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LONDON: TIIURSDAY MOPNING, MARCH 31, 1842. The Corn-law seems almost forgotten, while public attention is wholly absorbed by the more pressing interest of an income tax, from which therell be, by all wlrise incomes arc above 150/, a year, no.escape but by evasion and fraud. of unappropriately, however, is the "Report of the Statistical Coinmittec of the Anti-Corn-law Conference". 'published, because as the people feel or fear the pressure of the income tax, they ought to be reminded that the necessity for it grows from the Corn-law. The complaint of the Government is that the revenue does not equal the expenditure. It is quite certain that the revenue depends mainly on the number of people, and equally eel tam that the Corn-law, during all the years it has been in existence, has every car shortened the supply of food, and prevented a considerable increase of people. It h a s prevented, therefore, a correspondii.44 in crease of revenue, and ilas begotten the Ministe rial necessity ibr now levying an income tax on the middle classes. It must no tbe supposed that an increase ofpeople carries with it a corresponding increase of expense aid a corresponding extension of the duties of , Government. One Sovereign, one Cabinet one Commancler-in-Chtef, one Board of Admiralty, one series of tribunals, can as easily perforce all the duties of governing 20,000,000 p eop l e as 10,000,000. Nor does the increase of PcoPle at Lome require any corresponding increase of a fit et or army, the augmentation in both of which being chiefly th fruit of - foreign possessions. Fut moreover it is well ascertained that pau lerism and crimes decrease in proportion as a ni.tion is prosperous, and increase in proportion as population is stinted in its food and comes to a still stand. Consequently the Corn-law, by lessening the supply of food, and checking the progress of population, both augments the ex penses of Government caused by pauperism and crime, and prevents the increase of the revenue. We are pleased, therefore, to see the publica tion which now appropriately directs attention to the effects of Corn-laws, inducing poverty and want, and now creating the Ministerial necessity for an income tax. The Statistical Report is preceded by an ad dress from Mr. H. ASHWORTH to the Executive Council of the Anti-Corn-law League, which al most at its commencement contains the following passage : It is a truth which no Christian will be prepared to deny, that the Almighty hath provided and promised that by the sweat of man's brow the earth should yield an abundance of food for the support of his creatures, to maintain them in health and strength; we have there fore a right to assume that no law of man, or class of men, should deny to any other man, or class of men, the full enjoyment of their just and necessary portion—and that if such a law has been made by man it is contrary to the law of God. Under these impressions, I do not scruple to designate the Ministerial measure, or any other contrivance inter posing between the choicest gifts of an all-wise Provi dence and the toiling hands of his people, a device no less wicked than cruel, and unworthy of men professing to be Christian rulers. It is now no longer within our power to administer compensation to those who have suffered by the errors of the past, and the country is too much enfeebled to bear their repetition. You will form some idea how efficiently the sliding scale has answered the design of its originators in sus taining at a high price the food grown at home, and in excluding, at a cheap rate, the corn of other countries, from the following outline of its operation during the whole period of its existence, from July, 1828. There have been entered for home consumption, 14,787,990 quarters of wheat, and out of that amount 12/52,562, or 84 per cent., were not admitted till the price had been raised to above 70s. per quzsrter, although it is probable that, under a free trade, the same pur chases would have been made abroad at little more than half the money, and the paytentp effected by exports of British manufactures, yieldintg employment and profit, instead of an export of gold, deranging our cur rency for years together, and thereby inflicting other and grievous hardships. If we come to a proiimate calculation of the real loss inflicted upon the country by this system, estimating the difference of price betwixt this and other countries at 20s. per quarter, which I am told is much under the mark, and taking the consumption of this country at one quarter of wheat per head per annum, now generally admitted, we find that upon our population, 26,500,000, the ann ial loss will be Taking also our consumption of other agricultural products, which are equally "protected," such as animal food, barley, oats, rye, potatoes, cheese, butter, milk, &c. &c., and re ducing them to their equivalents in wheat, they will be equal to another quarter of wheat for each person, forming a second sum of 20s. per quarter Making a total of £53,000,000 a'year. Such an annual burden must necessarily have pressed down the people, and wasted our national strength. It is certainly a large slaughter to be the work of ONE mono poly, but you will judge of its certainty and efficiency by the following outline of its mode of operating. The writer then proceeds to illustrate, in de tail the manner in which the Corn-law system limits our trade, lessens the value of property, and indicts grievous injury on the working classes. We quote some of Mr. AsitwonTn's observations on this bead : But by far the largest amount of real suffering falls upon the working classes, and as the same results are common to all our manufacturing towns, allow me to adduce instances from the