The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH and at LUBECK, ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS 7RIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions lay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 - 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 000 120 _____.--------. THEATRE ROYAL, MADRURY-L 3 A NE. THIS EVENING,MARCH , Will be performed, arranged as rma, Handel's ACIS AND GALATEA.—Polypheme, Mr. H. P h i li ps; Acis, Miss P. Horton; Damon, Mr. Allen' Galatea, Miss Romer. After which, the NeW Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR. To conclude with the New Farce, called THE WINDMILL. I)oers open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Boxes Es., Second Price 2s. titi.; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s ,• Lower Gallery Is. td., Second price ls.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price fd. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 3, Will be performed Bellini's Opera of NORMA.— Pollia ' Mr. W. Harrison ; Oroveso , M r. Leffler; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; , Miss Adelaide Kemble; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth; Clotilda; Miss Grant. After which will be repeated, with additions, Milton's Masque of COMUS.—Comos, Mr. W. Harrison ; First Bacchante, Madame Vests ; the Lady. Mrs. Walter Lacy; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing ; Syrens. Madams Vestris and Miss Rainforth ; Genius of the Frozen Clime,'Mr. Stretton ;Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth. Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. D re ss Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Circles 55., S e cond Price Vs. tid.; Pit 35., Seeond Price 2s ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book ae ler, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 3, Will be acted Sheridan's Play of PIZ ARRO.—Pizarro, Mr. Hes.. lop ; Alonzo, Mr. Warde; Rolla, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Elvira, Mrs. H. - Vining; Cora, Mrs. N. T. Hicks. After which, CHARLES THE SECOND; or, the ME RRY VONARCH.—Charles Mr. H. Hughes • R oc hester, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Captain Copp, ' ' Mr. Neville ; Lady Clara, Mrs. H. Hughes ; Mary Copp, Mias'tifariin. To conclude with BEN THE BOATSWAIN, supported by the entire Company. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCH 2. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 45 Highest 4B 1 Lowest 33 Barometer 29.98.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 5l minutes after 5 'Evening l 5 minutes after 6. -,.. ' , = fir lit t. ' • ' e P,,,,,` ' '. , - 1 . CLU ~,, ;•:, .4:e.. Ar.e. k .;, , : • - = L.,•,...b1 i -• • 400, 41 1. ' .• 4 . 1 4. r': - .7%, • ......---• ~ ....... ~,, .0,.. .. - J= .. , . - 77; 7 - ~,,- F; - Api• • '' ' •",' -,!-: •,1. - '. , . - - tg tut LONDON THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1842. The Report on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S corn resolu tions was received last night, and the Bill will be brought in as soon as possible. He and the great majority of the Parliament are quite identified, and as the most ardent Corn-law Repealers are not pre pared, as far as we can learn, to set aside the autho rity of Parliament, though it be the mere organ or in strument of the landlords, it follows, as a matter of course, that they must acquiesce in the landlords' de cision. The community, enslaved by its own defer ence for the aristocracy, must put up with whatever laws the landlords choose to make. Under these cir cumstances, nothing short of a miracle can prevent Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan for continuing a great sys tem of legislative plunder from becoming the law of the land. True, it is a terrible disgrace to the Legis lature now to re-enact a law which experience has de monstrated to be as mischievous as it is fundamentally , unjust; but the Repealers having striven and pro tested against it, and not being efficiently supported out of doors, must wash their hands of the iniquity, and lay it entirely at the door of the landlords. Their duty, in relation to that plan, in Parliament must now, we believe, draw to an end. Sir ROBERT PEEL has in plain terms informed the House of Commons, that the landlords would not allow him to make a further relaxation of the Corn laws ; at the same time he has announced other meh mires to restore the dilapidated finances, and to amend the tariff. Though disappointed with what he has already done, the public are extremely desirous to learn what more he means to do. It will not be pru dent in the Liberal Members to baulk this desire; and we would suggest to them, therefore, to throw no obstacle in Sir R. PEEL'S way, by proposing any fri volous or useless motions, to be withdrawn after an un satisfactory debate. Let them rather facilitate the per formance of essential business, and so enable Sir R. PEEL to state as speedily as possible what he proposes as to taxes and what as to trade. No other subject is of public interest or public importance, and the Li- 'betal Members will not gain on public esteem by in ; terposing with petty measures and petty projects of their own. If they can defeat the Corn-law project, let them do so ; if they have no hope of that, let them contribute to gratify the expecting people by hasten ing the publication of Sir R. PEEL'S whole plan. Their cause will lose nothing by this course. Public opinion is already setting in strongly against PEEL, and an additional impetus will probably be given to the current by the other petty measures by which he will disappoint the people. New taxes, we presume he must have ; and he can scarcely impose them without raising prices, and altering the relations d his new Corn-law. It is very probable that his ether measures, without benefiting the consumer, will tend, like his Corn-law alterations, to make him un popular with the farmers. What he has already pro posed has seriously damaged his character and exposed the aristocracy, whose servant he is ; and the Liberal party will lose nothing by allowing the thorough conviction of his weakness and their injustice to take deep root in the public mind. We do not say the Liberal Members are not at every stage of his Corn Bill to say No to it, and point out its injustice ; but let them not interpose with any mo tions or proceedings of their own to prevent the public from hearing his whole plan of commercial re lief and financial burdens. - [The following article was written immediately after Sir PEEL delivered his last great speech, but the pres sure of Parliamentary matter excluded it till now :—] We feel almost inclined to pity Sir ROBERT PEEL. Never was a political schemer more com pletely caught in his own toils. Unwarned by the present use of earnest and solemn language, the index to strong and irrepressible feeling, arising from general and great suffering, he has persisted in playing fast and loose with truth, and has for years notori ously spoken against his own convictions, in order that he might, by help of the land-owners, be the Prime Minister of England. Mistaking the source and nature of political power, he has continued to worship the Church and the aristocracy, because ig norance once made them Gods, after those idols—as his successive defeats on the Catholic question, and o n Reform proved—were thrown down, and trampled in the dust. In obedience to their com mands he has striven against truth, justice, and en lightened public opinion, and by them he has been !successively laid prostrate and helpless. Now he has attained - the very height of his ambition, and by his own act, amending the Corn-laws, does he again stand self-condemned. His all-important recognition, which we noticed on this clay week, of the superior influence of the success of manufactures to any system of Corn-laws in promot ing agricultural prosperity, is an acknowledgment of the impotency of his legislation, and of the over whelming power of the substantial interests of society. It implies a conviction on his part that these substan tial interests are a law of society, and it imposes on him the obligation to study them, and conform himself thereto. He has again admitted, as in 1829, the in adequacy of a much cherished law, which he has strenu ously maintained, to answer its intended purpose, and has been thus compelled again to lay violent hands on his own political greatness, and the ascendency of his party. We have on two or three occasions distinctly charged him with appealing to the passions and prejudices of the landowners, and with excitin g their alarms, as in his re ferences to the corn which might possibly be grown in Denmark, and as to the effect of 2,000,000 of acres of land being thrown out of cultivation by free trade. We have accused him of dealing i&House of Corn - ; mons-clap-traps, and of having for his party purposes exaggerated all the possible evils of putting an end to • the brei4l-tax. Now on Wednesday night he avowed that his present measure was as large a one as he could carry. He said -1 believe th e H on . G en tl eman (M r . C. 