The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-11 00:00:00

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

1 H. ANDERSON, THE GREAT WI-
Q 9 • Z ARD OF THE NORTH, with feelings of intense
gratitude, begs leave to return his thanks to the Nobility' Gen-
try, and Public in general, for the immense patronage he has
received during his nine weeks' sojourn in the Metropolis ; a
continued career of unparalleled success, unprecedented in the
case of any other professor of the art necromantic, has attended
his exertions during the whole of that period. Trusting that
his future efforts will be crowned with the same reward, lie res-
pectfully announces that he will re-commence his philosophical
exhibition of natural magic, introducing several novel and splen-
did mechanical and dextrous illusions, on EASTER MONDAY,
April 20th, 1810, concluding with his indefinable " GUN DE..
LUSION," which he has performed in the Metropolis to the
astonishment and delight of 150,000 spectators.
This delusion has not been discovered, cannot be discovered,
and it is at the same time unattended by danger to the audience,
the party firing, or the Wizard. Its perfect safety, and at the
same time its impenetrable mystery, are its two great recom-
mendations.
Boxes, •)s. 64. ; second price, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. 6d. ; second
price, Is.

WAN T E D.-A NTI-C 0 It N-LAW
LECTURERS.
The Council of the Anti-Corn-Law League are desirous
of engaging the services of an additional number of LEC-
TURERS, for the purpose of disseminating and arousing pub-
lic opinion upon the subject of the Corn-law, and they will be
haapy to treat with Gentlemen of education and character, and
possessing the requisite powers of eloquence. As the field of ope-
ration will he chiefly in agricultural districts of England, Wales,
and Ireland, a knowledge of farming, although not indispensable,
might be advantageous. The Council would especially prefe r
the services of those who are strongly convinced of the immoral
and irreligious character of the Corn-law, and who could consci-
entiously advocate its total and immediate repeal, as a Christian
duty. Letters with reference as to character, anti ability, to be
addressed (pre-paid) to George Wilson, Esq., Chairman of the
Executive Council of the Anti-Corn-law League, Manchester.
Anti-Corn. law League, Manchester, April 8, l 8411).

NOTICE is hereby given, that by Indenture
of Assignment, bearing date the 17th day of February,
1840, and made between JOHN CR EFFIELD, the elder, of
Slough, in the county of Bucks, Coachmaker, of the first part,
JOHN IVES, of Little Queen-street, Holborn, in the count%
of Middlesex, Varnish. maker, JOHN PAYNE, of Great
Queen-street, in the same county, Coach-lace-maker, and
GEORGE RICH, of Bankside, in the county of Surrey, Iron-
founder, Trustees for themselves and the rest of the Creditors
of the said John Creffield, the elder, of the second part, and the
several other persons whose names or firms should be thereunto
subscribed being respectively Creditors of the said John Cref•
field, the elder, of the third part, the said John Creffield, the
elder, bath bargained, sold, assigned, transferred, and set over
unto the said John Ives, John Payne, and George Rich, their
executors, administrators, and assigns, all and every the stock-
in-trade, goods, wares, ar.d merchandize, fixtures, book and
other debts, sum and sums of money, and all securities for
money, rights, shares, and interests, and all other the personal
estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever of him the said
John Creffield, the elder, whether in possession, reversion, re-
mainder, expectancy,or otherwise, upon trust, subject as therein
mentioned for the equal benefit of such of the creditors of the
said John Creffield, the elder, as should execute the said inden-
ture, whic said indenture was executed by the said John Cref-
field, the elder, John Ives, John Payne, and George Rich, on
the day of the date thereof, and their respective executions
thereof are attested by James Wells Taylor, of No. 28, Great
James-street, Bedford-row, in the county of Middlesex, Soli-
citor; and the said indenture lies at the Office of Messrs. Tay-
lor and Collinson, at No. 28, Great James-street, aforesaid, for
the execution of those creditors who have not yet executed the
same, and unless they execute the same, or assent thereto, they
will be excluded all benefit arising therefrom.
TAYLOR and COLLINSON,
28, Great James-street, Bedford-row.

TALBOT FAMILY HOTEL, COMMERCIAL AND
POSTING-HOUSE, SH EWSBURY.
FLIZABETH WHEELER and SON (late
of the RAVEN) having entered upon and newly fur-
nished the above House, respectfully solicit a shareof the public
patronage, trusting the improvements made, combined with
the central situation, and extensive accommodation they are
enabled to offer, will meet with their approbation and support,
being determined that no exertions shall be wanting to render
the Talbot a first-rate Family and Commercial Hotel.
Posting in its various branches executed with care, neatness
and punctuality, and every attention paid to the Funeral and
Yard Department.

