The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, FEB. 16, . - Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in five acts. called NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM ; or, Many Sides to a Charac ter. Supported by Messrs. B. Webster, Barry Sullivan, Keeley, Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Rogers, Miss Rosa Bennett, bibis 4. Vining, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &c. After which, the new and original Farce, called TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS. To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and SETTLED. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. ITnder the Management of Madame VestriS. THIS EVENING, Fee. 16, Will be perfbrmed the Comic Drama N called ACHENOMENO IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. . Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton ; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosina Wright will appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 15, N ew Bond-street. - THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Calves. THIS EVENING, FEB. 16, Will be performed the admired Farce of A LUCKY FRIDAY, b y Messrs. A. Wigan, Parselle, and Cullingford ; and Miss Maskell. After which, THE CHILD OF THE WRECK, by Madame Ce leste and Mrs. Keeley. _ _ To be followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS Or STILSBERG, by Mr. B. Webster and Madame Celeste. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN, by Mr. Flex more and Mdlle. Auriol. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, FEB. 16, Will be produced Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH (as acted at Windsor Castle, by Royal command). Principal characters by Kr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the Singing Tree. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, FEB. 16, Will be presented (by desire) LILIAN GERVAIS. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, jun. Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender, and Clifton; Misses Anderton and H. Gordon. Alter which, the new and successful Farce. of A DEED WITH OUT A NAME, in which Mr. Compton will appear. To conclude with THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug, Miss 11. Gordon ; Robin, Mr. Compton. Box-oftice open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Chattcrton. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor nd Manager, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT THREE of Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEMENT. Extraordinary Attraction. The Two most powerful Equestrian Dramas ever produced—Mazeppa, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. THIS EVENING, FEB. 16, And during the Week, the Entertainments will commence with the superb Spectacle of MIZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, reproduced with all its original splendid and magnificent effects After which, Ratty's brilliant Scenes in the Arena, supported by the first Equestrian talent in Europe. To conclude with UNCLE TO?d'S CABIN. Doors open at tialf-past Sia o'clock. To commence at Seven. Bor-oftlee open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. e HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —Morning 55 min. after 6 I Evening 16 min.aft. 7 To-Moaaow—Morning 40 min. after 7 Evening 10 min.aft. 8 DAILY WEATHER TABLB. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—N.,. strong breeze—overcast. FOLKESTONE—N., light air—overcast. TIINBRIDGE—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless: GREENWICH—Cahn—oVOTCBSt. GREENWICH--W., calm—partially cloudy. SWINDON—E., li g ht air—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudy. YAnatourn— N.W., calm—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather oh Monday morning at nine o'clock : LIMERICK—S.B., gentle breeze--cloudless, severe frost, slight snow in the night. MIILLINGAR—N.,_strong breeze—cl ou dl ess . SOUTHAMPT ON-N.E. strong breeze—partially cloudy. HoLvirEAD—E, gentle breeze —snow. LANCASTER—N., gentle breeze—snow. WHITBY—N.E., strong breeze—overcast, hard frost, SHOW. SRAP-N., calm—snow. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, FEE. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 30—highest since noon yesterday. 25—lowest this morning and during the night. 31—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29133. WIND, N.N.E.—Fine breeze, and sunshine. The Publication of " THE SUN" Commences every afternoon at THREE O'CLOCK, and the Late or Third Edition, containing the DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT ON THE SAME EVENING, with all other news ariving in London up to the hour of Post, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. b 4. ,,N e , . t....„41611141 _., p1iz...,,f ...v,„.,„.....,.).-. ~,,!,,-,,,,,,:.„,-,, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1853. Still procrastination and uncertainty—nothing but procrastination and uncertainty. These are the guiding principles of the Joint-Stock Admin istration—the only matters on which the Mem bers of the Government can agree the one with the other, or cordially co-operate together. Sir CHairrxs WOOD will become practically the most efficient and useful of the body, as he is more versed in the art of disappointing the' community, and shelving for an indeterminate period, any question on which the popular enthusiasm was strongly excited. Lord Jomc RUSSELL, although not quite so practised a hand in this respect, is proving himself to be a worthy pupil of his faineant colleague. The Noble Lord appears desirous of enveloping himself in a cloud of mys tery—of refusing the slightest information even on the most important and urgent matters. He not only declines to say what will be done, but whether anything of any kind is to be at tempted ; and, in answer to the interpella tions addressed to him, only renders statements already sufficiently doubtful, still more vague and unintelligible, merely declaring that "it is not the intention of the Government to furnish any information whatsoever." This may be a very independent, but we cannot consider it a very judicious or politic course, more especially in reference to a Member so generally respected as the veteran JOSKPII HUME, on a sub ject of such vital importance as the renewal of the Property and Income Tax. It may be very con venient for the Ministerial Leader and his coad jutors to delude the country with the idea that something is to be done with respect to the im post, so as to render it more equitable and more tolerable, and then, at the eleventh hour, to come ' down, declaring that they have been unable to overcome the difficulties and impediments to a satisfactory' solution of the problem. An appeal .—to prevent the serious injury to public credit an d the best interests of the community, by per mitting so productive a branch of revenue to possibly be successful. The ordeal would thus be avoided f or another year. But will the people be duped by a piece of jugglery so easy of detection_an attempt at humbug so very transparent ? will they be thereby induced to postpone the necessary agitation—th e salutary pressure from without, that is so very valuable when a squeezable material is to be worked o n ? We hope not. Fiscal Reformers would be untrue to themselves and to their country if they could be so easily diverted from their purpose--the gr ea t end and object of their labours. Let there be no mistake about the matter. The Act under which the Tax is levied, 15 Vic., c. 20, will expire on the sth of April next. This we assent positively, notwithstanding the rumour to a different effect, most industriously circulated, and which appears not to have been made without an object. It was declared that " the duties on profits, arising from property, pro fessions, trades, and offices," would be continued for twelve months, from the time of the passing of the Act—the 28th May, 1852—the natural inference being, that there was no necessity for speedy legislation on a matter which need not be disposed of until the end of May. Now, no thing can be more erroneous than this statement. The words of the Ist section are as follows, viz.:- 4 , The several rates and duties by the said first-recited act granted shall be and the same are hereby continued, and shall be charged, raised, l ev i ed, collected, and, paid un to and for the use of her M a j esty, her heirs and suc cessors, from and after the fifth day o f April, one thou- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, I'EBRUARY 16, 1853. and eight hundred and fifty-two, for the term of one year thence next ensuing, and until the assessments made or which ought to be made for the said last mentioned term, or for any preceding year, shall be completed, collected, levied, and paid." Under this enactment, no duties will accrue, or become payable, after the sth April next, and the powers under the former statutes are only con tinued, so far as may be necessary, to enable the tax-gatherers to collect all such arrears as may become due up to that period. The im post itself expires on the sth April, and unless it be renewed in some form, there must, notwith standing the present flourishing state of the re venue, be a Very serious deficiency in that na tional revenue--a deficiency that may be pro ductive of very serious results. Under such circumstances, then, we ask again, is it just or proper—is it respectful to Parliament or the people, to defer any explanations as to the Ministerial intentions until after Easter when the law is on the verge of dissolution 7 Much care and attention, requiring many weeks, if not months, must necessarily be bestowed on the sub ject before it can finally or satisfactorily be dis posed of; but days are not even allowed. If due allowance be made for the discussions on the Budget, it will scarcely be practicable even to introduce the Bill before the sth of April, and most assuredly impossible that it should receive the legislative sanction before that day. Great incon venience may therefore arise from the gross lathes and negligence of her MAJESTY'S Government, and the decisive refusal to satisfy the national curiosity of the community on such a point. But however great that inconvenience—however pressing the emergency—we can assure them that they will not be averted by a consent to allow a renewal of the Act for even a single day in its present objection able form. Ministers have deliberately delayed their explanations on the point. They must, therefore, be responsible for the injurious conse quences of their own procrastinating and tempo , rising policy. Mrs. JELLYBY had her " mission," and so has the Duchess of SUTHERLAND. It was a very grievous mistake, however, on the part of the respondent to the Stafford-house Appeal to sup pose that between the two there is little, else than a distinction without a difference. Such actually appears to have been the impression of Mrs. JULIA. G. TYLER, in her voluble and discordant response to the recent Address of the Englishwomen to the women of the United States. A careful examina tion of that reply, reduces us necessarily to the belief that when the fair and accomplished wife of the ex-PRESIDENT sat down to write, she was— (there is only one word for it)—cantankerous. The 'authoress of this singular document must be aware, on due, revision of the whole, that she has only been nagging, when, perhaps, she fancied herself rhetorical. Instead of reasoning calmly, and, if possible (which could scarcely be expected under the circumstances), dispassionately, upon the moot-question, the question of slavery—Mrs. JULIA G. TYLER does nothing from first to last, from the commencement to the conclusion, but scold. her " good sisters" on the other, meaning, of course, on this, side of the Atlantic. Indeed it would seem that she finds it difficult to commend her own countrywomen without directing one or two spiteful allusions to the countrywomen of her Grace the Duchess of SUTHERLAND. Among the former she says, for example, " You might find no splended vestments of dress [what possibly can be "vestments of dress ?"], no glittering diamonds [fancy diamonds or even paste without the " glit ter !I no aristocratic displays." We have not forgotten how Miss PETOWKER reminded the KENWIGSES, in allusion to Nicholas Nickleby's appearance, that it was—" what do you call breaking watchmen's heads and pulling off door knockers ?"—aristocratic ! And so Mrs. JULIA G. TYLER sneers at " aristocratic displays," tell ing us that among her countrywomen we should no more find those than we should discover " glittering diamonds " or " vestments of dress !" Adding with a thin hysterical excla mation, " No ! the vestments they wear aro those of meekness and charity, their diamonds are gems of the heart, and the splendour, the neatness, and contentment which everywhere meets the eye." Splendour by the way had not been mentioned before, except in connexion with the " vestments of dress "—for the third non erit inventus was surely the " aristocratic displays " already parti cularised. And then the verb in the singular, after two nominatives, must clearly be recognised as a novelty that might have thrown LINDLEY MURRAY into a state of comma, if it had not actually brought his existence to a full stop. The " neatness and contentment which. meets the eye " everywhere in the United States would seem to indicate that the manuscript of this extraordinary effu sion, before crossing the ocean, had been revised by the ghost of Dr. SwF—brought, perchance, into communication with the writer for that pur pose through the " medium" of one'of the Ameri can Rappers. Even with the fear of General CASS before our eyes, and at the risk of calling forth another of Mr. JOHN BRIGHT'S grateful and authoritative panegyrics, we find it altogether impracticable to treat seriously so very spiteful and slovenly a re ply as that which has been vouchsafed by Mrs. JULIA G. TYLER to the Appeal addressed to her fellow-countrywomen by their English sisters, headed by her Grace the Duchess of SUTHER LAND. The style alone is enough to set one's teeth on edge, it is throughout so very shrewdly (might we venture to say shrewishly) acidulated. Besides which the argument is as inexact as the grammar. It is wholly impossible to treat otherwise than we are doing a document so obviously begging the question. That question was simple enough in its entirety. It was condensed into the fact that certain humane ladies in these islands appealed to the women of the slave-holding states of America, in behalf of the unfortunate negro population. After the magnificent act, by which England paid down in hard cash 20,000,000/. sterling, to enable her to manumit all the bondsmen in her dominions, it was glaringly permissible for the women of a land thus magnanimous to plead . in the same holy cause with the women of the slave holding divisions of the United States. Mrs. JULIA G. TYLER retorts by allusions directed against England, as it was in the age of Queen AinTE and the Prince of DENMARK. Mais nous aeons changg tout cela. That generation has been succeeded by others more generous and enlightened. It is allowable now to waive all serious reference to the peccadilloes of PENN, in consideration of the glorious public virtues of such men as CLARKSON and WILBERFORCE. In reminding her sisters in England, therefore, of the bygone sins of Great Britain in regard to the encouragement of slavery, Mrs. Jumi. G. TYLER has, as we have already ob served, merely been begging the question by an evasion of the most paltry description—an evasion indicative of the very reverse of magnanimity. Because a reply of this peculiarly unsatis factory kind has been elicited from the women of the United States by the ap peal, addressed to them from Stafford-house, by the women of the United Kingdom--excep- Eons are being made, in some quarters, on the score of its impropriety. For ourselves, we can re cognise no impropriety whatever in a proceeding which manifests throughout so many amiable emotions, and which found utterance in language of such winning and persuasive gentleness. Re member it was simply an appeal—an appeal from women to women an appeal dictated in no terms of arrogance or self-sufficiency-- an evidence of the generosity of those from whom it proceeded, while it constituted, at t h e same time, an indirect but very