The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
Th,
early Queen and Princ3 Albert took their accustomed
walk yesterday in Claremont Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess _Mice, were
taken for pony and walking exercise yesterday in the
pleasure grounds of Claremont.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took an airing in
the afternoon in a phaeton, the Prince driving, attended
by the Ecrerries in Waiting, on horseback.
The Dowager Lady Lyttelton arrived at Claremont
on Monday.
The royal dinner party at Clarement yesterday even-
ing was expected to include Lord and Lady 1)e Ros,
alsior-General Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, and Mr.
and Mrs. Spicer.
,M. George Pemberton INTember of the Leve
-'°uncil of Canada, and Mr. W. Henry Tilston, had giSlati
an
Interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday at the office
of the Board of Trade.
, Count de Raventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted
easiness yesterday at the Porei4n Oe.
Mr. E. Wodehouse M P I , . ~ vac an interviewwith ,
Earl c
~,, o. Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of
-trade.
The Secretary of War, and the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, had interviews with Sir Robert Prel
yesterday.
Colonial
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Office for the Governors of the North Ameri-
nal Provinces.

DRUR Y -I. ANE
d in
An original opera buffa in two acts (so
described in
the bills
It;haes music by G. A. Macfarren, entitled
produced here lust eveeing, and .if the
final judo of a first night audience Is, to be taken asrn.a
—"`Jaapnent then is the opera of Don Quixote alno 'l3
r7iftil!. 1129.3. successful ever produced. The libretto is by
..r...(i.• Macfarren the father of the composer of the
s.."lct and the portion of the adventures of the Knight of
'44 Mancha chosen for musical illustration is the adven-
ttlre of Cum 1 the Rich d Basilius the Poor, the
irratitat salters for the hand and Basilius the Poor, the
ope Utters for tha hand of the fair Quiteria. The
opens with a serenade by Cumscho (Mr. D. W.
Safrng,) and his companions, under the window of the.
to - .xtideria (Miss Rainforth). The serenaders are in-
wirdelstad by the arrival of Don Quixote (Mr. Weiss)
fri n(16)411°11° (Mr. Stretton), who are received in a
tie Manner, and conducted into the house to par-
theeisclf the hospitalities of the rich Cumacho. Basilins
feelings°r ,(Atr. . Allen) then enters, and gives Tent tu hist.
infant 'a a ballad, " Sweet were those hours o
antfhY''' Bichw was sun,. with such exquisite taste
eo Aliment YAllen as to elicit a loud encore ;. the
andsotilaill-thi-e7lefinitilOb:3l7 paid
to Mt evidenSly rather to the singer
e°tcposer. Quiteria appears in the balcony,
of course, a duet for the tenor and thde
ean°. which was delightfully given by Allen an
and ills Don Quixote, followed by Sancho, enters
fsnetitel"spts the lover's ald a long concerted piece.
Rai, ci' ia which Basilius appears on the balcony disd-
-41 Melt 3 lad,Y, claiming the protection of the Don, and
toista, Aileo imitating the voice of a woman, sings,.
the to 'le entitled " Alas! a thousand secret woes, in
atna.."9 admirable meek--heroic style imaginable. This..
