The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

LONDON, iN ONDAY, APRIL 12, 1841.

IMPORTANT TO
E STA M P 11E1
ALL that THE WEEKLY
week a number more than rqual
Examiners, or
5 St. James's Chronicles, or
5h Spectators, or
5i Mark Lane Expresses, or
bi Watchmen, or
5h John Bulls, or
Observers, or
54 Eras, or
ti Globes,. or-
-6 Standards, or
7 Records, or
7 Patriots, or

ADVERTISERS.
'URNS for 1840 prove
RONICLE publishes every
to
7 True Suns, or •
Britannias, or
8 Bell's New Messengers, or
9 Arguses, or
9 Evening Mails, or
9 Atlases, or
10 Planets, or
13 Ages, or
Shipping Gazettes, or
16 Evening Chronicles, or
29 Couriers, or
32 Engllsh Chronicles.
isers is therefore obvious.

The advantage to Advert.
Office, 337, Strand.

11 LANGENNECH COAL FOR SALE
A BY TENDER.

The BLACK WALL RAILWAY COMPANY wishing to
RE•SF,LL a quantity of this COAL, desire to RECEIVE
TENDERS on or before SATURDAY, the 17th April, for
ONE or MORE CARGOES. The quantity is hand-picked,
and will be delivered in the Pool. _

Further Particulars may be obtained by applying at No. 60,
Fenchurch-street.

SOUTH WALES.-COLLERIES OF ANTHRACITE

COAL AND IRON MINES.
iIESSRS. BRAY and SON have the honour
to announce that they are instructed to SELL by
AUCTION, at fiarrawAy's, on WEDNESDAY, April tldth, at.
Tvtel..o for One in Three Lots,

The very valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE of THORN.
HILL , in the county of Carmarthen, containing 750 Acres,
togetlyr with the very extensive and valuable mineral property
adjoining, running under upwards of 2,000 Acres. The pe-
culiarly favourable position of this property, its extent, com-
pactness, and intrinsic value are such as to be far beyond the
limits of an advertisement, but which are fully detailed ar'd set
forth in the particulars, with lithographic plans and se, tions,
which will at once establish it as one of the most desirable
nyport unities for the investment of capital which his been
offered to the public for many years.
Particulars may be had of Messrs Bicknell, Roberts, Finch,
and Neate, 67. Lincoln's Inn-fields ; at the Ivy Bush, Car-
marthen ; Maekworth Arms, Swansea ; Bush Inn, Bristol ;
York Hotel, Manchester ; Hen and Chickens, Birmingham ;
Exchange, Liverpool ; Bell Inn. Gloucester ; Hop-pole Inn,
Worcester ; of Mr Gibh, Royal Hotel, Edinburgh ; Buck's
Head Hotel, Glasgow ; Royal lintel, Dundee ; Plough Inn,
Cheltenham ; Tontine Hotel, Sheffield ; Royal Hotel, South
ampton ; and at the Offices of the Auctioneers, 259, High
Holborn. The property may be viewed on application to Mr.
Jacob Davies, at the Cross Hands Inn; or at the house at
Thornhill.

TO L ‘ND SURVEYORS, AND OTHERS EMPLOYED
UNDER THE TITHE AND POOR-LAW COMMIS-
SIONS.
COMPUTING MACHINES.
HAW and SO S beg to draw the attention
1,..7 of the Profession to their New and Improved PARAL-
LEL SLIDES 1)r comvuting the Areas of Maps. By the
use of one of these Instruments, the former tedious method is
avoided, and a urveyor may with ease compute from 800 to
1,000 Acres of average work in seven hours. Price 15s. The
usual charge 21s.
London : Shaw and Sons, 137, Fetter-lane.