case of Bolton, with the cir cumstances of which I am specially and particularly ac quainted. You will have perceived, by the returns made, that the deterioration of condition falling upon this class in the town of Bolton, in the diminished amount of their earnings, has been computed at the sum of £201,600 a-year, and in the additional cost of their food 118,960 „ £320,560 a-year. or more than 1,0007. for every working-day, an amount far beyond the power of charitable aid to alleviate ; and if the poor-rates were increased to the extent of one woek's loss in the 52, they would be deemed too bur densome for the generality of rate-payers. The working population arc a noble-minded people ; their dread of pauperism, and their sacrifices to avoid it are strikingly shown in the extent to which they have pledged and sold their furniture, and even their clothing, as you will perceive by the returns. Amongst 5,305 persons their houses contain only two seats for every three persons ; there are 101 persons for every blanket ;- 53 families wholly without beds ; and 609 families with out "a change of linen ; their food is deficient, their phy sical strength is wasting, and the rate of mortality is rapidly increasing. By the return of the Bolton Poor Protection Society, it appears that during the month, ending January 22, - Mere were 0;137 person relieved, whose income did, not average more than lld. per head per week, If we deduct from the earnings of these the sums they pay for fuel, &c., there will' be left for food probably not more than lid. per clay, or less than 11d. per head per week, and it may afford you; as it did myself, a painful curiosity to discover how 90 small - a sum could be ex pended in the support of a fitmily. It is now becoming a question how long the employers can continue to carry on their l'asiness under this in creasing pressure. • _ • A suspension of busin,s is immediately followed by the pledging and selling of workpeople's clothes and furniture, and a rapid progress to a state of destitution. The additional cost of their food, within the last five years, has occasioned pressure to this class accompanied by an uneasiness which has manifested itself in political excitement, demanding a wider extension of representa tive power. I witnessed an example of this, about a year ago, at a Corn-law meeting, where the work people denounced the free-trade question'as an agitation lbr a reduction of their wages, and appeared to have become persuaded that the pressure they felt arose from the arbitrary dealing of their employers. As I ob. , erved some present wbo were in my employment, 1 called a general meeting of them to consider the subject. Having assembled in the school-room, we proceeded to take the sum of their earnings for the previous year, 1840, and to compare it with that for 1835, which they called a good year; the amounts appeared so nearly alike that they at once acknowledged that what they suffered had not come from any changes in the amount of the wages they had received. This disclosure startled them, and caused an investigation of their expenditure, when it appeared that the outlay of themselves and their de pendents in agricultural food, in 1840, had amounted to 18,5001., whilst that of 1835 was only 12,500/., making a difference of 6,0001. in a•year's maintenance. A discussion arose respecting this loss, and one of them charged the shopkeeper with robbery ; another defended them, and said the shopkeepers could not have got it, for they were failing on all sides. The high prices were then traced from the shopkeepers to the farmers ; but it was admitted that they did not appear enriched ; so at length, as with one voice, they called out, " Why, the landlords have got it ;" a conclu sion which I left in their hands. While it is a question amongst the manufac turers how long they can carry on their opera tions under this system, Sir ROBERT PEEL is to add to its weight by an income tax. The landlord's burden is not enough, he thinks; so he will increase it by an additional State burden. This may be bold and wise statesmanship, but to us it looks like that madness which is the fore runner of ruin. Those, whether Whigs or Tories, are the enemies of our future greatness, and even our future safety, who admit, for one moment, the necessity of adding to the burdens now levied by the State on the people. Obvi ously the true policy of the country now is to allow the population to increase, by permitting them to draw supplies of food from every poisi ble quarter, to graciously permit trade to ex pand, by removing from it the noxious restric tions imposed by stupid, ignorant law-makers, and so allowing the basis of the national to enlarge, and the streams which flow ir . ' „o - the national coffers gradually to swell ' d ' igger an d bigger. Sir ROBERT PEEO pta goes to narrow them, to lessen productive employment, to check. the progress of Po' e ttiation, and diminish the resources of the o.tate. som a our Correspondents have asked us, how many crimes the income tax will cause?' 