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COMPANION TO THE LIVES OF COLLINGWOOD AND NELSON. On Saturday next in 2 vols. Bvo. with Portrait, THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ,FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY in 1782-3. " This life of the celebrated Admiral Keppel is written by -his descendant, the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel ( Son of the Eari of Albemarle), who possesses for his task an extensive collection of family papers, of great historical value. As a midshipman Keppel went round the world with Anson. In 1778, being Admiral of the Blue, he commanded the Channel Fleet, and commenced the war against France ; and in 1782 became a Cabinet Minister, and First Lord of the Admiralty. The Admiral was the contemporary end friend of Hawke, Bos cawen, Anson, Howe, and Rodney, many letters from, or respecting whom, will enrich these volumes, which will doubte less find a place in every Englishman's library, on the same shelf with the Lives of Collingwood and Nelson." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., TONEHENGE; Or, the ROMANS in BRITAIN. A Romance of the Days of Nero. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. "{EINE BROTHERS beg to state that the AUSTRIAN MONEY DISTRIBUTIONS, for which they are selling Selected and Genuine Bonds, take place egularly on the following days-Ist of March, Ist of May, and at of September. On the let of June a selection of Bonds is taking place relative to Distribution of the Ist of September. The Bonds belonging to the Distribution of Ist of May have al ready been selected on the Ist of February. Direct for Genuine Bonds from those selected to take part in the Distribution of the Ist of May, without delay to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. Every Genuine Bond, taking part in the Distribution of Ist off May, is sure to obtain at least 641. sterling ; largest Dili eiend 22,5001. sterling.—Hamburgh, April 1842. :ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wonderful attraction, and matchless Stud of Horses. THIS EVENING. MAY 4, . . . 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After which, VALERIE; OU, L'AVEUGLE.—VaIerie, Mlle. _Plessy. To conclude with LA JEUNE FEMME COLERE.—Rose, Ma. demoiselle Plessy Boxes, 6s. ' - Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per formances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, /o be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se ;pain's, 12 Regent - street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's.street ; and at the Bos.:-ethee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. THE INDIA SUN, CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, IS NOW READY. THE WEATHER.—Nomv, MAY 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 63 I Highest 64 Lowest 36 Barometer 29.97.—Wind W. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 52 minutes after 8 I Evening ..... 26 minutes after 7. AU Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." 44, 1 4 C . : r- ~".if; w ..,,,... ‘-( N". 40 - 4111% .:., , --,' ‘, • . 7 ...Av. & - 40 , A * . - 4 ,Z* . ° ...b v . i... • '', ' - f, 771e. , ..7:„..47 7- ft . ' - , A, , ':t._ , lite _suit, LONDON: WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 4, 1842. The House of Commons decided last night, by 287 to 49 votes, that the unrepresented classes should not be heard at the bar, to explain their grievances. The House, of course, knows better than the people what they suffer, and the cause of their sufferings. It needs not their advice and counsel. It is of itself all suffi cient. It refused, therefore, to hear their complaints. At the same time, it was comparatively respectful towards the petitioners. There was a period when the petition would not have been received ; but the number of the petitioners commanded respect. The next time the people approach the House, it will probably be with five or ten millions of signatures, and then what ever they demand, may, perhaps, be granted. In the course of the debate, Mr. ROEBUCK mad e an allusion to a well-known individual, whom we will not name, but of whom Mr. ROEBUCK is not likely so to have spoken out of the House of Commons. The gentlemen are, perhaps, rivals. Mr. ROEBUCK, be sides being very insulting, was described by Mr. Dux- COMBE to have committed a great mistake. We presume the world will hear something more of the matter. The Chartists may congratulate themselves on having attracted public attention. Their petition is generally noticed, and both Whig and Tory Journals have undertaken to controvert their arguments, or expose the absurdity of their demands. Great good will arise. At present it is a subject of general con gratulation amongst the Liberal Journals, that PEEL'S Tariff, and PEEL'S Corn-law, by touching the farmers' pockets, are rousing them to consider questions of political economy, from which it is expected they will ultimately arrive at sound conclusions. In like man ner, the Chartist petition, by touching the political fears of the upper classes, is compelling them to over haul their political theories, and, in the end, will lead them to adopt the truth, and do justice to the people. It has, for example, been long held in theory that Government, which practically and historically we know was founded on ignorance, usurpation, and conquest—the first laws, as it was once expressed in the Edinburgh Review, (perhaps by Mr. MACAULAY, the defender of flogging,) having been written by the sword—it has long been held in theory that Govern ment is intended to promote the general benefit, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and not to promote the aggrandisement of or give wealth and security to, particular classes. Whether the Govern ment answers that noble theoretical purpose or not can never be decided by those who "administer it, nor by any particular classes on whom it may confer special benefits. On that point the authority of Whigs and Tories, and of the priesthood, who are en dowed and supported, go for nothing. It can only be decided by the opinions or the governed, who alone can form an opinion, by feelin''K the action and opera tion of the Government throu e g i l lout their existence, whether or not it answers the assig end. Nor can the power of judging o , that be, by any possibility, take n away f rom the Inuit_ `.trade. Th e pe titioners in questi on are o f op i n i on tha t our Govern ment has not answered this end. Th ey point to the unrepresented masses whose wishes have been stifled, and whose opinions the laws would fair I suppress. They point to a so-called Christian episcopal gorged • with wealth, and to a starving people - They poipt to a vast national debt, incurred for' purposes wholly foreign to their happiness, which i 'heir in dustry must annually pay. They point t o a regal splendour, raised by taxes on those, w. 11° re ceive twope nce -h a lf penny per d ay per head for irksome toils ; and, comparivg the pis Wessimill of the Government with the actual results c n the cm.: o : in unity, th e y j ustly conclude that the C 'rovernmen' has not answered the end for which, aceor ding to the theory, Government exists. Now, it is because Government is said t( 0 ser ve this sublime purpose, that writers on morals a ad Pvern ment have conclud e d that therefore the F ewe tfier bound to obey it. All egiance is the ive fluty ;oe e p:otection ; an d w h ere no prot ectionc°is en—wher . starvation i s i n fli c t e d —allegiance is no Div The persons w h o h ave signed the Nation h er a dut y ta have come practi ca ll y to the conclusion kPe tition, That any form of government which fail purposes-for which it was designed, and e ►to effec,t the and completely represent the whole pef toes not Ailly compelled to pay taxes to its support and resolved u p on by i t , i s unconstitutional, ought to be amended or : res i sted t i a , b l e r e a th e law's a °are l,an and Their language and conduct have who hav e hi therto contended the in startled those, for the principle that the Governmen ost strenuously is promote the publi c welfare, and thaf t instituted to 6e .community at large, to whom they daily address their lucubra tions, are the only persons to judge if the Government answer that end. Being startled, they at once throw the whole theory overboard, and revive the almost for_ gotten and long since exploded doctrines of Divine right. They essay to re-establish the weakened power of Government over the minds of the multi tudes by such doctrines as this : That Governments do not rest their authority on the consent of the people, but simply on their own established existence--that the powers that be have a claim upon our allegiance because they are,—and that we, born under their authority, receiving, before we have the power to express assent or dissent, the benefits of their protection, through our whole lives as unable to dis claim as they are to withdraw those benefits, and finally specifically commanded by that authority from which both they and we derive all such rights as either of us possess to pay them. honour and obedience, are thus morally and religiously bound to accept such a definition of our rights as is given us by the Constitution under which we live ; and within these limits only, to exert our selves for the development of all of its beneficial, and the extirpation of its pernicious principles. It is now ascertained that the great constitutional doctrine of co-extensive existence of representation and taxation is not borne out by the present condi tion of society. It is found also that the Govern ment cannot stand the test of promoting the public welfare ; and therefore refuge is taken in the asser tion that we are all born under the authority of the landlords, and that we are all commanded, by that POWER which is superior to all human authority to pay them honour and obedience, and accept from them such laws as they think fit to enact, and such rights as