The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, er tar. Setae's amendment . Against.., ... ... Tae , Majority ... , 1 ,;•s ate 'era then aereed to. "e next vote a" d was 6,59:1. to defray the ehar ge et letb Proposed ;.etipolitilierrb_.Nsormreti_lles'aitl, that a few nights r a p the Hon• East Sarrey produced a large bundle of b oos d and took upon himself to nnewer et ° hat had been made that the duelindivi whose ai t e „ t ioler he assailed (Mr. Wise) was acting on every Dram as a partner and agent, to Mr. Brooke. ( elr. t at snstorld dissented.) H e (Mr. Hume) would show a fir, !Brooke had solicited Mr. Wise to becom ., e r lat Pltt ner, and would produce an account current _t ar. leer of the partnership concern, signed y been las ° , , s a Ns . eer had such a tissue of falsehoods t ell me of In that latuse against the character of any etti in 4 iled been used against the character of Mr. Wise if k r. s ,l,P i p i ert of that ot Mr. Brooke. In a letter writt, n e tas a a: 9 to Lord Palmerston, d. - el Oct. 31, he kei t, ''Lli resalt of the attack, and said:hel availed him hehok° ePportunity of acquainting his L,rdeehipt i h x a - t ilti rlb t :T ruin ced the political rela•ionship hitherto it,.. /) ,""en Mr. Brooke anti himself. Halt. ilictt-T, NIMOND inquired the date 4 4 the_le r t . ter vi a .ise Nis n '', '`IE —The 31st October, 1 . 8 8 . .. Al ! teal . c ''otiger be connected with an individual . as poll_ hero who could forget the ties of humanity and the i: buccaneer and plunderer. The next allegation o lot ei.,12- Gentleman was, that Mr. Wise was thbeorieina teetheZtyeeitation which had taken place i t n b t a e y e e ou' r . g n i tz . d .11 .i . n0 % ctot,ilndi hadrtbehre,ebnipfrowmitbaybiuLd Now he messedi t i h aistie,dand ail partnership from Sir J. Brooke to Mr. 14th March, 1841, in q t " formation of Borneo company, eenulA a in which he . reweboinaeb llteha`,4 s nake a part. In that letter Sir J. Brooke d tated the ati se : 4 uof such a company, an . s „. mi ,, , ot deo. IProducts to be found in Borneo, in whim a' se s , of 11 ,44 1 ! a ls unjust, therefore, to accuse Mr. w 1 , t 4 bit ° ''', el l the party who set such a company ageing. ,444 th:P ut ion, Sir J. Brooke had f rom the gse ha Main chance in view. It had been beginning that e . . tever 'bela • Ned 1115,t,,n, hand a private letter of tioerh:nta March, 1842, in which stated butk h e e ,titi; i ` 811 4 a title might add to his he .with the se am 'itioirs,4ld on that asc ' ount, though not other 14 41 1 1 r it, he would not object to it being w bestowed h eiti .l3 - 0 1 ,,. . , i ae had another letter, which showed that ati eet asaeo was in 1840 engaged in mercantile trans )aitie ' At a later date, viz., in 1844, Sir J. Brooke, N tt ! t ° hl r, Wise, said, " After all, I shall clearlycjosern t h tlee t with Sarawak without being a luser, tnen, Qg t hat he looked on himself as a trader s The ac estattittlensan opposite had stated that Mr. Wise . h a 1 e t to .Brooke about a partnership. _ _ Now in J. ilkokeos s, dated in February, . 184 . ) . Nate l!oriliSei him a joint share with himself in the N ilo arisa t e n K from their mercantile transactions, and 4 1 et t rI4i- the agent of Mr. Wise in London to receive iettr ?t(l ll ° ,, i , a , tl ,tirsin shipped on his account. The C o t th that LUC, duration °Y of the agreement was e . s. depend sb 4 '4 ° "latual convenience of the parties; but it was in 445 , il ,t, that eery hour. In another b t - er, a of a itkities'sl". 13rooke agreed to the appointm ent 'dto the 'tatts°-altati informed him that he should attend latetilettorts of Mr. Wise, and render to him an t annual s tila ttle e p rit " A. reg ' account current was kep by . the il t ß ri t rtli t e ° itiet Count he eoa ti c a e r r k n, and he (fir. Hume) held in his 21,4, ..*l.l3rookt,t'"l .en from Mr. Brooke's ledger, which a h dance was struck of lie eth dollar from April lli e to September 1, 1 1 1 , 4 t til t ghats'Nih he d stated would satisfy l t B h 4 e 6 l . lous ) e . ;e th:'"'"etnen'ts ad a b the Hon. Gentleman oppa t 144-Ather night were e not come'. Ho th, ughtl ak,,ttittleeilit3eht.t,teromg first to last Sir J. Brooke had been 07 1 reta„ ) : La strongest merctile motives, and that . 11 / 7 1 ' to Z, attacks on the natives saraw hal , be t tbu st m s a i d r o IT . li ep t keta re 41 1 the trade to Gesturee R t profit b it —(Hear, hear.) Ile could e n T ( l ) .. t eutlsicier S . Y J 11 . ooke as a fit person ,a, e Se il ,ith th , Sir . r t of Labuan, and he thought r, ~t4ttl:l-erlt h:,,,g,"teerdnuLenst improperly in appointing lat°t,ef(lostbettait!..i.eivatiOn. He o objected to the item in . Vee th ._ . eri s on various groun , a l . l s l , or butmore particu had not been en )Z, 4l ltea t . 4 o l ,'alind that the S t ;,4 th at ‘, ( r nt . last year. B g y o t y h t l e he Li l e a u st te a n e a c n o t u -ci nt o s v ;both 4t;,,,iinJ Brooke and i e t rn a Lieutenant-Governor :1041d GLIC,NT3Tre' -eth o s% etiti hoped thatthi e s f I t k r ,,. , and that the time painful r H u loud discussion would uss in tNerf ` u er Wasted. He did not blame the Hon. flatia.g,t, Uwontrese because he had not began the di 7 la hv kiod , r ' ,ld as not the first to drag out a discussion of keels old f aatracts from confidential private letters ti t t. a . a„„, rie nds.—(llear, hear,) t & ati 1 1 ,7 1 t U4RT thought the Hon. andi.LeeaureneeoduGtebnis toe:4,,besn rather late in his interference thought i It n t il th e 'A r the Hon. and Learned Gent Ir e : 'et ese-scussion after the speech of the Hon . . Me l in a; t7Oh "eatrose his notions ostice and fatr p I.:l4.ll4i!eren;froin those of the i reat majority of th_a! i t to h 'no Hon. and Learned Gentleman .i ius h t ? ;e d e, de to See s t e t ° no such discussion he ought, 11 elo pe eavoared to prevent the Hon. Member for -- `k i r . litstreeeedin. with his one -sided statement. toe LtstE--..114q could he?---(Laughter.) le7 tl ls t iiisia‘i,,TXßY'vdi not think he deserved the pon att swar,:, anon of the Hon. and Learned Member lia. 4l her f ‘ It was not in his power to stop the Hon. clellatt4 and Montrose. The example of reading irom Stir aetti, co nfidential letters . was set by . the Hon. a,ueth ,aPPosite a former night, and it was only e 111-aaer,„"ils should on be heard. He trusted that th 4 ' 4 . btl' ii .''',.' g.) no further. 4:teeAli 411. 0a11e believed that the Honourable and 14 1 4 ths l a ° talser for Cockermouth was not in the Ho hl4 the - &eon al a for Montrose got up. 4 ° 1 46 ' ena er . he k r . bto r N BY —Immediately after. Me _ 41: ' l / 4 1 I,' "MOND—If the Hon. and Leased 21 Icon. 4 tu b ers.,,,, n , Present, he would have heard the fo.us of „ Montrose say that he had never heard such 'hes tals e Illi ght 14 tii hoqds as that like Now it ti o , 4, v_ hat Hou , e against at . em wich „cr ha l d vi b .se. ai brought h e '• keatarY convenient for Hon. Members very fair to ltai - quer for M the . but it was n o- • chares as a im; „ Oo.e, . , the as li tst . sating durtne session various kinds of be known shat ' Public - • letting it , A po .1•1 0. ,,_ ic servant, without at:sitetiee'anttrges positively were. The Hoe. Member's A t ta d de . 0 reeise the grant. -' - ^as c e pirates. ta s t laath er t iled that the natives of Borneo Now tt' litl a e ti hat the Hon. Member male a charge wr about 17 4 1I nte 8 m b e e hl,g unworthY a servant of the Crown. e a s , on e W ., - had talked about the trader; in vtlle ' r trading, but bad not a k aa, th e ago as to the public conduct of a._ .. m 'd to j:, ° °..; Member seemed to be like the person 1 ~,, ealesaa, w h o ---- "lad a sort of general notion Thßi Pf finding out progressive motion; ” el. "Tw • serpentine." I I ti eti ~ Lot direct, but s Do t i;s4teenber, indeed knew nothing of Sir J. ja a t tl a a at t What Mr Wise had told him. pirates su m 11 0 .." the assertion that the Dyaks were not p 4 ' 4 li W t i ven u X from Mr. Hume.) Why tl . t ! od 3 . b u , ,P.--(1. e, no,. tle,,Pir atel . 110/1. Gentlemen oppomte knew that they Do re Itaa„. Indeed, did not the parties themselves .. 17° hoe kaaughter.) By the last arrival from Stnga "ls o t h 'ad received confirmation of what he had . Na il se been entered into stated I N a claig.t. An agreement had 14, es ed v. wlth a n gage in unpronounceable name . , in ev b hich sin be the Dyaks would never again eh ll Of p• Piray.....( ilear , hear.) In further cognfiliaa e4, N oy h . . , t, 41. Id 41,, aving existed, he might refer to resident See e lloe te Il ia hand, from one of the oldest asull e et Sta to a letter tree scats o t Mere, who mentions he had a lively ia ttie sa y ears t the state of the western coast of Borneo 11l eh/ Ita l i e , ago, and of the terrors occasioned by the tt sek i e Sir James Brooke hail been instrumental . t o ''ut 1,1:_g• The letter concluded by observing that h Da til' 71,8 track on the coast of Borneo, would do more te l : i hilt 'troanEtstern Archiplago than anything which 1 1 0 , 4 414 a 0 for years." Aaer all that, could it be d ee r t neos "It,hat tlaere was no piracy on the coast of tl tr : a te 4,,,:tlpught there was uiteseffi o cient nevi of the t hg t Zit bt o - n ` g l q' any . court . of justice. was that his N et 11% in tr against Sir J. Brooke . position as of a, t ler, 0 4 a o Was incompatible with his hlte t % f r 4of ornarr occasion he had read a number tlet' n nthi a el ' a Sir J. Brooke, averring that he would s et : siaki,,ig w,hatever to do with trade. And there_was tlattia4tithrn-Mber of that Rouse who was not ful o ly . 