The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-20 00:00:00

RESISTANCE IN THE NIIYBER TASSES.

" There are of the Khyberees 26,000 armed men."—Hough,
page 350. " The native rine, fireel with a rest, will kill at ;300
yards.".-11ough, page 309. To these it may be added that,
according to the last accounts, we had lost Ali Musjid, a I,rt
about seven miles within the Khyber Pass, on the Kuddum
side. Obstructions had been crrated in the passes, and the
Atlghan chiefs mere co-operating with the Khyberees.

REEI,ECTIONS AN)) CONJECTURES.

Can the difficulties here set forth be contemplated without
some feeling of anxiety for the fate of the army which is facing
t hell, fighting at such disadvantage of ground, and encumbered
with the defence of a long line of horses, bullocks, and camels ?
At the same time, there can be no question that every effort
must he made to relieve our brave fellows at Jellalabad, and
the ladies and other prisoners, even at the expense of the less
of more lives than the number of those to be rescued. I sup.
ose there are political difficulties in the way of buying the Khy-
ber Pass. If not, surely money could hardly be better be-
stowed than for such a purpose. According to Hough, " Nadir
Shah, in 1739, paid 100,0001. for the passage of his army
through this pass." Is it clear that it may not cost as much to
force it ? Of course, if the Affghans have the control of the
Pass, buying is out of the question.
Ii was thought, according to some accounts, that General
Pollock would not attempt the business until he was joined by
a second European Infantry regiment. Her Maje;ty's 9th
Foot,t was with him, and her Majesty's 31st. Foot could not,
according to the date of their leaving Meerut, reach Peshawar
before the 10th of this month, or thereabouts. Neither
c odd the 3d Dragoons or Horse Artillery be with the force
b' fore the beginning of this month (the guns the General had
with him were drawn by bullocks). Some of the native reg.-
ments would also join about the beginning of this month.
These are strong arguments for delay, and if they have pre-
vailed it may be assumed that the General is making his way
through the passes about this tone. Some accounts, however,
state that the General would move at once, without waiting
for the additional force. 11 such has been the case I know not
how to escape from the conclusion that the relief of Jellalabad
admitted of no delay. The accounts from Jellalabad, by the
last mail, are to the 27th of January, and are written in good
spirits, and mention that they have three months' provisions.
I find that these accounts are credited, and I, therefore,
gladly incline to the opinion that the General has waited for
the arrival of the whole force. I say incline to toe
&c., because I still feel a difficulty in amounting for Colonel
Wild's attempt to force the pass with four regiments of Native
Infantry and some useless Sikh guns, except on the supposition
that. Jellalabad was in jeopardy.
I abstain at present from considering the consequences of an
attempt to force the frightful passes between Jellalabad and
Ottani!, more frightful now by the remembrance of the tragedy
recently enacted in them.
The relief of Jellalabad, and the rescue of our countrywomen,
is now paramount to all other considerations. If the Khyber
Pass is bought, or if, from any other cause, resistance has
been withdrawn, or if Gen. Poliock has forced it without wait-
ing for her Majesty's 31st Foot, then we may expect to hear
of the relief of Jellalabad by the mail which lett. Bombay on the
Ist instant. lf, on the other hand, the General has waited the
arrival of her Majesty's 31st Foot,f we cannot well expect to
hear of the relief of Jellalabad before July next.
London, April 16, 1842. X.

• The native rifle with a fixed rest, it Is said, will kill at 810
yards. The common rifle is only four feet ten inches in the barrel ;
the larger juzziels are six or seven feet in the barrel.
t Four native regiments arrived at I'eshawur its December,
without a gun !: ! Fier Majesty's 9th Foot and two Native Rtgl.
mesas and some Artillery would arrive with General Pollock early
in February. The rest of the force enumerated would arrive dur.
log the first ten days of the present month, or hereabouts.

This regiment was in Kurnaul on the 14th of February. Kur-
naul, by the shortest route, is a sixteen days' march from Feroze-
pore, and Ferozepore, as I have already said, is a thitty.sever days'
match from Kuddum, close to the entrance of the Khyber Pass.
Supposing the regiment lett Kurnaul on the 15th of February,
and marched without a day's halt, they would reach Kuddum in
titty.three days, that is, on the 9th instant. Halts may, perhaps,
be set off against forced marches, and probably they would arrive
about the 10th instant, as I have above suggested.
—3:orniny Paper.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—About a quarter lwfore one
vesterday morning, a fire broke nut in the counting-house of
*Messrs. Siblev and Tozee, coal merchants, Glass-yard, Wool-
wich ; from the confined nature of the place, the flames rapidly
extended, and, before the engines from the Duck-yard arrived,
the whole of the premises were on tire, the devouring element
then extended to the adjoining houses, arid the flames illumi-
nated the horizon for miles round, the reflection gave the first
intimation to the fire stations, but, from the strong glare of
light, the fire was thought to be at Wapping, to which place
a i\ at
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iii"esterday looming, at two o'clock, a narrow escape
from drowning occurred to two policemen who were sleeping, on
buarl what is termed the " luve,tigator,- a te:sel (used for
the l'urh°'e of coufiniug crimit,als fuund en the river) Ijing
Str an i-lane, near Waicrloo-briilge. About the hour men-
tioned, police constable Teasdale was awoke bv a noi,e which
he found out to he the water rushing into the note where they
were sleeping; he instantly awoke his companion, and they,
with great difficulty, effected the it escaie, having had, as it
appears, barely time to put on a portion of their clothes before
she filled with water and scent do, n. The ("awe of the ai'el-
cr-nt is attributed to the Investigator having been struck on a
previous occasion by a steam-boat. Fal-tunately no prisoners
were on board at the time.
petitioner against the
1 I Nitwit: PETITION.—'I
sitting Members has, it is said, expressed his determination, in
the s vent of his succeeding in his object,to expend 10,0001. in
getting a branch of the Eastern Counties' Railway to Harwich.
should rush a project be effected, it will be the meant of re-
storing Harwich to its former condition of a packet station.—
, Ipswich Express.
It is understood that Lord _Mahon is to be the new
Ainbandor at the Court of Madrid. —John Bull.

