The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. TO THE EDITORS OF THE MANCHESTER TIMES. GENTLEMEN,A letter having appeared in your last paper signed " John Platford, Secretary," in re ference to some remarks made by the Directors of the Manchester and Leeds Company, in their "Reply" to the Liverpool Board, I am instructed to submit to the public the following vindication of their statements. The paragraph alluded to is as follows : bre,‘"l'he most important misrepresentation, however, consists in the statement of relative distances to Shef field, Leeds, Bell, York, &c., by the route of the Shef field Railway. It is nowhere stated in that plan that this railway is yet incomplete, and persons ignorant of the facts would certainly be led to conclude that, if not open, it was at least in an advanced state, and would probably open as early as the Junction line could be Made. Without at all seeking to disparage that under taking, the Manchester and Leeds Directors feel it due to themselves and the public to say that such is decidedly not the case, as that Company are at present in Circumstances of almost unparalleled difficulty, so that it appears extremely doubtful whether their gigantic works can ever be executed ; their capital being exhausted, more than half their shares forfeited, and the remainder at 60 per cent. discount." Some of these facts are disputed in Mr. Platford's letter; but it is reported in The Sun newspaper of the 7th inst., that Mr. Wilson Patten presented a petition relative to the Sheffield Railway to the House of Commons on that day, in which the petititioners state, " that in consequence of the depressed state of the times there was great danger of the undertaking falling to the ground, and praying that Parliament would be pleased to devise some remedy to get them out of their difficulties." Again, the following is an extract from the state ment recently made by the Sheffield Directors, with the view of obtaining the suspension of the standing orders of the House of Commons, so that they may he enabled to apply for new powers in the present Ses- sion : The Act authorising the formation of the railway was passed in 1837, and the capital authorised to be raised by that Act was 700,0001. ; the length of the railway is forty miles. " Since the passing of the Act the Directors have been involved in a series of financial difficulties in consequence of the inability of a large portion of the Shareholders to make good their subscriptions ; and although calls to 'the extent of 821. I Os. per share have - been made, they have only produced a sum o f 300,0001., Which has been principally expended in the formation of about eight miles of the line now opened to the public, and of four miles in extension which are nearly completed, and will shortly be opened to the public. " The:most important works on other parts of the line are also under contract ; but from the difficulties experienced in providing the money requisite to meet the expense of these works, they must inevitably be stopped, unless some facilities are afforded of obtain ing the capital requisite for their completion. " The commercial distress in the neighbourhood, and the consequent insolvency which it has entailed on a large proportion of the Shareholders, will sutli ciently account for the difficulties which the Directors have had to contend with in the undertaking, and the same causes have led to the forfeiture of a great num ber of shares, which shares, owing to the enormous depreciation of the Company's stock, and the insuffi ciency of the provisions of the Company's Acts, the Directors have been unable to re-issue. " It had been fully anticipated that the opening of a portion of the line, which took place in November last, would have had the effect of improving the value of the shares, and rendering the forfeited shares mar k !table, and nu ald' thus have 'enabled the .Comp Any to provide fund.; for continuing the works without ap pealing to Parliament; but this opening has not had tne effect anticipated, and the Directors, finding no other resource left for them than the course they now seek to adopt by the Bill which they have prayed cave to bring in, caused notices of the intended appli cation for such Bill to be inserted in the Gazette and county papers three times in the month of January last. "No less a sum than 200,0001. is now due from the Company to contractors, landowners, and others, which they have no means of paying unless they ob tain the facilities which they seek by their Bill, inas much as the calls which they have the power of making, could not be made with sufficient rapidity to meet their outstanding debts and growing pay ments on the work as they fall due; nor would such calls be sufficient in amount to meet the engage ments of the Company, unless some facilities are af forded of re-issuing the forfeited shares, and bor rowing money in the manner proposed by the Bill. " The Directors firmly believe that the powers proposed by the Bill (which has been approved by a general meeting of the Proprietors) would have the effect of saving the Company, and the contractors to whom they are indebted, from ruin, and of ensuring the completion of the undertaking, which is most im portant to the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, and already the anticipation of the passing of th e Bill h as h a d Y the effect of terially improving.the value of the stock of the Com pany:* -As the Sheffield Company have called 821. 10s. -per share on the 1001. shares, which has yielded them only .300,000/., they have as yet, therefore, no power to borrow on thortgage. The Directors of •the Manchester and Leeds Com pany consider that they have very much understated rather than overstated the financial embarrassments of the Sheffield Company ; and they considered it " due to themselves and the public" . to allude to the present position of the Sheffield Company, on acc&nt of the exaggerated statements which had been circu lated of the advantages in points of distance, of the Sheffield over . the Leeds line, for traffic passing east ward from Manchester. • (See a map which was dis tributed at the late, half-yearly general meeting of the Liverpool Company.) The number of shares actually declared forfeited by the Directors may be only 900; hut it was admitted by one of them (see Railway Times, 1841 4 page 914) that of the 7,000 shares " 3,700 might be fully and titirly- calculated on; of the remainder some might be good, but they were not competent to say how many." The plain inference to he drawn from this is—that the remaining 3,300 are held by persons from whom no further payments, in respect of calls, could be rea sonably expected ; and at the last meeting it was stated that not more than 1,517 had paid the last call, so that 5,483 shares are still in arrear, and liable to forfeiture. At the time when that " Reply" was written, the price of the Sheffield shares was quoted at about 321. per share on 821. 10s. paid up, so that they were at rather more than 60 per cent. discount. I. am, Gen tlemen, your obedient servant, 'JOHN JELLICORSE, Secretary. ilupt's flank, Manchester, March 18th, 1842. ADVENTURES OF A 5/. NOTE.—On Sunday last a collection was made at St. Martin's church, f;,r the Colonial Bishops' Fund, and a religious old lady had, in the exuberance of her lov for bishops, placed on the plate a Si. note. While the churchwardens were carrying the treasure from th e p ort i co o f th e c h urc h to the vestry, guard e d by t h e b ea dl es , a strong gust of wind carried o ff t h e fi ve pound note. It re mained over the roof or the church for some time ; the beadles, in their robes of office, looked at it in wild astonishment ' and as it floated t)wardstlie croi:ledr, they set off as . fast as legs their carry . them, shouting, i " Stop it," " Catch L'' The public ran.in all , directions, .believing that the cry was -• Stop • - thief. " A general pursuit ensued, but no one co uld see either the thi e f or the object of pursuit, it till the beadles stopped in i Northumberland street, and cried out, "I t is caught by the churchwarden' On s ebitnney."ascending note the roof Of Mr Cobbect's house they found t all safe. Mr. Churchwarden has the character ,nTarhk of being a very charitable man , and a remark made by a bystander e x c ited g re at laughter,r note," said he, " has mo re sense th an the giver." e SEWELL AND CROSS beg to inform the Nobility Gentry, and the Public, that their Premises will be opened on Thinday, 28th iii3t. when the remainder of their valuable Stock will be submitted, to their Friend s and the Public; at such prices, that must insure even greatztr satisfaction than . has been expressed by the manythousands, who have visited their Establishment, since the commencement of this unprecedented Sale. gompe al House, Q 1& Compton-street, and. Frigi.tstreet, Soho-square. Sale commences on Monday, - and follow-' "lii days, at Tin o'Clock. • HE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. BRIGHTON, FRIDAT.