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`N 11. EAT L EAGUE FLEETING THE THEATRES.
IN COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S.
The AGGREGATE MEETING of the LEAGUE, in the M. Frederick Lemaitre and Mademoiselle Clarisse cOM-
THEATRE ROYAL, GOVENT-GARDEN, will be held on menced an engagement at this theatre last evening. The
WEDNESDAY EVENING N EXT, the 19th inst.
piece chosen for their debut was the domestic drama, La Dame
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven de St. Tropez, which has run for upwards of ahundred nights
o'clock precisely.
at the Porte St. Martin, in Paris, and could Frederick
Tile Meeting will be addressed by James Wilson, Esq., Lemaitre prolong his stay among us, we have no
George Thompson, Esq. ; and John Bright, Esq., M.P. doubt but that La Dante de St. Tropcz would have
Tickets of admission to all parts of the House may be had, as an equally long run here. In this piece, which is a dramatic
usual, at 67, Fleet-street. version of the story of Madame Latfarge, Frederick Lemaitre
Seats will in future be reserved for all Farmers who may make acts the part of Georges Maurice the Laffarge of the real
application at the Offices of the League, up to the hour of meeting, I history), and great as we knew him to be (his Robert Ma-
and their attendance, whether favourable or opposed to Free Trade, caire, for instance, must be in the recollection of all
is especially requested. • play-goers) we bad no idea that he was so
transcendently great as be has shown himself by his delinea-
' tion of the character of Georges Maurice. The scene is laid
in the year 1781, at a time when class feelings and class ha-
treds were at their height in France. Hortense (Mdlle.
Clarisse) is the daughter of a poor proud noble, whose estates
are mortgaged fir more than their value to Georges Maurice, a
rich roturier, who has been the architect of his own fortune.
Georges forgives him the debt, and asks the hand of Hor-
tense in marriage. The Count refuses, but Hortense, al-
though she dearly loves another, accepts him out of grati-
tude, and they are married. On their road to St. Tropez,
the residence of Maurice, they stop at a country inn. There
is a young man there, who has been laid up with sickness
for many weeks—and Hortense recognises her lover, Charles
Dellbeyme. They meet, she tells him she is married ; and
writing a letter without direction, which she leaves to be
given to him, rejoins her husband, and urges their instant
departure. Maurice observes her manner, and questions her.
She is agitated, but still all obedience and duty to his
wishes. The horrid truth at once flashes upon him—she
has married him out of gratitude not out of love. They
arrive at St. Tropez. Antoine, his cousin and heir, a low,
vulgar villain, takes every opportunity of insulting Hor-
tense, while Maurice endeavours by the most tender
attentions to win her affections. Madame Langlois,
a friend from Paris, visits her, observes her melancholy,
and speaks to Maurice on the subject. Maurice opens his
whole heart to her, and she promises to aid him in his en-
deavours to gain his wife's affections. The acting of Le-
maitre in this scene was chastely and beautifully pathetic.
It went right to the heart. Charles Dellbeyme, it appears,
had left the inn at the same time that Hortense and
Maurice had quitted it, and accordingly did not get her letter
which the innkeeper forwards to St. Tropez, and which gets
into the hands of Antoine, who loses no time in endeavour-
ing to rouse feelings of jealousy in the breast of Maurice, and
who in confirmation of his slanders against Hortense, which
are at first treated with contempt, produces this letter,
In a fury of rage Maurice taxes Hortense with
her crime, produces the letter, and swears vengeance
on her and on her lover. This terrific scene was
magnificently given by Lemaitre and Mademoiselle
Clarisse, and the drop-scene fell at the conclusion of the third
act amidst most enthusiastic applause. It appears that
Charles Dellbeyme has been in the habit of receiving sup-
plies from an unknown benefactor. This unknown is Maurice,
who having unwittingly killed his father feels it a duty to
support the son. Maurice gives to Antoine a sum of money
to take to Charles, and then makes a will be-
queathing all his property to Antoine's son. The will made,
Antoine conceives the diabolical scheme of poisoning Mau-
rice. Maurice is taken ill. Hortense attends him day and
night, and prepares all his medicines with her own hands.
Still he gets worse. Hortense has gone to church to pray for
his recovery—he is left alone—his physician enters, accom-
panied by another physician, a stranger. The medicine which
had been prepared for him by Hortense, is brought in by
Antoine's wife. It is analysed. It is found to contain poison,
and the wretched Hortense, on her return, is accused of being a
poisoner. She demands to see her accuser, the new physician
is brought in. It is her lover, Charles Dellbeyme. They rush
into each other's arms. The look of horror with which Le-
maitre beheld this scene was perfectly sublime. Maurice
is on his death-bed—he calls Hortense to him and
forgives her, urging her to fly from justice. Con-
vinced of her own innocence she refuses and rushes
out to give orders for her own arrest, in order to
vindicate herself. Antoine enters, and Maurice raises him-
self from his bed, and sits at his dressing-table. His medi-
cine is on a table opposite, and on looking into the glass
Maurice sees Antoine, whose back is turned to him, mixing
poison in the cup. He dashes the cup from his hand,
and at the alarm Hortense and Charles Dellbeyme enter,
accompanied by the physician and domestics of the household.
In the presence of all, he declares his wife's innocence ; and,
exhausted by the effort, dies, having previously placed the
hand of Hortense in that of Charles Dellbeyme. Nothing ,
could exceed the pathos and the beauty which Lemaitre in-
fused
into the character of Maurice. The audible sobs of
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The chinuoroustsate was crowded with the elite of fashion.

