The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-17 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL 'DRURY LANE Lewes, Mr. E. T. Smith. Theo lAA Week but Two of Mr. G. V. BROOKE'S Engagement previoni to his sailing for California and Australia. THIS EVENING, Idaacn 17. Mimes /A 'WM be De:formed (3d time) LEONIE. P r i nc ip a l c h aracters by nn and Featherstone, Mr. Elliot Galer, and Mr. Henri Drayton. After Which, a Grand BALLET DPirERTISSENENT. To be followed by the new Farce, called MY CO )K AND HOUSE , KEEPER. Principal charaoters by Messrs. Young's and Belton and Miss Featherstone. THEATRE ROYAL HAYM ‘REET. ruder the management of Mr. Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, Mallen 17, Will be performed THE STRANGER. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vandenhoff, Chippendale, Howe, Farren, Rogers, and C mp ton ; Miss Cushman, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham. and Miss E. Chaplin. After which, WILLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. Supported by Messrs. Buckstone and Corti; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fitzvril liam, and Mrs. Caulfield. To conclude with THE PORTRAIT OF CERVANTES. Prin. cipal characters by Mr. Compton and Miss E. Grey. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Che.auts THIS EVENING, Maws 17, Will be performed RICHARD THE THIRD. Principal charac ter by Mr. C. Kean. To be followed by AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Saker ; Misses Murray and Daly. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrts. THIS EVENING. Mi.zca 17. Will be performed A NICE PER K. Principal characters by Mews. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Roxby ; Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by A CEIARAING WIDOW. After which, the popular Fairy Extravaganza, entitled ONCE UPON A TI►(E TBEttr; WERE TWO litvGi. ..:haracters by Mews. Rozby, F. Matthews, and Bland ; Madame Vestris, Misses Bt. George, Eglanton, Mason, Martindale, Eilis, IVadtiara, and Foote. Concluding with NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, 3 falca 17, will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical 10-drama dreamve taoleaux, with new sce nery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new and appointments, TOE T COF GOLD; or, THE LOST SHIP AND Ti - E WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. Principal characters by Slessrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, &c. To conclude with THE SEREOI34 FAMILY. Characters by M eSsrs. B. Webster, Lei g h lfurray. Ptrselle. and Keeley ; v i rs L. Murray, Mlsses Keeley. Woolgar, Fanny Maskell, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. ROYAL OLYMPIC TCE Lessee anil Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, MAIICII 17, Will be performed TO ORLI iE RE \NOY. supported by 3 1essrS. Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling ant Mist Wyndham. After which, i' E BENGA.T. TIGER. Principal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, and F. Robson; and Mrs. Wi ;an and Miss Marston. To be followed by TILE FIR r (T. Charact.rs by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Franks, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent, ; iss P. Horton, anti Miss Wyndham. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. F. N. Allen:XL—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, 31Ancm 17. Will be performed LA SONN iMBULA. To be followed by THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr. Hodson. After which, THE BLUE JACKETS. To conclude with TEE CORKONIAY BROTHERS. Paddy and Tim Mulligan (the Brothers), Mr. G. Hodson. Stalls, 58. ; Boxes, 34.; Pit, 14. 6d; gallery, nd. ; Private Boxes, V. 1 Is. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENLNG, MARCH 17, And during the week, will ho presr-ited the new, grand, and romantic spectacle entitled THE ArOOD A. N'S HORSE; or, The False Knight—the Woodman's Horse by the pet steed, Beauty, expressly trained by Mr. William Cooke. After which, the incomparable Scenes of the ARENA. To conclude with the Domestic Drama of THE WHITE FARM* Box-ofllce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TOl4 DAY —Morning 39 rnin.after 3 IT , vening 55 min.e. 3 To.Moutow—Alorning 14 min.after 4 Evening 31 min.aft. 4 THE WEATHER.—Sum MARCH 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 50—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 53 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'47. WIND, N.N.W.—Light breeze, and fine, clear, dry weather. )1131, LONDON, FRILL y, MARCH 17, 1854, This evening the discussion of the Budget will commence in good earnest, and we sincerely trust that it may not be brought to a conclusion until a distinct and unequivocal pledge be given that the impost which has been designated by persons oi all parties as " unjust, inquisitorial, and oppres sive," shall be materially modified during the present session. The question is not whether a perfectly just and unexceptionable Income Tax can be levied, but whether there may not be such an approximation to justice as to render it more tolerable than at present, and to remcve the most urgent complaints that have been preferred against the entire system. We repeat to Mr. GLADSTONE what we so often stated to Sir CIIARLES WOOD, that the people do not really object to the tax itself-- that they would cheerfully meet the tax gatherer, with ten or even twenty per cent. of their entire incomes, if the national exigencies, or the full emancipation of trade and commerce, required so great a sacrifice ; but they demand, as a matter of right and justice, that the burden shall be more equitably apportioned--that the physical or intellectual labourer shall not be taxed as highly on the hard earnings of his painful industry, as the fundholder or landed pro prietor. The former out of his earnings has not merely to provide by insurance for the support of his family when he himself has been summoned to his last account, but also to set aside a provision for a rainy day, when, by the loss of health, change of fashion, or by the competition of younger and more energetic rivals, his profits shall alto gether vanish. The latter have no such demands on their resources, and may spend every shil ling of their dividends or chief rents; while the former, if a man of ordinary prudence, must set aside, at least, half of his net profits, besides expending a considerable portion of his receipts in the mode of earning it, for which no allowance is made. Such as the purchase of books, and travelling to assizes or sessions by the barrister, and keeping horse and carriage by the medical practitioner in the country, or clergyman of an extensive district. Whether, then, we look to the sum remaining available for private expenses to the contributors under schedules A and D, or to the actual marketable value of that for which they are taxed the gross ine quality and unfairness of the present system is equally perceptible ; although, of course, the disparity is more glaring, the unfair ness more revolting, when viewed in the latter Point of view. It is absurd to say that the task of amending the law is one of extraordinary difficulty, such as a Person competent to fill the situation of Fi- Ela ncia Minister of the British Empire might n re aaoably sh r i n k f rom. W hy, there is not a gine° actuary worth a salary th a t would bring him w ithin the tax, who could not, within a single re daY'bring forward a sc h eme th at would be generally as a great i m p rovement on that now in operat.ions and th erefore acceptable to the great , majority of the contributors. It is ridiculous, therefore, for a man of Mr. GLADSTONE'S unques tionable talent, of which so many proofs h ave been given, to proclai h• i ro is inability to grapple with the subject with a re asonable hoe of offer ing a sa ti s f ac t or y solution of the im It is the will, and not portant pro the ability, th a t is wanting. A n d the Ri g h t Ron. upon eith er Gentleman should be called toundertakeetthi at which, in his position, becomes the office an imperative duty, or to resign h e now hold s , and to make way for a more energetic en or, who had greater confidence in his own pevre brought forward, propositions have already bee, forward, any of which would be far b etter than the existing law. Nothing but the "pledge,' given for the gradual extinction of the tax would have induced the House, nine-tenths of whose members bad committed themselves on the subject, to vote the renewal of the tax, without modifica- tion or