The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

P OCI TE LLIGENCE. ,F, --LER KENWELL—(TI-lIS DAY.) th e . l l4 „„u" , / Carr, a rakish-looking fellow, was charged with Th w i n w ing . robberies in a dwelling-house : th e h " Prisoner lodged with young men of respectability in 17th ,? o u se., Of Mr. SVint, Thana-street, St. Pancras. On the . ev er ;' January he suddenly decamped, taking 7ith , him his f ,rticle of dress belonging to Mr. William Smith Green, lik4.4cw-lodger, to the - value of 5/. ;. also a gold pin. He arti i 'se robbed William Collinson, another lodger, of other Do e es ' ves Se arch was made f or hi m i n L o ndon, but he was tend e "te to be found. A few days ago Mr. Hale, snperin toleh:lofPolice at Manchester, arrested the prisoner in that the stolen apparel. He took him into cus more of the plunder at his lodgings. : ei rt 4r v :ei less an ian d co il d i ll inson, the lodgers, fully identified the pro thih' !is theirs, and the prisoner, who declined saying any - g in defence, was fully conimitted for trial. any- QUEEN-SQUARE.—(THIS DAY.) ~ategirls named ' Mary Ricks and Charlotte Bicknell, in tth.r „of St. Margaret's workhouse, were charged before Mr. w or e i by a little girl named Cooke, also an inmate of the whi o , °l ;se, with st ea lin g a li ttle b ag conta i n i ng one shilling, Ti a " e she generally kept under her pillow. hous e b elte Was fully proved, and the master of the work t4oll}talLere h a vmg stated that the girls were both bad characters,.. th e ad been lately taken into the house through distress, Committed to the House of Correction for one Aar e o A nderson, a decently-dressed woman, about with4o was charged by John Field, a young man, Thjb nia coat, under raiher peculiar circumstancfs. o. 4:olnplainant stated, that at an early hour this mor replaii;„Aseeompanied the defendant to her lodgings, where he l '„blir o „„`" 'hiring the night. He was drunk, but not so , to sub unary things as not to know " what he was Posited the morning he found his coat had been de ptst i.,_trith his father's brother, and that a sumptuous.cre )lol4;4_4 been prepared from the proceeds there9f; fe hda ,,e,ri he refused to partake, not having givenl 1 thseo`4,fennission, according to his account, to dispose le of Th e a L ( 1.7, 0 n1an said she met - the complainant this morning, liatit t red her to take him home and take care of him 4 4 t o r.,,,ernOrning, that he requested her to pawn the coat, • -l e'le him the ticket.—Discharged. -__ _. __ • _ 41 ILONE ELECTION COM ti A MITTEE.--,(THIS DAY.) boi l, e ‘•oaunittee appointed to consider the merits of a peti- f AtiliNeeelPlaining of an undue election for the borough . o ,re ti;* e, Met this morning, at eleven o'clock. The following l iV 0 es,members of the Committee :—Mr. W Beckett, Mr. ' l t i - " e leY, Mr. , Lockhart, Mr. Currie, Mr. Cripps, and Th e ell, With Mr. Pakington as Chairman. Attio4Petition was from certain electors of the borough , of 41 , th e e ' a nd Prayed that the election might be declared void kile g - I Fround of bribery committed by Ay. Collett, h tbyr ]4l giber or his agents, since the election. am 4 alb ot and Mr. Pickering appeared for the petitioners,.. 14 ,,er3b r e . 448 tia and Mr. Sergeant AVrangham for the sitting 41 44 • Nsie ti e er e were ordered to withdraw, and on their read it:ll4 c h , -th e --nrle mAN announced that the Committee had come tiler:B43l r esolutions as to the exclusion- of witnesses from , lir ,I P d uring the course of the proceedings. . 'llttl ier .-aoT then applied to the Committee to adjourn the t / TAltici l e , ( l°, l ry into the the until to-morrow morning, on t ie ti'll lin -. toe absence of the witnesses in consequence of cer -1 wiiaveidabla circumstances which had occurred. One , of '2, 4 4l E 4 4e , s ees was at this moment in Roscommon gaol. The ,`ts)4„„`zacl been applied to, for the purpose of enforcing his ' , phi . - ".Ce r.; ' , GI h ' and had stated in reply that the regular course - rc4 4 „ - ' e for the Chairman of the Committee to report the ~Air A,, t wee to the House. '',,even-Vrreg, opposed the application as unprecedented. At Nt V it should have been supported by affidavit. lat e , 4 „ l- e, ol• would call evidence to prove his statement, ,Kr Nt'` u ngly called tit i ,;,..°3B' Co stated that he had been concerned in this t lsl , l n il k " r a u t the commencement of the proceedings, together C 'efe hods,- but the conduct of the petition was now r) j a e S tlT te e „ (1 ,, to Messrs. Wimburn and Collett. He had sent -' ar r i" n lelonses by the post of Thursday, they ought to f i l l ' l) th ki4,,.ed there on Saturday. He had received a le n tt s e e : 1 / 4 111 °C3,... °n 2 e it ..h , of Athlone, hating that those summo et4 4 t 4 ii' ti t i v ess ci w until Sunday. in ed - by Mr. AUSTIN, and 141iti eh that he had been connected more or less with the various Woes . -8 w hich .. e4e.:_n had been recently presented on the subject of b.7lip ort _ . '-.-0, .3 at Athione. H had advanced some money qtkil ers 1)r his petition, but looked to no one for it. The hoot 10 0 requested him to takethe matter up, but he Lel'ep' to them for the money. He lied . advanced Member tot r el to Captain. Beresford. If the sitting n _ it p l ‘" fo r 1 1111 6 , Seated, he might ask any gentleman who might 1441 1 , 4 Yle;',ine to reimburse him. He had not sent any pi e 14, the expenses of witnesses to Athlone un n til eo F m ri m da u y . Mpit% i ; j u t e, had sent a 501. note. He had b n i r. A ~,I ° ionte gentleman to take up the case. ' l % T t-13 --Who wa s the gentleman ? Tll 4L)10 1' ' as question. th e e t oo! , objected to the . Citiketi i : was Cl and the Committee decided that , P 01,,,,, n should not be put. Let t G'4rhilinati resumed—He had asked Wimburn and 4 ; ki lso t- Pduct ° th il e . He was answerable to them as R t h . tL tate I., e rld all be and that was to be at their own risk. 8 Ifrea ti n;lheln that he thought it eras e a n s t af . e seat for any Iltit e ie ,: el l, 4lll / 4 1 .,,„:d w H iled h t ed g t t ee i n nt i o n P comm em unication with the itk 'i ti ttl t . t: r ra ll. fis Tikeh:rn and Collett had desired to have a Te e:: Q, 4 ' ° - v"a petitioners, The paper produced is that r t e °4 - ex . Ilk 41 lind &ra llied by Mr AUSTIN—That paper was s_ent:over , l'e nu M onday )1 b een 0 Lehday or Tuesday in the last week. It might ' k r I. „'aturd a y . r re O3 - "• O. STANLEY a member of the Committee—The .0 ~ -le,' „.. , „ 11 I lee 8 ,, A lT o ote not sent until Thursday, and . the money for fed ,th e r,' expenses was not sent until Friday. 41 ' kt4 -441- altAi—The *day after the Committee ir Ntl l t rioti„ w when it was to sit, and wrote Hands.tollre a dtofri di *v ae d e Noll now '• I got the summonses from Mr. $ 411 . W hy they were delayed. I thought that time k or r 4, • w t 'liet;l l lY L e ' t 4 hri . , one of the Committee—l did not send the elit„",tt. 'pi e r°, because I was afraid the witnesses would lree Red it been sent on Monday or Tuesday it would 1 1 , 0 th e c hi tim e. 01 Ie llel itkew ItaNs —To whom did you send the money? 1 0 e k _ . - toitil. l i , - /A 111 2 ,4 , tteh -411 e t i k_ `r--Were you afraid that Colonel Smith. 4 , 41 , 1 0. „.! pioney ? thitt ue th k,574%-nEY—Why was the case transferred to l° ll - ' e l tl - I ',' Collett? Witness—Why of course if a Niadvancewishng it. : hebto the ,s!outended that there was no bona fide prose : ' ctt•tiliellitettion, which was merely a scandalous attempt iNtoOptedill r arliament, and that no proper means had .11 it - ,, r 'r 4 pl ° , ; •ebtainsthe attendance of witnesses.- It was „1 1 1116, e te ii:„' 415 11 tCI Parliament ; and the parties concerned . le (t . gear iruolng themselves to penalties of which they '41 ' 13 ) . let e aner. Three men, paupers, had been p . ro- Nl'llietv 1%401088, residing In London, to s l if s n o t w he n pe f t a i n tig s n . k 5 , Ce l e h rui w tt es ee spe t ci d il efa tl y n itde o r n such circumstances ? . 8 ‘ 74 Tri4 Proceeding when we went to press.) l'e, • 4 81 .0 p, 144144td .- `ICE NOTICES.—The :following _ _no rt ti a e , e s s . .4:141114';,....."te,rday at the Genera 'lle "''' , l4„, L ," T he next mails for l M Po al t ta -e , ffi G e reec S e, t. th M e a lo i nian !li, l iclor il i, 'Nutl i v amptou, will be dispatched fr an om d hencelndia on i4th i 3 t Of X the 14th instant i and for Egypt 1. :47141t. , , P t il• The Avon for the West Indies mails of the 'Ril l 'lv let 6 44 t:, LLiki c--Lord Melgund, ' eldest son of Earl Il h kl e, l i f l in f et c ! I ' o 4 very good lan i de o d e h stat m e, rn h . as iaw d s e . cla H re i d s Ai r) - ‘e 1: 44 ' of li total rep" - . f t h e as sent in his ad re tit th e e Membe r for Roxburgshire, li. x , Lea gue q - "I lk •o f Saturday contains terotit, e ° C'h rollick . • the 1 , 4 t;,,, 1 a 'co-°r raised in that county in aid of the Thissuf Vl4,llPieg- sit by the hail-storm in August last year. t t • 6g, 4.,t e(llumns of that paper, _and amounted to I tio..' fr ok - ' 4 . Of this amount 5,622/. 1 is.lod. n was re- I l i fig; i t ritte,Palishes who voluntarily imposed t4t0,..8ab5,.,411!14,391/. 14s. 6d. is the amount or t n ho th n e n t i n i: viirp, iiiiptio„,, The amount of damage o i_n 3o N mo orfo L lk by ttt i , i taii n`tigast WAS estimated at upwards f Lt4* rm kte `" 11 PIIPIT 0 SCOTLAND.—(From aCo r -4 I NP:„ )-- -On At uaf tv fix e g the 4th just, a meeting ' in th' e I _ ll ,e York Cl-r - ott'd - C .. h -n a l pe n i, Lambeth, Joshua Field, „ ti4L4lar eh 'Llair, to consider the state and prospects of the N L '4,'e f • Addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. A. c 'q ) In d I,llk-rv4, Main, of Kilmarnock, Smith, o ß f ri G d r g e e e s, - alu e l i aa eid' sughten Church,aisley, and bY 4am I. l s .)ate r .. of Um which were listened to with A 1)0k "I" The Rev. Mr. Sherman, of Surrey Chapel, Oie,. a With Alitf'4 4. a much feeling. The Rev. Dr. Alliott, James were on the d tt tag ed tr °, and li t t bin., Esqs., —Cowell, Esq., &c., been in _ 1. 'by -.:a interest of the meeting having '5 i i 1 4 a lib eral 3 0 0. i ge ev ection di w St as lih o ll b t t i a On ine o d f . Erastian tracts at ,the ,144110,,W0Cift,•"--A.NOTHER SINGING MOUSE.—Mr. ill th; orie 4 ,akr! ANOTHER of ti l .i place, has now in his po r _s i -4 14;1 4 / 4 i; the,' extraordinary animals, which w e as n c_alti pra h . elts t i',,h o :„ ( i'l bane -court Lodge, the resldene i 'S p i re_ oc k i; r ins b e l n ueard the little animal acquainted Mr. iN , 4 rd, N% .1,... g ?aught ; after . which she 'Atti e o .oelitio eis m the habit of goingtothe house in his \llliti..l4ltoal n ' w ho Procured a trap and soon captured h the VWll e `a b y j, and still retains it in his possession. It as been see t:kpr e ,:e Rreater part of the inhabitants . of this . place, t. (4, 4 ( 1 th e Z their astonishrnent and admir t a i t c i e on ha o s f will titigtiS times,,.!l•s,lleallini.al. The writer oftl a ii r s e (31., t Z 4 4}4h; . ~the sounds it emits n a u low -but shrill il roni c ril& Olratler to the notes of the nightingale.— Or4vll°CalN e l 1.13 v e ,* 4 Csaa....-We lament' to find that . typhus t.