The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, - having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Neat Distribution mly revive, PREVIOUS to giving any crders, the PRO SYECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line ,either to lIEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS., at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £64 £lOO £250 £ 1,000 66 ' 110 300 1,200 70 120 500 1,830 80 150 " 600 4,000 90 200 700 2-2,500 STERLING, amounting together to 142,9941. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. - UNDER the MANAGEIIENT of MADANIE VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2, Will be repeated the New Comedy, ca!led BUBBLES OF THE PAY,—Lord Skindcep, Mr. W. Farrell ; Sir Phenix Clearcake, Mt. ilirle)-; Captain Smoke, Mr. Charles Mathews • Spreadweasel, Mr. B irtley Pamela Sprencreasel, Mrs. Nisbett ; 'FB , rentia, Mrs. W. Lacy, Mrs. Quarto, Mrs. W. West ; Guinea, Mrs. Urger. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrara gourd, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wum.uponatyme (King of Neverminditrnamia), Mr. J. Gland ; Prince s Para g on, Precious, and I'lacid (his three Sons', by Madame Vcstria, Miss Murray, anti Mias Ire; Jingo, Mr. Marley; t' e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Deers open at half-past ix, and the Performanc,s begin at Seven. Dress Boxes is., Second Price :Is. 64.1 ; First and Second Circles 55.. ?ceond Price fs. &I.; Pit ns., Sceond Price 2s ; Gallery Is. Tickets a:l4 Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of- Bee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon a piirabion. Private foxes to be had solely 'if Mr. Andrews, Book. seller, 167. New Coed-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unprecedented Splendour. THIS EVENING. APRIL 2, Will be pa; tbrmed an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled E PEARL OF THE HAREM, HE'll KOORDISH LOVER, A VI) HIS WAR SPEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments; a Deuble Company, Eqnestrian and Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in tha World. Ater which, in a more extensive and - splendid Arena than ever hetny• witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc ng /dr. B &TT rs unrivalled Corection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream.c - iloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Conyers. Fairy Palfrem and Pigmy Poneys, and the most solvated Vaul ors, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. To conclu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; OR, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. THE INDIA SUN. IN A •FEW DAYS WE PROPOSE PUBLISHING M AP, SHWA ING OUR INDIAN POSSESSIONS AND TIM SURROUNDING COUNTRIES_ OF AFFGHANISTAN, (MTH DEPLORIBIZ SEAT Or WAR), NEPAUL, TIIIBET, BURMA'', &c. &c. &c. - TOGETHER WITFT THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CI!NA. Orders for the " India Sun" received at the Sun-office, 11:2, Strand, London, and by all News-agents. Price SIXPENCE. Sag Office, 112, Strand, March 31, 1841 11 , , t J oe " It o • •t , o Tin 2ult, LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1842. Denying as we, and as all the Anti-Corn law party deny, that there is now any necessity whatever to impose additional taxes on the peo ple, it is no business of ours, or of theirs, to suggest by what other taxes less unjust, less in quisitorial than an income tax, the sum Sir R. Pam, says he must have, may be obtained. We agree with the Anti-Corn-law League, whose Address we yesterday published, that " it is to secure the continuance of the corn monopoly, that the people are called upon to submit to a tax on their incomes." We are not solicitous, therefore, either to make that tax agree able, or to suggest any .other, which, may serve the purpose equally well of augmenting the revenue, without setting trade free. At the same time, we may observe, that so many less obnoxious contrivances suggest them selves to the dullest financier, that Sir ROBERT PEEL is without any excuse for adopting the plan of an income tax. In truth, he seems to have chosen it designedly, in order to annoy the middle classes, to whom he knowS it is pecu liarly hateful; and by annoying them, to court a popularity from the lower classes, who have learnt, unfortunately, to dislike the middle classes more than the Aristocracy. With the usual policy of the Tories, he essays to pre serve his power by nourishing enmities and fos tering all the rivalries and evil passions of the different claSses of the community. If Sir R. PEEL had really desired to find the means of raising an additional revenue of 4,000,0001., without much annoying the people, he might, as the author of a pamphlet, " On the . Taxation of the United Empire". shows, have raised 3,700,0001. a-year by :2d. per lb. on cotton wool ; that he might have reimposed some of the taxes which have been abolished since 1823, not one of which, the writer properly observes, would have been remitted on the condition of rehnposing the income tax; that he might have, wit.i advantage, laid on a house tax of fifteen per cent., which would have yielded 3,700,000/.; but not one of these obvious and less obnoxious courses would Sir ROBERT PEEL adopt. He will have nothing but an income tax. He could not doubt the productive power of such taxes, fbr he is well aware that Mr. BARING'S addition to the assessed taxes has yielded more than was expected. he had set his heart, however, on 'an income tax, and he is to bully the agriculturists and the land owners into aiding him in fixing it on the rest of the people—to their own great future annoyance ; to the increase of the division which now exists between different classes; and to the 'disturbance of the public peace—by threatening to give up the Government, and throw public affairs into confusion, unless he be allowed to have his own way. Is the nation, then, to be tortured because Sir IL PEEL is the spoiled child of the Tory par; y ? An account, which appears in another part of Tha Sun, of a dreadful occurrence at Neilston, near Paisley, supplies us with a glimpse of a curious and, for us, novel feature of society. Up wards of 150 women lodge together, and work and take their meals in the same building. They live like soldiers in a barrack for females; they inhabit a nunnery, without the restraints of a 'I vow, and without the sacrifices which a monastic life requires of its votaries. Great complaints and great alarm have been excited by societies too much composed. of one sex in New Holland, in boarding-schools, and on board ships, and it is scarcely prudent, for any commercial or pc.. cuniary advantage, to establish communities which cause the- like fears and the like com plaints. We are not quite sure that our work houses, under the present system, notwithstand ing the, vigilance of authority, are not open to the same suspicion; and we notice the subject to express a hope and gi ve a warn i ng , that the example at Neilstou may nowhere be imitated. Our suspicions are strengthened by observing that these females did not command the respect of their employer. On a dispute arising betwixt him and them, Mr. Jour COCiMAN set to work on Monday last to smoke them out like so many vermin. He placed a quantity of bleaching pow der in the passage of the - brrack, and p out i ng. on it a quantity of sulphuric acid he dispersed the poisonous chlorine gas through every part of the building. The poor creatures rushed to the doors and the windows to escape, and it being then ascertained that their lives were in danger, the source of the poisonous vapour vas removed. Seventy or eighty suffered severely; six or eigl. t continued seriously ill on Tuesday afternoon. We must refer to the description fbr the parti culars of the alarming scene;—happily none of the women died, or IYIr. CocanAN might have ibund himself in some danger. He has been held to bail, and we notice the subject with no view to prejudge the case, but to bring plainly before our readers this new phasis of society. Upwards of 150 women are huddled together in one barrack, and when it suits their employer are subjected to the same noisome process by which vermin are killed. The case reminds us of the attempts made at Glasgow a few years ago, when trade disputes were rife, to destroy an opponent or an enemy by throwing sulphuric acid over him. We are afraid, therefore, that hard and brutal feelings are not sufficiently discouraged in that neigh bourhood. The clergy probably are so much taken up with Intrusion and Non-intrusion, and with enforcing Sabbath observances, that they have no time to look after the morals of the people. The occurrence, we must say, reflects no credit