The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1849.

THE la EGAL TITLE ASSURANCE promote the objects of a well organized party, whose
COMPANY. efforts are directed towards a general de-
(Provisionally Iregistered, January 17, 1849.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. preciation of railway property, that the
Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share
Pro ,pactnses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo- Bears of the Stock Exchange may realise enormous
any 0111-es of the Company, 13a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap- profits at the expense of those who have invested
ligation to
the savings of their industry—the future provisions
for old age and for their helpless families, in those
great national undertakings. We trust that a better
rule may henceforth be adopted, and that the share-
holders who may be called upon to appoint a com-
mittee of investigation will select persons whose
minds are uninfluenced by prejudice or bias, and who
will return an honest and a conscientious verdict, ac-
cording to the evidence that may be adduced before
them.

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem.

NOTICE.
Now Ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., with Portraits, &c., 11. Is., neatly

bound,
♦ SECOND AND REVISED EDITION

of
THE LIFE and REMAINS of THEODORE
HOOK,
Author of " Sayings and Doings," "Gilbert Gurney," icc.
With Anecdotes of some of his Contemporaries.
By the Rev. R. DALTON BARHAM.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
SECOND EDITION OF ROCKINGHAM;
OR, THE YOUNGER BROTHER.
" Rockingham, from first to last, rivets the reader's attention.
Under the alluring garb of fiction more of wisdom and truth is con-
♦eyed than is often to be met with in works of professedly far more
serious character. The author has studied the female heart with all
the acuteness and accuracy of Miss Edgeworth herself."—Times.
This work abounds in interest. From Internal evidence, it must
have been written by a person constantly mingling in the highest
English society."—Quarterly Review.
Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-stree

The committee of the South-Eastern Company
exhibited a sound discretion, and praiseworthy firm-
ness, in rejecting the attempts that were made to take
the investigation, in certain respects, out of their
hands, and thus, as they justly term it, "to subor-
dinate the duly constituted authority of the committee,
to the unauthorised pretensions of individuals." Had
they yielded in any respect to these strange applica-
tions it would undoubtedly have "impeded the legiti-
mate course of the inquiry," and introduced the "in-
jurious action of personal prejudice." And the favour-
able result of their proceedings, and the consequent
improvement in the value of South-Eastern stock,
may, in a great degree, be ascribed to their judicious
conduct in these particulars.
The result of the inquiries has been completely to
disprove the charges that had been so pertinaciously
preferred against the Chairman of the company and
some of the directors. With respect to the former
gentleman this statement is made:—
" Your committee cannot conclude this report with-
out special allusion to the Chairman of the company,
who, it must be admitted, has been as it were on his
trial. Tbey have already shown the utter groundless-
ness of the charges which have been alleged, or rather
suggested, affecting his integrity in the administration
of the finances of the company. They, moreover, feel
bound to state their conviction that, notwithstanding
errors of judgment, and an undue assumption of indi-
vidual responsibility, his conduct has been honourable
throughout, and marked by a sincere, unflinching, and
—excepting in his character of a very large proprietor—
a disinterested devotion to the interests of the South-
Eastern Company."
This is indeed a full, complete, and satisfactory
acquittal of the gentleman who has filled that impor-
tant situation for nearly four years, and his valuable
services will consequently still be available to the
company. It was true that there might have been
"errors of judgment." Sums had been charged to
capital that in the opinion of the committee ought to
have been placed to the revenue account ; there might
have been "an undue assumption of individual re-
sponsibility," but there was nothing to justify the
outcry that had been raised to impeach his honour or
integrity, or to call for his exclusion from the board.
The same might be asserted with equal truth respect-
ing another gentleman who lately filled equally im-
portant situations, whose " conduct was honourable
throughout, and marked by a sincere, unflinching, and
excepting in his character of a very large proprietor,
a disinterested devotion" to the interests of the
companies over which he presided. Prejudice
and personal hostility, however, prevailed against Mr.
HUDSON, his character was calumniated, his motives
misinterpreted, he was called upon to resign his
offices, and the natural result has followed—the value
of the shares of the companies have been materially
deteriorated, while South-Eastern stock has consi-
derably improved. It requires little argument to
show which result has been most beneficial for the
shareholders.
With respect to the sums that have been carried to
the account of capital in place of revenue, and which,
according to the committee, during the three years
ending on the 31st of January last, amounted to
107,9321. 14s. 11d., they state "that they feel called
upon to deprecate strongly this mode of dealing with
the sums forming this amount in the books and ac-
counts of the company; it is in their opinion at
variance with every safe and sound principle of mer-
cantile economy."
Although entertaining such decided views on the sub-
ject, they very fairly insert the letter of Mr. MAC • ,
GREGOR, justifying the step, and "admit that there
is justice in the reasoning contained therein ;" but "it
is 'their decided opinion that such a course ought
never to be adopted without the previous knowledge
and sanction of the proprietors." Without in any
degree enterirg into the much disputed question
whether expenses of a certain character should be
fairly chargeable to capital or revenue, we may state
that the invariable practice, some years ago, was to
charge to capital all such sums as were expended for
the permanent and lasting benefit of the company,
and which did not realise immediate profits. Thus the
outlay in opening up new sources of traffic, which,
though carried on for the time being at a loss, yet
afforded a reasonable expectation of yielding an ulti-
mate profit—of running cheap trains for the purpose
of getting rid of a formidable rival—of paying interest
on capital not immediately productive, and a variety of
other charges of a similar character. It was consi-
dered its some degree analogous to the case of a
farmer who extensively manures his lands, or adopts
a new course of husbandry, which cannot within the
year repay the immediate outlay, but which will add
materially to his future profits, and prove highly
beneficial to all parties concerned. Such a person
would not suppose that he was carrying on his busi•
ness at a loss, or that he was living upon his capita],
and consequently bound to contract his personal ex-
penditure within the narrowest limits while waiting
for the fair results of this experiment. Neither did
the railway directors believe that they were acting
improperly in carrying such charges to the capital
account, and thereby spreading the payments over

JAMES'S Til E A T it E

Season 1849.
FREXCII PLAYS and OPERA COMIQI7E.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
=lances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with

The Peril

LE DOMINO NOIR.

