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M. A z‘tado received a payml of nobility , frora_Fercitnatitt Under the title of A.larquis de . He was a 'great lover of the fine arts, and his gallery of pictures contained some excellent: Adur:llos he posses.sed also in his collection Canova's celebrated st2.ttie of the Magdalen, wh:ch he pur chased for 3,500/. His inanensc property, said to amount to 50,000,000 of francs, acquit ed by speculations in the funds since 1623, remains to be divided among his widow and three sons: _ _ . The eldest ofM. A guado's sons, aged 28, is married to a daugh ter of Al:. Macdonald, an English Gentleman, who was Consul- General, upon which be gave up his commission in a cavalry regiment, and entered diplomacy; became attached to the Em f`asq at Vienna, and is at present a member of the Legation at Florence. The two younger sons of the late Marquis, one seventeen and the other fourteen years old, are pursuing their •studies at the College Bourbon. M. Ageado was a native of Spain, but became a naturalised Frenchman and colonel in the army, in which capacity he returned after the Spanish war in Mute. Aguado is . a. Spanish lady. A part of the Mar quis's suite, with his equipagp, arrived at Borcicauxon Tuesday 'CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA. . , "We have received a letter from Colonel Ed . 'vard Nicholls, late Governor of :Fernando Po, eo this subject, for the whole of which we are t!u to Lind room, but must content ourselves with briefly adverting to some of the facts and 1. - ottotents Ls,- Which he enforces the policy of immediately taking- sonic steps to promote the growth of cotton in our own territory, India, in order to be provided for the possible failure of supply from the Artier-lc:in market by th e ex _ tioetion or slavery or other causes. Colonel Niel:oils commences by stating., that from recent accounts received from India, a full supply of cotton of the kind most in demand in this country, and AVhieti is now obtained from the slave States of North America, may, in the course of a few seasons, be raised from our own territory in India at a cost greatly below that of American cotton. It may be easily accomplished by one or more tvell-Conducted joint-stock corn p.:nies of British capitalists. He observes, that • cfperiments have been for some time past )naking by American planterS in various parts of under the direction of East India Com pany, to ascertain how far it is possible to pro - vide this country with cotton of Indian growth ensited to our .manufactures; and that some of experiments have proved eminently sue -cossful: He quotes, in confirmation of this state meat, a letter written by one of these American planters to Dr. Spry, Secretary to the Agricul tural Society in India, to whom he forwarded , sereral, specimens of' the cotton grown. The „writer •stated, amongst other things, that a sup ply of cotton of which specimens were sent, or even ea better quality, can be produced in that eountry' (India) in an ordinary season, for the whole of Europe; that from what he had seen - that season, the American, and even thenative cotton, cultivated upon the new plan s will give a profitable investment, and that by cultivation and gradual admixture of the indigenous with the American cotton the staple will becOme fine, and, without partaking- of the delicacy of a foreign and tmacclimated plant, retain its na tive hardness. This planter, however, in common With the others, loudly complains or the difficnlties they have had to encounter, in consequence of the neglect and indifference of the' Government agents, whose duty it was to render them every facility. Oar correspondent remarks, after giving 14,onie more, quotations Iron: the le t nlluded ''The evidence adduced in the minute of Lord Auckland, under date August 12, 1839, affords sattondant proof' dint, without any improvement iu he cultivation, it' due attention were. paid to the gathering, cleaning, and packing of the cot- Aopoow grown, it would meet a very ready sale at a much higher price than it now commands ti this market. To effect this, however, to any e . xteut, a complete change in the pra c ti c e now i n fore.. 7, is requisite. By the introduction of a new and improved system, the numerous unnecessary Virarges and fraudulent deteriorations to which the staple is now subjected by the banyatel t ind intermediate agen ts, brokers ; and dealers, through rhose hands it now passes, would be prevented." then makes some further observations for the entrpose of. showing the importance of' this eultimtion of cotton, both in a commercial and a political point of view, and states that Lord Eller - thorough, the new Governor-General, as well as the India Board at home, are deeply in terested in this subject, and are fully disposed to live every possible kcility to any well-devised ifntnets, having for their object the supply of the British markets with East India cotton, in lieu that now brought from America; the Colonel atOrming, that the East India cotton may be im ioirtcd at an immense reduction upon American prieeFt", ile,nyotleeds strenuously to insist upon the ex . pedieney of carrying out this great scheme. • lit' remarks, that we are now dependent upon a threil. - m,,and, is many respects, a rival nation, for toe supply, to the extent Qf nearly 14,000,0001. sterling annually, of a raw material which em ploys in its manufacture '2,000,000 of our popula (ion, and which, . whoa .fabrieate:), is, perhaps, Alex t to food, the first necest; kry of life ; this, - zoo, whilst we have The means of: raising it on ear own territory. lie also lays particular stress upon the ,fenrful consequences that might, nod probably would occur in ;our manufacturing dis tricts, in the event either of a general rising of lie slaves in the southern states of the North A inerican .union, or of a rupture between the ( . 4overnments -of Great Britain and the United I :states'; . the latter contingency, however, is not sor the prosent, we think, likely to occur, unless some unforeseen cause of dispute should unhap pily arise. Colonel Nicholls strengthens this position of his argument, by setting forth the :advantages to he obtained by opening fresh sources of employment to the tens of thousands of our fellow-subjects in India, who are now in irlieness and praying for employment, having twen robbed by our new and improved machinery of their silk and cotton manufactures. • One of the strongest points in the letter is the following. He observes that "it is too well known and felt by all, that America is gradually rivalling us in manufactures, and in none more so than in cotton, fkibric.." He continues by enu merating the various advantages possessed by America over this country, as regards the cot ton manufactnre. The Americans iwork by water-power, whereas we employ steam, which costs fuel. They grow their raw material, Whereas we are compelled to convey it across the Atltuitic, Subject to heavy freights, a great succession of profits, and a fiscal charge; and hence, from these, and a variety of other causes, in all articles Avliere the value of the raw material e!tceeds that of the workmanship, the American goods are driving- the British out of the market, not only in the. United States, but in other foreign countries. " With such a prospect before us," oir.or-..es Colonel Nicholls," is it not time that Ive-began'to'seek other inarkets for our fabrics') Asnl fo'whitt'quarter can we turn with such a•cer- tainty of beneficial results as to the millions of our fellow-subjects in the East? By taking from them the raw material we shall be placing them in:a condition to become consumers to an equal extent of our manufactured productions, and thus be conferring inestimable benefits on both coun triax.'7 fie farther states that. the importation front India of the raw cotton would give freight to. at least ;300,000 tons of _British shipping. ein conclusion, he shows the great importance ofaiiiis subject in its bearing- upon the slave Clues tion,•hut our spaC e w ill not allow us to give any detailed:'re.mute of his arguments. He observes, titatltheigreater proportion of the slaves in the Upited - Scates are engaged in the culture of cot tomond that. nothincr, is so likely to effect the extinct ,a of this slaVery—so obnoxious to all true philanthropists. —as tlie employment of Bri tkAiokillvanti, capital in raising cotton by free labonr.iu ouriown possessions in India, and thus 4-rradually superseding the demand upon America, iszvliicli the mainstay of slavery. 81.ich are the principal points cwained in this letter, and we cannot but think that, at the pre t4ent moment especially they are w e ll wor th y o f public attention. CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL JUS. TICE IN FRANCE. The Monitor)• contains the report of the Minister of Justice to the King, on the state of civil and commercial justice in Fringe for the year 1840. It occupies nearly twelve columns ~-,f that Journal. The following resume, however, embraces all that it contains of general interest. The first portion of the re :Fort relates to the Court of Cassation. It states that the num ber of new appeals to this tunreme Court, in 1840, was 549, • viiiirli was about the same as in 1839, but very inferior to that of preceding years, and the Alinister announces that it had been for some years gradually decreasing, which he ascribes tea a riinre pafeet comprehension and more perfect application of the law by. the other Courts of Justice. The report next proceeds to the Gn u ., u •Aoyates. 1 t app ears th at th e num b er of ou , es insc r l o ;' i 17 bed in these C ourts throughout tha kingdom in 1840 wa S Ing 57S less than in 1839. The muraber of undecided c0i.;03 standing over from 1839 wa s 6 , 936 ; of the total number 11,539 were decided upon in 1641 , , , 5 , th a t the number standing over at the end of that 1840, year was ,- ,..l6than less at the end of the y ear 1 839. Of the t 11,539 causes 864; had been entered on the re ! tried at . for more than, two year • • 3 •i -mist•-y of the C o urt . . , • ~.34 from one ‘.. '" . . (-41 from six month s to on., to two years; , 3, 1.... inl 9 169 . " r ; "23 from throe ,tort titix months ; a —, . were decided upon 'within a pett ' f three oriths from the time of th e i r b eing oc 1( i In• .1. • ' als fr om le civiltribunals, 4,671 inscribed. On 6,778.app4 ,„ , d of 1,6 3 4 a?peals from coin judgments were eotitirmed; an confirmed as inertial tribunali,' ilie nutiber of Judgmentliedeither 'l.