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

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, KING'S-STREET. MISS ALICIA NUNN'S CONCERT. Under the immediate PATRONAGE of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE,and ether Noble Families FIFTY DI : 4INGUISIIED ARTISTES will appear at 3liss Alicia Nunn's First Concert since her return from Italy, at this Theatre, on THURSDAY EVENING, March 10th. Mr. H t .gussell, from America, will sing several of his popular songs. - INvate Boxes and Tickets to be had at Cramer and Co.'s, 011 10ers, Mitchell's, the t3ox-office, of Miss Nunn, 3, Upper John -street, Golden-square. and of the principal Music-sellers. See Programme for particulars. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. MOORE'S POEMS—ONLY COMPLETE EDITION. Just completed, in 10 vols. fop. Bvo., with Twenty Plates, 21. 10s. cloth lettered; or 41. 103. morocco, THOMAS MOORE'S POETICAL WORKS. Collected and Edited by Mr. MOORE. With New Prefaces. " This work is altogether exquisitely brought out. 'lle taper and typography are beautiful, and it would be almost an impossibility to excel the illustrations. Of all reprints and new editions of our living poets, we assume that this is in every point of view the most efficient and the most popular."—Atla.. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. NEW NOVEL EDITED BY MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries , in 3 v ols. p ost Bve., F AscI_NATION. EDITED by Mrs. GORE, Authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Man of For tune," &c. Henry Colburn,:Publisher, 13, Great Marlborouxh-street. NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO." In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eighteen) Price One Shilling each, with characteristic Engravings, by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear with the Magazines at the end of March. THE FORTUNES OF TTEC.TOR O'HALLORAN, By W. 11. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &e. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; JilnCumming, Ormond.quay, Dublin; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Grapel, Liverpool. THE NEWROMANCE RY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PATH#INDER," "THE DEERSLAYER," &c. T H E TWO ADMIRAL S. A TALE OF THE SEA. _ _ By .12FENNORE COOPER, Esq. In 3 vols. post Svo. IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street *** To be had at all the Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be performed a Play in Five Aets, called GISIPPUS.—Titus Qaintius Fulvius, Mr. A nderson; Gisippus, Mr. Macready ; Medon, Mr. Graham; Pheax, Mr Elton; Chesemes, Mr. Hudson; Lycias, Mr G. Bennett; Norban, Miss E. Phillips; Sophroria, Miss Helen Faucit ; Hero, Miss Turpie. After which, the Musical Farce of NO SONG NO SUPPER.— Frederick, Mr Allen; Crop,,Mr. IL Phillips; Endless, Mr. Keeley; Ma garetta, Miss Romer. Doors oper at half-past Sit, and the Performances begin at Seven. Boxes es., Second Price 2s. ed. ; Pit 3s Second Price is ; Lower .Gallery Is. td„ Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price (d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNt)ER the MANAGE'hIENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be repeated the New Comedy. called BUBBLES OF THE DAY. - Lord Skindeep, Mr. W. Farrell Sir Phenix Clearcake, Mt. Harley; Captain Smoke, Mr. Charles Mathews; Spreadweasel, Mr. Bartley : Pamela Spreadweasel. Mrs. Nisbett ; Flarentia, Mrs. W. Lacy; Mrs. Quarto, Mrs. W. West ; Guinea, Mrs. Orger. After which will be repeated, with additions, Milton's Masque of COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris; the Lady, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing,; Syrens,. Madame Vestris and Mi:s Rain forth ,• Genius of the Fr(izen Clime, Mr. Stretton ;Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris ; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth. Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6,1 ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price - 2s. lid.; Pit 35., Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the'Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book se ler, - 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THF.ATRR: Great success of Lord Byron's " Werner," and First Night of a New Nautical Wilma. THIS EVRNING. MARCH 7, Will he acted Lord Byron's Tragedy of WERNER ; or, the IN. HERITANCE.—Werner, Mr. H. Hughes; 'Josephine, M•s. Alter which, a Comic Ballet, entitled OPPOSITION; or, the RIVAL DANCING MASTERS. To conclude with an original Nautical Drama, called SAM SCUD; or, PERILS by SEA and LAND.—Sim Scud, Mr. H. hughes; Betsy, Miss Martin . ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TIIR DIRECTION uF MR. OSBALDISTON. "Mary White" still continuing to draw crowded houses, and to excite the wannest a mpathics of the audience, will ba porformed every evening wee` . THIS EVENING, MARCH 7. Will he performed MARY WHITE; or, the MURDER at the OLD TABARD—Mary V‘hi.e, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy. After which, BLACK EYED SUSAN. To conjude with TuE LADY or THE LAKE. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7 The Performances will commence at half-past Seven o'cloek with UNE MONSIEUR ET UNE DAME. After which, LE MALAI)t IMAGINAIRF.—Argan, AI. Pcrlet. To C3..CiltdC with, LA SCEtiR DE JOCR SSE. Private Boxer and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Library, al, Old Bond. street; Mr. Seguin's, PZ. Regent-street; Mr. Sams's, St. James's_ street ; and• at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open dai'y from Eleven till Five. Admission to the Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. Gd . Gallery Stills, 35..; Gallery, f.'s. • TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are muelfohl•lged•to L. Al:•Carliste; but to putlish his statements con r Feiiatid,woulti expose us, haw ever true they "f_l* likiinnislietVas•libellers. More over, we nev er -for circulating attacks on th; ml opponents. practice impressment, and are not exposed to this great risk. Now. then, is the time for the Legislature and the country to avoid this great danger in future, by declaring they will never again make slaves of the seamen. We cannot lay down one rule for the negroes, and adopt a less favourable one for the seamen ; we cannot use one measure for the conduct of the United States, and an other for our own. Indirectly then the practice of impress ment has been branded by the highest authorities of the land ; and only professional habits, we are persuaded, made the humane and Gallant Commodore allude to it in other language than that of stern reprobation. The Gallant Officer's recommendations to insure pro motion to the mates after six years' service, to give the rank of post captain, and a small addition of pay to retired officers, and to increase the pay of the seamen entitle him to the gratitude of the navy. The country, however, will learn with some surprise, or, perhaps, some indignation, that notwithstanding our immense dead weight, the bulk of our admirals are now at such an ad vanced age that they are no longer fit for service. Were a naval war to break out, therefore, an extensive promo- Von must take place, adding largely to the public, expense, or the fleet must be placed under the command of men whose energies have passed away. This is not a safe state of things, and the Gallant Officer's recommendation of a means to amend it deserves serious consideration. Passing from Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S speech, we must observe, that our conjecture as to the real cause why Mr. ELTON was so severely punished, was verified by the debate. It is evident, from the observations of Cap tain Rous, that Mr. ELTON was severely punished because the mates and midshipmen are presumed to be insubordinate. He was made an example of in terrorem. His own offence might be slight, but their offences are numerous. " The mates and others were going to give him a jubilee." His character, too, was not admired by his superiors, and he was sentenced to a severe punish ment, not for writing an improper letter to his superior officer, for which he afterwards offered to apologise, but because the mates and midshipmen are supposed to be getting too independent. Probably, when they are more justly and more impaitially treated, they will be more sensible of the advantages they enjoy, and be less turbu lent. The debate on Fiiday was, on the whole, of good augury for the future improvement of the navy. BRUSSELS and GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, MARCII 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 destinat ion. BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.—The average price of wheat kit' week was 21 f. 61c., that of Rye, 12f. 33c. Alonsigno 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 Governmants, 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 f.nr Articles, but that they had just been suspended for slime. They 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 marriage of their Imperial Majesties will not take place, espe cially as the Empress of Russia will again visit Ems in the course of the summer. His Royal Highness Prince William (the King's uncle) has just set out for ltaly.—Harnburgh 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 E2let, at Berlin, by the name Frederica Wilhelinina Louisa Elizabeth Alexandrine. Spon sors present were the King and Queen of Prussia, King Wil liam, Frederick, Count of Nassau, the Prince and Pt incess of Prussia, Prince and Princess Charles, the Prince Royal of I'avaria, the Prince Royal of Wurtemberg. Sponsors absent, the Empress of Prussia, 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 FUNDs.—Asurrsaoass, Mutest 4. Money. Bills. Actual Debts 54 52% 1 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen Srndic,4% per cent ........... 92% 93 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent l'6)4 77 Commercial Company, 454 per cent 15 02 157% Ditto (035 and 1837) 5 per cent......, ROA NO% Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 13 Two months ..... 