COMMERCIAL ' AND FINANCIAL
LEGISLATION.

, lords of the United Kingdom ; not by restrictive legislation,
but by a profitable carrying trade, and by throwing her
manufactures with great gain into all the markets of the
world, while the industry of other countries was paralysed
by the insecurity occasioned by desolating invasions.
In time of war the harbours of England gave her military
and commercial fleets an incalculable advantage over those
of continental Europe. Lying west of the continent, the
prevailing winds, which prevented foreign ships from putting
to sea, enabled those of the east coasts of Britain and Ireland
to leave their ports ; those of the west coasts being at the
same time safe from their position, as well as from the pro-
tection of our ships of war, cruizing in, and off; the entrance
of the English and Irish Channels. Thus, while the nations
of the Continent were disturbed in all their industrious pur-
suits, Great Britain enjoyed, from her geographical situation
and commanding harbours, peace at home, arid the oppor-
tunity of supplying the rest of the world with her domestic
fabrics and the produce of her colonies. In defiance of the
Berlin and Milan decrees, our manufactures found their way
into the heart of Germany and Italy ; while, even in France,
we clothed the soldiers of Napoleon ! Thus, although taxed
beyond all possible calculation of endurance, the natural ad-
vantages of England, and the enterprise of her people, enabled
her to withstand, in magnificent splendour, the convulsions
that shook the Continent to its foundation.
Peace for nearly thirty years has, however, transformed
the destructive pursuits of most of the Continental nations,
into occupations of productive industry. The great bulk of
their population have, since the year 1814, been engaged
generally in agriculture and grazing. Those employed in
manufactures have therefore been enabled to maintain life at
a lower cost than in a country circumstanced like England.
The commercial laws of England, France, and, somewhat
later, of Austria, have been the most unsound that the spirit
and principle of restriction could well devise. Those of Ger-
many, formerly liberal, are now highly restrictive. Those of
Spain were tyrannical, and at the same time unsound and ab-
surd. Those of Portugal inconsistent and capricious. Russia
much later adopted the restrictive system ; Sweden and Den-
mark followed the example:- The Italian States, with the
exception of Rome and Naples, have generally imposed
moderate duties. Holland has, since the peace of 1814, and
while connected with Belgium, departed from a more free
system than that of any other European country, with the
exception of Turkey, in regard to the import trade. The
present tariff of imports duties in Holland, notwithstanding
the high taxation in other respects of that kingdom, is the
most liberal in all Europe. The United States of America
have lately agreed to a most restrictive tariff, which cannot, if
persevered in, but be ruinous to their fiscal, agricultural, and
commercial interests. The South American States appear to
be governed by the same spirit as that which dictated the
commercial policy of Spain.

