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London, England, 1844-05-09 00:00:00

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oetory of a Flirt," &C. 3 vols.
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6. HANDLEY CROSS, a Sporting Novel. By the Author of
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. The BARNABYS in AMERICA ; being the Sequel of The
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WILLIAM HOWITT.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signor FORNASARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub.
Scribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS
BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING, May 9, when will be
performed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre,
ZAMPA.
Camilla, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Bellini Zampa, Sig-
nor Fornasari (his first appearance in this character) ; Alfonso,
Signor Corelli • Daniel Capussi, Signor F. Lablache ; and Dan-
doia, Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character).
After the Opera, the celebrated Pas de Quatre, from " La Lac des
Fees," by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mdlle. Plunket, and M.
St. Leon.
DtdAfter wich, the Second Act of NORMA, by Madame Grid,
Fayhauti, Signor Lablache, and Signor Mario.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableaux, by M.
Tarot, entitled
ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADE.
The Scenery by Mr. W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor
u i.
frincipal characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer.
dinand„ Mdlle. Plunket, Barville, and Mdlle. Adelaide
preset ; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon.
Applications Colon Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
will
Comm Opera nade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will
commence at Half-past Seven.
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. HARRISON.
THIS EVENING. MAY 9
Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count
Arsaheim, Mr. Borrani • Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison;• Devilahoof,
Mr. Stretton ; Arline, 'Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss
Betts.
At tha end of the
.first act of the Opera, a Grand MISCELLA-
NEOUS CONCERT
After the Oper, the Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER.
;MOOR. Edgardo,a Signor Salvi ; Raimondo, Mr. Boranni.
To conclude with the last Act of the Opera of THE BRIDES
01 VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison; Count Ono
Bonny), Mr. HOTTalli • Naiima, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle.
Albortani ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. Sd. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 58..
/Second Price 35.; Pit 36 , Second Price 2a.,• Middle Gallery Si.,
/Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery 11., Second Price 6d.
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER.
THIS EVENING, MAY 9,
Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir
John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews ;
Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.
**gamut, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Even,ng with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Matnews,
Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
piss Lee.
To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 58. ' • Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, Is. ; Pit Is.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performancesl
commence at Seven
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box-
office, from Ten till Five. •

PRINCESS'S THEATJ. RE,I. M OXFADDOXORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. A.
THIS EVENING, MAY 9,
Will be performed a Comic Drama, called BLASE ; or, The Man
in search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Wright ; °roofer,
Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper ; Madame
Pipou, Mrs. H. P. Grattan.
To be followed by the Petite Drama, called THE GREEK
SLAVE. Sir Henry Norton, Mr. Fitsjames; Dr. Robertson, Mr.
Granby ; Lord Betton, Mr. Higgie ; Zelda (the Greek Slave),
Aladame Eugenie Prosper.
To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALFIELDS
WEAVER.
After which, BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
o conclude with the Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the
M
.day Bride. Patrick, Mr. T. Hill; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert;
Rhrßhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
__

Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
s. Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
thshienable audiences.
THIS EVENING, MAY 9,
will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs.
'Coolly, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner,
Varnald, Miss Woolgar' Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner,
Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, will be produced a new Comic Drama' called THE
LOVE BIRDS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews,
Younge, Mrs. Woollige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin,
Miss Grove, and Miss Fortoscue.
To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK A MANI A
Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
t.:!•7 SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha-
rm:tem bc Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Turner, Miss Grove_, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
Ch
and MTS. Keeley, Messrs. F. blathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan,
Yarnold, and aplin.
_PRICES OF A.DMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 45.; Upper
Sops, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 25. ;
Upper flexes, is 6d. ; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
I(bhclifiing eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
Tler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
poxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea.
AST- LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Grand Attraction.
THIS EVENING, MAY 9,
VVIII be repeated the Historical Spectacle of the INVASION OF
ENG,T,AND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; er, the Battle
of Haity.vs, With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold, ..4e.
Entire Change of the Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
th the Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET
To conclude wl`.
MINE; or, the klincidPs of the Ruby Cliffs.
The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
commence at seven. Box-office opened daily frem ten till four. The
private boxes have been reConstruoted and decorated with care and
splendour.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

AVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,
FOR T HEHIS BEEVENING MAY NEFIT OF MBARNES.
T 9,
Transcendant Success of Miss Barnes' Tragedy of " Octavia Bra-
galdi"—an entirely New Piece, and " Whitarlars" at half-pBR A-
rice.
Will be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA.
OA LDI ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company,
,Mse Charlotte Barnes, from New York.
After' which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA.
To be fo.'.4oWed by THE CAPTIVE. The Captive, Miss Barnes.
To conclu 49 with an entirely Now Drama, embracing all the
strong el the c-4 the celebrated work, eutitlei WHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
ofßee, from Eleven to ,our.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is getting more
and more mysterious. He nightly introduces new wonders.
His Mystic Temple is thronged with most brilliant audiences,
who proclaim him to be the only legitimate Professor of
Modern Magic, the very ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic
enornena. Ho performs more wonders in one night, than all
other Professors could accomplish in a month. The " Great Wizard
or the North" has no rival no equal in Europe or the world. He
wilt be fouhd nightly
atHome," Plucking from his Mystic Caul-
iron NEW. MAGICCOPICAL EXPERIMENTS of Natural Phi-
-1 .sophy, bringing from any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the
*Ms of Fizgra.
Between tic parts of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH
will perform his new instrument, the CRYSTALOPHION.
Mr. PHILIPS, the Banjoist, will nightly appear. The THREE
INFANT ARABS, Seven, Nine, and Twelve years of Age, ge
through a new and original Performance.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Pit. Is. fki.; Gallery, 6d. Reserved Seats, and
Private Boxes can be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Agents.
%Second Price at Nine o'clock.
Doors open at Half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
03. TH SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLDON• MU-
sieal Eolf, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of llisto
r Curiosities and Works of Art over known to have been fo ed.
ny One Boson, 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 impoCROMWELL,E rtant part of uro-
pean history, cis.—CHARLES 1., OLIV and
',LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
STAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited eften,
,during the hst and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
NW/Wins-ton, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
0144 many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
prietor ligs recently been able to increase, by several very fine
pictures, tr.e., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MSS., Works
,of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
ititiOolties, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
Aralto be,. 4 National eta. en Many thousand have Inspected it,
Aral THIWItY PitINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
hito statidthatit ought to be so by every one. The price of admix •
h,gibis is 7e AP SHILLINC,I.
The •NAPLEOSI MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian
Han," mospliT, daily from Ten till Dusk.

Tirr', E.B.WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 9.
rritraist _ , Lowest, 51; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 67.
t 'B.A.nomirrEn, 30 04.—WIND, S.W.
iblors.4The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
flat. IniArint, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
tistok sP4jk.M opposite 30, and rain at 29.

STAiliTi AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAT.
3,724/ainutt.`a after 6 I Evening... 21 minutes after 7.

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LONDON, THIIIISDAY, MAY 9, 1844.

The Anti-Corn-law League still continues to hold
its weekly meetings at Covent-garden Theatre, and
the crowds who flock to hear its speeches stir! continue
as. numerous as ever. What stronger proof than this
ton-ld be adduced of the justice, the common sense,
and ,the policy of the principles which it advocates ?
League appealed merely to the passions and
prejudic es of the people, instead of grounding its
claims to consideration, on their calm, unbiassed
judgment, it would long ere this have lost its
Prestige, and sink, like ;other ephemeral clap-
traps, into. insignificance : but it has preferred
rather to appeal to the intelligence and interests
of the community, and its appeal has been
triumphantly answered. The very opposition
that it has encountered has tended only to, increase
its influence, and stimulate its energies ; and perhaps
the very best thing that could have happened. for the
cause, is the establishment of
by
eProtection 'Society,
'whose egregious sophisms, coming into direct
contrast with .the strong, clenching arguments of the
free-traders, b p.ve enabled even the most thouobtlegs I