'Buller) wishes 4.. Tor an ulti mate repeal, yet he wishes them to act w i t h caution, :-- 2 , t1 and not excite apprehensions in the minds of the agriculturists. I knew that my proposition would not have that effect; and if the Hon. Gentleman had se en the communicational have re ceived, I think he would think that I have advanced as far as I possibly could without raisins those appr ehensions. It was therefore on this account that I anticipate his vote to-n;ght in opposition to the Hon. Gentleman. lam sure that if I had gone much further those apprehensions which the Hon. Gen tleman fears would have been fulfilled. H e implied, therefore, that a larger measure than his resolutions would be beneficial and just, and he admitted, as the servant of the landlords, that he is only allowed to give the little he offers. But he has, for his own purposes, now and on former occasions, strengthened the prejudices and excited the alarm of the landlords, to whom he succumbs ; thus is he made powerless to do good, thus is he rendered im potent to benefit the nation, and soon must he give up a helm w hi c h h e h as o bt a i ne d by most unworthy means. Thus is his political character and power de stroyed by those very prejudices and passions in the landed aristocracy, which he, for the sake of getting office, has nourished into strength. Who shall doubt the moral government of the world, when schemers, even when they appear at the height of prosperity, are thus caught in their own toils, and doomed to pass a sentence of condemnation on themselves ? On Wednesday Sir ROBERT, with his usual cun ning, made great use of the concessions of his oppo nents, though he was well aware of their worthless ness. Mr. M. PHILIPS admitted over-trading and too great facities of banking prior to 1838. But what have such temporary and fleeting causes, which might involve a few persons in difficulty, to do with the wide-spread distress which now pervades the entire empire ? The banking system of Scotland has undergone no alteration, and Sir ROBERT PEEL will hardly affirm that the over-speculation in Lancashire in 1836 and 1387 caused the ruin of Paisley, and the want of trade at Aberdeen and Arbroath in 1841. So Sir ROBERT PEEL seized hold of the acknow ledged prosperity of 1832 to 1837 to prove that pros perity might exist under the Corn-laws ; but he ought not to have forgotten that the country was rejoicing at that period under great remissions of taxation, as well as abundant harvests. As a statesman he was bound to look at the terrible vicissitudes to which every branch of industry has been continually sub jected during the last twenty-seven years, though the country has been at peace, and the people uniformly industrious and orderly. From that general failure he ought to have concluded that there must be some general .disturbing cause in operation—something wrong in our legislation, when the exertions of the nation have been as mistaken as a lover's fancies, and have continually run into fitful speculations or sunk into paralysed helplessness. It is his business to find out this cause, and remove it ; for that he has pay and power ; he contented himself with showing up Mr. GREG. He abdicated the functions of a statesman to assume those of a pettifogging disputant. He quoted Mr. RICARDO, too, as the advocate of protection ; he forgot to say that Mr. RICARDO founded his argument on the land being subject to tithes, the burden of which increases with the gross produce, while, since Mr. RICARDO wrote, the tithes have been commuted, and are not henceforth to increase in quantity. He omitted to notice that prices have since settled down, with many ruinous fluctuations, at least 25 per cent. He forgot also to state that poor-rates have been forcibly reduced in the proportion of from 8,000,0001. to 5,000,0001., and that every tax, even to that of shepherds' dogs, which weighed exclusively on the agriculturists, has been repealed. To quote Mr. RICARDO, at present, as an authority for a law to tax the people's food on account of the burdens borne by the land, without taking any notice of these changes, must be attributed, not to the ignorance, but to the disingenuousness of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Sir ROBERT PEEL based another great argument, which pervaded all his speech—from his first notice of the new mills mentioned by Mr. HORNER, to nearly the end of it—on the increasing employ ment in the manufacturing districts. He admitted the distress, but when he found 94 new mills had been built in Lancashire only, when he found that the con sumption of cotton had increased in 1840 to 175,000,0001b5., he concluded that the distress was evanescent, trifling, much exaggerated, and one of those petty disturbances of the social system, which are compatible with general prosperity, and would soon pass away. But if the distress be now great, in spite pf all this additional employment, what would it have been had these mills not been built ? To erect them, and to fill them with machinery, gave employment to a great number of persons ; to work them after they were erected, employed 'an additional number. To manufacture all the cotton in 1840 mentioned by Sir R. PEEL must have given work to upwards of a mil lion persons. Notwithstanding that, there was great distress, what, we ask Sir R. PEEL and his cheering landlords, would have been the overwhelming distress, had this cotton not been worked up ? The manufacturers did not call the pauper popu lation of Ireland and agricultural England into ex istence ; they only provided work for them as long as they could. They continue to provide work for them as much as they can, and because they are not able to go forward as rapidly as they did from 1832 to 1837—because their prosperity is nipped and destroyed by the Corn-law, the Prime Minister reproaches them with having caused the national dis tress by over-speculation' and over-production. We have before convicted him of disingenuousness—we have now convicted him, we think, of gross injustice. We might easily add to our catalogue of his offences against good taste and morals, but we give him over to the contempt of the hungry populace, whom his new modification of the Corn-law outrages, and to the cen sure of the manufacturers, to whom his reasoning and his language are an insult. Lord CAMPBELL'S Bills for abolishing the Court of Privy Council, improving the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, and placing a permanent Judge at the head of the Court of Chancery, will not pass this session. This is evident from the way in which the Law Lords received them in the House of Peers.last night. The Noble and Learned Lord, in commencing his career in the Upper House, as the rival of Lord BROUGHAM, gave offence to many of his colleagues by the unscrupulous way in which he had appropriated their several projects, and amalgamated them so as to form a system of his own. In one of Lord CAMPBELL'S three Bills, Lord CorrErum discovered one of his own strangled progeny; Lord BROUGHAM hinted that he had supplied the conception of a second ; and the LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the * empire would suffer no less by the postponement of the passing of the three till the Greek Kalends. We may, therefore, safely predict that Lord CAMPBELL'S Bills will not pass this session, whatever may be their respective merits. The Bills themselves are not yet printed, but from the outline given of them in the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord, we entirely approve of the leading principle upon which they are based. We think that there ought to be one, and but one Tribunal of Ultimate Appeal. We further contend that the Chief Judge of the' Court of Chancery ought to be a permanent Judge. and totally without political functions. The President of the House of Lords is not and cannot be, a fit and proper person to preside over a Court of Equity, and yet be removable with every change of Ministry. A pamphlet, entitled " The Unlawfulness of all Wars and Fightings," has been transmitted to us from one of the " Religious Society of Friends," with a request to impress the importance of the subject on our readers. We would willingly comply with the request, if we saw how the object of the writer could be obtained, without leading to slavery or to crimes greater than even those committed in war. Before cessation from all fightings can be accomplished, we must have not a quintuple, but at least a centuple treaty, which *all bind all the nations of the earth to turn their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning -hooks, and even then what security would there be against some petty state landing a few soldiers at Gravesend or London bride, marching along Cheapside and the Strand, loading themselves with plunder and carrying off k tri,il e re r r e e ss t e bh s ee in angtai t ni l n t e e s: m aol e ifo tr a o l p ße o rr l a i p s ztit ? lrtyo l r V in ha sl t viten sec tia u o, r f it perhaps not a few o f the most beautiful Qua- Yfoll labourers g the example, and c arr yi ng o ff next r year their husbands as slaves ? As the • world exists at I present the injunction on which this respect able found I class their practice could not be obeyed