11_:s is a question which our political arithmetic is quite insufficient to answer. We can see, however, that every law creating a restriction; - imposing a tax, creates all the crimes which grow directly or indirectly from the desire, or from the attempt, to evade that law. It may be goad for Sir R. PEEL to talk about' the depravity of human nature, but, so far as the evasion of the income tax is concerned„ that depravity is called into life by him. No *person doubts that a great many persons will make false returns under the law; will deliberately state untruths, and will expose themselves to be summoned before Corn missioners, to whom they will reheat these un truths, where they will sometimes be exposed to shame, and sometimes achieve a guilty triumph. No person doubts, or can doubt, that an income tax, therefore, will cause a great number of moral offences, a vast amount of discomfort, and will strengthen a great number of bad passions. With all deference to Sir ROBERT PEEL, we must assert that this is a most serious considera tion. Though no man may be able, either be fore or after the enactment, to state in a tabular form, with as much accuracy as he can state the annual number of births and deaths, the exact amount of crime caused by the income tax, yet the awful certainty that it will cause a great many crimes should make any man, not callous to all the better feelings of mankind, pause long before he inflicts it on the community. It would be a curious inquiry, could it be ac curately followed out, to ascertain in what pro portions the crimes which now infest society grow from the natural evil disposition of the ruled, or from the unwise restrictions of the rulers. One thing is quite certain, that in proportion as Government has gone on making restrictions, and so enlarging the number of offences•—making actions crimes by law, which nature never forbade—so the number of offences and of criminals has increased. It is, in fact, a disgrace to this country that, abounding as it does with all the natural ele ments of social happiness, and endowed, as our people are, far beyond the average, with wealth creating skill, poverty and crime have rapidly increased, and are still increasing. This must be the fault of the governing bodies, because they undertake to prevent and limit crimes, and be cause they make those restrictions which are the parents of numerous offences. Although we cannot ascertain the exact proportion in which crimes grow from the natural disposition of the ruled, or the increased restrictions of rulers, still we are thoroughly convinced that these do pro voke a great many offences, and consequently they ought to be enacted as sparingly as possible. How many villages on the sea coast have been demoralised by smuggling cannot be told. How many families will be corrupted by familiarising their chiefs with the practice of making false 4tatements under the income tax cannot be guessed at. How many sad crimes have, within our own recollection, had theirsource in the game laws cannot by any skill be ascertained. They have equally provoked criminality in the game preservers, though that the laws do not punish, as in the poachers. It is enough for us to know that such laws, and the laws which the smuggler corrects, have caused great,criminality, to induce us to call on religious men, on all men interested in promoting the morality of the people, to re sist Sir ROBERT PEEL in now passing a law that will cause as many, if not as odious crimes as the duties on foreign spirits and the game-laws. Every evasion of the income tax, every false re turn which may be made under it, every moral offence which it may indirectly cause, will all be due to Sir ROBERT PEEL, and may all be most assuredly prevented—stifling more crimes than the police and the courts of law—by not al lowing Sir ROBERT PEEL to carry his scheme into effect. He says he must have money. Must the Go vernment then demoralize society ? It is consti tuted to promote the moral, as well as the phy sical well-being of society, and when its plans for raising a revenue become incentives to crime, we arc entitled to conclude that the Government itself is in error, if it be not a complete failure. It must not have money at the cost of many crimes. The income tax will he inquisitorial, unequal, unjust, a perpetual blister on the people, but, over and above all these, it will be the parent of much criminality, and will thwart the efforts of educa tionists and philanthropists for the improvement of the people. This is, we apprehend, another and a strong ground for resisting it, on which all the clergy, all the members of the Society of Friends, and all those who have struggled to ameliorate the condition of society ought to take their stand. Its pecuniary evils, and its physical evils are great, but they do not, in our judgment, equal its moral evils. A crime-engendering law is a dreadful pestilence. What the Tories want in wisdom they supply by impudence. Because their opponents ob jected to their impenetrable silence on their pro jects, those opponents are now taunted with _opposing the Tory measures. As the opposition required, in the interest of the country, to know the Premier's intentions, they are accused of faction, because now that they do know them and disapprove of them, they do not hasten to pass his measures. If this be good logic, it will only be necessary for a Prime Minister to with hold his measures till the last week of the ses sion, to procure their passing by acclamation. The longer he delays his measures, and the more clamorous his opponents become, the more cer tain will he be of success, let him propose what he will, Again, the Tories call Sir ROBERT PEEL'S - Midget the poor man's budget, and ask compla cently, would he like to have his coffee and his sugar taxed instead of seeing the middle classes taxed ? This is marvellous, considering that the Whigs offered to reduce the tax on sugar, and the Tories would not let them. The Tories, in fact, accuse the Whigs of increasing the burdens of the people, when they were only prevented from lightening them by the factious conduct of the Tories. We are at a loss which most to ad mire— their love of falsehood or their unabashed impudence. 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WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the new grounds of the Home Park for some time in the .forenoon, and the Prince of Wares and the Princess Royal were taken airings, and also in the afternoon the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson, rode out in a carriage and four. Prince Albert rode to the meet at Salt-hill, at:ended by Sir Edward Bowater, Lord Cantilupe, and Mr. G. E. Anson, and after an hour's gallop returned to the Castle. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in the Great Park in a pony phaeton, his Royal High ness driving, attended by the Countess Delawarr, Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Ladies Elizabeth And I . : Aary West, Hon. Miss Cavendish, and the Earl bi• Warwick in other phaetons ; and by Colonel BtleKley, Sir E. Bo: water, and Lord Cantil u p e , on horseba.-1,, His Royal Highness P r i nce Ge-4rge of 'Cambridge will arrive this evening on a vis;. j Her to her Maesty . Maje f sty' 13. s P riv :;ce band, and the band O Regiment o f the Royal - - Castle thy- " ..ate uuards will be in attendanc e a t the Royal e highness vening' the Duke of Cambridge, attended - . 0,7 Colonel Jones, left town at nine o'clock yesterday morning, to honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit at his seat, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. Their Royal Highnesses the DuchesS and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by ,Baron Knese beck, left their residence at Kew yesterday, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty . the_Queen Dowager, on Tuesday, at Marl borough-house. The Agent for Jamaica had an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial -office. Sir Allan ADNab had also an interview with his Lordship, yes terday. A deputation of the masters and journeymen boot and , shoe-makers of London, consisting of Messrs. Robert Taylor, Laidlaw, Grieve, Madwin, J. 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Shakspeare's beautiful pastoral; As You Like P ; was performed at this theatre last, evening; fer the purpose of ititrOducitig Mft it Hell, the Thentre nuyiiii Liverpool, to a metropolitan audience, in the character of Orlando. Mr. Holl possesses all the physical requi sites for success in the profession he has chosen. In person he is tall, well formed, with an expressive coun tenance, a good eye, a powerful and sonorous voice, and (a great point in an actor) a clear awl 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. Hell'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 ipg—a tendency but too common with actors fresh from the provinces, which Mr. Holl would do well to avoid, and iThich 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. Holl with talents of no mean order. Let him assiduously seek to develop those talents by patient stuey and assiduous ap plication. He has not so much to learn as to unlearn, and what he has to unlearn will not be a difficult task to him. He has only to follow his own taste as his guide ; for it is evident that the tendency to overacting, which we have before noticed, arises more from an idea that such will lease his audience, than from any natural bent " to tear 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 glerie did she execute her dainty device for 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 e:d she prove him 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 energeti 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. Strickland, 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 oh Saturday was received with considerable applause. The house, although not crowded, was very well filled. 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. Tornkins has some good paintings in his own peculiar style ; " Ander nach on the Rhine," No. 56, and " Ehrenbreitstein " 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 trograding in 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. Woolmerha,s 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 chitrming. 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. Crome, 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 Ploughman'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-i3 very smoothly laid on, and this is altogether an exceedingly pleasing picture. " aking 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 587, hy . Mr. Hammerton, 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 form e r years, and; we are sure that a visit to the spot will amply repay the visitor for the time spent in examin e ing the works of art which hang round the rooms. ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. The Isis, being the twelfth of the fourteen vessels in tended to run between thlg gild the West Indies, as well as dal\ n the coast of America, left the river on Tuesday, on her way to Southampton, with the mails of the Ist April, atitt 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, Ravenhill, 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. Previously to hor departure, these had never been put in motion, but during the whole way to Sea Reach performed admirably, making 10 to 12 strokes per minute, and propelling the vessel, drawing upwards of 18 feet water, at an average speed of something above ten miles per hour, with a motion scarcely perceptible, in fact, even in the engine-room itself. The splendour and comfort of the fittings up do not appear to be in the least inferior to any of those previously despatched, and the greatest attention has been paid to guard against acci dent, and to provide for the security of those on board, should any occur. The boilers are four in number, two being sufficient to work the engines, thus providing a reserve in case' repairs should be requisite ; she has 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, In addition, to guard against fire, force Pumps are erected; , MARCH 31, 1842 IN which coptatni streain§ 0? watet Cali direetel to any part. Two nicire vessels Will be Shortly diSpatehed; 'Which will domplete the number contemplated to be at 'resent Placed tin the station. FASHIONS FOR APRIL. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) Mousselines de lain 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 laMe, 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 : the 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. Crispins Pompadour, trimmed all round with gimp, and a large kind of pelerine, 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 niche 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 . traceable 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 iin perfectly. The two classes would stand thus :-0f 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 powerfullrto 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. Last week, at the Court of Assize of the Saone-et- Loire, a man named Laboricr was tried for the murder and robbery of the widowDucrot, 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. He 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 lilt telling the whole truth. The jury, however, gave in a verdict of attenuat ing circumstances, and he was condemned to hard labour at the hulks for life. ABSURDITIES.—It is absurd to despair when the 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 for 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 watch will cure the consumption.— Boston Transcript. THE LATE CHARLES MATHEWS AND THE INT COME TAX.—Whilst the late Charles Mathews, the comedian, was performing in Tate Wilkinson's company, at York, he took it into his head to resist the income tax, which was then in operation, and which would at that time have pressed heavily upon his little income. He sent into the Commissioners a long and numerous list of the drawbacks on his salary, and enumerated with inge nious minuteness his stock in trade. He began with wigs, and described them in all their infinite variety, thus—" black wigs, white wigs, brown wigs, red wigs ; bush wigs, tye wigs, bob.wigs, bishops' wigs, wigs with a tail, wigs without a tail, lawyers' wigs, judges' wigs, parsons' wigs, powdered wigs, old men's wigs, young men's wigs," &c. Natural heads of hair, namely—red hair, grey hair, flaxen hair, countrymen's. hair, and bald heads of every description. Beards, whiskers, mus tachios, eyebrows, &c. Stockings of every colour were then enumerated. After these regular requisites were given came the miscellaneous part of his stock ; such as " hats, feathers, caps, cravats, stocks, ruffles, frills, neck erchiefs, pocket handkerchiefs, pens, books, ink, paper, music paper, red ochre, rouge, carmine, hair powder, wax candles, Indian ink, camels hair pencils, hares' feet, whiting, burnt corks, cold cream, soap, and huckaback towels." The first covered several sheets of paper. -While it was being read, the Commissioners listened with imperturbable gravity at first, but presently, no longer able to contain themselves, they burst out into roars of laughter, and exempted the comedian, who heard no more of the income tax while in York. A LESSON ON SLEEPING IN CHURCH.—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 daring the whole term of forty or fifty years, that he bad 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 wan asleep, with a mouth wide open. The man in the gallery was intensely engaged in raising and lowering his band, 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. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at tEe East India-house, when Col. Sir George Arthur, Bart., K.C.H., was appointed Governor of the Presidency of Boinbay. - • f;-x,.TgNsivE FIRES AND LOSS OF Lirg„..Bujoi;a OF AN AMPHITHEATRE. I ipsterday intelligence of ifi the course oaf TitegdAy anti the following distietreets efonflagratione WAS received by the authorities of the different insurance compau:Ps in the metropolis :—On Saturday night lag, ttt about a quarter to 12 o'clock, a dreadful fire happened in the town of Manchester, which, in the course of an hour and a half, terminated in the total destruction of the amphi theatre belonging to the celebrated equestrian, Mr. Batty, situate in Great Bridgewater-street, and consider able damage to several premises that adjoined the build ing. It was erected about five years ago, and was some what capacious, having in the centre a large circus, sur rounded by an extensive pit and one tier of boxes, capa ble of containing 3,000 persons. There was a splendid , chandelier suspended from the ceiling , w hich was elabo- I rately gilded, and the other parts of the building were tastefully decorated. From the account received it tip pArs, that at the period above mentioned an unusual glimmering light was observed by the police through one of the windows of the building fronting Bridgewater street, who, suspecting that a fire was kindling, imme diately sent information to the head-quarters of the Fire Biigade establishment belonging to the town, and in a very short time after several powerful engines with fire men arrived. In the meantime the doors leading into the body of the house were forced open by the inhabit ants and police, who endeavoured to obtain an entrance, but were utterly unable to do so on account of the smoke and heated state of the place. Several valuable horses be,longing to the equestrian stud of a gentleman named Wells, who was to have opened the theatre on Eas te, Monday, being known to be in the stables , which e tended along both sides of the building, all e'er tiOns were then used in saving them, which, we are happy to say, met with success, though not without very great difficulty , . Shortly before the engines came up the flames made their appearance from the numerous windows, and subsequently burst forth through the roof with tremendous