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taxation which levies thirty millions per annum on
toiling artisans and producers, whilst this amount
ought to be paid, as the Legislature contemplated it
would be, by the wealthy consumers of the products
of their labour ? ' Nothing. Behold the account of
work " done and performed"—of the work yet to be
achieved before the close of the session !

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which require for their salutary and efficient working
mature discussion and frequent previous appeals to
the judgment of legislators and the feelings of the
people, whom those legislators purport to represent—
should be, as to their principles, affirmed or nega-
tived. The remainder of the session, after an Easter
recess, is always all too brief for an accurate, a care-
ful, or even a conscientious examination of the details
of Bills which have been introduced prior to that
period. Now let us see what operations, coining
within this class of public business, the Administration
of Sir R. PEEL has hitherto accomplished.
By favour of the House of Commons, and a sort of
well-bred acquiescence in the House of Lords, which
is always reluctant to take any course that may have
the appearance to the Court of opposing obstacles to
routine State business, brought forward by the accre-
dited Ministers of the Crown—a great proportion of
the annual estimates have been voted. So far as the
departments cf the service of the country, therefore
are concerned, provision may be said to have been
made for them at an early stage of the year. It must
be allowed, too, to the credit of Mr. GOULBURN, a man
of less plausibility and modest pretensions, but, we
are disposed to think, of much sounder talent than his
Right Hon. Leader, that he lost very little time after
THEAFItE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LA re ENGLISH OPERA_ his financial project, in proceeding with the Bills, Sec.,
HOUSE. forming part of the machinery required for working
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
The Pubic is respectfully informtd that this theatre WILL OPEN his measure for the conversion of the Three-and-a-
on EASTER MONDAY, April S. with an drss by Mrs. Keeley.
After which, wi 11 e produced a New Cemedietta, in 'two .cts, . half per Cents. Then, with regard to railway legis-
entitled II ASP/ CONCLUSIONS. A rincipal hal acteis by Me-srs.
Diddear, F. Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and tion, badly as we were disposed to augur from the un-
Mrs. Keeley. meaning, aimless speech of the President of the
To be follc.wed by A New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST
OF IioNOUR. Characters by Ntess-s. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, Board of Trade some weeks ago, the Third Report of
J. Collier, St..nton, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the heatre Royal,
the Select Committee ;on Rail ways',(which we reprinted
Adelphi, her first appearance at this 'theatre), and Miss Grove.
To conclude with an entirely new Grand Burle que C airy Extra-
vaganza, called r SES A 31E; or, lire Forty Thieves. , ha-
meters
sterdey) has more than kept faith with the public.
meters by Nli,s Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, btis as to any promises made by or on behalf of her MA-
Turner, Mi,s Grove, M a. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, tuner, lounge, Wigan, ' yEsTY'S Government) touching the progress of the
Yarnold, and t haplin.
PRICES OF Al) MISSION.—First Price— 'oxes, 45.; Upper Committee's labours on that subject. But with these
Boxes, ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; items we fear we must say,
Upper Boxes, is 6d. ; Pit, Jr. Private Boxes on the Balcony ier , . our catalogue of the
(holding eight person.), two Guineas Priva el' oxes on the second achivements of the Premiers Government must end.
Pier (honing eight peiso,.s), *me Guinea and a-Halt. Private
Boxes on the Pit I ier (holding six persons), One Guinea. Free Ad- What are the questions—the isstant, urgent, im-
mission 'rickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly
Transferrable tree Tickets (for the first [cony nights), 'three Guineas. portunate, vital questions, with which it has not
Doors open at Half-past six. Performances begins at Seven o'clock.. yet grappled ? What are the classes, burden-
hampered, starving, stern, and desperate, who have
been vainly knocking at the doors of Parliament six
years past, and have announced a common term to
the limits of this session and their own endurance,
whom the sagacity of the Premier has disarmed of
their hostility? The large amendment of the poor-
law—the present relief of the hand-loom weavers,
and the provisions of some permanent security
against their perpetually recurring seasons of hideous
destitution—which of these objects has the Premier
entertained to the extent of suggesting any remedial
or precautionary measures in reference to them ?
Ireland, he told us, in 1840, as he had before said
in 1835, was his principal difficulty on coming into
power. Did he intend, by the State prosecutions
instituted under his orders against O'CONNELL and
the other Repeaters, or in the mode adopted, with
his sanction, by the law officers of the Crown in con-
ducting them, to remove these difficulties ? Has he
yet taken one step to conciliate the estranged
elections of the Irish people ? The whole case of
Ireland —of its accumulated wrongs and their in-
definitely postponed redress—has advanced no further
