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submit to such an insult, but return the fire, which he did
effectually. I must say m Noble Friend has a
and the subse-
dverted to the
fact of the two expeditions which were sent
quent hostilities which occurred, and which necessitated the
retirement of the troops.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH referred not to troops,
but ships.
The Earl of DERBY—My Noble Friend thinks the expe-
ditions were sent for hostile purposes. Now, I think the
withdrawal of the ships would have given encouragement to
the enemy. So far, however, from the expeditious contem-
a subsequent letter it was ex-
plating hostile objects, in
pressly stated that Commodore Lambert had no instructions
to ate hostilely—that he went to the governor, not for pur-
poses of war, but for peace. Commodore Lambert reported
the proceedings to the Governor-General, and of course the
Governor-General of India was sensible those ußfortunat
transactions must lead to a critical state of thlngs, and
that not a moment must be lost in taking thhnse precau-
tionsorder to
which all will agree ought to be teak
protect Moulmein and Arracan, and further taken
nomake o-
rationspre-
to go on with vigorous opearame sif u. a
tter from the
these preparations went on therelc
Governor of Rangoon, subsequentlyofto le
fth ithdrawal of
the course which
Commodore Lambert, complaining
had been parsued, and expressing his readiness to comply
with the requisition which had been made. The Governor-
General, without suspehding military proceedings, after
collecting five native regiments and two other regiments,
with artillery, sent ro serveo Bombay for the steam force
ay to show the state of efficiency
there ; and
.Indian navy is kept, that the force was
in which thisi
dispatched within five da 's after the requisition ; and then,
in order to prevent the 3renewal of hostilities, and at the
same time not to supersede Commodore Lambert, charged
Commodore Lambert to proceed to Rangoon, and on com-
p iance with the original demands, and on the governor ex-
rhlressing regret at the insults which had been given, to re-
store the ship, to raise the blockade, and to enter into
terms of amity with the Burmese. I think my Noble
Friend will admit that the Governor- General of
India could hardly have taken a more conciliatory course
in order to avoid the calamity of war. Commodore Lambert,
on arriving at the- place, found it necessary to have his
vessel (the Fox) towed by a steamer up the river, to enable
him to deliver his message, and, in order to prove the
pacific character o(his mission, he, in going up the river
ordered the guns not to be loaded, and the tompions to
be kept in the guns. When fired upon by the Burmese
from a stockade, he returned the fire, and in less than
three minutes the stockade was silenced. Commodore
Lambert proceeded on and delivered his message. The
answer given.waa one which evaded:all compliance with the
original claims, which introduced new features and new de-
mands into the- negotiations, and which required that the
negotiations should be removed from Rangoon to Mastobar.
On the receipt ot this answer dispatches were sent to the Go-
vernor-General, and the Governor-General in council. with
she unanimous acquiesceune ee it,e council, decided that no
time should. be lost in trifling, hut that without further
delay a blow should be struck, which it was hoped would
serve to render needless further hostilities against the
Burmese empire. With the sanction of the council the Go-
vernor-General determined to proceed with his preparations,
and to dispatch a force to the scene of operations. The Go-
vernor-General did not even then relax his endeavours to
come to terms with the Bing of Ave, for, simultaneously
with the expedition, he seat further communications to the
effect, that. if the King of Ava, would express regret for what
had occurred—if the original conditions were complied with,
and if the sum demanded, with a considerable addition for
the expenses of the recent operations, were given, hostilities
should be suspended, and peace restored. The Governor-
General of lodic was aware of the inconvenience and danger
of protracting .hostilities during the rainy season, and I
think I. may confidently assure my Noble Friend there is
no further intention on the Governor-General's part than
this—to dispatch such an expedition as will serve to strike a
blow on Rangoon and Mastobar without delay, at the same
time so exhibiting the efficiency of the preparations, as
to lead to the restoration of peace on terms honourable to
thhßritish Government, andeto supersede the necessity of a
continuous occupation-or annexation of territory. If these
steps be not successful, before the rainy season sets in, in
inducing the Burmese authorities to agree to make submis-
sion and to sue for peace, it will then be for the Governor-
General of India to consider what it is his duty to do. But,
thy Lords, I have hope that the terms agreed upon will be
acceded to—if they should not, lam sure the Governor-
General of-India will not neglect those steps which he may
be called upon to take for the maintenance of the dignity
of the empireand the honour of the British army. The
Governor-General of India is I believe quite as anxious as
my Noble Friend, and as her Majesty's Government to avoid
war, and to avoid what I should consider a misfortune—the
complete annexation of the Burmese empire to our ter-
ritories.—( Hear, hear.) If the Noble Lord desires copies or
extracts relative to the war with Ava, I can have no hesita-
tion in producing the papers, if the Noble Lord will alter his
motion in a trifling degree. The papers, I feel confident,
will satisfy the House that while no undue responsibility
rests on the Governor-General with reference to this war,
that ha has done all in his power, consistently with the dig-
nity of the country, to avoid resorting to extremities and to
avoid hostilities.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH concurred in the re-
marks of the Noble Earl, that where the dignity of the Crown
or the safety of our empire made it necessary to resort to
war, that war ought to take place. He begged to move for
the papers, conformable to the Noble Earl's suggestion.
