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) of:er many possibilities of obtain log LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Akre now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distribution receive, PREVIOUP to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line 'either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXiabISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £64 £lOO £250 £ 1,000 66 110 300 1,200 70 120 500 1,800 80 150 600 4,000 110 200 700 22,508 STERLING, amnunting together to 142,9941. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT •t MADAME VP:STRIS. - - THIS EVENING, APRIL 2, Will be repeated the New Comedy. called BUBBLES OF THE DAY.- Lord Skindeep, Mr. W. Farrel: ; Sir Phenix Clearcake, Mt. Harley; Captain Smoke, Mr. Charles Mathews; Spreadweasel, Mr, Bartley Pamela Sprcadweascl. Mrs. Nishett ; Florentia, Mrs. W. lAcv , Mrs. oa.ato, Mrs. W. West ; Guinea, Mrs. Orger. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CA.T.—Wwirupciratyme (King of Nererminditinamia), Mr. J. r.land ; Princes Paragon, Precious, and Placid (his three Sens'. by Madame ST.stris. Miss Murrhy, and Miss Lee; Jingo, Mr. I iarlay ; t' • White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at hat f.:eist ,ix, amt the P t 7formances begin at Se v e n . Dress Boxes is., S e cond Price ;Is. ; First and Second Ci rc l es Second Price I's. ; Pit :is., Second Price .'s. ; Gallery Is. Ticket.; and Pla'oes for the Poxes to be taken of , Mr. Grogan, a t th e B ox-of lice, from Ten till Emir, where Season Pickets may be bad upon ao: oration. P r i va te foxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Kook. 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unpreeedented Splendour. THIS EVENING. APRIL 2, Will be pettoinied an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL , OF THE HAIEEAI, HER KOoltnisH LIVER, AND HI WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and App•nistmcnts ; a Dinhle Company, Equestrian and Dramatic, and the tniest Stud of Horses in th.s World. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever befo , e witnessed, THE SCENES IN THE CIRC7LE, introduc ng Mr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Col;cction of Animals, consisting •f nu ineroui and inatehleis Cream coloured Horses, Amlalusian Chargers, *dotted Cour , ers, Fairy Palfrey,, and Pigmy Poneys, and the inost talented Vauhers, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. To conchu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called TILE FAMILY MAN; OR, 110 W MANY MORE WIVES. THE IN DIA SUN. IN A FEW DAYS WE PROPOSE PUBLISHING A MA P, sit() \SIG OUR INDIAN POSSESSIONS, ♦ND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRIES OF AFFGHANISTAN, (THE DEPI.OII.IIILE SEAT OF wAlt), NEPAUL, THIBET, BURMAH, &c. &c. TOGETHER WITH THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA. *: Orders for the " India Sun" rceeived at the Sun-office, 112, Strand, London, and by all News-agents. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, March 31, 1842, TO CORRVSPONDENTS. The letter of " S." was received. If wa cannot find room for it our correspondent will receive a notice to that effect. 1 1 .1./E WEATTIER.—NOON, APRIL 1. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DULA.IDE I 'I'REET. Thermometer... 44 I Highest 45 ; Lowest 39 Barometer 29.40.—Wind N.W.—Freezing Point !.!tl, Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 16 minute; after 6 I Evening :39 minutes after 6. 0, . '' 4 ,v, 4 IF,AL. - 4 4Y, ,:. 'no • 1 7 (1 u 1 134. • . '',.. tii i 77 -5 1 t ' .ti, ' " i it / t 6 Ddot-i' ' • - i‘ Ctic c§un, LONDON : SATUR,DAY MORNING. APRIL 2, 1342. Denying as we, and as all the Anti-Corn law party deny, that there is now any necessity whatever to impose additional taxes. o❑ the peo ple, it is no business of ours, or of theirs, to suggest by what other taxes less unjust, less in quisitorial than au income tax, the sum Sir R. PEEL says be 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 It. 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, " O n the Taxation of the United . Empire" shows, have raised 3,700,004 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 reimposing the income tax ; that he might have, with advantage, laid on a house tax of fifteen per cent., which would have yielded 3,700,0001.;, 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 net doubt the productive power of such taxes, for 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 Liui in fixing it on the rest of the people— T 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 peaee-by threatening to give up the Govgrinnent, and throw public affairs into confusion, unless he be allowed to have his own way. Is the nation, then, to be tortured because Sir R. PEEL is the spoiled child of the Tory party 1 Au account, which appears in another part of The 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 utunery, without the restraints of a 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 or one sex i n N ew H o ll an d, in boarding-schools, and on board :hips, and it is scarcely prudent, for any connue , mat or pe. cuuiary adrantage, to establish communities which cause the like fears and the like com plaints. We arc not quite sure that our work houses, under the present system, notwithstand ing the vigilance of authority, are nut open to the same suspicion; an d we notice the subje ct to express a hope and give tt warning., that the example at Neilston 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. JOHN COCHRAN 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 barrack, and pouring 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 was removed. Seventy or eighty suffered severely; six or eight continued seriously ill on Tuesday afternoon. We must refer to the description for the parti culars of the alarming scene ;—happily none of the women died, or Mr. COCHRAN might have found 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 remind s us o f th e a tt em pts made at Glasgow a few years ago, when trade disputes were rill?, 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 front the shafts, almost creep ing on their hands 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 linade to subserve a defence of the Corn-laws. Most of the coal-owners are 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 laud and coal-owners of Lancashire, there are some like. Lord F. EGERTON, who have a reputation fur 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, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, They who their thoughtless 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. How many, struck into the•sordid hut Of cheerless poverty," they think, we are afraid, still less of the immense mass' of misery which is caused to pro vide them with luxuries, 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 : yould be, A ve 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, and the equipages which are purchased by the degradation and slavery of the young of their own sex. It is announced that Sir ROBERT PEEL 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 of Sir ROBERT PEEL, who having just convulsed the empire by his arrogant policy, is, like some sighing, sentimental swain, walking about Brighton Cliff's, 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 ROBESPIERRE 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 cone essions 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 deflutct 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 clai n.s. We are sadly distressed by