The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

The years pass away, Parliaments run their course,
and Governments rise and 4all. Hero we are getting
on in the last half of the century. and Mr. Hume, who
was a financial reformer when " Lord Wellington" was
fighting our battles in Spain, is once more moving the
four points of his Charter. In the last session of a
Whig Parliament, immediately after the introduction
and failure of a second Reform Bill by the mover of the
first, Joseph Hume is repeating his time-honoured mo-
tion in a House of which the Right Hon. Benjamin
Disraeli is the leader, and which by an extraordinary
compact has bound itself to abstain from all the higher
acts of legislation. If it be added that at this moment
there is not a single constitutional Government in the
world in ordinary and harmonious operation, that is, in
which the Executive is in perfect harmony with the
representative body, the one being responsible and
the other free, we have accumulated more wonders
of time than even the veteran Member for Mon-
trose could have anticipated. His forty years'
sojourn in the wilderness have not given him so
much as a Pisgah's view of his promised reform; and
even his Joshes, who seconded his motion last
night, seems scarcely destined to enter. Should Lord
John Russell, indeed, find himself in a smell majority
in the autumn, he may think himself °tinged to secure
it, as well us increase it, by a measure of Parliamentary
reform, necessarily followed by another dissolution. But
his Lordship is evidently not yet prepared to go a step
further in Mr. Hume's direction than the exigencies of
party may require; and we venture to predict that the
veteran's last words in Parliament will be an indignant
protest against corrupt boroughs, aristocratic nominees,
intimidation, bribery, and all the other anomalies and
abuses of the present representative system.
The debate last night was that which ought to have
come off on Lord John Russell's measure. At the time
of the late Ministerial catastrophe we pointed out the
enormous sacrifice of material it would involve on this
fertile topic. Oar own drawers were full of letters, sta-
tistics, reports, maps, articles—all of increasieg interest
and value until about a quarter past eight on Friday the
20th ult., when they suddenly became a heap of waste
paper. The same sudden depreciation affected, of
course, the 656 speeches, or series of speeches, pre-
pared by the Members of the House of Commons; but
these gentlemen cannot resign themselves to such
painful sacrifices so easily as we are forced to do.
When a man has composed a good speech, it haunts
him till he has delivered it somewhere, some time, to
somebody or other. So the occasion of Mr. Hume's
motion last night was eagerly seized by many Members
for discharging the burdens on memory. The occasion
allowed, however, of nothing but a debate on the general
principles of Parliamentary Reform; and, accordingly,
wo were presented with essays of the most abstract and
philosophical character by Mr. H. Drummond, Sir W.
Page Wood, Mr. Napier, Mr. Roebuck, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and Lord John Rassell. Whether we
regard tbem as comments on a preposterous motion or
on a withdrawn Bill, they are equally devoid of imme-
diate interest. They may all be laid by for the next
rainy day—if indeed we are to have any rain this year—
or they may be postponed till Lord John shall at length
bring forward the improved version of his late Bill. We
are obliged to give them as they urn; but as the public
is not obliged to read them, it will consult its comfort,
and lose very little, by taking the cream of them given
in our summary.
As Mr. Hume succeeded only in mustering 89 Mem-
bers prepared to go the whole length of his q uadruple
resolution, it is evident the House of Commons, on the
eve of an appeal to the people, is not yet enamoured of
pure democracy. But it is equally evident, from the
tone of the principal speakers, that unless the new Par-
liament is very different from the present, it will deem
it wise and necessary to give a larger share of the re-
presentation to the wealth and population of the country;
and so far, it may be said, to raise the democrat:cal as
compaied with the monarchical and aristocratical el -
meets. The claim of abstract right is wholly and justly
repudiated by all sensible men; but right iii one thing
and wisdom is another; and certainly nothing can be
more unwise then the proud and stubborn maintenance
of a state of things by which large populations, myriads
of well-informed and respectable artizsns, and other
deserving or powerful classes, instead of being
included in the pale of full citizenship, and
thereby added to the strength of the . Consti-
tution, are excluded from that pale and prc-
yoked into hostility to that Constitution. The opinion
that seemed to be ascribed to the present Government,
that there was no clear necessity to disturb the settle-
ment of 1832, we would fain hope means nothing more
than a determination against Lord John Russell's !we
Bill. Whatever we do, let us not wait again till the
country is excited to a reform mania. That would be
to appeal from Philip sober to Philip drank. Both
sites of the House, and all sides in the country, except
a taw "Radicals," are prepared to take a moderate view
of the subject. But the moat moderate view, even the
view of maintaining the balance of interests established
in 1832, must admit the reasonableness of re-adapting
the representation to the very great changes that
have taken place since 1832. The unprecedented in-
crease of population and wealth that has occurred
in these twenty years, which have witnessed the infancy
and the completion of British railways, has fallen
chiefly on the towns and manufacturing districts. This
has disturbed the settlement of 1832, which requires,
therefore, to bo regulated once more, like a machine that
has gradually fallen out of order, or a calendar that no
longer corresponds to astronomical facts. Since 1832
some of the metropolitan boroughs have increased cot
far from 100 per cent.. while many of the smaller bo-
roughs spared by the Reform Act, and even some whole
counties, show very little change. These are broad facts
that are seen and felt, that speak for themselves, and
will make themselves beard. At this stage of the
question it is unnecessary to go into details, other-
wise we might prove to Mr. Disraeli the fal-
lacy lying at the bottom of his calculation that
the rural population is less represented than the towns.
In his rural populations, which his counties are supposed
to be, there are, in fact, many towns. The question of
Parliamentary Reform is clearly postponed for the pre-
sent. After two years of inactivity, and after a general
election, it would be ridiculous to sacrifice another year
—nay, the last Reform Bill occupied twu years—to this
very grave question, unless it ehould be re-opened by a
Protectionist controversy. But in all probability it
cannot be postponed beyond the third or fourth session
of the next Parliament. Till then, hewevar, it is surely
premature and injudicious to make any needless decla-
rations ; and if any of our present Ministers are not yet
convinced of the necessity of reform, the best thing they
can do is to hold their tongue about it.-7itnes of
Friday.

