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

E'VENUNTG, AUGUST 10 1852.

Mr. Balto took last night his well.meritcd benefit,
and 'was greeted by a full and brilliant house. The
performance may be considered as the first of the
taro well ones, as it was at play. house prices, and two
evenings' entertainments of a combined charactcr are
to be given upon Thursday and Saturday on the
.same
terms. Mr. Balfe's claims upon the musical public are
so perfectly known and appreciated, that there i 4 Po
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 repeatsd
acknowledgments which he • received at the hands of
the audience, formed the best and most practicalin-
terpretation of public opinion. The entertainments
were long and varied. They 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 Eivira, end gave
the music with musician.like appreciation and e ffect ;
whilst Mdlle. Toccani, who is known to concert
goers, as Zerlina, won encores in " Batti, batti," end
the " Vedrai carino." Mine. Fiorentini yr 3 the
Donna Anna. The part.of the hero was in the hands
of Signor de Eassini, who played and sang it with
manly straightforwardness. 'Calzolari, as Ottavio,
sang the famous " II mio Tesoro" with great finish
and tenderness, rind, as a matter of course, Lablache
was Leporello. The opera went swimmingly. Teen
came a short concert, in character costume, in which
Signor Gardoni, with Mme. De la Grange and Mme.
Charton, appeared, the latter singing the " Ah non
giunge." The entertainments of the ballet depart-
ment included a pas by Mdlle. Guy Stephan, and
two divertissements, embracing the whole strength
of the mute part of the company of her Majesty's
Theatre.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
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. Neat there is a grasping, sinister neigh-
bouring proprietor, who is the murderer, and who,
by the spoil which he carried off on the occasion, lays
the shrinking heiress of
of his claims upon
forcetthh ee foundation
horse,
a m
se,
b by taking
marriage
kaagi
nfeogrwt nitnhe and ultimately comes to
advantage
,
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 al!, 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 the 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 falsely 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 he tries to thresh the corn himself, be hits
his own head—when he goes to quiet the dog, he 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 re-appears 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
was as clever as is her wont, and Miss Chaplin and
Mrs. Leigh Murray, in their small parts, were as
efficient as need be. The applause at the close was
uproarious.

Sr. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Yesterday those charming little American
prodi-
gies, Kate and Ellen Bateman, took their farewell
benefit at the St. James's Theatre prior to their
departure 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 Pe ction—
deliglatfuly enacted in the principal parts bylatter
Miss
Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. Walter Lacy, the
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 naturce as Nicholas
Niekleby had when he first witnessed the equeakings
and contortions of that aborninable little
a The
Crummel3 called on Mrs. Grundy's playbills
Phenomenon." To this day we are not quite sure
that there was anything very wonderful after all in
the Young Roicius as
a juvenile tragedian—
though we are ready to admit that Mr.
per-
William Henry Betty as a grown-up
sonage is a very respectable and intelligent gen;
tleman. But the little Batemans stand entirely apacrk
from the mass of these premature wearers of the°
and the buskin. They are as unequalled in the
Cbatter to.n
his-
trionic art, as children, almost as the boy
was in poetry, or as the infant Mozart was as a mdu";
brat of a
cian. Their abilities appear to .be as unfnreee
under any circumstances could be expected. 'their
.s
spontaneous merriment is one of the most contagion-
ebullitions of fun imaginable.
tures laugh the whole audience laughs with them,
d
and this laughter often becomes a roar of which
able approbation. We don't precisely know - as
When the
to prefer of the two—perhaps little Kate Bateman'
the most childlike, and, therefore, the most natural—
~e 1
but then little Ellen Bateman sometimes bears away tTo
palm triumphantly by her astonishing cleverne!Saw—
see these children in The Old School and the Di t
boye 0.
Kate as Frank Mountain, the scapegrace (a
rashest
the Old School), always in mischief, with the
cu
of
little flaxen pate and the prettiest little featuresjoint
childhood—Ellen, in a dapper little suit, the
with
production one might fancy of Stults and lio'DY
bit, the
an eyeglass about the size of a fourpennY the
shirt-
trousers well strapped down over the boots, little crea
fitting
half, in
to a nicety, in stature seemingly
a f°°ta-anin manners
collar unexceptionably starched and the crda..vaat.
voice shrill, in bearing self-posseaseu, -. the Hon.
drawling,
specimen of
George Augustus Walme-ley, a perfect
Batem
the rising generation ! To hear little Ellen
(aged womesley (9
--we beg her pardon—Mr. ' of seven-and-
not to say affected, in character
seven years, but with the carriage .n
his valet John•
negligent way conceivable to
thirty) appealing for corroboration 1
to his exquisite
eon, or J-a-n-s-e.n according „ y_e_a, a-n-d
pronunciation—to hear him isliY °'P—b-u-t
the most
J-a-n•s-e •ri g-o-t h•i-s h-e-t" o-u-t
i.n i-t—w-a-s
t-h-e-r-e vf-a• s n-o- t-h-i-n-g.
t-h-e-r•e, J-a•n•s-e.n ?" To listen
co
ountes and
nance, watch the little creature's imperturba
h
'lhe mere con-
while was something delicious.ol d
school and the
tract of the boys representing
the
new was worthy of admiration. After this dramatic
sketch came The Young Couple, in which the Bate-
-1 thi
man children have rendered themselves
; and thus,
upwards of two hundred representations"benefit was brought
with other amusements, the
The house -
to celebrated by
a most successful conclusion. was
crowded, and the audience—w
hat they ought to
have been—enthusiastic.

