The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

THE ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. FAREWELL BENEFIT of Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, Miles 14, Will be performed THE ROUSED LION. After which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT. To be followed by THE PRETTY GIBS OF STILBERG. FAREWELL ADDRESS. To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and SETTLED. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, MARCH 14, -- • -- - Will be performed the Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES; or, a Hundred Years Ago. Supported by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Honey, 0. Smith, &e.; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, a n d Mlss F. Maskel]. After which, A LUCKY FRIDAY. To conclude with (at second price) JACK SHEPPARD. Doors open at half-past six o'clock. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, 3fasca 14, Will be prodnced Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH (as acted at Windsor Castle, by Royal command). Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, Meacn 14, Will be presented THE FARMER'S STORY. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Shalders, Edgar, Bender, and Clifton; Misses Anderton and 11. Gordon. After which, TIIE LOAN OF A I OVER. To conclude with THE SERGEANT'S WIFE. Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Chstterton. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM DAY —Morning 39 min. after 4 I Evening 52 min.aft. 4 To-31ozRow—Morning 8 min. after 5 f Evening 24 min.aft. 5 DAILY WEATHER TABLE. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1853, State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. LIMERICK—S.E., strong breeze---cloudless. MULLINGAR— E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HASTINGS—E., fresh breeze—cloudless. SOUTHAMPTON—N., strong breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—CaIm foggy. STROOD—E., calm—foggy. SWINDON—N., light breeze—foggy. CAMBRIDGE—E., gentle breeze—cloudy. YARMOUTH—E., calm—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : HASTINGS—E., fresh breeze—cloudless. So lITHAMPTON—S. E., strong breeze—overcast. FOLKESTONE—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWTCH—S. E., gentle breeze—cloudless. STRooD—S.E., gentle breeee—foggy. SWINDON—S. W. gentle breeze—cloudy. LEIGHTON—S. S.E., calm—partially cloudy. CAMBRlDGE—Calm—cloudless. YARMOUTH— S.E., gentle breeze—foggy. HOLYHEAD—S., gentle breeze—very fine. LANCASTER—S.W., calm— cloudless. DARLINGTON—S., gentle breeze - cloudy. SHAP—E., calm—partially cloudy. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, MAacu 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 54 this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 87—going down rapidly. WIND, S.S.E. to S.W.—Light breeze, and variable, with clouds and sunshine—very fine weather. MARCH 14. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 38—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 63. WIND, ranging from S.W. to W.N.W.—Dull weather, with rain. Rain began last night about nine, and has continued with slight interruption. THE PUBLICATION OF " THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. IQIZ) ' 111,Y i T ~. i; 1 ai a " l : - ',`- i- 1 i fz : ;i2tif r i t i r . - 04 1 1 •- - -7 A " 1,1 LK LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1853. Viscount MAIDSTONE has been at it again— The Deluge*—and a Poem too—and Dedicated to the Electors of Westminster ! Although our noble author does his very uttermost to bring himself into ridicule, we are willing at all times, in spite of his intolerable petulence, his constitu tional pugnacity, and his excessively irritating self-sufficiency, to acknowledge whatever talent lie may happen to display in the course of his very eccentric lucubrations. Perhaps he has never dis played more ability than in this satirical onslaught upon so many of his contemporaries. We say this none the less cordially because of his exceed ingly courteous and refined allusions to ourselves. If upon occasion we come in for a casual egg or an incidental brickbat when placed in the pillory of his satire by Lord MAIDSTONE, we feel that we are only enduring the common lot of journalism— paying the customary penalty of the politician— receiving the ordinary reward of Independence ! Besides—while possessing, no doubt, a tolerable amount of what the phrenologists call the Organ of Self-Esteem, we are still very far indeed from labour ing under the erroneous idea that we constitute an exceptional example of that delightful impossibi lity—Perfection. Lord MAIDSTONE may be right enough in his conjecture that " PECCEBUS has no connection with The Sea," but at any rate its Leaders have not been kept in hand during the sixty-one years of its existence by the timorous grasp of a PHAEroN—otherwise it must long since have toppled down from the literary zodiac to " bottomless perdition." Whatever the temperament of the charioteer in other respects, at least, we encourage ourselves in the belief that it is neither marred by a lack of self-knowledge, nor by a total absence of magnani mity. It scarcely remained for Lord MAIDSTONE inform us that there are sometimes—" spots on Th e s un ." Nevertheless, it would appear that for his own part, like some of the astronomical observers, he himself has only the faculty of perceiving the dark spots—the light being altogether passed by unnoticed. Yet, notwithstanding all our self depreciation, we cannot help flattering ourselves into the belief that factace as well as maculce are Occasionally visible on the surface of the luminary. [ - Viscount MAIDSTONE must pardon whatever cox combry there may be in the use of that expres sion, in consideration of his having himself com menced these " allusions metaphorical."] How beit the recognition of a few vulgar and intem perate pe rsonalities, even though some among the ' coarser of those personalities be directed against ourselves, cannot blind us to the ability with against t n he which the Noble Lord ha s gratified his spl een against the Press and e existing Cabinet while explaining his v of the modern Deluge to the electors of Westminster. Considerable humour, it must b e e admitted even by the most obdurate of his depreciatory, has been displayed by Lord MAIDSTONE in hi s present capa city as a satirist. Possibly we are the better ena bled to appreciate this humour, from th e e i r stance of so many of the opinions expre sse d b y Lord MAIDSTONE being exactly coincident with those frequently expressed already by ourselves. For, however much disposed the noble satirist may be to associate the views advocated by this journal with those which he is facetiously pleased to de signate "Tiverton's three tails," or, in other words, with the systematic and infatuated apolo gists of the existing Government, we take leave to remind him, as it were needless to do one of our habitual and more observant readers, that The San cannot, in common justice, be ranked in that particular category. Appreciating, as we have ever done and must ever do, the distinguished ad ministrative ability of 'Viscount PALMERSTON, re cognising, as we have ever done and must ever do, his eminent and patriotic career as a statesman , we that have never pandered Ito appetite for , place which has led so many men * " Dedicat Th ed toe Deluge the Elector s of Westminster." Bvo., PP. 48. Chapman and -Hall London, 1853. . t b~~ .! ~ t ~ ~~~~ ,~~~~~~ .. ..;, .._~_ . E of illustrious reputation to sacrifice principle and consistency, in order that they might, at all cost, oust their opponents from office, and form them selves into a coalition Government. We were the first, in fact, to fasten upon the new Ministry that soubriquet of " The Happy Family," of which Lord MAIDSTONE here makes (p. 37) such odd and fantastic application. Beyond this, we were the foremost to raise the voice of mingled remonstrance and indignation against those who we conceived were degrading the character of the Fourth Estate, and jeopardising the dignity of the empire, by the ignorant abuse and insolent vituperations directed against the friendly ruler of a neighbouring and unoffending population. Not less wonderingly than Lord MAIDSTONE have we ourselves long since