The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

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Fill be presented a New Military and Equestrian Spectacle, enti tle MURAT—THE PEASANT, t.iENEHAL, PRINCE, AND KIN,(, with Battles, Grand Reviews t.f Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux Afte► which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before - witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing B ft:rrY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous wd matchless Cream coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted C-ourrers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. PONY RACES, eclipsing all former effbrts, and a real Monkey, the only one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called THE SPRIG OF NO. .ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. CNIW.Lt DIRECTION OF MR. OS BALDISTON THIS EVENING, MAY 17, . . Will be presented a New Domastic'Drama, in Three Acts, en ti. lied S ANE PAUL; OR, THE VICTIM OF UNMERITED PER. :ECUTION Aster winch. THE MILL OF BEREZINA ; OR, THE HOST THE DESERTER. To conclude w th THE FORTY THIEVES. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 'Mc Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully inLbruted that THIS DAY, and THURSDAY NEXT, A LTRAND FESTIVAL will be celebrated, in which will be embo died alitkiose popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite plac tof recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in. trod ictio os, which it is confidently anticipa'ed will render them even more gene rally attractive. The ME IIiAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acqu usitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. 'I he Coins: al VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances rer coddled. Thz BAND will include some of the most enuneqt PerCormers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROb.tENADES MUSICALES will be selected from the noblest works tf the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRANDOLA the FLAMING MESSEN. GER, the ME'nEOR of ST. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABL EAU! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, :and Thursdays. Admitis.lon One Shilling. HIGH WATER AT . .T.ONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 3,1 ~) ,:ning 42 minutes after 6I Evening 11 minutes after 7. .s.llvertisements of a Disgusting Character, vv. Mmraoral Tendency, are excluded from • Calumns of "The Sun." are not to be tolerated,"saysanother4 barism and demoralization to which the annals of el= l vilized Europe aftbrd no parallel," says a third re port; " reveals a state of things which would be disgraceful to a barbarian people, far more so to a civilized and Christian country," says a fourth ; and so through the majority of the Press. And well do the facts brought to light deserve all the indignation which can be poured on them, for nothing like them, we believe, were ever to be found elsewhere in the world. However justly it excites the public indignation, it is no novelty. Men, now advanced in life, went into the pit when they were children. Thus " Richard Baker, aged forty-six, went into the pit at five years old," that is forty-one years ago. Thus "John Gor don, aged thirty-four, commenced under-ground work at seven years of age ; thinks there is little difference at which lads have begun in his childhood and since." Several gentlemen were examined, who have knoWn the collieries all their lives, and none of them assign any date to the commencement of the practice of employing children in mines ; but, on the contrary, they all speak of it as a practice of which they do not remember the origin. More than thirty years ago we saw children, not above eight or ten years of age, working naked in a coal mine in the West of England. The terrible and cruel practice, therefore, is not a modern innova tion, not one of those changes in good old customs which have been wrought by the progress of know.. ledge, and the influence of a cheap Press. Why the rich coalowners, who can control all the operations of their lessees, who are not ashamed of inordinate gains obtained by the labour of these poor infants, have not put a stop to such practices, we know not, but we know they are much to blame for having suffered them. In general they belong, we believe, to the class of landowners, and according to the theory of the Constitution, receive their ample wealth for the protectionof the people; but the experi ence of our time has demonstrated that, when the question is to increase their revenue, that class of men care nothing for the interests of the labouring cla-ses. Why also the capitalists, who work the mines, should not have interfered, is to be explained on the same principle. When their profit is con cerned, humanity must take care of itself. There is another class, too, especially ordained to take care of she poor. Why have the clergy of the Church of England not reported these scenes to the world ? What have the Bishops and Archdeacons done in their annual visitations, that they have never discovered these enormities, and held them up to the reprobation of a Christian public? They have been, we are afraid, too closely allied with the capitalists and landowners to waste a thought on the colliers. Even now, it is pro bable that the facts would not have been brought to light had not some severe attacks on Corn-law land lords led to reprisals on cotton-lords, to crimination and recrimination, to close investigation, and ultimately to bringing the state of the mining population before the public. Now that it is known, journalists and public men, under the influence of the new and vivid impression, hasten to require some new and stringent legislation. If they forget, we cannot, that the classes and the in dividuals to whom they appeal have been continually legislating for the working classes, and, under the pretext of taking care of them, have brought them to their present distress and degradation. If they forget, we cannot, that only a few years have elapsed since the period when the Legislature vas engaged in abrogating an immense number of unnecessary penal laws, and when the opinion was embraced, by the best and wisest of our statesmen, that it behoved every man to be cautious how he added to the statute-book. We have not forgotten, if they have, that lesson of political science, which teaches that the employ ment and the food of the people are amongst the last things the legislator should lay his hands on. We, therefore, must at once venture to differ from our zealous Contemporaries, and express a hope that the Legislature will not too eagerly, and too rashly meddle with this very important subject. We have not heard that the colliers themselves have complained. They have not appealed to the Legislature. Though the public have been ignorant, the colliers have known of their own condition. They have worn th'e shoe, of the pinch ing of which not they, contrary to the proverb, but somebody else, now complains. They are not only the supposed sufferers—they are also the actors in most of the scenes which appear so terrible. With the exception of a few parish apprentices who are hound to the pits, the bulk of the infants appear to children of the colliers themselves, and except that he apprentices labour many years without payment, `hey are treated no worse than the children of their masters. It is proper to quote a few examples of this. At page 12— Joseph Ellison, Esq., of Birkenshaw, near Birstal, iays—" I have been practically acquainted with col lieries nearly all my life. I know it as a fact that a collier, now living, has taken a child of his own, who was only three years old, into a pit to hurry, 'and when the child was exhausted, it was carried home, stripped, and put to bed. This is a rare occurrence, but I can prove it if required, by undeniable evidence, to have been a fact." Another witness, John Ibbotson, aged 43, collier, says, "I have once known a man called Joseph Cawthrey, who sent a child in at four years of age, and there are many who go to thrust behind at that time, and many go at five and six." A case reported by Dr. Mitchel at page 9, the " collier immediately said my boy is only a little more than four." At page 11, John Fisher, collier, " has two sons down the pit, one seven, and the other eight. The one seven years old has worked three quarters of a year." At page 14, Joseph Gledhill, banksman: "I have three sons living, one of them went into the pit when he was three years old, and commenced working regularly as a harrier, when he was between five and six." At page 16, Richard Barker, a labouring collier, "has four sons, who all went in under six years of age." Edmund Stanley, another collier, sent in his boy between