The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

EVENING, AUGUST lO, 1852.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Mr. Balfe took last night his well-merited benefit,
and was greeted by a full and brilliant house. The
performance may be considered as the first of the
farewell ones, as it was at play-bourn prices, and two
evenings' entertainments of a combined character are
to be given upon Thuxeday and Saturday on the same
terms. Mr. Balre's claims upon the musical public are
so perfectly known and appreciated, that there is no
need for a single introductory word of panegyric upon
the present occasion. The warmth of his reception
upon his appearance in the orchestra, and the repeated
acknowledgments which he received at the hands of
the audience, formed the best and most practical in-
terpretation of public opinion. The entertainments
were long and varied. Tasy opened with the ever fresh.
Don Giovanni—its first performance this season--and
introduced two ladies new to the boards of her
Majesty's Theatre. Mme. Emeline Garcia, the late
prima donna at Drury-
lane, was the Elvira and gave
the music with musician-like appreciation and effect ;
,
whilst fldlle. Toccani, who is known to concert
goers, as Zsrlina, won encores in " Batti, batti,''
and
the " Vedrai carin Mare. Fiorentini was
e
the
Donna Anna. The part of the hero was in the hands
of Signor de Bassini, who played and sang it with
manly straightforwardness. Calzolari, as Ottavio,
sang the famous " II mio Tesoro" with great finish
and tenderness, and, as a matter of course, Lablache
was Leporello. The opera went swimmingly. Then
came a short concert, in character costume, in which
Signor Gardoni, with Mme. De la Grange
and Mrne.
Charton, appeared, the latter
singing the " Ah non
giunge." The entertainments of the billet depart-
ment included a pas by Mdlle. Guy Stephan, and
two divertissements, embracing the whole strength
of the mute pert of the company
Theatre. of her Majesty's

THEATRE.
HAYMARKET
The Adelphi company have moved hither for a
month, and opened last evening
with a new three
act piece from the Mortonian mint, entitled The
Writing on the Wall. There is an ancient country
family with a murder twenty-five years old in its
annals. Next there is a grasping,
sinister neigh-
bouring proprietor, who is the murderer, and who,
bythe spoil which he carried off on the occasion, lays
the foundation of a fortune, and ultimately comes to
force on a marriage with the shrinking heiress of
the house, by taking advantage of his claims upon
her spendthrift brother. But there is also a sort
of conscientious and comic villain, a village fiddler,
who has been an accomplice in the murder, and who
is the thorn in the principal criminal's side. It
appears that the dying man, to the knowledge of the
fiddler, wrote his murderer's name on the wall in
his own blood before his death. This terrible piece
of evidence the fiddler concealed, by pushing a screen
against it, and the room has since been closed up, and
of course haunted. Now, however, the musical acces•
sory before the fact threatens to disclose all, in case
his demands for money are not complied with; and
so the murderer determines, as he has access to the
house, to break into thy room where the crime was
committed, and efface the implicating lines. He ac-
cordingly forces the door, when he is confronted with
his intended bride, who had taken refuge in the de-
serted room, and who denounces the bridegroom—
pointing to the terrible " writing on the wall." The
bride elect is restored to her real lover, and finds a
father in the sudden re-appearance of the murdered
gentleman's brother, who has been 1 aisely accused of
the crime. The comic element is contributed by Mr.
Wright, in the character of a cockney who comes
down to the country to establish a " model farm,"
and who falls in love with the fiddler's sister, who
has been an equestrian lady in the hippodrome, but
who captivates the model farmer as an unsophisti-
cated country girl. The scene in which the economy
of the " model farm" is displayed is capital. All the
labourers, male and female, are dressed, in a species
of rural uniform, with " model farm, inscribed upon
their smockfrocks and pinafores. The former are
discovered asleep, each man on a truss of straw.
When Mr. Wright awakens them, they go to din-
ner—when be tries to thresh the corn himself, he hits
his own head—when he goes to quiet the dog, be is
chased round and round the stage by a fine New.
foundland, capitally trained ; and when he goes to
feed the pigs, he lets them out ; when two of the
young porkers, to the vast delight of the audience,
jumped into the orchestra. Finally, after having
been most outrageously swindled on all hands, and
ill-treated by his model labourers, who get drunk
and disorderly, the model farmer gives up agriculture,
and his rural sweetheart reappears as his bride, in a
fascinating riding habit. Mr. Emery, as the villain
of the piece, played with great care in the rugged and
earnest style which characterises him; and Mr. Paul
Bedford was admirable in the passages in which he
recalls the circumstances of the murder to the perpe-
trator. Mr. Wright was as droll as usual, and created
just as much merriment. Miss Woolgar's assumption
wits as clever as is her wont, and Miss Chaplin and
Mrs. Leigh Murray, in their small parts, were as
efficient us need be. The applause at the close was
uproarious.

