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NOW BEADY. day six months. After a short debate, the Hon.
By B. DISRAELI, M.P.
Member withdrew the amendment.
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Ths Irish Waste Lands Bill passed through Com-
mittee, the report to be received this day.
Lord MORPETH then brought in the Health of
Towns Improvement Bill, which was read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time on the
23d of April.
The House adjourned at Half-past One.

TANCRED.

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With a Picture of

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THE PRESENT STATE OF SPAIN.
BY T. M. lUGHES, ESQ.,
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It wanted only the introduction of an organized
scheme for effecting an improvement in the sanatory
condition of the people to crown the Parliamentary
labours of the Government before the Easter adjourn-
ment. Lord MORPETH, as Chief Commissioner of
her MAJESTY'S Woods and Forests, formally brought
this important matter under the consideration of the
representative legislators. It would be a mere affec-
tation to say that we are rejoiced at such a proceed-
ing on the part of Lord Joust RUSSELL'S Administra-
tion. We have so repeatedly and perpetually in-
veighed against the lassitude, or possibly the procras-
tination of the Executive in dealing with this extra-
ordinary question and we have accompanied those
expressions of our impatience with such continual
and such earnest observations upon the economy and
humanity which are involved in it, that it would lite-
rally amount to affectation to offer our congratulations
to the Ministry upon the course they have at length
adopted. Considering that in the passage of some
such sanatory measures as those indicated by Lord
MORPETH yesterday evening, are implicated the hap-
piness or discomfort, the health or disease, the mora-
lity or depravity, the lives or deaths of many millions
of our fellow-creatures, we cannot but regard the
proposition of the Government with the most pecu-
liar and absorbing attention. Upon the activity of
the Legislature in removing the abuses pointed out
by the Noble Lord, the Chief Commissioner
of her MAJESTY'S Woods and Forests, de-
pends not merely the cleanliness, but the
bodily and mental health —• the mew sana
in corpore nano—of a populous and, so 'to speak, a
helpless and dependent multitude. The evils arising
from the insufficiency of drainage, from the indis
criminate interment within towns, from the squalor
and narrowness of the tenements occupied by the
industrial classes, from the lack of wholesome water,
and the general absence of proper ventilation, are
evils of a vast antiquity. They have grown and ex-
panded and propagated during the lapse of several
centuries. Upon the very cinders of the metropolitan
conflagration of 1666, upon the very cinders of that
conflagration which appeared to be intended not
merely for the purification of London from the
plague, but for the destruction of its rotten,
crowded, and pestilential thoroughfares, rose
up again the architectural testimonies of the
ignorance of the community and of the short-
sightedness of the municipal authorities. Since that
memorable epoch in the history of our capital its
mortality has marvellously outnumbered the average
mortality of the rural districts. The disproportion
of the mortality between the inhabitants of town and
country, making even allowance for the improvements
which have been effected in our medicinal know-
ledge, and taking into the calculation the different
facilities afforded for the receipt of medical assist-
ance, is of such an alarming and enormous character
as to render some interference on the part of the
Legislature absolutely requisite. Besides which,
the causes of that disproportion ed mortality
are of such antiquity and multiplicity as to be era-
dicable only through the gigantic interposition of
the Government.
Several of the statistical calculations of Lord
Moarern in regard to the difference observable be-
tween the mortality of our intermural and extra-
mural communities, were so apt and conclusive, as an
enforcement of the Ministerial proposition, and as
an argument for a comprehensive sanatory reform,
that we are induced, even at the risk of repeating
many of the facts previously enumerated by our-
selves, to interpolate the following, transcribed from
a statement forwarded to the Registrar-General by
the physician to King's College Hospital. The esti-
mate of that gentleman requires no enforcement :
" Population to the square mile, country, 199:; town,
5,100. Annual deaths in 1,000,000. country. 19,300 ;
town, 27,073 ; annual excess in town district, 7,773.
Rate of mortality, country, 1 in 52; town, 1 in 37."
Upon the average mortality of the British island
the physician in question regards the subjoined
numbers as correct :—" England 1 in 45 ; Isle of
Wight, 1 in 58 ; Anglesea, 1 in 62 ; London, 1 in
39; Leeds and Birmingham, 1 in 37; Sheffield, 1 in
33 ; Bristol, 1 in 32 ; Manchester (Union), 1 in 30;
Liverpool (parish), lin 29. Thus the inhabitants of
London, compared with England at large, lose 8
years of their lives ;of Liverpool, 19. The popula-
tion of large towns in England being 4,000,000, the
annual loss is between 31,000 and 32,000." Is
anything more essential to indicate the advisa-
bility of a legislative effort at a sanatory
reformation ? We should opine not. The
pollutions of the atmosphere inhaled in the
crowded habitations of the poor, the rank exhalations
floating like a miasma in the vicinity of our metro-
politan grave-yards, the foulness and scarcity of the
water consumed in household operations and as a
beverage, the odious accumulations of filth in con-
sequence of neglected drainage, the very exclusion
of the daylight, with a view to the avoidance of the
window-tax,—all these things operate independently
to the degradation and destruction of the multitude.
For their permanent prevention it only requires the
guidance and direction of an enlightened Govern-
ment. Such practical philanthropists as Dr.
SOUTHWOOD SMITH have commenced the whole-
some crusade against these crying evils ; they have
effectually smoothed the way for the Executive ; and
the ripeness of the popular mind for enactments like
those now promised must act as a generous in

ROTAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN,
Erstabllshed for the purpose of rendering a more perfect perfermance
'fate Ly4tic Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country.
Linder the Direct:on and Management of Mr. BEALE.
The Nobility Gentry, and Patrons of Music, are respectfully in-
formed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week in April.
It Is proposed to produce, in the course of the Season, come of the
artabllsbed works of Cirnarosa, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others
N the more modern Italian School. including Operas by Benin', Duni-
setti, Mercadante, and Verdi, oh a scale of the utmost perfection in
eery department ; to which intent the manacement has assembled a
Company embracing the greatest and moat varied talent in Europe.
Pttt .t SOPRANI.—Madame Grist and Madame Persian' (her
itra. appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and
kf.dlle. Steffanoui (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap-
pearance in this couutry).
CONTRALTI.—Signora Albonl (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan,
awl of the Imperial Theatre la Vienna, her first appearance in this
aountry), and Mademoiselle Corbari.
TENORL—Signor Mario, Signor Salvator LLVIII. (of the Imperial
theatre at St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country).
Signor Tull! (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear-
am" in this country), and Signor Sal,' (ot the Theatre La Scala, in
Wilan, and el tke Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Fetersbergh,
Ns first appearance on the Italian stage in England).
PRIMI BASSI BABITONI--Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio
Beacon'.
PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San
Carlo, Naples, La Seale, Milan, and the Imperial. Theatre, Vienna,
Ills first appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the
kheatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and
Blernor tglonini (at the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, kis first appear-
ance in fkls spuntry.)
PRIMI BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal
kladrid, hi first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino
Rover.* (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and Sit. Fe-
tereburgh, his first appearance in this country).
Seconds Donne—Madame Antoinette, llollidori (of the Theatre La
Seals, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amalie Linari, Mademoiselle Lulgina
DeWitt

Seconds Tenere—Signer Emmantrele Slane (of the Theatre Can
Carla in Naples).
Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa.
A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced
Singers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master—
Signer Bonconsiglio. Prompter—Signor Monterasl.
The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest
executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin-
guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards
will be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey.
An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected
ha the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novello.
The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will clove the
performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered
between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to
vanetmee that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle
fanny Eissier ; and, during the season, the following eminent
Danseusea will appear : —Premieres Dansense—Mademoiselle Dumi-
',Ars (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of
the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertin (of the Imperial
Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle
Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta
Baderna (of the *vatre La *cal*, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco
(of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand
Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid),
Monsieur Ferdinand' Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand
Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera,
Paris). 3iaitres des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera,
Paris), and Monsieur Blasi' (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan).
Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Dance—
Mr. O'Llryan. Conlpeser—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San
Carlo Theatre, Naples).
_ _ _

TIIE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious,
elegant, and comfortable, It has been entirely reconstructed and
decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of lit.
Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper
ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsotiby.
The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori
Terri and Verardi (of the Theatre Italien, in Paris), to embellish
the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches
to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being
formed Immediately under the P)rtico in Bow-street, whereby partied
can leave or inter their carriages without exposure to the weather ;
and by increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment
Eoom will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson.
Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained
at the Itox Office, Bow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and
Co.'s, 901, Regent-street.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
OM EASTER MONDAY
Will be performed the Opera of MARITAN.i.
♦fter which the New Grand Oriental Spectacle, called TIIE
DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Twe Ele-
phants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear.