41111544. ~ he (Mr. Drummond) had fully made good tr,,,,rite tc) hae letters referred to were direct from o a r those 'ahepl agent, and from his agent to Sir J. t t l'e faiett,re,a,was no breach of confidence in reading reute ay t h - B ,°, ass etT " It was absolutely necessary to f k ite h e 4°4 . k ,„ 1 I'l s made. There was one letter used bl lt' "w he h d' u tt far Mcntrose, which he had asked ..t 14 ° 1 1 6 : e ht3 w thl t aPrneured it. He could inform the Co b tni Ikt, jour t l a aaad been gotten. Mr. Wise, who .. at L llO I; °u ,rnal, 1, - ,,,Pt in the preparation of Captain leap aresauttota ' had received thatmanuscript in a bex, in t'e'rl;Yvhieh had been a number of Sir J. ettal , Plat`ns ettera a otil i t ite 114(ifver to his schoolfellow—(Hear)—Mr. tak e n course, intended far publication b — e Ite,tailailteep trcopies of them, and had said v, a n e ‘lle s - %I. a` e at Until he could mike use of them l a 40 a -r ill at l- 'Brooke —( Heir, hear.) That was the ire G° ppthe lett on. Member , e . mNt ' '' °I -uleh tile 11 . had been possessed f rred —(Hear, e 4 ers t° Which he hal r d e said that if „ t ? tereQtereae honourable Member ha 'eta Dosses qa i s t rnt of this country was not disposed to come .i PJI- 4 hh e. Sir J. Brooke was disposed to sell Now, to a • Bs 00 !tla to France or some other power. t het' V e las 1 1 .`- a had not wanted any terms; ho had offere , d , 14 troattlaills territory at once to the Government, t if / tee . h tllie ed a gePt ivory at had boon alleged, too, th h e , Ch,, stsee aareesees 1 - • . s age th a ere ey a buccaneering exdition. 1 on c,oste a ale li r ' en. Member could never stumble. ~.. Oft,,i'llit4,llo3 ~,° ()K e had been out in that quarter in his ldro ca a sa„ - a 4 a quarrel having ensued between the NI atatessartleo and SOME) neighbouring' states, Mr. ia.ttea stance had been asked for and given success -4 flit , tl a aco Nei., as hi napensution for his services the Sultan 11/. tilk ill Sarawak. —(Rear, bear) Was that, he I th r Pct boars te kti, e , ecaneering e xpeaitioa?—(Hear, hear.) th e is Pesp or ,. : Eo one letter which the lion. Member had Of th e of ."ng to be from Brooke to Wise, offering attege heitt,'"3' coonmcal profits minus the expense s Si nge 44 lea ° establishment, the history of that letter VaitiPoreWh:',"—The night before Mr. Wise sailed from t tr lig to ~ urought that very letter in his own hand- Wlllll4O, tar;..l3rooke to sign, and that was the let• • thu'll C. witi°n. Member had lead.—(Hear, hear.) Showqtee t o e Ls° had an object to carry he had shown Nletallk tl kr. Zrenrealercial house here; but he had never er.......,att00ke' letter cancelling the engagement Ithi f i l Prook wear.) The Hon. Member had said that o aee....!te had inzi!lllot at his post. By a document th o !Ne n of 8 _ eis hand he could show that, with the daß e u ntie s of.ut:na attacks of ague he had attended to hOly to _ ti . is . offi ce. It was a p t ask of no ordinary 44, 4 he the,c.°lotuse a savage country, In the course in e Tlinei l t tech Pursued he was only ' anxious to show * bie r h eat ttta 4 r l t theY baci a MI en , had b een :of the good and efficient servant glebe.—(Hear.) The attacks kali Linateastnnlatt against him in this country had ' I AN j a t e n one source; but he hoped what " t /natter would warn the Govern% F; ... 53 ... -12 =lent that they were bound to support that excellent pub lic servant, who was performing his duties se cfiiciently in a el.srant part of the globe. And he hole- the Go vernment would net give countenance to charees mace against parties et a distance, when it was to difficult to oosein proper and correct intOrmation on the subject. Mr. C. LUSHINGTO4r wished to ask the Under- Secretary for the Colonies what had been the re sult of the charges against the Lieutenant Governor of Labuae? Mr. HAWES said as the case was still under con sideration he could not communicate any decision on it. Mr. HUME, in reply, admitted that perhaps the word " falsehood" was too strong a term. The Hon. Member for Surrey, however, had admitted all his fasts. There was no doubt on his mind but that that so-called defeat of pirates was an unwarranted sacrifice of human life; it had never appeared in the Gazette, and no Admiralty order for the employment of our ships had ever been produce I. Mr. AGLIONBY said ho would give his vote totally irrespeetive of all the letters which hal been read on befit From all the documents Whiqh he he.d been able to examine, he could come to no other conclusion than that Sir J, Brooke was a most zealous, useful, and efficient public officer—(Hear, hear)—and that, more over. those parries to whom frequent allusion, had been made in the course of that discussion were pirates and robbers.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. COBDEN thought, before they agreed to the vote, they should get an assurance that Sir J. Brooks was Governor of Labuan, and actually te:ided there. There seemed to be some confusion of idess prevailing in the minds of Honourable Members. They did not seem to know the comparative geographical positions of Sarawak and Labuan. These places were no less than 300 miles distant, and there was no direct regular communication between them. The intervening country was inhabited by a number of unknown tribes. La buan was an island on the coast of Borneo, and Sa rawak was a district of Borneo, about the size of York shire, but situated 300 miles from it. The former was an English colony; the latter belonged to Sir J. Brooke; hut he could not govern his own country and Labuan at the same time. That was an objection which he had to the vote, that the governor was 300 miles away from his district. A lieutenant-governor had been appointed, but the result had been that the affairs of the island of Labuan had been thrown into such inextricable confusion that the Colonial-office was at present em ployed in doing its best, and with remote hopes of success, in endeavouring to unravel them. What he wanted was, that the man for whom they voted a salary as governor should reside on the spot of his authority. Mr. HAWES said his lion. Friend Mr. Cobden had asked him to give an assurance that Sir James Brooke should in future reside in Labuan. He also understood his Lion. Friend to say that in that case he should not object to the salary; that he thought the salary appro priated to Sir James Brooke weuid not be ton much for the purpose.—(" No," from Mr. Cobden.) No; he cer tainly understood the Hon. Gentleman to say so.— (Hear, hear.) And he also understood him to refer to certain . instructions which were issued by Earl Grey when Sir James Brooke took upon himself the office of Governor of Labuan. Now Sir James Brooke bad, of his own accord, reduced his salary by 5001. a year. — (Hear, hear.) That was the first answer he had to give to his Hon. Friend. The lion. Gentleman next said that Sir James Brooke ought to reside at Labuan, and he referred at the same time to the instructions of Lord Grey. He (Mr. Hawes) had those instructions before him, end he begged to say that if was never intended that the Governor should reside entirely at Labuan. On the contrary, it was always understood that he should have a kind of consular office in those seas, with a view generally to promote, extend, and protact our trade iu those parts, and the instructions never contemplated his entire residence at Labuan. Nothing could be more clear or distinct than this, that when Sir James Brooke was appointed to the office of Governor of Labuan it was not expscted that he should reside there, but take upon himself far higher and more important duties than those simply of Go vernor; and in proof of this he referred to the instruc tions. He would say, also, that it would be injurious to the public interest if Sir James Brooke were confined to that island. It was not the object to establish a mere colony there. Is was always considered that it should be an outpost of our trade, which it was most desirable to establish, especially in seas where piracy prevailed. His Honourable Friend had referred to Mr. Cranford; but what did Mr. Crauford say about piracy in those seas? In the very able paper which had been printed and circulated by Mr. Wyse, Mr. Crau ford said the position of Labuin would render it a most convenient station for the suppression of piracy; that the most desperate and active pirates in the whole Indian Archipelago were the tribes of the Sooloo group of islands, lying close to the north shore of Borneo itself; that' these had of late years proved extremely troublesome both to English and Dutch traders; that both nations were bound by the convention of 1824 to use their best endeavours for the suppression of piracy, and many efforts had been made for that purpose, al though as yet without material effect in remedying the evil; that from Labuan the pirates might certainly be intercepted by armed steamers —(" What ! armed steamers against these poor, wretched, unarmed men!") —(Cheers)—far more conveniently and cheaply than from any other position that could be pointed out. (Cheers.) Such was Mr. Crautord's view of Leeman. Mr. Crauford was the gentleman, it should I , e remembered, who had recommended the purchase of Singapore as another outpost of our trade; and did any doubt the success of the establishment of Singapore? Having shown that Sir James Brooke had reduced his own salary, and had only performed the du ties imposed upon him when he took the office of go vernor, in extending and protecting our trade in those parts, he thought he had given a sufficient answer to his lion. Friend, and that he had no right to ask that Sir .James Brootse should reside entirety in the island of Labuan. _ _ _ Mr. COBDEN did not object to the keeping Labuan; and nobldy denied that the Sooloos were pirates. The pirates being in the northern extremity of Borneo, La buan was the best possible situation from which to ope rate against them. That was quite clear. And if they paid a governor 2,0001. a year to put down piracy, let him reside at the place where he would.be useful. But when Mr. Cranford gave his evidence before the Com mittee he said there were no pirates in the neighbour hood of Sarawak, and that the Raja had been destroy ing neighbours, who were not pirates. Mr. J. STUART—Nothing could be clearer than Mr. Cobden's position. He objected to Sir James Brooke being Governor of Labuan, and residing elsewhere. He admitted that Labuan was the best of places for an esta blishment to put down pirates; but inasmuch as Sir J. Brooke resided elsewhere, his capacity to put down piracy was thereby considerably diminished. It was quite plain also that the Hon. Member for the West Riding and the Hon. Member for Montrose had made a run at Sir James Brooke.