they, not the ALMIGHTY, think pro per to bestow on mankind. The conduct of the petitioners has at once brought to the test the most approved political theories, and overthrown them by a touch. At once public writers give them up, and tell the people, that they did well enough " as long as they were confined to the drawing-rooms and lec ture-rooms of the aristocracy ;" but directly the people appeal to them, these public writers take re fuge in that blind obedience and in that Divine right which our ancestors, over and over again, practically refuted. That the petition of the people has already provoked these results will be an immense benefit to them in future. A more solemn discussion, and one going to the very foundation of political society, than any Sir R. PEEL provoked by his Tariff and his In come-tax, has been already kindled by the National Petition. It will not do for writers to play any longer with principles. They are now found to be a two-edged sword; and those who profess the principle that Go vernment is for the benefit of the millions, will have to demonstrate its benefits to them, in spite of the daily and unceasing evils it inflicts on them, or give up the theory, and acknowledge that Government is a usurpation. We have before now stated that Pusey ite doctrines had a political origin. They sprang from the conviction that neither the Church nor the State, as now constituted, can bear investigation on the principles of the Reformation and Revolution. Puseyism is now extending its domain from the Church, where it has established the Divine right of the Bishops, to the State, where it seeks to establish the Divine right of the landlords. In the progress of society the knowledge that was confined to drawing-rooms and aristocratic lecture-rooms, has spread, like other luxuries, over the humbler classes. This is the age of diffusion. Doctrines, as well as Manchester and Sheffield ware, have become common to the multitude. Hence there is no alternative but either to re-establish the principle of Divine right in politics, or concede great alterations to the demands of the people. The Tories prefer the doctrine of Divine right, and the claim now put forth by the people has forced them to avow their slavish creed. The authors of the Income-tax and the Corn-law demand on principle the most abject submission from the people, and assure them that by some authority they are morally and religi ously bound to accept poverty, slavery, and starvation, from the landlords. We are glad to see that Lord HOWICK last night gave notice that he would move, on going into Com mittee on the tariff, that there should be no new differential duties imposed on articles from the colonies and other countries, and that in those cases where such differential duties already exist, they shall not be increased. The Noble Lord is also to move that the duty on foreign coffee shall be 7d. instead of 8d That proposed reduction will leave the colonists with all their present protection, and will simply lower the price of coffee without taking sixpence from the revenue. It will be a proper complement to Mr LABOUCHERE'S well-meant reduction of the sugar duty, which meets we think with extensive support from the public, and we hope that both motions wi I be successful. INDIA AND CHINA. The French Government received on Saturday even ing an express from their Consul at Malta, announcing the arrival there, on the night of the 25th ult., of the Great Liverpool, with important intelligence from India and China. Her dates are to the Ist of March, from Bombay, the 18th of February from Candahar, the 21st of the same month, from Jellalabad, and the 14th of February, from China. To begin with the news from India: Lord ELLEN soßotrou landed at Calcutta on the 28th of February, and was immediately proclaimed Governor-General of India. It is not stated when Lord AUCKLAND intended to sail for England. Affairs seem to have remained stationary in Affghanistan. The British continued to hold their ground at Ghuznee, and Khelat-i-Ghilzee. It is not stated whether fresh attempts were made to dislodge them, but if so the Affghans had the worst of it, as the English maintained their ground. A strong Affghan force was collecting near Candahar, where General NOTT was at the head of 10,000 British troops in readiness to repulse them. General POLLOCK had given up the idea of forcing the Kyber Pass without re-inforcements, provided no imminent danger threat ened General'S.u.E. , This we are happy to announce did not then seem probable, as the Affghans seemed afraid to attack SALE. As the danger is not urgent, we feel convinced that General POLLOCK will not at tempt the Pass at all, as, by making a short detour, he can reach Jellalabad by another, and quite a safe route. Sir ALEXANDER BURNES, in 1832, ex plored a route by which the dangers of the Kyber Pass on the one side, and the Caroppa Pass on the other, are avoided. General PoLLocx, no doubt, intends to send boats from Attock to Mucknee, and thus leave the Kyber Pass in the rear. This route is now practicable, as the Sikh General will provide General PoLLocK with sufficient boats for erossing the river with his heavy artillery and baggage. From China the news is important. Sir HENRY PorrnicEn arrived at Hong-Kong on the Ist of February. He had abandoned the design of attack ing Canton, and was preparing an expedition against Pekin. The EMPEROR sent Commissioners to treat with him about the settlement of the dispute be tween Great Britain and the Celestial Empire, but his Excellency refused to enter into any negotiation with them, well knowing that all the EMPEROR wanted was to gain time. This is precisely the proper course. To intimidate China we must convince the EMPEROR that we can reach him even in his capital. Sir HENRY POT TINGLE, has wisely resolved to negotiate with no person except the EMPEROR in person. No reliance can be placed upon the pledges of Ministers, who are ready, when asked, to be made the scape-goats of Imperial perfidy. Of all the commissioners who treated of peace with the luckless ELLIOT, there was not one who did not iustify the perfidy of the EMPEROR, by pleading the having exceeded his instructions. Three other towns had been added to the capture of ingpo by our brave troops in China. Their names are Ya-poo, Tai-Kee, And Zung-ho-Va. They are all situ ated within a distance of 40 miles from Ningpo. Such is the news received, by express, by the French Government. The Bombay and Canton papers, with the details, are not likely to arrive for a couple of days The recent verdict of a Court of Law in France against private expresses, will cause a delay in their delivery, which cannot but prove injurious to many interests in this country. Besides, there is something at once un friendly and unfeeling in keeping the British public one h our longer than can be avoided on the tenter-hooks of ewectation. The .second reading of the Scotch Church Patronage Bill comes on to-night in the House of Commons, s w h e n we confidently trust this long agitated ques : don, as far as regards Parliament, will be set a t rest. Neither the present Bill, nor any Bill at a ll resembling it, can ever pass the Legis. lature :while the Members of both Houses have so man y good reasons for rejecting it. They enjoy nearly patronage of the country, worth more th e C ree hh millions sterling a year, and it is rather to expect that they will risk this to gratify the th all an th rleaders much ers of the Non-Intrusionists, and make a State Church totally independent of the law from which it The plan proposed, if carried derived its very existence ' into effect, would establish an anomaly in Church go vernment, unknown in ancient or modern times, and ine stead of producing harmony at the election of ministers, o would lead to endless contention, and the most rancorous animosity of one party against another. But a very small proportion of the inhabitants, the male com municants in each parish, are to have the right rto vote. These are selected by the clergyman for their piety, or other qualities which he approves, and all the rest, not unfrequently amounting to three times the number, are refused the franchise, and at the same time stigmatised as heathens for not conform ing in every respect to the law laid down by the Church. It is well known that men who make the strongest professions of religion, and who have the words piety and faith constantly on their lips, are rarely the best Christians—that there are many thousands in the Scotch Church who in general lead 1 irreproachable lives, but who, nevertheless, are not considered worthy, by a certain portion of the clergy, to enjoy all the rights of parishioners ; and is it to be expected that this class, excluded for no just cause will quietly accept the minister chosen by a smal l minority, for whom they had not the highest respect, They will complain, and justly, that though they form the majority, and are, in every respect, better than the chosen few, they should have a mi nister forced upon them much more objectionable than one selected by a judicious patron. They will naturally be opposed to this junta, and either resent in one way or another the unjust preference, or join the Dissenters. This must necessarily be the result of any scheme which does not vest the appointment in the great body of the parishioners. But there is another point which the Non-Intrusionists should take into consideration. They have broken the law, and cruelly oppressed many of their brethren, in defiance of the civil power ; and yet they apply to that very power to sanction their proceedings. How can the Home Secretary, or the Prime Minister, give countenance to a demand like this ? We tell them candidly that their case is utterly hopeless ; and if they will not believe us perhaps they will believe the pious Bishop of LON DON, who thus writes to Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR : " It is wholly impossible that the kind of veto which