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened,
______.____NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipt
1852. 1851, 1852.
Batumi. --- ---
----- £1,•41') £1,467
72 Aberde,en .. - ..... •••••• • • • • • ••• • • 6,1 631
37% Belfast and Ballymena •••••••• • • • • • •
• It 3 217
17 Belfast and County D0wn............
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1 992 1,199
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • '045 711
3,563 3,72.2
85% Bristol and Exeter ••.•• • • • ..• •••• • • • 7205
22
189 Caledonian.......• ••• • • • 7,517 8
94% Chester and Holyhead ...•
... •• • - 2,140 2,486
••••• ••
6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ......, -347
7331.10
65 Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... .•
796 885
53 Dublin and Drogheda.• •• • • •••• • • • • •
6 Dublin and Kingstown •. •• •• •• 545 ...• •• • • 545 582
16% Dundee and Arbroath •••••• .. • ..... 3t:6 430
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 613421 61512
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.• • • • • • • • • • •
68 East Anglian.... ••••••• • • • • • • • 613
6 692
3
79 East Lancashire .• • • ........ ...... • • 12:5,046 143.13
.4624
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •••• ••
1,. 54 1,934
95 Eastern Union ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ••• . 3,454 3,458
89 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • • • • • • • ••
78 liklinburgb, Perth, and Dundee...... 1L940 2,302
6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • .... •••• • • • • 369 59186
19 Furness Railway ••••••'• • " • • ' • - 3,57F1 3,777
171% Glasgow, and South-Western• •.•• • • • 7,868 10,774
24114 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • •• • • 4,3U1 5,562
188 Great Southern and Western.(lreland)
13,2,4 15,013
277 Great Western •••••••. .• • • • • • ..... 1
25 Irish South Eastern .......... •• •• • • 3,77236 4,2D:58
90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••• • • • 14,•8% 15,097760
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••••• • • ••
39 Leeds and Think .... ••• • • • ..... •• • 235 257
12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •..
40,410 41,186
539)4 London and North Western .• ••• • • • 711 852
5% London and Blackwall• •••••• • • • • •
17314 London, Brighton, and South Coast:. 7.:92",0;4 89:038,08
244 London and South Western. •••• - • • i
24% Londonderry and Enniskillen • • ...... 165 250
120 1081
5
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 5743 6
167% Ilsuichester, Shetti eld, and Lincolnshire ,•••
404 .628
952 Manchester and South Junction .• ....
28 Maryport and Carlisle .. ••••••• • • • • .. 586 629
20,363 21,312
496% Midland ••••••••• ' • ' • • • ' • ••• • • 1 125 2,013
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... ,
37 Monklands ........................ _ 822. 1•'103
60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .......... z. '126 2,307
149 North British ••..•••••• • • • • • • • • .... 3,9,87 3,353
222 North Staffordshire •••• • • •
47 North-Western ••••••••• • • • • • • • " 432 1;52
45 Scottish Central ..... ....... •• •• •••
1,',04 1,765
32 Scottish Midland ••••••••• • • • • • • • • ;all 548
29)4 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• • • • 1 5 563 7,,,
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • •• •• ~3 1,;15
29 Shropshire Union .. •.•••••• • • • • • • • • a 35 ~,,,
58 South Devon• •••••...••• • • • " •• - .. 1,,,,,i 1,-5'305
2284 Soutl Eastern.... •••• •• • ........... ii• 17 , 10,516
93% South Wales ......................848 1•305
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1.113 1;410
40 Tall Vale •• ••••••• • •• • • • • ..... ••• • • 2•5')5 I 2,376
36 Ulster . • • • •
25 Waterford and Limerick -.•• • ••
••
•• 8,, ' I
28 i° 884
212
13 West Cornwall ••• • • • •••••• • • • • •
..,
300 _
12 Whitehaven Junction ..... .. • • ••
••
•• 1-16 1 192
301% York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... 13,417 13,834
279 York and North Midland., .......... 7.057 , 7,7z8
I vos.EIGN.
152 Central of France ........ ••
••
••
••
•• 3,070 3,677
I 57 Dutch Rhenish ....-
[ 21% 5laria Antonia
63 Montanan and Troyes ~, „ 964 992
' 4425 Northern of France ....., •• ••
••• • • • 16,i 62 15,7"
) 1314 Orleans and Bordeaux- .••••• • • • • • 2,733 4,462
, 245 Paris and Lyons
82 Paris and Orleans .. •• •.•
"••• • • " " 7.3t2 8,767
1 84 Paris and Rouen. .. •••••••• • • • • • • • 5,543 6,142
r 194 Paris and Strasburg. •••• .• ••
•• •••• • : : ••
::
59 Rouen and Havre. 24:286127 82,419531
121, Icar4 411,1 N 1,321 2,169
, ‘ Antes • •••..,,••••