had long been predicted between the maintenance of mono-
poly and the maintenance of public credit.
The delusion hitherto was that the Rightlion. Baronet
proposed an Income-tax in order to remitcertain onerous
duties on trade ; he wanted it mainly to supply the
deficiency of the revenue, and to put an end almost
to the timber duties and the duties on the raw material
of manufactures. Now, Sir R. PEEL avows that it is for
no such purpose, and that he braves all the odium of
imposing an Income-tax to keep up the value of funded
property. This is the old Tory humbug. Whoever
looks back at Mr. GOULBURN'S speeches when he was
formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, will find every
budget and every financial proposition—every resistance
also to any proposed reduction of taxation—redolent
with this mysterious phrase " maintaining the public
credit." Since Mr. GOULBURN and the Tories were
ejected from office in 1830, for notorious inefficiency, a
vast amount of taxes has been reduced, and public credit
has through the whole period been maintained quite
as firmly as when Mr.G oULBURN was obstinately resisting
reduction of taxation on the plea of maintaining public
credit. The old bugaboo of the Tories new revived, and
again put forward as a pretext, whatever be its real
dimensions and its qualities, is quite insufficient to justify
the infliction of an Income-tax on the people.
We were informed by Mr. ROEBUCK, on Monday
night, that all the debates and all the proceedings of the
bulk of the Members of the House of Commons, are in-
tended to serve the purposes of party; but those gentle-
men go to Parliament on the pretext of serving the
public. Their professions and their conduct, therefore,
are in direct opposition. They are now about to inflict
an onerous tax on the people, under a multitude of fake
pretences. At one time it is the war in Aff-
ghanistan, and the derangement of the finances
of the Indian empire, which makes the Income-
tax necessary. At another it is to substitute
a portion of direct taxation for the indirect taxation,
which is ruinous to trade. Again this pretext is scouted
by Sir B. PEEL ; and the Income-tax is levied to
maintain public credit. It is not only newspaper writers
who accuse the Members of the House of Commons ;
they accuse one another of mismanagement, of gross
errors, of scandalous conduct, and of plundering the
people on false and fraudulent pretexts. Such state-
ments, continually impressed on the public mind, must
have a great, and even a wonderful moral influence,
making men in the end heartily despise those who once
were honoured, and preparing the way for a greater
change in Government, than a mere change in men, or
the change from a circumscribed to universal suffrage.
While individuals are labouring assiduously, by means
of literary and scientific institutions, subscribing their mo-
money, and sending out missionaries of all kinds—some
promoting the arts, some the sciences, and some morality,
some spreading abroad the softening knowledge of har-
mony, and others the elevating knowledge of sculpture,
and painting—in steps the Legislature, and by an In-
come-tax, to bolster up a Corn-law, and a multitude of
officials increase poverty and discontent, and spread
falsehood and crime through the land. It sets the ex-
ample of plundering on a great scale and on false pre
tences, and makes a violation of right not the exception,
but the rule of society. All history and all experience
are worthless, if such a conflict between the Government
and the moral sentiments of society do not bring in its
train, at ne distant day, some great social confusion.
While individuals are struggling to improve and elevate
society the Legislature, which continually plunders the
people on false pretences, continually labours to im-
poverish, demoralise, and degrade it.

Sir R.PEEL'S modified Starvation Bill was read a se-
cond
time in the House of Lords on Monday night. The
second reading was moved by the Earl of RIPON, who,
as Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSON, upwards of a quarter of a
century ago prepared, and carried the original Starva-
tion Bill through the House of Commons. Never was a
Starvation Bill supported by so inconclusive a speech.
The Noble Lord supported the Bill because corn was to
be had no where cheaper than in England. He instanced
the Baltic and Southern provinces of Russia, Bavaria,
Mecklenburgh, Naples, and the United States, to prove
that periodical famines visited these countries, thatbread
was sometimes dearer in them than in England, and that
regular supplies of grain were not to be expected from
them. Now, if these statements are worth anything
they go to prove that the landlords would suffer
nothing by consenting to the total abolition of the Corn-
laws. If grain cannot be had from foreign countries,
what can be more absurd than legislation for the pur-
pose of excluding it ? But the Noble Lord knew very
well that they were fallacious—that with a free trado,
or even a low fixed duty on corn for the purposes of re-
venue, England could be abundantly supplied with corn
from the Baltic provinces of Russia, and the fertile
plains of Hungary. With a sliding scale, however low,
there never can be more•than a chance market for grain
in England, and no Russian, Austrian, or Bavarian
farmer can be expected .to grow corn on the chance
merely of finding a market for it. " Ono of the gri at
rules of commercial legislation," observes a writer
in an article on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S budget in the
number of the Edinburgh Review published yc:-
terday, " indeed of all legislation whatsoever, is
to diminish the empire of chance, to ensile men to
reckon on the result of their actions, or at least not to
disturb the elements of the calculation. The duties
which conform best to this rule are the ordinary ad va-
lorem duties. The producer, the importer, and the ware-
houser, who deal in articles subject to such a duty, may
calculate on a steadiness of profit even greater than can
always be expected under a perfect system of trade ;
since what he gains or loses by a rise or fall in price, is
in some measure balanced by an increase or diminution
of duty. A fixed duty, though it contains no such prin-
ciple of compensation, has the great advantage of stabi-
lity. One portion of the cost of production, often a very
important one, is unalterable. One of these duties—
an ad valorem or a fixed rate, is adopted, with
one exception, in our whole fiscal code ; the fixed
rate being generally applied to raw produce, the ad va-
lorem rate to manufactured articles. The solitary ex-
ception—the single commodity •as to which the law
strives to aggravate the hazards of commerce—the single
commodity on which it imposes a duty not ad milord,'
but contra valorem—the single commodity as to which,
when the price falls, the law doubles the importer's loss
by a proportionate addition to the duty, and when it
rises, doubles his gain by a proportionate diminution of
duty—the single commodity to which this monstrous le-
gislation is applied is the feud of the bulk of the inhabitctitts
if Great Britain 1 It is the commodity of which the
legislating classes are the principal producers, and the
labouring classes the principal consumers. It is the
commodity from which the incomes of the former are
derived, and on which those of the latter are spabt.
After this who can wonder at Chartism ?"

LONDON
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1E42.

