clerk and Sir R. Peel. On a division, however, the Tories carried it to continue the prohibition by 167 to 136. On the motion to read the Corn keeping-out Bill a third time, Mr. Cobden moved a resolution that, as the House had refused to interfere to raise the price of labour, it ought nut to raise the price of corn. Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion, which was ultimately lost. Lord John Russell and the friends of a fixed duty voting against Mr. Cobden, by 236 to The debate was enlivened by a little display by Sir John Tyrrell and others, of the strong feeling which has now got hold of the agriculturists. Two divisions subsequently took place on questions of adjournment. As the Tories per severed with the Bill, Mr. French submitted his amendment to prevent the importation of flour into Ireland for six months, but withdrew it. Mr. A. Johnston then proposed his amend ment to allow sour flour to be admitted for the purposes of manufacture duty free, but the motion was not pressed. Finally the Bill was read a third time and passed. Adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, reverting to the questien of the income tax, says :—" It is very true that the tax is to be at first only 7d. a pound ; but let the small end of the w e dg e b e once in, it may he driven home much sooner than is now generally appre hended. Had the Premier proposed a tax of ten per cent. at first, the country would have been in arms against it. But it is folly to calculate on a continuance of the tax at 7d. a pound. There will never be wanting pretexts for adding to the amount of a tax so convenient to the financier. The principle accord ing to which the tax is calculated ought to weigh more with Inc people than the actual amount taken in the first instance, for the principle having been once acquiesced in, it will remain the rule, should the tax be increased." The l imes justly and forcibly argues on the glaring in equality of the income tax in the following terms : " It is a mere fallacy to talk of MO/. per annum being the real available income of those who have but a precarious or life interest to that amount, in the same sense as it is the income of him who draws it steadily from capital : the one can spend it all ; the other, in nine cases out of ten, will have to lay by half of it, to form a provision for himself or his family. The one has really 500/. a year at his command—the ether has 2001. or 250/. Should we really leave these men as they were before, if we took from each of them 501. a year? Or, to put another case com monly urged, let two different persons lend the same sum of money on virtually the same terms, so that it shall produce them, say 2001. a year for ten years; the principle of the loan being in both instances, that the lender shall be able in each year to spend a sum of money equal to the interest of the capital so invested, and yet lay by enough to repay him his whole principal by the end of the ten years. 'I his may, or rather must be, the principle of the bargan in both instances. But let the agreements be worded differently; let one man call it a purchase of a terminable annuity for ten years; let the other carefully separate payment of interest from repayment of principal, and make the transaction a loan of money upon interest to be repaid by instalments. The result will be that two persons investing precisely the same sum of money in pre cisely the same way and receiving precisely the same benefits, will pay to the Government the one three per cent. on his whole returns, the other only on that fraction of them which comes to him in the shape of interest, probably amounting so about one-third or fourth part of the whole ; the one will pay 61., the other something under el., per annum. NOW, to say that this kind of inequality is unavoidable—that laws must proceed on broad principles, and that some hard ships must result—that they cannot be avoided entirely—and that their partial avoidance is not worth the complexity and loss that they would occasion all this, though we think it un true, is yet not unintelligible or palpably absurd ; but to quote any authority, however high, in support of the opinion that such an inequality created by the tax is not an inequality at all—that such a tax leaves incomes relatively where it found them—to throw up the plea of justification, and put in a bold Not Guilty' is really an insult to the most ordinary under standing." The Herald observes, with reference to Mr. Wakley's speech on the copyright question :—" We are grieved to add that Mr. Wakley, who rides much too hot and fast a horse for the steady roads of such a suburban constituency as that of Fins bury involved himself in some dilemma, unworthy of his repu tation as a skilful master of fence. How did he attempt to en force his argument that authors of the present day were re munerated beyond all former example ?' In what way did he justify his assertion that it was degrading to literature for authors to apply to the House for an extension of protection ?' —thus indicating sordid and unworthy motives.' The un exampled remuneration' he brought home to the guilty heads of .uch minor ' authors' as Scott, Byron, Southey. But how did lie prove that ' men of science were entitled to similar protection ?'