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Just ready, in I vol. post Svo., NARRATIVE OF • rIHE SECOND CAMPAIGN IN CHINA. By KEITH STEWART MACKENZIE, Esq. Late Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE NEW NOVEL BY L.E. L., " LADY ANNE GRANARD ; OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols., with Portrait of the Authoress by Finden. Tient" , Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. rif A D AME D'ARBL AY'S DIARY AND LETTERS. TilE THIRD VOLUME, comprising the Narrative of her Residence at the COURT OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE, Will appear in a few days. •,,,* Orders received by all Booksellers. Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. ARMY AND NAVY. 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Miss Murray, and Miss ff ; Jingo, Mr. Marley; the White Cat, Miss Marshall. . oars open at half-past six, ana the Performances begin at Seven. Di ps Boxes 75., Second Price Os. 6d ; First and Second Circles 55.. $e ,nd I'rice zs. Gd.; Pit 's., Second Price 45 ; Gallery Is. Tickets an Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of ilo . from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap. piit ,Lion. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book. se r, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unprecedented Splendour. THIS EVENING. APRIL 1, ',Jill be performed an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled T E PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOOR.)ISH LOVER, A "I.) HIS WAR STEED, REDA.— Willi magnificent Scenery, s tume, and Appointments ' • a Double Company, Equestrian and D imatie, and the finest Stud of Horses in tha World. _flier which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever be a witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc.ng Mr. It &TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. inn Ars and matchless Cream coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Sp , t.ed. Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most ts' rated Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the gdosn. . o conclule with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE F MILLI' MAN; OR, jIOW MANY MORE WIVES. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. V DER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALMSTON. Great and extzaordinary a. traction for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, APRIL 1, 'ill he performed a most interesting New Domostic Drama, in rce Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, THE Lf, 1 E CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HIGH WAY.—Characters by )11,:s Vincent, Miss Coveney, Messr,. E. F. Saville, Ooc, Gard at. Seaman, tze.. Ater which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, la., ALADDIN; , THE WONDEEFUL LAMP—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the Icess, Mrs. E. F. Saville • V, idow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith . conclude with THE RED ROVER —The Red Rover, Mr. D - t.; Fid, Mr. E. F. Saville; Hector Homespun, Mr. Gardner; Alp '.atne de Lacey. Mrs. Lee. FRENCH. PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. 7 Ir. MITCHELL begs respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Sub_ je, hers to the Fr ench Plays, and the Public, that the above 'I he.itre wi he RE-OPENED on MOND A Y NEXT, when Madlle. PLESSY, an Madlle. AVENEL (both of the Theatre Francais), will have gb, honour of making their First Appearance. se following Pieces are in Rehearsal, and will be produced dur. in; Madlie.Plessy's Engagement :—" Mademoiselle de Belle Isle"— " c Verre d'Esu," by Eugene Scribe—. Valerie; ou, l'Aveugle"— " 1 a. Jeu de l'Amour et du Hazard"—La Jenne Femme Colcre— Misanthrope"—" Don Juan d'A utriche"--. La. Tartuffe," &c. ladlle. DE.I A ZET is engaged, and will hew, the honour of mak. 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THE WEATHER.—NOOI4, MARCH 31. 114 t'AL GALLERY Or SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Ti rrnometer... 51 Highest 55 1 Lowest 41 Bs ,meter 29.70.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Vol ning 31 minutes after 5 f Evening ..... 53 minutes after 5. - _ 4ga c 4 af, 4 . 1 k. T 7 ' ir ogo 1• tnyg, LONDON FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1842. Our country is placed at present, with refer er.,:e to parties and to statesmen, in a peculiar and unfortunate position. The Tories, from a preformed theory of bringing up the revenue to tip expenditure —never dreaming of cutting de•sn the exp en di ture to the revenue—have re so' ved to impose on us an onerous and iniquitous ac litional tax, while th Whirrs, having in office pr )fessed a somewhat similar doctrine, and be i ng in fact the authors of a large portion of that expense which the T • ones assert justifies ad-litional taxation, Cannot give an effecti v e an d zealous o pposition to the Torie s . Th ey mean income tax, because th e y o bj ect to to oppose the that particular way of raising the supplies; but they have throughout admitted that the Govern ment must have an additional revenue. Thus the country, which is at this moment groanin g tinder an enormous buiden of taxation, can have no hope of effectual relief from either party, for both agree that more money must be had for the overnmeut. We look on that as ominous, The Govern- Imeat and all our leading politicians are opposed to the good of society. The people need a re -1 duction of their burdens—they,need aneconomi cal administration of their affairs—they 'need freedom for their industry, and the statesmen of both parties are chiefly intent' on adding to the national expenditure and the national burdens. Such an opposition between them and the public. welfare must weaken the Government, let it be placed in whose hands it may. The people find its burdens too grievous to be borne, and more than it is worth ; and to add to the load may make the nation throw it entirely off. To us it seems that the lessons of experience are lost on our leaders. With the most solemn aspect, but with the greatest levity of mind, Sir R. PEEL proposes additional taxes, as if he were merely setting down to a state dinner.. He can . not be ignorant that excessive taxation has been the precursor to national decay and re volution. If the French had been prosperous no demagogues would ever have induced them to put down the Monarchy, and pat the BOURBONS to death. The enormous burdens laid on the bulk of the people by the Government and the aristocratic classes were the causes of the French Revolution. It had its origin in distress, brought on by financial oppression. Similar causes made the people of the States which surrounded France indif erent to their Governments, and the oppressive taxation levied on them was a more potent cause than the valour of the French armies of the subjugation of the monarchies of Europe. Take, for example, the case of Holland as an illustration of the whole. At the close of the lith and beginning of the 18th centuries, Hol land, whose people were then prosperous and united, was able to resist the whole powers of France. Before the breaking out of the French Revolution they had become comparatively poor and discontented, and soon after that event occurred "they opened their fortresses and towns to the French. Now there is no doubt that their discontent was mainly the consequence of exorbitant taxation, which should be an especial lesson to us, as it was inflicted by a quasi popular Government. In Dr. SMITH'S time, " heavy taxes upon the necessaries of life had gone so far in Holland, that they had ruined, it is said, their principal manufactures, and are likely to discou rage gradually even their fisheries and their trade in ship-building." That heavy taxation continued to cut up the trade of the Dutch, destroyed their property and patriotism, and made them an easy prey to the French Republicans. In spite of these terrible lessons our states men are treading in the same paths as the states men of France, Holland, and Germany, before the French Revolution. Much of our prosperity, as compared to them, arose