Ism iee, whish is in itself a very pretty composition,
kiss °IIIIY encored. The Don, mounting a ladder to
s the h
scene at r-trough
to ths i and of the lady, is suddenly sized and lashad to a Is- lete°ll3'. Sancho, who gives an alarm, is duelled.e_
, and the dsop fails on a most admired
the
Of confusion. In the secon I act ws
ferird:ler of Quiteria remonstrating with her
.on
ger toi°lls aft ction for Basilius the Poor, and urging .
the
,roarr c
umacho the Rich. In this scene we have,
vdayg.(P of the opera, the song by Miss Rainforth, ".Ah .
less wl3, We love," a beautiful song, and not one whit the
thWith e'eonle from reminclina• us of a beautiful ()Id ballad,
an: ,flearly si
is styledata
milar title. - A good imitation is better
he librettiea original bet, :, arytrtiiummep. h Tslineennew,,,e have what inf
in honour o
Tittsll4ll9ll,4°,te• In this scene there is introduced a
-gereel'? c'6113, at the expense of the ducked Sancho.
-be?
.plB , a very similar chorus in the first act cf
)•ekrs Tse4ats, and if Weber 11,urished twenty
%Its i before Mr. G. A. Macfarren, certainly
ettillea Iss :let the fault of the Englih composer.
llececl ;La," a grand concerted. fine e,
ins which is in-
th: 8 IS'edenanee and a procession in honour of. Cuma-
..l4;te.iles4silare tilaltgl): jolly
a Iv chorus, g,
;and in which Don Quixote,e aided by
Anacreont,,m, bgi i
a re as. e'e as invented the Bovvl, —(we were not
*Ong in Quixote was in the habit of in-
thileh
,Allens°ligs of the "Jolly Nose" school)—and ill
,ed 1 as Basilius, sings a delicious ballad, an-
vil
tsnle al gait /ay pillow," in such an exquisitely pa_-
-qe,' 411Ittve style, and in which he exhibits such
sash sack „
aser Power ecution, and (strange. as it may seem)
a 3,41 11 ' " Would be alone sufficient to save a much
Alley .dish than this of
.Don. Quixote. There is not
ea i h. tenor singer living who could approach
%It 11 13 e .
' 410 ICeelltloll of this song. lie is, at the pre-
the tiger meat
day' ar and away the first English tenor
I of the tale is carried out in
hand era, s., The lot
aster' of golli's+ asilius pretends to be dying, receives the
h .11itio" "er;ft, immediately recovers, and, by the
st3s agars
Place Quixote,allare recon ales].
s,
As did 1 On the stage in admirable style, the
rietts°.rlnesi its artists that artists could- for it, and i the orchestra
ok;log to
c"o Part admirably. Mr. A acfarre.n has
the Presents
MitPlata of as to the manner in which tfltis4lvacisaern ~,e1 to the public. Now, with regard
th 'elatesof on it is the worls of an accomplished
‘,4l,lc)trh()4llt!'hel.S' unaTrest:ndhso has thoroughly studied and
his art—of one who has learned
titldelell esloannotbehtliught----butwho does not possess that
it •IN as 0 taualit genius. The overture, con
h. 15
41.80 anslllll2jeal alit,
exercise,. is faultiest', but
esor °lain les
eas
.? exore .g s, and if the music of tha. opera.
end t i Is 381se than that of the °verbs:so, it is be-
te. 4 ossews
largelysac far trusts less to I..“'a own resources,
kash, Prettily from his Predecessors. This opera
les 4° d ohatrraLtiged rechauffee of reminiscences, and
elks "ten's° i"1 nave ribs., but we must demur to Mr.
Peter. enaitn to beeonsidered as an original English

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TELLIGENCE.

