The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The municipal council of St. Alalo has authorised the mayor, in case the Emperor should visit that town in the course of his tour in Britany, to take proper measures to receive him in a distinguished manner. We read in the Patrie : " A new company is about being founded at Havre for carrying on the whale fishey under the title of the Whaling Company." Prospectuses have been pub lished, in which the name of Prince Napoleon is men tioned as honouring the undertaking with his patron age. This announcement, which is published by the Incle pendance of Brussels, among other journals, can only be the result of an error. We are authorised to deilare that Prince Napoleon is, and intends to be, completely unconnected with this company, as well as all other in dustrial undertakings which have not solely great pa triotic interests as their object." The Indefatigable corvette has just arrived at Brest from the Isle de la Reunion, touching at the Cape and Gore°. She left the French colony in a very satisfactory state. The Journal des Debats gave some time ago a notice of a work by M. Dollitts, in favour of a re duction of the duties on foreign cotton-thread, contending that whilst a reduction would have the effect of enabling the public to purchase cotton goods at a cheaper rate, it would not operate inju riously on the interests of the manufacturers. Several of the cotton-spinners in different parts of France, among whose names we notice those of MM. Kcechlin, Cox, Barbet, and Odin, have put forth an answer to M. Dollfus, denying the correct- ness of the calculations on which he founds his ar guments and assertions that the reduction of the duties demanded by him would not be ruinous to them and to their workmen. The Constitutionnel of yesterday devotes nearly the whole of its first page to anotice of this answer, .to which it gives its cordial adhesion. We extract as follows the con cluding portion of the article : " How is it, says M. Dollfus, that, in the countries which surround us, particularly in Switzerland and Ger many, spinning establishments prosper with duties of from 6to 7 per cent. only ? The spinning trade, what ever M. Dollfus may say, is far from being very flourish ing. Facts prove this. If the Zollverein and Austria produce 43 millions of kilogrammes of cotton thread, they import 40 millions, that is to say, nearly the half of what they consume. The Zollverein of itself receives .26 millions of kilogrammes, or nearly one kilogramme per inhabitant. It is besides known that very energetic complaints have arisen from all parts in the Zollverein against the insufficiency of the protection afforded to the spinning trade, and there is also reason to believe that they will soon be attended to. At the time of the esta blishment of the Zollverein, foreign cotton thread was admitted on payment of a duty of 2 kreutzers a p•und ; 10 years ago the duty was raised to 3 kreutzers. All the spinners now demand that it should be increased to 4 kreutzers at least, and M. Dollfus himself publishes a letter from a m anufacturer, in which he declares that he cannot stand against foreign competition, except on that condition. It remains to be seen whether, if this second increase of duty be once granted, it will not soon lead to a third. Light duties were at, first imposed on foreign cotton thread at the same time that woven goods were subjected to heavy protective duties, because the native spinning trade was not in a position to supply the wants of the weaving trade which existed on a large scale. As, however, the Zollverein increased in industrial power, it aspired to a ppropriate to itself the spinning as well as the weaving trade, and far from diminishing the duties on foreign thread, it on the contrary increased them in order by de grees to get possession of the whole trade in cotton. It is necessary for us to state what it is that supports the existence of the spinning trade in Switzerland and Ger many. It is the absence of local charges, and more par ticularly the low price of labour. Incontestable docu ments prove that thu wages paid to the workmen em ployed in spinning mills in Switzerland and in Germany are not more than half or three-fifths of what it is in France. Is it wished that our spinners should bring down wages to the same rate as in those countries, or reduce their workmen, with the charges which weigh on them, to the same condition as the Swiss and German workmen ? The tariff proposed by M. Dollfus would, in fact, place them in this alternative ; either to reduce the wages by one half, or to close their establishments and throw their workmen into the streets." There is nothing else of interest in the original columns of the Paris journals of yesterday. In Government Securities there was not much business transacted at the Bourse yesterday, and the prices of stock varied but little from Satur day's quotations. The Three per Cents., for cash, improved 30c., and the Four-and-a- H a lf per C en t s . had declined oc. at the conclusion of business. An' advance of of. took place in Bank Shares. The final quotations, for cash, were:—Three per Cents., 80f. 35c.; Four-a n d- a -H a lf per C en t s., ditto, 103 f. 40c. Bank Stock, 2735 f. Business in the Railway Share Market was again more active than was the case with Rentes, with a general firmness in prices, shares in some of the principal lines having ad vanced from 2f. to 2f. 50c. each at the close of business. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 20th contains a circular addressed by the new Minist,r of the Inte rior to the Governors of ProTinces. In it he calls on them to act according :to the wishes of the Go vernment, which he describes to be for activity and uprightness in the administration, for justice, for all rights, and toleration for all opinions. He spe cially recommends them to " concede to the periodi cal nress the greatest latitude for the examination of all acts which fall legitimately within the domain of public opinion, and at the same time to defend from attacks, according to the laws in force, the sacred rights of religion, the royal family, pub lic morality, and the honour of private life. He also orders them to display zeal in removing any just grounds of complaint, and in promottng by all means iu their power the moral and material ipterests of the country. The Gazette also pub lishes a royal decree, by which an advance of Gal licia which is suffering dreadfully from two bad harreAs. The Nacion states that the Ministers of War, the Interior, and Finance, in the last Cabinet, although only a few weeks in power, made upwards of 600 nominations to public places —the greater part of them, especially in the army, being of unworthy persons, and a number of meri to,ious employes having been dismissed to make room for them. A letter stal€s that capitalists were making advances of funds to the Government for the service of the-ensuing month 4 Three per Cent., 43i ; One per Cents., 24 1-16 ; Bons du Comite, 4. ITALY. In the sitting of the 21st of the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Finance in troduced a bill for the construction of a complete net-work of roads in the county of Nice. The TVand6rer of Vienna of the 21st says : " Letters from Turin announce that the Sardinian Government has solicited the mediation of Great Britain in its differences with our Cabinet, but we do not yet know whether our Cabinet has accepted the mediation of that power." DENMARK. The Prussian Gazette has the following from Co penharfen dated - the 19th :—" The dissolution of the Diet has produced a profound sensation. When the Minister of Finances read to the Diet the decree of dissolution, the members cried Long live the Dina," but the public in the g all er i es gave three cheers for the Diet. The President threatened to have the galleries cleared, but this threat pro duced no effect, and immediately afterwards three. cheers were given for the 45 members of the oppo sition. It is said that in the Council of Ministers which preceded the dissolution of the Diet, the Ministers Bang and Simong strongly opposed this measure, and this was the motive for their resig nation." The Flyveposten of Copenhagen, announces that on the 21st, the Kin 9. of Denmark had not accepted the resignation of the c ' Ministers Bang and Simong. The Kiobenhavensposten states that M. Oerstedt is to enter the Ministry, and to become President of the Council. GERMANY. The New Zurich Gazette of the 23d says :—" We received yesterday the following telegraph dispatch front F p re t u a r a g •. ' The revolutionary movements have bCen._ wounded ;tan' Carrari has been killed • Perrier Weidt, and takenprisoner ; Week, ? Von der Wailleret, and many.others, made pri soners. T htil er , of the principal insurgents, and the moment so p roivteicl for Switzerland which had been selected,' fully planned. This that the whole affair was care ' another dispatch was . received. The of the Council of War Perrier iscrut(7lyemet known but it is most respecting probable he will be to ' death. Schuh persons have fled. theys, Griset, and his so n .t e l both sides there have been six killed (. ; >f Z lig, , On on the side of the civic guard, MelchoinT Perfectly beadle, and Chassocbaker. Orderhasisir' and town The restored. The two upper gates of the et l P the college were occupied by the insurgents, c:v:c guard and the militia assembled at tt lira alarm. All the lines of access to the college were forced, sword in hand. Carrari fell in front ol v t e l r i e e college, pierced with balls. Perrier was wounded at his side, soul? persons say slightly, others ents at last, findin g them severely. The insurgents selves surrounded and hemmed in on all sides, sur rendered. A