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London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

MAJOR HARRIS'S TRAVELS 113 AFRICA
The New Edition of

T" HIGHLANDS of )ETHIOPIA;' beity-f
the Account of Eighteen Months' Itesidence of a British Em-
bassy to the Christian Court of Shoa. By Major C. W. HARRIS,
Author of " Wild Sports of Southern Africa," is this day published.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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IIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The first appearance this Season of Md.le. Cerito.
TO-MOUROW EVENING, MAY 4,
Will be performed Bellini's Opera, entitled
LA SONNAMBULA.
Amine, Madame Persianil Li3a, Maclaine Bellini Evino, Sig
Mario.

To conefude with the Grand Ballet of ONDINE.

Principal dia7acTir;by ;1111e.:,Cerito, Scheffer, Plunket, Ferdf.
nand, Swirllle, and Pras-i, and Meziri. Perrot, Montassu, and
S . Lean.

Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made :it the Box-
office, (YE:era-colonnade.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 3,
Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES
OF VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrispn; fount Orio
boranzo, Mr . ()Irani; Nairma, Mr& Alfred Shaw; Gerald°, Mdfe.
Albert :zzi ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
To be folioed by MY WIFE'S COME.
To conclude with A DIVERTISSEMENT from the Grand Pal
Masque of (.U.iTAVUS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET._.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MAY :I,
Will be pestonned a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. I harles Mathews; Sir Adonis
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Hamby.
Mier which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE
MILL Marquis de tticheville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine,
Madame Vestris.

lo be followed by a New, Original, Oecaiional, and Local Extra.
iniganza, founied on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
Au Even,ng with Putt Yiincipal Characters by Mr. C. Marken!,
Mr. J. IsLn.l, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horto,, anu
Stilts Lee.

Tr: conettite with New Farce entitled LOVE IN A SACK,

PitiNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, M. MADUOX. •
THIS EVENING, MAY 3,
Will be performed ror
To coociude with a new Fairy Ilurlesque Extravaganza, cared FAIR
STAR; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND•THE DANCING
WATERS. The principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul
Bedford, Oxhsrry„Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue
- And other Entertainments.

THEA DIE ROYAL LYCEUM, LA fE ENGLISH

HOUSE.
rntler the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
". Open sesame; cr, a Night with the Fei ty Thieves," continues to
he nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable audiences.
THIS EVENING, MAY 3,
Will be repeated an Original -Comic Drama, eiitired THE
THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Reeky, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, i urrer,
Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, 'Miss Grove, Miss Turner,
MD. Wigan, and Mrs. n. eley •
To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle. callel POLK A MAN IA
Characters l'y Mr. F. Matthews, Air. Wigan, 111,. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs Keeley.
-To conclude-with a Grand Burls que Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. (ha
racters by Mies Woolgar, Miss Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Turner, Miss Grove, Ms. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews; turner, lounge, Wigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr..BATIT.
Tr =pliant Succera of the Grand National Spectacle.
THIS EVENING, -MAY 3,
Will ha repeated the Hi•toricat Spectaclo of the INVATON OF
ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR; er, the Battle
of H: stiogs. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold, &c.
M. Plege on the Tight Rope. New Scenes in the Circle.
To concarde with a laughable Farce.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
THIS EVENING, MAY 3,
Will be performed, CESAR, THE WATCH.DOG OF Till
CASTLE! or the Sword uf my Fathe'. Crew, (the Watch-dot
Miss Vincent.

After which the Pop .lar Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE
OLD MAN'S gftlDE; or, the Murder r.t Norwood Vint. Sup.
ported by ?dessre. Freer, as Grand/; Nantz, as Tony Smooth;
Dale, Seaman, C. J. Bird, tiardner, Paul, Corm), James, Ml.
Arden, and bliss Vincent.

To be flowed by the celebrated " Polka Dance" every.erening.
To'conclude with the Mein-Drama, of "I OM (MINGLE; or Mat
of the Iron Hand. Tom Crengle, Mr. Freer; Mat, Mr. NAttz ;
Gypeey Jack, Mr. Corene ; Elizabeth Stanton, Mrs O. Lee; Fenny
Mias Arden.
- Private Box es,X I Is, and LI. 11e. lid.