the lamentations of the farmers, which flow in with doleful sounds from all parts of the country. From John o'G roat's to the Land's End there is nothing but weeping, and wail ing, and cursing—painful regrets for the past, and dismal forebodings for the future. They expected protection to agriculture from the Tories, protection to the church and all monopolies, and at the elections therefore they came forward in high spirits, and by triumphant majorities secured Sir R. PEEL in his seat as Prime Minister. They waited patiently, for they bad no doubt in his fostering care, till he should he pleased to announce his plans, their hopes were buoyed up by the presence of the " Farmers' Friend" in the Cabinet, till towards the opening of the Session they became a little alarmed by his secession, but still had confidence in their Tory patron till the fatal Budget came upon them like the shock of an earthquake, and left them in a state of helpless amazement. We have been the dupes, say they, of our landlords, who are the dupes of Sir ROBERT PEEL—we have been betrayed, cheated, and robbed by the Minister, in whom, looking at his past deeds, we never should have placed the slightest confidence, who ruined one-half of our brethren by his Currency Bill, who swore he would never consent to Catholic emancipation, and in the same breath con sented ; and who finally came into office on the plea of resisting the encroachments of Lord JOHN Rus sELL on the agricultural interests, while he brings in a Corn-law Bill equally bad, admits cattle, sheep, and a great variety of agricultural produce, at little more than a nominal duty; and, to crown all, he loads us with an Income• tax. These are the general themes of conversation among those who speak out, but there is another class—the dumb Tories, who are more to be pitied, because for shame they cannot give vent to their indignation, and are compelled to mourn in silence. Self-interest, however, will compel them at length to resist the proposed measures, and we should not therefore be surprised to see more petitions against the tariff bill than even against the income tax. The letter of a well-informed correspondent, who writes from the far-famed county for the best breed of cattle in the kingdom—the county of Here- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1842. ford, will cause no little consternation throughout the grazing districts. Sheep, he says, are unsaleable, even at reduced prices;, cattle that three mouths ago, when the hopes of the breeders were still high, and Sir ROBERT PEEL was their idol, were sold at 22/., now bring only 151. a head, a reduction of more than thirty-five per cent., and all other ani•• mall used for food are liable of course to nearly the same depreciation. Sir ROBERT PEEL, there fore, is placed in a. nice dilemma. If he yields to the men that placed him in the Premier's chair, and the Duke - of RICIiMOND said they would make him yield, or turn him • out, he • will raise a similar burst of indignation among the rest of the community, who will charge him with the insidious design of paving the way for the adoption of the Income Tax Bill by a promised reduction oh articles of consumption, which he never intended to carry into effect. He must yield to one party or the other, and we wish him joy of his choice. his troubles are only commencing. He has deranged all the interests of the country, without any chance . of improving trade and commerce, and threatens to load us with a tax which will more and more cripple industry, and in the end excite dire hostility to his Government. We have before us copies of two diplomatic notes, at this m3ment of considerable importance. The first is the justificatory note of the- Greek Government, addressed in December, 1841, to the Ambassadors of England, France, and Russia, who had jointly complained, on the part of the SULTAN, of cer tain unfriendly acts of the Greek Cabinet ; and the second is the observations made by the Ottoman Envoy at Athens upon that document, which was likewise addressed to the N inisters of the Protecting Powers. These documents have recently acquired a more than ordinary degree of interest from the differences be tween Greece and the Porte becoming so great as to lead to war preparations on both sides, which have only been suspended at the particular instance of Sir STRATFORD CANNING, and the special mission ,of Prince MAVROCORDATO to Constantinople. The text of these notes would fill four of our columns, but we can very • well compress the entire substance of them in less than half a column, with even the addi tion of here and there an observation of our own. In diplomacy the' general rule appears to be that the smaller the quantity of fruit the more abundant the show of leaves. The Greek Government states that, in manifestation of its impartiality towards the Christian and Mussul man inhabitants of Greece, it, so early as 1833, pro mulgated a decree placing both upon an equal footing. The observation of the Turkish Envoy upon this is terse and forcible. He says that the practical value of this decree is to be drawn from the fact, that not a single Turk in Greece but resolved to emigrate, and quit a country in which he was born. The Greek Government next affirms that it granted free permission to all Mussulmans to quit Greece when they pleased. Upon this the Turkish Envoy remarks, that hindrances were thrown in the Way of Turks disposing of their property, by which they were detained in spite of themselves; and that an ar ticle of the penal code threatened every inhabitant of Greece with confiscation of property, who should quit the country without the permission of the authorities. The Greek Government states, that while it afforded facilities to Turkish inhabitant: to emigrate, the Porte refused to make a similar concession to Greeks living in its territory. To this the Turkish Envoy replies, that all persons born in the territories ceded to Greece were allowed to return, and also all Greeks who took part in the Greek insurrection, or who were implicated in it at Constantinople, but that the Porte could not allow its Mussulman subjects to exhibit Greek passports, or to claim the exemption of Greek subjects, because King OTHO had chosen to grant them the rights of Greek citizenship. He ac cuses the Greek Government of adopting a system of kidnapping Ottoman subjects, by means of letters of naturalization, with which they returned to Turkey only, to evade the laws of the empire. The Greek Government declares that, with a view to hasten the sale of Mussulman property, it ap pointed a Commission for that purpose, and ordered that in all litigated cases the causes in which Mus sulmans were interested, should be heard first. The ° Turkish Envoy objects that the Commission, which was to have been a mixed one, was composed wholly of Greeks, and he cites instances in which Turks were subjected to acts of great oppression. The Greek Government sets forth that, after all its sacrifices to the Porte the latter refuses to enter into a treaty of commerce beneficial to both countries. The Turkish Envoy answers that the Porte did enter into such a treaty, that the Hellenic Government refused to ratify it, and that the negotiations were not re newed, solely because Greece conspired against the Porte in Candia, Thessaly, and Macedonia, thereby proving that it was not a trade with Turkey, but the destruction of the empire which she sought. The remainder of these notes is taken up with claims to property in Thebes, Zuitun, and other dis tricts, by the Greek Goveinment, on the part of Greek subjects, which