The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

TIEATRE ROYAL, DRUM LANE.— to the war duty of 161 in the pound. But Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. "the pressure from without" convinces him that Acting Manager, Mr. C. Matbew4. Stage Manager, Mr, It Rxby. Szenie Artist, Arr. W. Beverley. • such a course is practically impossible, and thatit Tho eminent Comedian, Mr. Charl.: 3 Mathews, every evenius% would render his own tenure of office very hi iefin- man unnecessarily put forward respecting the paper and wino duties. Our space will not, how ‘Cver• permit it this day. We, however, entreat the chosen representatives of the people and the community at large not to be misled by the ap parent remission of what is facetiously termed the War 03., but to examine the whole scheme I closely and attentively. They will then perceive that it merits condemnation in place of the plau d.t3 it has received on a mere superficial inspec tion, and that Sir G. C. LEwis is as unfair to the industrious classes on the fiscal as ho is on the monetary question. He has proved himself utterly imcompetent for the duties of his arduous and important office, and if the PALMERSTON Admi nistration desire to retain the confidence of the people they must find some person far better qua lified to preside over the national exchequer, end more disposed to relieve the industrious classes 'rom the burdens by which they are afflicted. Great Success of the G:and Christmas Pantomime the most magniacent ever produced on the English stage. ' ! deed. r,,,L in yieldin ghe keeps the slight COTlVenient TUIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform an ! intrenclimeet still available as a place of refuge, (tail-eV new three-act Drama, entitled TIIE BLACK BOOK. and requites, as compensation for going back to Characters by Mr. C. 1 1 ,1athews, A. Yonne, G. 'Honey, Mr. the original 7d., an additional 21 in the pound Vincent, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Bingham ; Misses Cleveland and M. Oliver, and Mrs. Selby. for the next three years, or 6d. in the pound alto- After which will be prodneel gether. He aleo distinctly repudiates the "GLAD SEE, SAW, MARGER,Y DAW ; Or, Harlequi n H o lid a y, an d the Island of Ups and Downs. STONE compact." He declares that the settlement The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the effected in 1853 has been entirely deranged by house to snit every one :—Galleries, cd. and is. ; Secon d the stern reality of subsequent events. It is there- Circle o: Boxes, I.s. M. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes, 2s. C, I. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, Ss. ; Private Boxes, fore perfectly clear that he does not intend t o 109.- .6(L, I'. ls., it. us. 6d., and 21. 2s. relinquish, or even materially reduce, the tax in A Mornin g Performance of the Great Panto mime every at Two o'clock. 1860—that it must, so far as he is conc erned, be Wednesday, regarded as a permanent burden, and that, there fore, it is essential that it should be forth with revised, so as to render it more equitable in its apportionceent, and less oppressive in its inci dence. We trust, then, that professing fiscal reformers seeing that the hope of complete relief in 1860, which could alone extenuate a submis sion to the present system, being completely re. moved, may insist on its immediate modification, so as to remove the chief grounds of objection to its continuance. The difficulty must be encoun• tered sooner or latter, and there is no use in endeavouring to postpone the inevitable contest ! The reasons assigned by the Right Hon. Gen tleman for not adhering to the settlement of 1853 were clearly fallacious. While speaking of the losses arising from the alteration of the st Imp duty on Bills of Exchange, he gave no credit for the stamps on foreign Bills of Exchange. The alleged loss in the assessed taxes of 285,0001. had, as Mr. GLADSTONE explained, been provided for in the financial scheme of 1853—and the esti mated loss on the malt tax does not depend on any proposition of his, but is the effect of the existing law, which fortunately leaves no loophole for a " pettifogging quibble." Besides, he will still receive the same amount of duty that was levied on that imported article in 1853, and which was contemplated at the time of the alleged settlement. As to tea, coffee, and sugar, in place of giving any remission, he is actually proposing a very considerable increase on that which he woul I be entitled to receive from and after the sth April next, and, as Mr. GLADSTONE declared, it would be well if, in place of contenting himself with stating the amount of reduction from the scale of duties, " he would supply the figures from the gain which he expects to realise from the new duties, as compared with those which would take effect under the existing law." In tea alone he will gain 972,500/. during the year 1857-8, 1,291,5001. in 1858-9, 972,500/. in 1859-60, and 553,5001. in 1860-1 ; or, in other words, :in that one article alone he attempts to realise 3,790,0001. mere than ho would receive under the existing law. This makes a formidable inroad on 5,000,0001. be professes to surrender on the In come Tax. We have calculated these returns on his own (iota, for if 2,1. per lb. produces369,ooo l ., the sd. increase wilt produce 972,5001., the 7d. 1,291,5001., and the 31. 553,5001. ; and the additions on coffee and sugar will more than make up the balance which he professes to give up on account of the Tecorne Tax. Even if ho availed himself of the " pettifogging quibble" so justly comphined of by the indignant people, all that he can justly claim credit for is the remission of the stamp duty on newspapers, which he asserts amounts to 260,0001., and the addition to the interest on the public debt, amounting, as he de clares, in round t3rms, to a million and a half, but actually to 1,459,0001. only, according to his THEATRE ROYAL, IIAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, w;th the successful new Comedy, iu three acts, entitled, DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Charac ters b y Mr. Enekstone, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Clark; Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz wil lam. Followed by (first time) a new drama, called A WICKED WIFE. After which (60th time) the new comiepantoniime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr. W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M.. Milano. Harlequin,. M. Milano; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay; aud Clown, Mr. Driver A frightful evidence has just been afforded at Milan of the atrocity of Austrian domination over the Lombard territories. We allude, of course, to the infamous murder perpetrated in a public café of:that city by an officer of the German army of occupation. The assassination of a young Italian civilian in a manner unexampled in civi lised nations, and under circumstances of peculiar horror. It appears to have been a crime committed so entirely without even the sem blance of what might be ordinarily desig nated provocation, that it can only in reason be regarded as a deed of blood originating in the very wantonness of Pride and Power, on the part of one wielding—in a subordinate capacity no doubt, but still wielding in, that capa city the sword of a conqueror. A Lombard citizen at the Opera-house presumes to hiss the prima donna. He is insulted thereupon by au officer wearing the Austrian uniform—is followed out of the theatre into the streets—is provoked, challenged to single combat, and threatened with summary vengeance. The authorities, having - E)OPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 1.. 