The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

'‘` . ."t 4 e} - thrrn uUt or employment a great number of 'is %vim would - not be able to turn to any other business. 114r.,GLALSTONE raid the Government proposition 14, d been -made without any regard to the local eireum stutes of th e island a :Forth.% It was founded upon 4r ecthe supply- of an article in- great demand, and "us made with rekrenee to the amount of proteilion "illy required by British interests. 'I he ariide upon lvhieh the-duty was levied was in the rudest possible ren t : ; it was the block of stone as thrown out of the earth, b e f ore any smoothing or dressing had been applied it .. Tile duty of 2 s . p er ton was equ i va l ent - to ten per cent. ad valorem. • The Hen. Gentleman opposite asked 1 for mere than the parties themselves. 11r. FIUME said the question was one afi'ecting the proprietors. He had understocd,in the first instance, that the (overarm at intended to pro'. ose a duty of Is. PiT. ton,- and he iv as.srrp r i se d t o fi n d th a t t h e y h a d made it Qs. M -GI kES"-ON- • r • -1 • e Leta atad that the proposition was that that stone erthewn should he duty free ; if in blocks or }oared, the duty should be 2s. ; cad if hewn, 10s.; in stead of 2 0s . . which was the present duty. a. l-I r. J. I% BARES,-after a few observations, withdrew his ntot len. . GL: schedule 17 being put, relating to coffee, cocoa, ten and tol.ecco .g Lind -11 0\ ' ''I;`K rose to make the motion, of which he,t.- . ' - ~. 'aft given notice, that the duty on foreign coffee ;'1 1 1 . 310 d be _reduced from Sd. to 7d. per rowel. The at,e consump t i on o f to f fee b ed i nert ase d o f l ate years, tl a •.e . sueply from the colonies bi hag iitauffieient, the tictis,equence WIIS that fereign coffee at a Lieber rate of e ' 13 en tered largely into consumption. The difference the amount of duty- payable on British and foreign • ewe was a bounty to the growers in the colunies. The ilki rt H .n- en. Gentle man proposed a d u ty o f 4d. on co ke ac e - l e6 lree, and-of Bd. on foreign coffee. Ile held in his :,' it statement that Jamaica ceffee of the new Cr. , l) fic'e 1. '11 ,, ( ! )-1 , -" 11 . 41; at it price varying .i lrom 112 s. to I Iss. e e4 ii ` - "we a hile Cuba coffee of a simian. descrip tion was lei bond at from 78s. to SBs., the difference being Ottie e ee , ted on the British consumer ; that nits to say, lb ee''Xt eofTee wit.s•Made to pay a , duty of 100 per cent `on „7 \ alue of the article, ana a differential duty as coma tu t4 e , t -• ' with colonial coffee. of 50 per cent. But w • ltb . retard to coffee of an inferior description, the case N e 'lts worse. A corespondent of his told him that he pur eo444Bl.- Domingo coffee in bond at 345. sd. the cwt., ceite B ritish:coffee Of the same description brought from 7 ,5. to 70s. Now--the Government imposed- a duty of , i-'. 41. on the coffee at 345. 5d., thus levying an amount t 23 ° per cent, on the value of the crock, and a. differ ential, duty of 115 per cent. (Hear, hear.) .- For what l it 'as this amount of duty levied '.?lt could not be said that b was for the purpose of discouraging the :lava:evade, i' ca use umeh of the euffae came ft tbe .Eastern-lhemis- Iner t e and Hayti, with which, if the desire to put a step - !'ille have trade was real, it would be neressaryate en e°s, ur4 ge friendly relations. It eculd not be said that it 4 4 for the interest of their colonies, bee use it was evi 071ft from the concessions of her Majesty's Government, ise a tt l i 'i ,; his enormous protection was . not always to be „ n ea:anted, and no time was more favourable for reduce g ee - e - - 61 the duty than the present. Another a.e..._:eef this great protection was, that it gave 'l 4 : `'' kTnatUral stimulus to the growth of cof xilieeYY•7. which the colonists would .themselves a=lb' lb did not believe that the reduction of . Id. t e t a-maJuld be resisted on the ground of its reducing thi rt " vt alte. The total quantity of coffee consumed in i . f cannitry was 28i million pounds, and the reduction te t a Ide Ni time prposed, would amount to 180,0001.; 'lieuthe redu o oft the revenue would only take place smaller quantity. namely, on 10,849,0001 b., the pro eee of foreign countries, and would amount to only ,ii ee •r 4) s lie was persuaded that the increased censump 0WP44(1 compensate to the revenue for a reduction of 1 0 i, - „ut.Y. Besides, under the present system, an adul a anen in coffee took place t, p a very great extent. It ;I:llcareel that the annual consumption of coffee amounted es;-,?2,00011)., tied with that was mixed up no less than r se nlb. Of chicory and other substances. For his pert Aaj.„ ; t- 11 1 - have wished to have r«luced the duty upcn 4: l , t igt comae to 6d., and upon British coffee to 3d. Belt, A u j e tt s a pprehensive that that plan would meet, with too lerg . ° PPosition, on the. ground of the less to the aese i -u • • Under these circumstances he now proposed la a ction •of one penny er pound apen foreign coffee. .vv - i t t i sb i :, 11 . 1 (1. move, therefore, e that the blank be filled-tip .:, whir',ti, instead of Bd. , - . CLADsTONE; . said,- that ' he did -not- ftleatv:ktikl - oth :d, that the duties to'be-levied- upen.eoffee-bfititthr Cin e y'r the Products of tropical climates, were recon vete-,le with the ordinary principles of trade. . The Gc- to di„ e i tlid notpropose-te add in, any way, Eiut rather : e e k e lultsh the protectlon at 'present - given to BritishT tee .ti a i cuff e, e The question arose, w by., was ilic e pso le e e t e l ea kept up - .substantialln and, bp would,mily, asit..the, ( ,b s ' l er ilitte e to follow up the- principle-ewhich-they lad it .. ' l ed fu tither articles ol' our conmerc, ee nefleouslit i n :" pen 'Sible fur - Una Gverione4 6 : - ItkilUf§t . ,lll6:ternis . te as e t : lll Piler.cial fre_aty - with the crupire"Of e ßratil:''lhat th e ",,, e blijectitin which was made to •t of Dart,' ü b,l.e. Lord s . •Wli jell, - WO UItIFIWWW:Pg44II2I ' sq t ee- perk¢4 - " a alga e l a - e - '', s eran-a - ee th e r ' i IUAIE %veiz-g lad that ilteXink.,o4.otAlgtn*%i:Pfir 41 41' 1 1 . ' 1 "W met:sure ipon, such , ground, Ivbielk-coo: i 1,,,,; - it s'eharacter:- But lie believed the, How Gentles, 14 3 . " 48 Placing the consumer's in-a-worse-position:than , .141 t1 ( i -re in berore Be,-;des. in alit* oflffiriancial - diffi-r: tz t : Z z "e . waS about . to ' ' take froth' the ethisumerfotire sk,, ur the E xc h equer, a nd four-pence rnoiv , fpr the ofinen the: colonists. Cheap coffee amid cheap inab ea . r would have the - tendency to encourage sober T-174, ~4 , l l,n egst the people, and to fill the Exchequer. . dal l ''' PEEL did not altogether exclude the question !fe ret :: - .r3' from this question: But then it was to be re- Pl eee JO, that although the cultivation of coffee took .:flip : i t) slave labo - 4, yet it was also much lighter than . 44 le t' t i sl! gar.. - roll also felt the force of the argument 1 )1 , ,e , t 4 `le Ine of: eeaas a` substitute for Spirits ; and te,ll v t pbserve that the amount of duty . which he pro .I V2ltt TC" Ipts - than what Was proposed in 1840 by the lif:Cee l' u noura.ble Gentleman opposite. The proposal ;hit ra,telion. Gentleman was the difference of sd. per lb.. tiil e i - ; a t "e Government. was 4d. In dwelling on the 'lktat er' e of dealing with the cheapest markets, they Piri l .,,`"leallA r that they were not dealing with philoso r)Sed b I le hoped, therefore, that the present duty pre ' ed; ''''ttll il n e u r t 1‘ i ai • 7 t c v 'st Government concessions , kv.,,ntri.s. I,‘ fro u ra , ou t l h d e n ß o r t az h i e ls a o l ; • e, , e e,e,ei ... equia a.en • ilei ty '• 13 . ILA:WES said that wherever there was a '"itlt,ti:" d ing, there the duties *ere quite unsettled. :ret they could hope, tO influence foreign countries It r it the principles of free trade ; though they might 'taw, I Ld the principles of philosophers, they had . 111 ee e ,7 ( 'Illee the principles of practical men. callae K, mite present an enormous quantity of coffee, so t he r e ' e°ll4 tned in this country, which did not appear in lii i . th alone at all, chicory and other things being mixed Ish ele genuine article. There were largo esta nle,e 4 , t4 in London for the express purpose of ' .(4 11,1 1 4 1 t 'llg, coffee. The effect of lowering_ the duty ~,1/41111t eto abolish, to a great extent, the practice of s "L tZe r4 e t . iu lt . .. He did not believe that the reduction from Vie would be a benefit totthe consumer ;he thought - eel , .1t 5 4, t . 3r parties benefited would be those engaged in the r'eb 141 trade. , 11 ") v RlNGsaid ho t hou ght they ought to set an r t. : pl, . ...,. , 4C1 40 , '0 „France, pionowering the duty on French pro- I‘i-t4 ' ,l ' 1 1l his l oy, such a curse if followed out, t hor,' e s N'eet t( tree and other than c a o n untr t i l c e s a , f v: s ou N l l d .hi d ch o : 0 414 Lu -benefit this 'lte've,aed for that etountryose Purpose.-(Hear, hear.) ° t * ,1 . 1 . "'• T. 1324.R.1NG .. P w u o r tfld s . upport the proposition .14 b ' tlul qrn :N° le kriend in preference to that of the ~..4„, went. th kt 'VII L -q. No , - lERS would support the proposition of 44 ste • ‘ 4 e le iel h t -.liar "-, because it recognised the principle of l i 'lts() I N the duty. He could ilot understand the ti o, 4t S, 4 l .7 rth -° Government in maintaining this differential ,t °n for the purpose- of negotiation. Now he ut S at L ' e hest mode of negotiation was to reduce the le, a t • he and Set agood example to other countries. btli tl r "WICK said before they went to a division he opticut help expressing his satisfaction at th prospect i , , tein",)rrnous differential duty which now existed e _ l ' th e ,F Il laintained. With respect to retaining the duty igets e r i r o esent f or the purpose of arriving at an amicable , i alt ee 11, he thought with the Hon. Member for 4. ..' l eed ' t a u nt this system was bad in itself, and not likely he CoanY practical good. •• . 1 1 , I rrittee then divided, when there appeared, , se ` - ' l ' the amendment 'ikla . i ri : l l,tainst it t il l 'Larn i) s l t against Lord Ho wick's proposition -33 1 41 ist I 4.N 1 ) 0N rose to move that the stock of na e e lv arene L e eoffee in bord, as well as that on the way, 'l%t, shall - arrive on or before the Ist day of August 1 ,1,,, e,4,13, 5 1 :11 be -adnaitted at the same differential duty that 1 :- th e d ith betwee n it and British Plantation coffee ; Viz., •as 4) ' t Y en British plantation coffee be reduced from 3 4 - 4d • 1)(T lb ei ontn ail , a tin! duty on - the naturaliSed coffee now ,gust nekt, shall be 4 3' of At, u tbat which shall arrive on or before the Ist Ilt duff reduced from 9d., the pre- . , h, to 7d . ~, • • ) 4 v . ( 7. 