The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

t THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDERtheIIfARAGEIIENT of MADAME VESTRIs. THIS EVENING, MARCH 29, Will be repeated Mozart's Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF Fl. GA RO.—The character of Susanna by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Count Almaviva Mr Stretton ; Cherubino, Madame Vestris ; Doctor Bar. J tolo, Mr. Bland; Figaro, Mr. Leffler; Basilio, Mr. C. White; th( Countess, Miss Rainforth ; ,Marcellina, Miss Grant; Barbarina, Miss Lane. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunbuponatyme . (King of Neverrninditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland ; Princes Paragon, Pr cious, an, Placid (his three Sons by Madame V.stris, Miss Murray, and Miss Lie; Jingo, Mr. Harley; t e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at half past :ix, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Circles ss. Second Price Vs. 6d. ; Pit 35., Seeond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of fire, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap. plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book seller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unpreeedented Splendour. THIS EVENING, MARCH 29, Will be performed an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOOROISH LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery Costume, and Appointments; a Double Company. Equestrian and Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in tha World. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. To conclu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; OR, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON Great and extraordinary attraction for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, MARCH 29. Will be performed a most interesting New Domostic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, TED LONE CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HIGH WAY.—Character, by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveney, Messrs. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard. ner, Seaman, &c. After which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, kc., LA DDIN , OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; th, Princess, Mr,. E. F. Saville; V‘ idow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith . To coneude with THE RED ROVEIt —The Red Rover, Mr Dale; Fid, Mr. E. F. Saville; Hector Homespun, Mr. Gardner; Madame de Lacey. Mrs. Lee. TO CORRESPONDENT. " A Lover of Far Play" is a very bad logician. It does not follow that because the opposition blamed Si: Robert Peel for postponing his prescription, they art to swallow the noxious potion at once. tit it _Sun. LONDON: TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 29, 1842. It appears by Lord STANLEY'S speech on Tues day last, and by the complaints of the Tory journals, that notwithstanding the enormous dis criminating duty levied on foreign sugar in order to benefit the West India planters, they are fast going to ruin. Taking for the sake of clearness the average annual amount of sugar imported from the West Indies at 3,000,000 cwts. for some years past, and the differential duty which is 395., at 405.; the people of England have annually paid about 6,000,0001. for the benefit of the West 'lndia Planters. 'We do not overestimate the amount, because there are other articles which are subject to a differential duty,. in favour of the West Indian planter, as well as sugar, and which, in fitct, make the amountlevied on the people of the united empire for the advantage of the planters upwards of 6,000,0001. per annum. Now, it is confessed by Lord STANLEY and the Tories who persevere in maintaining this unjust system of plunder by means of taxation, that the planters, for whose benefit it was especially intended, are fast going to ruin. The suffering people of England, therefore, have not the poor consolation of know ing that, at least, the parties for whom they are plundered by law are thriving and prosperous. But besides these 6,000,000/. peryear, the people gave the planters the largest part of 20,000,0001. betwixt eight and nine years ago, and still, as Lord, STANLEY says, the planters have suffered a serious diminution of their income. Whether the_Noble.Lord includes in his calculation the terest they may still receive, on their share of that sum, as they vested it in the funds, or pur. chased land with it elsewhere thanin_the Colonies, !\.*% ~~ ~,4 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAWR 29, 1842 TOE CROWN ;NG MERCY OF THE 13, Great Marlborough-street. TORIES. COLBURN'S NEW M MO ON RIST,THLY MAGAZINE - AND HU EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. In the APRIL NUMBER of this Popular Periodical Will be commenced A NEW STORY BY MRS. TROLLOPE, Entitled THE BARNABYS IN AMERICA; To be continued Monthly. Those who desire to possess this New Story complete, are requested to send their Orders immediately for the commencing Number of April 1, which will also contain articles by Thomas Hood, Esq., the Editor; Lady Morgan ; John Poole, Egi. ; Horace Smith, Esq. ; Laman Blanchard, Esq. ; Peter Prig gins, and other distinguished writers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. (From Tait's Magazine for April.) The Peel policy has ieached the climax ! Sir Ro bert has taken even his own Warmest supporters by surprise. There were whispers of a properly tax. To some that seemed a necessary, as it will always be, a just tax, if fairly levied. But the whole income of the country suddenly brought within the sweep net of the Minister, that was news ! And as surely as that the landlord's clutch of the bread of the people will never be unloosed during his reign, it now is that every man belonging to the generally uneasy middle classes, every man striving to maintain his place in-society, upon the lessening, or, in many cases, -the - almost extinguished profits of a trade or a profes sion, must not only be taxed, but rendered liable to the same ordeal, in the rigid scrutiny of his most sa cred and private affairs, as. if he were a bankrupt at tempting to defraud his creditors. Well, the existing c onstituencies sent those Mem bers to Parliament who; having first adopted Peel's sliding scale, which is to mete the people's food, will next sanction his fixed standard for mulcting every man's income. A sliding scale for the purposes of the landlord—a Procrustean bed for those of the Minister. The Newspaper Press, we rejoice to see, is nearly unanimous in denouncing an income tax on trades and professions ; the country is already ringing from from side to side with indignation ; and no man can paint the gross injustice and the injurious and tortur ing operation of such a tax black enough. Even Sir Robert Peel himself, though he cares little about its unequal pressure, admits its inquisitorial character. That seems, indeed, to be very generally understood, but not yet to the full extent. The income tax, with Local Boards, Tory Commissioners, Tory under strappers, prying, espionage, and reckless exposure* of private aifrirs, was, in its day, one of the most en venomed weapons of party , spite and political perse cution that ever the minions of any Government wielded. Many men of liberal sentiments still alive must remember their own sufferings and the tender mercies of its inquisitorial machinery. And what it was in the beginning of the century, it will be again ; for Peel's Budget will be carried, in substance, and in every important detail ; and, whatever may be modified, the tax on the precarious incomes of trades and professions will assuredly not be spared, if there shall be a tax on property of any kind. A war tax— never resorted to but in the last extremity, and the most grievous and unjurious in operation—will be imposed upon that class of the community, which, with the exception of the actually half-starving ma nufacturers, are the least able to bear. The country has been, for nearly thirty . years, comparatively at peace, though the great majority of the class to be mulcted have been, and that for years, at war, in warding off poverty or pecuniary difficulty' in the midst of decaying trade, lessening and preca rious profits, ruinous competition in all professions, and no foreign outlet for professional talent. And after a series of bad seasons, when the increased expense of living, of