—(" No," from Mr. Hume.) He was glad to hear it; but it was a pity that the an nouncement had not been made before. The point was this—what was the complaint against Sir J. Brooke? That he had been putting down pirates. Yet the Hon. Member for the West Riding said he could not put down pirates unless he resided at Labuan.—(Hear.) Mr. HUME—The Hon. Gentleman had charged him with having made a run against Sir James Brooke. But shat he had done was only to make a run against the murders which had been committed upon a coast where there was no pirates. Mr. STUART—Oh, then, the Hon. Member accused Sir James Brooke of committing murder, but did not make a run against him.—(Laughter and cheers.) Sir B. INGLIS thought that parliamentary language had never been carried so far as when the Hon. Member permitted himself to state, in reference to a person who was honoured by the confidence of the Crown, and en trusted with important functions at a great distance from England, that that person had from beginning to end been an impostor. Yet the Hon. Member who said this thought it enough to observe that he had made no run against him. With reference to the charge that Sir James Brooke would have been willing to sell Sarawak to the Dutch or the French, it should be recollected that he had already volunteered its sale to his own country. The vote was agreed to, as were also 30,0001. for the support of captured negroes and I.bc rated Africans. _ _ . • 4.411,..,• • ••-••••...... 16,3501. fur salaries and expenses of the mixed c=- mission for the suppression of the slave trade. On the vote of 155,4861., for consular establishments abroad be;ng proposed, Mr. COBDEN drew attention to the fact that the con sular establishments at the ports of Ningpo and Foo chow Foo were useless, there being no trade carried on by Englishmen at either of these ports. He moved that the vote be reduced by 4,322!. Mr. CAYLEY seconded the motion. Lord J. MANNERS—Did the Hon. Member propose to reduce the salary of Dr. Bowring?—(A laugh, and Hear, hear," from Colonel Sibthorp.) Mr. COBDEN—What he proposed to do was to abo lish the two consulates altogether, because there was no trade at either of them. Lord J. MANNERS repeate3 his question. Mr. COBDEN—Dr. Bowring was at Hong-Kong. Colonel SIBTHORP doubted the sincerity of the Ho nourable Member for the West Riding in proposing these reductions, and complained of him as " straining at gnats and swallowing camels." He did not approve of such underhand proceedings. Whenever he at tacked the Government he did it openly. What was this motion of the Honourable Member but a " flash in the pan"—what but a blank cartridge? It was no real ball cartridge that would knock 'ens over —(Laughter ) It was only what Ea? termed " tickling them on the raw" . —barking, but afraid to bite.—(Laughter.) Let them pursue a manly course—rake 'em lore and aft, and not content themselves with firing a blank cartridge at them. He would not, therefore, divide with the Hon. Member, but support the Government against such mea n , cunning,' and underhand proceedings. Mr. PLOWDEN hoped that the Government would pause before they came to a vote upon this subject. When the East India Company had a monopoly oi the Chinese trade they endeavoured to obtain their tea from Foo-chow-Foo, from which the teas came pure and un adulterated, and were brought down to Canton in sixt een days, whereas by the ordinary ro ute the time occupied was about 43 days. Sir H. Pottinger, knowing the ad vantage of such a trade, made excellent arrangements with a view of obtaining it. It was, however, a source of much regret to us that we had no trade there now, notwithstanding which it was must desirable to keep up a consular establishment there. Lord PALMERSTON said that if these two consular establishments were in any other part of the world, he would hive no hesitation in having them abolished at once. It was quite true as the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire observed, that hitherto our attempts at advancing our commerce in these ports had been unsuccessful; but considering tha peculiar circum stances of China and the facts alluded to by the Hon. Member opposite; considering that if these consulships were once withdrawn they could not he easily repl iced —all these circumstancea co: - ,tributed to make it desir able for us to pause before we decided in favour of their abolition. The question had, boivever, occupied eur at tention during the two )ears. It was fully discussed by us last year, and lie had stated then that he would enter into communication with Mr. Bonham and other competent persons in China with the view of seeing whether any other ports could be obtained from the Chinese Government as a substitute for these two ports. These communicatioas had been since going on, but they had not been as yet attended by any saisfactory results. Ile had this very month received from the Chinese Associatio❑ of London a letter reporting a communication from the Chamber of Commerce of Canton, in which it was stated that they thought it would be most unadvisable for us to abindon Foo-chow-Foo, inasmuch as attempts were being made by the gentlemen that had gone to Foo-chow-Foo to esta blish a commercial intercourse with us, or to obtain from the Chinese Government permission to establish some other ports in lieu of them, and they pointed to a certain northern port as one that would iu every respect be most advantageouF. He immediately sent out instruc tions to Mr. Bonham to see whQther arrangements could be made to bring about so desirable a result. It was no doubt a great disappointment that communica tions with Fo-chow-Foo could not be secured, for there could be no difference of opinion as to the importance of the place. Its immediate proximity to the black tea countries rendered it a most important .port. Under these circumstances be thought it worth while to retain theo3 establishments for the present.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SCOTT hoped that the lion. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire would take the sense of the Committee upon his amendment. Canton and Shanghae were the two principal seats of our commerce in China, but Ningpo and Foo-chow-Foo were not places for our trade at all. Mr. HUME asked the Noble Lord to state what was the nature of those commercial restrictions to our trade at Foochow-Foo, and whether they were likely-to be re moved. Lord PALMERSTON said he apprehended that there restrictions must be restrictions in the interior, of which we have every reason to complain. The autho rities of the placo had imposed n heavy duty on our im ports, which seriously affected our commerce there. We made representations against this proceeding, but with out receiving any satisfaction. _ Mr. SPOONER said it was admitted that Hong-Kong was give❑ up by our Government as a place of trade. There was therefore no reason for keeping up our expen sive establishments in these ports, and he had no hesi tation in agreeing with the amendment proposed by the Hon. Member for the West Riding. Lord PALMERSTON said that the Honourable Member had misunderstood him if he supposed that he (Lord Palmerston) had said that Kong-Kong was without any trade. He had said that its chief value was cer tainly not in its being a trading place, although there was a large shipping trade carried on there. Last year 293,000 tons of shipping entered Hong-Kong. Mr. HUIIE hoped his Hon. Friend the Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire would not press his amendment to a division. _ _ _ Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that the consuls in China bore no proportion in point of expense to consuls in other parts or the world. In tie two cases immediately under consideration they were absolutely sinecures. Mr. V. SMITH said that the Hon. Baronet was much mistaken. Oar consuls in China were not paid higher salaries there than in any other parts of the world. The salaries were exactly on the same scale, and were regu lated in proportion to the difference of living in the se veral countries. Mr. CAYLEY was understood to say he thought that the opinion of the Noble Lord was satisfactory. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask what was the meaning of having an assistant when there was nothing to do for the principal? Mr. V. SMITH said that the assistant was of as much use as the principal.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. COBDEN said, after the explanation of the Noble Lord he would not press his amendment. Mr. SPOONER objected to the withdrawal of the amendment. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... 34 Against it ... ... 166 Majority against the amendment —132 Mr. BRIGH r asked for some explanation respecting the item of 5,0001., the moiety of the charges for churches and burial-grounds. Lord PALMERSTON said, that under the Consular Acts, when the English community in any place abroad subscribed a certain sum for those purposes, the Go vernmmt granted a corresponding sum. The vote was then agreed to, as also was the vote of 16,8001., charges and expenses of foreign missions. The next votes were— _ 108,768/. for superannuations and allowance;, and com pensation to the families of persons employed in the public service. 