—In consequence of this day being a holiday, the trains brought down yesterday the extraordinary number of between 900 and 1,000 passeongers. Sir Robert Peel arrived by the express train. An immense quantity of luggage arrived in the course of the day, for the Right Hon. Baronet. The first train this morning brought down nearly 200 passengers, and nine carriages belonging to the passengers. The day is remarkably fine, and the cliffs of Brighton present a most ani mated appearance; At the present time the road to the Railway terminus is through a number of narrow and inconvenient streets ; but through the. spirited exertions of Mr. Cooper, a builder, and one of the Commissioners of Brighton, a very splendid street is being formed from the t e rminus, in a direct line to North-street and the King's-road , and when finished will considerably shorten the distance to the principal parts of the town, in addition to being a very great ornament. At a meeting of Wigney's crediton, on Thursday, it was stated that the dividend would not be more than sixpence in the pound. THE WEATHER.—Noox, MARCH 25. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE..STREET. Thermometer... 45 1 Highest 49 I Lowest 34 Barometer 30.26.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 82 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 24 minutes after I. Evening .45 minutes after I. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA. having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distribution may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPJECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line . either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £64 £lOO ,E 250 X 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. , THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 28. Will be repeated, in Two Acts, with additions, Milton's Masque of' COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris; the Lady. Mrs. Walter Lacy; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing ; Syrens, Madame Vestris and Miss Rainfortb ; Cupid, Miss Dowton • Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris ; Sabrina, Miss Rainferth. To which will be added the Comedy of SIMPSON AND CO.— Mr. Simpson, Mr. Wm. Farren; Mr. Bromley, Mr. Gooper ; Mrs. , Simpson, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Bromley. Mrs. W Lacy; Mrs. Fitz. alien, Miss Cooper ; Madame La Trappe, ,Mrs Urger . After which will be produced a Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsuponatyme ' (King of Neverminditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland; Princes Paragon, Prec ious, and Placid (his three Sons , . by Madame Vestris, Miss Murray, and Miss Lee; Jingo, Mr. Harley; the White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Ss. 6d ; First and Second Circles Ss., Second Price 2s. 6d. • Pit 35., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery I. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. fice, 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. • '' .l • i n -C E.4„t Cl , ;,t;', 7 ;•, 1 0 4116 . ..Itlfp ft * , • cr.Cs*,„ COP: 1 &i Ellilall;"%trs,.. : 4 T m o e 4 • I', ;17 fitg _Suitt LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 26, 1142. We insert elsewhere a communication from Dr. BOWRING, and honour, as we ought, his de sire to do homage to truth and justice. We think, however, that what he says of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff is incomplete, and the report which we saw of his speech, unfortunately omitted much of the condemnation which his letter says he threw on the tariff. IfDr. BOWRING, out of regard to truth, felt himself constrained to praise Sir R. PEEL'S tariff, the same regard to truth should have made him condemn the principle intro duced by Sir ROBERT PEEL for the;first time of establishing a discriminating duty on all the possible products of our colonies. Much too, as Sir ROBERT PEEL has done ac cording to Dr. BOWRING'S description, he has acted up to one good principle. We excuse many of the existing enactments of the tariff, because they were the offspring of ignorance, we acquiesce in them because we would not disturb existing interests, but Sir ROBERT . PEEL, by his tariff, disturbs existing interests, and now re-enacts laws, the principles of which science has long ago repudiated. For this we censure, and we think Dr. BOWRING ought to have censured Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff. Laws which were a disgrace to the 17th century, are enacted by Sir ROBERT PEEL iii the 19th ; and we cannot praise a slight departure from ancient errors which at the same time gives to all that remains of them the solemn sanction of this generation. But admitting all that is good in the tariff, WIIS it not palpable—from the mode in which Sir R. PEEL brought it forward, dwelling very much on the great benefits it was to confer on trade ; deluding the working classes, by a statement that he was about to confer great benefits on them—that he coupled his tariff with an in come tax, in order to bribe and humbug the people into submission into that odious impost ? If his tariff was much better than it is, and were it coupled with an inquisitorial and unequal in come tax, it would deserve to be scouted; but considering the whole as a mere piece of political clap-trap, we cannot applaud those free-traders who approve of the tariff. We were rather struck in Sir R. PEEL'S speech, by his admission, that he was not altogether pre pared to state that it would not be wise to act on Mr. J. D. 'Humes recommendation, and set trade free without regard to what may be done by foreign nations. But how does he carry out that principle ? Our colonies being offsets from us, speaking our language, having the Same wants as us, will, as a matter of course, if Statesmen will only let them alone, carry on with us the most advantageous trade possible. They will be integral parts of our empire, and our traffic with them will naturally be like the traf fic between England and Scotland. But our traffic with countries under different go vernments, is subjected to interruption, and perversion from political causes. We are never able therefore, to carry on with foreign countries the most advantageous trade possible. Political considerations check or destroy the happinessofmankind. Under such circumstances, a wise and enlightened statesman would create no factitious advantage for the colonies with which the people are sure to have the most advanta geous trade possible and no factitious disadvantage fin• those countries with which trade may poi. - sibly, from other causes, not flow into the most profitable and useful channels. Sr R. PEEL does the reverse. He creates by a whole series of new discriminating duties factitious advantages for the trade with the colonies, and factitious disadvantages for the trade with other countries. That whole proceeding in so adverse, to scientific truth so contrary to the lessons of experience ,hat it is a disgrace to the Legislature of Great I Britain, for one moment to entertain a tariff, of which the principle of discriminating duties fa vourable to colonial produce, is found in every line. With all deference, therefore, to Dr. Bowntrta, we still hold his praise, of the petty alterations made by Sir ROBERT PEEL for a pur- • pose, to have been injudicious and ill-timed. The eagerness with which Sir ROBERT seized hold of his admission, ought to have convinced him that he bad given a weapon of offence into the hand of his and our opponent. It is generally asserted that the breaking up of an administration in this country, turning out a great number of official men, bringing others into their places, and perhaps changing the whole policy of the State, is a serious public evil. If that be the case at any time the evil must be tenfold greater to turn out an Ad ministration recently formed, which has come into power expressly because its predecessor could not carry on the Government successfully and advantageously. Now to break up Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government would seem to offer no alternative but a long series of con fusions. It is doubted whether the Whigs or Radicals or any third party be just now com petent and ready to take the Government with any chance of carrying it on quietly and successfully. Under these peculiar circum stances, Sir ROBERT PEEL has brought