without throwing the whole state of society into inde scribable confusion. Till the Millenium arrives, or till all mankind shall assume the habits and doctrines of " the Friends," we shall have wars and rumours of wars. They deserve all praise for their humane end peaceable conduct, but even they would be driven to fight if others did not protect them. Self-preservation is the first instinct of human nature. Would even they not have recourse to violence if they were thrown among ravenous wolves ? The following extraordinary article, respecting the personal conduct of the Emperor of RUSSIA, and the mode of life at the Imperial Court of St. Petersburgh, is from the leading columns of our now Tory Contempo rary, the Times. For the statements contained in it we do not hold ourselves responsible. That the Emperor NICHOLAS, in his regal capacity, is an iron despot, in whom there is no bowels of compassion, all conversant with the sad fate of unhappy Poland know too well. But as a husband and the father of a family, we have hitherto heard nothing but what was greatly to the credit of the CZAR. The health of the EMPRESS has been for several years exceedingly delicate, during which the EMPEROR is reported to have treated her with great tenderness, carefully concealing from her any folly of the Court calculated to occasion her any un easiness. His eldest daughter he permitted to choose a husband for herself—no indication certainly of undue parental severity. He extended the like indulgence to his eldest son and heir, provided the lady of his choice was of a certain rank, and he al lowed him to roam over Europe in search of her. We notice these particulars, because we like justice so well, that we would willingly accord to Satan himself any merit due to him. We now quote the article of the Times:— Our private correspondence from Vienna of the 20th ult. states, that the wife of the son and heir to the Emperor Nicholas had (although enceinte), determined to quit her husband, and re turn to her father at Darmstadt, in consequence of a series of brutal treatment to which she was exposed. The Duke of Leuchtenburg is said to have deeply regretted having quitted his happy residence at Munich, to marry a Russian Princess, and fix his residence at St. Petersburgh where he has received many inci vilities from his father-in-law, the Emperor. The unfavourable accounts received at Munich, of the manners of the Court of St. Petersburgh, are said to have prevented the marriage of the Prince of Bavaria, with the Grand Duchess Olga, whose hand is now offered to the Duke de Bordeaux. The Five per Cents. were done at Madrid on the 21st instant at 30k for cash, and 30i 4 at dif- ferent dates. M. MA GUIN brought the question of the ratification of the Bight of Search Treaty, before the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, with a view to exact from the Government a pledge not to ratify it at all. M. G UIZOT said that after the first debate in the Chamber about it, the Government had confined itself to two things— the supporting the rights of the Crown, and the admission of the gravity of the opposition feeling exhibited by the Chamber. The Crown had made known to its Ambassador in London, that it could neither accept the Treaty nor enter into any engagement for the future. The Four Powers, in answer, stated that they compre hended the delicate position of the Cabinet, and should leave the Treaty open for the ratification of France, whenever she felt so disposed. So much for the nonsense of the Opposition Press about France being insulted. Queen Christina continues frequently to visit the Palace of the Tuileries. M. Salvandy, our ex-Ambassador in Spain, bas had a pretty long conference with the King.—Le Commerce. _ . A letter from Cairo, in the Leiptig Gazette, states that the last despatch of the Sultan addressed to the Pacha, desired him to get ready a contingent of 12,000 men for service among the forces organising at Constantinople. Mekemet Ali, it adds, knew before hand what the contents of the despatch, which had been long ex pected, would be, and hastened to dissolve the National Guard of Alexandria, and disbanded some of his regular troops, so that he now alleges that he has only his guards, and cannot spare them. BOURSE—PARis, MONDAY, FEB. 28. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cent 5.......... • 119 25 ... 119 30 ... 1 920 ... 119 30 9 per Cents BO 80 05 ... 60 .. 60 05 8 ink of France 3350 7 . ..3350 ...3345 ....3345 Liffitte Bank 1,0001. Stares 1022 50 ...1025 ...1022 50 ...1025 5,000 f. Shares 2059 ...5050 —5050 ...5050 lelgian Bank 1821 ...... Belgian 5 per Cents. ..... « 104% ... 104% ... 104% .. jog% 6 per Cent..., 1850 105% ... 105% ... 105% ... 105% 5 tanish Active 25% ... 25 ... t's «. 25 Portuguese 5 per Cents. tivapolitan 80rten...... RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ••••••••••••••••••••• 825 ••• 825 ..• 825 ••• 825 versgulles. R. B 347 1:0 ... 347 50 ... 347 50 ... 347 50 L.B 2lO 210 210 .• 210 %min AUSTRIAN FUNDS...-VIENNA, FEE. 19. /limper Coats. Metalliques Four per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ..... ......... 100 Three pH' Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 78 1 4 • Bank Shares ...............»..« 1037 ....411gemeine Z;itung..Feb. 23. THE SUN, LON GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to grant Good Service Pensions of 1501. per annum to the following gallant officers : Captain J. W. Maurice (1809), RN., residing at Stonehouse. This officer was in Lord Bridport's action in 1795, and assisted at the capture of two French frigates, La Unite and La Virgin° ; was senior Lieute nant of the Centaur at the capture of St. Lucie and other West India islands ; was wounded storming a battery at Martinique in 1803 ; was distinguished for his defence of the Diamond Rock in 1805, and the island of Anholt in 1811. His last post was governor of that island in the Cattegat, the garrison of which presented him with a valuable and highly finished sword, in token of their admiration of his personal bravery, and his conduct during his government. Captain Thomas White (a) (1810), R.N.. residing at Buckiast Abbey, Devon. This officer commenced his career under Lord hood, and was in seven actions with that distinguished officer between the 29th April, 1781, and the 12th April, 1782, on which day he was con cerned in capturing the French Admiral de Grasse, in the Ville de Paris of 112 guns, together with four other ships of the line. In 1794, as first lieutenant of the Canada, he, by his unwearied exertions and suggestions to improve her sailing, saved that ship from capture, she having, in company with the Alexander, fallen• in with and maintained a running fight with five French Hue-of-battle ships and three heavy frigates for some hours, in which the latter ship was taken by the enemy. As acting Commander of the Pelican, off St. Domingo, in September, 1797, he fell. in with two French privateers, one mounting 14 guns, with a complement of 75 men, while the other had 60 men for the purpose of boarding' thus exceeding his own complement by 40 men. He in a second action sunk the former, and would have taken the latter, had he not stopped to save the crew of the sunken vessel. For this action he received the thanks of the Admiralty, and was Gazetted, but never obtained the third Order of the Bath, it having been confined to the secoud war ; but not so with the first and second Order of the Bath. In 1805, whun commanding La Fleche, of 18 guns, he attacked a French flotilla, and had several men wounded, when passing close under the battery of Greaeaz. In command of the Ariel, in 1808, in the Baltic, he was frequenily under the fire of the Russian batteries while watching the Russian fleet in Rogerwick, then locked up by the Swedes and British, under the late Lord de Saumarez. In 1813, when Captain of the Virgo, bearing the flag of Sir James N. Morris, in company with the Zealous, of the line, the Ulysses and Hamadryad, frigates, &c., &c., no less than 375 merchant-ships were convoyed safely through the Sound, in defiance of the batteries of Chronburgh Castle, to which were superadded mortars and heavy guns slung in chains, for the purpose of throwing shot over to the Swedish shore, which was then for the first time accomplished. Captain White served as flag captain to the gallant Sir Thomas Hardy, on the South American station, from 1819 to 1822, and in 1838-9 commanded the Royal Adelaide, bearing the flag of Lord Amelius Beauclerk. then Commander-in-chief at this port. Captain John Pasco, R.N. (1811), residing at Stone house, Devon. This officer was tieutenant on board Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, at the battle of Tra falgar, and was severely wounded in that glorious action, for which he reeeives a pension of 2501. a-year in addition to his half-pay. He has since served in other ships with much credit.—Devonport Independent. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE AND HURDLE RACES. (BY EXPRESS.) LIVERPOOL, LAST NIGHT. THE GRAND NATIONAL SWEEPSTAItES of 20 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 100 added. (42 subs) Mr. Elmore's Gay Lad (Oliver) 1 Sir P. Mostyn's Seventy-four (Powell) 2 Mr. Hunter's Peter Simple (Owner) 3 Mr. H. Johnstone's The Returned (Owner) 4 The following also started :—Mr. Elmore's Lottery (181bs. extra) ; Mr. Elmore's Sam Weller; Lord Waterford's Columbine ; Hon. C. Forester's Lady Langford ; Mr. W. Ramsay's Bangalore ; Mr. Fer gusson's Bannathlath ; Mr. Moore's Anonymous ; Lord Maidstone's Satirist ; Mr. R. Ekins's Luck's All ; Lord Clanricarde's Honesty ; and Baron Roths child's Luck's All. Won easy by five or six lengths. THE PRINCE OF WALES' CUP Of 100 guineas, was won after a fine race by Lord Chesterfield's Claude Du Val (Hon. A. Villiers), beating Mr. Ward's Forget-me-not (Mr. J. Baird) ; Mr. Moore's Game Chicken (owner), and Mr. Tom linson's Jem along Josey (owner). AMERIC NN NEWS EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. By the arrival of the New York packet ship United States, Captain Britton, at this port late this evening, we are in possession of New York papers to the day of her sailing, the 14th of February, inclusive, and from other ports to a late date, also the United States; has made a capital passage of 16 days. On Saturday, two excavators employed by Messrs. Grissell and Peto, at the works of the County Courts, Cam bridge, were killed by a fall of earth into a ditch which they were diggin g . The contractors liberally paid the expenses of the funerals, and ordered the wages paid to one of them to be continued to his widow, till a subscription should be raised for her relief. The Utrechtsche Courant, of the 22d inst., states that Constant Pola r i. w h o stole the diamonds of the Princess of Orange, now Queen of the Netherlands, died on the previous day, in the House of Correction at Woerden. Ile was born in 1780, in Italy. ON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1842. OBSERY AlsltE OF THE SABBATH.I " Search the Sciiptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life."—John, chap. $; verse 39. The Sabbath war has now lasted ten years, but though it has ceased in the houses of Parliament, the noise and the strife without still rage with increased fury. The expulsion of Sir Andrew Agnew from Wigtownshire, to which The Sun lent a willing hand, was the signal of peace to the Legislature and the people of England; for though the still small voice of Pemberton Plumptre was exerted to fan the dying embers, the flickering flame soon faded away, and with it ceased also that vast flood of petitions that year after year rolled into the Commons' House of Parliament. A better proof could not be given that the people here are perfectly satisfied with the observance of the day, and that these manufactured or fictitious petitions did not express their opinions. Petitions of this description, that at one time were as common as blackberries, are now more rare than black swans, the Member for Kent being unable to get up even one from the superstitious and ignorant disciples of Thom, or from any class of the Christian people that repose under the wings of the Right Reverend Father, the Archbishop of Canterbury ; not with h rest Sunday or Saturday, but the people of Scotland. They ares o , however , allowed no are plied with sermons and harangues, frightened with fearful forebodings, and told in plain terms that they shall not have Christian privileges ; nay, more, that the Almighty will scourge their land with plagues and pestilence if they fail to observe the Sabbath as commanded by Sir Andrew Agnew and the Non-intrusionist clergy. One Rev. Gentleman, a minister in Dundee, has even had the audacity to de nounce as murderers and robbers all those who voted for running mail trains during the morning and evening of Sunday on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. According to the division which took place on the question last Tuesday, we therefore find that there are 1,312 murderers, and that in obedience to the commands of the Old Testament they ought to be instantly put to death. This is a fearful state of things. Many of the most upright and honourable men of England, and of Scotland too, are described as the most abominated wretches in society, their property is injured, and their very lives endangered, not by common slanderers, or writers in pamphlets and *ews papers, but by men of a sacred character, who are im plicitly believed by the great body of the people, and who loudly proclaim that they have a mission from on high to declare the whole mind of GOD. In the whole history of libel, can such an instance be found of an indisputable ground of action for damages ? We therefore advise the parties to have recourse to the law of the land, not only for defamation, but for loss of property. As regards the first, there can be no doubt, and the rise which took place on the shares after the decision of the Proprietors proves that the Sabbatarians had injured the pro perty ; and to injure it still farther they are de termined. Sir Andrew Agnew and his followers have set the example of appealing to the law, as he dis tinctly gave notice at the meeting that he would lay an information against the- Directors for desecration of the Sabbath. Let the law, then, decide between them. Not satisfied, however, with this threat we find that he and a number of others, nearly one-half of whom are clergymen, have entered into a holy league and covenant to destroy, if possible, a splendid work that has cost one million and a half sterling ; they have published an advertisement in the Scotch papers, with the awful heading " Profanation of the Lord's Day." Among other resolutions they unani mously agreed to the following: — That the Shareholders having this day resolved to attempt the opening of the railway on Sabbath, it is in cumbent on the friends of religion to renew and prosecute their efforts for the protection of the Sabbath, with the resolution to persevere therein to the uttermost. That the Committees at Edinburgh and Glasgow do declare their meetings permanent ; and that the instruc tion to them be to take all prudent methods for obtaining the repeal of the hateful resolution of this day, by pro moting the signing of the declaration against the using of the railway—by taking means to bring the law to bear on the parties desecrating the Sabbath—and, by calling forth the opposition of Scotland more and more to the attempted invasion on the religious privileges of the people. That, among other things, the Committees do take measures for promoting the prosperity of those convey ances which profess to respect the Sabbath. That Sir Andrew Agnew be General Convener of these Committees ; and that Mr. Cassells be Convener at Edinburgh, and Mr. Collins at Glasgow. That the prosecution of these objects being necessarily attended with much expense, subscriptions be forth with called in from all friendly quarters ; and that Wm. Johnston, Esq., be Treasurer, at Edinburgh, and Wm. Wilson, Esq., St. Vincent-street, at Glasgow. Signed in the presence of the Meeting, ANDREW AGNEW; Bart., Chairman. G. Smyttan Henry Paul John Dempster, Minister Hugh Young William Stevenson John Ferguson, Minister Andrew King, Minister William Campbell Peter Campbell, Minister James Play fair Nathaniel Stevenson William Graham Jas. Henderson, Minister Henry Knox Robert Storey, Minister William punn, Minister Charles Cowan James Bridges William Collins Hugh Tennent J. D. Bryce Hugh Brown John Black James Fraser Robt. Buchanan, Minister John G. Lorimer, Minister John Blackie, sen. William Arnot, Minister James Morison Wm. Symington, Minister J. C. Fowler, Minister J. Graham William Buchanan W. B. Ogilvie Andrew Grant James Gibson, Minister John Forbes, Minister Michael Willis, Minister Stewart Bates, Minister Alex. Keith, Minister. Now here is a deliberate attempt made to depre ciate the property, not by fair and honest competition, but taking advantage of their position by a systematic conspiracy to compel the religious people of Scotland to patronise coaches and canals in which possibly some of the ringleaders have an interest. As another proof that the agitation is not the work of the people, but of the clergy, we find that the Presbytery of Edin burgh, at their meeting on Wednesday, passed reso lutions, in one of which they call on all parents and friends of youth to deal with them solemnly, and a Reverend Doctor proposed to follow the example of Sir Andrew Agnew, and enter into a combination to ruin the property ; but common sense, or perhaps fear proposed rt o t p h nl e e n o r a s et t o ou l t nit i o hp n el so propriety hp n ee r d tayi thhveafaty entering" o h n e ia d notnto week-days aa, of the consequences prevailed, f o r D r . M u i r , w h o for that seemed to him to be touching the pecuniary interests or concerns of their neighbours, which ought not to be done by a combination of private individuals. He understood perfectly that if they were to call upon the civil Magistrate to put in force the laws enacted for Sabbath protection, they would operate as a pecuniary mulct upon the shareholders ; but he had a difficulty and a scruple about entering into a combination as private individuals, by which the pecuniary interests:ofitheir neighbours were affected." Leaving, however, the points of law to be settled by worldly