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ith these lit- w Al rise of as before entlenun gnlations lg as the t now be en found antage in had a dee had been till 00 0 1 e trusteo tended to ing it (s. ;hancella. Df the er Ineetnr he eta° . I he Kr_ r defer?! ; Seci •e r - rished prir 40, eat m W(0 a BC 0. the ef:,' artiankr'. , 1‘45 1.- o 4 aids gr, io7 v ,her ; b 6. not, r such ;lag ;elf js t j 1,40 rrVr w et ant LW' las t P l' ' at ) 1 0P ,ve , i ol l° ce• ord;ri! eJ jet . 0.0' 1 ;4 e) he oa t 6 , 0 0 .ad 0 0 1,• 4 fr oir ;r 1 .6r„!. (1 Ot r il i a v ; 7 l ye fr •a o r m the inquiries set on foot by that Committee. In t taxation put together; on these grounds he should give his 182 ' 1 , also, a Finance Committee had been nomi- I cordial opnsition to the third reading, of the Bill. et, and thoueh it on'y sat cie, season set 11 set wiles , Tie CHA.NCELtentit of the EXCHEQUER trusted the t eliough to I' exp ense s , ow the great causes of the country's ' House would forgive him for again troubling them with a few The „e, and how that expense could be diminished. observations, after the great number of times which .e hail ut z t i b ti eg ht Hon. Baronet said that the honour of the country had Occasion to address them before. The Right Hon. Gen supported at the expense of the (needle bet nhy tleman who had just sat down had thought fit to repeat the 11W..eerdei those wars entered into ? Because they ssly Tried- arguments which had a l rea dy been made use of, and he laid , 1 , .h the affairs of other countries, and they were now pay- considerable stress upon the inequalities of the Bill. He would w n e the penalty. He regretted that the late Government, remind the Right Hon. Gentleman that a Bill precisely analo in'tneanse into office stating that reform, economy, retrench- gnus to the pre sen t w as introduced in 1803 by one Ministry. w f. e t . peace, and non-intervention, were the principles on I and in 1806 by another. It had long been considered as an ii`m," e ' t t :, l they would act, violated the pledges they gave, and I advisable measure to impose a tax epon property, by classes of eed the country into expenses for objects totally worthless. the two ex t remes o f party politics ; they would see Mr. tbutulheimust say, that the present Government always showed Pitt and Mr. Fox both supporting it. The Right Honourable 141:e Yes ready to support the late one in those views. The Gentleman found objections to schedule B. He corn nri., Lord the late Secretary for Foreign Affairs was pre- pliined that in the case of the occupier of land an arid eTat, and he would forgive him (Mr. Hume) for stating trary assumption was made of his profits ; and he said that ea 7 e n s ik e te that he considered him (Lord Palmerston) as the chief no correct estimate could be formed of the profits from the that hef those expenses which were incurred in useless wars— amount of rent paid. This was an objection which applied to n. ,_ was the evil genius who ' led the Government into the the Bill from the earliest period, and was quite as applicable in iraeu whsre they we e found by the Right Hon. Baronet.— the time of war as of peace. The Right Hou. Gentleman said would b a l er. ) He did not think the past history of the country it was wrong to levy the tax according to the rent, but were course afford another example of the Government having re- not all the local taxes, the poor-rate, the county rate, and other taaottur:idn country. Or th t° a Queen's letter to get charity to relieve she distresses charges levied in that way? The Rieht lion. Gentleman The Right Hon. Baronet had promulgated objected to the Bill because he said it had a tendency to induce Principles of free trade; but he believed th a t the owners of land to sub-divide their property into small co mp/e g would relieve the distresses of the country but a farms ; but he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did not see H eou t i e d free trade in corn, and every other kind of provision . hoe - it could have that effect, because, if the capital was with " Dwell only suppose that the Right Hon. Baronet had been drawn from the land and invested elsewhere, it would not „ a t t _ ed to propose these half-and-half measures, in order to escape the operation of the tax ; and also when he considered O ,T he wishes of those around him. What was the condition the advantages derived from large farms he did not think that, 11it'tneeee"ntry might be learnt from the Report of the Com- for the sake of avoiding a tax of three per cent., the landlord st _ , •of Distress. From that Report it appeared that in would diminish the size of his farms. With regard to the next atertahPaotst failures of mill-owners were constantly occurring, schedule, relating to funded property, the Right Hon. Gentle app, nraene the distress of the people had assumed a most ag- man urged the same objections which were stated e on e a IClaced d form. What was said of Stockport would, however, former occasion. With regard to the objection arising from equally to Burnley, Nlanchester, and other places, for- the supposed injustice of levying the same amount "Yth hives of industry, their people happy, contented, and of taxation upon terminable as upon permanent annuities, itcomfortable. which the Right Hon. Baronet telieve that the the House had by a decided majority already pronounced an Wou r i f e ch ange he proposed to make in the Corn-laws opinion. The holders of those annuities stood in the same th Produce an real benefit? Was it possible that he position with those persons who, having a limited income, laid in e ° l. 4 _ 4ll .t such small and trifling changes as he proposed to by a portion of their profits for the support of their families. s se :e h in the tariff could have any immediate effect on the feed- And if they were to draw any distinction between terminable r iot a PPilless, and employment of the people ? Why did he and permanent annuities, they must be prepared to make a oeczepe_asin,oeeut the difficulty by - reducing the twenty-four millions of minue investigation into every person's . circumstances, to as- The Bight Hon. Baronet knew that on former certain the nature of the property of . which he was . the owner. th e ee l nB, when the amount of saving that might be effected in With regard to the objection of including foreigners, in the it hadlenditure of the country was brought before the House, tax, the Hou se had already pronounced an opinion, and he fro m te een urged that they should not take a farthing more should not therefore enter into that subject; but if the Right li ons s 'te Public than necessary; that to effect great reduc- Honourable Gentleman's objection was good as to the interest sish, ei tut'Y should look at their army and navy as they were the which the foreigner had a right to expect from his property . ie tte j l i objects of expense. He knew the manner in the funds, he did not see, on the same principle, h e d ' i tett that appeal was met by the Right Hon. Baronet, but why he should be restricted in the free disposal of th e e'se e l otanalyse the subject, and see what was necessary to his property, especially when he was under the stellifutietition of the cowry and what was not. He would impression that he could dispose of it as he pleased; but the fo thhaevarYittii°lok at the number of men in arms in the army and reigner was too conscious of the advantages he derived they ceansreral different periods. In 1792 the whole marine of from having . his property in the English Funds to wish artille ry consisted of 16 000 men ; the army, 45,000 men ; for an exemption from the imposition of the tax, or to trans -9 en, t h e erY, 4.000 men. In 1822 the navy consisted of 21.000 fer the property to some other country. It was said that it ge moo army of 68,000, and the artillery 6,250, in the whole was not right to diminish the property which the foreigner had 9,5,000 men. This year the navy had 44,000 men, the army a right to expect ; but that amount which he had a right to ex -1'604 line artillery 8,864, in the whole 146,000 men. The Peet was diminished by means of loans..—( Hear, hear. ) nav a l f o °II ' Baronet had asked him if he would reduce their Under schedule D it was objected that the tax would ex pedir ree, and he had said he (Mr. Hume) would do so. The have the effect of inducing persons to go abroad ; but if lie u e o l ' ° .h to China had cost the country 5,000,0001. The the merchants and traders of the country were called on to 4eas .olish act was interfering with the affairs of Syria. What pay a tax of three per cent., the loss was made less to them by n er sl tY, he would ask, was there for such an interference ? a corresponding advantage in the reduction made in the tariff. • dit" r e was, at the present s moment, 34 ships of war in the Me- '1 he Right Hon. Gentleman then objected to the tax on the "fl4 e ne ,„" h, and the expense of that force amounted to upw ar d s ground of immorality. But this tax would operate on the Abe, ""Jui. a year. This showed the manner in which the higher orders of society, to the exclusion of those who hold 9oeßefinances had been mismanaged. He believed that property under 1501. a-year, and as property was in some de he 1; e 7 1 . 0 f that amount might 'have been saved : gree the representative of education and intelligence, those Aati ns -- , n ° doubt that, in every other branch, similar extrava- persons would be withdrawn from the operation of the tax who ones' i s ead taken place. In 1840, there were 14,600 men at would be must likely to evade it. If this tax was not imposed 1 2,7 1 ( igee and recourse had to taxes upon consumable commodities, far al ;in December 1841, there were 41 ships and res ult Ten in th e M e di terranean. Now what had been the greater i nducement would be held out for the evasion had e °I the Syrian exped i t i on? Wh y t h at the Sultan himself o f th e E xc i se an d C us t oms l aws. H e could not see why pro sestiaetlluested M e h emet A li to march into Syria, and take pus- f ese l ona l men s h ou l d not be taxed, and he considered there h ad 15 n ° o Men and an°f it . He might talk to them of Canada, where they was no distinction betwe en th e i r case an d t h at of others who hip, were liable to the tax, exce pt i n d ee d t h ose d i st i nctions which , ti, e se se '" than that of keeping down men who wanted an Execu- any ingenious man might draw with regard to any Bill affect inott eY u ve r nment ; and, a ft er th e expen di ture o f fi ve m ill ions o f ing diff eren t c l asses o f soc i ety. The Right Hon. Gentleman b , the nsteette. Government had agreed that there o ught t o b e an complained at one time O f th e s t r i ct exam i nat i on to which %to t 'eye Government i n th at country. H e t h oug h t there p ersons liable to the tax would be subjected, and at another lentil e „` Q . , he inquiry on these subjects, and he should not rest time he stated that it opened a door to fraud and evasion ; but litee e lin a inquiry had been instituted. In 1822, he (Mr. if the examinati n was stringent, it was for the purpose of of ei e 4 n d strongly pressed on the Government the necessity preventing fraud. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. effe ct _ e ll t e!ion of the army. He had moved an address to that Lahouchere) was anxious to know the expense of the machinery of 1 0 ',,”"tch was carried, and the result was, that a reduction for collecting the Income-tax. The House would understand the , e7; - ' men took place i n a f ew mont h s afterwards, and, in th at t h ere were certain new provisions in this Bill, which gave ene m illion year, th e est i mates were l essened by Part i es an opt i on of going before Special Commissioners to be the Ist, m llon and a half s t er li ng . S u b sequent l y, however, assesse d o f t h e tax, which would create additional expense. It incee ase h ecessary pr omot i on o f naval and military officers was difficult beforehand t o ma k e an accura t e ca l culation of the 14t' i . f d the estim a t es aga i n. He had said enough to shoes expense, but he w o uld now s t a t e to th e H ouse t h e b est estimate tint ellilt were not for the unnecessary expenses of the Syrian as to the probable amount of those expenses he was able to form. anti ea _ uese wars,' and the useless promotions in the army In the year 1815 the expense of collecting the Income-tax te e te vY, ehere would be no need of resorting to an Income- amounted to 300,0001. a rear; but at the present time it wo'ald 183 0 " l neet the expenditure of the Government. In the year not amount to more than half that sum. It was intended to give We re ' t h en Earl Grey's Government came into office, they the collectors of the Assessed taxes the collection of the Income- Lum en s ° etrongly - pressed to lessen the taxation t then tax, and by the additional expense of about 30,0001., the Go. Income tin th e e d the 'country, that they yielded ; and in consequence, vernment were in hopes that they would be able to collect the tigh t Period intervening between the years 1830 and 1835 whole.—( Hear, hear .) In making this statement it was but lin: e r mlllons of boonstxation were in the gross repealed. 872,000/. right that he should inform the House that he had called upon i n : .o ert a j n i , y re.imposed during that time; but, allow- each department of the Government offices, where there were e,•2, 20 1 r Neat, the reduction of the taxation of the country was superanuated officers, to furnish a list, in order that those lee n :WM Let them mark what then occurred. From officers, who were able, should be employed in the collection of - to 1833 the ree _ na a reduction of taxation of 7,000,000/. took place ; the tax.— ( Hear, hear.) He believed that by acting e et , ti ' e te . e was then 52,000,0001., and it only fell on the re. upon tins principle, and by employing throughout the el est , r. l to 49i millions sterling, thus giving an instance of the country existing officers of the Government that could hl f icity of the revenue arising from the reduction of taxation, be rendered available, he believed that the expense of collect -4114 83 . 7 the taxation of the country amounted to 51,300,000/. - ing the Income-tax would not be half what it was in 1815. to i t had unhappily gone on . increasing. In 1833 it amounted With respect to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman the ik;, 1 ,t 7 . 0 0,000/. ; in 1839, it amounted to 5 3.000,000/. ; in Member for Oxford, he had only to say that if he excluded L Z It again amounted to 53,000,000/. ; and in 1841 it from the operation of the tax all persons having an income of mo unted t o near l y 54 ,000,000 / . He would tell the House, 150/. a year, it would create a reduction in the property to be s it ' s a, that in his belief this country cou ld h ave more easily paid taxed to the extent of 33,000,000/. a year. In conclusion, he eW Sears 'ago 70 milli ons , th an i t cou ld now pay 53 millions , might say that he believed this tax was the best that could be I And s4h7? Beca use t ra d e was th en i n a sound and prosper.. adopted, and that it would effect the relief which was so much son condition, while it now languished. The prospects of the required by every interest in the country. ‘'etintry Were at the present moment truly lamentable. He Mr MANGLES thought that the statements that had been has sorry to find that the Right Hon. Baronets instead of at- made relative to the defalcation of the revenue in India had ' e k e _ pting to relieve the national distress by a repeal of the been considerably exaggerated. He could assure the Right h rn-laws had had recourse t o a b egg i ng- l etter, which should lion. Gentleman th a t, if he went to the India-house, he would ; tl "erhayelaFen issued. H e wou ld ta k e that opportunity of find that they were no t at a ll di sposed to sue to him in forma !,e, si ng his regret at the little sympathy manifested by the Pauperzs; they might, it was true, put forward a claim, and as O tt e of the Established Church in the distresses of the people, he thought, a just claim, that a part of the expenses of the Go -11;1 t the little they had done for their relief. They seemed, vernment of India should be borne by this country. But they til e :l: i t* . sorry to find, to have almost all allied themselves with would not appeal to him on the grounds of the embarrassments to littsleteer classes. The majority of the clergy were leaeued which they were subjected. The Government of India could now try he aristocracy, and the labouring population of the coup- raise money at 4 and 5 per cent. ; whereas, in the days of Lord 6piewilee come influenced by a feeling against them. He h a d Wellesley, th e y p a id an i nterest of 10 or 12 per cent. Their "atill'a the Poor-law Bill b ecause he thought it was right embarrassments were not therefore so great as the Right Hon. ZRpopulation of the country should be thrown on their Baronet seemed to imagine ; and the Right Hon. Baronet had eaePrces ; but he protested against the keeping up a law for therefore failed to make a case for the imposition of his In tiqte,Price of corn, and rendering it difficult for a poor man come-tax out of the supposed difficulties with which the Indian `st a it; e a. subsistence. He did not believe that the mea- Government had to contend. les et N i llight Hon. Baronet would produce the relief that Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to address a few words to the teies4se, - • I He had gone through the expenditure of the House on the subject of the proposal of which he had given t he It -.4 he could undertake to reduce three millions of the notice, that the tax should only be paid upon any sum above Deele. Se g e' with no injury at all to the public service, within 150/. He believed that if they were to . adopt the plan intro ttotnilatesne had already pointed o u t th e i mpo li cy o f t h e ex- d uce d by th e G overnmen t, t h ey would find that many parties es t i Ia ta e the Syrian expedition, undertaken in contradic- having incomes of near 2001. a-year would find means to reconcile Clsatseie7stem of foreign policy laid down by Mr. Canni ng it to their co nsc i ences t o re t urn th e i r i ncomes a t l ess th an 150/ . qtsq","se e 'a to by Earl Grey. Taking the expense o f th e Be beli eve d th a t t h e temptat i on to suc h a f rau d wou ld b e t telPedition, there would he a sum of twenty millions removed by adopting the plan of calling up' n parties to pay t ate l ns fladn, a. vote - that had, up to last year, been fourteen. the tax upon any sum only which their incomes might realize, eni "1 e t •' e known that the Right Hon. Baronet would bring above the standard which the Government had fined. If men gf: b 4 t e ,' lures so excellent in principle, as far as his ex- of honour would not stoop to deceive, they must yet remember ne7teeeeud have gone he would not have been so long out that they were dealing with men as they were; and not with of sin ti(Hear, hear, and laugl.ter. ) But they had expe. men as they ou g ht to he. He had g i ven h er Majesty's Govern ktpt Sh i e bad effects' of Tory rule, and they were afraid scent the fullest credit . for their intentions; he had, therefore, An hi- g Under their sway again; they therefore thrown out a proposition to apply the sliding scale to the th e lg e. Roetaething bad, in order to keep out some- Income-tax ; but as it had not been adopted, and as, in the Nee i !lihi„e• But putting this aside, was the measure of Present state of the House and the public business, there was no IN tti 4 zi on. Baronet calculated to remedy those evils ? chance of coming to a vote upon it, he should not trouble the Il t siptr t , e ° ll ld do it but a reduction of taxation, arid a free House any further upon it.-- . ( Loud cries of " Divide.") alit t li !i, iee e _ r o, without which no foreign nations would sym- Mr. VILLIERS said at a time when they were about to add to tli sv uts l , l 4 this naion. His Queen's letter, and his doling the miseries of the people it became Members on this side of g en t t i l re — Je Money, would only add to the difficulties in which the House not to let it go forth to the country that the peopl e h i 'vethseaeed. He therefore objected to the present mea- were satisfied with this measure. He believed that the re eeleeltesteOut first instituting those preliminary inquiries, by suit of their reflections both on the Tariff and the Income-tax te k rtit te Y Might ascertain what might be reduced in their ex- was, that the former was not compensatory tor the latter, and ,„,,:p 4, abd the causes of the distress. The principle of that the latter was essentially unjust. They might get what 111 . s ittt .. N i t / kind of income, on the average of the last three they expected from the Income-tax, but it would have the ef `o isi t ' "rove a very serious evil. He objected, also, to feet of making their taxes less productive, as it contained no. q oterial part of the plan. lie did not, however, object thing calculated to improve the resources of the country. Itg l as 's rt Ystaxcontrary, he would reduce six It ought not to have been roposed without inquiry into the to t4 ati cel jaxation, which pressed on the people, and lay the causes of the . deficiency, which he believed were the laws that 4."'lets s i Property of the aountry. Ho gave his opposition interfered with trade and employmen . t, and enhanced the cost k i lt e . isl ug of the Bill on principle. of subsistence. If they founded their revenue, therefore, on thi te ttl estleOPlEß reminded the Hon. Gent:eman, and the the expenditure of the people—if they diminished their re 'tate.