ST. JAMES'S' TREATRE.
Yesterday those charming little, American
prodi-
gies, Kate and Ellen Bateman, took their farewell
benefit at the Sr. James's Theatrel prior to their
depdrture for the United States. The
event was alto-
gether very brilliantly successful. The audience
was numerous and fashionable, being under the
patronage of her Grace the Duchess of Somerset
and of their Excellencies the Austrian and Turkish
Ambassadors. After the comedietta of Perfection—
delightfuly enacted in the principal parts by Miss
Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. Walter Lacy, the latter
always one of our especial favourites—the real busi-
ness of the evening commenced. Often as the Bateman
children have been applauded in London before, they
never met with a more cordial reception than greeted
them on their last night's appearance. We acknow-
ledge ourselves at once to be among
those who enter-
tain a feeling of particular dislike to the generality of
stage-struck precocities. We have as instinctive a
horror of this kind of lucis nature as NicholasNickleby had when he first witnessed the squeaking'
and contortions of that abominable little brat of a
CrummeL called on Mrs. Grundy''
playbills " The
Phenomenon." To this day we are not quite surethat there was anything very wonderful after all in
the Young Reacius as 3 juvenile tragedian—
though we are ready to admit that Ur'
William Henry Betty
asonage is a very respectables anad giur toevlilnig". euupt ,gpeenr:
tleman. But the little Batemans stand entirely apart
from the mass of these premature wearers of the seek
and the buskin. They
are as une
be walled in the his-
trionic art, as children, almost as the boy Chatterto?
was in poetry, or as the infant Mozart was as a reusi-
clan. Their abilities appear to
as unforced as
under any circumstances could be expected. Their
spontaneous merriment is one of the most contagious
q
ebullitions of fun imaginable. When the little crea-
tures laugh the whole audience laughs with them,
and this laughter often becomes a
roar of unmistak-
able able approbation. We don't precisely know which_
to prefer of the two.—perhaps little Kate atteraan!:
the most childlike, and, therefore, the most natural
he
then little Ellen Bateman sometimes bears. away the
Palm triumphantly by her tstonishicg cleverness.
seei.,_ these children in The Old School and the New-0,
(a box _sit
Old School), always in mischief,
l'e_ate as Prank Mountain, the scapegrace
little
with the curliest
fl
--Izen pate and the prettiest little features of
childhood—Ellen in a dapper little suit, the iith
production one might fancy ea Stultz and Hobhit
I, ,the
at a eyeglass aboat the size of a fourpenni shirt-
eousers well strapped down over the boots,
the
efitting
.Collar unexceptionably starched and the cravat fitting in
voice
nicety, in stature seemingly a foot-and-11:nannees
dome shrill, in bearing self-possessed, in spanners
Hon.
d'awling, not to say afficted, in character the
en of
,-Te01,,,e
6 Augustus Walmetle a etfect specimen of
Y 7 „elle, Bateman,
the rising generation .
! To hear paleh.e•
lcaebleY (aged
—.We
__ beg .her pardon—Mr.
Wra of seven-and-
seven years, but with the carriage - . the most
tntrty)
, llPPealiag for corroboration 13
„let John
negligent way conceivable to his -- exquisite
Y
i
son, or J-a-n-s-e-n according to
,Y-e-s, a in"(
Pronunciation—to hear him sag ' .ea—b-u-t
J-a-n.s-e •el g-o-t h. i-s h-e-a-d c-u-t 0-13 i_t_w-a-s
t-hte-ree w-a.s n-o-t-h-i-n-g " this and
t-h-e-r-e, J-a-n-s-e-n ?" To listen
tountenance,
.watch the little creature's imperturbable,
"'mere COll-•
the while was soul If dl'' et ing elc ous The the
w •
Idschool and
treat of the boys representing the 0.- -
After this dramatic
east
wha worthy of admiration.
which the Bate-
sketch came The Young Couple, in l brated
man children
- have rendered themselves celebrated
and hby
tion3 t us,
upwards of two hundred representa
' - brow ht
with other " benefit" WO,g
amusements, the
The houso was
to a most successful conclusion.
crowded, and the audience—what they ought to
b
have
been—enthresiastic.

neHisgsiltnli,essAt
performances at
. of honour ikn
'
-. A.AJETY'S TtIFAT.RE.
rhoeh.driiichess Catherine of
, ,_,
1,. essas
anal
Drnuekel
in attendance. 11is Lscellency the
of accom-
HET. 4
~ Imperial High-
Hi
Russia and his Royal
the perfo with their
Theatre pre-
n.rice yesterd iy (Mond. 1, j ' • g• Her Imperial High-
(i'ill.eo,rragAserua.feMstie,sik.le:broergwiSchtricelfi,tzghenontloeum-raend
) evenin . _
maid
sdthe Archduchess l.:
attended by Aladlle. Strandmenn,
waniag, and
Russian Minister, tt
pt the fashionable
3. .ss aul his
nanru,nnow, and Madlle. de I3,unnow had the. honour
e
lia, i )Ing her Imperial liighnc -
.Royal
*juke George!
-,assv ( m he firs' cue
Moil •de Berg) was in attendance upon her Imperial
companyLoril7 41'
attnaor3,n- of the Russian E,,,_
present at the theatre were the following:_
~.13 Ward
and party, Lady Mary Bentinct and party, the
takecount Clifden, the Viscount Ranelagh, Sir George Arrni-
_.,l,ge and LatlY ArraitagP Colonel liThox,Lady Sarah
LidaPD, Colonel FreestUn . M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun,
Thi,ii Jane Cole • General the lion.
H. Cavendish, Mr.
ethwaite, Ca the lion Mrs. Ryder Bur-
ton, &c. 'Captain and •
C. Daniel Webs' who is named for the Ameri-
can
Prof being recently visited at midnight by a
crow°- his admirers, and serenaded, threw up his bed-room
I window, and wade them a speech in hie shirt!

