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NEW NOVEL, EDITED BY CAPTAIN CHAMIER. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., PASSION AND PRINCIPLE A NOVEL. Edited by Capt. FREDERICK CHAMIER, R.N , Author of " The Life of a Sailor," -Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ., AND ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH. THE MAY NUMBER OF COLBITRN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains the following interesting Articles Mr. Wakley and the Poets. By the Editor. The Barnabys in America. By Mrs. Trollepe. Chaps. Gto 9. Female Arithmeticians. By Lamy, Blanchard, Esq. french Cooks andCoukery. The late Andrew Ducroiv. Graduates and Under• Graduates ; or, the PrJetor's Note-book. By the Author of "Peter Priggins." Talents Misapplied. Aladaine d'Arblay's Diary of the Court of Queen Charlotte. Phinras Quiddy ; or Sheer Industry. By John Poole, Esq., Author of " Paul Pry." The Poetry of Law, and the Law of Poetry. The Confessions of an Avaricious Man. By the late IT. D. .-. Inglis, Esq. (Concluded.) . 'hort Hides in an Author's Omnibus. By Horace Smith, Esq. Itecollections of Eton. By an Etonian. The Poiiiatowsky Gems. 'the Whispering Gallery. Br the Editor, &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher,'l3, Great Marlborough-street. , t r e io th N a s t the AUJT B I R A .. ( N ) T A I I I O E N R E S Y D be: l 4 S T t l I t l.l , for which they are selling Selected and Genuine Bonds, take place egularly en the following days-Ist of March, Ist of May, and of September. On tho Ist of June a selection of Bonds is taking place relative to Distribution of the Ist of September. The Bonds belonging to the Distribution of Ist of May have al ready been selected on the Ist of February. Direct for Genuine Bonds from those selected to take part in the Distribution of the Ist of May, without delay to HEINE BROTHERS at HANIBURGH. Every Genuine Bond, taking part in the Distribution of Ist of May, is sure to obtain at least 64/. sterling; largest • Divi dend 112,500/. sterling.-1 - lamburgh, April 1842. ARMY AND NAVY. THE MAY NUMBER OF OLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE NI A GA- ZtrlE, and NAVAL andMILITARY JOURNAL, contains, the following interesting: papers : • . Our Affghaun Affairs, by Col. Macintosh. Pensions and Compassionate Allowances to Relatives of Naval • Officers. A Plan for a System of Promotion in the Artily. The Death of Cook. • The West. Indies. A Yarn about sharks. England's Wooden Wall:—The Mars. Notices of the Naval and Military Establishments of Greece. - Reminiscences of Bayonne. 'Historical Yarns and Shakings. Sketches of Affghanistan. Services of MajerGcneral Sir W. Gomm. Letter 'from India, China, &c. Ciurt-martial. or! Lieut. Plunkett. Stations of the British Army and Royal Navy in Commission on the Ist of May, 18-12, with all the. Naval and Military Intelligence of the Month. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wonderful attraction , and matchless Stnd of Horses. THIS EVENING MAY - - - Will be presented Lord Byron's MAZEPPA ; OR, THE WILD HORSE OF THE DESERT, with increased splendour, extensive aux diary aid, and unapproachable effects. After which, in a niorc extensive and splendid Arena, than ever nefole witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduemg Mr. It a.'f FY'S unrivalled Collection or Animals, conststirot of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Cnargcrs, h„otted cour , ers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionist. in the kingdom, with a gorgeous Entree, called. the AMAZONS of the tioLDEN SUN and the '<NIG lII'S of the SILVER Sl'Ult. To conclude with the Melodrama of ROBINSON f'.RUSOE; OR Tilt: BDI.1) BUCCANEERS, with New Scenery, &c. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Last but One of Mattile. Plessy's Engagement.. which will po sitively terminate on Wednesday next. THIS EVENING, MAY 2, The Performances will commence with LES BRODEQUINS LI SE. Alter which, RODOLPHE; OU, LE FREL'..: ET LE SCEUR. —Rodolphe, M. I.angeval; Therese, Maillto. Plessy. rottetutir w'tn LA. FA UsSE N.GNES ; oU, LE PO} IE t. A NIPAGN Aft I).—Angelique, Maillte. Plessy. fto,ie., Cs.; Pit, :is. tivt. ' • Amphitheatre (or Clattery Stalls), as. ; Gallery, N. Doors will he opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per. to/nuance:4 commence at Half past SeVen. . . .Applications lo • Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, i.e made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bonit.stieet ; Mr. Se. ruin's, 12, Itegent.street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's-street ; and at the Box.oHiee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. THE-INPIA:SUN, CONTAINING A MAP 'AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, IS NOW READY. Tl.llll W EATI-1.01..—N owl, APRIL 30. no-f I. (1A 1.1.1'.U.V OR SCI P.NCE, A I)tiLAID2-STR EET. TiiermOm6ter 66 1 ) Inghtst. CS LoiveSt P.aromacr •: . :9.57 ,—Wind E. Ifiki TElt AT LONDON MUDGE THIS DAY. 3.5 minkites sitar 6 1 Evening 19 minutes atter 7. t: li.6.Livehtizeinents of a Diagusting• Character,' irninoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "Tho :ure.." LONDON MONDAY MORNING. MAY 2, 1842. The House of Commons met on Saturday for the Purpose of discussing Mr. THESIGEWS motion to release Mr. ManseN from the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Ile succeeded, and Mr. MansoN was ordered to be re lased, though he was directed to attend the South ampton Committee this day. We do not consider his case individually of much importance, but the doubts to which it has given rise may affect the character and constitution of Parliament, and may, perchance, should any large class of the community be anxious to find a legal pretext for setting aside its authority, cause all its proceedings to be questioned. Party interest operates like a strong passion, and sharpens the intellect to attain the end in view. The Mr. MABSON in question is a Tory, and on his being committed to custody the ingenuity of the Tories was spurred into action . to find out reasons why he ought not td be committed, or ought to be released. A very important reason was, soon discovered, and what the sleepless ingenuity and self-interest of all the counsel and attorneys employed on all the contested elections, and what all those persons who have con 7 tested; the seats failed to discover, party interest at. once • brought to light. Sir WILLTAM FoLLETT, who was followed by Mr. THESIGER, Mr. WYNN, end most of the legal and constitutional authorities of the House; found out and stated that the warrant on which Mr. Mans'os had been ordered to attend the Committee on the Southampton Election. was invalid and illegal. The facts may be'stated very shortly. The House'of Conimons has no authority when pro rotinfel, and all lausinet,s begun in one ste;sion, if not completed, as many of our readers who have been con cerned in it:;Trivate business, are painfully aware, must be c.,mmenced rte noro in the next. Ail persons whom ,4„,akay, Lave ...ameeited to Nowgate, walk out 15 proinued, for its authority is theco , wtoart etwi. of course all the power which the7House ,CelOrs the . S PEAKER en d s , w i th the,, authority of the :House. itself. The SPEAKER posseu3e3 indeed soma powers by Acts , of Parliament, which - StirVii:q the prorogation of Parliament ; but the po - e - er to issue warreaus fur persons to appear before the Roan, cr before Committees of the House, is net of this description. That power is a mere ministerial function' whiqi the SPEAKER exercises by the order of the House, andtheauthority of his warrant exists no longer than Parliamentisassembled. It extends over adjournments, which are cessations of business by the authority of the Home itself, but not over a prorogation, when the functions of the House are put an to by the authority of the Crown. There was no time dUring the short session of the new Parliament, which was heid last year, to take into consideration the numerous electionpetitions which were their presented, but in pursuance of them the SPEALER issued his warrants for the attendance of witnesses, &c. Whenever such a circumstance has occurred before the petitions and all their consequamces fell to the ground on the prorogation, and were - - cenewed the next session. The Sptaima then again issi ted his warrants, but, by a clausi: in Sit R.. PEEL'S law for settling controverted elections, such petitions were I .ot required to be renewed; but no such provision was : mule for the warrants, and the petitions have , ,come oa for investigation legally, while the warrants issued in compliance with those petitions are invalh 1 and illegal. It appears tlukthe attention of the SPk !AKER. had been called to the circumstance, and he ash od the legal - adviser ap pointed for him by the House, whether the warrants were valid or not, and 1 he legal adviser assured him ,they were. Now, .however, W. FOLLETT, and all the authorities in Parliament, on the grounds we have just stated, contend that the warrants are invalid and illegal, atri of course that lio :?erson is bound to obey them. The House of Commoit s has assented to this doe ,trine, and unanimously cons( Tilted to discharge Mr. ILinsos•from custody, because the warrant was illegal. Several curious questions a rise from this state of things, and the Housc... of Commons. is to appoint a Corn mittee, We believe this day, to ir.vestigate them ; but it is not the duty of that Houscv determine the legality or illegality of its own w:.rrants. 