this session than the revision of the Standing Orders,
and the renewal of their anomalies.
Abortive Bills for extending the jurisdiction of
County Courts, facilitating the recovery of • small
debts, reforming the whole system of our Eccle-
siastical Courts and their jurisdiction, and re-
gulating the hours of employment in factories,
have been brought in—with the sanction of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government, or by some one
or other member of it. As they have been
brought in, so, to all appearance, they are likely to be
carried out : that is to say,—" scarce half made up,
and that so lonely and unfashionably" that RICHARD,
l)uke of Gloucester, himself would have been ashamed
to stand godfather to them! The obstinacy of Sir J-
Greene:sr on Irish Church, Factory, Prison,
and Pour-law legislation is emulous of the Premier's
on Free-trade, and Corn, Currency, and Banking.
Precious hours were lost in the vain endeavour to
justify the heartless denial of a pension to the widow
of a gallant officer who had fallen in a duel, with the
laurels which he had won in China, in his country's
service, yet green upon his brow. The Premier dili-
gently pressed the authority of official precedents to
warrant the pedantic harshness of the rule to be ap-
piled to the dead; in forgetfulness of similar delin-
quencies on his own part, and that of other surviving
duellists, his colleagues in the Government of ex post
facto and of individual-persecuting penalties. The
interests of millions of poor consumers, among his
countrymen, of sugar, tea, and corn never broke in
upon the self-complacent flippancy with which he
pronounced judgment against "the widow and the
orphan" for the folly, already atoned in his blood, of
the valian soldier, lost to the country as well as to
nem. In the intensity of his zeal to fight the battles
of his party, the Premier permitted the Brazilian
sugar debate to close—so far as his inter-
pretation is concerned—all hope of the British
consumer's being allowed to avail himself of
a market in which that produce could be
available to him. Subsidiary questions as to the
evasion by Foreign Powers of slave-trade suppression
treaties, languished out of the notice paper under the
blight of Ministerial discouragement within the
Lords and Commons, or disappeared in the limbo of
dropped motions, which opens when a " No House"
is dexterously managed to let them slip through to
their untimely fate. The Oregon Territory, which
is the main topic of popular debate, declamation, or
desire throughout the whole area of the United
States, is a " blue chamber," hitherto, of which our
official Bashaws will not trust the key to any of the
indiscreet Fatimas connected with him in Downing-
etreet or 'Whitehall. Commercial treaties, and the
treatment, by our ally, of poor Queen Poeream,—are
subjects which are alike taboo' d. Parliament must
not ask,—the people must not know,—the Govern-
ment must not reveal,—one tittle about them, " at
present." At any proposition for a vigorous remon-
strance on the part of Great Britain against the exe-
crable tyranny of the traitor NARVAEZ, or the fiend-
ike brutality of the monster RONCALI, in Spain ;
at any proposal to urge the Queen of PORTUGAL to
dismiss from her counsels the incompetent and un-
constitutional Ministry of CABRAL ; our Premier
assumes an aspect of mysterious terror and suppli-
eating wonderment, as if he feared that by delibera-
• tion on the one matter we should find ourselves in
the dungeons of the Inquisition next morning; and
by going into the other, resuscitate the vengeance of
Poet DAL against all impugners of the pure wisdom
of the " Most Faithful Majesty."
But if such have been the timid, drowsy, irreso-
lute, and dawdling course of Parliament, under the
correction of such a Premier, on questions nearly
affecting oar foreign commerce and our foreign
policy ; it has been more eminently inert, feeble, and
desultory upon matters that touch us nearer home.
On affairs that come horns to every man's business—
affect every man's present and future position, or his
social and civil relations—the Government of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, and, therefore, the Parliament, have
been up to this time ominously silent. What has
communitythe
s diffusing industrial
bsNe'leionsedonfeam3i7htinfgor
throughout the length and breadth of the land, vainly
soliciting employment on the one hand, or living
?razes, if they be employed, on the other? Nothing.
What is it intended to do? Will the Premier wait
till that which should he given—and which,
given,
would be received with gratitude and affectionate ac-
knowledtement—will be extorted by the organisation
of numbers, and the strong hand of desperation?
What has yet been done in preparing for the re-
newal of the charter of the Bank of England, and the
adjustment of the relations on which joint-stock and
country banks stand to that establishment ? Nothing.
But after the recess Sir ROBERT PEEL intends to
look into these affairs. What has been devised for
the re-establishment of our monetary system on
sounder principles, and in anticipation of the repeal
of the Premier's Bill of 1819 ? Nothing. What
course has been determined on touching the con-
tinuance of the infamous property and income-tax
of the profound financier, who, by such devices, sup-
plements a deficient revenue in the nine- and-twentieth
year of profound peace ? Nothing. What plan has
been organiaed lathe relpodellirg of a whew of

THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.
Immense Attraction for Easter.
It is respecttlilly aro.ounced, that- the Administration of th •
Academie Royale, Par is, having consented to a piolougation of the
',once If M. Duprez, this eminent Artiste will sing Three Nights in
the Easter Week.
MONDAY EVENING, APR'L 8,
Will be performed the opera of GU ILLAUME TELL Arno'd,
Duprez ; Gessler, Mr. G. Horricastle • Milli.= Tell, Mr.
*lreton Lutern, Millie. A lbertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer;
Martha, Miss detts
To conclude with the revived Melodrama of THE TALE OF
MYSTERY. Count 3onamo, Mr. Selby; Count Romaldi, Mr.
;doper; Michelli. Mr. Harley; Selina, Mrs Stirling.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Ss. rid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 58..
Second Price Is.; Pit 3s Second Price :4.; M,dule Gallery is.,
Scoond Price Is.; Upper (faller) Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
M 6. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
•
Return of Madame Vestris and Mr C. Mathews.
ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL fl,
Will be performed a Now Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus
MT Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs Hurnby.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL Marqui, de Richevitle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.
vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Even.ng with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Matk,ews,
Mr. J. bland, Mr.. Caulfield, Mrs. (Mover, Miss P. Hortoa, and
Miss Lee.
To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor
RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed " Le Petit Mercure."
The Eox.ottic..! willbe open on Saturday, April 6.
Orchestra Stall 4, ss. ; Roars, ss. ' - Pit, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, Is. . Half-price—Boxes,
_3s. ; Pit, tbs.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6 H
d. Doors opened at alt-past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven •
'rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box-
office, from Ten till Five.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 8.
Tne RE-OPENI NO of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI-
THEATRE of AR I'S (under the management and sole proprietor-
ship of Mr. BA FTY), with its Treble Rotation of Equestrian
and Dramatic Spectacles, and. u iequalled Scenes of the Circle, and
Batty's Matchless Stud of beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c.
Mr. Batty, in announcing the Reopening of Astiey's for the se-
cond season of his management, begs respectfully to _cquaint the
Nobility, flentry, and public that, encouraged by the flattering
success during the past year, and finding the Theatre not suffi.
clently commodious for its numerous p .trons, he entered into an
extensive arrangement w.th Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi—
'tient builders of• Lambeth, for the re-constructing on a magnificent
and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre,
which has beets rebuilt, dress boxes enlarged, upper boxes widened,
and pit and galleries extrisively improved. Fourteen glass lustres
are added, and a Grecian dome ceiling, with entirely new srenuid
classic decorations, and gorgeous appp•nntments, which, with the
ti,st-rate talent to be ,offered, he presumes cannot fail of obtaining
that support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the
last season. The grand Easter national Spe:tacle will combine Ali the
splendid historical effects of the Noi wan Conquest of Englind,
produced by dr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque olyhipique will in-
troduce un qualled equestrian taleat, and the d0u...1e company com-
prise talent of the highest older..
The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
commence at s yen. Box-othce will beopened on Saturday, April 6,
and continue so daily from ten till four. The private boxes, have
been reconstructed and decorated with care and splendour.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