MEETING, 1846.
les Cup of 200 sous., &c.
Mervis, 5 yrs, Est 101 b
Lyeurgus, 4 yrs, Est 10Ib
Redstreak, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
Flalowlagh, 4 yrs, Est 81b
Due an Durras, 4 yrs, Est 61b
Clumsey, 4 yrs, Est 61b
Annie filly, 4 yrs, Est 61b
Cataract, 6 yrs, 6st 51b
Miss Burns, 6 yrs, Est 51b
Little John, 5 yrs, Gst 51b
Flat'ery, 4 yrs, 6st 51b
Anti-Repealer, 4 yrs, Est 51b
Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs,
Est 31b
Columbus, 4 yrs, Est 41b
Mem', 5 ‘)rs, Est 31b
Plaudit, 4 yrs, 6st 31b
The -Magnet, 4 yrs, 6st 31b
Advice, 4 yrs, Gst 21b
Titzwilliam, 4 yrs, Est 21b
Queen Bunare, 4 yrs, 6st 21b
Vitula, 6 yrs, 6st
Best Bower, 5 yrs, sst 12ib
Mongrel, 4 yrs, sst 121 b
Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, sst
121 b
Devil's Dust, 4 yrs, sst 101 b
John Davis, 4 yrs, sst 101 b
Artist, 6 yrs, sst 81b
Arthur, 4 yrs, sst 81b
Stream, 4 yrs, sst 81b
Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, sst Blb
The Warrior, 3 yrs, sst 71b
Correct Card, 4 yrs, sst 51b
Deodara, 4 yrs, sst 51b
Marquis of Conyngham, 3
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Blackbird, 3 yrs, sst
Mercuriad, 3 yrs, 9st
Punch, 3 yrs, 4glt 101 b
Muscatel, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
Finvaragh, 3 yrs, 4st lolb
Spur, 3 yrs, 4st lOst
Brother to Sir Harry, 3 yrs,
4st 101 b
Tell, 3 yrs, 4st 81b
Billy Purvis, 3 yrs, 4st 61b
Little Cassino, 3 yrs, 4st 6lb
Elena Clara, 3 yrs, 4st

7

ENG, FEBRITAR,

1846

ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE
WAR BETWEEN BUENOS AYRES AND
MONTE VIDEO.

General Rivera was the first president of the Banda
hadOr got rid
ido Hef the- Buenosasele
ctedAi3an and BraziliannrleB3l,aft.ertheorien armies.tl
His term of office expired in 1835, and by his influence
one of his officers, D. M. Oribe, was elected his successor.
Rivera had been no friend to Rosas, President of Buenos
Ayres. He had refused in 1831 to deliver up such of
the Unitarianos as had sought refuge in Monte Video.
Oribe, on the contrary, not only proscribed these
men at the request of Roses, but formed a plea for
destroying the independence of his country by an-
nexing it to the Argentine Confederation. This was
in 1836. The national party took the alarm, end Rivera,
whom Oribe had attempted to deprive of his em-
ployment as commander in chief, putting himself at the
head of those disaffected to the Government, obtained
possession of the whole country, except the towns of
Monte Video and Paysandie, to both of which he laid
siege about the months of August and September, 1838.
Soon after Oribe made a formal renunciation of his
presidency, which being accepted by the Congress, he
retired into private life in Buenos Ayres. Rivera was
elected President is 1839 ; Oribe in the meantime
having protested formally against the validity of his
act of abdication. Unhappily, tha new President was
persuaded by the Freneli, then blockading Buenos
Ayres, to declare g war aainst Roses, under pretence that
that he had abetted the intrigues of Oribe ; but in 1840, when
great power adjusted its quarrel, "nothing was
done about the auxiliary war declared by Rivera, who was
thus left to his own resources and the effects of the. folly
of the French had all but forced him to commit." Oribe
thenceforward entered into the service of General Rosas,assisting him in all his wars, and styling himself the legal
president of the Uruguay republic,
although he wears the
Buenos Ayrean badge of servitude, a portrait of General
Rosas, etitel'ed on his coat, on a red merino ground,
surrounded by a motto, " Death to the savage Unita-
Hanes." This is also inscribed on the flag of the
despot ; which once, and we hope once only, at
the house of a British minister, mingled its folds
with those of the banner of St. George. Without this
portrait and this device no person in the dominions of
Rosas may enter a church, establish a school, fill any
public office, or serve in the army. Even the Uruguay
officers who have joined Oribe must tarnish their
honour by wearing it, or pay the forfeit of their lives.
Oribe, then, as Rosas' General, entered the Banda
Oriental ; and of the horrors of that warfare, General
O'Brien enables us to judge. He says, "At the time
that Oribe invaded the Banda Oriental with the army
and the Massorea Commissioners of Rosas, I was then
residing on my estate in the country. I am aware of
wretches being staked into the ground 48 hours, before
their heads were sawed, not cut off; of the lasso being
flung over persons' necks, and then dragged by a horse at
full speed, until life became extinct ; of spikes being
driven into the mouths of human beings, and they,
whilst living, thus nailed to trees !" After various
fortunes of war, Rivera, in 1842, sent agents to London
and to Paris entreating foreign intervention to arrange
an accommodation. In consequence of this Mr.
Mandeville, then British minister at Buenos Ayres,
On the 16th of December, 1842, addressed a note to
the Government of Roses, requiring him to abstain from
marching a fresh army into the Oriental territory.
The Monte Videans at this took heart, strengthened
their ch.feccs, enrolled their citizens, liberated and
armed their slaves, and prepared to resist the land and
naval forces already investing their city. But Rosas
paid not the smallest attention to the requirements of
the representative of Britain. His troops marched on
as before, and Mr. Mandeville, fearful of having al-
ready exceeded his instructions, did not even lift
up his voice in protest against this insult to his
Sovereign. Not so Commodore Purvis, who, in the
Alfred frigate, had come from Rio Janeiro to sup-
port, if need were, the representations of diplomacy, by
a show of British guns. Thus have matters remained
Up to the present year, when the British and French
Governments undertaking at all risks to restore the
blessings of peace to the Banda Oriental, have sen
traops to compel the bands of Rosas to retire. This, a
their bidding he is unwilling to do, preferring to tras
to the natural defences of his country in the event o
hostilities with the two great Powers.—The Union Ma.
gazine,

