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London, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

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POTLE:IGN.
The Moniteur of Tuesday contains the following Ro3 al Or.
donnance, dated Monday, signed by the King, and counter.
signed Marshal Scutt, appointing a successor to the late M.
Humann, as Minister of Finance:— •

" Louis Philippe, &c.—We have ordained, and do ordain, as
fellows Lacave Laplagne, Aleinber of the Chamber of
Deputies, is appointed Minister Secretary of State of the De-
partment of the Finances, 'in place of Al. Humann, deceased."
The death of M. Humann is the principal, and, indeed,
only important subject in the original columns ol this morn-
ing's journals. The Debate has only a few lines of comment.
It says:—

" 'Elie sad event which deprives the King and France of the
services of an able and enlightened Minister, who was sin-
cerely devoted to the Revolution of July, has inspired us, as it
will, we are sure, inspire all just and impartial men, without
distinction of party, u ith a profound sentiment of affliction
and regret."
The foilowicg is from the Constilutionnel :
" When the tomb opens for a statesman is not the time to
revive the remembrance of our sad disputes. 117. Humann
had lately supported a policy which we should not like to see
triumphant; but that is no reason why we should undervalue
the solid qualiti. s of this able financier, and the services which
he had rendered to his country as dt puty, as peer, and as mi-
nister. He was, without contradiction, one of the most no-
portant of the present Cabinet, and at any period it would be
difficult to find a man in the Ministerial party of so much
talent and of such high reputation amongst financial men.
His presence in the Ministry was a guarantee for order and
regularity in the Treasury.
The Cuurrier Francais says :
"M. Humann was pertinacious of his. own opinions, and of
their prevalence in the Cabinet. In the discussions which
arose his colleagues were wary of contending against him,
from fear of a dislocation. Delivered from their dicta►or, will
they become more free in their movements—work the better,
and be stronger? We, for cur part, take leave to doubt this.
If M. Humann was at times a clog to them, he had a determi-
nation of purpose—a quality which will be wanting on the eve
of the elections. A 7. Humann possessed the confidence of the
Chambers, which frequently take for firmness that which is
only obstinacy."
From a statistical account recently published it appears that
the agriculturists of France possess the following number of
animals:—

Oxen and cows
Merinos sheep....,
Common sheep.—
Hoises and mules
Pigs

6,681,000
. ........ 766,310
30,845,552
1,656,000
3,900,000

4:;,849,162

Dr. Antonio Espalier°, brother of the Regent, and chaplain
to the Queen, died at Madrid on the 17th. It is said to be
the intention of the Regent to have him buried with great
splendour.