• LJA:IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY•THEATRE
THIS EVENING MAY 3,
Will be produced a New Tragedy, entitled ocrAvu. BR A.
G ALDI ; or, The Confession. Suppoi tcu by the Entire Compsny,
a id Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New lork.
After which, THE• SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. R bin, the.
Lea iegrace, Mrs. R. Horner.
To conclu.se with- an• entirely -New Drama, -embracing-all the
strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
To conclude with'Y Domestic' Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIJI.
LAST WEEK OF MALONE RAYMOND'S IRISH
ENTERTA IN M ENT.
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S modern Miracles are
The NVo-ider of London; he is n•ghtly on his Mystic Throne crowned
with the plaud is or admiring thousands, who exclaim, " Is h.
mortal ?" He w.ll perform his extraordinary HAT DELUSION
every Evening. This wonderful f eat, which has created so peal
a sensation, is performed with
ANY GENTLEM AN'S HA r : ! !
and sh wit to be perfect y empty before he pr•duces from It a Tea.
tier Berland the Gifts of Flora.

Dress Circle, 3e. ; Gallery, Ed. Reserved Seats, and
Private Boxes can be secured at the 'theatre, and of all the Agents.
second Price at Niue o'clock.

Wors open at half-past Sevenathe Wizard appears at Eight.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

ONE SHILLING' Admission tb THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and - eztensive Collection of Misto-
ideal Curiosities and Works of .Art ever known to have been formed
by One Person, during Twenty -five years of elaborate research, at .a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to- completely illustrate, in the most In-
structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
. pcan history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111. and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, In• 1921. This unique Museum Las been visited often,
;luring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, ambassadors, a:id their Ladies,
a;so many thorts-ands of the Nobilitr and •Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very foie
pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MSS.. Works of -Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
'curiosities, iu this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it.
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
hove stated thlt It ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis-
sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.

,The NAPOLEON 31USEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian
Bail," Piccadilly, daily tram Ton till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 2.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 63; Noon, 62.
'BAROMETER, 30.5.—W1ND, E.

NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
eezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

D'GII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning •...`2l minutes after I I Evening ... IS minutes after P.

that is, ab _
was humane Br.. . •.,
creased the power of tfh...
purpose of facilitating the recover..
their wages. The House had Merry°.
Bill through its first stages; but it had been ..
on by false colours and pretences." When 4...

;.stions from Mr. Gisnonivs and
GLADSTON E said that in the course
utmost, the resolutions proposed
of the EXEHECWEE for the re.

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1 duction of duties on certain articles would probably
be adopted by the Legislature.
In answer to a question from a Member relative
to the communication with Ireland, Sir R. PEEL
said the great object of the Government was to have
a speedy communication, and, taking into account
the reports of professional men, he preferred the line
by Holyhead.
Leave was given to bring in Bills for the reduction
of duties on glass, vinegar, and marine insurances.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to
savings' banks, the, principal provisions of which are
to reduce the rate of interest from 21d. to 2d. per
day, to reduce the amount which any person could
invest in one year from 301. to 201.,
Sand that, when-
ever the capital and interest should amount to 150/.,
the interest should cease.
The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Six.