on the Christianity of that part of the empire. Another glimpse of. society equally painful is obtained through a petition lately presented to the House of Commons by WILLIAM_BINNEY of Manchester, and printed in the Appendix to the Seventh Report of the Committee on Petitions. It sets forth that a great number of females are employed in the coal mines of Lancashire, from eight years of age and upward. These infants drag the coals out fro'm the shafts, almost creep ing on their bands and. knees, by means of a chain, which, passing between their legs, is fastened at one end to a little cart, and at the other to a belt round their waists. We insert the petition, and refer our readers to it, for a descrip tion of the horrors to which these infants are sub ject under ground. At the same time, we are afraid that their case, though much worse than that of the factory children, will scarcely receive any attention from the spurious humanity-mon gers, for it supplies no argument against the League, and cannot be made to subserve ade nee of the Corn-laws. Most of the coal-owners tire also land-owners, and though they may not work their pits them selves, they profit by the infant drudgery which prevails in them. The same power, it is to be apprehended, which maintains the iniquitous Corn-law, will also maintain the system of infant slavery. Among the land and coal-owners of Lancashire, there are some like Lord F. EGERTON, who have a reputation for humanity and conscientiousness, and it will become them to be forward in correcting this enormous evil, or they will lie under the suspicion of encou raging and protecting it. _ Some good we hope may be done, by bringing under the notice of the opulent classes the heavy and irksome toils of those by whose labours they are enriched. They do not and cannot suppose that the wealth they riot in is rained down from heaven. It is all created by the toils of the la bourers, including women, who are shut up in barracks and mills, and infants who are entombed in collieries and mines. If, as the poet says, " The gay, licentious, proud, IV horn pleasure, power, and affluence surround, They who their though:less hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel riot waste," think little, . _ " While they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. Ilow many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty," they think, we are afraid, still less of the immense 1117.5 S of misery which is caused to pro vide them with luicuries, and to contribute to their enjoyment. If they had such a picture, as that of female infants dragging coals along under ground, frequently present •to their minds, it would be, we believe, impossible for them to purchase opulence at such a cost. Fe male vanity sometimes gets the discredit of causing extravagance, but there is in the hearts of the mothers and daughters of England, a well of nobler feeling, which will make them throw aside, with disgust, the apparel, the ornaments, arid the equipages which are purchased by the degradation and slavery of the young of their own sex. It is announced that Sir ROBERT Pt cL returns to London to-day. The Right Hon.. Baronet has changed one of his plans, and will perhaps change another. He was not to return till Monday, but he probably finds it necessary to have some communica tion with his .colleagues before the meeting of the House of Commons. His tariff meets with so much opposition from his own dear friends, that he fears he will not be able to carry it, and he comes to town to prepare some modification, or, like Mr. GLADSTONE,. to rectify some of the mistakes of the printer. It is amusing to read the account -a Sir ROBERT PEEL, who having just convulsed the-empire by his arrogant policy, is, like some sighing, sentimental swain, walking about Brighton Cliffs, with his pretty little daughters, and their pretty little dog. It is perhaps, an odious association, but his pastorals re mind us of the large nosegay of ROBESPIERRE, and of the heroes of the French Revolution, who, were only a little more arrogant and self-conceited than Sir ROBERT PEEL, and quite as sentimental. He will not, however, find the English such a horde of ignorant worshippers as RonEspxrura - LE and his fol lowers found the French ; and, if we are not misin formed, the " bold and comprehensive statesman," bidding an early adieu to his ruralities, is hastening back - to London to try, by some kind of concessions and compromise, to lay the storm he has evoked: Some curious details will be found in the report of the proceedings at the Kingston Assizes yesterday, respecting that notorious and defunct association, called the West Middlesex Insu rance Company. The verdicts, of course, were all given against the swindlers. We hope the plaintiffs did not bring the actions without the conviction that there were funds to meet their claims. CGIJRT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert had heir usual walk in the Slopes and Home Park this morning. At half-past twelve o'clock her Majesty, attended by tho Hon. Mrs. Anson, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac companied by Prince George of Cambridge and Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimer, and attended by the Earl Delawarr, Viscount Cantilupe, Major-General Wemyss, Colonel Pou verie, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, rode on horseback to the Double Gate, Great Park, where the Beagles throw off, and had an excellent run, most of the Royal party being in at the death. The Illustrious company did not return to the Castle to lunch until three o'clock. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert drove ont in a pony phaeton, attended by the Countess Delawarr, the Ladies Elizabeth and 3lary West, Hon. Miss Devereux, and the Hon. Allis Stanley. Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie attended on horseback. The Royal party returned about six o'clock. Prince George of Cambridge left the Castle for Strath fieldsaye. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent rode out, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have teen taken airings, and arc looking extremely well. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at the Cattle. Prince Edward of 'Saxe Weimer, the Earl and Countess De lawarr, the Ladies E. and M. West, and Lord Cantilupe will leave to-morrow. The Court will leave the Castle for town on Monday, after lunch. Major-General Wemyss has succeeded Colonel Buckley as the Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major-General Sir Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Wasting on his Royal Highness. Her Majesty's Private Band and the Band of the Royal Re giment of Horse Guards will be in attendance at the Castle 'this evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, left Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, yesterday, to honour the Marquis of Exeter with a visit, at his residence, Burghley House, Lin colnshire. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge left Wind sor CaAle yesterday, on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Wel lington, at his seat, Strathtieldsaye, Hants. Dr. Mph, from Canada, and Mr Binny, Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, had interviews with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Coloaial Office. A Depu'ation of the Silk Trade, consisting of Mr. Moore, London ; Mr. Warelle, .Macclesfield ; Mr. E;ans, London and Tr . nti , ; and Mr liobinaon, London and Congleton ; had an interview with the Earl of Ripon on Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign -office. Despatches from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, and also from South Australia, were received yesterday, t the Colonial-office. LONGEVITY.