violence. By one o'clock the fire had extended over the entire fabric, also the stables adjoining, and the scene was awful in the exltreme. Several of the surrounding buildings having caught, namely, those belonging to Messrs. Brougham and Co., timber-merchants, the factory of Messrs. Boyle and Crompton, and the Albion Mills, the efforts of the firemen were wholly directed to their preservation, which was in the course of a short time accomplished, but the fire continued raging till after four o'clock on Sunday morning. The theatre is totally consumed. All that remains of it are the outer walls, which are standing. Every means have been taken to discover the origin of the fire, but as yet no clue has been obtained. The loss sustained by Mr. Wells is between 2001. and 3001. This is the second amphitheatre that Mr. Batty has had burnt down within the last five years. The former took place at Glasgow. He estimates his loss at 2,0001., and, unfor tunately, he is not insured. On Sunday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, the village of Hovingsea, a few miles from Cambridge, was thrown into a state of very great confusion, by the out break of a destructive fire in a homestead, the property of Mr. Baynard, and it was not got under till two o'clock in the afternoon. It commenced in an extensive barn, seventy feet in length, which was soon enveloped in flames, and, notwithstanding the strenuous exertions of nearly two hundred persons, a corn stack caught, and in the course of an hour was completely destroyed. For a considerable time it was feared that the entire farm would fall a sacrifice to the dreadful element. However, addi tional engines afterwards arrived, and a good supply of water being procured, the destruction was confined to the barn and stack. The value of the property destroyed is stated to be somewhat heavy. It is supposed to be the act of an incendiary, for whose apprehension a reward of 501. has been offered. On Good Friday, at about four o'clock in the morning, a fire of a fatal character and of extensive magnitude was discovered raging in the farming establishment be longing to Mr. Muggeridge, situate at South Darenth. It burnt furiously for five hours, destroying a large gra nary (containing 100 quarters of malt, and 20 quarters of corn), a barn, malthouse, several ricks, and outbuild ings, the whole covering nearly half an acre of ground ; also a dwelling occupied by two families. The unfortu nate person who lost his life was a labourer in the em ploy of a farmer named Jackson, living, close to the spot. Soon after the outbreak of the flames he forced an entrance into the granary to save some clothes belonging to a workman of Mr. Muggeridge, and immediately afterwards the place fell in upon him. His body has not yet been found, in consequence of the heated condition of the ruins. The cause of the fire cannot be discovered. The loss is estimated at several thousand pounds. SHERIFF'S COURT-BRIGHTON. An inquisition was held at the Pavilion Hotel on Mon day night, before a Jury empanelled by the Under- Sheriff (Mr. France, of the firm of Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer, of Bedford-row), to inquire as to what goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, were in the possession of Messrs. Isaac Newton Wigney and Clement Wigney, bankers, in the county of Sussex, and whether the value was sufficient to answer an extent in aid • from the Crown for the recovery of the sum of 7071. 45., being so much of the Crown money . deposited by John William Ferguson, Postmaster of Brighton, on account of the Post-office revenue, for her Majesty's use. Mr.-Weston, the Sheriff's officer who made the seizure under the extents, having been sworn, stated that he had made an inventory of the goods of the bankrupts, which were worth 7301. The UusnEn-SHERIFF remarked that the inventory contained an item of 401. in Union Bank notes. Mr. Verrall, solicitor, said he appeared to claim these notes as a set-Off on the part of the Union Bank, who were creditors of Wigney's Bank to a. very much la,rsr athount, the debt of Messrs. Wigney being 5791. 16s. lid., as a balance of exchange made on the morning of Thurs day, the day on which the bank closed in the evening, and 255/. in notes of Wigney's Bank received during the day. The UNDER-SHERIFF inquired whether there was sufficient to pay the extent, if the 401. was struck out of the inventory ? Mr..WEsToN replied in the affirmative. The Jury thereupon, at the suggestion of the Under- Sheriff, excluded the notes from the schedule, and re turned a verdict that the bankrupts were in possession of property of the value of 730/. The Jury were again sworn to inquire further whe ther the Messrs. Wigney were in possession of property to pay another extent in aid for the recovery of 3181. 3s. 6d., being so much of the Crown monies deposited by James Ireland, collector of the assessed taxes for the parish of Hove, deposited by him for safe custody till called for by the Receiver-General of taxes for the county Of Sussex. Mr. Weston having deposed that the property was sufficient to meet this demand also, The Jury found accordingly. In reply to a question, The Under-Sheriff stated, that unless the sums so found by the Jury were paid by the assignees, a writ of venditione exponas would be issued for the purpose of selling the property and satisfying her Majesty's claim. The Under-Sheriff stated further, that the two extents would consume nearly the whole of the property seized, and that, with the exception of the proceeds from the Glasgow manufactory of Cochrane and Company, and from the sugar manufactory carried on in St. George's in-the-East, London, by Messrs. Wright and Tdplin, there would be nothing for the creditors beyond about 7001. or 