mwpitehriatlheHiripgrhe:
Russia and his Royal
HER MAJETY'II TIIEATRE."—
::e:assputteehhrifleeofirAAamnrr
attendance.
ehhn
performances
etulsccHhha
ietesssHssE
was
Excellency
Catherine
Majesty , of f
Minister, the
Highness the Duke George of lllecklenberg Strelitz honoured
High-
ness
stsr:ea
11
sence yesterday (Monday) evening. Her Imperial High-
maid of honour in waiting, and M. Kroutichiet, gentleman
laistneteuyded by NI adlle. Strandmann,
party, the
Baroness Brunnow, and Madlle. de 13runnow had the honour
of accompanying her Imperial Highness and his Royal
Highness the Duke. The first Secretary' of the Russian Em-
bassy (Ar. de Berg) was in attendance upon her Imperial
highness and the Duke George•
aAndm3oinrgs.sLt
otehkeyefrasFhrieoensatublue
c"nPanY also present at the theatre were the following the :Been:
Viscount Clitden, the Viscount Ranelagh, Sir George Armi-
tageitiritappWe ai,rcdolaonndelpFarretyLLld:.llll,a. :1 Bentinek and
and Lady Armitage, Colonel Knox, M.P., Lady Sarah
Lady. 4aue Cole, General the Hon. 11. Cavendish, Mr.'
11,tiethwaite Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Bur-
ton, ,s,c '

Mr.. Daniel Webster, who is named for the Ameri-
can Presidency, being recently visited at midnight by a
cr9Wd of his admirers, and serenaded, threw up his hed-reorn
1Y41149W) and wake them a speech in his shirt!