-Mr. H. Harris, registrar of births and deaths at Totnes, registered in the month of De cember la s t, th e de a ths of four persons successively, Whose unit e d ages amoun t e d t o 335 years (viz., 76, 90, 90, 79,) and in present month of March, registered four other persons successively, whose united ages amounted to 313 , (viz., three of 77, and one of 82 years.) — Flymouth Journal. About a f or t n i g h t ago a fi ne f u ll -grown p ar t r id ge flew into the sh op o f M r. Wh i te, b aker, near Park treet, in Oxford -street, and is now in his possession. AMERICAN NEWS. YOUNG GIRLS EMPLOYED IN COAL-MINES INSTEAD OF BEASTS ! COPY OF A PETITION PRESENTED LATELY TO PARLIA- LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. MENT EY MR. I 3 ROTIIERTON. (Appendix to Seventh Report, No: 194.) THE lICMBLE PETITION OF EDWARD WILLIAM BENNET, OF MANCHESTER, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, We have receive I by the New York packet ship Sheffield, Captain Alleyn, New York papers to the 16th March. The Sheffield has Made the voyage in 16 days. These papers confirm the statement which appeared in The Sun last week that Hogan had been discharged. GENTLEMAN, Showeth,---ihat your petitioner, in the course of his geological pursuits, has had occasion to visit many of the coal mines of Lancashire, where he has -often been astonished to find great numbers of females employed, of ages varying from eight years and upwards: Their occu paticin is chiefly in pushing and.drawing tubs or small waggons full of coal from the places where it is hewn down to the waggon ways. The coals are generally drawn alonir the waggon ways to the pit mouth by . ponies ; but down the bays or boards (the passages run ning on the rise and dip of the seam) which are often at considerable inclinations, sometimes as much as two .feet in five, and very low, these animals cannot be em ployed, so women are made use of in their -stead. At first view it is difficult to distinguish the sexes employed in a mine, since both, when dressed, are clothed in rough miners' frocks and trousers., and it was only by the ex posure of the upper parte of their persons and their voices that your petitioner • first noticed the females blacked and dressed as they were. That the men in deep mines, where the atmosphere is very hot, generally work without any other article of dress upon them than a slight nether garment. That the employment of the females, as before stated, is in conveying the coals from the workings down to the waggon ways ; each of them is provided with a stout belt fastened round the lower part of her waist, to the front of this is attached a strong chain, which fas tens by a hook to the waggon or tub. When drawing the empty tubs or waggons up the inclined plane the chain passes between the legs of the woman, who creeping on her legs and arms drags them up very steep inclinations, the whole length of the bays or boards. On pushing the laden waggons down the waggon way, the chain is used in steadying them. That your petitioner . will now give a simple nar rative of a visit made by himself to a mine in the county of Lancaster, in the latter part of the months of last September, which he believes will afford the Members of your Honourable House some idea of an establish ment where females are employed. Your petitioner was dressed as a miner, and went down into the pit in such a manner as to see the workings such as they are generally carried on, and without the colliers or their employers being aware of his character as a visitor. THE CASE OF J. SHERIDAN HOGAN.—We learn from the Niagara Courier that Hogan has been set free by Judge Ransom on the ground of insufficiency of the warrant of arrest. The Courier adds, that there was sufficient evidence to have detained him for trial, had it not been for the defect in the warrant. Lot Clark and 11. Gardner were the Counsel for Hogan, and the District Attorney Wood acting for the people. During , - the argument before the Justice, which was a long and able one, the Court room was crowded almost to suffocation with anxious spectators. Hogan, it is stated in the Albany papers, made an affidavit which was read at the trial of M`Leod, that he was in one of the boats eugag-ed to cut out the Caroline, and that M'Leod was not. What became of him after his discharge by Judge Ransom does not appear. Hogan's ease, however, seems to have alarmed Mr. Tyler, who on the Bth sent a message to Congress, referring to Hogan's arrest, and stating—lt is doubtful whether, in this state of things, should his discharge be demanded by the British Government, this Government is invested with any control over the subject, until the case shall have reached the Court of Fin Al Resort of the State of New Yoelc, and been decided in that Court. And although such delay ought not, is a national point of view, to give cause of umbrage to Great Britain, yet the prompt and instant rendering of justice to foreign nations should be placed among our highest duties. •I cannot, therefore, in consideration of what properly becomes the United States, and in anticipation of any demand from a foreign Government for the discharge of one, of its subjects, forego the duty of repeating my recommendation to Congress fur the immediate adoption of some suitable legislative provision on this subject. Mr. Barnard (Chairman of the Judiciary Committee), said, that a Bill had already been reported from that Committee to meet such cases, but that he had not yet seen the time during the Session when he could, with any chance of success, have asked the House to take it up. I The papers were referred to the Judiciary Committee. The President had also sent a message to Congress, calling its attention to a communication from the Secre , tary of the Treasury, and stating that the deficit in the public Exchequer fur March, April, and May, will be upwards of three million dollars. The President ascribes the diminution of the revenue to the diminution of the duties under the Compromise Act, and he expects from the revision of the tariff the relief of the Treasury. Mr. Forward's immediate remedy for the deficit is a loan. The papers were referred to a Committee. Great complaints are made, we see, of the expense of the Government printing, and a Select Committee was appointed to consider and report upon the expediency and propriety of separating the patronage of the Govern ment from the private and political press of the country, and upon the best and most efficient and economical mode of effecting that object. - The Congress was engaged in discussing the tariff and Mr. Clay's resolutions. The arrival of the Acadia had put an end to the anxiety which had been felt for the Caledonia.. The Bill requiring the banks in Maryland to resume specie payments on the first of May next has become a law. . The shaft was 200 yards deep. Immediately after de scending it, your petitioner traversed the waggon way for about 500 or GOO yards, to the boards or bays down which the coals were _ . being carried in tubs. About 30 boys and girls were employed. The former being of -ages from eight to fourteen years of age. The boys were mostly engaged in driving the waggons. The girls were of ages varying from ten years and up wards, and were employed in drawing, by means of a chain attached' to the tub, and passing betwixt their legs, and fastened to the front part of a belt around their waists, the tubs up the bay, which there inclined one yard in three ; in dragging they appeared to go nearly on all fours, but their hands did not actually rest on the floor of the mines, but on the sides, a few inches above the floor. That your petitioner, after proceeding up the incline, went into a wide bay, where there were three persons, namely, an old man of - about 50 years, of age, and two young men. The coal was in this part being entirely worked out. This bay was from eight to ten yards long, and six yards wide, and no props or punches were used ; the seam of coal was near five feet in thickness. The old man h:.d just left off work, and the others wore engaged in holding the coal. Your petitioner entered into conversation with the elder man, who was an intelligent person for his class, and remarked that the bay was very wide to be worked witheut props or punches being used. lie replied, that it was perfectly safe, as the roof was good, and falls in the mine were not common. While engaged in this conversation, a child, not four years of age. crept out of a hole. The old man said that he wa,s'his son, and that he would not be fit for work fur a year. On your petitioner asking the father why he brought such an inTiint down into the pit, he re plied that his wife and daughters all worked in the mine, and there was nobody at home to take . care of the child, so he brought him there to be out of harm's way. At this period, scme small pieces fell from the roof, which caused your petitioner again to remark that it was either not very safe, or there was a considerable quantity of fire-damp escaping through it. The man stated that he considered the roof good, and after a few more observations, your petitioner went down the incline about fifty yards to the waggon Way . . here he was en gaged in observing the women and girls pushing the tubs full of coal down, and dragging the empty ones up the inclines. The appointment of Mr. Claiborne t) be Middle Dis trict Marshal of Tennessee,. who is said to be a creature of General Tacksen, had been rejected by the Senate, at which the Whigs much exult. The New York Courier and Inquirer, of the 11th, has the following paragraph : NAVAL PnomonoNs.