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The NEXT DISTRIBUTION cont ains 7,000 MONEY DI VIDFNDS, as follows:-- lof ti. 5,000 lof .C6OO sof El2O 10 of £BO 1 ... 5,000 2 ... 400 5 ... 110 :10 ... t ... • 1,500 2 ... 200 5 ... 1 00 43 ... 60 t 1,000 3 „.. 150 u. • . 91) 593 ... 50 V •.. 800 STERLING, amounting together to £72,170. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. --- - THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. NOW OPE.sI FOR THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, MAY 17, The Perf irmances will commence with PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL —Prineipal Characters by Messrs. Barker and Walter Lacy. After which, the Burlesque Extravaganza of THE OLYMPIC REVELS. —Principal Characters by Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Granby, Mrs. Grattan Miss Murray. To be followed by the 'uccessful Burletta of ENTHUSIASM. Succeeded by the Grand rairy Ilailtt of I.A S YLPHIDE. To conclude with THE I 111 all TUTU it —Teddy O'Rourke, Mr. Brougham. Boxes, is.—Pit, N.—Gallery, Is Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven ; Half-price a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office; and of Messrs. Andrew:, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. airy thing New-1 he most splendid Novelties ever wit essed, with an immense outlay, and numbers beyond conception. THIS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be presented a New Military and Equestrian Spectacle, enti °el MURAT—THE PEASANT, tiENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand Reviews t f Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, iutroduc.ng i.lr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, An.lalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionist , in the kingdom. PONY RAC ES, eclipsing all former efforts, and a real Monkey, the only one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called THE SPRIG OF NO. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION of MR. OS BALDISTON. THIS EVENING, MAY 17. Will be presentee a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, enti tled J ENE PAUL; OR, THE VICTIM OF UNMERITED PER SECUTION After Which. THE MILL OF BEREZINA ; OR, THE HOST AND THE DESERTER. To conclude w th THE FORTY THIEVES. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscrilrn . s, and the Public, are respectfully informed that Tins DAY, and THURSDAY NEXT, A G RAND FESTIV AL will be celebrated, in which will be embo died all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which it is confidently anticipa.ed will render them even more generally attractive. • The MEN AGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF BONE has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled. Tha BAN O will include some of the most einmeut Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES will be selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRA NDOL A, the FLA M.NG brESSEN. GER, the METEOR of ST. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABLEAU ! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musxales, Illumination of st. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, OT Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." it qf Al ., A.- 4 -44 i, - .• c -- * AT , .:- :...... I 'C.. -. 11 4 ‘,... ' ' 4 % .... 7 N• WI?, ~., Ai d. 1- gts c.‘ ' ' `" - 0 ,4. .*-- - r , . ~,, i .1 , ' etit c§un, LONDON TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1842. It is better late than never, and we can at length congratulate some of the mere Whig Journals, which, in the first instance, found Sir R. PEEL'S tariff redo lent of good, on having acquired sagacity enough to adopt Sir R. PEEL'S own conclusion, that it will con fer little or no benefit on the people. We shall have cheapness with it, that is very likely. To make dear ness there must be, in relation to the things to be sold, a great number of buyers. But while our agricultural productions have not, so far as we can understand, undergone diminution, the number of buyers, and their means of pur chasing, have probably decreased. We are very likely, therefore, to have commodities cheaper, whether PEEL'S tariff• be passed or not. We shall not to have thank him for the cheapness, but only his ,Income-tax, which will diminish the power to pur chase. If some of our Liberal Contemporaries and Liberal friends had been less sparing of their commen dation of the tariff at first, Sir R. PEEL might not have found it so easy to pass his Income-tax. That was partly accepted on his assertions that the tariff would compensate the tax ; and his assertions found credence, because they were echoed by those who now reproach him with having made the assertions to deceive. Mr. COBDEN'S letter, which was read at the Man chester meeting, places the recently, not discovered, but published, corruption of the House of Commons in its proper and important light. The Honourable Member says —s' If all that I hear be true, of the bribery, corruption, and intimidation—of the brutal violence, even to homicide, which are said to have distinguished the late general election beyond all that preceded it, then I have no hesitation in declaring that the present House of Commons has no moral or Christian title to the obedience of the people. A Parliament, if so returned, is not the choice of a nation, but the representative and offspring of its suborned vices." The reading of Mr. COBDEN'S letter was followed by loud cheers, so that the character of the House of Commons, which is the offspring of cor ruption, is well known and widely spread. It is not surprising that the Tories should begin to repent that they conceded Mr. ROEBUCK'S Com mittee. His ardour took them by surprise, and when they had time to reflect ,they saw their error, but could not extricate themselves from their con cession. They are aCraid of having more corruption exposed. They are afraid that the bread-taxing, income-taxing House of Commons will lose all autho rity—that its laws will be disregarded or condemned before they are well passed, and they are anxious to prevent the inquiry from throwing too much light on the mode of collecting the House. Will they find means to render it vain ? Will they in some way or other baulk the Committee, and baulk the expectations of the people ? We are afraid they will ; we hear it whis pered that such is their intention. But do what they may they cannot wipe out of the public knowledge, the deep impression already made, that the Parliament is, as Mr. COBDEN says, the representative and off spring of the suborned vices of the nation. Men will not have such a power for their masters. Few publications at any period of the world have excited more attention and created a deeper _ interest than the Report of the Commissioners to inquire into the Einployment of Children in Mines. A great sensa tion was created a few years ago by the publication of the accounts given by the Factory Commissioners of the unremitting toil of children employed in the foe ,'" t or ifog, and of the scarcely remitting cruelties to which they were exposed; but that sensation was faint com pared to the impression made by the present Report. The metropolitan and provincial journals equally use th e language of surprise and indignation. "It requires the strongest evidence to make us credit fhe state rnentA," writes one ; "the immoralityand cruelti are not to be tolerated," says anoTher ; "it is a bar bariam and demoralization to which the annals of ci- vilized Europe afford no parallel," says a third re port ; " reveals a state of things which would be disgraceful to a barbarian people, far more so to a civilized and Christian country," says a fourth ; and so through the majority of the Press. And well do the facts brought to light deserve all the indignation which can be poured on them, for nothing like them, we believe, were ever to be found elsewhere in the world. However justly it excites the public indignation, it is no novelty. Men, now advanced in life, went into the pit when they were children. Thus " Richard Baker, aged forty-six, went into the pit at five years old," that is forty-one years ago. Thus " John Gor don, aged thirty-four, commenced under-ground work at seven years of age ; thinks there is little difference at which lads have begun in his childhood and since." Several gentlemen were examined, who have known the collieries all their lives, and none of them assign any date to the commencement of the practice of employing children in mines ; but, on the contrary, they all speak of it as a practice of which they do not remember the origin. More than thirty years ago we saw children, not above eight or ten years of age, working naked iq a coal mine in the West of England. The terrible and cruel practice, therefore, is not a modern, hinova- lion, not one of those changes in good old customs which have been wrought by the pregTess of know [edge, and the influence of a cheap Press. Why the rich coalowners,_-Who can control all the operations of their lessees"; who are not ashamed of inordinate gains obtained by the labour of these poor