THE FISHERIES QUESTION WITH THE
UNITED STATES.
New(FF___eni the Correspondent of the Times.)
YORK, Moesa • y Eyre:ins-G.-I'ms sxciternent
on the tulject of the eastern fisheries has been
greatly increased by the speech which Mr. Webster
delivered last Saturday' on ehe occasion of his public
reception by the of Marshfia!d, where he has
for twenty years resided, and to which place he has
resorn-ei at every interval'' of leisure for the practice
of viral amusements and agricultural pursuits. A 5
yen will, doubtless, transfer the entire speech to your
columns, it is not necessary
in my letter ; but you ray to make any q'letaticni
la_ . judge from the language
the Seeretery uses lillooww(irecieted his own opinions are
on the subject, and ho
pledgedrefvlocably the Government
et Washington is
fisharinen awl fisheriea I
should
the protection of our
in my last com-
munication have surveyedtlifeotiwldhole question, had
I not supposed that
strange policy eiven in Engl and to tpublicity
Government had already been
Lord Derby's
subject,
policy of
and it could hardly he doubted on
The Times would take in a nl,:t., here hot course
mater of, such great im-
portance. No rightminded or
cause intelligent !nail can
suppose that any sufficient
ought to exist, for hostilities between has existed, or
And yet there seems to be a
fixed
d the two nationa.
the part of :he Govereme.nt, thee Co
determination on
ngress, a:111 the
press of the country to repel ar - aggression uleari our
citizens, who have been suddenly interrupted
pursuits which they have followed peacefully
in those
with impunity for a year
period of 30 peacefully and
of the Inspector- General of Masas. The report
what interest that State has in the fisheries. Mae_
husetts shows
sachu 4
setts alone has 858 vessels of 5 ,040 tons in the
aggregate, navigated by 9,174 men and boys. The
is value of those vessels and their outfits 3,532,000
dolls., while the annual value of the fish they take
amounts to a sum nearly a, great. The
inspector estimates the value for the
rest
New England at nearly the same as that of of
Mass-
achusetts, and remarks that with all the pains he ilas
taken ho has only approximated to the true figure,
since many vessels are employed in the cod
and mac-
kerel fisheries, of which no proper register or reports
are preserved. It appears that the mackerel-men
Massachusetts caught, in 1851, 188339 barrels in
American waters, and 141,000 barrels is those waters
now claimed as the exclusive British right by Earl
Derby. The Boston Times, which is considered, par-
ticularly in this matter, as expressing the popular feel-
ing of New England men, says
" One half of the mackerelmen are now in the waters,
where Earl Derby proposes to oust them by an armed
force. The successful voyage of each vessel depends on
her ability to fish out the season by following the fish
till they are full. Probably 2,000 vessels and 30,000
men and boys are now exposed to the cannon of a Bri-
tish fleet and the cruelties and horrors of British prisons,
for doing just what they have for 30 years been accus-
tomed to do without molestation. The, anxiety and dis-
tress among the families of all our seaboard people can
easily be conceived—their traditionary recollections of
British prisons and courts not being very happy,"
The remarks of Mr. Webster are a singularly
striking confirmation of the statements and opinions
of the Boston Times, while it is most earnestly to be
hoped, as Mr. Webster says, that the subjsct of the
late dispatches front the Colonial-office had not at-
tracted a sufficient degree of attention from the prin-
cipal Minister of the Crown; yet he sees matter in
them quite inconsistent with the arrangement made
in 1845 by the Earl of Aberdeen and Edward
Everett. Mr. Webster lays the greater stress upon tbe
fact that the Earl of Derby was at that time Colonial
Secretary under the Government of Sir H. Peel, and
consequently the definitive arrangement with Mr.
Everett could not well have taken place without
Earl Derby's knowledge, and, in feet, without his
concurrence or sanction. Our Secretary, therefore,
could not but think that this arrangement had been
overlooked as an inadvertence. It is generally sup..
posed in this country that the elections in England
will have terminated fatally for the Protectionists,
and that, consequently, Lord Derby will be obliged
to give up the Government; in which case his suc-
cessor
may, with great propriety, give a different in-
terpretation to the question of the fisheries, and take
occasion, in doing it, to throw the onus of this 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-
man or journalist, would attempt to arrest the torrent
of popular indignation that would burst out from
every bill-side on the continent, if the news should
come that the smacks of our New England fishermen
had been sunk in the Bay of Fundy by British can•
non. The course of Lord Derby in this respect may
have 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 Raine had been an
Englishman, or a Scotchman, or a Welchman, 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
lairface 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
consequentl-
y the leaders and ' uemagogues of these
parties resort to every .
Irish •
s.) nVeth hi
trick and deception to win the
Y-hence a numerous and tumultuous
anti-extraditionin Ttirninlny_balmi tweeting was held a few evenings ago
the head-quarters of the democrats
of Nest York Tammany-hall,
siderable number of Speeches were wade by a con-
well-known public characters.
but the two principal
those of Mr. Brady, a speeches of the evening were
lawyer of New York,, a
orpular stump speaker, and
Irish extraction, and a dis-
tingniabed member of the
Heditor of orace Greeley, the
Mr. Greeley gives us, in the New York Tribune.
the report of his speech, the
((allowing clause, which we
He (Keine) is not an cut from his own journal :
Sense
criminal, bat a man
impelled to violence Ly a
vidual hardship merely, bus of nse of wrong—not of indivi-
political injustice. His is
one act in a long draws of* violence, having origin
. its in
the conquest
of Ireland and the confiscation of its suit to
guilty of the act chlireroirs. Admitting that Keine is
but partr.kes of the his is not purely a moral of-
fence,nature of a political wee."
The New York Herald,
tendency ofexposes the revolutionary
such -
doctrines
in the following lan-
guage :

According to this precious doctrine every man who
feels himself ' haven: d to violence by a sense of wrong' isjustified in committing murder, and ought not to be
brought even to trial! Wo scarcely ever knew an in-
stance of murder that the perpetrator was not driven to
it by some sense of wrong.' Following up this princi-
ple, wad applying it to the United States, lot 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 ova
suffered at the hands of their landlords. Impelled, there-
fore, to violence by c 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—ho is justified in perform-
113g his part in the play by the murder of bis master,
and when ho flies to New York ho is not to be surren-
dered fur trial. In his case killing is no murder—it is
not a 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 crimo 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 better the instruction' the fault does
not lie with him."

