The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

rom Mr Blacklokwriter, Callendar, stating that out of two or three htindred Dienes procured in that parish, fifty were those of paupers receiving parish aid. He thee proceeded :—God forbid that I should say that the poop man, be his poverty what it may. shall not be entitled to approach us on this or any other sub ieet ; but when we couple one thing with another, shall we be told to take the opinion of persons so influenced for the guidance of our conduct, as that of the plain, honest, intelligent opinion of the people of Scotland.—(Hear, hear.) I shall not enter upon the consideration of the religious part of this question—not that I have any doubt upon this point; but I do deprecate In meetings of a popular kind like this, the discussion of subjects upon which I think men form the soundest con clusions when they consider them calmly and dispassion ately at their closets, with the aid of such lights as they ca n get, rather than in the heat, pressure, and agitation of publio meetings. —(Hear, hear.) I repeat, then, that I shall not enter upon the theological part of the question ; but I must say, that I c anno t believe that the people of England—a people as mora l, as intelli gent, and as well guided as the people of Scotland in every respec t —I cannot believe that a vast majority of that people have come have to the conclusions on this subject to which they have come i n face of God's precepts, in the face of the teach in g s they re ceived, and the lights which have been communicated to them as well as to us. A few years back there was a bill passed to compel railways to carry the mail on Sun days —( Mr. M. Crich ton, " No, no.") I am ready to bow in all things compe. tent to Mr. Crichton ; but perhaps it would be better if he would reserve his negatives till he comes to the proof.—(Hear, hear.) That Bill passed without a single remonstrance from a set of men as holy, as learned, and as pious, as ever adorned any age or any church. Did it meet with a single remonstrance from the venerable head of Protestant Christianity ? Did It meet with a single remonstrance from the learned and pious Bishop of London, who, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons some years ago, said he could not condemn Sunday travelling ?—(Hear, hear.) Shall it be said, then, in these cir. curnstauces--when this great undertaking has been achieved, in a great measure, by the money of the people of England—for poo r Scotland was unable to raise the million and a half neces sary for the great work, and two-thirds of the capital has mine from England—sha'l it be said that, having got their money, and without any intimation that we acre to shut the railway oil Sundays, we will come to a resolu. tion to shut it on that day because our religious views do not con cur with theirs ? I may be told that this is not a safe argument — that this is a Scotch concern, and ought to be governed by Scottish views 'and interests. I deny it. I say it is a British concern; hut if you act, as some gentlemen now propose, can you ever again ex pect to be able to make another railway in Scotland, or finger another shilling of English capital ?—(Hear, hear.) We are told by some of those excellent rod worthy gentlemen whom we had here to-day, and who pass their time chiefly in their closets, that to open the railway on Sunday would change the character of Scotland. Sir, I desire to change the character of Scotland in its bad parts. Mr, 31` Neill here proceeded to quote the opinions of Bailie Johnston of Edinburgh and Sheriff' Alison of Glasgow with respect to the drunkenness which prevailed in these two cities on Sunday ; and to argue that the railway offered the means of greatly improving the habits of this class of the community. He also quoted t'se opinion of Sir Charles Shaw, the Superintendent of Police at Manchester, to show the good effects which had followed the opening of the railway in that part of England. There was testimony to the same effect from Newcastle and Carlisle. These things weighed with him. He did not undervalue the testimony of the Rev. Gentlemen who had that day addressed them; but he agreed with the observation that had been' made not long since, that it was not the men that spoke, but the cloth.—(Cheers.) He also read a letter from Mr. Routh, Chairman of the Blackwall Rail way Company, bearing testimony to the good order which prevailed on that railway on Sundays. If this measure is carried (proceeded Mr. M'Neill) I may state that ,it is the intention of the Directors to institute such a strict system of police as will completely prevent anything like drunkenness or disorder on the line.—(Hear, hear.) Its the protest given in by Sir Andrew Agnew—than whom a more honest, single-hearted individuals was, I believe, never engaged in a public cause—it was alleged that the running of trains on Sunday was contrary to the Statute-law of the land. Let Sir Andrew bring this to the test. I desire nothing more than to have this question brought to the test of the calm and dispassionate judgment of those whose duty it is to expound the law ; and 1 only hope that Mr. M. Crichton and his friends will give us their word that they will give obedience to their judgment when ob. tained.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) There is a threat held out to us that this agitation will be continued if we do not yield to it now; but if it is, I sincerely hope that they will find in the uaited front of the Shareholders, both in England and Scr,t. land, a wall of opposition that they will never be able to overtop.— (Cheers.) lam quite aware that we shall be held up as irreligious men—as men who have been guilty of a wicked act. But if we are convinced that we have done our duty, we shall at least have as much satisfaction as these gentlemen themselves, to whom 1 accord the same cre.lit of sincerity which I claim for myself— the satisfaction that we have done our duty, and carried along with us the public feeling of all those whose good opinion it is at all times desirable to obtain.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. M`Neill concluded by moving the resolution of which he had formerly given notice:—" Whereas it is the duty of the Directors of this Company to give implicit obedience to the law of God, and the law of the land, in the management of the affairs of the Company —and whereas it isthe duty of the Directors to afford the fullest ac commodation to th epublic in the use of the Railway, which the public exigencies require, provided always they do not violate the law of God, or the law of the land. This meeting resolves, that is is not inconsistent with the duty of the Directors, as aforesaid, and they are hereby enjoined, to provide trains to be run from the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, in the morning and in the evening of Sunday; but under such rules and regulations as to the times of departure and arrival, as may enable the servants of the Company, and persons travelling along the railway, to attend divine service." This resolution was seconded by Mr. EAGLE HaNinasoN. A ~umber of other Shareholders then addressed the meeting, but Mr. M'Neill bad exhausted the subject, and on a division the num bers stood thus Shares. Voters. Fur Sunday.trains Against ditto Majority for Sunday.trsim ... 4113 ... 571 GREAT MEE'.: UNG AT GLOU CESTER. Great excitement has existed here since Sir R. Peel's mountain has delivered itself of the "sliding scale." A requisition signed by a num ter of the most influential and respectable inhabitants of the city was presented to the Mayor, \V. M. Meyler, Esq., who, in compliance therewith, calk(' a melting of the citizens, which was held last Welnesday iu. the, large room of the Shire-hall, which accommodated about 4,000 persons. The room was densely crowded, and a great number were assembled in the passages leading to the Courts, who were unable to obtain admission to the meeting. Shortly after seven o'clock, the chair was taken by J. P. Herne, the City Sheriff, (in the aissence of the worthy Mayor, who was pre sented attending through indisposition), [We are sorry we have not ram for the speeches, which were very voluminous, powerful, and argumentative.] The Rev. J. RonivAv proposed a resolution to the following ef. feet:—" That by the conduct of Sir R. Peel, and his colleagues, in supporting the selfish monopoly of the landed interest, they have proved themselves no longer worthy the confidence of the Sovereign or the support of the people." This resolution was seconded by THOMAS STURGH, Esq., and carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. BREWER moved the adoption of a memorial to her Majesty, praying her to dismiss her present Ministers. He declared that he was equally opposed to the sliding scale of Sir R. Peel, and the fixed duty of Lord J. Russell. (This announcement was re ceived with loud cheers.) S. BowLEY, Esq., seconded the memorial, and said that they were convinced of the injustice of the Corn-laws, and they must now unite to remove them, which he considered could only be done by changing the constitution of the House of Commons. The memorial was put by the Chairman, and carried by accla mation. Mr. KNOWLEA, after a long and powerful speech, proposed the following resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the only way of repealing the Corn-laws, and all other monopolies that oppress the many for the benefit of the few, is by destroying their cause—class legislation ; which can only be effected by the working classes being fully, fairly, and freely represented in the Commons' [louse of Parliament." Mr. BE NI NCTON seconded this resolution, which, on being put by the Sheriff, was carried amidst loud cheers. Votes of thanks were then given to Captain Berkeley and J. Philpotts; Eq., the Members fur the city. Mr. Siiuwsv proposed, and Mr. KNOWLES seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and the meeting concluded shortly before eleven o'clock.