{,t4:itht, s.4P,revalent at this time. A very shocking case, 11 e3 I t h ie Ta .of cases, has occurred at the dilapidated .o ' err ,r , l e ll a Pij e ,.,'„lla:pac e the northern entrance to this _ a , kota, , t %) , In one of these hovels, consisting f 4.4'4•,ed x c il l itn named Long was living in vice r ot with o a kilt il l A. q° 1 1 , - .. 813 °rue, by whom he had two children, the ttW°' ' ttreeks old. The man and woman were f 54 V °' • a ssume d very malig ,ll, a nd _ . , g thrp f , Ithwil a timer. 4 ►4 , Ir. Creed, then tba tilitfliPlPf WOO ditgaage wa il t the t,, 410 4 id ,_ , the district surgeon, ordered t n a Nttif,'44 not a ,7 weaned but it w not shown to him, an.. fed to t h -- A Ar,e of its ' being ill was he was requested to t ots i : h itittoo-krperaseterar or;he,cause of its death, which lie was 4 1" the • W eihlesday. Under these . circum iltki . 4 1D , , woman's mother who was attending upon lA el. ~“„iii, tally P?cpressed ' 4 Wish that they were all ill 4alli;;6`t l!ilggcsted the expediency of an inquest, li k b io tt lr i ; li, jp,144,0 lelil before Harry•WaYman' bent." -t - e toui,',, 'eei-t- deposed thin an a poet mortal; exami- Igl u Y o f bi -,, no iih ieuge • the s the ested, iki447,l::ba'bryilii‘ b t r i n i n bo w 4Y a : , g hu re t at i l t y was e almost mother in her l k - 'Y, er ' h hailed neolitwan°fter nourishment, but, but, on the 1e44 l!oc,l,:puffed with food to the very mouth. There rOce b ':tith'4l4l ill, peck which might have been pr.o -v4 11l • g aPifilp ,V • ce of VlO - e Af3,:ret 81 !It. IRI t3i.NIT tinfaran , i b „ lAs d . " b elay is„,. a tne a l i o , - Ilpe,ll aterd,l4 of -Pi 4tural 404 : li, ' tOI4 - 'e to - ' 114 • 4 RPO tie woman was remo v e d 4; its 1 3 , irl e t o 4.444 another bed, in which her sister, who tt,: 4l . -rt and th e in n ursing, but had also been attaeled, ti l -. . .e o b i vr _ next day she (the mother of the child) hZillplid, h.. „.. 4 ~'lnan was unabl e to remove the corpse, and i l e reVi it un. '''aing afraid to go into the house to assist, the l'i a , r, Untetr a 'Whole 4,:yand night by the side of the living kigtlllor y„surpll'llavoil ' il i vOl'ilPlit person to remove it. e,,- , eo4B;44,rman, remains treiT Pit r itild , hec Tect:lYcry tit % i ik , o t , very doubtful. —Miry PP.fi t - 44 _,,,, „141 D AB D Ntol. -- ""Alt-c j . „ 1, ARES FROM TIIe.TERMINUS OF d:,,:ttl t t:fh the-'"ra"evViltinGE,—Yesterday (Tuesday)_ the s tis ant st ati c POSted al a G t°lll.l il!Atirl,g pt London bridge i ll 41 °d, o 1 aeon th o.atet re f th e co n:, e several whiciels' A ll tn . l 2. 7 n 4 sB lpl l4 4l) ll P 4 tl TP FAi l ;:, 17: 4 ati oti Polis. T;,, n .and cab fares to 370 different parts „ . t4k)11 "4(1 14(1 it i.BlllBostuntinultedly a great public ao‘F-P!?; 4 aYer i d ( ' l t. at th e desirable that this prinrlple fpu)l4+. Ewa rn etropotit an and all other stamp Pf aYs leadi n _ ~_. 4 _ a 4414, . Imo. N CD ) 1 to-SPY HONE W AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at'Liverpool, yesterday, was very dull, and prices were more in favour of the buyers-1,000 bales were sold. Business in Shares was rather better :—Eastern Counties Registered were 12i ; .Grand Junction, 226 ; Great Western Fifths, 19h ; Liverpool and Manchester, 224 ; Bir mingham, 233 ; Ditto, Quarter, 28k ; South, Western Eighths, ; Manchester and Birmingham, 411 ; 'aris and Lyons, 21. 15s. 6d. ; Ditto and Orleans, 33* ; and South Eastern, 35h ; Ditto, New, 35a, The intelligence received from the East Indies to-day has been the subject of very general conversation in the - City, and much regret is expressed at the loss 'that has taken place in the Indian army. There have not as yet been 'any.cemmercial letters delivered, nor can they be expected. until to-morrow or the following day. The ship ments of manufactures for • the East Indian and China markets are rapidly on the increase. The mercantile intercourse with the Chinese must become ere long of immense, advantage to this country, if we may judge from the anxiety of the merchants and the shipping interest to enter into transactions with the subjeets of the Celestial Empire. There is not an arrival from the North American and other Colonies to-day of later dates than those before received. TENA NT FARMERS" AND TAX PAYERS. or, in other and 'synonymous •terms, money_ itself ; so much dearer, that - it .now requires, with the labour of most classes of artisans at 2s. peiday in place of 4s. per day, calico at 4d. in place of at 9cl. per yard, corn at 63. instead of at 10s. 6d. per bushel, and other articles, the produce of home industry, in the same proportion, about double the quantity of labour, calico, corn, and other necessaries of life, to provide for the taxation of the country. To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. zni a farmer's son, and I do not think there are many far mers' sons in the country who have exerted themse , lves more than I have to place Sir Robert Peel and the Conservatives in power, but if I ever do so again, in ay God forgive me. Sir, we have been deceived, sacrificed, plundered, robbed. "That, under the peculiar position of this country, with a demand upon it of 50,000 0 000 L per year to pro vide for pensions, sinecures, annuities, and salaries, of nominally unchanged and unchanging, but of thus really increased and still increasing amount, almost another 50,000,0001. per " year, or an additional 250 millions of days of labour per-. year, or of about the same increased proportion of calico, corn, and other necessaries of life, have, . sin c e th e y ear 1819, thus silently and almost: imperceptibly, but virtually and actually, been obtained- from _the, tax-payers of this country • and that such an. increase of its taxation i s obviously sufficient to account for the difficulties of the country, the unprofitableness of trade, and the scarcity of employment and low rate of wages for labour. " That, as in addition to the foregoing, your petitioners apprehend .a still further decline in the value of the labour and produce of this country; arising from a belief that, notwithstanding the impolitic encouragement given by this country to the owners of foreign gold mines, in maintaining for gold the present fixed standard price of 3/. 1.75. 100. per ounce;and leaving all its banking and trading establishments so completely dependent there. upon —gold is an article that will not be increased in the same ratio as it is the natural tendency of the popu lation and powers of production of this great, and intel ligent, and .scientific country to increase. They there fore feel their imperative duty, as tax-payers, and espe cially such of them as are occupied inproductive industry, to petition your Honourable House for a redress of these grievances. I have ha td a little leisure lately to investigate political manoeuvres to the bottom, and, perbaps,.you will afford me space to Elbow how this has been done. Suppose a .farmer has taken a farm of 200 acres, at a rental of 30s. per acre, and with a reliance that his land lard and Members of Parliament would support a corn law that shall maintain for his corn the average price of Bs. per bushel.. The average annual produce of an acre of such land in 22 bushels, which, with corn at Ss. per bushel, is 81. 16s. per acre. Suppose that his landlord and M.P.'s (having thus let the farm and made promises) " turn round," jump " James," (aye, and jump " Robert,") and support a Minister and measures that shall reduce (and have reduced) the value of his corn to 6s. 6d. per bushel—and this, mark, without passing any measure declaring that the rents agreed to be paid should fall in proportion to the fall in corn, as tested by the averages;—this differ ence of ls. 6d. per bushel is 335. per acre for the 22 bushels, or' 3301. per year! being 301. more than all the rent agreed to be paid ! Now, all this has, on the average, been filched from the pockets and capital of the tenant farmers of this country, and no wonder is it that the Bank of England is full of gold, and that the farmers of Ireland and Wales have become seditious, and that those of England are fast becoming Liberals, at being thus hocus-pocused out , of it. This gold in the Bank is nothing more nor less than the draws, and gains, and savings of the great moneyed capitalists, sinecurists, and even landlords, by the last notable introduction of the " Conservative" Premier's " principle of cheapness." I will show how this is effected for, even the latter (the landlords), and there can be no doubt upon that of the former. (The gains and savings of the moneyed man and sinecurist, from buying things so much cheaper, are without any draw back whatever, if the matter of the income-tax be ex cepted ; and even in this case the farmer or other pro ducer is called upon to pay it as well as he.) With corn at Bs. per bushel, it took from the farmer 750 bushels to pay his rent of 3001. With corn at 6s. 6d. per bushel, the landlord extracts from him 923 bushels. Suppose that, in imitation of the crafty Premier, the landlord makes for one year a return of 10 per cent., he still obtains 831 bushels, or a gain of 81 bushels, whilst all the difference between the 750 or 923 bushels— namely, 173 bushels, or about 20 per cent.—becomes in , all subsequent years a permanent actual increase of his rent. At a meeting of the Shareholders in the London and Westminster Bank, held this morning, a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was de clared. The balance of profits, after bad and doubtful debts were provided for, expenses, &c.,were stated to amount to 51,6961. ss. 7d. From the balance of profits the income tax was deducted. The reserve fund is now at 66,8221.165. sd. There has been afirm market for British Securities. Consols for the account have remained at 97i to i, at which the de mand has continued dull up to the present hour. . The Com missioners took their usual amount of Stock at 97i for Con sols. Exchequer Bills are 69 to 71, and India Bonds 89 preMium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 102 k to 4- t . The Foreign Market has been buoyant again, and Spanish, owing to the advance at Madrid, have touched 25 to i for the Actives, and 35i to i for the Three per Cents. Colombian Bonds have been 14 to 15k, with a good deal doing. Brazil Bonds are at 80i ; Portuguese Old at 77i ; Peruvian at 3134 ; Mexican at 344 to 35; and the Deferred at 14h to 14. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. - are 55g. There is a moderate business doing in Railway Shares, and they bear full prices generally. Great Western, South Western, South Eastern, and one or two others, have risen, as the list below will show : BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 97% % New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1560. .... India Bond 5,1,000 Ditto under 1,000 B9 Console for Account 97% Exchequer Bills, I%d. 1 34 cl 500/. pm. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Columbian Bonds. 15% 15% 14%% Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. ,.... 34 Ditto for the Account. Ditto Deferred Stock Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 30% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. 