THE FISHEMES QUESTION WITH THE

UNI l'Efe STATES.
(From the Correspondent of the Ti;;:es.)
NEW YOER, MONDAY EVENING —The excitement
on the suirject of the easteen fisheries has been
greatly increased by the speech which Mr. Webster
delivered last Saturday on the occasion of his public
reception by the people cf. Marshfield' where he has
for twenty years resided, and to which place he has
resorted at every interval of leisure for the practice
of run' amusements and agricultural pursuits. As
you will, doubtless, transfer the entire speech to your
columns, it is not necessary to make any creetaticns
in my letter ; but you may judge from the language
the Secretary uses how decided his own opinions are
on the subject, and how irrevocably the Government
et Washington is pledged fur the protection of our
fishermen and fisheries. I should in my last com-
munication have surveyed the whole question, had
I not supposed that publicity had already been
given in England to the strange policy of
Lord Derby's Government on this subject,
and it could hardly be doubted here what course
The Times would take in a matter of such great im-
portance. No rightminded or intelligent man can
suppose that any sufficient cause has existed, or
ought to exist, for hoatilities between the two nations.
And yet there seems to be a fixed determination on
' the part of the Government, the Congress, and the
press of the country to repel any aggression upon cur
citizens, who have been suddenly interrupted in those
pursuits which they have followed peacefully and
with impunity for a period of 30 years. The report
of the Inspector- General of Massachusetts shows
what interest that State has in the fisheries. Alas-
sachusetts alone has 858 vessels of 54,040 tons in the
l navigated by 9,174 men end boys. The
'gnegate,
value 6 of those vessels and their outfits is 3 532,000
dolls., while the annual value of the fish they take
amounts to
a sum nearly as great. The
inspector estimates
the value for the rest of
New England at nearly the same as that of Mass-
achusetts,marks that with all the pains he has
and re
taken he has only approximated to the true figure,
since many vessels are employed in the cod and mac-
kerel fisheries, of which no proper regaisetkeerroeri.men of
Massachusettscaught,
reports
are preserved. It
appearsthat the
m
in 1851, 188,336 barrels in
American waterst,aend 141,000 barrels in those waters
now claimed as h
exclusive British right by Earl
Derby. The Btuawylesi:c_h is considered, par-
ticularly in thisosmali Times,
ter,eans
expressings the popular feel-
ing of New England m
.. One half of the mackerelmen are now in the waters,
where Blair:csu Derbyoe e,,Proposes to oust them by an armed
the
eyago of each vessel depends on
force. season by following the fish.
nor ability to
51.11 °Probably 2,000 vessels and 30,000
till they are fufil
now exposed to the cannon of a Bri-
men and boys are
eys and horrors of British prisons,
ash fleet and the cruethlt!
have for 30 years been anus-
for doing just
.what,
eoslestation. The, anxiety and dis-
tresstomed to do with.ou.iml
of all cur seaboard people can
among the
conceivedtam2;heir traditionary recollections of
easily be
n_
d courts not being very happy:"
British risonska
of Mr. 'Webster are a singularly
The remarks
striking confirnasation of the statements and opinions
while
,it is most earnestly to be
of the Boston Times,
Webster saes, that the subject of the
hoped, as Mr-
from
the Colonial-office had not tape
late dispatches
degree_ of attention from the prin-
cipaltracted a sufficient
oftheurown ; yet be sees matter in
Minister
with the arrangement made
them quite inconsistent_
Earl of Aberdeen and Edward
in 1845 by
Everett. Mr. Webster lays the greater stress upon the
fact that the Earl of Derby was at that time Colonial
Secretary under the
Government of Sir R. Peel, and
consequently the definitive arrangement with Mr.
not well have taken place without
Everett could , and, in fact, without his
Earl Derby's knowle.og
this arrangement
Secretary, therefore,
concurrence or sanction. y,
arrangement had been
could not but think 0
t the elections in England
overlooked as an inadvertence.e It is generally sup.
posed in this country
wPirilotheactoiohnlii;tesd,
will have terminated fatally forne
Derby
ye
and that, consequently,
to give up the Government; in
whichio acadrffehreisntsuine--
suc-
cessor may, with great propriety, give
thista
terpretation to the question of thethe
n
oiit of
fisheries,
, and k
occasion, in doing it, to,tow h
contre-
temps upon his predecessor.
The more wise and judicious among us anticipate
this mode of relief from the present embarrassment
that British and American statesmen are labouring
under; because it is not
to be supposed that any
American whatever, much less any American states-
wan or journalist, would attempt to arrest the torrent
of popular indignation that would burst out from
every hill-side on the continent, if the news should
come that the smacks of our New England fishermen
h
ad been sunk in the Bay of Fundy by British can-
non. The course of Lord Derby in this respect may
nave got him and the two countries into more diffi-
culties than he anticipated.
Another subject of excitement at the moment is
the extradition of Keine. If Koine had been an
Englishman, or a Scotchman, or a Welchcaan, there
would have been 'very little trouble about it, be-
cause in this case England is so manifestly in the
right that it is preposterous, after reading the Ash-
burton Treaty, to dispute it. But the cause of all
the " fuss " that is being made lies upon the very
surface of our party politics. It is well known that
the Irish vote in this country sways a complete
balance of power between the two political parties, and
consequently the leaders and demagogues of these
parties resort to every trick and deception to win the
Irish sympathy. Hence a numerous and tumultuous
anti-extradition meeting was held a few evenings ago
in Tammany-hall, the head-quarters of the democrats
of New York city. Speeche§ were made by a con-
siderable number of well.known public characters,
but the two principal speeches of the evening were
those of Mr. Brady, a popular stump speaker, and
lawyer of New York, of Irish extraction, and a dis-
tinguished member of the democratic party, and
Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune.
Mr. Greeley gives us, in the report of his speech, the
following clause, which we cut from his owu journal :
He (Maine) is not an ordinary criminal, bat a man
impelled to violence by a sense of wrong—not of indivi-
vidual hardship merely, but of political injustice. His is
one act in a long drama of violence, having its origin in
the conquest of Ireland and the confi,cation of its soil to
the use of the conquerors. Admitting that Maine is
guilty of the act charged, his is not purely a moral of-
fence, but part ekes of the nature of a political one."
The New York Herald exposes the revolutionary,
tendency of such doctrines in the following lan-
guage
According to this precious doctrine every man who
feels himself impelled to violence by a sense of wrong'
is justified in committing murder, and ought not to be
brought even to trial! We scarcely ever knew an in-
str.ece of murder that the perpetrator was not driven to
it by some ' sense of wrong.' Following up this princi-
ple, and applying it to the United Stales, let us see how
it would work. According to Greeley, the coloured po-
pulation of the south suffer greater wrongs at the hands
of their masters than the white serfs of Ireland ever
suffered at the hands of their landlords. Impelled, there-
fore, to violence by a sense of wrong, a black slave is
justified in committing one act in the long drama of vio-
lence having its origin in the introduction of slavery into
this country by the British—he is justified in perform-
ing his part in the play by the murder of his master,
and when he flies to New York he is not to be surren-
dered for trial. In his case killing is no murder—it is
not is moral, but a political offence. And, to follow up
the idea, suppose the blacks of a whole state conspire
and murder every white man in it, not leaving so much
as one to tell the tale, all this would be no crime against
human or divine laws—it would be a mere political
offence. Such is the atrocious, murderous higher law
doctrine proclaimed by Greeley, and if some of the co-
loured race do not' batter the instruction' the fault does
not lie with him."