TO the NOBLITY, GENTRY, and
CLERGY.—DINING-ROOll FURNITURE, a
Great Bargain.—A superior Axminster carpet and rug, cur-
tains for three windows, of crimson silk, lined throughout ;
sixteen Spanish chairs in morocco leather, an 8-feet Spanish
mahogany sideboard, richly carved ; an extending telescope
dining-table, 14 feet by 5 feet. The above is the property of
a gentleman, and will be sold extraordinary bargains, from un-
foreseen circumstances.
On view, at R. Nunns and Sons, :33, Oxford-street.

SHIRTS at WHOLESALE PRICES, at
W. H. ABLETTS and CO., 37, Cornhill. Not less
than half a dozen sold. Calico Shirts, 95., 125.,185., and 245.
per dozen ; ditto, with plaited fronts, 185.,, 245. and 30s. per
dozen ; ditto, long cloth with fine linen collars, wristbands, and
plaited linen fronts, 305., 365., 481., and best quality 755. per
dozen, usually sold at Bs. 6d. each ; Linen Shirts all prices,
very fine, 9s. 6d. to 12s. 6d. each ; Linen Collars, 3s. 6d.,
ss. 6d., 6s. 6d. ; fine, Ss. d. and 10s. 6d. per dozen. Ladies'
Chemises, 9s. 125., fine, 18s. and 245. per dozen. Night
Gowns, 211., 245., and fine with frills, 365. per dozen, for
cash.—Letters pre-paid.

GRAY'S INN WINE LSTABLISHMENT.
PURE PALE BRANDY, Vintage 1808,
same quality as heretofore, 725. per docen ; three
slozen cases, 101. 10s.
23, High Holborn.

HENEKEY and COMPANY.

MORISON'S MEDICINES—SPURIOUS LMITATION S.
DYKE is het eby given that I have corn-
menced proceedings at law against Robert Salmon, of
Farringdon-street, London, for selling Medicines to the late
Mr. James Mallars, under my name, with whick Medicines 1
am totally unconnected.
JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist.
British College of Health, New Road, London.
April 8, 1840.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
next St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street.
Notice is hereby given that the DIVIDENDS for the year
ending the 31st of December, 1839, are now in course of PA Y-
MEN T.
The Dividends are payable from Ten in the Morning until
Three in the Afternoon, any day, Wednesday excepted.
By order of the Directors,
GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary.
April 8, 1840.

IMMEDIATE PASSAGE TO SYDNEY.
THE Ship LADY CLARKE, of 550 Tons,
Captain LAWRENCE, has left Gravesend for Ply-
mouth, where PASSENGERS can embark until Monday, the
20th instant. Has a Poop and very superior accommodations,
and carries a thoroughly qualified Surgeon.
Apply to John Marshall, 26, Birehin-lane, Cornhill ; or at
the Royal Hotel, Plymouth.

AT a PUBLIC MEETING of SHIP-
MASTERS, MERCHANTS, and Others, held at the
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, March 28, 1840.
Lieut. ENGLEDUE, 11. N. in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were proposed, and carried unani-
mously :
Moved by Lieut. FAYREK, R.N. seconded by Cart. BEA ZLET,
That it is highly desirable that an Association be formed for
the following purposes :—ln the first place, to establish a
Captain's Reading and Coffee Room: secondly, to endeavour
'o correct various abuses, particularly the present system
practised at the Shipping-offices ; thirdly, to endeavour
to increase the present existing Marine Society's Funds
for the benefit of Widows and Children of Shipmasters.
Moved by H. ROWRTT, Esq.,__seconded by Lieutenant

PARSONS, R.N.
That the Liverpool Shipmasters' Association be now
formed, and a Provisional Committee, consisting of the follow-
ing gentlemen, be appointed to receive Subscriptions, and to
draw up Rules for the Government of the Association, to be
presented for approval to a General Meeting of Subscribers, at
which a Committee of Management shall be appointed :
Lieut. Engledue, R.N. Captain Head
H. Chapman, Esq. Lieut. Fayrer, R.N.
W. H. Moore, Esq. Captain Pinder
H. Rowett, Esq.
Moved by ESHELBT, Esq., seconded by Capt. HEAD,
'I hat a Subscription List be now opened, the amount of Sub-
scription for the brat year to be One Pound for Residents, anal
for Shipmasters Five Shillings. '1 he year to be considered as
commencing from the day of opening the Reading Rooms.
Moved by Captain BRA Z LRY, seconded by Captain FATIMA,
That Mr. Ilevis, Correspondent to the London Shipping and
Mercantile Gazette, be reqtested to act as Honorary Secretary
to the Association.
Moved by Mr. Ray's, seconded by Lieutenant PARSONS,
That a vote of thanks be given to Lieutenant Engledue for
his able and impartial conduct in the Chair, and to W. Potter,
Esq. Chairman of the Shipowners' Association, for his atten-
dance and the valuable information he had afforded to the
meeting.