—Dr. Cother, a celebrated Tory of the toy n, had declared his intention of proposing a resolution in favour of the Corn-laws; but when caned on by some persons in the body of the me eting, "echo answered, Where?" Die worthy doctor, like a wise physician, refused to swallow the dose prepared for him, and quietly "slitled" away, "unnoticed and unknown," The men of Gloucestershire are up, and prepared to assist in the coming struggle. A crowded meeting was also held in Cheltenham to hear Mr. Leach, of Manchester, at the Mechanics' Institution ; and but one spirit appears to prevail throughout the county—opposition to monopoly, and annihilation to monopolists and tyranny. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 3, Will be performed, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACIS AND GALATEA.—Polypheme, Mr. H. Philips; Acis, Miss P. Horton; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer. After which, the New Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR. To conclude with the New Farce, called THE WINDMILL. Doers oiler at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Boxes es., Second Price 2s. 6d.; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s ; Lower Gallery Is. td., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price Id. ANIMAL MAGNETISM. A lecture on this much controverted subject was delivered last night at the London Tavern, by Mr. Braid, a gentleman from Manchester, who addressed a metropolitan audience for the first thee on this occasion. The room was well, but not fully attended ; and the greatest attention was paid to the statements and experiments of the lecturer. His address was a general outline of the science as at present known, but was snore particelarly directed to the advantages likely to result from it in a medical point of view, in some cases as a remedy for many serious diseases, and in others as a se. condary means that may be employed to extin guish, or to such a degree suspend, the sensibility to bodily pain, as to render it possible to perform the most painful surgical operation without that shock to the con stitution which_ is usual.y sustained. His explanation of this state of partial insensibility to the natural pains which " flesh ie heir to," the Lecturer termed " the rationale of nervous sleep'—a phrase which we prefer to the Greek compound, he also used to describe . it, Neurohypnology." On persons thrown into the magnetic seer, he declared most positively, and on his own' experience, that , surgical operations Might be performed without pain. He said that there was a lady then in the room from whom he had himself extracted a tooth without pain, though she had suffered long and acutely from a similar operation when it was previou sly y • Sly performed by one of the most skilful den tists in London. He had also by its means completely over come the pain of tic dokreux and rheumatism of many years' standing, and had relieved a case of paralysis. The magnetic influence he described as most powerful for good or for evil, and defended it against the insinuations that have been made against it, that it is capable of being perverted to immoral pur poses; he stated also, that as a remedial means it could not be ex ercised to the full extent of good of which it was capable, but by a professional man, skilled in anatomy, and a physiologist. He declared that his object was not a mercenary one, but that he was solely anxious to promulgate the knowledge of a science which he looked on as one of the greatest blessings to hu manity. He then proceeded to his experiments, in which he courted the strictest investigation. The subject of them was a servant girl, a cook, whom the Lecturer addressed as "Jane.' He made no parade of mystery, or trickery, but explained that the end was obtained by fatiguing the visual nerve and the mind, by directing the attention to one object. He directed the girl to look steadily at the top of the chandelier, and, in a few se. condo, her head drooped on her shoulder, and her eyes closed with all the appearance of deep slumber. He then directed her to walk to a chair and sit down , and, while in that position, he raised her arms, which remained as he had placed them, and certainly presented an extraordinary degree of- rigidity. Several gentlemen Irons the audience, one of them, we understood, of the me,fical profession, then tried the pulse, and found it was greatly quickened, and stated that th e pupil of the eyes di lated, two things which are quite b"yond t i the power of th s wi I to aecomplish. She was then subjected to se vera l s h ocks front a galvanic battery, and punge n t ammonia was held to her noi , tits without produc . ing th.! slightest effect. The sense of hearing teat equally neutralized, as sev era l per. cu , sion caps fred close to her car did not p roduce th e slightest vibration in the eyelid, which is invariably the case on hearing sudden sounds. 'fhe frank and easy manner of the Lecturer disposed the audience in his favour, and he readiness he showed to explain every thing m'nutely, and to shrink from no test of the rt ality of his experiments, confirmed the impres sion that they were true magnetic phenomena. The Lecturer was warmly applauded several times during the evening. The Utrechtsche Coui..akt, of the -Pd inst., states that Constant Polati, who stole the diamonds of the Princess Of Ch "tke ,,, olv Queen of the Netherlands, died on the previous na g , 16 the nollize of Correction at Woerdcn. He was born in 1780, to Italy. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.. THIS EVENING, MARCH 3, ... _. ... Will be performed Bellini's Opera of NUR MA. —Pollio ' Mr. W. Harrison; Oroveso, Mr. Le ffl er ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Wirma, Miss Adelaide Kemble; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth; Clotilda, Miss Grant. After which will be repeated, with additions, Milton's Masque of COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris; the Lady, Mrs. Walter Lacs; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing ; Syrens, Madame Vestris and Miss Rainforth ; Genius of the Frozen Clime; Mr. Stretton LEuphrosyne, Madame Vestris; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth. _ _ Doors open at half-past Fix, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d • First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price Ss. 641 ; Pit 35., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. Lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap. plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book se ler, 167, New Bond-street. q- • I , • V Ar 7". • ••• l iktft , • . j e,• ' • uC 0.N40- • m 0 mu 0 - ‘''• • 171111'`' 'kr HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, - having AUTHORISED an d GUARANTEED sev eral DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS , which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibiliti es o f o b ta i n ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH a n d a t LUBECK kre now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DlS rftmu TIONS, Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions na y receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of it:25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 3, Will be acted Sheridan's Play of PIZ ARRO.—Pczarro, Mr. Hes lop ; Alonzo, Mr. Warde ; Rolla, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Elvira, Mrs. H. Vining; Cora, Mrs. N. T. Hicks. After which, CHARLES THE SECOND; or, the MERRY MONARCH.—Charles, Mr. H. Hughes; Rochester, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Captain Copp, Mr. Neville; Lady Clara, Mrs. H. Hughes ; Mary Copp, Mias Mars in. To conclude with BEN THE BOATSWAIN, supported by the entire Company. rite °tun. LONDON THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1842. The Report on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S corn resolu tions was received last night, and the Bill will be brought in as soon as possible. He and the great majority of the Parliament are quite identified, and as the most ardent Corn-law Repealers are not pre pared, as far as we can learn, to set aside the autho rity of Parliament, though it be the mere organ or in 'strument of the landlords, it follows, as a matter of course, that they must acquiesce in the landlords' de cision. The community, enslaved by its own defer ence for the aristocracy, must put up with whatever laws the landlords choose to make. Under these cir cumstances, nothing short of a miracle can prevent. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan for continuing a great sys tem of legislative plunder from becoming the law of the land. True, it is a terrible disgrace to the Legis lature now to re-enact a law which experience has de monstrated to be as mischievous as it is fundamentally unjust; but the Repealers having striven and pro tested against it, and not being efficiently supported out of doors, must wash their hands of the iniquity, and lay it entirely at the door of the landlords. Their duty, in relation to that plan, in Parliament must now, we believe, draw to an end. Sir ROBERT PEEL has in plain terms informed the House of Commons, that the landlords would not allow him to make a further relaxation of the Corn laws ; at the same time he has announced other mea sures to restore the dilapidated finances, and to amend the tariff. Though disappointed with what he has already done, the public are extremely desirous to learn what more he means to do. It will not be pru dent in the Liberal Members to baulk this desire; and we would suggest to them, therefore, to throw, no obstacle in Sir R. PEEL'S way, by proposing any fri volous or useless motions, to be withdrawn after an un satisfactory debate. Let them rather facilitate the per formancii of essential business, and so enable Sir R. PEEL to state as speedily as possible what he proposes as to taxes and what as to trade. No other subject is of public interest or public importance, and the Li beral Members will not gain on public esteem by in terposing with petty measures and petty projects of their own. If they can defeat the Corn-law project, let them do so ; if they have no hope of that, let them contribute to gratify the expecting people by hasten ing the publication of Sir R. PEEL'S whole plan. Their