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Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. lice, hem Ten till Fear, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book _seller, 167, New Bond-street. - - A.4 ) - ' . ',....# - 41 4$ ... 7& 4.....4 -...' ' •' 110 . 4 el' • 1 0 . D p 7 101 .0. , , ~..,,, 4 .• 1 ~. (,; ; ' , . - 1 . 4 ,,..., I, 4141 , h, •ETm 0 S .1 i • '''' '..".. 4P„N:t--.)...'"' ' -'4l. li : ''''' r . '' . ' . 5' ' ' ' ~ ~\ LONDON! FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1842. It is evident, from Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech, on Wednesday, and from the proceedings of the House of Commons, that he derives much countenance and support from the indiscreet friends of free trade and reduced taxation. When he wanted a witness to the excellence of his tariff, he called forward Dr. BowßlNG—when he required a certificate of honesty and boldness, he referred to Mr. ROEBUCK. If he wished to heap coals of fire on the heads of our spirited friends, Mr. COBDEN and Mr. DoNcomnE, he had only to quote the words and the 'example of Mr. VERNON SMITH and Lord HOWICK. In justice to the cause we espouse, and to the honest men by whom it was defended, we feel bound to animadvert on the conduct of those who seem to us, undesignedly we hope, to have betrayed it. We have in general a great respect for Lord HOWIcK, because we believe him to be honest, and we know him to be industrious. It is notorious, however, that the Noble Lord is self-willed and narrow-minded, and both these unamiable characteristics were exhibited in his con demnation of the noble minority for the determination to resist Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme to the utmost. If a mainority is not to exert its power to stop a noxious pro pet why was it bestowed on them ? That a more un calLtd tor and mischievous scheme than the income tax was es ,sr submitted to Parliament, or ever attempted to be carried through by more unwarrantable means we do not believe. It is precisely such a case as justifies those who object to it in using the forms of the House to delay and defeat it. If Lord Howler( did not take this view of it he might have been contented to vote with the Tories, but he denounced those who did, and threatened them with the confiscation of the privilege of the House, because they were abusing it. His Lord ship thinks more of men in office than of the public Jiberties, and is ready to sacrifice the bulwarks of the Constitution to the convenience of statesmen. Let us imply to Lord HoWICK'S threat that the Honse of Com mons would find it necessary to take away the privilege of' a minority, as it had put an end to 'speaking on petitions, by saying that whenever the House of Com snons shall carry it into execution, it will become a mere tax-imposing tool of a despicable oligarchy, and will soon thereafter be laid aside by the people as a public nuisance. Tho electors of Sunderland, who are not favourable to an income tax, and to a tax on coals, ! s hould give Lord HowicK a hint of their opinions. As to Mr. VERNON SNITH, though he held some subordinate office in the Whig Administration, his words never carried any weight, and we shall not make ibis folly of importance, by deeming it worthy of a com ment. If the electors of Northampton wish for a hol low and insincere opposition to the income tax, they should praise Mr. V. SInITII for censuring the minority. Mr. ROEBUCK takes, we have no doubt sincerely, a very different view from ours, when he describes Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme as straightforward and honest. Sir ROBERT showed how much he needed such a commendation by the frequency and em phasis with which he quoted it. The tariff is a part of Sir R. PEEL'S scheme, and that is so straight forward and honest that the Right Hon. Baronet him self gives different accounts on different days of its pro bable effects. As a whole the scheme is a despotic at tempt to enable a large Tory majority, to whom Sir R. YELL is a necessity, to fix a new and onerous tax on the lyeople. Its honesty is something like that of a bold bandit, who can plunder in safety. It is about on a par with the honesty of BONAPARTE, when, from a love of power; he incorporated Holland with France, or placid his brother on the throne of Spain. As we conceive Mr. ,RoEßucK's praise to he unjust, we must insist, that for the interest of the free trade party, it was very ill timed. We agree in the main with him, that direct taxation is right in principle, and if Sir R. PEEL had proposed to substitute a comprehensive and equitable direct tax, for .other taxes, setting trade free, he would have expe rienced no opposition from us ; but he proposes to in fiict an income tax on us, in addition to all the other taxes which now crush the people. As Mr. T. DUNCOMBE justly said, he meant to console the working classes, whom he would not relieve, by reducing the middle . classes to their level. That design, cunningly carried obt, has charms for Mr. ROEBUCK. He even became, in his admiration of Sir ROBERT FEEL'S boldness, the defender of an inquisition by the State into every man's private affairs. That between men who deal one with another—that between bankers and their clients, between the wholesale and the retail dealer, be tween the merchant and the broker—there should be a correct knowledge of each parties' circumstances is highly desirable ; that no man should assume any false appear ance of wealth, to cozen other men is to be wished ; but, between the vigilances of individuals watching over the conduct of one another, which is indispensable in all the transactions of life, and is the basis of all correct confi dence, and the en forced prying of tax-gatherers, dragging into public day all that men seek to conceal, often making a temporary misfortune an irre deemable ruin, there is all the difference which exists between the inevitable course of nature, and great calamity inflicted on us by the self-will or the ambitions of our fellow creatures. Men may be unable to stop or guide the mountain torrent which desolates their fields, and carries off their grain and their flocks, but that is a poor reason for breaking down a dam, and turning such a torrent over their land. For it Radical, on any pretext of the advantage of publicity, to defend the prying inquisition of the State into private concerns, adds to our conviction that no man is to be trusted to regulate or control the public liberties when• ever he is the victim of a theory. Mr. ROEBUCK acted consistently with his speech, and his name is not to be found in the minority. He is so delighted, apparently, with Sir ROBERT PEEL'S bold'plan, that he did not vote to delay and defeat it. It must have been highly gratifying to Dr. BOWRING to hoar Sir R. PEEL quote him as " a great authority," as Sir ROBERT never, that we recollect, thought the Doctor's words of any weight before. But we trust he will have to set off against the tickling delight of Sir R. PEEL'S flattery the rough expostulation of the men of Bolton. Dr. BOWRING, let us say at once, properly voted against Sir R. PEEL, and in so far served our cause better than 11r. Rommel: ; but he was not called on to praise the tariff. In one report Dr. BOWRING is made to say that it was a great improvement, because it allowed butter and cheese to come in at reduced duty ; but in the version of that imperfect and erroneous docu ment which we have consulted, the duties on butter and cheese, except when imported from our own colonies, remain unaltered. The tariff, considering that Sir ROBERT PEEL esta blishes, for the first time, a long string of differential duties—doing what he can, therefore, to discourage trade between England and other ce..ntries, in order to secure a colonial trade, which, were he not to meddle with it, would naturally, like the trade between Ireland and England, be - conducted on the most advantageous terms possible for both countries—is really a disgrace to the statemanship of the age. It runs counter, with ~, some trifling exceptions, to all principle, and though we might have pardoned Sir ROBERT PEEL for not meddling with the tariff we cannot pardon him for meddling with it to re -enact and extend in the year 1842, a series of restrictions, which all sound principles cond-man. Dr. BOWRING'S praise• of Sir R. PEEL'S tariff was unwarranted, but that Sir R. PEEL prised it as a ♦oucher is evident by the emphasis with which he quoted it. _ We make these remarks with no hostility to the gen tlemen named, but to show them and the public how necessary it is to be on our guard against the plausible and wily man who has undertaken to conduct the affairs of this great empire on the abominable principle of making and allowing one class to plunder another by means of legislation. It is contrary to the manners of the age to use violence and practise torture. No man need now be apprehensive in England of being placed on a fire to be roasted, in order to compel him to give up his wealth. The living representatives of the ancient Barons have fallen on a much more quiet and much less revolting means to attain a similar end. They make a Corn-law ; they impose an income tax, and