The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-31 00:00:00

EtCULAR. The Queen and Prince ounds of the Home Par i° k . , and the Prince of lirs eo taken airings , and also Kent, attende d by SAili !arriage and four. enb me et at Salt hill, st: „, Cantilupe, an d 31r. O•P' lop returned to the 1 het ;y and Prince Albe yiih aeton , his Roy alto l fir the Countess Develit, 4dies Elizabeth and - 'L ori ' a nd the Earl of Waralr lonel Buckley, Sir 1-03°. L horseback. George of Cambridge„, : 0 her Majesty. --14 and the band Of the 10 ill be in attendance ar.!! Lke of Cambridge, attegaij It nine o'clock yesterl of Rutland a id' a l'iS lS .stershire. Duchess od the Pilo ' tended by Baroa v u ow yesterday, on a visi t trathfieldsaye, Hants. O uchess of Gloucester LT ger, on Tuesday, at PP' id an interview with • iiil 11; Slr v with his Lordship, Y" 0 13 s and journeym en boot nsisting of Messrs• lad win, J. I)avio6, 1 Sketton, ith the Earl of RiP°ll' oard of Trade. irs. Fr y had an Wert., • at the Colonial -oe' yeli esident of the Coane 'Wortley Hall, Yo lead rkslo Colonel Feilding °!al. Co lor' yesterday at t he t aL O [chequer returns to ro enor o f Gibraltar -e aial-office. rELIAGEP isto) E CHASES ( 6°Sc- DAY. , value 2001. .................. n ....................... .00,1 ow and unsatisfseoll,Diel! was won by T [r. Herbert's P ic ' to° d the attendance 0- f , ad RACES.—T IO° Y,i,O I. sous each, 10 ft• fi t t isir miles. Gentl o f iler! •or, 3 yrs, Bst 9 1 (F; .? t ermeley, aged, . 0 ,, Gratitude, 3 yr 3" ) i , Bst 61b ........... 'rs, lOst 121 b d 101. to.the scow' ad a distance: I 5 yrs, llst lib ••• o '1 yrs, llstllb ..... • 0 . yrs, llgt 91b ...... t e o d list 11b ........... • 0 1 1 ., 4 3, of 25 sovs. ea c " 3 h 501. added. 0110101 11 subs. of who'll rs llst 51b ..... . . (h b) 12st ....... 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Cou t riV 0001. perbY,arn(v , earwell,clbY ' ~ „ ,;iii q. ............... id i esq ue on i. rn an an d 2 on Goo tu n 1 wf 1s . , tarting 10 toer bo:,,ise er, whon ev f e ct ° teed w ith per . A _.............. ... inary scene _t o ok 9 a few days ago, 0 the departnientt,of At one e of the rot lof wild MICI 00,# horse, and earryillotil Dt, and rode -0P top° and many of th ee. ) the utmostastonl tits steps of the choir, r, overed him with Pep e his earelin r wh e ,s 1 1 n ht befor e 13 " Ole 1 ,111 ,4" raft a iief $ i -.---..T. , .... ‘..- INCOME TAX. °II East th e y s a t er Tuesd ay a V estry meet i ng was h e ld i n ,_ estrv-room, in the pari s h o f St. John's, Wap rgtg, when resolutions were passed and a petition o h i eed to—" That this Vestry is of opinion that a tax cini n eome is n o t a tax which ought to be resorted to e,as a last resource; that the income tax is most ectionable, as it taxes industry in the same man and to the same extent as fixed capital ; that it is azd we ls 1,4 8 : °PPressive and unconstitutional in its operation, p o u se, in the enforcement of it, large inquisitorial must be vested in Boards of Commissioners o f h their, officials, to pry into the private transactions „,e,r Majesty's loyal subjects?' L, l , r le Petition Was signed by the Chairman on be rof the meeting, and is to be forwarded to Lord 4..Nghatn for presentation to the House of Lords, :"Ing their Lordships not to sanction so unequal, teaosequenti, so unjust, an impost. Copies of the ,_ utions are to be forwarded to Sir Robert Peel, me Count 1 C o h„ ,„Y embers, and to Sir William Clay Hamlet s, code "x, the Members for the Tower . Clay and Nil a request that they will oppose the proposed m e tax in their places in Parliament. Y e THE INCOME TAX. ii.,,,terdav a public meeting of the inhabitants of C o ' il l r l t ar,4lo(Farringdon Without, wi.s held in the New pc sed inue_cl_Bailey, to adopt measures _a st the pro % th e .inte tax, g Duke, M.P Alderman Sir James ~ kr, chairpn ,*:„ eoare• -11 ‘"ex, ward clerk, having read the notice "t n .. +l, 4 '' "le meeting, r c,.. said that ",'RLEB WOOD moved the first resolution, and have Su Robert Peel should not, in time of peace, deans so rted t o an i ncome tax w h en th er e were other A ccord )? Which h e cou ld h ave i n creased the revenue. defici t tri g to his own showing, there was only a r evenai q two millions and a half to make good in the Prop os e ' - 11 r. Wood then enumerated at length the th ose ,1' a lterations in the customs' duties, and said, stood ii " e 'e the acts of a man who, two years ago, tion i ii 13 and cried out—No surrender, no reduc oidy 0 , the Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) He has not bu t ir i _ n e a little way to oblige Lord John Russell, app re , 4 7 4B gone further, by attempting, through an Poor iv e and sweeping act, to take as much from a th e Tan, who endeavoured to keep his family off Pro Parish, as fr om th e D u ke of Devonshire, whose theo r yc was fix e d an d .se ttl e d.—(Hear, hear.) From aidZ i erament officers 155,0001. was to be taken, *h at was cruel and oppressive in the extreme ; but 14 1 4 C ould thev expect but injustice, when the Eng- LibeNtaties sent in 139 Tory Members, and only 20 tat r 18. They could not petition against the income 4 11;6,' they protested against it, they would be alic o i h T at. It only, therefore, remained for them to riv es "' a deputation to wait upon their representa ipeoi and tell them that, if they did not oppose the fi)4 4l ,, e 4ax, they should not have their votes. r ' r Roma seconded the resolution, which passed I et, ttiti o r. -DmuND PONTITEX moved the second reso be i n. Il e i ns i s t e d t h a t t h e i ncome tax should not tle a T l)()s ed unless from stern necessity, and it was t o th no such necessity existed.—(Hear. hey had hi citd a nk Sir Robert Peel for many things; still so it ei , - „ s i ' . ,t°rial and so oppressive was the income tax that Af r i , ,,,,T .. tot be tolerated. . . te4 ,' vv Imaitats seconded the motion. He attribu lth'l_Proposed tax to class legislation, and said that lt nnA iast year of the past income tax there were - uu surcharges in the City of London, and 18,000 in the country. b.., • ANDERTON, in an able speech, exposed the thlualetrects that thel ax would have upon men in ln professions, 'and upon those who possessed steady incomes. ta e. ra• ()HUARD and GvuNrY followed on the same the it t lle i Ten Ann TAYLOR said that the tax struck at `lemma crests and liberties of the country. An Al , in an in the City told him that when he paid the eo riie , the in lax his accounts and books were subjected to for i f t , 6 ii t rigid inquiry, while no allowance was made f t hat 1 ,, --a us debts. The result of the unpopularity o th e feksure was the presentation by Sir W. Curtis, l igne c l i Z 'Member for the City, of a petition against it, only 21 ., Y 40,000. A :counter one was got up, but only .. 'ersons could be found to sign it.---(Hear, 4 110 d 1 was absurd to speak of two millions and a nah n • ' e fielt upon the revenue when the country h ad A ft : l W debt o f eight millions. IPitit -r speeches from other members in the same '. a . T leputation, consisting of Sir James Duke, 0 13 *t' ontifex, Taylor, Bedford, Anderton, and ' . ti hard, , - -41' 4 . was appointed to wait upon the represents ;;. of the City and Middlesex to induce them to • 4 --- 't the measure' by every possible means. , . ------ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN 'ter A Correspondent in your valuable and inde i o 'ent co l u mns of the 26th instant (signed ~ •Ivi y ,, e . s tant Reader"), talks of taxing house property th,°lvs forsooth—as one of the items. Now , I 111 d opine from this, that matters to the east of us not quite so bad as what I have been led to sup- L I Z ; but, with regard to our neighbourhood, I can o t in your " C ons t an t Reader" that at least ahone state „,:f our house-property-men are already . in a has u l tsnivency • and another of the visitations he S di duty and Interestedly and kindly suggested of a house 441 an additional duty on windows, will send 0_ er Re ni f ourth quickly after them. hav e es hereabouts, within these . ten or fifteen yearS, e ne-h eeree h alf sed one-third, and in many instances to 4 3 good alr ssfor what is house property after all ? Is it tunit, as a tradesman's capital, who has an oppor gro4, of shifting it about in various ways ?—a ho ft °r an ironmonger, for instance; but not so a let — 0 ; 'where it is once put there it must stand ; but not t ,' e owner beware how he builds it—be careful tak e : admit too many air holes, which may be mis ntir for windows ; many of us, striving to make .ntnicil es healthy and comfortable, have, alas! to Nvh at e °,st, now cause to repent of our folly. But Sk al i nir. Editor, shall we say of such legislation ? 't 11.- we be considered a sane people some two hurl - —t.tt 4 ears hence ? h e injustice of such suggestions of your Co r re s- Arndent are too flagrant to be thought of. Property, te et t,y ran ed by legislation for certain classes, is becoming (14 st ieal, and many now begin to ask themselves lo o k I °lls about the franchise; and I begin myself to t,3l,:..liCh art with less hostility on the code drawn up of „t:'sni. The middle class are grinding down to ' l 4 !!'lik te r'rs, and without we soon lighten the burden and 4 , •nt j ''''ll %4 e it on stronger shoulders, the exhausted, but pa -4:,,.11):,`"Tea,," camel, will sink and die. Could not your Cor- Nvy" Tdent have resorted to those great balls of wealth the Corn-laws have assisted to form? L et a PPly the legacy duty to those immense aggre -14.; ~1 13 of freehold lands which we see weekly pass : sire to son without a farthing tax, while a /4;' i ndustrious tradesman's savings for his family is ta r4 e uessly visited,• because, forsooth, it has the bas air Editor , of personal attached to it ! To be brief, I t t Are a ,"litor, I cannot resist this opportunity of ex s?,l'„ the - 11 411 g. my thanks and admiration of your powers in t frli•A4 ' tald ntiruig energy . displayed in your liberal, just, In dependent columns, with respect to that ob q,ll4.4ilertti.us and suicidal Corn question ; and I am quite '4l,4o:tai in that it is mainly owing to your enlightened • 1 4'!tik4 1 ' 4 11 , 1 e remarks, and persevering exertions, that we ;. , '44 ,th e first step, and I hope it will prove a beneficial 141 .1 4 . 