six and seven. So in the West of Scotland, Mr. Tawse states as " a child being in the pit enables her father to earn more tban he otherwise would, he is induced not only to take him down but to bring down another younger, of nine or ten.” In the great majority of cases let us impress it on he reader, they are the children of the colliers who are loomed to such early toils, and they are doomed to hem by their own parents. Painful as the observa- tion may he, it is nevertheless also true, that all the cruelties we read of, such as driving a pick at a child to make it move faster, and the Sub-Commissioners Report abound in instances of cruelty, are inflicted by colliers on their own offspring or on the offspring of their neighbours, relations, and fellow workmen. They are not inflicted by capitalists or landowners, or by any of the upper classes. What is really wanted, therefore, is such an improvement of the colliers, as will make them refuse to doom their infants to slavery. They are a rude and a hard race, they have been so, we believe, since the memory of man, and it would be better to inspire them with motives for treating their offspring properly, than to take the control of their children from them by the law. Our apprehension of legislation is, that we do not see how it can well meddle with the subject, without uperseding the parent by the State. Such an ex tension of authority, which may be, and probably must be, followed out in other cases, is full of mis e.hief. The colliers are serfs enough already—to take their children front under their control, would be to make them more than ever serfs. If the State remove the children from the parent, it will also be under an obligation to provide for them, which we hold to be unwise statesmanship. As much of the hard brutality of the people is owing to the neglect of their imme date superiors, we expect much improvement from the publication of a Report, which cannot fail to ;halm the owners and workers of mines, and the clergy of the mining and coal districts, into some exertions to wipe out the stigma they have contri buted to fix on Britain. If they are taught to look tio help from legislation, they will not redeem their characters, nor seek to humanize the characters of the working classes. We rejoice very much to see that the men of Not toglutin will not be parties to the disgraceful com protvises by which they were to be made over to the Corruptionists. They will be neither Mr. WALTER'S nor Sir G. 11. LARPENT'S purchased slaves. Success to their struggle for independence! We hope that they will return the amiable, the humane, the en lightened JOSEPH STURGE, by a large majority. • IN .'. i 4, )f cl. ' ''... '. '-;:".*, ',, :z If - , ,W . ,:t.... L -,,,!15 . ~ 1 , ~. 0 % I:::frajoilZl., :a , ''' ,• .. ! \ tt , "' v--,. ,•-•_:* , ~,' oczy-r - eret , 46/-1. ~jj~ T LONDON? TU ES DAY MORNING, MAY 17,11842. lt is bet er late than never, and .we can at length congratulazte some of the mere Whig Journals, which, iti the first .instance, found Sir U. PEEL'S tariff redo kat of wi ck:, on having acquired sagacity enough to adopt z;ir R. PEEL'S own conclusion, that it will con -ler little or no benefit on the people. We shall have CheapnesA with it, that is very likely. To make dear nesS the. , ;e must be, in relation to the things to be sold, a great number of buyers. But while our agricultu mai productions have not, so far as we can un, lerstand, undergone diminution, the number of buyers, and their means of pur kiasing, have probably decreased. We are very therefore, to have commodities cheaper, '.vkether PEEL' S tariff be used or not. We shall nor to Illwe thank ,him for the cheapness, but only his ha - line-tax, which will diminish the power to pur- Chase. If some of our Liberal Contemporaries and Liber,Nl f.iends had been less sparing 'of their commen dation of the tariff at first, Sir R. PEEL might not have found it so easy to pass his Ines, 'me-tax. That was pa7tly tu. , cepted on his assertions that the tarift would compensate the tax ; and his ass r:tions found credence, because they were echoed by th ose who now reproli.c b him with havittg made the assertim is to deceive. • Mr. ConnEN's letter, which was read at the Man chester meeting, places the recently, not C. liscovered, knit published, corruption of the House of Commons in its proper and important light. The II ' a (imble Member says—" If all that I hear be tr ue, of the bribery, corruption, and intimidation—of the ,brutal v i o l e nce, even - to homicide, which are sai d to , have distinguished the late general election beyond all' .that preeeled it, then I have no hesitation in (lcelaAing that the present House of Commons has no a ioraf or Christian title to the obedience of the pee% .6 Parliament, if so returned, is not the choici of a nation, but the representative and offspring of its suborned vices." The reading of Mr.ConnEN's letter was followed by loud cheers, so that the charae:, ter of the House. of Commons, which is the offspring of cor ruption, is well known and widely spread. It is iTt,:4l,:rprising that the Tories should be g in. AO rep' , int that they conceded Mr. ROEBUCK'S COl7l - His ardour took them by surprise , and - when they had time to reflect they saw their • error; but coal not extricate themselves from theii 7 con cession.. They are afraid of haiing more con option expmied.. 'They are afraid that the bread-t axing, income-,'axing House of Commons will lose all autho rity—aunt its laws will be disregarded or cond .eraned before the y are well passed, and they are anxit ms to prevent tht inquiry from throwing too much light on the mode of cc 'ilecting the House. Will they find.), neans t,, render it -Pain ? Will they in some way or , other baulk the C ornmittee, And baulk the expectation:3 4a f the peopl e ? We are afraid they will ; we hear it wt his pered that such is their' intention. But do vr hat they may - they , ?annot Wipe ont of the public k)towlt tl:eileep impres3ion already uta;. 4 e, that the Partial n en t is, as Mr. COBDEN says, the represe.ltative and off spiug of the suborned vices of the n 'sition. ITen I will not h ave suc h a power for their rnaste.... Pew publications at any period of the wt chi have excited more attention and created a deeper int erest than the Report of the Commissioners to in u ird into ' the Etnploymentof Children in Mines. A great g '1 sel isa tion was created a few years ago by c the public dim t of r Ahe accounts given by the Factory men; 71 . 1 . _Express of the 30th of the unremitting toil of children ettkornlissi‘ cru Y e ed lti inhe New York Evening t he fa '. ' , . 1 Apil, received yesterday by the Britannia steamer, wries, and of the scarcely remitting Coto whici via Liverpool, contains a Report of the Committee they were exposed; but that sensation was fa ' on foreign relations, on the trade between the pared to the impression made by the presen t Report ually use , United States and the British Colonies in North int cora: The .metropolitan and provincial journals er the htiquage of s urprise and indignation. " ) it l requires Acnerica and the West Indies. As the Report the s,%rfogest evidence to make us credit w „, u :d occupy upwards of eight of our meat s , V . writes one ; " the immorality v flit , state. I nd A:ruelty cohuro,ls, and is moreover an exceedingly dull doeu s. TiILE SUN, I,4tThrbON-, -TITESDAy - mORNINCT, mAN 17 1842.: `merit, we content ourselves with quoting the resolu tions . with Which it concludes, and which necessarily include the result to which the Committee has come. Congress had ordered 10,000 extracopies of this Re port to be printed :- Ist. That it is the policy and the desire of the United States to observe the regulation of the commercial in tercourse between the United Stat 6 and other countries, on principles of equity, reciprocity, fair competition, and mutual adavntage to both parties. 2d. That the existing arrangements regulating the commerce between the L nited States and the British co lonies in the West Indies and on the continent of Ame rica, are unequal, unjust, and injurious to the interests of the United States. 3d. That so long as Great Britain persists to apply to the vessels and productions of the United States, in the ports of the British colonies in America, peculiar regula tions of commerce, other than such as regulate the commerce between the United States and the British territories in Europe, it is the right of the United States, and the necessary consequence, to apply peculiar t regu lations of commerce to British vessels and their cargoes in the ports of the United States, entered from or pro ceeding to the British colonies in America. 