8,767
6,142
8,193
2,451
2,169

THE REV. J. E. GLADSTONE ON
TR AC TARIANISM.
On Thursday evening the large hall at the Free-
masons' Tavern was crowded with a very numerous and
fashionable audience, to beer the last of a series of
lectures by the Rev. J.E. Gladstone en Tractarianism.
Mr. SNlTcrt was matimously- called upon to preside,
and en taking the chair remarked that the best proof of
the public being satisfied with any particular work was
the fact of ita going to a second edition. In appearing
before them a second time, he flattered himself that
his services had received their approbation.—((;hoer..)
They need, however, enter tain no alarm that he was
going to Elect upoe teem a volume, or even to swell out
observations to the length of a pamphlet, for he
only intended to say a few familiar things, or, as Dickens
woad call them, a' few " household words."—(A laugh.)
First of all he would say that, in some measure, he
had been the cause of the disturbance which had
arisen between his esteemed friend Mr. Glad-
stone and the Bishop of London. When Mr.
Gladstone first began preaching against Tracta-
rianism at Long-acre chapel he was so struck by the
truth and force of his remarks that he took upon him-
self to send an epitome of his discourses to The .I.'un news-
paper, and he was happy to say the editor of that jour-
nal thought the discourses were of sufficient importance
to be placed before the public.—(Hear, hear.) It ap-
peared they soon caught, the eye of the Bishop, for in a
short time Mr. Gladstone was summoned before him.
He (Mr. Snitch) went at once to Mr. Gladstone, and
made a full confession—(Laughter)—and they would be
surprised to hear he gave him absolution—(Loud
laughter)—though without making any charge.—(Con-
tinued laughter.) On the contrary, he said he was
much obliged to him. It was partly from this circum-
stance that he took so active a part in the present move-
ment. His heart and soul was in the cause, and he hoped
that by the special grace of God he might be enabled
to do in the cause that which he had done, and he trusted
with some success, throughout his professional career.
—(Cheers.) When a good surgeon had an operation
to perform, and met with unexpected difficutties, ho
did not throw down the knife and run away, but
called to his aid all the resources of his art, and
if he possessed, as every good surgeon ought, an
eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand,
he always came off victoriously.—(Loud cheers.)
He had tie doubt his excellent friend would come off
victoriously, but at all events he wies not the man to
throw down the knife and desert him in the hour of
need.--(Cheers.) For it should be remembered
that his esteemed kind friend offered himself up a
living sacrifice to this great cause, and he
would never desert it until the unclean thing,
Tractarianism, was cast out.—(Lsud cheers.) After a
few more observations, the Cnairman concluded by
cailiag upon Mr. Gladstone t. proceed with the coats-
' nua,tion-of hie lecture, " What is to be done with Ttac-
tariauism?"
The Rev. J. E. GLADSTONE then came forward amidst
loud applause. Hsviug laid down some general prin-
ciples tor the guidance of anti-Tractarians, and recapi-
tulated the heeds of his former lectures, be proceeded to
say that though much blamed for the course he had
taken, he had done or said nothing without much prayer,
deliberation, and forethought; but having once made up
his mind, he spoke and acted in a way which he be-
lieved right in the sight of God, careless altogether of
the taunts, complaints, or accusations of any party.
Thougti be had said as strong things as any man in
public, he had not uttered one word which he was not
prepared to abide by.—(Cheers.) On the last occasion
sown one had been led to believe, in consequence of his
alluding so frequently to the Church of England, that
he pretended Dissenters were not Protestants. Now
that was very far from his intention, for he believed the
time was fast approaching when good Dissenters and
evangelical Churchmen would have to unite together
for their own protection.—(Loud cheers.) Let it be
understood, however, he had no desire or intention of
leaving the Church of England.—(Cheers.) No donut
the Bishop would be heartily glad if he had.—(Laughter.)
Some said that when a man resisted his bishop ha
ought to leave the Church, but because a bishop was
unfaithful were the faittlful to go out of the sanctuary?
—(Cheers.) On the contrary, it was their duty to do
all they could to expose the unfaithful bishop and to
reform the Church.—(Hear.) There were now good
signs that men in high places would soon be convicted;
that Popery, wherever it was found—whether in con-
nexion with the Church of England or the Roman Catholic
Church, to the latter of which it properly belonged, with
all its persecution, aggrandizement and oppression, could
not be trusted, and must be speedily dealt wide.—
(Cheers.) A notice to the following effect was pub-
lished in the London Gazette on the 23d of March:—
" Notice is hereby given, that the presentation to the
Queen at the Levee on Thursday, the 26th of February last,
of the Very Reverend Monsignore Searle, is cancelled, that
title having been assumed without the required authority.'
—(Laughter and cheers.) Thank God, it was declares
that the title had been assumed without the required au-
thority.—(Cheers.) The great endeavour of the Trac-
tarians was first to get hold of their souls, and then all
they possessed. As an evidence of their tyrannical and
soul-debasing character, he had had forwarded to him
the report of a conversation which a Mr. W.
J. Knight had with the Rev. E. G. Edouard,
incumbent of St. Michael's, Burleigh-street. This Rev.
Gentleman, it appeared called upon Mr. Knight to know
why he ceased to attend St. Michael's, and had instead
gone to attend the ministry of Ur. Hutton, at St. Paul's,
Covent-garden, and he questioned him thus:—" Do you
know that in leaving your district church you commit a
mortal sin?"—(Loud laughter.) To that Mr. Knight
replied that if error was preached there, he surely was