77 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25%%% Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account ••• 85 304 4 Dutch 21x6 per Cents Ditto for the Account Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl% 1C2% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PZR SMARR Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto New Bristol and Exeter '7o 69% to Chester and Holyhead 5 5% to Eastern Counties Ditto New 25 li% ... to Ditto Extension l3s. 4d Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 59 I 4 ... to Great Western Ditto Shares Ditto Fifths l2 London and Birmingham. Stock 234 to London and South Western Ditto Eighths 3% ...... to ' Manchester and Leeds 113% to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and Darlington Junct lB Northern and Eastern 45 57% to Ditto Scrip. l5 93% to Ditto_ % Shares North Midland In respect to the laws affecting the paper money of the country, your petitioners believe that it would be less impolitic in your-Honourable House to enact that a favoured company of bakers should be permitted to dole out, at their own price or pleasure, all the bread that is required within sixty-five miles of the metropolis, than that any particular and irresponsible clars of her Ma jesty's subjects should possess a charter to supply all the money within the same most important part of her Majesty's dominions, - itiasmuch as the former (bread) is only one necessary of life, and it is the latter (money) that commands every necessary of life. " Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House to take into your serious considerati6n the fol lowing proposals :—That in place of basing the cur rency entirely upon a very • scarce, uncertain, and • fleet ing foreign metal, , you found it distinctly upon the available real or real and funded' property of the coun try; and that, in lieu . of one laivlor a portion of her Ma jesty's subjects, who are proprietors of the Bank of England, a second and third for bankers in England and Wales, and a still different one, allowing to,bankers in Scotland and Ireland a privilege that is denied to those of England and Wales— that of issuing one pound notes, you make one uniform law for the entire kingdom, and the entire people. That your Honourable House ap point a board independent of the Government, but re sponsible to the Privy Council, Parliament, and the country, in whom shall be vested the-power and exclu sive right of issuing paper money, for the general-good of the country; and that such board be empowered to make advances thereof to such persons as shall consent to deposit double the amount of real - or funded securities, and pay an interest of two or two and a half per cent. per annum interest thereupon. That such notes be for sums of one pound and upwards, and their total number or amount such as shall be found necessary to give the heavily taxed producers and industrial classes of her Majesty's loyal subjects, such an advance upon the pre sent low and unremunerating prices for their produce and labour as your Honotirable House may consider their past and present hardships justly entitle them to obtain. That such notes be at all times taegal tender in discharge of taxes, and all other payments, but re• deemable at the office of issue in either silver or gold at the market price of such metals, as from time to time may be carefully computed by the state of the ex changes, &c., and published in the London Gazette. " That your petitioners believe that the enactment of a measure of this kind by your Honourable House, would greatly tend to emancipate the industry of this great mercantile country alike from undue , subjection to the influence of foreign gold and hostile foreign tariffs. They believe also that it would, in a corresponding . manner, restore the monetary laws, and finances, and trade, and agriculture, and labour of the country to a healthy and satisfactory state. Your petitioners there fore ask your Honourable House to pass it into law ; and, as in duty bound, will ever. pray. . Signed on behalf of the meeting, " MARTIN NUNN, Chairm an ." • Thus the landlord pockets a considerable portion of the farmer's total loss of 330 L per year each. He then mocks him by telling him to " buy guano" (when his money's gone), to improve his (the landlord's) land, and to produce more. Sir, the work has now been done, and I know suffi cient (having studied the laws that regulate the currency as well as those that regulate corn) of what must inevi tably be the low price of corn under the present Corn Bill, taken in conjunction with the spoliating Currency Bill of 1819—a measure which made a difference of at least 2s. per bushel, or 440 L a year to the tenant farmer of 200 acres—that I would recommend every tenant farmer in the country to join the Anti-Corn-law League, provided the League will join them in forming an Anti- Currency-law League, for the purpose of repealing Peel's Currency Bill of 1819. By an equitable, and sound, and enlightened Currency Bill, leaving gold to find its actual level.in value, like all other things, and as they do in all other countries, in place of maintaining for it a fixed or monopoly price of 3/.:175. 10d. per ounce, corn may be ensured on the average of seasons, even with an entire free trade in it, at 7s. 6d. per bushel. Under the present monopoly given to gold, and the mere abortion of protection to corn, and actual discourage ment to trade and consumption, it will not average 6s. per bushel. ..... . . Ditto Thirds 2ll. 13s. 4d 3O, to Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ..... ................... 20 .... ..... 33%% to Rouen and Havre. South Eastern and Dover 5O 35%% ... to 36 York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch Sir, I see by an announcement in the papers, that what is termed the Anti-League, is about to have " a great national meeting" at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Monday next. My advice to the tenant farmers is, be cautious and yet awake—firm and resolute, and, if needs be, even savage, or this " Great National" League of yours (?) will prove to you " a great national" humbug. (What are words put into the Dictionary for if they are not to be used ?) If your landlords can succeed in putting you against the League, in throwing you off the right scent, in setting you to hunt and fight your fellow-producer and fellow-sufferer, they will pocket the last gain of 173 bushels or 20 per cent., without being seen, and come the same trick over you again in the course of a few more years, when you shall, in obedience to the advice of your "friend," the Premier, have sunk the relics of your capital in " guano" and produce more for - them At present they say they won't alter the currency laws in order to restore, or relieve, or do justice to both you and the manufacturers, because, forsooth, the spoliating law of 1819 was the handy-work of the man whose slave they were, and are, and whose slaves they still wish to be. For the same, and, in addition to this, the still more unworthy reason of direct pecuniary interest, they tell you to fight their battle for certain high rents for them, and uncertain. prices, or rather certain low prices for you. Tell them that you have been fleeced once too often. Tell them that this won't do. Tell them that they possess the power to see that justice is done to the country, and that if they do not do- it now, whilst they may save their estates, you will join the League and they may lose them. Tell them that by maintaining Peel's law of a fixed or monopoly price for gold, your produce has fallen from 10s. 6d. to 6s. per bushel ; the manufacturers calico from 10d. to 4d. per yard ; and the labour of the silk, calico, and stocking weaver from 11.75. to almost 7s. per week. Tell them that by this hocus-pocus and "slidingdown" in the money value of almost everything, it now takes about double the number of bushels of corn, and pieces of calico, and pairs of stockings, and days of labour, and everything else to provide for the t ax ati on un d er Peel in time of peace that it did under Pitt in time of war ! 1 Tell them this " great fact." Tell them that this has doubled the value of Sir Robert Peel's funded property, of the Duke of Wellington's property and income , and of Lord Brougham's and all other pensions and that you now see through it. Tell them that you are thus made to pay nine per cent. interest for all the corn and labour, &c., that were lent from 1797 to 1815, amounting to 600,000,0001. in declared value, and this whilst money is at three per cent. ! Tell them that under the present monstrous monopoly for gold, and no monopoly for either corn, or manufacturers, or labour that is worth a rush, you are being only cajoled, hoodwinked, and robbed. Tell them that that monstrous monopoly—the Bank Charter—shall be broken up, now the opportunity offers, and that paper-money shall be advanced to, and be allowed to be issued by, all persons who deposit ample real security, and pay an interest of two-and-a-half per cent. thereupon to Government for the privilege ; and that the amount of the said notes shall be such as shall give the labourers and farmers, and operatives, and 'manufacturers, an advance of 20 per cent. upon the present unremunerating prices, and gold and silver be left to find their natural level in value. COURSE OF EXCHAJ Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp 25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona l4 0 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine 122 GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 75 Genoa 25 95 Milan Venice ........ Naples 3B/ Palermo, per oz ll7l Lisbon' s3i OportO s3fr Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold,bars..X3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9 Silver in Bars 0 4 1 1 SHOREDITCH ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. Petersburgh, 3Us 36i Berlin Vienna, effect 11.3 M 957 lrieste, ditto Madrid 37 Last evening a meeting of the members and friends of the above Association was held at. the Dun Horse, Kingsland road, for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr. Sidney Smith, the great burden of which was to explain the clauses in the Acts of Parliament relating to registration as regards voters, more particularly those which affect the occupie r s o f compound houses, lodgers, and others, the duties of the over seers as to making of the rate-books, with a view to the ex tension of the franchise, it being considered the most effectual means of obtaining the total repeal of the com-laws. The large room of the tavern was crowde4and every accommo dation wag afforded for the convenience of the visitors.by Mr. Gregg, the worthy proprietor of the establishment. Mr, Solomons was called to the chair. Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Sevilla — MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH s.—The market continues firm, and a fair business has been done at the quo. tations :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Registered, 12} ; Ditto, unregistered, 59; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14i ex-dividend; Sheffield and Manchester, 70i ; Ditto, Quarters, 7i ; Man chester and Birmingham, 42. The SECRETARY read the minutes of the previous meeting, a portion of which related to a vote of thanks to Dr. Shen dan, the editor of the Morning Advertiser, for his able and consistent articles in opposition to the corn-laws. The Se cretary also read Dr. Sheridan's acknowledgement of the vote of thanks, in which he declared it to be his great pride to lend his best aid to " release the bounties of Heaven from the bonds which the iniquity of man had placed upon them."