3,750/. for the relief of Corsican emigrants. 2,0001, for the Vaccine Establishment. 1,0001. for the Refuge for the Destitute. Ou the vote 5,3461. for the Polish refugees, Mr. B. COCHRANE considered this a most absurd vote, and wished to know whether it was decreasing in amount? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the vote had been reduced gradually to the amount of 5,000/. in the course of a few years. Lord PALMERSTON trusted the Hon. Member would not oppose the grant, as the parties receiving these allowances were objects of great sympathy, and it had been paid for a very long time. After a few words from Sir W. JOLLIFFE, the vote was agreed to. The next vote was 3,618/., being miscellaneous allow ances, formerly paid out of the civil list and hereditary revenues of the Crown, and not otherwise provided for by Parliament. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, pursuant to notice, moved that the voted be reduced by the amount of 1,695/., being the amount proposed to be paid to Dissenting ministers. The Dissenters looked upon the vote as an insult. It was a miserable dole, amounting in some in stances to not above 20s. a head. Mr. Alderman KERSHAW supported the amendment, and trusted the Government would withdraw a grant that was most offensive and insulting to the feelings of the Dissenters. The Dissenters of England contributed among themselves for the relief of their distressed ministers 8,1001. a year, therefore they did not need or desire the paltry grant under consideration. He hoped the Noble Lord would take the subject into his consider ation before the next session of Parliament, and endea vour to relieve the Dissenters from this degradation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the grant had gone on since the reign of George III.; and though it was not perhaps needed in large manufac turing towns, it was needed elsewhere. Dr. Reece's evi dence showed that there were a great number of appli cants for relief; and that its withdrawal would be a great calamity. Mr. BRIGHT said the statement of the Chancellor of the Excht quer was calculated to mislead the House. So far as he (Mr. Bright) was aware, there was not a single congregation in the kingdom which desired its minister to be in receipt of this grant. It was a grant of " secret service money," distributed by some gentlemen of " average respeetability"—(Laughter)—who returned no names, and gave no account to the public of the ex penditure. The grant was calculated to create dupli city among Dissenting ministers and suspicion of their ministers amon g Dissenting congregations. The Dissent ing bodies would willingly supply the amount of the grant to each minister, if they only knew the individuals to be in want; the secrecy of the distribution, however, prevented them from acquiring that knowledge. On the part of the Dissenters ot England, he called on the Go vernment to withdraw this grant, and, on the ground of economy, he asked lion. Gentlemen on the other side of the House to support the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL said,lit was to be recollected that about 300 dissenting ministers received this money, which was of great assistance to them, and therefore the vote could not be withdrawn without injury to those in dividuals. It did seem extraordinary that since 1723 the grant had been made up to the present time, and he could not therefore consider it contrary to the principles ot the Dissenters. He could understand how those who argued that the State should pay no clergymen would consider it an additional argument; but, in his opinion, it was an act of charity, and he could not surrender it to give force to their arguments. The Treasury trusted the distribution to nine dissenting ministers, aad he could not consider that they discharged their trust otherwise than fairly. Mr. WYLD said the Dissenters required no charity; they supported their own ministers all over the country without the aid of any one. Mr. BRIGHT said the Government ought to consent not to vote the grant this year, and they would then see if these 300 gentlemen would petition for its renewal. If the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would give the names, he would recomme-td the Committee not to divide. If not, he hoped the Committee would re fuse the grant. Lord J. RUSSELL s lid he knew that if he did so tie names of these gentlemen would be hell up to o lium.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. REYNOLDS offered to take the 1,700/. for the hospitals in Dublin, which these gentlemen were so anxious to reject, and this would get rid of the difficulty. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... ..• ... 72 Against it... ••• 147 Majority ... ••• —75 The vote was then agreed to , the CHAIRMAN re ported progress, and the House resumed. The report of the Committee on the Queen's Message for making a provision for the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary was brought up. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY expressed his doubts as to the propriety of having a Commissioner sitting in that House, and wished to have some explanation from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government on that point, and also as to the freedom of action in the Estates Committee, and their power to appoint officers. Sir G. GREY said with respect to the first question, the Archbishop was to have power to nominate one Commissioner, who might sit in Parliament. The other Commissioner would not have a seat in Parlia ment (as understood), and the Archbishop of Canter bury, one of the Commissioners, would of courso be in Parliament. With ref.'rence to the appointment of offi cers, it was not intended to alter the powers in that respect which the previous Commission exercised ; and with regard to general rules, the Commissioners would have the power of of framing them, but in particular in stances they would not have the power to interfere. Mr. GOULBURN said, as he could not obtain an opportunity of stating' his objections to the amendments which had been introduced, he must leave them to be dealt with by the House of Lords. Mr. J. A. SMITH put a question relative to the ope- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, ration of the Bill with respect to the tenaats under leeso% Sir G. GREY was uncier:goog to say that the Bill win:ild not affect th:!! property under the control of the bishops. The Commissioners wont] only have power to dual with property under the control oi the Egates com mission. The iejury that was anticipated would, there fore, not take place. The Bill NV S read a third time. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the following amend ment,:—" Provided always, and be it enacted, that the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall not do vexecute any act in respect of the sale, purchase, exchange, let ting, or management of any lands, tithes], or beredita ments otherwise than by such Estates' Committee as aforesaid. And also be it enacted, that the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall in each year, on or before the Ist day of May, make a report under the corporate seal of the said Commission, to one of her Majesty's principal Secret tries of StltP, of all the proceedings of the said Commission fur the year preceding the Ist day of January then last past, and shall annex to sm report copies of the schemes sane tionel and approved by the Queen in Council during such year; aid also au abstract of the accounts of the said Commission during such year; and within 14 days after the receipt thereof, such report shall be hid hcf,re both flousesof Parliament, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not, within 14 da) s after the then next meetn g of Parliament." Mr. P. WOOD moved:—" And whereas the existing house of residence belonging to the deanery of Hereford is in a dilapidated condition, and has not been inhabited for many years, and the cost of repairing the same would be equal to that of erecting a suitable residence in lice thereof, be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to make such provision as to them, shall seem reasonable out of the common fuad herein and in the secondly-recited Act mentioned, for or in aid of the erection of a fit residence for the Doan of Hereford and his successors." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman explained the circumstances under which the Doan of Hereford present e d hi mse lf con di t i ona lly with a living within his diocese. This presentation, of course, was subject to the operation o f t h e Bill an d th e decision of the Commissioners. Lord J. RUSSELL admitted the hardship of the pre sent case, but he could not n ell remedy it. Sir B. HALL thought it was but reasonable that the repairs of the deanery should come from this fund. The bishops had been allowed to take 143,0001. for building and repairing their palaces, and it was very remarkable that the Noble Lord should now make an objection in this case which was founded in justice, and refuse to allow the dean to make use of a small part of the funds for such a purpose. He wished to know who was res ponsible for the repairs of bishops' palaces and the deaneries ? Some one ought to be appointed to look after the property of the Church, to see that bishops and deans did their duty by keeping up the repairs of their own houses and palaces, otherwise the House might possibly have some bishop—the Bishop of Exeter for in stance—to come forward with a demand for 6,0001. to repair his palace. After• some farther conversation the clause was nega• tived without a division. Sir B. HALL wished thedebate to be adjourned, as the Hon. Member for Montrose and he had a clause to pro pose which no doubt would give rise to much discussion. A clause had already been passed limiting the privilege of holding livings in the case of deans. He proposed to apply a similar rule to deans and canons to prevent them from holding livings of more than 3001. a year, and that those livings should be within the cities or towns of their canonries. He should move that the debate be adjourned. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that the House would not consent to further delay, as it was of importance the Bill should be proceeded with at once. The Hon. Member for Montrose had been fully aware that the Bill would be proceeded with that evening. Gir B. HALL said the lion. Member for Montrose, who had a clause to propose, had left the House under the full impression that the Bill would not ba proceeded with at one o'clock. He really must press his motion for the adjournment of the debate. Mr. GOULBURN suggested that some other Hon. Member should move the clause intended to have been moved by the Hon. Member for Montrose. Sir E. BUXTON hoped the motion would be with drawn, as it was most important to proceed without delay. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped the motion would not be given up. The Bill gave the bishop another grasp at the land—that was its principal object. Lord R. GROSVENOR wished the Bill to go on. Sir B. HALL then gave way. Sir B. HALL proceeded to move a clause to the effect that canons and prebends who held appointments of the value of 3001. a year should not bold a benefice in addi tion except it was in the same cathedral town, and did not exceed in value 3001. a year. Lord J. RUSSELL said the question had been much discussed in Committee, and opinions were against the Hon. Baronet's proposition. He thought it was in many instances productive of good rather than evil, that a clergyman who had been useful in his ministry should receive a canonry in addition to any other preferment he might hold. For this reason he must oppose the clause. The clause was negatived without a division. Mr. E. DENISON moved atter the word " expedient,' to insert the words, " and to employ such surveyors and actuaries as may seem fit to them." Sir G. GREY thought it would not be expedient to take out of their hands the powers which the board now enjoyed, but he did not attach much importance to the matter. After some remarks from Sir B. Hall, Mr. Goulburn and Mr. P. Wood, The House divided, when there appeared— For the addition 73 Against it 149 ..Majority against the addition After some further amendments had been agreed to, the Bill passed. The report on the Equivalent Company was brought up and agreed to, and leave was given to bring in a Bill. The report on the Excise Sugar and Licences was brought up and agreed to, and leave was given to bring in a Bill. The Militia Pay Bill was read a third time and passed. The Registrar of Judgments Office (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Friendly Societies Bill passed through Com mittee. The Court of Chancery (County Palatine of Lan caster) Bill was read a third time and passed. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATES BILL. The report on the Attorneys' Certificate Bill, as amended, having been brought up, Lord R. GROSVENOR moved that the Bill be read a third time on Thursday, T E t t r h AL at O t ß he o ß t itlhlebeErXeaCepsEtQhiUrdEtßimme thatoved as day a n The The House divided, wh en t h ere appeare d — For Lord R. Gro svenor ' s motion ..• 88 For the Cbancellor o f the Exchequer's a mendmen t ......112 t e h a r m e e e e l I n m A d o m i : e t C h n s Majority against the motion ... —24 The House again divided on the amendment, as a sub stantive motion that the Bill be read a third time that day three months. For the motion N .. 113 Against it 84 Majority for the motion The Bill is consequently lost. Mr. PARKER obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Admiralty to compute naval wages by the calendar instead (f the lunar month. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (for Ireland) obtained leave to bring in a Bill to explain an Act of the last session, for amending an Act tor the Regulation of Mu nicipal Corporations in Ireland, so far as relates to the borough of Dublin. The House then adjourned, at Ten minutes to Three o'clock. ievtTetOettrsbTolliunEt dhliul:xDelmeToOiullterssOefFrootTninuiEnßerTeArnirw.so. STOPPAGE OF THE POST. cei S v i e r,— my l oTd,hearnedisrea second delivery at Brentwood, but not in the country. Yesterday, expecting letters through London, I sent to the post ut Brentwood in the afternoon, and received a letter from my agent in London, informing me that in consequence of the non-receipt of a notice he had omitted to pay a premium on a policy of insurance, and that I must, appear at the eflice on or before the 23d, or send a medical certificate before that day. My avoca tions usually take me from home before post on Mon day, and but for the accident of my sending to the post I should not have received the letter till Wednesday next, when my policy would have been forfeited. My country receiving-house being closed, I am obliged to send a messenger with this letter to catch the day mail of to•morrow. Can thee be a better instance of the mischief and absurdity of the now pos!al obstruction? I remain your obedient servant, July 21. M. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sir,—Allow me to call your attention to the following facts illustrative of the inconvenience (to use the mildest term) arising out of the new postal arrangements. My time as a professional man is full y occapied, and more especially at this time o f the y ear, Owing to the great influx of visitors to our salubrious town. I have a wife and an only child, the latter of whom is on a visit at my brother•in-law's. at Brompton. On Friday evening last I received a letter, informing me of the sudden and serious illness of my little boy— soliciting my immediate attendance. From the reasons above stated, I could not lea ve ; m y ye ire, therefore, w as capable oblige o d tofpardpepereedciastli7vlvirthenanao possibility of hearingining behind in a state of anxiety not to be described, but which every father is any tidings by letter (i. e, per post) of the health of my child until Monday morning. Thus, all Saturday and Sunday lam without any inte lli g ence as to the safe ar rival of my wife or the condit ion of m y onl y son unless I employ the telegraph- - wh ich ou g ht not to be the al ternative. Raise, therefore , y our powerful voice to do s a u w ff a e y re w rs. ith this crying innovation, and oblige o ne o f man y W. T. J. Margate, July 21. drawn close ---- SINGULAII RAILWAY ACCIDENT. - -On Friday, th e 12th instant, a man named Williams, in the employ of Mr. David Blight, of Totnes, was engaged with a cart and two horses removing hay which had been cut by the side of the prices exhibited no material r b a y il t w h a e y l . ine A , tshethfoerecahrotr,sleadtuenrn e with dits t i lr ea n d a , y a , n r aspassin_ g train severed it from the body. The horse fell on the driver, and injured him considerably. The advices from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam markets state that business was not animated. had been done in coffee, and alteration. JULY 23, 1850. EINE ARTS. PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE. I laepily for those untravelled citizens of our metro polis, who are curious as to the appearance of remote en , -1 celebrated localities, the recent passion for pano ramas has ,nahled even the most sedentary to acquire some familiarity with the countries of the four conti nents. American scenery, European scenery, African scenery, and Asiatic scenery have alternately attracted the attention of the multitudes Through the assist ance of adventurous artists, the Londoner has been enabled while reclining in his easy chair to journey, now up the Mississippi, now up the Nile, now along the whole line traversed on the Overland Route to India, now again through the verdant and umbra geous bush districts of Australia. The competition excited in this singular branch of art by the skill of the ingenious Mr. Banvard, the originator of the notion of these gigantic moving panoramas, has ma terially tended to increase the amount of amusement offered to public notice by the caterers at our popular exhibitions. With two Italian Opera houses, another opera-house on the other side of the Thames, a variety of theatres, the three modern Ranelaghs—Cremorne, the Surrey, and Vauxhall, with the hippopotamus at the Zoolo gical Gardens, the Scottish festival at Holland House, the Black Malihran in the Haymarket, and a multi plicity of other miscellaneous sights and entertain ments, the frequenters of the British capital have had no reason whatever to complain of the paucity of opportunities afforded them for recreation, even al though this is the age for the Puritanical humbug, the dolorous piety, and the resuscitated superstition of those unlucky wights the Sabbatarians. Added to the exhibitions already enumerated, there have been, moreover, numerous others of a purely artistic and highly. intellectual character. Besides the perma nent galleries of painting, sculpture, and curiosities at the British Museum Sir John Soave's, in Trafalgar square, and elsewhere, there have been this season an unusual variety of picture exhibi tions, of ancient masters at the British Institution, of modern masters in Suffolk-street, the Old Society of Water Colourists, and the New Society of Water Colourists, the free gallery in Regent-street (for merly at Hyde-park corner), and the collection of specimens of Mediaeval Art in John-street, Adelphi. Together with all these, as we have