buying merely meat and bread, and common necessaries, has been seriously felt by every family, save the opulent few, it it proposed to impose this tax anew ; and that without any cause satisfactorily shown, save the mere conve nience of the Minister. Had this odious measure followed the total repeal of thq taxes on food, there might have been some reason, or at least, some decent pretext for the course adopted. But to afford the mass of the community no redress for their master grievance—the bread-tax—to give the manufactures of the country no substantial relief that can with cer tainty be calculated upon, and to impose fresh burdens, heaviest in amount to those least able to bear them, and made intolerable in the mode of examinatian, is the crowning mercy of Sir Robert Peel's vigorous administration. His real reason, after all, may have been fear, that the Corn-law repealers would put their threats into execution, and force him to surrender, by starving themselves, in order to cut off his Excise and Customs resources. "We give Sir Robert some credit for his sagacity. This must be the real reason. " You, Messrs. Cobden and Co." thinks Sir Robert to him self, " threaten me with using no wine ; you, Mrs. Brookes, and your ladies, with using no tea, coffee, and sugar : why, I will match you there—l will di rectly attack your pockets." He almost admits this view, when he says. " The middle class may save as much through the reduction of duties by the new tariff, as they will have to pay in income tax." But, if so, where was the need of change, or of having re course to this new, irritating tax ? And, admitting that some changes for the better are made by his timid peddling with the tariff, short is the way that the cautious, 'yet meddling minister has ventured in the right direction ; while with all his trimming and dex terity, and his evident anxiety to please those of whom he holds, while he attempts some small good, he has laid the foundation of many future difficulties to him self and his sueeessors. • Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ADVENTURES OF SIR HENRY MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER. By the AuthoLof "Rattlin the Reefer," "Jack Ashore," &c. " This new work from Mr. Howard's able and fertile pen, has the advantage of a most happily chosen subject, combining the intense interest of historical truth with the popular attrac tion of fiction ; no wonder, therefore, that it should be, as it undoubtedly is, the best production of its talented writer. Its hero was unquestionably ene of the most extraordinary persons that ever lived in any country, and his adventures as extraor dinary as the character of which they were the fruit."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL EDITED BY MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., _ F A SCIN A T I O N. EDITED by Mrs. GORE, " This charming tale seems rapidly pri-ving its claim to the title Mrs. Gore has bestowed upon it. Its lively, vivid, and picturesque sketches of French and German manners and so ciety during their most picturesque period—its spirited and ori ginal. draughts of character—and its dramatic cast of plot and ncident, are commanding for it universal perusal Its " fas cinating " hero, the Marquis Letonere ; the noble, passionate, and devoted rincesse de Soisons, heroine of the tale ; the three Aulic councillors, on whose oddities and peculiarities the whole plot turns—the jolly German boar-hunting Baron—the henpecked gourmand—the crack-brained scholar ; not to for get the generous-hearted little tailor and his shrew of a wife— all these first-rate characters, and half a dozen more of a se condary class, give to this tale a fascination' which will no loubt be as irresistible in our day as its celebrated hero wai in his." Henry Colbum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboro Ugh-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with illustrations, .lEUT,-COL. NAPIER'S EXCURSIONS ALONG the SHORES of the MEDITERRANEAN. " These volumes are neither more nor less than the actual ocrrespondence of the writer with his mother, Lady Napier, wife of the gallant hero of Acre; and though they have been put into the shape of a Journal, they are evidently as fresh as when they left the pen of the writer—as free, as off-hand, as confidential, as easy—izt one word, as real. In addition to Excursions along the Shores of the Mediterranean, taking in almost every noticeable spot that the extensive and interesting locality includes, they comprise several inland excursions. We have also the results c>f a residence on the rock, excursions across the border, with many off-hand sketches of Spanist, domesticlife in Granada, &c. ; a trip to Malaga, with glimpses of its Moorish relics; Algesiras, with a capital account of a bull fight; a visit to the Coast Of Africa; an entire cruise in the Levant; and, in short, a fund of entertainment and in formation, full of life, spirit, and reality, and affording one of the pleasantest pictures of the life of a soldier and a traveller united in one, that can anywhere be met with."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ENLARGEMENT OF THE MEDICAL TIMES ONE-THIRD I THIS favourite Journal will be permanently En larged one-third with the next Number of SATURDAY, which commences Vol. VI. In addition to important article, on the New Poor law, Rules for Medical O ffi cers, on the nevi measure of Medical Reform, with Velpean's Clinical Lectures. and an immense mass of Foreign and Home Medical informa tion. A series of Sketches of Distinguished Medical Men will be given, commencing with a classical pencilling of Mr. LAy- RENCE. Price 4d., stamped, sd. Office, 10, Wellington-street, North. N.B. Wednesday Evening the latest time when Advertise ments can be received. FDINBURGH REVIEW,No. 151.—Advertise ments for the forthcoming Number are requested to be sent to the publishers on or, before Tuesday next, April 5, and Bills on or before Wednesday, April 6. 39 ; Paternoster Row, March 29, 1842. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thous!: ttiey are N O LOTTERIES) seer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, ire now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distribution may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS *I £64 £lOO £250 se 1,000 66 110 300 1,200 70 120 500 1,800 80 150 600 4,000 90 200 700 22,500 STERLING, amounting together to 142,9941. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. - If Peel imagines that he will gain the working classes by his policy, no mistake can be greater. Many of them can scrutinize his tariff, with as much knowledge of its probable operation as him3eJf ; and then inquire what it promises to them. Increased employment ? Doubtful. Cheaper food ? Certainly not. The single alteration on the sugar duties, pro posed by the late Government, would have afforded more actual relief and solace to the countless number of families in the kingdom, whose income is under 15s. a-week, than his proposed alterations of the tariff. Bread and bread-stuff, which at present swal low up - two-thirds, and as often three-fourths, of their incomes, remain precisely as before. In cheese and - butter we hear of no reduction ; and as to the reduc tion which may take place in the price of fresh meat, it little concerns those who rarely see meat, and, while bread remains at its present exorbitant rate, cannot obtain meat in any form. Instead of dividing the working and the middle classes, Peel's Crowning Mercy will force them more rapidly into close al liance. They have the selfsame interests, however it may be with the aristocratic and non-producing classes. Whatever affects the employer, must soon and certainly affect the employed. Whatever lessens the means of the consumer must soon be felt by the producer. All burthens ultimately press hardest on the lowest body. This has been very clearly stated in Parliament by Lord Brougham, and his lessons will not he lost. The working-men are already ac quainted w:ri the operatien of taxation. They may escape the fiery ordeal of the income inquisition, but they must bear their share of the loss of money going to the tax-g a th erer , i ns t ea d o f b e i ng em ployed i n giving iripulse to their industry. And whither have vanished all those visions of the relief to trade, of the influx of prosperity, which were to follow in the wake of a Tory Administration ? Are they to end in a new sliding scale, and an in come tax falling on all incomes alike, from whatever source they may accrue, whether from the most per manent and well-secured, or the most uncertain and fluctuating ? And what a wonderful man he is who has accomplished this !