from circumstances the reverse of those of Holland. According to Dr. S3IITII, " the taxes upon the necessaries of life were then inconsiderable in Great Britain, and no manufacture has hitherto been ruined by them." Since then, however, our Government has surpassed all other Governments in heaping taxes, partly for the service of the State and partly for behoof of monopolists, on the necessaries of life: They were emphatically, indeed, warned by the great authority we have quoted, but warned in vain, that Taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required ex traordinary labour and expense to raise them. Such taxes, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth and the inclemency or the heavens ; and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been ..most generally imposed. _ . Our statesmen have seen this verified; they have seen an industrious people ground down to poverty and despair by excessive taxation ; they have seen them filled with discontent, and heard them demand great constitutional changes ; yet they perversely persist in adding to their burdens, and increasing their distress and dis content. They are driving the people to the wail, and leaving them no alternative but to be destroyed themselves, or destroy the Govern ment. If, from the unteachable arrogance arid pride of the routine men, whom the ignorance andseltishness of the electors have placed at the hcd of our affairs, England. is doomed to decay, similar to that which excessive taxation and aristocratic oppression brought on Venice and Holland, writers, like ourselves, will only have to mourn over a calamity they have no power to avert. We may think perhaps that the fate of an individual is in his own hands ; the fate of litions, however, their grandeur and decay, are to the order of nature, and must be the work of PROVIDENCE. Nevertheless, it is given to man to avoid the rocks on which others have split and it is now, therefore, the duty of the people to resent that increase of taxation which has been in other cases so fatal to national greatness. PrimWrily, they ought to opp ose the proposed income tax as the most odious of all taxes; but, secondly, they ought to resist all increase of taxation, and let the Government understand that its preservation is not worth pure hasing by the poverty, misery, degradation, and ruin of the people. We have never advocated what is falsely called protection for any one class of producers, but we have always been aware that consider able injustice has been committed by reducing the protecting duties on certain foreign com modities, and will be again committed should such duties be again reduced before the Corn laws be abolished. Free trade must begin by abolishing the master monopoly. Though the silk and glove manufacturers have struggled through the difficulties of competition, since Mr. I HusKissoN and t e Lo r d S YDENHAM ex posed them to its ro i breezes, and have been, as we believe, much improved, yet owing to the continuance of the Corn-law, success has been purchased by very considerable sacrifices, both on the part of the masters and the workmen. It is a manifest injustice to keep out foreign corn by a high duty on the pretext that the land is peculiarly taxed, and after having by this means laid a very heavy and peculiar burden on handicrafts, to expose them to the com petition of other people, who are not subject to their burdens. It was well said by Mr. MACFARLAIIE, at the meeting of the Edinburgh Merchants' Company, that " while corn and food _remained at their present prices, and the whole general taxation re mained the same as now, our handicraft la bourers could not compete with their brethren on the Continent." The glove trade at Yeovil, of which some ac count will be found in another part of The Sun, is a case in point, and the manufacturers there feel the injustice with which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff threatens them so strongly, and dread so much the injury he will inflict on them, that they have resolved to suspend working for one month. About 20,000 persons will suffer the want of bread from that resolution, which is one of the first consequences of Sir ROBERT PEEL allowing the competition of foreign glovers under a small fixed duty, while he will not allow 'the competition of foreign corn-growers except with an onerous sliding scale. The people of Yeovil complain of the cheaper provisions obtained by those with whom they will now have to compete ; and, as long as the Corn-law is continued, we must con tend that their complaints arc well founded. One of the curses attendant on those laws is, that they forbid. extending free trade in manuflic tures. It is on this ground alone that we have any sympathy with the protected manufltcturers; and were the corn-trade free, we should be amongst the foremost to contend that the Yeovil glovers have no more right to tax people in the price of their Owes, than the landlords have to tax them in the price of their food. - With Sir R. PEEL and the Tory journals, who are very noisy, if not-very consistent advocates of the principle of protection, their reclamations ought to have great weight. He has armed them against himself. He has stolen into power on the principle_ of protecting " native industry;' and native industry will compel him to act on the principle, or give up his power. In particular, he has encouraged the farmers to believe that they must, and that 'they will be protected; and we are* not sorry to see .the agriculturists in different parts of the kingdom repudiating his, talriffliecanse it violates the principle of protection. ,We told Sir ROBERT PEEL from the first, that by propo sing to deal out protection to all classea be had undertaken an impossible task, and his own dear friends, the farmers, are the first to turn against him. We expected that he would be well baited by some of the protected classes, but we were not quite prepared to see his own petted dogs ready to hunt him to death. The enlightened and intelligent people of Edinburgh are setting the citizens of London and of the emrire a good example. At a numerous meeting of the inhabitants, called by circular, held on the 29th ult., the LORD PROVOST in the chair, they resolved:— That of all the modes of levying the necessary sup plies, an income tax is by much the most objectionable, being unequal, oppressive, and inquisitorial, and which should - never be resorted to but in cases of extreme necessity. That no such necessity exists, and we therefore resolve to give the imposition of this tax, proposed by Sir R. Peel, our most determined opposition ; and we now in struct our representatives in Parliament, the Right Hon. Thomas B. Macaulay and W. G. Craig, Esq., to lay these resolutions on the table of the House of Commons, and to use every means in their .power to prevent this most odious tax being in flieted upon us. . . On the same day the Merchant's Company of Edinburgh adopted some similar resolutions, of which we quote a part, particularly the last, with great pleasure : That an uniform tax upon.income, whether derived from property, profits of trade, professional exertions, terminable annuities, or otherwise, is essentially unjust in itself, inquisitorial in its nature, oppressive and une qual in its operation. That the imposition of such a tax is more especially to be deprecated in the present condition of the country, when the necessaries of life are at the highest rate, when trade is languishing and profile reduced to the lowest ebb. That on these grounds the imposition of an income tax ought to he resisted, and further, that the thanks of the Company be tendered to those Members of the House of Commons who have opposed it, and that they be re spectfully requested to persevere in their opposition . to it by every means which the .forms of Parliament and the Constitution of the, country wilt permit. That is the true spirit in which this weighty affair ought to he taken up, and if the excellent example of Edinburgh be followed, there is yet time to compel Sir ROBERT PEEL to give up his ruinous and insane project. The opportunity