marvelled over a recent and very flagrant infatuation—of which he himself now exclaims— " Oh strangest symptom of times out of joint ! Verbose malignity mista'en for point, Diffuse parade of commonplace for style, And for free speech a pleonasm of bile." Contenting ourselves, however, with a compre hensive protest against the charge of partisanship —as unprovoked as it has, we are bold to say, on our part, been ever most scrupulously undeserved —return we to a cursory glance at the drolleries indulged in by our poet-pamphleteer. Brief though it is, " The Deluge" is, perhaps, the most vigorous satire that has appeared since the " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." The secret of its vigour is its boldness. Viscount MAIDSTONE cares not one jot who it is he happens to have selected for the shafts of his ridicule. " Prepare for rhyme—l'll publish right or wrong : Fools are my theme, let Satire be my song." Against " Peelite Medusa)" and " Whig-snapping turtles," against " Thrashers from Erin," and " Sharks from Middlesex," he hurls the arrows of his flippant and indiscriminate malevolence. Pas sing in review the principal members of the coali tion, he greets them all in succession with the choicest phrases of scorn, culled from his ample and acidulated vocabulary. For the Premier in particular, he has a greeting of peculiar earnest ness "Hail, veteran rider, with the battered jack And tatter'd plaid on thy marauding back, With ragged spear, six Scottish ells in length, And dudgeon knife, and bow of wondrous strength, (To say nothing of its being as long as the spear) " Ready in foray, stiff in stour to stand, A Reiver from the waste of Cumberland," &c. Restricted though the purpose of the poem would seem to be from its title, the Satirist by no means confines himself to taunts of a political character. Nothing comes amiss to his insatiable greed of derisive merriment. Admiring TENNYSON, as he tells he does in a foot-note, he nevertheless can not resist inquiring— " Shall daily puffs from swift oblivion save ALFRED'S late howl o'er British ARTHUR'S grave ?" An inquiry, by the way, which none of those among our readers can possibly marvel at, who bear in recollection our strictures upon the fune 111 - real ode of the Poet Laureate. Although num bered in the ranks ourselves, we cannot resist the luxury of a chuckle over Lord MAIDSTONE'S pre vious taunt, addressed to the living chiefs in the schools of criticism : " And these are they, forsooth, who simpering sit On office-stools, and hold the courts of wit ; Who bridle PEGASUS, make CLIO stare, And push APOLLO from his awful chair." Disgusted with the lack of taste evident among the reviewers, the Noble Lord appears, in fact, to have resolved henceforth to content himself with a more select and discriminating audience, leaving the plaudits of the ot roXXot to lowlier and more readily contented ambitions. An tua demens Vilibus in ludis dictari carmina malis ? Non ego : nam satis est Equitem mihi plaudere, ut audax, Contemptis aliis, explosa Arbuscula As about the happiest example of Lord MAID STONE'S satirical fun, we should perhaps select that passage in reference to the dangers threatening the Noah of the Political Deluge—in the course of which we are asked— " Safe earvite wander throu g h the pathless dark, With all the beasts at variance in his ark How shall the self-denying lion pass A friendly morning with the pert young ass ? Or old-wife's canniest contrivance pen Reforming Reynard with an Oxford hen ?" It were something like ingratitude, moreover, after the laughter we have drawn from its perusal, were we not, however cursorily, to commend the humour of that drily-delightful appendix in which are set forth, in such irresistible array, specimens of the bathos of SAVAGE LANDOR, " the deep-mouthed Boeotian." So leave we in good part—to subside as it best may—" The Deluge" of the spiteful but sprightly MAIDSTONE. Among the many taxes on knowledge there is none more thoroughly objectionable in every point of view than the Advertisement Duty, which is alike inequitable and inexpedient —as much op posed to equal justice, as it is to sound fiscal policy. It is, indeed, based on the most erroneous princi ples, casting the chief portion of the burdens on those least qualified to sustain them—and oppo sing a serious, and, in many cases, an insurmount able obstacle to the dissemination of the informa tion which is of such vital importance between vendor and purchaser, and master and workman. The importance of such publicity is well known and thoroughly appreciated in America. Take up almost any one of the 350 journals published daily in the United States, and you will find a display of advertisements not surpassed in the Leviathan of English Journalism, and far exceeding any of the other nine of the English daily newspapers. Why is this ? Is it ascribable to the superior wealth or population of the North American Re public ; to its more numerous commercial trans actions, or because employment is more difficult of attainment therein than in this country ? Certainly not ! In every respect there would be a greater demand for publicity through the medium of the press here than at the other side of the Atlantic but for the Advertisement Duty, which exercises its malign influence in preventing those whose wants are most urgent from making them known to the quarters in which they might be supplied. If a starving sempstress, ground down to the lowest by the liberal slopseller, who pays id. or 2d. for making a shirt, desires to obtain more lucrative occupation, the Advertisement Duty acts as a practical prohibition to the accom plishment of her moderate demands ; the clerk, shopman, or artisan out of situation, is unable to detail his qualifications, and to explain how his services could be useful. The impost may be of little consequence to the rich capitalist seeking employment for a large sum of money ; to a landed proprietor anxious to dispose of or mortgage a large estate ; or even to a wealthy merchant or shopkeeper desirous of calling atten tion to the superiority of quality and economy of the price of his goods. But it is of vital importance to the small shopkeeper, the struggling trades man, and to the working classes generally—to all, indeed, who are earning their daily bread by their daily labour. It is a matter of gross injustice to such persons to say that they are only charged at the same rate as their more fortunate brethren. In such cases the pretext of equality merely adds insult to the previous injury. As well might an equal poll tax on the peer and the peasant be justified, and the half-starved Irish cottier be called upon to contribute as highly to the liquida tion of the national liabilities, and the mainte nance of the national establishments, as the owner of wide spread domains, or the comfortable mil- ionctire. The injustice to the proprietors of newspaper property is also ye striking. why the Press should ralonebe I t a t x i e s d_ hard wbtyo Ad vertisementssay eirichar,red journals,l ctlls should magazines, or periodi cals the advertising van nuisance, or the placardslv o n railway carriages and 0 fchthaleksainagtioint 11(3 walls, and even National iMmonuments should the omnibuses,desecration e If the be permitted to escape with system be indeed judicious, it should be extended so as to comprise every class of Advertisements ; if unwise and impolitic, it should not be A reduction of duty would not meet pute necessity of of the case, and the total amount collected, candor 160,0001., is not of such im p ortance to the r evenue that the anxiously soug ht -for boon should be o nly partially conceded. We trust that the CIIAN. T,HE SUN, LONDON, MONDAYvEVENING, MARCH 14, 1853. CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may ponder the argu ments addressed to h'm by the deputation which waited on him on Saturday last. He has a considerable surplus at his disposal, and in no mode could he more beneficially apply 160,000/. It would give an earnest of his disposition that might gain much credit for the Government. Mr. EWART, who accom panied the Deputation, and presented the Memo rial, has, for his conduct on that as well as on many other occasions, eminently entitled himself to the thanks and gratitude of the Fourth Estate, and of