state of siege has been declared." A domiciliary visit was made at Hamburg on the 21:: . ,t, at the residence of a merchant, and his letters examined ; but nothing was found of a com promising character. • A Berlin journal states that the Prussian Pro cnreur of State, M. Akerner, has proceeded to London to make inquiries as to the connection which may exist between the plot recently dis covered at Berlin and the machinations of the political refugees in London. A letter from Prague states that eleven persons have been arrested in that city for singing revolu tionary songs in a public-house ; five of them have been brought before the court-martial of Hrad schim, in conseqUence of the police having dis covered several compromising papers at their re sidences. Prince de Schwartzenberg, the civil and military Governor of Transylvania, has arrived at Vienna. It is, reported there that he will be named Governor of Milan, a rumour which appears the more pro bable, from his having been summoned to Vienna by an autograph letter of the Emperor. In consequence of the severe measures adopted in the province of Posen against the Polish re f ugees, 200 of them have thou g ht fit to take refuge in London. TURKEY. The Moniteur publishes a telegraphic dispatch from Constantinople of the 14th instant. The Turkish capital was perfectly tranquil. Constantinople advices of the 15th have reached Vienna by way of Belgrade. According to this news, too, the state of affairs in Turkey is satis factory, and the negotiations were progressing favourably. A third dispatch, which came by way of Trieste, announces that the French Ambassador, M. de la Cour, has had an audience, and that the Sultan received him with marked attention. This dispatch contains the additional information that the pre sence at Constantinople of the Ambassadors of France and England has had a strong and favour able influence on the progress of affairs. On the 15th instant the British fleet was still at Malta. One of her Majesty's steamers had just arrived from Constantinople with dispatches from Lord Stratford de Radcliffe for Admiral Dundas. The same steamer carrying dispatches for the British Government, was to leave for Portsmouth.- The Prussian Gazette, under date of Vienna, 20th, says :—" It is positively stated that the inde pendence of Montenegro will be guaranteed by special treaties between the Ottoman Porte and the other powers. Th e d ec l arat i on o f i n d epen den ce will take place in the customary forms. The de parture of Baron de Meyeudorff from St. Peters burg is, it is said, fixed for the 26th. M. de la Torre d'Ayllon, the Spanish Ambassador at our Court, who has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, will remain here, as the state of his health will not allow him to undertake the journey to Madrid." A letter from Trieste of the 21st, in the Lloyds of Vienna, states that an announcement has been pub lished to the effect that the blockade of the coasts of Albania has been taken off by the Ottoman Porte. The Spener Gazette states from Constantinople that all the Armenian, Greek, and Latin Rayahs have addressed a petition in common to the Sultan praying him to place them on a footing of equality with the Mussubnans. HOUSE RENT IN PARIS. The Siede says :—" In these latter times, rents gene rally, and especialiy for small apartments, appear to have risen too high. What is the cause of this We readily believe that if the rise had been simply the natural and normal result of the resumption of labour and the ac tivity of business, it would have taken place, as on other occasions, gradually, asd not with the sort of suddenness which has caused so many complaints. Evidently, another cause has conspired with that one to aggravate the effects of the increase. We do not in any respect intend to dispute the great interest attached to the immense works of demolition and rebuilding which we see multiplied in all parts. Besides affording regular labour to the working class, they luckily free the capital of a host of old streets, which for the .most part contained only poor residences ; they' contflbute greatly to the health of the town and the welfare of the inhabitants ; they prepare and facilitate new embel lishments ; and there is not a Parisian who does not receive with joy, almost with enthusiasm, all the projects for new streets, prolongations, enlargements, and levelling voted every week, with admirable zeal, by the municipal commission of Paris. For our part, we cannot help feeling a veritable satisfaction whenever we have to register the incessant testimonies of the inde fatigable zeal of our tediles. However, in our moments of calm reflection, we cannot dissimulate that all these simultaneous demolitions, all these quarters which disappear as by enchantment, occasion the forced removal of a part of the population, and cause serious inconvenience to the working class. It is notorious, in fact, that 'the prompt disappearance of an infinity of houses, let for the most part at a low rate, and their suc cessive replacing by edifices more or less splendid, render it impossible for families not in good circumstances to find henceforth lodgings on the same conditions as for merly ; that the competition which ensues reacts natu rally on the value of lettings ; that the proprietors, on their part, do not perhaps regret very bitterly this situa tion ; and that the workmen are constantly constrained to go to a distance from their workshops, and to seek refuge at the extremities of the town, and even in the suburbs, where they do not even always find it so eco nomical to live." The illoniztr, as if anticipating the remarks of the Siecle, says :—" After the 10th of December 1848, when order was re-established, the Government endeavoured to revive labour by means most in conformity with the public interest and with a good municipal administration. The population of Paris had considerably diminished ; money was hid ; goods remained unsought in the shops and stores ; materials and wages fell in price ; the num ber of apartments and shops to let amounted to 75,000, and the floating population of the hotels and fur nished lodging-houses had fallen from 70,000 to 45,000 ; rent had fallen considerably, and yet suffer ing was to be seen everywhere, but principally among the working classes, who were either without occu pation or who were employed on work of a sterile cha racter. To give employment and bread to the work man, it was necessary to reanimate the most fruitful industry of all—namely, building. But how was th a t to be done ? W ere b u ildi ngs to h raised on unoccupied ground, or old quarters to be demolished in order to open new streets through them ? It was not possible to invite speculators seriously to erect new buildings when the third of the existing lodgings were empty and when rent had everywhere fallen. On the contrary, the Administration, by pulling down buildings in order to reconstruct, found the double advantage of restoring value to building property by placing resources in the hands of those persons who could give employment and of replacing those narrow, winding, dark, and un wholesome streets by wide new ones, which by giving more space around the public buildings would allow air and light to' circulate freely. The most prudent and most useful combinations have, however, their incon veniences. Undertaken on a grand scale, the demolitions led to a very considerable displacement of the population; at the same time, thanks to the re-establishment of con fidence, strangers and workmen again found their way to Paris, and the floatiug population rose even above the number of the best preceding years. At present, there are in the furnished hotels upwards of 70,000 persons, exclusive of nearly 15,000 lodged in the hotels of the banlieue. The natural consequence of this prosperous situation has been a rise in rents, but at the same time, also, the rate of wages has risen and become regular. However, this amelioration has not been effected without pro ducing a momentary difficulty for persons with small incomes or with moderate salaries, and, above all, for non-resident workmen, the number of whom has in creased from an unexpected cause —the mildness of the winter, which allowed the works to be continued almost without interruption, and kept in Paris the workmen who usually at that part of the year return to their departments. But this state of things cannot last. Private speculation is beginning to turn its attention to wards new constructions, which will soon re-establish an equilibrium, and give to the labouring classes more wholesome and more convenient habitations. On its side, the Government is paying attention to the momen tary embarrassments of the working population. Already a sum of three millions has been placed, by a decree of the Emperor, at the disposal of the Minister of the Interior, to be distributed in subventions to such landlords as will enter into an engagement to provide wholesome and cheap lodgings, and the administrative authorities are seeking out all other means of remedying the inconveniences of this situation." TRADE or NEW YORK.—The commercial advices from New York are wholly devoid of interest. The stock and money markets were steadily improving, and the rate of discount was 7 to 9 per cent. Regarding the alleged discovery of new gold deposits in Oregon, scarcely any further particulars are given, the only re mark being that they are situated in districts called the Yakina country and Grande Ponde, and that their ex istence has been confirmed by the arrival of several persons. From Panama it is mentioned that her Ma jsty's ship Dmdalus was understood to have left Acapulco (Mexico) on the 18th March, with $2,000,000' specie, the whole' of which she would take to England except $700,000 that would be transmitted lid the Isthmus. The steamer Unicorn was to leave Panama for Australia on the gth of April, and the prospects of trade with that country were of a nature to excite increased interest at all the ports on the Pacific, from the demonstrations constantly occurring that the Panama route is the true one between England and Sydney. MYSTERIOUS DEATH' IN THE RIVER THAMES.