the leaders of the Assembly contend for should be sanc tioned by Parliament. It would not obtain the con sent of the House of Commons, and in the House, of Lords it would find favour only with an insignificant minority. I hold the principle which it in volves to be inconsistent with good government, as well as with the real interests of the Church. No threat of separation—no danger of schism, would, I am persuaded, induce the House of Lords to sanction it. If it should end in the separation of a large body of pious and learned men from the Established Church, that, no doubt, will be a great evil to Scotland, and no inconsiderable one to England ; but in my judgment it would be less injurious to the cause of religious truth than the affirmation of the principle for which they are contending." The French Journals are occupied with the Royal fete, the birth of Count D'Eu, and the Railway Bill. In the midst of so many pleasant topics, the Nationa contrives to have another fling at England about the Right of Search question. The following is the projet de loi, ceding the Rouen and Havre Railroad to a Company, which is constituted nearly of the same members as that which executed the Rouen and Paris line. Art. I states the offer of the new Company to be accepted. Articles 2 and 3 authorise the loan of ten millions of francs towards the completion of the line, to be paid by the Govern ment in tenths, after the Company shall have expended four millions. By Article 4 the interest of the loan is to be three per cent., the reimbursement to commence ten years after the comple tion of the line, and to be effected by one-fortieth each year. Article 6. Independent of the loan of ten millions, the French Government is to make a gratuitous grant of eight millions to the Company, to be paid by one-fourths as the works advance. The length of the line from Rouen to Havre is 83,750 metres. Its cost is estimated at fifty millions of francs, ten of which will be absorbed by the works for traversing Rouen and its valley. Five of these must be furnished by the Paris and Rouen Railway Company. The State gives eight millions as a grant, and ten as a loan. There remains, therefore, but seven teen millions of francs, about 700,0001.. to be raised by shares. We join with the Commerce in remarking that the coinci dence of the King's fete and the happy circumstance of the birth of the Count d'Eu, seems to offer a favourable opportunity to again solicit of the Ministry an act of amnesty. When we compare in as many respects the usages of the ancient monarchy, it will be recollected that formerly, on such an oc casion, it would have been a piece of monarchical etiquette, to make the nation participate in the joy of the Prince and his family, by a measure of conciliation and clemency.— Temps. The Gazette of Metz says positively that the Abbe Arnoldi, Bishop elect of Treves, wearied by the too long destitution of that illustrious Church, and unwilling to be the innocent cause of the prolongation of a state of things so prejudicial to the welfare of that vast diocese, has offered his resignation, and the Pope accepting it, has called on the Chapter to pro ceed to a new election., This news, which greatly diet' eases the good and religious inhabitants of the city of the martyrs, who are well acquainted with the merits of that learned and pious ecclesiastic, has greatly discouraged the sound portion of the clergy of Treves. Constitutionnel. MR. HUME AND TELE MONTROSE DISTRICT OF BURGHS! —At a general meeting of the Working Men's Associa tion, assembled at the King's Head, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, on the 27th of April, 1842, it was unanimously resolved to congratulate Mr. Hume, on his re-election to the House of Commons; and a vote of cordial thanks to the electors of the Montrose District of Burghs, for the independent exercise of their suffrage in choosing Mr. Hume, alike honourable to them and to Mr. Hume. Our readers may not know that the five Royal Burghs of Arbroath, Brechin, Bervie, Forfar, and Montrose, compose the dis trict which elected Mr. Hume. PI THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1842. purchasing votes for Members of Parliament. It is a monstrous abuse, and they do not say that it is confined to any party in the State, though they cannot but take notice of the fact that, for so far, in the present session, the conviction have been against the Whig-Radical party. And they are the snore called upon to take notice of this fact, because the Whig- Radicals had asserted, before the investigations commenced, that the Tories were the offenders in this matter, and had ob tained their majority by means of corruption. The fault lies with the representative system and the immorality of the people, in which we include those who seek to be Members of Parliament as well as those who vote for Members of Parlia• went. The Reform Act effected an exceedingly great mischief in adding to the power and opportunity of unprincipled persons to make a profit of their immorality. There was enough of that Wore but since 1t132 it has greatly inc rease d." The Chronicle says—" The chief portion, if not the whole, of what Sir Robert Peel has done, or proposes to do, for the industrial and suffering population, consists of two items — exemption from the Income-tax for those whose earnings are less than three pounds per week, and such a reduction, six months hence, in the price of meat as the agriculturists (he assures them) need not be alarmed about. And how much will this relief amount to? Every day brings fresh reason to apprehend that the tariff modifications have been largtly over rated as to the benefit they will confer on the consumer. A slight fall in the cost of animal food will not be felt by the labouring classes. They cannot afford to purchase enough to render the difference perceptible. Their outlay is larger in potatoes than in meat; and more in bread, than in both toge ther. So long as bread is dear, its enhanced cost destroys their ability to purchase meat. The relief is offered where they cannot take it. It is by the middle classes that the chief gain will be reaped from the operation of this change, should it prove operative, and the working classes will be left much as they are." _ The Times thus alludes to the three million signatures to the Chartist petition :—" Yesterday being the virtual Ist of May for this year, and consequently a great London holiday, zeal or curiosity induced some twelve or fifteen thousand persons to accompany to Palace-yard a great Chartist petition to the Lower House of Parliament, with 3,315,752 names appended thereto. Why they stopped short at this particular number we are not aware. Six million would have been just as easily manufacturod by a really zealous Committee, would have sounded much more imposing, and the difference in point of credibility would have been in no way worth considering. We will venture to say that not half•a-dozen of those honest per sons (if such there be) who believe these three millions of signatures to have been affixed to the Chartist petition by three millions of actual live Englishmen, would have been shaken in that belief if double the number had been boldly substituted. It might, indeed, have startled some of their simpler supporters if the number of signatures had much exceeded that of the adult male population of England ; but within these natural limits we cannot but think, that after claiming what they have, any squeamishness in respect of an additional million or two was more nice than wise. " MONEY—TRADE—COMIVIZETLCE. The amount of the annuities paid to the Royal family in the year ending sth of January, 1841, exclusive of the Queen and Prince Albert, was 313,1971. An Aylesbury paper states that the new tariff has somewhat wakened the intellects of the farmers, who are now diligently inquiring what the " to-a-riff" means, and are borrowing dic tionaries of their neighbours to assist their inquiries. Tariff is a word not to be found either in the Bible or the Book of Com mon Prayer, and so the village farmers have great difficulty in comprehending it. The beer consumed in Brussels last year was about 63 mil lions of English quarts. Z.GECTICONEEIZING. Three more Election Committees have been formed to try the merits of the petitions against the returns for Thetford, Nottingham, and Newcastle-under-Lyme. N.A.V.A.X. IN lIILIZITATLY. Colonel Pasley commences immediately his operations against the Royal George, and expects to clear away the whole of the remaining wreck, embedded at present several feet in mud, this season. PINE ARTS. The Sultan's medals of merit were exhibited at the meeting of the Numismatic Society last week, presented to the allied troops engaged in the Syrian war. On the obverse is the Sultan's cipher enclosed in a skeleton wreath. On the reverse a fortress. In the exerque, in Turkish characters, the date (1256 of the Hegira), and the legend " Coast of Syria and Castle of Acre." The Magdalen of Canova, late in possession of M. Aguado, has been bequeathed by him to the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. A new professorship of comparative grammar has been instituted in the University College, London ; changes also ensue in the classical department. Eight new islands in the Pacific, are stated by the Cape papers, to have been discovered by an English whaler ; they are fertile, inhabited, and of considerable extent. Yesterday is marked in the calendars of the Romish and Eng lish Churches as the festival of the " Invention of the Cross." Crosses, of old, were erected in every town, churchyard, and at the turning of every public road, and the boundary of every parish. Grants from sovereigns and nobles, and every private engagement were ratified with a cross, and it was frequently substituted, as now, for names. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND pubitc eptnton. " Who runs mart read." FOREIGN. INDIA AND CHINA. The French Government reeeived on Saturday evening the following telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, dated eight o'clock, A. N. "MALTA, A1'1111.26. " The Consul of France to the .Minister for Foreign Affairs— " The intelligence brought last night by the Great Liverpool comes down to the 14th of February from China, the 21st of February from Jellalabad, and the 18th :of February from Candahar. " The British in China hare captured three other towns— namely, Yapoo, Tsikee, and Tungheva, which are situate within a circle,•eztending from 20 to 40 miles round Ningpo. " Sir Henry Pottinger, who arrived at Hong Kong en the Ist February, had abandoned the intention of attacking Canton. He was then 'concentrating all his forces with tike view of directing them on Pekin, and had refused to negotiate with the Commissioners sent to him by the Emperor, being determined not to treat but with the Sovoreign directly. In Affgbanistan, General Pollock seems to have given up all idea of forcing the Kybar Pass until he should have re ceived the re-inforceinents he expected, or unless General Sale, whose position was unchanged, desired his assistance. " At Ghuznee and Khelat-i-Ghilzee the British still hold the same position. ." The Affghans surrounded Candahar with numerous forces, and Major-General Nott was preparing to repulse them. " Lord Ellenborough, who reached Calcutta on Feb. 28, was immediately proclaimed Governor-General of India." No news in the Paris Journals: PAILLIAIVZMNTART. The Lord Chancellor stated last night, that the Lu nacy and Bankruptcy Bills had been read a first time ; but that he found such contrary opinions on the Local Courts Bill, that he had not been able to lay that on the table ; whereupon Lord Abinger expressed a hope that it never would be laid on the table, and, if it were, he should oppose it. Lord Brougham thaught it ought to be proceeded with before the Bankruptcy Bill. Several petitions were presented, ine'luding the petition of the Provisional Council of the National Complete Suffrage Union. Their Lordships adjourned, at an early hour, till Friday. Captain Plumridge was reported duly elected for Pen. ryhn. and Fahnouth. - The Southwark Improvement Bill was read a third time, and passed. On the Commons refusing to agree to Mr. Wakley's motion to the Lords' amendment to the Ormsby Inclo sure Bill, it appears that the Lords had thrust into the Bill a clause taking away the rights of certain cottagers and this clause the Common s , instigated by Mr. Wakley , refused to adopt. Ia answer to Mr. Hume, Sir Robert. Peel stated that Captain Elliot was to proceed to Texas, and was only kept here to give the Treasury some information about expenses at Hong Kong. The House was occupied for the remainder of the evening with a debate on Mr. T. D uncombe's motion to hear the persons who signed the N ational Petition at the bar of the House. The Hon. IV [ember brought the condition of the people, and their claims on the House, clearly and distinctly before it, a) ad quoted several do cuments to illustrate their great misery. Mr. Leader supported the motion, and was foil owed by several other Members of the Liberal side. 3lr. Macaulay took a vehement part against the petitioners. professing to a considerable extent acquiescence in their doctrines, and yet vilifying many of their objects. That Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham should oppose the prayer of the petition was natural, but it was not so certain that Lord John Russell and Mr. Macaulay should take part against the petitioners. They did, however ; an d on a division the motion to hear the petitioners at Ulf; bar was lost by 287 to 49. The House adjourned at Half-vast One o'Clock PUBLXC OPINION". T T o he si f m ol p lo ly wi d n e g p o w b r se e rv th ati e o d n i s sg ar us e ti f o rr . se t e h n e e 2l2 wich, Southampton, Falmouth, and Penr . in, will not suffice; the example of the venal wretches who disgrace the consti tuency of those corrupt boroughs is contagious; the mere .u.. Morning Sin!druerrylidip:7l - of their crimes will waft that contagion over the lam' and inoculate the honest poverty of other . places with the like disease; something must be done to eradicate t;he complaint, OT fifty years hence the English borough represe ptatioa will be one horrid mass of corruption. It is folly and self-deceit to associate either political party with bribery; the origin of the evil is the unwholesome condition of public moritlity ; a starv ing people cannot be virtuous, or a money-worshipping- upper class pure. Could the daily labour of the working ; population procure them a sufficiency of daily bread we shoub I hear little of their accessibility to this corruption ; and were their supe riors content to remain in that condition of life " to which it has pleased God to call them,' we should have few who would attempt their corruption." The Post attributes the increased bribery and coirruption at elections to the Reform Bill, obserying—" All the Conservative journals have admitted end deplored the too general -practice of THEiLTIZICA.L. Rubini is expected in London on the 15th of June. His performance at the Italian Opera will not, it is asserted, exceed twelve nights. Monday some of the scenery at the Opera House fell upon two scene-shifters, by which they were severely injured, and little hopes are entertained of their recovery. COUILT—riksHxONABLE. The Duke of Wellington had a dinner party on Sunday. The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Dukes of 13uc cleuch and Rutland, Sir Wm. Follett, &c., at dinner on Mon day, at his house in Arlington-street. The Duke of Devonshire is hourly expected to arrive at De vonshire-house from Paris. The Earl of Shannon left Mivart's Hotel on Saturday. The contemplated marriage between the Marquis of Water ford and the Hon. Mies Stuart, will be solemnised in the course of the present month, though the day is not yet fixed. Lady Stratford Canning and Miss Canning take their depar ture in a few days to join his Excellency Sir Stratford Canning at Constantinople. The Countess of Wicklow gives her first ball this season at the family mansion in Cavendish-square. We understand that the ribbon of the Order of St. Patrick, vacant by the death of the Earl of Shannon, will be conferred on the Earl of Wicklow. MISCELLANEOUS. In observance of an old custom, ten persons were admitted into the freedom of the borough of Alnwick last Monday, St. Mark's day, by plunging through the ceremonial well, and rid ing the boundaries of the moor and the enclosures. Yesterday is the anniversary of the birth of Machiavelli, 1469. LAW AND POLICE. At Guildhall, on Monday, Mary Marshall, otherwise Beswick, was brought up on suspicion of having in her possession a quantity of plate stolen from Ratho House, near Edinburgh, and was remanded till Saturday, to allow of further inquiries. Complaint was made at the Greenwich police-office on Monday, of the conduct of the landlord of a public-house at Woolwich, who refused accommodation to part of a body of Marines quartered there, in consequence of their pro ducinibilleting orders in use for the army. The case is sup ported by the Act, and stands for reference to the Solicitor of the Admiralty. AnOther publican in the same town appeared on a charge of not allowing the Marines quartered on him to go to bed before twelve, though the regulation s a ll ow it a t n i ne . Th e same authority will investigate this point also. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday forenoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Murray, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wylde. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing in the garden of Buckingham Palace yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Murray, Lord Byron, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wylde, honoured the Italian Opera with the ir p r esence last evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her residence Clarence House, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, visited the Queen Dowa ger and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. The Duchess Ida and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four. The Duke of Cambridge left town for Kew yesterday. His Royal Highness returned to Cambridge House in the afternoon. A Deputation of London merchants interested in the trade with Turkey and the Levant, including Messrs. Hanson, Kerr, Rankin, and Anderson, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A Deputation, including Mr. F. Mills, Mr. L. Mur ray, and Mr. J. Browne, on behalf of Radcliffe Colliery, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council on Education had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Council• office. The Lord President, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Ripon, and Sir James Graham, attended. The Messrs. Price, deputed by the gentlemen con nected with the turpentine trade, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Board of Trade. THE NEW PuntacAmoNs.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, o f Great Marlborough-street, has just published the following new works, which can be had of a l l booksellers:—l. The Li ves of the Q ue ens of England,by Agnes Strickland, Vol. 4, co mpr i sing the Queens of Henry VII. and VIII. 2. Madame D'ArblaY's Diary of the Court of Q ueen Charlotte. 3. Lieut.-C olon el Napier's Excursions along the Shores of the Mediterra nean , 2 vols., small Svo. 4. Madame de Sevigne to her Coatemporaries, 2 vole:, small Bvo. 5. Captain Fane's Five Years in India, comprising an account of the late Expedition to Cabul and Afghanistan , &e., 2 vols. , Bvo. 6. The Court and Times of Frederick the Great, edited by Thomas Campbell, E sq . 2 vols" Bvo. 7. The Life of Pe trarch, by Thomas Campbel l, Esq.,'2 vols. Bvo. 8. Mr. Hunter's Narrative of the late Expedition to Syria, under the command of Admiral Sir R. Stopt or d 2 volt., small Bvo. 9. Lieut.