—or that no one would say that their works were not of more consequence to the world than mere literary works?' Why, by inference irresistible, that such compilations as the Lancet were not thus protected. Shade of John Aber nethy ! Is this not too much ?" The Post says—" It must be satisfactory to every honest mind to observe that the continual attempts of the Whig-Ra dical party to damage the present Government by dishonour able means are generally received with derision or disgust. We have no objection to fair controversy, and should be very sorry to see any Government unchecked by a watchful opposition ; but we blush for the kind of opposition with which the present Government is assailed, while we rejoice to find that such opposition is not a whit more successful than it de serves to be. The truth is that facts are too strong for the Whig-Radical party to get over. The country is aware of the unfortunate condition to which public affairs had been brought under their weak and wilful guidance, and satisfied that vigorous measures must be taken to restore those affairs to a condition worthy of the great British nation." On the subject of the income tax, the Advertiser observes as follows :—" It is not, we repeat, Lord John Russell's resolu tions which will defeat a scheme so subtlely devised, and sup ported by the whole weight and influence of a selfish aristo cracy, and their nominees in the House of Commons. Other means are necessary to free the State from the thraldom which the Tories have re-established over it. ' The complete suf frage' movement in Birmingham, proceeds with unceasing ri gout. It has started on a solid basis, and a safe and secure principle, affirming, in the very outset, that the people might march to their full rights through the forms of constitutional law, and by that moral force which should unite the majority of all classes in one grand national union. Ireland, and other parts of the empire, are proceeding with similar purpose, and on a similar principle. It is to these movements that Lord John Russell should address his attention." MONEY — TRADE — COMMERCE. An arrangement has been made between the Directors of the Bank of Manchester and the shareholders of the Alliance Bank in that town, by which the entire capital and business of the latter will be made over to the Bank of Manchester on certain conditions agreed to at a meeting of the shareholders of the Alliance Bank, held on Saturday last. On Tuesday, a vessel delivered her cargo, consisting of 1,053 casks and 66 cases of brandy, and 100 bags of clover-seed, in the docks, in the short space of eight hours ! This is, perhaps, one of the quickest deliveries of such a cargo on record in the annals of the port of London. A general session will be held at Guildhall te-iaorrow, for the transfer of licenses to persons taking taverns, inns, ale houses, &c. in the City of London. NAVAL AND MILITARY. In a Dutch paper of the sth inst., it is stated that a b o t t l e was picked up on the shore near :Wyk, containing two letters, dated the 2d of March, by Captain 'Thomason of the ship Blair- Adam, in which he informs his relations at Perth that the crew had threatened during the day to murder him and throw him overboard. THEATR 'CAL. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean appeared as Hamlet and Ophelia on Wednesday night at the Haymarket. Plessy made her second appearance on the same 'night at the St. James's Thea tre, in the comedy of Mademoiselle de Belle -Isle. , 05 c.74 c o T-PASHXONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford remain at Oakley House, Bedfordshire. The Duke of Wellington commenced his early daily walks on Wednesday in the garden at Apsley House, between six and seven o'clock. We regret to hear that the Duchess Dowager of Richmond is seriously indisposed. The establishment at the Austrian Embassy, Chandos House, is forthwith to be broken up, on account of the resignation of Prince Esterhazy. Lady Stanley has returned to town from Tunbridge Wells. The Marquis of Northampton, as President of the Royal Society, commences hie soirees on the 7th of the ensuing month. The Marchioness of Londonderry's grand full-dress assembly, last night, was given by her Ladyship in honour of her Majesty's first drawing-room this season. LAW AND POLICE. After a host of Counsel had been engaged on both sides in the great Wood cause at Gloucester, an arrangement was made between the parties, the devisees consenting to pay the heirs at-law 10,0001., which will cover all the costs, both at law and equity., and leave them a small sum. At. Liverpool, on the sth inst., Edward Hardman was con victed of a burglary committed in the house of James Bothwell, at Spoland, anti also of firing at the prosecutor, with intent to murder him. The Jury recommended him to mercy, and the sentence was deterred. At the same assizes, Robert Woods, Isaac Jacques, and Thomas Alolyneux were indicted for the wilful murder of Henry Grayson, . at Windle. The prisoners wee acquitted, as the Counsel for the prosecution said he could not ask for a verdict on the testimony of the principal witness, a man of the name of Colquitt, who had given some information on the sub ject ten days after the occurrence, when a reward of 1501. had been offered. rifIXEICEILMANEOUS. The new enhance to Hyde Park, called the Albert Gate, was op ene d f or the convenience of the public on Wednesday morning at six o'clock. The handsome structure is not yet commenced, but in its place are two lofty wooden gates. illr. Wilson gave his first morning entertainment on Scottish music and song, at the Hanover-square Rooms, on W ednesday, under the patronage of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie. UtYNtiEnntki