the dread or the love of the law serves exactly the same purpose as the gridiron and the fire served RICHARD and his Paladins. They act by cunning, not violence ; and we complain of Dr. BOWRING and Mr. ROEBUCK, that they, being appointed guardians of the people, do not see through this cunning, and encourage its present prime agent, by praising his schemes as bold and honest, and their probable results as of public advantage. It is generally said that each person should contribute to the State in proportion as he derives advantage from it. The Tories adopt this principle, and conclude, therefore, that every man who has an income of 150 L a-year should pay a per centage of his income to the State. But if an income tax is to be levied on this principle, it becomes necessary to inquire whether the incomes of all classes are equally derived from and equally protected by the State. It is clearly not just on this principle to take the same amount of income from those classes who are en riched by the State, and from those who know little or nothing of the State but through the tax-gatherer. The State, for example,, by that law which, as Lord STANLEY has avowed, keeps up the price of corn ; in creases the farmer's receipts and the landlord's rents ; but it diminishes by so much the income of the merchant and the manufacturer ; and the State, therefore, by not equally protecting the incomes of these classes has not a just claim to an equal share of each. Again the State performs the same office for the tithe-owner as for the land-owner ; and not only levies for behoof of the tithe-owner, the whole tax of tithe on the people, but en hances its amount by the Corn-law. Surely it will not be said that an income of 2001. a year reduced by the taxes of the State from 250 L, to bestow that 50/. on the tithe-owner should pay an equal tax to an income of 2001. derived exclusively from the action of the State ? Mr. ROEBUCK alluded very feelingly on Wednesday evening to those incomes, professional and others, which are created, as it were, by a man's talents and mental energies ; but of these shall the artist, who is indebted to the State for no species of monopoly, pay the same amount as the lawyer, who is protected by the State in the possession of a rigid monopoly of all the busi ness of the Courts It is not by their own power, but by that of the State, that Inns of Court are enabled despotically to exclude a HARVEY and a WOOLER from their privileges, and that their members enjoy a monopoly of all the emoluments to be obtained from practising the law ? Should it be said that artists have been patronised and fostered by the State ; that it purchases pictures and establishes galleries for the cultivation of \art, let us ask what benefit the State confers on newspaper proprietors and editors ? What portion of their income is derived from the action of the State ? It takes away their property by a stamp, and curses them with an incomprehensible libel law, which places them at the mercy of every rascally at torney. It does not give them a single farthing, either directly or indirectly, as it gives an income to the tithe owner, an increase of income to the land-owner, and a monopoly of a certain aggregate income to the members of the Inns of Courts. Some few manufacturers, not many, may derive a por tion of their incomes from a protection accorded to their production, but the bulk of the manufacturers, all the merchants, and all the shopkeepers, on whom the inqui sitorial powers of the income tax will exclusively fall, create all their incomes ,by their own labour, and their own exertions, and derive not one farthing from the action of the State. The same fact holds good of the bulk of the working classes ; they contribute largely already to the taxes ; they maintain the servants of the State ; they pay the tax levied for behoof of the priest and the landlord ; but they derive no income whatever from the acts of the State, and ought not, therefore, on the prin ciple we set out by quoting, to be called upon to pay as large proportion of their income to the State, as those whose incomes aro wholly or chiefly derived from its operations. If it be said that the State protects the merchant, the manufacturer, the shopkeeper, and the newspaper pro prietor, in the enjoyment of those incomes they create by their own industry, let it be noted that it equally extends that protection to those incomes which it creates by law as to those which are crented by industry. There are not a few incongruities about an income tax, but none appear to us more glaring than those which result from adopting the principle that each should contribute to the State in proportion to the advantages it confers on him, and from considering the sources of the incomes of different classes. DR. REID'S LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY. Dr. Reid, aware of the technicalities which, in chemistry more than any other science, perplex in limine, announced at his third lecture at Exeter Hall, that he should fix a time and place in the fol lowing week, where and when those students who were willing, might hear explained from him in private the initiatory cabbala of the science, so as to comprehend without lack of lucidity, the superstructural portion of his lectures. Some general observations relative to various good study-books and manuals proper for the young chemist, preceded the learned lecturer's continuation of his remarks upon gases. His former exemplification of their pressure upon substances, and the delicate adjustment of their particles, was followed up by remarks upon the mo • tions of those invisible atoms, and an experi ment, in which a tier of candles, placed within a glass receiver, had their lights consecutively extinguished, demonstrated the circular motion going on among the, particles of gas, when put into movement by a disturbing cause ; a similar effect to which, he ob served, was proceeding in the atmosphere around us, in which ten thousand different currents of air were perpetually in rotation. Another quality of gaseous substances was their power of diffusion, or of pene trating each other, and so amalgamating ; but in the same manner that gases possessed this diffusive property, solids and fluids, on the other hand, condensed gases, which was exemplified by the illustr a ti on o f a b a ll o f platinum, capable of condensing two hundred times its own power of oxygen. From this cause arose cases of spor aneous combustion, in which porous bodies, condensing in themselves vast quantities of I gas, were afterwards acted on by the air, whereby sudden ignition ensued. Dr. Reid next proceeded to the subject of atmospheric air; he explained, for the sake of simplicity and clearness its component parts, and then presented to view four simple and compounded gases, two of which were. the primitive oxygen and hydrogen, and the third the " into x ic a ti ng gas ," dis covered by Sir Humphrey Davy, containing one part of oxygen and one of nitrogen. This gas, on being placed in a glass receiver, and brought into contact with atmospheric air, assumed the appearance of a ruddy compound, completely colouring the sides of the glass. Dr. Reid explained the nature of its action upon the human frame to be that of producing exces sive muscular strength in some, while on others it acted with a stunning shock, causing them appar ently to drop dead. A fourth gas was exhibited, which had for its component parts one of oxygen and two of nitrogen. To show the various operations of the air upon inflammable substance, the duration of different flames in the same atmosphere furnished a curious test. In a box containing twenty cubic feet of air, a common candle, after burning two minutes, was completely quenched ; oil in three minutes ; gas, from five to nine; while the lecturer himself was forced to quit it after an expiration of seventeen minutes. This circumstance, as connected with the theory of respiration. Dr. Reid promised to enter into at his succeeding lecture. A correspondent writes from Sartene, in Corsica, on the 6th inst. :—" Our list of crimes for the last month is more frightful than ever. It contains three murders, two attempts at assassination, and a night robbery by three armed men in a mill, which they plundered com pletely, destroying what they did not take away. The bandits Giacomo and Santa Lucia continue their barba rous exploits. They lately posted a placard on the door of the church at Carbina threatening death to a keeper of the forest of Levie, and under the same penalty com manded E. Peratti, the curate of Altagene, to withdraw from the parish, which he did immediately, and nearly a month has passed without any performance of divine service. These bandits are also believed to have been the murderers of a man named Peroni, who was one of the witnessess against them at the Court of Assizes. They are said to carry about them a memorandum-book in which is inscribed the 'names of all those witnesses, and happy will they be who escape the vengeance de nounced against them. Should any one of their credi tors be importunate ho is immediately killed, and the leaf of the book in which their account is entered is torn out and