alteration. That pledge was as distinct and positive as anything relating to a period seven years deferred could have been. We never, however, for a moment believed that it would be practicable for any Financial Minister to relinquish a fiscal Instrument so potent and so productive, and we A y r ,rt_, a; ; , ., - --2: ~;• ,\,..,;='-'-:', [aava:s•kk!;rk We are now on the eve, almost on the morning, of a war, and our brave sailors, and ere long our brave soldiers, may any day be clearing or form ing for action. None can say how soon the lives of our noble fellows may hang upon the direction of a Russian shot, and the result of an important battle depend upon one of those unforeseen cir cumstances, which minds like those of CESAR himself and the first NAPOLEON attributed to fate, but which we, with all rever ence and absolute freedom from superstition, assign to PROVIDENCE. Our sailors in this agree with us. Whatever their somewhat boisterous vices, cold scepticism is not one of them. That is the creed of a life spent among a machi nery which fosters an unnatural reliance cn human skill. JACK, who has spent all his life amid ele ments which baffie all human calculation, is a firm believer in the GOD who made him ; he likes to quit harbour with the prayers of the Church; and OD the midnight watch he has visitations of thought fulness which those who see him rampant on shore would hardly believe. Roughly, too, as he can look upon a Russian line-of-battle-ship, and recklessly as he will dare a whole crew of knouted serfs at the command to board, he has a tender place in his JOHN BULL'S heart, and can use his weather worn sleeve to dash away a tear at some thoughts of "the land, and those in it, he left behind him." And, in the awful moments before the murderous artillery begin to play on either side, when all is ready, and the word of command alone wanting ; and still more in the moments when, wounded and fainting, perhaps, he hopes no longer to revisit the home of his heart—at these times he needs and prizes the hope that the GOD of heaven is his friend. Should he not know, then, that he goes into this most righteous war, not only with HEAVEN'S approval of his cause, but with his country's spe cial prayers to the LORD OF Hosts, to bless him in the day of battle ? We have " kept our powder dry" —we have used every means human skill, indus try, and foresight can think of ; we have provided our warriors by land and by sea with the best commissariat, and the most efficient medical aid ; but, as we observed on Saturday, "the commence ment of a great war is not the appropriate time for boasting or for exultation." No ; we have rather to invoke solemnly the aid of that AL MIGHTY PROVIDENCE which will not ultinia;;ely for sake the trustful and the brave, though it may per mit occurrences which teach us our dependence. We think we saw some question put to the Go vernment in one of the Houses of Parliament respecting a day of humiliation and prayer. Humiliation, as it is commonly understood, ap pears to us very inappropriate ; unless, indeed, we confessed our sins in conniving at the past wickedness of Russia, in Poland, Hungary, Cir cassia, indeed everywhere along a frontier built up with the murdered liberties of free countries. Otherwise, while it would ill become us to boast be fore the MOST HIGH, never before, not even when Lord EXHOUTH bombarded Algerine pirates, have we been engaged in a more righteous cause —one in which, without a tinge of cant or hypocrisy, w e can take up Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S prayer, " May HEAVEN defend the right!" Would it be unbe coming for Government to give the hint that a day of prayer be appointed for the success of our arms ? Christians of every denomination throughout Great Britain would heartily and devoutly respond to it. Thousands of hearts at home would be fervent on behalf of brothers and husbands abroad, in whose risks they are anxiously concerned ; and the intelligence would rejoice the hearts of our brave men as it reached them, that their whole fatherland, by its spontaneous supplications, had invoked for them the benediction of the GOD OF BATTLES. We shall not have gone to heaven before having done our utmost both to preserve peace and to prepare for war. To have done so previously would have been to incur justly the rebuke which Lord PALMERSTON addressed to the Edinburgh clergymen --not to do it now, might equally argue both an overweening self-reliance, and a neglect of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, which is not right in itself, and which we might hereafter have occasion to deplore. The opposition of the Government to Mr. FAGAN'S motion on Ministers' Money may be characterised in a sentence. They defended the worst exaction, of the worst establishment in Europe, by the worst of arguments. After what such a statesman as MACKINTOSH, such a historian as MACAULAY, and such a poet as MOORE have said or sung, to prove the Irish Establishment, as an establishment, the most indefensible piece of reli gious tyranny in the world, is quite superfluous. After the confessions of all parties as to the odious ness of a tax, first levied under an Act passed in the godly and charitable times of CHARLES ll. levied only upon eight large and chiefly Roman Catholic towns—levied to pay the Ministers of the Church who now revel, with little or no thing to do, in the endowments once belonging to these very Catholics—the levy amounting, more over, to only 15,0001. per annum--after this it were equally a work of supererogation to denounce the tax itself. And then again, the absurd, the childish argument by which it was defended—the inviolability of Church property !---the inviola bility of an annual and hateful tax ; of a tax the aboliton of which, even without a substitute, no one would miss on the death of the present recipients !—if this tax be inviolable property, so is the Corporation coal tax in London, and all the other most abhorred imposts of that anti quated body. As Sir JA.NIES MACKINTOSH long ago observed, Church property has none of the characteristics of private property ; it is purely national, and has been and can be, dealt with by the nation as it sees fit. Like the Annuity Tax in Edinburgh, and Church Rates througho u t En ;laud, except that a vestry cau refuse the lat- do not regret that there has been a more speedy fulfilment of our predictions than even we our selves had contemplated. Looking on a Property and Income Tax, equitably apportioned and fairly levied, as the best possible tax for the community, considering that its extinction would not merely retard, but altogether prevent, the further develop ment of " free trade," or " unrestricted com petition," " The rose by any name will smell as sweet," and removing the burdens that unduly press on industry, we rejoice at the early and unequivo cal evidence of the fallacy of the hopes so boldly held forth by the Minister, and so credulously indulged in by the people. Were it otherwise, w e could not hope to get rid of in toto, or even ma terially reduce, the tax on prudence, in the shape of the stamps on fire, life, or marine insurances, all of which, more especially the former, have been decidedly condemned by public opinion. We could not hope to get rid of the impedi ment to knowledge, which prevents the publica tion of cheap and wholesome food for the popular mind, nor to remove the other innumerable evils incidental to the heavy duties on paper —we could not hope to adopt the judicious suggestions of Mr. OLIVEIRA. for reducing the duties on the light wines of France, by which the habits of intemperance so deplorably prevalent in certain districts, the evil which has been styled the " English vice," may be gradually diminished and ultimately removed, while the bonds, by which we are united to our faithful and effi cient ally may be drawn closer and materially strengthened. We cannot hope to remove the stain of confiscation from our fiscal code by the removal of the hop duties, or hope to see the labourer drinking sound wholesome home-brewed beer, made of untaxed malt, in the presence of his family, and by the domestic hearth, in the place of quaffing adulterated and drugged potions in beer-shops, where bad habits may be engendered and crime concocted. None of these blessings can be hoped for if the Income and Property Tax be extinguished, and extinguished it must be unless rendered more equitable. Let fiscal reformers, then, make a determined exertion. An opportunity has very unexpectedly been offered, which should not be wasted or misapplied. If a