The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-27 00:00:00

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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE of SATURDAY and SUNDAY, the let and 2d of MARCH, will contain an analysis of the Irish Land Commissioners' Report, by the Author of the Articles on Ireland before and since the Union.—The Debates in Parltaineht on the Sugar Question.—Medical Bill, &c., &c.—Peel's Price for " One" Year, an exemplification of Peel's Principles, by Cotton Twist.—Biography of the Rev. Sydney Smith and the Earl of Mornington ; with all the News of the Week. Office, 337, Strand ; and all Newsmen. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It Is respectfully announced that in consequence of the mass of arrangements incidental to the production of a New Opera and New Ballet on the same night, the OPENING of this THEATRE IS UNAVOIDABLY POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY, MARCH 8, When will be produced (first time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall, Erma', Signor Moriani; Ruy Gomez, Signor Fornasar Carlo Quinto, Signor Botelli ; and Elvira, Madame Rita Burl°. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugin. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear diddle. Lucile Gratin, Mdlle. Louise Weiss, Mdlle. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Demel see, Mdlle. Casson, Mdlle. Moncelet, &c. M. Toussaint, M. Gosselin, M. Di Matta, M. Bertrand, M. Perrot. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, ltainforth. To'conclade with DER FRIESCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King; Caspar, Mr. Stretton : Linda, Miss Router. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Plates, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repented a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF .THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Chilbrd, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farrell ; Bob Handy, Mr. H. Holl ; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Stuart ; Farmer Ashfleld, Mr. Webster; Miss Bland ford, Miss Julia Bennett; Susan Ashfleld, Mrs. Edwin Yainold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif ford ; Dame Ashfleld, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with HOW TO PAY TIIE RENT. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREILN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. .Yate. ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. . . To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beaupre, Miss Fortescue. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING TIIE GREEN - BUSHES, or A Hundred Years Ago; by the Author of " The Wreck .Ashore," " Victorine," & Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Selby. Cul lenford, and Worrell Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Madame Celeste. After which, a New Farce, MOTHER AND CHILI) ARE DOING WELL. To conclude with THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The " Green Bushes" (No. 115) is published In Webster's National Acting Drains, price Is. Together with 114 of the most popular Comedies and Farces, including " Old Heads and 'Young Hearts," " Thiffible itig," " Citsar de Bazan," &c., to be had at the Office, 19, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, and of all Booksellers. - . THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Week but one before the Easter Holidays. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. FRANK MATTHEWS. THIS EVENING Will be • performed Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Orlando, Mr. F. Vining ; Adam, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Old Duke, Mr. It. Younge ; Jacques, Mr. Diddear ; Le Beau, Mr. A. Wigan ; Tmtehstoue, Mr. Keeley ; William, Mr. Meadows ; Corin, Mr. Emery ; Rosalind, Miss Woolgar ; Celia, Miss Arden ; Audrey, Mrs. Keeley. A CONCERT, in which Miss Emma Lucombe, Miss Josephine Davies; and Miss Sara Flower will appear. After which, POLKAMANIA. Mr. Dorrington, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Jemmy, Mr. Keeley ; Adolphus Merton, Mr. A. Wigan ; Laura Dorrington, Miss Fairbrother ; Susan, Mrs. Keeley. The Cracovienne will be danced by Miss Fairbrother and Miss James. To conclude with the flrst act of VALENTINE AND ORSON. King Peppin, Mr. Frank 3i atthews ; Valentine, Mrs. Keeley ; Cirsoz, Mr. Kegley ; Rglantlne, Miss Fairbrother. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke, Mr. Archer; Jacques, Mr. Wallack ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Rosalind, Mss Cushman ; Audrey, Miss Emma Stanley. Atter Which, MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon seigneur, Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosanne, Miss E. Stanley; Annette; Miss Marshall. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS KATE HOWARD. ' THIS EVENING Will be performed LA DAME DE ST. TROPEZ ; Or, The Poisoner. George Maurice, Mr. Waldron; Charles D'Artel, Mr. Binge; Hortense, Miss Davenport. After which; BEAUTY : or, Cupid and the Satyr. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AAIPIIITHEATRE. pROrRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated TUE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real !ox-chase on the'Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. Entire Change in the•Circle.--Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the laughable Farce of THE KING'S GAR DEN-ER. Galochard, Mr. Biddle (his first appearance). DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUCKINGHAM. . THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, with N ew Scenery and spl en did A ppo intments, entitled MIDNIGHT ; or , the Sentinel and the H our. A Legend of. st. Paul's. In which the entire Company wiil perform. Aller . which, THE FORTUNES OF A NIGHT. Trapbois, Buckingham ; Margaret Ramsay, Mrs. Henry Vining. After Which, a Ballet, to be called THE GNOME OF THE RED BICH MOUNTAIN.. • ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be , repeutod a New Drama, entitled FEODORA ; or, The Dropping Well of Gedar. .Characters by Messrs. Johnson, Iliggie, Searle, Herbert, Jones, Watkins, 3liss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, &c. To be followed by MARIANNE ; or, The Child of Charity. Sup- Ported by Messrs.-GAaltßstoo, 11. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. Jones, and W. Seszle; Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. To conclude with •THE -- HOUSE DOG. Supported by Mr. C. J. Biggie, J. Herbert, E. Joneifildiss E. Terrey, Miss Jefferson, &c. Boxes, 21. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 26. tually it found its way into the pockets of the consumer. The question excited little interest out of doors, and its agitation was only calculated to perpetuate slavery, by exciting ill-founded hopes in the minds of the Cuban and Brazilian planters. Mr. _MACAULAY understood that the objections to the proposition of his Noble Friend were upon a purely moral grounds; but bethought no such moral grounds existed as those which had been alleged in opposition to this proposi tion. If this moral ground existed, why did they continue the statute which prohibited the growth of tobacco by free-labour in the United Kingdom, while they took tobacco from the United States which was exclu sively the product of slave-labour, thus giving the monopoly of tobacco to slaveowners ? They proposed, also, to do away entirely with duty on slave-grown cotton. Slavery in the United States, more particularly in the breeding States, was more horrible and demoralising than it was in Brazil, and yet they took this slave-labour produce of these men, who held themselves out as the apostles of the stave-trade, while they refused to take the pro duce of Brazil, which had abolished the slave trade by law, and had conceded to us the right of search. The moral argument was untenable, and every com mercial and financial consideration was in favour of the proposition of his Noble Friend. He abhorred the system of slavery most sincerely, and had resigned an office which he had held under Lord Grey's Government, rather than support the system of apprenticeship. Sir J. GRAHAM confirmed the assertion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and passed a high eulogium upon him fur the disinterestedness of his conduct. The question involved considerations not only of morals, but of finance, of commerce, of humanity, and justice, and as he was not prepared either to sacrifice the colonies or to encourage the slave trade, he felt bound to oppose the motion. embarkation of a large body of troops, and an instant descent upon an enemy's coast. In these times the delays of former Executives would be our ruin. Happily, by means of our steam navy, we can run almost any number of soldiers or force in one day, two, or three, accor,:ing to the geographical position of the point to be reached, in commodious, roomy vessels, drawing very little water, and bidding defiance to the tides and the winds. The two great essentials to be provided in these craft are, an armament of which the power, range, and execution may more than compensate for the fewness of the pieces ; and such a system of defence for their machinery as may secure ,it as much as possible from the effect of external violence ; for without this protec tion to the means, the ends they are intended for cannot be accomplished. The armament of the Terrible, which was launched at Deptford on the 6th inst., may serve as a criterion for estimating the tremendous force of the floating bat terries which our steam navy will comprise. The Terrible is to be fitted on her upper deck with two 68- pounder guns, of 112 cwt. each, mounted on pivots forward; two 68 pounder guns, of similar weight and mounting, aft; four 8-inch guns, of 65 cwt. each, mid ships, mounted on ship carriages, and capable of firing 68-pounder shells. On the lower-deck two 56-pounder guns of 85 cwt. each, forward; two of the same kind aft; four 8-inch guns, of 65 cwt. each, midships, for 68- pounder shells. The range and effect of such terrible artillery may be collected from the fact that the guns on the upper deck, made on the principle of Lieutenant- Colonel Dusnas, are of a description which was found, in recent experiments at Deal, to carry 68-pounder solid shot considerably more than two miles. The guns on the lower deck will carry 56-pounder shots also :more than two miles. The sixteen guns which the Terrible is to mount will weigh, without their carriages, more than sixty-five tons. It may be anticipated that the naval conflicts will be abridged in the ratio of the colossal powers of these engines of destruction. So much for armament. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Ilighest, 45 ; Noon, 44. BAROMETER, 29.71.—W1ND, E. NOTR.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. C. WOOD, Sir It. PEEL, Lord PALMERSTON, and Sir C. NAPIER, after which the House divided, and the motion was lost by a majority of 94, the numbers being—for the amendment, 142 ; against it, 236. The House adjourned at One o'clock. As to the steamer machinery, and the means of pro tecting it, we venture to presume that the Admiralty will, in the first place, as fast as occasion may offer, fit out our ships-of-war, whether steamers or others, with FOULERTON'S ship propeller. This admirable invention will enable every ship in a squadron or fleet, in case of action, to work her head round in four or five minutes, so as to lay herself in any position she may desire to occupy in respect of her antagonist. By this simple mechanism we may hope to lose no more naval victo ries, as has happened to us ere now, when hard fighting, consummate seamanship, and inflexible intrepidity, had put them within our grasp. Had NELSON possessed this equipment, how many of the Combined Fleet would have escaped to tell in Spain or France the tale of Trafalgar? But, as we predicted when first noticing the invention, its uses are so manifest, and their application so facile, that prejudice and prepossession themselves must do homage to the discovery, by making way for its uni versal adoption. The other grand application of mecha nical science to the working of our steam navy will undoubtedly be, we should say, the total disuse of paddle wheels and boxes, and the employment of the Archime dean screw, as the impelling power. To say nothing of the unsightliness of that extension of beam, which is a necessary incident of the paddles, the creation of a counter-force in the backwater they produce, and the consequent retardation of the steamer's way, by these pad dles, with the integrity of wheel, the whole motive prin ciple is identified. It is evident that in a stormy passage One half of her engine power may be lost by the continued dip of the vessel to the action of a continued wind and running sea, the stress of which is on that side of her. The other, at the same time, may be so much submerged as to endanger the putting out of her fires, and therefore the loss of her course, and all the accidents which may follow, But in action a few red-hot shot, or a heavy ball from one gun of large calibre, may demolish the box, unship the engine, and leave the craft a complete log upon the water. This liability is so self-evident, that the only wonder is how it can be, for a moment, lost sight of. Now the steam-engine and machinery to work the Ar chimedeen screw, which screw cannot, from its position, aft, and descending through the keel, as it were, be at any time so much lifted out of the water as to be in capable of continuing its regular action, as every new ship (and we know not why it should not be so managed in old ones to which this screw may be fitted) can be conveniently placed in her waist, and otherwise pro tected from such fearful and incessant exposure to external injury. By this change of position, moreover, the ship or vessel will be better ballasted, if we may so speak. The weight of the machinery will readily be adapted to the true centre of gravity, and the line of displacement will assume conditions more favourable to her rapid and easy progress. The paddle-box must presently follow the fate of the towering sterns and elevated poops of our war-vessels under the TUDORS and the STUARTS. They will be useless, and remembered only to be smiled at We sincerely true, and believe, that the Admiralty has now embarked in good earnest on their noble and all important task of improving the navy, reforming our naval architecture, and retrieving the errors and mis management, the imbecility or favouritistn, of too many among the present Board's predecessors in office. Let us heartily congratulate the Lords Commissioners them selves, the country, and the service, on these auspicious auguries of better and wiser counsels than have for a long past period presided in this department. It is with unaffected pleasure that we refer to some items of naval intelligence, which are received with sufficient confidence in the best-informed professional circ'ea to warrant us in assuming them to be founded in truth. It is understood that the Admiralty Beard are about to take a decisive and immediate step in the right and wise direction of giving the utmost efficiency which it comes within the province of their constitution to communicate to that which is now destined to be the right arm of the most vigorous of our national forces — namely, our war-steamer navy. We are tempted to hope that the days of official favouritism and personal in fluence are numbered at that department in which, of all ether branches of our Executive administration, it is most essential that public trusts and public duties should be sternly discharged with unsleeping vigilance, as well as with uncompromising impartiality. One of the most emphatic indications which can be given to the public of the prevalence of this healthy state of feel ing at the Board of Admiralty must, of course, be looked fur in the demonstration of their inaccessibility to other claims but those of the public service, and other solicita tions but those of their own sense of public duty, in de termining on the plan for the construction and armament of ships building or to be built, and of their promptitude to give reward and encouragement to those candidates for eminence, or those most important services, whose merits have been duly tested and found to justify the distinction of such a preference. A most intelligible in dication of the character we speak of has just been ex hibited by the Lords of the Admiralty, in their marked recognition of his abilities and skill, who may hope long to be remembered as the builder of the Terrible. We hare no wish to reflect unnecessarily on the much-con tested qualities of the models produced by the Surveyor of the Navy. But the practical judgment of the dis tinguished authorities who have now confirmed the superiority of the Master hhipwright's principles of con struction, &c., as evidenced by their opinions of the Terrible, is worth a hundred theoretical pleas in favour of those exemplifications of naval architecture that have been produced on the Surveyor-General's " intuitive principle." Among other announcements we find the following in the columns of the Times : " Mr. Lang, master shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, has given such satisfaction to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in the design and construction of the Terrible, which has also met with the approbation of all the naval officers who have seen her, that he has been ordered to build another of the same magnificent dimensions and tonnage, and in every other respectlike her, with the exception that sheis to be fitted with the screw propellerinstead of paddle-wheels. Messrs. Maudsley, Field, and Sons, are to supply the steam eogines of 800-horse power. " Mr. Lang has also been ordered to lay down a first-class steam-sloop, to be named the Niger, upon a plan submitted by himself, and she is to have a screw propeller, and be com plete in March, 1847." All this is very good. If the Admiralty will cause a few such standard ships as the " Terrible" to be built it is easy to see how the Government in the next and fu ture years may go on adding to the number, increasing the strength, enlarging and vastly reinforcing the arma ment, and securing the efficiency of our war-steamers, and even line-of-battle ships, with much reduced esti mates. We take leave to notice a few of the head s under which these very desirable results might be realised. In reference both to the indispensable neces sity fur, and superior effectiveness of, war-steamers over sailing ships- of-war, and