--- i,158; the rest in both' caßei were gum wholly ,t, s entered for trial be partially. . - The number of new cause . 051, being exactly fore, ,the ,civil tribunals in 1840, was 123, . . years preceding 1,000 more, than the. average of the three ' 18.19,.., and 5,r. - 4 more than in the year 18:.).9 taken alone. r , To these' 12:i,051' new causes we re added, •10,'•19 standing' sever frOm 1839. Of the wh o le nu m b er 135,119 The of were tried, ' leaving a much smaller arrear than i n 1839. p time during which ' the causes had been inscribed is stated as follows for 125,205 only, the returns being clearly made out only for that number .-47,450 were tried within three raouths .22,409 within from three to six months; 31,619 from six to twelve months; 16,783 within two years; and 6,554 after the 'lapse of more than two years. 743 of the suits were for separation de corps by married persons, and 3,642 for separation of property. Of the 743 suits for sepa ration de corps, 642 were granted, and 3,589 for separation of property. The number of suits for interdiction. in cases of insanity or imbecility was 598. The number of causes before the tribunals of commerce in 1840 was 170,323, of which 5,828 were standing over from 1839. Th:. decisions in 1840 amounted to 164,190, leaving 6,135 undecided. Of the 16;190 causes 41,864 were tried by the tribunal of the Seine ; 7,3 4 0 by toe 'tribunal of Lyons; 4,225 by that of Rouen ; 4,197 by that of Bordeaux ; 2,478 by that of Marseilles, and 2,363 by the Tribunal of Toutouse. The number of appeals from deci sions of the Commercial Tribunals was only crie in 76. The report states that the number of declared commercial failure! in 1840 was 2,618 ; whereas the annual average from 1817 to 1826. as stated in a general return in 1831, was only 1,227 ; of 1,526 failures declared in 1840, and of which the amounts could be clearly ascertained, 114 were under 5,000 f. ; 287 under 10,000 f.; 914 under 50,000 E; 9 51 under 100,000 E ; and 260 above 100,000 f. The taal amount of debts in these failures was 123,194,066 f., being an average of 67,477 f. for each. The n um b er o f causes b rought before the 2,846 juges de paix of the kingdom was 904,219, to which were added 6,221 standing over from 1839 ; 901,089 were decided upon in 1840, and 9,351 were left standing over. PARLI.kMEN'I'ARY DIVISION. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons.) TUESDAY, APRIL 2S. ' REAL ESTATES. DIVISION on. Mr. HOWARD ELPHINSTONE'S MOTION. MINORITY—AYES, 77. Forster, Matthew humbokl, C. E. Fox, Charles Richard 'Rundle, John • Gill. Thomas Rather/tin], A. Granger, T. C. Sclioletierd, .1. Hall, Sir B. Smith, nenjamin Hatton, Captain V, Stansfield, It. Heathcoat, John Stewart, M. Humphery, J. Strutt, Edward Hutt, W. Swart, Lord J. Jardine, William 'Pancred, H. W. Jervis, J. Thornely, Thomas Leader, J. T. Tuite, H. M. Marjoribanks, S. Turner, E. Marshall, %V. Villiers, Charles P. Martin. John I Waklcy, Thomas Mitcalfe, Henry Wallace, R. Murphy, F. S. Ward, H. G. Napier, Sir Charles Wawu, John T. O'Brien, J. Williams, Wm. Ogle, S. C. H. Whittington, Sir 1 Paget, Lord Alfred Wool, Benjamin Parker, John Wood, G. W. Pechell, Captain Yorke, H. Redhead Philips, Mark Plurnridge, Captain Rice, E. B. Roebuck, J. A. Aliam, William darnard„ E. G. Bernal, Captain Blewitt, Reginald Bowring, Or. Brockleimrst, J. Brodie, W. IS. Brutherton, J. Browne, W. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. W. Busfeiln, W. Chapman, Benjamin Cnritiie, W. D. Clay, Sirie. Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Crawford, W. S. I)almeny, Lord Dawson, lion. T. V. Duke, Sir James Duncan, George Duncombe, T. S. R!. Hon. E. Ellice, E. Ellis, Wynn Evans, AN illiam:: Ewart, W. lieklen, J. TELLERS. Elph in stone, Howard Hume, Josep:a MAJORITY—NOES, A'Coutt, Captain I East, James Buller Acton, Colonel " , Eaton, Richard J. Adrierley, C. B. Egerton, W , T. Ainsworth, Peter ; Eliot, Lord ♦ltord, Viscount Emlyn, Viscount Arbuthnot, Hon. 11.1 Escott, Bichkain Arkwright, George I F.stcoutt, T. G. B. • Bailey, J. Farnham, E. B. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Fellowes, Edward liaillie, Colonel Filiner, Sir E. Baillie, H. J. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Bankes, George Follett, Sir W. W. Baldwin, C. Barry Forbes, William Baring, W. B. Fuller, A. E. raring,,F. T. Ga'kell, J. ill. Barneby, John Gladstone, W. E. Barrington, Lord Godson, Richard Baskerville, 'l'. B. M. Gordon, Hon. W. Beckett, William Gore, Montague Bell, B. Gore, \V 0. Bell, John Gore, W. It. 0. Berestord, Captain j Goring, H. 1). Berestbrd, Major I Goulburn, H. Bernard, Viscount Graham, Sir J. Blackburn, John 1. Granby, Marquis Blakemore, It. Greene, T. G. Boditin, W. H. Grogan, Edward lii,ldero, Henry G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Borth wick, Peter Halthrti, H. ‘lettield, Beriah Hamilton, James brainston, 'l'. W. Hamilton, Lord C. Droadley, Henry Ham , den, Berm Brooke, Sir A. B. Harcourt, G. G. Bruce, Lord E. Hardinge, Sir H. Bruce, C. L. . Hardy, John Buck, Lewis W. Heathcoie, G. J. ; , nckley, Edmund Henley, J. W. Buller, E. Hepburn, Sir T. B. , '.filer, Sir J. B. V. Herbeit, Hon. S. smarmy, Thomas Hillsborough, Earl o: Burrell. Sir C. M. Itod : 4sori, It. Burroughes, N. N. Hope, Charlei Campbell, A. Hornby, John Cardwell, trlward Howard, I'. H. Carnegie, Captain ~,,,, , ea. Lord Cavendish, Hon. G. Inglis, Sir H. H. Chelsea, Viscount Jackson, J. D. Chetwode, Sir John James, Sir Walter Chohnondeley, H. Jetlayn, Ear: Christmas, William Jocelyn, Viscount Christopher, It. A. Johnson, W. G. Chute, W. L. Johnstone, Hope t layton, It. R. Jones, 'l'. Clements, H. J. Itelburne, Lord Clank, Sir G. Knatchbull, Sir E. Clive, E. B. Labouchere, H. C.ive, R. H. . Lascelles, W. S. Cockburn, Sir G. Law, Hon. C. E. Collett, W. Iticlabrd Lawson, Andrew Colville, C. It Lefroy, Anthony Connolly, Colonel Legh, George C. Coote, Sir C. H. Lithisll, H. 'l'. Corry, H. L. Lincoln, Earl of Cripps, J. Lockhart, William Dalry►nple, Captain Long, Walter Darner, Hon. Dawson Looes, Sir Ralph Darby, George Lowther, Colonel Denison, E. Beckett Lygon. General Dickinson. F. 11. Mackenzie, Thomas Douglas, Sir C. E. Mackenzie, W. F. Douglas, J. D. S. MacGeachy, F. A. Douro, Marquis of Mahon, Lord Drummond, H. H, Mainwaring, T buncombe, A. Marsham, Viscount Du Pre, George Martin, C. W. 221. Marton, G. R. Master, T. W. C. Masterroan, John Meynell, 11. ?tiles, P. W. S. Miles, W. M:rdaunt, Sir J. Mundy, E. Miller Murray, C. It. S. Murray, A. Neeld, Joseph Newport, Vi count Nichol!, J. Norreys, Lord Paget, Lord W. Pakington, John S. I'almer, R. Patten, John Wilson Peel, Sir It. • Pemberton, T. Pigot, Sir R. Planta, J. Hut:mire, J. P. Pollock, Sir Praed, W. T. Pringle, A. I'usev, Philip Itashieigh, William Reade ' W. M. Reid, Sir J. rt. Ili harts, Richard )(pee, Sir George Round, C. G. itushbrooke, Colone Russell, Lord John Sanderson, R. Scarlett, lion R. Seymour, Sir H. B. Sheppard, Thomas Shirley, Evelyn J. Sibt burp, Colonel Smith, Abel Smith, Ve non Smollett, A Somerset, Lord G. Sotheron, T. H. Stanley, Lord Stanley, W 0. Stock, Dr. Stuart, H. Strut, Fl. C. Sutton, Henry M 'ferment, J. E. Th!.rnhill, George Tollernache, John Towline, George Trench, Sir Frederic), Trotter, John Tumor, Christopher Tyrrell, Sir J. Vane, Lord Harry Vere, Sir C. B. Vivian Hon. Ca!:tain Welby, G. carle Williams, T. P. Wood, Colonel lVood, Colonel T. Wortley, J. s.tuart Wyndham, Colonel Yorke, Hon. E. T. Young, John TELLEVP. Fremantle. Sir T. I Baring, H B. DISTURBANCE AT DUDLEY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Du DLEY, APRIL 26.—The disturbance in this town has not subsided. Thousands of the poor callers still continue to pa rade the streets. A body of police. from Birmingham, amount ing to about one hundred, arrived last night, and this day troops of Yeomanry from the Staffordshire, Worcestershire, arid Him ley corps have sueccs,ively entered the place. I understand that the agitation extends to Cradley, Bromsgrove, and Droit with, and that detachments of military have been sent to all these paces. Indeed, should the colliers " turn out," be rather be turned out, there will not be found troops enough in the country to pacify the timid, who fear that the famishing condition of the people will drive the.n to excesses. lam in formed that a conference did take place yestet day between some of the nailers and their employers, though your Corre spondent of yesterday ap- t ears not t o have known this fact. The deputation entered the principal hotel, after which it was rumoured that they were detained as ringleaders by the Ma gistrates. The rumour was not true, but the belief in it caused a rush from the multitude towards the gates of the hotel. A body of specials" sallied out and took a number of the people prisoners, of whom about twelve have been this day committed. When are our rulers to pay attention to the condition of England question? What, to men having the interests of the country at heart, would be the importance of war in India or China, in comparison with this? I have this moment learned that a troop or artillery are expected in to .night. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Tuesday night Madame Frezzolini Poggi made herapi,;arance at this theatre in Bellini's opera of Beatrice di Tenda. This lady, who for some years has been the reigning prima donna of Italy, does not come to us with all her professional honours fresh upon her, or quite dans sa premiere jeunesse. She is, however, in the full maturity of her powers, both as a vocalist and actress, and may justly rank amongst the ornaments of the stage. Her figure is rather above the middle height, and graceful ; her physiognomy combining, in an oval contour, eyes large and dark, a delicately formed nose, in the slightest degree aquilit.e, lips in harmony, and a pale olive complexion has every faculty for the pre possessing indic•ition of expression. Madame Frezzolini's voice is of very agreeable quality, taking something of a middle place between that of Persiani and Grisi, with more of tone than the former, less of power than the latter. In brilliancy of execu tion it has not been as freely gifted by nature or accomplished by art as either. It is, however, essentially melodious. Mad. Free zolini is also an actress of considerable power, but it must be said that her style is strongly, obviously tit. ctured with the artificial, and thus Rot a little enfeebled. She was received with much warmth on her tirst appearance, and went through the scena " Respiro io que" with much feeling. Her con_ eluding scena, " Ah ! se un urns," with its two contrasted movements, was executed by her with a degree of spirit and delicacy that made it quite a crowning display, and won a most zealous recognition of its impression. On the fall of the curtain, Madame Frezzolini had to come forth and ..ceeive the usual tribute to which favourites on these boards are so familiar. Signor Ronconi took the part of Filippo, and personated the character with much e►tergy, if but little elegance. The house was crowded. Her Majesty, els Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, occupied the loyal box. We extract the following from a letter from Oran, April 11, in the Constitutionnel :—" In the late combat with General Bedew:, Abd-el-Kader commanded about 5,000 men, and had under his orders a chief renowned for his talents and bravery, named Abdallah-Ben-Semoun. This man, who is a native of Fez,*received larg.: sums from Abdul-Kader for join ing his party, as the Emir hoped by his means to effect a rising in the west. The brave conduct of the French troops put a atop to all these plans, and Abdallah-Ben-Sernoun de. termined on retiring. He could riot, however, make up his mind to depart without committing some robberies. He passed over to the Beni-Hourni and the Ouad-Thaia, at the extreme frontier, and pillages! those unfortunate tribes too weak to offer him resistance. General Bedeau is now in pursuit of these bands. Should our Government send to Sultan Muley-Abder- Haman to complain of the conduct of his subjects, the fact of these troops being inhabitants of the territory ot Morocco will be denied. The chief, who commanded the K'abyles of Morocco, not showing any distinctive mark of his country, it will be no easy matter to prove the fact of his being a subject of Morocco. But this is no new case. In 1836, just before the combat of the Tarna, Abd-el•Kader was wandering about with 50 horse men, apparently abandoned by the tribes, when on a sudden he made his appearance with 12,000 men, and forced back Gen. Darlan.e with the loss of the tenth part'ef our troops. Hoer did the Emir procure these troops? We learnt how after the battle, far the men lying dead were nearly all from Morocco, and the cartridges were all of English make. If on the late occasion General Bedeau had been repulsed like General Dar lange, the consequences might have been disastrous, for the conquest of the country, although far advanced, will not be definitive until the last shot shall have been fired. A single re verse on our side would be qua° sufficient to re-establish the fortunes of the Emir. If we were satisfied in 1836 with the excuses made by Morocco, shall we be equally so in 1812? The array hopes the contrary:: 61.1A - NITE. The beautiful light tint and fine tex ture of the granite of Dartmoor, and the almost unlimited size of the blocks in which it is procurable, together with the ft ! edifies which exist for procuring and transporting it, are ritpidly bringing granite into use in the place of stone of inferior qualities. The ease with which the Fogginton p. , ,rznite may be worked, and .the magnitude arid regularity of form of the blocks in u hich it is detached in the quarry, together with the economy of its transit, often obtain fur it a preference to Scotch granite, which had hitherto almost commanded the market. The western face of London-bridge is of Dartmoor, and the eastern face of Scotch, granite. Fine specimens of the firmer are to he found in the basements of several importa'tt public buildings an London erected of late years; it is employed in the new buildings of the Fire-offices nowt in progress near the Bank of England, and we understand that some of the 7anlte required at the Royal Exchange is .11.16 'supplied from the Fogginton quarry. The pedestal ot' the NelSbn column in Trafalgar-square, is built of Fogginton granite, and the whole of the strueture is to he of the same material. The slowness of progress of this column, of which we hail thought the public had reason to compl ain, _ Was occasioned by a strike of the quarry maso n s in London against the eminent contractors who are engaged in the a r it material na pedestal,teriaw execution o f t h e work; but this has now been obviated. The san f by illforrn the statue of King William the Fourth n about to be erected i t n h t e he yo c u i r t ig y. and fast-rising sculpt or, N ixon, 110 • Scarcely has it fallen to our lot to record the departure from this busy' scene of affairs of Senor Aguado, the celebrated ' fitian cer of Spain, than the decease of M. Humann, who was equally wdi known as the chief actor iii a similar sphere in France, compels us to repeat the melancholy intelligence. M.- Humann was born in Alsace, which, at the time of his birth, was accounted a province of the empire, but by the recent division has been • split into two departments. M. Humann passed his early da)s on the banks of the Rhine, which traverses that country, and occasionally made visits to the borders of Switzerland and Lorraine. A spirit of traffic and travel seems early to have inspired him, and leaving the corn and tobacco- ' rowing districts of his native place, he proceeded at once t o t h e capital of France to exercise his talents as a me. chant. He soon became the master of a large mercantile depot, which, while it advanced his pecuniary interests, tended also to bring out, by the nature of its affairs, the quick and stirring abilities requisite for a creditable accountant and negotiator. By a variety of circumstances, M. Humann formed for him self a large aNuaintance with the" Ministerial men of the day. His talents as an able financier because more and more ac kaowledged, in the advice and guidance which he not unfre quently rendered them ; and finally he himself had the ambition to aspire to, and at length to gain, a seat in the Cabinet in this capacity. •I'he uniettled state of affairs in France towards the eose of the year 18:32, and •the Inistile discussions in the Chambers, caused at length a change of Ministry, which ended in the entry into office on the I lth of October, of the first 'niers Ministry, and of which M. Humann wa's first appointed Minister of Finance ; and his tables and treasury accounts on this oceasion, and on all hands, were allowed t o be ably and satisfactorily drawn up. In the same capacity, M. Trumann continued to appear in the Cabinet of the 25th of December, and in that of the 4th of April, during the Ministry of 1834. It was on one of these occasions, when great changes were about to be introduced as regarded the economy of the nation, that his usual silence gave nay to an excellent display: of 9pitech. He had laid the ex penses of the budget on the table, Which had been prepared by commissioa, and expressed his conviction, that in the actual state of things it was impossible to suppress more than ten mil lions of francs of the budget; and after commenting on the possibili:y of change, added " Yes, gentlemen, cue could say in 1789, when it was neces sary to destroy the feudal edifice ; one could say in 1800, when it was necessary with the ruins of the feudal edifice to construct a modern edifice ; and one could say daily with ease, we must change these systems.' But to-day, after so many wars. after the Revolution, after Napoleon, after five years of representative Government, it is iniquitous and absurd to think of further change of system. Isio, gentlemen, our Constitution is at present formed, and our labour must be to perfect its structure, and it is for this, that, after months of labour, a con.mission of conscientious men, working under my superintendence, have found it neither possible nor advisable, to economise at the ut most more than ten millions of francs." The measure which brought M. Humann as a financier most before the publ c, was that which occurred in the January of 1836, when the violent agitation in the Cabinet, which his measures produced, brought on some very decisive effects : On the 14th of that month, M. Huniann made his annual statement of the national accounts, and in doing so, though he did not propose any measure, he expressed a strong opinion in favour of reducing the Five per Cents. to a Four per Cent. Stock, by paying off those •who might dissent from the reduc tion, and he considered it a favourable opportunity and time for so doing. The economical results of the plan were at least palpable,, but hie, opponents urged against it considerations which, though in a certain degree descrying of attention, were perhaps such as should not be allowed to predominate over the • gre tt interests of the country. This expression of opinion gave great offence to the Prime Minister and to some others of 2.1 . Humann's colleagues. Ministers knew that the Five per Cent. Stock was princi pally for investments ; its holders were almost all to be be found in Paris, in the class of shopkeepers and others who formed the National Guard. There w as a strong disinclination, • therefore, in the M nistry, to do anything which, by touching the pockets, might cool the patriotism of that numerous and important class. It had been agreed in the Cabinet that no plan for the conversion