Lord STANLEY made a curious statement last night
relative to emigration. New South Wales, it appears
rec.•ived nearly 13,000 immigrants in the last year, .and
?bore are 10,000 more on the road ; the colony is in
debt, and knows not how to provide for the labourers
imported. Van Dieman's Land cannot receive more
than 1,500 persons in a year; Western Australia offers
,Aly a small field; and Southern Australia has been
I:'o2ked up by misgovernment. Out of a population of
i;i,000, 1,200 are living as paupers, maintained out of
tiv public funds. This is the pattern colony, established
on the Wakefield system, under the guidance of a Govern-
ment Commission, composed of some of the leading
poitical lights of the day. One, in particular,
-,; helped to ruin Australia, is now by his writings

the Tories all in his power to ruin England. In
:lada, it appears, the wanderers are better off, but
there the people have suffered severely. Though
7. ,A 1 STANLEY went to the Pacific, he did not touch at
half-way house, the Cape of Good Hope, and of that
::;.,,,rtant colony- said not one word. We apprehend,
.ver, that the Cape of Good Hope at present—now
:.,;a • large portion of the people of a Dutch origin have
because they did not like the English Government
. •tt least, as favourable a place for emigrants as either
•: "email's Land or New South Wales. What quantity
rers that colony might absorb, we cannot say, but
;;:; .:';d suppose, from its magnitude, and from th:
id,• it begins to carry on, that it might usefully
Employ as large a number of our destitute people as any
one of the colonies Lora STANLEY mentioned. The
Noble Lord was extremely anxious for one thing,
murl,43-, that all emigrants should place themselves under
-ernment Agents ; so that the Government will,
by, become responsible for the due dispersion
•viism of all the children of England.

We are, then, to have an unmitigated Income-tax. It
seems all settled, and only a miracle or convulsion of na-
ture can save us from it. The Louis PHILIPPE of our
present system may indeed be suddenly called away, as
he has been suddenly elevated into great power ; but
short of some unexpected event of this description, the In-
come-tax seems almost as certain to become a tax as
the sun will rise to-morrow. If any person had pre.
dieted a twelvemonth ago, or even six months ago, that
John Bull, in tie midst of peace, when all the Powers
are prime' of his alliance, and are cultivating friendly
relations with him—when no great disaster has befallen
him—when he is weighed down merely with monopolies
and excessive taxation—would submit, almost without
a murmur, to a tax on income imposed by
the Tories, such a person would have been
laughed at as the id!est dreamer that ever
took to the unprofitable task of soothsaying. Yet the
fact has contradicted all presumptions and all forethought.
The condition of England question, which erewhile
puz;:led the hr;ins of thinkers, is solved at once by Sir
RonuaT PEEL. . There taxation, and taxation of the
worst and most oppressive character, is all that is re-
quired on his system 'to restore the people to content-
ment and prosperity. If this be true, what a woeful mis
take must all the reasoners, all the philosophers, all the
political economists, all those who have formed high and
hallowed hopes of the destinies of England and English-
men, have committed. At present, however, Sir R.
PEEL has only succeeded so far as to render it highly
probable that his plan—lncome-tax, Tariff, and Corn-
become the law of the land. What will be its
effects on the nation is quite another question.

Two amendments were moved upon the motion for
the second reading of the Bill. The first by Earl
STANHOPE, for throwing out the Bill, was rejected by a
majority of 102, only 17 votes being given for it.
The second amendment was proposed by Lord
BROUGHAM, and went to the cutting up of the whole
root of the iniquity. Lord BROUGHAM simply moved
6' that all grain should be admitted free of duty." This,
notwithstanding Lord RIPON'S speech, showing that
there was no corn to be had for importation, was lost by
a majority of 109, only five votes being given for it.
The Lords did n6t believe the Earl of RIPON, and Lerd
BROUGHAM proved that they ought not to do so. He
instanced the price of corn in the island of Jersey,
where the trade in grain is free, and in Eng-
land, where it is virtually prohibited, showing
that on an average of the last thirteen years
corn was seven shillings a quarter cheaper in Jersey than
in England. Taking the averages of the years from
1829 to 1841, both included, corn was 58s. 9d. a quarter
in England, and 51s. sd. in Jersey. But the price of
grain in Jersey is not to be taken as a criterion of what
the price would hi in England were the corn-trade
free. No corn-growing country would think of produc-
ing an extra bushel for the Jersey market. Not so
could corn be freely imported into J-England. This is
one of those important points which the majority of
speakers and writers upon the Corn-laws everlook, and
so go on, groping in the dark, while they fancy they are
dealing only with established facts. He is neither a
great stateman nor a sound politician, who cannot take
equal note of prospective as of retrospective facts. Ile
is not a statesman who, like the witch of Endor, in
blindly and ignorantly evoking the spirit of SAMUEL,
knows not, and is not prepared- practically to deal with,
and perceive the operation of the class of facts which
must be produced by the adoption of any line of policy.
To a wise man, the future reveals a guidance as unerring
as the put. This seams forgotten by many of the ablest
opponents of our starvation code.

At present the Three per Cents. are at 914, and first
ciass commercial bills arc canvassed for in the City—we
lire tLl7—by the bankers and discount houses, at three
cent. There is a great probability, it is added, that
rate of interest will recede still further. Under
circumstances it seems highly probable that the

~,,-:fnment might borrow, if it wished so to act,

or 20,000,000/. in a week, at 3i- per cent.
It is plain, therefore, that our public credit
at this moment, perfectly sound. We doubt
;:•'they at any former period it was ever in
?tter condition. It needs, therefore no bolstering
vhatever ; yet Sir It. PEEL told the House of Corn-
. •• on Monday that he was braving all the disgust,
tisfaction, and unpopularity which the Income-tax
bring on his head, from a firm belief that it is
absolutely necessary to maintain public credit. When
g,ntleman, like Sir H. PEEL, publicly makes a se-
assertion, we cannot doubt his word.
His belief must be as he describes it, but
the circumstances we have referred, to prove that his be-•
lief is not: warranted by facts lie acts more from
imii kation than truth, and public credit is not in such a
deplorable state of decrepitude as to require the buttress
of an Ineorne-tax. Admitting the truth of Sir ROBERT
flitE.L's assertion, we cannot deny his credulity.
Mr' VILLIPs fol:6wed Sir H. PEEL- in one of the
ino,t; correctly seasoned speeches we have yet seen, treat-
ing of the Corn-laps and the Income-tax in conjunction,
and pointed out immediately the bearing of this new
f;un 1 reason for an Income-tax, in the following pas-

s sc,-e :---

The Bill to regulate the exercise of Church patronage
in Scotland, introduced by the Member for Argyllshire.,
consists of three clauses, and is extremely simple. The
first clause enacts, that in case the majority of commu-
nicants do not approve of the presentee, and the Presby-
tery find that the opposition does not arise from factious
or malicious motives, the presentee shall be rejected.
The second regulates the mode of ascertaining the opi-
nion of the communicants, and the nature of the ob-
jections ; and the third confers on the Crown the
right to present (subject to the same restrictions),
should the patron fail to issue a presentation which
shall prove effectual to fill the vacancy. According
to this Bill ; therefore, the Church may interfere with
the choice of the people, and set it at defiance if they
see meet. " Factious motives" and " conscientious re-
gard to the religious interests of 'the congregation;"