the growing conviction of the superior advantage of a heavy armament mounted on two decks, over an equal, or somewhat greater, weight of metal distributed over three, it is to be presumed that the Admiralty will discontinue, for the present, altoge ther, the building of any new ships of the line of the first class—three-deckers. Among all the wasteful and ex pensive follies of past Admiralty administrations, none have been more signal than those of the pertinaciously adhered-to system of constructing, at a vast expense, .hips of those dimensions and capacity, drily to cut them down, after a very few years' experience of their objec tionable working, into second-rates, at a further enormous expense t o the public. The public is, by this time, feelingly convinced that, independently of the grievous grounds they have fur complaint on the score of profli gate expenditure, occasioned by this wanton process of alternate " building up and pulling down," rasees seldom turn out good vessels of that class into which the trans formation has lowered them. The great height of three• deckers, the enormous addition which the upper deck, with its guns and appointments, makes to the superin cumbent mass and weight above the water• line, and the general tendency of their build or their stowage to bring the ports of their lower deck-tier too near the water way—these conditions are found to mar their saiiing qualities, to tsake them steer heavily, or to render it in blowing weather dangerous to keep her lower ports open, and absolutely impracticable to do so in the event of going into action ; a defect by reason of which the force and operation of one-third of her battery are ne cessarily lost. The advantage of building long two deckers (not such as the "Albion," by the way, but ships that will carry their lower tier of guns and heaviest metal some feet higher out of the water than those of the lower deck on a first class line-of-battle ship) are manifest. They are, for the reason last mentioned, better sailers, having that quality in common with the frigate, which makes the frigate, as a class, the cleanest and fastest " sea-boat" in the service. It seems to be allowed, that whilst two-deckers could carry heavier metal, with more room to work the guns, they would also economise the numerical strength of crews. Their heavy ordnance would be so judicially placed in relation to tonnage, stowage, ship's working, and the plane of her motion, that these would be much less affected by such disturbing forces, as the discharge of such great guns, than they would be in the case of any three-decker under ordinary circumstances. There is yet another advantage attaching to these long two deckers. You might increase your complement of marines in each ; for they would be most expert and efficient in assisting to work the guns abroad, and be found, in operations on shore, where military, conjointly with naval services, might be requisite, a still more valuable and able force, if that indeed be possible, than this admirable corps has on all occasions approved itself. Let it not be said, that to adopt, on a large scale, a new system of naval constructions and armaments, would lay up too large a portion of the navy in ordinary. On the contrary, you would then have abundance of shipping of the highest character, to carry to the remotest settlements which our flag protects the various military reliefs incessantly required by extraordinary emergencies, or by the regular rotation of the service. What can be more proper than that QUEEN'S troops should be carried in QUEEN'S ships ? What more wise, just, humane, or economical, than thus to get rid of the costly and clumsy adjunct of your transport service, and to avoid the frightful sacrifices of human life which every year occur, from the unseavvorthiness of the craft you are now too frequently obliged to take up for these purposes ? What more politic, than by such a course to secure at once the constant practical exercise and discipline of your sailing men-of-war crews, and the cultivation of friendly and comrade-like relations of good fellowship and intelligence between your soldiers and your sailors ? If we advert to the requisitions which the progress of steam navigation establishes on all the attention of a Government like ours, we shall find ample additional reasons to rejoice that the Premier has been fortunate enough to realise a surplus revenue at the same time he calls for increased navy estimates. Let us suppose that a fatal necessity shall have arisen for the immediate The eighth anniversary of the Buckingham Conserva tive Association was celebrated on Tuesday in the Town hall, when about 300 members sat down to dinner. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM was in the chair. We are glad to find that the complaints against Sir ROBERT PEEL and his new tariff were not so loud and violent as might have been anticipated in a county so much under Tory and clerical influence. The s Conservative members, it is true, grumbled and poke " at PEEL," but their anger was compara tively mild, and they resolved not to despair while they had the Noble Duke at their head, and, to do the Duke justice, lie claimed for himself and his party sufficient power. In fact, he reiterated the well-known words of the Duke of RICHMOND, which have been condensed into the following phrase:—" Those who made PEEL can unmake him." "It was his firm belief," said the Duke of BUCKING. HAM, " that it was entirely in the power of the country gentlemen of England to keep any Government within proper limits and in proper order, and that if they acted up to the principles which they avowed upon the hust ings there need be no fear that the agriculture of the country would be protected. He offered this humble opinion honestly and conscientiously, and were he in the House of Commons he would act boldly up to it." The real gravamen, however of the charge against their own idol was, that he seemed to have forgotten entirely that the English language contained the word " agriculture." " Already," said Mr. EATON, "in the present year they had heard much about the reduction of the auction duties, and the duties upon glass and a va riety of other articles, from men who were supposed to be the leaders of an agricultural Parliament. But, alas ! it was no longer an agricultural Parliament, for even in the opening speech of the session so much as the name of agriculture was not once mentioned." Captain FITZMAURICE sings in the same strain, " From the circumstance of their depressed state not having been even alluded to, one would be led to think that the Right Hon. Baronet had been rehearsing the old ballad, 4 Oh, no we never mention them.' " The only just and unanswerable speech made on the occasion was by Mr. CLAYTON, the Member for Aylesbury. It was very brief, but quite to the purpose, and requires not a word of comment. "He had great confidence," he said, "in the measures of her MAJESTY 'S Government, for, al though agriculture could not participate in the improve ments made by those measures, yet he would not be dismayed, because it would be contrary to all experi ence and to the soundest principles o f le g islation, to sup pose that if the trade and manufactu res of the countr y continued to flourish, agriculture would remain in its present depressed state." Madrid journals of the 18th inst. hare been received On that day the Senate passed the Bills for the repres sion of the slave trade, and the maintenance of the es tablishments for nuns throughout Spain. General CONCHA had been ordered to resume his command at Vittoria, where disturbances had taken place. An ex traordinary courier had arrived from Catalonia, and it was rumoured that disturbances had also broken out in that province. The Three per Cents. closed at 33 1-16 for cash, and 33i at GO days ; the Five per Cents. at 24 at GO days ; the Floating Debt at 79 for cash ; and the Four per Cents. at 21 for cash. The Paris journals are chiefly occupied with the affairs of Spain and Switzerland. The leading Govern ment paper, the Journal des Debuts, at last begins to see danger in the reforms introduced by CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ into the Spanish Constitution, and especially in the last movement made to satisfy the clergy and the POPE, by restoring the unsold national property to the Church. It justly describes this as a retrogade move ment, and as a step towards the restoration of the pro perty sold as well as unsold. The promise of the present Ministry, however solemn or sincere, in reality, is worth nothing, and public faith in Spain is of the same value. Another Ministry, having given no such assurance as the present, would not scruple to break every previous en- THE STN, LONDON, TITURSDAN~' MORNING, FEBRUARY 6 27, 1A45, gagement, and this appears to be thq general and anxious ! feeling of all those who have purchased Church pro perty• The following are the remarks of the Journal des Debuts The avowed object of this Bill is to make advances to the Court of Eomc, and facilitate the negotiations for re-estab lishing a good understanding between the two countries; but it is only the first step in a retrograde path, and upon which no party can entertain a doubt. The total value of the national property, the restitution of which to the clergy is