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THIS EVENING, JULY 30,

Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Fup-
rorted by Mr. and Itrs. W. Lacy.
After which, Lord Byron 's Tragedy of SARDANAPA.LITS.
Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
T 6 be foiowed by CHESTERFIELD THINSKIN. Characters
by 7.lessrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash.

by J. B. ~ strive, in her diplomatic astuteness and political
America, as
duplicity, to prolong these already protracted
negotiations—neither England, nor France, nor
Austria, nor Prussia can consent, we feel assured,
to a procrastination so ruinous to their commerce,
so-injurious to their influence, so destructive to
their energies, and so derogatory to the reputation
of their respective Governments. Whatever,
consequently, may be the nature of the reply
received, by about the 10th of August, from St.
Petersburgh, it must inevitably lead at once either
to a terrible war, or to a solid pacification.
Hitherto, it will be allowed that Turkey, that
England, that France, that Au stria, and
that PrUssia have all acted throughout these
1 occurrences towards Russia with the most
exemplary moderation. This fact is as ob-
vious as that the policy of the CZAR has
on the other hand displayed, from first to
last, duplicity and arrogance as its predominating
characteristics. It becomes essential, therefore,
that the moderation with which this duplicity and
arrogance have been met by Tiiikey and by the
Four Great Powers of Western Europe should not
be carried one hair's-breadth further beyond the
limits of this final proposal which we have called
not an ultimatum, but an ultimatissimunt. Nor
is it probable that any such disgraceful course will
be pursued at this juncture, at least by the Eng-
lish and the French Government. In either
country we can recognise the most substan-
tial guarantee that the policy to be
developed will be prompt, and daring,
and patriotic, and chivalrous. In England
we perceive this in the force and tendency of
Public Opinion. In France we behold it in the
daring, in the genius, and in the energy of the
reigning Emperor NAPOLEON. Besides which
Frenchmen may discover additional security that
such must prove to be the case, in the manly tong
in which M. DROUTN DE L'HuYs has recently
spoken in his Ministerial capacity—while English-
men may derive yet greater confidence of a similar
kind, from the reflection that Lord PALMERSTON
continues to retain his seat in the councils of the
Coalition Government.

A grenade has fallen in Cannon-row. A bomb-
shell has exploded amongst the magnates of
Leadenhall-street. The representatives of British
People, once so complaisant, so ready to accept
any proposition emanating from or sanctioned by
_the President of the Board of Control, and so
resolute in rejecting any amendment or alteration
opposed to his views, have become restive at the
eleventh hour, and have adopted the most unplea-
sant means of exhibiting their independence, and
determination no longer to be hoodwinked, or led
by the nose, by the Joint-stock Administration. On
Thursday they had the audacity to interfere with
the exclusive privileges of the Company as to the
manufacture and supply of salt, and last night
they rejected the amended proposal of the
Modern Mogul ; that his friends, the Directors,
should have their salaries increased from 3001.
to 1,0001. per annum, supposing that 5001. per
annum for the Directors, and 1,000/. for .the
Chairman and , Deputy-Chairman . was amply
sufficient remuneration for their services. Incon-
siderate Men ! Surely it was not because they
had.been pledged to " unrestricted competition"
before the Coalitionists achieved their object by
upsetting the former Cabinet, and installing them-
selves in their comfortable seats, that they should,
now that the substitution has been so satisfactorily
effected, think it necessary to carry out the farce
by refmiing to perpetuate a monopoly more.grind-
ing and oppressive than any that had ever been
tolerated in any nation, or under any Government
—that they should even conceive that the labo-
rious 'duty of providing for some. dozen of their
own youthful relatives, or of those of influential
proprietors of East India Stock, or possibly of
" men of business," who had no undue scruples
as to the declarations required from parents or
guardians skaild not be band someb*cer,
es be-
tween —that the re' match. of increalvA salai es be-
tween Cannon-row and Leaclenliall-street, should
not be fairly played out through their scurvy in-
terference. It was really too bad—and that
these things should have occurred, too, at the last
moment, When the President was congratulating
himself on the manner in which lie had achieved
all his own objects and defeated those of his op-
ponents, materially enhanced the bitterness of his
disappointment. Nothing but the comfortable
reflection that he has secured the increase of his
own salary to at least that paid to one of her
MAJESTYS Principal Secretaries of State could
console him in this sharp trial—this bitter afflic-
tion. Thai, however, is secured beyond the
possibility of doubt. The Lords cannot med-
dle with a money clause, so the ingrates of
the Commons will have no opportunity of
reconsidering or modifying the clause carried at
the eleventh hour, without notice, and almost
without discussion. There is also balm to his
wounded heart in the thought of what might have
been the result if a similar spirit of insubordina-
tion had been manifested in the earlier stages of
the measure. The utility of the thntble system of
Government might have been more than ques-
tioned—the propriety or necessity of maintaining
a covenanted body, who rendered less efficient
services at more than quadruple remuneration,
might have been doubted. Nay, more, the neces-
sity of a strict and searching investigation into
the working-of the entire system might have been
insisted on, until it had been ascertained- that it
was as defective in practice as it was vicious
in principle, and that its supposed " good
working " was an impudent deception, totally un-
founded in fact, and only credited for the mo-
ment, in consequence of the careful exclusion of
the complaints and testimony of the aggrieved
natives. There may not, therefore, after all, be
so much cause to regret what has taken place, and
if the Upper House will only sanction the bill in
its present form, Sir CHARLES WOOD and the Di-
rectors may console themselves with the idea that
matters might have been very much worse.

But will the Lords do so ? Aye, that's the
rub. They have swallowed, albeit unwillingly,
and with many wry. faces, the Succession Duty
pill. They have devoured that fiscal leek—may
they not possibly give vent to their mor-
tification by limiting the duration of the bill,
as suggested by Lord STANLEY in the Lower
House, and giving the parties chiefly in-
terested the anxiously sought for opportunity
of prefering and substantiating their mani-
fold complaints against the entire system. It
must 'not be forgotten that three new petitions
have been this day received—two from Bombay,

and one from Madras, in which these moderate

demands have been reiterated in the strongest
terms, and praying that no permanent legislation

with respect to India may be entered into with-

out the most stringent investigation having pre-
viously taken place, and urging that a Royal
Commission should be. i)ssued for the purpose of
taking . imp' artica evidence on the spot. These
temperate and respectful, but at the same time
firm,d e remonstrances set forth briefly the nature
tives of
and
their practical e 1
iteheeregurti undereiv,aljensciedseneie
s aresuffering—
ion whicht hena-
xc us from the more important
offices under the 0
ovornraent—the deficiency of
public works—and deft,etive . administration of the
law are, amongst other grievances, clearly detailed,
and forcibly comthente(i• on.
The partial 'charac- •
ter of the inquiry that hag already taken place—
where DODO but the wit:lesses on one aid mon 1
who are or have been ire the service of, or receiv-
ing pay 'from, the Company—were examined, is
strongly alluded to, the petitioners alleging, that
from witnesses so prejudiced _ and so circum-

stanced, the real state► of affairs could not pog

sibly be ascertained wit h accuracy, even suppos-

ing that they were collectively and individually
determined to tell the truth, the whole truth, and

nothing but the truth.
While thus claiming the right of audience, of
obtaining at least a hearitng, before a matter of