manifest tri bute to the humanity of the recipients. It has b een mistaken. Judging from the tone of the reply transmitted to this country from the hand of the young, and beautiful, and accomplished wife of the el-PRESIDENT, speaking to her sisters across the broad Atlantic in the name of her own countrywomen—the appeal has been most pain fully and most lamentably misapprehenhed. • The interposition of our English wives, and mothers, and sisters, an d daughters would seem t o h ave been petulantly resented, and at last sarcastically and bitterly repelled. Inspired in the first instance by the pathetic writings of Mrs. HARRIET B. Srowß, the appeal made by the women of England has been scorn fully thrust aside by Mrs. JULIA G. TYLER—both of them eminently distinguished, though in a very different manner, among the more gifted matrons of the United States. We had at one moment, we will confess it, anticipated some other result from the supplication forwarded from Stafford house to America—some other result than its angry rejection as an impertinence. Nor can we im agine for one moment that we are alone in our disappointment. Every one who perused thinkingly the tearful nar rative of " Uncle Tom's Cabin"—and who has not done so?—must have felt at some time or other a consequent aspiration for the downfall of that evil system which we ourselves as a nation have still the accursed remembrance of having encouraged, though we have long since striven to efface the crime from our conscience by sincere and earnest efforts at its expiation. Yes—we may have felt that the picture was over-coloured --,-that the lights were too diaphonous rand. the shadows too sombre—that the slave was idealised in goodness, and the tyrant was exaggerated in atrocity, but knowing well that such things are—that there are fellow-creatures, men and women, young virgins and aged patriarchs, sold by auction like so many dogs, to do in all respects the bidding cf their accidental purchasers—we have hoped, we have surely, one, and all of us, yearned from the very depths of our heart for the arrival of that day to slavery which §;iall witness its complete and permanent abolition. And that day will certainly come—sooner or later it must come. What though the Stafford-house appeal be-despised ? What though it be scouted by a hundred thousand Mrs. JULIA. G. TYLERB speak ing in the name of generation after generation of the women of the United States Yes !—tho day will come when the outcast children of Africa will witness their final emancipation. After a day or two's reflection, we cannot re lish the Tory-Whig programme for the Session much better than at first ; and we- are pleased to observe that such of our liberal contemporaries as have any character to lose, dislike it as much as we do. We were amongst the first, if not the first, to call the attention of Reformers to the in solvent supplications of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT for time ; and to the kind aid furnished them by some of the magnates and some of the plebs also of the press, in the contem plated resuscitation of Whig tactics for Tory pur poses. We must, therefore, be pardoned if the truth of our prophecies does not console us for our distaste to that which fulfils them. Indeed, they are mere than fulfilled. We foretold delay, but we have to lament delay, and curtailment of promises too. The Reform Bill, when it does come, is to be a second birth of last year's abortion. Our little corrupt Ninevehs of one or two hundred voters each, are, as we reluctantly predicted, to be saved ; and we, unlike the Hebrew Prophet, in regard to concern for our own reputation, but thoroughly like him in desiring the destruction of the justly doomed, and in this case the irreclaim able, think that we do well to be angry. What is the grand plea for the procrastinators The amount of real work they mean to do, and the danger of division and weakness if they touch Reform. Neither are quite fair. The House of Lords will, as befits it, take the chief labour of nearly all the law reforms off their hands, and Lord ST. LEONARDS has, we are glad to see, proffered them his valuable and safe aid in carrying out his Own work, leaving them all their time for such mea sures as they mean to propose. The Jews' Bill need not waste time in the House of Commons. The incurables may be allowed to talk themselves out on an exhausted theme without reply, and the votes of the large majority recorded as soon as bigotry " feels itself spent, and fumbles for its brains." The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill too will be little more than a measure to vote upon and have done with. The Income Tax again, when it is brought forward, can be come a matter of much debate only through the most culpable wilfulness. No one believes that brains are wanting in the Cabinet to understand the grand principles which Mr. DISRAELI and all his " Chairmen of Quarter Sessions," as their op ponents termed them, so honourably recognised, and the highest practical talent in the kingdom is at the command of any Government, in revising tho" schedules. All the Opposition are prepared, much to their honour, to support cordially an Income Tax as honest as their own. As to the Ecclesiastical Courts, the work is being done to their hand. Let them but place testamentary affairs in the hands of the Civil Courts, abolish Church Rates, accept Lord BROUGHAM'§ Divorce Bill, and refuse all power over the persons or property of laymen to Church Courts, and no opposition could long impede what every man of common sense has already made up his mind to. The Education question is n feel pretty confident they cannot so easily o se e w ttle e , unless by overbearing much opposition from some party without 1 Inferior in importance to none, it has its known difficulties ; but these we are cer tain would be much lessened in a really reformed Parliament. Any extension of the franchise would add a vast number of voters desirous of Parliamentary action on this subject. For the cause of Education it is, therefore, bad general ship not to gain first so large a reinforcement of friends to National Education. On this question, however, the Budget will be the best test of their honesty. They will encounter no opposition in repealing the Excise and Stamp Taxes on the cir culation of knowledge. That is absolutely in their power. It will do more than any Central Board spending the money raised at a great cost, by taxing heavily the greatest of educators. Ragged Schools, which no Government can touch without spoiling them, and a free press which Government could grant by a word, —these are the Education measures, which, though humble in appearance, are the want of the age. To come, then, to Reform itself. The great Evasionist throws clean overboard the suggestion of a Commission of Inquiry ; Government has knowledge enough in its possession. No doubt of it. We have been, and are quite at one with his Lordship there. The facts are patent to all the country. They are not like those into which the Poor-Law Commission had to inquire, the hole-and-corner work of the great unpaid and of parish vestries. They chiefly occur when every body knows everything, when newspapers are filled with them, and when every borough and county rings with them, although the Hon. Member, unseated on petition, had of course no guilty knowledge of them. No, no ;it was not the difficulty of doing the thing,—not the time demanded by that or other measures which is the real objection. Was it, then, the other excuse ? Would a Reform Bill split up the Cabinet, and perhaps create a storm in the House ? .If it would, then we -must own that we have been cheated. Liberal Members went to the hust ings in June, with the full impression that the Convener of the Cheshara-place Meeting would give them a real Reform Bill if they kindly placed him in Downing-street again ; and electors thronged the hustings inmidwinter to be assured of something substantial in the amendment of our National Represeritation. There has been talk enough of the infidelity of the DERBY Ministry to the election promises of their sup porters. It certainly canniot surpass Lord JOHN'S cool treachery to Reform on