The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-21 00:00:00

of ) angri kfecha' steam' with ,vene ss iter in rerre" intro' wide!) i Uiiii ( ~ kr i i 3 R ';' in , r.t . : r!' . ..o2 i .. . • en ti. , l ile d zd i C'..' e) V''',' , ~..:', AND I;tibtte Who runs ina read. i, o r0.71. - erv.7z. ib tk 7,.,th3 exception of t.xo articles in the Courrier Francais, q: 1 in our leidiog eolumus, there is nothing of any moment 11 ori gina l co l umns o f our P ar i s C ontemporar i es . e Repart of the Directors of the Bank of . France for the Ra t pl ua rter of the year, ending 31st ult., shows the following ' ,. :—The • notes. in circulation amounted to 228,180,500 Os t ; its b i ll s , p aya bl e t o or d er , 1,102,969 francs ; balance ° t he Treasury in accounts. current, 121,864,065 francs. 14c:es due on other accounts-durrenr, 39,021,285 francs, d .eKtsits, repayable on demand, 1,756,000 francs, u.aking a debits, of 391.924,824 francs. The specie in h nci 41 ,W9,146 francs ; bills discounted , 152,2 )9,492 francs ; kb a ees on deposits of gold bars, 3,023,600 francs, and on l ! l oFeuritie s , 10,662,071 francs. Capital invested perm 'Nl in the branch liirks, 20,000,000 francs, and further 1 4 t 44. tty advances, 16,146,188 francs. During the quarter ‘ v era.ie amount of the specie in hand nas been 195,965,000 1,„1 4 Average of notes in circulation, 225,241,500 franci. B otht C eof balance due t the Treasury, 15,452000 frncs, %er accounts-current, 40,870,500 1 francs. , The a dis -4,44 during the quarter amounted to 229,120,400 francs; 1, 4 14 ces on public securities to 10,006,000 francs, and in gold I. L t° 7 ,330,000 francs. ue Presse announces that an extraordinary mission was on k en Point of being sent to Paraguay by the French Govern.. " That mission," it says, "is to be intrusted to M. P r ehiac ' WhO has already been attached to the Embassy to it, • and has for its object to open an intercourse with that Which may be highly profitable to our commerce." tka a PPears from a statistical report that the regular clergy in composed of 23 orders, the members of which amount k t r' o The secular clergy reckons about 10,000. All the l ops are nominated by the King and confirmed by the Pope. i h .eare 5,000 nuns, of whom 500 reside in Palermo. They 2 4 on richly endowed by their founder-, and subset' 1 donations and legacies. Their large estates and reve "lnanag3d by priests and men of the law, under the of an inspector and curator. None of these communi- Vre responsible for the employment of their wealth ; but h,,toperiors are accountable to the Bishops cf their dioceses ".' e maintenance of order and discipline within their coin 14nies. t 4 „, F rench paper announces that Commodore Ramsay is to fi r pecd at the head of an American squadron on the coast of to protect the colourscs of the United States, and their T k l B fro m the right seach. 4 ., 95 marriage ceremony between the Prince Royal of Sar the Archduchess Marie Adelaide of Austria, was per- Led On the 12th instant, in the chapel of the Palace of aljgi, near Turin, in the presence of the King and Queen, V l ue other members of the Royal Family of Sardinia, and . t Viceroy at Vicequeen of the kingdom of Venetian hardy.. The Archbishop of Turin officiated. After the netty the Royal pair entered Turin amid a salute of 101 and the acclamations of the people, and were harangued Uornmandant of the city and the first Magistrate, in the gle of Vittorio-Emanuele. Twelve. young females, dressed i l / 4 7 : . 01te, then presented them with fruits and flowers. There 1 1 l Was gtand dinner and evening party at the palace, and the illuminated. The fetes in honour of this event are, "nunand of the King, to be of fifteen days' duration. telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated the 13th, states Mme disturbances had broken out there, in consequence k„ ir caalition of the operatives, owing to the want of work and n i ers of bread. Some persons had been severely wounded. 14 e 13th, in the morning, tranquillity had been restored. PARZLEI. ra ENT "AMY. i l hhe Lords did not meet yesterday. 10 Commons, on the motion of Mr. Pakington, committed :.1" Thurston to ISlewgate, fair willfully giving false evidence i,e the Iswich Election Committee. King p sclere lnelosure Bill wrs passed unimproved, to t on, as we believe, a great injustice on many individuals, tf,,Pite of the exertions of Mr. Wakley and others, and in spite I , e divisions. l e .? Lords' amendments to the forged Exchequer Bill's Bill, 1 : 1 agreed to. k t ' t a Committee on the Lunatic Asylums' Bill, Mr. Wakley's 44 , 1!i i is ent ,. to substitute medical men as visitors ar barris `2 . ss carried. The Bill only went partially through the futtee. House went subsequently into a Committee on the L.ight.Bill, and sat, transacting no business of great public 74 , t, till a Quarter past Twelve o'Clock. O h e PUBLIC OPINION. Advertiser says:—" Like the man in a play of Sheri who confessed that he lived by his bad, name, and appre '44,l .utter ruin if it were known that he had ever done a I,,i k action, Sir Robert Peel,' through his organs, declares s 4 : l e- has not reduced the rents of his tenantry 20 per cent., I"ted y. in esterday's Advertiser. The Po st and Stanard SZ4te the imputat on of such a concession as a mean d and 4 <ks attempt to injure the Premier in the estimation of llotiOitdultural connections, who, we may remark, as yet seem this Now whether to regard him as a friend or as a foe. On I s t mint, however, then would have no difficulty in coming ,ksh e 'reect conclusion, were they to bear ii mind that Sir Ist ift Peel never yet exhibited any fixed principle of policy , 4 e :' l, ays, however obnoxious and degrading t o his own sen t"!a. pliantly ) ielded to the expediency . which might best l Qt the hour of his mean and selfish ambition. There could t kr) he placed at the command of a tyrant oligarchy a more elan -1,41 man ,than Sir Robe n rt 44 1 * followino appears i the Post—" Lord Brougham has altogetheril e a ' to prove his assertion, that the wages o f labour Wi tt t depend to aeat gree on the cost of the necessaries 16.. e• Let his Lordship s show that if the . price of these neces c: should fall in Arm ica wages would not fall ;—let him on the other hand, that if these necessaries should in 4 0 e 'iec rise in price, wages would not also rise ;—let Lord I; 4l 4 e aham do these things—and, then, his Lordship may . as th? credit of having established one of t he p ro p ositions - hindispensable to the confirmation of the free -trade theory !" riiir Times contains a leading article on the Corn - law ques ki from which we extract the following :—" It will be years, ti 4l i 4 ,y be many years, before the demand for corn in the 'esi„„ l . ti ma, kets w ill have created in foreign countries a cor- Vting supply ; and, unquestionably, till that time any re -10204 of restriction will not have worked out its own legiti ,7, t , ciinse - (iue - u - e - e s : Till that time the English corn factor 'taut more than foreign countries have to give, and accord , the foreign farmer will be able to drive his own bargain, it ts reign wheat w ill rise to' English prices, instead of Eng- Leheat falling to foreign ones. Till that time the British Clien t will not be really brought into competition with the : Sof the world. But when, and in proportion as the in :f of the people shall be incited by more favourable cir etances, and urged by the enterprise of the English sp? - rto the cultivation of tracts hitherto unavailable, in li,or Russia, in Africa or America, then certainly, though 1 then, the question will become one of the mere cost of tton and conveyance; and we may calculate, on the one i 0 0 getting our corn at the lowest price which will furnish ''llrPeration to the grower, the factor, and the carrier; and, S °other, on throwing out of cultivation all land which will tuduce it at the same rate in England." N 7 , , Chronicle remarks as follows on the subject of the 1n ,114,11x :—" An Income-tax places the resources of the ' 4 4 l ' much more absolutely at the disposal of a Minister ' l itt 44 " Y other mode of taxation. It is a screw which turns 4 3i f acility. The invention of a new and profitable tax is no l'tli ti t itsk ; and its imposition, when invented, is always un- ~,,,. i and not always practicable. Even a very strong Go ,S i'eut would have some difficulty infighting its way through u4 l : 4 Position of a succession of new taxes; but a mere addi. t e ° an existing tax, two per cent., one per cent., or a half Ni t '"., clapped on upon the Income-tax, would occasion Yl th t rouble, either by opposition within or without the walls ti l e House of Commons. The worst features of the tax— !it,i'quisitorial na t ure an d unequal pressure—remaining the y , and b e l ong i ng a lik e t o the smaller per centage and the . there would be no very formidable struggle toencounter \lebt a question as right-pence in the pound instead of isZPence. All facilities of this description increase the ki 1 , 4 7 of a Ministry. They diminish the points of defence at rf: a people can make its stand against the encroachments of Vernment. And hence an Income-tax, though the argu- S o llas been left comparatively in abeyance, is really as ob e ' , able coastitutional yasit is fiscally or commercially. It r ''es the hatred of a people jealous of political rights not t...... 4s ie • •° , 4 a people chiefly dependent on trade and commerce for , Thie Herald rity." 'cl Kush thus alludes to Viscount Melbourne's speech in k i l gt of Lords on Tuesday night:—" Lord Melbourne last t L exhibited his sympathy with the principle of the Corn-law ~ •by the Cabinet over which he ostensibly presided , by ,5t 4 ,:.% in the House of Lords, a resolution declaratory of the Nl:re advantages of a fixed duty on the importation of foreign ksi 6 iei• a sliding scale. The Noble Lord's speech will be Sy I t ith interest, and in truth it deserves to be read, were it : ) .. r the happy contrast which it affords to the exaggerated 6 Ni7nta, declamatory expectations, and violent denuncia volthieh composed the staple of he orations of the Noble S ei lltit's late colleagues in the House of Commons. It de- N, to be read as an excellent specimen of the e.,uanimity, Ni'llimeas, and the entire freedom from bitterness or ill '4 "ft of an ex Prime Minister." 'l l , :.