for ward a measure which several of his own followers declare to be unjust, which be is quite aware is extremely unpopular, which he knows he will have great difficulty in carrying, and yet on carrying which he has staked his existence as a Minister. This may be very cun ning in Sir ROBERT PEEL, very artful, some persons say very bold and maply, but we cannot call it patriotic. He places his personal gratifi cation on one hand and the public peace on the other, and he says, if you do not give me my own wry, I will resign, and confusion will be the con sequence. Hence Mr. ATTWOOD, while he de nounced the income tax, declared that he would vote with him.. Sir R. PEEL, tries, therefore, to terrify the public into submission to his income, tax, and leaves them to choose between bowinz THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1842 themselves to his yoke, or risking great public confusion. We apprehend, however, that Sir R. PEEL on this point very much overrates his own value ; perhaps he overrates the utility of Government. There are an immense number of branches in society which it has not yet, with all its dili gence, managed to get hold of, and it is pretty plain to every man of discernment, that the branches which have escaped its authority are much better regulated than those which it con trols. But whatever may be_the utility of the Government, the nation can go on without Sir ROBERT PEEL. In the ordinary course cf nature he must be removed in a few years, and no person supposes that society will be dissolved at his death. But that event may happen in the course of a few weeks or days, and society will not then come to an end. Sir ROBERT PEEL overrates his own value, when he estimates his loss as more than equivalent to an income tax. The nation can rub on without him now, as it must rub on without him by and bye and to his threat that he will resign, the nation echoes, resign ; we can do without you. With the monopolists, we admit the case is different. For them he is a necessity. He is the keeper who is to supply hungry wolves with their accustomed food. Without him they must be scattered, and will lose their provender They will support him, therefore, in inflicting an income tax on the people, and would equally support him, though he bring ruin on the em pire. But for them, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S threat of resignation would be merely farcical. If they were nat united with him in an unholy league, every man would at once perceive that his un patriotic and insolent announcement of throw ing up the Government, and throwing af fairs, as far as he can, into confusion, un less he be allowed to have his own way, would be of no more importance than the threat of a pouting child. As the instrument and head of the monopolists his threat of re signation to induce them to support him at whatever risk, and at whatever cost, becomes a symptom of the reckless daring with which he is resolved to inflict the curse of an income-tax on the people. In that threat, however, lies much hope. It implies on his part a fear that many of his troops will desert him. It betrays a con sciousness of defection. He is like an officer preventing his men from leaving their co lours by threatening to run them through. He has already taken the most extreme measure in his power, and has no resource but to resign if he be defeated. He has sought to inspire his fol lowers with the courage of despair by cutting off all hope of escape. His arbitrary and unconstitutional method of forcing, by the help of his monopolists, his favo rite impost on the country, should rouse both the indignation and the hopes of his opponents. There are symptoms in various quarters of alarm in the agriculturists. They already repent that they have placed in office a man who has abated, as they say, their protection on grain and on cattle. Deputations from the agricultural districts are going up to Tory Mem bers, to get them to remonstrate with Sir ROBERT PEEL. They like the income tax not much bet ter than the townspeople. A little exertion, then, now on the part of the townspeople, whose con. cerns will all be forced into day, may stop Sir ROBERT PEEL. They must profit by the recess to hold meetings and get up petitions and remonstrances, It is possible that no inconsider able number of Tory Members may stay away, for a few days after the re-assembling of Parlia ment. It is even possible that several of them, disregarding Sir R. PEEL'S threat, may vote against his income tax. A strong muster, therefore, of the opponents of the measure, on Monday week, may suffice, if not to defeat Sir R. PEEL, to give him so serious a check as to convince him that he will be unable to carry his measure. We at once, therefore, remind all the opponents of an income tax, that it is necessary to be at their post on that day, wherever they may go in the mean time, and, however energetically they may assist their constituents in hold ing public meetings and embodying public sentiment in one overwhelming mass. One ex ertion now on the part of the constituencies and the Members will save months of labour here after. We trust, therefore, that will be made, and that the Minister, who is at once one of the weakest and inconsistent that ever was placed at the head of affairs, will hasten to carry his threat of resignation into effect. We learn from the Chelmsford Chronicle, that the Braintree and Bucking Farmers' Club de clared at their monthly meeting, held on the 23d instant, that they view with serious 'alarm the proposed alteration in the Corn-laws; and they further declare, that the proposed altera tions in the tariff will tend materially to depress agriculture, " inasmuch, as the importation of cattle, meat, starch, &c., will necessarily greatly diminish the value of home produce." A deputation from this club is appointed to wait upon the County Members, to request their ear nest and immediate attention to the subject. The sat.ne agricultural journal is convinced that fo reign agriculturists will now fatten hogs and cattle for our market, instead of sending corn hither; and that sheep will be imported in great num bers under the proposed alterations. To lower the price of beet, pork, and mutton, permanentl3-, it says one penny per pound would probably take 4,000,000/.—as large a sum as the whole income tax is calculated to raise—Outof the pockets of the farmers and the graziers. Thisjournal complains bitterly that— The principle of protection is broken through in a new direction, and oxen, and cows, and sheep, which were be fore altogether prohibited, are to be admitted at the duty of 1/. 15s. and 3s. respectively; the duty on carraway seed is reduced from 1/. 10s. to 55.; on . coriander from 15s. to 55.; on clover from 11. to 10s., and this, too, at a mom en t when forbearance was peculiarly called for, from the farmers being not only required to consent to an exten sive sacrifice of their property, but in common with the other classes to contribute three per cent. from their in come to the exigencies of the State. So the farmers begin to. taste, at least in imagination, some of the miseries to which they have doomed their fellow countrymen by return ing to Parliament a Tory and monopolist ma jority. The honesty of theSe gentry is made apparent by their complaints., If lowering the duties on meat, so , as to. reduce ,the price one ' penny per pound, would take away from them 4,000,0001., what would be the effect 'of abolish ing altogether the duties on meat? It would lower the price at least threefold, being a posi tive reduction of another penny per lb. and a penny for annoyance, vexation, and interference, making on the statement of the farmers at least 172,000,000/. a-year, which they take from the other classes for meat alone. We cannot place the total abolition of all duties on foreign i agricultural produce at a less figure than three times the amount of the duty on cattle alone, whence it follows, from the complaints of the Essex graziers, that the agricultural classes take, at least, 3 6,000,0001. a year from the rest of the' community by the cOrn-taws and provision -taws. We are thankful for the admission. The Essex agr,iculturists in quarrelling with their protector are restoring to the community its rights. Again, we learn,from the Corp Southern lie porter that a meeting was held in that city on Monday last, consisting of the leading export and other merchants of the city, for the purpose of considering Sir R. PEEL'S tariff; at which his new taxes on lard and cured provisions excited great dissatisfaction, and a memorial against them was adopted. ' Sir' ROBERT PEEL will thus find him self thwarted by ibis own petted interests, as well