proposed, has been made to amount, and as we believe offi cially, to 58,000,000 reals, about 15,000,000 of francs ; but in reality it is worth no more than 7,000,000 f. or 8,004,000 f. The charge of maintaining the Church and clergy of Spain amounted to about 39,000,0 a f. per annum, and consequently the Cortes will have to grant 32,000,000 f. per annum to supply these wants. This state of things making the clergy partly proprietors of landed estates, and partly dependent upon the Government for a subvention, will not satisfy the clergy themselves. and will, at the same time, form a striking contrast with the Constitution which Spain now enjoys. In fact, it is stated that the Court of Rome and the clergy de mand a re-establishment of the tithes, and which, in truth, have never been wholly abolished. Thus regaining the privi lege of the mortmain the clergy, once restored to the posses sion of a part of its former wealth, and to the faculty of re ceiving devises and gifts, will, from the known superstition and ignorance of the higher classes in Spain, be incessantly in creasing in riches. It must at once be evident that the clergy will rapidly regain all its former influence, and concentrating in its hands immense estates and property, inalienably must arrest the progress of the general prosperity of the country. The holders of property which did not belong to the clergy, and of which about three-fourths have been sold, are greatly alarmed; and although in this first sitting the Government, through the President of the Council of Minis ters, gave them the most positive assurances of the mainte nance of their rights, they are far from being easy as to their future fate. It is more than probable that as long as the present Cabinet remains in power it will succeed in keep ing the Absolutist party in a state of impotence, as it has subdued the anarchists and revolutionists. But it is known that the two most dangerous adversaries of this Ministry— the Marquis de Viluma and M. Tqjada—have openly declared their opinions to be in favour of the clergy, and that even already at the elections they openly oppose the constitutional candidates." We fear there is too much truth in this statement. The QUEEN-MOTHER is bent on reconciliation with Rome ; she will risk the safety of the country for her own personal ktemsts, and the result to a certainty will be a dreadful outbreak, which NARVAEZ will find too strong fur him. France will find a cordon of troops necessary at the foot of the Pyrenees as well as at the foot of the Jura. The same journal gives rather a gloomy prospect of Swiss affairs. After adverting to the religious struggle it says : " The question of the Jesuits disappears before a much more general one, that of the maintenance of the compact and of the cantonal sovereignty, which is the basis of it. This is so true that Protestant cantons, by an apparent anomaly, find themselves supporting the cause of the com pany of Jesus, and, on the other hand, the minority, which at Lucerne itself had rejected the appeal of the Jesuits, at present joins the Government to defend the in dependence and sovereignty of the canton. The re ligious question was already by itself dangerous enough not to need to be complicated by the political question. This state of things is not only grave for Switzerland, but also for Europe, and the consequences which it may pro duce are of a nature to affect the equilibrium established by treaties. Without any doubt, foreign Powers have no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Switzerland, but this restriction exists only as long as Switzerland herself does not change the conditions on which her existence is guaranteed by the great Powers. The treaties of Vienna and Paris have constituted Switzerland as a federative republic and have recognised her perpetual neutrality. The revolution, directed at present by the Radicals, wou'd be the overturning of both." The Quctidienne mentions a report that the mission of M. Rossi to Rome has for its object principally an appli cation to the PoPE to meal the Jesuits from Switzerland. According to the same report, M. Rossi is to stop at Ge neva and Lausanne, and exert himself to calm the effer vescence which prevails there. The Presse makes the following remarks on the dis cussions in the House of Commons on Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion : "If England is the country of bold and sudden reforms, she is also the classic land of the most crying abuses. Not only the Ministry does not intend renouncing this monstrous right to interfere clandestinely in the most delicate point of social intercourse, to spy out the confidences of friendship, to steal the secrets of families and affairs, but its friends do not blush publicly to give excuses for a practice so contrary to the spirit of our time. One of them, for instance, has seriously maintained that letters in transit are the property of the Crown, and that the Government is fully authorised to take cognizance of what they contain.' This incre dible doctrine was greeted by very feeble murmurs. Let us, however, hasten to add, that speakers were met with of all parties, even on the Ministerial benches them selves, demanding that the scandal of the cabinet noir should at length have a term in England. Several of them having cited the example of France, Mr. Coch• rane falsely made a declaration in contradiction to the asser tion that France had long since suppressed the institution of the cabinet noir. He felt himself authorised, he said, by a long sojourn amongst us, to maintain that, to his certain knowledge, letters are frequently opened in Paris. We do not hesitate to declare that Mr. Cochrane calumniates our country. If ever a Ministry permitted itself to do amongst us what Sir J. Graham has done in England, and if the act was denounced in the Chamber, a unanimous cry of repro bation would arise against the man who could have made so dishonourable a use of the power confided to him. It would be an exceedingly grave case of moral responsibility." The French Funds were somewhat lower on Monday. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. ; Ditto, New Loan, 85f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 122 f. 25c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,196 f. 25c. ; Rouen, I,IIOE ; Havre, 9101'.; Spanish Actives, 384 ; Ditto, Passive, 64; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61E 90c. r PEWS tip r AND `,l3nblir Optittott. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. On Saturday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Minister of Denmark, the Presi dent of the Chamber of Deputies, the Marquis de Rouge moot, Count Mole, the Baron de Mareuil, General Aupick, and Messrs. Boi.9sy d'Anglas, de l'Espee, and Lacrosse, Mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies. Sir Win. Follett and family had arrived at Paris, and alighted at the Hotel Meurier. The city of Rheims has opened a subscription for a monu • ment to the memory of Count d'Erlon, to which the King has subscribed I,ooof. and Marshal Soult 500 f. The Bishop of . Charbres has published a letter to the Mi nister of Justice and Public Worship, on the subject of the pastoral letter of Cardinal de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons. The Bishop declares that he participates in the sentiments of the Cardinal. A complete change of the weather has taken place in Paris. Early on Saturday morning there was a slight fall of rain, followed by a frost which, for a time, rendered the streets so slippery that, in most places, it was dangerous to walk. In the course of an hour or two, however, a :thaw commenced, and, before the end of the day, no other vestiges of the frost re mained than the heaps of snow which had been shovelled up for carting away. During the whole of Sunday the temperature was mild, with occasional rain. It appears from a statistical return drawn up by the Spanish Minister of Finance, that the number of nuns in Spain was 11,772. It will be seen by the following accounts from various parts of the continent that the severity of thefrost has been frightful : At Augsburgh, last week, the 96 fountains that supply the town with water were completely frozen up. The cold was at 22 degrees below the freezing point of Reaumur-17i below zero of I?ahrenheit. A Copenhagen letter of the 12th states that the winter in Denmark has been more severe than in any preceding year since 1829. The sea was frozen even to a considerable dis tance from the port, and in a few days, if the frost continued, persons would be able to cross on foot into Sweden. The Impartial du Rhin represents the cold as having been intense on the plateaux of the Black Forest. For several days the thermometer at Donauechingen marked 19 degrees below the freezing point of Reaumur-10% below zero of Fahrenheit. On the 13th inst. it sunk to 22 R., 17 1 / 2 F., and on the 14th to 24 R., 22 F. The Journal du Havre states that on Thursday the Seine, below Quillebaeuf, was so covered with blocks of ice, that it was with the greatest difficulty that the tug-steamers could make their way through them up to the quay of that town ; but get beyond it was impossible, the ice from thence up to Villequier being so closely packed that scarcely any inter stices were to be seen. The Impartial of Nancy reports that two persons of the village of Bisping. (111eurthe), in returning home from Fe nesbrange on the 10th inst., lost themselves in a forest, and were found there the next morning frozen to death. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .• 38 minutes after 4 1 Evening .. 18 minutes after 5, , U I • MA,. at 11.11C. 1 ". ? AM' • „- .+I?A d~tilpliVit V.YIT A•••;494 • b " jelik • A r' 4 9,F rs *. , ziE t , x•m o -z •1/42320,04—,,,,, s- 4 " arnin LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1845. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. Mr. W. P. CAREW took the oaths and his seat fur East Cornwall. Several Railway and other Private Bills were brought in. Various petitions were presented. Among the notices of motion given, was one by Sir W. CLAY, on the order for the House going into Com mittee of Ways and Means, for an ad valorem duty on sugar, and one by Mr. WILLIAMS, that the reduction in the sugar duties should commence on the Ist of April. This announcement,was received with shouts of laughter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that no allowance would be made to persons holding sugar in bond, if it were taken out before the reduction in the duty took place. Mr. COLLETT gave notice that he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the dioceses of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, on the demise of the pre sent Bishop of BATH and WELLS. Sir J. GRAHAM promised to inquire into the truth of the report, that it was customary in many of the Church. yards of the metropolis to disinter human bodies and burn them. On the order of the day being read for the House re solving itself into a Committee of Supply on the subject of the sugar duties, after a brief explanation from Mr. M. Ginsox, in relation to his statement on this subject made on a former evening, Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose to move, pursuant to notice, " That it is the opinion of this House that the plan pro posed by her Majesty's Government, in reference to the sugar duties, professes to keep up a distinction between foreign free-labour and foreign slave-labour sugar, which is unjustifiable and illusory—aggravates the protection which is given to the colonist at the expense of the consumer—and tends so greatly to impair the revenue as to render the removal of the income and property-tax, at the end of three years, extremely uncertain and improbable." The Noble Lord said that, in considering the ques tion of the reduction of the sugar duties, the House should take care, in the first place, not to consent to any enactment of an inconsistent or contradictory na ture ; and, in the next place, that there should not be taken off from articles of commerce a greater amount of taxation than would be necessary for the purposes of the revenue, and, at the same time, to give to the West India grower such an amount of protection as may be requisite. He objected to the proposition of the Go vernment, because it professed to keep up a distinction, which he held to be impracticable, between foreign sugar, the product of free and of slave labour. There was no such distinction made as regarded ccffee, cotton, or copper ere, the duties on all which articles had been dealt with by the present Government. It was impossible to keep up the dis tinction, for the void created by the withdrawal of free labour sugar from the markets of the world would be filled up by slave-labour sugar ; besides, in consequence of the existence of reciprocity treaties, we could not confine our importations from foreigners to sugar, the produce of free labour. In the case of Venezuela, this had already happened, and it was the general opinion that what had been imported as Venezuela sugar was, in fact, the produce of Porto Rico, Surinam, or Brazil. It was impossible to exclude slave-grown sugar by Custom-house regulations. Another objection he had to the measure was that it aggravated the protection given to the West India Colonies, This demand for protection was grounded on the fact that there was in these colonies a deficiency of labourers; but that argument only applied to Trinidad, Jamaica, and Demerara. The measure of the Government would, in fact, give a protection to the colonist of 14s. instead of 103., and what was lost to the revenue could not be gained by the consumer. There would be a gain of ss• per ewt to the consumer, and 6s. per cwt. to the planter. A tax of 1,100,0001. would be imposed annually for the benefit of the planter. The Noble Lord then quoted a letter from the Rev. Mr. KNIBB, to show that the negro labourer would not be benefited by the proposed re duction. He deprecated a large immigration of African labourers, as tending to uncivilise the existing race of Creole negroes, and contended that the continuance of the system of protection would, at no distant period, produce a convulsion in the W.ist Indies, and put off to a distant period the general adoption of free-trade prin ciples. Besides, there were labourers in this country who were entitled to consideration, and all this addi tional protection was afforded at their expense. The sugar duties might be decreased without impairing the revenue, if this protection were reduced within proper limits. He thought the duties on cheese and butter, and various other duties on articles of consumption, might be advantageously reduced ; and all these reduc tions might be effected if the sugar duties were put upon a proper footing. The plan of the Government diminished the revenue, not for the benefit of the country, but for that of a particular class, which formed only a small part of the population of the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended that there was a great distinction between sugar and those other slave-labour products to which the Noble Lord had referred, inasmuch as there was a greater waste of human life in the production of sugar, than in that of other commodities. At present, the sugar estates in Brazil were only half cultivated, but a reduction of the duty would so increase the profits as to lead to an increased importation of slaves. He admitted that slave-labour sugar, the produce of countries with which we had reciprocity treaties, could not be ex cluded. He denied, however, that Venezuela sugar could be considered as the produce of slave labour. The Noble Lord admitted that protection was necessary, and as long as that protection was continued, the difference in the duty between free-labour and slave-labour sugar could not affect the consumer, and if it could be shown, as he contended it could, that the admission of free labour sugar, in conjunction with our own colonial sugar, would more than meet the demand for the con sumption of this country, the West Indies would then occupy the position which they had occupied before the abolition of slavery, when no one thought of contending that the protection afforded to them operated as a tax upon the public. It did not so operate then, because the supply exceeded the demand. The admission of Brazilian sugar would lead to immediate cheapness. which would he followed by excessive rise of price. Besides, the people of this country had always expressed their wil lingness to submit to the necessary sacrifices for the abolition of slavery. The Right Hon. Gentleman then alluded to the great increase in the importation of slaves into our West India colonies, consequent upon the abo lition of slavery in St. Domingo, as a proof of what must follow from doing away with the differential duties betwen free and slave-labour produce. It was admitted universally that some reduction ought to take place in the sugar duties, and the measure of last year had been merely a preparatory one. The pro posal of the Government gave the consumer the benefit of the reduction to the extent of lid. per lb. Ile thought the Government proposition infinitely preferable to a scheme of gradual reduction. He admitted that it was impossible to foresee what might occur in three years, but still he thought that a judicious remis sion of duties would lead to such an increase of revenue as to give a fair prospect of the remission of the income tax at the end of that period. He opposed the propo sition of the Noble Lord as impolitic, inexpedient, and subversive of those principles for which they had s) long contended. Mr. LABOUCHERE considered the attempt to draw a distinction between free-labour and slave-labour sugar most unsuccessful, and one which did not conduce to the interests of our own colonists. It would give rise to the perpetration of all sorts of frauds, and was not likely to be a permanent measure. Mr. GLADSTONE, although out of office, was willing to take his full share of the responsibility which had been incurred with regard to this measure. He denied each and all of the propositions laid down by the Noble Lord. If the differential duties were repealed, a stimulus would be given to slavery, while, under the present law, the introduction of Cuban and Brazilian sugar could never be a paying transaction. The West Indian planter was placed under disadvantageous circum stances, and was therefore entitled to protection, and if their interests were not so injured as to interfere with their power of production, they would eventually be ena bled to supply the whole of the demand of this country ; and although the benefit of the reduction might, in the first place, go into the pockets of the producer, even- COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck ingham Palace for the reception of her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess (Stephanie) of Baden. Iler Royal Highness and suite arrived at the Palace in two of the Duke of Hamilton's carriages, accompanied by his Excellency Count Deitrichstein, the Austrian Ambas gador. ller Royal Highness was attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein. The Grand Duchess was received, on alighting from her carriage, by Colonel Buckley and Colonel Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting. The Earl of Morton, Lord in Wait ing. and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting, were also in attendance at the Grand Entrance, and conducted her Royal Highness to the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert. The Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, attended during the reception. The Grand Duchess having been reconducted to her car riage, proceeded, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron de Schreckenstein, to pay visits to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strehtz, and the Duchess of Gloucester. _ The Grand Duchess also visited the other members of the Royal Family, at their respective residences. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Equerries in Waiting, took equestrian exercise yesterday morning in the Riding School, near Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing in a carriage and four yesterday morning. Her Majesty had a dinner party yesterday. The company included her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess (Stephanie) of Baden, the Baroness de Strumfeder, the Austrian Am bassador and the Countess Deitrichstein, the Marquis of Douglas, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Jermyn, Lord George Lennox, and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Grand March of the Ist Life Guards—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Svmphonia, No 3. Second Movement—Mendelssohr. Polka, Almack's—Labitzky. Potpourri, " Daughter of St. Mark"—Balfe. Waltzer, Londoner Saison—Labitzky. Polka, Norfolk—Labitzky. Quadrilles—Waddell. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in the Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Kneseback, honoured Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, with his company at dinner yesterday evening, at Ashburnham House. Mr. Duncan, M.P. for Dundee, Mr. Binny, Mr. Farquhar, and Mr. Webster, attended yesterday, at the Railway De partment of the Board of Trade, to present a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce of Dundee, in favour of the Direct Northern Railway. The Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. . . _ Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for Sir R. R. Wilson, Governor of Gibraltar. liis Excellency Baron de GersdOrff visited Captain Si borntes Waterloo Model yesterday, and expressed his ap probation of this very interesting work. REPRESENTATION OF TnETroan.—The Hon. N. B. Baring has been re-elected Member for Thetford without opposition. The proceedings were opened by H. A. Bartlett, Esq., the mayor. Leonard Shelford Bidwell, Esq., proposed, and Thomas Withers Gill, Esq., seconded, the nomination of Mr. Baring. ROWING MATCII.—A scullers' contest took place on Tuesday amongst watermen's apprentices, for a coat and badge, given by subscription, the competitors bei ng se l ec t e d from the various plying places between the Custom-house and Blackfriars-bridge. The race was with six scullers, in live heats, the distance rowed being from London-bridge up to Blackfriars, down the Middlesex shore, round Lcndon bridge pier, and up to Old Swan-stairs. After a great deal of rowing, and a little fouling, Thomas Driscoll (red) won easily. Mr. Tyler, proprietor of the Surrey Zoological gardens, had the honour of an interview with his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday morning, at Buckingham Palace, to submit the model of the forthcoming pictorial ex hibition, the subject of which was kindly suggested by his Royal Highness. After entering minutely into the detail, his Royal Highness expressed himself highly pleased with the beauty and accuracy of the execution. MAXIMS AND OPINIONS OF THE DUKE OF WEL LINGTON.—A volume has just been published under the above title, which must Luieet a welcome reception from all the admirers of the Noble Duke. The Editor ob serves—" Almost all preceding works of which the Duke of Wellington has formed the subject, have been almost exclusively occupied with the military exploits which rendered him so illustrious during the first twenty years of his public life, while his political career has been com paratively neglected. The Editor of these pages has therefore endeavogred to supply materials by which a just estimate may be formed of the Duke of Welling• ton's claims as a Minister and a Statesman. The volume witl be found to contain the Duke's deliberate opinions upon all the great questions which have agitated the public mind since the commencement of the present century." _ _ The funeral of the late Dr. lleberden, who died at his residence in Cumberland -street, on - Wednesday last, and who was one of the physicians, in conjunction with Drs. Willis and Halford, to his Majesty George 111., took place yesterday at Windsor, the body being deposited in the family vault in the church of St.-John. .11.4%.%9" AND POILICIII. At the Mansion-house Charles Smith, formerly a footman in the service of Mr. 1)e Lisle, 16, Devonshire-place, was charged with robbing his master's house of cash and pro perty to the amount of 4601. on the night of the Bth of No vember last. The prisoner has hitherto eluded the police, but he was taken into custody on Saturday at Rugby. He was committed for trial. John Robinson, about 16 years of age, was charged at the Guildhall with stealing a half-sovereign, and silver coins to the amount of 175., from the safe in the counting-house at ➢iessrs. Johnson and Simpson's, gold-lace manufacturers, Little Britain. It was Stated that the prisoner had stolen 9/. the previous week. The prosecutor, Alderman Johnson, wished the case to be summarily disposed of, and the boy was remanded. George Newland was brought up at Marlborough-street, for further examination, charged with having, in concert with a person calling himself Captain Kelly, obtained pro perty by fraudulent means from tradesmen, and was again remanded. David Burke, John Scully, Jas. Buckley, Patrick Sullivan and James Grady, ballast getters, in the employ of the Cor poration of the Trinity House, were charged at Thames street, with felony, in appropriating to their own use and dis posing of a chest of plate, valued at over 100/., which they had picked up in the river off Cotton's Wharf, Southwark. The box belonged to Mr. Gardner, of Kimbolton-place, Brompton, and on the sth of October was being conveyed by two watermen in a boat to Chelsea, when it was swamped near Waterloo-bridge, by the swell of a steamer. The sale of various articles of plate with Mr. Gardner's mark on them was clearly proved against the prisoners, and they were remanded. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Her Majesty gave a grand banquet yesterday evening at Buckingham Palace. Her Serene Highness the Dowager Duchess Stephanis of Baden, and the Marquis and Mar chioness of Douglas, were honoured with invitations. We understand that, according to present arrangements, her Majesty and Prince Albert's visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, and the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood, is intended to take place during the Easter recess. n The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have arrived at Mu'grave Castle from visiting Lord and Lady Ravens worth, at Ravensworth Castle. The Earl and Countess Mul grave are sojourning at Mulgrave Castle. The Earl of Harrowby, who was indisposed during the last week at his mansion in Grosvenor-square, is con valescent. Sir Benjamin Brodie has been in atteadance on his Lordship. Lord Nugent has quite recovered from the effects of his recent accident, while riding to town from Hampton Court. His Lordship is staying at present at Lillies, near Aylesbury. The Dowager Lady Arundel, who has been on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, at Stowe, has left on a visiting tour in Lincolnshire. Mr. C. M. Talbot, M.P., and Lady Charlotte Talbot, Mr. Villiers Stuart, iI.P., and Mr. Villiers Stuart, have been among the distinguished visitors of Lord and Lady James Stuart, at Cardiff Castle, during the last week. MISCELLANEOUS. It is gratifyingiOleaTnTiisilierpicof that the manu facturers do not withhold from those in theiremployment the benefit of an improved demand for their goods, that the nail masters of Dudley have agreed to advance wages ten per cent., and that a similar advance has been agreed upon at Brotusgrove. There is still an impression that the price of iron will be advanced. The Proprietors of the St. Katherine Docks had a special meeting on Monday, to consider the expediency of creating an additional capital to an amount not exceeding one moiety of the present capital, for an extinction of a portion of the floating debt. The terms agreed upon are, that the Pro prietors will have the option of subscribing at par for half as much stock as they now hold, the first instalment, 5 per cent., to be paid bethre April next, and subsequent calls not to exceed ten per cent. The dock business appears to have increased considerably this year. The Bishop of Ely is still improving, although very slowly and Dr. Fisher and the family-surgeon are in constant at tendance at the Palace. SPORTING IN BETTING AT MAN I TELLIGEN C E. ICHESTER.