°l4 e n a rl the years 1837 and 1838, the whole country, sources for expenditure, they must expect to see their revenue tie % of tienn to the other, was crying out on the inefficient diminished also. They . did nothing to extend trade, either s. Y le s • t othe credit of the o, el ti lt ' ell. nail It w as i t s eine leer the estimates by one million and a half; the home consumer to expend more on home manufactures. lie!:athe q ' e t hile a war was raging in China—at the moment Calculations had been gone into of the amount withdrawn from : 1 g ad incurred a disaster in India, the operations of the consumption of manufactures, and it had been estimated ail a Wereth ee net yet finished—( Hear, hear, from Sir R. Peel)— by Mr. Gregg at fifty millions within the last . four . lis t i l the' i "aw that France had increased her navy by eight Years. They should have . gone into art inquiry taese,islint, the would ask the Hon. Gentleman, and the on this subject, and done all in their power to have improved en ether . the condition of . the people. But they had not proved . th . at es.h7iie this was a time in which it would be advisable i lle ql , to t t r eduction in their navy ?—( Hear, hear.) With anything in their other measures would improve the condition liven of e Income-tax, he thought it very unjust to tax of the people, and it was certain that the present tax must de atoellad the thousand a-year landed property, and the man who teriorate that condition. The country was in a deplorable con %kilt. ; s aute amount from t ra d e or i n d us t ry , to t h e same dition ; that co n ditio n was cons t a .ntly growing worse; and c o u ld Ne tt 110_ either co u ld h e approve o f t h e tar iff o f t h e R i ght no t b e expecte d to men d o f i tse lf . Th e R ig h t Hon. Baronet r e lo t s :let, which kept up th e d u ti es on 'butter, cheese, sugar, had acknowledged himself that it was expedient to p rov id e I l s t e s lutt e s\ rv il l ee h's, all a r ti c l es which w ere th e f oo d o f t h e poor. wider and cheap e r ma r k e t s f or th e i r i ncreas i ng popu l at i on, 1 4 1 . -9l reee n erNDHAIII repelled the motion that the forms of and an admission to the same effect had been made by 0etet_......-eiliteitobwed the Hon. Gentleman opposite to bring such the Vice-President of the Board of Trade. It was only this . day that a witness had stated in that t k e_ tejs, had done against the aristocracy of the country. 'et f 4 EIS defended the course taken by the Hots. House, in giving evidence on the truck system, that the emi ts:qt. eft Montrose. dition of the working classes was worse than ever, inasmuch 1 / 4 1 1 0 7qatlNG Lk h l k e ys fully concurred in the opinion expressed by as their masters had given them warning in anticipation of the operation of the Income-tax. He was justified, therefore, in e _ne tses ee e i "Ober who had just sat down, and he joined with saying that this tax would do nothing to amend the condition of 'eon i te rf e - r /i gek just tribute to the consistency of the Hon. the working classes, and he should not be doing his duty to his :it e ky, B „, - - lontrose. He had always consistently advocated 'it - ts r etes e ln When that word was least popular in that House. constituents if he did not offer it his strenuous opposition. Mr. D'ISRAELI rose amid loud cries of " Divide, divide." Nif n it s itel c t ° the Bill before the House, the first question He only rose to state a fact. The Hon. Member for Guildford ~4 V, ). ' : s tir to effect the object for which it was intended? had impugned his statement as to the revenue of India. The rl, ~,I r eei.was that Bill to raise money from the country statement of the Honourable Member himself as to the $ I , ney ttitilUst mode ; and they, as he had often heard them Indian revenue was most monstrous ; he had not included I ,, l lit%t . ltlett ee t by that Income-tax, lay the burden of taxation in his statement of the amount, the expense of collecting. which e s ts AI it ee " to the:ability of the party to pay.—( Hear.) By was very great, and he had included in it the sums they had se 1 4 ei ex ac tual' ti.m i t. e,,,,. e . Y-chargedjparties for an income while they stipulated to allow the native Princes. The Right Hon. Gen 'tstee % e npt of- no income whatever. If a person sus- tleman had admitted that the English Government had advanced , 4 0:Zthp 4 one schedule he could not set that off 500,000/. to the Government in India. It was well known that 1 710 1 0 s abeam, under another. Take the case of a merchant, the latter Government was unable to raise any loan at this A I , to l e' tenger of stock to the amount of 1 000/. a years' y h e e tf, insment, and it could only look to us for a supply. He would litt il heh a l e h to ia trade two or three thousand a not at present trespass any further on the attention of the House, ke , 14 6 ,„ % Pay an Income-tax under the they provisions o but he would be prepared at a future time to substantiate any t E i ey t i tt _ principle of the Bill was that were to statement which he had made on the subject of Indian finance. Z,V kl 4 lt 4 i f upon their income, and yet by the provisions of Mr. BROTHERTON said, as it had been stated that the thena e he lin a ee 'were actually by Act of Parliament made to labouring classes would not be effected by the Income-tax, he se e r" n income which they did not possess. There wished to make one or two observations for the purpose of re etatie4ltle j te r an ornaly its this in the records of legislation, except •C: tl, 4 leit '!wr wee of the salt tax in Germany, by which the futing that statement. He would only refer to the cotton-tax. The tax upon the raw material was about 600,0001., and it was ' 1 " 11 but °la de topay,not according to his actual con- ttet at , well known that the effect of that tax was to reduce wages to a s hi t me, ta x e , eo according to the notions of the tax-gatherer, who very considerable extent. From the importer of the raw mate ze ett , I ,2se e rdin g to what he thought the party aught to rial to the exporting merchant, who exported the cotton in its it tl 'a s !e th e !! the schedule D, the tenant's schedule. In anufactured state, 'it was taxed six times over, and this mate- Ne U illgt s'Y transfered the tax from income to rent. This tl • ts Mea t lti, sie ee 2 of ascertaining the profit of the occupier of • e t rally diminished the wages of labour. For this reason, he et -e ine t o t h "dales i n ~ e next schedule,' and he must say that this mu , st protest against trie income-tax. rhe House then divided, when the numbers were— tit , t h Itself an argument against the ;Bill. In this .. 255 e lk tle • .e' charged For the third reading i 4 1 %ties. The terminable annuities the same as perrna- Against it e r eft et t aie e l a ,he Bight Hon. Gentleman said there was no Majority for the third reading 'O w l t , tif e s e. ' rh ith, but this did not make the case less un- The Bill was then read a third time. c ost s the Public e s e proposed to charge 3 per cent. on that On the question that the Bill do pass, sti,treeitse, manufacturers funds which were merely the reimburse lis"f the 1 h N: 44 to holder's capital.—( Hear, hear.) He The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed the amendments of which he had given notice. esteuhedule for . trades and profcssions. . rers and traders would be subject to , 'Mr. G. W. WOOD said that the object of the amendments is4a, be.etieteitaittivestigation as they were subject to by former moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to exempt literary and charitable institutions from the operation of the oi l tee t i et o it would be remembered, was an insurmount- Act ,but the words of the amendment did not bear out the N e ,° san t s t l 'asnsuch as the manufacturers, in their petition nth en t h e that object ' in view. He (Mr. Wood) would therefore propose though the House lowered the charges, and , 11, ,, t,ti et.s3.stePer;.centage, they I to remedy the defect, by moving the insertion, in the 25th line, did not care for that so long 1 f the words "and part of any building." tittle mewut 'searching .investigation continued. He be o The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to i„tok p en ote re)f invesueation would have a most injurious lootehzeeemmitted. Looking ‘: l ,'..talitl, „!_ . _morals . of the country ; perjury and fraud would The House divided. The numbers were— the proposition. at the circumstances attene For the original motion 'e 4 ll'O'ulloreftle.-taxes, he regretted to fear that. perjury Against it \n , th e _, a be extended so far and wide as materially to Majority —lo3 07141,,edineiacter of the British merchant at home and he.:‘° dr at :" e ll ear. ) These were the objections to which he On them otion that the Bill do pass, The amendment was then . agreed_ to. ees t see er _tile attention of the House, and though they tN' l 4 e,. Jen before, he must say that they had met with : he had given notice of his tette, th e , ",tever from Gentlemen on the other *ie He ' . Mr. T. DUN COMBE said that iritelstion to propose a clause to the effect . that persons con ' e ee tif t h•"„ 111 Was full of injustice ; injustice belonged si(. te the : tributing to the Income-tax should be entitled to the franchise. - laeli t &ll l s and could not be avoided insuch - The Right Hon. Gentleman said that he would . introduce a a system ; ""' 4 , the Bill were greater than in all their other clause of that sort, but he (Mr. Duncombe) did not find it in they amended Bill. If there was such a cli.use he oboulii be - 106 SUN, LONDON, WT)NESDAY EVENING, JUNE I . 1842: glad to hear it read. He thought they were passing a Bill the forms of which they were not aware of. it H. PEEL was understood to say that it was his inten tion to introduce such a clause. After a short conversational discussion, the Bill passed. SELECT COMMITTEES. On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN, the following Se. lect C9mmittees were appointed : Dean Forest Poor Bill.—Earl of Lincoln, Sir Thomas Frc. mantle, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Hale, Mr. Esteourt, Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Blewitt, Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun Mr. Fox Maxie, and five to be added by the Committee of Seleet'on. On Dear, Forest Ecclesiastical Districts Bili.—Earl of Lin coln, Sic Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Hate, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Blewitt, Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun., Mr. Fox Maule, and five to be added by the Committee of Selection. On St. Briavel's SIT all Debts Bill.—Earl of Lincoln, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Hale. Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Phillpotts. Mr. Cripps, Mr. Blewitt, Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun., Mr. Fox Maule, and five to be added by the Committee of Selection. •+ • n 4 .1., perplexed with humiliating expedients to sustain exist ence. Still we must judge of his public - ability by its public effect. The eloquence which won the universal alniration of a time of remarkable ability, must have been true eloquence. What orator since has produced an equal impression ? What distinguished effort of any Parliamentary speaker has ever attained the,same dis tinctions ? To what speech of any man of his time did the head of the Ministry, the head of the Opposition, and the head of the political writers of England or the w,x•ld—Pitt, Fox, and Burke----offer . the same emulous panegyric ? These are proofs, evidences to which we have never heard an answer, and to which we never ex pect to hear one. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The adventures of Mrs. Trollope's favourite Bar nabys in America, are recounted with less spirit and humour than usual. There is too little incident, and too much prosy dialogue which rather encumbers than helps on the plot, in the present chapters. The authoress appears solicitous rather to supply a cer tain amount of matter with the first crude notions that suggest themselves, than to develope character with skill and propriety. Yet her notion of making the Widow Barnaby write a volume of travels in Ame rica is not amiss, and should create much merriment, if cleverly followed up. The good lady is now just on the threshold of her literary undertaking, and talks a world of dull twaddle on, the subject with a Mrs. Beauchamp, whose portrait is, we suspect, greatly overcharged. Her pretty daughter, Annie, with her strong prejudices against England and everthing English, is delineated with far more effect, and bids fair to become the redeeming feature of the story. The "Schoolmistress Abroad" is an imitation of Sterne's quaint, abrupt mode of sketching scenes and incidents of travel. It is by Mr. Hood, but possesses little of his drollery, for he appears to have undertaken the subject not eon amore, but as a sort of task-work. "An Essay on Legs" is light arid fanciful. " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus" contains some sensi ble remarks on the folly of those who would prevent, if they could, every species of innocent amusement on the Sabbath, and allow the poorer classes to cultivate nothing but a long face. "It is difficult to say," re marksrto " which p re d om i na t es , t h e cruelty 0 of th ese propose d restric trictions, recollect that th ey emanate f rom r i , 1 rr when. the HoraceNN selfishness Smith, parties who have six days in the week for their amuse ment; and that their rigour falls 'exclusively upon the humbler classes, who have but one for the purposes of innocent and healthful recreation. It used to be held that he who gives to the poor lends to the Lord ; but our Cantwells seem to imagine that what they take from the poor, they give to the Lord, an opinion equally unworthy of a good man, and derogatory to a benig nant Deity." We take credit to ourselves for having always opposed, to the utmost of our power, the efforts of the Agnewites to convert the Sabbath into a day of gloom and contrition, when it should be one of inno cent, lawful recreation. A Sunday mortification is a thing we do not profess to understand —and we have been no inattentive readers of Sacred writ—but a Sunday repose and cheerfulness of nature is just what accords with our . notions of true unaffected piety. Woman's Love," professes to be a tale founded on faeeltis by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, and is told with earnestness, but rather too much in thiit jerking, epigrammatic style so characteristic of this author. " Professional Idiosyncrasy" is an ingenious idea, skilfully worked out. " That clothes," says the writer, " do in fact exert some considerable influence on the disposition, is manifest in the case of the barrister, on whom the wig and gown exercise a paramount sway, enabling him to browbeat witnesses, and to advance impertinent inuendoes, not to say, ab solute untruths, in a way that he would be ashamed to practice, when divested of these habiliments." A whimsical theory, somewhat similar to this, may be found in one of the early chapters of Swift's " Tale of a Tub." " Spring" is a lively poem from the pen of the editor. But the reader shall -judge for him self : Come gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness come !" Oh 1 Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, How couldst thou thus poor human nature huui ? There's no such season. The Spring ! I shrink and shudder at her name ! For why, I find her breath a bitter blighter ! And suffer from her blows as if they came From Spring the Fighter. Her praises then, let hardy poets sing And be her tuneful laureates and upholders Who do not feel as if they had a Spring Pour'd down their shoulders •! Let others eulogize her floral shows, From me they cannot win a single stanza, I know her blooms are in full flow—and so's The influenza ! Her cowslips, stocks, and lilies of the vale, Her honey-blossoms that you hear the bees at, Her pansies, daffodils, and primrose pale, Are things 1 sneeze at ! Fair is the vernal quarter of the year ! And fair its early buddings and her blowings— But just suppose Consumption's seeds appear, W lib other sowings ! For ine, I find, when eastern winds are high A frigid, not a genial inspiration ; Nor can, like Iron-Chested Chubb, defy An inflammation. Smitten by breezes from the land of plague, To me all vernal luxuries are fables, Oh where's the Spring in a rheumatic leg, Stiff as a table's ? I limp in agony—l wheeze an d cough ; And quake with Ague that great Agitator ; Nor dream, before July, of leaving off My Respirator. What wonder if in May itself I lack A peg for laudatory verse to hang on ? Spring mild and gentle? —yes, as Spring-heeled . Jack Lu those he sprang on I In short, whatever panegyrics lie Iu fulsome odes too many to be cited, The tenderness of Spring is all my eye, And that is blighted ! w~ `~ e r ; And now what a din Without and within ! For the court-yard is full of them.—How they begin To mope, and to mowe, and make f aces , an d gr i n Cock their tails up together, Like cows in hot weather, And butt at each other, all eating and drinking, The viands and wine disappearing like winking. And then such a lot As together had got ! Master Cabbage, the steward, who 'd made a machine To calculate with, and count noses,-4 weer The cleverest thing of the kind ever_ seen,— Declared, when he 'd made, By the said machine's aid, Up, what 's now called, the " tottle" of those he survey'd, There were just—how he prov'd it I cannot divine, — Nine thousand, nine hundred, and ninety, and nine, Exclusive of Him, Who, giant in limb, And black as the crow they denominate Jim, With a tail like a bull, and a head like a bear, -Stands forth at the window,—and what holds he there, Which he hugs sith such care, And pokes out in the air, And grasps as its limbs from each other he'd tear? Oh! grief, and despair! It's LP Scroope's poor, dear, sweet, little, curly-wig'd llx it ! Whom the nurse had forgot, and left there in his chair, Alternately sucking his thumb and his pear! What words can express The dismay and distress 0? Sir Guy, when he found what a terrible mess His rursing and banning had now got him into? That wordA, which to use, are a shame and a sin too, Had thus on their speaker recoiled, and his malison Placed in the hands of the devil's own " pal" his son FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Therekare some beautiful thoughts respecting the influence that mothers have on their children, their sons especially, as regards their after-destinies in life, thrown out in an article entitled, " A May Noon in a Parlour Window." The author instances several eminent individuals, the course of whose ambition has been shaped by their mothers; but he makes no men tion of the most eminent of them all, who has left it on record, that it was to the principles instilled into him, when a boy, by Madame Mere, that he owed his fixed resolution to win an undying reputation. Never did her exhortation to the reserved, thoughtful Cor sican lad,—" Be di s ti ngu i s h e d, my c hil d !" pass from his mind. To his father he owed little, and remem bered little about him ; but he never forgot, when at s2hool at Brienne, or, subsequently, when the leader of mighty armies, the apt and impressive maternal comments on Plutarch's Lives. In like manner, it was his mother's precepts and example that first implanted in Johnson's mind a love of reading and meditation, and 'aid the seeds o f hi s su b sequent l i terary celebrity. " Hoaxing Histories" is a whimsical account of a hoax passed off by a wag on a party of Blues, who were anxious to become acquainted with the poet Pope, and were led to believe that he was that illus trious individual. There is no great point or spirit in the narrative, which is carried on by means of dia logue ; but, nevertheless, it is very passable reading. Mated and Checkmated" is a pleasing story, whose scene is laid in the East. A young Prince of Persia falls in love with a beautiful girl, the .daughter of a famous chess-player, wooes her in disguise, and not till he has achieved his conquest, informs his fair bride that her husband is of the Royal blood. This de nouement will remind the reader of " Lalla Rookh." In the remarks on the " Camden Society's recent Publication," the writer justly observes that " of all the distinguished personages of Queen Elizabeth's Court, the Earl of Leicester has, perhaps, most exer cised the speculations o f posterity.' Little, indeed, is known of this once famous individual, and that little is not much to his credit, whether as a man, a statesman, or a soldier. One thing is certain—namely, that he was most unscrupulous as to the means by which he acquired and maintained power, and did not hesi tate to remove obnoxious personages by poison. " Flowers and Weeds from Olympus and Parnassus" is a string of critical notices of some recent poems; and among them is a review of Mr. Robert Mont gomery's " Luther," which is handled with very little ceremony. The " Poniatoswki G ems " i s an elegant poem from the versatile pen of Dr. Maginn. " My Life and Times, by Nimrod," furnishes us with a picturesque sketch of an old-fashioned Welsh squire, Mr. Corbett, who appears to have been a perfect specimen of a true gentleman in mind and feeling, if not in superficial polish of manner. " Fitz-Boodle's Confessions" are amusing gossip, detailing with infi nite unction the misfortunes of a young man who blighted all his prospects, matrimonial, military, and otherwise, by an inordinate love of smoking. Here is his account of his first military disaster : In the army my luck was much the same. I joined the —th Lancers, Lieut.