When the first judicial decision in the case of
Keine was given some days ago, by which the Judge
of the District Court of the United States decided
that, under the Ashburton Treaty, the prisoner was
to be delivered up to the Bcitish Government, another
issue was made, and to-day the case was brought
before Judge Bosworth, of the bench of the State of
New York, on a writ of habeas corpus. The Hon.
J. Prescott Hall, United States District Attorney,
appeared for the Marshal, by direction of the Go-
vernment, and, in compliance with the order of the
Judge of the State of New York, produced the pri-
soner. Mr. Busteed, counsel for Maine, and Mr.
Edwards, counsel for the British Government, were
both heard at length by the Court, when Mr. Brady,
the popular orator before alluded to and the principal
coup el for the prisoner, stated that application had
been made to Judge Nelson, of the Supreme Court
of the United States at Washington, for the purpose
of bringing the matter before the highest tribunal of
the nation for a final decision. He also stated that
Judge Nelson had replied to the effect that
the case- in issue presented a novel ques-
tion, and some days would be required for the
deliberation. Judge Bosworth remarked, that where
the liberty of the subject, and the eputation
of the Government in the executionof the
laws were at stake,it was imperatively necessary to
proccA with all due deliberation ; he therefore ad-
journed the Court until next Wednesday, and re-
mauded the prisoner again to the custody of the
United States' Marshal. We shall see what the
result will be but thus far we can congratulat?
ourselvee. Mr. Greeley and some other editors,.h.,_ac_l
done what grey could to inflame the pagsi°"::
Irish popuhttion, and things had gone so far
the
Manibal expr.ssed somo alarm lest, in the transferutrtl Cf
room,
the prisoner from his confinement to
a rescue would be attempted. The It:l'llrciousf
Irish Justice
was surrounded by a large crowd of th:
svhatever was
popula-
tion during the day, but no attemp.roin
the court-
made until the prisoner was taken.l
But it soon
room, when the mob attacked the police'cipal rioters, who
ended in the arrest of 15 of the principal
are now in prison awaiting thg '5l
10 O'CLOCK A.M.
WEDNESDAY, JULY
Yesterday, the great %vbig gathering took place
at Niagarasupposed, that
Falls. It was and

there wou!d be at least 50,000 or 100,000 persons
present on the anniversary of the first victory (as it
is called) of General Scott ; but up to last evening
less than 10.000 had assembled. Few distinguished
men of the Whig party were there, and the whole
thing was likely to prove a failure. The fact can
,longer be concealed that the Whigs made a very
unfortunate nomination, and no enthusiasm can be
got up anywhere for General Scott. On the other
hand, the mass meetings for Pierce and King
are characterized by unprecedented enthusiasm and
numbers.