are all contested by the Turkish Envoy. Taken altogether, they represent a state of things by no means of a peaceful charac ter. The preservation of peace between nations with so many incentives to war is a most ticklish business. The Porte accuses Greece of downright swindling, robbery, treachery, and short of open war, of every crime which a Government can commit against a neighbouring State. In the defence of the Greek Cabinet there is nothing decided and conclusive. The most serious charges it passes over unnoticed. It does not deny the fact, and challenges the proof of an interference in favour of the oppressed Macedonians and Candiotes. Neither does it boldly confess and defend such interference. The truth is, that it cannot deny most of the charges brought against it. But this is not the fault of the nation. The KING is the person principally to blame, for his miserable ambition soars no higher than to involve Greece in a war with the Sublime Porte. Many difficulties, which would otherwise prove insurmountable, will, however, be overcome by the presence of _ Prince MA.VROCORDATO and Sir STRATFORD CANNING at the Porte. Their long and friendly intimacy, and their entire know ledge of the imbecile character of the KING, will prompt an unity of Councils which will have the greatest weight with the Porte. Still great caution will be necessary to prevent an outburst. A spark would kindle into a devouring flame, the old hatred of two of the most hostile races in the world. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Tho Dutch Koff Bermsrdina, Houtzaayer, from Am sterdam, for Constantinople, laden with a general cargo, put in here on the 26th, with mast sprung, loss of sails, and leaky, and is come into the harbour to repair ; the cargo has been landed. The English brig Baltic, of London, which sunk off Poole souse little time back, was brought into this harbour on the 27th, nearly full of water, having been raised by means of spar decks and other assistance, under the superintendence of Messrs. Thomas and John White, the eminent shipbuilders at this port. We are informed that they, with their foremen and shipwrights, had a very narrow escape of their lives, when being off the Chalk Rocks were overtaken by a heavy gale from N.W. on Saturday evening, while proceeding in the brig to this port, the steamer's tow-ropes broke, and the brig and lives on board were left for some time to the mercy of the wind and seas. which latter made a clean breach' over the vessel, and pl ace d h er i n the greatest d anger of foundering altogether ; their only b oat was s t ove i n . MARCH 31.—As one of the boats of the coast-guard was going its rounds this morning about one o'clock, the deep groans of some one in great agony alarmed the men, and they rowed to the .quay Irons whence they prOceeded. One of the crew landed, and folloWing the sound, found a man lying on his face ; he alarmed the inmates of the house, and on obtaining a light it proved to be Mr. Joseph Richardson, a retired carpenter and builder, who was in his 81st year, and resided with his son. He had been for a long time in a very weak state of mind, and precautions had been taken to prevent his injuring himself, the windows and doors being nightly thstened ; it appears he had succeeded in raising the sash about 14 inches, and forcing himself through, he fell a distance of about 30 feet, and fractured his skull so dreadfully that he died before medical aid could be called in. TilE OR.iNGE.—In the 18th year of King Edward the First, 1290, a large Spanish ship came to Ports mouth, out of the cargo of which the Queen bought one frail of Seville figs, one frail of raisins, one bale of dates, and two hundred and thirty pomegranates, fifteen citrons, and seven oranges. The last item is important, as Le Grand d'Aussy could not trace the orange in France . to an earlier date than 1333 ; but here we find it in Eng land in 1290, and it is probable that this was not its first appearance. At all events it appears certain that Europe is indebted to the Moorish conquerors of Spain for the introduction of the orange, and not to the Portuguese, who are said to have brought it front China.—Turner's Manners of England. %".' e t 11 W 2 l 341:1 ' t 4 na tt C AND ipti) Ti t opitti c n ‘ , 4V , tr %..• " Who runs may read." 7011.LrG7.7. The French anti Spanish mails have not arrived this morning. A letter from the Hague, of the 27th ult., states that by a Royal resolution of the 24th instant, the Minister of Finance is authorised, conformably to the law of the 27th of December, 1840, to capital sum of seven mil lions of florins, bearing interest at the rate of five, per cent., to be inscribed in his name in the second great book of the Active National Debt, with interest from die Ist of April, 1842. The • Minister of Finance is further authorised to tranfer this capital to other names. These seven millions are the still disposable portion of the twelve millions florins, after deducting the f►ve mil lions, which, by a resolution of the 14th of February, were inscribed for the purpose of the iron railway. His Majesty the King of Holland has authorized the War Department to call out the Militia-men of the levy of 1841, who are in the reserve of the severalcorps of the army, to be clothed and exercised for three months, say from the 25th of May to 25th of August this year. The police of Brussels was on Wednesday set in Lion, by news received from Paris, that the cashier of a mercantile house had absconded with a sum of about 300,000 francs. Letters from the frontiers of Poland, of the 13th of March, express a belief that no insurrection has taken place at St. Petersburg. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser repeats the advice which it gave on Thursday to the people respecting the income tax : —" The machinery of an income tax once fairly in the hands of any Government - , and who can foresee the ex tent of its operations ? The danger is immiaent, and the time pressing. Let every constituency, meet without a moment's delay; and, as petitions cannot be received, requisitions should be immediately forwarded to your representatives, calling upon them to exhaust every con stitutional means which the forms of the House place within their power, to defeat a measure which would make you the taxed accomplices in the perpetuation of the odious and destructive monopoly of bread—a mono poly which denies the bountieS•43f Providence to an in dustrious but suffering people." The Chronicle thus compares Mr. Pitt's with Sir Robert Peel's income tax :—" That income tax was to support the war ; this income tax is to support the Corn laws. That was for protection against fitreign invasion ; this, for protection against foreign grain. That was to subdue the French ; this is to starve the poor. Sir Robert Peel has surmounted Mr. Pitt's difficulty ; he is, with greater facility allowed to approach the riches of the rich ;' for he comes to increase them much More by one impost than he takes away by the other. It it is sad cant, this talc of touching the rich by Sir Robert Peel's income tax. Both directly and indirectly, in itself and in its connexion with the Corn-laws, it bears hard beyond all proportion, upon the middle and industrious classes, and through them upon the poor." We take the following from the Times :—" We have perused lately a sensible pamphlet by the Rev. John Sinclair, on the efforts now making by the Church to extend its means of education, which suggests some re• marks on that subject. Without at all participating in those exaggerated hopes which some