The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-20 00:00:00

HISS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIB.UTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND I ;, which (though they _foe NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain. leg !LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now Selling SHARES for the said DI S 1111 BU nor's. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and ,PARTICU LARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION, taking place on :he Ist of MAY, contains 1,600 MONEY DIVIDENDS, as follows:- 422,500 £7OO £2OO £9O 4,000 600 150 80 1,800 500 120 70 1,200 300 110 66 1.000 250 100 64 STERLING, amounting together to 142,9941. BRITISH STERLING MONEY_ THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 20, Will be repeated Mozart's Opera of THE: MARRIAGE OF Fir Ra—Tile character of Susanna by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Count A'niaviva Mr Stretton ; Cherubino, Madame Vestris ; Doctor Bar. tufo, Mr. J. Bland; Figaro, Mr. Leffler ; Basilio, Mr. C. White • the Countess, Miss Rainforth ; Marcellina, Miss Grant; Barbarina;Miss Lane. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsuponatyme (king of vermintlittnamia), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Paragon, Pr, cious, and Placid (his three Sons , by Madame Vestris. Miss Murray and Miss Lee; Jingo, Mr. Harley; e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Hflors open at half past &ix, anbi the Performances begin at Seven. Dresa Boxes is., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First anti Second Circles 55., Second Price 21. 6d. ; Pit 35., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon a; pbication. Private Boxe s to be had solel y of Mr. Andr e w s , Book seller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. • Wonderful attraction, and matchless Stud 01 Horses. THIS EVENING, APRIL 20, Will be performed the Grand New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOOROISH LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED ) BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments; a Double Company, Equestrian and Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in the World. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. introducing Mr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. merous and matchless Creamcoloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the Kingdom. T'o conclude with the Historical Pantomime (with New Scenery) of PERO USE ; or, the MONKEY of the DESOLATE ISLAND.— Chimpanzee, the Monkey, by Mons. Gouffe. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that true Engagement of Madlle. Messy will terminate at the end of the present Nienth. The following Pieces will he reduced forthwith Rodolph ; ou, Frere et Sreut"—"L'Ec,ale des Maris"—and " Le Misanthrope." THIS EVENING, APRIL 20, The Performances will commence with LA DEMOISELLE A MARIER; 00, LA PREMIERE ENTREVUE. After which, Moliere's admired Comedy, LE TARTUFFE.— Orgon, M. Cartigny; Le Tartutfe, M. Oudinot; Elmire, Madlle. Plessy. To con-lude with LA JEUNE FEMME COLERE.—Rose, Ma. demoiselle Plessy Boxes', (is. • Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, 3s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per. fon-winces commence at Half-past Seven. Applications fo , Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to he made at Mr.. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se guin's, 12, Regent-street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's street ; and at the liox-etlice of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven tall Five o'clock. WEATHER.—NooN, APRIL 19. iovi AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 46 ) Highest 47 I Lowest 3B Barometer 30.25.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 2,2 Deg. ATEit AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ;ornini , , 25 minutes after 91 Evening 3 minutes after 10. 914:: t„,44. ti ' - ' ilteats . # , on o% ' Tht had long been predicted between the maintenance of mono poly and the maintenance of public credit. The delusion hitherto was that the Rightlion. Baronet proposed an Income-tax in order to remitcertain onerous duties on trade ; he wanted it mainly to supply the deficiency of the revenue, and to put an end almost to the timber duties and the duties on the raw material of manufactures. Now, Sir R. PEEL avows that it is for no such purpose, and that he braves all the odium of imposing an Income-tax to keep up the value of funded property. This is the old Tory humbug. Whoever looks back at Mr. GOULBURN'S speeches when he was formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, will find every budget and every financial proposition —every resistance also to any proposed reduction of taxation—redolent with this mysterious phrase " maintaining the public credit." Since Mr. GOULBURN and the Tories were ejected from office in 1830, for notorious inefficiency, a vast amount of taxes has been reduced, and public credit has through the whole period been maintained quite as firmly as when Mr.G oULBURN was obstinately resisting reduction of taxation on the plea of maintaining public credit. The old bugaboo of the Tories new revived, and again put forward as a pretext, whatever be its real dimensions and its qualities, is quite insufficient to justify the infliction of an Income-tax on the people. We were informed by Mr. ROEBUCK, on Monday night, that all the debates and all the proceedings of the bulk of the Members of the House of Commons, are in tended to serve the purposes of party; but those gentle men go to Parliament on the pretext of serving the public. Their professions and their conduct, therefore, are in direct opposition. They are now about to inflict an onerous tax on the people, under a multitude of fake pretences. At one time it is the war in Aff ghanistan, and the derangement of the finances of the Indian empire, which makes the Income tax necessary. At another it is to substitute a portion of direct taxation for the indirect taxation, which is ruinous to trade. Again this pretext is scouted by Sir B. PEEL ; and the Income-tax is levied to maintain public credit. It is not only newspaper writers who accuse the Members of the House of Commons ; they accuse one another of mismanagement, of gross errors, of scandalous conduct, and of plundering the people on false and fraudulent pretexts. Such state ments, continually impressed on the public mind, must have a great, and even a wonderful moral influence, making men in the end heartily despise those who once were honoured, and preparing the way for a greater change in Government, than a mere change in men, or the change from a circumscribed to universal suffrage. While individuals are labouring assiduously, by means of literary and scientific institutions, subscribing their mo money, and sending out missionaries of all kinds—some promoting the arts, some the sciences, and some morality, some spreading abroad the softening knowledge of har mony, and others the elevating knowledge of sculpture, and painting—in steps the Legislature, and by an In come-tax, to bolster up a Corn-law, and a multitude of officials increase poverty and discontent, and spread falsehood and crime through the land. It sets the ex ample of plundering on a great scale and on false pre tences, and makes a violation of right not the exception, but the rule of society. All history and all experience are worthless, if such a conflict between the Government and the moral sentiments of society do not bring in its train, at ne distant day, some great social confusion. While individuals are struggling to improve and elevate society the Legislature, which continually plunders the people on false pretences, continually labours to im poverish, demoralise, and degrade it. Sir R.PEEL'S modified Starvation Bill was read a se cond time in the House of Lords on Monday night. The second reading was moved by the Earl of RIPON, who, as Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSON, upwards of a quarter of a century ago prepared, and carried the original Starva tion Bill through the House of Commons. Never was a Starvation Bill supported by so inconclusive a speech. The Noble Lord supported the Bill because corn was to be had no where cheaper than in England. He instanced the Baltic and Southern provinces of Russia, Bavaria, Mecklenburgh, Naples, and the United States, to prove that periodical famines visited these countries, thatbread was sometimes dearer in them than in England, and that regular supplies of grain were not to be expected from them. Now, if these statements are worth anything they go to prove that the landlords would suffer nothing by consenting to the total abolition of the Corn laws. If grain cannot be had from foreign countries, what can be more absurd than legislation for the pur pose of excluding it ? But the Noble Lord knew very well that they were fallacious—that with a free trado, or even a low fixed duty on corn for the purposes of re venue, England could be abundantly supplied with corn from the Baltic provinces of Russia, and the fertile plains of Hungary. With a sliding scale, however low, there never can be more•than a chance market for grain in England, and no Russian, Austrian, or Bavarian farmer can be expected .to grow corn on the chance merely of finding a market for it. " Ono of the gri at rules of commercial legislation," observes a writer in an article on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S budget in the number of the Edinburgh Review published yc:- terday, " indeed of all legislation whatsoever, is to diminish the empire of chance, to ensile men to reckon on the result of their actions, or at least not to disturb the elements of the calculation. The duties which conform best to this rule are the ordinary ad va lorem duties. The producer, the importer, and the ware houser, who deal in articles subject to such a duty, may calculate on a steadiness of profit even greater than can always be expected under a perfect system of trade ; since what he gains or loses by a rise or fall in price, is in some measure balanced by an increase or diminution of duty. A fixed duty, though it contains no such prin ciple of compensation, has the great advantage of stabi lity. One portion of the cost of production, often a very important one, is unalterable. One of these duties— an ad valorem or a fixed rate, is adopted, with one exception, in our whole fiscal code ; the fixed rate being generally applied to raw produce, the ad va lorem rate to manufactured articles. The solitary ex ception—the single commodity •as to which the law strives to aggravate the hazards of commerce—the single commodity on which it imposes a duty not ad milord,' but contra valorem—the single commodity as to which, when the price falls, the law doubles the importer's loss by a proportionate addition to the duty, and when it rises, doubles his gain by a proportionate diminution of duty—the single commodity to which this monstrous le gislation is applied is the feud of the bulk of the inhabitctitts if Great Britain 1 It is the commodity of which the legislating classes are the principal producers, and the labouring classes the principal consumers. It is the commodity from which the incomes of the former are derived, and on which those of the latter are spabt. After this who can wonder at Chartism ?" LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1E42. Lord STANLEY made a curious statement last night relative to emigration. New South Wales, it appears rec.