The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-07 00:00:00

is not s From an ~ .per per , holy event f her 'Ala v cutting Frs. dr, fror ‘elLt. - : being iptct,i at. 405."0 mrtitiono/- Yu-ICang 5 n of Stead, vidont that t infamous sted to the the fiend ! tt Chinhue with that last year upon our nploy, and *his, will rather and fresh meat Leans were permitted id, that he !,, rice Albe rt to KereP panic(' the worship je, Duchess of e, the Hoe ;hole of the son, Chap' rrnon front, Int, and an mard, took ee Ambss' orning for any phEetels le Dudes' and Paul :ountess 0 ereux, the. :•kmar, Schombel .eneral s, and tb. ded Divir l. th Audler 1 the Dube bf.F.r Mr' Borradeller mad, Mr. an i n ter' -office. Satortlll .t Peel in ight 11°°' niew sideues day at del e Duke on Satte!, mial-0 111 ' t Britt . five. tn f•j• le death_j— y How w t : the 85— THE NEW PENSION LIST. (From the Spectator.) When th e reformed system of Civil List Pensions was settled by the Whigs, the Crown was empowered by r,arliament to create new pensions to the amount of 200( in each year. We have before us a returns show w6.l.wrieligi e h . h o s t v h t e h e last year's 1,2001. was disposed of. There cre sixteen reci ients Here they are, in the order in pensions wer; granted, but subject to a classi abon not made in the Parliamentary return. l eo ~ TEACHING THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. ' d tlY 23d . '...... Reverend Henry Barez (German)Xloo Signor Giuseppe Guazzaroni (Italian) . John Bernard Sale, Esq. (singing) 100 Thomas Steward (writing) Mozmier Francois Gras dineare 100 4 ; .. .. .• (French) . ~iis:_t- . Mrs. Lucy A n d erson (music) ~. ... Madame Sarah Matilda Bourdin (dancing)....., •. -- £650 PUBLIC SERVICES. ptember 9th Henry Williams ( Special Constable in the Newport r ots). Thomas Walker (the same) 2O 1841 5 y Edward Morgan (the same) 2O La res 1 7th ......Peter Warren Dease, Esq. (Chief Factor-of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, and a daring geographical J discoverer) June 7th ...Elizabeth Devereux Kennedy and Anna Maria Kennedy (daughters of Sir Robert Kennedy, late Com . m issary- General ; a faithful public servant for thirty-eight years, and _, . a sufferer in war) Sum, / LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. -- -- • • ••• ••-•• George Burges, Esq. (Greek Li terature) Thomas Webster (Geology) 5O , Rev. Thomas Kidd, M.A. (Classical Literature) hne 17... ..... .Benjamin Thorpe, Esq., (Anglo- Saxon language, in addition to a further pension of 1601 4O Z 290 t stat , on_ rewards are gi v e n by p u bli c b o di es , th e y are iad 'Y c onsidered, errors except e d, as some voucher and e‘ r „`, 1 1 2f merit ; th e hi g h er mer i t ga i n i ng t h e hi g h er l 84 1" ". The dispenser of the Royal favour for 1840- th at 4C 'eras to have hit upon an ingenious converse to )41, fi rt , i le. If we take the 1,2001. in its three divisions, p or a u that it was awarded in these proportions— vocititei a o e r h t i r n o g u o h n le e so y m ou e n p g .p l i a l ly (not understood to be a .. 4.650 r encountering hards hi rv~re p and danger in the public 260 13 4 :„ r ,Proluotiug the science and literature of the world 290 40 On to one's country and devotion to mankind are 4 % 1 2 ! upon a p ar ; b ut d evot i on to one young lady, who pr o e eonie a Q ueen, b eats t h em b ot h toget h er in the tli4Portion of 65 t o 55. B rave h yper b orean snows an d g a it:, t he arctic confin es o f a con ti nen t, an d yo u shall Pr o , - a s ranch a s if you i mpart to t h e R oya l instep it s d ot :'er curve. Face insurrection, and you shall be set 4 11 1 for one -fifth of the pay awarded to the estimable ti,s,. a ' a who puts Thalberg at the tips of the young lady's r kiii -r s• To extend the knowledge of the greatest lite in p le of the ancient world, is of equal price with shap gi7e lips of the young lady aforesaid to execute the miter which distinguish a celebrated singer at public tai - c !„ . 8 and sacred entertainments. Such was the sacrifice "Y those respectable persons at the top of the list, totial,cepting the very best terms for attending at Kensin biental„ace, and in securing the best possible advertise kily of their merits—a kind of puff which would fetch for i t T °l t l eY in the market—that they are to be pensioned ae t i2_ • When the young Princess's schooling was over, is ;" 1 ,, ght the bills were paid. Not at all ; the country ---. e tiB - "Pd upon to throw in 6501. a-year as a makeweight te ach .'e for th e sa k e of k eep i ng up the pay for the lady's Wh„:lag until that f or h er c hild ren ' s tutor i ng s h a ll b egin. of ,;"' a n invaluable secret it would be if all the owner. 4 Pl est ablishm en t s f or young l a di es " cou ld k eep t h e i r b s on th e i r bill s t i ll they should b ecome mothers ! for 1 - ;• e D uke of Wellin g t on once p ra i se d L or d M e lb ourne to o Is s ervices'as Mentor to young Royalty ; but the p it ,,greeable Vi scount, i t appears, forgot to i nstruct his 4 l' in th e common duty of keeping private and official ,o)ounts distinct an d even . Th e h uge P r i vy Purse of o of i ts a year was prov ided to secure the gratification satisf ," ol der's personal feelings ; the sum set apart to , ) , ve 3 what m ay b e ca ll e d t h e pu bli c f ee l ing o f the ter rt j e igo, the desire to encourage public merit seldom of ii: ner ated, is not so l arge i n p ro p or ti on th a t one -h a lf put. sh ould bear th e over fl ow i ng charges of the Privy drE tl 4 ?' Lord bourne forgot State arithmetic in his vlog-room e lurec e t l s on Constitutional law, A w UL DOINGS IN SCOTLAND. (From the Spectator.) Extr acts from Scotch journals, in our news depaer_t -- ling' e f , °t uratinicitted to our readers last week, the app 1 objeci.a-ormation, that " Scotland is at this moment an , btstii: o a f ri i: ri t e ei s l s se interest both in Heaven and in Hell!' g the battle-field in which . the Powers of Ligh r t , are engaged in a desperate conflict Such intelligence had-not been received from the North attezei; under the auspices of the sapient King JAMIE, an mi re s . was made to stem the growth of witchcraft d by: testedlbog the staff of " prickers - " (the officials who e lb seal set by the Evil One upon those . who ha_d sold theirapp ar souls to him) in every town and village. It 41c , ed that the scattered bands of the " powers of the :th carrying L _ on a guerilla warfare over the whole Me. had been called in for the purpose of concentrat °f"th'eAT, ' S atanic force upon Scotland. The good people as , South, relieved for a time by this step from the_ the is of the tempters, had the more leisure to watch ?progress of the Northern struggle. th;. 0 "! first news from the theatre of war was alarming— reeulvers of Darkness had triumphed! It was some re t 14 ' 43 We to learn that their opponents were . not „-,,rtened. The minority of the shareholders in the uue I Glasgow Railway Company met on the % e rri,! . an( f .r defeat, in Cotton's 'Wellington 11.‘' zih t l - f llt e lla l r ig eso o lved e " that the. Committees . at Edinburgh a Tiksgow do declare their meetings permanent."' It 11t.111.- hi -time.; for never since Dr. Martin Luther huf e k w his inkstand at Satan's head, had that great 15 6 .7 (4 ' of mischief stood so clearly revealed to view. 111 - d not th e fi re and smoke of the l ocomot i ve eng i nes, giv e t he unearthly scr ea m or w hi s tle w ith w hi c h they is_. no tice of th e i r approach, betray their parentage? It ailve'ear from the vote of the proprietors of the Glasgow tl6: E dinburgh Railway, that " the dread Fire-King" hit 3 nOt lend them his services for nothing; he repays t i% if I\ 4 taking them bound to promote Sahhath-dese rtle„,°„T'-'r. Symington seems, from a speech he delivered at m onth of the minority on the evening of the 25th of last th at L° see the matter in.its true light—" It was Non ash thtr„ ".," agitation against the Railway was a ~.s ' ° " l Measure : the Nonintrusionists need not be list, t i ed of being th e a d voca tes o f S a bb a th- o b servance ; 7"gh he denied it was a party measure, h e wou ld 1 see the great seal applied to a deed to prevent saa ti es and railway-trains, with their din and their LW,„" , and their congregations of desecrators, from tsai, Intruded into any of the parishes of Scotland con- Who to the will of the people." The Doctor is right. Paril v er handles pitch will be defiled : into whatever t 4 , 4" these unholy engines are allowed to penetrate, the." will carry irreligion along with them. Keep "' out t • us, however, see what the proprietors of this itt, th ,. v aY are going to do, in order that we may more °blicstinlate the measure of their iniquity, as masters th ose their servants to work on the Sabbath : for eeo lb - w ho may avail themselves of the railway .tu-o',niodation they are not answerable. " You will has said Mr. Hamilton, at the meeting which hvelv oeecasioned all this outcry, " about ten or L en gineers and as many stokers : of these, two t 'z'tne —°ll duty each Sunday ; that is, their turn will they w i land once i n fi ve or six weeks; in other words, 4tl CI he empl oye d a b out ten S un d ays every y ear , g a i n tl ve about f orty S un d ays at t h e i r own di s p osa l. th o t heY need not be taken from their families even enea te -c ten Sundays. By the regulation of the Man the e r and Liverpool line, when the trains meet midway u each s p °lll Pany's servants meet and change trains. b a d that t uns home. This rule might be adopted ere, ir °ta - t h' g . whole length of time they would be separated an , hei r families weuld be about three hours morning Th e -il ing for ten Sundays in the year." ' 3 th e sacrifice is not so very great after all what lucr e c ' b ieet proposed to be obtained by it ? Not d esp for two trains with a limited number of coaches cl aY from each - end - of -the- -railway ; }n one ford Scarcely pay expenses. The object is to a - Nht an , accomtnodation to the public which it has a %toga