1- 4.11) , ~ p( v r i i e . el l - Th l'e fil' eci t : 8 1 UNE attributed the present depression Wes, n et - raue, not to the proposed alteration in the til pl'4 i ll rs.the enormous quantity which had been im 7 t b t ` es "9, when the coffee duties and a few ether 1_ 1131 4 e . ere 'e, slogled out to be sub'ected to the effect of -• '' r il 1 1 " eh • 4 think li -tad angc• He did not that the Noble t e4 , ll secl e e v i l l s a s cl e e. out Sufficient grounds for the proposition natl , lnf esi e. eu , the inconvenience whic4 certain parties 4.. ` , . , ii , ci.,_,'4.?uld be the result of their own over specu elilit eatsuucal- e) , ri the one hand the price of coffee did fall, ef;tt,r,iithlioseNlNl,er for mu te . eulated 2d a pound, on the other hand the l 'ikae Ni°ll would' * t b h e e s f o al m u u n cl p i r i i n c e e r . eased as to recom- Isi i i-1 1 .0 ae , ebie lC L ii: supported. the moed proposition at _olo . ord the Member for Liverpool (Lord tf -l) - h . . . . ''obl e t 'T Ar aa °r(l'sapnrcloplkorsirt.ioni.. PHiLIPS also supported t144 4,;' 4115 1F n ese , yeeldiv, ethought that though the risk run in this tar-, A. ;the ideals was for their own profit, yet that ei vies ci r e I "ne and the revenue had benefited by it. He ti li whie , „Avielit lion. Baronet would grant the conces- Li. h e t s ua n i e (Alr. Hume) thought ought to be limited e„ 14 11 . 11 ,, th e t, :, )/ .. e t,11e passin g of the Act, which should esta ',tele !mt.. That Point the Hon. Baronet might Ikli. • qiit ~i'lliuilN G lit t e.--.)ur ed - (0 -, could not understand the distinction e e esvp l e y te e e ue raised in the present case. That did eie'4%;. to b '' , th other articles fur which protection was V -sl ee il tl6. ,-fo e he e ) ( T 11111 etl e The present parties had had , el eet .- years that it was the intention of Goa on It least.° make an alteration in the duties on coffee, uavg,.,t; 4:ll.lllith,ere!ithait the circuitous voyages ought to 3'si. k .4 - . 4 913 E.Ria ? la. , therefore, no right to complain. 1%. .11413-titioa- I EEL said that the parties had had two oi )er .., e n e otie e that a change in the duties on coffee t C.: l '"ili ' Et . ennside ration - of Parliament. Instead of 4,ii,,,lll4..;.eisictertehusade , „it . ee..,T,la !yea of that, an unfair advantage had been nett drawn up, ea l tln e 're_sif,. lax manner in which the Act of Parliament Ind speculations (he i V te RhiCrs of coffee arch term) had been carried on " 11, 9?,13:tp1 e 1,, - - - • I , e, .. 1 :ley had no Just cause, there . - 77 - 4, eillOrs in stone and timber bad had After a few words from Mr. COBDEN and Mr. 1-lAwEs, the Committee divided, when there appeared, For Lord Sandon's Resolution Against it —64 Mtlj,rity The ork.inel preposition we§ then agreed to. The duties on cocea, and chocolate were agreed to as proposed. On the question that the duty en tea of 2s. Id. per lb. should be continued, Mr. LI.NI);.;;EY thought there ought to be a reduction in the duty, end trusted that the Eight Hon. Baronet would hold out seine hopes that •so desirable a reduction should be uffl:cted. (-3.ir R. FEEL said b( fore he made any promise on the sulject he should like to see the affairs of China settled. —(A laugh.) Mr. I INDLEY regrt ttcd the inequality of the bear in , of this tax. on the poor and the rich. 'Mr. MANGLES was a five trader in tea as well as every other commodity. After a few observations from Sir R. PEEL, the item was.agreed to, as were also the other items in schedule 17. In schedule 18, on - the question that -corks squared for rounding should pay 16s. the cwt., Mr. T. I)UNCOMBE proposed, pursuant to notice, that the duty should be reduced from sd. the pound to Is. the ton, and that that duty, as well as the duty upon corks, should come into immediate oper a ti o n. Th e Ho n . Gentleman said he thought that the cork-cutters of this country were entitled to the protection and consideration of the House; and he hoped the Government would not refuse to accede to the proposal he had ventured to sug- best. Mr. GLADSTONE laid that an unprotected and in dustrious class, such ES the cork-cutters of this country, were no doubt- entitled to the kindness and considera tion of the House. He did not,- however, think that any good reason could be shown why that trade in par ticular shOuld be exempted -from the operation of the peinuiples carried out in the new tariff. -Corks were now twice: as dear -in this country as in France, and were,: moreover, of a -very inferior quality. The effect of the amendment would be -to take off all protection from those who were employed in the labour of cutting the cork into squares, and they were one-half of the number altogether engaged in the trade of cork cutting.—(Hear, - hear.) Those employed in rounding corks from the square were already largely protected. Mr. F._ BARING supported the amendment. The principal argument of the Hon. Gentleman was, that it would act unfairly towards One part of the trade, and what they asked for was a fair time to abandon it. Mr. 13UNCOMBE explained. it appeared to be thought that there were two parties engaged in the trade ; there were two branches of its squaring - and rounding, but it was frequently done by the same indivi dual, and they wished that Corks squared for rounding should be admitted on the same terms as cork in the rough. He denied that be had asked 'for more than the trade . demanded themselves, as was proved by the peti tion he had presented on the subject. The difference being so small on one side and the other, he hoped the Governmentfrould concede the point, or he should be obliged to divide the Committee upon it. Mr. B. WOOD trusted that gentlemen on his side or the House_ would - support the amendment, on the principle that its - tendency was to reduce the price of the artielG on whiA ground they had supported the rest Of the tariff. • •• The Coh.mittee then divided, when there appeared,— Fur the amendment Fqr the reselutien 137 210jority against the amendment ...-56 _Dr. BOWRING then proposed in schedule No. 18, stratyou hats and plaiting, an ad. valorem duty of 20 per eent.instead of the duty of Bs. 6d. per lb. on straw hats, arid-7s. 611. per lb: on straw plaiting. He thought -the . Right - Hon: Baronet was bound by the principles, behadi professed iu reference to free-trade, to ac ce'ile to his proposal. GLADSTONE Air. said there was no description of . . "tabour Whit* yas so friendless and unprotected, or et:- *ply, without the power of defending itself, as the maim 'facttre of straw plait ; and he thought they were bound to retain.a certain amount of protection. -The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none • tools lace,. and the original question was agreed to. • 'The , items to spirits and strong waters, exclusive, ',.i,yOre agreed . - - " the items spirit's and strong waters, Dr. BOWRING said he hardly hoped to he able to. ,inelace the Eight Hon. Baronet to forego this duty, but really it was very high. It was calculated to increase. smuggling, and to demoralize the people. He wished the Right. Hon. Baronet would.act up to his declaration, and hold out. the right hand of fellowship to France. - Sir R.,ITEL said the French Government was aware of the disposition of the English Government to renew the negotiations for a reduction of duties for a reciprocal advantage. • The item was then agreed to. Dr. BOWEING moved that, as they had row got through all the questionsof itapoitation, the Chairman do report progress. .. Sir It. PEEL had no objection to accede to the motion, on the understanding that the article of coils be brought under the consideration of the Committee at five o'clock this day. The House then resumed, and the Chairman reported progress, - and obtained leave to sit again. Mr. GLADSTONE said that when the House would go into Committee this day at five o'clock, he should take the opportunity of stating to the Committee what had taken place respecting the measurement of timber in reference to the timber _duties. Inquiry had been in stituted among the revenue officers as to the amount of inconvenience to be apprehended from a total change in the system of measuring deals, battens, &c. ; and it had been thought advisable to allow importers the option either to have the duty, charged by the cubic contents, or by enumeration. For that purpose a scale had been framed which corresponded very much with what had been proposed by the timber trade themselves. lie.gave no tice then, that when the House went into Committee this evening, he should move the insertion of a scale in schedule 5, at the proper place, which should give to importers the option of charging the duty by cubic mea surement, or by enumeration ; only they would under stand, that in no case would the option be attended by any saving in duty to them. Mr. HUME regretted that the Government made this alteration. ➢ir. WALLACE was always sorry that a concession was made, as the country would be of opinion that the Government was either overreached or cajoled. He had no interest in the matter, but he believed the concession was one which ought not be made. There was no neces sity for the Right Hon. Gentleman, with his majority of 120 or 130, to have made this concession. He was sure it was a bad example. Sir R. PEEL thought it would, indeed, be a bad example ; if because, as the Hon. Gentleman said he had a majority of 120 or 130, he refused to make a concession. —(Hear.) But it was no concession ; the mode of measureineut was adopted in consequence of the representations of the most experienced Custom House officers on the subject. no auth noticerTmithil:Cy had just as dtbauctrnigtrtrr - TTATE - 7EDITIONS of " THE- SUN;" in the CITI' I exp«-t - no change in the duties on those articles as the 1% FR. JOSEPH THOMAS, of No. I,.FlNCll holders of coin* Lad With res p ec t to the commodities in ivAL LANE, CORN HILL, has made arrangements - by. which they trade d. The holders of c:ffee should be dealt which the Public and the Trade may be supplied with a - • with on the same i rinciple that was applied to other ' THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN holders of property. lie had made up his mind to ad- ' EVERY EVENING at HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK, here to that general principle, and he believed it his duty , And Subsequent Editions when Published. to do so. lie would accordingly vote in favour of the i The THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN" contains the proposition advanced by the Government. . ! PROCEEDINGS of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT Mr. KEMBLE had intended to oppose the original ' up •to SEVEN O'CLOCK, and all other important in proposition of the Noble Lord, hut he regretted that the formation accessible to that hour. Government should find itself obliged to oppose the me- - dified proposition. He certainly should support the latter. 