4th. That the continued imposition by Great Britain of discriminating duties upon the productions of the United States imported into the British colonies in Ame rica in vessels of the United States, will justify the im position by the United States of discriminating duties upon the productions of the British colonies in America imported into the United States in vessels of Greatßri tain or her colonies. sth. That the continued prohibitation to the ♦essels of the United States by Great Britain of, the indirect voy age between the United States, the British colonies in America, and the British territories in Europe, or be tween the United States and one and another British colony in America, will justify the prohibition by the United States of such voyage to the vessels of Great Britain or her colonies in America. 6th. That if Great Britain see fit to adopt and pursue a system of prohibitations and restrictions against the United States, it behoves the United States to protect our citizens, their commerce, and navigation, by counter prohibations, duties, and regulations, and to decline to give free commerce and navigation in exchange for re strictions and vexations. 7th. But that, before having recourse to measures of legislative restriction, as the certain means of effectually guarding and securing the rights of the United States, in our commerce with British colonies, it is due to na tional comity to recur, for that purpose, to friendly ne gotiation with Great Britain. And in conformity with these conclusions, they sub mit the following resolution, the adoption of which they recommend to the House : Resolved—That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, requested to enter into negotiations with the British Government, for the purpose of effecting a permanents equitable, and just conventional arrange ment of the commerce between the United States and the British Colonies in America. The action brought by the French Post-office authorities against a courier, for conveying an express for the London Journals, and the obstacles raised by them to speedy and even safe communication of intelligence through France, cannot fail to have attracted the attention of the British Government. A remedy against the evils of the present system is imperiously called for ; and if the new Finance Mi nister of Frande be determined to follow in the foot steps of his predecessor, and not only charge enor mously for couriers and post-horses, but also for letters and papers, and delay or stop them altogether, at his pleasure, a new line for the conveyance of the Overland Mail must be found through some other countries. It has long appeared to us that the route by Malta, Marseilles, Paris, and Boulogne is not by any means either the shortest, or the most convenient, and that one very preferable might be adopted—that, ..namely, by the Gulf of Venice, through Bavaria to the Rhine. The route in that direction would form almost a straight line from Alexandria to London, and, of course, is considerably shorter than that by Malta and Marseilles. The German authorities would rejoice at the change, and would willingly grant immunities and make concessions in our, favour, which we have no chance of obtain ing from France. We trust, therefore, the Government will take up the question without de lay. The intelligence from China and India becomes every day of more Importance ; and even were the French Government to make concessions equal to those we might expect from the German Powers, the route by the Adriatic should still be preferred. Letters and papers might be delivered some days sooner, possibly even before the tele graphic despatch through France could reach London —a matter of vast importance to the Government as well as to commercial men, newspaper proprietors, and the public in general. The route we propose is from Alexandria to Trieste, by the steam service, and thence by post road to Munich, Ulm, Stuttgard, Frankfort, Cologne, and by the Belgian; railway to Ostend, across the sea to Dover, and by the South Eastern railway to London. By this route there would be a great saving of time; the distance from London to Alexandria by Trieste and through Ger many, being 2,300 miles, while that from Alexan dria to Marseilles, and through France, is 2,800 miles. An interesting report of the proceedings at a pub lic meeting of the British residents at Hamburgh, for the purpose of preparing an address to her MAjEgTY, praying her to sanction an appeal to the charity of the British nation on behalf of 30,000 persons ren dered destitute by the burning of that commercial city, will be found in another part of The Sun. Co lonel HODGES, the English Consul-General, presided on the occasion, and discharged the functions of Chairman with feeling and ability. He took notice of the malicious calumny imputing to the English the firing of the city—lamented that it had led to some acts of violence—deprecated any intention of visiting upon the suffering inhabitants outrages provoked by the madness of despair on the part of a few des perate wretches—and read a communication from the Senate, thanking the British engineers for their invaluable services in rescuing what remains of the city from destruction. The calamity at llamburgh has happened most inopportunely as regards this county. Only a few days have elapsed since the QUEEN sanctioned, on the part of the Clergy of the United Kingdom, an appeal to the charitable from the pulpit on behalf of our own starving poor. As the wealthier classes are generally suspected of sympa thising more with distresses abroad than at home, the result of a double appeal to their benevolence is not likely to obliterate the hostile impressions of our starving operatives in the manufacturing districts. It is, however, in the poWer of the monied aristocracy to produce a far different result. Generosity to the people of llamburgh is quite compatible with the most liberal bounty to the starving Poor of England. At all events we shall be glad to announce h e r MAJESTY'S gracious assent to the prayer of the British residents in Hamburgh in favour of a general subscription on behalf of the sufferers. Commercial men need not be told how much it is the interest of England that Hamburgh should be speedily restored to her pristine prosperity. We are a money making and a money-loving people ; and yet we think we may assume the merit for our countrymen of being as free from selfishness in acts of charity as any people under the wide canopy of heaven. It is exceedingly creditable to the moral characte r of the people of Hamburgh, that though thirty thou sand of them were houseless on Friday the most per fect order prevailed. Not a complaint was heard in the smouldering streets, although hundreds were wan dering amid the ruins of their late houses. Their confidence in the wisdom of the Senate and authori ' ties was unshaken amid the terrors of so awful a cala mity. The Kings of Prussia, Hanover, and Den mark, and the Senate of Frankfort, have been among the first to succour them. The Liberal Deputies of France are raising subscriptions ; and from the well-known liberality of the King and Royal family considerable assistance may be expected from that quarter. Belgium will contribute something; Hol land more; and even Austria and Russia will co operate in raising llamburgh, like a phcenix, from her ashes. The Madrid Journals received are to the 9th inst. There is nothing of importance in their contents. Letters from Bayonne of the 1 1 th, speak of an ex pected CHRISTINA insurrection in the course of the summer, with a view to compel the Government to bestow the hand of the young QUEEN upon a BoußuoN. We trust the intimation will not be lost upon the R E GE N T, and that timely representations will be addressed by Lord ABERDEEN to M. GUIZOT upon the subject. The Three per Cents , were d one on t h e 6t h at 22 f or the 14th of June, and the Fi ve per C ents. at 26. for cash, and at 27 26 15-16 27 1.1 6 24 27 1.16 26 at vaiious dates. On the 7th four bargains were concluded at 221 for cash, and 22 for the 28th inst. Th e Fi ve per Cents. sold f or 261 for cash, and 27 261 at 60 days. The destruction of the :city of Hamburgh by fire Is exciting considerable interest in Paris. Subscrip tions have already been commenced by the Liberal Deputies in favour of - the sufferers. The Journals received this morning are p r i nc ip a ll y occu pied with the Railway Bill and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff. The former is now safe ; and as for the tariff, the great fault found with it is that it is not favourable to the French wine and brandy growers. But for the stupid nonsense of such journals as the National, a special treaty for benefiting these branches of trade would have been long since signed by the Governments of England and France. The National now threatens retaliation, and recommends the increase of the duty upon