—Yes terday Mr. Baker, summoning officer of St. Clement Danes, forwarded to Mr. Higgs information of the dis 7,veerry_ .l of the b o d y o f a young man that morning, in the ies, off the Temple-stairs. The deceased, who trousers anal appearance, had on black cloth were gilt studs inrhoiis• waistcoat, with Wellin,, , rton boots. There rowing aloue in a I') ,4 11irt, lint he bad no coat, and it loatthat circumstance he had been is conjectured f There is some suspieio, and may have fallen overboard. as his Pocketsin lies were turned inside out, and r m a i s r el twuerkntehtiess,suneodr y a e n s y te t r h d i anything to t i o t as there was no money lead to his identification. THE COINAGE. l n s t t of March last, • appears that in the quarter ended the gold coinage made at the 11 ,: ; ' i 4,335,357/. 10s. 7d., and th e silver coina,acnitrA te P No copper coinage was made in the same quarter. ~..~ ...a THE ,SEJN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1853. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE TIMES AND THE GOVERNMENT. ( From the Morning _Herald.) A discreditable sort of scuffle is going on in France just now, touching the sale of one of the principal Pari sian newspapers. But what is this to the transaction which is being carried on under our own eyes, in the open, flagrant, undeniable prostitution of the foremost London journal ; which is seen to deny and recant its own principl es , so f ar as it h as any, and to support the very opposite, in return for an enormous money-consi deration, remitted to it out of the Imperial Treasury ? It is now little more than four months since the Times newspaper wrote the following sentences : " Such are the leading features of the new income tax arrangement ; and although we think that in fairness a greater difference should have been established betweenthe rates of taxation, still we give Mr. Disraeli credit for the recognition of a sound principle, which, once introduced, will render subsequent modifications easy. For many years the red-tapists have denied either the justice of the distinction, or the possibility of carrying it out in practice, if ihe principle had been allowed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has admitted its justice, and is at least about to test the possibility of carrying it out. He deserves all commendation for the course he has pursued, and we may congratulate him upon it the more heartily, that we have been long struggling to obtain the result--struggling as men will struggle when they know that the truth of principle they advocate will one day or another be acknow ledged. The thought strikes one over and over again, how easy it would have been for the Whigs to do all this, and to have gained a bettor hold on the respect and affection of the country. But no—the self-satisfaction of a coterie was too strong for the suggestions of sound policy, or the dic tates of j ustice." Still later, on the 30th of December, the same paper again recurred to the subject in the following terms : , " Thus, then, it appears that whatever ministry may succeed to- power, or whoever may administer the financial department of Government, the claims of the sufferers under the present unjust system of levying the income tax can no longer be resisted. The principal saving clause in Mr. Disraeli's Budget was his proposition for remedying in a rough manner the inequalities of the present method of levy. He did not merely sigh over the injustice of the tax and then do his utmost to perpetuate it, but he acknow ledged. it, and endeavoured to introduce a practical mitiga tion. We presume that the great bulk of those gentlemen who supported the late Government in the House of Com mons were prepared to vote in favour of their leader's proposition for a modification of the income tax. At least tire members of Lord Derby's Cabinet are bound to give their assistance to any future minister who may endeavour to carry out their'bwn views. When we turn to the other great division of the house, we find as a fact, which has been proved by the result of many parliamentary contests, that the leading popular members who represent the feel ings and opinions of the great town constituencies have always raised their voices against the present unjust system of assessment under the income tax acts. The only dissen tients are the red-tapists, who see no further back than yesterday and no further forward than to-morrow. "But, now that the battle is fought and won—now that we can very clearly discern that the sacrifice is no longer needed—we ask that the unequal burden may at length be removed from our shoulders. We have now purposely for borne to repeat, for the thousandth time, the arguments which demonstrate the injustice of the present system. They are as familiar to our readers as to ourselves ; they are even acknowledged by the opponents of all propositions fora review of the obnoxious tax. Even we admit that it is impossible to have direct taxation without a certain leaven of injustice. We only say, since injustice there must be, let us have as little of it as possible." Here we had, only the other day, loud vaunti of what the Times had done—its struggles for a just principle, its victory, and the final decision of the question in its favour. December, however, has passed away, and .April suc ceeds. A new Chancellor of the Exchequer follows Mr. Disraeli, and a new budget has to be opened. What be comes of the Times, and of its victory, now ? Mr. Gladstone, in his speech of Monday last, trampled upon a dozen of the boasted leader's of the Ti4es---Ltore' them to atones i and-kicked them right and left. The vaunted triumph, obtained underMi.Disraeli, is gone in a moment. The object for which the Times professed to, labour so earnestly, all through October and November past,. is aiow utterly frustrated; its ?justice" is declared to be injustice; and that which it main tained to be "inevitable" is definitively denied—not for an hour or a year only, but utterly and fob ever. - How does the Times bear its disappointment ? Had it ever been in earnest about the thing, it would have been angry. But it never was in earnest, and accord eats the leek With The most edifying. apd lamb like meekness. It not only accepts -the. new. budget, with the unmitigated income tax, calmly, but it even declares the whole scheme to be a token , Of the special favour of Heaven ! But is it possible that truckling so low and mean as this can be submitted to in the full gaze of the British public ? Is there no disguise, no pretext for submitting to what was declared, only in Dedember last, to be gross injustice ? Yes, one wretched pretext, one bare faced sham, is attempted, under cover of which the Times hopes to escape from utter contempt. It is said that the budget atones for the continuance of the unal tered income tax by promising its entire remission at the end of seven years. But who can be deluded by such a plea as this ? Did any one ever imagine for a moment that the perpetuity of the income tax was going to be proclaimed ? Always, whenever that tax is named in Parliament, its temporary character is invariably asserted. Sir Robert Peel, when first proposing the tax, in 1842, de scribed it as intended to meet a present emergency ; and asked for its enactment for only three years. Again and again excuses have been found for renewing the term of three years, or, sometimes, of renewing it for one year only ; but in all cases, its speedy discontinu— ance has been spoken of as near at hand. No Chancellor of the Exchequer could have ven tured to take any other line than this. All the world knew that Mr. Gladstone was only going to ask the house to give one more short term to this tax. Some expected it to be three years, some five. But when Mr. Gladstone asks Parliament to renew a tax which - has already lived through eleven years, for seven years more, he gives the clearest proof that he means nothing like its discontinuance. In 1860 the tax will have lasted con tinuously for eighteen years. Will any man then ven ture to rise in Parliament and talk about the tax as a temporary one ? A temporary impost, and yet lasting, in time of peace, for nearly twenty years ! The idea is simply absurd.. But, to return to the Times. This paper, after assert ing the gross injustice of the present income tax, and the certainty of its immediate improvement, sees its efforts all laughed at, and its demands treated with contempt. Yet it kisses the hand which smite, it ; and pronounces a budget of injustice to be a token of the special favour of Heaven. Why is all this ? The answer is obvious, and it is one on which there can be no dispute. Simultaneously with this celestial budget, theie conies forth an announcement that one particular remission will take place in the stamp duties, of a character which will benefit the Times newspaper largely, and which will benefit scarcely any other creature. As the remission of the stamp duty on advertising supplements had never been asked or desired, there can be no mistake as to the origin and cause of this singular step. It was a gratui tous gift to the Times—a gift which has been variously estimated at 15,0001., 25,0001., and even at 40,0001. a-year. The extasy of the Ti.ees with a budget thus granted by the " special favour of Heaven," is now in telligible enough. But