-Col. Martingale, in the year 1817. I only did duty with the regiment for three months. We wore quartered at Cork, where I found the Irish doodheen and tobacco the pleasantest smoking possible ; and was found by his Lordship one day upon stable dut.T, smoking the shortest, dearest, little, dumpy clay- nipe in the world. " Cornet Fitz-Boodle," said my Lord, in a towering passion, " from what blackguard did you get that pipe?" I omit the oaths which garnished invariably his Lord ship's conversation. " I got it, my Lord," said I " from one Terrence Mul lins, a jingle-driver, with a packet of his peculiar to bacco. You sometimes smoke Turkish, I believe ; do try this. Isn't it good?" And in the simplest manner in the world I puffed a volume into his face. " I see von like it," said I so coolly, that the men, and I do be lieve the horses, burst out laughing, He started back—choking almost, and recovered him self only. to vent !such a storm of oaths and curses, that I was compelled to request Capt. Rawdon (the Captain on duty) to take note of his Lordship's words, and unluck- ly could not help adding a.. question which settled m _3y ' bu'siness. " You were good enough," I said " to ask • me, my Lord, from what blackguard I got my pipe ; might I ask from what blackguard you learned your language?" This was quite enough. Had I said " from what gentleman did your Lordship learn your language ?" the point would have been quite as good, and my Lord Mar tingale would have suffered in my place ; as it was, I was so strongly recommended to sell out by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, that, being of a good natured disposition, never knowing how to refuse a friend, I at once threw up my hopes of military distinc tion, and retired into civil life. My Lord was kind enough to meet me afterwards, in a field in the G/aumire Road, where he put a ball into my leg. This I returned to him some years later with about twenty-three others—black ones—when he came to be balloted for at a club of which I have the honour to be a member, Thus by the indulgence of a simple and harmless pro pensity—of a propensity which can inflict an injury upon no person or thing except the coat and the person of him who indulges in it—of a custom honoured and observed in almost all the nations of the world—of a custom which, tar from leading a man into any wickedness or dissipa tion to which youth is subject, but, on the contrary, be gets only benevolent silence and thoughtful good-hu moured observation, I found at the age of twenty all my prospects in life destroyed. I cared not for woman in those days ; the calm smoker has a sweet companion in his pipe : I did not drink immoderately of wine ; for though a friend to trifling potations, to excessively strong drinks tobacco is abhorrent ; I never thought of gamb ling, for the lover of the pipe has no need of such excite ment ; but I was considered a monster of dissipation in my family, and bade fair to come to ruin. AINS WORTH'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Ainsworth heads the present Number with his tale of the " Miser's Daughter," wherein we find an animated account of the proceedings of a Jacobin Club, who are surprised in the midst of their discus sions, by the abrupt entrance of a party of Grenadiers sent out to arrest them. Th e esca p e o f th e would-be conspirators over the roofs of the adjoining houses, is very spiritedly described ; and the conspirators them selves are well pourtrayed, with the single exception of a formal, pedantic old Baronet, Sir Norfolk Sains bury, whose conversation, abounding to excess in hard, learned phrases, is most ridiculously caricatured. " Beauty and Time," is a fanciful little allegory from the pen of Miss Pardoe, whose powers of versification are .by no means of an ordinary character. The "Russian Prince," is a passable story, whose scene is laid in Oxford. " Legends of the Monts-Dores," are by Miss Costello. They are told with much earnest ness and simplicity, and the descriptive touches inter spersed through them, greatly assist their effect. " The Murder Prevented," is a rhymed narrative, the lines'of which halt a little in places. The serious por tions are by far the best, for the humour ap pears forced, and pumped up as if with pro digious effort. An " Exhibiti on Gossip,"is a series of brief, off-hand critical notices of some of the more remarkable paintings in the present exhibition. Most of the remarks ate shrewd and pertinent, but Ere the horn, at the gate of the Barbican tower, Was blown with a loud twenty-trumpeter power, And in rush'd a troop • Of strange guests !—such a group Ai had ne'er before darkened the doors of the Scroope ! This looks like De Saye—yet—it is not De Saye— And this is —no, 'tis not—Sir Reginald Braye— This has somewh a t th e f avour of Marrnaduke Grey— But stay !— Where on.earth did be get those long nails? Why, they're claws !--theri, Good Gracious !—they've all of them tails ! That can't be De Vaux—why, his nose is a bill, Or, I would any, a beak I—and he can't keep it still Is that Poyniugs ?—Oh Gemini !—look at his feet ! ! Why, they're absolute hoofs!—is it gout or his corns That have crumpled them up so ?—by Jingo, he 's - horns ! Run ! run I—There 's Fitz-Walter, Fitz-Hugh, and Fitz-John, And the Mandevilles, pere et filz, (father and son,) And Fitz-Osbert, and Uffurd—they 'ye all got them en! Then their great saucer -eyes— It 's the Father of lies And his Imps —run ! run ! run I—they 're all fiends in disguise, Who've partly assumed, with more sombre Complexions, The forms of Sir Guy Le Scroope's friends and con nexions, And He—at the top there—that grim-looking elf— Run ! run I—that,' s the " muckle-horned Clootie" himself ! CAPTAIN MANBY. Sir C. NAPIER presented a petitM33 from Captain Manby, pra ) ing th e House t o t a k e hi s i nvent i on i nto consideration, and moved for a Select Committee to refer the subject to. Sir R. PEEL thought if the Hon. and Gallant Officer went to the Board of Admiralty, the matter would be better discussed there than by a Committee of the House. He thought the House ought to be allowed time to consider the subject. Sir G. COCKBURN said it would be better to delay it for some time, to afford a more full consideration of the subject. Mr. HUME said it appeared rather strange to bring torward the subject without. previous consideration.—(Hear.) Capt. PECHELL suggested that some time should be spe cified for again bringing the motion forward. Sir R. PEEL said, if the invention was one of public import ance, he should recommend the Board of Admiralty to try the experiment. But, if inventions of this kind were to be investigated by the House, he hardly knew to what extent they might be occupied with such subjects. If the t mo!ion were postponed, he would consult with the Board of Ad miralty. Sir 'C. NAPIER said that Captain Manby only wished to give evidence before the Committee. The Hon. and Gallant Officer opposite knew Captain Manby, and said he did not think a Select Committee would be refused. Unless the Right Hon. Baronet would give him his assurance that the subject would be taken into censiderasion by the Admiralty, he should more the appointmteot of a Select Committee. Sir R. PEEL said, that all he asked was an opportunity of reading the petition before he gave any pledge. It the Gallant Officer was determined to persevere, he must vote against him, but if he would allow the matter to stand over, he (Sir R. Peel) would confer with the Board of Admirity on the subject. Sir C. NAPIER had no objection, upon that understanding, to postpone the debate till Thursday. the debate was then adjourned till Thursday. The Poor-law Amendment Bill was deferred till Tuesday next. The New SoUth Wales BM was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. We have read with great pleasure. Sir Richmond Shakspeare's " Narrative of . a Journey from Heraut to Ourenbourg on the Caspian," which heads the present Number. This journey was undertaken in 1840, and its object was to obtain the withdrawal of the Russian army which was at that period within three days' march of the' city of Khyva. The gal lant officer accomplished his mission so satisfactorily to,all parties concerned, that on his arrival at St. Pe tersburgh he was personally thanked by the Emperor Nicholas ; and when soon after he came to England, he received•promotion and rank for his services, and is now Military Secretary to the Commander-in- Chief of the Bengal Army, at present in the Khyber Pass, on its way to relieve General Sale. The nar rator gives very minute details of his proceedings from day to day ; of his sufferings from intense thirst in crossing the Desert ; and of his voyage across the Caspian to Ourenbourg. But the most entertaining passages in his Journal, are those wherein he sketches the habits and characters of the nomadic tribes of the Turcomans, whom, con trary to general opinion, he represents as a cowardly, crafty race intent on pillage, and careless what atro cities they perpetrate on those unfortunate travellers who may chance to fall into their hands. In the " Sketches of Italy"—the most hacknied of themes— there is a graphic account of the approach to Venice, with which the tourist seems to have been much dis appointed, justly remarking, " to apostrophize distant Venice, as travellers do, as a cf ty of noble edifices rising out of the sea, such.being unquestionably the fact, is all very well, and very veracious ; but to plain vision, any given city, divorced from the magic of its name, rising out of water, and at some miles' distance, must appear, while this earth is round, very much the same as if it had the misfortune to be below water level. Even when you draw near Venice, the first buildings offered to sight are by no means of a character to suggest that they spring up as by an enchanter's wand, rather than in the usual course of scaffold. building." In the " Passages in the Career of El Empecinado" oc cur several romantic incidents, illustrative of the cha racter of this enterprising Spanish soldier of fortune." The Verdict of a French Jury" is a singular account of a trial that took place in France in the year 1834, and excited public attention in an extraordinary degree. The prisoner was a young man of rank and fortune, who was accused o f having entered the bed-chamber of the daughter of a French General at midnight, and proceeded to the worst extremities. The evidence was exceedingly contradictory, nevertheless he was found guilty, and still remains in prison expiating his crime: " Things of the Day," is a ,piquant melange of criticism, anecdote, and biography. In alluding to Madame D'Arblay's Memoirs, the writer