The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-29 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE THEATRE.

A new comedietta, entitled the Hooded Bride-
groom, was produced here last evening with the most
complete success. The following is an account of the
plot :—The Duke de Ribera (Mr. G. Cooke), a
Spanish nobleman, who piques himself on his skill in
diplomacy, andi "in never being deceived," has a
daughter, Donna Isabella (Miss M. Oliver), and a
niece, Donna Sylvia di Lerma. These young ladies
are too beautiful to be without admirers. Don
Alphonzo (Mr. Belton), gains favour in the eyes of
Donna Sylvia, while Don Fernand (Mr. J. Howard),
is equally fortunate in acquiring estimation in those
of her cousin, Donna Isabella. The diplomatic
policy of the Duke ordered affairs otherwise, and
arranges that Don Alphonzo shall marry Isabella.
For some reason of state, we may presume, the
cavalier is to marry Isabella in a hooded 'cloak,
which conceals his face and figure; as, however,
he has no mind in the match, he allows Don
Fernand to assume the cloak, and thus to
get married to his mistress, who, however, is
entirely ignorant of the device. The marriage cere-
mony is performed, the festivities celebrated, and the
lady and gentleman conducted, in due course, to the
nuptial sleeping-room. It may be easily conceived
that the scene is embarrassing to both. The intrigue
of the bed-chamber often frustrates the policy of the
cabinet. Alarquita (Miss J. Beaufort), Donna
Sylvia's waitingmaid, true to her vocation, accom-
plishes this result by her contrivances, and the good-
will of the gentlemen. It is stipulated between the
contracting parties, that a window in the chamber is
to be left open, through which the supposed husband
is to go out, and the real husband is to get in. Just
as this transposition is effected, the outgoing
tenant, in his descent, breaks a glass
frame in the garden with a crash which
alarms the Duke, and brings him to his daughter's
chamber to learn the cause, where he finds Don
Fernand, where, according to all propriety, Don
Alphonzo ought to be. The old gentleman upbraids
the young pair, as a good and prudent father ought
to do ; an explanation reveals the deception practised
upon him; but, as " he is nsver deceived," in order to
sustain his diplomatic reputation, he declares he knew
it all from the beginning, and claims credit for the
admirable manner in which he pretended to know
nothing about it. The lovers are too well pleased to
dispute the point with him, and a treaty of peace
concluded to the entire satisfaction of all parties, a
supplemental clause being introduced, by which Don
Alphonzo is united to Donna Sylvia. It is a pleasing
trifle, the principle merit being worked out in the
chamber scene, which elicited great laughter, and was
well acted.

LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS.
The sixth of these concerts took place last evening,
and Ernst, as usual, was the great attraction. The
" Carnival of Venice" was performed for the third
and last time, and the marvels of the playing of
Herr Ernst elicited the rapturous applause of the
audience. He was, of course, encored in the " Car-
nival," and after having played it a second time he
was again called forward to receive the applause of
his auditors. His performances of the " Notturno,"
and of the " Rondo Papageno," were exquisitely
beautiful, and elicited enthusiastic plaudits. Richard•
son appeared here for the first time this season, and
received a hearty welcome. Ile played a beautiful
solo on Siccama'a diatonic Huta in the most charming.
manner possible. We can say with Sterne—" they
were the sweetest tones vi e ever heard." He was
rapturously encored as a matter of course. The per-
formances consisted of a selection from Balfe's
Bohemian Girl, and of various other popular corn•
positions, which were admirably rendered by Mrs.
A. Newton, the Misses Cole, Eyles, Isaacs, and Alicia
Nunn, Herr Formes, Mr. George Tedder, ant Mr.
Land.