what are we to think of the transaction generally ? A Minister w ou ld h es it a t e f or a long time before he ventured to give a newspaper a sum of 100,0001. out of the Treasury, as the price of its sup port of the Government at a particular crisis. How is it, then, that he can so coolly grant a boon which is equal to ten times the capital of 100,0001., to a news paper whose views were known to be opposed to his own, but who, on being promised such a g ift, i s i nstantly converted to the belief that what it before pronounced to be grossly unjust is, in fact, the very perfection of jus tice ? Will not such a boon and such a conversion, hap pening simultaneously, go down to posterity branded with the indignant reproaches of some future Macaulay, as proving that England in the nineteenth century, in spite of its pretences to superior purity, could rival the days of Walpole in grossness of corruption, and eclipse the practices of America in the "management of the press ? NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS. (From the Daily News.) After the recent debate and decision of the House of Commons we hoped and expected the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have provided for the total repeal of the Advertisement Duty as a tax not only oppressive and unequal in its character, but also as one which tends to cripple and restrict business ope rations. But he has announced only a reduction, not repeal. Even this is a boon to the public, since it helps to untrammel the channels of publicity. The interest of the public and of the Press are in this instance quite identical, and the course pursued by the Chancellor has this recommendation, that it confers a public benefit with very little, if any, loss to the revenue of the country. If the reduction of the Advertisement Duty to 6d. be the only alteration made in the laws re lating to the Press that Mr. Gladstone dare venture upon, he makes his experiment cheaply, for the nominal loss of revenue will be made up to the Exchequer in the course of a very few months. The alteration proposed in reference to the Stamp Duty on Supplements is of a different character. It must have originated in mistake. It would have been, as we said on its first announcement, " a huge gift to the Times." Not that we meant to convey the impres sion that the Chancellor of Cut Exchequer had any cor rupt intention. We simply described the real tendency of his proposition about Advertisement Supplements. The origin of ,the proposal e.t.n be easily traced. It is matter of notoriety that th e Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, Mr. John Wood, has long held the opinion that the Times ought to be relieved from the tax on the supplements issued by that paper, and it is only to be regretted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not more carefully consider an opinion which he would have found to be un sound in principle an d unjust in practice. It proceeded entirely on a misapprehension of the character of a supplement under the present law. The special feature of th a newspaper law is that the size of a sheet is limited, an'.l any extension of such size in volves an increased du', T . A supplement simply offers the convenience of ariowing a newspaper proprietor to enlarge any particulrz number of the journal by the issue of a separate sheet of paper instead of printing it upon an enlarged sheet- By this means provision is made more eas kly for occasional pressure, and the principle of the law tAat a sl%eet of a certain size shall involve a penny sta rap is r maintained. What may be the need for such enla rgerafint is unimportant. Whether it arise from the amore 'legitimate cause, a pressure of interesting news, or a ora ;9, less !legitimate reason, namely, the ne oes.Aty of ac eon imo d at i ng a larger number: of advertise ments, the simply deals with the fact and provides accordingly, ~ O ne paper, the Morning Chronicle, at the time of the Great Exhibition frequently availed itself of this facility for enlargement, not in consequence of any pressure of advertisements, but because a single paper did not afford space to allow it to describe the wonders of the Exhibition to French and German visi tors, each in its own language, as well as to its English public. The Times constantly avails itself of this facility under the pressure of advertisements. If the opinion of Mr. John Wood had been in operation at that time, the expanding courtesy of the Chronicle in its polyglot pub lications would have been subjected to increased taxation fromwhich the profitable Supplements of the Times would have been free. These examples will illustrate the unfair, and to the public the injurious, operation of such an ar rangement as was proposed by the Chancallor of the Ex chequer. The size of the newspaper—that is, of the space in which public news, intelligence, and occurrences might be narrated—would have been restricted, but the space in which the proprietors of newspapers find commercial advantage was to have been unliniited ; but it might be said that this was, at all events, a partial relaxation of the press law, and that it was, in fact, exempting adver tisements from charges and burdens which were intended to apply simply to that which was properly news. Even this explanation was impossible, for the law would still have remained which declares all papers published weekly or oftener, or at intervals not exceeding twenty six days, and which contain wholly or principally adver tisements, to be newspapers, and liable to be stamped as such. The consequence would have been that a paper which is wholly an advertising sheet, such as the North British Advertiser, would have remained liable to the same penny stamp as now, while the Times, or, in deed, any other newspaper, might have published its advertising sheet free from duty. The argument which was put forward with much adroitness by the manager of the Times, before the Newspaper Stamp Committee, and which has since been swallowed by many un reflecting people —namely, that the operation of the supplement stamp compels the proprietors to check a circulation which would otherwise be illimitable, is simply absurd as a reason for special relief, for, assuming the charge for the advertisement to remain the same, a certain increase of circulation would produce an equal cost of production. Or, in other words, it is urged that the cost of paper and stamp on a certain number of supplements (say 30,000) is equal to the cash produce derived from the advertisements contained in the. supplement, and therefore the circulation is kept down to this number. The Government, therefore, are expected to relieve the paper from the stamp, that there may be not this hindrance on circulation. But as the halfpenny stamp is not half the cost of the supplement, an increased circulation of some two-thirds would pro duce again the same glut and loss. Would it be the duty of some future Chancellor of the Exchequer, under such circumstances, to propose that the paper used by the Times, •r any other paper similarly circumstanced, should be exempted from the payment of duty ? If not, then a similar exceptional reason must fail to justify a special exemption from a tax which would remain pay able on a supplement, if used for the more legitimate purpose of news. It is from no strong feeling of personal dislike to the contemplated alteration that we make these remarks. Any reduction of press taxation must be at least an in instalment of justice. And we repeat, we do not charge Mr. Gladstone with any unworthy motive, but give en tire credence to the reasons assigned by him in his speech. The alteration, as proposed by him, would have been beneficial to our own private interest, but it does not proceed upon a sound principle—it would work unjustly. It is our duty and our wish to advo cate only such measures as are sound and just, and hence our readiness to point out the error in Mr. Glad stone's Resolution on this subject, and to show the im possibility of its becoming law. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer had proposed to take off the duty from all supplements, or to remove the present restrictions on the size of newspapers—other questions connected with matters of detail would have arisen for consideration, but into these it is not neces sary at present to enter. With reference to the resolu tion now upon the table of the house, it is fortunate that 'it is so framed as to necessitate its withdrawal. If re produced in another shape, it will be then time enough to discuss it in the form which it may assume. If suf fered to drop sub siie;ztio, the financial resources of the Government will be greatly enlarged, for fhe gain will not only be the 40,0001. intended to have been aban boned, but also the additional supplement duty which will inevitably became payable. To withdraw a resolu tion may be mortifying, but in this case it \Till inevi-' tably save the Government from defeat, at d'it will serve an useful purpose, if it induce in proper quarters a doubt of the wisdom of the "intelligent officials" at the Stamp-office who misled Sir C. Wood so discreditably, and who have exposed the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer to danger and annoyance. THE BUDGET—LICENSED VICTUALLERS. '(Prom the Morning Advertiser.) Seven years are a long time. Yet for that long period the country is to be saddled with the income tax. Mr. Gladstone has made the proposal, and the House of Commons will not say "Nay." It was at one time thought it would, because the majority in that assembly had always, publicly and privately, expressed their de cided disapprobation of the unequal pressure of that most unpopular of all imposts. They had also, in privatp society, and publicly