The motion was then agreed to.
FOREIGN REFUGEES ANTh BRITISH TRAVELLERS.
Lord BEAUMONT -said -that he should not have thought
it necessary or advisable to call attention to the subject on
which he was going to address their Lordships if the papers
which were laid on the table were not calculated to lead
to the impression that the policy which had been pursued
heretofore with regard to those persons who were obliged
to seek a refuge on our shores was about to be changed.
He trusted that that impression was false, and that there
was no intention to abandon the principles which were so
ably laid down in the dispatch ot his Noble Friend (Earl
Granville), and which were acted upon by him and by his
predecessor in office. He trusted that her Majesty's pre-
sent Government were not going to act the spy ; to play the
eaves-dropper, and to dog by the heels those unfortunate
refugees who were compelled to seek an asylum in this
country. Such conduct on the part of her Majesty's Go-
vernment would make the right of asylum of this country a
mere mcckery, and would render a residence here as painful
to these individuals as it could be in their own. Whatever
might be the opinions of the Government respecting universal
suffrage and the domestic policy of the country, he hoped they
were not going to abandon those which distinguished Eng-
land amongst the other countries of Europe. He maintained
that it was for the interests of foreign Governments that
these refugees should have a right to asylum here, for if this
country and America had refused the right of asylum,
these foreign Governments would not know how to deal
with the multitude of refugees. They might be mischievous
at home, but they were lost in the multitudinous society of
this country. If they remained at home the police and the
army would have to be augmented, and the gaols would be
crowded ; here they were perfectly harmless, and _could do
nothing. Yet the Government of this country was asked to
exercise a surveillance and to keep up a system of espionage
on those individuals. That was not necessary. In this
free country the press gave intelligence of all their
movements, and in the memoranda contained in the papers
before him there was nothing which had not appeared over
anet over again in the newspapers. In the remarks he was
about to make he excepted Prussia and France, because
Prussia withdrew her circular, and France expressed her in-
dignalon at being classed with the other powers. In the
A
dispatch of his
Neble Friend the true principles were laid
down which should guide this country in its conduct to-
wards refuges. The Noble Lord having read the dispatch
of Earl Granville,
propose
went so far as to proceeded to say that if these refugees
tive Governments,
to -take active . to levy war against their respec-
sttietpewould become the duty of this country
with such preparations. Governments complained
toB prevent them from proceeding
Bat these
that the refugees were Why, of course they
were conspiring. Conspiracies -
Europe, and they had r
1830 there had been conspiracies actes existed in several parts of
reifications here. Ever since
that period there was a ,Plracies in Europe. Ever
. since
party in France for conspiracythe purpose am"'
of the Bourbons. :Noun of eff, cling a restora-
tiongat the lignimatist
doubt in Italy, and wherever
there were Italiane, there was conspiracydou bt to overthrow
slnthere win as
the Austrain power in Italy a
and wherever there were Hungarlion
would
be inl thispcoortnino
racy to overthrow the Austrian power Hungary. But of
Hungary,
and
this he was cony need, that the least dangerous
N'thich tnwryaos.f
those conspiracies was that which existecl
the Govern-
ment tar more formidable conspiracy
carried on concealed, and which might surprise
ment unaware,. In 1831 such a conspiracy emxisted in the