is favourable for enabling public opinion in a good cause to triumph over a corrupt and selfish Legislature, and establish, in fact and truth, the dominion of the many over a usurping and heart less few. Although it is pretty generally known in France that King Louis PHILIPPE is labouring under a disease which at his advanced age can have no - other than a fatal termination, it does not appear from the Paris Journals that any apprehension of the conse quences which would follow the demise of this able Prince has seized upon the public mind. This in a great degree is characteristic of the French people At no period of their history did they ever much con cern themselves about the past or the future. Unlike the people of this country, who will allow nothing to consitute happiness which does not please upon reflection, the Trench find in reflection only the disturbance of pleasureable sensations, and regard as the interruption of enjoyment whatever prompts it. The empire of taste, asserted by a new bonnet-shape, or a bale of fashions in other articles of female finery, gratifies the national vanity for the moment quite as much as the most complete of General BUGEAUD'S African victories. The indifference therefore of the French as to what effect the death of the KING may have, not only upon the prospects of Franco but on the peace of Europe, is no indica tion of a want of importance in the subject, or of its being unsuited for the consideration of our more reflecting countrymen. On the contrary, the more indifferent the Fronch appear to it, and the less they prepare to surmount the dangers to which it may ex pose them, the more it is incumbent upon us to adopt such precautionary measures as may best secure us from the evils to which any future disorganization of France must inevitably threaten so near and sympa thising a neighbour as Great Britain. While we admit that the present King of the FRENCH is very far from a popular Monarch, and that if the bad faith of a Sovereign is only justly punished by the distrust and hatred. of his people, Louis PHILIPPE is not more unpopular in France than he deserves to be ; we are equally willing to attribute to his individual influence that great and incalculable blessing—the preservation of the peace of Europe. This is a boon to the world for which we feel good and honest men cannot be too grateful. It is the charity which covers a multitude of sins in the regal life of the monarch Of the Barricades. When the swords of more than half a million of Frenchmen were ready to leap from their scabbards to sustain, at the bidding of M. TRIERS, the dominion of MEIIEMET ALI in Syria,. the single veto of the KING rendered them as impotent for carnage as so many distaff's in the hands of as many women. The fabled deity of storms repressed not the struggles of the imprisoned winds with a firmer or more potent hand, than has Louis PHILIPPE for a period of eleven years, the mad war impulses of his ultra-democratical subjects. This is a highly important consideration. Now were the KING to die, two very momentous questions must instantly present themselves for con sideration. One of them is, however, of so delicate a nature, that we shall do little more just now than allude to it. We shall, therefore, notice it first. It is this :—Would the French nation allow the Duke of ORLEANS peaceably to ascend the throne filled by his father ? Is the power of Louis PHILIPPE sufficiently consolidated for this ; or rather, does he not reign by the mere force of his personal qualities and character ? Every person will be able to do justice to the feeling which suggests the propriety of not now pushing to a solution this branch of the inquiry. Enough, that we moot it for a higher purpose than the gratification of petty passions, or the supplying the stimulant of inuendo and surmise to national prejudice. But supposing no attempt to set aside the Orleans dynasty, it is worth while to inquire whether the Duke of ORLEANS would follow the pacific policy of his father. We feel a persuasion almost amounting to a conviction that he would not. Though wisely restrained from taking any part in the political dis cussions of the day, it is well known to the Cham bers that the DUKE inherits but a small proportion indeed of the sagacity of the KING. He is an amiable and accomplished Prince, but his talents for govern ment are of a very limited order. His favourite among his father's Ministers was that little incendiary M. TRIERS ; and did any misfortune accelerate the date of his accession to the throne we presume M. TRIERS would be the first summoned to assume the direction once more of the National Counsels. What, then, does it behove England to do ? When the unjust steward in the gospel was threatened with the displeasure of his Lord, he made himself friends before hand with all who could help him in adver sity. Let us do the like. By establishing a free and profitable commercial intercourse with Portugal and Spain, we shall make these countries firm supporters of it peace policy throughout Europe. By seizing the present opportunity for making concessions to the wine, brandy, and fruit growers of France, and the fancy artizans of Paris, we shall more effectually ex tinguish the war mania, whatever be the views of the future Sovereign, than if our ships of war rode trium phant in every harbour over which waves the tri colour flag. The majority of mankind, and especially of our continental neighbours, have yet to learn the blessings which peace is capable of bestowing upon them. If they did, they would not b e so rea d y to foolish is each h an o d t other's unprincipled throats, cipled to gratify th e am bi t i on o f rulers. The rapidity with which a West India fleet of steam' . Vessels has been brought into existence, and the manner in which they are constructed and fitted up, are highly creditable to the enterprise of the con tractors, and the skill and ingenuity of British ma chinists. In no other part of the world could such a splendid and powerful naval force have been created in the same time ; and perhaps it may also be said with truth, that no other workmen could have completed the machinery with such precision and adaptation for the purposes intended. The Isis, the twelfth of the vessels contracted for, left *the river on Tuesday, and though a vessel measuring 1,300 tons, with en• gines of 430 horse lower, and the machinery had never been put - in-Motion till she started on her mis sion, every crank and wheel and piston worked as re gularly as those of a well:tried steamer. This is the perfection of art, The magnitude of the under• e THE SUN, LONDON ; P FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 1, 1842. taking is no less wonderful. In three years from the period of signing the contract, fourteen vessels of this large size will be fully equipped, with four boilers and six boats each, sufficient to contain all the passengers in case of emergency, with suitable works for guns when required, powerful fire-engines, and every means of strength and safety that human ingenuity can devise. Such a fleet would be of in incalculable advantage in war, and independent of its vast utility for promoting commerce, and facilitating communication between Great Britain and the whole of the Western World, it forms a powerful gua rantee for the blessings of peace. These vessels could be converted into war frigates in a few weeks, possi bly in a few days, and as all the other nations of the world (taking into account our commercial steam navy) could not furnish one half of the num ber of sea-worthy steamers, we may rest assured that none of them would inter into a rash or unjusti fiable war with this country. These are only a few of the advantages resulting from such undertakings. They promote intercourse with foreign nations, en lourage trade and commerce, and form the most pow erful means of spreading the arts of peace and civili sation ever yet discovered. Great credit, therefore, is due to the late Government for establishing this new system, and we confidently trust it will not be neglected by their successors. Every plan for improvement