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On Lord John Russell's ilOiconfMlieform In Parliament, April 27.
Abercrumby, lion.Dundas, Hon. I'. Knight, R. Robinson, Sir G.
J. Dickenson, W. Lamb, Hon. 0. Rowley. Sir W.
Allen, J. H. Ebringtun, Vis. Lcycester, It. Rumbold, C. E.
Althorn, Via. I: MIA, W. Lloyd, Sir E. Russell, Lord W.
Anson, Hon. G. Ellice. K. Inshington, S. Rickfurd, W.
Anson, Sir G. Fills, Hon. G. A. Leader, W. ltrarlett, J.
Haring, It. Pitrgeraid, Right Langston, .1. H. Scott, J.
Baring, Sir T. Hun. It. Lsbouchere, H. Sebright, Sir .1.
Barret. S. M. Fergusson.SUß.C.Lester, B. L. Smith, John
Bernal, It. Foley, J. H. Moberly, J. Smith, Hon. R.
Birch, J. Yon:stone, Vic Moberly, W. L. Smith, W.
Brougham, H. Gaskill, B. Macdonald, J. Stanley, Lord
Burdett, Sir F. Glenorehy, Vi.. Marjoribanks, S. Sykes, D.
flyng, G. Grant, J. B. Martin, J. Tavlatock,Marribils
Hewett, J. Grattan. J. Milton, VD. Taylor, M. A.
Bentitick, LordW.Grinsvenur, Iln. ILMonck, J. B. Tennyson, C.
Butterworth, J. Glthe, Sir W. Moore, P. Tierney, Right
Calcraft, J. l'urneL R. H. Newport, Right Hon. G.
Calvert, C. Oordots,llt. ' Hon. Sir J. Townshend, Ld.C.
Culvert, N. Heatheute, G. J. Nugent, Lord Tomes, J.
tarter, J. Heron, Mir R. Ord, W. Warre, J. A.
Cavendish, C. Hobbouse, J C. Osborne, Lord F. %Vebbe, E.
Cavendish, 11. Honywood, W. pt. Palmer, C. Wharton, J.
Clifton, VI.. Hornby, H. Pares, T. Whitbread, S. C.
Coffin, Sir I. Hoghes, W. L. Philip+, G. yen. Whitbread, W. 11.
Colborne, N. R. Hume, J. Philip, G. jun. Williams, .1.
Creevey, T. Hbavard, H. Power, R. Williams, T. P.
Crompton, S. James, W. Pry.., Pryse Wilson, sir R.
Davies, 'l'. Jervoise, G. P. Ramsden, J. C. Wood, M.
Denison, W. J. Johnstone, W. A. Rice, T. S. Wyvill, M.
Denman, T. Ingilby, Sir W. Ridley, Sir Hr.W.Wrottesley, 9lr J.
Umbria*, C. Kemp, T. Robarts, A. Whitmore, W. W.
TALLeits—Vls. Duneannon and Lord John Russell.

An accurate ideaOith; immense value of property an-
nually dibposed of by auction in this country may be
formed by the inspection of an account printed by order
of the House of Commons. It appears by this Return,
that the amount of sales by auction, on which duty was
paid in Great Britain, on estates, &c. at the rate of 7d. in
the pound, and on furniture, &c. at Is. per pound, was as
follows, during the undermentioned periods:—
On Estates. On Furniture.
Year endlialuly 5. 1824 - .C 4 322.:179 4:2,1818,843
Do. July 5, 1825 - 6.1101.637 2.8111613
Half.year to Jan. 6, 1826 - 3,177,304 1,491,100

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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Evening, SATURDAY, April 29, will be performed (let time) •
Grand Romantic Opera, called
ALADDIN. _

The principal Characters by lifesars. Sinclair, Horn, Browne, Bedford,
G. Smith, and Harley; Mims Stephens, Cubist, and Posey; Alm Davi-
son, and a young Lady.
To conclude with the Farce of

JOH N BROWN.
The principal Characters by Mews. Browne, Wallach, and Harley ; Mrs.
Hsrlowe, and Mrs. Yates.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
Yids Inning, SATURDAY, April 29, will be performed tba Grand
Romantic and Fairy Opera of
OBERON ; or, THE ELP•KING'i OATff.
The principal Characters by Henn. Graham, Cooper, Dureset, C.
!Hand, J. l*aaes, and Bakery Miami Paton, H. Cairn; Madame Yea-
trio, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Davenport.
To conclude with the Musical Entertainment of
PAUL AND VIRGINIA.
Paul, Madame Valois) Virginia, Miss Goward.