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

IM PE RIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Their Lordships met to-day at Five o'clock.
The Duke of ROXBURGIIE presented apetition from
Seacombe, in ;favour of agricultural protection, and
against any interference with the existing corn-laws.
Lord FEVERSHAM presented :a petition from the
landowners, farmers, tradesmen and others, of Melton,
in the county of York, against any alteration in the
corn-laws. He also presented a number of petitions
from other places to the same effect.
Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a copy of certain re-
turns from the Secretary of the Treasury, relating to
local taxation.—Agreed to.
RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES BILL.
The LOP., CHANCELLOR obtained leave to bring
in a Bill for relieving her Majesty's subjects from cer-
tain penalties and disabilities respecting their religious
opinions, and moved that it be read a first time.
Lord CAMPBELL ask:d if the present Bill was in
! conformity with the recommendation of the Commission
appointed to consider the subject last year ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to his Noble
Friend, had only to state that he hail advised Sir Ed-
ward Ryan to divide the Bill into teo Bills, and this
was one of the Bills: tile other Bill r‘ latA to the Acts
of Allegiance and Supremacy.
The Bill was then read a first dine, and their Lord-
ships adjourned till ThurfAgy.

HOUSE OF COMMOAS, Tuesday. Fcb. 3.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.
1 Mr. STuArtr took the oaths and his seat for the borough
' f New ark-upon-Trent.
g_'. MosTYN took the oaths and his sent for the city of
Lichfieij.
Mr. SPENCSII WALPOLE Lock the oaths and his seat
for Midhurst.
Mr. It YORKE presented a petition for the better
supply of water to the cii,.7 of York.