observed, the Londoners have had the satisfaction of familiarizing themselves with divers remarkable quarters of the globe through the medium of enormous moving panoramas. Extraordinary effects had already been produced in stationary pictures of this description. We had visited the subterranean tomb at Jerusalem in the Diorama at Regent's-park, and bad been spirited away among the exquisite lakes of Killarney, or still more surprisingly among the frozen seas of the Arctic regions, in the celebrated panorama es tablished many years ago near Leicester-square by the enterprize of Mr. Burford. Actuated by a laudable feeling of rivalry, the proprietors of the Polytechnic Institution have recently opened, in connexion with that popular establishment, a hand some building constructed after the manner of one of our theatres—in which were lately exhibited the ex quisite drawings by Mr. Allen, illustrating the scenery visible on the line of railway conducting to the tubular bridges erected across the Menai Straits by the engineering genius of Robert Stephenson. Now that those productions have been removed, we find their place occupied by a grand moving pano rama (or, as it is not inappropriately designated, " polyoratne") representing, now the European, and DOW the Asiatic shores of the Bosphorus and the Dar danelles, together with the Turkish cepital, Constanti nople. This extraordinary picture (or rather series of pictures) is the work of Mr. Thomas Allom, the distinguished artist, whose rich and glowing style as a painter has peculiarly qualified him to de pict the gorgeous landscapes and architecture of the East. On Saturday we had the gratification of witnessing the private exhibition of Mr. Allom's Panorama of Constantinople, the Bosphorus, and Dar danelles, prior to its being opened to public view yes terday morning. A more felicitous subject for a work of art of this description could not have been selected at this particular period,, considering the interest re cently excited in behalf of everything in any way appertaining to the Sultan Caliph and his possessions. Coming before the public so immediately after the settlement of the question of our foreign policy by the votes of the House of Commons on Mr. Roebuck's motion relating to Lord Palmerston, and remember ing that the nature of that policy had been chiefly marked in reference to the course adopted by our Government towards the Cabinet of the Sublime Porte, we cannot but feel satisfied that the Poly orama of Byzantine will receive a large amount of public patronage. Beginning with the ma rine scenery in the neighbourhood of the classic localities of Troy, and terminating with the sumptuous interior of the Seraglio, the whole series of views are fraught with attractions as varying and brilliant as the coloured patterns of a kaleidoscope. Yonder we behold the summit of Mount Ida, abounding in its very name with so many poetic reminiscences from the Attic celebration of the earliest love of Paris to the lovely chaunt of Uinone, by Alfred Tennyson— " 0 mother Ida, many fountain'd Ida, 0 mother Ida, listen ere I die!" Here the waters of the Mediterranean kiss the shores of Sappho's isle of Lesbos, there those of the piratical island of Tenedos. On one hand we observe the town and castle of Tchadak-Kalessy, and beyond them the hill or barrow dedicated to the memory of the Trojan Queen Hecuba, the spouse of Priam. The Propontis, or Sea of Marrnora ; the Golden Horn ' or Port of Constantinople ; the landing place of Tophana ; the grim castle of Roumeli Hisser; the sweet waters of Asia with their picturesque calques; the kiosks, and the arabahs drawn by white oxen; the fountains and hippodromes; the mosques and the minarets ; the baths and the bazaars ; the slaves waiting for purchasers in the market-place, and the buyers smoking their chibouks in the divans ; the burnt column of Phidias ; the wonderful mosque of St. Sophia ; the celebrated gate way called the Sublime Porte • the subterranean palace of Yere Batan Serai, said to have been origi nally supported by 1,001 columns, together with a multiplicity of other objects flit past the spectator in rapid succession, accompanied alternately by the tones of an unseen piano, or by the sepulchral voice of the invisible gentleman who elucidates the pano rama with his explanations. Altogether the exhi bition is eminently entitled to commendation, and we doubt not will be among the favourite resorts of those who may be in search either of instruction or entertainment. VAUXHALL GARDENS. A balloon ascent was made yesterday evening from these gardens, by Mr. 11. Bell, a gentleman virlio has invented what he calls a "locomotive," lied in which he made a trial voyage from the Placenix Gas-works in May last, under certain promising circumstances. It will be remembered that a model was shown at the Polytechnic Institution, two or three years ago, of a balloon armed with flyers similar to those in con nexion with a kitchen-jack, which, put into motion by clock-work, achieved either a horizontal or ascend ing motion at will. Mr. Bell's apparatus seems to be constructed upon the same principle, having a pa'r of large spiral wings projecting from each side of the car, working in contrary motion•by multiplying wheels' within, the car being also furnish with ,a flat triangu lar rudder, fixed at the point of a long metal rod, to which an arrangement of tackle gives universal motion. The principle upon which the apparatus is formed would, no doubt', enable the aeronaut to propel his ves sel through the air laterally ' • but Mr. Bell presum es upon being able to steer his huge machine in any given direction, and so get over a difficulty which has hitherto deprived aerostation of any sort of usefulness. The balloon which he uses differs materially in shape and appearance from those to which we have been ac customed. Upon the former occasion it was likened to a monster vegetable marrow, and we cannot mend the simile. It is a handsome, though an unwieldy looking affair. Its length measures about fifty feet, and its diameter about twenty-two feet; the number of cubic feet of gas which it is capable of containing being about 15,000. After a long and wearisome preparation of the ap paratus which was to effect the "locomotion," and which we could not help thinking was far too slight to encounter any "stress of weather" in the mid air, the balloon ascended in the presence of a con siderable number of spectators—among them several individuals of scientific eminence. Mr. Bell himself was the only occupant of the car. The balloon when it was fairly released from the tethers which held it to the ground, at once followed the course of the wind, and passed over the trees towards Cremorne, in which direction it continued to travel. We did riot observe that the aeronaut had any specific control over the machine beyond that of turning it round. It seemed to drift along the air like any other bal loon ; and it finally vanished from sight without any apparent retrogression. We trust Mr. Bell eventually accomplished a safe descent, of which some appre hensions were ;entertained 'at the gardens. It was stated there that the experimental voyage to which we have alluded was the first aerial journey that he had ever attempted. STRAND THEATRE. With a view towards i ncreas i ng th e f un d s o f th e Industrial Committee for the Exhibition of 1851, the members of the Printers' Dramatic Society, on Saturday evening, gave a performance (under distin guished patronage) at this pretty little theatre, on which occasion Sheridan Knowles' play of the Hunch back, Morton's capital farce of the Eton Boy, and Sketches in India, were the pieces selected. It is a curious fact, yet not the less true, that in amateur performances the ladies are better "up" in their parts, and more au fait at the stage business than the gentle men. This was the case on Saturday evening ; not that we mean to imply that all the gentlemen were imperfect, but there were blemishes on their part, which, with a little attention, might have been avoided. A few of the gentlemen during the play were guilty to an unpardonable extent of " gagging," to use the professional term ; this, however good, in nine cases out of ten, spoils the plot of the play, con fuses the other performers, and utterly destroys the beauty of many of the succeeding passages. Nothing, in our opinion, can improve the beauty of the lan guage in the Hunchback, yet improvement was often attempted on Saturday night. We throw out the hint not in unkindness, but for the guidance of the members of the Printers' Dramatic So ciety for the future. Of the performance of the Hunchback speak we first. Miss Moss, who sustained the part of Julia, acted with discrimination and effect—her reading was excellent; and Miss Williams, as Helen, also acquitted herself exceedingly well. The part of Master Walter was given by Mr. Bustin rather too boisterously to suit our taste, but withal it was respectable. The two best acted cha racters in the play were Modus (Mr. Hartwell) and Lord Tinsell (Mr. Thomas). Mr. Dorrington fairly sustained Sir Thomas Clifford, but had a little more spirit been infused into it, it would greatly have im proved it. In the Eton Boy Mr. Christian made a very poor Dabster, in fact he was quite " cast out. Mr. Harriott made a very good Colonel Curry. In Sketches in India the part of Tommy Tape was ca pitally acted by Mr. Bennett; this gentleman ac quitted himself with all the tact and composure of an old stager. With the performances of the profes sional ladies we were very much pleased. Mi ss J . Coleman made a capital Tom (in the Eton Boy) ; she rattled through the part with all the fun and spirit of a true Etonian ; her " make-up " was excellent—in deed she looked quite a Tom. In Sketches in India she appeared as the tragic heroine, Sally, and fully kept up the fame of the school (the Lyceum) in which she has studied. M rs . C . W harton made the liveliest of chambermaid's, and Mrs. Parker the stateliest of Lady Scr aggs ' s . Th e h ouse was crowded in every, part ; at one time of the evening standing room was at a premium. We are authorised to state that it is the intention of the owners of the British and North American royal mail steam-ships to commence a line of screw steam-ships, of great size and power, for the conveyance of goods and pas sengers to and from New York and Liverpool, independently of the splendid ships now employed under contract with her Majesty's Government fur the conveyance of the mails.