Thursday evening—a treachery for which he presumes the country will thank them ! Well, certainly the Lincolnshire farmers thanked Mr. CHISTOPHEit for his Free-trade votes ; all England, however, is not Lincolnshire, nor are all voters farmers, and possibly Lord JOHN May hear of other votes than votes of thnks Man even from London itself. There is such a place as chester. Pooh ! what cares he about Manchester ? the It has but two memb ers ; he can neutralise it any i ! n nu of Wy t e h . ° ea da s y e, b m y rT.heltvhifordpp. Whipper - in the An West Riding Riding lße at l i will match West Riding at any time —or COBDEN alone Arundel, or Abingd on, or A shburtoinn,aonir a my 66 little pets, wil l bring him up We think it will soon be apparent that the pre sent Government, as compared with the late Go i verilment, is by no me ans a strong on t ca n only exist by far m ore Cabinet compromise than the other, and, like the o ther, it will have to rely on forbearance, and on playing off one party in the House of Commons against another. We called the statement of Lord JOHN a Tory-Whig programme. Such it manifestly is. It is the proffer of a Tory-Whig Government with a Radical tail—a Government which reminds us of one of those anomalous animals of Australia which combine in their structure and h a bit s th e bi rd and the quadruped, and somewh a t o f th e f i sh too. The animal, however, is happily adapted to its elements ; but a tri-form Government cannot be quite at ease in the British House of Commons. It must draw its supporters by turns from each quarter, must successively affront each party if it gra tifi es in succession each section in its own body ; and if it presents a neutral policy, it will, of course, in no long time disgust all. Just now the old proverb " Age before honesty," is in full force. Lord ABERDEEN is plainly enough the head of the Government. We suppose Lord JOHN is the neck which supports it ; or, if he prefer it, its mouthpiece in the House of Commons. The septe genarians and sexagenarians have it all their own way. No one could imagine, reading Lord JOHN'S announcements on Thursday night, that there were any other mortals than Tory-Whigs and Whig-Tories in the Government,—that six or seven of its members were advocates of the Ballot, and that three of them at least had long been con sistent, earnest, and able Radicals. We think this portion of the Government must feel thoroughly humiliated. To hear it announced on their be half that they were partners of a great company for de a Refo rm which the Government knew alany ing about, which i t i ntended, however, to put off, and which, when it did bring it forward, would be not a bit better than that which they greeted with derision last Session ; to be thus declared partners without a voice in the firm of ABERDEEN, RUSSELL, and Co., commission agents for pocket boroughs and electoral corruption, must have been a bitter mortification to men who cer tainly do not think themselves cyphers. There is something shabby somewhere if a Reform Bill cannot be at least laid before the House this. Session, for which MOLESWORTH, OSBORNE, and VILLIERS shall not absolutely blush. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next, at Buckingham. Palace. Summonses were issued yesterday to the Ministers and great officers of State. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, went yesterday morning to the Trinity-house. In the afternoon, his Royal Highness, attended by Lieu tenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester house, Piccadilly. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at tended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Flora Mac donald, Lord Rivers, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant- Colonel the Ron. A. Gordon, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. The Marchioness of Ely has relieved the Countess of Charlemont in her duties as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord Rivers has relieved Earl Somers in his duty of Lord in Waiting ; and Sir Edward Bowater has relieved. Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackvillo West as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. A deputation, consisting, of Lord Hatherton, Lord Wrot tesley, the Hon. E. R. Littleton, Mr. Hordern, Mr. Rutter, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Waters, and Mr. Williams had an inter view with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, and Mr. Timm, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Ross had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Monsell , M.P., had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer yesterday. Sir AlexanderiSpearman had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman at his official residence in. Downing-street. , EXCHEQUER BILLS. -REDUCTION OF INTEREST. S chequer Bills whi c h f a ll d ue on in c o u b r , r th is e e the 10th of March next, i w se a u s e cr o e f at e ed no in tiee th t e h S e t t oc t k he Ex in ch te a r n e g et e o th n i t s h m e o E rn x: will be reduced from its present rate of three-halfpence per day, or 21. ss. 7Ad. per annum, to one penny per day, or 11. 10s. sd. per annum. A reduction similar to that which took place in the June bills last spring —namely, to one penny farthing, was of course expected, but inasmuch as Sir Charles Wood had refused last year, when the Bank rate of discount was only 24 per cent., to make any re duction, oven from three-halfpence per day, while Mr. Disraeli, a few months afterwards, when the Bank was discounting at 2 per cent., would not go below a penny farthing, no idea had been entertained by any one that, with money at 3 per cent., and the possibility of a further rise, the present moment would have been adopted for descending to the minimum of a penny. Considerable disfavour has therefore been expressed towards the mea sure by the banking interests, as well as by the Exchuer bill dealers in the Stock Exchange. But, althoug# the suddenness of the step inflicts upon them a loss, and they have every reason to complain of the system through which it has been occasioned, it will probably turn out that the former Chancellors of the Exchequer are the par ties upon whom their reproaches should fall. If it should prove that these securities will circulate freely at their pro posed rate, oven although money out of doors is worth 3 per cent., it will then be impossible to deny that according to all sound rules the step was imperatively called for, and that it furnishes a striking illustration of the want of judgment of Sir Charles Wood and Mr. Disraeli in resisting the change at a period when the state of affairs was such as to render it far more easy. It is not only on the ground of economy that it is incumbent on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to obtain the funds required by the public on the lowest possible terms, but it is equally important for the national credit that the other countries of the world should fairly see the position in which the obligations of our Government stand. That neither of these considera tions weighed with his predecessors is a fitting cause for regret, and as the belief into which the holders had been lulled, that the sound principles which guide every mer chant in his business were not likely to be adopted by th e Government, was solely occasioned by past mismanage ment, the blame must be borne by them instead of being thrown on the Minister, who is the first to act -upon defi nite rules. - As far as the prices of Exchequer Bills were concerned, the effect of the announcement was such as to paralyse the market, and tho only transaction that took place during the day was for an amount of 2,000/. between two brokers at 30s. premium. No very accurate opinion can be formed of the quotations that are likely to prevail per manently, but it is believed that the market will be well sustained. In case at any time there should be a tendency for them to fall below par, it will be in the power of the Government to give support by purchasing them in prefer ence to stock with the money applicable for the sinking fund. With regard to Consols, the effect of the measure, coupled with the intelligence from France of the pacific speech of the Emperor, was very favourable.