•ived nearly 13,000 immigrants in the last year, .and ?bore are 10,000 more on the road ; the colony is in debt, and knows not how to provide for the labourers imported. Van Dieman's Land cannot receive more than 1,500 persons in a year; Western Australia offers ,Aly a small field; and Southern Australia has been I:'o2ked up by misgovernment. Out of a population of i;i,000, 1,200 are living as paupers, maintained out of tiv public funds. This is the pattern colony, established on the Wakefield system, under the guidance of a Govern ment Commission, composed of some of the leading poitical lights of the day. One, in particular, -,; helped to ruin Australia, is now by his writings the Tories all in his power to ruin England. In :lada, it appears, the wanderers are better off, but there the people have suffered severely. Though 7. ,A 1 STANLEY went to the Pacific, he did not touch at half-way house, the Cape of Good Hope, and of that ::;.,,,rtant colony- said not one word. We apprehend, .ver, that the Cape of Good Hope at present—now :.,;a • large portion of the people of a Dutch origin have because they did not like the English Government . •tt least, as favourable a place for emigrants as either •: "email's Land or New South Wales. What quantity rers that colony might absorb, we cannot say, but ;;:; .:';d suppose, from its magnitude, and from th: id,• it begins to carry on, that it might usefully Employ as large a number of our destitute people as any one of the colonies Lora STANLEY mentioned. The Noble Lord was extremely anxious for one thing, murl,43-, that all emigrants should place themselves under - ernment Agents ; so that the Government will, by, become responsible for the due dispersion •viism of all the children of England. We are, then, to have an unmitigated Income-tax. It seems all settled, and only a miracle or convulsion of na ture can save us from it. The Louis PHILIPPE of our present system may indeed be suddenly called away, as he has been suddenly elevated into great power ; but short of some unexpected event of this description, the In come-tax seems almost as certain to become a tax as the sun will rise to-morrow. If any person had pre. dieted a twelvemonth ago, or even six months ago, that John Bull, in tie midst of peace, when all the Powers are prime' of his alliance, and are cultivating friendly relations with him—when no great disaster has befallen him—when he is weighed down merely with monopolies and excessive taxation—would submit, almost without a murmur, to a tax on income imposed by the Tories, such a person would have been laughed at as the id!est dreamer that ever took to the unprofitable task of soothsaying. Yet the fact has contradicted all presumptions and all forethought. The condition of England question, which erewhile puz;:led the hr;ins of thinkers, is solved at once by Sir RonuaT PEEL. . There taxation, and taxation of the worst and most oppressive character, is all that is re quired on his system 'to restore the people to content ment and prosperity. If this be true, what a woeful mis take must all the reasoners, all the philosophers, all the political economists, all those who have formed high and hallowed hopes of the destinies of England and English men, have committed. At present, however, Sir R. PEEL has only succeeded so far as to render it highly probable that his plan—lncome-tax, Tariff, and Corn become the law of the land. What will be its effects on the nation is quite another question. Two amendments were moved upon the motion for the second reading of the Bill. The first by Earl STANHOPE, for throwing out the Bill, was rejected by a majority of 102, only 17 votes being given for it. The second amendment was proposed by Lord BROUGHAM, and went to the cutting up of the whole root of the iniquity. Lord BROUGHAM simply moved 6' that all grain should be admitted free of duty." This, notwithstanding Lord RIPON'S speech, showing that there was no corn to be had for importation, was lost by a majority of 109, only five votes being given for it. The Lords did n6t believe the Earl of RIPON, and Lerd BROUGHAM proved that they ought not to do so. He instanced the price of corn in the island of Jersey, where the trade in grain is free, and in Eng land, where it is virtually prohibited, showing that on an average of the last thirteen years corn was seven shillings a quarter cheaper in Jersey than in England. Taking the averages of the years from 1829 to 1841, both included, corn was 58s. 9d. a quarter in England, and 51s. sd. in Jersey. But the price of grain in Jersey is not to be taken as a criterion of what the price would hi in England were the corn-trade free. No corn-growing country would think of produc ing an extra bushel for the Jersey market. Not so could corn be freely imported into J -England. This is one of those important points which the majority of speakers and writers upon the Corn-laws everlook, and so go on, groping in the dark, while they fancy they are dealing only with established facts. He is neither a great stateman nor a sound politician, who cannot take equal note of prospective as of retrospective facts. Ile is not a statesman who, like the witch of Endor, in blindly and ignorantly evoking the spirit of SAMUEL, knows not, and is not prepar e d - practically to deal with, and perceive the operation of the class of facts which must be produced by the adoption of any line of policy. To a wise man, the future reveals a guidance as unerring as the put. This seams forgotten by many of the ablest opponents of our starvation code. At present the Three per Cents. are at 914, and first ciass commercial bills arc canvassed for in the City—we lire tLl 7 —by the bankers and discount houses, at thre e cent. There is a great probability, it is added, that rate of interest will recede still further. Under circumstances it seems highly probable that the ~ ,,-:fnment might borrow, if it wished so to act, or 20,000,000/. in a week, at 3i- per cent. It is plain, therefore, that our public credit at this moment, perfectly sound. We doubt ;:•'they at any former period it was ever in ?tter condition. It needs, therefore no bolstering vhatever ; yet Sir It. PEEL told the House of Corn . •• on Monday that he was braving all the disgust, tisfaction, and unpopularity which the Income-tax bring on his head, from a firm belief that it is absolutely necessary to maintain public credit. When g,ntleman, like Sir H. PEEL, publicly makes a se assertion, we cannot doubt his word. His belief must be as he describes it, but the circumstances we have referred, to prove that his be-• lief is not: warranted by facts lie acts more from imii kation than truth, and public credit is not in such a deplorable state of decrepitude as to require the buttress of an Ineorne-tax. Admitting the truth of Sir ROBE RT flitE.L's assertion, we cannot deny his credulity. Mr ' VILLI P s fol:6wed Sir H. PEEL - in one of the ino ,t; correctly seasoned speeches we have yet seen, treat ing of the Corn-laps and the Income-tax in conjunction, and pointed out immediately the bearing of this new f;un 1 reason for an Income-ta x , in the following pas- s sc, - e :--- The Bill to regulate the exercise of Church patronage in Scotland, introduced by the Member for Argyllshire., consists of three clauses, and is extremely simple. The first clause enacts, that in case the majority of commu nicants do not approve of the presentee, and the Presby tery find that the opposition does not arise from factious or malicious motives, the presentee shall be rejected. The second regulates the mode of ascertaining the opi nion of the communicants, and the nature of the ob jections ; and the third confers on the Crown the right to present (subject to the same restrictions), should the patron fail to issue a presentation which shall prove effectual to fill the vacancy. According to this Bill ; therefore, the Church may interfere with the choice of the people, and set it at defiance if they see meet. " Factious motives" and " conscientious re gard to the religious interests of 'the congregation;" The Right Her. Baronet's speech of that evening had dis sipated all deli Lutz.; for the it4,7ht lion. Baronet had said that, if it shotibi he again proposed to sub.titute a property tax, for the indirect taxes which pressed upon tre masses of the people, no man would be more firm in resisting such a change of sys'em than himself (Sir Robert Peel). The Right Hon. Baronet distinctly admitted that all he proposed to do by this oppressive Income. -tax was to maintain public credit. Th ey got into a financial difficulty, and they ought to consider the cause of it. This tax was merely a means of evading one of those courses. The House had been told frequently that the time was approaching when they would have to consider the effect :,roduced by levying taxes on the people, not only for the support of the State, but for the benefit of particular class es; and that. they would hue to do one of two things, either to tax property to maintain public credit, and to diminish those mono le.lies which impoverished the people, anti prevented them from contributing, to the taxes. It was owing to those mono polies that the price of living was enhanced, and trade was re stricted, and they were about to commence that struggle winch THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1842. arc terms capable of great extension as well as contrac tion, and would be construed in any way the majority in the Church Court should find expedient. Here, then, a veto may be put on the choice of the people, as well as on that of the patron, a vast power would be conferred on the Presbytery, and endless appeals may be made by both parties, from its decision to the superior Church judicatories. One half of the congregation may be arrayed against the other; violent contentions prevail among neighbours, and even members of the same family, and parishes continue vacant for years. These are not imaginary objections, as any person at all acquainted with the present state of the Church can testify. But