justified in seeking the truth elsewhere; but Mr. Ed-
ouard answered by asking " how he could tell what the
truth weer —(Lsughter.) Now that was Popery in
the bud, and Tractarianism in the bloom. Liberty
of conscience was to be violated, and private
interpretation of the Scriptures forbidden.—(Hear,
hear.) Mr. Gladstone then adverted at some length to
the answer of the Bishop of Exeter to Miss Sellon, the
Superior of the Protestant sisterhood at Devonport, aull
showed that though he had withdrawn his name as
visitor of the institution, ho still possessed great admi-
ration for the lady and her doctrines, and said he should
not cease to take the same lively interest in the pro-
sperity of the institution, which he frankly acknow-
ledged had done a great amount of spirituel
as well as temporal good. The reason al-
leged by the Bishop for his withdrawal
was that the sisterhood, in violation of the original
rules, were to be prevented departing with their own
free will from the institution, and that on entering they
were to be deprived of their property, which was to be
placed in the hands of the treasurer, and was to become
part of the common fund of the community. Therefore,
according to the Bishop's own interpretation, a young
lady who entered this so-called Protestant convent with a
large fortune would, on leaving, be rendered almost pen-
niless,
unless her sisters chose to return a portion. A
worse system of disgusting chicanery and tyranny never
before existed.—(Cheers.) It was nothing less than
spiritual swindling.—(Cheers.) t But did the Bishop
condemn it as a wicked, unscriptural, and dishonest
mode of proceeding ? No? He only said he gracefully
retired from an institution which he considered had done
much spiritual and temporal good.—(Laughter.) There
could be uo doubt he was only induced to retire from a
conviction that unfaithful bishops must soon be called to
account for their conduct.—(Cheers.) The Bishop of
London did not get rid of Mr. Bennett until he was
almost driven out of his church by the storm which
the people raised.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") In order
to show that the Bishop of Exeter entertained
no unfriendly feeling towards Miss Sellon, Mr. Glad-
stone quoted the end of his letter, in which he sub-
scribed himself thus, " Believe me, my dear Miss Se!-
lon, ever to remain yonr faithful, admiring, and affec-
tionate Friend. H. EXETER."—(Laughter.) The esta-
blishments of these convents were to be greatly feared,
for the one at Devonport was only intended to be the
parent of others in different parts of the kingdom. Si-
milar societies, under the superintendence of Miss Sal- ,
lon, bad been formed at Bristol, Gosport, and recently, '
he believed, in London. The young lady inmates at
Bristol were compelled to do all kinds of menial work,
having to wash the floors and light the fires, and 'go of
errands at all hours of the night and morning. When one
of these girls complained of her treatment she was called
before Miss Sellon, who severely reprimanded her, and
said that when she (Miss Mon) spoke, she was to
think it was the voice of Christ.—(Cheers.) This was
a downright system of crushing despotism when exEr-
cised by bishops, priests, or mother superiors, repug-
nant to the feelings of the Christian Protestants of
Britain, and they would not have it.—(Cheers.) If his
bishop were another Jewell, no one could obey hi e
with more humility, confidence, and faithfulness than he
(Mr. Gladstone) would; but if, on the other hand, he
were an unfaithful bishop, so far from owing him alle-
giance he considered he should betray his Master if he did
not denounce him in the strongest terms, for
lan-
guage could sufficiently describe themeexarte.)nt of nhois_
re-
sponsibility, or rather culpability.—
stone next adverted to the trial and execution
Arch-
bishop Laud for high treason, and of Arch"
Mr. Glad-
did not now take warning from the fate Bishops of London, Oxford, Exeter, a
Beth and Wells
whose anxiety to introduce thefaantesaolfdthtahtax.:fin3if theste
idol-
atries, into the worship of the et, En land lest
they would also be impeached his head, and quickly
When his hearers sew th Romanline Caotthocloionduot
adopt a
different lrch of g
peachedfori
was a poison
which was extending:, throughTractariatinto,
1 and would not
the deprive them of
only destroy their reli • but
their liberties, and sendreligious hop
discordC9' wretchedness into
their famities, he Celt confident
they smhigh treason.—
would each exert
themselves to rouse t ci'aatio of their countrymen
the in —(Cheers.) It
against so dangerous n enemy.
and fatal as
might easily
they remained but true to each other; y
the
birth would
slay the giant, and then the lacndheoero
The Reverend
still be Protestant g
En- jand.—aslieg the rules of an Anti•
Geutls man coneludt d by reading
was proposed to be formed
Tractatian Association
interest in the present movement.
by those who took an t
5 to seek redress with regard to
The main object of it
w 5
E bl ' C ton • fir-
Vces in the 3 isae ,
Tractarian Poe
h p of London, and if he refused or
from the ladlli;dle)ins, then from the Archbishop of
evaded their hey be equally unsuccesalul with
Shou -
Canterbury.
the Arc be taken to have
their heishop, teen steps were to 1.4 N
heir grievances laid before her Majesty.
This proPo,ition was well received, and the rules of
the association were formally proposed and agreed to.
The Cueetteraw indatated that on the following day
the case of Mr. Gladstone was to come before tile
Eselesiestical Ceurt ; but whatever was the result of the
trial in that place, which he might not inaptly call
a hornet's nest—(A laugh)—he should always remem-
ber with pleasure the vivid and truthful pictures his
Rev. Friend had painted, accompanied, as they were,
by a degree of oratorical wit and eloquence which rarely
fell to the lot of unassisted mortals. They would bete-
after be regarded as bright visions of glory. The effect
of his discourses was not to end there, for a spirit had
been kindled that would burn throughout the length
and breadth of Oze laud. The c9baulittee bad received,