'That question :can only be decided, if the Commons say they are legal, by Judges in Courts of Law ; and the way to decide it is for some person or persons to refuse to obey the SPEAKER'S warrant, when the House must either give up enforcing it, or send its officers to enforce it, and bring the question regularly to issue before a legal tri- But we apprehend, after what transpired on Saturday, that the ease is so clear -as to offer the House no justification for enforcing the warrants Issued last session. We believe that Mr. SPEAKER Will, as soon as possible, to get out of the difficulty, issue new warrants in substitution of those he issued last September. . .... By such a course the House' will prevent future in convenience ; but will nothing be said of those elections .which have already been decided ? Will no doubt be thrown ou them by the House admitting that all the warrants issued last session are illegal ? May not the ousted Members for Weymouth, Sudbury, and Ips wich, petition fur a re-hearing, on the g,ronnd of the admitted illegality, and will the these be able to refuse them the benefit of the mistake of its own functionary ? If any doubt arise whether some Members have not illegally held their seats, may not a tinge of illegality be thrown over all the votes of a House in part illegally constituted ? We are inclined to suppose that the questions raised on Fri• day. and Saturday will cause a good deal of discussion in Parliament and in the country, and will impede Sir R. PEEL in carrying his measures through Parliament. We have mentioned Mr. LABOUCHERE'S promised mo. tion on the tariff, for lowering the duty on sugar, and have pointed out some reasons why his proposition should be supported. We hope that some Hon. Member will also take up the duty on coffee. By Sir R. PEEL'S proposed arrangement, us we have already stated, the English colonial coffee grower will receive one penny per pound more discriminating duty than at present, which penny will go into the pockets of' the coffee growers, and ought to be taken into the coffers of the state by raising the duty on colonial coffee one penny, or allowed to go into the pockets of the consumer,. by lowering the duty on foreign coffee one penny. The English planters will then be no worse off than at present, ‘ the additional penny being a sum more than they now receive, which Sir B. PEEL proposes to - give them at the expense of the consumers. There are many Members of the House, we are persuaded, who will move id prevent his proposed extension of the system of plunder, which is miscalled protection. • ; • There is another article on which the duties might be advantageously altered. At present, all foreign wines----: the weakest and the strongest, the best and the worst — pay equally ss. 6d. per gallon. The. consequence is, as the rule, that only the very best and highest-priced wines are imported, and the consumption of wine is confined to the more opulent classes. Were low-priced wines. ad mitted at a reduCed duty, bearing some proportion to their value, trade would he benefited, the consumer would be benefited, and the revenue would not be injured. The duty of ss. O. per gallon only serves to limit the con sumption of wine, by keeping out all wines which are avowedly inferior. It is admitted on all hands that the Income-tax wit operate most unequally on different classes, and more especially on those who derive income from real pro perty, and those who obtain a livelihood from trades or profesions. In order to render an unjust tax as little burdensome as possible, and make every man pay ac cording to his means, various plans have been suggested, which have been all rejected, on the untenable plea, 'as far as we can judge, that in any view of the subject there must be great inequality and injustice. If this tax, says ..:11r. GOULBURN, were waived, some other must be adopted which would still less etfec t the equality required ; but is it not the highest piece of ab surdity- to refuse to mitigate an evil because it cannot be entirely removed ? Men are placed in various circum stances as regard their mode of living, their incomes; and families, and neither direct nor indireCt taxes would fart equally on every individual. That, however, -fur nishes no reason for making one man pay twice as much as another—an injustice which this odious Bill will, in many instances, effect. It is the duty, there• fore, of our Legislators, and especially those who profess political principles favourable to liberty and equality, to see, that the burdens of hard working tradesmen, mer chants liable to a thousand vicissitudes, and professional men struggling for existence, shall not be heavier than those laid on men born to wealth and idleness. The party who show such anxiety for the interests of the people, we should expect would take every opportanity of defending their cause ; and we therefore, feel great disappoint 'n nt and ,arrow to see such men as Lord jOHN RussEnr, and Mr. LABOUCWERE voting last:night with Sir E.PEELsgainst the motion of Mr. Ror.nud:., for lessening the tax on profits from any trade, profession. or vocation. We cannot conceive that this was done 14 any sinister:Our pose, such as 6mi - du! the tax as hateful as possible,in order to pave the way for the return of the Whigs to office. The late President of the Board of Trade is alaive sus picion, and the Noble Lord, too, possibly acts from con— seientions motives; but some how or another he.not un frequently makes speeches, and gives votes, directly opposed to'the wishes and interests of his best sup porters. His, finality speech, afterwards retracted, his attack upon the electors for boroughs, his eulogy of the landed interest, and his vote of last night, are only a few instances of that mysterious and obstinate propensity for damping the spirit, and neutralising the exertions of the friends of liberty. He vowed to resist this Bill at every stage, yet he was absent from one most important division, and took care to be present to vote against a motion which had the hearty concurrence of nine-tenths of the borough constituency. This tax will affect trades men more grievously than any other class, for, inde pendent of its inquisitorial character, they will be com pelled to pay, in thousands of instances, more than their fair proportion; and every attempt, therefore, should have . been made to render the burthen as light as possible. The ease, however, is hopeless ; the leaders of the opposition are divided, one votes with the Tory Members, another, in the Scotch family fashion, by way of secu rity, votes with the Opposition; and thus, from want of concert, contrive to share with Sir R. PEEL the odium of this oppressive,and unjust tax. The result is deeply to be tkplored. The other amendments met with the same fate. The Bill will pass with all its severity un mitigated, and the people must submit to the measure, without even the consolation of knowing that it was car ried in spite of the most gallant light made by their . re presentatives. We observe in the notices of motion respecting the Income-tax two most valuable ones in Mr. WALLACE'S name. They are to provide that the commercial and manufacturing interests shall be taxed only according to their profits in the paSt year, in place of by an average of three. years; and the other is that the intolerable inqui sition shall endure for one . year only, unless it be re newed by Parliament. With regard to the first, we cannot comprehend how any measure so unjust could have entered the head even of Sir ROBERT PEEI„ as calling on the trading interests, in their present prostrate state, to exhibit their incomes on an ave rage of years, it being an undisputed fact that trade of any kind, foreign and domestic, has been getting worse and worse for the last five years. Surely then nothing short of a reckleis spirit could have conceives - the scheme of going back for three years, in order to squeeze an ap rent income out of the little remaining capital which here and there may exist, although no profit has been made, or any income has accrued to the unhappy victims of this landlords' inquisition ; for it is to the landed in terest in the House of Commons that the trading community have to look for this ruinous infliction. The country is under great obligations to Mr. WALLACE for the stand he has made against the Income-tax, and the commercial world should give that gentleman their unqualified support. ,As to the endurance of the tax, no set of men are more deeply con cerned in having it fixed at one year than the landed proprietors. By doing so they will be able to ascertain its intrinsic worth, as well as their own ability to pay it, after they have felt the effects of the Corn, and Provi sion, and Timber-laws, to which their properties are ::bout to be subjected. We should really wish some Member of the House of Commons would put a question to the Right Hon. the Secretary-at-War, as to what is meant by marching regiments, destined for foreign service, half round the kingdom, for embarkation in'ships which are intended to touch at ports only a few miles from their original head quarters. Thus, troops stationed a short distance inland from Portsmouth, are marched to London., and embark at Chatham in vessels which touch at Portsmouth before leaving England. It is well known that the navigation of the English coast is dangerous ; ' that soldiers stiffer from sea-sickness in the passage from Cliatham to Ports mouth ; and therefore there is a species of cruelty in touching at all English ports after they have once em barked for foreign service. But what is chiefly objec tionable is the expense to which these - circuitous marches must put the country. The army is expensive enough, without adopting this very silly mode of increasing the expenditure. An immense mass of nonsense is daily published in the United States about England. To correct the half of it would occupy our columns to the exclusion of every thing dye. We have therefore long given up the task as hopeless; and when we now notice it, our object is to re_ move itaprdssioas which, if allowed to take .root might seriously affect the continuance . of amicable,_ relations between the two countries. A New York paper of.the Ist inst. now before us, states that the Government of the United States had reason to believe that the invasion of Texas by Mexico, was countenanced 'by Mr. Pa l' KENHAM ' the British Minister, and that it was the design of England to - blot Texas out of the list of independent States. . Now both these ru mours are wholly untrue. Mr. PATIENTIAM did not Edvie the invasion of Texas, and we feel perfectly satis fied that England has not the slightest intention of at tacking the. independence of Texas. We know very well that Mexico never can re-conquer Texas, and that were the latter unable to Stand alone, she would throw herself into the arms of the United States. Now this is a re sult which we have the greatest interest in preventing. As for a war with the United States, the very idea is abhorrent to the feelings of the British people. We have Madrid Papers of the 21st inst. The Minis ter of the Interior informed the Chamber of Deputies on that day, in answer to a question upon the subject, that the Government was taking the most active measures to suppress the - robberies. in Catalonia. Many of the Spanish Prelates, in disobedience of the order of th..