destroyed*' ? ' ,• , THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1842 COURT CIRCULAR Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. On Monday and Tuesday, the Royal Minor alms were distributed to upwards of 800 persons above the age of 60 years, who received five shillings each. The Royal Gate Charity, of thirteen shillings each, was also distributed to 168 persons, many of whom are very aged, and have declined from a prosperous condition in life, to distress and affliction. These distributions were made under the orders of the Archbishop of York as Lord High Almoner to her Majesty, by Mr. Hanby, his Grace's Secretary. KOOM KALI, ONE OF THE CASTLES ON THE ASIATIC SIDE OF THE HELLESPONT. We had some difficulty in prevailing on the old chief to let us see the interior of the castle; he, however, at last acceded to our importunities, and deputed the com mandant of artillery, our drunken friend of the preceding evening, to conduct us thither. The garrison consists of about a hundred men, having little to boast of in point of military appearance—being mere boys, small in size, of a slouching gait, and apparently extremely ill at ease in the Frankish dress and accoutrements: the former con sists of the fez, drawn in a most unsoldierlike fashion over the ears, a dark blue shell jacket with red facings, white linen trowsers, and half boots ; their arms and appointments are in a wretched state, and the sentry at the portcullis was carelessly lounging up and down with a rusty firelock, which could not even boast of either flint or bayonet. The fort of Koom Kali is an oblong, walled in to about two hundred and ninety yards in length, by one hundred and ninety yards in breadth. It con tains a dense mass of closely-wedged wooden buildings, separated by streets, whose breadth does not exceed four or five feet, a couple of mosques, and the barracks imme diately in rear of the principal battery facing the Darda nelles, and raised about four feet above the level of the water. This is mounted with eighteen large brass guns, about twenty:feet in length, and carrying enormous stone shot. They were embeddtd in the masonry of the building, but preparations were even then making to put them into a more efficient state, a vessel having ar rived from Constantinople with a cargo of timber car riages, on which they were being mounted. Besides the principal battery, a flank face with four guns com mands the entrance of the Straits, and wall-pieces are placed on the projecting turrets towards the land side. "By the time we had inspected the interior of the fort, as the day was advancing, we took a friendly leave of its worthy commandant, and, with the promise of paying him shortly another visit, mounted our steeds and took our departure, highly pleased with the first specimen we had of Turkish manners.—Northern Excursions. CORONER'S INQUEST. Last evening an inquest was held at the sign of the Crown public-house, in St. Dunstares-hill, Lower Thames -street, be fore Wm. Payne, Esq., on the body of Mr. Henry Lephard, aged 26 years, late of No. 7, Cross-lane, Saint Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate, manufacturer of and dealer in tobacco. Edward Funnell, constable No. 594, stated that about eight o'clock on Monday morning last witness was fetched from the station-house by a man, who said a gentleman had cut his throat at No. 7, in Cross-lane. On proceeding there and forcing open the door of a room on the third floor, which was locked on the inside, the deceased was found lying on the floor with his throat cut. A great quantity of blood had flowed from the wound, and in a table drawer in the room was a razor in a very bloody state. The deceased wcs sensible, and looked at witness as he entered the room. Witness remained with him during the day, and in answering a written question put to him, he wrote that he was induced t• destroy himself from a sense of his being inadequate to the discharge of the or dinary duties of life, arising from nervous deafness and an affects, n of the head, combined with his anxiety about business; and in answer to an inquiry whether he had contemplated the act, he stated that it had occurred to him, but that he hid always been able to overcome it until the present instance. Mr. George Mayberry, of No. 7, Little Tower-street, Sur geon, stated that he was called to attend the deceased, and found him with a cut in his throat, five inches in length, and three in depth. Witness continued to attend him to his death, which took place on Wednesday morning. From other evidence it appeared that the deceased had entered into business within the last three weeks in partnership with a gentleman named Porter. He was unmarried, and was most highly respected by his relations and friends for his in tegrity and amiableness of temper. He was, however, not of strong mind, and incapable of taking upon himself the manage.. went of an extensive business. He was generally very lc w and desponding. His prospects in life were ♦ery good. Verdict--Insanity. COMMON COUNCIL. —Yesterday Mr. Laurie was elected a Common Pleader in the room of Mr. Bullock, appointed a Judge in the Sheriff's Court, the number for Mr. Lau rie being 102, and for his opponent, Mr. Locke, 75. Mr. R. Taylor withdrew his motion respecting the supposed income tax, without giving any reason for this strange proceeding, and simply announced that he would repeat his motion on a future day. Possibly before that day arrives his motion may be of no use. The city of Lon don seems to be stamped by Tory politics, and we wish them joy of their propensities. Nine out of ten of the shopkeepers are opposed to the Corporation. ALARMING OCCURRENCE AT ST. GEORGE'S BAR RACKS, AND DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF ONE OP THE PRI VATE SOLDIERS TO COMMIT SHlClDE.—Yesterday forenoon great consternation and alarm was created in St. George's Bar racks, Charing-cross, by the following occurrence —One of the privates, named Wiiiiam Humphries, belonging to the 3d battalion of G rena di er G uar d s , no w s t a yi ng t h ere, suddenly showed sympt oms o f men t a l d era n g e m e n t, an d se i z i ng the op portunity of being left alone for a short time in th e room he u self f s f q ro u m art t e h re e d w in io ( d o o n te e u o r n mo th t e he fo flag fourth story), dust he without threw hurt_ t rai ings of the area. The distance he fell is about 47 feet. He was taken up i n a d rea df u ll y s h a tt ere d s tate, and conveyed to Charing-cro s s H os pit a l, b u t no t th e s li g h tes t h o p e i s entertain e d of his surviving. He is about 35 years of age, and has been several years in the regiment. A report was in circulation in the neighbourhood that Humphries had possessed himself of several of his comrade's muskets, which having loaded, he shut himself in his room, and refused to admit any one, or to leave it himself, and just previou s t o hi s throwing himself out of the window, he fi re d severa l s h ots t h roug h th e p ane l s of the roorn-deor, to the imminent danger of several persons, who were standing on the landing-place. However, on the reporter making inquiry at the Barracks on the subject, he was informed by the Sergeant-major of the Regiment, that there was no truth whatever in the rdmour, and that it had no doubt arisen from the fact of Humphries having been about a year or two ago similarly affected in his head, and that he then attempted to set fire to his room by setting fire to some cart ridges he had by some means got into his possession. - -----. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk this morning in the Slopes and the Home Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out in the forenoon in the Little Park, and again in a carriage in the afternoon, for an airing. Her Majesty rode out in a pony carriage and four, at tended by the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Sarah M ar y Cavendish. His Royal Highness Prince Albert accompanied her Majesty on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Buckley, and Mr. George Ed ward Anson. The Royal dinner party, this evening, at the Castle, will include only the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal Suite. MAUNDY THURSDAY.—Yesterday the customary dis tribution of her Majesty's Royal Maundy took place at Whitehall Chapel. There were present 23 'aged men, and 23 aged women, being the number of the years of age of her Majesty. The poor persons received ge Royal charity with much apparent thankfulness. Thy are above 70 years of age, some are upwards of 80. At two o'clock the recipients assem bl e d at Whitehall Chapel, and at three o'clock the usual procession walk d to the Chapel, consisting o f th e Y eomen o f t h e G uar d n their State costume, one of th e corps carry i ng a gold dish which has been use d on t h ese occasiols 1 since the reign of Queen Mary, and on this dish were deposited the alms to be distributed. There were six children in attendance, who had be n selmed for good conduct from the National School f Westminster, and the parish of St. George, Hanove - square. These children received as a reward a donee r of 65., and the linen sashes which they wore. The Very Rev. the Dean of Carlisle officiated as Sub- Almoner, attended by Joseph Hanby, Esq., Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry, and Officers of the Lord Chamberlain's department. There were in attendance the Rev. Dr. Sleath, the Rev. Dr. Vivian, Rev. Messrs. Packman and Haden. , The distributions were mad e b e t ween eac h o f the An thems—" Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy," "Oh Lord, grant the Queen long life," and Who is this that cometh from Edom," which were sung with striking effect by the Gentlemen and the Boys of the Chapel Royal. Mr J. B. Sale presided at the organ. The alms distributed consisted of 11. 