4 :"...) THIS EVENING will be performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN' AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Min. Virlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Han° ; Pantaloon, Mr. Panto; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. / 1 1 Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new play, in five acts, by Westland Marston, Esq., entitled A LIFE'S RANSOM. Lord Reverdale, , Mr. C. Dillon ; Bancroft, Mr. Stl.r.rt ; Felicia Reverdale, Mrs. C. Dillon. To be followed by CON RAD AND MEDORA; _ . or, Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of He Sea. The burlesque opening by W. Brongh, Esq., ounde4 upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her Majesty s Theatre. The harlequinado upon things in gene ral. The new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F. Fenton. Conrad (He Corsair) Miss 17oolgar Birbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole Modern Mrs. Charles Dillon Clowns Mr. H. Mali - rill .The box-offee open daily, from 11. to 5, under the super ttendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ,Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street. their attention called to these incidents betimes, are driven to the necessity of interfering, in very shame, with a view t) the prevention of an out rage not uncommon in the Italian provinces ap pertaining to the dominions of the Red Emperor— the semi-legalised butchery of Lombards or Vene tians by the weapons of the professed duellists in the German army of occupation. Forewarned in the recent instance at Milan the Austrian Com mandant compels the officer in question, as in duty bound, to retire for a while to some distance from the capital of Lombardy. Shortly after wards a friend of this Knight-Errant of the Prima Donna of the Opera House--this friend also, be it observed, wearing the uniform of the soldiers of FRANCIS JosErn—encounters by accident, in a public cafe, the young Italian who had had the presumption to hiss a favourite actress. There fore, with a sweep of his sword—like a Turk of the middle ages rather than a civilised Christian gentleman of the nineteenth century—this Ger man cut-throat severs the head of the young Ita lian, without any more ado, clean off his shoulders ! Intelligence of which unparalleled outrage spread ing rapidly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, throughout Milan, creates—naturally enough—an extraordinary ferment among all classes of the population. Whereupon, dreading the conse quences, the whole Austrian army now quartered Ia the capital of Lombardy is turned out and marched to and fro about the streets—the shops being closed—the citizens being compelled to keep in doors—martial law being all but proclaimed. Revolutions before now have sprung out of crimes less in infamy than this atrocious and hor rible assassination. Quousque tandem, abutere— How long, //ow long is Italy to display this craven toleration of the heel of the German 02ESAR upon her neck ? Has she one spark of heroic pride among a'.l the millions of her prostrate people ? Is the tocsin ever to sound for her liberation ? What was it MIRABEAU exclaimed so grandly at the be ginning of the First French Revolution ? " MARIUS flung dust to heaven, and out of that dust sprung the Gracehii 1" So may it not be at length with the ashes strewn upon her own head in her profound abjection and despair by modern Italy—ltaly, not less than Rome (as the central point of Italy) as sung by BYRON, " The Niobe of Nations !—The Mother of Dead Empires 1" Speaking of her still living but degraded chil dren, particularly of the Lombard Serfs of Austria, may wo not rather ask than declare, with GRAY—" Even in their ashes live their wonted fires ?" Have they the vaguest glimmer ing sense of their despicable condition ? Hardly can we imagine this. Otherwise catching but the merest glimpse of it—they would barely, for very shame, but start up at once erect from the dust in one grand and irresistible rising fur their Fatherland, from the Abruzzi to the Carpathians. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed OUR GAL. Caro- Pm Morton, Mrs. Barney Williams. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, a new and original comic drama, called BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Toole, Mr. Barney To conclude with MOTHER SHIPTON ; or, 'Harlequin Knight of Love, and the ,Enehanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine ca la Watteau), Madame Celeste anti Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland ; Seararnoueh, Mr. Lo Barr. Characters in the bur lesque Mr. Paul aulford, Mr. J. - Bland, Mr. R. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &c. 'VD OYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs, Shepherd awl ° K eswick. THIS EVENING, VIRGINIUS. Virginias, Mr. Creswick. , • whicll, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr F. Mover I Crown, Mr. Duck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Erallmry; till Four Sprites, the Fillis Fa tally CAtnnbines. Mel:lames Mari.) and Agnes. rfiIIEA.TRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. es Tinder the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Messrs. Phelps, H. Mars ton, F. Robinson, Ray, Belford, Williams, Ball, C, Fenton, and Harris; Mesdames Eburno, Marston, and Mrs. H. Mars ton. To conclude with THE SENTINEL. CTRL ND T FIE A.T R,E.—M•xnager, 111 c. T. Pevtie.—ThN Evening will be Tier %or med a powerful new drama, THE PRIDE OF rovErtry ; or, The Real Poor of London. Affe; LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. To cmcluie with the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE M C MTSTLETOE ; or, Harlequin ilumbur; erd the Shams 0! London. The Fairy C miss E. Wil tan ; Good Humour, Miss Norbury; Mercury, Miss C'arrei on ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert ; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; ilaron, M. J. B. Johnstone ; Sir Roland, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Love/ , Miss Craven ; Addel -, .,:te, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. E'.ouin ; Lady /Ines, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, IrTr. G. Lee; Fr.thiloTt. Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harle - quisaao • Olowr, Miss CathbCrt ; Little Clown, Master W Eamin Pantalorr. Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbines. Miss E. "nobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier Dann:lse, Male. Marie Charles. Commence at Seven. Stalls,' 3s. ; Boxes, N. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, (Ll. A morning performance of the Pantomime every Monday at two o'clock own fig urea. But lie displays a similar want of candour in these matters. Ho ignores the Post-office increase, produced mainly by the abolition of the newspaper stamp, and which accounts for the greater portion of the loss ; and a'.so Cie war-luty on spirits, which he proposes to maintain, and which, accord ing to his own estimate, "may be reckoned on 39 producing a permanent addition to the revenue of about 1,500,0001. per annum ;" thus more than counterbalancing the increased interest on the debt, inasmuch as (to say nothing of the 41,0001. which lie erroneously takes on interest.) that will gradually b 3 reduced by the proposed extinction of the Exchequer Bonds ; the 1,000,0001. loan to Sardinia, which will bring in another 40,0001. per annum ; and the interest on the Sinking Fund of 250,0001. for the next year, and 1,500,0001. for every subsequent year until the recent war-loan be altogether extin guished. The 81,0001. per annum arising from the error in simple addition, for which a candidate for a petty clerkship, producing 801. per annum, would be plucked by