-vz °NET—TRADE—COMMERCE. Y 4 Staffordshire nailars are in extreme distress : la r ge stocks klll l '' l, are on hand, for which, no market can be found ; nearly ,`Wareliotuies are closed, and the rest only at halt-business. N 4 t he Bristol post-office upwards of fifty persons ha ve been li i ,i 4 ed, within the last three months, purloining letters, the t ile Portion of which have contained jewellery. The legal 'it I t ' s es incurred in prosecuting post-office criminals amounted tuirtar to above 10,0001,, and the money, jewellery, &e., lost a t time is supposed to have been above 50,000/. STATISTICS. t it, l'il , Associations established in Great Britain at present for iti t i t I reulation of the Scriptures is 2,228; n Ireland, .500 ; i kiti,pental Europe, 1,400 ; Asia, 83 ; Africa, 16 ; America, Rt N ; Australia, 17 ; and the est Indies, 226 ; 69 of the ' bein g con ducted by freed ne West Indies, 226 ; 69 of the being conducted by freed negroes. Oh NAVAL AND DIII.XT.PA.E.Y. Is:, Earl of Ludlow died at his seat in Bedfordshire on 1 0..,'''aY last, in his 83d year, having been 64 years in the ser sd., Re served in the American war ; was wounded at I,,ktklT, and lost an arm near Roubaix : he subsequently com , '4 tit , Ti . Egypt, Hanover, and at the capture of Copenhagen. el is extinct. j ll ' LltW AND POLICE. et Tease of the barque Bullfinch and the St. Petersburgh N assachusetts, was decided in the Admiralty Court on f':h y. The latter was proved to have driven against the 8u1,.t , .t i t ,ul the Lcndon Docks, and the Court pronounced against Ni7assachuset ts. 1 ki t '''Lts Suisse, the late valet of the Marquis of Hertford :is , u Tuesday brought up again at Bow-street for re-examina v t , A letter from the English Consul at Paris had been re ,kl,,,(,'t relative to the prisoner : and further evidence being ; 7 ' ! , 1j,. te( , 1 in the course of a week from France, Mr. Jardine kis" accepting bail, andthe prisoner was remanded for that J,'',lll) ,N.Powell was on Tuesday charged at Union-hall with baying 'tel l S i 3' of smuggled tea and tobacco in his posession,. fur k A ~,1 1 1 was committed in default of payment of a s 100/. fine. ;4110,..0ti0n for a munition against the Lords of the Admiralty, ~,,, 1 upon them to put in an appearance town action in the q!lli i . ;he Athol and Jane Clark, was made on Tuesday at the k . t'tt'Y Court. The latter by collision at sea had been lost, k'tli , e xamination by the Lords of the Admiralty their judg- N,:, that it arose from the darkness of the night and the ' ; ' , , i ‘,..%shlike conduct of the Jane Clark's crew. Dr. Lushing tittr 'pil,rea ty towno allow Court was of th powerless motion, tobwards ut at the sa pe me g ° tibe me 4 . , , e at his ' to the mon ition into effect. The point stands over for d 'ration. lilt tt, PINE ARTS. k l ll l ,"_,u Philharmonic Society on Monday night, in additon l es t ' of Mademoiselle Pacini, daughter, we believe, of ‘,, itot Parisian music- seller, Mr. Alvers, a celebrated harp arrived from the continent, performed a new solo, As brilliantly executed, and greatly applauded. G 1, t ,,t tn CoUR.T—TASIIIOND.73I. t E. t. i.h Ind Lady Southampton have left Whittlebury Lodge 'Cs' ar i Pgton Spa. :&„ 7 enabled to announce that all the preliminaries are ill -a dY'arranged for the marriage of the Hon. Miss Stuart, , h khtt, of Lord Stuart e Itothsa, the British Ambassador at a h i: 4 "burgh, with the Marquis of Waterford. `tly taken that the sister of a Noble Lord, who has re 4ert his seat in the House of Lords, is about to be uni . ed to a Rev. Gentleman distinguished for his theological and classical attainments. Lord A binger's indisposition arises from a rather severe attack of erysipelas. The Duke of Norfolk intends making considerable improve ments and alterations at Arundel Castle, Sussex. The Duke ( f Bedford left town on Sunday for Bedfordshire. The Countess of Munster has left Grove's Hotel, Albemarle street, for her new residence in Gloucester-place. The Dowager Countess of Galloway has gone en to Brighton, accompanied by the Earl of Galloway. The Earl of Chesterfield commences his dinner-parties yes terday. MISCELLANEOUS. The Royal British Institution held its first public meeting on Tuesday since its re-establishment : it has athritted 946 boys and 342 girls since this last period, and 19,000 children since its foundation ; but it is still encumbered with a debt of 1,2001. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Vis eovitess Jocelyn, Major-General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, Sir Edward Bowater, and Captain Francis Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, left town soon after eleven o'clock • yesterday morning; for Wimble don Common. After the review the Royal party re turned to Buckingham Palace in two carriages and four. Their Royal highnesses; the .Prince of `Pales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing yesterday in a car riage and four. Her Majesty and Prince Alpert took an airing yester day afternoon in an open barouche and four. Her Majesty had a dinner party yesterday evening at Buckingham Palace. The company included their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Wel lington, the Duchess of Buccleuch, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady C. Legge, Lady Augusta Somerset, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, Baroness Lehzen, Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Liverpool, Earl Delawarr, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Westmoreland, Earl Howe, Earl of CawdOr, Lord • George Lennox, Baron Stockmar, Baron Kmesebeck Viscount Sydney, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir George - Cooper, Bart., Hon. Captain Hood, Major-General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance during dinner. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Arch biThop of York, the Duke of Wellington, the Barl of Cawdor, and the Earl of Westmoreland, and attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Lord George Lennox, Colonel Biuverie, and Baron Knesebeck, left Buckingham Palace at eight o'clock for the Hanover square Rooms, his Royal Highness being the Director for the evening of the ancient concert. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline Legge followed. Her Majesty, accompanied by the remainder of the Royal and Illustrious visitors, and attended by the Roya l suite, left Buckingham Palace at half-past nigh o'clock, to honour the performance of the. Concert of Ancient Music with her presence.f Their Royal Highnesses the Duches'and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited her Majesty. the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin cess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kelt, yesterday, at Clarence - House. Mr. T. Attwood had an interview with Lord Stan'ey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Portuguese Minister transacted business, yester day, at the Foreign-office. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Continued small purchases for investment, and some heavy transactions in the terminable annuities, have tended to raise the price of Consols still higher ; the quqtations, at the close of business, being 91i for Money, and 9l a 4 for the Ac count. Bank Stock, 165 166; India Stuck, 243 245; Ex. chequer Bills, 40 42 prem. Without entering into the question of the policy, &c., of the Income-tax, it may be stated, that the chief operator in the annuities was the same party who took so prominent a part in endeavouring to get them excepted from its operation ; and that some public corporate bodies, likely to contribute largely, if the measure be carried, have also been purchas , Ts. This says but little for the feeling which these capitalists hold to wards the industrious classes, who are likely to be so large suf ferers by the measure, comparatively, in exerting themselves to have their property, which is so much more able to bear the burden, furced from it at the expense of others les. able to meet it. The Foreign Securities were all firm, and rather im proved; Danish, brings 803 to 813; the Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 523 to 523 ; the Five per Cents., 1003 to 101 ; Belgian, 1033 to 1043. The quotation of Brazilian was 67 68 ; and of Mexican, without debentures, 383 39. Railway Shares were in good demand, and prices higher ; London and Birmingham being 87 to 89 ; Great Western, 293 to 30 ; the Half Shares, 15 16 prem. ; South Western, 603 to 61 ; Gosport, 60 to 61 ; North Midland, 69 to 70; the New Shares, 34 to 35 ; South Eastern and Dover, 303 to 31 ; Eastern Counties ; 10 to 10 • Blackwell, 12i to 123; the New Shares, 103 to 103, and drighton, 101 to 103 per Share. Recent letters from St. Petersburgh state that the quantity of tallow remaining over from last year was 13,905 casks of which, about 900 casks had since been taken for consumption* leaving a stock of 13,000 casks to commence 1842 with. Esti timates for the supply usually to be received varied consider ably, some calculating at 130,000, and others not more than 120,000 casks, which would be less than in former years, and scarcely equal to the shipments in 1841, which was 135,010 casks, the smallest of any year since 1835, when it was but 103,878 casks. The price established in November was 130 ' roubles, since when it rose to 137 roubles. It eas how rather depressed, and about 40,000 pounds had been bought in English account at 136, with 10 deposit, at which price there were still sellers, as well as at 131, payable in advance, and delivered in August; 133 for Ukraine for 'June, and 132 for rod or dinary, also payable-in advance, were the current rates. At a late hour of the evening the Papers from New York to the Ist instant, by the Columbia steamer, were received at the North and South American Coffee-house. Matters had not materially changed since the accounts by the North America, things remaining in the same depressed state. A fall had oc curred in Cotton as well as in the State Stocks, Indiana being 17 17%, and Illinois 14 ; Exchange on England 6?,- 7 premium. Buenos Ayres had been visited by a terrifi 3 gale and disas trous drought, the former of which had done great damage to the buildings, shipping, and property, and drowned several per sons ; and the latter caused the loss of a large number of sheep and cattle, owing to the want of food. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The advance which took place yesterday in the price of Con sols, is not only fully maintained to day, but shares are a shade higher, although the extent of business is small. Purchases for investment continuedto be made in the heavy stocks, which now amount to a considerable sum, which has been:thus disposed of du ring the last tew days. The market pricesare—Contols9l3,9l3 for Money, and 913 91% for the Account P • Three per Cents. Reduced, 901901, ; New Three and a Half per Cents., 100 i 1003 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 993, 99% ; Bank Stock, 1653 ; India Stock, 2433 244%; the Bonds, 19; and Exchequer Bills, 40 42 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities are rather better than yes terday, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being 5 . 