—what a mighty mind that, which, after seven months, devised the marvellous scheme! Why, Mehemet Ali would have done the same thing in seven hours—and better. He could not have done worse. It is almost ludicrous to hear THE WEATHER.—Noom, MAncn 28. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 52 I Highest 52 I Lowest Barometer 29.78.—Wind W.—Freezing Point ;2 Deg. of the admiration of the Minister into which the House of Commons was thrown, when the mighty scheme was unfolded, and when Sir Robert Peel spoke his long-concocted pamphlet on Finance. What was wonderful in the only important part of his scheme,- safe the temerity of him that proposed it ? B r ut since Sir Robert has carried his Landlords' Monopoly against the people, it is upon the whole, perhaps, not to be regretted, that he should also carry his income tax. It will prove the source of illumi nation on questions of Government and Finance to thousands ; and will speedily recruit the ranks of the Suffrage Associations with many able and useful soldiers. It will be the means of immediate amalga mation. There is, we fear, a very slender chance of the working-class becoming in haste so easy and comfortable in their circumstances, notwithstanding the penny a pound reduction on the price of macs-, roni and vermicelli, as to be indifferent to public affairs. Sir Robert, by his vigorous measure, may temporarily galvanize the finances ; but by what un tried, unheard-of process, is he to give healthful vigour „tothose exhausted powers upon which all permanent na tional prosperity must ultimately depend ? The subject remains as dark, as perplexed as ever; and were the income tax made five or ten per cent. instead of three, without great retrenchment of the public expenditure, without immediate relief to trade and manufactures, the same causes which have been at work for twenty HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 29 minutes after 3 I Evening M minutes after 3.f years, must ultimately undermine the country. Fo reign nations already Ichabod written upon our walls ; the g l ory of rich,k see proud England departed. It is viewed as a humbled nation, plunged into desperate circumstances ; an d . its Government compelled to have recourse to is desperate measures. Thus, the ho nour of the nation tarnished abroad, while at home, much causeless suffering, whole middle * mental and pecuniary, is mdlo class, in addition to is id former hardships. There present, little consola tion, save in looking to th national movement for represented y Philips, b radical reform; to the intelligent men s uch individuals as Lovett, rineent a vo luntarily returning t o th e i r original nci confidence in their ad s flume, ttirge. true and long - tried friends ; in Brougham n and such new and po tent auxiliaries as Joseph The means of national Lalvation are stil l ins our hands ; and Sir Robert Peel's policy will quicken us to the use of them, and hasten the crisis. * In Parliament, the secrecy, the delicacy, the h onour of the persons entrusted to examine sch edules an,l a pp eals, i s pa_ raded in answer to every appeal. Now, in Scotland, it is we ll known that the statements and appeals of persons surcharged, were actually sold to the snuff-shops for waste paper. This might not take place everywhere, but it did take place, and made some noise at the time. Died at theiclanse of ISTesting, etlanci, on the 15th instant, Mrs. Inches, widow 'of the Rev. John Inches, minister 1:)f that parish, at the very advanced age of 102 years. does not appear, but he testified to the fact that, in spite of this noble gift, and in spite of the 6,003,0001. a year, levied on us for their advantage, they are annually sustaining a ruinous diminution of their income. The country is subjected, there fore, to a grevious and unjust impost, which does not answer the intended purpose, but which nevertheless, the Tories are resolute to main- tam. Is there any probability that this very impost which is so injurious to the people of England, is also the cause of the distress of the planters? That seems a very strange supposition. but we have got half way towards justifying it when we have shown that in spite of the impost, the planters are going to ruin. Certainly stranger things have come to pass in politics ; such, for example, as 2 and 2 does not make four, than that the very reverse should be the effect of a law from that intended by the law-maker. On such a subject we do not pretend to be dogmatic - or positive, but the mode in which the impost may probably operate, so as to bring about the ruin of the planters, is this : The number of labourers, and the quantity of labour at the command of the planter, is limited. Each and every planter is eager to get hold of as much of the impost, through raising a large crop of sugar, as, possible. They all, therefore, lay themselves out to cultivate sugar; they com pete strongly with one another to obtain the ser vices of the negroes for cultivating sugar; and their competition, sharpened by the desire to get hold of as much as possible of the impost, tells against themselves, and enables the negroes to demand very high wages, and to labour on their own terms To their bargains with the negroes there are two parties, and it is clear that if their competi tion one with another were lessened, it would have the same effect as increasing the number of labourers, and enable them to cultivate their es tates at a less expense. It is also clear that the increased price obtained for their sugar, in con sequence of the discriminating duty, augments the fund applicable to the payment of wages in a limited population, and the question is, whether the increased competition thus occasioned for labour be more than equal to the advantage which the planter derives from the tax ? We be lieve that it is, and so we believe that the unjust impost itself, which is so injurious to the home consumer, is the.primary cause of the planter's distress, decay, and progress towards ruin. It is abundantly evident, from Lord STANLEY'S speech, whatever may be the losses of the planters, that the negroes are increasing in opulence. Those in Jamaica, according to Sir C. METCALF'S report, are " perfectly free and more independent than the same class in any other country." That proves great competition amongst the planters to have their services. In one parish the number of freeholders had in creased nearly five-fold, or from 387 to 1863 be tween 1837 and 1841. In Demerara, the negroes have purchased, according to Governor LIGHT, Jne estate for 11,0001., and another for 16,0001. Now, the means of making these purchases, and becoming freeholders, both in Jamaica and De merara, could not have been obtained by the ne groes from merely cultivating their provision grounds, which are chiefly or solely to supply their own subsistence. Owing, said Lord STAN LEY, to the labourers becoming possessors of the land, the planters had been compelled to give ex orbitant wages. It was the exorbitant wages, how ever, given by the planters in the first instance, in order to get a large crop of sugar, and so get hold of a large share of the tax, that led to making the labourers landowners, and by narrowing still more the supply of labour, raised still higher the rate of wages. We conclude, from dl these circumstances, that it is the competition ,f the planters one against another, in their new condition of purchasers of labour, stimulated by the bounty or discriminating duty which has been the chief cause of that high rate of wages which makes, as they now complain, cultivation ruinous to them. Our principles would lead us directly to the conclusion that the remedy for this condition is the very reverse of that recommended by the planters, and adopted, we are afraid, by Lord STANLEY. We should say abolish the unjust discriminating duty, and trust for once to Nature tnd to GOD. Do right, and do not dread the .:onsequences. It is only politicians who lay town the rule that they can set at defiance the laws of morality with advantage. We should iay that, by abolishing the discriminating duty, you will lessen the Competition of the planters one with