in the House, condemned the pro posal to renew the income tax for so long a period as seven years. But they will not, when the question comes to the vote, have the courage to act up to their expressed convictions. No doubt their motives for shrinking from the assertion of their professed principles will be varied. Some will vote with Ministers from party considerations. Others will abstain from giving hostile votes, because they have felt indignant at the unnatural combination into which their party had notoriously entered with the ultra portion of the Irish Brigade. And no inconsiderable number will abstain from voting, or vote with Ministers, because they have the fear of a dissolution before their eyes—an event which would prove exceedingly inconvenient to many, and ruinous, in a legislative sense, to not a few. Hon. gentlemen do not relish appeals to the country at any time ; but they have a special dislike to them when Parliaments, as in the present case, are but in their infancy. However, since it so happens, no matter from what combination of causes, that the part of the budget which refers to the income tax is to receive the sanction of the Legislature, it only now remains that we endeavour to prevail on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make those amendments in other parts of his financial scheme which are so greatly and glaringly defective. We unhesitatingly say, that there is no part of the budget which, if carried out, will prOve more unjust and oppressive in its operation than that which relates to licences. The pressure of the new principle on which licenses are to be granted will fall with fearful effect on a class of tradesmen who are already more heavily taxed than any other class in the community. Even with their present licences, the licensed victuallers can scarcely be said to realise any profit from the tobacco or cigars which they sell. With so vast an addition to the price of their licences, they will be losers by all they vend; and yet, to make their case all the harder, they will be obliged to keep tobacco and cigars for the accommoda tion of their customers. We have hitherto abstained from all reference in our leading columns to the injustice which the budget con templates committing on this respectable class of trades men, in the hope, day after day, that we should see some intimation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that that part of his scheme was the result of ,inadvertence, and would be amended. But as yet we have waited in vain. The right hon. gentleman has hitherto made no sign ; neither has either of his two morning organs broken silence. It is high time, therefore, that we should ourselves—as some of our correspondents already have done—point out the contemplated injustice. It is as flagrant a case as could be imagined. It needs but to be named to insure, we should suppose, the immediate attention and prompt redress of the right hon. gentle man. At present the body of tradesmen to whom we refer have to pay 161. for their general licence, and now it is proposed to subject them to an impost of 24 per cent., where the rent paid exceeds 101., for permission to sell tobacco. The result of such a law, if passed, will be to press with a crushing effect on a large pro portion of the licensed victuallers. One correspondent illustrates the operation of the tax in his own particular case. He says that its effect would be to raise the amount of his licence for the sale of tobacco, from ss. 3d. to 81. ls. 3d-, while in the case of a friend, whom he has in his eye, who pays a yearly rental of 1,0001., it would raise the price of, his tobacco licence to 501. a year. From various other correspondents we have received communications pointing out the injustice and oppres siveness of the proposed increase in the price of tobacco licences ; but it is not necessary that we should quote the particular illustrations which they , adduce of th e wa y in which this part of Mr. Gladstone 's Budget must ope rate. The two instances we have given are as good as a thousand. The thing is, indeed, so glaring that we can not for a moment doubt that as soon as it is pointed out to the right hon. gentleman, he will not lose a moment in amending the part of his Budget in which it occurs. It is right, however, that the parties more immediately affected should themselves act with promptitude and vigour, in a matter which is of such vital importance to them. Time presses ; and unless they adopt the neces sary steps to bring this part of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer's financial plans before him without delay, they may be too late. The licensed victuallers of Bristol have already met, spoken, and acted. Those of the me tropolis must not longer remain silent and inactive. They also must be up and doing. They should not wait until tlie trade in the provinces have set them the example. The example on the contrary, should be set by them to life country trade. If the trade, both in the metro polis and the provinces, could only act with promptitude, unanimity, and energy, their success is certain. Even if the Chancellor of the Exchequer should hesitate to abandon the contemplated increase in their tobacco licences, the members of the House of Commons will bring to bear upon the right hon. gentleman a pressure which he cannot resist. They have a good case. There never was a .better. It will, when brought before the house, should Mr. Gladstone not do justice before mat ters go that length, be irresistible. But we cannot doubt that, on the circumstances being properly represented to the right hon. gentleman, he will at once see that the part of his budget which relates to the raising of the price of tobacco licences, would be an act of great op pression and injustice to a large and respectable class of her Majesty's subjects, and that he will in consequence abandon it. We must refer to our Parliamentary report for what transpired in the debate last night. We do not remem ber a case in which the argument, the truth, and the justice of the case were more manifestly with the oppo nents of Ministers ; but it is quite au understood thing that if Ministers lack the arguments they will have the votes. They are sure of a majority : so at least they tell us ; anal a majority is with them the great thing after all. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. MONDAY.—Many years have expired since the openinc , day of the first spring meeting at Newmarket presented so winterly an aspect ; snow and rain fell alternately in heavy showers, and the day was comfortless in the ex treme. Circumstances so untoward led to the post ponement of the matches which were on the card, and to an alteration in the order of the time of running ; the first event set down for decision being at a quarter be fore three o'clock, instead of half-past one. The muster on the heath consisted chiefly of the inde fatigable class of business men, who, in spite of wind and weather, will congregate together. The racing was very scanty, and quite void of interest. At the Rooms, in the morning, even money was betted on West Australian for the Two Thousand, 5 to 2 agst Sylphine for the One Thousand, and 100 to 8 five times agst Orinoco for the Derby. Sweepstakes , of 20 sovs. each ; for three-yr-olds, 7st ; four. Bst 91b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and aged, 9st 41b. D.M. 5 subs. Captain D. Lane's - Ephesus, 4 yrs (Flatman) 1 Mr. Combe's Nervous, 3 yrs ....... ......(J Steggles) 2 Lord Glasgow's Incognitia, 3 yrs (T. Smith) 3 Mr. R. E. Cooper's The Friar, 3 yrs (Charlton) 4 Lord Exeter's Phrygia, 3 yrs (Helfer) 5 Betting--6 to son Ephesus, 3to 1 agst Nervous. The favourite made all the running, and won easily by a length. Bad third. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft if declared, &c. ; for three-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 5 subs., two of whom paid 10 sovs. ft. Duke of Bedford's Petrel, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Steggles) 1 Mr. R. E. Cooper's Jullien, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Jaggard) 2 Duke of Richmond's Officious, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b Betting—Even on Petrel, 7 to 4 agst Officious. Petrel and Officious were restive at the post, and delayed the start some time. Petrel made all the running, and won by a length and a half ; two lengths between second and third. The trainer of Jullien claimed the race, on the ground that Petrel had gone the wrong side of a post. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for foals of 1850, out of mares that never bred a winner ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; those by stallions that never got a winner al _ _ lowed 31b. A.F. 7 subs. Mr. Combe's Alamode, by Alarm, Bst 41b ...(Rogers) 1 Duke of Bedford's Diomedia, Bst (Pettit) 2 Lord Exeter's Cobnut, Bst 71b (Flatman). 3 Betting-6 to 4on Diomedia, 2to 1 agst Cobnut. A fine race—won by a head ; a neck between second and third. Fifty Pounds, for four-yr-olds, 7st 10113 ; five, Bst 91b ; six and aged, 9st. Last three miles of B. C. Mr. Mare's Ariosto, by Orlando, 6 yrs... (F. Butler) 1 Mr. Elwes's John of Berwick, 6 yrs (Rogers) 2 Lord Clifden's Poodle, 4 yrs, and Mr. J. A. Le Crass's Apostate, 4 yrs, were drawn. Betting-4 to lon Ariosto. Won in a canter. BETTING AFTER THE RACES.—Sig O'CLOCK. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. Even on West Australian. 7to 2 agst olonoco (taken). Bto 1 agst Filbert (taken). 10 to 1 agst Larbatus (taken). CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Missive. DERBY. • 40 to 1 agst Barbatus (taken). 