15s. to each woman as an equivalent for clothing, and each man re ceived sufficient woollen and linen cloth, shoes, and stockings, to make him an entire suit. Both men and women received IL 10s. each, as an equivalent for provi ions formerly issued in kind. And a further sum of 11. and 23 ulver pennies, the latter being the number of the years of age of her Majesty. The Bishop of London held a confirmation of the ju venile Nobility and Gentry in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Countess Delawarr and the Ladies West, Lady Eliot, Lord Radstock, and Lord Prudhoe, were among the Nobility present. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager sent yesterday to make inquiay after the state of the Countess of Munster and the Family, and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence went to attend her Majesty at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess Gloucester also sent to in quire after her Ladyship and Lord Adolphus. Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yesterday to pay visits of condolence were the Duke of Brunswick, his Excellency M. Dedel, the Marquis of Headfort, Marquis of Clanricarde ; Earls—Jerrnyn, Wiltshire, and Jersey ; Countesses of Uxbridge an d Ch ar l ev ill e ; Lords—J. 0. Fitzroy, Saye and Sele, A. Lennox, Ingestre, Strafford, and G. Paget ; Ladies—E. and C. Paget, C. Somerset, A Lennox and Ingestre, Baron Bentinck ; Sirs Robert Fitz Wygram, E. Hyde East, J. Cockburn, J. Kempt, Gore Ouseley, R. King, and Charles Clarke ; Colonel M'Alpine ; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Twiss • Mr. C. Gre vine, Hon. Twisleton Fiennis, Colonel Bagot, Captain Sparshot, Colonel Spencer Stanhope, Mr. Maxse, Mr. Langford Brooke, Captain Percy, R.N., Major S. Clerke, Mr. Hawkins, Major-G enera l Keane, Colonel Yorke, Mr. Sackville Lane Fox, and Colonel J. Wyldman. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge paid a visit to Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence yesterday. Her Royal Higness the Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yesterday. Mr. Antrobus, M.P., and a deputation, had an inter view with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Earl of Elgin had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial -office. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon to join Lady Peel and family at Kemptown, Brighton. Mr. Crofts, accompanied by Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Acland, had an interview with Mr. Gladstone yesterday at the Board of Trade. Out-roll the words like bell-strokes, Sirs, Qminous strokes and strong, Such as belfries roll, Or tocsins toll, When a people groans in wrong:— Like sounds of seas, Or forests a-roar, On the broad-winged breeze Resistance pour:— Round the land let speed the terrible shout, Like the vestal fire that goeth not out:— Let it spread as the flames through fields of flax " DOWN WITH THE INCOME TAX." IL Brothers ! shall we—the self-same Men, Who scouted this Tax —this slave-badge—when The great Duke came from his battles bold And England's brows in his war-wreaths rolled Shallfre—who then like Gods elate, Had smiled to grant each need of State, So well were fears in victories calmed And hearts high-pulsed and triumph-charmed, Shall we—who then indignant sprung And forth our just repugnance flung— Who deemed this tax a wrong and crime In that so glorious—golden time— Now bend to it, like pliant wax ? Now fawu to it with bows and kneeling ? No—roll the words like bell-strokes pealing— " DOWN WITH THE INCOME TAX ! " LITERATURE. GISIPPUS. A Play. Maxwell, London, 1842. At the period when this play was written, Mr. Ge rald Griffin, the, author, had not completed his twen tieth year, which will account for those high-flown views of human nature in which he too often deals. Gisippus indeed, is littl e more th an a r h apso d y on Friendship —such a rhapsody as a youthful, fervid, and ingenuous mind would be most likely to indulge in. Pity that the progress of time and experience, instead of confirming, should only shove the utter fallacy of a young man's exalted notions of humanity ; and that the lofty and disinterested friendship which he once— judging by his own heart—believed to exist in the world, he should afterwards discover to be a mere phantom, conjured up by the imagination, and fading away before the strengthening daylight of reason ! Nevertheless, strained and improbable as are Mr. Griffin's ideas of the disinterestedness of human nature, as exemplified in the character and for tunes of his hero, Gisippus, we read his play with interest and even emotion, for there is no questioning the strong earnestness and sincerity that breathes through it. While cold, distrustful reason is compelled to enter her protest against the improba bility of the earlier scenes, wherein the young Gisippus is exhibited as a prodigy of disinterested and magnanimous friendship, the heart is still willing to be duped into the belief that they are true to life, for the delusion is at least a sunny and a cheering one. But while, we object to the principal character, and some of the incidents of our author's play, we have no fault to find with his language, which is uni formly nervous and unaffected, colloquial without being homely, and though in places a little too exu berant, perhaps, yet never wholly losing sight of good taste. We may add, that it is thickly bestrewed with the rich lights of a glowing, poetic fancy, and that if it has been studiously elaborated, Mr. Griffin has had the rare art in a great degree to conceal his art. Here, for instance, is a passage on the common-place theme of Love, which is handled, apparently, with great ease, though, we doubt not, it was wrought up with considerable care Aye—passion hath its change of seasons, sir. And 'twere as vain to hope eternal Summer, As an eternal faith.—This is with you The Spring of courtship—which calls up the flowers . The fairest lowers of Love—your blooming fancies-- Your fragrant love thoughts, murmu r i ng vows—and prayers But even as nature's spring—love's too must roll Away—and then comes your adored honeymoon Loves Summer of enjoyment —next his autumn Of lukewarm liking, verging to indifference. . The time of shrugs, and yawns, end absent thoughts. . And then his winter eomes—frosty and dry, Sharp, biting, bitter—cunning in cold tstunts— 'Making the evening hearth, so late a piradise, A place of harsh uneomfort.—Then, 0 Love How suddenly thy changeful votaries Find thy Elysium void I—from the pale poet, Who wooed the groves in song-lorn melancholy, To him the blustering terror of the field, Who sighed like Boreas and made love like war—, All, weary grown of the ignoble bondage, Look back with scorn upon the yoke they've spurned, And wonder how the silly toy had power To make them sin so palpably 'gainst wisdom." An ordinary sentiment, as regards female beauty is thus eloquently expressed Your eagle spirits are too grand for me ; Such forms may grace a painter's canvass well, • Grouped in a legend of the commonwealth, But by an evening fire are cold eompanions Woman was made for lore, and not for wonder ; Give me the pliant, soft, and human fair, But Heaven defend me from your soaring beauties !" As might be expected from the age at which Mr Griffin wrote his play, there are numerous impassioned allusions to woman, and the beneficent influence which it is ever in her power to exert over the ruder sex. We subjoin one or two of these passages Oh woman, what an empty boaster man is, When he would strive against your empire ! How, When he would soar at lonely excellence, Ye cling upon him with your potent weakness ! And when he is content to creep beside ye, In the (lull circle of material happiness, Ye fire him with a longing after greatness : He hath the strength of the huge ocean-wave, But you—you are the planet by whose influence It mounts or falls." The expression " potent weakness " in the above passage is very felicitous, conveying the exact idea that the author desired to convey, and in the aptest terms. A tamer and more methodical fancy would have shrunk from it, startled at the seeming paradox it implied ; but to weigh, and hesitate, and doubt, is not the way to succeed in poetry, any more than in love. "Faint heart," says the old adage, "never won fair lady ;" neither did it ever yet win the laurel crown. The sentiment expressed in the subjoined extract will remind the reader of a fine apostrophe to wedded loVe in one of the plays of Middleton : " How pure, how holy is the sacrifice That waits on virtuous Love! How sacred