should be proposed; but M. Humann, who on every occasion had openly declared in the Chamber the propriety and urgency of the measure, thought himself bound to state now that his views had undergone no change. The President of the Council, hewever, and the majority of his colleagues blamed him highly for having gone so far in mating his opinion, without having previously informed theni of his intention. M. Humane, hereupon, immediately tendered his resignation, which was accepted, and on the 18th of January, Count d'Argout was named Al inister of Finance in his place. But further explanati,ns regarding this occurrence were called for in the Chamber of Deputies, and this measure did not merely turn out a finance. Minister, but immediately gave .1.1. Humana ample revenge by turning out the whole Cabinet. The proposal was too reasonable and useful rot to be a general favourite. A hot debate of : two days ensued, and on a division of the Chamfer the Government was left its a minority of two, 192 Members having voted for adjourning the ques tion, and 194 aga i nst it. All the Ministers immediately repaired to the 'Tuiler ies and placed their resignations it: the hands of the King. On the f o r ma ti on o f a new Ministry Count d'Argoutstillcontinued Finance Minister. A long black of tire years then occurs, in which he was totally out of office, till the 29th of October, 1840, when he came in with the new Administration. By the above enumeration, therefore, it tell appear that M. Humana has been Minister of Finance in seven Cabinets out of the nineteen which have been formed and dissolved since 1830. M. Humann's sup,,ort of the pretensions of the French Poe office, brought hint within thew few days prominently before the public. Two successors are spoken of in his place, Al. Lacave Laplagne, and M. Duchatel. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 6.—The last ten days have been devoid of any political novelty, the Paella remaining still in the Delta. The following proclamation was published on the 30th ult. : " The public is desired to take note of the following para graph of a letter addressed to the undersigned by Koster Ef fendi, second secretary and intcrpre:er of his Highness the Viceroy, on date of 2d Soler, 12.58 (March 14, 1842 ). " His Highness the Viceroy enchaxges your 'Excellency to repeat to the merchants what he himself has already, on inure than one occasion, told them verbally, that no attention will be paid, nor any note taken of any complaints or protests which might in future be made fur the recovery of disbursements made to account of purchases of produce, if such produce shall nut have been first duly weighed or measured. (Signed) . "BOGHOS JOUSSOUFF. Alexandria, March 30, 1812." This appears, at first bigot, a startling proposition, that in commercial relations with the natives, under the "free trade" system, no redress for claims against them will be redressed in the Turkish tribunals ; but, on the other hand, must be taken into consideration the peculiar tenure on which the Arab holds his lands, and their produce. The Pacha all along has warned Europeans, that, from the first proposal of establishing a free trade, they must not make advances to the Arab.. The ambi guous term, " duly weighed and measured," means, I think, merely that they must get positive possession of the produce they buy before they pay fur it, or make any payment to ac count of it. MALTA. MALTA, APRIL 15.—The Polyphemus left on the 11th inst. for Naples, conveying there the, distinguished Hindu°, the Dwarkanauth Tajore, on his way t o England. Whilst here this gentleman displayed his usual liberality in donations to the chari ties of the island ; he presented the infant school with eighty Spanish dollars. The Ottoman schooner GIN! Sofit left also far Tripoli on the llth inst. The Formidable will leave Gib ra on the arrival of the Belvidera. The Indus, the Lynx, and the Ithadamanthus were lying at Lisbon on the 21st ult. The ( Great) Liverpool arrived on the evening of the 12th instant, and awaits the Alecto from Alarseilles, before leaving for Alexandria. The Neapolitan steamer Francesco Imo arrived on the 13th instant, from Sicily and Naples, and returns to-day. The annual regatta begins on the 19th instant, and continues the two fo lowing (Lys. The petty officer of her Majesty's ship Cam bridge, who murdered the boy; and was condemned to be hung, is to go to England by the brig Weazle, which to sail in a few days. The sentence was to this effect—" To be hung on board her Majesty's ship Cawbridge, or one other ef Majesty's ships, at the pleasure of the Admiralty." . It is fer vently hoped that the good practice of making up mails by her Majesty's steamers of war will he continued. We cannot too much praise Sir Francis Mason for having afforded this facility to the commerce of the island. We hear that Sir Fiancit is to remain cn this station ant superintend all the dock-yard affairs, thus relieving the Commander-in-Chief of the more onerous duties. The Malta spring races terminated yesterday, and went off o ith great spirit. ARRIVALS OF SHIPS OF WAIL AND PACKETS.—ApriI 5, the French Government steamer Dante, Lieut. Pochet, from Guistantinople . 9 days, Smyrna 7, and Syra 4. April 7, her Majesty's steam-frigate Medea, Captain Warden, frum Athens 4 days. April 8, the French Government steamer Eurotas, Lieut. do Beaudean, from Marseilles 7 days, Leghorn 5, Civita Vecchia 4, and Naples 2. April 9, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Iberia, C. W. D. Evan!, from Corfu 3 days, Patras and Zante 2. April 12. the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Great Liverpool, C. A. M.Leod, from Falmouth lb days, Gibraltar 5. April 13, the Neapolitan steamer Francesco Imo, C. F. Miceli, from Napl es 8 days. Palermo 4, Trapa n i 2, and Girgenti I. April 14, the French Governwent steamer Leonidas, Lieut. Loring, from Constantinople 7 days, Smyrna 5, Syra 3. DEPARTIIIitr,7 OF Sutrs y or WAk AND PACKETS.—ApriIS, her Majesty's frigate Belvidere, Captain the Hon. G. Grey, for the coast of Spain. April 6, French Government steamer Sesostris, Lieutenant P. Cosnier, for Naples, Civita Vecchia, Leghorn and Marseilles; Ottoman B. schooner Glint Sofit, Captain Osman. for Tripoli; her Majesty's steamer Locust, Lieutenant J. Lunn, for Tripoli. April 8, French Govern ment steamer Eurotas, Lieutenant de Bcaudeau, fur the Le vant. April 11 ,her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, Lieutenant Evans, for Naples. Snirs IN Po itT. —Queen, 110 (bearing the flag of the Vice- Admiral of the Red, Sir E. W. Campbell Rich Owen, K.C.B. and G.C. H. ), Howe, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason, K. C.ll. ), Ceylon, 6 (bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart. ), Impregnable, 104, Rodney, 92, Vanguard, 84, 'fhundertr, 64, Calcutta, 84, Cambridge, 78, frigate Vernon, 50, corvette Scout, 18, brigs Weazle, 10. Savage, 10, surveying vessel Beacon, 8, cutter Magpie, 4, steam frigateMedea,,4, s t eamer o f war Devastation, steam packet Prometheus, Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Great Liverpool, French steam-packets Rhamses, Leonidas and Dante, Neap steamer Francesco Imo. • THE §LAVE TRADE. BREMEN, APRIL 19.—The Tribunal of the Ist instant, in the preeeeding4 against Captain Sudenburg, of the Bremen ship Julius and Edward, which, on its voyage from the Ha varmah to Cabonda, on the west coast of Africa, with a cargo taken on board at the fo - riner place, was captured by the EngLsh 13ritish cruizer Persian, commander Thomas Edward Symonds, 11:.s dreided that there were no sufficient grounds for the accusation against the Captain of being engaged in the slave trade, that ship and cargo shall be placed at the disposal of Captain Suderiburg, and has condemned Captain Symonds, in damages and ail the costs, the am mint of which is to be settled by the Court. A summons is to be issued requiring. Captain Symonds to appear and stare why the sentence should not be carried iftto effect; in deatult of which he wil he considered as de,eriing from all objections to the amount of damages and costs which will he awarded by the Court.— Fund, prg/t Curre,pondent. I.'r.e3day night a publie meeting was held at the Hol born Chapel-room, Holborn, when Dr. Baldaconi was in the Chair, and it was resolved, that the Catholic Institute for the Lincoln's Inn District should be re-organised. A petition was also signed for permission for Roman Catholic Ministers to visit prisoners and persons in Union-Aorkhouses, the Army and Navy, and the Military and Naval Schools. We must, it seems, swallow the Income-tax of the quack doctor., . How it, will sit on the stomach of the nation remains to be proved. We predict that. it will not be found very easy of dige , ticn, when o nce it begins to op era t e; an d if the nation it not sickened by the impost, ere a twelvemonth, pass over our heads, as to make it throw off both it and its author, we shall forfeit our repu'a•ion in the prophetic line.— Dover Chronicle. Just ready, in 3 v - ols. post :ivo., Ar 0 D E R F ItElti Cil LIFE. Edited by MRS. GORE, Author of " The Dowager," " Mrs. Armytage," &c. 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Painted by her Majesty's Command for Buckingham Palace, By GEORGE HAYTER, Esq , M.R.5.L.,. - Her Majesty's Historical and. Portrait Painter. HEINZ: BROTHERS beg to state that the AUSTRIAN MONEY DISTRIBUTIONS, for which they are selling Selected and Genuine Bonds, take place regularly on the following, days-Ist of March, let of May, and Ist of September. On the Ist of June a selection of Bonds is taking place relative to Distribution of the Ist of SeptemLer. The Bonds belonging to the Distribution of let of Alay 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 let of May, without delay to '. HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. Every Genuine Bond, taking pact in the Distribu±ion oflst of May, is sure to obtain at least 642. sterling ; largest Divi dend 22,500/. sterling.