20 to 1 agst Umbriel (taken). PARIS RACES. The first of the spring meetings came off on Sunday in the Champ. de Mars. The weather was favourable, and the immense arena of the Champ de Mars was com pletely lined with spectators. The Princess Mathilde, the Count do Morny, the Minister of War, and the Minister of State occupied the imperial tribune. The Emperor arrived just before the last race and remained"to the close. His Majesty was received with every mark of the most profound respect both on his arrival and on retiring. The I,ooof. STAKES for horses and mares of 3 yrs and upwards. Distance about 2,200 yards. 20 entries. Count de Coislin's c Aramis, 4 yrs, 1141bs (Bains) 1 M. Aumont's f Mika, 4 yrs, 1111 b 2 ,The VILLE DE PARIS STAKES of 6,000 f., given by the Municipal Council of Paris, for horses and mares of 3 yrs and upwards, foaled and bred in France or in Belgium. Entry, 200 f. M. Aumont's c Aguila, 4 yrs, 1151 b (Chifney) 1 Prince M. de Beauvau's c Nathan, 3 yrs, 881 b.. 2 THE STAKES OF THE ADMINISTRATION DES HARAS of 2,000 fr., for 3yrs old colts and fillies whost descent is traced in the - French Stud Book or in the English Stud Book. Entry 100 fr. Count d'Hedouvelle's c Javelot (Chifney) 1 Prince M.- de Beauvau's c Fontain THE CADRAN STAKES of 3,000 fr., added to 200 fr. entry, half forfeit, for horses and mares of 4yrs and upwards. M. Lataehe de Fay's f Trust, 4 yrs, 1071bs (Boldrick) 1 Mr. Carter's m Annette, syrs, 1241 b 2 HURDLE RACE for 1,000 fr., added to 100 fr. entry, for horses of all ages, all kinds, and all countries. The second horse to save his entry. Mr. Rackley's h Glenlyon, aged, 1361bs (Owner) 1 Mr. Roberi:s's m Vesta, aged, 1331bs SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 23. ENTERED INWARDS.—The City of Rotterdam, for Dun kirk ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Rhine, do ; Giraffe, do. ; Menai, Calais ; Leon, Harlingen ; Magnet, ditto ; Quiver, St. Michael's ; Alfred, do. ; Peters Mindo, Aarhuus ; (Irene, Memel; Ida Maria, Danzic ; Ravens bouriie, Antwerp ; Sophie, Copenhagen ; Johanna Maria, Newharlingerseil ; Admiral, Antwerp ; Albion, Gaerncey ; Waterwitch, Mogacloie ; Reform, Marans ; Ellen, Leghorn; Mette Elizabeth, Nykjobing ; Lena, Horsens ; Olga, Stet tin; Geziela, Hamburgh ; Jouge Cornelius, Hamburgh; Katriena, Groningen ; Juliana, Hamburgh ; Hoffnung, Konigsburg ; Rosimus, Hoyer ; Excel, Antwerp ; Espra, Boston ; Seppo Visser, Worcum ; Catharina, Johanna, Groningen ; Athenian, Adelaide, and Sourabaya, Rotter dam ; Prospect, Berdianski ; Walcheren, Middleberg ; City of Paris, Boulogne ' • Fycnoord, RGI kerdam ; Palm, Demerara ; Light zing, St. Michael's ; Prince Albert, New York ; St. Ma7tin, Lisbon ; Marie, Odessa. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Ravers bourne, for Antwerp ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Concordia, ditto ; Menai, Calais ; City of Rotterdam, Dunkirk ; Seine, Boulogne ' • Hoffnung, Htitnburg ; Neptunus, ditto • Sus sex, Port Philip ; Fyenoord, Rotterdam ; Walcheren, Sydney ; Prince Albert, Now York. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25. The flat, Speculation, with limestone, was totally wrecked on Saturday, on Burbo. The captain was drowned; two men saved by steam-tug, Athens. Tho Princess Royal arrived from Para ; sailed from thence March 13. She left the Shark loading for Liver pool. Tho Lena, Captain Thorns, which sailed from this port on the 13th for Montreal, has returned leaky and with pumps choked. The Columbus, arrived from Ceara, left that port March 23. The Bonita sailed, March 18, for Liverpool. The Tinarnara was half loaded. NEWPORT, April 24.—The Mary and Adeline, for New York, has put in leaky, and must discharge, having been aground. LONDONDERRY, April 24.—The Sampson, bound to Quebec, is leaky, and is discharging. WHITEHAVEN, April 25.—The. Richardson, hence to Liverpool, was got off shore at Duddon, but went down in eight fathoms ; 12 of crew drowned. FRASERBURGH, April 25.—ThelStella (st), from Clyde to Memel, has arrived in a sinking state. DUNKIRK, April 25.—The Stag, from Hull, got on shore at Mardyck on the 22d inst., but is expected off. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. Arrival at Sydney, Now South Wales—The Hamlet and the Waterloo, from London ; the Bengal Merchant, from Adelaide ; the Beejapore, from Liverpool ; the steamer Cleopatra, from Melbourne ; the Bella Vista, Jan. 9, from Valparaiso ; the Earl of Hardwicke, Jan. 11, from the Auckland Islands ; the Rival, Jan. 12, from Melbourne ; the Johan Caesar, from Hamburgh ; the Moa, Jan. 13, from Auckland. Put Back—The Alverton and the Equestrian, leaky. Departures from Sydney.—The Statesman, Jan. 8, from China ; the Blair, for Melbourne ; the Thomas and Henry, Jan. 10, for Melbourne ; the Chaseley, for Valparaiso ; the Humboldt, Jan. 11, for Akyab ; the Omar Godeifroy, Jan. 12, for Batavia ; the steamer Rajah Wallie, for Mel bourne ; the Kate, Jan. 12, for London ; the Cuthberts, Jan. 13, for London ; the Favourite, Jan. 13, for Tahiti ; the Equestrian, for Norfolk Island ; the Coldstream and the City of Poonah, for Calcutta. Arrival at Port Macquarie.—The America, Jan. 1, from Liverpool for Moreton Bay. Arrivals at Geelong.—the Janet Mitchell, Jan. 3, from London ; the Wandsworth, Jan. 4, from London. Arrivals at Melbourne.— The Emigrant, Jan. 3, from Sunderland ; the Colooney, from Adelaide ; the Panola, from Liverpool ; the Sylph, from Sydney ; the Anna Dixon, Jan. 4, from Adelaide ; the Freedom, Jan. 3, from Jersey ; the Northumbria, Jan. 5, from London. Departures from Melbourne.—The Augusta Schneider, Jan. 6, for Adelaide ; the Ileydal, for the Mauritius ; the Exact for Akyab ; the Dreadnought, Jan. 7, for Adelaide ; the City of Lincoln, for Callao; the Margaret, for Ade laide. • Cleared at Melbourne.—The Lady Eveline, Jan. 5, for Amoy; the Ann Bridson, for Port Fairy and London ; the Prince Regent, Jan. 4, for Bombay; the Reindeer, for Sydney ; the Rip Van Winkle, for Calcutta; the Chalmers, for Calcutta ; the Constance, for Amoy. FOREIGN GOODS FOR EXPORTATION.-It having been represented to the Custom authorities that the practice at the quays on either side of the Custom-house, &c., of requiring the landing surveyor to certify on the lockers' slips in cases of intended expo r t a ti ons f rom bonded ware houses of ordinary security, "that no objection exists to the shipment, is att - •ded with loss of time to the merchant, while it does --, ot afford any adequate secu rity to the revenue, they have directed that the certifi cate of the landing surveyors in such cases be dispensed with in future, the approval of value, when requisite. being made according to existing practice on the bond note. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT KIRKDALE.-Mr. Gibb, the governor of Kirkdale Gaol, received an intimation on Wednesday morning frJrn Lord Palmerston, Secre tary of State for the home department, to the effect that Tyrrell and Williams, who had been l e ft f or exe cution on Saturday, are to be respited during her Majesty's pleasure. Mr. Richard Jones, of Tranmere, having heard of the convict Williams being without friends, he petitioned the Queen on his behalf, and re ceived on the above day, a communication from Lord Palmerston to the effect that the prisoner's life would be spared , —Liwooe_Time4. • CUTBILL'S DIVORCE'. HOUSE OF LORDS. —APRIL 25. Their lordship's sat this afternoon at two o'clock, to hear evidence in support of this bill. The peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Devon, Lord Waldegrave, and Lord Strangford. Mr. Ed. James appeared for the petitioner in support of the bill ; Mr. Kerr appeared for the youngest child of Mrs. Cutbill, born since her separation from her hus band. Mr. JAMES briefly stated the case. He said the petitioner, Mr. Cutbill, was the manager of the Commercial Bank, 3, Moorgate-street, and was mar ried to his wife an 1835. They lived happily together until the year 1843, when the alleged adul tery took place. It appeared that, in the early part of that year, a Mr. Higley, formerly of Demerara, and now of Constantinople, was paying his addresses to Mr. Cutbill's sister, and took advantage of the introduction which this circumstance gave him to the family, to carry on a course of conduct with Mrs. Cutbill, which ulti mately ended in the commission of acts of criminality, on which the present bill was founded. It could be pro - . - ed that, in the months of February and March of. that year, on several occasions, when Mr. Cahill was absent from home, Mr. Higley bad visited the house, and had remained alone with Mrs. Cutbill until past eleven o'clock ; and on another occasion, in consequence of suspicions which had been aroused, Miss Cutbill, to whom Higley was then paying his addresses, and another lady, having placed them selves opposite to the Bank, had watched Mrs. Cutbill come out of the house, and being immediately joined by Mr. Higley, who was waiting for her in the stieet, both walked off in the direction of Moorfields. They were followed and accosted, when Mrs. Cutbill appeared in a great state of agitation, and endeavoured to make it appear that it was an accidental meeting. This led to an explanation, and subsequently Mrs. Cutbill admitted to Mr. Imrie, the godfather to one of her children, that on two occasions criminal intercourse had taken place between herself and Higley. Proceedings were imme diately taken in Doctors Commons, and a decree pro nounced in the August of the same year ; but Mr. Cut bill's means at that time being limited, he had been obliged to postpone the proceedings for a divorce a vin.culo viatrimonii until the present time. Mr. Wm. John Hellier proved the serving of the usual notices and papers on Mrs. Cutbill, and also pro duced the, register of marriage. Mary Ann Carr said that in February, and March, and April, 1843, she