MISS CLARA SETTON'S FORTHOOMING MUSICAL
ENTERTAINMENT ON THE POETRY AND MINSTRELSY
or HUNGARY.—The literature, manners, customs,
and poetry of the heroic Magyars, are, perhaps, the
most interesting in Europe, but they have hitherto
been comparatively unknown in this country ; not-
withstanding the labours of Dr. Bowring and of Miss
Pardoe, they have never been popularized in Eng-
land, and yet the interest of the Magyar minstrel
poetry is unsurpassed. We are delighted, therefore,
to find that Miss Clara Seyton, the celebrated lee-
turess, whose entertainments on English comedy,
English opera, and on the Bards and Minstrels, have
been so popular, has devoted her attention to this sub-
ject, and that she intends presenting, at the 'Western
Literary Institution, Leicester-square, on the evening
of Tuesday, Dec. 1 1 th, a literary and musical enter-
tainment upon the descriptive poets and minstrels
of Hungary. The entertainment will be under the
immediate patronage of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart,
M.P., and from that circumstance, we should opine,
that many of the distinguished Magyar refugees at
present in this country will honour it with their pre-
sence. The characteristic popular airs have been
arranged by Mr. T. Harries Wilson, who is already
so favourably known to the musical world by his
arrangement of the rira which illustr2ted Miss Clara
Seyton's former entertainment of the Bards and Min-
strels. We are delighted to find that the subject of
Magyar minstrelsy has fallen into such excellent
hands, and, from the great talent which Miss Seyton
has displayed, in treating subjects of a similar nature,
we anticipate a high treat on Tuesday evening.
THE WINSTON MANUSCRIPTS.—The unique and
matchless collection of the late James Winston, Esq.,
who was at one time proprietor of the Haymarket
Theatre, and for -many years manager of Drury-lane
Theatre, is we perceive about to be sold by auction.
Among the many very curious papers will be found the
following, viz.:-102:Autogragh letter, and other collec-
tions relative to Mre. Mary Ann Canning, who assumed
the name of Reddish, 1774, and was the mother of the
late distinguished Minister, George Canning. 221. Col-
leetanea relative to Thomas and Charles Dibdin. jan.
229. Drama—Histotia Dramatics et Hiatoria: Manu-
scripts and printed collection, A to Z, relative to the first
performance or revivals of plays and dramatic represen-
tations, with critiques on their merits, and the perform-
ance of the players; this lot is exceedingly curious.
262. Player's We(kly Salary Book, 1804 5. Bannister,
Oscar Byrne, Mrs. Bland, Miss de Camp, Elliston,
Johnstone, Mich Kelly, C. Matthews, Miss Mellon
(Duchess of St. Alban's), Dickey Suett, &c. 267.
Salaries for the season, 1807-8, with signatures of Bra-
ham, J. Johnstone, C. Laurent, 81., Mrs. Jordan, Miss
Tidawell, E. Kean signed for her salary occasionally.
291. Drury Lane Theatrical Fund—proceedings from
Jan. 1790 to Feb. 1807. 305-312. The Elliston
Papers. 352. The Garrick Papers. 384. Manuscripts
and newspaper cuttings, playbills, &c. relative to Nell
Gwynne. 451. The Kean Papers. 533. The Macklin
Papers. 583. Munden's " remembrance " umbrella.
672. Rejected Addresses. The original manuscript ad-
dresses forwarded to the committee of Drury lane
Theatre in September, 1812, in accordance with the
advertisement of August 8, 2 vols. 705-746. The
Shakespere Papers. 767. Stanfield'a working model of
his panorama, painted for the spectacle of Zoroaster.
789. Autograph letters of Francois Joseph Tahna. We
have selected the above few items at random from the

catalogue, but it is impossible to convey to idea in a
limited space of a hundredth part of the curiosities to be
found amomg the 1,076 lots of which the sale is com-

posed.
Do not all that you can do • spend not all that you
have; believe not all that you hear; and tell not all you
know.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