—We learn, on good authority, says the Army and Navy Chronieb, that nominations have been submitted to the Senate, of 37 Commanders to be Captains ; 37 Lieutenants to be Commanders ; and 40 Passed Midshipmen to be Lieutenants. This looks something like putting the navy on a war footing. With respict to an increase of our naval force, opinion has be'en for a long time far in advance of legislation. We have not yet seen the print which objects to the largest increase of our nary in commission that has been pro posed. The _Rochester Evening Post speaks of another excite ment at Lockport, even greater than that caused by the arrest of Hogan or his illustrious predecessor M'Leod. It arose from the discovery that a Catholic priest named Costello had been secretly married ! A crowd gathered about his house upon the discovery, and insisted that he should give up the church money which he had in his hands, which he did. It was thought that the sheriff would be forced to call out a force to protect him from violence. • SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. MONDAY, Mulct! 2. 4,000 Dols. State 51 of '6l. 12,500 Ditto Ohio Sixes of 1860 52 4,000 Ditto Illinois Sites of 1870 . 1,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds lB4 25 Shares Delaware and Hudson B9 521 Ditto United States Bank... .... . .......... 50 Ditto Mohawk 285 Ditto Harlem. 150 Ditto Farmers' Trust s6O ds 21 725 Ditto Long Island b3o ds 55 50 Ditto Paterson s3O ds 45 SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. The disgustin nature of the employment of these poor creatures was bad enough in itself, but to hear the awful swearing, obscene conversation, and filthy songs. would lead any person to believe that he was in a land of savages, rather than in civilised England. Your petitioner had been in this place for about five minutes, when a dull heavy , sound was heard; the mine shook, and some of the lights were blown out. w 48 In a moment all was still as death. This silence was not of more than a few seconds' duration, when several heavy sounds followed. A cry now arose that a bay had fallen in, and a seem followed which defies description. The men prayed, the women howled and screamed, and some ran one way and some another, making towards the shaft. After a short lapse of time, some of the men proceeded to examine the bay which lad fallen in, and ibund it was that which your petitioner had left but a few minutes before. The two young men, being near the side of it, had escaped; but the poor old man and his child, before alluded to, had been crushed to death, and buried under souse hundred tons of the roof. That . your petitioner is convinced that the employment of females in coal mines is to be attributed to the early age at which children are introduced to such places by their parents. The parents , having spent m o st of th e i r lives in mines, an d being thorougly accustomed to the scenes they witness, see no impropriety in them. The female children, brought down in early infancy, have no or the disgusting and laborious correct ideas of the dangers of a mine, the scenes of rice and rsieleyilmi zv re ljit '6 l lB %i i r t e . never allowed to enter a mine naturewic l wick edness e f d e i m : l f e a s ; Ilea e t c ! . under 13 years of age your petitioner considers that no inducements could scarce prevail on them to even go down into a pit, much less persuade them to mix with the company and follow the laborious and unseemly employ ment which they are there subjected to. That your petitioner has visited many of the collieries in Lancashire and Cheshire, and he finds the moral and intellectual condition of the working colliers in a much worse state where females are employed in mines than in those parts where the proprietors will not allow them to work in their pits. Amidst the scenes befOre described are children, brought at the tender ages qf eight and ten years. There they pass their days until they become Wives and mothers. Can such employments as they are engaged in, and such scenes as they continually witness, fit them to become good wives and mothers, and audio without beiilg any inquiry being made the poor man's home comfortable ? Colliers are body y n accused o an ignorant and disorderly as to the cause of their ignorance and disorderly con fnien,of duct. What can any person expect from a poor boy, sent down into a deep mine at six sears of age, into the scenes which your petitioner has before described ? Amidst them he passes his days, until he marries a girl sent down into the mine at an ear) , age like himself ; probably both husband and wife continue their em•'Aoy ment in coal-mines—it is what if ey have been brought up to, and by which they are therefore best enabled to obtain their livelihood. On coming out of the mine, after a hard day's work, thepoor wife has little time and strength, even if she had the knowledge, to clean the house and prepare those necessary refreshments which a hard-working man requires. The husband too fre quently makes 11/ allowance for his wife's condition, but abuses her, neglects his home, and runs to the ale house, and there spends the greater part of their joint earnings. That your petitioner is convinced that it is most de sirable that many of the children from six to ten years of age now employed in mines should be sent to school instead of passing their time amidst the dangers and darkness of a name, and witnessing the scenes before described ; but at the same time he dues 'not consider that- there can be any great permanent improvement in . the morals and condition of the working colliers so long as women are employed in mines. Your petitioner, therefore, prays that your Honour able House will be pleased to adopt such measures for preventing the employment of females in coal mines as to your Honourable House shall seem meet. And your petitioner will ever pray, &c. February 26, 1842. EDW. WM. BINNEY 5,000 Dols. Indiana Bonds s3 ds ISI 25 Shares Mohawk b 3 ds 47 'MONDAY NIGHT. . TllO sales of Stocks this morning v,-era to the, usual extt.at. New York State Fives advanee.t per colt ; lfarkal Railroad K, and Farmers" Trust ; Ohio Sixes Illinois Sixes 1, Indiana i-, - and Mohawk Rail road 1 s per cent. Inland Exchanges continue dull of sale, with very little alteration on rates. 21 to 3 ; Baltimore, ; Virginia, 71 to 84 ; North Carolina, 4K to 5 ; Charleston, 11 'to l ; Sa vannah, 2to 2.1 ; Augusta, 2k to 21 ; Columbus (Cen tral), 131 ; Macon (Central), 131 ; Mobile, 18 ; Mont gomery, 18 to 19 -; TUscaloosa, 19 ; New Orleans, 61 to 6 ; Nashville, 18 to 20 ; Louisville, 8 ; St. Louis, 18 to 20 ; Cincinnatti, 9 to 10. • Exchange on London closed at 71 to 7i, and on France at 5-321 a 5.30 Treasury Notes continue to sell for the payment of duties at 1 a 1 k per cent. discount. 'The advices per Acadia have had a tendency further to depress the Cotton Market. 700 bales were sold dur ing the dly at a further reduction of kc. per lb. We quote Uplands, very ordinary to middling, 5+ and 51 a 7-4-c. per lb. ; fair to good Ur and good, 81- a 91 and 91e. ; Tennessees and Alabamas, p Bc. ; Mobiles, Louisiana, Sec., ordinary to : middling, 6 a 7 4c. ; fair to good fair, 94 a lokc. ; good fair, 101 a 11 and 111 c. per lb. We have no alteration to notice in Flour, the transac tions being limited to the wants of consumers. Genesse is held at 6 dols. 18 Vic. a 6 dols. 25c., Troy 6 dols. 121 c., Brandywine, 5 dols. 873 c. a 6 dols., Georgetown and Baltimore 5 dols. 87:1-c. a 6 dol., Richmond Country, 5 dols Slkc. ; Rye Flour 3 dol. 75c. a 3 dol. 871c.' Corn meal 3 del. a 3 del. 12/e. Su g ars remain dull of sale. 44hds. Porto Rico Molasses sold at 23. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINCir, APRIL 2, 1842. MAGAZINES (CONTINUED). CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIE TV. There is here an essay on the almost forgotten question of Puseyism, in which its advocates are treated without much ceremony. " The very basis of the Papal system," observes the writer, "is the suppression of private judgment; and it is idle in any one to appeal to the judgment of a man who is in the trammels of the Papacy. On this very point the Oxford party are grossly inconsistent ; they declaim against the Reformation for having given license to private judgment, which license alone has enabled them so to declaim." There is some truth in this observation, though it was hardly worth while to revive the question of Puseyism. It is a fire that has nearly burned itself out. " Moral and Political Tendency of Modern Novels," is somewhat too strait laced in its notions, though we cordially agree with the writer in his strictures on the vulgar flash school of fiction. " Fine Arts in England," is an animated and judicious essay, with this exception, that it greatly overrates the paintings of Martin and Danby, which are far indeed from being " the grandest works of art which Great Britain has ever produced." As for Danby, he is little better than a copyist of Martin ; and Martin himself, though occa sionally sublime, is too often utterly deficient in nature, earnestness, and simplicity. HAMI3URGH MAIL. BERLIN, Mauer{ 21.