cause will lose nothing by this course. Public opinion is already setting in strongly against PEEL, and an additional impetus will probably be given to the current by the other petty measures by which he will disappoint the people. New taxes, we presume he must have ; and he can scarcely impose them without raising prices, and altering the relations of his new Corn-law. It is very probable that hi:- other measures, without benefiting the consumer, will tend, like his Corn-law alterations, to make him un popular with the farmers. What he has already pro posed has seriously damaged his character and exposed the aristocracy, whose servant he is; and the Liberal party will lose nothing by allowing the thorough conviction of his weakness and their injustice to take deep root in the public mind. We do not say the Liberal Members are not at every stage of his Corn Bill to say No to it, and point out its injustice; but let them not interpose with any mo tions or proceedings of their own to prevent the public from hearing his whole plan of commercial re i lief .r.nd financial burdens. [The following article was written immediately after Sir PEET. delivered his last great speech, but the pres sure of Parliamentary matter excluded it till now :—] We feel almost inclined to pity Sir ROBERT PEEL. Never was a political schemer more com pletely caught in his own toils. Unwarned by the present use of earnest and solemn language, the index to strong and irrepressible feeling, arising froth general and great suffering, he has persisted in playing fast and loose with truth, and has for years notori ously spoken against his own convictions, in order that he might, by help of the land-owriers, be the Prime Minister of England. Mistaking the source and nature of political power, he has continued to worship the Church and the aristocracy, because ig norance once made- them Gods, after those idols—as his successive defeats on the Catholic question, and on Reform proved—were thrown down, and trampled in the dust. In obedience to their com mands he has striven against truth, justice, and en lightened public opinion, and by them he has been successively laid prostrate and helpless. Now he has attained the very height of his ambition, and by his own act, amending the Corn-laws, does he again stand self-condemned. Ills all-important recognition, which we noticed on this day week, of the superior influence of the success of manufactures to any system of Corn-laws in promot ing agricultural prosperity, is an acknowledgment of the impotency of his legislation, and of the over whelming po)ver of-the substantial interests of society. It implies a conviction on his part that these substan tial interests are it law of society, and it imposes on him the obligation to study them, and conform himself thereto. He has again admitted, as in 1829, the in adequacy of a much cherished law, which he has strenu ously maintained,, to answer its intended purpose, and has been thus compelled again to lay violent hands on his own political greatness, and the ascendency of his party. We have on two or three occasions distinctly charged him with appealing to the passions and prejudices of the landowners, and with exciting their alarms, as in his re ferences to the corn which might possibly be grown in Denmark, and as to the effect of 2,000,000 of acres of land being thrown out of cultivation by free trade. We have accused him of dealing in House of Com mons clap-traps, and of having for his party purposes exaggerated all the possible evils of putting an end to the bread-tax. Now on Wednesday night he avowed that his present measure was as large a one as he could carry He said -1 believe the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. C. Buller) wishes for an ultimate repeal, yet he wishes them to act with caution, and not excite aprehensions in the minds of the agriculturists. I kne w th at my proposition would not have that effect; and if the Hon. Gentleman had seen the communications I have re ceived, I think he would think that I have advanced as far as I possibly could without raising those apprehensions. It was I therefore on thi s account that anticipated his vote to-night in opposition to the Hon. Gentleman. I am sure that if I had gone much further those apprehensions which the Hon. Gen tleman fears would have been fulfilled. He implied, therefore, that a larger measure than his resolutions would be beneficial and just, and he admitted, as the servant of the landlords, that he is only allowed to give the little he offers. But he has, for his own purposes, now and on former occasions, strengthened the prejudices and excited the alarm of the landlords, to whom he succumbs ; thus is he made powerless to do good, thus is he rendered im potent to benefit the nation, and soon must he give up a helm which he has obtained by most unworthy means. Thus is his political character and power de stroyed by those very prejudices and passions in the landed aristocracy, which he, for the sake of getting office, has nourished into strength. Who shall doubt the moral government of the world, when schemers, even when they appear at the height of prosperity, are thus caught in their own toils, and doomed to pass a sentence of condemnation on themselves ? On Wednesday Sir ROBERT, with his usual cun ning, made great use of the concessions of his oppo nents, though he was well aware of their worthless ness. Mr. M. Plumps adniitted over-trading and too great &cities of banking prior to 1838. But what have such temporary and fleeting causes, which might involve a flew persons in difficulty, to do with the wide-spread distress which now pervades the entire empire ? The banking system of Scotland has undergone no alteration, and Sir ROBERT PEEL will hardly affirm that the over-speculation in Lancashire in 1836 and 1387 caused the ruin of Paisley, and the want of trade at Aberdeen and Arbroath in 1841. So Sir ROBERT PEEL seized hold of the acknow ledged prosperity of 1832 to 1837 to prove that pros perity might exist under the Corn-laws ; but he ought not to have forgotten that the country was rejoicing at that period under great remissions of taxation, as well as abundant harvests. As a statesman he was bound to look at the terrible vicissitudes to which every branch of industry has been continually sub jected during the last twenty-seven years, though the country has been at peace, and the people uniformly industrious and orderly. From that general failure he ought to have concluded that there must be some general disturbing cause in operation—something wrong in our legislation, when the exertions of the nation have been as mistaken as a lover's fancies, and have continually run into fitful speculations or sunk into paralysed helplessness. It is his business to find out thi B cause, and remove it ; for that he has pay and power ; he contented himself with showing up Mr. GREG. He abdicated the functions of a statesman to assume those of a pettifogging disputant. He quoted Mr. RICARDO, too, as the advocate of protection ; he forgot to say that Mr. RICARDO founded his argument on the land being subject to tithes, the burden of which increases with the gross produce, while, since Mr. RICARDO wrote, the tithes have been commuted, and are not henceforth to increase in quantity. He omitted to notice that prices have since settled down, with many ruinous fluctuations, at least 25 per cent. He forgot also to state that poor-rates have been forcibly reduced in the proportion of frOm 8,000,0001. to 5,000,0001., and that every tax, even to that of shepherds' dogs, which weighed exclusively on the agriculturists, has been repealed. To quote Mr. Ricanno,- at present, as an authority for a law to tax the people's food on account of the burdens borne by the land, without taking any notice of these changes, must be attributed, not to the ignorance, but to the disingenuousness of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Sir ROBERT PEEL based another great argument, which pervaded all his speech—from his first notice of the new mills mentioned by Mr. HORNER, to nearly the end of it—on the increasing employ ment in the manufacturing districts. He admitted the distress, but when he found 94 new mills had been built in Lancashire only, when he found that the con sumption of cotton had increased in 1840 to 175,000,0001b5., he concluded that the distress was evanescent, trifling, much exaggerated, and one of those petty disturbances of the social system, which are compatible with general prosperity, and would soon pass away. But if the distress he now great, in spite of all this additional employment, what would it have been had these mills not been built ? • To erect them, and to fill them with machinery,• gave employment to a great number of persons ; to work them after they were erected, employed an additional number. To manufacture all the cotton in 1840 mentioned by Sir It PEEL must have given work to upwards of a mil lion persons. Notwithstanding that, there was great distress, what, we ask Sir R. PEEL, and his cheering landlords, would have been the overwhelming distress, had this cotton not been worked up ? The manufacturers did not call the pauper popu lation of Ireland and agricultural England into ex istence; they only provided work for them as long as they could. They continue to provide work for them as much as they can, and because they are not able to go forward as rapidly as they did from 1832 to 1837—because their prosperity is nipped and destroyed by the Corn-law, the Prime Minister reproaches them 'with having caused the national dis tress by ovr-speculation and over-production. We have before convicted him of disingenuousness—We have now convicted him, we think, of gross injustice. We might easily add to our catalogue of his offences against good taste and morals, but we give him over to the contempt of the hungry populace, whom his new modification of the Corn-law outrages, and to the cen sure of the manufacturers, to whom his reasoning and his language are an insult. - AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE AND SHIPPING IN NORTH ERN EUROPE.