4 . 1 - ft o the final demolition of this national incubus. ,ueg to subscribe myself, yours respectfully, A DEVONSHIRE MAN. • t, eh 29, 1842. • 131 -STRESS AT GREENOCK. , 0 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. tit4',--The baneful effects of Class Legislation and Iti 2 . t . l l , e allY wrong and unjust state of society , has at to w reduced reduced this hitherto busy and p ros p erous 1 4 ' wide to th e same wretched . and melancholy state in kri l i e l ,tile other cities and towns of the empire arc de , 4 11 Qto be. Shipowners, manufacturers, and mer , 1 41 4 1, , ti oe ts t l in have been regularly following one another this 1,441 4 " e past, into the gulf of bankruptcy and ruin. tr ow , s treets, dock-yards, and workshops , lat el y %; 24 ! ht e il 'ed with industrious and well-employed artisans , ' 4 4; - ,;''„°ft °l v quite deserted, or only echo to the footsteps ' hos ittt Ze whom want of employment has reduced to t; .) 1.1 04 of elt,enin idleness and poverty. And as this pe lf, ci keti er I t ae year has ever, hitherto, been the season of ` 1 • B ta and full employment, the present complete 4 4 -I ,, ati on and gloom is considered the more ominous, ' I va , : ga n 7 minds, unsupported by hope, are giving t o gloomy and angry forebodings.. I say angry, , l 'eei l l 4 „" lt and adversity makes men reason closely and l'aattl i " and it is generally understood and believed or .' a th e e misgovernment and an unjust state of society tkly ed e lkuse of all these evils. A meeting of .the unem ' th e was held here on the 25th, and they assembled ‘ l ley amount of between two and three thousand, and trg agreed to memorialize the Provost and Magis eal stating 04 . :•• j ) le t of h their situation, and soliciting that re -rovost has kind might be afforded them. The 14 2, 1 1ve n jas promptly responded to the call, and has .1 4 ner a 'fleeting of the inhabitants to-day, to con }t @' •.r what is to be done. Aire ‘,lBrs an , of Whomawful state of things to exist in an em -4°lt it is boasted that on her dominio ns the . ' l ever • Ple sets--an empire to which the tribes and & ev ery 4 j, 4 tattopts, clime and reoion of the earth have 1 1 ,, 1 4..44 44 f , Ri . i 6 a"' and accustomed to look up with vene -4'4(4 awe--an empire which boasts, and boasts 14, ) 144 , 4 ° ' ' t ° . I cnowledge and power, capable of increasing, s4lo, .011mited extent, all the comforts and nece:;sa i existence. 1 41 N, Niw, rs es ' l t requir no great stretch of the reflective 1 (4 1 4 - 4ti on !•° Perceive that our knowledge and power as a ' 4l andthalB grievously circumscribed and misdir ected, t i N.,. Nv e m th t ther e i s no just or w i se di s tribution of that 1, 4, ' 'lleh h o w hich we, of the working classes, create in ti ~ O ur ' 1 1 ' 1 ( 1: less profusion. , law s oc Knowledge of the governing principles and Nvi tot, nature, and consequently our power to avoid aati ex tu ld produce abundance, infinitely transcends, 411. d e ecds all that was ever known in former times motions ; and yet our forms of Goverriment, and system of society are as miserable and defective as ever they were. It is, therefore, clear that they are the source of the misery and wretchedness that now exists. • Immutable and. 'just principles govern, with un erring precision, the most minute, as well as the most stupendous, of created "Sowers. It is rezlsonable, there fore, to infer, that the social condition of man is also governed by immutably true and just principles, and that the decay and destruction of all former nations, and our own wretchedness, has been, and is caused by ignorance of, and want of obedience to these laws. The desire of happiness is indestructible in man ; and I believe, that in a just state, of society, this all powerful propensity shall be directed to, and find un limited elements of gratification, in advancing and increasing, with all its might, and all its strength, the weal, comfort, and happiness of the whole community. Hitherto that great and good principle, misdirected by ignorance and folly, has been the bane and de struction of all the communities and nations of the earth. _ _ _ At the present moment, confined to miserably sel fish and grovelling purposes, it is crushing millions into misery and the dust, rending asunder all the kindly feelings and sympathies of our nature ; for a man is considered wise and prudent, according as be can steel himself to throw them overboard ; in a word, the present system of society is a mere selfish scramble, where thousands are trampled under foot, and all the ties of nature broken and dissevered, while, at the same time, untold wealth—wealth sufficient for all—is wasted and destroyed in the maddening excitement, and insane career of ignorance, selfishness, and folly. Trusting, however, in the progressive intelligence of our race, I believe that, ere long, error, ignorance and folly, must give place to truth and justice. 1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant,. A WORKING MAN. Greenock, 28th March, 1842. SUFFOLK-STREET GALLERY. This place of public amusement, which is perhaps better known as " The British Artists' Gallery," and of which the present is the 19th annual exhibition, has been visited during the week by a good deal of excellent company. The exhibition contains nearly 800 pictures, amongst which may be discovered many productions exhibiting considerable genius. There are not many portraits this year, but the water-colour drawings are numerous, and landscapes certainly abound. Amongst the portraits which struck us as being exceedingly well executed and true to life, was a large one of " Mr. Hobler," the venerable clerk to the Lord Mayor, No. 131, by Miss M. Drummond; the other is a miniature likeness in water-colours of " Miss Rainforth," by Miss E. Drummond, they are both excellent likenesses, and we recognised them at once without reference to the catalogue. We carefully examined the whole collection, and we think the best pictures will be found in the subjoined list. First amongst Mr. Herring's pictures we may men tion Nos. 4, 16, 448, 521, 607, and 703, as contain ing a great deal of merit ; they are all painted in the best style of that excellent artist. No. 11, by Mr. E. Hulme, is a good painting. G. Stevens has some very clever little. things, amongst which might be mentioned a fine richly coloured painting, No. 55, entitled " Rachael Ruisch forming a group of Fruit and Flowers ;" Nos. 303 and 332, both figures of " Italian Boys." No. 365, " The Cottage Window," is also a very sweet painting by the same artist. C. F. Tomkins has some good paintings in his own peculiar style ; " Ander nach on the Rhine," No. 56, and " khrenbreitstein " by that gentleman, both display much talent and genius.. J. W. Allen has one or two excellent paint ings ; we would more especially direct attention to No. 61, "A View of Leith Hill, Surrey," which is an.exquisite production. No. 347, "Near Red Hill, Surrey," by the same artist, is also good. No. 69, "Hebe," by J. P. Davis, is a beautiful painting; as is No. 77, The Rose of York," by Mr. J. J. Hill. No. 80, " A Lane Scene,"-by J. Williams, is a sweet little painting, and displays a good deal of genius. No. 83, by Zeitter, is a well painted picture. No. 111, " Sty Head, Cumberland," is a very excellent' painting by Collingwood. Hurlstone's pictures this year are not so attractive as' they were wont to be. We should be sorry to say that Mr. Hurlstone is re trogradingsin his profession, but we must confess that there is not that sweet, truthful touch, about his paint ings this year which used so pre-eminently to charac terise them ; he• has, nevertheless, some very fine paintings, and amongst his best we may enumerate Nos. 113, 122, and 225. No. 140, " A River Scene," by J. Tennant, is a very pleasing little painting. Mr. Wooliner has some very beautiful pictures ; they are all in a peculiar style, and the eye involuntarily rests upon them immediately they come within sight ; amongst his best we reckon 148, 199, and 323, the best undoubtedly is No. 447, " Ariel," which displays a brilliancy and richness of colour ing seldom equalled; the design of the figure also in this piece is charming. No. 152, the Por trait of " - A - Deer Hound with a Dead Stag" by Wood ward, is an excellent painting, true to nature. No. 161, " Moonlight on the Yare", by J. B. Cronie, is very beautiful ; it is a perfect little treasure, and we think, is not surpassed by any painting of its class in the gallery. -No. 173, "The Pleughman's Dinner," by Share, is a good representation of what it is in tended to convey ; the figures are natural, and the colouring is good. No. 115, " The Sisters", by Biel field, is a good painting. Prentis, has some excellent little things ; Nos. 259 and 271, " Passages in the Life of Man", are full of humour. No. 444, " The Man and his Two Wives", is also ex ceedingly good; and No. 527, "Consolation," by the same artist is a very sweet painting. No. 263, " Mills near Yarmouth," by P. W. Elen, is alsl a good painting. No. 312, " Windsor Castle," is a fine mellow painting, by W. Cranbrook, and betokens considerable genius. No. 331, "..A. View on the Ouse, Bedford," is a sweet little landscape, by B. Rudge ; the colour is very smoothly laid on, and this is altogether an exceedingly pleasing picture. " Waking Thoughts," No. 399, is a very sweet paint ing, by Mr. C. Doane, and is indicative of some genius. No. 456, "A View near Lamington, Suf folk," by J. Barnickle, is a pretty landscape, and ex ceedingly well executed. Nos. 582 and 087, by Mr. Ha m merton, are very pleasing pictures ; and. two little paintings by Miss L. Adams, Nos. 744 and 745, are deserving of notice ; they are both of them very , sweetly executed and display both taste and judg ment. On the whole, we think the exhibition this year will lose nothing by a comparison with former years, and; we are sure that a visit to the spot will amply repay the visitor for the time spent in examin ing the works of art which hang round the rooms. WIGNEY'S BANKRUPTCY. BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.