OF TILE DAY. It is currently reported that Lord Keane is about exhibiting an example of noble disinterestedness seldom witnessed at this present day; being convinced that the fall of Gl.uzneo was alone attributable to the ingenuity of a young officer, and that his Lordship's hasty withdrawing of the troops from that country laid the foundation of our subsequent reverses, he has at li ngth resolved upon return nn his patent of Nobility into the hands of her Majesty, of which the Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her acceptance. We have been given to understand, on authority which we have every reason to trust in, that subsequent to the untimely decease of the late Earl of Munster, a letter written by that unfortunate nobleman was found amongst his papers, and for warded to an illustrious personage, soliciting the extension to wards his contemplated orphan family of the same allowance from the privy purse as had previously been granted to his Lordship. TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN TILE UNITED KINGDOM : Week ending :March 20, 1842 . 3,964,28a' Week ending March 21, 1841 . 3,721,45 Week ending Nov. '24, 1839 . . 1,585,973 Increase since 1841, on the week's letters . . . . Increase since 1839, on the week's letters 242,831 2,378,313 MEETING AT PLYMOUTH AGAINST THE INCOME TAX, TO THE EDITOR OF THE 51711 7 . have just returned from a completely crammed meeting, held in the Guildhall of this town, and convened by order of the Mayor, for the purpose of considering the proposed measure of Sir It. Peel with regard to the imposition of an income tax, which meeting has lasted from noon till near six o'clock. The Tories, by inserting parag raphs in their neoly staited paler, and by placards posted ab out the town, in which tistev described the tax as one placed upon the rich to the ex clusion of the poor, endeavoured to get up the steam and erlist the working classes in their favour. At the meeting they mustered in all thin. strength; they soaped over the working men and exhausted their powers of oratory in proposing and endeavouring to carry a vote of confidence in the measures of thoir pet man, Sir It. Peel. But alas for their cause ; as. be fore, even so row, Toryism, disguise it as they will, whe ther by a sliding scale to keep out corn, or by the imposition of an odious income tax, w ill not, cannot be thrust down the throats of the Plymouth men, and a resolution proposed by, would you believe it, a g entleman who has been a T or y a ll hi s lif e, b ut who remembers the iniquity of the last tax on income, was carried by on overwhelmniug majority, denouncing the Unposi tnm of this most unjust, inquisitorial, obnoxious and abominable tax in no measured terms. Let all other constituencies be as de termined us that of Plymouth, and Master Double-face will have to do as he has threatened, fall with the income tax. I am, Sir, A MAN OF PLYMOUTH. Tuesday Evening, April 5, 1842. THE INCOME TAX. ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS. Yesterday a public vestry meeting at the inhabitants of the above parish was heM to consider the propriety of urffin. , upon the Legislature the justice and necessity of subjecting landed property to the same probate and legacy duties as all other property is liable to.—W. Richard Cobbett, Churchwarden, in the Chair. Mr. 11. Poe NCEY said that they were assembled to eonsider a inost important question, of which the industrious classes were in a great measure ignorant. When a party died worth personal property, that property was subject to probate and. legacy duties, while landed or real property passed to the legatee free of those duties. Even before the widow or son could touch a shilling of personal property, they had to pay st•"^"p duties. The average of the various sums thus paid amounted to I/. 9s. per cent., yet the landed pro perty exceeded the personal by one-third, and was free from probate duty. After paying the probate duty, and before any distribution of the property took place, the widow and children had to pay an additional one per cent., nephews, &c., Once per cent., and strangers had to pay ten per cent. R a man married a widow with children, and if he bequeathed his property to those children, they had to pay ten per cent. on that property. Should they remain silent while such a state of things existed, and when an additional impost was about being fixed upon them in the shape of an income tax ? ( Hear, hear.) According to the data afforded by Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Peel, there was no difficulty in ascertaining the amount of real property, which, according to these calculations, exceeded that of personal by one-third. The estimated annual amount of probate and legacy duties was 1,869,0001. ; therefore the same duties imposed upon landed pro perty would produce '2,585,000/. It was said that she ad valorem duty upon lands was an equivalent to those duties. That he de nied; for in the transfer of lands front A to B, the ad valorem duty was only 11. 4s. ;3d., while the probate was IL 9s. The per sonal property had also, in its transfer, to pay duty for bonds, and the purchase of shares. The animus of the party who insisted upon preserving land from those duties was exhibited by the following :--11 a man bequeathed 10,000 acres to his children, they had no legacy duty to pay ; but if his children sold that land, the purchase money would have to pay the legacy duties, because they ceased to be landholders.