The BIITISPI Pages commenced publishing yesterday morning
at five o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1896.

We have received the Brussels Papers of the 25th April.
The principal article of importance is an extract from the
Oriental Spectator, which we subjoin.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 25.

A British Cabinet messenger passed through this city this morn.
ing. He precedes the Duke of Wellington, who is expected this
afternoon with his suite, at the Hotel Belle Vue. Ills Grace will
only stop and dine, and then proceed on his return to London.
[From the (Mental Spectator.]

The Balracs, or regiments of Galiongis, raised for Constanti-
nople, are gone, without having given any reason for complaint
at Smyrna. or the parts of its territory through which they were
passed. There remain only two regiments to be raised, in order to
complete the number required. They will go direct to the capital,
where a fleet of 2.fi ships of war, some of which are of 81) guns, is
fitting out. This expedition will enter the Archipelago in the
spring, but its destination seems to be unknown.
A letter from Syra says, the permission which the Commander
of the English naval force has given to the Greeks, to visit under
the English guns the rich vessels of that nation coming from Alex•
andria, and to carry into Napoli for judgment, has rendered them
more insolent than they were before. They now pretend to lay
down as a rule the right to visit European merchantmen, even
within pun•shot of the ships of war of their respecti►e nations.
Emboldened by the example that occurred at Syra, brigs of war went
to Palos, where there were seven Austrian merchantmen convoyed by
the Arethusa schooner. There they thought they would be
allowed to visit unmolested as at Syra. The Captain of the Aus-
trian schooner, seeing the disproportion of strength, requested
the French Captain of La Chevrette to unite with hint
to convoy the Austrian shire, which the French Captain
promised. The Arethusa and the Chevrette sailed together, but
the latter, when it had got out of port, was separated by a squall of
wind. However, the seven Greek ships of war did not venture to
attack the convoy under the Arethusa, which accompanied it to
Syra. In the night, two of the seven merchantmen were parted in
a violent gale, and are supposed to have gone to Candle or Rhodes
unless the Greeks have fallen in with them. Among the latter
there are Captains who have obtained letters of marque at Hydra,
by placing their pistols against the breasts of the Primates. This
is the state of things, which will grow worse, and will not terminate
till the Powers shall be roused by these scandalous proceedings--
Brussels Papers, April 21.

The disturbances which have broker out in the manu-
facturing districts in Lancashire, arise from causes which
unhappily the Government has no means of relieving; it
can only perform the painful duty of acting with vigour and
promptitude in suppressing them. We may sympathize
with the sufferings which goad any number of the
working.classes to a breach of the laws: it is humane to
do so; but it would be carrying our sympathy too far, to
overlook the guilt of revenging such sufferings on those
who, personally, have had no share in producing them,
The rioters, moreover, by their acts of violence, will only
perpetuate that distress, which, intolerable as it may be, is
not of a kind to yield to the destructive measures which
they have adopted, but which must aggravate, not lighten,
the burdens they now endure.
We cannot hut condemn the tone in which several of the
public journals accuse the Agriculturists as the primary
cause of the misery which has armed the disturbed districts.
" It will be seen," says the Chronicle of yesterday, "that
the middle and lower classes attribute their evils princi-
pally to the Corn Laws, and that the rejection cf the mo-
tion for the alteration in them was the signal for the activity
of the unemployed workmen. If the Country Gentlemen
are not able to interpret this hand-writing on the wall, they
must be stupid indeed. Good God ! to think only of the
desperate game they are playing ! To think of men, in the
proud and enviable condition of the English aristocracy,
blessed with such abundant wealth, the fruits of the in-
dustry of the most industrious people that ever lived, ex-
posing the country to jeopardy, and their own happiness,
from a blind and stupid determination to add a little more
to their enormous wealth, by means:against which all the
intelligence and virtue in the nation have long been
raised !"

