The Sun. — London, England, 1836-04-06 00:00:00

'~ ~~ WINDSOR-TUESDAY. in tHI ajesty t oo k hi s usua l a i r i ng i n a carr i age yesterday Park ; the unfavourable state of the weather this aft ernoon has prevented their Majesties taking an exellrtin. The the Knightso f Most Noble Order et . the Garter 'are expected to dine here on the annivovary of the Patron of the Order, the 9 3a of the ptesent month. The Kni ghts will dine in state. There bein g no levee appointed to be held in t ow n to tomorrow, h. • T is Majesty is ot expected to pay his weekly visit +Avalon. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and walked in the Parks yesterday. The Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Augusta, took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for his residence at Richmond. The Earl of Minto has been stay- H° s on a visit to the Noble Marquis. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party last evening at his residence at Dulwich. The Right Hon. Gentleman entertained a select party at dinner on Satur day evening, at Casino-house. Viscount Howiek has left town for Brighton. C OVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. A new candidate for histrionic distinction last night made his S ow to a L ondon audience in the person of Mr. 'Ale, a gentleman who obtained considerable celebrity When recently performing in Edinburgh and Dublin. He !ejected for his debut the part of Virginius, in Mr. Sheridan a tanwles' s t rage d y of that name, and succeeded in making extremely favourable impression. Mr. Dale possesses 'Malay •, • strum.- qualifications for the stage. His fi gure i s all and well-formed—his features are intelligent—,his voice bears a strong si m ilit u d e t o th a t o f M r . M acrea d y, w h ose B tYle of acting he has evidently adopted. He irequently re flinded us of some of the peculiarities of that gentleman, , 13 , 1 1 t scarc e l y t o an extent that wou ld ruder him liable to the direct charge of positive iinitatir,n. His enunciation is remarkably clear and distinct. tie is rather sparing of ttereiv tion. That, how eve r, which he uses is natural and ap- P I ) Priate. C ons id er i ng L i s entire performance, we con tce , u% Dale t o b e an actor o f t a l en t an d a ppli ca ti on , li taer than of lofty gen i us . W e were we ll pleased with Ni! acting in the scene in which the outrage experienced by IrAinia is narrated to him. He here portraye d t h e ago nizlng Pangs of the incensed and afflicted father in a manner at once forcible and natural. Ho also played in the forum Seen", which terminates with the immolation of his beloved 1 " 11 ( 1 , with a d egree o f earnes t ness an d s pi r it w hi c h came te to the heart, and incontestably proved how well he he studied the character. His mad scenes (particularly il uat vvith Appius), though not so finished as the earlier d es °f his performance, were nevertheless so acted as to p f ser ve no small meed of praise. Mr.'Dale was much 0:p -heaucied throughout the evening ; and when the curtain fell a „,,Was compelled to obey the general call of the house, 11 - 2", again to make his bow to the audience. Mr. G. Ben- z -4 appeared as Appius ; and, though he ranted at times, ad gesticulated most violently, still he got through the Ilan with tolerable credit. To Mr. Pritchard was g i ven th e Part of Siccius Dentatus, the rough, blunt, sarcastic dier. H e amp l y j ust ifi e d t h e judgment of those who sel ected him for the character. We have not since the ti•gedY was first produced seen the part more ably filled. fa I " Wyndham's Virginia was exceedinrgly feeble. We n °Y that the young lady, whose forte lies in the represen tation of soubrettes, was not much pleased with a part so entirely out of her line. Th .e C or k C ons tit u ti o n publifs,'nes the names of 13 17 0 ° :! v iduals in that city who have 13Q.en sufferers from the dia th'lcal practice of throwing vitriol Of these one has lost use of both eyes from the acti on of the vitriol, five have 7eli lost one e y e , an d th e rem .ainder have their necks and r a disfigured. Several othe r persons were intended to be flicked by the conspirators, but the apprehension of some e t he gang frightened the vast from carrying their plans into 4 eUtion. p SLAVERY IN TY RE F RENCH COLONIES.—In France, as in En land, t . h e moment a slave sets his foot on the the i g becomesa free man ; but hitherto, when any of these "es have re turned to the French colonies, they have been F"ider e d as again falling back into a state of slavery. On " d aY, however, la ordonnance was signed by the King, d eclari ng that all 'slaves coming into France, with the con -B:4t of their ni.asters, obtained their full and perpetual ~, - "alteipation. A ScRI L Tc H .—In Cadell's " Campaigns in E gypt" fh . it i s related—. An Irishman, Dan Fitzgibbon, of the Z e nadiers, like most of his countrymen, possessed both W a g age end humour. He was placed at a bank which he 1; 0 4 %.'e over, but on no account to show himself. Poor Ilet taking this advice, jumped upon the bank every round til lot r , r 'di to see if he had hit any one. At last a Frenchman Dian through the back of the left hand. It was seen that D , ething had happened, and was asked what was the matter ? l i a r:, very quietly looking at his bleeding fist, and scratching T HE with the other, said, ' I wish I knew who did this.' " t ; 41-1 NAPOLEON FAMILY.—The bulletin of peti ions to the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, contained a ti e i cluest in favour of the Napoleon family. The exclusion of e retell of Napoleon, after his death, and that of his son, is lo Y lt • ),„„ nger understood . is to be regretted that so many if i "ng Frenchmen, in whom still flows the blood of a hero, °lf id not be employed in the service of France. There is 11° 1. 1 * • d".aneeive the sentiment which excludes them. When will the e 4 Come when th ere will be no Frenchmen out of F rance ?— It de France. f l ( ,t is well known that his Majesty Louis Phillippe, ig Youth, besides the usual studies of his age and rank, ap himself to the acquirement of many of the useful arts and th: li t es, and, among the rest, to surgery, in which he became Pupil of the ce l e b ra t e d Desa u lt. Being informed that a ul at tnii_s e ription was being made for raising a monument to the tia - nr , Liory of this restorer of surgery in France, in his native o n ef Lure, in the Upper Saone, the King desired the list Thesnbscribers to be brought to him, and inserted his name for n ote au nt of 300 f., writing at the same time the following Desault was my master and professor in surgery. thaeisted him as one of his dressers, and it was lie who put 11 0 lancet into my hands, causing me to bleed patients at the , t el Dieu of Paris."—Galignani's MessengfJr. tr ad l e nE LACE TRADE. Since the last report of the Nvh b 'g not assumed any new features. It is still, upon the Ina y ol,, ll ' Mint state. The unsettled condition of the weather tos. probably be one reason why the demand for our home o t Tliiiption has not so much increased as by time it might thi7rvvise have d one . W e are yet h op i ng f or a b etter state o f h e "gs, which, wh en th e season i s a li tt l e f art h er a d vanced, a ri a e lltnot doubt will take place ; and, as the stock on fuse i !! hot large a little stir in the market will soon in tie ink) the different branches of the trade.—Notting -44 Review. 0 r, InMISSION OF LUNACY.