The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

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STAMPED SD• 1 10 9'l Specifications and patterns may he obtained on application !o the undersigned, to whom sealed tenders for all or any portion of the contract must be aldressed, not later than the 20th instant, Endorsed "Tender for Rails, Chairs, &c."—By order. • JOHN THORLEY, Secretary. Joint Secretary 4 s Office, Salford Station, Feb. 2, 1856. 10 3 40 1 ......... ...... ......... THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.— GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL and LYRIC CONGRESS, TO-MORROW EVENING (Ash-Wed nesday), for this night only, at Play-house Prices,—fie-ap- Pcamnce of the renowned Prima Donna,.Madame Caradori, in London, after au absence of two years. First appearance _ _ you-up-Stout—Up to Snuff and down to Pepper—How the Bread Rises—Sweet upon Sugar. All pickles to believe is Pickles—Chalk-farm Dairy Cows v. Pumps —Gunpowder Te.t, " warranted to go off"—Pale Ale peculiarities. Imps.—Quassia• Mr. Wyatt; Strychnine, Mr. Scott; Blue Ruin, Mr. Carter ; Oxyplumbi, Mr. Strannways G ENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliatneet. 71, Lombard , street. London. NOTICE Iq HEREBY GIVEN. That the lIALF-YEARLY GENERAL 3fEETING of the proprietors of th!s Company will be held at the !orupany's Office, 71, Lombard -street, on TUESDAY, the 26th instant, at Two o'Clock prepisely, pursuant to Act of Parlia ment, to transact the usual business, and to declare the Dividend for the half-ye-u ending 31st December, 1855. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary. The terror of 'Ths , • TimeS"—The Lanoinations of the " Laneet"—Black Crosses in Red Lead square. THE WIZARD'S LABORATORY IN TFIE CHATEAU FE MEPHISTOPHILES, HELIGOLAND. . Eby per b' Ma7,ic Somersanits—The Bewitched Ottoman - The Dragon la diable —The Inextinguishable, Inexhaustahle, Unstopper able, Go-a-head Bottle —" 160/. Reward, who'll Shoot a Clown?"-The Blunderbuss of Botheration—Bursting of the Wizard's Bust —Small Wiz-Lids made to order, Pattern Pre sented— Quie.kest way to Nowhere—How to make Harlequins —The way to Crush the Crushers. , • London, February 1, 1855. lbi 0 r boll. r soak• THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. Acting Manager, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS. Stage Manager, Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. The Box office open daily, from Ten till Six o'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Chatterton. The REDUCED PRICES at this Theatre as follow:—Pri vate boxes, to hold two persons, 10s. 6d. (is. for each person extra); on the grand tier, one guinea; proscenium and stage boxes, 2/. 2s. ; galleries, lid. and Is. ; pit, 2s. ; upper boxes, Is. 6d. ; Urst circle, 2s. 6d.; dress circle, 3s. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREAT GUN TRICK. Allot which will be produced an entirely Novel and Original Inductive, Instructive, Anti-Hypochondriacal, Periodical, Episodical, Magieal, Tragical, Logical, Chronological, Gra phical, Chorographical, Philosophical, Cryptographical, . Parabolical, Symbolical, Rhythmical, Mimical, Academical, Mechanical, Technical, Pyrotechnical, Historical, Harmo nica], Heroical, Typical, Allegorieal, Metaphorical, Chime rical, Satirical, Historical, Metrical, Symmetrical, Lyrical, Musical, Practical, Poetical, Whimsical, Fantastic, and Side Shakespearean new GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, Which for many fur many weeks past has engaged the ex ' tensitre and unrivalled resources of this establishment, and which Will now appear under the additional, traditional, and peculiarly suggestive title of HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE ; or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. The Scenery entirely New, painted by and under the super intendence of Mr. William Beverley, assisted by Messrs. James, Wilson,:GeMpertz, and numerous assistants. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker acrd assistants. The Pro perties, Decorations, &e., by Messrs. Needham, Glindou, and others. The Tricks by Messrs. Roe and assistants. The Choregraphic _ Arrangements under the direction of Madame Louise. The Masks and Personal Appointments designed and executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn, Artist in Pante mimic Phyuielegnomy, and Photographic Delineator of Elves, Sprites, and Goblins-to the Court of Fairy Land. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H.. Tully. The Comic Seenes by Harry Bolcno, Glindon, and E. L. Blanchard. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening. in vented and written by E. L. Blanchard, Author of " Harle quin Hudibras," " King Humming-top," "Jack and Jill," ; and the whole arranged and produced under the super . intendence of Mr. Robert Roxby. First of the Seven Ages--" The Infant." HALL OF NURSERY RHYMES, In the dominions of King Nonsense. Heroes of Nursery Literature. Jack Sprat, Mr. Eatnofat ; Simple Simon, Mr. Tom Noddy ; Little leek Horner, Master Plummy ; Little Bo Peep, Miss Fortywiuts ; Little Tommy Tucker, Master Singsong ; Rumpty Dumpty, Mr. Eggshell ; Little Boy Blue, Master Blowhorn ; Old Mother Hubbard, Mrs. Leaveabone ; The Cat and the Fiddle (from an original Kit-cat Portrait), by a distinguished Player ; King Noniense (the Ruler of a great many Lines), Mr. Glin lon ; Spirit of Common Sense (on an occasional visit), Miss Fanny Reeves; Baby in Cradle, Little. Toddlekins ; Routine and Re4 l .tape (banished to Noodledom), Messrs. Musty and Misty ; Old Friends' and New Faces - " They have their Exits and their Entrances." Second Age- 7 " The School Boy." " Then the whining sehoOl-boy with his satchel • And shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school." VILLAS OF PRETTYWELL, with distant view of the Village Church and surrounding country. -Early Morning. Young Hopeful (afterwards Harlequin), Signor Verroni ; Ilobbedyhoy (his schoolfellow afterwards Clown) Harry Bo leno ; Dr. Birch (the Village Schoolmaster-afterwards Pan taloon). Mr. G. Tanner; His . Pupils, Masters Fagg, Bragg, Wagg, Nagg, Lege, Magg, Stagg, and Tag,g ; Rosa (Ward to " The Justice," and afterwards . Columbine), Madame Bolono ; Miss Starch, Governess at " Mrs. Howdydo's Establishment for Young Ladies," in the Village of Prettywell-cum-Thankye) Miss Buckram ; Her Pupils-Misses Prattle, Rattle, Giggle, Saiggle, Goggle, Joggle, Fangle, Dangle, Sidle, Ogle, Romp, Flirt, Slypuss, and Simperwell ; Hobson (the Village Carrier), Mr. Packer ; Bun-woman, Mrs. Goody. Sums summed up somehow-School Forms and Ceremonies, Lessons not Lessened, and Cartoons for Young England-The slum Cake and the Seedy Schoolmaster- Working the Oracle and Playing the Truant-How Young Hopefulwants to catch a Fish, and how Hobbedylioy contrives to book it-How the Schoolmaster tries the rod, and how well somebody catches It-How Young Hopeful blows his own trumpet, and the Young Ladies' Establishment comes out all two, to, two too -a Game at Cricket and Dr. Birch bowled out. Third Ago- " The Lover." "Then the Lover, Sighing like furnace with woful ballad Made to his Mistress's eyebrow." BLACKSMITH'S FORGE AND ROAD-SIDE INN (Sunset). Hobb and Nobb (the Village Blacksmiths), Messrs. Batter fuld Clatter; afterwards Sprites, Tho Brothers Elliot; boublestout (Mills Host of the " Leather Bottle), Mr. Aria narf ; Cnuuinsir (Head Whiter), Mr. Readytongue ; Yesser and Noser (his Assistants), Messrs. Cut and Ran ; Cook, Mr. Bastewell; Boots, Mr. Tizzy ; Chambermaid, Miss Bobaday ; Serjeant Kite (a Recruiting OtEcer-afterwards Pantaloon), Deulin Johnson ; The Justice" (one of the " Great Un paid" afterwards Clown), Tom Matthews ; Flipper and Flunkey (his Footman) Messrs. Cringe and Crawley ; Re cruit; Messrs. Gawky, Gaby, Grimm, Glumm, Gabble, and Grinaway ; Filer, Mr. Tootle ; Drummer Mr. Rowdydow ; Clodhopper and Cliawbacon (AgriculturafLabourers), Messrs. Bumpkin and Joskyn. The sparks front the anvil amorous and hammer-us-The Iron struck whilst it is hot-The Lover's Sonnet- The Jus tice's tongue and course of True Love-neither running smooth-" List, list, oh, list 1"-which he does-The cause queneem thereof, and how Sorjoant Kite, being the Author of a great Military Work, gets a good Review. Fourth Age-" The Soldier." " Then a Soldier, Pull of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's. mouth." OLD ABBEY RUINS (Evening). The Trysting Place and the Lover's Reverie-" Oh, there's nothing half so sweet in life as Love's young dream." " Dream on, good youth, and show the world awake, The wondrous change that only love can make." The Spirit of Love, Miss Wadha.m-Cupid (her Messenger.), Master Mischief. Hope, Joy, Desire, Happiness, Truth, Delight, Rapture, Romance, &c., by Misses Richardson, E. Richardson, L. Honey, &c. Rapid, Mechanical, and Marvellous Scenic Metamorphosis, revealing • THE ABODE OF LOVE. Illumined by the Electric Light of One Hundred Bright Eyes. Grand Ballet d'Amour -Principal Dancer, Miss Rosina Wright, assisted by Mdlles. Therese, Marian Lees, &c. Fifth Age "The Justice." " And then the Justice, In fair round belly, with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part." JUSTICE HALL IN THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, TWILIGHT. • Farmer W'hackstraw, Mr. Grumblewell ; Constable, Mr. Remised!; Villagers, Messrs. Gape, Grin, Stare, Shiver, Tremble, Delve, to. A memorable Sentence and a recent Period put to it -The Country Squire and the Effects of a great Cause-How the Justice loses his Heir, and how the Fugitives become bawled after. Sixth Age'..." The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon." The Ruined Cottage of Old Age-Winter-Firelight. Old Age • (sans tooth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything), Mr. Centenarian. Seventh Age-sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing." Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the Snow to the BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUMMER. Double Pantomimic Transmogrification.. Tho Two Harlequins ... Signor Veroni and Herr Furth. The Two Columbines ... Mme. Boleno and Marie Charles. The Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and DenlM Johnson, The Two Sprites The Brothers Elliott. The Two Clowns ... Harry Boleno and Tom Matthews. A SCENE OF INTEREST-TWO TO ONE-Boleno. Buttered Peas-Cheese it Taking the Pledge-Pop't up pop't in, and pop't out-Equal Division-Principal and In terest-How to evade the Act-Betting versus Cigars " What's the odds so long as you're happy ("-The Right lip -How to raise the Wind-L-The Odds to the Hod-List, oh, list I Wrong te-back-her, and no Returns-Settling Day, a regular Settler -Gone for the "LegerL-In for the Oaks-A Bankrupt's Stock, and a Case of Bale, concluding with a regular Smash A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno. A sweet Piece—Honesty the best Policy—Honey and Whacks (Wax) --Rising Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a Hum— It Beehoves you to Beshare when you attack a Bee hive—Swarming and Warming,—Enlarged Heads upon a New Principle—Domestic Bees—Long Needles—Royal Summons —Arrival of Queen Bee and Suite—Grand Charge—Tableau. SCENE OF EXCITEMENT—PARIS EXHIBITION—A CAFE BESIEGED.—BoIeno. The Meeting of All Nations (Russian excepted)—Fraternisa tion Cordiality of the Allies—" All the World's a Stage !" —Arrival of the World and his Wife, and the whole of his Family, commencing with their Eldest Daughter, the " Fa shionable World ;" followed by the " Sporting World ;" the " Dramatic World ;" the " World upside down ;" the " Wide World ;" the " Wicked World ;" and the " World in Arms. Lodgings at a Premium—Not a bed to be had—" My Lodging is on the cold (coal) Ground"—Clown and Pantaloon go Down to Bed,—" A Sweet Good Night to all." A SCENE OF CONFUSION (LAID IN BEDS). "To bed, to bed"—"'Tis when to Sleep the World retires" —The Night Mare, which makes Clown a little hoarse—As Thick as Three in a bed—A Night Concert, which dis-concerts the Lodgers —" We won't go home till morning"—Putting them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop, the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment—Fire ! Fire! Fire I -The House in an Uproar—Speedy Exit of some of the Lodgers, which finishes with "Confusion worse con ounded. THE WEST END AND THE CITY. Scott's Tavern, Haymarket, and Samuel Brothers, Ludgate hill—Meaiures and men —Hits and Skits at Everything and Everything—lnns and Outs— Shoe-black Brigade—A Polished Gentleman—Comic Duet between the Clown and a Blacking- Bottle .Howlett's Hair Dye—A. Dyer's Material—A Dire Art for Falsehood framed— Coloured Imitations—The Sydenham Trousers—Height of Fashion—Genuine Malt and Hops—All sopp's Pale Ale—The East and the West—Scott's Lot, and a Race for Public Favour. NUMBER ONE, LONDON. A Visit to Dakin's Tea Establishment, St. Paul's—" In to apes estP—Boliemians and Teetotallers—Great Drawing Mate rials —The Magic Chest and the Enchanted Teapot—Clown gets Tea in it, and Pantaloon gets into Hot Water in cense quenee—Oinnibtis Companies on the Old System and the New System, and the System that don't assist 'em—Strong Opposi tion and final discovery of the " Right Men in their Right Places"--Whack:, bang, flip-flap, hey, presto, and Change to "LAST SCENE OF ALL that ends this strange eventful History." Door open at Half-past Six. and commence at Seven. Ot§ Os gd 10t1 t to 11, oP 4 0 38 ( id to 21 6cl to 05 Od t 441 Or.. OS 0(1 t 4) L4O ''d t) 0 1 4s Od t ° Oti tub •rt Os Oa ° ..... " 141b.0s to. ... t 0.... .... ....... to 4e. me adv,„ 1 1"; 11 rkot. wLich i 4 d Udg Ca lie and bfir 3 to 40 ! e ) Od ; baY [7O Oi ;7s 03, to coral fOO O•all91 Vl* ap, 11.1 , • 3 1 DI • 1 1 , I. l°. 9 tOPt,' tO t°' 11 0 6 ..• Ipto 4 3pfortolf • h , N D 0„ ; 113 0 n ffiOrW pOrt l ab. 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Vocal Artistes ;—Madame Caradori (Prima Donna of the Royal , Operas of LOndon, Edinburgh, and Glasgow (her first appear ance in London for two years), Madame' Amadei, Miss Emma Stanley, kiss Lascellos, Miss Fanny Huddart, Miss Stabbach, Miss Rose Braham, Miss Harriet Gordo's, Miss Dc Lara, and LueyEscott (her first appearance in London this season); the Misses Brougham ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. George Perron, Herr Henreich Jahns; Mr. W: Lee (his first appear ance). Mr. T. Williams; Sig. Mariani, and Mr. George Tedder; Mr. Rosenthal, Mr. Winn, and Mr. Hatnilton Braham ; the Orpheus Glee . Union. Solo Instrumentalists ;—Violins, Mr. Viotti Collins and Herr Ramonhaye ( 'olo Violinist to her Majesty) ; Flute, Mr. J. Richardson; Oboe,. Sig. Paggi ; Trumpet, M. Distiu. Concertina, Mr. George Case, ; Piano forte. M. Alexandre Billet. Full Band and Chorus. Musical directori, Mr. Loder and Herr Ansehuez. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. ' The box-office is open daily from Eleven till Five, under the direc ion of Mr. O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also bo taken at the libraries), 3/. 35., 2/. 25., 1/ is., and 12s. ; Grand Bale ny, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, es. ; Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'clock. TiIIEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. Lessee for the Christma.% Pantomime, Mr. J. H. ANDERSON. Positively the LAST SEVEN NIGHTS of the most success ful Pantomime ii London, and termination of the season, in consequ:nce of the opening; of the Royal Italian Opera. ROB ROY will be repeated on Friday. Back-Eyed Susan will be repeated on Thursday and Satur day. THIS EVENING, Douglas Jerrold's celebrated Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN will be produced, beiug the first time it. has been played at this Theatre for 2.7 years. William, by Professor Anderson. To be followed each evening by the Grand, National, Histo rical, and Chivalne PANTOMIME, which has been oolong in Preparation, and on the Production of which so large an ex pense has been incurred, of YE BELLE ALLIA.NCE; or,. HARLEQUIN GOOD HUMOUR AND YE FIELDS OF YE CLOTHE OF GOLDE ; Being a LEGEND of the MEETING of the MONA-RCRS. " It was a marvellous sweets and goodly° sight to so° those two Princes, in the flowere of their age, in the height of their strengthe and in the dignitio of theit maulye beautyo, com manding two great Nations, that bade been so long rivals and enemies, instead of leading hostile armies to desolate and destroy°, meet in that peaceful valley°, and embrace like brothers, in the sight° of the choice nobflitio of either land." —The Chroniclers. The Pantomime invented, arranged, and produced by Mr. I. Harris, with the same attention to Scenery, Costumes, and Effects, which has characterised the productions of " Ri goletto," "I 1 Trovatore," " L'Etoilo du Nord," and the various Operas lately produced at this; the recognised chief Theatre in Europe for Spectacular Display. The entirely New and most elaborate Scenery Painted by and under the Super intendence of Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY, assisted by Messrs. Cuthbert, C. Adams, W. Shalders, W. Glover, an 1 numerous Assistants. The Openin written by Mr. George Augustus Sala. The Music composed by Mr. Loder (who has obligingly lent his aid on account of the Pantomime being produced at this Theatre). The Ballet and Incidental Daneesarranged by Mr. Benjamin Barnett. The Come Tricks invented by the Brothers Brough, Mr. A. Harris, and Mr. William Dorrington. The Now Spectacular Designs by M. Guerin, of Paris. The Extensive and Complicated Machi nery by Mr. H. Sloman and numerous Assistants Tue Ori ginal and Ultra-Grotesque Masks by Mr. G. Ewing. The Novel and Costly Properties by Mr. Prescott, assisted by M Moreland. The Ladies' Costumes by Mrs. James assisted by Mr. Beauchamp. The Gentlemen's Costumes by Mr. Smithers, assisted by Mr. La:Wrenn The Armoury Department by Mr. Hogg. , The Chappellerie by Mrs. Walker. Copyist, Mr. Horton. Prompter, Mr. Rance. Perruquier, Mr. Rick ards, ~of Brydges-stioet.. Covent-garden. The Novel Gas Arrangements by Mr. Palmer and Assistants. The Whole Production being ander the Immediate suPeriritendence of Mr. A. HARRIS. Scene I. THE CAVERNS OF THE GNOME BRITANNICUS IN EUBTERRANEANII SSI A. Gnomes—Britannicus (a fine old English Gnome), one of the olden time, bearing a close resemblance to the " Old Gentleman," fully answering to his co-Gnome-en ; a pure un idulterated British Spirit, strongly opposed to anything in the Shape of Foreign Wines, French Brandy, and great in his be lief in Beer, !Baccy, Beef, and Boxing—Mr. John Neville. Ballabile des Diablotines, by Mesdemoiselles E. Honey, - Hicks, Arlington, Cleveland, Granville, Losh, Brown, Page, Gregory, Rose, Kendall, Martinez, Gosselin, Turtle, Ford, Stewart, Ranoe, and Clare Assistant Gnomes—Blue The, Mr. Williams ; Phosphorus ton, Mr. Samuels ; Candeseentingtou, Mr. A. Smith ; Match well, Mr. Saunders ; Ignisfatty, Mr. P. ,A. James ; Red blazes, Mr. Voller ; Cratervomit, Mr. Spindle ; Torchlight, Mr. Jailer ; Blazeton, Mr. Parkes ; Sulphurite, Mr. Topham ; Flamington. Mr. Paxman ; Gissiugton, Mr. B. Brown ; Crater vomit, Mr. Simkins ; Hotspark, Mr. J. Jones; illumines°, Mr. Mickey Nitrebank, Mr. Pratt. Scene 11, THE LAND'S END, CORNWALL, "WITH Tff CLR OF THE DRAGONS. Good humour—(a familiar spirit, whose familiarity is con ieive to the very reverse of contempt. The prettiest page in Le whole volume of the Pantomime)—Miss Harriet Gordon. Diorama—NO.l. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON, And his Enthusiastic Reception. Diorama—No. 2. QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO NAPOLEON'S TOMB, In the Hotel des luvalides at Paris. " And o'er that shrine the last Remerarance plant* Of Malice 'twist the English and the French !" Scene 111. THE DECK OF " THE GREAT HARRY," FOUR DECKER,_ 128 Guns (the first English Man-of-War). The vessel lying alcngside the Quay at Dover, with THE EMBARKATION OF HENRY THE EIGHTH. Henry the Eighth (a stout monarch, of middle age, residing some time ago at No. 1, Westminster, whose idea WAS that it is impossible to have too much• of a good thing, or a good king. A good wife being a good thing, he thought that the more wives he had the better. Himself being a good king, he decided that he could not mike too" much of himself, and he is accordingly made as extensive as possible in the person of his faithful representative)—Mr. Hsrry Pears 'u. Pretty Poppet (Page to King Henry Vlll.)