Lord Effort, M. Chateaufort ; Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horaee, M.
Condere ; Gil Perez, M. Buguet ; Angele, Mdlle. Charton ; Brigitte
Mdlle. Martial ; Ursule, Mdlle. Morel ; Jacinthe, Madame Mancini
Gertrude, Mdlle. Tigny.

- To conclude with
LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS.
Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in-
:teased expenses of the present eatertainment, the prices of admis-
lon are determined as Wows :
Boxes ..,„ 6s. Od.
3s. Od.
Pit
Amphitheatre .. • • „ 2s. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street;
Mr. Andrew?, New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Last Appearance but One of Mdlle. Carlotta Grist.
THIS ETENING,
Will be performed Rossini's celebrated Opera,
SEMIRAMIDE.

Semiramide, 3idlle. Parodi ; Arsace, Mdlle. Alboni; Assnr, Signor
Coletti ; Idreno, Signor Bartolini ; Oroe, Signor Lablache.
The whole to conclude with the much admired Ballet of
ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Plelad.

The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlles. Petit
Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Aussundon, Lamoreux, Md.lle.
Marie Taglloni and M. Paal Taglion!.
_ _ _

--Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticke.s to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
usual, price 10s, 6d. each.
Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past
Seven o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE —GERMAN OPERA.
TO-MORROW EVENING
(For the last time)
DER FREISCIIUTZ.
Agatha, Millie. Romani; Annchen, Mine. Marlow; Max, Herr
Erl; Casper, Herr Stepan; supported by a Baud and Chorus, each
consisting of 60 performers.
Performances to commence at Eight o'clock.
Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Boa-office; and
at Messrs. Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Bele Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
PHIy EVENIN4

Will be performed THE HOUSEKEEPER. Sidney Maynard,
Mr. C. Kean ; Felicia. Mrs. C. Kean.
After which THE WONDER. Don Fella, Mr. C. Kean; Donna
Violante, Mrs. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHL
tinder the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HIS LAST LEGS.
After which a new grand Extravaganza. entitled THE DEVIL'S
VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS.
To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER.
Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford.

LOYAL LYCIATM THEATItE.
Under the Management of Madame Veen%
Bola Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha-
racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil-
bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Yestris.
;To be followed by 13,ED UP.
After which KILL OR CURE.
To conclude with THE WATER PARTY.
Dress LO.Lei, bs.; Upper Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No
sail-price to any part of the house.
The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
public every day, from Ten till Six.

PRINCESS'S TIIEATI:E.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MID
LOTHIAN. Characters by Herr MeV, Messrs. C. Braham, Horn-
castle, and Weiss; Miss Poole, Miss Lanza, and Mdlle. Nau.
After which, Mdlles. W. and A. Neruda and their brother,;,Victor
wilt perform on the Violin. Violoncello, and Pianoforte.
To conclude with BOMB ASTES FURIOSO.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Wiles. Adelaide Blinds, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane
Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in ainoune-
lag that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation of the Equeitrian Enchantress, and
whose first appearance will be duly announced.
Last Week of the grand Easter spectacle.
In active preparation, and will be proauced at Whitsuntide a new
grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJEKAT ; or, the Conquest of the Selkhs.
TIIIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec-
tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFint-
NIA ; or, the Horse of the Ocean.
To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will annear.
To conclude with the favourite Afterpiece of CHERRY BOUNCE.
itoz-oilice open rrom Eleven till r our
stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

future years.
There would be considerable inconvenience
in bringing such matters under the consi-
deration of general meetings of the shareholders : a
panic might be excited that would unduly affect the
prices of shares ; statements of a very prejudicial
character might be made that would prove highly
injurious to the company's interests. The directors
were, therefore, accustomed to decide for themselves
as to the course that would ultimately prove most
beneficial, and if they acted fairly and bona fide,
without any sinister views of personal advantage,
it would be hard to condemn them for following the
ordinary practice, although that practice might
possibly be "more honoured in the breach than.in
the observance." The committee, although adopting
a more stringent view, fully and completely
exonerate Mr. MACGREGOR from any personal impu-
tation; and in this respect we think they have acted
judiciously and discreetly, in accordance with the
real merits of the case, and the best interests of those
by whom they were selected, and we have n•
doubt that their opinions will, upon full considera-
tion, be adopted by the community in. general when
present prejudices have passed away, and an un-
biassed judgment is pronounced upon the railway
management of former years.