is The very levity we wake to honour it ! The fiery zeal that Passion knows, is there Tempered by mild esteem and holiest reverence Into a still, unwasting vestal flame That wanders nor decays. All soft affections, Calm hopes, and quiet blessings hover round, And soft Peace sheds her virtuous dews upon it." There is much force and vigour in the following de scription of a dull, heartless, tame, and lethargic nature, such a one as Voltaire has hit off so admirably in his sketch of Signor Pococurante, who fancied himself a philosopher, simply because he was limited of un derstanding, and callous of heart : " Gods! There are men upon this earth who seem So mixed and moulded with that earth —se like Mere dull, material engines —that for all The purposes for which man looks to man, It were as well a piece of curi ous mec h an i sm W Wr e al th k r ed ow in humanity's together a few and wore it s sem bl ance I " insulat e d lines that have pleased us, either by their sentiment, or by the grace and spirit of the expression : " As the mad promise of the wildest hope That ever killed content." " The gratitude that must be roused from slumber, Is never worth the waking." " Oh God ! The joy of hunting after Death, when life, Grown hopeless, goads us to the chase ! the rapture, Amid the roar of fight that shuts out thought, Of rushing to his blood red arms !" True, he had wronged me, and my pride was stung by it Alas, you know not, friend, how quietly And silently that same tall fabric, Pride, Is sapped and scattered by Adversity, E'en while we deem it still unmoved, unshaken !" p re o ad eti e c r al w c i h ll ar b a e e From the p assages w hi c h we have here given, th e which exhibits a a te b r l e o t f o G fo i s r i i p n p a u s N:ery fair estimat e o f th e pro mise not often witnessed in the productions of an au thor, not yet out of his teens. Mr. Griffin, we need scarcely add, was cut off in the very spring of hi s career, before the powers of his mind were fully deve loped, or he himself was aware of their extent. Had he lived, and not belied the promise of his boyhood, we might reasonably have expected from him some sterling work of imagination, such as the world would not willingly let die. PORTRAITS AND MEMOIRS OF EMI NENT REFORMERS. Part 1. Collins, London, 1842. A periodical work similar to the present was brought out some few years ago, but after several Numbers had appeared, was a b ruptly discontinued— we conclude, because it did not answer the e x p ec t at i ons o f its projectors. We trust the one before us will not share the same fate, for —judging from the present Part at least—it bids fair to be got up with great care and attention to details, so far as the biographical notices are concerned, , DOWN t IVITH THE INCOME TAX. " Piers, I have not been idle, I never ate the bread of indolence ; Could Alice be more thrifty than her mother? Yet, with but one child—and that one how good Thou knowest—l scarcely can provide the wants Of nature ; look at these wolves of the law, They come to drain me of my hard-earned wages. I have already paid the heavy tax Laid on the wool that clothes me—on my leather, And all the needful articles of life ! And now three groats (and I worked hard to earn them) The Parliament demands—and I must pay them, Forsooth, for libe r ty t o wear my head. " SOUTHEY'B Wat Tyler. Sir Robert Peel, by his imposition of the income tax, adopts the same regulations as were adopted in 1806, with some slight modifications, and which were found so intolerable in 1816, that the Government of the Torie, then crowned with glo r y b y t h e v i ctor i es o f Well i ngto b , and when the nation was intoxicated by success, was coc#- pelled by the remonstrances of an indignant people to give up the tax.—Daily Paper. nd indeed in e ver y respect to merit the patron age of all true Reformers. The portraits are three in number, viz. the Marquis of Westmin ster, Andrew White, Esq., late M.P. for Sun derland, and Henry George Ward, Esq., the pre sent Member for Sheffield. The last, which is a half-length, is an excellent likeness, and the memoir attached to it enters more into detail than such memoirs usually do. THE 111 ABLVOGION. Part IV. Longman, London, 1842. The present Part of this truly national collec tion of Welsh tales and legends, which chiefly refer to the fabled times of King Arthur, con tains entire the curious old story of Kilwch and Olwen, first in the original Welch, and secondly in the graceful English version of the editor, Lady Charlotte Guest. The tale is wall worth an attentive perusal, if only for the insight it affords us into the manners and customs of the ancient inhabitants of Wales. It is accompanied by a variety of useful, explanatory notes, and il lustrated with some neat engravings. WHAT TO TEACH. Srnith, London, 1842. The difficult and complicated subject of education is sensibly discussed in this essay, which is the first of a series, and is from the pen of a gentleman named Mayhew, who, alluding to the deficiencies of our system of instruction, says—" There are many pro fessed schools for the head, but none that I know for the heart. The classics, according to the popular opinion, are essential, morality is only incidental to education. The New Testament, it is true, is studied in many classical establishments, but studied for the Greek." The author is here in error. The New Testament is not " studied for the Greek," which is but indifferent, but for the fine moral principles it inculcates. A schoolmaster who should recommend its study, merely for the classical elegance and purity of its language, would show himself very ignorant of sterling Greek literature. Mr. Mayhew's chapter entitled "The Necessity for Teaching Moral Philoso phy" is reasoned judiciously and dispassionately, and is the best portion of his essay. CAKES ANDALE: - 2 Vols. How and Parsons, London, 1842. Under this quaint title, Mr. Douglas Jerrold has put forth two volumes of very agreeable tales in prose, wherein sentiment is mixed with humour, and strong worldly common sense with poetical flights of fancy, in a very relishing manner. There is one remarkable feature in all this gentleman's writings, for which he deserves high praise —we mean, his manly and fear less sincerity. lie gives no quarter to cant or hy pocrisy, however popular or fashionable ; but speaks the stern truth of the painted hags, and exposes them in their true light. his " Preacher-Parrot" is an instance in point ; it is a tale whose caustic sarcasm is well applied, and whose moral is unimpeachable. Mr. Jerrold's genius shows to great advantage in short, sententious stories of this sort, but when he attempts the more lengthy form of narrative, he is apt, apparently, to weary of his task, and, as a ne cessary consequence, to weary his readers. Through out his "Cakes and Ale" we have observed that the shorter the story, the more spirited it is, and the more pleasure it affords in the perusal. The volumes are embellished with several humorous designs from the pencil of George Cruikshank. FINE ARTS. SAFETY BEACON ON THE GOOD WIN SANDS. Colnaghi, London, 1842. For this admirable invention we are indebted to the enterprise and ingenuity of Captain Bul lock, R.N., whose experiment, remarkable for its simplicity, has already withstood the storms of two winters, one Of them the severest on re cord for a long period. As we gave a detailed account of the Beacon some days since in The Sun, we need not here repeat it; so shall just state that two engraved representations of it are now lying before us, one of which exhibits it at low water, with the mast rising forty feet high from the level of the Goodwin Sands, which are crowded with groups of people, and present a cheerful and even picturesque aspect. The other engrav ing represents the Beacon at high water, with a storm in the Channel, and the waves dashing with ineffectual fury around it. A large ship has struck, and is fast going to pieces on the fatal sands close by the safety mast; some of its crew have evidently just escaped from the wreck, and ma naged, by aid of the chain ladder, to reach the gallery in safety ; but one poor fellow, more ex hausted than his companions, is holding fast on to a floating spar, and stretching forth one hand, in order to grasp at the rope which his comrades are about to throw out to him from the gal lery. From the summit of the mast a light pole is thrown up, to the height, apparently, of twelve or fourteen feet,to which a blue flag is attached, by way of informing the pilots and boatmen on shore that their immediate assistance is necessary. The sketch is a highly interesting one, and im presses us with a vivid idea of the value and efficiency of Captain Bullock's experiment, who deserves the warmest thanks of his countrymen for the philanthropic spirit that suggested the con ception of the Safety Beacon, and the bold, un flinching perseverance, which, despite a thousand obstacles, has brought it to a successful termina tion. We think it far from unlikely that the Gal lant Officer's experiment will be the means of saving annually the lives of some two or three hundred beings. AMERICAN NAVY. The following is a list of vessels in the Navy of the United States, their rate, place where built, situation and stations. VESSELS OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Rate. When built. Ships of the Line. Gur.s. Pennsylvania, 120 1837 Receiving Ship at Norfolk. Franklin, 74 1615 New York. Washington, 74 1816 Ditto. Columbus, 74 1819 Receiving Ship at Boston. 