and superficial to see the immense superiority of the
latter, in point of reasoning. At last night's
meeting of the League, Mr. WARBURTON de-
livered one of those plain, emphatic, hard-hitting
speeches for which he is so remarkable, and, alluding
to the progress of free trade, said :—" There was
another instance which there was cause to con-
gratulate them on, not only in having their prin-
ciples acknowledged, but also in having, in the reduc-
tion of the price of sugar to the consumer, a prospect of
reaping the benefit. He said that, because he thought
considering all the opposition that the landlords and
the West India proprietors gave to the principles of
free trade, they ought not to bear too hard upon a
Minister who had even but partially carried the princi-
ples of free trade into effect." We cannot agree with
Mr. WARBURTON that it is inexpedient to " bear too
hard" upon Sir ROBERT PEEL, merely because he
has from time to time given a cold, reluctant, hesitat-
ing support to the doctrines espoused by the League.
On the contrary, we think that a constant pressure
should be kept up against him ? he should be squeezed
without mercy, for it is thus only—as he has himself
hinted in no very ambiguous terms—that anything is
to be got out of him ; and in exact pfoportion to the
vigour of the squeeze will be the extent of the conces-
sion. If forbearance is exercised towards him, he will
immediately, with his usual tact, allege that forbearance
as a proof that the public interest in favour of free trade
is on the decline, and adhere with more tenacity than
ever to the RICHMONDS, the BUCKINGHAM, and the
rest of that amiable, intelligent, and most disinterested
squad ; but if he be urged and remonstrated with in a
bold, downright spirit of perseverance on every suit-
able occasion, the chances are that in time he may be
brought to make those concessions which it is in-
finitely to his discredit as a sagacious statesman that
he has so long withheld. To appeal merely
to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sense of justice is
perfectly hopeless ; the thing has been tried a
dozen times already, and has failed as often ; he is
accessible only through his apprehensions and his no-
tions of expediency, and these can only be roused by
the League's boldly resolving, and persevering in its
resolution, to give him no respite, but beset him in-
cessantly with its vigorous importunities, which it is
bound to do, representing, as it does, such vast masses
of the intelligent and industrious portions of the com-
munity. We are glad to learn, on the authority of Mr.
VILLIERS, who briefly but significantly alluded to
the subject last night, that it is the intention of the
League to make every effort in its power to procure
the return of a free trader for South Lancashire.
This is a struggle well worth making—as much, per-
haps even more so, than the late triumphant struggle
for the representation of London ; and should its issue
be fortunate—and we see no reason why it should
not be, if the advocates of free trade exert
themselves with becoming vigour—an immense im-
pulse will have been given to the League; the sphere
of its influence will have been widened tenfold; and
the crazy, unwieldy fabric of Monopoly will have
received a shock, the decisive effects of which not all
the Protection Societies in the world will enable it to
overcome.

The approaching contest in South Lancashire is a
subject of such interest and importance at the present
crisis, that it behoves all free-traders, not only in that
electoral district, but throughout England, to spare
no pains to ensure success, for they may be assured
that, to a considerable extent, the great question
between Monopoly and Free Trade is staked upon
the issue. A sudden vacancy in the representation
of such a constituency must, under any circumstances,
create considerable difficulties in all parties; there
are rival claims to be adjusted, family interests to be
considered, private jealousies to be conciliated, and
inveterate prejudices to be respected. If the League
were regarded as an ordinary political party, these
circumstances would create perplexities which might
seriously impede its course ; but now the League
stands before the world as a national association
formed for national purposes, and, therefore, all that
is merely local must be placed out of sight on the
present occasion. The free-traders of South Lan-
cashire must not look so much to what would please
themselves, as to what they have led the nation to
expect at their hands. England looks not to them
for a man of any particular family, or connected with
any particular interest ; the general body of free-
traders, which has come forward at their summons
throughout the country has little knowledge and less
care about local connections, prejudices, and asso-
ciations ; they look to see a great principle asserted,
and they care as little about the name, family, local
influence, or conventional position of the person
chosen to represent that principle, as they do about
the colour of his hair or the cut of his coat ; they ask
for " free trade," not this or that free-trader.
Under ordinary circumstances such a wealthy and
numerous constituency as that of South Lancashire
would have a right to require a combination of varied
qualifications in the candidate offering himself for
their representation. But they have themselves ap-
pealed to the constituencies throughout the empire to
merge all qualifications in the one great principle in-
volving not merely the prosperity, but the very
vitality of England's commerce and manufactures,
and they are bound to give an example of the ex-
clusive devotedness which they have so strenuously
recommended to others. We are glad to see that
the Council of the League has already addressed the
constituency in this spirit, putting forward not a man,
but a principle ; canvassing for a national object, not
for an individual or a party.