The fishery excitement is extending, and the
new Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Kennedy, of
of Baltimore, has started all cur navy-yards
and arsenals into activity. A powerful force is pre-
paring fur the north-c astern coast, and in a short
time several of our largest and most efficient steamers
will be on their way. There is no subject on which
the Americans are so sensitive as their fisheries. I
confess that, with a knowledge of the exasperated
state of feeling along the Canada frontier and through-
out the British provinces, and a knowledge also of the
policy which the President and his Cabinet are deter-
mined to carry out,—l confess that _I entertain the
most serious apprehensions of the final result. Our
Government expects a collision. Of this fact there is
no doubt.

This morning Judge Bosworth was to have given
his decision in the Kaice case, but a telegraphic
dispatch has just been received of the sudden death of
Judge Sanford, at Toledo, and all the courts will
meet only to pass resolutions of respect to his memory
itwd adjourn. I rejoice in the delay, for it will secure
the bearing of the extradition case before the Supreme
Court of the United States at Washington, where we
know that wisdom and moderation and learning and
justice will prevail.

THE NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES

QUESTION,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
i—l bfel
thereievethara
et nino
the
eiswe
oorrldsa s man will
deny that,
tries who, in a moral, physical,asocial,sagacious
and u
corn,
mercial mercial point of view, two l
greatc
co
other the utmost possible good in a position to do each
goodor atihtegriatestpos-
sible mischief, these countries are the Anglo-Saxon
nations.
On the day before General Wolfe gainedh the bat-
tle
Angolno-Saxon
P laiaxoo
npso
sof e
sAs
ebdr anham single,
n or
080 rdi tisf
a snudbj eascift'hni
n
the countriesr:baowrdreenrionef
oornnotrhteh
orfivers, lakes, or the
Gulf of St.
tmheonrpts% insinNalolvaeolSecnoytiai,
or south twoof Caoalloanlllsoettlle-
n Georgia,est or west of the
Alleghany Mountains. Those e ge-
v
v
the
egions extend-
ing to the Pacific were then under h
of the Bourbons of France and Spain. Tsolae sovereignty
e
Anglo-
Americans, although highly prosperous, didn
ex-
ceed 2,000,000 of inhabitants, who were allsoetttl2:ld-1
to the eastward of the Allegbanies, chiefly
towns on the shores of the Atlantic. At in small
townsthe present
day the population subject to the Queen of England
and the citizens of the United States possess all the
vast dominions extending from the islands and shores
of the Atlantic to the coast of the Pacific, from Hud-
son's Bay to the coast of Mexico, from the Bay of
Chesapeake to the Bay of San Francisco, from the
mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Co-
lumbia. Since that period they have increased from
two millions to thirty millions. Awful, indeed, in
prospect would be the consequence of any policy which
might possibly involve the United Kingdom and the
United States of America in the certain calamities of
a war. Civilization in America and Europe would,
for a time, Se paralysed ; and not only the present
generation, but future generations, would experience
the disastrous results of any interruption of peace and
social and commercial intercourse between the mem-
bers of the great Anglo-Saxon family, who, although
they have different governments, are, nevertheless,
bound together by historical bonds and common asso-
ciations and customs as one people. Not only are
they bound together by the benefits of mutual navi-
gation and commerce, but by the inseparable bond of
language, edacatioo, and traditionary usages; they
speak the same language, are educated at schools
where they are taught the same lessons, trained at
firesides where the mothers instil into their children
similar morals. They read the same literature, pro-
fess generally the same religion, and study and obey
the same laws. Until a very late period both nations
have had a common history. Therefore, if there be
one course of policy more than another which British
statesmen or British subjects shou!d advocate, it
should be a policy best calculated to maintain peace
and friendship between the United Kingdom and the
United States of America.