authority, we come to the main question, and ask on what ground Dr. David Dickson and many of his brethren foretell that running the mails on Sunday will " bring the judgments of God on Scotland ?" These men have no means:of knowing the will of the Almighty but such as are common to all Jews and Christians, namely, the Holy Scriptures. Now we have, in obedience to the Divine command, searched the Scriptures, and with the blessing of God we trust have come to a righteous con clusion. Let the religious people of Scotland do the same ; let them not ground their faith and practice on the word of man , but on the word of HIM, who, on Mount Sinai, deliver ed to MOSES the " two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." By these Jews and Christians are bound till they are repealed by the same authority communicated from above, through the ProphetS or mo re, the law cannot b e Apostles. No communication to that effect has y et been made—nay, what is altered, because it is a 31,gltfor ever between GOD an 1 16; people, and the seventh day was set apart as a day of rest, because on that day he rested, and was refreshed. The command is so pre length from the bo o k o f cise, and the denunciation aga i n st the breach of it so awful, that we give it at Exodus. "Six days may w ork be done ; but on th e seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord : who , e who soever doeth any work therein he shall surely be put children of I srae l f or ever to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe theSabb L a o th rd thr m ou ad g e hou h t e t a h v e e i n r generation, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between sfor m i e n and six days the the and earth, and on the seventh he rested, and was refreshed." Here is the command, with the day of the week fixed for ever, and the reason also for its observance. If the Agnewites say this command applies only to the Jews, then there is an end of the matter. They have no other authority but this for the observance of one day in the week as a Sabbath, and the fixing of the first day in place of the seventh . is not only unwarranted by Scriv ture, but is directly opposed to the reason assigned for keeping the day holy. From the begin ning of time " God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, which GOD created and made." Yet these vain interpreters of the Divine Will, these dwellers " in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth," have the impious audacity to thr eaten us with some terrible calamity, because we deny their authority for abstaining from all work on the first day of the week, the very day on which God himself began the great work of creation ! We are guided by the Scriptures, and the Scriptures alone, and to these we confidently appeal. In the New Testament, we have stated ten times, there is no authority for the change. We have challenged the Agnewites, and the only answer we have yet received is—not a quotation from Scrip ture—not an implied, much less a direct command from Christ or his Apostles, but the unmeaning asser tion, " Few will venture to deny that the change was .made by the Apostles." With these remarks we close the subject for the present. In making them we have had two great objects in view—to arrive at the truth, and to pro tect the public against the persecution, slander, and selfish machinations of a sect, which from the time of our SAVIOUR has been the bane of society. We wish to see the Sunday observed in a decent and be coming manner, but we have not the hypocrisy to assert that it is more desecrated by the running of a steam carriage than by the running of horses, which, as well as man, according to the Fourth Command ment, are to do no work on that day. We wish to see a Christian people guided by reason and Scripture, and not the cunning devices of men. We have no wish to interfere with the conduct of any class. Let those who please cease from all work—let them shut themselves up in their houses—let them kindle no fire on that day, nor do any work ; but let them not presume, as ministers of peace, to call down the judg ments of the Almighty on those who conscientiously differ from them. Let them obey one great com mand of our SAVIOUR, which they wilfully break every day, and " Do unto others as they wish others to do unto them." WAR AND THE TORIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—One great cause of the difficulties England is now struggling with, is the shameful Treaty of Peace signed by the Tories in 1815, leaving France as strong as at the commencement of the war ; so that we shall probably soon have the battle to fight over again. France never makes peace but she immediately prepares for another war. France was twice at the feet of outraged Europe. Common sense would have dictated the neces sity of crippling her, either by a diminution of her ter ritory on the frontiers of Spain, Switzerland, the Rhine, &c., or by loading her with a portion of our debt, in ex acting guarantee against an augmentation of her navy. Why, also, was a Commercial Treaty overlooked with her and other countries ? France, in her days of suc cess, nearly annihilated the different countries she sub dued. Should there be a third march to Paris, are the Tories to sign the Treaty of Peace ? Had Napoleon obtained military possession of England, what would have been its fate ? War is now imminent, and the Tories in power. If they are not unseated by a general burst of indignation through the land, those infatuated wretches who, at the late general election, sold their votes for 51. or 101., will soon rue the day they touched those bribes. Ten times the sum received will soon be extracted from their pockets, and they will be fleeced and plundered, if not ruined. In fact, the past folly, extravagance, corruption, and jobbing of this party, holds out but a dark prospect for the future. The Whigs were bad, but the Tories ten times worse. The two parties have drawn England to the mouth of a volcano. Foreign nations ere aware of this, and France, probably, hopes to ruin us, and produce a national bankruptcy, without firing a gun. Her debt is not a third of ours ; her internal resources yield a revenue equal to ours. England's revenue, indeed, very existence, depends on ex ternal commerce. England, in case of war, can no longer look to loans. She has eaten her cake. When the rest of Europe refuses to obey the dictation of France, she has merely to order armaments by land and sea, and lo I England is put to an expense of millions. To be pre pUred, then, for these bursts of passion on the part of France (for under whatever Government it may be, it will always be tormented with a thirst for conquest and venomous hatred to England), the most rigid economy in abolishing places and pensions is demanded. There are I know not how many retired Chancellors. Some of them might surely be employed, and their salaries saved. Did not the late Lord Eldon have, in land and money, about two millions ' • and, not satisfied, saddles himself on the nation with a large pension ? Is it proper any officer in the State should have the power of realising such a fortune ? Lord Brougham, also, the great gun and big-wig of reform and economy, after blazing and chattering for years on these topics,re tires from the scene with an additional grant of 1,000/. per annum. to the usual pension. At all events, these pensions should be given only to those who really want them. The Liberal Royal Duke also solicited in forma pauperis an addition to his little salary. Billy Pitt, the Tory, the pilot who weathered the storm or gathered the stake, after spendingseven or eight hundred million, failing in all his undertakings, dies, overwhelmed with debts, contracted by his own carelessness, and leaves the country to pay. them. Canning, after pocketing 12,0001. for a pre tended trip to Portugal, when pleading the cause and poverty of the economical Regent, afterwards George the Fourth, exclaimed that theleorntnons would at length drive the poor man to dine at D'Oyly's chop-house if they were so niggardly. What sums of public money have been paid to the Ardins and Percivals, Grenvilles and Granvilles, Wellesleys and Wellingtons, &c., &e., &c. The only real patriot who has appeared on the stage for a length of time is Lord Camden, who actually (a patriotic act unprecedented in English annals), aban doned a large portion of his pension conferred by a rapa cious Government. It is not meant to detract from the merits of many of the above, but the purse of John Bull is not in a state to admit of the drafts made upon it ; for all these sums are paid from the productive labour of the country ; from taxes paid on corn, tea, sugar, tobacco, &c. &c. Fifty millions per annum must be raised to pay the establishments and interest on the debt, and it is now decided by the Tories that twenty millions per annum more must be paid to protect the land and ruin the merchants. The landholders all through the war tripled their rents ; if they lived beyond their means and morgaged their lands, is it just the nation should pay for extravagance ? Some say twenty millions per annum is spent by absentees on the Continent. To mend the matter, andit would be supposed to encourage absenteeism, the Government pays large sums to chap lains where a number of English reside. Certainly those who reside abroad should pay their own pastors. These are trite subjects, but they cannot be too often brought forward. We are arrived at a moment that admits no longer of trifling with the people. It is trusted the general good sense of the nation (if they cannot force the great physician to abandon his charge) will at least compel him to spare his patient, and tLe oligarchy, to come into reasonable term s; as, in a certain sense, in a general convulsion, the little man with his 1001. per annum, will be as great a sufferer as the Dukes of Nor thumberland, Wellington, &c. &c. It is possible you may find some hints in the above worthy of being enlarged upon by your able pen.