Anothermeeting of the Anti-Corn-law League took
place at Covent-garden Theatre on. Wednesday. Lord
KINNAIRD, who was in the chair, and who expe-
rienced a most flattering reception from the audience,
commenced the proceedings by an intelligent and
forcible speech, wherein he pointed out the humbug
of the reduction-ofsrent system, observing :—" If
they looked at the Morning Post and other papers,
they would see paragraphs chronicling the great
liberality of this landlord and that; of the wonderful
example he had set of indulgence to his tenants in
having at his audit remitted them ten to twenty per
cent. on the amount of their rents. Why, this only
meant that the landlord. could not get it." This is
a seasonable exposure of the. utter humbug of that
system of " generosity," as it is called, to-
wards their • tenants, for which great Tory
landholders . are so often belauded in their'
party journals. Seldom does a week pass, but a
,tatement appears in some paper or other, to the effect
that my Lord This or his Grace the Duke of That,
has generously, and of his own accord, remitted at
least twenty per cent. on the rents due to him, infi-
nitely to the delectation of the recipients of such
boou,.who are all, of course—the statement invariably
adds—lost in astonishment and admiration of their
donor's munificence. And yet now we learn, on the
unimpeachable authority of Lord EINNAIRD, that the
whole affair is a dexterously-contrived hoax ! Gene-
rosity has nothing at all to do with the matter. The
case is one of sheer necessity. The landlord, finding
that notwithstanding h's meat strenuous exertions, he
cannot get the whole amount of bis rent, and, pain-
fully impressed with the disheartening fact that there'
is no skinning a flint or drawing blood from a turnip,
resolves at length to make a virtue of necessity, and.
take credit to himself fur remitting a portion of that
debt which there was not the remotest possibility of
his ever obtaining in full. Such, it appears, is in
many cases the secret of a Tory landlord's liberality
towards his tenants ! And yet these are the men
who profess to be agonised at the idea of tLe
,priva-
tions and sufferings of the factory women and chil- '
dren, and are constantly declaring against the grind-
ing tyranny of the manufacturers! Out upon such
bare-faced hypocrisy ! Nothing is so easy as this
.heap munificence which exhausts itself in mere words,
Ind easefully steers clear of making any substan-
tial pecuniary sacrifice. The Tory landlords are
liberal to their tenants, because they cannot help
themselves. They give only what they know they
can never get, and act upon the same discreet prin-
ciple on which the valet, in the farce of Ways and
Means, acted, who magnanimously quitted his mas-
ter's hOuse when he found that preparations were in
.progress for kicking him down stairs. In reference
to .the condition of the poorer classes of the agri-
eultural population, Lord KINNAIRD remarked—
" The Commissioners who were sent lately to
inquire into the state of the agricultural labouring
classes, had furnished reports of the ,ignorance, desti-
tution, and immorality of these poor people in Dorset-
ihire,Hants, and some other counties, that would harrow.
ap One's soul. He had visited the property of Mr.
BANKES, and anything more miserable than the
condition which his tenantry presented, one could not.
conceive. • In their detached cottages, one could see
lisease brought - .on.. by want of food." After a
natter-of-fact statement like this, which Lord
iINNAIRD, it will be observed, does not give on mere
hear-say, but on his own personal knowledge, what
,ecornes of Mr. BANK.ES'S ravishing description last
year, in the House of Commons, of the flourishing
Ind contented condition of his tenants in the Elysium
,f Dorsetshire ? In that enviable spot of the earth,
''sa toll us, all were happy—all . thriving. There,
poverty, and the numerous diseases arising from it,
were unknown. The land, like that of Canaan,
:lowed with milk and honey; rents— to quote GEORGE
aORINS'S delightful phraseology—" were paid un-
solicited, with the punctuality of clock-work ;" and
:he tenants had the invaluable privilege of " picking
up dry sticks in Mr. BANKEII'S own park." Oh, if
this privilege could but be extended to St. Stephen's,
instead of being confined to the woods of Corfe Castle,
how many " dry sticks" might not be picked up
trnong the back seats of .the Treasury Bench ! We
take for granted that we shall have no more rapturous
accounts from Mr. BANKES, of the happiness of his
Dorsetshire tenants. Lord KINNAIRD'S matter-of-
t.act.statement will of course indispose him freer, in-
dulging in any such agreeable " poetical licenses" for
the future.