tion with the ports of Liverpool and Hull. Length of line,
39 miles ; capital, 1,200,000/. Reported in favour of by the
Board of Trade. Agent—Mr. Hayward.
WEST YORKSHIRE.—It appeared from the inquiries insti-
tuted by the Committee, that this line proposes to connect
Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Leeds, in junction with
the Manchester and Leeds, Huddersfield and Dewsbury, and
Bradford and Halifax Railways. Length, 44 miles ; capital,
1,000,0001. This is one of the lines reported against by the
Board of Trade.—Agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt, and Venables.
LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER JUNCTION.—It
appeared that this line commences at Leeds, in junction
with the Leeds and Bradford line, passing through Dews-
bury towards Huddersfield, and terminating in junction with
the Manchester and Leeds, half a mile west of Dewsbury
station. Length, 10 miles. The agents were Messrs. Dor-
rington, Hayward, and Ellicombe.
RICHMOND (SunnEY).—Mr. Pratt, the agent, stated that
this line commences at Richmond, and terminates on the
Surrey side of Hungerford Suspension-bridge, Lambeth,
passing through Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, and Mort-
lake. The length will be 10 miles ; with a branch of one
mile and three-qyarters to Kew-bridge.
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE —Messrs. Wright
and Smith were the agents. From their statements, it ap-
peared that the line was proposed to connect the port of
Goole and the town of Pontefract with the manufacturing
districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It was also intended,
by a junction with the York line, near Snaith, to open arail-
way communication with all parts of the kingdom. The
usual preliminary proceedings having been stated, a petition
was presented from Mr. John George Smyth, complaining of
non-compliance on the part of the Company with the star.d-
ing orders. Lands and other property, it was contended,
were not inserted in the book of reference, and that a bridge,
the ownership of which was disputed, was not designated on
the plan, according to the standing order No. 33. On this
point a long discussion ensued, and, at its close, strangers
were ordered to retire. On re-admission, the Chairman
stasnudnin_gcoluteranTEnhad
Igo.b2ee.—nseiromlpvlilleldiawmitHh.
stated the opinion of the Committee, that in this case the_
eathcote, Chair-
man ; Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Morgan O'Connell, Mr.
Packe, Mr. Acland, Mr. Evans, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr.
Childers, Mr. Cornwall Legh, Mr. Evelyn Phillip Shirley ;
Committee clerk, Mr. Freere.
YORK AND SCARBOROUGH DEVIATION.—MT. Buttner,
agent; Mr. Richardson, solicitor; Mr. Stephenson, engineer.
The petition recited that the Bill for constructing this line
had been granted last session, with the exception of that
portion of it passing through Clifton. This was owing to
the opposition which the Bill experienced from the inhabi-
tants, and from Lord Harewood, Capt. Fothergill, and Lord
De Grey. The opposition of the former nobleman being with
the view of effecting a deviation from his estates at Clifton.
The promoters stated that a deviation had been decided on,
which met with the concurrence of his Lordship and the
other objectors. The circumstance of this particular part of
the line not having obtained the sanction of Parliament in
the last session has not impeded the construction of the works
at either of the termini. The proposed deviation would have
the effect of bringing the line nearer than before both to York
and Clifton.
LEEDS AND BRADFORD.—Agents, Messrs. Burke and
Venables; engineer, Mr. R. Stephenson. The object of the
promoters is to run a branch line from Shipley to Colne, and
a line from Keighly to Haworth. Several witnesses were
examined, who proved that the standing orders had been
complied with.
MANCIIESTER AND BIR3ILNGIIAM (ASHTON BRA-NCIIEI.
This application was for making a line to connect the an-
chester and Birmingham with the Sheffield and Ashton-
under-Lyne, near Guide Bridge. After the usual routine in-
quiries, the petition on standing orders passed the Committee.
NORWICH AND BRANDON DEVIATIONS.—This is one of the
lines reported against by the Board of Trade, but the pro-
moters intimate notwithstanding their intention of prose-
cuting the Bill in Committee. The proposed deviations refer
to the Diss and Dereham branches.
LONDON AND YORK.—Agents, Messrs. Dyson, Hall,
Parkes, and Coates ; engineer, Mr. Cubitt ; solicitors, Messrs.
Burchell, Killgour, and Co., and Mr. Rose. The petition,
which was of considerable length, stated that the line pro-
poses to commence at Pentonville, passing from thence
through Hitchin, Biggleswade, Bedford, St. Neots, Hunting-
don, Peterborough, Stamford, Grantham, Newark, Lincoln,
Boston, Retford, Gainsborough, Doncaster, Wakefield,
Leeds, Selby, Hull, terminating at York, embracing, with
branches, 327 miles, and 270 parishes. The result of the
inquiries in this case showed that the number of persons to
whom it was necessary to make application between the Ist
and 31st of December exceeded 12,000, and that they lived
in all parts of the kingdom. It was proved in evidence
that to all these persons application was made in the re-
quired time, with the exception of four, and these of a
somewhat peculiar character. It appeared that the neces-
sary plans had been lodged in all the 270 parishes, but that
in one instance a plan, though lodged in the right parish,
designated it by an incorrect name, calling it Thornton-le-
Fen instead of Thornton. The next exception related to the
service of notice in a ease where the "occupier" was de-
scribed as a "wandering" pedlar, one moment at Hull and
another at Huntingdon, rendering " service" physically im-
possible. The other instance was where a person was stated
to have lived at Derby, while in reality he resided at Dur-
ham. In the fourth case the service of notice was acciden-
tally omitted. With these exceptions the standing orders
were proved to have been complied with ; the subscription
contract showed that the deposits amounted to more than
three-fourths of the estimated capital, being 250,0001., or
five per cent, on 5,000,000/. sterling. The room was cleared,
and the Committee, after a short conference, reported that,
with the exceptions alluded to, the standing orders had been
complied with. The Chairman stated that the case was
creditably got up, and that he was sorry to send it to the
Select Committee on the standing orders, before whom he
thought they would experience no difficulty. The Com-
mittee then adjourned.