demand. When individuals, or a company, Z t era, trt.ta calculationsstem of. conveyance for pass . en- Z"e is that there are a sufficient ile„,, individ ua l s o b l i ged to travel, and yet obliged to -ltsts za „ insure to them a constant succession of Qlaa a ,„ er ' 4 1)4 ti of the eoranaunity th a t p ower o f t rave lling with field on , which otherwise would be exclusively con beceal° the ri c h . They are well paid by the public, and Coln bound bound in equity to supply it with all necessary . th e xcodation in the way of travelling. Now, viewing th e tlltlecstion only in this point of view—assuming, for the hdae,°f argument, that Sunday-travelling really is onsin Some account it to be —it must be 141 - 18 t tr iat° account that there are cases when people_ liug are Sunday. If these traffickers in tr m av u e s l t be Pro v i ai l( _ ma dheir Promise to the public, there ros e ~,A `', l de for the accommodation of those who are Gl °Y contingencies to travel on Sunday. This ca _ 200,400 e done where, as in the case of Edinburgh and o ' t.wo c ommunities 'numbering respectively nea e rli: carriers nhabitants. rely upon these Passeg of eor ivet ,' 'or ac commodation, by a regular despatch fty wiZ ne e on Sundays as on other days. No one car, *het, t heY May be wanted ; and stopping them for s a Was r.aturdaybe Productive Th e moZ i • nav of painful consequepc . e. ; la te on. ~, rigia will not deny that any person receilin,, night the intelligence that a parent S'i tad mg, would he warranted to travel to see him On ta t i o ,l or t hat a medical man summoned to a consul ottn,.. might travel on the Sabbath without sin ; and Pubif e Parallel cases might be imagined. Regular kiddieeonveyances are the only means by which the exe ll ,„„ i nd poorer classes can avail themselves of these • ar e cd .PL!°:_ls ; and in such numerous communities they .sar, ,;otheiently frequent occurrence to render it neces on iri ' ed rat they should be attainable on Sundays as the %S. The question not whether speculators 1 4wed e trade of public conveyance should he al ing tit un der :no convey passengers on Sunday, but whether Y pretext they should be excused from convey -I:;suabovo in on that day. Air. Hamilton's statement, quoted .tsbhisowasecowmitmho(ltusliigulaity sacrifice of Sabbath re note publi be kept open for the ° wne rs c where there is a railway. The railway_ ' bound to find all corners the - Means of travel . .7, • whether the traveller s do right or wrong in tra is th ei own concern, with which no human being s aught 4) l' Interfere. If that class did not travel by railway, it would desecrate the Sabbath in some other and perhaps grosser manner. Above all others, railway proprietors are bound to provide this accommodation, for they destroy even posting on the lines along which they furnish the means of travelling : you must go by them or not at all. MAGAZINES-CONCLUDE D. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. There is a judicious mixture of fancy and matter of-fact in this periodical, which professes to be a re cord of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. " Pu ' seyism" is the first question discussed, and the dis cussion is pursued temperately, and not without force of reasoning. The writer justly remarks that the doctrine has two aspects—a religious and a political one ; that with the leading men who expound and enforce it, its religious element is decidedly predomi nant ; but that the currency which it has gained in the community, and the material forces which it is enabled to .wield, are due mainly to its political ele ment. " Animal Magnetism in Practice" is a quaint collection of rhymes, in some of which the reader will detect something of Hood's manner. " Characteris tics of Manchester" is' a description of this overgrown town and its environs. The following is a pleasing poem by Charles Swain With thee, dear Mother, still with thee— For hearts no distance may divide ! And thought on Love's own wing can flee, And place me ever by thy side: I hear thy voice !—again we meet— again thy welcome form I see ! Oh, life hash not an hour so sweet, As that I pass in thoughts of thee ! With thee, my Mother,—though I roam This lone, cold world, from shore to shore ; My heart can never find a home Like that it loved with thee of yore ! And wheresoe'er 1 turn my- feet— Whatever friends I yet may see, Oh, life bath not an hour so sw eet, As that I pass in thoughts of thee ! METROPOLITAN. The great blemish of this Number is its utter want of variety. Tales—tales--nothing but tales, from the first page to the last ! Now "partridges" are well enough.in their way, but " toujours perdrix"—as the French adage has it—is a nuisance. We have ac tually not less than nine prose tabs, each good of its sort, but none first rate. The best is the one entitled the " Excommunicated," the scene of which is laid in South Wales, in the picturesque neighbourhood of Abergavenny, and the period when the leading events are supposed to have occurred, is the reign of Henry the Fifth. Next comes " Spencer Middleton, or the Squire of River Hill," scattered through which we find several shrewd reflections on modern society. There are a few passable scraps of poetry in the Num ber, and some impartial "Notices of New Books" at the end. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The Number before us opens with a short prose sketch by the late Haynes Bayly, which is in his tersest and archest manner. "Exclusive Report of a new Grand English Opera" is a smart quiz on the fustian and maudlin sentiment with which modern operas are often filled to overflowing. " Anecdotes of Ibrahim Pacha" exhibits that active and energetic despot in a very interesting light. We quote a pass able impromptu on " A Sailor confined in the Fleet Prison for contempt of Court :" , c Britannia rules the waves," they said When in the fleet my course wa4 free ; But now that in the " Fleet" I'm stayed, Britannia waves the " Rules" for me. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE: An emulous spirit pervades the article on " Tel lurid Magnetism," and we fully enter into the san guine hopes of the writer, as to the great disclosures which promise to be developed under the methodical exploration now pursued in investigating this hitherto occult branch of science. Under the title of " Naval Articles of War," Mr. Elton's case is brought under review, and the tact of apparently a juris consult adduces a variety of eases in point. According to the letter of a Queen's officer, Tharawaddy, the present King of Burmah, who may one day probably work us some annoy, usurped the throne in 1837, after the execution of his nephew, the heir-apparent ; he is characterized as a talented, bold, and ambitious man, unscrupulous in his deal ings, and has publicly declared his aim to be, "to wrest from the English the provinces ceded to them by his predecessor.' A series of papers, in which fancy or fact more or less predominate, contribute to form a pleasing monthly. POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. The singular phenomena of the Daguerreotype, which the scientific theorisers of the present day ascribe to chemical action, are here endeavoured to be made referable to electricity, and the propositions set down seem to favour this new hypothesis, and give hopes that they will stand the test of experiment. A code of signals, by means of lamps illuminated in various fashions, promises to become of general adoption on railways. The electrical eel, caught in a stream of the river Amazon, has not, we observe, after three and a half years existence at the Adelaide Gallery, lost any of its power in setting fire to gold leaf, or magnetising steel needles. The notice of the scientific Am pere, the friend of Davy, amusingly shows that he drank his eau sucree according to the laws of gravitation, and the contents of his tumbler at an ascertained angle. A remarkable new treadmill, designed by Mr. Fyfe, the engineer, appears with an illustration. It consists of what the inventor calls "An Endless Platform," formed by a revolving framework, and is so constructed, that the judge can exactly apportign out the hard labour according to the strength or culpability cf the criminal, a discretion which at present is not unfrequently under the control or caprice of the gaoler. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. By a notice prefixed to the present Number we learn that the " Dublin University Magazine" will henceforth be brought out under the auspices of Mr. Lever—author of Harry Lorrequer—whose editorial labours will commence next month. As this gentle man is a practised and popular writer, and understands the public taste, we may reasonably presume that the Magazine will be greatly. benefited by his superin tendence. His " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman"—of which we have here the five first chapters—exhibits much of that easy vigour of language and ready hu mour which were so attractive in the adventures of " Harry Lorrequer ;" if it be carried on with equal spirit, we cannot doubt that it will obtain equal popu larity. " Nuts and Nutcrackers" is a series of ram bling, miscellaneous reflections on matters of every day occurrence. The " Portrait Gallery" contains a full-length likeness, accompanied by a memoir, of Viscount Gort. SPORTING REVIEW. There is here a spirited engraving entitled " The Finish," which represents the cloge of a fox-hunt, just at the moment when the excited hounds are about to tear Reynard limb from limb. The horsemen in the foreground are well grouped, and there is a pleasing sylvan background, which adds much to the effect of the picture. Among the literary contents we find some interesting " Gleanings from my Travelling Journals," from the pen of Lord W. Lennox. THE BRITISH :MAGAZINE. The original papers for the month, with the excep tion of one on Chaucer's Churchman," are ex tremely brief, as well as few, but the deficiency is made up by a lengthened correspondence that will be found interesting to persons desirous of religious and ecclesiastical information. The most important Let ters are those on " Papal Exactions in Britain," " Ir regularities in the Irish Church," and " Workhouse Chaplains," the last of which is written with modera tion, but so much cannot be said of the second. The rabid hatred of the Romish priests is displayed in all its pristine strength. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE, AND THE SPORTSMAN. The latter publication contains a good memoir of the late Duke of Cleveland, and a lengthened account of a journey through a part of Brittany, which is written with spirit, mixed up with a little prejudice against our Gallic neighbours. The Sporting Maga zine is chiefly valuable for two beautiful maps of the North Warwickshire and Atherstone Hunts, and two equally beautiful cuts, intitled the " Hen Roost" and the " Trysting Place." JACK HINTON, THE GUARDSMAN, No. 111. Curry, Dublin, 1842. In the present chapters of this lively work of fiction —which is the production of Mr. Lever, author of " O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon," there are some clever sketches of Vice-regal revels in Ireland, towards the close of the last century, and of the mock- knighting of an Irish serving -man by a drunken Lord-Lieute nant. The story exhibits much of that riotous humour for which all Mr. Lever's previous works have been so remarkable. PUNCH: or the LONDON CHARIVARL London, 1842. We have just cast a hasty glance at several Num bers of this weekly Miscellany, and have been much pleased with their smartness and drollery. Like his celebrated name-sake, Punch lets fly the shafts of his satire at all the follies and vices of the day, and is an excellent moralist and reformer, without knowing it. Your solemn, political fool is an especial favourite with him, and he " chasteneth" him accordingly with uncommon zeal and assiduity. He cuts up an Alder man, too, with as much unction as if he were a haunch of venison ; and quarters a certain simple City Knight as dexterously as though he were a quarter of lamb. The Illustrations, which are numerous, aptly harmonise with the spirit of the letter-press. We will just notice one or two of the more conspicuous ones. " Got into Soundings" represents a wife, lean and sour and straight as wvinegar-cruet, treating-her husband to a stormy family lecture, while her three " precious babes " set up a unanimous squall, by way of keep. ing their excited parent in countenance. The hus band (poor devil !) looks exceedingly perplexed and discomfited—in fact, his face is a very title-page of tribulation—and h e g i ves us th e id ea o f one who is meditating an impromptu bolt. But his wife !—she is the very incarnation of vixenism, as untameable as a hytena. 'The " knocker " pourtrays a fat page, or fbot-boy, making vain efforts to reach a knocker provokingly placed just half an inch above his fingers. From the expression of his countenance, we gather that he is expostulating—and in no very amicable terms—with destiny. Should the letter, which he holds in his indignant hand, be a billet doux, or have the word " immediate " marked on the envelope, he will be in a pretty prediciment ! As a specimen of Punch's powers of humour in verse, we quote his ac count of a late imperfectly developed duel, which occasioned inextinguishable laughter O all over town. It is a parody o n on e o f Moore 's ballads, entitled the " Temple of friendship" : " A challenge to Wraxall," said Symons enchanted, " I'll send by a second ; the thought is divine." The second was found, and they now only wanted To meet with Sir William before he should dine. Ley flew to the club, and his message deliver'd In language the plainest his suit could invent ;: But so cold was S r William, who said as he shiver'd, That fighting with Symons was not what he meant. " Qh, how," he exclaimed, " could I thing of a meeting 4 With a fellow whose claims are so horribly dim ? But the rascal who threaten'd to give me a beating I'll fight, if you please, Sir, a duel with him." The bargain was struck; of a challenge each full is : Ley, Borthwick, and Robertson twaddle and write : " Adieu," said the public, "you're not the first bullies Who prate about honeur,but dont' mean to fight." One more quotation and we have done. The fol lowing is on " Cecil-street, Strand" : " At the top of the street many lawyers abound, Below, at the bottom, the barges are found; Fly, Honesty, fly to a safer retreat, For there r s craft in the river, and craft in the street." BRUSSELS and GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, MARCH 3.—A letter received yesterday from Belise, dated Jan. 20, 1842, announces that the Royal Belgian schooner, the Louisa Maria, which has on board the Commis sioner sent to explore Central America ( Guatimala), arrived on the 15th of the same month at St. Thomas, the place of its destination. BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.—The average price of wheat last week was 211. 61c., that of Rye, 12f. 33c. Monsigno i Foriari, nominated Archbishop of Nicea, will receive the title of Nuncio, with powers attached to it. A letter from Antwerp informs us, that by an agreement between the two Governments, the Dutch and Belgium Com missioners in that city had made great progress in their pro ceedings relative to the execution of the treaty of the twenty four Articles, but that they had just been suspended for a time. Tvey will be resumed and finally closed. The Chamber of Representatives sat for three hours yes terday in Secret Committee, to discuss the subject of the claim of various foreign Powers to indemnities for the losses sus tained by their subjects by the destruction of the entrepot at Antwerp. The trial of the persons accused of the conspiracy is still proceeding. Twenty-one witnesses for the prosecution have been examined. BERLIN, FEB. 22 —Persons usually well-informed say that the intended visit of the King to St. Petersburgh in July, to be present at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the mart iage of their Imperial Majesties will not take place, espe cially as the Empress of Russia will again visit Ema in the c urse of the summer. His Royal Highness Prince William (the King's uncle) has just set out for Italy.—Hamburgh Paper, March 4. THE HAGUE, MARCH 4. —The infant Princess, daughter of his Royal Highness Albert of Prussia, was baptised on the 28th of February,, by Bishop Eglet, at Berlin, by the name trf Frederica Wilhelinina Louisa Elizabeth Alexandrine. Spon sors present were the King and Queen of Prussia, King Wil. liam, Frederick, Count of Na.ssau, the Prince and hincess of Prussia, Prince and Princess Charles, the Prince Royal of Bavaria, the Prince Royal of Wurtemberg. Sponsors absent, the Empress of hiussia, the King and Queen of the Nether lands, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg, Prince and Prin cess Frederick of the Netherlands, and Prince William, his uncle. DUTCH FUN DS.-Aatirritana es, Mattes 4. Money. Hills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. ........... A inert Syndic, 4 % per cent 91% 93 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent ............ 76% 77 Commercial Company, 4.4 per cent 156 3s 157% Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 13 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 61% Two months 35 37% Dutch Papers, March 5. rELI3IAN F UNDS-BattseLe, MARCH 4 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Csnt lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 1 ,3% 3per Cent. Thirty-seven --.. 723 (1.4 n) 103% Loan of City, 4 per Cent i;2% Society et Commerce, 4%per Cent s2 Bank of Belgiuna, 5 per Cent... ......... - Bl% National Society. Exchange on Londen (short) —Brussels Papers, March 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, FE8.21. flee per Cents. Metalliques FOott per Cents. Three par Cents. Bank Shares 1636 Zeitune. Feb. 21. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MARCII 2, Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. - Bank Shares - Anglo. Russian Loan 109% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 103% Inscription, Ist series - Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., Sd and 4th Series .• £9 - D tto in Certificates g New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, per Cent. ......... 51% 5078 Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds 152 - New Tickets - Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 78% 78% Spanish, New 5 per Cents. - EXCHANGES ON LONDON. EIABRuRa, MARCH 1.-13 8%,-.Two months, IS 7 PETERSBUKOH, FEB. 18 -Two months, 38 3-16 pence RIGA, FRB. 19. -Three Months, 36%. STOCKHOLM, FEB. 22.-Seventy-five days, 12. 12. VIKNNA, FL% W.-Three months, 9. 39. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-Beltran, FEE. £6. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 46 per cent. lOl% 166% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. lO3 122% Exchange on London, three months — 6 22% Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 27 ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1842. ward,6 yrs—Modesty, aged—Ada 5 yrs—the Recorder, 6 ps— Haslington, 4 yrs—M. by Curtiss, 5 yrs—Archer, 4 yrs— George aged St. Lawrence, 5 yrs—Topsail, 3 yrs—The Cur rier, 6 yrs—Miss Stilton, 4 yrs—Retriever, 6 yrs—Priscilla Tomboy, 3 yrs—Wardan, 5 yrs. Nominations for the C orporation Plate :—F idhawn, 4 yrs— The Young'un, 5 yrs—Pharold, 3 5 rs—Prior, 3 yrs—The Maid of Auckland, 3 yrs—Guitar, 4 yrs—Christopher, 3 yrs., b c by Lion, out of Hind, 3 yrs—c by Langar, dby Filho da Puta, 3 yrs —f by Voltai , e, out of Proserpme, 4 yrs—f by Vol. aire, out of Wagtail, 3 yrs—Moss. Trooper, 3 yrs—Mary O'More, 4 yrs—Eboracum, 3 yrs—Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs—c bt Liver pool, out of Maid of Avenel, 3 yrs—Cantata, aged—Centu noo, aged— Queen Bee, 5 yrs—Arnagill, 4 yrs— Quilt Arnold, 4 yrs—Marius, 4 yrs—c by Li verpool, d by Filho, 3 yrs. Thu RSDAY. —Nominations for the Gold Cup : —Cruiskeen, aged—Pharold, 3 yrs--Little Wonder, 5 yrs—Bees-wing, aged —Thirsk, 4 yrs—:. late Woiader, 5 yrs—Mustapha Muley, 4 yrs—Combermere, 3 yrs — Lanercost, aged—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs —Middleham, —Jack Sh e p par d , 4 yrs—Galaor, 4 yrs— Calypso, r yrs— Moss Troope r, 3 yrs—Vulcan, 5 yrs—Bro to Garland, hs 3yrs- 4Ys Charles the Twelfth, 6 yrs—Provost, 6 yrs— Skipton, 3 yrs—Retrieve, 6 % rs. CROXTON PARK, 1842. Nominations for Mlles& n Captors Stakes—Henley, 5 yrs— c by Napoleon, 4 yrs—f by Lambtonian, dam by Filho,4 yrs— Euclid, 4 yrs—Man Friday, 4 yrs—Sister to Ferneley, aged— Brother to Prizeflower, aged—Chance, 5 yrs—c by Master Syntax, dam by Filho, 4 yrs. EGLINTUN PARK, 1842. Handicap for the Stand Cup—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, 12st 71b— St. Lawrence,s yrs, Ilst 51 b—Zohrab, 5 yrs, 12st—Potentate, aged, list 121b—Neptune, 5 yrs, 11 st 101b—Oswald, aged, llst 41b—Nubian, aged, Ilst 41 b — Charlie, aged, Ilst—Black Diamond, aged, I lst--Constantine aged, I lst—The Returned, aged, 1 Ost 71b—Robinson, aged, lOst 71b—Harrier, aged, lOst 31b—Hull Bank, 4 yrs, 9st 121b—Magic, 4 yrs, 9st 81b— Archer, 4 yrs, 9st 41b—and Clydesdale Lassie, 4 yrs, 9st. COVENTRY RACES, 1842. Acceptances for the 10 Sovs. Handicap—Miss Kitty Cockle, aged, Bst 101b—Chantilly, 6 yrs, Bst 61b—Moonbeam, 4 yrs, Bst—Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs, Bst Whisperer, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b Hudibras, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Sister to Broadwath, 4 yrs, 7st 31b— Rebecka, 4 yrs, ist 31 b—Happy -go-Lucky, 6st 51b. Acceptances for the Silver Cup—Moonbeam, 4 yrs, Bst 12th Rough Robin, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—The Knight, 6 yrs, Bst 51b— President, 4 yrs, Bst 61b—Frank, 6 yrs, Bst Anvil, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Rancour, 4 yrs, 7st 1 21b—Esperenza, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b —Traitress, ist Sib—and Satan, 7st 81b. SPEECH OF MR. G, THOMPSON, DELIVERED TO. TEN THOUSAND OF THE. OPERATIVES OF MANCHESTER, ON MONDAY EVENING. GEORGE THOMPSON, Esti., here came forward amidst loud cheers, and said :—Never did I at any time Psteern it a higher privilege to lift up my voice in public than I do at this moment when called upon to address this vast and multitudinous assembly of the honest working men of Manchestei . Before I pro ceed to speak to you on the subject of the Corn-laws let me say a word to inspire you with that confidence _ _ in my sincerity and my friendship which I deem it desirable above all things to possess. Ever since I have been an advocate of the rights of humanity, whether personal or political, I have been in the habit of carrying out just and righteous principles to their full and legitimate extent.—(Cheers.) I have never been afraid to follow wherever truth has led me. I have never claimed for myself the exercise of any right or the enjoyment of any privilege which I was not willing to extend to every other human being. (Cheers.) In reference to political rights, I place my countrymen, whatever their condition or occupation, on a footing of equality with myself, and believe that an equal share in the government of public affairs is the right of every working man on every ground, whether moral, social, or political, and that the con cession of that right is dictated by an enlightened love for the greatness, the stability, the peace and the prosperity of this great nation.—(Cheers.) Having now, in a sentence, made known to you my deliberate, deep-seated, and unalterable opinions on this, to you vitally-important point, I shall proceed to offer you first a few words of encouragement, and then a few of wholesome counsel. As a man friendly to the object which lies so near your hearts, I congratulate you upon the proud position which you now occupy, and on the majestic strides which your cause has made during the last' few months:—(Cheers.) Only let your object be a righteous one, your principles sound and equitable, and your measures pure and peaceful, and your success is certain. Your triumph is but a question of time, and you will accelerate that triumph in proportion as you cast aside every motive to dis cord and disunion, and present a solid and impene trable front to the common enemy of the just rights and interests of our countrymen.—(Applause.) I am thankful for what our enemies have done for us. A little while ago and we were distracted and divided; and the consequence was that on both sides we were weak and unable to contend with the powerful oli garchy that oppresses every class but its own. Some thing was wanting to bring us together, to knit our hearts and our hands in a common struggle. That which was wanted has been supplied by our foes, and there is now a prospect of a compact, impenetrable, honest, and indissoluble union between the middle and the working classes.—(Cheers.) I am candid enough to confess my honest belief that if the middle classes had gained their object two years ago, such is the selfishness of our nature and our disposition to rest satisfied when we have gained our own object, that those classes would have continued to regard with indifference, if not with distrust. the movement of the working classes for the attainment of their legitimate object.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) But the middle classes find themselves, after all their efforts, disap pointed and defeated, and are now thoroughly con vinced that, unless a cordial union be forthwith effected between them and the industrious and unen elalebeottiiornedhcasanen,tmooomatantnphdbld'eeeteadchtiheeviedr franchised classes, the obje c t f or w hich they have ult s o i f r t ß he ob l e a. r s t t . T conversion. he res Peel found himself i ns t a ll ed in office with a majority isnt) ea n nb i tl n , e e owingtt y o - c o o n m esince r ae c rmajoritytheea nc y re-assembling o f of professedl23in fLa ovi Liberals eu P rra a l r os l f i h a ae monopoly of the people's bread. What is the conse quence ? The scales have fallen from the eye-balls of the middle classes. Sir Robert Peel has anointed their eyes, and they now see clearly that 'the battle has to be fought out of doors. They now perceive that the House of Commons not only does not repre sent the people at large, but that it does not even represent themselves.—(Cheers.) They cry in vain for cheap bread, for the revival of trade and com merce, for the removal of those manacles which un just legislation has put upon the limbs of a nation's industry ; they see that all the great interests of the country are at the mercy of a landholding aristocracy, Who, if they can succeed in driving the wedge between the middle and the working classes, can perpetuate their robber 3r and keep b ot h c l asses i n a state o f sub jugation.—(Cheers.) They perceive, that like the people of ancient Greece, ruled over by thirty tyrants at Athens, they are the victims of thirty thousand titled and untitled landlords, who are determined to perpetuate their odious monopoly at the expense of all other portions of the community.—(Cheers.) They have therefore learnt to sympathise with you. They now enter into your sufferings and sorrows, and are fast coming to the opinion that those who suffer together must work out their redemption together. —(Loud cheers.) But, my friends, you require that the terms of the compact be explicitly stated, and you are right in dosng so. The middle classes find they cannot do without you. You know full well that you cannot do without them. They say, labour with us for the revival of trade, for the abolition of monopo lies, for the establishment of free intercourse with all the nations of the earth. This they know would empty their warehouses, would raise the prices of their goods, would set their mills in motion, would increase their foreign trade, would bring customers to their shops, and you would doubtless be benefited in a pecuniary sense by the attainment of these just objects. But you also have objects peculiarly your own, for which you have struggled through many years of obloquy, misrepresentation, neglect, and suf fering ; and now is the time to strike an honest bar gain, to obtain a fair understanding, and to enter into a righteous compact, the fulfilment of which shall not only disenthral the genius of commercial enter prise and give bread to a starving people, but bring you within the pale of the British Constitution, and enable you henceforward to check the growth of every domestic spoiler who would rise up :tol crush your energies or rob you of your rights.—(Loud cheers.) Had I the power as I have the will, I would speak into political being every man in this vast multitude who has arrived at years of thought and discretion. —(Tre mendous cheers.) I would give you a vote for the man who represents you ; I would protect you in the honest and independent exercise of your franchise, and abolish the unconstitutional Septennial Act, which gives men a lease for seven years to do wrong, a n d a premium to oppress and plunder the people.—(Great cheering.) I would bring public men before the people to account for their acts as ofte n as public con venience would permit, that they might either be supported in a righteous course and p rosecute it, or be set aside to make room for more consistent repre sentatives of the people. But I possess no such power. Your cause, like ours, must advance_ by de grees ; b ut I agree with my friend Mr. Prentice, th ey must ad vance side by side, nei ther going before or following behind the other. The cause of freedom and the cause of food are one cause ; the rights of industry are only to be secured by giving to the children of indus try and to defend those the power to assert rights. Let us, therefore, in this common cause, enter into an indissoluble and everlasting compact. The advan tages will be mutual and the triumph will be complete. —(Cheers.) But then the question is, how is this noble and patriotic end to be obtained ? Let me tell you. It is by the peaceful exercise of moral and in tellectual power. Political power is not necessary to the advancement of a political object. Political ends are accomplished by moral means, and in the employ ment of those means you may take as honourable, as conspicuous, and as influential a share as any class in the community. I have never yet given a vote my self, simply because I have not yet seen the man in that part of the country where I had one whom I could consent to call my representative.