— tiamburgh , April 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the AIANAGI3'JENT o f MAD AiIE VI:STRI S. THIS EVENING, APRIL 28, be presented BeMin's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA.—The Character of Ainina by Niss Adelaide Ken,ble; Count Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler ; Elvin(); Mr W. Harrison ; Alessio, Mr. O. Horticas t le; Notary, Mr. A. Wigan; Lisa, Miss Grant; Theresa, Mrs. R. Hughes. _ Auer which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT. , —Wilin•uponatyine (King of Neverinindinlianda), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Paragon, Pr &loos, and Placid (his three Sons , by Mackinac Vestris. Miss Murray and Miss Lee; Jingo, Mr:Harley; t - e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at hall-past rix, anu the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. rid ;• First and SecondClieles 55.. Second Price 6i1.; Pit as., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets aid Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogoi, at the Box-of tice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon up. /ideation. Private .119xes to be had solely,nf Mr. Andrews, Book >eller; 167, New Bond:street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wonderful attraction, and matchless Stud of Horses. THIS EVENING. APRIL 23, Will be presonted Lord Byron's NIAZEPPA ; 011, THi.; %vim HORSES, with increased splendour, extensive auxiliary aid, and unapproachable effects.' After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc.ng .4r. BA'FFY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu n erous and Inatchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Courjers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poncys, and the most talonted Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastic, and Cunt( - .tannin, in the notion'. To. conclude with the Historical Pantomime (with New Scenery) of PICIMUSE ; or, the MONKEY of the DESOLATE ISLAND.— Chirofpanzae, the Monkey, by Mons. Gouffe. TO CORRFSPONDENTS. Owing to the demands now made on our columns, it is not in our power to publish the letter addressed to Lord Brougham on Dr. Birkbeck's Memorial. THE NVEATIIEIL—Noon, APRIL "7 . ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELAIDE-STRIZET. Thermometer .... 57 ) Highest _5B LLowest.. ..... larometer .E. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning... .51 minutes after 3 Evening ..... 13 minutes after 4. 4111 Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or .Immoral Tendency, aro excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." LONDON? THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1842, The debate on Mr. ELPHINSTONE'S motion to sub ' ject real estates to the legacy and probate duties, is a good illustration of the pertinacity with which selfish ness in lawmaker 4 as in individuals, pursues its own gratification. The poor argument against Mr. ELPHINSTONE'S motion, found equally satisfactory by Lord JOHN Itussma. and Mr. Cronenuari, was, that the probate duties' on prsonal property did not apply to settled property, and were those du,tieS, therefore, as proposed, extended to landed property, a great portion of which is settled, the revenue would be very little benefited. Those who have not a strong interest in the question, at once say, that this is not an argu ment for exempting the land, but for subjecting all settled, as well as unsettled property, equally to the duty We are quite sure that no reasoning in Parliament, and no sophistry out of Parliament, will ever make the public believe that it is not a monstrous injustice that the vast estates of the Dukes of NOR THUMBERLAND, DEVONSHIRE, and BEDFORD, should pass from heir to heir—from age to age—without ever paying a farthing to the State, while every thousand pounds which a tradesman scrapes together by a life of labour, and leaves to his family, must pay 301. to the State. The lawmakers, however, do not see, and will not see, the glaring injustice of this, 119- cause, in the great majority of cases, they are the holders of settled property, and benefit by this cular injustice. We cannot altogether blame them for this. Man is a selfish animal ; and when lawmakers act on the good old rule, though it be a breach of confidence, Of getting and keeping all they can, they only follow their natural instincts,:like a cat watching for mice and seizing them. That they should so act is neither unnatural nor surprising. What is unnatural, and what is very surprising, is that we should continue to believe, after such an immense range of contradictory experience, that man is not a selfish animal, and con tinue to place as implicit faith in the professions of lawmakers, as if they had never. beguiled, deceived, and betrayed our hopes. Year after year, and age after age, have demon strated that all statesmen think much more of themselves, or of their class, than of the com munity. It must be so. The faculties of each individual are adapted to provide for the welfare of the individitid, not for regulating the whole globe, or providing for; the welfare of the spe cies, and, by his very constitution, he must chiefly consult his own welfar e . What i s wrong, what is contemptible, what is even silly, is the belief that things are otherwise ordered, which places those who entertain it, bound, as it were, hand and foot, at the mercyrom o o selfish lawmakers. Rather than be ang ry with them f or so muc h using legislation to tetheir own he t i l rown interest, we ought, .perhaps, to he grateful that they are no worse. We must recognise too, in their qualified ambition, kept in check p by their fears of rousing the confiding people, a strong pro o f of the advantage of mutual and reciprocal dependence, such as equal freedom maintains. It teaches us, too, that the way to keep selfishness in' check, is not to • indulge it ; and con sequently, to make legislators honest and just, we must not submit to their dishonesty and injustice. In spite Of Mr. ( orn,istrioi and Lord .Toffy .RussEnn, the tradesman who has a legacy duty of 301. abstracted from every 1 ,000/, he leaves behind, while the Duke of I,IEnFoRD's estate will not pay a farthing, will persist in thinking that the Legislature is dishonest and unjust ; and, so thinking, he must ; in the end—he cannot help himself—throw off its authority, for he dare not obey dishonesty and injustice. The appeal made by the Southampton Election Committee to the House of Com Mons against Mr. FLEMING, and the order issued by the House for Mr. FLEALING to attend the Committee and answer its questions, have made quite a sensation. All the journals write about' it, and all the Members talk about it. Their own law now hits one of themselves, and it has instantly becoMe a subject of deep consi deration. Committees might have gone on com mitting LUCASES to prison, and forcing WRENNS to answer, ad infinitam, without exciting any observa tion ; but the instant an Hon. Membez is assailed, the 0- ,1 . ..!i:Llia•il:,- 13 1 ~ -e • re '' <5.1 1 : V '' 6 G._ '-, r - C , '" , ), 4 ,.. 1 ~ ~,....',;~,,,, Zite nu. powers of Va.iss terban;th becoure objoors of ii4..-qrs , interest and discussion. We see nothing in Mr. FLEMING'S case more than in ' that of any other re fractory witness ; but we presume that the Hon. Member is not likely in the end to be dealt with quite as severely as a person who is not a Member of thi Honourable House. One lesson is thus forcibly impressed on the public, namely, the propriety of al lowing only those to make the laws who are to obey them, and be subject to their operation. This obvi ously holds good as to taxation, and penal statutes. as well to Committees of the House of Commons ; and the land would not be afflicted with its present load of taxation, nor with an immense mass of absurd and contradictory laws, had those who made them been really liable to pay the taxes without the means of re lieving themselves, and had they been practically sub ject to the operation of the laws. But they have always known how to escape the curses they have heaped on the people. In Wales the colliers have, it seems, boldly carried away a Mr. STALEY, and have threatened to take away his life if he do not expatriate himself. At Dudley, the nailers have risen in great numbers to 1 1 remonstrate with the masters against the recent re- HduCtion in their wages of twenty per cent. Now, when the workmen are generally exposed to great distress and privation, and when they are beginning to resist, by violence, further reduction of wages, the tirades in which Mr. FERRAND has indulged in the House of Commons, which*the Tories cheered to the skies, when they served the purpose of diverting atten tion from the iniquitous Corn-laws, will tell wit] great force on the minds of the people. They have Mr. FERUAND'S authority, they have the authority of the applauding House of Commons, for believing that their masters and employers are all intent on cheating and defrauding them ; and they will no doubt act— they have already acted—on that lesson. Mr. Fax- RAND'S teaching will now turn to profit, and he anc, the Tories will no doubt have the satisfaction of seeing that enmity between master and workmen, which the 3 have evoked, rife in the land. We remonstrated the very night we heard Mr FERUAND'S first speech, against the encouragemeni given to him by the grave Tories of the House o' Commons, including Sir R. PEFIL. Now, when the hunger caused by .the Starvation-laws, wher low wages and slackened employment, the results of restrictions •on trade, and when the _ _ inflammatory harangues of privileged speakers, arc producing their appropriate effects, and nailers an 6 colliers, and other classes, are collecting in multitueiet t) settle the rate of wages by force, the military an put into requisition to keep the peace ; we read of squadrons of dragoons riding about the country wit}, drawn swords and loaded carbines. Sir ROBERJ PEEL and the landowners. persist in maintaining laws which keep away food, and • take away trade froM the people, . and, persisting in that • policy, they • are compelled to carry it out by establishing