—A commission of lu befl_was held y es t er d ay at t h e H orns T avern, Kenn i ngton, thti _r_e . Commissioners Whitmarsh, Blunt, and Murray, to in -I.lB`e into the state of mind of a gentleman Lamed John Nor th.. Norris witnes ses were examined, bit the examination of Mr. left no doubt of the proprieV of the proceedings. Wi th Platt having said that it was l ais intention to call some tr att _ e se . s to prove that Mr. Norris bad engaged in several I,ears.4l.wons during the time of l'.'is alleged insanity, the further as postponed until tY.iis morning. S re . t r e l lE TITLE OF idAßQUlS.—Marquises were ~tint:eated in the fourtr,enth century. The first person on Wa s er the dignity was conferred was Robert de Vere. He ,ond. eated Marquis of Dublin in 1386, by Richard the Se- Which time Another creation took place in the same reign ; from teig o the title is supposed t o h ave b een ex ti nc t until the ree re b,"' .ccdvzird the Sixth. It was r ev i ve d by that monarch Rraci,J as rhn ensign of honour, and soon become a regular from tb e ` nobility. Marquises are created by letters patent tea t/ ;e King. Their eldest sons are called Earls from cour teat ! out neither they nor the sons of Dukes are entitled to a b., .• the Hou se of Peers, nor to any of the privileges of no- Random Recollections of the House of Lords. Eth TRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF LIFE.— the Ca berben, a servant to Mr. Stragg, a farmer, living in petit lharine-fields, in the parish of Norton-in-the-Moors, p arisL '° Chell (about a mile from Scragg's house), in the bluitluesest: Wolstantpn, on Thursday, the 10th ult., on some orr ow _ Returning borne rather late in the evening, she Rnial ie r a lantern and umbrella. The light being extin v.,Atrie unfortunately she lest her way in the fields, and be eteeeP,FrPlexed and much agitated the night being dark and tn " . to s h e v Le pestuous. After wandering about for some on e , ame to a raised bank, which she mistook for the t °` afi ld e near her master's house, and getting on the two scrambled over, as she supposed into the pathway, but cliiee;,toferinacte_li she slipped into an old coal-pit, about 20 yards 4 r N I w e a n s round and overgrown with briers. It is supposed clothe and much broken by the wind gathering under her She by the umbrella which she held open. t, found herself nearly up to her waist in water at Wh ole botto ra j of the pit, where she remained during the th l.4 p r _, _ that night but on Friday morning, finding I °"4 desceudin rapidly, and the water from seve g r, sh : s l3 tnat emptied themselves into the pit pouring upon th e bot. ought refuge in an excavation a short distance from *ith W M. of the pit.. This place, however, began to fill tu rn ater so rapidly as to render it unsafe to remain. She re !!ilettecitht? the mouth of the pit again .on the morning of Friday, Lite water rose up to her neck. In this state she remained Gh th: o fo i en o o w f i t n h g at day and night, and until she was taken out erythfeailed. terl calling aloud for help till her voice ut- Her day, iaster and others had been searching for d ay hinfr.eater part of Friday, but without effect. On eatur- W here o r i ' l ng, resuming the search, they came to the pit, nib ut ch ey) from the top of a pit, discovered an umbrella, 2 4" was holding over her bead. Ropes were let down, support was in such a state of exhaustion as to be unable to gates,r rt h erself by the rop e. A person of the name of Paul 1 . 11) ; ut°fihell, was immediately let down, who brought her Zhder its e was in such a state of extreme debility as tu dave4PortexceedingiY doubtful if she could survive.. Mr. ' i, tel Y Cali a medical gentleman, from Tunstall, was iinme °Ler s 3, 0 le d in, and found the prostration of strength and ' - 'Blieffi e k t ° l Tis such as to render.the greatest care necessary. Zlercury. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1836 WIE REVINet FOR THE YE. No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britai fAiTiQ MUER ENDING APRIL 5, 1836. lin the Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 18a6, d April, 1836, sheaving the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof. QUARTERS ENDED QUARTERS ENDED I'RAR I" --..... YE A rI . ....r- \ thd o-xw y„..- - I rmar." . .. ended July 5, Oct, 10, Jan. 1 5, Alitil 5 1 Aiiri 3, 1 115, I Oct: 10, 1 Jan. 5, April 5 - ,N ADril 5, 1831 1831 1835 1835 1835 - 1 5 - 18 35 I 1835 183; 183: •••••............6....6 ......1.......h.....11 ....mmi.i.,..}......... ....11........... - ....... ............a. .6.=• -•. ==.11 ....-....-..,- ....-...-7.0a. Customs.-Consolidated Duties 2,847020 3,478,036 3,035026 3 , • 774 754 1 •-= 3,1 4 9,203 3,891,872 3,4135,'99 3,417,614 -- Sugar Duty applicable to 1 ' „; Consolidated Fund . - - 917,847 912.,1e .... 1,328,339 ‘- "' 528,855 - Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies 1,229,887 1,472,464 302,048 -- 4,000 1,46 2 , 113 1,034,516 503,069 - -- ......410 4 111.... ...1•Y Total Customs 4,077,207 4,950,500 A,3,721 4,286,877 I 17,620,305 4 461,621 5,3:A987 4,520,415 4,449,838 18,7135,867 Excise 3,053,509 1 92 4.,78.5 3,484,200 1,637,`.374 ,12 150,063 2, ' ,102048 4,007,375 3,347,763 1,8'3,312 11,720,498 Stamps 1,696,314 1,659,008 1,555,462 1,651,381 (1,565,171 1,624, 'Taxes ),925,429 508,714 1,633, 171 1,671,204 1,619,517 1,097,q'4 6,612,106: „,,,„ NO 2:5,361 4312(i27 4.500,393 355,120 1,575,616 189,014 3,620 ; 2.23 Post Office 3 3Z , 400 075 366,000 dzii,ooo 3:0,000 1 ' 386'000,, 342,0 00 37 , 2,000 345,00) 366,00) 1,425,000 Miscellaneous 1,712 30,447 10,938 5 , ,622 10,789 :16,513 21,57 i 16,743 . 6\621 --"--- ----- -_-. ---. -_,.....- -.--... ------- Total Ordinary Revenue.. 11,05,931 11,410,719 11,339 102,760 69, ,950 8,211,190 42,090,793 10,441,023 1 1 , 776 , 199 11,129,947 8,582,841 42230 ~915 Imprest and other Moneys, includ ing Re-payments of Advances for Public Works 527 59,611 216,731 478,632 101,259 78,269 142,501 99,702 421,811 ----- - --- --- ----- --- Total Income 1 1 ,19 8,694 11,510,246 11,399,561 8,460,924 142 , 5'9 , 425 10,542,287 11,854,468 11,572,528 8,682,543 42,651,826 -------. -----. -- The Amount applied to the Con solidated Fund 6,642,945 7, Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills - 500,511 8, 0 70, 218 5,228,513 27,648,217 6,917,5 95 7,359,989 8,123,429 5,780,883 28,181,896 charged on Sugar Duty 1,229,887 1,472,464 302,048 - 3,001,399 - 1,462,115 1,034,516 503,361 3,000,000 Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means of the Year. 3,325,862 2,537 ,24 1 2,821,295 3,212,331 11,916,779 3,624,692 3,032,364 2 , 414 ,5 83 2 , 39 8,291 11,469,990 Total 11,198,694 i 11,510,246 111,399,561 I 8,460,924 t 42,599,425 11,851,468 111,572,528 I 8,682,543 1(1,542,287 42,651,826 Quarters ended Aprils. No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1835, and the sth April, 1836. Year ended April 5. Quarter ended April 5. .....-- ............--7-.................. i kit ed - ,-- - -ease. Increase. Decrease. 15, Increase. I in,- -- 1; ----- __,..„,, - - -.--. _ - . - .... .... __ 162,961 --- , '867 498 Total Customs 1,165,552 Excise - 47,635 43,497 - Stamps ~, •223 Taxes 692,401 he, - :300 ,000 Post-office 39,000 ••.... 7,1100 ,621 Miscellaneous 8 ,999 5,755 - 1 ,915 Imprest & other .811 Moneys 56,821 117,032 - -- -- ----- ,826 I 1,261,196 1,178,795 394,951 173,332 Deduct De. ,896 crease, Deduct Increase 1,178,793 173,332 1,000 1,970 Increase on ---. i ,---- Increase on the the Quarter 1,826 I I Year I 82,401 2121,619 1835, and the sth April, 1836. Quarters ended April 5. '' 1835 1836 ' . 3,439,073 3,514,676 1,308,944 1,391,388 15,589 10,544 402,039 405,235 127,500 127,500 Inerly paid out of the Civil List , or the Herod! 314,869 356, 7 35 5,608,014 5,806,078 3,264,082 2,479,781 8,872,096 .8,285,859 id for the Quarter ended sth January, 1836, and 4,640,996 Isa i ited by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund 2,313,307 2,479,781 166,474 I 4,474,522 INCOME. Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar applicable to the Consolidated Fund Total Customs - Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous. , To Cash brought to this Account to replace the like sum issued, or to be issued, out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Supply and other Services 8,672,096 8,285,859 DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE. The Committee met yesterday at eleven o'clock, when Mr. WRANGIIAM, on the part of the petitioners, made an un successful attempt to procure the reversal of the decision of the Committee made yesterday, in which it was settled that the poll books might be referred to for the purpose of ascer taining for whom the party voted. At the conclusion of the learned Gentleman's argument, a desultory conversation took place between Counsel on either side and the Committee, when The CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee were about to retire. He was not the nominee of either of the par ties, but before the Committee retired, he wished to know, whether the Learned Gentleman (Mr. Wrangham) intended to preclude the clerk from looking into the poll books when it was decided by the Committee that the name of a voter should be removed .? Counsel for the petitioner made no reply. The Committee then retired, and after a few minutes' de liberation, the Clerk read the decision of the Committee, con firmatory of the resolution adopted yesterday. Fourteen voters were then struck off the poll of the peti tioner, by consent of their agent, which gave Mr. O'Connell a majority of 12 over Mr. West, and 8 over Mr. Hamilton. The Counsel for the petitioners proceeded, in their turn, to strike off votes given in favour of the sitting Member, and they succeeded in doing so in respect to three, on the ground of change of residence. Mr. THESSIGER—We now proceed to impugn the votes of those who personated voters at the last election. On this ground I object to the vote of Peter Lynch. Mr. AUSTIN—I admit the vote of Lynch must be struck off. Mr. THESSIGER—The person who polled on thii occasion was a man named William Barlow.—(A laugh.) He married the widow of Peter Lynch, and thought himself justified in re presenting her former husband at the election.—(Laughter.) Mr. Thessiger said they would now proceed to the question of insolvency, and the first vote he had to object to under this head was a man named Charles Downs, of 113, Church-street. After a reply from Mr. AUSTIN, The Committee retired at a quarter to five o'clock to con sider the point thus submitted to them, and after an absence of about fifteen or twenty minutes returned, and their de cision was to the effect that a voter registered as a leaseholder having taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act was not entitled to vote in that capacity at a subsequent election, and, consequently, that the vote of Downs must be struck off the poll. It is supposed that this decision will affect twenty votes given for the sitting Member. The Committee adjourned at ten minutes past five o'clock, at which time the numbers were—Mr. O'Connell over Mr. Hamilton, 3 ; Mr. O'Connell over Mr. West, 6. IRELAND. REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN. Were the House now sitting, Mr. George Hamilton would be really, as he is virtually, one of the representa tives ; and a very few days will place Mr. West also in that position to which his untiring zeal in the came, his un ceasing efforts, and his immense outlay, so eminently entitle him to.—Mail.—[How characteristic of Tory notions is the emphatic particularization of the " immense outlay," as forming a ground for pronOuncing Mr. West to be a fit and proper person for a representative and legislator.] The Trades Political Union held a meeting last Sunday, when several new members were proposed, and amongst them John Dillon, Esq., (candidate for the county Kildare,) and Councillor Walsh, of Gardiner-street. Mr. Reynolds moved the first resolution, which was one expressive of re gret for the demise of Mr. Ruthven, and of the determina tion of the people to honour his remains with a public fune ral. Mr. Lawless seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech. A resolution expressive of a determination to raise a public monument to Mr. Ruthven's memory, was then proposed by Mr. J. A. Curran, and seconded by Mr. Slevin. The attention of the electors was afterwards di- rected to the probability of an early election for the city of Dublin, and street meetings for the arrangement of the voters was strongly urged. The sincerest regret for the death of Mr. Ruthven pervaded the meeting, and when his remains arrive in Dublin, which it is expected will be to wards the close of the week, they will be received with the demonstrations of respect and attachment which gratitude for so honest and uncompromising a representative cannot fail to suggest. ORDNANCE REDUCTIONS.—The Paymaster's branch of the Ordnance Department, Dublin, is to be reduced, and the Army Pay branch of the Vice-Treasurer's Office will be affected by the new arrangements in the Paymaster- General's-office. It at present costs 1,8001., divided among three clerks.-11lail. _ _ ROYAL DUBLIN SOClETY.—Resolved :—That this so ciety, conscious of the purity of their motives and acts as a corporation, and of the strict integrity with which they have discharged the public trust confided to them, court the strictest scrutiny of their proceedings : and rejoice, there fore, that a select committee of the House of Commons, however constituted, has been appointed for that purpose. The following resolution having been moved :—That the special committee appointed to revise the bye-laws be in structed to prepare evidence to be laid before such select committee of the House of Commons, and that for these several purposes, the following Members, in addition to the Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, be added to the special Committee :—Fenton Hart, Esq. ; Thomas Abbot, jun., Esq. ; Richard Everard, Esq. ; V. 13. Fowler, Esq. ; Dr. Meyler. On which the following amendment was moved : That the Vice-Presidents and Secretaries be requested, whenever the select Committee of the House of Commons shall commence their inquiry into the management of the Royal Dublin Society, to take every means in their power for affording the fullest information that may be required, as to every department of the institution." And the ques tion having been put on the amendment, a division was called for, when there appeared—Ayes, 20 ; Noes, 39 ; Majority against the amendment, 19. The original resolution was then put and carried. Corruption and Corporation have become synonimous—it is curious then to hear the Dublin Society talk of the purity of their acts as a Corpo ration—they may as well talk of the purity of corruption. Their seeming confidence will never establish their national utility, constituted as they at present are.—Freenzan. A Jos.—The old Corporations being still in existence, yesterday gave away a snug situation, vacant by the de mise of the late Mr. Darey—that of treasurer of the city of Dublin—worth 800/. per annum, to Mr. Smith, son of Alderman Smith, and just 21 years of age. Alderman Darley, however, entered a protest against the nomina tion, alleging that it was illegal and beyond the power of the Corporation, as the Magistrates have not the power of voting. The case will be brought before the King's Bench, in consequence of this proceeding, on the 15th instant, the first day of the approaching Term. REYNOLDS' FUND.—Mr. O'Connell, by his generous subscription of 501., showed what a high value he placed on Mr. Reynolds's exertions, and how deeply he sympa thised in his sufferings. We need not add that no other living man had, perhaps, so good an opportunity of forming a correct estimate of his character as Mr. O'Connell.