—(Cheers.) I could give my vote neither to a cunning, time serving, place-hunting, Whig lawyer, or to a war making under-secretary of state. - -(Cheers.) But, though 1 have felt myself for conscien ce sa k e dis. • franchised, I 'trust I have not in consequence lived altogether to no purpose.—(Cheers.) I have per ceived that there was yet a wide sphere of usefulness before me. Though I laid down the weapons of party political warfare, I took up others of a far more pure and potent description. My trust for victory is in the power of mind over mind ; of just opinions op posed to unjust ones ; of truth opposed to error ; of right opposed to might. I have ever seen clearly that when once the people were enlightened, conso lidated, and resolute, all obstacles to their freedom must give way, and they would stand emancipated by their own virtue and their own independent ener gies.—(Cheers.) You have been told to-night that it is probable that an emissary from the Government is amongst you. lam glad of it. Let him carry back a faithful report. Let him tell his employer that ten thousand men could come together, discuss their rights, determine upon their course of action, and then depart with the solemnity of persons who had congregated in a Christian temple for the worship of their Great Maker. Let him report the counsel I offer you, which is this : that all your meas ures b e peaceful, loyal, and pure ; that you take no step which will injure a man, woman, or child, in the empire; that you hold person and property . sacred ; that ypu are no friends to turbulence, or violence, or blood ; that you love your Queen, and desire that when she hands the sceptre she has wielded to him who is the heir apparent to her throne, that it is your deter mination, as far as you are concerned, that the sceptre shall neither be stained with human blood, nor be dewed by the tears of a solitary widow or ophan made so by an act of yours.—(Cheers.) Let the emissary of Government tell his master that the power he has to dread is moral power ; that your weapons tire those of argument; that yours is the majesty of mind. This power, my friends, is a power which human governments cannot confine, cannot crush, cannot coerce, cannot annihilate. It cannot be im prisoned in a dungeon, it cannot be trampled down by soldiers, it cannot be burnt with fire, it cannot be destroyed on the gibbet.—(Loud cheers.) When the working men of this country shall assume this power, and appear in this aspect of sublimity, the day of their redemption is at hand ; the proud Minister of the day, like the Belshazzar of the Scriptures, shall see the handwriting on the wall ; his knees shall smite to gether; he will be weighed in the balance, and found wanting ; and the vessels of the State which he has desecrated shall no longer be his ; his power shall be given to another, and that superstructure shall totter to its fall which has been based upon the degradation and ruin of the people.—(Great cheers.) Let Sir Robert Peel delight himself in the cheers of his majority of U 3; let him utter big words and as sume the virtue of courage—he has no courage, but that which is kept over at the Horse Guards— • (Laughter)—and sent for as it is wanted.—(Great laughter, and cheers.) Let the youthful Gladstone echo the empty vauntings of his hoary Gamaliel, his courage is of the like description. But it is all in vain if brought into the field against you, if your weapons be ever that impalpable and ethereal quality to which I have referred. Yours is a cause which advances secretly and silently, like the sun which is now but a faint streak resting gracefully upon the horizon, but advances till in vertical strength and me ridian splendour it casts its light over the face of all the land.—(Cheers.) The power you may exert is like the genial influence of the spring on which we have entered, which, though unseen and unheard, either by night or by day, is working with resistless energy, and now that the snows and frosts of winter have passed away, is bringing up through the hard ened clod the green blades which shall soon be nur tured into the strong stalk, and by and by be crowned with the full ripe ear which the industrious husbandman shall gather into the garner he has pre pared.—(Cheers.) I honestly confess I came hither to-night with trembling anxiety, but your conduct has d.spelled my fears. I feel my heart encouraged in the people's cause. As I love you, I exhort you to be ever as you now are. Brand that man as your enemy who would counsel you or tempt you to vio lence. I wish you to be strong, but I wish that your strength should be in the the justice of your cause, in the virtue of your conduct, in the perfect peaceful ness of all your measures. You are mighty in the simplicity of your principles ; you are omnipotent in the strength of your arguments ; you are terrible in the peacefulness of your demeanour. While your conduct is that of intelligent and virtuous men, you will enlist on your side the ministers of religion—(A man cried out here " Not the bench of Bishops," which created loud laughter)—the philanthropists of the country, and every other man of high principle and genuine patriotism. Your sufferings, combined with fortitude and forbearance, will plead trumpet tongued on your behalf, and men will admit, not only your right, but your fitness, for the suffrage, which you claim at their. hands.—(A voice here cried out, " What do you say to the Charter ? " I say it is a righteous instrument.—(Cheers.) I fear not the work- ing men of this country. Fear them ! Why should I fear ? Have they not all power already ? Do they not make the clothes I wear, the house in which 1 live ? Are they not the producers of the very food on which I subsist ? Do they not erect our ware houses, construct our machinery, guard our property, take care of our cash boxes, compose our army, and man our ships of war ? And shall I not give to those who make me what lam and upon whom I depend under God for everythingl enjoy, the right of saying in a constitutional way by whom they shall be governed, and by whom they shall be taxed ?—(lm mense cheering.) No, my friends, I have no such fear. I would invest you with your rights now, but as I cannot do so I will labour with you shoulder to shoulder until you get them. I don't 'object to the terms you propose. I commend you for requiring what the scholars call the quid pro quo. They have an adage in Scotland which says"gill gaff makes good friends." It only means that the bargain should be an honest one ; that those who ask should be ready to give.—(Cheers.) I am convinced that future in justice is only to be prevented by giving the people their rights and protecting them in those rights. The sliding scale, iniquitous as it is, is only one of a multitude of contrivances for injuring and plundering the people. It is only one of a warehouse-full of similarly ingenious devizes.—(Loud cheers.) I want to shut up the shop altogether and to send every false balance (as the Scriptures would call them) to rot, and have no scales but the scales of everlasting justice ; and no fixed duty but that of loving my neighbour as myself. —(Cheers.) I wonit trust the Whigs ; I have seen something of them in years that are past, they've always conceded with a niggardly hand.—(Cheers.) They have had to be pushed over the clam.—(Laughter.) Their song has been— " Row brothers row The stream runs fast, The rapids are near, The daylight's past."—(Loud laughter) My opinion is, that, to use a vugar saying, it is but the toss up of a halfpenny between Whigs and Tories when they get into power.—(Cheers.) We want the power of the people to control both parties and all parties. Alike they love the loaves and fishes. Alike they are landlords, and love high rents. Their doctrine, as well as that of the Tories, is "bricks versus brains"— (Laughter)—broad acres versus the rights of industry. No, trust neither party ; tell the Whigs their power is gone, and that if they would henceforth be the leaders of the people they must recognise the people's rights, and aim at the possession of no power but that which the people gives them. And now I commend you, I exhort you, to persevere. Be thankful that your cause is in its present position. Give us the confidence we ask and accept of the help which we offer. Bury the hatchet of discord. Let us fight under one banner. From this day forth let us be comrades ; then we need not fear Sir Robert Peel's majority. Were it far greater than it is, it would fly like chaff before the wind, in presence of the people's majority. United let us stand ; united let us fight ; united we must conquer.• And then we will not only rejoice in the possession of a cheap loaf and well paid industry, and extended commerce, and free trade, but in the possession of a power that shall perpetuate these blessings, and shall transmit them in a richer mea sure to those who shall come after us. We shall then get more than bread—we shall get understanding also. Then our present adversity will have had the effect of cementing us in bonds of affection and brotherhood. I look forward to another meeting, even larger than the present—not composed, as now, of the suffering, the unemployed, the starving, and the disfranchised; but of the happy, the remunerated, and the enfranchised classes of the community.