—A paper has just been published, by order of the House of Commons, under this title, which extends to 63 pages, and must have cost a considerable sum of money to print it. The facts it contains, which are nicely disposed in a tabular and columnar form, are summed up by the author of the paper, at the end, somewhat to the following effect :—Should our Corn laws be abolished, Belgium can supply England with no material increase of agricu.tural produce. Neither can Holland. Bremen, as the port of Hanover and Hesse, might. supply a little more. From HambiFgh Some increase might take place. Kiel, It is possible, might send us from 25 to 30 per cent. more food than at present. Lubeck the same. Rostock the same. From . these ports, however, we can get only the produce of Holstein, Mecklenburgh, and Lunenburg, the whole of which, could it be spared—the amount they have supplied is about 150,000 quarters—could scarcely suffice to feed our people for a single week. Stettin, no increase. Dantzie, no material increase in a seasonable time ; but there are districts in Poland and Prussia which might be cultivated. There is news for the people of Eng land worth paying for ! Elsinore might increase ittex- I ports of food about 25 per cent. Was it neces ' sary to send a political agent to the Continent to gather this information, and was a large folio re quired to make known to the people of England that these several places could not immediately send any great additional supplies of food ? We have already stated that fact months ago in The Sun. To grow corn, the ground must be prepared, and cultivation cannot be ex tended in an hour ; and were the Corn-laws to be abo lished to-morrow, there is no part of the world from which we could immediately procure any large additional supply of food. Who the wonderfully sagacious man may be who has provided the public with this informa— tion at so considerable a cost, we are not exactly aware, but we see that his report is dated from the ADMIRALTY, and that the Comptroller of victualling and transport ser vices is called, like the reporter, James Meek, Esq. Can it be that he had been spared from his duties at the Ad miralty to visit the Continent to gather that informa tion? Must the people of England give this Mr. Meek two salaries for such service ? Is his Comptrollership a sinecure? At least we can sa y th a t if hi s l a b ours i n t h e victualling and transport office are of no more value to o t the e t p ie u 3l c Continent, his a l r e t s h e e a r p c u h b e l s into o n t h e y e p i s r oduc iN terriblye polv er wasteds which goes into the pockets of Mr. Meek. When new taxes are to be levied., the people have a great right to complain of the manner in which their resources are squandered by such silly missions as this on which Mr. Gladstone has sent Mr. Meek, and in procuring such valueless, though expensive information, as is contained in those 63 pages. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Bermondsey was held at the Working-man's Church, Dock-head, last Thursday evening, for the purpose of discussing Sir Ro bert Peel's sliding scale Corn-law, and while Mr. M'Doual, a Scotch delegate, was condemning such a scale, the floor of the Church gave way, and before the crowd could say " Doctor," they suddenly slid down to the lower region, exclaiming this is Sir Robert's general sliding scale. Fortunately no one was hurt. THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY.---On Monday the an nual assembly of the Proprietors of this Company was held at the London Tavern, Benjamin Hawes, Esq., in the chair. The Re. port was read by the seeretary, from which it appeared that this stupendous work is now nearly ready for public use, there being but the entrances to the tunnel to be made. That on the Wapping side had been contracted for by Messrs. Grissell and Pcto, to be completed in about three months, after which that on the Rotherhithe side would be undertaken. The works remained secure, and had not settled in the slightest degree throughout the tunnel, a length of 1,200 feet. The Report alluded with gratitude to the assistance the Com. Pliny had received from Government under various Adminis trations, and the able manner in which the object had been advocated in the public journals. The balance sheet from the Ist of J anuary to t h e 31 st o f D ecem b er , 1841, was, receipts 5 . 3521 . I gs. 4d. (in which were the sum of 1,6991. 155. from visitors, and from the sale of books, 1251.), and payments, 1,9901. 14s. 3d., leaving a balance of 3,362/. ss. Id. In the Bank of England the funds were 31,3601. 13r. 9d., and the payments 21,124/. Ss. 4d., l eav i ng a balance in hand 1,36/. ss. sd. The sums owing were 2,400/. The Report and accounts were adopted. The Chairman regretted the decease of Mr. Hyde Wallaston, who had been one of the first promoters of the undertaking, and stated, in reply to a . Proprietor, th at he could not- exactly say when the carriage-way would be opened to the- public, the present arrange ment being only for the footway, and th at he hoped the Govern. meet would be induced, on the work b e i ng opened to the pu b l i c, to give up a portion of the toll, in order that score retvrp might be made to the Proprietor,. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1842. and meeting with a butcher and a calf, in a pa roxysm of humanity they give the Calf' its free dom, and then hurry on in search of other ad ventures ; in the course of which expedition of discovery, they suddenly find themselves in the midst of a game preserve—a circumstance thus poetically alluded to by Dashem " We've got into the game seraglio Of some great Turk ; should he o'erhaul you, His Janissaries are not the folks To pay night-trespassers with jokes: Yon wigwam, or whate'er the word is, The mansion-house of no small lord is ; And, hark ! d'ye hear that sound? A whistle! The keepers- are on us—let us mizzle The epithet " mizzle " has an . elegant pro priety—not to say melody—about it, that must strike even the most unobservant reader. The sequel of the adventure is described in terms not less chaste and euphonious:— " This hint being fortunately taken, •They turned away, and saved their bacon." But Zachary was not always so lucky as in this instance, for having made himself obnoxious to the authorities by his Reform crotchets, the Lord Chancellor, " With a view to keep things quiet, Issued his peremptory fiat, Engrossed and sealed—and Boots was bid to Deliver it quickly, which Boots did do." • The consequence of this punctuality on the part of Boots was, that Zachary Cobble was arrested for sedition, and brought to trial before a jury of his countrymen, one of whom was so clever a fellow that he could actually "By dark chiromancy tall for Of a prize ox what his rump would sell for," a species of information which must have been peculiarly acceptable to the prize ox. Of another of the jury we are told that " A tidleywink shop once he kept 'Till by John Doe scoured out and swept." When the evidence had been all gone through, the prisoner, • " Who first as dumb As patience sat, and looked as glum As a bull surveying a raw beefsteak, Broke all at once into a fresh freak," and delivered a long speech by way of defence, which so electrified the jury, that they unani mously gave a verdict in his favour—a cheering incident, which relieves the reader from a load of apprehension, and forms an appropriate ter mination to the poem. Such is Zachary Cobble," a ridiculous, and, in some respects; an incomprehensible performance, wherein sound is substituted for sense; and similes introduced, which are distinguished for nothing so much as their utter dissimilitude. As for humour or fancy, there is hardly an atom of either in the whole work, and even the rhymes - hobble un— like an old man on crutches—without grace, ease, or spirit. The best thing in the poem is the word " Finis" at the end of the last line. THE BOOK OF THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH. London, Cleave. This is a well-timed, useful publication. Its ob ject is to instruct the people as to the worldly qualities of the poor man's Church. The author's intention of instituting an impartial and ingenious examination of the principles and practices of the Church is carefully carried out ; and the conclu sion he arrives at, " That the Church is a cun ningly devised system of anti-Christ, alike ini mical to the temporal welfare and the spiritual interests of mankind," is borne out by the facts he adduces. As the book is at once cheap and full of information, it will become the manual of all Church Reformers. We shall quote a short passage, made up of extracts from works lying beyond the ordinary reading of most persons, to show the secular and purely political character of the Church : We have a fine illustration of the light in which the digni fied clergy themselves regard their position in the Establish ment, and of the real objects they aim at, in what Archbishop Wake said :—" As for myself," he writes to M. Beauvoir, "as Archbishop of Canterbury, I have more power, larger privileges, and greater 'authority than any of their Arch bishops; from which, by the grace of God, I Will not depart, no, not for the sake of an union with them." And, again, in a postcript to the same, he says, " Did Cardinal Nenailles know what authority the Archbishop of Canter bury has got by the Reformation, and how much greater a man he is now than when he was the Pope's legatus flatus, it might encourage him to follow so good a pattern ; and be as sured, in that case, he would lose nothing by sending back his Cardinal's cap to Rome. I doubt your doctors know little of these matters." In concluding this part of the subject, are request attention to the following extracts from the writings of Churchmen themselves, in proof of.secular and purely political character of the Church Establishment : Bisnor WARBUILTON—" At the Reformation, the Church resigned its independence, made the Chief Magistrate its su preme head—and now, without his approbation and allowance, can neither do nor decree anything." DEAN PRIDEAUt What power the Pope had used, was the'abrogation;of the Papal authority in this realm, trans ferred to the King by the statutes." Chri4tian Kings have spiritual dominion or supreme power in ecclesiastical affairs and causes; and, within their own precinct, an authority and power to command, even in matters of Christian religion." BLACKSTONE—" The Parliament of Britain can al* the established religion of the land ; as was done in a variety of instances in the reigns of Henry VIII. and his children." BISHOP VAN 111)LDERT—" Even over her own member° her control is very limited, and entirely subject to the legislative and executive authorities of the country." BisHisr LOWTH--," It pleased God, in his unsearchable wisdom, to suffer the progress of the Reformation to he stepped in the midtvag."