Many, we doubt not, are ambitious of the honour
of representing such a constituency as that which is
now vacant, and the task of selection may perhaps be
difficult and invidious; but the free-traders of South
Lancashire have so often given proof of the un-
bounded confidence which they repose in their
leaders that we believe they will not object to any
one who has satisfied those leaders of his steadfast-
ness in the cause of free trade, and his unflinching
determination to use every exertion to bring the war
against monopoly to a successful issue. Under such
circumstances the canvass should not be delayed until
the candidate is named, for the individual candidate
is about the least important person in the struggle ;
the free-traders of England are not so much in-
terested in procuring for any individual, however
worthy or exalted, a seat in Parliament, as they are
in obtaining a triumph over a system of ruinous mis-
government, pernicious in its present effects, and
threatening to be still more destructive in its future
consequences.

We never remember an election in which national
interests were more directly involved in a local con-
test, and we are therefore anxious to impress on the
constituency of South Lancashire, not merely the
importance, but the absolute necessity, of sinking
everything local in the great national object. The
electors must vote for free trade, and for nothing else ;
attention to any other consideration is a breach of
confidence to the thousands and tens of thousands, who,
at their call, have come forward to aid them in the
great struggle against monopoly. When the Lom-
bard cities, in the olden time, took up arms to defend
their liberties, some dispute arose respecting the
choice of a standard-bearer, but the dissensions were
ended when the soldiers exclaimed with one accord,
"We will fight for our banner by whomsoever
borne !" They marched forward to assured victory,
and so trifling did the dispute respecting the coveted
banner appear, that history has not recorded to whom
the standard was committed on the day of battle.
Such should be the policy of the electors of South
Lancashire ; they are to struggle for the success of a
cause, and not of an individual, and their battle-cry
should be "Fight for the banner of Free Trade by
whomsoever it may be borne 1"

At the Mansion-ho Saturday last, one of
of
ff
those cases occurred Mansion-house
heartlesson oppression on the
one hand, and domestic suffering on the other, which
painfully depict the penaltiessu that social legislation, in
this as in every other European
r capital, visits upon
helpless poverty. That the rights of property should
be capable of prompt and easg
the first conditions, as well as ymortdiintelligible signs,
of that high civilization to which the community must
have attained where the processes for
their vindication
are to be with so much facility invoked. It is lamentable
to think that the results of their exercise are perhaps
a daily source of incalculable misery to some of the
most forlorn and desolate of our fellow-creatures,
struggling against the temptations to crime and dis-
honesty and violence, through the most bitter physical
privations, and under the keenest sense of mental an-
guish. Surely such a case as that to which we are
referring imperatively calls upon the Legislature to de-