DESTITUTION—LEIMOSY.—An inquest was
held at the Three Crowns, East Grinstead, on the body of
Eliza Mai tin, a girl about five years of age, daughter of a
labourer. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had
suffered. during the last year, from a disease of the skin, which
had been thought to be the itch, to cure which various reme-
dies, obtained from a chemist's, had been applied. M.
Whyte, surgeon, who saw the body by desire of the Jury,
expressed an opinion that the deceased had died of leprosy ;
and, judging from the child's appearance, that. she must have
been much neglected. A neighbour stated that the child had
not had sufficient nourishment, and that it had not been pro-
poll.. attended to by the mother. '1 his, however, was denied
by the mother, who further said that she had no doctor to the
child, becuse her husband could not afford to pay for one, and
the Board of Guardians would not allow one. Her husband
earned lfis. a week ; and there were three children at home.
The Jury returned a veidiet of " Natural death, accelerated
by neglect and want of proper attention on the part of the
parents, and want of medical attendance. '
SECURING MONEY IN LETTERS.—The
following will be found an excellent plan of transmitting mom:),
in letters, so as to avoid the chance of falling out. Take a
card (if the size of the letter, the better) and in the centre
cross-cut it thus—taking care that the cuts are not larger than
the diameter of the coin to be transmitted :-
1 i 2
T - . _ -

This put in your coin with the corners 1 and 3 above it, and
the corners 2 and 4 below it, or vice versa; and we defy all the
clerks and letter carriers in England to shake it out. Just tl. v.

THE NEAPOLITAN SULPHUR

MONOPOLY.

The house of J. Lafitte and Co., in Paris, is that
chiefly concerned in the sulphur monopoly, whiel has
occasioned the alarm of quarrel, and even war between
Engiand and Naples. The Paris journal, the Siecte, of
Thursday's date, has an article on this sqbjeCt ;,and,
from its connection with M. Lafitte, we baieve one of
its founders, the Si&_,./c may be considered as speaking
The views and possessing the information of the French
Sulphur Company on this subject. We accordingly
;ire this article

England by several treaties, especially by that o
1816, acquired the right of being treated on a parity
with the most favoured nation in its trade with Naples.
No nation can thus acquire for its flag or commerce any
privilege, that England may not also claim immediately.
But does this forbid the Neapolitan Government from
concluding an agreement with a foreign company for the
extraction of sulphur, or any other commodity of the
country ? To say so would be to assimilate a bargain
vith two or three individuals, to a convention of customs
embracing a whole nation. The former is a question of
internal administration, in which strangers have no right
to intervene under cover of any treaty. Neither is the
letter or spirit of treaties violated by the export duty
on sulphur. In establishing this duty, the Neapolitan
Government may have committed a fault, but it, at least,
hadardiglpitaitdo
mdoorseot.han The
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htrreanationsmightty ;be violated, if
Engian
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company pays the duty too, and in this is this not the Frenchuotmorefa-
voured than England. Neither is the freedom of com-
merce violated by the French company, which has not
the exclusive right of purchasing sulphur.. Nothing is
to prevent the English or American from purchasing
from the producers, to whom the French company have
merely guaranteed a minimum of price for a determinate
quantity. The country cannot prevent otheimerehants
from purchasing quantities greater than the demand of
consumption."
Such are the arguments of the partisans of the
French Company, which arc a mere juggle when
examined. It is allowed that about 70,000 tons of
sulphur were exported each year. The French
Company deelares that this is one-third more than
the consumption, urging in proof the decrease in
the price. But. this decrease is by no means proved,
the price in 1837 and 1838 being as high as in
1830 and 1831. They accordingly promise the King
of Naples to raise the value by limiting the supply.
They at least show him how to profit by it, since
they get him to establish a duty of two dollars the
canlaro (there are 13 cantari in a ton), or about
129 francs the ton. They farm this duty ; but in-
stead of paying upwards of 8,000,000 francs that the
duty on 70,000 tons would produce, they give
his Sicilian Majesty but 1,700,000 f. The result of

this clever arrangement between the King of Naples and
the company is, that the French company pays one
quarter •r one half a dollar (which does not vary much
the force of the argument), as duty upon each cantaro ;
whilst the English or American merchant pays two
dollars. Is England in this case treated as the most
favoured nation ? Has she a right or not to complain
of a monopoly which cheats, not merely the English but
the French consumer—and the King of Naples himself'
as grossly as either. We know not, indeed, whether

the Monarch is more trickster or more dupe, for he
appears in both lighti. At any rate, as to our right
to put an end to the monopoly there cannot be a sha-
dow of doubt on the subject.—Alforning Chronicle.