Papal states, and it was successful for a ti
hoped that the dispatch of his Noble Friend would hUa e had
the last on this subject. On the 4th of February, however,
a dispatch was sent from the Austrian Government, wawa%
must have created surprise and regret even on thlee'eee-
theie who were most frrendly to that Government.—
heir. ) In that dispatch the Austrian Government declarared
they were not satisfied with the statements of his Noble
Friend, and that they, would avenge themselves for not;obtain-
lag satisfaction by taking severe measures against those un-
fortunate Englishmen who happened to be travelling in the
Austrian dominions. Now he did not mean in the least to
dispute the right of Austria to make such general regula-
tions with regard to passports as she thought the internal
security and tranquillity of her dominions required. But
it seemed to him that she designed to single out par-
ticular cases as objects for extreme persecution. On
the sth of March, however, there was another dispatch
from the Austrian Government, signed by Prince Schwarz-
enberg, in which he stated that the Imperial Cabinet had
received with genuine satisfaction the intelligence of the
formation of a new Government in this country. Prince
Schwarzenberg then proceeded to analyse the speech which
the Noble Earl opposite delivered on the 27th February, and
from it he drew the inference that there was to be a change
in the foreign 'policy of the new Government. The Noble
Earl certainly laboured under the disadvantage of not being
always understood--(Langhter)—and even when he under-
.stood an explanation of a former speech, the explanation
seemed to make things still less intelligible than before.—
(Hear' hear, and laughter.) That might be the case with
regard to the speech of the Noble Lord to which Prince
Schwarzenberg referred, but to him (Lord Beaumont) the
Noble Earl seemed to say nothing but that the law would be
hie•gnide, and that lie would not even strain the law.—
(4, Hear," from the Earl of Derby.) ' The Austrian Govern-
ment, then, either drew an erroneous inference from the
speech of the Noble Earl, or sotnething pained between the
two Governments which did not appear in these papers. The
Noble Earl opposite (Earl of Malmesbury) replied to this
communication of the Austrian Government en the 15th of
March.
The Noble Earl stated that her Majesty's Govern-
ment had received with " the liveliest pleasure" this dis-
patch of Prince Schwarzenberg; and he went on to say
that eit afforded the greater satisfaction to her Majesty's
Government, because, without reference to the past— ("Hear,
hear," from the Earl of Derby)—it lays the foundation of a
renewed good understanding between the two countries."
Now,
he (Lord Beaumont) thought there ought to be a
" reference to-the a
p st," because the dispatch of the 4th of
tremel
Februaryremain:
that it ought either to be withdrawn, or
a in the Foreignsoffice, and it was so ex-
each y offensive,
an explanation of it given as would be satisfactory to
the Government of this country. The language of Russia
was moderate compare with that of Austria,
of all the Governments, which alone,
to remove what wasunaoremained without taking any steps
undoubtedly insulting and derogatory to
the Government of
treatment of English erutry.
call the attention of their. He now came to
_the
Mr. Wingrove in particularlti
:TbdY Austria, and be begged to
man ahiuto the case of the Rev.
of the Scotch church, "ingrove was a clergy'
it a
clergy-
to Pesth in 1841 with tee epeared hen went
He resided in Runge,. th" af convertig the
Jew&
a Foreign-office passport properly.relsaenae, IBU. He had
the Hungeterians endeavoured to press tam It appeared that
doonn learning his character,— aaa,ft soldier but
they the of January, however; tea vas allowed
to remain.'