---The debts proved yes terday amounted to about 55,0001. and on the pre vious day 10,0001. being about half the amount of the liabilities on the bank. The affairs present such a gloomy appearance, that numbers of persons, some of whom had came out of the country, would not prove, fearing, that in addition to their loss, they would eventually have to contribute to the legal expenses. Amongst the largest amounts proved yesterday were : Robert Mott, 12,093/., William liomford, 4,5111., John Pollard, 2,6541., Thomas Tillstone, 2,2841., Thomas West, 2,360/., Charlotte Norton, 2,9961., Caroline Dixie, 1,141/., Thomas Tack, 1,776/., Ga briel Grover, 1,204/., and fifteen other creditors, whose claims range from 959/. to 4501. ABSURDITIES. -- It is absurd to despair when clouds lour. We should look upward for comfort. When the heaven over our head is dark, the earth under our feet is sure to be darker. It is absurd to lend money to a man whose friendship you wish to preserve. It is ab surd fur an infidel to tell you to abandon your Bible ; tell him you will do so when he brings you a better book. It is absurd to exhibit violent passion in your family. foaming and fretting at every little annoyance that may cross you, and, at the same time, expect them to be placid. It is absurd, if you have half a dozen children, all of different dispositions and capacities, to give them all the same education, with the expectation that they will all shine in the same sphere. It is absurd not to go to bed when you are sleepy, because it is not a certain hour. It is absurd to•see a man professing Christianity, bristling up with anger twenty times a day like a hedge hog. It is absurd to suppose that a Leghorn hat, loaded with flowers, will cure the headache. It is absurd to suppose that a gold wat9h will curci the consumption.— Boston Transcript. A LESSON ON SLEEPING IN CRURCIL—We clip the following from the St. John Morning News. If we might be allowed to judge, we should say it is " not bad." " A few years since an aged clergyman in the western part of the province, speaking of the solemnity attached to the ministerial office, said, that during the whole term of forty or fifty years, that be had officiated therein, his gravity had never but once been disturbed in the pulpit. On one occasion he noticed a man directly before him, over the railing of the gallery, with something in his hand, which he soon discoVered to be a huge quid of tobacco, just taken from his mouth. Directly below sat a man asleep, with a mouth wide open. The man in the gallery was intensely engaged in raising and lowering his hand, taking an exact observation, till at last, having got it just right, he let fall the quid, and it went plump into the mouth of the sleeper below. The whole scene was so indescribably ludicrous, that, for the first and last time in the pulpit, an involuntary smile forced itself upon the countenance of the preacher. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL. — This Society is again in the field ; another concert is announced for Friday, April 1, on which occasion the public will have an • opportunity of hearing Handel's Dettingen Te Demo, now just a century old, having been composed in 1743, and Mozart's Mass, or as the bills call it, " Service No. 12." THE INCOME TAX, A FACTIOUS CONTRIVANCE.-- A considerable number of persons declare that they are ready to pay the proposed income tax, or more, to keep out the Whigs. We know no reason why they should not be gratified, or even allowed to pay twice as much ; but why should they also make those pay equally who w ant to get the Whigs in ? If the income tax be levied to keep out the Whigs, the poor Whigs will have to pay for the scourge that flogs them. What a picture of the source and qualities of the income tax ! GREAT MARLOW. TIRE SUN, LOI'4DON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3l, 1842. ThE INCOME TAX. TO IIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN:I: SUI,—I wish to ask - you - one or two - questions respecting the proposed incoine tax, and shall feel grateful if you can reply to them in your valuable journal. Will the partner of a foreign house, who resides here a part of the year, and occupies an office for the mere purpose of purchasing goods for shipment to his own house, be taxed on the profits he may ultimately realise from his share in the results of those ship ments ? If so, the house had better send an agent, for a small salary, here to make their purchases. If this partner is to be taxed on his- share of the business he is interested in abroad, how is he to prove the amount of theprofits . he may have realised, since he generally keeps no books here which can throw any light upon the 'subject ? Suppose his house has a large trade in the products of 'other markets, and the profits realized on the dif ferent branches of business cannot be fairly appor tioned to each, is the partner here to be . taxed for his income arising from business which has no connexion with England ? Leeds, March 29, 1842. LUBECK. [This letter - indicates some other difficulties in the way of Sir Robert Peel's plan of an income tax, and points out some of the many invitations to evasion and fraud which it holds out.—ED. Sun.] ELECT I OI'LI' -- COMMITTEES. WIGAN. The Committee met at the usual hour yesterday. The class of objections on account of change of occu pations having been exhausted on the part of the sitting Members, Counsel on their behalf proceeded with objec tions for want of qualification. The first person objected to on this ground was John Bart. It appeared that the voter had originally registered out of two houses, one of which he had subsequently given up the possession of. The Committee, after the case had been before them during the whole of the day, unanimously decided that the vote was a bad one. Mr. Crosse, one of the sitting Members, and Mr. Standish have been placed on an equality by this decision. The Committee met at the usual hour yesterday. The vote of James Curtis was objected to by Counsel for the sitting ➢iember, on the ground of insufficiency of value. It was stated in evidence that the voter's rent, was 71. a year, and the value of the premises was rated at from 8/. to 9L a year by two valuators called in opposition to the vote. The Committee decided that the vote was a good one. The vote of William Hall was nest objected to by the Counsel for the sitting Me►nber, on the grounds of non occupation and insufficiency of value. It was proved in evidence that the voter had let a part of the premises out of which he registered, and that the part let was kept locked, and remained entirely distinct from the house which he inhabited. The. Committee decided that the vote was a good one. The sitting Member still continues in a minority of one. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MARCH 30. —Wind this day so u th- w esterly, DEAL, MARCH 29.---Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Mary Gray, M•lienzie, Maulmain; Ann, Griffiths, Bombay. Arrd. from the River Medusa, Sydney, LIVERPOOL, MARCH 29.—Wind N.N.W.,light.---Arrd. Margaret, Rouche. Bombay ; Black Prince, Martyn, Africa ; Robert John, Haynes, Laguna ; Franklin, New Orleans and Bermuda; Oakland, Barry, Savannah. Sid. Duke of Clarence, Calcutta ; Phcenix Antigua, ; Plymouth, Mobile. Arrd. off, Penang, China ; Nile, Manilla ; Thalia, Bombay ; Woodstock and Adriana, Mauritius. An outward bound barque, supposed the Duke of Clarence is ashore on Burbo. PORTSMQUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W. —Arrd. her Majesty's ship Ganges, Gibraltar. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH `29.—Arrd. Liverpool steamer, Gibraltar—left 17th inst., Cadiz 18, Lisbon 21, Oporto 23, and Vigo 25th. FALMOUTH, MARCH 27.—8 y the arrival of the Lyra packet from Mexico, it is generally reported that the West India Company's steamer was ashore at Turks Island.-28. Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W., stroll.. breezes.— Arrd. Patmos, Blaksham, Aux Cayes—sld. 14th ult. ; Nestor, Taylor, Port-au-Prince--sld. Ist ult. Sid. Montrose steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off, Amelia, M`Gregor, Monte Video—sld. 11th Jan., and proceeded for London; St. Paul, Schacht, Rio, for Hamburgh. BRISTOL, MARCH 29.—Arrd. Scio, Teasdale, Ancona. Sid. Northerner, Boston. SWANSEA, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Commodore, Cuba. CARDIFF, MARCH 26.—S1d. Ancona. Gibraltar. MILFORD, MARCH 26.—The Eliza, Bolton, from Lynn to Drogheda, has put in here with cargo heated, and must discharge. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 28.—The Britannia, of Ar!- broath, was totally wrecked on Newton Rock, on the 26th ult.—crew saved., The James and Ann, of New castle, also struck the rock, but came off, and proceeded to the northward, very leaky. VESSELS SPOKEN wrrn.—The Venture, from Calcutta, Jan. 13, lat. 35 S., lon. 19 E. ; John Woodall, Calcutta to London, 28th, lat. 25, lon. 4 ; Grecian, Clyde to Bom bay, and Emily, Guernsey to Pernambuco, 11th ult., by. the Margaret, arrived at Liverpool ; Corsair, Liverpool to New Orleans, 20th inst., lat. 43, lon. 27 ; James Stewart, (whaler) 46 barrels, 11th ult., lat. 18 S., lon. 32 W., by the Black Prince, arrived at Liverpool ; Juno, Clyde to - Newfoundland, 25th inst., lat. 51, ion. 12 ; Post boy, from Bristol, 24th inst., lat. 48, lon. 12 ; Large, Jamaica to Liverpool, 14th ult., off Cape Fibroon, Eagle, Liverpool to Savannah, sth inst., hit. 32, lon. 52 ; Braganza, (steamer) 24th inst., in Vigo Bay, and a steam ship bound S., private signal, red, white, and red, hori zontally, by the Liverpool, - (steamer) arrived at South ampton ; Newburgh, London to New Zealand. Bth ult., lat. 85, lon. 25 W. • Pasha, Monte Video to Falmouth, 10th inst., lat. 30, ion. 37 ; Phillips, Java to Liverpool, 22d, lat. 45, lon. 21, by the Amelia, arrived at Falmouth; Helen Maria, from London, 19th inst., lat. 44, lon. 22, by the Visitor, arrived at Falmouth. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Shakspeare's beautiftd•_ pastoral, As Yva Like P, WO S performed at this thcatre lafi evening, for the purpose of introducing Mr. H. Hell, from the Theatre—Royal, Liverpool, to a metropolitan audience, in the character of Orlando. Mr. Holt possesses all the physical requi sites for success in the profession he has chosen. In person he is tall, well formed, Nvith an expressive • coun tenance, a good eye, a powerful and sonorous voice, and (a great point in an actor) a clear and distinct enunciation. His conception of the character was good, and in the quiet scenes of the part he was excellent. In the scenes with old Adam in the forest, where the old man sinks from fatigue, and is supported by Orlando, Mr. Hull's acting was beautifully pathetic, and elicited loud applause. He was also very good in the scenes with Rosalind, but in the scene where he bursts in upon the Duke and his friends there was a tendency to overact ing—a tendency but too common with actors fresh from the provinces, which Mr. Roll would do well to avoid, and which a little practice on "the London boards will soon enable him to get over. Let him also beware of imita tion. It is a rock on which many a promising actor has made shipwreck. Nature has endowed Mr. Roll with talents of no Mean order. Let him assiduously seek to develop those talents by patient stney and assiduous ap plication. He has not so Much to learn as to unlearn, and what he has to unlear*will not be a difficult task to him. He has only to follow his own taste as his guide itbr it is evident that the tendency to overacting, • which we have before noticed, arises more from an idea that such will please his audience, than from any natural bent " to tear a passion to rags" in himself. As a melodramatic actor, we should imagine he is first rate ; but, with his talents, he should, and no doubt does, aim at something higher, and it will be his own fault if he do not succeed. He was called for at the fall of the curtain, and loudly applauded. Miss Charles was the Rosalind, and never had Rosalind a more admirable representative. We say this advisedly and with a full recollection of Miss Foote, in this her favourite part. Miss Charles looked most bewitchingly in her male attire. She entered fully into the spirit of the part, and made every point tell. With what espie ylerie did she execute her dainty device fur getting Or lando to make love to her. How she did bewilder the poor youth by her abuse of lovers and love, and with what delicious archness did she prove hint no true lover, seeing he wore not his hose ungartered. How inimitable too were her scenes with. Phoebe, and how soon did she bring that rustic coquette to her senses, and yet in all this she never " o'erstepped the modesty of Nature." In the midst of all her banter, even when her wit flowed fastest, she never for an instant forgot that she was the gentle lady Rosalind. And how beau tifully did the affection of the warm-hearted girl triumph in spite of her disguise when she heard that Orlando had been in danger, and was wounded. Miss Charles by her performance of Rosalind last even ing, has made this class of characters her own. She has made an immense advance in her professional career, and sincerely do we congratulate her on it. Mr. Stuart acted the melancholy Jacques, and thoroughly did he enter into, and most artistically did he develop the varied lights and shadows which go to the making up of the character of this philosophical, and, if we may be allowed to coin an expression, philophusical misan thrope. His recitation of the Seven Ages, was one of the most chastely correct, and at the same time majesti cally beautiful pieces of declamation ever delivered, it was rapturously applauded. "Webster, the repre sentative, par excellence, of Shakespeare's clowns, was Touchstone, and admirably did he, in his quiet way, bring out the quaint drollery of the character. We do not wonder, after seeing Webster's Touchstone, at Jacque's exclamation— " Motley's your only wear." . He was excellently supported by Mrs. F. Mathews, as Audray. Strieklancb as Old Adam, was perfect. No thing could exceed the beauty with which he gave the celebrated scene, in which he. sets forth with Orlando ; during the progress of it the tears of his auditors bore witness to his powers, and at its conclusion their delight was testified by their rapturous applause. The piece is very strongly cast, and is well put upon the stage. The announcement of its repetition on Saturday was received with considerable applause. The house, although not crowded, was very well filled. FASHIONS FOR APRIL. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of ... _ . Fashion.) Mousselines de laine seem to be entirely replaced among the more elegant Parisian belles by barege, made either of worsted and silk, or all worsted, which, with organdys de laine, taffetas glace, foulards watered or illustres, barpours d'ete, &c. &c., now divide favour. Most of the materials for dresses this spring are either striped, or with running patterns of pines, in the cachemire style. For the promenade or simple toilette, the stomacher bodies are less used ; the corsage a l'Amazone is preferred, and is better suited for embroidery : th 9 tight sleeves and large . pelerine are suitable for this style ; the redingote form is also very much in favour, generally accompanied with the pelerine cardinal ; the fashionable colours are orange, garnet, blue myosotis, but more particu larly grey and green. In evening dresses the double skirts continue to be worn, even in satin, when they are of two colours, the upper not descending lower than the knee. Crisping Pompadour, trimmed all round with gimp, and a large kind of pclerine, termed trabbees, reach ing to the knee, are made of shot silks : they have armholes, or are raised by means of a running-cord ; the whole trimmed round with a pinked ruche of a showy colour. A new style of scarf is composed of bouillons of glace silk, the whole length of the scarf, divided by bands of gimp, which, being open, show the lining of coloured silk ; others, in the same style, form pelerine, which is plain, with the ends only in bouillons. Velvet scarfs, shaded and embroidered, in Turkish patterns, satin ones, and foulards de Chine, with those of cachemire, embroidered with a Turkish border, and finished with large pine, are among the novelties of the moment. The pelerines cardinal are very pretty, made en tirely of inlets - of Valenciennes lace, divided by em broidery, and finished all round with a broad Valen ciennes lace. Pocket handkerchiefs of batiste Ananas divide favour with those made with inlets of Valenciennes. Satin, paille de riz, and crape, are the materials now in use for bonnets : the form rather approaches the bibi form, and the flowers are rather •in bunches than drooping ; indeed a total change is threatened in this point —as, in Paris they are forming the flowers to stand up, both for bonnets and coiffures : pink, straw colour, light green, &c., are the shades in fashion. Capotes of white satin are lined with pink, which is sometimes entirely covered with point lace, but coloured linings are much used. CRIME AND IGNORANCE. We think that, although the ordinary connexion of ignorance and crime is still as distinctly traeeable as ever in the calendars of assizes and sessions—which now contain a column, marking the degree of profi ciency of every prisoner in the elementary knowledge of reading and writing—there is beginning to be dis cernible in these calendars the operation of an exten sion of these rudiments of instruction amongst the class of persons in which criminals are generally found to exist. For example, in the calendar of prisoners for trial at the present South Lancashire Assizes on charges of felony, generally of a very serious descrip tion, we find the numbers to stand as follow :—There are just 100 prisoners named in that calendar, of Whom we find 30 (that is 30 per cent.) can neither read nor write ; 24 can read imperfectly, but can not write ; 34 can read and write imperfectly ; seven can read and write well ; and five can read and write in a superior manner. Of the seven who can read and write well, three prisoners are charged with crimes against person, not property, viz. fratricide (from sud den passion), manslaughter, and rape ; a fourth with forgery (which offence required a degree of intelligence and education), and the others with horse-stealing and other felonies. Of the five, who are still more proficient in reading and writing, four are indicted for forgeries ; and the fifth, a clerk in the post ' office, for stealing a letter. We apprehend that few persons are now to be found who would gravely contend that education is an evil, because it has in some few instances enabled individuals to com mit forgery. The answer to such an obsolete argument would be that, of persons able to read and write well, this calendar contains only 12 per cent., while there are 30 per cent. of criminals utterly ignorant of both reading and writing ; 44 per cent. more who are ignorant of writing, and can only read imperfectly ; and 34 per cent. more who only read and write im perfectly. The two classes would stand thus :—Of comparatively ignorant and uneducated persons, 88 per cent.; of comparatively educated persons, 12 per cent. As it appears to us, this is a very cogent argu ment for national education ; and such facts ought to appeal powerfully to the legislature, in behalf of some comprehensive measure for that purpose. But as we have stated (though, not having former calendars at hand, we cannot state how much per cent.), even this melancholy statement of things shows, as we believe, a decided improvement on the calendars of a few years back, when they first began to record these things. Fifteen per cent. of the prisoners in this calendar are females ;_ and 17 per cent. (both sexes) are under 20 years.of age. THE CANTERBURY UNION BANK.