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MILITARY LIFE
Edited by MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER, K.C.8.--
Since the piping times ,f peace suspended tho occupations of the

sword, the public has had frequent occasion to admire the skill
and energy which our military defenders have shown in wielding
the pen. Perhaps thereii t any class among the publications of

he last twenty years possessing a deeper or more varied interest than

those which record the experience, perils, and vicissitudes of the

soldier's life. To this class has just been added a work preferring
peculiar claims to the notice of all who read, whether for amuse-
ment or information. We allude to " Lights and Shades of Mill.
tart' Life," in which, to say nothing of the pathetic narratives,
piquant anecdOes, and personal adventures, with which the work

abounds, the comments of the Editor, Major. General Sir Charles
Napier, sometimes profound, sometimes playful, and always original,
_ . . . .

will be found fraught with instruction for officers of every rank,

We perceive by the bills that Mr. John Parry,
the active stage-manager of the Queen's Theatre, takes his be-
nefit on Wednesday next, the 15th inst., we most cordially wish
him a bumper. Independent of the treat he offers on the oc-
casion,he is a man worthy of the patronage of the public.
THE PATHFINDER, A ROMANCE, BY THE
AUTHOR OF " TILE PIONEERS," &C.—[his is a very delight-
ful and interesting story, and worthy of the high reputation of
Mr. Cooper. The truth and simplicity of description for which
this author is distinguished, the spirit and power with which he
sketches the scenes and narrates the vicissitudes of life, whether
in forest wild or on the ocean, has rarely been more remarkably
evinced than in " The Pathfinder." The changing fortunes of
Indian warfare; the cunning, ferocity, and resolution of Indian
character ; the perilous descent of a waterfall by the dextrous
management of a canoe ; the singular preservation of the cutter
from a storm on "The Inland Sea," afford amplis room and ap-
propriate subjects for the talents of the authir, and are "lost
successfully handled. The great interest of the talc is in the
character of " The Pathfinder," already well known to the
readers of Mr. Cooper as " Natty Bumpo" and " The Leather
Stocking," anti in him and his fortunes the sympathies and in-
terest of the reader are kept constantly alive. But we refrain
from dwelling on the story, for we should not deprive our
readers of the pleasure of perusing it with the fresh and excit-
ing
interest,,i,he pitatihsfisnodeir7llwfiiitit ebdectoomemNa.
Caledonian Mercury. awaken.
IfVaer favourite.—
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Solomon, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and 10 Old Jewry, City,
The patent spectacles, manufactured by Mr. E.
rank iei mportance among the greatest of
modern inventions,
which is of the greatest importance to the public, in conse-
quence of their improving and preserving the sight, and their
being of loss specific gravity than any others, will be found
highly advantageous to all
_persons having a determination of
blood to the head or eyes. Their great efficacy is most satis-
factorily authenticated by the concurrent testimony of thousands
of living witnesses of the first respectability in this and the
sister kingdom ; added to which, the documentary proofs sub-
mitted through the medium of the daily Journals, decidedly es-
tablish Mr. Solomons' reputation as an optician and scientific
man. His voice conductors, recently invented, are the most
powerful instruments hitherto discovered for defective hearing.
Deaf persons are enabled, from their minute construction (being
only 14 of an inch in diameter), to wear them entirely unsecn ;
they are inserted an.l removed with the greatest facility. By
their use musical sounds, and the lowest whisper breathed at a
public assembly, vibrate on the organs of hearing in such a
pleasant manner as to afford the greatest relief to those afflicted
with the distress* ailment of deafness. Owing to parties of
the same name fraudulently advertising spectacles as " newly
invented," the public attention is particularly directed to the
address of the above establishments.