—Master Slomaa. The Queen of England—Mr. Jones. Maids of the Bedchamber to the English Queen— Mesdlles. Rosey, Pinky, Daisy, Pansy, and Lily. Cardinal Wolsey (a nautical gentleman much accustomed to " swim on bladders in seas of glory,") vide Shakespere —Mr. P. Q. Villiers. Sir Jasper Spritsail (commander of the Great Harry), a weather-beaten seaman, who—paradoxical as it may appear —will not allow himself to be beaten by the weather, and whose maxim is " Needs must when the Old Harry Drives " —Ur. D. Stewart. Ctow—Tem Bowline, Mr. Silver; Jack Halyard; Mr. Up ham ; Jim Foremast, Mr. Partiugton ; Bob Holystono, Mr Ledyard ; Joe Sheetanehor, Mr. T. B. Smith ; Davy Dock,, Mr. Woodfield; Ted Trunchion, Mr. Freby ; Tim Towropo, Mr. Henry ; Dick - Longboat, Mr. Barry ; Peter Stanchion, Mr, Sims ; Bill Figurehead, Mr. Solomon ; Hal Hammock, Mr. Harvey; Charles Caboose, Mr. White ; Sam Sailcloth, Mr. Mazzoni ; Nat Northpole, Mr. Fredericks ; Bill Bunt line, Mr. Payne. Diorama—No. 3. VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO FRANCE, with A STORM at SEA. Scene IV. THE INTERIOR OF THE CHATEAU OF FRANCIS I. Between Guisnes and Ardennes. Francis I.—(Next door neighbour of the aiorosaid Henry VIII., No. 1., Westminster, but who himself " d►dn't quite live in Westminster" for an obvious reason—" ho lived t'othor side of the water.") A monarch of the same age as Henry, and nearly of the same size ; joint author (with Henry VIII.) of the original plot of the gorgeous Drama, YE BELLE ALLIANCE, now represented for the first time in a complete state on the Theatre of European Politics. A monarch with a hooked nose (who, in consequence, always looks sharp)-- Mr. W. Shalders. Pages.--Mesdemoiselles Fitzjerald. Bennett, St. Clair, Webber, Gaveston, E. Gavestou. Prince, dte., Atc. Le Sire de Pirmboisy.—(Lord Grand Chamberlain to the French King)—Mr. H. Caries. Queen of France.—Mr. Gough. Maids of the Bed-Chamber of the French Queen.—Mesdles. Drapblanc, Contrepoint, Ricleaufiu, Oreillerine. Scene V. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Introducing a Grand Pas cleßosi - ere,l;; Miss Emma Horne. Mesdemoiselles Hicks, E. Honey, Gessolin, Banal, Kendall, NTartinez, Rose ' Arlington, Losh, Gregory, Turtle, Ford, Stewart, Page, Rouse, Brown, St. Clair, Granville, Wood ward, and Tressidor. English Courtiers.—Norfolk, 11Ir. Roba. Suffolk, Mr. Ab colon, Buckingham, Mr. Jay. Rutland, Mr. Andrews. Cum berland, Mr. Sphinx: Northumberland, Mr. Cox. Essex, Mr. James. Sussex, Mr. Thomas, French Caurtiers:—Chateau Margoaux, Mr. Thompson. Chateaux Lafitto, Mr. Rivers. Bordeaux, Mr. Abby, St. Jul lien, Mr. Merles, St. Estafet, Mr. Reynolds, Bourgoyno, Mr. Waters. De Chablis, Mr. Tower. De Champagne, Mr. Scott. GRAND TOURNAMENT of the FIELD of the CLOTH of GOLD. • (After Holbien's celebrated Picture hi Hampton Court Palace.) Scene VI. GRAND CORRIDOR IN THE CHATEAU, Leading to the Bed-chamber of the Monarchs. Four Fine ►Normandy Lassies, Six Feet Two Inches in their . Scene VII. THE OUTSIDE OF BLONDETTE'S FARM. Blondette (a village Rosi6re so purely innocent, that she sees no harm in having three lovers at a time, two of them being kings)—Miss Emma Horne. Coquelicot—a rustic youth, whose name being translated vide " Spier's Dictionary") signifies " Poppy." Ho is. never theless, the reverse of Soporific, being particularly wide awake. (He is one of the three lovers alluded to, who does not happen to be a king, and takes his measures accordingly) C. Brown. Scene VIII. The Abode of the Fairy Queen in THE GOLDEN GROVES OF GOOD HUMOUR. (By Mr. Win, Beverley.) The Fairy Queen .. Miss E. Thorne. General Transformation. HarlequinPa l o * ********************************* ******** ** ******* * BARNES.BROWN (The Transatlantic Pantomimist.) Columbine Miss ENEMA HORNE. Clown The GREAT FLEXMORE . ADULTERATION BUILDINGS, TURMERIC-ROW, REDLEAD-SQUARE. &Masa of Ale and a Stomach-ache for 4d. Genuine double- THE NEW CASTLE OF BALMORAL. itustleity in the HigMands—Pipers and 'Pastoralities— Highlana Reel, introducing a grand Flexmorean Medley The Portfolio of Ine.the RS' ibility and Universality = The Inaaptur able Harlequin—Very " fowl" proceedings The Seductive Sedan-choir—Strange Birds in a Cage. ' WATCHMAKERS' ESTABLISHMENT, CHRONOMETI CAL-VILLE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BON NETVILLE BELLHANGERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BELLEVILLE. . Homo from Scotland—Cab Fares and Mayne Force —Tke 'Movements of the Age—What's o'clock" The Clock strikes two"—Tiow to Ring a Belle—Umbrella Courtship—Who's your Hatter ? —Early Closing Association—" Love Laughs at Locksmiths"—La Varsoviana—The Strike of Belles against Time. • • Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signor Flexmorini. HIGH-STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE. Apartments to Let. A Cold Roll for Breakfast—The Organised Nuisance Ta. bloaux —Pauch's Pocket Book—Patent Perambulators Ast ley's—EqUestrian Feats— Policemen and Cooks—Monsieur Tierce—All-roped Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest .way to the Coal-cellar—Spirit Rapping. Eitraordinary. HAIR -DRESSE R'S, FILTER MANUFACTORY, PICKFORD'S PARCEL WAREHOUSE, AND NEWS . VENDER. Tho Purifying of Old Father Thames—The Invasion of London —The Russians sot the Thames on fire—Foreign Fruits and British Stuffs—Odd Importation of Boar's Grease—Sar dinians and Zonaves—The Illustmted London News —The Humours of Good Humour. THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE, Designed by M. Guerin. • ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Mourners at One Altar—Victors on One Throne. The Coro nation with the Corona's of Valour by the Genius of Victory. By general request, another and the last Day Representa tion of the Great Pantomime on. Saturday Morning next, at 2 o'clock. 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It is absolutely necessary that all man should know, that there art priaciples of personal management which cannot be violated without tacurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of Inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties nay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed, end how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there to scarcely any decree of physical infirmity or functiona l .lerarigement to which the timely aid of (science cannot apply a cure . rue Anther ha , for a series of years been engaged in an exte nsive actice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which h a v '' 4nrortunately been too generally confided k the Data of ignore , / emeirics, vrho] , nffict great injury on those wLo are Induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY May be had price Is. of Messrs. 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HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY). . The LORD CLIAICiCELLOR took hi s sea t on th e woolsack at five o'clock, Lord SHAFTESBURY presented petitions from Colesnill and Maxstoke, against opciiiii4 alio Crystal Palace on the Lord's-day; and also one from the latter place artaiii4 the abolition of Church rates. Lord - BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Corporation of Suellield. in favour of the,extensien of county courts, and for the reduction fees paid in the said courts. The noble lord said the subject was one of the greatest importance, and he gave notice of his inten tion to introduce a bill which would :jve the pOrieC of, appeal in -insolVtnit Wi f iettliVnthei . e,,ses. The LORD CHANCELLOR said a bill .was, in pre paration relative to ate subject the noble lord had just mentioned. Earl GREY gave notice of his ' intention to ask • the Minister of War, •on an early day, whether he was in a position to reconcile the discrepancy which appeared in the despatch of Colonel Rose, dated March 25, 1853, and that of Lord Stratford, in reference to the operations in the East ? The Marquis of CLANRICAIME moved for copies of the papers and correspondence !elating to the great clock and bells for the new Pslace at Westminster. The noble lord proceeded to state the proceedings that had taken place on the subject, and to condemn the whole transaction. • _ The Earl of GRANVILLE had no objection to the production of the p:►pers, but defended tlt, course pur sued by the Chief C,nuunissioner of Woods and Forests. He said be believed that before, the end of the year the bells would be chiming. FALL OF XXIV:. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII asked .when the papers relative to the fall of Kars would be laid upon the table of the house ? Earl GRANVILLE said, in the absence of his noble friend the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he wag unable is state the exact tine when they would be laid on the table, but that no unnecessary delay would be allowed to take p!ace. The Earl of DERBY expressed a hops that the papers referred to would see placed before them in a regular and consecutive siliapp, and that they would net be mixed up with those of tlio, gr..oral operations of the war. Lord WODEaOt/SE nsaid that the Government would take care to have the papers produced in the most reffuTar and .onvenietA form. ' Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COSIMONS.—(YESTEa,DAY.) The SPEAKER tOOk the chair at a quarter to fcur o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. M'EvoY took the oaths and his seat for Meath. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Th© standing orders were declared to have been com plied with in the following bills :—Broadstairs Harbour and Pier ; Isle of Wight Steam Bridge ; -London and ‘Torth-Western Railway ; Eastern Counties Railway (Mortgage Debt) ; Ulster Railway ; North Shields and reignmontli Thek; Severn Valley Railway; Glastonbury Railway ; Cheltenham Gas ; Sleaford and Tatterehall Turnpike Trust ; West Hans Gas and Coke Campany ; Ind several other bills. Mr. L. DAVIS brought in a bill to make a railway "ram Carmarthen to Cardigan. The following bills were read a first time :—Cork and Voughal, Deping •Fen Drainage, Eastern Union Rail way, Hey worth Gas, Nottingham Gas, Lowestoft Rail way, Monmouth Road ; Oxford, Wordester, and Wolver• bampton Railway ; Yarmouth Railway, Dundee Har bour, t3cottish Central Rail way, Coventry Gas. Dorset Central Railway ; Thames, Haven, and Dock Railway ; ' Conway Roads, Gloucester GaS; LOndon Dock, Mid land Great-Weatern of Ireland, Lutcin and Dunstable Railway, Luton District Roads, Lambeth Water, Nor. -. , 4ehAftivisorsolnita.As.uran ea, Leicester Roa44, Cannock ;:vlineral Railway, Lincoln W.atAr, Sootl-40 Water, Lancaster Gas i Salishury Railway. CJlebrooke Roads, Halifax Roads, Kuaresloorough and Patley Bridge, Aber leen Scottish, awl Midland, Junction. Mr. WILSON PATTEN nominated the following gentlemen as the Select Committee on Standing Orders :' —Col. W. Patten, Mr. Henley, Mr. S. Estcourt, Mr. V. Greene, Mr. Deedes, Sir R. Ferguson, Mr. E. Deni ,on, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Brarnston, Mr. Thornely, and Mr. E. Lockhart. Agreed to. The saute HoN. MEMBER alio nominated the follow ing gentlemen as the Committee of Selection :—Mr. S. Eitonurt, Mr. Daedee, Mr. T. Greene, Sir R. , Ferguson, Mr. Bonham-Carter, and the Chairman of the Select Committee on Standing Orders.—Agreed to. CLIURCII RATES. Col. GILPIN asked the Home Secretary whether it Ras the intention of the Government to bring in a bill in the present session for the settlement of the church rates question. Sir G. GREY said the greatest attention Lad been given to the subject, tut he could give no distinct as surance or pledge on the 1 4 4. 11.. et. NEW PirtiLlC ROAD. Mr. *HUTCHINS asked the Secretary of State fc.r the Home Department whether it was the intention of the Government t ),nominate a select committee to con .ider the best mode of establishing a public road bs tween Pimlie and Pall. mall. Sir G. GREY said it was the intention to appoint a select committee on the subject. TICKETS OF LELVE. Mr. WISE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Departnient whether the ticket-of-leave system was to be continued I Sir G. GREY said it was not the intention of Go vernment to n,sikp any alforatinn in the act at preieut. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. JAS. MACGRECT'oicascedthe Vice-President 6 the Board of Trade when the report of the officera of that board upon the circam.tances attending the accident which occurred on the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate R 614sv in September last, would be laid on the table. Mr. LO WE said it should be laid on the table to morrow. ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN. Mr. DILLAVYN asked the Secretary of Stlte far the n eme Department whether theattention of Government had been directed. to the insufficieney of the j ..HVg a 4 it now stands to raorass vi.,:ent aseaults upon women and chit and whether it was th e i r i n t en tion to propose any measure to Parliament to aa.end the law relating to such offencea ? Sir G. GREY said the insufficiency of the law had no' been proiled ; and it was not the intention of Govern went to Make any alteration in the uresent law. COUNTY COURTS. Mr. -KEATING asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce in the preient ses sion any measure founded upon the report of the com mission on county courts? Sir G. GREY said a bill was in preparation. PARTNERSHIP AMENDIIENT BILL. In answer to an HoN. MEMBER, Mood o❑ the paper 'for next Mr. LOWE said if hon. members objected to proceed Ve l d ' W e d nes day— o --n b a i t i x i i s el7, l t l h ic e h Partnership Aineudraent and the Joint-stock Amendment Bills —he should postpone the consideration of them till another day. THE LATE CLERK Or THE HOUSE. Lord PA LMERSTON gave notice that te-morrow he should propose a vote of thanks to Mr. W. Ley, the late Clerk of the House. PASSING TOLLS AND LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPING. On the motion of Mr. LOWE, The house resolved itself into a committee on the acts re• lating to merchant shipping. Mr. LOWE, in moving for leave to hring in a bill fir the abolition of passing tolls and the regulation of local dues, ob served that the questions relating to the mercantile marine_ had occupied much of his attention. When tho navigation laws were repealed it became the obvious duty of the Govern ment to look into the condition of the British shipowners, who ware exposed to unrestricted competition with foreign., shipowners, and to see that they wore iu no respect preju diced by laws imposed upon them during the time they en joyed protection ; and he must observe that it was only duo to the gentlemen who had held the office of President of the Board of Trade since that time to say that no department of the State existed in which greater or more beneficial reforms had been effected than in that regulating the mercantile marine of the country. He would not detain the house by a list of those reforms, but would men tion that since the time to which be had alluded all the laws relating to shipping had been consolidated into one act, so that every person whose business it was "to be acquainted with those laws might become conversant with them by the study of that act ; the claims of her Majesty's ships for sal vage, which formerly created so much difficulty and ill feelin 2., had been regulated ; masters and mates were now subjected to examination being before entrusted with the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects; an office bad been created by which sailors were enabled on coming on shore to receive, in respect of their ray, money orders, pay able at any port of the United Kingdom, by which thousands of pounds wore annually saved, which otherwise would have been thfown Eaway in the first orgie of recovered liberty ; a machinery hal been provided. for the collection, without expense to the seaman, of the wages !and effects of deceased sailors, by which. an equal auuMnt, that would otherwise have - been totally lost in ex penses, had been saved to their widows and families; and a systems./ inquiry into wrecks, caused by misconduct or other wiee, had been. instituted, which had operated as a cheek4pon piasters of vessels, and had been the means of introduleing among them habits of sobriety and carefulness which had not always existed before. Nor was this all :—receivers of Aim!. ralty d nits had been created, and the Taws relating to salinge • had been placed on a. touch more•satisfactory footing'; so that in ease of salvage being claimed for veseels, or things.lost from ' Vessels, while the rights of the salvor were duly etteuded to, they were prevented from seizing the wreck, huldiag-it, land treating themselves as its owners, when they had uo colony of right to do so: An important improvement had been etfeeted in the matter of lightiouses. Time sum vested iu the Tri its t Corporation had been estimated at 105,00 01 . a - year, au so wisely and prOvidentially had-it been employed, that new light houses were constantly being erected, great numbers in Scot la.nd and on different parts of the coast.' He merely mentioned these samples of the activity which had prevailed in !the Board of Trade ou this subject since the repeal of the navi gation laws, to show that in the measure which he was about to propose he was only e,.ri ying out a series of important im provements al:eaCy begun. In the year 1852 the right hon. gentleman the member for. .Buckinghamshire, who was then .Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the speech which ho made when he brought forward his budget, made serae remarks, to the effect that - it seemed indispensable, when the principle of unrestricted competition was establ . shed, that the shipping intereist of the country should be relieved from the payment of taxes for lights, and ex;.ressive of his opinion that all duties levied under the name of passing tolls were vexations, griev ous, and opprCssive, .Thos , remarks led to the course adopted by Lend Aberdeen's Government ou shipping. After their uc cession to power a commission issued Under the great seal, empowering three commissioners to inquire into the local dues • odshipping, and report to her Majesty: They investigated the subject with groat diligence, end their report was the founda tion in almost every.respect of the bill li e was about to ask leave 'to intreduec. Trimlthis.bill,• and all that related -to it, the • port of London was ex,2laded, because the City of London and its aft:airs were already under the investigation of another commission, which had since reported ; and its recommenda tions were strictly in accordance with those of the commission whieh sat on local dues on shipping. To give some idea of the magnitude of the subject, he would state that the total amount of dues levied on ships in 1852, for harbours, and .alb other purposes, was 1,095,396/. ; and of that amount there was ap plied to maritime purposes only 820,0991., leaving a balance of taxation levied ou shipping, but not applied to shipping purposes, of 275,2911. • It was with the appropriation of that surplus that they were concerned. They had to inquire what become of this 275,0001. annually drawn from the shipping of this country, and whether it was jus; that it should continue to be so drawn ; and if not, whether, and en what manner they could remedy the injustice. The subject seemed simplo, but it unfortunately branched off into almost infinite ramifica tions. The items making Up -this amount consisted principally of passing tolls, which were tolls levied on ships passing a harbour, but not entering it ; town dues, which were dues levied on shipping by municipal corporations, but not de voted to municipal purposes; -charities, taxes - letiOd on ship ping, but applied to charitable purposes, not to those of shipping ; and special taxes, such as were levied on ships tu the ports of Dahlia and Cork by her Majesty's Customs, and devoted in a great measure to the liquidation of debts due to the. Consolidated Fund, with some small exceptions. The amount of these taxes pretty nearly covered the sent he had 'mentioned ; they amounted to 263,2041. - The figures, ho stated; were those of 1852. Of course, from the great increase of shipping an I commerce, they had very much augmented since that time ; so that the real relief would to mu Ai larger, by at least ten per cent., as computed by those who knew best. Thus, the total of the taxes put down at 263 20S1. was estimated to amount, at • the present time, to 284,0001., and the statements he made with regard to payment would require a similar increase. He had not employed the latest returns because they were not complete. The first charge lie had to consider was that of the passing tolls. They were four in number, levied by the ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Bridlington, , and Whitby. They amounted altogether; to 37,496/....Thupassing toll at Dover was levied on all ships, and was computed to amount at the present time to about 12,0001. It was levied on all vessels not in ballast passing • by Dover above 20 and leis than . 