PARX.I.II,I°4 ENTAILY.
The Lords received some Bills from the Commons, and some
petitions against the Corn-laws ; they appointed a Select Com-
mittee to examine Lord Denman's Law of Evidence Bill, and
they adjourned.
In the Commons, Mr. Divett reported that Lord A. Paget
was duly elected for Lichfield; and Sir E. Hayes reported that
Mr. Hornby was duly elected for Blackburn.
From the Southampton Election Committee, Mr. Reding-
ton reported that a Mr. Mabson, who had been served with the
Speaker's warrant to bring before the Committee all the papers
in his possession on the subject of that election, had sent away
part of those papers after he received the warrant, and had not
produced them.
To enforce the authority of the House Mr. Redington
moved that Mr. Mabson be committed to Newgate ; but sub-
sequently altered the motion to bring Mr. Mabson to the bar.
To the bar he was accordingly brought, and after being ques-
tioned, Mr. Redington moved that he be committed to the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. A debate, which lasted a
considerable time, and employed all the legal talents of the
House, ensued. Mr. Hodgson Hinde moved the adjournment
of the debate, but was defeated by 166 to 16. In the end it
was decided, we believe, that Mabson should remain in custody
of the Sergeant-at. Arms.
The House was principally occupied for the rest of the even-
ing by two motions of Mr. Wallace, the first of which, to bring
in a Bill to reduce the number of Judges of the Court of Ses-
sion, was lost by a large majority; the second of which, relative
to defaulters in the Post- otfice, was withdrawn, Mr. Wallace
consenting to receive an abstract of the information he sought.
The remainder of the business was of a routine character.
The House rose at One o'Clock.
polnasac OPINION.
In a leading article suggested by the late riots at Dudley,
the chronicle observes :—" Against the real tyrants of the
poor, and plunderers of industry, we hate no wish to stimulate
violence—may the remote chance of its occurrence move them
to a timely penitence. It would be idle to suppose that this
country can have peace or 11 st while the sense of wrong, and
the gnawings of hunger act upon large masses of the popula-
tion. The storm breaks upon one species of property to-day,
. and to-morrow on another. People must have food ; enough
of it; and purchaseable by their means; er the framework of
society will go to wreck. It will not do for the pendulum of
party merely to vibrate between abuse of the suffering master
and punishment of the excited workman. It has never yet
been proved, nor can it be, that cheaper food and more em-
ployment for the labouring population are only chimerical or
Utopian notions. The firm conviction of a large portion of
the intelligence of the country is, that they are, to a consi-
derable extent, within the reach of legislation and govern-
ment. Should that not be the case, there is but one just and
humane course left ; that is, by a large sacrifice of property
to locate the surplus population where it may be able to supply
its own wants. We are not driven to that necessity. No
party denies that something can be done; although the present
triumphed over the late Administration for making the attempt.
Only the earnest and honest application of the Legislature to
the subject is necessary. But it will not be achieved by new
Corn-laws, art Income-tax, or such a tariff as, after all, we
are likely to obtain."

The herald makes the following remarks, in an article on
the subject of Spain ,—" In the politic schemes of marrying the
as yet unmarriageable Queen of Si ain, about which two of our
contemporaries have lately gossiped, there are two or three
matters entirely overlooked. Spain has a constitution and a
Cortes ; its youthful Sovereign has or will have a woman', af-
fections and will, and time and events are great destroyers of
human designs. The Spanish people will doubtless permit
their Queen to choose a husband for herself, without paying,
much attention to the wishes or objections of any other mo-
narch.• Spain is not in the leading-strings of either-France,
Austria, Russia, or England, and interference in its domestic
concerns by an ally, or• by all its allies combined, will be
treated by the Spaniards as it deserves; it will be resisted, and
we sincerely trust successfully repelled. If the Spanish nation
possesses a tithe of the spirit which we believe it still possesses,
it will resent, in its earliest initiation, any attempt on the part
of Europe to marry Queen Isabel to any Prince, either of
common or individual choice—of any choice save one of her
own unprompted will, there being no national impediment to
that choice. The success, indeed, of such an attempt would
probably be the commencement of the ultimate overthrow of
constitutional Government in Spain ; no nation can be con-
stitutionally free when it is subject to any interference on such
a matter as the selection of a husband for its Sovereign."
The Times, speaking of the inequalities of the legacy duties,
remarks as follows:—" We would rather see the inequalities
remedied by abolishing the legacy duty on personal, than by
attaching it to real, property. Scarce any tax is more oppres-
sive in its operation than this. At the very moment when a
family, deprived of its head, and principal support, is least able
to spare any of the means which he has lett behind him for its
maintenance, while they are at a loss perhaps how to carry on
the business which he has left behind him—embarrassed by
difficulties which his experience alone would have been able to
meet—deprived of sources of emolument which rested upon
his life—at this moment of all others the tax-gatherer is sent
in to demand his per centage on all that the deceased has been
able to save for ti eir benefit. And it is no slight addition to
the painfulness, though not to the injustice, of the impost, that
its exactions are enforced on persons at a moment when the'r
circumstances entitle them to every consideration, and make
them peculiarly sensitive to anything which comes in the
shape of a hostile intrusion. We should wish then to see an
entire abolition of the tax ; but we are aware this cannot be
effected hastily or alone."
The Post says--" The question, whether or no landed pro-
perty shou!d be taxed by a legacy duty as personal property,
we admit to be one of much interest. But of all the times
that could have been thought of for discussing the subject in
the House of Commons, surely the most unfit was that chosen
by Mr. Elphinstone. The House bad just agreed to tax landed
property by sevetspence in the pound upon the income derived
.from it, when up starts this philosopher to propose a new tax
upon the same etescription of property. This was absurd, and
worthy only of the muddy brains of the new Member for Mon-
trose. Even Mr. Elphinstone ought to have been ashamed of
it. A proper time, doubtless, will come when the question
will be fairly argued in the House of Commons, and a definite
judgment be come
.to upon it both by the House and the ptiblic.
In the meantime, all we wish to say is that obviously the most
exaggerated and e roneons opinions are held as to the amount
likely to be realised from a duty upon the descent and inheri-
tance of landed estate not greater than that now levied on per-
sonal estate. They who speculate upon a very large return
must surely forget that the absolute property in landed estate
is not inherited once for every fifty times that absolute pro-
perty in personal estate is inherited. They must forget also that
landed estate generally descends to a direct representative, and
would, therefore, pay the lowest rate of duty, while personal
estate very often goes to strangers, and p ys the-highest rate
of duty "