infants, have not put a stop to such practices, we know not, but we know they are much to blame for having suffered them. In general they belong, we believe, to the class of landowners, and according to the theory of the Constitution, receive their ample wealth for the protection of the people; but the experi ence of our time has demonstrated that, when the question is to increase their revenue, that class of men care nothing for the interests of the labouring elaEses. Why also the capitalists, who work the mines, should not have interfered, is to be explained on the same principle. When their profit is con cerned, humanity must take care of itself. There is another class, too, especially ordained to take care of the poor. Why have the clergy of the Church of England not reported these scenes to the world ? What have the Bishops and Archdeacons done in their annual visitations, that they have never discovered these enormities, and held them up to the reprobation of a Christian public? They have been? we are afraid, too closely allied with the capitalists and landowners to waste a thought on the colliers. Even now, it is pro bable that the facts would not have been brought to light had not some severe attacks on Corn-law land lords ledto reprisals on cotton-lords, to crimination and recrimination, to close investigation, and ultimately to bringing the state of the mining population before the public. Now that it is known, journalists and public men, Linder the influence of the new and vivid impression, hasten to require some new and stringent legislation. If they forget, we cannot, that the classes and the in dividuals to whom they appeal have been continually legislating for the working classes, and, under the pretext of taking care of them, have brought them to their present distress and degradation. If they forget, we cannot, that only a few years have elapsed since the period when the Legislature was engaged in abrogating an immense number of unnecessary penal laws, and when the opinion was embraced, by the best and wisest of our statesmen, that it behoved every man to be cautious how he added to the statute-book. We have not forgotten, if they have, that lesson of political science, which teaches that the employ ment and the food of the people are amongst the last things the legislator should lay his hands on. We, therefore, must at once venture to differ from our zealous Contemporaries, and express a hope that the Legislature will not too eagerly, and too rashly meddle with this very important subject. We have not heard that the colliers themselves have complained. They have not appealed to the Legislature. Though the public have been ignorant, the colliers have known of their own condition. They have worn the shoe, of the pinch ing of which not they, contrary to the proverb, but somebody else, now complains. They are not only the supposed sufferers—they are also the actors in most of the scenes which appear so terrible. With the exception of a few parish apprentices who arc hound to the pits, the bulk of the infants appear to be children of the colliers themselves, and except that the apprentices labour many years without payment, they are treated no worse than the children of their masters. It is proper to quote a few examples of this. At page 12— Joseph Ellison, Esq., of Birkenshaw, near Birstal, says—" I have been practically acquainted with col lieries nearly all my life. I know it as a fact that a collier, now living, has taken a child of his own, who was only three years old, into a pit ' to hurry, 'and when the child was exhausted, it was carried home, stripped, and put to bed. This is a rare occurrence, but I can prove it if required, by undeniable evidence, to have been a fact." Another witness, John Ibbotson, aged 43, collier, says, " I have once known a man called Joseph Cawthrey, who sent a child in at four years of age, and there are many who go to thrust behind at that time, and many go at five and six." A case reported by Dr. Mitchel at page 9, the " collier immediately said my boy is only a little more than four." At page 11, John Fisher, collier, " has two sons down the pit, one seven, and the other eight. The one seven years old has worked three quarters of a year." At page 14, Joseph Gledhill, banksman: "I have three sons living, one of them went into the pit when he was three years old, and commenced working regularly as a harrier, when he was between five and six." At page 16, Richard Barker, a labouring collier, " has four sons, who all went in under six years of age." Edmund Stanley, another collier, sent in his boy between six and seven. So in the West of Scotland, Mr. Tancred states as " a child being in the pit enables her father to earn more than he otherwise would, he is induced not only to take him down but to bring down another younger, of nino or ten." In the great majority of cases let us impress it on the reader, they are the children of the colliers who are doomed to such early toils, and they are doomed to them by their own parents. Painful as the observa tion may be, it is nevertheless also true, that all the cruelties we read of, such as driving a pick at a child to make it move faster, and the Sub-Commissioners' Reports abound in instances of cruelty, are inflicted by colliers on their own offspring or on the offspring of their neighbours, relations, and fellow workmen. They are not inflicted by capitalists or landowners, or by any of the upper classes. What is really wanted, therefore, is such an improvement of the colliers, as will make them refuse to doom their infants to slavery. They are a rude and a hard race, they have been so, we believe, since the memory of man, and it would be better to inspire them - with motives for treating their offspring properly, than to take the control of their children from them by the law. Our apprehension of legislation is, that we do not see how it can well meddle with the subject, without superseding the parent by the State. Such an ex tension of authority, which may be, and probably must be, followed out in other cases, is full of mis chief. The colliers are serfs enough already—to take their children from under their control, would be to make them more than ever serfs. If the State remove the children from the parent, it will also be under an obligation to provide for them,which we hold to be unwise statesmanship. As much of the hard brutality of the people is owing to the neglect of their imme diate superiors, We expect much improvement, from the publication of a Report, which cannot fail to shame the owners and workers of mines, and the clergy of the mining and coal districts, into some exertions to wipe out the stigma they have contri buted to fix on Britain. If they are taught to look for help from legislation, they will not redeem their characters, nor seek to humanize the characters of the working classes. We rejoice very much to see that the men of Not tingham will not be parties to the disgraceful com promises by which they were to be made over to the Corruptionists. They will be neither Mr. WALTER'S nor Sir G. IL LARPENT'S purchased slaves. Success to their struggle for independence! We hope that they will return the amiable, the humane, the en lightened JOSEPH STURGE, by a large majority. The following is an extract of a letter received by a respectable mercantile house in Glasgow, from Singa pore, dated Feb. 22, 1842 :—" By the arrival of the Sylph, this morning, from China, we learn that Amoy, Chusan, and Ningpo, had been declared free ports, and that the people of the Che Keang province had requested the English to take possession, as they preferred being under our Government to the Chinese. Her Majesty the Queen D o wager has forwarded 20/. in aid to defray the expense of erecting National Schools in the parishes of Compton Martin and NWT nett, Somerset. THEATRES. - ENGLISH OPERA ROUSE. The bill-of-fare at this theatre was exceedingly attrac tive.. The performances commenced with an operetta in two 'acts, the production of the late Thomas Haynes Bayley, called .Picturesque and Beautiful. The plot is very slight. The interest turns chiefly on the smartness of the dialogue. Old Dauberry, (Mr. Granby) whose occupation is pourtrayed by his name, is a pseudo artist, devoted to picturesque, though his man, Toni Muller, (Mr. Wigan), is by no means devoted to his constant oc cupation of grinding colours. In the opening sce.;-,e, Dauberry is just giving some finishing strokes t o a cha racteristic daub, intended by the artist to r',p resen t M ar y Queen of Scots and her favouritil Itizzio. The painter has a daughter, Miss ]liza . Dauberry, (Miss Fairbrother), who is devoted te, Henry Lorimer ,(Mr. Barker), who in his turn s equally devoted to her. There is, however, a second suitor, Mr. Kit Cadence devoted to national airs, as (Mr. Walter Lacy), who is well as to the lady : Henrr j Lorimer secures the esteem of Dauberry, by his adurlaation of the gem which he is i engaged in executing, 'out the old gentleman refuses to countenance his sVit to his daughter unless he can pro duce a fair copy of the original within a month. A plan