It is impossible not to have observed of late the unceas-
ing aim of a certain political patty in this country—and a
very strong party, too, it is—to point to the landholders as
the real oppressors of every other class of the community;
to represent them as extracting high rents from the indus-
try of the working classes, and devouring by their selfish
monopoly the produce of manufacturing labour. To what
result can this lead ? What other effect can it have than
to excite the infuriated spirit of the labouring classes against
the farmers and country gentlemen, and to send them,

frenzy of the
when they have broken up the power-looms and laid waste
the property of their employers, that they may raise ge
price of labour, to begin their next work of vengeance in the
quarter pointed out to them, and to set fire to wheat-stacks
and hay-ricks to lower (lie price of hread? It is cruel in.
justice thus to stimulate the exterminating
lower orders. Nothing but crime and calamity can grow
out of it. It is the leading duty, and ought to be the con.
joint effort, of the daily press, to draw the public attention
to the real nature and cause of that wide-spreading and
deep-rooted distress which threatens the security of pro-
perry in every direction. It is inhuman, at this crisis, tom.
asperate the labouring community against the landholders;
and when, at length, they have broken out into disturbance,
to turn round and recommend that the sword of the law
should promptly mow the starving population down.
What is so likely to urge men in such a situation to ex.
claim against the country gentlemen and the Corn Laws, as
ringing perpetually in their ears such language as ae have
just quoted? And yet, when they have risen against the
laws, what is the course which we find the Chronicle recom-
mends? t` The first thing to be done is, to pour in on PI
di.th lel such on amount of military force, as may put down,
with as little delay as possible, the rioters, and exiinguith
in them all hope of the possibility making head against
authority." It behoves a public Journalist to be very
cautions how he foments a spirit of tumult, which heir so
forward to suppress by promptly advancing against tha,
deluded multitude such a charge of bayonets, as may at once
take from them all hope of making head against those whom
they have been taught to look upon as their eppressors.
We are without any fresh intelligence from the dis-
turbed districts, and we therefore most ardently hope
that the tumults have been appeased without any interfe-
rence on the part of the military.

CITY, FRIDAY Evxxixo.
The business on the Stock Exchanges was in the same
state of stagnation this morning that we have had occasion
to notice for several daysbast, and Consols closed at 78/ 9.
Exchequer Bills were also a shade lower, 9s. 10s. pm. jr,
other English securities there was no alteration.

iVith the exception of a slight decline in South Amerie3n
Socks, the Foreign market remained the same as yskr.
day. Colombian Bonds were 40, Alvxican 6 per Cents.
64, 3, and Peruvian Bonds 29i. The settltment m this
market to-day passed off without any defaulter being de-
clared, or any circumstance occurring connected with it
that was worthy of notice.

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, th. it Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Princess Augusts,
Prince Leopold, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Feo-
dore, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, attended
by theit suites, visited the Exhibition of the Royal Aca-
demy, previous to its opening to the public. They wire re-
ceived and conducted through the rooms by Sir Tbomu
Lawrence, the President of the Academy, and the other
cams of the establishment.

The Duke and Duchess of Clarence came to town yester-
day morning, from their residence at Bushy.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and the
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, visited the Princess
Augusta. _ _