the Civil Service Examiners, and the interest of the Sardinian loan is an ample equivalent for the loss on Newspaper Stamps, credit being allowed for the augmeadd receipts of the Putt-office, which he estimates to produce 3,000,0001. next year, but wh . ch only returned 2,767,201/. fur the year ending on the 31st March last. It is therefore manifest that the entire proceeds of the additional taxation can only be required to pay off the debt, and against that considering that the people have suffered so se verely during the war, and that the whole of the war debt will be liquidated by the Sinking Fund in sixteen years. We earues ly and emphatically protest, and call upon the independent . or quasi independent Members to resht this disreputable dodge on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 'VT) OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE pv L"sseo, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, a new farce. by Eayle Bernard, eAlle , l A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. After which, CRINOLINE. Anew Fairy ExtravazanzA, by J. R. Manche, Llg., called yOuN, AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers, Leslie, G, Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swaaboronqii, St. Cilf,S• Castleton, F. , romley, Masi:ell, 2,a Mrs. Melfort. Sir W. CLAY has returned again to the Church rate conflict. He got his bill read a first time on Thursday without opposition ; the debate is, of course, to be taken on the Second reading—a debate which ought to be the last ever Ifeld on that subject. If Dissenters only used half their power, or put forth half their strength, it is quite certain that they might compel the Government to move, and the House of Commons to do its part. We believe they could even vanquish the House of Lords. At their door we lay it, that with no one of nob to conquer in the House of Commons but Lord JonN RUSSELL, the Church-rats contest is prolonged Session after Session. We are sick of it, and if those whom it chiefly concerns will not beAir themselves as they ought what are they to expect of us ? We pro bably should have more to pay after the abolition of Church Rates than we now have, but we have taken the straightforward course, with all truly liberal Churchmen, of joining in the condemna tion of the gross injustice of Church Rates. There are thousands and tens of thousands of Churchmen all the kingdom over who feel as we do. They would scorn to advocate a palpable wrong to half the worshippsrs of the country, for the benefit of their own pockets, or oven for that of their own religious denomination. But they do ask Dissenters t) come forward, now, in a way which shall make this effort a final one. His views as to direct taxation are equally sin gular. In comparing the amount raised by di rect and iedirect imposts he classes amongst the former, not only the Income-tax, Land-tax, and Legacy and Succession Duties, but also the whole revenue on Stamps, the assessed texes, and the gross returns of the Post-Office. Can anything he more unfair or more uncandid than this ? Call he, with truth, allege that Admiralty stamps, bills of Exchange, cards and dice, Chancery fund, civil bankers' rotes, and composition therefor, plate, marine and fire insurance licences, and cer tificates, law forms, medicines or receipts and drafts, fall on accumulated property ? Most of them pre charges on trade and commerce, and defrayed by the consumers of the commodities dealt in. The Irish insurance is chiefly paid by the occupiers, not the landlords, of houses—and of the assessed taxes, the same may be said of the House-duty, and all the others on • servants, horses, horse-dealers, hair-powder, game-d u ty, dogs, carriages, and composition duty, and armorial bearings, although nominally direct taxes do not necessarily fall on the owners of accumehted property. They are entirely optional, and even a miilionnaire need not pay a Single shilling on account thereof if he does net choos e t) do so. Bat the Post-office is the meat absurd of all. Sir G. C. LEWIS is fully aware that the Post -office swallows up in its ae% ministration very nearly the whole of its revenues, and properly so. Pull an d valuable consideration ig given for the payments made, w hi e l i fall on the general population of the country, and not em the owners of property. There is scarcely a faTril y, however, bumble, that does not contributor it; quota to the charge. We have something yet to say respecting the -volunteer views which the Right Hon. Gentl,l- As to their quondam friend, Lord JOHN RUS SELL, be has looked back on this question, and become a pillar of ELDON bigotry. It is hopeless for them to wait for a man whose decrepitude in Religious Liberty trembles for the House of Lords, the throne, and the altar, whenevez Church-rate abolition is talked of. Dis senters must be content to write off Lord JOHN'S help as a bad debt. They will never re ceive it. Ever since he lampooned their clergy as stageplayer, and gave up the appropriation clause, he has cut his old supporters. It is of no use for them to vote for him as a practical friend of religious liberty. He will talk big out of office, and deliver grand preambles in office, but the practical issue of any official speech will always Le the minimum of reform that will pass muster for one who eats the political bread of Liberalism. That is ourineasure of Lord JOHN for the remainder of his career. Dissenters must carry all they want for the future in spite of him; THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E ‘i 1N G, FEBRUARY 16, 1857 wo fear the same will be found t.) be the case with every serious measure of political re foim. We write thus, relactantly. We have fought by the side of Lord JOHN' in many a battle, but, if he will see fit to consult the " dignity" or amour propre of the aristocracy and their Church, much as he did that of Russia ; if he will halt in his march when he might lead on to a conclusive of all the houses. One of the union medical officers states that his weekly reports, which used to occupy four sheets, now occupy only one sheet and. a half. Of these very satisfactory reports we quote, as a particular example, ti)e following from the local Board of Macclesfield : " In four years 43 streets and 245 courts have been sewered, paved, and flagged, every privy and ash-Fit be longing a to them numbering 290, have b: in drained, re paired, or rebuilt, and new ones have been erected where none existed before. 1,469 houses have been drained. In the execution of these works the board have expended. 15,416/ , and when it is stated that, in the same period, nearly 36,090/. has been the entire expenditure, and that the efforts of the board, and the means at their command have uniformly been first directed whore they could be best applied for the removal of the most pernicious evils, and principally amongst that class of persons whose con dition, habits of life, and tone of morals, were the most miserably wretched, the council cannot fa:l to contemplate the great sanitary change that has b_ tun accomplished, and the vast amount of sickness, suffering, and human degrada tion, that has thus been prevented. " To make these observations the more obvious, and in accordance with former practice, the board must refer to their Table of Mortality, and cans( a and ages of death, brought down to the present period. These tables show the rate of mortality before the operations of the board to have been 33 deaths in a thousand, whilst the average of the last thrco years has been reduced to 26 in a thousand. So with the average age of death of all persons, which was formerly 24 years, is now 29 years. And a freedom from the former excess of preventable deaths is shown in the registered "causes of death," and singularly confirmed by the nearly uniform numbers dying in the last thrce victory, it is his fault, not ours, that we are not still fighting with him. , Let Dissenters bethink themselves of their even without much stir of forces. They have, late, had majorities, and respectable ones, and against the Government too, in the House of Commons. The heir to the house of Derby is on their side. They have many representat'ves in the house, and some of them men of mark ; and they have in their favour, as Lord STANLEY observed, both in the House an( out of it, a growing sense of the necessity of reli gious equality. The House of Commons wants but a few vigorous turns of the popular screw, to be induced to bury Church Rates in the grave where lie Test and Corporation Acts, the old Marriage Laws, and a host of other laws of far more terrific ecclesiastical character. Then, the people. Why, more than half the worshippers were proved by the Census to be Dissenters ; '.o these must be added the vast numbers of liberal years, Namely in 1851 ....,.... .............. . 