should be duly rewarded. All the machinery of vessels of one description and size should be constructed on the same gauge and scale, so that any portion of an engine could be obtained at an hour's notice, and the officers and engineers should be amply paid to induce men of talent and skill to enter the service. With these and other improvements, Great Britain would continue, as she has long been, without a rival either as a naval or commercial nation. The French Journals are delighted to learn that Bishop ALEXANDER is unpopular at Jerusalem, and that the Porte has refused to recognize him in an Episcopal capacity. We have no right to complain of this. By sending a Bishop to Jerusalem, where there is absolutely no Protestant congregation, or Protestant place of worship, we have rendered our selves obnoxious to all the ridicule which they may please to cast upon us. There never was a more foolish business than sending an English Bishop, with his wife and children, to convert the in habitants of Syria. All who have travelled in the East must be conversant with the deep impressions of the populace respecting the chastity of the priesthood. We ask these persons, was there anything more likely to fill the inhabitants of Jerusalem with disgust than a Bishop heading a triumphal cavalcade, followed by a wife in a state of advanced pregnancy, and a litter full of children ? 'His very first ap pearance was an outrage against public decency, so far as concerned his family, and a mockery of the humility learned at the foot of the Cross in what re lated to himself. Our Government should learn to imitate the conduct of prudent men of the world, who confine, as much as they can, the exhibition of the weaknesses of their character to the observation oftried friends. The affair of the Syrian Bishopric is not more silly, and not half so unjust as we daily practice nearer home ; but then the Turks know nothing about it, and neither do one half the population in France. Were Syria a British province, and we to treat the Syrians as we do the Irish, we would not only send them one Bishop, but a dozen of them, together with some hundreds of rectors, and an army of priests into the bargain ; and, moreover, we would compel every mother's son of them—Jews, Turks, Druses, Armenians, Copts, and Catholics—to support these ecclesiastics, in the style of Pashas and Emirs, out of the proceeds of a Christian impost, called tithes. And could no other employment be found for this army of divines in a land of unbelievers, we would employ them in libel ling the creeds of the country, abusing its ancient clergy, and vilifying every one of its religious insti tutions. All this we do, and for centuries have done in Ireland. But why expose ourselves to be laughed at by attempting to propagate this system ? In Scot land it proved a failure, and in our colonies it is fast sowing the seeds of general disaffection. As Dr. ALEXANDER, the Bishop of Jerusalem, is really an amiable, learned man, the best thing Sir R. PEEL can do, as we stated yesterday, is to order a Government steamer to carry himself and his family back to Eng land. His first proceeding proves' that he is but ill qualified for such a mission, what ever be the extent of his knowledge of Oriental languages. Had he taken his Bible with him, and left his pregnant wife behind him, he would have shown some signs of a respect for Syrian prejudices, indicative of ultimate success. But. in courting, as he has done, a crown of martyrdom, he has defeated one of the great ends of his mission-- the rendering of the English Church popular in Palestine. According to letters from Madrid of the 22d of March, the Spanish Government begins to be se riously perplexed as to what course ought to be pur sued for prolonging the minority of the young Queen. Her MAJ.EsTr, according to the laws of the Spanish monarchy, will be of full age at fourteen—a period of life when no girl is capable of assuming the government of a great nation. The Regent ESPAR TER° is for prolonging her minority till eighteen, and this can only be done by summoning an extra ordinary Session of the Cortes, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Constitution. Now the revising power of such a body could not be re- , stricted to a single article of the Constitution, unless such was their pleasure. Here, then, is a serious difficulty, which the Government is doing all in its power to overcome. " A disgusting sacrilege," says the Constituciona/ of Barcelona, " has taken place in this city. A man, after receiving the communion at the altar of the Cathedral, took the holy wafer from his mouth, and stuck it, in de rision, on the church door. A similar scandal was per petrated in the church of St. Peter." Madrid Bourse, of the 22d.—Five per Cents., 28 to 281, at sixty days. The dearth of news in the French Journals conti nues. No person seems to pay much attention to the winding up of the affairs of the Chambers, previous to their dissolution. The session has proved alto gether a very barren one, except in the article of nonsense, of which the harvest has been remarkably abundant. Among the industrious gleaners after the reapers in this field, is M. GoLnEßay who has still a committee at work, to discover how the nonsense of the Chambers may be most easily disseminated throughout France. M. GOLBERRY, who is a remark ably good listener, though jhe does not talk much himself, proposes that the Chamber shall appoint sworn reporters, who are to pen every syllable . spoken by the various orators, publish the whole daily at the expense of the country, and address copies free to the whole of the electoral body throughout France. Let only 'a scheme bear( the--stamp of sheer absurdity on the face of it, and the French Chamber of De puties will be sum to appoint a committee to examine. Let it be feasible and rational, and it is fifty to one they will laugh at it ; but if preposterous, they will be sure to assume a grave philosophical air, and, like magpies , peeping into a bone, whence the marrow has been extracted, look the very personification of puzzled incapacity. Not a single Member of the Chamber saw anything dis honest or immoral in a plan for taxing thirty-five millions of people for the political education of a hundred thousand families distinguished from the rest by the very fact of their being more wealthy. Some objection was made by the Editor of the Siecle, who is a Deputy, against a scheme for ruining the press of Paris, but he took merely a class-interest view of the question. That M. GOLBERRY'S plan will eventually he rejected we have too high an opinion of the common sense of France to doubt. What annoys us is that it was not flung to the winds the moment it was proposed. The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected at the Tuileries to-day, or to-morrow. Lieutenant-General do Rumigny, who returned three days ago from Africa, whither he was sect to take the place of General Bu geaud, had an audience the day before yesterday of his Majesty ; yesterday morning, he had a conference of above two hours with Marshal Soult. A great number 41: Prefects are now in Paris, who have doubtless been sent on occasion of the approaching general elections. A Journal announces, that the Electoral Colleges will be convoked for the 28th of August. M. Dufaure, it is said, has announced that his report on iron railroads will be laid before the Commissioners in a week. The manufacturers of beetroot sugar, in the depart ment of the North, will hold a general meeting at Lisle, on the 30th of this month, for the purpose of consider ing what measures they have to take in the present state of the manufactures. The Marquis of Lansdowne has . arrived at Paris.