— Freeman. No POPERY CRY. The (Orange) Mail of Monday brings a heavy load of trash about Jesuitism, and all that. Really, if we did not know that there are some men who are only children of a larger growth, we should thi n k the Mailmeant merely to treat the urchins of the nursery with what they call a pretty story. We can tell our contempo rary, as well as the Newcastle Noble whom he so l o ads with prai se f or hi s mo ti o n about monasteries, that the day is gone by when men could he frightened by the raw head and bloody b ones w hi c h th e " No Popery" criers are always bawling about. They may cry "No Popery" now very harmlessly. The people know the knaves, and laugh at 3,372,485 912,123 4,484,603 1,687,574 1,654,387 245,364 359,000 175,722 8,406,655 465,441 3,410,130 529,855 • 3,938,985 1,963,312 1,697,884 189,0(14 366,000 38,946 8,094,191 191,668 CHARGE. Permanent Debt. Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly paid out of the Civil List, or the Heredl. Lary Revenues of the Crown Total Charge The Surplus The Arm flint of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended sth January, 1836, and 3frout of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended sth April, 1833 nint issued in the Quarter ended sth April, 1836, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund apply Services .lus of the Consolidated Fund Quarter ended Apr 15, 1836 paid The Am, for Si The Surp The p robable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Con their exploded tricks. " Ireland," says the JVlail, " must be included in the returns, or they will be imperfect and nuga tory. Here is the stronghold and retreat of Popery. Here Jesuitism had established its head-quarters, even before the Relief Bill had legalised its existence in the country ; and, if we be not misinformed, a vast influx both of the Jesuit order, and of Jesuit property, has lately set in upon us from Spain and Portugal, where the order is endangered. It will be strange if that baneful society, which has been, from time to time, suppressed in every Popish country, through an abhorrence of its crimes, should owe its existence, preser vation, and ultimate triumph to the mistaken indulgence of a Protestant Government." _ _ . The memorial of the . Dublin Society to the Lord Lieu tenant, is a strange mixture of pertness, equivocation and obsequiousness. There is an evident purpose to be un civil, overawed by a consciousness of the hobble the me morialists have brought themselves into. They are very willing to wound, and at the same time most discreetly afraid to strike. At one moment they look big, and affect to consider themselves ill-treated. Then they shuffle, and palter, and finally they cringe and betray a great anxiety to submit, if they could but find out some plausible way of letting themselves down easy.—Freenzan's Journal. The Irish newspaper proprietors continue to denounce the plan of equalizing the Stamp Duty. Their vehemence is equalled only by their unanimity. Threats are loudly fulminated that a general agitation for a repeal of the Union will be commenced, if the Irish papers are not let off by a lower rate of duty than that to which the newspapers of England and Scotland are subjected. The Freeman's Journal, in giving expression to the wishes of its Irish con temporaries, says—" Mr. Rice's resignation would be hailed with: delight by every honest man in Ireland." [" Every honest man!" We confess this to us seems a little de trop.] CENTRAL INDEPENDENT CLUB OF DUBLlN.—Satur day, pursuant to a requisition addressed to the Honorary Secretary, an extraordinary general meeting of the Club was held at 97, Capel-street, to take into consideration the subject of the approachinc , registries, the appointment of a Secretary, &c. &c. The meeting was very numerously attended. Between two and three o'clock on Saturday morning, a seaman belonging to a brig called the Three Sisters, of Lon don, while in a state of intoxication, fell into the river at the lower end of Sir John's Quay. Fortunately he was ob served by some of the police stationed there, who imme diately hastened to his assistance, and happily succeeded in rescuing him from his perilous situation. •lidated Fund, Quarter ended April 5, 18:36...... ing him daily, and judging whether his delusion of mind was real or affected. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Patrick Donovan, an Irish journeyman tailor, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS , charged by John Smith with being a deserter. The detail of the circumstances un der which the defendant came into custody, kept the office in a roar of laughter. The parties, strangers to each other, met at a public house in Wardour-street, when the conversation happening to turn upon Spanish affairs, the tailor, a la Bobadil, de clared himself to be such a master of the broad-sword exer cise, that he would engage, not only to puzzle a professor, but moreover, teach the science in such a way that a regi ment of his instructing would be enabled to put an end to the war in about the same time as he could eat a bit of potatoe. He asserted in addition, there was not a modern " cut" which he did not know, and in illustration of his boast, he seized a stick, and put it through all the broad-sword flourishes, very much to the alarm of the company. The complainant, John Smith, threw out some hints as to his asserted proficiency, upon which the tailor, in order to clench the matter, de clared that he had learned the " cuts" when in the 16th Lancers, but not liking the service, he had taken the liberty to make a " cut" not down in the army regulations, for, in fact, he had deserted, and had returned to his occupation of tailoring. John Smith hereupon observed, that he doubted if the tailor was used to any other cut than that given to him by his customers for practising too freely the "cabbage cut ;" an insinuation at which the tailor instantly took fire, and with the stick he had in his hand he retorted by " cut one" over Smith's head ; who, in return, gave him the " cut direct" to go in search of a policeman. When the constable came up the complainant insisted upon giving charge of the tailor as a deserter. The policeman at first refused to take charge, but as the complainant's conduct caused a large crowd to assemble, he made both parties walk to the station-house. After hearing both stories, acting Inspector Jarvis decided upon detaining them for disorderly conduct in the public street. Mr. CHAMBERS—How came you to take a journeyman tailor for a deserter ? Complainant—He told me so him self. Mr. CHAMBERS—Were you ever in the army, Donovan? Donovan—Not I, your Honour ; I'm a tailor all my life. Mr. CHAMBERS—There can be no doubt of that from your appearance. Did you learn your broad-sword exercise with the shears ? Come, now, don't you practise the cuts, shears in hand, sometimes ? Donovan—l'll handle a pair of shears wid any tailor in London. Mr. CFIAMBERS--..1 don't know which . is the simplest of the two, the one who called himself a deserter, or the other who believed it. Come, get away, both of you. The tailor made another "cut," which carried him ex peditiously out of the office. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LImpooz, Arm'. 4. CROWN COURT.—John Pownall, aged 44, was charged with having, at Manchester, feloniously uttered, to one William Hart, a forged bill of exchange, knowing the same ' to be forged. After some witnesses had been examined, Mr. Brown contended that no evidence had been offered to prove that which the indictment had set forth against the prisoner. li Nothing had been stated that could lead any one to sup pose that the prisoner had forged the name of his father-in law. His Lordship concurred in the view taken by the Learned Counsel, and directed the jury to acquit the prisoner. Nisi Pnius.