—TUESDAY. ER CUP. 35 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare 35 to 1 agst Pug 40 to 1 agst Ould Ireland (t 50 to 1 agst Yheotnan ac Knuck (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Seaport (taken) 50 to 1 agst Intrepid (taken) EtBY. 35 to 1 agst Doleful 40 to 1 agst Clear-the-way (taken freely) 40 to 1 agst Annandale 40 to 1 agst Ironmaster (all in, taken) CHEST] 11 to 1 agst Semiseria (taken, and afterwards offered) 12 to 1 agst Cataract 15 to 1 agst The Era 16 to 1 agst Obscurity 20 to 1 agst Strathspey 20 to 1 agst Winesour (t) DE 10 to 1 agst Alarm 13 to 1 agst Kedger (taken) 15 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 15 to 1 agst Idas 20 to 1 agst Pam (taken) 30 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt (t) 30 to 1 agst Mentor 10 to 1 agst Maid of Orleans (taken) KS. I 16 to 1 agst Longitude (t) LlNEsultarmts INSTITUTION.—The annual dinner in commemoration of the institution of the linendrapers, silkmerCers, hosiers, &c., and in support of the funds by which the benevolent objects of it are carried out, was given on Tuesday at the London Tavern, Bishopgate-street, in the large room of which establishment nearly 300 members and friends of the different trades sat down, at six o'clock, to the plentiful banquet supplied by Messrs. Bathe and Breach. Mr. Emerson Tennent had been announced in the adver tisements as the chairman, but was nut able to preside in consequence of his Parliamentary duties, and in his absence, which was much regretted, his placa was very ably supplied by Mr. Pearce. The vocal arrangements were under the direction of Mr. Hobbs, assisted by Messrs. Hawkins, Hat ton, Bradbury, and Masters Stevens and Sullivan. On the removal of the cloth, the " Benedictus" was sung, after which the health of her Majesty, of the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and of the Royal Family, were drunk with accustomed loyal demonstrations. A great variety of toasts followed, and the company did not separate till a late hour. In the course of the evening the report was read by Mr. Brace, the secretary, and was a most satisfactory testimonial of the utility and success of the institution, and from which it appeared that the capital stock of the institution at present amounts to nearly 15,000/. Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, and 10,000/. Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annui ties. The subscriptions of the evening were very large, that of the list of Mr. W. Gauntlett, one of the stewards, alone amounting to 400/., and the aggregate of the whole to 2,000/. NEW STEAMERS ON THE RIVER.—A new steam boat company was lately formed for the purpose of building a faster and more supenor class of steamers for the above bridge trade. The project originated with a few gentlemen and tradesmen in the City, and the capital proposed was 30,000/. In four days the whole of that amount of specie, and 4,0001. in addition was subscribed, and ten new iron steamers were ordered. They are building by Messrs. Ditch burn and Mare, of Blackwall, and the engines and machinery by Messrs. Penn aad Son, of Greenwich, who have fitted up so many of the fast steamers on the Thames. Each of these new steamers will be divided into four compartments, with strong water-tight bulkheads between each, and will be pro pelled by two of Penn's oscillating engines and machinery of twelve-horse power, each on an entirely new principle. The name of the new concern is the City Steam-boat Company, and the fleet will be distinguished by the name of Citizen, and lettered A to N inclusive. The fleet of Citizens will begin steaming between the City pier and Chelsea for the first time on Whit-Monday. THE NEW ASYLUM FOR INFANT ORPHANS.—On Tuesday a highly-respectable meeting of those friendly to this Institution took place in the Hanover-square Rooms. In the absence of Lord Dudley Stuart, the President, the chair was ably filled by Joseph Tritton, Esq., the Treasurer. Mr. Triton explained the objects of the new Asylum, which had been established by some of the best friends of the old Asylum, who had been driven from, rather than had volun tarily left, that Institution, in consequence of the Church of England party having obtained a charter, which made it compulsory that all the children should be edu cated according to the forms and tenets of the Church. The new Asylum had been set on foot only since May last. Sixteen orphans were already provided for, and ten more were about to be added ; 1,6001. had in this short time been raised by subscriptions and donations. The claims of the new Asylum were advocated in an eloquent and effective manner by several other gentlemen—among whom were David W. Wire, Esq., the Rev. George Clayton, the Rev. Mr. Cumin, of Hammersmith, the Rev. Drs. Leifchild and Jenkins, &c., who were listened to with great attention until a late hour. DEATH. OF LADY ELIZABETH BOERRE.—We have to record the demise of Lady Elizabeth Bourke, who expired at her residence at Cheltenham on Thursday last. Her Lady ship's death was quite unexpected, having on the evening previous to her demise, retired to rest apparently as well in health as usual. The deceased was third daughter of the third, and sister to the present Earl of Mayo. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, FEB. 26.—Wind easterly, strong breeze and fi ne ' it rained hard last night. ace o f DEAL, FEB. 25, P.M.—Wind S.S.N.—And. DA , Portland, Hamlin, Madras ; Achilles, Trevett, and R ocK.-. 1 " Garrett, Ceylon ; Tanjore, Stewart, Calcutta; James, Wlf, Hams, and %iagnet, Veal, Ichaboe ; Rosanna, Icha boe Newcastle; Hendrika, Batavia for Rotterdam. The Jam in the Downs, reports 280 vessels at Ichaboe 26th ult ., ''' not half would obtain cargoes. OFF DOVER, FEB. 25.—Marchioness Douro, China. her PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind N.E. by S.—Arr' Majesty's ships Skylark and Nautilus, eastward. Tbail• COWES, FEB. S.—Arrd. Lily, Lanfesty, DARTMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Arrd. Brothers, Walton, lcaint sailed Dec. 27, touched on the Skerries, but got a with' damage. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. lone, Ichabls: Arica, Davidson, Arica ; Speed, Brewer, Buenos ay 4 b , Zanoni, Sims, New Orleans Douglas, and Coronati on, vannah. - W. Dryad, Singapore; Mars, Batavia; Elizabeth' Barbadoes ; Mammon, Antigua; Albatross, New Orl Ashburton, New York ; Charlotte, Wilmington, and OseansPl,: , St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Safeguard, Cha rles ? , The Ardent, of Londonderry, reported from Sligo, w as Sc o pe in the Mersey yesterday afternoon, with about twenty tons of tobacco on board. CoRK, FEB. 23.—Arrd. Sarah, Murray, and Till, Ic haboe ' DUBLIN, FEB. 24.—S1d. Garonne, Trinidad. rail ie ' PLYMOUTH FEB. 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. t of Mallett, Ichaboe ; Sid. her Majesty's ship Actaeon, Africa; her Majesty's ship Resistance, Cork. FALMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind S.—Arrd. National, Scum Arica;sld. Nov. 17. SWANSEA, Fnu. 24.—Arrd. William Nicholson, and Countess of Bective, Forbes, Cuba. 'ictori l MiLvonn. FEB, 24.—Arrd. her Majesty's steamers and Albert, Black Eagle, and Fireband, on a cruise. Solyer6ov MARKET_ NE WS=(YESTERDA CORN EXCHANGE, bee , Very little fresh English Wheat was brought forwir y r s, yet, owing to the absence of many of the principal dais', the demand for that article of Grain was in a very s lu ty , state, at prices barely equal to those obtained on 31°11 li• The show of free Foreign Wheat was small ; selected ,11110,,, ties were held at full rates, but other kinds were a mere "roll The supply of Barley was tolerably good, though nut tf a e extensive. Malting parcels were quite as dear, bu t tn o d ferior kinds were a shade easier. Malt, Oats, Beans, Pa°, Flour were extremely inactive. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. 1,730 qrs. 720 qrs, 41110% t, 1,10 qrs. WHITECRAZEM. raeO l Although the supplies of Meat offering were by 1 1 ° large, the trade ruled dull, at barely stationarY, 13 . 1 ,10 d Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s Gd ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; — oe• to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per 81bs, by the c'" COAX. M. West Prices per ton at the close of the market ARKET :—Buddl e, 5 ,, 1; Hartley, 16s ; Carr's Hartley, 16s; Chester Main, lroll East Tanfield, 15s 6d ; Hasting's Hartley, 16s ; 1 01 Y 1 55; Main, 18s ; Nelson's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; Old Pont 4 s, o rilt Ord's Redheugh, 15s; Pott's Primrose, 16s; Rav er nsA West Hartley, 16s; Tanfield Moor Butes, 16s; I'Vestlls3di 16s fid ; Wylam, 15s 6d ; W.E., Bewicke and Co., I 00r Clark and Co.. 16s ; Clennell, 15s 6d ; Gibson, 18 1 ; 5 6 ,11 forth, 183 3d ; North Durham, 17s ; Eden Main , log' Braddyll's Hetton, 20s 3d ; Haswell, 20s 3d hall, 183 ; Hylton, 20s 3d ; Hylton, 17s 6d ; l's 11iEti 20s; Lumley, 18s; Stewart's, 20s 3d ; Hartlepool, 40 36 Thornley, 17s; Heugh Hall, 18s; Kelloe, 18s; Leasinf3; cor 19s ; Adelaide, 19s ; Cowndon Tees, 18s ; Fox, 17 3 C' o pen don, 16s ; St. Helen's Tees, 17 ; Woodefield, 16s 3d ; 9,lsi Hartley, 16s 6d ; Lewiss Hartley, 21s : Morgan's Stone, West flartley Netherton, 16s 6d.