8001. of debts for money advanced by the bank, and whielf.might be considered recoverable. The Mr. Ireland named above died suddenly this morning. Ile was the original projector, and for many years the proprietor, of the Brighton Zoological Gar dens, now known as the Royal Gardens and Cricket Ground. COURT OF REQUESTS. A case of considerable interest to the inhabitants of Brighton was decided on Wednesday before Mr. Furner, the Judge. The action was brought by Messrs. Bass and Co., extensive grocers and merchants, against Mr. Edlin, landlord of the Gloucester Hotel, to recover 101., under the following circumstances, connected with the failure of Messrs. Wigney and Co.:— Henry Eiddet, clerk to the plaintiffs, stated that about nine o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 4th of March, the porter of the Gloucester Hotel came to the counting-house of the plaintiff's, and asked for change for Mr. Edlin for a lot note of Wigney's bank. Witness changed"the note accordingly, giving the porter ten sovereigns. A little after ten o'clock witness went with the note to Wigney's bank, which he found closed, with a notice on the door, announcing that pay ment had been stopped. In consequence of this, witness Went to Mr. Edlin. the landlord of the Gloucester, showed him the note, told him the circumstances, and asked him to return the money. Mr. Edlin said he had changed the note the night before for one of the officers of the Scots Grays, whom he would see on the subject, and wit ness had better call again. Witness did so, when Mr. Edlin told him that he had seen the officer, but as he had not obtained the money from him, he could not return it. Witness called again, but Mr. Ecilin would not pay him. The JUDGE, without hesitation, gave a verdict for the plaintiffs, remarking that there was no lathes on their part in getting the note changed, they having, in fact, received the note after the bank had finally closed. A great number of similar cases will be governed by this decision. WIGNEY'S BANKRUPTCY. BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY. —The debts proved yes terday amounted to about 55,000/. 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, 12,0931., William Homford, 4,5111., John Pollard, 2,654/., Thomas Tillstone, 2,2841., Thomas West, 2,3601., Charlotte Norton, 2,9961., Caroline Dixie, 1,1411., Thomas Tack, 1,7761., Ga briel Grover, 1,2041., and fifteen other creditors, whose claims range from 9591. to 4501. Two days ago 'a woman, living in the Place du Chevalier du Guet, having occasion to go out, left her two daughters, one eight and the other three years old, shut in the apartment. The eldest, having found a bun die of phosphoric matches, amused herself with igniting them, one by one, until the whole took fire, and caught the wicker cradle in which her little sister was sleeping. Before the accident was discovered, by the cries of the elder girl, the whole of the furniture of the room was in a blaze, and it was impossible to enter until the younger child vas nearly reduced to ashes. The Leoutaud family have taken the diamonds found at Glandier from the hands of the regi:-tray at Tulle. M. Lecointe, the jeweller, is commissioned to sell them, and the money they produce is 02, be distributed among the poor of Brives and Tulle. • THE INDIA SO. IN A FEW DAYS WE PROPOSE PUBLISIIISG A MAP SHOWING OUR. 4 , 77/ INDIAN POSSESSIONS, AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRIES OF AFFGHANISTAN, (THE DEPLORABLE SEAT OF WAR) -53 NEPAUL,, THIBET, BLIRMAIL &c. &c. &c. TOGETHER WITH THE LATEST NEWS.. FROM INDIA , r CHI A. t th e Orders for the " India Sun" received a Sun-office, 112, Strand, London, anil: l 4 a News-agents. Price SIXPENCE. _ THE WEATHER.—NOOII MARCIE 31 ; s f, ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, AI3ELAID.r,'" Thermometer... 51 1 Highest 55 Lowest .. .ft.. Barometer 29.70.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Sun Office, 112, Strand, March 31, 1842. i DA Y * HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE T]:= is ager 5 Morning .50 minutes after 4. I Evening 10 minutes 4il e fvuorib7-2bettiol l PlocA . SUN OFFICE, Three o'- tan 44l.'' Although it is pretty generally known in ,1 , 4 ,Ate' that King LOUIS PHILIPPE is labouring un"ntb disease which at his advanced age can have t he than a fatal termination, it does not appear fns' Pari s- Journals that any apprehension of the:; - ,,b10 quences which would follow the demise of tws • Prince has seized upon the public mind. T hil3 , i) lo• great degree is characteristic of the Fren ch Pe v. At no period of their history did they ever nlu c i ii , n iiko cern themselves about the past or the future• to the people of this country, who will allow Onion, consitute happinesswhich does not please upon re ' et e of the French find in reflection only the disturbatictio pleasureable sensations, and regard as the inter ril Y re of of enjoyment whatever prompts it. The et e of taste, asserted by .a new bonnet-shape, or a t ifiol fashions in other articles of female finely' 8 11 0 3 0 the national vanity for the moment quite 0 rid the most complete of General seveb victories. The indifference therefore of the as to what effect the death of the IW. ro c? , have, not only upon the prospects of but on the peace of Europe, is no I,,biect! tion of a want of importance in the sloof or of its being unsuited for the considerati on more reflecting countrymen. On the contrarPtl' e t he` indifferent the French appear to it, and the le , S prepare to surmount the dangers to which it not pose them, the more it is incumbent upon ns t° ,, r e 115 , such precautionary measures as may best see:.ooo' from the evils to which any future disorg ani, France must inevitably threaten so near and 13J:=1/ thising a neighbour as Great Britain. While we admit that the present Kin; FRENCH is very far from a popular Monarcf if the bad faith of a Sovereign is only just , by the distrust and hatred of his .peel PHILIPPE is not more unpopular in Fran' deserves to be ; we are equally willing to his individual influence that great and blessing—the preservation of the peace This is a boon to the world for which WI and honest men cannot be too grateful. charity which covers a multitude of sins life of the monarch of the Barricades. o•ere swords of more than half a million of FrenelO ° 3 t tll' ready to leap from their scabbards to sustair2a, bidding of M. TRIERS, the dominion 0f.2,/t4 . if,, lt ALI in Syria, the single veto of the: KIN ",t tl-......