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Sir ARTHUR BROOKE moved for all correspond ence which had passed between her Majesty's late Go vernment and the Poor-law Commissioners for Ireland, relative to the formation of the Unions of Enniskiller, Lisnaskea, and Lowthers-town, in the county of Ferma nagh (in addition to the papers presented June 3). Lord ELIOT moved for a copy of a letter from Ed ward Lucas, Esq , Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieute nant of Ireland, to the Commissioners appointed by his Excellency, to report on certain charitable institutions in receiving grants from the public funds, dated Dublin Cis tle, the sth day of February, 1842 ; and a copy of the warrant appointing the said Commissioners also, a copy of the General Report of the saidCoramissioners, submitted to the Lord-Lieutenant ; together with copies of their Reports on the following,lnstitutions and Grants, viz , Female Orphan House, Westmoreland Lock Hospi tal, Lying-in Hospital, Doctor Steven's Hospital, Fever Hospital, Cork-street Hospital for Incurables, Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, Cow- Pock In stitution, Shelter for Females discharged from Prison, Liberty Fountains ; also for a Bill to enable Grand Juries at the ensuing Summer and Spring AsSizes to make certain presentments in Counties of Cities and Towns in Ireland, and to remove doubts as to the juris diction of Justices of the Peace in places recently an nexed to counties at large in Ireland.—Agreed to. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Sir ROBERT PEEL moved that the Orders of the Day take precedence of notices of motions on Tuesdays for the remainder of the Session. He should content himself with Tuesday, though he was invited by the Hon. Member for Montrose to ask for Thursday also. Mr. WALLACE would not oppose the motion, but thought that some important notices ought to take their course, especially the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield on the subject of the Ballot. The motion was then agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the composition of assessed taxes tor a year. Mr. WALLACE'said that he did not mean to oppose the motion. It appeared to him. however, that it was the duty ot the Government to bring 'in a Bill to re gulate the imposition of assessed taxes, in order that parties might be - enabled to ascertain to what charges they might be liable. Captain PECHELL was also of opinion that it was desirable to reform the law upon the subject of assessed taxes. The mot'on was then agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposal of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock. THE HEAT IN PARIS.—The heat on Thursday was considerably increaL - ed. At six in the morning the ther mometer was at 65i of Fahrenheit ;at mid-day was up at eoi v. ; and by two o'clock r.m. at 1321 F. " THE -MORNING SUN." Just ready, in three volumes Bvo., ssith numerous Plates, &c., NARRATIVE OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS IN 'An ALOCHISTAN, AFGIIANISTAni and the PANJAB ; including a Residence in those Countries -LO from 1826 to 1838. By CHARLES MASSON, Esq. . Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Equestrian Company. Fmsneuse success of the Itdlian Olivia Da: cers. THIS VENING, JUNE 14. • Will be acted 11r. I eiean Rede's 'SIXTEI'N STRING JACK, with New Scenery and Appointments.—Kit Clayton, by Mr. George Wild; the Dances by the lorps de Ballet of the Opera House. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. BATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talentcd Vaulters, Riders, Gyms astics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. - Gorgeous CaValcade, novel acts of Equitation, and unri val:ed Acrcbatique Feats. To conclude with he grand Military and Fquestrian Spectacle, en. titled MURAT—THE PEASANT, Gk;NFRAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand tteviews of Eorse and Foot, and gor. genus Tableaux. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen received an Address of Congratulation yesterday morning from the Eton Scholars, which was presented to her Nlajesty in the Grand Hall by the two Senior Scholars, Messrs. Browning and Hulse, just previous to her departure from Windsor Ca , tle for town. The Address was most graciously received, and her Majesty and Prince Albert quitting the Castle directly afterwards (at half-past eb.ven o'clock), were most enthusiastically cheered by the Eton scholars, who had assembled on the Mount. Her Majesty and the Royal Suite were escorted from Wind sor, by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to the Slough Station of the Great Western Railway, and were con veyed by a special train to the Paddington terminus, where the Royal equipages were waiting. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Excel lency Count Mensdorf, and Count Hugh Mensdorf, arrived at. Buckingham Pollee, escorted by a party of Hussars, at twenty minutes before one o'clock, and were received by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and Lord George Lennox, Lord-in-Waitirg on Prince Albert. The CoUnts Alphonso, Alexander and Arthur Mensdorf, and the Countess ,f Dunmore, followed in another carriage; and also the Hon Misses Stanley and Hamilton, the Maids of Honour in waiting. Their Royal Hignesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lytt e lt on an d Major-Gener a l Sir Edward Bowater, arrived at Buckingham Palace from Windsor Castle, at a quarter past one o'clock. Her Majesty hel l a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, after her arrival. At the Court, Sir James Graham; her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, presented the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Magnay, and Mr. Rogers, accompanied by the City Remembrancer. to the Queen, at an audience, to receive her Majesty's com mands relative to the presentation of a congratulatory Address, from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London. Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Wednesday next (to-morrow) at two o'clock, for the reception of the Address. Count Kielmanseg4e, the Hanoverian Minister, had an au dience of the Queen. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Hobert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The Privy Council was attended by hii Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Presi dent, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the Frst Lord of the Treasury, the Duke of Wellington, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Presidcnt of the Board of Control, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. At the Cdtancil the Queen made a declaration, signifying her approbation of the marriage of his Royal Highness Prince George of Cumberland with the Princess Alexandrina Mary, daughter of his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Alten burg. _ A Proclamation was ordered to be issued respecting a new coinage of II alf-tart hings. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Fitzgerald, and Lord Wharncliffe. The Court was attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stele to Prince Albert, the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the House held, and Lord Hill, Gold• Stick in waiting. Lord Rivers and Mr. Ormsby Gore were the Lord and Groom in Waiting, and Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Mar shal) the Equerry in Waiting. Messrs. Magnay and Rogers, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Sheriffs were accompanied by the City Remembrancer. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Counts Mensdorf, and attended by the Countess of Dunmore, Lord Rivers, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the performance of the French plays with their pre sence last evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at six o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Frogmore LoOge, Windsor. In the evening her Royal Highness, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson and Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart., honoured the performance of the German Opera with her presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Theft Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningt n, and the Hereditary Prince, the Duchess Ida and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and their respec tive suites, visited and inspected, yesterday, the Bank of Eng land, the Royal Mint, the East ILdia House, and other public buildings in the metropolis. Despatches from the Governer of Gibraltar were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Novelty is the order of the day at this house, and in making it so Oxberry shows his good sense. Novelty and enterprise are the two great elements of success in these days, and whezi judgment is added to them, success is certain. Last evening he produced two new pieces, both of which were decidedly suc cessful. The first was entitled The Kiss, or Bertha's Bridal. This is a fairy tale of the Mountain Syiph school, depending for its success mainly upon the music and the scenery. The latter does great credit to the pencil of Mr. Nicol& The moon light view of the Fairy Lake struck us as exceedingly beau tiful. The music is by Mr. Clement White, and evinces great taste and considerable originality. The melodies are very sweet, and from this specimen of his abilities as a composer, we hope the day is not far distant when we may expect to meet him as the composer of a regular classical opera. The other novelty was a glorious pieee of fun in two acts, from the pen of our old friend Peeke, entitled Uncle Rip, .1 he