the great, the glaring, and insuperable objection to the Bill arises from the circumstance that it contains no clause for ascertaining the qualification of those entitled to vote. They are merely denominated " male parishioner, being of the age of twenty-one years complete, and in full communion with the Church: , Here is another enormous stretch of power vested in the Church, for not one parishioner will be admitted as a communicant who does not conform in emery respect to the law laid down by the minister of the parish, and the consequence will be, that the list of voters will be extended or shortened, as suits his whim or caprice. The Bill, therefore, should have defined the qualifica tion in such a way as to prevent one individual from tyrannising over another, and enacted that every man, and woman, too, of twenty-one years of age, untainted by crime, and believers in the truths of Christianity, should be entitled to vote. But the Non-Intrusionists would reject such a clause with disdain. This Bill, however, cannot pass, and it is therefore needless to dis cuss its merits or demerits. The unseemly warfare must continue, till the disturbers of the Church return to a sense of reason, or follow the advice of Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR —" renounce the temporalities, and ex onerate themselves, from the duties and responsi bilities annexed to the possession of them." In de scribing the conduct of these men, and the injury they have done to the Kirk, we cannot do better than quote the words of Sir GEORGE, who has used every ex ertion in vain to reconcile differences. From an inte resting pamphlet, published by RIDGWAY, on the sub ject, we quote the following graphic description : " I have now done for ever with the sub ject. I hare exhausted every appeal which friendship and sympathy could address to their hearts. I have re iterated every argument which prudence or justice could urge upon their understandings. I may perhaps be accounted their enemy because I tell them the truth ; but I have thought it my paramount, though painful duty, on some points to withstand them to the face, be cause they were to be blamed ; and I tell both parties plainly, though respectfully, that, by a protracted dis play of the fiercest ecclesiastical gladiatorship, and by the almost daily exhibition of mutual estrangement, jealousy, and exasperation, they have hardened thousands in their continued aversion' to the Gospel, and kindled a flame in the country which exposes the Church to idium, and the State to jeopardy. The one party says, of you concede any thing, 3 ou give too much; whilst the other as loudly proclaims, that unless you concede every thing, you give too little. May the great Head of the Church raise up some other labourer, who may commence his efforts with equal earnestness, and close them with complete success." The Paris Journals of Sunday, with Madrid Papers of the 10th, and Lisbon of the 11th instant, have been received. The only news they contain of any impor tance will be found in our Foreign Summary. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S REDUCTION OF RENT.-It seems that the landlord:; were alarmed at the report that Sir Robert had reduced his rents 20 per cent., and his jour nals have received instructions lo give it a positive and emphatic denial. The tale served its purpose with the townspeople, and helped to, forward that reduction of price to which the Tory journals have already appealed, as the proof that Sir Robert Peel's tariff was a most wonderful improvement—a real scheme for making both parties at a game of whist—to borrow Sir Robert's Ame rican Ambassador's illustration—win. It is to benefit all, and injure none. Now that the reported reduction has worked its purpose, and the alarmed landlords must be again soothed, it is denied on authority. Sir Robert Peel has not lowered his rents. He is not the generous landlord he has been described ; he is, as we have before said, nothing but a red tapist, intent on getting and hold ing power by all those little arts which that peculiar genius of statesmen know so well how to employ. natare of the tax. But this is now past thinking about. We are not sanguine as to the extent of patience which may be expected from John Bull when he finds himself badgered,' whether by a local commission or an inspector cf survey, through all the minutia of his profits and expenditure, his ledgers overhauled, his debts exposed, himself cross-examined, puzzled, doubted, disbelieved, and finally surcharged. Of all this we have ever spoken and felt with some mis giving. But now that it is certain, we do most earnestly and unaffectedly hope that its efficiency will not be impeded by that impatience of control and inspection which yet is so much to be apprehended. If it is to be, let it be stringent. The English people have distinctly acquiesced in the tax—we will hope that they know their own minds better than we should have divined them. We earnestly trust they will not, like children, close with the nuisance, and then quarrel with its necessary conditions. If we are to have the dentist's pincers in our mouth, let the tooth come out. Let us not take the physic into our mouth, and then quarrel with it because it is nasty. We have now no right to do so. Nobody was igno rant that the tax was inquisitorial, but everybody has consented to it—has consented to it for himself—has consented, not only that his neighbours' account.books but that his own should be overhauled. And he must not now be angry when he finds himself taken at his wort!. Honest men have agreed to be treated like knaves—not that others should be treated like knaves, but that they themselves should be so. It is a neces sary condition of the tax they have chosen : they have no ex cuse for wincing." The Post remarks, in a leading.article suggested by the late proceedings of the Sudbury Election Committee :—" We con ceive that the only way to put an end to bribery will be by an appeal to the honour and conscience of the persons concerned. This is not a case in which the political prejudices of different men can make them take different views of truth and justice. If every candidate were bound upon his ob.th, or upon his honour as a gentleman, not to allow or countenance, in any manner, directly or indirectly, the practice of giving or pro mising to give, any remuneration for votes, we cannot help thinking that there would be very little bribery afterwards. It is lwe think) because bribery is not held to be dishonour able, but, on the contrary, held to be a mode of getting into Parliament which a gentleman may practice without disgrace, that bribery [so constantly takes place. We believe that by skilfully applying the regulations of law to the principle of ho nour, whicii (under some modification or another) exists in the breasts of most men —even mere men of the world—the desirable object might be accomplished." Austrian, 5 in; cent—. Belgian, 5 pes cent-- 1031 Brazilian Bonds. 67i Buenos Ayres 6 percent 26i Chilian, 6 per cent..... 78 Colombian, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 18`14. ..... - Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957 Trieste, ditto .. 958 Madrid ... Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville NATIONAL CONVENTION. (YESTERDAY) The Committee of the National Convention met this day at the Dr. Johnson's Tavern, Fleet-street. After some preli minary arrangements were made, the meeting adjourned till seven o'clock this evening, when a very full meeting took place. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. A further advance has taken place in the English Funds. It is gratifying to observe, that with the present abundance of money, an investment has been made in them, in preference to the numerous bubble bonds belonging to insolvent States, the quotations of which are raised or lowered as may best suit the views of a parcel of gambling speculators. As an instance of the present low rate of money, a quarter of a million was offered to be lent to-day, for three months, at the rate of three per cent. per annum, and was refused. Consols left off at 91a 91k for Money, and 91i 91k for the Ac-ount. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 100 a 100 a; Ind a Stock, 242 a 243 k; Bank Stock, 165 167 ; India Bonds, 20, and Exchequer Bills, 40 42 premium. Foreign Stocks were without alteration, and the market, during the day, was firm, Danish, 80a to 81}; Dutch Five per Cents., 100 a to Ma ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,s2l to 5211; Belgian, 103 a to 104 k. Mexican Debentures were quoted 251, and Brazilian Bonds 671 to 68/. Railway Shares were in gold demand, and purchases to some extent were made Great ‘Yestern ; 94}, the Half Shares, 65* to 65*; London and Birmingham. 176 to 178; Birmingham and Gloucester, 55 to 57 ; South Western, 60k to 61 ; Gosport 60 to 6l ; North Midland, 69 to 70; ttia New Shares, 34 to 35 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30a to 31 ; Eastern Counties, 10 to 10*; and Brighton, 36/ per Share. A fair amount of busines was negotiated in Foreign Bills, at a lower rate of exchange on Hamburgh and Paris, the latter be ing 25f. 80e. to 25f. 85c. ; and the former 1313, 13 121. Antwerp, remained at 12 5 ; Amsterdam, 12 5, 12 5a ; Rotterdam, 12 s*, 12 5k ; Frankfort, 1511, 1511; Vienna, 9 52, 9 53, Trieste, 9 54.9 55 ; Madrid, 36k; and Lisbon 52a, 52/. In the Alley the quotations were for Colombian, 27* 27a ; Peruvian, 19*; Buenos Ayres, •26k; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37* ; the Three per Cents. 21/ ; Spanish Bonds, 241 24a ; and the Coupon Three per Cent. Stock, 25* 25a. 'The Halifax stmtner, if she sailed on the day appoh.ted, will now have been out 15 days, a far longer period than any of these splendid vessels have ever yet occupied in the voyage. No uneasiness is felt at the delay, it being considered that she has been detained by Lord Ashburton to bring home despatches. he most probably having arrived 'out a very short time prev;ous to the 4th inst., which was fixed for her departure. From the subdued tone assumed by the Americans, as ascertained by the last arrival, her intelligence is anxiously looked for, since it will molt probably bring accounts of an amicable termination of the dispute on the Creole affair. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Prices in the English market ate firm, and purchases to some extent have been made for investment. Consuls are 91k 911/2 a for Money, and 91k for the Account • Three per Cents. Reduced, 90* 90a ; New Three and a Half per Cents., 100* 100 k ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; India Stock, 243 243 k ; the Bonds, 18 20; and Exchequer Bills, 59 41 premium. Foreign Securities are steady, and without material change in their value. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 52a 52 a ; the Five ker Cents., 100 k 100/; Belgian, 1031 1041; Danish. bOa 81k ; Brazilian is marked 67 68, and Mexican 37a / a, ex all the Coupons; Spanish 24/; Passive 5, and Deferred 12*a a. Some little business has been done in Shares; Bristol and Exeter 44 45 ; Eastern Counties 10 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 51 52; Birmingham, Thirds, 60; Suuth Western, 61 ; ;%.lidland Counties, 791/2 ; South Eastern and D..ver 80/. In the Alley the Peruvian is quoted 19 26; Buenos Ayres, 25 27 ; Colombian, 27* 274 ; Portuguese Fire per Cents., 371/2 38 ; the Three per Cents., 221/2 ; Spanish Actives, Five per Cents. Bonds, 24a 24%; the Aew Three per Cent. Stock created out of eight Coupons from the Bonds, 25* 251. There are no foreign arrivals, neither is there any feature in business to notice. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 16. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9Bi 'Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 81 Ditto New 1830... 99 Ditto 4 per cent 3/ per Cent. Debs. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 18, was very firm, without material alteration in prices. Fully 7,000 bal s were sold, of which 1,000 Americans were on speculation. The sales comprised 1,000 Surat:, 3d. to 40. , 150 Pernams, 7d. ; 200 Maranham, 5-0. to 6d; 160 Bahia, 61d. to 7d. ; 150 Egyp tian, 7d. to Bd. and 5,340 American, 44d. to bad. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 18.—The transac tions were rather few, and business closed heavily. Eastern Counties, Debentures, 111. 6s. Bd. ' • New. 5* ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50; Grand Junction, Old Quarters, 474; Great Western, Fifths, 10* ; Liverpool and Manchester, 187 ; Lon don and Birmingham, 178; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 591 • Paris and Rouen, 16i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 11.-Our market continues very good for Railway Stock. Our transactions are— Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50k ; Eastern Counties, 9i ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 36; Manchester and Birming ham, 281 ; Manchester and Leeds, 821; Ditto, Quarters, s*; Brighton Loan Notes, 81 ; Lancaster and Preston Three quarter Shares, 171 ; Alliance Bank, 25. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1654 India Stock ..... ...... .. 2424 3 per Cent Red 9o* Ditto Bonds 2opre 3 per Cent Cons 914 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3 1 per Cent Red New 34 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities ;,oexpire Ditto Small 4l p rr. Jan. 1860 . . 124 Bank Stock for Acct ...166 Oct 1859. ........ 12 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... MANCHESTER and the INCOME TAX. Jan. 1860..,,,.,,,, 124 Consols for Acct 9li FOIcEIGIN FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent 65 Ditto, New Ditto 37* Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent..... Ditto, :11etallic ...... . !Spanish, 5 per cent. I Ditto, Deferred.... . 12i Lold F. Egerton has boasted, in the House of Commons, of the petition he presented from Manchester, in favour of the income tax and the tariff; which was signed, amongst other persons, by the two Editors of the Whig Guardian ; in order, therefore, to make the public acquainted with the facts of the case, it becomes our duty to state that, on Wednesday last, the Commissioners of Police of Manchester, calling themselves the representatives of the tax pagers, adopted unanimously the following resolution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the proposed income tax is obnoxious in its details, bad in its principles, and uncalled for by circum stances ; and we, therefore, pray your Honoorable House not to allow the proposed income tax to become the law of the land." Danish, 3 per cent BO/ 'French, 5 per cent. —'. —c. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange I •c. Mexican, 5 per rent. .. French, 3 per cent —. —c Ditto, 6 per cell:- 1637 Dutch, 2/ per cent.. 521 Peruvian, 1825, fi per et. 19i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1004 SHARES. Bristol i-nd Exeter (70 paid) . Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto New Shares ( paid) Ditto Debentures .. ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... .52 London and Brighton (50 paid) fitii. London and Birmingham (90) ...... .. ... , Ditto Thirds (32 paid) .. Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...... .... 43 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds ( paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) . 31 COURSE OF EXCHANGE-L(YESTERDAY '1 Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar . Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8i Genoa . - 25 95 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 IVenice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bout deaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 1521 jßahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres Berlin... ,New Y0rk,.21 days sight 4b Philadelphia - 46 PRICES OF MULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 . . We add an abstact from an article in the Manchester Times : " MEN PRAYING TO BE TAXED. " Lord Francis Egerton, whose visits to.the House of Commons are few and far between, has come to the aid of Sir Robert Peel, in the imposition of a new tax, which will fall heavily on the menu. facturers and traders of the county his Lordship misrepresents, but from which his own tenants-at-will, are to be entirely exempted His unusual appearance seems, to have been occasioned by an un usual occurrence—the having it in his power to present a petition from men praying to be taxed! The petition was from Manchester, and there were 24,000 signatures appended. Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 9h Silver in Bars 0 4 11* Mr. Hume has been returned for the Montrose dis trict of Burghs, as we anticipated, without opposition. A Morning Contemporary, in commenting on the alterations proposed by Lord Campbell in the manage ment of appeal matters, calls attention to the delay which sometimes arises in the final disposing of cases that are referred to the twelve Judges for their opinion en a point of law. That of Lady Hewley, which is in stanced as an example, went to their Lordships in 1839, on a query respecting the admissibility of extrinsic evi dence in the construction of a written instrument; but the query is still unanswered. If much less time than three years be not sufficient for the consideration of a point of law, there must surely be some sort of difficulty which should at once be remedied by Act of Parliament, ftr the due administration Of justice concerns the nation at large, and every man is interested in the removal of im pediments that can keep back the decision of any case for three years, after the argument has been finally heard by the House of Lords. It would be well to have a re turn moved for in Parliament, of all cases referred to the Judges by the House of Lords, during the last five years, showing the date of reference, and when the case was re turned. This might lead to a correction of the evil, by the adoption of some suitable remedy. NEW MUSIC HALL.—We confidently anticipate that a-grand and suitable building for musical performances will soon be erected in the metropolis. Independent of Exeter Hall being confined to only one description of music, it is not well adapted for great musical entertainments, and is besides so often engaged for mouths in advance, that it is of little use to the public in general. These circumstances have induced a number of persons to form a company for erecting . an ele gant building in a eentral situation, which shall consist of a room capable of accommodating four thousand persons, with an orchestra for a thousand performers, a number of small concert rooms, and a public library for the most ap proved musical compositions. A company of this kind pro perly conducted would confer a public benefit, and in a short time repay the expenditure with ample interest. Mr. Hansom has formed a similar plan on a still larger scale, but as three musical halls would probably be too many for the metropolis at present, we trust an understanding will be come to between the parties, in order to carry into effect, in the most satisfactory manner, the object which both have in view. " Were these to be a scrutiny, we suspect, that the petition would share the fate of one against the Charter of Incorporatioc, which was sweated flown from 32 000 to som? 7,000 or 8,000." Lord Egerton, and his 24,000 of Tories, Chartists, and recreant Whigs, has nothing to boast of. THE INCOME-TAX -BANBURY. • (FRHM A CORRESPONDENT.) Most of the principal inhabitants of Banbury, without distinction of party; namely, the resident curate, the resident physician, 18 bankerr, surgeons, and solicitors, 30 drapers, grocers, and iron.. mongers, 74 other tradesmen, and 22 other persons, seeing the glaring injustice and impolicy of Sir R. Peel's income tax scheme, as it affects incomes from labour 0f'1501., or upwards, compared with exonerated incomes under that amount, derived from real pro. perty, have (although holding different opinions for or against the tax in other respects) signed and forwarded to Mr. Tancred, for pre sentation, the following petition in support of the altemion (far exempting from taxation the first 1501. of every one's income) pressed upon the Premier by Sir R. Inglis, in his speech in the House of Commons, on Friday evening last, the efftct, of which would be equality to all perso►is, the Chancellor of the Exchequer regulating the amount of his lier centage by the amount to be raised. Let one only, of many examples, of the proposed injustice, be added. An idler, a mere consumer, may be the owner of a free hold estate worth 4,0001., and receive his rent of 1491. per annum, free from tax; but the little toiling baker, tailor, or shopkeeper, with a capital of less than 2001., if he, by being up early and late, can scrape together 1511. per annum, must pay a tax of 41. 10s. It is hoped that other towns are not asleep, taking for granted that this is an injustice specially reserved for graceful concession. 'lO the Honourable the Commons in Parliament Assembled : BEAUMONT SMITH.