When the first judicial decision in the case of
Kline 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 British 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 Kaine, and Mr.
lid ward 3, 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
counsel 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
ttie liberty of the subject, and the reputation
of the Government in the execution of the
laws were at stake, it was imperatively necessary to
proceed with all due deliberation ; be therefore ad-
journed the Court until next Wednesday, and re-
manded the prisoner again to the custody of the
United States' Marshal. We shall see what the
result will be ; but thus far we can congratulate
ourselves. Mr. Greeley rind some other editors had
done what they could to inflame the the
Irish population, and things had gone so far that of
Marshal expressed some alarm lest, in the
passions otf tn
trarnt-sroom,
the prisoner from. his confinement to the coot!
.„_stice
a rescue would 'ea attempted. The rialtr.s! 11:pub,.
was surround' by a large crowd of the: n
113teYer was
tion during the day, but no attempt the court-
made until the prisoner was takenfrncnßut it soon
room, when the mob attacked the police.ncipal rioters, who
ended in the arrest of 15 or therPr±,...,.
aro now in prison awaiting th2oB Lrin'
10 0-kJ...MK A.M.
WEDNESDAY, Ju!,,bri
v athering took place
and supposed, that
Yesterday, the great
iat Niagara Falls. It was\ said,

there would he at least 50,000 or 100,000 persons
pre6ent on the, anniversary of the first victory (as it
califid) of General Scott ; but up to last evening
less than 10,000 had assembled. Few distinguished
mmi of the Whig party were there, and the whole
tiring was likely to prove a failure. The fact can
no ledger be concealed that the Whigs wade a very
uriortunate nomination, and nJ enthusiasm can be
got up anywhere for Gaieral Scott. On the other
hand, the mass meetings for Pierce and King
are characterized by unprecedented enthusiasm and
numbers.

Tue fishery excitement is extending, and the
nece.• Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Kennedy, of
of Baltimore, has started all our navy-yards
and arsenals into activity. A powerful force is pre-
paring for the north-Eastern coast, and in a short
time several of our largest and most efficient steamers
Lc on their way. There is no stilj.?ct on which
the Americans are so sensitive as their fisheries.
confess that, with a knowledge of the exasperated
ista',o of feeling along the Canada frontier and through-
out the British provinces, and a knowledge also of the
n:liev which the President and Lis Cabinet are deter-
mined to carry out,—l. confess that I entertain the
most serious apprehensions of the final result. Oar
Government expects a collision. Of this fact there is
no doubt.

This morning Judge Bosworth was to have given
his decision in the Kaine case, but a telegraphic
di,pateb has just been received of the sudden death of
Judge Sanford, at Toledo, and all the courts will
moat only to pass resolutions of respect to his memory
and adjourn. I rejoice in the delay, for it will secure
the hearing 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 A7liatICAN FISHERIES