—(Applause.) The minutes were then agreed to. Mr. BINGLEY said that the letter which they had received from Dr. Sheridan was so worthy of his head and heart, that he thought it ought to be placed on the minutes of the Asso ciation, and he moved that it be inserted accordingly. The motion was put and agreed to amidst cheers. The CHAIRMAN then shortly explained the object of the meeting, and concluded by introducing to the company Mr. SIDNEY . Sbirrx, wh o proceeded to address them. Al though his observations were lengthy, the matter t o w hi c h they referred can be laid b e f ore the public in b r i e f f orm , and we shall endeavour to give it in that shape, believing that by doing so we shall aid the object ,which the lecturer had in view, namely, to disseminate his views amongst the great body to whom his remark s were more particularly directed. He said that the Anti - Corn -law Leage were so conscious of the truth of the principles which they sought to inculcate amongst the people, that they were anxious to show to the people how they best could obtain the franchise, in order that the people, in the event of their concurring in the views of the League, might support those who advocated free-trade principles.—(Hear.) If the League did not believe their course to be that of truth and justice, they would, by the in formation which through him they proposed to give to the working classes, to enable them to be placed on the registry, be, in fact, giving a sti c k to break their own heads.—(A laugh.) There was a saying of Wm. Penn's—that " a wise people never had a bad government." This he believed truly, and his belief was, the more power the people had, the more they would exercise it for the improvement of the Go vernment.—(Hear.) There were only 800,000 electors fn the three kingdoms. Now, if every man did what he ought to do, there would be at least 2,000,000 electors on the registry. Why should not the working men do this ? By a recent de cision in the Court of Common Pleas, which was now the final Court of appeal in reference to decisions respecting the franchise, it was declared, in fact, that any man paying 4s. 6d. or ss. a week, was entitled to be placed upon the re gistry. That being so, it was the duty of a person to adopt the necessary means to be so placed on the registry. If they did that, they could get a sufficient number into the window of the House of Commons, and that body, joined with others in it, would come and open the door to the great body of the people.—(Hear.) The first thing to be done by persons paying rent was to get themselves rated, and although they might have compounded for the rates in the rent with the landlord, and although the landlord might also have compounded with the parish, still, if they paid 101. a year, and were rated to the parish, they had a right to be placed upon the registry to be entitled to all the immunities of citizenship ; and it was the duty of the churchwardens and overseers, under the 6th and 7th Wm. IV., c. 96, to place in the parish book the name of every occupier of a house in the parish, as well as that of the owner, and indeed, unless they complied with the pro visions of the Act they were liable to be fined 5/. upon con viction before a justice of the peace. and the parishioners could see if the parish officers did their duty, for the Act in question enabled them, without fee or reward, to take ex tracts from the parish books in reference to this point. But it might be said that the landlord with whom they had com pounded, would not pay the rates due on the 6th of April or the 20th of July, and thus the tenants might be affected.— (Hear, hear.) But in the parish of Shoreditch, at all events, they had a local Act which enabled the tenant to pay the rates, and stop them out of the rent, so that in that . parish the omission of the landlord could not affect the right of the tenant. They were aware that every occupier of a 101. house, warehouse, shop, Sce., was entitled, if rated, to be placed on the registry. • The ingenuity of lawyers had thrown considerable difficulty in the, way of the, work ing of the Reform Bill, and had limited its operation very much. The recent decision in the Common Pleas had however, declared in fact that the owner of any room is any house, he having the key of that room, and having sole con trol over it—the party being rated to and paying 10/. a year rent, was entitled to be placed on the registry. The case submitted to the Judges in the Court of Common. Pleas was shortly this :—A factory, four stories high, and con taining several rooms, each of these rooms was let off to particular parties. Each tenant had an exclusive right to the room occupied by him, and had a key for it. There was a common entrance, and the land lord paid the rates, the rating being of a joint character. The Chief Justice, upon this case being submitted to the Court, decided that all these persons were entitled to be on the registry, and in this decision the whole Court concurred. This decision, therefore, fully established the right of every person paying 101. a year for a room in a house, if rat e d, t o e intended to t a k e steps classes, and they ought be placed on the registry.—(Hear.) This pl ace d a great to powertak to have the whole case simplified, so that every one could e i a n d t v l a l e n t h a g a n e d o s f iotf. t h T e h l e v o L r e k a i n g un derstand how to work the matter hereafter; and if the towns only did their duty, they could easily beat the county Members returned, through the influence of the Chandos clause. The Lecturer, after adverting to other topics, con cluded his address by urging the people generally to take ad: vantage of the suggestions which he had thrown out. Upon the motion of Mr. BINGLEY, the thanks of the meeting were given to Mr. Smith, and the meeting separated. Mr. Editor, by such a course the farmers and manu facturers will force both the gold monopolists, with Peel at their head, and the landlord monopolists, with Rich mond at their head, to do justice. The farmer will be placed in the position he was prior to his last fleecing, in 1842—the manufacturers will insure freedom of trade in money as well as in corn. Farmers ! demand that your League shall be an Anti- Currency-law League, and Anti-Corn-law Leaguers will join it. Manufacturers ! assist the farmers, in an Anti-Currency-law League, and they will join your Anti-Corn-law League. oth the gold lords and the landlords will then be forced—if shame itself do not the work—to abandon both the spoliating Currency Bill of 1819, and the Corn-law Bill of 1815, as patched and re patched until 1842. At present they are making the tenants', and manufacturers', and shopkeepers' capital, and the labour of the poor, at starvation wages, pay for the double taxes, &c., in peace as in war, and for their rents, &c., being raised 50 per cent. in 1819, and again 20 per cent. in 1842, without the victims perceiving the hocus-pocus juggle by which it has been effected. You shall hear from me again. March 1, 1844. A FARMER'S SON. P.S.—As there is nothing like being " up and doing," if those of the hundred thousand readers of The Sun, who are either members of the League, Anti-League, farmers, or advocates of a sound paper currency, secured upon the property of the country, and approve of these views, will address a letter to that effect through the columns of The Sun, a compact may be quickly formed that will ensure justice being at length done to the country. At present the sinecure and annuitant class of this country are getting 30,000,0001. per year more than their just rights, and allowing foreigners to gain a further 20,000,000/. by maintaining gold at the present fixed price. REGIMEN.—" Long habits, either of pr ac ti ce or pursuit, are never suddenly changed with safety ; an d a ft er the (etas vergens especially, the human body d oes not freely admit of changes. Sudden repletions and depletions are equally injurious. Those who have been long accustomed to a generous diet of flesh-meats and wine, will not bear a sud den change to a low diet ; and, on the other hand, those who have lived, long on water and vegetables, very soon suffer from one more nutritious. Still, where the original fault lies in the too great indulgence of the former of these extremes, we cannot reasonably hope to remove its consequences but by amending it—keeping in mind at the same time, what will not bend must not be broken.—Dr. flume Wiatherhead on Diet. THE SUN, 1401'1130N, WEDNESpAY EYRNING, MARCH 6, 1844. THE. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE . IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE; SHROPSHIRE, AND HEREFORDSHIRE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) During the past and present weeks, Mr. Falvey has been lecturing in Tewkesbury, Leominster, and Ludlow on the evils of the corn-laws, and the advantages of industrial free dom. The lectures were delivered in Tewkesbury on the 27th and 28th ult., in the Town-hall, and were remarkably well attended. On the second evening large numbers were obliged to go away who could not obtain room, such was the intense interest felt by all clas ses o f the inhabitants in the all-im portant question of the day. Mr. Elisha Robinson occupied the chair on each occasion, and in a clear and explicit man ner, stated his reasons for supporting the principles enun ciated by the Anti-Corn-law League. Mr. Falvey spoke for two hours each evening, supporting his views and answering objections to the entire satisfaction of the meeting. When the lecturer stated the firm resolution of the League to put down bribery, the cheering was absolutely deafening. At the close of the proceedings three times three cheers were given for free trade, accompanied with a vote of thanks to the lecturer. There is little doubt that, in the event of an election, the men of Tewkesbury will relieve their monopolist Member from his Parliamentary duties. Mr. Falvey lectured at Leominster, on the Ist instant, t o a l arge an d respectable audience in the Assembly-room, at the Lion HoteL At the close of his address, a Mr. Cartwright stepped forward and delivered himself of the most ludicrous address that, perhaps, was ever heard at any meeting. lie said the corn-laws were passed to make bread cheap as well as dear ! that free trade would inundate us with bread, and that then the people would not get any ! The other parts of his speech were equally logicrea o reason a m b i l d e t hand cheerse onsi s t a e n n d t . at l g r h . t Fly er a o v f e " the showedasse assembly, l u y p , ' ' his after which a vote was taken, when six hands were raised in favour of monopoly, and about five hundred in favour of free trade. Mr. Falvey is to lecture at the same place again this (Wed nesday) evening. On Monday, being market day at Ludlow, Mr. Falvey addressed the farmers in the Market-square, at three o'clock, and again at seven in the evening, in the large room at the Golden Lion Hotel. He was listened to on each occa sion with marked attention, andwas never interrupted except by the cheers of his auditors. Mr. Falvey delivered a third lecture on Tuesday evening in the same room. Perhaps the most pleasing feature in all these meetings is the ardent desire manifested by the people to see an end put to the soul-debasing system of bribery and corruption at elections. PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS. (Fres the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, MARCH 5. MOTIONS. Motion made, and Question put, " That no Motion, if opposed, shall be brought on and discussed in this House after midnight :" The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 16. Aldam, William Morris, David Bowring, Dr. Morrison, James Byng, George Stevens Scholefield, Joshua Collett, John Trelawny, John S. Crawford, William S. Wawn, John Twizell Dennistoun, John Yorke, Henry Redhead Ewart, William Fielden, John Hill, Lord Marcus James, William TELLIES. Williams, William Brotherton, Joseph MAJORITY-NOES, 146. LITERATURE. WILD SPORTS. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844. These volumes are from the pen of Colonel Ed ward Napier, to whom the public are already in debted for a pleasant gossiping work entitled " Scenes and Sports _in Many Lands.' The work before us is of a similar character to that of its predecessor — that is to say, sketchy and desultory, not deficient in anecdote, and penned in the easy, cheerful spirit of an experienced traveller. The first three or tour chap ters are devoted to a description of the scenery in the immediate neighbourhood of Madras, in the course of which the gallant author alludes to the terrific fury with which the se4 breaks on the Coromandel coast—a circumstance which has been remarked by all who have ever visited that quarter of India ; he then proceeds to detail the particulars of a stormy and protracted voyage to the Mauritius, when, on one memorable occasion, " a crash as of ten thousand Avalanches burst in deafening peals over head; the rain descended as if the very sluice-gates of Heaven were opened ; and as far as eye could stretch through the drifting torrents and salt spray, the broad surface of the deep presented a universal appearance of white and bubbling foam." We next find Colonel Napier wandering among the sierras of Spanish Andalusia, popping at eagles, and hunting stags and wild boars ; from thence he set out for Gibraltar, of which he gives a brief but graphic description, crosses over to the opposite coast of Africa, where he resumes his sporting amusements ; and then takes flight for Syria, his rambles and ad ventures in which country form the most entertain ing portion of his volumes. The work is embel lished with several illustrations, and will be very likely to please the lovers of light, superficial reading. RATHER RAW.—A Welsh sailor was married on Tuesday morning last, at St. Woollos, fo a blooming nymph some ten years his senior ; but seldom has a marriage been " solemnized" under more ludicrous circumstances. The gay bridegroom forgot his responses, and instead of answering the Rev. Gentleman's questions by saying, " I will," and so on, he bawled out the clergyman's words, " Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife ?" From either stubbornness or sheer stupidity, the confounded man so delayed thb tender proceedings, that they were about being finally stopped, when the Rector gave him another chance, and with enormous dif ficulty contrived to get the overcome and amazed Welshman through the fire.—Merlin. "ROYAL BENEVOLENCE."—A paragraph which has just appeared in some of the daily papers under the above heading, stating that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command that the whole of the unconsumed wine at the Royal table at Windsor Castle should be given under proper regulations to the sick poor of Windsor and Eton, is totally without foundation. The whole of the unconsumed wine at the Royal table, which is of the most choice description, is regularly conveyed back to the cellar, then carefully corked up and kept in readiness for the following day's consumption, and again placed on the Royal table. The mistatement probably orig i n ated with respect to the refuso wine in the steward's room, which is left in the decanters at the table after dinner and supper ; wine being allowed to the pages and upper ser vants in the proportion of two bottles to three men, and one pint to each woman, per diem. This refuse wine, on the whole about a bottle or so, which was formerly the perquisites of the Wis now given away to the poor on pro pebeing gmade to the Deputy-Comptroller of her ii:teril applicationorpagesb' men, Majesty's Household. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF COPPER ORE.-.--It is a well-known fact that copper mining in Cornwall is of com paratively recent origin, and that the mines in this county were, at no very remote period, worked only for tin, the copper ore being considered as useless, and, consequently, thrown aside. A singular confirmation of this has just oc- MTNin widening the road in the neighbourhood of Chace water. Captain Davies, the contractor, in removing the old hedges, perceived among the stones of which they were com posed a considerable number that contained copper, and has actually selected from them several tons of copper ore. These Stones had, no doubt, been raised by miners in search of tin, f 4 a priod when their value wa s no t known , and used as materials ibr constructing the hedges in which they were fol ic • ga n i4o3,, v o, to contracting for the job, has been eQ fOitunda as to secure the sfoneo of the old hedges, And is, consequently,;considerablegainer 1* Ow &SP9Very.,--. I WO Pritov NEW LEAGUE. A new League, under the title of " The Improved Currency League," has been originated in the me tropolis, and is holding its weekly meetings every Friday evening, at the Partheniun? Rooms, St. Mar tin's-lane. The following petition, as unanimously agreed to at it's first meeting, and since presented to the Lords by the Duke of Richmond, and to the Com mons by Lord Ashley, will supply a tolerably accu rate account of the vrews taken by the new League : "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parlia. ment assembled. " The humble Petition of Members of the gm- proved Currency League,' and other persons in public_ meeting assembled, at the Parthenium Rooms, in the City of Westminster, " Showeth,—That it is the opinion of your petitioners that the present system of inadequate gold, and fluctu ating acid unsound paper currency, is rapidly pauper ising, demoralising, and ,enslaving the people. " That your petitioners believe that the part of limit ing or making all money subordinate to only one par ticular and very scarce description of property, and that an article of foreign produce, and of uncertain supply, termed cow, and maintaining for it a fixed stan dard of value, is in the highest degree impolitic, as well as unjust. "That its impolicy is shown by the oft-recurring panics and stagnations in banking, mercantile, and agri cultural affairs, whereby the banking, trading, agricul tural, and other classei of society, are frequently compelled to make ruinous sacrifices of their property, and labour ; and that its injustice is apparent from the fact that under it, as compared with the currency which the country possessed from the years 1797 to 1819, and whengeld was left to find its natural level in value, everything except money has become so much cheaper, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. We have had some serious misgivings about the' opening of her Majesty's Theatre. The impresario of the Italians in Paris of late suddenly engaged in the most inauspicious con flict with his troupe; the interference of the gentlemen of the long robe was demanded by both parties, and the artists on whose assistance we reckoned for the opening appeared des tined to remain imprisoned in the interminable legal purga tory of a French court of justice. Fortunately, our energetic London lessee took the alarm, started for Paris on Tuesday, pacified the combatants, removed the difficulty, see Fermi sari free, and embarked him on his road here, returned to London on Monday, and that day settled the opening of her Majesty's Theatre for Sat u rd a y nex t. Th e O pera w ill open with the new ballet Esnzeralda, and with Persiani and the new tenor, Correlli, in Adelia; Fornasari appearing in the ensuing week. It is a most laudable innovation to begin the season wfth a new ballet, supported by such dancers. Esmerakla, re port says, is most splendidly got up, and enlivened by charming music, by the author of Undine„ the triumphant ballet of last season. Carlotta Grisi enacts Victor Hugo's poetical heroine, whilst Perrot assists the fair dansatrice with -his unrivalled pantomimic powers, performing a part which has raised many a smile amongst those who are con versant with the plot of the original novel. The beautiful Frasi, another fair daughter of Terpsichore, who appears for the first time, is the fit representative of Fleur de Lys. Adelia will this year, as last, be the first opera of the season, and it is fortunately chosen, being a short opera, to precede the first performance of a new ballet, on the first night of the season ; the performance might otherwise have lasted till the last wax lights had burnt out—a consideration in which we critics are deeply interested, we • whose labours begin at those very moments when the votaries of pleasure enjoy their hie di m d om th e e nt ? first slumbers. In other respects we may safely assert that afevertt whenperOpera b esgOn m u a n n d y e r r of su th ch e a n us oh p ih ic .t e y s. are Al a rea bse d n y i from town, and before the day of the opening of the Opera is known, the list of subscribers, which we have with consi derable trouble and difficulty made out, is brilliant and nume rically strong beyond all precedent. We annex a list below, 'and it will be seen that, independent of her Gracious Majesty the Queen and the Queen Dowager, and their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, nine Dukes have taken boxes, and their example has been imi tated by many of the highest and noblest personages of the peerage ; whilst the House of • Commons is re presented by M.P.'s without number. If the subscrip tion proceeds as it does at present, within a very few days• every vacant box or stall in the house will be se cured, and then we shall publish the general list, pointing out the habitual seat of each subscriber, and thus affording our readers information which we know they value, from the eagerness with which the catalogue raisonnee we published last year was sought after. We rejoice at this favourable aspect of affairs, not only on account of the lessee, who has so ably extricated the theatre from its former despondency, but because it is the accomplishment of our predictions, and it proves the correctness of our opinion regarding her Ma jesty's Theatre. These opinions were once considered pecu liarities; but they now enjoy general vogue. The opera will, therefore, in .all probability, be still more splendid than in the preceding year—the most auspicious season on record. The list we publish will give our readers a foretaste of the 'spectacle before the curtain. There is nothing that can be compared to the coup d'zeil afforded by such an assemblage - at her Majesty's Theatre. On en tering you behold above, amidst the blaze of light, all the fairest women of this land, with her gracious Majesty at their head, whilst below you encounter, in the passages of the pit, the personages of the most exalted rank, and those who through their many avenues have achieved fame or fortune, and are the objects of the admiration or the envy of the world, whether denizens of the land, or exalted foreigners on a visit of curiosity. It is not, therefore, astonishing that on certain nights last year, the railroads brought crowds of spectators to the Opera even from very distant parts of the provinces. As regards art, our Opera combines all the mate rial elements of the Italian Opera and of the French Aca demie de Musique—or, in other words, unites the queen of the lyrical school, the Italian, with all that is most perfect in the French choregraphic system ; presenting us in turn all the best dancers of all the first theatres in Eurpose. We may, therefore, safely assert that it surpasses everything of the kind in Europe, and every year its attraction must be more deeply ,felt as long as it is maintained on its proper footing. The following is the list of the first subscribers : The Queen. The Queen Dowager. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Dukes and Duchesses—Their Graces the Duke of Wel lington, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Duke of Devon shire, Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Marquises and Marchionesses--Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Mar chiones,s of Wellesley, Marchionesses of Westmeath, Tavis tock, Titchfield, Huntley, Douro, Kildare, Clanricarde, Wor cester. Earls--Liverpool, Pembroke, Falmouth, Sandwich, Bruce, Chesterfield, Shelburne, Oharleville, Belfast. Countesses—Kenmare, Powis, Glengall, Cardigan. Lords—Compton, Alvanley, Sandys, Templemore, Curzon, W. Berestord, Gardner, A. Fitzclarence, Foley, Paget, Mac donald. Viscounts--Lowther, Templetown, Castlereagh. Baron De Lagos. Baronesses—l3runnow, De Rothschild. Count De Noialles. Sirs—H. Webb, W. Fremantle, W. Abdy, Charles Kent, Charles Shakerley, J. Guise, E. Codrington, C. Marshall, Wiley Vakeman, E. Wilmot, C. Slingsby, H. Will ou ghby, T. Hare, J. Har rington, A. K. Macdonald, W. W. Wynne, R. Errington. Ladies --Fitzroy Somerset, Brougham, Sondes, Bowyer Smythe, Shuckburgh, Dinorben, Trimlestown, Loftus Otway, Martins, Jodrell, K. Cavendish, Kemeys, Kenmare, William Paulet. Generals--Upton, D'Ovley, Meade. Mistresses—Burgess, Wauchope, H. Tollemache, Sand ford, Wilso n , Fit zg ibb on , Hodgson, 7. Platt. Montefiore, Fremantle, Denison, Assheton Smith, Paul, Hayter, Wat son, Lushington, Massey, Sontag, Tunno, Powell, Hon. Yorke, Robarts, Page, Fitzgerald, Fitzhugh, Pultney, Brown rigg, Gerard Fraser, Holford, Ewing, Colonel Fitch, Wood house, Marjoribanks, Walters, Ley. Misses—Gyles, Kyme, Gee. Colonels—Grant, Dixon, Knox, Wigram. Majors--Buckley, Croft, Drake, Mildman. Captains—Lyon, Fitzroy, Glyne, Pole, Hon. Macdonald, Meynell. Esquires—C. Standish, M.P., J. Caven, J. Attwood, Ma theson, M.P., W. Wigram, C. B. Baldwin, M.P., J. Attwood, 011ivera, Guy Champion, J. Hobson, Hon. J. Chichester, ll.' Villebois, H. Barnes, M.P., N. W. Senior, R. W. Williams, Tudor, Pearce, Lockett, Langham, Bentley, Cox. F. Per kins, Packe, M'Lean, Dobree, A Campbell, Meason, Lindo, G. Dawkins, Tierney, T. L. Ward, Dawkins, A. Grant, Cun ningham, J. Littledale, H. Littledale, 0. Morgan, R. Eden, Munday, W. Clayton, C. Cox, H. Cox, T. Baring, Walter Ewer, S. Lushington ' Ramon, Parkinson, Vyner, Collett, Hon. Grant, Nicoll, Macklew, C. Martyn, Currie, Hon. J. Lindsay, I. Franks, Trelawney, Blackburne, Dent, Fenwick, Hon. R. Curzon, B. St. Leger, Fitzgerald, P. Wells, H. Whit more, Marson, Martin, Bethune, Lee, Rothman, Beavan, Archer, Burt on, Beazley, T. Hodgson, Hugh Wood,'R. Twiss, V. Morris, J. H. Smith, Knapp, Baxter, R. T. S. Cocks, H. Bicknell, Hayward, H. Kemble, Petrie, R. Burnett, J. Stewart, M.P., J. H, Lowther, I. de Moira, Baltazzi, C. An drews, H. Broadwood, M.P., E. Moore, F. Mills, Hubert de Burgh, H. Belinaye, Forde, G. Wombwell, Hon. G. Byng, Hon. C. Greville, C. R. Tunno, H. Musgrove, Hon. Gardner, Clayton. PRIZE MONEY. - - - THE CURLEW, 10.-Notice has been given to the officers and crew of this brig, who were present at the capture and destruction of the piratical vessel Pander, on the 4th June, 1833, and engaged in the pursuit of the pirates from that date to the 30th November in that year, that a distribution of the proceeds of the booty taken from the pirates, and of the bounty money granted for that service, will be made on and after the 13th inst., at 22, Norfolk-street, Strand, in the following proportions:-Flag, 91. 12s. 6d. ; commander, 711. 15s. 4d. ; second class, 91. Os. 10d. ; third, 41. 10s. sd. ; fourth, 14 13s. 10d. ; fifth, 11. Os. 9d. ; sixth, 15s. 6d.; seventh, 10s. 4d.; eighth, ss. 2d. TILE PYLADES, 16.-The prize-money arising from the bounty granted for the destruction of pirates in a piratical junk on the coast of China on the 29th of July, 1840, is ad vertised to be paid to Capt. T. V. Anson and the late officers and crew of the sloop Pylades, at No. 3, Clifford's Inn, on and after the 13th inst. It amounts o to 115/. 14s. 6d., and will be distributed as follows :-Commander, 139/. 9s. 3d. ; first class, 44/. 16s. 10d. ; second, 261. 18s. ld. ; third, 13/. 9s. ; fourth, !Y. 19s. 4d.; fifth, 4/. 9s. Bd.; sixth, 2/. 19s. 9d.; seventh, 1/. 9s. 10d. ROME, FEB. 20.—The Crown Prince of Wurtemberg will leave in a few days for Naples, for which capital the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn, and Lady Emma Campbell, are on the eve of departing, and from thence the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family will, by easy stages, return to England. Earl Compton and Lord William Compton, Earl and Countess of Cadogan, and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, intend also shortly to proceed to London. The Chesterfield hounds have afforded the greatest amusement, not alone to the English portion of the visitors, but as well to those from Russia and Austria, who entered with much Ardour into the spirit of that English national sport. The Carnival is exceedingly gay, and on Giovedi grass° (the best day of those festivities) the weather was beautifully fine, and more resembled MH thl February, which added much to the general mirth. The accounts from Ancona continue to describe that city in a state of great ex citement, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TlMES.—There is nothing more praiseworthy in public or private life than a well-timed economy. To a Minister of State no less than to the father of a family, it is a matter of grave importance to avoid all unnecessary expense, and dis courage every approach to prodigality. And as there is no thing in the intercourse of private life where delicacy is so much required as in those admonitions by which a wary and considerate friendship attempts to check the career of heed less extravagance, so in political discussion there is nothing demands the exercise of tact and discretion more than the character of a friend to retrenchment and economy. But if in the former case men are at once annoyed and disgusted by the impertinent interference of garrulous busybodies, they have an equal right to condemn and disavow the gratuitous platitudes of political quacks. It is bad enough to have a friend who tells one that you are going to the dogs at a fear ful pace—that this expense is unnecessary, that scandalous, and a third ruinous--who pulls a long face, and bids one think of one's wife and children, when he hears of a newly purchased horse, or a projected amusement. A friend of this kind is a bore, and is accordingly sent to Coventry. All doors are closed against him—all confidence is denied him. But to what place ought those indefatigable croakers to be consigned, who make the necessary expenses of the nation their staple of reprobation, and the House of Commons the victim of their querulousness ? They cannot all be sent to Coventry ; and if they could be, this might only make them worse. Seriously, we think that the ultra-economical prin ciples periodically developed by certain Honourable Members are hardly saved by their absurdity from being both offensive and injurious : and were any moderate man to sit down and analyse the recent debates on the Army and Navy Estimates, he would be at a loss to explain the language and the senti ments of those who advocated retrenchment by any other hypothesis than that the speakers did not mean what they said, or if they did mean it, that they have but a poor notion of their duty as the representatives of a great nation. Re duce ! reduce! reduce ! was the reiterated, but attenuated, cry of the very few gentlemen on whose shoulders devolves the self-imposed office of carping at the two establishments. " They are too large," screamed one ; " They are too costly," groaned a second; "They are unconstitutional," murmured a third ; and if the prevalent opinions of this small party could be interpreted into the exposition of a popular belief, any intelligent foreigner sitting in the gallery might have interred that the only occupation of our soldiers was to collect taxes at the point of the bayonet ; and :that the English army was the grand instrument whereby a despotic Ministry plundered a defenceless and unresisting people. There is luckily leas mischief than folly in thusodearying and, endeavouring to impair the effi ciency of two important services. People know too well what' the real state of the case is to think of being terrified by the antiquated bugbear of a standing army and an unconstitutional force. They know, that so far from exceeding the exigencies of the empire, our military force is hardly sufficient to meet the demands of our distant and extensive dependencies; they know that both in Australia and at the Cape the number of troops is insufficient to cope with any sudden difficulty, or to perform any ar duous expedition; and they also know, that owing to the disproportion of our regiments to the service expected from them, many have been detained in remote and unhealthy colonies far beyond the period which a regard either to their sanatory condition or to the fair distribution of service might have justified. They know, that owing to the pressure of events in other parts of our empire, more than one regiment has been kept in India for upwards of twenty years. But, though this sort of popularity-courting cant is more foolish than mischievous, it is not without its ill effects. It tends to keep alive in minds susceptible of grievances a morbid irrita tion against the just and complete integrity of two establish ments, whose unimpaired efficiency is absolutely indispensable for the preservation of our national dignity and power, and it acts, through the medium of grievance -mongers, on the minds of cautious Ministers. It has acted this year in a manner which whilst we regret to observe it now, we may have occasion to deplore hereafter—in effecting the reduction of our navy es timates to an extent which will require a practical abandon ment of our maritime supremacy. It would be useless to en large on the dangers of such a course ; but should disasters ensue, it will be no consolation to be told that a retrench ment so hazardous as this is has been made to gratify the Radical section of the community. Economy is a very good thing; but parsimony is more ruinous than extravagance. National stinginess always punishes itself and its abettors by after-years of fruitless expenditure. Those who would pare down our regiments and dismantle our ships should recollect, that as a great nation cannot have a little war, so it cannot afford to possess a petty army and a puny fleet—that power, honour, and possessions must be retained by the same means by which they were won. It is, doubtless, a fine thing to save a few thousand pounds by the disbanding of a regiment or the dismantling of a frigate in time of peace, but should you find yourselves precipitated into a war, your troops un trained and undisciplined, your ships rotting in your har bours, and your sailors forced, by want of employment at home, into the service of another Power--how kindly will you feel to those who preached up the doctrine of " frugal establishments" in the House of Commons ! ADVERTISER.