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) —So far from Smith having suffered upon an equality with his fellow-prisoners, he has been highly favoured in being al lowed the privilege of remaining on board the ship to fill any capacity. My teason for troubling you with this is, to show that partiality and favours are often dealt out to prisoners of this clasi, while others, whose crimes ate not so flagrant, and whose abilities are as good, combined with periods of a much longer imprisonment, are thrown in the back ground, merely because their family connections are not so re spectable, or the confidence they had broken, in their respective situations, of such a nature, as cannot be well re membered. A feeling of partiality is constantly shown to persons who have held good situations, and abused them, while men who, through the cravings of hunger, have made them selves amenable to the laws, are compelled to labour hard in the dock-yard. MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday an inquest was held before Wm. Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, at the Three Jolly Gardeners, Lambeth, respecting the death of Mr. Jose's') Ray, aged 61. The deceased carried on a most ex tensive business, as a painter and decorator, in the Vauxhall road, and on Thursday last he went to some business which be had to overlook at Camberwell. As he proceeded on the New road, Camberwell, he was taker, ill, and asked to sit down at the first shop he arrived at. This was willingly granted, and then he said he felt worse, and wished to be placed on a bed. The request was one which was not anticipated, but it was most readily complied with, and he was undressed, and put into bed ; and in order that no attention should be wanting, a surgeon was instantly sent for, but on his arrival, the unfor tunate gentleman was pronounced to be dead. As it seemed most probable the death was caused by the bursting of one of the vessels of the heart, the Jury returned a verdict of "Natural death." The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, thoweth,—That your petitioners have heard that it is proposed to your Honourable House that a per centage tax should be imposed upon the whole of the income of every person whose income amounts to or exceeds 1501. per annum, and that all persons whose income does not amount to 3501. per annum should be exempt from any such tax. _ _ _ Your petitioners consider that such a tax would be more equal in its operation, and therefore more just, if the income of every person were to the extent of 150/. per annum exempted from the operations of such a tax, and the excess only of each person's income beyond 1501. were made the amount to be taxed. Your petitioners, therefore, pray, that, in the event of your Honourable House resolving, or having resolved, that a tax should be imposed upon income, your Honourable House will confine the amount of each person's annual income to be made the subject of taxation, to the excess only, beyond the sum of 1501. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. April 13, 1842. TAXATION OF RAILWAY PAS- SENGERS. (From the Directors of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Rail. way Company.) The present duty is one• eighth of a penny per mile for each passenger, whether travelling in a first, second, or third class car. riage, and without reference to the fare charged. The tax conse. quently presses unequally on different railways, as is seen on comparison : On the London and Brighton the tax amount's to 41. 2s. 3d. per cent. on the gross passenger receipts ; Great Western 5/ 15s ; Hull and Selby, 81. 4s. 6d.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 121. 110. The pressure bearing lightly on high fares and heavily dn low fares, thus :—On the London and Brighton Railway the tax on first class passengers amounts to 41. Os. 5/41. per cent. ; Glas. gow, Paisley, and Greenock (between Glasgow and Paisley), the tax on third class passengers amounts to 211. 17s. 6d. per cent. The present mode of taxation, therefore, discourages low fares, and prevents the advantages sought by the establishment of rail. ways from being more generally difflised. The remedy proposed is, that the tax shall in future be levied as a per centage on the gross passenger receipts. In this mode the tax will press equally on dif. lerent railways aed rates of fare. The revenue at the rate proposed will be at least equal to that of the present tax, and the discourage ment to low fares will be removed. These views are strongly advocated in the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons, signed July 2, 1840 (the names of the Members composing which arc subjoined, l ) and the present sys tem described as " one tending to separate the interests of the Rail way Companies and the public, which will gradually exclude a great number of persor.s from the benefit of cheap conveyance ;" but the opposition of the dearer railways, who benefit by the exist ing order of things, has hitherto prevented this recommendation from being cartied into effect; and it seems probable that the de sired modification will not be made until the cheaper railways and the public press on the Legislature the inexpediency of continuing a condemned mode of taxation, and at once unsound in principle and unjust in its operation. * Sir John Guest, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Thornely, La rd Sandon, Mr. Lc ch, Mr. Froshfield, Lord Stanley, Mr. Green, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. Henry Baring, Sir James Graham, Lord Seymour, Mr. Easthorpe. Greenock, 6th April, 1842. THE BANK OF MANCHESTER AND THE ALLIANCE BA NE UNITED.—The union of these twd Batiks took place yesterday, the lath instant, when the business and assets GI the Al ianee were transfer. cd to the Bank of Manehuster.—Man chaster 'limes. bTA'rn OF TuAnn.—We have still the unpleasant duty of reporting an inanimate market, and declining prices. 'Die demand for all kinds of goods has been languid in the extreme, and the market presents an utter absence of that con fidence which should prec, de and accompany busines-. Power loom printing cloths are again reduced in price, and some sales have been made, even in quarters where immediate want of money could hot he the inducement, at prices heretofore almost unheard of. Twenty-seven 66-reed cloths ma) be had at 4s. 6d. in any quantity, and the best 72-reed 27-inch at 4s. 10 1 /id. Cotton has been brisk this week, and the sales large • but this }urns, not affected yns, which are still very dull of sale.— Manchester Times. _ _ SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—We are authentically informed that it is the determination of the South Eastern and Dover Rrilway Company to prosecute the works to their com pletion with unremitting perseverance and the utmost despatch. The manifold physical difficulties that present themselves be tween here and Folkestone have been looked broadly in the face ; and Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, relying on the efficiency of his art, confidently calculates on being perfectly able to over come them. The Strond-street Dover terminus, which has been fixed upon, when the Bill shall have passed in the next Session of Parliament will be immediately cleared, and the building necessary for the station will be forthwith commenced on a scale of magnitude unequalled in the county. We are glad to perceive that the prices of the shares of this railway have advanced considerably during the present week.—Locer Chronicle. Mr. Brookes delivered his third lecture on Mes merism to a very respectable audience at the Waterloo-rooms, on Thursday evening. The chief interest of the proceedings consisted in the experiments of the lecturer, which were, how ever, prefaced by a paper on the difference between Mesmerism and l3raidivm, and the respective value of each as remedial agents in the alleviation and cure of various diseases, as well as in the performance of painful surgical operations One of the most novel and interesting applications of mesmerism, and which the lecturer dwelt upon with much pleasure, was the singular and conclusive evidence which it afforded of the prin ciples of phrenological science, and the correctness of the posi tions assigned by its profes'ors to individual organs. At the con clusion of the introductory paper, the girl whom Mr. Brookes had operated upon so successfully on the former occasions was again introduced, and at the invitation or the lecturer, who said it would be doubtless gratitying to the audience if one or two medical gentlemen would test the experiments, and report their opinion respecting them, Mi. Knowles and Mr. Partridge ascended the platform, and seated themselves on each side of the patient. Having ascertained the state of the pulse, the pro ' cess of mesmering commenced, and in two minutes the girl was completely under the influence of the mesmeriser, the pupils of the eyes being fixed and contracted, although it was ex plained that on Tuesday evening they had dilated during the same experiment. On the suggestion of Mr. Levison, the pa tient's eyes was bandaged, and the lecturer yroceeded to ex hibit the power of attraction which he possessed over the pa tient. She was at this stage of the proceedings reclining on an easy chair, with her feet resting on the floor, and on the mesmeriser making a series of passes over the limbs, they were gradually drawn upwards until they were brought to a horizontal position, at which point, the operations having been suspended, they became rigidly fixed. The state of the limbs was tested by the medical gentlemen, and they were found to be perfectly cataleptic, for although they yielded a little pre sure, they sprung back with great elasticity on the pressure being withdrawn. The limbs and face being now demesme rised, the patient complained of head-ache, and expressed a wish to be left quiet a little time. The lecturer explained that she had been unwell diving the day, owing, he believed, in some measure, to the state of the atmosphere; but while she was recovering herself, he expressed his willingness to mes merise any gentleman who might feel disposed to submit to the experiment. Mr. Gatgory, optician, of Bull-street, accordingly availed himself of the offer; and on being placed in the chair, he gradually yielded to the mesmeric passes, and in two mita'.es his eyes closed and he was in' apparent sleep. As he appeared, however, to suffer some pain, and gave indications of inuisposi lion, he was peedi iy released, and explained to the audience the sensations he experienced. He yeas conscious, he said, of everything that sassed around him, did was not aware that he had once closed his eyes during the experiment. Mr. Brookes then proceeded with his phrenological experiments, and in order to prevent the possibility of collusion, it was suggested that the names of the different organs should be written on a board ' behind the patient and exhibited to the audience, who would thne be able to judge how far the answers given corresponded with the organs called into activity. Mr. Wilson, the phreno logist, was requested to superintend the phrenelogical ,pera tions, and Mr. G. Eamonds to communicate with the audience by writing the name of the organ on the board, in the manner suggested. The patient having passed