- Colonel Maxwell's Run th rou gh the United States, 2 vols., small Bvo. . _ _ . DANGEROUS STATE of _LEWES GAOL.—During the last few 'months the ' wa nts have increased to a great ex tent in Brighton, and the Magistrates have almost invariably made it a rule to commit them to the House of Correction at Lewes to hard labour. The Governor of the gaol has fre quently represented to the bench, that from the crowded state of the prison he is unable to carry out the sentence of hard lsaabtouurrd,ayanthdeissuobbjleicgtedwas again to put four and five in each cell. On mentioned to the bench, and it was feared that a dreadful disease would break out in the prison, as the scarlet fever was raging to an alarming extent in Lewes. The Magistrates have since endeavoured to get ridiof the vagrants by driving them cut of the town. EL good folks of Inverness have been thrown into some excitement by the elopement of a to Invergordon, with a son of Mars. The havebelonging i fbeen married soon to another gentleman o,yfohuteun the same dy l ay w d s, s to p ben ro l f o enion, a widower; the marriage articles were even provided, but the faithless one could not resist the charms of the unwedded youth, and so took her route with him to Aber deen. On the faith of her marriage, rumour says that the lady incurred several accounts in Inverness, and that under pro ceedings thereanent she has been captured at the above town.— Boss Advertiser. Mr. C-:orge Robins has had the honour to present to her Majesty the Queen, the Catalogue Raisonne of .Straw berry-hill, suitably bound, which has been most graciously re ceived. The acceptation of it has been conveyed in very flat tering terms by Sir Henry Wheatley. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The market for the English Funds opened very dull, which dulness was, to a certain t xteut, ri.ii upon the' receipt of the intelligence fruits ltidiu ; but at the latter part of the day the flatness again prevailed, and Consols left off at 92i for Money, and 921 for the Account ; Bank Stock, 167 16S ; India Stock, 247 248 ; and Exchequer Bills, 37 39 premium. Scarcely tiny alteration occurred in the price of Fo reign Securities. Belgian, 10:4 10-14 ; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 524,- 53f ; the - Five per Cents., 101 101 ; Danish, 804 81 ; and Brazilian, 67 68. This has been one of the best days for Railway Shares which has been observed for some time past ; and it has only been because so few of the completed lines were of fering, that the quotations remain unaltered. The newly created shares of the South Eastern Company bear a premium of 31 4, and the original Shares are 21. per share higher, being 324 331- per share ; London and Birmingham were 90 93'; Great Western, 281 ; this new Halves, 144 151 premium ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 54 56 ; South Western, 52 531 ; Gosport, 63 64 ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 321 33 ; Eastern Counties, 101 ; Blackwall, 121 ; the New Shares, 10 101 ; and Brighton, 364 37 per share. No change in the quotations in the Foreign Exchanges took place to-day, but all were exceedingly firm. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The intelligence from India has materially improved the Erglish market, which, at the commencement, of business was very dull, with an evident tendency to decline. Co nso l s are 9218- for Money, and 92 a 3 / 4 for the Account ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 1003 4; Three- and-a-Halt per Cents. Reduced, 993 ; India Siock, 2471 2461 248 247 ; Bank Stock, 167 i 168 ; India Bonds, 20 22 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 37 40 prem. The Foreign Securities remain firm, and the prices are, for the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/ 534; the Five per Cents-, 101 101 1 / 2 ; Belgian, 103 1 / 2 104 1 ,! 2 ; Danish. SOi 811 ; and Brazilian, 67 1 ,E 68% . ; Dutch Two-and-a_Half per Cents., 521 53 ; Mexican is quoted, 33i 34i ; Spanish, 231 24; ditto Three per Cents., 23 1 / 2 . The inquiry for Railway Shares continues, especially for the South Eastern and Dover, which have advanced to 32 32 1 , and the New Shares 41 prem.; North Midland, 66 ; Es'reat Western, Fifths, 10i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 1 / 2 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 541 ; Biackwall, l 2 ; and Brighton, 37. 'I he Bonds of the insolvent States are quoted ;—Buenes Ayres, 23; Peruvan, - 184; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374; the Three per Cents., 22 1 / 2 ; Spanish Active Five per Cents., 231 ; the Three per Cents., 23 ; all being much lower than on Saturday. There are no foreign arrivals to-day. The intelligence from India is viewed as highly satisfactory, and it is thought that but a short time will elapse before our commercial relations with China will be beneficially arranged. The drysalters, as well as many of the manufacturers, are endeavouring to have all dye-woods admitted at the duty cl one shilling per ton. The benefit which would be conferred on the latter branch of industry by the reduction is too obvious to require explanation But to the farmers it would be of equal interest, by opening a trade which is now almost closed against them, in consequence of the present, and in many in stances proposed, high rates of dray. All these woods, pre viously to being tit for use, are obliged to be ground, chipped, or rasped. which operations afford employment to a large number of labourers, require machinery, and, in fact, form a separate business. With the exception of some of the more expensive and delicate colouring woods, the bulk is exported in the original rough state, which would not be the case if the duty were at the low rate now asked for. The quantity of logwood exported is annually about 7,000 tons, most of which, did not the duty bear so large proportion to the cost, would be thus prepared previously. This is only a single description of many others similarly situated, which would all doubtless be ground in preference to being exported in the rough, if the relief prayed for be granted, thereby affording much additional employment to our artisans, as well as to a great extent increas ing the revenue, inasmuch as the duty would be paid upon the whole quantity imported, none then being, as at present, shipped in bond. 'I here are no foreign arrivals to-day. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, INIAY 2.—The market re mains without alteration, and business still wears a very dull aspect. There is no change to notice in prices. The sales amount to 3.500 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 2.—The market had a good tone, and a fair number of shares changed hands. South Eastern and Dover New were in excellent request, and closed firmly at the quotations. Eastern Counties New, 51. I ss. sd. : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 55; Grand Junction, 190; the Halves, 951,4 ; Great Western, 94i ; Fifths, 101 ; London and Birmingham, 181 ; the paid-up 321. Shares, 61 ; Quar ters, 37i ; South Western, 63 3 / 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 88 ; Quarters, 6i ; Paris and Rouen, 17k ; South Eastern, 321/ 4 ; New, 4. MANGHESTESt. STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 2.—Although we have had little business doing to-day, prices continue firm and very little Stock offering. Lancaster and Preston, Three quarter Shares, 18k ; London and Birmingham, 181 182 ; Man chester and Leeds, 86 87 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 54i 55 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28% 29; Bolton and Bury, 60±. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red. 9l, Ditto Bonds 22 pm 3 per Cent Cens 92i Ditto Old Annuities ... 90i 36- per Cent Red New 3i per Cent . 100} Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 40 pm New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities ..o expire Ditto Small 4O pre Jan. 1860 l2 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...1671 Oct. 1859. ........ India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860 FOttEIGN FUNDS. . . Austrian, 5 cent—. 1101 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditto 3B Brazilian ...... 67 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres Ii per ceit Russian, 5 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent..., 23i Ditto, 1624.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... 12i Danish, 3 per cent — )French, 5 per cent. —t. —c. Greek, 1E425, 5 per cent — Exchange f Mexican, .5 per rent.... 33i .French, 3 percent Bl . 50c. Ditto, 6 per cen'L. 1637 )Dutch, 2i per cent. 53 Peruvian, 1825, f) per ct. 181 I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 10 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ..„ .... . .. 43 Cheltenham and Great Western (72k paid) 18 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... lO Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 54i Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93i Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) _ 10i London and Brighton (50 paid).. London and Blackwall ( 25 paid) ...... London and Birmingham (90) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 28 4 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...W.— • 42i North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) .....• . 32i Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) 32i COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. 1 Amsterdam CF. 12 74 Gibraltar -. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........`2 U l2 8 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 1201 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine—. 1524 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 361 Buenos Ayres Berlin__ ......—. ...... 