2*; the Five ler Cents., 100 1003 ; Danish, 801; Belgian, 1031 104* ; and Russian, 1123 113/. The inquiry for Railroad Shares, which has existed for some time, appears to have increased to-day, and the prices of se veral of the lines, especially the Brighton, are higher. Great Western, 95, the New Shares, 653 ' • York and North Midland, 933 94, the New Shares, 323 ; South Eastern, 30% 31 ; and Brihtnn, 373. The bonds, &c. of the insolvent States are thus quoted : Peruvian, 19 20 ; Buenos Ayrean, 263 per cent. ; l'oyais Green St ock certiticat es, tOs. tol2s.per 1 000 acres; Portuguese Five per,Cents. 373 373, the Three per Cents, `22 . 223 per cent. ; Salisbury and Exeter Railway 3, to 1 per Share; Spanish Ac tive Bonds, 243 243 per bond ; the Three per Cents. 25 3 25a per cent., and the San Pedro Joint Stock Bank 4s. to 6s. per 100. Money is very abundant, and cannot be lent at 23 per cent. By an arrival from the Mauritius, intelligence has been re ceived to the 16th January. The want of labourers, which-has long been pressing so hardly on our sugar colonies, is beginning to be felt there also, and estimates had been formed by which it would appear that the profit of an estate (instanced) which cost upwards of 50,000/. was scarcely 1,1001. annually. In British Guiana such has been the scarcity of labourers, that several instances have occurred in which plantations have beets abandoned, on account of the expenses exceeding - the income; and it is to be hoped that the sutject, which has been frequently brought under the notice of the Executive, will now receive serious at tention. The stock of sugar has decreased alarmingly, the quantity of West India now in London being 3,420 hhds. and barrels against 8,865 in April 1841, or not three weeks, consumption, according to the delivery in the previous week ; and if some time hence the supply from the Mauritius should fall off also, the consequeneeinaturally arising will be the ma • terially, and permanently enhancing the price. LIVERPOOL Coy Toss MARKET, APRIL 19.—The sales were again large and prices steadily supported. The transaetioas acluded6,ooo bales, of which 300 Were Egyptian, at id. to 73d. ; 200 Maranham, 53d. to 6d. ' • 500 Surate, 33d. to 4d. ; and 4,000 American, 4 3d. to 7d. Speculators took about 1,000 American, chiefly of middling quality, and Exporters 600 of the same description. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 19.—The market had a better aspect to-day, and several transactions took place in the undermentioned. Altogether the market had a tendency to improve. The sales were—Eastern Counties, 10 ; Ditto, New, 51. 6s. Bd. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 ; Grand Junc tion, 190 ; Great Western, Fifths, 65% ; Lancaster and Pres ton Three-fourths, 17% ; Midland Counties, 79%; South Eastern, 303. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 19.—We have had less doing in Shares to-day, but no material change in prices has taken place ; Edinburgh and Glasgow continue in much request. The sales are—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50% and 503; Manchester and Birmingham, 28% ; Manchester and Leeds Halves, 363. CLOSING PRICES. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pa: cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 64 Belgian, 5 pei cent IO4A Ditto, New Ditto 373 Brazil►an 80nd5.... — Prussian, _5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 percent 26 Russian, 5 per cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent 78 Ditto, Metallic ...... . .... Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, S per cent...-. 24i Ditto, 1824.. ....... 27/ Ditto, Deferred.... . 12 Danish, 3 per cent Boi French, 5 per cent. —;. — c , Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange — I -..e. Mexican, 5 per eent.... 38i French, 3 per cent —:. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21i per cent. . 523 Peruv,ian, 1825, 5 per ct. 191 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1001 SHARES. Birrgingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 52 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .....• ... 524 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 95 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) . f;74 London and Blackwall (23 paid) 144 -d London and Birmingham (90) ...... .. ... 178 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 361 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 64 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid... London and Greenwich Railway ; rd) 6A London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) .. 24 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...... .... 44 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) . 31 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) . 321 WIIITBY, Amt. 19.—A ship's boat was washed ashore at Keillene.s, 17th inst., marked " James and Ann, Rogers, of Newcastle." THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1842. DRURY-LANE T HEATRE. The new .five-act play, entitled Plighted Troth, which was produced for the first time last night at this theatre, is one of those unlucky productions in which effect is constantly aimed at, and as constantly missed, • from the author's want of truth and simplicity in the managemynt of his deta;ls, and the development of his charatcrs. It is in vain to deny him a certain sort of energy, as regards ' conception; but it is misdirected energy, at variance with the propriety of 'nature, and put forth with far too much parade and fuss. He overdoes almost everything that he touches ; elaborates trifles, and in critical places is perpetually hovering on the verge of the ridiculous. His path was clear before him ; but in stead of maintaining a straightforward course, he moves in a circuitous, zig zag direction ; halts when he should be on the alert ; and keeps • his eye fixed on everything but the goal. The consequence is, that he excites an interest only by fits and starts, and this chiefly by a convulsive, spasmodic display of power, that is more startling than impressive—except; indeed, in the scene of the clOsing catastrophe, where something like a true dramatic spirit is manifested. But the radical defect of the. author is the set, formal preparations, that he makes for incidents, which, when fully de veloped, lose their effect from their having- been all apprehended beforehand. The plot of his play— which, by. the bye, is most loosely constructed — .is something like the following :—Sir Gabriel Grim wood (Macready) is a wealthy, unscrupulous Cumber land Baronet, of headstrong passions, and of a most vin dictive character, who, by the agency of his artful stew ard, Wormall (Phelps), contrives to obtain possession of his ward's, Raymond Willoughby's (Anderson), estates, and to get him shipped off for a foreign country. Pre vious to his departure, Willoughby seek: an interview with Maddeline (Miss Helen }aucit), a dependent in Grimwood's household, who is warmly attached to him, but for whom ha appears to enter tain no more than a mere passing penchant. With this interview the first act terminates. The inci dents in the second are supposed to take place ten years later. The steward, Wormall, has, in the interim, managed to secure to himself his master's estates, who has been implicated in the Jacobite risings in Ireland in 1688, and is supposed to be either dead or an exile. In the midst of his prosperity, however, he learns that Grimwood stilt lives, and is in London, pining in a state of indi gence, and half-frenzied with his reverses. Scarcely has he got over the shock of this surprise, when he hears that Willoughby is also in ilia metropolis, and that consequently he must be compelled to refund all of which lie has robbed him. Scarcely knowing how to act under such a complication of annoyances, he resolves at length on having au interview with the desperate, half-crazed Baronet, in the hope of prevailing on him, by the offer of returning him a moiety of his estates, to make no attempt to recover the remainder. He accordingly visits him in his wretched retreat, but stung to desperation by his bitter taunts, stabs him, and is soon afterwards ap prehended for the murder, with which incident the play closes. These are the leading incidents, but there is a sort of underplot, in which Raymond Willoughby, and Maddeline, are chiefly concerned. The latter,. during the former's absence from England, has been proved to be the descendant of the Counts of St. Auriel, and, in con sequence, has succeeded to the title just before Wil loughby's return. As she still loves him, and he reci procates her affection, not dreaming that she is the poor dependent whose attachm'ent he fortherly slighted, she determines on making a trial of his sincerity, and after a long and somewhat superfluous conversation, confesses that she is the identical Maddeline whom he had once rejected ; and moved by his penitence, accepts him as her husband. The whole of this underplot is very clumsily managed, and is attached to the other portions of the play by the slightest possible. links. In tact, it is little better than an excrescence, though it is from his feagmentary episode that the &Luna derives its title. There are two striking incidens in the play—.. one, where Grimwood is represented brooding over his revenge, in spite of the efforts of a Catholic priest in attendance to bring him into a better frame of mind ; and the other, where he taunts Wormall into the com mission of murder, in presence of a concealed agent, in the hope that he will in consequence be denounced, and hanged. • On both these occasions Macready's acting was uncommonly fine , his conception of the character was bold without being overcharged ; girl he. exhibited, strange to say, none of that mannerism which has been so often objected to him. The fierce glimmerings of sanity that kept incessantly struggling through his mad ness, vera pourtrayed with starting earnestness ; and he appeared as though he were kept alive, and in a state of imperfect intelligence, solely by the idea of revenge, on which he gloated with all the remorseless avidity of a fiend. Miss Helen Faucit played the part of the Countess St. Auriel with infinite grace and spirit ; but her acting was in a great degree lost on the au dience, from she very perplexing nature of the character she represented. Phelps, as the Steward Wormall, was somewhat too boisterous ; and Mr. Anderson, as Wil loughby, made a very sickly, sentimental lover. The language of the play is often terse, animated, and nervous, but oftener still turgid and inflated. Here and there it betrays evidences of poetic power ; but, like angels' visits, these tokens are " few, and far between." Por tions of the dialogue, indeed, were so ridiculous, though meant to be tragic, that the audience could not refrain from laughter. The scenery was excellent throughout ; and the ball-room scene magnificent. The play, how ever, was coldly received, chiefly from its want of na ture, simplicity, and coherences ; and we cannot promise it a run of more than a few nights. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TutsnAv. 2,000 Guineas Stakes-5 to 2 agst Meteor ; 3 to 1 agst Petulance c (t); 6 to 1 agst Tirnolcon ; and 6A to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's lot. CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst LanercoA (t freely) ;9to 1 agst Vulcan ; 10 to 1 agst ltory o . lllore (t) ; t 2 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn ; 12 to 1 agst Bellora ; 15 to 1 agst M. Soult ; 16 to 1 agst Satirist; 20 to 1 agst The Squire ; 20 to 1 agst Cruiskeen; 25 to 1 agst Retriever, 30 to 1 agst Rho tanthe ; 30 to I agst Pagan; and 30 to 1 agst The Young-'Un. DEE STAKES (CHESTER)..-5 to 2 agst William de Forti bus ; 5 to 2 apt Skipton ; and 7 to 2 agst Alarion. DEat.v.—tii to 1 a s st Frederica c (t); 8 to 1 agst Attila; 15 to I agst Auckland; i 7 to 1 agst Joanna c; 25 to 1 agst Elena ; 30 to 1 agst Moss-trooper ; and 40 to 1 agst Meteor. OAKS.-8 to I agat Adela f; 11 to 1 agst Sister to York shire Lass; 12 to 1 agst Passion ; 20 to 1 agst Black Beauty ; and 20 tot agst Amima f. BAI H RACES—(TUESDAY CONCLUDED). _ _ The County Members' Plate of 50/., added to a sweeps. of 5 sovs. each ; 3 yrs, fist 10ib ; 4 yrs, List 6.b ; 5 yrs, 9st ; 6 )rs and aged, 9,. , t 51b; mares,. &c., allowed 3 lbs ; winners extra. Mile and half ht ats. 6 Subs. Mr. Treen's Una, 4 yrs ... (S. Mann) 5 1 1 M. de Nlosher's Wiltonia, 3 yrs 1 4 2 Mr. Jones' Fervid, 4 yrs ... 3 3 3 Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs... 4 2 dr. Mr. Foster's Combat, aged Each heat won easily by a length. THE JOCKEY CLUB MEETING.' At a General Meeting of the Members of the Jockey Club held at Willis's Rooms yesterday (Tuesday), Lord George Bentinek having stated '• that anxious to conciliate the good will of the Club, whilst he still adheres to all the principles and maxims of turf law, laid• down in his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to withdraw and express his regret for so much of the language in which that protest has been coached as has heen felt t ) be offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club," it was unanimously resolved that this state ment was satisfactory to the Club. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Suffolk Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, if declared by noon on Monday next; the winner of the 2,000 guineas Stakes, or the Somersershire Stakes at Bath, Sib extra; of the 1,000 guineas Stakes, or the R. M. Plate, 41b extra. John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, 9st 41b ; Potentia, 4 yrs, 9st 31b ; The Currier. 4 yrs, Bst; Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst Imo ; The Corsair, 6 yrs, Bst bulb; Johnny, 5 yrs, Sst blb • Bob Peel, 5 yrs, Bst 51b ; Rory O'More, 6 yrs, Bst 31b; ielmyra, 5 yrs, Bst; The Nub, 4 yrs, Bst ; The Genius, 5 yrs, ist lUlb ; Una, 4 yrs. 7st Sib; I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st bib; Mustapha, 4 yrs, 7st Sib ; Minaret, 4 yrs, let 51b ; Florence, 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; St. Colomb, 4 yrs, 7st; Agreeable colt, 3 yrs, Est 121 b; Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs, Est 101 b; Fidhaun, 4 yrs, Est 71b • Miss Fidget, 4 yrs, 6st 51b; Nuncio, 3 yrs, Est Sib; The-bevil among.the-Tailors, 3 yrs, Est bib ; Tripoli, 3 yrs, 6st bib ; Haitoe, 3 yrs, sst 91b; Norma, 3 yrs, bst 91b ; Taurica, 4 yrs, paid 5 soya. ft. CRAVEN MEETING, 1843.—Morma tr. _ Lord Kelburne's c by Velocipede, out. of Amulet, Bsl 41b. against Col. Peel's c by lon, out of Malibran, Bst. T. Y. C. 99 h it. ASCOT HEATH, 1842.—Txuasnay. Nominations fur the Gold Cup.—Marshal Soult, 4 yrs ; Beesuin,,g, aged; Bokhata, 5 yrs; St. Francs, aged ; Ralph, 4 yrs ; Jack, 3 yrs ; Lanercoa, 6 yrs; Eriugo, 4 yrs ; Little Wonder, 5 yrs ; Ttie Nob, 4 yrs ; Potentia, 4 vrs. EPSOM, 1g42.--TuEsnay. Nominations for the Woodcote Stakes—Sir G. Heathcete's bl c by Velocipede, out of Driad ; Mr. G. Ongley's bl f by Camel, d by Octavius ; Col. Wyndham's Handmaiden ; Mr. Forth's Venus ; and Mr. Greville's Portumnus. _ _ THE JOCKEY CLUB.—The following is an official report of the Meeting on Tuesday last : —" Lord George Bentinck stated that, anxious to conciliate the good will of the Club, whilst he adheres to all the principles and maxims of Turf law, laid down 1.1 his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to with draw and express his regret for so much of the language in which that protest has been couched as has been felt to be offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club." It was unani mously resolved that this statement was satisfactory to the Club. Nat, who broke his collar-bone last week, at Newmarket, and was much bruised by the fall, is going cn favourably, and will shortly be able to resume his business. The Goodwood Cup closed with 57 subscribers. Mondiere, a foot soldier quartered at Paris, was yesterday condemned to death by . the permanent Court-martial for the offence of striking a sentinel on his post. It appeared' in evidence that, in the evening of the Bth ult., Mondiere was returning to his barracks when he met a woman with her son, a boy about ten years old, in the avenue Lamothe-Piequet, near the Hotel des lnvalides, and not only accosted her, but, not withstanding her remonstrances, persevered ia offensive over. tures, and forced her to go out of her way home from fear of giving rise, by being seen with him, to injurious suspicions in the minds of her friends and neighbours. She walked on till they came to a sentinel posted near the Ecole Militaire, whose rroteetion she claimed. The sentinel recommended Alondiere to retire to his quarters, and leave her to go home with her child. He, however, took offence at the interference of the sentinel, abused him, and at length struck lum a blow ou the Mee, which produced blood, and induced him to seize his as sailant and call out the guard. Alondiere broke away from him, hut left in his hands the epaulette of his capotte, which came off in the struggle. By this Mondiere was discovered and recognised. In answer to the depostions to the above effect, Mondiere had nothing to say but that he was in liquor, knew not what he did, and had no recollection of t tic circumstance. As he had previously borne a good character, the President, in passing sentence upon him, announced that lie would recom mend him to the Royal clemency. Upon this a petition to the King for a commutation was immediately drawn up, and signed by all the members of the Court. The Corsican bandit Orsini was taken on the Ist instant. He was met near Campile by a voltigeur, who seized him. Orsini defended himself and made a desperate resistance, but, seeing four men coming up, he relinquished the contest, and fled. He was, however, so exhausted by the struggle, that he w as overtaken, and secured at the moment he was on the point of plunging int" a ravine, where it would have almost been hopeless to follow him. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY. The City of London General Pension Society held thdr usual anniversary festival yesterday evening, at the London Tavern. About three hundred Gentlemen sit:: down to dinner in the great room, the gallery of a hich was crowded with ladies, who repeatedly mani fsted during the evening the interest which they 'took{ in the procetding - s. The Chair was filled by Lord Stanley, and among the company we noticed the Hon. H. Liddell, M.P., J. I. Briscoe, Esq., &c. Above the Chair was placed a handsome transparent portrait of her Majesty, the Patroness of the Society, with this scroll underneath, " The very soul of bounty." This portrait had, we believe, been, lent to the SoCiety by the Committee of the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund. The room, which is one of the finest in the metropolis, was suitably prepared for the occasion ; and the style in which the dinner was served up reflected great credit on the Stewards and on the establishment. The arrange ments seemed to give universal satisfaction. Mr. Toole acted as Toast -mast e r during the evening. The cloth having been removed Benedict;lv was sung in very excellent style by Messrs. Hobbs, Young, and Ransford, and Masters Ball and Dassett. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the first toast, addressed the Company as fbllows:—Genttemen, in the performance of the duties which your kindness has devolved on me, I have to propose to you, among other toasts, one, the re ception of which I cannot for one Moment permit myself to doubt, in an assembly of Englishmen. —(Cheers.) I have to propose to you the health of her Majesty the Queen, a lady who, in ascending the throne of these realms at a very early period in life has so comported herself in her high station, as to win the affections, and secure the loyalty of all classes of her subjects, whose name will be enthusiastically re ceived among every class in this country, but who has this peculiar claim on the assembly which I have now the honour to address—a claim of gratitude for her Ma jesty's kindness in having, in compliance with •the ex ample set to her ninny years ago by her illustrious and lamented father, the late I)uke of Kent, under whose aus pices this Society was first instituted—(Cheers)—in the course of the present year graciously consented to per mit her name to be entered as the Patroness of this so ciety; and accompanied that manifestation of her favour with a donation of 1001. to the funds of the Society,- ( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg to give ‘‘ The health r her Majesty the Queen," and I have great pleasure-in adding, the Patroness of this institution.—(Cheers.) The toast was'elrunk with three times three, and ralle turous applause. . God save the Queen," was then sung by the .com pany standing. The CHAIRMAN next addressed the company as fol lows :—Gentlemen, you have just drank the health of the Royal Lady who fills the throne of these realms with a dignity peculiarly her own.