5 Ohio, 74 1820 Boston. North Carolina, 74 1820 Receiving Ship at New York Delaware, 74 1820 Coast of Brazil. Alabama, 74 Portsmouth, New Hampshire Vermont, 74 Boston. 10 Virginia, 74 Ditto. New York, 74 Norfolk. Name. Where. Independence, (Razee) 54 1814 Home Squadron. __.— 1 Frigates, Ist Classs. United States, 44 1797 Pacifi c . Constitution, 44 1797 Norfolk. 15 Java, 44 1814 do. Potomac 44 1821 Coast of Brazil. Brandywine, 44 1825 Mediterranean. Hudson, 44 1826 New York. Columbia, 44. 1836 Home Squadron. 20 Congress, 44 1841 Portsmouth, N.H. Santee, 44 do. Cumberland, 44 Boston. Sabine, 44 New York. savannah, 44 do. 25 Raritan, 44 Philadelphia. St. Lawrence, 44 Norfolk. Frigates, 2d Class, Constellation, 36 1797 East Indies. Macedonian, 36 1836 West Indies. 2 Sloops of War, Ist Class. John Adams, 20 1820 Destined to Coast of Brazil. 30 Boston, 20 1825 East Indies. Vincennes, 20 1826 Exploring Expedition. Warren, 20 1826 West Indies. Falmouth, 20 1827 Home Squadron. Fairfield, 20 1828 Mediterranean. 35 Vandalia, 20 1828 Home Squadron. St. Louis, 20 1828 Pacific. Concord, 20 1828 Coast of Brazil. Cyane, 20 1837 Pacific. Levant, 20 1837 West Indies. 11 Sloops of War, 2d Class. 40 Ontario, 18 1813 New Orleans. Peacock, 18 1813 Exploring Expedition. 2 Sloops of War, 3d Class. Decatur, 16 1839 Coast of Brazil. Preble, 16 1839 Mediterranean. Yorktown, 16 1839 Pacific., 45 Marion, 16 1839 Coast of Brazil. Dale, 16 1839 Pacific. - 5 Brigs. New brig New York. Dolphin, 10 1836 Wome Squadron. Porpoise, 10 1836 Exploring Expedition. Pioneer, 1836 Baltimore. 50 Concert, 1836 Portland, Maine. Boxer, 10 1831 New York. 6 Schooners. Grampus, 10 1821 Home Squadron. Shark, 10 1821 Pacific. Enterprize, 10 1831 Coast of Brazil. 55 Experiment, 1831 Philadelphia. Flirt, Coast of Florida. Wave, '- Otsego, Phcenix, Flying Fish, Tender to Exploring Exp. Steamers. 60 Fulton, 4 1837 Atlantic Coast. Poinsett, Norfolk, Virginia. Mississippi, *lO 1841 Home Squadron. Missouri, *lO 1841 do. Store Ships. Relief, 65 Erie, Lexington, 6 1836 Pacific. 8 1813 Boston. 8 1825 Norfolk, Virginia. * Paixham guns. These vest,els, for the most part, carry more guns than their rate would lead the reader to suppose. The line of-battle ships, rated seventy-four, mount from eighty to one hundred and ten guns. The only three decker in the Navy, the I'ennysylvania, mounts 140 guns. The frigates of the first-class mount from fifty-four to sixty-four guns. The frigates of the second class mount forty-eight guns. The sloops-of war of the first-class mount, with two exceptions, twenty-four guns. The two exceptions are the Cyane and Levant. These vessels mount no more than the number they are rated. The sloops of the . ~.~ < _ .. second class mount twenty-two guns, and those of the third class mount the numt:3r of guns that they are rated. The brigs and schooners rated ten, mount from twelve to fourteen guns, and those marked with out any rate, mount from one to six. The two small steamers mount four guns, and the Missouri and Mississippi, each mount eight sixty-eight pounders on their quarter-decks, and two 120 pound ers forward, all Paixham guns. Two of the steam ships mount eight, and the third six guns. Persons unacquainted w ith nava l affairs would most probably imagine, from the rates, that Caere were ac tually but 2,044 guns in our navy, whereas there are about double that number. The United States frigate Savannah, on the stocks at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, is now undergoing re pairs, and preparations are about to be made for launching her. This is a first-class frigate, and will, it is anticipated, prove herself an ornament to Ameri can naval architecture. The brig of war Dolphin, belonging to the Home Squadron, will sail in a few days on a cruise, to assist vessels in distress off the coast. There is a fine brig-of-war on the stocks, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which will be ready for sea in the ensuing spring. The United States steamer Missouri will make a trial trip down the bay in the course of the week. Her engine has already been tried, as she lies alongside the wharf, and found to answer all expectations. The sloop-of-war Ontario will sail shortly for New Orleans, to become the receiving ship of that station COLOSSAL METROPOLITAN MUSIC-HALL. Mr. Hansom, the well-known architect of the Birmingham Town-hall, built by him mainly with reference to musical purposes, delivered a lecture last week, in Store-street, expla planatory of the above project, and the means to be adopted towards its accomplishment. This project is not a mere splendid: architectural hypothesis invented by Mr. Hansom, to amuse or astonish, but one which has its origin in the de mand occasioned by the advancement and ex tension of music among the million. Mr. Joseph Mainzer, a foreigner, has lately - spread, in an almost magic manner, a wide and deep love, among the lower classes for this science. Thou sands of minds, hitherto rude and. unhurnauized, have been subjugated by the spells of sound; and Mr. Mainzer's clear, ..precise, and harmo nious system, has won to him, in air unprece dented manner, crowds of voluntary learners and hearers. Six months alone have brought five thousand under his superintendence, and the first time that the necessity of a larger music-hall than any yet constructed, appeared last December, when, at the first union of all the metropolitan classes, no hall capable of con taining so large a number of singers and per formers, with a correlative proportion of hearers, was anywhere obtainable. A hall half as large again as Westminster Hall, •or nearly twice and a half larger than eitl - Afer Exeter Hall or the Birmingham Town HA!, has now become an absolute requitision, and tk to same sa gacity which discovered this first nee essity, has as speedily led to adoptive measures for its exe cution. To the feasibity of Mr. Hamg on's plans, there can be no diffidence ; the fabr is lie pro poses to raise, as a temple to our Erti ;ash Poly hymnia, however apparently immense may at first appear its dimensions, is not of magnitude or grandeur greater than demanded, seeing that her shrines are already planted in th 43 hearts of a numerous people, whose new wants, improved pleasures, and moral condition, call f.oudly and peremptorily for the same. Guided by rule and measure, The proposed Colossal Music Hall will ex ceed in every respect that of Bir. mingham. Its form is to be a square of 150 fee t, and its height 120 feet. The Birmingham Ball is 140 feet long, 65 feet high, and 65 feet wide, and contains in area 9,100 feet. Exeter Hall is not so long, but wider, and contains in area 9,956. Westminster Hall, the noblest apartmeat in Eng land, if not in the world, is 238 feet long, and 63 feet wide, thus containing an area of 16,184 feet; but the proposed music hall, being a :;quare of 150 feet, will contain in area of 22,500 feet—that is, it will be half as large again as We stminster Hall, and nearly twice and a half larger than either Birmingham or Exeter Hall! In height, however, it will greatly surpass any one of the three above-mentioned buildings; in fact, it will be as high again as their average heights. It is always desirable to dispense with pillars in the interior of a music hall. But then, as such buildings should be large in area, and lofty in height, the difficulty arises as to the means of supporting the roof. The architect of the pro posed music hall, availing himself of the use of iron, and of the advance of the mechanic arts, has discovered the means of erecting a flat, and almost imperishable suspension roof, the prin ciple of whic.ll has been fully tested, and by which he will be enabled to erect his building at a sum not greater, comparatively speaking, than the roof alone, upon the old principle, would amount to. The Colossal Music Hall will accommodate about 20,000 persons standing, and 'between 7,000 and 8,000 sitting. The design for the organ, which we have seen, and which has bet:m pro nounced perfectly practicable by one of . the first organ-builders of the day, 'presents to the view a forest of pipes, and forms the crown, as it were of the orchestra, which will arise in an in clined plane, arranged with terrace-like I )latforms and parapets, accommodating 2,000 or 3,000 vocal and instrumental performers. The or chestra will he nearly 90 feet high at its summit, and 150 feet in width. The organ will be about 70 feet high, descending in some parts and in corporating with the architectural arrangements of the orchestra. It is intended to attactt to the building a College of Music, to be supported by the admission-fees to the periodical pe•rform ances in the ball, and by the money derived by the letting of the room for great banque ts, and other public purposes. The form of the proposed building, ace ording to the proportions fixed above, causes it to Issurne a shape