and were continuing to receive letters from various parts
of the kingdom; and Slr. Gladstone had bsen solicited
to give lectures at various places. 15T4,02e3 would soon
be enrolled under their fiamirg banner that would strike
terror into the camp of the Tractarians, and they would
see that the heroic spirit " was not dead, but sleepeth."
He heard them ask, what he meant by the heroic spirit?
He would tell them, from a work he had been lately
reading, and which teemed wi h eloquent aspirations:—
"It is the spirit that has produced everything that is
great, everything that is noble, is all ages and in all
o'Juntries; since first the course of time began, since
first the world revolved in e tLer. Li annals are adorned
by a glorious company of apostles—by a goodly fellow.
ship of prophets and by a noble army of martyrs. It
numbers in its lists of glary—it counts in its ranks of
fame, sages, poets, philosophers, patriots, warriors,
legidators. The catalogue comprises centuries
and tens of centuries—its sphere of action—the
extended globe. It is the spirit that has created all
the immortal ones in history. in all its divisions, ancient
and modern, sacred and profane. It is the spirit that
piled the funeral pyre of Tlaormopylm —the spirit that
led Eustace from the walls of besieged Calais—the
spirit that illumined the last momenta of a More, and
that glittered round the prison of a dying Socrates."
Could they have a nobler aim for their energies, a wider
scope for their exertions? Could they look higher than
to serve in the courts of the Most High? Could time
be better spent than in the dissemination of principles
that should flourish in eternity, when time should be no
more? This was what the heroic spirit could do, and
might God give it them so to use for his honour and
glory, and for the salvation of this great cause.—(Cheers.)
The meeting then separated.

___..............
COURT CIRCULAR.
of his Royal Highness the
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Yesterday was the birthday
Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable A.
Gordon, paid a visit of' congratulation, at three o'clock in
the afternoon, to the Royal Duke, at his residence in St.
James's Palace. The Duke of Cambridge afterwards
visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cesses Helena and Louisa, took their accustomed exer-
cise yesterday, is the garden of Duzliiagham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, attended by the Countess of Mount Edg.
cumbe, the Earl of Morton, Captain the Hon. J. P. Den-
man, R.N., and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Prin..
cess's Theatre with their presence last evening.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the Palace on
Thursday evening, and played the following pieces:—
Overture, (3erggeist)
Finale, (Alertly) ... Flotow.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at
Gloucester House, Piccadilly.

A deputation from the Society of Arts, consisting of
Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., Professor Solly, and Lieu-
tenant Tyler, RE., had an interview with Sir John Pa-
kington yesterday at the Colonial-office, for the purpose
of acquainting him that the Society of Arts had recently
appointed a committee for developing the resources of
the Colonies, and requesting his assistance and co-ope-
ration to enable them, in the first instance, to place
themselves in communication with kindred institutions,
and with influential individuals in the colonies,
A deputation on the subject of the Irish Railway Grand
Jury Presentments Bill had an interview with the Right
Hon. J. Henley and Lord Colchester yesterday, at the
Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Lord Mon-
teagle, Mr. Tennent,
M.P., Mr. Devereux, M.P., and
Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P.

A deputation on the subject of the Passengers' Act,
consisting of Sir James Duke, Mr. J. M. Gall, Mr. John
Chapman, Mr. W. Philipps, and Mr. Norman Macleod,
had an interview with Sir Juhn Pakington yesterday, at
the Colonial-office.