as by the interest he has trampled on in. every part of the kingdom. We rejoice to see him caught in his own net. He has preached up the necessity of agricultural protection, and the cattle-feeders of England and Ireland will not allow him to escape from his own princi ples. The intensefolly of pretending to adjust the rival claims of all classes ofproducers by any other means than a the giggling of the market' will soon come home to Sir R. PEEL, and he will fall a just sacrifice . to the just delusion lie has fasterecL So be it., • We do not go along with these people in de- manding more protection, nor do we justify their complaints, but they have a good case as against Sir R. PEEL, and against the Tory journals which have advocated protection to native in _ dustry. He and his journals have flattered them into the belief that prices were to be kept up, and have probably encouraged them to renew leases, and enter into engagements on that be lief; he and they have, at the same time, done what they could to keep up all the charges on the agriculturists, and now Sir ROBERT suddenly, by a littlejuggling with the tariff, deprives the gra ziers, as the Hertford and Essex men say, of 4,000,000/. a-year. There will, henceforth, be no peace amongst the different classes of producers, no contentment, till the Legislature wisely washes its hands of the whole matter, and declares that it must leave the price of corn, as of stockings and all other things, to be settled without its interference, by the mutual and reciprocal bar gainings of all buyers and sellers. The publicans of London and the suburbs have long laboured under many grievances from which all other trades and professions are exempted. They have first of all to obtain leave to carry on their trade, and when that is obtained, at no little expense as well as annoyance, they are constantly harassed by informa tions, restricted in the mode of conducting their business by the petty partial regulations of Justices often of the most contradictory character, they are subjected to heavy fines for venial offences, and not unfrequently ruined by the suspension or loss of their licenses. A great many of this class are placed in the greatest difficulty and even distress, by the present system. Repeated informations are preferred against them by police men—the Magistrates rarely lean to the side of mercy —convictions of course take place, and when licensing day comes, and they apply for a renewal of leave to carry on their trade, a record of these convictions is produced as a plea for rejecting the application and depriving them of the means of gaining a livelihood It is little creditable, therefore, to the Metropolitan Members, that these gross instances of oppression should have been allowed to exist, and that this in- jured class should have been compelled to apply for redress to a comparative stranger amongst them—the Gallant Officer who now represents Westminster. He is little practised in law-making, and it is not sur prising that his Bill should be so defective, but at all events he deserves praise for an attempt, which turns to shame many of his long-winded, talkative colleagues The Bill, however, does not go to the root of the evil, and we regret exceedingly to learn that the Go vernment, instead of acting on their own responsibi lity, and making it a comprehensive measure, have referred it for approval to the most objectionable of all authorities, the Police Commissioners. These gentlemen cannot be impartial j udges. They have for years been carrying o n , th roug h t h e i r superintendents and constables, a systematic war against the publicans, harassing them in every possible way, lodging informations against them for serving out refreshments to unfortunate women, directing the po licemen to act the part of eavesdroppers, to enter houses in plain clothes for the purpose of entrapping the un wary, and inform against those publicans in the neighbourhood of London who open tea-gardens and other places of refreshment to hardworking ar tisans and tradesmen on the only day in the week when they can enjoy the fresh air and rest from their labours. The persecutions inflicted by this eternal meddling with the customs and amusements of the lower classes has become ab solutely insufferable, and instead of making the Sab bath and the Church respected, has caused many who would attend Divine service to turn away from it with indignation, and almost dread the return of that day which they were once accustomed to spend so happily with their wives and children. These are circumstances which a wise Legislature should not consider beneath their no- tice, and it would be much more honour able, as well as hnmanc, for Sir JAMES GRAHAM to have taken up the whole subject of licens ing and regulating public-houses, than to leave it, as beneath his notice, to the care of Captain Rous and Colonel MAYNE. Let the publicans, there fore, urge such a step on the Government ; let them hold meetings for the purpose of pointing out these grievances, and laying them before the Home Secre tary, and in due time they will prevail. They are a body too powerful to be despised; but they may de pend upon it they Ivill get no help if they do not help themsAves. The French Minister of Finance has distributed among the Members of the two Chambers a Report of some of the branches of his Administration, which includes some interesting details relative to Savings' Banks in France. M. BENJAMIN DELEssitur, Pre sident of the Council of Directors of these institu tions, reports that they were never in a more pros perous condition. Upwards of forty millions of de posits were made within the last year, and the num ber of new depositors exceeded thirty-four thousand. The reimbursements for the year fell short of the de posits by upwards of thirteen millions of francs Nearly nineteen thousand of the new depositors were journeymen, and above seven thousand do mestic servants. Every increase in the num tier- of the first class of :depositors is im portant, as arguing the growth of a greater confidence in the stability of the Government. The soldiers were beginning to vie with the civilians in turning their savings to account by depositing them in these : Banks. We cannot go through the whole of this Report ; but the following summary of the conclusion of it cannot fail to interest the advocates of Savings' Banks in England :--- On December 31; the 285 Savings' Banks in the de partments, independent of that in Paris, had in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations 157,988,602 E, being an in crease of 39,698,703 f. on the amount at the end of the preceding year. The system has been most successful in the maritime towns — Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Rouen standing, as before, at the head of this category. Lyons, although the second town in the kingdom, still remains in the back ground, its bank having brought into the Caisse des Depots et Consignations only 4,835,000 E, while Bor deaux paid in 9,134,000 E, Marseilles 7,767,000 E, and Rouen. 5,011,000 E The average of the payments at Lyons was only 33f. for each individual, while at Bor deaux it was 98E, and at Paris 100 f. To rebut an opinion that the working classes did not form the most numerous of the depositors, the President referred to a statistical account drawn out by M. Prevost, the General Agent of the institution, in which he classed all the 34,000 new. depositors of 1841, according to their different stations in society, from which it appeared that the journeymen and artisans amounted to 18,873 individuals, or more than one-half of the total number of depositors, and that the average of their- first deposits Was 170 f. Among this class were 928 shoemakers, 683 tailors, 576 carpen ters and joiners, 321 locksmiths, 317 bakers, and 420 wine-dealers and their men. In the course of his Report, the President announced that, on account of the great increase of the number of depositors, the accommodation afforded to the institution by the Bank of France had become too confined, and therefore the Directors of the Savings' Bank had purchased a large building, No. 5, in the Rue Coq-Heron, which, when arranged for the pur pose, wo u ld a ff or d ample space for all the offices, and also for the reception, under cover, of any number of de positors, w ith ou t l eav i ng any, as at present, t o wa it i n the street for their turn. The pastoral letter of the Archbishop of PARIS, ordering prayers to be offered in all the churches of France for the preservation of the Roman Catholic religion in Spain, in obedience to the injunctions of his Holiness the Pori, is commented upon in all the Paris Journals. In opinion upon this, as upon