775 1855 1856 In all these previous years there appears to have been no such uniformity, because, no doubt, those influences were in existence which rendered life more precarious, conta gion more certain, and epidemics more frequent and malignant. " Throughout England the mortality of children under five years of age is 39 per cent. of all the deaths; in Macclesfield it is 40 per cent., and the reductions have succe,sively been from 11 to 14 per cent. " To sum up the benefits therefore it will appear that 812 lives have been saved, the proportionate number of cases of sickness to each death have been prevented, and the consequent expense avoided, the moan duration of life has been lengthened five years, and infantile mortality, one of the certain tests of the absence or otherwise of sani tary improvement, has been reduced 13 per cent. " These results are the daily observation of the medical man, the clergy and minister of religion, and other dis pensers of charity and relief, but it is only through the medium of this report that their extent and value can be made palpably evident to the public, so as to commas'. that attention and general co-operation which would not only treble these physical benefits, but would also strengthen the defences against vice, intemperance, and crime. And that eanitary measures aro a defence against the latter, is clearly shown in a former report which exhi bits a decrease in magisterial convictions of 50 per cent. in streets, popular in the police records, after the usual con structive improvements have been perfected and cleanli ness secured. In the old haunts of fever, Wood-street, George-street, and Nixon's Yard, not a single fatal case has occurred." Here surely is an example for the Metropolis. We have been at the pains to look into the matter, and we .find that, out of upward of three hundred thou sand houses, it does not appear that the cesspools have been abolished in more than thirty thousand, and self-cleansing tubular house drains—the only drains that are not themselves extended cesspools and a nuisance—substituted. More may have been done privately than appears in the returns, but from accounts of house to house inquiries, of houses infected with cesspools and smells, even in districts of a batter condition, that, at the least, two-thirds have cesspools to be filled up, and cesspool drains to be removed. The expense of doing the requisite worn appe rs to be, if done by common contract, and. under improvement rates, to be under five pounds per house, that is to say, for filling up a cesspool, substituting a self-cleansing water-c105 , ,.t apparatus, and self-cleansing house drain, a sink and proper dustbin. There is earthwork for all, there will be work for the carpenter, and for the bricklayer. In unpaved districts, moreover, there will be work for the unemployed mason. By the 79th section of the Metropolitan Board of Works act, the local boards and vestries have power to do these works for the owners ; that is to say, to borrow the money and pay for the work as an im provement rate. The contract price of cleansing cesspools is stated in the blue-books to be 1/. per annum. The new works have been executed, with the supply of water for the water-closet, greatly in reduction of that existing charge. The expense of merely rude labour is stated to be at the rate of at least ono pound each house. Here then, for the drainage of 200,000 houses, there is a beneficial labour fund of upwards of 200,0001., to meet the immediate need of the un employed. The winter is a good time for performance of such labour. But now, by the use of proved and cheap disinfectants, foul emanations are arrested, and the labour is rendered perfectly innoxious and inoffensive to the inhabitants, as well as to the workmen, in any weather, so that all ob jections on that score are now rendered illusory. Here, then, strictly within the line of duty of the local Boards, is a sufficient source of productive employment for the time. Mr. Simon, Dr. Chal lice, and other officers of health, may point out more. We will undertake ti point out more. The surveyors of the local Boards of Health will pre pare the work pointed out by the health officers. There are great numbers of unemployed operatives, and advisedly and confidently we declare that it will be found that there is abundant public work of the highest public utility for them to do, if the local boards, in any proper degree, do their duty. Those who are convers ant with the subject are aware that the measure of the extent of mortality, which is early proveutible—and in the examples cited, proved to be so—is the greater proportion of the diseases called "zymotic," or fermenting, and these are in the metropolis between two And three hundred weekly. We are all interested in the purity of the air we breathe, and with those who cannot escape from cesspool-tainted houses and streets, the necessity of aci ion is far more urgent than they are even yet aware of. This or teat occupier may, in his ignorance of the means of relief, be content to suffer the infliction, and the owner may visit it upon the poor inmates of his polluted premises, but ho has no right to taint the public air, and the Boards of Health are bound by law to act for the public protection, and should be made directly, and even personally, responsible for continued in action. Churchmen who detest pui.ting their hands into their dissenting neighbours' pockets, to pay for their own worship. Why, if these mighty elements were stirred as they might bo there would be ouch a commotion, such a flight of petitions, such a succession of public meetings', that Lord PALIIERSTON is not the man to brave it all ; nor is his five-year-old Parliament the as sembly to forget that the votes of Church-rate payers would soon have their Table. The Disse:fters have just had before them the very illustration which ought to arouse them. They have seen how a Cabinet, who most cer tainly did mean (we call the Times to witness) to have their pound of flesh out of the War Income Tax, and to spend sixteen millions of the nation's money, have struck their flag to the people. Struck on a money questior, a question involving nine millions of Government patronage ! Go vernment, ltt Dissenters be assured, is squeezable enough, especially when it is in the vice of a fifth Session, with a sixth at best, but more pre bably not another, to follow. Then there is the similarity in one respect of the taxes. Church Rates belon g to the hateful class of direct taxes ; of hard cash payments ; of payments which by no economy can you escape ; and which, despite all theories, people do and will