vigorous and determined resistance be offered—if honourable gentlemen act at all up to their pro fessions, Mr. GLADSTONE Must yield, and there will be unalloyed joy and gratification throughout the entire country. HAYMARK TH &ARRE. An extravaganza called ITillikind and hys Dinah, by Mr. Stirling Coyne, was produced at this theatre last night, and favourably received. It is hardly necessary to say that it is founded on the Cockney ballad which Mr. Robson has brought into vogue by his manner of singing it at the Olympic. Mr. Coyne has dramatised the tragical story of the loves of the City 'prentice and his master's daughter in the same ludicrous way in which it is told in the ballad ; the pair of lovers, Willikind and Dinah, being acted by Miss Louisa Howard and Mrs. Fitzwilliarn ; the " pa.rients" by Mr. Corti and Mrs. Caulfield, and the noble suitor by Mr. Buckstone. The burlesque is capital--carried on in doggrel rhymes in the style of Tom Thumb, full of happy turns, whimsical allusions, and parodies of famous speeches from trage dies, made laughable by the way in which they are tra vestied. The catastrophe is doleful enough. The damsel poisons herself by night in her father's back garden with a cup of British brandy, and lies down to die among the cabbages ; her lover kills his rival, and then follows her ex impie ; and when the clock strikes twelve, they all get up azain, like the characters in Tom Thumb, and finish with a dance. A thing of this kind is not to be described —it must be seen ; an th :y who see t> will, as we have done, enjoy a hearty laugh. The piece is ad mirably put upon the stage. The dresses are in the rich fashion of James the First's time; and the scenery is new and really beautiful. LAW INTELLIGISNCE-(THIS DAY). SHERIFFS COURT. (Before R. Gurney, Esq.) IN RE BOWMAN V. HART. IMPORTANT TO LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. This was a plaint to recover one week's rent from de fendant, and damages for holding over after notice to quit. Mr. W. B. Davies appeared for the defence, and the case, after discussion, resolved itself into the follow ing facts. Defendant, it appeared, had taken the pre mises previously to their coining into possession of the present plaintiff, and being a weekly tenant, notice was given to quit, which he refused to do for want of due notice. Mr. Davies contended in the first place that the title of the new landlord must be proved, awl quoted Rennie v. Robinson, 1 Bing. 147. He alsu objected to the notice to quit, which ought to have been given seven days clear—the date on this occasion was on a Saturday to quit on Saturday. His Honour held both objections to be good—he said that the general notice to quit on a specific day was in some cases doubtful, but the plaintiff would have been right if he had said on the certain day, whatever it` was supposed to be, or such day after as the tenancy should expire. —Plaintiff was nonsuited. SECONDA EtIES COURT. (Before Mr. Secondary Potter.) The cases to-day were wholly uninteresting, being on disputed accounts. A HINDRANCE OF JUR ORS - IMPORTANT TO LONDON AND LIVERPOOL MERCHANTS. In calling over the list of the jury, very few answered. Mr. Hudson, the Clerk of the Court, said that all the absentees were liable, not only to a fine for each day of non-attendance, but might be placed on the list of jurors for the Central Criminal Court. A gentlemen► present observed that his principal did not reside in London two mouths in the year, and could not attend. Mr. Hudson said that every person carrying on busi ness in the City was bound to serve. If they chose to reside away and not attend the court, they must abide by the legal consequences. It was then stated that the party summoned actually carried on business at Liverpool. Mt. Hudson—Then he has an agent in London, whose name must appear on the jury list, otherwise the burden will be thrown very unfairly on others. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) The cases to-day were of no Intere.t. The only tine- Lion trips one On an appliou6ion JUL the distribution of some surplus property after payment of claims. The assignees had agreed to come to terms and take a share for the benefit of the creditors generally, in order to avoid an expensive suit in Chancery, but one firm stood out. His Honour said that assignees were appointed by consent of the great majority of the creditors, and their discretion ought to have great weight. They concurred with the propositions made, and as Mr. Cannau, the official assignee, who was a fair arbitrator between all parties, conceived the proposition beneficial to the estate, he (his Honour) would make the order. Mr. Dupree appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Fowler for the creditors. The Earl and Countess of Liman and family have arrived in Hanover-square from Castlebar House. His lordship, who, when Lord Bingham, commanded for some years the 17th Lancers, shortly embarks for the East, in command of an expeditionary force of 2,000 cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel Mundy, Assistant Quartermaster- General at Kilkenny, has been appointed Military Secretary for War and the Colonies. ABSENCE OF MR. J. H. WALSEL—It is now ascer tained that Mr. John Walsh, whose sudden disappearance has caused so much sensation in this city, sailed under a feigned name from Southampton for Havre, and it is believed has gone from thence to America. The clue to his movements was obtained at Southampton, where he had changpd English for French coins. It would seem that he was somewhat embarrassed in pecuniary mat ters, but not to any such extent as would give even a colourable reason for his abrupt departure.— Worcester Chronicle. THE PRESIDENTS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—It has been ascertained upon examination of the records in the Town Clerk's office, that since the year 1553, when Sir George Barnes, who had been elected Lord Mayor of London in the year 1552, was chosen to the office of president of Christ's Hospital, every president of that institution has been an alderman of the city of London. Sir William Curtis, who was elected president of Christ's Hospital in 1813, was succeeded in 1829 by Alderman n d F e R h t G i b F 1 (3 1 o patronsccurt onfE tNhceEestablishment,; Thomps on ,. w h o was one of the most munificent and BURIED BE NEATH A MASS OF FALLEN BRICKWORK. —This morning, considerable alarm was created in the vicinity of Great Tower-street, by the falling in of an arched vault at the corner of Mark-lane, beneath the debris of which it was stated that several persons had been inhumed. A simi lar accident, by which a man named Kelly lost his life, having occurred about a week since, increased the ex citement. On inquiry, it appears that the house at the corner of Mark-lane had been pulled down for the im provements in that neighbourhood, and a number of workmen were employed on the summit of an arched vault cleaning bricks, when, owing to the enormous weight upon it, the sides gave way, and the crown of the arch falling in, precipitated the workmen to the bottom, falling amongst a heap of bricks and rubbish. Assistance was immediately obtained, and the men were extricated, three with slight injuries, and one so seri ously wounded that he was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT.—This morning information was received by Mr. Baker, coroner, of a disastrous accident in George yard, Whitechapel, whereby a labour ing man, named M ic h ael Kenney, lost his life. It ap pears that he was employed in digging down to clear a drain leading to the main sewer, and whilst at work was barred in the earth, which fell upon him. It appears he . had dug to th e d ept h of 10 feet without taking the precaution of shoring up the sides. Great exertions were made to extricate him, and after the lapse of nearly an hour his body was go t out, but a medical gentleman in attend ance pronounced life to have been extinct for some time, An inquest has been appointed. THE ELEPHANT S IN PARIS.