people entertain of the amelioratiog effect of mere reading 'and writing and arithmetic on the habits of the people, we yet look upon the instruction of the poor, conducted by right hands and on right principles, as the most powerful instrument of improvement which is within our reach. Instrument, we say—nut cause ; for the tritest advanalges of instruc tion are to be found, not in itself, but in its usual and natural accompaniments—not in the hnowledge which is its immediate object, so much as in the sentiments and habits which may have been given, with that knowledge —not in the mere fact that a poor man can read, can write, can sing, can - argue, so much as in the steadiness and sobriety, forethought, self-command, and obedience, by which such attainments, be they great or small, have probably been gained." The Post says :—" In looking over the Hand-loom Weavers' Report, it is difficult to repress a sensation of disgust, as one marks the style in which the concoctors of that Report deal out the slang of that wretched system of opinions which greedy commercialists are pleased to style economical philosophy.' The Com missioners to whom we have referred are, undoubtedly, shrewd, clever inen in their way ; but their guiding principles are most false, and their views are, by conse quence, most narrow, most degrading, most mischievous." The Morning Herald observe!, in an article on the law of debtor and creditor:—" The London tradesman will find some difficulty in persuading Sir Robert Peel, we suspect, that if he will oblige the tradesmen of the country by giving them some more summary remedy than they, now possess against their creditors, the Right Hon. Baronet will find them ready to pay double taxes and pay double price for their bread. The tradesmen of this country, in general, and especially of the metropalis, are without doubt a highly respectable, very numerous, and deservedly influential body in the community. But we marvel. at the facility with which. this member of that important body assumes everything against the fraudulent animus of the debtor, as much as we do at his other assumption, that if they were only released from this liability to be cheated, it would be all well with this great country throughout all its relations." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. Crry, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols were extremely firm during the whole of the day, and although s;_wee.il sales were made, prices ad vanced . to, and closed at, 90 to 904- for Money, and 90j4 , to 901-- fur the Account: Exchequer Bills 31 to 33 prem. The rise in' the Spanish Three per Cent. Stock has continued and reached 25, but the quotation has since declined to 241- 24 The - nominal value of the Five per Cent. Active Stock not having been materially af fected by theli operations, ,it is a necessary conclusi on, that the - present is one of the wild speculations which are sometimes entered into by the dealers in Foreign Bonds, with the hope of inducing the unwary to follow them, and take the stock oft their hands at prices still higher. That thiA' rise has no legitimate foun dation is evident > when their price is considered —namely, 24. A slight improvement took place also in the rates of most other Foreign. Bonds —Brazilian being 664 671 ex div. ; l)ntch Td'o-an&a-Half 'per Cents., 52 r t, the Five per Cents.. 100 ex div. ; Por tuguese Five per Cent., 36 4-, the Three per Cents., 21 ; I f ; Colombian, 37 1-33; and Mexican, 40e 1- ex dir. A fair amount of business was transacted in Railway Shares, London and Birmingham beinglB4 : l- 86 ; Great Western, 27 23, and the Half Shares, 14 1 prem. :lir minghtun and Gloucester, 56 58 ; South Western, 59 60 ; Gosport, 59 60 ; North Midland, 69 70, the New Shares, 34 351 ; and Brighton, which slightly improved, 36+ 4 per share. South Eastcrn and Dover, 231 23 ; and Eastern Counties, 14 131 discount. Some variation occured in the quotations of the Fo reign Exchanges. Amsterdam improved to 12 5, Rot terdam to 12 51, Hatnburgh to 13 121, 13 13, Frankfort 1511, Lisbon to 521- 521, Madrid 361. Antwerp receded to 12..4 Paris 25E 80e. 25f. 85e., do. Short 25f. 55c. 25f. 60c., and Leghorn 30 021 30 05. Vienna remained at 9 52 9 53; and Trieste at 9 534 , 9 54. It must be noticed that the Spaniards are turning their attention to the development to the minerals of that country. During the month of February permission to work no less than eleven new mines was applied for, two of which were of Quicksilver. This-metal has long formed the source of a considerable portion of the revenue of the kingdom, being a Government monopoly ; and it is to be regretted that an article so necessary in the various branches of industry, should be placed as it is at present. The effect of the contract now in force has been to raise the price upwards of 150 per cent. upon what it was before it was granted, and the result is, that far less has been consumed both in this and in other countries. It is to be expected that at its termination some arrange ment more advantageous to us will be entered into. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Several purchases in Consols have given great firm ness to the rn,.ricets, and the prices arc 893 90 for Mo ney, and 903 for the present Account ; Exchequer Bills have experienced a rise since the morning, and are 30 to 33 premium. The New Three-and-a-half per Cents. 993 to 991 ; and India Bonds, 9 to 11 premium. The prices of Railway Shares are better ; the transac tionsi however, are small, having been confined to Mid land Counties, 79} ; South Western, 593 591 ; New Thirds London and Birmingham, 29 to 291; New Great Western, 641; and Brighton, 361. Some doubts even now are expressed as to the cer tainty of the payment of the dividend on the Three per cent. Spanish Stock ; and there appears but little hesitation in expressing an opinion that the sales which have been made of these securities have not been wholly on account of the holders of the coupons. The extraordinary rise in the quotations, and the eagerness to sell the scrip, are in themselves quite sufficient to warrant suspicion, especially when coupled with an uncertainty as to where the money may be, which is necessary to be forthcoming on the 11th inst. The most guarded silence is observed. on the subject, and all that can be learned is that some billy are in the possession of an eminent and highly re spectable capitalist who refuses to give any guarantee, as do also the announced agents of the commissioners. This stock opened yesterday at 20, left off at 221 . , and were sold to-clay at 221, 241, 24, and 25 successively, which is the present quotation. The Old Bonds are nominally. 