- INGENT, have published pastoral letters, calling upon the faithful to pray, in conjunction with the PorE, for the welfare of the Spanish Church. It was reported that they would be prosecuted before the civil tribunals. The Three per Cents. were done, with the current coupons, at 22j for each = and 221 at sixty days ; and the Five per Cents. with the n coupons, at 27} tar oath, and 28 27% at silty days. The Foreign Converted DeLt sold for 20, with % prem. at - sixty days. The Railway Bill is the only question discussed in the French Journals. No question can be of more import ance to France. Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Austria, and even Russia, will soon be intersected with railroads, whereas almost nothing has yet been done to promote locomotion in a country which, next to England, stands in greater need of railroads than any other in the world. Should the Bill now before the Chamber of Deputies be wholly adopted, more than ten years will be required to construct all the lines recommended in it. The youngest son of LOUIS PHILIPPE is about to enter the army as a Lieutenant of Artillery. What a pity that Royal personages can never fix upon any other profession than that of.slayers of men ! The Emperor of CHINA, who is a heathen, displays ,in this respect a mere Christian example to his people than the professing Christian Princes of Europe .What time he devotes to manual labour is employed in agriculture. He takes More pride in being a. ploughman than a sol dier. Hence the comparative happiness of his people ; nor will-Europe ever arrive at any degree of lasting happiness till her rulers follow the sage example of the Monarch of China. The war in Africa is reported to be at an end. ARD-EL-KADER is compelled to succumb to the irresis tible power of France. Frightful beyond conception is the Misery which so protracted and cruel a war has entailed upon the wretched Moors and Arabs. Every wl;ere the progress of French arms is tracked by desoLt tion. The sites of villages are only known by their ashes. BO URSE—PAIns, THURSDAY, APRIL 28. tlrst Highest Lowcsi Price Pr , ice. Price. Pnei. trench 5 per Cent' IW 75 ... 1W 71 ... 1 9 , 5 ... 119 65 4!.', pet vents lO7 50 ... 1.7 50 ... 107 50 ... 107 50 4 per Colts. ...... 3 per t.out. l3l 51 .. 81 50 ... 151 30 ...' 81 30 Loan . Bl 55 ... 81 55 .. 81 45 ... 81 45 stank of trance Latfitte Bank 1.0001. Si.rtres 1032 50 ...ICU 50 ...len 50 ..10:12 50 Mimi. SBares 5045 ...St/15 ...5042 .0 ...5645 .ielgian Bank 1811 Belgian 5 per Cents. 4 r)or Cent:., 1840 ll5 ... 105 ... 105 .. 1()5 tp.inish Active :6 ... 1.6% ... 25'14 ... 2 , ;/,‘ Passive 4% ... 47 ... 4% ... 4% Portuguese 5 per Cents 1 2 1% ... 32% ... 32% ... 32% ft ...411 lll3 ... 106 ....115% ... 105% HAILWA't SHAHISS. R. Germain lierilltira.A. i . tourp UIICIIII 595 ... 591 The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fisher Miller, Esq., t , ) be one of the Deputy Registrars of her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy. COURT CRCU LA R. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, 18TH APRIL, 1842. MI persons invited to the Ball at Buckingham Palace on the 12th of May, are expected to appear in dresses of British mann factual.. Ladies, not to wear inumes or trains. Gentlemen, to appear in costume, uniform, or full dress. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, Wit. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. - Bering, who took his text from Hebrews, c. xii. v. 1. The prayers wire - read by the Rev. Mr.' Haden ; the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Packman; and the communion service, by the B.shop of London, and the Rev. Messrs. Haden and Packman. The anthem was " Rejoice in the Li rd"—King. Mr. \V. Kny vett presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich was the Clerk of the Closet in Wait ing. The lto)al Suite included the Duchess of Buecleuch, Hon. Miss Murray. llon. Lister, Lord B)ron, Lord Col ville,_ Hon. Captain flood, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wyble. Among the Nobility were the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Duchess of Sutherland, Duke of Beaufort, Mar chioness of Westmeath, Ladies Wilton and Eliot, Lords Ban don, Wilton, Ilarrowby, Ca,wdor, Tyrconnell, Canterbury, Eliot, Hawarden, and Palmerston. The Duchess of Kent, and the Pi incess Augusta of Cam bridge, visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Alaiesty .rid Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday forenoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Murray, Major- General Wemyss, and Col. liouverie. 'lhe Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing in a carriage and four on Saturday afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in an open car riage and four on Saturday afternoon, Major-Gen. Wemyss and Cul. Bouverie attending on horseback. The Queen arid Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. 'f he Royal suite included the Countess of Dalhousie, lion. Miss Murray, Lord Byron, Major-General Wemyss - , and Colonel Bouverie. The Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir George Couper, Bart. Colonel Arbuthnot has relieved Major-General Wemyss in the duties of Equerry in Waiting or. her Majesty, and Colonel Wylde has succeeded Colonel Bouverie as the Equerry in Wait ing on Prince Albert. The Bey Minister of Justice in Valen!ia was presented to her Majesty, on his arrival in this country, at the last Drawing Room, by Foad Effendi Tuskicn, Charge-d'Affairs at • this Court. Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, ac companied by the Prince and Princesses of Saxe . Weimar landed from Rotterdam yesterday, and immediately proceeded to Marlborough House, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, sshere her Serene Highness arrived soon after one o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Wylde, arrived at Marl borough House at five o'clock, to visit the Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar. The Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel in Kensington Palace. Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in waiting on her R(:) . al Highness. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Kea visited the Duchess of Cambridge yes terday at Cambi idge House. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge at tended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Somerset was in waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke of Cambridge at Cambridge House. Air. Lockhart, M.P. for Lanarkshire, slid a deputation from Glasgow. had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The Earl of Alinto has arrived at Farrance's Hutel, Belgrave street, for the season. A Deputation, consisting of Mr. Buckley, M.P., Mr. 13ir ley, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Tewnend, and Mr. Crossby. from Man chester, accompanied by Lord Francis Egerton, M. P., had an interview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Smollett, M.P., presented to Sir R. Peel on Friday an Address f, om the Chief Magistrate and inhabitants of the town and parish of Kirkintilloch, thanking Sir Robert for the finan cial and commercial measures which he has submitted to Par • liament. . Sir George Arthur had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday at tho Culonial-office, to take leave on 114 departure for India. A deputation from Birmingham, with Mr. Dugdale, includ ing Mr. Richards, Mr. James 0. Mason, and Mr. George Barker, had an interview on Saturday with Sir R. Peel in Downing-street. Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury and Admiral Sir J. Oin-i manney had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial office on Saturday. A deputation, including Mr. William Cleiland, representing Thomas Murray and Co., Dromore; Mr. Charles Richardson, representing J. Richardson, Lurgan ; and Mr. George Murray, representing George M. Murray and Co. ' Wariugstowc, h a d en interview with Sir Robert Peel o n Saturday, in Down ing-street.: LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON„9PRIL 30.—Wind this day at noon, E. SHEkANESS, Aran. 29.—The John and Mary, f.om New castle, which was on shore on the Note Saud, got off this morn. ing, after throwing about 60 tons of coal overboard, and has proceeded to London. DEAL, Aram 29.—Wind N.E., Forfarshire, China; John Eve, Calcutta; Royal Saxon, Madras; Bolivar, Newcastle, and left for Singapore ; Commissary, Charleston Arrd. from the River and std., Sons of Commerce, Sydney; Mar.ner, Calcutta; Lord Lynedoch, Bombay; Urania, Monte Video. OFF KINSALIE.—Arrd. Jane, M'Donald, Africa. Cowes, A ram 29.—Arrd. John and Ilelena, Miller, Porto Rico. Ski. Urania, Rio. LIVERPOOL, A PRIL 25.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Illorenge, Banks, Calcutta; Palestine, Nairn, Laguyra ; Liver pool, Belmont, Brown, JJlin Bolton, Fendon, and Prudence, Carthy, New Orleans; Cornelia, French, Glenar, and Espin. dola, Mobile ; Fanny, Sloan, Charleston. Ski. Silksworth, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Catherine, Halifax ; Port Royal, Africa; Warwick, Madeira. Arrd. off, Jane, Laguna; Jane Walker, Mobile ; Franconia, Fenella, Emma Graham, Vera city, Isabel, Giraffe, Blakeby, and Haidee. OFF TORRAY, APRIL 29.—Madagascar, Weller, Calcutta. Piov OUTII, Aram 29. —Wind N. E.—Arrd. Trusty, El. son, Calcutta. Ski. Corsair, Demerara. Arrd. off, Sea-w itch, Baker, for London. FALMOUTH, A eau. 21— Wind S. to E., light breezes.