without givdinoginibniimonsa,naynedxtpetaatititullotehi.%ruadterrianed
Government,
edict in the mid tla 1 him td quit the Austrian
s 0 mi y
were obliged to obey the
the Danube was frozen over, although he had winter,haehitt when
, ere ill, end that 'their ter e;' eetti-
&at" that h" fainehy were forced to proceed. The I°o'll4
he endangered ieteeY gust feeling tonarde him,atl'°'
sitilv r 94%11 be obrn grand:

done all they could to mitigate his sufferings. Appeal was
made to Vienna, but the answer was instant removal. They
were ordered to go in two er three days, and as the
difficulties were encountered, and ay an nig w
pass-
ports had to pass through six different bureaus,
ofandtravel
in the depth winter, had to
pied in going through thes ceremonies. They were at
length turned out immensea o c u -
hundreds of miles, to the serious injury of the health of
several of the family. A similar hardship had been in-
flicted on Mr. Edwards, who, with his wife, had suffered
very much. He made great allowance for the seveforcerity
necessary in Austria, believing that if the police
were relaxed, the present Government would be in danger.
The fact was, the Government was hated all over the em-
pire, and not much loved in Vienna extraordinary measures
were therefore necessary to maintain it. But the prosecu-
tion of an innocent man like this was nothing more than
petty revenge. In conclusion he would ask the Noble Lord
opposite if he was prepared to give any papers to explain
this transaction. He also called on him to state whether the
Government was prepared to abide the policy that had al-
ways been pursued with regard to refugees or to do that
which was contrary to justice and derogatory to the honour
of the nation. He moved for the correspondence regarding
the expulsion of Mr. Wingrove.
The Earl of MALMESBURY said he should try to profit
by the lecture of the Noble Lord; but it did not quite
follow, when a statement was made and not understood, that
the reason of its not being understood lay with the person
who made it.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord bad asked a
question the other night about the arrest of an English
mechanic in Austria. The facts of the case were these. Sir
Stratford Canning had employed a man to do some work,
and on his wishing to return to England, had supplied
him with a passport, and confided some dispatches to his
care. The man, dressed as an artisan, and not travelling
as couriers usually travel, was arrested by the police, on
suspicion of being identical with a man who had robbed
some one of 1,6001. in banknotes. He was detained and
searched ; but as soon as he was taken to the man who had
lost the money he was liberated. The Noble Lord opposite
(Granville) had remonstrated with the Austrian Government.
They had explained the matter, and sent an order for the
punishment of the policeman. He (Lord Malmesbury) re-
, gretted any misfortune of that kind to an Englishman tra-
velling in a foreign country ; but this could not be attributed
to any feeling of revenge, for it happened two months before
the dispatch in question was written. This was a thing
which might have happened in any, even the freest country.
His own French cook had been arrested by a policeman in
the free town of Glasgow (as was understood), exposed to
the hootings of the people, and kept for two hours at the
police-station ; he was then released, and very civilly told
by the magistrate that the officer had served him right, he
was such a queer-looking man.—(Hear hear, and laugh-
ter. Male owned he thought the case Of Mr. Wingroye was
one of great hardship. He was a harmless, conscientious
man; and the Austrian Government could not be too much
eiameo, it uob rse their want of toleration, at least for not
giving these men sufficient time to collect their goods and
quit the country at their convenience.—(Hear, hear.) Still
he thought the statement which had been read by the Noble
Lord opposite was not the sort of statement which would
have been made by such a good and religious man as Mr.
Wiugrove. In opposition to this he would read the statement
of Mr. Grey, the Consul at Perth. He stated that the
ex-
pulsion took place during. the month of January—
month before that threatening dispatch to which the Noble
Lord had alluded. He added that Mr. Wingrove and Mr.