— Constitutionnel. On Monday the Committee on the Budgethaerd the Maditera of War, Foreign Affairs, and Marine. Mar shal Soult gave explanations relating to his department, which is divided into three grand sections--the home service, Algeria, and extraordinary works. The two first, which comprehend the expenses of the army, give a total of 295,909.733 f., 'for 344,000 men and 84,288 horses. To effect the lately proposed reductions, a company for every battalion will be taken away from each regiment of the line'and of light infantry. In ad dition, 100,000 men will pass into the reserve in 1843, and a reduction of 13,395 horses will be gradually effected. Marshal Soult showed .that these measures will produce a saving of 32,656.892 f., but the total diminution only reaches 29,893,2421., in consequence of several augmen tations, which will require a s um o f 2,763,650 f. These augmentations are intended to give a supplement to the pay of the troops in g arrison in Paris and the ba n lie u e. The Minister also demanded teveral large sums for in creasing the number of officers in the new staff arrange ments for the general inspection of gendarmerie ; for expenses of the reserve ; for allowing a higher price for horses ; for increase of charges in the transport of bag gage, and for some changes in the home service. A dis cussion arose on each of these points, and several of the4e items were rwserved, notwithstanding the argu ments of the Marshal. The budget for the marine, divided into two sections, amounts to 98,763,0261.,' in cluding 4,440,0001. for extraordinary works already authorised, and 2,400,000 f. for the construction of trans atlantic packet-boats. Putting aside these two charges, both temporary, the budget for the marine amounts to 91,923,026 f. The Committee was unanimously of opinion hat nor eduction was required in this part of the budget. BOURSE--PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. Frvicli h tier Cent, ll7 50 ... 117 55 ... 1 1 7 45 ... 117 55 4per Cents. ...... S per Cent* 80 45 .. SO 50 ... Si, 45 ... 80 50 ,tank of trance Lanitt:. Sant 1.000/. Shares 112; ...11`29 ...1017 54 —lOl7 50 5,0001. ~wares 1'045 ...5045 ...MA, ~.5045 de:gian Bank 1851 11'57 51 ...1057 50 ...1.57 50 ...1051 50 5 pert:encl., 1840 1116% ... 1004 ... 106% ... 100,i tpanish Active 55% ... 25% ... 25% ... 25% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Portuguese 5 per Cents. NeapUittn ... . O - 16 30 ... 106 50 ... 106 30 ... 106 50 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, It. B 345 .... 345 ... 312 50 ... 312 50 L.B .. 215 .. 215 ... 215 ... 215 Rouen 522 50 ..."525 ... 522 50 ... 523 75 irieaus Strasburg to Bale 2ll 25 ... 241 25 .. 240 ... 240 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Shortly after the commencement of business, some purchases were made in the English Funds which, although to a small amount, had the effect of raising the price of Consols. It has seldom occurred that so large a quantity of unemployed capital has been afloat as at the present time : numbers of the bill brokers have funds in their hands without the oppor tunity of investing them. It is usually the case, that 'at this particular period of the year, discounts are difficult to be obtained, but now, money is more plentiful than bills, although Monday next is consi dered one of the heaviest days of the year, and acceptances falling due that day will have to be pro vided for on Saturday. The great dulness which has for some time existed in all branches of mercantile operations, may account for the small quantity of paper offering ; which, however, shows that trade is not in a very healthy state. Consols left off at 89i buyers' for Money, and 90 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 29 to 31 premium. The settlement in the Foreign Stocks has passed off quietly, although the transactions, especially in Mexican, had been somewhat extensive. Many of the accounts have been carried over to the next set tling day, at rather higher rates of, continuation, great distrust being exhibited in taking foreign bonds as security. A surer criterion of value may be dis covered in the interest demanded for loans upon these documents than in the quotations, as much as twelve per cent. having been paid, some of this de scription being the security. The last quotations of Mexican were 42i to 43 ; Colombian, 27 to 271; the Portuguese Five per Cents., 351 to 35i; the Three per Cents., 201 to 214,and Spanish, 24i to 24i. The last price of Belgian was 103 to 104 ; of Brazilian, 68-3: to 69i ; of Danish, 81i to 821; of the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i to 521; and of the Five per Cents., 1021 to 102/, Railway Shares were all better, and several pur chases were made for real investment. Great Western, 27 to 28 ; the Half Shares, 14 to 144 ; Bir mingham, 84 to 86 prem. ; South Western, 59 to 60 ; Gosport, 59 to 60; Birmingham and Gloucester, 56 to 58 ; North Midland, 69 to 70; the New Shares, 841 to 351; and Brighton, 36 to 36+ per share ; Eastern Counties, 13+ to 124 discount. The conduct of the Stock Exchange Committee in allowing the Converted Coupons of the Spanish Stock to be quoted in their official lists, has been pretty freely commented on during the day s and the prin ciple upon which they have acted remains yet unex plained. Applications were made some time since for a relaxation of their rules in favour of the Greek loan, which was guaranteed by our own Government,• and of the Portuguese Treasury Bills, both of which were refused. These securities have either all been paid oft; or are in the course of regular payment, but pre ference is in the present instance given to the interest due, four years since, from a country which in no single instance has kept an engagement, and which, according to the statement of the Finance Minister, laid before the Cortes, will not, for a series of years yet, be in a situation to make even the smallest re mittance to the foreign creditors, having claims to the amount of nearly forty millions sterling of capital, and about ten millions sterling of arrears of interest. (From The San of Night.) The prices of the English funds are all better, although no great business has been done. Consols 89t 1 for Money, and 898 90 for the Account ; buyers in both instances. Consols, 901 for the May account. New Three-and-a-half per Cents., 99* to 99f ; Bank Stock 1691 ; Lillis. Bonds, 9 to 11, and Exchequer Bills 253 to 30 premium. It was expected that the Bank of England would have reduced their rate of discount, but the meeting broke up, without declaring any alteration, The settlement in the Foreign Stock is going off well; many, however, is very tight, and the continuation in Mexican is t, and in Spanish 3-16 per cent. The prin cipal feature is the qUotation:of the New Three per Cent. Spanish Stock, which is very cautiously received, much doubt being expressed whether any dividend will ever be paid, although professions havegone so far. _lt h as been sold at 20i, and is now quoted 21+ ; the Old Bonds, with the Coupons, 24a 24i ; Mexican, 421 421; Portuguese Five per Cents., 35 to 35+ ; Colombian, 26:1 26i, and Peruvian, 174. A decided improvement has . taken place in Shares, and purchases to rather a considerable extent have been made. Midland Counties, 79; New North Midland, 34k; Manchester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 4k; South Wes: tern, -. 5q; and Brighton, 36k. Accounts from Swan River to the Ist September have been received, and are more satisfactory than they have been of late. The crops were coming on exceedingly well, and hopes were confidently entertained of a good harvest. A quantity of stock had arrived from King George's Sound, and in consequence of many of them having been lost by eating some poisonous plants, a Committee had been formed for the purpose of investi gating its nature, and adopting precautions against a similar occurrence. The fishery was being extended, asd as far as it had progressed, had met with success. The quantity of oil sent home from the Southern Co lonies generally was 6,886 tuns in 1840, and 6,489 tuns in 1839, while the consumption was upwards of 900 tuns more in the former than in the latter year. The export of whalebone also showed an increase. Launceston Papers to the 28th October have arrived by the same vessel. These do not present so cheering a statement as the above, although no particular distress existed, except among merchants, arising principally from overtrading. From the Ist of January, 1840, to the 13th of Sep tember, 1841, fifty-one insolvencies, with debts amount ing to 121,3501, had been declared, while the average dividend would be considerably under 55. in the pound ; two of these parties had been twice 'declared insolvent since 1840. The intelligence lately received of the defeat of the Peruvians by the Bolivians, has proved to be correct, the official account having arrived. It appears that Ga marra. and 500 of his troops were killed, and the re mainder of his army, consisting of 3,000 men, taken prisoners. The Bolivians had marched towards Lower Peru, with the intention of subjugating that province also. LIvERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 30.