was living in the service of Mr. Cutbill, who at that time occupied the upper part of the Commercial Bank, Moorgate-street. She remembered that one evening in the latter part of February of that year her mistress, Mrs. Cutbill, came home with Mr. Higley. Her mistress sent her out to the butcher's. She was out half-an-hour, and on her returning Mrs. Cut bill sent her to bed. Mr. Higley was there with her mistress in the drawing-room, and had not gone away when witness went to bed. There was a sofa iu the drawing-room. Mr. Higley came again on the following Monday, : while Mr. Cutbill was out, and remained - till after witness had gone to bed, which was about 11 o'clock. Mrs. Cutbill and Higley were together in the drawing-room alone on that occasion also. About a fortnight after, Mr. Cut bill being out of town on business, Mrs. Cutbill went out in the evening, and Mr. Higley brought her home and remained with her in the drawing-room about three quarters of an hour. Cross-eXamined by Mr. Kerr—Mrs. Cutbill remained at Mr. Cutbill's until the month of May. _ _ Mrs. Bell, formerly Miss Cutbill, sister of the peti tioner, said that in the spring of 1843 Mr. Edward Hig ley was paying his addresses to her. It was against h er brother's. consent, and he would not consent to receive Mr. Higley on terms of friendship at his home. Mr. Higley met Mrs. Cutbill at the house of witness's mother. On one occasion, being together at the Bank, witness, turning sharp round, saw Mr. Higley put his hand on Mrs. Cutbill's bosom. She remonstrated both with Mrs. Cutbill and Mr. Higley. On the evening of the 25th of March, 1843, in conse quence of suspicions which had been excited. witness and another lady went to Moorgate-street, and placed themselves opposite to the bank. After waiting a short time, they saw Mrs. Cutbill come out and walk up the street, until met by Mr. Higley, who drew her arm into his, and then they walked together towards Moorfields. Witness followed and accosted them, when Mrs. Cutbill seemed very agitated, and tried to exculpate herself by saying that it was a casual meeting. • . Examined by Lord Chancellor—Witness did not tell her brother'of what had taken place, because grs. Cut bill begged her not to do so. Martha Ann Cutbill, sister of the last witness, said, that on the 25th of March, 1847, she remembered Mrs. Cutbill coming to her house late in the evening ' • she seemed very agitated, and said she had just met Mrs. Bell, the last witness, who had behaved very strangely to her. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Bell came home, and then it all came out about Mrs. Bell meeting Mr. Higley and Mrs. Cutbill together. Mrs. Cutbill begged witness and her sister not to tell Mr. Cutbill, and they promised not to do so. They told Mr. Imrie, who was godfather to one of Mr. Cutbill's children, of what had occurred. Mr. Imrie stated that, in consequence of a communi cation which was made to him by the last witness, the sister, he had a conversation with Mrs. Cutbill, who, to his great surprise, confessed that, on two occasions, criminal intercourse had taken place between herself and Mr. Higley, in her own drawing-room, once when her husband was out of town, and on another occasion when she came home with Higley in a cab. Witness was quite unprepared for any such statements ; he had no idea that matters had gone so far. Mrs. Cutbill, mother of the petitioner, deposed to having heard Mrs. Cutbill and her son's wife express great contrition after her separation from her husband. The following letter from Mrs. Cutbill to her husband, written shortly after their separation, was then put in : " I most positively declare I have never sent any letter to Providence row, or any others than I have acknowledged. I cannot sufficiently express my thanks for your kindness in sending the dressing-case. I do not de serve the extreme kindness I have received from one I have so much injured, but may God look down upon a penitent sinner,l and grant me forgiveness for my dreadful sin in injuring you so much. I have read with great pain the letter seat by your mother this morning. I know the burning of your brain, and the grief at 'your heart, aril the grief which a wretched-hearted womam who you have treated with every kindness, has caused you; one who has lost all, even her own esteem. That you are suffering dreadfully I know. Oh, how sincerely I repent, you cannot imagine. May God bless you and my children—they are not conscious what a disgraced being they have to call mother. I repeat in this letter I have nothing more to confess. Good-bye, and God bless you, and grant forgiveness to one who trembles to sign herself, " Your wife, " E LIZ ABETH." Mr. Cutbill was then called, and stated that the rea son why these proceedings were not taken before the present time was that he was not then in a position to afford the cost of them, and he was consequently obliged to limit the proceedings to move in the Ecclesiastical Courts. On the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the bill was read a second time, and the evidenc3 was ordered to be printed. AUSTRALIAN EJIIGRATION.— The fine ship Moultan, 611 tons, Captain W. Chivers, sailed on Saturday for Geelong, Victoria, having embarked from the Govern ment depot here 266 souls, equal to 237 statute adults. The majority of these were single women of a most respectable class, and 26 of the number were domestic servants from the Home in Hatton garden, the nominees of Mr. Sidney Herbert. Mr. George Drysdale, of this port, was the agent of the Moultan. Captain Lean, RN., and his assistants from London, no longer dispatch the emigrant-ships from Southampton, as the station has now a resident Government emigration officer of its own in the person of Mr. E. A. Smith, RN., formerly an assistant to Captain Lean, in London, and lately holding the ap pointment of emigrant officer at Londonderry. The fol lowing vessels are now expected round from London in the course of the present and ensuing months to embark emigrants from the depot :—The Calabar, 754 tons, for Adelaide ; the Lady Kennaway, 583 tons, for Mel bourne ; the Talavera, 916 tons, for Sydney ; the Mag dalena, 879 tons, for Adelaide ; and the Clara, 709 tons, for Swan River. RAG -FAIR, WHITECHAPEL.—It seems difficult to dis cover the climax of London poverty and destitution. In every depth there is a deeper still. The prices of various kinds of provisions in these neighbourhoods give a forcible notion of the condition of their swarming population. In most of these neighbourhoods you can purchase a halfpenny worth of fish or a halfpenny worth of soup, and other matters in proportion. The luxuries are singular in their price and character • a farthing's worth of damaged oranges, for example, being hawked about the streets and sold in the shops. " Rag-fair," that well-known mart for every description of second. hand clothing, will supply good habits at any price. If some of our readers wish to judge for themselves, Cutler-street, a turning in Hounsditch; will lead them to the district. It is a' curious scene • hundreds 'of people are a ssem bl e d i n the streets, which' are so thickly covered with merchandise that it is difficult to step along without treading on heaps of gowns, shawls, bonnets, shoes, and articles of men's attire. "Here Greek meets Greek," and not without "the tug of war." No person can form an idea of this anomalous multitude but by a visit : all poor and squalid ; the children pinched and bleached, not " brought up," but, as Lamb says, "'dragged up." Here may be seen in one of the mar kets, formed by some of the pillars and covering of the • Hyde -park Exhibition, the great dealer, standing in.his well-known place, and purchasing perhaps many cart loads of clothing for exportation to the colonies, Ireland, and elsewhere ; and other dealers of various grades, until we reach the merchant whose capital is less than a shilling, and who daily gets a living by the purchase of shoes, hats, and other matters, the uses of which, looking at their condition, it would be difficult to guess. —Tie Builder. . ANECDOTE OF Mr. JusricE TALFOURD.—The won derful memory of Mr. Justice Talfourd was exemplified in a remarkable manner at the Gloucester Assizes last week. He had to try a prisOner for breaking into a house at Bristol. The police had previously uses the utmost means to ascertain his former course of life in vain ; nothing whatever could be found out about him. At the trial, Judge Talfourd was observed closely to scrutinise the prisoner's face, and after he was found guilty, he said, " Did not I try you two years ago at York, for murder ?" The prisoner persisted in the strongest manner that the judge was mistaken, but Mr. Justice Talfourd had sufficient confidence in his recol lection of the prisoner's face to convince him he was the same man. He was sentenced for the burglary to ten years' transportation, and coaling down to Bristol in the train, he admitted that the judge was perfectly correct. Timm COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD—APRIL 22. The supply of wheat tolerably good. There wits a sale, and lust w ee k' s pr i ces were barely maintoine` I gel Prices to-day w e r e as f o ll ow : —Wh ea t , w hite, a to 56s Od,.new 365,t0 54s ; red, old 35s to 465, nelvr ii , 43s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 378 ; grl u o l 21s to 27s ; malt, 55 s t o 56s ; chevalier, 558 to 5% 31 198 to 25s ; peas, partridge, 30s . to 35s ; 32s t . 1 4 1 boiling 38s to 41 s ; d un, new, 2 9s to 33s ; b ean s, t„ . to 34s ; Harrow ticks, 31s to 36s ; Mazagan, 298 to '.