INTRODUCTORY.
In estimating the elements of just commercial and finan-
cial legislation, we should not only be well acquainted with
the physical power and resources of our own, but also with
those of other nations, as regards their geographical position,
configuration, natural productions, and population. An able
legislator should also understand the political and moral
power of nations, so far as their respective governments may,
in a comparative view, be considered as advancing or retard-
ing national prosperity, or as limiting or extending public
liberty and individual happiness. Then, and not before, in
the present age of the world, can he comprehend in legislative
usefulness the wise adaptation of those elements of national
power which comprehend the income and expenditure, the
occupations of the people, and the productions of labour.
This division of legislation embraces the following subdivi-
sions :

RAVESEN,- STAR PACKETS leave the
k.if Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, at 11, 3, and 4 on Sundays at

11 and 3

From Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 94, 1, and 5 ; on Sundays at

9f and 5.
Fares to or from London.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Carriage, Ninepence.
Saloon and First Class Carriage, One Shilling.
To or from Blackwall.
Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence.
Office, Gravesend, Nov. 29, 1844.

1. Finance, or revenue and expenditure.
2. Occupations of the people, whether in agriculture, ma-
nufactures, or in any other way connected with the produc-
tive operations.
3. Commodities, whether they be of the growth of the soil,
of the productions of mines, of fisheries, and of manufactures,
or as regards the arts of wild and domestic animals, for
their skins, ivory, horns, bones, flesh, oil, tallow, and fur,
—and

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A New Subject in CHEMISTRY of universal interest—
PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by
Dr. Ryan in his daily Lectures, and on the Evenings of
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS. DURING LENT
a Series of LECTURES on ASTRONOMY will be delivered by Pro-
fessor BachhGffner, on the Mornings and Evenings of Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays. accompanied by l)r. Wallis on BRABY'S
CALOTONE,—KITE'S PATENT SMOKE-CURING and VENTI-
LATING ROOF, COWLS, LAMP, and CHIMNEY-SWEEPING
APPARATUS, and TAYLOR'S improved domestic FIRE ESCAPE,
are interesting Novelties. Two beautiful Pictures of the SHRINE of
the NATIVITY are just added to the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS.
CHILD'S CHROMATRoPE. THE PROTEOSCOPE. The
PHYSIOSCOPE. EXPERIMENTS by meansof the DIVING BELL
and DIVER.