300 tons burthen, and consisted of. a tax on all calm, stone, and other things. This was a tax imposed for the benefit of one party upon another party who derived no advantage from it, because the port of Dover was not available as a port of refuge. It is dry at low water and at high water it is only 7 feet in depth, while for la hours out of the 24 it is inaccessible to vessels so small as 150 tons' burden. Upon this toll, together with other dues, is settled .a debt of 85,514/. The Admiralty is making a large pier—in fact, a new harbour at Dover. Nov, thoio tolls aro levied in respect of the old or inner harbour, which, by the erection of time new harbour, wilt be rendered of.very trivial important ). The commissioners have therefore recommended that the Admiralty should take Dover harbour altegethn• out of the hands of the local authorities, especially as it is used principally for military, or, I may say, for politi cal purposes, and that the passing tolls should be abolished. The next toll to which I will call the attention of the com mittee is the passing toll of Ramsgate, the amount of which at the present time is about 14,050/. It is levied upon all vessels laden with coal, or eulm, steno, and upon other vessels above 20 tons burden, including foreign vessels. Rams gate affords the greatest aceonmio lation for shipping of all these harbours, there being as lunch as eight feet in at low water, although that depth is, of course, quite inadequate to constitute a really good harbour of refuge. Its entrance is narrow, it is difficult of access, it is looked upon as dangerous by mariners, and the ships which pa-s-s by derive no benefit from it. It is of use to shipping lying in the Downs, as they are able to take refuge in it in ease of:1=113a, but it has claim whatever us a harbour o' refuge upon the shipping which passes by, and nothing Cale'.l)e more, unjust than' to make that shipvinie pay for itfunaintenance. Repairs 'are • going oilere which. have turned out £o be more costly and troublesome than it was at first supposed they would be, awl every estimate and every report which is made shows that more and more is likely to be demanded. With a view to mitigate the evil, various saveetious have been made. The general effect of this bill is to transfer the harbour to trustees,• together with certain dues upon coals now levied at Ramsgate, itt order to keep up a sufficient revenue after the abolition of the passing tolls. The next harbour to which I shall refer is that of Bridlington, It is inaccessible at low water, and a toll' is levied upon all coal coming southward of id. por 26 tons of coals. The har bour has a narrow entrance, and is totally unfit for the pur pose If a harbour of refuge. The amount levied by it at the preent time is 2,835/., and its debt is 28,8581. The passing toll at Bridlington differs in one respect from the other pass ing tolls, for it will cease to exist in 1868. The last passing toll to which I have to call the attention of the committee is that of Whitby, to which the same remarks apply as I have made with regard to the others. The h Lrbour is dry at low water, it is unfitted for the purposes of a Barbour of refuge, and it levies a tax wrio4 coal cornin g from the port of New castle—not, mean, from the . modern port upon which the town is situate, but from the ancient port, including the town of Sunderland. The amount of the toll is 4,111/ , the debt Upon which is :32,720!. The total debts upon the two latter lolls, including what I may call the charges iu embryo, such as these for repairs of the harbours, amount to upwards of 60,0001; The next head of taxation upon shipping that 1 have to deal with is what aro called town dues. The dues levied upon shipping by municipal corporations and town authorities, by which I mean authorities having control over lighting, paving, health, and such matters, and applied by them, not to shipping purposes, but to their own purposes, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the year 1852, was 182,0581., and is now probably little short of 200,0001. It is difficult to trace the origin of these dues, Tim Crown had an undisputed prerogative in earlier times to create petty cus .. . _ tome wherever it pleased, awl these customs were often granted to corporations, and often to favourites of the Crown. They were the objects of bargain and side, like any other kind of property, and many of them by this means came into the hands of municipal corporations.. They wore originally saddled with a sort of trust for the maintenance of the harbours in re spect of which they were levied, and it is still the law of. Scot land—much to Vie credit of the jurisprudence of that coml- try—that if a man be the propi:ieto; of a harbour he has an implied trust to keep such harbour in repair. Bat in Bag laaathe r:ghts of property have always been more darab:o and permanent than the duties imposed upon property. The tendency among us, in cases in which trusts have eon created upOn property, is for the property to remain, but for the trusts or obligations upon it gradually to drop off. Such was the case with regard to all these harbours. They gradually came into the possession of the old self-electel corporations which were destroyed by the Municipal Reform Bill, and these cor porations disposed of the rcvenuss much as they pleased. Then came the Municipal Reform Bill, abolishing the old cor porations and substituting for them bo lies elected by the people. It also seized upon all the corporate property and ap propriated it to corporetion purposes. The whole of the re venue to which the corporation was entiVed, whether derived from the rent of estates or from the duties levied upan ship- ping, or from any other sources, went into oue borough fund and the 911 section of the act (sth and 6th of William IV., chap. 76) declared that this fund should first be applied to the payment of debts, to the administration of local justice, and to the maintenance of local police, and the surplus, if any remained, was to be cxpendoi for the benefit of the inhabi tants of the town. Thus, by the operation of the Municipal Corporations Act, in consequence, as I apprehend, of an oversight on the part of those who prepared it, the tolls levied upon shipping became part of the borough fund, and were saddled with a trust for the benefit, not of the shipping, but of the inhabitants of the town. Before that act was passed the corporations were at liberty to do justice to the shipping, if they pleased, by applying the money obtained from it to its benefit; but they have since had no choice, and, therefore, if I denounce as unjust the enormous gains derived by them from this source, I shall do so without the slightest intention of imputing iujustice to them in applying the money to bo rough purposes, as in doing so they only carried out the ex press directions of the act. Au example will be better than env amount of disquisition to enable the committee •te nu dersta.ml the working of the present system. I will therefore take the most pr3miuent instauee with which I am acquainted —that of the great and opulent town of Liverpool. (Hear.) I am not so sanguine as to imagine that the hen. gentlemen who represent that important constituency will be persuaded by anything I can say to yield their assent to the provisions of this bill; and I will, therefore, state my case against them at once, in order that the committee may understand the great mistake under which they aro labouring. (A laugh.) Liverpool is said to have acquired its (Ines by purchase -from the family of Lord Sefton, about 100 years ago. The whole amount of town dues appropriated to municipal purposes iu England, Scotland, and Ireland is 163,0001., and of that amount the municipal corporation of Liverpool levied in 1852 ' by dues upon shipping no less than 105,2501. (Bear.) Out of this they are obliged by law to apply to maritime purposes the munificent sum of 4001. a year. (A laugh.) They are, however, better thauthe law obliges them to be, for in that year they ap plied to those purposesuo less than 3,0441., the remain derbeing expended for the benefit of the ratepayers of the berough. The debt upon this sum amounts to 1,017,6961. The muni cipal revenue derived from rates levied in the borough and from property belonging to the corporation is 103,325/., and no doubt since 1852 the revenue derived from tax" upon shipping has increased 22 per cent., and now amounts to about 125,000/. The value of rateable property in Liverpool is 1,400,V001. Besides the euormons tax I have mentioned, the docks of Liverpool levy on the shipping 273,2841., the whole of which is by no means paid for services conferred. A ship is liable to pay if it discharges or takes in any cargo in the stream. The steamer Sarah