-011 Monday and Tuesday, the Commissioners, under the fiat in this bankruptcy, met at the Guildhall Concert-room, Canter bury, to admit further proofs of debts, to audit the ac counts, and declare a dividend. The debts and claims upon the joint estate of the bankrupts. amount to 122,691., upon the' separate estates—Mr. Halford's, 16,5431. ; Mr. Baldock's, 11,2641 ; Mr. Snoulten's, 2,9001. The Commissioners declared a dividend upon the joint estate of 4s. in the pound ; upon Mr. Bal dock's, ss. Gd. ; upon Mr. Snoulten's, 20s. No dividend was proclaimed upon Mr. Halford's separate estate. During the last fourteen days considerable stir has been created at Montrose, from a dispute betwixt the shipowners and seamen regarding the rate of wages for the ensuing season. The rate paid last year was 31. per month ; and, considering the depression the shipping interest has sustained, the owners at first this season made offer of 2/. .155., being a reduction of ss. This offer was refiised bythe men, and, after numerous meet ing betwixt the parties, a great number are now on board at 21. 10s. per month, being ss. less than they were originally oirered.—Edinburgh Paper, EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Ann, Griffiths, from China, in the Downs, sailed 17th November, St. Helena, 29th January ; Mary Gray, M'Kenzte, from Moulmein, in the Downs ; Margaret, Roadie, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed, 14th Nov., St. Helena, 27th Jan. ; Penang, Cumming, from China, off Liverpool, sailed, 23rd Oct., St. Helena, 31st Jan. ; Nile, Anderson, from Manilla, off Liverpool, sailed, halia. M urra y, f rom Bombay, off Liverpool,23rdOct.Oe sailed t 24th Oct., St. Helena, 25th Jan. ; Woodstock, Austin, from Mauritius, off Liverpool, sailed, 11th Dec., St. Helena, 25th Jan. ; Adriana, Dodds, from Mauritius, off Liverpool, sailed, 6th Dec. ; Akbar, Arkley, from Mauritius, in the Clyde, sailed 19th Dec., St. Helena, 30th Jan. ; Robert Matthews, Jolly, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed, 7th Nov., St. Helena, 29th Jan. ; Ulverstone, Smith, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed 22d November ; LATE 'FATAL DUEL AT MALTA. TRIAL OF THE SURVIVORS. On Thursday, the 10th of March, Mr. John Levick, of Malta, merchant, and Lieut. Antonio Mattel, of the Royal Malta Fencibles Regiment, the parties com mitted by the sitting Magistrate—the former as the principal, the latter as his second, in this unfortunate affair—were placed at the bar of the Criminal Court of Special Commission for the island of Malta and its dependencies, to answer the indictment preferred against them by Giacomo Pantaleone Bruno, Esq., LL.D., . the Crown Advocate and public prosecutor, of which Court Sir Ignatius Gavino 13onavia, LL.D., K. St. M. St. George, Pre sident of the Tribunals of Malta, and Giovanni Bat tista Satariano, Esq., LL.D., and Francesco Chapelle, Esq., LL.D., two of her Majesty's Judges sat as Commissioners ; the substance of which indictment was as follows Ist count. That on the 9th of February last, in a 'place at the back of Fort Ricasoli, known by the name of Viet Ghammieck, a duel took place with pistols between the said Levick and the deceased Sep timus Adams, a Lieutenant of the 88th Regiment. 2d count. That Levick, in said duel, discharged at Adams a pistol loaded with ball. 3d count. That tho ball . striking Adams occasioned three lacerated and contused woundS, the first in the middle part of the fore aria, accompanied by a frac ture of the radius underneath ; the .second in the in ternal part of the upper third of the same arm ; and the third in the lower part of the left side of the chest, fracturing the ninth rib, perforating transversely the whole length of the liver, and lacerating the arteries and principal blood Vessels, with a great hcemorrage and fiow'of blood. him, e viek' acted of hi s own f ree w ill (volontariamente), and w ilf ully (dolosarnente) against in du e lli ng w ith Ad ams an 4th count. That Adams in the' space of 32 hours died of such wounds. d sth in count. fir firing at 'That the public peace. 6th count. That in the duel which took place be tween Levick and Adams, Lieutenant Mattei. was present, and aiding, with other individuals. 7th count. That Mattel, in assisting at said duel, acted in the capacity of second. Bth count. That Mattel . in the duel which took place, acted of his own free will and wilfully against the public peace. Upon -,vhich grounds the Crown Advocate de manded that such facts be tried before a Jury, and that if the same declare thein by their verdict proved, that they the prisoners be condemned to the punish ment of death under the provisions contained in the 21st and 22d section of the 4th Chapter, of the sth Book of the Municipal Code, or in any other statu tutory law. The words of the law referred to are as follows : " Sec. 21. In duels, both the challenger and the challenged, and their auxiliaries' and seconds shall be punished with condemnation to the gallies for ten years, if death doth riot ensue, a n d w hi c h pun i s h men t can be increased to a' longer term than the ten years, in proportion to the. excess committed. " Sec. 22. But if death ensue, then the duelling parties, as well as their auxiliaries, seconds, and ac complices, shall suffer - the punishment of death." The prisoners being asked by the Court if they ob jected to any of the roceedings of the trial, referred to their counsel, Messrs. Griffiths. and Moriani. The Counsel' then objected to .thexe,being more •:i/ dLJ liziti nesses produced by the prosecition than had been ex -14011-kined before the Magistrate. Dr. Bruno, the I-ktrav n ,. Advocate, replied, that although examining witnesses before a Magistrate might facilitate the trial, yet he could if he chose hold back any witness and was not bo un d t o p ro d uce e very wit n ess examined, before a Magistrate. However, the Court consented to an adjournment, which was demanded. On Monday, the 14th inst., the Court re-assembled, , whereon the prisoners pleaded "Not guilty " to their indictment. Out of a list of two English and thirty-four Maltese, a Jury of seven was ballotted for by the Registrar. Dr. Bruno then opened the prosecution, charging the Jury upon the importance of th e su bj ec t, explain ing to them the nature of duelling, and enforcing the necessity of checking this remnant of barbarous times. He then produced the evidence, consisting- of thirty four witnesses, which examination lasted two days, that is, till the afternoon of the 16th. The Court having been adjourned till eight o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Griffiths opened the defence with a strong appeal to the jury. Then he endeavoured to destroy the credibility of the Queen's evidence, Dr. Cross, of the 88th Regiment, stating that he was a party im plicated, and therefore his evidence could not be re ceived. Afterwards he maintained that the laws in alta affecting duelling had fallen into disuse, citing =many examples of duels having had place, and no notice being, taken of them. Dr. Mariani followed up precisely the same line of argument. After Dr. Mariani, finished they examined their evidence, consisting otsVc . enlsersons. The President of the Court then summed up, stating that they were to consider whether the facts of the duel were proved or not, without regard to any con sequences; and particularly to bear in mind that the evidence of Dr. Cross was that of a party implicated. The Jury retired at half-past 4 o'clock p.m., and consulted together for three .quarters of an hour, when they returned and declared unanimously the eight counts in the indictment Not Proven, wherein the Court liberated the prisoners. The announcement of the liberation of the prisoners was received with immense applause. On a dispassionate view of the case we regret this verdict, because it may be attended with pernicious consequences to the public peace, although we never could believe that the rigour-of the Maltese law would be acted on. WHAT THE MIDDLE CLASSES HAVE DONE. The Reform Bill put it into the power of the middle classes to elect representatives for them in the House of Commons. IV hat use did they make of this power at the last election ? They elected a house, the great majority of which consists of members of the aristo cracy, who have a direct interest in the perpetuation of the present system of misgovernment. The House of Commons, as elected by the middle classes a few months ago, contains 3 marquisses, 9 earls, 23 vis counts, 27 lords, 32 right honourables, 63 honour ables, 58 baronets, 10 knights, 2 admirals, 8 lord lieu tenants, 74 deputy and vice-lieutenants, 1 general, 1 lieutenant-general, 7 major-generals, 22 colonels, 32 lieutenant-colonels, 7 majors, 67 captains in army and navy, 12 lieutenants, 2 cornets, 53 magistrates, 63 placemen, and 108 patrons of Church livings, having the patronage of 247 livings between them. There are, in fact, little more than 200, out of the 658 Members of the house of Commons, who have not either titles, office, place,.pension, or Church pa tronage. When the middle classes, therefore, elect such a body of representatives, they at least can have no just reason to complain of their legislation. If they will have aristocracy, they must pay for it; if they will lend themselves to prop up the fabric of corruption, they have no reason to complain, if they find the burden to be a heavy one. When such men as the electors of Leeds, Bradford, and the West Riding, consisting chiefly of merchants, manufacturers, trades men, shopkeepers, and farmers, determine on return ing Tory and aristocratio representatives to Parlia ment, surely it is foolish in them to growl, if they find that their representatives have resolved to maintain the Corn-laws, and to saddle them with a cruel and inquisitorial income tax ! They who have chosen a Tory Government, must be contented to reap its fruits. "They cannot expect to gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles." The income tax will fall with extreme pressure upon the middle classes, already suffering severely from the hardness of the times, while the great landed aristocracy of the community will scarcely feel it. Their Corn-tax will afford them the means of pay ing it a hundred times over. The want of discrimi nation between income arising from industry, and income arising from property will also operate greatly in favour of the propertied classes. But all this is only the legitimate regult of aristocratic legislation. 