7 New York, 21 days sight 46* Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 955 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 56 PRICES OF MULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. The fourth of the present series took place on Monday, and it must have been gall and wormwood to the cabals formed against these concerts, to witness the immense triumphs of the evening. We believe that no preceding concert of this So ciety, taken as a whole, was so deservedly successful. The following programme will show the admirable selection which the directors provided for the gratification of their auditors . ACT I. Sinfonia in D Duet, Miss Dolby and Mr. Stretton, " Dear child of hope" (Joseph) Concerto, Pianoforte, Mr. Piikhert Beethoven Scena, Miss A. Keinble, " Wie nahte mir der Schlummer" (Der Freyschutz) Weber Overture, Euryanthe Weber ACT 11. Sinfonia in F Aria, Miss Dolby, " Al desio" ..... ... Mozart Fantasia, Clariunet, Signor Cavallini Duet, Miss A. Kemble and Miss Dolby, " Come, be gay" (Der Freyschutz) Weber Le , ~ x Jr , Cherubini. Overture, _Js Deux Journees Leader, Mr. F. Cramer.—Conductor, Mr. Lucas. The conductor, Mr. Lucas, the leader, Mr. Francois Cramer, and the whole orchestra, seemed inspired by one sen timent to annihilate the professional traitors in the camp, who crawl about the room scattering forth their poisonous venom against the concerts, originating from " envy, hatred, and malice," and which had nearly succeeded in bringing down destruction on the concerts, by paralyzing the efforts of the Direction of this Society. But we hope the spell is broken : if the Directors be firm, and follow up the triumphs of last evening during the four remaining concerts, this Society will, by public patronage, be placed on a secure foundation. It would be invidious to select any individual portion of this concert, when the whole stands unrivalled. We trust that Mon day night is but the dawn of a bright and brilliant career. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The thirty-third an nual meeting was held on Monday in the rooms of the Society, Regent-street, Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., M.P., in the chair. The Report of the Auditors announced a continued favourable improvement in the condition of the Society, as the amount of the receipts for the past year were 6,8721. 3s. 9d., and of ex penditure 5,752/. 6s. Id., leaving a surplus of 1,119/. 17s. Bd. By this means the floating debt of the Society had been con siderably reduced, the bonded debt being 9,0504, and the debt on open accounts 4,2241. Os. 2d., making together 13,2741. Os. 2d., which is a decrease upon the debt of last year of 1,047/. 12s. Bd. The continued interest in the exhibitions at Chiswick was shown in the fact that in the last year there was a profit of 2,707/. Is. 6d., the gross receipts being 4,875/. 94., from which was deducted the cost of medals awarded, 747/. 75.. and the general expenses of th 4 three meet ings, 1,4211. Os. 6d. The amount of medals and rewards at the ordinary meetings during the past year, in Regent-street, was 141/. 18s., and the charge on foreign missions and importations 146/. 7s. sd. The Duke of Devonshire was re-elected Presi de•nt, and the Earl of Ilchester, Sir W. J. Hooker, and R. W. Barchard, Esq., were chosen on the Cc uncil, in the room of E. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P., and Messrs. Bentham and Forster, who were removed. A HINT FOR LORD MAIION.—The New York papers con; ain an advertisement, intimating that on April the sth " an extra quadruple Brother Jonathan" will be published at the price of 25 cents. ( Is. ), for the purpose of giving, in a complete form, the whole of Sir E. L. Bulwer's last new novel, " Zanoni." The American public are informed that " this will also be a rare opportunity for persons wishing to forward to their country friends the latest and most popular novel of the day, as the postage can only be from 3 to 4i cents. to any part of the Union." So here is Bulwer's last new work selling in England for IL I Is. 6d., and published in New York at is. SEAFORT H'S HIGHLANDERS. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "Cuidich re Rhi."-- Motto of the 7t=th Regiment. I.be i iigldiud r.fgimerit, r .5 ,i 1, u s . peeuiiar circuinstaixes, hat I tru,t I ra ex. mt tering into a few deLils, which could not wel be given in ray former letter. Having been raised on the estate of some par • ticular chief or proprietor, they still retain the names which they bore previously to their being numbered. Such, for ex ample, as APLeod's, Grant's, and Fraser's Highlanders; the last being still well known as the gallant 71st. Many persons may not be aware that there have been two 78th Highland Regiments, which has given rise to many mis apprehensions ; and, without wishing to enter into a contro versy, I will endeavour to shew how it happened. In the year 1771, Kenneth Mackenzie, grandson of the Eail of Seaforth, whose estate and title were forfeited in consequence of his concern in the affair of 1716, having purchased the family property from the Crown, the title was accordingly restored to him, in gratitude for which, the Earl offered to raise a regiment on his estate for general service. In a very short time, 1,130 men were raised by gentlemen of the name of Mackenzie, and the regiment was embodied in 1778 ; it was afterwards numbered the 78th Highland regi merit. Without entering into a detail of its subsequent ser vices in India, I will merely state that in 1786, in consequence of the reduction of the senior regiments, the number of the corps was changed to the 72,1. The regiment, after having performed many gallant exploits, at length underwent consi derable alterations. In terms of general orders, issued in 1809, the designation of Highland, and the ancient garb was altered —the kilt was abolished, and the uniform was the same as that of the line, till 1823, when it was again metamorphosed, and the designation of " The Duke of Albany's own Highlanders" was conferred ,n the regiment, which o lice more resumed the bonnet and plaid, but with the tartan trews instead of the phi. libeg or kilt. Now for the second 78th Highlanders. Great Britain, in 1793, having joined the league against revolutionary France, found it necessary net only to place the old establish ment of the army, consisting of the 77th regiments, on the war footing, but to raise several new regiments. Among other warrants issued about this time for raising regiments, letters of service were granted to the late Earl of Seaforth ; and although the affections of the Highlanders, particularly in Ross-shire, where it was intended to raise recruits for the new regiment had been greatly alienated by recent proceedings on the part of the landed proprietors, yet so great was the attachment to an an cient and honourable family, that within a few months after the warrant had been issued, the first establishment of the regis ment was completed and embodied February 10th, 1793. Being the first that was embodied in the late war, it was num bered the 78th, being the same number as that of the regiment raised by the former Earl of Seaforth, in 1778. It still wears the " garb of old Gaul," and is in all respects a most efficient corps, and one of those whose prowess is destined to be shown in the forthcoming struggle in Affghanistan. It the space in your columns would permit, I could detail the eminent ser• vices performed by both these gallant regiments, especially in the East Indies, where, by a singular concurrence of circum stances, they were, at intervals, stationed for a long time. With your permission, however, I will at a future opportunity, give an abridged account of all the Highland regiments, with the names they originally bore, and the changes they subse quently underwent.—Your obedient servant, C. P. J. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times says it is curious to see how those who have taught the Chartists their principles, will manage to escape their conclusions. If, as the Times says, they have learned those principles from Locke and Blackstone, then Oxford and Cambridge have taught them their principles, as they long pro fessed to teach the same principles to their own alumni. But as every thing, it is said, is received ad modem re cipientis, it is possible that Chartist principles have worked more mildly in Cantabs and Oxonians than they could reasonably be expected to do in labourers and me ' chanics. However that may be, it is certain that if those principles are fairly deduced from the doctrines of Locke and Blackstone, the Universities and the sages of the law, and not the Whigs in particular, are the parties bound to furnish the antidote. We are not informed at what period it was that " these gentlemen," who would have it " that no man can be ruled with out his own consent, or taxed without the consent of his own proper representative,"—" had it all their own way in the political world." Perhaps it was about 'the same period when the "inherent, indubitable, and constitutional right" really existed in practice (as the Chartist petition affirms that it did) of every male inhabitant of the United Kingdom exercising the elective franchise in the choice of Members to serve in Parliament. The doctrine of universal representation has always been as much a legal fiction, as that of 'the " original contract" has been a political Utopia. There can be no doubt that the people of the United Kingdom . are at least more fully represented than they have been in any preceding age. The legal or historical argument of the petitioners can hardly be advanced seriously, if the practice of former times is made the subject of comparison with the present. Neither the body of freemen of old times, nor that of their representatives, can be brought in comparison with the present, in relation to the other powers of the State. It is not an ancient practice that is de sired, but a new struggle with all those authorities which have established themselves after all former struggles. The object is to make the House of Commons again omnipotent to sweep out all other institutions, as it was made at the period of the Commonwealth —or, rather, as it prodlahned itself to be at that period—for no sooner did it stand alone, than the armed force usurped its omnipotence. The regular army might not be in condition to do so at this mo ment ; for, notwithstanding the assertion of the peti tioners that it is " a vast and unconstitutional army, upheld at the public expense for thF purpose of re pressing public opinion in the three kingdoms," the fact is that ours is the smallest armed force in the world, proportionally to our empire, and that it does not exert the slightest influence in repressing anything but open outrages. Unless, therefore, an organised civil warfare followed the enactment of " the Char ter," the despotism it would create would not be seized immediately by the chiefs of an armed force. We could not immediately have a Cromwell, or even an Espartero. STANDARD.