is hit upon ti) 'get out of the difficulty ; after a supposed lapse of sCrae days, the old gentleman is told by a chain berma.i,e. •Jamed Fanny (Miss Hughes) that the copy is corn pletV, and the curtain supposed to conceal it being drawn tIV - iovers, habited as the Scottish Queen and Rizzio, are "presented to his view. The deception is complete, until dispelled by their leaving their position, and in reward for their ingenuity Dauberry consents to the union. The piece was enlivened by the introduction of several songs; both the acting and singing were of the best description. To this succeeded two burlettas—the burlesque burletta, of Olympic Revels, or Prometheus and Pandora, and the burletta (written by J. Brougham) of Enthusiasm. The latter piece would deserve special notice, were it not already familiar to most of the theatrical public. It is a witty attempt to throw ridicule on the science of phrenology, by the exhibition of -the effects produced by the study of, and belief in it, on an old gentleman named Vane Waverly. The piece abounds in fun throughout. In the excitement of his enthusiasm, Waverly discovers that he has a large development of the bump of destructiveness, and exclaims, in horror, that he is an "involuntary destructive." and, perhaps, a " prospective assassin ;" that " while his heart proclaims him philanthropic, his head proclaims him savage." His conduct immediately becomes consistent with his disco very. Suddenly, however, he finds another bump. Dreading that this, too, will prove some fearful develop ment, he compares it with a cast in his room, and to his astonishment finds that it is " benevolence." From this time his conduct becomes the opposite of what it had previously been, every one about him is amazed at his sudden benignity. Amongst his extravagances, however, which arc not confined to phrenology, the most extraor dinary is that of his being suddenly seized with a strong desire for fishing. On hearing some one allude to a fishing party, in his enthusiasm for the sport he orders a washing-tub filled with water to be brought- into the room, and he is seen fishing with the usual implements, and with the zest of an Izaak Walton, watching for nib bles. This scene is admirable; nothing more exquisitely ridiculous can be conceived. All the characters in the piece are admirably sustained. A rand ballet, in two acts, entitled La Sylphide, or The latul Scarf, met with a most favourable reception, and was announced for re petition during the week. The whole concluded with the well-known and laughable farce of The Irish Tutor, Brougham sustaining the character of Teddy O'Rourke,. which lost nothing in his hands, and Mr. F. Mathews appeared as Doctor Flail. We regret to say that the theatre was by no means so crowded as we could have desired to see it, or as the merits of the actors and pieces deserve. We would sug gest to the managers the propriety of hastening the in terval between the different acts. The interest is apt to flag when the time is extended to nearly a quarter of an hour. Great impatience was manifested by the audience yesterday evening. An addition is about to be made to the corps dramatique, which will doubtless attract amuck larger company. THE SUN, LONDON, TITESjNi I'. iVENINCT, MAN 17, 1842. SURREY. The very name of " the Surrey" is enough to conjure up in the minds of holiday goers, a world of enchant ment, which haunts the imagination like the phantom of first-love. Hence all the world go to the Surrey in the hope of realizing all their past dreams of enjoyment, and revel for the moment in the illusions of forlorn hope. And no wonder ! Every one likes to be happy, if but once in their lives—and those who go to the Surrey are sure of catching all's that beautiful, romantic, enterprising, wonderful, and almost improbable in one evening's incomparable enter tainment. " Wouldn't you like to go and be happy? If you don't make haste, all the world will be there before you, that's all." And certainly, judging from the over flowing crowd of last night, we do not think " the Surrey " was ever so crowded before. The soul of attraction was no less than Murat—the brother-in-law of Napoleon, and King of Naples—a piece which was the admiration of Paris for six months—a phenomenon in itself, for nobody ever heard of the Parisians admiring anything but themselves for six minutes consecutively. Indeed the notice in the play-bill groups the merits of the piece very graphically. It says—" The excursive nature of this drama—which embraces the whole period of the manhood of its celebrated hero—carrying the peasant son of a village innkeeper on the wings of that moral tornado, the first revolution of France, through all the military dangers and unequalled triumphs of the Republican and Imperial Armies, to the various grades of General-Marshal of the Empire—Prince —and King ;—and the peculiar construction ne cessary to stretch the short time given for dramatic representation, over so extended and sanguinarily marked an epoch, renders it necessary to prepare the minds of the spectators, in some manner, for the rapid changes of locale and of time, exhibited in the progression of exciting and swiftly varying scenes ; France, Italy, Egypt, Naples, Russia, France again, and the final and closing tragedy on the shores of Calabria, are all visited in turn, and the unparalleled for tunes of the first equestrian soldier in the world, all duly chronicled ; • nay, more, the realms of the De parted Brave beyon this mortal breathing world,' are invaded by the eye of imagination—the spirits of the heroic dead assembled, and the great master mind, whose warlike and indomitable will made Europe one wide battle field, is summoned from his willow-shadowed tomb of rock,' to grace and hallow all. It only re mains with the management to state that this Drama, for the unexampled space of six successive months, kept the populace of Paris in a fever of delight and admiration —it became, therefore, a duty to transport it to the English stage, for the gratification of the patrons of this establishment, and that every care has been taken to do strict justice to its effects, regardless of expense or labour." Everything is comprehended in the above description, with the grand exception that nobody will understand it till it is seen, for " seeing is believing,"—and of course people will like to see the truth, and in these days of sporting—" back it too." We shall give one specimen of the heartinesss with which the performers entered into the spirit of the scene, as a sample of the rest. So intent were the horses and men—we always give preference to those who have two to one over the other, and those horses always put their best legs foremost, which men, from modesty. or something worse, seldom do—that the Battle of the Pyramids was turned into a real tragedy ! Yes, a real tragedy. Each actor seemed to feel that the spirit of forty centuries was looking down on him, and him alone; and, acting on this chivalrous idea, one of the pike men actually thrust his offensive weapon into the sabre-- hand of a cavalier, to the wonderment of the spectators, and the sudden astonishment of both man and horse ! It was a master-stroke of heroism, and will no doubt be repeated every evening—if the sufferer will per mit his assailant to try his hand at it again. But these are mere trifles, serving only to prove how deeply interested the actors are in doing their duty, and no mistake. It would occupy about two columns of The San to describe the battles, vicissitudes, and moving scenes by flood and field, in the eventful history of Murat, at the Surrey ; and as we cannot spare the room, we advise people to go to the Surrey, and judge for themselves ; and when they have seen it out, to thank us for such good amusing advice. Perhaps the piece might be improved, for those who have notmuch time to spare, by discounting the bill of fare about ten or fifteen per cent. This would make the residue more precious ; for what with the wonders of the ring, the races, and truly grand displays of horsemanship —aye, and womanship to—oevery one must allow that there is plenty and to spare for his or her money. The pony races were ex-wed ingly amusing—the more so as a monkey contrived, by hook or by crook, to win the race. " Go to the Surrey," as George Robins would say, " and look at the lot"---we say laugh at tl , e lot, for there are lots of fun. VICTORIA. The spirited proprietors of this favourite place of pub lic amusement, anxious if not to surpass, at least to equal the rival establishment on this side of the water, produced last night for the amusement of the holiday folks, a new drama of great domestic interest, entitled Jane Paul, or the Victim of Unmerited Persecution. The principal character in the drama, which was most ably and cleverly sustained by Miss Vincent, is perse cuted with unmerited severity by a disappointed suitor, Philip. Necker (Mr. Dale). She, however, through the instrumentality of a tribe of Gipsies, endeavours to evade all his machinations, and ultimately succeeds; her accuser, when on the point of death, acknowledging the unfounded