It appears by public announcement that there is to
be a meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute, South-
ampton-buildings, this evening, to endeavour to obtain
the repeal of what are usually called the taxes on
knowledge, or those more immediately affecting the
public press, namely, the Excise duty on paper, the
duty on advertisements, and the abolition of the news-
paper stamp duty. This meeting is convened by the
committee of the Compositors' Society, who invite
the attendance of master printers, newspaper pro-
prietors, compositors, pressmen, machinists, &c., and
it is stated that LUNE JAMES HANSARD, Esq. (for-
merly the Parliamentary printer) will preside on the
occasion.

Approving as we heartily do of the objects of the
meeting, we are of opinion that if any immediate
results are desired, or expected to ensue, it would be
wise to narrow the field of application, concentrating
the energies on one of the three grievances, namely
the repeal of the advertisement duty. There are
weighty reasons why it is preferable to select one im-
post for removal than several, and why the chance
of success is thereby greatly enhanced, for not only is
it usually found better to undertake one thing at a

time, but it must be remembered that there are many
sections of the community, each putting in their claim
for special relief from taxation. The growers of barley
and the landowners require the abolition of the malt-
tax ; the growers of hops pray that the hop-duty may
be taken off ; those who love ale and porter urge that
both malt and hops may be duty free ; those interested
in the trade with China ask that the Customs duty upon
tea may be mitigated, which teetotalers and those con-
nected with the temperance movement strenuogaly

cond ; the manufacturers of soap say, take off the soap
tax ; aloe who establish baths and washhouses, and all
connected with sanitary improvements, second the
application. These latter also support the claims of
the glass manufacturers, and the inhabitant house-
holders generally, who say, abolish the tax upon light
by removing the window-tax. Each section of the
community considers itself the most entitled to relief,
and we should certainly be very glad to see them all
relieved, but few things are less likely than any very
sweeping reductions in the budget of 1849. Even if
the Chancellor would spare from his estimates a sum
equal to the united amount of the paper tax, adver-
tisement duty, and newspaper stamps (something like
a million and a quarter), it is still more unlikely that
he would accord all the relief to one section of
applicants ; but if those connected with
the press urge strongly the importance of re-
moving one of their three burthens, selecting as that
one the smallest in amount, but really the largest in
its baneful influences, the advertisement duty, the
boon could scarcely be withheld. The sum total
which it yields (only about 150,0001.) is so inconsi-
derable that the inability to spare the amount could
not be pleaded ; indeed, there would be no difficulty
in showing that the deficiency would be quite
counterbalanced by the increase in Excise paid
on the additional quantity of paper- consumed,
by the increased number of advertisements, and
on the increased consumption of newspaper stamps.
The effect which the advertisement duty has in
checking the practice of advertising is clearly pointed
out in an able article upon the subject which appeared
in Tait's Magazine in the month of June last. It
is there shown that in the United States of America,
with a population of about twenty millions, the num-
ber of advertisements inserted in various media
exceeds ten millions annually ; whilst in the United
Kingdom, with a population of about thirty millions,
the annual number of advertisements is only two mil-
lions ; and the accuracy of the latter estimate is veri-
fied by a return recently made on the motion of Mr.
BROTHERTON, showing the exact number for the pre-
ceding year to be 2,020,100 for England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, yielding in the gross amount
153,0151. only, from which has to be deducted the
cost of collection.
If the removal of the advertisement duty were
merely to increase the advertisements on a scale rela-
tively to the population, here would be an increase
from two millions to thirteen millions, but the writer
of the article shows on tolerably sound data, that
allowing for the difference in pursuits of the popula•
tion on the respective sides of the Atlantic, that this
would constitute grounds for a further thirteen mil-
lions, making twenty-six millions instead of two,
or a thirteenfold increase. Here forms the
basis of revenue more than covering for the
little deficiency by the concession of what is sought,
it being impossible for such an increase in advertising
to take place without more or broader sheets, and
without large numbers of persons interested in addi-
tional issues of newspapers, and of other parties in-
terested in obtaining additional newspapers. And
here, too, is the interest of the classes appealed to in
the notice greatly affected.
But it is the inequality of this tax which forms the
most unanswerable argument for its abolition. It
is probably the only fiscal regulation where the minor
is called upon to pay as much as the major.
An advertisement of two lines is charged the same
duty as one of two hundred or twice two hundred;
and whether the advertisement has reference to the
transactions of a large joint-stock insurance or rail-
way company, involving interests to the extent of five
to six millions, or merely to that of an unemployed
workman seeking occupation, or a poor nursery-
maid wanting a situation, the impost is the same.
The inequality and hence injustice to proprietors of
newspapers, magazines, or other channels of adver-
tising is not less than that to the public, for here too
the minor has to pay the same as the major. He wbo
issues only 1,000 copies of any number of advertise-
ments must pay into the Treasury monthly the same
amount as he who issues 10,000 or 100,000 copies of
an equal number.
If the same inequality of payment were in opera-
tion with regard to paper and stamps, which exists as
to advertisements, the question would have made itself
more strongly felt, and would have earlier calledfer re-
dress, but no such inequality exists in those depart-
ments. No man is' called upon to pay more than his
relative share of consumption of either paper or
stamps. Hence the argument of unequal pressure
cannot be substantiated against either of these items.
Indeed, with all the objections which may exist to
the newspaper stamp (and which we have no disposi-
tion to underrate) it must be acknowledged that it
is not without some mitigating circumstances. We
are all accustomed to consider the penny postage
stamp as a great boon. By it we are enabled to
transmit a letter free of further cost to a distant
place, although in those cases the letter must be
limited to half an ounce in weight. Now the news-
paper stamp accomplishes for the newspaper that
which the postage stamp does for the letter, and this,
without restricting the weight to half an ounce, a
newspaper may weigh any number of ounces, pro-
vided the superficial measurement in square inches
does not exceed that laid down by the statute, and
this in ordinary cases is found ample, and even these
dimensions may be doubled by a further one half-
penny stamp whenever it is required. But this is
not the only superiority which the newspaper stamp
possesses over the postage stamp; there is another marked
superiority—that the latter, after being once sent
to the post-office, becomes utterly valueless,
whereas the former may be re-posted again and
again, franking the same newspaper an indefinite
number of times. Thus the privilege of free trans-
mission of newspapers through the post-offices of
the United Kingdom forms some counterbalance to
the disadvantage
in the advertisementisadvantsgeforwhich dnuo ty.similar set-off can be
shown
The
lo)rm then
t
empe o
e
injuriousy ed for
endeavouring
a
penalty,to obtain or tax,empupon
by making known their wants, which the advertise-
ment ment duty imposes, and the barrier which it forms to
beneficial interchanges of various kinds, render it so
objectionable in a moral as well as fiscal point of view,
that the meeting would do well to select it as the
primary object; for it should be borne in mind that,
if either or both the other items are pressed in con-
junction with the repeal of the advertisement duty,
the ground becomes then untenable that the de.
ficiency would be made up by increase in the other
departments.
We know that the subject has already been brought
under the notice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
therefore the question will not be new to him, and he
will not be unprepared for renewed application