— S) I vanity, Prim.: Edward's Island; Asharem, Alexandria. Arrd. off, Elise, Bremen for Baltimore ; Phenomenon, Kates tick, Batavia ; Orestes, Cook, Mauritius ; Penninghame, Grieve, Pernambuco for Ilamburgh ; Susanna Maria, Suri nam for Amsterdam • John Hall, Perki ns , Matanzas for Ham burgh; Elizabeth, Finlay, Sierra Leone. On KINGSBRIDGI, APRIL 28.—John Mitchell, Calcutta. OFF P.ENzANcE, APRIL 28.—Arrd. Coromandel, Ryan, China; Nautilus, Thomas, Mauritius. CORK, Arum 27.—S1d. Martha and Herbert, St. John's, New Brunswick. _ _ _ Cowles7LFitt. 29.—The Franc!see, which arrived here eaky, has come into discharge. -gi' . • ',€: 4i 7 ":! ' 1• 4 .,t , *.f• - t , ---i!. ‘,•;‘`..!-1-:.:.1,1, ''," .- 'N, 4 , , ~,* • „....., -4 ~1 4V - i'... - . - ) v,, .... _.... ~4:,...,, • ,0 4 -,, ,, . •:;.4.., ,,, ~-*-a-E - ','",, Af , 4... .. • • 1- 4 ,- evt. -. ' .iii ~- '. iiT, ,, •', •,,.'''' • . , .. - .• Thz 2uit. THE SUN, .LO N DON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1 842. lc' r n n tki g3 F. 7 'lig AND :1) C. 1.3 et (DIP tilt° lA. " TVlho runs niazr read." I, I OI2,EXGIV. The discussion on the Railroad Bill forms the leading topic of comment in the original columns of the Paris Journals ' • but it is really astonishing to see how • little int e rest they have thrown over the subject ; their articles are indeed more an analysis of the debate, with iunning remarks upon the speakers, than a broad and general criticism upon the principles of the Bill as involving the two great questions of public utility and public expenditure. The other subjects commented up o n by the Journals, and they are very few in number, are wholly without interest. Thcilioniteur Pariyien says—" We are assured that a great number of Deputies, in order to prevent the anarchy of rivahty respecting the Railroad Bill, and at the same time to husband the public resources, have resolved on giving their approbation only to one great line to be immediatel,y executed by the State, the other lines to be undertaken successively, according to their degree of importance. The direct line of the east is that to svhiJi they give the priority, and they require that the army should be employed un the cuttings awl embankments." A letter front Mascara, in the -Tpulonnais, April 5, tiays : "At lad ai is finished here. The last subniistiion of the Ilachems came in this mornitig. The family of Abe-el-Fader was to-day at General Laiiiiiricirre's fur peace for them selves and the rest or the disaffected. Flocks are grazing on all sides in the plains of Eighres, and the tribes are fixed peaceably near the wails of Mascara. Our last expedition carried every thing before it. But what an expedition it was ! Twenty eight days and as many nights' march, and every day a rassia! Our men were really admirable. We .performed 185 leagues in different directions, and occupied fur twa days the town of Frendah, which we restored uninjured to the inhabitants who have submitted. We suffered exceedingly from c: 1.1 and frost during two data. We had three feet of snow in 24 hours, and with it ice and wind in abundance --and all within a league cf the desert. Four men died of cold in our bivouac. Com mandant de Geraudon, whose battalion was charged with the care of the cattle, left tioo sheep, 200 oxen, and 40 prisoners, men, women, and children, on the road, dead from cold. It was a real scene of desolation." A letter from. Cadiz, in the Debtits, says:-" So great a landing of contraband articles took place here a few days since, that the inhabi:ints never saw anything equal to it. A large English brig, probably frt . = Gibraltar, kept in the oiling, waning apparently for signals. In the evening she entered our bay,. and cast anchor. The next day we were surprised to learn that 3,400 bales of prohibited goods had been landed, and afterwards introduced over the walls -into the town." Several changes have taken place in the Corps Diplomatique of Holland. Baron Schimmelpenninck Vander Vye, hitherto Envoy at the Court of Hu,sia, succeeds Count de Perponcher, who has resigned the post of ambassador at the Court of Berlin. Baron W. Mollerus leaves the Court of Vienna, and takes at St. Petersburgh the place of M. Schimmelpanninek, and is succeeded by Baron J. D. B. A. Van Heeckeren. PUBLIC OPZATION. In reference to Mr. Roebuck's anieitdinent on Schedule D of the Income-tax Bill, the Morning Herald observes:—" We think, indeed, that professional income of any kind, but especi • ally where it is of fluctuating amount, ought to be exempt altogether from such a tax. This total exemption, it should teem, there is little chance of realising, under the present un toward aspect of the public revenue. The next thing, in point of desirableness, is suck a modifieation as that which is com peised in Mr. Roebuck's amendment. lhis ought to have been carried. It is impossible to deny the general but striking argument upon which it is founded: that it is cruel and absurd to the last degree, to impose on • industrial income this same amount of tax as you levy on (what we should consider for the purpoees of argument, were distinctly and emphatically termed) fixed property t — en ' lauded property,' in the terms of Mr. Roebuck's amendment. There is, we must say, a principle of moderation about the proposition which at once increases our respect for the mover and our favour to the amendment." The following is from the Chronicle :—" The Election Committees are going on in a very useful course. Day after day they are unravelling the mysteries of our representative system, and exposing to •üblic obloquy the enormities of those practices by which the House of Commons is brought together. They are bringing the present constitution of Parliament into universal and merited obloquy : arid Tories, as well as Whigs and Radicals, are all labourit ' ?, not certainly for the purpose, but still effectually for the end, of proving that the Chartists are right so far as they complain of the present system. The con clusion that that system is full of dangerous and disgraceful defects, is one which Chartist declamation has not been able to establish; but which is now being, day alter day, impressed on the public mind by evidence upon evidence, delivered upon oath, and restricted by the rules of law." The Post says :—" It is very well known by those who are familiar with our High Courts of Justice, presided over by men of learning in the law, and impressed with a conscious ness of their great responsibility—it is very well known, we say, with what reluctance they use the power of commitment for contempt, with which they are vested. The Judge never exercises the power but in the very last resort, and alter hav ing done all that patient explanation can do, to subdue tire ob stinacy, or clear up the misunderstanding, which has led to a neglect of the authority of the Court. But it would appear that Committees of the House of Commons, and in a late case the gentleman who presides over a Committee, has no such careful sense of the rights of personal liberty. A gentleman who calls himself a Liberal' in politics, •he Chairman of the Southampton Committee, seems to be possessed with a rage for committal to Neegate, which forms a strange illustration of that devotedness to the liberties cf the people for which he seeks credit as a public man. He is a great admirer of liberty in the abstract, but when hiS admiration comes to be tried by an individual example, he would exemplify it by the method of committal to her Majesty's gaol of Newgate !" The Advertiser has the following observations :—"Mr. Roe buck's amendment in Committee on the Incoine-tax--.' That for'and in resi ect of the annual profits or gains from any pro fession, trade, or vocation, there shall be levied annually, for every twi.nty shillings, threepence-halfpenny'—was last night lost in die House of Commons by a majority of 25e against I W. Lord John Russell, as if in verification of our opinion that the Whigs are desirous that the Income. tax Bill should pass in the .unmitigated enormity cf• its injustice, in order t') make the Tories more odious to the country, actually opposed the amend ment, on the grounds that it was inadequate to rem' dy all the unjust operations of the Bill, and that if the Heine, having agreed to the necessity of an Income-tax, once commenced making distinctions between the sources of income, it would only involve itself in inextricable labyrinths. We confess our incompetency todiscover the force of this reasoning, Even though the Huuseof lower oligarchs—it would be mockery to call it the House of the People—has decreed the imposition of an oppres sive and inquisitorial tax, this is no reason why. as Lord John Russell contends, the tax should be levied with all its monstrous inequalities. Neither do we see why Lord John Russell should be so solicitous to guard the House from getting into any labyrinth on this subject, that House being no longer under his leadership, but, on the contrary, approving a tax to which he pledged his utmost opposition—it is not his business to clear away the difficulties mid impediments which crowd upon the path of his opponents. The truth is, his Lordship's tendencies have for a long time evinced themselves far more in favour of the class to which he belongs than of the people. 