—Mr. Will i am Cooke, proprietor of Astley's, arr i ve d i n P ar i s on M on d ay evening, and h a d the high eTatification of receiving the command of the Emperor, who e with a numerous vale witnessed the performance of these truly wonderful animals. The Emperor sent for Mr. W. Cooke at the conclusion, and expressed himself much pleased with their astonishing docility. A second command is to take place next week under the distinguished patronage of the Empress. The excitement is so great that the sol diers are co m p e ll e d to attend the entrances each evening. Great preparations are making for the new Easter piece, which is written by Mr. Nelson Lee, and introduces a most novel effect. BULLION AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—Yesterday a return to the House of Commons, obtained by Mr. Hankey, M P., was printed, from which it appears that from July, 1853, to December, the bullion purchased by the Bank of E ng l an d amounted to 3,368,1511., of which 3.364,724/. was bar gold and 3,4271. foreign coin. The bullion sold in gold was 2 ,327,2281., of which 149,9041. was bar gold and 2,177,3241. foreign coin. The British gold coin was as follows : Excess of payments, 4,212,356/. ; excess o f rece i pts, 342,2531. ; and received from the Mint, 2,853,3311. TRADE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.—A line of steamers has been advertised to run from Hull to the Prussian port of Pillau in the Baltic, tsisilig goods for Memel, &c., with the view of carrying on the trade be tween England and Russia. It is to consist of screw propellers of about 700 tons. THE SUN, LONDON ; FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1854 ter, the Ministers' Money is a tax utterly out of keeping with the intelligence and temper of the I age. Taxes like these are mere ecclesiastical blisters ; they may not seriously injure the suf ferer, but they keep up an intolerable irritation. None of us like tax-paying ; and the only miti gation of the evil is, that we believe its objects to be on the Whole good, and that we receive an ample return in the general security and order ; but in these clerical taxes it is just the reverse we receive nothing in return, but are taxed to teach doctrines we disapprove. The Roman Ca tholic or the Dissenter could live in peace and charity with his State Church neighbour, they would shake hands cordially as they returned from their respective Divine services ; but when the Churchman, in addition to his 600,0001. in Ireland, and 6,000,0001. in England, per annum of national property, demands from the man who pays for his own worship a personal payment in addition, human nature must be greatly altered if it dues not provoke a quarrel. All such anti social nuisances must be cleared away. MONE 1 lIKE T AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS THE WAR IN THE EAST. OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF A STATE OF SIEGE IN RUSSIA. The Moniteur of yesterday, under the date of St. Petersburg, March the 7th, gives copies of five official documents declaring various parts of the Russian dominions to be in a state of siege. Each document is in the form of an Imperial ukase, dated March the sth. The first states that, under present circum stances, his Majesty thinks it necessary to declare the Government of Ekatherinowsla and the arron dissement of Taganrog to be in a state of siege, and places those localities under the order of the Gene ral of cavalry M. Khomouloff, with the privileges granted by the regulations issued on the sth of December, 1846. ' The second ukase declares St. Petersburg to be in a state of siege, and places the Government under the authority of the Grand Duke, heir to the throne, Commander-in-Chief of the Guards and Grenadiers, with the prerogatives accorded to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. By the third ukase, the Govern men t o f E st h onia and Livonia ar e placed in a state of siege ; Esthonia to be under the orders of General Aide-de-Camp Berg, and Livonia under those of the Aide-de- Camp General Prince of Italy, Count Suwarotr- Kiminsky, Military Governor of Riga. The next ukase declares the Government of Archangel to be in a state of siege, under the orders of Vice-Admiral Boel, military Governor of the place. By the sth ukase, the kingdom of Poland, and the governments of Courland, Ko wno, Grodno, Volyhnia, and Podolia are declared to be in a state of siege. The ukase also states that the Government of Bessarabia, and that part of the Government of Cherson, situated on the right bank of the Bug, which were declared to be in a state of siege by the ukase of the 19th of Novem ber, 1853, are to be now in a similar position ; and that all these places are to be under the authority of Field-Marshal General Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskew:tch d'Erivan, Commander-in-Chief of the active army. The ukase, in addition, states that the Emperor ordains that the government of Podolia, the part of the government of Cherson, situated on the right bank of the Bug, and the province of Bessarabia shall at the same ti me b e placed under the autho rity of Aide-de-camp General Prince Gortschitkoff, commander of the troops of the 3,1, 4th, and sth corps of infantry, who is to have the prerogatives granted the commanders of detached corps by the ukase of December 5, 1846. The ukase then provides that the kingdom of Poland and the governments of Courland, Kowno, Volhynia, and Grodno, during the absence of the Field-Marshal, shall be wider the authority of General Aide-de-Camp Count Itudiger, and that Aide-de-Camp General Baron Osten-Sacken shall retain in Bessarabia and in the government of Cherson the powers granted to the commanders of detached corps by the ukase of November 19, 1853. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cottot at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The marlet continued tame but steady, with prices of all kiids in favour of buyers. The sales comprised 240 Pernam and Maranham, at 63d. to 71d., 500 B4hia at 6id., 100 Egyptian at 6d. to 70., 400 kurat at 3fd. to 4d., 40 Sea Island at ls. ld. tc Is. 3d. per lb., and the re mainder American. Railway Shares were dull. Colonial produce ias been duller this week, and less firmness has beta evinced by holders. Coffee, sugar, spices, and rive are all lower, and the supply has increased. Tot' has been held at above the market prices, tailor has been firm, and hemp at full prices. The tenour of an commercial advices by the steamer Sydney, fron Australia, is stated to be un satisfactory, but we lave as yet no details, the only information received being obtained indirectly by the arrival of the Great Western steamer from St. Vincent. The datcs from Melbourne are the 17th Dec., and from Sydney about the 7th, and it is probable these will reach us to-morrow or Monday, as the Sydney steamer was to leave St. Vincent on the 4th instant, two days after the Great Western, which called at various places after leav ing that place. It is reported that the Melbourne markets were greatly overstocked, and that sales were increasingly dificull, but that land maintained its price, because thE cheapness of imports left the miner greater disposable means for its purchase. The details of the marke s must, however, be awaited, ere we can state with any degree of confi dence what has occurred, although it is easy enough to understand what will probably take place, viz. pressure and failures before a healthy tone is re • stored. One circumstance, however, should not be lost sight of as affording hope of the reaction being sensibly mitigated, if it be not arrested. There has been such a decided advance in the prices of many articles in Europe, since shipments of them were made to Melbourne, that they could not be replaced now upon the terms at which they were originally invoiced. Advices from Cologne state that a quantity of arms manufactured in Belgium had been received there for transmission to Russia. The police stopped them in transitu, but appear subsequently to have allowed them to be sent away. The Van Diemen's Land Company, at their meeting just held, have declared a dividend of 10s. per share. The English Stock Market has been rather heavy, and with scarcely a bargain on speculation. The fact of 300,0001. having been withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday, making about a millidn and a half within a few days, is suffi cient to deter operations for a rise, as money is decidedly tighter, and the whole amount withdrawn has been forwarded to Paris. The arrangement by which a deposit of 10 per cent. to be made upon subscribing for thi loan, is at tracting, and temporarily locking up considerably more than will ultimately be needed for the first instalment, and representations have been made to induce a relaxation of this regulation, though, we apprehend, without much chance of success. Con sols have been 90 to 91 for transfer, and 904 to 90 7 3 . for April. Exchequer Bills are Bs. to 11s. prem. Bank Stock is firm, at 221. The current prices for the Jamaica mines, not officially quoted, are as follows :—Metcalfe, to premium ; Sue River, discount to par ; Port Royal, if to premium. Foreign Securities have been very quiet. Rus sian Five per Cents. are firm at 90. Spanish Threes have been done at 37*. Dutch Four per Cents. are 862. Austrian Bonds realise 76, and Bras Tian 98. The Russian journals, of the 6th, publish an Imperial ordinance thus conceived :--" All the Bulgarians who may present themselves at our ad vanced posts shall be received in our Bulgarian colonies subject to the approbation of the Bulga rian communes, and under the responsibility of a member of the commune who may show himself worthy of the confidence. The Bulgarians who may not be received in the communes shall be sent into the interior of Russia." A letter from Constantinople, of March 5, says : The ground is still covered with snow in the Asiatic provinces. The Russians are assembling a large force there, but the Turks have been not only re-organised, but reinforced. Abd-el-Kader has contributed 6,000 francs, at Broussa, towards the expenses of the war. The combined fleets are detained at Beycos by the tempestuous weather. The Fury and the Vauban returned on the 2d, the authorities at Se bastopol having refused to receive the despatches of which they were the bearers. The following is dated Beyrouth, the 20th ult.:-- " Last week a considerable number of volunteers from Palestine passed through this place. The Emir of the Druses of the Libanus received orders to assemble 10,000 volunteers ; but as he has been able to get together only 400, the Government au thorities have refused to alvance him funds until the full number is forthcoming. Orders have been received frnn Constantinople to send the volun teers to Erzeroum. It would seem that the Porte has no great confidence in the assurances of peace made by Persia." Several reserved parks of artillery have left Poland for the Danube. The frontier towns of the kingdom of Poland are completely without regular troops ; they contain only veterans and C0,5,,,1cg TUc troops Which have marched are to take up a position in the government of Lubin, between the Vistula and the Bug. They will probably be sent towards the Danube. A letter from Vicuna, of the 11th, says :—Sonie journals again speak of hopes of peace. They have said that Russia has sent a new proposition of ar rangement in reply to that brought by Count Orloff, and that that proposition of arrangement has been accepted by the conference of Vienna as the basis of ulterior negotiations. The truth of the affair is simply this : At a conference herd on the sth, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ambassadors declared that new negotiations for peace could not be entered on except on condition of Russia first evacuating the Danubian Princi palities, and re-establishing the status quo ante !nitwit ; but, that the Emperor of Russia, having refused to make that concession, the reply of his Majesty would be duly enregistered. Rumour was in circulation at Vienna, on the 11th, that troubles had broken out in Servia, but no credence was attached to it. It is certain, how ever, that Russian officers, disguised as Greek priests, have been arrested in Servia and Albania. Austria will not, it is said, tolerate any revolu tionary attempt, but will put it down at once by force. A rumour prevailed that Austria had made a separate treaty with England and France on the Eastern question. It is not generally known that, at the moment when the Cabinets of France and England sent their ultimatum to the Emperor Nicholas, the Austrian Cabinet sent them a note inviting them to replace the sword in the scabbard, but at the same time declaring that, in case hos tilities should burst out, Austria, having in view only the point or right, would assume the attitude which her interests might suggest. No one doubts that the reply of the Czar will be unfavourable. A letter from Berlin, of the 13th, mentions that Lieutenant -Colonel de Mauteuffel was to go to Munich that evening on his mission to the Em peror of Austria. The mission to St. Petersburgh had, it was said, been abandoned. The police at Cologne seized, on the 12th, 16 waggons laden with arms coming from Liege. They are said to have been intended for Russia, and were to be followed by other supplies. The following note has been published by the Austrian Government relative to the suspension of the Lloyd of Vienna : The Railway Share Market has been duller, and prices have been about i to 4 per cent, in favour of buyers. The French lines, also, are in less de mand. Gold Mines are nominal, and Banks steady, Canada Land Shares are at very full rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, (From the Official List. R 4 3 per Cent. Cons o l s A nnu iti es . RlaainP ,„ 9O 1 90 On 3 1 , i 1 Long Annuities, Expire sth J an., 1860 ... shut 90 Ditto 30 Years, Expire stb Jan., 1860 5 1-16 Bank Stock for Account 221 Consols for Account 18th April 9 Ol i Exchequer Bills, 2d. 21000 .... . £5OO 8 1 Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds, 5 por Cent........ ' , raszilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 9B Ditto New, 1852, 44 per Cent . %lexicon 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, t 822, 5 per Cent. X St 9O oiLi.ul.ll per tent..Aoi Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37i Disn.ten.is on the shove payable in Lon , ton. Dutch Exchange, 2; per Cent. 12 Guil — Ditto for the Account 56 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates.. .. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 9oi 1 Ditto April Account. 9Ol i Despatches were received at the Colonial -office yester day from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of the West India Island 3. Sir Charles 'Wood, President of the Board of Control, and Lady Mary Wood, received the following distin guished party at dinner on Wednesday, at their resi dence in Chesham-place :—His Excellency the Danish Minister, the Archbishop of York, and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave, the Duchess of Inverness, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl of Zetland, Viscount Goderich, M.P., Lady Dalmeny, Lord Charles Russell, the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, Mr. Harcourt, and Frances Countess of Waldegra,ve, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Grey, and Mr. Granville Vernon. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AT MALTA.—The Himalaya, with the 93d Highlanders and two companies of Rifles ; the Emu, with the 33d Infantry; the Vulcan, with the 2nd battalion of Rifle Brigade ; and the Manilla, with the Grenadier Guards, have arrived at Malta. LONDON AND COUNTY BANK.— At a special general meeting of the London County Bank yesterday the reso lution adopted in 1841 for reducing the nominal capital of the company from 2 ,000,0001. to 1,000.0001., and the number of shares from 40,000 to 20,000, was unani mously rescinded. ABD-EL KADER.—The Journal d' Indre-et-Loir pub lishes the following letter, addressed by Abd-el-Kader to the Mayor of Amboise, in answer to a letter from the [atter, announcing the completion of the monument erected over the grave of some Arabs who died during their captivity : " Praise to the one God ! To our excellent and well beloved friend, M. Trouve, Mayor of Amboise. I salute you, as well as all my friends re-iding in your town. May the peace of God be with you. I received your letter, dated the 6th December last, in which you announced to me that, according to the orders given by my illustrious liberator, our august Emperor Napoleon 111., the works are terminated. I thank you for announcing this news to me, and I shall therefore be always grateful towards the august Emperor. — Salutation. AI 3 D-EL-KADER BEN MAHLEDDINE. " 18th of the Dptnaz-el-Ouet, 1270 (Feb. 15.) THE CHOLERA AT GLASGOW.—ChoIera is again pre valent at Glasgow. Oh Saturday there were 10 deaths from it in the city parish, and 5 in the barony parish ; on Sunday 16 in the former, and 11 in the latter ; on Monday 10 in the former, and 6 in the latter ; and on Tuesday 14 in the city parish. SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL—We have to record the death of a rather singular individual in Forgue, one who has lived long in the esteem of a wide circle of acquaint ances. and one whom many will lament. We refer to Janet Spence or Milne, Monelie, Forgue, who departed this life on the 12th February, aged 84. For the last 60 years she has practised as a midwife, and in the course of her practice she has, as nearly as can be known from the register she kept, ushered into the world the almost in credible number of 2,400 children. Janet was a most successful practitioner, and always a welcome guest in the halls of the great, or at the humble board of the cottar.