detest. We verily believe the Churchman himself, "in the good time coming," will give his larger voluntary con tribution with much more pleasure than he now pays the compulsory Chui:ch Rate. Now, therefore, is the very time for dissenters to ask their Church neighbours to help them to get rid of this unjust tax—this direct tax—this irreligious tax—this PARISH WAR -TAX. We believe Dissenters, if they girded themselves to the conflict like men, and determined to relieve us of this House of Commons nuisance, and this parish vestry nuisance, would be astonished with the support they would gain by showing themselves determined to win. What tires the patience of the country is the annual skirmish without result. All would join if the- announcement of Dissenters was—we will submit no longer. We leave details till the second read ing is announced. What we desire is to rouse Liberals, dissenting Liberals, especially, to their duty. On this question the Jupiter of the Press nods to them his approbation ; we do not lay too much stress on that, knowing that the times may change—the wind at least does so— but because on the question of tho war ninepence, we who ventured from the beginning to de nounce it, have succeeded proprio marte, or, rather, we should say, temporibus repugnantibus. We give, the refore, to Dissenters the advice which we gave on the War Income Tax-advice with which public opinion turned out t) be coincident—t he old, but, while we have a House of Commons, the not antiquated advice —AGITATE ! AGITATE ! ! AGITATE !! I If Dis senters will but do their part, we promise them the best services we can offer. We are confident every Liberal journal would do the same ; and the parish pest of Church Rates would be got rid, of for ever. The demand of the unemployed operatives con nected with the building trades, that public work, real work, not charitable relief, should be provided for them ii met with a deaf ear, on the assumption that the work must needs b 3 such as is not &ready in demand, and consequently not needed, and the idea raised is of some public work which is merely ornamental. Even if it were CO, it would be better than enforced relief, without any return of work whatsoever. But we earnestly call the attention of those most directly concerned in the question of the relief of the unemployed to the fact, that there is in the metropolis the need of a large amount of quasi public work, within the recognised control of the 10011 authorities, and wit'lin their direct duties to enforce, which may be undertaken, with vast pri vate, as well as public benefit, namely, works of sanitary improvement. Of between two or three hundred deaths of the zymotic or fermenting class, such as typhus; diar rheea, which are weekly recorded in the metropolis, it is often instanced—and of the greater proportion well known, that they occur in the vicinity of those poison pits the common cesspools, or tho se extended o f cesspools deposit, whicho ld givehouse ff theirdra M noxious or the old emanations iota houses and streets. The justice of the term " poison pits," and the effects of their presence, is prove I by the state of things which has in a little time followed their removal. Ti e model dwellings, constructed by various voluntary associations, are chiefly distinguished from other dwellings, by being freed from these cesspool's or house drains of foul deposit, and in having well constructed water-closets, and, above all, self-cleansing tubular drains, properly constructed, so as ' to remove all excrete from beneath the site of the dwellings before decomposition can com mence. The houses where these works, with suitable sinks, have been constructed, are distin guished by an almost entire immunity from dis eases of the class specified. But these beneficial results are not confined to the new model dwel lings ; they have been obtained in all houses oc cupied by the labouring classes where there has been no change in the class of occupiers, and no change in their habits other than those changes wbich may have been induced by the particular improvements. Even common beggars' lodging houses, the chosen seats of typhus and small-pox, have, by the new works, gained immunity from them. Our contemporary, the Times, congratu lated the metropolis on a reduction of the general rate of mortality from twenty-five to twenty-two in a thousand per annum. But in some old dwellings, as well as the model dwellings, the re duction is proved by several years' experience in separate blocks of buildings to be thirteen in a thousand. The reports which sometimes appear in the provincial journals from local Boards of Health, in relation to the operation, are beginning to be very satisfactory. Thus, it is reported at Southampton, where little more than one-half t he houses are drained, and those by no means the worst half, that the ner works have been attended with a marked reductioa of sickness, and freedom from diseases which continue to ravage adjacent undrained rural villages and suburban d is riots. Mr. Cooper, th e officer of health of that pore, re ports the saving of life there is at the rate of one hundred and fifty-six a year in a population of 40,000. The cases of sickness prevented are at least twenty times more numerous than deaths. At Ottery St. Mary,,lNvon, a fever of regular ocour rence, known as the Ottery fever," ha disappeaved upon the removal of the cesspools and the drainage LATE s r I_N ,f It is believed at Berne that Feanca will r,ot convene the conferences on the Neuchatel ques tion until:Rtussia has agreed to renounce a►i pre tensions hitherto insisted upon by the King. The Hydaspes, which arrived at Marseilles on Saturday, brought news from Const tntinople to the sth February. The Sultan and the Ottoman Ministers have subscribed for shares in the Smyrna railway, the concession of which has been recently granted. The rebuilding of Canea, the capital of Candia, destroyed by the late earthquake, and the repairs of Sinope of the damage created by the bombard ment, are receiving the attention of the Govein ment. An immense number of pilgrims are en route For Jerusalem. A proposal has been made for the construction of a railway from the Illyrian provinces to Adrian- The Presse d' Orient says that the Messageries Imperiales are in arrangement with Russian packets to effect alternat3 departures from Marseilles. The boats are to effect the transit from Constan tinople to Marseilles in six days. News from Naples announces that Count Aquila is organising a steam company for freights to the East. It is asserted in Berlin that Pi assir, in the coming Conferences on the Neuchatel question, will take the initiative, by submitting her propo sitions for an arrangement. M. Lindenberg, the editor of the Gazette Pa triotilue of Minden (whose severe sentence we lac ticed in our impression of Feb. 9th), has been pardoned on the intercession of the Prinw of Prussia. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The Moniteur contains the following :—" The decree of Feb. 17, 1852, whicli, ordains that two judicial condemnations against a periodical news paper shall entail its suppression, adds that the offences or contraventions of law must hare been committed within the space of two years. Some journals have just rained the question of whether the latter regulation might not be made applicable by analogy to the two official warnings, in virtue of which suspension for two months at most may be pronounced by a ministerial decree. This analogous interpretation is not warranted by the law, and cannot be admitted in principle. Differing from suppression, an extreme measure, which a second condemnation within the period of time indicated legitimat dy entails, the temporary suspension is only facultative. Even after two warnings, if the facts do not require a more severe decision, a fresh warning may still be given, and the Government which uses with great moderation the powers con ferred on it with respect to the press, in the interest of order and public tranqui l lity, always takes into its most serious consideration the date as well as the gravity of the facts which occasioned the previous warnings." BOURSE, Feb. 14.