—Visitation Sermon, 1758. , Da. HENRY MORE—" The Reformed Churches have sepa rated from the great Babylon to build those that are lesser and more tolerable, but not to be tolerated for ever."—Myst. of Iniquity, p. 553. BLAcKwoon's MAGAZINE—" The business ef the Church is lumped with the other business of the Home department, and there is too much reason to believe that it is carried on with reference merely to secular ends ; and that that portion of the wealth of the Church which is at the disposal of the 'Crown, is only considered as so much, , il for greasing the wheels of Government, in order that the machine of State may roll on more smoothly,"—February, 1832. • BEVERLEY—." I am thoroughly impressed with this truth as paramount to all other truths, excepting the high mysteries of our religion, that the Church of England is a machine of anti-Christ, greatly surpassing, in the grossness of its abuses, all other jobs or systems of corruption that ever have afflicted the kingdom." LIVERPOOL STEEPLE AND HURDLE RACES. LIVERPOOL, LAST NIGHT. THE GRAND NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 100 added. (42 subs.) Mr. Elmore's Gay Lad (Oliver) 1 Sir P.Mostyn's Seventy-four (Powell) 2. Mr. Hunter's Peter Simple (Owner) 3 Mr. H. Johnstone's The Returned (Owner) 4 The following also started ;—Mr. Elmore's Lottery (1 Blbs. extra) ; Mr. Elmore's Sam - Weller ; Lord Waterford's Columbine ; Hon. C. Forester's Lady Langford ; Mr. W. Ramsay's Bangalore ; Mr. Fer- . gusson's Bannathlath ; Mr. Moore's Anonymbus ; Lord Maidstone's Satirist ; Mr. R. Ekins's Luck's- All ; Lord Clanricarde's Honesty ; and Baron Roths child's Luck's-All. Won easy by five or six lengths. THE PRINCE OF WALES' CUP Of 100 guineas, was won after a fine race by Lord Chesterfield's Claude Du Val (Hon. A. Villiers), beating Mr. Ward's Forget-me-not (Sir J. Baird) ; Mr. Moore's Game Chicken (owner), and Mr. Tom linsues Jem along Josey (owner). COURT CIRCULAR. BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.—SOOII after nine o'clock this morning a tremendous storm of wind and rain com menced, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane from the south-west ; but notwithstanding ,the sea was dashing over the head of the Chain Pier and the cliff's, and the rain continuing to pour in torrents, her Majesty and Prince Albert have ventured out. Prince Albert, accompanied by Duke Ferdinand, the Princes Augustus and Paul Leopold, walked out along the Marine Parade, and afterwards on the Chain Pier. There was scarcely a carriage or person to be seen on the cliffs, in consequence of the severity of the weather. The earl orLiverpool left 'thy Pavilion this morning for hik4at;Vxted Park, where' it is expected her Ma jesty will }amour him With a visit: • Her Majesty and PrinCe Albert_ left 'the Palace this .afternoon in a close carriage, unattended, and proceeded along the . elo444sl,view. the fury of the ocean. The Prince-of—Wales and the Princess Royal have been confined to . the Pavilion by the weather. His Royal -lighness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royo Higlutess the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Gloucester House. The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the City Remem braneer, . had, an audience of his Royal. Highness the Duke of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday.afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the, Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharneliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aber deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Lord Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat two hours and a half. _ Mr. d:B yn g , M.P., and a Deputation on the subject of Metropolitan Improvements, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Duke of Bucchtuch has arrived in town from the north. _ The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Haddington have returned to town from Portsmouth. Lady Peel had a soiree last evening at her residence in Whitehall Gardens. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. honoured her Ladyship with his com pany. A. very numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry were present. A correspondent who writes . from. Ripon, complains that Mr. Roebuck should have deserted his post without a pair, when the division on Mr. Villier's =Mien took plaCe, and gone devil to attend the Bradford Seolona. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. lton'a masque of Comus, which was represented fot the firs t time after it littl been written at Ludlow Castle, in 1643, before John, Duke of tildgrater, then President of Wales, was revived at this theatre last night, Considering how little this composition of Milton approximates even to tile ordinary run of masques, which during the times of the Illiddrs qhlefly were noticeable for their coarse drolleries, it was to he coifed that lofty sentiment, such as embodied in Comus and the statuesque character of its heroine, would be but ill adapted for dramatic effect, and as the spectacle was cmaposed of the triple combinations of performance, music, and scenery, we shall consecutively notice each. Mrs. Walter Lacy enacted the Lady, but her study of the character does not appear to us absolutely conso nant with the poet's conception. The idea of a solemn and stately personage, whose form, no less than whose words, are characterised by the most majestic severity, whose countenance should bear the very sign and im press of the " innuba Pallas"—the unwedded and chaste daughter of Wisdom, and whose tongue was armed with the august reprimands of virtue—this was the just ima gination of the Bard. But Mrs. Lacy, renouncing the philosophic dignity of the vestal, invested her entire part with passion and ejaculation, a posture into which Mil ton's Lady never falls. Even the " sacred flame of ve hemence" is not kindled in her, but only hinted at prospectively in the original. Mr.f Harrison's Comus was, for the most part, commendable, but in the fine temptation-scene, his delivery of the passage " What need of vermeil-tinctured lips for that,— Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ? was not true. As the son of the `Vine-god, that being his genealogy, he should have thrown rich fervour into his lineaments, and, as born of Circe the Siren, the most voluptuous of the wooer's tones into his utterance. Among the groupings in the first scene was one singularly elegant of the firs'. Bacchante (Madame Vestris). Another picturesque tutbau also, was in the leaping forwards, as if from the far-hills, of four cymbal-dancers, whose evolu tions of limb were masterly. Leffler, was a gorgeous personification of "laughter, holding both his sides." His " suiting the action to the word' "—his rotundity of form and voice, and the heartiness and capacity of the last, conveyed themselves so effectually to the chorus that surrounded him, that it appeared as if fifty waist bands were about to be burst, and the latchets .of as many shces split asunder. The ordeal which the Lady is obliged to undergo while .seated in the charmed chair would have been tedious, but for the truly magni ficent scenery, and constructive devices which the new adaptation has introduced, though the " winter-scene " needs seriously to be yet curtailed. The first scene; conjured up by the arch-enchanter Comus, to act upon her senses, is a Corinthian hall, with flower•wreathed pillars and arches : this bland scene of beauty failing to subdue her nerves to acquiescence, the chilling aspects of a northern clime are summoned around I.er, peaks and icy precipices, with glistening stalactites depending these being still as vain in effect, a charming prospec tive, with the side-scenes consisting of golden trellises, and forming a sumptuous hall, constitute the enchant ment that encircles her, when rescued by her ,two brothers. But these, exquisite as they were, found themselves surpassed in a water-scene, at the outset, consisting of a fall of diaphanous water, with a shrine or fabric of gold above it ; and the subsequent scene in which Miss Rain forth, as the Severn-nymph Sabrina, rises in her convolute shell of jasper, under a fountain formed of five tiers of dia mond falls, and' glittering with the extreme of brilliance. But of these scenic displays, the crowning tri umph was the last, representative of the skies opened, and, round within round, the battalions of the virtuous, who with their golden shields and white-robed companies ascend step by step into infi nity : a lovelier piece of scene-painting than this, we make bold to say, cannot be produced. The Lady's ma drigal to "Echo," in which that impalpable being fur nished a counterpart to the song as warbled, was tedious, and little more than unmeaning. With regard to cos tume, dress, and decoration, nothing could be more com plete or better appointed ; and the general action and dances have in them many features of grace and symme • trical arrangement. The music of the three masters— Handel, Purcell, and Arne—appeared chiefly in frag mentary snatches and disjointed portions, to answer the purpose of adaptation to the poem, so that a continued portion of either was not expected. Mr. Harrison and Madame Vestris appeared after the curtain had dropped, and the announcement of its repe tition for further nights by the former, was coriially re:Tived by the audience. Considered in every respect, C onus is one of those intellectual treats, which, from its abstract and refined order, will find its chief favourites among higher and more recherche minds. WAR. AND THE TORIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—One great cause of the difficulties England is now struggling with, is the shameful Treaty of Peace signed by the Tories in 1815, leaving France as strong as at the commencement of the war ; so that we shall probably soon have the battle to fight over again. France never makes peace but she immediately prepares for another war. France was twice at the feet of outraged Europe. Common sense would have dictated the neces sity of crippling her, either by a diminution of her ter- ritory on the frontiers of Spain, Switzerland, the Rhine, &c., or by loading her with a portion of :our debt, in ex acting guarantee against an augmentation of her navy. Why, also, was a Commercial Treaty overlooked with her and other countries ? France, in her days of sue-• cess, nearly annihilated the different countries she sub dued. Should there be a third march to Paris, are the Tories to sign the Treaty of Peace ? 