in the crowded districtS of the empire a complete military rule. Half, or even two-thirds, ( f the soldiery kept in garrison at home are plainly required by the mischievous consequences of the Corn-laws, which Sir R. PEEL would rather main taro by military violence than preserve peace ane, order by allowing the people to be prosperous am: happy. Whenever sugar is mentioned, our Tory rulers profess a holy horror at interfering with it, lest they migtt impede the prosperity and happiness of the blacks. At present they seem inclined to lay their own disturbing hands on Canada ; but when the Whigs proposed to touch the timber duties they could not think of risking the prosperity of that colony, But, with marvellous inconsistency, or with im measurable hypocrisy, these very men have not the smallest regard to the suffering mil lions at home, and witness with the greatest indifference masses of poverty, distress, and suffering. caused by their enactments, such as never before ex isted. For the blacks and for the Canadians they have the tenderest sympathies ; for the starving mul titudes at .home they have hussars and brandished sabres. They are accustomed, like the fishwoman skinning eels, to their trade of keeping order at home by the sword; but they feel appropriate indig nation at other persons using the whip. What wit' Corn-law makers keeping food from the people, am' at the same time keeping them quiet by the use o. soldiery, England —once, it is said, free and happy England—has fallen below other nations. According to the accounts from Ireland, that court. try is neither tranquil nor safe. - Edinburgh w•a: alarmed, a few days ago, by a large assemblage a the working people ; while we know that at Greenock. Paisley, and Glasgow, the - utmost distress prevails. Slid is the condition of the empire after twenty-seven years peace, and a much longer uninterrupted continuance of all kinds of natural advantages. Obviously the cause of our national distress is not physicial, but moral It springs from our institutions, and is a terrible re. proach to our statesmen. It ; is the result of the joint and combined labours of both Whigs and Tories ; and neither of them have any better remedy to offer us than an Bs. duty on corn, or an Income-tax. What will follow this we cannot tell; but neither Whigs nor Tories, who are the causes of this great social disease, will ever cure it. The assimilation of the criminal law in England and Ireland is one of those praiseworthy objects to which we are glad to find the attention of the Irish law officers ol the Crown particularly directed. Among the Bills re cently preparad for this purpose one is now before us. brought in by the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and Lord Emcrr, repealing Acts awarding the punishment of dead: for eighteen offences committed in Ireland, for which various terms of transportation are awarded. By the • 12th of Geo. 1., chap. 3, it was a capital felony for Roman Catholic priests. to celebrate marriages between Protestants and Catholics. This Act is now repealed. and transportation for seven years substituted for it: penal provision. It is still monstrously severe. n penalty whatever should attach to the celebration ol marriage by a State-recognised clergyman of any religious communion. Why should not a Catholic F riest be allowed to marry a Protestant and a Catholic. as well as a priest of the Established Church ? has the State to do with the ceremonial of marriage, when there is nothing criminal in the circitinstances 4)1 the parties professing different creeds ? They violate no law of GOD, or of the Church by marrying ; wh) then compel them, more than others, to wed according to the forms of a particular ritual ? The execution 'of a clergyman under the Act of Geo. I. would have been it: the eyes of GOD and man a judicial murder ; the banish ment of one under the proposed law will be an atrocious violation of justice and religious liberty. Where there. is no crime there ought to be no punishment. Burning and destroying ships was under the 11th of Geo. 11., c. 5, a capital felony in Ireland. Henceforth offenders in this respect are to be transported for fifteen years, or imprisoned for periods not exceeding three. This amendment of the law is just and humane, and has our cordial approbation. By ithe 29th of George IL, chap. 5, serving in the army or navy of France was in Ireland a capital felony. This law is now simply repealed, and thus an indirect compliment is paid to France. We trust so barbarous a statute-L-peculiirly barbarous. when a penal code pre vented Irishmen from fighting in the armies of their own Sovereign, simply because they were Boman Catholics— will never again he re-enacted. Indeed it never can in all its barbarity, while Irishmen, without regard to creed, tre , eligible to shed their blood in defence of their Sove reign and their country. The other offences for which transportation and various terms of imprisonment are substituted are—for rape— embezzlement of the property' of the Bank of Ireland— hstrUction of the corn trade—riotously assembling to pull down churches (what a satire upon the Irish Church Establishment !)—preventing persons giving evidence 3xciting riots—receiving escaped prisoners —escaping a 'mind time from prison—returning from transportation —killing or houghing cattle—abduction—and, as a climax to to the whole, resisting the revenue collectors For all these offences the laws in force in Ireland adjudge the punishment Of death, without benefit of clergy, and the object of the Bill before us is to wipe them from the Statute-book, as disgraceful to a civilized country in a :•ivilized age. Legislation, when needlessly and barbar ously severe, is tantamount to no legislation at all. When the punishment is revoltingly disproportioned to the offence, offenders escape altogether, as no humane ... • man eau reconcile it to his conscience to,prosecute them. Who, for example, would be guilty of the barbarity of bringing to the gallows a father for harbouring a child who hall a second time escaped front prison ? The Law Officer of the Crown who could enforce so unnatural a law, would be himself unfit to live. We therefore en drely approve of the principle of this Bill. It is as humane as it is politic ; for at last we have made the scovery that a Draconian Code ir, as impolitic as it is recoiling. Since the above was written, a Correspondent at Ips. nsertiun In the year 1821 there were 114 executions in England and Wales. In 1828, the number was 'educed to 59; in 1836, to 17 ; and in I e3s, it was only 6. That this • change has been effected without diminishing, even in the slightest degree, the security of the persons and properties 'of men, is a matter of the clearest evidence, the evidence of actual experience, which cannot be disputed or falsified. The Government returns prove, • that there have keen fewer highway robberies in the lest seven years, w ith 5 executions, than in. the preceding seven years, with 58 executions; that there have been fewer acts of burglary and housebreaking in the lest seven yeers, with only 2 executions, than in the preceding seven years, when 57 persons suffered death for those crimes; that. there has been less horse-stealing in the last seven years, without any execution, than in the preceding seven sears, during which, for that offence alone, 22 convicts were cent to the scaffold.' Whatever experi ence has been acquired by this unexampled reform in the ad miniAration of public justice Las at least been safely and in. locently gained. Some hundreds of offenders, had they com mitted Ow crimes a few years before, would have died by the hand of the executioner. They hayo been allowed to live. Life, the only season of repentance, with all its opportunities of regaining the favour cf en offended Deity, has been mer cifully continued to them ; and ftma this lenity society has derived no injury, no lose. Who ,then can fail to rejoice at a result so consoling to humanity? For murder, no less than oilier crimes, the pi natty of death, as an ex ample, is momentary, and of no beneficial effect :—it dis gusts the good, and brutalizes the bad, who witness the spec tacle of man cruelly destroyed by man ;- 7 -, as an act of extreme violence, it teaches violence to the people ;—as an act of deli. berate homicide, it diminishes the regard due to the sanctity of life, and renders murder less revolting to the uninstructed mind. For murder, as well as other crimes, it too often leads to im punity through the suppression of evidence by the associates or acquaintance of the criminal, who recoil at the thought of be coming accessory to the death of one, with whom they had formerly lived on terms of familiar interc- urse. Mr. M'CuLLoen has just published a small paniphlet, entitled " Memorandums on the - Proposed Importation of Foreign Beet and Live Stock," for the purpose of allaying the fears of the Galloway graziers, and con vincing the public in general that the expectations of the .nanufacturing and commercial classes, in respect to the teneftts to be derived from the relaxation or total abort lon of the existing restraints, are visionary and un ounded. 'Phis startling assertionwill, no doubt, afford ;Teat consolation to all those agriculturists oho place inplicit . confidence in the prophecies of 'political eeimo nists, but we fear there will be many unbe ievers. In confirmation of this opinion he endeavours ,o show that beef cannot .be imported from Ilzm nagh (the only place on the Continent where any !onsiderable supply can be obtained) for less than 7d. ter lb., which is rather above the average cost of beef n London; that no cattle can be expected from Prussia, 3elgium, Holland, or France, as the imports of cattle o these countries exceed the exports; and that were 100,000 head of cattle imported into-this country an , many, which he regards as an extravagant and ab , ;urd supposition, it would net amount. to one hirteenth part of the supply, and, therefore, could tot have any sensible influence on prices. Nay, .ve are to infer that it would have s contrary effect, .nd serious apprehensions may be entertained that were -!Ven four times that amount imported, the prices might ncrease. This, however, is not mere assertion, for it :eats on the solid foundation of experience and analogy. In 1826, for example," says the author, "we imported shout 57,000 head of cattle from Ireland into Great iritain ; but in consequence of the increased facilities riven to importation, Ireland now supplies us with about 180,000 head of cattle, or betwCiii three w four times as many as we imported from.her sixteen years ago ! 