_FLOOR CLOTHS cut to anv s;z.., at 2:.4d.
Shippers and Country Dealers would do well to look at
the large lot on hand, from half yard to eight yards wide.
Half yard Passage Cloth
Five-eighths
Three-quart• rs
Pate' t fini-h Table Covers, equal to Pai••ier Mu he.
A prime lot of best Brussels Cu pets, a bargain, 3s. 4id.,
worth 4s. 3d.
At BURNET'S, PIAZZA, COVENT-GARDEN.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, APRIL 10.—Wind this day at noon N., fresh
we,terly breeze, and cloudy weather.
DEAL, .‘PRIL 9 —W ind W. N. W..—Arrived the Lady Ken-
neu ay, from Calcutta ; Reliance, ditto ; Greenlaw, ditto ;
Lady Hilda, Barbarities; Zante, Trieste; John Blake, Trieste ;
Ta•-so. Chri-tie, Honduras. Arrived from the River the Pa-
cific, Coffin, for the South Seas ; Tyne, New Zealand ; Bur-
hampooter, S 3 dney ; Elizabeth, Demerara ; Velocity, Que-
bec ; General Hewett, ditto; John, ditto; Lady Wood, Prince
Edward's Island; Eeham, Lisbon. Sailed the Science, for
the Mauritius; St, George, Launceston; Lawrence, Foster,
Calcutta; Dowthorpe, Cape of Good Hope; Protector, De-
merara ; Camerons, Young, Berbice ; Ruby. May, St. Kitt's ;
Lady Seaton, Tann, Montreal ; Hercules, Renaut, Quebec ;
Prince George, ditto; Mentor, ditto ; Edward, ditto; York-
shire, ditto; Romanoff, Miramichi ; Naiad, Constantinople;
Mercury, Valparaiso; Vestal, Mosley, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL ind N. W. to W.—Arrived the
John,' Daniel, C•om Youghal ; Eleanora, Jackson, Calcutta ;
Jane, Havers, Sydney, New South Wales.
COWES, APRIL ts.—Arrived the Doran, Loveta, from Ma-
nilla; Victoria, from Maianzas, with rudder damaged, loss of
sails, ; lsabeila, Blythe, Alauritiwt.
DA wrsiou'rn, 6.--Arrived the Charle,, Quint, from
Havannah, leaky. Sai ed the Marta, Cleet, fur Quebec ;
Buckingham, ditto ; Calypso, Millman, Richubucto ; Ame-
thist, Aliramichi ; M„labar,tlemLay, . . . .

PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Hebe,
Stair, from Rio J ‘neiro ; Roslyn Ca.ole, Quebec; Tweed, do.;
A.ia, do. ; Gienelg, Bombay ; Herondale, Coast of Africa.
Ariived off the Lady Whoa, from St. Alichael's ; British
Queen, do.
FALMOUTH, Aram B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Lucre-
tia, from Buenos Ayres; Andus, Brocklebank, Pernambuco;
Escot, Hall for B,.ston, after being in long. 26, very leaky,
with loss of sails, and must discharge; Amelia, Mullnolland,
Pernambuco. Sailed the Elizabeth, for Barbadoes.

OFF PoRTLA .13, APRIL 9.—The Constellation, Leroce,
from Calcutta.

BitisTot, APRIL B.—Arrived the Coral, from St. Michael's.
Saled the Great W, vein, for New York ; Aurelian, Quebec ;
Vo'umbario, tit. Übes. _ _ _

KING'S itoAD, APRIL 9.—Put back the Arabian, for Syd-
ney, New South Wales.
SCILLY, APRIL 2.—Sailed the Abeona, for Havannali.
ST. IVES, APRIL 8. —The Briton, from Newport, to Ply.
mowh, foundered about 10 E.N.E. off the Head last night.
Crew saved.