into a state of sleep waking, the organ of " tune" was first m esmer ised , and in reply to questions as to how she felt , she replied, " I feel so li g h t. ; I feel as if I could converse ; hush ! I hear a har p ; 1 don't h e a r th e harp now; 1 hear the violin ; it is p la y :n g a tune ." " Are you not strong enough to sing it yourself ?" " I feel very co m f orta bl e : a m r y e happiness iefegelseetwoo?, powerful for fGorreeme Hills r>f Tyrol; an d strength." " Wh a t after two or three efforts, the patient commenced singing in a clear and musical voice the song . she had named. She was stopped by the lecturer (who stood behind her) demesmerising the organ, when the words died gradually away, until they ceased altogether, and were by the ,amp process as before. This was repeated several times; 'the words being taken up in every case at the poict at which they had pre• viously broken off. The organs of " self-esteem," " locality." and " colour," were next called successively into action. Under the influence of the latter, the patient said, I feel as if I was in such a beautiful light; it is more like mooni,glit than daylight ; I see groves and little shrubs; some are near, and some at a great distance, and it appears as if the sun shone on the tops of them." The bandage was here removed, and the pupils of the eyes were examined by Mr. Partridge, and found quitepotionless and much dilated. The same gentleman dis charged a percussion cap close behind her head, but without exciting the slightest motion ; and in accounting for the readiness with which she answered the questions put to her, Mr. Brookes explained that the patient was only in commu nication with the mesmeriser, and could not hear questions put by other persons. Several other interesting experiments were exhibited during the evening ; and at the reques t of the audience, Mr. Bro o k es consented to deliver another lecture at the Athenteuns this evening (Thursday).— Midland Counties Herald, March 31. - LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, April 19. The cause of " Wilkinson v. Page," which was the ,first of the appeal motions on to-day'6 paper, was adjourned by moot until to-morrow week. ROLLS' COURT, April 19. Lord LANGDALE, on the sitting of the Court, dispok-" some consent petitions, and then proceeded to hear short causes. 1 7 10 - C HANCE LL 0R S' COURT, April 18. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His HoNoun was engaged to-day in hearing adjourned cause petitions of no public interest. SEMMARY OF NEWS AND Vttbitr " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. In the French sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on Sa turday, a member brought up the subject of the complaints lately made by the public papers on the administration of jus tice in the province of Constantine (Algeria), where, accord ing to the Gazette des Tribunaux, 44 executions had taken place in a single year, on the capricious and cruel sentence of one individual, and without the observance of any of the customary forms of justice. Marshal Soult declared that he had sent one of bis aides-de-camp to Algiers, with instruc tions to make every necessary inquiry, and to require of Gene ral Negrier, Governor of Constantine, to explain the illegal acts with which he was charged. As soon as • the repot of his aide-de-camp came to hand, the Marshal would communicate the result to the Chamber. The Madrid journal, Como: Nacional, of the:loth inst., gives the report that France intends positively to send in to the Spanish Government her claims fot the debt of 1823, and that in a very energetic note on this subject she has declared that she will not give up one inch of her pretensions. It is not true, as was reported, that the Prime Minister Gonzales had signed with Mr. Aston the preliminaries to a treaty of commerce. The Corresponsal says that a letter from the Philippine Islands of the 15th January confirms the deplorable results of the violent measures adopted by the military authorities on the recent revolt. More than 1,400 individuals had lost their lives. The state of the wine trade at Oporto appears to have become an object of much solicitude to the Government, and is likely to have much weight with it in the negotiations pending with this country for a new commercial treaty. The Queen had appointed a commission of nine members, for the purpose of taking into consideration and re porting upon the representation lately addressed to her by the Mercantile Association of Oporto. In that re presentation it was earnestly recommended that no time should be lost in concluding a new treaty with Great Britain, founded upon the principle of reciprocity. The Duke of Pal mella had already had several conferences with Lord Ho vard de Walden, but nothing further had transpired regarding the pro gress of the negotiations. PARLIAMENTARY. The Corn-laws exclusively occupied the Lords last night, first with petitions, and subsequently with a motion of Lord Melbourne's, calling on their Lordships to sanction the prin ciple of a fixed duty. Lord Ripon opposed Lord Melbourne, and the Earl of Clarendon supported him by an able speech. A long debate ensued, in which a great many of the most dis tinguished Peers took part, and which ended by their Lordships rejecting Lord Melbourne's resolution by 207 to 71. Lord Brougham afterwards lost two divisions on restrictions, and against imposing any duty on corn, which was lost in both cases by 96 to 9. Their Lordships d:d not adjourn till Two o'Clock. In the Commons Mr. Pryse Pryse and Mr. A. Lefroy took their seats. The Kingadare Inclosure Bill was reported after a division, and a vain attempt on the part of Messrs. Godson, Brotkerton, and Fielden, to protect, as they said, the rights of the poor. On Monday, May 2, Mr. 'l'. Duncombe is to present the National Petition, signed by snore than 3,000,000 of the in dustrious classes, and on the following day he will move that the petition be taken into consideration. Mr. M. Stewart, having put a question to Lord Stanley rela tive to emigration, the Noble Lord answered it somewhat in detail, and in a manner to show that the New South Wales and other 'colonies are now overstocked with labourers, and that they at present want capital more than labourers. In reply to Dr. Bowring . and Sir C. Napier, Sir Robert Peel feelingly expressed his inability to govern Syria in addi tion to England, judging the latter task hard enough. Ne vertheless he informed the House that the Government had remonstrated with the Porte against employing the Arnauts in * , yria, and against placing Omar Pacha in the Government of Lebanon. •Mr. Ferrand, in a long speech, full of bitter accusations. against the master . manufacturers, moved for a Committee to inquire into their practices towards their workmen. Sir James Graham moved as an amendment, that the Com mittee should inquire into the working of the law which forbids the truck system, and after a Tharp and somewhat personal debate, the amendment was adopted. Amongst the master manufacturers there are no doubt many knaves,ande very honest man will be glad to see them exposed. Sir J. Graham s remark, however, that when the men are prosperous, they are the masters of their masters, was full of wisdom, and explains in one sentence, the real cause of the sufferings of the people. The Corn-laws have cut up prosperity by the roots, and so made the workmen the slaves of the masters. The Solicitor-General for Ireland obtained leave to bring in a Bill to assimilate the criminal law of Ireland as to the punishment of death to that of England, and Mr. Hutt obtained a Committee to inquire into the expediency of renewing the Grinding Act.—The House rose at a Quarter to Eleven. PUBLIC OPINION. The Herald has the following remarks:—" The advocates of extreme protection to domestic agriculture thought that the Corn-law of 1815 would not give sufficient protection to native cultivation. They were mistaken ; under its operation the people were sufficiently fed, and agriculture kept its foremost place amongst national interests. The same class of politicians protested that the ;Corn-law of 1822 would ruin the British farmer. Again they were wrong; the culture of our native soil flourished in spite cf the alteration. The Corn-law of 1828 met with opposition from the like quarter on the same grounds; yet British agriculture still survives —nay, has since then greatly advanced in prosperity. The unfulfilled apprehensions of the past ought study to lessen the dreaded anticipations of the future. Protection to British agriculture, though a main is nit the chief cause of its continued and increasing ability to feed the British people." The Chronicle thus accounts for the exemption of Ireland from the Income-tax :—" The want of machinery is unques tionably not the chief reason for exempting Ireland from the tax. '1 he chief reason is not one of principle, but of party tactics. The Right Honourable Baronet is an admirer of the policy of setting class against class, and people against people. By exempting Ireland, he conceived that he would convert the Irish represe ntatives into neu t ra l or , at th e wo r s t, luke-warm opponents, just as, by exempting all farmers renting farms under three hundred pounds a-year, he conceived that he would make partisans of the yeomanry; and, by exempting all whose incomes do not exc ee d 15(,/. * a -year, he would detach the lower classes from the ranks above them. This policy is the low and most disgra ce f u l one o f filli ng the different classes with jealousies of each . other, in order to p ro fit b y t h e di v i s i ons ." In reference to the nuisance of the Income-tax, the Times observes :—" We are fully alive to the odiously inquisitorial th ONEY - TRADE-C OMIVIERCE. A meeting of the Royal Naval Benevolent Associatien was held on Monday at the hatched House Tavern, St. James's, when it appeared that there were at present seventy-five ap• plieants for relief, and that 500/. had been allocated for that purpose, out of the Society's balance in hand of 1,1321. NAVAL AND MILITARY. By an order issued at Woolwich, all commanders of her Ma jesty's steam-vessels are henceforth to employ on board a " leading stoker," that office being one of great importance and responsibility, and requiring men of ability and steadiness. maw airD POLICE. Thomas Horagan and Sarah Horagan, stated to be his wife, two fashionably dressed persons, were brought up as begging letter impostereat Queen-square on Monday, and committed for one month each to hard labour in the House of Correction. Walter Plowman, formerly a- harness-maker in Somerset shire, appeared on Monday at the Insolvent Debtors' Court for judgment ; he was remanded for twelve months, having fraudu lently made over property to his father, while his bankruptcy was pending. PINE ARTS. George I V.'s costly collection of ancient armour has been for many years past stowed away in the Carlton Riding-house, adjoining the Queen Dowager's stables. Nash, the architect, had orders to build a room for its reception in Buckingham Palace, where the armour was to have been classified by age and epoch, but the death of that monarch prevented it. LXTEJL&RY AND SCIENTIFIC. Sir I. Brunel, the eminent engineer, has left England to visit the King of Sardinia, to ascertain the capabilities of that coun try for the construction of railroads. The speculum for the magnificent new telescope con structed by the Earl of Bosse, was cast at his Lordship's castle, Dublin, last week, in the presence of numerous scientific men. The dimensions of this fine piece of art are extroardinary ; the weight is 8 tons, its diameter 6 feet, and its thickness 5 feet. THEATRICAL. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Haymarket theatre on Monday night, for the purpose of witnessing the per formance of Mr. C. Kean in the Gamester. SPORTING. Viscount Drurnlanrig's valuable horse Harlequin, which is entered for the forthcoming Gorhambury Stakes, was nearly suffocated at the Windsor Steeple-chase last week, by falling into the mud and water of Chalvely ditch, when a quarter of an hour elapsed before it could be extricated. COURT-FASIZIONAILLE. The Duke of Rutland arrived in town on Fr.day from New market, and returned there yesterday. It is said that the Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de Join ville are shortly to leave the French capital on a visit to her Majesty, and will make a general tour to visit the public esta blishments in this country. '1 he Duke and Duchess of Montrose left town on Saturday for Southampton, and embarked the same day for Lisbon. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa have arrived in White hall-gardens. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn arrived at Dudley House on Saturday last. The Earl of Jersey returned to town on Monday from Mid dleton Park. The Countess of Gainsborough arrived in town on . Saturday, from Naples. Lord Prudhoe arrived in Whitehall-gardens on Saturday, from Leamington Spa. The Earl and Countess of Lisburn have arrived at Mivart's hotel, for the season. The Earl of Veralam arrived in Grosvenor-square on Mon day, from Newmarket. Dr. O'Brien, the new Lord Bishop of Ossory and Ferns, arrived at the palace at Kilkenny last Thursday. DIISCELLATJZOITS. Yesterday was the anniversary of the last service which Admiral Blake rendered his country in the destruction of the Spanish fleet in 1657, which had put into Santa Cruz. Blake returned home in the same year, and breathed his last just as the fleet reached Plymouth Sound. Strawberry•-hill has been visited by more than 20,000 per sons during the progress of the private and public views. Among the distinguished visitors last week were Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lords Sidmouth, Oxford, Sefton, and Mahon, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, &c. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty took an airing in an open carriage and four yester day afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. Bouverie, rode out on horseback at the same time. Sir Robert Peel had anaudience yesterday of the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. Bouverie, was present yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for Promoting the Fine Arts in the Re-building of the Houses of Parliament. The Earl of Lincoln and other Commissioners attended, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princees Royal were taken an airing yesterday in the Royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, lion. Miss Murray, Viscount Sydney, Major-General Wemyss, and Col. Bouverie, honoured the Italian Opera House with their presence yesterday evening. The Duchess of Kent took an airing in a carriage yesterday. Her Royal Highness, attended by L..cly Anna Maria Dawenn, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, on Monday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Kew. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, and Admiral Sir John Talbot had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office SNORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATH AND BRISTOL RACES.—TUESDAY. The Lansdown Trial Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 20 added; 3 yrs, 6st 1•4113 ; 4 yrs, Bst 1016; 5 yrs, 9st 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 7 11 ) ; mares, B;c., allowed 31b. a Qua' ter. (Five Subs. ) Mr. G. Blathwaite nd Warden, 5 yrs. Walked over. The Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for 3 yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. One mile. (Eleven Subs. ) Mr. Gi egory's Barrier, by Defence (Treen) I Mr. Br,stovv's b-f by Elis, out of Languid, allowed 31bs ... 2 20 to lon Barrier. Won easy by two lengths. The Somersetshire Stakes of 25 suits. each, 15 ft, and only 5 f. if declared, with 50 added. (Forty-sesen Subs., thirty-three of whom declared. ) Lord G. Eentinck's Tripoli, 3 yrs, a feather ( Sharp) 1 Mr.. Maley's Belissitaa, aged, 7st 13113.... Mr. Treen's Fitzroy, 5 yrs, Bst, 131 b Mr. Isaac Day's Tamburini 6 yrs, Bst 6113 Mr. E. Hobson's Piccotee b), 5 yrs,Bs‘ Mr. W. Blathwaite nd Ermengarc:is, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b Gen. Gilbert's Stork, 6 yrs, 7st 51b 0 Mr. Collett's Moonbean, 4 yrs, tiNt 101 b Mr. .1. Day's m by Nimrod, out ,of Busk, 5 yrs, 6st llb Mr. W. C. Cedrington nd Bugle, 4 yrs, 6st 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Tripoli, and 7to 2 agst Belissima. Fitzroy made nearly all the running to the distance, where Belissima and the grey singled themselves out; a fine race home between these two was won by the latter by half a beating the rt st by six lengths. _ The — weather was fine, but the attendance thin. The Jockey Club Meeting, originally appointed for Tuesday in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, and postponed for a week in consequence of the absence of several of the members, was held yesterday at Willis's Rooms. It was very numerously at tended, and lasted from one o'clock until four. The press hav ing been excluded, all that we were able to ascertain was that the discussion closed satisfactorily, and that the resolutions passed will appear in the Calender. ERRATUM.—In our Parliamentary Report of yes terday, it was erroneously stated that Mr. P. Pryse had not been duly elected, and that Mr. J. Hartford was declared the sitting Member. We give the correct account in the report of the proceedings at the close of the Committee. Mr. Pryse is the Member for Cardigan. STATE or TRADE.—There was a most active de mand for cotton last week, with a sale of 39,030 bags, which is nearly double the average of the weekly sales of the present year. Of this large quantity, 12,000 bales were taken on spe culation, a circumstance which furnishes strong evidence of an improved feeling amongst capitalists with regard to the cotton trade. The sales on Saturday amounted to 8,000, and yester day to 7,000 bales. In the Corn Market there is no great change. Prices are tending upwards, although a fair quantity of foreign wheat continues to arrive from the South of Europe. The general belief is that wheat will be very high before harvest, owi..g to the shortness of the supply in the country; and that the duty will sink very low; some think even down to a shilling. The cheapness and abundance of money is favourable to spe culation in cotton, corn, and all great staple articles, and it is also steadily pushing up the prices of the better descrip tions of shares, and of all Government securities. From the last return, it will be seen that the Bank of England has again got upwards of seven millions of bullion in its coffers.—Li verpool Times. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LIONEL SMlTlC.—Advices from the Mauritius to the 9th of January were received on Saturday at the. North and South American Coffee-house, by which we regret to learn the death of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Smith, Governor of that Island. His Excellency was taken ill on the 31st of December, at his country-house, at Rtdnit, and expired sud denly on the 3d of January, of hydruthorax, or effusion of water on the chest. His Excellency was in the 64th year of his age; he arrived here in July, 1840, so that the term of his administration of the affairs of this island was limited to a period of little more than sever teen months. He is replaced temporarily in the government of this island ny Colonel W. Staveley, C. 8., the senior officer next in command, and late Commandant of the garrison. In the Baronetcy, Sir Lionel is succeeded by his only son, Lionel Smith, a youth of only nine years of age. A few days ago there died in service, as a cook, in the Rue de Bondy, a female who was grand-niece of Corneille and niece of Fontenelle. Her uncle Fontenelle, who lived to the age of 99, was rich, but, instead of leaving his fortune to his relatives, hebequeathed it to twoiemales, and to servants, who had, in his extreme old age, induced him to make a will in their favour.—Galignani. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, April 12. FOUNTAIN v. BOOItLE. This was an action of libel tried before Lord Denman; in which a verdict was entered against the defendant. Th e plaintiff is a governess, and had been engaged by the defendant to attend her family, which she continued to do for a Ye ar ' She then became ill, and was di , missed with a very short notice. The defendant recommended her to her aister-in-la". and also to a Mr. steward, to both of whose families she ga" instruction. But, on a subsequent occasion,'she gave her hand that the plaintiff was .‘incompetent, ill-naturef. 301 ill-tempered," and on this charge the action was brought. Proof of a contrary description was, however, given at the trial; bti Mr. Kelly, who defended t he case, contended that falsehood was 11, proof of male fi des, and that until malice had been proved, there Was no evidence to go to the Jury. Lord Denman, however, con sidered that there was evidence to go to the Jury, and a Te ohe was given for the defendant. Mr. KELLY now applied to the Court to set aside the yet ' diet, on the ground of their being no evidence of malice. Mr. Justice PATTEsox said that the Court had no d ont that the case, if it could be lett to the Jury at all, was prod left, for on the assumption that there was some malice, it lsy the defendant to prove that there was not. As to whe we ' there ought to be a new trial, the Court would take fur ther time to consider. it under, COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 19. THE MA RQUIS OF ANGLESEY V. LOKI) ATHERTON. Sir Titomas WILDS moved tor a ruie to show causd the verdict in this case should nut beset aside, and a new granted. The case, which was art action to try the custon 3 manor in Staffordrhire in r egat d to the right O A tenant to tat, i certain minerals, came on for trial before Air. Justice Creosol at the last assizes at Worotster ; and a vercict had been faun for the plaintiff. 