—The following were the las quotations : End or Month. —c. Cash. fr. c 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 6B 50 New Loan Bank Shares 4,175 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,355 Austrian Belgian Fives .. Spanish Threes Pied woutese (5) 93 50 Home Debt 68 55 RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. c. tr c Orleans 1,375 -- Western Northern 920 Strasburg Lyons 1,375 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,770 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Cette AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Feb. 13.—The following reason is here given for the prolonged stay of the Emperor and his Official advisers at Milan. Some time since it was arranged that the Archduke Ferdinand Max should take the oaths as Governor-General of the Lonaba,rdo-Venetian Kingdom on or about the 12th inst. ; but his Imperi it Ilighne , s has recently expressed. Lis disinclination to accept s) impor tant an office - without previously ascertaining the exact extent of the powers with which his Majesty the Emperor proposes to invest him. The Archduke Ferdinand. Maximilian is aware that the rigid system of centralisaton which has been introduced by the Minister of the Inter'or is one of the principal cans cs of the discontent of the Italian subjects of his Imperial broth , r. At present the inhabitants of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom are in an excellent lumour, because they can apply directly to their Sove reign f.r the radress of their grievances ; but they will probably speedily relapse into their former sullen d'saffection it' they are again made so en tirely dependent on the Central Government. It is whispered that the youthful Archduke has ex pressed his conviction that he will. not Le able to discharge the important duties of Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom to the satis faction either of his Majesty or of his subject, un less some important changes are made in the sys tem of government. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMP HITH EA.TRE. „LA_ Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING —A Per &prmanee crow ned with Rignnl t , nere , is !—The operatic ertma of ROB ROY, Illustrat«l by Mr. Wm. Cooke's Trained Horses, and act( 1 with the or7ginal music, with Mr. J. H. Cooke's Creat Bridge Act. After which, the Equestrial SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with the equestrian comic pantomime or PAUL My OF HORSEBACK. Con - inlet:33 at seven o'clock. Dross Boxes, 43."; Upper Tloxec, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 11., no charge for booking ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6,1. vox.office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CXNTERBIT 11X HALL. Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY E VEN [NG. —Th e follow inz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Sc'ections from all tno popul, Ooeras, Madrigals. Chgruses, (flees, Duets, 4e., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Scurners. and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, ITe - er F. Jongluna,l9 It, Grover, T. Tarrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corti. Senor Antonio M. de cola, and E. L. lime; Misters Austin, Bennett. and Corn ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Maeleney, and C. J Wilkins, PiAnorarb. M . C.:cd Tlicl-s; harmonium, J. CauPeld, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely, Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock, Mr. C. Morton's Annual Full Press 8.71 will take place on Wednesday, Feb, 18. Gentleman's ti,:dcet, 7s; lady's ditto, 53; double ticket (lady and gentlerlim or two ladies), 10s. KIWI WATER, AT LONDON BRTDGt. Trim DAY—Morn. 7 min. aft. 6 —Evening 24 milt. aft. 6 Tev.Moßsow—lvlern. 41 min. aft. 6 —Evening 4 'air . aft. 7 THE WI?, A 'PHEV—SuN Of nog, FEBRUARY 15. TEZRIiOIIETER, IN TOE din: DH. 47—highest sines noon yesterday. 41.—lowest thiS morning and during the night. 46 --this day at noon. • 14Agowirrics, 30.12. WIND, S.E. • -Light, with fine, sunshiny weather. FEBRUARY 16. 4 7 —D I'' -t • noon youterday. ---!owest thi eaorniag and dining the night. 0 —this aay W I C BA.-nomETtn, S.E. —Light, with c ry fine weather. %), %So' ( ...t, .r. ti ',) ' ty •-. 1;.- -7.7 .1' 1- q c.. -- r:: - ,,:, h C.-.\ L'IYJON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 18(7 "Finance" has always b e en a stumbli ng -bl oc k in the way of tae Whir. •It h as b een their weak point, which has brought them into discredit and disrepute, and led to their eviction from pla ce sad power in 1841 and 1852. In fact, th ey could never take an original or comprehensive view of the subject. A slavish adherence to pre cede-at was their chief characteristic, and all their Budgets were enveloped in voluminous folds o f " red. tape." The more objectionable an impost he wore closely did they adhere to it, and what to men of ordinary common sense would occasion its unequivocal condemnation, - seemed to consti tute its chief recommendation in their sight. Sir G. C. LEWIS is no cileption to the general His chief ambition appears to bo to prove that Sir CUAS. WOOD was not the worst Financial Minister that could be selected. He deserves no particle of credit for yielding, to a certain extent, to the popular demand. for the itnimediate aboli tion of the War Income Tax. Were it possible tg do so, he would cling with desperate tenacity THE BALTIC. • HAMBURG, Feb. 14.—Accounts from St. Peters burg up to the 7th instant give a very melancholy picture of the continued general distress and want —bordering upon positive famine exis ling through out the Grand Duchy of Finland, and which pro mises to become daily worse, notwithstanding the amounts subscribed in St. Petersburg, Hels;ngfors, and other places for the alleviation of the exiting evil. The Emperor and Empress have suhscrib:2d 10,000 silver roubles and 5,000 silver roubles re spectively for the purpose ; and large supplies from the military magizines in Finland have been placed at the disposal of the poorer clas , es, at vc:y low prices, to aid them ' • but this aid is of a tem . - porary charact e r. The population in many parr s are perishing of hungir and cold. The merchants and other monied men have.subscribcd in the capital about 28,000 roubles ; among them Baron Stieg litz's name is down for 10,000. The authorities are at their wits' ends in Finland to meet the great distress. The navigation of the river Elbe will become en tirely free from the the ice in a couple of dap. The London, Hull, and Hartlepool steamers pass up and down the river, suffering only trifling obstacles, and these will probably disappear in a very short time. The thaw has continued rapidly, and much rain has fallen, accompanied by somewhat stormy weather yesterday. ITALY. A letter from Genoa of the 12th inst. observes that should the illness of the Duke of Modena end fatally, his death would give rise to seri ous compli cations. He has no children, and his brother left but one child--a daughter. If the latter be inca pable of succeeding, the question will arise whether the Duchy will pass to the elder branch at Vienna or the junior branch at Florence. The writer of the letter thinks that, after the r ecen t d emons t ra ti ons m ide by