— (Loud cheers.) And, my hope and prayer is, that when we' shall unfurl to the free breeze the flagf of our triumph, on which shall be inscribed, " Free trade and equal rights," that there may be upon that banner no stain of blood, and in our consciences no feeling of self-reproach, nor in our shout of victory the wailing of one unhappy being who has lost a friend, a father, or a husband in the struggle.— (Great cheers.) To every man of this immense mul titude, I say — Be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at Be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's ; Then, if thou fall'st, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Mr. Thompson retired amidst great cheering. The journals of Santander and Corunna confirm the observation of. the Bayonne papers, that th e w h a l es h ave e r a pp e ared in the Bay of Biscay. The fisheries a l ong th e nor th ern coast of Spain are stated to have been of late very productive of all kinds of fish ; and at Cadillero in particular the fishermen got 15,000 f. worth of the vesugo in four hours, not many days since. NEw BRIDGE.—The chain-bridge, which is to com municate with Ilungerford-market and the opposite bank of the river will be a great public convenience, and wilt be erected sooner than is generally expected. The coffer-dams have been built at each side, and all the materials are in readiness neces sary to finish the undertaking, which will be a considerable convenience to the inhabitants of the Surrey side of the river particularly. HISTORY of the PROPERTY-TAX, 1803-1815. The expected legislative measure of a Property tax, which, it is stated, the present Ministry will shortly bring forward for adoption, renders a recur rence to the existence of this tax in former times, when in operation under the Administrations of Mr. Pitt and Lord Castlereagh, not altogether ill-timed, or devoid of interest and information. The failure of the Income-tax—a measure by which Mr. Pitt expected to have realised a sum of ten millions to meet the necessities of the country, but which, after its full trial, brought in but six millions, caused him to open up some new train of finance, which developed i itself in his proposition of a new Property-tax. The Income-tax was repealed on the sth of April, 1802, and the Property:Act began its operation, after being duly settled by Parliament, in the beginning of 1803. The Property-tax was introduced by Viscount Sid mouth, at a rate- at first of 5 per cent. This was in creased by Mr. Pitt to 71 per cent. ; and by the Mar quis of Lansdowne, when Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in 1806, to 10 per cent. In 1809, its ex action began to be rigorous and oppressive ; the ar rears from this year became heavy, and payments through the consecutive years were restricted, or otherwise avoided by large masses of the people. In 1815, the opposition to the tax became so universal throughout the country, that it was at length found impossible to withstand its ultimate repeal. We now proceed to notice succinctly the nature of the Pro perty-tax, as developed in the Act of 1803, and to trace the leading circumstances which subsequently attached to it, during the twelve years of its continuance. The principle of the old Property-tax was that which, of course, must be the chief guide in the for mation of the new, namely, that of the tax being a proportionate contribution on the means of subsist ence, arising from every species of productive pro perty or personal exertion, whether combined, we presume, with property or not. The Property Act, of 1803, comprehended four dif ferent sources of profit, as applicable to four principal, classes of individuals, under different modes of taxa tion, each of which received a distinct consideration, as if they had formed the subject of four distinct Acts of Parliament. They were, first, Landed Pro perty ; second, Funded Property ; third, Produce of Industry, whether from professions or trades, or cer tain pursuits in the nature of trade ; fourth, Offices held under Government, and the Public Institutions of the Kingdom, although certain of the offices were of a private nature. The tax on landed property was separated into two parts, viz., the " Landlord's Duty," and the " Tenants Duty ;" both of these duties, were, however, in the first instance to be charged on the occupier, and by him apportioned according to the various relations in which he might stand with others, either having a property or interest in the land, or a claim on the profits. The first of these was contained in schedule A, and charged at the rate of ls. for every 20s. of the annual value of all lands, tenements, or heredita ments in. Great Britain. This annual value was to he understood of the rack-rent, at which lands had been let. if the commencement of the letting had been within seven years ; if not so let, then it was to be understood to be the rack-rent of which they were worth to be let. The duty on funded property extended to all annuities, dividends, and shares of annuities payable out of the public revenue, contained in the Schedule C, except such public annuities as belonged to the Bank of England, South Sea, and East India Companies, in their corporate capacities. The charge in the case of this branch of the tax was never made on the funds themselves, but on the persons entitled to the dividends or shares of those public annuities, as being the first possessor. So property acquired by the employment of capital in trade, with its increase by the application of indus try, &c., was chargeable to the hands of the first pos sessor, without regard to the claims that might rest upon it. So all salaries and emoluments under appointments of a public or private nature were subject to be charged to their full extent, without reference to the mode of their subsequent application. In each of these instances provisions were made, au thorising the appointment of the original charge : the payments to be made, the persons specifically appointed to attend their collections, &c. &c. Such is the brief analysis of the leading features of the Act. In 1806, the Property-tax Bill encountered great opposition in its way through the House, not so much from the members seated on the opposition bench, who on . the. contrary expressed their hearty approbation of itspripciple, and praised the Ministers for bringing it forward, as from independent Mem bers of Parliament, who disliked the harshness and rigour of its provisions, and disapproved of so great an addition to the burthens of the people. Several modifications and alleviations of the tax were ac cordingly proposed, to some of which the Ministers acceded, though they rejected the greater part of them on account of their tendency to diminish the productiveness and destroy the efficacy of the measure. Objection, however, to the sudden increase of the duty from 6i to 10 per cent. was made with much re- ' sistance, and many suggestions put forward to divert this course of policy, but of all the propositions only one was acceeded to by the Ministers, namely, that of levying duty on the unfunded debt in the same man ner as the funded. The clause, however, for levying the full amount of 10 per cent., after a long and warm discussion, was carried by a majority. In the course of this debate, Mr. Fox owned to the House, that " he was not a friend to the tax, or any of its principles or operation; he was sensible the objections to it were just and innumerable, but his Majesty's Ministers were reluctantly forced to adopt it, under the pressure of circumstances." After this enactment had passed, the whole of his Majesty's private income was exempted from the op6ration of the tax. The Property-tax, which in 1809 still continued to form the bulk of the direct imposts, was at this time collected with greater rigour than at first—the per sons entrusted with the management of it having Of course become more skilful, and acquired a more inti mate knowledge of people's affairs. The effect of this was exactly the same as if the rate of that tax had been augmented. But the difficulty of procuring payment, nevertheless, also increased in an alarming degree. The assessment of 1805 was not quite six millions and a quarter, that of 1806 amounted to above eleven millions and a quarter, although there had only been imposed an addition of 3 per cent. But the arrears also increased at a much higher rate. In the April of the last year there remained due of the assessment of 1805 only 92,0001., but of the assess ment of 1806, above 900,0001., and of the assessment of 1807 n 3 less than 2,357,0001. The sums paid into the Revenue arising from the property-tax, from 1812 to 1816, were as follows ; at the same time we place the amount of the land and assessed taxes in contrast : Land and Assessed Taxes. Property-tax. 1812 b 1 S 1814 1815 1816 The arrears, which amounted to 2,635,0001., were paid up in the four subsequent years ; so that all ac counts of the repealed tax were closed by 1820. The foregoing table of sums can, of course, fur nish no correct data of what the collections would be at the present day. In 1815, the Property-tax, having reached its ut most amount, raised upwards of 14f millions, of which nearly 5f were paid by landlords, above 2f by occupiers ; whence, says a writer of the period, we may infer that the income of the former was about 55 millions, and of the latter 28 ; but adding eight and four respectively for the incomes below 601., we have the whole income arising from land, 95 millions. When the machinery of the tax had attained perfec tion, hardly any property escaped. But petitions against the Propety-tax in the above mentioned year, continued, day atter day, to be pre sented to the House ; speeches rather than debates on the subject were multiplied in corresponding propor tion, which, with very few exceptions, were adverse to the tax. The petitioners were chiefly violent upon one point, viz that Mr. Pitt had laid on the tax only as a war tax. To this the Chancellor of the Exche quer explained, that at its first introduction, instead of a pledge being given for its conclusion at the end of the war, its produce was actually mortgaged