—Ships arrived, 61. ~a ii° U f; Oats. 1, 0 " 460 .../ 5,080 ....' 870 English ...... Irish ........ Foreign ...... 0'7 6 PUBLIC PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.--On I , s bl was issued the third report of the Select Committee 0 1 0 0 Petitions. There are now lying on the table of the r r re Commons, according to this statement, 16 petitions 1° , 4. 411 peal of the malt-tax, signed by 1,068 persons ; 4 1 ) flo s ; , for a repeal of the paper duties, signed by 602 P er iit ' - i rdl i i f petitions for a repeal of the duty on windows , s i b in 5~ 2,262 persons ; 31 petitions in favour of an alteration"; J. Graham's Medical Practice Bill, signed by I,o os ,P ta ry ef; 7 petitions against any increase in our naval and iln;; 0 0 tablishments, signed by 773 persons ; and 13 pet' ;3, 5 r diminishing the number of public-houses, signed 'I persons. • t The Gazette du Midi, of Marseilles, states tblitep/ mail running between Rome and Florence was lat el Y s it by banditti, and robbed of the money and the letter carrying. The conductor was cruelly ill-treated. Ti IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT SoC l nt iet,'" Monday the half-yearly general meeting of the PViver:' of the above Society was held at the King's Rea", Ifire o i Poultry, for the purpose of receiving the report of to e f ol tors, and the transaction of general business; rh e , a 36, ° l 's Devon in the chair. The Society was founded in '' r i o d incorporated by Act of Parliament. since which Pe ril ' tbo tio Directors have purchased, at a cost of 25,0001., se ve o f sand acres of Irish mountain and bog waste lands' lo re k same has been placed in a condition of productive curpoo the Society. The estates are four in number, ji,fl,,,litiec ir kel, in the county of Galway, 1,333 acres; C Ol3 Ol the county of Limerick, 1,611 acres ; Kilkerrien , . B sty r mara, 5,620 acres ; and Glenask, 5,698 acres— i "' the ma ° _rt, of 18,204 English statute acres. Colonel Robinso n i e re , : r o y naging Director, read a very lengthy and elabn ri oe 6 , 1 '1 1 4 detailing the favourable progress of the Society. pecer n s• cial statement set forth that the total assets a i last were 13,217/. 3s. ed., and the liabilities 2, `.tor t y leaving a balance of 10,845/. 13s. 6d. The report N s 04 adopted, thanks were voted to the Noble Chairota v t SO I meeting broke up. iso ot CHATHAM, FEB. 25.—8 y the apprehen s o nto committal of two desperate characters, a daring' „ a br2i burglars has, fortunately for this n e i g hb our hood, b,e;ter up. On Tuesday the county ma g i s t ra t es a t Roc" — o f I . „e" s pi occupied for some hours investigati ng th r ee We s t f?iy,rid against two of the gang, named Edward Miller sn," b er , "„ e st Swain Woollard. The evidence was c l ear against,'" t bs " both prisoners were committed to take their trials 11 " r Maidstone assizes. itrn iP ste ; The remains of the late Marquis of li re- „ s ele or u 13 3 10 K.G., were interred on Tuesday in the family 011 01 0 7. Eccleston, Cheshire, in the presence of the prese.,oo, the Earl of Wilton, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Rober t " and other branches of the family. , A CUB Air DEATH OF THE IOWA? INDIAN l o• Dundee Warder, in noticing the visit of the lo f ii i° el l to that place, says the party consisted of fourtieeiesd duals ; but since they left Edinburgh it has been O r o, '';tel the death of a little child, about six months (1 0 0 j1,1 ladies with whom Mr. Catlin had been previouslY ;nay visited the sorrowing parents on their arrival her e, r t he i° t tir s made the necessary arrangements for the burial t l e o 4 It was proposed that the body should be interred P . e ere s o „ ,e ie parents would not permit this. They said" there° t to Ind people here," and insisted that it should be st i ttr eat i l i o o , castle, in which place they had been treated wit 7. of or ness by some members of the Society of Fria '7. o , o o te it • Ti they retained a most grateful recollection. The De.; cordingly done. The poor Indians expressed d o es s e, gratitude to the ladies who had shown them k in . alr i le arid upon their leaving presented them with rinf te s'er ) that they would pray to the Great Spirit for the of their lives. _--------•--',.--- sit BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Kilmore, near Monaghan' I reisill , iit+ '. lady of Captain Herbert Schomberg, R.N., of a son, On the 23d inst., at St. George's-terrace, l';.ens l 001 0 ' R. Pollock, of a daughter. le of l s , On the 23d inst., at Aldersgate-street, the Ic t mon Maw, of a son. On the 23d inst., Mrs. Robinson, of Maryla nd- -1341iti b°' ford, Essex, of a son. A gal Se ilo On the 24th inst., at Arlington-street. Lau,' 1 0 lA' son, of a daughter. of On the 24th inst., at Woburn- square, the s‘i / , W eston. Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., at Eccleston-square, the wife ef pjolt i son, Esq., of a son. :W s ' On the 22d inst., at Sussex-place, Kensington' q., $ t ..„ 9 H. Watherston, of a son. ilO be''' 0 ,11, On the 29th ult., the wife of George James , Vienna, of a daughter. 13 l ' " On the 6th inst., the lady of W. A. Poch in, of 13i kb I, Leicestershire, of a son. jo y 0. On the 14th inst., at Galway, Ireland, th e tlf bell , Davis, Esq., R.N., of a daughter. of P I, il On the 18th inst., at Edinburgh, Mrs. Can't' - of tb ite wood, of a son. On the 18th inst., at the East India College, t he,,, " 0 1;0' Rev. Henry Melvill, 8.A., of a daughter. 0 . of° On the 19th inst., at Fowey, Cornwall, the le - go goo , John Coventry insta son. the On the 20th, at Grosvenor-cresc ent, Stanley, of a daughter. MARRIED. 4 On the 22d inst., at St. Helen's, Bishopage t tl r ie r d Ma , on Pretious, of Piccadilly, to Jane , eldest 0 11 " op late Samuel Osborn, Esq ,of Kingsland. _ G n;at On the 22d inst., at Hammersmith, Thonut. voeur" of Montague House, Hammersmith, to Eal' o f the _., cond daughter of J. B. Nichols, Esq., F• s •`" Ye cellor's, Hammersmith. ,g aln,....Auk ib lle On the 22d inst., at the College Chapel , ( 4 Jor.— is t lyleeo• . tir J. Benson, A.M , of Chichester, to Miss veo to Yo On rkshire. the 14th inst., at Monkstown Chur cl. ', l3 s ubr n i Pl e ‘ er is all nant Archibald J. M. Boileau, of the Mad',. George Georgiana Elizabeth, eldest daughter 0 1 of l' i . d 3 00 4 5 Boileau, Esq., of Monkstown, Dublin. n thir , 0 01 , 11 , On the 18th inst., William John Challine E m ily, } iso ot Benson, Esq. ' the Gree x' ---------- Esq o . n , a th g e ed 2o 9 t 3 h . inst., in Streatham Paragon, Anibr°6e )1°3°1151 On the 20th inst., in Southampton-st squ o a n re t , h D e 218dtatinustEatonT, Esq., aged 57. url' . reet, Bl°°/115 ...De Yowler, Esq Gibbon Newm an. On the 21st' OP P s oam y as er t l i .b u d t, td , a B t 6 N . North-end Croydon, the Rev. Lau, .., daughter of Mr. Ben s ' On the 21s1 st., at Hastings, Sussex, On the 23d inst., at Clapham-rise, Frances s° l3 ' ' inst., at Syclenloun, ens, h t t o h n e the,2a3gde d i n 6 s t 6 inst., . a j t 1. John ' On 23d " ,-, ~ ii , Bi ensing or , i p cres e° Brighton, t H rt a . la te 01 On the Civauitias,i3nluiTssahnover. Cook's- 24th inst., Mr. James Edward Merrifield, 15 Cook's-court, Carey-street, aged 88. liter On the 9th inst. , at Bath, Sophia the s econd (13 ` ig e isil d ' John Charles Bris tow, Esq._ of Eusen;ere-hill Westmor .-,t. , 4 „ , WOiltns,tllsieaacl2sthtaffinosrtd.,l3antmlltckEescinh. arn, near lirootton fLieute' o On the 13th inst., at Brighton, Judith, widow nant-General John Burton, of the Royal Artillery. , is 0 0 On the 16th inst., in Argyll-street, Elizabeth , A" ' daughter of Captain Hilliard. n ¢t •e, On the 18th • Mr. William Lewis. berde n ' inst., at Seymour-street, Connaught-sil. On the 19th inst., in Cumbeland-street, Dr S l ept • Iler ..c y• On the 19th inst., Hester, wife of Mr. Stephenson, u` liament-street. Earl f' ifgog On the 13th inst., at Brighton, General the O „47 5. ham, G.C.B , Colonel ~ .)f the 3d Regiment of Infantri! sirtenoit On the 22d of October, on board the l'oictiers,l,V,try. Edmund Leicester, 52d Regiment Madras Native j.ursoitir, On the 15th inst., John Lett, the son of John t l' n Esq., of Blackheath park, aged 10. d 75. On the 17th inst. at Hertford, Mr• S. Austin, age, teeth Alr On the 18th inse., at Blackheathill, Mrs. Elizaue t bott, relict or the late H. Abbott, Esq., agei 91. Wilfli°"' On the 21st inst., Mr. Joseph England, builder, of -square. ..,, flenri coOtipne,tEhe,ol.2,2adgeidnsBt4.,. in York place, PortMau-squi" 0 w hiter At CarisbroOe, in the Isle of Wight, Colonel G eorg e K.T.S., aged 62. London: Printed and Published by IKVlONficey Co voy, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su" t be Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa:* .7.sCddlesex, Thursday, February 27, 1842' ,--..."`''-' ? T; ?I Iv )i, '',, c ~,r