243 244. Mexican, 403 ; Columbian, 263 27; Por tuguese, 35 351; and Brazilian, 661 67. The proceedings under the bankruptcy of Messrs. Wigney, at Brighton, are creating some interest in the City. It is stated that legislative enactments are ab solutely necessary to prevent a recurrence of similar transactions, affecting commercial afiliirs so greatly as this and others of a like nature have done. These numerous failures of late among private banks had caused public attention to be directed towards Joint stock Banks, and if the former find the number of their accounts diminishing, it is to this cause alone that it must be attributed. The public do not understand the possibility of a blinker who carries on legitimate business only, and it is now thought that when such occurrences take place, the parties should be made amen able to hiw far more strictly than an ordinary trader. The present instance it is urged affords a fair op portunity for the Legislature to interfere. Papers to the Ist February have been received front the Cape of Good Hope. The want of labourers is still complained of; and two vessels had been dispatched to fetch a portion of the captured negroa from St. Helena. The colonists were anxious that Government should make Table Bay the rendezvous fur such unfortunate individuals, in preference to the former island. Trade, it would ap pear, had not revived, although sanguine hopes were entertained that an improvement would shortly take place, but, according to the accounts which have from time to time been sent home, some time must elapse before such expectations are likely to be realised. The burden of the merchant vessels which arrived at the various settlements was 0,271 tons more in 1841 than in 1840 ; of which English ships had almost the whole, the increase on these being 6.877 tons; and the remainder divided betwe e n th e .I)utch, "the French, mid the Americans. The whalers had decreased 2,037 tons, of which our own vessels bore but 574 tons, the Americans 1,251, and the French 367 tons. The Dee steamer arrived at St. Thomas's on the 17th February, and upon the arrival of the Actaeon, from Turk's Island, with the mails from the Northward and Westward, would proceed with them to La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Curacoa, Trinidad, and Grenada ; then return and go to the United States and Halifax. The Actaeon had not reached St. 'Thomas's on the 19th. LIVERPOOL COTTON. MA R KET MARCH 31.—N0 improvement has taken place, and business remained ex ceedingly dull, without any further alteration in prices. The sales were 300 Surats, 3:} to 4Ft ; 80 Maranhams, 51 to 5,1 ; 20 Egyptian , 73; 50 Bahia, 63 to 61; and 3,550 American, at 41 to 61. LivERPOOL SHARE SIAItKET, MARCH 31.—Edinburgh and Glasgow were in request at improved prices. South Western were also in demand, and die market generally was tolerably steady. The sales were—Eastern Coun ties, 83 ; New, 4 1-3 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 451 ; Great Western, Halves, 64 ; Ditto, Fifths, 103 ; Liver pool and Manchester, Quarters, 411 ; London and Bir mingham, paid up 32/. Shares, 581 ; London and South Western, 603 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 533 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27 ; Manchester mid' Leeds, Quarters, 41.55. 6d.; Midland Counties, 70; North Midland, Italics, 341, and York and North Midland, Halves, 52. MANcuEsTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 31.—The market continues bare of stock, with a good inquiry for Manchester and Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Bristol and Exeter. The sales are, Manchester and Leeds Halves, 341 ; ditto Quarters, 43 ; Bank of Manchester, 43. • CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. • Balk Stock — India Stock. -- 3 per Cent Red Ditto Bonds ll pm E per Cent Cons 9oh Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red.. New 31, per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities ;,oexpire I Ditto Small 33 pm Jan. 1860.......... Bank Stock for Open... Oct 1950. .., ..... India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. ... .... , Consols for Ara 9oi FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 p..& cent.... 113 .Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei rent — 'Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds. ... ...... 66i Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cult Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per vent..... .Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. ISpanish, 5 per cent. . 241 Ditto, 1824—, ....... , .... 27 Ditto, Deferred.... . _.... Danish, 3 per cent BOl French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange -..e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 40i I French, 3 pex cent —'. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 163.7 'Dutch, 2} per cent. . Peruvian, 1825, fi per et. ;Ditto, 5 per cent... . SHARES. Bristol :-nd Exeter (70 paid) .. 1001 . . Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 • Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 64 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... Ditto New Shares ( paid) ........ Landon and Birmingham (90) ...... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 29 London and South Western Manehestor and Birmingham (40 paid) ..... 24 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) North Midland Railway (100) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YES'T'ERDAY.) Amstellarn CF. 12 7 i 1 4 -IGibraltar Ditto, at sig - !tt Rotterdam .........9 U l2 8 Genoa . ... 25 90 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 05 Lisbon Marseilles Bout &aux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres Berlin-- Vienna, effee. ii. 3 Al. 955 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid ... 36 Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao ... 35i New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona - New Dollars 0 0 0 Seville ... 35& Silver in Bars 0 0 0 MADAME IY.A.RBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS.— This fascinating work has advanced in interest and popu larity in each succeeding portion that has been published, each volume presenting the reader with a new series of public characters, and a new condition of society and manners. In the third and forthcoming volume, which will appear in a few dayS, the charming and accomplished writer arrive s at that perimi of her varied and brilliant career, which paced her in immediat-k attendance on the person o[ Queen Charlotte, and bt ought her into an intimate pet somd acquaintance with every individual of the Royal Family, every one of Munn, from the King and Queen themsAves on the throne and in the closet, to the infant Princess AMelia in her nursery robes, are, as we understand, placed before us precisely, " in their habits as they lived." The dates of this third volume—viz., 1786 and 1787, give us the period of that remarkable event in the life of George 111., his attempted assas!,ina- Lion by Margaret. Nichol Son, the minutest details of A hich are, we understand, given from the very lips' of the- King himself, as related by him to the Queen on the night of the day when the event occurred. YOUNG GIRLS EMPLOYED IN COAL-MINES INSTEAD OF BEASTS ! COPY Or A PETITION' PRESENTED LATELY TO PA 'RUA- MENT BY MR. RitoTllEirrox. (Appendix to Se'ventli Report, No. 194.) THE HUMBLE PETITION OF EDWARD WILLIAM BINNEir, OF MANCHESTER, IN THE COUNTV OF LANCASTER, G ENTLEMAN, Showeth,--That your petitioner, in the course of his geological pursuits, has had occasion to visit many of the coal mines of Lancashire, where lie has often been astonished to find great numbers 4ve lemobs employed, of ages varying from eight years and upwards. Their occu pation 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 along 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 aniniuls cannot be em ployed, so women are made use qt 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 parts 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 female:;, 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 month 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 shaft was 2.00 yards deep. Immediately after de scending it, your - petitioner traversed the waggon way for abcut 500 or 600 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 3 -ears 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 nu props or punches were used ; the seam of coal was near five feet in thickness. The old man had just left off work, and the others were 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 without props or punches being used. He replied, that it was perfeetly 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 was his son, and that he would not he fit fix• work for a year. On your petitioner asking the father why he brought such an infant 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, some 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 drugging the empty ones up the inclines. The disgusting nature, of the employment of these _poor creatures was bud 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 Leavy sound was heard, the mine shook, and some of the lights Were blown out. 