Moreover, not only have parties connected with the

London newspaper press taken up the question, but

large numbers of the proprietors of country news-
papers in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland,
and these, through the Members of the respective coun-
ties and boroughs with which they stand connected,
are prepared to urge forward the measure. Publish-
ers and authors are not less interested in this question

than the classes appealed to in the notice calling the
meeting, for the expense of making known works of
small price is known to absorb the total proceeds un-
less indeed the sale is very large, and thus a great im-
pediment is presented to publishing. Advertising is
as yet in its infancy. An examination into the avo-

cations and wants of the different classes of society
will show how numerous are their requirements, for
though the poet said—
" Man wants but little here below, nor wants that
little long,"
yet if his wants are little they are very miscella-
neous. Some want employment, some want services;
some want to buy, some to sell; some to let, some to

hire; some to borrow, some to lend; some to solidi

benevolence, some to find proper objects for their

bounty ; some, require pupils, some tutors or go.
vernesses ; indeed to exhaust the list would form a
long catalogue. Anything which interposes a barrier

:o the interchange of the services or good offices of

each other is baneful ; still more Fo that which inter.

poses a barrier even to the attempt at interchange.
The advertisement tax does both ; moreover, it is

unequal and unjust in its pressure, and so trifling in
the amount yielded to the revenue, that the concentra-
tion of the meeting to this point, followed up by a
judicious course of action, could scarcely fail of being
successful.

In another column will be found extracts from a
pamphlet now on the eve of publication, relating to
our coloniAl possessions; and, in A particglAr wanner,

to the origin of the present agitation in the Canadas.
Anything that can at all tend to enlighten the public
mind upon a matter of so great importance cannot
but prove welcome to the community. And the
quotations given by ourselves, from this bro-
chure now in the press, will be found to throw
considerable light upon the precise character of the
Bill of Indemnity which, as an enactment peculiarly
obnoxious to the faction of Orangemen, and to magis-
trates out-at-elbow, and to all unprincipled adventu-
rers, led to:the insults offered to his Excellency Lord
ELGIN, and to the burning of the Parliament House
at Montreal. Particular stress, it will be observed, is
laid by the pamphleteer upon the introduction of the
name of Dr. WOLFRED NELSON into the measure as the
principal claimant for compensation ; but even in this
instance it still requires to be more definitively proved
that the Government acted otherwise than with the
most judicious impartiality.

Although several official documents of an explana-
tory character have already been laid before the
Lords and Commons by the Administration, we are
satisfied that a fuller meed of justice may be
awarded to all parties in any way concerned in the
transaction, by deferring the expression of a decided
opinion until the arrival of the next dispatches from the
Governor-General of the Canadaf—dispatches which
(it should not be forgotten) are promised by Lord
ELGIN in his last communication to the Colonial
Secretary.

again 10W0 Prris and Rouen have fallen 11. to 21.,
NortheAll u, France -I, and Rouen and Havre about

FARADAY ON ELECTRICITY.—Professor Faraday is
now delivering a course of lectures at the Royal Insti-
tution, in which he is gradually unfolding his many
wonderful discoveries in regard to that subtle force of
nature—electricity, On Saturday afternoon we had
the gratification of hearing the third of the series, and
we ware delighted to observe that, notwithstanding the
attractions of her Majesty's drawing-room, a nume-
rous and fashionable audience had assembled to pay
their tribute of attention to the illustrious philosopher.

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CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
This was the first day of Trinity Term, but the Lord
Chancellor did not sit in his Court at Westminster in
consequence of slight indisposition.

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ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
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motions, but no case of any interest came before him
during the morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE•CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
This was the first day of Trinity Term and his
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ROBERTS V. ROBERTS.
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the whole morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUcE.)
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Court took motions, but nothing of interest except to
the parties concerned came before it during the
morning.

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Willies and the motions before him, proceeded to hear
the further arguments in the part-heard cause of Reynell
v. Sprye, which occupied the whole morning.

