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The monopoly which the West Indies have so long and I THIRD EDIT lON OF " THE SUN?'
so disadvantageously enjoyed, both to the United King-
dom and to themselves, has had the effect of causing the
planters to disregard the cultivation of cotton, and hence
their bad position in comparison with the United States.
The East Indies is too far off, and the voyage, therefore,
too expensive to enable our shipowners to card- sugar as i
ballast, at a nominal freight, from India to England.
The West Indies, however, are, or may be, made
valuable colonies, and the owners of land therein will
awake from their slumbers, see their present proper
position, arid act consistently to themselves and to the
mother country. They' have at present many advan-
tages by steam, a civilised population, a cleared country
-under a regularly settled Government, &c., the happy
position of their black population will naturally, ,the
perhaps slowly, induce Africans and coloured men from
all wailers in their vicinity to make our West India
colonies a refuge and a home. It seems to me that the
-system of emigration adopted for supplying of labourers
to-the West Indies from Africa and from India is bad
and vicious; the proportion of females to males is ex-
tremtly so, and esircially so from the East Indies. The
races never did ye harmonise or amalgamate: and a
Hindoo Coolie thinks of nothing when he has no wife or
home, but getting back to the East Indies ; whereas, if
young men and their wives were brought over from Hin-
doston to Demerara or the West Indies they would settle,
colon ise in villages by themselves, and increase an-
nually in numbers. Chinamen would do the same, if a
point were made that every man must bring his wife
with him. He could not, it is true, bring a Chinese
wife of pure blood, but he would have no difficulty in
obtaining a Malay wife, and right nice women they are,
and very thrifty and cleanly, though the Malay men be
otherwise. It is not over creditable to Great Britain to
draw so large a number of the labourers for the West
India colonies from the captured slavers, no doubt,
though there be, that the poor captured negroes will be
ultimately benefited thereby. The West Indians will
but deceive themselves if they believe in the delusion
and art thereon, that the consumers of West India
produce (for they pay the piper) will long submit to
pay the expense of transporting to and from the coast
of Africa to the West Indies, and to and
from India to the West Indies. Male la-
bourers, for the sole purpose of tilling by a bad
system their West India estates. If they mean to make
the most of their present breathing time, they would act
wisely by being up and doing, and using every effort
while they yet enjoy the power, of inducing young
couples of Africans, of TIM-coolies in couples, and of
young Chinamen and their Malay wives (each male with
a female and children, if they have them), to emigrate
and to finally settle with their families in the West
Indies. It may, perhaps, be too much to believe that
the late British slaveholder has already changed his
opinion, that it is cheaper to buy labourers than to
breed them." But be this as it may, it is now, or ought
to be, out of his power " to buy instead of breeding;"
and if he be still infatuated enough to dream of acting
on that exploded opinion, and as far as in him lies do
act thereon, he must prepare himself at an early period
to see his estates pass into the hands of others more
worthy than he, who will do the needful justice to him-
self and his country, and this too, to witness this loss of
his property by circumstances which will then be out of
his power to control. Contracts I see have been entered
into by the owners of estates in the Malacca Straits
settlements with gangs of Chinamen, whereby the China-
men are to cultivate those sugar estates, and cure the
sugar fit for exporting to Europe (the latter finding im-
plements and other materials for agriculture and curing),
and the sugaas so cured fit for shipping, &c., to be deli-
vered to the owner of the estate, at the rate of Spanish
dollar per picul, or 7s. 3d. per 133 1-31bs., the China-
men to get his remuneration for his labour and capital
employed by his gang out of the price he receives for
his sugars. This is a species of farming; and perhaps
this has so far frightened the West Indians out of their
propriety, as to cause them to force Sir Robert Peel to
deal so cruelly with those young, but still the first, of
our free-trade settlements and self-supporting settle-
ments—Singapore, Malacca, province Wellesley, and
Penang at least. The Mosquito shore, Natal, and the
north half of New Holland, may all be made sugar-
producing colonies; but the white man is required to
direct and superintend his black brother in the operation
of tillage and curing. R. W.