every other question, they .re greatly divided. The more liberal papers contend, and most truly too, that the Regent of SPAIN having forbidden the clergy of that country to comply with the order of the Porn, and having even prohibited the circulation of his encyclical letter in Spain, this step of the Archbishop of PARIS is highly indecorous and offensive, considering the delicate position of the relations between France and Spain. The Courrier Francais treats the question with much ability. While it admits that the clergy of the Romish Church have always claimed forthat church an Independence of the State in questions- of faith, and discipline, it very properly makes a distinction between the acts of a priesthood appointed • and paid by the State, and one supported by voluntary contributions. State-paid and State-appointed priests are :to be re garded in an official, as well as an ecclesiastical cha racter. They are public functionaries, and in this capacity they have public duties to fulfil. Th e French Bishops are all appointed by the King, who is vir tually head of the Gallican Church, and therefore they are responsible to the State for the exercise of their functions. " It is because," says the Courrier Francais, " the Archbishop of Paris is a public func tionary, that the declaration which he has taken the liberty of making against a neighbouring Govern ment is really important. It is in vain that the , Archbishop has only obeyed the orders of the POPE; we say that the POPE has no orders to give to French citizens obedient to the law. The Archbishop may, if he pleases, raise his hands to heaven, and pray for the conversion of ESPARTERO, but he has no right to put forth a political proclamation in the shape of a pastoral letter. It is against this usurpation of civil power that we protest, and if the Government knew what it owed to itself, it would not have waited for the warning it now receives to repress these mistakes of inconsiderate zeal." In our opinion the French Government is bound publicly to apolo gize to the Cabinet of Madrid for the gross insult offered to it by the Archbishop of Paris. As for the quarrel between ESPARTERO and the POPE, we cannot say that we are sorry for it. The RE GENT promises to be fully a match for the Holy See, and if he succeed in breaking the leaden sceptre of ignorance with which it so long tyranised over the finest 'race of people in Europe, the •world will yet accord him a place in the number of its greatest heroes. What ESPAR TERO is struggling for, the common sense of the world has accorded him, namely, the supremacy of he civil over the ecclesiastical power. The prayers of the French clergy for the exaltation of the mitre above the crown are certainly calculated to provoke public indignation, on other grounds as well as on those of being insulting to the Spanish Government. On Wednesday the French Minister of Finance informed the Chamber of Deputies that the Govern ment had postponed the Sugar Bill till the next Ses sion of the Legislature. An angry discussion ensued, in the course of which Ministers were attacked for not bringing in the. Bill earlier. The Railroad Committee heard yesterday Mr. C. Lafitte, one of the Directors, M. Locke, the head engineer, and M. Thibandeau, Secretary of the Rouen Railroad. Mr. Locke was examined respecting the levels ' curves, and principal conditi ons o f execut i on propose d by the Go vernment. The Journal de Rouen informs us that the Paris and Rouen Railway Company have offered to execute the line from Rouen to Havre, the expense of which is esti mated at 30 millions of francs, on condition of receiving 20 millions from the State, half as a gift and half by way of loan. The English shareholders of the Paris and Rouen Railway have, it is said, offered to subscribe one half of the remaining 18 millions. The Frankfort Journal, under the rubric of Hanover, 15th instant, says :—" Several journals have announced that the King intended to abdicate in favour of the Prince Royal. This assertion is so absurd, that it is not worth the trouble of refuting. If the Prince Royal be invested with the functions of government during his Majesty's absence it is only from a desire to resolve, during the lifetime of th e King, questions as to the ca acity of the Prince. _ _ • _ _ Moniteur, of the 23d, publishes in in its official part, the following note :• " The King has received a letter from the Emperor of Austria, announcing the death of the Archduchess Her menia Amelia Maria, daughter of the Archduke Joseph Palatine of Hungary. " The King will go inte mourning on this occasion." We are assured that the Minister of Finance will propose to-day to the Chambers an outline of regula tions for the purpose of more effectually checking frauds, which are committed to the detriment of the Treasury, in levying the duty on the consumption of in digeneous sugar. BAYONNE, MAncli 19.—The Spanish banker, M. Aquado, arrived here yesterday, on his way, as is said, to Spain. It seems that the Regent has or dered the most distinguished reception to be every where given him in his journey ; that he has offered him the post of Minister of Finance, to approve all his hitherto disputed accounts, and to make him a Grandee of Spain with the title of Do las Marismas, for him and his descendants, if he will accept an office in the Spanish Cabinet, and then become again a subject of her Catholic Majesty. It is not said whether M. Aquado accepts these offers, but the fact is that he returns to Spain on the ostensible pretext of undertaking the working of mines in the Asturias on a great scale, near the port of Gijon. We shall soon see what truth there is in these reports.— Memorial Bordelais. BOURSE--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23. Fist Highest Loirest Price Plice. Price Pricy. 'tench 5 per Cent; ll7 5 0 ... 117 50 ... 117 45 ... 117 50 4 per Cents lOl SO ... 1 , 4 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents BO 50 .. 80 50 ... 81, 45 ... 64145 Bank of trance Laffitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 80 ...1015 ...ICIS 5.0001. Shares 5047 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50 ielzian Bank 1811 lll7 50 ...1060 ...1 60 ...1057 50 Belgian 5 per Cents. ..... 5 per Cents., 1840 106% ... 106,, ... 106% ... 106% ipanish Active 05% ... 25% ... 25N, ... 25% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Portuguese 5 per Cents. Dutch 2% er Cents. Nga i Enema lO6 30 ... 116 30 ... 105 20 ... ,06 20 4ornan lO5 ... 105 ... 105 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES. -- -- ---- St. Germain ••••••4•••••••••••••• 840 •.• 840 ••• 840 ••• 840 Versailles. It. b 94! 50 ... 342 50 ... 343 75 ... 843 75 L.}l 215 ... '215 ... 216 25 ... 216 25 itouan ....«.. ......... ()ruses .. 565 ... 567 50 ... 565 ....has Strasburg to Bale : 241 25 ... 241 25 .. 240 • ... 241 25 D ISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ,§UNr. BRISTOL, MARCH 24, 1842. SIR,—As a subscriber to your paper, accept my thanks for your having acted (as I suppose) on the hint conveyed to you in a former letter, viz., sug gesting your leaving out those disgusting advertise ments which so completely lowered the character of your paper. " The Sun" is now improved in this respect, and no subscriber need now fear its being left in the draw ing room, for the perusal of the ladies of the family. Yours obediently, MONITOR. [Our respected Correspondent no doubt refers to advertisements of a certain character, which have been banished for some time from, and shall never again stain, the columns of The Sun. The " nuisance " had been too long tolerated on the principle that other papers inserted such announcements; and we take shame to ourselves for having so long hesitated in putting in practice a resolution come to fora con siderable time past. But "better late than never." For the future our doors are closed against the dealers in those insidious vehicles of pollution, and neither respectable advertisers nor gentle readers need hence forth be afraid to refer to the pages of The Sun.] ED. Sun. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A few merchants have appeared in the city, merely for the purpose of receiving their letters, but business is of course wholly suspended. . Some transactions were negotiated in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday, which generally had a tendency to decline—Amsterdam being 12 43- to 41 ; Rotterdam, 12 5,- Antwerp', 12 4i- to 44 ; Hamburgh, 13 123: to 12; and Paris, 25 80 to 85. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH. 24.—Eastern Counties were in . good request to-day, and sales to a moderate extent took place in the following shares also . Grand Junction. Old Quarters, 44 ; ditto New, 241 ; New London and Brighton, 5/. Bs. 6d. ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 41. 6s. 6d. ; Eastern Counties, 91.85. 6d. ; De bentures, 11/. 4s. 2d. ; ditto New, 38s. 6d. premium. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 24.—Business was very languid, and the sales . amounted to only 3,000. bales, without alteration in'. prices. . The sales of the week have been 17,970 bales ; the consumption since the Ist of January is estimated at 255,500 hales, being 500 more than during the like period of 1841 ; the export has been 12,800 bales, while in 1841 the quantity shipped was but 3,900 bales. The average weekly quantity con sumed this year has been 21,292 bales, being an increase of 42 bales per week over last year. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 24. A degree of dulness has prevailed in our Market, and although we have not had much .Stock offering, we quote prices a shade lower, excepting for Old Leeds, Halves, Lancaster and Preston, and London and Bir mingham. Liverpool and Manchester, 173 ; Leeds, Halves, 341. 175., and 341. 17s. ex. div. ; Quarters, 4i, and 41. 6s. 3d. ex. div. PEEL'S NEW MEASURE.—There has not been a period for many years when the public mind has been so highly excited upon subjects of internal p 'lity as at the present moment. The war in China and Affghanistan, and our relations with .the continent of Europe and the United States, seem matters of compa ratively little interest when compared with the proposed alteration in the Corn-laws, the New Tariff, and the In come Tax, measures which will reach every man's home and fireside. A position so anomalous as that of the landed inter es t i n th e present H ouse of Commons was never before seen. H av i ng , b y t h e exertion ofits sluggish but giant strength, driven out one Ministry whose policy was deemed hostile to its in terest, and raised another Ministry to power under the pledge of maintaining protection to agriculture, it sees 1 its chosen champion adopting the principles of free trade as the basis of all his measures, and with abold ness which no man dare, but one who could profoundly scan the extraordinary position of those by whose in strumentality he has obtained office. Sir R. Peel has struck a deadlier blow at the protective system, since his last accession to office, than has been effected by all the efforts of the tree traders, the Whigs, and the political economists during the last twenty years. They have been devising and preparing plans—he is the " heaven-born" Minist er . w h o s t e p s f orwar d an d carries them out.—Mark-lane Express. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. —RE BARNETT JOSEPH.—We are requested to state that the evidence ascribed in our report of the above case, on the Bth inst. to Mr. Raybold, was i ncorrec t. W e are assure d t h a t it was by an error of our Reporter that. Mr. Raybold was made to describe himself as having been tried at the Old Bailey on criminal charges. The Observateur of Brussels states that the Belgian Inspector of Police, M. Hody, gave orders, a few days since, to 3lr. Barrington, an English gentleman of respetability re siding at Bruges, to quit the Belgian territory within 24 hours, but the latter appealed to the British Consul, : and, after .some -warm remonstrances on the part of that functionary, the order was rescinded. The cause of this measure is net stated. S -w, ARV OF RI FL W S AND Vitbltc Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The 'sugar question, and " the persecution of the Church of Spain by the Spanish Government," as the French clergy denominate the measures resorted to by the Regent, are the chief topics referred to in the French papers. The Univers mentions that the French frigate. Eri gone, which reached Macao on the Bth of December last, had on board Colonel Dubois de Jansigny, " Envoy of the King of the French to the Court of Pekin." M. Duplessis de Grenedan, a member of the Parlia ment of Brittany before the Revolution of 1789, and one of the Royalist Deputies who contributed most to the overthrow of the Government of the Restoration by the extravagance of their retrograde doctrines, died at St. Hellier on the 19th instant. Madrid journals of the 16th inst. report that the mar riage of the Queen was beginning to be talked of in the Madrid circles. The English party, and at its head M. Mendizabal, openly declared against the pretensions of the Bourbon family. Another party would willingly accept a Prince recommended by Austria ; but the ma jority seemed to incline in favour of one of the sons of the Infant Don Francisco de Paula. The Constitutionnel Barcelona journal of the 17th inst. publishes a letter addressed by the Political Chief to the members of the Provincial Deputation, informing them that the Regent had acceded to their deniand, and been pleased to decide " that the municipal councillors sus pended in November, 1841, and who were to continue in office during the present year, should be reinstated in their functions." PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle contains the following re marks :—" When did the mind of Sir Robert Peel first become impressed with the stern necessity of resorting to that odious measure, an income tax, for the extrica tion of the country from its financial difficulties ? Was it before or after the late general election ? The question is not one of idle curiosity. It involves his character as a statesman, and his claims on public confidence. The proof of the alleged necessity Is repeated in Sir Robert Peel's speech of Thursday night. It consists of the state . ofsthe public revenue, as compared with the amount of public expenditure during a period ofsix successive year.;. 'He had proved that there had been an increasing deficit during the last six years ; a rapidly increasing deficit du ring the last four years,' It was on this ground that he asked the country maturely to consider whether he did not establish such a position of financial necessity as called upon him at least to propose some vigorous stely?' Any defence from a mere temporary emergency is disclaimed. We have had two years of cheap postage ; but' that is not it. Nor is it the increased outlay occasioned by our operations in the East. 'He thought that the great majority of the Committee would admit that he had proved the necessity, the existence of which he had asserted. He had not proposed an income tax on account of the war in Affghanistan, or the war in China.' The six steps in Sir Robert Peel's demonstration of the financial necessity are six years. Only thus has he arrived at • that seventh of sabbatical rest on which he bestows his blessing of an income tax. The ex perience of that long period of time constitutes his pre mises ; of which an income tax is the inevitable conclu sion. In this fact there is nothing to fix the date of his conviction. It may be new born ;or it may be of long standing. It may be more than three years old, or less than three months old. All is uncertain beyond the alternative that he must have come to it either before or after the late general election. We will take each side of the alternative to reason upon. Rive out of the six demonstrative years had fulfilled their course before the late contest. They had done their duty we as sume, on the mind of Sir Robert Peel. In that case he knew last year that the question of an in eome tax was to be virtually decided by the division on the Whig budget. lie was fully aware that there was no other alternative. He knew that he was leading on his unconscious party to the vote for an in come tax. The elections were, in his mind, a struggle for and against the imposition of an income tax. His talk of inquiries and consideration was mere pretence. He was only keeping close the secret of his determina tion till a convenient season for the disclosure. Voters and candidates were doing his work like puppets. By undeceiving the people he would have changed the whole face of things. Be reserved the word that would have done so, and would then have scattered like a routed army his ignorantly zealous supporters, until he should be safely ensconced in Downing-street. Now all this may be vastly clever. We impeach not its ingenuity. We only ask whether the trickster who is. capable of it can ever again, as long as he lives, deserve to be an ob ject of public confidence ? Has he not played false with a whole people ?". The Times thus alludes to the Income tax :—"lf every income depending on persOnal skill and exertion were considered as. a certain life annuity, if a business were always considered, without reference to its actual pro mise, as equivalent to an estate for a given number of