THEATRE itOTAL, HAYMARKET.
lf rider the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
ON EASTER MONDAY
Will be perfbrmed the new and original Comedy, called THE
SCHOOL FOB SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far-
nu, Stuart, Buckstene, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs.
Humby, Mrs. Tarnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Hey-
**ids, &c.
After which the Grand Astronomical. Extravagauce, (sailed
giver pLA3NET i or, Harlequin cut of Place.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
l icier the direction of Madame Celesta.
ON EASTER MONDAY

Will he performed the original Drama, called THU FLOWERS
OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ;
Is;anael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne,
Mr. Woiall) ; Clvithia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ;
Searlighliliress, Mrs. Fltawilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding.
To c4nclud• with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; •r, the
Wills Bride, Primelpal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford,
Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullernord,Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor,
lUse Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.

FR NCfI PLATS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell.
Mr. Mitchell begs respectfully t• announce that Mademoiselle
XOSE CHERI will make her First Appearance on EASTER MON-
DAY, In the Comedic-Vaudeville of UN CIIANGEMENT DE
MAlNand in an entirely new Corgiody, entitled LA PROTEGEE,
SANS LB SA.VOIIt.
Boxes, 6a., Pit, 33.6 d. , Stalls, 3a.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at
kalf-past Seven, sad the performances commence at Eight.
Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-of/Ice.

ETHIOPIAN RERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Re-eagagement of the Ethiopian Serenaders.
The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington,
White, Stanwood, and Germon, will give their Attractive ENTER-
TAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, on EASTER TUESDAY, and
will be continued every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evening ;
and a MORNING PERFORMANCE every WEDNESDAY, be-
ginning on Wecineedy in Easter week.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2e. ; Amphitheatre:2s.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
indw patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other
Members of the Royal Family.
Will opal, for the Summer Season, with Lord Byron's Equestrian
Dramatic Poem of
TITS BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR ♦ND THE
AVENGER'S STEED.
Introducing Mr. Batty's Living Camels, Elephants, and Stud of
Zen., Ponies, &e.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, MARCM 31.
TJERHOMETEIR, Lowest, 90 ; Highest. 46; Noon, 41.

BAROMETZR, 29.82.—Wind N.N.E , fine.

UlOll WATER AT LONDOMBRIDGE THIS DAY.
torn'ng 0 minutes after 1. Evening .. 3 minntei after 2."

citement to Parliament and the Administration.
The factory women and children are de

scribed (and accurately) as yearning for the
acceptance of the Bill introduced by Mr. FIEL-

DEN. A conviction that such is actually the case has
tended as much as anything to carry it so fur
through the House of Commons. May Lord Moa-

PETII'S proposition prosper in like manner ! for it is
not merely a clique that is solicitous for sanatory
reform, it is an entire community—it is not the thou-

sand that yearn for these improvements, it is the
million—it is not a class, it is a nation.

Another discussion took place in the House of
Commons last night on the question that the House
should go into Committee on the Army Service Bill.
Although the principle of the Bill was fully sanctioned
by the House on the occasion of the second reading,
the Gallant General the Member for Liverpool again
forced a debate on that principle, repeating the argu-
ments he had previously made use of, and assuming
that the veteran Commander-in-Chief was opposed to
the measure, because the advisers of the Crown had
refused to state the nature of communi-
cations of the most strictly confidential character.
We cannot, however, regret the occurrence, as it had
the effect of eliciting from the Right Honourable the
secretary at War a vindication both of the justice
and expediency of the proposed alterations, that was
perfectly conclusive in their favour. To that speech
we confidently refer all those who have fez red to put
their own opinions in competition with those of the
distinguished officers who have unfortunately been so
warped by their prejudices as to offer thnir strenuous
opposition to the limitation of the term ta• f enlistment.
Every one of the grounds relied on by its opponents
were answered in the most clear anvil satisfactory
manner, the fallacies detected, and the e;rrors refuted.
The speech of the Gallant Member for Carlow was
also in the highest degree creditable to his bead and
heart, and the astounding fact which he mentioned,
that no less than one death out of twevlty in cavalry
were cases of suicide, should alone be si tfilcient to in-
duce a Christian nation to incur any expense And to run
any risk to effect an alteration in a sy stem that led to
such frightful results. Every consideration of justice
well as of humanity calla for the change. It is not
fitting that a great nation should enter into contracts
with lads who have not attained years of discretion,
Or an age at which any engagements in to which they
eriter
ed with their fellow-subjects w ould be held
binding—.by which they would be
bnandfertheir
entire lives,—contracts in which there is no recipro-
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