Sands, from America, was too heavily laden to go into Birkenhead docks, and discharged part of her cargo in two lighters. Stilt she was made liable to Liverpool docks for P this, and paid 611.. The steamer Brazil took iu a fewpackages in the stream, and paid 44/. to Liverpool docks. The severity of mtc.tlyutBpiect:ihtdlsi,irlieit.eu6envieoaetaliyoki:ffisviinhli.oteiliteyaigen:lss.sioie.i:togrs.p municipal this tax is not to be exceeded, and what makes it worse is that n the Liverpool portexteuds from the river Dee to the Ribble, and from the entrance of the Mersey to Runcorn. It extends also to Birkenhead ; and Birkenhead and Runcorn have to,cen tribute to the Liverpool docks and town dues. It is a Come plaint on the part of some that 'persons. in South Wales, }f, they send coals thence to Runcorn, pay. a duty of 2d. per ton, which is equal to the whole of the royalty demanded of the owner of the coal; and, en the part of others, that'iron from Scotland is soot by Fleetwood instead of Runcorn, to avoid the duty of 3d. per ton. - 'The immunity of the freemen of Liverpool from these duties is also complained of ; and it is stated that a freemen was enabled to obl.aiu a certain eon, tract in preference to .another person, because he got the goods necessary for carrying out the oontraet toll free. This, tural are c. nvedifit otpcti t tisrth,aaiuu n ),oelsiniseceib e ieim:tic.unts n esiliial..iii nhalcHiwtytt e .otsjbee a u.itcinaliaaai s lailr ttlet,ir; o ia. hlvplieca f iecniejohae,sl. a ylo)dnattaepil (i, m il an for whose benefit the tolls are int pesed not contributing towards them, and being enabled 0001. e, and l iously her s ude thereby successfully to compete with his neighbour.. In con sequence of these duties a great deal of trade is driven out of ter, ese ll three acgi- e teloiyt a h o i.ogn itt y e t elwto t etas all r ..l\ t iievy s e .t o tfh , AttN, :a levitytoot h oo g . htf i gtust r iiel e Lliu, jenowbu,aoysw spokenl l lo l ev'Lnayileio;ditt(iNeii.oohhs disad vantage vhanhosheet:e: total of the to Wn dues is 118,500/- It s ably only l o i I enormous ivlyuo regulationssthey heyi tribute hfoarvethtdisturb i :o b srt i t t hl t isi e e.abru l e e cif y tooa i im e .re d y: be causee Liverpool pockets seine 100,0001. at the expense of the shipping interest, that town is really a gainer to that extent ;• for thesodues doter people from coming to it, and cause •a circuitous mode of transit to be had recearse to. [The right honourable gentleman next referred to the large amount taken from the shipping interest for the Trinity-liouees and for charities, by some of which only the shipping interest was beaeiitteil Taking the case of tintp.tell_ Trinity-house a. - an example, the right lion, geetleenan - read the foll Owing stAtetuent :•;11,e ceipts-Tolls on ships and goods, 15,0011. 7s. 4d. ; til;'fereu tial dnes, consolidated find, 8,245/. 12s. lid. ; remaining revenues from property, &c., .5,313/. 65.-total, 28,5631. 7s. 3d. Expenditure (accounted for) -Buoys, beacons, and other shipping purposes, 5;113/. Is. 7d.; elder brethren and assistants, 14 U.; almshouses, pensions and charities, 15,983/. 17s. 74.-total, 21,2401. 19s. 2d. Unaccounted for, 7,3191. Bs. 15.] Thus, as regards this charity alone, the effect of the measure will belto free the trade of Hull front a tax of 10,000/.. a-year, and the Consolid ited Fund from a charge 'of Mee* the ee unjustoae tienle: advantageyi)principle,la cf eostfhtt oleigeefit.oitsit. 8,0001. a-year. Another subject worthy of attention is the case of the Russia corporation. This company was originally established by charter in the reign of Philip and Mary,. on the old principled f monopoly of trade. It seems to have been similar to the Levant and other trading companies having a monopoly of trade with Russia, and power of governing the persons engaged in it. Under these powers certain tolls were established, which are still levied. This company levies in Russia, at St. Petersburg, about 12,0001. on British shipping. If the war with Russia has had no other good effect, it has, at all events, saved the shipping interest from the payment of that sum. Of this UMW. tle • stun of 1,4001. is for a Russian Customs' tax, 2,5001. is for British episcopal churches in Russia, and the remaining 8,0001. or upwards is applied iu paying agents at St. Petersburg and Cronstadt for communicating with the Russian. Government (as if British merchants wore not able to - communicate with the Government themselves), and for other agency business, which, if wanted at all, ought to be done and paid for by voluntary arrangement between the merchant; and agent. Besides the foregoing, the company levy in English ports on goods imported from Northern Russia 2,178/. By the accounts of the' company it appears that a ' portion of their money, every farthing of which is derived from British shipping, except the interest on their savings though I suppose those eavings were originally, derived from the same ,ource-was expended in 1852 is the following mane nor :-Salaries, &c., chaplains, 1,059/. 9s. 9d. ; ditto, agents, 500/. ; pensions t a widow and a clergyman, 150/. ; rent of office, 50/. ; plate to gavernor, which is an annual charge, 85/.; courts and .committees, 2201. ; salary, &e., secretary, 3001 : ditto, sergeant, 30/. ; Custom-house expenses, 12/. lls. Gd. ,• Sound. lists, 48/. Ge. tit. ; printing, &c., 14/. 7s. ; postage, &e., 141. ss. ; ditto, Russia, 12/. 9s. Bd. ; stamp duty on freedom, 14/. ; law expenses, 31. 18s. 6d. ; grant for schools at St. - Petersburg, 100/. ; grant for organ at Moscow, 257. ; miscellaneous, 174/. 12s. 7d, ; housekeeper, 121. Os. 105. ; total, 2,894/. ls. 45. There is a charge of 25/. for au organ at Moscow, a praiseworthy object no doubt, but one which does not seem to have much to do with shipping. Then there are the annual charges-such as 1,0001. a year for chap lains, and 3001. for secretary: Some of the extraordinery ex penses are rather peculiar: In 1838 there is a charge of 1931. for an entert dunicut to the Russian Embassy on the occasion of the (tieen's coronation, and, in 1839, there was an enter tainment to the Grand Puke Alexander, the present Emperor of Russia, which cost 5951. There is 141. for expenses con nected with the receipt of his portrait; 2101. for engraving, and 2001. for framing and embellishing the portrait of the late. Emperor Nicholas. Last of all, there is 1001. for the church wardens at Moscow.. Wherever the seaman wont he seems to have been consideied fair game. Something w•ts to be got put of him, and, accordingly, innumerable corporations appear to have lastoue 1 on him, and the funds which they have drawn from him, they have considered themselvesat liberty to apply just as they chose,.witho ut the slightest sense of respnusiiillity to anybody. I will take another chmity-one which is conneeted with the city of Landon, but which, as it is not included in the report of the City Commissioners, will have to be dealt with in this bill. It is the Marine Society, which in 1790,had trans ferred to it from the Westminster Fish-matket Trustees the right of levying 2s, on every boat-load of fish which passes the Nore. It is a society I believe of the most deserving character, welch has f, e. its objec'c, the apprenticing of tae children of destitute seamen, and I have not the sligittestovisn to say it recei than 5,9891. qu .er and 97G.'. to the inspector, who was appela_ forestalling and regrating. The charity only received3,slse, so that the expenses of collection amounted to 42 per cent. 'I pass now to special taxes on shipping which aroicollected by her Majesty's Customs, amounting to 13,8651. Of this sum the greater part is collected at the harbour of Kiugstown, and about 4001. is collected in the shape of entry dues at Cork. I am not quite certain now asto the circumstances under which this last sum is collected, whether they aro such as to call for compensation, but I will take care to inform myself on the point. I come now to the case of the differential dues. The committee is uo doubt aware that many of these corporations and charities have been in the habit of imposing differential dues on shipping ; that is, higher dues on foreign vessels than on those which are the property of British owners. Iu 1810 this country concludei a reciprocity treaty with Portu • gal, and in 1815 with the United States ; but when these treaties came to be put into operation it was found that these localdues stood in the way. An' act was accordingly passed which treating these dues in accordance with the political econoinyof the time, as the property of the corpora,tioas fiy which they were enjoyed, took away all power of levying them in every case where these reciprocity treaties came lute operation, but at the same time enabled the Treasury to give compensation. This same principle of compensation was ex tended likewise to all reciprocity treaties then existing, or which might afterwards be made. Under this act no less than 52,7911. has been paid from the Consolidated Fund for compensation for differential dues during the year 1855. This compensation has increased very rapidly ; in 1845 it wes 22,000/. ; in 1846, 27,003/. ; in 1847, 31,003. ; in 1848, 3.1,200/. ; in 1849, 52,000/. ; in 1853, 44,000/. ; and, uo doubt, if allowed to go on increasing, it would soon amount to 10),004. In the same way foreign vessels have been obliged to pay higher for pilots than British vessels, and, as the reciprocity treaties require the abolition of that privilege, a large sum has been paid as compensation for that abolition. The town of Liverpool received is 1852 6,500/. from the Con solidated Fund as compensation loss of these pilotage dues, over and above the compensation for the differential dues ; Newcastle received 3,5 V. for the pilotage and 6,000/. for the differential dues, and'Hull 10,5001. for the dues and 501. for pilotage. The question now cornea, how are we to deal with all these charges ? And, first, as to the passing tolls. The Government has no hesitation in saying that these tolls ought in every instance