LONGENITY.—A venerable old lady, the oldest
inhabitant" of this parish, has just been relieved by
death from the cares of this world. Iler name was
Sarah Newling, and she expired on Sunday last at the
ripe age of 100 years, minus a month only. For a large
number of p ars the only sustenance of the deceased
was bread, which she was i❑ the habit of carrying with
her continually, and as continually munching, after cut-
ting it into small pieces with a shut-knife which was her
constant companion, being, like bread, scarcely evtr
absent from her hand. The deceased bad five sons and
daughters, but of these thue only are now living,
although their descendants are almost innumerable.
The deceased, at the time of her death, had forty
grandchildren living, and great and great-great grand-
children in such numbers, that no member of the family
has been bold enough to attempt tha task of reckoning
them up. it may be stated, without the alighte exagge-
ration, that she has left 150 great and great-great grand-
children. Most of the latter branches are resident i❑
Cambridge, and the wife of one of the grandchildren,
residing in Botolph-lane, in that town, was but a short
period back confined with twins.--Bury 'Herald.

LITERATURE.
'NATIONAL EVILS and PRACTICAL RE.

UNDIES, with the Plan of a Model Town. Ac-
companied by an Examination of some important
Moral and Political Problems. By James S.
Buchineam.

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That portion of his work to which it is evident Mr.
Buckingham attaches the greatest importance is the
one to which we believe the public will be inclined to
attach the least—we mean his plan for a model town.
The model town of Mr. Buckingham is the Phalan-
' stere of Fourrier, with the addition of the prohibition
of the use of all stimulating drinks, of tobacco, of
gunpowder, and of all weapons of offence or defence,
within the sacred limits of the model town, on pain
of expulsion of the persons offending from he town,
and from all participation in the profits made by the
association, such expulsion including, we take it for
granted, forfeiture of all payments made to the gene-
ral fund by the offending individual. The whole
scheme is one too much calculated to deprive those
engaging in it of liberty of action, to make them
wheels in one vast machine, mere slaves of the
governing power of the community, ever to be very
popular with an Englishman, who prefers the en-
joy went of his individual liberty of action, even
alt hough it n
occasionally
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t o say,
a bye,
for a c accompanied pdaenf
defence
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poverty, to becoming the mere slave, however
well fed, of any man or of any set of men. Mr.
Buckingham is so wedded to his pet Socialist theory
that he makes it a matter of reproach to the State that
possess
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advance capital for the purpose of trying
the experiment of the organisation of labour. We
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I for the service of I, all against external enemies, for the administration of
justice to all, for the defence of thejustli;vetshearnedfotrhee
iptrois-
perty of all against thieves, is
just that taxes should be levied for the support of the
army and navy, the administration of justice and of
the police ; but it is clearly a robbery to levy taxes
• upon all for the benefit of a few (and this was one
great argument against the corn-laws), and therefore
I Mr. Buckingham reproaches the State because it
refuses to commit a robbery. It is true Mr. Buck-
ingham may quote cases in favour of the course
which he would fain have the State adopt, but the
result of the experiment of State advances for private
objects has beenlin every instance so disastrous, that
such cases ars to be considered rather as beacons to
be avoided than as precedents to be followed. On the
other portions of Mr. Buckingham's book we can be-
stow (always excepting his proposal of an additional
advance of money to Irish landlords) our almost un-
qualified commendation. His plan of Financial
Reform is admirable. As he truly observes---
" The only efficient, remedy fee all the evils resulting
from our existing mode of raising the national revenue,
is to make at once, or with as little delay as practicable,
a change from the system of indirect to one of direct
taxation: and to let that taxation be confined to one
object only, the incomes of the inhabitants of the country.
In the assessment of such incomes, however, it would be
essential to make a clear distinction betweea incomes
derived from trading, professional, or precarious sources
—incomes derived horn annuities fixed and certain for
life—and incomes from heritable or permanent property
descending to heirs;—and to fix the rates of assessment
on each of these in a progressively increasing scale,
lightest on the first, heavier on the second, and heaviest
of all on the third.
" The reason of such distinction is self-evident. If at
any time these several incomes had to be capitalised, or
turned into a given sum by a payment made for the
whole of either of the three, there would be three
broadly distinct valuations for each. The trading, pro-
fessional, or precarious income, being liable to cessation
from illness, incapacity, or falling-off in receipts, might
sell perhaps for seven years' purchase; the annuity for
life, depending in each case on the age of the individual,
might, on an average, sell for 14 years' purchase; while
the income from heritable and perpetual property in
land, houses, or funds, would sell for at least 21 years'
purchase. The proper ratio of taxation for such incomes
would therefore be in the same proportions of 1,2, and 3
per cent., as representing the exact relations of 7, 14,
and 21 years of relative worth."
This plan solves the great problem which has for cen-
turies puzzled Chancellors of the Exchequer; it
secures the maximum of revenue with the minimum
of expense in the collection of it, and while the
revenue may be increased to any extent, the expense
of collection remains stationary, whilst at the same
time that distinction is drawn between temporary and
permanent income, without which any income•tax is
a gross injustice. After explaining at length the
principles upon which he justifies the imposition of
this income-tax, to the exclusion of any other sources
of revenue, Mr. Buckingham adds :
To make this income-tax as light as possible on all
classes, and at the same time as productive as the national
expenditure would require, it should be spread over the
widest surface. Not only all England and all Scotland
should contribute to it, but all Ireland also; for 501. a
year of income in Ireland could better afford to pay a
tax of IL per cent. than the same sum in England, as it
would go much farther in the purchase of necessaries
there than here;—and the same would hold good of all
higher incomes. The Channel I.l3nds of Guernsey,
Jersey. Alderney, and Sark, end the Isle of Man, ahciuld
all be brought within its operation; as there can be no
good reason why the subjects of the same realm, merely
from their living in these isolated spots, should be
entirely exempted, as they are at present, from their
fair share of the burden of taxation; they paying no