EXCHEQUEK.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Lord
Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron
Rolfe, and Mr. Baron Platt, took their seats upon the
bench shortly after 10 o'clock.

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10

THE METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL
AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM ASSOCIA-
TION.— ( [HIS DAY.)
The first public meeting or this association was held
this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishopsgatta
street. It was most numerously attended, and amongst
those who occupied seats on the platform we observed—
Arthur - Anderson, Esq., M.P.a Ralphi Bernal Osborne
Esq., M.P., John W illiams, Esq., M.P., B. M. Wilcox
Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson, M.P., Lawrence Hey-
worth, Eq., M.P., George Thompson, Esq , M.P., J. A.
Roebuck, Esq , M.P., Thomas Prout, Esq., William
Arthur Wilkinson, Esq., Treasurer, W . Williams, Esq.,
William Clark, Esq., William John Hall, H. Tindal
Atkinson, Esq., Summers Harford, Esq., William
M'Rae, Esq., Frederick Gaskell, Esq , Robert Russell,
Esq., Rupert Kettle, Esq., Sir Fraucis Knowles, Bart.,
H. C. Mssingham, John Matson, Esq., T. K. Pritchard,
Esq., G. W. M. Reynolds, Esq., H. G. Robinson, Esq.,
Samuel Harrison, Esq., J. M'Enteer, Esq., John Cassell,
Esq., G. E. Dennes, Esq., William White, jun., 11. q.,
John Ormerod, E q, D. M'Donell, Esq., J. A. Lyon,
Esq., John Collett, Esq., William Bower, Esq., W . IL
Ashurst, Esq., Richard Taylor, Esq., Ward, Esq., of,
Liverpool, Professor C. G. Kries, of Breslau, Jesse Cullum,
Esq., James Barringer, Esq., J. G. Phillimore, Eq.,
Luke Embleton, Esq., Dr. Kinuaird, Dr. Loegstaff, Joseph
Phelps, Esq., Edwin James, Esq., H. M. Drummond,
Esq., T. Rhoads, Esq., J. G. Rhoads, Esq., W. J.
Harris' Esq., Rev. G. H. Stoddart, George Hyde,
Esq., Joseph Sturge, Esq., Charles Gilpin, Esq..
Thomas James Serie, Esq ,Wm Whitaker, Esq., John
Downes, Esq., of Ware, George Webster, Esq,, A. L.
Saul, Esq., J. C. Howett, Esq., T. Satterley, Esq.,
Richard Dixon, Esq., H. Harper, Esci,; Messrs. Roberts,
Murray, Alford, Aitken, S. P. Clark, of Princes Risbo-
rough, Shillibeer, Colvill, Edwards, Harbord, llowaid,
Manning, Harding, Hough, Coupland, Ward, Purvis,
Allen, Landley, &c., &c.
At one o'clock the:chair was taken by Sir Joshua
Walmsley, the President of the association, who was
greeted with loud and prolonged cheering.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day;
read the placard convening the meeting and then pro-
ceeded to speak as follows:—Gentlemen, in taking the
chair on this occasion, on behalf of the association, I
have to request a fair and impartial hearing for every
man who may choose to address you upon the subject
we have met to consider.—(Hear, hear.) Let me remind
you that it is necessary that, in order that each man
should be heard, we must remain perfectly silent and at-
tentive, and I hope you will not call continually
for silence, as she never came by calling.—(Cheers and
laughter.) I shall first call upon the secretary, the ho-
norary secretary, to whom we are deeply indebted for
the active and zealous service which he has rendered the
association, to read a report
„which the council
have thought it necessary to prepare, that there
may be no doubt or question whatever as to the objects
of this meting.—(Cheers.)
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then read the following re-
port:—
" The council have the gratification to state that the
steps taken to establish a Metropolitan Financial and
Parliamentary Reform Association upon a firm, en-
during, and comprehensive basis, have been attended by
striking, unequivocal, and continuous success.
" The council believe that success to be mainly owing
to the conviction which is hourly forcing itself upon
even reluctant and unwilling minds, that the present
undue pressure upon the industry and capital of the
country has its origin in the evils which spring out of
class legislation.
" The council are strengthened in that belief by the
fact that the association, in existence scarcely three
months, is daily receiving large accessions to its num.
bers, and already comprises the names of many of the
oldest, ablest, and most distinguished advocates of the
extension of civil rights. Funds have been contributed
amply sufficient to meet the demands of the :present.
Numerous district societies, springing out of the central
association, are in active and vigorous operation in cht-
ferent parts of the metropolis, comprising several
thousands of zealous and ardent reformers, all engaged
iu aid of the common object. And London, which in
the early part of the year was behind the provinces iu
the growing agitation for Financial and Parliamentary
Reform, now occupies that leading position to which it
is entitled, not more from its population and its wealth,
than from its public spirit and its pervading intelligence.
" Deeply impressed with the conviction that no effec-
tual nor lasting relief from the present unequally imposed
and heavy burden of taxation can or will take place
until the tax-payers have a more direct influence in the
election of the representatives who have to deal with
the national resources, the council, after much anxious
solicitude and careful deliberation, came to the conclu-
sion that the agitation for Parliamentary Reform should
precede that for financial ameliorations. In adopting this
policy, the council were fully aware that the great
difficulty to be met and overcome lay in the difference
of opinion which prevailed among their fellow-reformers
upon the subject of widening the suffrage. The council,
upon mature consideration, have decided upon advocating
such an extension of the franchise as will give to every
male occupier of a tenement, or any portion of a tene-
ment, the right to be registered an elector; the only
condition coupled with that right being, not the payment
of rates, but the fact of being rated or having claimed to
be rated/for the relief of the poor in respect of the qua-
lifying premises. The effect of such a measure in
strengthening the popular voice in the House of Com-
mons may be inferred from the fact that the present
constituency of the United Kingdom would be increased