—Your's &c. A REFORMER. The frontier question of Canada was left open and unsettled for more than half a century. by the Tories, and now probably millions must be spent. France and the United States will always act together. LOVE OF THE TIGER FOR HUMAN FLESH.—It was my lot to be stationed, for several years, in a remote part of our Indian possessions, adjoining the Mysore frontier, and'in the immediate vicinity of the great chain of Western Ghauts. In the pathless thickets of their eternal forests, untrodden by the foot of man, the tigress reared her young, and wandered with her sa vage partner into the smaller jungles of the plain, proving a scourge that drove every feeling of security from the humble dwellings of the wretched inhabitants. In such a country, inhabited by the poorest classes, living in small villages surrounded by jungle, and forced to seek their subsistence amongst the tiger's haunts, nu merous casualties, of course, occurred, and I hadfrequent opportu nities of studying the habits, and witnessing the ravages of this formidable animal. Some idea may be formed of the havoc com mitted by tigers, when I mention, from returns made to Govern ment, that, in one aistrict. three hundred men and five thousand head of cattle, were destroyed during three years I Whilst con fined in the forest, the tiger is comparatively harmless. There, feeding principally on deer, he rarely encounters man, and when the solitary hunter does meet the grim tyrant of the woods, in stinctive fear of the human rave, makes the striped monster avoid him. But in the open country he becomes dangerous. Pressed by hunger, he seeks his prey in the neighbourhood of villages, and carries off cattle before the herdsman's eyes. Still, he rarely ventures to attack man, unless provoked, or urged to desperation. But under whatever circumstances human blood is once tasted, the spell of fear is for ever broken ; the tiger's nature is changed ; lie deserts the jungle, and haunts the very doors of his victims. Cattle pass unheeded, but their driver is carried off ; and from that time the tiger becomes a snan-eates .-77te Old Forest Ranger. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—We un derstand that the minority of the shareholders intend to pre sent a bill'of suspension and interdict to the Court of Ses sion against the resolution of the majority, sanctioning the running of a morning and evening train on Sunday. This application will necessarily be founded on some of the old Scotch Acts as to the compulsory obser vance of the Sabbath Day, and must open up a wide field of discussion, as many of the statutory injunctions of that period on this subject have fallen into desuetude. In anticipa tion of such an appeal to the Court of Session, the majority re tained the Solicitor-General and Mr. Rutherfurd. The mino rity were also anxious to secure the aid ot these eminent coun sel; and subsequently sent them retainers, which ot course they had to decline.--Edinburgh Advertiser, of Tuesday. MR. HENRY VINCENT IN DEVIZES.—On Wednes day, February 23d, Mr. Vincent arrived in Devizes, for the first time since the Tory riot in 1839. His intention was to attend the Anti-Corn-law tea meeting, but finding, on his ar rival, that the party was a private one, Mr. Vincent wrote a letter to the Chairman, stating he had no desire to intrude himself among them, but hoping that a public meeting would soon be held in defence of popular representation and free trade. News of Mr. Vincent's arrival soon spread, and at eight o'clock the Temperance Room was filled with a highly respect able party. Mr. Vincent was enthusiastically received, and addressed the meeting for the space of three hours, on the " first principles of Government, and urged the necessity of union between the middle and working classes, to obtain po litical power for the people.— Wiltshire Indepependent. LITERATURE. ZACHARY COBBLE, Bull, London, 1349. The author of this queer production has very happily designated it in his title-page as a " Rigmarole in Rhyme." It is a " Rigmarole," and such a one, as we do not often meet To give any minute critical analysis of it is impos sible, for itsplot, and even sometimes its language, are as perplexing as the riddle of the Sphynx ; we must perforce, therefore, content ourselves with observing that it is a poem—or rather a string of rhymes—one hundred arid fifty-eight pages and a quarter long; and that, so far as we can gather, it concerns the adventures of a pedantic school master, by name Zachary Cobble, who is pic turesquely described as being " A stiff, high-shouldered, comic figure, Called a gig- top, but somewhat bigger ; _ His upper story all one way stuck' Like the roof of an awry haystack, (The easier for his twinkling eyes To twinkle converse with the skies), And from its rear was seen to shoot A little bit of tail, or root, Powder'd all o'er, whence his large mind Its alimentary stores purloined." To say nothing of the exquisite taste and pro priety exhibited in the comparison of a man's head and shoulders with a " haystack ;" what is to be thought of the assertion that Zachary Cob ble's mind " its alimentary stores purloined" from his pig-tail? He must have had an extra dinary intellect to derive nourishment from such a source. But indeed he seems to have been a queer genius altogether, for we find him, in the earlier portions'of the poem, bent on reforming l the world, by means of his own personal exer tions and those of his illegitimate son, Dashem —a promising stripling, whose duties in his father's school-room arc thus sportively defined : " His duty was to hold down breeches, And clear the way for stripes and switches, To run as powder-monkey, 'tween The embrasure and the magazine, And when retreating signal sounded, To button and bind up the wounded." This gifted couple, father and son, set out, like Hudibras and his squire, Ralpho, one fine morning in search of adventures, chiefly hi con sequence of a dream which Old Cobble had had a few nights before, in which dream a spirit ap peared before him, and after playing him a va riety of droll pranks, " Bore him upwards with a whistle That set his brains all in a frizzle." On awaking up from this unpleasant dream, Old Zachary finds himself as chilly as an iceberg, which gives the author an opportunity of dis playing his aphoristic powers of thought in the following terse and pregnant couplet : "Evaporation is a process That cools men's minds as well as noses." It was some time, however, before our hero's mind—whatever may have been the case with his nose—was thoroughly cooled, for it seems that, among other things, he had dreamed that he was married, which naturally put him into a state of effervescence, and he could with diffi culty reconcile himself to the fact that, " The greetings of his wedded spouse Were all a visionary chouse." We pause here, for the purpose of directing the reader's special attention to the perfect grace and beauty of the word " chouse.' How poetical the idea How refined the expression ? But faultless as it is, it is scarcely superior to a dia logue which takes place between Cobble, the father, and Dashem, the son, the morning after they have set forth on their expedition. The father having asked the son to guess some puzzling riddle, involving a question of moral right, the son modestly and classically replies, " That's a pretty go, How should I, I should like to know ;" whereupon Old Cobble delicately intimates that Dashem is an ass. After some further conversa tion the two enthusiasts for moral and political improvement jog quietly along the high road, and ineeting with a butcher and a calf, in a pa roxysm of humanity they give the calf its free dom, and then hurry on in search of other ad ventures; in the course of which expedition of discovery, they suddenly find themselves in the midst of a game preserve—a circumstance thus poetically alluded to by Dashem " We've got into the game seraglio Of some great Turk ; should he o'erhaul you, His Janissaries are not the folks To pay night-trespassers with jokes: Yon wigwam, or whate'er the word is, The mansion-house of no small lord is ; And, hark ! d'ye hear that sound? A whistle! The keepers are on us—let us mizzle The epithet " mizzle has an elegant ,pro priety--not to say melody—about it, that must strike even the most unobservant reader. The sequel of the adventure i s describ e d in terms not less chaste and euphonious•:— " This hint being fortunately taken, They turned away, and saved their bacon."