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duties on tea, coffee, sugar, wines, spirits, or tobacco, all
so heavily charged with duties to their fellow subjects
elsewhere. For the same reason—the equitable distri-
bution of these burdens among the whole of the subjects
of the crown of England wherever they are scattered—
the income-tax should be paid by all the British-born
residents of India, who pay no taxes to the Indian Go-
vernment, and all our colonial possessions, from the
governors down to the humblest individual who possessed
an income of 501. a year. So long as these distant pos-
sessions are maintained and protected by British
fleets and British armies, British governors,
and British officers of various grades, paid out
of the Treasury of England—so long ought the dwellers
in them, who enjoy this protection, to contribute to the
fund out of which it is paid for; and if this be thought
a hardship, let those among them, who are able and wil-
ling to support themselves, without any :aid from the
mother-country, be permitted to do so, and save us the
cost; while to all who contribute to the payment of the
income- tax in the same ratio with those living at home,
it would be perfectly just to grant the privilege of hav-
ing their representatives in Parliament, in conformity
with the well-known maxim of Magna Charta, which
makes taxation and representation co-equal.
"It may be added, as a collateral advantage, which
this system of personal taxation would present—that if
the Legislature saw fit to extend the electoral franchise,
and wanted to establish a broader :and surer basis of
qualification than now exists, here would be one ready
to their hands; as few would be disposed to deny the
franchise to the man of full age who should pay his
annual tax on 501. of income: and in that case the only
proof of his qualification, as a voter, would be the pro-
duction of his receipt for the same, duly signed and
attested."