13/101\TEY—TILA.DE—COMMEILCE.
At Liverpool bade has shown an improved spirit this week.
On Saturday 4,000 bales were sold at improved prices, and
4,500 on the subsequent market-day.
It is stated tliat upwards of 3,000 persons, emigrants, will
leave the different ports in Devon and Cornwall, during the
months of April and May.

Y., raw

AND POLICE.

At the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday, Rfr. Geo. Delian-
son Clarke, a patent-agent and late proprietor of The Inventors'
Advocate, underwent another examination. His Belgian ac-
counts, he said, were so complicated that it would require a
skilful accountant for six months to make them intelligible,
when Mr. Commissioner Evans said, " unless you give in cor-
rect accounts, I shall never pass you." A question was then
put to the bankrupt, which he refused to answer. A warrant
for his committal was drawn up, but seeing good cause for
changing his mind, the examination was continued, and finally
adjourned fora week. The Commissioner said, the debts were
11,000/., and the creditors were not likely to obtain 6d. in the
pound.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
M. llumann, we omitted to mention in his memoir on Wed-
nesday, was born in 1780, so that hisrleath occurred in his sixty-
second year. He was a citizen of Strasburgh ; his youth was
spent in obscure and laborious occupations, and he rose from
the humble station of grocer's boy to the first dignities of the
State.

There exits in some parts of Germany a law to prevent
drinking during divine serrfce. It runs thus :—" Any person.
drinking in an alelmuse during d;vine service on Sunday, or
other holiday, may legally depart without paying."
• Lord Broughton has been chosen patron of the Glasgow
Mechanics' Institution, in the room of the late Dr. Birkbeck.

THEATIZ ZCAL.
Carlotti Grisi took her benefit last evening at her Majesty's
Theatre. _

is Wednesday Mademoiselle Piessy took her benefit at the
French Theatre. She performed Celemine in the Misanthrope.
Aladame Vestris, we understand, will close the Covent-garden
season, and resign her lessee:hip on Saturday next.
SPOIV.CING.
The Earl of Lonsdale's valuable pack of hounds were brought
to the hammer at Cottismore Kennels on Friday last, and
fetched good prices.
COURT—FASHYONAIILE.
The Archbishop of Armagh gave a grand dinner party on
Wednesday to the Marquis of Waterford and other relatives
and friends.
The Countess of Bridgewater commences her fashionable
Parties in Grcsvkor- square on the 9th 'of May.