Smith had been requested to send in a written statement of
their case to the Chancellerie ; but, instead of doing so, they
appeared there in person, after an interval of 10 days. They
desired to be allowed to travel by easy stages; leave for this
was granted, and instructions to that effect were given to
the police. He (Lord Malmesbury) was sorry to find that at
a public meeting held in Scotland, a clergyman had made
the same statement as had been made by the Noble Lord,
and had charged Lord Westmoreland with behaving with
the greatest negligence. Such statements ought not to be
made, when the parties were not prepared to substantiate
them. As to the general observations of his Noble Friend
on the correspondence that had taken place with the Aus-
trian Government, he would say that he blamed no man for
entertaining apprehensions and suspicions about our foreign
policy, when it had been so lately in the hands of a man
so far superior to himself. He might justly expect such
apprehensions to be entertained. When he was named by
her Majesty to fill the plan he now held, he knew well that
it was to no merit of his own that he ewed that honour,
but to the partiality of an old and valued friend (Lord
Derby), and to the confidence which her Majesty placed
in his recommendation. He knew he should be totally
wanting in experience of the mode of carrying ton the poli-
tical matters of this country. He had never held office ; he
had never asked for office; was perfectly inexperienced in
the routine of business in all respects. He had but one re-
collection, which inspired him with some encouragement—
that he had had the education of an English gentleman, the
first principle of which was, and he hoped ever would be,
that the dignity of the Crown and the honour of his coun-
try was to every consideration paramount.—(Hear, hear.)
If he required any other encouragement, he found it in
recollecting that his Noble Friend opposite (Lori Granville),
his junior in years, and almost as inexperienced as himself
in that particular office, had, in the short time he had
held it, inspired the utmost: confidence in all those with
whom he had been in communication, and had left a
name behind him such as he (Lord Malmesbury) should be
proud to leave.—(Hear, hear.) If personal mahce or party
spite were to invent the worst calumny against him that
could be uttered, it would be that on this question of foreign
refugees he did not hold entirely the opinions that had been
expressed in the dispatch of his Noble Friend opposite.—
(Cheers.) lie could conceive the pleasure of a refugee on
reaching the soes of land; bt it was not greater
than that whichhr Eng
every Englishman felt in knowing that
his country afforded an asylum for those persons.—(Hear.)
As long as he had the honour of being in the Government,
and managing foreign affairs, he declared that, from ne
country in Europe, or in any other part of the world, would
he consent to receive a demand to change those laws which
regulated our treatment of refugees. He would not
answer such demands by any rhetorical writing, or
by any epigrammatic dispatch, because he did not think the
purpose of diplomacy was anything but conciliation; but he
would answer thew, though in a conciliatory
spirit, as the
first Barons who sat in that House had answered their So-
vereign—Nolumus Anglia leges mutari.— (Cheers.) He
would add, in the sense and in the principle of the policy
laid down by his Noble Friend near him (Lord Derby), that
the same law which would be inexorably maintained in fa-
vour of the refugees, would as inexorably punish them if
they brought their proceedings into such a shape as to break
that law —(Hear, hear.) But he must contend that there
was nothing in the correspondence before their Lordships to
justify the suspicions which had been expressed of the Go-
vernment by the Noble Baron opposite. The Noble
Lord had more than insinuated that some secret
understanding had been entered into between her
Majesty's Ministers and the Austrian Government, which
had induced Prince Schwartzenberg to write the dis-
patch that had been referred to. This he totally denied.—
( Hear.) It was entirely without foundation. Not only had
no such communication taken place, he believed such a
thing had never entered the imagination of any of her
Majesty's Ministers. Had the Noble Lord looked at the
dates of the dispatches, he would have seen that it was
almost physically impossible for any such communication to
be made, so as to permit Prince Schwartzenberg to write his
dispatch of the sth as a consequence of that communication.
When his Noble Friend (Lord Derby) had made the state-
ment he had done in reference to our foreign relations, not
a peer in that House had risen to allude to the subject. A
great deal bad been said about free trade and domestic affairs
generally, but not a word as to our foreign policy, not even
by the Noble Lord (Beaumont) opposite. Perhaps the Noble
Lord was satisfied with the statement. If so, he was in the
same situation with Prince Schwartzenberg, though he had
not expressed that satisfaction. He (Lord Malmesbury),
on receiving that dispatch from Prince Schwartzenberg,
could not do less than express his gratification at the sen-
timents expressed by the Austrian Minister.—(Hear, hear.)
It had been said that Austria was not our oldest ally,
but that that honour belonged to Portugal. He believed
that this was a mistake. The first treaty with Austria
was as early as 1202 ; that with Portugal was in 1386.
This was no sort of consequence, only it proved that
these dispatches had been pretty well sifted.— (Hear, hear.)