—Aberdeen Journal. DEATHS FROM WANT.—During the week, no less than three women have died in the metropolis from want of food and consequent exhaustion. One was the wife of a tailor, living at 29, Playhouse-yard, Whitecross street ; another, the widow of a soldier, living at 6, Tash-court, Gray's Inn-lane ; and the third, a woman who was taken from Holborn-buildings to the London Fever Hospital, in the belief that she had a fever. The medical authorities of that establishment, however, soon put the matter in the right light. The poor creature expired, not from fever, but poverty and want. ROBBERY AT A BONDED WAREHOUSE.—Yesterday morning a robbery was discovered to have been effected on Chester Quay, Lower Thames-street, which has re stilted in the suspension of two officers of the Customs and the private watchman employed on the premises. The police are deputed by the Board and the proprietors of the warehouse to adopt the most energetic measures for the apprehension of the thieves. On the previous evening a number of cases of brandy were landed at Chester Quay, but in consequence of it being after hours, the stores were locked, and they were left in charge of two tidewaiters and the private watchman. Yesterday morning, on the arrival of the wharfinger, it was ascertained that one of the cases had been removed from one extremity of the quay to the other; and on further examination it was found that several bottles had been abstracted. The wharfinger having made inquiries, which were answered in an unsatisfactory manner, called in the police to investigate the affair, and gave immedi ate information of the occurrence to the Comptroller, who at once issued orders for the suspension of the officers " The Lloyd in an article signed E. W. speaks of the letter of the Emperor of Russia in ironical ay d con temptuous terms, which are incompatible with the maintenance of order, and it woulc: be unworthy of the Imperial Government to suffer a public document of a Sovere►gn to he discussed in that form and in so im proper a manner. The direction of the police has in consequence received orders to suspend the journal for eight d rys, a previous warning nut Leaving produced any effect." GREEK INSURRECTION. A letter from Athens, of the 3d March in the Augsburg Gazette, says : "The French anti English ambassadors have had a private audience with his Majesty, and communicated their instructions to him. They have assured the King of the sincere sympathies of their Governments for Greece, and have represented to him the high importance of Greece taking no part in the insurrectional movement of the Christians in Turkey. The two Governments pro , mice assistance and support to the Government in the event of the insurgents, after failing in their enterprise, seeking to f oment d isturbances in G reece. The King replied that his Government, out of regard to the friendly relations which exist with Turkey, had observed the strictest neutrality, but that he possessed no legal means of preventing private individuals from flying to th e as sistance of thei r co - re li g i on i sts beyond his frnntiers, and the wore so as the majority of them had friends and re latives among them. The King thanked the ambassa dors for the eagerness evinced by their Government to render him assistance in case of need, but expressed his hope that no such necessity would occur. French and English steamers are continually arriving, and some of them remain at the Pirieus at the disposal of the bassadors." am- THE BALTIC FLEET. A telegraphic despatch, from Copenhagen, dated March 14, and received via Hamburg, states, that several sail of the English fleet had been signalled. A frigate had come to anchor before the city. The Hamburg Correspondent has the following from Copenhagen :—" The English announce that their Baltic flet has six months' provi s i ons on board and is accompanied by 30 vessels laden with coal. The neutral powers cannot but feel pleased at this, as the fleets obt a i n i ng supplies in their ports would only give rise to collisions and re prisals." A letter flora Copeztha, eit of the jOth ,ays : " The Danish flotilla will put to sea in the spring ; 1 it is composed of 12 vessels of war, carryin to gether 250 gum and 2,182 men. The lio g lger ERRATIJIL—In our first article on Wednesday, in the last line of the first paragraph, the omissi ,, n of the Ivor I " dewed" made us represent the superstitious hordes of Russia as " blinded by the light of the Word of God." [lt should have read, " whom he has blinded by his priesthood and denied the light of the Werd of God."J Danske is nearly completed ; it is also said that the new frigate Nacade is to be got ready for sea. The pilots have received orders not to take charge of any foreign vessels of war beyond their respec tive stations." COMBAT AT IBRAILA. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle writes from Ibrail on March 2d : " I hasten to bring to your knowledge the details of a combat of some importance, which took place last night on the right bank of the Danube, at a short distance above Ibraila, and in the direction of Galatz, where the Turks have erected a battery to prevent the Russian flotilla corning up as far as this. " The commander of the said flotilla received yester day the order at Galatz to proceed immediately to our port with munitions of war, which he had been to fetch from Reni. To facilitate the passage in front of the Turkish bat tery, General Engelhardt ordered it to be attacked by land, and for this purpose sent a battalion of infantry in two large kerlatchs (flat-bottoMed boats), which, cross ing the Danube, landed troops a short distance beyond the said Turkish battery, which they hoped to surprise and put in the impossibility of acting against the flotilla. " The Turks, although not prepared for such an at tack, were, however, informed in time by their advance outposts to enable them to point two guns so as to bear up on the battalion which was endeavouring to make its way through the reeds and blocks of ice with which the ground it had to get over is covered. At half-past two in the morning the Turks opened their fire, to which the Rus sians repled, first by platoon firing, then, in consequence of the nature of the ground, awl the intention of the Russians to surround the battery, the firing ex tended to different points. At last it came to a hand-to hand fight, wit' sword and bayonet ; a desperdte strug gle ensued, which lasted for m ,re than an hour, when the Russians retreated and re-embarked ; they embarked just in time to eampe a small squadron of cavalry which had hurried up from Matschin to aupport the bat tery. Ten minutes later, and they would have all been made prisoners. During this time the two steamers and six gun-boats succee.led iu reaching the interior of the port without damage. To judge by, my own eyes, the loss of the Russians was considerable ; three officer s kill e d, one captain mortally wounded ; more than 40 men were left upon the field of battle, 13 made prisoners, and some 50 wounded, who have been sent to the hospitals. "The grand attack is fixed for the let (13th) March. Will they be ready then ? That is the question. For although new troops arrive daily, those here will not suffice for a coup de main. "Prince Gortschakoff left the evening before last, re turning to Bucharest. Before his departure he gave orders to the local authorities to prepare quarters for his aides-de-carnp. It is said that the Prince will be present at the grand attack preparing against Matschin. "Already the public establishments, as welt as the best houses in the town, are converted into hospitals ; nevertheless, a new order for 1,400 beds has been issued," FRANCE. It appears that the object of the council held on Wednesday morning at the Tuileries was to receive a communication of despatches from the French ambassador in London, in which he intimates the opinion of the English Cabinet on the subject of the recent explanations given by Prussia on the subject of her neutrality, and the new proposition made by that power for the resumption ofnegotiations between the Western Powers and Russia. According to one version, the English Cabinet is not disposed to look upon these propositions as serious, or as likely to lead to a pacific solution. It therefore thinks that there is no occasion for the two Cabinets to occupy themselves with the propositions, but that they