- But Zachary was not always so lucky as in this instance, for having made himself obnoxious to the authorities by his Reform crotchets, the Lord Chancellor, " With a view to keep things quiet, Issued his peremptory fiat, Engrossed and sealed—and Boots was bid to Deliver it quickly, which Boots did do." The consequence of this punctuality on the part of Boots was, that_Zachary Cobble was arrested for sedition, and brought to trial before a jury of his countrymen, one of whom was so clever a fellow that he could actually "By dark chiromancy tellfor Of a prize ox what his rump would sell for," a species of information which must have been peculiarly acceptable to the prize ox ; of another of the jury we are told that " A tidleywink shop once he kept 'Till by John Doe scoured out and swept." When the evidence had been all gone through, the prisoner, " Who first as dumb As patience sat, and looked as glum As a bull surveying a raw beefsteak, Broke all at once into a fresh freak," and delivered a long speech by way of defence, which so electrified the jury, that they unani mously gave a verdict in his favour—a cheering incident, which relieves the reader from a load of apprehension, and forms an appropriate ter mination to the poem. Such is " Zachary Cobble," a ridiculous, and, in some respects, an incomprehensible performance, wherein sound is substituted for sense ; and similes introduced, Which are distinguished for nothing so much as their utter dissimilitude. As for humour or fancy, there is hardly an atom of either in the whole work, and even the rhymes hobble on, like an old man on crutches—without grace, ease, or spirit. The best thing in the poem is the word " Finis" at the end of the last line. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE AND SHIPPING IN NORTH ERN EUROPE.—A paper has just been published, by order of the House of Commons, under this title, which extends to 63 pages, and must have cost a considerable sum of money to print it. The facts it contains, which are nicely disposed in a tabular and columnar form, are summed up by the, author of the paper, at the end, somewhat to the following effect :—Should our Corn laws be abolished, Belgium can supply England with no material increase of agricultural produce. Neither can Holland. Bremen, as the port of Hanover and Hesse, might supply a little more. From Hamburgh some increase might take place. Kiel, it is possible, might send us from 25 to 30 per cent. more food than at present. Lubeck the same. Rostock the same. From these ports, however, we can get only the produce of Holstein, Mecklenburgh, and Lunenburg, the whole of . which;could it be spared—the amount they have supplied is about 150,000 quarters—could scarcely suffice to feed our people for a single week. Stettin, no increase. Dantzic, no material increase in a seasonable time ; but there are districts in Poland and Prussia which might be cultivated. There is news for the people of Eng land worth paying for ! Elsinore might increase its ex ports of food about 25 - per cent. Was it neces sary to send a political agent to the Continent to gather this information, and was a large folio re quired to make known to the people of England that these several places could not immediately send any great additional supplies of food ? We have already stated that fact months ago in The Sun. To grow corn, the ground must be prepared, and cultivation cannot be ex tended in an hour • and were the Corn-laws to be abo lished tomorrow, there is no part of the world from which we could immediately procure any large additional supply of food. Who the wonderfully sagacious man may be who has provided the public with this informa tion at so considerable a cost, we are not exactly aware, but we see that his report is dated from the ADMIRALTY, and that the Comptroller of victualling and transport ser vices is called, like the reporter, James Meek, Esq. Can it be that he had been spared from his duties at the Ad miralty to visit the Continent to gather that informa tion? Must the people of England give this Mr.- Meek two salaries for such service'? Is his Comptrollership a sinecure? At least we can say that if his labours in the victualling and transport office are of no more value to the public than his researches into the productive powers of the Continent, all the public money is terribly wasted which goes into the pockets of Mr. Meek. When new taxes are to be levied, the people have a great right to complain of the manner in which their resources are squandered by such silly missions as this on which Mr. Gladstone has sent Mr. Meek, -and in procuring such valueless, though expensive information, as is contained in those 63 pages. The snow, which has for nearly two months co vered the _mountains is the environs of Algiers, has compelled the lions to descend to the plains. At Kaddona. an European having fired at one of these animals and missed him, the lion, instead of attacking the European, sprang upon two Arabs who were near him, and wounded them severely. Between Cape Matifoux and the Hami.e, in the thick covers which border the coast, the lions have, taken refuge in such numbers that the Arabs of Hadjera have been compelled to withdraw. A grand lion hunt is getting up, but the inexperience of the Europeans in such matters leads to the apprehension of serious accidents. • COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Milton's. masque of Comus, which was represented for the first time after it had been written at Lucile/ 1 Castle, in 1643, before John, Duke of Bridgwater , t hen President of Wales, was revived at this theatre last night. Considering how little this composition of Milton approximates even to the ordinary run of masques, which during the times of the Tudors chiefly were noticeable for their coarse drolleries, it was to be feared that lofty sentiment, such as embodied in Comus and the statuesque character of its heroine, would be but ) 11 * adapted for dramatic effect, and as the spectacle Was composed of the triple combinations of performallf, e ' music, and scene r y, we s h a ll' consccu ti v ely notice oleo; Mrs. Walter L acy enacte d t h e L a d y , b u t her study" the character does not appear to us absolutely cOllO - with the poet's conception. The idea of a solemn and stately personage, whose form, no less than whose words, are characterised by the most majestic severity, whose countenance should bear the very s i gn and im press of the " innuba Pallas"—the unwedded and ch ft : 6 , te daughter of Wisdom, and ' h whose tongue was armed " the august reprimands of virtue—this was the just ini t . gination of the Bard. But Mrs. Lacy, r enouncing w e , philosophic dignity of the vestal, i nves t e d her entire part with passion and ejaculation, a postur e i n t o which M t ' ton's Lady never falls. Even the " sacred flame of ye ; hemence " is not kindled in her, but only hinted a s prospectively in the original. M r . H arr i s on's C° ll l ll e was, for the most part, commendable, but. in the 'l n temptation-scene, his delivery of the passage " What need of vermeil-tinctured lips for thal, -- Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the was not true. As the son of the Wine-god, that b a l his genealogy, he should have thrown rich fer r t into his lineaments, and, as born of Circe the Siren , t m most voluptuous of the wooer's tones into his u tteran c e ' Among the groupings in the first scene was one singal ari e ' r elegant of the firs; Bacchante (Madame Vestris). Au° t ' h " - 1 picturesque tabiwu also, was in the leaping forwards, 35 from the far-hills, of four cymbal-dancers, whose evt, 1 „ ti g tions of limb were masterly. Le ffl er, was a gorg e personification of "laughter, holding ski e s ' His his si" . l His " suiting the action to the word' "—his rotundi t i he form and voice, and the heartiness and capacity of t , last, conveyed themselves so e ff ectually to the cho ra that surrounded him, that it appeared as if fifty vcsi st ! bands were about to b e b urs t o, and the latchets o f many shces split a sun d er . Th e or d ea l w hich tl' a Lady is obliged to und ergo w hil e sea t e d i n th e charm ed chair would have been tedio u s, b u t' for 'the truly wag li ,"' ficent scenery, and constructive devic es w hi c h then e',, adaptation has introduced, though the " winter-sce ne needs seriously to be yet curtailed. The first see n, ;; conjured up by the arch-enchanter Comus, to act upo n her senses, is a Corinthian hall, with flower-wreat he d pillars and arches : this bland scene of beauty failing subdue her nerves to acquiescence, the chilling asP ec it t ': of a northern clime are summoned around her, and icy precipices, with glistening stalactites depencling.! these being still as vain in effect, a charming pre e ‘ tive, with the side-scenes consisting of golden trell.7 and forming a sumptuous hall, constitute the ench an o ment that encircles her, when rescued by her t v a brothers. But these, exquisite as they were, fc i et , themselves surpassed in a water-scene, at the out consisting of a fall of diaphanous water, i w t l i