nature of the charge he had made against her, and leaving the whole of his wealth to the victims of his persecution, her husband, and their only child. Michael Paul was ably . personated by Mr. E. F. Saville, and Mr. Paul in the character of Hedgehog Jack, the captain of the wandering gang, looked everything that an admirer of the predatory tribe could wish for. The scenery was in perfect keep ing with the piece, which was announced for repetition amid unbounded applause. The entertainments of the evening concluded with the drama of The Mill of Bere zina, and a new version of the Forty Thieves. The house, we are happy to say, was crowded in every part. STRAND THEATRE. After a recess of a week, well employed, we presume, in preparations, this theatre re-opened on Monday evening, with the treble attraction of two new pieces, and the first appearance (for the season) of that excellent light comedian, and very favourite actor, Mr. J. S. Balls. The first of the novelties above mentioned, is a. piece from the prolific and generally succ essful pen of INfr. Selby, entitled Tie Maximums and Speciments of !Valiant 2vluggins, gathe re d up and noted down by him during a short but eventful career as a doctor's boy, a sailor, and a grocer's foreman, the second character of the three being filled by him during the time his reputation is under a cloud, in consequence of a supposed participation in his friend, Fred. Flipper's clandestine practices on the till of a benevolent uncle; who is also a grocer. William Muggins is a hero of . Ihe good boy school, and if he maintain his ground on the stage of the Strand, will be more indebted for his success to the clever acting of Miss Ellen Daly, than to what the author has done for him. The "'maximums" which he is ever and anon taking out -a note book to set- down (rather an unusual practice in boys of his age and call ing), consist of good' sentences, well pronounced, and which, as Shakspere says, would be better if well fol lowed. We cannot follow his career to its happy termination, but the reader may make up for our unlucky deficiency of space by a visit to -this little theatre, where Miss Daly, till further notice, will lay it before him more clearly and agreeably than we can hole to dci. A more prominent character than the /I"ere. is Samuel Snigger, " a town-made boy, who laughs continually, and can never keep his countenance," ar.d whose unfortunate propensity to grinning, in sea son and out of season, loses him every situa tion he falls into—apothecary's boy, footman, and undertaker's mute, till at last fortune picks him up . as a crossing sweeper, and, by making a gentleman of him, gives him the only serious moments he ever had in his life. The part was capitally played by Mr. Attwood, and the hearty applause of the audience was only a tribute he well deserved. We can hardly say in what capacity he shone the most ; we should say the ftiotman, if we did not recollect the misplaced,mirth of the undertaker's man ; he was worst as the sailor ; his fun evaporated as soon as he got on salt water. Mr. Hall, as Canterbury Tom, a real " old salt," a regular " Jack Junk," had too little to do ; his " yarns': were admirably spun, and his face and figure so admirably made up, that it was a perfect study. The most lively scene was that of the Pignity Ball in Barbadoes, which, however, is hardly new to the stage. The piece was successful enough to be announced for every evening. CITY OF LONDON. _ . The entertainments for the Whitsun-holidays at this theatre possessed sufficient attraction to draw a full house, notwithstanding the many inducements to out door amusement, which the fine weather and the present season offer. In the language of the bills, "an Original Eastern Spectacle" called the Massacre of Cabool, or the. War in Alfganistan, and Zulima the Indian Maid, was the first and chief piece of the evening. The incidents turn upon the late disasters in Affghanistan. The bad taste in selecting such a - raibject for a dramatic per formance (and that, too, a very ill-constructed one), at a period when the relatives of the sufferers have had scarce time to recover from the first shock of the tidings, can not be too heavily censured.' Further than this we will not say, save to express a hope that the play- wright of this establishment will in his future productions se lect themes which shall not jar with the tone of public. feeling. The piece, such as it is, was very well cast — Mr. C. Dillon as Akba r Khan, - and Mr. J. T. Johnson as Zamand (a native chief friendly to the English), were respectable. But that which rendered the " spectacle " tolerable, was the humouri.the fun, frolic, and drollery of Kitty Cavanagh (Miss ElizaTerrey), who, with all the reck less abandon of the children of the emerald isle, manages in her capacity as camp follower, to be at " the head and front" of every movement, whether of' peril or of pleasure. This character, well-known by its old appellation, Moll Flagoi is so trite, and has been well played by so many, that it is by, no means easy to please in it, and yet Miss Terrey did draw down plaudits repeatedly. We could scarcely persuade ourselves that one " born within the sound of Bow," could give the brogue so sweet, and rich, and broad. The second piece, entitled The Maiden's Vow, or the Soldier's Return, was an adaptation from the French drama of The Maid of Croissy, the dialogue changed to suit the circumstances of the Affghan war. It was a very trifle, and was followed by an affair called The Murderer's Revenge, of which the less said the better. SADLER'S WELLS. A considerable attraction has been added to the usual amusements at this theatre, by the addition to the esta blishment of the whole of the stud, and all the principal assistants of the late much lamented Mr. Andrew Ducrow, which made their appearance here for the first time, last night. In consequence, of this addition to the : establishment, the theatre has assumed to itself another name, and it is now denominated, " Theatre Royal. Sadler's Wells, and New Amphitheatre of Arts." In order to bring the whale strength of the united companies into play, a new piece, entitled Harry of England, or The Trumpeter's Horse, and the Conquest of Harfleur, written, we believe, by W. T. 11Ionerieff, Esq., was produced last night, with a great deal of new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Were we inclined to enter into a detail of the plot of this piece, we should scarcely be able to do so, as the noise . incidental to a house crammed to suffocation, wholly prevented us from hearing the dialogue ; suffice it fOr the present to say, that the piece %% as produced on the stage with great care. An immense number of supernumaries have been employed, and the whole of the dresses and appointments are of the most magnificent character. Everything which could tend to produce stage effect has been put into re quisition, and, on the whole, we must pronounce this a most gorgeous spectacle, and one which will no doubt be long a favourite with the, public. Mr. Lyon / and all the favourites of the united company, play in the piece, and all gave satisfaction by their efforts to please. Some of the new scenery, which is by Mr. T. Pitt, is exceedingly good, more especially the Dell of the King's Well, in the New Forest of Hampshire, by moon- I light, the town-gates of Harfleur, with the moat, bat tlements, &c. The curtain fell on a splendid tableau, amidst the most vociferous applause, and' the announce ment by Mr. Lyon that the piece would be repeated every evening until further notice, was received with great ap plause. Mr. Honner, the spirited lessee, was then called for. The whole of the stage was then removed by mechanical means, in the space of about twelve minutes, when an area covering a space of upwards of 300 feet, was dis covered. " Scenes in the Circle" followed, in which Signor Hillier, Le petit Ducrow, Messes. Stickn7, Hicken, Widdicombe, and Adams, with Mesdames . 1111- Bier, Adams, Susanne, and Stickney, were most conspicuous. The evening's entertainments con cluded with the popular little farce of The Lottery Ticket, in which Messrs. Herbert, Williams, and Dry, with Mrs. R. Barnett, and Mrs. Morgan, played admi rably. A comic song, by Mr. Herbert, was charmingly executed, and met with a double encore. The expense incurred by the management in the production of the novelties which we have noticed, must have been very great, and we trust success may crown his efforts in catering for the public amusement. The appearance of the house last night certainly presented an earnest of golden harvests yet to be reaped. The performances did not conclude till past two o'clock. MR. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENT. Mr. Wilson gave his first entertainment, illustrative of English minstrelsy, last evening, in the Music-hall, Store street, to a crowded and fashionable audience. We know not when we have been so much pleased as we were with this entertainment. It opened with a short dissertation on our old national songs, and Mr. Wilson instanced many in refutation of the assertion that England has no national songs. One of these songs, "'Twas merry in the hall," Mr. Wilson sang with admirable effect ; in deed, we never before thought the air contained so much exquisite melody. The execution of this old song by Mr. Wilson was one of the richest treats we have experienced for a considerable time. In the course of his entertain ment Mr. Wilson traced the orin of the well-known old English " Derry D ow n," which, though appa rently anuonrmus ofeaning sound, is, in truth, derived from an old chaunt used by the Ancient Druids in their religious processions. Mr. Wilson then recited (as it was too long for him to sing) the well-known ballad of " King John and the Abbot of Canterbury," the conclusion of which elicited a round of hearty laughter. The next song Mr. Wilson sang was honoured with a unanimous encore. It was the line old song of " Sally in our alley." He afterwards gave a short history of this song ; how it was at first ridiculed, but afterwards ob tained to the height of celebrity and the praise of Addi son. It is not , perhaps, genertoly known that the author of this song, Henry Carey, after having founded a bene volent institution for the relief of decayed musicians, put an end to his own existence at the advanced age of eighty years . After his death, it was discovered that the whole of his earthly possessions were compromised in one single half-penny. Mr. Wilson then gave a picture of olden times, as illustrated in Collins's songs, several of which he sang. He also graphically described the old May-day sporting, with the customs of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Amerca. The gem of the evening was the song of the " Old English Gentleman," which met with a burst of applause and a unanimous call for a repetition. Mr. Wilson read a letter from James Dewar, the composer of the song, in which he stated that he composed the song on the back of a letter; having drawn lines with a pencil, and, further, that he did not now, nor did he ever, consider the production a work of merit, notwith standing its popularity. Mr. Wilson then sang " Black eyed Susan" beautifully, and concluded the evening's entertainment with a song by the same author—the " Roast beef of Old England." • Mr. Wilson intends re peating his entertainment on Monday next, and we should recommend all lovers of genuine music to avail themselves of an opportunity of listening to Mr. Wilson's performance, which, we can assure them, will be a treat of the highest order. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Thistrdoof impervious delightful summer lounge opened for the season winte r lualsth a evening with a grand Whitsun festival. During the of the a newgallery has been constructed in the grounds , to rain. This gallery , which commands an excellent view of the mo del of Rome and dating a th ousan d p e rsons. Underneath the gallery is a Pyrotechnic exhibition , is c a p able of accommo grand Gothic vestibule, fitted up as a refreshment room, with tables, &c., where, among, other things, tea and coffee are provided of excellent quality, and at a moderate charge. The erection of these places of shelter is a great improvement on the state of affairs of last year, when visitors were exposed to the pittiless pelt ing of every chance shower. The refreshment room, especially, will be found a great accommodation to pic nic parties coming to spend the day at the gardens. The colossal model of Rome has been repainted, and in many parts remodelled ; and the lighting up is effected upon a new principle, with much greater rapidity and brilliancy than heretofore. The girandola and pyrotech nic exhibition, IN as even on a more magnificent scale than last season. Th e cascade of fire at th conclusion was a perfect triumph of the pyrotechnic art. The band has been augmented and strengthened, and, during the course of •the evening, performed several favourite airs, overtures, and quadrille:. Among them we must not omit to mention the beautiful. " Casta Diva," from Norma, with a clarionet obligato by Mr. Dean, and a flute obligato by Mr. Saynor. This exquisite scena was given with great taste and judgment, and was loudly applauded. We would just hint to Mr. Cross, en passant, that it would be an improvement, if he could so manage the performances, as not to let quite such a long interval elapse between the conclusion of the promenades musi cales, and the commencement of the fireworks. The Gardens were crowded to excess, and every one seemed delighted with the amusements. • BuTTER.—:—A friend writes me from Penrith, that on last market day butter was 6d. per lb., and 'not good to sell at that price. This reduction is not awing to any additional ppplies, but simply to the want of Consump tion during the winter. Salted butter is now like to be sold off, or ohertly it would not be . fit to tise. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out yesterday fore- • nobn in a pony carriage, his Royal Highness driving. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, and the Hon. Miss Liddell. took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four, in the Parks, Colonel Arbuth not, the Equerry in Waiting, attending on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by. Colonel Wylde, rode out on horseback at the.same time, and visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence House. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene High aesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,. the Duchess of Buc clench, the Duke of Devonshire, Viscountess Barrin ,-, - ton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Earl Howe. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, attended during dinner. Her Majesty 'had afterwards an evening party. Among the company were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Count and Countess Dela warr and the Ladies West, Earl and Countess of Den bigh and Lady Mary Fielding, Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Viscount Emlyn, LOrd Portman, Sir Henry and Miss Wheatley, Sir George Cooper, Bart., Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Molique, Signor Cavallini, and Herr Brandt, had the honour of performing before her Majesty. Mr. Parish Alvers played upon one of Erard's gothic harps. Her Majesty's private band attended in the saloon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning, for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Duchess of Kent on Sunday, at her residence, Clarence House. The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, rode out on horseback yesterday morning. Lord Stanley left town yesterday afternoon for Brighton. - _ . Despatches from - the Governor of the North American Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. HOP DUTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • Sia,- - -Lord IlriuchilSea is much alarmed at the pro posed reduction of duty on foreign hops, thinking it will reduce the value of has hop-pole woodlands. I have also woodlands in Kent, but have no fear cf any great reduction in their value from the new tariff, because the English_ hop must always maintain its superiority over the foreign. The following extract from Dr. Paris's " Pharmacolocria" on this subject, upon the ma nufacture of . beer, may be deserving the atten tion of those who arc interested in this question. He says, " Quassia must,. therefore, necessarily prove but a sorry substitute ; it will impart bitterness - enough, but it will be modified by agreeable aroma, and as .it contains no astringent principle, it will fail in precipi tating the vegetable mucilage, or gluten, in consequence of which the beer so manufactured will be in a perpe tual state of fermentation, until it is entirely , spoilt. The same reasoning will explain why English hops, that contain more Gallic acid and Tannin than those im ported from the Continent, are found to be superior as preservatives of beer."—Your most obedient servant, A KENTISH LANDLORD. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF GREAT BRITAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Since the manufacturing population of the na tion has been virtually declared, by Sir Robert Peel's proposed GREAT National. Charity measure for the re lief of their distress, to be in a state of helpless pau perism, (if not, too, in a galloping consumption ;) and since, by this and other great measures, it has also been virtually declared, to the commiseration, not " the envy, of surrounding nations," that the British Govern ment itself is in a state of virtual pauperism and general incapacity, of the most desponding and helpless nature, I would beg to recommend that the measure of our GREATNESS be forthwith consummated, by the circula tion of a begging petition, of the Charity-sermon and Soup-kitchen order, among our better fed, and not yet bankrupt neighbours—the French, Germans, Russians, Prussians, et hoc genus omne. The appeal ought, of course, to be made by the British Peel- Government, in propria persona, as the begging mouth-piece and head of the distressed body corporate, which all its own wise cogitations cannot teach it'how to succour and recruit. And this, I doubt not, it will willingly do, with little pride and less shame, since it has already made the begging petition scheme a Go vernment measure, and has therefore, to all intents and purposes, already taken its first grand step as a Begging Government. The petition might run in something like the follow ing simple but pathetic lingo, the petitioners, of course, " humbly showing," . and "ever praying," and so on : " That, whereas your humble petitioners, the Eng lishers, are in great distress from want of food, God help them, for they cannot help themselves ; and they, there fore, humbly hope that your Honours will take their destitute case into your kind and charitable considera tion, and get up a National Charity-sermon for behoof of your helpless petitioners—for which may God reward you ; and your petitioners shall ever pray," &c., &e. Perhaps Brother Jonathan, being a kinsman, would be readiest to take pity on us, and contribute his . mite. He has already shown his good will, and his sense of ourpitifu/condition, as you very well know, by charitably sending across the big pond, gratis free for nothing, I don't know how many barrels of beef-bones for our behoof, all of which the Government, you may also re member, generously permitted, contrary to custom, to pass inward to the mouths of the starving millions (as well they might, to keep them quiet) without partaking of a single mouthful of the God-send themselves, pro vided always the bones did not stink, in which case, though as unfit for the starving multitude as any diseased carcase of a resurrected cow they have ever eaten of late, these aforesaid stinking bones were to be thankfully devoured, at least in part, by the equally hungry, if not equally starving Government itself. In the lively hope, Mr. Editor, that the GREAT mea sure which I have now proposed for the RELIEF of the starving community, will hand ME down to immortality as one who has even OUTPEELED PEEL.—I am, Sir, yours, in the bond of human affection, ONE OF THE STARVING MULTITUDE. Glasgow, May 12, 1842. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the Votes and Proceedtngsqf the House of Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 13. ELECTION PROCEEDINGS. DIVISION ON MR. T. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION. MINORITY—AYES, 17. Grosvenor. Lord R. Hatton, Capt. Villiers Hinde, J. H. Mitchell, T. A. Napier, Sir Charles O'Brien, W. S. O'Connell, J. Bernal, Captain i mew, Hon. K. S. Plumridge, Captain Smith, R. Vernon Turner, Edmund Christinas, W. Collett, W. R. Crawford, W S. Forbes, William French, F. TELLERS Duncombe, T. S. Wakley. Thomas Acland, Sir T. D. kcland, 'l'. D. Acton, Colonel Adderley, C. B. A. , nsworth, Peer Aldam, William Allix, John Peter Antrobus, Edward ArKwright George Attwood. 31. Bagge, W. Bailey, Joseph Baillie, Colonel H. Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Bernard, Viscount Blackstone, W. S. Botfield, Beriah Bowring, 1)r. Brotherton, J. Browne, Hon. W. Brownrigg, J. S. Bruce, C. C. L. Buck, L. W. Buller, C. Butler, Colonel Campbell, A. ti Chapman, A. Charteris, Hon F. Christie, W. D. Clayton, R. R. Cobden, Ili6ard Codrington, C. W. Collins, William Courtenay, Viscount Cripps, W. Darner, Hon. G. Dawnay, W. H. Denison, E. B. Douglas, Sir It Douglas, Sir C. Duff, James Dundas, David Egerton ' Lord F. Eliot, Lord Elphinsipne, Howard Escott, ltickham P..vans, W. Ferguson, Colonel Fitrroy, Captain Fleming, J. Flower, Jir James kollett, Sir William Forster, Matthew Fuller, A. E. JORITY—NOES, Gaskell, James Milmes Gladstone, W. E. Gore, Montague Gotriburn, Henry Graham, Sir James Granger:T. C. Greenall:Peter Grimrton, Lord Grogan, tiward Haltord, H. Hamilton, W. J. Harcourt, G. G. Hampden, Renn Hardy, John Henley, J. Warner Hepburn, Sir 'l'. B. Hill, Lord A. M. C. Hodgson, Richard Hope, Hon. C. Howard, P, H. Howick, Viscount Hume; Joseph Jackson, Serjeant Johnson, W. G. Johnstone, R. Johnstone, Sir John Kelburne, Lord Kemble, Henry Knatchbull, Sir L. Knight, H. G. Lambton, Hedworth Lawson, Andrew Leader, J. T. Lefroy, Anthony Lemon, Sir C. Leveson, Lord Liddell, IL T. Lincoln, Earl of Lyrall, George Maclean, D M'Geachy, P. A. M'Taggart, J. Maher, John Mangles, it. D. Martin, C. W. M,sterman, John Morgan, Octavius Morison, General Muntz, G. F. Norreys, Sir D. J. Murray, A. Packe, C. W. Pakington, J. S. Palmer, Robert 160. Palmer, George Peel, Hon. Sir R. Peel, Colonel J. Pendarves, E. W. Philips, M. Plumptre. J. P. Polhill, Frederick Pollington, Viscount Pusey, P. Rawdon, J. D. Reade, W. M. Richards, R. Roebuck, J. A. Rose, Sir George Round, C. G. Round, John Rundle, J. Russell, Lotd John Sanden Lord Shaw, Frederick Shell, R. L. Sheppard, T. Somerset. Lord G. Stanley. Lord Stansfield, W. R. C. Staunton, Sir G. T. Stuart, Lord James Stuart, Villiers Sutton, Hon. h. M Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Thornhill, Georzo Trench, Sir r. Trollope, Sir John Trotter, J. Tufnell, H. Tyrell, Sir J T. Vere; Sir C B. Vernon, G. H Vivian, Major C. Vivian, J. E. Walsh, Sir John Ward, H. G. Williams, W. Wood, B. Wood, C. Wood, Colonel Wortley,' Hon. J. S. Wynn, C. W. Yorke, Hon. E. T. Young, John TELLERS. Fremantle, Sir T. Baring, H. B. __— The Court of Directors of the East India Com pany lately applied, we hear. to the Board of Control, for copies of all the papers and documents relating to the Afghan war, both as to it origin and conduct. The ap plication was, it is added, refused. It may be necessary to explain that, though the despatches to the Goveanor- General of India on this subject bear the signatures of the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, they were prepared by the Board of Control, and as the members of that Committee are sworn to secrecy the contents of those documents are unknown to the Court of Directors' collectively, save at the pleasure of the Board of Control, which now. and for some years, in reality, consists of a President only. RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN WlND.—Water-mill were at one time, particularlyon the Continent, included among the regalia or rights of the Crown ; and, on the introduction of windrdlls, this assumed right was ex tended over air as well as water. A whimsical instance of the attempted exercise of this privilege is on record. It seems that the Augustine monks belonging to the monastery at Weindsheim, in the province of Overyssel, were desirous of erecting a windmill in the neighbour hood ; but the lord of the soil opposed their project, on the extraordinary assumption that the wind in that dis trict belonged to him. Upon this the monks applied to the Bishop of Utrecht, who decided, in a towering passion, that no one had power over the wind in his diocese but himself: And thereupon he'immediately granted letters patent to the geed monks.—Guide to Trade. . • . TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. want, he must end his days in a work house or 5 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, lunatic as yluin. VACANCY having occurred in the EAST ter. bY In the present state of things the following let A INDIA DIRECTION, by the lamented Death of Lieut.-Colonel VANS AGNEW, I beg leave, in conformity, Sir Walter Scott, written in the autumn of 1813 r a with my address of the 3il June last, respectfully to acquaint worthyof notice you that it is on this. occasion my . . intention to proceed to the "TO J. RICHARDSON, ESQ., FLUDYER-STREET, %Orr. ballot. 3IINSTER. . 4 .. In previous communications, I have ventured to lay before "My dear-Richardson,--I have owed you a letter ti ii ,! ' you the grounds on which I rest my pretensions to a seat in the long time, but . perhaps my debt might not yet 17 direction of your affairs. I take this opportunity of retu rnin g discharged, had I not a little matter of bus iness my warmest acknowledgments to the numerous friends wh o trouble I °__ you with. I wish you to lay before, eiater have promised me their support, and enabled me•to look for- the King's counsel, 9r Sir Samuel Romilly, or 44 ward with confidence to the result of the ensuing election ; and other yoq . i. may approve, the point whether _ _ et , ' a cop , ' I shall. esteem myself highly honoured and obliged by the suffrages of those 'Proprietors who are still disengaged, _and. by right, being sold for the .term during which LP° an early intimation of their intentions. Anne's Act warranted the property to the author, the price is liable, in payment of the - property-tax. . 1 . , , c01 1 t : When the day is fixed for the Ballot, I shall take the liberty of again addressing you, and in the meantime I shall feel most tend it is not so liable for the follelyirilgieasons i-- - -P 11.5 ,,f thankful to such of my supporters as may be absent from their usual it is a patent right expected' to proatee7-oannual. or `, place of residence, if they will favour me with their present ad- least an incidental profit, during the cuirJncY of Ina % dress, that I may be able to forward the necessary Letter of At- years ; and, surely, it was never contended that if a 1 113 torney for voting by proxy.