4 * When the Reform Bill was passed, there was but one party in this country who considered it a final measure, of whom he aims to be the leader. That party consisted of the men who framed it—forsooth, the Russells, and those pre tenders to popular confidence who, on so recent an occasion as that of Mr. Sharman Crawford's proposition for extension of the electoral franchise, absented themselves, heroically and honourably, from the House of Commons. Titan these the Tories were not more blind, nor more selfishly deter mined to uphold aristocratic usurpations. The Tories confessed that the Reform Bill would be looked upon by the people as a concession, leading only to further concession ; while, on the other hand, the democratic bOdy regarded it not even as a con cession, but merely as something leading to a future reality. The Whigs, and the Whigs only, regarded it as a termination to organic change—as a first and final balance between the pre-• teusiocs of the aristocracy and the rights of the people. Thus, in the opinion of those pseudo-statesmen, the first stet in par liamentary reform we, also to include the last ; —the little more than fact of sweeping away the rotten boroughs seas to stand for that gradually progressive enlargement of political privilege among the people, which their increasing intelligence and wealth so imperatively call for. It is to be owned that this may be Whig statesmanship, but it is certainly rest the view which will answer in the nineteenth century for England. England, to be at her natural stage in the political .principle— to be where, if Mr. Pitt's policy of reform had ensued, she must now have essentially been, would now see the franchise extended to all those classes among whom intelligence and in dustry are found to predominate." MONEY-TRADE-COMEDIERCE. ---- The subscribers to the Royal Naval Female School held their annual meeting on Friday at the Thatched-house Tavern : an institution which is established to bestow upon the daughters o necessitous Naval and Marine officers of and above ward-room rank, at the lowest Lost, a good education. The total number of pupils at present is SO ; 1001. was collected by subscripti‘n, and.3oo/. added by donations to the funds. iLECTIOWEICRING. Colonel Gore Langton lies in so precarious a state, that the electors of East Sowersetshire have already taken steps to rind a successor, in the event of his de►nise. NAViii. AND WALL XTAILY. The fortiticatTonsaParis are proceeding vigorcusly ; forty one parts of the escarpments of the continuous %Nall have been commenced, and thirty-nine in a hundred of those of the de tached forts. The embankments have been commenced in eight forts out of eleven. The senior Knight of Windsor, Captain Edward Skilton, died at Windsor on Friday, aged 70. Lieutenant Ragg suc ceeds him. LAW AND PO LICE, Robert Sandys, found, guilty •at the late Chester Assizes of the minder of his infant child, has fur the present been respited from the punishment of death, to which he had been sentenced. William Smith, a boy aged 14, committed a shocking murder in, Preston-street, Liverpool, on Thursday, by stabbing Eliza May, a woman of ill fame, in a court where they both resided. She has died since at the infizisary, and up to Fli ck) , evening the murderer hid escaped. . • COU NT---ra.SELouTAZILE. The Duchess of Sutherland's assemblies, in honour of the debut of her eldest daughter, Lady Elizabeth Leveson G.wer, will commence next week. Lady Harriet S. live's s econ d ball on Friday night, in Lower Grosvenor-street, was attended by upwards of three hundired fash i onabl es. The Earl of Ripon, Viscount Goderich, &c., visited Mr. Pellat's extensive glass-works on Friday. The Marquis of liuntly will. take the chair at the annual dinner of the. Officers of Regular Militia, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday, 4th May. The Baroness Bunsen, lady of the Prussian Minister, re ceived company on Thursday last, at the mansicn of tl.e Prussian Emba,sy, on Carlton-terrace. MISCELLANEOUS. On April 30, in 1746, several forts of the kingdom being dis mantled, the following resolution is recorded in the journals of she House of Commons under the above date :—" That the several castles of Tickhill, Sheffield, Knaresborough, Cawood, Sandal, Bolton, Aliddleham, Hornsea, Mulgrave, and Craike, in the county of York, being inland castles, be made untenable, and no garrison kept or maintained therein." An old man, named --- Noel, residing at Portbad (says the Journal de la Manche), had been for some time past attacked with mental weakness, sometimes even imagining :.im self dead, and going to th e ceme tery to see if his grave was dug. His son watched him with rea t a ttention, fearing some accident might occur from his strange fancies. He was, however, obliged to go out a few eve n i n gs since, and he shut his father up in the house. The old man contrived to get out, and entered the court-yard of a n e i g hb our , where a workman hearing the noise of his approach, thinking him a robber, ran down to at tack him. He inquired w ho was there, and receiving no answer, he immediately struck the intruder with the butt end of a gun, and beat him until the stock broke; he then stabbed him with a knife, and would have continued, had not the old man cried out in a feeble voice, " You want then to kill me." The man, who appears to havc been as stupid as he was brutal, astonished, stopped his hand, and called out for help. Every aid was offered, but the sufferer died the same night. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT • GARDEN. Madame Vestris closedher season and her management at this theatre on Saturday night, when, whatever disappointments she may have previously experienced, the public exhibited their appreciation oilier abilities by tilling. her house to overflowing. The - performances consisted of La Sonnansbu'a, Charles Alathews's farce of Patter v. etc,tter, and the Easter extra vaganza of The White Gat. After the second yiece Mr. Charles Mathews came forward and delivered the following "Farewell Addrcss "Ladies and Gentlemen—No seasons, excepting' Thomson's Seasons,', arc endowed with immortality ; and ours, having run the undeviating course marked out for it on the ragmad of Time, has arrived at its terminus. Following the railroad metaphor, may I venture to appeal to you for a certificate, under your hands, that the general line we have adoptedltas met with your approbation—( Loud applause)—that the engine has worked well—that the seats have been comfortable—(Hear)—the en tertainment satisfactory--the fares moderate—and the con ductori civil and attentive.—( Renewed. cheering.) " But let us leave the railroad, and return to the stage.— ( Hear, hear.) I mean the old, original Covent-garden stage —that stag ~ which we took with a view to running constantly from Covent-garden to the Bank.— (Applause. ) My partner and I hare been its Directors for three years, during which time we have endeavoured, at much persanal and pecuniary sacrifice, to sow the seeds of that solid prosperity which we hoped would, one day, manifest itself in permanent satisfaction to you, anti in a golden harvest to ourselves ; but, alas ! for ' the mutabili'y of human affairs !' our first season was merely sowing—our second little more than hoeing ; and though the third has been gro'wing, we must leave to other hands he fourth, which might have been our mowing.—( Cheers.) Why we hate felt it our duty to quit these premises, I will not intrude upon you to exp:ain. Suffice it to say, that in quitting them, we leave not only our business, but our good will, to our successor—(Applause)—and it, Ladies and Gentle men, that successor should prove to be a gentleman—the ad mired representative of that thrice-honoured theatrical family— (Cheers)—another gifted daughter of whose gifted house it is our pride to have brought so triumphantly under your notice— ( Renewed approbation)—in that case, Ladies and Gentlemen, I can only say, that as far as one manager call forgive another' —(Laughter)—it will afford us much consolation should the change prove to be for his and your gain.—(Cheering.) " For Airs. Mathews and myself, Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg most unaffectedly to return you our humble and cordial thanks, for the unvarying kindness you have shown us. Both at actors and as managers we are deeply beholden to you ; and hereafter, whether as actors or managers—whether here or elsewhere—we trust that a proper sense of that kindness will be present, to animate and to sustain our best exertions for your amusement.—( Hear, hear.) " Ladies and Gentlemen, in the joint names of ourselves and the performers, I most respectfully bid.you farewell." HAYMARKET THEATRE. Webster has taken advantage of the closing of Covent Garden to secure the servicas of the elite of the Covent Garden company. Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Glover ap peared here on Saturday evening for the. first time this season, in -the Like Chase, by far the best comedy that Sheridan Knowles has as yet produced Mrs. Nisbett'a Constance has lost none of its fascinating natural hey deyishnes3. She seemed overflowing with fun, whim, and good-humour. Other ladies have acted the cha racter of Constance, and acted' it well too, but Mrs. Nisbett is the very Constance herself. • There is all the difference between the Constance of Mrs. Nisbett-and the Constance of every other lady who has attempted the part, but there is a difference between nature and art. In the directly opposite cha meter of the Widow Green, the affected, old coquette, the husLand-hunting Widow Green, Mrs. Glover was equally admirable. We cannot sufficiently admire the judicious discrimination displayed by Mrs. Glover in the perforMance of this very difficult character. The Widow Green, with a mind naturally vulgar, has yet passed her life in a society which has given her manners an outward pblish. She is not a vulgar woman, but a vulgar lady. Mrs. Glover never forgets this distinction ; with many temptations to overact the part, she never once "o'ersteps the modesty of nature." It were nodiffi cult thing to draw down applause, and raise a laugh by making the part in broad caricature sketch. It is a difficult thing, requiring artistical talents of the highest order to bring ont all the lights and shadows of the character, so as to make the whole- a finished picture, and this it is that Mrs. Glover has accomplished, an accomplished in a manner so perfect; that at first sight the ditheulties of the character seem less than they really are, in con sequence of the apparent ease with which she overcomes them. Both ladies were called fur at the conclusion of the Comedy, and were greeted with the most enthusi astic plaudits which they gracefully acknowledged. The announcement of the piece for' repetition on Tuesday was received with general approbation We perceive that Farren is engaged at this Theatre, and will, we presume, make his appearance on his return from his Northern provincial tour, so that this season Thalia will resume her reign in her favourite temple, " The little Theatre in the Ilaymarket," which we hope to see crowded every night- with a throng of laughter-loving worshippers of the most sprightly of the Muses. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ALCASTEEt STEEPLE CII/V•ES.—TIIURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 Sus. each, with 25 Sovs. added, Ilst. 71b. each, winners extra. The winner to be sold for 75/. Four Miles. Mr. Larnp!ugh's The Rorap Mr. -Mat:hews's Bellona 2 The folio ing also started, but were not placed—Air. Ekin's Duenna, Air. Smith's Tom, and Mr. Robins's Single Peeper. Won in a canter. The Sweepstakes cf 3 Sovs. each, with l 5 Sovs. added list. 71b. each, two miles, we re won in tour heats, by Mr. Mellon's The Queen ( dlorle) ) beating Mr. Lamplugh's The Romp, Air. Robson's b. g. by Naoleon, and several others'. BETTING AT MANCHESTER--FRIDAY. DEE STAKES —7 to 2 agst Skipton, 2 to 1 agst William de Fortibus, 3 to 1 agst Marion, 8 to 1 apt Lord Stanley's colt. CHESTER, Cur.-10 to 1 apt the Feathers, 6 to 1 agst Marshal Soult (t); 7 to 1 agst Vulcan (t), 8 to 1 agst Rory O'Alore (t), 11 to 1 asst Lanercost, 13 to one agst the Young-'un ( t), 16 to 1 agst Jolly Tar (t), 17 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn, 20 to 1 agst Zelmt ra,.35 to 1 agit Retriever, 30 to 1 apt Cormorant. No other change. DERBY. —4 to 1 agst Attila (t), 7 to 1 agst Frederica colt, 16 to one agst Jack, 16 to 1 agst Auckland, 25 to 1 agst Meteor, 30 to 1 agst Lord of Holderoess, 30 to 1 agst Tiptoe. '1 he rest as before. MANCHESTER RACES. Acceptances for the Cup.—The Potentate, aged,. Bst 81b, Bradvrath, 5 yrs, Bst 41b, Itetriever, byes , Bst 21b, Champagne, 5 yrs, Bst, The Young-'un, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b, Certia, 4 yrs, 7st 81b, Jolly Tar, 4 rs, 7st 81b, George, aged,7st 71b, Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs, 7st 511 i, The Maid, 5 yrs, 7st 211, Collina, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b, and David, 3 yrs, 6,t. CHESTER-FRIDAY NIGHT. The following horses have arrived :—Bees wing, Bees-wax, Clinker, Mr. Grayden's Clinker 'colt, Cruiskeen, Zelmyra, Fidhaun, Rory O'More, and Retriever, Scott's and fleseltine's lots are on the road, and several others in the neighbourhood. Theground is very hard. LATEST BETTING IN ST. JAMES'S. CHESTER Cur.-7 to 1 apt Lord Chesterfield's Marshal Soult (8 to 1 laid once); 8 to 1 agst Mr. Holmes' Vulcan (takf ) ; Bto 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More (taken); 10 to 1 apt Mr. C. St. Paul's Jolly Tar ; 10 to 1 agst Mr. Kirby's LanercoSt ; 12 to 1 agst Lord Egfinton's The Young un ; 8 to 1 agst the leathers. DERDY.-1; to 4 agst Scott's lot (taken); 3 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila; 11 to •3 agst 11Ir. Trelawny's Frederica colt (taken); 9 to 1 agst the Duke of Grafton's Canadian (taken); 18 to 1 asst Lord Westminster's Auckland ; 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack (taken) ; 25 to 1 agst M. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness; 25 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele (taken)l. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe (taken); 35 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatta n ; 50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barrier (taken) ; 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Booth's Prince Edward; 600 to 490, twice, on the Lord of Holder: ess agst Tiptoe (taken). OAKS —S to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly (taken). In the Derby betting given in our last, 9 to 1. was quoted agst Chatham—it should have been Canadian; Chatham had no price. FASHIONS FOR. MAY. (Abridged from the Ladies' Gazette of Fashion.) BONNETS.—Rice-straw Bonnets will lose. nothing of their vogue. A new trimming has been intro duced, consisted of shaded ribbons.—The centre is pure white, hut the shading, which at first is scarcely perceptible, deepens into a variety of rich and glowing hues, as it approaches the edge. A knot of this ribbon is placed on one side, and • a feather or bouquet of marabouts on - the other. Drawn Bonnets both of silk and crape, continue in favour; the former are adopted for morning bonnets, but both may be worn in half-dress, according as they are trimmed. Flowers only are employed for the first. A style of trimming has appeared for the interior both of silk and Italian straw bonnets, •• compoSed of transparent tulle and small flowers, arranged in the style of a half-dress cap. Trimmings are placed mulch higher, which is a very tasteful alteration. SCARPS.—Scarfs will be . very predominant during the summer, not only of Cashmere, plain, shot, and fancy silks, but also of black and white lace ; the ,latter will be generally lined with sarsenet or gauze. Muslin and tarlatan scarfs, lined and beautifully em broidered, will also be much in favour. DREssEs.—Mousselines de laMe are decidedly out of vogue ; but plain silks are much in request in morning dress, with the exception of foulards, which are stripped and quadrilled in new patterns. Watered and shot silks predominate in half-dress. A very pretty watered silk is also adopted, in different colours, in evening dress. Moire Ninon is adopted in evening dress only ; it is a superb watered silk, fringed in small detached b. linnets, which are so highly raised as to have the effect of embroidery. RODES.—Little alteration has-taken place in robes. Those made high will continue their vogue, and muslin robes, lined with slight silk, will be much in request. 'trimmings are but little adapted for the borders of robes ; but the styles of decorating them, en tablier, is more fashionable than ever. Lace and fancy trim mings are the most employed. CAPS.--Cap 3 continue as fashionable as ever.. Those made quite round, or very short at the ears, have in creased much in favour since last. month. We are sorry to learn, that Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P., is suffering from severe indisposition, at Pau, in the south of France. During the storm of Tuesday, the church at Net tleton, in this county, was twice struck by the lightning, which did considerable mischief. The roof of the church ignited, but by prompt exertion thole was soon ex' inguished. About 150 panes of glass were shinied to pieces. The thunder was ter rific, and the lightning rflost vivid:—Derizes Gazette. Thursday being the anniversary of the birth of Queen Christina, the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Princes, and the King and the Queen of the Belgians paid a visit to her Majesty in the Rue de Courcelles. After the Royal visit she received a great number of Spaniards. By the accession of M. Lacave-Laplagne.to the Mi nistry, he leaves vacant two posts, viz., those of Councillor of the Cour des Comptes, and of Administrator of the estates of the Duke D'Aumslo. SOUTH EASTERN OPENING.—We understand the Directors and some of their friends are going over the line on the 2d proximo, and that the line will be opened to Toubridge on the 16th.—Railway Magazine. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The absurd mania for old and worthless editions of ()Id and worthless books, from which even Sir \Valter Scott was not exempt, though he has' ridiculed the inney in his incomparable character of .Jonathan Old buck, the Antiquary, is here treated with the contempt it deserves in an . article, under the apt, comprehensive titl e o f " Things of the Day." Of all the fools in the world we hardly know of a greater than a professed Biblioinaniac.. A virtuoso of this sort cares nothing for the intrinsic merit of a work ; it is enough for him if it be scarce and old. He would, prefer a shabby, mutilated first edition of " Tom Thumb," or Jack, the Giant Killer," to the most perfect modern copy of the finest poet that ever issued from the press. The very worms that burrow in the leaves of such an edition are sacred in hiS eyes ; and he Would deem it an act of special sacrilege to nib off one atom of the dust and dirt that time has gathered about it. There is no mistaking a professed Biblo maniac. He is usually a withered, middle-aged gen tleman in spectacles, dressed in rusty black or brown, with a "shocking bad hat," and one of Thorpe's or Rodd's - catalogues sticking out of his coat-pocket. On fine spring days he'may be Seen o:?ling 'some wretched old scare-crow of a volume On a book-stall, turning it now this way, now that ; holding the title-page close up to his eyes, in order to examine the date ; and in dulging in the grin of an ogre When satisfied that it is a scarce edition. We cordially concur with the author of " Things of the Day" in his censures on Biblionianiacs; but must protest against his remark that " Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis is a vile poem, and ought to be extinguished as a blot on the memory of the great dramatist. Has he e'er read this poem ? We doubt it, or he surely could not be insensible to the many exquisitely melodious and fanciful passages in which it abounds. , The description of the horse— the distinction betiveen true and false love—the por trait of Venus herself—and the details of her grief after the death of Adonis ;—these are passages that could .not, be "extinguished" without great loss to the admirers of genuine poetry. "Who is the Mur derer ?" is a striking narrative of- a trial for murder, which took place at the last York Assizes. Tbe'crime was committed in 1830, but-it . was not until eleven years after, that the supposed criminal was put on his trial. He was, and we think justly, acquitted, for the evidence against him, though plausible, was far from conclusive. The narrator, who was in Court at the time, thus describes, the - prisoner's appearance; when the skull and bones of the dead man were brought in for the inspection . of the Jury : " To the eye of a close observer, the prisoner's coun tenance now evidenced the miserable and almost over powering agitation he was . ..experiencing—and