Mr. ITUDSORNiI your of
plLreWsenA
peOtNSo.ns in fa
ted Pse-Evelrnin/
the York and North Midland, and Leeds and Rugby Ex-
tension Railway Bills.
Mr. MILLS presented a petition in favour of the County
Down Railway.
Mr. SPOONER withdrew both the notices of motion
which stood in his name on the paper, with respect to
the Belfast and County Down Railway and the Newry
and Warrenpoint Railway.
Petitions were presented for the Somerset and Mid-
land Railway and the Wilsontown Railway Bills.
NEW WRIT.
A new writ was moved for the city of Chichester, in
the room of Lord Arthur Lennox, who has accepted the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Ordered.
Petitions were presented against any alteration in the
present corn- laws.
Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition in favour of
the Ten Hours' Bill.
BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD RAIL-
WAY.
Mr. STEWART presented a petition, signed by the
High Sheriff on the part of the inhabitants of Mans-
field, in the county of Nottingham, in favour of a rail.
way from Boston to Newark and Sheffield.
NOTICES OF MOTION.—RIGHT OF SEARCH.
-Captaia PECHELL gave notice, that on a future day,
he should ask whether any communication had been re-
ceived by the Board of Trade, or the Commissioners of
Excise, relative to the thirteenth article of the convention
with France, which regarded the right of search in
French fishing-vessels. He should also put the same
question to some member of the Board of Admiralty.
CUBA SUGARS.
Dr. BOWRING gave notice that, on Thursday, he
would put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet, the
First Lord of the Treasury as to whether he had received
from the Spanish; Government any intimation of their
intention to visit with retaliatory measures the com-
merce of Great Britain, if the duties on Cuba sugar
were not reduced.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
Mr. REDHEAD YORKE wished to know from the
Right Hon. Baronet if it was his intention to bring in a
Bill with reference to ecclesiastical courts?
Sir R. PEEL said that he was not prepared on the
part of her Majesty's Government to answer the ques-
tion put by the Hon. Member.—(Hear, hear.)
THE TARIFF.
Mr. REDHEAD YORKE might, perhaps, be per-
mitted to ask another question, although he had given
no notice on the subject. He wished to know whether,
in the arrangement of duties proposed by the Right Hon.
Baronet, watches were included in the reference made to
clocks. Some doubt existed among his constituency on.
this point.
Sir R. PEEL said, that if he recollected aright,
watches were separate!y classed. The duty on clocks
did not apply to watches.
TIMBER DUTIES.
Sir R. PEEL said that he was not aware whether it
was exactly regular, bat the importance of the question
to which he was about to refer was such that he felt it
necessary to take that opportunity of announcing the
intention of her Majesty's Government with respect to
the proposed reduction of the duties upon timber. He
did not propose to make any immediate reduction upon
the differential duties upon foreign timber. It was the
intention at a future time to reduce the
.present duty
of 255. by 155., with the view of insuring as great
benefit as possible to the consumer. The demand
for timber was now very great and the supply
was hardly sufficient. He therefore proposed, that front
the sth of April, 1847, a reduction of ss. should be made
on hewn timber; and on the sth of April, 1848, a fur-
ther reduction of ss. upon hewn timber should take
place. He chose April, as that was the time of the year
when a reduction was likely to be attended with the
most beneficial results. With regard to sawn timber, a.
reduction of 6s. should take place from the sth of April,
1847, and a further reduction of 6s. at the same
period in 1848. With respect to the smaller de-
scription of timber, such as spare, &e., he pro-
posed to make some reduction, but he did not
know if it would be done immediately, aid he would,
therefore, reserve his opinion on the subject. In the
course of the evening the resolutions on that subject
would be laid on the table.
An Hort. MEMBER inquired if any alteration in the
duties would take place before 1847 ?
Sir R. PEEL said that the duties would remain the
same until the sth of April, 1847.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.
An Hex. MEMBER wished to ask whether the Govern-
ment were satisfied with the operation of the Act which
was passed •in 1844 respecting the law of Turnpike
Trusts?
Sir R. PEEL would be glad if the Hon. Member
would put his question when his Right Hon. Friend the