—CHAPMAN V. BoNn.--This was a novel case of assault. Both parties were resident in Manchester, the plaintiff being a commissioner, and defendant, in the words of one of the witnesses, a brick manufacturer. The defendant, in a drunken fit, had wrung the nose of the plaintiff, and kicked and otherwise abused him. This oc curred in a public-house in Manchester, the landlord an d landlady of which were called to prove the plaintiff's c ase , and who both deposed, with much gravity, to the gentle manly forbearance of the plaintiff when defendant seized him by the nose. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Information was given to the Magistrates early on Mon day morning, that a man named Edmund Cook, clerk to Mr. Handley, a solicitor, residing in Winchester-plac e , Pentonville, had absconded from his employment on the afternoon of Saturday, taking with him the sum of 7,7001. in Bank notes, and a draft for 1,0001., on Child and Co.'s Banking-house, the property of his employer, Mr. Handley. It appeared upon inquiry at the Bank of England since the accused had absconded, that at about four o'clock on Saturday a fternoon, he received gold at the Bank for all the notes he carried off from his employer, and that he had also obtained cash for the 1,0001. drawn upon Child's. When he went to the Bank he hid with him a wooden box about thirteen inches long, eight inches wide, and nine deep, secured, with iron hoops. Cook, on receiving the sove reigns, put them into the box, and afterwards nailed it down, and then put the box into a blue bag, which was lifted into a cabriolet by two porters. Cook entered the cabriolet, and it was driven off at a tremendous rate. Cook is 42 or 43 years of age, five feet nine or ten inches high, stout and well made, with dark small eyes, and generally wears silver spectacles. A reward of 500/. has been offered for his apprehension ; and Goddard, of this office, and John Forrester, of the City, are actively engaged in pursuing the accused person. Yesterday afternoon some persons, supposed to be impli cated, were examined at very great length before Sir F. ROE ; but the inquiry was strictly private, and ended in the discharge of the parties for the present. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Evan Evans, a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, the brewers, was brought before Mr. TRAILL, charged, on suspicion, with having caused the death of Mary, his wife, a middle-aged woman. Timothy Crawley lodged in the same house with the prisoner and his wife, in Redcross-court, Union street, and that, being in the next room to them, he heard the latter come home late on Thursday night, alone. She knocked at her husband's room door, begging him to admit her , an d after some time he got up out of bed, and let her in ; she, however, had not been long in the apartment, when witness heard the sound of a blow, as if she had been struck, ands she fell heavily on the floor, exclaiming at the same time, " Evan, don't murder me." The witness added, that he heard the prisoner afterwards assisting her into bed ; she spoke, at the time, as if she had been drinking. On Sa turday last the prisoner's wife died, and information of the above circumstances having been given at the station-house , he was taken into custody. It was stated that the prisoner was a hardworking, in dustrious man, and that his wife was so much addicted to drink, that she very frequently returned home late at night, when he was in bed and asleep, she in a state of intoxication. The prisoner was remanded for further examination. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterd a y J ames Ilfap,er, a genteel-looking yonth, of 16 years of age, was charged before Mr. COMBE with having at tempted to set fire to his father's house, and to cut the throat of his mother. It was apparent that the prisoner was, or affected to be, labouring under an aberration of mind; for when asked by Davis, the officer, when placed at the bar, what his name was, his reply was " James the Second, King of Scotland?' Mr. Comm, under ,all the circumstances, remanded the prisoner for a week ; and gave direction, that in the interim he should remain in the prison infirmary, when the medical gentleman in attendance would have an opportunity of see- GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 9.—The preparations for the marriage of the Sultan Mirimah engage all the Sultan's attention. Workmen are busy in all the quarters of the capital making preparations, by order of the Government, for the amusement of the people. Unhappily a great mis fortune has occurred, which seems to have been caused by the carelessness of a fire-worker. A quantity of powder was deposited in a house near the Arsenal, for the manu facture of fireworks. Some rockets took fire as the fire worker was conveying them from the magazine, and the fire extended so rapidly to the powder, that a terrible ex plosion ensued. The house in which the powder was de posited, and all the adjoining buildings, were blown up. Many persons were killed—at present 80 are missing. A great many wounded, whose number is not known, were conveyed to the hospitals. The Sultan is greatly affected by this event ; and, as, notwithstanding his predilictions for the advancement of knowledge, he still retains many of the superstitious notions of his ancestors, he considers the acci dent as a bad omen for his daughter's fate. No change has taken place here ; we expect indeed when the fine season sets in, the monotony which now prevails will cease. MANNmEm, MARCH 25.—Mr. A. Schafer, who was accused of high treason for his work, " The Revolution," was tried before the Tribunal of this city yesterday. His defence was conducted chiefly by himself, in a speech which took two hours and a half in the delivery. He was unani mously acquitted by the Court, for want of sufficient evi dence. It is believed that the Attorney-General will not appeal. VIENNA, MARCH 26.—Five per cents, 103, 1 - ; Four per cents, 991 ; Three per cents, 75i ; Bank Shares I,3s6.—Allgeiniene Zeitung, March 31. BRUSSELS, APRIL 2.—The King will leave his Palace in Brussels the 6th of this month, and return to Lacken, his summer residence. His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans will leave Brussels on Friday next, to return to Paris. Her Majesty the Queen of the French is expected at Brussels on the 7th of this month. The Minister of War will go on Monday to Douai ; IV. de Merode will act in his absence. The Moniteztr of to-day publishes the treaty with Brai BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, APRIL 2. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent. Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lol►% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 93% Society of Commerce, 43. per Cent. I2J Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ll7 _Brussels Papers, April 3. SPEAKING IN THE HOUSE.—As regards the fre quency of speaking, the same regulations are observed as in the Lower House. No Member is allowed to speak a second time on any question, except it be in the way of explanation, or when the Peer who made the motion wishes to reply. This applies to the proceedings when their Lordships are sitting as a House; when in Committee they may speak as often as they think proper. No Noble Lord must, on any occasion, or under any circumstances, 'mention the name or title of any other Noble Lord. If he wishes to refer to any particular Peer, ho must do so in some such phraseology as the following :—" The Noble Duke," or "the Noble Marquis who has just sat down ;" "the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government ;" " the Noble and Learned Lord ;" " the Noble Lord that spoke last •', , the Noble Viscount who spoke last but one ;" " the ,Noble Baron who spoke last 'but two," &c. &c.