okrl Dti E's ROYAL SURREY THEAIKE
The most splendid Easter Entertainment ever presented—Everything
New—Supi orated by the First Talent in the World.
EAS'CER MONDAY, APRIL 8,
'Will be produced an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
strong effects of the celebrated work, eutitled vVHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
A fter which (First Time) THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup-
p, nod by all the leading Favourites of the Establishment.
To which wi I be added the Wonde►fol Perforraanc., of Herr
HENGLER on the Coale Elasuque, and the Carlo Family in their
Unrivalled Oymnastiques.
To ceuciude with (never acted), a Drama of peculiar construction,
entitled BARAK JOHNS iN ; or, The Blind Witness.
Places and Private Boxes to be had at Air. Kerschner, at the Box-
o ce, from -Eleven -o Four. •

LOVE'S P:.)LYPH')NIC ENTERTAINMENTS,
CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRANR
Mr. Li IVE has the honour to announce that he will RESUME
HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTER TA INMENTS, and
LEC I URES 'on LIFE and CHARACTER on EASTER MON.
DAY, and wiil co tinue the same oha the following WE.)NESDAY
and tRIOAYi He wall introduce much Novelty, which 114 s been
long in preparation, with entirely New; and Appr-priate Mutative
Costumes and Appointments.
Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening.
On MONDAY, April 8, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A
WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLoTHING; and other Entcrtainme ts.
On WEDNEio ,Y, April Pl' LOVE'S REMINISCENCES;
with MINE HOS P'S Di LE 4MAS ; and other E lertainments
On FrIDAY, Ap:il 12, LOVE IN A LLSHAPEh; vrith LOVE'S
LABOUR'S WS I ; and other Entertainments.
Particulars in HandbillA. D iors pen at Half.past Seven; begin
at Eight. Admission, Is. 6d.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d.

TIIE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AP= IL 3.
THER3zomETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 56.
BAROMETER, 29.95 —WIND, S.W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

H WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUS ILLY.
Dforning C minute after 3 I Evening ~.21 minutes aft r 3.

SECOND EDITION.

THE BOURSE,—WEDNEsDAY, APRIL 3.
First Highest Lowest

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 16;44

One of the most affecting cases of suffering and
destitution we ever remember to have read of, was
made known yesterday at an inquest held by Mr.
WAILLEY, on the body of WILLIAM BROWN, aged one
year and eight months, the son of a poor shoemaker,
residing at 27, Alsop-mews, Dorset-square. On the
jury viewing the corpse, they were much struck with
the extreme cleanliness, though evident poverty of
the apartment; but their attention was more particu-
larly attracted to the emaciated forms of the parents,
and five or six young children by whom they were
surrounded. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased,
without any previous illness, died suddenly, while
sitting on his father's knee, on the afternoon of Satur-
day last; and it further transpired that the wretched
parent had been out of employment for seven weeks,
and the only means of subsistence he had was, by
pawning, one by one, his articles of clothes and fur-
niture. He had not applied for parish relief, as he
had the greatest abhorrence of " pauperising his
family ;" more especially, he added, " as he had
once been a respectable man in the parish, and
had sat on juries before the Coroner, in
cases similar to his own." In summing up the
evidence Mr. WAKLLY observed,—" This was a case
of real distress. The jury had gone to the house and
found the child lying dead, without a coffin, the
mother and six children sitting round in a state of
starvation, and without a farthing in the world to
-obtain subsistence I Yet not one word of complaint
was made, and had not the jury made the discovery
themselves, in all probability the real circumstances
would not have been known !" It is too much the
fashion in these days of fastidious refinement, to
consider , the destitute and helpless as reck-
less, desperate beings, who are prone to guilt from
the circumstances of their situation, and utterly
wanting in a sense of justice, consideration, and prin-
ciple. Here, however, is it case which proves just the
reverse, and we mentioned a precisely similar one
that was heard a few days since at one of the police-
offices. In the instance immediately before us, we
find a rigid sense of self-respect, honour, and high-
minded principle rising superior to all those tempta-
tions with which squalid Poverty never fails to beset
her victims, and coming out of the tremen-
dous ordeal unscathed ! Had the parents of
these starving children rushed out into the streets,
and snatched a loaf from the first baker's shop they
came to, the offence would have been a perfectly
venial one ; and dispassionate Justice, taking the miti-.