12 05 Hamburgh, One month 35 &Ps Two months 35 3iss Dutch Papers, March 5. ttELO lAN Nlls—Daussits , MARCH 4. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild', Loan, 5 per Csnt 102% Loan ot Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 13% 3per Cent. ..... 72 (I 4o) 103? Lo:in of City, 1,1-2, 4 per Cent `l4, Societyet Comm= rce, per Cent Bank of Boehm), 5 per Cent NationalS-Aciety Exchange on London (shot t) Brussels Papers, March 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 21. Five per Colts. Metalliques Fort per Crnt s. 1 hree p . r Cents. Rank Shares .......... ....... . ..... Z.llung. Feb. 2i. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MARCO 2. Bills. Money Austrian S per Cents Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan. jooj4 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate...-. 103 103% Inscription, Ist series . . . Russian S per Cent. Hope and Co , 3d and 4th Series .. D tto in Certificates ! 9 New 4 per tent. (i 840) .... . Dutch Actual Debt, 1.% per Cent. Ditto per Cent. Polish Bond. New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loran, 3 per Cent. 79A 76% Spanish, New 5 p.r Cents. 17 ;1 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. lIAMDUEO, MARCO 1.-13 8 , %.—Tw0 months, 13 7 PETRESEURGO ' FEB. 18 -.TWO months, 3e 2-16 pence. RIGA, FEE. 19. -Three Months, 36%. sToettitome, Fee. :U.—Seventy-five days, 12. 12. VIENNA, Fee. ie.—Three months. 9. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Fee. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 45 9 per cent. 105% .4:6N, Prussian English Loan, 1110, 4 per cent 103 102% Exchange on London, three month 6 22% —Prussian State Gazette, Feb. 27 ------Thiriy.sevcn• UNTAXED BEVERAGES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.—As from the proceedings of the House of Common it SCCITI3 more than probable that the people must pursue their own course for the redress of their grievances, I think it as well that we should be preparing the way against the time when we mutt commence action. I therefore send you a list of untaxed beverages, which may be used as sub,titutes for tea, coffee, and 'war ; and I shall be glad if any of your IN a !era, more qualified than myself, will pursue the subject, so as to put us in possession of the most comprehensive list that can be made.—l remain, your obedient servant, A PATRIOT. Beef tea, chicken broth, barley water, mutton broth, honed or cold milk, oatmeal porridge veal broth, buttermilk porridge. [Vas ! for our Corre-pondent. There is not one of these art cies which is not taxed by the landlords and taxed by the State. It is as little possible to escape death as the tax gatherer.—En. San.] P.A • - 9u7 O>iNN rtl 92 „ c , qbt o§ults • LONDON MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1842. The public will have read with much satisfaction the observatiom on the Navy made on - Friday night in the House of Cornmon,. •At length that service seems to have found in Sir C. NAPIER a zealous and enlightened advocate. The Gallant Officer justly reprobated the plan adopted by the late Administration, of sending ships to sea incompletely manned, and properly com plimented-the: present Admiralty on having increased the number of seamen on board our ships. As the great want in time of war is spawn, as officers are always abundant, and there is.. never any want of ships, sound policy requires that ships be rather over than under manned during peace. The expense ;of a few hundred or a few thousand seamen with no additional officers„ and no additional expense for the, wear and tear of ships, is a mere trit*; and if by such an expense we can, on any sudden emergency— drafting the additional bhie jackets to other ships, and completing their complements by marines and landmen— install:ly increase our effective force by one-third or more, why . should it not be incurred? So to act would obviate all pretext for having recourFe to impressment on the breaking out of war ; That thiS plan has not before now been adopted is a disgrace' to the Admiralty, but it is a greater disgrace to the country that it has so long allowed the Admiralty, on every emergency which has arisen, to flee at once to the brutal praetke of impressment. But professional men have not yet attained a due con , viction Of the injustice and injuriousness of that custom, Even Sir C. NAP/En spoke of it too lightly when h. praised Sir J. GRAtt.tat's Bill, though it gave "the seamen only four or five days to decide whether they wouid serve their country as volunteers or be liable td impressment." This practice lies at the bot tom-of ell the evils of which the navy has to complain. It injures. zll ry parties ; it violates the personal liberty and the r 4toperty of the seaman. It is worse than the slave-trOe : for that was practised on strangers, while this is }practised' on subjects by the Government which exists owlytO protect the rights it violates in their per sons. >K I it greater crime than carrying off the ne groes into slavery,' inasmuch es it adds to kidnapping free mep,ite, grossest breach of lilts% In our judgment, therefotriitAshould never be spoken of but in terms of indignattipt and abhorrence.; and the manner in which it was spien, of by the Gallant COMMODO R E is o ne o f the few,POints in his speech on Which. we cannot accord. him our unqualified praise. The Gallant Officer said most justly that " they ought to makl . the seamen understand that the service of their country was a good. service." -With that view he pro posed to improve the condition of the seamen. But how can the Seriice be made to appear beautiful as long as it is practically stigmatiied to the whole community as a service of slavery ? The Gallant Officer must be well aware that the . use . of such a method of procuring men brands the navy as something hateful, or why employ such a harsh method to force men to serve in it ? On his own principl e of making the seamen believe well of the naval . seniec, he ought to condemn impressment as most injurious to that navy . whichlle loves, and to which he is an honour.- , seiO , s Thou* the practice has not yet been publicly aria 'di rectly git#On up, it has been' indirectly stigmatized by the Legislature in' other eases. The Legislature has de dared man-stealing in Africa piracy, and it cannot again practise it in England. Very recently our Go vernment has given harbour and shelter to th e negrod who carried the Creole into Nassau, though the death of their oppressor was the conse quence of their mutiny. By the greatest law authorities their conduct has been justified. The LORD CHANCEL LOR, or - LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, Lords COTTENHAY, BROUGHAM, and CAMPBELL, all declared that the Go vernment has no rower or jurisdiction over them to bring them to trial, or to give them up to the Ameri can GovernMent. If the negroes,:kept in slavery, have a right to set Ahemselves free, so must 'impressed seam; n, According to the doctrine of t: ose great Lawtords, im pressed men, all of whose natural and social tights are *.elatel by the Government, 1611.1)6 justified in taking youlg actor at the ' , D h e s e s e s p o ol f • a t: ..ASTER OWEN, 1 lIAA ET —The debut of this possession of the vessels in which they are embarked, andt carrying them into the harbours of the United Richard the Third , d the notice...of the in aiTtihtreaactr.tee in the character of ‘s where, the GOvernment might with as much pro- habitants there, as to call for his performance, by the particular priEetoyrtpluire4teteetilythvoetnaua desire, and under England protects runaway ne oes.the patronage of the Miyot of Devonport, in gr the character of Hamlet this evening. Mrs. Owen, his mother, We are not now at war—we do not appear, itl Gertrude. MEMORIAL OF THE POLISH AS SOCIATION TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Literary Association of the Fiiends of Poland, 30th January, l 84•2. SIRE,—The acts of your Majesty's reign evincing an earnest and enlightened solicitude for the welfare of all those under your dominion, of whatever class, denomination, or persuasion, while they have conferred important benefits on your subjects, have excited the admiration of the whole world. That por tion of the Polish nation over which your Majesty rules, has, since your Majesty's accession, enjoyed a degree of happiness to which it had long been a stranger; and your Majesty's beneficence, displayed not only by public measures but also by kindness bestowed in the most delicate and truly generous manner on individuals, has called forth the eulogies of the good in all countries. These considerations embolden us to hope that your Ma jesty may deign favourably to consider the humble request, which, in the name of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, we venture to prefer to your Majesty, on behalf of some of those persons whom the vicissitudes of a great and noble but unhappy nation have cast on the shores which now rejoice in the august presence of your Majesty. The Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, com posed of men who, although belonging to different awl oppo site parties in polities, unite in feelings of deep interest in the fate of Poland, and honoured by the patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, has for many yeas laboured by every means within its reach to relieve the wants and mitigate the sufferings of the Polish Refugees. We have thus sought, in an humble sphere, to form the complement of that design of the British Parliament, as well as of her Majesty's Govern ment, which is indicated in the annual appropriation of a sum of money for their relief. But we are far, and must ever re main far, from the full attainment of our thject. The melan choly extent of distress in this country. while it prevents the augmentation of the grant on the one hand, tends greatly to limit the assistance to be derived from individuals, and on the other renders it extremely difficult for foreigners to obtain em ployment. Thus many persons of birth, character, and edu cation, though earnestly desirous of occupation, finding no field for their talents or industry, and having nothing to subsist on but the allowance afforded them by the State, which is wholly inadequate, are reduced to the most lamentable condition of mental and physical destitution. In the Grand Duchy of Posen, where their own langnage is spoken, and with whose habits they are familiar, which is e., an d friends, o t f h t e h y e i country, would retini a r n e and n wherenassistance, they have and in nelatfaivet a portion would live with comfort to themselves, and be no burden to the public. Your Majesty, in gracieusly condescending to direct your Minister to grant passports for that part of nions to such Poles as, being desirous of should be in a condition to produce proper testimonials with regard to their conduct and character, would bestow on them a benefit of inestimable value; while your Majesty would, at he same time, confer a favour on the Association thus ven turing humbly to plead in their behalf, which would inspire every one of its members with feelings of the deepest gratitude. May it please your Majesty to pardon our boldness in thus presuming to trespass on your Majesty's valuable time, and to permit us t o su bscribe ourselves with sentiment s of the most profound respect, Sire, your .Majesty's most obedient, Most devoted, and most humble servants, (By order of the Council) DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, Vice-President. M. Tllll SUN, LONE CHINA. " CITY OF NING-PO-FOO, OCT. 17,1841. , . " Before detailing our operations, and the successes ' of our arms since we left Amoy, I must .set you right upon one or two leetle points. The Chinese forts are not so miserable as you imagine them to be. The bat- ' teries at Atnoy, after four hours of cannonading from our ships of war, remained unbreached and almost unin- ' jured, and those which we have more recently seen evince the highest proofs of their knowledge of engi neering. They are, however, as yet unacquainted with one very material point, which is the advantage of a flanking fire, for the lack of which their batteries are turned, and consequently rendered unavailable. From the great improvement which within the last twelve month thky have made in the art of war, I doubt not at no very remote period to see them constructing their fortifications upon that principle. Nor are they such a vile set of (towards. In their late encounters with our troops they have fought well, and stood their ground bravely, clearly evincing that there is no want of moral courage on their part. Men who will stand their ground at the point . of the bayonet, can scarcely be cowards ; but it is vain to expect men, almost undisciplined, to with stand the noble rush which the British soldier, with a deafening cheer, makes upon his foe. The French never could, much less the Chinese ; but it cannot be denied that, with the discipline and weapons of the English, the Tartar troops would be a truly formidable foe. " OcT. 18.—And now for our adventures by flood and field. Amoy fell to our arms on the 28th of August. After leaving a garrison on an island adjoining; with three vessels of war, the remainder of the troops re embarked, and we weighed anchor on the 4th September. From the light and variable winds which now prevailed, it was too evident that tha S.W. monsoon was rapidly drawing to a close, and fears were entertained" that if the northerly winds set in with any strength, it would be impossible for the : fleet to .weather the Island of Formosa. It had been intended to have taken the city of Fuh-chow-foo, the capital of the province in which Amoy is situated, and a place of great trade, but now all idea of that was abandoned. During the first week we made about fifty miles a day, the fleet managing to keep in company tolerably well ; but upon the 12th the wind came rig-ht a-head, and the heavy clouds , thick weather, and falling of the barometer, portended a coming gale. During that night we had a narrow escape from being' run down by the Blenheim, one of the seventy fours, which ran into us, and struck the Palmyra amid ships. The force of the encounter was most fortunately stopped by a very thick spar intended for a bowsprit, lashed alongside of our vessel, and which was cut in two. The Blenheim then paid off, and with the exception of her jib-boom being carried away, and a few of our ropes broken, the damage done was trifling, though it was truly awful to see such an immense vessel over hanging us, very little more way upon her being sufficient to have cut us to the water's edge. Next morning it was very thick, and blowing a double-reefed-topsail breeze. In the course of the day the fleet was totally dispersed, each-ship waking the best of her way to the northward. From this time until the 18th it blew a complete gale of wind, and the weather so thick that we could never get an observation, but were obliged to trust to our dead reck oning, which cannot - be-much depended upon where un certain tides and currents prevail. Notwithstanding, upon that day we managed to make the islands outside of Chusan, and anchored for the night under the land. Next day we stood in to Buffalo's Nose, the rendezvous of the fleet, and found that only one vessel of war and two or three of the transports had arrived. In the course of the two ensuing days a great number came in, and on the 22d we moved about 15 miles further, to Keetoe Point. A mate and a couple of sailors of an opium vessel had been killed here a few days previously. They had been on shore with an armed party obtain ing I'resh provisions, and when returning were attacked by a party of Chinese soldiers. There is not the slightest demand for opium in this part of China at present, but whether the people are influenced by fear of the authori ties, and the severe penalties attached to those using it, or have determined to expel the drug, I do not know. Upon the 24th we moved into Silver Island, about seven miles distant from Chusan. The original intention had been to leave that place alone in the first instance, and move on to Chinhae and Ningpo, but after we had an chored off Silver Island the'weather again became very thick and unsettled, and, a heavy sea running, it was deemed impracticable to make any attempt upon Chin hae, it being a lee-shore, and exceedingly unsafe for shipping. We, therefore, waited for the first fine day to attack Chusan. In paSsing up we had obtained a glimpse of the island, and could distinctly see that it was a mass of fortiacations. We had, moreover, learnt from our spies that they had •five thousand troops there; all good men and true. "The next day, passed, and the next, and so on, without any change for the better in the weather, heavy rain and high wind prevailing: At last, upon the 28th; ?re got a glimpse of the sun, and the order was giVen to weigh. During that day and the ensuing one, most of the ves sels got into what is called the outer anchorage, and the necessary preparations were made for landirg the troops. The men-of-sear were only to act a secondary part. Upon our first coming into the, anchorage,- the Chinese had kept up a heavy fire upon the different vessels as they passed, but our present anchorage being protected from their batteries, they gave it up, continuing, how ever,. to annoy us from one gun which they m anage d t o get into . a position to bear upon us. Three or our of the men,of- war were occupied nearly the whole day in shelling the Chinese in a fortified encampment which they had formed in the gorge of a hill cora manding the anchor age. Upon the Ist inst., about nine o'clock, the troops were landed, in two divisions, from small steamers. The Chi nese, perceivin7 that it 'was not our intention to enter the harbour in front of their ;ong line of batteries, had assembled in considerable- numbers upon the hills over lookmg, the landing-place, and immediately our men got on shore they assailed them with a brisk fire from their matchlocks and gingals. The first division moved up the hill to dislodge them, %%Mist the second proceeded round its base to flank a long line of batteries, upon which our howitzers now opened, and created no small disturba. 'e amongst the defenders. As our men ascended the h I, the Chinese came boldly. down to meet th em , an d y loud shouts and waving , of flags defied them to the con flict, and though the men-of-war covered our ad vance with their shot, and which partially drove them back, still there were many who stood their ground. and waited till we got up. As they neared the summit, the Tartars, who had retired for shelter, again made a bold stand, but our men steadily moved on, and, when at about twenty paces, poured in a deadly volley, and succeeding it by a rush, effectually drove them from their position. They retreated towards the city, every now and then making a stand to fire their matchlocks. Meanwhile the second division had moved round the hill, and entered the batteries in which the Chinese were still in considerable numbers, though our guns had annoyed them exceedingly. Notwithstanding they met the in fantry as they advanced with considerable steadiness, and though the greater number made a hasty retreat after the first volley at close quarters had been given, some there were who could not be driven from their post until the bayonet came into play. The first division fol lowed the enemy towards the city, while the second drove them out of the batteries. About eleven o'clock our guns and rockets were got by great exertions " over ground almost impracticable "(as Sir Hugh Gough calls it in-his orders, whilst thanking the troops under his command), to a hill overlooking the city, from whence we began to shell the place, whilst a body of troops went forward with scaling-ladders. The opposition offered to them w:s trifling, and they were speedily within the walls. It was yet some time before the second division had cleared the batteries, but by half-past twelve, all opp o sitio n N% as at an end , and once more the English were masters of Chusan. "'The two following days we were employed destroy ing the Chinese arsenals and magazines, at Chinhae, and securing the public property, which I must tell you' is to be given to the troops and navy, prize agents having been elected by direction of Sir Hunry Pottinger. The guns we found were of a very superior description, and amongst them were no less than 67 of brass. There %% as also found an immense store of copper for the casting of their guns, valued at 50,00('l. We have taken in all 103 brass guns, which will give about 18,000/. more. The public granary at Chusan contains grain to the value of 15,0001., and that at Chinhao to 2,0001. All these calcu lations are made by the prize agents, and are, if any thing, below the mark. So, if thy withhold the ransom money of Canton from the forces, there is even yet some chance ofprize-money. Upon the 12th, the two small steamers went up the river to reconnoitre Ningpo, much to the surprise of the natives, who had never before soen a barbarian vessel in these waters, much less one of so ex traordinary a construction. They found abundance of water for vessels of almost any size, and upon their arrival at Ningpo, having seen no soldiers nor any show of opposition, they returned to Chinhae. Upon the following day, after having left a garrison there with the larger men-of-war, the remnant of the troops, amounting to 650, embarked in the Queen, Sesostris, Phlegethon, and Nemesis steamers, and with the Modeste, Columbine, Cruizer, and Ben tinck sloops of war, proceeded up the river. It was a grand sight ; the wind was fair, and the Benti nc k commanded by a very fi ne fellow (Collinson), led the way and sailed up, beating all the steamers, sailing where it was never known that vesse l s could sail. The Modeste got aground; but was soon towed off, upon which the other vessels also preferfed being towed. The river is a very beautiful one, varying in breadth from 800 to 1,000 yards. It flows through rich fertile val leys, thickly populated, the inhabitants of which crowded the banks in thousands to gaze on our little fleet. If the Chinese ever could feel their inferiority, I should think they must have been aware of it that day. The mo tions of the steamers seemed to strike them the most. I was in the Nemesis, which, having no ves sel in tow, was considerably ahead of the Ad. to for him. She is a splen dnimirablo, at, an d c i l .awin lay g only six feet of water. Her com mander, Hall, is a very superior - fellow, a Master in the navy, and, I rejoice to say, has just been made Lieu tenant., for his gallantry and spirited conduct at the taking of the Bogue forts, and I doubt not that he will soon rise to the rank of post-captain, and richly he de serves it. He can dojust as he likes with his little ves sel, turn h er and t w i s t h er in what direction he pleases. At one tim e h e wou ld t urn the vessel's head to the shore for the purpose of sounding, and run her so close in that the Chinese imagined she would run in amongst them , and fled in dismay from tlib strange animal, which snorted and uttered sounds loud as thunder as the steam was allowed to escape. Then reversing the paddles, siie would gracefully move backwards to the centre of the stream, and the Chinese would recover from their panic, and again return, to gaze open-mouthed upon the vessel. boa " ts Op a p c o ro si s t s e the th river, eea u city of Ningpo which ingpot l h v e e re la i n s de a d b fr r ( i ) d m ge th o e f bows of the Nemesis. No opposition was offered, and we took possession of the city without firing a shot. It was evident that they had never meditated a defence ; a few old guns and gingals were mounted upon the walls, but the shadow of a soldier was not seen. Chinhae was the place where the fate of the province was to be de ' 11 , j :1 .e ot , N , MONDAY • V.EN AtA_Rc H. 7, 1842. tided ; there they had concentrated their forces, deter mined to stand or fall by the result, but they never once calculated upon defeat. The lesson read to them that day was a severe one, and one which it should be thought would open the eyes of the Emperor. The loss sustained by them was very great, and included several mandarins , of rank. Yu-Kiang, the imperial commissioner of the province, the man who had been sent by the. Emperor to exterminate the barbarians, thunderstruck at the result of the fight; and afraid to meet his wrath, endeavoured to drown himself, but, being rescued by his officers, he finally terminated •his existence by swallowing. gold, the fashionable method of committing suicide in this country. He it was who had counselled the Em peror never to make peace with us, who had poisoned his ear by false reports, who had offered rewards for our heads—he it was who put Captain Stead, of the Pes tomjee Bomajee, to a lingering death—who had be headed many of the unfortunate Chinese who had been friendly to us at Chusan. He was a cruel, but he was a most talented, man. Under his eye had these districts been put in a state of defence, and the various improve ments in warfare effected. The victory was complete ; the whole military materiel of the province fell into our hands. In Yu-Kiang's house were found all his plans, maps, and papers, the edicts of the Emperor— in fact, everything of importance. Amongst other papers they got one, a letter to him from the Viceroy of Formosa, to the intent that he had concluded a negotiation with the Portuguese at Manilla for the purchase of guns, arms, and military stores, and that a supply might soon be ex pected ; and another, a memorial to the Emperor, that he purposed saving the lives of all his English prisoners, provided they would teach them navigation, steam-boat building, and other things connected with naval matters. And now I have brought my history up to the occupa tion of Ningpo. " NINGPO, OCTOBER 25.—We are still in this city, and it seems probable now that we shall hold it during the winter, the season being too far advanced for further operations. And now we are holding five places in the Chinese empire—Hongkong, Amoy, Chusan, Chinhae, and Ningpo. The last report from Pekin is that the Emperor is more obstinate than ever, and is about to send down an army of 100,000 men to exterminate us in toto, and another of 50,000 to regain Hongkong. The arsenals and magazines here were abundantly supplied with military stores of every description. In one alone we found 150,0001 b. of ,powder. In the treasury we were fortunate enough to get 51 boxes of Sycee silver, nearly a hundred thousand dollars worth. It had pre viously been broken open by the mob, and a great quan tity carried off. Several banking houses have been found, with coin to the amount of a million of dollars, all in copper pice, the only stamped money in China, 1,200 pice to a dollar. It is known that these banking houses are some way connected with Go vernment, but, as it has not been determined whether or not they are wholly public property, the general is somewhat loth to seize them for prize money. A chop has been despatched to Hang-cow-foo. the capital city of the province, whither the mandarins have retired, to the intent that, unless they pay down six millions of dollars, Ningpo shall be declared British pro perty, and the other towns in the province shall, in like manner, be taken possession of. Much depends upon their reply with regard to our proceedings. Should they accede :o our demand, we shall retire to Chinhae ; but if they refuse, there's the rub :' will the plenipotentiary order the city to be burned, the property to be confis cated, and the junks, of which there are many hundreds, to be seized ? or shall we occupy the town, and, if so, declare the Tartar dynasty to be at an end ? A decisive blow must be struck ; it will not do to threaten these celestials without performing, as they invariably impute it to fear ; and with the small force we have here we could not occupy this city during the winter, the guards required being so numerous that the men are on duty every other day, and out in all weather ; they will very Soon be knocked up. Even now sickness is creeping in amongst them. There have been a few cases of cholera, brought on, it is supposed, by intemperance ; six marines died in one day out of nine attacked. Fortunately it has not spread. Anstrutber, the hero of Ningpo, is our commanding officer, and a very fine fellow he is. The way in which he entered this town last year differed in some degree from this year's occupation of it. He has recognised many old acquaintances, amongst others a man who acted as his servant, and purchased meat, &c., for him. The China man was delighted to see him, and seems to have been very fond fic h him. Amongst Yu-Kiang's papers was found a lithlraphed copy of a drawing which Anstru ther made for the mandarins last year, of the manner in which the- Queen receives her ministers. Above is a de scription of it in Chinese, in which they say that the great mandarins of the barbarians' country approach the royal presence, and, bending on one knee, they smell' her Majesty's hand. The cold weather is now setting in, and worsted stockings and cloth trows ers by day are very c smfortable, and double blankets at night are scarcely sufficient to keep out the cold. As yet we have not had mttetirain. . This is a very fine city, and a place of much trade itnd immense wealth. There are several magnificent temples or Jhoss-houses, fitted up in a truly splendid style. But runty a s w e ll give you a short description of the ,city. Ning po-foo, the 'second city of the province of Cheheeang, of which Hang-chow-fiso is the capital, is situated in a vast plain, at the distance of twelve miles from the sea. The river Limpo runs under its walls, and is navigable to shins of almost any size, four fathoms being 'found in the centre ,1 of the channel. The walls of the city are 8,000 yards in circumforence, and 22 feet in height. Its form ean not be exactly described, being pentagonal, approaching to oval, with six principal gates and two water-gates. At each gate there is a square bastion, at right angles to the wall, and extending igaout fifty yards in front of it. The streets are about -1 20 feet in breadth, for the most part well paved, or rather flsgged, and run through the city at right angles to each other. Nearly in the centre of the town there is a remarkable obelisk of a hexagonal form; and upwards of 150 feet in height. The ascent to the summit is by twelve flights of stairs. At each intermediate story thera are large windows, which at night are lit up, and a lantern is moreover placed on the summit. The date& its erection is unknown, but, judging from its outward appearance, it must be of a dilapidated condi jeungaged in repairing it t v i e e r n y: great Tbe ag c e b , in th es e e w b al a l d s b b e e in en g shortly before our occupation of the city. The view from it is truly grand ; Ningpo being situated on an immense plain, comprising 600 square miles. On every side you behold a rich country, dotted with innumerable villages, and every acre under cultivation. The tout ensemble of the vale was particularly lovely and pleasing ; in fact it more resembled a Nobleman's park. And what would not any nobleman have given for such a one, with two fine rivers winding gracefully through it, and numerous canals intersecting the whole country ? In most of the principal streets there are archways 100 yards apart, with various designs and figures cut out of the solid stone in the most wonderful manner, anewith the most minute exactness. We have discovered several very large stores of sugar, cotton, teas, &c., &c. There are some large granaries here. They are disposing of the contents of one to the Chinese at a reduction in value of 60 per cent., and by it we shall clear 14,000 or 15,000 dollars—about 3,300/. We have also made prize of several large bells ; amongst others, one upwards of eight feet in height, six feet in diameter, and five tons in weight ; worth more than 5001 " NINGPO, OCT. 28.—The courier whomwe despatched to Hang-chow-foo with a chop to the mandarins re turned yesterday with the information that that city is searched, e a a ris,eld2ha ae b lnil nsne g tit t: a rite f afraid irdbo returned, to trust uat unablestm hisatyo surrounded with troops, that no one is allowed to enter d life deit amongstwithout t the being now be the intentions of the general and admiral. The en ap si t s a -e in e s r 2 u 3 ghthey packet.t he last mail brought us out the naval promotions for the c a a re pt : ure l o K f .e th .B e 6 gu c e . f u o , r s t , s Com manders, and 34 Lieutenants. In fact it gave every naval officer who was present a step, if he had served long enough in the rank he held to entitle him to one. " OCT. 30.---I shall close this letter shortly as I have nothing new to inform. you of. There is some talk now of our advmacing on Hang-Chow-foo this year. The dis tance acras country is 'about a hundred miles, fortr miles of which the small steamers can traverse up the riverfroni this place. After that we get into It branch of the Great Canal, and by seizing upon about two hundred and fifty or three, hundred - China boats, we could convey the whole disposable force, out 1,000 fighting men _under the walls of the city. It Would be a bold stroke, but . there can be little doubt of its success, and it would be a most desirable blow. We could also go thither by sea, but in the strength of the monsoon it would be difficult to beat up, though the distance is only sixty miles by that route. Hang-chow foo is an immense city, upwards of fourteen miles in cir cumference within the walls. Canton, too, is fast has ' tening to its destruction. The treety made last May has been openly broken. They are staking up the river, erecting new fortifications, and calling in fresh bodies of troops. It cannot be spared a third time. Several curious documents have been discovered at Chinhae. I sup pose you are aware that there is a tradition in this cuuntry that China will be conquered by a woman v from the West ; hence the extreme jealousy with which b A 'e they regard the English ladies at Mac ao, far to cause wb as 'in the old Company's time, even extended s o the stoppage of the trade, because one of them The day after visited Canton in disguise. our occupation of Chusan a Chinese came to the quarters of Sir Hugh Gough, and demanded to see the General. He said he wa s a soothsayer, t h a t he had that a great consulted the stars and th e b oo k o f f a t e , and found therein change w as a b out to ta k e P l ace —that the time was close at hand when the Tartar dynasty would be otherthrown, and the great English nation were to be the means ; and, turning to Sir Hugh, he hailed him as Lord of Pekin. Yepterday the same man a ppeared in this city. At the entrance of the General's quarters a Hall of Jus tice has been established, where Pr. Gutzlaff, the chief interpreter, sits, and dispenses it to all who re q uir e it , acting the p ar t o f chief mandarin, or lord mayor, or provost, if you like it. Hundreds daily throug this place. Th e soot h sayer, turning to the crowd, in formed them of what I told you, only a great deal more in a long harangue. I forgot to mention another striking part of his speech to the Geneneral. " Stoop not to lo w things; strike boldly at Hang-chow foo; leave alone Chinhae and Ningpo. " One of the documents found at Chinhae appeared to be the Book of Fate. One part of it said that about three years ago a great temple in the Tchekian province was upset by an earthquake, an d disclosed to view a marble tablet, whereon was written many wonderful things by no mortal hand. Amongst others; that in the reign of the Emperor Taouhsvang, or some such name, the present chap,. the plains of Canton should be de luged with blood ; and in another p art, t ha t the Ern. peror had a dream, wherein he saw a vision which in formed him that in the twenty- first year of his reign the empire should pass from his hands. That year is now about to commence. . These .reports are strange but, whatever may come to pass, there can be little doubt but that the ultimate results of the China war will be of the utmost importance. Sir Henry rottinger, it is said, has demanded large f4itiforeements. He is not a man to let the grass grow under his feet. From all we have yet seen of him, he is a very proper per son to manage this business, A melancholy event occurred here yesterday : the smi;pon of her Ma jesty's ship Larne committed suicide ;;.," cutting his throat, being at the time non compos me,;!s. The Larne sails with the dispatches the day after to-morrow, 'direct to Bombay, and at all events will catch the January mail. I should not mind being lord of this very fine plain, 360,000 broad acres, at 40s. an acre. When the Chinese empire comes to be partitioned, they will not surely forget my services. In Yu-Fang's house they found a paper, entitled, Confession of Stead, thel3ar!)arian.' From its contents, it is too evident that he was taken alive, and murdered by that infamous wretch in a most horrible manner, as he boasted to the Emperor of having cut him in small pieces. The fiend it make's one's blood run cold to think of it. At Chinhae we found his head suspended on a pole, along with that of the unfortunpte Comprador, who was taken last year at Chusan. It reflects the utmost disgrace upon our authorities, that that man, who was in our employ, and ought therefore to have had an Englishman's rights, was not demanded from the mandarins with Anstruthcr and the other prisoners. Engaged in furnishing fresh meat for our troops, he was taken ,prisoner. No means Were adopted for procuring his_ release, and they permitted him to remain behind, knowing, as every one did, that he would meet a barbarous death. Think of that !" COURT CIRCULAR. - - - BRIGHTON, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty . and Prince Albert took a carrirge airing along the Marine Parade to Kemp Town. Major General Sir Edward Bowater accompanied the carriage on horseback. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended divine worship in the Royal Chapel. In the royal pew were the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Hawarden, the Countess of Dunmote, the Hon. Miss Stanley, and the Hon Miss Devereux. The whole of the service was performed by the Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, Chap lain in ordinary to her Majesty, who preached a sermon from the 17th chap. of Luke, v. 13. The Choir sang the Ist verse of the 139th Psalra, and an anthem from the 103 d Psalm, by Mozart. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, took a carriage airing this afternoon. His Excellency Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Ambas sador, took his departure from the Pavilion this morning for London, Her Majesty and Prince Albert drove out in a pony phaeton this afternoon, attended by outriders in the royal livery. The Royal dinner party this evening comprised the Duchess of Kent, Duke Ferdinand, the Princes Augustus and Paul Leopold,of Saxe Coburg, Viscount Hawarden, the Countess of Dunmore, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Miss Devereux, the Hon. Miss Stanley, Baroness Lehzen, Baron Stockmar, Sir George Couper, Le Capitaine*Count de Dagenfield, Schomberg Le Capitaine de Zaitach, Colonel Buckley, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Dr. Prtetorius, and the Hon. Mr. Murray. His Royal Highness the Duke of Camhriege attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grovesnor Chapel,South Audley street. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Duke of Sussex yesterday at Kensington Palace. A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Masterman, M.P., Mr. D. C. Guthrie, Mr. S B. Yenning, Mr. Abraham Borradaile, Mr. W. Dixon, Mr. J. R. Thomson, Mr. Henry Maynard, Mr. John Arckoll, and Mr. Joseph S. Christopher had an inter view with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Several of the Cabinet Ministers assembled on Saturday afternoon at the official residence of Sir Robert Peel in Downing-street, and had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street on Saturday. Lord Maryborough had a dinner party on Saturday at his residence in Saville-row. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured his Lordship with his company. Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner party on Satur day evening at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Despatches were received ye.terday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Despatches from the Governors of Honduras and British Guiana were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. H. HO WARD, ESQ.. OF CORBY. We have this week the painful duty of recording the death of our highly valued and long-esteemed neighbour, Henry Howard, Es;., of Corby Castle, on Tuesday morning last, in the 85th year of his age. Mr. Howard was born on the 2nd July, 1757, and was the eldest son of Philip Howard and Ann, daughter of Henry Witham, Esq., of Cliff, in the county of York. To traca his lineage through a long line of ancestors, would be to enumerate the families of the noblest and most venerated names that adorn our English annals. The direct descent of the Corby branch of the Howard family is from Sir Fran • cis Howard, second son of Lord William Howard (cam • manly called " Belted Will Howard") the celebrated Wa-den of the Western Marshes in the time of James the First, third son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth, third dau ;liter of Thomas Lord Deere, of the North, sister and co-heir of George, the last Lord Dacre—the family of the Earl of Carlisle being descended from the eldest son of the same pail-. Mr. Howard was twice married ; first, in 1788, to Ma eta, third daughter, and co-heiress of And eiv Lord Archer, of Umberslade ; and secondly, in 1793; to Catherine Mary, the second daughter of Sir Richard Neave, of Dagnam Park, in the County of Essex, Bart. His first lady died, with her infant daughter, in child-bed, Nov. 9, 1789 ; and to her me mory Mr. Howard erected a splendid marble monument, in Wetheral church, by Nollekins, said to be one of the finest pieces of sculpture by that artist. The second laly survives, to mourn the loss of one of the mos , affectionate of husbands. At the period of Mr. Howard's birth, the penal laws against the Catholics were in their full rigour, and, like-most Catholics of his status, he was sent, at the proper age (in 1767), to receive his education at the celebrated establishment of the English Benedictine Mon s at Douay, and afterwards to the University of Paris. We may here remark, as strongly evinc ing the altered state of the times, that, amongst the most vivid of Mr. Howard's early, recollections, was that of having•seen the bleached heads of some of the parties who took share in the Rebelliou of '45 stuck over the ancient gates of Carlisle. . While at Vienna, Mr. Howard was treated with much per sonal kindness by the Empress Maria Theresa. On his return to England Mr. Howard took an active part in the political movements of this country; became a member of the celebrated Society caled the " Friends of the People," •in conjunction with the present Earl Grey, Charles James Fox, and other distingifshed leaders of the Whig party ; and his name was amongst the first appended to the celebrated pe tition for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Howard was distinguished by his great love for, and his successful cultivation of literature ; and his knowledge both of ancient and modern languages was .extensive. His first appearance as an author was in some translations in verse from the German, and we have read, in manuscript, for we believe it was never published, his tran lation from the same language of the historical drama of " Goetz of Berlingen." He is rote and - published a treatise on Light Infantry movements, which was, we believe, much t steemed amongst military men ; and in 1824 he published his " Remarks on the Erroneous Opinions entertained respecting the Catholic Religion" followed, in 1826, by his " Historical References in support of the Catho'ic Religiols"--also a work of deep and varied research, and which materially aided in fixing public opinion in favour of Catholic Emancipation. His latter years have been principally occupied in collecting materia4 for his " Memorials of the Howard Family," a work which was printed for private circulation, and to which he has made many valuable additions from the papers in the State Paper-office, and other national records. It throws anew l'ght upan many of the transactions of thst interesting portion of oar annals, comprised in the 15th and 16th centuro s. This work has been frequently referred to by historical students, as one of great authority. Mr. Howard also contributed many valuable papers to the Antiquarian Society. Mr. Howard leaves behind him four children—two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, P. H. Howard, Esq., M.P. for this city, was born in Edinburgh, April 22, 1801 ; Catherine, born May, 22, 1802, married to the Hon. P. Stourton ; Emma Agnes, born NoveMber 5, 1803, married to Lord Petre ; Henry Francis, barn November 3, 1709, at tached to the English Embassy at Berlin. A third daughter, Adeliza Maria, born March 30, 1805, and married to Henry, Petre, Esq., of Dunkenhalgh, died in September 1833. Abridged from the Carlisle Journal. INDEPENDENCE of FOREIGNERS. This point has been so well put by Mr. G. Thompson, that it is almost needless to quote further remarks to show that the cry for independence is all a pretext on the part of the landlords. At the same time, as the follow ing observations from the Brighton Guardian place the question before the reader in another aspect, we quote them : " On the second ground of making the nation inde pendent of foreign supply, the people will ask why they alone, who have little -or no advantage from this inde pendence, should bear all the burthen ? Admitting that it be a good thing, why should it be 'achieved 11 taxing the people's bread ? Why should it not be achi eve d by , lowering rents, by abating tne rent-charge for tithe, by parcelling out the laud in smaller portions, by ploughing up parks and putting an end to game preserves and deer walks, by bringing .the utmost extent of our own land into cultivation, and not allowing a single acre to lie idle for the pleasure of the landlords which can be converted into arable' or useful pasture ? We do not contend for commercial independence.; we are for extending com merce as much as possible by making it perfectly free, and for makin all nations and all people dependent upon and friendly with ' one another ; but we say, upon . the principle of those who, bawl for independence, let them show their Sincerity by ploughing up their own parks—those of GoOdwotal, Petworth, and Knepp Castle, for example—by giving up their own rents and supplying the community with food so cheap and tie abundant that it shall have no need to import it from abroad. But the bawlers for. independence show their sincerity, their pa triotism, and their justice, by throwing all the burthens which are necessary to attain their object on the bulk of the people, while they, for the sake of this vaunt e d in dependence; will not give up a single hedge-row that may be capable of harbouring a head of game." We echo these remarks, and must tell the landowners that they will obtain no credit with society for desiring the national independence as long as they preserve their own parks, and on that pretext tax the people's bread. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—On Saturday af ternoon the annual meeting of the members of this institution was held at the Thatched House, St. James's-street, Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge in the chair. Admiral Deans Dun das, as General adforth. Lieut.-Col. P. Spencer Stanhope, Col. Sykes, Colonel York, Captains Palby and Shadforth, Major Waller, and upwards of one hundred other gallant offi :ers were present. As istant Director Tona read the eleventh report of council, which stated that his Royal Highness the Prince Al bert had consented to become patron' of the institution jointly with her Majesty. During the year 127 officers enrolled their names, which made the total number of members to be 4,285. The sum of 245/. has been expended in the purchas of new hook . The report in conclusion, stated, that the receipts for the last year were 1,9541. and the disbursements, including the purchase of 5001. stock, left a balance in hand of 60/. 17s. 2d. Ile council estimated the probable expenditure this year at 1,3621., which will give an excess of income over the ordinary expenditure to the amount of 504/. The report was unani mously agreed to after which the vacancies in the council were filled, and the auditors re-elected. GOVERNMENT STEAMERS.—WOOLIVICIL, The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered that in future all Steam-vessels shall carry a complement of marines. First class steam-frigates on lieutenant, one sergeant, one cor poral, one drummer, and 28 men, or one sergeant, one corpo ral, and 20 men, according to the accommodation on board. The Driver old Gorgon steam-frigates have already had marine officers appointed to them. All other steam vessels to have one corporal and nine privates ; that number joined the Kite and Volcano steam-vessels lag year. STEAM TO NEW YORK. IHE GREAT WES TERN, Lieutenant HOSKEN, R.N., Commander, IS INTENDED TO SAIL FROM BRISTOL... Saturday, '2d of April, 1842 LIVERPOOL Saturday, 21st of May BRISTOL Saturday, 16th of July LIVERPOOL Saturday, 3d of September BRISTOL... Saturday, 22d of October. , FROM NEW YORK. ih tirs d k i, s.`: . !h of April For LIVERPOOL Thursday, 16th of June For BRISTOL Thursday, llth of Augu..3 Fer LIVERPOOL Thursday, 29th of September For BRISTOL Thursday, 17th of November , For LIVERPOOL. For Freight, or further information, apply at Bristol to CHRISTOPHER CLAXTON, Managing Director. London—T. M. Ward, Great Western Railway-Office, Pank, Liverpool—Gibbs, Bright, and Co., North John-street. Birmingham—John Poncia and Son, Pershore-street. Hall—W. R. Goddard, Hull and East Riding Times Office. Leeds—Haigh and Womack, Accountants, Benson's-buildings. Glasgow—H. B. Webb, Glassford- street. Paris—Andelle and Soulas, Rue de l'Echiguier, No. 20. Havre-de-Grace—William Davidsen. 9ristol, Feb. 18, 1842. A PROPERTY TAX. Just published, price Sixpence, THE JUSTICE and UTILITY of a PROPERTY TAX, as a Means of restoring the Revenue, placing it upon a permanent basis, and affording Facilities for the Deve lopment of the Commercial and Manufacturing Resources of the Country. By A TRUE CONSERVATIVE . London : Siinpkin and Marshall. Gloucester; T Jew. THE WEATHER.—Noorr, MARCH 7. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Thermometer... 51 Highest 53 I Lowest 3l Barometer 29.87.—Wind S.E.—Freezing Point 72 Deg. -- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 21 minutes after 10 I Evening 4 minutes after 11, f ..7,, _ ;zi -yv tbo te,tronblZbitton SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch. A return, issued this morning, to an order of the House of Commons, throws some additional light on the sliding scale of Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is entitled a " Statement of the quantities, of foreign grain of each kind; and of wheat flour, which paid the several duties, together . with the per tentage proportion which those quantities bore to the total quantities of the respective kinds entered for home consumption, from July, 1828. to the sth of January, 1842." The total quantity of wheat imported during that period has been 13,558,181 quarters, or about one million of- quarters each year, nearly one half of which, or about 43 per cent was not taken out of bond till the duty fell t( Is., wheat being at the enormous price of 735. and upwards per quarter, and more than three-fourth: (78, 67 per cent.) was not taken out till wheat was 72:, per quarter. - No better prod can be given that tin sliding scale acts virtually as a prohibilion to the im pOrtation of grain till it reaches a famine price ; for th total amount imported at the lower duty does not excee 250,000 quarters each year, the greater proportion o which was sold at or above 695. This small quantity as compared with the total consumption, hardly deserve: to be taken into account. Will the new sliding staff. ' act differently ? The corn-dealers will lay their head: together under the one law as well as the other, ant keep back grain till it can be imported at the lowes duty. l lt is a fact too worthy of notice, that the tots amount of wheat imported at 18s. Bd., about the highesi end of the new scale, was only 77,140 quarters for tht period of thirteen years. The landlords may strive t, keep up the mock cry against Sir ROBERT PEEL for de. priving them of protection and ruining agriculture, bu they know well, at least those of them who know any. thing about the matter, that they will be protected a: much as ever, that no additional impulse will be give] to British manufactures, that the home consumptiot will diminish yearly, and that they will be the next class of sufferers after the operatives. The coati . try, however, must, in the meantime, submit. The mis guided electors, even in manufacturing towns, combined With the Tory landholders to return a House of Common which will not allow Sir ROBERT PEEL, even if he would, to grant them any relief, and on their heads, therefore - , be the consequences. The very silence of the Duke RICHMOND, and the - high• price party that threatened t, oust the Prime Minister, if he failed to do their bidding is decisive on the merits of the scheme which, in a fee months, will be in operation, and which we fear will con. firm our worst anticipations. We ind the following leading paragraph in the las number of the Naval and 111.1dary Gazette:— We have just heard a rumour that her .Majesty has it in con templation to raise to the Peerage a few of our Mos distinrmished Admirals, namely, Robert Stopford, Sit George. Cockburn, and Sir Edward Codrin4ton We sincere] . ) hope that this report will prove correct, for when we bear mind there is not at this moment even one fltg-officer upon th , list who has received this proud reward fur his services to his country out of the 200 Admirals that we now have in the navy whilst in the sister profession many Generals and Lieutenant. Generals have been justly honoured with this high distinctier for their gallant services in the field, we cannot but be sangoirn that t he Royal favour will be extended towards the distinguishes officers that we have named at no distant period, and which w, are a sured will be hailed with the highest satisfaction by th. whole navy. In the hope expressed by our contemporary of the trutl of this report we cordially join. Since the days of Pun it has been too much the fashion to recruit the Peer age from the Bar, from behind the counter, am] from the Stock Exchange ; and the result has beer a growing contempt, on the part of the people, for that once-powerful section of the Legislature. If we are to I,i2serve the InStitution of the Peerage, we ought by all means to endeavour to ,make it worthy of the confidence of the country. No means of doing this can be adopted more eff6ctual than to recruit it from meritorious officers of a branch of the public service, which more than any .other enjoys the confidence and esteem of all classeS of Englishmen. But why does noi the name of Commodore Sir C. NAPIER appear in the list of proposed creations ? The rules of the servie€ are surely not binding upon our Gracious SOVEREIGN. By the junior members of the service such a mark of tip Royal favour would be felt as a stimulus to valorou :whit vements. As regards family, the lion. and Gallant Member for Marylebone stands on an equality with some of the proudest names in the Peerage of Scotland. As for . Admiral Sir E. CODRINGTON, no honours which the Crown could confer upon him would be other than gratifying to the Navy and the Country. In another part of The Sun will be found a letter from Mr. RAWSON to Lord JOIIN RUSSELL. We do not guarantee his statements, but they present some extraordinary results. From them it appears that out manufacturer, who is compelled to be an exporter by the necessities of his condition, has to pay in America, out of 216 barrels of flour, purchased by the produce of his labour, 591 for necessary charges of freight, in surance, &c., to which the American manufacturer is not liable. Out of the remaining 156); he has to give up 32 barrels to the American Custom-house, that being .a retaliatory exaction in consequence ot our Corn-laws. He has thus 1244 left; but or importing his flour to England, the Corn-laws and Custom-house charges will take away 421 more, leaving 82 to be divided—as payment of the materials, 41 barrels, as profit 64, and wages 344. At the same time, his foreign competitor has no less than 146 barrels for profit and wages alone. Supposing that statement to be correct, our manu facturers must labour under immense disadvantages. Though the statement is there made on barrels of flour, the result will not differ if the merchant receive a bill of exchange, which has to be taken up by goods remitted to England. Though the statement, too, is confined to the United States, it is, pro tanto, true of all third markets where the manufacturing products of that country come into competition with our own, and where retaliatory tariffs have been called into existence by our Corn-laws. It seems pretty certain, too, as capital spreads itself with much readiness over the commercial world, that the capitalist will go to those countries where profit is highest, and that, consequently, n ear l y the whole of this vast deduction from the value of our manufactures will mainly fall on the English labour ers. To such a declension in value, or unfair system of traffic, as regards foreign countries, nearly all our manufactures are liable, for they are all exported, which serves to account for their continual fall in price, and the unceasing deterioration of the condi tion of our manufacturing population. Their increase in skill, and the continued invention of new machines, ought, like the discoveries i n agr i cu l ture, w hi ch h av e been described as arresting at intervals the downward march of profits and wages, to continually improve the condition of the people ; but in spite of this great principle, the restriction laid by law on trade,makes it tend to impoverish instead of enriching all classes. England, Mr. RAwsoN says, which has served nearly the whole world with hosiery for 200 years, is the only country in which the con sumption of hosiery is not rapidly increasing. In England the consumption has fallen off, Mr. RAW SON says, one-third within the last three or four years ; and we need scarcely look beyond the generi diminution of wages pointed out by IClr. RAWSON as the consequence of our fierce competVion with naticns ,1 ' 0 not yet heavily chained by restrictive Jaws, to ascer tain the cause of the diminished consmnption. T 1 e more the Corn-laws are investigated, the greater are_ 't the evil effects brought to light. We hope, that the Noble Lord to whom Mr. ItawsoN's letter is addressed, will cause the truths it conveys to be heard in high places. -.. '' We have received a curious piece of news fro n Spain. , t 4 el 11 It is a statement, by a member of the Madrid Cabinet; - _, 9 61 made in the Cortes, to the effect that Lord ABgRDEEN" - 7 13 ' 1 f ; 4 0 had at first espoused the side of M. *SALS - ANDY in the — l ts o ,lo etiquette • quarrel, but finding his pretensions un - 4/01 founded, his Lordship declared for the REGENT The Noble Foreign Secretary was doubtless start- S c r t ij ibi led at the way in which the Liberal press dealt wit:: the instructions which he vas reported to have transmitted til:rough Lord COWLEY to the British Am bassador at Madrij: Certain we are that but for the English press the Tory' Government woald at that time have joined France against Sapain. The duties on home-made brand; are to , be abolished in Spain from the Ist July, 1813. Madrid Bourse on the 26th closed at 28i for* cash, and 29i for 60 days. . Nothing can exceed the rage with which ta.'n French Opposition journals comment upon the stateme.n," of Sir ROBERT PEEL in the House of Commons last wcek, that Lord ABERDEEN had not recognised the claims of yra ! ico to the possession of Algiers. Some of their paroxysms of passion are really ludicrous. They hurl defiance at England in one sentence, and affect in the next to treat' decisions respecting Algiers with the utmost contempt. They tell us that we want Algiers for ourselves, and they invite us to take it, if we dare. There is litthi dignity in the employment of such language respecting a nation like England. However, that is a matter o taste, about which we are not disposed to quarrel with our Gallic contemporaries. We are sufficiently satisfied: with ourselves to care very little what the French Oppo • sition papers say about us. Did they not dread us in Their inmost hearts, they would never take the trouble they do to tell the world how much they despise us. M. CouslN, the French Peer, awl Member of the institute, is appointed Member of the :Royal Board of Instruction, in the room of M. JOUFFREY, ci,?ceased. No uan in France is better qualified for a seat at that • 3oard than M. Conn/i t whose works on popular ethics , ' . don have obtained an European celebrity. The number of French Peers at present is three hun dred and six. Of these one hundred and twelve were created before the Revolution of July. These have 01 ;eats in the Chamber. Of the Peers, ninety-nine are , ;enerals, or superior officers in . the army or navy ; twenty-five are diplomatists ; twenty members of the: Institute ; twenty-four who are, or were prefects ; and: hirty-six who are magistrates. The rest are landed pro ?rietors, paying taxes to the amount of three thousand 'rants. 'ln proportion to its numbers, there is far. more earning, knowledge, and practical habits of legislative )usiness in the Chamber of Peers, than in that Gf he Deputies, but as the Peers are for the most part the ,übmissive slaves of the Court, these properties °nil ' .nake them the more dangerous to the people. The ma- - ority of them are p,:or and unprincipled. The Chamber of Deputies adopted by a majori,'l of 229 votes against 10, the Bill for calling out, in lb'-43' 30,000 men of the class of 1842. The arrival of Bishop ALEXANDER in Jerusalem 1 5 ioticed as a most important event in all the French ournals. The Journal des Debals says : " The Anglican Bi,hop is more the representative of the British Crown than of the Protestant religion. We were right in raising the cry of alarm. Need we repeat that religious conversion is a political conquest for Great Britain ? And wherever the Anglican religion prevails, it absorbs the nation ality of the country. Behold a Bishop, who has come to take possession of Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, and who h receives his investiture from Queen Victoria. The End ,lag 3ag will follow the English Bishop, and under the shade of that dag will grow the tree, just planted on the Mount of Olives. At the moment that the Anglican prelate was entering Jeru salem, cannon was announcing the celebration of the Coarban- Bei , am. Was not this a sign that the sterile and stationary spirit of Islamism is about to give way before the fruitful and invading spirit of Christianity ?" A missionary cannot leave the shores of England without attracting the notice pf the French press. And y,:t the Journals which denounced so angrily the ar oearance of a Protestant Prelate in Syria, wonder tho England should have the shadow of an objection to the icizuro by France of several provinces of the Ottoman; :mpire. ' :.9'' li OP d.l BOURSE—PAnig, SATURDAY, MAlirll 5. t ' >,. 1 ,1 , , First Highest Lowe..t Las t r ~' V Pric. Price. Prsc. F,r,; — .; . ; 1 1 ,, 0 f French 5 per Cents 4 • 119 80 ... 119 93 ... 114) 81 «. J,,,,.' ''" ~:oe Cents. ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... l'-'l,, A t ' ' ''s 9 per Cents BO 20 80 40 .. 80 30 ... su. ',', " ; 14 . ,' .nk cn c'rance At ha, n a p', 5,(10 ! 1 Slams 5C47 LO ...5047 50 —MIS ...5C43 ' ... T f ' e lan Sant 1811 .... elgian 5 per Cents. . . . 5 per 'enc.. 4440 116 14 .. 106% ... 106% l',.!; 7 0::; ''r.4 Dutch 2 3 4 per Cents.' .... - r , r o , .iiiish ne.ne ralifivc 5% „„„ 5% ... 5% ... 54,,, ,, ' 41,t e tvolits• 4i"-an IC4% ... 10434 ... 1C4% ... 104. '„ O ) t A i LIA!LWAY SHARES .4 , - , iv, Vt. Germain ... ..... Versailics IL B L.ll 2 6 25 ... 2.6 '25 ... 216 25 2.16 2 5 ' touen 551 ... 525 ... 510 ... '25 Ie a . 560 ... 56.3 71 ... 56.1 _ , 562 Montpellier to Cette i ...wig oßalc . 212 50 ... 245 ... 242 59 ... 245' GOOD NEWS FOR TRAVELLERS.—We have great sa isfaction in informing our readers, that regulations hay(' ,ust beenissued by the Board of Customs for increased facility and despatch in the passing of passengers' lug :age at the London Custom-house. A second landing :mailer is to be appointed to assist in the examivatiou the luggage, whose duty is to be confined to the examination of such of the passengers' luggage as shy tot exceed one packet. Thus, it appears, that what the. Whig Government would not, or could not accomplis h ' aa.s been quietly done by the Commissioners under th e e iew Government, but this is only one instance out 01 hundreds. in which the Melbourne Ministry brought 0 11 themselves. well-merited reproach for not compellil Tory officials to do their duty. The 'annoyance cau se to passengers by needless delay, has been repeatedly c‘" posed-in this journal, as well as in some others, but tiTe Chairman of Customs was deaf as the adder it_ wilderness, till he could help the Tories. HAN G-CHOO-FOO. THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF CHINA. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT WHO HAS LONG RESIDE D IN INDIA.) If Hang-Choo-Foo (capital of Chekiang, the rich Ind most populous province in China,) be really tal'e ° by our forces, they are now progressing in that couf 4 which will most alarm his Celestial Majesty. Haag" Choo-Foo is, by Sir John Barrow and aliens, sidered the best built city (of granite) in China. It s!tuated at the north head of the Imperial Canal, ° ll the banks of a deep river three to four miles broa d * 'apposite the city, from which one canal runs to Ning" po, another canal to Cha-po, forty miles off, and fre'." whence the whole trade between China and Japa n parried on ; another canal,. the Imperial, runs to r 4 e kin, and by the Hang-Choo-Foo river and the Can ton river there is a communication by water (the 110 1 1 Pass excepted), and by which Lord M'Cattne , % . Embassy travelled between the two Proviiicial capi tal- c The Imperial Canal from LlangChoo-Foo t° t,ir Great River Yang-Tzee-Kiang,-: is navigable 1, „ • 2ssels of 200 to 250 tons; loaded with rice, hence 0 ,1 ! 1 7 , if our largest steam-vessels can traverse this, part Of 00 the canal in this part is very broad. Ilang-C'hee - ,l ii ° o ' 4 , was once the seat of the Emperors of China. -L„ ,*,6 1 times are stirring in India and China; it is n ° ;; H , '0 sense to hesitate any longer ; our Goverrirn e thre ,-0 4 should at once call out the subsidiary forces, hundred and - fifty thousand,and take Biitha (its f l l7, tier to seaward I mean, and a hundred miles inl and) rN take Napaul and subsidize it ; occupy Oude de ) c • lad not, as at present, by an imbecile and ciPr e ,,,,, — t -, l‘ c 1 shadow of kingly native Government ; and C ° " l 4; he Punjaub to become subsidized. China and , T; t l ;hanistan is then only a flea-bite. India will ne v— e ,l;o, be thoroughly tranquillized till these thorns in ° side are plucked out. If it be contended, what righ e .) l t olt has Great Britain thus to usurp power over til es . 4' l comparatively independent states, the answer is, it for the good of the human race, that anarchy, int - . 41 1 ,t 1 i tide, and abominable cruelty should be extingui s h in those wretched and ill-governed and 0 151° ' he kingdoms; and as they are continually harassing t. r British possessions in India, and endangering th e ,1 1 , 1;; ;,6 repose, and as our occupation of these misgovern, *7 kingdoms would guarantee an extinction of these an c : , minations, and substitute order, civilization, Pe a o r, and tranquillity, and the blessing of the S truth, it is the duty of England to bestir herself , put an effectual end at once to the present unsatisfa R. W• tory state of affairs in those' kingdoms. eripturesni L ,.....m...... ALARMING FlRE.—This morning about haif-pnsht ,f one o'clock, an express reached Watling-street fire station vi i t , t '„ information that a fire had broken out at Alinetva House , ne ar , ' r ?sew Cross, Deptford, the residence of the Duk e of NormsPZ ,' -''' Mr. Braidwood repaired to the spot with thr ee engines al ,, strong party of the brigade, and found the fire' existe d tn . & , P building recently erected for the purpose of making e xpert: 4 , ', mental bomb-shells and other projectiles. The greatest *tart" sal ,• existed in the neighbourhood, as it was supposed that *V an- ' -d d tity of combustibles were in the place, Jich would extil nde ' t r ; ; Mr. Braidwood immediately brought his force into opefs_ti" i i, but no water could be obtained except by buckets frig° the 7 ' u , • neighbouring houses, and it was only by unwearied exertion , ~1 0 , and judicious management that the fire was extinguished. Th e ~ho', 1 building, which is detached from the mansion, and its con tel . .1 (); " were nearly wholly destroyed. Not the slightest idea can , a t. .1 . present be formed as to the cause of the fire, wh i c h was i' ) • ~I SO' discovered until the flames burst forth. k co o p. 4 M E SMERISM.—CAUTION TO TILE LAD1135.--,'" ' kpo -01' in a gentleman's family having heard Mesmerism much sP, () ; a - a „, , T of, and many strange s'ories told of it, took ,it into her " a r yb• she would be Mesmerised, and for that purpose aPPl; eata l l& .01 1. noted professor in a country town; being a very hale„,s, • oia i healthy subject the surgeon had some difficulty to inducOlV,l n merit sleep, but he eventually succeeded. The lady nOrf, .:j a t al‘' .tlepf hut talked, her first words were rerfectly opt ural, but i i ts4 , -- , sr faltering tone the fair one said—" Coachulau, oh 1 take:Plt • _ j cold feet away !" .......... •••... 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