—Random Recollections of the House of LOrds. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL We have had a very steady market for Cotton to-day. Sales 3,500 bags, at full prices. STRANGE SLAVERY.—It was the ever-memorable axiom of Pitt, says the Cheltenham Journal, that " without an Opposition, Ministers must be slaves." And so, assuredly, they must be—slaves, either of the Monarch or of the mob--of the Court or of the canaille. Yet so obtuse is the intellect, or so naturally debased and utterly degraded the moral and physical elements of the present Cabinet, that they not only court igno minious slavery for themselves—slavery to the most monstrous and vicious faction on record [a singular sort of " faction" that, which is composed of more than eight-ninths of the whole na tion]—but seem determined to commit all succeeding Admi nistrations to the trammels of the worst and most odious species of t y r anny --Democratic despotism—[which despotism," and all the hard words preceding it, turned into plain English, mean simply that the voice of the people, demanding an atten tion to their interests, is now listened to by their servants, the Ministers.] A daughter of Mr. Vandenhoff is, we hear, to make her appearance almost immediately at Drury-lane as Juliet. We remember to have seen her talents eulogised in an Edin burgh journal ; so that we presume she has played a few times in the country. She is, we understand, very young, and in point of personal attraction every .way qualified to delineate the grace and loveliness of Shakspeare's creation. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. I SPIRIT OF T NEWMARKET CRA TISN MEETIIIV G. M-mday Night. The following race was decided after our account left the: Heath. The Scrub Stakes of 100 so u s . eac h, h. ft., f or three yrs old, 1.2" in either Riddlesworth. D. M. 9 Subs Col. Peel's c. Waverer, by Emiliut, Bst. 41b Pavis 1 on Waverer,f., by Royal ,ho Morrd T::ist.Greville's c. J ac k et by La n g e r, Bst. 71b 2 L Even 2ee betwe en th e th ree. 3 'tong c wonyafter a close and inturest . pa :liculars of the other races : The following are further Craven Stakes.—Puppy took the lead at a good pace, followed by Corialanus and Redshank to the bushes hill, where the mare declined; and Redshank took her place, Coriolanus waiting on her so closely that, after a severe race, he was not beaten by more than a head ; Pussy Was a length behind him, but the others made a bad " out of it. Ab. M. Handicap.—Attrellus took the lead at starting, main tained it to the finish, and wort very cleverly by a length ; Helga third (not placed), Miss Camarine, the Royal Oak colt, Vathek, and Partner in the ruck behind him, and Kate Kearney, Gondo lier, and Perrot at the fag end, beaten off several lengths. T. Y. C. Handieap.—There were several false starts for this race, and the actual one was so confused that Spume was left behind al together ; Famine had a good start, made all the play, and won by a length ; the two favourites were last. The Riddlesworth.—After two or three false starts,. pectin took the lead at a good but not by any means O. first-rate pace, .Emineh, and the Babel colt lying well up ; in this order they ran :p the bushes, where Ermine and the Lunacy colt were beaten off; bms ther to Nell Gwynne came up here, defeated his horses without even the semblance of a struple, and won by a length and a half in a canter ; Destiny was third (a length behind Emineh), Babel colt fourth, Lunacy fifth, and Ermine sixth, all so far astern that the Judge placed the whole six. The betting at starting was sto 4on Brother to Nell Gwynne, and sto 2 agst Babel. No others mentioned. Value of the stakes 2,8001., subject to the Winner's stake, and the usual per centages. THE DERBT. At the Rooms in the morning 7 to 1 was betted agst Brother to Nell Gwynne, and 11 to 1 agst his winning this a nd the Riddles worth ; 25 to 1 was taken about the Babel colt for the same events, and 15 to 1 for the Derby, for which stake he was backed to a con siderable amount. In the evening the odds were -9 to 2 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy—offered 12 to 1 agst Gladiator and Maria—taken 12 to I agst Mr. Chifney's two—offered 20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield'. Alfred—taken °Ale. 7 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Grenada--taken TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES, r.r. (NEtT MEETING.) Even between Elis and Brother to Nell Gwynne. At the Duke of Rutland's party this eve nin g , were nu! Duke of Portland, Earl Jersey, Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, Hon. Peorge . and Lady Agnes Byng, and Mr. S. Stanley, &c. TUESDAY. Match, 200, h. ft. D.M.—Lord Lichfield's c. Arbaces, by Merchant, out of Earwig, received from the Duke of Portland's c. Kakistoa, brother to Cactus, Bst. 4 1 b. each Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old; colts, Bst. 51b; fillies, Est. 21b. A.F. 7 Subs. Mr. Batson's b. e. Taishteer Lord Lichfield's Arbaces Colonel Peal's f. by the Colonel, out of Arsena... ...... 3 2tol on Taishteer. Arbaces made running to the new ground, where Taishteer took it up, had all the rest of it to himself, and won very easy by a length ; Arsena being two lengths from Arbaces. Match, 100, h. ft. T. Y. C.—Sir M. Wood's the Glama, Bst. 91b. (Robinson), beat Mr. Thornhill's Muzee, 7st. 71b., by a head. 7 to 4 on the winner. The Tuesday's Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 soya. each, h. ft., for three yrs old. Ab.M. 11 Subs. Lord Exeter's Muezzin, by Sultan Bst. 71b... Conolly 1 Colonel Peel's Zenana, Bst. llb Sir M. Wood's c. Tournament, by Cetus, Bst. 21b Even on Zenana, 6 to 4 agst Tournament, and 4 to 1 asst Muez zin. Zenana made all the running to the cord, where Muezzin challenged, defeated her without difficulty, and won by a length, the pace very good; Tournament was several lengths behind, owing to the scandalous manner in which the horsemen rode in after the first two. ..Nat 1 Entry for Wednesday's Plate. Valiant, 6 yrs ; Luminary, 4 yrs 9 • Alumnus, 3 yrs ; Brother to St. Nicholas, 3 yrs ; and b. c. by Waverley, out of Princess Je mima, 3 yrs. 'THE EAST SUSSEX BUNT RACES. The Farmers' Stakes, consisting of a Silver Bowl, and the re mainder in Specie, by a subscription of 3 sovs. each, and JO sou. given by Mr. Craven to the owner of the second horse, for horses not thoroughbred, and the property of Farmers ; four yrs old, Ilst; five, 12st; six and aged, 12st. 71b. New Course. Heats. 23 Subs. Mr. Martin's Winifred, 6 yrs Owner 0 1 1 Sir R. Wilmott na. The Pretender, 6 yrs Mr. Harrington na. Nina Lassave, 6 yrs 2 4 3 Lord Liverpool na. Grimaldi , 6 yrs 1 3 4 Mr. Barchard na. Ringmer Boy, 4 yrs East Sussex Hunters' Stakes of 5 sots. each, with 20 sovs. added by the town, and also 5 son. by Mr. Craven to the owner of the second horse, for horses not thoroughbred, that have never won 'before the day of starting. New Course. Heats. 12st. 711). each. 6 Subs. Lord Gage na. Gameboy Capt. Beecher 1 1 Lord Lake na. The Listener Mr. Craven's Princess Victoria Lord Liverpool pa. Little Robin The Pic Nic Cup of 50 sovs. value, and 5 sovs. given by Mr. Craven to the owner of the second horse, for horses that have run this year, for either the Farmers' or Hunters' Stakes. The Far mers' Stakes weights. The winner either . of the Farmers' or Hunters' Stakes to carry 141 b. extra. Mr. Knight's Gameboy, 5 yrs ...