—Lord Worsley has obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the inclosure of commons, and lands held in common, which he stated he had framed with a due re gard to the rights of the poor as well as to the owners of the property. By this Bill a Commissioner, on consent of two thirds of the parties interested, is to be sent down to examine and take into consideration the expediency of inclosing com mon land. The Inclosing Commissioners are to be the same parties as the Tithe Commissioners, before whom claims and objections are to be laid. In its nature it is, therefore, no thing less than a general Inclosureßill. We have repeatedly expressed our objection to the practice of inclosing commons and wastes, by which the people, the natural lords of the land, are despoiled of their birthright, not for the general benefit, but for the advantage of a . few wealthy landowners. The facility with which appropriation and inclosure Bills pass through Parliament, is one of the numerous proofs that exist of a defective representation of the people ; for it is not to be supposed for a moment, that if their voice had its due weight in the Legislature, their individual and collective interests would be sacrificed to gratify the covetousness of individuals. There is something insiduous in the principle of the present Bill, which, though it acknowledges the _right of the com moners to compensation, leaves the mode and amount to the decision of Commissioners, who are to be appointed by Parliament. As the right to compensation can be founded only on a previous right of ownership s the question at issue in every case of inclosure under this Bill, lies between the actual owners and the persons who desire to possess their property. The value of such property, it is evident, ought, since there is no individual owner, to be esti mated by arbitrators, equally agreed upon: by a majority of the owners and the parties intending to ap propriate the land. In this case, should the Bill pass into a law, the latter will be said to be the country at large, but until the people are fairly represented, these parties will in reality be the members of the Legislature ; and thits, the very persons who desire to make the inclosures are to have the sole power of choosing the arbitrators. The Com missioners may be very upright men, but it is equally possible that they may be the reverse ; and whether so or not, it is certain that as delegates of the landowners constituting the legislative class, they will have a bias in favour of those from whom they derive their official existence, and receive salaries. We have looked through this Bill anxiously, in order to discover any means by which the common pro prietors may be assured of impartial justice ; but the main provision on this point is such as we have described it. The Bill takes no care whatever to secure to the commoner his just compensation. The Commissioners are to be ap pointed by Parliament, and maintained at the public charge • but who is to advocate the rights of the poor man before thi s tribunal? We object to all general Inclesure Acts, on ac count of the directness of their tendency to abridge the com forts of the poor, and to remove their means of healthful re creation. By converting commons into corn-fields, the pea sant is deprived of pasture for his cow, his sheep, or his horse, and thus pauperism is increased. Pasturage of this description is not less valuable to him than the comrfield is to his wealthy neighbour ; and by what pretext can the seizure of this common property be justified? Certainly not on the condition that the terms of compensation shall be fixed and awarded by the agents of the virtual seizers I As the means of affording healthful recreation to the rustic populace, com mons are even more valuable than many descriptions of cul tivated ground, and therefore every resistance ought to be made to proposals like Lord Worsley's, of which the ultimate object is to sustain the corn-laws —to keep up the present high prices of food, by shutting out foreign com petition in agricultural produce, on the plea that we grow enough of our own. There is no other motive at the bottom of this attack upon the rights of poor com moners, and we do not hesitate to affirm that, if agri cultural produce were suffered to find its own level in the general market, the absence of any just pretence for inclos ing commons and wastes would be manifested by the abun dance and cheapness of all the necessaries of life. On the following specific grounds it behoves every man, whether holding a direct interest in commons and wastes, or not, to oppose this Bill in all its stages ; that, on no proof of neces sity, it will deprive the poor of their pastures and play grounds, without giving them assurance, or hope, of equitable compensation, supposing that any pecuniary consideration can be a sufficient equivalent ; that, in turning all our open plains into closes, the public will be precluded from all places of recreation in the air, except the high roads ; that, through its operation, large tracts of land, now valuable to the com moners, will be converted into severalties, or be each ad joined to an estate, for the purpose of cultivation, under circumstances in which further cultivation is neither neces sary nor desirable ; and that the covert object of the mea sure is to promote the interests of the agricultural classes exclusively, and to uphold the landlords in their present exaction of high rents, at the expense of every other class of the community. ASSEMBLY AT MANCHESTER HOUSE.—Madame de St. Aulaire held her first assembly for this season last even ing. It was attended by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Castelcicala, the Turkish Ambassador, the Austrian, Prussian, Dutch, Sardinian, Belgian, Danish, Bavarian, Swedish, Hanoverian, and Russian Ministers. Dukes—Wellington, Buccleuch. Duchess of Buccleuch. Marquises—Ailesbury, Headfort, Lansdowne, Normanby, Douro. Marchionesses—Ailesbury, Sligo. Earls--Jersey, Lincoln, Rosebery, Aberdeen. Countesses--Mansfield, Tan kerville, Jersey, Reventlow, Haddington, Euston, Bjornst jerna, Rosebery. Lords—Foley, Harry Vane, Lovaine, C. Wellesley, Mahon, Jocelyn, Palmerston, Canning, Eliot, Alexander Lennox, Pollington, Ernest Bruce, Hawarden. Ladies—Macdonald, Murray (two), Taylour (two), Dillon, C. Maxse, Sandon, Ponsonby, Jocelyn, Ashley, Palmerston, Mary Stanley, Canning, G. Seymour, Pollington, E. Egerton, Shelley, L. Churchill, E. Bruce, Primrose (two), A. Beckett, Hawarden. Barons—Gersdorff, Thule, Koller, Lebzeltern, Knesebeck. Baronesses—Brunnow, Alsfeldt. Sirs—George Clerk, Robert Chester, Robert Otway, George Seymour, John Shelley, Henry Mildmay, John Beckett. Mad. D'Este. Colonels—Maberly, Montagu; and other persons of rank and fashion. The following details, connected with the recent murder in the Rue de Londres, are given by the Droll :—Mr. Ward, who was seventy-four years of age, resided alone, and had only a man-servant, who lodged out. Engaged to dine out, and not arriving at the appointed hour, his friends sent several times to remind him ; but the messenger having knocked and rung repeatedly without receiving any answer, it was concluded that he had gone elsewhere. On Friday morning, when the servant came, he found his master dressed and lying dead on the floor, with a log of wood by hi s s id e, that had been used as the instrument of death, by striking him on the back of the head, beating in a portion of the skull. A inan in a blouse was seen to go into the apartment in the course of Thursday, but was not observed to go out again. The deceased expected a remittance of money, and this probably was known to the murderer; but he was dis appointed of his booty, for, in his pocket-book, Mr. Ward had made a memorandum of having, only a few days before, borrowed a small sum, to be returned on receiving this re mittance, which, in fact, did arrive the day after his death. Several persons have been arrested on suspicion. A report has been spread about that the concierges of the house were among them, but this is erroneous. They had been only a week m the house, and came with the most respectable tes timonials to their integrity. THEATRICALS AT BRIGHTON.—On Monday even ing, the house opened to fifteen persons in the pit, two in the boxes, and two in the gallery. There was no performaAce, and the money was returned to the audience, rk! A GENUINE SCENE WITH IT % . f 1 .., NET HY. . 1 41 About a yea r an d a half befi,re the death o 1 " ";1-.--p,V j ;411 nethy, - a big f e ll ow, c l erk i n a b rewer ' s est went to'consult th a t eminent man when the VI - conversation took pl ace between them : „ The patient, who h a d a very crazy frame, butris rr 0. 