for 56 millions, a sum which it would take eight years to pay l i off. Again, in 1806, when the tax was raised in its amount, the Ministers gave a pledge that they would never, but in the time of war, have recourse to such a measure. Debates, however, in the House now began to get more and more recriminative and bitter ; and as the time for decision approached, the Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fostered by popular clam our and party manoe uvres , an d was b y no means anindication of the clamours of the most respectable part of the nation. This statement, however, re ceived its final defeat by a petition presented on March the 18th, by Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders of the City of Lon don. The number of signatures was 22,000, among whom were many persons of the first property in the City. At the same time there was an attempted counter-petition, which bearing only 2 7 signatures was prudently suppressed. In the debate which followed, Mr. William Smith showed that no less than 11,000 surcharges had been made in the City of London alone in the last year— of these 3,000 had been set aside on appeal, after cri tical examination into the appellant's circumstances ; 7,000 out of the number made no appeal. Among the speakers who followed, L or d Castle reagh was the most diffusein recapitulating all that had been argued in favour of the measure. At length £260 PORTUGAL. We have received letters from Lisbon to the 28th of February. After an interregnum of l 7 days a new Ministry has been ap pointed. The crisis has terminated in the complete triumph of Senor Costa Cabral, who is the new Home Secretary. The Duke da Terceira is President of the Council, but the leading power in the Cabinet will be wielded by Costa Cabral. The new Minister of Justice is Antonio d'Agevecto Mello e Car v4lho, brother to the second member of the Oporto Junta. This therefore, may be conceived as having achieved a double triumph. Baron de Tojal is the new Minister of Finance—an excellent appointment. The portfolio of Foreign Affairs is held merely ad interim by the Duke di "Ferceire. Senor Rodrigo da F. Magalhaes has been applied to to resume this office, but positively d ec li ne d. The Marine Department is also filled merely ad interim by the chief clerk in that office. The policy of the new Administration will not differ mate rially from that which was displaced by the Oporto revolt. Its policy with regard to England and all foreign countries will be identical. The first ac t o f th e new G overnment i s some what remarkable. It is a demand of the Administrator-Ge neral of Oporto to specify the sums which he received from the Custom-house, and other sources of revenue, to aid the late revolt—by whose order he received them, and how they were expended. The object is to legalize these illegal transactions by an act of indemnity. The order to this effect is signed by the same Costa Cabral who seized the money as head of the Junta. M. Capptcini, the Papal Minister, had been presented at Court. The King has declared against accepting the command in chief of the army. Thus one of the leading agents of the movement in favour of the Charter is entirely defeated. Senor d'Agnilar returned on Sunday from Madrid, to re sume his functions as Spanish Ambassador at the Portuguese Coutt. No hostile movement on the part of Spain was ap prehended. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CnEsTEit Cur.-10 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—l Ito 1 agst Vulcan-16 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn (taken)-16 to 1 agst The Squire-30 to 1 agst Rory 0110 re—the rest as before. DEhBY.-8 to 1 agst Attila (takers)-23 to 1 agst Dirce c -35 to 1 agst Auckland (taken)—the others as on Tuesday. Oafs.-20 to 1 agst Belle Dame—no other change. COURSING. MALLENY, FEB. 28. —The Sweepstakes were won by Mr. G. Curzon's Champion, beating his '•corpion. SPETHORNE CLUB, MARCH 3 AND 4.—The Cup was von by Mr. Wilshire's Spot ; the Headly's Stakes by Mr. W. Nash's Caesar; the Leatherhead Stakes by Mr. W. Nash's Norfolk; the Epsom Stakes by Mr Perkins's Paul; and the Ladbroke Stakes by Mr. C. Farnell's Fearless. WORKINGTON, FEB. 28 —The Cup was won by Mr. Fox's Gamut, beating Mr. Ritson's Fan. BROUGHTON (SOUTH LANCASHIRE) MEETING.—The Broughton Cup for ]6 all aged dogs was won by Mr. Hough ton's Gipsey—the Skipton Puppy Cup, by Mr. King's Fly— the Craven Stakes by Mr. Slater's Stopper—the Consolation Stakes by Mr. Hardman's Spring—the Beaten Puppy Stakes by Mr. Bennett's Westmoreland. BURTON AGNEs, Feb. 28 and March I.—The St. Leger Stakes were won by Dr. Cockcroft's Priam—the Derby Stakes by Mr. Nicholson's Syntax—the Consolation Stakes by Sir H. Boycott's Blossom— and the Burton Agnes Stakes by Mr. Cole's Crucifix. LYTHAM, FLEETWOOD, AND CLIFTON, Feb. 24, 25, and 26.—The Great Cliftoh Cup (32 dogs) was won by Mr. Ma chett's Ribton, beating Mr. Williams's Priam—the Talbot Stakes (32 subs) were won by Mr. Pattison's Crafty, beating Mr. Machett's Malibran—and the Lytham Stakes (32 dogs) by Mr. Scott's Fly, beating Mr. Hutchinson's Rubens. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA, NEWCASTLE, 1842. TUESDAY. Nominations for the Tvro Stakes. C by Emilius, out of Variation—Aristides—f by Liverpool, out of Twinkle—A British Yeoman—Erin Lad—Peggy—Winesour— Nutwith—Little Binton—Ravensworth. WEDNESDAY. — Nominations for the Northumberland Plate. —Cruiskeen, aged—Zelmvra, 5 yrs—Fidhawn, 4 yrs—Pharold, 3 yrs—Dr. Caius, 5 yrs—the Youngun, 5 yrs—Hamlet, aged—. Beeswing, aged —Foxberry, 3 yrs—Calypso, 5 yrs Black B'ss, 5 yrs -- Iliona, b yrs Bellona, aged—Charles the Twelfth, 6 yrs Archanus, 3 yrs Billingham Lass, 4 yrs—Thirsk,: 4 yrs—The Squire, 4 yrs—Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs Queen Bee, 5 yrs Mustapha Muley, 4 yrs--Jack Sheppard, 4 yrs—Quilt Arnold, 4 yrs—Moss Trooper,3 yrs—All Fours, aged—c by Liverpool dam by Filho, 3 yrs—Gallipot, 5 yrs—The Shadow, aged—Hillus, 6 yrs— Marius, 4 yrs—Naworth, 5 yrs—Portrait, 4 yrs—Laurestina, 4 yrs—Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs —Guitar, 4 yrs— Bi o to Harpurhey, 4 yrs—Little Wonder, 5 yrs—Studley Royal, 4 yrs—Zohrab. yrs—Chantilly, 6 yrs — Combermere, 3 yrs—Black aged— Usurper , 6 yrs—Phwon, 4 yrs—Potentate, aged—Royal Velocipede, out of Queen Bathsheba, 4 yrs—Rory B C e h e a k le s y, y 3 rs_ Meteor, 3 yrs—Galaor, 4 yrs—Skipton, 3 yrs— bY O'More, 5 yrs—Extract, 3 yrs—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs—Disclosure, yrs—The Artful Dodger, 3 yrs— W o ld sman, 3 yrs 4 yrs_—f by Bay Middleton out of Miss F anny , 3 yrs— to Glencoe, 4 yrs—The Duke o f W e l l i ngton 4 j—o y hS ; i s isn L yer L , s an ercost, aged—Kingston, Robin 5 yrs— S yren, 3 yrs —Melody h, 5 yrs—Lord of Holderness, 3 yrs—Bar one t, 3 yrs —Pagan, 4 yrs—Jolly Tar, 4 yrs —Langer Filly (out of Mermaid), 3 yrs—Ermengardis, 4 yrs — Bounceaway, 4 yrs— Marshal Soult, 4 yrs--Knight of the Whistle, 4 yrs—Way- every voice was drowned in the cry of " Question,' and the House divided .when the numbers were— For the bors l ei t ' r l yv x: e p e d r d t u y r : i t a ng Against it ............ condemnatorytheseositsh. 2Ol peti o t n io s n i s n 2 t 3 h B o Parlia ment 3 though numerous, e :o 7 o la n u si s t au :he Property-tax, that the did not represent the general sens'e , of u t i te people, for that much the largest proportion of the country prosecuted no petitions. The Property-tax ceased on the sth of April, 1815, but was revived for one year more (1815, ending sth April, 1816) in consequence of the renewal of the war. The assessments charged for 1814 were continued without fresh returns, and without the power of in creasing them, except in respect of the dividends of funded property and interest of Government securi ties, &c., under schedules C and E ; but in conse quence of the great distress among the agricultural and other classes at that time, provision was made for abatement of the duties in certain cases of diminution of rents and profits under schedules A B and D. The opinion of Lord A lthorp on this question of a Property-tax is conveyed in the subjoined extract from one of his speeches, made at a time when the point was under agitation _ . " Mtich has been said about a Property-tax, and he believed he differed on that point considerably from his friends about him. Still he had no hesitation in saying, that to grant relief to the productive popula tion by a reduction of taxes, and to impose a Property tax to meet the deficiency thus occasioned, would be a very good measure. That was his own individual opinion. It might be alleged that he was inconsistent in what he he now said, when his present was con- trasted with his former opinion • and perhaps it might seem to many that h e was so. - hut the country was now in a situation very different from that in which it was formerly placed : and he would say to the land owner that if a Property -tax of 10 per cent. were im posed, he would be the gainer ; becauSe he thought that the landowner, in consequence of the ex isting distress, and the large sums he was obliged to advanae for the maintenance of the poor, lost consider ably more than 10 per cent. on his rents. He was perfectly convinced that it was the ill-arranged state of the taxes, more than the amount of the taxes, that pressed heavily on the country." Paley's opinion, with regard to the Property-tax, as to the scale of equitable proportion—proposing to affix certain rates of taxation upon certain amounts of property, proportioned to the general conveniency of subsistence of those by whom such payments are to be made, is worded thus : " We are accustomed to an opinion, that a tax to be just, ought to be accurately proportioned to the cir cumstances, or more correctly perhaps to the amount of property of the persons who pay it. But upon what, it may be asked, is this opinion founded, unless. it could be shown-that such a proportion interferes the least with the general conveniency of subsistence ? Whereas I should rather believe that a tax con structed with a view to that conveniency, ought to rise upon the different classes of the community in a much higher ratio than the simple proportion of their incomes. The point to be regarded is, not what men have, but what they can spare ; and it is evident that a man who possesses a thousand pounds a year can more easily give up a hundred than a man with a hundred pounds a year can part with ten ; that is, those habits of life which are reasonable and innocent, and upon the ability to continue which the formation of families depends, will be much less affected by the one deduction than by the other. It is still more evident, that a man of a hundred pounds a year would not be so much distressed in his sub= sistence by a demand from him of ten pounds, as a man of ten pounds a year would be by the loss of one; to which we must add, that the population of the country being replenished by the marriages of the lowest rank of society, their accommodation mid relief becoMe more importance to the State than the conveniency of any higher but less numerous order of its citizens. LONG Surn---The longest law-suit ever heard of in England, was between the heirs of Sir Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, on the one part, and the heirs of Lord Berkeley on the other, re,pe , ting certain possessions in Walton-under- Hedge, in the county of Glouce,ter. It commenced at the end of the reign Edward IV. and was pending till the reign of James 1., when a compromise took pla:.e, it having lasted above 120 ytars. STRIKING DEATII.-Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, a man is stated to have been killed by the famous clock in the square of St. Mark at Venice; while repairing the clock, he stooped his he'd in such a place, and in such a nick of time, that the quarter-boy struck it with his hammer, and knocked him over the battlements.—Evelyn's Diary. The Western Luminary records the suicide of a young girl, eighteen years of a.e, the daughter of a respectable man, a i.ensioner, in Exeter, who drowned herself on Saturday evening last, in a mill-dam near this city. The young woman, who was apprenticed to a staymaker. and bore a good character, had kept c:impany for some time with her ma•ter's son, but it did not appear on the evidence at the inquest that then" had been any dispute between herself and her lover, or that any circumstance whatever had occurred which could account for the committal of suicide. A medical man proved, that some eight merit a back the young woman had 'had a lever, which very much affected her head, and he added that ho thought her a person likely to be afflicted with insanity. In the absence of other facts to account for her drowning herself, the Jury found a verdict in accordance with the surgeon's representation. The great mine cause, in which Lord llatherton is plaintiff, and the Marquis of Anglesey defendant, is expected to come on at Worcester on Monday next. Sir Thomas Wilde gees down, with a special retainer, on the part of the noble plaintiff; and the Solicitor-General, Sir William Follett, on the part of the noble defendant. The trial is expected to last at least two days. 1 DREADFUL COLLISIONS AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE. —Thursday amongst the numerous communications received by the authorities at Lloyd's from their agents stationed in different parts of the kingdom, were two from Torquay, in Devonshire, and Deal, detailing the loss of the schooner Unity, belonging to Exeter, and another vessel, supposed to belong to Brixham which were run down during the dreadful hurricane on Tuesday last. It appears, from the facts mentioned in the communication from Torquay, that the storm on Tuesday night was of the most se%ere description, and lasted several hours. At about half-past nine o'clock, the brig Undaunted, belonging to London, which left the river Thames the latter part of last week for St. Michael's, came in violent collision with a vessel belonging to Brixham, and so great was the force with which they met, that the latter immediately went down, carrying with her two of the unfortunate crew. The Undaunted was at the time passing rapidly through the water, being closed reefed, and the wind blowing a complete hurricane; but whether there was a proper look out kept on board, is a circum stance not mentioned. The collision happened off Bolt-head, near Bingbury-bay, about five miles from the shore, and from the depth of water where the vessel went down, it being be tween 13 and 14 fathoms, it will be impossible to raise her. Three of her c, ew succeeded in getting on board of the Undaunted, just at the moment she was sinking, and it is sup posed that the others could have been saved had they been on deck, but they were in their berths asleep. The Undaunted received considerable damage by the collision. Her bowsprit and foremast were carried away, besides other injury, and she was compelled to put into Torquay. Respecting the loss of the ether vessel, the Unity, it appears that she was laden with coals, and was on her passage to Exeter, when she was run into by a brig, name unknown, off the North Foreland, and her crew had barely time to jump into the long boat tefore she sank. They landed safely at six o'clock on Wednesday morn ing, at Broadstairs, near Ramsgate. From the fury of the storm it a feared many similar disasters occurred during the night. ' Mr. BUSFIELD FERRAND, M.P.—lt is perhaps not generally known that the father and grandfather of this scurrilous and vulgar slanderer of the manufactures were both cotton spinners! His grandfather was in partnership with a person of the name of Willett, under the firm of Busfield and NVillett, and they worked the Castlefield-mill, Binglev, now worked by Mr. Ellis. Mr. Ferrand's father, Mr. Currer Ihisfield, was :Aso engaged in the same business, and actually Ihad rooms in the mill and lived entirely there. Of course the airs of insolence which this person assumes towards the manu facturers, and his scandalous imputations upon their characters, are virtuaily a spurning and spitting upon his own immediate ancestors. Ilia quarrel with the manufacturers arises out of his own dictatorial and overbearing temper, and his ungentle man-like ma•iners, which have brought him into personal colli sion with nearly all his respectable neighbours, several of whom are manufacturers of high character and Magistrates ; and hence his vulgar spite against the class which he vents with characteristic indecency in the House of Commons. If Mr. Ferrand's own character and conduct'vere to be assailed as he assails those of others, or even were represented with strict truth, a pretty picture would be drawn of him. We have reason to believe that his constituents at Knaresborough are heartily ashamed of the connexion, and are resolved never to renew it.—Leeds Mercury. Grand dinner-parties were given on Saturday by Sir R. Peel at his residence in Whitehall Gardens, by Lord Wharncliffe, in Curzon-street, by Lord Stanley in St. James's-square, and by Sir Thos. Freemantle in Eaton-place. IiEPRESENTATION OF BRIGHTON.—The unfortu nate failure of Mears. Wigney's bank will cause a vacancy in the borough, and there is now a favourable opportunity for a gentleman of Liberal principles to offer himself for the represen tation of Brighton in the Imperial Parliament. As this will be a single election, it is most important that the Liberals should be united. The Tories are active and sanguine, but their defeat is certain if the Liberals are true to themselves, arid if they are fortunate enough to obtain a candidate worthy of their confidence and support. We hope and trust that we sha'l be able in our next to announce that such a candidate is in the field. Since the above was written we have received the following paragraph from an influential quarter :--•• We arc authorised to state that, as a vacancy must shortly arise in the representation of this borough, active measures are in progress for the maintenance of the Liberal interest. In the meantime the electors are cau tioned against committing themselvesby any premature pledge." —Brighton Herald. [Mr. Laurence Peel, brother to the Right Hon. Baronet, and an old resident at Brighton, as also Lord William Harvey, and Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, the late Mem ber' havebeen named on the part of the C onserva ti ves • and Lord Morpeth and Lord Edward Ho war d on b e h a lf o f the Liberals. Notices have been issued cautioninc , the electors against giving a pledge in the present state of affairs. Various accounts are circulated as to the liabilities of Messrs. WigneY , some estimating them at 400,000/.l—From a Correspondent. It was with extreme pain that we learned tl o nit ce a gentleman holding a highly responsible situation in the of the Paymaster . of Civil Services, has disappeared. We which no benefit la the concea'mentof the particulars of a . are, unhappily, the topic a discussion and regretne of the cir cles. The gentleman alluded to is Mr. Perkins,d. Among other for the -a m rg o- e d a large amount is said, ini.nsn:oa.fiicial cashiers in the department above mentiot e nips have matters laid ' s i t stamps ps h i f s ro t e n h t a l r i of '2,000/., with-h stamps were . t in of cashier, the custom being ney paid personb im in his c p y pay the price of the stamp va „ ii s a4 , e a ls s li m ou a i d d e no return of the amount, been l e i e a nt eesx•amount charge Stamp-office, thisiti)ei_:::fili received. All 1 1 i a o t tAro l ir i lteel these e p : r ie‘p o .sa s. tels u us r te t a, also lost to the public. It is a curious e p r ep y nadreidet.ulATaait: s i l e : l a . :nike A s l ; "erkins had been,_ fora considerable a clerk in the m ° i ffi th e , e' of Exchequer necessary p. an t re o t eni cover e. t w t . : A l l uipi e t r , steaaiiinideeeltibhmdea:ftotre his removal to i the r Payma s te Beaumont ' Smith, notoriety.— Observer. ter s .1g I. lf" tion iral ,per , j or ore of k I tly elf