another induce them to introduce cheaper and better methods of cultivation, and reduce the wages of the negroes, now raised exorbitantly, by taxing the people of England. By employing skilled labour, the planters would be enabled to cultivate cheaper than those who import the unskilled and ignorant Africans. The planters, on the contrary, recommend the promotion of immigration. They want more labourers, that they may grow more sugar, and get hold of more tax. Lord STANLEY goes with them. He supposes himself, very erroneously we can assure his Lordship, to have been instru mental in ruining the planters, by emancipating their slaves. He conferred on them by that the greatest blessing a statesman ever conferred on a people. He is in no wise instrumental to their ruinous competition, except by maintaining the unjust tax on -the people of England which stimulates it. But believing, very errone ously, that he has been the unwitting and innocent cause of their distress, the honour of the Noble Lord, it is said, is piqued to afford them redress. He is about, there fore, to promote immigration from Africa into our colonies. He is to renew or ex tend a quasi slave trade. He is to perpetuate ignorance and want of skill in our colonies by a perpetual stream of ignorant savages imported from the coast of Africa. Instead of diminishing the wages of the negroes, by taking the hand of the planter out of our pockets, he is to diminish them by introducing a lower and less enlightened class of labourers from other countries. He is wilfully to degrade the enlightened and com fortable negro population and to undo what emancipation has done. ' We hope that Lord STANLEY will consider the consequences of following the suggestions of the avaricious and unjust planters. It seems pro bable, it not inevitable, that the West Indies are to become the " black islands." The coloured race there, not forfeiting, perhaps, their allegiance to England, nor shaking off their connexion with that generous people, who have purchased their freedom, will become predominant and masters. For the whole World, for Africa itself; that may be a great blessing, provided the educated, intelligent, religious, and skilful, moral blacks, who have been brought up in the ways of Englishmen and with English notions, shall remain the most numerous, and shall be the principal source of an increase of population ; but introduce amongst them a con tinual fresh supply of ignorant half savages from the West coast of Africa, and without retarding, but rather hastening the supremacy of the co loured population, you will establish in the West India islands an empire of savages, instead of enlightened and intelligent beings, and make the " black islands" a curse to Europe -and America. and for the contumely they sometimes heaped upon them. It was our painful duty, on more than one occasion, to remonstrate with great earnestness against the ill-advised pro secutions of STEPHENS, MACDOUGALL, LOVETT, COLLINS, and others, by which the Whigs, to serve a Tory purpose, earned, we regret to say, the lasting hatred of numerous bodies of their honest and well-meaning, even if erring, poorer fellow subjects. On this account, as well as on account of the people themselves, we rejoice that the Tories, who were wont to call them the canaille, and to insist that they had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, have come round to our doctrine, treat the working classes as some body, and claim great credit for exempting them from taxation. It is now in the power of the working classes to show that they are worthy of the considera tion vouchsafed to them. Be it for good or for evil, a great change is proposed in the financial and commercial regulations of the country. Both parties in Parliament affirm that the change will have a considerable influence on the condition of the working classes, and both appeal to them to a certain degree for their support. One party affirms that the change will benefit them; the other denies it. Our own opinion has been more than once stated; but irrespective of that, we are sure that the working classes are bound to take the subject into consideration, and express an opinion on it. Those who deny them the suf frage in electing members of the House of Com mons, do now tacitly concede it to them, and concede to them the power to influence, and even to over-rule the decision of Parliament, by seeking their approbation. For whichever party in the State the working classes may decide, or for neither, they ought - not to lose the present opportunity of exercising the right of suffrage, when every man, however poor, who can express an opinion, may make it tell on the country, and legitimately force himself into of the pale of the constitution. If they are of opinion that the proposed in come tax and alterations ,of the tariff will be be neficial to them, let them meet and express such an opinion, and so they will enable Sir R. PEEL to reject the demands of the agriculturists, and secure to them the advantages of those changes in the tariff which he holds out to them. If they are of opinion that the income tax, in addi tion to all the other taxes which now crush in dustry, will be injurious to them—if they prefer a reduction of the sugar duties to the reduction of the duties on timber—if, after hearing Sir ROBERT PEEL expatiate on the advantages of cheapness and abundance, they think they are more likely to be benefited, and the necessary revenue raised by a free trade in corn, giving a stimulus to industry and consumption, than by additional taxation—let them announce such an opinion. Whichever view they may take, let them not be silent at this crisis of the public affairs, when they are invited by the Tories to give their opinion on the great questions at issue. There is a good deal of miscellaneous gossip in the New York papers to the Bth inst., received this morn. ing, by way of Liverpool, by the packet ship Patrick Henry. In the first place there is a parody of the APLEon affair getting up at Lockport, in which a na tive of the " Emerald Isle" is to replace the hero GM the " Land o' Cakes." The name of this new candi date for the gallows is HOGAN, and it appears that his crossing the frontier was a mere act of idle bravado. No sooner had he appeared at Lockport than he was pounced upon by the sympathisers and committed to prison. We suppose the farce of another trial will be gone through, and after a deal of ridiculous nonsense on the part of the American authorities, just to show how mighty independent they are, and what great feats they can perform within their own territory, ,HOGAN will be sent about his business. We trust the arrest of Hoosir will have the effect of accelerating the final settlement of this troublesome Caroline question. DANIEL WxusTER, President TYLER, and Lord ASHBURTON, must be equally anxi ous to deprive a set of unprincipled vagabond adven turers of a handle by which they can at any time dis turb the peaceful relations between two great coun tries. It is a disgrace to the statesmanship of the nineteenth century that a M'LEoD, or a HooArr, or any other pennyless, reckless adventurer should have it in his power at any moment to involve in hostiliti( s two of the mightiest commercial nations in the world. Next in importance to the seizure of HoGArz, is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, annulling as unconstitutional an Act of the Legisla ture of Pennsylvania, declaring that no person could be forcibly carried out of the State as a fugitive slave without an inquiry before a Jury. The Judges who concurred in this decision were, Mr. Chief Justice STORY, Mr. Justice DANIEL, Mr. Justice 31 4 LEAN, Mr. Justice BALDWIN, and Mr. Justice WAYNE. We quote as exceedingly curious, the points of fun damental constitutional law affirmed by the American Judges :- Ist. That the provision in the Constitution of the United States relative to, fugitive slaves executes itself so far as to authorize the owner or his agent to seize the fugitive in any State of the Union, as property ; and that no State law is constitutional which interferes with such right. 2d. The provision also contemplates legislation by Congress, to make tho delivery of a fugitive slave more effectual against all State or other interference. 