that, withal, he was nerving himself, up so to speak, to a great effort. I perceived his breast twice or thrice heave heavily ; and, though conscious of being watched closely by those around him, he could not keep his eyes for more than a moment away from the box, with whose mysterious contents he was to be so quickly confronted. At length a dark brown skull, the hinder part appearing to have been broken off, was lifted out of the boi ; the prisoner's under lip drooped a little, and perceptibly quivered for a moment or two—anti after one or two glances at the skull, he looked in another direction, his eyes—if I know anything of human expression —full of suppressed agony and terror. Yet againand again— he glanced at the dumb but fearful witness . produced against him ; and from a certain tremurnns i motton of the ends of his neckerchief, I could perceive that his heart was beating violently. Still he never moved from the position which he had occupied since the morning ; though I learnt from one of the turnkeys who stood near him in the deck, that at the period I am mentioning, and also at several other periods of the day. he trembled so violently, and his knees seemed so near giving way, that they almost thought he would have fallen." The fourth part of " Caleb , Stukely"-disphlys..some vigorous passages. The sketch of the old Cambridge money-lender is impre:sive, and equally good in its way is Caleb's account- of his discovering- that his adored mistress, Emma; was more partial to strong waters than the strictest propriety would warrant. The chief fault of this sentimental episode is, that it is overdone. The lover and his idol are constantly in a state of hysterical agony, like :unlucky sweet hearts in a Coburg melodrame. They. heave sighs heavy enough to capsize uschooner. The "Northern Circuit" is written with force .and earnestness by one who, to all appearance, is a piaAised scribe. In the "World' of London" occur soine4udicious remarks on the subject of acting, and on the injury done to per formers by the preposterous fluttery Of 'cliques and critics. "Sets and ,cliques," observes the writer, "give reputation at too cheap a rate, at a rate far below the price a man who Wishes the sterling article is willing to pay for it ; in the, solitude of h's chamber let a man study to estimate hiniself, not i.i a circle of applaud ing friends ; the greatest mind hwe ever stood alone, and kept aloof from tittle-tattle criticism, and the praises that flow from the lips of gossips." The Ob servations on " Cireassia" are penned in a liberal and enlightened spirit. The writer dhes every - justice to the brave and patriotic rnountaiieers Who,, with a - numerical forte perfectly . conterniltible -in ain'onnt,' have hitherto successfully resisted -every. Rifssian: army that has been sent against 'them.- /They hi ve even fought battles, and gained then - 14.w, where the odds have been at least fifty to one agaitist them. The heroic character of the (ire:is:shin :mountaineers, is not yet appreciated as it ought to be in England. From an article lteade d .".Thetrial s' we quote a diverting anecdote of Sheridan, and Holland, the architect Of Drury Lane Theatre There is a story extant of Sheridan, the lessee, and Holland, the architect, much too go d to be omitted. The' latter could by no means prevail upon the former to settle, that is, in plain English, to pay up his little bill ; and after hanging about Sherry's ,house, and hovering over the theatre day after day, at last caught him one fine morning attending a rehearsal. As suon as Sheri dan saw him, he went up to the architect, exclaiming, My dear Holland, how d'ye do ? You are the very man I wanted :o see ; I have a thousand apologies to make to you, and fully intended to allcall upon you as soon as the rehearsal was over.' Holland thanked him, and entered immediately upon the subjeet of their accounts, upon which Sheridan replied, My dear Holland they shall all be settled in the course of the morning ; but do you knf4, although for "my part I - am one of the most enthusiastic admirers of the beauty of this theatre, which I think will remain for years a splendid monument of your taste and genius, yet they tell me that the people in the one shilling gallery c in scarcely hear at word that the perfoimers utter ?' Mr. Holland expressing his sur prise at this remark, Sherid in said, Now, I will go up into the gallery, and you sh ill stay on the stage. I will address you, and you shall ascertain the truth of the ob servation yourself.' Sheridan, accordingly. mounted up into the lofty region allottel to the &is, from whence he affected, in dumb show, and with maeli apparent em phasis, to address the architect, who stool in amazement below; repeatedly calling out, Speak louder, I can't hear After some timeisp lit in this. manner, Sheridan descended, asking Holland if be—heard him tolerably well ? the latter declaring thithe must confess that he had not heard a word Mr. Sheridan had uttered; where. upon the latter exclaimed, Why, Holland, I really know not how to believe you. Why ; I have been bawling till I thought my lungs would have. burst. , Surely you have a cold this morning, that has prevented you from hear ing me. Now, do you ascend the gallery, and speak to me.' With this proposal Holland immediately complied, and when after considerable fatigue_ he had reached that elevated spot, and had walked down to.the front seat to address Sheridan from that tremendous height, he found 710 one on the stage! Sheridan had availed himself of the interval of their separation to leave the theatre, and poor Mr. Holland, who speedily dismwered the hoax, had to encounter a thousand shifts and stratagems of the ma nager, before he could obtain another saccossfu! inter view." BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. . . . Miss Isabella Romer, who tells a short story—such as is well suited to the pages of- a Magazine—with great skill, leads off the present Number, with a brief, terse narrative, founded on fact, and entitled, " The Two Interviews." The hero is the French COunt de Lally Tollendal, who, on one occasion, in his riotous youth, insulted the family of the public executioner of Paris, for which that worthy functionary " saddled him with a judgment," as parson ThWaclmm would phrase it. -He predicted, in fact, the 'Count's death on the scaffold, and, strange to say, the. prediction was verified some twenty or thirty years 'after date, the executioner himself personally contributing, in his official capacity, to consummate the prophecy ! " Mr. Makepeace, the Duellist," is one of Jerrold's shrewd, caustic sketches. The portrait of the dry, old spins ter, Miss Mac Single, who "at the early age of eigh teen, was despoiled of a lover who, in eight-and-forty hours, would have ripened into a 'huSband, had he not been blown from the tree of life by the bullet of a gentleman from Tipperary"—ths portrait is neatly finished off; and there is much truth of nature'in the remark, that the ancient spinster " kept her bridal dress as authentic evidence of her near approach to happiness." When single gentlewomen begin to dry up, and exhibit crows-feet under each eye, their; scep tical friends and acquaintances are apt to require some such voucher to prove that they • once had a chance of being married. "'William Blanchard" gives some laughable specimens of. the . conversation of this admirable comedian. He was, it seems, a staunch' Royalist and Tory, and pitied the poor, benighted Americans, because they "had no king, poor wretches !" This, in' Blancha v rd's opi nion, accounted for a ll their bluster, all their vul garity, all their grotesque go-ahead notions ! Had they but been blessed with a king—no matter though that king had been carved out of a bock of wood-- then they would have - been perfection as a, nation. Despite, however, their sturdy republicanism, Blan chard was well pleased with the Americans, and thus amusingly describes some of their social peculiarities, in his usual quaint, parenthetical fashion. He is sup posed to be talking to an old theatrical. friend :- 131anchard's loyalty and Toryism were sever ely tested during his visit to America in 1834 ; and although, as he said, he experienced very great kindness, attention, and hospitality, the people were not sufficiently John Bullish for him. He was greatly annoyed at their con tinual restlessness, especially at the dinner-table ; for he was exceedingly partial to a cool bottle after the cloth • was drawn, and could not bear their custom of leavitig the table so immediately after dining. " There was," said he, " always, and everye here, est abundance of everything and of every sort, soy boy-no grudging in any way, I must say. They generally place :;o many dishes on the table as to prevent your seeing the cloth ; and I really believe the more you eat, the-better I,lfey like you—(l. met with a great many jolly. kind people, my boy, hearty as hearty could be),---but, con found it, there was no sitting still; Hey presto ! away iianished the dinner, pantomime fashion, and the diners nto tne bargain. (Very like Mr. and Mrs. Mitekiitt inipper party ; for diey did not stand upon thk'9rdei of their going, but did 4 go at once.) They told me it, was t he, custom of the country, (at the public tables at least). I. told them it Was a d—d bad custom, striking .'at; the oot of all good-fellowship and - comfort ;Haifa - iftok)- , ltad hem.in London I would soon' Cure them, deuced good care they should regret the iirival ;citfinr respectable breaking,-up time. my boy. ThEre*tok a deuced good fellow, my boy, (I eiritlidly confesjoet Niith a pretty considerable number of such,) to whoin ,, f vas introduced : his name was --.was-e-deae; dear, dear I can't hit upon his name just now. - No Matter ; he was a Colonel Sornebedy—(they have a tremendous ; let of Colonels there, my boy). Well, I dined with him one dtby at a large hotel --(their hotels are 'very splendid) — he gave me a capital dinner—the fish was. excellent— (l was always partial to a bit of fish). The only faith was there being too much of everything, except an inclination to sit. (Their oysters are very fine, and so are their New Town pippins : I never eat tipples myself.) Well, my boy, I had made up my mind to a snug sit, chat, and a bottle of port, after dinner--(their port. is not the best wine there, and very dear)—but no ; • away went tie cloth, and almost with it my friend the Colonel,—(plague ' take it ! what was his name ?)