The Right Her. Baronet's speech of that evening had dis-
sipated all deli Lutz.; for the it4,7ht lion. Baronet had said
that, if it shotibi he again proposed to sub.titute a property-
tax, for the indirect taxes which pressed upon tre masses of
the people, no man would be more firm in resisting such a
change of sys'em than himself (Sir Robert Peel). The Right
Hon. Baronet distinctly admitted that all he proposed to do by
this oppressive Income.-tax was to maintain public credit. They
got into a financial difficulty, and they ought to consider the
cause of it. This tax was merely a means of evading one of
those courses. The House had been told frequently that the
time was approaching when they would have to consider the
effect :,roduced by levying taxes on the people, not only for the
support of the State, but for the benefit of particular classes;
and that. they would hue to do one of two things, either to tax
property to maintain public credit, and to diminish those mono-
le.lies which impoverished the people, anti prevented them
from contributing, to the taxes. It was owing to those mono-
polies that the price of living was enhanced, and trade was re-
stricted, and they were about to commence that struggle winch

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1842.

arc terms capable of great extension as well as contrac-
tion, and would be construed in any way the majority in
the Church Court should find expedient. Here, then, a
veto may be put on the choice of the people, as well as
on that of the patron, a vast power would be conferred
on the Presbytery, and endless appeals may be made by
both parties, from its decision to the superior Church
judicatories. One half of the congregation may be
arrayed against the other; violent contentions prevail
among neighbours, and even members of the same
family, and parishes continue vacant for years. These
are not imaginary objections, as any person at all
acquainted with the present state of the Church can
testify. But the great, the glaring, and insuperable
objection to the Bill arises from the circumstance that it
contains no clause for ascertaining the qualification of
those entitled to vote. They are merely denominated
" male parishioner, being of the age of twenty-one years
complete, and in full communion with the Church:,
Here is another enormous stretch of power vested in
the Church, for not one parishioner will be admitted as a
communicant who does not conform in emery respect to
the law laid down by the minister of the parish, and
the consequence will be, that the list of voters will be
extended or shortened, as suits his whim or caprice.
The Bill, therefore, should have defined the qualifica-
tion in such a way as to prevent one individual
from tyrannising over another, and enacted that every
man, and woman, too, of twenty-one years of age, untainted
by crime, and believers in the truths of Christianity,
should be entitled to vote. But the Non-Intrusionists
would reject such a clause with disdain. This Bill,
however, cannot pass, and it is therefore needless to dis-
cuss its merits or demerits. The unseemly warfare must
continue, till the disturbers of the Church return to a
sense of reason, or follow the advice of Sir GEORGE
SINCLAIR —" renounce the temporalities, and ex-
onerate themselves, from the duties and responsi-
bilities annexed to the possession of them." In de-
scribing the conduct of these men, and the injury
they have done to the Kirk, we cannot do better than
quote the words of Sir GEORGE, who has used every ex-
ertion in vain to reconcile differences. From an inte-
resting pamphlet, published by RIDGWAY, on the sub-
ject, we quote the following graphic description :
" I have now done for ever with the sub-
ject. I hare exhausted every appeal which friendship
and sympathy could address to their hearts. I have re-
iterated every argument which prudence or justice
could urge upon their understandings. I may perhaps
be accounted their enemy because I tell them the truth ;
but I have thought it my paramount, though painful
duty, on some points to withstand them to the face, be-
cause they were to be blamed ; and I tell both parties
plainly, though respectfully, that, by a protracted dis-
play of the fiercest ecclesiastical gladiatorship, and
by the almost daily exhibition of mutual estrangement,
jealousy, and exasperation, they have hardened thousands
in their continued aversion' to the Gospel, and kindled
a flame in the country which exposes the Church to
idium, and the State to jeopardy. The one party says,
of you concede any thing, 3 ou give too much; whilst the
other as loudly proclaims, that unless you concede every
thing, you give too little. May the great Head of the
Church raise up some other labourer, who may commence
his efforts with equal earnestness, and close them with
complete success."

The Paris Journals of Sunday, with Madrid Papers
of the 10th, and Lisbon of the 11th instant, have been
received. The only news they contain of any impor-
tance will be found in our Foreign Summary.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S REDUCTION OF RENT.-It seems
that the landlord:; were alarmed at the report that Sir
Robert had reduced his rents 20 per cent., and his jour-
nals have received instructions lo give it a positive and
emphatic denial. The tale served its purpose with the
townspeople, and helped to, forward that reduction of
price to which the Tory journals have already appealed,
as the proof that Sir Robert Peel's tariff was a most
wonderful improvement—a real scheme for making both
parties at a game of whist—to borrow Sir Robert's Ame-
rican Ambassador's illustration—win. It is to benefit
all, and injure none. Now that the reported reduction
has worked its purpose, and the alarmed landlords must
be again soothed, it is denied on authority. Sir Robert
Peel has not lowered his rents. He is not the generous
landlord he has been described ; he is, as we have before
said, nothing but a red tapist, intent on getting and hold-
ing power by all those little arts which that peculiar
genius of statesmen know so well how to employ.