English thread. It were well for the National to pay a little more regard to the principles of political economy, of which it daily exhibits such deplorable ignorance. That species of retaliation which inflicts greater injury upon a nation's own subjects than upon foreigners, is only to be found invariably recommended in the columns of the French Republican organ. The Courrier Francais only takes a sensible, just, and moderate view of this im portant subject. What is called protection is the bane of commerce, and is no more than the robbery of one man, or class of men, to enrich another man or class of men. Protection against foreigners, means the robbery of some body at home. The juggle, how ever, succeeds with such political guides as the National. A Bayonne Correspondent, under date the 11th inst., confirms the intelligence of the probability of a now at tempt of the Christinos to excite a new civil war in Spain. A letter from Frankfort asserts that the Regent proposed that Queen Isabella should marry a subject — the son of the Duke of Medina Celi. This would be at once to provoke the war with which the King of the French threatens Spain, should her Majesty wed any but a Prince of the house of Bourbon. Din Carlos is still opposed to a " transaction." The idea of marrying the Queen of Spain to the eldest son of Don Francisco de Paulo is, however, entertained in every other in fluential quarter in which interest is felt in the question, and seems, on the whole, the most likely to be the solu tion of it. Despatches have been received by the Government from the Governor-General of Algeria, dated Oran, May 2. He announces, from information received from some deserters from the camp of Abd-el-Kader, that the Etnir received no kind of support from the Emperor of Morocco, and that, since his defeat near Tiemecen, he had been abandoned by -most of his troops, and that, when he presented himself to the inhabitants of Ne drouma, they repulsed him with a discharge of fire arms. General Bugeaud further states, that Mustapha Ben-Thamy, the ex-Kalifa of Mascara, is still in the field, with about 150 to 200 cavalry. In a recent combat, four cf his men were killed by a French detachment. A letter from Oran, of the 29th of April says-- "M. Souverix de Montdragon has just discovered in this province, a mine of gold, two of silver, two of lead, one of antimony, and several of iron. All - these discoveries are exceedingly valuable, and measures will speedily be taken to work them. The Governor-General who happens to be at Oran, intends to pay great attention to these matters." Another letter from Oran states that a Captain of the 15th Regiment of Light Infantry has been condemned to death by a court-martial at that place for striking a Lieutenant -Colonel. The Toulonnais publishes the following extract of a letter from M. Bandouin, now a prisoner with Abd•el- Kader :—" I was made a prisoner by the Arabs on April 9, near Bouffanik, with four other persons, who were travelling with me. We were stripped of our goods and money, and after a forced march of five•days, we arrived at Zaroura, overcome with fatigue. How ever, thanks to the attention of M. Noel Mamonche, Abd-el-Kader's agent, who happens to be here, we are well treated, and several persons belonging to the Emir's suite pay us great consideration.". HAMBUROH, MAY 11.—Yesterday afternoon 120 pio neers arrived from Potsdam. They were mustered bv the King on Monday, and despatched on the same day from Potsdam on board the Falcon steamer. Eight hundred troops, with several pieces of artillery, sent from Rendsburgh, received counter orders on the road, as their presence in Hamburgh and Allowa is no longer necessary. Yesterday evening a courier from Ber lin brought word that the King of Prussia had sent 25,000 dollars, 2,000 blankets, &c., to relieve the immediate distress. We mentioned yesterday the generous present of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. The gifts from Bremen and Altona continue to be sent to the Commission formed to receive and distribute suc cours. P.S. The King of Denmark has sent a present to-day, as we hear, of 10,000 marks. Besides the losses already enumerated, two Jewish Synagogues are destroyed, and several libraries, among which ara those of the Patriotic Society and of the Harmony. It is said that the sitting of the Senate will be held for the present at the Orphan House, in the Admiratitats- Stress. The olief Committee gives notice that the great liberality of the environs of Hamburgh, has furnished such complete supplies of provisions, that no more at present are needed, and therefore think it their duty, in order not to abuse the generosity of their neighbourA, to request them not to send for the present any provi sions, except potatoes and pulse. The King has written a most kind letter to the Senate, expressing his grief at the disaster our city has sustained, and assuring it of his sympathy, and that of his subjects. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and the Grand Duke of Mecklinburg-Schwerin, have sent similar letters. We have just this moment (7, P.M.) received informa. tion from our correspondent at Hanover, that the Chambers have held sittings with closed doors, to discuss a motion immediately to offer $lOO,OOO from the publie treasury to the city of Hamburgh. lIAMBURGH, MAY 12.—Th e foreign troops have mostly left us. The Prussian pioneers from Potsdam and Mag deburg will remain for some time longer, to assist in clearing away the ruins. The Hanoverian cavalry which have so greatly contributed to preserve order, left us yesterday afternoon. The Infantry of Bremen still assists in occupying the site of the fire, and the Cavalvy of Lubeck patrols in conjunction with ours. HAMBURGH, MAY 13 . —Business was again dull to-day in the New Exchange. BOURSE—rents, SATURDAY, MAY 14. hrst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick Prier. •rench 5 tier Cent 5........ • 119 50 .„. I lit 55 ... 1,9 45 ..,. 119 50 4% per Cents lO7 50 ... In 7 50 .. 107 50 ... 107 50 4per Cents. 3 per Conti. Bl 80 .. 81 80 ... 81 CO ... 81 CO Intii of eratice taffitte Sink 5,000 f Spares 5061 ~. 5 060 . 5060 —.5060 ...van Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. S ;.er Cents., 1840 lO5 ... 105% ... 105 .. 105% 'vanish Active 1 3% ... ‘..14 ... 23%, ... 24 Passive...« ..... .. 'ealolitan filaian.... ...... ... 43% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES. it. Germain .«.41....m..” 830 ." 831 .. €B3 .. 830 ifersmiica.K. P. L.B R'susn 552 50 ... 551 75 . 552 50 ... 553 'is Orleans SA asburg to 8a1e.... 233 75 ... 233 75 ... 233 75 ... 233 75 THE HUMBLE PETITION OF GREAT BRITAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Since the manufacturing population of the na tion has been virtually declared, by Sir Robert Peel's proposed GREAT National Charity measure for the re lief of their distress, to be in a state of helpless pau perism, (if not, too, in a galloping consumption ;) and since, by this and other great measures, it has also been virtually declared, to the commiseration, not " the envy, of surrounding nations," that the British Govern ment itself is in a state of virtual pauperism and general incapacity, of the most desponding and helpless nature, I would beg to recommend that the measure of our GREATNESS be forthwith consummated, by the circula tion of a begging petition, of the Charity-sermon and Soup-kitchen order, among our better fed, and not yet bankrupt neighbours—the French, Germans, Russians, Prussians, et hoc genus omne. • The appeal ought, of course, to be made by the British Peel Government, in propria persona, as the begging mouth-piece and head of the distressed bojy corporate, which all its own-wise cogitations cannot teach it how to succour and recruit. And this, I 'doubt not, it will willingly do, with little pride and less shame, since it has already made the begging petition scheme a Go vernment measure, and has therefore, to all intents and purposes, already taken its first grand step as a Begging Government. The petition might run in something like the follow ing simple but pathetic lingo, the petitioners, of course, " humbly showing," and "ever praying," and so on : " That, whereas your humble petitioners, the Eng lishers, are in great distress from want of food, God help them, tor they cannot help themselves ; and they, there fore, humbly hope that your Honours will take their and get up a National Charity-sermon for behoof destitute case i nto y O ur ki n d an d charitabl e considera tion, of your h e lpl ess peti tioners —for which may God reward you ; and y our petitioners shall ever pray," &C., &C. Perhaps Brother Jonathan, being a kinsman, would be readiest to take pity on us, and contribute his mite. He has already shown his good will, and his sense of ourpitifu/condition, as you very well know, by charitably sending across the big pond, gratis free for nothing, I don't know how many barrels of beef-bones for our behoof, all of which the Government, you may also re member, generously permitted, contrary to custom, to pass inward to the mouths of the starving millions (as well they might, to keep them quiet) without partaking of a single mouthful of the God-send themselves, pro vided always the bones did not stink, in which case, though as unfit for the starving multitude as any diseased carcase of a resurrected cow they have ever eaten of late, these aforesaid stinking bones were to be thankfully devoured, at least in part, by the equally hungry, if not equally starving Government itself'. a h e y u v ' t:l ll l 2 a , ° n u 1 affection, I t l i i ; E n D • In the lively hope, Mr. Editor, that the GREAT mea sure which I have now proposed fin. the RELIEF of the starving community, will hand NE dO‘l n to immortality in ns Glasgow,to} ri w e v n .h nd h ln a f : PEEL —I am, Sir, yours, ONE OF TIIE STARVING MULTITUDE. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— Yesterday, about half-past two o'clock, a destructive fire broke out at the residence of Mr. Firth, surgeon, No. 11, Suffolk-place, Lower-road, Islington; in a very short time after the alarm was given, several engines arrived, but a considerable time elapsed before the progress of the flames was arrested. The house of Mr. Firth was nearly destroyed, and a great quantity of valuable furniture consumed. His loss is estimated at nearly 1,000/. The residence of Mr. Paul adjoining was also greatly damaged, and a considerable portion of furniture destroyed. The parties are fortu nately insured. OHINARY OF 14tIS AND 4,;llotu:Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Many of the original articles in the Paris Journals are on the new Tariff Bill proposed by Sir Robert Peel. The Debats does not enter upon the subject with reference to the probable operation of this Bill upon the import trade of other countries, but as a domestic measure intended to afford relief to the industrious classes. This journal bestows praise upon Sir Robert Peel for the talent and energy which he has displayed on this occasion, but ob serves that the agriculturists, to whom he owes his re turn to power, are evidently dissatisfied with the liberal views that ho has adopted in political economy, and that he is but coldly supported by those on whom his greatest reliance was placed. The Presse does not find anything to admire in Sir Robert Peel as a political economist; looking at his new tariff in the broad and general view of international trade, it says:—:" As a measure of reform the measure is incomplete, and will not attain the end which was first proposed. There are not sufficient advantages held out to any other country for it to offer any advantage in re turn. British statesmen, even those who pass for having professed the most liberal ideas, have never at bottom departed from that selfishness, which so profoundly cha racterizes the English nation." The Courrier Francais, after noticing the injurious operation upon French commerce of the recent changes in the tariff of Spain and the United States, and the ex ception of France from the countries which will be bene fited by the Bill now before the English Parliament, says :—" What ought to be the conduct of our Govern ment under these circumstances ? The National has urged the French Cabinet to use reprisals with respect to England ; the Commerce asks for reprisals against the United States. For our own parts, we should like to see the question examined iu a higher point of view ; for there are other things to be done besides contending with the nations with whom we exchange our produce by high customs duties. If England is willing to admit our wines, our brandies. and our s ilks, it is o ur i n t eres t to sign the treaty which has remained in suspense these two years. By joinin g with the United States in poli tical questions, w e shall keep the Cabinet of London in check, and in drawing closer our commercial connexions with England, we shall render the United States more tractable on that point. Let us, therefore, take counsel from our own interests." The National, at once hostile and ridiculous, gives its' Government this evil counsel :—" We must reply to ex aggerated tariffs by analogous ones. We must place on English linens and threads the same duty that is placed OR our silks. Should Sir Robert Peel afterwards propose a diminution, France will modify her customs in the same proportion as England does. To friends we shall grant concessions—to enemies reprisals. Any other line of policy would be an acknowledgment that we were both feeble and deceived." The Constitutionnel and the Courrier Francais have articles on the prosecution which has just been insti tuted against the Nationd. They contend that the nature of the observations which were made by that Journal, on the authorities with reference to the late railway dis aster, and the circumstances under which they were made, do not warrant the severity to which the Govern ment has had recourse. The Report of the Committee on the Bill providing for the support of the political refugees in France, was presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. It states that there are at present residing in France 16,672 political refugees, of whom 11,779 are Spaniards, 4,471 Poles, 410 Italians, and 12 from other countries. The most distinguished members of the Chamber of Deputies, Messrs. Odillon Barrot, Lamartine, Dufaure, Lanjuinais, Lafayette, &c., have addressed an energetic appeal to their fellow-countrymen on behalf of the suf ferers by the fire of Hamburgh, and placed their names at the head of a national subscription, which is to be opened in the office of the treasurer of the Chamber. Letters from Lisbon of the 9th, say that the non conclusion of the commercial treaty has given rise to great excitement in the north of Portugal. A belief was beginning to prevail that the' treaty would never be signed, and much disgust prevailed with reference - to the over niceties of diplomatic discussion which had ar rested its progress to maturity. Both treaties would, in all human probability, be signed within a month. A Commission has just been appointed by the Por tuguese Government to take into consideration the whole question of the reduction of duties, which is to form the subject of the supplemental article to the commercial treaty. The Commission consisted of Joaquim Lanches, a cloth manufacturer from the Alemtejo ; Florido Fer rel, formerly Finance Minister ; and Leita Sampayo, one of the tobacco contractors. The new list of Peers, 30 in number, had been ap proved by the Queen of Portugal in Council. The list had been judiciously drawn up so as to include a fair representation of all parties. The most remarkable nominations were those of Count Bomfin, Count Das Aretas, and Silva Carvalho. The principal merchants of Cadiz, on being informed that in the new treaty of commerce about to be signed between Great Britain and Portugal, the import duties on Madeira and Porto wines were to be considerably re duced, had held a meeting in the hotel of the provisional deputation, and prepared a memorial to the. Government, in which they exposed that it would be hereafter im possible for them to compete in the London market with the French and Portuguese wine-merchants. PUBLIC OPINION. In a leading article, suggested by the state of affairs in Affghanistan, the Chronicle says :—" We are accustomed to hear that Ministers are responsible for their acts. 