i e a shrine or fabric of gold above it ; an d - 0 subsequent scene in which Miss Rainforth , the Severn-nymph Sabrina, rises in her convolute sIL. of jasper, under a fountain formed of five tiers of _w c ;: mond falls, and glittering with the extreme of brillio ll tr i. But of these • scenic displays, the crowning umph was the last, representative of the sbl opened, and, round within round, the battall d , of the virtuous, who with their golden sh l . e and white-robed companies ascend step by step into 19 nity : a lovelier piece of scene-painting than this , make bold to say, cannot be produced. The Lady's r at , drigal to "Echo," in which that impalpable being nished a counterpart to the song.as warbled, was tecil°;, and little more than unmeaning. With regard C r Mme, dress, and decoration, nothing could be snore C O ll i plete or better appointed ; and the general action se, dances have in them many features of grace and s) 111111 ,,, trical arrangement. The music of the three mast r , t , Handel, Purcell, and Arne—appeared chiefly in mentary snatches and disjointed portions, to ail s : s the purpose of adaptation to the poem, so thik4, continued portion of either was not expected. t ba Harrison and Madame Vestris appeared after , curtain had dropped, and the announcement of its repict tition for further nights by the former, was coraill received by the audience. Considered in every rel ee oo ; Comus is one of those intellectual treats, which, Ir le s its abstract and refined order , will find its chief favoq t ' among higher and more recherche minds. HOW TO GET PRAISE IN TO NAVY. The judgment of the Court-martial on Oth Nicolas, of the Vindictive, contains lessons NI T ' will not be thiown away on the navy. cu ing It appears that an officer is not to blame for ge- ,ng his ship under weigh on a lee shore, and in a r i-l i e r gale, under sail which would not keep her lin „ command in so possible or probable an event as 13 „ri ' . pened, the wind's heading in a squall. This iS " na garly called chancing it, in which there is nothiloder censurable. Had the wind held, the ship courses, would have reached her anchorage ; buter the wind headed, and the ship could not stay unu _ courses, she had no resource but to let go h er ancho which did not save her from striking. t Had the gale conti nue d f rom th e south, she moot have been lost, and probably all her crew with her ; as one chance put her i n jeopardy under sail with wil l° she could not stay, so another released her. ti Next, an officer is not to blame for steer ly course bringing him to the edge of a shoal, eSpe Ci- in so unknown and unmarked a sea as that bete the Nab and St. Helen's Roads, where the sigh t y ,i e such a thing as a buoy is as strange as a pine -a PV on Salisbury plain. The Captain, as usual n i. . ch such cases, laid the blame to the compasses,' . would not traverse; the compasses, poor dumb thing:, could not defend themselves, and retaliate that the C th tam could not traverse a distance short of a league-NIT' c , out two great faults ; but the Court honourably' 3 quitted both the compasses and the Captain. " The Court cannot decide with precision on the cas t ec i which led to the disaster. They appear to ha d e mainly on some error in the supposed position of the s 6th when at anchor off the Nab, on the morning of the F, d e of January last, and in the course intended to be good whilst under weigh, but it is not proved hY: l i o n deuce, that there was any mat er i a l error or della in the compasses." se4 The Court was thus of opi n i on th a t th e comr; were right, and the course wrong ; but it 50; t t ha thing censurable in mistaking the p os ition • ' 3 ', t he 13 ', I ship in that un k nown sea w ithi n h a lf a l eag ue of Nab, or in shaping a wrong course in a kin" voyage of discovery thence to St. Helen's Roads. %. The amazement of the ship's company at the 1111e ,..,t pected phenomenon of the buoy on the lee bow In indeed have been most deadly and unaffected. l e Nobody and nothing having been to blame, not e i s t y those common causes of such catastrophes, the ft i ' d .o less compasses; her Majesty's ship the Vindicti e handsomely thumping on the shoal, and in this b l 9 less jeopardy her, Captain gains more credit for conduct than the ship lose's from her bottom. liyd Should any other officer happen to be in the pr o circumstances to those in which Captain Nicola s 0 3 placed, he will do all that Captain Nicolas did , fi o f nothing but what he did, and with the full sanet i lip the Court-martial just held, he will run his „ 5 ,, e e, ashore. After the example and sanction now g .. !'e no officer will venture to set his top-sails in the predicament.—Examiner. The village of Servieres, in the Puy-de-Dornf i ', A ir on the 7th instant, visited by an awful avalanche, sv . i r„, etv from the mountains above it to the extent of more t o t e yards in breadth. Of 210 sheep, the united flocks of t'i o eli habitants, which were returning home for the niflb t ,', is!! 12 escaped alive. The shepherd was beaten do w er the valley, but, fortunately, was not so overwhelms l l , l o isr" snow as to prevent him from extricating himself. Fou,r r Is e i were buried several yards deep ; but the inhabitants, e n i fering almost all the horrors of death, were, by the,: i f exertions of their neighbours, and the people from °WI° rounding villages, released from what they expected I, " ° ,f tY their tombs. After three days' successive labour, 11 20 / sheep remained undiscovered. Ot 11005914 APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE Loans.—By arrangements that have been made betwee n tbt Chancellor, and Lords Brougham, Cottenham, and CO h , W 011 '', appeals now waiting for hearing before th e H ouse of 1.01. e °„ t tb much expedited. The Lord Chancellor has arranged t° House to hear causes four d ays i n one week, Monday' fscPl Thursday, and Friday ; and t wo d ays i n the next week• - .. 1 .,„, --u and Friday. The e x -Ch ance ll ors Cottenham, Brougn": 0 1 ,11 1 ; Campbell, have agreed t o a tt en d f our d ays i n each weel4....L.;'ceil" be enabled to hear app ea l s on t h e two d ays t h at t he Loirlur" p esih, is absent. Th us, f our d ays i n every week being al l ot ted t°l4C ° ' those interested in the causes will have not only the adeet t o four Learned Judges to adjudic a te upon their causes, bu t '- tain more speedy hearing than has hitherto been the case. vr ofit g EXPLOSION AT MESSRS. CURTIS AND CO.'S 1),,,g°„ tbS Mum—Scarcely had the excitement occasioned througu`;ooe° neighbourhood of Hounslow by the late melancholy oc e° lo 4o o began to subside, before we have to ' announce two other e_ sl) on the works of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, which h ype' ever, most providentially been unattended by fatal coni9:000 The first took place in the afternoon ofSaturday last, b ; " u "ce„t i minutes to three o'clock, in a powder- Sa room near to the ' OO , the previous explosion. Two men named John Irish, novice years of age, and Wm. Fox, about the same age, in the tol e se Messrs. Curtis and Co., were sent in to sweep it 'up,and Wh ' hat tbil gaged, from tome cause at present unexplained, eiceP te " b y OB neglected first to damp the floor, the loose powder expinael"„d d db force of which the windows of the building were broken °;ijorlY men injured. The second explosion tcok place on Mond a y o f th e Ing, about half.past eight o'clock, when the inhabitante_ed country round, for a radius of four or five miles, "were show. a loud report, which on inquiry was found to haveoccurred 4 st ' i jeti , wo: ks belonging to the same firm, situated at Hatton, t l f. g ee° font, about four miles from Hounslow, by which the roof& 00 charged mill was, it is stated, blown eff, but without all P • being killed or injured. U P" ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ENGINE. -The O nais has the following:—" M. Lewinsky, a Pole by birtloo, naturalised in France, will in a few days make trial of a n d ' in bsi pheric pressure-engine, in a small bo a t w hich Admiral ,Ba ud placed at his command. We have before us a certificate V. 0.01. tain Durbac, of the port of M arse ill es , affi rm i ng that hf• sky in the course of last year made a trial of his engin e ' vi pie of wood, in a fiat.bottomed b oa t, which he was th erebY 3 y, at take out of the port of Mar se ill es, an d reach the fourth DI tb. the rate of betwee n th ree and four k nots an hour, alt h°4 • •1 1 xPer l° ,e4 sea was very boisterous. He had previously made an orac•-.. at Rome, in the p resence of numerous spectators; thie,sebele the notice of the E ng i s h consu l ar agen ts, and indufie" * Lo oo°' communicate an account of it to their Government. Th e „, i , hid the Admiralty in consequence wrote to M. Lewinsky, .°. to bring his invention to England, promising him every P e t' s ' 0 , hi' and encouragement ; but M. Lewinsky, wishing to P r r e osri° l the " discovery to his adopted country, declined accepting offer." /1 "1 "kli 4 , tt s i r it "Itt , ,;• 44.1,1 ' ' j ' I "the, ri g t fait rep, the t.., .- s:~. T' cm . of I rue ] jt L !ten in g feri bas, 1 401 tor 1 Lett *hi fo ot Ta t tot fide £Oll aur be att, the _