'the middle classes now stand in a most humili, ating position. Their apathy and indifference to the political emancipation of the working-classes, as well as the mislegislation of the middle-class Parlia ments of the last ten years, have in a great measure alienated from them the sympathy of the great mass of the people; while the aristocratic clans, into whose arms they have thrown themselves, have repaid their slavish subserviency by imposing on them a swingeing income tax !L.—Leeds Times. HEARN'S EFFECTS of MONOPOLY t Mr. Hearn, whose statistical labours on the subjec of the Bread-tax have already justly received the ap probation of the Anti-Bread-tax Journals, has just published a broadside, entitled, "What does the Bread-tax do for London ?" in which he states the expenditure of several families, and shows in detail the amount they pay to the State and to monopoly. The following is a specimen of one family : For the Tax. Six alb loa•ee at Pd.=.4s. (d. being 2s. fd. for the bread, and Is. 6d. Ulb. butter 10d.=1 Oyu 08% butter 03 ik 11b. sugar 7d.=o 7 01% sugar 0 5►4 2oz. tea Lt.( 0 4 tea 0 3 tq Clb. meat 11(1.=4 0 2 0 meat 2 t) 7 pints beer 3,1.= 111 0 10% beer 0 35(, 11 5 . 41 7 This small family, consisting of a mother and two boys (tinder ten years of age), pays on the weekly expenditure of Ils. 5d., 4s. 10d. in taxes. This far the year is 12/. 1 ls. 4d. out of 291. 13s. Bd. Of this, the Government gets I/. 65.. and the monopolists 11/. ss. 4d. Thus the monopolists wring from the consumer nearly nine times the amount the Government does. Is not this oppressing the widow and the fatherless? Here is another : The taxes paid by this family, are considerably more than a third of their expenditure, 131. Old. per week out of 34.. 3d.. that is, 33/. 17s. Id. per annum out of 89/. Is. Of which the Government receives 41. 18s. 7d., and the monopolists 281. 18s. 6d., nearly six-fold. For the Tax. Nine 4:b. loaves at Fild.=e , s. 4%d. being 4s le.l for the bread, and 2s. Sd. 201 b. meat nid.7- - 15 10 9 2 meat n 8 41b. butter 14d.=4 8 S 8 butter 1 0 31b. cheese 10d.=2 6 2 A cheese 0 6 lib. tea ss.id.=s 6 3 3ii tea 2 214 11b. raw sugar , 7d.=o 7 0 154 raw sugar 0 5 i 31b. loaf ditto 104.=2 6 1 1% loaf ditto 1 4% 14 pots beer 4d.=4 8 3 6 beer 1 2 42 7!.', 27 (SN 15 714 The expenditure of this family presents the largest outlay we have yet examined, amounting to 1101. 16s. 6d. for the year. The exactions thereupon by taxes, are to the amount of 401. 1 Is. 5.1., that is above one-third; the sum the Government gets is 8/. l it. 5d., not quite a fifth of the whole. The mono polists grasp all the rest, viz. 32/. 10s. We perceive, that as the outlay increa'es, the ratio of taxation diminishes, thus con firming the oft asse.ted truth, that the poor pay threefold in proportion to the rich. After giving a number of instances, assuming that the population of the metropolis is 1,878,000, he comes to the conclusion that the annual taxation levied on the metropolis by the monopolists is not less than 7,108,394/. ; that a family of six persons pays them 221. 14s. ; and an individual 31. 15s. Per week this amounts to ls. per head, and six persons pay Bs. 9d. per week to maintain such persons as Sir Ed ward Knatchbull in their "station in society." Sub sequently Mr. llearn enters into a number of calcula tions to show how much employment would be multi plied for all were this unjust appropriation of the pro perty of individuals now ordained by the selfish land lords to be done away. We quote the first example : See the " effects of monopoly." The whole family might be well clothed—yea, much better than the majority are—by the taxes which the landed interest wrings from them. This 221. 14s. 3d. would provide them with all the above articles every year. The weekly expenditure of each individual, at the prices paid for his food, as exhibited in the Family Table: , , amounts to 3s. 9d., and he is taxed to the amount of Is. bid. out of it, very nearly two-fifths ! ! Let us now take another view of these "effects," and see how many hands of various crafts the taxation to which the in habitants of the metropolis are subjected thereby, would give employment to. The male population amounts in round numbers to 876,000. The female to 1,002,000: Let us suppose two-thirds of the . males to he youths and adults, and one - third children. This will give 584,000 for the former, and 292,000 for the latter. Allowing two hats in the year to each man and boy, the num ber will be 1,168,000, or 97,333 k dozen. Each dozen of hats will employ one pair of hands for a week ; consequently these would give employment to 1,870 hatters for the year. Finer goods will employ double the number. Theeffects of these monopolies on wages is thus briefly depicted : A master shoe-manufacturer who has employed from one to two hundred hands per week, tells me, that in 1812 (before the Corn-law), he paid men from 21. 10s. to 31. per week; and women from 17s. 6d. to 28s. per week, for the same work he now pays the above 12s. 10d. and 3s. 9d. His attestation follows. Talk of machinery reducing the rate of wages indeed ! What machinery is employed in making shirts and shoes? Or wi ire is steam power applied to the manufacturing of trousers and waistcoats? Has wages fallen in any of the manufacturing districts equal to this? Wages, then, where no machinery is employed, have fallen to one-fifth of what they were. The toil of both sexes, and their scanty rewards, may be known from the following : Women are making men's trousers for shops at 6d. per pair; waistcoats at 4d. each ; and shirts at lid. a piece. We would gladly quote some more of these facts, but our space ,forbids, and we earnestly recommend Mr. I-learn's broadside, which costs next to nothing, to the serious consideration of all the working classes of the metropolis and of the empire. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS ORTESTERDAT. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 9i per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. IClid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.39. and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 57i., it follows that gold is 0.74 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 433} per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. , per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.9 k, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.101, it follow s th a t go ld i s 0.57 p e r c ent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is los per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 1.57 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest . must be deducted from the above difference. . By the official returns published by the Customs the export of the precious metals to foreign and colonial ports for the week ending Thursday last was as under; — Ounces. Silver coin to Belgium 40,000 Silver coin to Rotterdam 26,000 Silver bars to ditto NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH ' TUESDA Y.—We have much satisfaction in announcing that Lieutenant Michael De Courcy, of the Charybdis, has been proMoted to the rank of Com mander, and it is understood that when he has served his time in that rank, the Lords. Commissioners of the Admiralty intend still further to promote him to be Captain, on account of the extraordinary gallantry he displayed in the late action with the Carthagenian squadron. Among the numerous dashing affairs which took place during the war there are but few that have surpassed this of Lieutenant De Courcy. The Charybdis is a small brigantine of only 232 tons, and carrying but three guns and 55 men, while the force opposed to him was a cor vette, a brig, and two schooners, mounting altogether be- Mtn 20 and 30 guns, and manned in proportion. Yet, notwithstanding this immense superiority on the part of his opponents, Lieutenant De Courcy has proved to them that British subjects and British interests are not to be injured with impunity. It has already been stated that the result of the contest was the capture by the Charybdis of the corvette and the two schooners, and her sinking the brig. The rebel General Carmona has for some time past evinced a hostile feeling towards the English. At the time the Skipjack was lying at Carthagena, the men were kept at their quarters with the guns double-shottcd, as there was then every dispo sition on the part of his squadron to fire into her, as it eventually did-at the Charybdis. The Albatross, a new 16. gun brig, was launched at this dockyard yesterday. She was immediately taken into dock to be coppercd, and will be commissioned in a few days. The Prince Albert, 90, which is.building here, ha: had her name changed, and is henceforth to be called the Princess Royal. A new first-rate, with three decks, is shortly to be commenced, which is to be called the Prince Albert. The Thunderbolt steam-frigate, recently launched here, has her sails bent, and is all ready to proceed to Glasgow, to get her engines and boilers, and will sail as soon as the wind becomes favourable. She will cal) at Milford to return the masts and spars which were fitted temporarily in the Collingwood, 80, to bring her round from Pembroke to this port preparatory to her being