materials of which this farce is composed are exceedingly sight, but it is full of fun and pun from beginning to end, and kept the audience on the constant grin. It turns (von a series of mistakes, consequent upon there being two Mr. R. Falcons. One Mr. Roderick ( Hemming), a quiet, staid youth, who is ardently attiched to Sophia Jennings (Miss Hughes), and is, consequently, exceedingly desirous to be in troduced to her guardian, Mr. Twitter (a. Mathews), an old procter ; and the other, Mr. Rippirigton (Harley), uncle to Roderick, Uncle Rip, as Roderick calls him, a regular rollick ing old boy, who plays all sorts of mischievous pranks, " just for the fun of the thing." By mistake he gets a note intended for Roderick, inviting him down to Old Twitter's country-1)06e, where archery, rifle-sheoting, and various other aristocratic amusements are going on, the whole to be wound up with a turtle and venison dinner, cooked in a patent steam-kitchen. Uncle Rip arrives, gives various hints about " wetting his whistle" to the honour of the ladies; makes love to the housekeeper, to the horror of her husband, a black footman, excellently acted by Oxberry ; shat ters a tureen of turtle by making it his target for rifle-shoot ing; and ends by turning the steam off from the st eam •kit c h en . when Old Twitter turns him off the premises. Voderick soon after arrives, when all is explained, and the curtain falls. Har ley came forward at the conclusion, and " just for the fun of the thing," announced the piece for repetition every evening, to which the audience signified their unanimous assent. We advise all who enjoy a hearty laugh to call on Uncle Rip at the Lyceum, "just for the fun of the thing." Pretty Miss Murray. with her crew of Water Witches followed, and the evening's entertainments concluded with the drama of Lucille, in which the acting of Miss Faucit. as the heroine, was beautifully pathe tic. This very talented young lady bids fair to become, in do mestic tragedy, what her sister already is in tragedy of a higher order. The,house was very well filled. THE INFANT SAPPHO. The public engagements of this very talented child are fast drawing to a close. She is row, we believe, performing her final engagement at the Adelaide Gallery, and her farewell benefit concert takes place this evening at the Musical Hail, Store-street. Her parents, we understand, have placed her under the care of an eminent musical professor, in order to be instructed in the rules of her art. It is, perhaps, right that she should know these rules, though, as far as she herself is concerned, she already does all that those rules have it in their power to teach, and herein lies the singularity of her talent. Not in her power of voice—the voice is that of a child—not so much in her knowledge of melody, does her astonishing talent reside, as in her intuitive knowledge of harmony, and of the science of music. She is the musician of Nature. had the science of music never existed until her time, she would have invented it, and from her compositions future Abrechtsbergers would have deduced the laws of counterpoint and thorough bass. All those who take an interest in musical science, as a study, sho'uld hear this wonderful child before her education is com menced, in order to learn to what height Nature, unassisted by rule, can attain. We perceive she is to sing several of her own compositions at the concert this evening, and we antici pate a high treat. lIAMBURGH MAIL. Ira:insulin it, JUNE B.—The Relief Committee ( reins) has published its last report of its proceedings to the end of the month in which it was formed. It hal received, up to the end of May, 90,22-1 marks currency (about 16 marks to 1/. sterling), 197,027 marks banco (13 2-fifths to 1/. sterling), and 1,000/. sterling. The General Relief Committee appointed by the Senate has likewise begun the publication of the sums received. It com mences with the gifts of several kings and sovereign princes, and then gives those received from the different places in al. phabetical order, beginning with Anslam, and ending (that is, so far as published in the Ilumburgh Borsenhalle) with Ko nigsburgh. The sum total is not yet given, nor is the list cons - plate, many contributions having been received since it went to press. A special committee has been formed to promote the rebuilding of St. Peter's church. BERLIN - , Just K 3.—M. Van itochow the Minister of the In terior, has is.ued a circular to all the chief Presidents of the provinces of the kingdom, in which he states that it has hitherto teen supposed that copper-plate, lithographic, or other prints intended for sale, were liable to the censorship, and that this opinion was founded in the 4th act of the edict of October 16, 1519; but that on mature consideration he is convinced that there is no legal authority for subjecting prints to the cen sorship. DUTCH FUNDS.—Mtexcanam, JUNE 10. Money. Bills, Actual Dsbt, f2ss per Cent Jitte, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Svndic, 4 per cent.... ............ Ditto, ditto, :”•,', per ce nt Commercial Company, 4!4 per cen t 1513 1:,2k4 Ditto (1,135 and 1837) 5 per ceat. ...... Lcar. 1837, 5 per cent. B9 i 194 Exchange on London, One month l2 15 Two months Hambargh, One month 95 70 Two months 35 50 Dutch Papers, June 11. 14ELGI AN k UNDS-..BRUnSELS, JUNE 11. Actual Debt, 2) per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent............. Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9l ----------- 3 per Cent. -- Thirty.seven---- 7.4i ..-------(1,340) 104% Lcan of City, 1:12., 4 per Cent 93 Society of Commerce, 4 6per Cent R3 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... ..... ........ National Society — Exchange on London (shott) - -Brussels Payers, June 11. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 3 flveper Ccnts. 512talliques Fonr per Cents Three p,r Cents. Bank ;hares " llB4 HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JuNe 10. Bills. Money. Austrian :', per Cents. Bank Shares ,... ..... ... 1700 A nglo.ltussian Loan llO 109 3 4 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate-- i 0.;% 1(-314 Inscriptioit, lit series Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series IN PEN Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (iS4O) Si -.), s • I /ti Dutch Actual Debt, •.,, per Cent. ......... Ditto a per Cent — Polish Bonds . New Tickets l7O Angla.Dmish Loin, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New spr Cents. ....... 18 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGII, JUNE 1(..-13 814, Tw6 months 11 6 %. PETERSBURG, 1 1.sV 3 l.—Three months, 385, pence. RIGA, JUNE 4. —Three Months 3SN. _ - A FAT LIVING ! — The annual value of the Pre bend in Wells Cathedral, wh:eh has lately become vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Escott, is 8/. J *it II n 4 • LONDON-: TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1842. - A new art has arisen in England. Our ingenious people, heretofore -so renoWned for inventions that have contributed to the power and enjoyment of mankind, have now fallen on a contrivance of a totally different character. They aro learning and practising the art of now To STARVE. It has made rapid progress amongst them, and the the same genius seems to have taught them it at once in different quarters of the country. In Scotland they nail up the windows, Or 'shut out the day-light, in order to keep the children in bed, and keep them quiet, for the parents say they have nothing to give them to eat, and cannot bear to hear their cries. In Yorkshire and Lancashire they lie a-bed for two days together, and pray, we are told, when they lie down, That they may never wake more. They are quite ingeniouS in their contrivances. They can get water, and they say, which is worth the knowledge of physiologists, that by taking a drink of water, and laying down, they lessen the pangs of hunger. It is solemn, serious earnest, that the people of the manufacturing districts, are learning the new art of how to starve. . Lord ASHLEY is about to take the children out Of cod pits ; the following letter written by a lady de scribing the condition of the people between Wakefield and Huddersfield, may make him pause in his career. By getting a child to work in a coal pit, a family is saved from starvation. Lord ASHLEY, and every friend to the Corn-law, will read with attention this com munication : The worsted weavers in the Grange Moor and Whitting dis trict are, and have been for seven or eight months past, suffer ing the greatest privation. With sixteen families lam per sonally acquainted; those living at some distance from me, I have only known since their distress; not any of them average more than one week's work in four, and this higher than most ; for this work they are very insufficiently remunerated. One or two have had a child employed in the coal. pits, and their wages have supplied food for a day or two in the beginning of the week, turnip-tops during the winter furnishing frequently the rest. If Lord Ashley's Bill passes, this employment in the pits must also cease, and then their condition will indeed be hopeless. Nettles have almost supplied the place of other food in some families. These families work for employers living nearly four miles from them ; day by day they travel this distance, hoping to find a piece ready. One day, in calling, I found one of the wcmen in a very exhausted state, having a child of six months old deriving all its nutriment from her, who to our inquiries of " How they had been getting on this week 2" replied, 1 have not at this mo • ment one thing eatable in the house, nor a farthing to purchase any. I went yesterday to Norton's to try for work, and it rained very hard as I returned. I felt so weak and disheartened, for I had nat met with any work, that I had to sit down many a time on my road home, and I knew I was coming home wet through to a house without fire, to find seven hungry children, and nothing to give them. The younger ones cried, as if their hearts would break for hunger, when I put them to bed. You see, Ma'am, they have not the sense to be patient when they are hungry as older ones are." This woman bad" not the means of buying a little thread, and, therefore, could not make up the clothes given to her. Two or three of these families have ten children each, and though their clothes are very pocr in almost all, there is much cleanliness preserved. Perhaps the most