QUESTION,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.
SIR,--I believe that no wise or sagacious man will
deny that, if there are in the world two great coun-
tries who, in a moral, physical, social, and com-
mercial point of view, are in a position to do each
other the utmost possible good or the greatest pos-
sible mischief, these countries are the Anglo-Saxon
nations.
On the day before General Wolfe gained the bat
tle on the Plains of Abraham, no British subject, no
Anglo-Saxon, possessed a single rood of land within
the countries bordering on the rivers, lakes, or the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, or north of two small settle-
ments in Nova Scotia, or s
oon
vastrudgt
ehi
ar otr fhoe
the Colonel sovereignty
o3,ess
extend-
ing
the l e
h loi re
tpgo'
ha
et
hnseym
cfinoctlaoiwnn yse'r e tTn hhe
noGs eeu
ac
l o
of the Bourbons of France and Spain. The Anglo-
Americans, although highly prosperous, did not
ex-
ceed 2,000,000 of inhabitants, who were all settled
to the eastward of the Alleghanies, chiefly in small
towns on the shores of the Atlantic. At the 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 ofKainnygdon andpoliicyw thehich
might possibly involve the Uri „
United States of America in the certain calamities of
a war. Civilization in America and Europe would,
for a time, be 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, education, 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 should 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 Empire and the United States of America as
nearly as possible on the *tune 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 fl king along the shoals of New-
foundland and the Gulf of S:. Lswrence, as British
vessels, while all British shipping would partake of
rhe coasting trade and fisheries of the United States.
"hat both nations would derive great benefit from
such freedom of trading and fishing cannot be deeied.
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 arrangement be at once negotiated with the
American Government?
Before the late Lord Ashburton sailed to America,
for the purpose of settling the north-eastern boundary I
dispute, which he so satisfactorily executed, he sub-
mitted to Sir Robert Peel some very liberal observa-
tions on the maritime and commercial intercourse
honour
be-
tween her Majesty's subjects and the citizens of the
United States. Sir Robert Peel did me the
of requesting my opinion on Lord Ashburton 'a 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
inetters were not sufficiently ripe for Sir Robert
Peel carrying out what he considered sound interna-
tional policy. It was necessary for him first to repeal
the corn-laws, the taxes on the essential food of man,
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 and 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 pos-
sess, had they continued under British domination.
The trade, navigation, and fisheries of the United
States ought, in like manner, to hare derived every
commercial and maritime advantage, which could have
been on the most liberal understanding obtained from 1
the mother country, without being subject to the in-
capacities of the Colonial-office, or the maladininistra-
tion of colonial Governors, to the interference of the
British Parliament, or to the absolute exercise of the
sovereign prerogative. But the liberal commercial
policy proposed by Mr. Pitt as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, under the Shelburne Administration, and
of Mr. Adams,defeated
an oandvtehresepparatrtyofinthe
Great Britain, which
adoption ofa counterpart to the
finally led to the
hisenowr:be°3thui British
United States, was
which until lately
British navigation law b
was
in
nn7othrced with regard to all
the United States, and
all the relaxations
British vessels arriving
laws have been met madewith recently in our navigation-
laws United States. But
ing trade and fisheries weree f
can vessels, the coasting
United States. Now, if
the
perfectß reciprocity by the
United colonidal aondAchioearef.
tradeatr o
and enfiesherties of the
to
Unitedß States would be at once thrown open
Majesty's
vessels, and which is so much desired by
•her
ajesty's subjects in Canada and
There would be no necessity for negNotie: Bran'sthwitehe
do:
United States. Why not at once adopt the the
profitable course, instead of hazarding
ne hips of war
irritating and insulting presence :rho laws of the
trobafidtiessniafbE n
among the American tisherm r by
and
entever privileges Atne-
the vessels of
United States provide that
rican vessels enjoy in American ports and seas.
those countries will enjoy
Scotland, nor the latter Eng.
England does not ruicno
ting trade and fisheries are
d 0 miifn
itohnes
,tbiiend British subjects, so far from
land,comm Llthtooubgohth
0, w laid be greatly benefited, '
being injured'
rendered
d States werefreely common
and the thl4e
1 coasting
ts of both countries. We
England to enforce the
to the inha admit at
, ias bt
ew
orel tedread the fatal consequences
once the right o
181 S
g the provisions of
the treaty
of
sending a naval armament to enforce the strict ob-
servance of that treaty.
I orn, Sir, very respectfully, yourd' b o e lent servant,
J. MACGREGOR.
1, Prince's-terrace, Hyde-park, Aug. 7, 1852.

TUB CHAIRMANSHIP OF COMMITTEES IN THE
IrovoL Commows.-1t is commonly rumoured that the
Government will have no inconsiderable difficulty iu 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, Mr. Floyer, Mr. 11. K.
Seymer, Captain Boldero, and Mr. T. Mackenzie.

EAST INDIA.—It 15 stated, in a Parliamentary
paper just issued, containing the annual report (pursuant to
Act of Parliament) of the Acts of Government in India,
pa e.i 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 1650.

SPORTING NOTES.