`"" COLCHESTER —APRIL 23. !: The supply of wh ea t unusually small. Fresh wi° , i F t' demand, bet those wanti ng condition a dull sale• keeps up its price. Beans and Peas the turn dearer' s‘ ) Prices to-day were as follow :—Whcat, white, 44 ' t b ' es p red, 388 to 448 ; barley, 34s to 38s ; oats, 18s to 24 4 Mazagan, 30s to 32s ; middle and sm a ll, 32s to 33e;' - white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 32s to 345. KIRKCALDY— APRIL 23. The following are the quotations for grain : ve3 ,, Wheat. j Barley. j Oats. 1 0 , hi First 538 0(1 1 32s 0.1 1 22s Od , 0 Second 318 0,1 20s 6d 1 Os Os 0 Third 438 Od j 288 Od 14s 0(1 Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 29s Od to 30/(4 The following is the official statement of the VI: of corn, &c., rece i ve d i n th e port of London fro m lowing ports, from the 18th to the 23d April, both sive : ;; c 4 II; 8 PI, ../ 1 0 - 60 - 5.1(/A 8 r - 456 % fx) I A Colchester Harwich , Leigh Malden__ 20 108 401 1136 COAL MARKET—Aram 25. V' I Prices of Coal per t on a t th e c l ose of the markt $i s. d. , il Bate's West Hart1ey......15 0 Edon Main .••''fj Carr's Hartley 15 6 Lrinbton Primose ....'ll . l Hasting's Hartley 15 6 Bell .....................••. ',.r Longridge's W. Hartley 15 6 netton' I! North Percy Hartley l5 011laswell Raveirsworth W. Hartleyls 3 Lambton 'II Stewart's Hartley 14 , ;;IPlummer . •'''l West Wylam Trader 15 0 R usse ll' s H e tt on ....... •'''ji Willington Hartley l5 6 Stewart's '' ... 11 • Wylam 15 6 Heugh H a ll ''' . li Wallscnd, &c. Kelloe '''l:, Gosforth 16 o,South K e ll oe .." "*.:1! Harton l6 0 West Whit w o r th . ..... • . '"ii Hedley 16 0 Sou:;h Durham ........ ....if Lawson 16 0 Tees " ..................... '‘P JohnsOn 15 6 Derwentwater Hartley g Northumberland l5 0 Perkin's Anthracite ..." . 0 Riddell l5 9:Ra,msey's Garesfield ...." Ships at market lO4 I Sold 64' RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25. 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was no business , t y shares to-day, beyond the arrangemen t s f or th e of the account on Wednesday. The nominal Pri,, e p o lf, barely so good as on Saturd a y. Ch es t er an d liir' r e 21t1 ; Chester and Holyhead, 22g ; G rea t soutbe e e Western, 54i ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 77i ; Crosby, and Southport, 17g ; London an d North , r a, 119 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 30 ; 74 ; Scottish Central, 24 ; Preference Shares—S'" 4 ,l' 2 Railway and Canal 6 pe r cen t., 31 ; ditt o 4; per ce' 6 r Foreign line—Quebec and Richmond Debentur e cent., 108. MANCHESTER, APRIL 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share m ar k e t o p en ed b t u h e, but was les s fi rm i n th e su b sequent parts o f ~ 7 A ; There was n o t a large business. London sto rk ' ffi , Sheelds, 30 ; ditto New Pref., 9-16 p. ; Dovor" South Eastern Steam, 10 ; 7 ,- ; Midlands, 754 ; j, Counties, 134 ; Leeds stock, 77 ; ditto Fifths, 4 BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 25. ,pre STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market has been day, and prices a point in advance. Shreweb' Birmingham stock was done at 65. LEEDS, APRIL 25. , STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market for snareP a better appearance-this morning than for some d o ) rather more business has been done, and prioe o Z, ckre, have improved a little. The f o ll ow i ng a re transactions :—Midland stock, 75 ; Sheffield, and Gooles, 231. 6 s • L ancas hi re an d Yorksh,Vio' Leeds Northern E x t e n s i ons N o . 1, pre • and Dover, 22i. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent (Yon the General - by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] From what 1 0 Fort • - Dispatched. E uve rpoot...Ar Liverpool .•., 4 Sou:hampton 4 AP til Southampton; pril Dover •• „,, 3011 Plymouth •• 10: 0 Plymouth 0 11 4 Dover .• • • ••;0,, South ampton;lgoi Southam Pt°" Ijoait Dover .• • ' South am P Southatnitn ni ror i iir Plymouth Plymouth •• A pr' Plymouth •• A Day when made uP in General Post - Office, London.* Ilive ry Friday .. .. I A.prll 19 April 18 14 ill of May .. 18th of May 24 of June ...... 23rd of the month. 5,9, 24.5 G 30 ot 4th & 20Lh of 111011 I 2nd of ti,e. tieilv ............ 19th of the month.; !9th of ; he month.. 14th of the month 2:0 of June.. ••• 4th of the month 14th of the month Mon.,Wed & 17th of month Plymouth ton qU,l' SouthamPisal Southamptovi 7,8,17,21,&27 of m. 4th & 20th ' of mon. Twice. daily r ,' Dover ...• •.,• SoutharriPt°" VI P Dover ..•• Twice dai1y...... 1,7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Dover ..•• SouthamPO'i ;outhan"10 011 Tiv fr i London .• • OtOl' A ! Southarapt° -n go•:1 London ..• • ' Somhampto ll ye; southampt °ll gof Dover ..•• 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat., 17th of the month; 4th & 20th of men.' Sib& 24 th of month Twice aily 7,9,17, & 28 of in. 9th of the month 123rd of the month S l A l :o ° :u ul m 3 t t h ill in ac u m ma t d h P pt i.o° . . " . . lrl 17,17,19,28, 30 ofm. 1 Doter .. • • " 14th of the month ?nd of the month. sth Ib th2sthof mon. 2d & 17111 of month By private ship sth I fith2 s thofmon. 7 thl7 th2Bthotmon ld & :7th of mon 14th of the month sthl Sth2sthofmon, sth lsth2sthormon. 1 2d & ►lth of month, 'Plymouth .• ifl °, ISouthanipt O 111, 1 1 Dover .. • • " , SoutharnPt_l: Various po. - OP , ; Dover .• • • ' n * P d f l SouthaMPt_t 0 1 ,1 14 1' SouthamPw - AT Plymouth • , )/° 1 Dover .• •• • St 5., 1 1 Dover .• •• ..oathaMPto 1 6 10 1 i ISouthamPo.l-v, 12d & 17th of month dates fall on a Sunday-, the 11 ,1'0 1 ing day. with the exception 0f i ,.,. 11 ," Malta, both of which will be u'' A NOVEL SPECULATION.—An Anti-Slavery t r il 4l tion has been f orme d i n H am ilt on . A most , e' ill nary circumstance took place a short time - 17 ;r1„ bit l ' way of trading in human flesh by parties in Cs' o f ,/0 man, named Smith, residing in the township Aot, gar, entered into a speculation of this na':,ure of /or, young negroes. The agreement was that th r to e d F, i go south ; that Smith should dispose of his rlyfifo', the speculation in the slave market ; they , f IIiPAI I , e . the ability to escape from the s erv it u d e with r o tti; /9 1 , were to allow themselves to be fraudulentlY„ B jer!o P . ' which the booty was to be the common Plu'd `', J ef,, three strange conspirators. This arranger 0 sham, for the journey was undertaken, and - h,,,,,1 tually made ; but the escape has yet to I :j e to' r t!:{ Probably the acting partner, who has return ( ' t he ,A t or with the cash in hand, is not anxious to se ° ol.o" 0 of the two missing claimants to share in the . 44 3 , booty.--American Paper. dr "5,7 1 ',1 4 . p o°, o ~„ [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway's Ointmen t d v- ti n fro: the cure of Scrofula, Cancerous Wounds, an ,A• 1 ; 0 10, —Asa Avory, a youth, the son of Mr. Jan; e- t is i r 4 Ramsey, was severely afflicted with screfo'°,rioo o tii i for three or four years, and during that ,P;eo, e 4l remedies were tried, but without the least l o rst e e, ever being derived from them. In this d e P, ol°' i ll ii Mr. Joseph Sameant, Chemist, of RamseY , , r , c sli„ t 0,:1 him to use Holloway's Ointments and ri"'' eff e ' 1,1 of dlo invaluable medicines have been the means, , ve fo r 11 curing the boy of his shocking complaint i n lie df pf ,1, space of time. They are an efficacious re' ply legs, old sores, gout, and rheuniatisri sta bl° druggists, and at Professor Holloway's _.........„/ 244, Strand, London. _l 4 BIRTHS'. 1 ' OF A NON. 10 15. On the 23d inst., in Brook-street, the Floe. Beauchamp It elr. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 23d inst., at Woolwich, the wif e - 1,0 J. Wild. . 00 0, 0 , 44 MA P gar RI ED. yfeb:36, te f f On the 23(1 inst., at Trinity Church, o derick, second son of Thomas Newte, •Do'ititor mouth-street, to Louisa Weston Mece b ' Captain Meech, late of the 39th Infantry O P of DIED. _. o _ , r . Cl°' ill° ;o tta le i On the 30th ult ,at Munich, 1f0r,..../o0 Af t Mallet, wife of Baron Alfred von - Lott bee' ~,i t cl i of Bavaria, aged 24. 1) 1 ‘ io lat ° I On the 22d inst., Martha, relict of th° ,r 00( ' 4 ' Stratford, R.N., of 6, Notting-bill-squar4.3:„ooo9o pte ' On the 23d inst., at Tollington-park, :' 0 f tO the 77th year of her age, Ann, the mid ° Lawrauce, Esq. iro Ciil ls l f/11 ,90 1 .10. 4 o LONDON : Printed and Published by At' 01:0°"00. 0 " of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Son, tje °- Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa_ovoltir Middlesex; Tuesday, April 26, Ow' COUNTRIES. Amerlea(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. packet) . America (by U States packet) ..........N Australia (via South. ampton) ....• • • Ditto (via NI arsenics) N Ditto (via Cape of t,ood Hope) Africa ( West Coasi)..N Alexandria .......... N Alexandria Bahamas ...........111 Belgium ...... • • . • • • N Brazil .• • • .• .• M Buenos Ayres ..111 Cape of Good Hone ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon Channel Isles.. ;.....N China (see India) Constantinople Constantinople .... cont. of Europe M & Ni Egypt (sec India) I France & N Gibraltar ........ Greece (see India) Greytown Hamburgh ..........N Havannah . • • • .. M I Holland Honduras India (viaSouthampt.)M India ((la Marge i Ile.)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland M & N Lisbon .............. M Madeira ............M Madeira Malta (see India) ___ Malta .• ... •••• • • • N Mauritius (sec India) Mauritius ..........N Mexico ............ Naples ..... .•• • • • •• N New Granada MI New Zea1and.......... Papal :Antes N Peninsula ..........M Peru .. Port Natal ..........N vieily .............. N Tuscany .. ..........N Venezuela ..........31 Van'Dieinen's Land (see An , tralia) ...... . West indica ........M * When any of these dlspatche t on the follow Southampton), and the . day preceding.