3d. That Congress having legislqted, such legislation is the supreme law of the land, excluding all State legis lation upon the same subject ; and with which legisla tion by Congress, no State can pass any law to qualify, impede, or control the remedy given by the act of Congress. 4th. The power of legislation• by Congress is exclu sive; and no State can pass any law to carry into effect the constitutional provision in regard to fugitive slaves, even though Congress had not legislated upon the subject. stn. That the points thus decided are in no manner intended to interfere with the police power of the States to take up runaway slaves, and guard against their mis conduct or depredations. The Legislature of Pennsylvania provided that the question of slavery should be decided by a Jury. The Judges of the Supreme Court say no ; the Act of the Constitution for the seizure of a slave executes itself—in other words, a slave-owner has only to claim a fugitive as his slave, depose the fact before a Magis trate, and so carry off his victim, who may be a free man or woman ! The decision of the Judges is mon strous and abominable. The Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, thus set aside by the Judges, was passed, in 1826, for the express purpose of preventing the free men and women of that State from being carried into Maryland, and other States, as slaves on the lying depositions of the agents of slave-dealers. The Legislature of Florida have adopted a series of resolutions against the payment of the State debts, on the ground that they were contracted by the Exe cutive, without the consent of the people. They also passed an Act, which prohibits all banks, refusing to pay specie for any of their liabilities, from making loans, or buying or discounting notes or bills of ex change, declaring such bills and notes valueless. The object of all this legislation is to establish, if possible, a specie currency. The Legislature of New Jersey have passed an Act, for compelling the banks of that State to resume specie payments on the 15th August. The celebrated Kentucky Senator, HENRY CLAY, retires from public life, and is to be replaced in Con gress by Mr. CRITTENDEN. Of late years Mr. CLAY'S popularity has declined in this county, in consequence of the marked manner in which he mixed himself up with Mr. Wan and others, in op posing the noble efforts of Jonx• Willer ADAMS for the amelioration of slavery in the United States. Though we do not assent to the Tory doctrine that the proposed income tax will not affect the industrious classes, we rejoice very much to find Tory writers proclaiming aloud that it is the duty of statesmen to study the welfare of these classes. It is true that they only now adopt this principle because they are afraid of the indus trious ',classes and need their assistance. It is true that — they only preach this principle, and pretend to promote the welfare of the working classes in order to bribe them into acquiescence with general disfranchisement, and into submis sion to the Tory rule. Though we cannot give the Tories praise for their motives, nevertheless it gives us great satisfaction to find them paying court to the hhrd-working artizans. It was our painful duty on many occasions, when the Whigs were in office, to censure them for their neglect of the working classes, We have inserted one letter, with extracts from another, on the present state of_ the Church of Scotland, in order that our readers .may form an opinion of the sentiments entertained by Correspond ents differing, in every respect, from those generally put forth in The Sun on this important subject. The parties are strong advocates for the rights of the people, and if words always conveyed the real sentiments of those who use them, our Correspond ents would find us cordially supporting them in what has been called, at various times, the " Veto Act," the " Non-Intrusion principle," and the " Rights of the Christian people," but because we can see no such principle as that they contend for embodied in the new scheme, we have ever been opposed to it. Their letters, we confess, have not at all tended to change our opinion, nay, on the contrary, they confirm it, because the writers have evidently no just conception of the danger to popular rights which this ecclesiastical statute contains, nor do they point out any feasible plan by which the machi nery can, in reality, confer on congregations the free, fair, and full choice of their pastors.- In framing a representative constitution, either civil or religious, it is clear that every thing depends on the nature of the .franchise and the qualifications which form a title to exercise it. These are all distinctly laid down in every consitutional charter, they are minutely defined in the Reform Act, and so important was this part o the subject considered, that special Commissioners were appointed by Parliament to watch over the rights of electors, and administer to them strict and impartial justice. Has any machinery of the kind been prepared, or even demanded, for carrying into effect the Veto Act ? None whatever. The right to vote is vested in heads of families in commu nion with the Church, but no law is laid down to define the qualifications which entitle a man to this privilege. These are as various and trivial as the dispositions and caprices of the different incumbents. What one man may consider a sin another consi ders not only lawful, but just and good. Appeal from the clergyman to the Presbytery is only a mockery, when the Presbytery happens to contain a majority of members, entertaining the same religious opinions. The atrocious case which lately came before the Presbytery of Arbroath, is a striking confirmation of the statement, for though the complainant had only followed a long established practice, and buried one of his family on a Sunday, he could obtain no relief, and was compelled, at great expense, to appeal to another tribunal. The com plainant may meet the same fate in the Synod. A second appeal must then be made to the General As sembly, at still greater expense; and considering the character of the majority in that Church Court, there are ten chances to one that his overture would be rejected, and the unfortunate victim be compelled to submit or leave the church of which he had long been a sincere and faithful member. The case of DAVIOT is another instance. In a parish containing some 1,800 inhabitants, only half a dozen have the right of election : the living has been vacant for three years, the Christian people are deprived not only of Church privileges, but of a minister, and neither General As sembly nor Synod, have devised any remedy for this crying evil. Cases could be multiplied without end, and till some plan, therefore, be laid down for granting the parishioners a reality, and not mockery, we must continue to oppose the Veto Act, as one of the most cunningly devised schemes ever invented for increasing ecclesiastical do minion. Let the Non-intrusionists define the fran chise, and then the people will understand them. Let the Church grant the right of voting to every Chris tian parishioner untainted by crime, and of twenty one years of age, and we shall be as ready as any of our Correspondents, and probably as willing too, as either CHALMERS or CANDLISH to support the rights of the electors. From Madrid the latest news is to the 20th inst. The young QUEEN was proving to her Cabinet that she was not without a spice of the dogged obstinacy which distinguished her reputed Sire, the petticoat embroidering FERDINAND. It seems that the REGENT, at the request of M. ARGUELLES, had appointed Col. DOLCE, who so gallantly defended the Royal apart ments on the night of the 7th of October, a Gen tleman of her Bedchamber, and M. ARGUELLES presented him to her MAJESTY to receive from her hands the gold key worn as the insignia of office. Her MAJESTY, however, refused in decided terms to confirm the appointment, nor has weeks of persuasion changed her resolution. The Budget was not quite prepared, but in anti cipation of it the Minister of Finance caused to be distri buted on the 19th, a summary of the expenses of the current year, from which we quote the following items : Beals. The Qucen's Household (in 1841 this item amounted to 35,817,320 reals) Legislative Bodies Foreign Affairs Justice Interior War 450,187,295 Marine 85,039,176 Finance Sinking Pund 339,919,764 Total 1,369,301,683 Or in English money to about 14,116,512/. In 1841 the gross amount of the Budget of Expenses was 1,328,075,216 reals, consequently there is an excess on that of 1842 of 41,226,467 reals. The material difference which exists relates to the Finance department and to the Sinking Fund. In 1841 the former was estimated at 292,599,801 reals, whereas in 1842 it amounts to 337,882,209 reals. The latter was 328,378,980 reals in 1841, and in 1842 339,919,764 reals. It is to be observed that the allowance for Public Worship and for the main tenance of , the Clergy is not included in the above statement. A number of strange reports were in circulation in Madrid. One of the absurdest was that one of the Ministers sought to promote a marriage between the young QUEEN and. the Emperor of BRAZIL, to termi nate in the junction of the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. As for DONNA MARIA and her husband, they were to be sent to rule the Brazilians. Three purchases were made, on the 18th, in the Three per Cents., at 20 for cash, and 21 at different dates, for a sum of 2,200,000 reels. The negotiations in the Five per Cents., 30 in number, amounted to 22,600,000 reals, and were concluded at 21 it . 