—Re mains in the same dull state. Middling and inferior de scriptions of American were per lb. lower, and other sorts unaltered. The sales were 400 Surats, 31 to 4* ; 100 Egyptian, 7d. to 71. d; 40 Bahia, 6i to 64; and 2,460 American, 4+ to 6:1, being a total of 3,000 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 30. Was flat, and few sales took place in any stock. A small number of the following Shares were sold at the quota tions. Eastern Counties, New, 4/. 6s. 8. ; Great Western, Fifths, 10* ; London and Birmingham, 1741 ; South Western, 59k, and Manchestsr and Leels, 78A-. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 30.—There has been more inquiry to-day both fur Railway and Bank Stocks, but in consequence of little of either offering, business has been limited. London and Bir mingham, 175 to 176 ; South Western, 59i to 601 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27 to 27* ; Bristol and Exeter, 39+ to 40 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 108. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... [lndia Stock ..... ... 3 per Cent Red !Ditto Bonds i ...... 11 pm g per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red — Ditte New Annuities... blew 36 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 99 pm Jan. 1860 ..... ..... Bank Stock for 0pen...1696 Oct 1859. ........ India Stock for Acct.... 241 Jan. 1860. ... ..... 12,1 Consols for Acct 9O FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pet:rent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgi.n, spm Cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3 51 4 Brazilian ...... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 percept Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent... !Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per Cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent..., 24i Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 27 Ditto Deferred.... . Danish, !3 per cent — French,ii 5 per cent. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — ;Exchange I --e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 423- ;French, 3 per cent —'. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 11i Dutch, 2i per cent. , , 52 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. 102 k SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 London and Brighton (50 paid).. London and Birmingham (90) ......... 175 London and South Western 4 ...... 59} London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 35 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4l Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid • 344 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 941 SUM ,MY OF rinz D nbtt Optnitnt. " Who runs nu; rend." roanxcliz. It is in Paris reported that the.elections for the French Chamber of Deputies will commence on the 28th of August. We hear of no step taken by the Opposition to defeat the Government candidates. The Marseilles journals of the 25th publish the fol lowing telegraphic de3patch, dated Paris, 24th, from the Minister of the Interior to the Prefect of the Bouches du-Rhone, and which was probably sent to all the ports interested in the sugar question :—" The Sugar Bill will be presented at the opening of the next session. If the question were to be brought up this year, it would be compromised, and probably lust, the public mind not being sufficiently prepared for it. Some questions were put to the Government yesterday in the Chamber. After the explanations of the Government, and some speeches, the Chamber passed to the order of the day." The French Minister of War has. appointed a sub committee to ascertain the extent and value of the na tional property in Algeria, with a view to fix the due assessment of the taxes, With M. Laphigne Barris, a Peer and Advocate-General of the Court of Cassation for its President. The other members of the Committee are M. Romiguieres, a Peer, Messrs. Dumont, of the Lot-et• Garonne, Felix Real and Laurence, Deputies, and M. Macarel, Counsellor of State. The Mon deur Parisien states that the report of a Russian loan having been contracted for by a Paris house is premature ; it • adds that no negotiations have yet been set on foot, and that it is.possible the loan will be taken by the house of Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. The merchants and ship-owners of Nantes met on the 24th inst., and elected two delegates to proceed to .Paris to advocate their interests. • The - Commerce states that on the occasion of the mar riage of the Prince, his son, the, King of Sardinia will grant a general amnesty to all political exiles. The Sentinelli de la Marine, of Toulon, informs us that a great number of troops have been embarked for Africa. At the request of the Governor-General Government has ordered all the depots of the regiments to join. On the important question of a commercial treaty with Spain, we find the following in a Madrid paper of the 22d of March :—" The great bulk of the Spanish nation will hail with delight the admission of British manufactured cotton goods on payment of moderate duties, under the impression that some reductions in the importrates of duties on the wines, oils, dry fruits, leads, and other produce of Spain, will be made in England. Cotton goods are publicly sold now throughout Spain, at high prices, though they are contraband, and liable to seizure ; whereas, when their importation shall become legal, they will be sold much cheaper, which, no doubt, will greatly increase the consumption. PUBLIC OPIZIMON,_ The beneficial action of the new tariff as re,_..ards our colonial dependencies, is thus viewed by the Times : " Down to a very recent period—nay, even to the present time—the possessions of Great Britain in the East and in the West were subjected to infinite varieties of duties and restrictions. • Those differences are finally swept away by the new tariff, and we shall know of no distinc tion between the produce of the various colonial provinces of the empire. In one or two of the great staple com modities of the colonies, such as the timber of North America, the duties in the English ports will be reduced to a merely nominal contribution. In all the minor ar ticles of commerce, many of which will now for the first time be cultivated with advantage in the British domi nions, . great reductions will be made on the duties. And if this principle be gradually pursued, the time may come when the commerce of the British empire will be one vast system of coasting trade ; always bearing in mind that the more the colonies are allowed to improve their natural wealth, the more capable they Hill be of affording new resources to meet the public demands." The Chronicle suggests as follows:—" It would not at all surprise us, were Sir Robert Peel, as in the case of the proposed reduction of the malt tax by the Duke of Buckingham (then Marquis of Chandos), to be dependent on the Liberals in Parliament for his success in carrying the tariff. We should only be deceiving our readers if we did not state it as our sincere belief that he will have great difficulty in carrying it. No reliance is to be placed by him on the country gentlemen. To the feel ings that pervade the country they cannot remain in different." The Morning Heron, approving of the new tariff, in regard of British and foreign woods, remarks :—" By taking off the duty on colonial timber we encourage the best sort of reciprocity, while