—(Cheers.) I shall now propose to you the name of another Lady. scarcely less illustrious, and also a patroness of this Society—one who has filled a throne with dignity, and who has known how to perform, with equal grace and equal dignity, the task of descending from that throne into comparative peleacy—(Cheers)—but which in that comparative re tirement, still reigns in the hearts of those who were once her subjects ; and whose character for pure and unassuming piety, for enlightened liberal ity, and fur unbounded munificence, is known to every corner of these realms, and who requires not in this, or any other assembly, that I should identify her by name. I propose to give you the health of her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager.—(Loud cheers.) The health of her Majesty was drunk amidst the loudest applause, Glee—" Oh, by rivers." The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, it is not often that those on whom the cares and responsibilities of Royalty devolve, are for tunate enough to be able to exercise in mat:ers which involve the private and domestic happiness the advan tage which their subjects possess of selecting, by their own choice, their partners for life ; and it must happen yet more seldom that that choice is found to -realise the expectations in which it was founded ; but it has been her Majesty's peculiar happiness, not only to make that set ction in the exercise of her own judgment, and in conformity to her own affections, but to find that she has bestowed that judgment and those affections upon one every way worthy of her choice.—(Cheers.) Gen tlemen, it were much to say for a young Prince, recently a stranger. in this country, that he has so conducted himself in the difficult situation in which he was placed, as to give no cause of offence to any one ; but it is with confidence I can say, in addition of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, that, in every society of Englishme&. which he has mixed—in those rare occasions—and 2: e perly rare occasions—in whi.-11 he has mixed in punlic affairs—one of which occasions was one most interesting to this City—on every occasion his Royal Highness has conducted himself with a grace, a courtesy, and an affa bility of demeanour, which have attracted the regard, and merited the approbation, of all who have seen him. I also know that he has so conducted him self, as to t. in, day by day, more :and more the esteem and admiration of those who • have the happi ness to approach him more nearly. lam sure you will drink with cordial satisfaction the health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. And in the course of this year an additional source of congratulation and thanksgiving has been given by Providence to this country, in the prospects held out to us that we may look forward to a long and unbroken line of male successors to the throne of these realms; and in that confidence, and in that hope, and in the hope that the young Prince who has been given to the wishes of the nation may in his future life verify the fond expectations formed of him, I beg to join his name, as that of the hope of the nation, with that et* his Royal father an 1 that of the Princess Royal. I now, therefore, call upon you to drink in one toast the healths of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and of the Princess Royal. —(Cheers.) The toast was most enthusiastically re ceived, ' _ Song—"God bless the Queen of England." • The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, in proposing to you the health of the remaining Members of the Royal Family, I am sure it will not be thought invidious—l am sure it will not be thought more than a due mark of re spect, if I peculiarly associate with the rest of the Royal Family, on an occasion like the present, the name of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex—(Loud and pro tracted cheering)—a Prince, wh o has on all occasions distinguished himself among his royal relations by the free, liberal, and unrestrained manner in which he has mixed with all classes of the subjects of these realms, but mire especially, while his health lasted, on every occasion when by his presence he could promote the cause of be nevolence and charity.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I pro pose to you the " Health of the Duke of Sussex, and of the other Members of the Royal Family."—(Cheers.) The toast was duly honoured. Song—" And cloth not a Meeting like this." The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, although I have the honour of presiding on this occasion, yet here I am bound to follow the orders I receive froth a higher authority ; and therefixe I beg leave to say I am not responsible fur that which certainly appears to me a want of gallantry, in drinking, in the first instance, the healths of the male members of the Royal family, and afwrwards adding the name of a lady, a member of the Royal family. But this I am sure of, in this Society there can be but one wish to pay every mark of respect and gratitude to that Royal Lady, the mother of our Sovereign, and long the widow of the lamented Prince under whose auspices this society was first founded, wlio has herself been a constant contributor to the funds of this institution, and who has every claim on our gratitude and support. Gentkmen, I beg to propose to you the health of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ; and, together with her name, lam desirous of coupling the names of those ladies who have done us the honour of subecribing to this Institution.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it I may be permitted to raise my eyes from below the tables which I am addressing, and look to another and a higher quarter of the room—si hen I reflect how highly w are honoured in having our objects encouraged, and our exertions animated by the presence of a number of ladies, I trust that I am not expressing a vain expectation when I announce, or hope, that from this evening we may be able to . add to the number of our supporters, the ladies, whose healths I am about to propose to you, as the sub scribers to this Institution —(Cheers.) The toast of ". Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Ladies, subscribers to the Institution," was then enthusiastieally honoured—" Glee—Who is Sylvia ?" .1 he CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of "The Army and Navy." He was sure that whenever the ser vices of these two gallant branches might be required, they would be found to . be animated by the same gal lantry, and guided by the same discipline which had dis tinguished them in former times.—(The toast was warmly received.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, addressed the company as follows:—Gentlemen, or perhaps on this occasion, I may take the liberty of saying 'Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has now arrived when, in the per- • formance of my duties, and coming to that which is the practical business for which we are met here to-day, I am to call upon you to testify, in such a manner as may be most gratifying to your own feelings, and most calculated to carry out the objects for which we have met here to-night—the time has arrived which I have to propose to you to drink, as well as to assist in promoting, "Prosperity to the City of London General Pension Society."—(Cheers.) And, Gentlemen, although I have been called upon on many occasions to address audiences on subjects of a more exciting nature, I never addressed an assembly upon a subject which I feel comes home more close l y to the hearts, and bosuns, in , anad great feeli commercial every and Christian commu nity man h and of every like this.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I call upon you to come to the aid of unmerited distress—l call upon you to come to the relief of industry, suffering from unforeseen and undeserved privations—l call upon you to rescue the work of your own hands, from that decay with which it has bsen unhappily for some years threatened. Gentlemen, it was only in the year 1818, under the patronage of the illustrious and lamented • Duke of Kent, that a body of charitable individuals in this City, many of whom still survive, and still watch with parental care over the work of their own hands— it was only in.the year 181 8 , that were seen the wea k and feeble, beginnings of this most important charity. In that year you were enabled to place upon - your books four male and two female pensioners. At the folloW ing election there were only six males and three females. years ilig s h o te s n t e l Ti g ,eneficen'ce were the practical a rs periodo the u(t)iflintyin aendenlightened of this Institution, you were enabled, at a single election, to appoint, instead of nine, no less than ninety pensioners on your bounty, and to place upon yoUr books a number of pensioners amounting altogether, 1 believe, to not less, or little less, than 600. But, unhappily, a change came over the prospects' of your Institution—a change to be deprecated in any .case where the progress of a useful and benevolent society is arrested by unexpected causes ; but a change, most of all to be deprecated, when the failure fell nut on the prospective, or contingent, or pos sible objects of yoir bounty, but, when I may almost say, a breach of faith had been committed, and those to whom you had, in some measure, pledged yourselves that l. yoa should continue a monthly payment of 31s. were limited to a still more humble pittance. It I must - - .