11 ' 1 1 31 -(` . understanding, said, upon entering the parlour, and see" • ing a little old-looking man, with the knees of his breeches loose. "I want to speak to Dr. Abernethy." " Doctor! lam no doctor. What brings you ,berer I came for advice, to be sure. You don't think .1 came to ask you how you do ?" " Hah!" (muttered Mr. Abernethy, evidently pleased with meeting a congenial customer.) -" No; I hope not. But there's no use in your coming to me for advice. You won't take it." • " Yes ' I will." " I'll bed— if you do." , "I'll be d— if I don't." • " What trade are you? A butcherptor a publican, or a costermonger?" " Not a bit of it. You're all wrong. I'm a brewer'is clerk." " What they call a broad cooper." " No. lam a collecting clerk." "Worse and worse ! Nothing can satisfy fellows of your kind. You drink beer tilt you burst. Show xno your tongue." The patient immediately obeyed the command hvy lolling a large yellow furry tongue ever his chin." " Bad," said Mr. Abernethy, " very bad. You were drunk last night?" " No, I wasn't." • " So much the worse, for the state of your tongue must then proceed from habitual drinking. You are always drunk, and you don't know it. You drink what you fellows call heavy wet ?" " No, I don't ; I drink ale because I wish to serve my employers." "To serve your employers! Then you pay for who:* you drink?" - " No, I don't; I happen to be in one of the first houses in London." "Then if you stay much longer with them they will be one of the last, Here (pulling some of his specific pills out of a drawer), take one of these every other night, and diminish your draughts of ale from gallons to half-pints. But you won't remember what I say to you?" " Yes, I will." " No, you won't; you have no memory." " Yes, I have as good a memory as you; I'll get off a hundred lines in Milton's • Paradise Lost' with you any day." " Ay, Pandemonium! You are always dreaming of the devil and all his angels. Isn't that it. " No, it is'nt it; but I often feel a palpitation of the heart and a headache, without having been a bit lumpy." " Nonsense! How can a fellow who lives upon ale have either head or heart? You have stomach and guts enough." " Really, Sir, I get very depressed, particularly when I can't get in the debts of the house. It's always cold morning with me then." " Well, I advise you to take the pills, and take exer cise, and have mercy upon your employers and yourself. Good morning." As the patient was walking out of the room, Mr. Abernethy said " Stay. Where are you doing business?" " Over the water." " Well ! Take a cab." " Why so ? You just said exercise is good for me." " Yes ; but between this and your place of business, there are twenty public-houses, and I am greatly afraid of the shortness of your money." " When shall I call again ?" "Do as I tell you, and I need never see your face more." " I'll come if I don't improve, but I trust we shall never meet again at this side of the grave," " If ever we do, I hope you'll repeat the hundred lines from Milton. I'll be satisfied with that instead of a fee. There (ringing the bell and whistling), that'll do—but give me another call."—Sunday Times. HIGH TlDE.—Yesterday another of those extraor dinary high tides, denominated spring tides, occurred at half past two o'clock in the afternoon. The tide, which was still flowing, and would continue to do so for some minutes, had risen so high that the towing-path between Putney and Ham mersmith was between two and three feet under water, so that those barges which arc dependent upon horses for toW ing them up the river, were unable to proceed. At Putney bridge, a barge laden with timber got jammed in, in attempt ing to pass through the centre arch, and all efforts to extri cate her were, until the rece di ng f the tide, deemed use less. The Thunder, one of the Putney and London steam boats, was obliged, instead of laying to at the pier off the Bells Tavern until her time of starting (half-past two), to quit her moorings, pass through the bridge, and anchor off the College of Civil Engineers, the authorities of which establishment kindly permitted passengers going to Lon don to pass through their grounds to the steam-boat. Wands worth and Putney fields were flooded, and the water side at Wandsworth was rendered impassible for more than half an hour, and the basement floors of such of the fishermen' dwellings, the door-ways of which had not been effectually barricaded by pieces of wood and clay, were from two to three feet under water. Proceeding further down, the river pre sented the appearance of a sea. The Chelsea Lammas lands and osier beds, that covermanv acres, were indistinguishable ; the whole was one great flood. That part of Cheyne-walk contiguous to the old church, Chelsea, was also flooded, and the omnibuses and other vehicles were obliged to go through it with the water up to the horses' knees. Battersea-fields were in many parts covered with the tide. At Chelsea Hos pital the tide rose to within a few inches of the summit of. the sea-wall. Had it overtopped tlik the damage done to the gardens, which are greatly below high water mark, must have been very great. At Vauxhall and Lambeth the tide poured into the ground-floors of the factories and warehouses along the river -side, and did considerable damage. Fore street, Lambeth, was flooded, and Bishop's-walk was rendered inaccessible to foot-passengers, in consequence of the tide flowing up to the very gates of the Archbishop's palace and the old church. The Horseferry, Millbank, was all under water, and the tide even rose to within a foot of the level of the river wall in front of the new Houses of Parliament, which wall was understood to be three feet above the highest of. the tides. INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.—We receive from diffe rent parts of the country accounts of inundations, and acci dents resulting from them. A letter from Bar states that in consequence of the continued rain and snow of last week, the Ornain had overflowed its banks, and 'done much injury_ The valley between Bar and Bussv is nothing but a vast lake, and the river rose so high on Monday night, that all. the ground on the right bank of the river was covered with water, which carried oil' everything, and occasioned great loss. • Parts of the wall of the manufactory of MM. Cosquin were overturned. The market gardeners near Bar have suffered considerably. A letter from Verdun states that a bridge between Dun and Stenay was carried off, and that there was scarcely a house in the town which had not been overflowed. The horses of the cavalry regiment were obliged to be removed to a higher position. A washing boat was carried away with the iron gate to which it was at tached. The Meuse was full of beams, planks, and trees.— From Tarascon, Feb. 28, we learn that the suspension-bridge over the Rhone, near that town, had been unable to with the impetuosity of the current, and had been carried off. Three persons lost their lives on th e occasion, being the act of passing over when the b r id ge gave way. The Rhone was no longer navigable. A letter from Bourg state, that the mass of snow in the Jura and the Doubs was un- : ' usually great, and that apprehensions were entertained that when it should melt the valleys would be inundated. Front Germany, also, we learn that all the mountains have been covered with snow to a great depth, and in the Tyrol several lives have been lost by avalanches. In Baden, nearly all the rivers have overflowed their banks from the melting of the' snow on the mountains. The Seine has overflowed a greiit part of the country between St. Cloud and Suresne. In one place the water appears like a vast lake, and covers an extent of three-quarters of a league.—Galignani's 3lessen9er% LONDON MARKETS AND STEAMBOATS.—(Frqin " Martin Chuzzlewit.")—" Many and many a pleasant stroll they had in Covent-garden market : snuffing up the 'perfume of the fruits and flowers, wondering at the magnificence of the pine-apples and melons; catching glimpses down side avenues of rows and rows of old women, seated on inserted baskets shelling peas ; looking uniittAgab% things at the fat bundles of asparagus with which the dainty shops were forti;; fled as with a breastwork ; and, at :the herbalists' doors, gratefully inhaling scents as of veal-stuffing yet uncooked, dreamily mixed up with capsicums, brown paper, seeds: even with hints of histy snails and flue young curly leeches. Many and many a pleasant stroll they had among the. poultry-markets, where ducks and fowls, with necks un naturally long, lay stretched out in pairs, ready for 'cook ing; where there were speckled eggs in mossy baskets; white country sausages beyond impeachment by surviving cat or dog, or horse or donkey ; new cheeses to any wild extent ; live birds in coops and cages, looking much top big to be . natural, in consequence of those receptacles being much too little • rabbits, alive and dead, i nnumera b le.. Many a pleasant stroll they. had among the cool, refreshin; silveryfish-stalls, with a kind of moonlight effect about thew stock in trade, excepting always for the ruddy lobsters., Many a pleasant stroll among the waggon-loads of fragrant . hay, beneath which dogs and tired waggoners lay fast asleep, oblivious of the pieman and the public-hOuse. But never half so good a stroll, as down among the steam-boats on a bright morning. There they lay, alongside of each other; hard and fast for ever, to all appearance,.but designing to get out somehow, and quite confident of d o i ng it ; an d i n that • faith shoals of passengers and heaps of luggage were pro ceeding hurriedly on board. Little steamboats dashed up and down the stream incessantly. Tiers upon tiers of ves sels, scores of masts, labyrinths of tackle, idle sails, splashing oars, gliding row-boats, lumbering barges; sunken piles. with ugly lodgings for the water-rat within their mud-dis coloured nooks ; church steeples, warehouses, house-rook, arches, bridges, men and women, children, casks, cranes, boxes, horses, coaches, idlers, and hard-labourers ; there they were, all jumbled up together, any summer morning, far beyond Tom's power of separation. In the midst of all this turmoil, there was an incessant roar from every packet's funnel, which quite expressed and carried out the upper, most emotion of the scene. They all appeared to be per spiring and bothering themselves, exactly as their pas sengers did; they never left off fretting and chafing, in their own hoarse manner,. inlee but were always panting out, without any stops, • Come along -do make haste I'm very nervous come along oh good gracious we shall never get. there how late you are do make haste I'm Wl' directly come along !' Even when they had left off; and tad got safely ' out into the current, on the smallest provocation they began again ; for the bravest packet of them all, being stopped by • some entanglement in the river, would immediately begin to fume and pant afresh, 'Oh here's a stoppage what's the matter do go on there I'm in a hurry it's done on purpose did you ever oh my goodness do go on there !' and so, in a state of mind bordering on distraction, would be last seen drifting slowly through the mist into the summer light be yond, that made it red." We understand that Lord llavensworth and Sir John Paul . succeed to one hundred and twenty thousand pounds each, in right of their respective ladies, by the death of Miss Simpson, of Bradley Hall, Durham ; and not one hundred _ and fifty thousand each, as has been incorrectly stated. Lord Mayor and Aldermen ha ve given orders for twentyi more children to be admitted nto the sch oo l b e , lonFixig to Emanuel Hospital. The aged inmates are to h ave their pensions increased to 2 4 1 . a year, to be paid mo n thl y in— stead of quarterly; and ten more pensioners are to be placed on the foundation. WooLwicu.—Yesterday Ralph Thompson, an en.. gineer belopislog to Woolwich D oc k yard, was accidentally Eno co board of her Majesty's steam-frigate Styx; whit engaged in repairing the floats of the paddle-wheel, the wheel was accidentally set in motion, and he was ao'entahed" that he died 41104 immediately . .