by increasing the tax thereon, and reducing that on foreign woods, we render dearer to ourselves an article useful in ship-building, and indispensably necessary to our manufacturing pre-emi nence, and that on the mere contingency of opening new markets for our goods amongst jealous continental rivals." The Morning Post still labours to supply reasons for the advocacy of the income tax. "It is true;" it says, "that the income tax professes to fall with unusual equality, according to the proportion of the means to bear it. That is , the great proposition in . i its favour, and we deny that any thing has becabrought forward to invalidate that proposition. Let it be granted that it is unequal, still it appears by all the argument that has been brought forward, to be much less unequal than other taxes, and therefore it is fair to say that it operates with unusual equality. It is not to be denied, either, that in some instances the inequality of the income tax is 'pecu liarly stringent,' as in the case mentioned by Mr. Att wood. But this instance, and some others of the same kind, are, we submit, exceptions to the general equality of the operation of the income tax ; whereas the con stant rule, operating in millions qf instances every day of our lives, in regard to., taxes on articles of general con sumption is that of inequality." The urgency for quick and co-operative action among the people against the new tax, is thus im portuned by the Morning Advertiser :—" The consti tuencies of every town and county in the land ought to meet without one hour's delay, and come to such decided and unequivocal resolutions regarding the meditated act of robbery, as shall leave Members no pretext for mis taking the wishes of those w hose representatives they profess to be, as to the course vvhieh they should pursue on so momentous a question." MONEY - TRADM-COMIYZERCE. From the report of the Committee fur Hospital, it appears that the in-door patients, during the past year, have amounted to 1,027, and the out-patients to 6,3231., showing the total of relief returns to have been 7,350/. At the ninth meeting of the British American Land Company, at the London Tavern on Wednesday, the re port stated that, owing to the tax of one penny per acre levied on the Company's lands, a tax of between 2,0001. and 3,0001. was reaped annually from the 5,000 or 6,000 acres liable to it; and though frequent interviews had taken place with Lord Stanley, no removal of it had yet been made. The inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Without met on Wednesday in the Old Bailey. Sir James Duke presided, and the resolution was unanimously carried, " That an income tax was unjust, unequal, arbitrary, and inquisitorial." SPDXTTNG. A good ride-match, " open to all corners," took place on Tuesday at the Brecknock ground, Camden Town. Mr. Lancaster, junior, won in fine style:, hitting 22 out of 24 slots, for the splendid silver vase. LITERARY AND SCXENTIPIC. Dr. Sprenger, a German orientalist, and the late Earl of Munster's Secretary, is now engaged in drawing up a statement as•to how far his Lordship's history . of Mo hammedan warfare can be carried. 1:1le materials will fill five or six volumes. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Greenwich tir ended on Wednesday. The steamers, though crowded during the last three days, afford no in stance of an accident. Upwards of 15,000 persons attended Richardson's, and as many paid for admission to tho Crown and Anchor booth. NILVILL AND DMITAILY. Major Anderson, late of the 10th regiment of Foot, and Capt. Thos. Cradock, late of the 27th, were installed at Windsor as Military Knights on Wednesday. Mr. Waghorn ,has been promoted bY the Lords of the Admiralty to the rank of Lieutenant in the IZGyal Navy, an Act of Lord Haddington's adminstration, evi• dently intended as an official acknowledgment of his ex ertions in establishing the overland route to India. A new and splendid first-rate vessel, to be called the dtoyal Albert, has been ordered to be built by the Ad miralty at Woolwich, and to carry 120 guns. PINE ARTS. Rossini's Stabat Mater was performed at Bologna last week, under the superintendence of the illustrious com poser himself. Clara Novelle, took the soprano part, Ivanoff the tenor, and Count Belgiojosa executed the bass well. THEATRICAL. Batty's Amphitheatre, at Manchester, built about five years ago, and capable of containing three thousand, was totally consumed by fire last Saturday. Mr. Batty is uninsured, and his loss is estimated at 2,0001. commr—rAsizzoNAE LE The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived in Paris, at the Hotel Mciirice. Mr. Edward Ellice has arrived in Paris, from Italy, and Mr. Henry Ellice has returned to the French capital from London. It is said that Chandos House will not much longer be the seat of the Austrian Embassy, Lord Wharneliffe, Lord President of the Council, left town yesterday, for his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Lord and Lad. ) , Somerset have been placed in mourning by the death of Miss Catherine Son.erset, which took place at Weymouth, on Monday last, at the early age o twenty-six. Sir Ralph Gore, Baronet, died at Brighton, on Friday, in his Sad year. His ancestors have held a high station in Ireland ever since the reign of Eli zabeth. Mr. St. George Gore, his eldest son, succeeds to his title and estates. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, with Lord Ed ward and the Ladies Howard, are at Arundel Castle, Sus Sex. Prince and Princess Esterhaiy have delayed their de parture for the present. The Duke of Cabridge left town, on Wednesday, for the Duke of .Rutland's castle, in Leicestershire. NUS CEIGLANIEOUS. The number of Easter visitors to the British Museum, has greatly increased this year. On Monday there were 14,320, which excee d s l as t Whit-M on d a y's visitors by more than five thousand ; on Tuesday, 1,694 ; 0 rll Wednesday, 2,129. On 31st March, 1547, died Francis the First, King of France : his reign is one of the most eventful of that Kingdom ; cotemporary with him were Charles the Fifth of German Henr the Eighth of England, Su ltan So-, Liman, the Constable Bourbon, Luther, and other great ;" ,0 characters. The Germans are said, from experience, to be the best settlers about the Lake Ontario, and during the, war their conduct was excellent. At the burial of the Duke of Norfolk, in the Chapel, Arundel, last wee k, th e styles of the Duke were - 1 9 . : 0 1 pronounced by one of the officers at arms over the grave; and staves then broken, and by the York Hera ld cast, 4. into it. This chap W el, during the civil wars of Charles I.' was used as barracks by aller's soldiers. One o f the Filzalarr tombs has 28 priests ranged round it, and 40 family shields. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual morning walk in the the Home Park ; and the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal were taken an airing. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in, pony carriage, attended by the Countess Dl warr, Dowager Lady Lyttleton ; and the Ladies Elizabeth and Mary West, Lady Caroline Cock s ' lion. Miss Cavendish, and the Earl of Wa rwick, in other carriages. Prince Albert was on hoiseback, acc ° s panied by Prince George of Cambridge, a attended by the Earl Delawarr, Viscount Can' taupe, Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Berkel e y' and lion. C. l iAurra W a les! Their Royal hnesses the Prince of and the Princess Royal were taken carriage airings. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer, the Francis Devereux, and the Hon. Georgia') Stanley arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent rode out to• day, lit' tended by Lady A. M. Dawson. Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Bouverie " r have the honour of joining the Royal diaoe circle at the Castle this evening. thA a The Queen honoured Mr. Partridge 01 ,_ , final sitting, for the whole-length portrait "h for he has painted, by her Majesty's command/ " the gallery at Versailles: His Serene Highness Prince Edward of .