to be abolished ; they rest on no ground of justice or policy; on the contrary, they rest upon claims which, now that the principles of taxation are better understood, would be repudiated by every free citizen. The true principle of taxatioe I take to be thii, and it is the guide we have followed iu framing this bill, that it is only allowable for a portion of a class or a division of the country to tax itself for its own benefit, but that it has no right to tax its neighbours or the community at. large. There is always a question about the incidence of these dues. Part of them undoubtedly fall on the shipping interest, which immediately pays them, and part upon the consumer, but in the various fluctuations of the market it cannot be denied that a great portion of them must be paid by the shipping interest. I look upon it that the parties concerned are the public at large and the shipping interest. As to passing tolls, the bills provide in the first instance that they shall be totally and entirely abolished ; but they leave behind them a difficulty as to dealing with the debts connected with them. At Dover, where the toll is 12,030/. a year, the debt amounts to no less a sum than 85,0001., which is charged upon this toll and other property. We propose, and the Admiralty has consented, that the Admiralty shall take the management of that harbour, shall receive its revenue, wi th exception of these tolls, and shall be liable fur its debt; s o that those who advanced the money will obtain, in exchange for the , securi y of these tolls which are to bo abolishe d, that of the Gover nment. At Ramsgate there is no deb t, but, what is almost equivalent to it, large works for the improvement of the harbour,h improvementsgich o t i i onbfgeal believe e mo t h u n o e l e d i f - c e 2 e h . , s eo s' a7 t o : 1 1 0 ;1 ; propose that the cost of these frayed partly out.of the income which is already vested in the harbour authoritles of Ramsgate, portly a-year, the product of a tax upon coals, to be transferred to them from the town a uthorities by the operation of a subse quent portion of this bill, and partly out of certain new dues, which it is suggested should be imposed. If these sums are not sufficient, we must have recourse to some other fund to make up the difference. tAt Bridlington there is a debt of 28,000/., and at Whitby a debt of 32,0001,, which will both b e paid out of the Consolidated Fund, and the payment of which tt thinkspassing thattollsh If this si t he se saa h be abolished, ea!d any one out of the Consolidated Fund, I \yid refer to the fact that, in the speech I have already quoted, the. right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli) recommended that 100,000/. of the public revenue should be devoted to the purpose of extinguishing these maritime dues ; and I will also remind the house that the Government will be greatly a gainer by the abolition of its payments on account of differential dues to which I have referred. That disposes of the passing tolls. The town dues, or dues levied upon shipping, and applied to the purposes of municipal corporations, also appear to me to be susceptible of very simple treatment. I grant that there is legala right to these dues, because it has been given by act of Parliament; but I cannot conceive upon what prin ciple, ese (equo et torso, a corporation can be justified in rais ing, by taxing the shipping which conies into its harbour, stuns applied for the benefit, not of shipping, but of the rate payers:of the town. I have shown how injurious such a practice is to the places where it obtains ; and I need only add that the shipowner is clearly as much entitled to justice as the ratepayer ; and that, as in the case of the r ate p ayer, all sums raised by rates levied upon him a rc applied to pur poses in which he has an interest, so the shipowner has a right to claim that all sums raised by taxes on shipping shall be devoted to purposes in which shipping is interested. I will put the case uo higher, and it seems to um that, put so, it is impossible to answer it. Of course this we house h h shall r d of vested interests; but over and over again as ea e cided—and I think it will not go back from that decision — that in this niatter there is the widest possible distinetioube- „k,,,,,,„,,,,. r v....,.,..•,..,,,, tween corporations er public bodies and private iiidiriduale: .._ fr * 7 ; ,, , , ...7. Mr. Hallam, a high authority on such points, says, in the.7,l - 4:1, 0 .. 4:,V„, first volume of his "Constitutional History of Englend,lthat ' l r - eet ereelie; s 'ee Parliament, although bound to respect the legal interest of a S private persons, is not withheld by any such rule with regard to corporations when it can be shown that the abolition of such interests is for the public benefit, or that their reten tion would be unjust er impolitic. 1 therefore conclude that we shall do no wrong whatever by relieving the shipping interest from the payment of the enormous sum of 182,0001. —probably now more than 200,000/.—a-year, wrung from them by various corporations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and applied to matters in which it has no inte rest, and from which it derives no benefit whatever. The matter is not, however, so simple as it might appear. 1 T e funds raised by these dues are charged with debts, and the question raises what is to be done with the debts ?, Her Majesty's Commissioners unhesitatingly. recommended that where these debts had been contracted for town purposes in which the shipping had no interest they should be trans ferred to the borough fund. To the justice of that recom mendation I cannot wholly subscribe. It seams to me that the corporations, contracting debts on the faith of the re sponsibility Of these two funds—the borough fund, and that raised by the dues on shipping—did ne more than they legally Mielit and were bound to do for the interest of the boroughs; and it would be a great hardship to make them liable for the whole of debts which they would probably never have Ci)11- (trActe I had they known that the revenue deri ve d f rom t ax i ag 'ships was to cease. The prieci.ple we propose to adopt is this :—As to the creditor there will be no change. He will still have his remedy against either the borough fond or that derived free' the duties on ships; but, as between these funds, we propose to divide the debt iu proportion to their respective amounts. We propose to take this sum—as the borough fund, or the lund arising from the taxes on town property; is to the fund arising from the taxation of shipping, so shall be the portion of the debt horse by the borough flied to that borne by the shipping dues fund. The debts charge able on town dues in common with other town revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland, are 2,576,3781. ; the town dues on shipping, 182,058/. ; the remaining town revenues are 416,010/, ; the sum, thereflre, is— as 416,0101. is to 182,0381., so will be the portion of 2,576,378/. which shall be borne by the borough fund to that which shall be borne by the shipping dues rend. The result of this will be, that the portion to be borne by shipping will be 784,2721., and that by other town revenues 1,860,001.; thus it will appear that, if all corporatiohs were equally indebted, and all the debts and all the dues could be accumulated into two funds, the debts might be paid off in Uwe , years and a half. , Of course, as the debts are unequal, this cannot be done. Of the amount of town dues on shipping, 182,1581., we calcu late that 14,0001. must be applied to shipping purposes, and the remainder. 168,158/.; will be at the disposal of the bill, Now for the manlier in which we propose to carry out our objects. We propose that these town dues, hitherto col leeeted.by..theenimieipal authorities, shall henceforth be.eol lected by the ce;Mmissioners of Customs ; and that in the case of leases of these tolls the rent shall be paid over in the same manner, saving any encumbrances which there may be upon the leases. To facilitate the discharge of the debts, every town authority shall be called upon to furnish to the Board of Trade an account of its revenue for three years up to the passing of this act, showing how much came from shipping dues, and how much from other sources, upon the receipt of which account the Board of Trade is to ascertain the amount of debt to be borne by each species of revenue iu the manner already mentioned, Creditors may use their right to go against either fund ; but if one fund pays more than its fair proportion of the debt it shah be reimbursed by the other, We also provide for the formation of a sinking fund to pay off the debt. It is evident that the sooner a eiertner ship of liability of this sort is.dissolved the better, an d' to ac complish this dissolution, we provide a sinking fund to pay off the debts, and also to facilitate any arrangement for bor rowing money and for other purposes. ”As regards such of these dues as may not be required for the purposes of the sinking fund or for the payment of interest, it is propoetsi that there shall be reserved to the Queen a power of abolish ing or retaining them as she shall think fit, by an order iu Council, the object being that the harbours may be iu no danger of " starving," so to speak, through the sudden with d-awal of the funds on which they have been accustomed to depend for support. In the interest of the creditor also, who Might otherwise •be left without his remedy, it is desirable that a power should be reserved of raising the dues anew in case it should. be found necessary to do so, With respect to charities, it is intended to apply to them the same rule of treateueut to which municipal corporations are to be sub jected, with this difference, however, that in dealing wits• charities we shall be relieved from the disturbing element of debt. We propose to take the collection of the charitable revenues out of the hands to which it is at present confided, and to intrust ii to those of the Customs' authoriths who are to 'be empowered to allocate of