years—set that number as high as you please—strict justice_ indeed would. not be obtained—this of course is impracticable under any law--but very much injustice would be, avoided.; and that in the case of a business, without any additional complication of the bill or in vestigation of circumstances—in the case of profes sional incomes, by . merely denianding the age of the holder, and referring to a table of the value of life. But most persons . would be satisfied ,with even a looser attempt at fairness. Mr. R. Palmer—the Member for Berkshire, a strictly agiicultural county—and him self, as a landed proprietor, interested against this sug gested reduction of the tax, propo se d,,in a speech which did much credit both to his sense and t.o his equity,, thlit a tax of only, 2, per, cent. should be, levied on, all incomes coming under the schedule of trades and professions. We have very little doubt that such a concession as this— involving no change of principle in Sir Robert Peel's Bill—no one additional clause in its enactments, or in quiry in its administration—would satisfy those who at at present conceive their interests arbitrarily set aside." The Post remarks that Government is determined to stand or fall by the income tax, observing :—" Upon the general principle of the measure—as a measure of finan cial necessity—the Government is resolved to stand or fall. For so far there can be no mistake. Either the country will have the proposed income tax or another Administration. This also is a bold, honest, and useful declaration. During the existence of the late Adminis tration no one could calculate upon what was to happen, for when the Ministers could not carry what they pro posed, they . were in the habit of submitting to whatever the Opposition might dictate, and of still continuing to be in appearance the Government, though ceasing so to be in reality." The Herald makes the following observations suggested by the income tax :—" To apply the principles of equal justice to the ease so strongly, and, we will add, so un fairly drawn, a graduated scale is the only expedient ; under that process the small fundholder' would con tribute from his poverty in a ratio conformable to the large profits' of the largetnanufacturer.' We do not advocate, and we know no Conservative who does, that the entire amount of the deficiency should be levied on dormant capital ; but we do protest against any taxation of the business of production, at a time when industry is oppressed with innumerable difficulties, to such an ex tent as will repress production ; and we confidently assert that to levy three per cent. on income derived frOm re tail trade and struggling profession, will bo to afflict in dustry in the middling classes with a one-sided paralytic stroke." We quote the following from the Advertiser :—" Sir Robert Peel's justifimtion of tht resolution he has coma to of maintaining unimpaired the principle of an equal rate of taxation upon every species of income, whether for life, or in perpetuity— whether fixed or variable— whether certain or precarious —must have. been felt by all who listened to it, as a most lame and impotent affair. He did not pretend-L-adept as he is in plausibi lity, and skilled as he is in sophistry—he did not pretend to argue that the principle of his income tax is a just principle. He evidently felt it to,be otherwise ; but he felt, also, the trammels in which the landed interest hold him, and lacking the courage to be just, lest he should incur the hostility of these marauders upon the public interests, he descends to the miserable expedient of trying to sustain a great measure by a piece of special pleading that would disgrace a third-rate practitioner at quarter sessions." LAW AND POLICE. At the Lewes Assizes, on Wednesday, John Pockney, Charles Briggs, and Stephen Steadman, all young men, were tried for what has been called the " Ringmer mur der." The Grand Jury ignored the indictment for murder, and the prisoners were therefore tried for steal ing some articles of little value from a woman whom they had abused, and who was afterwards found drowned in a pond near the spot to which they had enticed her. The occurrence took place four years ago-. Pockney and Steadman were found guilty; the first was sentenced to two years, aid the other to eighteen months' hard labour. Sophia King, the milliner's apprentice, convicted at Cambridge on Monflay, of stealing a Post-office packet, containing property of the value of 7801., was sentenced on Wednesday to be imprisoned for eighteen months. At the Surrey Sessions, on Thursday, Mary Lee, aged 21, a girl of the town, was convicted of stealing from the person of Daniel Good, on the 17th inst., 728 i. 175., and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months. Mary Bromley, a girl of the same stamp, was convicted of stealing a watch-chain and seals from a man of the name' of I3urley, near St. Thomas's Hospital, and sen tenced to be banished for seven years. On Tuesday the five men charged with the late bank robbery at Manchester, two of whom were arrested in rondon some time ago, were, after a lengthened exami nation, committed for trial at the assizes, At Guildhall on Thursday, Richard Bates, formerly a draper at Wakefield, was committed to take his trial for endeavouring to extort 101. from Mr. Carlin, a tobacco nist on Ludgate-hill, by threatening to make a charge of an infamous nature against him. From the return made to the House of Commons, the amount of fees received by the Clerk of the Affidavits in the Court of Chancery for the past year, has been 4,8361. 12s. 10d. ; and the number of affidavits for which these fees were received 15,561. PINI3 A - 1 TS. The state carriage of the Prince Charles of Bavaria, intended for the occasion of his marriage with the daughter of the King of Prussia, is to be seen at the show-room of M essrs. Pearce i n Long-acre, b y w h o m i t has been built. Its appointments are highly costly; the iron-work is plated with silver : the different ornaments of solid silver, in some cases intermixed or gold. Bet ween 30 1 . and 401. was pa id f or the painting alone. s moked with LITERARY AND SCIENTIrI C. The alluvial accretions on the shores of Vendee and ,he ancient Poiton proceed to so great an extent that the spot were an English 64 gun-ship was rvrec re o kod f in the middle of the last century is now the .-cent 1 field of corn. SPORTING. ad The Queen's hounds had a gallant r un on 'Wednesday r betwee.n 400 after the stag Hampton. There were .. 500 in the field, many of whom were a the Court elite. COUILT-r&SIE/0N.933105. The 20th of the ensuing month has been fixed :by th Lady Patronesses for the opening of Abnack's. n,,/ The Marquis and Marchioness o f Sligo hav e hel',,,,:icif tamed at Bilton hotel, Dublin, on thei r lelty from " ,:alt port-house, Mayo. The Earl of Mansfield leaves Scone PalaAv for l a ham House, on the 14th of next mont h. 3.1et 4 The Earl and Countess Grosvenor -vill rem a i n at combe park, until the return of the fam il y to lowa. h.O. Lord Lovaine left town on Thursday for D er7 Y - Bucks. • lei , Lord Newport is rapidly recovering from his • • severe fit of illness. IVIXEICELLANZO TIO. • A dal The day, emphatically called Good Friday, 15 l l t of solemn fast. Our -Saxon forefathers denominat%( 4i Long Friday, from the length of the offices and fa i t: t f, i3 very anciently it was called Holy Friday Als2 4 1 0 - day, in 1688, London Charity Schools were " r " stituted. The reports read at the meeting of the friends often Licensed Victuallers' School, on Thursday, at t he I d° I in Tavern, stated that from the foundation of the se looo._ect 1806, nearly 1,000 children had been educated a nd el T ar. in it. Twenty had been admitted during the Pt year. The subscribers had, however, decreased during t l4 ' '1 year by 700. The RefOrmers of Marylebone, and- parish:l:Toil s y °t St. Mary, Newington, both held meetings ee l , x wei r night, when resoftttions against the income ` n .- -. '' unanimously passed. k It I° : The funeral of the Marquis of Hertford t °° , ;s r is Friday in the vault of Arrow church, whi e " ; ,; - „ of the immediate vicinity of Bagley Hall, the rolt ns t :; on l' e family, situated' about two miles from Ale es--I. ' i . Cheltenham road. , r a , d , a v m ill e quTiatgtlhioanti,citayccaotrEdiansgtert,o xe — n gi4e* 4 .; r sbu P let A te l to ft o her 0 . :f ments in London and Naples. , i RUMOURS. There is a very current rumour in Dublin, °f o il rth; jected alliance between the Marquis of Waterfor' amiable and lovely daughter of a Scottish Peer. • AMERICAN NEWS. TA; ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP, At' il ', l3 LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING, 6 0 : - r, The splendid steam-boat Acadia, wn' e j par here on the 19th ult., with the mails 1 . 