- 3 11 Weimer, left Marlborough Hume, Pall.rna yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her INlaie' - ' t at Windsor Castle. Mr. G. W. Usborne, Mr. Tilstone Burstall, and Mr. Harrison, of Quebec, a ' P e k,,, tation from the Canadian Timber Merebi'", had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterds) the Colonial Office. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister/ a O . Baron de Brunow, the Russian Minister , tra , sacted business yesterday at the Foreign Offic`i. Despatches from the Governor of NewOnital ' land were received yesterday at the Colo l t j t e Office. Despatches were also received at n ir Colonial Office from the Governors of Van man's Laud and of West Australia. 1 THE 'INCOME TAX. MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) . r* LIVERPOOL, *ARCH. 30—Half-past Eleven, - . be e) An extremely large meeting of the ineln, o l, of the various Building Societies in Liverll-10, was held last night in the Clarendon-re ° ,o , r , Lord-street, to take into consideration the posed income tax. f ,. al' 1 JAMES WALTHEN, Esq., took the Cha i r, -n o s I doing so, he said the object of the meeting i c ,.., er r very important one, viz., to take into congtiV tion bow far the proposed income tax would . aye Building Societies.—(Hear, hear.) As t° tir • extent to which they would be affected the , : or peered to be a difference of opinion. '-- ° d supposed that not only the property in i o: ' profits would be liable to ,the .proposed 4 4' It was impossible for him, or any other lnr , dual but Sir Robert Peel himself, to be ci , fled at present to give an answer on the sa?. ) lp He (the Chairman), with Mr. Hindle and r oki Bennett, had had an interview with Til ° 0 1/ Thornley, Esq., M.P. for Wolverhampto n / 0 0 this subject, and the result of that meeting"; 0 that he promised to give all the assistance I ,, ll til if o tat' an in furtherance of their views—to $; o • an exemption from the proposed proper''+ ,t, iio' and he promised to send them a copy of S: r OP bert Peel's Bill as soorr as it dares tea•,,tter Friday last he (the Chairman) d a t ': , ; s o', to Mr. Wainwright, the Secretary to Lora 0 . 4 don, on the subject ; and, with the permisg' ° lt etr the meeting, he would read a copy of his le and also Mr. Wainwright's reply. ' le The letter and answer were then read, twr poc suit of which was, that Lord Sandon coulu d o' give any information on the subject, but rio' mised to lay before Sir R. Peel any comn o ' tion the builders might just propose. - 00' Mr. SHORTHOUSE moved the following re' s itl tion—" That in the opinion of this meetiugilg. property and income tax may in all proba.vo4 affect to a partial extent the interest of Bo l 4 ` l o ol , Societies." After commenting at some 104- f IV the tariff, which, as regards the interests l' A, l ll builders, he did not profess to understate' l said there would be another resolution prol i ,.l)` l 4 from which it would be seen that this il a ;:jP„, an initiatory meeting. It was with no itit e n aor ( of alarming the public mind--,they did n':4 1 , 4 0 pose the plan with any political vieWs"; u . wanted to keep themselves ready, and try 1 . ,( the best they could for themselves:—(Hear . , , , t ie Mr. TURNER said he thought Sir R. Peelidl the character and circumstances of Il e s., Societies as well as they did themselves.—( .•tl' He (Mr. Turner) thought it would be uni,;:er the public to expect Building Societies to l'ojog erupted. Not the slightest doubt but 1 391 0 0 1 f ' Societies would be subjected to the tax. The lief thing they had to consider would be, how 0.,..' / was to be paid amongst themselves? 1 0 11 : Mr. RUSHBY proposed the next rescua ocs,4 " That a Committee be formed, consistiog e tr e least two members from each Building Sa r cl ic o 3 ,' ( . Liverpool, to watch the progress of the ,40 Tax Bill through Parliament, to ascertaio iwi.jiit the impost may affect the. members of Pe o rt, Societies, likewise to use every prudent ell obtain a mitigation of this tax, or a coruf" o bry emption from a portion of it, as may apP e . o. 21 densome`and injurious to Euilding Socicasori The resolution having been seconded, . I `' :40 and carried unanimously. A Committee was then formed of ti"T;0 1' ; bers from each Building Society in Liiref;:i.'ol A vote of thanks to the. Chairman 7 4070 carried unanimously, who briefly returner ' A il and the meeting separated. ~(C, ! : tiv , 1 1 ' 1 1 INCOME TAX.. '4 IY: 1 ,0 TO THE EDITOR OF • THE SrD o l l ' ' !F SlR,—Many parties have advanced moue); building of parsonage-houses, workhouses , : Aatf t , i l d and chapels, &c., under the authority e? 05 of Parliament, on condition that certain . portr o piwpft principal are to be repaid annually : - are .:, 0 0 43 0. receiving such sums to be charged to the T d , ..0 0- 1 on the whole sum repaid annually-, or on ; ;:',40 , ,,y , amount received as interest ? Oh, only ° , l jetiy terest of course, has been the reply I_ hav e W i r.,,,,iP generally. I now ask the question Of Y ° 4 4 o o `Vti if the tax is to be charged upon the irrtvcr; door is but fair that life annuitants should be e ' 01) ,, ,ill e, on the market rate of interest on the pure 113 c i i ,43 , #10 of the annuity; as the same principle by " w el,! ‘ t in this case as the other, the extra interest rec ;et,it , a calculation that the principal would be - to t. O tY a given period, together with the jute , af ae, t o tt' life annuitant may put by his portion, the , i'ibel'; i el; , mortgagee of churches, workhouses, Bzee °1.6. . gyre s p. 1 gager may expend the whole sum he r e ` . 0' • ' i annually as a life annuitant. Ilfracombe, March 28, 1842. lO Ol e .' ti THE MOVEMENT. 0 sill,, There are two important public bodies to . 9 1 , , 5 : )';"; April—the'Conference at Birmingham on `'i';' , o‘ . ek e 'r the National Convention in London on the, ' - ';,i; cl iit„ - Sturge's Declaration has been nuraeron s 'i o n i i 0 :1 : - .; Bath, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Devize s ' iec t 7- i sil'„ places. The following persons have been t e- a - a nd vaile..'' legates :—Rev. T. Spencer, Henry Vinee'V ot too alik': Clarke, for .Bath ; Oronterre O'Brien, l'' 1 ; i ! - 9 . Edge and Cirencester ; Abel Cook, Str °l ' g rioilfi r d o', , Hollis, Cheltenham ; and o th e rs. The 14g. ocei: petit tion for the People's Charter has alreadi b u r c 02_it 0e i'r immense number ol,signatures. Large P a o .lo 3PiiPv hake been held in Troubridge, Wettonkess).cco; (count), Frome, Westbury, &c., at which .1. wivore' Prowttng, Roberts, and Robert KempPh P' t , to elected delegates to the National Couventio, 104. sent the district of Somerset, Gloucester, an it( •____________TAady 110 LADY SUGDEN'S BALL AND SUPrri.: ... 5 01 . 5 01, 1t e den gave her first ball and supper for_t,n;iceilor,ftio evening at the residence of the Lord Ch , r y jte A rf).- , ° .1), phen's-green, to the principal nobility anu s k, en aid , r o l e city and suburbs, on which occasion the 1" 0 „ 0 . ji*, e ; of rooms, tastefully decorated, were th!o o _n_ in t tie d e tu oce rl company began to arrive about ten, a nd . "' m itt (,- co of f down until after twelve o'clock. Dane'nl rit all ~, , shortly after ten, and was kept up with . sP un wart!' c iph one o'clock, when supper was an nc,uncen e 0, _,.. pay .ot il . 400 persons partook of the splendid r_ 1 , ) ,. s . _'' 10p t,. 1 :,. a t was resumed after the social meal, a nd . Z_ Fac t. , four o'clock this merning.—Dublin Etc! g w Tuesday. Ba ir., i P fie , We find the following in the Journal of _ id _ w as b . l i "On Holy Thur,day the weather, thoue,ll " ' A veryand t g h r e ea ll t sli c a ro l Ipvrdocoefsspieoonpol people. th eTh C e ro i s i s lf ‘ a v n a t s e e : f l;s 3 : 4ce: 1 the Princess of Beira, and the eldest son . Leg itnn o o il I accompanied by a cortege of our PurTstatinlig re walked walked devoutly on foot, and made then . _ ro. _,,,,, the churches and religious houses of th e .c.i t ,,oo .fl P c c h le ur rg e y he m s :t a D nd on p C r a e r s l e o n s te a d n t d he l in iis w fa i ii t i li b - e at il t: l l .y ";ster.. __,k..,.. %thy, I,_ S .l~lic I 'es t state,s