The population of the Austrian States, accor
ing to a recent statistical account published by M. Sommer,
Prague, and M. Springer, at Vienna, amounts to 34,922,430
souls, of whom 2,168,694 are inhabitants of the grand duchy of
Austria; 935,575 of the duchy of Styria ; 1,195,874 of the
Illyrian kingdom ; 814,892 of the Tyrol ; 4,001,925 of Gal-
licia and Lodomiria ; 11,138,942 of Hungary and its depen-
dencies ; 2,170,392 of Transylvania ; 995,823 of the military
provinces; 4.534,197 of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom ;
and 373,479 of Dalmatia. The people inhabiting these coun-
tries are—Germans, Sclavonians, Italians, Hungarians, \Vale-
chians, Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Albanians, and Zingari or
gypsies. These different people having for a series of years
more or less mingled with each other, the number of each dis-
tinctly cannot be precisely ascertained. Thus the German
population is estimated at 6,000,000 souls ; the Selavonian,
with its various ramifications, at 14,820,000 ; those of Italian
origin at 5,027,197; the Magiars, the greater portion of :he
occupants of the fertile plains in the interior of Hungary, at
530.),000; the Walaehians at 1,567.000; and the Jews at
60,3,000. To ihes.. must be added the other races less numor
ous inhabiting different parts of the empire.
SECRET SERVICE MONEY.—(East India
Company.—By an account laid some short time back by the
Court of Directors before the Proprietors of East India Stock,
it appears that the sums issued out of the territorial revenue of
India for " secret service" from (and including) the years
1782-3 to the 30th of April, 18.39, amounted to 821,4801.,
being an average of more than 14,0001. per annum, tut there
were seven years as to which the returns are " nil." The last
three of these years were 1834-5, 1835-6, and 1836-7. The
lowest amount charged in any one year (viz 1789.90) was
41. ss. The highest amount was (in the years 1795-6)
130,187/. The amount charged for the year 1838-9 was
3,050/. The account for the last year is not yet made out.
BERLIN, MARCH
go, rhe unfavourable ac-
counts of the expedition against Khiva are confirmed; it has
totally failed. General Perowslty has been obliged to abandon
even his position in the Emba. The beasts of burden have
perished, so that it was with difficulty the baggage, &c.,
could
be brought away in the retreat.i
STAG HUNT:vrite vi of Writtle has for
some time been celebrated for now and then congregating the
choice sporting spirits of the neighbourhood upon its rural
green, and calling them round the hospitable table, and yes-
terday was one of its gayest days,
for besides a brave stag being
provided, who promised to lead the way in gallant style, as ilia
equally gallant troop of followers
" Swept through the vale and wound around the hill,"
a well-deserved compliment was to be paid to a veteran sports-
man, Mr. T. Crooks, of Broomfield, the founder of many an
excellent day's run in that neighbourhood. This compliment
was the presentation of a very handsome silver cup. After
that ceremony, and a real John Bull breakfast had b•en
despatched, a numerous and well-mounted . field assembled,
skirted by mars& of pedestrians, while femirene faces, two car
three deep, filled the neighbouring windows, and even the
steepte..top was crowded. The stag was uncarted, withstood
all the persuasions to a ducking, and dashed on one side amongst
"base-born cur" seized him by the
the spectators, when a
throat, and at one time nearly dragged the noble animal down,
but after running with the dog hanging to his neck for tome
rods, the ricer firm'him off, and passing the Crown, and after
due grace the hounds were laid on, and off went the field with
the promise of an excellent day's sport before them. As we
watched them from a distance--
" The cheerful horn resounded through the grove,
The merry beagles answered back the sound,"—
but having at length passed beyond the reach of echo, those
who had not aspired to the dignity of a sasldle began to turn
their steps homeward.- We have since learned that the stag
ran to Berners Roo:hing„ where it dropped down dead, in con-
ssquence of the wounds received from the dog at starting,
having bled all the way.— Chenislord Chronicle.
RE-ACTION.—At a meeting of the Edinburgh
Town-Council, on Tuesday last, a motion was made to return.
as usual, the Lord Provost to the General Assembly, as Lay
Elder. The Lord Provost and Convener Clark, who was in-
listed in the motion, are both strong advocates for that dela-
si n, the Veto. They were rejected b'y a majority of eighteen
to eight, and two Anti- Vetoists returned.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(ERIDAY EVENING.)
TlMES.—There has been but little business to-day
in the English stock-market, and the quotations for
Consols are unaltered since yesterday, being 91 to
for money and this account, and 91,i to 4- for the May
account. Money is ♦ery easy, but there is a decline of
Is, in the price of Exchequer bills, which are quoted at.
235. to 2.5 e. premium.