COLXXX.
READING LIEEEING, ac.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Weatlwrgage, by his ‘'euhle performacce at
Goods.; ood and Wolverhampton, has proved satisfactorily
enough now that his quality is not of that stamp which
Captain Roes imagined is was when he transferred it
from the Duke's stable into Armstrong's for the trilling
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 yosf9rd3.y very cleverly, beatinF DDubt r.t s eif-
fere:cc:4 of 20!b for the three years; Lindrieb, who was
strongly fancied, finisbine; a very fair third, with Alonzo,
everweighted and on a course beyond his distance, a
bad fourth and last.
The It'ading meeting rill come off to-morrow and
Thursday, beginning st a quarter-past.. two with the
Abbey S:ukes, which VAULTRESS, I presume, will win;
in her absence Defiance wfinfil be my seleciion.
The Berkshire Stakes, two miles, wid be contested by
five or six, LAMARTINE, with Bst 51b on his hack, Fmk-
icg by far the best; after him Dulcet and Stamford are
as well in r,s any, the former havirg to carry Est 11Ib
and the latter a pound less.
3
The Reading Stakes, a_by V ULTRE,s, t Iphine, I
halt' mile spurt, penalty and
ou„:,ht to be carried oft
believe, being a non-starter. Defiance and Michaelmas
A
Dlaid look well for the secod and third places.
The Innkeepers' Stakes, iu the absence of Musician,
WI. pre 'll • bably tall to the lot of lIILMEXEY or I ILEOREM ;
Eurus finishing well up.
The remaining stakes have not as yet closed.
The latest betting on the Reading eventsis as f9l-
- Sakes—Even on Vauttress. Berkshire
Stakes-6 to 4 agst Lamartine,_t''4 tks Oel artoStaltnofOnrclih:
Sto 1 rgst any other. Reading
field. Innkeepers' Stakes-5 to 2 agst Kdmeney, 4to 1
apt any other.—l am, Bc.-.
Aug. 10. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
Bt?smess was on a very limited scale, with scarcely
any influemn on the quotations, and admitting of only a
short " price current."

Eliolt HANDICAP.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Little Harry
8 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage
8 to 1 not Lord Zetland's Voltigeur
12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Frantic
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus—t to 1001.
sT. LEGF.R.
3 to I 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 eget Duke of Richmond's Harbinger—taken
to 2001.
17 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—take 20 to 1
20 to 1 sgst I.3rd:Derby's Longbow—taken to 1001.
READING RACES.—We are authorised to state that
these races will not commence until a qudarrteetrurpnasttwo
in
the
to-morrow. A special train will start from Paddington
eavteang
quarterinata past
quarter eight
past it
seven.themorning, and
The TrialWO Stakes
ofthree yrs old, 7st 51b; four, gat 71b; five, 9st llb; six
SPT sous. sacs, B
A C E
3 IMo°Nl)AY.for
added;
and aged, 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 311 s;
winners extra, &c. Once round and a distance. (3
)
M
added; for colts,
Mr. F. Eglinton's g Carrier, 3 yrs
is,uurnsseorBs(talsloibw;edan3dlh)filliess Sat 31b. Once
(Marlow) 2
The Produce Stakes of to boys. each, and 20 sove.
Mr. Flintoit's Ibis
rrrS.o.uluib,)no::w.
(Wells) 1
The win (Sharpe) 2
winner was o jected to r 0 carry ing short weight.
The Wolverhampton Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and
100 sQvs.
added,
and
the the Tradesmen's Purse of
winner to pay 20 sovs. to-
wards expenses, and the secondto save his stake.
dared.) (35 Subs., 22 of whom de-
clared.)
T. Parr's Weathergage, 3 yrs, sst 191
Mr. W. Palmer's Doubt, aged, 7stlolb..- b (Cowley) 1
Mr. J. Dawson's na Lindrick, 3yrs, sst
,;il()Charlton) 2
Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 71b.„ (Carrol) 3
The Welter Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft, (Marlow)
4
added. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. 2(:
Subs.)
Mr. J. Saxon's Caurire, 6 yrs, Ilst 21b...(Mr. Shaw) 1
Pi(„38: Le Juif, 4
yis
Mr. Shirley's na The Drag, 5 yrs, lOst 7lb (Davenport) 2
The Ladies' Purse of 50 sovs., for three yrs old, 7st 31b;
four, Bst 71b; five, 9st 1lb; six and aged, gat 31b;
mares and geldings allowed 31b; half-bred horses Glb.
Bests, once round and a dis.
Mr. E. Buekhy's Royal George, 3 yrs(Sharpe) 1 3 1
Mr. Tait's gr gby Don John, 3 yrs (Aihmal) 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 La the Alderman (Crouch) 0 dr
Mr. F. Eglinton's br fby Faugh-u-ballsgh ... 0 dr
Mr. Sherrutt's Miss Ellen, 4 yrs...(Charlton) 0 dr
Several nominations for the north country meetings
become void by the death of Major Yarburgh.