It is no wonder, then, that reflecting men should
look with alarm upon the recent measure of the pre-
sent Government in sending a naval squadron to
drive American fishermen from the fishing-grounds of
British America. I concluded that when the North-
Eastern and Oregon boundary questions had been
settled, the true policy of the British Government
ought to have been to place the relations of the
British Empiie and the United States of America as
nearly as possible on the same commercial and mari-
time arrangements as if they were still under one
great federation. If the United States had remained
under British dominion until the present day, the,
ships and their fishing crafts would freely enjoy our
home and colonial and coasting trade, and exactly
the same freedom of fishing along the shoals of New-
foundland and.the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as British
vessels, while all British shipping would partake of 1
the coasting trade and fisheries of the United States.
That both nations would derive great benefit from
such freedom of trading and fishing cannot be denied.
Instead, therefore, of sending ships of war, which will
inevitably come into collision with the vessels of the
United States, ought not such a free commercial and
maritime
American Government ?
arrangement be at once negotiated with the
Before the late Lord Ashburton sailed to America,
for the purpose of settling the north-eastern boundary
dispute, which he so satisfactorily executed, he sub-
'flitted to Sir Robert Peel some very liberal observe.-
Lions on the maritime and commercial intercourse be-
tween her Majesty's subjects and the citizens of the
United States. Sir Robert Peel did me the honour
of requesting my opinion on Lord Ashieueton's sug-
gestions, and I find (having a copy of the same now
before me) that the above were the conclusions to
which I arrived respecting them. But at that time
matters were not sufficiently ripe for Sir Robert
Peel carrying out what he considered sound interne-
Qabrte! Il'e
'of
the
interna-
tional policy. It was necessary for him first to repeal
the corn-laws, the taxes on the essential food of inao,
before he could venture to meddle with the navigation
laws. It was the early wish of the American Go-
vernment and Mr. Pitt, who entertained the pro-
posal, that the commercial end maritime inter-
course between all the dominions of the
British Crown and the United States of America,
should be placed exactly on the same footing.
Under such a system, Great Britain might have
enjoyed every possible trading advantage with the
United States which it would have been just to pas_
sess, had they continued under British domination.
The trade, navigation, and fisheries of the United
States ought, in like manner, to have derived efvre:rly:.
commercial and maritime advantage, which could have
been on the most liberal understandine:
the mother country, without being subject litttlete
in-
capacities of the Colonial-office, or the tai ledininieetea
exercise of the
tßiornitisohf colonial Governors, Genot:eorrnotros,thteo
athbesolivatt:rf
Mr. Pitt as Chancellor of the
sovereign prerogative. Bat the liberal commercial
Exchequer, under the Shelburne policy proposed by
the United States, was
defeated by an acive4rasoeppti?
of Mr. Adams, on the part Administration, and
fin Great Britain, which
law by° thae
British navigation
finally led to the
uu
icounterpartted s t
a t e
st
,o
andthe
which until lately
British vessels arr' was enforced with regard to all
vi.re
laws have been met ug:'
United States. Now,
all the relaxations madein the United States. But
cently in our navigation;
iog trade and with. perfect reciprocity bya:
if the British colonial and_
Ameri-
can were f=irl opened to , .e...
can vessels, the coasting trade- Yand fisheries or 1"`
United States would be at once tbroven open hetcl!
British vessels, and which is so much desireangfick.
Majesty's subjects in Canada
There would be no necessity foraundegNote
leatthe wise and
United States. Why not at once ad P
a't ' is. a war by the
profitable course, instead of bezer
010
f ships of war
irritating and iosulting presence wil3onruwith the
p The laws of the
among the American nSherta
beaneever privileges Ame-
United States provide thato
; tberwcountries, the vessels of
rican vessels enjoy a` -a American ports and saes.
those countries evillueg
°lco'tland, nor the latter E
British subjects, so far from
England does no: re
han;oasting trade and fisheries are
commoncommon
t htoo übgdoht h ,
would be greatly benefited, if the
being 'and fisheries of the British dominions
coasting trs., ed States were rendered freely . common
and the '
Unblteents of bosh countries.
to the inba. i We admit at
being injure
once the right of England to enforce the provisions of
of 1818, hut we dreed the fatal consequences
a naval armament to enforce the strict ob-
ofservance of that treaty.
I am, air, very respectfully, your obedient servant
th the treats
1, Prince's-terrace, Hyde -park, Aug.J. MA.CGREGOR. '
-pane, 7, 1852.

THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF COMMITTEES IN THE
ITousv or Commons.—.lt is commonly rumoured that the
Government will have no inconsiderable difficulty in award-
ing the vacant office of Chairman of Committees. There
are, it is said, a host of clamorous applicants for the place,
amongst others, Mr. Newdegate,
T.
Floyer, Mr, K.
Seymer, Captain Bolduc, and ulr.
EAST INDIA.—It is stated, in a Parliamentary
paper just issued, containing the annual report (pursuant to
Act of Parliament) of the Acts at Government in India,
passed by the President of the Council of India in Coun-
cil, with the assent of the Governor-General, for public
and other purposes, that the number amounted to 45 in the
year 1850.

SPORTING NOTEF,

Ne. CCLXXX.
READING hILETING, &c.