gating circumstances of the case into consideration,
would have relaxed the frown on her brow, and
leaned to the side of Mercy ; but nothing of the
sort appears to have been attempted; the almost ir-
resistible temptation was successfully struggled
against ; and the parents of this famished family,
with a heroism and magnanimity above all praise,
preferred rather to die a lingering death by starvation,
than to know themselves, and let their children know,
that they had stooped to the crime of theft! And
so they sate with their surviving children round their
uncoffined boy, awaiting in silence and resignation
the welcome hour that was to dismiss them all from
life ! If ever there was a case deserving of public
sympathy; this is that one; and we hope that those
who, at the call of the Bishop of LONDON, have sub-
scribed so lavishly for new churches, will not forget to
subscribe at least the " widows' mite," for a case that
is a thousand times more deserving of their conside-
ration.

We are glad to learn by accounts from Madrid of
the 28th ult., that no military executions had taken
place at Carthagena, and that in all probability there
would not be a repetition of the horrible scenes which
RONCALI had enacted at Alicant. The Corporation
of the city had entered into negotiations with the
General, and while these were going on the insurgent
leaders, with the assistance of the chief authorities,
made their escape in a steamer. The intelligence
from Madrid is otherwise destitute of interest.

HIS DAY.)

The Three per Cents. were done at 35* for cash,
and 36i at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 231
at 60 days.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday,
M. GARNIEE PAGES brought forward his motion for
the conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock. It was
merely a matter, he said, involving the equilibrium
of the finances, and it ought not to be forgotten that
the conversion would produce the not contemptible
saving of twelve millions of francs a year. He con-
ceived that the reduction of interest would be parti-
cularly useful to agriculture and manufactures; The
first thing necessary for work of all sorts was capital,
and as long as interest was kept high agriculture
would in vain, from loans being exceedingly onerous,
make efforts to develope itself, and 'manufactures
would be incapable of resisting foreign competition.
As to the fitness of the present time, there were three
conditions to be observed in juding of it—everything
was secure in the foreign relations of the kingdom ;
all was safe at home ; and there existed commercial
activity and health at home and abroad. The Minis-
ter of Finance admitted the right of the State to
make the conversion, but did not consider the present
time opportune for such an operation. He conse-
quently opposed the motion. On Wednesday the
debate was resumed, when the Chamber divided, but
so equally, that the President could not say on which
side was the majority. On a ballot being taken, there
were—for the motion, 154; against it, 163: majority
for Ministers, 9.

The accounts from Naples in the Paris papers con-
tinue unfavourable. It appears from letters received
from that city, that an insurrection had taken place
at Paola, a town on the coast of the Mediterranean,
in which a colonel and several officers had been killed.
Reinforcements of troops were on their march for
Calabria.
:On the Paris Bourse the Five per Cents. improved
in consequence of the opposition of the Government
to the conversion of that stock. On Wednesday, the
Fives closed at 122 f. 80c., and the Threes at 83f. 20c.

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents 122 45 .. 122 60 • • 122 40 • • 122 40
Four-and-a-Half..— 110 50 .. 110 50 .• 110 50 .. 110 50
Four per Cents. •• • 105 80 .. 105 80 .. 105 80 .. 105 80
Three per Cents.— 83 1S • • 83 15 .• 83 10 • . 83 15
Bank of France • • ...... 3160 ..3160 .. 3150 • • 3150
Lafiltte Bank, 5,000 f. 6haressl4o ..5140 • • 5140 ..5140
Belgian Bank .
Belgian Fives, .. • ..... • . 1054 .. 1054 • • 1054 .. 1054
1840.
1842
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .• •• • 604 • • 604 .. 604
.. 604
Spanish Active ............344 .. 344 • • 344 • 344
Threes 34 384 .• 38 .. 38
Passive . 74 . • 74 • • 71 ..7
Fortagnese rive per Cents • . 47 • • 47 46f .. 46
Neapolitan . 101 25 .. 101 40 .. 101 25 .. 101 40
Roman lO6 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106

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