natare of the tax. But this is now past thinking about. We
are not sanguine as to the extent of patience which may be
expected from John Bull when he finds himself badgered,'
whether by a local commission or an inspector cf survey,
through all the minutia of his profits and expenditure, his
ledgers overhauled, his debts exposed, himself cross-examined,
puzzled, doubted, disbelieved, and finally surcharged. Of
all this we have ever spoken and felt with some mis-
giving. But now that it is certain, we do most earnestly and
unaffectedly hope that its efficiency will not be impeded
by that impatience of control and inspection which yet is so
much to be apprehended. If it is to be, let it be stringent.
The English people have distinctly acquiesced in the
tax—we will hope that they know their own minds better than
we should have divined them. We earnestly trust they will
not, like children, close with the nuisance, and then quarrel
with its necessary conditions. If we are to have the dentist's
pincers in our mouth, let the tooth come out. Let us not take
the physic into our mouth, and then quarrel with it because it
is nasty. We have now no right to do so. Nobody was igno-
rant that the tax was inquisitorial, but everybody has consented
to it—has consented to it for himself—has consented, not only
that his neighbours' account.books but that his own should be
overhauled. And he must not now be angry when he finds
himself taken at his wort!. Honest men have agreed to be
treated like knaves—not that others should be treated like
knaves, but that they themselves should be so. It is a neces-
sary condition of the tax they have chosen : they have no ex-
cuse for wincing."
The Post remarks, in a leading.article suggested by the late
proceedings of the Sudbury Election Committee :—" We con-
ceive that the only way to put an end to bribery will be by an
appeal to the honour and conscience of the persons concerned.
This is not a case in which the political prejudices of different
men can make them take different views of truth and justice.
If every candidate were bound upon his ob.th, or upon his
honour as a gentleman, not to allow or countenance, in any
manner, directly or indirectly, the practice of giving or pro-
mising to give, any remuneration for votes, we cannot help
thinking that there would be very little bribery afterwards.
It is lwe think) because bribery is not held to be dishonour-
able, but, on the contrary, held to be a mode of getting into
Parliament which a gentleman may practice without disgrace,
that bribery [so constantly takes place. We believe that by
skilfully applying the regulations of law to the principle of ho-
nour, whicii (under some modification or another) exists in
the breasts of most men—even mere men of the world—the
desirable object might be accomplished."

Austrian, 5 in; cent—.
Belgian, 5 pes cent-- 1031
Brazilian Bonds. 67i
Buenos Ayres 6 percent 26i
Chilian, 6 per cent..... 78
Colombian, 6 per cent..
Ditto, 18`14. ..... -

Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957
Trieste, ditto .. 958
Madrid ...

Cadiz
Bilbao

Barcelona
Seville

NATIONAL CONVENTION.
(YESTERDAY)
The Committee of the National Convention met this day at
the Dr. Johnson's Tavern, Fleet-street. After some preli-
minary arrangements were made, the meeting adjourned till
seven o'clock this evening, when a very full meeting took place.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

A further advance has taken place in the English Funds.
It is gratifying to observe, that with the present abundance of
money, an investment has been made in them, in preference
to the numerous bubble bonds belonging to insolvent States,
the quotations of which are raised or lowered as may best suit
the views of a parcel of gambling speculators. As an instance
of the present low rate of money, a quarter of a million was
offered to be lent to-day, for three months, at the rate of three
per cent. per annum, and was refused.
Consols left off at 91a 91k for Money, and 91i 91k for the
Ac-ount. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 100 a 100 a;
Ind a Stock, 242 a 243 k; Bank Stock, 165 167 ; India Bonds,
20, and Exchequer Bills, 40 42 premium.
Foreign Stocks were without alteration, and the market,
during the day, was firm, Danish, 80a to 81}; Dutch Five
per Cents., 100 a to Ma ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,s2l
to 5211; Belgian, 103 a to 104 k.
Mexican Debentures were quoted 251, and Brazilian Bonds
671 to 68/.
Railway Shares were in gold demand, and purchases to some
extent were made Great ‘Yestern ; 94}, the Half Shares, 65*
to 65*; London and Birmingham. 176 to 178; Birmingham
and Gloucester, 55 to 57 ; South Western, 60k to 61 ; Gosport
60 to 6l ; North Midland, 69 to 70; ttia New Shares, 34 to
35 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30a to 31 ; Eastern Counties,
10 to 10*; and Brighton, 36/ per Share.
A fair amount of busines was negotiated in Foreign Bills, at
a lower rate of exchange on Hamburgh and Paris, the latter be-
ing 25f. 80e. to 25f. 85c. ; and the former 1313, 13 121. Antwerp,
remained at 12 5 ; Amsterdam, 12 5, 12 5a ; Rotterdam,
12 s*, 12 5k ; Frankfort, 1511, 1511; Vienna, 9 52, 9 53,
Trieste, 9 54.9 55 ; Madrid, 36k; and Lisbon 52a, 52/.
In the Alley the quotations were for Colombian, 27* 27a ;
Peruvian, 19*; Buenos Ayres, •26k; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 37* ; the Three per Cents. 21/ ; Spanish Bonds, 241
24a ; and the Coupon Three per Cent. Stock, 25* 25a.
'The Halifax stmtner, if she sailed on the day appoh.ted, will
now have been out 15 days, a far longer period than any of
these splendid vessels have ever yet occupied in the voyage. No
uneasiness is felt at the delay, it being considered that she has
been detained by Lord Ashburton to bring home despatches. he
most probably having arrived 'out a very short time prev;ous to
the 4th inst., which was fixed for her departure. From the
subdued tone assumed by the Americans, as ascertained by the
last arrival, her intelligence is anxiously looked for, since it will
molt probably bring accounts of an amicable termination of the
dispute on the Creole affair.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
Prices in the English market ate firm, and purchases to
some extent have been made for investment. Consuls are 91k
911/2 a for Money, and 91k for the Account • Three per Cents.
Reduced, 90* 90a ; New Three and a Half per Cents., 100*
100 k ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; India Stock, 243 243 k ; the
Bonds, 18 20; and Exchequer Bills, 59 41 premium.
Foreign Securities are steady, and without material change
in their value. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
52a 52 a ; the Five ker Cents., 100 k 100/; Belgian, 1031
1041; Danish. bOa 81k ; Brazilian is marked 67 68, and
Mexican 37a / a, ex all the Coupons; Spanish 24/; Passive
5, and Deferred 12*a a.
Some little business has been done in Shares; Bristol and
Exeter 44 45 ; Eastern Counties 10 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 51 52; Birmingham, Thirds, 60; Suuth Western, 61 ;
;%.lidland Counties, 791/2 ; South Eastern and D..ver 80/.
In the Alley the Peruvian is quoted 19 26; Buenos Ayres, 25
27 ; Colombian, 27* 274 ; Portuguese Fire per Cents., 371/2
38 ; the Three per Cents., 221/2 ; Spanish Actives, Five per
Cents. Bonds, 24a 24%; the Aew Three per Cent. Stock
created out of eight Coupons from the Bonds, 25* 251.
There are no foreign arrivals, neither is there any feature in
business to notice.