4. Commerce, or the interchange of raw and manufactured
commodities.

The last three can only be made equitably subservient to
the first, so far as the obligations of the State justifies taxa-
tion ; no one of the three, viz., the occupations of the people,
commodities, and commerce, should be taxed at the expense
of the other.

The Music is conducted by I'. Wallis, Mus. Doc.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

REA T BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP at
Tickets, enabling persons to
BLICKWALL.
go on board this magnificent Vess'el,
with a free passage down the Blacks all Railway, and including
steam-boat fare to and from the Vessel, can be obtained between
the hours Of HALF-PAST EIGHT and FOUR. (Sundays excepted), at
any of the Stations on the Railway, except those of Limehouse,
West India Docks, and Poplar, at the following prices :—Second
Class, Is. Bd. ; First Class, Is. 10d. Tickets to view the engines
can be obtained on board at an extra charge of ls. Parties walk
directly from the pier on board the steamer, which. starts on the ar-
rival of each train.

• The Revolution annulled, at the same time, this treaty and its
liberal principles of commerce and navigation. It is by far the most
remarkable commercial treaty on record. According to its stipula-
tions " the subjects and inhabitants of the respective dominions of
the two Sovereigns shall have liberty freely and securely, without
license or passport, general or special, by land or by sea, or in any
other way, to enter into the kingdoms, dominions, provinces, coun-
ties, islands, cities, villages, towns walled or unwalled, fortified or
mifortifled, ports or territories whatsoever, situate in Europe, of the
two Sovereigns, and to return from thence, remain there, or pass
through the same, and therein to buy and purchase all things neces-
sary for their subsistence or use, and they shall mutually be treated
with all kindness and favour. Provided, however, that in all these
matters they conform themselves to the laws and statutes." The
same freedom was extended to ships and merchandise The duties
to be paid on French commodities in England were rated as fol-
lows :—Wines, no higher duties than on those of Portugal. (In Ire-
land no more than the nominal duties then paid on foreign wines.)
Vinegar, less than half the previous duty ; olive oil, the lowest duty
paid by the most favoured nation ; brandy, 78. per gallon. The fol-
lowing duties were to be lev ed reciprocally in both kingdoms, VIZ.:—
Hardwares and cutlery of all kinds, and of whatever metals, cabinet
wares, furniture, turnery, &c., not higher than 10 per cent. ad valo-
rem; cotton and woollen manufactures of all kinds (except mixed
with silk) 12 per cent.; gauzes of all sorts, 10 per cent.; linens, same
duties as linens from Holland ; saddlery, 15 per cent ; millinery, 12
per cent.; plate and glass wares, porcelain and earthenware, 12 per
cent.

JELLY AND BLANC-MANGE.

CHOLEFIE I,D'S Original CONCENTRATED
L.:7 JELLY and BLANC-MANGE require neither flavouring nor
sweetening, producing immediately, by the addition of boiling water
to the former, and boiling milk or cream to the latter, a quart of most
delicious Jelly and Blanc-Mange, equal In flavour, colour, and bril-
liancy to those prepared • y the most complicated method.

Sold in pots at Is. 3d. each ; wholesale, at the manufactory, 7,
Trafalgar-place, Kentish-town ; Cr osse and Blackwell, Woho-square ;
Barclay and Sons, Farringdon.street. Retail by most respectable
druggists, grocers, and Italian ware ousemen.