'the minerals; the right to which wa4 v u!rt puten, were coal, iron, stone,.arbt limestone, and lay in Oiffe ren _. parts of the manor. '1 he defendants had proQuced eide!g: at the trial, for the purpose of proving the working and tsa, l4 of the minerals for a tong period of lime. The present aPPI; tion was made on the wounds, first, that a certain tired c 1 been improperly received in evidence; secondly, that eglue" ., i i as to the custom in an adjoining manor had been impr"F ei t o rejected; and, thirdly, that there had been a misdirectwo certain parts of the evidence. After an elaborate argument in support of the applic a on the part of Sir Thomas Wilde, which turned upon the h , terpretaticn of ancient deeds and upon points of a purelyte` o nical nature, the Court intimated that they would take rim consider their decision in the matter. . COURT OF B eIIVICRUPTC 3' . April 19. IN RE MILLER AND CRADOCIC. The solicitor to the bankrupts made an application 1 0 fo r Commissioner Holroyd to postpone the hearing of this ral e t o three weeks, as the bankrupts had not had sufficient tub,i make up their balance sheet.—The case was ordered to i"'" over for that time. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ard IN RE ROBERTON. ,het , The hearing of this ease took place some time back , 0 it was reported in The Sun. The insolvent now appear e d Court to receive judgment. t 0 111 r. Commissioner HARRIS said the insolvents con , A u l ; r gg getting credit from the opposing creditor to such a ; 0 . amount, without informing him that he had executed a ble , rant of attorney in favour of another person, was inexcl" 4 o-. However, as he had been a long time in confinement ,I!tied and had not availed himself of bail, the Court felt to pass a more lenient sentence upon him than it Nvoiliuwo, der other circumstances. The judgment of the Courtoor., that he be remanded, at the suit of one or more of his cr ec for eight months from the date of his vesting order. • POLICE . IN T tti,LItiENCE. BOW -S TI?EE 7'. • John Wilson was placed at the bar before Mr. P„,,lis charged with stealing a pillow and a blanket from his lodgings. 0 1 '; The protecutrix stated that she did not wish to 0 00 0 punish the prisoner ; if she could get her things back sh e a the be satisfied ; the prisoner had confessed to having pav e d articles, and the pawnbroker was in attendance. l ei , The prisoner, in extenuation, pleaded great povertersoss; tress, and his having lived four years in the prosecutrit vio Mr. JARDINE said he could not help that • these rre esei robberies were getting of very frequent, nay, that; occ u bes a and the only way to put estop to them was by sending trial.—The prisoner was fully committed to take his trio MARLBOROUGH-STREET. . v O4 ASSAULTING THE POLICE.-11r. William Clarke , - d o r man of fashionable appearance, and who carries on an o rt' sive business as a herald chaser and embosser, living io; o issif street, Goldee-square, with his wife, a delicate, pretty u ei woman, were placed at the bar, charged with committinf 0 of lent assault upon four police-constables in the exe cu u l' a rrO l o( their duty. It appeared that some altercation 0c.,81, between the male defendant and police-constable No• •10 the C division, about two yesterday morning, oppositLasitti residence of the former, and a scuffle ensuing, the d family who had been aroused by the contention cotp melee amongst the complainant and three other p oi athti° stables who came to his assistance. The female delete titl e . her energetic defence of her better half, actually for .4 4 ,Seo t . keeping at • bay three of the police, left c y s lio ) marks of a brass-candlestick on their heads and faces she would do on the part of her lord and master. . se tr . Mr. .NIALTEY—It is a foolish affair altogether ; but os. Sault upon the police is proved, and therefore I shall ti ne o r It' Clark 300., or 14 days imprisonment ; and his wife 10 ' ' days' imprisonment.—The fines were immediately pelt' UNA O.:Vet/ALL. O ccrs r Two medical students, who gave their names se w ise' .ce and Clbirles Butler, w ale charged with creatin g a di3tite O ld ' and breaking the windows in a gentleman's h o use Kent-road, and assaulting the constable while in the e- of his uty. .10 3 ° - re 1 Polic d e-constable 2.56 P, stated that the prisoners e t j sts at and making a disturbance at a house in the Ken=s e° :i s tV oo 2 o'clock en Monday night. Saw Wilson break two u sly, when he went up to him to take him into cu s s rete is doing which Butler struck him, and attempted i t e y, s te he Wilson; he sprang his raAle, and another consta b se , his assistance, and took them both to the statien-esni the. ra ' gentleman whose windows were broken is a friend and will not attend. e r „ t y Mr. Teaser. fined them 20s. each for the asta u n,:elt tiered them to enter into their own recognizances t° peace. WORSHIP-STREET. James Parker, a young man of shabby-genteel all th ti's I who stated himself to be an accountant, was cha' en tsV u f ing obtained, hy'means of false and fraudulent reev e 5 irs ids ti a great number of printed books from di ff erent to libraries. a t s he d • es f. It appeared that Hayward, a police-constable , s ul the Court, was sent for to the house of Mr. Va u- l i e 1 ", 0 1 , 3 agent, &c., in Union-street, Spitalfields, wher e suc ing s ,so the prisoner, whom Mr. Vane. charged with' h u'ost him a quantity of books, which he suspecte d „ stolen.. Mr. Vain delivered to the officer betsve e tt - eie v b br e e three dozen volumes of novels and romance; „es t op er prisoner had sold to him, and amongst the euesbeeti`e volumes of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," whisk; Doe' re r, had just offered for sale. The prisoner said that i" t t e a r longed to his father, who lived at Roehampton, b u s t eld r os , ing him Hayward found in his pocket the prin t 7, s iee s a to Mr. Draper, the owner of a librar at Stoke IN fot t t ,fste whom the three volumes " Jack y Sheppard" v ler i,ser a sect' belong, the prisoner having obtained them only' a l he . , his apprehension upon the false representation tiara h er; i i se sent for them by Mi. Thrapson, a subscriber to tb o ot fa dice• In his defence the prisoner repeated the state fee b nest, made to the officer, that the books were the prerft)lToed')sis out The Magistrate remanded the prisoner until be when it is expected that several cases wil l against him. %colt' I , s e me j s t EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMAN C E Or I)l% pe r soft na silli.—Yesterday morning divine service oa t ' itn ie w re= the Institution of the Refuge for the Adult p D ert , rs e ko s e c d ° o v : tr i r t h i it Dumb, in Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. 1 " - n si '°` • es 11 was composed chiefly of deaf and dumb the first attempt at instructing in scr iptur 3 cor ateu. e se public worship that class of the suffering of esasi ti r e 101' bowing under the deprivation of the senses „ e a io cen e speaking ever made. The service was cond o s t i n g =j,if 1 ss lowing manner, and presented a most inte re erfoille eb icll Mr. Rosser, a deaf and cumb gentlemen! P se rsic e r ' u pisli t i . may be so termed, selections from the morninto t he was done by making signs with his fingers, ro o'l he eds with which he did it was wonderful. The Is s w ° a 14 .3 ' ma rl delivered entirely by pantomimical gestures , the e mu Afte r , but coo' tiful specimen of expressive silence. service Mr. J. G. Simper's delivered a 5b.7.1 it Zesr. o sg , discourse from the 35th chapter of Isaiahciii.ow of veyed to his audience through the o c reSe sr hi s lie slowly proceeded, by Miss Janet Crouc h, eet wht ws as telligent little girl, only eight years of !Es t e the 5 7,ete i ti'l lt neither deaf nor dumb, is as conversant " he of t— ,b. 3 oldest of the adult deaf and dumb meow,, e 4 she v °- At i " by The rapidity of the child's motions, by u s s nisbi ri g ask , ' discourse delivered by Mr. Simpson, sval wer o j es ,te conclusion of the discourse the deaf and er eeetlY sing u t the same medium of signs whether that . ..P o/ std. de d by what hod been delivered, to which theY, t 7:, exP u s n service `hl lar spectacle of the holy Scriptures he a l e . Isart!et 0 was altogether of a most impressive set o r t isution n l ti aatioS' tr be continued fur the present at the is is e° th i s See"' it buildings every Sunday morning. I t suion with) o f Ill' utß eo have a regtear place of worship in cenn e ` sory m er u a r t t of ' inhst r p d a s b . bi r ese e o . for the deaf' and dumb portion of the is estimated there are in London alone,. ben efits t ime will thus be establed to participate in rhea u p to thi s ing of the Gospel, from which they ha v debarred. t,s BIRTH 'c uunte ;,, of 4 t+ °° ' On the 16th inst., in s=aran - place'' the " Vow, a dJ of a daughter, still born. eroshire, Mr!' er , c ol, th e On the 12th inst., at Aileen. l' .. htil, near LIT r Alf the 14th inst., i t daughter. of John Bentley, r. c org of On the 16th inst., the lady llr, of ont r l e l d e IS6mthithin,iEt.s,q,.%,irof. sAtilfarues,doiliearii, lady Of scent , the wire On lie 16;h inst., in Park- wi n gton, Robins, of a son. s quare House, Lancashire, of a daughter. the Eit ° the Rev. J. C. Burns, ofta c hu g lady lady of eau ,..htere• On the 2 ith ult., at H or ruetes trr.to f twin 0 n the 17th inst., in Gibson:ter. Esq., eltio-t son of Sir C. Elton, 11 b on e , mar 0 = of Donght:s.qs.t,reoef tn, lei s /1/.4.1i11/Epti . 141, Edward e r; sou -- e' t Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, to Eninni,a,m, Samuel felt, On Dunstan plate PneY' daughter of • On the 16th inst., at Massie a est eu ß tr a 6 i. st h k . Essex, to daug hter gthur H. tt, of at ing. of Richard Levett, of On Sir John rig , t es On aura 1 , ; 111- 1 1e r ei i.. 7. / 1 , ht . 'h i , tr. inst ., y : rd AL u j n iitl t tao L n" , ,. C NCV . he rs 3r . rdi B eu part. • On the 12th ult., at G u ernsy, tert aged 89. , Freda At Highgate-rise, Mr. T .... ._Nf u r as„, 'D evo nshire Native Infantry. of the 20th Regiment Bombay F°Ownke'thEesql.s'tsholiincistt::,in son Captain il Canes o.ng -s e -r1 On On tthheel4lt2hthinisnt:',t.a't t s Guernsey, a-e( -se4v.i.s.'er-street, pin 1 1 P _ • Londen: Printed an d Published` by MURDO ()( ti • 11.., St r and, at Th ta e S.. No. 11'2 Stroo- the County Qf Middlesex, Virqdflefrtlay , April 20, 164%. 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