nearly spherical, and consequen tly the best adapted to the reception of bodies of sound : indeed, we could propose to Mr. Hansom to observe this principle to a greater extent in other particulars. Knowino•, concaves and cur ve d re cesses to be essentially the best recipien ts and retainers of sound, th e arc hi tect should he re put himself in alliance with acoustic principles, and, at the same time that a dome-shaped roof should unequivocally be adopted, angularity of corners should be avoided, and as much of spericity or ro tund form everywhere bad in vogue. When it is considered that the cost of this colossal and national fabric is fixed only at 30,0001., at a day when 80,0001. are expended upon royal stables, and that ground lies ready for the purpose, it would be shame if the sympathies or encouragement of the age were to act the laggard. The new awakened spell of music is sliding into the souls of thousands, harping amid the bosom chords, and attaining to a beautiful, because gentle, humanity, the feelings of incalculable numbers, who heretofore were hard of disposition and in corrigible, or, perhaps, reprobate of nature. It is one of those agencies in the present age which, with almost an apostolic power, is purifying and moralising the natures of men and women, and those who have listened to the choral exercises performed by up wards of' five hundred of Mr. Mainzer's male and female pupils—the propriety of their vocal enunciation—the strength of harmony and per fect accordance which they preserved—could not but discover a degree of cultivation and suscep tibility to the refinements of melody virtually surprising. The " Pueri Habrceorum," a chorus fitted for Priests and. Levites, the gravitone pas sage of "Flowers wherefore do ye bloom," and the hearty hilarity of "Contentment," gave abundant token of great vocal masteries that will be achieved hereafter. Independently as Mr. Mainzer is pr ocee di ng towards the consum mation of his great desire, the erection of a fitting hall for his increasing numbers, by apply ing to that purpose the proceeds of his own musical exhibitions, his present plan ought to be known universally through the medium of the press. Wh en b e i ng k nown, i t i s certain that the philanthropic and high-minded of the land will aid his endeavours, and. thereby rend er moral and elevated, vast bodies of so c i ety, by assisting with their contributions and personal co-operation. The only article of importance in the Madrid Jour nals of the 14th inst. is a circular from the Minister of Justice, in the Madrid Gazette, with reference to the dispute with the Court of Rome. The circular says :-- 4 The Government knows that these fruitless attempts have for object to excite Spaniards to fail in the obe dience which, according to the Gospel, pastors and con gregations owe to the constituted authorities, with the manifest intention of favouring the pretensions of the I rebel Don Carlos—of rendering null the existing laws which, by the sale of national property, have created new i n terests, and of condemning all doctrines contrary to nterests of the Co ur t o f Rome, which, whilst it re ceivesour money for granting apostolic favours, accuses the of i m piety the maj or i ty o f Spaniards, and seeks to alarm their con,:cience." The circular then goes on to say that, although the Regent feels convinced that the Pre lates of the Established Church will not obey orders from any foreign authority, he thinks it right to desire all diocesan Bishops who may receive apostolic letters of the 22d ult., plemary indulgences, immediately to for ward them to the Minister of Grace and Justice, and to pay no attention to the injunctions contained in them. The Hamburgh Correspondent states that, during 1841, 586 vessels entered the port of Odessa, and 503 quitted t. The expo r t s amounted to 10,783,466 rou bles, and the imports to 5,545,643. (%lEET!NG AT THE CROWN AlO ANCHOR TAVERN, TIIE PROPOSED ALTERATION IN TIM . iARII I , s an liourne tter l men A boot noon, at two o'clock, in the large room of the:Osteyrn:: shoemakers meeting was of heldthe o m n a s s i t v e e r d uesd ay al ..i Anchor Tavern, to take into consideration; ,12;,, bert Peel's - proposed reduction of the duty . gS, t_w i : o c tif manufactured boots and shoes. .Long POot.q. n : ro e named for the commencement of the buSinest,_ . _ Ol , was thronged, and when the Chairman:. teak his Int, there could not have been less than 2,000 persetlqrehieg Air. THOMAS LAIDLAW toojc the Chair, anti " 0 3 so he congratulated himself on seeing so nuederr sw a g e respectable a meeting around him. He was . us' ee k i i l ins . 01l that there was a deep-felt anxiety and strong / ..s :_e on el the subject that had called them together. which 0 1 give thorn a short history of the subject itac es a ilh • gentle. b b r u o t u i g e l l i v t r t e h n e l m ark t( s )g a e f t .t h e e r r w , aarndtst,haessltthoeurled tzreuhle thueuirabe7 resolutions, all of which would be spoken te VI men well calculated to do justice to the subject. ..,_ its were called there that da to posed alteration in the dnty ° e:nsifd°ere igtti. de 7 p b‘r)° je tedts and shoes. He could see, from the deep an xiety w hich on each countenance, the intense feeling .f. al. :TA' an' existed amongst them. lie would, before _ft .ir l y cow: other word, tell them that that meeting was e „.'"' he ibranc b posed of boot and shoemakers. There Was 11 7 ch ai upo n of the leather trade present. The Pr esetl ass etsl Wa : foreign boots and shoes imported into this foreign 13- ; 4s. ed. a pair, and the duty upon shoes Of. a by' h e , nufacture was 2s. per pair. The alteration P ° l7 o l3oots e ` Majesty's Government was to reduce the . din s. .. o skieg foreign manufacture to 2s. ld., and shoeSe t ss oless th ll , the duty on shoes only one-half, and 91 1 41,4 sit th h a` one-half. There was one thing that . stlt.ritilin -- t t he e amount—and he was sure it must strike be be ir 43 ; e . vast importance this alteration ' , l 4° o ti f bogt and immense number engaged in the tnk' e w e re 0 0 '",i shoe making in London and its suburbs. There ;" wean' d i g 26,000 or 30,000 persons engaged in Lentle n ;ooo der n g ° ll snaking, and there was no less a number than iterolopiabsteto upon them for their daily bread. Now when Of 1 d . t betftg A o v an important branch of trade was contemplate '• ifeWir' s s. look to the state of the trade at that momen t ' . 4: Olsen . 0 - 0 f peal to all present, and ask them if they- 01 4 0 , oleo, tamed more than half employment ?—( Hea r ' s ", one th e n,' be "No, no.") He was sure that•there was n''.. h it, :itee ,t ' a o could contradict that.—( Hear, ands of the consequence of reducing this brands oi 7" Whit l ' soss i troducing more foreign -made boots and shoes. g d'the l r ot to I throw thousands out of employment. ne s 1 1, li o - s sa tts obtain their object peaceably and quietly, o r - e - no osieSs - t siit that they . were assembled there not to c reate o s rg of make friends—friends that would help theOL ° tett t o t object—and he had no hesitation in s!P,"!" . vis" . Ss would be able to carry out that de e ". It eeSes be the duty on boots and shoes should remain ss , l "teg s - r.ser begged of them to give every speaker a fair 1 1 ,...m "' • ot e's o ; would recommendthens not to introduce any e z r;ii otissli Jun and above all things to introduce no political eu lt at no r - 0 4 had promised him upon their honour and word that f should be introduced.—( Here there was sote e ss , vioal i s ,Vir cries of " No, no.") He would tell them that tw 'sa s aol ',stall obtain their object if they did. He had great eo,e'', team 1 honour and integrity, and he was well aware w s " t het r. to never deceive him, or he would never have taken i a Der ( Hear, hear)—and if th e y s t oo d b y hi m they 0° re or carry their object. „d i e int s , a 4 Mr. GRIEVE, of Bo n d- s t ree t, rose to pr opos' --, s riat• - ta ri tion. That numerous meeting c o n v i nce d him of tue.'d do of that was felt respecti ng th e propose d a lt e ration.. t er r o f In order that there m i g ht b e no m i s take, ; l i nt 11 0 s mission of the Chairman he would rea d si 01 4 the proposed new tariff which related to bee - t he . ', s iss The Hon. Gentlem an th en rea d t h at par t of , oC. tariff to the meeting. Th ere cou ld b e no differe n f e a st c, to on the proposed alteration, and that the ruin of a e t ;f4 sc o re tion of the trade would be the result. ge . ntest ri tsser those in that room, and as k th em if th e y do %ow; eV/ great difficulty in contending w ith th e foreign . r , under the present s y s t em o f d ut i es ? H e , therefli s - them, what the results must be other than ruin s o n sl sate s, He had that confid ence i n th em t h at h e wa s sure _A t f „tee ings of that day wou ld b e con d ucte d with gen..olo" - . decorum. He begged to conclude by reading. w".,o o v or " That this meeting , composed of masters and Jen,l - 0 1 _ Jr gaged in the manufacture of boots and shoe', vie de , siderable anxiety and alarm the tariff as prol°74 ffiret t jesty's Government, on the importation of boots "",e to ; lieving the proposed duties to be totally inade t l ll- ' ev il the British manufactu r e." Mr. SHIPPAN seconded the resolution. At the s ai ttb that meeting would appear to be against free Usti"' a ir appear strange and preposterous, for there we .... ..s /1 t aeal t ief the name of free trade that told , them it was Wr Wse able. But the circumstances of this country, und e r , l9 , laboured, would not admit of that principle being 0 S. in practice. Look at England, with her eight h 0 .A 4, 00 lions of debt, and look at France, with her two Y,a7berls sit s lions of debt ; but they had a greater number of 1e" . .,1 pay that debt. Were they, then, in a position to cou'per'i l the Frenchman? About four years ago, in the Me e b o ft6 in London, in order to ascer t a i n t h e b es t means 0 Is a statistical inqui r y was ma d e i nto t h e s tate of t" f ionst k the Combination-laws. The result of that s etij i Tss the average amount of wages w as seventee t :i o f s i In° and that was in o ne o f th e best s seS 'e stri sat year to the trade. N ow if th e propose d reduction' o we . 