-hOTANIC WAX CANDLES Is. per lb
Ogleby's Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, ss. per gallon ; Vege-
table Oil, 4s. 6d. ; Sperm, 7s. 6d.; Solar, 3s. 6d; German Wax, Is. 2d.
per lb. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Genuine Sperm, 2s. ; Transparent,
2s. ; Genuine Wax, 2s. 3d. ; Candles, sd. and WA ; Extra Fine Wax
and White Moulds, 61d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 52s ~ and 58s. per
1121bs ; Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Windsor, Is. 4d. per Packet; Palm,
Is. 4d. ; Brown Windsor, Is. 9cl. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Seal-
ing Wax, 4s. 6d. ; Hales or Price's Composite, 10d. ; Vauxhall Compo-
site, B%d.

t M. Colbert, however, did not establish the system of prohibition,
and the duties he imposed on imports never reached the maximum of
10 per cent. ad valorem.

(To be continued.)

(From the Times.)
There are good reasons for believing that the present re-
ductions are only the steps to a more comprehensive plan
now under contemplation. The Premier almost violated his
Parliamentary reserve by an excessive anxiety to guard it,
and told the House he would intimate what tax is to come
next for reduction but for the serious mercantile inconveni-
ences such a knowledge might occasion. A far more impor-
tant and specific disclosure, however, now lies before us in the
shape of a document originally designed for the peculiar di-
rection of those in the Ministerial confidence, but a por-
tion of which we publish to-day. It is au essay on " Com-
mercial and Financial Legislation," *deb, though in perfect
keeping with the " financial statement" of Friday, is a very
bold and ample development. With the assurance that
there was the most absolute agreement on those questions
between Sir Robert Peel and the late Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, and without the least hint of any discordant
voice in the Cabinet, we have no alternative but to read in
the document before us the ultimate intentions of the present
Ministry, as far as they have been reduced to tangible form,
and as far as circumstances seem likely to admit of
their execution. We have only space this day to give
to our readers the two first introductory papers. Their
style is compendious and suggestive, but there can
be no mistake as to their drift. The freest possible
exchange of commodities, and the imposition of taxes
only for revenue, are made the basis of a scheme
which we think it due to the financial acts of the Ministry
to publish even in its present imperfect shape. The
writer, after reviewing the whole existing system, and sug-
gesting what reductions and alterations are possible under
the circumstances of the nation, arrives at a conclusion of
which it will be sufficient to mention only the boldest fea-
tures. He offers us the alternative of dispensing with all the
assessed taxes, the stamps en marine and fire insurances, and
all the excise, excepting the duties on licenses, spirits, and
malt, together with a great reduction in the customs, and
making up the deficiency with a tax of about five per cent.
on all "realised property." Or, retaining the assessed taxes,
and making up what, in that case, would be a less deficiency,
with a like property-tax of three per cent. It is superfluous
to observe that there is no real objection to such a scheme,
except what the altered circumstances of the country may
possibly interpose.

.Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Mar-
tin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

EMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.

Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, front one onnce‘to a
ound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
ittie trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license Is only I Is. per
Lnnum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
iderable incomes by the agency without ene shilling let or loss.
Application to he made (if by letter post-paid) as above.

' FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH, Price 4s. 6d.
Patronised by HER MAJESTY, his Royal Highness PRINCE
ALBERT, anlhernyalllighness the DUCHESS of KENT. •

PRIACESS'S.

R. 'THOMAS'S V succtiiiNi EUM, for
STOPPING DECAYED TEETH, however large the cavity.

Mr. Edwin Forrest, the American tragedian, appeared
here last evening for the first time in the character of
Othello. Mr. Forrest is certainly much improved since
he was last amongst us. It is evident that he
has studied his author and that he thoroughly
under:lands him. There was a subdued tenderness
in his delineation of the earlier scenes which was
in excellent taste, and seldom have we heard the address to
the senate more beautifully, or more correctly declaimed.
The celebrated jealousy scene in the third act was most
effectively given—from that moment a change came over
him—the impassioned nature of the swarthy African burst
through all restraint, and he was no longer a Venetian, but
a true child of the desert—with whom revenge is virtue. As a
whole, his Othello is a vigorous and intensely powerful
piece of acting, and he well deserved the applause which
was bestowed upon him most lavishly. Graham's lago was
excellent, and Miss Cushman's Emilia was very fine. Mrs.
Stirling was the Desdemona, and most interestingly did she
delineate the character of " the gentle lady married to the
Moor." The play is admirably got up and excellently put
on the stage. The principal performers received the usual
honours of the call at the fall of the curtain, and were much
and deservedly applauded. There was some confusion
created just at half-price by an alarm of fire. The alarm
however turned out to be unfounded, and on receiving an
assurance to that effect from the management, the audience
remained quietly in their places. The house was a bumper.