The Marquis of Salisbury had en interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. R. C. Hildyard, M P., had an interview with the
Right Hon. J. W. Henley 3 esterday, at the Board of
Trade, to present a memorial from the shipbuilders and
shipowners belonging to the port of Whitehaven.
A deputation on the subject of the Hertford coal duty,
consisting of Lord Mahon and the Hon. W. T. Cowper,
had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday, at
the Office of Works and Public Buildings n Whitehall-
place.
A deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. R. A.
Christopher, rkl.P., Mr. Hltidley, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.P.,
Dr. Ryan, Messrs. Irvine, G. Barber, J. S. Christopher,
Atkins, Vardy, Spooner, ALP., N. Spooner, M‘Dermott,
and Newall (Parliamentary agent), had an interview
with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Col-
chester yesterday, at the Board of Trade.

The Oxford University Commission had a meeting
yesterday, at the cfficial residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street; present, the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq , the Rev.
G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley
(secretary).
A deputation, including Messrs. R. Baxter, C. Few,
and Blunt, had an interview with Lord John Manners
yesterday, at the offica of Works and Public Buildings,
in Whitehall plkce.
Dispatches were received et the Culonisl•office yes-
terday from the,Governor of St. lieloaa.

Dispatches were set.t yesterday to the Governors of
th© North American provinces.

COW-ES, ISL i OF WIGHT:
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ELECTION MOVE MEN rs.

COWES. I:IIDAI.—ANOTEER 12.1.bi.OTER FROM Tug
PROTECTIONMT RANKS.-001. F. V. Harcourt has pub-
lished an address to the electors of the Isle of Wight,
stating that by the with of many of the most influential
landed proprietors, he hes been induced to offer himself
as a candidate fur the representation of the county of
the Isle of Wight, at the approaching election. He says
they cannot give their support to the present Member,
as they are not prepared " to sanction the vote by ballot
or the abolition of all ecdowment9, and of church rates.
. . If you should return me as your Member, I shall
vote against any re-imposition ot the duty on corn,
whether for the purposes ot protection or revenue; but I
should trust that the Governm-nt of Lord Derby, to
which on other points I should be disposed to give my
support, will take the earliest opportunity of ascertain-
ing whether some relief may not be given to the agri-
cultural interests, the present depression of which I
sincerely lament."
BOROUGH OF NEWPORT.—Mr. Biggs addressed the
electors at the Town-hall, Cowes, last evening, very
successfully. We hear nothing of the old Members.
We suppose they are getting their house in oriler. •
Died at Mill Hill House, yesterday morning, after a
long illness Eliza, the wife of Maj3r Ellis, and eldest
daug ,ter of late General Richardson. She was in.
her 41st year. She arrived in the island only on Sa-
turday last.
Married, at St. Mary's Church, the Rev. Samuel
Knell to Miss Mary Rose.
The Franklin steamer, which arrived here this morn-
ing from New York, brings letters and papeis to the
ed
18th instant, after dispatching which and her pas.
sengers, she proceeded for Havre.
Captaines W n
expreesed much surprise on being
days
yost tboe
in'orm that the
I:fermat:4 which left New York fur Correa .
fure the Franklin, had not arrived.

TEE ARC LIC SE ---------7
plorations along the coast of i\lng.,d, Edit r his late ex'
Tho return of lir. Rae to E I 21"Cil.
search of Sir John Franklin'
interesting feature in the m 31'h Ameriee, is another
and even improved healih
with his whole party
eyes of the civil word • 6 "r"iti°l3 present's w the
:n7dill7, panorama which the
his arrival in excellent
unusual risk, of life
that Arctic service is —;tans another to the manyrpreoven
----the same being the case alsoofs
fur from involving losgo°
_,,,_r
another returns '
Mackenzie- and sear
without any diminution of numbers, or
injury to individuals.
It will be re ..• the first instance,
return of
Mr. R tuumbered that, in
or of health. One party arm
John Richardson
oaeli
of 1° was the c Jjator of Sir
in effectio4 the the coast between the
0 rivers ; and that,
Copperann . .
niter the accomplishment of this object and the
further explorations decided
carry on by himself the
regretted that these should have
Sir John Richardson, he was left behind to
uLpon. It is only to be
been nccessarilysi:o
Jo
thatoffilliendFtroanklumar.tferormwhitcahk—ingif
athseocuothn-..
Austin, . insurmountable obsta-
ou ja not afford any success.
cellsipornesvleCdaptain
g . relics" mentioned in Mr.
' It ' letter, as having been piek-co up by him on his re-
-1 a° i Victoria Land to the Coppermine cannot fail
turn from
- to be a subject of deep interest, and they leave room for
some little conjecture. It appears to us, however, to
amount almost to a certainty that ono piece of wood is
' from the wreck of the Fury, which was left high and dry
weTstinirrisfetc'dbssanced
.ePf.itjeacit—cie
on the beach on the west side of Regent Inlet by Sir
Edward Parry—but of which the remains were not to
be found on the spot where she had been so left, when
it was visited several years afterwards by Sir John Roses
who surmised, in con.equerce, that she must naae been
carried off by the pressure of the ice, and broken up,
" adding to the drift wood in those seas." With respect
to the piece of the flag-steff and rope, with the red line
twisted in it, they may have belonged to Captain Pul-
len's boat expedition, as it is perfectly well known that
there is a set of the current from west to east through
Deere and Simpson's Strait, or the passage between
Victoria Land and the coast of America.
We trust that this interesting subject will be most
minutely investigated in all its bearings before the de.
parture of Sir Edward Belcher's squadron.