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 hail fallen in, and a scene followed which defies description. The men prayed, the women • howled and screamed, and .soam ran one way and some another, making towards the shaft. After a short lapse_of time,. some of the men proceeded to examine tho bay which had fallen in, and found it was that which your petitioner had left but a few minutes before. The two young mon, being near the side of it, hail escaped; but the poor o ld man and his child, before alluded to, had . been•crushed' to death, and buried under some hundred tons of the roof. That your petitioner is convinced th a t the employment of females in coal mines is to be attributed to the early age at which children are • introd'uced 'to such j , laces by their parents.: The parents, having spent most of their lives in mines, and being thorougly accustomed to the scenes they witness, see no impropriety in them. The female children, brought down in early infitncy, have no correct ideas of the dangers of a mine, the scenes of vice and wickedness they witness, or the disgusting and laborious nature of their employment. If female children Were never allowed to enter a mine 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 be 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 ayes of eight and ten y ar 's% 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 make the poor Man's home comfortable ? Colliers are often accused of being an ignorant and disorderly body s o f men , w i t h out any inquiry' being mad e a the cause of their ign orance and d i sorderly con duct. • What 'can any person expect from a poor boy, sent down into - a deep mine at six dears 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 early age like himself ; probably both husband and wife continue their employ ment in coal-mines—it is what they 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, the poor wif e h as li tt l e t i me and strength, even if she had the knowledge, to clean the house and prepare •those, necessary refreshments which man requires. The - husband too fre a hard-working quently makes ne). 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 employedin mines should be s en t t o sc h oo l instead of passing their time amidst the dangers and darkness of a mme, and witnessing the scenes before described ; but at the same - time he does 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, &e. EDW. WM. BINNEY. February 26, 1842. :ATOXE2 . - TILA.D7II--C 0/AMERCE. A meeting a,gaiust the income tax was held at New Brentford on Thursday night; and the resolutions passed against it were ordered to be embodied in a memorial to the Queen and a petition to the Lords. The eminent firms of Acramans, Morgan, and Co., and of D. E. and A. Acraman, •of Bristol, have deter mined to call their creditors together. An excessive outlay of capital beyond the means of the parties, more particularly in machinery and ship building, is said to have been the immediate cause of the stoppage. At their own request, an examination into the state of their affairs has been going on for some days past, which is said to report very favourably of the final issue. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The foundation-stone of the New Military Church at Windsor will be laid on Monday next, the 4th inst., at eleven o'clock, by Prince Albert. It is to be named the church cif the Holy Trinity, and will contain 1,400 .people. The galleries will accommodate between 400 and 500 soldiers. ___ _ LAW AND POLICE. At Kingston on ThurAlay an action was brought against Sir John Milley Doyle by Mrs. Pelham, who kept a boarding-house in Manchester square i n 1838, t o recover 221. Is. for seven weeks board and lodging ; and the Jury returned a verdict for the full amount. At the same Assizes a female of the name of Wraight obtained a verdict of 75/. damages against the proprietors of thu Surrey Theatre, for severe injuries received by a fall in the pit, caused by the negligence of the defend ants or their servants. Henry Ward was convicted it Liverpool on Wedoes- - day of cutting and maiming his wife in a shocking manner while in a state of intoxication, and sentenced to be transported for life. VINr. ARTS. The custom of inlaying ancient gothic tiles for the floors of Churches is about being revived, and many are now being manufactured for this purpose at the iactory of Mr. Minton, of Stoke-upon-Trent. The finest ex amples known at present are at Great Malvern Church ; the Chapter-house, Westminster ; Winchester and York Cathedrals ; and the Prior Chapel, Ely. X.XTERAXY AND SCIENTIFIC. The number of students frequenting the 18 German Universities, during last winter, was 11,054. lodine, which a few years since was obtained exclu sively from the Continent, is now manufactured in large quantities at Glasgow. THEATRICAL. The Princess's Theatre, Oxford-street, has been pur chased by a gentleman of the name or Montague, for 14,500/. It cost in building 47,000/. C 0 UR 1 1 -r.eiszir o NABL E • The DukemiDuchess of Buckingham are passing the holidays near Stowe. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset will shortly arrive at Stover, Devonshire. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have gone to Strathfieldsaye. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess f)f -Wilton leave Melton Mow bray next week for town. Earl and Countess Grey are expected to leave Howiek Kull the week after next for town.. .149 rd and Lady Seymour are expected from Italy this week. The Ma3squis and Marchioness of Exeter leave Bur leigh House on Tuesday next fur town. • The Marquis of Waterford has quite recovered the effects of his full at Dublin. The Dowager Countess of Essex left Paris on Wed nesday for Belgrave-square. MISCELLANEOUS. The name of the present month is derived from the Latin word Aprilis, or aperiu, to open : because the earth now begins to open her bosom for the production of buds and plants. The custom of fool-day is ancient and ge neral in France, the. persons imposed upon are called " Poissons d'Avril," or April Fish. In Lisbon the fool is made by pouring. water on every person who passes, or throwing powder in his face. DISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS. TU THE t OF THE SUN. - - SIR ; Allory me to add my thanks to those which you have already received, for having determined to exclude from your valuable paper a certain class of advertise ments. I trust that the sacrifice you have made in favour of morality will be duly appreciated by the public, and that your example will be considered worthy of general imitation. I wish you would commence a crusade against another kind of advertisements, of which the provincial papers are allude to the puffs of quack medicines, which although not absolutely indecent, arc abominably false, and destructive, in iny