—in a deuced hurry, with the last morsel in his mouth, to look after, as he said, a particular piece of business. I wonder they don't all toddle out of the world in_ a month from indigestion. But perhaps the juleps they drink have a eounteractihg effect—(their juleps, my boy are beautiful, and . . delici ously seductive, I must confess) —and increase the gastric juices. , ". " Then, again, my dear boy, they would be boring me with the wonders of their • awful fine' city of -New York—(l must say it is fine as far as it o•oes)and be everlastingly asking if I did not think it magnifi cently grand—(l was born, my boy, in York—Old York, as I call it)—which I allow it is to a certain extent, and considering the comparative short time'd its existence. But to dare to compare it with London, =our blessed Old London—is about as reasonable as -to compare Billy Shakspeare with that Mr. Somebody who wrote that precious bad farce in which I had a miserable part—(it was d—d the first night.) "You must bear in mind, my boy, that they are most active, enterprising people. • Goa-head ' is the cry; and they do go a head. It has ever been a wonder to me how they have done so much in so short a time, itt every way, too. (I thought it wonderful the rebuilding Covent Garden ih a few months, after it was burnt 1808 ; but they would have dune it, I really -believe, pretty considerably quicker.) .. • . "I was lounging one day in the front of the_theatrei looking attentively, and rmUst say. admiringly, at some of the tipQ , lmildings—,-(very.finemany of them .are, niy buy)—when a young fellow came up to me,—(somebody, I suppose, I had, been introduced - to by somebody—my friend the Colonel, perhaps). . • ••• • "" Well,' said he; guess you never,saw a finer city than this New York of ours, Blanchard, eh ? ' ' Didn't I? ' said • Why, ditt• you ever ?' said he. " Once or twice, I should think I have my boy,' said.t " Where ? ' • ‘" Where !' said I, Why, where the devil, do yotl think I should see such ? ' - . " Why, you don't.rnean Philadelphi, do you ? " Oh ! bother to Philadelphi,' said I. " kVell, I calculate' you mean your London, perluips fur I know you English are mighty prejudiced.' I do,' said I. " 4 Well, you are all of you awful fond of Londoir . : but is it as tine as New York ? ' 2 --- 4 What do you moo by as fine ? ' _ , . , . .::.- • : " 4 Well, I mean:is it as big as New York, for;ond thing ? ' ,. • " 4 New York h' said I.; ' my dear _boy,.NeW'York - iit fine, very fine, I allow ; but:recollect it is New Yorlo': . But if you were to take a piece the size of it out,'of - Thii:: map of J.,olidon, it wo7tlt. never be missed , --that's - whaf - Londo: is, my boy.' . • - ~ ~ ." 4 Well, you are a strange fellow,' he sild,,u nt i aft .he' ." walked—(praise be:given -!)", : - .F. ,- roix, (1,,,,- :/' Blanchard Was exceedingly polite and attentive tolis 4 / males. Billy did not approve of - The New York eust6o . of not walking with a lady arm-in -arm, as , in England. It is being ridiculously fastidious;' - said '.he: could not endure it all—it's barbarous. And then, my boy, the general formality and reserve of the fe males is anything but pleasing to an Englishmart like myself. It is the duty of man to: be attentive to the dear creatures, bless:en !. and not being permitted-.to be so, put me out of all patience; and well it taight. I'll give you' an idea, my dear boy, as to how attention# to the sex are received and estimated there- (I mean 'lO America.) One evening I was going down the Broadway` (precious broad it is), between eight and nine (it's the longest street, they bave,fr,--a tremendous length,--three • I Mieve),—the moon was shining very brightly- 7 -- (they have exceedingly fine moons there, I must .alloW," but how they came by 'em I can't guess),—the frog was very severe,—(no joke their frosts, my boy,)--and the struts were very slippery. (By-the-bye,7 there had been,,a, heavy fall.of snow.)- NN ell, I saw—a splendid. figure of a female walking before me,—(l• forget wberu I was goiug—no matter—l remember I had acted 3 . bh Thornberry the night before,)—when suddenly dowil she. fell ; but,' as Alice, in the Caide Spectre, says, she fell with all possible decency, and took care to hide her legs,' at least as far as I could- see my boy. Well; I hurried to her assistance—(l was all but dow n myself:) She was very good-looking,—(many of the %%omen a re very good 7 loaking there, I must say, up to a certain age, toy. boy ; bn't they don't wear as well as ours, though I dare say they last as long,)—and on my expressing my hope that she was not injured by her fall, she turned - round and said to me (just as I was supporting her w ith my arms round her waist), in a precious grurn t on e of voice,—(yot 'remember Mrs. Davenport in Mother 13rul gruddery P—well, my boy, that was it,)— "' Clear out!- - Clear out ! ' -said I. " Yes, clear old,' said she.—' it,' said I, 'you , are all alike, men, women, and children ;• and . you've na KING, poor wretches " The " Life and Songs.of Anacreon " i s an ado.' rable article, and would have been mare - acceptable' still, had not the author, like Montaigne, been smile' what too profuse of learned quotations. In speaking' of Sappho, we think he lays far too little stress 011 Ovid's description of her person, for she was just the sort of character—a reputed beauty- and a poetess--r° to have excited the curiosity of the lover of the Priv' mess Julia, and he would naturally have been anxiottl e . l , to glean all that was to be know n respec ti ng h er . ever Rome possessed a genuine poet, Ovid was that one. He had infinitely more vigour and rich , -; ness of fancy than Virgil; was much less mono' tonons ; and possessed qu it e as muc h. me l o dy- , Yersification. He could be stately, too, and digniae' when lie pleased, -as he has shown in his masterly' exposition of the Pythagorean system. Poetry, short, was with him . a passion. It was born with him. ". Et quot.l tentattun di: ere, versus ere," b e tells us, in his account of his early youth' Such a 'man was, of all others, the most likely be curious respecting the personal appearance ' 3 '4 .. Sappho; and when he states that s h e was et fusca"—that is to say, short and swarthyr' - °' feel every disposition to believe hiS assertion' however opposed it may be . to: the: theoritl-( of German , and English commentators. . author's remarks on Anacreon are pertectly J 1151 ' .. ; He was the simplest, sweetest, and apparently ti most unlaboured, of love poets; and has certainly :4/ been translated by Moore, whose version, elegatitr . it is, is much too ornate, and encumbered with gh t. tering epithets. Anacreon is invatilably sparing o f thee verbal decorations. Cowley has caught something:C't his manner in one or two of his translations; -0 ) ; Herrick makes a still nearer approach to him. J3' Moore has no more in , common with hilm --except, indeed, that they hoth write dj - the . same seductive theme—than the poet ' f unsophisticated nature usually has with the pe:t art and conventional sentiment. The "Black 110; is but an indifferent article. "Experience- Mac'`' Easy" puts forth several amusing ironical aohoriSV„' after the manner of Dean Swift. " A Visit t" Greenwich Fair" is quite as good as. the inbje(t which is not saying much for it. 4 , RWO.O Savage" drags a little this month. Mr. White,: head should have i n f use d a li ttle more air i ne' and off-hand vivacity of spirit into the conyersati°;; of Sir Richard Steele. The "Philosophy of Law, is a truly di ver ti ng art i c l e, -and is embellished Will sundry grotesque wood-cuts: But, indeed, the O r bellishments generally, throughout the Number,. el of very supe r i or i nterest, as regards variety of subjeC and humo ur ; nor ,d o we k now any periodical of the day that can compete with the Miscellany in tb'' respect. NE IV AMA THLY MAGAZINE. The editor has here very properly taken Mr.Wakl e i to task for his absurd attack on poetry and the pae, t : • in the hous e o f Commons. •Of all men 'Hiring: t he 1 Middlesex Coroner is a b ou t th e l as t we s h ou ld 1 1 . 95 • suspected of having even th e mos t di s t an t a cquau'il . , , ante with anything lik e imagination. That he be able to appreciate the beauty of the lines, "Thlx t days hath September," is possible enough ; cor aug we know to the contrary, they may be his own cora" s position ; but we doubt much whether his sympal:o with, or kno w l e d ge o f, th e poet i c , ex t en d s b e yo9 this. Mr. Hood, however, assures us that the worth9s:ol Coronet:lris written heaps of verse, but adds, by w 4-?:; of a saving clause, " the mass had all one coml lol , characteristic—a certain wooden style, strongly re;,, minding •us that the author represents Finsburr square, where, as we all k n o w , th e T emp l e of t"e. Muses has been turned into an upholstery W sre i: house !" In " Phineas Quiddy," th ere i s an entertaining digression respecting fool's-caps, wherein.a useful moral is pointed in Mr. Poole's neatest manner. " Female Arithmeticians" is an essay r e : • commended by the charm o f an easy, sententio m style. " French Cooks and C ookery " bespeaks the favourable suffrages of the majority of readers, eve!' by its title. We doubt not i t will b e excee dingli : popular with the Co ur t o f Aldermen, who if the y : ever read anything b es id es their l e d ger, w ill be OF to read this. 11 . e question, however, whether utl `d . 12Yit „Stuii watt] LaEli v.b661 `iTtBl'. ~il A9F ) m e t fdfc knia plO mat the of Tv) 1101 )'v Ali( plac Poti shag it is digi, heea her And drea less hQw gw loose Ptfti •• ilive: core: have tuck its a C.x,pu year ..had "vers.: - 4.1 whie ofpu ALCO.OI 44] 111! lip s s 4{ 1 ' t r two -kg a i AvZ Aie 11 Scrim, Uncle the - ; thOir - Wa s iscrip Is fr;