'find Napoleon obtained 'military possession of England, what would have been its fate .? War is now imminent, and the Tories in power. If they are not unseated by a general burst of indignation through the laud, those infatuated wretcheS who, at • the late general election, sold their votes for 51. or 101., will soon rue the day they touched thOse bribes: - Ten times the- suet received will soon be extracted from their pockets, and they will be fleeeed= and plunderel, if not ruined. In fact, the past folly, extraVagance; corruption, and jobbing of this party, holds out. but a dark prospect for the future. The Whigs were bad, but the Tories ten times worse.- The two parties have 'drawn England to the mouth of a volcano. Foreign nations are aware of this, and France, probably, hopes to ruin us, and produce a national bankruptcy, without firing a gun. Tier debt is not a third of our., ;' her internal resources yield a revenue equal to ours. - England's revenue, indeed, very existence, depot{ Is on ex ternal commerce. England, in case of war, can no longer look to loans. She has eaten h er ca k e . hen the rest of Europe refuses to obey the dictation of France, she has merely to order armaments by land and sea, and lo ! England is put to an expense of millions. To be pre pared, then, for these bursts of passion on the part of ance (for under whatever Government it may be, it wi 1 always be tormented with a thirst for conquest and venomous hatred to England), the most rigid economy in abolishing places and pensions is demanded. There are I know not how many retired Chancellors. Some of - them -might surely be employed, and their salaries saved. Did not the late Lord Eldon have, in land and money, about . two millions ; and, not satisfied, saddles himself on the nation with a large pension ? Is it proper, any officer in the State should have the power of realising such a fortune ? Lord Brougham, -also, the great gun and big-wig of .reform and economy, after niazing and chattering for years on these topics,retires from the scent with an additional grant of 1,0001. per annum. •to the usUil pension. At all events, these pensions should be given only to those who really want them. The Liberal Royal Duke also solicited in forma pauperis an additicin to his little salary. Billy Pitt, the Tory, the pilot w h 9l ,Taihered the storm or gathered the state, after spending seven or eight hundred million, failing in all his undertakings, dies, overwhelmed with ebts, contracted by his own carelessness, and leaves the country to pay them. Canning, after pocketing 12,000/. for a pre tended trip to Portugal, when pleading the cause and poverty of the economical Regent, afterwards George the Fourth, exclaimed that theiCommons would at length drive the poor man to dine at D'Oyly's chop-house if they were so niggardly. What stuns of public money have been paid to the Ardins and Percivals, Grenvilles and Granvilles, Wellesleys and Wellingtons, &c., &C., &c. The only real patriot who has appeared on the stage for a length of time is Lord Camden, who actually (a patriotic act unprecedented in English annals), aban doned a large portion of his pension conferred by a rapa cious Government. It 'is not meant to detract from the merit , . of many of the above, but the purse of John Bull is not in a state to admit of the drafts made upon it ; for all theSe sums are paid from the productive labour of the country ; from taxes paid on corn, tea, sugar, tobacco, &c. &c. Fifty millions per annum must be raised to pay the establishments and interest on the debt, and it is now decided by the Tories that twenty millions per annum more must be paid to protect the land and ruin the merchants. The landholders all through the war tripled their rents ; if they lived beyond their means and morgaged their lands, is it just the nation should pay for extravagance ? Some say twenty millions per annum is spent by -absentees on the Continent. To mend the matter, andit would be supposed to encourage absenteeism, the Government pays large sums to chap lains where a number of English reside. Certainly those who reside abroad should pay their Own pastors. These are trite subjects, but they cannot be too often brought forward. We are arrived at a moment that admits no longer of trifling with the people. It is trusted the general gOod sense of the, nation (if they cannot force the great physician to abandon his charge) will at least compel him to spare his patient, and the oligarchy, to come into reasonable term s; as, in a certain sense, in a general convulsion, the little man with his 1001. per annum, will be as great a sufferer as the Dukes of Nor thumberland, Wellington, &c. &c. It is p oss ibl e you may some hints in the above w or th y o f b eing find enlarged upon by your able pen.—Your's &c. A REFORMER. The frontier question of Canada was left open' and unsettled for more than half a century by the Tories, and now probably millions must be spent. France and the United States will always act together. APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE DOUSE OF LORD3.—By arrangemeLts that have been made between the Lord Chancellor, and Lords Brougham, Cottenham, and Campbell, the appeals now waiting for hearing Wore the House of Lords will be much expedited. The Lord Chancellor has arranged to be at the House to hear causes four days in one week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday ; and two days in the next week, Thursday and Friday. The ex-Chancellors Cottenham, Brougham, and Campbell, have agreed to attend four days in each week, so as to be enabled to hear appeals on the two days that the Lord Chancellor is absent. Thus, four days in every week being allotted to appeals, those interested in the causes will have not,only the advantage of four Learned Judges to adjudicate upon their causes, but will ob tain more speedy hearing than has hitherto been the case. On Saturday, two excavators employed by Messrs. Grissell and Peto, at the works of the County Courts, Cam bridge were killed by a fall of earth into a ditch which th e y were digging. The contractors liberally paid the expenses of the funerals, and ordered the wages paid to one of them to be • • • continued to his widow, till a subscription should be raised for her relief. LITERATURE. MARRIAGE. A Comedy. Longman, London, 1842. As we gave an abstract of the plot and the leading incidents of this comedy, in our notice of its first representation at the Haymarket Theatre, we shall content ourselves, on the pre sent occasion, with just saying a few words on the subject of its characters and its dialogues. And first of the former. The most life-like per sonage is undoubtedly Mr. Doubtful—a middle-. aged gentleman who has united himself to a young boarding-school girl, and, as a necessary consequence, is kept by her in a constant state of hot water. His alternate fits of distrust and confidence—of affection and coldness—of vivacity and sullenness—are discriminated by Mr. Bell in a very skilful manner. Nor are the diverting caprices of this elderly Benedick too much in sisted on, as is apt to be the case with drama tists when they get hold of a character which strikes their tancy. We have just enough of Mr. Doubtful, and no more. His young and well-meaninc , wife is .a mere nonentity, but she could scarcely have been rendered other Wise, at least with a due regard to the proprieties of na ture. Mr. Cavendish - Pause is a less happy de lineation than that of Doubtful, though some of his quaint peculiarities of sentiment and expres sion are whimsical enough, and must, oc casion much laughter on representation. Sir Harry Vivid is a character that must be well known to. the readers of Farquhar, Centlivre and Libber; he has nothing original about him, but his lively, dashing qualities are such as are always attractive on the stage. With regard to the language of the comedy, it is plain to see in every page that it has been most studiously ela borated ; and we may add that it is uniformly more remarkable for elegance and precision, than wit or vivacity. Bounding animal spirits are in deed by no means one of the chief characteristics of the comedy but it possesses— what is the next best thing to great natural sprightliness—an even, uninterrupted flow of good-humour, and sometimes, but not often, much archness and cleverness of repartee. The author must try his hand again at the drama, for his present work— though, as we have observed, by no means de void of blemishes—has no one radical defect, but gives promise of future excellence. It is not a little to Mr. Bell's credit. that he has studiously avoided every thing like clap-trap, or plays upon words. There is not a single pun or verbal quib ble in his Comedy, but such wit, and humour as it possesses, are perfectly genuine. THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES. 3 Vols. Co'burn, London. 