1 1 into a law, thousands of our useful citizens would I T „,„ ,, ,e, „ of employment. They would, therefore, percei,s,e_ ve s OF: t o of retaining the present protective dutY. It be7 reh teseie put it to her Majesty's ' Ministers the necessitt ° _ .. . 0 lir present duty.—( Cheers.) The 'resolution was then put and carried alas only two hands being held up against it, amidst “ ..A . lO i• 0 6 .01 Mr. Meissen/ rose to propose the next resoltia, 11 0 11. placed in a position in which he was afraid he i g to hi P. : . ..0 satisfaction to them, and he was sure he should o °, t ha ter r ir almost :401:Piocer!Oolio' If he required any stronger argument than in P- aist, e ) that they were deeply interested in this quest s ,, o 4-`tret ment was the ;fleeting before him. —fr ,pia l ief; He saw many brought together from e tcifeirs° - and at a great sacrifice of tinitkielesielillitte r that the subject was most essential to tfie ss i` S jold . w",:t _ol_l - was two-fold—it called on the hornetr iu ssa ." l' oo , l •' a nfferew to aid them. Britain and her colonies f o ' baser '-,. colonies chine, wheel working within wheel. irthe_,7 44 , theLole Britain suffered; s and if this country was disk': 5 " t. 67 pool would also feel it. The export trade was iS, ..%;;§ of tr; he co: condition, and he believed that the whole ai s tAttion s ,e ss ' "i - :se° and shoemakers arose from the distressed ' 6 7„ - .the" , r'''',, s of! e lonial trade. Great distress was prevailing "" jeck il l'ee West India possessions, and also in Canada' ' lor' s .,"ites house in the city of London which formerly , e - out any.4 o t , men in the export trade, and now their establishoo w at e ployed 180. This great depression in the g hos t. begitfel influence the home trade.—( H ear , hear.) I t • out t s ," 1 • 0 40" the average wages of the shoemaker was 175.. fiodno t ei not take into consideration that the man had loss • o o s , grindery.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Many other t a b o nier s f lit in manufactories provided for them, but the .I t orentj a sa maker worked in his own apartment, and thus '11 1 574 0 workshop was added to his outlay for grinderti no t se •• s r these things into consideration, the wages vi ° _, l ° „,01 to bid more than 14s. or los., and in some cases was rens n ,eso - s hiS 12s. ; and when they considered that those menu .pope and children, and thus three persons had te s,soe de scanty allowance, they would admit that this was fo L -- 0 m oo . removed from absolute starvation. Thirty Year,',l - n oosr i ot manufactured for nearly the whole of the world, . 1 ' dLerlhe. Dhoti many and France had risen to oppose majority of those countries used articles of a coal's laid i$ and while Germany and France wore shoes, '100; - A boots.—(Liiughter and cheers.) If this, red sten s the tariff took place, many of our soan u ,' l thef,_,, se go over to France, and the 50 01 • an t i '/ ' ' to pay weekly for wages would be taken to that T ore , thus would the Engli s h ar ti san b e com pelled to se bid len t i ss in a foreign country, w hil e hi s own r efused i t ,i Th is hicb ( Hear.) The re so l u ti on h e h a d to propose so s S ro se, I I t his present depressed state of the h ome and e xport . cens ee oio g has already suffered very considerably from variouS ioo otA ' 0 01 , til meeting fully relies on her Maj es ty' s Governrnen ts-- ,„, the ' such a scale of duti e s as w ill a ff or d pro tection - - t rsh manufacturer." eat g e i lp firi Mr. DAVIS, of G racec h urc h- stree t, s aid tes t ; tbs- sis talent had been brought to bear upon the subc o ales - t he little was left for him to say. The exports to & P oe "' t il dA ia wathegesyeoarf labourlts abmeoinuglitoendlytol7Bo6 Northamptonshire they were working Mr. Bxwaow, a Chartist, then rose t o prorn e sne aker ss id ment, amidst th most deafening uproar. 1 ne: s ttenf o 4 immediately surrounded by several persons, and 'twit . 4 4 : h 7 e n g cLo a u t id l lV : iss6 ci thu i :trl' o dspl as s'w-e oo llll' to be thrust from the platform. A general resietfosio,7o,, place, and in one moment the long tables on the 1 0 ° cene °e ll ', covered with persons. All was now one general s to obt o r roar and confusion. The Chairman attempte d for the °P. hearing, b ut h e on l y made matters wors e, - some 0r • increased. Things continued in this state for dtho s ho e when the following resolutions were proposed in effect of Sh e er " That it is the opinion ot this meeting the logs boo ts posed tariff will be to throw out of emploYeee nt o of Wild and of the operatives engaged in the manufacte:. and shoes, particularly of the lighter qualiteiee h i eetio I meeting, taking into consideration the price of the ;p ion t h , s es ed of life in this country, unanimously concur in °P' e n ot P' re'' the adoption of the present scale of duties th ey are anufs et_a be , in such a position as to compete fairly with foreign nt p aus e and to and therefore earnestly call upon the Governoe ° 0 to st fore it enacts laws so prejudicial to their interests._ _ se ed 01 " That petitions founded on the resolutions aeS sete rs ti, this meeting, be presented to Parliament from the w• F job men of the city of London,Westminster,ltlary lebo s ne "are elf t ;sk Southwark, and the Tower Hamlets, distinct and ey h T or o a " That a deputation of masters and men in 1a . !,.. ur p09, 0 ,0 thei r shall wait upon their several representatives, for the I" eared entrusting such petitions for presentation , to explain e 0" and solicit th e i r exert i ons in t he i r b e half." , the upro ar _ While the s e reso l ut i ons were b e i n g react, , t ot,' tinued in all its violence. of th s e ltss t Several personal conflie's took place in the bodywt.. "'ally ile ing, in consequence of the riotous conduct of _ r , y 000 d an er d ed ot s h o e m r e d w is b o a r t de m rl a y u C ag h e ar ab ti l s e t , s, a b ud ut tb th e shoemakers carried a resolution to the effect that . a_ s u r ; se et s . should wait upon her Majesty's Government an cart err them the injury the proposed reduction of the hist r'' boots and shoes would inflict upon the trade. they cadre avderuirnnuetVli 40 0 F A • R GISES —TRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUE E N' fOl l • ENGLAND.—We are requested to state that th teens, of volume of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Qntegt England," comprising the Queens of Henry day r los. 6d., bound, with illustrations, is published this 00 1 Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and us pub' be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn Thalo Psi lished the followinor new works :-1. seconl lame of Madame 'D'Arblay's Diary and Letter).--iiie Lieutenant-Colonel Napier's Excursions alongo Shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols., smal l 8v .11 ) Madame de Sevigne and her Contemporari t a. es, 2 vols. c ii,, 8 vo.-4. Captain Fane's Five Y ear s in India, 2,Ac 8 vo., with numerous i Ilustrations.-s.lFrederick the tif'ifi, his Court and Tim,s, edited by Thomas otorbT4 vols. 8 vo.-6. Lieutenant- ColonelMaxweWsßtin thP"7 . ", , the United States, 2 vols:, small Bvo.-7. Adveittlirer'4o - Actor, comprising a picture of the French Stag e T i or ring a period of fifty years, edited by .I } w" • 7 Hook, Esq., 2 vols., 16s. bound. , DANGEROUS CNSEQUENCES OF l'Ariol'qrae day or two ago Mary Ann Nicholson, about 35 year the wife of a respectable mechanic, was brought in4.lCirea.,_cd star Hospital with dislocation of the jaw-bone on b0tb. 00 7., the neck, which it appeared had suddenly occuired to hcf., short time previously, while indulging in the full luicury • unequivocal yawn, on her awaking in the morniog • Wi to siderable difficulty the joint was replaced on one side, yesterday the other had not been effected. The number of vessels at present engaged in t or l ie French merchant service is 15,817, of whic h 133 am s l °6- to ers, and 15,684 sailing vessels. Of these 25 are films of 500 tons ; 229 of 449 to 300 ; 1,898 of 299 to 100 99 to 60; 253 of b 9 to 60; and 10,827 below 30t0n5....: lot of firs Wh 1011 tiq -144 An dei stti .1411 4 41 . 1, 3511 The .1 zne i t itt3 tit