—The budget brought forward by the English Prime Minister in the House of Commons, on toe 12th instant, and which traces the future commercial policy of England, must give the German manufacturers a sufficient t C caston of serious reelections. Let us remember the pubin, praise wlich Sir Hobert Petl, on entering his office, so unex pectedly bestowed on the German nation. Let us remember the similar language which Dr. Bowring so frequently used re specting German manufactures in the debates on the Corn laws, and compare with it Peel's proposal to lay a duty on English coals exported to the amount of a million and a half of dollars annually, and this expressly that this article may not promote the interest of a nation which rivals English manufac turers. We must confess that we have reason t, hear, with a secret anxiety, every commendation or honourable mention of Germany, coming from English lips, and that we must think of the fable of the fox who had a longing for the crow's cheese. Peel's plan is a'movt unanimously approved, even by the Oppo sition, as highly judicious and worthy of a free country. T h adoption of more liberal principles of commerce is especially acknowledged ; a reduction of the import duty on about 750 articles is proposed. Let us be informed in which of these 750 articles general liberal measures which, ad vantageous also to foreigners, have been adopted. The reduction of the duty may be liberal, but only for the interest of England, and that there is no intention of benefit ing, as is evident from tho reduction of the duty on Canadian timber, and the augmentation of the duty on coals, it must be allowed that the British Minister can have no inducement to promote the German trade, by reducing the import duties, and that he has only to consider the commerce of his own country. But let us not forget this, if we should be unexpectedly praised by him, but think that this is probably not without an inten • tion to make us pay dearly .for such panegyrics. But our brethren across the:channel really believe us too stupid, if they fancy that the experience of the past has left no traces on our ands, and that we have not at length perceived, that they never voluntarily agree to a reciprocally equally free trade, when there is no necessity for it. The same approbation that is given by the English merchants to the present commercial policy, will be bestowed by the German manufacturers in such augmentation of the import duties, and such commercial restrictions as the German Government shall be able to adopt, in order to oppose the introduction of English manufactures. We have certainly fewer organs through which such measures may be respectfully and generally i mpresse d on the Government ; but approaching events, and especially th e now intimate commercial convention with our wes t ern neighbours of which there is a prospect mus t necessar il y lead to decisive stepiin this respect. We understand in the next conference of the Plenipotentiaries of the States Union, such measures will be taken into consideration. BERLIN, Man 26.—( From a Letter. )—lt was known the evening before yesterday, that a Royal Cabinet order had definitely appointed Baron Von Bttlow, lately Ambassador in London, and our representative i n Prussia in the . German Diet, to the post of Privy Cabinet Minister, and Minister of State, and Chi. f of the Department of Foreign Affairs. llartovErt, MAarr 25.—1 t is now posrively stated that his Majesty atest. will return to his capital on the 15 t h of April at the 1 IiASIBURGH BORSENHALLE, MARCH 21. Lilts. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Lank Shares 1655 A nglo. 11 ussian Loan l l 'l 109 /i It usian 5 ker Cent., Ist series, Certificate :93% 103% Inscription, Ist series .... lO4 Russian 5 per Cest. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 99 -- Ditto in Certificates - New 4 per Cent. (1S40) Bl% S'%4 Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent. ......... s*,', 5 1 % Ditto 5 per Ceti. - Polish Lords 154 -- New Tickets 168 Anglo-Danish Lain, 3 per Cent. 75% 78% Spanish, New 5p r Cents EXCHANGES ON LON1)01 1. HAMBURG, MARL H 24 —l.l 11 3 4.—Tw0 months, 13 8 PuTcasatntun, MARCH 18 -Two months, : 8 pence. Rtaa, Matzen t 9. -Three Months, 3S 15-32 STOCEMOLM, MARCH 22.—Scventy.five days ' :. I‘ , 11. ItREMEN. MARCH 11—T %0 months, 6 2'4 2 . .L l / I Pstc, Matto' g4.—Two mo .ths, G. 23. twaans, NARCII29.. - Three months. 6.22 x. TOWN-HALL-BRIGHTON. - - - • - - On Friday morning Capt. APLeod of the 2d. Scots Greys, appeared before Mr. Basevi, Major Allen, Capt. Heaviside, and Major Willard, the sitting Magistrates, charged with commit ting a violent assault on Mr. J. S. Mills, one of the bailiffs of the Brighton Court of Requests. The case excited consider able interest, from its having arisen from the circumstances of the officers sending their men to exchange Wigney's notes, they having received an intimation of the failure. A decision in the Court of Requests given in favour of a plaintiff who ex changed a 101. note, has induced a number of tradesmen to commence proceedings against the officers. Mr. Dempster, on behalf of Capt. M'Lcod, deeply regretted that he had committed the assault. It was dune in a moment of irritation, caused by the complainant entering his bedroom, and he was willing to pay any penalty, but trusted the Magis trate would not send the case to the Sessions. Mr. Bennett for the defendant, said he was quite satisfied with the apoligy that had been made, and would consent to withdraw the summons on payment of the costs, and 51. to the Sussex County Hospital. Capt. M‘Leod immediately assented, and the summons was discharged, A COUNTY Conomm's NAT.—One of the coroners of the county of Dublin was brought up yesterday, on Monday, before the Magistrates of the head office, Dublin, charged and sea i i n Th e ed a , n t i with being drunk and disorderly, at half-past five o'clock constable, 104 A. On being brought to the station housewhich contained the charre :—A prayer..book, a pack oF cards, a his possession, as detailed by the constable, on the sheet i d:: Camden-street, n g and ar t i a c i s: . s a u n l , e ti r n e g fo i police_ c in box, containing some s u gar , a tin teapot rand saucepan, Pair of spectfcles, a bott le of whisk y , a tin a pair of scisser s , two knives, a chain and seal, a razor, three shillings a n d threepence halfpenny ; also a p enny , a chain and se a l, some b rea d and butter, one and a penny in copp er ; a cor k scre w, a rule, three small boxes, a hammer, a • pepper-box, a comb, two locks, a key, a bottle, some nails, some steel pens, some tea, a gimlet, two inkbottles, a n d some t a pe, a fourpcnce in silver, and some soap, a stick _in his pocket I The entry on the shoot is -"Tined' Journal.th e county coroner one shilli ng . J. Magee."—Freeman's POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. Under the title of " Seas-union Ship Canal," Mr. J. Rule, among the multitude of schemes proposed for improvement in our eastern traffic, advances his design of cutting a new canal west of Costa Rica, for the passing of ships of burden from sea to sea through Central America. "On Animal Tuition and Animal Hygiene," lays down specific regulations for the management of menageries and zoological conserva tories. Mr. Bagg's new process for printing silks and calicoes, by means of voltaic electricity; as also some remarks on electrotint painting, are each illus trative in their department. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. In this Number there is an intelligent essay on the " Origin and Progress of Aristocratic Taxation," which—observes the writer—" is to be traced to the feudal' system, a system commonly supposed extinct, but really living; and active in every part of English polity—in a landed legislature, in laws of primogeni ture and practical entail, and in all the aristocratic habits, forms, thoughts, and feelings of public and private life." In the article headed " Characteristics of Manchester" occur some spirited descriptions of the scenery in the immediate neighbourhood of this wealthy metropolis of the cotton trade. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There are several entertaining articles, in verse as well as prose, in the present number of this veteran periodical —now, we believe, an octogenarian in years ; and among them, we may mention, Miss Emily Spicer's poem entitled " The Old Nurse's Tale," and a sensible prose essay on the subject of Lord Francis Egerton's late speech in the House of Commons on the Law of Marriage. THE METROPOLITAN. The "Irish Barrister" resumes his legal sketches this month, with a memoir and character of Judge Foster, so well known in the house of CommonS, some fourteen or fifteen years since, for his dull, pro lix speeches against Catholic Emancipation—a mea sure which he ultimately saw cause to concede. The writer describes him as being a passable Judge, " but without exception one of the kindest and most consi derate landlords in Ireland. His property is compa ratively mall, and though he might render his rent-roll more productive by at least one-third, as we heard from a competent authority, yet he hesi tates not to sacrafice so much to make his tenantry respectable' and happy. He is one of those humane men who forego an advantage to themselves to in crease the comforts of others." This is high praise, and we wish it could be oftener applied with sincerity to Irish landlords. The "Equivocation" is a pleasing talc, which has the additional recommendation of pointing a useful moral. The remaining articles, in prose and verse, are of the usual calibre. GI?EAT WESTERN MAGAZINE. A miscellany chiefly devoted to American litera rature, of which it furnishes us with one or two favourable prose specimens. The critical notice of Mr:Lester's late trashy volumes, " The Glory and Shame of England," is highly creditable to the Re viewer's sense of justice. " Wakonoah, a Poem," contains some striking thought's ; but the " Sonnet on Keats," wherein the deceased poet is complimented on his " vast, quiet eyes," is merely a maudlin rhap sody of words. BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE. ..'Among many other servicable remarks on agri cultural subjects, we have here an excellent essay on " the Effects of Temperature on Plants," which is evi dently the result of a long practical acquaintance with the subject, and may, therefore, be consulted with advantage. AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Those who take an interest in matters respecting our Australian and New Zealand settlements, will find much practical information in this Magazine, which is expressly devoted to the consideration of these matters. LOiVDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The chief article in this number is a criticism on "Childe Harold and the Excursion," wherein we are assured that " Childe Harold labours to exalt nature above man, by a series of contrasts, as false as they are degrading. The Excursion exalts both, but nature in due subserviency to man, whom it recognizes as lord of the creation, not less by superiority of endow ment than by divine appointment:' While we sub scribe in part to this opinion, we must protest against the undue severity of the strictures on Childe Harold. which haS already taken its place amongst the finest poems that modern times have produced. Let Words worth have all the praise, that is his due—and no man deserves higher praise—but let him not be exalted at the expense of Byron. There is abundant room for both in the temple of Fame, and one need not jostle the other The remarks on " Sir Philip Sidney" are in good taste. He was indeed one of those rare indi viduals who, to quote the critic's words, " scaled the difficult heights of excellence, and came near to their unattainable summit." QUEEN'S MAGAZINE. A cheap and amusing monthly miscellany of litera ture and art, and containing a picturesque sketch of the new church at Hanwell, in Middlesex, of which a pleasing view may be obtained from the. Great Western Railway. HIGH WATEII - AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. :;ornino l6 minutes after 6 Evening .... minutes after 6. t- _. •f! 3. ' • ,-1 .., Vi4rJj' BRITISH MAGAZINE. The dietaries and fastings of ancient Lent-times, as noticed in the charges and sermons of preachers co temporary with the Reformation, furnish some pas sages of quaint eloquence in a first article. " Catholic Architecture, and its Sepulchral Memorials," shows tl a excellent tendency exhibited by that school in the adaptation of its forms and sculptures to the sympathies and senses of men. The paper on the " Adamic image" is the work of a scholar, and Behmen's hypothesis, therein treated of, finds an apt annotator : the same hand would handle well the theory of the luminous body which Madame Bourignon, in common with Behmen and the Caballists, ascribes to the prototyp a l man. A body of correspondence upon church matters and discussional points, de rebus knells, fills up the number. CHUI?CII OF ,ENGLAND MAG 4ZINE. This weekly Ecclesiastical Miscellany continues to furnish, in the usual creditable style, its quota of ser mons, verse and sacred reading for devotional minds. The republication of Burgess's sound lectures on the " Seven Churches of Asia," is a novel and good fea ture ; they contain substance and learning, and totally differ, on this point, from the diluted and vague enun ciations delivered from the chairs and pulpits of the present day. MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE. The usual variety of romantic tales and poetical effusions contributes to make the fourth number of this Magazine as entertaining as its predecessors. It contains a very passable engraving of a young female, representative of " Adoration." THE SPANISH GENERAL MAROT(L—The famous General .Maretu has got into a little war," from which he is not likely to escape with credit. He and three friends were shooting some leagues from Madrid, a few days since upon a couple of estates, without leave of the proprietors. A young gamekeeper warned them off, and was commanded by the General to hold his tongue. The young fellow was as proud and independent as the Gene ral, and would not succumb in the fulfilment of his duty. Maroto then abused him as a Carlist, and declared that the country around was Carlist, and that that was the reason he was annoyed in shooting over it. Words be came high and warm ; the gamekeeper stood upon his right. The stronger party threatened to shoot him, end Maroto drew a pistol. The lad seized his own gun, and prepared to defend himself. Maroto's friends seized and held it, aril discharged it in the struggle. One of them made a desperate stab at him with a knife, which cut open his thigh from hip to knee. The wounded man fled as well as he was able to his house, and Maroto pur sued him with the pistol to the door. The alcalde of the district has instituted a cause against the General, who (having a strong faith in the influence of money) sent to the wounded lad's father to offer him 100 dollars to let the matter rest. The father and son alike refused the money, and preferred to " let the law take its course." Spanish law is prover:Army slow, and clients to hast2n it often take cases like this into their own hands. On Monday a woman, 71 years of age, residing in the Rue St. Jacques, set fire to her clothes in using a small brazier to warm her feet. Before her cries brought assistance, her person was so mueb burnt that she was carried to a hospital with little hope of recovery. THE WEATTIER.—NOON, APRIL 2. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Thermometer... 42 Highest 44 I Lowest 33 I',arometer 29.71.—Wind N.W:—Freezing Point 22 Deg. ea t if I q r4 IV -a Ca 4 / l on SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch. The House of Commons meet again on Monday, for the dispatch of business, when not a few of the Members will find great relief in escaping from the angry growling of their constituents, and taking shelter under their Tory leader. The Easter holi days have afforded them no enjoyment. Some have been tormented with the upbraidings of their own guilty consciences, others like Sir E. KNATCHBULL and Sir THOMAS ACLAND have been harassed by deputations from woe-be-gone farmers and graziers, and a third party have remained in town, or directed their steps along every road, except that which leads to " sweet home." Like an assembly of old, celebrated by the immortal poet, they will congregate in great num bcrs with down-cast looks, or eying their leader askance, reproach him for their woful plight, till taking courage from despair, he calls upom them in no pleasing mood to rouse themselves like men for another great struggle. And a great struggle it will be if the speakers do their duty. All accounts confirm the fact that the greatest dissatisfaction pre vails throughout the country, that men of every shade of politics, the supporters of the Government but a short month ago, as well as their determined oppo nents, are resolved to resist the new scheme as a whole, and that unless their