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LIVERPOOL, Aram 9.—`Find N.N.N.—Arrived, the
Jackson, Jackson, from Laguna ; Countess At ran, Charleston ;
Bradshaw-, ditto ; Franconia, J. Alai ks, Susquehannah ; Phi-
ladelphia, A lb'na, Sim a Leone; rat; ang, Palermo ;
Despique, dos Amig,os, Lisbon; Thomas Carly, Buenos Ayres;
Thomas Leach, ditto ; Charles Jones, C'ba. Sailed the
John Francis, Kent, for Quebec; Isabella, Granby, Gibraltar.
Put back, the Llama, La Guavra Sydney, for Jamaica; Jo-
sephine, Miramichi ; Robert A. Parke, Quebec; Sapphire,
Al.intreal ; Penrith, ditto. Arrived off, the George Ca,ining,
Mauritius. The Mary Elizabeth, torn China, which was on the
''-keriies. and .ifterwards taken to Hol)head, has been towed in
here. The Camilli has arrived from Rathlin lslind, from the
Matthew Pell, on shore there. The Sidney, which sailed for
Jamaica on the 7th inst., has put bark, hiving been on shore
in the Victor is Channel, and must discharge. The Harvest
Home, from st. John's to this port, which was on shore nn
Heeismouth, has been got off, and taken into St. Judewall
Roads.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Lily, Monte Video to Lon-
don, 4th February, ht. 24, lon. 35; Acnil.es, Marzetlles to
Mauritius, 16th ult., lat. 18, lon. 23; Patriot, of Plymouth,
2,1 instant, lat. 47, lon. 9; Agrippina, Ceylon to Lo,don,
4th, lat. 49, lon. 15 ; Irt, Bahia to Cork, 7th, off Cape Clear,
by the Thomas Leish, arrived at Liverpool. Brega, Ancona
to Falmouth, 28th ult., lat. 28, lon. 11, by the Sir John Hardy,
arrived at Portsmou.h. Antoino, Liverpool to Havannah,
13th, lat. 20. lon. 50; Liverpool, Bahia to London, 17th, lat.
28, lon. 49, by the Andes, arrived at Falmouth. M. M. S. B.
497, Alicata to Scilly, 17th, off Majorca ; Ann, Liverpool to
Lyra, 29th, lat. 39, lon. 19, by the Breeze, arrived at Fal-
mouth. City of Poonah, 3d ult., on the Equator ; Inglis,
L ndon to Bombay, afterwards, by the Owen Glendower, ar-
rived off Margate. Britannia, Havannah to Cowes, Ist. lat.
47, len. 21, by the Victoria, arrived at Cowes. Bucephelus
and John Drysdale, outward bound, lat. 32, by the Jane, ar-
rived off Port.,mouth. Tory. of Liverpool, from London, 13th
February, lat. 3, lon. 23; Elizabeth, of Bristol, Bth ult., lat.
23, lon. 34, by the Duan, arrived at Cowes. Fairy Queen,
of Ceylon, south of the Equator, by the Ocean Queen, ar-
rived at the Cape. Abbotsford, London to Sydney, New
S ,uth Wales, 20th January, iat. 35, Ito. 12, by the Courier,
at ditto. John Cooler, for Port Phillip, 23d December, by
the Harlequin, to.riv,d at ditto. Augustus, llourd,:aux to
Mauritim:, 30th December, lat 7, by the Norval, arrived at
ditto. Indian, from Bombay, 20th January, lat. 24, lon. 3s;
Childe Harold, from ditto, 31st, lat. 30, lon. a-3, by the Ma-
labar, arrived at ditto. Fame, London to Mauritius, 6th Ja-
nuary, lat. 29, lon. 26 ; Duluis, Bris of to Van admen's
Land, lat. 37, lon. 4, by the Catharine, arrived at the Cape
ot. Good Hope. Araste. for Sidney, Ist December, and Blor,
for Singapore. 12th, out fifty dly., by the George, arrived at
ditto. A large steamer, off C..pe Infanta, by the Tartar, ar-
rived at ditto. Logan, Have to Batavia, lat. 3. lon. 21 ;
William Bryan, Plymouth to New Zeeland, by the Graf on,
Cook, arrived at ditto. John Co!oin, bound to Calcutta, 14th
December, lat. 32, lon. 21, by the Eliza Stewart, arrived at
ditto. Thomas Saunderson, Singapore to Sydney, Malcolm,
ditto to Lond .n, and Bolton, ditto to ditto, 17th, all in the
Straits of Banca, by the Harbinger, arrived at Singapore.