1842. We perfectly remember the former tale of the authoress of the work before us ; it was entitled " Temptation, or a Wife's Perils," and gave a promise of ability which its successor has scarcely fulfilled. Not that the " School for Wives "is deficient in talent; its descriptions are graphic and spirited; and when the tenderer feelings are to be excited, it supplies the requisite power to a certain extent; but it fails in the constructive faculty ; and not only is this the case, but—com pared with its predecessor—it exhibits a marked decadence in point of invention. Then the characters—with the exception, perhaps, of that of the heroine, Susan .Bouverie— are, what may be called " differences without distinctions"—that is' to say, they are manufac tured after the most approved novel fashion, without being sufficiently discriminated. Had more pains been taken with the story—particu larly with the disposition of the incidents, it might have been rendered as attractive as " TeMptation ;"'but it seems to have been got up in a hurry, and as if the materials had not previously been arranged and digested in the Writer's mind, but she had trusted to the Chap ter of Accidents to make successful progress with it. The leading incidents of the story may be soon summed up. Susan Bou verie, the heroine—a most exemplary spe cimen of womankind—forms an attachment in early youth to a young man, by name Sid ney Gower, who is captivated, however, less by the charms of her person, for her exterior is something homely, than by the sweetness of her temper, and the strength and elegance of her understanding. .She returns his affection, and they are accordingly betrothed to each other, when, unfortunately, Sidney meets with the beautiful Julia Curzon, the daughter of haughty, aristocratic parents, by whom his truant feel ings.are ensnared, and whdm, after a long struggle with his conscience, he makes his wife. Charles Bouverie, the brother of the deserted Susan, instantly resolves on calling the " fickle swain " to account, Ind a duel takes place between them, in which Charles is shot dead. All this portion of the narrative is related with uncommon earnestness; and the sketch of the sister, after the death of her favourite brother, - abounds in touches of the sincerest pathos. It is indeed the redeeming fea ture of the work. In due time, Susan's exces• sive grief abates, she becomes reconciled to life ; and ultimately meets with a lover more to her taste than was the former one, in the person of Arthur Tyrrell, whom she marries, with which event the story concludes. There are several .minor .characters and incidents introduced to vary the progress of the story ; but of these we take no notice, for its principal interest cen ters in Susan Bouverie, who poSsesses all the he roism, disinterestedness, and fortitude of nature which Sir Walter Scott has exhibited in Jeanie Deans—in fact, Susan is the Jeanie of the middle classes. The story is introduced by a preface in rhyme, which displays a lively and ready power of versification. ZACHARY COBB L E, Bull, London, 1842. The author of this queer production has very happily designated it in his title-page as a " Rigmarole in Rhyme." It is a " Rigmarole," and such a one, as we do not often meet with. To give any minute critical analysis of it is impos sible, for its plot, and sometimes even its language, are as perplexing as the riddle of the SPhynx ; we must perforce, therefore, content ourselves with observing that it is a poem —or rather a string of rhymes—one hundred and fifty-eight pages and a quarter long ; and that, so far as we can gather, it concerns the adventures Of a pedantic school master, by name Zachary Cobble, who is pic turesquely described as being A stiff, hioi-shouldered, com i c fi gure , rawinrkyling haystack, eyes Called a gig- top, but som ew h a t bi gger ; LH(Tiiksheeu thepe pase easier story or ot o. f or all on e way stuc k fh his twinkling an To twinkle converse with the skies), And from its rear was seen to shoot A little bit of tail, or root, Powder'd all o'er, whence his large mind Its alimentary stores purloined." • To say nothing of the exquisite taste and pro priety exhibited in the comparison of a man's head and shoulders with a " haystack;" what is to be thought of the assertion that Zachary Cob ble's mind " its alimentary stores purloined" from his pig-tail? He must have had an extra ' dinary intellect to derive nourishment from such a source. But indeed he seems to have been a queer genius altogether, for we find him, in the earlier portions of the poem, bent on reforming the world, by means of his own personal exer tions and:those of his illegitimate son, Dashem promising stripling, whose duties in. his father's school=room are thus sportively defined " Ilis . duty was to hold down breeches, And clear the way for stripes and switches, To run as powder-monkey, 'tween , • The embrasure and the magazinit; And when retreating signal sounded, To button and bind up the wounded." This gifted couple, father and son, set out, like Htfdibras and his squire, Ralpho, one fine morning in search of adventures, chiefly in con sequence of a dream which old Cobble had had a few nights before, i n which dream a spirit ap peared before him; and after playing him a va riety of droll pranks, " Bore him upwards with a whistle That set his brains all in a f rizzle." On awaking up from this unple asant dream, o ld Zachary finds himself as chilly as an iceber g , which gives the author an opportunity of dis playing his aphoristic powers of thought in the following terse and pregnant couplet : . ~ Evaporation is a process That cools men's minds as well as noses." It was some time, however, before our hero's mind---,whatever may have been the case with his nose—was thoroughly cooled, for it seems. that, among other things, he had dreamed that lie was married, which naturally put him into a state of effervescence; and lie could with diffi culty reconcile hims e lf to the fact that, " The greetings of his wedded„ spouse Were all a visionary chow. `We pause he r e, f or the purpose of directing the reader's specialatrteefintnioed the expression ? Butn to the perfect grace a n d beauty of the word " chouset" How poetiCal the idea ! How fatherthey leave having t faultless as it is, it is scarcely superior to a dia logue w hi c h takes place between thetsve moenCobble, after they father, a n d D as h en i, t h e so forth asked the their ae sonirgu expedition.question ion guess ofmoral Th some puzzling riddle, involving e right, th e so n mo d est l y a nd classically replies, _ • " That's a pretty go, How _should I, I should like to know ;" wherenPottold ("Able delicately intimates that Dashem ii - anaSS-; After some further conversa tion the two enthusiasts for moral and political improvement jog quietly along the high ma, AMERIC NN NEWS ':?4 LIVERPOOL, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING. ,; H By the arrintl of the New York packet - sh i p Unitea---14, States, Captain Britton, at this port late this evening we are in possession of New York papers ,to the day of her Nailing, the 14th of 1 4 6ruary, inclusive; • and from other ports t.o a late date also. The Units unit o.k States has made a capital passage' of 16 days. From the New York Express, Feb 14. Tux " Boz" MANIA.—On Saturday, Mr. Dickens. reached 0, the city from New Haven, in the New Haven steam-boate s f'• at the wharf he was met by a detachment from the " Boz Cor d mittee, from whence, in a carriage, he was escorted, Mussel and lady, to the Carlton-house. The " Box" fever rages as merrily as ever in this city, and it is seldom that there has been so much excitement about any ,„i thing or anbody. There is the greatest curosity to see this Boz, and he has no rest for his weary limbs.. Committees haunt him at his tarrying place, and individuals thrust them- 41 selves upon his presence, as if but to touch the hem of his gar ment, or to be within the atmosphere of his ,presence, was, 0 Mr. Van Buren once had it, " glory enough." Grave seniors Pv are on tiptoe to see Boz; the ladies, old and young, mistress ad and miss, are " dy . ing," to use their own phraseology, for a sight—and, what is remarkable, all cliques and classes claiT him -as their own, the Loafers in particular deeming " Bra one of themselves ! '1 he interior, too, has got the Mania. Our country friends are flocking, bag and baggage, everybody expecting to go to the Boz Ball, but many a body sadly dis• appointed, as tickets are not to be got for love or Inoneys or • if money, not without an enormous quantity of it , contid eriug the object got by it. Mr. Dickens must not , attribute all this flurry and fa -de' rol to wrong causes. We love excitement in this country. A spasm is necessary, every now and then, for our ,very ex " istence. Politics, our usual resource, are at a dead halt, .an there is no sort of interest attached to the agitation of then' 1 ,1 1 just now. We want a Lion—we want a Ball—we want amuse" . 4) ment, fun, and frolic, and the " Boz " comes along ,- just the right time for us to base the very best of excuses to hay* ' l ,, all of them. . ; In pursuance of these feelings, there are the greatest effol , f ir ` to turn Boz's presence to the best account, to make the snasi .1 of him, and wherewithal, to do him as much honour as possiblealV't Box, however, is but an incident in the general movement , ,ft Buz is but a man of to-day, and passes off the stage to-morrow. The book publishers thus, are working their presses day a nd ,to n'ght to supply the demand for Pickwick, Oliver Twist, Bar' naby Rudge, &c. The milline s are delighted amazingly that . 11 7, something has got along to give the greatest animation to their •)0' trade. The news-boys rejoice that there is a new tune for them to pitch. An excitem , nt is got up, and an excitement is a treasure to them, The shopkeepers, too, have their harvest si t of Boz, and more or less, all trades thrive. Thus, all cry " Bob" " Boz," " Boz," and " Box " is made the greatest lion that , ever., L. trod the streets of New York. ~d The Box Ball to night, no doubt., will be one of the most magnificent affairs ever got up in New York. There willbo , ° full 2,500 persons present,'if not 3,000. THE COURSE OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.