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THE MINARET PARASOL .claims the pa-
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form ; the price does not exceed that of ordinary parasols, although
a very gracefu, improvement has been effected. The attention of
Drapers and others is requested to this elegant novelty, which can be
had at any of the wholesale dealers.
OBSERVE—The silver runner is stamped with the word
MINARET.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF
TRADE ON RAILWAY S.

The following circular is issued by the authorised pub-
lishers of the Manchester Weekly S'hare List:—
" Whoever reads Lord Dalhousie's speech on the delivery
of the report of the Board of Trade to the House of Lords,
must see and understand clearly that the arrangements for
conducting the railway schemes put before it, and the general
management in all respects, have been as well and as ho-
nourably conducted as it was possible to expect ; and that,
all errors or mistakes arising from the conduct of indi-
vidual speculators, rest entirely with themselves ; for it is
notorious that the great influx of new schemes has brought
forward a host of the very worst class of capitalists, as share
speculators, putting themselves before the public in every
equivocal form to hurry on a crisis that bids fair to wind
up with very extensive disaster. If the rule recorded in the
oldest book—a book in every one's possession—be ofany value,
the present is a fit period to respect it—' He that buildeth his
house with other men's money, is like one that gathereth to
himself stones for the tomb of his burial." The safest prin-
ciple for all interests, and to avoid dangerous and unruly
speculations in scrip shares, will be for Parliament in future
to prohibit their circulation, by compelling subscribers to new
projects to keep the bankers' receipts till an Act is got, or re-
jected. When got, the holder of the receipt being the real
partner, becomes registered, and has his registered certifi-
cates delivered to him, with which he may trade as lie
pleases, with the best safety to the public and himself. If
an application for an Act be rejected, the Directors should be
forced to return to the subscribers, on their presentation of
the bankers' receipt, the divisable part that remains after the
account is made up, and thus end all further liability ; other-
wise the litigation and delay that may be set up will fritter
away the fund to the last penny.
" The gambling on foot at all the places where share busi-
ness has any sway, is now prevailing to an unusual and
frightful extent, and calls for the most prudent caution. At
Manchester we have two rooms for conducting share busi-
ness ; and notwithstanding the influx of brokers on the
public Exchange, their dealings with each other is rendered
so very inconvenient to the mercantile community, as to be
unreasonable and unnecessary annoyance, requiring better
regulation should it not immediately subside ;—for after the
lists for the day are printed at five o'clock, the business of
share dealing is carried on in the public Exchange till the
latest hour of its close, and the published lists are thus ren-
dered in a degree misleading or valueless to the interested
in such matters.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.

The room was well attended, and business, although
sluggish in the early part of the day, improved towards
evening, and on the whole was tolerably brisk at the
undermentioned prices .

CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's lot
9 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria
16 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone'q The Era
18 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity—taken
22 to 1 ag,t Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings's Celeste—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence—taken
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Strathspey—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Zanoni—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour
30 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Agriculture—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare
33 to 1 agst Lord George Bentinck's Pug
33 to 1 agst Mr. Williamson's Extempore
45 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella
50 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Seaport
50 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Master of the Rolls filly
2,000 to 35 agst Mr. Davies's Yheomun ac Knuc—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Foigh•a-ballagh—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. J. Day's Portrait—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Coleman's Devil's Dust—taken

1,000 to 15 aist Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid.
With the exception of Pug and Pride of Kildare, who were
entirely out of favour, every horse comprised in the above
return was backed ; the investments, however, were of mo-
derate amount, and the alterations few and insignificant.
We ought to mention that a commission to lay against Semi-
seria to the amount of 601. was executed at 12 to 1, but with
only a momentary influence on her position, as no one would
bet more than 9 to 1 at the close.