With regard to the collection, Mr._Buckingham is
of opinion that—
" It would be sufficient for this purposo to have one
register (Ace in each large town of each county; at
which, one Receiver-General, and half-a-dozen clerks,
would be all the machinery r( quired. The payment
should be made every quarter-day; and the persons re-
quired to make their returns, should either go to the
office themselves, or send their documents and cash
through their bankers, without requiring to be waited on
by the officers of the Government. And if, at the close
of the payments made for each quarter, a List of De-
faulters was published, in the iccal as well as metropo-
litan papers, as the game list certificates now are; and
each defaulter not paying within a defined period, were
made liable to double payment for such default, and to ,
be deprived of his electoral qualification for a year, with I
power, as at present, to distrain on the defaulter's property
if necessary, there would be very few omissions. To
avoid even the expense of these register offices and their
attendants falling on the State, a small fee of a shilling
to be paid for each quarterly receipt—making four shil-
lings in the year, on at least 5,000,000 of payers—would
realise 1,000,000/. sterling, and pay the coat of 200 such
register offices, at 5,0001. a year each, so as to save all
expense whatever in the collection, and make the whole
revenue come into the Treasury without a single shilling
of deduction."
The plan propounded by Mr. Buckingham for the
equitable liquidation of the National Debt is the only
one that is at the same time practicable and just that
we ever remember to have seen proposed. It is as fol-
lows :
" To create a new stock, to be entitled The National
Annuity,' which should begin to pay an interest of 5 per
cent., or 100 shillings is the first year, and gradually ex-
tinguish both principal and interest in 100 years of time,
by the diminution of is. per annum only on the interest,
till it came to nothing.
"To convert all the existing Stocks of Consols, Long
Annuities, Exchequer-bills, and every other kind of Go-
vernment Security, into this new Stock, at the fair mar-
ket rate of value for the day, say with the Three per
Cents., at the par of 1001,, and without loss to the
individual holders, paying off, of course, as usual, the
dissentients, if any.
" Thus, for every 1001. so invested in the National
Annuity,' the holder would receive 51 interest for the first
year, 41. 19s. for the second, 41. 18s. for the third year,
and so on—diminishing by Is. per cent. only in each
succeeding year, till in 100 years the principal and
interest would both expire.
" That this would be an equitable mode, no one can
doubt, as it proceeds upon the recognised principle of
sinking perpetuities at small interest for annuities at a
larger rate. That it would be popular could be hardly
disputed, because it would take twenty years to bring
down the interest to 4 per cent.—and forty years to bring
it down to 3 per ctnt.—by which time probably all the
present holders would be in their graves. Even after
this, it would take another sixty years to bring it down
gradually to extinction, in which time other generations
would have passed away.
" While, therefore, the yearly diminution would be so
small as scarcely to be felt by any one in his income,
there would be one-hundredth part of the National Debt
wiped off every year, and consequently so much less
taxes required to pay the interest. And if the genera-
tions after the present should find the funded property
of their great-grandfutheu extipot, thi4 would be only

the oommon fate of third and fourth generations in almost
all property except land, but with this great ad►antage
to our potty rity, that if there were no longer a Debt of
800,000,0001, in which they had some share, there would
be t.o longer a Revenue of 28,000,0001. required to pay
its interest, from the burden of which they would be ac-
cordingly relieved. It at the same time all the supp!ies
required for the use of the State were raised within the
year, and no further debts contracted, there would be a
degree of economy introiuced into every branch of the
administration, without impairing its efficiency, which
never did and never can take place under the reckless
and extravagant system of public loans, by which the
income of the future is anticipated and spent, leaving
those that come after to bear the chief weight of the
burden."