—Lord Brougham's, speech in tie House of. Lords last night deserves attention. Nothing can be more clear than his Lordship's demonstration of the impossibility of obtaining satisfactory decisions from Election Committees, composed exclusively of Members of the House of Commons. Let us venture to abridge that demonstration. The House of Commons is now divided into two distinct parties, each member of which has a direct interest in augmenting the number of the par ticular party to which he is attached, and will of course be biassed naturally and not dishonour ably, in the first instance, in favour of that candidate for a seat who holds the same party principles with himself. Now, how is an impartial tribunal to be collected from such a muster of all party men ? Trust to chance ; and that is only shifting upon chance the responsibility of appointing a partial tribunal, but it does not in the slightest degree remove the evil : select as nearly as you can, inequal numbers, men of opposite party opinions (and this is what is effected by Sir Robert Peel's Act), and still the evil remains, because in order to ensure a . decision you must have an odd number, and an odd number cannot be equally divided ; taking the number seven, the number under the new law, you must have four of one party and three of another ; thus, as six of the present Commitees are equally distributed between the two parties, the politics of the Chairman always deter mine the politics of the Committee—generally de termine the politics of the Committee, as we firmly believe, without swaying its integrity, but still so as to render it unsatistactory—at least to the defeated party, if of opposite politics. Nevertheless, the new law is a great improvement upon the late tribunals, it gives the nearest approximation to impartiality that can be possible while Committees are taken exclu sively from the House of Commons, and with this good effect, that there is always a minority suf ficiently strong to control such atrocious viola tions of decency, of law, and of morals, as were committed by most of the thorough Whig-Radical Committees that succeeded the general election of 1837. The circumstances that attract attention to the subject at this moment are indeed healthy symp toms, though it may be in themselves disagreeable ; they are appeals to the sense of the country, and such appeals are always the forerunners of practical re forms, as often and as usefully effected from within as from without. CURIOUS NESTLING PLACE.--We have heard rather marvellous things related of cabbages in the county of Ross, but these useful vegetables have seldom been appropriated by birds as their nestling place. We understand, however, that in the garden of Dumglass a bird has constructed its nest in a cabbage stock, axd that there are already three eggs in it.— Ross Advertiser. TITRES ! - -Ellen Walsh, aged ninety years, is now confined in Wicklow gaol, at the suit of Archdeacon Stopford, for tithes : the proceeding was by an Exchequer bill. —Free man's Journal. A gang of coiners have been arrested and com mitted at Rochdale. A number of dies were found on the pre mises they occupied. It is stated in the fashionable circles that the Queen hps appointed the Dowager Lady Lyttelton to the distinguished Lost of Governess to the Princess Royal. She is a daughter of ahe lat.e Earl Spene,r, and mother of the present Baron Lyttelton, and, as one of the ladies of the bedchamber, has long enjoyed the confidence of her Majesty. Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, accompanied by the Prince and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, came passengers to this country from Rotterdam un Sunday, in the General Steam Navigation Company's tarail ' packet, Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack. The passage was per formed in 22 hours. The Earl of Wicklow will be honoured with the ribbon of the Order of St. Patrick, vacant by the death of Lord Shannon. The Earl of Bandon will succeed Lord Shannon as Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Cork. The Council of University College, London, has resolved on an important change in the classical department of the College, which will add greatly to its efficiency. Hitherto the Professors of Latin and Greek have been also head masters of the junior school ; but after the summer vacation 'Mr. Key, the present Professor of Latin, will resign his Professorship, and become sole Head Master of the school; a new Professor of Latin will be appointed ; and Mr. Malden, the Professor of Greek, will confine his labours to the duties of his chair, and to the instruction of the highest Greek class in the school. A new Professorship of comparative grammar has been insti tuted ; and Mr. Key undertakes this office, and will deliver a short course of lectures, which will not interfere with his duties in the school. Lord Lovaine has left the family mansion in Port man-square, for his villa, Collet's Meadows, near Denham, Bucks, where he has invited a select party to enjoy the recrea tion of fishing in the well-stocked waters of the Colne. THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY• COLONIAL. h( A fair business was done to-thy in this market, and prices •, • •_;• ,• • U. 1 I.i provaig , ]anus of produce, especially as prices of most of our pri mary commodities are unusually low. British Plantation Sugar found buyers at full prices, bit the supply was s mall. Mauritius and Bengal went off rather briskly at a shade higher price. Fine White Bengal brought 68s. to 695., and the best Yellow Alauritius 675. to 68s. per cwt. Refined Sugar much sought after, and higher prices paid. Lumps to pass the Standard, 84s. to 84s. 6d. per cwt. In Coffee no sales worth noticing. Rice in little demand, and prices are looking up; II s. 6d. paid for good White Bengal. • WHITECHAPEL. The supply of Clover and Hay was moderate ; fine qualities were readily disposed of at full prices ; the middling and infe rior sort, a better trade. Of Straw, the supply of middling we t with a good trade ; prices without alteration. Clover, first cut, 21. 10s. and 51. Bs. ; Hay, first cut, 21. and 41. 4s. TEA MARKET. The intelligence received this morning by telegraphic es:pre to is nut considered favourable to the holders of tea, therefore the market was not affected. There were few buyers of any kind the trade having stocked themselves at the publie sales, and small lots only were sold. Company's Congou at Is 10d to Is 10id. Free Trade Low Congcu at is 9d to is 94d, per 1b• cash. The deliveries continue g oo d, an d th e stou k is still de' creasing. TALLOW MARKET. The price of Russian Tallow continued steady at 401. to 461. 6d. on the spot; but there was not much business thing, and the buyers were looking fur a further retrograde movement (Fran the London .LVeit. Price Current (y . flay 3.) SUGAR.—Since this day week the trade have been anxione to purchase British Plantation Sugar, and have cleared the market of all the parcels that were offered, paying an advance of is per cwt. To-day the wind was more favourable for arrivals. and since making up our weekly statement of imports, 824 hhds and tree British Plantation have been received, still the quantity of Sugar on show to-day was extremely small, consequently the put' chases were trifling ; there were many buyers of both brown and yellow sorts ' and full rates w ere p a id—S t . Vi ncgn te mid grey fetched 67s 6d per cwt. The trade are anxiously looking for a better supply, as they expect to be enabled to p or' chase on more advantageous terms ; the quantity sold is et2 l l 140 hhds and trcs. REFINED.—To-day the grocers were anxious to pureilisae Refined Sugar, and were compelled to pay a further advance of Is, standard lumps fetched 85s to 86s, and good brow' ) lumps 84s to 84s 6d per cwt, at the clo.e of business scarcely a lump was left unsold. In .Bastards and Pieces large vtlf' chases were m a d e; t h e mar k et i s near l y cleared. Treacle sel'; well at former rates. Banded crushed Sugar was in goo' request, and the refiners aie firm at 28s 6d for the best. MA uamius.—This afternoon there were free buyers, aa,i 6,238 bags at public g a l e w ere a ll so ld an d general l y at- f u ll prices ; fine yellow fetched 68s 6d to 695, good 66s 6d t ° 67s 6d, good mid and mid 64s to 66s 6d, fine brown 63s (Id t° 64s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal Sugar met. free buyers at full rates, but brown met with less attention, and prices declined 2s to 3s per bwt. 7,484 hhds duty paid, were offered at auction, the principal part sold at the. tollowing tereiV Low to good white at Os to 70s tid, good yellow 65s 6cl to 669' middling 61s 6d to 63s 6d, heavy 565, common to fine bro 40s to 445, middling 45s to 54s per cwt. FOKEIGN.