'We see no such practice. A disaster unparalleled in our annals has been brought upon us ; we perceive no indication of those who caused it being held responsible. Sir Robert Peel has promised a thorough investigation of the past ;. we think that such investigation ought to precede any determination to involve the country in new wars, more taxes, and to expose us to the possibility of recurrence of disaster. Sir Robert Peel once, in speak ing of this very subject, censured Parliament for squab bling about domestic matters of comparatively trifling importance, while it neglected affairs on which hung the fate of nations. .. He is now in a position to direct the attention of Parliament to these weightier concerns. Why does he not do so ? Is the investigation to be de terred until men's attention has again flagged? Is it to be hurried through at the fag end of the session ? Is it to be delayed until, for all useful purposes, it is too late ?" In reference to Mr. Warburton and the Bridport affair, the Times remarks as follows :—" If there were any physical necessity which compelled him to fill the office of M.P. for Bridport we should understand his submission to all conditions precedent' which were in cident to such an event ; but, failing that compulsion, we confess ourselves most wholly unable to appreciate the relevancy of the distinctions which Mr. Warburton implies between a promise and an understanding, or between a paid and a sliding scale of prices ; and so we shall wait with unfeigned curiosity to hear the answer to the question, by which Mr. C. Wood, like ourselves, seems a little puzzled—' What is head-money but bribery ?' Meanwhile, between Mr. Warburton and Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Roebuck, the public, we think, may fairly expect some piquant disclo sures after the adjournment." The following appears in the Chronicle :—" Many o the proceedings of the session must be regarded by Libe ral politicians as productive of practical good. The new Corn-law is calculated to be somewhat less oppressive than the old one. We are to have a continuance of the sound provisions of the Poor-law. And, undoubtedly, the working of the new tariff will give the people some sensible advantages by the relakation of various mo nopolies, and the cheapening ; of various articles necessary to comfort. These advantages would, it is true, be more than counterbalanced, in our opinion, by the in fliction of the Income-tax, were that tax likely to be as durable as the good results to which we have adverted. But the latter, like all the consequences of concessions to liberal views, will never be revoked ; while the evils of the Income-tax appear to us to carry in themselves their own speedy remedy. Unqualified good appears to us likely to result from the whole of the proceedings of the session with respect to elections and the franchise. We may not get much, indeed, by getting Lord Brougham's Bribery Bill ; but we shall get a good deal if we secure the more effectual provisions of Lord John Russell's pro posed Bill. Something will be gained if the convicted boroughs are disfranchised ; more by the exposures of the nature and extent of the existing corruptions through the agency of Mr. Roebuck's Committee." The Post has the following remarks on Mr. Roebuck's motion :—" Nothing has yet occurred to shake our opinion that the House of Commons took a false step when it yielded to Mr. Roebuck's slap-dash mode of proceeding with regard to compromises of bribery charges in eleetion petitions. A respectable Committee has been appointed, but, if there be any useful result of their labours, it must be an indirect one. The whole affair has been too unadvised—too rash and sudden—to turn out well. This is not so much Mr. Roebuck's fault. He but followed his nature. He is self-confident and impetuous. What he has done he could not have done otherwise. A calm and reasonable proceeding of any kind was not to be expected from him. Why, then, did the House let him have his way for se far? We cannot tell; but we can assign no reason which is creditable to the good judgment of the House." We quote the subjoined observations from the Man chester Times :—" It is not by the disfranchisement of Harwich, Nottingham, Reading, Lewes, and Falmouth ; it is not by the punishment of the bribed wherever de tected ; it is not by the exposure of the briber at the bar of the House, or at the tribunal of public opinion,. it is not by such means that purity of election is to be se cured. It must bo sought in removing as much as pos sible the motive for bribery, and rendering it difficult of accomplishment • shculd the motive be irremoveable. j This is to be effected by adopting the principles o f th e Complete Suffrage Union." The following remarks appear in the Derbyshire Chronicle :—" There are as yet no symptoms of reviving . trade. The Premier excuses his disappointment at the unbrightening prorpect of our manufacturers ; and, while the poor are starving from bad laws, the notable scheme is devised of having charity sermons preached over, the country for their benefit. Cheap bread and groceries, they are not to have ; low wages and want of employment may still be their lot ; but the plate is to be held for them by pious and well-clad philanthropists at the doors of fashionable churches and chapels ; their suft'erings are to be attributed to th e P rov idence of God, rather than to • the ignorance and selfishness of man." The Glasgow Post proposes an extension of the Suf frage as the only sure remedy for bribery and corruption at elections :—" The cure, and the only cure, is to extend the electoral qualification. Extend the number of electors, and make the electoral districts as uniform in the number of electors as possible. This, with the ap- lication of the ballot in addition, would most effectually by an e n d t o th e di sgrace f u l syst e m of brib er y, y which the House of Commons is packed at present,' while nothing else will." • The Dublin Evening Post remarks, in reference to Earl de Grey's recent official appointments of Messrs. Jackson and Brewster :—" What other man but he, professing the opinions he did—promulgating these opi • 'lions repeatedly, and, so to speak, ostentatiously— would have had the hardihood to appoint two persons, particularly odious to the bulk of the community; to offices of trust and profit ?—what other man, but. Earl de Grey, would have had the intrepidity of so speedily giving the lie to his own declarations by such appoint ments as these ? We do not believe there is another in the United Kingdom brave enough to have acted as Earl de Grey has done in the premises." The Leeds Times thus alludes to the proposed gene ral charity sermons, in aid of the destitute operatives : " A Queen's letter is to be issued, with the concurrence of the Bishops, recommending sermons and contributions in all the churches, for the relief of the starving popu lation. It is very characteristic. The Bishops, after passing the Corn-laws, recommend a sermon ! The landlords, after enforcing their claim, to levy black mail from the people, propose to give b ac k a trifle by way of alms After levelling the poor to the dust by their general policy, they take credit to themselves for raising them up a little by the grace of charity." MONET—TRADE—COMMERCE. The Manchester and Birmingham Railway opened their new station in the London-road, Manchester, on. Tues day last, at the same time that the trains commenced running on the newly-construced line extending from Stockport to Sandbach. The sudden death of Mr. Pierson, banker at Hitchin, has caused the firm to stop payment, and the creditors wlll meet in a few days ; the statement of affairs is then expected to be satisfactory. The Bradford market only has improved this week. At Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, and Manchester, business is quite stationary. Rochdale has been thinly attended, and Halifax and Manchester worse. STATISTICS. The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom in 1841 was 118,592. ELECTIONEETLING. The determination of Sir Rub:•rt Bateson to retire from the representation of Londonderry, leaves the county open to an election. His so.i, Mr. Robert Bateson is already in the field on the part of the Tories, together with a second candidate, Sir Hervey Bruce, late of the Life Guards. MEDICAL. Dr. Webster, one of the Governors of Bethlem Hos pital, proposes to institute a medical lunacy class, to . be publicly supported, the students of which, as on the Continent, shall have personal access to the patients, and thereby become acquainted with the features of this malady, which is now much neglected. PINE AMTS. Lord Northwick has generously conceded to Mr. Philip Howard, M.P., for Carlisle, the exquisitely painted miniature by Sir Antonio Moore, of Thothas. Duke of Norfolk, beheaded for befriending the cause of Mary Queen of Scots, which was sold at Strawberry hill, on Tuesday last. The late Mr. Howard, of Corby, had done much to illustrate the life of this unfortunate nobleman. LITER/MY AND SCEENTIPXO. It is proposed to regulate all the Post-office clocks in the kingdom by the time brought from London daily by the mail-coach chronometers, so as to render time pre cisely uniform throughout England. THE.A.TR.XCAM. Miss Adelaide Kemble appeared at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, on Monday last, as Norma, and experienced a most flattering reception. Drury Lane will close for the season next Monday. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House on Satur day for Strathflelcgaye. The Duke of Marlborough left Mivart's Hotel on Sa turday for Blenheim. The Sheik of the Druses has left Mivart's Hotel for Woolwich, in order to be instructed in the artillery service. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland returned to Northumberland House yesterday from Leamington Spa. The Marquis of Normanby left the Clarendon on Fri day for Mulgrave Castle. Sir Robert Peel returns to Whitehall-gardens to-mor row from Drayton Manor. The Duke of Devonshire gives a grand musical enter tainment in the course of the week at Devonshire House. The Duchess of Sutherland intends to give a Bal Costume on the 24th iust at Stafford House. The Countess of Jersey had an evening party on Sa turday. The Earl of Winchilsea left the Clarendon on Satur day for Haverholm Priory, Lincolnshire. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are expected at the Clarendon on Wednesday next from Eglinton Castle. ansgzuca4zrzousi. The " Chandos Testimonial," or dinner, to be given at Aylesbury to the Duke of Buckin g h am , t a k es p l ace on Wednesday next. The Queen has ordered 2001. to be transmitted for the relief of the people of Hamburgh ; and Prince Albert 1001. for the same benevolent object. In consequence of the fineness of the weather, there has been an extraordinary influx of visitors at Brighten. The railway trains took down on Sunday nearly one thousand passengers. The Hon. Mrs. Charles Fox, widow of the celebrated statesman, is living, at a very advanced age, in the en joyment of excellent health, at her villa in Chertsey. It is rumoured that her Majesty and Prince Albert will honour the Spitalfields hall in the splendid costume of the fancy ball. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. NOTTINGHAM, MAY 14.—The disgraceful proceedings brought to light by Mr. Roebuck, in connection with the late election for this borough, has roused the indig• nation of the virtuous and independent portion of the electors. The sincere Reformers, Radicals, and Char tists, will not allow themselves to be handed over to the tender mercies of Toryism in the person of Mr. Walter. Great activity is manifested on behalf of Joseph Sturge, the candidate of the Liberals. The address of Joseph Sturge to the electors has given great satisfaction ; and the walls are already covered with bills—" Sturge and Purity," " Sturge and Complete Suffrage," " Sturge and Peace," "Sturge and Free Trade," Sturge and No Ch urch - Rates," " Sturge and the Brotherhood of Man," meet the eye in all directions. The Chartists, who as sisted formerly in the return of Walter, that they might destroy the Whigs, are equally energetic in their support of Joseph Sturge.. On Thursday night Mr. H. Vincent arrived from Bath to aid the Liberal party. Mr. Sturge's Committee immediately convened a public meet ing, which was held last night in the front of the Com mittee-room. At eight o'clock an immense concourse of people assembled, and the Committee-room was filled with the friends o f t h e can did ate. Mr. Thomas Beggs introduced Mr. Vincent, who addressed the meeting at great length in support of Mr. Sturge. Mr. Vincent en tered into an exposition of the wrongs of the people, and pourtrayed the excellency of Mr. Sturge's character and principles. A deep impression was made upon the meet ing. Mr. Sturge's return is considered certain. Mr. Vincent will address ward meetings during next week. Joseph Sturge will arrive on Wednesday. SPORTING. The Gorhambury races take place to-morrow and next day. The programme is capital. There are seven races in the list for the first day, among them theGorhamburyHandicap, for which last year twenty one accepted, and twenty started. On this occasion eleven only are left in ; they will all run, I believe, except Fat Jack. Bob Peel carries 51b. extra for winning the Suffolk Stakes, but the distance (two miles) will hardly suit his complexion so well as the last mile and a half of the Round Course. Out of the fourteen two-year-olds entered in the Park Stakes, there are on the spot—Bastile, Esperance f., Rooksnest, Vitula, Humbug, sister to Indolence, c. by Redshank and Jamal. All entered in the Pre Stakes are also ' at Gorhambury. It will be remembered that the Acacia colt, receiving 31b., beat Archy in the Co lumn at Newmarket, and that Archy afterwards beat the winner of that race the same distan ce , b u t over an easier course, the hill at the end of the 'Rowley Mile not suiting the roarer. There may be some ar gument about this; but I think the Column will be wrong, and Archy right ; who shall say ? There will not be a very large field for the officers'' race, which, unless the hour of starting is advanced, two o'clock being at present fixed, will probably come off about eight; this is a bad and indigestible arrange ment, and, I trust, the Noble Earl of Gorhambury will read what I say in sufficient time to remedy the defect. There will be halfa dozen races on these - cond day, and two matches, and Verulam, Lord March, and Lord Maidstone, are the Steward s — a suf ficient guarantee that all the new rules and regula tions of the last few years will be strictly adhered to. I gave you on Monday last a rough list of the horses likely to start for the Derby. I have very little alteration to make in that list at present ; omit Ballinkeele, and substitute one of John Day's outside horses for Curator, and I should leave it until this day week, when we shall probably know what Scott and Forth will run. John Day, senior, will ride Coldrenick ; William Scott and Holmes the two— some say the Scotts will run five. Pooh ! Marson will ride Auckland, Nat will ride Canadian, Robinson will ride Barrier, Marlow will ride Combermere, Chapple for Sir Gilbert, Templeman Lasso, Chiffney, I understand, is engaged for the Agreeable colt ; Rogers must ride something in Kent's lot, deponent knoweth not wh a t ; D ar li ng h as b een applied to on behalf of Cheops, and there remain Macdon a ld, S. Mann, Wakefield, Lye, Whitehouse, Cartwright, Cal loway, Butler, Edwards, fat Pettit, Sly, and Francis. No offence if I omit any jockey of cele brity, but at this moment I recollect no other great man. Tattersall's yard was very full yesterday ; what it will be on Sunday next I leave you to guess. There was very little betting. Coldrenick and Attila were severally backed for several hundred pounds at prices which equal even betting on those two horses against the field. Jack was also in favour, 11 to 1 being taken freely about him. The same side would have been taken about Canadian and Auckland, and this, by many, is thought a good moment to commence a book. You certainly might get round with good luck, and you would perhaps have Robert de Gorham to win you all your money; this, if the settlm . g,was tolerably heavy, wou ld b e a very pro fit a bl e invest ment of time and capital. The new subscription room is to be opened, I believe, on Monday next. May 16. • JUDEX. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, rode outyesterday fore noon in a pony carriage; his Royal Highness driving. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, and t he Hon. Miss Liddell, took an airing yesterday afternoon° an open carriage and four, in the Parks, Colonel Arbadv, not, the Equerry i n W a i t i ng , atten di ng on h o rsebneg, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colono, Wylde, rode out on horseback at the same time; Lou visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarenc e. House. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace iP evening included her Maje s ty th e Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duche ss o f K ent , t h e i r S ere ne Sigf a aesses the Duke and Duche ss of Saxe Weimar , 31 ' Prince Edward of Saxe 'Weimar, the Duchess Of nue clench, the Duke of Devonshire, Viscountess Barring: ton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, th e E ar l o f Liverpo °4 and the Earl Howe. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life .Guards, attO d. during dinner. • A • g Her Majesty had afterw ar d s a n even i ng par ty. A OllO % the company were the Duk e o f B ucc l euc h, the Mall'', - and Marchioness of E x et er , Count and Countess D eiv warr and the Ladies W es t, Earl and Countess of Den' bigh and Lady Mary Fi e ldi ng , E ar l an d C o untess °f Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Viscount Eo ,l ll' Lord Portman, Sir H enr y an d Mi ss Wheatley}', George Couper, Bart, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mr. 1 100 L b and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Mrs. Anderson, Mr: Molique, Sign or C a vallini,. 