—The Oppositioalori Members of the Ohio Legislature, that is to say , the late , Buren men, have passed ,resolntions in the Senate (ayes / 90 ,0 , noes 17), and in the House (ayes 33, noes 29), pronounei4 l ' l , l Mr. Adams deserving the merited censure of his - countryme9s 13 and the indignant disapprobation of the House. It was at c a l .d midnight session 1 efore these resolutions were got througl!, a n after hot and indignant resistance on the part of the Wbie Per contra, in Rochester, N. Y., the.people, without distme; tion of party, have had a meeting approving his course ; an d in Brooklyn a similar meeting is talked of. th WE THOUGHT IT WOULD COME TO THIS. —The Psymo u- Rock says We leave been favoured by a young lady vith the reading of a copy of a letter from ' Boz,' in reply to a re', quest made by some three or four Plymouth ladies , f or a 1"' of Dickens's hair. He declines a compliance with"that re' quest, because it would afford a precedent which, if .followed' would shortly result in total baldness. Boz couched his letter in very pretty terms, and his reply was a proper one." (From the New Orleans Bee.) LATE FROM MEXICO. BARBAROUS TI,EATMENT OF THE TEXIAN CAFTI/ 16 f arJ AND AMERICAN PRISONERS.—We, yesterday, held an terview with a gentleman, just from the City of Mexico, informs us that ninety of the Texian captives had reached tufi:▪ ' place, some days before his departure. They were brought o i l in a most wretched condition, having been marched barefouteut and almost naked from the place of their capture. Amon,t the prisoners was the son of General Leslie Coombs.' 14- charity of the foreigners in the city furnished them some j emery apparel. So far from receiving humane treatment fr° l ; • J Santa Anna, as reported, they were chained in pairs , and ot", compelled to work in the streets as common felons. Ou t formant assures us that the resident Ministers of foreign o°2' tries, had interfered, in an informal manner, to arrest this u` s :. '3 graceful and barbarous treatment, without success. Yon Coombs was extremely ill ; his constitution had :3 too frail to endure the cruelties to which he hatile e . subjected. The accounts of the treachery resorted to, to car; ture the expedition are confirmed. Mr. Kendall had 'itb - reached Mexico ; he was expected daily in company about 200 Texians. Mr. Ellis, our Minister at Mexico , demanded young Coombs as a citizen of the United States , that a week had elapsed without his receiving any resPle from the Government. We have read a number of Fei ss ao letters that speak of the sufferings of the captives as wastl A• palling. There has been no clemency shown to the citisellsi., the . United States. The general belief in the city vrits,,,!rei nothing short of force would ameliorate the condit ion so prisoners, and that all would be treated alike. Bes ides we have been favoured with the perusal of official document detailing the circumstances of the capture of the expedoT4ts and the march of the prisoners to Mexico, which exhibit krfr i fW finement of treachery, a hardihood of perfidy, cruelty, arrogance, and rapacity on the part a orthe in ffirs cie F s° scarcely equalled by the barbarity of their forefathers taw aids : the helpless aborigines whom they have subjected to eves cies of torture, and slaughtered in very amusement. for‘mvaenlteam,:tthAaltr.GLeunmerastilenpabreadtweeze,nhVithereartoCauz and t he elt Y ' Crux 6 Mexico. Anna is getting up a revol u tio n i n th e f o rth the ruthless tyrant.ts h The stestner Forth is to be at th e Beliza on the a when the Oetotara will take -own her letter-bags and IN -- gers —New Orleans Bulletin. RIGHT -OF SEARCH.—We learn that the ship Henri! vii; to partisan y o e f r ri n ti t this port from Vera Cruz, while at that port, was visitedilLou officer from an English vessel of war, who claimed sev,,c the t the crew of the Henry as being British sailors. We I " w ill learn that the said searching officer was lowered against his into his boat, and suffered to depart.—lbid. ae L p prs LATER FROM VERA CRUZ.—The New Orleans eo! the 2d inst. contain advices from Vera Cruz -- to the - t he ' January. It having been reported in Mexico that man y of. e , priests of Spain were making arrangements to com e to A1ex,,..„ where an asylum had been offered to them by the Dies clergy, the Minister of Justice issued a decree forbiddiPg 'i co . being considered as belonging to the regular clergy of .;Alen t ips •A condecta of 975,242 , dol. left the city of Mexico en , ,• Bth of January for Vera Cruz. POW FROM FAYAL.—RELICS Or THE STEAM Sul? - 1 .0 DENT.—The schooner Mokina, arrived last night in 21, from the Cape de Verds, reports that the stern boat of tlUliii fated steam-ship President, and some of her water coke , (, N O been picled up by a vessel, and carried into St. Nicholv. `;',, way of accounting for the floating of these articles is , that ; ship when fonndered, carried down her boats (which. Pr cib b i were lashed on deck), and of course the water cask s vv , t ' were under decks and that by some great commotion el o p ocean, the wreck had been broken up and they floate d t b s The Mokina also reports the loss of a British brig. I ' l at s, very valuable cargo of merchandise, bound for the River r _. on the Hartwell Reef—all hands saved, and half of the car t.* An Am rican ship (no name given) loaded with irOn.t'ijie Sweden, sunk about 80 miles to the westward of Fayal• , he ir was bound for Boston. The captain and crew left her ill boats, and had arrived at Fa)al. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. ( From the New York Express.) 1 4, SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE—Fss• 1,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds Sixes, 1860 .. ces,h 2,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds .. . case 81 1,000 Ditto New York Fives, 1862 cash 661 1,250 Ditto Corporation Sixes, 1843... -•" 9 i . 2. 2,000 Ditto Ex. on Philadelphia . c ob ..7 4,000 Ditto Kentucky Sixes ................ .90 100 Shares Delaware and Hudson 4 . 06 ejl 25 Ditto Farmers' Loan... "' a 0 50 Ditto Mechanics' Bank ... 6 mos 90 50 Ditto Butchers' and Drovers' Bank ......... s 0 lei 50 Ditto Canton Co. 25 Ditto Mohawk Railroad 75 Ditto Harlem Railraad 80 Ditto New Jersey Railroad ••• •• •• '..c : 4'5. h. 4:1 1 599 : 25 Ditto Stonington Railroad ................ . ...... 0 20 Ditto Ohio Life and Trust Co ......s 6 4 1, ei, 75 Ditto Boston and Providence Railroad •.., 6v 10 1 ; 10 Ditto New York Ins. Co. .... . ... .... ....•• 15 12 Ditto New York and Erie Railroad .. . . ..... ..• gi 30 Ditto N. River Ins. Co. . ........... . ... . . SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 1 -1 1 1 4,000 Dols. Indiana Sterling Bonds -f, .1e 1,000 Ditto Illinois Bondi . . , -i.,•• 40 2,000 Ditto '' . , sls ' '`O'l 16 50 Shares Long lidatul - Railroad • .5 0 BSI 50 Ditto Delaware and Hudson • 0 1 Ashes.—The sales of Pots MARKETS. ve ha been at 6 50, but a held b one house at 7. Pear Is 5 75—Lno f o r tb e Cott y on.—The market is firm and active, particuler'Y good qualities. Flour.—The Market is very steady at 6,371. , 0, 4 ; Grain.—Further sales of Illinois Wheat have bee n , g ;, 0 0- for Milling 4,000 Michigan and Ohio, 1,21 1 ; Sou ts ' e. ,„. at 47 cts ; Corn 59a 60c. Copper.—The recent sale of pig Copper was made et I No change in any other article. thanT HE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—The result ° i t _ f fire in was T a u t do fi r rs .s t t i r m ee a t gi o n n ed :fue T sd h a e y h v o e i n e i r fl a g n , g e l S o f f a p r r i e n rn °r i e w ,..: er i f it e e : the property of the governors of Bridewell Hospita",ero although Mr. Davidson was the responsible tenant , i le iliere portions of the building were underlet to other parties. h is no doubt that the fire originated in the first floor, %h ie O s ' tenanted by Messrs. Hare and Co , machine-rulerg*.ous t t workmen had only left the the rooms a . few minutes pr ruts the discovery of the fire, and the beliet is, that a 'Pt' . l ape A among; r have fallen from one of their candles mer** th* e i,l ll : shavings on the floor. Mr. Davidson is not his loss is enorous. M. Hare are insured 7 Hand-in-Hand Fire-office for essrs 300/. but their loss to . 7, s tio greater. Mr. Hodson, the bookseller, of Fleet-streeccts, sod had taken a part f the premises only ten days ' . .t r etyP g had just completed removing a valuable stock of a' t j plates and printing materials, has lost prop , rty e l4 :„,t ort near& of 2,00 CL, and is uninsured. Messrs. It f'?' a ], o re; Edmonds, bookbinders, of Paternoster-row, who baa cently fitted up a portion of the building fur the Purr". .0 0 carrying on the new description of India-rubber bindiog,; ' t he/ had much valvable machinery destroyed, but it is belleveca't o fr are insured. Mr. Priest, the furniture dealer, is a g r ia ni°: ferer by the catastrophe. He had been fully insure,;t we d hi, years up to January last, when he unfortunately auo cup policy to lahme. The adjoini' g house in Water-street, °;,, by Mr. Ward, builder, has been slightly injtired bb the whole of his furniture very much damaged bY ` cat . e . .. r tr a :e 't Edw aru i.to e removal. The backs of several houses in King are also Mulch burnt. It is said that in consequence 0 sfo r imperfection in the flue connected with the steam-eng'n__e;, pre' ral fire offices have refused to insure Mr. Davidson at r.' fi reo f mium, and this may account for what would etherwis° somewhat i:aexcusable neglect. ,i roufle MASTER OWEN AS RICHARD 111.--Thirtoriiied Roscius, whose Norval, in the tragedy of Dougiqs , P_ e s i , gret a him at the age of twelve, at the Newcastle theatre, wdiatocatro'r-: vourite ; and who, a ft er attracting at the other Pro/ In a , c i brol 4 To t was engaged by the late Mr. Davidge, in 1838- 9, t ° s ale kti o °P val, Achmet, in Barbarossa, and finally Oliver Twisit ac dp; to character he repeated for nearly 1 50 nights, is nc.v. copors,, part of Richard the Third, at the TilC.ltre_RoYal, P 910410 crowded audiences. TheAramatic power and skilf.t4 lo 9- sc ;: , into his part, draws &Atm great aPplausf Disbar. ROy AL Therm ( 133.1 om Aorni n t 1 n~ g . Yorl, exei b e 0. "E ,Ev e st ; " i; %re I Od e , kNy ol) e