distressed among them is a saddler, his wife, and seven children. These people have been sold up for rent, and they bad merely a bed, stool, and table in the house. They have been so respectable, that they could not make up their minds to ask relief ; wh en we f oun d th em , th e y h a d all iemained in bed, two days being entirely without food, or the means of procu ing any. I name these sixteen families, being under my particular notice, but I have not a doubt that for miles round, the people are suffering in the same degree, or nearly so, as each day add to the list of our distressed acquaint. ante. With all this suffering, a lesson cf tatience and trust in God is taught us—few complaints, much lit p 2, rod great thankful ness to those whose hand is stretched cu... to aonVert and assist, is every where exhibited. Froin Leeds an influential perton writes thus : Since the Relief Society terminated: its benevolent labours there has been no improvement in the condition of the dis tressed poor here but that to which I have before adverted, nor is there any present prospect of any amelioration of their nit°The emplo; ers are s i n ki ng r p ith y in t o d ecay i n l c a g rg d en i u n ii.bers, and means of employmtnt are this way weekly reduced One alarming feature, we think, of the general de bility which prevails amongst the peolle wu 11119ntiOnQd to us by a -Dissenting Minister. It is no longer an un usual thing for members of his congregation who have crept to church to fai n t w h en t h ere from h unger. AmOngst the poorer classes epileptic and other fits are increasing, and the medical men ascribe the frightful disorder to insufficient nutriment. '%V were positively assured by a gentleman recently come from the north, who is in the habit of visit ing the people, that he knows at this time three houses, containing four f amilies, in which houses for two days there was not .ne morsel of food. When the peo. ple are in this wretched condition, having nothing; and unable to procure anything, unable to buy anything, it is a necessary consequence that there are many material signs of distress. Grass farms, for example, which were employed to supply them with butter and milk, are no longer of any value ; and in the 'neighbourhooch of Saddleworth, Stockport, and several other places, such farms can find no occupiers,. and their produce no purchasers. Owners of houses can find no tenants to pay rent, and they are obliged to abandon them to tilt hodlords for the ground rent. Several persons about Nottingham and Leicester, who were living at their ease. on the hire of the frames they let out to stocking weavers, have been reduced to beggary, and have taken refuge in the wot khouse. A greater increase has takes: place in the poor-rates within the last three months than in the previous six months, and nothing but dismay and ruin stare the manufacturers in the face. The most extraordinary symptom of this is, that when you meet with any of them by chance, they no longer dis cuss the price of cottons, but at what period the patience of the people, or their physical strength, will be exhausted They care nothing for the tariff ; they dread to see the towns blazing about their ears ; they dread to hear of an insurrection ; they know that the people are gathering about the hill sides' to tell their griefs to one another ; to plan means of redress —perhaps violent means ; and all the talk of men and women, all Oh: burden of their letters, are dreadful apprehensions. To justify them too, we see that the yeomanry have been ordered in some places to hold themselves in readines ; in others, they have been sent out to drill; so that if the poor are starving, the middle classes are suf fering► the worst forebodings. The Manchester Times discusses the now important question " Will the people fight or die," and the strangest thoughts are now engen dered in the heads of those who ere while thought only of scorching muslin or piecing cotton ends. The dread ful poverty of the-people is generating a prodigious dan ger, which already can only be guarded against by great additional expense and trouble. That will fall on the land and on the farmers ; and those who have obstinately de nied justice to t!.e people will probably be taught, through their pockets, that it would have been more politic to have been honest. It was reported about the House of Commons last night, that the Ministers do not mean to carry through an amended Poor-law this session. Such is the condi tion of the people in the different manufacturing dis tricts, that the law has been found inadequate, we be lieve, to give them relief. Thereto must be added, the great increase of rates, which together make the Minis. ters think it at present, it is supposed, unadvisable to enter into any amendments of the law. The report is, therefore, that they mean to divide their Bill into two parts, one providing for the continuance of the Commission, which they will pass this session ; the other for the amendment of the law, in various particu lars, which they will allow to stand over'till next session. If this report be correct, it bet?kens both an appre hension in. the Cabinet, and a speedier termination of the session of Parliament than has generally been anticipated:- The Tory 'and anti-free-trade Press, can seo at a glance, in the case .of France, the folly of _protective duties. The most ultra of our anti-commercial journals cries out against the sacrificing " the bounteous match less-growths or.the soil of .France," in order "to create a linen trade." In the commercial regulations of Eng land,they see nothing but mere protective duties to en courage deniestic industry ;" . in the commercial regula tions of-France', they behold: . only absurd .prohibitions which isolate Feanceouid destroy her prosperity: They see at oritie ilie'rnefe in the eye of our eeighbour, but they cannot be made sensible of the beam in our own. To the. folly of Frances- it is , said, England gives no countenance; end the exatisple' Eitland 'is held up for the imitation of Frame. But what is England at this moment doing' by•her tariff, ainl the host of differential duties which it contains ? ' Acting' on ' the very prin ciple- the , anti-free-traders censure in France. In every clause of that, tariffs in each of its separate columns up propriated: to different duties on foreign and rolonialpro duce, lies the principle that commercial prosperity can be promoted by discriminating duties. That is the principle on which French statesmen now act, and • the more or less, so:as to make the principle just and correct in applica tion,- algebra cannot very easily solve. The French say 20 per cent. ad valorem on linen yarns is the right figure to encourage native industry ; the anti-free-traders cry out against its exorbitancy, and, for the same purpose of protecting native industry, insist on levying a duty on wbeat, which, when the price is 305., is twice the sum. For the protection, too, of native industry in our colonies, the pens' ns who condemn the folly of the French levy a duty of 300 percent on sugar, another important article of food. We rejoice that our anti-free-trade Contem poraries have found out the folly of the French ; it is great, but the folly of th e E ng li s h . •is stupendous. : The French only keep out linen yarn and ruin the linen manufacture; the English ke e p O u t f oo d, an d are , a t once starving a part of the community, and hastening the decay of every manufacture in the country. The Legislature, of course, cannot attain its object. Neither in France nor in England does this protective system foster the growth and extension of native indus try. It is in full vigour now, and has been for years, and' never was our industry in a worse condition. It. is the standing complaint of . the anti-free-trade journals, that what the people want is not cheap food but employment to enable them to find the means of purchasing fOod. In that complaint lies the unanswerable proof that the pro tective system to . . encourage and foster native industry is a calamitous and a terrible failure. Our cotton trade, our silk trade, our iron trade, our corn trade, our colo nial trade; are all amply and admirably protected by duties, and the consequence is that every branch of industry is distressed, and in all employment is wanted. Should the present condition of the country not make the anti-free-trade party sensible of the existence cf a huge beam in their eye, they must have been, fur some fatal purpose, struck with judicial blindness. But we have a Proof in detail to lay before them of their error. .In a petition lately presented to the House of Common; by Mr. M. PHILLIPS, from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, it is remarked that, notwithstanding the enormous bounty given for the pro.: duction of West Indian sugar, the quantity sent to .Eng land has decreased very much during the last ten years: The figures in our posSession, derived from a late re turn, No. 293, laid before the House of Commons on the 6th instant, on the motion of Mr. PAKINGTON, differ somewhat from those quoted from former returns by the Chamber, and we shall make use, there fore, of the later return. By that it appears that the quantity of sugar imported from the West Indies and British Guiana, in the year 1831, was 4,103,800 cwt.; and, in 1841, it was only 2,151,217 cwt., or very little more than one half ; demonstrating that the bounty annually given, of between 2,000,0001. and 4,000,0001, for the encouragement of sugar-growing induStry in these colonies, has completely and unanswer ably failed. On that pretence, the Legislature has plun dered the consumers annually of a large sum, and put an end to all the trade we might have carried on with other sugar-growing countries ; but the pretence has turned out a false one. It is a great system of bumbng, as well as plunder. Every wrong doer expects great ad-_ his le holds g deed s,i4 od fol. . o and is invariably disap pOi vantages t disap pointed. . f T; and we are r o i I e. r u .from. as much cheated of the promised benefits of our legisla tive wrong - doing, as ever was a caught and convicted pickpocket or burglar. In spite of these facts, which must have been known . to Sir ROBERT PEEL, Mr. GOITLI3URN, and Mr. GLAD STONE, those statesmen have continued ,the nefarious scheme for another year, Th e y bpasted of the increased supply, which to some extent has come, a , and is to come, from