With reference to his own dispatch, he must say that there
was nothing so strong in his expressions as to warrant the
suspicion that he was about to destroy the liberties of his
country, or even those of the refugees. It was nothing more
than acivil answer to a civil dispatch.—( Hear.) He agreed
in every part of the statement of his oble Friend (Lord
Derby), and should do all in his power to give effect to the
principles there enunciated.
Earl GRANVILLE said there appeared to be a general
concurrence amongst public men of all parties as to the
had laid down refused January with regard to
principles be
refugees, While this country to limit the hospi-
tality it extended to those persons, or to take from other
countries the definition of crimes, it recognised the duty
of suppressing all overt attempts against the liberties of
other countries. —( Hear, hear.) It had been asked why he
suffered six weeks to elapse before answering the dispatch
of Prince Schwartzenberg, and why the last communication,
received immediately prior to the resignation of the late
hiin to
last note that
Government, had been returned, and not handed over by
Lord said
ht the matter one which
Noble Lohie successor? In reference to the first point, the
demanded the d he had thought
had taken place had acted in a manner
which he thou fullest consideration. In returning the
had been received he the
new Governmertt least likel
Austrian Government, to entail difficulties on
correspondence which
Noble Lord tr he the Austrian Government and the
opposite,(ill_aear.) As to the
ment. He had regret::
un-
settled relations which'eeling the inconvenience of the d;ot think it unnatural that the
should have expressed had existed while he held office,
other states, and admitatetdha:
relations with Austria o had not been able to put our
feeling jealous of the Noble satisfaction at the change of Govern-
such countries should be in ah?wsadraeseirfaoholteingit
wasasthtohsaet with
o
rable relations. So far from
dispatches.b en made t oHtheedisdeiznnrote
this object, hesincerely,rejoiceaaril because he accomplished
thiofnak:ttheitsh:rgtitheerß
rello BieuTheear itenfotrmhinak-
case was so satisfactory as the Noma—, se
ihengroeo vgeiv'sencase he possessed who was bearing
ear.) Reference had
explanation in this
titi.onOthfanMrh.aWd by the Noble L
[ The Marquis of BREADALBANE Lord opposite;
ber of English workmen were erupslaivdetdittna meat
Pesth. Messrs. Wingrove and Smith o-es
and by sending them away the men had 6 ---rdblina„,tte__,3 at
religious instruction. He hoped this matterbee4
--r'""vur
sidered by the Government. would of
e eons
Lord BEAUMONT said a few words in reply, H.
dis-
claimed having thrown any imputation of negligence'*
Westmoreland, and said he was glad to hear that
on Lent
Lord opposite entertained the same sentiments that the Noble
as had bees
expressed by his Noble Friend near him
on the subject of refugees. (Lord Granville)
The motion was then withdrawn.
PATENT LAW AMENDMENT (No. 2) BILL.
After a conversation, this Bill passed through
pro forma, with the understanding that Committee
should afterwards be introduced. some amendmenta
The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny B'
seve-
rally read a second time. were
The Indemnity Bill passed through Committee, and the
House adjourned at a little before Eight o'clock.

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DAILY WEATIIER TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the follovring
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
arei arranged in order of latitude.
?unionist—Wind E., strong breeze—cloudless.
PGA :remount—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
Eissrincia—Wind E.N.E., strong breeze—cloudless.
SountemProx—Wind N.E., strong breeze—overcast.
FoLsagross—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. ,
TUNBRIDGE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze— cloudless.
GREENWICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
STsooD—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
fivrixDoN—Wind E. gentle breeze—overcast.
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CulzHEßTEß—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Cammtmos—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Ysiesoura—Wind N.E , strong breeze—cloudy.
W ind E , gentle breeze—overcast.
Dartutiorort—Wind W S.W., gentle breeze—foggy.

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ROY A L ITALIAN OPE B. A,-, 1 cannot quite so easily explain the increase on the
COVENT GARDEN. quarter of 127,264/., in the face of such an alteration.
Production of I MART YRI.