01 f the sengers, . for Halifax and Boston, in Pl ace :fie° Caledonia, arrived again this morningffill svoyage of twelve and a half days, 114011,—,,a0 to or thirty-three and a half days on the la Halifax and back again. .boo It had been arranged - that the lirnieO fil , e carry the mailS to England, and i s ' l on hey been prepared for sea, and state ( ' • voyage, but before she had bee 1,, ivitil hours at sea, she fortunately fell i l t < the Acadia, and they returned to [la': ;liar company. Although the arrival at 11 3/11.3 c ,10 01 pened at mid-night, the sound of their - , t elow brought down to the Wharfs, and as tile{-, Wit ers passed, the news of Caledonia saft land; was received with the most CO l 'h, O . ; cheers. The Acadia took out more KO' month's later news to both- Ca.nsdat,., sitir Scotia, and the United States. She "o'hett; on plied with coals, &c. and left HalifaX turir voyage, oil the 12th, with 12 passeilge:,ose' thus experienced stormy weather all the 7froll: We do not receive by her any later PaP e n i str; New York than these brought by tile Her dates from Boston tiJe the 2nd, and lcdfjs6 Halifax papers to the 12th inclusive, they 44, however, contain any news of importance44,l2; chiefly filled with the English news br°,,,llet!,"( the Acadia, the details of whici2 the opening of Parliament, the intry O",li—K Sir ißobert Peel's Corn-law Bill the. Christening, &c. INCONIE TAX. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONP'. II OO O Thursday evening a numerous annual gen. er , ll ,..tiollr e t of the Borough of Marylebone Reform Rego",-0.0'7, 1 4 sociation took place, at their rooms, in Wa rr , e ilerd Fitzroy-square, for the purpose of receiving t' le ciO 4 ; i t of the Managing Committee for the past e President, Vice-President, and other officers O r ensuing, &c. JOSEPH IVIMEY, Esq., in the absence of.Pbooll 'eP"eitlto shave, Esq., the President, took the chair. I,„,tlfoto.co peculiar satisfaction he had to state that the P o ciot l o of Marylebone had determined that that A sa , clo r , should be maintained in all its usefulness t°ll.ecej which,. although generally speaking, had 13 '„ipto c i, t l e • cast by the cloud of corruption, still proud'," u'i tv m Y t o its highs position in Marylebone. Of the neces -i pbg d ,e form Associations all over the kingdom there, c° , op ; ( 1, doubt, more particularly when they saw, day bye arm', increasing boldness of a Tory Government, w ' 1 0! , " I ) amongst other things, to attempt to renew thg t quitous and inquisitorial measure, a n i nco me ta x '" fr e It was time for the country to shake off their it was plain the corrupt majority of the Pre se° , s s, th lt of Commons were so emboldened by their su c , c- b i sd' t be they were prepared to carry anything, hewe i ve ; t i it Was laughable to hear the statements put 1.° ;,, l of;S e i; Marylebone Tory Association, as to the ea ug b - e css7ol defeat at the late election. One cause was' t het";pg was wet weather.—(Laughter.) Another, thattlsool:), bad canvessers.—(Renewed laughter.) Nno: it i ,',oo t er this, they made a boast that since its establts: rebeo Tory Registration Association had put en , th 473 claims, and had sustained 3,023 okleetl(Tthat, ti liberal voters ; and, strange to say, with B . l ' 1, 30' s Reformers beat them by a majority of :led c/qi• (Hear, hear.) With regard to their amou rs '' t igul)' l A 0 ; it was exceedingly laughable, for that (the l ie at the, sociation established nearly half that numb er II G registration alone.—(Hear.) o'bi' Mr. ALLEN, the Secretary, - read the Eer r '!„ t y Ono great length showed the operations of the Soei';,- 3 o f jg the past year, and congratulated the Ref° rlll : Borough on the determination to maintain it' ll out its useful operations. tlie„ to Mr. BARTLETT, in moving the adoption -teyoros port, observed that, of all the disgrac e ful. 114 destroy liberty, the imposition of the inan;tPeg) the worst. It was a tax upon industry, andr,l s ,4 fore, tend to clog the wheel of exertion.-- -Lu f fi . Its effect upon the small tradesman would "?C that faith and credit which now alone prOelfpi "" ro l dreds of honest and industrious men from poverty and destitution.—(Hear, hear.) f",,'";i ° ,,,,,"6 1 strenuous exertion to resist the imposition of l 1Q measure ; and not only ought. associations {O ell in every district, but every county, city, anew „i ,to the kingdom, without regard to politics, 40 °l e - s t• upon their representative either to give his li y q the scheme of an income tax, or at once resi% ] :. This would be the best way to settle the que sti o hict` Mr, B. H. SMART seconded the resolution/ .„ 1 o pe adopted unanimously with acclamation. . 1 ,10 t O 'the CHAIRMAN observed that there couldlig opinion throughout the country upon al' i nc!7 'fe ell At • ti t fry" proposed by Sir Robert Peel. As a proof of iti Marylebone, he held in his hand several JeLtr, cnfluentialmembers of that Association, the whow.w.e. ondemned in strong terms that obnoxious rd e c T: e pli f or Mr. HILL observed that the country was t p tit r d debted to. the minority,, who had in so excel- I ,IA io tof defeated the indecent attempt of Sir Robert - 1 - L rl co liw l ei his financial se:ieme through the Noose gi te cool without the slightest opinion on the part of t f itt , being given. Several other gentlemen addressed the fietter resolutions, condemnatory of the conduct.'ATi g o . 17 ' 0 4" ment in proposing an i ncome tax, when y oloP oe ff modes psesented themselves, were u nanimOtiiiio.oi' On the motion of Mr. Smart, seconded )?Y'; ( l4P - f og John Bagshaw, Esq., was unanimously re-el(,keect.4lo,ol dent for the ensuing year • and the other oti l c hoir"' also been appointed, thanks ' were voted to Ole and the meeiing separated. t he ST. MARY, NEWINGTON. of ; - h e Thursday, at six o'clock. a numerous taentg ia parishioners of St. Mary, Newington, wa s i n el l Vestry-room of the :parish church, and w'iLit'l,tittsf jo h urned to the Boys' School-room, Newingtonrete, r th© purpose . of " taking into consideration -the viol pl q ef iz att e li s te t iio lo tny i s i ,s oftaxation involved in the financial FT : - ,10 !if thereonlinister a s s , and to be a d d e o c p .m t such e ex. r p e e s di ° ep ,,`l or, : v i ; W. Chamberlain, junior churchwarden, in the . . ftbet Mr.- GEYDE moved a resolution, to the e ar t* 'oe the vestry admitt e d th e ex istence of financial eln,recco.he and ft; expenditure, and expressed great satisfaeqPri „,;, prospect of any alteration in the cOmmerciaLlt% sciTs would cheerfully submit to the iinpositiOn of 5 1;0 13 ,, t 5 t tional taxes, to be equally and justly levied , "!ht i t et '',4 - ; required to supply any temporary deficient the' joccwo nevertheless the vestry was of opinion that th e • m ist an tp tax now Before Parliament was a most uni :ae d 1/Y A g , pressive tax, and was not demanded or jast' oo. ' , t , Pro exigencies of the country ; that in the delib e .,„ 4 . o ' -- rte", iR ment of this vestry an income tax' should be '` .. l //10' r only in the extremity of a formidable war, an t d disti P ie such an event there should be a clear and bro n fo ci v, t; tion between the amount to be levied upon in c h ° , ft° rived from property, and incomes which are of enterprise, skill, and industry." ts is Mr. J. GUYER, seconded the resolution. , t ba Mr. SHAWL: moved an amendment, imPlYin° to income tax would be beneficial i f it was made t° the rich and higher classes of the country. , c Messrs. Brown, Wakefield, Sz-c., addressea owe° when, on the resolution being pu t, with the aloe the former was carried almost unanimously. 'etiti'pe Mr. IRELAND then moved a re s o lution, that 4 1 :1, to ld founded on the previous r e s ol ut ion, be PrePlll6(.teft;) pre sented to the House of Lords, prayi n g them t° their sanction to the proposed income tax, jan, sl , ll ,cl the Speaker of the House of Commons lad dec°l4.-1 taby petitions could not be received in opposition ta':,ed and, in the hope that their example may be tb" c ritil ti fe , other c onstituencies, they request their repre se ; oil of the county and borough to give their strennau salon to the proposed income4ax. -- lc' a• ; 0 The resolution, being seconded, Was also 401 - „ e c titr The vestry broke 'LP , when the resolution - alai 1 . were ordered to be advertised in various pap e .. Arty, It is stilted that not less than 46-fishermen 01 near St. alery-sur-Somme lost their , live: i n the sta r V 11th inst. R tak 13 In t h a , O i preA4mri tc„' ' 4 l ht o •)tr , 4 i ‘ •.1 S . Ivh; • 1 wt * itt 6 (1 ti t 1 ~~ 1 ~', •.h' to 5~ o. 114, ]