SUN.—Not a syllable of news transpired in the
City this afternoon.
It is with regret we notice a continued decline in the
Foreign Exchanges, as the following quotations far bids
this afternoon will at once show :—Paris, 25f. 50c. to
55c. ; Amsterdam, 12 1 ; Hamburgh, 13 8a 9 ; and
Frankfort, 149 k to 150.
There was a purchase or two to some amount in the
English Market this afternoon, and this caused Stocks
to close very firmly. Consols were last marked 91 ;
Bank Stock, 17.5 i-, ex. div. ; and East India Stock.
249} to 2501 ; Exchequer Bills were lower, being 235.
to 255. premium.
The heavy tea prompts which fell due to-day were
met much more promptly than was anticipated, and we
did not hear of any defaulters. Where time was re-
quired it appeared to be very willingly given, and this
caused the market to assume rather more buoyancy,
with an advance in Company's Coneou.
The Peninsular Bonds all left off very firmly this af-
ternoon, business having been rather more active than
usual, both for time and money bargains. Spanish Con-
sole closed at 28 and Portuguese New Five per
Cents. at 35i to Colombian Stock was heavy at
25-a, and Brazilian at 761- French Five per Cent.
Rentes advanced to 114, and the Three per Cents. to
83f. 50c. ; Exchange 251. 40c.
The Railway Shares were at fully previous quotations.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Morn nq Post.)
The speech of Lord Palmerston, on Sir James Gra-
ham's motion, identifies her Majesty's Government with
the opium smugglers in China more completely even than
the transactions in the neigliFourhood of Canton, which
have led the Government of this country into a war in
support of the commercial and money-making privilege of
intoxicating the Chinese people. Throughout that speech
there is nothing so remarkable as the total absence of any
syllable of serious and earnest rebuke of a traffic which
bas led to the overthrow of the legitimate and beneficial
commerce between Great Britain and China, and which
the British Government itself has deemed so utterly law-
less and indefensible (when the question was the payment
of two or three millions of money out of the British Trea-
sury), that the ordinary principles of pecuniary honesty
need not be maintained towards those who bad been en
gaged in it.

(From the Morning Herald.)
The culprits who were arraigned at the bar of public
opinion are delivered by their own votes. They admitted
that the motion of Sir James Graham was equivalent to a
vote of censure on the Government for bringing on the
country the actual disgrace and possible calamities of the
war with China. They strained every nerve of Govern-
ment influence to secure a majority. Every vote that they
could by any possibility command was brought up. Every
vote that could be influenced, directly or indirectly, was
secured. A dissolution of Parliament was threatened to in-
timidate the timid. Seductive promises of all sorts were
lavished to fix the wavering. In short the Ministers and
their emissaries employed every art to obtain a majority, as
in the case of a ministerial struggle of life and death. The
result was a verdict in their favour of their own votes, but
not an acquittal by twelve impartial men. Will they dare
to go on with the infamous Chinese war under such circum-
stances ? Will they dare, with a majority of nine Cabinet
votes, to put their bands into the pockets of the people for
the expenses of that atrocious violation of every principle
of justice, morali►y, and honour. The Palmerston journal
says " they will." We trust the people of England will
tell them they shall not.

(From the Times.)
If we do not press on the reader those morn solemn con-
siderations urged in the speeches of Mr. W. Gladstone and
Lord Sandon, viz., such as were suggested by the immoral
nature of a wholesale traffic in a_seductive and poisonous
drug, it is not from a sense of any fallacy in the
reasonings or of any unworthiness in the feelings
so eloquently and strikingly exhibited by those
exemplary representatives of the virtues which most adorn
the British character. The dreadful consequences of an
extensive trade in opium arc as indisputable as Mr. Glad-
stone's exposition of its criminal and hateful spirit was sr-
palling. But that branch of the subject does not come
within our !cope. Our view of the whole question is es-
sentially practical, embracing only such matters as are di-
rectly tangible by political power, such as admit of legis-
lative remedies, or of administrative restraint, which the
genius and habits of British commerce would repudiate if
directed against the free agency of our countrymen in their
transactions with foreign nations, in foreign ports, and under
the jurisdiction of distant and independent states.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The division on Thursday night is announced to the pub-
lic, by a Tory contemporary, as having taken place on the
question of an " opium war." This gross misrepresenta-
tion is a specimen of the tactics of the party. Had such
been the question, which way must Sir Robert Peel have
voted ? We do not believe it to be true that any Member
divided for an opium war ; but if any did, it is plain, from
his own speech, that Sir R. Peel did not vote against an
opium war. His declaration was distinct and emphatic—
" r will give no opinion with regard to the opium trade,
nor as to the policy of the war." In these words the
philanthropists have fair warning of the attempt to gull
them. The Tory leader reserves for himself fuil liberty.
should he so please and have the power, to wage a warfare
for tee trade in opium. lie avails himself of the antipathy
to such a conflict, but carefully avoids committing himself.
All who acted on the principle of their Parliamentary
leader should, therefore, be deducted by our contemporary
from what be describes as a minority against an "opium war."

WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES.-A meet-
ing of the Magistrates of the city of Westminster was held
yesterday, M:. Sergeant Adams in the Chair. The suinutts
of the last Court were read and confirmed. Sir J. S. Lib,
stated that he had the honour of presenting to her Majesty the
Address of Congratulation on her marriage agreed to at the last
general Court, and that her Majesty had been pleased to receive
the same very graciously. A variety of reports relating to the
city accounts, the state of the new Bridewell, &c., were then
received, after which the Court adjourned.

A deputation of operative button. makers from
Birmingham are now in town, with a view to induce the public
to patronize their trade, which has long been in a state of great
depression. We heartily wish them success. The ingenuity
and beauty of their workmanship, as exhibited in some speci-
mens which we have seen, certainly deserve it. If Prince Al-
bert and some of the leaders of the fashionable world would
adopt the productions of these clever artisans, they would nt.t
only add a very graceful ornament to their own personal ap-
pearance, but would materially serve more than a thousand in-
dustrious families of a populous but, we fear, a very distressed
town.— Times.

EASTERN DISCIPLINE.—Went to the parade
ground soon after sunrise ; Runjeet came to meet us on his
elephant about a mile from it, and we accompanied him to the
right of his line of infantry. It consisted of about 12,000
men, and reached to the city gates, above two miles. I never
saw so straight or beautiful a line with any troops. They were
all dressed in white, with black cross-belts, and either a red or
yellow silk turban ; armed with muskets and bayonets of ex-
cellent manufacture, from Runjeet's foundry at Lahore. Their
movements arc very steady. but much too slow, and an Euro-
pean light infantry regiment would find little difficulty in
working round them. This might be easily remedied, by having
a proper proportion of active European officers, but nothing
can be worse than the system now in vogue. The commanding
ofilecr abuses and beats the major, the major the captains, tke
captains the subalterns, and so on till there is nothing left for
the privates to beat but the drummer boys, who catch it accord-
ingly.— Osborne's Court and Camp of Runjert Sing.
AN ELOPEMENT AND A RESCUE.—Ott Mott-
day forenoon, to the surprise of the inmates, who knew nothing
of them, a young couple ran into a house in Ecelesall New-
road, Sheffield; and as soon as they got in, the young man
called out to the residents to shut the door. Before an explan-
ation could take place, an old man, apparently a farmer, armed
with a thick cudgel, burst into the house, and began to bela-
bour the young man, who made no resistance. The young
woman, hoieever, tried to get in between the two, and, in so
doing, received ,ereral blows on the head and neck. From
the noisy exclamations of the infuriated old man, it was at
length learned that the young woman, who is under age, had
ran away the night before from his house and had that morn-
ing gone with the young man to the parish church to get mar-
ried. Thither the father had followed them, and bad prevented
the nuptials, but the parties had again escaped. , He had, how-
ever, traced them, and was determined to take vengeance On
the intended bridegroom. He loudly informed the bystanders
thathe could " give his daughter 1,0001., while the young man
had nothing." A .crowd speedily assembled, and several at-
tempts were made to part the farmer and the object of his ire,
but in vain. At last, however, Charles Brownell, Esq., one of
the Magistrates, who was riding past, was called in, anti, by dint
of repeated expostulations, succeeded in persuading the old man
to desist. The young woman was then, much against her will,
carried off by her father. Where the parties came from did not
transpire.—Doncaster Gazette.
ACTIONS OF THE FIRST CONSUL.—Napo-
leon put an end to the requisitions in kind, and abolished the
law of hostages; he recalled the writers, such as Carnort
' r-
tabs, and Simeon, who by the law of the 19th Fii.ufcalioted the
t ieoC of theo
year V, had been condemned to deportation;
frontiers of France to more than a hund
Conventionalists Barrere and Violin. toreredttobranu,,alinedognigerdantthBe,
he pacified the Vendee, and organized among whom were the Members of.tzheedCiohnestimtuuenniteiApaslseiandinyi;.
illustrate* great
nistration of Lyons, Marseilles:
ettoionr
derthe statue of Conde, the ashes
atvieeso,uracinedautxo.
recollections,
tues of Hoche, Jnubert
of the Invalides by the side of the .s
e.
ie,6oNmapiewnleeonrecceanutse'
of Turenne, and the heart of Vauban, to be placed in the Hotel
of Joan of Are; at eauvais, that of Jeanne
f a g.reat La-
roDeoigueomrymier,
,and I.lampierru At Orleans, he re-
vived the
made the imperious condition of a treaty. At a
layette, was the dohverance o
Hachette. In 1600,
later period, officers who bad openly opposed the Consulate for
life (Drouot, Lobean, Bernard) became his aides-de-camp.
Senators who had voted against the establishment Of the Em-
pire were treated iu the same spirit of kindness. Ever faith-
ofn mperor, t e couse
his reign, granted pensions to the sister of Robespierre, anl
principles of com:tiliati th E • h
mother of the Duke of Orleans. He relieved the dis-
ftuoitthoothe
tress of the widow of Bailly, President of the Constituent
Assembly, and supported, in her old age, the last descendant of
, the house of Duguesclin.— Opinions of Napoleon, by Prince
i Louis.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CROXTON PARK RACEs—WEDNrsDAT—(Concluded.)
The Farmer's Plate of 50/., and 10 for the second ; 4 yes, 1 Ist
101 b ; five, P2,..,t 31b; six and aged, 12st 71b ; roarer allowed