The Directors have the honour to announce that, On There would of course be a slowness of collection of
TUESDAY, April 13, an impost demanded for the first time. This might
Will be produced, for the first time in this country,
Donizetti's Opera. entitled show that considerable sums have fallen into the pre-
I MARTYR!, sent which should have been credited to the past quer-
As performed at the Academia Royal, Paris.
ts
With new Scenery, Costumes, and Appointmen .
Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had (for the ter. It will not, however, fully account for the im-
provement, and we must look for some other as yet
librarians and
from Eleven till Five o'clock; and of the principal
unascertained cause for an explanation.
nusiesellers.
The Property-tax as it is termed, the " income-
Night or Season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open
tax" as it really is, affords another difficulty which it
might puzzle an CEnrrus to explain. Notwithstanding
all the general prosperity enjoyed by the community,
the middle classes are still suffering. There is a
120,0001., and on the
deficiency ofsoiefnicnooro e101f9,5n1705r/ on the year, representing a
e.
thon4,
quarter of 21,1231. The causes of this extraordinary
baree change
willbo require close investigation. The mem-
bers of both
branches of the legal profession
unquestionably suffering. They are at present in
the state of transition that is invariably highly in-
jurious. We have little doubt that they will ulti-
mately recover their position, but at present there
is undoubtedly less to be paid on. This will not, how-
ever, account for the large amount of the deficiency.
We must probably look for a solution to the
inequitable character of the impost and the natural
desire of persons to oppose positive injustice by deceit
and cunning. Let a fair and equitable arrangement
be entered into, and we venture to prophecy that a
more satisfactory result will be speedily apparent.
In the Post-office there is an improvement on the
year of 190,0001., but a decrease of 13,0001. on the
quarter. We must, hoWever, recollect that during
the corresponding period of last year the arrange-
ments for the opening of the Crystal Palace entailed
a vast increase of correspondence. Under ordinary
circumstances we would still
find the progressive im-
provement that has been so remarkable since
ROWLAND HILL was allowed to carry out his en-
larged and comprehensive views, the traditions of the
Ptcontrary notwithstanding.
wln the Co the
Lands there has been an increase of
30,000/. on the year (the total amount collected
being 190,0001.), and of 40,0001. on the quarter.
rtonA
few years since the annual produce was only
°c
100,0001., which has been nearly doubled ; we
shall look forward to a net produce of at least half
a million under this head, and which might easily be
obtained with anything like judicious management.
In the Miscellaneous there is an increase of 39,4341.
on the year, and of 19,759/. on the quarter.
On the whole the statement is exceedingly
satisfactory, and our feelings of pleasure are not
diminished by considering that the present surplus
is 3,093,1821. against 2,779,679/., showing an im-
provement of 313,5031., which is made up of saving
to the extent of 192,575/., the charge in the April
quarter of last year being 8,300,4731., and only
8,107,898/. during the past quarter, and the cash ba-
lance at the Exchequer being 120,9881. more than
last year, viz., 11,201,080/, on the sth April this
year, and 11,080,0921, on the same day in 1851. ,

England has so long afforded protection to the
political refugees from the continent, that it would
be matter for very serious regret if these hospitali-
ties were henceforth refused by the British Govern-
ment. Under the
aegis of her free and magnanimous
Constitution she has sheltered the outcasts of other
nations without regard to creed or colour, royalists
and republicans, despots and demagogues, patriots
and peculators. Her generosity in this parti-
cular has become indeed so renowned and re-
markable that the annalists of Europe have
for a considerable time past referred to
this island as to the Ararat of Freedom in the midst
of the Deluge of Revolutions. Perhaps the very
noblest illustration that could by possibility be pro-
duced, to indicate the benign consequences of the'
liberty consolidated by our institutions, would be a
history of the more celebrated personages who have
fled to our shores since the first rising, in 1789, of the
genius of French Democracy. Among those
remarkable fugitives would, of course, be