representatives take the same view of the question, and also act up to their views, many of them will be called upon to resign their stewardships. This is the proper course to pursue. Let the constituencies throughout the country, .Tory as well as Whig, assemble without delay, for the purpose of stating their objections, pointing out the duty of their re presentatives ; and at the same time announcing, that those who disregard their appeal are no longer en titled to their support and confidence. The Liberal Members, in general, will require no such impulse, but still there are waverers among them; some of the old Whig school, and some also of the Ultra-Radical section, who seem more anxious to pay court to the PREMIER, and to receive his fulsome praises, than to earn the gratitude of the electors who placed in them implicit confidence. These men, therefore, must be urged on by fear, if by no other means, to follow a leader who is pledged to _resist the obnoxious measures at every step. Lord .JOIIN RUSSELL announced his resolution before the adjournment, and every post that has arrived during the holidays must have more and more confirmed him in his purpose to defeat by all constitutional means a scheme of taxation unknown in a time of peace, unequal in its opera tion, harassing to every class except the owners of real property, injurious to trade and commerce, and calculated to clog or destroy the great springs of national industry. Since the struggle for Parlia mentary Reform, no such occasion has occurred for the united and vigorous exertions of the great body of the people, and we confidently trust that they will not be found wanting. The Committee of the SCOTT Monument announce, we perceive, a deficiency--- . --to the amount of one thousand eight hundred pounds—in the funds neces sary for erecting this great public Cenotaph. Above eleven thousand pounds have been subscribed ; but in order to complete the Gothic Tower and Marble Statue in the style in which every -admirer of the illustrious poet and novelist would wish that they should • be• completed, it is necessary that eighteen hundred pounds more should be collected. This additional sum will, we have no doubt, be easily made up, for who is there within the circuit of the three kingdoms, that does not feel an affectionate regard for the memory of SCOTT—the generous—the social—the high-hearted —and; what is more to his praise, the friend of uni versal humanity ? For,. be itremembered, the author of " Waverley" does not appeal merely to the sym. pathies of . Seotchmen. His genius takes a far-more comprehensive range. It is as cosmopolitan in its character as SILIKSPEARWS, and not less cordial and magnanimous. However sectarian SCOTT may have been in politics, in his literary capacity he was catholic to' an extent of which we have few examples. A:Ten of all creeds and all classes met with fair play in his pages. The rough, home-spun, well wearing virtues of the peasant, were there as warmly insisted on, as the more refined sensibilities of the Peer ; . and vice denounced with uniform indignation, even though it might take up its abode in a palace, and wear the crown of Royalty. Hence it is that the writings of SCOTT are known and admired .wherever the English language is spoken and that the pro posal to erect a MonuMent to his memory in the magnificent city which he so loved in life, has been received with acclamation throughout the three king doms. Were twice, or even thrice two thousand pounds required for the completion of this great na tional undertaking, sure are we that it might be col lected without difficulty. The policy of Great Britain, foreign and domestic, excites just now great interest in Paris. Again it is discovered that we are at loggerheads with Russia at Constantinople, and that we find in her rivalry a greater source of real uneasiness than in the hostility of the inhabitants of Affghanistan and the continu ance of the war with China. The Constitutionnel and the Siecle have both long articles upon this subject. The former refers to the misadven tures of Bishop ALEXANDER in Jerusalem, , who, it affirms, was not sent to make conversions to Pro testantism, but to engage in English,propagandisna. It was this that is said to have alarmed the Porte. All the deep - intrigues which - brought about the Treaty of the 15th of July,- are represented as having no other object on the part of England than to obtain a predominance in Asia Tb'inor. Without a predominance in Egypt or Syria, the Constitutionnel contends that England has no key, to her possessions in India. Russsia, however, thwarts her policy by - her intrigues in the Divan ; but, should she fail, then France is advised to inter fere. 'ln fact; this Journal assumes for France the sole guardianship of the Turkish empire. She is to make war, if necessary, to maintain the inte grity of the Turkish empire against England on the one side, and. Russia on the other. ' It seems that England and • Russia have agreed to a partition of the empire. and are only quarrelling about the division of the spoil. Russia is offended because England seizes upon Syria, before an opportunity is afforded her of clutching Constantinople. Such are the statements in the Constitutionnel and the Siecle, which we need hardly tell our readers are sheer assumptions of dreams for facts. Bishop ALEX ANDER'S mission to Jerusalem was purely a religious one projected by a knot of fanatics in Prussia, and adopted by another knot of fanatics in England. The establishment of a, Protestant Church at Jeru salem is an old hobby of the Protestants of the West, and the important services rendered by England to the Porte, by driving MEHEMET ALI out of Syria, was deemed by the Protestant prelates of England and Prussia, an excellent opportunity for realising this devotional object. With this view the late Government consented to the wish of the pre lates, and instructed Lord PONSONBY to solicit a firman from the Porte to erect a church at Jerusalem. The heads of the Greek and Armenian Churches were consulted by the Divan, and, in the true sectarian spirit of rival creeds, opposed the granting of the re quired finnan. When religious objections were found not strong enough, the Patriarchs invoked political ones ; which, of course, Russia secretly supported with all her influence. The King of PRUSSIA, how ever, was so intent on the conversion of the Druses, Maronites, and Jews of Judea, that he forwarded a plan to England for sending out a Bishop with or without a Church, offering to defray half the expense of the mission. The fanatics upon this raised a cla mour for immediately appointing a Bishop, to which the Government weakly, and contrary to its better judgment, yielded. A Bishop was consecrated, a roving commission was made out for him by- the . Archbishop o f C ANTERBURY, an d h e was s hipped oft to Syria, to be stoned or idolized, according to th 6 current mood of the good inhabitants of the 11:41Y City ; This is the true account of the appointmen t 0 t Bishop ALEXANDER. As to British :interest i° Turkey, it is identical with -that of Frirtie; if the latter look only to consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. Our interference in Syria has no other ob ject than to establish firmly the authority of the Porte over that province instead of leaving it, Mi er the blood and treasure it has cost us, ft prey to die affection, ready to be re-occupied at any mo ment by the Viceroy of EGYPT. It is rarely that we, find a correct view of I q 1198.. tion of politics, purely English, in a French news. paper. NOthing is so common among French Jour nalists as ignorance of all that constitutes the chose' teriaties of the English people, and the peculiarities of their domestic polities. In all, thereore, that they have writte n u p on the Tory in c°n ' e tax, we find only a few relevant sentence in the Courrier Francais. This Journal predieti that the tax will pass, but that it Pl9° the downfall of the T o ry Cabinet. If the first part of this prediction prove correct, there en: be no doubt of the second. In forcing on the incl i tax Sir ROBERT PEE L is di gg i n g the grave of Toryism. May he live to read its (Pi* But the Courrier Francais rightly says, that it is the inquisitori a l na t ure of the iti cura d , tax, rather than its amount, that ° ll.l ' n the English people. This sentence shows some sin " quaintance with English habits little understood „ France: The worst.feature in th e income to i s I prying inquisitorially into the individual nir eul ; stances of a people peculiarly sensitive resPee . tl t ; any attempt to exact a knowledge of their Pr ° habits or their means of living. Th e 11 : 11 r violation of th7s principl e i n the ch ttr ; : t