should consider them as non avenues ; at the same time taking care to avoid anything that could give offence to Prussia or Austria, or to push them at the present moment to a declaration of their sentiments ; it being quite sufficient that they should be left in their present ambiguous position till the progress of events shall have forced them to declare themselves one way or other. The English Government declares that the only thing to be done at present is to hasten the embarkation of the troops for Constantinople, and the despatch of the third squadron to the Baltic. The opinions of the English Cabinet were fully approved of, and were not opposed even by the members of the Cabinet who were for a long time considered the peace party. Notwithstanding the conviction which all people must feel that matters have now gone too far for either party to recede, there are a few sanguine persons in Paris who still entertain a faint hope of a pacific solution. It is stated in ano ther quarter likely to be well-informed that the Emperor Nicholas has at length taken the alarm at finding himself deserted by all the Powers of Europe, and that he now no longer conceals his anxiety for a settlement of the affair in any way which could at all be considered honourable to him. He has even been known to express his determination not to be prevented by the commencement of hostilities from continuing to negotiate for peace, and to declare that in the nil th,s re - var ,s4.* vle-sr. .0v.,;• I; overtures. I n s h or t, he still perseveres in his pro fessions of moderation, hoping thereby to detach the German Powers from the English and French alliance, and perhaps still to create distrust be tween England and France themselves. It appears that one of the most active agents of the Czar—a personage who has recently left Paris—has written a letter, in which a belief is expressed that since the origin of the affair there never was a better chance of the success of negotiations than now. The ob ject of such communications is evident. No one knows better than the writer that the same terms which were offered before cannot be accepted now; but still the old game will be played, of pretending that the Czar is willing to accept reasonable terms —the terms proposed by the allies themselves—but being rejected, that war is forced upon the Czar. The world has been too long the victim of these professions to be duped by them any longer. For several days past it has been stated that the question of the suppression of the existing journals in Paris and the departments, with some excep tions, was actually discussed in the CJuncil of Ministers. Besides the mlfoniteur, two journals only would be allowed for Paris, and one for each of the departments. This proposition was thrown out by a small minority, and one version is, that the Emperor, who presided at the Cou nc il , gave no opinion, hile another is that he opposed it. The subscriptions for the new loan are on so ex tensive a scale, that it is now calculated that instead of ten millions sterling, the amount of money ten dered will reach to fully forty millions. The French fleet, being occupied in the Mediter ranean in transporting troops to the East, will for the present be only represented in the Baltic by the Austerlitz. At a later period the squadron of Admiral Parseval Deschenes will enter that sea to join the fleet of Admiral Napier. The Gazette de Flandre has received a warning from the Prefect of the N or d , f or publishing an article which is considered to have been written in a spirit evidently hostile to the great and patriotic manifestations of public opinion. The accounts from Algiers, of the 10th instant, state that the preparati ons f or the expe diti on to the Rim were prosecut e d w i t h the utmost act i v i ty . Nothing can exceed the e nthusiasm of the popula tion, both native and European. Subscriptions were b e i ng organised in the city for the purpose of giving a farewell entertainment to the division of the expe ditionary army. A pin ch party, described as truly fabulous, was to b e offered to the army and navy. The Arabs j o i ne d w ith much alacrity in those mani festations, w hi c h took place under the patronage of the Governor-General and the Rear-Admiral com manding the naval department. It is astonishing with what interest the different phases of the Eastern question were followed in Algeria, and with what b u rsts of patriotism the colonists and the arm y h a il e d the rupture with R uss i a . The na tives, an d eve n the tribes most remote from the coast, were thoroughly acquainted with the thou sand incideuta of th e Tur co -R ussian dif f erence, with the attitude of the Christian Powers, and the question d e bated at Constantinople. The European o f the i n terior populati on Was not so well informed in that respect as the Arabs. The contingent to be supplied by the arin,, of Africa for the expedi. tionary eorPs will exceed 10,000 men. Little or no business was done on the Bourse yesterdal. The Three per Cents. opened at 66f. to 66f. 45c. 20c., T OO , and closed at 66f. 30c. for the end of t he month. The Four -and-a-Half per Cents. at 92f. 20c. ; Orleatia Railway shares, 1,097 f. 50c, ; Rouen, 870 f.; HaVre, 447 f. 50e. ; Great Northern 740 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 722 f. 50c. ; ditto, llj e w shares, 560 f. ; P - aris and Lyons, 817 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean 680 f, ; estern of France, 580 f. ; Bordeat lx and Cette, 530 f."; Great Central o f Vance, 4 30 f. ; Lyon s t o Geneva, 443 f. 750. ; Shases of the , sank of Credit Mobilier, 572 f. 50c. SPAIN. - The Herad () o f th e 11th, says that the military commission, under General Prim, charged to report on th e war i n the East, is to return to Constanti nople at the end of this month or the beginning of April, and is to proceed at once to the Danube. The same journal states that the G o vernment will shortly publish in the Gazette, th e measures tak e n for causing the productions of 'Spanish agri culture and industry to figure with a avantage in the approaching Grand Exhibition of Vance. The editor of th e T r ibuizo had b eep condemned to six months' imprisonment for th e publication of a seditious article. M. lat ur itz w as ex pect e d . o n th e 20th. Th e Queen of s pg in h a d presented a ma gnificent horse to Gener a l link. The Three Per Cents. we r e de la , at 35 ; the New Three p e r tents,, a t 18!, • th e pebt o f th e first class, at iii; and that of the 4)04 at 411. ~__:-~ ATER FROM AUSTRALIA. The Great Western brings news that the Sydney ,Nn-ship, had arrived at St. Vincent's (Cape de ,vis), from Australia, en route for England. Her 5 are Sydney, Dec. 7 ; Port Philip, Dec. 17 the Cape, Feb. 4. As said the markets in Australia were con sidthly overstocked with English and other mer chaise sent out on speculation, and that conse que?„ there must he a great loss on its sale. T yield of gold still continued to increase, and sever new diggings had been discovered. The Sydni has nearly 80,000 ounces on board, a great Pertleof which is in the hands of the passengers. Its pri in Melbourne was 755. per ounce. The rdney brings 90 passengers. She would leave t, Vincent two days after the Great Westeri The iMligence from the Cape is of no moment. Sir Geor k Cathcart had received a notifi ca tion, through to General Commanding in Chief, that her Maley jutant had been pleased to appoint him Ad do , "Gelral of the Forces—a duty which would, no do ubt, , 11 for his presence in England. The inhabitantsf Graham's Town had, however, pre paredhis Excellen, a peti,n, praying the Queen to continue, as Governor• of the colony. TIE BRAZILS. The Royal Western, Ca pt . --N - 1 Company's steam-ship Great A. Bavis, with the usual Bra zilian and Rivero late mails in charge of Lieut. Fuge, h.N., arri e d at Southampton yesterday morning at twelve o'clock. The Great Western during the voyage 4omewards experienced very fine weather. Tile Great Westerwwings mails from the follow ing places, with theirrespective dates affixed :--- Buenos Ayres, Feb. 2 ; Monte Video, Feb. 5 ; Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 14; Ba\j a , Feb. 18; Pernambuco, Feb. 21 ; St. Vincent, Nrch 2 • Teueriffe, March 8 ; Madeira, M arc h 9 ; Lisbon, March 12. Landed at Lisbon 34 passengers, and brought to Southampton 31 ditto. The Great Western brings s pecie to. the amount of 5,2001., and on freight, diamonds value 10,0001.,_ 70 serous cochineal, 9 p ip es Ma d e i ra, 70 barrels tapioca, and usual number of samples from the different ports, With