" JOHN RAILTON AND SON, Blanchester
" Feb. 15, 1845."

THE STOCKPORT FORGERY.—THE QUEEN v. JOHN
KENYON WINTERBOTTOM.—On Saturday the Judges (with
the exception of Mr. Baron Alderson, and Justices Maule
Williams, and Wightman,) assembled in Sergeants'-Inn
Hall, to consider the objections reserved by Mr. Baron Gur-
ney on the trial of the prisoner at the lats Chester Winter
Assizes. The circumstances of the case must be fresh in the
minds of our readers. Mr. Welsby having been heard at
considerable length in support of the objections, and Mr. V.
Williams in support of the inictment, Lord Denman said the
Judges would take time to consider the points raised before
the gave judgment.
COLD WATER APPLICATION.-4t Marlborough-
street Police-court, on Saturday, a stable-keeper, named
Wm. Greenaway, of Norton-street, was fined 5/. for throwing
buckets of cold water over two gentlemen, one of whom en-
tered his stable, finding the door open, on a pressing emer-
gency, and the other afterwards accompanied his friend to re-
monstrate against such treatment.
THE RECENT GAMBLING TRANSACTIONS.—The
prisoners in this affair, the trial of which we have reported, were
brought rip for judgment on Friday. The Court declared that the
facts of the indictment were proved, but that as the parties had played.
arc' parole, and money did not pass so as to constitute the offence. of
swindling, provided for by Art. 405 of the Code, no convictionoirilviled,
take place. The persons in custody—viz., Walker,
Lambert, Peyronuet, and Emma Cayo, wers thercelf.orrazee_:a:eiqvukiitatiti.,dg.
Baring, as we have already stated, was not in custbool,3.:. r
• stated do not
up its judgment, the Court says, " Thus,
thetBbaut it was right to
come within the application of any pensithlta.
prove them, not only in the interest of public morals, morals, but In order
that there might be no doubt as to the conductti of
who were right in refusing to submit to consequences complainants,
neceof such
re
frauds." On
testeuy his
judgment being pronounced, Walker fell down in a fit
of convulsions, and was
prisoners, and the municwipitahl gnureargdrsre
d.s. inoante
tclifn;nnueldainitec,ielh teaispsoinld bystatnhceem.beii lng
l fello
e
was thus carried out of Court, ai
given
him,was in a short time restored to his seises.---alignool.
DEATH FROM OvER-EXERTION.
r. Payne held
an inquest last night, at the King's Arms, Free-school-street, Horsley-
down, on the body of Peter Hall, aged seventy-five years, lately living
at No. 1, Queen's-place, Free-school-street. The deceased went to
the vestry-111111,1SL John's, Horsleydown, on Saiurday morning last,
for the purpose of receiving a hundred weight of coals, which were
being distributed among the poor inhabitants of the parish. The
coals were placed on his shoulders, which he Succeeded in getting
home, and on placing them in the cupboard fell backwards andn
ex-
pired
without a groan. The surgeon was of opinion that the do-
ceased
died from the rupture of a blood-vessel near the heart, consc
quest upon the over-exertion. The jury returned a verdict of " Na-
tural death, accelerated by over-exertion."
, THE L MON BY Mu RDER.—Jane Crosby, the
wretched woman who murdered her datpliter, Sarah Ann, aged
seven years, by burning her to death, having since her confinement
hr Carlisle gaol been deprived of spirituousi liquors and laudanum, her
n•i
spirits have become much de, and ntsh eis at present in a very
disconsolate state. It appears thatek the defence intended to be set up
on her trial is, that she was rivet C077,p0.5 MCIZAS.
John Dugdale, Esq., a wealthy cotton printer, at
Manchester, has lately become the purchaser of the Crathorne estate,
near Yam, Yorkshire. The price given for the estate is 75,4501.,
Comprising the baronial manor of Crathorne and 2,200 acres in a ring
fence. The property had been in the poSteniOn of the Crathorne fa-
mily fora very long period.