—Tinza. Her Majesty intends honouring the Haymarket with her presence this evening. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.---During yesterday considerable amusement was caused in the various Royal parks, in consequence of a great number of gentlemen attending with skates in their hands for the purpose of enjoying the exhilarating exercise of skating and sliding. Although the various po n d s were covered with ice, the latter was found to be too thin for any one to venture thereon. DEATH OE SIR THOMAS DRANCKER. —We regret to announce the death of Sir Thomas Brancker, Knt., of Mount Pleasant, Liverp oo l, w hi c h melancholy occur rence took place on Sunday afternoon. Deceased filled the office of Mayor of Liverpool in the year 1831, and on the coronation of King William and Queen Adelaide in that year received the honour of knighthood. He was a Conservative in politics, and proposed Mr. Card! well in 1847. At the meeting of the Town Council of Liverpool, on Monday, his death was very feelingly al luded to by the mayor, and a motion to send a letter of condolence to his family passed. SUBURBAN POST-01ITICES.—Amongst the new Post office arrangements to come into operation early next month, is one of considerable importance to residents in the suburbs of the metropolis. It has hitherto been the custom to collect the letters posted at the different branch offices in the suburbs after five p.m., early the next morning, to be in readiness for the first mail-carts ; but Mr. Rowland Hill, it appears, has determined, and given directions, that these suburban letters shall be collected and forwarded to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, b y spec i a l ma il-carts, at 10 p.m. , on the evening of the day of posting. This plan will, of course, greatly advance and facilitate the delivery of letters posted within the limits of what is termed the town-post districts after five and up to ten o'clock at night. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par (according to the new tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for stan dard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.074,. it follows that gold is about 0.38 per cen t. d eare ' in Pans than in Lon don. By advices from Hamburg tho price of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.4 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.54, it follows that gold is 0.47 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at GO days' sight is 110 per cent., and, the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23.40 per cent., it fol lows that the exchange is nominally 0.42 per cent, in favour of England; and, after making allowance for charges of transport, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the'importation of gold from the United States. VICTORIA. LONDON DOCK.—The first half-yearly gene ral meeting of the shareholders of the Victoria London Dock Company was h eld yesterday, for t h e purpose o f receiving a report from the directors of the progress of the undertaking. The works of the company, complete and fit for use, are to be delivered up by the contractors by the Ist January, 1855, and in the meantime they pay the shareholders interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on the capital subscribed, and also upon any money borrowed for the purposes of the contract. The works of the company are to be very much enlarged, so as to afford considerably greater facilities for the trans action of public business ; and to give increased accommo dation of every kind, , MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLooK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken on speculation. The market closed heavily. Compared with Friday's rates, prices of American under sid. per lb. were id. per lb. lower., The sales comprised 4,500 American, 100 Pernam and Maranham at 6d. to 7d., 100 Bahia at 6fd. to Gid., 300 Surat at 30. to 4id. and 40 Sea Islands at is. Bd. to 2s. sd. per lb. Railway shares were steady at previous rates. The public sales in Mincing-lane have been limited this morning as regards the principal staples. Cey lon coffee has gone at 535. 6d. to 575. 6d. for f. flue ord. to mid., and at 475. for triage. Jamaica has been taken in at 525. to 545. for f. fine ord. and low mid, pale colory. Allepi pepper has been sold at nd.. to 3d. for first class damaged, and Salt petre at 275. 6d., for good 71 per cent. refraction Bengal. There are several auctions of hemp and jute, but these are still in progress. Sugar is firm. Wool goes off steadily, and during the progress of the indigo sales yester day, 207 chests wero withdrawn, 250 bought in, and 560 sold, out of 1,019 passed. Were was no alteration in prices. Total quantity passed, 6,396 chests, of which 4,063 are sold. At the General Screw Steam Shipping Com pany's meeting held this day, Captain Shuttle worth and Mr. Acworth were elected directors, in the place of those who retired. Bills of exchange upon the principal continental cities were negotiated yesterday afternoon gene rally at full prices. Ninety day's paper sold at 25 271 to 30 on Paris, 11 isg- to 19k on Amster dam, 13 7f to on Hamburg'', and Frankfort 119 i 'to 120. On Trieste there was a decline to 11 6to to 11 10. If we differ from most of our contemporaries in the approbation which we yesterday expressed at the measure adopted by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, it is because we estimate the interests of the public at large beyond those of either capitalists or bankers. In thus particularising the two latter, we are reminded that they generally expressed disapproval, not very unnatural, considering that they are losers by the policy which Mr. Gladstone has adopted. If Sir Charles Wood had proved himself worthy of the position he held, he could have accomplished, without the slightest difficulty, what his successor is now determined to carry out under much less favorable circumstances. Money, during the period of-his service, was considerably lower in its market value ; the revenue was pros perous '; there was loss anxiety about the relations of France ; and the Australian gold discoveries were expected sooner to have told upon the metallic wealth of Europe. It so happens, however, from a combination of circumstances, that notwithstand ing the yield of gold in our colonies has far ex ceeded what the most sanguine could have antici pated, there is still a large drain upon us, and from this state of affairs it has been argued that money will inevitably become still dearer than at present. Taking a moderate view of passing events, and de siring to draw no hasty or exaggerated conclusions as to the future, we have admitted that the mea sure of the Bank of England was a wise one in ad vancing its terms of discount, be cause it shut out foreign loans for a time, many of which were known to be on the Lapis, and enabled the directors to de rive that fair profit for their shareholders which they have a full right, as bankers, to seek when the demand for cash increases. Some people have argued that if the Bank of England was right the Chancellor of the Exchequer must now be wrong, but we are far from admitting the justice of such an assump tion. If a reduction in the interest on Exchequer Bills were not attempted now nothing could be done for 12 months, and with the certainty that there will be a sufficient supply of capital for all legitimate purposes, why should the Government give an interest upon its floating debt that will keep it at the very high premium of 655. per 1,000/. ? Bankers and others who require large amounts at a short notice must always have recourse to Ex chequer. Bills, even if they paid but 1 per cent. The choice is either between keeping the money in their " till" without deriving any profit, or placing it out on " call" with the discount houses. To in vest in funded securities is an operation not to be attempted, unless the money can be left for a fixed period. The payment of the bills, which are now to bear only id. per cent. per diem, takes place next month, and, notwithstanding the prediction of parties of