( Capt. Beeches) 1 1 Mr. Craven's b. m. Princess Victoria , 7 y rs The following also started, but were not placed :—The Preten der, Fanny, Duke, Ringmer Boy, and Little Robin. Hoo RACES.—These races will begin on Saturday. The first race will be for the Two-year-old Stakes of 20 sovs. each for colts and fillies ; the second for the Gorhambury Stakes of 10 sovs. each for maiden horses ; the third for the Ladies' Cup of 5 sovs. each for all horses; the fourth for the Farmers' Plate of 30 sovs., with 101. for second horse, for all horses the property of farmers ; the fifth for the Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each for horses of all denominations ; the sixth for the Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs each for all horses carrying 12st. On Saturday last a match for 300 sovs, each was won at Melton Mowbray, between Lord Macdonald's The Nun (Earl Wilton), and Mr. Cooke's Flacrow (Captain White) ; dis tance one mile, and won rather cleverly by The Nun. The Gilston Park ( Herts) Yeomanry Races take plate on Friday next. There are two Cups, one given by Captain Ward, the other by the officers. Various other prize, including a Silver Cup, given by J. Dalzell, Esq., added to a Purse of 101., are to be run for by horses hunted with the Puckeridge hounds, the property of farmers. STAG HUNT.--EXTRAORDINARY RUN.--The celebrated deer " Particular," was turned out on Saturday the 26th ult. before the Essex Stag Hounds, and afforded the horsemen present one of the most splendid runs in the memory of the oldest Sportsman. ' Harlow Bush Common was the spot chosen for turning out, when Mr. Particular taking for Matching Green, and Man NN ood, kept a-head at such a slapping pace, that out of a field of 70 horsemen, not more than seven appeared in their places 25 minutes after the start. The field now wore rather a shy appearance, the horsemen dropping off one by one, nntil they were few and far between. Some stuck fast in the mud, and others were brought to a check by repeated runs upon the BANK. A gallant pace was now kept up by Neave, Arkwright, Tufnell, Burrell, Stallibrass, Smith, and Ned Whitfield, on his favourite horse Jack, who maintained his place among the foremost until the take. The deer took off for Leaden Roothing, to Canfield, High Roothing, High Easter, Good Easter, Mashbury, Pleshey, Great Waltham, Little Waltham, Forth End, Littley Park, and Broomfield, where he was safely taken after a run of three hours, over 36 miles of the finest hunting country in the world. The seven gentlemen whose names are mentioned above, being the only few going with the hounds throughout, were in at the take. The nags were nearly all dead beat ; several were discovered without their riders on their way home. Riders with more water than their boots would conveniently hold, trudging it manfully through the ploughed land—The Puinps ! Those who have the prads to go the pace, and are fond of it, will find Neave's Hounds worth going 50 miles to meet any time, and no mis take All I know of the matter is, that it was " bellows to mend" many a time and oft, as every one will acknowledge, who was able to give any account of his place during any part of this tremendous run.—Essex Herald. PEDESTRIANISM. Townsend, the pedestrian, on Monday, effected his under taking of walking one hundred times round Vincent-square, Chelsea, in twelve hours. The match had been made for 201., and, independent of the exercise to be performed in the square, it was required of him to go to twelve different public-houses in the neighbourhood, and there refresh himself with divers glasses of ale. He could not have chosen a better place for the latter part of the undertaking'; in truth, there are few other than public-houses. He started off at seven o'clock in the morning, and, with the exception of forty-three minutes, walked steadily the whole time, winning at seven minutes to seven within a few seconds. He took it very leisurely in meal times, occupying twenty minutes for breakfast, eighteen for dinner, and five for tea. He won easily. The match at Shepherd's Bush has be en a cause of disap pointment to some hundreds. Gillet was to Lave Grif fithsgiven four minutes in six miles , but havin g made so.:' c mistake which has brought him within the Magistrates' cognizai::'e , he is presumed at present to be walking in a more limited sphex-P. LORD LYNDHURST'S PERSONAL APPEAR ANCE.--In height he is rather above the usual size, and, as just stated, is of a handsome make. His countenance, like his manner of addressing the House, is open and winning : he al ways looks cheerful and good-natured. , Those who did not know his character would infer from the expression of his face, that he was soft and modest to such an extent as to trench on energy and decision of mind. His forehead is high, and well developed, and his mouth is full of character ; his eye is quick and piercing, and his nose has a good deal of the aquiline con formation. His complexion is dark, and his face inclines to the oval form. What the colour of his hair is, Ido not know, as he wears a wig. He is apparently of sound and healthy constitution, and looks much younger than he is. No one, to see him in the House of Lords, would suppose him to be in his sixty-fourth year. When he used to sit in a court of law, clothed in the h a bili ments of a Judge, be looked perhaps as o ld as he is.—Randont Recollections of the House of Lords. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—About a fortnight ago the wife of a mechanic being in one of the Association Salee Rooms, Forfar, was asked by one of the salesmen " whit 4r guidman was to be upon that evening ?" referring ing of the mechanics to celebrate the third annivcrs r d the BO institution. " Weel, I'm shore I dinna ken," robe 'r three days nest woman. " He's been cracking this twa o'er at about the 'liberty o' the Press ;' but gin he diem gi'et o' the the like o' this nonsense, he'll soon get !Ito).rof theiri the libe_r o z . press : for gin it were town, it 'll no be worth the 1 'ki C JOUR. ALS. We lay before our " Thir a d p ß o e rt p i o o rt n of`anoat stn= missioners for inquiring into the conZitiori` of the portant document—the 'The state:-Ofessocietv , re; -serer classes in Ireland." kehnu is so different from that in En. .nd 8 ot ures applicable to the.: c • The- Y la n r y t , the former. This e e e r r n ree_ land, that mew: always be suitable tt.' the case with respect to 1.1 1 e poor. The Let a% o edy o f e )e-re the labouring class in Ireland look to agree ployment alone for support, and the supply great y exceeds the demand. In Great Britain the agricul tural families constitute little more than one-fourth of the population. The cultivo.ted land of Great Britain amo unts to about 34,2 50 , 000 acres, and that of Ire land to about 14, 600 , 000 acres; but in 1831 there were 1,131,715 agricultural labourer s in Ireland, while there were only 1,055,982 in Britaie:e so that there taiThe ar e five agricultural labourers in Ireland for everyve two for the same quantity of land in G reat Bri e demand excess of the supply of labour beyo nd th dreadfulaccountse distress she of f wan ti t ie of population. employment T h e e od the pu d ben o is f tres p s ers d o u n r s I during thirty y land out weeksof work of theyeara nd imt is est i rm eted at 585,000, and these have 1,800,000 p erson s *pendent on them, making in the whole ominous magnitude obviously requires a 2,385,000, .a frightfu l amou nt of p au p erism. A dis ease of such peculiar treatmeh: t. In England the workhouse is the asylum for the aged and impotent poor, and it is not t: c ontemplated that the .able-bodied poor