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 16.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 9Bi 'Grand Canal Stock ...
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 81
Ditto New 1830... 99 Ditto 4 per cent
3/ per Cent. Debs.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 18, was very firm,
without material alteration in prices. Fully 7,000 bal s were
sold, of which 1,000 Americans were on speculation. The sales
comprised 1,000 Surat:, 3d. to 40. , 150 Pernams, 7d. ; 200
Maranham, 5-0. to 6d; 160 Bahia, 61d. to 7d. ; 150 Egyp-
tian, 7d. to Bd. and 5,340 American, 44d. to bad.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 18.—The transac-
tions were rather few, and business closed heavily. Eastern
Counties, Debentures, 111. 6s. Bd. ' • New. 5* ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 50; Grand Junction, Old Quarters, 474; Great
Western, Fifths, 10* ; Liverpool and Manchester, 187 ; Lon-
don and Birmingham, 178; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury,
591 • Paris and Rouen, 16i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 11.-Our market
continues very good for Railway Stock. Our transactions are—
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50k ; Eastern Counties, 9i ; London
and Birmingham, Quarters, 36; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 281 ; Manchester and Leeds, 821; Ditto, Quarters, s*;
Brighton Loan Notes, 81 ; Lancaster and Preston Three-
quarter Shares, 171 ; Alliance Bank, 25.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 1654 India Stock ..... ...... .. 2424
3 per Cent Red 9o* Ditto Bonds 2opre
3 per Cent Cons 914 Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities ;,oexpire Ditto Small 4l p rr.
Jan. 1860 . . 124 Bank Stock for Acct ...166
Oct 1859. ........ 12 5-16 India Stock for Acct....

MANCHESTER and the INCOME TAX.

Jan. 1860..,,,.,,,, 124 Consols for Acct 9li
FOIcEIGIN FUNDS.

Portuguese, 5 per cent 65
Ditto, New Ditto 37*
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent.....
Ditto, :11etallic ...... .
!Spanish, 5 per cent.
I Ditto, Deferred.... . 12i

Lold F. Egerton has boasted, in the House of Commons, of the
petition he presented from Manchester, in favour of the income
tax and the tariff; which was signed, amongst other persons, by
the two Editors of the Whig Guardian ; in order, therefore, to
make the public acquainted with the facts of the case, it becomes
our duty to state that, on Wednesday last, the Commissioners of
Police of Manchester, calling themselves the representatives of the
tax pagers, adopted unanimously the following resolution :—" That
this meeting is of opinion that the proposed income tax is obnoxious
in its details, bad in its principles, and uncalled for by circum-
stances ; and we, therefore, pray your Honoorable House not to
allow the proposed income tax to become the law of the land."

Danish, 3 per cent BO/ 'French, 5 per cent. —'. —c.
Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange I •c.
Mexican, 5 per rent. .. French, 3 per cent —. —c
Ditto, 6 per cell:- 1637 Dutch, 2/ per cent.. 521
Peruvian, 1825, fi per et. 19i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1004
SHARES.
Bristol i-nd Exeter (70 paid) .
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Ditto Debentures .. .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... .52
London and Brighton (50 paid) fitii.
London and Birmingham (90) ...... .. ...
, Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ..
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...... .... 43
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds ( paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) . 31

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-L(YESTERDAY '1
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8i Genoa . - 25 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 14 IVenice 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bout deaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1521 jßahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres
Berlin...
,New Y0rk,.21 days sight 4b

Philadelphia - 46
PRICES OF MULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9

. .
We add an abstact from an article in the Manchester Times :
" MEN PRAYING TO BE TAXED.

" Lord Francis Egerton, whose visits to.the House of Commons
are few and far between, has come to the aid of Sir Robert Peel, in
the imposition of a new tax, which will fall heavily on the menu.
facturers and traders of the county his Lordship misrepresents, but
from which his own tenants-at-will, are to be entirely exempted
His unusual appearance seems, to have been occasioned by an un-
usual occurrence—the having it in his power to present a petition
from men praying to be taxed! The petition was from Manchester,
and there were 24,000 signatures appended.

Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0

New Dollars... 0 4 9h
Silver in Bars 0 4 11*

Mr. Hume has been returned for the Montrose dis-
trict of Burghs, as we anticipated, without opposition.
A Morning Contemporary, in commenting on the
alterations proposed by Lord Campbell in the manage-
ment of appeal matters, calls attention to the delay
which sometimes arises in the final disposing of cases
that are referred to the twelve Judges for their opinion
en a point of law. That of Lady Hewley, which is in-
stanced as an example, went to their Lordships in 1839,
on a query respecting the admissibility of extrinsic evi-
dence in the construction of a written instrument; but the
query is still unanswered. If much less time than three
years be not sufficient for the consideration of a point of
law, there must surely be some sort of difficulty which
should at once be remedied by Act of Parliament, ftr
the due administration Of justice concerns the nation at
large, and every man is interested in the removal of im-
pediments that can keep back the decision of any case
for three years, after the argument has been finally heard
by the House of Lords. It would be well to have a re-
turn moved for in Parliament, of all cases referred to the
Judges by the House of Lords, during the last five years,
showing the date of reference, and when the case was re-
turned. This might lead to a correction of the evil, by
the adoption of some suitable remedy.
NEW MUSIC HALL.—We confidently anticipate
that a-grand and suitable building for musical performances
will soon be erected in the metropolis. Independent of Exeter
Hall being confined to only one description of music, it is not
well adapted for great musical entertainments, and is besides
so often engaged for mouths in advance, that it is of little use
to the public in general. These circumstances have induced
a number of persons to form a company for erecting. an ele-
gant building in a eentral situation, which shall consist
of a room capable of accommodating four thousand persons,
with an orchestra for a thousand performers, a number
of small concert rooms, and a public library for the most ap-
proved musical compositions. A company of this kind pro-
perly conducted would confer a public benefit, and in a short
time repay the expenditure with ample interest. Mr. Hansom
has formed a similar plan on a still larger scale, but as three
musical halls would probably be too many for the metropolis at
present, we trust an understanding will be come to between
the parties, in order to carry into effect, in the most satisfactory
manner, the object which both have in view.

" Were these to be a scrutiny, we suspect, that the petition would
share the fate of one against the Charter of Incorporatioc, which
was sweated flown from 32 000 to som? 7,000 or 8,000."
Lord Egerton, and his 24,000 of Tories, Chartists, and recreant
Whigs, has nothing to boast of.