by the addition of upwards of two millions of voters.
The council seek to invest this extended right of
voting with the shelter of the ballot; and
in order to keep actively alive that sense
of responsibility, which, in the public business of the
nation as in the private affairs of life, secures the faith-
ful exercise of a power held in trust, they advocate the
return to the old consitutional system of triennial Par-
liaments; while another and not less important change
sought for in our representative system will be that
which will give a more equal apportionment of Members
to constituents. The council believe that suet's an ex-
tension of civil privileges is due not more to the increased
intelligence of the people than it is called for by the
peculiar exigencies of the times; they believe that that
legislation is fraught with wisdom which concedes dur-
ring a perio I of comparative tranquillity rights which
have been too long withheld; and that no policy is more
pregnant with danger than that which yields only to
force what is stubbornly denied to a sense of justice.
Looking to the history of the past, the council be-
lieve that neither of the two great parties in the state
will concede to the popular voice the reforms demanded,
until the appeal acquires consistency and force through
the medium of a powerful and numerous combination of
all classes of reformers. Under this impression the
council enter into a well-considered system of vigorous,
extensive, but strictly legal agitation. They wilt cu.
deavour to enlist in the cause they have embraced all
the available elements of moral power. District and
periodical aggregate public meetings will be held, tracts
will be distributed, aid will be imparted to the varisilse
metropolitan registration societies now in existence for
watching over the interests of liberal voters, and impor-
tant facilities will be offered for the acquisition of 40s.
freeholds in the surrounding counties.
" The council have now briefly stated some of the
more important objects to be accomplished, and the
means by which it is proposed to attain them. They
appeal, in conclusion, to the two great bodies of the
community—the middle and productive classes—for
aealous co-operation, and active and energetic support.
They appeal especially to the unentranchised masses, for
whose social and political elevation the association has
been called into existence. And, deeply interested in
the existence of order, the preservation of public credit,
and the inviolability of the rights of property, the coun-
cil believe that no greater calamity can betel a nation
than a protracted and obstinate resistance, on the part of
the Government, to temperate and moderate demands for
the extension of civil rights."—(The reading of the re-
port was repeatedly interrupted with bursts of applause.)
The council whom he had the hoaour to represent had
alluded with considerable anxiety to the result of that,
the first meeting of the association.—(Hear, hear.)
They had looked to it, indeed, with that anxiety which
they considered proportionate to the interests at stake.
He was persuaded that they would unite with him in
expressing their gratification at witnessing that great
and influential response which had been just given to
the cause.—(Loud cheers.) That numerous and highly
influential meeting was a proof that the middle classes
of the city of London sympathised with the unenfran-
chised classes in their efforts to obtain an extension of
the suffrage.—(Loud cheers.) He thought that earnest
response was a sign of future success, and that it would
give new zeal and energy to the executive which had
hitherto worked so zealously for the object which they
had met to promote.—(Hear.) Under ordinary cir-
cumstances it might be desirable that he should offer
some explanation why a comparative stranger, possessing
no local standing, nor the talent of many whom he saw
around him, should occupy the prominent position
which had been conceded to him on that occasion.
Their time was, however, too valuable and too important
to give place to personal explanations—(Hear, hear)—and
he should content himself with saying, that
as he did not seek the position, neither would
he hesitate a moment to relinquish it when-
ever the interest of the cause they advocated should
call for such a change.—(Loud cheers.) A declaration
of their principles and several documents had been sent
forth by the council, but to avoid doubt and miscon-
ception as to the objects of the association,
or the:measures which they proposed for the attainment
of those objects, the council had thought it desirable to
prepare and promulgate the report which had
just been received. That report had the full
concurrence of every member of the council,
and ho trusted that it would have the earnest and
zealous support of every reformer.—(Hear.) There
were those among them, and he l
he s-tated not to declare
it, as one who looked even beyondd desired top divide them
given report—(Loud cheers)—
in opinion. They had cheers)—who
red those principles in the
the best consideration to
the subject, and adopted those means which they thought
most desirable and advisable to carry out their great ob-
jects, viz., the greatest extension of the suffrage according
to those with whom they had now to deal. The policy
of those who opposed them would be to throw discord
and contention into their ranks. But they must avoid
that and mustendeavour to prevent them causing distrust
on the one hand and fear on the other. But if the people
were united their reply to all taunts would be, that they
would have a full, free, and fair trial for their prin-
ciples.— (Loud cheers.) The property class ea.,
nounced their policy and agitation as subversive
of order, and dangerous to sue institutions of the
country.—(Laughter.) But the peacefulness of their
councils and justice of their cause was a sufficient
answer to all they could say.—(Hear, hear, and cheers')
He hoped they would never cease their agitation so long
as from three to four millions of their fellowmen, who
were entitled to the franchises of themselves, were
denied a vote in the distribution of those funds
to which they had contributed. (Loud cheering.)
The people, however, were now better instructed—Oita*