THE RAILWAYS.

(From the Railleari Magazine.)
THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, STAF-

FORD AND RUGBY.

Mr. Glvn and his short-sight•id friends of the
London and Birmingham, clip their little wings, awl
crow lustily, we understand, ,:pori their success against
the Stafford and Rugby. Thee have much indeed to
be proud of. The time will came when the London
and Birmingham Shareholders wili find that they have
dr feated the Stafford and Rugby, it is true, but for
what ? Shall we answer them ? To lay a broader and
securer foundation for a lioe ten times more fatal to
their 1-It.ri.tsts. Then wid the Shareholders find to their
cost the debt they owe to Mr. G4n a his policy.
Hard the Stafford and Rugby succeeded, it would have
h, en a good reason for granting no other line from Lon-
don to Liverpool and Manchester. They might have
pleaded to Parliament that. the distance was brought to
a Minimum, that both time and expeases were con-
siderably reduced to the public, that by the present
grant they had experienced' a great reduction in their
income, and that by any other line nothing in time
and I ttle if any in expense iiould be saved to the public,
while it would reduce the London and Birmingham
Company to * state of pauperism. Such arguments
they might have used with the Legislature, and with
toletabiy good reason. But wht,t- have they done ?
They have shut themselves out from all such pleas
and arguments, and they have exposed themselves to an
enemy many times more formidable than the
one they have triumphed over, and which the
Pa Lament is prepared to sanction. Messrs. G!vn and
Co. may endeavour to persuade their confiding Share-
holders that they have nothing to fear from any op-
position of the kind, and that Parliament would never
sanction it. We, however, beg to tell them, and from
oVr own personal knowledge,' that
,numbers of those
Membefs who voted against the Stafford and Rugby,
did so because it was only a partial measure, and that
it a good line was proposed for the whole or greater
portion of the distance, it would have their hearty
assistance, for they believe the Lpndon and Birming-
ham wi'l never be able to accommodate the traffic that
will ultimately flow in upon it ; that it is wrong to ex-
pose the public to the grinding charges of this Com-
pany ; and last, but not the least, that if any accident
should happen to this line—and with such awful tun- j
nets and treacherous materials as they have to deal
with in some parts, no care can insure security even
for a day in a had winter—they see the communication
with a great part of England would be utterly cut off,
and the trade and intercourse of the country brought '
to a stand still. We rep-at, therefore, that Mr. Glyn
and his associates may endeavour to persuade, if they
please, their constituents that they have done them a
great service, but, we shall be wolully deceived if they
will not find it in the end emit dis-service.
• BRISTOL AND EXETER. • •

It is with no ordinary sA,sfaction we inform our
readers, that the contracts lately advertised in our
journal, from Bridgewater to Tannton, have been let,
so as to ensure the completion of this eleven miles
within one year. Ttie terms are 18,000/. a mile, in-
cluding the permanent way, and every other expense.
Notice has alm been given to the Great Western a-
rea ,rs, the lessees of the railway, that the line to
Brilgewater will be ready to be opened for traffic on
Wrb t Monday, the 31st of May next. Tenders for
loans on debentores are being offetel every day, and,
in fact, the fulfilment of the anticipations of the
Chairman, at the h,lf-yearly meeting, sanguine as they
were even then in the promising state of the Company
thought to be, is so fairly in progress as to render it
like:), to fall short rather than to exceed the reality.
All this is the result of having firm and resolute Di-
recOrs and officers. Had it not been for a few deter-
mined individuals at the board, aided by the judicious and
extraordinary exertions of the Secretary, to counteract
the hot-brained, shallow-pated conduct of others, this
line would, for years to corn', have presented a chaos
of incomplete works, instead of a well-finished railroad,
returning a handsome dividend to the Proprietors, and
cr,riferring incalculable benefits upon the surrounding
country.

CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS.

(From Pencillings of Politicians.)
" Give us bread; for why should we die 'n'thy pre-
sence ?—for the money faileth."—Genesis xlvii. 15.
The time for arguiag about the Corn-lass is now hap-
pily past. A man might as well argue against gravitation,
or dispute the existence of the satellites of Jupiter, as at-
tempt to deny the fact that the Corn-laws are an inztru-
rreilt of evil granted by the Legislature to a few hundred
of country squires, and used by them to inflict famine
upon "'talons of their fellow men. The nonsense which
was once talked about the interests of agriculture, and
the danger of depending for food upon foreign soil=, has
now assumed its proper form of intrinsic absurdity. It
is repeated, indeed, but no man who uses it, and no
man who hears it, is deceive! by it. Within the last
ten years it has fallen from an argument to a jest.
To talk to a man of such things in the present day
would be like repeating the nursery tales that frighten
infants, with the hope of terrifying adults—to tt.lk of
old Bogie in order to frighten a grown man. Not through-
out the tens of millions of laborious creatures which people
these islands, not among all our hives of industry, not
among all our dense and sweltering swarms of human life,
not throughout all the compressed masses of shivering
starvation is there a single hapless being who does not
know that whatever may be the borrere of his state, one-
half of these, at least, is caused by the devilish invention
'Mich forces him and five hundred others to suffer in order
that one squire may riot. Not a mother hears her chil-
dren cry for bread, when she has no crumb to give them,
but knows that the anguish that wrings her soul is the
very coinage of the e Corn-laws ; not a squalid famine-
stricken father, who has denied himself the sustenance
that nature requires, and sees, nevertheless, his wire
growing faint and haggard from scantiness of food and
agony of mind, but knows that for all this misery he has
to thank the Corn-laws. Not a family that have to
work like horses, in order that they may starve
only by degrees, but know when their insufficient
modicum of bread is measured forth that there is a glo-
rious golden harvest of plenty pressing upon our shores,
and rotting in our custom-house granaries, from which
they are only shut out by the ignorant fears of the squires,
that if the multitude were fed, their luxuries might be re-
duced. Take a single instance of a famishing family ;
mak the sinking hopelessness of the mother, the
thoughtless cries of the children, the stern despair of
the father—looking around upon misery he has no means
of alleviating, and upon children whom he knows are
growing up only that they may succeed to the inheritance
of that same wretchedness which he now feels, and sink
at last into the same pauper's grave which already yawns
athwart his path. Take a family such as this, and mul-
tiply the instance by thousands, and then imagine, if the
mind is large enough to imagine it, the mighty volume of
th-e curse which rises hourly to the throne of the Great
God of the Universe, and challenges retribution upon the
destroyers of their kind.
History affords no parallel—the experience of men can
recall no semblance of similitude—the policy of empires
the most rotten, and tyrants the most wanton, can furnish
no precedent for a single instance of starving the many,
for fear some luxury might be wanted to a few. Yet we,
in a country which. by a bitter irony, is ea:led "fee and
happy England," have this infernal invention in opera-
tion among us with all the uniformity and potency of a
r(gular system, and monthly hecatombs of human victims
are sacrificed in silence to this M iloch.