-have • been- most painful to the pro moters of this charity to have felt themselves compelled, 'by . a cessation of subscriptions . not oily to cease adding to the number of the objects of their benevolence, but to take, as was the case, from men of 60, 70, or 80 years of age, a large portion of that pit fiance which they had promised themselves would cheer and relieve their declining years. In 1833, instead of 31s. 1 a month to male pensioners, you were enabled to give but 35., and instead of 225. you were enabled to give but 2s. to females. That effect was not to be attributed to a decline of charitable feeling—God• forbid—but to the increase of local pensiou societies, which withdrew large. sums from your subscriptions. - But, since the year 1833, the prospects of the institution have gradually improved, and, I believe, you have since been enabled to give 15s. a month to the older recipients of your bounty. An in stitution like this, open for the relief of the honest and industrious artizan whoni misfortune has overtaken in the decline of life, deserves every support and sympathy. I hope that with your aid, its benefits may be perma nently increased ; and I now call upon you to drink to 7`The prosperity of the London General Pension Society." The toast was drunk with enthusiastic applause. The health of the Duke of Buccleuch, the President of the Institution was next drank. . The Secretary here read the list of subscriptions for the day, which amounted to a sum of 1,2201. The list was headed by a contribution from her Majesty of 100/. Mr. LIDDELL, M. l'., in an eloquent address, proposed the health of the Chairman, the Eight Honourable Lord Stanley. The toast was received with loud cheering, again and again renewed. The ladies in the gallery joined in the applause by the waving of handkerchiefs. The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, proposed the health of J. I. Briscoe, Esq., to whom the Institution was so much indebted, who- had so largely contributed to its funds and supported it by his exertions in times of versity. Mr. BRISCOE returned thanks. The toasts of " The Ladies who had- honoured the compiny by their presence that evening," the "Trea surer," and " Mr. Richardson, the Secretary to the In stitution," were afterwards proposed and duly honoured. Lord STANLEY retired shortly' after ten o'clock, and the company soon broke up , after• having spent the evening in the greatest harmony and conviviality. NATIONAL CONVENTION. The Convention of Delegates from England, Scotland, and Wales, met yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Dr. Johnson Tavern, Fleet-street. The object of to-day's meeting was to oppose the steps taken by Mr. St urge, of Birmingham, in forming a National Suffrage Association, and the proposition of Mr. Sturge and his party to merge the name of the Charter into that of the above Asso ciation. Mr. DUNCAN took the chair. Mr. Caursztf. acted as Secretary, and read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed. Mr. Moons* proposed a resolution to the following effect : " That this Convention respectfully recommend the people to stand firmly by the Charter, whole and entire, evenin name." Mr. MASON seconded the resolution. Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Thomason, Mr. Pitkeathly, and Mr. M`Dovrall spoke to the resolution. • Mr. Plume, in speaking to the resolution, said he thought there was no cause for it, as it implied a wavering in the cause ; but, as it was before the Convention, he should sup port it. Mr. STA LLwoon, of London, did not wish to attribute mo tives to any one, but he had heard of meetings attended by Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Lowry, and Mr. Vincent, at which meetings those gentlemen were silent; he, therefore, thought there was great necessity for the resolution before the meeting. Mr. DOYLE, of Cheshire, said he had been sent tothe Whig political boarding school f.,r daring to express his opinion, and he would go there again before he would give up even the name of the Charier.—( Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that when the Association which had been formed to divide the people in their opinion as to the Charter, came before the public at the Convention to he called at Birmingham, it would be treated as it deierved. After several other Delegates had addressed the Convention, the resolution was put and carried unanimously. The Con vention then adjourned. THE INCOME TAX. Calculations have been made by some of the conductors of the Tory press to support Sir Robert Peel's assertion, that to persons of moderate means his tariff will give more than his Income• tax will take away. The result is a statement, copied from one journal into another, to the following effect : Suppose a man, his wife, and three children, with an income of 2001. per annum arising from wages; the new tariff will benefit them in the reduced price of the necessaries of life, to the amount of 12/. 10s. 2d. yearly, while the Income-tax will be not quite 61., leaving a saving from Sir Robert's Peel's mea sures of 6/. 10s. 2d. Or suppose a tradesman also with a wife and three children, who derives from his business a net income of 3001. per annum ; his estimated benefit from the new tariff is 17/. 3s. 10d., his income-tax not quite 91., and the balance in his favour 81. 3s. 10d. The third supposition is that of an independent income of 500/., the family the same, but with the addition of two servants; the more liberal style of living in this case raises the saving to 26/. 61. 10d., from which de ducting 151. for Income-tax, there remains a clear profit of 11/. 6s. 10d. ; and thus the argument (ilade out by items which it is not needful for our present purpose to scrutinise) is sent forth on its way triumphantly. We take upon their own showing the illustrators of Sir Robert Peel's logic, and beg their attention to certain general consequences of their " facts and figures." One result is, that the system is contrived to bestow larger benefits upon the comparatively rich than upon the comport', lively pour. To the possessor of an independent revenue, from the public funds, or other non•fluctuating sources, Sir Robert Peel proposes to make a donation of 111. 6s. 10d. yearly. On the struggling . tradesman, whose ceaseless attention, ingenuity, and inaustry hardly win to him a precarious annual income of 300/., Sir Robert only be stows 3s. 10d. And if the tradesman be obliged to shut up shop, and hire himself out for weekly wages, which, with those perhaps of one, or two, of his three children, realise tour pounds a week, then Sir Robert pares down his bounty to 61. 10s. 2d., mulcting the unfortunate recipient a above 305., when every shilling has become of enhanced value. Such is the mode in which, according to the logic of his speeches, and the calculations of his advocates, Sir Robert Peel loves, com miserates, and helps the poor. His bounty is measured by the direct ratio, not of their wants, but of their receipts. To the gentleman of an independent 5001. a-year he gives about twice as much as to the poor clerk of 2001. a-year. For the trades man he would certainly do more, if the tradesman were but realising more, and living in a handsomer style. It is singu larly original this Tory charity. it may be said, indeed, that, as the Peel bounty is bestowed through the medium of diminished taxation upon articles of consumption, the consequence is unavoidable that its amount must follow the amount expended on such arti cles. Granted; and for that reason it cannot, by itself be made an uniform amount of relief ; still less can it be made to augment in proportion to the poverty and want of the party to be relieved. But the question here is, not of the tariff con sidered alone, but of the tariff taken in connection with the In come-tax. The relief is in the balance ; and if one weight can not be altered, yet the other might. if the poor clerk of 2001. a year must have less relief than his betters, he might also hale less tax. Charge him at only one per cent. on his income, and he saves as much as the tradesman. Or charge the independent man four per cent. on his income, and he will save as much, though not more than the poor clerk. The matter is easily capable of equitable adjust ment. The system is niggardly to the poor, and bountiful to the rmh, from no necessity of the case, but merely because Sir 11. Peel will have it so. There is another point worth notice in these calculations. The man of 2001. a year is to make, by the amended tariff, a gloss saving annually of 121. 10s. 2d. ; he of 3001., a saving of 17/. 3s. 10.1 ; and he of 500/., one of 26/. 6s. 10d. iiay we ask where all this money goes to now? The calculation, with some very trifling exceptions, is made upon an assumed reduction in the prices of articles of w'..ich are therefore supposed to be kept up by the pre sent restrictions and prohibitions. It is not that the specified savings are now paid in the form of duties to the Govern 'tient. At least, that is a comparatively insignificant por tion. The clerk of 2001. per annum is calculated to save above 7 guineas on bread and meat alone. The saving is, therefore, mainly made out of what is now paid by consumers of all classes as the landlord's tax. Nor is it the whole of that tax, or anything like it. The remission is just such a reduction of the landlords' tax as Sir Robert Peel thinks a landlords' majo rity must, for very shame, or in consideration of other advan tages, consent to make. He argues that the remissiea will leave agricultural produce in perfect security and nr.der full protection. Here, then, we have at last a confession that the consumer has been hitherto unnecessarily taxed by the land• owners; a confession that the predominant class (now more predominant than ever) has been extorting a superfluous in come-tax of five per cent. from the man of 500/. a year; of five and a halt per cent. from the tradesman of 300/. a year ; and of six per cent. from the clerk or jowney man of 4/. a week. These statements , _ be it remembered, rest on no Anti-Corn-law authority. We take them from the Church and State Gazette, and the Morning Post. The writer of them is " prepared to discuss and defend these figures." They are the basis of an apology for, or rather a eulogy upon, Sir Robert Peel's measures. They are, in truth, Sir Robert Peel's own arguments, as urged by himself and his colleagues in the House of Commons, amplified and m a d e more definite and tangible. We hope his statistical retainers wilt extend their researches, and make more calculations. Figures are obstinate things ; and though they may be subpoenaed as witnesses in a bad cause, are very apt to show the truth, and contradict the falsehood they were called to testily.— Chronicle. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 9 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 376, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25 62k, it follows that gold is 1.0 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4331 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10 1 / 2 d. per ounce, for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 11, it follows that gold is 0.60 per cent. dearer in London than in H amburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1071 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex change is 1.83 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. By the official returns published by the Customs, the exports of tile precious metals to foreign and colonial ports for the week ending Thursday last, were as under, viz. Ounces. Silver coin to Rotterdam 30,000 Sioter coin to Hamburgh lO,OOO Silver coin to Calais... Silver bars to Calais..... .................. 1 . 0,000 Silver bars to Rotterdam ... 105,000 Gold coin to Port Philip... AFFAIR or HoNoun.