vise—if not some landlords' guarantee of less stringency
and peremptoriness, yet, at the least, some tenants'
protection against its tyrannous abuse of its terrible
powers. It is instructive to observe, in the case of
the poor victim of such an abuse in this case, ELLEN
MYERS, how a failure of punctuality, which it is
scarcely within the pale of human possibility to avoid
at all times in the transaction of human business—a
delay of three minutes (!) in the payment of a week's
rent, may involve the hopeless and irretrievable ruin
of a poor, industrious, unprotected woman ; and how it
may give to some unfeeling ruffian, clothed with a
"little brief authority," an all but safe impunity in
enforcing, with savage pertinacity, against such a suf-
ferer, the inconceivably oppressive enactments of a
scandalous and atrocious law : for, taking the facts
as they appear in the report, we fearlessly apply
these epithets to a law which, it seems, from the
LORD MAYOR'S admission, may subject the pauper
debtor of four shillings, in three minutes after the
period has lapsed within which she might have re-
ceived a quittance upon that payment, to five shillings
and sixpence (nearly a hundred and fifty per cent.
additional) expenses ! The most capricious savagery
of mob law, or revolutionary tribunals, never dictated
any principle of payment more despotically unreason-
able.

ELLEN MYERS is a shoe-binder, lodging in some
one of the miserable tenements which swarm in the
vicinity of Bishopsgate, and had contracted a debt of
4s. to her landlord. One of those people who earn a
hard-hearted livelihood by " collecting rents" and
distraining on the goods and chattels of needy tenants,
a species of legal scavengers who perform that work
which other men shrink from, under warrant of the
law, by wringing from the wretched the last rags and
shreds which have clung to them in the last stages of
their destitution—a broker, was sent by the landlord
of MYERS to distrain upon her goods. This man's
man—for the law will have deputies for its officers
down to the last and most_ binding of them all (who
compels payment of the last debt of our common
nature)—calls on the young woman, and tells her
that if she can contrive to pay the amount, 45., in
twenty minutes, no expenses will attach to the war-
rant. She runs off to some neighbours, and returns,
as she assures the LORD MAYOR, within the time
specified ; but then a demand of ss. 6d. additional is
made, and BROWN threatens to sell off all her goods if
she refuses to pay the whole sum of 9s. 6d. With
the utmost difficulty she raises the amount, and pays
it to BROWN, who refuses to deduct a farthing
from his demand. Under these circumstances she
appeals to the LORD MAYOR for redress. On inves-
tigating the case, the broker, one BROWN, impudently
pleads that as the young woman had returned too late
by nearly five minutes, it was proper to demand the
expenses. The wretched complainant solemnly af-
firms that far from being over, it was within the time
allowed to her by CAPEL, BROWN'S man, that she
brought the rent ; and she states that a little while
since BROWN " had threatened to be even with her,
and do for her; and she was afraid he would be."
CAPEL, examined by the LORD MAYOR, admitted
that the young woman was only three minutes over
the time; and then BROWN, with the cowardly
instinct which always prompts such bullying and
cruel natures against those whom they have already
wronged, interposed that "the landlord wanted to get
rid of MYERS, for she was a bad 'un." The unhappy
girl, on this fresh outrage, referred the LORD MAYOR
for her character and good conduct to the respectable
employers whom she had served for four years ; adding
" that she had paid her landlady four shillings only
the night before, and had never experienced such
cruel treatment." We hope not. Such cases are
a disgrace to a Christian country—infamous to
those who countenance or direct such iniqui-

tous oppressions. After all, the LORD MAYOR
expressed his regret that he could not punish
the fellow BROWN, for his charge, but held

him to bail for twelve months for threatening the
poor complainant; and he then gave her the amount
of the extra costs. Is such a landlord and tenant
law as this to be upheld in times like these of indus-
trial distress and penury ? And are such creatures
of an abominable law as BRowx and his man to be
permitted, on the wonderful security of their oaths,
forsooth (we presume that he is a " sworn broker"),
i to be permitted any longer to administer it ?

Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re-
ceived, and fully confirm the accounts already
published of the alarming fall in Spanish Funds by
the change in the Ministry. A Ministerial paper, the
Castellano, admits the fact in these words, " The opera-
tions on the Bourse commenced to-day under the in-
fluence of the news that the whole Administration
was about to be changed. The Funds fell to 29, then
rallied to 29i for cash, and 30 at sixty days. After-
wards on the news spreading of the Cabinet's resig-
nation having been accepted, the Funds 'experienced
a disastrous fall." In fact, they were offered as low
as 28i. They rallied a little, and on the Ist instant,
the Three per Cents. closed at 291 for cash, 30 at
sixty days, and the Fives 21 at sixty days.