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WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont,
Baroness de Strumfeder, the Earl of Hardwicke, Ad-
miral Sir Robert Otway, the Hon. Colonel Grey, and
Baron de Schreckenstein, visited this morning St.
George's Chapel Royal, where the royal party remained
half an hour, and after viewing the sacred edifice,
proceeded to the Royal Mews, and inspected the
Riding-school and stables.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent paid an
early morning visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert,
and also took leave of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and
Baron de Schreckenstein, took her departure from the
Castle this morning, for the Slough station of the Great
Western Railway, on her return to town.
After the departure of the Grand Duchess, the Queen
and Prince Albert took equestrian exercise in the Great
Park, attended by the Hon. Miss Hamilton, Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, and Major-General Sir E. Bowater.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyt
telton, were taken a carriage airing this morning.
In the afternoon the Royal Family were taken in the
pleasure grounds.
The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle to-day.
The royal dinner party at the Castle, in the evening,
ineltrled her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, the Countess of Wratislaw, and
Mr. aid Mrs. William Ihrcourt.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend
ancc during dinner ; her Majesty's private band after.
wards attended.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz arrived in town yesterday, from Kew, and
visited the Marehioness of Douglas (nee Princess Mary
of Baden), at her residence, in Connaught-place.
His Ro) al Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left
the seat of Viscount Barrington, Beckett House, Berks,
for Nuneham' Oxford.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and
Baron de Schreckenstein, arrived at the Paddington ter-
minus of the Great Western Railway at one o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The Duke of
Hamilton received the Grand Duchess on her arrival,
and accompanied her Royal Highness to Portman-square.
Thu Grand Duchess afterwards visited her daughter the
Marchioness of Douglas, at her residence in Connaught-
place. _ _

A deputation from the hand-loom weavers had an
interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade. The deputation was accompanied
by their Secretary, Mr. W. H. Lowe.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday, from
Windsor Castle.

Dispatches from the Governors of New South Wales,
Ceylon, and St. Helena, were received yesterday at the
Colonial office.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE JAMES
REEVES, C. 8., K.H.—This gallant and very distin-
guished officer died on the 14th inst. at his residence,
Bulstrode-street, Cavendish-square, in the 73d year of
his age. His career was most brilliant in maay quarters
of the globe, and at the important positions he held on
several remarkable and critical occasions redounded very
mueh to his character as an officer and a soldier. He
entered the army on the 9th of February, 1791, became
Lieutenant on the 29th of June, 1793, Captain on the
21st of December, 1797, Major on the 10th of October,
1805, Lieutenant- Colonel on the Ist of January, 1812,
Colonel on the 22d of July, 1830, and Major-General on
• the 28th of June, 1838. Major-General Reeves was at
the capture of the French West India islands by the
army under Sir Charles Grey, and served in the brigade
of Grenadiers commanded by the Duke of Kent. When
the Duke's Aides-de-Camp were wcuided, this gallant
officer carried the Duke's orders during the rest of the
action of Morne Tortenson. He was subsequently
wounded at the storming of Fleur d'Ep6e. He was ap-
pointed Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Dundas
in Ireland for three years, and in the rebellion of 1798
was at tkhe battles of Kilcullen and Vinegar-hill. Major-
General Reeves was afterwards under Sir Ralph Aber-
Cromby, and served under that General in the Egyptian
campaign in 1801. He was present at the landing at
Aboukir Bay, on the Bth of March, at the action on the
13th, and at the battle of Alcoa idria on the 21st
of March ; in that of Rahmanie, on the Nile, on the
9th of May ; and in the command of the Bth Regiment
at the investment of Grand Cairo, and at the surrender
of that (i y. He was afterwards in the Mediterranean,
and whin in command of the second battalion of the
27th Regiment, in 1809, was present at the capture of
the islands of Ischia and Procida. He concluded his
glorious war services in the Peninsula, from 1811 to 1813,
when- he took part in the storming of Aleoy, and in
the action of Biar. He commanded the light division
in the battle of Castalla, and in the action of the
sylvanced post at Ordal, where he was wounded,
and sent home for recovery. He was created
a Companion of the Bath for h's services, and a
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and
also received a medal for his services in Egypt. He was
appointed Lieut.-Governor of Placentia (Newfoundland)
on the 14th of June, 1819, from which appointment he
derived an income of 173/. 7s. 6d. per annum.
' THE GRAVE-YARD NUISANCE.—The recent public
exposure with regard to the practices at Spa-fields burial-
ground has had the effect of diminishing the number of
interments in many of the crowded burial-places in the
metropo:is. At Spa-fields burial-ground, where the
Average number of funerals on Sunday has for some
years exceeded twenty, they have diminished suddenly
on late successive Sundays from twenty-seven to five,
four, and two respectively, while last Sunday there were
hilt four. It will be recollected that, amongst the most
frightful cases of exposure brought before the Committee
of the House of Commons were the grave-yards of St.
Anne's Soho; Portugal-street, Lincoln a Inn-fields; St.
Martin's, in Drury-lane; Russell-court, White Hart-
street, chiefly used as a pauper burial-ground; and the
vaults under Enon Chapel, St. Clement's-lane. The
latter fertile source of disease to the district has for some
time been closed, the old proprietor being dead; since
Which the chapel has been occupied as a temperance-
hall, where balls over the remains of the dead are
Occasionally held. The crowded state of the others, and
the complete saturation of the earth with animal matter
call for the interference of the Secretary of State to
order their immediate closing. Petitions have been got
up, and are being extensively signed, for the closing of
all placei; of interment in large towns.