the inhabitants of Modena, Reggio, Massa, and Carara, they will not rea dily s ubmit to a German Sovereign. The Milan Gazette replies as follows to the article of the Moniteur relative to the affairs of the Danu bian Principalities :—" The article of the French official organ in defending the union of the Princi palities thwarts the views of Austria and Great Britain, who had declared themselves in favour of a separate administration of these provinces. It is a brifed of discord thrown into the league of the 15th April, 1856, which was concluded for the common defence of the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire. Austria and England are not poWers to allow themselves to be readily turned aside from their plans or to fail in their observance of treaties. It must therefore be rheved ttat the queston put forward by the Mon b iteur eaunot solved in accord ince wit h its views, even should the statesmen of Turkey admit the opportuneness of what the French official organ calls for.?' The Austrian General who had the command of the troops in Bologn% is dead. The immediate cause of his death was a hundred oysters Of the largest size, which he ate at a sitting. Ves3els of war are to proceed from Spain to Cuba, to form part of the contemplated expedition against Mexico. Mr. Sergeant Channell was tiworn in one of the Barons of the Exchequer, in the room of the late Sir J. Alder son, on Saturday, at the Privy Council Office, before the Lord Chancellor. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a court at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Count de Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister, had an audience of her Majesty. Count Vitzthnin had an audience; and delivered to the Qu Jen his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Mhjesty the King of Sd xony. General Almonta had an audience, and delivered to her Majesty his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Mexican Republic. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Sir John Milbanke was presented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Napier had an audience, and kiesed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Minister to the United States of America. His lordship was presented to the Queen by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese Minister and the Countess Lavradio, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl Cawdor, Earl of Mul grave, and the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, had the honour of dining with the Queen in tho evening. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the official resider.ee of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—Viscount FalMerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. Tsa SPEAKER'S DINNER. — The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave his first Parlia mentary full dress dinner this season on Saturday, .the 14th inst. The following members of the House of Commons were present :—The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B , the Right Hen. the Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.B , the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8., the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, the Right Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, the 11 , glit Hon. Viscount Monck, the Right Hon. Lo rd Alfred Pa get , the Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, the Right Hon. Edward Bouverie, the Right Hon. Sir Maurice Berkeley, K.C.B. the Right Hon. the Judge A dvocate-General, the Right Hon. Ed ward HOT3rO:II3, the Right Hon. William Goodenough Hayter, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Viscount Castle rosse, the Hon. Henry B and, the Attorney-General fob Ireland, Mr. Massey, Mr. Froilerick Peel, Mr. Bernal 'Os!) )rne, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr. J a mes Wilson. There were also present th e Rev. Thos. Garnier and the Hon. George Waldegrave. The Lord Advocate for Scotland, the Attorney-General, and the S..licitor-General were prevented by domestic affliction from being present. Viscottritess Palmerston bad an assembly on Saturday night, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. A brilliant company, including all the members of the diplomatic corps, and a numerous coNgreation of the aristocracy, responded to her ladyship's invitation. Earl Granville will preside at the fifth anniversary festival of the Royal Medical Benevolent College at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the Gill May next. ' We under'tand that the Marquis of Londonderry will preside at the anniversary festival of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 17th of March next. The Belgian papers announce the death of Vicomte Amdd4e Vilain XIV., Cotinci!lor of Legation, Brother of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Planche has accepted the invitation of the . n Ocir mittee of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to super intend the arrangement of armour and arms. ople. THE 'PEA DUTY.—(Meeting this Day.) -~ This afttruoc,n a public meeting of the importers of and deal - -r 3 in tea was held at the L•lndon Tavern, Bishop , gae-,tre , ,t, to protest against the proposed reso .utiou of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by which the war-duty is to be retained upon that important ar title of general consumption, contrary to the Act of Parliament of 1855 ; Mr. Moffatt, 311. P., in the chair. There was a very full attendance, considering the short notice of the holding of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN expressed regret at the short notice of the meeting which had probably prevented many of the large importt.ra of tea from attending it, but he was enabled to state that they cordially agreed with the object of the meeting. It was a case of great emergency, as the whole question of the financial state• ment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would come on for discussion that evening in the House of Commons. Lie Expressed his astonishment at the resolution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which broke the pledge of the Government and threw over the act of Parliament in reference to the tea duty which would be as vexatious as possible to the trade, and in a manner injurious to the revenue of the country. It un settled everything connected with the tea trade and settled nothing. Mr. GlLucca moved the following resolution : "That the meeting has heard with extreme surpri:e that the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by whichthe war duty is to be continued upon tea, contrary to the pledge involved in the act of Parliament of 1855, upon the faith of which all existing contracts in that important trade have been made ; and while protesting against this breach of public faith, this meeting expresses an un qualified reprehension of the manner in which this in fliction is propoied to be levied, as being alike disadvan tageous to the interests of the revenue, the trade, and the public." The hon. gentleman, in moving the resolution, said that the money that had been taken cut of the pockets of the people by the unsettled state of the div y was incalculable and the vexation to the trade had been no leas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had shown himself no man of business, or he would have given encouragement to the trade. So far from the stocks of tea being small thei • were 87 million lbs. in this country ; but it was true that the quantity on the way to this country was very small. Mr. LOWCOCK seconded the motion, and said that the changes made in the tea duty during the past Luis years had upset the arrangements of the trade, and bad mei t materially interfered with the interests of the country traders, who had purchased largely, on the understand ing that at the end of the war the duty would be re duced to ls. 3d. per lb. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY suppof bed the resolution, and said that if the tea trade was better represented in the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not have dared to take such liberties with the trade. The change proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer would add 4d. in the pound to the duty in stead of reducing it 21 as he had state I, because by the act it should have been reduced from ls. 9d. to ls. 3J. per pound, now the war was at an end, whereas the Chancellor of the Exchequer only proposed to reduce the duty from ls. 9 1. to le. 7d. per pound. Mr. TWINING moved the next resolution : "That a committee be appointed to confer with the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the subject of the meeting, and to take such steps as may t e deemed re' csssary to obtain a more equitable and less inconvenient arrangement." The meeting had shown that the arrangement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer failed in equity and convenience, and he saw no reason why the tea trade should be made the scapegoat t) carry off some imaginary deficiency of the Chancellor of the Es chequer on his proposed concession on the income tax. The consumers of tea would be in reality the greatest sufferers from the unsettled state of the trade, owing to the alterations in the tea dutY. He moved the committee as follows :—Messrs. Moffatt, Rowson, Gilmour, Ashton, Chapman, Sidnsy, Abber field, Thompson, Ewart, Cassel, Twining, Smith: Harrison, Lowcock, and Langton. 90} Mr. RAwsoN seconded the motion. Mr. WALKER said that the resolution wai not strong enough ; it ought to call on the Chancel'or of the EV chequer to carry out the provisions of the act of Parli2 men t. The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had considered that, and would act on it ; but half a loaf was better than no bread. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned til! 12 o'clock to-morrow. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. IG.—Wind this day at noon N.E.-" Light breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Fab. 15. Wind E.S.E. Arrived - ' H.M.Str. Dee, from Wcalwich. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Afgnss from Havana ; True Britain, London, for Melbourne ; refordsbire, London, for Sydney, N.S.W. FALMOUTH, Feb. 'ls.—Wind E.S.E., strong.—Arrived —Kron Princesse, from Samarang, for fanaburg. Off th e port — Nlercator from Sourabaya, for Seliedam. PETERHEAD, Feb. 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Arctiet for Greenllnd. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 15.—Arrived—Marquis of Chan' c'O;, from Quebec. Sailed—Leopold 1., for New York. PILL, Feb. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed—Magna Bona, for Melbourne ; Victoiy, Africa. DOVER, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S. E.—Sailed—Moses Tail' lor, for Madras. CARDIFF, Feb. 14.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Prin ce of Wales, for King George's Sourd; Maria, St. Thomas; Coquette, Havana. TORBAY, Feb. 15.—Off the port.—Slade, from Been° Ayres, for Antwerp ; Mary Ann, Berbice. CLYDE, Feb. 14.—Win1 W.—Sailed—Ann Buckle, A° Bombay ; Rise, Valparaiso. BETA' IST, Feb. 14.—Wind lid' fidt Baltimore. HARTLEPOOL, Feb. 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed Queen, for Charente and Montreal. HARWIC H, Feb. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Pomon s ' for Havana. CHERBOURG, Feb. 14.—The Ballochan, No. 2, from Honduras, for London, which put in here with damge , is leaky aid will discharge to repair. MESSINA, Feb. 9.—La Belle Barbari, of London. fo rd Galatz t o Q ueenstown, f oun d ere d on the Ist inst., in lat. 37 N. lon 18 E.; crew saved. FAvir„ Feb. 4.—The Willington, from Prince Edward's Island to Liverpool, put in on the 19th Jan., leaky, and i 0 partly discharging to caulk hor topsides, when she will 1• load and p rocee d . T he Chins, from Liverpool to Balti more, more, has put i n very l eaky, bas discharged nearly the whole of h er cargo . an d now only leaks four inches P er hour. The New Orleans will be repaired. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday, 10. a.m• Wind E. ; fine. Arrived--Clara, C tledonia, Nancy, Atalanta, and Diaf quis of Bute, from Sund er l an d ; S tar, Guernsey; Aqu''' London; Marquis of Chandos, Quebec; Le Coq, Cher bourg. Sailed—Leopold 1., steamer, from New York.' Wind S. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Sailed—Gauntlet, for Gibraltar; Caroline Brown, S i " Michael's; Oacanaita, Callao; Trio, Dunkirk; Lucifers Trieste. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 14. Wind S. Arrived—Regard, from Lataka ; Altantic, Honduras. (BY SUBMARINE AND BF TISII TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday ) 9.39 Ain* Wind S.E. ; four hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, Feb. 15—Henry, from Drobak. Sailed, Feb. 15.—Joanna AlbertaP, for Batavia; nark' away, New Zealand. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m• _ . Wind southerly and light. Passed, Feb. 15—Justitia. from Hull, for Carthagent; Island Queen, Shields, Odessa ; Mirage, London, P r Michael's; Julia, Aberdeen, Plymouth. --- A lodging has been taken in Piccadilly for Ferulth Khan, the Persian ambassador. In military circlss the belief gains ground that d militia will eventually be organised so as to form a r e ' serve for the standing army. A deputation respecting the Ministers' Money Ta t ' Ireland, bad an interview with Viscount Palmerston, ° II Saturday. Her Majesty's sloop Bittern was exposed to pub li° ,, competition on Saturday, the 20th inst. 2,0501. sc a ' offered for her. It is understood the limit placed 1 1 P °13 the vessel was 3,oool . —Hong K ong Register of Dec. a Rear Admiral Sir 11. Stewart has again struck 1310 vacancy Report atthe A sa d ys m t i h ra e l r t e y flag on board the Ind us , 78 , at D evonpor t, an d 11 1. , 4 miralty. °' c eeded to Lond on , where he was summoned b y the AL,: is bo a ard diffi oc c c u a lt s y ion in ed by t fillingl:4l the; appointment of Rear Admiral Richards to a conaroi'' sionership of Greenwich Hospital. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS —The Lord Chancellor has a • ppointed the Hon. and Rev. S. Waldegrave t° the sia 1 at S a li s b ury, vacated b y t h e Bi s h op of RIOT/ Henry J ames R oss, E sq., h as b een appo i n t e d CI& Justice of St. Christopher and Nevis. ' Hugh ilenwooch Alexander Bain, and Chrles Alexander, E qe., " re appoint e d mem b ers o f th e l eg i s l a ti ve counc il of Grena dl l J. Brumell, Esq., has been appointed Registrar-Genu rf t of Population and Property of the Colony of British Guiana ; and J. T. Vaughan, G. Tighe,{C. A. Flernirg, R. S. Turton, W. S. Johnston, and W.. 7. Jeffrl Esqs., are appointed district registrars of the 83 031 ' colony.—Observer. ROYAL BRITISH BANK. —We learn that w i thin t _ last few days it has been determined to appeal to tb; House of Lords against the adjudication of bankrupt:l in this ill-fated corporation. Mr. Marcus, the origio._ , petitioner, has instructed Messrs. Harrison and Levvt!F_ of New Boswell-court, his present solicitors, to take . : necessary steps to get the appeal heard this sessi The point raised will be the validity of the act of bolt ° ruptcy. At the Court of Cha r cery , on Saturday, leav was granted to give notice of motion fur Tuesday ne xt. re. We understand that the Spanish Governmen t Las _ moved the duty upon the importation of ri ce, owing tr the high price of grain in that country.