the exception of from Buenos Ayres, we receive four days' later news than that which came to hand last Saturday, by the arrival of the Bra ziliera steam-ship at Liverpool from the va rious Brazilian ports. There is nothing new from Buenos Ayres. At Rio de Janeiro the amount of business trans acted had been limited as heretofore ; the several markets had offered but little of interest. The transactions in imports had been restricted ; the sales of produce unusually limited ; a fair amount of business had been done in exchange ; more activity had been manifested in freights. Freights were quoted to Antwerp at 85s. ; Chan nel, 85s. ; Hamburg, 82is. ; Havre, 80f. ; Lon" don, 655. to 70s. ; Liverpool, 655. to 70s. ; Medi terranean, 755. to 85s. ; United States, 100 cents to 120 cents. In the money market exchan g e ruled on London at 281 to 28g ; on F rance , &c.,340 ; on Hamburg/ 640 to 642. From Pernambuco there is little additional neWB of interest to report. As far as regarded imports business was limited ; foreign articles of consumption commanded satis factory rates. In exports an active business had been done in sugar ; in cotton transactions bad been small, owing to a falling off in the crop. In exchange business was fair at 28 ; monel scarce, and discounts ruled at 11 to 12 per cent. At Bahia exchange was quoted at 28d. Her Majesty's ships at Rio—the Centaur, Mafia' , gascar, Crescent, and Star ; at Madeira, the Pene lope, about to sail for England, and Juno. The Russian frigate Aurora sailed from Rio, on the 12th Feb., for the Pacific. A vessel called the Record was wrecked off St. Antonio (Cape de Verds). The transactions in exchange for the pa- r 4 amount to about 400,0001. sterling upon London , 100,000 f. upon Paris, and 5+,0,000 marcos de balloc° upon Hamburg. TAXES ON STAGE CARRIAGES. A public meeting of stage carriage proprietors was held yesterday afternoon, at th e Whit t i ng t on Ci a b-house, Arundel-street, Strand, for the purpose of adoptinf, measures to place stage c a r ri a g es u po n an eq uality .. ! taxation with otn er pu bli c conveyances —Si r J o hn VII Tiers Shelley, Bart., presiding. The CHAIRMAN said the object of the meeting was ~1 place st age carr i ages on an equa li ty o f taxat i on wi th other public conveyances. It was urged against that object, that the present time--with a war impending--; thcrPrr•~aa:nn,4* *ha h urr i ong O f taxation. The total repeal of these taxes was not novf sought for, but they thought that stage carriage propre9' ton ought only to pay their fair share of the necessary. burdens. The gentleman who conducted the financial affairs of the country was anxious to do justice in every case, and when it was represented to him that during the last year 285,0001. of taxation was remitted to public conveyances, and from which the stage-carriage proprietors derived no benefit whatever, he said he would consider their case. It must be remem bered, too, that steam-boats and Parliamentary trains paid no tax whatever, nor did country waggons, and first-class and express trains paid a very small tax Upon their receipts, while the stage-carriages, the moment the wheels began to turn, paid taxes, whether they carried a fare or not. He believed th a t th ese c i rcumstances , if urged upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would meet with his attention, and he was quite willing to do all in his power to obtain the consent of the Government to a remission of this portion of the public taxation. Mr. GREY, coach proprietor, moved " That the pre' sent system of mileage duty levied on stage-carriages IS oppressiv e an d res t r ic ti ve ou t h e supply of conveyances fin- the public accommodation, leads to great evasion of the duty by spring vans and other vehicles, is un just; and oppressive in i eposing an excessive amount of taxa tion on the conducting of the stage-carriage trade, and such tax ought in justice to be entirely abolished, or re duced to the amount of passenger taxes on railways." This resolution was seconded by Mr. SHELDON, of Windermere, and Mr. BRADFIELD of Bristol supported it.—Carried. Mr. HARTLEY proposed the second resolution—' , That a select committee of the House of Commons having reported in favour of the total abolition of taxation on private carriages, and relief from taxation being largely granted to other carriages, the stage carriage tax ought to be modified." Mr. COSTELLO seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr. HAXELL of Ipswich. Mr. ELLIOTT moved—" That a petition, founded ots the foregoing resolutions, be prepared and presented t, the House of Commons ; and that the chairman, Sir J. Shelley, Bart., M.P., be respectfully requested to pre sent such petition, and support the prayer thereof ; and that Lord D. Stuart, M.P., Sir J. Duke, M. p., T. phinn, Esq., M.P., G. Hadfield, Esq., M.P., General Wyndham, M.P., and other hon. members who have so kindly interested themselves in the welfare of the trade, be respectfully solicited to give their assistance to effect the abolition or just equalisation of the stage carriage tax." A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.V. SlR,—lron have been pleased to allude to the fact that while the troops en route to the East were provided with our patent marine soap, the stores of the navy were totally destitute of it. From this it might be inferred that we had neglected to call the attention of the Admiralty to the necessity of its adoption fur the service generally. But the fact is, that although we have been for years urging the subject upon the authorities, no notice has been taken of our efforts, further than extensive private orders from officers of the navy, who have been long acquainted with its value. Permit us to add that the want of au essential so closely concerning the sailors' comfort is the more marked, as being of much greater consequence to the sea service than to that of the army.—We are, &c., D. AND W. GIBBS. City Soap Works, Milton•street, London. • MADAMS TUSSAUD'S EXHI BITIO N. — Among th e inte resting representations of distinguished individuals ex hibited in thi s museum, no n e a t this moment exceed in popularity the portrait model of Sir Charles Napier, the gallant comman d er of • our Baltic fleet. Thi s distin guished o ffi cer is represente d in the unifo rm o f a Briti s h% Admiral, th e lik eness b e i ng admirably executed; indeed we underst an d th a t Si r Charles g ave f requent sittings to the ar ti s t s empioyed, and conse quently it greatly the figures in thi s respect. ONDONDERRY.—The ge nerous sp i r i t suTrpHaEsses LATE most LORD of L and intrepidity which marked th e character of this gal lant soldi er w ere visible at a very early age. In an able memoir, printed for J. G. Childrenrivate c i rculation, of the late estimable J, one o f th e officers of the Bri tish and a w e ll-k nown chemist and zoologist, f self in to of hi s courageous disregard t w is e h fi M nd us th eu e tu fo , llowing a o the attempt to save a young schoolfellow :--- „ in June, 1794, George, sixth Earl of Waldegrave, one of the scholar s o f E ton, was drowned in the Thames. r ec He bad d not c ompleted hi s tenth year. This event is orde on a tablet i n Eton Chapel, and must be rememberedce by the f ew now surviving who were his sllows. Mr. Children, in a letter to his father, gives an affecting picture of the distressing circum stances :---‘ Poor little Waldegrave was buried yester day. My dear friend Stewart had nearly been drowned in attempting to save him. He dived after him till he was very much exhausted, and came to the bank to take breath. After a little while he dived again, when he saw the body lying at the bottom. The sight was nearly too much for him, and it had nearly been fatal to him, for he was deprived of his senses instantly, and came up to the top apparently dead. lie sank twice, and would inevitably Lave perished had not a one armed man seized his arm on the third rising, ' and dragged him into a punt. Old Etonians may recog nise in the one-armed man, Mr. Charles garter who afterwards kept boats . at Eton.", The ground: p vr r i C t i n h a c P e h t Prince Fairy t] Spithea Bag of got and yacht :3 Light, o'clock. The Rowan: yesterdE tended I ray, hot Adel Q. A.S. Mr. Po] aton ye:, A de Nations Lord Jc Advocai tion con Professc derson, lion. A gor, M. The ] South -A of Oran terview Colonial A der for Adul Minster, Carter das, M. Hume, herd, Mi Malone, bad an i. The C the Arc} the Bich Wordsw the Rev )seeretar A dep verhamp 'the Rig derlay y tion con Mr. Pai Tynedal( Mr. T Palmerll • B 3