Charles Pelham Villiers, member for Wolverhampton,
is a man who has thrown himself, heart and soul, into this
cute, and a man who, if his perseverance is equal to his
abil ty, may be confidently pointed out as the man who is
desto•ei to bear it onward t entire success. This is the
sort of Reformer that I like. Not a dreamy theorist—
not an amoitious or a discontented crotchet• monger—but
a hearty, useful, practictl Ref irmer, pitting hireselt against
some well-known and ever-actieg abuse, printing the bat.
tering-ram against gatheting the multitudes by whom
it is propelled, shaking the deeply-rooted monstrosity by
the vigour, rapidity, and pertinacity of his blows, and
bringing on, minute by minute, the good time when the
strong edifice of tyranny shall vibrate—shall totter—and
shall fall; and when the people shall rush in at the
breach, and feast upon the plenty which it held within its
greedy Leo.
Villiers is an honest man, an able man, and, I think, a
judicious as well as a persevering man. In the House of
Commons be has not certainly that weight or standing of
which, for the sake of the cause he advocates, I could wish
to see him in the enjoyment. With a good figure, an ex-
cellent voice, and no lack of zeal, he still is, perhaps for
want of practice, but a mediocre speaker. Master of
more words than any other wan in England—for he is,
perhaps, the most fluent proficient in the languages of
Europe that we could produce—he is often at a loss for a
word ; and when he is trying to show the corn-tax caters
a-ound him, that it it their interest as well as that of the
propl', that wheat should be plentiful instead of scarce, I
have of en beard him sneered at for batting at a word, by
men who would have to stutter all their life time if they
were required to produce an idea. This, however, may
probably be attributed to want of practice and canfideaez,
for I have heard him speak a great deal better upon the
hustings; and when I remember that before he suffered
himself to be put forward as a leader upon the Corn-law
question, his addresses to th., House were always of a mos"-,
Spartan brevity, I am inclined to hope that this is a detect
which he may yet overcome.
Gallant, uncompromising, and daring as is Villiers'
conduct in the agitation with which he hs so closely
connected himself; he is nevertheless a Ivan of highly
cultivated intellect, of literary taste, rind of aristocratic
connections, being closely related to three Earls, and the
grandson of an Earl of Clarendon. Villiers very early
in life adopted that profession which in England, and
ii:deed in all countries, both ancient and modern, has
been the resort of men who have been stimulated by
ambition, or prompted by a consciousness of talent.
He writes barrister after his name ; but, like many
others, he has been seduced by the strong excitement of
political contention from that dull and dogged plodding
which can alone lead to success in that particular branch
of the law to which he has applied himself. Whether
Villiers does ever venture to unfold the mysteries of
some real property case, before the Lord Chancellor, or
whether he ever condescends to pocket two guineas for
moving for an order upon some unopposed petition, before
the Master of the Rolls, I have no means of knowing. It
is possible that while he agitates against the Corn-laws he
is not neglectful of his profession ; for being as yet only
about five or six and thirty, be is quite a juvenile in West-
minster Hall, and cannot be supposed to have arrived at
the distinction of bing " a promising young man," as men
of 41 or 42 are generally de.,ii.,Ynated when they are found
to be creeping into practice. With this, however, I have
nothing to do. I find him an energetic, an able, and the
honest Representative of a numerous and well-informed
manufacturing constituency. I find him fighting heart
and hand against the most monstrous curse that was ever
endured by a free people. As such I esteem him, and as
such I present him to the British people for encourage-
ment and honour.