3ut will any one say that the price of cattle in Great Britain has fallen in consequence of this immense increase of importat:on, or thatit is less now than in 1826 ? On ..he contrary, every body knows that -it has increased." Phis is glorious news for the farmers, who ought to .hank Sir ROBERT PEEL fur his kind exertions tn . their behalf, and get up petitions, not for the tariff as it stands, but for the free importation of beef and live .cock. The farmers foolishly imagined that the 'un- Tateful Minister had thrown them overboard, while he was consulting political economists for their good, And laying. the best foundation fur their future prosperity. Notwithstanding the high authority of the writer, we are sceptical on these points, and inclined to believe that cattle will be reared abroad for the English market, and that 'beef which is sold tt Hamburgh for 4d. per lb., including the octroi luty, while it costs in London Bd., will be imported at aomewhat less than 7d. per lb., the price fixed by Mr. l'l`CuiLocH. We advise all the unbelievers, however, to my the pamphlet, and judge for them Selves. The Madrid Journals of the 18th instant announce • :hat at no former period was France more unpopillar in the Spanish 'capitol. The conditct of Xll. PAGEOT, the French Charge d'Affaires, rho has . just completed a our of the European Courts, to influence the marriage •,: the young QUEEN, was very sar•erely censured in the Spanish Senate by M. 141Ant.t.iNr. What will most.an any France is the indifference with which her intrigues .ire treated by the Spanish Ct\binet. The RECENT laughs at the pretensions of the French Government to .lispose of the hand of the SOY/ MEWS of Spain. The Captain-General and deputations of officers of the gar rison and National Guards had waited .on the Infant Don Fran cisco de Paulo. The The per Cents. were done on the 18th at 225 for cash, and 23 at sixty days • the Five per Cads. at 27% for ea.h, and 286 at sixty days ; and the debt bearing no interest at 6i at sixty days. One of the most amusing, and not the least instructive essays in the " Spectator," is that which recounts the ex amination before Judge BHADAMANTHUS in the infernal regions, of an old woman who, in answer to the question, " What had she been doing while on earth," admitted that she was so occupied in rebuking and retailing the vices of a parcel of flirts that she had never any time to think about her own affairs.' Rarely have we an opportunity of opening the French Jour nals without being reminded of the defence of this old woman. France is an impersonation of her. So occupied is she on all occasions with watching the flirts . dons, of other States that she can hardly devote a moment to the vital concerns of her own people.. No neighbour can make it pie, but she must have a voice in suggesting the ingredients, or in some nay or other insert a finger in it. Last week she was all for regulating the diplomacy of England and the United States—this week she is worrying herself lo death about the marriage of .the young Queen of SPAIN, who is yet but a child of eleven years of age. She will now forego the project of marrying the .young QUEEN _to a son of Louis PHILIPPE, but nothing will do for her but a Bounnwi. file intermarriages of this family have already produced more than enough of idiotcy and im morality to revolt Europe. • No. nun can wade ihrough the matrimonial connexions of the Neapolitan and Spanish branches of the House . of BounnoN, with. out being shocked at the bare recital of so many in cestuous alliances. No Royal line in the word is more contemptible, • and has produced a greater number of Royal idiots and seoundrels than the line of BOURBON. As for the reputed father of the young Queen of SPAIN, FERDINAND VII., he was more an ape or a baboon than a Man.. But if France must have a BOURBON IDISbalDi for the young Queen, what would Louis PHILIPPE say to tin alliance with the young Duke of BORDEAUX ? 'We are certain that such a proposal would be cordially supported by the Emperor of RUSSIA. HENRY V., as the French Royalists style him, would have no objection to opett the campaign against the House of ORLEANS by constituting Madrid his head-quarters. The Courrier Francais states that the Government are about to• despatch the steam-frigate Corner from Rochefort tor the West Indies, being the first of the French tract-Atlantic steamers• which are to compete with the 'English company. Three Commissioners, under the direction of M. Saladin, In spector of the Finance Department, are to-proceed with this vessel, fur the purpose of organising the packet service through out the West India Islands, and the Spanish Main. The Curn_ missioners will proceed first to Port Royal, Martinique, which is fixed on for the principal station. It is expected that un ttie return of the Corner the other steam-boats will be ready, and that the trans-Atlantic communications will proceed regu_ lady and without interruption. The Cowrie,. de Lyons, the journal of the Prefecture, has the following article : . A letter from Turin, after giving some particulars cf the fetes in the capital of Piedmont, on the occa,ion of the mar riage of the presumptive heir to the throne, adds— " • The Marquis of Dalmatia, the French Ambassador, set off on the very day that the new married couple made th e i r entry. He had offered, in the swine of the King of the French, to give a fete in their honour, which was flatly refused. The Sardinian nobility in general appeared to be pleased with this proceeding.' Though the letter from which we quote the Passage conies from a pet son worthy of credit, we are disposed to doubt the fact which he mentions. We must soon know the truth, both with respect to this fact and to the departure of the Marquis of Dalmatia." Ihe Antoinette brig, Captain Rozet, whieh left St. Louis, on the 20111 of February, brin gs news up to that confirm all the in Senegal, These accounts f olly date front that col.my. preCeding. The Governor was waiting for orders of the Ali • nister to open the trade, and the traders, were still utrvrtairs rbspectin4 the manner in which the trade would be carried on. At all events, it was certain that no gum, would come down for a long time. News had been received that the inundation at the beginning of the year had ex en d c d to the "urn Islantations. A letter of the 18th February says;_, OU'r affairs with the River seem to be _in a Very prec . aiiouS state. The tribe o f the Trazas first of all carried og a. drove of oxen belonging to 119, then killed a trader at Salem, and plundered one of our vessels. The Governor has written to the Chiefs, that if they dirt not immediately give up the guilty persons war would be declared. If such a misfortune s hould happen, what would become of our affairs this year ? No engagement could be fulfilled.. It is :aid that the brother of the King of the Trazas led the aggressors,. its order to make us go to war with his brother, with whom he is himself in a state of hostility. This affair pretty much resembles that of the Moos ish Prince who was shot in 1833.—Commerce. POLAND. We learn from Vi'arsasv that since the last journey of the Prir.ee Governor Loin St. Peterst,urgh, thePolili Government is more zealous than ever with regard to the making of the s,:eu lids cailett uur tcatluu t() the tullutA Ines el.:cilia ( roin a ram hlet, published by the Committee - for the I Abolition of• Capital PuniArnents, in re erenee to a ! ~rmer article in The Sun, to which we here readily give . 'ie. Austrian frontiers. the Eca,:e. or, • • u sa.d, has ilia affair much at heart. The journey of 31 • S!einkilh.r to 13, rlin and Hamburg seems t . ) have bun so' cessful in sec ur i ng t he pecun i ary means of , promoting t work. Measures are in progress to bring the wood that w , " bez d et ei v ar i. n e c d s._A .tandlig'Oe:e•oirnke zeituyis. m , nfrom Russia to set about i t ju g U11612,—.P.5H18, MONDAY, APRIL 25. it F si irst Highest Lowest --- Price Price. Pricw. Pricr.: enth b re, Cents ll9 0 ... 119 90 ... 1 9 ... 119 5 4 a Le, Cr.s lO7 5 117 25 ... 107 25 .5. 10' ' 4 per Covii. 102 ... 102 102 102 Co 3 per lent'. . .. Bl 45 81 45 ...81 20 .. 'flank 01 Frr.tice 37 5...3965 LaMar r:inlt 1,0011. S ores 1030 ...MU) aeigian Bans 1841 lO5l 25 ...1051 25 ...tO5l 25 ...105 1 Be`glan 511 , 4* Cents lO3 ... 109 100 10 5 ,, S t.,er Centt., 1840 104% ... 104% 104% .. :o•nish Active t s ls ... Portuguese 5 per. CentF. 31"& s . c3politan lO7 2) ... n 7 20 1117 20 ... in 7 105% ... to d ... 105% ... 1()5311 HAILWAI NNARES rep St. Germain gatitts,/t. L. 13 2l's 2 - 5 2v11z 1 )9, Rouen • 551 ... 550 512 50 ... 5 4 ,y irle to. S:rashurg to Bale 23.5 ...:35 . 222 50,,.:33 i 3 We should reaily 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 thtl kingdom, for embarkation in ships which are intended t 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 The Queen held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, which was attended by Sir Rober t Peel, the Duke or Wellington, the Duke of Bucclettelb and several other Cabinet Ministers. - Lord Londonderri was present at the Council. Some of the Foreign AD!' basSadors also attended at Buckingham Palace. • • LORD JOHN RITSSELI. AND THE CITY MEETINCL-7 4 meeting was held in the City last night to request the Lord Mayor to convene a common Council to call e n Lord John Russell to resign his seat. The gentlemen who called it were unprepared to achieve it victory,# o the result was, that the meeting passed a resolution faVourable and honourable to Lord John, and, on seP tv . rating, gave him three hearty cheers. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 3 o'CLOC!; In our report of T ues d a y' s racing, &c., we scarcelyAiu justice to our subject; indeed,. so immense was Of throng, that it was next to impossible to proceed any approach to regularity. That so large and mode/ an assemblage should be drawn to this generally quiet town, is not to be placed solely to the se; count of the races—a fi g ht b e , wean th e note d Englisii pugilist, Johnny Become, and the Austuliari - chow pion, Bungaree, was arranged, to come off this m orn' ing, within a iec miles of the town, and the 6 4. sands of high and low degree, that flocked into •0 8 town from all quarters w,;vldT Ithost warrant the infft enee that the taste for this amusement is reviving. It 4l almost needless to add, that many. .questionable charge' ters were in the neighbourhood, and that "pockets' let" were the natural consequences. The exeitemer ' did not terminate With the day ; carriages of every de scription rattled into the. t own i n t h e m alw's of the night, kitchens became bed-rooms, and W I. dreds, lacking even this sorry accommodation,• ireL e ft,igit to put up with perambulating the streets fry dusk till daylight. The bustle continued this mornitrei; coaches and private carriages, Mile-end omnibuses PI shut tery-dans (things n ever h ear d o f at N ewmar k e t uni t ., now), and horsem en ou t of number. poured in until ten o'clock, and then, for the first time for twenty-f° 11 : hours, the_ " peaceable inhabitants" obtained*a res P it from their frars (of wh a t nature ma y "; guessed) and troubles. The trysting • place ‘ ri e l d Mildenhall, and thousand s o f a il c l asses point their horses' heads north, leavi ng the settling for Toe:', day's races to its fate. Most of the aristocratic visitor went with the stream, and th e Stewards Of the• JOCII Club have very considerately put - off this artern - 00. r racing until half-past three, by w hi c h i t i s expecte d tbei friends will have returned fern the " mill." As it is un likely we shall procure a horse to forward our expre:. of the . races, we may a s we ll state. that •of the in the list two only will be run, viz., a Harwtd, of 20 sovs. each, A. F., for. which Bellissima,• s , Bst alb ; Sir Hans, 4. yrs, Sat 7lb ; St. Colomb, 4 ,00 st 121 b•; and Eleus,•3 yrs, C a t 121 b, stand ; and the sous. Stakes, D.M., for which Attila, Paladiuni, and tlt Devil-amongst-th —Tailors are left in. 4to is oife% . on Attila. • Lord Kellmirre% Muley Moloch colt w" I. , over forthe 50 Soya. Plate, and L or d Alb emar l e ' s Souqt receives from Lord Orford'ae by Jerry, out of Petulan.‘ , (on the coughing list), in the D.M. match for 200, 11 ft: r The Tuesday has again pas se d w ith ou t a c hallenge i ° the Cup. , of The Marquis of Exeter was om itt e d in our 5t . arrivals yesterday. DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, APRIL 24.—According to accounts from Berlin to the 20th received to-day-. little alteration hug taken place in the state of the health of his Majesty King William Frederick. The bulletin of the 20 5 ' says :—" perceptible change took place in the I& ternoon and evening of yesterday. The fever was At the beginning of the night the august patient list" some violent fits of coughing. Towards morning his giv .jesty was calith:-, and slept for some hours without cough ing. On awaking he telt refreshed. - He was perfoctlf sensible. and the fever had abated. No alarming sy air toms have occurred in the course of the day." Aram 25.—The accounts from Berlin of the 2 49 ,i say that his Majesty had passed it very quiet night, AV, the swelling of the legs had decreased since the prece;ir in day. The illness, however, is still such as to nasAl l apprehensions. T. PETERSIMICH, APRIL 15.—Exchange on. LonCir' three months, 38 37 21-32. DU l'Cit /1 1 N133.—AMiTEROAN, Atpatt. 25. Money. dills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cer t. A man t Syndic, -I per cent 4/3 !+S4 • Ditto, dlttc, 3 per (Tat 774 ; 7 4 Commercial Company, -V, ?er cent 15514 1 ,, 6 ,,.. 14 Ditto (MIS and 1837) 5 per cent ....... 1t034 1, -'‘'. Loan 18:17, 5 ver cent. 99 S9 l / 4 1 Exchange on London, One month l2 15 Two months ...... Hamburgh, One month 35 : 4 1 it Two months ... .: Dutch Papers, April 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—ViatiNs, APRIL :6. i rivet= 0,9115. bletailiques ..... .... 13 7 4 .• 14'oNi. per Cents Tin eCrp4r Cents. think Zharce . 4... 1619 • SOUTHWARK IMPROVEMENTi . _ BILL. , - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS: 41' Sra,—Perhaps either you, or some one - of Y t fi c many correspondents, can give me and the Puck ; some information respecti ng th e f ate o f a titled " The Southwark Improvement Bill, -Pi) t ic Three sessions back 30,0001. was granted 11 6 0 liament towards forming a new line of street to somewhere about the Town Hall in the Boroug, run in as direct a line as possible into Stati n i t e es ° street, Blackfriars •road, so ma ki ng a qu i c k an. Ole route to the West End, from the terminus,_% e ar. several railways, likewise greatly releasing side and the City from its superfluous car riage-' oc le, Now it. is whispered a b ou t th a t, a f ter a ll the 1 36 t10 -0 and expense of tho s e en d eavours , one i n t he la to be one in the present Parliament, the public are disappointed of this great improvement. It is the that this line of street, so much approved of ''-'c o at" Committee of selection, is abandoned in the I ask mittee, after the sec on d r e a di ng o f t h e Bill ; lint ose',a. why—if the best line—why give it up, and el s :Ng worse ? Really I cannot understand this 5e ,,,44P1 child's play, and.trifling it cannot be, because a ..4offc high Church dignitary refuses permission to ti t,pr ie Church property, without having an extravagl uit the fur permission so to do. I cannot - think titrioti fault rests with the liberal 'Messrs. P., who 5° P t hp lin e tally said, they would give the ground, for f o 0 1‘, of street th roug h th e i r estate. Th en I sP se eoutl' how is it that the Bill i s i n th e s h a d e f o r the to - s ee time ? Surely it no w rema i ns f or Governm ent otrna cle $ to it, that-metropolit a n i mprovements a re t t i t c ertaif mere matter of trade, or s p ecu l a ti on ; so parties, finding. that there is nothing 0 he n. 4 gi ve after leading t'}ie public t o e x p ec t great thi n r_ them up as .a child d oes a t oy, an d laugh ' n sleeves in the bargain. Stamford -street, 26th April, 1842. e Pat i ll; [Our Correspondent will see from tai efore the mentary Report,. that the sub:ect cam e an d Wa House of Commons on T ues da y ev ening' postponed for a week.] ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL S was held o Charles Malcolm, V. in rotas meeting particulars of a Short Sir ______ _____-.........................• -_____-- ' Mita,. ver 1 - V some parts of the western t•o G a a s . rl ., Monday ev . aning . ' ht: ,: st m en u d i ic : OCIETY. --A- . Aamiral i _ ately of oft l e 'a lin e e fr d o S ni floe! was a the chair. The lira ___Z n ing life a line of sea-coast f ta a t b e o s' u e t '1 370 Y Nation Lakes ; after trip in Upp er Egypt. and ; T o aecou at 01 rtsdeonferANfirTiicl.ak,inasnodn,,.alcueoc".:ll, i n the, which Mr. Cresson gay 0 itu Mei' Cape Mesadura, o 'and 0(01e rive Fri , m and contains several fine na - eir the ' in. of these, the river St. John, the distanc , 50 . _ valley across the country delta of the Quorra i , bu L l 1 to a miles - , ant, this would seem to present a much .---.•- o m f i L le i s her fr ia o . m anon of view to the lit ~ route for future expeditions •It . , wit a• -- , k. by the 1% tger Africa I -, , t-an by the late diaast rout route untterta cnauvautage of expedition. The eo:uny of Liberia pc.'e s ' e ' i the could explore having natives of int,lligence ar.d education who • As to the country which has proved so faral to Europeans_ ane _, instance of thin great mortality, it was stated that of and ~,1 . 7 .. pedition from America, • f four white ir consi.ting 0 I within si* Cape Paltn.vaesrato. coloured perAon., whilst all the tintorer periehe t. Thit • we, , ks, but foitr of the taut'. died welve months. r. 4 part of the coast is also extremely rich in the produifeee:- aboriginal vegetation, particularly as regards p Itil Oil, CO . hemp, and various other plants furnishing fibre s for makingje,so; dage and other purposes. Ot palm oil alone upwards t•l3' ,uf ti‘ ,,_ tints are annual!) exported, and this quatitity might be gre ß _,Tl,, , increased if European modes of expression were adopted WO of the simple p'an practised by the natives of boiling the palm. nuts in their kettles. Mr. Cresson stab dhis deliberate op_ that it was only from this colony that future expeditions enn,_.nl be successfully carried on in the interior, and suggested .5 t r , most desirable point of approach. the agricultural town 01 , Bexley, containing thirty families, called after the venerable, / Peer of that name. .„, , The Toulonnais of the 21st instant informs us thfib the statement of the four ships recently returned from SmYrn Of having been ordered to take In three months' provisions, an ,•,' to get ready for sea, was unfounded. 'f he order applied to th ,417 ships in the roadstead, under the command of Admiral Hugol42l but this, says the Toulonnais, has, been suspe dijd by a. telers,e.. l graphic communication, and nothing has transpired to warra4,o the belief that an expedition was on the point of being a'''',.:" * against Morocco. . 1••: r ~i w M. :Mon& of div act to when procu 'lle 1 f!veilt of hu Th Chun ta,hrf priet o . 4 1 the '• 1 of aF, hvali Chan( teplac of Pal Thc and C' seven; 70 , G 1 new la shale i %tient] The commit ' public • lenee . fusal of put to rurpesc • when tl tent sta it been should tierninl h is fool THE INDIA SUN 9 CONTAINING A P AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE. THEATRE OF WAR 1N INDIA, IS NOW READY. THE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY MORNING, APRTI, 28, 1842. W ;-