THE INCOME-TAX -BANBURY.
• (FRHM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Most of the principal inhabitants of Banbury, without distinction
of party; namely, the resident curate, the resident physician, 18
bankerr, surgeons, and solicitors, 30 drapers, grocers, and iron..
mongers, 74 other tradesmen, and 22 other persons, seeing the
glaring injustice and impolicy of Sir R. Peel's income tax scheme,
as it affects incomes from labour 0f'1501., or upwards, compared
with exonerated incomes under that amount, derived from real pro.
perty, have (although holding different opinions for or against the
tax in other respects) signed and forwarded to Mr. Tancred, for pre-
sentation, the following petition in support of the altemion (far
exempting from taxation the first 1501. of every one's income)
pressed upon the Premier by Sir R. Inglis, in his speech in the
House of Commons, on Friday evening last, the efftct, of which
would be equality to all perso►is, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
regulating the amount of his lier centage by the amount to be raised.
Let one only, of many examples, of the proposed injustice, be
added. An idler, a mere consumer, may be the owner of a free-
hold estate worth 4,0001., and receive his rent of 1491. per annum,
free from tax; but the little toiling baker, tailor, or shopkeeper,
with a capital of less than 2001., if he, by being up early and late,
can scrape together 1511. per annum, must pay a tax of 41. 10s.
It is hoped that other towns are not asleep, taking for granted
that this is an injustice specially reserved for graceful concession.
'lO the Honourable the Commons in Parliament Assembled :

BEAUMONT SMITH.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
—So far from Smith having suffered upon an equality with
his fellow-prisoners, he has been highly favoured in being al-
lowed the privilege of remaining on board the ship to fill any
capacity. My teason for troubling you with this is, to show
that partiality and favours are often dealt out to prisoners of
this clasi, while others, whose crimes ate not so flagrant, and
whose abilities are as good, combined with periods of a much
longer imprisonment, are thrown in the back ground,
merely because their family connections are not so re-
spectable, or the confidence they had broken, in their
respective situations, of such a nature, as cannot be well re-
membered. A feeling of partiality is constantly shown to
persons who have held good situations, and abused them, while
men who, through the cravings of hunger, have made them-
selves amenable to the laws, are compelled to labour hard in the
dock-yard.
MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday an inquest was
held before Wm. Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, at the
Three Jolly Gardeners, Lambeth, respecting the death of Mr.
Jose's') Ray, aged 61. The deceased carried on a most ex-
tensive business, as a painter and decorator, in the Vauxhall-
road, and on Thursday last he went to some business which be
had to overlook at Camberwell. As he proceeded on the New-
road, Camberwell, he was taker, ill, and asked to sit down at
the first shop he arrived at. This was willingly granted, and
then he said he felt worse, and wished to be placed on a bed.
The request was one which was not anticipated, but it was
most readily complied with, and he was undressed, and put
into bed ; and in order that no attention should be wanting, a
surgeon was instantly sent for, but on his arrival, the unfor-
tunate gentleman was pronounced to be dead. As it seemed
most probable the death was caused by the bursting of one of the
vessels of the heart, the Jury returned a verdict of "Natural
death."

The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of Banbury,
in the County of Oxford, thoweth,—That your petitioners have
heard that it is proposed to your Honourable House that a per
centage tax should be imposed upon the whole of the income of
every person whose income amounts to or exceeds 1501. per annum,
and that all persons whose income does not amount to 3501. per
annum should be exempt from any such tax. _ _ _

Your petitioners consider that such a tax would be more
equal in its operation, and therefore more just, if the income of
every person were to the extent of 150/. per annum exempted
from the operations of such a tax, and the excess only of each
person's income beyond 1501. were made the amount to be taxed.
Your petitioners, therefore, pray, that, in the event of your
Honourable House resolving, or having resolved, that a tax should
be imposed upon income, your Honourable House will confine the
amount of each person's annual income to be made the subject of
taxation, to the excess only, beyond the sum of 1501.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
April 13, 1842.

TAXATION OF RAILWAY PAS-

SENGERS.

(From the Directors of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Rail.

way Company.)
The present duty is one• eighth of a penny per mile for each
passenger, whether travelling in a first, second, or third class car.
riage, and without reference to the fare charged. The tax conse.
quently presses unequally on different railways, as is seen on
comparison :
On the London and Brighton the tax amount's to 41. 2s. 3d. per
cent. on the gross passenger receipts ; Great Western 5/ 15s ;
Hull and Selby, 81. 4s. 6d.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
121. 110. The pressure bearing lightly on high fares and heavily
dn low fares, thus :—On the London and Brighton Railway the tax
on first class passengers amounts to 41. Os. 5/41. per cent. ; Glas.
gow, Paisley, and Greenock (between Glasgow and Paisley), the tax
on third class passengers amounts to 211. 17s. 6d. per cent.
The present mode of taxation, therefore, discourages low fares,
and prevents the advantages sought by the establishment of rail.
ways from being more generally difflised. The remedy proposed is,
that the tax shall in future be levied as a per centage on the gross
passenger receipts. In this mode the tax will press equally on dif.
lerent railways aed rates of fare. The revenue at the rate proposed
will be at least equal to that of the present tax, and the discourage-
ment to low fares will be removed.

These views are strongly advocated in the Report of a Committee
of the House of Commons, signed July 2, 1840 (the names of the
Members composing which arc subjoined,l) and the present sys-
tem described as " one tending to separate the interests of the Rail-
way Companies and the public, which will gradually exclude a
great number of persor.s from the benefit of cheap conveyance ;"
but the opposition of the dearer railways, who benefit by the exist-
ing order of things, has hitherto prevented this recommendation
from being cartied into effect; and it seems probable that the de-
sired modification will not be made until the cheaper railways and
the public press on the Legislature the inexpediency of continuing
a condemned mode of taxation, and at once unsound in principle
and unjust in its operation.
* Sir John Guest, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Granville Somerset, Mr. Thornely, La rd Sandon, Mr. Lc ch, Mr.
Froshfield, Lord Stanley, Mr. Green, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. Henry
Baring, Sir James Graham, Lord Seymour, Mr. Easthorpe.
Greenock, 6th April, 1842.