--( Cheers.) He con cluded by moving the first resolution. Alr. J. W. SMITH seconded it. Mr. WiLsoN moved the second resolution, and said that if the people were able to do justice to themselves they would call upon the landed interest to pay up the deficiency, which would effect a reduction of one million of the national debt. This resolution was seconded and carried. _ _ Mr. WESTERTON moved the third resolution. Mr. RIDGEWAY seconded the resolution. He said the in come tax was not intended to meet, the revenues of the State, but was intended as a loan to a party of merchants to enable them to carry on a war in which, perhaps, they had no right to engage.—( Hear, hear.) However, there was little doubt but that the Russians contemplated an attack upon our Indian pos sessions. It was, therefore, necessary that they should provide for the safety of those possessions. Mr. Churchwarden HAWKES moved the fourth resolution, wLich was carried. Air. LE BRETON moved the appointment of a Committee to carry into effect the resolutions, and to adopt measures to effect an union of the surrounding parishes to assist in subjecting landed property to probate and legacy duties. It was then unanimously resolved that the resolutions be ad vertised in the Morning Advertiser, Tenses, Chronicle, Her old Sun, and Globe. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. MONEY MARKET .nd CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING TAPERS OF yESTERD•Y. CHRONlCLE.—Complaints are made by the merchants and others connect 4 d with our West India trade, against the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, on account of the delay, confusion, and want of organisation and order in their ar rangemenze for sailing their vessel. The merchants have been exposed to great inconvenience for want of remittances fro.n 13arbadoes, owing to the non-arrival of the mails, and the colonial press is bitter against the conduct of the Company. Some allowance should be made, perhaps, at the outset of the concern for a little want of harmony ; but the faults in this ease are so serious, that the public have a right to expect a full and satisfactory explanation from the Directors, and an as surance that similar mistakes to the past shall not occur for the future. The maintenance of the sliding-scale frustrates all expecta tions of throwing open the corn-trade between this country and the United States, a fact which of itself ought to unite all the friends of free-trade in a determination to resist the con tinuance of the new scale with the same vigour as they used to upset the old law of 1525. It is stated by Nlessrs. Lizardi that their English advices seldom reach by steam under thirty days, and that forty-five days may be considered as the average pas sage either way for sailin2 ships, so that three months are re quired to return an order executed to England, and to enable the British manufacturer who sends his goods to New Orleans for sale to receive grain, or the American mer chant to send grain as a return. The Americans say truly that, although it is of great consequence to their producers that their grain and provisions should be admitted into our ports at moderate duties, the amount of these duties affects them less than the regulations under which they are to be levied, and that while the duties are subject to sudden and. violent variations, whicli do not admit of previous calculation, their products must be excluded from our markets. The new scaie of duties on foreign corn is based upon the principle that the British corn trade is to be considered subsidiary to the principle that the home growers are to be protected by a high range of fl u ctuating duties which do not admit of previous calculation, although the variations will probably be less sudden and vie:ent than they were under the law of 18'25. In seasons of scarcity, however, when a large supply is wanted, the duties will be reduced to the lowest figure, which will be monopolised, as at present, by the neighbouring ports of Europe, to the utter exclusion of the Americans. DETERMINED SUIC I I )E.—At three o'clock yesterday morning, the family of Air. Jones, zowkeeper, No. 22, Cross - - street, illackfriars-road, were aroused by a noise resembling a rattling in the throat, proceeding from a bedroom in the same houre, in the occupation of a young woman named Eliza Eaton. On proceeding to the chamber, the deceased was bound suffering from the effects of arsenic, arid with some difficulty was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, when, notwithstanding every exertion un the part of the medical gentleman, she soon afterwards expired. This is no less than the fourth time the deceased has attempted self-destruction. SUDDEN DEATlL—Between eight anti nine o'clOck this morning, the following awful instance of the uncertain t nut e of human life occurred in the family of Alr. John Luken, of No. 3, Ebury-square (next door to the Flask Tavern), Vim lico. Mrs. Luken, who is the mother of a large family, was attending to some domestic duties, surrounded by most of her children, and apparently in her usual state of g ood h ealth , when she suddenly complai ned of a severe p ain in the he ad , ceased to exist. Her death is att r ib u t e d to an affection of th e heart. It is onl y a few da y s sin ce that iklr. Brow n the proprietor of the Flask Tavern, expired und er somewhata o nt i l l d nearly be ra i i s n e s d t a u li p t 1 hady f e ll cs enseless on the floor, and bef ore s h e s imilar circumstances. ~.. `~