TO TEE EDITOR OF -THE SUN.
SlR,—Viret.thcrgAge, by his double performance at
Goodwood and Wolverhampton, has proved satisfactorily
enough now that his quality is not of that stamp which
Captain ions imtgined it was when he transferred it
from th,) Duke's stable into Armstrong's for the trifling
sum of forty pounds, from whence it went to Mr. Parr's
for an advance of twenty pounds on that sum. He won
his race yesterday very cleverly, boating Doubt at a dif-
ference of 201 b for the three years; Lindrick, Who was
strongly fancied, finishing a very fair third, with Alonzo,
ovhted and on a course beyond his distance, a
baedri7Li rSth and lust.
The Reading meeting will come cif to-morrow and
Thursday, beginning a quarter-past two with the
Abbey Stakes, which VAULTRESS, I presume, will win;
in her absence Defiance would be my selection.
The Berkshire States, two miles, will be contested by
five or six, LAMARTINE, with Bst 51b on his back, look-
ing by far the best; after him Dulcet and Stamford are
as woll in as any, the former having to carry 6st 111 b
and the latter a pound leas.
The Readine, Stakes, a half mile spurt, penalty and
all, ought to be carried off by VAULTRESS, Sylphine, I
believe, being a non-starter. Defiance and Michaelmas
Maid lock well for the .second and third places.
The Innkeepers' Stakes, in, the absence of Musician,
fallwailrlupsrenaisbhlying
well p.
totubelot of _____KtnmENEY or THEOREM;
E
TThhee reining have yetnßotesadsingu
closed.
The
is
as
fol-
lows:—Abbey Stakes—Even on Vanitress. Berkshire
Stakes-6 to 4 asst
o
to 1 sgst any other.
as
t
field. Innkeepers' Stakes-5 to 2 agst hilmene y,
4 to 1 L
Readinga m a r tin e ,
s4tatkoe l
Stakes-2
toStamford, 1
on
thes
agst any other,—l am, &e.
Aug, 10. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
Business was on a very limited scale, with scarcely
any influence on the-quotations,
short " price current.' -
EROR. HANDICAP.
and admitting of only a
7 to 1 egst Mr. Howard's Little Harry
8 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage
8 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigear
12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Frantic
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippoly
tus—t tOlOOl.
ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's Songstress—take 7 to 2
7 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Stockwell—take 4 to 1
15 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Harbinger—taken
to 2001.
17 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—take 20 to 1
20 to 1 apt Lord:Derby's Longbow—taken to 1001.
READING RACES.—We are authorised to state that
these races will not commence until a quarter past two
to-morrow. A special train will start from Paddington
at a quarter past eight in the morning, and return in the
evening at a quarter past seven.
WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—MONDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 30 added; for
three yrs old, 7st 51b; four, Bst 711); five, 9st lib; six
and aged, 9st 51b;
winners extra, &c. Once round and a distance. (3
Subs.)mares and geldings allowed 31b;
The Produce Stakes of Yrlso soya, each, and(C
Mr. F. Eglinton's b g Carrier, 3
r, yrs
Mr. Phillips's Le Juif, 4
hirr.opunodw. (Marlow) 2
Mri.lFeliwnitnonfie'sr.
was
ss
let's Parser **** a.
added; for colts, Bat 61b;
(9
Subs.o)bjected and fillies, sat
ii0w...,d..................(We115) 1
tio
f 80113)
31abr2.r: 10)5
on‘clse.
The Wolverhampton Stakes of 2r.searrYing
rrsroevds. each, 15 ft, and
esreen's Purse of
5 only if declared, with the short weight.
100 soya, added, and the winner- to pays 20 soya. to-
ws
omstak
e
Tawrido e erxopueonds easo, d an n
dd i st. h e
(secondd 3
.t,o
22a v
oe f
de-
clared.)
Mr. T. Parr's Weethergage, 3 yrs, sst 121b(Cowley) 1
Mr. W. Palmer's Doubt, aged, ist 101 b... (Charlton) 2
Mr. J. Dawson's na Lindrick, 3yrs, sst 21b (Carrol) 3
Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 71b... (Marlow) 4
The Welter Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 25
added. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half (4
Subs.)
Mr. J. Saxon's Catlike, 6 yrs, list 21b...(Mr. Shaw) 1
Mr. Shirley's na The Dreg, 5 yrs, lOst7lb (Davenport) 2
Thu Ladies' Purse of 50 soya., for three yrs old, 7st 31b;
...., four, Bst 71b; five, 9st lib; six and aged, 9st 31b;
mares and geldings allowed 31b; half-bred horses 61b.
Beats, once round and a dis.
Mr. E. Buckley's Royal George, 3 yrs(Sharpe) 1 3 1
Mr. Taft's gr gby Don John, 3 yrs (Ashmal) 3 1 2
Mr. T. Parr's Carinetta, 3 yrs (Cowley) 2 2 dr
Mr. Shelmerdine's Morning Star ...... (Knott) 4 dr
Mr. J. Adey na the Alderman (Crouoh) 0 dr
Mr. F. Eglinton's br f by Faugh-a-bellagh ... 0 dr
Mr. Sherratt's Miss Ellen, 4 yrs...(Charlton) 0 dr
Several nominations for the north country meetings
become void by the death of Major Yarburgh.

AQUATICS.

WESTMINSTER (6OLLOLARS') BOAT RACES.

THE ISILVER CUPS ISiiTCH.

Six members contended for a pair o silver cups, an
oars' weger, yesterday. The distance was from Batter-
sea to Putney, and Mr. Wright officiated as umpire on
the College eight.
Messrs. Bearings and Madden
Vincent and Freeman
Upperton and Williams

... o

With very little loss of time the above got to their
stations, a fourth pair from some unavoidable cause not
appearing. A very even and beautiful start was
effected, and the whole went off oar and oar at a fine
pace. In this position they remained for upwards of
two minutes, the work in all the boats being beautiful.
The winners drew a slight lead then and gallantly main-
tained it throughout, alzhough pressed to the end by the
second beat. Won by two lengths.
SILVER CHALLENGE SCULLS.