GERMAN OPERA.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the per,
formances at this theatre with their presence last el et
ing. The house was of course crowded, and no 50°,40
had her Majesty made her appearance in her box l'.
the whole house rose and greeted her with the most e 0 thusiastic cheering. Her Majesty came to the 111'13,4
the box r. nd gracefully acknowledged the loyal gree..4
The National Anthem was then sung, and was reeler
with the most enthusiastic loyalty, and The
Majesty again bowed her acknowledgments 4/0,
,
opera chosen for the occasion was Flotow's straco
a 1
oue of the weakest compositions of one cf the weake6,ol
mod4n composers. All that could be done for iti
done for it last night by the German company, b? 6 as
success was not greater than on its production 1.0
English dress some years since. The perfortied.
concluded with the second and third acts of Der tr ora
chutz, which were gloriously given. Never have we lierblf
the Huntsman's and Bridesmaid's chorusses so We'
rendered.

T. JAMES'S THEATRE.

FRENCH OPERA. neigh
Boisselot's opera cornique, Ne Touchez pas a la ',bids
was prcduced here last evening with that success r•mial
has been the invariable attendant of this most delig
opera at all the continental theatres. The libretto otio
Scribe and Gustave Vaez is a model for drste
writers, and, independently of its merits as an opell'coa•
Touchez pas ala Reine is one of the most perfeciii.d at
strutted onuses ever produced. The scene is iscoal
the court of Leon, and the story turns on the tradl3l the
rule of etiquette at the Court, by which to See,coby
sovereign's person, even to save life, is punishevicar
death. In the opera, Don Fernando d'Aguilar tope
dere), whose father had been dispossessed of I°r bes
and station by Don Fabrique, the Regent of Lenecioid
saved the life of the Queen, a minor, but, in
°off
so, has held her in his arms. He is jot?
almost penniless, but is befriended by wife,
mus, the Court jeweller, and his pretty tell
Estrella. Of the latter, the Regent is desPeritisei
enamoured, even to tie extent of promising to grallA
request she may make. She demands. the command op-
company for Fernando, whom the Queen, who rein eril
bers his service, though she fears to expose him to PAt
for having " touched" her, attaches to her Court. Iv
moment when the Queen has fallen asleep under bf
infliction of some State affairs intruded on De•f ai,
the Regent, Don Fernando cannot resist the temp of
tion to snatch a kiss. Seen by the Regent, wRi3OS
course hates him, he is hurried off to punishment. me
the Regent has made a night assignation in the not-
with Estrella; the Queen, by arrangement with Sh,e., jo•
ter, takes her place; and, when the lights are broug"ye.
the Regent is discovered kneeling at the feet of his I'od.
reign and pupil, embracing her and kissing her 1111100
By the law of the kingdom of Leon, it is the King :
at-
who can dispense with the severe punishflueeet
tached to this crime of etiquette. The young ,or bus-
by choosing Don Fernando d'Aguilar for bin)
band, at the same time releases him, and eesn'e,•eiti.
to pardon the Regent for his involuntary Ilse Pilot
The music, by Boisselot, is lively, sparkling, apPrq_ the
and thoroughly dramatic, and sometimes rises above ,ng
level of comic opera—as, for instance,
scene of the last act, which was given in the
byAiad °Pemoeil3so76
Charton (who acted the Queen) with
. great taste, im
displayse execution. tei n.
witnessed have
for
mostmusic etnhathufesallstitco:
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musical
wonderful
pa
al oat:
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hder drove
whole
ewonf theee
was exquisite. She indeed
the and .her acting .
was
r.
share of Mademoiselle Charton was admirably
Areevci
the Queen of the evening. Mademoiselle Gulch's
as Estrella was the most lively and coquettish of sob'
end sang as she always sings,
brettos,
Zelger was the Regent, and his magnificent bass o%s
did full justice to the music of the part; and Couderc;
Fernando was the most interesting of lovers. His 11,31;
4. Toi qui seduit" was beautifully rendered, and his enth-ii
throughout was full of spirit. The ora was admire"
of
t the
prince
rsi
ot stage. .
fThe
conductors, orchestra, underchari e thea lledisiicuire:csudetivisoc:
was perfect. Charton, Cuuderc, and Zelger apPeere- e
the conclusion in obedience to the call of the audieoAee:
and there was afterwards a separate call (a well
on
served compliment) for Madlle. Guichard, who was 'e- °by Zelger. .Ne 7ouchez pas ala Reine bids fair to be
come as great a favourite in England as it is on the °the
tinent. The National Anthem was sung during
course of the evening, the solo parts being taken by
Messent and M. Octave.

DIED.
On the 17th instant, at No. 14, Cha el-lace, Cave-. I„ph'
t
square, Major Thomas Maynor, late ofPthe 26th Regall-13
Madras Native Infantry.
A rAt New Zealand, in the 26th year of his age Aie,-1/de
Wynne Aubrey, second son of Colonel Harcourtco, 2r
U e
Harcourt P"fl do
Aubrey, formerly of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guar
. _
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a o
London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOllOlO
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NCh„;
Strand, in the Precinct et the Savoy, in use ''u1
Tueaday, May 22, 1649.