p e s t of the English people has, from the earliest times formed the study of E ng li s h jurists. It t rt which prevented the establ'shment of the pa- 44° 0 1 system among us, a n d w hi c h ma d e it a fundlrie ° principle in our Criminal Code that every offender to be regarded as innocent till he is proven befn , Court of Justice, out of the mou th s of w i tne sses, ° r his own voluntary and publicly repeated confessitinso, be guilty. Were there, then, no other objection t ° income tax than that it violates the privy Of oi, life in England, it could no t s t an d, no r could A ( I' advocating it. e tb ' 6 The following summery of the latest news , r o- Spanish capital is from a Madrid letter of the ult. : ,otis . There is good reason f o r believing that the nef tions for a comme rc i a l t rea ty b e t ween G rea t Brit"'" A re Spain are not in a very forward state ; indeed , " fri ol not over anxious for it, only aiming at obtaining toe, the Regency Governinent the admission of our tured cotton goods on p a y men t o f mo d era t e import "„,4. and we shall certainly c arr y th e p o i n t i n this resl 3 `,:,,ig' Messrs. Ardottin and Ricardo have c a used it to nified to Government that they will only hand O ve 'boll bonds (amounting to 500,000,000 of reals) the} upon being paid the 27,500/. sterling they claim, lance of account, and obtaining an official ac knot t s io ment of the correctness of th e sa id accoun ts, whict d to Minister of France, prope r ly enoug h, i s no t disl 3° ' issue. wee It is shown, in the Report drawn up and t- i l ef by the Palace Intendant, Heros, to M. ArguFelll:oo Majesty's guardian, on th e s t a t e in which the . whole Royal patrimony, that the Queen' see' ther received out of h e r d aug ht er ' s an nual '" 1 ",. 4 ?f, from 1833 to 1840, no l ess th an 37,122,378 r ea 'i;or • about 390,0004 sterling, for what she was r o . : td to call " secret purse money" besides selll„111; of her youthful daughter, at h er o wn p r i ce , the A a nd sheep (merino ones), 28,000 in number, which ro s ' io t ig is, a losing concern. M. Items distinctly asserts r , O Ol is not known what became of mos t o f thete a jewels, as well as of the documents showinkid 4 p irtitions that had been made of the lat e LoWi l property among his daught ers , th oug h it 15 :; r ) tir ts) have been drawn up. He nex t g i ve s a I , e ' n ' o itA tailed and curious account of th e different loyal u , l ,f ti )e the improvements now making, &c., as well as present household expen :es at the palace, from 5 r;', latter I select the foll ow i ng it ems d ur i ng fi ve men, OP Personal expenses of her Majesty and sister, reals ; household expanses, 746,743 reals ; stable ° II° 214.585 reals. ; • , o j tO, The whole of the Paris Journals havo read' ,0 ~ • They are, for the most part occupied w ith CO' ~. upon British politics, which we ha ve notace l ,l - 1 .4 ; where. The proposed n e w exp or t d u ty on c °s o ol/: quite delighted the miners . or France, Belgian'''. .. Spain. They re ma l k, an d i n our - ° P 1' , 1 ,4 quite Correctly, that the additional duty' ' * ; er3 give such an impulse to foreign coal no' in three or f our y ears t o destroy our export co s i • altogether. The more republican the jour'"'. the more they are delighted with such ap' . BQURSE—P..I.IIIB, TuunsnAr, MARCH 31 " 0 1 , , e First Higliest LoWIIO t i, :if Price Price. • Prlrt„ . li s yf f,"rencti 51.er Cant! ...... .... . 117 70 ... 117 81 ... 117 'itl "'lei 0 4 per Cents. lOl 50 ... 101 5 0 ... 101 50 ••• P l i e, 3 per Corm Si' 60 . S( 6:t ... 86 O . ''' . 1 0 ' Loan isnii of France White Lank 1.0(a)t. 81 eras 102 ; ... It 21 ...ng _. 5,5,00)1. shares 50;2 50 ...5045 ...5045 ',., „, .‘' . le: 0 , Belgian Bank ' . ....1 0 ,ss s 18 4 1 l. 57 51 -.1057 50 ...1' 5 7 L" " 11 ".;i' Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 ter Cello., 1840 1(6% ... 106% ... VON ..--- • . ' Dutch 234 er Cents. ... 53% .. L 3% ... 53% 3 v . •,,sutsti Active :ZS, ... 25k ... ' 6 ,9 1 , Passive 5 ... L% . ... ..,... ...,,'°' qeapolltan ..... . . ......... ... 106 0. tr. It man .. lO . 105 ... 10 5. ... i . 7 RAILWAY 811 . A . 14114. . a ' ' 'i St. Germain - '''. ".' l 6 0 Versatile's. ft. is .... .... 345 ... 345 ... 34 , 5 .4 ...... 7 .. 1 ,1 , L.ll ..... 216 25 .. 21621 .. M. ; A filP,' 4.• men 522 50 ... 52i 50 ... 5 22 , ''',,, ... r 6 S., s' )u rg 1.4., Ita le - s , ,rle - .tris .. 565 ... 563 a ... 510 ... ' 'Pt CASE OF JOHN TRAVIS.—This case, w hic A ll e 'rsi ° readers will probably recollect, ca u s ed a coasiliver sensation some months a go , came on f or trial I t t pool on the 31st ult. T r a v i s s t o p pe d a on November 2 from hunti ng over hi s father i lii, )t )ft . and in a sort of scuffle w hi c h ensue d, wound poet Entwistle's horse and d ogs . F o r thjs 1). the Magistrate, before whom he was carrl'ele Rochdale, Clement Rovds, Esq. refused tO, reto bail, and Mr. Travis was com p e ll e d to aPPIY„ b o r, Bail Court, which instantly lib era t e d hirn , c:(10 5 1 1 On his trial he was found gu ilty of 019b d(1 „ li t° wounding the animals, but was r ccomme n mercy. The judge, Mr. Ba ron R o lf e , senten c b e iv to a month's imprisonment. We shall Pr° b3 t hst i ::i vert to this case ;it is enou g h now to sat' e anticipated a different verdict for wounding in resisting an encroachment on a man's own P,el Sir Robert Peel arrived i n t own this aTh o g from Brighton, and is exp ec t e d t o h o ld A Mee st the principal abinet Ministers. atoJ The party on a vi s it t o th e D u k e o f INTellinq Olaf' Strathfieldsaye is expected to break tis Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of C' ll- I , 9 ta and Prince George and the Princess A u b Cambridge, took leave this morning. LLOYD'S 'S SHIPPING —( T 14 I S ;AI APRIL ft day at lie en 'id; ' fit!' MARGATE, APRu.'l. Lisbon, *1 7:11f. A. w ---...-- I—.lvAirnrdd.th3irsina, lass damaged, and loss of anchors and chains. t „ii.'" lAtir ll ::et u ir, AL QC , tll i ae l l, : nd .n i : v. L ec l ftu . o — rri N ca V l i i n m d arEeHiiie. N.N.W. to N.W r '' ' f in tbe s l i s ti a l b e e d ll ii a t , h H D o e b C a C r l t ilb T e o r w . .n. China ; ~ NEY, APRIL I.—Borneo,artley; oggt M4'iiritio, OFF IZOM,itrj. A,t.,iliiss oair. L prb i y ; i:: r i Gc l. P :r o ioe : srt L sghl , ele. APRIL. Rnainnti Canning, -:e Charlestonl' ii ll id W.N.NV. 7 f r e s b . ,icy , Maranham • Sheffield, Allee,,,ote Isabella, Preston, and Loch Ryan, for Sescitorft`i is . o reported t o b e lost l oft the Br a a z i a ln s eltlinverir oTn:rl7ecel'tlsl:::;'ire:ol3:i i o. the Ist tilt and the master and six o f • -l viot. drowned. There I:as a severeamper() at Ige tite i t iad on the 16th January, which ' caused consAidSrrireda;brltal:ll,e4! to the shipping. Te ThomasTyson4 of e W hit h e e )4 cr ell „ w w . e a r s e w fa r l e i c e l n ce i d n o: it l h nd i ir th ß e o b c o k a s t , 05:111j:0051r:tit: , ry s te ; e t ri '. iir a ri. :;l Jamaica, and supplied by the Adelaide, PaciP -, tit Mobile. Ma O je i s P ty l: s ov s u h ß ip , APRIL I.—Helen and Jane, C A n r ic ( llltts edi ch P a o d ß w T i 7 N uT e l l i v , APRIL I.—Wind IST.W. ---.-- r F I P Talbot, Mediterranean a i ll f e e d d i l t 3 e rtrhalndeta,n and o' i l o t it s oi, e ;el, 7 l .2 : 4 s; for London. Arrd. off, George 4th,. ret, t , s ,': Aig l6 sailed from St. Helena 6th of February. ..''''' bo ar• J coni c from Dunkirk to Rochelle, has coc into the lia.rl%.erre' SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL I . — S id. Great 1, steamer, Alexandria ; Isis steamer, West Indies; stroll FALMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind W.S.W. to iv do u tl l ' gales and squally.—Arrd. Hopewell, .Ancona ; Leghorn ; Normanson and Mary, Marseilles. TORBAY, APRIL 1.--Slil. Adele, Martinique. i fro: BRIXIIAM, APRIL 1..--The Evenwood, le3r,toprl. Seaham to Constantinople, has put in here with o,„offei sprung, having been in contact with the Etnelie,4:3'oolo, CORY, MARCH 30.--Vernon, Thomson, .- ~i . Olt; sailed 17th ult. ; Sultana, Summers, Lagaayra, , i",„ 0 0 , Jan.; on the 10th inst., she experienced a heavy 4.:4_''!„., was thrown on her beam ends, lost sails, bullyat,''‘,.bils WHITBY, MARCH 31.—A small sloop or 1te,,14041 reaching in, with the wind strong at W.N.W. , cal ,y and sank. •eil ° The Argus, from New York to Havre is supp o, be arrived off Torbay. --.....•••••••••••1.11011!.....rom t St° The " Black Bottle" Colonel and his reginl en jvs‘ expected in York next week. A r umour is alloit.vai. Prince Albert will be present at the review of tile e s 4 shire I - Imsars, which will take place i n Se p tembe.r but of this we cannot at present speak with certailn) Leeds 111tre.ury. *,.,.....,,,. SRA V ti