—l have the honour to be, Ladies sold a theatrical patent, or a patent for machinery, 1 1° 'be ful l and Gentlemen, your faithful and obedient servant, perty-tax should be levied in the first place oil t 5 ELLIOT MACNAGHTEN. 10, Hyde-park-street, May 17,1842. price as paid to the seller,, and then on the profits a s - x -sert * i „.* Mr. Macnaghten's Committee will sit 'daily at the purchased by the buyer. lam not - ve r y e p .__ 1 ,,,, London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, where, or . to No. 10, figures, but I think it char that a double taxation 1 ,21 , be Hyde Park-street. , all communications are resrectfully re- place. 2. It should be considered that a book mrt.',, quested to be addressed. the work, not of one year, but of a man's whole li, e i ,; TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. and as it bus been found in a late case of the Dtl i ‘„ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, of Gordon that a fall of timber was not subject ''t. A VACANCY in the EAST INDIA DIREC- property-tax, because it comprehended the prod.ueceeer, 30 years, it seems at least equally fair that mental ,_ o f TION having been occasioned by the lamented death of Colonel P. VANS AGNEW, I bag to state that I shall tions should not be subjected to a harder princir_ o , measurement. 3d. The demand is, as far as I can le% , proceed to the ballot, as intimated in my Address of the 30 June, 1841. • totally new and unheard of. 4th. Supposing that I °li i The influential and very extensive support with which lam and left my manuscripts to be sold publicly along `' . o ,_. honoured, permits me to entertain confident hopes of success, the rest of my library, is there any ground for taxi r ' e , and I respectfully solicit those' Proprietors who have not yet what might he received for the written book any 11 0 %, declared their intentions to favour me with their votes and than any rare printed book which any speculative b ° . i . oe influence. seller might purchase with a view of republication ? '-,„, When the Honourable Court has fixed the day of Election, will know whether any of these things ought to be su A e I shalt have pleasure in forwarding the usual Proxy Papers, Bested in the brief. David Hume and every lawyer b where required; and, in the interim, request communications whom I have spoken to, consider the demand illegal. from my kind supporters, of their wishes as to voting by Proxy "Believe me truly' yours, rr , 0 or in Person, and, especially, as to changes of residence, to avoid " WALTER SCOT . ' f Mr. Lockhart, who published this letter in the Your faithful servant, Sir W4iter, makes the following observations upun it . e( l JOHN CLARMONT WHITEMAN. "Mw Richardson having proposed. a case, old ull' sir London Tavern, May 17, 1842. upon it the opinions of Mr. Alexander (afterwartls er) Mr. Whiteman's Committee sit Daily at the London Tavern, William Alexander, and Chief Baron of the Exch e q u e rs Bishopsgate-street. and the late Sir Samuel Romilly. These eminent lawi r * ' agreed in the view of their Scotch brethren, and , afte lot tedious correspondence, the Lords of the Treasury 'L t d decided that the Income-tax Commissioners sh,.„o, abandon their claim upon the produce of literary h' e rd I have thought it worth while to preserve some r e te ll , of this decision, and of the authorities on which it l';, 'n case such a demand should ever be renewed heresit TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A VACANCY having occurred in 'the DIREC TION of your affairs by the Death of Colonel AGNEW, I have the honour to inform you that it is my determination to proceed to the Ballot upon this occasion • and from the numerous promises of support which I have received since I last presented myself to your notice, I look with the fullest confidence for a successful result. When the day of election is fixed the necessary letter of attorney shall be forwarded to my friends in the country, and if. any of my supporters in town should also be desirous of voting by proxy, I beg they will kindly intimate to me their wishes to that effect. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your very faithful and obedient Servant, JAMES OLIPHANT, Late of the Madras Engineers. 26, Bucklersbury, 17th May, 1842. The subjoined extract from the Philadelphia Of T A spondence of a contemporary dated the 30 th of P -1 o f shows the immense advantages which the people A , this country would derive froth the abolition of tio° Corn-laws, and a real, instead, of a mock modifiat of the tariff. In the pacific prayer of the writer most heartily join. Those who desire to see ut than the most amicable relations existing bets' i f England and the CiAted States are the enemies. civilisation and of both. countries. Nations 5° y lightened, and whose mutual interests can onlY promoted by peace, can never have any just gr ° 9 t 0 1 for a barbarian appeal-to arms. It is high tim e wars should cease throughout the civilised world' The spring is this year at least three weeks VI V, advance than usual, and, as far as a judgment 113,t.V, formed at so early a period, there is every prehabqV immensely abundant grain crops. The quantity 0! devoted to agriculture is this year much increase:if 1, the general opinion is that flour will be , from $ . , 1 ,7tV per barrel lower than. at present, before tile e n ' - 11 year. In such a case the exports to Em-ope *J en ormous, especially as the tariff on corn suA fl`) o to England is about to be reduced, although 1)(3'w:ill!: sufficient extent, perhaps, to ensure the fulle.l : ' ; tages of cheap bread to the people. Salt pork 111 bee has been produced to a greater extent than ha 4100/ wanted, and at some places the price has been less t a pt, per.ny (English) per pound! Conceive, then, the tiol i ,o that might be sent to England if the duty should be Beef too, is lower than I ever remember it ; 24d.at English, per lb., and sometimes salted at 21 be i, large quantities. Even in Philadelphia, fine sated d sells retail in the market at 3d. and 3id. ; an d by ssAl t hi! giving you the results of practical experience l d city, it will not be out of place to add, that on SO last, my wife bought in the market a loin of veal f t: g irt per pound, and yesterday, ribs of beef at 4d.; in 17 0 f,Y stances the meat was as fine as in England—ind ecu i, cattle are all descended from imported English,7, o li" Let us hope, then, that the smile of a bounteous x' r ti+ dente will be continued, not only on the teeming e p i `,o but also on the dispositions of the people of both -„ai' tries that they may become more than ever 1) 0 ,t 1" o t: friendly and pacific relations, and that thus este', enjoy in abundance the blessings of peace and Ftlenti The French Journals of Sunday dwell at length upon the judgment .of. the Court 0 1 C 6P :sl tional Police in the case of the Temps newsParlj This journal was tried on Saturday, n ot . f" 3-1)° 1 1 the re cal offence, but for an infringement e ' gu fil tions for its publication, and sentenced .to ,ep of 102,300 francN- wititio - months. The Press is becoming - treuble so l l e the Government, and the Government ha '••- the first step to get rid of it. There 1.5 6 d old proverb, which says " that eaten bread ig forgotten," the truth of which is verified by the6o' pression of the Temps. It was by this jour b, the first resistance was offered to the celevity ordonnances of CHARLES X., which brought aW ti , e i? revolution of July, and placed the reigning Sovelvi on the throne. Yet under the very Goverll • which it was first to assist in establishing it is suppressed. The. Journal des Debats announces that inira e o after the close of the Session the import duties on threads would be raised to 20 per cent. P i ' Baron Billing, the French Consul-General • d who fell ill on his arrival at Alexendria, and .117 .10 pelled to leave for Malta before he had enterect'po, functions, has been recalled and replaced by M., 0 1 D'Arc, who was for a long' time French Con Sal-14. lencia and at Barcelona. He was in the latter tose Queen Christina was there. M. Gautier leave Paris in a week for Egypt, accompanied b!;„er lathe, M. Latour Marbourg, as the Consul -Gel . equivalent to the post of Minister Plenipotentiaq4; The Moniteur Parisien has the following at "A letter from Port•au-Prince says that a prod" of-President Boyer, published on the 24th or a nnounces his intention to dissolve the new N atiq presentation, if it does not coincide with hiS re f )1 ( , Opposition, strengthened by a certain riunibe'l e bers of the new Chamber who have been - re- 0 1;1( spite of their exclusion in 1839, are preparing ‘,fof On the 25th assemblages commenced in th e to 405 some persons were already arrested ; a struggl e cosi pected even before the constitution of the nc° of Representatives, which was to take place on of April." )1 We are assured, says a journal, that those fo, - ;• ‘ p ; the Rue Saint Denis, several members of visitors to the disasters of Sunday, have summ e). l ( l ;i Directors of the Railway on the left bank, to pa Li j of them a sum of 50,000 francs damages.