The adoption of this plan would do more to secure
the peace and the permanent prosperity of the country
than all the eloquence of all the orators who ever
spouted fustian from a platform. Mr. Bucking-
ham's suggestions on the subject of Emigration and
Colonic ition are well worthy of consideration. In
his proposition for a new Reform Bill, Mr. Bucking-
ham thus sums up the evils of the present electoral
system :
"First: Enormous expense to individuals in every
case of a contested election, whether for counties or
boroughs;—immense cost to the country, for the army
of revising barristers, and other machinery necessary for
effecting and revising the registration; and ruinous ex-
pense to those petitioned against after their election has
been gained. Secondly: Bribery, corruption, and intl.
midation, in many instances as great as, and in some in-
stances even greater than, under the old system of things.
And thirdly : The engendering of so much anger, ill-
will, and disgust, as to induce those who take part in
elections at all, to use any and every means, honourable
or dishonourable, to crush their opponents; and to com-
pel many, who cannot conscientiously stoop to this, to
withdraw from political agitation altogether."
As a first step in the path of improvement, Mr.
Buckingham proposes to establish for the voter an
intellectual instead of a property qualification. Ile
says—
" The five requisites that should be demanded as the
qualification of a voter, would, therefore, according to
this proposition, be the
1. The attainment of full legal age.
"2. The possession of a good moral character for
sobriety and integrity.
"3. The capacity to earn an independent subsistence.
" 4. The ability to read and write English.
"5. Permanent residence of one year in the town or
county in which the vote is to be given."
We would go further than Mr. Buckingham, and
would strike out the second requisite as too open to
abuse. Every person who can read and write, and
who earns his own living, and who has never been
convicted of crime, is entitled to his vote as a right,
without reference to character. Once introduce the
character qualification and we should have some
teetotal assessor disfranchising every one in his
district who had even tasted beer, wine, or spirits,
while in another district even Mr. Buckingham him-
self might be disfranchised on the plea of character
by some wine-bibbing old East India director.
Therefore we are opposed to the second requisite, as
tempting to abuse. He proposes that the elector
should register himself with the registrar, and himself
sign his own registration. Ile proposes—
" To let all persons living within five statute miles, by
the nearest line, of any represented town, vote for the
members of such town; and as this would be matter of
actual measurement, there could be little dispute about
the distance.—while all those living at a greater distance
than five such miles from any represented town, might
rote for the members for the county."
Hr. Buckingham would have the elections take place
at fixed triennial periods, and proposes that the votes
should be taken in the following manner :
" The registrar having a card, containing the name of
the several candidates printed on it, in a clear and uni-
form manner, should then provide a sufficient number of
those to furnish one to every elector, which, for security,
should bo forwarded to him through the post-office, en-
closed in a printed circular, directing him to draw his
pen through the names of the candidates for whom he
wished not to give his vote, then to put the card in a
blank envelope, seal it, and inscribe his name, with his
own hand, on the outside of such envelope, so that it
might give assuranca of its coming from him as a regis•
tered elector; and then to put the whole in an ordinary
letter-cover, addressed to the registrar, at his office, and
send it, for security, through the post-office, on the fol-
lowing day; as the shorter the time between the issue of
the cards and their return, the less the chance of im-
proper influence.
"On the day appointed, the letters aro delivered by
the post, at the office of the registrar himself—his two
assistants, and an agent of each candidate being present,
to see justice done to all. The outer seal is first broken,
and the first enclosures, with the voter's autograph sig-
nature on each cover, aro arranged alphabetically, as
they come out, (the card containing his vote being kept
secret in the second enclosure, which is still sealed up).
When all are thus disposed of, the next process will be
the opening of the registration-book, the calling over
from it the names of the voters, according to their alpha-
betical entry; the comparison of the autograph signature
of each person on the letter-cover with the autograph
signature of the same person in the book, to establish
their identity, rejecting for future inquiry any duplicates,
or forgeries, or doubtful nanses—it any of either, in-
' deed, under such a system, should be likely to occur.
" The verification of the signatures being completed,
the next step would be, the opening of the inner sealed
covers, throwing the printed cards into one box, and the
written envelopes into another—which, for the perfect
security of secresy, might be done by youths, under the
check of the parties already acting as registrar and as-
sistants, or blindfolded, if that were deemed necessary,
as in the ease of drawing tickets in a lottery, to prevent
any one from seeing out of which particular envelope
any particular card was taken.
"The whole being opened, the cards would have to be
assorted, according to the names of the candidates
through which the pen of the voter had not been drawn;
and those for whom the grcateet number of cards ap-
peared, would of course possess the majority, and be
considered duly elteted."
This plan is defective, inasmuch as it furnishes no
security against bribery or intimidation ; on the con-
trary, it enables the briber or the intimidator to make
assurance doubly sure by insisting on seeing the
elector draw his pen through the name of the candi-
date for whom he does not vote. Mr. Grote's ballots
box is infinitely preferable to the card scheme. Mr.
Buckingham proposes that returns once made shall
not be set aside—a plan likely, w think, to be pro-
ductive of dangerous consequences ; and lays down
rules on the subject of the offering of candidates, one
of which consists of the abolition of personal canvass-
ing, and the other of the prohibition to every person
to enter the field as a candidate within a later period
than a clear week before the commencement of the
business of the election. We disapprove of this
latter prohibition as a needless interference with the
liberty of both electors and candidates. Mr. Buck-
ingham's plan for the regeneration of Ireland consists
of the introduction of teetotalism, the prohibition of
the export of food, and a loan of 20,000,000/. to the
landlords, the interest to be paid by an income-tax,
imposed for that especial purpose on the whole Irish
nation. Mr. Buckingham does not, however, inform
us how he proposes to enforce the collection of the
income-tax, nor how, in the face of the prohibition of
the export of the only articles which Ireland produces,
the landlords are to obtain money to repay the loan
within twenty-five years, at the rate of 4 per cent.
per annum, which he proposes they shall do. In
return for the loan, Mr. Buckingham says we shall
have a right to compel the owners of Irish estates to
disburse it in the employment of labour; but knowing
from experience that every attempt at legislative in-
terference between employer and employed has only
aggravated the evils it was intended to remedy, know-
ing that all advances of public money to bolster up
failing concerns, whether the advances have been
made to English merchants and manufactures or to
Irish landlords, have uniformly ended in the loss of
the money so advanced, and the involving of many
persons in the crash, when it eventually does come,
who would not have been included in it had it come
when in the natural course of events it ought to have
come, we cannot but look with feelings of suspicion
and fear on Mr. Buckingham's plan for the regenera-
tion of Ireland. Ilis suggestions, however, on all
these subjects are well worthy of an attentive study,
and we cannot but consider his book as a most valuable
contribution to social and politcal science.