—The Hon. John Yachett, brother of Lord Audley, and John John G. I'. Achill, Esq., having meditated a " pop-and carry-one" affair on the Fifteen Acres, Dublin, on Saturday, the police were on the qui vice, and succeeded in preventing the parties from firing through each other's heads, by arresting and bringing the belligerents before the Magistrates, where they entered into securities to keep the peace. A letter from Vienna announces the arrest in that city of a Frenchman who had absconded from a banking-house at Paris with a sum of 200,000 f. He had been traced to Ra tisbon, which place he had just left for Vienna, when informa tion was received there of his offence. On being arrested only NOE were found upon him. LITERAT URE. METRICAL CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. W. Smith, London, 1842. The design of this work is remarkable for its inge nuity, and the execution is worthy of the conception. It is a history . of England, commencing with the Con quest, and terminating with the death of George the Fourth, and is written in verse, for reasons which the author has satisfactorily explained in a modest and judicious preface. "No fact in the world," says he, " is better known than that metre, or rhythmical con struction, is that form of language which is the best beloved of memory in its dawn, and the latest which attends it on its journey to decline. It is the earliest shoot, and often of the longest duration ; and there is scarcely any intellect so ungenial, but will offer some corner to the hardy vegetation of song. Take, for ex ample, the bulk of that which the memory has retained of school-day associations, and verse will be the ally whose intimacy has encountered the least in terruption. Like bearded grass, it has crept up . the sleeve of the fancy whence no power ca n di s l o d ge it. It has attained its place with but little solicita tion, and holds it with obstinacy." This is forcibly and eloquently urged, and forms an 'ample justifica tion of the present experiment. Hundreds will pe ruse Mr. Raymond's metrical Chronicles with avidity, who would have turned from theta with indifference, had they been written in dry, tame, :matter-of-fact prose. We do not, however, recommend them simply because they are metrical—for metre is as often as not associated with dullness ; but because the versi fication is of an easy, flowing, and familiar character, the imagery judiciously sparing, but always appro• priate, and the sentiments such as become an English gentleman and scholar, who knows how to interpret history in a right spirit. The author had many op portunities of digressing, and indulging in the use of such luxuriant metaphors as his fancy, which is any thing but sterile, might suggest; but he has had the rare good sense to resist all such temptations ; and nothing is more creditable to him than the simple, straightfor ward manner in which- he progresses with his task, and the tact with which he everywhere adapts his de scriptions to his theme. Now and then he sounds a loftier note than usual, but his tone is always in har mony with the character of the event he narrates. We might have wished, perhaps, that he had devoted a little more space to the circumstances of Henry the Eighth's marriage with Anne Boleyn, for this is one of the leading epochs in our history, and contributed, more than aught else, to precipitate the great crisis of the Reformation, which certain Oxford wiseacres have now, for the first time, dis covered to have been, not a blessing but a cur: e ! Mr. Raymond might here have digressed a little with p:opriety ; but he seems to have resolved on avo!ding everything that might have the effect of checking, even for a moment, the running stream of his narra tive. The notes interspersed throughout his work are copious, but not too much so, for they are inva riably pertinent, and serve agreeably to relieve and illustrate the text. Much curious and diligent re search is evident throughout them ; and among other singular extracts, with which the author's reading has supplied us, is a description, in Latin, by Erasmus, of the exceeding fondness of the English ladies for kissing gentlemen, which for the benefit of the un learned we thus freely translate :—" They kiss you," says he, with a fervour and emphasis worthy of the occasion—" they kiss you on your arrival, and they k;ss you on your departure. They greet you with a kiss, and they dismiss you with a kiss. In fact, you can't move a step without being kissed. All things are full of kisses." Alas ! our modern English ladies are sadly changed for the worse in this respect. There is no such exuberant kissing now a-days—none of that show of unsophisticated tenderness of nature which so delighted Monstrelet, and which old Cavendish has dwelt on with such minuteness in his quaint " Life of Wolsey." If a gentleman now venture to plead prescriptive right in justification of his kissing a lady, he must pay for it forthwith, as was the case with an enamoured swain the other day, who was fined five shillings for the assault, And looked on as a perfect heretic in point of propriety ! Mr. Raymond concludes his Chronicles with some remarks in verse, which show much justness and force of reasoning, clothed in graceful and truly poetic language. POEMS: BELMOUR HOUSE, A PLAY. Sinipkin, London, 1842. The author of this volume of poems assures us that he has published it " in compliance with the repeated solicitations of his friends," and adds, that he " aspires not to public fame" in consequence of the composition, which is exceedingly modest, considering that not a few of the poems are marked by such decided originality as might become even the Muse of Wakley. That there are occasional defects in them, is true, but what human production is perfect ? There are spots even in the sun, why then should there not be blemishes in the delectable little volume before us ? But not only is the author a poet of " mark and likelihood," he is also a dramatist, as is abundantly proved by his "Belmour House, a Play," the chief person ages of which are a bookseller and his son Charles, the latter of whom is, it seems, a traveller for the paternal firm, and is represented as being endowed w:th all those chivalrous and romantic qualities for which the bibliopolical fraternity have ever been re markable. This high-minded young man, while jour neying outside the stage-coac'h from Bristol, with his order-book in his pocket, is fortunate enough to meet with Miss Matilda Belmour—a lovely and susceptible girl, who is also travelling outside with her father. The perties happening to like each other, they very soon fall into familiar conversation, and the result is that Charles receives an invitation to old Belmour's house, which he gladly accepts ; and, when asked what is the nature of his trade or profession, replies in a fine strain of eloquence, that he is " a dispenser of knowledge— in a word, a bookseller," one of those " presiding ge niuses who sit at the well-head of knowledge, and send forth its living streams to the very ends of the earth !" On receiving this information, Mr. Belmour luckily remembers that he is having " a large winged book case made," and adds, in the true spirit of disinte rested friendship, " As Mr. Booker is a bookseller, I shall certainly em ploy our friend, Mr. Charles, to furnish it according to his own taste and judgment." To this affectionate proposal, Charles, with a shrewd eye to business, makes answer, " Sir, I shall be most happy to do so, and on the most reasonable terms." _ _ _ While the parties are thus sociably conversing, a man servant enters with the pleasing intelligence that, " dinner is on the table," whereupon old Belmour, who is evidently a wag, replies with irresistible drol lery, " I am very happy to hear it!" We direct our readers' particular attention to the exquisite felicity of this unstudied repartee. Can anything be more jo cose—anything more appropriate to time, place, and circumstance ? We regret, however, to be obliged to state that the sally makes not the slightest impression on the midriff of the youthful Charles, for he gravely refuses his friend's offer to stay dinner, who accord ingly launches the following brilliant sarcasm against him : " I thought you were too old a stager not to take care of the belly-timber !" But though the youthful bookseller refuses to make a longer stay at Belmour's house, he has no idea of dropping his acquaintance, for it happens that during his few hours' visit he has fallen in love with Matilda Belmour, who—we have great pleasure in assuring our readers—reciprocates the affection. But, alas, the " course of true love never did run smooth," and this attached couple are rendered seriously uneasy by the exceedingly rude conduct of one Chip, a cabinet maker, who, it appears, is a discarded suitor of the young lady. It will scarcely be credited that the in stant this monster in human form learns that Charles is his rival, he resolves on pitching into him ; which, coming to the ears of the enamoured bibliopole, he ex claims in a transport of chivalrous wrath, " My ho nour is at stake !" and forthwith seeks Chip, with a pistol in each hand, loaded no doubt to the muzzle, and for the bloodiest purposes 1 When the half frenzied cabinet-maker gets sight of these ugly wea pons, his courage gradually oozes out at his fingers' ends, and he faulters out, " I now look upon you, Sir, as an honourable man and a gentleman, being thoroughly convinced that you had no intention of rivalling me in the affections of the amiable young lady who has been the innocent cause of our hostile meeting." • Now this was true magnanimity on the part of Chip, though we fear that the sceptical reader will b 3 apt to attribute it to the sight of the pistol, which, it is well known, possesses extraordinary logical powers, and has often brought conviction home to the minds even of the most prejudiced. When the news of the intended duel reaches the ears of old Belmour, he is so enraptured with Charles's boiling courage, that lie cracks several bright joke,, and among others the following : " My dear boy, why did you not name the duel to me at the time, and I would have chopped the impertinent Chip into a bunch of Lucifer matches. Turn round, my boy, and let me see if your limbs are whole, you courageous dog, you !" The upshot of the affair is, that Charles and Matilda, after indulging in divers billings and cooings, are each made happy with the other's hand ; and the author winds up his play by invoking a blessing on their heads, to which, as their sincere well-wishers, we cordially respond Amen ! Such . are the leading incidents of this transcendent drama, which, ad mirable as it is, is surpassed, if possible, by the poems of the .same author. Here, for instance, is one entitled " Farewell to the Village," which is replete with touches of the tenderest pathos : •• Farewell to the village, the scene of my birth The loveliest of spots I e'er trod upon earth. When thy beauties I think on, my bosom doth swell, Ah, scenes of my youth, fare ye well, fare ye well. " There's the old village church, with ivy grown o'er, With its steeple, which seems to heaven to soar, The church yard, where friends and companims are laid, The debt of stern