The Omnibus of N tples of the 4th gates that the
town of Bagnara, in Lower Calabria, has been visited of late
by such violent shocks of earthquake that the inhabitants
have been obliged to leave their houses, and live in barracks
of wood outside the town.

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liver,indigestion, and sickness of the stomach, which appeared
to be rapidly unkrinining, his constitution, notwithstanding
the treatment of some of the most eminent of the medical
profession. On his return to this country he was advised to try
Holloway's Pills, and this superior medicine has effected such a
perfect cure that it has astonished all that were aware of his
former apparently hopeless case.—Sold by all Druggists and at
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
Sir Thomas Fremantle had an interview with the Chan-
cel.or of the Exchequer on Thursday Mr. Pressly had also
an Interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
A deputation on the subject of the Dorchester and Exeter
Railway had an interview with.'
the Right Hon. J. W.
Henley en Thursday: A
the :railway department of
,the
139arkl v Trade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, 1852.
The Programme for the present Season is respectfully Sub-
mitted to the Nobility, Subscribers, and tile Patrons of the Opera,
with the confidant hope that the arrangements will merit a continu-
ance of the approbation and distinguished patronage which have been
hitherto so pre-eminently conferred upon the managetneut of laer
Majesty's Theatre.

ENGAGEMENTS.
FOR THE OPERA.
Madame SONTAG.
Madame FIORENTINI,
Mademoiselle IDA BERTRAND.
Mademoiselle MARIE CRITVELLT,

AND
Mademoiselle SOFIE CRUVELLI,
Together with the great dramatic Ar tiste,
Mademoiselle JOISNA WAGITER,
From the rasatres Royal Vienna and Berlin, her drat appearance In
this country.
Signer GAR DOl.O,
Signor FARDINI,
Signor MERCITRIALT,
signor CALZOLARI.
the ratification of the Engagement wits
signer NEGRI:SI,
Prlzo Temsre from La Scala. Wltaly inn. and the principal "Theatres of
,

Is daily expected.
signor BELLETTL

earane4 in England since his return from America,
Us first app Signor FERLOTTI,
of tae imuan Opera, Paris, his first appearance in London,
elm
Signor SITSINI,
Hls first appearance at this Theatre.
Ar, Engagement has also been effected with the celebrated BaritOne,
Signor DE BASSINI,
Who will make his first appearance in this country.
Signor FERRANTI, Signor F. LABLACIIS,

AND
Signor LABLICHE
Director of the Music and Conductor,
M. BALFE.
Arrangements of great interest are in progress.
THE REPERTOIRE
Of her 3fajestyl Theatre comprises the undermentioned
OPERAS :
Lucrezia Borgia
Linda di Chamouni.
Otello
La Figlia del Reggimento
Roberto Devereux
II Ginramento
Gnglielmo Tell
Torquato Tasso
Tancredi
Roberto II Diavolo
Pietro L'Eremlta
Fidelio
La Tempests
Florinda
and
ri Prodigy. -
Mozart's chef d'ceuvre
DON GIOVANNI
Will be presented with the combined services of
Madame SONTAG,
Mademoiselle SOFIE CRITELLI,
Mademoiselle JOANNA WAGNER.
The exertions of the management will bo directed to the
bproduction
ov
of many nelties, and amongst the earliest will e
(With the kind permission of
11.R.H. the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha),
A NEW GRAND OPERA,
Composed by his Royal Highness,
Recently produced with great
C succASless at Vienna and Berlin, entitled
LDA,
Sapported by the entire strength of the Company.
LIBEWITE,
AN OPERA, composed by FLOTOW,
(New to this country,)
'NT-map
manniA,
IN WHICH
Madame SONTAG
Ids alrealy Oetelaea an additio
ccenal triumph to her many LrilLant
susses.

Don- Giovanni
Nozze di Figaro
II Matrimonio Segreto
Lucia di Lammermuir
Puritan!
L'Elisir d'Amore
Don Pasquale
Cenerentoka
Ernani
I Due Foscari
Norma
La Sonnambula
La Favorita
11 Barbiere
Semiramide
La Gazzs Ladrs

ENGAGE3fENTS
FOR TILE
BALLET.
Medile. CERITO,
Madlle. GUY STEPH.O.i.,
11411*, ROtiA, 3tnlUe. MATHILDE, Madlle. LAMO'CfREUX,
Nedlle. EMALIF., Maine. ALLEGRINI, Madlle. JENNY g
?ASCALES, Madße. LOUISE FLEURY,
AND
Madlle. CAROLLNE ROSATI,
And a numerous Corps de Ballet.
atArraxs DE BALLET,
M. CORTESI,
AND
GOSSELIN,
Master of the French School of Choregraphy.
BEGISSECE DE LA. DANSE,
M. PETIT,
Master of the English School of Choregraphy.
Stage :.'..lanager, Mr. A. HARRIS.
Principal Artist to the Establiehment. Mr. CHARLES MARSHALL.
The Costume executed by M 134 BRADLEY and Assistants, under
the direction and superlittendence of Made. COPERE,
Principal Machinist, 3[:. D. SLO3LAN.
Head of the Property Department. Mr. BRADWELL.
THE SEASON WILL COMMENCE
ON TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30.
With (for ata first time at this Theatre)
DONIZETTCS OPERA

OF
MARIA DE ROUA
IN WHICH
Signor FETILOTTI
Wl'Atm the honour of making hls first appearance In this Cnuntry

AND
♦ NEW SPANISH BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT,
ENTITLED
EL DUENDE,
IN WHICH

Madlle. GUY STEPHAN
Will make her first appearance since her Engagement at Madrid.
Application• for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Opera
IScot-office, Colontuule, Haymarket.