opinion, to the health of the euninttnity. Thousands of pounds are annually ex tracted front the pockets of the poor by these vile puffs. And to this practice the proprietors of papers calling themselves respectable. lend their aid, and share in the unhallowed gains. Again thanking a ki l ng l , y1)811-12f:r your spirited conduct, I re main. Sir, yours lunch obliged, A MEMBER OF THE MECHANICS' I;' HE Pyaela.srl°?:f was not culti the reign o f atePdAinßsEl;ll.lgYl. t ait't g the al se •d c e o l i t ia liin Edward VI., 1458. It is said to be an excellent remedy to preserve sheep from the rot, provided they are fed twice a week, for two or three hours each time, with this herb. Parlov, when 'rubbed:against a glass tumbler, - will break it ; but the cause of. this phenOmenun is not known. TOWN-HALL-BRIGHTON. On Friday morning Capt. M'Leod 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‘Leod, deeply regretted that he had committed the assault. It was done 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, laid he was quite satisfied with the apoligy that had been made, and would consent to withdraw the summons on papnent of the 'costs, and 5/. to the SuGsex County Hospital. Capt. M'Leod immediately assented, and the summons was discharged. A COUNTY CORONER'S KIT. —One of the coroners of the county of Dublin w as brought up yesterday, before the Magistrates of the head.otliee, Dublin, charged with being drunk and disorderly, at half -past five o'clock on Monday, in Camden-street, and assaulting police corstable,:lo4 A. On being brought to the station house and searcbed, the following articles were found in his possession, as detailed by the rconstable, on the sheet which contained the charge :—A prayer. book, a pack of cards, a pair of spectacles, a bottle of whisky, a tin bix, containing some sugar, a tin teapot and saucepan, a pair of scissors, two knives, a chain and seal, a raznr, three shillings and threepence halfpenny ; also a penny, a chain and seal, some bread and butter, one and a ymny in copper ; acorkscrew, a rule, th ree sma ll b oxes , a hmmer, a pepper-box, a comb, two locks, a key, a bottle, some nails, some steel pens, some tea, a gimlet, two inkbottles, and some tape, a fourpenee in silver, and some soap, a stick in his pocket ! The entry on the shiaet is —"Fined the county coroner one shilling. J. igee."—Freeman's Journal. AMERICAN NEWS. LATEST NEWS FROM AMER,ICA. - LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORSISC WC have received hr the New York packet ship Sheffield, Captain Alleyn, New York papers to the lOtit March. The Sheffield has made the voyage in It; days ~ These papers confirm the statement which. rippeat et; The Sim last week that Hogan had been dischargol. THE CASE OF J. SHERIDAN llonAx.—We learn from the Niagara Courier that Ilonn has been s" fr :"; • by judge Ransom on the ground of inSufficiency of tn warrant of arrest. The Courier adds, that there 5 , ' , :1;',•.! sufficient evidence to have detained him fbr ft, it not been for the defect in the warrant. Lot Cla rk H. Gardner were the Counsel for Hogan, and the District Attorney Wood acting for the people. During the argument before the Justice, which lvsinst long and able one, the Court room was crowded ulna to suffocation with anxious spectators. • . , affidavit H w s a t s at i e v d ad in at tl f T w A fr lb fa a l ny o - f p A arez,zsi t i t a ,l l , l l l : '. was in one of the boats engaged to cut out the Cara:12,4.4: and that M'Leod wW as nut. hat became of • ' his discharge hy Judg ve e m ßansom does not appOr. ogan's CaSO, hower, sees to have alarmed Mr. who on the Bth sent a message to Congregs, referring !ni, Hogan's arrest, and stating—lt is doubtful whether,. this state of things, should his discharge he clentand.°gt,L,Y,,. by the British Goverament, this Government is invilt; with any control over the subject, until the ease '.. 1 e0 have reached the Court ofFin Resort of the State or?' 011 York„ and been decided in that Court. And alt hoo ?, such delay ought not, i a national point of vie" - , t 4) cause of umbrage to Great Britain, yet the proffil ll l be . instant rendering of justice to foreign nations shoal( is it placed among our highest duties. I cannot, therer_:•.,,di consideration of what properly becomes the riur -- ito States, and in anticipation of any demand front a foro:i s Government for the discharge of- one of its subj ec. ° 'forego the duty of repeating my recommendatienbie Congress fur the immediate adoption ,of some sutra legislative provision on this subject. OM' • Mr. Barnard (Chairman of the Judiciary Conlin' , h o said, that a Bill had already been' reported fr° ll Ye -- t. Committee to meet such cases, but that he had 1 1 °‘- 10 , seen the time during the Session when he could, With !' chance of success, .have asked the H o use to take it /4 The papers were referred to the Judi c i ar y Cortnit - , tre s s . The President had also sent a message to ColF ac calling its attention to a communi ca ti on f ro m the , e- o t a tary of the• Treasury, and stating that the deficit T a b e public 'Exchequer for March, April, an d May, ° I . EI Th e I c upwards of three million d o ll a r s . Th' sl ascribes the diminution of the revenue to the ditniuul.seits of the duties under the Compromise Act, and he eg s ' i .y. from the revision of the tariff the - r e li e f, o f the Mr. Forwood's immediate remedy for the deficit 13 loan. The papers were referred to a Committee. 0 f • - Great complaints are,madc, we see, of the exP ellsl' o 4.4 the Government printing, and a Select Committe e ;4 • appointed to consider and report u p on th e expe" „ % „ . e , and propriety:of separating the patr o n age o f the ( -0 " t o• • meat from the privaLe and politic a l pr ess of the eo ll) ,it; and upon the best and most efficient and economica l i n of effecting that object. tal The Congress was engaged in discUssing the tariff Mr. Clay's resolutions. ;11 0 The arrival - of the Acadia h a d p u t an end 10 anxiety which had been felt for the Caledonia. The Bill requiring the banks in Maryland to r"%, 1 L1 e specie payments on the first of May next has be t-- a law. The appointment of Mr. Claiboine to be Middle - fli r t ; • . trict Marshal of Tennessee, who is said to be a ere st • u t a of General Jackscn, had been rejected by, the Sen 3l ''' which the Whigs must exult. I )10 T ° he New York Couri er an d Inquirer, of the 1 1 ' ••• the following paragraph : NAVAL PROMOTIONS.—We learn, on good authoriT, says the Army and Navy Chronicle, that nonnuati°,,, have been submitted to the Se na t e , o f 37 Comm an der: l : j • be Captains ; 37 Lieutenants to be Conunanders ; 40 Passed Midshipmen to be Lieittenants. 1 11 1 ,.,th something like putting the navy on a war f oo ting : 1 , 3 9', • respect to an increase of our naval force, 000 11 We - beert for a long time far in advance of legislation• have not yet - seen the print which objects to the ha l l , increass of our nary in commission that has been posed. The Rochester Evening P os t sp ea k s o f ano ther COr : meat at Lockport, even greater than that caused b,Y: arrest of Hogan or his illustrious predecessor 3 1 .` - '' A iee It arose from the discovery that a'Catholic priest P, l-- r el Costello had•been secretly married ! A crowd get"`; about his house : . upon the discovery, and insisted th 3 , - b .. ' should give up the church money which he had ';', r l hands, which he did. It was thought that the 51 , 1 „ would be feree:l. to call out a force to protect hid violence. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. MONDAY, INIA KCH 2. 