put in commission. The Ringdove, 16, Captain Sir William Daniel, bent her sails yesterday afternoon, and will go out of harbour to-morrow or Thursday. It was not intended that she should leave before the 14th inst., but orders have been received to expedite her as much as possible, as she is wanted to convey out despatches, though to what quarter has not transpired. _ _ _ The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are ex pected at this dockyard on Wednesday next upon one of their periodical visits of inspection. The Frolic, 16, was omitted in the list of ships stated to be building at this port. This will make 18 line-of battle ships, 14 frigates, and 17 sloops, &c., now build ing at this and other dockyards. There are no ships lying at present at Spithead. Ships in harbour—The Winchester, Ringdove, Thun derbolt (steamer), St. Vincent, Victory, Royal George (yacht), and Excellent. THE FAIR AT CHALK FARM. A few years ago the itinerary caterers for the public amusements, conceiving that Greenwich was too far re moved from the metropolis to allow the inhabitants of North London to partake in its festivities at this time of the year, conceived the idea of establishing a rendezvous at Chalk Farm. The project was put into execution, and at that time a few paltry swings, one or two merry go-rounds, a stand or two of gilded gingerbread, and two or three stalls of children's toys, were the only induce ments tovisit the spot. Every half year new attractions were added to the place, and as the attractions increased the number of visitors increased with them, till now the fair extends over a large space of ground; all the-usual attendants on a regular fair are there ; everything which can tend to attract the idlers is put into requisition, and the numbers that attend prove the estimation in which it is held. The fair for this Easter commenced here on Monday, and the number of visitors was very great. We should think during the course of the day there were 'Certainly not less than from 10,000 to 15,000 persons present. Amongst the principal attractions were a grand show called " Richardson's," under the manage ment of Nelson Lee and Co. here were Motleys in their party-coloured dresses, silicons, as they are termed, with their jackets, piubefores, and straw caps ; here were emperors, kings, knights of the cross, counts, and parsons, queens, princesses, and ladies of a nondescript appearance. The kings and knights marched up and down as theatrical kings and knights will do, the queens and princesses tripped along, as queens and princesses seldom do. The band strikes up, and kings, queens, knights and counts, princesses, mot leys and silicons, join in one incongruous dance, hands across, turn round, up and down, chassez and re-chassez. In another corner of the fair stands the show of "Clarke from Astley's." Hero beautiful maidens and beautiful horses, mingled in the festive dance. On other shows gongs were sounded with a mighty noise, guns discharged, large drums were beaten, trumpets clanged forth in mighty discord, hoarse voices bawled through hoarser trumpets. " Now then, just going to show ; walk up ladies and gentlemen, only 3d. to the gallery." Such were the noises which prevailed, and with this brief out line, we leave our readers to judge of the confusion which reigned, and which we have so imperfectly described. Here also were dancing booths, and wild beasts, gilded gingerbread, and wizards from north, east, west, and south, halfpenny peep-shows and penny roundabouts ; high-flyers and steady-goers. Here were beef-stakes and onions all hot, twopence a lot ; sausage rolls, fried fish; beef, mutton, and kidney pies ; baked taters, and every delicacy of the sea son, all hot, nice and hot.. A little further off were frisky donkeys gaily caparisoned with white saddle cloths and red rosettes, who walked very slowly from their standing place ; but who when their heads were turned towards home, went along at such a glorious gallop as to delight and astonish the gallant little riders. We have not half described the fair, yet we feel that we have, already taken up too much space with a recital. The company was not very select, but every one seemed happy and joyous—care seemed at least banished for that day. A scene like this is one of the best arguments which could be urged against existing distress, because here all seem merry ; yet this is an enjoyment which the haughty aristocrat would tear from the hands of the humble artisan, and deprive him of that source of amuse ment which, in his mind, compensates in a great degree for months of labour, toil, and oppression. CAPTAIN MANDY.—We have much pleasure in announcing that Sir Henry Wheatley has received her Majesty's commands to forward to Captain Manby " the gold Coronation medal, begging his acceptance thereof as a small mark of the sense her Majesty entertains of the utility of his inventions in the preservation of lives from shipwreck." SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—In a certain town lives a lady, somewhere about forty years of,age, and pos sessed of nearly twenty thousand pounds. She is of what the ladies call an " easyful temper," and not remarkable for possessing shrewdness in proportion to her wealth. A youn., , Hibernian, having heard, doubt less, of her riches, laid siege to her: heart. Whether he succeeded in making any impression on it, we have not been able to ascertain. One report respecting the affair affirms, that not only did he succeed, but that it ac tually surrendered to the impetuosity of his attack ; that the lady actually accompanied him to church ; but that, ruing before the ceremony was performed, she gave him the slip, and returned home, resolved. still .to lead a life of " single blessedness." Be this true, or be it false, the young gentleman was not to be thus summarily? dismissed. He renewed his suit, with an increased determination to gain the hand of his adored by " hook or by crook." All his ad vances were, however, repulsed, and despair, for a moment, took possession of his soul. But love laughs not only at locksmiths, but at difficulties the most appal ing. The Lothario, after a consultation with certain of his friends, prepared to obtain by stratagem what he had failed to achieve by open assault,—possession, to wit, of the fair ladv's purse—we beg pardon, person, we meant to write. in pursuance of the plot concocted with his friends, and in the execution of which they were to as sist, she was invited, under the pretext that she was to receive some money which wasnwing to her, to a certain house. In an evil hour, she fell into the trap. She was surrounded by her lover and his friends, who, when in the house, invited her to take some refreshment. A glass of brandy was given to her; she drank it, and shortly af terwards, from the effect of something which had, it is supposed, been put into the liquor, became insensible. Next morning early, before she had recovered, she was hurried off, accompanied by the woman of the house, by the Railway, to Lancaster, and thence to Gretna Green. Here, on the following morning, she was, as the parties alledge,married to her persevering and determined suitor The lady herself declares, that she has no recollection of what took place at Gretna Green, the effects of the mix ture suppposed to have been administered to her, the first night, having all the time, been potent in stu pifying her and impairing her memory. When she re covered the full possession of her senses, she insisted on immediately returning home, and home she retured. This is the story current respecting the most extraordi nary affair. Doubtless, her husband and his friends are ready to prove that every step which was taken was taken with the lady's full consent ; that, in short, the ardent woer won her by the legitimate arts of love, and not, as Othello was charged with having won Desde inona, "by spells and medicines.,' The affair i s , we h ear , likely to give some occupation to the gentlemen of the :long robe.—L iverpool ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. The Isis, being the twelfth of the fourteen vessels in tended to run between this country and the West Indies, as well as down the coast of America, left the river on Tuesday, on her way to Southampt on' with the mails of the Ist April, and to convey Lord Elgin, the new Governor of Jamaica,-to that island. This ship, built by Messrs. Pitchers, measures 1,300 tons, with a length of 213 feet between the perpendiculars, and is fitted with two engines by Messrs. Miller, avenhill, and Co., of the aggregate power, equal to 430 horses ; which are so contrived as not to consume more than'one ton of coals per hour. rreViously to her departure, these had never been put in motion, but during the whole way to Sea Reach performed admirably, making 10 t 0.12 strokes per minute, tend propelling the vessel, drawing upwards of 18 feet water, at an average speed of something above ter; miles per hour, with a metier scarcel perceptible, in fact, even in the engine-room itself. '1 he splendour and comfort of the fittings up do not appear to be in the lcutt inferior to any . of those previously despatched, and the greatest attention has been paid to gourd against acci• dent, and to provide for the security of tho4c on board, should any occur, The boilers are four in number s two being sufficient to work the engines, thus providing a reserve in case repairs should be requisite ; she him six boats, two built upon the plan of Captain Smith, forming covers to the paddle-boxes, and roomy enough to carry the whole of the crew and passengers. Itl addition, to guard against fire, force pumps are erected, by which copious streams of water can be directed to any part. Two more vessels will be shortly dispatched, which will complete the number contemplated to be at present placed on the station. CORONER'S INQuEsT.