28 at 60 days. The certificates of the debt bearing no interest sold for 61 at 60 days. There is not much news of interest in the French journals received yesterday morning. The wine and brandy growers of France are very much dissatisfied that so much time is lost in concluding a commercial treaty with England which shall admit French wines and brand: e 3 into this country in exclrmge' for British merchandise. The colonial sugar dealers are also very much out of humour in consequence of the postponement of the Sugar Bill till next Sessions. Nor are the Editors of the French press a jot better satisfied with the proceedings of the Government during the last sessions of the Chambers. At a meeting of that influential body it was re solved that every Journal, at the next election, should have a candidate at each of the electoral Colleges, to enter a solemn protest against the system of press prosecutions sanctioned by the Ministry. The Pliare des Pyrenees of the 23d has the following article : " We learn from Madrid that the French frigate Medea, and a French steamer, have anchored in the port of Barcelona, where the Suffren of the line was ex pected. It is said that the arrival of this naval force is in consequence of the dispute which has arisen between General Van Halen and ,the Consul of France, on ac count of the insults to his Majesty the King of the French in the Constitutional.."---Constitutionel, The Municipality of Barcelona of 1841 had resumed its functions. Orders had been given to arm the fortresses in Cata lonia. A beginning had been made with Figuieres and Gironne. Numerous troops are traversing the country, to put down the bands which have appeared of late only towards the mountains. General Bode' entered Bilboa on the 20th at noon, with a numerous staff, and three squadrons of cavalry. Our correspondent says, the Pharedes Pyrennees of the 20th, sends us no news from the frontiers. The Spanish authorities exercise the strictest vigilance with regard to travellers.— Commerce. It) `AAkit , t‘ • ." Mf" • 1 / 4 -- , - • , 7 • la" , iimocoo], 2 . ..rtpers- - • BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCIA 20. First Hikhist LOWest Last trite Price. Priv.. Price. French 5 per Cents ll7 SO ... 117 60 ... 117 40 ... 117 45 3 pee Cents BO 45 60 45 ... Q 4) 40 8o 46 Bank of France ....... 2360 ...2.130 30 ...330; ...3362 60' Laffltte Nana 1.0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 85 ...1017 50 ...ICI7 85 /curtain Basta 1811 lcs7 50 —lO6O ...1 , 57 54) —lO6O Belgian 5 per Cents. b per Cents ., 1840 IOOS ... 100 , .. ... 106% ... 106% Dutch 2% er Cents. vanish Active... 254 ... 25% ... 154 ... 25f,i Neapolitan lO6 25 ... /16 23 ... 106 ... •06 kb Roman—. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. R. 8........ LB 2lO 25 ... 216 25 .. 216 25 ... 216 25 Rouen 525 ... 525 ... 523 75 ... 525 Orleans .. 563 75 ... 565 ... 562 54 ... 563 75 Str3sburgto Bale, 241 ft ... 242 50 .. 241 23 ... 241 25 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMsTaIDAM, MAacn 26. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cext. Amon Syndic,4% per cent 92% 93 Ditto, ditto, 3% per neut..... ......... ... Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155% 176 Ditto (1635 and 1531) 5 per cent. Lean 1037, 5 per cent, 2 6 34 ¶ 9 Exchange on London. One month l2 12% Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 50 Two months 35 25 Dutch Papers, Marah 26. BELGIAN VUNDS—Batniellis, Maacn 26 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean ' 5 per Cant 102% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. P3 ----3 per Cent. — - -Thirty.seven-------•• 72N, (1:140) 10:34, Loan of City, 11:32, 4 per Cent ..7 Society of Cosunerce, 4 4 per Cent ftl Bank of Belrum, 5 per Cent ............ National Set iety — Exchang e en Londe% (shoat) ..... ......... —Brttes , sls Papers, March 26. AUSTItIAN FUNDS.—Vinau, Maucn 19. 117 fiveper Cents ..Metalliques Four per Cent 5......... lO O% 76% Three per Can ta 1611 Bank Shares ~ ACCIDENT TO'. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.—On Wednesday last the Duke of Beaufort met with a severe fall from his lior se ; the Noble Duke fell on his head, where his Grace, jtas received some very severe contu sions. Iramed; it er ly after his return to Badminton ti e Duke was cup pm!. On Friday npd Saturday the Noble Duke was c:o li id 9l ed much better. S UIVIMARY NEWS AND ntUtC ptuton, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Paris Commerce assures us that at a numerous meeting of Deputies on Friday, in the nail of Conference of the Chamber, and at which Messrs. Odilon-Barrot, Berryer, Billault, and all the Deputies of the ports were present, it was resolved unanimously to oppose in the Bureaux the Bill relative to indigenous sugar, inasmuch as it involves thepostponment of thegeneral sugar question. A deputation from the Committee of wine growers and persons engaged in the wine and brandy trade of the Gironde waited on the Prefect at Bordeaux, on the 22d inst., for the purpose of laying before him the depressed state of the trade. The petitioners attribute the posi tion of which they desire the amelioration to the high protecting duties in France upon foreign products, which have induced other States by way of reprisal to lay heavy duties upon French wines and brandies, and the high amount of the octroi-duty in France, which prevents per sons of limited means from becoming consumers to the extent, which they would be but for this duty. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that the members of the Chamber of Commerce of that city went to the Prefect of the Department on the 21st inst., to express, in the name of the commercial interests which they re present, the dissatisfaction experienced at the.postpone ment of the sugar question. The Prefect, adds the Se maphore, appeared to be deeply impressed with their re marks, and promised to send a telegraphic communica tion to the Government on the subject. A letter from Neubourg (Lure) says :—" An .pnglish house at Rouen, which carried off most of our corn, has failed, and left creditors to the amount of 600,000 f. Its last payments were made in. bills upon two houses in Paris, which refused to honour them. It is said that a meeting of the creditors will shortly be called in London to receive a dividend of 10 per cent. This bankruptcy will very much shake the credit of the corn-dealers of Rouen, who purchase from us to the extent of 4,000 hec tolitres (upwards of 11,000 bushels) a week.". There was a report current on the Paris Stock Exchange on Friday of a new Russian loan 'for the purpose of mak ing a railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow. This loan, says report, is to amount to 200 millions of francs, and Messrs Rothschild are to advance two-fifths of the whole, at the price of 80f. for 100 f. stock at 5 per cent. interest. Messrs. Rothschild are said to have been anx ious to obtain the consent of the Minister of Finance, to have this loan quoted on 'Change, but the Minister re fused his permission. The Journals of Madrid and Barcelona are to the 20th. The Spanish Chambers did not sit. on that day, it being Palm . Sunday. Theßelgian Chamber of Deputies has voted it Sum of 8,000,000 of francs, payable in Belgian Three per Cent. Stock at par., as an indemnity to the owners of merchan