4,000 Dols. State .54 of '6l. ............ " 12,500 Ditto Ohio Sixes of 1860 4,000 Ditto Illinois sixes of 1870 1,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds... ............................ " Str 25 Shares Delaware and Hudson ....... •"'3 521 Ditto United States Ba n k.. ............... ••• •• 50 Ditto Mohawk. t . 61 285 Ditto Harlem 150 Ditto Farmers' Trust $ 55 '725 Ditto Long Island b 3 ° 4 50 Dnto Paterson 5 3 0 di SALES AT THE SECOND BOAIII 3 . , 5,000 Dols. Indiana Bond s s 5 ci 4 , 7 , 25 Shares Mohawk MONDAY NIG H r. Tho -sales of Stocks thi s moroine; were to the elsl " extent. New York State Five s a d vance .. Per c';11 llarlem Railroad .11, and Farmers' T rust ; Oluo ~ declined 1, Illinois Si xes 1 , Indiana 3 i, and Mohawk Ilk road 1?,- per cent. • Inland, Exchanges continue dull of sale, with . vet little alteration on ra t es . v Philadelphia; 24 to 3 ; Baltimore, ; Virginia. 7 / a t . ' 81 ; North Carolina, 4 to 5 ; Charleston, l to 1 ; vannah, 2to 24. ; Augusta, 2+ to 21 ;• C o lumbus -• tral), 14; Macon (Central), 13A- ; Mobile, IS ; 31° 61 gomery, 'lB ..to 19 ; Tuscaloosa, 19 ; New Orleans,ai,, to 6 ; Nashville, 18 to 20 ; Louisville, 8 ; St. 18 to 20 ; Cincinnatti, 9 to 10. Exchange on London c l o s e d a t 7f to ginP° France at 5•32 A a 5'30 - Nu oat °C .'reasury Notes continue to sell for the Pal duties at 1 a 1i per cent. discount. furl " 1. The advices.per Acadia have had a t en dency , A or to depress the Cotton M ar k e t. 700 b a l es , ere sc"" 0 ing the day- ut a further reduction of le, per lb- r , * 4 , .d .. 1 quote Uplands, very ordinary to middling, fit al' 1 ow 71-c. per lb. ; fair to good fair and good, 84 .3 , 9 , 3 4,i10' 9,1 c. ; Tennessees and Alabaman , 51- a Be. ; '` i \ t ir t 1) Louisiana, &c., ordinary to Middling, 6 a 7Fic. ; 1 7 1 1F' ~ good fair, 94- a 10-fc. ; good fair, 10. a 11 and per lb. i - ill tr We have no alteration to n o ti ce i n Fl our , the ,- .ie?..t., ' ' . tions being limited to th e wan t s o f consumers. L',... drf,;ii / I , - . is held at 6 dols. I*. a 6 dols. 25e., Tror7,01 1 10: 1 : 121 c., Brandywine, 5 dols. 874 c. a 6 d o l s ., G e or g ..,-/ ana Baltimore 5 dols. 871-c. a 6 d o l., Ri c h mon d Ct , 5 dols 811-e. ; Rye Flour 3 dol. 75c. a 3 dol. KY' ~ , i (,,'''' e l meal 3 dol. a 3 dol. Hie. ' , i ,'‘ Sugars remain dull of sale. 44 hhds. Porto Rico Molasses sold at 23. RUSSIAN UKASE. , The Augsburg Gazette o f th e 24th i nst . publisog7 w ing der date St. Peterburgh of the 11th inst., the AO ; eV ukase of the Emperor of Russia relative to the e ° sion of Israelites,to the Christian religion : 1. When Israelites shall conform to the Chr'their religion, the holy baptism must also be giver' t ` ). 11 11 ` children under seven years of age. Neverthele s, . father or mother alone become eonvert, the s'-'n a be baptised in the first c ase , an d t h e d aug hters second. , , half "2. The converted Israelites who shall enter jo h t° 10 :,' tlolvisroedniteeoros3rfoosaie.irin.ltvleoyisi rubles, a e iralea x lee e it.v m hee p , E t oeln el from irlilydisrecoon t nr h ilv e , ehar t el a t f o e cbis s otain t ti o il:ien is ro n s i n c i h t i r tro i 0, 1 0 ,' ,11 0 :1, 1 : the allowance ba granted to their paren. Or . ''''' 3. The ptised Israelite s will ts be entitled to thept,,,,, brace a commer c i a l p ro f ess i on, on d ec l ar i n g tha t Ol , '' .. possess the required ca pit a l, an d p e admissible that tl.l ‘ it 6 TJ I the gildes rat e s ; th e y are likewise to bdtnis s lu ow the corporations of tradesmen and manufactur ers ' A into the agricultural com mun iti es . PIP ' ."0 11 ". 4. The settlement, as well as the first ag 11 100 1:0 1) organisation of the baptised I srae lit es , on the ' he 11." 1 of the Crown, are to tak e place, agreeably 01 t Go yer w ' regulating the establishment of Israelites, in the went of Cherson. of d niai l "wd " 5. Baptised Israelites admitted on the -° ~e 0 1) -1 „ , ~e,,,#' t i f . t e l • i ( g e a n i C .d t l a ."'n, andon toxe taxes, during Israelites ears,ing theas is ag. t r r o e tta 3 ~,i pro;;;,, ,il4 ,: i i :i , fession." , , , ? i ii4'.l il ir f. 0 HAMBURGH MAIL. dby 01 ' 1 •4 13ERLIN, MARCH 21.—The budget brought fa cv n a , r , on t he / ~i k English Prime Minister in the Douse of 'Comm ° o bey 1 1 .0 4 , 12th instant, and which traces the future commercial s ub 1;0 ' 1 1 e England, must give the German manufacturers a su" -- ob"" • l i ' $' casion of serious reflections. Let us remember th: l o ', l e . t' tli 4 : /i ) praise which Sir Robert Peel, on entering his Alee ;ollCOnt o° ,l l ' pettedly bestowed on the German nation. Let u s used r e „ir ',,; the similar language which Dr. Bowriug s' th e frequen Culo: ! bi if specting German manufactures in the debates 0 " s duty ,T; . ~ 41 1 laws, and compare wiih it Peel's proposal to la a ci d a bait . ; ~eri , , English coals exported to the amount of a to it , t eaY . v ",, ti dollars annually, and this expressly that this article agrctiiii.eosi:bricit'l:.o.`,,,,, promote the interest of a cation which rivals E s'l i .. hers, . t e turers. We must confess that we have season t inet ,,,n , of secret anxiety, every commendation or honourableihiet Jo herGemany, coming from English lips, fable of the fox who had a longing for ,the by ths 00,_, ,ii . Peel's Vanls l'mct. a ianimoi sly approved, 'Ye country. ts.lniiiit.) sition, as highly judicious and worthy of a f r ee ce .5 e ,,,,,,5: fir adoption of more liberal principles of c ominfr r _'... about do g _ de acknowledged ; a reduction of the import (II". (-I n " , th i c li a : ~, 1 '„, t a i i , •t e i s c e le3 7s i o s l a r r o t p ie o i s e t a d. gen L e e ra t i n i s i bebraei i nn t:t :,a rm su e i t e t .g_e l nwhised h o , pteg 4 ; .. g . i vantageous also to foreigners, baw but ue odlv for !h° c '' The reduction of the duty may be liberal' ri. . o, of ' b e n i e . ...,-,;,1 interest of England, and that there is no i " ing, as is evident from the reduction of fi n 'e t i e l d a u o t i l : t n it C r a n n i;: i t i t *-1::11) 7 t ~r ~. ill i , , timber, and the augmentation if the duty 0 no inducemen 1 otr, allowed that the British 11Iister can have no this , ; ort 0111,1'5, r , promote the German trade, by reducing t But let us not forget this, if we s hould be u wi _,_ out „i eli t _ , tat he has only to consider the commerce 0, by him, tut think that this is probably not ne ; io. .argotor; tion to make us pay dearly 5 ' r such Pa s wo stoPid' i c our brethrrn across the channel really believe u .e.. _ o tia,a3 they fancy that the experience of the past bas Ilt n. A that le" ie, minds, and tita we have not at length pe ually free tr , , never volaniarily agree to a redirocally flexpe(Tednly"puria't4.o)(4: '.v'lll,: i i,zh g e i n ve t n he b r y e tilsienoEengechesshsimtyefroerhaint.ts tTehtehrmpeeqesaepupt ties and such v' augmentation of the import duties and shall be able to . ~. restrictions as the German Government 5ha , _ ..,.1 In _ _ . . factu r,.. l pilicy, will be bestowed by the German mattrufacLturr°Lb.°ramrtiiniin:eerCz;cli in order to oppose the introduction of Enb1i.,,1,, ‘,l",;:ich such We have certainly fewer organs thro(,'. 1 .__...„ 1 „„ 60 .1 measures may be respectfully and generally line ,Ci4tinrntnen"----t bt ,4,l,;:l4:l4.letrie.i.'ftileerfe t 41 : 11 ,."Ive tepi r , e 7 t ellte tli; ii itt a sures will b. ,; Inuely 4 PPointyd toe reste . and our r 4 C Po , t, of p P' -Privy 4 of the IS n °Y I ' , MA k it c r.etur n t ILA3mu ER AUstri ah bhp s per can '' I; 4l ''l • l. 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