-,..-rta r rvi.c...i--iur carnage as SO m any l 7 1 ,g ..0 hands of cs many women. The fableitr`W. storms repressed not the struggles of the j , ., . t i io ik, winds with a firmer or more potent han°'l'' TA& Lpuis PHILIPPE for a period of eleven yeargr' , ' ' . , 7 war impulses of his.ultra-dernoeratical su b j eels. is highly important consideration. . ,_. ,i 'die' Now were the KING to die, two verkgri 1....4 eff questions must instantly present themsertnfiiei , sideration. One of them is, however,_ of o i l ' j tf a nature, that we shall do little more just n- t.. t. ; 1 ,1 allude to it. We shall, therefore, notice it fi ll ti lie , 4 is this :—Would the French nation allow the," b . : 111 ,' ORLEANS peaceably to ascend the throne fill7 ac i:lit,'. i ' father ? Is the power of Louis PHILIPPE 511w e i;Oi consolidated for this ; or rather, does he n - ch arac ter' the mere force of his personal qualities a nd ii , e lil Every person will be able to do justice to the. g 1 . ) . , which suggests the propriety of not now nlb, i , solution this branch of the inquiry. El' c ' il ti cil t° l we moot it for a higher purpose than the gr a ;4" A pt of petty passions, or the supplying the stiff' .„g inuendo and surmise to national prejudice. o r 1,, But supposing no attempt to set aside the her v iii dynasty, it is worth while to inquire wb et vo licl a g Duke of ORLEANS would follow the 139. 6° j o tteli his father. We feel a persuasion almost in il yi i# .: : to a conviction that he would nut. Thotir ieti l V: restrained from taking any part in the pol it Cie cussions of the day, it is well known to th e r iftl hers that the Dunn inherits but a small P r° 11' , n io „, 01' indeed of the sagacity of the KING. He 15 ' .l e l and accomplished Prince, but his talents ft' r 0 00, -,./. fa in At/ ent are of a very limited order. lI I ' ., e nv - • among his father's Ministers was that little W rote 1 M. TRIERS ; and did any misfortune aec ele , o e t y date of his accession to the throne Wo P re :o oe ' TRIERS would be the first summoned to a5 1,-. fhe . ti direction once more of the National Cent ° i iir. t il What, then, does it behove England to de ~ e ct li'.o the unjust steward in the gospel was threate; frie,fie., the displeasure of his Lord, he made hinl'ei, ad' before hand with all who could help hb il ^ f i fe of i sity. Let us do the like. By establishi n g! t ogo l N O profitable commercial intercourse with ro. t eer t y Spain, we shall make these countries fir ra 5 •iia he ~,, l , 11 , of a peace policy throughout Europe. s a t•".Y. oo e , ill° present opportunity for making c once s e o• wine, brandy, and fruit growers of Fra nc t i o silialle fancy artizans of Paris, we shall more effe e ,, e o e o s .4 o' tinguish the war mania, whatever be the ' ' ode Owe future Sovereign, than if our ships of Ave r r os the .011 pliant in every harbour over which Avi lY cf elille colour flag., The majority of mankind/ e n to ietif,„, o of our continental neighbours, have Yet c i i 4 ; # 0 blessings which peace is capable of hest°s° feriial them. If they did, they would not be 011 0°, cut each other's throats, to gratify th e A , 1 . foolish and unprincipled rulers. t se ao . fiee j ..., The rapidity with which a West r in t el , d , k tence , ,4 steam vessels has been brought into ex- - _ ci ati-i, manner in which they are constructed i' j . tb o 4l are highly creditable to the enterprise 176011:01 tractors, and the skill and ingenuity 4 _ o ,,, i a V chinists. In no other part of the w orld c en cr es: i icli splendid and powerful naval force have be b, said fetd the same time ; and perhaps it may . als ° .e c onll'„P f truth, that no other workmen could he•Noptatiedo the machinery with such precision and Loh ° ` l of l the purposes intended. The Isis, the ( 7 . . 0 0.1' 1 i .o: vessels contracted for, left the river on J-:: w itP 1 ,!1) though a vessel measuring 1,30 te'!ciliiierloif' gines of 430 horse power, and the in? ti eel' j el never been put in motion till she started, ° rue d . , fl" , sion, every crank and wheel and piston ‘•°_. o ,le r gularly as those of a well-tried steann.r the itPfid the perfection of art. The magnitude 01 r i,9 1 0 0 taking is no less wonderful. In th L ee „t, 1 4 .1 ; ! 11 . 6 the period of signing the bo aecn i "7,,ipe e t r ei vessels of this large size will be fully, e l t to it " four boilers and six boats each, suflie en w itil 3 `'i t it io '' all the passengers in case of ernergeneP, fore:, works for guns when required, powern n do t I , : t / ifi: o and every means of strength and safety t o t ] i)e oP, ingenuity can devise. Such a fleet w°_„jee,,til incalculable advantage in war, and i'l d eri'fac ill' ; l3l ' l ,] vast utility for promoting commerce/ 3 an d the l `e communication between Great Britain cis ollf,. of the Western . World, it fQrm# -' p.. an d "- - ,6 cf: {/ Ong .- a ' uo i ch, an ' 1 . ~ tly P i . ; ~3 !opi9t nvr aloe :te •to , nttri t4 - 1 0 o leo in ofr'''• ~,r e s itiotir ~ feel t y i. It i 1 i n the Ile ivbend r arltet ~:.