IRISHWOMEN.—Amid the want so often at-
tendant upon the young and thoughtless marriages of the
Irish peasantry, it is wonderful to note how closely heart
clings to heart. Poverty, the most severe and prolonged,
rarely creates disunion, and still more rarely separation.
The fidelity of the Irish wife is proverbial; she will en-
dure labour, hunger, and even ill-usage to an almost in-
credible extent, rather than break the marriage vow ; we
have known cases in abundance. "He beat me," said a
pretty weeping girl, not nineteen, who had married from
the service of an old friend. " lie beat me, ma'am, long
ago, but I never thought more of it since; and yet that
didn't hurt me half so much as he's saying that may be
little Ned wasn't his; that's breaking the heart in me
intircly, though I know ho didn't mane it, and that
it was the temper that spoke in him—the weary on
it for temper ! I've known nothing but hardship since
I married bim, but I didn't complain of that; we
both expected nothing else ; and I don't mind a
hasty stroke, for it's hard on him to see us want-
ing a potatoe, and he wet and weary—an °old
man before his time with the slavery—and though I
put little Neddy to bed early, to sleep off the hunger, yet
oft•-n its too teasing on the poor child, and wakes him in
spite of me, and I know the hungry face of the darlint ag-
gravates his father.. I know all that; but he ought to
know that I'd follow him faithful through the gates of
death, if that would save him an hour's pain; he ought to
know it—and he does know it—l'm sure he does ; and he
kissed me this morning on his fasting breath, leaving the
handful of potatoca for me, and saying the masther, where
he gives his strength for 81. a day, ordered him a break-
fast, which I'm sure ain't the truth. The love's in his
heart as strong as ever ; but the misery, ma'am, often
hardens the man, while it softens the woman; he didn't
mane it, and he knows it's not true, but it's hard to listen
to such a word as that. He was my first love, and he'll
be my last. None of us can tell what's before us; but I'd
go all my trouble over again if it would do him any ser-
vice."—Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland.

DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Wednesdaymorning,
an inquest was held before Mr. Marlin, coroner for the bo-
rough of Windsor at the New Inn, in that town, upon the
body of a child, named Robert Vickars, three years and a half
old, the son of a lady of fortune residing in Park-street, who
(lied on the evening of Monday last, in consequence of falling
down while playing in the drawing-room, and a drum-stick,
with which he was amusing himself, penetrating his head
through the right eye. Mr. Henry Brown, surgeon, deposed
to having been called in to attend the deceased, immediately
after the accident, whom he found with a stick projecting from
the orbit of the right eye, which had passed completely through
the orbital bone into the head. The stick was extracted
with dllieulty, and the child died in consequence of the injury
on Monday. 31ary Ann Truman, servant to the mother of
the deceased, stated that the child, who was playing with a
dull and other toys, fell upon the drum-stick, which she found,
upon entering the room (hearing his screams) sticking in his
head. The deceased, who was perfectly sensible, said to her,
(( 5) f 'Truman, I was running across the room, and the drum-
stick went into my eye." Witness found him lying on the
carpet, and attempted to drag out the stick, but could not.
She then went for a surgeon. The Jury returned a verdict
of " Accidental death."

At, interesting case of bankruptcy was discussed
at the Bankruptcy Court a short time since, which hap.
pened as far back as the year 1796. The bankrupt. a Mr.
Philip, of Hungerford-market, went out to America in
1794; be and all his family died some years ago. The
deht., some of them of m( re lean forty ye,rs' standing,
were some time ago paid in full ; and recently ten shil-
lings in the pound of Interest. was ordered to be pail.
There will remain a balance of nearly 5001. a-year, after
satisfying all demands.

PRICE sd.

POLITICS OF THE ~ BRITISH

QUEEN" NEWSPAPER.

That all persons, whatever be their sentiments or
creeds, are certain not only to abuse their power, but
to come short of their professions and the expectations
of the public, is a truism so amply proved, as not to
admit of dispute. The page of history corroborates the
fact in every age and in every country. The ten,lency
of all governments is towards a monopoly of power,
and not to the preservation of the rights of others. Self
is the governing principle—the people and their rights
are a feather in the balance. When, tilerefore, whe-
ther by matter of accident, or by the overpowering
force of public opinion, a government is formed, we.l
disposed towards the people, and more inclined to en-
large their rights and privileges than to appropriate
them for its own special benefit, too much indulgence
to its short-comings and errors cannot be shown towards
it. it is the interest of the people to support it ; and
the more strongly they do so, the more do they
strengthen their own cause, and the cause of justice
and liberalism throughout the world.
We make these observations for two reasons—the
first, in order that our readers may not mist ike the
politics of the British Queen; the second, because,
being attached to " progressive Reform," we are deter-
mined to support the present Administration until we
can find a better to supply its place. Tnat it has done
all that it ou.•ht to have -done—that, in powi r, it has
carried out the professions which its different members
made before coining into office—it would be impossible
to affirm ; but when we look, as we do calmly and con-
scientiouily, to the improvements which they have ef-
fected in the Coostitution of the country, we are more
astonished at their number, than at the omissions of
which they have been guilty. Tne following is a brief
list of a part only of what they have accomplished :
X
Taken off taxes to the annu-1 Amount of
Lessened the annual expenses of the Govern-