The debate in the House of Commons, on Wednesday
light, on the motion for going into Committee on the
` Masters and Servants Bill," terminated in another
lefeat of Sir R. PEEL'S very " powerful" Govern-
ment. By the rejection of this motion, the Bill it-
self was lost. A majority of 43, in a House of 151
Members (exclusive of the tellers), concurred in
kicking out a measure which, in the "altered shape"
or "form," as Sir JAMES GRAHAM modestly desig-
- mites the reconstructive process through which it had
passed under Government manipulation, certainly
embodied the most stringent and outrageous penal
legislation which in our time it has been ever pro-
posed to visit upon the heads of our industrial com-
munity. We conscientiously believe that there is no
m,ember of the Administration, except Sir JAMES
GRAHANt, who would have volunteered the quasi fra-
ternity the Lords, a Bill was introducA by Lord
CAMPBELL, for the more speedy reamry of debts ternity of so odious an experiment on the rights and
in Ireland. the feelings of labourers and servants. But in the
The Earl FITZWILLIAM gave notice that on Tles- face of all the storm of indignation which -Mr.
THOMAS DENCOMBE'S powerful exposition of its
day, he would move for a Commission to inquire
what points of the country required railways. enactments conjured up from all sides of the House
The Duke of WELLisicaros said, the appointment at so unconstitutional and ill-omened a piece of work,
of such a Commission, would be like shutting. the Sir JAMES persevered in pressing the House for
stable door when the horse had been stolin. judgment, with that graceful pertinacity which, is
The Marquis of NORMANDY presented a petition sure to provide some disgrace or disaster for
from-
.the working men of Edinburgh, praying the his party once, at least, in a month. He was, as
Legislature to establish better sanatory regulations usual, didactic and .sarcastic; rebuked opposition
'
Lord eAmpHELL supported the prayer of the peti- and invoked the support of the friends of Govern-
: tion, and said Edinburgh was justly entitlad to the ment with a haughty confidence that, in spite of the
_ epithet of the "Modern At! ens." invincible affectation of Ifs manner, was sufficiently
Lord BROUGHAM said the inhabitants considered transparent to indicate his own assurance of success.
: this epithet as an insult, mad had his _Noble Friend y Trull' the ship, of which Sir ROBERT PEEL is helms-
_ been still representative of ti.at city, he would notas unlucky a JONAH as
got, in, Sir JAMES,
have had the support of his constituents in what he ever was thrown overboard by those who had had
' man, 'has
Iced stated.
enough of his company. In her next venture amidst
Lord CAMPBELL their thseribed Lord BROUGHAM ' breakers we may anticipate for her, one of these days,
as an .Aleibiales, a Pericles, I
a a pelll°stilenei, that destiny to which the Lord of Netherby has so
. and the conversation (in the
.1), 1. his friends. He is
al iamentary phrase) marvellous a genius for conducting
dropped.
like Captain MARTATT'S Peter Schrifter—he never
* Lord CAMPBELL moved the - •of '
committal the Writ rails-but a storm overtakes him, and never takes up
et Errors Bill.
his berth in a craft which does not founder with all
The LORD CHANCELLOR uppos d '
Q it, and said, he who have been silly enough to embark with him.
verily believed the Bill had been introd d'
uce solely The whole affair of Wednesday was an instructive
- in reference to the trials pending in Ireland.
commentary on the Right Hon. of State's
• Lord GOTTEN HM SllppOiled the Bill, andsaid, • ' business. Secretary
anode of " doing'
nothing could be more preposterou,;. than that a party aomu •, in L. a speech meritorious alike for its clever-
' should be undergonag a punishment white a Court of -
[mess and its temperate expression, followed up the
Appeal was deliberating whether that punishrnt presentation of more than 150 petitions against the
• ought to be inflicted. We believe every man in the . Bi;:, from various parts of the country and many dis-
kingdom concurs with Lord COTTENHAM, yet the tricts of ti-a? ![metropolis, by stating the objections he
Bill was rejected without a division. I had to urge fm behalf of 22.2,000,000 of petitioners
'
The ii-:,,u,;, zdjourned at Halt-past Eight o Clock. I whom he repres.ated. He said tha;,:-..
*hose petitioners
In the House of Commons, a,',:‘,r a, variety of pro- i had truly designated the Bill as "one Of iLe most
eeeding-s which cannot be abridged more than they monstrous, oppressive, arbitrary, iniquitous, ant:
. are in the Parliamentary report, Mr. IlrysE asked ! *tyrannical attempts to oppress the working classes
. Sir R. PEEL whether there weu;.:l. be any objection to that had ever been made."- - What is remarkable_
• lay on the table the opinions of Co 1 ria sei ..
' delivered to and very characteristic, looking to the suL-rament in-
.
the Treasury relative to Arts-Union ? terposition of Sir JAMES—Mr. DuNcoMBE ' said -tr•t:,
• Sir R. PEEL answered in
the negative, and added ! .
11's original shape the Bill was a very good one ;
that the Government had no intentionof • Mr. MILES had brought it in, "its object
proceeding
against those societies,-1 proper. If it somewhat in-
The matter rested with COM-
anon informers.
- iustices, it did so for the
-,ev, by workmen, of
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