makes precisely the same objection to it that we made while noticing the first volume, and complains in no mea sured terms of its intolerable egotism. Ma dame D'Arblay evidently laboured under the ridiculous notion that she was one of the greatest luminaries of the eighteenth century, and that society was exclusively occupied with the consideration of her powers as a novelist. . Hence there is scarcely a page in the first volume that is not devoted to the subject of " Evelina"—just as if it were one of those glorious productions destined to immortality ! Never was poor authoress so mistaken in her estimate of herself and her works ! Of her six or eight tales scarce one is now remembered. " Evelina' sleeps tranquilly , on the shelves of old-fashioned circulating libraries, and " Cecilia" and " Camilla" keep her company. Yet there was talent in these works—some humour, much shrewdness of observation, together with a power of pourtraying and contrasting character ; but nothing that indicated the presence of first rate ability. Of Hannah More—Madame D'Ar blay's contemporary—the writer observes, that " she was one of the most fussy women, alive . or dead." This is true; but it is not the whole truth, for the sainted Hannah—the " tenth Muse," as her sycophantic admirers called her—was neither more nor less than a pompous propounder of shallow, twaddling, orthodox common-places. We defy her warmest advocate to point to one really vigorous or original idea in' all her voluminous works, whether prose or verse. She has added nothing to the general stock of knowledge ; she has suggested no new ma terials for thought ; but merely repeated, in grood set phrase, what has been said—and better said too—at least a hundred times before she ever took to scrib bling. Her " Ccelebs " is dreary twaddle ; her tra gedies, if possible, are worse ' • and asSonher theology, it has nothing but it s or th o doxy to recommend it. We quote the writer's sketch of Sheridan, who started into celebrity about the same period —or nearly so— as the over-rated Hannah : Poor Sheridan ! the world was willing enough to do him justice, and a great deal more. His manners, talents, and even his vices, were exactly of the order which the world loves. He was, of all the men of his day, the most gifted by nature with variety of extraor dinary powers. But he threw them all away, and, after a life of as restless and fruitless anxiety as ever wore out the spirit of man, perished deserted, unhappy, and un done. lie had but one want, and that was a formidable one—he wanted dignity of mind. Nothing could teach him the value of principle. Ascending from the humble condition of the son of a travelling lecturer—for to this the elder Sheridan had ultimately fallen—he suddenly rose into the most showy circles of professional, public, and aristocratic life ; was the first dramatist arid the first wit of a period distinguished for stage authorship and social animation; suddenly appeared the first orator of Parliament, in a time which boasted of the memorable names of Pitt, Fox, and Burke ; and gave the promise of raising British eloquence to the noblest heights of Greece and Rome. I am perfectly aware that all this has been doubted ; that he has left but little behind him ; and that Sheridan's suppression of the Hastings' Speeches apparently justifies the common idea, that they were merely things of the time—gaudy flourishes, the tinsel vesture of a temporary and overworked imagina tion. But the speeches which excited the wonder which we know those singular displays to have excited—which first held Parliament, and then the whole assembled legislature, in astonishment for hours together—which were not merely endured, but admired by such men as Burke, Pitt, and the whole crowd of taste and talent who had been taught eloquence by those illustrious masters, and taught fastidiousness by the habit of witnessing excellence, cannot have been tinsel or temporary. We know that the House was in a tumult of applause ; that every man without doors was quoting the fragments of those great performances for months together ; that all the journals of the time were labouring to collect hints, figures, maxims, the strong rebukes and brilliant appeals of those magnificent ornaments. And are ue, not entitled to ask, could this effect have been produced without something that was worthy of admiration—something that deserved to be recorded as one of the great memorials of intellectual power—some thing that ought to have been preserved and commemo rated as the orations of antiquity are preserved, in evi dence and illustration of the intellectual rank of the national genius ? That Sheridan never published those Speeches is as much to be regretted as if the Parthenon had been swept away in the days of its first splendour, and before it could have given the architects of future ages the rules of the bold and the beautiful in their noble science. That Sheridan's omission to publish them arose ,first from the various dissipations of a life of fashion, next from the various vexations which so soon began to sow his path with thorns, cannot be doubted. No man earlier felt the vanity of human life, or discovered the wretchedness of attempting, without fortune, to sustain himself in a rank with the wealthy of the world. In a few years he was utterly ruined ; and literature, elo quence, and wit, gradually passed away from a mind BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Notwithstanding the want of freshness and novelty An the subject, the remarks on the " Life and Songs of Anacreon" will be read with interest, for the writer's heart is with his theme, and he insensibly carries his readers along with him. What we chiefly admire in his essay, is its light, conversational charac ter ; there is no formal pedantry about it ; no at tempt to show off classical information; the observa tions are such as easily and naturally rise out of the subject. As respects the translations, they are ju dicious and tolerably faithful, more Anacreontic than Moore's, but not so much as Cowley's. But it is dif ficult—we might almost say impossible—for any English version to give an adequate idea of the origi nal Greek. How tamely shows the " Medea" of Euripides in the languid, prosy, paraphrastic transla tion of Potter ! And who can venture to say that he knows aught of Homer, after perusing the " Iliad" by Pope ? The cursory remarks on water-drinking are amusing, but, seriously considered, do not apply to poets, not a few). whom have been awful water drinkers—Southey,: ► instance, and Wordsworth, and Cowper, and many others that we could men tion. " Richard Savage "is fuller of stirring incident this month than usua_. The details of the death of Sinclair are given with terseness and vigour. " A Chapter on Beards " i s suggested by the writer's re collection of his first shave. The theme is inge niously treated, but a little more breadth of humour would not have been amiss. In the " Great Eagle," the writer, who signs himself " A Man about Town," sketches the physical and mental peculiarities of a half-savage Englishman, who for nearly twenty years had been located in the American back-woods, and been adopted into one of the numerous Red Indian tribes. On his return to hi s na ti ve - coun t ry , h e be- I came a regular visitor at Oftley, in Henrietta street, where the writer was frequently in the habit of meeting with him, together with divers other two legged curiosities. 'The " Great Eagle"--for such was the only appellation to which he would conde scend to answer —was, of course, a famous hand at the war-whoop, and the Indian war-dance, and on one occasion absolutely frightened his landlord into fits, by taking out his scalping-knife, bounding towards him with a shrill whoop, and making it ap pear that he was bent on his utter annihilation. " Precautionary Measures" shows the f o ll y of being over-cautious in one's actions, as is duly i nstanced in the case of an Englishman in India, who, h av i ng his imagination full of serpents, tigers, &c., wa s so need lessly on his guard against them, that in his fancy ing he had been stung while sleeping his bed by a venomous snake, he jumped up and c u t out the part diately afterwards that it was merely a small, harm less lizard that had crawled over his naked arm. " John Bull in Tartary" is from the practised pen of Mr. Morier who, as most of our readers _know, is at home in the East. The story regards the adventures of an Englishman who found his way, by some means or other, to a Tartar camp, where he was hospit a bl y received, and requit e d th e Khan's hospitality by walk ing off with his favourite daughter. " The French Cook" relates the well-known anecdote of Vatel, who destroyed himself, like an ancient Roman, with hi s sword—it sho u ld h ave b een w ith his spit—b e cause the turbots intend e d f or th e di n ner of LouaiessctohleepoFafontiiiherde teenth had not ar r i ve d i n ti m e ! `` Robin s p i c ki ng up the Crumbs" i s a qu i zz i ca l allusion, accompanied with appropriate w oo d- cu t s , to the late a Strawberry Hill k n i c k-k nac k s an d curiosities. T om Ingoldsby's descripti on o f " The Devil's Dinner party" is one of hi s b es t an d most f antastic lege n d s . Sir Guy Scrope, a gr i m o ld English Baron, having invited some friends to dine with him, and being an noyed at their want of punctuality, exclaims, in a pet, " the devil take the dinner," whereupon the fol lowing incident occurs : In p, terrible fume He bounced out of the room, He bounced out of the house—and page, footman, and groom 13(;itnced after their master; for scarce had they heard Of this left-handed Grace the last finishing word, side - tla roughout his entire career, until he settled finally in the taanor-house at Dulwich, where he died. He kept close on the one spot, where he made his money, still accumulating more and more, until the time came for his avatar amongst the groves and gipsies of Norwood. Such a man was sure of distinguished honours in his parish. He was rated to the poor at the highest rate that was paid by anybody in Southwark—namely, six pence per week; and he served the office of church warden. But it is a great comfort to know that Shah spare was also rated in the same place, at the same tit ne, at the same amount, so that he had at least as good a 'wine as Alleyn; although his poetical nature ren doled him so far anti-parochial, that it does not appear he ever served the office of churchwarden. " There was no intercourse between Shakspeare and Alleyn. They lived near each other, but were as far apart in spirit as summer and winter. All that is known of Private visiting between them or their families, is, that during Alleyn's absence in the country, immediately afro • his marriage, Shakspeare ca ll e d u p on M rs . All eyn to