—YeIIow Havannah, mid and good quality at 1 9 0 to 20s, fine strong bright 21s to 21s 6d per cwt ; white 25,5 0 for common and fine strong quality. Brasil is held firm 11; a cargo of Bahia for Antwerp, tw o -thi r d s w hi te at 2 2 5, s ad brown 17s 6d, and a cargo of brown Bahia for Holland at 16i , COFFEE—There have been many i nqu i r i es f or W est 17 icbs Coffee since this day week, the scanty supply, however, )aP . , checked business, and the tr a de h ave b een compe ll e d t o piu rathor higher rates by private contract. This aiternoon holders of Coffee were firm, and refri hies from offering any at public sale ; by private contract t business was transacted to supply the wants of the ! no o3l trade—good ord ('e)lon fetched 76s to 775, Company's JlO l, 50s to 52s 6d, and good and fine Mocha 100 s to 120 s pet Good sorts of Jamaica are much wanted, but scarcely at y to b c met with : good clean 13erbice has fetched 105 s to 110 x, For export, however, there are few buyers of Coffee. At. Liver' pool fine Jamaica of the new crop has been selling as, high ° 151 s to 1525. Cocoa.—For West India Cocoa very full rates h L y e 1)1 paid. Tri n id a d common to m iddli ng re d at 38: to 41s, an,l good fair 42s to 43s per cwt. .Foreign Cocoa has br ought ft'' rates. TEA.—An unfavourable opinion exists against Tea: th e trade have been c a u ti ous i n th e i r procee di ngs. Importe r , have been desirous to realise, and prices have giv , to way 10. both black and green descriptions. The market for Tea was in a very inactive state to-dal: and those parties that we re di s p ose d t o se ll were t;ompe ll e d accept rather lower rates for small parcels, we quote cornit ° !, sound Congou Is 8d t o I s 9d cas h, or d inary Twankay- is 8 1 ;4 '''' Is 9d ; Company's Congou Is 9id cash and nominal. MotassEs.—This afternoon some parcels of Vest India were sold at sates rather higher. Fine parcels are offering' and the market lcoks firm. At auction 16 hhds Bengal Syrtl? sold at 22s 6d per cwt. SPlCES.—Although prices rule low for Black Pepper, Stiltthere has been only a li m it e d b usiness transacte d by prialo" contract since this day week, and at auction 5,341 bags Ye' nang were nearly all taken in at 3d for good bold half hiftaY; Sea damaged how e v er so ld at 2ad to 2,.d. White Pepi ter rather cheaper. At auc ti on 200 bags went at 4id to bld f 0( low and middling quality. BUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The purchases in Le e ' ward Island Rum si nce thi s d ay wee k h ave not exceeded 11 puns ; holders have been enabl e d t o o b ta i n f u ll rates , at 2s 4Ld to 2s 58 is the value of proof. Jamaica at last Thl o ' 6 , day's rates. In strong D e m erara or Mauritius we hays 0 f sales to report. East India has been sought after, in, Calcutta at the high duty of Is bid to Is 78, and e s the low duty Is Lid to Is lid per gallon. Prices t he looking up for Brandy. We quote Cognac first brands 01 ,;59 vintage of 1836, hhd s 5 s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; ditto 1837, bhnt o 3 d, puns 5s Id ; ditto 1838, Wads 5s Id, puns 4s I ld; 1839, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d; ditto Ic4o, lihds 4 s , puns 10d per gallon. Geneva at Is I lit to 2s for cornraon, fine for duty is worth 2s 6d . to 2s 8d per gallon. For West Inta''' Rum prices are supported. Calcutta Rum without cer tificat e Is 7d, and at the lo w duty I s 6cl to 2s per gallon. E ng li s h Co '" Spirits at 10s per gallon. RlCE.—Bengal Rice has been in brisk request since Ttic day last, and prices have advanced 3d per ewt : at a uctit 5,184 bags were alt sold, middling white at lOs to lOs 6d, a e good middlin g lO s 6d to l l s ; several large parcels of Ft' „, have been taken of late by the millers. Holders of Java rem: firm, middling to fine white at lOs 6d to 12s, common 95 6d . to 10s, yellow 8s 6d to 9s tid per cwt For Carolina, there a r ; • yet few buyers, fi rs t sor t 30 s , secon d 2 8s, an d ot h er ki n d s '2 r to 27s per cwt. Patna h as me t w ith a f a i r sa l e at 14 s to 19 1 t cwt. The stock of East India Rice is 137,490 bags, in 11 84 ; at this time, it was 115,193 ba gs . Thi s a f ternoon Berigail with less attention, and 1,892 b ags a t p u bli c sa l e were an/ partly sold at lOs to lOs 6d for mid white being the full v ain'" 1,000 bags good mid were _taken i n a t ll s 6d, b e i ng above ti s value.: OlLs.—lmporters of Southern Oil have been desirous to re t; lise, and have submitted to a reduction on former rates of 1 ,, per tun; at auctio n 201 t uns were chiefly sold at and after am; sales at 28/ to 311 for common to fine quality. Cod Oil 24 1 r n 301 Ss ; brown and dark Seal Oil at 291 to 311; Pale 381 100 381 153 for small parcels. Sperm Oil has suffered a declin e ° 80s; 761 to 781 for fine British. Linseed Oil for home eat;insti°l; tion and export at 34s 6d to 34s 9d per cw t. R ape (ail at ""' a to 47s 3d for pale, and 46s 6d t o 46 s 9d f or brown, Oliva, at 61/ to 61/ 10s for Gallipoli, 561 to 561 10a for Spanish, a„ ° , at 541 to 551 for Barbary. Palm Oil fine quality, at 31/ to Oh 10s, and other sorts at 301 to 301 15s per tun. East .In di Cocoa Nut Oil 40s per cwt. for the best. Tamaw.--Since this day week a fair business has beet. transacted in Russian Tallow on the spot ; and the trade 1 1, 14 1 been compelled to pay 46s 3d to 46s 6d f or P . C . Can dl e . i'° ; . delivery in the last three months of the year 48s 6d 4 5 1 485 9d. South American at pr e vi ous rates . Ib ra il at 44s fi l l to 45s 3d. and sixty casks Odessa yellow Candle at 455 6d 45s 9d per tiwt. Town Tallow has been selling at 45s nett eat 01 IMPORTANT TO ELECTORS.—To avoid the disfr al 1 ; chisement of electors in c iti es an d b oroug h s, all the poor-rai and window-tax (if any) payable from them in respect of rh' or ` premises previ o usly t o th e 6 t h o f A pr il must be paid, on before the 20th of July. Th e w i n d ow -tax is payable by a,c of Parliament, wheth er d eman d e d or not. As many .electorl remove in the month of flay from one part of a Parliament° l borough to another, those persons should take care t / o i n for. the overseers or the collectors of the poor -rates of their re °. 'Decal, and require to be rated for the premises to which thelt; remove, to avoid being left out of the li s t o f voters -when lit made, and to prevent any objection mad e aga i nst them from being substantiated, if taken to their vote i n th e R eg i stra rN' Court. The Hon. Charles R. West, Captain in the 2 1 Regimant of Infantry (Royal North B r it is h F us ili ers ) se cond son of the Earl Delawarr, left his father's house in Up!). Grosvenor-street, on Saturday e v en i ng l as t, f or S out hampt,°t'., to embark on bo ar d th e O r i en t a l steamer f or Bombay, llevl°,,e;• been appointed aide-d e - cam p t o Si r G eorge Arthur, the nett Governor of that Presidency. It is understood that the Prince of Capua has latell, taken, for the summer months, Hanover Lodge, the eleg&T,, mansion of the Earl of Dundonald, fora long period the ret`• dense of Joseph Bonaparte, the Count Surveilliers. i X EXTRAORDINARY BURGLARY AND ROIJBES o ry THE CITY.—At an early hour on M on d ay morn i ng, di s c? 1,01 was made of one of the most da r i ng b urg l ar i es that has place in the City for several years, attended with extraorilai" - a circumstances, in the warehouses belon ging t o M essrs. r • a nd W. Hutchinson and Spillers, 5, Bread-street, and also those in the occupation of Messrs. Gent, Millar, and others, silk mercers, No. 6, in the same street. The discovery was mad` by a porter in the service of the latter gentlemen, who, °— entering the warehouse, found that it had been broken in" the place being in the utmost confusion. From the particular s received by the Commissioners of the City Police, the ro bbery appears to have been perpetrated in the course of Saturday night or Sunday. The burglars then proceeded to the pre' mises of Messrs. Hut c hinso n , which they ent ere d , t h e only fastening being a common padlock, and took from an iron sate . a 1001. !tank of England note, No. 19,564, dat e d F e b . 9, 18'2' a banker's bill for 701. Bs., drawn by R. Clegg, and endorsed over to 'F. W. Hutchinson and Co., and about la/. in gold a nd silver. Their next operation was to effect an entrance into Messrs , d . Millars' warehouse and counting-house, where they regale themselves with ham and bi scu i ts and wine, leaving the bott l e " empty on the desks. The property stolen from Messrs. Mill ar and Co.'s . warehouses consists of seven pieces of satinetts. h a/ „ .. epari,nenehdanodnktehreehmiewfsit;h s a u n n u d m ry b l e o r ts ; o a f bo f ti an t o l y oo doze of in g black k d e u t figure! handkerchiefs, and many other articles. The property stolen 1 1 estimated in value at between 7001. and 1,000/. BIRTHS. On the 30th tilt., at Highbury-terrace, the wife of Tho'o ° Flight, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th ult., at Harting, Sussex, the lady of M. Joh° Phillips, Esq., of twin daughte, r. On the 30th ult., in Great George-street, Westminstiar, the lady of Thomaa Tomlinson, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a soon• 'A MARtIF,D. On the 27th ult., at Paddington Church, Mr. James Cooper' of Southa m pt o n- row , Bloomsbury, to Eli za b et h , vc unffes daughter of the late William Leonard. Esq., of Parson's,-gree n ' Fulham. On the 28th ult., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, William Pitt Byrne, Esq., of the Inner Temzle, ba rr i s t er - a t-law, t s . Julia Clara, daughter of Hans Busk, sq., of Great C u mber: land-place, and grand-daughter of the late Si r W a d swor th Bus 1: D I E D. On Saturday, April 30, at his resiclence,l9, Edward's-terra e :j Pentomille, Robert Mudie, Esq. His less is deeply re greto' by all who enjoyed the pleasure of his acqttain:ance, and hell.° left a wife and six children to deplore the melancholy bereave ment. On the 22d ult., J. Villiers Jacob, Esq., of Canterhury• On the 27th ult., Mr. W. Morley, of the Corn-Exchang e ' Mark-lane, aged 74. On the 29th ult., Marg aret S arah, relict of the late g r . J . Bromley, of Strood, Kent, aged 67. er • On the 29th ult., Isabella Ann, the wife of Mr. Charles l'o ° near, of Gerrard-street, Soho, aged 39. 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