dise destroyed in the entrepot of Antwerp by the bom bardment of 1831. The Augsburg Gazette of the 21st inst. says---" Ac counts from Constantinople, of the 2d inst., which have just arrived, infor—i us that the Druses of Syria have risen suddenly against the English and American mis sionaries, destroyed their establishments, and burned their books and manuscripts. Several Maronite con vents are also stated to have been pillaged and ravaged. The reign of the Turkish Governor, Izzet Pacha, ap peared to be drawing towards a close." PITALIG OPINION. The Herald, reverting to the nuisance of the income tax, says :—" To tax the profits of trade is to suck up the vitality of reproduction, is to limit employment of labour, and is to render chronic that disease which now occasionally breaks out in periodical distress ; it is, in fact, to permanently palsy national industry. The adjournment of the resolution over the, recess will have been a fortunate occurrence should the reconsideration Which it will enable Sir Robert Peel to give to his pro-. posal, lead to such a modification of schedule D as will remove all reasonable opposition thereto, as will consoli date his tenure of office, and make the Premier, in the true sense of the phrase, the Minister of, the nation." The Chronicle says—" It is admitted by most of the journals which generally support Sir Robert Peel, that, however just it may be to impose a tax on property, yet it is most unfair to impose an equal tax on the incomes of men engaged in trades and professions. The mode in which the Premier is addressed by some of his sup porters is curious enough. They address him as if they had nothing more to do than to prove the justice of their case to induce him to act on their suggestions. They forget that Sir Robert Peel was elevated to power to promote, not the interests of the people, but the inte rests of the monopolists. It cannot be too often re peated, that Sir Robert Peel came into power to prevent justice being done to the people. He is Minister of the monopolists. He is not at liberty to abandon the in come tax part of his scheme. He has told the House that he must carry the income tax or quit office." The following is from the Advertiser :—" Substan tially we regard the principles of the Constitution as at present overthrown. People are to be taxed that have not the smallest voice in the Legislature ; the executive commands, and it is•done ; and opinion, as represented by the press, the wants of the country, the demands of commerce, the rights of industry, are clearly at this moment at the feet of the privileged orders and of a Mi nister who is their alternate slave and despot. Even the exclusion of incomes below 1501. from the tax is a poli tical sophism. Inasmuch as it is the incomes imme diately above them upon which these depend—inasmuch as taxation falling upon one class affects- the whole community, are those parts' of the social system also taxed ; and the artisan, with only a few shillings a -week wages has as much cause to curse the blighting influence of such an income tax as the capitalist, who, a loser to the amount of sevenpence in the pound, has precisely that sevenpence in the pound less to bestow in the en couragement of the industry of the artisan. MONEY-TR.ILDE-COMMERCE. The Age, another of the old four-horse mails which daily ran between Brighton and Southampton, ceased on Saturday for the last time, the Post-odiee inspectors having made arrangements for taking it off. The Era is the only good coach now upon the road. ECCLZSiASTICAL. Of the twenty-seven Ana 14ti;is;, , ho lately caused themselves to be baptised a second time in the lake of llummelsbury, on an intensely cold day, eight have been taken ill, and three have already died—namely, a man, 73 years of age; a girl, 12 years old; and a boy of 10. The Berlin Government is about to prohibit these bap tismal immersions. ELECTIONEERING. Mr. Summers Harford has come forward, as the Libe ral candidate for Brighton. NAVAL AND MILITARY. _ _ Her Majesty's ship Queen was constructed by Sir W. Symonds. At the time she was commissioned for the Mediterranean, she was intended to draW a certain depth of water, which, it is said, she has since much exceeded, and must have hagged or dropped at the extremities at least 10 inches. LAW AND POLICE. An action was tried at the Hereford Assizes last week, brought by the plaintiff, a widow lady of the name of Harris, against 1)1.. Illeeck Lye, • a physician at Hereford, to recover the sum o f 300/., advanced about four years since to the defendant, for the purpose of pro curing an outfit for his son. Subsequent bankruptcy on the part of the Doctor was his plea for not repaying it. A verdict was found for the plaintiff; with 71. Ws. da mages, the amount of half-a-yerr's interest, thereby denying the ability of the defendant to pay the principal. Richard Hart, indicted as Richard Jones, was tried at the Cambridge Assizes, on Saturday, with having gives the sums of 101. and 1/. to one William Large, as a bribe for him to vote for Lord Cosmo Russell and Mr. Foster, the Whig candidates for that town, at the last election, and found by the Jury guilty. PINE ARTS. Sir David Wilkie's last production—viz., a very fine portrait of Abdul Medschid, Grand Signior and Sultan of the Ottoman empire, has just been placed in the cor ridor of VOtndsor Castle. The Crown jewels, and entire regalia, were removed from Messrs. Rundell and Bridge's custody on Saturday last, and conveyed in three hackney coaches to the Jewel office, in the Tower, which opens to-day to the public. COVET-FASHIONABLE. Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy are expected to leave Chandos House, on Wednesday next, for Vienna. The Duke and Duchess of Northumlerland arrived at Northumberland House on Saturday, from Alnwiek Castle. _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Argyll return to town early in the ensuing week from Brighton. On Wednesday last the Duke of Beaufort met with a severe fall from his horse. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Wednesday last for Paris. The Earl of Munster and his brother have arrived in towtt from the continent. The Earl of Shannon, we are sorry to say, is in a very declining state of health. The Earl of Lonsdale has entirely recovered from his indisposition. The Earl and Countess of Powis are expected to leave Powis Castle on the sth April. for Berkeley-square. A report was current on Saturday, that the will of a late Noble Lord will be thrown into Chancery. DTISCELLANEOUB. Easter Monday fortterly commenced the Feast of Easter, styled for pre-eminence the Queen of Feasts, which was anciently solemnised for 50 days insuccession. Two Wapiti deer, purchased abroad for her Majesty, and which have just arrived in England from their native soil, are now at Cranbourne ' and will in course of time be set at large in the Great Park. One of the Zebus, or Indian Buffalo cows, of her Majesty, has lately brought forth a fine calf. The late Sir William M'lsTaghten was created a Ba ronet, in 1839, on account of his eminent Indian ser vices. lie had been nominated provisionally a member of Council of the Supreme Government, and afterwards appointed to the Government of Bombay ; but he never arrived at that Presidency. JOHN NEWTON.—" I " see in this world," said John Newton, "two heaps of human happiness and misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap, and add to the other, I carry a point. If as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and if by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel that I have done something. I should be glad indeed to do greater thin gs , b ut I w ill no t neg l ec t this." POVERTY AND RELIGION.—There was a larger C)llection in a dissenting chapel at Nantyglo iron-works Sunday se'nnight, than ever was known on a simil ar occasion, and yet trade was never in a more depressed state there than at present ; it is also a remarkable fact that more money has been collected to build chapels about the Welsh iron-works, when trade was dull there, than when it was brisk and wages were at the highest rate.—Cambrian. A VOICE from the WORKII°I3' A.D. 1845. " !