011 1 . Herr Brandt, had the honour of perf orm i ng. beforOj' ,e l Majesty. Mr. Parish Alvers played upon one of DIP' gothic harps. Her Majesty's private band attended in the saleoll' el His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left tO-61 at half-past Six o'clock yesterday morning, for the BPI Military College at Sandhurst. t he The Duchess of Gl ouces t er v i s i te d h er Majesty - Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. e The Duchess of Ca m b r id ge, aceompanied t i ,`" e Princesses Augusta and M ar y o f Cambridge, visited the Duchess of K e nt on S un d ay , at h er residence, Clar ence House. the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Enron 1 1 : 036r beck, rode out on horseback yesterday morning. f a t Lord Stanley left town yesterday afternoon' Brighton. —Alto Despatches from the Governor of the North Ai. — Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. es From three o'clock until nearly seven the room thronged with spectators from all parts of the coeDi r o but business, except - against the:principal favourites, less animated than is usual at this season. The Pa „r, bury nag, Coldrenick, was in greater force than e y t ie The first bets taken were 5 to 2 to 1,2001., and course of the afternoon several hundreds were addl..; the immense s t a k e prev i ous l y i nvested. ; he .left: °( of offers of 9to 4, or takers at sto 2. The support P..Pilk Scott's stable t urne d t h e i r attent i on c h iefly to At taking 7 to 2 eagerly, and offering to go on, up last moment. C ana di an an d Auckland had good. par k- e t at 11 to 1 each (takers), but Jack, after a few be t „ s c e, 11 and 12 to 1, gave way ; 1,400 to 100 was laid (7 ' o . 1,500 to 100 twice, and 13 to 1 afterwards offered. rently. Lasso receded two or three points, and the l',°ere .W of Holderness and Met eor , nom i na ll y at .20 to 1,-entf quite friendless. Chath am , too, un d erwent an ma to decline ; 3,000 to 100 was - betted twice, and ho , to o ,as left. The only outsider b ac k e d to any amount was 1 0 0 Trooper, who is now on hi s roa d f rom the north ; t be to 10 was taken repeatedly, with Some effect on odds. The Oaks betting was not worth notic. THE DERBY. '5 to 2 agst Coldrenick—taken 7 to 2 agst Atilia—taken 10 to 1 agst Canadian—taken • 1.1• to 1 agst Auckland—taken 13 to 1 agst Jack—taken 22 to 1 agst Lasso—taken • 30 to 1 agst Chatham 30 to 1 agst Lord of Holderness 30 to 1 agst Meteor 40 to 1 agst Agreeable colt 50 to 1 agst Barrier—taken - 1) .1 " 50 to 1 agst Fireaway—taken 66 to 1 Moss Trooper—taken 1000 to 15 agst Tiptoe—taken 100 to 1 agst Cheops—taken 100 to 1 agst The Oneida Chief—taken 100 to 1 agst Baronet —taken • OAKS. • 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly-4,410 0 7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar—Ltakea. r. a d, 9 to 1 agst Lord G. B en ti nc k' s S. to Y orksh i r e ." 13 to 1 agst Firebrand—taken 20 to 1 ast.Duke of Richmond's Baleine filly We beg to repeat our hint as to the necessity of .c ° do paring bets on the co m i ng races ; t h ose w h o . fail o so must not be surprised if they have the worst 91 reference that may arise out of their neglect. * KELSO RACES.—TTIOasDAY• The Hunter' s St a k es of 5 so' s., 1 9 st Heats, - (6 Sbs.) Mr. Maitland's Clom-&-the- u I:. Cleugh, 6 yrs •''''''''' 5 Mr. Barnet's The Laird'.s Broth er aged ...• ••" 2 ••• $ Mr. J Elliot's Little Johnny. a ge d ' The Duke of Roxb u rgh' s Pl ate o f 50 guis." ... "' et ' 2 miles. Mr. W.. -R. Ramsey's The Recorder, 6 yrs, 1 1 Bst 81b - (W . N o bl e ) 0 .3 Mr. Crawford's Cantata, aged, Bst 81b 0 1 The Oats Stakes of 5 bolls each. . Mile and half bea ti. r Lord Polwarth nd Sir Thomas, I.l s t 21b wil4k(la ° o • HOP DUTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. r e SlR ; —Lord Winchilse a i s muc h al arme d a t 4 ,11 e Pill. posed reducti o n of d u ty on f ore i gn h ops, tthinking ; it, 0 0/ reduce the value of hi s h o p-p o l e ..woOdlands. I. also woodlands in Kent, but have .no fear of any V t be reduction in their value from the new tariff, becalis e av er English hop must al wa y s ma i nta i n i ts super i or i t l rii i the foreign. The following extract • from Dr. P i o' " Pharmacolocria" on this subject, 'upon the e tt' nufacture of beer, may bp, d eserv i ng the a l t o , tion of those wh o are i n t eres t e d in this (pie ? r He 'says, " Quassia mus t, th ere f ore, necessaril:l Pugh, but a sorry sub s tit u t e ; it w ill i mpart bitterness ,ell° but it will be mo difi e d by a greea ble aroma, ats d al p i. contains no astringent principle, it will fail in pr o n ce rating the vegetable m uc il age , or g l uten, in cou4 o -1 1 1 ;e' of which the beer so manu f acture d . w il l b e • i n. a. ,1 It tual state of fermentation, until it is entirely 1,010 The same reasoning will explain why Engli rh a iar that contain more Gallic acid and Tannin than t )I°s, °r ported from the Continent, are found to be su per' preservatives of beer."—Your most obedient se; tvsti t i ) , A KENTISH LAND2j,,OP '4l THE INCOME-TAX.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE S'O:; t iov) SlR,—Amongst the n um b er l ess and violet' jp asked lately, respecting th e forthcomin obncotioilstor come -tax, may I beg to inqui re o f you ill tis tbe tion of Sir Robert Peel to tax those persons ivil° o . o o year may not possess 1501. by wity of incoaie various causes,, such as insolvency, losing their 51 tion4,'S:c ? Yours, respectfully, .C. 1/. • [The tax is to be levied on the income of the Tr' year, and any person, for instance, who had 1..5(31. °ttleta the year endingthe sth of April, 1842, will 'be it. whaLver income he may possess in the year e ° ( el 3r April 5, 1843. If his i ncome d ur i ng thia latter I.) falls liort of 1.50/., he, of c ourse, w ill be exempted the tax for that year.] DUBOURG'S_ MECHANICAL MUSEUM. - - iti j This Museum has j us t b een re -opened by the sP ;r l ll 6 . proprietor, in Great Windmill-street, Haymarket. j Museum forms an extensive apartment, that, asa P r° O- nade or saloon will a d m it some hundred persons i l), : 01 .10,, evening's amusement, w hi c h t h e Splendid wax' /' 01 1 '. 4 ranged round its sid e s, pl en tif u lly furaish. Those 0 1 .0 sist of hi s to r i ca l groups , t h e su bj ects of which " are u, r ,01 4 from ancient hist or y or even t s o f the present day, i coie ,3 of the latter bei ng accurate likenesses and fac 41 . 4 ,01 dresses. Correctness of art in this respect is aga in ;lo pass e d by th e life-like identity o f the figures, and ) 9 0 meats effected of portions of, their bodies by macbiflirqef The grand tabl eau a t th e u p per end of the saloon; r"' e it 4 renting Coriol anus entreated by his mother and 9' u when deliv er i ng hi mse lf up to the Volscians, has 0 ,4 dg Oi nificent effect, and the head and eyes-of the 011 e.7 0 '' Roman avert themselves with an air haughty' 0.00.: natural. Another bead in , the collection, s ok of Don Giovanni, assumes in the wax a tire' dark caste, with very expressive eyes; and fl o e, clining Circassian beauty, among a group of 5 Tligtan dealers, has the same sun-glow on her features'. re' lower end of th e sa l oon conta i ns, i n two recesses, r''es',. sentations of Andr oc l es , th e runaway Roman a/0%4 ti tracting the thorn f rom th e li on ' s paw ; and the gr? otl' the animal, produced by separate machinery, ° o re' . mirably manag e d. A n a dj o i n i ng department Vii' : seats Marchant, Gr eenacre , Bl a k esley, Job vriiiiv Good, Curvoisier, Bailey, and Oxford, the latest el t y , nals of Newgate, grouped together in compaq i 'l i fir likenesses of each b e i ng f rom casts. T h e Roya l ~ iti er:; tening, the Mandarins in treaty with Sir Gordon n' re o ,itl- ) .. at Cousan, and other apposite subjects, connected 0 1er; passing eve n t s , l en d a ddi t i ona l attract i on to the " ie rA; which is ch ar a c t er i ze d b y excess i ve b r i ll i ancy an d eP ieo', dour of effect. Perhaps if s o m e sp ec i es o f 01- !iite • entertainment were introduced, it would thereat- ; 0 0 attractions of the promenade. A gallery for refreshT or : has been als o construc t e d, an d a spl.qnlid chauu . lights the room from the ceiling's centre. Il is Royal Highness Prince Albert visited to e Sullblk-street Gallery last week, an d purc h ase d a e t be of Mr. J. W. Allen's. So judi c i ous a part i a lity I ° r or. works of this truly English Landscape Painter is al l cellent compliment to British artists. o re POTATOE LAWS.—In the Isle of Man, peo pl e much alarmed at the intended reduction of the agye4 imported potatoes •; and are afraid of being int l ", . ; :1 1 with Dutch, German, and French potatoes. Itegi'i r 04d' is saying very little for own own country. Sure i v i . s v iY i can grow them as cheap as they can, and we 1 , 2 „, 11 0 106 4 market at home. Our land, labour, and skill are to theirs, and if the difficulty lie in the rent, tax01:litlo, tithes,-these must give way rather than have tots made dear.— The Struggle.Vl* #ll THE SCHOOLMASTER AGAIN.—The follow. ; ng le" _,fli seen, legibly p a i nted i n black and white, b etwe en 9 1, 0,-- sea and Aberavon :—" A Cottich to Bee Let or so Cambritn Our 1:17,71,00 r m ' 10! •, 23 "; I bit, uay ket eircu 34,18 Clotol • 3,421 total, ahem 'twat. btu '434ii at I 141 1 1 :, ' 1 446 1`: