The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-09 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL, EDITED BY CAPTAIN CHAMIER. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., PASSION AND PRINCIPLE. Edited by Capt. FREDERICK CHAMIER. This entertaining and instructive novel reads like a piece of private family history put on record for the behoof of distant friends or relatives. It reports the sayings and doings of its fictitious characters as carefully, and, to all practical effect, as accurately, as Miss Burney does those of her real ones, in her delightful Diary.' "—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ,THEATRE -RO YAL, ENGLISH OPERA - HO U SE. WItL OPEN FOR THE SEASON THIS EVENING, MAY 9. The Performances will commence with THE BEULAH SPA. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Oxberry, James Vining, Brougham. Granby, Wigan, and Ireland, Mrs. Brougham, Mrs. Thyleure, Miss Pincott, Miss Marshall, and Mrs. H. P. Grattan. After which, a Divertissement, entitled L'A MO U KVA INQUEU R. To be followed by a new Burletta, entitled ENTHUSIASM. To conclude with a new serious Melodrame, entitled THE TROOPER'S HORN; or, The Goblin of the Chest. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Positively the Last Week of Mazeppa, which must be withdrawn f r the Geand Wbitsun Novelties. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, Will be presented Lord Byron's MAZEPPA ; OR, THE WILD MORSE OF THE DESERT, with increased splendour, extensive auxiliary aid, and unapproachable effects. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. B &TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. rnerous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. The renowned French Female Rider; Madame Seraphine Bassin ; and the miraculous feats of flexibility by the Sprite of the Silver Shower. To conclude with the Drama of THE DUMB MAN OF MAN CHESTER. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Second Appeirance of Madlle. Dejazet. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, The Performances will commence with ZOE ; OU, L'AMANT PRETE —Zoe, Madlle. E. Fourgeot. After which. LES PREMIERE ARMES DE RICHELIEU.— Le Duc de Richelieu, Madlle. Dejazet. Boxes, 6s, ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per formances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se guin's, l(, Regent.street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's-street ; and at the Box-otfiee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. THE INDIA SUN, CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM - INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of Mr. Tildesley is referred to the Reporter. THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 7. RO rAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 55 ) Highest 62 I Lowest 41 Barometer 29.40.—Wind S.W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Ncrning 53 minutes after 0 (Evening ....II minutes after 1. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." 11:k 01' 03/I „ - - lib ,--.. un • LONDON MONDAY MORNING. MAY 9, 1842. By a very large majority the House of Commons has decided that it will not do justice to the people. By a large majority it has decided, when many of them are starving, that they mu st now give the land owners 13s. a quarter more than their wheat is worth, or they must go without bread. As that decision, too, cuts off the trade with a large part of the world, they are really starved by the decision of Parliament. By a large majority that House has decided that the people must give the sugar and coffee planters of the West India Islands a considerable sum more for their commodities than they are worth in the common mar kets of the world. By a considerable majority, there fore, the House of Commoue, has decided that the people must be taxed to increase the wealth of corn growers in England and sugar-growers in the Colo nies. By a considerable majority the House has re solved to inflict, in spite of remonstrance, continued injustice on the people. By a considerable majority, also, that House has decided that it would not bear what the people had to say against its own measures. By a very consider able majority it decided that the people should not be heard to state why they should be admitted into the pale of the Constitution. It has decided, therefore, by a considerable majority, that it will continue to injure the people, and will not bear them when they wish to represent why they should not be . injured. By that majority, then, it has decided that the people shall continue to be slaves. Can the House of Commons, or can the Parlia ment, carry this resolve firmly and steadily into exe cution ? This question the House of Commons should be able to answer explicitly, for on its power to do, or not to do that, will depend the stability of its policy. It was well observed by Mr. MACAULAY, on Tuesday evening, one of the foremost and most vehe ment opposers of the demands of the people, that " Governments were supported by the people, and could only be supported by the people." " Instead of this, (said the Right Hon. Gentleman) it was represented that Government had some extraordi nary mine of wealth, or a means of relieving the dis distress of the people, as though they had a Divine commission, as if they could send them bread from the clouds, Avater from the rocks, and multiply loaves and fishes ten thousand-fold." Mr. MACAULAY, therefore, is thoroughly sensible that Governments have no wealth of their own ; that they cannot give anything to the peopl e , b u t a re maintained and supported by the people. This is a very trife;but it Is'a very important statement. But will Mr. MACAULAY inform the public—and calm the fears his language is calculated to excite—how that Government, which is supported by the people, can long be carried on, when it has lost the confidence of such a vast body of the people ? He admits that the Government de pends on the people ; he sees by their petition that a great number of them are • discontented with the Government, and yet he refused to learn from them how to remove their grievances and reconcile them to the Government. In fact, Mr. MACAULAY has a preformed theory about property, to which he pedantically sacrifices the little common sense he possesses. Everybody knows as well as Mr. MACAULAY that the well-being of society depends on security of property. The ques tion, however, about which the people and the House of Commons differ, is not the necessity of giving security to property, but what is property ? Mr. MACAULAY seems to have no other idea of property than property in the funds, and landed property, and railway shares, and machinery, and property settled by Act of Parliament. But The petitioners, who ap peared before the House of Commons on Tuesday, had none of that kind of property, and they requiredd - that their industry, 'Which is their property, should be as well protected as the lord's park and the fundholders dividends. Their property is not represented in Par liament, and therefore they assert that it is made the prey of those whose property is represented. The petitioners complained of "being enormously taxed to pay the national debt ;" they are taxed, they say, to pay the fundholders. They complain,, in that instance, and Mr. MACAULAY did not show that.they complained erroneously that their property is taken from them by the law. They assert "that taxation, both general and local, is too enormous to be borne." They assert that "the wages of the producing millions are are as nothing compared to the salaries of those whose usefulness ought to be questioned," and they assert " that luxury prevails amongst the rulers," who or dain and levy the taxes, "and starvation amongst the ruled." We might quote many other similar pas sages from their petition, to show that they consider their right of property to be continually invaded by the Legislature. They assert that the Legislature does not secure their property—that it violates their right of property ; and to that Mr. MACAULAY re plies, thinking apparently only of the store he has placed in the Funds, and pf the salary h e may again enjoy as a minister, that society Cannot prosper un less property be secure. The potalows fully zveo with hiin, sad they point to their own wretched condition—they point to the starving millions—they point to their own dis content, as proofs of the injurious consequences of not securing their property. The passage we have quoted from Mr. MACAULAY shows clearly enough that the Government has nothing of its own to give to any class of the people. All that it does, therefore. and all that it can do is, to take from one class to give to some other class. The Legislature produces nothing—it only alters the distribution of wealth. It creates no new values. The people say, with ADAM SMITH, that all the wealth of the world is produced by labour, but that, owing to unjust legislation, la bour has the smallest share of its own produce. The Legislature, or Government, takes away from them such an immense sum for the priesthood, for tithes are a tax—such an immense sum for the fundholders— such an immense sum for the army, the navy, and for the Court—for pensioners and Comissioners, that nothing is left for them. They say that the Legislature, by various kinds of monopolies, by its enormous tax ation, fleeces them bare, and leaves them nothing to subsist on. In their own emphatic language, the taxing rulers riot in luxury, and the ruled are in a state of starvation. They assert that in this general result lies a decided proof that their property is not secure, and they ask for a share of represen tation to ensure themselves that justice which the Legislature, as now constituted, has systematically, perseveringly, and stubbornly denied them. The broad general fact, that industry starves while idleness, or the unproductive classes, abound in wealth, amply justifies the complaints of the people, and refutes the implied statement of ➢fir. MACAULAY that under our present system property is secure. Mr. ROEBUCK'S conduct on Friday had the merit of being eminently impartial. He spared neither To ries, Whigs, nor Radicals ; and the exposure he made, so far as it went, was complete. The public, how ever, regard it more as an index to the general condi tion of the House of Commons than the work itself. Almost every day announcements are made in the Votes, or in the Reports, that Mr. So-and-so has withdrawn his petition against the election return of which he had complained.' The number of petitions so set aside is much greater than the number brought to trial. It is said of Sir DENIS LE MARCHANT that he announced personally to the SPEAKER that he did not mean to prosecute his petition against the return for Harwich ; and it is also announced that the Tories, without being at the trouble of naming a committee, have agreed to throw Major BERESFORD overboard, and give Sir DENIS a seat for that Borough. Such details as these, combined with the great num ber of disputed returns, and the existence throughout the country of notorious bribery, make the people suspect that the bulk of the House of Commons has been elected by corrupt means. We hear that said, and we hear it also said that this suspicion explains the extraordinary subserviency of the House of Commons to Sir R. PEEL. No incon siderable number of the Members, for the sake of sup porting him, have falsified all the hopes their conduct excited, and have forfeited all the pledges they pub licly gave upon the hustings. The majority of these men, it is said, were at great expense to obtain their seats. They parted even with more than money. They used up their character in bribing, intimidating, coaxing, and coercing the electors ; and having given both money and reputation for their seats, they wish to get back an equivalent. They gave a great price for the patronage and power they expect to enjoy under PEEL, and they will not oppose him, do what he may, lest they should lose the expected rewards. They might break up the Govern ment and endanger their dearly-bought seats. From their corruption and the general corruption of the constituencies, therefore, the interest of the nation is wholly disregarded. The tenure on which many of the Members hold their seats, to which the few facts brought forward by Mr. ROEBUCK are an index, ex plains why the iniquitous and tyrannical Income tax meets with little opposition from those who ought to be the guardians of the people's rights. We are inclined to suppose that there are few, or none, of the occupations of the labouring classes which do not seem painful, disgusting, and dan gerous to the upper and idle classes. But, as so ciety cannot be sustained without labour, it is not judicious to make their views of necessary oc cupation the rules of life. So terrible an opinion have they of labour that they have unwisely used it as a punishment, and have caused great injury to the working classes, by associating labour with ig nomy. While we deprecate on the one hand, there fore, their interference with the labour of the peo ple, we think it our duty, on the other, not to join too eagerly some of our Contemporaries in des cribing necessary occupations as hopelesslydisgusting and hideous. In all situations, where youthiof both sexes are thrown together, much of that vice will arise which the Reports of the Commissioners on Mines describe. As far as our experience extends, there is not more correctness amongst the agricultural population than amongst the population of collieries- and mines ;—we do not believe that the hay-field or the hop garden, the farmer's kitchen or his barn, is a better school of morality than the mine. The Re ports of the Poor-law Commissioners gave a lament able account of the chastity of females in the agricultural districts, and believing' that the females in the collieries and mines are not worse than those in the agricultural districts, we will not imitate some of our Contemporaries, by quoting the rather offensive accounts which the Sub-Commissioners have given of the behaviour of both sexes. Whoever chooses to pry closely into the details of society will find similar scenes in almost every part of it. It is of more consequence, we think, to observe, that females have naturally no taste for labour in the. mines. They love to dress and adorn their per sons ; and where such a taste is encouraged , as it is with us, 'the women, as the rule, are prone to finery and indulgence, and dreadfully averse to drudgery. We feel quite confident, there fore, as the rule, that women do not work in the col lieries and mines except from dire necessity ; and if they could live like ladies above ground, no power on earth could convert them into " getters," " trappers," " hurriers," &c. &c., in the bowels of the earth. We are not surprised, therefore, to find in the evidence such statements as these : Mary Barnett says—l do not like working in pit, but I am obliged to get a living. Patience Hershaw says—l wear a belt and chain at the workings to get the coves out. I would rather work ' in the mill than in the coal pit. Ruth Barnett says—l come down into pits in linings of old trousers, which I take otf. I wear an old waist coat and shift. Ido not like working in pit. I would not do it if I could help it. Another quotation : Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton, Lancashire, says—"l have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and when there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of There are six women and about bix boys and girls iu the pit I work in : it is very hard work for a woman. The pit is very wet where I work, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and I have seen it up to my thighs. lam not so strong as I was, and I cannot stand my work so well as I used to do. I have drawn till I have the skin off me ; the belt and chain is worse when we are in the family-way. My feller [husbandl has beaten me many a time for not being ready. I have known, many a man beat his drawer." Here is abundant evidence, then, that the women do not like the work, and it is, therefore, clear that they would not engage in it if they could help it. We have so much confidence, too, in their mother's love, that we can assert that they would never consent to their children going and engaging in such severe work at the early age of five or six, if they were not driven to do it by their poverty. Assuredly they would keep their daughters out of the coal-pits if they could subsist without driving them to such labour. The source, therefore, of all the terrible evils which belong to the coal-pits lies in the poverty of the people which legisla tion causes and cannot lessen. Whatever may be Lord ASHLEY'S plan, his law will have this, in common with all the factory Acts, the appointment of a number of Comthissioners and Inspectors to carry it into execution, who must be paid out of the produce of labour, and will add either to the toils or to the poverty of the people. The true way to keep women from working in coal-pits is to make such labour wholly unneces sary, in order to provide for the comfortable sub sistence of themselves and their families. That this is within the power o f l eg i s lation we do not believe ; that it Would not be their happier lot did legislation not 'interfere with labour, and withhold from it its die reward we - still not . positively assert ; but we are quite sure, ou that priucipje) we -•- • have borrowed in another article from Mr. 1 MACAULAY, that the Legislature can do nothing so beneficial for these people, as to cease from plunder ing them. By the law that the Legislature has just passed, these poor toiling infant girls and mothers are at this moment, and every day of their lives, obliged, before they can eat a morsel of bread or a piece of potatoe, to pay a tax to the rich land and mine owner of 13s. per quarter on wheat. The coal-owners, who are the parties that most profit by the employment of children and women in mines, should imitate the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, who has refused to allow them to work in his mines with the happiest effects. Of course, he raises the wages of the men, and gives them work in proportion. If other coal-owners will do the same, and not be quite so rapa cious as they now are, there will be no occasion to en cumber the statute-book with an additional penal law. The vast number of murders that have been committed in the metropolis within the last few years, casts a great stain on the country, and ought to teach humility to those who boast of the superior civilisation of England, as compared with all other nations. While slanders and calumnies, not twelve months ago, were heaped upon the Irish people by certain writers in London, charging them with murders and cruelties—and Spaniards and Italians in the same spirit of national prejudice have been stigmatised as assassins—deeds have been committed here which make the blood run cold. As sassinations have become frequent, murders of the deepest die have been pepetrated, one-third of the murderers yet remaining undiscovered ; and wha t shows their great cruelty, many of these atrocious crimes have been committed against helpless women, by the persons bound to protect them. This was the case with GREENAC RE, BLAKESLEY, GOOD, and several others, showing a depravity and unmanly violence rarely surpassed. The case of the wretched man COOPER, now in course of examination, is of a different kind, but it is almost unexampled for reckless, wanton disregard of human life. He murdered one fellow-creature on the spot, seriously, and perhaps fatally, wounded another, and it was from no want of will on his part that many more did not fall victims to his savage disposition. These are certainly ominous symptoms of the present state of society, and, from whatever cause arising, inflict a great disgrace on the country. It singularly enough occurs, too, at a time when more noise is made about Church ex tension, religious meetings, and Sunday travelling than at any former period—when Sunday schools are held in every village, and assemblages collect all over the country at stated periods for humanizing and converting to the Christian faith people of every clime. Enormous sums are sent out of the country yearly for these purposes. Might they not be better spent at home in encouraging education, promoting industry, and preventing crime? Something must be done to abate this great disgrace, or England will become a reproach and a bye-word among all nations. Lord BROUGHAM has brought in a Bill to give pro_ tection to witnesses examined before Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, respecting bribery at elec tions. The Noble and Learned Lord, like every person who pays any regard to the corrupt state of the representation of the country, is alarmed at the frightful extent to which this moral pestilence is spreading. We have serious doubts, however, as to the efficacy of his Lordship's Bill as a remedy for the evil. We doubt whether any laws could be framed which would check bribery under the present state of the elective franchise. The incentives are too great and the facilities too numerous- for legal hindrance. The best way to check bribery is to begin by extending the franchise. Household suffrage, or the adoption of a knowledge qualification, would inflict a mortal blow upon bribery. The next best step to be taken, but here Lord BaouortAm does not agree with us, would be to adopt the Ballot ; and finally make Parliaments triennial. Without these there can be no end to bribery. As to Parliamentary Committees, they are notoriously incompetent to act as tribunals to decide upon election returns. It matters little therefore, what protection they can give to wit nesses called before them. We willingly correct a great error in an article on the sth instant, headed " West India Steam-packets,' into which we were led by misrepresentation. In that article it is stated that Lieut. APLIN had been cashiered for his conduct with respect to the delay of the mails. Lieut. APLIN informs us that we have been grossly misinformed, and furnishes a copy of an official letter from the Admiralty in answer to his re quest to be superseded. This proves that the state ment furnished to us is wholly untrue, and as it is calculated to create an unfavourable impression with regard to the Gallant Officer, we are happy to give it the most direct contradiction. He was superseded at his own request, and no imputation, therefore, can rest upon Lieut. APLIN'S character, either as a gen tleman or a naval officer. M. Tffrnas' organ, the Constitutionnel, declares that 'much as France is benefited by peace with England she would prefer war to the ratification of the right of search treaty. If such be the case the treaty will never be ratified, for we would rather abandon a thousand such treaties than go to war about them. But why not allow the whole question to drop ? The great bulk of the people of both countries know nothing whatever about it. The longer discussion of it can only tend to create a bad feeling between nations whose interest it is :.to live in the most perfect amity. Besides, why is Eng land blamed about this treaty ? The National knows that France was the first to propose it, that it was drawn up in conjunction with her, and that she was as earnest as England in wishing to obtain for it the sanction of the other Great Powers. For our own part we speak the more freely because, from the first, we doubted the policy of such a treaty. More reflection has increased these doubts. Right of search treaties never can put down the slave trade, nor can such search be enforced without inflicting grievous injuries upon commerce. It is on this ground alone that we are opposed to the right of search. As to the nonsense about the insult offered to the flags of independent States, we dismiss it at once with con tempt. Where the right is common there can be no insult in its exercise by any individual State, though there may be great inquisitorial wrong. We would a thousand times prefer seeing the treaty burned by the hands of the common hangman, than hear of one life lost in enforcing it. The following extracts from the French journals in clude all that they contain of any interest. Thursday being the feast of the Ascension was observed as a holi day in all Catholic countries. There was therefore no Bourse. But as there is no holiday for the newspapers, they, of course, appeared as usual. SOLOMON says that there is a time and a season for everything under Heaven, save sin. Had newspapers been in circulation in the days of the wise Monarch of Israel and Judah, we have no doubt that he would have added that there was neither time nor season for editors and printers of daily papers knowing fatigue, and taking a holiday. The fierce quarrel between the French Church party and the University has been re-kindled, by the ad dresses to the KlNG—that of the Archbishop of PARIS especially. The University party quote the KING'S answer to their address, in which his MAJESTY boasts of having reared his sons at the common college. To this the Univers replies as follows : We were amongst the 400 school-fellows. of the young Princes, and can tell how equal and common was our lots- The Princes came in the morning with their preceptor, in their -car riages, to the luxuriously furnished private rooms fitted up for them at the college. There they learned their lessons. I'hey came down to class five minutes after the other school-boys, and withdrew five minutes sooner, and always to their private room. The Princes dined with us, but always on dishes prepared and reserved exclusively for them. and which we envied prodigiously. The Princes very seldom came to the play-ground ; and, if they did, it was only to take a turn and be gone. And when they did, the twelve or fifteen boursiers, sent by the King gratuitously to college, formed a little court around them, and kept off us pro fane. As to the common benches, on which M. Villemrin in his speech places the King's sons, that is a figure of rhetoric. The Princes were kept u much apart as possible. It was but the name of public education. As to the Duke of Orleans, be has avowed, in a well-known letter to Beranger, that his only lessons in politics when a youth were derived from the poet's songs. The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the following from Naples, April 28: —" The post-office treaty between France and the Two Sicilies only waits for the King's signature. The Duke of Montebello will take it in a few days to Paris; the ratifica• ions will be exchanged in two months, and it will be in full operation in October 1. The complaints made by Holland and Belgium relative to the losses experienced by different capitalists of these two nations in the affair of the Tavoliere di Puglie, have been submitted to the mediation of the Holy See. France also interposes, but only as a friend. There is no doubt that this affair, which at first had a threaten ing aspect, will b e arrange d j ust l y an d sa ti s f ac to r ily. The marriage of the King's sister, the Princess Therese, with the young Emperor of Brazil, is regarded as concluded. The Count de Ray neval , , first secr e t ar y o f the French embassy at Rome, has just left fur Sicily. After a tour of a fortnight or three weeks, he will resume his duties at Rome." A letter from Constantinople, April 17, in the Sud of Mar seilles, says :—" The customs of Constantinople have been put up to public competition. A friend of Izzet Bey, the Sultan's present favourite, and the p ro t ector of the Grand Vizier, offered ten millions of piastres more than they yielded last year, under the farmer-general Tahir Bey, one of the most influential personages in the empire. Tahir Bey naturally could not offer more than he had brought to the Treasury for thil branch of the revenue during the great number of years that he has carried' it on. It • would have been owning-_ himself guilty either of extortion or of b a d administration.. The struggle is still going And no p erson aan say who will be the victor ; but Tahir Bey is possessor of immense riches,-V& it is thought that he will succeed•througlithe influeikoe.of the.* Sultoa Velide• Riaa Pula pretend, to be iutllliotred, and gees rarely to the Palace. The influence of the Grand Vizier continues to be great. The Sanitary Council is engaged in a dispute with the Grand Vizier. This latter ordered the laza retto to be'evacnated, in or der to quarter some troops there. The Council of Quarantine protested against this, and it is not yet known how the dispute will terminate." DISFRANCHISING TAXES.—MF. T. Duncombe, with that attention to the interests of the electors which dis tinguishes him, on Friday night induced Sir Peel to give his consent to introducing a clause into the Pro perty-tax Bill—if that shall be necessary—to prevent the Bill operating, on the score of not paying the taxes, as any additional means of disqualifying the electors. MEETING IN DRVONSHIRE.—A county meeting will be called in Devonshire to take the Members to task for supporting Sir Robert Peel, and voting for the Income tax. We have a hand-bill lying before us, signed "A Devonshire Freeholder," which says, "our County Mem bers have most shamefully neglected our interests." It describes the Income-tax " as rascally and tyrannical, imposed to keep up foreign wars ,in India." We learn from a Correspondent in Exeter that the bulk of the farmers in Devon are arrayed against the oppressive measures of the Government. In Exeter, it is added, passive resistance is rapidly organizing, and it is pro posed to defeat the intention of the Premier, by refusing to make any returns, and allowing the bloodhounds to distrain the goods. In that case, if put up to auction, no one would buy, and, like John Hampden with the ship money, passive resistance would defeat the tyranny of Government. A fund is to be established to repay the losses of those who may suffer by this scheme, and one auctioneer has declared publicly that he will no sell the goods distrained. This is the beginning of that opposition which must arise whenever the tyrannous measure comes into full operation on the decayed and decaying resources of the people. Even Sir Robert Peel was obliged to confess last night, in the House of Commons, that his hopes of the revival of trade in the spring had been disappointed. On the decaying resources of the people, he, however, is laying additional burdens. Tas TARTF7.—The Customs Acts were read pro forma on Friday night in the House of Commons. and a Committee on them appointed for Tuesday, The Tariff will then be discussed. We have just seen a copy of Messrs. Longman's cata logue of books for the year 1842, which contains works in all departments of English literature, classified, and with a general alphabetical index. The full titlt-s, sizes, prices, and dates of the last editions are also given, so that the Catalogue is as complete as a thing of the sort could possibly be. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The English market has been in a very feverish state, both yesterday and to-day, and prices were again a shade lower. This circumstance forms no cause for surprise, when the rapid state at which Consuls ad vanced, and the present quotations be considered. It is almost unprecedented to see a Three per Cent. Stock at very nearly par, and can only be accounted for from the absence of any outlet for the investment of spare capital, and the depression of trade. It is satisfactory to be able to state, that a decidedly improved demand has arisen within the last few days for many articles in the produce markets, and that the rates for money arc rising, which may be considered as a sure indication that commerce is rallying. It is also g-atifying to observe the total absence of speculation in these bonds, which, not long since, were such great fa vourites with the public, and by which so much money has been lost ; with all this vast accumulation of capital, which so long remained without employment. The quotations for these papers have been gradually sinking, and they are uow apparently rapidly going into oblivion. The mission of Mr. J. A. Palmer to America is viewed with some suspicion, lest it may be the prelude to an at tempt to reinduce p urc h as es of American Securities ; monied men of all denominations are decidedly averse to any operation of th e kind, the losses sustained by the United States Bank, and several of the individual States of the Union, being too recent to render further reliance on that country, whether federal or separate, impossible. Consols closed at 92i 92 for money, and 92i 92i for the account. Bank Stock 167 168 ; India Stock 247 249, and Exchequer Bills 36 39 premium. Foreign Securities remained as on yesterday. Bel gian, 1014 10 9 1 ex dividend ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53 53+ ; the Five per Cents. 101 ; Danish, 80i 81i ; and Brazilian, 67 68. Railroad Shares were dull, partaking in the depression of the highest market. London aneßirmingham, 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 52 54 ; Great West ern, 93 94 ; the Half Shares, 641 644 ; South Western, 63 64 ; Gosport, 63 64 ; North Midland, 64 66 ; the New Shares, 31332 i ; South Eastern and Dover, 30 30i: Eastern Counties, 91 ; Blackwall, 12 ; the New Shares, 10 ; and Brighton, 36+ 36i per share. The Bonds were quoted—Colombian, 26 26i ; Mexi can, 33 33+ ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 37} ; the Three per Cents., 22 224 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 23i 23; ; the Three per Cents., 23 231. (From The Sun of Saturday.) The Bank broker has again been operating to-day, and the prices of Consols have further declined, being 926 92 for Money, and 926 for the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced 91i; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced 996; New Three and-a-Half per Cents. ; Bank Stock, 168 ; India Bonds 20 21, and Exchequer Bills 38 39 prem. The only transactions in Foreign Securities, have been in Dutch, Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53; the Five per Cents. 101 i ; and Brazilian 78. Railroad Shares are heavy, and with little doing. Bdine burgh and Glasgow, 55 ; Manche ; ter and Leeds, 87 ; Northern and Eastern, 43; South Eastern Scrip, 2i prem.; South Western, 63 ; and Brighton, 366; the Loan notes, 8. The Bonds and Buenos Ayres, 23; Mexican, 331 ; Peru vian, 18i 19i ; Spanish Fives, 236, and the Threes, 226. Papers four days later from the Mauritius have been re ceived, but contain no further. information. Accounts from New Zealand afford information relative to a new settlement at Alanukao. The first immigrants, principally from Scotland, arrived there on the 27th of November, in good health ; and, on landing, expressed themselves highly delighted with the location which had been chosen. The en trance to the port was found to be easy of access, and in the worst channel, by which she entered, the vessel beat through with a foul wind, and found plenty of water. The inhabitants of Auckland viewed this settlement with much satisfaction, justly concluding that as it advanced so would their prosperity increase. A sale of Crown lands was to be held at the commencement of February ; the lots would average one hundred acres each, and be put up at 11. per acrc. The intelligence from the island generally appears to be very favourable. __ _ iiiais OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 5. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock..... 99i i Grand Canal Stock ...... ... Ditto Reduced ••• Ditto New ..... 991 Ditto 4 per cent .. 3i per Cent. Debs. .. 91 1 Royal Canal Stock L IVERPOOL COTTON MARKET has been dull all the week, and prices of the middling and lower qualities of American about an eighth less ; in other respects there has 'been no change. A fortnight since it was hoped that i permanent improvement had commenced, but this has, in a great measures disappeared, for the present at least. Speculators and exporters are now doing but little, the latter having taken 800 Ame rican, and 200 Madras, and the former 1,200 American. The sales for the week amount to 18,53/ bales. The quantity taken for consumption between the lit of January and the 6th of May in the present year, has been 371,500 bales; in the like period of 1841 it was 345,000 bales, of which East Iddia has increased from 30,000 to 47,500 bales. The export in the same time of 1842 has been 2 7,300 against 8,600 i n 1842. The quantity imported this year has been 567,100 bales, and 415,94! in 1841 ; and the stock on hand on the 6th of May was computed at 597,500, an increase of 170,000 bags over 1841.:The average weekly consumption shows an improvement of 1,372 bales, being now 20.638 bales pier week. LIVERPOOL SHAKE AIARKET closed heavily, with very little business having been done in any kind of stock. Eastern Coun ties have slightly declined , the new shares being 51.65. Bd. ; Liverpool and Manchester , 187 4; London and Birmingham paid E up as 32l tern new . shares, M ANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6.—We cannot report any material alteration in our market. Manchester and s 601 ; North Midland Halves, 321 ; a n d South hares, 31. Leeds, 87 to 88; Ditto New, 381 to 39; Manchester and Bir mingham, 29 to 291; South Western, 64; South Eastern (New), 31 to 4 premium. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock --- 168 India Stock.. .... ......... 3 per Cent Red. 9li Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 921 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 99a ,Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent.. — I Ditto 5001.... 36 pm Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small .. 39 pm Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 12i Bank Stock for Acct.. _ _ _.. __ . _ Oct. 1859. 12 - 7-16 India Stock for Acct.... An. 1860..,,...... 12 13-16 Consols for /tent 9tli FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pew vent.... Portuguese, 5 per Cent. Belgian, 5 pot cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5..., Prussian, 5 per cent. ~. . Buenos Ayres 6 percert Russian, 5 per cent... . Chilian, b per cent..~ Colombian, 6 pet cent.. ISpanish, 5 per cent...... 23/1 Ditto, 1t.2.1. -• •• -.. ..... Ditto, Deferred . 123 , i ? z4 l s ,e , r cent ...... French, 5 percerit 11.9‘.• 50e. D a ni ..h Greek, 5 1)er cent. Exchange Mexican, b per vent..., 33i French, 3 percent — . —e. Ditto, 6 per cen:,. 16,37 _L.. Dutch, 23 per cent. • , 53 Cheltenha mLGornedaot n N a o n r d th n an d rig rertivian,lB2 s , f; per et. 194 Ditto, 5 per cent. ... .. 101 i SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ••• Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• ••• 55 , of ng tin Railway Great Western (72 3 paid) 163 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 933 :6* Ditto Loan Notes (73 paid) London and Blaekwall (25 paid) ...... ...... 12 London and Greenwich hE t Brighton sdo ß l)a a i i d l w ) ay (; — lOO l pd) A) 865 : Ditto Preference, or Privilege London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (7 0 paid) ••• - 87 Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ... 3Bi Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ......251 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...;0•• • • 43 North Midland Railway (1O) •- - 66 South Eastern Ind Dover (50 paid) ...... . Ditto. Scrip. ( 5 p a id) York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... GENERAL LPHINSTONE. The following is.an extract from a letter written by Colonel Cureton, of the 16th Lancers, and dated Meerut, March 18 " Through the kindness of a friend I have seen a confidential letter containing an extract of a dispatch from the late Envoy, Major Pottinger, dated January 30, and which says, ' You will be glad to learn, that so far from blaming Elphinstone for what has occurred, he altogether exonerates him , a n d wi shes this fact to be made known t o G o vernment ; for the noble courage g and resignation with which the General bears himself under such a load of rnist,xtu ne an d physical su ff ering (an attack of rheumatic gout in the jeints of each hand, and shot through the buttock) make. a . Man's heart bleed far him that he should have been•fited to hold such a comma,nd-.w.lien so incompetent from disease, and wounded so badly.' ", The above is an extract from Major Potiinger's letter, a n d . the :cibe iomtnunkating 'it sa vg,. , You taw of course eoramunt.i . . cate-what J-give you regardinggliiibinstorie.tto his-trietitkCo4- Curctou, who i kuvw Las thu tine 4 Creditgreatly atlwart.'" SUMMARY OF NEINSI AND 'public eptitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Paris Moniteur publishes a Royal ordinance, instituting a special Committee to examine the claims of the Postmasters, whose profession was likely to be destroyed by the establish ment of railroads. Thursday being the anniversary of Napoleon's death, a funeral service, for the repose of his soul, was celebrated in all the churches of Paris. The Presse, the Constitutionnel, and the Siecle, alluding to the article of the Debuts of Wednesday, on the right of search, recommence their attacks on the treaties of 1831, 1833, and 1841, and are not sparing of invectives against the Ministerial paper; but in their remarks we find neither interest nor novelty. Thursday, being Ascension day, was observed in Paris as a public holiday. The Bourse remained closed, and little busi ness was transacted at the Cafe A nglais. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 28th ult. The Chamber of Deputies resumed on that day the discussion on the 160,000,000 Loan Bill. M. Burriel having demanded of Ministers if, besides the articles of the capitalisation contract, which were read to the Congress a few days before, there was not a secret article authorising the contractors to issue titulos in England. M. Surra y Hull replied, that there was an addi tional article, but that the contractors were not empowered thereby to issue titulos in England, or elsewhere. Madrid Bourse of the 2dth :—Five per Cents. with eleven coupons, 26 1 ,4 for cash, 27 at 60 days. Ihe Wurtzburgh Gcezette of the 3d, states that the King of Prnssia intends going to St. Petersburgh on the 26th of June. His Majesty's absence from his dominions will be about a month, at the end of which time he will return, and visit the provinces of the Rhine, to be present at the grand reviews of his army, which are to take place early in August. The Prus sian Court will then reside alternately at Cologne, Coblentz, Dusseldorf, Munster, and at the Royal Castle of Stobzenfels. The Kings of Bavaria, of Wirtembe g, of Hanover, of the Belgians, the Emperor of Russia, several Archdukes, his Royal Highness Pi ince Albert, and some German and French Princes, have, it is said, received invitations to join his Majesty of Prussia on this occasion. PUBLIC OPINION. In reference to Sir Robert Peel's tariff, the Post observes: —" Substituting substance for shadow—Conservative realities for Whig Utopias—Sir Robert Peel's bold measure for the relief of the suffering commonalty at this moment awakens the most eager attention, abroad as well as at home. Even in dis tant regions, where commerce has long slumbered, it revives the spirit of enterprise. The facilities created by the revision of our tariff will make other nations rival, and emulous suitors for the favours of England. We were the first, some months since, to call the attention of our commercial countrymen to the inexhaustible dormant riches of Hungary. Its inhabi tants, in the enjoyment of the blessings of freedom under the wise paternal Government of our sincere Austrian ally, con sider us as their free brethren of predilection, destined to withdraw from their land, as regards commerce, thc incumbent curses of isolation and sterility. The news of Sir Robert Peel's revision of the tariff has spread like wildfire in Hu , gary. The Magyar journals are full of this subject, and from day to day discuss the advantages Hungary and its sister provinces might derive from a treaty of commerce betwixt Austria and England." The Herald thus speaks of Mr. Roebuck :—" In the House of Commons there are few Members who have a shorter method of going to work than Mr. Roebuck. His trenchant style and vigorous appeals have not many imitators. But the number of those who, possessing the same powerful weapons of attack would have the honesty and frankness to turn them against offending friends as well as offending foes, where the interests of the Constitution required their impartial exercise, is, we fear, still smaller. We think that the course adopted last night, by Mr. Roebuck, entitles him to that praise which every Member of the Legislature may legitimately challenge, who, having undertaken a grave public duty, fearlessly dis charges it, regardless of personal considerations and party pre possessions." The Times says :—" In two of the cases with which Mr. Roebuck has to deal—Nottingham and Harwich—not a word of evidence has yet appeared—the inquiry has not opened— the House has no means of guessing, except from the eccentric motion of one of the Members, what are the accusations, or how supported, on which the petitioners intended to rely. Mr. Roebuck, indeed, may think that if he is allowed to examine the agents, he will get all out of them. But what is allowed to him must be in future allowed to all ; and is he prepared to establish the privilege in any Member of Parliament of exa mining any agent, upon any subject however confidential (and this is pretty fairly so), which he may think likely to convict a sitting Member? We think none of these alternatives will be likely to find much favour in the eyes of a practical House of Commons ; and therefore, as we have said, we wait anxious to see what else they may find themselves able to excogitate." We quote the following from the Chronicle :—" Mr. Roe buck deserves the thanks of his countrymen for the bold and honest line which he has ventured to enter upon and carried out. It could not have been expected by him that his ques tions would elicit from all the guilty parties an admission of their original offence, or of the compromise by which they have contrived to defeat the ends of justice. Captain Plumridge met the matter by a peremptory denial of all participation in bribery, but with a frank avowal of the irregular arrangement by which his seat is to b e t rans f erre d to another. E Mr. l phinstone denied every i m p u t at i on , an d we think satisfactorily. The silence of the others is the most ample of all possible ex planations, and, thanks to Mr. Roebuck, the country new un derstands, as well as the !Members of the House of Commons have all along understood, what is the real meaning of the re cent reports of Election Committees." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The bobbin-net trade, which was so extensive in Leicester shire in 1829, has now become nearly extinct. Upwards of 11,00 t) of the Birmingham nailors met at West- Bromwich on Friday. Their funds at present collected, 131., will scarce furnish a potato per day to a man ; they, however, will not listen to a reduction of wages. Sixty of the more in dustrious have been select, d for work by the Earl of Dartmouth. Cambric for handkerchiefs has begun to be manufactured in the north of Ireland to a considerable extent. _ZIACCTIOINTIUMIZIXiCG. A requi , ition has been got up at Nottingham, inviting Mr. Joseph Sturge to come forward as a candidate in place of the late Member. Nothing is said about Mr. Walter's movements, but it is expected he will again present himself tot he electors. Pl.lliXaC lidrig,OV:tl3s2..-.IN TS. From the Blue-books, just published, giving evidence on the state of our coal-mines, it appears from facts adduced that women are harnessed to coal- carts, and drag them over deep rutsof coal : that in the Lancashire mines boys do the same, and those who help to push the trucks with their heads thus be come bald when young : and that in many mine. in Rochdal e , and near Preston and'Alacclesfield, the men generally work naked," altogether as destitute of clothing as a native of the Washington islands. AL AND MILITARY. The British Queen steam-ship, now the property of the Belgian Government, arrived in the Southampton Water on the sth instant, commanded by Captain Keane 'the crew con sists of nearly one hundred men, and the officers are all English men. She is to go regularly from Antwerp to New York, and back, calling at Southampton. The fare is moderate, and the passengers are to be charged continental prices for what they eat and drink. A brig, supposed to be the Leon, of Rouen, was wrecked on Brere bland, on Thursday, and the entire crew perished. LAW 4A.ND POLIO. Judgment wilt be given in the Presbyterian marriage-case now in hearing at Dublin, to-day. InEINTE A monument to Titian has just been ordered to be erected at Venice, by the Emperor of Austria, in the same church in which the statue of Canova ia placed.. The portrait of Bransby Cooper, Esq., as Professor of Sur gery to the Royal College of Surgeons, has been struck off at the expense of the professional gentlemen who have studied under him. THEATRICAL. The discord behind the scenes of her Majesty's Theatre pre vails, we understand, to as great an extent as ever. The English Opera House, under new auspices, will open for the season to-night. Miss Kemble has been performing with great success at a concert at Birmingham. SPORTING. Cricketing has commenced overthe country. Prince Albert is himself a patron of one of the Sussex clubs. The Maryle bone Club meet fur practice in a few days, and most of the clubs have had their opening dinners. C 0 ITRT-easzx ONAXILE The celebrated tent of Tippoo Saib, which w a s taken at the storming of Seringspatam, was sent off on Saturday from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace. The tent is to be placed over the portico of the chief entrance to the palace. On Friday the workmen commenced operations in the state apartments of Buckingham Palace, which are to be suitably fitted up for the Royal masque on Thursday next. Lord and Lady Talbot De Malahide have arrived in town from Ireland, at Markwell's Hotel, Albemarle-street. The Marquis of Anglesea, and the Officers of the 7th Hus sars, will give their annual banquet at the Clarendon, on the 19th of next month. Lady Shelley will commence her morning concerts on the 4th of next month, at Broom Villa, Fulham. The late Dowager Duchess of Richmond's annnity of 2,0001. per annum reverts, we understand, to the present Duke. 1V1X5CZ7.1611.11T330 the. The homoeopathic system has been prohibited by a Govern ment order in Bavaria. The number of vessels that have arrived in the river since the wind changed, it is calculated, exceeds 400. Twenty seven houses were destroyed by fire in Beaminster, Dorset, on Wednesday. Nearly all the houses were insured, but about thirty families have been deprived of a home, and lost nearly all their little property. In the course of the pre vious week, twelve dwellings were destroyed in the same town. At Sierra Leone last year, nine European women died out a a total of thirteen then residing in the colony : the colopists nevertheless accounted it a healthy season. FRENCH PLAYS. Mademoiselle Dejazet, who has just arrived from Paris, made her first appearance, at the St. James's Theatre, on Friday, in one of her favourite travesties—that of Vert-vert, in the three-act vaudeville of the same name, on which Grisset has foundvd a poem. The parrot in the_ play is transformed into a spoiled youth, and Mademoiselle Dejazet, in her mascu line attire of powdered wig, green coat, and scarlet inexpres sibles. practises all the possible little iniquities which an amusing pet _parrot is capable of enacting. She afterwards performed in La Fille de Dominique, in which she assumes three differ ent disg uises. As the " Tambour aux Gardes Francaises," or thedrummer, she sang her " Ra-pa-ta-plan plan," which commanded an enthusiastic encore. A very distinguished company, among whom were the Duchess of Beaufort, the Countess of Buckinghamshire, Lord Wharncliffe, the Marquis of Normanby, Professor Whewell, &c., were present. LYCEUM ANI) ENGLISH ()VERA H(H:SE. This theatre opens for the season to-night, and spiritedly commences the campaign with two new pieces, and an excel lent company. Harley, we perceive, has returned from the provinces, and comes out here atre,h o n the 23d. Am ong th e theatrical favourites engaged appear the names of Diddear, Bland, F. Matthews, Oxberry, and Vining ; as also, in the female cast, Mesdames Humby, Faucit, H. P. Grattan, Mor daunt, Lacy, and 1 ayleur. The new burletta, entitled Enthu siasm, is reported to contain som e exce ll ent developments of Thespian eccentricities; and the serio_melodramatic piece of The Trooper's Horn, or the Goblin of the chest, from the pen of Mr. Fitzball, will be rendered effective by new scenery, and well-selected characters. REDUCTION OF TUE IMPORT DUTY ON HOPS. — There seems to be now no doubt whatever that the import duty ---- on foreign hops is to be considerably reduced. It would seem CALEDONIAN CANAL.—The Select Committee have as if Kent bad been especially selected as an example of what made their Report, and are of opinion that it woull not now be can be done with a county of first-rate influen c e, provided it advisable to abandon this great national work, at an additiona l can. only be prevail e d on to comm i t i ts i nterests to mere voting J sacrifice of 91,5651., when, from the evidence submitted to Puppets , whose every vote, speech, look, an d ac ti on , ar e regu- them, it appears that by the outlay of a farther sum of 11 0 , 000 /. lated by the wires held by the Minister of the day. Will any the obstacles which have hitherto impeded the navigation of the hop-grower or farmer have the kindness to inform us of what canal wou ld be completely removed, and such an increase of earthly. iise is .the representation". of Sir Edmund trade might be expected as would justify this heavy expense. Filmer and Lord Marsham? We pause fora reply."--, Afaidstpqe They gpirgrjrillie Jesolutioris of the Committee of 1839, which Gazette. I have been confirmed by ihe'repoit of Sir E. Pair:: • -• •• -- • • THE MAGAZINES (CONCi..t.:DLIi ; • COL L; S U. , 17 El) SERVICE MAGAZINE. In an article " On Afighan Affairs," Colonel A. F. Macintosh has given a brief account of the Affghans (whom he describes as a treacherous and unprincipled race), and of the probable motives of Lord Auckland for the invasion of their territory. This officer, we.:/, believe, had an appointment in Persia, when the Shah mustered his forces preparatory to his attack on Herat; he had many opportunities of studying th0,,,,i ) nature of our relations with the countries to, ,s a t the West of the Indus, and his opinioN, A . therefore, must be entitled to considerable authority.,_,at It would appear that our fears of an Affghan sion, date so far back as the war with Tiplioci Saib lor , and that these probably gave rise to the late unfot7 oo. • tunate expedition against Caubul. " Our apprehek sa sions from Affghanistan, therefore," says the writer s " are not of yesterday, and considering that they ail 0 , a warlike race of determined freebooters, possessing 4 4a ~ very strong country, in close proximity to a very -!A weak one (the Punjaub) which forms the frontier of • our rich and tempting dominions, it is very natural that we should desire that their independence of our power should be of as short duration as possible." It is his opinion that the natives must , be thoroughly subdued, allowed no places of strength on the plains, and tamed and di.= minished in numbers as much as possible in the, mountains. In conclusion, he recommends the public_ : , f to suspend their judgment, and not condemn, un-, heard, military lead ers , pl ace d by th e ac t s o f th e i r _ , - superiors in a situation so novel and fraught with_ difficulties. The other articles deserving notice are " The Naval and Military establishments of Greece,''. i . " The British Admirals s l a i n i n B a ttl e ," in which:,:: there is an amusing tale about Admiral Benbow ; " Plans for promotion in the Army." THE SPORTING REVIEW. Two of the younger branches of the nobility figure in this periodical much to their credit—the Hon.. Grantley Berkeley and Lord Wm. Lennoic. The former continues his observations, from practical expe- ' rience, on old English sports, and gives some useful instructions, no doubt, though we cannot speak from experience, on the management of hounds, the duties of huntsmen,and more particularly the duties of those half bred sportsmen who sally from provincial towns,and take the unwarrantable liberty of speaking both to hounds and huntsmen, without knowing what they say. The other article contains some accounts of sporting excursions in the Missouri country, which possess much interest. The interviews with the native chiefs, the description of the antelopes, and the novel mode of bringing them within shot, show that , the Noble Lord is not only a good huntsman, but capable of relating the adventures of flood and field. In addition to these there is an adventure with a tiger, illustrated with well-executed wood-cuts ; beautiful embellishment, entitled " Springing D,uck," by Armfield, and a map of Mr. Tudway's country, in the neighbourhood of Bath and Wells„ THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. Contains a spirited engraving of terriers,worrying: a badger. The scene is a sort of rocky glen, or pass,,' overhung with lofty and luxuriant trees, which forin a very picturesque back •ground. In another plate 2, there is a graphic sketch of the sudden stoppage on the .7 '::: high-road to Gretna-green, of a post-chais e andlour 4 itc:- , ' consequence of the death of one of the horses by apistol bullet, which has been discharged by a young maw) from another chaise, which is seen a little in advanceoto the former one. The subject of this sketch is match, and the hot pursuit of the fugitives , '" by the enraged guardians of the younglady. Among: . " . „ the literary articles, we find some amusing-sporting:Y.,: adventures in the wild western district of Connemara.-"' • .:4) , ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. The most interesting article in this Number, espe:d cially .at the present crisis, as regards the state. O;.' affairs in the East, is on the " Prospects of the .new,:i Afighan Campaign," which the writer asserts' cost a sum of money infinitely greater thin people England have any idea of.. The article is .worthroirt an attentive perusal, for it is temperately, writteilkia and to all appearance by one who is thoroughly coil versant with the ,subject. • _ FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Among other articles on agricultural Subjects, tcjii which this Magazine is exclusively devotekive, finclo some intelligent, practical remarks on the cultiyiLtioß:i . of barley, and the adaptation of varieties to different, soils, in which those who take an interest in matters, will find much that is deserving of attention.. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE; - The leading recommendation of this Number t, Mr. Lever's tale of " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman) ;rl , which, like all his other fictions, is penned in, an ea 9 Y:li tt flowing, unambitious style, and contains a eleol - of an evening in town, characterised by a trtq festive and humourous spirit. The " Portrait GralOrr. . exhibits a half-length portrait, accompanied by fiestiq cinct memoi r , o f th e R ev . W. A rc h er Butler, wil°t';, seems, is the Professor of Moral Philosophy i n ,; "- University of Dublin. " Nuts and Nut-crackers a lively and pointed series of desultory"remarks °. ll . some of the lighter topics of the day. In sp 6 ak in g cursorily of St. Patrick's Night, the writer scouts the . 5 idea that the condition of Ireland is at all changed ° I late years, observing, "we are exactly what, lulu`, where, we used to be ; not a whit wiser nor 'better,,, poorer nor prouder." In the notice of Mr. WakleyS' c recent criticism on Wordsworth in the house oc Commons, the Middlesex Coroner is treated witholat, much ceremony. "As to poetry," observes the writer of this sar astic notice, "he seems to have: about as mu c h ide a o f it, as a Connemara cow hai Parisian millinery. H e has no more imagination .; than a mill-stone, and no more sensibility than cabbage. Such is the senatorial worthy, who under; took to read Wordsworth's verses in the House o r t • Commons, and to offer his critical opinion thereupon• In an article on the important question of Affghanistnot it is recommended that that country be abandoned th!„ instant that Great Britain has vindicated her tarnishea honour, and rescued her beleagured troops. • ; NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE., A Number well adapted to the tastes of femal e readers, inasmuch as it contains some pleasing piec e ' s . of poetry, chiefly of a serious cast, and one or 01 0 prose tales, •in which, as a matter of course, . 1 °Y,17 forms the principal ingredient. The Number is still`; further recommended by a half-length portrait Of gl ;,, very lovely girl, entitled " Nature's Favourite." ENVIRONS OF LONDON. Part L This is one of those literary experiments which=' t have evidently been suggested by the success of _, Hall's " Ireland." It is printed in the same mapile i n and is of the same size and appearance, as to,externOti,' and is embellished with a variety of choice engravi*V illustrative of the scenery on the banks of the f hatre"' in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropo!F., The literary portion of the work is. under the sup,ei:fr' intendence of a gentleman named. Murray, who, If far as he has yet proceeded, appears to hive exec'! task 'with tact and diligence. - „ I A ENGLAND IN ?HE NINETEENTH' aP 471 ,1 3 , TURY.—Part V. • I` , ; The particulars, geographical, commercial, quarian, &c., respecting the northern division ofEng" land are resumed in this Part, which describits sow!6 of the most interesting localities of Lancashire in 6" succinct, popular manner which indiCates the tised writer. The details of the famous Jesuit ,c,orlt lege at Stonyhurst—the only one, we believe, oft sort in this country—are as circumstantial as con i l,if be desired ; the institution has, we are assure ° !'f.„ t "earned the confidence of the first Catholic faniiir 4 in the kingdom, who are accustomed to send'titt boys to it for education." The writer adds, " moi;ll.!,L' among the pupils is maintained by ceaseless and,, diligent supervision. Four Prefects are chaxl9 e i keep watch night and day. The scholars are nevO i to themselves. Their private studies are superintellu. e -4` ,1 superintended also are their sports ; in the refectoryl%. - ; dormitory alike, the vigilant eye of friendly is on the youths. Notless imp or t an t i s t h e constan t 00,r pation, varying as need s may b e, b etween la b ou r sit recreation, in which th e p up il s are k ept engage d fr0.„7.3 , morn to nightfall. A busy youth has few tentEk t tions, and f e w er oppo rtunities, to fall into vice. j- . " scholars themselves recognize the importance of virtue and evince a manly independence by keeping up among themselves a sort of moral police.". It . were: 4 to be wished that the majority of our public sch.9,!l! were as carefully conducted as this Catholic establind ment at Stoneyhurst. The Part is embellished is* l several neatly engraved representations of the cOliee and gardens. MRS. HALL'S IRELAND. Part XIX. , How and Parsonv, London, 1842. The Part before us of this highly successful wei7 contains two admirable engravings—one, a sketch 0 . the picturesque little town or village of Rosstre'ol, with its adjacent hills and headlands; and the othe r LN view of the old feudal Castle of Carrickfergus in ry County of Antrim. Both these engravings a re ::esb i zo . cuted in a superior style of art. There 'are Seirellisi minor plates scattered throughout the Number ; among them, a lively, fanciful sketch of that.ifePTi Irish fairy, the Cluricaune, who is represented iltript act of cobbling a pair of brogues, of whom Mrs.-!11240 thus speaks :—" While others of fairy-land arc' mikl intent on pastime and pleasure, the Cluricaun 6 intent upon business, and a quaint, methodical - 0. 1 4 V went of the comforts of life, seasoned with a "sPtr, ling of mischief, to prevent insipidity. He a n If' solent little fellow—cutting and sarcastic--airer del f +/ 1 Puck—a systematic Robin Goodfellow."' An atrocious murder took place, afew days !_ 1 ? - :7 1 , in the commune of Alassat (A rr i ege ). A f ar mer . 1 01 1 7,6,4- Massat-Seste, haring offenc:ed a man named Ponist, the t laid wait for him, and, after stabbing him repeatedllr, " 1 "1110. • the body over several fields, and threw it into the r iver ti ,die body was found soon afterwards, and murderer &vire& bce received, hi Was arnired. I I If N certainl Prifl Ile substit metre equ Reacle'is accuracy- of genius he says , 41 on him w i shouldaiol raids!! is author. see Mance to a very Prc THE 1 :f • if_ G. .COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and PrincQ Albert and th, Royal suite ztl - tended Divine Service yesterday morning at Clarenna,t. The Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting, officiated. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal suite, are expected to leave Claremont this after noon for Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar on Saturday at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Vended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chaper St. James's., Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yes terday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in St. James's church. Lady Augusta Somerset was in waiting on 'the Royal Duchess. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, went to Frogrnore Lodge on Saturday morning, and returned in the afternoon to Clarence House, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Glou cester on Saturday, at Gloucester House The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, Bart., honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. A deputation of fruit-growers, accompanied by Vis count Strangford, Viscount S)dney, Sir Edward Chobneley Dering. and Mr. LoAbaft, M.P., Lanarkshire, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. • The Earl of Mountcashel and Dr. Rolph had an inter view with Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial office. A deputation of the cork trafle hail an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel in Downing-stret t. The Committee of the. Baronet. g€ for Privileges met and transacted business, on Saturday, at tke Clarendon Hotel. The Spanish Minister transacted business., on Satur day, at the Foreign-office. Captain Elliot had an interview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday. Despatches from the Governor of Sierra Leone, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were received, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Sir H Peel had a dinner party, on Saturda.), at his residence. in Whitehall-gardens. THE ROYAL MASQUE. HER ➢IAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT'S SPITALFIELDS' DRESSES. The industrious citizens of the metropolis have already som e cause for thankfulness to her Majesty. In Spital fields alone her Majesty's fete has already operated some change. The tissue of her Majesty's magnificent costume is made in that distressed quarter of the town, and' it is an exquisite piece of handicraft, in which the clever weavers have surpassed themselves. The ground is gold, over which appear flowers, partly mattes, partly brilliant ; but description cannot convey an idea of the exquisite nature of the tissue, the beauty of the design, and its striking effwct—and we can only add that it is worthy of enshrining her who is—" The ,cynosure of every eye." The chivalric costume of his Royal Highness Prince Albert has issued from the looms of the same native ar tisans, and when set off by the manly form and hand some person of so fit a representative of the great Ed ward, he will be Ay ! every inch a king !" This splendid fete is rivetting the attention of the higher circles of society beyond any other festivities we ever remember at home or abroad—whether galas or even coronations. The young nobility, with more than their habitual flow of buoyant spirits, first began, at the bidding of the gracious Sovereign, this joyous race after slegant pleasure, and have now involved in their im• pulse many of our oldest and gravest senators. As a foretaste of what is to come, we will now pro duce the personages of one of the most romantic and gorgeous of the historical quadrilles: — LE QUADRILLE DE FRANCE. Louis XII Anne de Bretagne l S H. R. H. the Duchess of Cam_ bridge. Comte d'Angouleme Pr incessClaude Gaston de Foix Duchesse de Ferrare Lady Ailesbury. Jean d'Albert de Navarre Lord Granby. Germance de Foix Lady Clanricarde. Bayard Jeanne de Conflans... Lady Exeter. Le Connetable de Bourbon Duchesse de Bourbon Lady A. Somerset. Louis de Talremonille ..... Charlotte de la Tremouille Lady Wilton. Comtede Chateaubriand Lord Claud Hamilton. __.. Anne de Villeroi Lady Lincoln. Chevalier d'Aligre Count E , terhazy.. Clemence d'Armagnac Mrs. Stanley. Guy de la Matte Hon. F. Villiers. Claire d'Aubigne Comte de Montpensier Lord Ward. Blanche de St. Paul Comte de Dunois Clemence Je-nne.. Lady Hillsborough. Robert Stuart d'Aubigne ...... Lord Ernbn. Louise dc Renoux v Mrs. - Sandi. Mareehal de Chabann.!s Lord Malmesbury.- Madame de Lvalisse Charles d'Amboisa • i‘lr.:Frzrov, M. de Chateaubriand • - Mr. de - ..Burgh PitEss of THE QuEENt.=—Her Majesty - will wear • robe of magniti,ent gold and silver brocade, over which, from the shoulders, will hang a splendid mantle of the same material as that of which Prince Albert's robe (more minutely described below) is to be composed. Her Majesty's display of jewels will be of immense, vane. From the upper part of .the-robe va . ! hear Ler Majesty will have 'Suspended a 'doscriPtion. of pendant • stomacher of the intrinsic worth of 60,0001. - - DRESS or PitiNcil'ALßE-His Royal HighneSs's cloak will • be composed Of the richest scarlet velvet, which (as well as every other external: part of the attire of His Royal Highness and of her Majesty) has: been expressly manufactured in Spitalfields, lined throughout with ermine of the first quality. Round the entire ex tremity runs a splendid gold lace, three inches in width, bearing upon it a raiserl pattern of oak-leaves and ac:,rns. This lace is edged top and bottom with two rows of pearls of an unusual size, amounting in number to no less than 1,200. The Earl of Pembroke, who will personate the Count D'Angouleme, afterwards Francis the First, it is said will wear a brilliant in his cap of tile costly value of 10,0001. The Duchess of Sutherland is expected to display jewels to the enormous worth of 100,0001 The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Saxe- Weimar, who has just arrived in England, will join this brilliant group, dressed iu the costumes of noble ladies of the Court of Louis XII. Her Majesty the Queen Dow ger and the Duchess of Kent have already chosen the costumes of their Illustrious relatives. It is to the Duke of Beaufort, as Louis Douze, that devolves the honour of chaperoning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge as Anne de Bretagne, whilst Lord Cardigan, as Chevalier Bayard,will follow in the train ofthe resuscitated Queen. The Princess Augusta, as Claude de France, confers on the Earl of Pembroke—who enacts the part of the Count D'Angouleme, afterwards Francis the First —the honour of her hand, to lead off the quadrille, de la belle France. Lady Augusta Somerset will be Anne de Bourbon. Mdlle. D'Este will bear the costume of the royal and beautiful poetess, " La Marguerite des Princesses, Refine de Navarre." Another Noble Lady proposes to wear the costume of Marguerite d'Autriche. In the Spanish quadrille the Earl of Chesterfield, as King Philip the Second, will lead off with the Duchess of Beaufort. In the quadrille of the Crusaders the Mar chioness of Londonderry's eldest daughter will enact the Queen Berengaria; her fair sister will be Rowena. The Greek quadrille has unfortunately disappeared for the moment from the programme, owing to the decease of that deeply-lamented officer Lord H. Russell. Another new quadrille is forming of Noble Ladies of the age of Louis XIV. ELECTION OF CIIY TOWN CLERK. A great sensation was occasoned yesterday amongst the members of the Corporation by the issue of the tbl lowing information from the Committee of Sergeant Merewether, who is a candidate for the office of Town Clerk : " ELECTION OP TOWN CLERK. London, 6th May, 1842. " It appearing to the undersigned reerees . ,from the documents subuntted . to them, and from the statement of Hardwick, that Mr. C. Pearson did, by his note of Wednesday, the 9th of March, to the Chairman of the unplodged voters at a meeting held that day', offer to retire from the contest for the office of Town Clerk to the City of London, if a gentleman, who he . admits to have known was Sergeant Mereweather, - should be brought forward, and having taken no steps to with draw that proposal before Friday, the 1 1th of March, when it was formally_announeed to him that Mr. Ser geant Mereweather had consented to become a candi date, they are of opinion , that Mr. C. Pearson ought to retire from the contest ; but they desire at the spine time most unequivocally to declare that no imputation derogatory to the character of a gentleman and a man of honour can attach to him in having pursued his can vass under the impression which he and his Committee, received, that he was absolved from his promise by the verbal communication which passed between him and the Chairman of the unpledged voters at the same meet ing on the 9th of March, but which impression the un dersigned referees consider erroneous. (Signed) " WILLIAM THOMPSON, C. RUSSELL, THOMAS WILSON." The copy of the opiniorittfdt;;efe.3 trans mitted to each member of the CorporatiAt by Mr. Burro, the secretary to Mr. Sergeant Mereweather's Committee. We understand, that upon receiving the opinion of the referrees, Mr. C. Pearson immediately gave up all thoughts of persevering in the contest. of his success in which not the slightest doubt was entertained previously to the reference. _Mr. Sergeant Mereweuth,r and Mr. Wm. Pritchard are now therefore the only candidates for the office. Of course the candidates fur the office of City Solicitor, which would have become vacant if Mr. Pearson had not consented to submit the matter to a re ference, have ceased to canvass, THE SUN, LONDON, MO, DAY MORNING, MAN 9, 1842.