discovered . the guilty as well as the in-
nocent the expiators of atrocity as welt
as the victims of misfortune. It has happened
before now that the dipeeme•Jed potentate has been
jostled in Megdilly by the regicide, and that the
same public conveyance has borne among the land-
scapes of England the dethroned monarch and the
author of his dethrcnement. From Lows LE DESIRE
to Louis PHILIPPE the narrative is only varied by
diversity of character. From DAMouaIEz to
ESPARTERO the story continues the same
in principle, varied only by the different
aspect of the careers thus interrupted. And among
the whole of these wonderful evidences of the vicis-
situdes of fortune, there is happily but a single blot
on the national escutcheon. Damnatory that blot is
without question, and unfortunately impossible alto •
getherto obliterate, but it is still the solitary excep-
tion in these successive tokens of . magnanim..y
it Were
anything required to show beyond the chance
of denial the reasonableness of our exulta-
tion this head, it Would merely be
necessaryto comment upon the persons who are at
present
enjoying, or who have until very recently
enjoyed, in this country the blessings of an inestima-
ble refuge from calamity. It will
upon
be remembered
that while KOSSUTH reposed himself fer a while in
?lonely been for several months the residence of
•
tie neighbourhood of Winchester, Brighton
METTERNICH. Now-a-day had pre-
sf moreover, while the
dountess of NEUILLT can
--- Pass the serene
evening of her life in widowhood at
Claremont, Dom alma'. can find in the tranquillity
of St. Leonard's that calm which
moat
present,eff ectua
it
effectually
isdi dissipates the
atth e
them icseormietseopf
E banishment.ca Ao At
is
living
in un-
disturbed privacy on the continent, and that the same
Peaceful lot has been accorded to the Conde DE
MONTEMOLIN—but both princes have tastedi the
1
sweets of repose in this " snug little island" of
outs, as it was called by Dthni__v ,
this "precious
stone set in the silver sea;" according to the exquisite
phrase of SHAKSPERE. Besides these there have been,
11-and there still are amongst us,' luxuriating in this
moo, 'who like M. Louis
BLANC and M. Liner e il,,
-41'4, have on the side of
republicanism, and against the minions of royalty,
beneficent tranquillity,
raised the standard of revolution. It were idle, how-
ever, to particularise more of those well-known
instances in which England has of late extended
her sheltering arms alike
over the political criminal
and the political unfortunate. Her• generosity in
this regard has not been very recently recognised,
neither has its appreciation been either
partial or
indifferent. Respected for this reason among the
e•
here
dearest e
Christendom, she is, for a
similar cause, honoured by
h own children, who
behold, in this particular, 't
amon g the
privileges afforded to them by the influence of 'eur
with' peculiar aatisfantion- 'that 'we
revered and' magnaniMous Constitution.
Viewing the matter referred to in this light, it was
observed' last
evening the question submitted to the House ofONT. ' Happily, lieers by 'Lord BeAux moreover, the
Noble Lard was enabled to withdraw his motion at
the close of the discasaien which thereupon ensued,
in conseqdence 'of the TerY
Satisfactory as-
surances given
by the Earl of MALmiss-
BURT .' in reference to the intentions of
her MAJeteri'S CknerDlßellt. The Noble Earl, the
Chief Secretary of the Foreign Department, declared,
in fact; ahipst in so !zany words that the hospitality
of England should
never upon any occasion be denied
to
foreign refugees) unless . they
by their conduct to be unworthy of
themselves
of the continuance
of that protection. prince 'SCIIIPARTZENBURG may
write again, and yet again, to the members of her
Britannic MAJESTY'S
necessity for Some tyrannical interference with
imperial master who
those banished subjects of his
may endeavour to shelter themselves from his wrath
under the shadow of our institutions—but all such
feel assured, prove
impertinent interpositions must, we
Government, representing the.
alike ineffectual ;
abandon not the least glorious among
.n inducing
thepreroagnad-
tives of freemen, living as we do under a
.liberal.
enlightened Government.
pables, or of Conservativesconviction, no
Such is our . .
consist of Whig inca-
our administrators to
matter whether the' Cabinet
unsettled as to the policy
which should actuate them in carrying
out the labours
of administration.

Their
exercise
iygeshterd
Royal, and the youngernelis3B Royal children, took pony and
the Prince of Wales, the Princess
in the garden of Buckingham
walking ay,