ROYAL MARIONETTE
ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST AN
sTRTHED.ATRE,
Continued Success—Now Pieces.
THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week,
Introductory ADDRESS, by Mr. Albany Brown.
After which, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'S
ROOM, with Songsby Signora Barbiere Mica and Mr. Semi Breve.
With TILE SWISS COTTAGE.
After which BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
To conclude with the Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement of
ARLECLUNO FORTUNATO, with the Frolics of Saltarello and
rlerrot.
In the coarse of each Representation, a selection of Hole will be
performed, Including the Royal Marionette Quadrilles, by M. Boatel°,
And the Royal Marionette Polka, by Mr. T. Browne, composed ex-
pressly for this Theatre.
In active preparation, an entirely new version of the Grand
Tastern Spectacle of ALADDIN ; or, The Wonderful Lamp,
which
will shortly be produced with all the vast resources of this small
establishment.
Doors open at Half-put Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock.
Private Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office of the
Theatre, and of all the principal Librarians.
, _

TSLEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Rrompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed WOMAN'S HEART. The Marquis of Albritzzi
Mr. Yandenhoff ; Angiolo, Mr. Barry Bunyan ; the Lady Giulia
Was A. Yining ; Isolina, Miss Vandetthoir.
fa To be followed by THE SERIOUS FAMILY.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADLLPIII.
Lessee, Mr. B. Webater
E;VENING. Directreae, Madame Celeste.
THIS

Will be performed TUE WRECK ASHORE.
After which, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAM•
B MWELL?
To by followed by TILE LOTTERY TICKET. Wormwood, Mr
Emery ; Susan. Miss E. Chaplin.

M.OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Seat.
THIS EVENING,
Shakespere's Play of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs.
Wigan, Harley, Ryder, Addison, J. Vining, Meadows, Cathcart,
and Wheatleigh ; Miss Murray, and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with THE HONEYMOON.

ttOYAL LYCEUM TiIEATEE.
Under the Management of Madame VestriS.
Last Night before Easter.
TILES EVENING,
Will be performed
Trill (SAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by
rou. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Boxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C.
and Miss M. Oliver.
To conclade with
A u,
sv and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. Manche, Esq.:
•S▪ 11111 PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the
__Characters by Madame Yestris, Miss St. George, Miss
iilldr;..miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosinanght,
ler...y Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Batler, and

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lisa-le and Manager, Mr. W. farretl.
T HEIR
EVENING
will be performed TIIE HEIR AT LA.W..
After which MATRIMONIAL, &c., &c., in which Messrs. Comp'
Shalders, G. Cooke, lleadames Phillips and Bartlett will .PPear'
To be followed by BLACK EYED SUSAN.

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te,,,,,, Mr. W.
it-..1t., a.N b mTn...a.:41) a:ttza.i ua.
Inquiet-LTC' :tttraction of the 11.4PELAND, Llverpooi.
veceive, ~,,, -sg d School, and Behind the Scenes.
- Evening—lvith great applause.
Wail Lc performed MATitimo4alNll.
Waiter Lacy, Attwood: Mrs. StMJ, miI:ROSPECTUSES. Messrs.
After which, THE ll` GGEDmiswisvo,!,-etSacnhaderrsac'ta-lentit by Messrs.
IL,zers, Attwood, Had vh ;
To tie followed by (lONE TO TEXAS. and,. Haskell.
'Romer, Robertson ; and Mrs. W. R. ecype,,,,nessra. Walter Lacy,
To conclude with BEHIND THE 5er,,,,i,...
itoberts3n, Iller, At:Wood, Hudspeth, Mask . Messrs. Rogers,
Xlsi Max:rell. , airs. Selby, and
Coxes, 39. ; Pit, 29. ; .A.mphitheatte ,_.
Prtvate Boxes One Guinea and a lieu' 2_,..
Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIEA Rolla rraE•
Wage the Patronage ol her hiftleStY and his —shwa,
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, fir. w. Batty.
The most successful,and popular Theatre In Lemon.
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Grand Spectacle, entitled m
J Kingdom
Cr. Iha Triumph of the Crusaders. From the pen aJ.
the o
r. ro
sq., which has been some months in preparation, and in p
eviction of which neither cost nor pains have been spared.
To be iollowed by Ratty's Inimitable Scenes Or the Ann&
Tu conclude with a Laughable farce.
Ttrizets w ba bad at the lioa-oifice from Eleven till Font
stage Manager, air. T. Thompson.