nature each one having paid." We pause here to express our admiration of the truly benevolent feeling that suggested the last line_ The author, it will be seen, takes spteial care to as sure us that the " friends and companions," to whom he alludes, were not buried till they had each paid the "debt of nature,".fearing that otherwise we might be apprehensive that they were buried alive, and our sensibility thereby receive a grievous shock. After enumerating a few more particulars respecting the " Village," the poet proceeds as follows : " Rut the girl I adore, I am leaving behind, She's my heart's own desire, so loving and hind, Alt, who, when I'm gone, her sorrows can cheer ? )h, my heart it will break, to part from my dear ! " Farewell village streams, willows weeping around, Ye sweet blooming rallies with foliage crown'd, Farewell thy old church, and farewell to thy people, Farewell to thy clerk, and farewell to thy steeple." We have here a Complete inventory of affectionate recollections. How touching is the allusion to the parish clerk ; and what a world of sentiment is con veyed in the adieu to the steeple !. The clerk, the steeple, and the •weeping willows, indeed, seem to share the writer's affections equally with the girl who is his " heart's own desire"—a proof how singularly comprehensive is the range of a poet's sympathies ! We close our hasty notice with the observation that the present volume abounds in passages worthy even of the seraphic genius of a Middlesex Coroner. HALL ON THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Whittaker, London, 1842. The thoughtful reader will find much matter for reflection and speculation in this instructive volume, especially in the chapter on the " Unity of our Species, in which the connexion between mind and matter is argued with force and subtlety. In refer ence to the effects produced by excessive joy on the body, the author observes :—" Joy at times so powarfully exhausts the brain and nervous energy as to produce death. The classical reader at once remembers the unhappy fate of poor old Sophocles, who died with delight on being crowned for composing a successful tragedy in his old age ; and also the sto ries of the Roman ladies, who expired on seeing their sons return from the battles of Thrasymene and Cabnae. But to examine facts nearer home. Dr. Mead says that during the never-to-be-forgotten year of the South Sea Bubble, more individuals went mad when they had acquired large fortunes, th in others who were ruined by that system of fraud." The vo:unie is delicated, by permission, to Earl Spencer. BBOTSFORD EDITION of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Part I. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1842. When this work is completed, it will be by many degrees the most satisfactory an d elegant edition Sir Walter Scott's T a l es th a t h as ye t 'appeared. Th embellishments will be in number about two thou sand, and will represent the real localities of the grea; novelist's scenes, which have already been diligently explored for the purpose by Clarkson Stanfield, to gether with the pictorial and antiquarian Museum at Abbotsford. in the present Part there are not less than twenty-four choice engravings, among the most interesting of which are the views of the park and library at Waverley Honor, of the well-known Eildon Hills ; and of the old-fashioned desk wherein the long-missing MSS. of Waverley was found. But, perhaps, the engraving that will most interest the reader is the sketch of Sir Walter Scott's easy chair ; we see his thick-soled shoes lying beside it, his every day coat flung carelessly over it, his staff leaning against it ; but where is ale man himself? The sight of these familiar objects will scarcely fail to call forth strong feelings of emotion in the mind of the specta tor. The engraving is, indeed, one that abounds in deep pathos. The Part is got up in every respect with remarkable skill and attention to details. A LETTER TO PHILIP PUSEY, Esq., M.P., 41% brc., ADVOCATING A GENERAL AND UNIFORM SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE. By J. BAILEY DENTON. James Ridgway, Piccadilly. This is a small pamphlet, by Mr. J. B. Denton, advocating the propriety of a general system of land drainage and irrigation, in answer to the question " What can he done for British Agriculture ?" Our author states that there are 12,000,000 acres of land at present under tillage in England and Wales, of which 10,000,000 are usually allowed to be un drained, or ineffectually drained. There are 3,800,000 acres annually under wheat in England W and ales,. and, taking the average annual produce at 26 bushels per acre, the total produce per an num would be 12,350,000 quarters ; but there are 14,000,000 of consumers of wheat in this kingdom, and allowing one quarter of wheat per annum to each individual, which is considered the average con sumption, we find that we are more than one million and a half of quarters annually deficient; in conse quence of which we have to look abroad to have that deficiency made up. Mr. Denton, however, pro poses to make it up by a general system of drainage and irrigation of the lands at home ; and this is his statement :—" It is admitted by all who under stood the subject, that where drainage has heen carried on upon correct principles, and with proper skill and energy, eight bushels, or one quarter of wheat per acre, has been added to the annual produce. 10,000,C00 out of 12,000,000, are usually allowed as the un drained or ineffectually drained acres under tillage ; and, as the strong lands are those which stand most in need of drainage , and are also the best wheat lands, it may be assumed that five-sixths of the land under wheat may, by being drained, yield a quarter more per acre on the average, which will be a little more than 3,000,000 of quarters annually, and this, added to the quantity quoted as the present estimated pro duce, will bring the supply as much above the -de mand as it is now below." It is not our intention to say one word with respect to the party political feeling which we are sorry to see pervades the whole of this pamphlet. We arc always glad to see any proposition, having for its pro fessed object the improvement of our " sca-girt isle," and the welfare of our fellow beings ; and we had hoped that this pamphlet would have entered fully into the subject of drainage, would have proposed some feasible plan for carrying it out, and would have given something like an estimate of the probable expense of this leviathan project; but this Mr. Denton does not do. He tells us, and every one knew it before, that there is a great quantity of land in England which might be much improved by being drained, and a great quantity, as dry as tle other is moist, whi&l wculd be greatly improved by irrigation. The only question hitherto has been, wh&her the benefits wh:ch would arise from such a course would com pensate for the large amount of labour and capital to be expended upon the lands before any return could he expected ? This, we say, was the only question ; and on this Mr. Denton does not enter. He does, in deed, give one instance where the system has been adopted with advantage—that of the Teddesley Ilay estate, belonging to Lord Ilatherton. • His Lordship had certain operations performed upon 467 acres, the expense of which operations is stated at 2,733/. 2s. 2d., the time occupied in accomplishing them ten years, and the total annual increase of value is 1,0131. But this is a most favourable example, and such a result, to such an extent, might not, perhaps, happen in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred ; for in this instance the 467 acres were first drained of the superfluous water, that water was then conducted to a mill-pond, and thence to an over shot wheel, thirty feet in diameter, which turned ma chinery " that perthrmed a. great many operations ;" after driving the mill the water passed through a tunnel, 500 yards in length, and was joined by the water of a carrier, which brought down the liquid of the farm-yard ; this, and the alluvial matter brought by the mill course, mixed in a tank, and the mixture was employed in irrigating 89 acres of upland mea dow, which happened to lie close by, for the express purpose of being irrigated by this said very useful and, we think, N'ery much overworked water. The pam phlet exhibits a good deal of research, but it really contains nothing more than a series of little facts and assertions brought forward, and that in rather a clumsy way, to prove his first assertion, " that this country can grow sufficient food for its population:" On the whole, we think Mr. Denton has not made out his case, though he has said sufficient to re quire an investigation into the matter. At present — no distinct modus operandi having been proposedthe thing stands just where it did before the publication of this pamphlet. There are, however, in the course of the book, several very useful hints thrown out, re lative to agriculture, and it is on that account worthy th perusal of those' interested in that branch of our country's industry. ----- FRENCH TAERS.—The Moniteur publishes the fol lowing table of the receipts of indirect taxes for the first quarter of the present year, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the year 1841. There is an increase on the quarter of 13,088,000 francs : • 1842. 2841. Francs. Francs. Registration clues, &c... ..... Shinps ................... . Customs, Navigation, &c . 24,563,000 20,432,000 I' renel Colonial Sugars . 7,773,000 5,407,000 Foreign Sugars 1,405,000 2,243,000 lti,tigennus Sugars Silt, lbws( Extraction) ...... 12,887,000 12,578,000 Salt Dues (Consumption) .. 2324,000 1,830,000 Potable Liquors 21,114,000 21,202,000 Public carriages and other Indirect Taxes 7,684,000 7,104 000 Tobamo Sites 23,815,000 23,005,000 Gunpowder dales Letters and duty nn sending money. 11,027 000 10 , 947,000 For Pasen gets by Mails and Patkets the Manes Pontes 521, 000 497,000 164,00( 1 172 000 Total 176,550,000 163,462,000 It is with the sincerest regret we learn that the Viscountess Powerscourr is again seriously indisposed. Si r Henry Marsh and Dr. .I.linson were in attendance on her Lady ship on Saturday and yesterday. Besides the unremitting at tention of her noble husband, she has also the anxious care o f her father, the Earl of Roden, and her sister, the Counte .s of Gainsborough, who arrived at Poweracourt on Wednesday, front Paris.—Dublin Evening Mail. FALMOUTH, Aram 18.—Wind N.B. to E., moderate breeze.—Slii. Tagus . (steamer), Vigo. Arrd. off Thomas Blyth, Hay, Mauritius ; Caroline, New York, for Bremen. e n ; j a i l i I li cer al it 4f e. joi r. ir )0 0 1 ' 0 °` /I , to itt ee 6:: fo re rse' rant be. ere I