the Mauritius and from the East Indies. But what does that prove ? Why, that under the pretence of protecting the growth of sugar in the West Indies, and saving the blacits there from harm—while the whites here are actually starved, to fill out their glossy skins—the discriminating duties on sugar are rais ing up a sugar interest in India and the Mauritius, which will by and by ask for compensation for th e l ess of 'the plunder which has been promised them. Al ready that interest stands in the way of doing justice to the people, and the continuance of the sugar duties fo r another year will strengthen its claims, whether th e quantity of sugar imported be much increased or not, With the Manchester Chamber of Commerce we agree, that this source will not, in conjunction with the drying up of the source in the West Indies, yield us a sufficient supply; and the Legislature will only create, by its in. judicious and unjust system of protecting native or colo nial industry, a huge mass of grasping paupers and pen sioners, who will claim to be nourished by differential and protective duties. We understand that a deputation of gentlemen from the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and York shire, has arrived in London, for the purpose of seeking interviews pith the most influential Members of Parlia• ent, and - others, in order to convey to them their own al palling convictions of the present state of the popula7 011 a those' districts. POLICE I N TELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH -STREET • THE LATE CASE OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT.—Yesterday Frederick Pridhani, a fashionably dressed young man, al,pa rently about twenty years of age, but of stripling growth and appearance, appeared on bail from Tuesday last, to undergo a further examination on a charge of assaulting Wilhelm Baron Osten, with intent to do him some grievous bodily injury. The Baron was sufficiently recovered to attend ; his head was, however, still bandaged up, and it was evident he had suffered most severely from his wounds. 1f was allowed a seat on the bench. The case has excited the greatest interest amongst the fashionable clubs at the West End ; and during the examin ation the following persons of distinction were prese n t ; v i z., Lord Wenlock, Major-General Brotherton, .the Hon. H. Lawley, John Lowther, Esq., Brotherton, Esq, Pol hill, Esq., Head, Esq., Sir J. Gerald, Bart., Mr. Anger ' stein, Sir Francis Gardiner, the Hon. Mr. Cavendish, Mr. Clegg, and Sir Singleton Cotton. Mr. Clarkson appeared as counsel, and Mr. Hubler as soli citor, on the part of the prosecution. The prisoner had no professional assistance. Mr. Clarkson said be had the honour to appear on behalf of a foreign Nobleman, Baron Osten, a military officer of very high distinction, formerly belonging to the German Legion, and afterwards of the 16th Light Dragoons, in which he was for 26 years (the principal part of the time in India), and at present a Lieutenant-Colonel of Husars in the Hanoverian service, who had been so ferociously assaulted and wounded by the young man at the bar, that his life was for a time endan gered, and from which he had sustained serious bodily injury. He (the Learned Counsel), for the information of the Bench, would briefly sta'e the facts of the case. About twenty years ago, the Baron, while in Paris, lost a considerable sum of money (several hundreds) at billiards to a person of the name of Pridham ; but, from information he afterwards received, he was induced to believe that it had not been fairly won, and that the person named Pridham had assumed a character and sta tion in society he hail no right to, arid was, in fact, no gentle man, and he (the Baron) consequently refused to pay. He was, however, subsequently induced to pay half the amount, leaving a bid for the remainder in the hands of his solicitor, which was to be paid "on Mr. Pridham pro ducing proofs that he was a gentleman." For twelve years no such proofs were adduced, and payment of the bill was not claimed ; but soon after that period application was again trade to the Baron by Mr. Pridham far the amount of the bill, and the former wishing to wash his hands of the transaction alto7e• ther, and, acting by the advice of his lawyer, paid the whole amount. Some short time since, a number of noblemen and gentlemen were desirous of forming themselves into a billiard club, which they accordingly did, under the title of " Pratt's Billiard Club." Lately, a friend of the Baron chanced to men tion to him that a new member, of the name of Dr. Pridham, was about to be prop:sed. The name induced inquiries on the part of the Aaron as to who Dr. Pridham was, and hence the discovery was made that he was the identical " Pridham" spoken off. The consequence was that the Doctor was black balled, and that ultimately led to the assault complained of. The Baron having been sworn, made the following statement : —I live at No. 12, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Between two and three o'clock, on Monday afternoon, the 6th inst., as I was sitting writing in my drawing-room, my servant announced to me that a gentleman wisnted to speak to me, and nearly at the same instant the prisoner entered the apartment, with a stick in his hand. He came up to me in a swaggering sort of manner, and said " Baron Osten, I presume," at the Fame time violently stamping his stick on the floor. I said, " Yes, Sir, that is my name;; pray, what is yours, and wh a t may b e your business ?' Instead of giving me a direct answer, he ssid—" Do you recollect Dr. Pridham ?" I said— " Yes, unfortunately I do, but you are not Dr. Pridham." Mr. Clarkson inquired if Dr. Pridham was in the room ? if so, he should be given into custody. The prisoner said his father was not present. The Baron resumed—He said, "No, tut I'm his friend," throwing a card en the table, and stamping his stick on the floor again, added, "I came to ask you in his name, whether yen traduced his character at Pratt's Billiard Ciub, or any other place, or said that he had been a marker (a marker at a billiard table) ?" I answered, " I don't recollect that I actually said that he hailbeen a marker, but words to that effect were used, which I have every reason to believe to be true ;" and I added, "that I was not the only person who had circulated those re ports, naming at the time another gentleman who had com municated to me a report of a similar nature." He then said, " Who have you named these reports to?" I said, " That's immaterial. I can have no further communication with you, and I bsg you will leave my room immediately." At the same time I rung my bell, and on my servant coming to me, I de sired him to be in attendance at the door. The servant left the room and closed the door, when the prisoner addressed me again, saying, " Had you not a conviction that these reports were false when you paid the money ?" I said, " No, sir, I never entertained that conviction ; ' the moment I had said those words, he gave me a violent blow with his stick across the chest, calling me coward and liar. Against the wall op posite to me was a sofa, on which lay two Turkish sabres ; I made a step towards them, naturally, to protect myself, but the prisoner was too active for me, and got between me and the sofa, and struck the a most tremendous blow on the head with his stick, which broke and splintered the stick, and covered me with blood. I then tried to grapple with him, and he then struck me several more blows with the thick end of the stick he retained in his hand. My servant then rushed into the room, and I believe I then caught hold of the pri soner, and saw him strike me the last blow, but I was nearly tainting with the loss of blood, and cannot exactly recollect what took place afterwards. The stick was produced by Police•constable Thomas Bush, No. 150, of the C division, who took the prisoner into cus tody. It was of black ebony, and of remarkable thickness; the thick end of it, which the prisoner retained in his baud, formed a formidable weapon of a,sault, nearly sufficient to knock a bullock down. Mr. Richard Sharwood, of No. 8, New Bond-street, surgeon, stated, that on being called to attend the Baron, he found he had received two severe, extensive, contused, and lacerated wounds on the lrft side of the head, dividing the integuments down to the bone of the skull, and also a severe bruise on the left temple ; the injuries were such as would be produced by some blunt heavy instrument that had been used with great violence. The Baron had lost a great quantity of blood, and was in a very exhausted and irritated state. By Mr. Clarkson—The blows were inflicted on the part of the Baron's person most likely to be follswed by fatal conse quences. At the time, I did not apprehend a serious result, but, from the symptoms that afterwards appeared, I had reason to change my opinion, and it was not until late at night that I could pronounce the Baron out of danger. Mr. Clarkson said it was not the actual consequences that arose from the injury inflicted, but the intention with which it was done, and which must be judged of by the cir, umstanees, and description of weapon used. James Sudbury, servant to the Baron, corrotors'ed his master's statements. ( His evidence was given in the Ma - lborough-street Police report of The San, of Wednesday last.) The prisoner, who throughout had c inducted himself with much levity, frequently smiling as the witnesses described his attacks on the Baron, on bcirg called on for his defence, stated that he caled on the Baron to ask him whether he had calumniated his father, and could obtain no satisfactory an swer. llc asked him if Sir Singleton Cotton hal told him of the reports, but received no reply. INIr. Clarkson—Sir Singleton Cotton is present, and you can call him, and ask hint the question yourself. Prisoner—No, I don't, wish to bring any other person's name In question about such a delicate matter. The Prisoner then went on to state, that the Baron assaulted hint first ; and he stuck him to prevent him getting a sword, which, had he done, he must of course have taken the triter ha his own defence, ant should instantly have cut him down, " as he was a most excellent swordsman ;" as it was he soundly flogged " the fellow" until he did not choose to inflict further castigation on h:m. Mr. MALTBY—From the evidence I have heard I hove made up my mind to commit you to Newgate, to