—Cons w", r,t The National says "We are informed tha t a Cremieux and Debray, advocates, and M. Pialb i 3 l gaged to bring actions for damages against the Company."—Commerce. , There is no news of engrossing- interest Madrid Journals of the Bth instant : - • c The 'Eco del Comercio publishes the repoljefl, Financial Committee of the Chamber of • 5 : on the budget of 1842, with the modific atio° duced into the original bill. The budget leir A seven chapters, and is divided as follows gcki of the Queen, of the , Infant, and the Op; 33,500,000 reals. Private expenditures of Chambers, 536,620 reals. Budget of foreiii t o) —the Government proposed for • t h e expel; t he , j 4 the personal and materiel 10,196,120 reals, aria e ts l mittee 9,841,220 reals. Ministry of Justice!, 0e,.. 16,745,718 ; materiel, 17, 869 ,1 36 . Budget o,'ol. Department—personal and materiel, 305,17 4,F059,,e traordinary budget—personal and ma teriel, 19 ;;IP The Committee reduced the supplies : last two departments by 39,342,380 reals. colonies—the Government required 85,229,6 the Committee reduced to 50,905,234 reels. . W e A ; DEATH OF COLONEL P. VAN'S AGT.ISI' • aia4fll) morning, to learn that the above gentlenla n ...at4l morning, at his house, in Lower Brooke - O' s eol short illness. Colonel Agnew served vial for for a long period in India, and was for inAie . ij F l ,l Director of the East India Compa.nY• gentleman of very amiable manners, ana heartedness, and his loss will be long an regretted by a large circle of friends. 04 ' jo y 1 CAUTION TO EQUESTRIANS.—YesterdO r i e et i gentleman on horseback having oce asiat t C 30,4; OA residence of a friend in Gloucester - p lace, Je"oe 0 o t; the care of a boy who had followed hini 5 0 0 0 11 11 6 On leaving the house the gentleman ni ,t a fr either boy or horse, and, after walking ni p :e y ed for upwards of half an hour, and making 111- :p ett" , quirics after his missing steed, he ascerta` boy had been thrown from a horse in ibe,, tticej, and had been taken i n a senseless state t'oclicy pital. On further inquiry he succeeded i n ho o4 t o , l horse at a livery stables, in the neighbouropo6,y,ip John's Wood, with a dislocated shoulder, ° e r r tr`iti animal's knees severely cut. The boy, it ridden the horse along the New-road, wh ci A' thol 7 ,"io fright or mismanagement, the animal b ° • o at t Ar rider, and then galloped off furiously, l o ofa I to pass between two carriages, it mine ill c iploK the Al heel of one of' them, and was throwactitij,:alel boy has received several severe injuries, a ll th e - P• c 'ro 1 valuable blood mare, is entirely spoiled bYv i e . c e: ALTERATION IN THE HOP DEr5.! Jl, for el l•s i V tion of Sir R. Peel to reduce the dutY from 8/. I Is. to 41. 10s. per cw t. has iwt,!,?:lreci 1?3 tion in the price of hops. as it is consl a the 11 1 are acquainted with the subject tha i Baronet has made a difference in the l oiJ oi ptivg 7 .t. will not affect the price of !lops, ce high rates.. - . r • THE WEATHER.—NuoN, MAY 17. ROI( AL GALLERY OF SEIEIVCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 59 ) Highest 6B Lowest 41 Barometr 30.10.—Wind N.E. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 00rning...... 42 minutes after 6 I Evening ll minutes after 7. • 631140/ eVIR7,OI II , }C7 \ 444 6,4) *.tro.'*V2?Attsn SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. The Railways Bill is to be further considered in Committee on Friday next, when we expect some ma terial alterations will be made. The Bill in its present shape is little calculated either to protect passengers against the recurrence of fatal accidents, or to place on an equal footing Companies using lines with a common terminus. In reference to the latter point, Lord Ro- BEET GROSVENOR will propose a clause to the effect that, where more than two Railway Companies have a common terminus, they shall all have the same accom modation in regard to the booking of passengers, the running' of carriages, and the removal of luggage. Some clause. of this sort is required, in order to put an end to that partiality shown on some lines to particular parties to the prejudice of others. Be sides this, there are two other clauses of more import ance to the public to be brought forward by Mr. O'BRIEN and Mr. HUME. The first is to move the insertion of a clause to prevent the locking of the door of any carriage on the side next the stations, and the second is to move that instead of Mr. PLUMP TEE'S crotchet for shutting the lines on Sunday, that in all cases in which the Postmaster-General shall require that the mails or post-letter bags shall be conveyed on any railway, the Company shall forward the same on every day of the week on which the conveyance of such mails and letters shall be required, without making any difference either in the rate of speed, or in the cost and charge for conveyance, 'and that the same accommodation shall be furnished whenever any special train shall be required. It is but fair that some regulations of this kind be adopted, in order that the Post-office authorities should, as under the former system, be able to transmit letters and despatches whenever the Govern ment or other parties may require this mode of con veyance. The Companies cannot, on any reasonable grounds, object to such a clause. They will be paid all reasonable expenses, and, as they generally profess the utmost readiness to oblige the public, we have no doubt they will agree to the arrangement. But independent of the benefit to be derived by the public, the Companies themselves would be saved all that annoyance, injury to property, and malignant calumnies which for months were inflicted upon the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. No man should be suffered to injure the property of another, to gratify either his religious or political prejudices; and it is the duty, therefore, of the Legislature to put a stop to such persecution. The clauses propoied by Mr. HUME would fully effect the object in view. Mail trains, at stated times, would pass along almost every line on Sunday; persons would thus be allowed to visit their friends as they did when the mails were carried by coaches on the highway ; and all pretence would be removed for calumniating the innocent Shareholders and Directors. As we presume the present Government does not intend that the exaction of a tax upon income should be more stringent now than under the LIVERPOOL and CASTLEREAGn Administration in 181 3- 14, we may congratulate authors, and men who derive a sub sistence from their literary labours, upon their exemp tion from this impost. It is clear from the subjoined letter from Sir WALTER SCOTT, now first published, and from the opinion of the most learned lawyers in Scotland and England upon it, as well as from the decision of the Income-tax Commissioners, that un less the present Government is resolved to manifest less sympathy for literary men than the Government of 1813, they are entitled to claim an exemption from the tax. This is not only just towards them, but to wards the public, whose instructors and guides they are. There is no class of men whose gains are so precarious and so hardly earned, and whose labours, generally speaking, contribute so much to the happi ness of their species as authors. They rarely owe much to society, whereas society owes everything to them. They guide its opinion, purify its morality, protect its property, and supply it with whatever knowledge it possesses. To tax such men would be to tax the most efficient moral teachers, the most vigilant police of society. The genius which produces good books, and the talents which enable a man to write words of wisdom for the guidance of his fellow-men, are not property cognizable by human laws. They are the gifts of GOD, and, instead of burdening, benefit the Govern ments under which they most flourish. Their appli cation to money-getting purposes is so brief, that it rarely constitutes more than one brief hour in the day journey of human life. No, it cannot be possible that the Government contemplates taxing such men— that the State proposes to fatten by sucking the brains of those who devote their days and nights to the diffusion of knowledge. GOD knows, in this pounds, shillings, and pence age, the condition of a mere literary man is sufficiently trying without sending a new tax collector to his door, to ascertain in what demand the offspring of his brain is with the public. He is, generally speak ing, a man of superior education, and, from the very nature of his pursuits, more painfully alive than per sons of his rank or station to the privations that sur round him. If destined to live long, he is doomed to rook forward to a period when the oil which feeds the lamp of genius or fancy, will be burned out, and provision again st when, unless he' have made some tht All, any SAN a ci Nvoi 4 14 rest are ttt zr i ecl t W, of t to be t lab, Pur a,n3 Ti e , .t ria to c are` Cou &yst not.' gee cult, Drill =ant tent last •, :t , th e \ ,berE +it t ?xt, 43 / 4 111 , qv,r es ' l 'aer 'of fro itB be] . At me Inc 4'41 ZeL ?, bet . -ch, fie. ti bia 11 0 4. ? 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