THE BANK OF MANCHESTER AND THE ALLIANCE
BA NE UNITED.—The union of these twd Batiks took place
yesterday, the lath instant, when the business and assets GI the
Al ianee were transfer. cd to the Bank of Manehuster.—Man-
chaster 'limes.

bTA'rn OF TuAnn.—We have still the unpleasant
duty of reporting an inanimate market, and declining prices.
'Die demand for all kinds of goods has been languid in the
extreme, and the market presents an utter absence of that con-
fidence which should prec, de and accompany busines-. Power-
loom printing cloths are again reduced in price, and some sales
have been made, even in quarters where immediate want of
money could hot he the inducement, at prices heretofore almost
unheard of. Twenty-seven 66-reed cloths ma) be had at 4s. 6d.
in any quantity, and the best 72-reed 27-inch at 4s. 101/id.
Cotton has been brisk this week, and the sales large • but this
}urns, not affected yns, which are still very dull of sale.—
Manchester Times. _ _

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—We are authentically
informed that it is the determination of the South Eastern and
Dover Rrilway Company to prosecute the works to their com-
pletion with unremitting perseverance and the utmost despatch.
The manifold physical difficulties that present themselves be-
tween here and Folkestone have been looked broadly in the
face ; and Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, relying on the efficiency
of his art, confidently calculates on being perfectly able to over-
come them. The Strond-street Dover terminus, which has
been fixed upon, when the Bill shall have passed in the next
Session of Parliament will be immediately cleared, and the
building necessary for the station will be forthwith commenced
on a scale of magnitude unequalled in the county. We are
glad to perceive that the prices of the shares of this railway
have advanced considerably during the present week.—Locer
Chronicle.

Mr. Brookes delivered his third lecture on Mes-
merism to a very respectable audience at the Waterloo-rooms,
on Thursday evening. The chief interest of the proceedings
consisted in the experiments of the lecturer, which were, how-
ever, prefaced by a paper on the difference between Mesmerism
and l3raidivm, and the respective value of each as remedial
agents in the alleviation and cure of various diseases, as well as
in the performance of painful surgical operations One of the
most novel and interesting applications of mesmerism, and
which the lecturer dwelt upon with much pleasure, was the
singular and conclusive evidence which it afforded of the prin-
ciples of phrenological science, and the correctness of the posi-
tions assigned by its profes'ors to individual organs. At the con-
clusion of the introductory paper, the girl whom Mr. Brookes
had operated upon so successfully on the former occasions was
again introduced, and at the invitation or the lecturer, who said
it would be doubtless gratitying to the audience if one or two
medical gentlemen would test the experiments, and report their
opinion respecting them, Mi. Knowles and Mr. Partridge
ascended the platform, and seated themselves on each side of
the patient. Having ascertained the state of the pulse, the pro-
' cess of mesmering commenced, and in two minutes the girl was
completely under the influence of the mesmeriser, the pupils
of the eyes being fixed and contracted, although it was ex-
plained that on Tuesday evening they had dilated during the
same experiment. On the suggestion of Mr. Levison, the pa-
tient's eyes was bandaged, and the lecturer yroceeded to ex-
hibit the power of attraction which he possessed over the pa-
tient. She was at this stage of the proceedings reclining on
an easy chair, with her feet resting on the floor, and on the
mesmeriser making a series of passes over the limbs, they
were gradually drawn upwards until they were brought to a
horizontal position, at which point, the operations having been
suspended, they became rigidly fixed. The state of the limbs
was tested by the medical gentlemen, and they were found to
be perfectly cataleptic, for although they yielded a little pre-
sure, they sprung back with great elasticity on the pressure
being withdrawn. The limbs and face being now demesme-
rised, the patient complained of head-ache, and expressed a
wish to be left quiet a little time. The lecturer explained that
she had been unwell diving the day, owing, he believed, in
some measure, to the state of the atmosphere; but while she
was recovering herself, he expressed his willingness to mes-
merise any gentleman who might feel disposed to submit to the
experiment. Mr. Gatgory, optician, of Bull-street, accordingly
availed himself of the offer; and on being placed in the chair,
he gradually yielded to the mesmeric passes, and in two mita'.es
his eyes closed and he was in' apparent sleep. As he appeared,
however, to suffer some pain, and gave indications of inuisposi-
lion, he was peedi iy released, and explained to the audience
the sensations he experienced. He yeas conscious, he said, of
everything that sassed around him, did was not aware that he
had once closed his eyes during the experiment. Mr. Brookes
then proceeded with his phrenological experiments, and in order
to prevent the possibility of collusion, it was suggested that the
names of the different organs should be written on a board
' behind the patient and exhibited to the audience, who would
thne be able to judge how far the answers given corresponded
with the organs called into activity. Mr. Wilson, the phreno-
logist, was requested to superintend the phrenelogical ,pera-
tions, and Mr. G. Eamonds to communicate with the audience
by writing the name of the organ on the board, in the manner
suggested. The patient having passed into a state of sleep-
waking, the organ of " tune" was first mesmerised, and in reply
to questions as to how she felt, she replied, " I feel so light. ; I
feel as if I could converse ; hush ! I hear a harp ; 1 don't hear the
harp now; 1 hear the violin ; it is play:ng a tune." " Are you not
strong enough to sing it yourself ?" " I feel very comfortable :
amrye happiness
iefegelseetwoo?, powerful for fGorreeme Hills r>f Tyrol; and
strength." " What
after two or three efforts, the patient commenced singing in a
clear and musical voice the song .she had named. She was
stopped by the lecturer (who stood behind her) demesmerising
the organ, when the words died gradually away, until they
ceased altogether, and were by the ,amp process as
before. This was repeated several times; 'the words being
taken up in every case at the poict at which they had pre•
viously broken off. The organs of " self-esteem," " locality."
and " colour," were next called successively into action.
Under the influence of the latter, the patient said, I feel as
if I was in such a beautiful light; it is more like mooni,glit than
daylight ; I see groves and little shrubs; some are near, and
some at a great distance, and it appears as if the sun shone on
the tops of them." The bandage was here removed, and the
pupils of the eyes were examined by Mr. Partridge, and found
quitepotionless and much dilated. The same gentleman dis-
charged a percussion cap close behind her head, but without
exciting the slightest motion ; and in accounting for the
readiness with which she answered the questions put to her,
Mr. Brookes explained that the patient was only in commu-
nication with the mesmeriser, and could not hear questions put
by other persons. Several other interesting experiments were
exhibited during the evening ; and at the request of the
audience, Mr. Brookes consented to deliver another lecture at
the Athenteuns this evening (Thursday).— Midland Counties
Herald, March 31. -

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, April 19.
The cause of " Wilkinson v. Page," which was the
,first of
the appeal motions on to-day'6 paper, was adjourned by moot
until to-morrow week.

ROLLS' COURT, April 19.
Lord LANGDALE, on the sitting of the Court, dispok-"
some consent petitions, and then proceeded to hear short causes.

1710 - C HANCE LL 0R S' COURT, April 18.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His HoNoun was engaged to-day in hearing adjourned cause
petitions of no public interest.