31b. Two mile heats.
Mr. llorspool's ch g 13earblock, by Rector, aged.... 2 1 1
31r. Saropey's b g Jocelyn, aged
Mr. Wilder 's eh m Kate Kearney, 5 yrs
Mr. Stokes's ch a Whitefoot, 4 yrs ... 1 2 die
Five others started. Won cleverly.
TUURCDAT.
•
Match for 50, h ft ; two miles.—Captain King s ch g
Archie ( Captain White), beat Captain Havendon's ch g Salt-
fish, List each.
The Ilillesdon Coplow Stakes of 25 sw. each, h ft ice hones
not. thorough-bred ; two miles. Gentlemen ride's, (15
Subs.)
Mr. Bell's Ferneley, 4 yrs list 21b ...... (Capt. Williams) 1
Lord Grantley rid Arctic, aged, 12st 2lb 2
The following were not placed :—Mr. Maley's Bellissima,
12st 4lb ; Mr. Blake nd. Bolivar, 12st 21b ; and Col. Thomp-
son's Hamlet, 12st. 21b. A good race.
The Gold Cup, added to a Handicap of 20 soy. each, 10 ft.,
and 5 only if declared, &c.; nearly two miles. ( Twenty-
five Subs., eight of whom declared.)
Mr. Fairlie's ch h The 111dra, 5 vrs, 1 lot Ilb 1
Sir F. Johnstone nd. b c The Blue Pill, 4 yrs, lOst 61h 3
The following also started :—Lord Waterford's Cardinal Puff,
I 3st slb ; Mr. Rush's Pickwick, 11 st 101 b ; Mr. Thompsoies
Van Buren, lOst 12th ; Mr. Wilson nd. Tumbler, lOst 2lb ;
and Mr. Milward's b g by Brutnndorf, lOst lib.
Won in a canter.
The Melton Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soy.
each ; 4 yrs old, lOst 1211); 5 yrs. llst 91b ; 6 yrs, 12st 21b ;
and aged, 12st 51b ; males, &c., allowed 31b ; thorough-bred
horses, 5 yrs, extra: winners once, 51b extra; if of the Ilos-
i worth, Tally-ho, Granby, or Coplow, 101 b extra. . The se-
cond saves his stake. Once round. (10 Subs.)
Lord Waterford's lied Wing, 5 yrs
Lord Chesterfield's Prizeflower, 6 yrs
Mr. Bell's Bumblekite, 4 yrs 8
The following also started :—Mr. Doncaster's bl in Single-
weeper, 4 yrs ; Sir D. Baird's b g the Morning Star, aged;
and Mr. Bestow's b g Speculation, 5 yrs. Won cleverly.
Match for 100/.,11 ft; four miles; llst 71b ench.—Mr. A.
M'Donogh's Lorenzo no.. from Mr. Percy's Sarah. -
A Free Handicap of 5 soya. each, and 25 added. Once rend.
(19 Subscribers.)
Lord Waterford's Cardinal Puff, 13st (Owner) 0 1
Lord Waterford's Redwing, lOst 81b
Mr. Rush's Pickwick, 12st

Mr. 'fhompson's Van Buren, llst 61b
Mr. Dawmm's Blue Pill, lOst 12lb
A dead heat between Cardinal Puff and Redwing ; Cardina
Puff walked over. _ _

The Farmers' Plate of 50 sous., and 5 for the second ; once
rcund ; gentlemen riders; was won in two heats by Mr. Hil-
ton's Emma, 6 yrs, Bst I Ilb ( Owner), beating Bearblock, 13st ;
Little Tommy, llst 91b ; Kate Kcarnby, 1 Ist 91b ; Jocelyn.
12st 51b ; and three others. Jocelyn came in first for the se-
cond heat, but ran across the course near home, and was dis-
tanced.