the community in general. It is, indeed, a matter in which public journalists are not alone concerned, their interests and those of the people being in that, as in every other respect, one and indivisible. We would, before closing, earnestly invite at tention to Mr. FRANCIS' admirable letter on the subject, which will be found in another part of this day's impression. In a truthful and able article, last Thursday, the Times fully and fearlessly exposes the actual extent of bribery at elections. It states—what we quite agree with—that probably 600 of the 650 Members must know by their bankers' books, if by nothing worse, that they paid more than the legal expenses at the last election ; and hence infers that the House of Commons cannot wish, by adding hypocrisy to bribery, to appear very anxious about purity of elections. We are glad to see our powerful contemporary doing such excellent service, by calling public attention to the lessons on electoral corruption taught by the Election Committees. We differ, however, in some of the inferences we should deduce from such a case as that presented by the Derby Com mittee. We may fairly assume, from common report, that there are many such cases ; yet, how few of them are fairly brought before the public —how few so laid hold of that a House of Com mons' Committee, several of whose members per haps experimentally understand the whole process, are compelled to work out the mystery of corrup tion in its revolting details. It is not every day that a FLEWKER will " disclose," and that a policeman, instructed by a solicitor, can pass the sentinel, with his finger on his nose, " all right, coming from Radford," and capture the good and safe man, the note-book, the bag of sovereigns, the W. B. letter, and all. Two things at least are commonly in the way of disclosure. It generally pertains to the worsted party to make it. lf, however, he has been ever so watchful over the purity of his own election, as things are now managed, what with cabs, committee-rooms, fares of absent voters, printers' bills, and one thing and another, he has generally paid a pretty round sum proportioned to the size of the constituency, and a petition, he knows, cannot cost him less than 1,0001., and may as likely mulct him in 5,0001. as not. The pecuniary discouragement, therefore, is consider able ; add to which, a petition rarely compara tively secures, as in the Derby case, the seat for the petitioner. But the grand obstacle to dis closure is the circumstance that both sides are equally guilty. In very many towns there are a set of well-known voters whom nothing will in duce to poll on either side but sums varying from 30s. to 101. We know a borough where they are accustomed to poll for 21. a-head. That they re gard as their right. It is so much their right that they look upon it equally as a point of honour not to vote without receiv ing it, and to vote for their own party if they do receive it, although the other party should offer them more. Honour amongst corrupt electors ! In other cases we have known, that with the utmost determination on the part of Member, and even of his committee as a whole, to keep from bribery, yet some old practitioner, un known to the others, has actually bribed suffi ciently to unseat the Member if petitioned against; and when it is a case of one Liberal and one Con servative, it is, of course, useless to petition when the other could petition with success also, al though the bribery may have been practically all on one side. Between the expense, therefore, and the equal guilt on both sides, the petitions pre sented are but few compared with the extent of the offence. This, indeed, is admitted in the state ment, that all the House of Commons but the odd half hundred Members are more or less returned by bribery. If we add to the considerations just mentioned, the adroitness and cunning of bribes, rendering legal evidence of bribery almost impos sible, we cannot think that " there is no real necessity for very strong measures, much less for so great an experiment as the Bal. lot would undoubtedly be." If, indeed, an in expensive and impartial court to try the cases in question could be constituted in each borough, and if electors could be required to criminate them selves, with the penalty of disfranchisement, and a fine impending over their heads, and if all par ties concerned, from the candidate or member downwards, could be compelled in like manner to criminate themselves, and if there could be a kind of public prosecutor to take charge of the investi gation, into the case of not only of every peti tioning, but of every suspected borough, —if all these hypotheses could be turned into facts, no doubt something might be done. But these we should designate very strong measures ; and cer tainly those who would plead for self-crimination must no longer exclaim against the Ballot as un- English. We take some encouragement in our advocacy of the Ballot, from seeing it held out as a threat by Sir GEORGE GREY to the intimidating landlords this summer, and now by the Times .to the Hous e o f Commons, as the sure consequ ence of persisting in corruption. We are to " have it, and Hea ven knows what 'beside, if they will not do something. If we do not set our house in order, we shall lose it, and with it, most probably, no small part of what is valuable in the British Constitution." We are not quite clear as to the precise application of the last clause, whether a House elected by Ballot is a lost House, and whether the valuables of our Constitution would be lost with it. If so, we think the opposite view is almost demonstrable. As we remarked lately, English constituencies (except the smallest family boroughs) are generally composed of a large majority of respectable voters, pretty equally divided as Liberals and Conserva- tives. The corrupt portion, " accessible by these means," even in Hull, for instance, was not more than 1,000 out of more than 5,000. No one pretends that the opposed candidates differ in re spectability, and hence, were the corrupt voters no longer purchaseable, the only effect would be, that in many cases a Member of diffe rent politics would be returned ; and, notwith- - - standing our Liberalism, we really should not think our House of Commons and half our Constitution lost, if the House lost some score or two of Liberal Members by the Ballot, and gained about as many Tories. We obtained the repeal of the Corn Laws, and of Catholic disabilities too, from Conservative Parliaments. If the people are Conservatives at heart, let them, for all we care, fill the House with Tories ; only let them not do it at the insti gation of " ladies in mourning," or of " safe men." Let the Honourable Members be honour ably elected. landlord's wish," is far more cruel, for it leaves a pang in the voter's soul ; and the Ballot is the only cure for theit. COURT CI.RCULAR, .+Mdla.• The Queen and Prince Albert drove to Sydenham on Saturday afternoon, attended by Colonel I3ouverie and Captain the lion. Dudley de Ros, and inspected the works in progress at the New Crystal Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday morning, attended by the Hon. Capt. de Ros. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday evening at Buckingham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth, the Count and Countess Colloredo, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, Lord James Murray, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord and Lady de Ros, Lord and Lady Colborne, Sir James and Lady Graham, Sir John and Lady Pakington, and Lieut.-Colonel F. Seymour. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance in the Palace during dinner, and performed the follow ing selection Overture—" Der Vampyr" Lindpaintner. Selection—" The Sleeper Awakened" Macfarren. March (composed for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington) Sir H. R. Bishop. Bridal Song and Chorus (" Mountain Sylph") Barnett. Quadrille, or Airs from "Pietro Il Grande" .Jullien. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Palace, and played the following pieces : Overture—" Neron" . Selection—" L'Enfant Prodigue" Auber. March Beethoven. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohen lobe, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household, attended divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. .Gerard Wellesley officiated. A deputation of gentlemen from London, Hull, Man chester, &c., on the subject of reform in the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The deputation was headed by the fol lowing members of Parliament :—Messrs. Wm. Brown, J. A. Smith, Geo. Hadfield, F. Scully, B. Oliveira, Capt. Scobell, Vincent Scully, J. Green, J. Brotherton, A. Pellatt, Sir R. Ferguson, P. Kirk, J. Cheatham, T. Barnes, Sir Geo. Goodman, W. Williams, Dr. Michell, W. H. Barrow, W. P. Price, J. Crook, C. A. Moody, Geo. Sanders, Montagu Chambers, Sir Jas. Duke, John Masterman, C. Hindley, H. W. Wickham, C. Turner, E. J. liutchins, S. Gregson, H. G. Langton, T. Alcock, Sir H. Maddock, Joseph Hume, P. Grenfell, Headlam, H. Berk e l ey, A cton, J . L. Ricardo, Sir W. Verner, Arch. Hastie ' Bowyer, John M'Gregor, Al exan d er H ast i e, Swift, W. Marshall, Heywood, A. Wise, Humphrey Brown, Divett, T. A. Mitchell, Grace, Lawrence Hey -worth, George Duncan, Rich. Pilkington, and F. Cross ley ; and Mr. Grantley Berkeley and Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Hull (with a deputation) ; Mr. J. C. Bazley, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester (with a depu tation) ; Messrs. John Dillon, J. P. Gassiott, J. I ngram Travers, R o b er t Crawford, Matthew Clark, James Cook, W. J. Hall, F. Pegler, J. D. Bowles, James Hutchin son, W. Pye, T. Took; F. Pattison, W. Hawes, W. L. Ogilby, P. Dickson, F. W. H. Murillier, Charles Mar ryatt, J. E. Saunders, Bromley Moore (of Liverpool), C. W. Gregory, A. Travers, A. Crowe, H. L. Morgan, and George Henry. A deputation on the subject of the Merchant Seamen's Fund, consisting of Mr. G. Lindsay, Mr Barclay, Mr. G. Faith, Mr. W. Faith, Mr. C. M. Lughrue, Mr. Lawford (solicitor), and Mr. Watson (secretary), had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle, on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. A deputation on the subject of the advertisement duty had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing -street. The deputation consisted of the Lord Mayor, Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Murdo Young, Mr. F. Smith, Mr. John Francis, Mr. Robert Besley, Mr. Daniel Pratt, Mr. Thornton Hunt, and Mr. R. W. Cooke. The Committee of the Queen's Most Hon. Privy Council for the Affairs of Jersey and Guernsey, sat on Saturday at the Council-office. The Lords present were —Earl Granville (Lord President), Viscount Palmer ston, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir J. Patteson. The case of the petition of the States of Jersey against the Orders in Council of the 11th of February, 1852, &c., was resumed and adjourned. A deputation, headed - by Col. Wood, on the subject of the militia had an interview with Viscount Palmer ston on Saturday. A deputation on the subject of the French tariff on linens, and linen yarns had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation con sisted of Sir G. Goodman, M.P., Mr. G. Duncan, M.P., Mr. P. Fairbain, Mr. Wickham, M.P., Mr. Marshall, M.P., Mr. Vincent Scully, M.P., Mr. Francis Scully, M.P., Mr. William Kirk, M.P., Mr. J. C. Barritt, Mr. Davison, M.P., Mr. Cairns, M.P., and Mr. Crook, M.P. But after all this tendency of editors and statesmen (even Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir JAMES GRAHA➢i have done the same), to threaten constituencies, or the House itself, that the Ballot _ . Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office on Saturday from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. A deputation on the subject of the Vaccination Ex tension Bill, including Dr. Babington, Mr. Marson, and Mr. Grainger, had an interview on Saturday with Vis count Palmerston. THE STEAMER AUSTRALIAN.—This steam-ship appears unfortunately to be doomed to continual disasters, for we learn from Plymouth this morning, by electric tele graph, that she has again put back to that port very leaky, and with the passengers at the pumps. MR. WEBSTER'S BENEFIT.—After a management of 16 years' duration at the Haymarket, Mr. Webster, it appears, has now determined for the future to transfer his great experience and ability to the Adelphi exclu sively. Accordingly he to-night makes his last appear ance, at least in a managerial capacity, on the Haymarket stage, in the Roused Lyon and The Pretty Girls of Stil berg. It is needless to say that he retires with the good wishes of all, and the dramatic corps he has led, and the public which he has served so long. He is to deliver a farewell address at parting, and after the fall of the cur tain, and the dispersion of the audience, he will be, as we understand, presented by Mr. Buckstone, his able successor, with a piece of plate, consisting of a silver salver and a loving cup, subscribed for by the members —present and past—of his company. The affair excites no little interest in the dramatic world, and we are sure that the general public will equally mark their sense of Mr. Webster's long -continued services. MR. FREDERICK WEBSTER'S BENEFIT.—The brother of the retiring manager announces his benefit for to morrow. On these annually recurring occasions, Mr. F. Webster, who has long filled a responsible situation in the Haymarket Theatre, has always succeeded in drawing together an overflowing audience ; the order of Freemasons, of which Mr. F. Webster is a not undis tinguished luminary, coming forth—as we hope they will on the present occasion—with great force. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT TO THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, paid a visit to the new Crystal Palace, Sydenham, on Saturday. The Royal party were received by Owen Jones, Esq., who had the honour of conducting them over the building, with which, and the general arrange ments going forward to carry out the object contem plated by the erection of this elegant structure, her Majesty and the Prince Consort were evidently much gratified. The apartment appropriated for the reception of casts from ancient s t a t ues , & c ., seeme d t o g i ve espe cial satisfaction to the Royal visitors. Her Majesty having remained about three-quarters of an hour in the spacious building, left for Buckingham Palace at a quar ter to five o'clock. Colonel Bouverie and the Hon. Captain De Ros were in attendance upon her Majesty and Prince Albert on the occasion. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, &c.—The Earl of Aber deen leaves Argyll -house early in the ensuing week for the Ranger's lodge, Blackheath, where the noble Premier purposes to pass the holidays. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are expected to leave Carlton-gardens on Saturday next, for Broadlands, near Romsey, Hants, and will sojourn there during the parliamentary recess. The Duke of Newcastle, it is said, will remain in town during th e holidays' his colleagues, the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary, intending to repair to their respective country seats, as it is necessary one of the ministers of state should be in London. The Marquis of Lansdowne goes to BOwood-park, Wilts, in the course of the week ; and Lord John Russell, with Lady John and family, goes, after the adjournment of the House of Commons, to Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park,' for the holidays. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., will reside with the Countess of Pembroke, at Wilton-house, Wilts, during the Easter recess; a large family circle meeting there Tor the holidays.