_here, and oh where is my Highland laddie gene' ore He's gone to fight the French for the King u pon Sops ' Whore, and oh where, is my wife's piano gone Its gone to pay the Income-Tax for the Que en 14 throne ! „Aio! An'-ugly,red. : nosed tax-collector came one atitliril And asked mefor twelve guineas, and because I cl pay, :r he , He threatened me with Newgate, so to pacs t hp 5 7 4 I was forced to go and put my wife's pian o up , Where, and oh whore, are my books and pietareisf: They've gone to pay the Income-Tax for the Q 3 C her throne ! The same collector came again [the brute !] months after, And asked me for six guineas more, in ton es c°°. with laughter, t I° c° ' I couldn't pay as usual, so again, with (lowness 4; I was driven to my uncle's with my pieture3 books ! hide Where, and oh where, are my chairs and QOO 4 -They've gone to pay the Income - Tax for tby upon her throne! t i eo 4l Another half-year rolleft - way, and struck t ° the core, t as be ° As I heard the tax-collector press for pay l nell In a fit of rage I kicked the ugly, grinning r°b -e • stairs, • And to a Jew-broker both my tables :wa n t .' ' d - Where, and oh where, are my beds and beddmV 4. They've gone to pay the lucome - Ta x for . upon her throne I b The tax-collector came again, and again wit yet e cracked his jokes upon m ge, so Ithou ht joy li ll ~1101 2 i I should crack a joke on him, and I crackv- poker — The only way to settle an incorrigible joker Where, and oh where, is my house at lloft°11;4% Its gone to pay the Income-Tax for the Qtl eell st t too throne ! And now, because I'm penniless and hom eless. With nothing left but one old shirt, and that'a ulri back, wif ~„c They've popped me in a Work-house, with only daughter, Where I breakfast on potatoe-rinds, and cal" and-water. COURT CIRCULAO* jrl l , WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen Albert walked for some time this ~1 1' n ie .the Slopes, the Terrace, and the 110 '.i and the Prince of Wales and the Pride 0P have been taken airings both morning - noon. 1) 0 ( Prince Albert enjoyed a run this morning, attended by Sir Edwa r "he t 2) with ..A tl' e po 4 , and Mr. G. E. Anson. .Afterwards tise and his Royal Highness rode out on ll° Col attended by the Hon. Mrs. Ang'''' : Buckley, and - Sir E. Bowater. 1)1y In the afternoon her Majesty, attenu e e Countess of Charlemont, Lady Car °li . fi l and the lion. Mrs. Anson, rode out ine flp. carriage and four, accompanied by ou horseback, attended by Sir E. o°` : Colonel Buckley. Viscount Hawardeilotoi:iee Frederick Stovin followed in a pony t . of 'o ,l Her Royal Highness the Dactleilta) walked out this morning, attendedbYT Maria Dawson. The Earl and Countess of Dela; Ladies .Elizabeth and Mary We st, an- Cantilupe, arrived to-dty at the Castle' , to her Majesty. a o f The Hon. and ve Rev. the De 3, oott e sor, Colonel and the ry Hon. Mrs. Arbat'll cti .have the honour of joining the 13 fit' circle at the Castle, this evenink e° f His Royal Highness Prince tie o ' r „7, 1 bridge visited Her Majesty the Que'" 4 yesterdxy, at Marlborough House. fov ' Her Royal Highness the Duchess °,eit ter paid a congratulatory visit to torstill Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of L',. on Saturday, at their res id ence , at X i e ' , 1 1,541 Count St. . Aulaire, the French fi.,tese and Baron de Moncorio, the Pertuglgs ter, transacted business at the Vore— ye The Chancellor of the Exchequer b3' for his scat, Beta Surrey. fes te worth, r "s' Earl Talbot transacted business 3 the Home Office. le i The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday afternoon for Brighton. osaasywareeac A ir MR. WILSON"S I LLUSIT',IO,`;' OF SCOTTISH MUSIC Ar4,l;;ccel'e!P' This popular vocalist gave another of "tore' D ' tertainments last night at the Musical Of 051 Mr. Wilson intimated on a former occasi"' t ,gs t; many requests sent to him for particular frne' become favourites in the course of his sering r he intended to meet their wishes, by dedic 3li l lie fit i ing to the songs they had desired, tld e , i r , e " Selected Entertainments." The pro ofs o f ten of Scotland's delicious melodies, WI f 4 wedded to the appropriate native lytilic-oloAw°, McNeill, " Saw ye my wee thing," " MY " - hise and " Come under my plaidie," eac h of t - t 000," the fullest justice from the fit tact and fi l4e lytt', 4 ,. Wilson. In McNeill's, there is genel:43lol: character, and a sweet and natural e 74 1" sentiments of the dramatis persona., so to t. was brought out with most admirable ef feC o di ;f' former were loudly encored. Mr. Wilsoribpols( to observe that it happened that not one ° ha t VA were in the programme of that evening, bat. 7 make the amende, and gave them that gl °l : . t hat' so e the immortal bard, "A man's a man for t/ a c,,,vre,! tiful and in bold relief did this manly s . „ ° l;e us ; it breathes of a spirit that would P;; - )0 , human family " brithes yet for a' that; tiOtyi sung it with the energy and lofty digl"tii mands. Tullochgorum was given with ' 1 tile „0 and exhilirating enthusiasm peculiar t ° P`'. o Countrie." It set the heads of his hearer s to thY and, had there been room, we are inclined "ft, the feet would have seconded the motion. hoe/ sang his other songs with his well-kne",llo,oolhe Lion, and marked expression. An adroir' n 'of audience rewarded his exertion. In °l;te Cht iPe ,;,i i we observed Major Burns and Captaill eve tiii t y Mr. Wilson gives an entertainment thi tbol.frbol London Tavern, under the patronage ° f co f and Lady Mayoress, and we have no utioffet City friends will avail themselves of an qua has been so much relished in the we ster ° metropolis • 4,4 CORN INSPECT„,:) , 6 ,I ' , TO THE EDITOR OFT fi t t 00 1 :. Sui l —Any alterations of the laws `whi c h a . . partial evil to some class or other, wh i- co, justified by the greater good which th ° , s " t are about to accomplish. If it is just tPlotO i 0 7, injured by one change ought to be P s i,oo l ; . `i such injury, I cannot see why another but much less can I see the justice x o o f ri e ,i nr io v , f t . 1 11., a case where parties have been the Government for almost a nomina l 0, Sir, to the compensation about to be t e 9 tit Inspectors of Corn Returns, and beg ~t It is generally acknowledged here tP a itet ll o l, devolving upon the Inspector of Corn mere farce, for do not believe on e with the trade will conscieneiously 5111,ent, mon that anything near a correct state,me are ever given in. I know mys el lche ta r t who told me himself, that altho n g" several thousand pounds per year in of , made a single return for a whole ye i w io! r ! pendent of the utility of the officer, As his claim to compensation, or rathe r c ot', the places, which is to be the nn ni , When the late Tory Inspector ran 'f 0 ) there were several candidates for !P` n ," among which were two parties hav in 'os upon the party having the gift. Whn t .' , c ea t '' The two gentlemen came to this arrangttirof+,,i, of us being capable of making out the r e e ivingf:' be the acknowledged inspector, E. re c ive o year out of the salary, and 101. to be g'„ t 08' y ; in-law, for doing all the work, exc i , e reorY name and hanging up the box in bi e t ilot Now, Sir, I confess, it is my opinin. ° o' are no more deserving comperisation,he corn, much overpaid for their duties," than t itled other masters of her Majesty were e ll weilfot from . the country for their otherwlseablio 0 0, vices. It is such profligacy of the P. 3e rie s e l.) party purposes which entail such nn_ se fie' sands of her Majesty's subjects and can, nitro increased taxation. ------- --- March 26, .- at s 1' MIRACULOUS EscAr.E.-31r. — 11 ; os Niton, was restored, on Monday Is!",,,ss dead, to his family and friends . o f ': e ll7 them to have lost his life on the nig', fr,j the 2d instant, amid the fearful sw ril ,:os ';, tofetal small lfiasd s h o ei nn m gl a lv uf ts , hs p e r ob s a c e : o s tf . lrgoim A n f g r. t 0 13 3 1. g r. h together with the owner, his iso)°nr.l3slll;crijoird6:l;!i'fll; riner, from Atherfield. The ves sc ' t ; e Channel on Wednesday, and b.); " t ; l eir,„"g rigging was blown to rihhonds, an , - ,orow"of full of water. At about three in the —,bip Li re vessel was struck by a large RussiO heitorloo' bound for Algiers ; she as also dri" l3 ,,lii i ;/„' ' l and unmanageable. BrigSht spruogij,.` Russian vessel, and reached the_ a cc ro iti' - e l P"' and their vessel were all lost. Brightrlisilli,el" the Russian, beating about in the ' O . l O when, at last, their signal of distress r' were relieved.,—Hampshire AdvertiO.- • Th, (4y. ~. At} IJei Ru 20 2ce co Co' ari; tHp ren, tier and / tax )11;0 tvi !lid it,,, aiq this