The consecration of the Bishop of Norwich (Dr.
Hinds) will take place in the chapel of Lambeth
Palace on Sunday next, the 2d of December, being
Advent Sunday. The Bishops who will assist the
Archbishop ,in the ceremony are the Bishops of
London, Lincoln, Carlisle, and Hereford. The
Bishop of Lincoln attends from his long acquaintance
and personal esteem for Dr. Hind?, who for some
years was an incumbent and rural dean in his Lord.
ship's diocese. It is understood that the Bishops
of Llandaff and Madras will be consecrated at the
same time.
GREAT COUNTY MEETING IN DEToNSHIRE IN
FAVOUR or PROTECTION.—We understand that requi-
sitions to the High Sheriff are being numerously signed
in every part of the county, begging him to call a county
meeting to petition her Alajesty for immediate steps for.
restoring legislative protection to agriculture. It
understood that nothing but an immediate dissolution of
Parliament will satisfy the country.—Herald.
SUDDEN DEATH Or MR. SERGEANT LAWES.—This
gentleman, who has for some time back filled the office
of principal registrar at the Court of Bankruptcy, died
very suddenly on Tuesday last, at his residence, in
Woburn-place, Russell.square, in the 68th year of his
age. Ile was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of
the Inner Temple, in 1810. There are three important
offices connected with the Court of Bankruptcy at pre-
sent vacant.
DEATH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL PHILLIPS, C.B.
—Lieutenant:Colonel Harry Shalispere Phillips, C. 8.,
who so brilliantly distinguished himself in the battles
which took place in India during the campaign in
the Punjaub, died on the 21st at Great Maldon,
after a prolonged illness. The gallant officer entered the
service in 1824.

Mr. J 0. Cuffe, nephew of the Earl of Harbo-
rough, bus reduced the rents of his tenants on his Kil-
kenny estates from 25 to 30 per cent.
Lady Noel Byron (widow of the celebrated poet)
has arrived at Highfield House, Hants, which mansion
her Ladyship has taken for the winter months.