—Sunday Paper. A NEW GOLD LAND AND MINING COMPANY formed in an immense tract of land in the Nevada district in Cali fernia, o n th e F eat h er Ri ver, i s attract i ng cons i derat i on in the city amongst the monied interest. This attention appears not only to arise from the novelty of finding names of wealth and position upon its direction, but from the fact that, unlike many other companies of a similar kind, it has first sought and found a portion of its capital in the markets of Paris and New York, coming only after such accumulation of capital for the remainder to English enterprise. The Feather River Company Shares are already at a premium ; and the quiet manner in which it has made its appearance, unlike the bustle and parade which has ushered in many of its predeces sors, will be at once accounted for by the facts here alluded to MOIY.EY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 4,000 bales, all to the trade, including about 2,250 Atnericati, 900 ?ern= and Maranham at 6d. to 70., 30 Bahia at 6d., 400 Egyptian at sid. to ls. 3id., 300 Surat at 31d. to 4i11., and 70 Sea Island at ls. 11d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. The mar ket was flat at previous rates. Railway Shares were inactive without alterations in prices. The grain trade is very dull this morning. The steamer Australian has again put back to Plymouth in a leaky condition, and we apprehend there will be no course now left open to the com parry but to return the passage and freight money. A case has been taken up by the members of the Stock Exchange which, we trust, will be followed up to the fullest extent until satisfactory explana tions are elicited. The Cosheen Mining Company a short time back introduced to the public, is di vided into 20,000 shares, and, quietly, brokers em ployed by the Company are said to have been buying up large quantities of them, the consequence being that they have borne the high_ premium of , 3/. per share, although not issued. Now the allot ments are made, it is ascertained, or asserted, that they have been extremely limited, and the jobbers think that something very like a " rig" has bee' practised upon them. Without at present compro mising ourselves by giving too positive an opinion on this particular case, and desiring to await fur ther information, we may remark that examples of the kind are too frequent, and that it is imperatively necessary they should be sum marily checked. People who sell shares on speculation before they are aware whether any will be allotted to them, may fairly be held to be amenable to the risk ; but this is not quite as justifiable as the agents of the Company buying on the other hand, in order to give fictitious sup port, and does not exonerate the Board of Direc tion from the duty of keeping faith with the public by an allotment of all the Shares, except such por tion as the Board takes up itself and at once pays for : the last named a very important point, be cause there is such a thing as privileged persons taking Shares, and not paying for them until long after. The Committee of the Stock Exchange has the power in its own hands, by refusing to appoint a settling day for the Shares of any Company that has not allotted an adequate proportion of its capital, while the jobbers have the additional pro tection that all bargains, prior to the issue of the scrip, are, by the rules of the " house," invalid. It would be unwise to make this rule available, except in extreme cases ; but extreme cases seem now to be arising. A large and very influential meeting of mer chants, presided over by John Masterman, Esq., M.P. has just been held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of adopting a memorial to Govern ment in favour of a reduction in the tea duties. The meeting was very unanimous, and passed resolutions in accordance with the following :-- "TO THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P., CHANCELLOR Or HER MAJESTY'S EXCHEQUER, ke. " The Memorial of the undersigned Merchants and Traders of the City of London, " She weth—That your memorialists are deeply interested in the trade with China, or engaged in the sale of tea. " That your memorialists consider the present duty charged upon tea to be exorbitant and oppressive, and most inconsistent with the avowed commercial policy of the the nation, of securing to the mass of the people all neces sary articles of consumption at the cheapest possible rate. " That this excessive duty interferes most seriously with the consumption of tea. " That the natural development of the China trade (in most instances one of barter) is greatly impeded by the imposition of a high duty upon one of the principal arti cles of import, as the extent of British manufactures to be introduced into that country must be regulated by the re turns of China products which we are enabled to consume. " That your memorialists consider that could returns be taken from China in sufficient quantity, the exportation of British manufactures would be increased to an enor mous extent, China being not only the most populous country in the world, but its inhabitants are probably the most dress-loving people and the most prone to the indul gence of cheap luxuries of any nation with which we are acquainted. " That your memorialists are convinced that the reduc tion of the duty on tea would ensure a largely increased consumption of that article. " That the loss of revenue occasioned by a reduction of duty would be speedily repaired by such increased con sumption, provided the reduction were sufficiently impor tant to cause a sensible diminution in the price, and one which would be felt by the mass of the people ; whose pur chases though made in very small quantities, are enormous in the aggregate. " That the duties imposed by the Chinese Tariff on British goods varies from five to seven per cent., while the duty on tea, their staple export to Great Brit ain, varies from 200 to 250 per cent.—a fact which should induce the Government of this country to take the earliest opportunity of lessening the excessive duty now charged thereon. " That independently of commercial views, the extended consumption of tea in this country may be deemed a moral and social question of great importance. Tea yields a wholesome and agreeable beverage to every class of the po pulation, one that is increasingly desired as a substitute for intoxicating liquors, and is peculiarly valued by the humbler classes, whose comforts would be increased and whose social habits would be improved, were the cost of so important an article of consumption materially reduced. " That in reference to navigation, a large reduction is important ; tea is a light and bulky a rticle, requiring con siderable tonnage in proportion to its value ; the continued emigration to Australia will direct a large amount of ship ping to the Southern Hemisphere, a part of which, pro ceeding to China, would find profitable employment, were a large additional quantity of tea required in this country. " That your memorialists would further mention that during the past six years, while the shipments of tea from China to Great Britain have only increased from 57,600,000 lbs. to 65,000,000 lbs., the exports of tea to the United States, where no duty is imposed , hav e increased from 18,000,000 lbs. to 34,300,000 lbs.,—a striking illustration of the expansive power of the tea trade if relieved from burthensome and oppressive duties. " That in our colonies and dependencies, where tea is free or lightly taxed, the consumption is in proportion to the population, in some cases two, in others three to one more than in this country, a fact which further strongly illustrates the capability of greatly increased consumption. " In conclusion, your memorialists will only refer to the elaborate investigation into the working of the China trade by a committee of the House of Commons in 1847. Th e report of that committee, which entered most fully and ably into all questions arising out of this important branch of our commerce, contained the following recommendation to the House : " Your committee think themselves warranted in re commending to the House a considerable reduction in the duty on tea, at the earliest period which in its wisdom it may see fit, as most desirable in itself, with a view to the comforts and he social habits of the people, as involving but a temporary loss to the revenue, and as essential to the extention of our trade with China, nay, even to its main tenance at the point which it has already reached."' " Under these circumstances, your memorialists pray for a liberal and prompt revision of the tea duties." There is not the slightest animation in the En glish stock market, and prices are nominally about the same. Consols have been 1001 for account, the transactions having taken place for money at 100 to 1 1. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are shut. Exchequer Bills of June are 10s. to 145., and those of March Bs. to 12s. premium. East India Bonds are 455. to 475. premium. Foreign Securities have been rather brisk. Spanish Certificates have been quoted 71 being a slight improvement. Peruvian Scrip is up to 5 and 51 premium. Grenada Deferred are worth 111 Mexican have been 251 I. Spanish. Threes bring 484, and the New Deferred 244 I. Brazilian Old Stock is supported at 103. Danish 5 per Cents. are 105 to 4, and Russian 5 per Cents. 118 f. Sardinian Stock is worth 98A to N. must be conceded if they will not mend their ways —what does it mean ? Does it not plainly show that the threateners regard it as at least an effec tual remedy ? There may be objections against it, though all hitherto have vanished at the touch Railway Shares have been rather fluctuating— Great Western and one or two other lines being fairly' supported, while the remainder are slightly in favour of buyers. French Shares have been rather weaker. The Joint-Stock Bank Shares are all very firm,. though "not brisk. The Gold Mine shares are rather heavier, in the absence of the steamer so much overdue. The Land Company's shares have been tending upwards, and Van Diemen's Land are higher. Letters have been received from the Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Company's manager, dated Melbourne, 23d November last, handing bill of lading of 532 oz. of gold dust shipped on board the Francis Henty, 171 oz. of which were picked up by the Company's miners. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities lOO h India Bonds, £lOOO — Ditto, under £lOOO 47 5 Consols for Account 13th April Exchequer Bills, lid. June. March. £lOOO ........ . ........................... 14 10 8 £5OO 10 Small 8 12 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY, B raz ilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO3 Ditto 'New, 1852, 44 per Cent 9B 8 Chili a n Bonds, 6 per Cent Bl' Danish 3 per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent lO5 4 Grenada Bonds, Deferred, Greek ex over-due Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account 2 Peruvian Scrip 5 3 Peruvian Deferred 3 per Ce n t 65 4i 5 A p Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 4 . 4 per cent . 104 3i Sardinian Bonds, 5 p er C en t. 984 9 84 Spanish Bonds, 3 p er C en t 484 Ditto for the Account. . 49 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 243 i Ditto for the Account 244 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun, 74 iB4 p c Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 . .......... Ditto for the A ccoun t ..... . ... 14 P Dutch Exchange 24 per C en t .. .. . Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate 5.............. „ THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto April Account lOO4 i of common sense ; still it is held in terrorem over the incurably corrupt as that which will do the thing if they won't. No doubt it will: The Elec tion Committees have not more plainly developed the vast extent of bribery, than they have esta blished the position that the poll-book is indis pensable to bribery. But if indispensable to the Hull, Cambridge, Clitheroe, or Canterbury style of bribing, how much more so is it to the Bridg north—we mean the WHITMORE style ? A style by which that family, as Mr. CADOGAN says, " can return their own footman if they please." Less disgustingand revolting in appearance than bribery by, gold and beer, the equally extensive bribery of " putting on the screw," and communicating " the SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION SCRUTINY.—It is said the expense of the scrutiny into the Southampton election will, it is expected, cost the Conservatives about 4,0001. Out of about 50 witnesses subpoenaed by the Tories, 40 gave evidence favourable to the liberal sitting members, abd 2 of the remaining 10 will be prosecuted by the Radical party for perjury. The inquiry into the South ampton election has shown that the power of issuing Speaker's warrants may be greatly abused, for an emi nent London merchant and director of the Southampton Dock Company was subpoenaed by the Southampton Tories before the House of Commons committee because he voted for the sitting members, and counsel was in structed to insult him by asking him if his wife did not apply for the amount of his expenses to and from London and Southampton, amounting to a few shillings. OVERLAND MAIL. (Br SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) MARSEILLES, MARCH 13. The India Mail has arrived. The dates are— Calcutta, Feb. 5 • Bombay, Feb. 12 ; Rangoon, Jan. 13 • and China, Jan. 13. In reference to the revolution at Ava, the King had been deposed by his brother. An ambassador had set out for the capital. Commerce in India was active. Exchange, 2s. Id. ELECTION COMMITTEES-(THIS .DAY.) SOUTHAMPTON. The committee re-assembled at half-past eleven, Mr. Henry Herbert in the chair. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake resumed his address on the part of the sitting members. The learned counsel's address was likely to occupy the greater part of the day. MALDON. The committee resumed this morning at eleven o'clo c k, and additional evidence was adduced on behalf of the petitioners. --- HUDDERSFIELD The committee resumed this morning at eleven o'clock, and the examination of several witnesses on behalf of the sitting member was commenced. NEW WINDSOR. This committee resumed this day at twelve o'olock, and the examination of witnesses was continued. CIRENCESTER. The examination of witnesses for the petitioners was resumed at the comm itt ee thi s morning, but nothing of any importance had transpired when our report left. SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Thomas Puckle, Esq., and a Bench of Magis- trates.) EXPERT ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES. , Daniel Fitzgerald, 19, was indicted for stealing from the person of Elizabeth Fisher two ten-pound Bank of England notes and two five-pound Bank of England notes, in her dwelling-house ; and Mary Sullivan, 19, was indicted for receiving one of the ten-pound notes, well knowing it to be stolen. From the evidence it appeared that Mrs. Fisher and her brother are dealers in paper-hangings and decorators in the Dover-road, and the prisoner entered the shop during the absence of the latter, and requested to be shown some cheap paper. While she was exhibiting some pieces to him he stood alongside of her, and after remaining in the shop a few minutes he said he wished to see Mr. Fisher, and he would return shortly, at the same time quitting the shop. A few minutes prior to his entering the shop she had deposited the notes in a side pocket of her dress which was nearest to the prisoner, and a few minutes after he had left, she put her hand to her pocket to lock the money up in a safe place, when she missed it. No other person had been in the shop from the time she placed the notes in her pocket up to the time of her losing them but the prisoner. Informa tion was immediately given to the police, and all the notes were in a few days traced to different tradesmen at the east end of the town ; and it was proved that the prisoner had purchased new clothing, a watch, furniture, and other things with them—and the female was in his company when one of the notes was changed. They were shortly afterwards apprehended at a low house in Cock and Neptune-court, Ratcliffe-highway, and the new clothes, watch, and other things were found. The notes were passed into the Bank in the usual way, and produced by one of the Bank clerks, when they were identified as those stolen from Mrs. Fisher. There was nothing to show that the female had anything to do with the robbery, consequently the jury acquitted her, but found the "slate prisoner guilty. The Court sentenced him to nine months' hard labour in the Wandsworth House of Correction. MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY). ROBBERY.—Henry Stanton, a lad about 14 years of age, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing a great coat, value 255., the property of Daniel Box, tailor, &c., 38, Regent -street. William Wareham, shopman to the prosecutor, deposed that on Saturday night, about half-past seven, he suddenly missed a coat from the inside of the shop door, and on running out to see who had taken it, he was astonished at seeing the prisoner about twelve yards off, coolly folding up the coat. Witness ran after him and took the coat produced from him. The value of the coat is 255.,' and the pro perty of Mr. Box. - The prisoner, who had no defence to offer, was corn. witted for trial. The remainder of the charges were not of the least public importance, consisting merely of drunk and dis •orderly characters, and fashionably-dressed "nymphs of the pave." The latter were fined 7s. each, and the drunkards admonished and discharged. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. " NEVER FORGET lIORATIA." Among the many reminiscences of departed heroism which history writes among her choicest chronicles, the above words constitute, perhaps, the most touching ap peal ever proferred by a great man to the beneficence of a beloved and honourable country ; and if any considera tion could add to the pathos of their simple and un affected eloquence, it is the recollection of when and by whom, those thrillingly affecting words were spoken--the recollection that the request which they so feelingly con vey was the first and last ever preferred by the noble Nelson to that dear country whose honour and glory constituted, of his devoted life and hero death, the pur pose, the aim, and the result. When, at the close of his brief but brave career, Trafalgar claimed his last great sacrifice, and laid him on a timeless bed of death—when his last thoughts, amid his agony, recurred to those who were most dear to him, especially to his young daughter, so soon to become an orphan for our sake—shall we wonder that, in his natural anxiety for her, he turned in confidence to the great nation he had served so faith fully, and, leaning on their generosity, bequeathed her to them as a sacred legacy ; nor doubted that the value of his services, of which he was not and could not be ignorant, would at least be of sufficient weight with England to induce her to bestow upon his child the ne cessary provision which his own poverty through life unfortunately prevented him from doing.? In short, can we wonder that it was to his beloved country, for whose welfare he had lived, and in whose defence he was about to die, that he appealed in her behalf with such pathetic earnestness ? "Never forget Horatia !" How brief, yet how expressive is the sentence !—how full of that trusting confidence which ever characterised his generous nature I —and how insensible must be the heart, if there is one, to whom they do not seem fraught with an elo quence which is irresistible 1 - It is the last appeal of expiring heroism—not to the pride, the admiration, or even to the gratitude of Britain, but unto still more heartfelt sentiments—her sympathy, her affection, and her benevolence. When was she ever thus besought in vain 1 It is the sole, the dying request of England s Nelson to his countrymen. Why do they disregard the sacred opportunity of proving their appre ciation of his worth ? When at the close of Trafalgar's deadly contest, England first learned the glorious victory was her own —bought for her by the life blood of her darling hero— deeply, intensely did she lament his gallant fate ; be stowed upon his senseless ashes a funeral whose splendour was without a parallel, and since then has ever been erecting costly cenotaphs and proud mementos to his honour, as if, conscious of the neglect with which th rough life she had regarded his almost superhuman efforts in her cause, she was anxious to acknowledge to the world how true a friend she lost when Nelson died, and offer some atonement to his memory, nor could she have done less. But a nobler reparation yet remains : she can offer a yet prouder memorial to her patriot than the useless ceremonies of respect paid to his c o ld i nan i mate remains ; she .can prove her admiration of his devotion by a prompt fulfilment of the last entreaty made t o h er i n the agonies of death, and, by rendering the sp on t aneous offering of sympathy, affection, and assistance to Horatia Nelson, she can liquidate the debt o f gratitude she so deeply ' o wes to the sublime patriotism of her hero father. This is what England can and ought to do. This is the right which benevolence and justice alike demand of her, not as the mere effusion of her enthusiasm, but as a token voluntarily rendered of her integrity, her honour, and HER DUTY. Englishmen, the legacy your darling hero so solemnly bequeathed you still surv i ves ; his child, his only child Horatia. still lives ; and, strange and inexplicable as it appears, lives in need of pecuniary assistance from the very land whose proudest victory rendered her an orphan, compelled, through the medium of a newspaper advertisement, to solicit in behalf of herself and her eight children the generous assistance of the charitable. We appeal to you, we appeal with all the earnestness of honest indignation to the warm-hearted, intelligent in habitants of Britain. Englishmen, will you still continue to neglect the only proof that now remains for you to give, that while you boast the glory and the freedom of your country, you do not forget the gratitude you owe to him whose dauntless energy secured them to her ? Will you still let Horatio, live a reproach to all who own the name of Britons, and die a witness to their thank lessness ? Or will you come forward with one voice, one heart—with the earnest perseverance which has enabled you to accomplish so many noble deeds, and, rejecting, as degrading to the child of Nelson, the con tracted sphere of private philanthropy, appeal to the benevolence of Parliament—ask from thence provision for Hor a ti a , an d ren d er h er th e l ong - neg l ec t e d tribute of your honour and affection, free and disinterested as the zeal, the loy a lty, the life, her patriot sire devoted unto us, and UNIVERSAL as the victory his courage pur chased for us by his death ?—that fathers, when they read to their wondering and admiring children the history of his glorious career, no more shall need to close the book abruptly, and blush for England's un atoned neglect, while they repeat his last and l ml , AN exqui sitely-touching words—" Never forget Horatia ENGLISHWOMAN. A DARING THlEF.—George Bell Badger, who, for a length of time has attended Darlington and the neigh bouring markets—was arrested there on Monday, th e 28th ult., on a charge of taking from a farmer's c ar t 1 boll of wheat, but was acquitted. On Wednesday, the 9th inst., he was again arrested at Stocyton-on-Tees for stealing wheat from different agriculturists' carts. After a strict search, 5 bolls were found in his p ossess i on, which he had been seen offering for sale. He was com mitted to Durham gaol for trial at the next assizes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES. —No. CCCLXXXIX. • WARWICK SPRING MEETING. The present week is replete with sport, no less than two flat race, and five steeplechase meetings being on the list of fixtures. Warwick is marked for to-morrow and Wednesday ; Narbenth, to-morrow ; the North TYne Great Annual Steeplechases, on Wednesday ' Coates ra ces , on Th urs d ay ; th e G ran d -Military ' Steepl e. chases at Leamington, on the same day ; and the Cara ward'. and Warwick Grand Annual Steeplechases, on Vriday. Of course, the principal attraction to the me' tropolitans will be the races and steeplechases in War' wickshire ; the first day's races of which I shall now, comment upon. Th e fi rs t race on th e ca rd is announceo, to be run off at h a lf- pas t one , an d i s th e Trial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added (the mile,course). Long: bow's name figures among the entries, but I under stand it will not be among th e starters. I presume that Poodl e will not be pulled out f or thi s s t a ke with the gre:st er attraction of the handicap on the following day in view ' more especially as he is not in the best of conditioni DEFIANCE is the only other celebrity in• the race ; and he runs, which is not altogether certain, of course, be wine. The Woodcote Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft. (five fur longs), has, with one exception, an entirely dark earl, consequently, considering the backward state of p rep ration which most horses are in at the present time, It „.. a work of no ordinary difficulty to select but ne ) Stanley's Mirabeau is a very promising animal,,Mss Sitty as forward in his work as he might be. Cockle filly is slightly fancied by her stable. Oleasttaser