these funds as much as may be required for strictly maritime purposes, to pay all pensious already vested for life, and to abolish the remainder, or to apply themes may be found necessary to shipping purposes. The Trinity-house finds that it has under its control certain liehttiouiee not within the jurisdiction of harbours, and it is proposed to transfer the management of all such lighthouses to the Triuity-house of Deptford Stroud, so as to make the system of admiuistration as complete and uniform as pcsdble As it is very possible that the c airsa proposed to be taken under this bill may be assailed and resisted by arguments founded on the old plea of vested rights, there is.a precedent which, as I think, satisfactorily disposes of all such pre- tences, and to that precedent 1 would especially direct the attention of the house. In 1853 her Majesty's Government made an application to the Trinity-house to discontinue the practice of levying dues for charitable purposes. The Trinity house very properly took up the cause of the charitees, and offered every possible opposition to the proposal of the Gee, verninent. A correspondence ensued, from which I will take the lib: r';,y of reading a few passages, which place the quce. Mon in a very clear light, and vindicate a principle which was noeonly.sound in theory, but beneficial in practice, for it .was subsequently acted upon, and caused a saving to the ship ping interest of this country of no less a stun than 105,00 u/. a year, and was a 1,,, of great service in promoting the erec tion of lighthouses:— '" The Trinity-house Corporation, in their representation, call attention to the case of Royal grants of lighthouses and light dues to individuals, and to the recognition, by acts of Parliament, of these lighthouses and light dues as the private property of the individuals to whom they ware so granted; and they contend that the claims of the corpora tion are at least as deserVing of favourable consideration as those of individuals, They further allege that the light dues belongin to the corporation have been from time to time invested in the erection or the purchase of lighthouses ; and they submit that the lighthouses and light dues beloy - to 4he- alienation of property devoted to the benefit of decayed mas ters and seamen of the merchant service and their families, and a gift of that property to the shipowners; and they In sist that such a measure would be neitherj ustuor expedient." To the arguments thus urged tee committee of the Board of Trade, to whose consideration the matter was referred, re plied thus— " The lords of tho committee do not call in question the title of the corporation of the Trinity-house to the property so alleged to be vested in them ; but there is, as their lord ships submit, this distinction between the case of the corpora tion and that of the individuals referred to—that the proper , y so vested in the corporation has been held and is held by them, so far at least as relates to the light dues in question, in trust for public purposes and liable, therefore, to be dealt with upon coasiderations Of public policy. Their lordships cannot admit that there is any violation of the principle of property in the reduction of a tax levied for public purposes where no vested interests have been acquired in the proceeds of the tax ; and where the tax in question is one levied upon a parti fular class of your Majesty's subjects, without that class deriving any adequate advantage in return (and any excess of light elues beyond the amount necessary to main tain the l'glits is a tax of this character), the reduction of such a tax not only involves no violation of the principle of property, hut is in the highest degree just and expe dient. (Hear.) Theirlordships cannot recognise any vested rights in the expectants of the bounty dealt out to poor mariners and their families, at the pleasure of the cor poration, from the surplus revenues of the lights; since it is of the essence of a vested interest that the individuals to whom the privilege is secured are ascertained and known to the law ; and while their lordships would religiously abstain from interfering in the slightest degree with the pensions or other benefits already conferred upon any person whatse:ver, they can acknowledge no injustice in resolving, upon grounds of public policy, to confer upon no new persons a right to which at present no individual can advance any claim or title." -That, I take it, is the common sense of the matter. (Hear.) The principle is a sound, just, and sensible ono, end it has th s further recommendation, that it is not simply theoretical. for it has been already acted upon, and by means of it n oat important benefits have been secured to the shipping interests. (Hear.) As for the Russia Company, the tax which that cor peratiou has been in the habit of levying en Euglish shipping will be completely done away with by this bill. (Hear.) The war has already suspended the operations of the Russia Com pany, and I hope that with that peace, the early approach of which we are now awaiting, will not revive the right of the Russia for trailin the a either I M e o r a d j o . o e f u s a t b y e t ii s t a i s , p e u l s i a:i e n o c a b t i s t viewedrgig'evli t.h o i • n o f schogis thecaot company T T) . uy Petersburg, teoT 'ana:e l' strict, is (ii ct t , are t ehiol those ilaudable,gly who p a andply t nothing such purposesexceedthinigcan on the credit that of their own, or money which they are authorised so to dispose, funds not belonging to him, and be generous but it is very little to o . flo h rs e een h tt c oi , a n pl o (u u ffdt r u • ae • o en.n f sr e. mani l l o n ds y Tothoe. seTt.m.hht The safalyo:ttrsb;eeqh divided au s h teis o tti u leo b s i n. misappropriate at the expense of other people. 111 U e ot l? into two classes hose held by corporations and local bodies, which a mount to 23,5451., and those held by private persons, into whose possession they have passed either by purchase or inheritance. The 23,545/. paid out of the consolidated fund as that arises ial ea is t° Th e a lv t an equivaleet for differential dues we mean to abolish altoge ther. (Cheers) A river May not mount higher than its source. It may have been justrand expedient to respect the right of public bodies to tax foreigu at a higher rate than British ships as long as the principle of protection was allowed to go • vern our legislation; but when that principle was discarded in favour of, the free-trade system, and when the country gave its sanction to the doctrine that our legislation should be framed without reference to other nations, simply with a view to what might be most conducive to our own in terests, this claim of public bodies to tax foreign ships . at a higher rate than British ceased to have the slightest founda tion in justice ; and those who may be interested in its main tenance, so far from having any reasonable ground of com plaint because of the course now about •to be taken, should think themselves very lucky for having been so long per mittedi to enjoy a privilege that rested on so fragile a fount . a ka laws it did not wait to see whether or not other c n o n u e u r tr we ties. When Parliament proposed to repeal the navigation would pursue a similar policy, and so in like e with a out paus should not hesitate, upon public grounds, andexample, to abolish these ing till other nations followed our and these subordinate corpora (dared policy of this country; the sn worn 'differential duties on shipping. Such is avowed and de. tions are bound to follow in its policy _ .1 _ e corpora tion of the State. At least, if th i e re h h ' t t f v u e l re c f l ra ai nu: refrained from e adopt ing ne o . nlosed to the imnPeilsas : tio:uf for settled princi ples• f imperial legislation. I apprehend that if and maxims o were to be argued now, we should undoubtedly this question a vi c ut o t n irti the removal of the existing unequal refuse compensation for iatlnieicytilizeny, .1 taxes on foreigners ; and we are thus entitled to apply this rule to the payment duo for the next year, and so to :emit these i mpos ts for the future. We ther e f ore propose th a t th e 23,000/. which is paid from the consolidated fund to munici pal col p • ora • tions and other public bodies should he at once abolished. Then:earthling 29,2451. is due either to individuals in reward of services rendered (as in the case of pilots, who are (matted to higher compensation for the higher fees they would have charged on the principle of differential duties against foreigners), or to persons whose property has come down to them by regular and notorious descent. These persons are entitled to compensation, but not out of the consolidated ftind—the charge upon which in both of these instances we think ought altogether to cease. In the latter case, how ever, we arc of opinion that powers should be granted en abling the parties to raise their rates so as to indemnify them selves for the loss they will sustain ; our assumption being that the individual is entitled to compensation, while the cor poration is not. By this transaction we shall relieve the consolidated fund from the payment of 51,0004 a-year—a .en of destitute seninen, andl have not the slightest wisu they suunnt tnat the ngutuouses anu light dues belong to anything inSjaparnelltralt,P , 'Jt, „but2froai 1.t:t45 to 1854 thetn for . the purposes of the corporation, and are in th e iv..,/ ont ofike pockets of t:er:7l 4 a llorr lislh)rmen no l ess Aryl,' 3,.... tit! • . open, : . r those purpos es • and they i,959/. One (in trtn• of this sit •4156t0 the s.?,cretary, allege that fA alto ,;, .n pease of int s int a i n i ng the .. a • ',the - ' 4 ,;i. , '., fliers the use c,f this property '. . 'M. to the inspector, who was appointed to prevent without any. ge lights would be, as afiteting the corporation's chariti es, au ailing and regrating. The charity only received 3, 5151 ., f 41h* ravrtnr.ima ea ow.ll no f LAn :1 Illfmnted to 42 her cent. alicnat:on of property devoted to the benefit or decayed uins- r , no