preTvhiolussilnyt,erewstaisngelasnoutimalosmt agtcah, which had takenllantlyeentested. place
The
Westminster sculli, the symbols of aquatic superiority,
were presented in 1844, by Messrs. E. B. Burton and E.
P. Colquhoun (old Westminsters), for yearly competi-
tion as an encouragement to honourable emulation in
the seiencn of sculling. Mr. Wright, T. 8., was the suc-
cessful candidate in both '49 and '5O, and as his superi-
ority was so well established, no race took place last
year, and, consequently, being thrice the holder, he re-
signed the trophies of victory this season for competition
amongst the challengers, three in number, the Hon. E.
Bourke, T. 8., W. Maddon, Q S., and B. Hammond,
T.B. The distance contested Was from Putney-bridge
to Vauxhall. gr. Burton, one of the spirited donors—
himself one of the most distinguished scullers and oars-
men in many a spirit-stirring conflict—officiating as
umpire.

Mostra. C. Hammond (LB.") 1
Mr. Maddon.) ... 2
Hun. E. Bourke (T. 13 )
..• 0
The 1-I,M. Mr. Bourke got a tiliqht lea],
maintained gunr•nri:,7 for a quarter of a mile, then they.
spurt, were almost all scull and seull o.traia. Bourke again put;
on a u, and kept a slight I.niad a little longer, "
Wandsworth was i,as3crd by Mr. Hammond, and almost
hat o
immediately afterwards by Meddon, who made a saart
race with the rdnner till nearly tho end. which be

011,,DWELL REGATTA.
Q A
the shore
)lace atermen contended yesterday. fit .13 d
grofruonmd
°' rew skiff and sundry other prlxas subsoil e
the residiAats, and formed a very excellent regatta.
:r.tsoittihfioveßl;geaotast,,:hee
adnialstanßcasXttcwnidei:
ifei.:lBo:hi:ricalfeerrtioaetz.

First Heat.
J. Robinson, Stone-stairs ............ (Green) 1
S. Dunbar, Riteliff-cross •••.
..(Yellow) 0
A very even start, green
J. Dickerson, Bell Wharf •••••• •• (Pink) 0
win-
ning by a dozen lengths.
Second Hest.
three
soonooerk
.fi :o.hu:DrWl eaerdnkg ni
it
Iblsilf.er e:
'.41
TT : BKpv c
ri el li
ogl
naN a:asiSiyh (Jameabdy vs
; sie
bri
stairs sir ( e 0
(Red) 0
Third Heat,
C. Fox, King

(Light Blue) 1
(Yellow) 2
S. Dunbar
(Red) 0
C. FOX.
'll:74B.iPeekitg herhsteLiGn (Pink) (;)
t, the two first lma.s winning at their A veil fIA
leioure.

Fourth float.

j. Robinson (Green) 1
T. Kirkland (Dark Blue) 2
s. Dunbar (Fellow) 0
T. Speig t (Light Blue) 0
Similar to the last.

Fifth Heat.
T. Kirkland (rinuer) (Dark Blue) 1
J. Robinson
......... (Green) 0
Dark blue got the btart and
Was leading by twa
lengths, the first round, ultimately Winning by three
lengths, notwithstanding the most determined efforts of
the other to lessen the gap bptween them.

MARRIAGE IN HIGU LIE-E.-011 Saturday morning,
the 7th instant, a marriage was solemnised at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square, between the Ron. Frederick Chi-
chester and the lovely and accomplished Miss Tighe, eldest
daughter of Mr. and the Ron. Mrs. Tighe, and niece to Lord.
Crofton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edward
Stewart. We regret to add that the Dowager Lady Temple-
more more was prevented by indisposition, from attend ng
at three
ceremony. The bride and bridegroonaleft London,
and
Hon. Mrs. Charles Peel, the
o'clock, for Butler's Green, the residence of Afar.
pass the
honeymoon.
NT.—Tbe ap-
pointment they intend
CARII':BROoRE CASTLE ArpoiNTML
of keeper of Carisbrooke Castle,te
d inventor of the the demise of Mr. Dennett, the celebrated
shipwrecked,
has
rockete, for preserving the lives of persons__r.
Ai H. D. Cole, well been presented by Lord Heytesburyrtary
u secretary to the Isle
known forma ny ears as the bontehe
Race Committee, and
lately vacant by
of W i girt Agricultural Society,
other public matters.
AC cinENT ON THE LONDON AND
TUE LATE FATAL eny.
The inquest upon the body of
William Floyd, the
IsToran-WEsTERN RAzewegentleman who lost his life by an
A
which--°goccurred at the BeekNvell cutting,
untweerd accident
roetion, upon the 3d instant, was re-
sumednear the Hampton
eJdu .
)...e.ster day , at the King's Head, Coven-
Seymour, the coroner. After a
examination, the coroner proceeded to sum up the
lengthened exan
at haft-past eleven o'clock PsAl., the jury. returned
t
case, and
beforea n d c2,oinre. llicrly .
ii
op in ion that
the following
the iminediate
straps of the ash-box, thereby causing the death
stale of the
vceavise of the accident was from the defective
of William Floyd t
inspection of those
•
their decidedopinion that the mspe
pressing
minutely and more
• and the jury cannot separate. without ex-
tracted engines should be made more
bile
of the public:'
cfroengueutly, so as to insure the safety