great weight in the banking world, we are satisfied that the renewal will be accom plished without any difficulty, and that the new bills will bear a handsome premium. It has suited. the Stock Exchange to feign considerable appre hension, and even to decline to deal in these new securities, so that, at one time yesterday, there were scarcely buyers at 10s. premium, but we be lieve 20s. to 30s. was the lowest at which any one would ne r d ri t v o als sell. In bu l l n lio a n ll f M ro a m rch we shall have continuous a Aus tralia, which must replace part of the coi n that has been leavingua n n Exchequer o . d T o h e w Fthort Bills,ehi Foreign butnsu csuccess s sp Exchanges roefse nt the et m hey re duction have are looking up to the Bank o f E ng l an d Di rec t ors , who must have been con su lt e d i n th e ma tt er , an d will, as usual, lend every assistance t o th e Govern ment to effect this nation al saving. Upon th e w h o l e , therefore, 11 Ms, which will be payable annually, ae l something oc o been t i inclined on the new bills will bo sufficient to maintain them in circulation, and although the measure was unex pected, in consequence of the neglect of previous Chancellors, it does not follow that it is inexpe dient. Owing to the occurrence of the share and foreign settlements so soon after the Consol account, money has been in more demand in the Stock Exchange this week, and a rate as high as 3 per cent. per an num has been paid for loans obtained upon Exche quer Bills for a fortnight. Any one conversant with Stock Exchange matters, however will com prehend th a t w h ore a lucrat i ve speculation has to be carried, or a loss to be retrieved, the payment of a much higher rate is for a short period a matter of not the slightest importance. The rate of dis count is fairly n to 3 per cent. The next published return of the Bank of England will show a decrease of 300,000/. to 350,0001. in the bullion, but a sin gular mistake is made by' one of our morning con temporaries in asserting that the public deposits will be smaller. The reverse is the case,theywill be larger. After the present week, we anticipate an increase also in the bullion. There were bargains after the close of the official hours of business in the Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon, as high as 99/ to in Consols, but this morning the highest quotations are 99g to I. The prices for transfer h ave b een 994 t o I . Bank Stock is quiet at 227. Exchequer Bills have been dealt in at 30s. to 455., and the advertised bills at 20s. to 255.-- r a strong proof of the cogency of our rea soning. The New Three-and-a-arter per Cents. have been 1038 to , and the Three per Cents. 1001- to 4. A. loan of two millions of renter has been unani mously sanctioned by the Senate at Turin. Foreign Securities have been inactive, and the change in prices is consequently immaterial. Spanish 3 per Cents, are worth about 474, and the Deferred 23, being firm. Grenada Deferred Stock is at 114 to 114. Austrian Bonds have been quoted 98, about the former value. Portuguese 4 per Cents. are worth 381 to 39. Danish Stock is at 107 k. Venezuela Deferred Bonds are heavy at 14. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been steady at 97k. The Railway Share Market has been very firm, though the advanced prices obtained late yesterday afternoon, " after hours" have not been sustained. Several parties looked for further improvement, but, on the other hand, a rise tempts speculative sellers, and therefore for a time damps the market. French Shares keep up. The Gold Mines are scarcely so dear as yester day, but still in demand. The Australian Agricultural Shares are firm. The settlement is fixed for Monday next, ex the Peel Rivers, which are to be allowed for at the rate of 141. per share. There will be some diffi culty in the settlement, because thecompanyneither issues a certificate nor a memorandum, although requested to do so by the Stock Exchange Com mittee, and the transfer books are closed. South Australian Land shares are very firm. The Joint Stock Bank shares have been very firm, but with less doing. The Burns' Creek Mine shares are to have a settlement on Friday next, but not to be marked in the list. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. Business aone. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOOl 1 i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities Mareh2.1609 99 33: 2 11 Juno. i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 31 per Cent. Annuities. .. 6 India Stock Consols for Account 10th March Exchequer Bills lid. £lOOO.. 3O 45 £5OO 3O 45 Small 3O 45 Ditto Advertised 2O 25 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.. ... .......... .... 98 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent . ............. 64 Danish 5 per Cent ' 107' Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Defentd 5$ ................... 11i Mexican 3 per Cent,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..... 23 Portuguese 4 per Cent. ... 39 8- x d Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .......... ...... 94 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent ............ 23 Venezuela Bonds 3a per Cent. ......... ...... Ditto Deferred, 1 pe r .... 14 Dutch Exchange 2i per Co u t ... ............... 65 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificat es ....,.. 9711 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols ....... - ........ Ditto Mara Accplatirimp4miritti ...... fol * IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. Mr. MORRIS took the oaths and his seat for Car. marthen. The committees appointed to inquire into Tavistock, Bridgnorth, Lancaster, and Canterbury elections, were sworn at the tables. The following private bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed : Aberdeen Railway ; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway (No. 1) ; Amber gate Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway (Nottingham, &c.); Ardrossan Railway ; Bangor and Caernarvon Railway ; Bangor Waterworks ; Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway (Poulton cum Seacombe, &c.) ; Birmingham and Oxford Junction, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley and Great Western Railways ; Blackburn Gas • Black burn Railway ; Blackpool and Layton with Warbrick Improvement ; Bristol Gas ; Bristol Gas and Bristol and Clifton Gas Companies Amalgamation ; Bristol Water works ; Fritisli Electric Telegraph Company ; Cambridge University and Town Waterworks ; Cardiff Waterworks ; Carmarthen Markets ; Cheltenham and Oxford Union Railway ; Cork Municipal Corporation ; Crystal Palace Company • Darlington and Barnard Castle Rail wa y ; Devon and Dorset Railway ; Devon port Gas ; Dudley Gas ; East Grinstead Railway ; East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Rail way ; Eastern Counties Railway (North Woolwich, &o.); Eastern Counties Railway (Woodford and Loughton) ; East Lancashire Railway (No. 1) (Clifton to Salford) ; East Lancashire Railway (No. 2) (Southport, &c.) ; East London Waterworks ; Electric Telegraph Com pany of Ireland; Evesham Bridge; Glasgow Improvement; Great Extramural Cemetery Association ; Great North ern Railway (No. 1); Great Northern Railway (Bedford branch) ; Great Yarmouth Wellington Pier ; Holme Re servoirs ; Hull and Holderness Railway ; Irwell Valley Waterworks ; Leeds and Whitehall Roads ; Leeds Cen tral Market ; Leeds Gas ; Lee River Trust ; Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway (power to sell, &c.); London and North-Western and Buckinghamshire Rail ways ; London and North-Western Railway (Crewe to Shrewsbury) ; London and North-Western Railway (Northampton, &c.) ; London and North-Western Rail way (Oldham Branch) ; London and North-Western Railway (Saint Alban's &c.) ; London and North- Western Railway (Stourbridge, &c.) ; London and North-Western Railway (Tring and Oxford) ; London Assurance ; London, Brighton, and South C oast Rail way ; London Docks ; Lough Foylo and Lough Swilly Drainage and Reclamation ; Lowestoft Water, Gas, and Market ; Manchester and Southport Railway ; Man chester Division Stipendiary Magistrate ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Barnsley) ; Midland (Leicester and Hitchin) ; Monkland Railways ; Norfolk Estuary ; Nottingham Gas ; Ormskirk Gas ; Peebles Railway ; Plymouth Imprnvement ; Portadown and Dungannon Railway ; Preston Gas ; Preston Waterworks ; Price's Patent Candle Company ; Reading Market ; Redruth and Chasewater Railway ; Rogerstown Inclosure ; Rossendale Waterworks ; Run corn and Weston Canal ; St. Helen's Canal and Railway ; Salford Extension and Improvement ; Severn Navigation ; Severn Valley Railway ; Shef field Waterworks ; South Devon and Tavistock Rail way ; South-Eastern Railway (Canterbury and Whit stable, &c.) ; South-Eastern Railway (Lewisham, Croy don, and Bromley) ; South-Eastern Railway (North Kent Railway to the Thames, &c.) ; South-Eastern Railway (Reading Extension, &c.) ; South-Easter n Railway (Strood to Maidst one ) ; South Wales Railway (Monmouth) ; Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks ; Stockport Improvement ; Sunderland Dock ; Sunder land Gas • Warrington and Alt r i nc h am R a il way (Stock port) ; West Cornwall Railway ; Whitechapel Improve ment • Whittle Dean Wat erwor k s ; Wi gan W aterwor k s and Police ; Wildmore Fen, and East and West Fens ; Wimbledon and Croydon Railway ; Wolverhampton Markets and Fairs, &c. ; Woodford Railway ; Wor cester and Hereford Junction Railway ; and Worcester and Hereford Railway Bills. Mr. HUTT presented several petitions from Gates head praying for the distribution of parliamentary papers- Several other petitions were presented. Mr. R. LOWE presented a petition from the letter• carrier of Kidderminster comp aining of inadequate pay. ment. Sir E. FILMER presented a petition from Canter bury to the same effect. Mr. R. LOWE presented a petition from 3,000 mem bers of the Church of England in the colony of New South Wales praying that in any establishment which might be made for the Church of England in the colo nies, the bishop, clergy, and laity, might deliberate in one chamber. Col. SIBTHORP presented a petition from Mr. Brown, a solicitor of Lincoln, against the certificate duty. _ _ Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from Beverley praying that the poor law guardians might haves some control over the county rates expenditure. COUNTY POLLS ELECTION BILL. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the third reading of this bill. Colonel SIBTHORP said, he considered the bill as a democratic measure, subversive of the constitution in Church and State, and he should therefore move that the bill be read a third time this day six months. Mr. DEEDES opposed the bill, as a specimen of piece meal legislation. Lord R. GROSVENOR said he should certainly persevere with the bill. Mr. SPOONER thought the bill would be productive of great inconvenience, and he should therefore divide against it. The house then divided, when there appeared For the bill .Against it Majority lOl The bill was then read a third time. Captain SCOBELL then moved an additional clause, to provide that no place for taking the poll shall be at any licensed public-house or beer-house. After some discussion the clause was withdrawn. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved an amendment, with the object of fixing the declaration of the poll on the day after the election. Colonel SIBTHORPE said the noblo lord ought to have given his notice of his intention to move such an amendment as this. Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the amendment. Mr. PALMER thought that, in many counties, it would be impossible to carry out this amendment. Lord R. GROSVENOR said that, not having given notice of the amendment he should not pr it. The amendment was then withdrawn nd the bill passed. PARISH CONSTABLES BILL. r Mr. DEEDES moved the second reading of this bill. The object of the present bill was to consolidate and amend the present Parish Constables Acts, which regu late the police arrangements of a majority of the Eng lish counties, the Rural Police Act of 1839 not having been adopted, for different reasons, in more than 26 counties. (LEFT SITTING.) TROOPS IN THE COLONlES.—According to a return to the House of Commons, obtained by Sir W. Molesworth (printed on Tuesday), there were in the colonies, on the lstiof April, 1851, employed 1,608 officers, 2,076 ser geants and drummers, and, 34,558 rank and file. On the Ist of April last there were 1.706 officers, 2,735 sergeants and drummers, and 35,530 rank and file. THE PINT-BOTTLE QUESTlON.—Yesterday the magis trates of Sunbury heard two informations, laid by an inspector of weights and measures, against publicans of Hampton Court, for selling beer in bottles purporting to be pints and quarts, but not holding the full measure. Each party was convicted in a fine of 40s. and costs. LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF C OMMERCE.—The first monthly meeting, since the annual general meeting, was held on Monday, in their office, Exchange -buildings, when Francis Shand, Esq., was elected president, Thomas Bouch, Esq., vice - president, and Samuel Still, Esq., treasurer. LATER FROM HA.VANNAH.—A telegraphic dispatch to Halifax, just before the sailing of the Europa, has been received by a gentleman in Liverpool. It is dated New Orleans, Feb. 2, and contains news of a dreadful fire which occurred at Cardenas, Havannah, by which property to the extent of nearly a million of dollars was destroyed, including the custom-house, theatre , and powder-ware houses. The B r iti s h mail-steamer from Vera Cruz had not reached Havannah on the 31st ult., and was ten days overdue. There were serious apprehensions regarding her safety as very severe weather was experienced in the Gulf. MURDER OF A SLAVE BY HIS MASTER.—Our citizens were startled on Saturday last by the report of inhuman transactions in the adjoining county of Clark. On Thursday morning last, James Clark, a well-known citizen of the county of Clark, made an assault upon his negro woman for a cause which we have not heard stated ; he then ordered her into a corner of the room, and commenced pitching his knife at her, point foremost. As the knife would enter her flesh, he would compel his victim to draw it forth and return it to him. This demoniacal amusement was continued until the slave was covered with about fifty bleeding gashes. The same day he whipped his wife, cut her all over the head with his knife, not dangerously, we understand, but in a mass of cruel and painful punctures. He'also cut off her eye lids. This strange drama wound up on Friday last by the commission of a murder. Clark, on that day, ordered his wife to go and call Lewis (a negro belonging to the family). She obeyed, but the slave refused to come— through dread of his enraged master, we suppose. Mrs. Clark returned, and was whipped by her husband for not bringing the negro. Five times was she sent upon this capricious mission, five times was it fruitless, and each time was she whipped for her failure. Clark then called to the slave, informing him that he would shoot him next morning. The negro, it seems, did not heed the warning, for while splitting rails the next day he was deliberately shot by his master. The wound was fatal. The negro ran about 300 yards and fell in mortal agony. Thus terminated one of the most barbarous transactions that it has ever been our painful and repugnant duty to reoord,—Americant raver. WRECK OE THE VICTORIA STEAMER. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. KINGSTOWN, TUESDAY MORNING. A frightful catastrophe occurred this morning off . the Irish coast. The City of Dublin Steam -ship Company's vessel which left Liverpool on Monday at noon, with 120 souls on board, ran on the rocks off the Howth Lighthouse, in a dense fog, at a fevr minutes before two o'clock this morning, and in stantaneously went to pieces. The screams of the affrighted passengers and crew were heard by the parties on board the Ros common steamer, which had just left Kingstown harbour for Holyhead. The captain hove to immediately, and by great exertion succeeded in picking up between forty and fifty persons wh° were struggling in the water —some of them cling ing to portions of the wreck, and others holding - on to the masts and rigging of the ill-fated vessel. The remainder--according to some accounts t more than 100, and certainly not less than 80-- - were lost. Among the missing persons is the commander of the vessel, Captain West, who has been on the sta' tion upwards of twenty years, and who was -waiver sally respected. The accident appears to have occurred through the fog which prevailed along the coast when the vessel struck. The shoal upon which she ran is . known as the Bayley Rocks, in the immediate viol' nity of the Howth Lighthouse. Immediately after completing his humane efforts, the captain of the Roscommon returned to Kings" town, where he arrived at six o'clock this mornini with the rescued s u ff erers , w h ose woe -b egon e Ana; heart-broken appearance excited universal comum' • seration. The scene presented to-day to the passengers by the express boats was of a truly heart-rending na ture. In every direction, as far as the eye could reach, portions of the wreck, thinks, boxes, barrels , baskets, and all other descriptions of luggage , be longing to the p assengers, were seen floating on. we water. The g►reatsst Excitement prevails on the Subjec b of the wreck. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. LIVRRPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 9.30 A. 16 Further particulars of the loss of the above steamer have come to h an d thi s morn i ng . left Liverpool at 3 p.m. on Monday, with about 100 steerage an d s i x or e i g h t cabin passengers, and Sh e a large an d va l ua bl e cargo, principally sugar. proceeded safely until about 2.30 a.m. on Tuesday! when she struck with great force on the rocks 9,: a few p erc h es north of the Bailey's Light. The engines were reversed, and she backed off an a sunk in a b ou t 20 minutes afterwards, leaving W tops of he r mas t s and about six feet of her funne l ~ above wat er . The boats, five in number, were go: out, and such was the rush to get into them air three were swamped, and large numbers perished' The steamer Roscommon w as near th e p l ace the disaster occurred, and seeing the danger sign proceeded in the di rec ti on i nd i cated, and succee ded in . rescuing 45 p ersons ; e i g h t others, w h o hr climbed up the rocks, were also saved. Th e steamers Iron D u k e and Prince Albert were imlne; diately despat c h ed to the scene of the disaster, /311" could find no trace of any human being. CaP tall t Church, th e second and third officers, and the fill and second engineers, are amongst the drowned. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCLXXVII. THE DERBY LOTS AT NEWMARKET. In continuation of my review of the Derby horses 56 Newmarket, I shall next examine C. FISHER'S lot, which consist of three of General Anson's, and one of the Marquis of Westminster's. The General's tr u i° ' ch c by D on J ohn out of Potentia ; br c , Don John out of Lollypop ; and br f MAYFAIR , by BaY Middleton ou t o f B lack Bess —are not destined to figur e in th e D er b y fray. The first has attempted thrice to a deed wort h naming, but has failed most signally each oc cas i on. The second has never run but is 0:1; dently a wretched specimen of horse flesh. Thillo named is as yet also a non-starter • but, if she stands _ trainin g ( a questionable affair), will' do som ething T he small way where speed is out of articular) Margaret in req re uest. General' s co l t, by Tearaway - t having , proved hi s worthlessness by running last in the only race he started for, has been out of training. a nta. The Mar qu i s o f Westminster's b cuPofs Finesse', r repr b e. Y loon out:of D ecoy, by Filho da Puta ou D Peruvian ; Vi o l ante, by John Bull, will t b e the sentative of the stable for the Derby. R e has n ot TT_ as yet, and w ill make his debut, I b e li eve, at Chester , the race for the Dee Stakes. He was introduced int o the betting on th e 3d o f l ast M ay, at Tattersall's, at n to 1 ; and has been backed occasionally at long inter vals at the same figure, which is about 10 points under. the price that ma y b e o bt a i ne d a b out him at the prese nt time. His blood i s un d en i a bl e. I w i sh .1 could sal same of his legs. Should he train on satisfactorily'', b e will run much better than is generally imagined on th e Derby-day ; but, I canno t, a t t h e present t i me , fang him good enough for a place, much less as winner. G. BLOSS has a solitary Derby horse of Mr. Mare's in preparati oll ; the b c PHAROLD, by Al arm ou t o f L a d y T ram poline , who he purchased of the nominator (Capt. Delme) why a yearling. He has only a pp eare d i n pu bli c onc e, at t he Newmarket Hought on M ee ti ng , where, carrYing„ 71b, he won a sweep s t a k e over th e Ab. in a ean",', by a length ; beatin g Ni co ti ne B st 41b ( secon d ), Gl e narr Bst 41b (good third), and Cobnut Bst 71b (a bad fours"' and last). That this horse possesses speed must be O Ti : dent to all who saw this performance, or the vr.„o which he gen era ll y d oes hi s work, and that he Ww___;: do many a good thin g i n th e ti me to come ; b ut as t o ning the Derby I must decidedly say no, although ba may obtain a forward place. Mr. Mare's br c by Touchstone, dam by Discount on & of Blucher, has been out of training for a length of time" H. BRADLEY has Count Bathgany's b c STONE PLOVER ,(brother Stilton), by Cotherstone out of Wryneck, under his na re , ; He has not ex hibit e d u p t o th e present t i me ; wa s doing moderate work before th e f ros t so t i n , an d i n my 0131'71,-0, is not equal to his brother, or to the task of winning Derby, although a tolerably sure starter. The Count's other nomination b c BniGgrvirALT lLtg ; by Beverlac out of Cecilia, he sold last year, and by ( 10i : 1 ' so acted most judiciously, as he is a very inferior anir ° and was about last in both the races he started for. _ _ STEPHENSON, JUN. has half-a-dozen D er b y an i mals of Lord Clifden's in tr 951 1 , 1; ing, three of wh om —b c MOLASSES, by St. Frances°- of Treacle, nominated by General Anson, a winner 011 in nine starts ; b c FFRAHORZ, by lon out of it °9°° d Cashmere, four times a starter, but never a winner ; br c WARBLER, by Don John out of Cavantina, nr i- s r; nated by Sir J. Hawley, a runner and loser twice--°aa not the small es t pretensions to be considered even ee c°- rates. Lord Clifd en ' s b c GLENGARRY, by Cotherstone o ut t i Glenlui, I s t a t e d on the 10th of July last year, W° never stand training, which is the ease. Lord Clifd en ' s b c CONSTANTINE, by Cotherstone cut of Crucifix, by Priam out of Octaviana, by Oar lb° with some of the best blood in his veins to found 111 „id kingdom, is afflicted with v er y d ou btf u l l eg s, but 61 14 he sta n d preparat i on, i n my opinion will turn out to respectable animal. H as no t run as ye t, an d I pres, , or will make his d e b z 2t on M on d ay i n the Craven wee'. the Riddlesworth. Lord Clifden's' br c by Cotherstone out of 3 .03111 , 1 r i11 ,,rd by Priam ou t of oanna bSultan, nom i na ted by 3- ': 10 Villiers, is ano th er well-bred animal, and the relli,T er , which I app l y to the preceding will, letter for le" stand good for this horse also, ~u t of Lord Clifd en ' s b c C HEDDAR , b y C o th e rstone _ te a Clementina, by Acto3on, dam by Phantom, nonuirso. by Lord Jersey, will, I presume, be the Derby regs g . f o r tative of th e sta bl e. H e h as run twice, fill lBl head; the Triennial Stakes at Ascot close to the Reiver s s ily and winning the Mottisfont Stakes at Stockbridge, e dif —beating Vault ress an d seven others. He is undelluether teg t a good h orse , b u t h as not b een d o i ng his work al in the m os t sa ti s f actory manner. Will run for w Epsom, Tll O THE SPIRIT' OF THE BETTLIrvNGERAPTOOMLANsTCEHEEpIayoR--RATsurr• , 6to 1 agst Oscar (taken). Bto 1 agst Miss Mowbray. 13 to 1 agst Duc-an-Durra,s (taken). 13 to 1 agst View Halloo (taken.) 13 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie. 16 to 1 agst Victress. 20 to 1 agst Bourton (taken to 50/.). 20 to 1 agst Maurice Daley (taken). LIVERPOOL SPRING CM " ' 10 to 1 agst Bellewstown (taken). 10 to 1 agst Doubt (taken). 10 to 1 agst Pride (taken). • 12 to 1 agst Master Norton (taken). 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