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester gave an enter-
tainment on Thursday evening, at their residence in Park-
, lane. The Princess Augusta was of the party.
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, the Duke of Welling-
ton went to the Foreign-office, and had an interview with
Mr. Secretary Canning for about two hours. His Grace
appears in much better health than when he left England.
'f he Duke of Wellington was inirodue'd to the King by
Mr. Secretary Canning, upon his return to England from
his special Embassy to the Emperor of Russia; bia Grace
had also an audience of his nejesty. The Duke of De-
vonshire was also introduced to the King by Mr. Secretary
Canning, upon his being appointed to a 'pedal, Embawy
to the Emperor of Russia.
Yesterday afternoon the Portuguese Ambassador, the
Marquis de Palmella, was introduced to his Majesty, to de-
liver his new credentials from the Regency of Portugal.
Yesterday the Earl of Harrowby transacted business at
the Foreign-office. The Ambassador from the Netherlands
transacted business at the Colonial-office yesterday.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Clewse, the Kings Messenger,
arrived at the Foreien-office, in Downing-street, with de-
spatches from the Hon. Frederick Lamb, the British Am-
bassador at Madrid. Some importance is attached to the
despatches, owing to the Messenger's having travelled with
extraordinary speed.
We regret to state that Lord Charles Bentinck did
yesterday, at his house in Park-lane, suddenly, of an
aneurism of the heart. His Lordship was Treasurer of
his Majesty's Household, and brother to his Grace the
Duke of Portland.)
A subscription has been commenced by some benevolent
individuals for the relief of the unfortunate families who
were sufferers by the late calamitous fire in Were-street,
Clare-market. It is said that two of the children who
were with difficulty rescued from the flames are now lying
in an almost hopeless condition.
The University Club, it is said, is about to increase Its
numbers, and erect a new house opposite the point to be
occupied by the United Service Club.
The mansion of Sharphatn-park, near Glastonbury, the
birth-place of the celebrated novelist, Henry Fielding, is
announced for sale. The greater portion of T 0,,, Jon $ was
written on this spot. The house is to be pulled down, and
the materials sold in lots.—Taunton Courier.
Letters received yesterday from Havre state the arrival
of twelve ships from the United States, with 10,000 bags
of cotton ; the largest arrival in one tide, we believe, that
ever took place.
It appears by accounts from the Hague of the 26th inst.
that the Government of the Netherlands is about to raise a
new loan of 40 millions of guilders, to be subscribed for
in 5,000 shares, of 8,000 guilders each. The details of
the plan are not given, but the subscriptions are to be paid
n cash, or in existing Government Securities, taken at a
rate below their present value in the market. The twenty
millions wanted for Java are included in the proposed
loan.

The German Mail contains the following article from
the Rhine:—

(From the Rhine—at the end of March.)
" It has often been remarked, and sometimes publicly said. that
the helplessness of the German people, which frequently manifests
itself on occasions of active interference in the public affairs of the
country, is a singular contrast to the knowledge and enhghtened
views which are so generally diffused, and to the eager participa-
tion in public events, which is often so loudly expressed in words.
A very striking instance of this is afforded by what passed on the
21st and 211th February, at Coblents and Dusseldorff, in the
election of Deputies to the Second Estate to the Provincial Diet.
To this estate belong all the possessors of what were formerly
noble estates, without any regard to the difference of old or rew
nobility, or persons not noble. It was to he hireseen that the de-
scendants of the ancient families, who, in the former ecclesiastical
states, were elevated, by privileges of all kinds, far above all the
other classes, would not be at all pleased at being ranked in the
came state with persons not noble. It was even known that some
individuals of this class hail addressed remonstrances to the King
of Prussia against this amalgamation, which were rejected wt'h
equal mildness and decision. It could not, therefore. escape
the most limited penetration, that the members of this formerly
so highly privileged body, would take the opportunity of the
elections, in order to get the direction of the Grand Estate of
the Provincial Assembly into their hands, after the law and the
express will of the King had denied it as a privilege. re thii
notorious state of things, and the certainty of the consequence*.
could not induce the not-noble landowners of the province, who
make the great majority of the Second Estate, to agree together
in the exercise of the new political rights given them by the law.
and the will of our most just King. Most of them did not attend
at the election ; the consequence was such as to be expected under
such circumstances. The twelve Deputies elected in Coblents
belong, without exception, to ancient noble families ; and of the
13 elected at Dusseldorf'', there are only two who belong to the class
of landholders not noble. ‘Ve hope that these events will serve to
give such a direction to the elections of the 3d and 4th Estates, as
to show that the proprietor, who are not noble will place themselves
on a level ♦ith the old nobility in the exercise of their Political
rights, as they claim to be equal to them by their wealth and edit.
cation."