The Paris papers in general simply announce the
formation of the NARVAEZ Cabinet. We are not
surprised at this. There have been so many new
Cabinets since the flight of ESPARTERO, and the people
of Spain have fallen so low in public estimation, that
any change of government hardly deserves notice.
The Government, the army, the church, and the
nobility, are evidently favourable to the old system of
despotism, and in a few months probably the Cortes
and the Constitution will be formally, as they are in
reality, thrown aside like old almanacs. The Consti-
tutionnel, almost the only journal that condescends to
make any remarks on the " Sabre" Ministry, evi-
dently anticipates such a result. " The accession of
NARVAEZ to power," it says, "may give rise to various
conjectures, but whatever those surmises may be, the
political meaning of this Ministerial revolution is evi-
dent. It is no other than the result of a restoration.
In the time of EsPARTERO it was the reign of the
Exaltados. A defection of this party overthrew Es-
PARTERO, although the OLOZAGA Ministry was com-
posed only of Progressists. A fresh defection throws
the power into the hands of those who brought to the
moderate party the zeal of fresh converts. Now the
old Moderado party govern alone, and the new Cabinet
brings back Spain to the time of the ministries of the
Duke DE FRIAS, or of Count D'OFALIA. If this re-
trograde movement continue, it will bring into power
the authors or the partisans of the Estatuto Real, of en -
lightened despotism behind which Carlism can alone
be found."

Little has been published in these journals lately
about a commercial treaty between England and
France, but the exposition made by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER has called new attention to the
subject. When France finds that England will make
no reduction of the duties on wines and brandies until
France exhibits more liberal commercial views, and
there is otherwise little chance of raising these articles
from their present state of depression, the Govern-
ment may deem it necessary to show something like
an intention to act on reciprocal principles.
The Globe, a Ministerial paper, throws out the fol-
lowing, probably as a feeler, on the question :

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equer, has disappointed those hopes. It would ap-
pear that the British Cabinet refrained from adopting a mea
sure so important until the Customs Bill, now before the
French Chambers, should have been discussed, and that the
question relative to foreign threads and linens should have
been definitively solved. Notwithstanding this adjournment,
negotiations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of the two
countries have been opened by the English and French Go-
vernments, and will be prosecuted with greater activity dur-
ing the interval of the session. Persons engaged in the wine
and brandy trade must not, accordingly, lose all hope. The
question is adjourned, and not decided, and sooner or later it
must be settled in the interest of the extension of the com-
mercial relations of the two kingdoms."
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It is stated in some of the journals that negotiations
for a commercial treaty between England and Naples
have been again renewed, and that the conditions will
prove highly favourable to British interests.
The French Funds continued to advance. On Tues-
day the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 65c., and the
Fives at 122 f. 40c.
THE BOURSE—TuEsDAY, MAY 7.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French:Five per Cents•• .• .. 122 05 .. 122 25 .. 122 05 .. 122 15
Three per Cents.•... 84 60 .. 84 65 .• 84 55 .• 84 60
Bank of France
LafAtteßank, I,ooof. Sharesll67 50 .. 1170 1167 50 .. 1170
11003 i
5,0001. Shares 5162 50 —5162 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50
Belgian Bank.
Belgian Fives, 1831.
1006311
110063 f
1840 ........ 6

1842 .....: 104 1081 108}
Spanish Active ...... 32* 32i 32 • • 32
Threes 35 .. 354 .. 35 .. 36i
Passive 6 .. 6 .. 6
Portuguese Five per Cents— 464 .. 46t 46 .. 464
Neapolitan . •• ••• .• 102 .. 102 05 .. 102 .. 102 05
Roman, ex 419.• • • ..... •• • • 104 104 .. 104 .• 104

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