—they possessed better knowledge of their own powerl
(Hear)—ard if they would but be united—if they !,
1
not suffer their opponents to distract their councils,,
they could not long be denied their full and
fair participation of civil right,e—(llear, bear'
The maintenance of order was so
alit it would almost seem a work of supererogation to
say a word in its defence, was it not that men were
either led away by their zeal rather than by. their
judgment, which gave occasion tetethe enemies 0f
i
ro
reform and the supporters of things as tbe
were to confound a desire for the rell3°lB
t!
of abuses with sedition, and pgressive retornecessary
for revolution. They knew now that without or.
der " the best intentions, the first principles, werd
valueless. It was this conclusion that induce
r;
the utmost caution and circumspection in any Vs;
fessions for organic change; but in desiring
avoid Scylla they must be careful and not rush ItPut;
Charybdis.—(Hear, hear.) In advocating their IV
they must take care they did not perpetuate abuse,
-,
which destroyed all connexion between the govern°,
and the governed.—(Hear, hear.) There were fel
amongst them who did not feel the extreme presst
of taxation; they were, therefore, fully
abuses tefore their eves; and there were few swengd
them who did not look with fear to that wide-spread sud
deep-rooted disaffection that pervaded a large old
the unenfranchised classes. Whichever way the)' h'urri
the political and financial state of the Outin-el
alive CO l"si
was most unsaistactory.—(Cheers.) They saw a rt.i
and continuous increase of expenditure, a thought;:y
abuse of patronage, a sustentation of the army and„,l3- of
totally disproportionate to their wants, a syere—
colonial government which had as many hues 00
the cameleon (Great laughter) which 10'41
reference to the merits of the country nor the inre',,-10.
of the mother country, and they saw a dogged retie
tion on the part of their rulers to withhold the ad to
sion of the people within the portals of the copses
tution.—(Loud cheers.) Under such cirumsts;o
it was the duty of every good Cilibelic
to seek that control over the public purse and of Puha;
affairs which reason and common sense assured t,O
to be the basis of good government—(Cheers)ecal
enforce economy and retrenchment in every dePstoef
of the State—to see property made to bear its rit'ea
burden (Hear, hear) that education be l'iod
within the reach of all—economy and self•reliannen of
that the House of Commons be made the just reap y,
the public mind, and that self-reliance, Noon%
and peace should take the place of discoae:)
extravagance, and coercion. (Loud eheeriu.neg'i
They sought the accomplishment of these °ILI
by the most loyal and peaceful means—(Cheers)-7,0.'
strong in the justice of their cause, calling for the sije
port of every class, creed, and party.—(Cheers.)
• then glanced again at the objects of the Allsoeill-,0,t):
stated that each speaker would be limited to rW.eoe
minutes, and said they would soon call large eve"-o)
meetings.—(Cheers, and a cry of " Govent Gardete
He was sure they would be excused, under existing Te.
cumstances, in not having a larger building on theigiv,
sent occasion. On the next occasion of their roeuleed
please Gud, they would have a larger.—(Cheers,,"oo
cries of "We will have the House of Commons.) dyne
nee
gentleman said they would have the House of Cattily
He trusted that the House would be made
.."0
useful, and that it would, ere long, be lot
indeed the people's house.—(Great cheers.) The „A
resolution be was proud to say would be proposed mid
man, whom it was almost unnecessary to name, 0,4
veteran Reformer, known to all far better, he wa!lievet.
to say, than to himself, he meant Mr. Richard
lor.—(Great cheering.) grtit
Mr. R. TAILOR then came forward to move theidtio
resolution, and was received with the most enthlts'eis
cheering. However ill his was qualified to dischargudee
r
duty assigned to him, still, as the honour had bee°
ferred upon him of moving the first resohle-ee"ije
he did not hesitate to do so. As an old 0
habitant of the metropolis, and one , air
adopted the principles set forth in the report e'ee of
Council, he could not shrink from the performau—,e)
the duty that had been placed upon him.—(Hear, hee-est
He still held the opinions of his youth, and every Joe
that was added to his hfe he telt more and 10110
importance of holding those opinions. He would 0
move the first resolution, which was as followsi—", te!
" That, in the present contest between the aelemiea
of a searching reform in the national finanneu,,,d,
the Parliamentary representation on the one The
and the upholders of a system which favours the r
at the expense of the millions, on the other, it is ileti
11
'taut to strengthen and give effect to public oPl.riee
through the medium of an organised body, 131, of
reformers of all grades; and that the establisholo
the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary n,uieriej
Association is therefore a matter not only of exPeu.
but likewise of paramount necessity ."—(Cheers.) tail
The, resolution did not go into the question in " tee
of the objects of this association, but only called on
0,
meeting to agree in the establishment of the °leo;
h for giving effect to those opinions. He would e„,
detain the meeting further than to impress urea tol'oe
the necessity of such a mode of agitation as 053 ,ies
proposed.—(Hear.) What they wanted was
,tc;ioDoe
effect to the power of the people in the Commons
hello
which they were now deprived of.—(l,l"r' too
more AHe believed that he had not occupied
but be five minutes of the twenty allowed to him,
willing to give the other 15 minutes to some youthful
reformer, of whom he saw several present.—(Cheerie2
The meeting had not concluded when our report letP
v :tUKY..LANE THEATRE.

On the 17th inst., at her residence in Shrewsbury, tbs
eig
Hon. Louisa Ann, relict of Lieutenant-Colonel .1411,,,,,Ete-r-;
Knyvett Leighton, and fourth daughter of et. 1J vb
Viscount Don eraile.
On the ,th inst., of disease of the heart, Marcus Lew
i°
Lath
Hill, Esq., aged 58.
f the
On the 20th inst., at Bishop's Stoke Rectory, wife ()-
Very Rev. the Dean of W inchester, aged 68.