Secretary for the Home Department was in the House.
THE GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL
MEASURES.
gir ROBERT PEEL would take that opportunity of
putting a question to the Hon. Member for Ashton-
under-Lyne (Mr. Colquhoun), or if the Hon. Gentleman
was not in the House, he might put the question to some
-
gentleman who usually acted with the Bon. Mem. ben
The Hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne had given
notice that he would, on Monday next,
meat to the motion that the Speaker leave
the House going into Committee
commercial policy_ of the country
if the Honourable Gentlemen
possession of the beads of.
There was no answer given to
_
the
was not in the Erie3.A.
move an amend-
meat Chair ore
h veuestion of the
mix.° q.
wished to know
mild put the House is
his amendment.—(Hear.)
to the question ; Mr. Col•
Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know if any further
correspondence had been received with reference to the
affairs of Cuba?
Sir B. PEEL said he thought there had been.
Lord J. RUSSELL—Is there any objection, to its
being laid on the table ?
Sir R. PEEL said he would gi •
ve an answer on;
future day.
THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. CHAPMAN.
Mr. WODEHOUSE said, that in moving for a copy
of the warrant, or other document, by which Mr. Chap.
man had been appointed Chief Judge of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, he would take leave, in the
first place, to make known to the House that he
entertained no hostile feeling towards Mr. Chapman..
It was due to that gentleman, who had received.
the highest-testimonials from the lon. Member for Lis-
keard, the Hon. Alember for Cumberland, the Hon.
Member for Bath, and the Hon. Member for Westmin-
ster, to state that he (Mr. Wodehouse) believed that
the Noble Lord, the late Secretary for the Colonies,
was perfectly justified in making the appointment.
In bringing his name before the public he was actuated
by no hostile motives, but he was compelled to do so,
because in his report, laid before Parliament, there were
innumerable errors of such a serious nature that it was
impossible for any one to pass them over. The Hon.
Member then read several quotations from Mr. Chapman's
reports with respect to the price of wheat from the year
1800 to that of 1815, which quotations he denied to be
correct. Mr. Chapman, in speaking of the price of
wheat in 1800, said that it happened to be rather
less dear than the preceding year, while the
fact was that it averaged seventy-five per cent. less.
He also said that he had no means of judging the pre-
cise quantity of foreign grain which might be let in from,
the Baltic, Poland, and Russia; but he considered.att
a considerable quantity might be expected froeser,°/louse
He also begged leave to call the attention ofetehys:a
with.
to another extract. The King of Pru.srsiaGovernmcnti
respect to the duty on corn,_ that
othreernment muciz
would not meet the English
of commercial com-
modities.longer in free interchangethe English Govern.:
He though, t 0
f creating the unnatural
meat were the occasion of
say
that he believed there
price of wheat. Be 1
wn°cl among them the lion. Memo
were various parties,narig
ii 0, who held the opinion that
bee for Durham (AY- .
Prussia VraS rit, ,ht in doing what he
pleased
the King of iiecountry. He hoped that the Parr
with the corn of . ia+
ment of this country for 45
wound recollect that yeayears!they supported themselvesoul
with out the aid of foreign corn.
He believed that the Government were leagued with
the League, and totally indifferent to the • the prosperity of the country. He
would interest anti
the other document which he now pass to
copy of a paper published in the moved for, he meant the
dispatch from H. U. Add'
United States. It was re
Canning, dated at W I ' Addington, Esq., to Mr. Secretary
as iington,on the 13th ofAugust 1827,
Nothing could be more conclusive than that letter, and
there was this
remarkable fact, that neither Mr. Cherie*
Bold (now Sir Charles Bold), nor Sir Charles Bagot,
nor Lord Dudley, made any allusion whatever at that
time to the subject of corn. The question related to
Swedish iron, hammered iron, and bar iron. Corn, irs
fact, was never mentioned. The concluding paragrap!c
of Mr. Addington's dispatch was to the effect that he had
only to add, that had any restriction on the importation
of foreign corn existed in Great Britain, the tariff would
never have passed either House of the Legislature, be-
cause the aTriculturAl states, and especially rennsyl.
Legislature,
..i. .....„-. --",,,,,,..a i..,. ~).mate enactment.'.