promises good things. The Uncleared and the Pet T es ohu a winner. Xri. filly are but indifferent animals. The ch cby Job o'Gaunt, as he receives 51bs, ought to be sonow' k about the mark ; and to him or OLEASTEB I Shall look for the winner, though not at all confident of hav in g the bull's-eye. The Willoughby Handicap will probably have Ol t six or seven starters. Sir Robe r t i s the top we eat) is lOst 121 b. I almost fancy the dist an ce (two r a a little too far for him. Trifle, with Mr. T. P err :ht .ni, if he runs, will be sure to finish in a pl ac e. Old ' % fe. at lOst 51b, ought to make the top Weigh° Smuggler Bill has his chance completely disposed ° an d Gaylad at 121bs less, who has beaten him befo re, will do so again. Peter Simple is out of his a le° „ r oel, here. The same remark will apply t o Torn `. l ith Tipperary Boy, and the Hero. The King of Troq e e a respectable rider up—always a dubi ous case in, The gentlemen jock races—ought to be fi rs t or secoeo• t he race, I fancy, will terminate in favour of Dona Cr KING OF TROY. t. o ne, The. Free Handicap of 10 sovs each, 5 ft.) c l.4 , — oer mile) will probably be contested by F or ester, PL A e tye Knight of the Thistle, Odiham, P r i am the Th i T re sts Idas gelding, Feramorz, Black Jack, and perhaps tire iy and Burndale. The race, in my opi n i on , will be % l a c% confined to Heroine, PRIAM THE THIRD, and .. : . ca ' -- JACK, with probably the last-named, the third P the winner. (,the fer The Sweepstakes of 5 says each, 20 added longs), for two year's old and upwards, w bo ros Farmers' Plate of 50 sovs, with 10 to the secone_r n - g for hunters, do not close and name until this ev en : sr . Mr. H. T. Thompson's three years' obi, br C, ", 4 • 1 the tish Yeoman out of Nurseling, has been ea tilv- British Farmer. „,„ A on Leamington races are announced to take pi — e ton Easter Tuesday, March the 29th, over the Lair ) ; of new race-course, which is oval, and 250 yards ,f• a mile in length, with a straight run in of 385 ysT"' r ag, Jennings, and J. Worthington, Esqrs., are the ste gr kor and Mr. Fallowfield th e j u d ge . Th e Leamingt 4ll o re► dicap and Hurdle Race close and name to Mr• 040 c.c., 115, W arw i c k- s t ree t, L eam i ngton, on or s - Wednesday next. rriot THE SPIRIT OF THE Ti)— BIRMINGHAM STEE] Weights for the Binning st lb 11 3 10 12 10 11 10 9 'LECHASES, MO GI 16°. tarn Annual Steeplechlt). lb 9 P Shinrone ............. 98 Betsy Prig ............ a; Voyager ............... Ringleader. ........... ; 6 Peter Vain Hope Bourton Oscar Abd-el-Kader Carrig Tipperaty Boy Victress The General Maurice Daley Maria Day Slattern . 10 8 10 5 .10 3 • 10 2 • 10 0 ▪ 10 0 10 0 9 13 Dearest Mae ...... ." n 5 Tom of Tuana ......... Honest Tom ......... 9 3 Benedict ............... ; 5 Talisman ............ • • n Geraldus ............. Sam Hood ......... •• • 9 0 „ Ringdove ........ " Sl' Forest Lad Forfeits to be declared on or before March luwrigbi [We have been requested to state that Dlr. Car t does not accept with Maurice Daley.] b e sir A Free Handicap Steeplechase ; acceptances to er ry, nified on or before the 16th of March, to S.tb Leamington if entered to be sold for 6 0 so va. . a . , _. , time of accepting allowed 71b ; 50, 101 b ; 30, 141° st lb t 141 St 9 Young Lottery (paid) 11 10 Dearest Mae lO 12 The Screw lO 7 Quickstep lO 7 Nom-de-Gurre lO 4 Trust-me-Not Kilwick lO 2 Tom Tough..., lO 2 Bullfincher lO 0 Widow Machree lO 0 The Unknown 9 12 lodine 9 11 Chorister 9 10 Cashier 9 10 WEIGHTS FOR THE S' Gulnare Hazard 9 The Witch 5 0tt0man..........••• 9 Harlequin ...........•• 9 Harkover 9 1 Tipton Slash er. Susan Telegraph 9 6 $ L L i a z b z y y ri . n . ..... .......... Countess ........ ..•••• 9 3 Vestress ............... S STEEPLE'3T. ALBS A.SE. 1u 29. A lb CHI' MARC st lb Vain Hope ll 0 Ploughboy lO 11 Oscar lO 9 Abd-el-Kader Carrig lO 2 Shinrone lO 2 Quickstep 9 12 Dearest Mae 9 12 Trust-me-Not 9 10 Dandy Jem 9 10 The Dean Forfeits to be declared a Poll ..................... 9 ; Contractor .••••••••"' 9 6 Viscount ..... . ......... 9 6 Talisman ... ... 9 .......... 6 Little Charley ..... 9 6 Gulnare ................ 9 Sam Hood ............. Rachael... ............ ; 9 Perjury .............. .• 0 0 Young o ery Ltt (dead)l or before the 15th inst. CHIPPING NORTCO MARC Acceptances for tl et lb STEEPLECITA S H 22. Le Free Handicap. St IP 10 n Unknown. ........•••• 6 Stanley 1 ................ e 6 Nimrod ................ „ 6 Blue Dick ............ 1 „v 4 Countess -- ........ 0 Pay the Wa,; ...... • •••, $ YoungLottery(destl) Peter Simple (includ ing 101 b extra) 13 0 Ploughboy l2 0 Rejected ll 5 Forest Lad ll 2 Friendless Reindeer. - 7 Contractor lO 7 THE DERBY STEEP] Weights for the M Yrs st lb ' Peter Simple a 11 8 Peter a 11 2 Vain Hope a 10 11 Warner a 10 8 Bourton a 10 8 Oscar a 10 6 Lucy Neale a 10 5 Shirone a 9 10 Weights for till st lb . 10 10 . 10 5 23. I,ECFIASES, 3101 011 idland Steeplechase. A lb yrs 10 Melford . ........ 9 0 View Halloo..• Daphne ... . " : 6 g 9 o Friendless ...... . a - 8 13 Springs ............. 5 81! Ringdove ........ a 8 Newman Nogge 6 Sir Robert Caurire Sir Harry (late Sca pulary) 9 13 Quickstep Giraldus 9 10 Hurdle Race. St VI TheHero(lateNcood• 9 fold) .... • • g 5 Lizzy ............ •• • 9 2 Harmony ........ ••• • • 8 1%3 Gerard............. •• • 3 1/ cby Drayton...... • THE STEAM-SHIP AUSTRALIA PLYMOUTH, MAL I g The Australian steam-thip, Captain Hoseas° ° ' ves ter' made a successful trial trip round the Eddystone46o°s day, under the inspection of the Dock-yard an, t ; des ig and Captain Henderson, proceeded on Pe ' 1 0 1 : 1 annation at five p.m. Among the passengers on 1,3,0 31 the numerous staff of the chartered Austral-W: 1 00 i ! Mining, Importing, and Refining Company , - o cc)- pl of its general manager, Capt. Henry Baker, A.; n lionf, metallurgist and assayist, Mr. Charles Watt, of Mr. Charles Braithw a yt e , M r . J. H ar f o rd 101 41 11 about twenty well-selected engineers, a ssista n n Y : it °;" mechanics, who take with them a large 31 tp specie, with iron houses, tents, waggons, and t- oltil i b . site apparatus and implements for assaying an d 5 ,:d The men appeared in excellent health, and On" e s ' great satisfaction to the prospects before thenl'oros pecially as they are to participate in the the Oa f ! of the undertaking. It appears th a t up to t, °P . no systematic course has been pu rs ued by w - teo tei nary gold diggers in Australia, w ho have n°ll ol eo themselves with that portion of the precion ° t win' visible to the eye, and have thrown away nr u te l sand tons, because they present e d n o iminews" larg e ' fit, while this very refuse is said to contain o'olo4' proportion of gold than what h a d a l rea dy been 131 .3 tha t It is to the extraction from thi s a b an d o ned deP n— wl d the company are about t o di rect t h e i r a ttention , " o re° order to insure success th e y h ave veryprudentil b as in' the valuable servi ces . o f M r. C harles Watt, sch n ,Z r oog b „ vented an economical mode of extraction, ,rby the which the expensive practice hitherto followed, yak use of quicksilver, is avoided. However, ' c ' ear e to surety doubly sure, the company have taken ; the secure to themselves a large freehold estate I . ll str ict• county Th The man, they say, is the be ne factor tfioid greatestard ' t to fellow-man who can produce from a square y p % . the greatest number of grains of wheat, - an d 11 5 — c0 111e him we may place the one who can extract fro n ;i, yard In iof earth the largest amount of grains ofg° l “ v in' point of view, the contemplated ingenious a o f the dus s trious course propounded b the promoteni„ C olt Chartered Com e y y • s well Whic h mendation. We have seen a pa li n st ' of l the counts among its me m b ers some of the most an Bl 7tv o r and busines s -lik e men w h o are to be found in the u re l c ord provinces. We shall be truly pleased hereafter tl 4r e ster fi the success of this legitimate enter Prise• Courier. • bori t f THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.— We h a ve sot re 0 to contradict the statement that Sir Richard gl,/ lice' about to retire from the Chief Co ' ' • Wl' .1 ' ° e t! mmissionei s i or There is not, nor has ever been, any foundation for a reports-- Times. ' , .