take your trial at the present sitting of the Central Criminal Court, fur a felonious assault. Prisoner—Very well, Sir, I mu,t bow to your decision. He was then taken in charge by Willis, the gaoler, and locked up. Sir Singleton Cotton, addressing Mr. Maltby, said he ha I purposely attended to answer any questions that might be put to him. He openly avowed that he, for one, had circulated the reports about ar. Pridliam, and would continue to do so. They were true. He had been a marker at a billiard table, and twenty years ago he served him a similar trick to that he had the Baron. The Baron and the other witnesses were bound over, in SO/. each, to prosecute. On Tiiesday last the prisoner was bailed by his father, who gave his ad.irets at the Reform Club House. Baron Osten is very aged, and has been in seventy engage ments, and never received the slightest wound. The prisoner was tread on Saturday night last to a low hues! in St. Giles's by policeman 5 E, a.nd taken into custody. The mother said she did not wish to hurt the prisoner, but she wished to save him from ruin. His father was now lying dead in the house. Prisonor (clasping his hands and crying)—Oh ! for God's sake do forgive me, mother. I did not know my father was dead when I took the property. Oh, your Worship, pray have mercy and forgive me, and I will go to sea and retrieve my cha racter, and try and be a comfort to my mother. Do not let a mother transport her own child! The mother—Oh, do not let me transport him. Do some• thing to save him from ruin. —(She here fell down in a fit, and was supported from the witness box.) The mother being enabled to speak again, begged that the prisoner might not be prosecuted to conviction, but summarily punished. Mr. GREENWOOD said the auditory felt the deepest com miseration for the unfortunate mother, and he directed that the prisoner should be locked up, and that the officer shout call and request the overseer frf St. Giles's parish to attend. in order to be consulted as to the best (Nun - 4 to pursue in the case, and if possible to get him to sea. An overseer subsequently attended, and the prisoner was handed over to him, and taken to the workhouse. CROYDON POLICE. If Sharman, the master of the National Schaal at Croydon, was charged upon a warrant before Messrs. Suther land and Lucas, with having cruelly beaten and ill•treated one of the scholars, a little but named Sammons, six years old. The father of the child being sworn, stated that he was in duced to bring the present charge in consequence of the cruel tteatment his son had received at the hands of the defendant. He then proceeded to state that on Thursday last, when his little boy came home from school he appeared to be in very great pain, and was unable to sit in a chair. He did not make any complaint at the time, but on his being questioned he said that his master had been beating him with a "pointer." His rson was afterwards examined, and he was found to be bruised in a most dreadful manner, and he was at this time hardly able to sit upright. The little boy was then brought forward, and the Magis trates said he was too young to be sworn ; but, in answer to questions put to him, he said that his master beat him. The Magistrat s then gave directions that the inspector on duty should take the boy into another room and examine his person, and this was accordingly done. Thomas Eliiott, a schoolfellow of the complainant's son, was then sworn, and he stated that the master took the boy and laid him on a desk, and beat him with the pointer. He said that he beat him severely, and appeared' to be in a great passion with him at the time he was beating him. The irspector here informed the Bench that he had examined the boy's back and h:ps, and that there was new a bruise larger than his hand, and he appeared to have been very severely beaten. Mr. SUTHERLAND asked the defendant what answer h• had to make to the charge preferred against him?—'he defendant replied that he had 150 boss under Vis charge, and it was necessaay to keep strict discipline in the 'chop!. The complainant was the most tiresome little boy in the school, and he could do nothing with him. On the day in question he had inflicted a slight punishment upon him in the morning, and as this did not have the desired effect he cer. tainly did punish him more severely in the afternoon, bat he thought at the time he did not give him more punishment than he deserved. Mr. SurnEer.sxn asked the defendant if he had seen the state of the i;hild's person since the punishment ? He replied that I.e had. Mr. SUTHERLAND—And do you think you were justified in inflicting such a severe punishment upon a child six years old? Defendant—l must say Ido not think I should punish him again so severely. — The Maghti;.tes here both expressed their opinion that the child appeared to have been punished in a most severe and on. just fiab!e manner. The defendant said he had filled the situation of master of the school for some years, and no complaint had ever before been made against him. The father of the comrlainant observed, that it was rotorinus that the defendant treated all the boys very cruelly, and a great number of them were about to leave the school in consequence of it. The defendant here remarked that he was very sorry to be compelled to say that the boy was a very bad character. The MAGISTRATES told him it was nonsense for him to talk of the chara,•ter of a child six years old. They considered he had treated the little boy very cruelly, and they adjudged him to p;y a fine of 20s. and costs. Mr. Sutherland, at the same time,•advised the father of the child to represent the matter and tha result to the Committee of the school, in order that they might be aware of the fact!, and act upon them as they might think fit. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERS.A.LL'S.—YEsrEanAr. The Ascot settling, though small in amount, and confined to a less numerous class than usual, was more extensive than could have been expected in the present state of the turf ; as far as we could be guided by appearances, it passed off tolera bly well. Of the Derhy settling we have little that is favour ab!e to report. Four °f-tits prnicipal.absentees, are in eommn nica,ion with theircredilopt, ; and as it is the opinion of the lat ter, that a publication of.jleir,-. names would close the door against. an arrangem ent, -w ttbOtit. answering any good purpose, we abstain from dtimg so at „presept, A Reverend Divine is a heavy loser, and, as yet, his,wwosala hare not been satisfac tory. Should they fail tw.he otherwise within a very short period, we understand, it the intention of some of thegentle men to whom he,i,sirailehted,aor to . ,avretecalt.she .matter in a certain quarter.. as ,churik prefarment; Of the.. other parties to vilom athtsion 'k w b en ma d e , several arei, reported- as,altijoetber imitift4l6 purse of, a iongafternoon,3loiae half Boren be'S.weri*adeow the st. (er 4Mt Ma WOO& Cat , , which for the giti.isnee - of t . hose interest ed we quote below;., it will he.ismg..,::hmtwvSi. ere oon4denee can he setlieientlY estOrevt 10,esay'rege the safe 111111 to al en books on the next Verby ; and even Own it is obvious that their number and amount a iii eta anatertally lessened, and that those who have suffered by layiurt niOre tluitt-their stake against the favourites, and ,hOging It the .fit moment with the '' 1"h" biers," w:11 be compelled to lieep, within campi.s. Farther, having the benefit of .an expensive le.,son, the backers at less odds that hive . after Wards became ,prmineut ,favouriter4 will see the propri e ty of hedgiug on terms with the layers of the original bets. GOODWOOD cur. 5 to 1 agst Mr, Or,lp' s 10 to 1 apt Duke of Orleans' Nautilus—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Middleham—taken ST. LEGEIt. 2 to 1 agit Colonel Ancon's Attila—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ram.,ay's Cabrera 6 to 6 o.► tEcott's let—u,ken DERBY'. ()Sera to take 40 to 1 about A British Yeoman. SERIOUS ACCIDEST.—On Saturday last, Mr. B. Baldwin, M.P., had a very i,arfow, and we sect' add, a very miraculous esea.,-e of his life, whilst riding a highly spirited horse to the fete at the Horticultural Gareens. Chiswick, as, within a mile of the place, in passing a gig, a Richmond om nibus bore done upon him with great velocity, and 30 closely as to cause the step of the vehic:e to cut his right leg through his trousers and boots, and pierce the right flank of his horse, ' which made hint rear and fall back upon the Hon. Member, who was taken up and carried into a neighbout ing house, but who, we are happy to say, made his appearance in the gardens at a late hour with his right . arm in a sling, and limping in his walk, so that we hope ro serious consequences will follow. We understand it is probable that the noble animal will be rendered entirely useless. Surely some law ought to be passed to regulate these lawless drivers, who care no more about the life of an 'individual than that of a reptile —[We copy this graphic account from our respectable Contemporary, the Standard, and think that these lawless drivers should be punished for caring- " no more about the life of an individual than that of a reptile."l MODE OF EN UNIER.:kTING TILE UNENIPLOYED AT PA ISLEV.—From a scrutiny which has been carrying on for the last fortnight, it appears that the data made use of in as certaining the numbers on the unemployed list have been erro neous, and have shown the numbers on the list, considerably higher than facts warranted. In regard to males the enume rators of the relief committee, who made up the lists, went on the assumption that the depeaden.s on each amounted to 24, whereas, in reality, they amount only to 2i ; and that the de- Pendents on females amounted on an average of two to each, while in reality they amount to very little more than one. The result of the whole is, that the total number of unemployed, stated officially in our last at 10,427, ought to have been con siderably under 8,000. The cumber is still formidable, but it is so far satisfactory to find that the case is not so bad as dependence on erroneous data made U.—Paisley Advertiser. SINGULAR INCIDENTS.—A few days ago a series of casualties, which we should be disposed to term whimsical, were it not that one of them at least was attended with some degree of danger to life, took place at Greenock. quay. A smart, cleanly-looking servant girl, about to enter upon a " vevr place, appeared at the quay with a large and heavy trunk, for the puniest of going on board a steamer, which was about to cross to the Gairloch. The trunk, while being hauled on deck. by some means or other, got out of the hands of its custodiers, and tumbled into the sea. This was casualty the first, and steps were promptly taken to remedy it. The trunk was raised out of the water, and while slowly ascending by the steamer's side, its owner eagerly stretching out her arms to clutch it, the lid suddenly gave way, separating from the body, and the trunk once more tLated in the water. With the same promptitude as before the devoted chest was seized, and again it was in the act of being swung on board, when, as casualty ihe third, crash went the bottom, and into the sea tumbled, in " most admired disorder," the body habiliments of the unfortunate set vine- ' wench here a gown and there a p e tti coa t, h ere a shoe and there a dashing Sunday shawl, with aprons, caps, stockings, and shifts of every variety—while a large catalogue of small ar' icli a were covered by a huge blue umbrella, which un furled itself in all its amplitude, as if to protect them from the rain above, deeming them, no doubt, wet enough below. By dint of exertions, for which the half-frantic maiden "ME she could never be sufficiently thankful, the scattered arti cles of dress, including the blue umbrella aforesaid, wire gathered up, and with the bottomless trunk, put safely on b',ard. It was now hoped by the bystanders that forttine had done her worst, at least for that occasion, on the ill fated girl; but .no, a disaster more ser i ous sti ll was in store for the hapless Abigail. The steamer was about to sail, and our heroine was standing on one of the wings adjoining the paddle-box, speaking to a friend on shore, when a sadden jerk of the boat threw her, in imitation of her trunk, right into the water. This most unfortunate of all the casualties which had occurred changed the current of feeling from laughte• to alarm, and those who had been most amused at the farmer mishaps were now the most active in rendering assistance when life was at stake. Providentially, the poor girl was got out of the water more frightened and wet than seriously inju r ed, and here, so far as is known, did her misfortunes for this day terminate. The circumstances, as may be supposed, caused no small amusement on board; and those who witnessed the m will not soon forget the scenes enacted by the u e d carpet-i c w r o an e h ff a w e g i c t . t , ~ the ee more famed m w e h d i e a l d i v a e l n m tu o r s es t equal , —Glasgow Argus. in " man with it o h ‘f‘ th i in a London paper,' . THE IRISH POST-OFFICE.— ch lit wasstated paragraph, th ap pearedaltataelznlof. 29.0001. was due to the Irish Post-office, which was totally irrecoverable. Having been under the impression that this o h m m e en t trouble u w b a l s e to workedasc ert a i i n n th an e real effie i f e a n c t t s , ra w a h n i c n h e r ;re " th h e a se ve : 'for a period of upwards of fifty years ; b u t , ta ki ng the~ —A sum , n early as large as that stated, is du e , b ut i t has beets y ear s, the irrecoverable d e bt s are but two—one i neng a Postmaster in Connemara, amount i ng to 35/. 55., theaapgaccs past second nu 'ti in Tipperary, amounting to 8/. 3s. There is always a floating debt due by provincial Postmasters, who are fut. o n f is t h h e e l ir e a v c e c r o y u t n h t r s e , e t in hey nnt i h n s ;ai a r n atl i y pay he in afe t wd m w aysa rth er p t r h ore er p e t e net and satisfaction.—Dublin Pest. • Tits; UNEMPLOYED IN PERTII.—On Wednesday a meeting of members of Council, manufacturers, and others, for the purpose of inquiring into the present state of destitu tion, arising from want of employment,-now existing in Perth, was held in the Council Chamber. Provost Sidey in the Chair. It was stated that the number of weavers had decreased to 18 or 20, but that labourers were rapidly on theincrease, and new numbered 150; which amount was to be increased the-nett day by 30 carpenters, who were then to be idle, -frog the re• . pairs on the d re d g i ng - mac hi ne b e i ng completed. discussion a Com m itt ee was app o int e d t o ra i s e f un ds byatt o ttZ subscription, and provide work, and to cominence.ite: immetittely...Pceley Adeertifff; e ,cghtes, CLERK EAV WELL. Mr. Charles Dunn, a Solcitor, of 33, Gloucester -street, Clerkenwell, was charged by Mr. George K•ng. carpet-manu facturer, of 37, St. 'ohn-street-road, with having committed a violent assault upon him. Mr. King stated, that about a fortnight ago the defendant called at his shop, accompanied by his wife, and selected a Brussels carpet, which was sent to his residence, together with a bill and a receipt. In two days after a servant girl called to request witness would attend at defendant's house to alter the carpet to the size of a room for which it was intended, and that a hearthrug to match should be sent. The rug wa, sent by a boy, with instructions not to leave it without the money ; and the boy, having been informed that the defendant was not at home, and therefore that the rug could not be paid for, brought the article back again. On Saturday evening the defendant called at witness's shop, evidently in a very excited ,ta•e, and having used to witness's wife very gross and threaten ing language in reference to witness, demanded to see him. Witnessbeing in a back parlour at the time immediately went I into the shop, when the defendant, repeating the language he had used, threw a half-sovereign on the counter, and then seized witness by the coat collar with his right hand, and com menced beating him with his left hand upon the ribs in a vio lent manner. A struggle ensued, and they fell down, the de fendant being under, in which position witness contrived to keep him until the assistance of a policeman was procured, who, aided by the neighbours who had crowded into the shop, extricated witness from ttie grasp of his assailant, and secured the latter. This testimony was corroborated by that of Mrs. King and the servant girl. Mr. GREENWOOD asked whether the defendant w•as sober at the time ? All the witnesses said they thought he had been drinking. Police-constable. G 154, said that when he went into the shop, he saw several of the neighbours holding the defendant down on the floor, a 3 if to secure him. Witness took hint into custody. The defendant, in answer to the usual questions from the Magistrate, said that he felt exceedingly annoyed at the rug not having been left without the money, he being absent for a short time when the boy called. This was treating him as if he were a cheat or a swindler. The complainant, he said, seized the half-sovereign, and took hold of him first. He denied that he had Veen drinking, or that he had used the bail lan. guaze attributed to him. Mr. GREENWOOD said that the complainant had a right to sell his goods fur ready money, orcas he thought proper. The defendant was not justified in conducting himself in the outra geous mariner it was proved he had done. He would convict liimin the penalty of 40s. The defendant immediately handed over two sovereigns to the clerk and left the Court. The Clerk—l really think we ought to have scales of some sort to weigh the sovereigns tendered to us in Court. Mr. GREENWOOD—I am afraid if Sou were to refuse to re cei•v-e sovereigns from the class of persons by whom they are payable here, you would incur greater risks than the loss arising from light sovereigns. I should think a light sovereign may easily be detected by its appearance. The ('lark—Then are we to be the lo erg ? GREENW should say the Quern must re• ceiv .. e them as we get them, and be at the loss. 1 esterday Win. Hornier, aged IS, was charged by Ann Harmer, his own mother, a cast-down, heart-broken woman, residing at 27, Cromer-street, St. Pancras, with having stolen a gown-1 iece, a suit of boy's clothes, and other property. It was elicited that the prisoner was a dissolute character, v.ho had frequently robbed his parents, and ill-used them in other ent -, regp u n til his father died of a broken heart. H e , ch ab sconded from home some time ago, taking with him a suit el clothes belonging to his brother, which he sold. His father died on Thursday last, and whilst he was lying dead the pri soner entered the house and robbed it of the other property. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. • •• -The First Flower Show of the Season:l THIS DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 14th. The ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SO CIETY will hold a GRAND FETE DES FLEURS, and Miscel hineciss FLOWER SHOW in the al.ove admirably adapted Grounds, on Tuesdav,-. June 14th, 1812, when OU it GOLD and SILVER MEDALS will be awarthd for the best Specimens and Collections of Pelargoniums, Roses, Miscellaneous Plants, Coleco. !arias, rinks, Ranunculus, Heart's Ease, Cut Flowers, Eticas, Or. chidaceous Plants in Flower, Specimen Plants, Seedling Heart's Ease, Fine Apples, Black Grapes, White Grapes, Collections cf Fruit and Vegetab'es. In addition to the Prizes given In the Committee, k:xtra Prizes are offered by Members of the Society to Amatuers for the Lest collet ion of Pelargoniums—to Nurserymen for auto—to Amateurs for the best collection of Pelargonium Blooms, cut in burches of twenty-four vdrieties—to Gentlemen's Gardeners for the best collection of Cut Flowers. The Flowers will be arranged in Classes under the spacious and handsome Tents of Messrs, STAFF, and SoN. liestdes the Exhibition of Floral and Horticultural products, which fee m the fineness of the season and other favourable circumstanc is confidently expected to Le unusually rich, varied, and extensive, the whole of the popular Entertainments for which this Establish. scent is so widely celebrated, will be given sin a scald of grandeur eclipsing all previous efforts. Admission One Shilling. Gates Open at One l oncert at :ix. Fireworks at half past Nine. The Evening Fetes, with all the usual attractions, every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Open from Ten us the Morning. Feeding liour•Five o'clock. THE IN fA_ SUN,. CONTAINING MA P AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, ALSO, TRE CHINA SUN, ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHING , WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND • . CHINA. ~r zse s, tjier ' F rio 011