should remain in it. From the reluctsrice of the latter to submit to the restraints of the wori ,- ; Muse, it is used as a means of putting them on their o•Aro resources, and forcing , them to find out employment. But in Ireland there is possible no employment to be found ; and vi e e it orkh ouses for all who are destitute, ,and to induce the to build able-bodied to enter them, it would be impossible in the present state of the country to provile for such a multitude. On this point the Report states The expense of erecting and fitting up the AS-email buildings would come to about 4,000,0001., and allow - ing for the maintenance of each person 20. only a day, that being the expense of the Mendicity Establishment of DuZ)liee and at other similar esta blishments in Ireland, the—cost of supporting the whole 2,385,000 for thirty weeks annually would be something more than 5,000,000/. a year, whereas the gross rental of Ireland (exclusive of towns) is estimated at less than 10,000,0001. a year ; the net income of the landlords at less than 6,000,000/. ; and the public revenue is only about 4,000,0001." The workhouse system of England not being suited to Ireland, the question is—how are the poor to be provided for ? Hitherto the course has been compara tively easy. But it is not so eas y to devise 3atisfactory remedies for the evil. Before we proceed to native the suggestions of the Commissioners respecting, the able: bodied poor, we shall advert to their proposals for the relief of the aged, impotent, and diseased. " Th'e institutions existing in Ireland (they say) fOr the relief of the poor, are houses of industry, infirmaries, fever hospitals, lunatic asylums, a nd dispensaries ; the establish ment of these, except as to lunatic asylums, is not compul sory, but dependent upon private subscriptions, or the will of grand juries ; there are b ut nine houses of industry in the whole country ; while the provision made for the sick poor, in some places, is extensive, if is in other places -ut terly inadequate ; and there is no geneoil provision made for the aged, the impotent, or the destitute." They propose that a legal provision shONld be made for the relief and support of incurable as well .ts curable lunatics, idiots, epileptic persons, cripples, deaf and dumb, and blind poor, and all who labour under per manent bodily infirmities, to be afforded within the walls of public institutions ; also for the relief of the si•ek poor in hospitals, &c.; also for the purpose of emi gration, for the support of penitentiaries, to which va grants may be sent, and of deserted children ; and also for the relief of aged and infirm persons, orphans, helpless widows with young children, the families of sick persons and casual destitution. They recommend the appointment of Poor-law Commis sioners as in England, and assistant Commissioners; that Ireland be divided into relief districts, and sur- • veyed and valued ; that there shall be a local Board of Guardians for each district, elected by the rate payers ; and that the Board of Guardians kere the direction of all institutions for the relief of the poor supported by the local rate ; and that the Com missioners shall be authorised to assess a na tional rate upon the whole of Ireland, and to require the Board of Guardians of each district to raise a proportional share thereof 'With re spect to emigration, it is proposed that one hay' of the expense should be borne 6 - 2/ the general funds of the empire, and the other half de frayed partly by the national rate, and partly by the owners of land from which the emigrants remove, or from which they may have been ejected within the pre ceding twelve montho, the lessors who may have sub let to emigrants to be considered the landlords. With respect to vagrancy, it is recommended that any person convicted of it, be transported for seven years ; that penitentiaries be established, to which vagrants, when taken up, shall be sent. With respect to the relief of the aged and infirm , or p hans, widows, and children, and destitute persons in general, there is a difftrence of opinion among the Commissioners. Some think the funds should be partly provided by g national rate and partly by private associations, which should be authorized to establish mendicity houses, &c., and to administer relief to the indigent at their own dwel lings ; while others think the whole of the fun d s should be provided by the public—one portion by a na tional rate and another by' a local rate, and administered as in England by the Board of Guardians of each dis trict. The Commissioners look to emigration end in ternal improvements, as resources for the ble-bo died poor. They recoil-men:l the appo a inement of a Board, with powers to ,eeirry into effeet a comprehensive syst em of national improvem h ent. There a re 3,000,0 00 Iris h or 5,000,000 nglis acres of reclaimable waste lands. The Baird of improvement to be armed with the most extensive poee•ers, to meet the difficulties from the embarrassed state o pro?erty, &c., to appoint local Commissioners. Wit:e respect to lands already in cultivaticn, as there is throvgbout Ireland an urgent necessity fol . drainage, the Coo sinners recommend that the provisions of Pkire O'Ferrall's Act, and the English 'Sewers' .t..et, may be modified, incorporated, and exti.nded, so cis .o cause all lands to be kept duly drained and ,te'snced under the direction of a comp etent authority. As the s quired may be such that it could not be raised e.t onc m e by any rate eith er on landlords or occupiers, ;(ktite Co missioners recommend. that the Board niz.r.y be' eenho rised to advance the sum at once, making ilee r e ete re deemable by the poprietor ; and if he omit tos re deem, saleable by the Board. The Commissioners recommend a number pf improvements, which in the aggregate may be el" importance. But space will not allow us to entek- into the various de tails. A great part of the reCources on which the Commissioners calculate are to. be derived from the improvement of the waste landa , amid the rats f or the improvement of lan ds alread y under cultiretion. With respect to the poor, properly eo called it is re commended that the board of guardians trict shall frame an estimate of the sum: , requi red , within the year, that the estimate shall be trOmittel! Q each die commended the Commissioners, who iney . vary or affirre: it, and ch the 1:::•id to it the portion of time national rate ;vb . : mate, one-tleird wards of guardians to levy a district ought to bear ; the Commissioners &bail' t . b ." order the i) value of Si. in respect of the inent of land above t. t .te • 'no. two-thirds in respect of to be charged on tire occupier of each house or tem-, occupation, and the remeein.' . pier,i who shall be re in the Lie beneficial interest. e e n e fi fi rs c t i a i l n t h a i n t e c r e e , s t b t y h e t rheeirfac;he whole to bopavab le, c, Tenants at wil l to deduct the whohl rate from the im mediate landlord. A rather bold course is recom prised as to the two-thirds for t, th the poor. T an m ended with res p ect to the charge for to less gross landed rentalEx of Ireland amounto re taken at 10,000,000/. Expenses and losses a: - to p e r ce nt., the ; u t eres t of and annuities and e i-iarges pay able out of land at 3,000,0001. le ,de g a ;le t income of 6,000,000/. It is recomrna_ici that the incumbrancer should bear * perpetto 4 share- of the burden, the security of his investment the land being hound up with the productive mass and the well-being of the inhabitant s, and perso n p a ving any annual charge , sh all be authorized to deduct the same sum i n the p ound thereout that be d of' that a pays to tilt, ,p o or -rate. It is certain that meane o not