tt II her that he was not acquainted with a certain Mr- Chnloner, who wanted to borrow 101. from her, and wiry was rogue enough to pretend that he was known to her :husband and to Shakspeare. This was a simple act of neighbourly courtesy. Shakspeare had heard that the, ft .flow was an impostor, and he said as much, and s glad Mrs. Alleyn did not lend the money. "1. ke almost all men who make fortunes as Alleyn di 3, be was of a litigious disposition, and constantly in vtivoti in disputes and law-suits. On such occasions, he g met ally contrived to throw the onus upon his oppo nents, so as to make it appear, if possible, that they broke the peace, and not he. He rarely c o mmence d an action, but he reduced the circumstances at issue to such an extremity, that his opponent was compelled to begin, and to i ticur the initial expenses, or abandon his claims. Alleyn was on the 'vantage-ground of capital, and knew it. He could afford to wait, and starve the enemy into compile o ce. In all his money quarrels (and he does not appear t 4 , have had any other, for he was vulnerable only on the 01 to spot), his active subtlety was visible through every az ticulation of the argument. His guards and feints we re full of inveations and adroitness. He always anticipat ed the defence or assertions of his antagonists, which suggests an ill-natured suspicion as to how he came to know them so well beforehand. He always seemed Lc apprehend, when lie was recovering a debt, that his opponent would plead having already paid it, but, thoughtlessly, without getting a receipt ; and when others we! e recovering debts from him, he put them upon the ',proof of the obligation, anticipating, a t th e same time, that they might possibly allege that they had foolishly suffered the obligation to be incurred, without obtaining ;an acknowledgment in writing. Alleyn was, in ail hu man truth, what is called a hard, honest man ; but his honesty , had a very ugly bodyguard in his sharp p.aacdce. lIIEVROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. We are glad to meet with another of that intelli gent seJes of biographical and critical papers, the " Note r ßoOk of an Irish Barrister," which form by far the most attractive features of this somewhat monotono us Magazine. The subject of the present sketch is the Right Hon. David Pigot, one of the most emit tent Irish lawyers of the day, of whose forensic o. ratory we are told, " the attributes of his style are e Ininently graceful. It has a winning har mony, a fe iscinating attractiveness, and now and then a spirit-sti Bring energy, but even then the trumpet has a silver .sound, and the temporary excitement is not allowect to disturb the soft lineaments that are characteristi cof his manner. We have heard him address Jur aes with great effect. He always selects what is mos tt, fit to be urged, and by grouping it into such forms as may catch the attention, or impress them with peculiar force, and scattering over the whole such trains of argument, or sarcasm, or rea sonings, as e very one must feel to be natural, and own to be povtre if 'ul, his success is great." " Savindroog" is a tale Al *ten by. one who is evidently familiar with Orienta 1 manners and localities, and who de scribes occas Tonally with infinite minuteness and energy. It tis the cleverest tale in the Number. " Hymn to '7 enus" is a translation of one of Metas tasio's best 1 3 cries. We subjoin a portion of it : Proi ritious in splendour D !scend from above, 0 Ir , taus delectable xther of Love 0 be: c u tiful Venus, Win ose smiles have been given For MI 55ruiSon earth, rtntPiroi.rapture in heaven ! Thou i :hose eyes dancing, Witt I light airy motion, Make j oyous and fertile Th‘ s land and the ocean Earth with the human race For thee is teeming, Unde'r Sol's fruitful ray Fervidly beaming. Near to the laughing stars, Placidly shining, The clouds are all scatter'd, The winds are declining. The green sunny meadows Around thee are flowering, Thou stillest the - waves When the tempest is lowering. For thee the tremulous Splendours of heaven shine forth, and the curtain Of darkness is riven ; While o'er the firmament Wantonly straying, The light airy Zephyrs Of Spring time are playing. Enflam'd by thine ardours The feather'd creation ;Cour forth in thy temple Their pure adoration. The dove and the maiden, Tho' timid , ne'er falter, 33ut brave ev'ry danger To rush t o thi ne a l tar. , TAIT'S MAGAZINE. In . the present chapter of Mrs. Gore's tale of " Abedneco, the Money-lender," the character of the dry, hard, close-fisted old usurer is brought out with considera' tact. He had once, it seems, warm and kindly fec slings ; kn ew w h a t it was t o en t er t a i n a fer vent attachment to one beloved being, for whom—as he tells B stsil Annesley—he would have perilled every hope of hi s soul, in this world and the world to come; and could make ready sacrifices in the cause of friend shi.p ; but his sensibilities had been outraged ; his love had Iv aen treated with contempt and ridicule; and his friend: ;hip betrayed; and thus, burning with a sense of it i tol era ble wrong, he had by degrees with • drawn hin iself from society, suffered hate, distrust, and maligoity to take possession of his soul, and at ealoc ted the vocation of a usurer, as much with a view t o gra tify vindictive feelings by witnessing the suff er i nr of those with whom he came in con- Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh overrates, we think, the merits of Alaclise's paintin g o f H am l e t . I t i s clever, and the drawing is good ; but.the countenance of Hamlet is absurdly exaggerated, and as for the King, he is a wretched failure, without expression, force, or dignity. We perfectly agree with the critic's strictures on Turner's pictures, whose ge nius seems of late to have fallen into a state of torpor or dotage ; yet, because he is an R.A., his inexpli cable daubs are all hung in the most conspicuous places, while others of infinitely greater excellence are placed in such obscure positions that it is scarcely possible they can catch the spectator's eye. " People Who Haven't Time" is an ingenious little essay, containing several miniature sketches from life. Here is one, the truth of which will be obvious to every reader who possesses the slightest faculties of observation :—" Hairbrain is always in a hurry, and always ' too late. He has never yet found sufficient time to complete anything he undertook to do. Life is just long enough to allow of a beginning; and to break off in the middle is his destiny. He never seems to lase a minute ;he would turn every moment to account, yet he never has a single instant at his command. Life has no pauses for him ; he talks, reads in breathless haste, without the slightest reference to punctuation, and would not stay while he could count one,' even at a full stop. He has no patience with the rests in music, and which have called out in the pit, to Garrick delivering the soliloquy, to 'get on.' He is the most honest fellow in the world, but he once borrowed fifty pounds, and has never had time to return it. Ex istence is too short, he argues, to allow any man to promise and to perform too." The " Joiner and his Mates" is a translation from a German poem. We cannot vouch for its accuracy, being unacquainted with the original, but it reads off with spirit. " A Gossip about Edward Alleyn," is a short biographi cal sketch of the founder of Dulwich College, from which we select the following extract : The sources, then, of Alleyn's wealth were numerous, and like springs in the earth, from whence flow the fer tilizing streams, many of them lay out of sight, and were unknown to his contemporaries. He trafficked in dogs, and bulls, and bears, and kept itinerant showmen to traverse the provinces, and bring him in the profits of their exhibitions. He was himself an exhibitor, in like manner, at Paris Garden. and baited a lion before King James in the Tower, with three dogs. He lent out money by way of annuities, and upon interest. He specu lated to an unprecedented extent in theatres, possessed inns and houses in different parts of the town, and was an actor to boot, and a dealer in the literature of the drama (which he evidently followed as any equally literally-minded man would any common trade), in his nnanagerial capacity. , Yet even all this fortunate corn. biDation of speculations would scarcely have stood him in so much profit, if he had not had a peculiar genius for procreating money. He never lost an opportunity of turning the merest trifle to account. This sense of gain was perpetually present to him. He knew that what was saved was gained; and he suffered nothing to go to waste. He was always getting his theatrical dresses mended, or his hose dyed; and he used to write copies of his letters, or other private memoranda, on the backs of any scraps of paper that had already been used for some other purpose, and that were thus made to do liduble duty. He had the keen and subtle instinct of ali money-getters, and did not suffer external appearance to .:feep pace with the pragress of his fortune, but pru dently restrained himself all along within the same cau :ions and economical habits that marked his outset. The original nature of the grub still inspired him in that advanred state of being which the entomologists call the imago form. He never left the old house on the Bank --gP% tact, as to minister to his love of gain. It is not cf.en that we find professed money -lenders driven to their trade by motives of this sentimental character. " A Lecture on Cowper and Burns" is by Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer. There are some clever critical remarks scattered through it, as m i g ht be expected f rom one so conversan t with the poetical as, Mr. Elliott. The following observations are just, though by no means remarkable for novelty "Burns's muse was manliness; he was honest and fearless. The muse of Cowper was conscience ; he was honest, but not fearless ; he trembled, and a shadow overthrew him—but it was a shadow darker than the shadow of death. He would have been a far greater poet than he was, ifla in a had not made a coward. Th e h o p e o f Burns is more poetical than Cowper's despair." Of course, because the range of hope is infinite; and the images drawn from pleasure are essentially more poetical than . those drawn from am p . In another passage, we think, the Corn-law Rhymer somewhat overrates the powers of Cowper, who, though a great, was unquestionably not a first rate poet, nor fit to be named on the same day with Burns. The " Cold Water Cure"—what a remedy when the thermometer is below zero !