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SPANISH PASSIVE BONDHOLDERS!
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Do not be tempted by the trifling rise in this Stock to sell. Tour
Stock is now scarce, and remember M. Non, the Spanish Minister
of Finance, has pledged himself to propose to the Cortes a settlement
of the whole Foreign Debt of Spain. Is the Active Stock, then, only
to be converted, and our interests be neglected? Believe it not.
You 1001. Bond is now worth but 71. If you will but be firm, another
month will make them worth 171. WHISPER.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
It is respectfully announced that a Second
GRAND MUSICAL FETE,
Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated
FELICIEN DAVID,
Will be presented on MONDAY WEEK, APRIL 7,
With the original Melodies and Choruses.
Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of
THE DESERT,

produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the
Conservatoire Royal, Paris.
LE DESERT.

Ode, Symphonie, in three parts with grand
orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per-
formers. The whole under the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by
Moriani and Corelli

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF
ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe do Courcy, Mr.
D. W. King ; Catarina Colmar°, Miss Poole.
To conclude with DER FRIESCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King ;
Caspar, Mr. Stretton : Linda, Miss Betts.
The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPRI-7, Is engaged here for Twelve
Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele-
brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is
also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR,
in Donizetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LA.MMERMOOR,
for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex-
pressly entered into with Mille. EUGENIE GARCI 1.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and
Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE
GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy,
Jlr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ;
%duster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami,
fitiame Celeste.

After which, will be repeated a New Grand Epereal Exposition,
called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters
by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby ; Miss
Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin.
To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL
Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Seupper, R.N., Mr. Paul
Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING,
Will be perfortned a New Tragic Drama, called METAMORA THE
WAMPANOAGS Metamora, Mr. Edwin Forrest; Mordaunt, Mr.
Henry Wallack ; Lord Fitz Arnold, Mr. Archer ; Mahrneokee, Mrs.
Stirling ; Oceana, Miss Emma Stanley.
After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE,
will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE
SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY.
To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatie Burlesque
Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL
THE TARTAR& Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley.
Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ;
Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell.

Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming ono of
the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis !
THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
TII IS EVENING
Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. Old Martin
Chuzzlewit, Mr. It. Younge ; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews ;
Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a New Farce, entitled LO WTHER ARCADE.
Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson,
and Miss Grove.
To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying
Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and
Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according
to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange-
ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT! Dick
Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the
Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs.
Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Miss Grove.
The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
(Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.)
THIS EVENING

Will he repeated THE GAME COCK OF TIIE WILDERNESS.
Colonel Mereville, Mr. H. Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samson,
Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith.
After which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM.
To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING.
The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA.
Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Dumos, the cele-
brated French Equestrians.
To conclude with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Drama, called 3IARGARET CATCH.
POLE. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R.
Bonner, S. Cowell, licslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly., Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs,
R. Ilonner.
After which, THE IRISH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power,
Miss Heron, will appear.
To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks,
Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. 11.
Vining will perform.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated MARGARET CiTCHPOLE, The Female Horse-
stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and
Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent.
After which, HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS.
To conclude with THE KNIGHTS OF TIIE CROSS.

GAME-LAWS.—A very important display of the
feelings with which the tenant-farmers regard the exist-
ing game-laws took place on Wednesday at St. Alban's.
A numerous assembly of the tenant-farmers of Hertford-
shire was held for the purpose of entertaining Mr. J.
Horncastle, of Gammon's Farm, at a public dinner, and
presenting him with a testimonial of the admiration with
which they regard the independent and truly English
spirit in which he expressed his opposition to the very
stringent preservation of game within the last few years
adopted by his landlord, the Earl of Essex, on his estates
in Hertfordshire. The feeling of opposition to the game-
laws which was evinced by the farmers present was of
the strongest and most decided character. They see
clearly that their interests are in this matter not suffi-
ciently attended to ; and they are beginning to feel that
in other matters which affect their prosperity it is ne-
cessary for them to look for themselves. Mr. Bright,
M.P. for Durham, attended by invitation of the com-
mittee, and was loudly cheered on his entrance, About
120 sat down to dinner in the Town-hall, Mr. C. H. La-
timore in chair.

PROGRAMME.
Part I.—Entrance to the Desert.
Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of
the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert—
Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march.

• THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New and Orizinal Comedy, entitled THE
SHERIFF OF TIIE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs.
W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W.
Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c.
After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE
GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews,
J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton.
To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr.
Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley,
Mrs. Humby; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
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