—Tuesday ninht an inquest was held before Mr. Payne in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas Marchant, aged 43, whose death took place under the followinn. circumstances :—From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, on Saturday, the 12th ult., between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, was at the Three Brewers public-house kept by Mr. Tullett, in the Lower-road, Islington, in a state of liquor s and wanting to fight. Mr. Tullett said, "If you want to fight, fight me." A person named Ramshaw came out of the parlour and took the challenge, saying to deceased, "111 give you the first slap in the face fora pot of beer, and fight you afterwards." The deceased immediately struck Itamshaw, and a fight ensued. Three rounds were foutrint in front of the bar, when Mr. Tullett came and took il, e d e _ ceased out ; he resisted, and a struggle took pl ace i n the street ; both fell, deceased's right leg being broken by the - fall. He was taken to a surgeon's, and from thence removed to the hospital. Mr. H. M. Draper, house-surgeon, said deceased was suffering from a simple fracture of the right leg ; everything was done for him ; he died on Sunday. The cause of death was suffixation, unconnected with the injury to the leg. On the above morning he ate a hearty breakfast, and immediately ex pired. On a postmortem examination, he found particles of an egg, and about three drachms of tea which he had taken, in the lungs, thereby stopping respiration. The Coroner having remarked on the singular termination to the inquiry, the Jury retur ne d a ver di ct o f " Acci dental death from suffocation." THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, although convalescent, on her return to Marl borough House from Sudbury Hall, found it necessary, from the delicate state of the lungs, to observe the greatest caution with regard to the atmosphere which she breathed, and with a view to live in as equable a tem perature as it was possible to preserve, her Majesty has constantly kept her chamber. We are glad to learn, however, that her Majesty has been so much benefited by the unusually fine weather of Ithe last few days, that she was enabled to take advantage of the genial warmth of yesterday to come down stairs, and in the evening dined out of her chamber for the first time since the severe pulmonary attack 'with which she was visited in November last. FALMOUTH, MONDAL—We have had an arrival of a merchant brig off port from Rio de Janeiro, -with dates ten days subsequent to those by the last packet. There had been no change of the dull state of trade then reported. Rear-Admiral King was about to re turn to England ; the President, from round the Horn, was daily expected at Rio ; the Spider had arrived from Portsmouth after a quick voyage ; the Magnet, with the mails, had not got down; the empire, with the exception of Rio Grande, was in a state of quietude. Exchange for business by this vessel done at :281 on England. On Wednesday last a fishing-boat entered the har bour with the bodies of nine fishermen, drowned off Hyde, belonging to the brat No. 52, which was wrecked there • one man only escaping by swimming on shore. It is pleasing to state the fishermen speak in the highest terms of the humanity, and attention, and sympathy, re ceived from the English, who paid every respect to the dead, and closed their remains in decent coffins. Among them were a father and his two sons. It was a melancholy sight to see the remains, followed by the sor rowing families, who are left in misery and want, and deprived of their sole aid for support, going to their las esting-plac ‘.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday. t SUDDEN DEATH IN TILE OFFICE OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY.—On Tuesday afternoon, about five o'clock, a melancholy instance of the uncertainty of Kaman life oc curred in the office of the Bible Society, Earl-street, Blackfriars. An elderly gentleman of the name of Morris, who has been many years in the service of the society in the Secretary's office was sitting at his desk, when he suddenly fell forward and expired. He was in his 73d Year. A CHILD THROWN INTO THE SEX BY ITS MOTHER. —The Amsterdam papers of Wednesday mention the following affecting incident :—A deplorable event took place on board the steamer the Beurs Van Amsterdam on its voyage from Hamburg to Amsterdam, of which we have the following particulars from good authority. Among the passengers was a lady a native of Coblentz, with a boy about ten years old, and another very young child. She was married to a person of the North of Germany, who had gono some years ago to try his for tunes in North America, and about two years ago had invited her to follow him, This she did, but was so it treated by . her husband that she was obliged to return to her friends in Europe. She had reached Hamburg and resolved to go by way of Holland to countries on the Rhine. The treatment she had suffered had made a deep impression on the mind of the unhappy lady, the traces of which, however, were not perceptible except on a close observation, but all on a sudden they manifested themselves in a fearful manner ; in a fit of desperation she threw the youngest child into the sea, and attempted to plunge in after it. The people on board hastened to give assistance too late to save the child, but in time to hold back the mother, who was immediately taken into the cabin, and all possible assistance given her. But her understanding was gone. Here she arrived with her son, and was put on board a steamer belonging to the Rhine and Yssel Company, where she was placed under the care of proper persons, apart from the other pas sengers, to be conveyed to her native town. Tim GLOVE TRADE.—At a meeting of the glove trade, held in Aldermanbury on Tuesday, to resist Sir R. Peel's measure for the reduction of the duty on French gloves, it was stated that immense mischief had fallen on the trade since the similar reduction in 1825. In that year there were in Worcester 125 manufacturers, by whom 1,600 men were employed, and 25,000 women and children, who manufactured annually 625,000 dozen of gloves, the wages for which amounted to 250,000/. In the present year there were only thirty manufacturers, who do not make 100 dozen pair of gloves a week each, and who, instead of paying 250,0001. a-year pay, allow ing for that quantity through the year, only 62,400/. LINCOLN, Mauctt 29.—A large meeting of the farmers in this neighbourhood was held to-day (Tues day), at the City Arms Inn, to arrange for a County Meeting, to oppose Sir R. Peel's budget. Monday week is the day appointed, and from the bitter feeling which exists among the agriculturists of this country a very large meeting may be looked for. Mr. Christopher, M.l'., Mr. Handley, late M.P. for South Lincoln, Mr. Chaplin, and several others of the gentry, were present. ABDUCTION.—The Liverpool Magistrates were en gaged for many hours yesterday in the investigation of a transaction which has given rise to much gossip in Lan cashire, namely, the abduction of a lady of forty years of age, whom certain parties, by means of wine and various devices, carried off to Gretna-green, and had her mar ried to one of them, according to her evidence, against her consent. The names of the parties are John Orr M.Gill, John Osborne Quick, Thomas Wormand Roger son, Richard Jones, Margaret Jones, and Jane Clayton. The above prisoners were placed at the bar. Th; charge was„that the parties had taken Miss Ann Crelin, a lady who was reputed to possess a very large property (ac cording to rumours which have been rife, not less than 40,0001., 50,0001., or 60,0001.), away to Gretna-green, where she had, against her consent, and while under the influence of some potion which had been administered to her, been married to the prisoner, John Orr It appeared, howeyer, from the lady's own account, that she had Rot 5,0001. After a lengthened inquiry the prisoners were remanded till next day. Last week, at the Court of Assize of the Saone-et- Loire, a man named Laborier was tried for the murder and robbery of the widowiDucrot, who kept a wine-shop at Macon. The crime was committed in December last, and the prisoner was arrested in Geneva the following month. This man, whose character was of the worst description, confessed his crime immediately. Ho said that having but two sous left, and not knowing where to find a sleeping place, he knocked at the door of the widow Ducrot's house, in the hope of persuading her to let him in. She spoke to him from the window, and then came down to open the door. It was, he said, at the moment the door was opening that the idea of the murder and robbery came across his mind. He struck her a violent blow with his fist on the head which stunned her, and then tied a rope round her neck and strangled her, He immediately ransacked the drawers of the table, and took away about 600 f., together with a gold chain and ring, which his victim wore at the time. On the trial, the great point of interest arose respecting the truth of the prisoner's statement, that the crime was un premeditated. Several circumstances—such as his de claring the day before that he was to receive money in a day or two—his having a rope with him when he struck the woman down—and the evidence of. a medical man, that the blow on the head was not given with the hand — seemed to prove that Laborier was nit telling the whole truth. The jury, however, gave in a verdict of attenuat ing circumstances, and he was condemned to bard labour at the hulks for life. A remarkable individual died on the 4th instant at Lons-le-Saulnier. This was aM.C. T. born in Paris, and one of the wealthiest butchers in the Faubourg St. Antoine. He was better known by the name of Chariot, which he in some measure immortalised. He t p o a p s s e o d f a i n pike ur t t h o e w nf heador theof. thbueteunhefrorwtunhottetearrPirined c o e i s i s th d e e Lamballe. He came to settle a few, years afterwards a t Lons-le-Saulnier, whe re his name was not known, an d where he continued to follow the profeiniOn Of Et butchtt until his death.—Sentinclle ds Jura.