— Liverpeil DIRECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AN D DEVONPORT RAILWAY.—The expenses connected with the winding-up of this company's affairs have already exceeded the amount of the debts to be paid off. CREMORNE GARDENS. Lieutenant Gale made another aerial trip from these gardens last night. The balloon was inflated at the London Gas-works, and proceeded along the Thames, on board the Citizen (A) steamer, being guided over Vauxhall and Battersea-bridges by means of ropes. On approaching the entrance to the gardens, the scene was indeed a novel one, represent ing as it did the monster structure walking, as it were, along the road, followed by thousands of spec tators. Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Burney, the superintendent of the Citizen Steam boat Company, and Captain Cadwell, for the admira ble arrangements made for the safety and conveni ence of the visitors on board. The intrepid aeronaut ascended about ten o'clock—the balloon taking a north-westerly direction, and discharging showers of chequered fireworks. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TTERSALL'S —YESTERDAY. Business was very flat, and, beyond an unaccountable but temporary decline in Snowstorm, was wholly with out interest. GOODWOOD STAKES. 5 to 4 agst Capt. Arclidall's Windischgratz—takcn and afterwards offered 9 to 1 agst Sir J. B. Mills' Won't-you-come-out-to night—take 10 to 1 10 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's Borneo—take 12 to 1 13 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Snorvstorm 20 to 1 agst any other 20 to 1 etas laid throe or four times agst Snowstorm HAM STAKES. 2 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's Hernandcz 4 to 1 sgst Colonel Peel's Black Sea GOODWOOD CUP. 3 to 1 agst Capt. Archdall'sWindischgratz 5 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken and after wards offered 7 to 1 agst Count's Hahn's Montes—taken and afterwards offered 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Stultz—taken and after wards offered EDOR HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Halt's Collingwonl 8 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Cantab 10 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebhing's Flatcatcher ST. LEGER. 6 to 4 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken and offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. E. J. Irwin's King of Oude—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Marchioness d'Eu-40 to 1 taken to 501. DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—taken to 100/. 30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee 40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Juggernaut—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. James Clarke's Marlborough Buck —taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Lightfoot 60 to 1 agst Captain Hervey's Hengist—taken 50 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Black Sea—taken A QUA TICS. BANKSIDE REGATTA. This old-established and very respectable contest, the thirty-second anniversary of which was celebrated yes terday, collected a vast crowd of spectators, and was both excellently contested and managed by R. Harris, sen. It was, as usual, a contest in three heats, with tee scullers. First Heat. John Hicks ... (Red) 1 Henry Nevill ... (Blue) 2 William Nevill (Yellow) 0 They started from Blackfrisrs Bridge, down near London Bridge, three times round. Red took the lead, and kept it throughout, closely followed by blue, who came in upon his quarter. Yellow was a good third. Second Heat. Henry Harris ... (Green) 1 Josiah Cummings ... ... (Pink) 2 Alfred Harris ... ... (Brown) 0 All started well; the winner took the lead and kep .t, winning by a length. Grand Heat. John Hicks ... (Red) 1 Henry Nevill ... ... (Blue) 2 Henry Harris ... „,. (Green) 0 Josiah Cummings ..„ (Pink) 0 The three first men were close together all the way, and made a beautiful race to the finish. The first man received a now boat, the second 5/., and the others in proportion. THE SHRIEVALTY. The Livery polled until 3 o'clock, when tha numbers w.re— For Mr. Butler ... 27 For. Mr. Hodgkins= ... 26 Alejority f*Jr Mr. Butler ••• The poll is to remain op,n for seven days. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--NOTICE,—TO the readers of Bell's Life in London. —The sudden and injudicious change which took place in the postal delivery of letters and news papers on Sunday, the 231 ult., we regret to say caused much disappointment to our readers, the recurrence of which, as far as came within our province, we have endea voured to correct by publishing an early edition of Bell's Life, which is delivered to the newavendors at Five o'clock on Saturday morning, and by them dispatched by the morn ing mails to such places as have the advantage of a double daily Post-office delivery. There are still, however, several towns to which the advantages of the morning mails do rot extend; and we fear in such places inconvenience may still be experienced. We believe it is the intention of the Post master-General as speedily us possible to make the delivery by morning mails universal—a desideratum much desired on every account. We have now to state that, in compliance with the anxious requests of our friends in all parts of the kingdom, we shall henceforth continue our early publication on Saturday morning, so that Bell's Life may be had 300 miles from the metropolis on the same day, and those re riding in towns to which the day mails have not yet been extended may, by the assistance of local agents, either at railway stations or elsewhere, avail themselves of this early edition, which, for all useful purposes will be found sufficient, as the intelligence, sporting and otherwise, will be brought down to the latest moment by means of electric telegraph and other appliances. For the satisfaction of those who de sire to have still later news we shall, after the arrival of the morning mails in London publish another edition, which, as heretofore, may be transmitted by rail parcels; and so wit!, our " Town Edition," published on Sunday morning at Five o'clock, and containing every important incident occurring up to the latest hour on Saturday night. To our numerous subscribers, for their unexampled au extensive patronage, we beg to return our most grateful thanks—a patronage most extraordinary, there not being a city, town, or village in Eng land, Scotla n d, or Ir e l an d, i n w hich B e ll' s Zife in London is not extensively circulated. To this may be added, an extensive sale in the East and West Indies, America, and, indeed, all the four quarters of the globe. The average sale of Bell's Life exceeds 28,000. A sixpence enclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., No. 170, Strand, will insure a copy of Bell's Life at all times by return of post. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Dreadful Enlargement of' the Knee Cured by Holloway's Pills.—Abram Banks, an elderly man living near the Dry Creek, South Australia, had such a painful affection and enlargement of the knee that he despaired of ever recovering the use of his limbs, the numerous remedies that he made trial of failing to banish or even to mitigate the disease. In this suffering condition be was ad vised to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and he com menced a regular application of them, which in a short time effected a complete cure. The Adelaide Observer, of the 25th March, 1848, publishes this as one among the many astonish ing cures effected in south Australia by these invaluable Medi cines.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. REPRESENTATION OF TRALEE.—The reported ap pointment of Mr. Maurice O'Connell to a lucrative bituaticn in Dublin, and his consequent retirement from Parlismer,t, has caused considerable excitement amongst the politicians of this town. Already are two candidates mentioned; and we are authorised to siate.that in case of a vacancy, caused 1.7 the retirement of Mr. O'Connell, Sir Thomas Herber', R.N., will offer himself as a candidate for the suffrages of the elec tors of Tralee. Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, Q.C., is the other candidate named. -1••••• -- ~DNS. • PARIS IN MARCH, 1850, "2, (CONTINUED.) 