ment •
Lessened the number of official persons, 1,858
—salaries thereby saved
Abolished upwards of 2,000 places—salaries
saved 369,250
Reduced the salaries of the Minister,,, Coan-
cellors, Chief Justices, Attorney and Solici-
tor-Generals, all salaries above 1,0001. per
annum, nearly ore-half
Reduced salaries avid allowances of Ambassa-
dors. &c.
Entire Boards of Commissioners swept away,
members of the Boards reduced one-:hird
Two Boards of Stamps and Taxes thrown
into one, with various other economical
preparations
tionse-tix Repealed
Duty on printed cottons
Dwy on candles
Duty on starch

Duty on soap
I one-half
Duty on slates and coals .. Repealed
Duty on tiles
Duty on hemp
Duty on drug-
Duty on currants and fruit
Duty on cotton wool R duced
S,a.ps on mati:le insurance
Sramas on fire insurance—farming stock Repealed
Daty on advertise.nents
St Amps on small receipts
Land tax on personal estates Repealed
Duty on pamphlets and almanacks Repealed
Duty on commeicial travellers
Duty on clerks and book-keepers Repealed
Duty on horses of clergymen and ministers—if
salary under 120/.
Duty on tax-carts Repealed
Duty on overseers, warehousemen, and shop-
Men
..... _ _

The Irish Churca placed on a more satisfactory foot-
ing by the abolition of several useless Bishoprics, and add-
hig to the salaries of the inf:•rior clergy.
Irish Church-cess abolished.
Irish Tithe Aboli:ion Bill now passing through the
House of Parliament.
The Bank Charter renewed on a much mere liberal
system—a monthly report of its accounts to be made pub-
he. Tee convertibility of bank-paper into gold main-
tained inviolable.

The Ea-t India monopoly destroyed ; all India and
China thrown open to Britis!, enterprise end the employ.
ment of British capital.
Negro slavery abulislaed.

Tiese are great and glorious improvements, but they
are only a feat'Aer in the scale compared with the en-
deavours of the present Administration in favour of a
e'!,tication of the people—the re luction of the
stamp duties upon newspapers a•id advertisetuent—
and, the adoption of the penny postage—an "invention,"
i; we may be allowed to use the expression, which is
alone sufficient to immortalize any administration.
Still there is a something ►vatting, and that is a re-
peal of the Corn-laws, either immediate or gradual.
The latter may be effected without any great difficulty,
provided the Members of the House of Commons in
favour of abolition would co-operate with the more mo-
derate repeaters. An immediate abolition, however, in
the present position of parties is altogether impossible.
The county Representatives are active and determined
in its opposition—the Tories are on the watch to ob-
struct every improvement, and the people themselves
are lamentably supine upon the subject. Unless the
masses are prepared to act with promptitude—to evince
their purpose in the same manner as on the triumphant
passing of the Reform Bill—it is equally foolish and un-
just to expect that her Majesty's Ministers, situated as
they are, can proceed further in their remedial measures
than they are now doing. Let the people press the
question on Ministers as they ought to do, and the
latter will readily and joy fully respond to the nation's
cal—British Queen.