—is an account of a remedial system that bids fair to eclipse Morison's Pills, and the famous nostrum of Brandy and Salt. The originator of " Hydropathy"—as it is learnedly called—is a self-taught German, by name Priessnitz, who, it appears, has already accumulated a fortune of fifty thousand pounds; and has now an establishment at Graefenberg containing npwards of five hundred patients. If he would agree to qualify his doses of cold water with just a wee modicum of Scotch whis key, or even bran:iy—for we are by no means p ar . ticular—it is f ar f rom improbable that we ourselves might become one of his patients. But to water, whether hot, cold, or luke-warm, in its unsophisti cated, elementary state, we entertain a sincere, and, we humbly trust, well-founded, aversion. " Miss Burney'S Diary and Letters" is an agreeable notice of the last volume of this posthumous publication. As a favourable specimen of Tait's poetry, we quote the " Song of June" Night's conqueror I, on his ebon-roof trey My mantle of twilight hangs haughtily. The glistering stars from their temples of space Look down and grow dim o'er the Islesi embrace ; For my chariot wheels carry sunlight afar, And my oriflamme, lightning, aye challenges war, Till hill calls to valley, and mountains reply, With the thunder I wield while I traverse the :ky. But conclude not my life passeth drearily Though I frown, and have shadows, While the li?e winds his horn, I ring scythes in the meadows, With the whetstone at morn, And at night send the mower home wearily. About the green hedges, I convolvulus twine ; Drive kine to the sedges ; Give bloom t o th e vine ; In the brook plunge the peasant-boy cheerily. I canopy lanes for youn g lovers to stroll In the dimness of eve, by the light of the soul ; Where the glow of my roses Illumines the shade, Yet vainly opposes The blush of a maid ! Ah lovers ! fond lovers you ne'er can commune; With a sensitive confidant secret as June. 2. Age blesses my feet ; for I bring him the joy Which surrounded his thoughts and his heart when a boy; He shall dream in his porch of full fifty years gone, When he loitered a listener in woods, not alone— No ; a face that was fairer, with soul insincere, Poured its pisonous balm in the coqueting ear Of her he adored, till.fire flashed from his eyes, And he thrashed the intruder, and bore off the prize;— My sweet magic his dreamy thoughts brightening. I have flowers for rough brambles ; Gild the broom in the wild ; I dry meads for the gambols Of each dear happy child ; The bonds of all Nature's love tightening. My bloom-pencil streaking Full orchards, I ply, While hay-wains are creaking To homesteads hard by ; The fawn and the leveret frightening. I will fill the warm air with a myriad hum, And the dragon-fly bold, to your horse-fold shall come ; Where nightingale pineth, And young squirrels grow, And brown glow-worm shineth 'Midst foxgloves below, Oh, citizens ! citi zens ! come and attune 'Your dull souls in forests and pastures of June. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited ler Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday forenoon, at Buckinglasm Palace, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent lunched with her Majesty and his Royal Highness: Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Palace soon after two o'clock. from attending the examination at the Home-oilite. On quit ting the Palace the Right Hon. Baronet returned to the Privy Council. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Excel lency Count Mensdorf, left the Palace in the afternoon for an airing, in an open carriage and four. Throughout the whole of the drive her Majesty was most enthusiastically received by all classes of her subjects. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting, were on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Angus a and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George visited her Ma. jesty in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda sent to inquire after the health of her Majesty. The following members of the Foreign Dipl oma ti c Corps arrived at the Palace in th e course o f t h e d ay :—The F renc h Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire, the Belgian Ali r:ister and Madame Van de Woyer, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Portuguese Minister, the Bavarian Mi nister and Baroness de Cetto, the American Minister and lbs. and Miss Everett, the Saxon Minister, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Lisboa, the liussian Minister and Baroness Bre now, the Austrian Minister, the Grecian Minister and Madasne Tricoupi, the Danish Minister and Countess Rerentluw, the. Wurtemburg Minister and Baroness Ilugel, the Hanoveriatu Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Venezuelan Minister., the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy, the New Grena.la Charge d'Affaires and Madame Moaqttera, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen, M. Del Pozzo, M. Pinto de Soveral, Count Revel, Baron de Canitz, and M. Lobo de Moira. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales andthe Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were to en an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Mensdorf, and the Counts Hugh, Alphonso, Alexander, and Arthur Mensdort, and attended by Lady Portman, Lord Rivers, Captain Meynell, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. From ten o'clock in the morning until the close of the after noon, Buckingham Palace was thronged with the Nobility and Gentry, calling to make their dutiful inquiries after the health of her Majesty. Among them were Lord and Lady De nman , Hon. Misses Denman, lion. Mrs. Denman, Duke and Duthesa, of Buckingham, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Rifd a s Honourable H. Goulburn, Colonel Sir George and Lady Couper, Sheriffs Magnay and Rogers, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Saunderson, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Sir R.., Lady, and the Misses Gardiner, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Grey, ' Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Gen. Sir G. and Miss Murray, Sir John and Lady Macdonald, Miss and Mr. Norman Mao. donald, Mr. and Mrs. Errington, Earl and Countess of Clan- william Lady Rivers, Dowager Lady Ri vers , M r. Ch ar l es and Lady datherine Cavendish, Miss Cavendish, Dr. Henry Lee, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Earl and Lady Katherine Jermye. Bishop of Sodor and Man, Earl of Minto, Lord John Russell, Hon. W. Bathurst, Countess Delawarr and the Ladies West, Mr. and Mrs. Gaily Knight, Viscount Duncan, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Espizasse, Re, corder of Rochester, Lord Portman, Lord and Lady Stafford, Gen. Sir H. and Lady Grey, Right Hon. G. S. and Lady Agnes Byng, Admiral Sykes, Duke and Duchess of Northum berland, Marquis of Normanby, Archbishop of Canterbury acd Mrs. Howley, Mrs. George Hope, Lady Ashburton, Miss Baring, Colonel Wood, Colonel and Lady C. Buckley, Anne , Countess of Newburgh, Dr. Chambers, Sir G. and Lady Quentin, Miss Quentin, Sir R. and Lady Fitzwygrans„ Earl of Clare, Countess Dowager Clare, and Laity Isabella Fitzgibbon, Lord Dal meny, 'Viscount arid Viscountess Chelsea, Mr. Edward and Lally Emily Foley, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and 1' iscountess Maynard, Lord and Lady Norreys, Duke and Dnehefes of Norfolk, Earl and Countess Albemarle, Lord and Lady Cotten ham, Sir W. and Lady Augusta Cotton, Earl and Countess of Roseberry and the Ladies Primrose, Lord and Lady Waterpark, Earl and Countess of Ripon, Sir J. Kempt, Marquis and Mar chioness of Downshire, and Lady C. Hill, Colonel and Mrs. Darner, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Earl of Radnor, Mr. Montague Gore: M.P,, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Dunalloy, Marquis of Headfort and the Ladies Olivia and Alary Taylour, Earl of Bective, Mr. Alderman '1 hotnp.on, Mrs. and Miss Thompson Sir Thomas Wilde, Duke o f " R ut l an d, E ar l and C ountess of Haddington, Sir Henry and Lady E. Hardinge, Lord Leigh, Earl and Countess of Pembroke, Sir E. and Lady Bowater, Sir D. and Lady Kinkel' Dowiger Lady Ki n l oc h , Earl and Countess o f Clarendon, it'd and Countess Cadogan, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Sir It, Westmacott, Lord's A. and G. and Lady A. Paget, Lady and the Misses Wheatley, Countess of Jersey, Lady C. Villiers, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouekere, Sir W. Fremantle, Sir Fred. B. Watson, Lord and Lady and Miss Foley, E ar l o f Stamford, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Viscount and Vis countess Pollington, Lady Sarah Savile, Hon. and Rev. Philip Savile, Mr. and Lady Emma Vesey, Sir Charles and Dr. Aldis, Major-General and Lady Isabella Wenissd Sir J. Lushington, Chairman of 'the East India Company ; Mr. Cotton, Deputy-Chairman ; Mr. Lyall, M.P. ; Mr. Master man, M.P., Sir Thomas Freemantle, M.P,, Mr. and Mrs. Bannerman, M r . J o h n R oun d, .M.P., Duke Duk and Duchess of Richmond, Lord and La dy Monteagle, Earl and Countess of D en bi g h, Admiral Sir Charles E. Nugent, Earl and Co ,teas and Lady G. Grey, Ladies M. and E. Lambton, Lord and Lady Byron, Rev. Dr. Russell, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Colonel Powell, M.P., and Mrs. Powell, Marquis of Northampton, Earl and . Countess of Charlemons, Marquis of Anglesey, Lord and Lady Courtenay, E ar l and Countess of Listowel, Dowager Countess of Listowel, Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, Right Hon. E. Ellice, Bishop of Lon don, Mrs. and Miss Blomfield, Sir S. Hancock, E ar l and Countess Powis and the Ladies Herbert, Sir Walter Riddell, Lord and Lady Sondes, Viscount and Viscountess Berea ford, Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Mr. B. Est court, Countess of Morton and Lady Ellen Donets. Earl of Arundel , Mr. John Round, Jun., M rs. an d Miss Lon stantia Round. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Earl 'of Dun more, Sir Robert Chester, Lord and Lady J. Eliot, Lord and Lady R. Grosvenor, Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Mar quis and Marchiciness of Wellesley, Mr. Rich, Sir J. Hob house, Earl and Counte ss of Carlisle, Lord and Ladl Teign mouth, Sir S. ggins, Sir G. Houlton, Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lady Dover, Hon. C.. Howard, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and Mrs. Monk, Bishop of Worcester and Mrs. Pepys, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Cotantess of Love lace, Sir Charles anti Lady Imleoff, Viscount Duncantem and Miss Ponsonby, Hon. Baron and Baroness Dimsdale and Miss Dimsdale, Lady and Miss Vavasour, Sir H. • Vavasour, Sir 11. and Lady Dyrnoke, Sir Francis, Lady, and Miss Burdett, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, Lady Louisa Noel, Bishop of Bangor, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, Earl of Claret:.