7 1°14 * The general impreision made by the aspect of Paris and the Parisians is described by the adage— " Homo hernial lupus"—hateful and hating. Such a tt eling is too visible just now, especially at theatres, and the faded cheeks, sunken eyes, worn-out faces, exceed even those of London. The ladies are well dressed but ill-looking, and the number of old ladies remarkable. Perhaps, however, the main ' diffi culty" should be looked for in gastro nomy eating is the principal amusement end study—music, decors and actors only accessory. The music, in point of execution, is excessively tame and sleepy, absolutely comatose. The instrumental performers playing to so large a proportion of foreigners, whom they despise, betray a lofty egotism and no genuine zeal. Italian music has always been proscribed here, and Rousseau was more persecuted for his published opinion of French and Italian music than for graver heresies. If they adopted Italian principles as Balfe has done, it might raise a doubt whether Rome ought indeed to be, as intended, the second city of a French empire, and the Mediterra• nean sea a French l a k e . Belle's Bohemian Girl, which • unites Italian melody with English rhythm, besides immense research in harmony, was given 186 times, and her Majesty was present at the 150th. When sung at Vi e nn a the first time, file pieces of music were bissies, or encored. Balfe's career is similar to Purcell's, who imitated Pelestrina, Carissuni, and Stradella,".because," by his own account, " he was sa tisfied that the system of harmony and melody which they had redacel to practice was founded on just' principles." Purcell was much beloved by Dryden, yet he had managers, wit, and fashion against him. Rizzio, probably, fell a victim to the same feeling, or no feeling, •yet the native music of Scotland was thought to be imported by the ill-fated minstrel. Ex tinctus amabitur idem. The soul floated off the strings and survived, but the music remains just where it was, without semitones ! Von Raumer, a must ha partial judge, said the music of London was more cantando than at Berlin, possibly from a more frank imitation of Italians, as in Purcell and Balfe. Since writing the above I took care to have a seat close to the orchestra. The intonation, even at the Italians, is " Hullah's pitch," a good semitone below our " opera pitch," which may explain how the music comes to be so flat. The conductor, a Frenchman, having no clear musical ideas, does nothing but harm, yet still the performance is good, from the great talent of the singers and players engaged there. Such things bring to mind an anecdote lately given of Mozart in his youth. The conductor at a theatre, where his earliest work came out, was wholly ignorant or indifferent—perhaps even spiteful. Here upon little Mozart wrote home to his papa, saying he had made up his mind at the very next rehearsal to snatch the fiddle publicly out of the leader's hands. The terrified parent, himself a fiddler, made answer that, being brave like all Frenchmen, he would resent such a proceeding, and the consequences might be serious. The indolence and egotism of these musicians are beyond description. Each is satisfied with him self and his droit de duel—if the leader does his duty he must immediately fight. Each flute-man, contra basso, and trumpet, each long-drum, appears installed with his coiffure as a deese de café or dame du comp toir might be. All the world comes to Paris because geographically it is every man's half-way house— the Parisian attributes this to innate superiority—an idea which never enters a sound head. Wait till the Fauxbourgs come down. At the Grand Opera when a few notes arpeggio are wanted, four harps are brought in : still, no cantabile—no elects —nothing sings— nobody sings—in the orchestra. Excuse my passion. Another cause of the orchestral paralysis may be Protection. The Grand Opera has a subvention which drags into competition many who are not naturally led to music, sleeping partners with small realized capital in that branch. Mrs. Malaprop disapproved of comparisons, but I plead " the weakness of an analogise" and persevere. By way of courtesy to our neighbours let us concede that the French are equal to us in physical constitu tion, and sheer animal courage—inferior in honesty and true wisdom —equal at least in all that is exter nally military, diplomatic, or theatrical—inferior in delicacy and tenderness of feeling, much less -noble and honest in money matters, and here the one ex ception of Napoleon proved the rule—superior in the arts of bed and board and week•day life—equal in natural affection—inferior in patriotic feelings— rather superior in all construction of wood, stone, and iron, however inferior both to Italians. The French also deserve praise for appreciating the great and persecuted O'Connell, more bitterly regretted here than even in Ireland : also for their long, long patience with Charles N. and Louis Philippe ; whereas the English have always been insolent to their kings. Our climate of incessant humidity and variation, with less frost and few summers, makes rheumatic complaints, including rheumatism of vital cavities, or gastritis (Hamlet's disorder) almost universal. Von Raumer made a minute while in England, " The tooth is quiet, but the climate has seized on one leg." The intense heat of coal—chilly palliative—produced with rheumatism a morbid susceptibility of cold and damp, which did: us no good at Cawbool. The French have a more healthy climate and greater physical patience under extremes of temperature. A Dr. Robertson, who resided in France, convinced me unwillingly that Frenchmen survive wounds which would kill an Englishman. Insular pride sustains the Englishman—conti nental applause the Frenchman. "Honour, the praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current--spread from hand to Land, It shifts in splendid traffic through the land. From courts, to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise." In every bonne, every badaud, every petit bonhomme, you may see the immense doses of praise their stomachs will bear. They exact from children more fortitude, and more civility than we do, but in return-, give them much more importance, and with this sti mulus the " sagesse franeaise" of children is pro verbial according to Montaigne. To show that we are superior in genuine bienskince, imagine au English young lady compelled to trans late literally such phrases as these :—His woman has done a child (sa femme a fait un enfant ). 11 a pris une femme. Cul de sac. Culbuter. Betes puantes. Ares cuisses. J'ai Bien sue. .le l'ai fait danser (I made her dance). The following are perfectly good French, but desperate English :—He couldn't learn nothing, and for why ?—lt's according (c'est selon). I'll tell you what 'tis, mister, I am determined for to go. I can't eat nothing, and what I eat won't digest by no means. They learned him to read. May-be I'll go seek. This here, that there. How goes it? (comment ca We went, him and me. Yes, miss. Elisions also, the consummate flower of French elegance, are quite homely with us. Now, let any of your readers find a single phrase adopted in Eng land which shall be bad style in French. What can be said to such titles for houses and streets, such metaphysical abstractions :—La Renom mee des Tripes—Rue da la Grande Friperie. What a malheureuse facilite de se payer de paroles !• You have had etats generaux, chambre des deputes, assemblee nationale, assembl‘s I6gislative. Under Louis Philippe were deputes—now repreien tans, in spite of that wise saw, "Eadem magistratuum vocahula." Some years ago the sale of pawnbrokers' duplicates was announced : On dkage les effets du Mont de pieta : now it is still more superfine : On achite les recon naissances The notice to ladies and gentlemen at railway stations draw forth the word, infandum.—The Chancellor Olivier said his countrymen were like mon keys that climb up a tree from branch to branch till they come to the highest and then show ... [what they had much better cmceal]. Here the Chancellor may be fairly saddled with a judgment—he fell as usual into the very error he condemned. Soon after " February" the president of a tribunal asked a witness, What role did the two elements play ? (viz., le rouge et le social.) Two undistin guishable elements, one of which is a colour, each acting a part! Such is their "superficial decision" and personification of the vaguest generalities-- analysis, they call it. But, in fact, the poverty of the language leaves them no choice. Von Raumer's observation that English men had much less of the beauty appropriate to their sex than the women, and the latter much more than elsewhere, is verified now by every one. This may be accounted for if we consider that females only require freedom from toil and hardship to become handsome ; also that the luxuries of English wealth are tasted by them with a certain caution from the weaknesses and defen sive policy of the sex : also that they are more domestic than here. The plainness of Englishmen may arise partly from the chilly, rheumatic atmo sphere to which they are more exposed and from the absence of military education. Not cne Englishman in a hundred ever saw a glacis. CHESTER CITY ELECTION.—CHESTER, MONDAY. — The vacancy in the rep' esattation of this city has been filled up. Our anticipations that Mr. Stanley would be returned have not been disappointed. Although the Tories 1131 o used every spcciei of exertion for the return ofo ti r cardidate, Mr. C. E. Egerton, they have signally failed. Their con fidence in the strength of their party was soon shaker. The polling commenced at eight o ' c l oc k yesterday mcrivng, and closed at four. The resu l t was a large and overwhelming majority for the Hon. W . 0. Stanle y , the Liberal candidate, but the declaration of the result had not been made at the time our account left. STEAM-BOAT ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, at about ten minutes past seven, as the Gravesend Star Com• pt seated n o g h o f theth e p ironworkaddlpaddle-box, ho x, attached which a was swimmer, Precipitated h pany's new steam-packet, the Jupiter,] had just left Rosher• ville pier, and was on her way up the river to Blackwell, an consternation rescued by taoccithdeeifiltoahat.ppseneveedrablymtheeassneaa were einp g himself'atknockedth fortunately,e a time. ombaeeti. down, hi,eg vTaaehhnr Theeadl excellentemoo n ni ti e ut N et W into 2a abt boat broken, ad k : t i river; e a sk r es ; 7 bm f a i tie pn.sengers was very great. The accident i. s supposed to nave ha . .ipened from the defective welding. S